Displaying 781 To 810 Of 16,275 Comments KT, he was trying to claim that they pointed out all of Mitt’s lies on their station, which is a joke, if they did point them out it was late and well after it even mattered. » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 11:45 pm Sorry, I didn’t get to write more, I got called away. What you said is true but he went on to say that MSNBC wasn’t guilty of any such thing that they tried to point out all of the worst on Mitt’s lies and to that I say bull shit. They barely touched on Mitt’s lies, during the campaign, but from what I saw they were a little bit better than CNN and there’s no sense even mentioning Fux. Saying that they did better than Fux is like saying that water is wetter than sand. » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 11:38 pm k’es, I got turned on to them when I was in high school and really liked it, that’s when and where I learned that Billy the Kid was from the Bronx a first generation immigration kid and most likely did not speak with some Cowboy South/Southwestern accent like all the movies have speaking. That no one spoke with that accent, it hadn’t developed yet. Billy probably had quite the accent and it came with broken English. » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 11:06 pm Hardball is doing a remarkable piece right now on the Campaign, if you listened to it, he claims that Hardball is “clean,” it sounds like it’s right off the pages of PPOV and the lies from the RW and esp, Mitt. It’s a good piece, that should have been done 15 weeks a go. » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 4:02 pm k’es, I had an article bookmarked about the Gabby shooting and in that article a fellow spoke of that very thing, except he spoke the truth. He said he had pulled out the gun and was in the process of aiming and shooting when someone abruptly stopped him, he was about ready to shoot the wrong person, the one that was trying to get the gun away from the shooter and eventually did stop the shooting. Is that what they mean by “the rest of the story?” » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 3:23 pm Have a good time k’es and wave good bye to you heritage and hello to our future! (Speaking of heritage, I was just reading American Heritage and thinking of you! Are you familiar with that magazine? ) » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 3:07 pm If the GOP doesn’t change their policies towards people of color, immigrants and woman’s reproductive rights their time is up waaay sooner than that. With out any changes in those I listed, they may be in for a shock come midterms. Short term they maybe using their best tactic in a very poor way. They could get an edge on the Dems short term if they could present a good and feasible fiscal plan, instead what are they doing? One thing they are doing is they are finding themselves defending the top 2% on taxes, which the Dems should really exploit, and the other thing they say they may do is they may hold the economy hostage, again, over the debt ceiling. Something else the Dems should easily exploit. How can the Dems blow it, which we Dems are good at, is not have a good salable plan to present to the voters. People are tired of not seeing a solution, a positive, from the parties and just negatives f what’s wrong with the other guys. The Dems can’t allow the R’s get back to just cuts on everything. They have get back to jobs, jobs, jobs and investments in the infrastructure. » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 1:04 pm ❗ Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92 ❗ NEW DELHI (AP) — With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over nearly a century. From George Harrison to John Coltrane, from Yehudi Menuhin to David Crosby, his connections reflected music’s universality, though a gap persisted between Shankar and many Western fans. Sometimes they mistook tuning for tunes, while he stood aghast at displays like Jimi Hendrix’s burning guitar. http://music.yahoo.com/news/indian-sitar-virtuoso-ravi-shankar-dies-92-045723085.html I once saw him live when I was going to Indiana University in a nearly empty auditorium and it was one of the most fascinating, remarkable and thoroughly captivating musical events I ever went to. Completely mesmerizing and like I said the concert hall was nearly empty. The hall was designed for symphony orchestras and the acoustics were superb, by the time intermission came nearly the whole house was sitting in the first 10 rows with space even there. It was like a private concert and he even remarked on that fact. What a fascinating music and he was perhaps the best, certainly the best of his era.
Rest in Peace, Ravi
Kalima also has an article in her Morning Blog on his death https://planetpov.com/2012/04/23/morning-blog-4/comment-page-1/#comment-193482 Ravi Shankar dies http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/12/ravi-shankar-dies » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 7:55 am Nirek, They probably will not appoint her, but one should remember that South Carolina does have an an elected female governor of Indian decent. Jenny Sanford was very active in the SC State Party as was he parents. She also ran her husbands campaign when he ran for governor. From what I remember Jenny was more active in the party and she and her family was more influential, though banking, than her husband. Perhaps the biggest stumbling block for her is that she isn’t big in the Tea-Party, I think she was more involved in the traditional SC GOP and Demint is MR.TP, we’ll see. » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 7:16 am Did you catch the date for today? Wednesday 12/12/12 that’s called something by some numbers people and for some segment of people it probably means doom and gloom and for another segment it means the opposite. A majority of people they won’t even notice the date and it means absolutely nothing. so there you have it! » Posted By bito On December 12, 2012 @ 7:00 am From our news feed AND our twitter feed: Senator Jenny Sanford? Why it might be a smart pick Jenny Sanford, ex-wife of South Carolina’s ex-governor, is reportedly on the short list to fill outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint’s seat. It could present the GOP with a much-needed opportunity to appeal to women.
CNN reported Tuesday that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has finalized a short list of candidates to fill GOP Sen. Jim DeMint’s soon-to-be-vacant seat – and that one of those currently under consideration for the post is Jenny Sanford. Governor Haley later said only her husband knows the actual list. But she did not dispute any of the specific names mentioned. And while the job may still ultimately go to Rep. Tim Scott (R) – seen by many as the leading candidate and Senator DeMint’s preferred choice – there are several reasons Jenny Sanford could be a politically smart pick. http://news.yahoo.com/senator-jenny-sanford-why-might-smart-pick-211435372.html From what I remember of her, she wasn’t some rabid T-Party person, but I don’t know, can she possibly be as bad as bad as Jim Demint? » Posted By bito On December 11, 2012 @ 3:41 pm You got it KT, what else do the cable stations have but time, why can’t they delay the commercial when they are on an important topic or have a special guest? » Posted By bito On December 11, 2012 @ 3:21 pm Thanks k’es, I didn’t finish the article last night because my eyelids wouldn’t cooperate and I didn’t know that it went back to 2006. Desert Beacon, I think he is a member, has written some articles on the whole “shadow banking” thing and has sent us any number of tweets (it pays to read our twitter feed! 😉 ) on it that will make your jaw drop! I did hear today that the reason that DoJ didn’t prosecute them this time is that they are “cooperating” and giving them more information, so these BILLIONS may be just the proverbial “tip ‘o iceberg” of the shadow banking industry! And W’s DoJ gave them a nod and wink?? WoW! Wonder if they have drive-up window hours? Maybe we stop by and make a little transaction, something like a mill or two loan, just a small thing? Edit: the other reason that the DoJ didn’t prosecute was because the sheer size of it, this is what I heard, may have caused damage to the large banks, so much damage that it cause a banking panic! That is amazing that it is that size to cause a mini cash and it’s all hidden from any controlled banking. Trillions and trillions of dollars » Posted By bito On December 11, 2012 @ 2:49 pm You got it k’es, right on the button. Not only is it the Senate that can “run out of time,” the house has borrowed the White Rabbit, or maybe that’s where he is always running, back and forth between the two houses. The House has set an all time record for the least number of hours spent in session and the least number of bills passed and now they are all ADD, pulling their hair out saying they don’t have time to pass one bloody tax bill, or come up with a bill showing tax revenue and expenditure cuts. How long have the R’s had the House leadership and how many years have they not had a budget and financial agreement with the D’s, PBO and the Senate? C’mon game time is over, get your job done! » Posted By bito On December 11, 2012 @ 2:17 pm A bit of irony on MSNBC this morning. The subject was the filibuster and how much more often it has been used and what to do about it. Senator Merkley get cut off because of the “Sorry, we’re out of time, we’ll have to take this up at some other time….” as they go to commercial. The MSM doesn’t “have time” to take up the discussion of the filibuster. And the Senate doesn’t have time to talk because of filibusters. Perhaps it’s just me, I just find something funny about that, just like that if they honored all the time that they would have to a lot to all the filibusters, there wouldn’t be enough time on the clock/calender, even Senator Merkley got a chuckle out of that. But the R’s don’t think it needs any changing. They don’t have a single minute to discuss a single bill if they honored every filibuster, but everything is just peachy. Got it? 😆 » Posted By bito On December 11, 2012 @ 11:21 am Nirek, basically, you got it. Each state legislature decides how they are going to fill the initial vacancy, whether it’s done by the executive, the legislature or jointly, they fill it until the next scheduled election, within 2 years, is due and then the people decide by election just like normal. Does that help? » Posted By bito On December 11, 2012 @ 10:24 am Just another example of PBO being soft. Chief executive ‘profoundly sorry’ as bank prepares to pay record penalty over claims it moved money for drug lords HSBC is to pay a record $1.9bn (£1.2bn) to settle allegations it laundered money for drug cartels and broke sanctions in the US to allow terrorists to move money around the financial system, in the latest embarrassment for Britain’s banks. The bank’s chief executive, Stuart Gulliver, said he was “profoundly sorry” as he confirmed the scale of the fine – the largest for such an offence and even greater than the £940m the bank had feared it faced after the allegations first surfaced in the summer. “We accept responsibility for our past mistakes. We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again,” he said, insisting Britain’s biggest bank was “a fundamentally different organisation” now. He took the helm two years ago during a management reshuffle caused by the decision by Stephen Green, the chairman, to quit to join the government as a trade minister. David Bagley, the bank’s head of compliance, dramatically quit before the US Senate committee hearing into the case in July and on Monday HSBC named a former US official – Bob Werner – as head of group financial crime compliance, a newly created role, as the bank prepared for the fine related to drug allegations. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/11/hsbc-bank-us-money-laundering?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 » Posted By bito On December 11, 2012 @ 1:17 am Which just so happens to be a great argument. » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 10:00 pm k’es, you really hit the nail on the question I have had for awhile. MSNBC has been harping on what is wrong with GOP and their policies which is the right question, but tuned 180% in a couple of ways. What is wrong with the Dems message that they can’t convince good working people that the GOP policies are slap wrong for the working class. Why do people vote for R’s at all, how do pepole like a Rick Snyder or a Walker get elected? Yes, I know that it can be said that both Snyder and Walker mislead the voters because they never mentioned Unions or Union busting before they got elected in the general, but is that an excuse, is that any kind f an excuse? First thing you had to do was trust a Republican when their policies are centered on corporations and busting Unions. Just because Snyder and Walker didn’t say “I am anti_Union” did not mean he wasn’t anti-Union, it’s a given and some thing in life just are: Heroin addicts are addicted to heroin — Republicans and their policies are: Anti-Union and Pro-Corporate. Whoa…how did this get so long? 😆 » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 9:58 pm I think what I was attempting to express sally was that some hospitals and insurance companies discharge patients even though it may not be medically advisable, they jut want you out the door because of money not medicine. The policy that your local is involved in sounds like an excellent policy in comparison to some policies I have heard about recently. » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 8:59 pm Man-O-Man, why didn’t I know this site existed a long time ago? I can’t count the times I was looking for a vid and couldn’t find it ut they have it up and playing! Anyway this is what I want to post: President Obama Speech in Redford, Michigan: Right-To-Work Laws Mean ‘Right To Work For Less Money’ – 12/10/12 Talk about PBO getting the crowd “Fired Up and Ready to Go”, he really gets them going in this speech. Looks like he has full intentions to use the “bully pulpit” against Congress, sounds good to me. President Obama Speaks on the Economy and Middle-Class Tax Cuts » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 7:30 pm k’es, she doesn’t like hospital stays at all, who really does, but even she was amazed at the “Wham, Bam, thank you ma’am” service she felt she received. She was not happy about it. I thought it odd especially after an invasive procedure, wouldn’t you think that they need more time than that to check on an infection/fever? MERSA? Doesn’t that take 24 hours to incubate? » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 7:09 pm Kalima ,she will likely mature and add some new pointers and grow out of it but the boys take ever to mature and who knows when they will stop feuding. » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 6:27 pm Nirek says: So if Senator Kerry becomes Sec. State the Governor of Mass can appoint anyone he wants to finish the term? Nirek, you were wondering about the appointments of a federal senator when there was a vacancy and how it worked, I was 96.58% that it was up to each and every individual states but I didn’t want to say anything for sure because my pocket copy of the constitution was missing. After some minor excavation of my desk I found it and the vacancies of Senators is addressed in amendment number 17 or XVII and the appointment is up to the states. Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 6:15 pm What a thought “out of the box!” Why isn’t the whole military establishment considered an entitlement and taxed the same way? It’s like medical in many ways, it’s charged/taxed and payed by everybody and it benefits a few to pay for a war that is unlikely to ever going to happen. This from David Kay Johnston on The Ed Show and it’s a very rough interpretation of what he said typed on the fly. I need to see what he actually said and try to smooth it out. » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 5:32 pm Kalima, it sounds like you need to get your new Mac in to the shop and get her some hormones if she’s getting hot flashes all the time! 😉 » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 4:46 pm Isn’t 30 days just about the time most insurance companies serve an eviction notice with a “Greetings, Your Time is Up!” at the very top? I have an acquaintance that had an hysterectomy and a lumpectomy both in one day and her stay was one day, but I suppose you are familiar with that k’es. » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 4:39 pm What, if he loses in 2013 he takes the funds and uses it too run in ‘in 14? And the D’s made fun f “I am not which or witch O’Donnell for being a constant candidate, using the money “questionably” from one year to the next » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 4:30 pm k’es, I gather that it was a student performance? In that case the student’s and parents need to see if they can get it posted to U-tube, don’t ya think? » Posted By bito On December 10, 2012 @ 4:22 pm k’es, Kalima, it didn’t play for me either Kalima and I found this little teaser on another page. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music will officially begin live-streaming concerts from five campus venues this year. The five performance spaces that have been fitted with the capability to stream concerts are Finney Chapel,……. […] Concerts will only be available for viewing during the actual performance time. Look for the Listen Live! button on select events listed in the Events Calendar,…. http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/listenlive/ Hmmmm, perhaps we will have to wait for an encore performance on U-Tube, Kalima. (p.s. Did someone get the grease and oil out from under Ralph’s finger nails before the concert, I sure hope so.) 😉 » Posted By bito On December 9, 2012 @ 8:22 pmComments Posted By bito
Any way, yes, I picked up an old copy in a doctors office and re-found an old love. It’s different, but I am enjoying reading it. Watergate/political reform and the Sputnik/space race are in it and I’m enjoying the hard magazine format, it’s like I have some kind of contraband after the big book burning. 🙂
Indian sitar maestro who took instrument to the world and collaborated with western greats has died aged 92 in San Diego
Interesting that the far right, think Jim Demint, want to go back to having each state legislature decide who the Senators are going to be that represent the state. Talk about undemocratic, might as well forget the facade and just say “Our Senators this year were picked by a cabal of DuPont and The Koch Brothers Industries.” With the addition of cu and unlimited monies, it would be curious how the monied corporations would divide the Senate, wouldn’t it? Big Oil (Texas and some SW states}, Big Pharma (Hmm,maybe Cal,) Big Finance (they would probably take NY and a few smaller NE states) big this and big that would all be fighting to name their Senator. Oh, wait! That’s pretty much what we have now with citizens United legal! 😆
HSBC to pay £1.2bn over US money laundering accusations
Sorry Sally, I’m tired, I missed something in the discussion.
Is that what Dems need to push, something so simple, perhaps they should because it does seem that a bunch of people in the “heartland” think that R’s can be pro-Union/pro-worker and still be a republican, just like a lot of them believe that those late night preachers are going to pray over your special prayer or that special little piece of cotton that will answer your prayers all for $19.95 (Holy Shit Frank Rich just said pretty much the same thing on Rachel)
The thing is all laugh at the scams from the late night preachers, but how many of them are wealthy? People vote for R’s pulling the same scam over on working people and they get elected, is there a difference?
12/07/2012 at 1:36 PM (Edit)
Hmmmm.
Just like we did in the 60’s, take to the streets, demonstrate, burn in effigy the College of Music’s President, boycott classes….. oooopps, guess that might be a little extreme, just a little? 😆
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