Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments No Mercy Shown, No Mercy Given Laughs are good things! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 5:31 pm Hi Sally, If you’re referring to c-lady’s use of the word “unfair” below, that wasn’t meant for you. She is referring to the fact that when I present a, what I feel to be balancing, POV, it may come across sometimes that I am accusing others of being unfair. She and I are good friends, and occasional combatants! 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 4:59 pm Thanks, c-lady! In terms of Marion, I admit that I am rather forceful, solely because she is the one who in her OPs continually accuses others of unfairness, sometimes without any backing that I can discern, and THAT I find unfair. People can criticize a president without being racist, elitist, or closet Repubs. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 4:56 pm We totally cool, Sally! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 4:51 pm you do me honor, Sally. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 2:17 am I got that you were teasing, but I knew that teasing had to come from SOMEWHERE. So I thought I’d take the opportunity to clarify what I wrote, since my carefully written and masterful words were summarily dumped into the bowels of cyberspace through no fault of my own. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 2:14 am I do NOT have Republican leanings. As I wrote, and which was deleted (grumble) I will occasionally defend those who I feel are being mischaracterized. There was a Republican legislator who made an asinine comment about pregnant women. Except, in fact, his comment was about incipient things having value, NOT about pregnant women. He was using them as an ill advised metaphorical device. But many here thought that meant that he thought pregnant women were no better than, no different from, pregnant cows. And I said, and still maintain, that that was not what he was attempting to communicate at all. He was simply trying to make his case that fetuses – to him – have value even though they haven’t been born yet. If that means I have Republican leanings, because sometimes I will take the position of someone who I feel is being misunderstood, then I guess I have Republican leanings. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 1:58 am Have we entered the Twilight Zone? » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 1:20 am Well said, Sally, and from the perspective of an “oldie”, I too felt a little awkward when we had a sudden influx of newcomers a couple months ago. I felt like the newcomers mostly conversed with just each other, anyway it seemed like they weren’t all that interested in what I wrote. Like you, I just kept typing away. Shucks, I even felt kind of overlooked when I didn’t win any POV awards! But heck, I figured, I write so many posts they probably ended up canceling each other out, vote-wise. But you know, I think that just goes to show that there is what’s happening, and there’s what we think is happening, and they are often not the same thing. So we thicken our skins, stick to our guns, and mostly, appreciate the opportunity HERE to really spell out what we mean, not limited by word counts, not moderated, even free to post our own posts here fercryinouloud! All of that, plus the great folks here, make this place aces! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 6, 2011 @ 12:55 am Thanks, Kes, I see that you, like me, find the perpetual punching of pompous pundits to be puzzling and ponderous. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 5, 2011 @ 3:38 pm Another clarification: Glenn Greenwald does not “pretend” to be from the left. He describes himself as neither a liberal nor a conservative. He writes for both liberal and conservative publications. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 5, 2011 @ 6:08 am You always get a break from me, comrade! 🙂 I think your last paragraph cuts through all the bs. People reacted the way they reacted. No “should haves” necessary. Nor any need to extrapolate too much about what kind of people they were, if they didn’t react in the way one wishes they would have. Frat boy, unpatriotic, blah blah, let’s just chuck the whole debate as being silly. (I’m remembering that great Monty Python skit about the Society of Putting Things On Top of Other Things….) » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 5, 2011 @ 3:32 am KQ, Beyond that, I make no secret of the fact that I usually disagree with what Marion writes, as I feel her tendency is to demonize those she disagrees with. This is a very different thing from what Ms. Eltawahy has done. She did not go out of her way to call the revelers racists, accuse them of having underhanded motives, being paid by the Koch brothers, etc. She just said she was offended by their behavior. I understand that pov. Just as I understand, although I don’t share, the pov of those who jubilantly took to the streets. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 5, 2011 @ 1:03 am may we some day live in a world where people recognize that those “hundred of theirs” also happen to be a hundred of ours. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 4, 2011 @ 10:37 pm “If they kill one of mine, I will kill a hundred of theirs” AD, bluster and hyperbole aside, please allow me to point out that that is a truly sick thing to write. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 4, 2011 @ 10:22 pm Let’s just remember that, while, as you observe, Ms. Eltawahy was not attacked amidst the revelry in Manhattan, neither were any of the rah rah crowd putting their lives in danger by coming out to protest. There were no camel riding riflemen bearing down on them. False equivalency. She may be a tad overbearing, but there is no hypocrisy here. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 4, 2011 @ 10:02 pm Great, profound words, Sally. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 4, 2011 @ 9:50 pm One thing I am clear we need have no fear whatsoever of, is you, Marion, giving pundits any mercy. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 4, 2011 @ 9:46 pm Is there anything on the internet uglier than the Drudge Report? I mean, the name (rhymes with Sludge, Fudge – a certain kind – , Smudge, Pudge) It’s awful Then there’s the layout. What is up with the layout? And finally, of course, there are the stories themselves. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 3, 2011 @ 6:15 am BREAKING NEWS: Osama Bin Laden Dead God does not play Parcheesi with the universe! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 3, 2011 @ 12:16 am It wab a bimple mibtake. Anyone could have made it. I trubt Fox Newb. » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 2, 2011 @ 4:33 am Another Post About Discussing Religion From that perspective, Khirad, you HAD to love the notion of a Christian minister going to preach the word to the heathens…..in Spain! Gives new meaning to the term “Montezuma’s Revenge” perhaps? In the last chapter of Anna Karenina, this exact conundrum is nicely dealt with, in the character of Levin. HIs wife, Kitty, is a devout Christian, and he wants to be, but he can’t get over the fact that millions of people in Asia, the subcontinent, the Middle East, etc., are getting the same sense of meaning from THEIR faiths. I think between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky every nettlesome religious question has been dealt with! 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 1, 2011 @ 5:24 am I know L.A. is huge, and it’s always dicey saying you bet two people know each other, even if they both hail from Little Rock. But you two seem so alike in so many ways I just felt there might be some karma there 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 9:38 pm It’s worth a read, and you’re not alone. I have a friend who pretty much feels she has no left brain whatsoever! I have a feeling you know her, too, somehow. She was in L.A. and is around the same age as you. Seeing the video you put up yesterday on DP made me think your paths may have crossed, even if you weren’t formally introduced. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 9:11 pm Yes! There’s a really nice book that pertains to this somewhat, titled “A Whole New Mind” by Daniel Pink. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 8:39 pm I like this! Sounds like the left hemisphere and right hemisphere of David’s brain were able to make a little headway (pun intended) over this whole religion thing! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 7:51 pm Cher at 1:52! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:25 am Trojana Huffington: Queen of Progressives? c-lady, you make good points, but I’m willing to bet the remaining hair on my head that chaz did not “forgive” Clinton for NAFTA. This is where you and I seem to disagree. I heard plenty of people call Clinton a sell-out. I heard people criticize the air bombing war in Bosnia, NAFTA, etc. I think it’s a misconception to portray progressives as “suddenly” deciding to diss the president. What we are seeing, I think are two dynamics that make it more pronounced: 1.) The Internet has amped up the volume, so criticism has become more deafening since Clinton’s time 2.) The Dubya administration was seen as so disastrous for this country that when Obama talked about change, people were daring to hope for investigations into the way we were conned into the Iraq War, a clear break from folks like Gates, Geithner, Bernanke, etc.; in short, a house cleaning proportionate to the the legitimate outrage progressives, and MANY Americans felt toward the abuses of the previous eight years. Obama’s slow, steady, by the book and with consensus approach may well be the best, even ONLY, approach, but I don’t think people are wrong for feeling a bit short-changed. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 7:27 pm I agree with you, chaz. My differences with the Obama administration were not manufactured by HP. I don’t expect Obama to change all that, and this isn’t about me not getting a pony, being a closet racist, Arianna Huffington bullshit swallowing crybaby. I will continue to criticize U.S. presidents until one finally arrives on the scene who announces that he is going to change the dynamic of the office, return it to what it is meant to be. That may never happen, and I’ll just keep bitching. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 7:08 pm They’re both quite impressive. I gotta say I go for the Dearborn minarets though. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 6:18 pmComments Posted By whatsthatsound
We both want the same thing, and she has dedicated her whole life to bringing it about, which I greatly admire her for.
In terms of unfairness, in general I try to avoid saying that, because like I said, it’s really more about just trying to widen the overall perspective.
And people who proclaim themselves to be neither left nor right can hardly be said to be “pretending” to be liberal.
This was just a cyber-misunderstanding.
Everybody be happy!
😉
Her comments were judgmental, but “unnecessary”? Why? That’s what she thought. Her job is to write about what she observes, and when she feels it necessary, add some personal commentary to that. So she did. One person saying she didn’t like the vibe that was going on there.
A writer, in other words, writing.
Nor were the NY celebrants pushing for a complete change of their lives, their country, anything remotely like the Egyptian protests she defends.
Truly, there is nothing on the internet uglier than the Drudge Report.
In the end, he just resolves, fuck it. He himself had a profound insight, and he is just going to go with that, not try to work it all out. He is pretty sure that God loves all those other folks too, but for him, it’s Christianity.
Did you ever follow an L.A. band called Pacific Gas and Electric?
or PG&E? She was the girlfriend of the singer.
What’s with the pompous announcer for that video. He’s got a Love Bug up his butt!
As one reads the speech of Kennedy’s that AD posted, it is not merely sad, it is outright tragic, that our country has not lived up to those words. I have criticized every president, for many of the reasons you state. The U.S. presidency appears to me to be hopelessly entwined with the interests of the status quo who focus on keeping us a consumer-driven, weapons producing, financial shenanigans-endorsing, CEO-deifying (no other country in the world pays CEOs six hundred times the salary of incoming workers), rich coddling, environmentally and human health-indifferent economy.
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