What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House – Telegraph
Awesome, so we’re going to be left with only a bunch of unrealistic, out-of-touch, sanctimonious do-nothings at the helm. I just have to keep up with my reassurance mantra, “At least it’s not the get-off-my-lawn-old-guy and the ignorant beauty queen. At least it’s not get-off-my-lawn-old-guy and the ignorant beauty queen. At least it’s not get-off-my-lawn-old-guy and the ignorant beauty queen….”
A yachting trip? The 10 worst BP gaffes in Gulf oil spill. – CSMonitor.com
Is it still bad PR if nothing bad happens because of it?
All ‘journalists’ are gossip columinsts and op-ed writers.
There are no more reporters.
Democrats spend big to lure Obama's minority and young voters back to the polls
One word: Morons!
OK, a couple more: You fucking idiots had an entire army of enthusiastic, energetic young people begging to help you enact your promises and what did you do? You sent them door-to-door to support an issue they couldn’t give two shits about for fifteen straight months! Way to burn out your activists geniuses!!
Health Care is a barn burner of an issue for young people my ass. Unless they have kids, an existing health problem or parents with health problems and no access to proper care, it is not even be on their radar. If you’d asked them to get out there and support job creation and making higher education more accessible they’d still be with you. Instead you went with health-care. Other politicians needed those same folks help to and now they’ve gone home you assholes.
Fucking morons!!!!
White House: July 2011 Afghan Withdrawal 'Firm' – Politics News Story – WCVB Boston
This guy is a master strategist.
Um, not.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews accused of racism over education demands – Middle East, World – The Independent
Sigh. I’m not sure why the Zionists get under my skin so much. I’m trying to think of emotional hot-buttons or triggers to why I get so passionate about it.
I fell in love with the idea of kibbutzes in college. That cherished, idealized, naive image of brotherhood being besmirched by the stain of racism and oppression -no lie- wounded the idealist I keep hidden deep in my heart. The ache I felt when I first discovered the dichotomy of kibbutzes and land grabs still echoes in my views concerning Zionism and Israeli policies today.
There’s also the fact that I’m an Olympic Games geek. The reality of the games is sometimes more stark than the fairy tale. I get that but I’m still a unabashed sap for the whole thing. Truly a romantic for the idea of people from all over the world, from all of these difference circumstances, coming together and competing in the hopefully even playing field of sports. The ancient history of the Olympics being a time when wars stopped in favor of the combat of sport doesn’t hurt either. I love all that shit. Needless to say, the idea of Olympic athletes from any country being attacked, let alone murdered, is absolutely horrifying to me.
I wasn’t born when Mark Spitz did his thing but, Olympic fan that I am, I was more than familiar with the highs and deep dark lows of the 1972 games. I was in Atlanta in ’96, watching recaps of events we hadn’t been at that day on TV, when the news came on about the pipe-bombing. Immediately all I could think about was the Israeli contingent getting murdered in Munich and something like that happening again. I practically flew up the stairs to my parents bedside. “Mommy, Mommy, someone is trying to blow up the Olympics.” Mind you, I was twenty-five years old. I can assure you that I hadn’t utter the word, “Mommy” in quite some time.
It’s not a direct line but I definitely have some association in my mind between the sordid injustice of extremists murdering innocent Israeli athletes and coaches (which is a really sacred kind of innocence to a geek for the romance of the Olympic fairy tale like myself) and my own sense of right and wrong. With extremists murdering innocents being the among the worst kinds of wrong.
The Israeli government seems so determined to be such fucking assholes to all of their neighbors and the citizens of their own country who are not members of the state religion that the injustice of it all makes my blood boil. Arghhhh!!!!!
The content of my own dictionary of formative experiences and and associations casts the Israeli people as the good guys, of the highest order. It hurts my heart to see a country that I have such romantic, idealized, and just warm and positive ideas about behave so very badly. After the sting wears off and I stop moping, the feelings just morph into being pissed off about being disappointed by something I thought so highly off.
Oh well. To continue my original thought this is the kind of stuff that makes the apartheid comparison so easy to make:
AFP: Iran's top Sunni rebel hanged: report
had never heard of these guys
Supporters mark birthday of Myanmar's Suu Kyi | Reuters
“Myanmar is subject to U.S. sanctions over its human rights record but under Obama, the United States has pursued a policy of deeper engagement with the generals.”
Another Alvin Greene? Texas Democrats Grapple With Their Own Surprise Candidate – TIME
The Party of Can’t Get Their Shit Together strikes again.
17 Afghan Military Go AWOL In Texas, Alert Issued
Seems like a random mention. Why the article 6 months later?
What Israelis Really Think Should Be Done About Gaza – TIME
not particularly surprising but good points later on in
Obama: Republicans blocking progress in Congress – USATODAY.com
Get this in the papers without your name in front of it. Then I’ll be satisfied. Until then you just sound you’re whining.
Cost of Fannie And Freddie Keeps Rising – NYTimes.com
all Obama oil and Palestine gets repetitive
US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed
An oldy but a goody.
Reminds me of the first documentary I saw on Viet Nam which emphasized that after the US left the Vietnamese fought the way the US taught them to, spray bullets everywhere, and got their asses handed to them in no time.
What happened to don’t fire until you can see the whites of their eyes. What, aiming is soooo 18th century?
