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– Thomas Moore
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Remember this? Politico
Interesting in light of recent polls…but we’ll see how this shakes out. I think the media wants this 2008 race to be all about Hill and McCain in the end. Maybe Obama.
hillary plays the…how shall l put this without inadvertently offending…‘it’s harder for women’ card:
from tpm/election central:
just another of the reasons l find her candidacy offensive.
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Her “They’re just ganging up on me” crap after the Philly debate really irked me. How dare she? And if she can’t handle that, how is she going to handle chauvinistic male world leaders?
Grr. I hope she’s third tomorrow.
do articles about the wonders of being single always focus on women? Are men not single? Are men not insecure about being single? Or is it just that women are the only ones who have to deal with the whole “Something must be wrong with you if you’re not married” thing?
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Modern western society is based on couples; singletons of either sex are not fulfilling their socially assigned functions. Therefore they must be repaired, refurbished, and returned to service, or retired and discarded, preferably very very quietly lest they provide examples of depraved behavior to the children who would never be capable of depravity on their own.
OTOH from personal experience there is apparently no such thing as a “happily single” male, anyway. Women can function without men once their consciousness is raised and they are deprogrammed, but single males are more or less by definition gay, desperately seeking a wife, or desperately in need of one, but too immature and selfish to realize it. There are books on the subject; I am frequently sent copies to read, usually with some “subtle” hint on the front page or a chapter or two saturated in yellow highlighter….
(I could do the {rant} about this too, from the other perspective, but it’s not really germane and I’ve got good coffee this morning so feel no need to vent…)
The main real world difference, I think, is that there’s an assumption in the publishing world that men won’t read those articles anyway, so there’s no value in paying someone to churn them out.
in Kenya: NYT
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Not just the NYT lately, one can find the latest news in articles @BooMan.
An earlier diary –
● Kenya’s Democracy Shackled & Corrupted
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I had seen this story before, but I didn’t see it in the diary list. Thanks for keeping us up to date on all these things, Oui.
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“If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow,” she told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer (.pdf) Dec. 28.
“He could be the only person on the ballot. I don’t think that’s a real election,” she told ABC’s George Stephanopolous December 30.
Her error was first noted by a conservative American commentator, Thomas Houlahan.
● Biden Jabs at Clinton, if Not in Name
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Oops. 😉
Biden comes across as pretty condescending with the “god bless her” crack. With his past history of verbal gaffes he can’t afford another. I’m kind of cringing maybe I’m just paranoid.
on the plane? Not so fast: Information Week
Who knew this was such a problem? And how are we to keep track of all these plastic baggies of stuff, let alone the size, shape and allowable contents for each baggies?
Why not just ban them altogether, like they do fireworks?
I suspect that Halliburton has a plastic bag division.
They can’t actually ban them outright because there would be a huge outcry from the business travelers who need to take their laptops with them. So instead, they’ll just make more annoying rules to harass everyone with.
I want to know how many planes have had luggage fires happen because there were extra batteries in someone’s suitcase. Just what are the statistics they’re basing this action on?
of sleep and diabetes, although nine patients isn’t enough to draw any conclusions from: Chicago Sun-Times
New Mexico’s entry into the New Hampshire Primary takes first place! Followed by the entries of Arkansas and Massachusetts. Okay it was the cookie recipe primary sponsored by Yankee magazine. It may me the only win for New Mexico in the primary season.
Governor Richardson’s housekeeper submitted her recipe for bizcochitos. (I’m kind of glad Barbara Richardson has better things to do than to submit recipes, but I kind of cringed at the housekeeper thing.) Making this anise flavored cookie requires a pound of lard. It is delicious and you can find the recipe here.
Huckabee’s entry was his wife’s snickerdoodles. Romney’s wife came in third with Welsh skillet cakes.
I love how the recipe says you can’t substitute anything for the lard. I don’t think I’ve ever cooked with lard. And I always thought it was interchangeable with Crisco?
I’d never cooked with lard before coming here, and I’ve only did it once — a pie crust. It amazed me to see cartons of lard stacked 3 and 4 feet high in the supermarkets for Thanksgiving and Chrismas!
this post last night, and thinking about it this morning, it still seems off too me. Joe Trippi said something that did indeed turn out to be accurate, and it’s some big deal because it might not have been accurate? Where is the big “accountability moment for Joe Trippi at the hands of Jane Hamsher” in this? What are the commenters there at FDL seeing that I missed?
If anything, he should have been called out for mischaracterizing Obama’s remarks by taking them out of context (Obama was apparently talking about a 50-state campaign strategy, not a blue-state strategy like Gore and Kerry used in 2000 and 2004, respectively, and not about Gore or Kerry as individuals either). But there was no mention of that in the post.
Anywho, just my $0.02, and probably about all that it’s worth, too.
Clinton ’08: Because Bush really needs a third term.
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h/t to Raw story.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."See, even I’m confused about what really went on. 😉
There is a breaking news banner on msnbc.com’s site saying that oil just broke the $100 / barrel barrier.
Woo hoo. Cheney’s pals must be delighted.
Cheney himself must be extremely delighted that he’s still among the living, so called.
In other news, the AP reports that a snake in Australia has been saved after attempting to eat some golf balls. Do I detect a metaphor?
vindication for Jerome a Paris.
True, but now he’ll have to find something else to write about. Countdown to $150, perhaps?
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At the gas station, one liter cost € 1.48 (plenty taxes included) in the Netherlands. In US dollars and per gallon, that would be close to $ 8.70. That must make you feel good in the States! Even in Baghdad the locals are feeling the pinch nowadays.
Don’t forget Royal Durch Shell needs their profits and take care of their own. They got booted out of Siberian gas revenues, so they must compensate for the loss to Gazprom (Putin). Let’s not talk about the Nigerian oil wells.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."If Americans realized that the price they pay at the pump was only a small portion of the actual cost to them of gasoline, they might finally wake up to the reality of the situation.
Between the tax subsidies we give to the oil corporations and the ridiculous cost of keeping up the military we use to ensure our access to oil, I would guess that we are paying far more for gas than most Europeans.
jerome has a current diary fp’s at ET as well as at the top of the rec list at orange
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An evolutionary biologist and a highly experimental designer; he surpasses the boundaries of technology, architecture, design and science and beautifully gels them together into an aesthetically sound creation. This is Ross Lovegrove, the British Designer and creator of Solar Tree which will light up the street Ringstraße outside Vienna’s MAK (Museum for Angewandte Kunste, which caters to both Applied and contemporary Arts) during Vienna Design Week on 8th October; a festival to celebrate design, nature and art.
A tree line street, it is a solar powered street lighting system, engineered by Artemide in collaboration with Sharp Solar.
Photo solar tree
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
can be found via Google
«« click on pic to enlarge"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."former msm correspondent slams nbc and it’s parent company, general electric for it’s post 9/11 coverage. this is the interesting part:
things that make you go hmm…tinfoil never goes out of fashion, eh.
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OK, I admit this one kind of surprises me. I figured that this would just quietly slip away.
DOJ to open criminal investigation into destruction of CIA torture tapes (MSNBC)
Nope. Until they formally announce that “we’ve looked into it and it’s okay” it can still be a political football. DOJ will duly investigate and sign off on it and THEN it’ll be safe to let it slip away .
another open seat, as well as the chairmanship of an influential committee in play:
Boo, you’re pretty knowledgeable about the structure and power bases within these committees, who would you posit as likely to succeed him as chair?
lTMF’sA
Howard Berman or Gary Ackerman.
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Dec. 12, 2007 – Tom Lantos, a Democrat who has represented San Mateo in the U.S. House of Representatives for 13 terms, plans to run for reelection in 2008. Budapest-born Lantos, who came to the United States as a young man, may face a primary challenge from popular former state Sen. Jackie Speier. Reports indicate that Speier, who has yet to announce her candidacy, has in-house polls showing her leading Congressman Lantos in the 12th District two to one.
He recently snapped at visiting Dutch parliamentarians and articulated a rather peculiar view of European history: “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay,” and “You have to help us [in Afghanistan], because if it was not for us you would now be a province of Nazi Germany.”
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In October 1990, as co-chairman of the of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, an organization masquerading as part of the U.S. government that is simply a collection of like-minded politicians, Lantos hosted a Capitol Hill meeting to hear an emotional statement from a 15-year-old Kuwaiti nurse. Lantos’ witness was identified only as “Nayirah,” supposedly to protect her family from Iraqi reprisals in occupied Kuwait.
Nayirah was nowhere near Kuwait at the time of the invasion, and she is a member of the ruling al-Sabah family, the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. to be precise.
“Nurse” Nayirah’s appearance was a shameless hoax orchestrated by the Hill & Knowlton public relations firm, aided and abetted by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. H & K was acting on behalf of its client, Citizens for a Free Kuwait, a front for the al-Sabah family, which contributed 99 percent of its budget of $12 million. Interestingly enough, Hill & Knowlton also had a close relationship with Tom Lantos …
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Jackie Speir is pretty well known and well liked in these parts. My gut feeling is that if she ran, she would win easily.
MS Gov. Haley Barbour (R) sued. (via Thinkprogress)
State AG seeks injunction to require special election for Lott’s replacement
Glad to see someone thinks we should follow the law. Good for that AG!