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January 27, 2006
Alito Confirmation
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no, already? i am listening to versi’s aida dreading this momet
i’m mad as hell and i’m not going to take it anymore
Posted by: annie | Jan 27 2006 17:10 utc | 1
jeez! that’s verdi, moment. you’re all probably used to my spelling/typing by now. this is hell
Posted by: annie | Jan 27 2006 17:12 utc | 2
i realize i have made an improper interpretation, how embarrassing.
Posted by: annie | Jan 27 2006 18:28 utc | 4
This looks like some kind of museum exhibit. What are we looking at here? Please don’t tell me this is a medical photo!
Posted by: Obs | Jan 27 2006 18:32 utc | 5
You couldn’t post up another front page story, please, to push the baby in a bottle picture off the top of the page? Thanks.
By the way, I think it’s obviously a medical photo.
Posted by: Araneidae | Jan 27 2006 20:46 utc | 6
Don’t worry, Annie.
There are support groups for people who dread Monet.
Or, um, is it mounties you dread? Minuets?
Anyway, listening to Ada’s verses is not going to help, now is it?
Posted by: Antifa | Jan 27 2006 22:08 utc | 7
I disagree with the thesis that the DNC are spineless, which is how we keep approaching this. They’re complicit, which is a whole different set of problems for we, the people.
Posted by: Monolycus | Jan 27 2006 22:21 utc | 8
A more accurate biological analogy wouldn’t be a child with a bifid spine, rather, it would be one of those deep sea fish where the tiny, impotent male attaches itself and grows into the body of the larger female. Or maybe an intestinal worm. Either way would be a more representative mascot than the obstinate jackass they are using now.
Posted by: Monolycus | Jan 27 2006 22:25 utc | 9
Well, I just don’t know what to think. But I know a couple of beers will make my eyes a little more fuzzy, so I’ll say, an alien. But it could be a ono filibustering dem. Anyway, yes, the dems are spinless.
With the new poll, you can access it at Huffington Post and link through to the Bloomberg Site, shows that the imperial preznet is not very popular. In other words we’re sick of his sorry ass. Only the Abramoff pictures lie between us and the defeat of the rethugs.
On another front, the Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, layed out a progressive agenda for the State of Michigan in her state of the state address Wednesday. It was very progressive addressing health care, wanting to provide 500,000 low income persons with health care beyond medicare and medicaid, a raise in the minimum wage,
a 20% cut in rates for car and home insurance, (we have the highest rates in the midwest), a statewide 401K retirement program administered by the state similar to Calpers to allow small business to provide retirement programs. My idea is for this is to be a program that only invest in Michigan. The current 401K system is nothing more than a strip mining of assets out of the heartland. These are all winning proposals for the Gov, but she has a Rethug senate and house. She should club them with these issues. Go Gov Granholm.
Posted by: jdp | Jan 27 2006 23:06 utc | 10
I’m w/Monolycus, they’re complicit. As for the pic, it looks like something from Thailand’s Forensic Museum.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jan 27 2006 23:25 utc | 11
Just curious, I’ve been away for a few days making phone calls, sending faxes, etc. Any of the Americans here calling Senators to support the filibuster?
Posted by: conchita | Jan 28 2006 0:02 utc | 12
excellent. wouldn’t it surprise us all if we actually succeed? the more calls made the more likely it is that we will. i am savoring the news of those dems who signed on today and hope that their example will cause a flood of support from the remaining hold outs. maybe we’ll even manage to change some of those votes for alito. you never know unless you try, and i have never been one to back down from a fight over principle. glad to hear i am not alone.
Posted by: conchita | Jan 28 2006 0:58 utc | 14
antifa, aida
i was referring to dreading the moment i heard alito had been confirmed. i woke up this morn and thought opera might get me in the mood to work. i am glazing. sometimes it can be stressfull for me because it is the perfect way to completely ruin an otherwise successful piece of work. i must get this work done but have no regrets about the time i have spent emailing and calling officials. impending doom does not bring out my best, so i am a little jumpy. i read b’s alito confirmation and assumed it meant he was confirmed which i know we will not find out until next week and i still hold out hope. i just realize it will do me no good whatsoever to be stressed by it. today i am trying to be calm. when i get lost in my work it is very healing . i love being an artist. this morning i had to soak simply to relax. sounds crazy huh?
right now i’m listening to act 4. sometimes i put the record player on repeat and just listen to a side for hrs.
some of these senators must have nerves of steel.
Posted by: annie | Jan 28 2006 1:30 utc | 15
Annie, soaking one’s soul in Verdi is sometimes the only thing that will do. It’s especially nice to know we are communicating clearly across the centuries when we do that.
I read your ‘typo’ post right after setting up spam filtering on my main box. Sorting scores of pork-parts emails made me dizzy.
Your post made me laugh.
Today, I won the Belgium lottery twice, had my PayPal account violated 17 times, was locked out of all 32 of my checking accounts, was offered well over a billion dollars in free money from Nigeria, and was thrice locked out of the ebay account I don’t have.
I got dizzy tward the end.
Today, I increased my mortgage by six inches.
Posted by: Antifa | Jan 28 2006 4:17 utc | 16
Hmm I’m going to have to find another way to get into the bar. Last time when the picture of the Fallujah incinerated was up, I went particularly crazed.
Annie and Conchita, props for hanging in there but I’m afraid I’ve have seen or heard nothing outta the media of any stripe that would lead me to believe anything other than Alito’s confirmation will come out of the Kremlin.
When a dem pollie makes a statement of intent that can be implemented is the time when their statements should be taken seriously.
A dem majority in Washington wasn’t that long ago was it? I don’t remember them delivering anything remotely like the program the Michigan governor outlined ever.
You’d have to think that even when FDR had a mandate to go as far as he cared, he only went far enough to placate the hoi polloi, whilst not upsetting his elite friends and family.
Here’s DiD the scratched record saying don’t trust them, don’t trust them,don’t tru!..screech…thump!…rats, they’re all lying rats, they’re all lying rats, they!!!THUMP! BANG! KERTHUNK!!!…est bidder, they’ll take yer vote to the highest bidder, they’ll take yer vote to the highest bidder, thunk, thunk, ker thunk, ker thunk ker thunk….
Posted by: Debs is dead | Jan 28 2006 6:41 utc | 17
Debs, FDR did upset the elite. The rich paid the taxes. The income tax on the whole population is a new thing coming about mostly from WWII. Now it has been turned full circle and lands squarely on the middle class.
The Detroit News, that bastion of right wing bullcrap called Granholms proposals new deal and great society programs. I believe they’re winners. Especially with business. I wrote a letter to the editor of the Detroit News basiccally stating as afr as I know FDR is still very popular and so is the new deal (Social Security, unemployment insurance etc) unlike our current WH occupant that has a 40% approval rating.
Posted by: jdp | Jan 28 2006 13:55 utc | 18
Debs, another point though still off topic and then I will go away for the day. FDR believed he was saving and likely did save the free market economy in the US. The free marketeers still don’t like what he did because it cost them more to do business, but, FDR did address in-equalities in the free market system. The free market will not do certain things like build roads to rural areas, put electric and phone to rural areas, or put services into low income areas that cannot buy the high end services they want to sell. AT&T is currently doing that now. There is an article in the Detroit News business section, they want to compete with Comcast, they want all local franchising done away with by the state or federal governments and this is what they’ll offer: quote “The company has told Wall Street it intends to serve 90 percent of households it considers “high value,” 70 percent of “medium value'” buyers and 5 percent of “low value” customers.” If AT&T has they’re way and franchising is completely done away with to a state or federal franchising system, already straped local governments will lose millions of dollars. Local governments in Michigan have had to cut fire, ambulance and police services because of the lack of local revenues. They are throwing millions of dollars at this. They want to be the pipe for all data coming into your home. Internet, phone and TV programming. The three largest phone providers want to put cable out of business and basically have further monopolies.
That is what the US current free market is about. Catering to the rich and monopolies. FDR saw what the free market done, he knew the inequalities had gotten out of hand. Now we need to fix them again.
Posted by: jdp | Jan 28 2006 14:41 utc | 19
thunk, thunk, ker thunk, ker thunk ker thunk….
oh debs, you’re great!
well, right now i can’t just sit here and twiddle my thumbs.now can i?
i’m mad as hell and i’m not gonna take it anymore!
a couple nights ago after rereading billmon’s Zarqawi Hour i went out and rented network! i’m on a roll
Posted by: annie | Jan 28 2006 15:24 utc | 20
< rant on >
So folks don´t like the picture.
Hmm. How do you think the U.S. will look after Alito is on SCOTUS – The next fourty years if he his healthy and Ann Coulter doesn´t posen him.
Roe vs. Wade? Screw you, there are some back alleys where young girls with little money might get help or not.
Restrain on presidential powers? No way – and if you don´t like this, choose from this presidential approved list the country where you want get “retrained” about civil obidience.
Eminent domain? According to the new definition it is the right of any NYSE listed company to get your house for the fixed price of $50.000. (2006 value, never to be corrected for inflation.)
If you think that picture is bad, picture the U.S. with Alito and Roberts and their like in a majority on SCOTUS.
Bidden, during the Alito hearings, had nothing better to do with his 30 minutes question time to use some 14 minutes to masturbate remembering his youth. The “liberal” blogsphere last week had nothing better to do thea to launch a campaign on some asshole cabel TV talking head and some happy “going to amsterdam” postings.
But you are upset about a serious medical picture of a spineless born child. Did I hit some nerve here?
< rant off >
A heardfelt THANK YOU! to anyone reading this how has called his Senators and has kicked around anything she/he can to get these f…… Dem Senators to filibuster Alito.
@jdp I don’t see the purpose in playing the wet blanket. We will continue this discussion after the dust has settled.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Jan 29 2006 3:26 utc | 22
hey Debs, at least a guy can hope. I am as cynical as anyone, but, I must continue to believe someone gets it.
Posted by: jdp | Jan 29 2006 4:07 utc | 23
@jdp I don’t disagree with that at all. And when they alito business is settled one way or another, maybe then we’ll talk about it again. Hopefully these guys (cause the US legislature isn’t exactly overbrimming with women) will listen for a change.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Jan 29 2006 6:23 utc | 24
How do you approach the likes of Senators Warner and Allen? Tell me, I’ll do it. I once delivered petitions to Allen’s office.
Posted by: beq | Jan 29 2006 14:00 utc | 25