Ha, Steele is so stupid even Mornin Joe can whip his ass !

Unbelievable story about the Harvard professor! Wow. Just wow.

Tweety had Steele on his show yesterday was trying to play kissy face with him. Told him several times how he had voted for him for senator,

Mornin’, BT, pups

I’m pleased that health care legislation has been slowed. With the August recess right around the corner we’ll have a month to be in our congressmoron’s faces at the local level. You don’t have to be a well heeled lobbyist to get into local offices. With a little help from online organizing, hint hint, we could flood local offices with single payer supporters.

Very interesting fact check on some of the rethug talking points re canadian healthcare and ads.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/20-11

I saw the news about Henry Louis Gates on rawstory last night. And in the People’s Republic of Cambridge too. I guess “integration” is really only skin deep.

From the 538 link

More generally, progressives are doing very well among almost all growing demographic groups, while conservatives are retaining strength only where the country is stagnating or declining.

R stands for Rust Belt and Republican.

What is it with these fuckin’ Rethugs and concealed weapons? Most of these clowns would end up shooting themselves or innocent bystanders in a firefight. Punching holes in a paper human silhouette target at the local firing range is a far cry from reacting to someone actually shooting at you. The way the Rethugs put it there’s a violent sociopath on every street corner just waiting to blow somebody away.

democracynow is doing a segment on how the U.S. trained Honduras coup leaders and how that training is still going on after the coup.

Damn, Secrets of the Temple comes to the Book Saloon today. I haven’t had time to review the sections I highlighted. Damn.

We’re bound and determined to set up and maintain a military dictatorship in Latin America to offset Chavez and the other emerging populist leaders. I’m waiting for the spark that starts a civil war in Honduras.

Winsec (sp?) aka School of the Americas refuses to release names of Honduran graduates despite fact that it was supposed to become more “transparent.” We are not surprised. There are also other training schools in the U.S.

Good Morning, I was reading some commmentary by a moderate Baptist group. The focus is the numbers that show the support from the Fundies for the practice of torture….including, I think, some research from Pew. How ugly and sad is that?

You betcha on right wing dictatorships. Revolution, not so sure.

Going thru Chiquita’s lobbying connections in DC.

This has gone virtually unnoticed, but during the Bush years police forces on college campuses have become Gestapo-like. The lack of campus protests against the Iraq War did not happen by accident. The Bush team wanted no repeat of what happened there during the Johnson and Nixon years.

Beck and Bolton; there’s a couple of right-so-often-you-know-they’ll-be-wrong-sometime guys to have on TeeVee.

during the Bush years police forces on college campuses have become Gestapo-like

Do you have a link?

Pointing out that Holder defended Chiquita. Now there’s a blast from the recent past.

I continue to be reminded of the Fundies who approached us during peace vigils. Takes a lot to shock me but I was really taken aback by their advocating violence in almost any situation.

Christian group’s billboards denounce separation of church, state

There was just an interview on cnn with the oldest daughter of the couple in your state who were murdered. Whoever was doing the interview mentioned something about their being killed in their bedroom and how they didn’t have any guns in the house.

You can see where the media and the gun nuts are heading with that one………see, if they’d just had a gun in their bedroom they could have protected themselves. They want this country to turn into “a gun in every pot” mentality. :-(

Jimmie Carter has withdrawn from the southern baptist convention.

He said the “most disturbing” reason he and his wife decided to disassociate themselves from the Southern Baptist Convention was the elimination of language in June that identifies Jesus Christ as “the criterion by which the Bible is to be interpreted.”

http://www.adherents.com/large…..arter.html

Black scholars and Presidents should keep their birth certificates in a ziplock on their persons at all times and let the police do their job because Real Americans need reassurance they’ll be safe in their beds. Cambridge, the hotbed of Liberalism for people that think like they do, wink, wink.

Kuchinch is up on democracynow after the break, talking about single payer.

The part the gun nuts leave out is that it’s hard to come out on top when the family’s asleep and more than 1 armed “evildoer” comes into the home. You can bet yer sweet bippy that the Panhandle murders will be a teebee movie.

SBC couldn’t care less.

No link, but having been on campus during the early Nixon years and again just recently, change in the tolerance level of the campus authorities was unmistakable. Freedom of speech seemed like an artifact of ancient history.

link to Kuccinich interview
http://www.democracynow.org/

If you ever notice anything that tells how that actually came to be, e.g., was there contact with administrations, who did the training of campus cops, etc., try to remember to let me know.

Short piece on my community radio station from Florida Public Radio just now about dissension in the state Rethug Party. The uberreichwingnuts are trying to get rid of dissenters. Go for it, assholes.

Isn’t that fascinating, + how they treat women and how long he has tried to work from within. His voice certainly counts for some people

The campus I’m referring to has a very visible ROTC presence, and the university has a dependence on the federal funds that come from that program. Money purchases influence. The campus (a state university) has the pleasant ambience of a military training camp.

That certainly is a direct link. More generally, the abundance of federal money for research is another.

Yep: Go for all those old rich white men while the demographics completely oppose you. Right on.

Be careful what you wish for. A cornered predator is often more dangerous.

Oh, pups, it’s raining here!! First time in July, and most of June as well. Heavenly sound, rain on windows, roof, et al. If you need it, too, may you get some!! Now to read comments.

Bingo. The university is also the recipient of large defense-related research contracts.

I used to live in Kingston, Ontario. Had excellent care when my 6 year old son had to be admitted with breathing problems. Actually, I just remembered, while we were house hunting in Kingston (we were transferred with my husband’s job from the States) I had an awful bladder infection. Can you imagine how awkward that was? I went to Kingston General’s ER, had tests, was given a prescription, was back in the car in about an hour. As I recall, the cost was incredibly low. Like less than $50 low.

Loved Canada, loved our healthcare.

Sounds like the new home of former AGAG.

dn guest said that Canada single payer started with progressive head of Saskatchewan province from 1941-1960. Success was so great, rest of Canada had to go there.

he arrested Gates for “loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space.”

Well, there goes Glenn Beck, then.

Taxes reflect the fact that good roads, education and healthcare are not cheap, but the Canadian systems works. Republicans don’t understand the golden rule or the concept of the greater good.

Not so sure it’s W’s doing entirely, though he probably accelerated it. I would inagine that after 1960s & 70s all prez have considered how to prevent the same kind of campus demonstrations.

Also, not impressed with recent generations’ involvement in causes, with the possible exception of environmentalism. They don’t seem to know much about U.S. foreign policy or history. Just interested in getting a job. Not that that’s a bad thing, just think college could be a time in life for having broader interests.

p.s. and we could always choose our own doctors, unlike here, where you have to stay ‘within network’.

The long and short of this is, students spending four years in an intimidating environment tend to be a lot less open-minded and outspoken than those of my generation. That is the penalty paid for accepting tainted money.

IOKIYW (It’s OK if you’re white).

These people are only predators when the prey appears helpless, eg, women and children. Not a dig at women so don’t get all riled up folks.

For some reason, it reminded me of this segment from TYOs-Boring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CAjcOaD6s

Dave Chappelle: I’m a racism connoisseur. Racism in the South is — magnifique. In Massachusetts, the Irish beat up the Italians. Now, that’s specific!

but…but…but…..if they’d had themselves one of those fancy assault weapons, that’d have done the trick. :-(

IOKIYR (It’s OK if you’re Republican)

Does anyone use this when describing the media?

Don’t underestimate them; they have control of a lot of levers of power.

I would guess the absence of a draft has more bearing on the failure of college students to turn out in droves protesting the invasion of Iraq. Students in the 60’s were not much afraid of campus police, or even the National Guard. ROTC units were much more prevelant and much larger in the 60’s, on almost all campuses, than they are now. It just seems like using a magnifying glass to read a billboard.

Also, not impressed with recent generations’ involvement in causes, with the possible exception of environmentalism. They don’t seem to know much about U.S. foreign policy or history.

Deliberate suppression of that type of involvement by campus authorities might be the determining factor in that.

Oh, forgot. Well, then, Michael Steele.

I worked in mental health for 20 years. I never underestimate psychotics.

Maybe so, but my adult kiddos are (sadly) classic examples of this. Too busy always, and too right of center to give damn.

Nixon had the CIA spy on campus activists. I have heard reports from students that Lynn Cheney was involved with a campus program for encouraging students to spy on each other. Whether true or not, that perception existed, and the net result was indimidation of expression.

In that case, IOKIYAR.

Good. They can do a lot of damage.

Reuters
A Guantanamo report that was ordered by President Obama will be posponed for six months. Officials still believe they’ll close the base within the time limit imposed by the president.

Friedman has to be lurking…

Draft was certainly important in the 1960s in spurring demonstrations.

However, less visible, more subtle ways of suppression can be quite effective rather than the full frontal approach of the 1960s. Not saying I’ve made up my mind one way of the other, just looking for evidence.

I don’t doubt it, but having been a student in the early sixties, having put three kids through college in the 80’s, and having a granddaughter who just graduated, I don’t think any gestapho had a great effect on their lives and political activities. They’re all vocal liberals. You’re more likely to have your car vandalized for having a Texas Democrat sticker than to run into problems on campus. On the other hand, even elementary schools now have a police presence.

democracynow replay of headlines, which I missed earlier, is just covering that.

I was informed of the Lynn Cheney-sponsored program by one of the campus student leaders. I’ll try to find a link for you, if one still exists.

Lynn Cheney seems to keep turning up like a bad penny.

Lynne Cheney and Lieberman apparently founded the right-wing American Council of Trustees and Alumni in the mid-90s and I suspect what you’re referencing may have had roots in that org, publicly acknowledged or not. Talk about an unholy alliance (Cheney and Lieberman).

New post upstairs…

They’re part of the “ruling class.”

Good Common Dreams article on the campus shenanigans.

Thanks for the link. That’s the kind of evidence I’m looking for.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Irak: 4327

US KIA Afghanistan: 747

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Welcome.

I had no idea that Liarman has been a sleazy turncoat that far back. Which means this was in place when he ran with Gore. WTF???

Fascists always want to purge universities of “unpatriotic” elements.

Just so. But fascists running for VP on the Democratic ticket? Talk about cognitive dissonance for Unholy Joe. Egocentric desire for national prominence (not to be confused with relevance) vs. how to undermine Gore. Good job, Joe.

Right, the irony of Liarman collaborating with an ideology that ultimately was willing to put people of his faith into incenarators, but then the kamps had those who collaborated with their oppressors in the hope they might live a little longer.

Gore’s rationale for choosing Lieberman was to win the Jewish vote in Florida. We all know how well that turned out.

According to contemporay Republican logic, Frank Ricci is the biggest victim of racism evah and Henry Louis Gates should just stop whining.

-G

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Dan Rather getting his ass kicked by the cops at the ‘68 Demo Convention, and Cronkite’s “thugs” remark. Not available on FuxSnooze!
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