Mornin’ Attaturk!

2nd ‘graph: “wondering” should be “wandering”.

3rd ‘graph: And the President called it was what it plainly was, rather stupid

FunnyWheelieDiva

To be sure, we are a person of pallor

Taranto got something right.

Thanks, not enough coffee apparently. I’m going to fix that right now.

PS, bmaz has a post about this over at Emptywheel. He calls the offense “contempt of cop”. And he outlines some of the (ill)legalities involved.

FunnyWheelieDiva

I am so glad my TV is gone. Don’t think I could take the constant criticism of Obama after 8 years of bush bliss. Nothing was ever questioned about that idiot’s policies.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins and Kristof today. Ms. Collins, in “The Health Care Sausage,” says President Obama took a step closer to health care reform after pulling out all the stops to give wavering senators the spine to take a stand against financing the F-22 fighter jet, a $1.75 billion piece of pork. Mr. Kristof, writing from Karachi, Pakistan, gives us “Terror Creeps Into the Heartland,” in which he says militants seem to be putting all of Pakistan in play, and that’s one reason the country should be President Obama’s top foreign policy challenge.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge for later, and I’ve got lemon poppy seed muffins. What is it with that Taranto creature? This is my our first exposure to him them. Does he always write in the third person? Does he think he’s some sort of royalty?

I am so glad my TV is gone. Don’t think I could take the constant criticism of Obama after 8 years of bush bliss. Nothing was ever questioned about that idiot’s policies.

What the hell are you doing here? The critique of Obama is wall-to-wall!

Kristol should indeed instinctively side with the rather stupid, although the ‘rather’ part is questionable.

Really nice piece, thanks.

I agree fully, they have hounded Obama with such junk, but so far he is winning. They can’t stand it. I am not watching anything but HGTV, PBS mystery theatre. You get the picture. Thanks for mirroring my feelings.

SyFy and the Food Channel here… And Rachel.

The right wingers want us to feel bad for the cop because he was doing his job. Ummmmmm, noooooooo. He was doing his job up until he got Professor Gates to show his ID. Once the officer saw the address on the ID and realized that the man who gave him the ID was the owner of the house, the officer should have aploogized, turned around, and left. But he didn’t. He decided to put Prof. Gates on the defense by sticking around and acting like he didn’t trust the black man who gave just him the license.

Notice it’s Kristol’s “instinct” and not his ‘learned evaluation of the facts’ that governs his decision “to side with the Cambridge cops.” I think Kristol is working on keeping his streak of ‘perpetually wrong’ in tact.

I don’t think Obama shined last night. Sure, he came off as intelligent and well-informed, but really superior intelligence shouldn’t score extra points when your the Pres. (that should be the standard). We’re just relieved after 8yrs of stupidity. But I don’t think he did a great job of selling his healtcare reforms.

Maybe the birthers will sponsor legislation to make Contempt of Cop a crime. They can make sure that contempt demonstrated for a cop in public or in one’s own kitchen is punishable with arrest and a stiff prison sentence.

If I were the police officer I’d be alarmed by the fact that Kristol agreed with me. Arrogance and stupidity are the qualities Kristol admires most.

Good morning everyone.

Contempt of Cop is not a crime if you’re a dumpy senior white woman. I’ve committed it several times and gotten away with it. I know that profiling exists because I get positively profiled all the time.

Morning all.
If you want to see racial profiling in action visit SD.

Mornin’, pups -

Sanford in the news again…….he and the family leaving today for a two-week holiday to Europe. If comments are any indicator, the citizens of his state are not happy campers. More than a few noting their inability to take vacations, working for minimum wage, etc., etc.

One wonders where his concern for his family was when forkin’ around with the non-wife.

http://www.thestate.com/local/….._Container

[…]

Sanford said he considered canceling the trip, but that his children had raised money to help pay for the excursion by selling lemonade. He said he would not “be standing here” if he did not believe he could work on issues at home and in Columbia.

“I thought about pulling the plug,” Sanford said. “Obviously, the critics will criticize.”

Another reason for the trip, the governor said, was to get the children away from the constant media coverage of the revelation of his affair and its aftermath.

Sanford said he will check in with his office “daily, hourly if needed” and will not hand over power to Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer. He also said the State Law Enforcement Division, which is charged with providing the governor security, knows his plans. Sanford declined to say where he is traveling.

Sanford said the travel is justified, noting he works long days and weekends and is always on call.

“Jenny often jokes that if you added up the hours, I’m working for less than minimum wage,” Sanford said. “I keep going back to the nature of this job, which is it never shuts down.”

[…]

I agree with Raven on this one– we should rally around our president and not criticize him. I think Britney Spears said it best in her interview with Tucker Carlson:

SPEARS: Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.

I’ve committed it several times and gotten away with it.

How specifically? I fit those criteria and wanna know what the options are if needed. *g*

A couple of times I’ve walked up to a whole police squad set up at the 53d St exit to the FDR Drive and demanding to speak to the supervisor, and then demanding to know what they’re doing. They’re checking for registrations and seat belts. I accuse them of gratuitously harrassing motorists and wasting taxpayers money. On another occassion, I interfered in a cop harrassing a Chinese restaurant bicycle delivery guy. Cop said he was a danger to the public, I said he was a poor guy just trying to do his job and the cop should leave him alone. Cop ordered me to stand aside, which I did, but close enough to witness. No ticket ensued.

His kids raised money for the trip to Europe by selling lemonade? Oh PUH-LEASE. Their mother is an heiress and I doubt Daddy is hurting for money either. He’s not even a good liar. If you’re going to bullshit your way through life at lease be GOOD at it for fuck’s sake.

Damn, girl, you got some ovaries!

I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t know I’d get away with it. That’s why I’m so sure I get positively profiled, and if positive profiling exists, so much more does negative profiling. It raises my hackles.

Guts you have! in good measure!

Given my geographic location, I think I’d go for the eyelash flutter, gentile Southern lady butter-would-melt-in-your-mouth-polite routine. ‘Course it’d require a lot to control the outflow of four-letter words that have been known to come out of it. *G*

If he were serious about healthcare reform he wouldn’t have taken single payer off the table. There’s the distinct possibility that healtcare “reform” will be a half-assed cobbled together piece of shit that tweeks the status quo without really making transformational change.

There were some quotes in that piece (including the one you mention) that prove beyond question the man is totally tone deaf….but that ain’t breakin’ news. It all stinks of a “see, we’re just like the little people” mentality. :-(

He was probably following advice he got from the C-street House of Preyer

I didn’t say that, I simply responded when the writer was glad they didn’t watch tv because THEY were critical of the prez. watch it. . .

I don’t suppose anyone thinks that Dr Gates saw the potential “teachable moment” that could only come from him being arrested?

Right after the President said this the press conference was over and someone on MSNBC said there might be some unhappy people on the Cambridge Police force tonight after hearing that “Stupidity” comment. I am sorry but you are allowed to call this stupid, it doesnt mean all cops are stupid. For example it is stupid to shoot an unarmed man 50 or 60 times, or stupid for shoving a broom stick into a man or stupid for electrocuting an elderly grandma, that doesnt mean all cops are stupid. Stupid is as stupid does.

Or, given that there again appears to be serious difficulty in getting through a less radical, more gradualist approach, single payer (which I support) would have gone over like a pregnant pole vaulter. So far, his judgement and instincts have been better than mine, better than Brittany Spears, better than that of most people. Actually, we all had a shot at least equal to his, of becoming president. Then we could have just put through whatever program we favored. I think I probably could have, but prefer to shoot spitballs from the back of the class.

stupidly was the word

How do you know that?

Wish someone would send this quote by FDR to Obama.

“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”

Thanks, my fault. Dave Chappelle talked about this exact incident happening like ten years ago. But it was framed as a joke and not retelling a story that had actually happened.

Hey, hey, the only kind of profiling at my place is whether the tigers like ya or not. If they don’t, well…

Swim is upstairs…

xin loi

Hey Look! Lou “Circle the Wagons” Dobbs has chimed in on the Henry Louis Gates Jr. flap (kind of) – http://tr.im/tFxl