BT,

The article on the launch of the new GOP website was quite funny. Makes one wonder why Liebberblub would ever consider voting with repugs. He needs more than a sternly worded letter.

Time for a sternly worded letter

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The sternly worded letters need to be sent to every democratic senator telling them to strip Lieberman of his committee seats. It was a major mistake to play kissy face with this clown.

Good morning.

Finance Committee bill doesn’t look any better today than yesterday.

Mornin’, BT, pups

Bryan and Tracy Lawlor, who is also 34, have hidden their straitened circumstances from their four young children, mainly at his insistence. But as their savings dwindle, Christmas, a key indicator in the Lawlor family, will mean fewer presents this year. The Lawlors have made a practice of piling on toys and new clothes for their children at Christmas, buying relatively less the rest of the year. That will make a cutback noticeable this holiday season, and the parents are concerned that their children will begin to realize why.

They’re not worried about how to bring up their children, they don’t want them to find out they’re not making as much money as they used to. What is wrong with this picture? Ever think of telling the kids the truth of the situation? I’ve known some very successful parents who were dirt poor in my day.

eCAHN @ 3: Nope, it just gets uglier by the day.

Jane’s up on democracynow.org.

Jane on DN!? Holy shit, we’ve hit the big time now. Now I have something to look forward to at lunch time. Look out for an influx of lefties to the Lake.

With all the work she’s done on the medical care issue, she deserves all the exposure she can get.

MR SCOTT!!!!

Aye, Cap’n we’re workin’ on ‘er. The frazzlewatsis has frozen onto the proton generator.

I think there’s a balance between telling your children that you can’t afford as much this year, and telling them so much about the circumstances that they are worried and frightened. Depends, of course, on the ages of the children. And in many homes, whether they still believe in Santa.

Of course, “Santa” may be hit by the economy, too, and have to give less to all children so that all children receive something!!

Have you seen this? Go to the page, wait a while , and out walks Steele saying everything he disavows elsewhere about the GOPPER homepage… So Steele like…

http://hammerandsteele.com/?u=www.foxnews.com

Beats the influx of trolls we’ve seen lately, no?

Good morning all and thanks for the post, BT.

hychka@10: And the entire background is a Fox News website, upon which Steele gives his GOP website spiel. Funny!!

One thing about Short Ride, he’s predictable. His “I don’t know yet[s]” mean Yes when it screws Dems and No if it screws Rethugs.

But faux noise isn’t a wing of the rethug party oh no.

You betch’um, Red Ryder. I’m so sick of self-centered, mean trolls.

Have we heard anything from/about katymine?

Jane was the only guest for the first segment of dn, and was exceedingly articulate in explaining all the ins & outs of the medical care sausage making.

LOL. Just got the last bit of Jane, and she referred to “President” Lieberman and “President” Snowe. Good one!!

FuxGnus is gonna reciprocate by putting the RNC logo as background on all their shout shows.

I agree. We had a family conference to explain to our kids about my husband’s furloughs and how that was going to affect our budget short and long term. We had a great exchange about creative ways to save money even at Christmas. The kids started creating artwork to scan and print off to create stationary sets for gifts to family and my daughter started her own business this summer (a lemonade shake & jewelry stand.)She also started designing clothes made from hand-me-downs and thrift store buys. Very chic stuff she designed. Our oldest researched healthy, low budget recipes that met his food allergy concerns in order to save on groceries.

Our youngest (4 at the time), worried about other families being hit even harder, started The Little Red Food Wagon outreach of a weekly canned food drive in our neighborhood and all donations go to the local food pantry.

I read last night tyhat he was going to be on point to 86 DADT.

I continue to check every thread for her beloved telling us……

Haven’t seen anything since Loo Hoo’s diary.

Our youngest (4 at the time), worried about other families being hit even harder

More compassion from a 4yo than from all the Rethugs thrown together (yeah, I know, that’s an ugly picture this early in the morning.)

Thanks. Breaks my heart.

I truly hope katymine is able to read the diary and all of the comments. I remember a few months ago when she had one of her awful treatments that Elmore signed on and let us know that she couldn’t comment, but was reading.

((((katymine))))

…thrown together

I’ll reserve comment but boy, that could start something here this AM!

I wept then as did last weekend. She is highly regarded and much admired in the CBL household.

Jane was just fabulous on DemocracyNow! Listen to the archived presentation.

Ditto at SD’s hooch.

What I love is how the “stakeholders” interests are taken into consideration so much – stakeholders? These are corporations who insist on their profit stream. Don’t mess with our profits. The stakeholders are really the public about whose health care this is all about. What about them there stakeholders?

Right. I disagreed with how Jane used the word stakeholders. She should have said shareholers instead.

“Stakeholder” sounds more inclusive than “shareholder.” Typical corporate newspeak.

Whoa, I haven’t seen it yet but I agree.

Stakeholder=Village Idiot

She used the term “stakeholders” in describing the suppliers of medical equipment and services only, didn’t seem to include the customers at all in her usage. Other than that, she was great.

That would make her technically correct. My purchasing at PetsMart doesn’t make me a stakeholder there, I can always go elsewhere.

My point and I think Jane’s, though not emphasized, was that the stakeholders who the WH takked to were the for profit corporations in the game.

The WH didn’t have discussions with patient’s and citizens groups who are the TRUE stake holders in this matter, not the shareholders.

SD this is precisely the problem with this debate. It is driven by protecting the shareholders – not the “consumers” of health services. Screw them, they are only one of the revenue streams.

It’s the problem with the debate on anything that concerns corporations. Profit over people every time.

As I understand the prior use of the word “stakeholder,” it was invented to include all people who have an interest in the outcome of whatever the issue is. In your example, there is no issue to be resolved so applying the term “stakeholder” has no meaning. Now if there were an antitrust issue in pet food retailing, then to include only the retailers in the discussion, and refusing to include customers, and calling the parties to the discussion “stakeholders” would be severely misleading.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Irak: 4349

US KIA Afghanistan: 873

US MBS 2009: 35,464

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

I can’t go near the Katymine diary without weeping, which is why I can’t look at work! There was even a comment from Looseheadprop, and one from TRex.

Me either.

Went on HuffPo this morning to comment on these same articles — very disturbing.

Apparently HuffPo’s changed its censors or policies or something, b/c every time I tried to post a comment that was a negative one about the injection of Ayn Rand utopianism into weepublican policies (and our economy by extension) it got scrubbed. Also, any comments about the prostitution of the MSM into the reichwingers agenda never made it past them. WTF is going on there?

Thank goodness for FDL!

I read a disgusting Twitter posting there, too, by someone calling him/herself oustobama — it was in reference to the swastika on the MA golf course, and he/she said it was “a real shame that it would stay there until the Spring when the grass could grow back — a real shame.”

And, yet, that wasn’t removed.

Seems like that could sodded in and fixed quickly.

dya think?

“Obama’s War” on PBS last night was just so depressing. One scene in particular showed Marines asking Afghan villagers why they don’t help them defeat the Taliban. One of the Afghans replied to the effect, “We are very poor people. We only have sticks to defend ourselves. You have guns and helicopters and tanks. Why can’t you defeat them?”

I agree, but that story was disturbing for more reasons. I remember reading that the New Deal intentionally tried to emphasize maintaining wages, even at the cost of jobs. I can’t recall all of the reasons, which made sense to me when I read it, but the major one had to do with maintaining improved general standard of living when the economy eventually came back. If wages/salaries declined generally, even a recovered economy meant the middle class standard of living was set back by years and might never reach the previous standard.

his wife does not want to be married to a pilot with so little earning power.

What a peach.

I like to think so. *g*

Lieberman’s the Senator from Israel, not CT — he’s threatening to vote with the goppies unless the WH caves to the Israelis on the Palestinian issues — that’s what this is all about.

That’s why he’s insisting the US spend more blood and treasure in Afghanistan, too — it’s in Israel’s interest. Get it? What’s best for Israel is his first (and only, apparently) concern — what a piece of work, huh?

You think that you think? You’re not sure? *g*

hey I know, maybe if Lt Dan Choi promises to serve openly, and our Teddy to marry while using a hands free device . . .

Mornin’ All

Sorry, but what’s “sodded?”

Why am I not surprised you’d pick that out of the entire article to comment on?

am having same difficulty with perfectly harmless, well within their parameter comments. and finally emailed them about it

had this same problem in the past – their spam/censor filters loose their minds and selectively delete based on ISP addies instead of content

send them an email. and I’ve yet to try it, but wonder if we’d have the same problem using their facebook threads

From the story re: President Snow:

Many clashes lie ahead as congressional leaders attempt to merge the more moderate Finance bill with more-liberal versions passed months ago by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and three committees in the House. Those bills cost significantly more and are centered on a public option.

Oh, yes, “significantly more.” Right. Way too much, since it would actually be used to keep people from dying, not to engorge corporate vultures.

Disregard. I didn’t think long enough. The subject airline did maintain the same salary structure for captains and first officers. They reduced him to first officer. My concern over that aspect would have been warranted if they had halved the pay of anyone still holding the position of captain.

formidable
Grass is grown in a sod farm and then peeled up with a layer of soil and transplanted.

Never mind — a little more caffiene cleared up the confusion.

Yeah, it’s amazing how conservatives’ brains work, isn’t it? The golf course/swastika commenter obviously doesn’t get their info (if you can call it that) from any other sources than reichwing ones, b/c the owner/operator of the course said that was what he intended to do (resod it).

Tried email — not successful. I think you’re right about the ISP addresses, tho — they block any accounts I try to establish via other email accounts, too. I’m going to go low tech and send a letter to Arianna. If she doesn’t know what’s going on, shame on her. If she does, she’s going to pay a heavy price for a very bad business decision.

I refuse to participate in or patronize Facebook since Sister Sarah decided to use it as her platform for spreading her Medieval Agenda propaganda — it’s become a magnet for evangelical reichwing freaks now. Or, so it seems.

The Russia-China axis that the U.S. so needlessly worried about during the Cold War, seems to be blossoming just fine now.

CBL, call me.

Wendell Potter’s up next on WJ. Quite the man about town. Must have a good press agent.

I wonder if the monies distributed through the bill Rockefeller has joined in will actually be used to enforce the ban against driver mobile use.

One of my WordPress sites had an infected theme by Beccary. The result was the website was tagged by google as a malware site. The Harvard-based StopBadware.org organization advised as to the determination only after I enquired about the branding thereof. I mention this in case the GOP as well as others are reading this thread. I must say, the makeover looks pretty bad, even after the negative publicity. A bit obtuse.

Once I tried to ask an honest question of a candidate regarding education policy who was on for a salon at HuffPo. My question was controversial in content but asked very politely.

I was banned and received a “nasty gram” from the mod telling me my question was critical of the guest and rude. I was quite confused by their response. After I shared the question with friends and learned more about the background of the candidate in terms of education, it was clear to my friends the response was an extreme act of censorship by HuffPo in order to control the message on the candidate.

I can no longer sign in at HuffPo since that experience which is fine because the quality of the content no longer matches the content received here at FDL.

I even followed up with HuffPo and asked them to please explain what was “harmful’ about my question. Only crickets from HuffPo.

I only fb my friends, my daughter to share photos and see what’s up with them. None of these are rightwing nuts, so I wouldn’t know who else is using the site as a network. Sarah can do whatever she likes. It doesn’t affect me one way or another.

No offense intended towards you and yours’ — it’s just the principle of the thing as far as I’m concerned.

Anything connected with Sister Sarah is kryptonite to me.

If HuffPo applied their censorship rules and regs in an even manner, I wouldn’t mind, but they allow the filthiest comments to be posted about the Prez and Speaker Pelosi, etc., while scrubbing the kind you mention.

Maybe hitting Arianna in the wallet will get her attention and I intend to tell her so — thru the US Mail.

Sorry. No offense taken. But, she probably drinks coffee, milk, eats hamburgers and tacos. I’m not giving that stuff up either.
But, I get your point.
I’ve had to take an attitude about her, since I was also a speech major and play the flute. Know what I mean?

And . . . what’s wrong with him speaking the truth?

Actually, he should be cloned.

When HuffPo added their TMZ-esque content, it did not matter to me whether I could sign-in or comment there.

Sadly, I was one of HuffPo’s early readers. I read an interview with Ariana announcing the launch of HuffPo and decided to sign-in on the day she launched. Actually read a Christy Harden Smith post there a LONG time ago and found Christy and FDL through HuffPo.

Then I found EW…

I hope your letter creates an Ariana wake-up call.

Actually read a Christy Harden Smith post there a LONG time ago and found Christy and FDL through HuffPo.
Exactically my story too. It was during the Libby trial. She helped me figure out what was going on. Brilliant woman.

It’s what comes out of her mouth, not into it, that disturbs me.

Speech majors should consider her as an aberration to their field — she obviously learned nothing from that endeavor.

My daughter played the flute and she’s lightyears ahead of Sarah in intelligence so that’s another freak-of-nature coincidence that can be ascribed to her resume.

Yes, indeedy. Don’t know what she learned from school. I heard she switched schools alot. She switches a lot of things, doesn’t she. Completely self-centered.
In what way, Charlie? In every way, (censored by me).

Does anyone else watch Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting? He was on the tubes this morning grilling Barney Frank about the lack of real consumer protections in the pending bill in Frank’s committee. Previously, Ratigan has also featured Elizabeth Warren of the Congressional Oversight Panel, whom he strongly supported.

Bob in AZ

related fake news

SUB-ROSA NEWS

Some of the News
That may be True

INTERNATIONAL GROUP GIVES AWARD TO OBAMA

The International Agency for Global Cooperation has given its prestigious Annual Bipartisanship Award to President Barack Obama of the United States. The grant includes the historic Jimmy Carter Silver Cup and $5000 in cash.

In its announcement, the Award Committee cited President Obama’s tireless efforts to obtain Republican cooperation for health care reform. Mr. Obama had countless meetings and social events with opposition leaders and refrained from forceful imposition of his own views.

President Obama’s wise and inspiring work culminated in obtaining the vote of Senator Olympia Snowe

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Sarah Palin apparently inspired an important and popular Democrat to walk out on his job, too.

Cong. Robert Wexler of Florida will leave his seat in midstream to take the reigns as an exec with The Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation, a group with little to do with ‘Peace’ and more to do with the ‘Economic’ side, from a one-sided perspective. One of the groups founders and activists also founded J street, not exactly a bastion of the law and order Wexler so fervently fought for. Maybe he and/or they think he can add some respectability?? Fat chance of that.

A big loss and disappointment.