. I have put ABlog on hiatus. Nice to come back and see a sign in option. My favorite tip is that on the main page, I hit the STOP LOADING button as soon as the first ad column shows up on the right. All the info has loaded and is nice and four columns wide.
81%...did they count all the people who think our entire political system is corrupt? My son, like others, doesn't even participate in the electoral system anymore. At 49 years old, he probably won't even vote this year, and hasn't in a very long time.
Yet, even at my own 67 years, I think Obama has a certain something, a candidate who doesn't come along every generation. I would imagine anyone, even someone like him, would stumble occasionally in the minefield known as US politics, perhaps meeting the wrong people, trying to disengage themselves from the slime, attempting to keep up his or her own core values. It has to be a rough trip overall. I mean, thanks to TV, we can watch Congress, committee meetings, the behavior of our elected officials even at the local level. IF (and it's a big IF) we take the time to do so, but for most, down time doesn't include that, for too many not even time to read the newspapers or even watch the MSM at 6:30. They'd much rather chill out and indulge in trash TV (not that MSM news isn't, but at least you have an idea of what might be happening).
How many people actually take the time to educate themselves about the functioning of their own society in the US?
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
The peace symbol turns 50 today; it came out of the British "ban the bomb" movement in 1958.
Nigel, I don't care how high Yoo's self esteem and sense of importance is, he's equivocating in that article which is just an exercise in self-justification.
He knows he's committed crimes...
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
I cannot get this McCain guy's stand on issues together. Now McCain says he is pro abortion and the heck with the religious right in the GOP. Huh? Who can trust what McCain stands for?
McCain just flip-flops and slides around. Who knows?
BLOGGING BITCH!
· 1 year ago
So much for why we've never received the "PHASE II" Report!!!
“George Bush has combined mediocrity with malevolent policies and has thus seriously damaged the welfare and standing of the United States,” wrote one of the historians, echoing the assessments of many of his professional colleagues. “Bush does only two things well,” said one of the most distinguished historians. “He knows how to make the very rich very much richer, and he has an amazing talent for f**king up everything else he even approaches. His administration has been the most reckless, dangerous, irresponsible, mendacious, arrogant, self-righteous, incompetent, and deeply corrupt one in all of American history.”
Working both sides of the fence, eh? Typical Clintonian practices.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
And has anyone noticed that Timothy Geithner, president of the NY Fed Reserve and the one who put the Fed/BS deal together, worked in the Clinton administration?
And no one has commented yet on the fact that the Fed not only traded US treasuries for BS debt in the amount of $30 billion, but that BS took $25 billion from the new Fed window for other financials other than commercial banks, a first time act for the Fed. So...BS gained $55 billion from US taxpayers, and the deal w/JPMorgan/Chase won't even be finalized before the end of the year.
Who wins? Certainly not the taxpayers. Socialism for the rich--depression for the rest of us.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Pink rules!
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
zavlin anyone see clinton on leno? She "joked" about the bosnia incident and then more seriously went on to say she "had a lapse" about the whole thing.
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I don't want anybody who has lapses answering the phone at 3 a.m.
Go away Hillary.
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this video. It is amazing to me the complete and total destruction that has occurred in such a short time. The fight is no longer just for jobs or health care or economic stability or peace. It is now for our very soul. Pray for Barack's safety.
Ksue
· 1 year ago
Thanks for this, Joe. I had almost forgotten about this incredible song. It still brings tears to the eyes and goosebumps to the skin. Pink is awesome.
We need top find these "14 percent" who think the country is on the right track and confine them somewhere for their own safety. They shouldn't be allowed out in public alone. They are clearly delusional.
FastMovingCloud
· 1 year ago
they are clearly oil company executives or government contractors making money hand over fist at the expense of the soldiers who aren't even being fed properly and every one else.
This song still makes me cry and pisses me off all at the same time.
FastMovingCloud
· 1 year ago
the first part of my previous comment was intended to be a reply to Nicho's appeal to find the 14%ers.
Rick
· 1 year ago
I found this posted on a another blog. I really think it deserves mention. "Ok, my son, who is a First Lieutenant with the 5-7 Cav, 3rd ID, just returned home from his 15 month deployment. Apparantly, the army doesn't see fit to actually FEED it's soldiers. When they arrived in January 2007, there was only enough food being sent up to feed the unit they were replacing. The 5-7 had to BEG the iraqi military and civilian pops for day old bread and other handouts to be able to eat. This sorry state of affairs persisted for some 6 weeks. I'm angry, outraged and appalled that our soldiers were treated in such a manner. I've a mind to write every news organization, senator, congressman (like that'll help) to get to the bottom of this. Has anybody had anything like this experience? "
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I have put ABlog on hiatus. Nice to come back and see a sign in option.
My favorite tip is that on the main page, I hit the STOP LOADING button as soon as the first ad column shows up on the right. All the info has loaded and is nice and four columns wide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXYHvbFl3A
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Yet, even at my own 67 years, I think Obama has a certain something, a candidate who doesn't come along every generation. I would imagine anyone, even someone like him, would stumble occasionally in the minefield known as US politics, perhaps meeting the wrong people, trying to disengage themselves from the slime, attempting to keep up his or her own core values. It has to be a rough trip overall. I mean, thanks to TV, we can watch Congress, committee meetings, the behavior of our elected officials even at the local level. IF (and it's a big IF) we take the time to do so, but for most, down time doesn't include that, for too many not even time to read the newspapers or even watch the MSM at 6:30. They'd much rather chill out and indulge in trash TV (not that MSM news isn't, but at least you have an idea of what might be happening).
How many people actually take the time to educate themselves about the functioning of their own society in the US?
My favorite symbol, BTW.
RIP, Martin Luther King.
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/qa/john-yoo-res...
He knows he's committed crimes...
McCain just flip-flops and slides around. Who knows?
http://www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp?ID342
Rockefeller has too much invested in this war to be asking how we got into it!!!!!
Guess elections do have consequences.
“George Bush has combined mediocrity with malevolent policies and has thus seriously damaged the welfare and standing of the United States,” wrote one of the historians, echoing the assessments of many of his professional colleagues. “Bush does only two things well,” said one of the most distinguished historians. “He knows how to make the very rich very much richer, and he has an amazing talent for f**king up everything else he even approaches. His administration has been the most reckless, dangerous, irresponsible, mendacious, arrogant, self-righteous, incompetent, and deeply corrupt one in all of American history.”
http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html
And if you vote McCain expect more of the same. Corruption!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070...
Working both sides of the fence, eh? Typical Clintonian practices.
And no one has commented yet on the fact that the Fed not only traded US treasuries for BS debt in the amount of $30 billion, but that BS took $25 billion from the new Fed window for other financials other than commercial banks, a first time act for the Fed. So...BS gained $55 billion from US taxpayers, and the deal w/JPMorgan/Chase won't even be finalized before the end of the year.
Who wins? Certainly not the taxpayers. Socialism for the rich--depression for the rest of us.
anyone see clinton on leno? She "joked" about the bosnia incident and then more seriously went on to say she "had a lapse" about the whole thing.
-----
I don't want anybody who has lapses answering the phone at 3 a.m.
Go away Hillary.
Mark Morford has a great piece today about Obama:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/...
This song still makes me cry and pisses me off all at the same time.
"Ok, my son, who is a First Lieutenant with the 5-7 Cav, 3rd ID, just returned home from his 15 month deployment. Apparantly, the army doesn't see fit to actually FEED it's soldiers. When they arrived in January 2007, there was only enough food being sent up to feed the unit they were replacing. The 5-7 had to BEG the iraqi military and civilian pops for day old bread and other handouts to be able to eat. This sorry state of affairs persisted for some 6 weeks. I'm angry, outraged and appalled that our soldiers were treated in such a manner. I've a mind to write every news organization, senator, congressman (like that'll help) to get to the bottom of this. Has anybody had anything like this experience? "