Jack & Jill Politics

too funny.....so there are some thinking people left after all.

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/sarah_lectures_...

"Palin's bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: "The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot."

Then let it happen.

Let the whole nation see that she is a blithering idiot without assistance from Faux Noise, but from C-Span.

Then let's see how she fares.

woo hoo...I'm with that.

EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP

Why is the Derrion Albert case such a big deal for the media?

Now, all of a sudden, the media is concerned with youth violence.
I wonder if it is just well timed manufactured outrage.

The Derrion Albert killing was brutal to watch no doubt. But this is happening daily on the streets of America.
http://theloop21.com/news/why-the-derrion-alber...

That the video made it onto a major cable channel has a lot to do with the attention, plus it has the story of an honor student in a troubled area who wasn't a gang member, etc. If Derrion was a gang member, my guess is his story wouldn't have gotten as much media or sympathy.

In any case, lets hope something good comes out of this. This problem is wide spread and needs to be addressed for all children.

This is a community problem not just belonging to the police to resolve. The schools, parents, community leaders of all strata and yes the children all need to be educated on how to end it and be involved.

You can google neighborhood patrols and see that all kinds of towns and cities are trying to find a way to take back their neighborhood from the thugs, black, white, mixed, north, west, south whatever.

It takes a village, I believe that. The community has to engage as one.

I think it's three factors. First, it's caught on tape and it's brutal and shocking. Secondly, Darrion was doing everything he was supposed to be doing. Excelling at school and going to church, etc. He's such a contrast to the monsters who killed him. And finally, it's in Chicago and anything to link violent negroes to the president is a winner in the media.

"I think it's three factors. First, it's caught on tape and it's brutal and shocking. Secondly, Darrion was doing everything he was supposed to be doing. Excelling at school and going to church, etc. He's such a contrast to the monsters who killed him. And finally, it's in Chicago and anything to link violent negroes to the president is a winner in the media."

Bingo. Especially your last point.

Young black males die by violence almost daily in this country, but rarely does it merit concern from the national media.

Oh, but let a white girl/woman go missing...

Don't forget that the number of school children in danger in Chicago has been rising drastically the past few years. I believe Chicago is now rated as the most dangerous city for school children. If this media attention gets the local adults and local community off their butts to make hard choices and do something about it then let the media attention continue.

I'm so pissed at the adults for allowing this thing to blow up like it has over the past few years.

Is anyone else watching Oprah? Chris Rock is on talking about "Good Hair".

I saw it. Chris, of course, had me laughing. But the whole thing about white women's hair--now that was interesting as well. I was so glad when he said that white women don't even know what color their original hair is, and that almost every single white woman in the audience had blonde hair. "What is it with this blonde hair?" Hmmmm, let the whiteness studies people pop that hood.

Okay, Alan Grayson is just awesome. He wrote this on DKos:

Last night, I went onto the House floor and did something that the Republicans aren't used to. I told the truth about the Republican health care plan. The plan is simple:

1. Don't get sick.

2. If you do get sick...

3. Die quickly.

My speech has been replayed on CNN, Redstate, Huffington Post, etc, and mainstream media pundits are saying that I'm the Democratic Joe Wilson. Of course, unlike Joe Wilson, I wasn't rude to the President. Unlike Joe Wilson, I didn't break a rule of the House. And unlike Joe Wilson, I actually told the truth. Every single year, over forty-four thousand people in America die because they don't have health insurance. Read this Harvard study. That is the plain truth.

And now the Republicans claim they are going to introduce a resolution "disapproving" of my behavior.

What is this, junior high school? Do they think my feelings are hurt? Just what do these people think health care means? It's not some abstract "issue", we're talking about life and death! And the Republicans, who ran the government in full or in part from 2001-2009, chose to let those 44,000 people die, every single year when they were in power. And George W. Bush, whom the Republicans somehow pretend was not President for the last eight years, just let them die. He even vetoed health care for poor children.

So apologize? I don't think so.

Read the rest at the link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/30/788223/...

It has been on the Ed Show, Hardball and now Olbermann. Go Grayson!

Grayson is suppose to be on Rachel Maddow tonight. He was on situation room earlier today and he was great.

So, Michael Moore is laying down the gauntlet...

He says to trust him on this..NOTHING will change if there is no public option..

So, the fat, white boy turns out to be the champion of negroes...not the skinny black one.

Who would have thunk it?

Go play in traffic.

Your batteries running low?

Here ya go!

http://www.kencox.net/images/leakproof.jpg

Micheal Moore is the champion of "negroes"? Are you truly clinically insane? Why the use of the term "negroes"? Is that how you think of yourself?

Oh, I forgot you are Canadian, or so you say.

Micheal Moore is viewed with mixed feelings by the white left in the United States. What Micheal Moore says is not important to black people. What Micheal Moore says is readily turned into propaganda by the right and the media, who take the attitude that if Micheal Moore says its, it must be an extreme liberal view.

You are an Idiot.

In all fairness Michael Moore doesn't have to deal with the Congress and the Senate. He can do what he does without worrying about votes.

The Congress is not who Obama needs to worry about, it's The People.

Michael's movies are extremely popular for a reason.

Greg Sargent's blog
MoveOn Unleashes Ads Hitting Dem Senators Who Voted Against Public Option
Okay, this is getting good.

In a clear sign that the left will not hold back from targeting fellow Dems in the final stretch of the health care wars, MoveOn is going up on the air today with new radio spots slamming the “centrist” Dem Senators who voted against the public option amendments yesterday, a MoveOn official confirms.

The ads, which haven’t yet been announced, will target Senators Kent Conrad, Blanche Lincoln, and Max Baucus in their home states, the official confirms. All three voted against the public option amendments pushed by Senators Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Schumer in the Senate Finance Committee yesterday. The MoveOn official sends over the script:

Today in (ARKANSAS/NORTH DAKOTA/MONTANA), a patient lost insurance coverage for medical care she needs…

Hospital bills will eat up another family’s savings…

And a small business owner is worried about affording health benefits for his employees.

But when Senator (CONRAD/LINCOLN/BAUCUS) recently had a chance to help fix our health care crisis, (SHE/HE) voted no.

Instead of helping (ARKANSAS/NORTH DAKOTA/MONTANA) families get more affordable, quality health care choices, Senator (CONRAD/LINCOLN/BAUCUS) sided with the special interests and insurance companies.

If you believe we deserve the choice of a public health insurance option, call Senator (CONRAD/LINCOLN/BAUCUS) at (202) 224-3121 -– and ask him/her why (HE/SHE) doesn’t.

Tell him (NORTH DAKOTA/ARKANSAS/MONTANA) families can’t afford to wait for real reform with a strong public option any longer.

Pretty hard hitting as friendly-fire goes. MoveOn had for a time laid low in targeting Dems. But yesterday’s Finance Committee vote leaves no choice but to target them in advance of the final push for the public option. It could still survive if Harry Reid includes it in the final Senate bill or if it gets inserted in conference negotiations between the Senate and House or in the form of an amendment on the Senate floor.

Some high-profile Dems, such as Rahm Emanuel and Chuck Schumer, have called on liberal groups to hold their friendly fire. But as MoveOn’s spot reminds us, there’s something of a split in the pro-reform movement between the big liberal groups who are willing to hold their fire and those who think the best way to affect real long-term change is to continuously demand that Dems hew to core principles.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/m...

Throw another log on the fire and torch these clowns.

Conservative Blogger Rick Moran Calls on the Right to Condemn “Crazies”, Sees Racism in Attacks on Obama
By: Blue Texan Wednesday September 30, 2009 11:30 am


There is a growing list of conservatives -- David Frum, Bruce Bartlett, and Joe Scarborough, to name a few -- who are actually pushing back against the Palin/Beck/Bachmann lunacy that's taken over the GOP and the conservative movement. They understand that shouting "fascist!" and "racist!" at the President isn't a winning electoral strategy.

Rick Moran is another, and yesterday highlighted the "How to Take Back America Conference" -- at which Mike Huckabee, Michele Bachmann, Steve King, and other prominent elected Republicans spoke -- as an example of everything that's wrong with the conservative movement.

Before commenting on the substance of what the author [Kitty Werthmann] actually believes is solid evidence that Obama wants to set up a Fourth Reich, I want you to look at that list of Republicans who will be giving their imprimatur to a conference that features such idiocy. Those are not “fringe” players. They are all considered “mainstream” conservatives. Should they be taken to task for attending a conference that features such off the wall lunacy?

Bingo. And that's the big difference between the right and left today. Both side have their kooks, but the kooks on the right are embraced by the party establishment. Can you imagine the outcry from the corporate media and the GOP if a bunch of prominent Democratic members of Congress and a leading Democratic candidate for President spoke at conference examining how Bush is like Hitler?

Adds Moran,

Exaggeration is not argument. It is emotionalism run rampant. And at its base is simple, unreasoning fear. Fear of change, fear that the powerlessness conservatives feel right now is a permanent feature of American politics, and, I am sorry to say, fear of Obama because he is a black man. Fear of change, fear that the powerlessness conservatives feel right now is a permanent feature of American politics, and, I am sorry to say, fear of Obama because he is a black man.

There are too many photos of racist posters at Teabaggings, there have been too many racist emails forwarded by too many elected Republicans, and too many comments about "white culture" from conservative commentators to not address the race issue. And it's telling that every time someone like El Rushbo or Glenn Beck goes there, they are immediately defended by the right. Why?

I agree with the left to a certain extent that the right - especially on the internet - has become something of an echo chamber (it’s true on the left too but their crazies have already been marginalized). This has resulted in what might be termed a “negative feedback loop” where the more exaggerated claims about dastardly Democrats go around and around, becoming ever more outrageous and illogical, until we get overflowing crowds at a seminar where the most fantastically stretched and mangled analogies to Nazis and Communists are taken seriously.

Yes. This "Obama's a Nazi" theme is mainstream among conservatives -- Jim DeMint, Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Paul Broun -- all have gone there. And the response? Glenn Reynolds "Heh indeeds", Michelle Malkin and the RedStaters cheer it on, and Jonah Goldberg goes on Fox News and offers historical insight into why Obama is, in fact, just like Hitler.

I don’t know how to say it any other way; those conservatives who don’t see a problem with this, or don’t think it “representative” of a significant portion of the conservative movement, or who don’t believe this sort of thing should be taken out, examined, and criticized as forcefully as possible are fooling themselves into believing this kind of thinking doesn’t matter. It is poison coursing through the body of conservatism and we either use reason and logic as an antidote or it will end up killing us.

It already has.
http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/30/conservative-...

I'm not at all moved by these conservative dissenters. They're saying what they're saying out of electorial concerns, and nothing else. If they thought it was a winning strategy, they'd be all for it.

On the White House Press corp, I wonder how much hate mail this journalist got from them? She didn't pull any punches when asked what she thought of them.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/09/hbc-9000...

IIRC, during PBO's European Tour, foreign journalists repeatedly commented on USofA's reporters/journalists lack to knowledge about foreign dignitaries, culture, etc. and they were not bashful.

she's spot on, but they won't care; they'll simply attribute it to jealousy (because they think everyone is jealous of them). ignorance is bliss for them, it's just too bad their ignorance impacts the rest of us negatively.

I believe you nailed that one.

I found my first gray hair today. I'm 29. Is this early?

No, it's not. I got my first one around that age as well.
Actually, I got it as soon as I moved to L.A.

I hope to move to LA next year. Is it that stressful?

No. It took a while for me to get my bearings. But it's cool now. And it's the choices you make when you move here. Some people get caught up in the LA LA Land mentality and it's crazy.

But I was telling a friend the other day, that it would be hard for me to move some place else now. I go to the beach more now. Soon to get a beach cruiser. And will drive drive up to visit a couple of wineries when my father visits in a couple of weeks. You see...it's a choice you make. I choose not to get caught up in the "Hollywood" thang. I'm in the Aerospace industry. I've been here for 9 years.

When you get ready let me know. And if you need any info let me know.

Are you headed up to Santa Ynez or all the way up to the Napa Valley?

Santa Ynez. He's only here for the weekend. But I will go to Napa a little later. It's nice in the Fall.

I just spent 5 days in Kenwood, just outside of Sonoma. The weather was perfect and we found some really small wineries with amazing wine and tons of character.

I used to live in Santa Barbara so we would go to Santa Ynez a lot. It's so beautiful. Have you ever stopped in that little dutch town with the windmills, Solvang? It's a trip. If you are driving up you should add it to the list of places to stop. It's like right in the middle of the valley.

Child, I'm already getting ready. I'm saving up enough to make it a year because I'm going to go out there to try to start a business. If I fail I can always high tail it back down south, but I gotta try it. I feel like LA is a place where if you work hard enough, you can do your thing. And people have money and I have a service. There's ballers in ATL, but there are way more ballers in L.A. and they like to show off and spend their money. The more nouveau riche people I can find, the better. In ATL, the real ballers are usually old money and they don't like to spend it.

Well yep!

Come on over!

Depends where you found it at.Now running for cover,please dont hurt me.

"Depends where you found it at.Now running for cover,please dont hurt me."

I KNEW somebody was gonna go there.

I'm just mad you beat me to it. LOL

You HAD to go there.

BWA HAHA HA HA

Growing out of my scalp, jackass! LOL

Showed my wife your comment and she gave me a slap upside my head just for you.LOL

She's a good woman. :/

Just wait until you discover gray hairs in other areas...

LMAO!

With all the stress in today's world...no.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Gibbs...

"Without revealing too much, Gibbs hinted that the president would address the issue on a national scale.

This is not just a Chicago specific problem, obviously youth crime and gang violence are something that this administration takes seriously and we'll have more on that soon,” Gibbs said at his daily press briefing."

The only thing I want to hear from the President on this issue is what part of Siberia these urban terrorists will be sent to.

..I think there's Universal Health in Siberia..

What is universal health? Are you referring to universal health care, by chance?

Universal health is the name of a gym.

...and lower mortality.

I think you mean lower infant mortality or, in the alternative, higher life expectancy. Or, perhaps you mean lower mortality from preventable illness.

Or, again, in the alternative, you are a dumb woman who has no clue what she is talking about.

...and fewer guns

I'm all for fewer guns, but I'm missing your "I hate Obama" connection here. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge this fall to the Chicago gun ordinance; one that this President supports.

...and NO church..

maybe y'all better start packing your bags.

...and NO church..

I hear you Canadians are mightly God loving folks. The Catholics in Quebec, the protestants elsewhere. You are a tired dumb ass woman with nothing to say about anything.

The new picture is an improvement, though. But, really, can't you do something with that scold?

<pssst> she's posting from the same sanitarium Shane McKay lives at </degrassi>

I think you're right. It's all gibberish. The voices must be telling her to type this bullshit.

You still here?

The only time some people feel strong is when they're part of a mob.

Yes. I am still here.

Are you packed yet?

The question is, are YOU packed yet? The ICEman cometh, and he cometh for YOU.

If Obama speaks on this, he needs to go hard with it like this right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKR_Tli5hbU

Should he start calling for the forced sterilization of women and men who produce more than one child out of wedlock?

That wouldn't be such a bad idea for some people. Can't support them don't make them.

What if they can support them? You're assuming that everyone who has a clind out of wedlock can't support them, just as that other person assumes that everyone who has a child out of wedlock lives in a gang-infested neighborhood.

By the way, this is what they did to quite a few black women in the South decades ago. I guess you would have been all for it, huh?

But hey, since you responded, answer the question. Do you think the President should call for the forced sterilization of women and men who produce more than one child out of wedlock?

Um..as I said, who ever said that black Americans aren't capable of being reactionary authoritarians?

It was a joke Plant. Don't get your panties in a bunch. I don't think the government should be forcing anyone to sterilize because that's a slippery slope.

But that Desmond Hatchett moron who is 29 has 21 kids with 11 women should be forced to sterilize. With no way to support them. Would you be for that?

No, I wouldn't be for that, because it is a slippery slope. And...stop trying to bullshit people. You weren't kidding.

..maybe in the case of some people, we should make it a retroactive sterilization?

Just don't be offended if someone chooses you...it's just business.

Yes, should we make it a retroactive sterilization, and start terminating everybody whose parents weren't marrried when they were born? I'd be safe....

fyi

http://globalgrind.com/content/1025775/Wiping-M...

Wiping My Tears After Speaking With Derrion's Mom

Posted by: Michael Skolnik 1 hour ago | 1,799 Views
Source: globalgrind.com

After the incredible show of support to Derrion and his family by the Global Grind Community, we wanted to make sure that we offered our assistance, in any way possible, to the family. I just got off the phone with Derrion's mother and grandfather, who were very appreciative of the love and prayers that you all have been sending and wanted to share with you some thoughts. Ms. Anjanette Albert told me:

"Our main priority is putting that baby to rest. We will let the police do their job. We are not violent people."

I was moved to tears by the strength of her words, and she then asked Derrion's grandfather, Mr. Joshua Walker to speak with me.

"The violence has to stop. It is not unique or isolated to any particular community or city. The violence by young people has become syphilitic. It is because of their lack of knowledge. We know that violence is not the answer."

The family asked that we share with you the details for the FUNERAL:

Saturday, October 3rd at 10AM
Greater Mt. Hebron Baptist Church
8000 S. Woods Street
Chicago, IL 60620

Let us continue to share this story with the world, as we will remember Derrion Albert as a young man with great promise who left us all far too soon.

-Michael Skolnik
GlobalGrind.com Political Editor

My heart goes out to that child's family. I can't imagine. I cried when I saw that tape and I couldn't even get through reading an account of what happened. I can't imagine what his mother is feeling.

hmm

"I think the whole thing is racist. I don't even understand why they would print this...", says a Slippery Rock University student after reading the comics.

A cartoon has caused quite a controversy on the campus of Slippery Rock University. "The K Chronicles" comic strip ran in Friday's edition of the school's student-run newspaper, "The Rocket".

There's a drawing of a black man hanging from a noose saying, "You're doing this because I'm black, aren't you?" while white characters accuse him of playing the race card.

Students Upset Over Racist Cartoon

Kudos to the artist.The truth hurts

The local NAACP chapter and the school's "Black Action Society" are protesting the cartoon. That should make conservatives' heads explode:).

I saw the editorial cartoon and in today's climate its on point.So for that reason and the reason that it upset people who dont want to face the truth the artist deserves support.The NAACP AND THE SO CALLED BLACK ACTION SOCIETY CAN KISS MY BLACK ASS TWO TIMES!!!We need more people like the cartoonist to call out not the reich wing bigotry but the so called white liberals and the negroes who white or black wash the bullshit that is going on now.

holy smoke...relax quit yelling we hear you.

Since Nov 2008, the NAACP has received and responded to hundreds of calls inviting them to investigate "incidents" from students on college campuses across the country. There is genuine fear on campuses.

Oh, my...here we go:). Which white liberals are "white or blackwashing" what is going on? Did you notice that you just used a phase that was recently coined by...a white liberal?

I did use that term.But it seems to me that we as progressives bend over backwards to appease redumblicans and when one of our own speak the truth the appeasers are quick to throw them under the bus.I say no more kissing ass.Call them out by any means that you have.

I thought that the progressives where inclusive.... Does that mean your changing to an exclusive party...a party of one....I don't know how you tow the line, time and time again. They throw you under the bus, and we will be there next time an..there is no next time...

We are inclusive,that's why we keep trying to reason with the nitwits whose only purpose is to suck up air.But enough is enough.I for one am sick and tired when we reveal the truth about your inner klansman we have to say sorry.The reich wing can call for coups, assassination and whatever their sick minds dream up and never get called on it.It is time we use the Patriot act.I was against it because it went against everything it means to be an American but since its the redumblicans porn then use it against their dumb asses.

so, they don't think like you, scream and yell and want to take their rights away...Get use to it. Please don't call people a Klansman. You are sound as bad as they are. You just can't take them seriously. Just remember Government takes your rights away, and will never give them back.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a halt to the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war.

Resolution 1888 reiterated the 15-member body's "demand for the complete cessation by all parties to armed conflict of all acts of sexual violence with immediate effect."

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who chaired the high-level meeting as her country hold the council's rotating presidency this month, said the resolution was "a step forward in our global efforts to end violence perpetrated against women and children in conflict zones."

UN Demands End of Sexual Violence as Tactic of War

Noted Without Comment:


On the One Hand:

Newsmax columnist John L. Perry encourages his right-wing readers not to "dismiss" the notion of an American military coup as "unrealistic."


America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont [sic]. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it....

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.




And On The Other:


About a dozen retired generals and admirals, trying to add momentum to President Barack Obama’s effort to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, are accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz of scaremongering about the dangers of closing it.

“It’s up to all of us to say these arguments advanced by Cheney and his acolytes are nonsense and that really what they’re doing is undermining our national security by delaying the date at which Guantanamo is closed,” retired Brig. Gen. James Cullen, a former chief judge of the Army’s Court of Criminal Appeals, told POLITICO Tuesday.

“Some of the fear issues that are being raised in this are really unfortunate. It gets people excited about things they shouldn’t be excited about and impedes doing what is critical to this country. Get that damn symbol off the table,” said retired Gen. David Maddox, a former Army commander-in-chief for Europe. “We take a setback every time somebody, whether it’s the vice president or his daughter comes out and says the things that they say….We have to get out there again and just keep pounding.”




OK, one comment. It is, in fact, necessary to comment, perhaps it is even necessary to be a little shrill and obvious.

It is absolutely necessary, for the health of the country, to get these two quotes on the same page again and again. As long as the right wing does what it does without some pushback, some rolled up newspapers, some "go to your fucking corner, sir!" we will continue to see the mainstreaming of absolutely John Bircherite lunacy from the fringe to the center. I'm not worried that the Generals will actually execute a coup against Obama, but I am worried that the average authoritarian follower, submissive masochist looking for his once a year sadist holiday fling, will take the unrebutted first proposition as license for the longed for saturnalia of the losers.

Today Obsidian Wings had a great post up about Peter Daou's original description of just how the main stream media became and becomes tolerant of outright lunacy from the right wing fringe. We must push back, and push back hard, against totally unacceptable threats of violence from the right wing. But we have to do that not by dismissing or ignoring this stuff, and not by treating it as merely beyond the pale, but by holding it up to scorn, ridicule, and shame.

After browsing through countless docs on our prison system and its inmates, I put those GITMO supporters on mute. Those so-called terrorists would just blend in, if they don't get the 23 hr treatment.

"We must push back, and push back hard, against totally unacceptable threats of violence from the right wing. But we have to do that not by dismissing or ignoring this stuff, and not by treating it as merely beyond the pale, but by holding it up to scorn, ridicule, and shame."

Hey JJP....the blog "Mrs.O" has a snapshot of the First Lady on "Prevention" magazine.

http://mrs-o.org/newdata/2009/9/29/mrs-o-covers...

The First Lady is the perfect ambassador for so many causes...and its great to se her on the cover of a health related publication......and she looks damn good on that cover!!!

Loves it!

I love that she is comfortable talking about her body and her workout plan. So many of us black women are overweight and it's not good. Some of us think we're "thick" when we're really just fat. I like that she, and her hubby too, are dedicated to keeping their bodies looking good. And you know people who work out everyday have great sex lives! LOL.

Haters call the Obamas vain elitist. Let them hate. All they're doing is preserving the sexy. I hope my body looks as good as hers after popping out two kids and being over 40.

Couldn't agree with you more, itgurl

Here's the link to the interview:


http://www.prevention.com/cda/article/michelle-...

From the interview:

Liz: President Obama looks at you as if you're the most beautiful woman on the planet. Do you feel that?

Mrs. Obama: One of the things that attracted me to Barack was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him--he is who he appears to be. I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way. So yes, I do know that. And now he'll know I know.

When Stumbling Out of the DBR Matrix These Are Great First Steps http://ow.ly/15S2vA

Calling scientific research a job-creating engine, President Barack Obama heralded $5 billion in new government grants Wednesday to fight cancer, autism and heart disease while boosting the economy.

Obama described the money as crucial to improving public health and helping add jobs to an economy that has seen unemployment surge. Visiting the Bethesda campus of the National Institutes of Health, he said that its projects illustrate the dual goals of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill: rescuing the economy and laying the groundwork for future generations' stability.

"The American people are looking forward to the next set of discoveries that you are working on today," Obama told employees.

Obama says $5B in grants will aid medical research

Found this bit of wisdom from a fellow DJ Jamie3:26
Relationship wisdom for the ladies...and gents...
A woman will fake a nut just to have a relationship....a man can fake a relationship just to get a nut.

Think on it....

That's It, It's Officially "The Left Is Just As Crazy" Day
Posted by Zandar
The Wingers have now absolved themselves of everything remotely nasty ever said at a health care Town Hall Blitz thanks to Florida Democrat Alan Grayson.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) warned Americans that "Republicans want you to die quickly" during an after-hours House floor speech Tuesday night.


His remarks, which drew angry and immediate calls for an apology from Republicans, were highlighted by a sign reading "The Republican Health Care Plan: Die Quickly."


Veteran Tennessee Republican Jimmy Duncan abandoned customary reticence to chastise Grayson.


"That is about the most mean-spirited partisan statement that I've ever heard made on this floor, and I, for one, don't appreciate it," Duncan said.


"It's fully appropriate that the gentleman return to the floor and apologize," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, another Tennessee Republican.

And actually, Grayson should apologize and clarify his statement and say "You know, the Republicans don't want you to die. They only wants traditional Democratic voters to die. And they are bastards for it. They don't give a damn about health care reform for Americans, they only care about political power. Screw them with a chainsaw. San Dimas High School football rules."

Which probably explains why I'm not a Capitol Hill aide and speechwriter.

How is that any different that the hundreds of Republicans who said the President wants to kill people with "Death panels"? Should they also apologize? Sarah Palin? Newtie? Bachmanniac? Glennsanity? El Rushbo?


Still waiting on those apologies...and what about YOU LIE!?

Hmm? Hundreds of Republicans on TV can do whatever they want. One Democrat calls them out on it, it's breathtaking and shocking and the wiorst thing ever.

Republicans are truly bastards. My country for a real opposition party to the Dems.

http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2009/09/thats-it-...

That was funny as hell...and on point.

Rep. Alan Grayson is NOT crazy, based on rethugs' drama "party of 'no'", name calling, stalling, and corporate shrilling, he's calling them out.

The comment ("Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.") prompted calls for Grayson to apologize from Republicans and the threat of the introduction of a resolution of disapproval on the House floor similar to the resolution censuring Republican Rep. Joe Wilson for his "you lie!" outburst at President Obama.

Now Grayson has apologized ? though it's probably not going to placate his critics. On the House floor this afternoon, the confrontational Florida representative said he wanted to apologize because according to a Harvard study, more than 44,000 Americans die every year because they lack health insurance.

"That is ten times more than the number of Americans who have died in Iraq and who died in 9/11," he continued. "But that was just once. This is every single year. That's right. Every single year."

"I call upon the Democratic members of the House, I call upon the Republican members of the House, I call upon all of us to do our jobs for the sake of America, for the sake of those dying people and their families," he went on to say. "I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America."

Alan Grayson Apologizes to the Dead, not Republicans

Rep. Alan Grayson on the Situation Room http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3gND4M9HA

Respect this MAN. Finally a Democrat with some BALLS. And where is he from............FLORIDA.

We need a JJP PAC and send him some money.That is what I am talking about.Call their false values out.

True.

The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse

9/30/2009
Note to Mainstream News Media: You're Not Blogs and Everything Is Not Legitimate News:
Think back for a moment to 2004. That was the last chance we had to wrestle with whether or not President George W. Bush, up for reelection, had completed his minimal duties as a member of the Air National Guard in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was a story with a paper trail, credible people involved, and a presidency in the balance. The right dismissed the whole thing as a made-up controversy, a conspiracy theory by liberal losers, and, hey, what about John Kerry and those Swift Boat vets? Until the strange and mysterious forged documents showed up at CBS (the existence of which neither proved nor disproved anything about Bush, but it did discredit the story), the news media was actually discussing whether or not it was true. Republicans were apoplectic at this questioning of the President's military street cred.

The point here is not to revisit that issue. But can you think of another time in the reign of the Bush the Lesser that any other story that debased Bush got any traction in the media? The National Guard story was legitimate news. What if, though, CNN spent days examining Bush's cocaine use? Or the allegations that he forced a lover to get an abortion? Or that Laura Bush, as a teenager, intentionally killed an ex-boyfriend? We're talking about a media that, for the most part, wouldn't even look into whether or not Bush was legitimately elected in the first place or wouldn't investigate the administration's claims on Iraqi weapons prior to going into a war.

The Rude Pundit's not saying that the fringe stories, about coke, abortion, and murder, should have made Wolf Blitzer's radar. They shouldn't have. He's not commenting on whether or not those are true or false. However, to report them as more than an interesting blip is to legitimize them and to legitimize those making the allegations.

Let's push this further. What if CNN or MSNBC interviewed 9/11 truthers on a daily basis during the Bush administration? Even if the hosts scoffed at them, what if, on a semi-regular basis, someone who thought 9/11 was an inside job or that Flight 93 was shot down was allowed to comment on issues related to that day and allowed to say that the Bush administration destroyed the Twin Towers to bring down the nation in order to maintain power? You know what would have happened? Shit would have burned. Conservatives would have exploded with rage, Democratic politicians would have had to condemn the people who said it, and the news networks that gave the truthers time and investigated what they said would have faced boycotts and threats.

Which all leads to what we deal with today: why the fuck are we even hearing about things like whether or not Barack Obama was born in the United States? It's not a real story. Why the fuck are there serious discussions on the news networks over whether or not the Obama administration's ultimate plan is to turn America into some kind of socialist dystopia? Or about whether or not Obama is like Hitler (a report that CNN actually did)? Or whether Obama wants to set up "death panels" to kill old people? Why are guests allowed on who believe these things? It ain't censorship to not give a platform to maniacs. This ain't just a complaint about Fox "news," although Fox is certainly Public Enemy Number 1 (and "public enemy" here means "enemy of the public") or your Limbaughs and Becks. It's that nothing is beyond the pale at this point. No longer is anything, on its face, too absurd or baseless to discuss. Stupid people believe stupid things, and there will always be opportunists there to exploit stupidity - politicians, pundits, news people.

As the right seeks to delegitimize the Obama presidency, as the media is willing to be complicit, as few brave Republicans are willing to call "bullshit," we are, as Thomas Friedman points out today, heading into truly dangerous territory. Sure, people have always called for the heads of their leaders, but they used to have to stand on street corners with cheap microphones and amps. Now, when they write that the military might have to overthrow Obama, it sits in a browser tab right next to the Washington Post, and most people can't tell the difference. We need arbiters with spines. The media were spineless arbiters during the Bush administration. Now they are spineless and filterless, political relativists, if you will, not willing to ignore what needs ignoring, not willing to condemn what needs condemning.

Someone's gonna get hurt. Hell, someone may already have over in Kentucky.

(Just to be clear: the Rude Pundit's no conspiracy theorist - he doesn't believe in ghosts, gods, or grassy knolls, and he thinks that 19 dudes with box cutters lucked out on September 11, 2001. Yeah, yeah, send your emails.)

Most of the media people don't think Obama should be there, either. Black people should be rapping and cooning and entertaining and poor and downtrodden. Obama isn't and it blows their minds.

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Anyone have a BAKED 'Fried Green Tomato' recipe?

thanks in advance.

Season with salt and pepper (and garlic powder if you like), dip in egg wash and then into panko bread crumbs mixed with little parmesan cheese. Drizzle with oil oil and bake on a rack at 400 for about 15 - 20 minutes or until golden brown.

I cook zucchini, eggplant and chicken strips the same way and they come out great.

Dont have one but I would guess you would use the same method as oven baked fried chicken
Season the tomatoes with salt and pepper,then dip them in a egg wash and dredge them in seasoned breadcrumbs or cornmeal.Bake at 350 till done.

On Monday, it was 83....today 46. Rain, wind - even snow in the foothills this weekend. We're cooking tonight. Something warm and tasty. Might have to add baked green tomatoes to the menu - just sounds delish!

Found this: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2009/08/oven-fried...

We're experiencing the same crazy weather! Last week high 80s..today low 60s!