rumi @ 203

mandrake @ 200

Boy, these women (conservatives) really think they’ve got it all figured out. I guess they’re no different from men in that way! I am getting so petty. I soooo want to see the careers of these people crash and burn. That would be so gratifying.

hey…was Arianna Huffington a loyal conservative at one time? She’s one of my favorites now but I thought I heard she hasn’t always been liberal politically.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is another favorite.

Yes, Arianna was a Republican. She was married to a guy who ran against Dianne Fienstein and lost in 1994.

Yeah, after a divorce and the revelations that he was covertly gay/bisexual. As I recall Mr. Huffington tried to portray himself as a “compassionate Conservative” with a little bit of Main Street and a bit of Bible-Thump when he needed to pander.

I have to admit I don’t follow Arianna’s stuff enough to understand her transformation and why she still opts to go by “Huffington”.

The Pentagon held off revealing the details of this until late Friday.

Why not go to Edwards’ blog and give him feedback directly? His wife, especially, is an active netizen and I do get the distinct impression that they listen and will take criticism into account.

He went to Starbucks afterward; no one there. We’ll try to get his stuff online as soon as he reaches a computer.

rumi: I read the letter to ABC from Spocko’s attorney. Got me thinking – I bet the lawyers for companies like ABC are suiting up to work on clamping down on internet free speech with the “copyright infringement” crap. There will be more lawsuits. They have the best lawyers. I do hope the Dems will do right by us in not allowing them to get away with changing the laws regarding the toobz in their favor.

I hope we can find the candidates to value free speech over corporate control, but I don’t know.

Have you seen these?

20th Century Fox Clamps Down On You Tube

Fox Hunts For YouTube Uploaders

:-) I have a habit of wandering away to read and missing a timely comment. see ya later

mandrake @ 214

I just had to share this snippet from a Guardian/UK article about Coulter written about 4 years ago.

But above all, Coulter is thriving because America itself is changing. The country is shifting rightward, the more so since September 11. The Bush administration is not a freak of nature; it enjoys wide public support. Its belief, put crudely, that the US is number one on the planet and that anyone who stands in its way is either a terrorist or an appeaser of terror, is not on the wacky fringes but commands broad endorsement. And Ann Coulter gives it a voice. We may not want to hear it, but if we are going to understand where the mightiest power on earth is heading, we may have to start listening.

This was/is dead on accurate and it’s also the problem with inaccuracies in the press/media. Our country’s theatrics since 9/11 is a subject that gets me fired up. When our elected officials keep fueling the misinformation and hysteria, it compounds the problem. In 2004, the platform seemed to be who could outkill the other candidates.

I nominate the FDL staff as members of a future Trurh Commission.

What is so funny is how wrong that perception turned out to be and how irrelevant Ann Coulter is now . . . I just had to laugh.

I just had to share this snippet from a Guardian/UK article about Coulter written about 4 years ago.

But above all, Coulter is thriving because America itself is changing. The country is shifting rightward, the more so since September 11. The Bush administration is not a freak of nature; it enjoys wide public support. Its belief, put crudely, that the US is number one on the planet and that anyone who stands in its way is either a terrorist or an appeaser of terror, is not on the wacky fringes but commands broad endorsement. And Ann Coulter gives it a voice. We may not want to hear it, but if we are going to understand where the mightiest power on earth is heading, we may have to start listening.

This was/is dead on accurate and it’s also the problem with inaccuracies in the press/media. Our country’s theatrics since 9/11 is a subject that gets me fired up. When our elected officials keep fueling the misinformation and hysteria, it compounds the problem. In 2004, the platform seemed to be who could outkill the other candidates.

I nominate the FDL staff as members of a future Trurh Commission.

I think Arianna was calling for martial law in NYC and not an anti-Muslim rant in “the Siege”. The lines I found may or may not be accurate.