Floridians are gonna get what Floridians chose.

Someday I will understand one of Attaturk’s posts…

This is exactly why Egypt will never know true democracy. Their choices will be limited to whoever Aunt Hillary and Uncle Barry deem worthy to be our allies. In other words, who will protect America’s thirst for oil.

But you know, there’s nothing quite like an F1 racer in the hot sun when it comes to spreading democracy in the Middle East. Yep. Nothing screams “freedom” and “justice for all” like an incredibly expensive, street-illegal race car with an engine boasting mileage standards measured in gallons per mile revving up so a wealthy oil baron can gamble with his obscenely wealthy peers.

Mmm, boy! I can smell those petrol dollars from here. Right here in America. You know, the place where people suffer for the lack of decent jobs, thanks to laws written by heartless politicians on the take. Where people lose their life savings, thanks to legalized larceny by bankers, courtesy of corrupt politicians on the take. It’s God’s country where children starve to death thanks to a corrupt political class that just doesn’t give a damn about anyone but themselves. Unless, of course, that someone is a corporation that specializes in buying legislators.

Americans have all of the freedom in the world. Freedom to be sick, eat out of trash cans and die in poverty. It’s the American dream.

And you dreamers even get to watch filthy rich bastards play with Porches.

Hey, Jughead. Check out those wheels.

Yeah, one would have thought that an example of two faced america w/reference crushing democratic protests one did not have to look much farther back than the RNC protests in Chicago 2008. Bahrain is sexier I guess.

It’s an acquired taste.

Nothing screams “freedom” and “justice for all” like an incredibly expensive, street-illegal race car with an engine boasting mileage standards measured in gallons per mile revving up so a wealthy oil baron can gamble with his obscenely wealthy peers.

I would imagine, however with no facts other than the obvious, that the amount of petrol used by the hundreds of cars at the american racing circus in Daytona would be many times that of the 26 cars in an F1 race. F1 races are about 200 miles in length. F1 fuel consumption is about 3.1mpg Nascar cars get about 4 mpg. Nascar races are 500 miles long and that does not include the ancillary races.

Once he leaves Palin he is lost.

Here’s the plan:

10 Wake up
20 n = 0
30 Pour coffee
40 n = n + 1
50 Read Attaturk AND drink coffee
60 Pee
70 IF NOT enlightenment THEN GOTO 30
80 END

You’re missing line 70.

The manufacturer is Porsche. Wasn’t the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul?

Shoot, I drink tea not coffee can we have a #90 Make tea?

Yes. I am impressed by governor as entry-level political job. Leroy Collins and Reubin Askew never rose higher than governor, and were 2 superstars of FL politics. People never learn. There are too many variables and most folks can’t do the arithmetic. I don’t think Scott had ever even written a letter to the editor before he bought the governorship.

Furthermore, with 600,000 more registered Dems than registered Repubs, how are the state senate and state house both more than 2/3 Repub?

Wasn’t the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul?

Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Boston who knows where the gestapo will beat up on protesters next. All in the name of “Homeland” security of course.

Speaking of poultry, it looks like at long last Berlusconi is one cooked goose.

How about an FDL fundraiser to send Dave Dayen to live-blog from Milano?

YMMV. This is a primarily subjective experience for us all, struggling to wake up in the pre-dawn hours.

Rick Scott is an authoritarian with the epic level of corruption of a Middle Eastern emir. The teabagging governors are going to show the way to ruin. And Americans might be stoopid enough to ask for more, instead of marching on The People’s House of Florida with torches and pitchforks. Like Egypt.

Hence the “humour”, thoroughly explained and deflated. Apologies to all.

You’re right, of course.

At 1st I thought you meant 1968. The Dem National Convention was in Chicago in 1968. The Repubs met in Miami Beach in 1968 and 1972. Norman Mailer wrote “Miami and the Siege of Chicago” about 1968. Miami Beach is a large natural sandbar, and it’s easy to cut off access from the mainland.

The democrats took there bribes from the lobbiest the same way the private union leaders and union managers took there bribes to cut wages and benifits.

One can only hope that the tea buggers will make such bloody fools of themselves that their terms in office will be, blessedly, short. Certainly in this state, NH, they have already made such a hash of working out consequences that we will soon have to rename the legislature the House of Unintended Consequences.

Years of experience have taught me to never misunderestimate the powers of the stoopid.

Well it might take a while for the US to let go of its relations with the dictators in the middle east. Democracy is coming and it cant be stopped. If the US is smart they will cultivate good relations with the new leaders of these countries with out trying to force them into a role they dont want to be in. America should know now by its waining influence in Latin America with the free elected officials in those countries that being a bully does not work like it used too.

I want some more of those movies like they made in the other depression so we can watch the lives of the rich and vicariously long for what we’re losing.

All these revolutions are rather disturbing in the sense that I think what we’re seeing is societal collapse one after the other.
I began reading Fritjof Capra’s Turning Point last night. It was written 30 years ago, after the great social movements in the US and before Reagan put his big, black boot on our necks.
It was amazing and rather sad to see how we’ve gone int eh exact opposite direction form what we were developing then. Especially his assertion that feminism would play and enormous role in the coming awakening.
I wonder what he thinks now?