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AMERICAblog: Monday Morning Open Thread

  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 11 months ago
    Haiku for the Obama Administration (#36):

    Ruling families--
    Bootleg scotch or Oxy tabs
    No "class" difference
  • teammarty · 11 months ago
    How many do you think you'll get to in 4 years?? 8, if necessary.

    Best haikus since the Fugs
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 11 months ago
    I'm aiming for 2 per work day of the admin (M-F, weekends and holidays excluded).
    Thanks.
  • teammarty · 11 months ago
    Damn!!

    That's around 5000 if he's a two-termer.

    Or, if he vacations as much as W, about 750.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 11 months ago
    Haiku for the Obama Administration (#37):

    Grim disillusion--
    Happy days were yours and mine
    Now he's jumped the shark
  • Cp · 11 months ago
    Dear Haters,
    The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who became the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop in 2003 and last year entered into a civil union with his gay partner, will deliver the invocation for Sunday’s kickoff inaugural event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with President-elect Obama in attendance. The event is free and open to the public. An Obama source: “Robinson was in the plans before the complaints about Rick Warren. Many skeptics will read this as a direct reaction to the Warren criticism – but it’s just not so.” Robinson has been referred to as “the most controversial Christian in the world.”
  • Indigo · 11 months ago
    With all due respect, it's likely that "the most controversial" epithet has to do only with his sexuality and is not at all pertinent to anything outside of the world of the far right. There are far more controversial x-filers than Robinson. The Nazi Pope, the hate speak advocate Warren, and others.
  • HereinDC · 11 months ago
    And the traffic on K Street is a mess now because George Bush was so childish and not letting The Obamas stay at Blair House. Streets are blocked off around the Haye Adams which is making traffic GRIDLOCK.
    For the last week I've had to get off my bus 3 blocks before the stop because the traffic is STOPPED!.
  • Bush Bites · 11 months ago
    But you guys don't like Obama either.

    So....what's the difference?
  • Older_Wiser · 11 months ago
    Next Monday can't come fast enough.

    But black leaders are already warning that even with Obama's election, it's not yet a "post-racial" US. And not a "post-any other identification" world, either, I might add.

    The fight is always there, will always be there. I ran across a very interesting work (circa 2002) called "Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text Reader" online which is a pretty exhaustive sociological and political work, well done and enlightening, about how popular media portrays the groups listed, including gays. And don't forget, everyone ingests popular media on a daily basis, generally without an analytical eye.
  • Bush Bites · 11 months ago
    Yeah, yeah.....we already heard how Jesse's going to cut Obama's **** off.

    History has passed that generation of civil rights leaders by and they can't accept it.

    The same thing will happen to the Boomer Feminists in 2016, when a woman gets nominated for president and it isn't Hillary.
  • ccokz · 11 months ago
  • Indigo · 11 months ago
    If only Orlando could resolve its traffic tangle with the simple expendiency of changing executives.
  • Hillblogger · 11 months ago
    Finaly, a new dawn for America! Another fresh start under someone who's got brains to lead. Very soon, there will be no more bumbling, bungling, idiotic warmongering, destructive Bushit leadership!

    Sound the bugle!
  • Wild_Weasel · 11 months ago
    Israel is producing a new HOLOCAUST on Palestinian women and children.

    Both sides have dirty hands.

    But how would Israel react if it did not have sophisticated tanks, fighter jets and weapons. If it had an economic embargo on Israel that prevented humanitarian aid, food, fuel and water. If Palestinian "SETTLEMENTS" kept encroaching on their lands. If an Israeli had an orchard full of Olive trees ripped out by Palestinians so that they could build settlements, roads, or walls. If Israelis had to endure six hour waits at check points to go to work.

    Israel has the dirtiest of dirty hands.

    If the entire world sees this and America does not, shame shame shame on us, because Americans now have dirty hands too. Children and women are dying. Over 40% of the nearly one thousand dead in Gaza are women and children. Americans are guilty of allowing this to happen, selling weapons to Israel, giving them economic aid while Palestine goes hungry.
  • maudgonne · 11 months ago
    CONCORD, N.H. – The first openly gay Episcopal bishop will offer a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial at an inaugural event for President-elect Barack Obama.

    The selection of New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson for Sunday's event follows weeks of criticism from gay-rights groups over Obama's decision to have the Rev. Rick Warren give the invocation at his Jan. 20 inauguration.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090112/ap_on_re_us...
  • nogo postal · 11 months ago
    from politico,,(for what it is worth) playbook 24/7

    "An Obama source: “Robinson was in the plans before the complaints about Rick Warren. Many skeptics will read this as a direct reaction to the Warren criticism – but it’s just not so.” Robinson has been referred to as “the most controversial Christian in the world.” A Sewanee graduate! "