calimary
calimary's JournalThey LOVE using the New York Times as a punching bag. A leading member of the "liberal media."
They routinely slam the NYTimes. I don't know why they should. The Times was a willing and eager accomplice during the run-up to the Iraq War. Screamed out the bush/cheney line-of-the-week on the front page in large print above the fold. Week after week after week.
Use the "T-word," Bernie!
We all should. Put them on defense. Make 'em deny it. Make 'em have to explain it and parse it and dance around it. And then hit 'em with it again.
And AGAIN. Do NOT play nice.
Bingo. When you wonder how these jackasses get elected
then you HAVE TO look at the voters. And figure out what they're being force-fed and from where and from whom.
AND you have to look VERY hard and very sternly at the voters who felt like staying home on Election Day and conceding defeat before even trying to put up a fight. Or insisting on the perfect, turning their noses up at the merely good, and then winding up getting saddled with the horrifying.
Reminds me of a quote I saw, about sharing,
that I liked and I kept. Something about - when you share, you wind up having more. Anybody in that group would benefit tremendously from what you'd bring to it, Omaha Steve. And you would likely benefit further as well.
Hugs and more hugs, dear DU friend and brother!
He was once a United States Senator from Oklahoma.
From 1979 to 1994. Rhodes Scholar, too. Boren also decided in 1991 to vote against the Persian Gulf War, surprising most political observers.
Boren also decided in 1991 to vote against the Persian Gulf War, surprising most political observers.
In a controversial public mea culpa in a New York Times Op/Ed piece, Boren expressed regret over his vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
In 1994, he resigned his Senate seat to accept the presidency of the University of Oklahoma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Boren
And we all then became the poorer for it. That card-carrying Troglodyte idiot james inhofe is who replaced him in the Senate. 
Back when I was still working, and anything came up for which we had to get a quote or an
interview with somebody involved with "The Simpsons," it'd be Sam Simon who answered the phone and gave us the interview. Whenever you needed react, James L. Brooks was never available. Matt Groening was only available to the big guys ("The Today Show," "Entertainment Tonight," "TV Guide," and the big entities), and Sam Simon was the one you'd usually get.
Bless him. Safe passage, and high flight, Mr. Simon.
My friend, there won't be ANY remedy as long as we're stuck with THIS Congress.
First you have to admit you have a problem. As any counseling service or rehab center or whatever will state.
First you have to admit there's a problem. And where the Supreme Court went wrong, in my opinion, is the five justices' determination that there simply wasn't a problem anymore. Problem? WHAT problem? We fixed it. No need for any more fixes or remedies or vigilance or prevention or any of that. Problem solved!
And MAN were they wrong!!!! Seems to me there's almost a bigger problem now than there has ever been. Seems to me, in many cases, the problem not only did NOT cease to exist, it just got a lot worse. They not only did not recognize there still was a problem - they just decided there is no problem anymore.
And MAN-OH-MAN were they wrong!
Sigh... it's ALWAYS easier to nitpick and tear down.
Trying to BUILD is ALWAYS harder. I've been facing that down elsewhere here - lots of naysayers because maybe the premise isn't absolutely immaculate or the argument is imperfect or it won't work or there's no use or there's no point or blah-blah-blah. People everywhere (not just here) LOVE-LOVE-LOVE to foul on a technicality. It's fun, after all. And it's easy! Shitting in the punchbowl or peeing in the pickle barrel is always fun. You feel smart. And hot. And hip. And iconoclastic or some such bullshit. And rebellious. And ballsy. And maybe you deflated the balloon just enough for everybody else that it won't ever get off the ground, and nothing will ever be done about the problem, and no drumbeat will be generated and accelerated until it's utterly deafening and unignorable and unavoidable anymore, and maybe we'll all just sit and be glum about it and complain and never get anything accomplished nor any problems solved or issues addressed - just like the naysayers do.
And then, WHAT exactly is won? What, exactly, is accomplished for the greater good, or for the sake of fixing a problem or addressing an injustice? Anything at all? Probably a whole boatload of NOTHING.
I suppose you could also say he just SLAM-DUNKED the mic for the ages.
I too hope we bend toward justice. Sure still seems like an awfully long arc, though.
Indeed. Beware those who whine - "I Want MY America Back!!!!" What they want, whether they realize
it or not, is their America - BACKWARDS. They want to go backwards. And yes, their ignorance and pigheadedness and politicization of this urgent issue will be the doom of ALL of us. And they'll probably find that Jesus did NOT come back, and they'll blame liberals and Dems and Obama. When it was their own idiot obstruction that dragged us all down into oblivion.
And yes. VOTER TURNOUT had a LOT to do with it.
And that's for all the Dems who plan to sit out 2016 and not vote because they'd rather make a statement (or pout) about not getting the candidate they wanted. And therefore they WILL get a Supreme Court that NONE of us wanted - including themselves.
Profile Information
Gender: FemaleHome country: USA
Current location: Oregon
Member since: 2001
Number of posts: 81,238
