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more people have seen ufo's than have been asked for political opinions for a poll.

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'Mission Accomplished' Anniversary: NYT Celebrates With Panel Who Largely Got It Wrong

it just underlines the truth that on a policy level no one's mind will change; and therefore; the situation will not change. the times is showing the press the way: the next eight years of middle east war will be conducted- odds on- by a democrat who will sincerely believe he or she is "against the war". under the democratic president who is against the war, the causualties and slaughter will continue without interruption as the new president plays games with minor adjustment to troop levels. this will be the mirror image of the vietnam shuffle, where a republican failed to end the vietnam war after the democrat left in disgrace. this year the democrats will expand armed conflict after a republican has been disgraced. sorry obillaries. have fun now because both your candidates are committed to expanding hostilities in iraq and afghanistan. they have already told you they will refuse to withdraw american forces. so when the rest of the press follows the times' lead in rehabilitating the new democrat war; then all the obillaries can suit up and go like they've been telling the neocons they should do. posted 05/05/2008 at 15:07:17

Obama On O'Reilly: "Looking Forward" To Going On The Factor

it's an ideal venue for him to explain that he will leave troops in iraq and start a hot war on the afghan pakistan border. ( and probably do a draft in his second term after the suckers have given up on health care again.) posted 05/05/2008 at 15:11:11

US-backed plan sees shiny future for Green Zone in Iraq

just can't get enough of that baghdad freedom. all those freedom lovers who risk their lives to bomb a a couple of foreign invaders at a time out of their country. you do understand that US troops are foreign invaders, don't you? or are you like the pentagon moron who said most forein fighters in iraq come through syria- oblivious to the fact that americans are foreign in iraq. you do understand that, don't you? freedom lover? guardian of the precious rights of the iraqi people whose homes you're bulldozing and whom you can't stop killing because you're too damn dumb to think of doing anything different? posted 05/05/2008 at 17:18:34

find the iraqi blogs like dhar's yourself bodium. progress from your killing and bombing doesn't vindicate your policies- it contradicts them. you think there are no iraqis opposed to us policy and you're taking casualties every week... that you can't even put together that the resistance is OPPOSITION TO OUR POLICY BY DEFINITION is why you can only be ridiculed for your terse little propaganda nostrums. if someone makes roadkill out of a little neocon boy; going back to shovel him up is not a sign of great progress. it's the sign of a mistake. get it ? so now you're not only ducking the war- and i mean this war. i could care less where you were 40 years ago or whenever- you're ducking a chance to help with rebuilding. you like the action about 12 000 miles away like all your political clones. posted 05/05/2008 at 17:11:06

of course the democrats will keep us in iraq butt boy. they said so at the petraeus cartoon show for little neocon boys. that doesn't change the money or the casualties- which you want to detract from by turning on domestic opposition. that's why you're all such ghoulish little suckers- because since you got your ass handed to you by laden you chicken out and turn on countrymen. why don't you fight al qaeda SONNY and conduct yourself like a man with your countrymen in civil discussion. you've already got a 2 s4entence start you little grade school twerp posted 05/05/2008 at 16:58:23

reality like the war would be over in six months because we were so goddam popular. reality like we were doing everybody a favor by killing them by the thousands and they world love us for it. now your reality is some kind of doddering diaper boy who wants our thanks for not having the wit to devise an exit for a hundred years. this war has been a fantasy in sick neocon minds- that's all that has ever guided it. and you're along for the ride like you matter. check your stupid chinese ribbon sticker if you want fantasy. and stick with about 2 sentences. i've never seen an inbred right-wing drooler who could manage more. posted 05/05/2008 at 16:52:50

odium. you've stumbled into it. by world community we mean precisely the world that despises us for enslaving iraq. "stoically" lol. they're recovering from bulldozing and bombing of the united states. saddam didn't bomb iraq you simple fool. you can't even face up to the bloody destructive results of your odious presence without covering your myopic eyes with some kind of democracy progress daisy-chain everyone sees through but you. you are a fascist killing freak who thinks he has some kind of world salvation big picture excuse for killing foreign people- like you're churchill in the service of the struggle for freedom or something. i have good and bad news odium: your sick homo freaks are out of washington in six months. bad news. democrats will just keep killing and keep ginning up world freedom bs to excuse their own sadism. posted 05/05/2008 at 16:45:56

McCain's Reverends Right: His Faustian Bargain with Radical Christianity

easy fourex... i support barack obama. i support rev wright's basic critique of american foreign policy. i simply suggest that attacking evangelists may be counterproductive tactically- that it may lose votes. i haven't seen an actual televisable video showing a white evangelist saying "god damn america" and talking about deserving 9/11. by "clips" i literally mean broadcast video like we have of wright. maybe there is video of hagee or falwell saying god damn america and that. i just haven't see it.
I AGREE THAT RIGHT WING EVANGELISTS IMPLICITLY CONDEMN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. with guilt theology and teaching acceptance of being poor. and taking poor peoples' money. i just think with the kind of people barack needs to reach, swearing at america BY NAME is a different shock level than even hagee blaming sin for katerina. posted 05/05/2008 at 17:33:26

from the extreme left, i have to recognize that hagee's attacks on homosexuals, catholics, et al. just dont inhabit the same "fighting words" terrain as wright's viral video attacks on america. they just don't have that impact among the broad swathe of mid-american voters. many of these voters agree with hagee about gays. how many agree with wright about america? (i'm just trying to be pragmatic here. i agree with wright, although i reject his rhetoric.) posted 05/05/2008 at 10:00:33

as i read this i am listening to stephanie miller, air america, on the same points. i'm obviously no mccain apologist. i have to briefly express an honest opinion, however, that the attack on mccain through rev hagee is not getting traction with voters and may be very damaging to democrats if it's pursued. i say this because rev wright attacked the COUNTRY with his comments. but there are no clips of hagee emotionally haranguing against the country. failure to identify disloyalty to the country as the lethal element of wright's harangue is a symptom of the notorious democratic cultural tin ear.
i believe if obama had condemned the rhetoric but distilled wright's point of criticism from his tone and language; he could have made it a foreign policy talking point. but dumping wright wholesale under pressure made a negative impression that mccain's fundie associations can't attain. posted 05/05/2008 at 09:33:31

US Weighing Thousands Of More Troops For Afghanistan

the little fuzzy head in the middle of all the marine uniforms. you can't miss him. he's also the skinny one in front on the lawn. on the aircraft carrier, he's the one in the flight suit that can't fly a plane. he also congratulated everybody for making it to higher ground in the 9th ward in new orleans. he's sometimes in a tux amusing people. if you're further confused. here i believe he's sharing his excitement about the economy. one before him - reagan- costarred with a chimp. but this one has as slightly simian walk and mannerism particular to some prep school grads.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/cal_101/2f49f129-95e0-46c5-9927-56da83dff93.jpg posted 05/03/2008 at 15:57:09

you're right. the dems will pass a "national service" draft. right away. posted 05/03/2008 at 15:30:24

no, it's time to give the chimp a rest. posted 05/03/2008 at 15:21:49

and then to some liberals the troops are people sitting around walter reed blind or without arms and legs. does that fit into your picture? i didn't think so since your party lets them rot there. posted 05/03/2008 at 15:19:36

i don't see what the problem is. we may have already won (check krauthammer or kristol). the only problem will be how to explain to liberals why- even though we've won- it doesn't look that way. and we have to learn our lesson. it doesn't do any good to say we'll stay for 100 years until after we declare we've already won. once the public believes we've already won;no one will object to continuing to spend money and take casualties.
(the actual fact is: when we've won- there is liquor. when the taliban have won- no liquor- just like basra.) a really stacked female military analyst on one of the networks would be interesting- as long as there was no odd torture baggage on her service record. she could wear a field jacket and report from somewhere. posted 05/03/2008 at 14:39:15

what's the matter with you? don't you understand that chimpler will land on some big boat and say hostilities have ended right under a "mission accomplished" banner and no more worries?
the female and nearly female press corps will become moist at the spectacle of chimpler in the flight suit he borrowned from the chimp astronaut. then all we have to do is send 160,000 guys over there for life, take 1000 kia a year for 100 years and borrow 12 billion a month from china and it will all work out just like the big win in iraq that krauthammer and kristol have enjoyed for so long. posted 05/03/2008 at 12:36:34

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! posted 05/03/2008 at 12:23:05

Fox News: The "Ins And Outs" Of Shaving Your Pubes

coulter has recently bronzed them. posted 05/03/2008 at 13:13:45

Geraldo Admits He Was In Love With Barbara Walters But She Rejected Him, Makes Racially Charged Comment About Her Lover

"OOOO! OOOO!! SENATOW BWOOKE!!!"
when you can't pronounce "r"'s, you can't go back. posted 05/03/2008 at 11:59:24

at least obama doesn't have to give a speech dumping him- does he? posted 05/02/2008 at 13:58:54

MIley Cyrus Bumps Into John Edwards At Disneyworld

"hi john! i hope you don't mind i brought a friend..." posted 05/02/2008 at 14:00:56

Top Democrat: Investigate "Potentially Illegal" Military Propaganda Program

ok. by now you've got it straight. the DOD is not supposed to get their "message out". post toasties and swanson's beef dinners are supposed to get their message out. the Dept. of Defense is supposed to serve the american people with above board info like identified spokesmen and press releases- not "get their message out". much like the fire dept. they're not supposed to have a "message". they're supposed to do a job. so i'm glad you've adjusted to that correction and have that straight. anytime, don't mention it.
you're informed like the usual american vegatable garden on sadr, i see. maliki's men refrused to fight for 2 reasons 1) since the alleys are too narrow for armored vehicles, maliki's gang refused to enter them. 2) maliki's gang refused en masse to fire on other iraqis -especially shi'ites. that's why americans have had to spearhead more recently in sadr city. up to speed on events 6 months old yet? good ctbutte. we can always clarify these issues for you. posted 05/02/2008 at 15:08:56

Jose Canseco Loses Home To Foreclosure

actually it's not a mansion. it's a bungalow that has been repeatedly injected with growth hormones. posted 05/02/2008 at 15:29:08

Clinton Adviser Claims Indiana Slur Video Is Conspiracy

oliver stone bought the rights and is trying to get ed harris as carville and adrian brody as kantor. posted 05/02/2008 at 14:22:29

if you look closely, you can see 2 men on a grassy knoll in back clearly mouthing the "s" word. in independent tests, even marine marksmen were unable to say the "wn" word and the "s" word in less than two seconds- to say nothing of a middle aged bureaucrat. a convict in the louisiana prison system claims that shortly before the time of the video he was approached by two unidentified men who asked him to say those worlds on film from a concealed location. it all points to kantor being set up for indiana insults by someone who doesn't want hillary to be president, possibly slobodan milosovich or ken starr. neither of them have to my knowledge accounted for their whereabouts at the time of the taped meeting. posted 05/02/2008 at 13:55:34

Five Years After "Mission Accomplished"

it would be a mistake to associate chimpler's appearance in combat drag and the "mission accomplished" banner with the actual war. the event belongs purely in the realm of public relations. for instance, the aircraft carrier was just off coronado, california, thousands of miles from the theater of conflict. they didn't get it quite right. this is why now all political candidates appear in front of flags and flag displays so gigantic and conspicuous that they are visible from outer space. this has somewhat mollified the critics, although hillary in front of the vast panapoly of red and white stripes looks like a pitchman keyed into a bacon commercial. posted 05/02/2008 at 19:39:59

Top 10 Most Offensive Quotes From McCain's Spiritual Advisers

i think we can have both! posted 05/03/2008 at 15:01:25

absolutely freaking right. religion= problems. it always amounts to explaining away some midwestern loonbucket. now some other old perv has rounded up a few zombies to sleep with even besides the sex mormons- somewhere in new mexico. children are being taken away from his flatland dump as we speak. we need a national discussion about ethics between rev wright, the weird sex mormons, this RV prophet they busted this morning, anti-semitic billy graham, these stump preacher millionaires, and the pedophile apologist pope. that would be enlightening. this professional religion menagerie this country has developed is a sight to behold. good bye norman rockwell- hello hieronymous bosch. at least bill had monica to turn to after bouts with these opportunists . and i notice the republican brain trust hasn't permitted these loons anywhere near the president or the propaganda machine, however symbiotic their relationship. naive obama, however, got church-slimed right out of the box. experienced professionals get the god guys in their box and keep them there. and you're right- that's a powerful argument in favor of hillary. obama got slime from BOTH religion and AND ex student left radicals. how can you even DO that? in light of all this, the faithful decide- predictably- that the future of america depends on keeping miley cyrus' back covered up. who would have ever guessed that the "flock" would be more interested in undressed childstars than organized murder by their kids in iraq? what a surprise their focus is on sex issues. posted 05/03/2008 at 10:51:27

i don't know whether i'd rather be mccain's spiritual adviser or roseann's personal trainer posted 05/03/2008 at 10:21:55

Leslie Jordan's Memoir Of Substance Abuse And Sex Addiction

i checked out the lois & clark story and he's full of it. JORDAN's the one who was always strutting around in his superhero outfit. the scriptgirls were all checking him out. let me just say i'm not introducing my girl to anyone whose unit's only a foot above the ground. cain couldn't get a cup of coffee once jordan showed for the guest shot. jordan played a superhero in competition with superman. he billed the people he rescued for services and superman got all hung up about it. then he caught jordan with lois/teri hatcher. gayest man in the world? right! wilt chamberlain couldn't handle his action. lots of these celebs just pretend to be gay so they don't have to explain what they're wearing. posted 05/03/2008 at 12:54:07

i liked him playing against megan mulalley (sp?) the hilarious divorcee on will & grace. the scene on the pool table set was really amusing. when he's on the balcony outside his penthouse, his "valet" has to hold him by the back of his pants so he doesn't blow away. watch for the will & grace ep guest-starring him. posted 05/02/2008 at 14:53:27

Democrats And Fox News Play Nice

big news business again on schedule with it's only agenda in any election: squeezing out progressive candidates and driving the left to the center. that's their job. health care reform is gone, big investors are out of the mortgage con clean. there will be no energy policy with any inconvenience to big oil; the military continues to run a protection racket based on militant goat-herders- a nice year's work. thanks newtorks and cablemouths, another job well done. now the survivors are free to go hard right in the name of "reagan democrats"; i.e., blue collar republicans. (since the democrats cannot psychologically acommodate the notion of blue collar republicans, they invent the term "reagan democrats". ) the point isn't that they shun progressive media like amy goodman and mark greene. it is rather that it doesn't make any difference that they talk to fox instead.
the next task is to paint the hard right as centrist accommodating and tolerant- now that they are out of power. big news business and corporate democrats now need to shield the right from the bush contagion. they need to stamp out any implication that progressive anti-war policies have been vindicated. hillary and the newly chastened centrist obama stand ready to do their part. posted 05/02/2008 at 10:02:50

Miley Cyrus To Skip First Public Appearance Since Vanity Fair Photo

vanity fair webhits tripled posted 05/02/2008 at 10:28:01

thanks again, american shame culture, for damaging another successful young person who expressed some kind of attractiveness and excitement in the process of growing up. i would rather sweep away your judgements and condemnations forever than end the war.
people in the more sophisticated communities can easily dominate you with their creative activity; but when big enough stars foray into anything a bit provocative you still rise out of your supressive muck to insist everybody feel bad. that you can still affect the outlook of innocent people is regrettable, but it will pass . posted 05/02/2008 at 09:37:26

My Conversation with Arianna Huffington

rose disorients everyone with that "suspended in deep space" effect from his outer space black set. but ariana, accidently or not, wears a shade much lighter than her skin tone, so her skin tone is very glowing. this also avoids the ghost seance effect: a face kind of appearing suspended in space- which pple who wear dark colors fall victim to on charlie. posted 05/02/2008 at 14:36:45

Five Years Ago: How the Media Gushed Over "Mission Accomplished"

this is proof the above mentioned and other press commentators are incompetent to address the ethical implications of american politics and policy: because they can be shilled like ten year olds by anything vaguely military. still, they, like congressbeings, cannot control their bodily functions- much less their composure- in the presence of their military gods. they were even reduced to children before the planted brass pentagon shills that were deployed to explain the war to them under guise of being independent analysts. the mainstream press and its opinion commentators have no status to address any aspect of political or policy development that involves the application of ethics philosophy.
but since this was an awol national guard ninny from the prairie whose dad bought him the presidency and not an actual pilot, and since this was a phoney event off california- not in the theater of war; knowing, intentional propaganda complicity by MSM can be presumed- as it can in view of the militarism of the subsequent war coverage. so the MSM is best understood as the propaganda arm of the oligarchic american state. this arm confuses people because MSM can go tough on a variety of "candidates", creating the key illusions of "objectivity" and "independence", because several political options always exist within the overall oligarchic power structure. the more bitter the rivalry between these "candidates"; the stronger the oligarchic structure becomes. posted 05/03/2008 at 10:12:10

Time Names Time 100, 100 Most Influential People In The World

in a related development, obama is the only one of the 100 most influential to also be included on the list of 100 most apologetic people in the world. not only is he the first to be on both lists at the same time- (nixon made both lists, but in different years)- but he is also the first nonanglo on the list of 100 most apologetic people in the world. joining barack on this year's list of 100 most apologetic: andrew sullivan, larry craig, david schuster, john edwards, and special late edition miley cyrus. posted 05/01/2008 at 12:18:37

Official Tearfully Admits He Sniffed Female Lawmaker's Chairseat

he should have sniffed petraeus' chairseat, despite the line. then fox would have interviewed him. posted 05/01/2008 at 10:43:52

Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair Hit: Record Traffic For VF.com

i guess she has displaced hitchens as vanity vair's attraction for "with-it" young teens. it's cruel. usually you only get a couple of years in this business and hitchens has hung on longer than most posted 05/01/2008 at 10:51:10

"American Idol" Trainwreck: Paula Abdul Judges Song Not Sung (VIDEO)

many many times i have appreciated that songs were not sung. how many times has someone threatened to kill a party by playing a guitar? the ability to deflect would be party crooners from taking over without coming to physical blows is a valuable social skill. one way is for a good number of people to break in and say they already heard it on another occasion- it can't be just one though. if paula had asked me if i heard the song i definitely would have agreed. posted 04/30/2008 at 10:45:13

Army widens probe after finding bad conditions at Fort Bragg

this is perfect for a congressional investigation. there would be no need for the army brass boy to bring any physical evidence from the plugged toilet because congress is so full of it anyway. so these doddering multimillionaires can sit around talking about the plumbing in an army barracks. worst case- the toilet stays plugged. potential upside: hillary poses in the barracks with a toilet plunger before the primary. posted 04/30/2008 at 09:29:45

Obama's Reverend Wright Press Conference (VIDEO)

the wright issue won't truly be over until he loses on "dancing with the stars" posted 05/02/2008 at 18:41:16

what i and most of my college community asked for was the racial dialogue barack encourages. i thought rev wright's identification of a racist component in us foreign policy was a great place to start. but i'm not a bit surprised things went in a different direction. i will continue to volunteer for barack and my black congressional representative. none of us asked for a denunciation of rev wright who had experience with sncc, and the black power consciousness of that time. posted 04/29/2008 at 14:45:49

barack was not bold enough to take up rev wright's critique of the ethics of US foreign policy. now he's trapped and paying for it. separating the import of wright's criticism of foreign policy from his hyperbolic style would have been major surgery; but it was the way to go. i think barack was, and remains, capable of distilling rev wright's dissent from imperialist foreign policy out of wright's broad-gauge anti-american rhetoric and to tack the discussion toward a dispassionate foreign policy critique- to which the right is extremely vulnerable. now the right has been inoculated against foreign policy criticism. i happen to agree with rev wright but would never insult the country in conveying that. posted 04/29/2008 at 14:36:35

i don't think the volvo with the gun rack is working in north carolina posted 04/29/2008 at 14:14:14

Sexualizing Miley: Are Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus Letting Her Be The New Lolita?

it never ends. it's like the mute dwarf in the randall jarrell poem miming his astonishment over and over. some type of mundane, quasi-erotic exhibitionism and it starts all over again- the shock, the astonishment at the utterly commonplace. the dwarf, acting out his astonished reaction over and over, mimicing his initial shock long after the inital event and the initial horror have transpired is the far more horrifying spectacle, wherein the normal is never normal, wherein we are invited to experience horror over and over again as ritual. or, like twitching flatworms, complete absense of anything like memory, learning or adaptation leaves us completely unaware and unprepared for what is inflicted no matter how many times the act repeats. how can they sustain shocked outrage, deep concern, dire jeremiads at the literally weekly contrived exhibitionism of teen-aged careerists? they're like some kind of greek chorus. this shocked concerned public is the only irreplaceable element of the scheme and the only one that doesn't get paid. posted 04/29/2008 at 13:27:48

Giant Squid Being Thawed Out By New Zealand Scientists

obama has already disavowed any connection with the colossal squid. the squid does not represent obama's views, nor does it speak for the campaign. obama has not been present in the deep ocean during any of the squid's foreign policy pronouncements or slurs against america. this shouold be clearly stressed before the squid shows up before the washington press corps. the squid should answer a few questions form moyers and let it go at that. especially since a book deal can be presumed. posted 04/29/2008 at 12:58:47

Can Obama Appeal to White Rural Men?

to answer that question you need to keep in mind that white rural men don't appeal to white rural men. posted 04/30/2008 at 09:33:56

Russert Watch, 4-27-08: In Which Tim and Team Play Inside Baseball

we're running out of ways to ignore the fact that these commentators are indirectly employed by their big insurance, aerospace, and pharmaceutical advertisers. sen. schumer, to little notice and absolutely no surprise, said this past week that- since the war will be bankrolled forever- no health care proposal will be considered due to lack of money. is a major network going to advance a discussion of taking health care away from insurance companies? of course not. this is uncomfortable to face directly because it nears the precipice of the limits of capitalism. these are dangerous things to talk about. posted 04/28/2008 at 18:30:12

Obama, Clinton Respond To Pentagon Analysts Story, McCain And Networks Remain Silent

"further investigation" ROFLMAO!!! are you already done licking petraeus' boots? congressweenies are dwarfs compared to a buck private- and they're going to "investigate" the brass mouthpieces. congress- we know they own you. you would do well to shut up so it isn't so embarrassingly clear. posted 04/28/2008 at 14:48:35

Pentagon Suspends Military Media Analysts Program

what the warmongers need to do is have these shills testify before congress about something or other. then the congressional toadys can restore these shills' heroic luster with its abject slavering and flattering and bootlicking of all things military. posted 04/28/2008 at 14:41:06

Roger Clemens And Mindy McCready Had 10-Year Affair, Says Report

an unusual case of a minor corrupting a mentally handicapped adult. posted 04/29/2008 at 02:59:06

WHCD: Swanky, Sweaty and Star-Studded

it's reassuring that on some occasions the washington press and the legal-political establishment get out of bed with each other. posted 04/28/2008 at 15:38:07

Miley Cyrus Bare In Vanity Fair: Tells Fans She's "Embarrassed"

this is a real bad place for anti-intellectualism. what happens is you read maybe part of the article and get bored so you skip to the comments. then you forget what the article was about and find some comment that disturbs you on whatever level. then you take a one-sentence shot at whatever commentator bothers you. usually this happens when you encounter a complex, finished thought instead of one sentence insults. you find this difficult to read and even more difficult to think about, since you've long since forgotten that you can't even restate the point of the blog entry the comment thread is about. resentfully you leave an insult that sometimes may be clever. not this time. here's how it's done:
"... one of the few people convicted of indecent exposure on a message board..."
see, now that's funny. so, anyway, happy posting... posted 04/30/2008 at 10:11:18

do you think everything you don't want to see should disappear? most people simply don't look at what they don't want to look at and don't even think about it. posted 04/30/2008 at 09:58:24

quite a few people deny elements of apparent reality and cannot overcome their disbelief despite evidence otherwise everywhere. seldom do these denials impede normal functioning. in that regard, i must confess that i cannot formulate a coherent concept of the world around me that includes a mass perception that exposed body parts are some sort of threat to the social fabric, or something. i don't understand how pictures of various glands and protruberances constitute a threat to anything. i cannot assimilate the phenomenon of mass outrage concerning exposed organs into my worldview. i sat there watching janet jackson at the infamous superbowl show and saw her breast. but days passed before i grasped even the existence of the ensuing mass hysteria. maybe the precise formulation of the disapproval is that it reflects an inchoate regret that this exposure is not shocking, not corrupting, not unhealthy; and by extension a sad realization that bodies are objects, and not exclusive to the realm of love. posted 04/29/2008 at 02:51:08

Guess The 46-Year-Old Bikini Body

okay. everybody's hot until they're about 85. we get it. they tend to get too much sun here- but in more moderate climes- the 60 somethings are turning heads. and i don't mean good looking for a 60 yr old- i mean just flat-out hot. posted 04/25/2008 at 17:19:20

The Undeniable Virtue of Jeremiah Wright's Pro-Blackness (and the Problem with Pro-Whiteness)

don't forget religious persecution in europe that caused whites to settle here. whites are perceived monolithically; but whites have tremendously varied religious histories. you are absolutely right to reject the hannity-type false equivalence, as in, paraphrasing: if whites said bla blah (that blacks say). ... it would be racist.. cleaver, leroi jones, malcom x, et al. said some very important, true things. no one, however, not even dr. west, has brought home a social relations theory that doesn't rely on an oversimplification of who white people are- especially how they understand themselves. posted 04/25/2008 at 17:07:43

George McGovern: Still Backing Clinton, But Going Way Off Script

it's especially ironic that we look back on a candidate who proposed a $1000 guaranteed annual income as we await our stimulus checks.
but here's how obama may resemble mcgovern: mcgovern was fed a young missouri senator named tom eagleton as a running mate. then eagleton's psychiatric care was tipped, destroying mcgovern.
obama has to take great care that he isn't set up by pro-war democrat reactionaries so they can bury the progressives for another two generations. posted 04/25/2008 at 17:40:37

New York Times Panic: Staffers Told To Rein In Spending While They Await The Bloodbath

can friedman expense the dry-cleaning after getting the pie in the face? posted 04/25/2008 at 17:12:57

Sex-Starved Women: America's Best Kept Secret?

for several years i thought i was doing well with women. it actually turned out that to some extent i had been passed along a network of bisexual nonprofit and academic administrators. i met one through a staged job interview. one i was with disguised a break-up as an eviction due to her cat. she went to a friend's ... and "found" me a complex where i was jumped at a new residents' social. looking fror attention in clubs wasn't their metier . one of them was someone i grew to love but has since passed away. only one never married. i was very very lucky to spend time with them. the refinement, of course, is to pool prospects like myself, maximizing the number of possibilities per person by sharing them. posted 04/25/2008 at 19:59:32

Reading The Pictures: Taking On Ayers, Etc.

this campaign season must at all costs remain safely beneath a cogent discussion of the ethics of american foreign policy. at no time, under no circumstances, can logical thought be permitted to take precedence over the service records of the participants. much like the pennsylvania bowling-hunting weenies; the effeminate sensibilities of the patriopaths cannot under any circumstances be bruised by frank elucidation of the inherent racism implicit in US foreign policy. it is imperative that any candidate's slightest deviation from simpleminded flagsucking at any point- however distant in the past- precipitate baboon howls and terror-sweat from the land of the brave. i just want to know how experienced people like russert could think begging for votes in the appalacian ravines full of junked appliances could take the form of a "national discussion of race". LOL. posted 04/25/2008 at 02:36:21

Is This Primary Irreversibly Shredding the Democratic Party? I'm Skeptical.

democrats do politics- not policy. they remain well within their comfort zone. john mccain does not really interest democrats. neither of the candidates is interested in diverting attention to mccain when other democrats are so much more interesting. the strategy is to ignore mccain until he is elected; then carp about all the right-wing policies the usual democrat senate gasbags will be going along with thereafter. much to their immense relief, the mccain victory they are preparing for will again let them off the hook on health care, NAFTA, the war, and what have you. the challenge: barack and hillary defining each other negatively enough to assure that no republican policy catastrophe can derail mccain. they are making headway: they have finally clarified that they are lying about ending NAFTA and the war. they may be only one more hillary combat story- or obama outrage against exquisite redeneck sensitivity- away from their goal. god knows the party itself has done what it could: the late convention, the florida and michigan debacles- and the fact that their two survivors split the party along race and class clean as a razor while the mortgage con men blew by them like they were painted on a wall. those who grope for some rationale are already back to the "keep obvious social darwinists off the court" canard. looks like a 4 year rainy afternoon with gramps and the war stories . posted 04/25/2008 at 03:07:25

Remember When CBS Was The Place To Be? Roger Mudd Does

actually the berkeley barb was the place to be posted 04/28/2008 at 14:50:11

Long Primary Damaging Democrats

if we "assume the clintons are the proximate cause of 9/11" we'll all be as stupid as you. what we can assume is that the conservative militarists are too stupid to catch osama. that we can assume. posted 04/25/2008 at 17:47:40

Exit Polls: Obama Loses To Clinton Among 'Bitter' Low-Income Voters

bryn mar in pa; and case, antioch, oberlin, kenyon and RIP kent state in ohio did a lot for movement against the war in viet nam. they opened their doors and helped solve movement transportation. antioch has closed; i will never fully accept that. i think coretta scott king attended antioch. the legendary theater department...a few years later, in cleveland (actually strongsville near chevy assembly in parma) we used to sit on the roof of our 4-plex watching the cruising action on lorain ave, drinking stroh's. it was 104 degrees. posted 04/22/2008 at 23:48:44

Barbra Streisand Pulls Out Of Israel Anniversary Bash

Happy Birthday Barbra! Best of health and happiness- you will sing in israel again... posted 04/23/2008 at 00:08:24

Hidden Pentagon Hand Helped Shape Network Military Analysts

i thought everyone who gave it any thought presumed that all these old heroic guys matthews pees in front of were government shills as soon as they got a load of His Eminence The August Most Reverend Really Really Major Generalissimo Colin Powell lying his little behind off at the UN. but i guess some people have to have things like this painstakingly explained in such a way as to avoid the conclusion that antidemocratic capitalists are manipulating the free institutions of this country: the press, freedom of association, privacy rights and possibly the free ballot. posted 04/20/2008 at 17:14:16

Mainstream Media Mainlining

it's all so globally historically significant, isn't it: barack and hillary waltzing around with mr magoo, trying to feed the cable talkers slime on each other? i mean it's significant beyond our understanding, globally earth-shaking who the hell gets to rub up against brass frog petraeus after bush? and who gets to devise an economic plan just after the big boys are safely out with the loot? my life is in the balance; i am transfixed by history in the making and the din of the shreiking tweety mathews, so murrow/cronkhite-like.
on the other hand, there's poor britney, floundering in the "mall-hick gene pool". so unlike marilyn monroe, who got out by marrying older, successful guys. poor britney, along with her friends, is despised for living within her own culture instead of seeking status from established men. all britney and her friends have is worldwide adulation that small time candidates can't even imagine. they are maybe the only popular americans in the world (certainly by far the most popular). at least it wasn't obama who used the phrase "mall-hick gene pool". back when the historcal colossus that was john edwards cast his mighty shadow of significance across western civilization, paris was the object of contempt by the Serious Intellectuals. it says it all that the democrats think they need to go bowling and hunting to reach the people - while insulting the most popular americans in the world. posted 04/19/2008 at 12:10:21

The Whole Flag Thing Got Me Thinking

the co-optation of the country's symbols and their subsequent use as identity insignia is common exclusionary fascist practice. barack knows it's a a fascist identifier but can't say so. the answer to your above questions is "yes". the flag pin makes you "patriotic"- not what you do. the pin says you subscribe to a single state of mind defined by the fascist state. the actions which you suggest are more significant do not accomplish that. posted 04/18/2008 at 11:46:33

note: white spaces in the above post indicate dead neural transmitters. posted 04/18/2008 at 10:26:11

there's a pic of mccain leading a story on the site where he's not wearing a flag pin. maybe he's wearing a flag suppository instead. posted 04/18/2008 at 10:24:01

Russian Billionaire Valery Kogan Outrages Greenwich, CT With Supermansion

where are all the free market capitalists? these american rubes with a couple billion think they're rich. they have no freaking idea of the kind of capital that can be amassed in a broken down no-rules system like russia or india. just wait until the chinese cats' paws get here. apparently private interests are going to buy up property in DC and high rent places, form consortiums and take effective control of major cities. the saudis are just being nice because we sell them jets- so they held off on buying out the colorado ski country. that's the future, though. the rubes are still whining about nafta and bigmoney is buying large portions of entire states. the foreign capital moving in using the addled legal system to do it is the pathetically sad last act as america moves from center stage to a nuked up bit player like the UK. posted 04/17/2008 at 12:45:53

Clinton emphatically says Obama can win White House

i know we're all thoughtful informed people; but can't we admit we're a bit sick of these people? haven't we also become sick of pennsylvania: cheese steaks, constitution hall, hunting, closed factories, and so on? last night showed how this slog has deflated into sheer endurance. this defaults to hillary. barack's whole gestalt is excitement and enthusiasm, without which he vanishes. hillary, however, is the every day, face on the pillow, base democratic reality. her dogged determination has become the story. posted 04/17/2008 at 10:25:37

Everybody's Talkin' About Plastic Surgery

less is more. good for you. what i heard is that it's best to have the first one early, just after heaviness sets in at the corners of the mouth and the jawline softens; then the last one much later. the last one is when the skin should be taken back and tightened. years ago everyone thought angela landsbury had had something done before embarking on her immensely successful " murder, she wrote" show. if so, it was considered to be perfect, flawless. at that time, swiss practice was considered well advanced over california equivalents. i haven't heard that they go to europe to get troutlips or catface surgery effects. they seem to get them here. joan collins is probably an example of a well-known person who has, presumably, had surgery in europe. i think less could be more for her too. posted 04/18/2008 at 00:57:50

while the usual party girls were committing their easily forgivable and surmountable mistakes, this happened:
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a terrible career disaster- a mistake that has permanent, unappealable consequences . this happened after charmed finished its eighth season. with the world at her feet, this was no vain effort to hang onto youth. it is simply unaccountable. none of the partying, vehicularly challenged young celebrities made anything even approaching this kind of appalling tragic mistake. this is why to some of us a traffic warrant isn't comparatively the end of the world for a 20 something known for beauty. posted 04/18/2008 at 00:17:34

Inside The "New" Hollywood Left: Who Made The List?

unbelievable comments follow the original piece in politico: anti-semitic... thank you hollywood for passing your liberal traditions to the next generation of successful industry people. it's so funny how criticism of "elites" itself reveals such snobbery and spite. thank god for jewish liberal egalitarianism- conversely, thank jewish liberal egalitarianism for god. now that everybody's pandering to hicks, it's an absolute lifeline of reassurance that my adopted town's professionals carry their convictions forward so strongly. please ariana and friends- understand that in every corner of this country- everywhere- you have tons of support and great respect. maybe superior people can't always have the president they would like. but that's understood and it just takes a little edge to put one in place who can make up for the backward boobs like bush in favor with the ignorant radio howlers and their legions. posted 04/14/2008 at 02:06:16

Unforced Error: Obama as San Fran Liberal Elitist

i hear ya loud and clear, san francisco: no apologies for being cutting edge and capable of processing sophisticated observations. 2c? i'm sick of reagan democrat whining from the rust belt. they voted cultural fears instead of sticking by their unions and they got hosed by the capitalists. too bad. i don't really need anybody in particular to be president . i'm beyond those reprocussions in every way. if white mid-america decided to vote for people who sold out their industries because they pandered to "values", they need to know that has real consequences; and they are now suffering those. no, i don't know how to make them vote liberal, though i would expect economic desparation to do that soon. but i do know they have to learn to make common cause across racial and cultural lines and maybe grow up if they are going to stop losing ground. posted 04/14/2008 at 02:52:35

It Takes Real Chutzpah for a Guy Who Owns Eight Houses (McCain) to Call Barack Obama an "Elitist"

a good number of white americans abandoned their union solidarity and jobs first ethos to follow their cultural values to the republican right. black americans, traditionally very strong christians, nevertheless stayed with a party that advanced women's rights, gay rights, academic freedom, artistic expression and liberal immigration. the white middle class is under tremendous pressure because the republican way has turned out to be prosperity for the rich and decline for everyone else. but taking responsibility for their own decisions- a trait they're supposed to value- is really too much to expect of them. so they blame others who made different choices. it is very comforting for them to have a like-minded president. they need that. and it's not like the democratic alternative is the next fdr or anything. i'm not going to worry about it if they keep crowning these twits, professional veterans, geriatrics, and con men who pander to them. i'm beyond their disastrous influence and i don't really care if they get kicked around in countries they have no business in. in our reflective moments i know we reject returning the rabid hatred they express toward academia and the creative arts. if you add up the fast food, sports worship, and laughable pseudomilitary vehicles that comprise their lives- the sum isn't exactly barack obama. it's what they have; they need what they have. i don't need a president like me the way they do. change inhabits history- not politics anyway. liberals are disingenuous about that. posted 04/14/2008 at 18:06:51

researcher, could you step into my office please? we need to work on your pandering skills. you seem to obstinately forget that this is about sucking up to morons. i think you're- may i put it precisely- clinging to the truth- perhaps bitterly. i refer to the truth that the people who really look down on white midamerica are the ones who feel the need to protect it from analytical reflections on their declining living standard- not those who offer thoughtful reflections in good faith.
you see,researcher, the objective of the fascists is to cut the dialogue off at the pass by empowering the complete yayhoos, rushbo's, hannitary napkins,dittoballs, and what have you; at the expense of those white midamericans who thirst for a dialogue on class, status, and economic recovery. the fascists want to cut those middle americans out of the dialogue. they have succeeded again because democrats aren't smart or brave any more. posted 04/14/2008 at 10:20:52

The Moviegoer: Losing the Battle for Box Office

the reason is iraq is an ugly country; whereas viet nam, europe, and the south pacific are beautiful places. posted 04/12/2008 at 08:40:36

Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Polygamist Sect Leaders

right. and compete with david brooks for laughs.... posted 04/12/2008 at 19:59:34

"white men... ceaselessly F*****G"... in perpetuity... is viagra really that good? posted 04/12/2008 at 15:07:03

in parts of southern california, aging female comedians keep scores of young men chained in cubicles, forcing them to make up jokes and feeding them nothing but coffee for weeks. they sometimes venture out in extremely small cars that cause crooked bone development. they are occasionally seen in their trademark glasses and dockers pants trying to purchase small sundries with actual cash, confusing the locals to no end. . they don't talk about their constricted lives because they have such bad breath. the state of california refuses to step in until there are enough jobs in the motor vehicles bureau to absorb them. it's appalling. the main agnostic denominations turn a blind eye, fearing confrontation with some of the very powerful matriarchs involved. the utter absense of any sexual component whatsoever can be axiomatically presumed, leaving the authorities powerless to intervene. public awareness is building, however; as the botched deliveries, soft timing and gems edited out draw attention to these horrendous conditions in what- before the new washington took hold- was the funniest place in the world. posted 04/12/2008 at 14:53:46

in UT and AZ, reinstituting the inquisition wouldn't be a problem at all. the problem texas had with this is obvious: if you expel the young men you wreck the football team. posted 04/12/2008 at 14:19:14

a glimpse into the conservative soul. posted 04/12/2008 at 13:54:20

i think the right approach for them would have been to relocate to bel air, publish a dirty magazine with some interviews of minor intellectuals, cheesecake, and sports car ads, and invite a few has been leading men to pool parties. then they're an institution. as every moviegoer can tell you, sex trips in rural texas don't always go well. posted 04/12/2008 at 13:38:25

i'm sure i speak for us all when i express my deep concern that god-fearing people are being denied the right to have multiple child sex partners by government authorities. what happened to the separation of church and state? or for that matter, really , really long beards? is evlution and communism being forced into their schools? i just want to know the facts so i don't make a horrible mistake with my personals ad... at least they don't have to worry about disco coming back... posted 04/12/2008 at 13:27:33

that doesn't get it though hoopesaz. religions are supposed to be proactive about this kind of abomination- not passive. instead the state of texas has to carry the thing out without anything but embarrassed silence from the mormons. that's the problem. these despicable cults and practices arise from this religious broth and the big establishment religions back away, cover up, and feign ignorance. then the state has to clean up the mess. the church and state aren't very separate when civil authority has to clean up their mess. the LDS should be billed by the state of texas i don't care how much denial the establishment mormon pr machine puts out. the bottom line is people under someone else's control. posted 04/12/2008 at 12:57:55

gimme an amen- psychoanalysis brothers and sisters. hallelulia! let the blessings rain down! i do believe freud is with us tonight. hallelulia! tonight's message: california is the national superego and texas is the national id. posted 04/12/2008 at 09:50:30

Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter

glad i posted and have therefore learned. thanks thread- you're way worth it. (springsteen lyrics- downright disturbing in this context!) posted 04/12/2008 at 12:07:41

for atienne and pa... you are an american and you belong. you have a right to insure the well being of your families through all legal means, even to the extent of changing the law. the rich used political leverage to displace you as labor with cheap overseas labor. they pursued their interests to the exclusion of all else- to the exclusion of pennsylvania, ohio, and the rest of america.
you have the right to also pursue your best interests. your best interests are to organize, support and vote for laws that inure to you the full benefits of your labor- not just your jobs. you are free to legislate an end to job exports and cheap imports. you are free to tax the beneficiaries of your downfall to extreme levels that divert these profits to social benefit.
but your well-being has to be your sole interest. you have to give up flag-waving, racial and religious issues, war issues, soundbyte games., and all else but your economic interests. only if you ignore flag, war, gay, and god issues can you unite. if you are not told your taxes will ruin the country, you are bad for the "free market" , you dishonor the troops, and world depression will result from protectionism- you are not doing it right. these criticisms are a sign you are doing right and becoming effective. posted 04/12/2008 at 11:44:47

farmerette. just vote for what puts food on your table and knowledge in your children's heads and forget about everything else. everything else is a word game that will be forgotten when it's over and we either have another sun belt punk telling us to tough it out while his crowd makes millions; or a sincere progressive thinking like fdr about your family and really trying- even if the common touch isn't always there. posted 04/12/2008 at 11:20:04

this country doesn't need to come together. progressive forces need to organize, fight, and win. they need to send these reaganoid christianist war profiteering blue suit money suckers packing. you think karl rove, mccain, and cheney want to come together? huh? they've got all your money because they sell you their patriot free market bs. figure it out. all i ever hear is unite and come together from democrat losers. you invested in the stock market and they took out 2 trillion with the enron crash. they gave you mortgages and took trillions out with the subprime crash. i do not mean to be inconsiderate to a lovely woman with a gentle heart- but could i politely ask you to wise up before you get taken again? posted 04/12/2008 at 11:12:51

beyond obama for a minute: what rust belters need to do is vote for the candidate who will do the most for the health, education, and well-being of their families. period. you need to vote for a candidate who will redistribute a significant portion of the income of the very rich to fund social initiatives that help you. forget the free market- that's how you got here, REAGAN democrats. you are not in any daisy chain fantasy free market. you are a wage earner at best. it's time to act like it and reorganize around YOUR ECONOMIC INTERESTS PERIOD- TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL ELSE, . it is fairly difficult to ignore war, the flag, religion, the troops, gays, your gun, and what have you but you need to do that. you are entitled to your self interest, which is a society of strong egalitarian protective institutions that help people. your puny ira doesn't make your interests the same as limbaugh's. it all started with your votes for nixon and reagan, whom they're still trying to sell to you in the grave. just vote for what's good for YOU- NOT FOR THE COUNTRY- that's a shell game. VOTE FOR YOUR FAMILY AND FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE. somebody wants to give you free education and health care- VOTE FOR HIM. don't listen to some punk working some phobia about big government. think like the people who gave you the 40-hour week , social security and public education. not some radio windbag. posted 04/12/2008 at 11:00:05

these midwestern and eastern industrial cities were ok when the voted their immediate economic interests and put their unions first. but they bet wrong on the vietnam war, supporting the war and electing nixon. nixon conned them with a law and order smokescreen, and contempt for students and anti-war people. then he opened up china and laid the job hemmorage groundwork. after gas got short and the ayatollah took the hostages; they voted patriotism and got screwed again. the very first thing reagan did in office was bust the air traffic controllers union. then the big money told them it was really wonderful for all to ship jobs overseas. the pinch started- they bet wrong again. they voted anti-gay and gun issues and pro-life instead of what put food on the table and produced a paycheck.
in other words- they're fools. they took the fdr legacy of their wise grandfathers and squandered it. threw it away for comfortable bigotry, flag sucking, and war cheerleading.. they were always so superior to student protestors. they had so much contempt for hippies and students. but i can't be glad they're paying for it because the whole country is involved. they will now be thrown off their social issues by soundbytes to vote for a war that's killing them. because johnny is screwing around in somebody else's country as usual, they will ignore all their social issues and vote for more war capitalism. so they deserve what they're getting. posted 04/12/2008 at 09:28:42

New York Magazine's 'This Is New York' Issue Cover: Very White, Lots of Dudes

every moderately sized burg now has a "lifestyle" magazine which is the last refuge of the illusion that the city in question is mainly white people cooking brown, yellow, red, and black peoples' food. posted 04/10/2008 at 13:59:47

McCain Won't Rule Out Pre-Emptive War

try point mugu instead, having probably melted adak into a tropical paradise, i bet. posted 04/10/2008 at 12:22:29

we're just teasing you. we know you're here because at the decrepit conservative sites you're sick of looking at flag backdrops and debating about lawn care. so you come here where the action is. only you don't realize you are the action. we just like to make fun of you. blind to the pathos of your earnest desire to debate the great issues of our time- like slavery, women's right to vote, the price of stamps, and flouridating water- we greet you with derision like the snobby cliquish liberal elitists you know we are. after all, we can't be a liberal elite without you. posted 04/10/2008 at 02:51:55

by which standard clearing out yankee stadium after a game is an even greater military success. posted 04/10/2008 at 02:41:25