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There's a lot of high-steria flying through the airwaves right now about the state of our economy.
Thought you might be able to use a bit of calm reasoning and forward thinking instead:
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Hey, kids...convinced you'll nevah-evah use some dopey subject like high school algebra so why study? Just so you know, this embed was bleedin' off the page before I put the ol' high school sophomore math equationing to work and made it smaller. Perfect-O.
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h/t to Josh's place for the signpost
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
A Moment of Personal Privilege
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.R.I.P. Marley
October 10, 1999 - September 29, 2008
Ever faithful and as loyal a friend as we could ask.
Through the joys of every season
and the harshest of life's roads.
Marley-Buddy
mellow of spirit and
the bestest of them all.
October 10, 1999 - September 29, 2008
Ever faithful and as loyal a friend as we could ask.
Through the joys of every season
and the harshest of life's roads.
Marley-Buddy
mellow of spirit and
the bestest of them all.
Assault on The Girls?
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Interesting. Maureen Dowd banned from McCain campaign plane. Gwen Ifill told by the McCain team to watch herself with the foreign policy questions in Thursday night's veep debate. Rumors flying that CBS has something even more interesting to broadcast from the Couric Tapes.
Rachel Maddow, Campbell Brown, Kathleen Parker...watch your backs.
We don't quite know how this will play out, but seems obvious the thuggery of the cynical, sexist McCain camp, and its misogynistic attitude toward women, is starting to come out of the closet into full-blown bullying assault on women in the media.
Will there be enough left to serve at the barbeque?
Interesting. Maureen Dowd banned from McCain campaign plane. Gwen Ifill told by the McCain team to watch herself with the foreign policy questions in Thursday night's veep debate. Rumors flying that CBS has something even more interesting to broadcast from the Couric Tapes.
Rachel Maddow, Campbell Brown, Kathleen Parker...watch your backs.
We don't quite know how this will play out, but seems obvious the thuggery of the cynical, sexist McCain camp, and its misogynistic attitude toward women, is starting to come out of the closet into full-blown bullying assault on women in the media.
Will there be enough left to serve at the barbeque?
Saturday, September 27, 2008
In Memoriam: Paul Newman
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News this morning that Paul Newman has died of cancer at age 83.
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Opened a Paul Newman cabernet sauvignon last night and had a maudlin meltdown over the imminent passing of my cocker spaniel, Marley. Life’s little coincidences.
I met Paul Newman in Indiana while campaigning for Gene McCarthy. Yes, those eyes really were that blue. And the twinkle carried through his beautiful work in film, and his charity work, and even his car racing down the road a bit at the Brainerd raceway.
A real star. A real hero. A real man.
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crossposted in comments at firedoglake.
News this morning that Paul Newman has died of cancer at age 83.
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Opened a Paul Newman cabernet sauvignon last night and had a maudlin meltdown over the imminent passing of my cocker spaniel, Marley. Life’s little coincidences.
I met Paul Newman in Indiana while campaigning for Gene McCarthy. Yes, those eyes really were that blue. And the twinkle carried through his beautiful work in film, and his charity work, and even his car racing down the road a bit at the Brainerd raceway.
A real star. A real hero. A real man.
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crossposted in comments at firedoglake.
Lions and Tigers
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The Friday night thrilla gave undecided Americans plenty of opportunity to take the measure of the men who would be president. And one looked Presidential. Calm, reassuring, knowledgeable, sure of his facts.
The other looked like a petulant reverser into second childhood. Boastful, shrill, histrionic, petulant, just plain mean.
I'll be honest, for a while I really wanted Obama to zap McCain with a zinger retort back at McCain's bullying, taunting, provocative tactics. But Obama didn't.
Instead, he spoke directly to all of us who watched. He tried to engage McCain, but McCain wouldn't--couldn't?--look him in the eye.
And I thought of a child taught to have respect for his elders, not to pile on when they are in the process of humiliating themselves.
A child who went thru a troubled youth, but the fundamentals of his upbringing by his mom and grandparents kept him grounded and he worked through that time. Just as he worked to excel in his studies, all the way through his college and law school degrees.
And how he's been working all his adult life to bring along those kinds of qualities of character and help others find them in themselves, rejecting the easy path, the greedy path.
Last night we saw the petulant old tiger, snarling, clawing, lurching for his footing.
And we saw the new lion, past young, rising in his prime to lead through the turbulence and challenges that lie ahead.
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The Friday night thrilla gave undecided Americans plenty of opportunity to take the measure of the men who would be president. And one looked Presidential. Calm, reassuring, knowledgeable, sure of his facts.
The other looked like a petulant reverser into second childhood. Boastful, shrill, histrionic, petulant, just plain mean.
I'll be honest, for a while I really wanted Obama to zap McCain with a zinger retort back at McCain's bullying, taunting, provocative tactics. But Obama didn't.
Instead, he spoke directly to all of us who watched. He tried to engage McCain, but McCain wouldn't--couldn't?--look him in the eye.
And I thought of a child taught to have respect for his elders, not to pile on when they are in the process of humiliating themselves.
A child who went thru a troubled youth, but the fundamentals of his upbringing by his mom and grandparents kept him grounded and he worked through that time. Just as he worked to excel in his studies, all the way through his college and law school degrees.
And how he's been working all his adult life to bring along those kinds of qualities of character and help others find them in themselves, rejecting the easy path, the greedy path.
Last night we saw the petulant old tiger, snarling, clawing, lurching for his footing.
And we saw the new lion, past young, rising in his prime to lead through the turbulence and challenges that lie ahead.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
McShamed
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Evidently finally the chorus was so loud and universal that John McCain has said he will debate tonight at Ole Miss. The Ol' Craps-shooter snake-eyed.
It's a foreign policy debate. I hope we'll see Obama strongly make the point that our economy is the chief strength of our foreign policy and our national security.
And, hey, just imagine how you'd be feelin' this morning if your social security account were vested in the stock market right now?
Evidently finally the chorus was so loud and universal that John McCain has said he will debate tonight at Ole Miss. The Ol' Craps-shooter snake-eyed.
It's a foreign policy debate. I hope we'll see Obama strongly make the point that our economy is the chief strength of our foreign policy and our national security.
And, hey, just imagine how you'd be feelin' this morning if your social security account were vested in the stock market right now?
Bailing Out the Debate?
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First, here's a link to Chris Dodd's conversation this morning with Imus. Must listening.
It's all about housing...this didn't have to happen. The president's a no-show. Hank Paulson doesn't know how this city works [Sarah Palin, you listenin'?]. The lack of leadership comes from the center of the government.
Gamesmanship and political theatre.
Administration still arguing for golden parachutes.
This is a mess it didn't have to happen. Must have taxpayer protections. I accept the gravity of the situation. Don 't need a political photo op.
Yes, Wall Street must have confidence, but the American taxpayer must have confidence, too.
McCain hasn't been involved, it's not his issue, having this distraction did not help. "Republicans are furious over what John did yesterday."
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So as the day goes along...is McCain going to show up at Ole Miss? Will there be a debate? Is he sittin' in Boner's office even now preppin' to sandbag Obama at the debate? Or will he keep tryin' to duck?
Oh, and will there be a resolution on the bailout?
First, here's a link to Chris Dodd's conversation this morning with Imus. Must listening.
It's all about housing...this didn't have to happen. The president's a no-show. Hank Paulson doesn't know how this city works [Sarah Palin, you listenin'?]. The lack of leadership comes from the center of the government.
Gamesmanship and political theatre.
Administration still arguing for golden parachutes.
This is a mess it didn't have to happen. Must have taxpayer protections. I accept the gravity of the situation. Don 't need a political photo op.
Yes, Wall Street must have confidence, but the American taxpayer must have confidence, too.
McCain hasn't been involved, it's not his issue, having this distraction did not help. "Republicans are furious over what John did yesterday."
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So as the day goes along...is McCain going to show up at Ole Miss? Will there be a debate? Is he sittin' in Boner's office even now preppin' to sandbag Obama at the debate? Or will he keep tryin' to duck?
Oh, and will there be a resolution on the bailout?
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