Damn, this is really a day for incoherent NY Times editorials.
Along with the rest of the anti-sex anti prostitution crowd who think that and sex is icky.
Slowly, here is the equation: Pimps exist because prostitutes need them to protect them from a criminal justice system that victimizes them.
How is their job any different from bull semen “extractor”?
As to whether or not it’s “voluntary”, the claim that because of economic need, it’s not voluntary, means that I’m a slave.
I need the money.
Yes, he’s wrong on everything, but this time, it’s not poor judgement, like Iraq, he says that Obama heard Rev. Wright’s notorious sermon, when a quick google says that he was over 1000 miles away, as would a call to the campaign.
This was for an article in the New York Times, which has to start fact checking its editorials.
Pretty tepid steps away though, “We disagree with her,” said spokesman Howard Wolfson.”
I’m sorry, I want to draft Gore or Howard Dean at this point.
At the very least, it appears that the Obama Campaign is learning to bitch slap back.
And of course, Olbermann, who has been hatin on Hillary since before Super Tuesday has a Special Comment.
Between real racism (Ferraro), phony accusations of Racism, gay baiting, and just all around stupidity, I’m tempted to write in Howard Dean in November.
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis: Did Lack Of Regulation Cause This Mess?
Yes.
This has been another episode of stupid answers to stupid questions.
But Mike “Mish” Shedlock seems to think that it’s the FDIC which has caused all thi, because no one would have put a dime into countrywide in 2004 if not for the FDIC insurance, which created a moral hazard allowing people to place their money at risk, despite the fact that in 2004, Countrywide was golden with soaring stock.
Additionally, most of the money that Countrywide to bury itself was not the sub $100k investments of ordinary account holders. It was many times that from Wall Street investors, who had no guarantee at all, even for the first $100K.
This is mindless Randroid Objectivist claptrap, and it is actually the purveyors of this mindless Randroid Objectivist claptrap, most notably Alan Greenspan, who has never passed up an opportunity to deregulate a market, or to bail out a major capitalist bigwig, who created this mess.
Mr. Shedlock is therefore wanker of the day.
Glenn Greenwald has the scoop, and I need a drink.
Oh well, Purim is not that far away.
Duncan Black asks:
Does the Washington Post have a policy of only publishing complete morons?
Yes.
This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.
Yep, everyone’s favorite hack journo, Nedra Pickler, has done the most transparent hit piece I’ve yet seen on Barak Obama.
She gets quotes from Roger Stone, the youngest of Richard Nixon’s “dirty tricksters”, and founder of an anti-Hillary “organization” Citizens United Not Timid (check out the damn acronym).
Note the URL. This is an AP story, not OP/ED. She does this repeatedly.
Nader to run again.
Has this self centered, sanctimonious, rat-f&^% done anything useful over the past 8 years?
It’s all about him, I guess.
Last night, on MSNBC, David Shuster asked if Chelsea Clinton campaigning on behalf of her mom meant that she was, “being pimped” by the campaign.
The Clinton Campaign has apparently gone completely batsh#$ insane over this, even though he apologized this morning.
Shuster’s still a wanker, though.
This is not about politics. This is about who the Clintons are. They have always been fiercely protective of her.
BTW, Shuster has been suspended from all NBC broadcasts.
And his wanktacular reason?
If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.
Go Huck!!!!
Really, really, really stupid.
This time, she is claiming that capitalism created beautiful young Russian women.
I went to school with Russian emigres. I’ve seen what they look like. It was good.
There was no change in appearance. It’s just that access to the west was restricted to the well off before the fall of the FSU, and the well off mean middle aged, at least.
Anne Applebaum knows Russia, and I don’t. Anne Applebaum has been to Russia, and I haven’t. But based on my reading of her work through the years, she does not “hang” with us ordinary plebes, she hangs with the movers and shakers.
Russian women, as the saying goes, “clean up good”.
20 Years ago, that did not mean YSL or Chanel’s “little black dress”. I don’t know what Russian fashion was, but it sucked by western standards, though according to my dad, it sucked a lot less in Leningrad than it did in Moscow, at least in 1973.
Of course, Ms. Applebaum is so intent on showing the virtues of the klepto-capitalism that is Russia, she reduces what a woman is to her market value for her appearance.
One of the rules of OP/ED bloviating is that if you disagree with another contributor to the editorial page, you never mention them directly.
Calling them out by name is unheard of.
Well, David S. Broder, the sultan of intellect free conventional inside-the-beltway thinking, just broke that rule, and calls out the bow-tied one.
Unelected conservative ideologues — such as Rush Limbaugh and George F. Will— can mutter in frustration, but Republican politicians recognize what was written here as long ago as last Dec. 2: “If the Republican Party really wanted to hold on to the White House in 2009 . . . it would grit its teeth, swallow its doubts and nominate a ticket of John McCain for president and Mike Huckabee for vice president — and president-in-waiting.”
Matthew Yglesias makes much of this, but I disagree.
This is not a sudden abrogation of the rules. Instead it is a conflict between two rules:
In critiquing John McCain, George Will simply joined the Ancient, Hermetic, and Occult Order of the Shrill, and you are supposed to call out the “shrill” ones by name.
He’s trying to claim that organizations that have endorsed Donna Edwards are somehow breaking the law.
“There seems to be a vast, dare I say, left-wing conspiracy designed to circumvent campaign finance laws,” Wynn told reporters during a conference call. “Within this scheme, her supporters are coordinating efforts to exceed fundraising limits and engaging in illegal campaign activities.”
Here’s hoping that you are unemployed come January.
When Republicans were in power, he never batted an eyelash at earmarks, which are something like ¾% of the budget, but now he’s decided it’s a good time to go to war against them.
Oh…me bad…He’s thinking that NEXT fiscal year is a good time to start this “war on earmarks”, so he’s just “announcing” them at this SOTU speach.
Even the Republicans are calling weak:
But if he was seeking to placate the fiercest foes of earmarking, he failed. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) called Bush’s plan “weak.” Thomas A. Schatz, president of the conservative Citizens Against Government Waste, labeled it “fiscal snake oil.”
Well, I guess it meats steroids.
Yes, the good Reverend Gastric Bypass (Huckabee), is criticizing Captain Goodhair (Romney) because he took the skin off his chicken at a KFC before eating it.
While I agree that the skin is the best part, this is silly.
Dumbasses.
Of course, she opens up with a slam against Bill Clinton, though she forgot to pimp her friendly dolphins.
That being said, there is one paragraph about Bush that I find amusing:
This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.
Bush had inflicted damage on the GOP, but this has not been a failure of George W. Bush, but an artifact of his success.
He has been remarkably successful in producing results in the Republican agenda:
The problem, is that the Republican agenda has consequences:
George W. Bush did not destroy the Republican Party, no has he wounded our nation for years to come, movement conservatism has.
Yep, they banks are looking at implementing new larger fees on holders of small accounts.
I guess that they need to stick it to the little guy because of all the money that they are losing on the high rollers that they gave exotic mortgage packages to.
Today, the average ATM fee is $1.78, while five years ago it cost a little more than a $1 to retrieve money from a bank with which you didn’t have an account.
In some areas, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wachovia fees have hit $3 for non-customers.
Bankers and the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Saint Louis University’s basketball couch Rick Majerus tells fascist Archbishop to piss off regarding said cleric’s suggestion that disciplinary action be taken against him because he showed up to a Hillary Clinton rally, and made pro-choice statements.
Ignoring the towering idiocy of demanding that a basketball coach towing anti-woman, anti sex line of Archbishop Raymond Burke, there is also the matter, rasied in my last post on this issue, that St. Louis University just won a court case regarding a tax financing for a new sports arena because they had demonstrated they were not, “controlled by a religious creed”.
This is not the first time that this moron has damaged both the reputation and the institution of the Catholic Church:
Burke has spoken out before against Catholics or Catholic institutions that stray from church doctrine. During the 2004 election, he said he would not administer Holy Communion to presidential candidate John Kerry, a Catholic, because he supported abortion rights.
Last year, Burke dropped his seat on the board of a charity that let singer Sheryl Crow perform at a benefit concert. Crow supports abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research.
On Tuesday, Burke said he would ask Saint Louis University officials to take “appropriate action” against Majerus after the coach gave a TV interview at the Clinton rally during which he said he was Catholic and pro-choice.
In 1942, the Bishop of Father Coughlin to STFU. Perhaps it might be advisable for someone in Burke’s chain of command to do the same.