Much to be thankful for today, not the least of which is that, as NPR reminds us, “Americans Don’t Fall for Spin During a Crises”.
So. Along with mothers, we’ve got that going for us. Which is always nice.
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Ah yes, restore, and they do this by urging Americans’ elected representatives to pass an ObamaCare Bill into law that the large majority of Americans insist they do not want. And that at a time when the fiscal situation of the United States can least afford the blow that comes with ObamaCare. And then they move on the Cap&Trade. And further denigration of business enterprise. And Comprehensive Immigration reform. And mirandizing jihadi-warriors. And talk of closing Gitmo and prosecuting Khalid Sheik Mohammad in New York City in a civilian court.
Brilliant mission pursuit strategy, Obama Administration. Brilliant.
Obama has a mother too, sdferr. Prick him, does he not bleed?
Racist.
Hizzun’s just as dead as mineun’s is. But farbeit from any hope that he ever ever ever bleed, not even from an elbow to the schnoz on the basketball court. Or a hang-nail. Or his wife catching him with another woman.
More of that sweet sweet ObamaCompetence on display (from Jen Rubin at Contentions):
Witnessing the Obama strategies play out across the range of issues facing the nation is thrilling really, very like the thrill one has when someone is pointing a gun at one’s head and threatening to pull the trigger. My how the adrenaline flows.
Oh. The h/t here goes to TerryH.
Related: Ace looks into the likely demise of Newsweek*
Liberals demand that their media pander to them, failing to recognize that doing so splits ~50% of the market into smaller and smaller shares, thereby threatening financial viability. EG: Air Amerikkka.
Perhaps the liberals will mandate government subsidy for Newsweek to emulate the NPR model.
Hang on, how’s Terry pull off that typeface switch?
speaking of spinnings if you can hardly read the little president man’s dirty socialist Associated Press propaganda whores,here is a place to get updated on oil spill news where they are smart and also have grown-ups reporting what aren’t filthy Associated Press propaganda whores
here I mean
ok fail again…
here!
According to the page cource, it’s just a font tag. I wonder if it will work for me?
This should be in teeny, tiny type.
How’d I do?
It worked! It worked! It worked!
Things are going to get ugly now.
Sdferr: Are you using Firefox? If yes, check out Xinha Here
Xinha isn’t updated for 3.6.4, apparently, but Text Formatting Toolbar is.
Si Terry, Firefox, and I’ve got an html toolbar, just can’t recall ever putting the typeface or size functions to work. Speaking of getting ugly, dare anyone try color?
Happy Mother’s Day, ladies.
Oops. The up-to-date version of TFT is here. And it appears there’s a current version of Xinha here
I’m tired of orange links. How about navy blue instead?
I don’t know if this link will work but here it’s a spill baby spill ad…
If there’s one good thing what comes out of this disaster maybe it’ll be a kick in the vag to that trite Alaska trollop.
if it’s clear as clear she’s become toxic in Florida then maybe her idiot fan club what think she’s a gonna be pezzydent will do a reality check
That’s news what only dings one possible GOP 2012 contender I know of. Candidates what inspire spill baby spill ads are no longer of service to the cause of drilling our own I don’t think… those ones are trollopy impediments.
You know who’s really amazingly trite and reveals it everytime he opines freely hf?
It’s the one with the power of the presidency, that’s who. Blathers on all the time about utter nonsense and worse, yet retains the power he’s been entrusted with despite it all.
This is true but the difference is that presidency boy has the advantage of he gets to run against Team R.
Plus, media whores.
But the similarity is what’s interesting… “how’s that hopey changey thing working out for you” and “drill, baby, drill” … this is a woman what feels very comfortable playing in presidency boy’s amazingly trite and puerile sandbox, and it’s nice to see it bite her in the ass.
This sucks about the drilling though.
“This sucks about the drilling though.”
On the other hand, an accident at sea in depths of a mile-plus, might give some thinkers pause to reckon on the relative safeties that can be achieved on land, no? The need for oil as the primary transportation fuel isn’t going away anytime soon that we can see, so realists may begin to reconsider the stupidity of restricting land-based well drilling.
It makes no difference. What we lose in making that argument is a sense of American competence and the ability to do difficult things, make mistakes, and conquer them. That’s a message the cowardly Team R ones are afraid to make these days.
But if America is going to be a pussy she should just give it up I think.
Put to it, she calls for more regulation, not an appeal to an American can-do spirit. Government can and must play an appropriate role here is what she appeals to. I’m just so over these ones.
Wait, does the American can-do spirit dis-include oversight so-called? Cause if it does (and that would be more or less worth exploring, in any event), you’ve got a lot of propagandistic repair to do. Like many decades worth.
Got theory?
Of course not… but there’s no reason to believe at this point there was any regulatory failure whatsoever. Palin’s instinct though is to tell Americans that they can trust their government to make it better.
Gack.
I don’t know who you think you’re talking to about Palin? Who? Me? Really?
no I wasn’t talking to you exactly I was just babbling out loud about Palin cause of I think this is a moment and she really needed to hit this one out of the park and so far she mostly conveys she’s worried this is going to hurt her
Wait, does the American can-do spirit dis-include oversight so-called?
The regulation needs to be to the end of the doing, not to the end of not-doing. American regulation tends very strongly towards the end of the not-doing I think. No new nuclear plant in god knows how many years. We spent tens of billions of dollars to not create a nuclear waste repository. We broke ground on a supercollider and then canceled it.
Our government is at daily war with America’s can-do spirit.
italics are at daily war with my comments
But seriously, she isn’t at issue, is she?
The national problem is an ongoing abandonment of the structure of our fundamental agreement, a thing that’s been in process for nigh on a century. Our question, it seems to me anyhow, is how to reformulate that national agreement?
And that problem isn’t one primarily within the ranks of the conservative people, whatever their allegiance to the Republican party: far from it, it’s between and among the people of the whole of the country, those who rejoice in the political meaning of our Constitution and those who despise it as a thing of the past the sooner abandoned altogether (they think) the better.
Palin is at best a footnote where it comes to the bigger problem we have. If she proves to be a canny politician capable of election to some post or other, then fine.
But, again, it seems to me that your efforts are wasted, more or less, where you focus on her and not on the bigger problems we face.
This was just supposed to be an aside of a Sunday morning.
But, again, it seems to me that your efforts are wasted, more or less, where you focus on her and not on the bigger problems we face.
I feel that same way about illegal immigrants. And abortion. And carbon dioxide molecules. And lots of things.
oh for fuck’s sake
It’s like fretting about Joel Aldrich Matteson in 1855 while the run-up to the Civil War is in train. There are much bigger national unity fish to fry. Try being our Abe for a change.
I will try.
the italic attack
“Try being our Abe for a change.”
Well said sdferr, Well said indeed!
Keep firing ;^)
Called mom. She’s in hospital for pneumonia. Still cheery, though. Mom is always sparky and spunky and cheery. Never one to worry about punching above her weight class. She may lose (a note to her mother – saying that she would not go to old lady (can’t remember) for piano lessons – written in crayon, and there is a later program for spring 1940 with Ann Martindale in the piano recital; seems both grandma and mom had strong opinions) but mom never backs down from the fight. She will be 79 Tuesday, and I can bet she is fixing her jaw and going all mulish right now.
I know she had a bad bout of pneumonia back in the 1930’s that hurt her, but I wonder if the medications she is on now are hurting her immune system?
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised our resident turtlehead turns a Mother’s Day thread into a series of anti-Palin twitches. Maybe motherhood is the subtext.
This is an oil spill thread I thought.
We’ve a thread about spin without the Spin Doctors?
No way I would draw a comparison between “Little Miss Can’t be Wrong” and President Obama.
Hmm, Spin Doctors is a link, but, it’s not orange. What’s up with that?
Maybe someone could mention “Team R” again. Like that’s not too fucking stale.
Who’s on Team R are include Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney and Meghan’s daddy and Michael Steele.
Team Fail.
Team Useless.
Team Sucker of Cock.
I find myself starting to skim over hf’s posts rather quickly, once the nonsense begins…next step, I fer, will be a full Kate/TTP ignore. Sad, really.
I fear, that is…
They want to say what they have to say without fear of contradiction, and then hear someone on television tell them they’re right.
Obama has a mother too, sdferr. Prick him, does he not bleed?
I read that as “prick like him” and I thought, “probably not”.