If dems win the senate- then theoretically- they won’t have to worry about the fillibuster. They’ll have a majority on the judiciary committee and Clusterfuck appointees won’t ever make it to the floor of the senate.

Not true. As a condition for not switching, Joe will probably ask for membership on those key committees. So then a majority of the committee will vote to send it to the floor, where again Joe will get to be the spoiler.

I’m sure that Joe and Karl can add this all up just as well as I can. One way or another, if Joe wins he gets to be the deciding vote on all the good committees. The fact that he has to vote however Karl tells him to vote doesn’t matter: to Joe he still gets the glory of being the key vote.

Just truth and lots of technology and a more aware and aching world.

Those comments by Tamir are truly astonishing!!!

Thanks very much for that. I’m not sure I would’ve believed it if I hadn’t read it with my own eyes.

I mean, it’s one thing to *suspect* or even *believe* what you think some people might be harboring in their own private, fenced-off mental landscapes. It’s another thing entirely when they open their mouths and erase all doubt with blunt statements like that. Truly remarkable. While I’ve been focused on the unmasking of our own homegrown racists, I now see this phenomenon extends well beyond our shores.

Mr. K8 and I have been praying, every night for a very long time now, that those who love to do evil, those who are greedy and corrupt, those who exploit the vulnerable and poor of the world may be exposed by their very own words and deeds. And that they may be caught in the very snares they set for others.

Lately our evening prayers have included many expressions of gratitude for seeing this plea of ours answered daily in the headlines.

[I don’t suppose someone’s putting a new truth serum here and there in the water supply, huh?]

also OT, this is pretty wierd. Comments by Naftali Tamir, Israeli Ambassador to Australia to a reporter from Ha’Aretz:

“Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia,” Tamir said in an interview with Haaretz during a visit to Israel this week. “We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We don’t have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not – we are basically the white race. We are on the western side of Asia and they are on the southeastern side.”

link: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774471.html

if you think Tamir’s comments are nutty, read the reader comments below the article.

omg.

can’t get into the comments(?) but sheesh, talk about an utter lack of diplomacy and brains and total racism. Wonder what the Aborigines and other indigenous people think.

Can you say “Follow the Money”? Sure you could.

“Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia,” Tamir said in an interview with Haaretz during a visit to Israel this week. “We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We don’t have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not – we are basically the white race. We are on the western side of Asia and they are on the southeastern side.”

link: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774471.html

if you think Tamir’s comments are nutty, read the reader comments below the article.