Displaying 61 To 90 Of 253 Comments Arianna’s Marie Antoinette Moment “ And, really, doesn’t this sort of disdain smack of the Koch-infested Right? ” The overwhelming central point that cannot be overemphasised is that the Huffypuffy Poopot IS, repeat, IS, repeat, IS IS IS IS IS THE KOCH-INFESTED RIGHT!! » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 8, 2011 @ 7:42 pm Piano. I like to use string instruments to set up ghastly microtonal tunings with grindingly dissonant harmonics, though ( but I don’t play them in the proper sense ). » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 10:22 pm The Kronos Quartet is a string quartet that specializes in modern music, except that they long ago went from playing the more cerebral, high-modernist sort of stuff to playing mostly trendy,crossovery, NPR-type stuff ( and thereby selling many times more CDs than, say, the Arditti or Flux quartets ). I was listening to a particularly bad example ( it was in the middle of a radio show ) while I was writing that one. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 9:33 pm A few more chosen completely at random – haiku [ XXVI X MMX – 3 ] 1 the compleat ass over tit haiku [ IX IX MMX – 8 ] 1 thus haiku [ XIX IX MMX – 3 ] I. 1 by the Grand Duchess of Bakersfield 2 flautomobile dyskinesia II. 1 interenantiodromially interf***erbated via interociter 2 albeit with a certain want of precision haiku [ XXII IX MMX – 2 ] 1 the indeterminacy having been augmented to such an indefinite extent that it now may or may not be virtually entirely impossible to ascertain or signify or otherwise communicate or determine anything » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 9:28 pm Oh why thank you! » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 9:23 pm The sea! The sea! William Carlos Williams, “ Asphodel, That Greeny Flower ” APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding T. S. Eliot, “ The Waste Land ” “ this great catastrophe to our letters ” William Carlos Williams on “ The Waste Land ” » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 8:26 pm A selection of my recent works ( slightly expurgated ) – haiku [ V III MMXI – 1 ] Part One I. 1 one of these days I’m going to get organizized II. 1 one of these days I’m going to get orgasmizized Part Two I. 1 one of these days I’m going to get disorganizized II. 1 one of these days I’m going to get disorgamizized Part Three f*** Nixon First Appendix 1 one of these days I am going to get organisised Second Appendix 1 one of these days I am going to get disorganisised Third Appendix 1 f*** the Kronos Quartet haiku [ V III MMXI – 3 ] I. 1 blancmange II. 1 f*** the blancmange III. 1 do not f*** the blancmange IV. 1 warning contains information about how to f*** the blancmange V. 1 warning does not contain information about how to f*** the blancmange haiku [ V III MMXI – 5 ] 1 la merde avec le blancmange » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 8:14 pm Arab Uprisings: Still Writing History “ embroiling itself in another Muslim conflict ” Afghanistan and Iraq were / are about “ embroiling ourselves in Muslim conflicts ”? Yes, I remember all those stirring G. W. B. speeches about how we needed to step up and embroil ourselves in Muslim conflicts. And wasn’t the talking point a couple weeks ago all about how he had been vindicated? » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 27, 2011 @ 11:48 am Arianna’s Republican Hattrick (or Toyboy) I believe this post is entirely, indeed impeccably, appropriate for its subject in terms of language and style. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 22, 2011 @ 2:03 pm Oh, didn’t think of that . . . or that’s why she likes the party that would amend the Constitution for her to do it – remember how they wanted Schwarzenegger to be President for about 30 seconds? ( That would be a good answer to the birthers, except, oh, it would just be too subtle for them. ) » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 18, 2011 @ 12:20 am Twaddle. Universe is awesome. You are merely a psychological projection. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 17, 2011 @ 10:49 pm P. S. But . . . *ahhh*! To be free from the ghastly, phantasmagorial, crepuscular, ectoplasmic nightmare realm of Queen Bee! It really was bizarrely horrible. Come to think of it, I won’t be surprised if she’s on a ticket in 2016 with Mitt Romney. Or Allen West. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 17, 2011 @ 10:42 pm My first thought – is negative, which isn’t quite what is being sought, so I will put it off. The rise of the Huffington Post probably roughly paralleled the beginning of my own internet use, so I didn’t really think of it as anything other than part of the scenery. Probably a large part of its impact on me — which is really that of the internet in general — was in coming into contact with something for the first time since my elementary school years, namely the large sector of the species population which chooses to be non-cognitively oriented. This is a major topic relating to other things that have been large factors in my life, and I can’t really summarise it here. It is an evolving story ( even if they are not ). One thing I could mention is that I have certainly progressed in dealing with it over time – at first, with utter furious rage at such obvious willful stupidity, dishonesty, and hatefulness; gradually over time to a more appropriate and less stressful utter contempt ( freely expressed, of course ). This has been reflected in the nature of my interaction with, and use of, the internet medium. To be clear, in the early uncensored days of Huffpo, I was one of the more flamboyant terrors ( which I suppose is saying something ), and was banned, I think it was three times, I’m pretty sure it was more than twice. I tentatively decided to attempt commenting again last summer, consciously aware that I would have to make an effort to be restrained and appropriate as possible ( and refrain from posting massive quantities of four-letter words, extended excerpts from certain extremely controversial books, highly imaginative suggestions for ways in which my correspondent could enliven his or her personal life, and so on ). ( Also, I had at the time spent several months commenting on Yahoo, which was both, shall we say, at times not so good for my mental health, and gave me a particular insight into the political currents which have been circulating in our nation, which I’ve observed not everyone is fully aware of. ) ( And I should also add that I am personally an exceptionally mild person, which does say something about the peculiar nature of internet interaction. ) In retrospect, I am a little pleased and surprised that I was modestly successful. I was not banned — I even left voluntarily! — and I even, yes, had 470 fans after a little over six months. Dismayed at the attacks from my own side at the only President in my adult lifetime I have had any regard at all for, I discovered something of a mission in becoming a defender, posting supporting links to Rachel Maddow and Andrew Sullivan when sanity was entirely absent on the site’e editorial side, and rallying the like-minded to some minute extent – something which has probably played a part in becoming a more informed commenter, with reputable links at the ready, to the extent that I have ; and it has even been for me somewhat like something I would have never imagined myself doing – political campaigning! I still can’t see myself making phone calls or knocking on doors — I’m really not the type — but in a way it has been something new in my life. To get back to that first thought – well, my first thought was that it is not possible to consider the Huffington Post other than precisely in terms of what a profound betrayal it is of what it was supposed to be. The ostensible premier left-leaning internet news and commentary site is, in fact, for all the world to see, something which would be grotesque beyond belief if it did not actually exist – a sort of latte liberal New Age National Enquirer ( an article about life after death was on the *main page* in the last couple of weeks ), routinely running unflattering photographs of the President in a manner which uncannily resembles crude racism, pointedly offering a platform for what I quickly came to call “left baggers” ( when until then I had utterly rejected the idea that there could possibly be any similarity at all between left and right ), and at the same time peculiarly infested with the extreme right-wing “voices” ( an equivalent word associated with the other end of the alimentary canal is lacking in our language ) who are the mortal enemies of everything liberalism and our nation stand for. As of my departure at the beginning of this week, Breitbart and Newsmax are now part of the mix. To the extent that Huffpo will get more mass exposure, I shudder to think of the grotesque abnormality that people will see, and that they will think represents us. So what about my personal growth story, and those of everyone else? Well . . . perhaps, in the most important aspects, we did it ourselves. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 17, 2011 @ 10:26 pm Help Keep The Planet In Orbit – Donate Today P. S. I am also a Proud LGBT Rights supporter. The LGBT President : “ His name was Harvey Milk, and he was here to recruit us — ALL of us — to join a movement, and change a nation. For much of his life, he had silenced himself. In the prime of his life, he was silenced by the act of another. But in the brief time in which he spoke, and ran, and led, his voice stirred the aspirations of millions of people. He would become, after several attempts, one of the first openly gay Americans elected to public office ; and his message of hope — hope unashamed, hope unafraid — could not ever be silenced. It was Harvey who said it best : ‘ You gotta give ’em hope. ’ ³ President Obama Honors Harvey Milk With Presidential Medal of Freedom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKOv8HA76o “ I don’t know what it’s like to be picked on for being gay, but I do know what it’s like to grow up feeling that sometimes you don’t belong. ” President Obama : It Gets Better “I want to sart off by saying, first and foremoss, I’m proud of you.” Vice President Biden: It Gets Better White House Staff : It Gets Better GLBT Accomplishments http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433×485790 » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 16, 2011 @ 6:32 pm ¡Hola tambien! ¡Sí, se puede! » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 16, 2011 @ 6:24 pm Hello, another HuffPo refugee here! The last straws for me were a post which was a hatchet job on Shirley Sherrod by a Brietbart thug, and another one which was an attack on the First Lady recycled from Newsmax — no, I am not making that up — along with two stories on the budget, one positive, one negative, by the same reporter on the same day ( think he had to fulfill an agenda, maybe? ), with the negative one as the lead and featuring a highly offensive use of an unflattering photograph of the President ( for the umpteenth time – why don’t they just use one of those watermelon cartoons? – it’s obvious what their viewpoint is ). I am a proud Liberal who believes supporting pragmatic, incremental change is not incompatible with Liberal ideals, and who does not believe shouting “Bush III” reflects anything more substantive or appropriate than shouting “socialist”. I am unattracted to either Clinton-style centrism (I or II) or the ocassionally recurring same-old-flavour-of-the-month “Third Way” bloviation. I was a third party voter ( and still identify as Independent ) who contributed to Cynthia McKinney in 2008, before deciding ( about a week before the election ) that there was a major party candidate who might really be as good as Johnson – as who is proving to be so much better that, at this point, I am nearly certain we have the historical counterbalance to our recent Worst Ever. I was too young to appreciate Carter during his Administration ( and *much* too young to appreciate Johnson ), but for the first time in my life, I can use the words “my President”. I was a 1992 Perot Liberal, which still makes sense to me ( in context ). A parent was an old-time American Socialist, McCarthy victim, and friend of a Manzanar victim. I am a proud Anglo-Puerto Rican Mongrel. And I am, to quote the slogan of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s first political campaign, For America and Roosevelt. [img]http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/Enlargement.aspx?id=IH024190&ext=1[/img] » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 16, 2011 @ 6:07 pm A Short List of Pres. Obama’s Accomplishments I was already a bit over the age of forty when, still slightly hesitant even in the voting booth, I cast my first vote for a major party Presidential candidate : a real candidate who was really going to win and really be President, whom I would be invested in – and at a crucial and critical juncture in the history of the nation, no less; and so, at over age forty, I went from having no notion of a President being anything other than a lesser or greater cause of nausea, to having one of the very — very — greatest. I can’t do it by myself. No president can. Remember: Change doesn’t happen from the top. It happens because of you. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 18, 2011 @ 3:37 am And what’s this about Legionnaire’s Disease? » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 11, 2011 @ 9:03 am My head is still spinning from Julie Taymor firing. This is like Erich Von Stroheim multiplied by Michael Cimino. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 11, 2011 @ 9:02 am Representative Peter King, terrorist – http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/politics/09king.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha24 » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 9, 2011 @ 8:19 am From, of all places, the New York Daily News, via blackwaterdog : “This is what we said we wanted just two years ago” Beware the clarity trap: Obama makes effective, principled case for U.S. involvement in Libya Just a few years ago, we had a President who valued clarity so dearly that he labeled three utterly different countries, presenting drastically different security problems, an “axis of evil.” Didn’t really make sense, but lumping them together was catchy and, at least as far as it went, clear. So, yes, everyone knew precisely where George W. Bush stood. That’s a big part of why he beat John Kerry in 2004; the chronically cautious senator got tagged as impossibly indecisive. Barack Obama isn’t an all-or-nothing kind of commander in chief or an all-or-nothing kind of man. He gambled in pushing health care reform, but in his bones he’s a cautious leader who overcomplicates where others oversimplify. He turns bumper stickers into dissertations, not the other way around. Those who are grousing about that fact now should count their blessings – and remember the alternative. This is what we said we wanted just two years ago, after eight years of Bush foreign policy impulsiveness, when offered a McCain-Palin ticket that promised more gut-driven decision-making. We wanted more candid discussion of risks and benefits. More sharing of responsibilities with allies. We wanted a President to think twice before playing Braveheart. Didn’t we? http://blackwaterdog.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/this-is-what-we-said-we-wanted-just-two-years-ago/ » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 30, 2011 @ 3:38 pm Ewwwwwwwww, fuurrrrrrrrr. 😡 This is much nicer :
» Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 30, 2011 @ 3:30 pm You could probably say the same of Haley Barbour. And his positions are the same. No thank you. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 29, 2011 @ 9:18 pm Remember elementary school bullies? That is what it is all about. People make choices at a formative stage about whether to be human beings, or to evade that responsibility and be pieces of shit. Part of that includes never having to bother with learning cognition – it makes it so much easier when whatever you say is the truth, when the only thing that matters is whether someone is with you or against you ( like pack animals ), when morality is all about whether you can accuse someone of something, when the slightest real or perceived offense against you is an outrageous, vicious persecution ; and of course, your own conduct is absolutely, unquestionably above question at all times. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 29, 2011 @ 9:16 pm REPRESENTATIVE DENNIS JOHN KUCINICH OF OHIO : J’ACCUSE. Cleveland politicians and political advisers say that when civil rights still divided Cleveland during the 1970s, Kucinich got some of his first toeholds in local politics by exploiting the city’s racial prejudices. They say that while he courted white, ethnic voters on the city’s West Side, he vilified black politicians, attacked their white colleagues as puppets and opposed busing for school integration. Throughout its history, Cleveland has been a city with larger-than-life political figures, and, starting in the 1960s with Mayor Carl Stokes, some of them were black. George Forbes, the former city council president and head of the local NAACP chapter, also was a major black icon – and, for a time in a city still heavily segregated by race, “sort of anathema to the white community,” says Joseph Rice, a political and public-relations consultant. “There is no question that I used race to get my point across,” Forbes acknowledges. “And he did the same thing.” During that campaign, Forbes claimed Kucinich rose to prominence by attacking black politicians like former Mayor Stokes; opposed issues that blacks favored like public housing and busing; and circulated campaign literature that attempted to play on racial fears. Forbes at the time called Kucinich “a racist, a man who lacks compassion and a political opportunist who has split the city and will do anything to further his career,” according to newspaper accounts. http://www.cleveland.com/kucinich/plaindealer/index.ssf?/kucinich/more/104747092810861.html Yet in 1998, under President Clinton, Kucinich voted for the Iraq Liberation Act which called for the U.S. to militarily remove Saddam Hussein from power. A recent press release regarding Kucinich’s opposition to Bush’s latest war on Iraq suggests that the 1991 Gulf War was justified because at that time the U.S. was part of an international coalition defending Kuwait and disarming Iraq.1 Even now, Kucinich is no pacifist (despite his veganism). His Web site points out that he stands for a “strong and efficient military.” Kucinich has been a long-time opponent of abortion rights for women. His voting record on abortion has earned him a 95 percent score with the National Right to Life Committee. . . . In his two terms in Congress, he has quietly amassed an anti-choice voting record . . . He supported Bush’s reinstatement of the gag rule . . . He supported the Child Custody Protection Act, which prohibits anyone but a parent from taking a teenage girl across state lines for an abortion. He voted for the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes it a crime . . . to cause the injury or death of a fetus. He voted against funding research on RU-486. He voted for a ban on dilation and extraction . . . abortions without a maternal health exception. He even voted against contraception coverage in health insurance plans for federal workers . . . Kucinich also supported banning funds for female prisoners seeking abortions.4 After a long “personal journey,” which conveniently coincided with his run for president, Kucinich now claims that he opposes abortion but supports a woman’s right to choose. . . . Kucinich’s record is also less than consistent regarding racism and criminal justice. In the early 1970s, Kucinch handed out campaign literature featuring a photo of Black City Council President George Forbes leering at one of Kucinch’s white female opponents with the title “What’s Going on Here?” http://www.isreview.org/issues/32/kucinich.shtml 2:10 – 3:00 REP. KUCINICH : . . . The Barack Obama of 2011 doesn’t understand the Constitution anymore. [ A twelve-year lecturer on Constitutional Law at University of Chicago Law School forgot what the Constitution is? SCHULTZ : Do you think this is an impeachable offense? REP. KUCINICH : Well, you know, I raised the question in a phone call with my Democratic colleagues [ who, we wonder? ], but I raised it to talk about the limitations of the reach of executive power, I didn’t raise it to start a process. [ Uh. Huh. ] It’s clearly outside the Constitution. Now, this isn’t even a debatable question at this point. It is outside the Constitution. The President cannot take this country into war unless there’s an actual or immanent threat absent the consent of Congress. SCULTZ : But other Presidents have done it in the past and there have been no ramifications. Your thoughts on that? REP. KUCINICH : Well, every situation’s different. And that was not in the 1970s. That was last week. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 29, 2011 @ 12:36 pm Depends – how big is the light bulb? [ ducks ] » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 29, 2011 @ 11:38 am Think it’s odd that Republicans are against child labor laws? Think again. I mean, what if those pesky libruls made companies’ vendors conform to U. S. labor laws in their Stalinist conspiracy to kill jobs and innovation? “ gold was the most frequently named commodity appearing on the US Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child or Forced Labor ” » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 29, 2011 @ 11:35 am No one comments on a article about how no one listens to the President. Just saying. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 29, 2011 @ 9:02 am 5. Garage » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 28, 2011 @ 5:52 pm He did make the point that it took over a year to intervene in Bosnia, whereas Libya took 31 days. Events in Yemen have really only taken a turn for the worst in the past few days, and it remains to be seen how that will develop. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 28, 2011 @ 5:49 pmComments Posted By For America and Roosevelt
Always
when I think of the sea
there comes to mind
the Iliad
and Helen’s public fault
that bred it.
Were it not for that
there would have been
no poem but the world
if we had remembered,
those crimson petals
spilled among the stones,
would have called it simply
murder.
The sexual orchid that bloomed then
sending so many
disinterested
men to their graves
has left its memory
to a race of fools
or heroes
if silence is a virtue.
The sea alone
with its multiplicity
holds any hope.
The storm
has proven abortive
but we remain
after the thoughts it roused
to
re-cement our lives.
It is the mind
the mind
that must be cured
short of death’s
intervention,
and the will becomes again
a garden. The poem
is complex and the place made
in our lives
for the poem.
Silence can be complex too,
but you do not get far
with silence.
Begin again.
It is like Homer’s
catalogue of ships:
it fills up the time.
I speak in figures,
well enough, the dresses
you wear are figures also,
we could not meet
otherwise. When I speak
of flowers
it is to recall
that at one time
we were young.
All women are not Helen,
I know that,
but have Helen in their hearts.
My sweet,
you have it also, therefore
I love you
and could not love you otherwise.
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering 5
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s,
My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie, 15
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
I still find it just amazing that they amended the Constitution so there were would never be another Roosevelt. And they get away with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geyAFbSDPVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcyXQJ2Tf4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvy7g4nS8_0
The facts speak for themselves. I have no more patience or regard for the bashers on the left than of the right – and, until recently, I would never have thought any equivalence possible. To say today that the two parties are the same, to shout “Bush III”, is to boast of intellectual and moral vacancy; and that is something to which my obligation is nil. What is my obligation is, is to hold to, to represent for, to always speak for the way forwards.
Forty-fourth President of the United States of America
Josh Greenman, NY Daily News:
And where do all those playground bullies go? You guessed it – they become conservatives.
Really? Professors failed literacy tests for voting, too, back in the good old days. ]
[ Indeed. ]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/#42204977
http://www.change.org/petitions/urge-costco-to-sell-ethical-gold#
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And, of course, realities always play a part – for example, as with the impossibility of acting against North Korea ; just offhand, I imagine Congo would be at the limits of the possible, if not beyond, due to the size and geography of the region and the numbers involved. Everything is always calculated in the most fundamental sense, that of resources and capabilities not being infinite. At present, an element of cynicism may remain in the calculations, but we have made some improvement from Kissingerian realpolitik.
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