Open Thread

11 Comments

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   Second Nature on March 19, 2006 at 4:57 pm

   Better than this guy.

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     BooMan on March 19, 2006 at 4:59 pm

     that’s comedy.

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     Cali Scribe on March 19, 2006 at 5:06 pm

     for Keith’s “Weird Stuff We Found on the Internet” portion of Oddball…

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     maryb2004 on March 19, 2006 at 5:30 pm

     hilarious, what a jerk.

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   Arcturus on March 19, 2006 at 5:11 pm

   I mentioned yesterday the McClatchy buy-out of Knight-Ridder & their subsequeent sell-off of 12 papers in the group. Was just reading over at kos, Big Dem donor to fund Knight-Ridder worker buyout? which would be rather exciting if it happens. I didn’t realize the Philly Inquirer had been in the K-R sphere.

   It’s a glorious sunny afternoon & the Japanese magnolia is in full bloom . . .

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     BooMan on March 19, 2006 at 5:14 pm

     I saw my first daffodils of the year today.

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     Cali Scribe on March 19, 2006 at 6:12 pm

     The spouse and I are preparing to cancel our Murky News subscription if it’s sold to the Right Wing…employee-owned (or at least owned by someone open to employee input) would be terrific.

     Newspapers will never completely go away — it’s tough to read a laptop on the train, at least until we get universal Wi-Fi…

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     DuctapeFatwa on March 19, 2006 at 8:02 pm

     Next to a teasing georgia climbing rose. We will see what we shall see, in time 🙂

     (I had help making the hole for it)

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   Street Kid on March 19, 2006 at 5:29 pm

   Truthfully, I’m puzzled.  What RWCM/MSM is now “reporting” appears to just be more of the same re:  Medicare D(isaster).  I’m missing something and it is driving me nuts!!!

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   DaveW on March 19, 2006 at 5:34 pm

   It feels like the dam has broken on the Bush administration. I keep seeing MSM editorials and columns that barely try to hide what they really think. Here’s part of one from today’s International Herald Tribune on Bush foreign policy (if the mess can be called that):

   If Bush ruled the world
   William Pfaff TMSI

   SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2006
   PARIS Intellectual poverty is the most striking quality of the Bush administration’s new National Security Strategy statement, issued on Thursday. Its overall incoherence, its clichés and stereotyped phraseology give the impression that Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser, and his fellow authors assembled it from the boilerplate of bureaucratic discourse with contempt for the Congress to whom it is primarily addressed.

   It reveals the administration’s foreign policy as a lumpy stew of discredited neoconservative ideas with some neo- Kissingerian geopolitics now mixed in.

   The statement’s only visible purpose is to address a further threat to Iran, as its predecessor, in 2002, threatened Iraq. The only actual “strategy” that can be deduced from it is that the Bush administration wishes to rule the world. The document is nonsensical in content, insulting to other nations and unachievable in declared intention.

   If people read it to find a statement of American foreign policy’s objective, they will learn that the United States has “the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” Good luck.

   The document’s foreign readers will have two reactions. The first will be that it can’t be serious. The second will be that it has to be taken seriously since these people have spent three ruinous years in a futile effort to control Iraq; they must be assumed capable of doing the same thing again to Iran.

   It’s a long article, well worth reading for the information as well as the vitriol that seeps through from a journalist who has clearly had enough.

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   idredit on March 19, 2006 at 6:30 pm

   anyone read James Kunstler’s “Clusterfuck Nation-Mommy and Daddy? Hillarious, go read and thank me later, if you want to.

   Truthdig provides the link  

   The Republicans have made themselves into the Daddy Party and the Democrats have become Mommy and both are failing.[..]

         George W. Bush is our “Ward Cleaver,” the very visible head of the household with no apparent duties other than being visible.[..]

     The Daddy Party has entered a zone of failure both frightening and abject. Daddy has mismanaged the family finances so badly that the re-po man may take the house away. He’s on a rampage against his daughters (some of whom remain romantically infatuated with Daddy and still wish to please him at all costs). He’s addicted to a petroleum-based smack and refuses to consider any behavioral changes that might get him off the stuff.[..]

   The Mommy Party doesn’t want to talk about the mismanagement of the household and…[..]