This is why I love John Stewart
Why does a comedian have to do this?
Why doesn’t our news media do this?
Why don’t they question the lies, and make an example of the people who mislead us.
Thank you John.
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“I don’t even know if there are any black people in alaska.”
Thanks Diddy. Well said.
… and the video is off line, damn it
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MUST-SEE TV: Top GOP pundits on accidental open-mic say Palin pick is ‘bullshit,’ race ‘is over’
Straight up copy from Americablog, to spread the word…
Here’s the transcript, courtesy of TPM:
CHUCK TODD: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she’s the right woman for the job Up next, one man who’s already convinced and he’ll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.
(cut away)PEGGY NOONAN: Yeah.
MIKE MURPHY: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys — this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work. And –
PEGGY NOONAN: It’s over.
MIKE MURPHY: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CHUCK TODD: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PEGGY NOONAN: Saw Kay this morning.
CHUCK TODD: Yeah, she’s never looked comfortable about this –
MIKE MURPHY: They’re all bummed out.
CHUCK TODD: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PEGGY NOONAN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this — excuse me– political bullshit about narratives –
CHUCK TODD: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MIKE MURPHY: I totally agree.
PEGGY NOONAN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.
MIKE MURPHY: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CHUCK TODD: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
MIKE MURPHY: Yeah.
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Paris Hilton for President.
See more funny videos at Funny or DieFor the purpose of humor, I’ll ignore how flawed her energy plan is, and just celebrate the great joke
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duran
Its over.
This morning, approx 10am, my mother was granted “Relief” from deportation proceedings. She was deemed as someone who has contributed to the good of the state, and the country, and that removal from the United States is not what should happen to her. The terms are funny, and that we have to SEEK releif from deportation, instead of some other term makes my head spin a little.
At this time she is still waiting to get her passport back (takes a week+ to dig it out of the vault apparently…), and at that point she is as free and and able to do anything she wants to at any time, as though the threat of deportation was not hanging over her head any more
.The hour of court time was stressful, scary, but in the end a great relief.
I’ve never imagined that I would need to hear the words from our government that my mother, of all people, would be “… Allowed to stay in the United States.”My emotions through this process have been, across the spectrum, to say the least. Ranging from sadness, dispair, rage, frustration, confusion, anger… you name it.
Today, despite my rather rabid attitudes about the way our country is being run today, I found solace in the judicial system that we have. While the rules that exist that caught my mother, I feel are very strict, and the people enforcing them are just a few steps away from high school bullies… That when it comes down to it, we have a system, that while imperfect, allows for the presentation of the case to defend your self. We are on the far end spectrum of luck and circumstance with the gracious patronage we’ve received in this chain of events, but that even with out that luck and gift, that we had a chance to present our case in front of a judge, who would hear our argument and make a fair judgment on the issue, is a blessing that no American can afford to forget.
On one hand this reassures my faith in the system we live in.
On the other it makes me even more upset people don’t realize how lucky we are to live in a country with the laws and system it has.Today though, politics aside. is a great day. And I’m so happy. So very very happy.
duran
The Mom Story.
Thursday afternoon my phone rings. “Hi mom” I say…
I’ll skip over a paraphrased dialog, and get right to the point.
Thursday morning, the Judge in our case called our lawyer, and told him that the original scheduled date for Aug 21 couldn’t happen… And that unless we wanted to wait until February, the only day that works was Friday.
Yes, this friday. Aug 1st, 2008.
So, tomorrow at 830 we sit down in court, and hopefully, with all things crossed and everything else being fair, we should have a relatively short morning in court, and my mom should be free as a bird at that point.
My self, my brother, and a few other people have taken the extremely short notice and are going to show up tomorrow for any testimony that needs to happen. We have a whole stack of letters for the case written by a number of people who have been in our lives for all the years I can remember. Every one who has some sort of knowledge, who hears the case even if informaly agrees that none of this should be happening, and that as soon as the judge sees the full accounting of the facts, that they should, with all sanity, dismiss the charges.
I mean, whats the other option?
I will, of course, update this as soon as I hear more.
Thanks.
duran
Stop HR 6304, the FISA amendments act of 2008. Click the link, help support your rights as a citizen.
Tell Senator Obama: Hang up on Big Telecom
This week, Senators Dodd and Feingold won a battle in the fight to stop the FISA capitulation. In an attempt to stop retroactive telecom immunity, they delayed a vote on the bill until after the July 4th recess. This buys us more time to shore up the votes needed to defeat the bill. However, it’s unlikely we’ll succeed without real support from leaders in Congress, most of whom have already abandoned us.
Senator Reid caved in long ago, and Speaker Pelosi folded just last week. There is one leader left who could make a difference and support our cause: Senator Barack Obama.
Back in December, Senator Obama’s office released a statement that he “unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies.”1 On Wednesday, however, Obama said in a press conference that “My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people.”2
Senator Obama still has time to make this right, but it won’t happen unless we all work together to hold him accountable.
The delay in the FISA vote gives senators a new chance to stand up for the Constitution — will Senator Obama stand with them? Sign this petition and urge Senator Obama to vote his conscience and stand by his previous statement: No retroactive immunity for telecoms. No caving on the constitution.
Sources:
1 Senator Obama’s statement on retroactive immunity from December 17, 2007.
2 Video and selected text of Senator Obama’s press conference from June 25, 2008.
duran
On the economy…
The US Treasury Dept is preparing a new five dollar bill. (click the thumbnail to see the full size)
ben 8:29 am on September 4, 2008 Permalink
What? Well said?
What was well-said in there? “My name is P-Diddy, Sir Rock Obama [Jeez, he remixes other people's names too?], and John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? There are no black people in Alaska! John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? There are no black people in Alaska! John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? John McCain is bugging the fuck out. Alaska? There are no black people in Alaska!”
That’s well-said? You have lower standards than I thought you did.
duran 4:21 pm on September 9, 2008 Permalink
Sean Puffy Comes, or P-Ditty, or Puff Daddy, or what ever his name is, actually has something to say. And in his own way of saying it is voicing the anger, frustration, pain, and embarassment of a huge segment of the population.
Sure, he’s off color, sure he makes some wild statements, but behind it is a real feeling.
A feeling that America is in a really bad place, and its being led by really bad people, and its getting worse.
He’s a rapper, writer and musician. He has a channel to share those feelings, and he’s using it.
Sarah Palin is a stark, blinding example of how unprepared and extreme John McCain is, and his over arching obsession with winning this election, and how its destroying his standards and making him just as bad if not worse then George W. Bush.
Puff Daddy is just sharing his view on that.
And, since I agree with him, even if its off color, and a little hyperbolic at times…. I want to help spread the word.
And yeah.
John McCain IS bugging the fuck out.
ben 9:32 pm on September 9, 2008 Permalink
No doubt, P-diddy has something to say. There’s no doubt he has the money, he has the forum, he has the audience. (”Tell ‘em diddy said BK is open late.”)
I’m saying, in 4 minutes he pretty much said almost exactly what I quoted above.
Now, he’s since apologized (having been shown actual black people who lived in Alaska. I’m watching the apology, and hell, he sounds sincere enough. He explains his motives (”I wasn’t being serious”) and gets to the meat of the message. IIRC he had to explain himself with the gas prices vidblog, too. If you have to explain yourself multiple times to your audience, I posit that you either (a) are saying it wrong, or (b) need to find a new audience. As an aside, I’d also imagine that most of his fans will take him literally. It’s a side effect of the dumbing down of America, which is part of his livelihood.
You know what? I’d have a bit more respect for his message if he said it better. Repeating the “bugging the fuck out” and “no black people in alaska” lines over and over don’t articulate his position as well as, say, you did. Heck, have him put it in a rap with a catchy beat and some 1960s rock riffs behind it like he does with other songs.
Basically what I’m saying is that I don’t disagree with what Diddy was TRYING to say, I disagree with his claims that he actually SAID it. But still, he’s no Kanye West, so I’ll give him credit.
ben 10:20 pm on September 9, 2008 Permalink
OBTW. I’ll give him much credit for his comments about moving the young to register and vote. I hope he is successful where most of the other movements seem to have fallen by the wayside.