Palin cannot resist. Cross hairs. Obama slurs. And now default. Is it too much to hope she will throw her hat in the ring so her fellow GOP folk can savage her?
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7/28/11
Palin cannot resist. Cross hairs. Obama slurs. And now default.
Palin to GOP freshmen: Stick to principles on debt - On Politics - USATODAY.com: "Sarah Palin urged House Republican freshmen today to stick their principles when it comes to today's vote to raise the debt limit, even hinting they could face primary challenges if they don't rein in government spending."
Boehner Could Not Get The Votes Most Likely
Daily Kos: BREAKING: No House vote tonight: "House Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) just announced there will be no vote tonight on the Boehner debt bill."
That is the best explanation. I still think it will come down to a simple debt ceiling approval. With the outcome uncertain but the likelihood that the Tea Party in the house will be on the losing end of an affirmative vote. If the whole thing moves toward default it is the 14th Amendment solution. Let Roberts and his cohorts default if they want.
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Angels are what we become
We are all
Angels all
Sometimes disfigured
By the principalities
Sometimes laid low by powers
Or by temptations we cannot resist
Or by the fearful flow of evil tides
At times
Anon
Perchance
Like children
Sleeping
Sleeping
Our faces clear
Wreathed in a glow of peace
Wreathed in a glow of peace
And we look more like angels
Angels
Yes
Yes
It's then that
Abba's presence
We confess
Abba's presence
We confess
Al-Qaida cost us trillions and suckered us into a war on terror as useless as our war on drugs
U.S. intelligence: Al-Qaida near collapse - Topix
And I think this is not a radical but a centrist view. So the idea that we have won much by collapsing the Bin Laden piece of global terror is ironical. The minute George Bush opted for a military solution on the ground, he won. And he will continue to win beyond the grave until we use our minds instead of our precious lifeblood.
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There will be no budget deal. The debt ceiling will be raised.
Boehner Sees Passage of Debt Plan - Reid Vows to Kill It - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — The House and Senate headed for a pivotal showdown on Thursday evening over how to cut spending and increase the debt limit before the federal government loses its ability to borrow."
I think this has been the answer all along. The plans on all sides are posturing. The answer lies in a final one page bill. If the GOP kill the simple Debt Ceiling bill they die. If it passes all this brouhaha has created the context for 2012 and convinced the world that we are aware of the debt problem.
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What if Obama Had Been A Republican All Along?
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Charles Sanders Peirce on the Realistic Character of Science
Formula for writing a proper spiritual book
Write for the slow reader
Value the slow learner
Focus on your reader to the exclusion of all else
Write in manageable bits
Your text a form of truth beyond your ken
Do not name guidance as such
Make no special claims
Seek no disciples
Offer no secret knowledge
No magic formulae
Just simple expositions of the way that works for you
Avoid saying what you are doing
Let what you do speak for itself
Mudslides and landmines hobble South Korea
Mudslides spark S. Korea landmine fears; 67 dead - Weather - msnbc.com: "SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans were cautioned Thursday about landmines and explosives that had been unsettled after a series of deadly landslides in and around the capital Seoul swamped military sites, defense officials said."
This has to be one of the smartest places on earth. But there is a smarter way to deal with landmines than leaving them in the ground. And there is a smarter way to build where mudslides are a predictable possibility. This is of a piece with a world inured to warfare and the circulation of lethal products. Pause and reflect world, that would be the spiritual counsel for this problem.
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When we spend as much as we do on debt and war, why grouse about health costs?
Gov't: Health tab to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020 - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government number crunchers estimate in a report out Thursday."
When you understand that one fifth goes for health care, is that too much? Really. I think that military spending is too much. That tax loopholes for corporations are too much. That interest on the debt is too much. But one fifth for health is downright reasonable.
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Just when people thought sanity had come to LA
Electric Daisy Carnival premiere: LAPD sets up 'mobile jail' to handle crowd - latimes.com: "As the event got out of hand, large crowds spilled into the street around Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, with some people throwing bottles at police. Witnesses said others were dancing on a police car, taunting police and “planking” -- lying down in the street. Fights among people in the crowd also broke out sporadically. Police in riot gear shut down streets around the theater, while dozens of police cruisers responded to the
disturbance."
This is not Tahrir, it is the underside of the American character in full regalia making an ass of itself.
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My goodness don't tell me the NYT got it wrong
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Case: Maid Listens to Prison Tape - The Daily Beast: "Despite leaks to the contrary, a lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser says a recording of her conversation with a friend after the alleged attack does not show she schemed to make money."
Hey Beast here's what Boehner is actually doing
Debt Ceiling: Boehner Whips His Republican Troops Into Line - The Daily Beast: "Just when Washington is denigrating his debt plan and his party wavering, the House speaker may be about to forge a deal that shortchanges the Democrats. Patricia Murphy on how he’s whipping his troops into line."
Blah, blah, blah. He is cooking up the perfect stalemate whose result will be the completion of this farce. That will be: the presentation of that one page bill to raise the ceiling. The House splits. Bipartisan versus Tea Party. Either way, the GOP loses. Obama keeps high ground. But is magnanimous, Stoking GOP anger to unprecedented heights. All in a days'work. Because the 14th Amendment looms. A fine day for the Tea Party, to use the Constitution to do in the misreaders of history.
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When Derek hit 3000
When Derek hit 3000
In the Big Apple where I was born
I watched the game YES
And worked the same time.
Life is good.
I used to live near
I used to live near
Wrigley Field
OnWest Wolfram
Just off of Halsted Street
Near to the ivy covered shrine
I felt like Jean Shepherd walking through those leafy streets
On sunny afternoons
To catch a game
With a few thousand scattered fans
Watch the Cubs go down
And maybe Ernie get a hit or two
.
.
When Derek hit 3000 it was perfect
When I was young I used to think
A tiny bit of history
Obama says Reagan raised debt ceiling 18 times; George W. Bush seven times - Digg
And Obama more than any President is working to see that he does not need to keep raising it. But he is hated so much by the GOP (for stealing their thunder mostly) that we have the current sad display of our lesser selves.
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It could all come down to a one page bill
NYT: Boehner issues warning to debt dissenters - politics - The New York Times - msnbc.com: "WASHINGTON — An increasing number of House members yielded to Speaker John Boehner’s blunt command to line up Wednesday behind his budget bill even as his staff moved frantically to alter it in an attempt to resolve the looming fiscal crisis. Congressional leaders alternately voiced optimism, determination and a haggard frustration as they struggled to make both the dollars and the votes add up."
There is no need to resolve everything. Just to raise the limit. All the rest is posturing on both sides. Posturing is good to soften the country up for austerity and a bit of fairness. MORE
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How about making nice for a while
I thought this first debate might do it
But I'm a cockeyed optimist
We have been to the edge of a cliff and it is time to start making nice.
But we cannot seem to get off if the dime
I want the days of You Lie and Look at my undies to be over.
We need a good debate
We need a more productive society
A leaner more stable government
A more macro-focused,less casino-like private sector
And dare one think the media could also start be be
A trifle just a trifle less binary.
A mite more Peircelike.
We can dream
We do dream
We wake up every day with hope
The alleged Manhattan grope you may have missed
I am declaring war on once-snotty Manhattan hotels
I can remember when the Pierre did not tolerate groping
Except on the dance floor where it was standard practice
Times change.
I suggest arming the maids and providing bodyguards
Of such menacing capacities that even brave and macho bankers
Like these bozos will be intimidated by the very thought.
Drones are wonderful they don't kill us
Drones are wonderful they don't kill us
Unless an enemy sends one our way
Which means when someone has power to equal us
Fair is fair when power is what holds sway
From a Daily Beast Email SOURCE
But damn there is that itch in me
But damn there is that itch in me
the itch that no one sees
the need to not be here too long
The need to move to the next thing
the cosmos see the cosmos at my feet
And god
I just might end up being human after all
Once this most restless unhappiness
is in its cage
I just might be
I just might be
Biography of Sarah Palin Conclusion
Oh god the gun I love the gun
Oh god the gun
I love the gun
I love all sorts of gun
I do not like the world of women
flocking all around and
chattering and nattering
Give me a gun
a moose
a promontory
virginal and sere
and I shall show you paradise
in a handful of Tweets
Biography of Sarah Palin Part Five
I'll beard that bastard in his den
I'll beard that bastard in his den
and eat his lunch
Besides this country is a
piece of cake
I am a natural
God how they love me
How easy to make it
Step by step
Even the pummeling I get moves me
from strength to strength
There's not a challenge I can't meet
or overcome
Why I can even be the President
Over the objections of all the people
If I can just make nice to the right ones
Biography of Sarah Palin Part Four
Veering here and there with babies in my womb
Veering here and there with babies in my womb
and notes I must refer to when I speak
why am I here
I could be there
I have resources no one knows about
god help me
how I fell from this to that
a mystery
I think I'll run for something
maybe mayor
Biography of Sarah Palin Part Three
The Lawrence O'Donnell Solution
Written shortly before her death.
Good grief Elizabeth just see what you've been through
Enough to sink at least a regiment or two
I doff my cap and make my bow in praise and reverence
And thank my stars for your endurance and omnipotence
If you think I exaggerate read on:
"Elizabeth Taylor's 79th birthday: watching Oscars from hospital bed - Celebrity Circuit - CBS News For the past five years, Taylor has been using a wheelchair due to chronic pain after breaking her back four times. In addition to congestive heart failure, she has also had to deal with three hip-replacement operations, a benign brain tumor, skin cancer and pneumonia, according to Reuters."
Elizabeth Taylor's 79th birthday: watching Oscars from hospital bed - Celebrity Circuit - CBS News.
Elizabeth Taylor's 79th birthday: watching Oscars from hospital bed - Celebrity Circuit - CBS News.
She looked good to herself in every mirror
She looked good to herself in every mirror
Oh good enough for politics perhaps
Or maybe for some runway
Or something else that's big
Like TV-like
She felt an itch
To grow up past this
Awkward time
And get the show
Out on the road.
The Biography of Sarah Palin Part Two
I do not want to go she said but she went anyway
I do not want to go she said but she went anyway
And the subjects eluded her one by one
There was a restlessness inside her
She could not understand
It made her leave no sooner than she got there
Just pack up
And leave
And go
To the next place
There's a flash in the pan named Scott Walker
There's a flash in the pan named Scott Walker
His chances go down day by day
The recall is building and soon will take place
Victory for people for him a disgrace
Recall the GOP Senators in Wisconsin
We all are reasoners from cradle to the grave
We all are reasoners from cradle to the grave
Our suppositions but proved by experience
And knowing "truth" as but a temporary fix
Pending amendment as time passes in the mix
There is a searcher who wants nothing but a truth that she can hold
There is a searcher who wants nothing but a truth that she can hold
And the results she gets for products and "how to" just leave her cold
She is the searcher I would most like to talk to
And why I hope the Web evolves and sees us through
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