It’s almost here. And it’s almost over. The New Dawn to replace the Interminable Darkness. Barack Obama- the holder of our hopes and vision for a better world is about to replace the Greatest Embarrassment that democracy has ever dealt up: the devastatingly moronic George W. Bush – twice elected and twice given the power to wreak untold havoc on this small planet of ours.
Never Again.
Never Again must we allow the politics of inertia to lull us into a stupor or sense of helplessness that has allowed the violations of all the tenets of justice and freedom that the so-called Developed World have the responsibility both to uphold and to encourage those with less resources and fewer opportunities.
Never Again must we stand by and allow our leaders to take us into the darkness that has led to the death of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of innocents through war, environmental assault, and sheer indifference and neglect.
And Never Again must we allow ourselves to become so culpable in the loss of what we are so privileged to have in our lives – freedom, the right to choose our government, and the responsibility to do so wisely and with a broad vision for all.
Welcome Obama – we are watching you with bated breath, and we will stand beside you when you falter if we know that you are at times understandably overwhelmed by the enormity of what you face, but that you are continuing to try and face the immeasurable responsibility you have been handed.
And George Bush… may you rot in hell.
You should have had the decency to just admit that you were never up to the task.
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239 replies on “Never Again”
Capital post Jen, positively Capital. 🙂
You’re always best when “gently” chiding George for those significant “disappointments” that he suffered during those glorious past 8 years.
(As so carefully described by Jon Stewart here.)
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=215905&title=six-days-seven-nights 🙂
Wednesday morning will be a great moment.
I can hardly wait.
Jen, hope President Obama rises to the occasion at a time when his country and our planet are in clear and present danger of experiencing major upheaval.
“And George Bush… may you rot in hell.”
No argument here, comrade. And “Never Again” forevermore let it be.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qaGMMW1kfiA
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/15/ignatius/
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Thurs Jan 16:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/jeffdanziger;_ylt=A0WTUe60QG9JH1gAOQIDwLAF
Thurs Jan 15:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/tomtoles;_ylt=AqHVweGvLmIq4ZXclIk9C9bb.sgF
Thurs Jan 15:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/doonesbury;_ylt=AnQvsukshMXG6f2.uDsLOffb.sgF
always interesting to read what was posted after a few large chardies unleashes some passion 😉
I’m with you Jen.
Never again? I agree we need to work towards that but I fear to hope for it. I suspect a lot of the Vietnam protesters might have thought “never again” and would have been despondent to see the outcomes of W’s administration.
Truth is the internet has come along enormously since 2000 – the media has changed – and hopefully that will be a key factor in ensuring our governments are properly held to account.
But it’s also about how we vote – and it seems to me that many (most?) will still vote for their hip pocket despite injustices, incompetence and inequity.
However, I think it’s undeniable that the election of Obama is an important and a significant step forward.
I’ve got the day off on Wednesday. I’ll be watching with the tissues near by.
Onya, Jen- my sentiments exactly!!
Woke up this morning to the horror news on the BBC that the Israelis destroyed all the emergency food supplies when they attacked the UN headquarters yesterday.
How the hell are the Palestinian people going to survive now?
Bush would have given a nod and a wink to Olmert to go for it.
Makes me absolutely sick.
Despite his publicly-stated best wishes for Obama, he has certainly sown plenty of political and financial landmines to make life as difficult as possible for Obi.
My lights will be on in the wee hours on Wed morning- wouldn’t miss it for quids!
Hear! Hear! Well said Jen. Are we there yet?
I think one way we can help is by setting people straight whenever some asshole tries to rewrite history. Like Gerard Henderson on the ABC the other day who said that it was generally accepted in the run up to the Iraq war that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction – he indicated that the Coalition of the Willing acted on the evidence available, which we all know is complete b.s.
I found this via Daily Kos – it’s a great summary of Bush’s 8 long, terrible years. (I gave up on inserting the url links.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2009/01/13/BL2009011301509.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
Things are certainly going to be challenging for Obama. But I think that in all likelihood he will come at those challenges from the correct perspective, rather than having his views distorted by ideology or too much indebtedness to various groups.
He will be a huge improvement over Bush, but that is not saying much. I think that we are going to have to effectively dump such comparisons in order to give Obama his proper due. While a pessimist, I am actually optimistic that Obama can make significant headway on two issues, health and education, during his two terms in office. (I am not optimistic on global warming and I am certainly not optimistic on Israel/Palestine, for example …)
Health and education are means by which it will be possible to transform America. Talk of a permanent Democratic majority or a permanent Republican majority will become irrelevant when the US has a permanent thinking majority ….
Political Wire.
Obama Still Snubbing the NYT?
What’s this all about? Anyone know?
Continued on Political Wire
Latest Senate ratings put Eight Republican seats withing striking distance, if nothing changes before 2010.
Rothenberg Political Report
MSNBC
Boehner on stimulus: ‘Oh. My. God’.
The Republicans really have no idea.
continued on MSNBC
Billions for universities. Excellent. 🙂 However, they really need to push a lot of money lower down. The massive boost to US science and technology in the lat 60s, 70s and early 80s was a direct result of vastly increased spending in primary schools and high schools across the country in a response to Sputnik.
The Elephant in the Room: McCain may be Obama’s secret weapon.
A very interesting turn of events. It’s very welcome and handy if its true.
continued in The Philadelphia Enquirer
Politico.
Obama gets first major win with TARP.
continued on Politico
Chris B at 13,
I would not pay attention to a syllable Rick Santorum utters …
Politico.
House Dems push $825B recovery plan.
continuted on Politico
$30 billion for highway construction doesn’t seem much. The upgrade of the Monash Freeway is 1.3 billion. How far will $30 billion go in the USA?
The Hill.
Seven states, abortion-rights groups sue over ‘conscience’.
continued on The Hill
Huffington Post is reporting that Nancy Pelosi is meeting today with the Egyptian ambassador to push for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. Meanwhile The Gardian is reporting that the Pentagon has suspended a munitions delivery to Israel on the grounds that they believe it would be used by Israel in Gaza.
You can make your protest at Israel’s ethnic cleansing from the comfort of your supermarket. Watch for this barcode:
http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/9
…beginning with 729, which denotes origination in Israel.
Then avoid.
On the historic transition from the imbecilic POTUS to one who posses an intellect and style, what more can be said except that democracy is always capable of producing the worst as well as the best? That such a shallow excuse of a human being could be elected twice is testament to the inherent gullibility of the masses and how complacent they were about their government.
But the pendulum swings, as does the wrecking the ball, and after 8 years of Bush and cronies swinging the latter, it’s time for a big swing of the former.
REUTERS/UK: Israel non-committal on Hamas truce
Despite what the headline implies it seems that things are moving inexorably towards a ceasefire agreement. All of the principals appear to on side with the exception of Israel and the diplomatic pressure appears to be mounting on Israel to cease and desist.
20 Kirribilli Removals Excellent idea, KR. I suspect there will be a large number of Neocons that will become a recipient of this boycott. As quite a number of Neocons are Jewish. Which means they will be very stubborn to reasonable negotiations.
21 Kirribilli Removals Fortunately they seem to have learn’t from this. I was always surprised by the people (in Australia) who were sucked into supporting Bush.
Inauguration of Barack Obama.
Map of events.
Washington Post.
Kids’ Concert Has Lots of Stars, but No Tickets for Public.
may need to be registered.
continued on the Washington Post
Jen:
Seems that GWB just wanted to say one more last goodbye.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/28682372#28682372
Meanwhile the rest of the world continues.
The Parliament.
UK Socialist group elects new EU parliament leader.
continued on The Parliament
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Cat.
Even the suggestion that the US would stop the flow of arms to Israel must be causing a lot of angst behind the scenes in both Washington and Tel Aviv.
It’s perhaps the most positive sign yet, that the new US administration is a different sort of beast. Let’s hope so!
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Thanks for that Kirri.
I don’t suppose it will do much to stop the slaughter
But it will certainly make me feel better and just that little bit less powerless.
BTW
An interesting article on the history of Hamas here.
http://newmatilda.com/2009/01/15/whos-hating-hamas
Just once, and possibly only ever once, the Doofus in Chief gets it right:
“This is a moment of hope and pride for our whole nation. And I join all Americans in offering best wishes to President-elect Obama, his wife Michelle, and their two beautiful girls.”
It’s also a moment of utter relief that this tawdry excuse for a ‘leader’ and the awful crew he empowered for eight years is going too.
But let’s not accept this “I kept America safe from another attack” meme to take hold…it’s a travesty of logic and a denial of the real decline in America’s standing in the world. Bush most certainly did not hold America’s reputation safe from near universal opprobrium. He did not keep safe their financial system, and he most certainly did not keep safe the citizens of New Orleans. He did not keep safe their Constitution, nor their obligations under the Geneva Convention.
He did, however, empower their enemies and piss off most of their friends.
911 was like being struck by lightning, a very low probability event with an infinitesimally small chance of occurring twice. So to claim, like Bush is now, that his ‘great achievement’ was to keep America safe from another attack because, hey, you know, another one did not happen, is like claiming your lucky rabbit’s foot kept you safe from being struck from lightning a second time.
Yeah, right, but what about the first time? He probably won’t talk about that too much.
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Catrina Says: Seems that GWB just wanted to say one more last goodbye.
Good grief!! Thank God I had a large bucket beside me while watching that. Utterly vomit inducing.
Meanwhile….Crikey has put up some comparison speeches for departing presidents.
Bill Clinton – Farewell Address
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nycvN6xk_tY
Ronald Regan-Farewell Address
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gIouq2u9kUo&feature=related
Richard Nixon – Remarks on Departure from the White House
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lNmHFCY9MI0&feature=related
Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qdrGKwkmxAU&feature=related
Washington Post.
Malia Obama to Dad: Speech ‘Better Be Good’.
may need to be registered.
continued on the Washington Post.
Consortium News.
continued on Consortium News.
CQ Politics.
Conscious of 2010 Election, Specter May Get Tough During Holder Hearing.
continued on CQ Politics
Thoughts on the Hudson ditching:
First heard about it on ABC News, RN, 9AM SEQ. The announcer read that “a terrorist attack had be ruled out at this stage, as the plane had hit a flock of large birds”.
Kid you not, although have heard no mention of a possible terrorist connection to the ditching in bulletins or online since.
The part that really got me (in Huffy) was the report of Captain “Sully” twice checking the evacuated plane, all 150 survived, before getting himself out.
Trouble is, leaders with this kind of courage and integrity are pretty thin on the groud. To witness the deeds of such a commander– humanity bouyant on the Hudson–was poignant to the max when juxtaposed against a narcissistic, cowardly C-I-C like Bush The Imbecile.
Ecky –
the only reason it wasn’t a terrorist attack (and who really knows where those birds were trained) was because George is still at the helm keeping them safe :vomit:
They were Al Qaeda trained suicide geese. Meant to explode on impact, but failed to detonate.
If you could choose a guy to be in charge of a plane on a crash landing, he is the man. An F4 Phantom Pilot previously. Years of experience, but here’s the clincher, a very good glider pilot. which would have helped to no end in the landing. Some of the best pilots in World War II were glider pilots first. Particularly the Germans.
Barack Obama inauguration inspires Chicago area schools
Historic event inspires lessons, celebrations.
continued in The Chicago Tribune.
Some good environmental news out of America for a change.
AJC.com
Senate votes to expand wilderness protections.
continued on AJC
Arianna says it like it is:
“He was wrong about Iraq and Saddam and WMD. He was wrong to take his eye off the ball on Afghanistan. He was wrong about tax cuts being the answer to our economic woes. He was wrong about Wall Street being able to regulate itself. He was wrong about Katrina. He was wrong about torture. He was wrong about extraordinary rendition. He was wrong about warrantless wiretapping. He was wrong about Gitmo. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
The speech was spin at its most dangerous. It’s easy to feel a pang of pity for a guy who was on top so long and is now heading out the door. But the more sympathy he evokes, the more susceptible we are to the lies he is telling. Before we know it, his revisionism becomes accepted as the truth.
So if there was any value in the speech it was this: it should remind us of the importance of refusing to allow this delusional revisionism to stand.”
HuffPo.
Fri Jan 16:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/tomtoles;_ylt=AqmmQAR0GJ1eVtVux8dZbUPV.i8C
Fri Jan 16:
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/nonsequitur;_ylt=A0WTUeXET3BJuhkBbAYDwLAF
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/65353
Fri Jan 16:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/doonesbury;_ylt=A0WTUeXET3BJuhkBhQYDwLAF
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/65358
Springfield, VA, USA.
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/65364
Pity about Richo. He came out strongly as a Super-Delegate for Obama at Easter which was a blow for HRC as Richardson had been in her corner prior. Carville memorably called Bill R. a “Judas” on Good Friday. Richo delivered his home State of N.M. and helped turn muchos Hispanics to vote for Bazza in the big one.
As mentioned before, don’t believe the other two are exactly inspired choices.
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/65370
Fri Jan 16:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/tonyauth;_ylt=A0WTUeXET3BJuhkBgQYDwLAF
Miss KatieLou@4-
Tissues Galore!
chris @39
“We’ve talked about who is the new president . . . although I had one boy that just didn’t get it and thought it was George Clooney,”
so know where he is coming from
Ah jen. You women are all the same. Think with your…………………. photographic memory.
Really a very good article in New Matilda, thanks Paddy.
As I watched the SBS doco tonight on Churchill’s bodyguard, as they wandered the desert of Sinai with TE Lawrence and dropped in to Gaza and Jerusalem it all seemed so surreal and pre-ordained that the British would never understand what was going on, and never really care even if they did. There was a telling contrast between Thompson (the bodyguard, Scotland yard) and T E Lawrence: whenever Thompson described the hostile Arab mobs they encountered in Egypt, he described them as ‘maniacs’ or the like, yet Lawrence, who spoke Arabic fluently and had brought them together to overthrow the Ottomans, was revered almost like a god. Lawrence spoke and the crowds literally parted like the Red Sea!
Needless to say, we know which attitude towards the Arabs ultimately prevailed, much to Lawrence’s shame, and eventually, even ours.
Ever wondered what the real numbers look like? Then read this, and remember that the Great Depression had numbers only a bit higher:
The monthly unemployment report is prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics . It reveals that the number of unemployed has climbed over the past year by 3.6 million to 11.1 million, but the real numbers are much worse when looking through the government sugar-coating in these reports. As The Wall Street Journal explains it: “While the official unemployment rate is 7.2%, a different figure that includes discouraged workers who have dropped out of the labor force and those working part-time because they can’t find full-time work hit 13.5% in December. That was nearly a full percentage point higher than in the previous month and up from 8.7% at the end of 2007.”
While a 13.5% unemployment rate is shocking, the truth is even worse because the WSJ is still relying upon government reports. To get the unadorned picture, we need to turn to private economists, and I reply upon the work of John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics , who presents in his latest report the true picture of the dire unemployment situation: “During the Clinton Administration, ‘discouraged workers’ those had given up looking for a job because there were no jobs to be had were redefined so as to be counted only if they had been ‘discouraged’ for less than a year. This time qualification defined away the bulk of the discouraged workers. Adding them back into the total unemployed, actual unemployment, as estimated by the SGS-Alternate Unemployment Measure, rose to 17.5% in December from 16.6% in November.”
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Turk/turk_jan152009.html
…pretty soon you can ask: “are we there yet?”
“The Most Ridiculous Speech of All” , his final insult to the world.
The imbecile continued creating and believing his own reality, a walking avatar.
” Bush had the gall to smile down on a man from New Orleans, who had heroically worked to dig out from his city-annihilating failures during Katrina. He had the gall to smile down on a soldier, who suffered the torments of Iraq duty because of him. He had the gall to smile down on a man whose son was killed in Iraq. He had the gall. It was astonishing.”
(My preferred version of ‘farewell’ would be -,
“….may the door REALLY hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!” )
http://www.truthout.org/011609J
Kirri – those figures make much more sense. even here if you have one hour a week paid work you are not counted in the unemployment figures!!
Megan – when Bush said that while the rest of the world moved on after 9/11 but he hadn’t I nearly gaged. he honestly took it as his personal crusade – never mind the families of the dead: i assume they didn’t just “move on”. What a Fucking tool.
Let the investigations and prosecutions begin- and DavidG. you may think this is a pipe dream but there are a lot of damaged people out there who are looking for justice – vengeance even- and some of them are in powerful positions, and some will have the ear of the new president. We don’t even know the real extent of the corruption and illegality of what this lot did – they have kept it covered, but there are people who do know. The whistleblowers will start to sing soon.
Four days to go!
Politico.
It’s over: Bush staffers make exits.
Not until the lunatic is in the asylum.
continued on Politico
CQ Politics
Pelosi Quietly Lines Up Her Young Lieutenants.
continued on CQ Politics
Yes, Jen. It is a pipedream – and more so because of the type of administration that Obama is going to run. He is going to look to the future, not the past, as he does not want the battles of the previous administration to drag his administration into the dirt in any way.
So, while there may well be private prosecutions and civil actions launched, there will be nothing at the official level. And those private court cases will get nowhere, as we have already seen.
Politico.
Obama tries to seduce Republicans.
continued on Politico
Vale John Mortimer, sworn enemy of wowsers, wankers most pompous and self appointed control freaks whose obsession is to crush any public expression of the human spirit. (unless of course, they have approved it beforehand)
Screenplay by John Mortimer:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=HhufSDj7FSA&feature=related
“Mortimer was called to the Bar in 1948, at the age of 25. His early career consisted of testamentary and divorce work, but on taking silk in 1966 he began to undertake work in criminal law.[3] His highest profile though was in cases relating to censorship.
He had already been junior defence counsel in the prosecution of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, but in 1968 he successfully defended publishers John Calder and Marion Boyars in their appeal against their conviction for publishing Hubert Selby, Jr.’s Last Exit to Brooklyn.[3] Mortimer fulfilled the same role, this time unsuccessfully, for Richard Handyside, English publisher of The Little Red Schoolbook three years later.[3]
Mortimer was defence counsel at the Oz “conspiracy” trial later in 1971. In 1976 he defended Gay News editor Denis Lemon (Whitehouse v. Lemon) for the publication of James Kirkup’s “The Love that Dares to Speak its Name” against charges of Blasphemous libel; Lemon was convicted with a suspended prison sentence. His defence of Virgin Records in the 1977 obscenity hearing for their use of the word bollocks in the title of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks, and the manager of the Nottingham branch of the Virgin record shop chain for the record’s display in a window and its sale, led to the defendants being found not guilty”
(wiki)
“The defence lawyer(at the Oz magazine obscenity trial), John Mortimer QC announced at the opening of the trial in 1971 that “[the] case stands at the crossroads of our liberty, at the boundaries of our freedom to think and draw and write what we please” (The Times: 24 June 1971). For the defence, this specifically concerned the treatment of dissent and dissenters, about the control of ideas and suppressing the messages of social resistance communicated by OZ in issue #28.”
(wiki)
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STOP PRESS: Just four more days, Freedom Lovers, till the The Imbecile leaves the building.
D.C. Removals (a Delaware domiciled subsidiary of downunder parent company, Kirribilli Removals, which also provides its services in Europe as Kirribilli Demanagements) have a crew of expertly trained operatives standing-by with unrestrained relish and a comprehensive exit strategy.
The Hill.
Potential Dem candidates flood Fla. Senate race.
The more candidates the better chance of a higher quality candidate emerging. Which is in the interests of having a long term Democrat Government.
continued in The Hill
WHO CARES?
Bush phones ‘hero’ pilot of Hudson River flight.
CBS News. YES! YES! YES!
Bush’s Final Approval Rating: 22 Percent.
continued on CBS News
Just in case I am not clear. I do not like George Bush one little bit.
He is a Fcukn R Sole.
Just thought I would clear that up for anyone lurking out there who wasn’t sure. 😈
David – it is simply not possible to look to the future without learning from the past. It can’t just be ignored – as much as we might want past horrors to go away. It is how we learn, and Obama is no fool – moving forward must involve addressing past wrongs – not just burying them.
CBS News.
Considering CBS has asked people to take an inauguration picture and send it to them. This is going to be one hell of an overloaded network. Maybe this could be the start of up grading the network.
continued on CBS News
61 jen, spot on. If they don’t the Republicans will come back to haunt them. The financial crisis will happen again. It’s obvious they do not understand what they did wrong. They also think they did nothing wrong. But then that’s the advantage of being a Neocon.
Neocons are never wrong!
just another Bush-hater’s view…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/it-ought-to-be-a-word_b_158632.html
Jen, Paul Krugman agrees most vehemently:
Meanwhile, about Mr. Obama: while it’s probably in his short-term political interests to forgive and forget, next week he’s going to swear to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” That’s not a conditional oath to be honored only when it’s convenient.
And to protect and defend the Constitution, a president must do more than obey the Constitution himself; he must hold those who violate the Constitution accountable. So Mr. Obama should reconsider his apparent decision to let the previous administration get away with crime. Consequences aside, that’s not a decision he has the right to make.
NY Times
He argues, very cogently, that the long list of Bush’s crimes were but an extension of the Iran Contra style of ‘doing things’, which of course his old man ‘excused’ by pardoning the perpetrators. So to do it again would be an even bigger crime.
He’s got a good argument there.
The Wall Street Journal
Obama’s Stimulus Plan Includes $6 Billion for Broadband.
It’s interesting to note how fast Obama is in getting things moving on broadband. Obama is not in power yet and things are moving fast. Compare with Kevin Rudd. Twelve months later and still nothing to show. I wonder if anything will be done before the election?
continued on the Wall Street Journal
Board Odds:
Obama Cliche Betting:
What will Obama say first in his first Presidential Address?
8/1 Change has come
12/1 As I stand here today
12/1 Fundamental belief
12/1 Defining moment
12/1 God Bless America
14/1 Let me be clear
14/1 War on terror
14/1 Politics of hope
14/1 Common purpose
16/1 Crossroads of history
16/1 I have a dream
16/1 Pursuit of happiness
16/1 I’m fired up
16/1 Building a better America
18/1 My civil liberties
18/1 Same old politics
18/1 Core Values
18/1 Hungry for change
18/1 It won’t be easy
20/1 Honour for me
20/1 Safe from harm
20/1 Don’t get me wrong
20/1 Decent shot at life
20/1 They said this day would never come
25/1 There are better days ahead
25/1 Challenges that face us
25/1 Make Washington work
25/1 Hard to believe
25/1 We cannot lose hope
25/1 We can be one people
25/1 We’ll have to make hard choices
25/1 Make college more affordable
33/1 For far too long
33/1 Beacon of freedom
33/1 All men are created equal
33/1 Faith in simple Dreams
33/1 Jobs to the jobless
33/1 In the words of JF Kennedy
33/1 All of them with a story to tell
33/1 Divided, we are bound to fail
33/1 Where North, South, East and West come together
33/1 Washington has a long way to go
33/1 Reshapes our economy
33/1 Let us transform this nation
40/1 Homes to the homeless
40/1 A new direction
40/1 Deepest Gratitude
40/1 We all made this journey for a reason
40/1 There is power in words
40/1 There is power in conviction.
40/1 Willing to listen to each other
40/1 We can work together to keep our country safe
50/1 Abiding Faith
50/1 Possibilities of this Nation
50/1 Greatness of our nation
50/1 Believe in what this country can be
50/1 In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope
50/1 Unity is the great need of the hour
50/1 Serve as a model for the world
50/1 The vehicle, of your hopes, and your dreams
66/1 Legacy of our forbearers
66/1 Doors of opportunity
66/1 Brighter day will come
66/1 Where I learned the meaning of my Christian faith
66/1 Disagree without being disagreeable
66/1 Let us be the generation that begins that work
80/1 Diversity if my heritage
80/1 Promise of future generations
80/1 Overcome the adversity
80/1 We have more work to do
100/1 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
100/1 An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind
250/1 Let’s get ready to rumble
250/1 Life is like a box of chocolates
500/1 Always bet on black!
1000/1 Yo, Mofos, The Jig is up!
from HuffPo, mostly.
Queerty
All the (First) Ladies in the (White) House Say ‘Gay’.
continued on Queerty
Arianna also agrees Kirri…
I suspect so does most of the world.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/memo-to-obama-moving-forw_b_157563.html
Out in the Real world life goes on….
EU Business.
EU hits Microsoft with fresh antitrust charges over web browser.
Maybe they will force them to let you choose which browser to use. This will eventually help the quality of web pages.
continued on EU Business
Hopefully the USA will follow suite.
Australia may get something done 10 to 20 years down the track.
68 EC Yo, Mofos, The Jig is up! That is sure to get the Ku Klux Klan really fired up.
Kirri- have you got a link to Krugman’s article?
I couldn’t find it.
This is definitely worthy of a mention.
Breast cancer-free baby marks watershed in embryo screening.
continued on Euro News
got it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/opinion/16krugman.html?_r=1
It’s here Jen:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/opinion/16krugman.html
(look up to the top righthand side of NYT’s front page and they have a list of editorials)
Snap Jen…you forgot to say SNAP!
Gas station tragedy!
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4287914/11520883
oops – SNAP!
and You Betcha! – (dontcha just miss Sarah??)
God – it will be so boring without Bush, Palin, Howard and all the other reasons I had to get out of bed and start raging at the world every single day. I’ll have to remarry.
Meanwhile:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/another-good-reason-for-n_b_158392.html
Alan Dershowitz reckons you could not get a conviction of the Bushies, so why bother?
Sounds like a cop out to me, and proves once again that “no one is above the law” is a total crock.
sounds like he has a case of wishful thinking to me Kirri. – there’d be a lot of nervous americans out there I reckon, including some journalisits.
I’ve got a spoooky little feeling that the rude Pundit wasn’t too keen on Bush either – although he is his usual subtle self about it
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Speaking of cop outs, Kirri,
Between Obama’s hype and the pageantry, lies reality:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/17/sirota/
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I’ve got a spooky feeling you’re right Jen. 🙂
I particularly enjoyed the pundit’s parting shot.
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http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/65409
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Fri Jan 16:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/patoliphant;_ylt=Au7RdUdOZ_q70nbbcr26J6zb.sgF
Thurs Jan 15:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/tedrall;_ylt=AvnZpXi3lH2c2l1fyqy7B8k0vTYC
Fri Jan 16:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/jeffdanziger;_ylt=A0WTUcgDRHFJnfwAlgUDwLAF
Fri Jan 16: ( K.R. outsourced the “heavy lifting” to a local mob)
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/bensargent;_ylt=AlThgeEpvIPnDbrIQuMbZ2EXvTYC
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/65429
Glenn Greenwald
Even more amazing……Watching the clips on this link, I found myself agreeing with Pat Buchanan!!!
My head’s still spinning!!! 🙂
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/16/noor/index.html
😆 😆
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/16/cheney-dozes-off-at-bush_n_158490.html
re 88. Whew!! After watching the second link to the discussion Morning Joe, Pat Buchanan redeemed his reputation and reverted to type.
I was beginning to think someone had put a tablet of “hope and change” in his morning cup of bile. 👿
Ecky, we’ve let the DC crew start delivering a dose of reality to the Whitehouse a bit early, but we’re still struggling to pack away the years of lies, deceit, half-truths, propaganda and gallons of Presidential dribble. We’re not sure we can get it all shifted on time! LOL
There was an excellent Frontline doco on Obama on SBS last night, entitled “Dreams of Obama”.
It gave me more of a sense of his long held ambition – it seems like each step he took as an adult deliberately built credentials for some position of power and influence.
He was also no pushover – a long term Illinois state senator by the name of Alice Palmer decided she wanted to run for congress and offered Obama the state senator position. Palmer got whipped in the congress election by Jesse Jackson Jnr and wanted to run again for her senate seat – so she and some pretty important people in the party, including African Americans asked Obama to step aside and wait a bit, especially since she had effectively handed him this opportunity in the first place. He’d already started campaigning and didn’t want to pull out. Then Obama had his staff check the signatures on the petitions lodged by Palmer for her candidacy, and also those of any other opponents for the seat, and had them all knocked out on some technicality that I didn’t quite understand from the show. Obama won with no opponents. So this man can be ruthless – I’m not surprised.
The other thing I really got a sense of was the strict pecking order in the national congress – and just how junior Obama was considered to be. As a junior, he would speak last on committee hearings and have to watch his tongue for fear of contradicting or outshining more senior senators. He played that game. It struck me that Hillary and McCain had to be utterly astonished that he would even run for the presidency, let alone beat them.
Anyhoo, great doco.
Re my pecking order comment above – it should have been the national senate, not the congress.
Newsweek
65% of Americans believe Obama will be an above average president.
I will go further and say barring any unseen disaster with his presidency. Obama will be the best president the USA have ever had.
Katie Lou – you do get the sense that under his fairly affable and pleasant manner there is a steely determination.
He is going to need to be quite literally one of the srongest humans alive in our time to deal with the exraordinary mess we face.
93 KatieLou
They did not understand the power of the Internet.
Anyone from now on who underestimates or ignores the Internet will get thrashed in any election. It is an extremely powerful tool. The Internet will only become far more powerful under Obama. Hence his urgency to quickly put billions into the Internet. Unlike our Kevin.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Is this a conflict of interest? Have a look at the title of the song and the band in the first two songs, then check the name of the magazine. 😈
conflict of interest?
Not Your Father’s Republican Party?
ABC News
Obama Wins $350B Senate TARP Vote
Obama Wins TARP Money.
ABC News
Bump!