Displaying 1,261 To 1,290 Of 1,300 Comments It’s Getting Ugly Out There Folks I don’t know how a rational intelligent honest person could deny the racist reaction to Obama. I just don’t know how it could be done. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 15, 2009 @ 10:47 pm Repeatedly sister, repeatedly. Now I need to go out and clean out the beds and plant winter crops. Got a new contract that has a fast deadline, no spare time or energy. Fresh lettuce and lots of it! » Posted By KevenSeven On September 13, 2009 @ 9:24 pm kevenseven rides again! Thanks to anyone and everyone who pitched a fit. I really need to sit down and write something substantive for ppov….. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 13, 2009 @ 8:56 pm Surfer Kit is polling ahead of pixie and luvobama! She is soon to be stabbed in the back. I think they will figure out how it is that she has chosen the wrong tooth paste and that reveals her as a fascist. Pity. She’s pretty nice. Oh, and I’m not wearing any pants. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 13, 2009 @ 8:45 pm I’m deadly serious. And do me a fave, and write to Huff. Oh, and delighted to have you here. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 13, 2009 @ 8:38 pm I’m at a loss as to why to read their neurosis if one is not working on a masters or something. Seriously, they treated me like shit. Bugger them. Meanwhile, Huff has banned kevenseven. Please write and pitch a fit. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 13, 2009 @ 8:12 pm I’m in! I’m in! » Posted By KevenSeven On September 13, 2009 @ 7:38 pm Crushing. Touching. Fabulous. I am so delighted and humbled that you posted that on ppov. My 9/11 story is less inspiring. I was on assignment in DC. I was working for a firm that produced executive (junior executive, really) business conferences. You know. Slick glossy, tuition? Industry “experts” give lessons or speeches? I had developed an unusual version of one such. Usually these things were a day and a half, with a work shop, perhaps, on the weekends perhaps, or in the week. I was expected to crank out 14 of these per year, but we repeated them. I developed a four and a half day course. We charged like three thousand to attend. Three and a half hour sessions. One speaker each. Nine all told. No. The Friday had two doing a tag team. Ten. Tuesday morning we were in session, in a basement conference room on M Street, if memory serves. Before the morning break I went out to check that the coffee and danishes were OK, and a hotel employee rushed by saying that a plane had hit the WTC (which I had only just recently first visited, Windows on the World, for another conference) and I said, “What, a Beech Baron or something?” and he said yes. I went upstairs to the bar, were the cable news delivered all that I needed to see. At that point I think it was only one hit. I went back down stairs and sat in the back of the conference room for about half an hour while an engineer discussed the regulatory and financial issues involved in siting new transmission lines to tie new power plants into the grid. I had seen this before, half a dozen times. He got to the right point and said “I think it would be time to break?” while looking at me. I had to walk to the front of that group of 20 people and tell them what I knew, and of course at that point I did not know the full horror. We all went upstairs and shortly there after the police ordered the hotel vacated. Everybody in DC had got in their cars and driven out onto the streets, to sit in the most hideous gridlock imaginable. No cells were available. No phone lines. The hotel was closed to us. We went to a bar and watched the news. I assumed that every last fireman in NY was dead. I could not get my instructors into DC. The conference was canceled, with a voucher to attend the next one. I could not get out of DC until the next Monday. I went to Dulles several times, as my sister lives near Dulles, and of course I crashed with her. My wife and five year old child had only just weeks before sold our condo and bought a house. My housing costs had doubled. I was back at work for three days before they fired me for not keeping the conference going. I have never matched the income I was making there, since. Just if you ever wondered where my dark bitter self came from…. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 13, 2009 @ 11:08 pm I’ll show you tonight, sweetie. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 29, 2009 @ 11:50 am One of my favorite subjects of thought, the difference between patriotism and nationalism. I’m of the opinion that the less often you need to make a statement like “America is the greatest country ever”, the more likely it is to be true. Kinda like guys who brag about the size of their schlong. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 12, 2009 @ 5:07 pm President Obama Hit the Reset Button on Healthcare Reform Like only He Could God knows that the president waited until the count was very much against him, before he hit that thing right out of the fucking park! » Posted By KevenSeven On September 10, 2009 @ 11:10 pm sharon, I am so very pleased to see you here. Welcome! » Posted By KevenSeven On September 10, 2009 @ 11:09 pm Hey, we were discussing how the president needed to hit this one out of the park. I think he did just that. Of course, I had to drive my kid to dance class right in the middle of it. Got back right AFTER the accusations of lies flew. Gotta look that one up! » Posted By KevenSeven On September 9, 2009 @ 10:43 pm Keep Hope Alive and As a Public Plan You know what is killing us? The fact that the reactionaries know that the Dems will take anything they can get. As long as the Dems can say they have passed a reform package, they will vote for it. The Dems would vote for a Blue Dog if it could be passed off as reform. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 7, 2009 @ 8:18 pm Obama to Joint Session of Congress Sept 9 I perfectly agree. If Obama does not spit in their eye, his presidency is over. Know what else? I have lost interest in the public option. I want the business of health insurance nationalized. There is no value added from any of the for profit companies. Single payer, all the way! If Obama goes to Congress and prattles on about bipartisanship, the thugs are just going to utterly take his lunch money, every nickle of it. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 2, 2009 @ 3:21 pm Romey? Wasn’t he built by some guy named Frankenstein? » Posted By KevenSeven On September 2, 2009 @ 3:16 pm No doubt the Dems best get HC reform passed, and damned quick. We will lose seats like nobody’s business in 2010 if we fail, and Obama could easily be beaten if the thugs come up with a competent candidate. Single payer, oh yeah! » Posted By KevenSeven On September 1, 2009 @ 11:17 pm You know my position: Insuring people for health coverage is a profoundly mundane thing to do. There is no risk in this business. One gets a few million people together and all question of per capita cost levels off. Costs is costs. The for-profit insurance companies work like beavers to create a semblance of product differentiation, and they do a swell job of it. Just ask anyone with a choice of plans what they think of their choices. No. Health insurance is nothing more than pushing paper around and paying bills. There is no purpose in having for-profit companies in the market. This industry, of all the industries in the US, screams to be nationalized. It is not as if the for-profit companies offer any value to the premium payers. Pharma is a whole ‘nother enchilada. They at least create new products were none existed. And they take huge fiscal risks doing it. Single payer is the way forward. I almost wish that this round of reforms collapses, but I don’t see us gaining much in Congress, certainly not in 2012 and going forward. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 1, 2009 @ 9:11 pm Cheney Says Torture Investigation “Offends The Hell Out Of Me” I really don’t give a damn if he is offended. » Posted By KevenSeven On September 1, 2009 @ 12:26 pm Suzy! Delighted to see you here! Welcome! BTW, I am actually wearing pants just now. » Posted By KevenSeven On August 29, 2009 @ 6:44 pm Just running to dinner, and not a chance to read the whole post, sorry, but I just turned 50, and I feel 15 years younger than my image of my father at 50. Not that I am the least athletic or anything… » Posted By KevenSeven On August 28, 2009 @ 7:15 pm LaRouchies on the loose. Seig Heil! Great avatar. » Posted By KevenSeven On August 28, 2009 @ 12:58 am Just got back from the monthly General Assembly meeting of the club. A senior activist was there, we will be moving to strip the LaRouchies of their charter. They will not be legally able to call themselves Dems. I’ll update you as things progress. » Posted By KevenSeven On August 28, 2009 @ 12:58 am Zero gumamint control??? In a nation of one third of a billion people? Puuuuulease. » Posted By KevenSeven On August 28, 2009 @ 12:55 am When we say the Rethugs are or are not stupid, we need to look a little deeper. Most of the national leaders are adequately intelligent. They are simply cynical shit heads. Grover Norquist is not stupid. But he personifies the stripe of Rethug with a brain. He and they are deliberately working to destroy any confidence the citizenry could have in govt. Now, there are also Sarah451 or Joe the Shit-Chaser. Or Michelle Bachmann. What a freaking hoot. They truly are stupider than a box of rocks. I believe that a full half of those who think of themselves as Rethugs are resentful whities who resist the move to a post racial society. Screw them all. » Posted By KevenSeven On August 1, 2009 @ 9:22 pm Is Holder Freaking Kidding Us? That was for Quark. » Posted By KevenSeven On July 13, 2009 @ 7:06 pm I knew I could count on you. Actually, The Church Commission accomplished a fair bit. But Cheney knew that it could all be reversed with time and will. » Posted By KevenSeven On July 13, 2009 @ 7:05 pm Barack Obama, Straussian-in-Chief The president will need to walk and chew gum. The outrage will be mollified when Cheney goes to the slam for life. » Posted By KevenSeven On June 10, 2009 @ 5:30 pm I do not care how the Muslim world reacted to the Danish cartoonist, except to say that they are a bunch of pious assholes. And that people apologized for the violence committed in reaction to free speech sickens me. But then I hold all religion in very low regard. » Posted By KevenSeven On June 10, 2009 @ 5:29 pm Rely on Congress? I’d rather invest the Social Security Trust Fund in the stock market. » Posted By KevenSeven On June 9, 2009 @ 11:00 pmComments Posted By KevenSeven
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