Hola! Today isn’t a holiday in the United States, but it ought to be. And it ought to be a reason for us to embrace our neighbors to the south, instead of trying to demonize them.
In 1858, Benito Juárez (a full-blooded Zapotec, and member of the Liberal Party) was elected President of Mexico. Thanks to their Civil War (oh, and that little Mexican-American War thing), Mexico was financially devastated, and Juárez was forced to suspend all foreign debt payments, which England, Spain and France weren’t really happy about. Being imperialist Europeans, they did what imperalists do – they invaded. England and Spain cut deals and split pretty quickly, but not those pesky French (under Napoleon III – who was not dissimilar to dubya, in many respects).
Napolean wasn’t all that crazy about the United States (we were in the midst of our own little difficulties at the time, you may recall) , and he was hoping to toss out the Mexican Constitutional Government and set up something a little more favorable to France (to that end, he installed Maximilian I as Emperor). In fact, he had plans to institute a monarchy over Central and South America so France could exploit the region’s raw materials (plus supply the Confederacy in its fight against the Union). The French were in cahoots with the plutocratic Mexican land owners, who weren’t real crazy about this Juárez guy.
Anyhow, in April of 1862, a French force of seven thousand set out for Mexico City, having somehow gotten the impression that the Mexican people would welcome them (I believe they were told they’d be greeted as liberators, and showered with flowers and candy). Juárez ordered General Ignacio Zaragoza (who had 2,000 soldiers entrenched in the fortified hills of Loreto and Guadalupe by the city of Puebla) to set the French straight.
On cinco de mayo, 1862, the very well-equipped French attacked the two forts (defended mostly by Mexican Indians armed only with machetes) with cannon and rifles. Zaragosa ordered his cavalry (commanded by Colonel Porfirio Diaz) to attack the French flanks (which I understand are excellent with a nice Burgundy), and the French, in turn, sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz, who pretty much butchered them. What was left of the French infantry charged the Mexicans – or at least they tried to – through a stampeding herd of cattle that the Mexicans stirred up.
By the end of the day, one fort was in ruins, but more than a thousand French soldiers were dead.
So, the French didn’t get to run guns and supplies to the Confederacy, Union forces were eventually sent to the Tex/Mex border under the command of General Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got whatever weapons and ammo they needed. Poor old Maximillian was eventually executed by firing squad, and Napoleon III was deposed as Emperor of France in 1870, and dead by 1873.
So, anyhow, that’s how the Mexicans saved the Union, and why cinco de mayo ought to be a holiday in the US, filled with piñatas, Sangria, and much singing of La Bandera de Estrellas.
That, and it’s a long way between New Year’s and Memorial Day.
numero uno!:banana: hey juarez mexico is where i got drunk the other day!
:alc:Happy Cinco de Mayo, everybody!:banana:
Good morning. Feliz Cinco de Mayo :alc:
230 miles to maron!
feliz cinco de mayo hermanos y hermanas!!:fist:
no tomen tanto ahora como Sean:40::alc:. si no, van a escribir Emails que solomente otros borrachos pueden intendir.
:banana::rofl2:
haha…:alc:
en ingles por favor!
you lucky people are going to see Marc :banana::love::nod:
Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
PJ => :love: you make me smile & laugh.. :love:
morning :joe:
Seanie – take photos for the blog please.
because I’m an idiot I’m listening to the Rachael Maddow show
BUT
she just interviewed Jodi Cutis with Planned Parenthood about fake abortion clinics. There are about 6 fake clinics to every one real clinic. I had no idea. This is a horror story.
yep…we want documentation dudes!
Yes, I caught that bit about fake abortion clinics. Scary. Rachel does still sometimes come up with some story that isn’t easy to find elsewhere. Not as often as she used to, but sometimes
yes, she does, susan. I’m just hoping she keeps her voice under control today so I can continue to listen!
Ray McGovern vs. Rumsfeld… “he was in Baghdad”
QUESTION: Zarqawi? He was in the north of Iraq in a place where Saddam Hussein had no rule. That’s also…
RUMSFELD: He was also in Baghdad.
QUESTION: Yes, when he needed to go to the hospital.
Come on, these people aren’t idiots. They know the story.
Still going over this interview. It’s just so nice to see someone take on Rumsfield like that.
tequila tonight! :40:
too much tequila. good night.
good night, KK.
Oh, this is rich. Lieberman :fu:
Providing emergency contraceptives to rape victims is an ESSENTIAL medical service, and medical institutions that refuse to put the health and welfare of their patients above religious doctrine/political shtupping should get out of the health field.
With this advice to women who have just been raped- he has shown himself to be not just a “Republican in Democrat’s clothing,” but in the same boat as extreme Republicans a la Rick Santorum and others of that ilk. How could any woman, or anybody with a bit of empathy fail to be outraged by his remarks here?
thanks for the excellent intro, pj. knowing all that stuff helps me celebrate cinco de mayo with more vigor than ever. yay president benito juarez. yay colonel porfirio diaz. thank you for helping us get rid of slavery. :alc:
Agree…PJ’s intros are always good but today I had a history lesson! 😛
lieberman. :growl::evil::barf:
PJ, I really appreciated your blog entry today. I appreciated it so much I sent it to Marc. If he doesn’t acknowledge it on his show tonight then something is wrong with him. We all know something is wrong with him, but I mean really wrong with him!
:sammy:
Hey Sean, I was probably in bed when you drove through. That’s why I’m a morning seditionist :tongue:
I’m gonna check out flights. Would someone be able to pick me up at the airport? QuietGirl?
Porfiro Diaz turned into a vicious dictator. Finally overthrown in 1912.
Renew the Revolution!:omg:
Diaz is an interesting character. He said, “¡Pobre México! ¡Tan lejos de Dios, y tan cerca los Estados Unidos!” (Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!).
In 1876 he overthrew President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. At first, he advanced a platform of reform – “No Re-election.” He appointed himself President in 1876, served one term and then stepped down in favor of Manuel González. Unfortunately, the period that followed was full of corruption and incompetence (sound familiar?), so when Díaz decided to run in the next election he was a welcome replacement, and everybody forgot about his “No Re-election” slogan. Díaz had the constitution amended, at first to allow two terms, and then to remove all restrictions on re-elections.
He maintained power through manipulation of votes, violence, and assassination of his opponents. A consummate politician, he was astute at manipulating the people to his advantage.
In 1899 he faced some small opposition from Bernardo Reyes, who decided to run for president after Díaz gave an interview in which he said he would allow free and open elections. Apparently he was just kidding, and Díaz forced Reyes into exile.
Díaz tried to modernize Mexico, building factories, railroads, and telegraph lins, all by jumping into bed with US business interests. But he was also tight with the wealthy Mexican land owners. He appointed governors that allowed plantation owners to gradually steal collectively-owned village land, using his rurales (rural police) to assist in this theft. He was overthrown in 1911 by Francisco Madero, and died in exile in France (of all places) in 1915.
an interesting piece:
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I’m just seething about Lieberman. I think I’ll call his office today and send Lamont some money. You’re right, he hit Santorum status.
Joe = 860) 549-8463
(800) 225-5605
email
Ned Lamont
We cannot eliminate the distinction between those who own means of production and those who do not own means of production, unless no one owns means of production, or, conversely, and what amounts to the same thing, unless everyone owns means of production equally. That much is an obvious tenet of advocating a new classless economy beyond capitalism. All socialists, for example, accept this view.
But class division can also arise due to a division of labor which affords some producers, who I call the coordinator class, far greater influence and income than other producers, who I call the working class. Claim 2 focuses on this latter point which many socialists, even, do not accept.
Michael Albert
Springer: “Of course everybody is outraged when somebody burns the flag. Everybody is, it’s a given” Um…Jerry…
Bi-partisan agreement for war on Iraq!:omg:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, widely seen as the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, accused the Bush administration in January of not taking the threat of a nuclear Iran seriously enough, criticized the Bush administration for allowing European nations to take the lead in pursuing a diplomatic solution, and insisted that the administration should make it clear that military options were being actively considered. Similarly, Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, another likely contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, accused the Bush administration of “ignoring and then largely deferring management of this crisis to the Europeans.” Taking the diplomatic route, according to Bayh, “has certainly been damaging to our national security.”
Despite the hostility of these two Democratic senators toward diplomatic means of resolving the crisis and the similarity of their rhetoric to the false claims they made prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein’s government was a threat to global security and that diplomatic solutions were impossible, both Clinton and Bayh are widely respected by their fellow Democrats as leaders on security policy.
Stephen Zunes
Burn, Baby Burn! Burn the Yankee Swastika!
Coordinator class: extremely high wage earners, ie: over $100,000 ?
ok, i won’t cheer for porfirio diaz. i’m enjoying the history lessons.
Evan Bayh. I honestly didn’t know much about him until I saw a speech recently. He impressed me as somebody who will play to the “keep America safe through war” set. So yeah, this doesn’t surprise me.
Some waged employees monopolize empowering conditions and tasks and have considerable say over their own work situations and those of other workers below. Other waged employees endure only disempowering conditions and tasks and have virtually no say over their own or anyone else’s conditions. The former try to maintain their monopoly on empowering circumstances and greater income while ruling over the latter. Class struggle.
Within capitalism, in this view we have not only capitalists and workers, but, in between, there is a coordinator class of empowered actors who defend their advantages against workers below and who struggle to enlarge their bargaining power against owners above. But even more, this coordinator class can actually become the ruling class of a new economy with capitalists removed and with workers still subordinate. That is, Marxism obscures the existence of a class which not only contends with capitalists and workers within capitalism, but which can become ruler of a new economy, aptly called, I think, coordinatorism.
Michael Albert
it’s been a year since the ultra conservative group “human events” published its 10 most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries. i read the list over again today and the nutcase comments on each book. boy what a twisted viewpoint these conservatives have. :tongue:
their denunciations give us a real insight into the sorry state of the conservative mindset. :crap:
i think the list of books is a good one for me to use to brush up on my education, though.
link
Zapatista Red Alert!
Body: ***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***
The zapatistas have issued a red alert.
repression Against the other campaign has escalated with two shot dead today and many more injured by police outside of Mexico City, and activists and journalists imprisoned after May Day demonstrations in Oaxaca City.
time for solidarity. anyone interested in organizing a local response, write now.
zapata vive! la lucha sigue!
please consider organizing actions in your towns and cities to denounce
the repression against the Other Campaign…we just organized a protest
for this friday at the mexican consulate here in nyc…this is one of
those key moments where visible solidarity can really make a difference!
Story of RED ALERT:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/838706.shtml
senators clinton and bayh and lieberman :spank:
:jerk: :yuck:
The Story Behind the Zapatista Red Alert as the Other Campaign Arrives at
Zero Hour
By Bertha Rodrguez Santos and Al Giordano
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Mexico City
May 3, 2006
MEXICO CITY: From his first statements early this morning on Mexico Citys
historic Alameda, Zapatista Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos was clearly
informed about and visibly bothered by the police riot underway in the
nearby city of Texcoco, where 800 heavily armed riot cops stormed the
local flower growers market in the dawns early light, leading to a
violent nationally televised standoff between the firearms of above and
the worktools of below. By the afternoon after Delegate Zero traveled
through downtown Mexico City by foot, by subway and by motorcycle, through
its most working-class neighborhoods, listening to the grievances of the
people he exploded in the Plaza of the Three Cultures: The Zapatistas
have gone on Red Alert, the Other Campaign is suspended, and Marcos is
heading to the scene of the crime to confront the Mexican State.
To the death, if thats what it takes, as he said two days ago during a
mass meeting in front of the national palace.
And now, the Red Alert…
The first clue came at 10 a.m. During a gathering with sexual dissidents
on the historic central park of this metropolis known as La Alameda Marcos
referred to the police raid underway in Texcoco: If those above think
that they are going to continue repressing us, they are mistaken. The
Other Campaign is not just a movement of words. It is also a movement of
action. He announced that a meeting with campaign adherents in downtown
Mexico slated for six oclock would be suspended to deal with the conflict
underway, less than an hour from Mexico City.
After all, the compaeros and compaeras in the line of fire in Texcoco
were the Other Campaign adherents of San Salvador Atenco, where, in 2001
and 2002, they chased out the federal government with machete swords and
defeated an international airport imposed on their farmlands. These are
men and women that Marcos visited on April 25 and 26 and urged to come to
the aid of their neighbors; to show the rest of Mexico how to stand up
for, and win, its rights and autonomy. This morning the men and women of
Atenco went to nearby Texcoco and, together with the local people, drove
out the invading police. The government response: to send more police, and
thus what the TV news called a riot (in fact, a police riot) ensued.
Later, around noon, during a meeting with workers in Mexico Citys largest
marketplace of La Merced, after listening to the complaints of the
shopkeepers and others about how the governments national, state and
local are trying to destroy the Mexican market to make room for Wal-Mart
and similar shopping malls and supermarkets, Marcos again referred to the
battle underway nearby, the attack on the small businesspeople of
Texcoco, because they are ugly, because they are dirty, and if we scratch
the surface we will find a municipal mayor that wants to put a Wal-Mart
there. They know that the shopkeepers there sell the better product, that
is better than a damn tomato that looks nice but is made of plastic like
the ones sold in a supermarket.
All afternoon long, as don Marcos of la Selva found himself in the deepest
corners of the concrete jungle of Mexico City, the countrys two national
TV stations the duopoly of Televisa and TV Azteca broadcast, live,
horrid scenes of violence, teargas, blood and death from the market and
highway of Texcoco. At various points during the live broadcasts, women
armed with machete swords forced the TV reporters to stop their
distortions, at one point chasing a previously macho Televisa reporter
down stairs as the camera went dark.
At almost six oclock, an hour away, the Zapatista Caravan, now at the
Plaza of Three Cultures in Tlalteloco, received a phone call that a young
boy had been assassinated by police in Texcoco. In a speech that will live
in history from a plaza where, on October 2, 1968, more than a thousand
young Mexicans were assassinated by the federal army for the crime of
having demonstrated peacefully against a dictatorship of a government,
Marcos spoke with rage and coherence. It was as if the dead themselves
spoke through the voice of the spokesman of the Zapatista Army of National
Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials):
“Years ago, here in the Plaza of the Three Cultures, there was a massacre.
The government said that the army was attacked. Today the media,
including the radio, dont ask what the public security forces are doing
in San Salvador Atenco.
He called upon all the Other Campaign adherents to organize blockades of
highways and streets, and other actions, beginning at 8 a.m. tomorrow,
Thursday, May 4.
He announced that the guerrilla troops of the Zapatista Army of National
Liberation were now on Red Alert; that the Good Government Councils of
Chiapas were closed for tomorrow; that the events of the Other Campaign
were cancelled until this situation is resolved; and he offered, if the
people of San Salvador Atenco ask, to come physically to their aid
tomorrow.
Nobody doubts that the people of Atenco will call him and the rest of
the Other Campaign into battle.
In the Plaza of the Three Cultures where the dead still speak
Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos called, again, for a “civil and peaceful”
rebellion, starting tomorrow, Wednesday, the Fourth of May.
The following day, the Fifth El Cinco de Mayo Mexico celebrates its
victory against French colonialists. (And we, our reporters today released
from jail after two long nights behind bars in Oaxaca, but still seeking
justice for the crime of the Mexican State and the U.S. Embassy against
press freedom now calls for a demonstration on Friday, Cinco de Mayo, in
New York City, at 12:30 p.m., at the Mexican Consulate in New York City,
27 East 39th Street – be there and let the world media capital know that
Mexico is still a dictatorship ruling with violence and repression.)
Thunderclouds are clapping above the central region of Mexico tonight, and
from below, too. It’s a Red Alert. What happens from here on out is up to
people like you, and maybe you, too.
To be continued…:omg:
Thanx Nicki, this stuff is interesting, I’m still a new to a lot of this political theory stuff.
Eek, look at this book list…all essential reading in my opinion. They don’t like feminists or sex, no big surprise there either.
Actually, no true liberal would come up with the analogue of this list (“most dangerous conservative books”) because the free exchange of ideas, even those you don’t agree with, is essential to true liberalism, I think.
Crooks and Liars has a fascinating video of the Colbert speech. The camera is trained exclusively on Bush. You can definitely see he is pissed off.
Springer is talking about Central Park.
:rofl2:
couldn’t agree more. i’m taking the list with me to the library over the next year. there’s a lot of basic educating i need to do.
This piece by Dan Froomkin is spectacular
Here’s a little bit:
No one blogging. Good Bye!
couldn’t agree more. i’m taking the list with me to the library over the next year. there’s a lot of basic educating i need to do.
Me too…
Re: Colbert – seems like his performance doesn’t want to go away, doesn’t it? One remark I read yesterday stands out, and I can’t remember who said it. Regarding Colbert and whether or not he was funny: I don’t think Stephen was trying to be funny. He was trying to wound, and he did
I agree and disagree…;I think he was trying to use political “humor” but not the “funniest kind.” This really made me think about humor in a big way, and its political uses…I really want to do research and write a book on the topic. Humor and how it has been used/can be used and its place in society fascinates me.
Thanks for that link isi. It’s possible that Bush just looks pissed off because he’s a white guy with no lips. My dad has the same sort of mouth and it naturally turns down making him look pissed off when he’s just neutral. But He definitely looked annoyed at a couple of points and many of the chuckles seemed perfunctory, not genuine.
Video of Paula Zahn interviewing Ray McGovern.
Ugh, Paula’s so biased
The Mexican language radio stations are apparently broadcasting stuff about unrest in Mexico and have their domestic listeners all pissed off..I was looking for some left sided media coverage in English..the Indymedia stuff was the first I have seen.
good froomkin piece
good history lesson, pj. i find it particularly interstng that Diaz took exile in France; how the heck did that happen, I wonder.
amy goodman is interviewing ray mcgovern right now.
:peace:
You really have to wonder how they slipped up and let Ray McGovern into the audience, let alone allowed him to ask questions.
uh can you people download this?
hey, if you didn’t already know, we’re all being targeted by fbi surveillance again (remember the 1960s). smile for the camera folks, you’re on their list if you like animals, hate the war, report the truth, believe in peace, or protect the environment. This time around we’re not communist sympathizers, no this time we’re terrorist sympathizers. i dunno, the fbi isn’t very imaginative is it, they’re using the same old playbook. sheesh. amy goodman’s telling us all about it.
surveillance of peace group
surveillance of journalist
hey, if you didn’t already know, we’re all being targeted by fbi surveillance again (remember the 1960s). smile for the camera folks, you’re on their list if you like animals, hate the war, report the truth, believe in peace, or protect the environment. This time around we’re not communist sympathizers, no this time we’re terrorist sympathizers. i dunno, the fbi isn’t very imaginative is it, they’re using the same old playbook. sheesh. amy goodman’s telling us all about it.
“You have nothing to worry about unless you’re a terrorist” Riiight. Now tell me who the real terrorists are.
Sean, couldn’t download the link.
Yep, Sean, listening to it now :peace:
sean I can get it, but isn’t it the whole show? If so, I’ve already got it downloaded
Healthcare in America:
Paul Krugman
Our Sick Society
well, what I mean is I can listen to it…don’t know how to actually download it to my computer’s hard drive
yeah whole show was just curious if people could download it i did the 1 day premium thing
right click sdave target as:doh: it let me download it!
sean, your mp3 of marc’s show downloaded beautifully! i’m listening to it at this moment. thank you. :love:
i couldn’t stay up for the whole show last night. now i get to hear it to the end. happiness.
Maybe cause I have a Mac I can’t do that…but it’s ok, just getting to listen to it is cool, I missed this one
lol thats great! we need someone with the full subscription to put that up every day!
Here’s Krugman’s article from my library, for those of you who don’t have Times Select:
Our Sick Society
Thanks fk. Great article by Krugman. I think he’s right in speculating that overwork, stress and lack of safety net may contribute to US’ poor health.
ha yep thats why macs are stupid! only one mouse button stupid ass apple well i heard they are fixing that sooooooo well stupid to have only one button for so long!
Hey, I like my Mac, I don’t get viruses or pop-up windows that I get on my PC, but I admit things work differently…
but but i’m using a mac and i could listen to it………
Belated thanks Sean for TMMS download!
:nod:he he i feel so evil right now!
yeah, listening to it now. just don’t know how to actually download. (Marc going on about My Space and thinking that everyone on it is 12 years old)
well, we know not to eat yellow snow, but guess we’d better start steering clear of the white stuff, too.
Scientists find pesticides in snow at national parks
Analysis finds traces of chemicals linked to area ‘agricultural practices’
Yeah, Sean is da man. Thanx for the show, Mr. Teddy Bear
dane cook! woo hoo!
:mad::???::neutral: marc is picking on dane 👿
i think its because dane has a bit that is similar to a maron bit!
“These may well be the cleanest snows anywhere in the U.S., so the exposure we receive in urban areas is probably higher,” said Dan Jaffe, a University of Washington atmospheric chemist who read the report.
Yikes… time to re-examine those agricultural practices…
Actually, it would be better to use e-mail than to post it here, since if they catch on and fix it, it will no longer work. And if you look at the link, you really ought to be able to figure it out.
yep just replace the date!
Yay! I figured out how to download it :doh:
I’m sooo cool. although admittedly slow with certain computer things:omg:
pj, hypothetically, if someone wanted to share their shows that are in theor i tunes how would they do that, hypothetically, and not get in trouble…. theoretically?
PS The last time I tried to email sean the show, the file was so huge that I couldn’t do it.
PPS I do not have a “save as target” option
I JUST HEARD PORTER GOSS RESIGNED AS HEAD OF THE CIA
Well, if you’re using iTunes, there should be a place on your computer where they’re stored. Look in your iTunes options for the folder where it puts stuff, or just do a search for *.mp3 and you should come up with it.
To transfer files, you can use an IM program like Yahoo or AIM, and there’s an option in there to transfer files with somebody you’re chatting with. You could also set up a private torrent, but that’s a little bit more difficult to explain.
In your web browser, if you command-click on a link, don’t you get a menu that pops up, with an option in there like “save target as?”
Yeah, CNN has it as “breaking news.” I wonder what the real reason is?
Whoa! Looking for a link, the blogs are reporting it, but I’m trying to find an in-depth story…
probably part of rovegate!
Not much of a story here.
Well, the announcement of the resignation is on a friday so I guess the move isn’t for pr reasons.
Porter Goss Resignation
bury the lead!
Over at Atrios on Porter Goss.
Thanks, isi
Yowzah is right! prostitution – think of the security leaks/implications…..
pj, i’ll play around with it this weekend. do i have to have the instant messaging thingys for the file sharing?
Reading the article at TPM Muckraker I discovered this blog at Harper’s Magazine called Washington Babylon
ok well here last post before i head of to see the funny! later sheeple!
HR 373: Federal Propaganda Prohibition Act
This bill aims to curtail “government propaganda” by laying out criteria to define it, penalties for government officials who distribute it, and requiring government communications to reveal the source of their funding to their target audience.
Current Status
In the Government Reform Committee
Cosponsors
Originally sponsored by Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT).
Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY) Thomas H. Allen (D-ME)
Brian Baird (D-WA) Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Sherrod Brown (D-OH) G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
Lois Capps (D-CA) Michael Capuano (D-MA)
Ed Case (D-HI) William Lacy (Bill) Clay, Jr. (D-MO)
John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD)
Danny Davis (D-IL) Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR)
William D. Delahunt (D-MA) Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)
Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) Lane Evans (D-IL)
Sam Farr (D-CA) Barney Frank (D-MA)
Charles A. Gonzalez (D-TX) Bart Gordon (D-TN)
Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL)
Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY) Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)
James R. Langevin (D-RI) Tom Lantos (D-CA)
Richard R. Larsen (D-WA) Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Sander M. Levin (D-MI) Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) Betty McCollum (D-MN)
Jim McDermott (D-WA) James P. McGovern (D-MA)
Mike Michaud (D-ME) George Miller (D-CA)
Alan Mollohan (D-WV) James P. Moran (D-VA)
Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Richard E. Neal (D-MA)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) John W. Olver (D-MA)
Major R. Owens (D-NY) Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) David E. Price (D-NC)
Bernard Sanders (I-VT) Janice Schakowsky (D-IL)
David Scott (D-GA) Jose E. Serrano (D-NY)
Ike Skelton (D-MO) Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-NY)
Hilda A. Solis (D-CA) Fortney (Pete) Stark (D-CA)
Gene Taylor (D-MS) John Tierney (D-MA)
Mark Udall (D-CO) Diane E. Watson (D-CA)
Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) Robert Wexler (D-FL)
Lynn C. Woolsey (D-CA)
heads up buddies:
HEADS UP BUDDIES:
SORRY ABOUT THAT — MARC’S COMEDY CENTRAL SHOW IS BEING REPEATED TONIGHT AT 5 PM PACIFIC ACCORDING TO MY CABLE SCHEDULE (WHICH ISN’T ALWAYS RIGHT) THEY MUST BE DOING THIS FOR ALL OF US WHO CAN’T CATCH HIM TONIGHT AT UCB THEATER.
101!
2 Live Crew – One & One Lyrics
One and one, we`re having some fun,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Two and two, I took of my shoes,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Three and three, she undressed me,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Four and four, we f**ked on the floor,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Five and five, I put up her thights,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Six and six, the bit*h sucked my dick,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Seven and seven, we went to heaven,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Eight and eight, she masturbated,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Nine and nine, she licked my ass,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Ten and ten, the bit*h did it again,
In the bedroom, all day, and all of the night.
Get off my ass, bit*h
Get your face out of my ass, motherf**ker
Get off my as* bit*h!
GET YOUR FACE OUT MY AS* MOTHERF**KER!!
“Haaa”
“But it hurts so good”
“Haaa”
Get laid, get F**KED!
“Haaa”
“But it hurts so good”
(repeated `till the end of the track)
Sean :fire:
:banana: Have Fun Tonight!
:peace:
Krista and quietgirl: Re post #101. Take care of yourselves. :omg:
:rofl2::rofl2:
Kevin, you crack me up!
man nobody NOBODY has anything to worry about from me! im gentler than a gentle giant!
:neutral:kevins a jerk!:growl:
And what better way to start the weekend than with another nose-holding installment of…
CRUELLA WATCH!:omg:
From Thursday’s St Petersburg Times. Apparently the Repigs are serious about knocking Harris out of the race for Bill Nelson’s Senate seat.
http://tinyurl.com/o59y3
Bense can’t declare his candidacy, if he decides to, until the Legislature wraps up business, which should be sometime today.
I’ll post if I hear anything at a reasonable hour, as opposed to the drunken stupor I’m planning for later.
:alc:
kevins a jerk!
Comment by SeanMS — May 5, 2006 @ 3:40 pm
Dude, chill. It’s a joke. Enjoy the show. 😀
:mad:well its not funny man and you know what im gonna come to where yuou are and kick your friggin ass man!
i will go fucking angus mcfarqur on your ass!:rofl2:
Patrick Kennedy statement
:sheep:And here’s a little something for the conspiracy theorists who are wondering why Porter Goss stepped down so suddenly. Apparently he has ties to the Duke Cunningham prostitution mess.
http://tinyurl.com/lqxut
Above is where the link would be if I could get it to paste proerly. Sean is right. I suck.
7 hours 4 hour drive plus traffic i must go now!
Yeah, you and the person you’re sharing with would need to have the same client installed.
“My Sirota!”
David Sirota: Despite the Hostile Takeover of the Party, He’s Still Shackled to the Democrats
By CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER
Al Gore, Thomas Frank, George Lakoff, Arianna Huffington, William Greider, and Jim Hightower all have nice things to say about David Sirota’s new book: Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government–and How We Take It Back (Crown, 2006).
With corruption stories in the mainstream press almost daily, this book should be a best seller.
Sirota documents the hostile takeover by big business of the country on every major issue that matters to every American.
He documents myths–jury awards and lawsuit costs to the economy are out of control–lies–America can’t afford health care coverage because it is too expensive–pathological lies–our government tries to stop companies from shipping jobs overseas–and fairy tales–companies are forced to pay higher taxes in the United States than in most other industrialized countries…
http://www.counterpunch.org
Viva Zapata!
Viva Poncho Villa!
Left Strike at Indian Airports
The Charmless Inconveniences of the Bourgeoisie
By VIJAY PRASHAD
The television reports were perhaps just about as bad as the grumbles of my bourgeois friends. They complained about the inconvenience of the strike, the long waits experienced by passengers, the garbage strewn in and around the toilets, the barricades of the angry workers, and what not. For them, the issue was simple: the Indian airports are undercapitalized and rife with all manner of corruption, and the only way to “modernize” them is to privatize them. Few dispute the lack of capital in the basic infrastructure of the Indian State, except that there might be a question about where to spend the surplus–toward the well-being of the many millions in the rural areas, or for the few million who ride aircrafts. Few would also dispute the issue of corruption, for the Airport Authority of India is not an unblemished State entity that wins admirers from Right or Left. To reduce the idea of modernization to privatization is not anomalous to India; indeed it is the root premise of neo-liberal thought. The Left (that is, the Communists) and the trade unions took a strong position against the privatization of the two fiscally sound airports (Mumbai and Delhi) on several grounds–to wit, that the private firms would not be accountable to many of the State’s laws, that the private firms would not honor the long years of service of more than half of the employees (who are over 35), that the private firms will leverage these national assets to their own ends rather than toward those of the employees or of the people at large. It was the basic showdown between the neo-liberals and the socialists, with the former arguing that any curtailment of their agenda was anti-modern and the latter arguing that any fire-sale of national assets makes of mockery of the broad goals of modernity (which should, in theory, include the idea of popular, rather, than corporate sovereignty)…
http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad05052006.html
ZNet | Culture
Teaching The “gentle Arts Of The Spirit” In The Age Of Multinational Capitalism
by Benjamin Carson; May 05, 2006
A few years ago a seasoned faculty member at the university at which I was a graduate student complained to me in the hallway that the quality of his students has seriously declined over the thirty years he has been teaching. One of only two openly conservative members of the department, he went on to blame the sixties, arguing, in effect, that Crosby, Stills and Nash and the hippies mucked everything up-that the 1950s were, pedagogically speaking, pre-lapsarian bliss. Not sufficiently prepared to offer an educated response, I simply nodded and collegially shared in his apparent despair. To be fair, though, as an un-ripened TA with fewer than four years of teaching behind me, I, too, was beginning to wonder how long I could endure the degree of apathy I encountered in the classroom six times a week. So, while Dr. X starred at his shoes and shook his head with academic fatigue, I certainly sympathized. This brief encounter got me thinking. While I agreed with Dr. X that my students were indeed apathetic-even, at times, seemingly anesthetized-I was more reluctant than he to blame Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters or the likes of Abby Hoffman. Are the hippies and all of the groovy pedagogies they’ve engendered since Woodstock really to blame? Has the Left and its liberal values sponsored intellectual laxity and, in the name of egalitarianism, put a hit on meritocracy? Is it really that simple? […]
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10209§ionID=105
Those jerks from the Conservative anti-intellectuals put “Mein Kampf” on the short list–among some terrific books. I have probably read half of the books on the list. Maybe a little less. What an exercize in stupidity!
:omg::fu:
The 9/11 lanners cannot be prosecuted because Rumsfeld ordered their torture. Watch your ass, you old fuck. Go overseas and get arrested for war crimes, Rumsfeld.
Decisions.. decisions .. My cousin had some bill collector serve him papers to repossess his house so In the process of discussing if I had the 400 bucks to loan him so he could go see the lawyer I came to the conclusion that that was almost 2 tons of ANFO..I wonder what would happen if the finance rip off industry suddenly started having their buildings lifting off their foundations and landing in the street. ?? I wonder what Sean is doing early next week ?
I went back to the list and found that I had read, or started to read, six of the ten books on the list. Mein Kampf and Mao’s quotations were put on as boilerplate–especially the Austrian convict’s. There are a lot more books that should have made the list. (Why the fuck is beyond Good and Evil on the list? Because it went beyond the west’s narrow conception of morals?) Good stuff on the honorable mentions list.
:omg:
Thought crimes! Oh shit! Remember Moussaui! :omg: “Man wrote on blog about blowing up financial lendors.”
Randi is telling the truth now! Moussaui show trial! 9/11 planners cannot stand trial because they were tortured.
Boilerplate refers to any text that is or can be reused in new contexts or applications without being changed much from the original. Many programmers often use the term “boilerplate code,” and a legal boilerplate is a standard provision in a contract.
If Moussaui was such an unimportant player, why was the sentence so harsh? He will get no sympathy in this backward nation, though.
1 9 1 6
The Punitive Expedition Against Pancho Villa
Boilerplate is reunited with veterans of the Spanish-American War and saves the life of one of Mexico’s greatest figures.
The speed at which they identified the 911 conspirators and the co conspirators was almost as fast as they produced the patriot act.. This had to be a set up..
Oh no! The thought criminal is posting. He does not buy the party line about 9/11. Stop him BY ANY MEANS…
:omg:
Lets see what happens with this..
Abdule said to relay the following info.. The “shipment” is on TTLX 3121, TTLX 3319 and TTLX 3405 shipped out on LBSLKR yesterday at 10:30 am. quanity was 12 units. Est DOA is on 5-9. contact BNSF with any questions. WB NO. BNSF-1099-0138-0199
Now if DHS is really listening we should get some feedback from BNSF car/order tracking shortly.
ok, what did I miss? Ok, ok, give me a few minutes to read all of it…
If, as Benjamin Barber asserts, the “fundamental task of education in a democracy is what Tocqueville once called the apprenticeship of liberty: learning to be free,” then educators need to begin to re-think what freedom means, just what it means to learn to be free, and what it means to teach freedom in the age of multi-national capitalism (357). In any case, trying to reverse the epidemic of blasé attitudes among students without looking to the culture in which they live and the economic system which underwrites it, and which our politicians-both Liberal and Conservative-uncritically endorse, is like pointing the fire extinguisher at the smoke while ignoring the fire. It’s time to pay more attention to the fire, which at the moment is not unlike an inferno.
In teacher’s training classes they stress the importance of training students to use critical thinking skills. The “being free” business this article mentions rests on this. This is the real basis of a liberal education, and this is what the conservative movement is so against. If you think critically you can’t help but wanting freedom, and it will become obvious what it really is.
Programs like No Child Left Behind are intended to make school districts teach to the test rather than teach anything so the children with the most needs get farther and farther behind, the conservatives will say it was because the teachers failed and that the schools need to be privatized. The stupids then believe this C*.. Negroponte had some good ideas.
117 miles to go! ok uh fred dude now im gonna get arested man thats just as bad as when a truck driver i was with at the arch in st louis told the security gaurd i had a gun in my camera bag!
Sean: Do you have a corrosives permit ??
nope i let it expire!:tongue:
no more haz-mat for me!
ok well im off!:fire:firetruck!!!!! or red semi! close enough john kerry stole my shoe!
Well the BNSF doesn’t think my WB number is a WB number.. I wonder how long it will take DHS to get that far. ??.. They must have changed the system since I bought some stuff from ADM.
Programs like No Child Left Behind are intended to make school districts teach to the test rather than teach anything so the children with the most needs get farther and farther behind, the conservatives will say it was because the teachers failed and that the schools need to be privatized. The stupids then believe this C*.. Negroponte had some good ideas.
How to teach children and what to teach them: handed down to teachers from political sources. Teachers just basically follow orders nowadays. But if students fail, who’s to blame? Not the people who are resonsible for the programs, nope. And the press and media is complicit in this misunderstanding, and the only person I know who writes with some understanding of the situation is Bob Somerby, unless I’m missing some good writing out there….
:peace:seancrest out!
ok screw it im rounding down since the whole AND RUNNING thing was based on NWA 100 miles and running later sheeple!:fire:
Bye Sean ….have fun tonight and report back! :jesus:
I worked with two teachers to try and get our board of education back from some conservative loons. The teachers themselves know whats going on and so does the NEA. Like I said the stupids are well.. stupid…
I worked with two teachers to try and get our board of education back from some conservative loons. The teachers themselves know whats going on and so does the NEA. Like I said the stupids are well.. stupid…
Unfortunately a lot of voters out there fall into that category – because I seem to hear a lot of that “teachers are evil” sentiment these days. By people who don’t have a clue. I wish you luck in fighting those loonies.
43 miles! 2 hours dont know if i will make it stupid LA traffic!
The blog is sleeping.:omg:
three minutes to Marc
The Storm over “the Israel Lobby”
By JOHN MEARSHEIMER and STEPHEN WALT
We wrote ‘The Israel Lobby’ in order to begin a discussion of a subject that had become difficult to address openly in the United States (London Review of Books, 23 March). We knew it was likely to generate a strong reaction, and we are not surprised that some of our critics have chosen to attack our characters or misrepresent our arguments. We have also been gratified by the many positive responses we have received, and by the thoughtful commentary that has begun to emerge in the media and the blogosphere. It is clear that many people–including Jews and Israelis–believe that it is time to have a candid discussion of the US relationship with Israel. It is in that spirit that we engage with the letters responding to our article. We confine ourselves here to the most salient points of dispute.
One of the most prominent charges against us is that we see the lobby as a well-organised Jewish conspiracy. Jeffrey Herf and Andrei Markovits, for example, begin by noting that ‘accusations of powerful Jews behind the scenes are part of the most dangerous traditions of modern anti-semitism’ (Letters, 6 April ). It is a tradition we deplore and that we explicitly rejected in our article. Instead, we described the lobby as a loose coalition of individuals and organisations without a central headquarters. It includes gentiles as well as Jews, and many Jewish-Americans do not endorse its positions on some or all issues. Most important, the Israel lobby is not a secret, clandestine cabal; on the contrary, it is openly engaged in interest-group politics and there is nothing conspiratorial or illicit about its behaviour. Thus, we can easily believe that Daniel Pipes has never ‘taken orders’ from the lobby, because the Leninist caricature of the lobby depicted in his letter is one that we clearly dismissed. Readers will also note that Pipes does not deny that his organisation, Campus Watch, was created in order to monitor what academics say, write and teach, so as to discourage them from engaging in open discourse about the Middle East.
there’s the stream, holy shit that was not easy to get
annnnd…it’s sports! :omg:
final segment coming up after this, oh alright if you insist… 😐
Ichiro just broke an 0 for 16 slump with a triple.
Go Mighty Ducks!
here’s what I think of the Mighty Ducks :fu:
I like the jingle that Remax uses for their ad. Any musicolologists out there who can explain the attraction?
Marc is on!
Cinco de Mayo being explained, it’s a minor holiday. I think it’s a bigger holiday along the border communities, in Mexico City when I stayed there it was barely acknowledged
still there…Nicki…anyone? Too many commercials 🙁
🙁
I’m on the ghetto blog…
I went over to the maron blog. Too snooty there.
I’m here, going back and forth between the two blogs.
:peace:
yeah, I just checked it. I don’t even have a nickname there (I don’t think)
What’s your moniker on the maron blog?
oh yes, wait, I’m SueCartoon. But should I bother, I don’t know… Porter Goss being discussed, CIA’s morale is destroyed.
don’t think I’ve ever posted there, or if I have it’s a long time ago
Hope Sean made it to the show.
Maybe we’ll get a picture of :rabbi:, Sean and the :fire:
wheel of anger!
Isi, can you explain to me what the firetruck means? I’m relatively new here, that one keeps flying over my head :tongue:
that page (Marc Maron) is loading verrrry slowly, oh well
there will be a picture of me and the :rabbi:
yay, Sean!
:banana: Hey Sean!
Susan, Sean would probably be better at explaining it than me.
LOL, ok
john kerry stole my shoe! firetruck!
The truth is, I hate to admit it, but I missed the origin of the firetruck. I think it may have something to do with interviewing this guy on the street, and he’s saying “Talk about the issues, we’re fighting for our lives here.” And, in the background a firetruck is blaring by.
Me = :sammy: (stupid)
:banana:john kerry bad bad john kerry dum dum john kerry kills babies!
that makes some kind of sense, ok…:fire:
ok well here this ought to clear things up!
I don’t know what firetruck means either. It was explained to me once; but it did not stick. Hell. I finally grasped the meaning of the phrase “Jump the Shark”.
Boilerplate, anyone?
marc the shark! yay with cheese please! land of the free lunch jose can you see? speak english!
John Kerry and firetruck. Yes, they go naturally together, of course, why didn’t I think of that :tongue::mrgreen:
Listened to the “firetruck” clip. God, I miss Morning Sedition.:omg:
Radio Haliburton where the truth hurts 🙂
I lost the Goddamn stream!
I accidently hit the mute button.
I miss it too! MMM weird vision of Marc with tights. They’re not tights, surrrre Marc 🙂 Buttless pants, woohooooo
I miss Marc’s dream diary
Johnny K Street is wayy cool, yeah
I dig Johnny K Street. I need a best of Morning Sedition CD.
Pundicunt!:omg:
Hey, if the name fits…
Colbert is getting fried by the pundits. This is humorous. But boilerplate. Dog of the Week!
If the Dems cant win back the House and Senate, it is because that party is lame.
Schweitzer.
What is aspertame?
retardation is good for this country. Sheesh. It’s a bigger problem than just asparatine
it’s an artificial sweetener in lots of foods, diet soda especially…
grrrr democrats, don’t get me started. I’m so disgusted
Shut Up. Stephanie!:fu:
What do cigars have to do with aspertame?
Man, two hours is gone already? 🙁
I didn’t catch that about cigars. Nothing that I know :doh:
I can’t stand Paul Reickhoff.
:fu:
computer froze for a minute :omg:
marc said that once the goldfuck being gone is figured out he should be on the xm!
oh wow, I must be at least 50 percent ghetto, let me see here…
I think that goldfuck killed Morning Sed. to make AAR profitable. There were people who backed his decision.
so Sean, how many Morning Seditionists were at the Marc event? That is so very cool
Goldschizzle. Yuppie mo’fo. Friend of Imus. Conspirator. Enemy.
lets see there was me and me and uh me quietgirl couldnt make it and krista uh she couldnt either i barely made it stupid gas station guy wouldnt take 20 bucks to let me park then he wouldnt take 40 then i left and went and parked on this side street hey damn it no i will write about it tomorrow! must go sleep!
kay, goodnight Seanie Sean, glad you got to see him anyway 🙂
Goldberg is a friend of Michael Lerner. I trash goldfuck as much as the next person, but I really don’t know what to think about him.
evil hookers everywhere i look! if only svetlana was here!
Sleep calls Suzie, I actually have to work a few hours tomorrow (or today is more like it) Goodnight seditionists s :sheep:
Night Nicki and Seanie :tongue:
Imus got good play when he trashed Clinton. :omg:
stupid music exec music execs have absolutely no vision its like mr said they havent evolved beyond salamanders or something cant remember exactly unless that is what he said maybe? i dont know! ok well im gonna listen to some maron and go sleep sleep later sheeple!
come on,
move over to Saturday!