Displaying 2,761 To 2,790 Of 3,373 Comments A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose … Cognitive Dissonance, Much? We had not just come through eight years of a presidency that disgusted and shocked many on the left. Yes, many were hoping for a “savior” from that. They wouldn’t have cared if he were black, white or purple, when it became clear that things weren’t going to shift dramatically, and include decisive, sweeping repudiations of the Bush years, the complaints started. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 5:26 pm Well, that’s fine, KQ, but it still counts as a more weighted piece of evidence on the “liberal dissatisfaction” side than all the assumptions put together that people on the left would be complaining less and supporting more if Obama were white. Your evidence is……? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 5:16 pm At a speech to the AFL-CIO, he said that three things were necessary to get single payer health insurance. Majorities in both houses of Congress, and the presidency. It’s on record. It’s on YOUTUBE, fercryinouloud! Although there are no doubt a few people for whom race plays a big role in the disappointment, I think it is a gross mischaracterization to say that it lies at the heart of liberal dissatisfaction with this administration. The nature of his victory was such that it was an obvious and cathartic repudiation of the Bush years, and people felt that with the mandate that he had, he could have done much more to dismantle the systemic unfairness of this top heavy country. He’s doing the best he can; I see that and I’m coming around to having a lot of optimism about what he can do in four, and hopefully eight years. And, I hasten to add, I’m no racist, thank you. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 4:57 pm How Long Is a Piece of String? “It is a thorny situation (pardon the ironic imagery), when leadership is exposed as irretrievably corrupt yet there remains great value and meaning in the organization of which they are leaders.” In other words, (Holy Water)gate. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 11:37 pm Planet Music Night Dedicated to Fools Thank you, Lise! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 2, 2010 @ 5:34 pm Thanks! Just don’t tell Hal David! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 2, 2010 @ 6:22 am doffs hat » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 2, 2010 @ 6:02 am For Sarah Why do fools suddenly appear, Why do jerks vent their racist rage On the day that you were born Tea Baggers got together and that’s why idiots abound You becha, they long to be » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 2, 2010 @ 5:18 am Ha ha ha!
» Posted By whatsthatsound On April 1, 2010 @ 10:53 pm Teabonics: A Perfect Day for Fools I resemble that remark! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 1, 2010 @ 6:03 pm Sure, drink the Kool Aid! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 1, 2010 @ 5:56 pm Thanks for the visuals, Cher! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 1, 2010 @ 5:50 pm You think I’m kidding? They’ve been planning this ever since our founding as a nation! Think, who was the most French loving of the revolutionary figures? Ben Franklin, right? He invented bifocals. He was…. an oculist! Who designed our flag? Betsy Ross, a seamstress. Seamstresses sew…..Hello! Socks! Wake up, Sheeple! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 1, 2010 @ 5:46 pm They are right! Socilism is one of the greatest evils to ever plague mankind. Every war in history began with a bunch of socilists getting together and socilating! They, and their partners in atrocity, the oculists, are dead set on destroying this country, and the Teabaggers are the only ones with the guts to put it out there, on signs. Will we listen? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 1, 2010 @ 5:36 pm How about a Superbowl against Wars!? » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 31, 2010 @ 5:05 pm Unbelievable! The superhero movie trend says it all, I think. And then there’s pop music. Horrendous “songs” like “Hollaback Girl” and “My Humps” become big hits. Oy! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 31, 2010 @ 4:39 pm Definitely! It’s got my two favorite words in it! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 31, 2010 @ 3:59 pm It’s time for a War on Evil! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 31, 2010 @ 3:31 pm History of the World, Part 1– Passover Edition Great article, Cher! Brings back to mind The Movie, and these observations: – the burning bush scene. Moses and Aaron see the bush on the mountain, and then Moses goes on some major LOTR type ascent to get it, seems like it takes him hours. The bush is a little bitty thing, in a grotto. How the heck did they see it from so far away? – Did Charleton Heston ever ACT? The only movies I’ve seen him in were The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur and Planet of the Apes, and all he did was talk in that otherworldly voice of his and look sculpted. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 30, 2010 @ 7:49 pm Knowledge is Power, Ignorance is ____ I think you are absolutely right, KQ, and I also think it’s pretty much inevitable that this would be the case. To illustrate, probably it wouldn’t be all that hard for my ferret to buy into the concept that me and my family are her “gods”. We feed her and take care of her, we can pick her up with one hand, we love her. We are godlike to her, in any frame of reference that we ourselves use. Yet, I’m speculating that if she were to draw a picture of us, we would look a lot more like ferrets than we do like us! We can’t really know how we seem to her, but it makes more sense that her view of us would derive more from her way of perceiving, her DNA, than anything that we provide her with. She might not even be aware that we wear clothes, for example. That’s a reason I really don’t like those videos that show trained elephants painting kids’ versions of elephants on paper. Who knows what an elephant looks like to an elephant, and why should they be taught to paint them how WE see them? So that WE can be entertained? Religions basically end up doing exactly that, taking a person’s ability to wonder, while they are still a small child, and channeling into a belief system that is chosen for them, for purposes not endemic to them. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 30, 2010 @ 2:18 am The sometimes sordid history of smoking and Hollywood Interesting, about Margot Kidder/Lois Lane. It jogged a memory of mine. I was just a kid when the movie came out, but reading this article I DO recall that I was a.) surprised, and b.) turned off, to see LL smoking all the time. I rationalized it as “she’s a reporter, they’re just trying to make her look like a tough journalist”, but little did I know! As an aside, it’s interesting how experiences, even interior ones, long stored away can resurface under the right circumstances. Thanks for the reminder, Pepe! And great article! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 27, 2010 @ 6:17 pm Great article, BSM, and that’s it, Kalima. It really comes down to the question of just how low on the priority list peace is for the leaders (of both sides, when the whole long and sordid history is taken into account). It seems to not be much of a priority at all, when under sane leadership it should trump all other considerations put together. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 27, 2010 @ 12:57 am Planet Music Night: Celebration Tennessee is giving the Buckeyes the fight of their lives! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 26, 2010 @ 5:34 pm The Singing Salmon From Wasilla Great, funny article, Cher! Remember the scene in The Meaning of Life where “The Salmon” does in the dinner party-ers? » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 26, 2010 @ 6:59 pm Great video! Thanks for posting! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 25, 2010 @ 4:06 pm What an extraordinary story, and what a great thing you are doing! Some would argue that nothing whatsoever should be done for Janet and people like her. Disciples of Ayn Rand would say neither life nor society owes her a thing. But I agree with you, it says GOOD things about the country that people like her will be tended to within the means at its disposal. Namaste! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 25, 2010 @ 3:13 pm The T Party — T for Terrorists Thanks, Cher. A fitting epitaph for the Party of No. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 24, 2010 @ 6:28 pm Fantastic article, Nellie! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 24, 2010 @ 6:06 pm The student’s questions were neither dumb, nor taken out of context. In the way that you are using the word “satire” in this post, they were exactly the same thing. She wanted to put Ann on the spot about her obvious (satirical or no) racism. She did that. She got Ann to look mean and utterly lacking in class. And that was easy. She is somewhere in that realm of partial satire, partial seriousness, full time provocateur, attention grabbing human annoyance who sops up the adoration of an audience that is not sophisticated enough to sort out between what she really means, because they don’t care as long as its hateful. Nobody “silenced” her. They just told her that if she was going to act obnoxious, dismissive and hateful (in other words, be Ann Coulter) then they couldn’t guarantee that she’d walk away without getting her hair mussed. And she did what the right always does in cases like this, played victim and turned it into a cause celebre. I guess you could call THAT “satire” as well. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 28, 2010 @ 7:11 pm Keep Your Head Low and Your Powder Dry “I met a traveller from an antique land – Shelley, “Ozymandias” » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 23, 2010 @ 9:14 pmComments Posted By whatsthatsound
The climate, and the buildup, were not the same as the NAFTA signing.
Okay, so it wasn’t a promise, it was just a “campaign promise”, and we all know how those generally work out. Or it was an advertisement for the Democratic Party (certainly it was that).
Gerald Ford would understand.
every time you are near?
Unlike me, they long to be
close to you
every time you’re on stage?
Unlike me, they long to be
close to you
and decided to create a rancid brew
so they sprinkled sawdust in your voice and
blasted massive holes in your I.Q.
at your gigs, in each town
unlike me, they long to be
close to you
close to you
Hee hee hee!
We all must do our part to fight this!
Soculists and oculists are bringing on the Apoculipse!
Sad, and awful. Too many holes have been shot into the Holy Land.
C’mon Bucks!
If SP ever becomes president, the whole country will get salmonella.
When the body dies, the muscles relax, and so our last earthly deed is to take a crap. That’s the T Party.
This article makes it sound as if a.) the student really believes in flying carpets and b.) Ann is the type of satirist in the Stephen Colbert vein (where everybody knows he’s putting on an act, becoming an alter ego), which she is not.
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Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away”.
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