What do you mean “No Jetpaks”?? Shit!! and no DIGG…

I’m still trying to make a jetpack out of a vacuum cleaner. /s

What’s on my mind is the violent rhetoric that comes from talk radio and Fox News.

Did any of your see the Shepard Smith comment about the emails he gets? They area scary bunch of people.

You know it’s still okay for talk radio hosts at KSFO to talk about killing Muslims. I always found the double standard about it being okay to talk about killing one group of people bizarre. And the people who are enabling them, their bosses who are supposedly liberal.

I don’t know what’s worse.. talking about it like the wingnuts do…

Or not talking about it and actually doing it, like our entire country is doing in Af Pak Iraq.

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Is Suzanne off for the night?

i’m around katy – just working on stuff backstage – whazzup

Should I post about the Katy award?

that is totally up to you dear – brag away!!!

Brag Alert….

Weisbuch Receives First Katy Award
Posted in June 8th, 2009
by Webstaff in Awards, DFA, Health Care

The Katy Award was created by the Executive Committee of DFA-MC to honor Katymine, a past Chair and a dedicated volunteer and powerful voice for Liberal causes in our community. The first Katy Award was presented to Dr. Jonathan Weisbuch at the June 7th dinner honoring this exceptional individual who is relentless in promoting Liberal ideals and encouraging others to exercise their political voice. Dr. Weisbuch has been relentless in promoting single-payer healthcare.

Katymine I responded to your comment below

Profit. And also they convince themselves that they have a right to their opinion, that the hosts aren’t actually pulling the trigger and, in some cases that they are brave guardians of “Free Speech”.

It is really misguided liberals who allow it to go on. Now, as I have demonstrated with my campaign in 2007, if you cost them enough money things change.

If advertisers know that their brand is tainted with ties to violent rhetoric and other hate speech they will walk. KSFO lost millions of dollars and Melanie Morgan lost her job.

what I did was not a boycott, but an advertiser education program that got the violent rhetoric into the ears of the people paying the bill. They were disgusted. That is the key to pushing this down. When violent rhetoric becomes less profitable then they will make changes. The obscenity and indecency fines pushed Howard Stern off the broadcast network. I would like to think that the inciting violence is more dangerous to our society than Howard’s sex jokes, but what do I know, I’m just let the team that cost ABC Radio Disney 28 advertisers and millions of dollars

***standing on chair clapping***

most definitely worth braggin about katy. such an honor to have an award named after you.

Such wonderful news ktymine. Did you know ahead of time…were you able to attend?

Several of us were working on the hate speech of JD Hayworth (ex-congressman) but we lost our local air america station as a means to broadcast and just could not get the resources.

Oh Katymine, what Suznne says , and thank you!

Wow!
Way to go!

I had no idea and I was unable to attend, that was the day my nephew broke up with his girlfriend and was mopping around the house….. It was way downtown. I have yet to feel up to a 3 hour social event. It was posted on the DFA-MC website and really shocked me….

What a funny way to find out about it..)

Way to go ((((katymine))))!!!!

One of my girlfriends and her boyfriend were pushing me to go, they were going to pick me up and would leave anytime I felt like it.

That was before I knew my nephew was coming for a visit. We have only see each other 4-5 times and the last time was several years ago. He lost his Aunt on his father’s side last year and did not get to see her before she died….. He wanted to make sure he had a chance to get to know me and have time with me. Ya can’t complain about something like that from a 20 yr old.

Oh no, sounds like a good call. And it sounds like someone was trying to sneak you in as a surprise. *s*

“What’s on my mind is the violent rhetoric that comes from talk radio and Fox News.”

Bushco enabled that by calling them the “Axis of Evil” and “The Bad Guys”.
Tar, label and demean. That justifies the crazies in their minds and they do the dirty work for the real bad guys. What is activating them now to violence?

That is true….. it was so weird to see my sister’s face on my nephew…

I am heading to bed….. still sleeping a lot, took two naps today…. It doesn’t help that I am on antibiotics for a sinus infection….

Nite everyone….

Good night katymine.

What an honor! Bravo Katy!

You have been hard to keep up with today. Glad you made it through that all treatment at the Mayo clinic…doing dinners with family and friends. Pretty good energy level I say…so sleep well.

Now what is activating them is the idea (planted in their mind by Rush, Hannity, Mark Levine and their ilk) that their problems are caused by people like Obama and liberals. Problems are caused by government and that government can’t help it can only mess up. Private corporations can do no wrong and if a corporation does something wrong (GM) well it’s now Obama’s fault.

If the talk radio hosts wanted to really direct their base at the cause of the economic problems they would be directing them to the leaders of the Republican party and the rest of the uberrich Owners of the Capital party.

Tar, label and demean.
Sounds like what women put up with every day until they really wouldn’t know what it was like not to deal with it.

Goodnight, Katymine.
You done good, activist lady!
And your nephew sounds like a sweetie.
XXOO
FunnyWheelieDiva

Got to get up with the chickens in the morning myself.

Good night firedogs.

Nitey nite, ES, KM.

OMG. Daily show interview of Keller of the NYT.
and Keller predictably bashing the blogs. “there’s no HuffPo bureau in Baghdad!” “It’s easier to riff on others’ work”.
I’m so glad TDS skewered them.

FunnyWheelieDiva

Night ES
FunnyWheelieDiva

Great trash of NYT. Shows how out of the loop they are.

And Keller was so EARNEST when he repeated those talking-points.

FunnyWheelieDiva

Just beautiful seeing that weasel punked, having to just sit there.

jet-packs are dangerous. lose your orientation and they will jet you into the ground.
thank goodness inattentive suburbanites do not have access to this form of transport, even if it is 2009.

you need style, and skill, to fly such a thing, like this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcdCglH19YM

but since this is late nite, and everyone is so onto Obama’s games, I recommend to you the acerbic reporting and commentary from Black Agenda Report:

http://www.blackagendareport.com/

featuring quotes like:

My own belief is that Obama and his circle understood that any winning Democrat would be required to seem to embrace something that sounded like “universal” health care. A master of ambiguity, Obama convinced those who were not listening closely that he is, at heart, a reformer – whatever that is. Yet even before winning the general election, Obama prepared to govern, as the New York Times noted, from the “center-right” of his party – through Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) operatives like his chief of staff, Rahm Enamuel, Blue Dogs, Wall Street’s many servants on Capitol Hill, and Republicans. It has been quite clear for some time (and crystal clear in hindsight) that Obama’s general legislative and public relations strategy was to silence and neutralize the Democratic Party’s Left.

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

emphasis added, and I also add, mission accomplished!

I guess he didn’t know about riverbend.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins, Cohen and Kristof in the NYT today. Ms. Collins, in “Bring on the Tarantulas,” says New York’s Legislature seems to be doing its best to nail down the distinction of having the worst state government in the nation. Mr. Cohen says “Iran Awakens Yet Again,” and that Iran, its internal fissures exposed as never before, is teetering on the brink of change. As the presidential election approaches, the existential threat to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grows. Mr. Kristof thinks “This Time, We Won’t Scare,” and what one woman’s medical experience in Canada can teach the United States about health care reform.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got apple walnut muffins that are still a bit warm. After the wettest spring in something like 150 years they’re lifting water use restrictions in Georgia. Georgians did quite well — told to reduce water use 5% the actual reduction in water use was 10%. Maybe people have gotten into new habits and use will stay lower. Have a great day.

Can we raise the Threat Level to red now?

Good morning Marion. I won’t commment on NYS politics, as it is a subject I know little about, despite having lived in the state almost all my life. As for the Iranian elections, the neocons seem to be getting worried that Ahmydinnerjacket might not win.

Congrats on getting the water situation under control!

I liked Kristof’s article and the notion that Obama might be a Canadian secretly sent to impose healthcare on the U.S.

Heaven forbid!

If anyone ever says they understand NY State politics my first inclination would be to get the men in white coats with the butterfly nets… According to Nice Polite Republicans there are enormous street demonstrations against Ahmadinijad (sp?), primarily young people and women.

Gotta go work…

Apparently the neocons don’t want a moderate in Iran because it reduces the excuse for bombing them.

Morning all :) Congrats Katymine!!! :)

‘The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) — created by Canada, the United States and Mexico — said 90 percent of toxic pollutants came from just over a dozen industries.

‘Aside from oil and gas extraction, mining, wastewater treatment, electric utilities and chemical manufacturing are named as the principle offenders.

“Ninety percent of the 5.5 billion kilograms of toxic pollutant releases and transfers reported in North America in 2005 can be traced to just 30 substances from 15 industrial sectors across the United States, Canada and Mexico,” it said.’

http://www.physorg.com/news163910757.html