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45487. judithathome - 12/5/2012 7:48:28 PM I'm with you on the Blue Texas....we dreamers need to stick together! 45488. robertjayb - 12/5/2012 7:52:49 PM Jack Brooks
Maybe??? 45489. Wombat - 12/5/2012 9:38:09 PM I think I'll miss Dave Brubeck more, not being a Texas politics afficianado. 45490. Wombat - 12/5/2012 9:43:47 PM 49% of Republicans reportedly believe that Acorn helped steal THIS election. The Tea Party effect continues to lower the national IQ. 45491. judithathome - 12/5/2012 11:26:07 PM It's absolutely insane that they believe this...ACORN isn't even ACTIVE any longer! 45492. bhelpuri - 12/6/2012 1:23:45 PM Ah Dave Brubeck. Since this is the Politics thread, let's remember he was sent by the USIS on a global "win over the natives tour" when he visited Bombay, India (my very young parents were in attendance as a secret couple) and learned the very same riff that powers Take Five.
See: Battleground Bombay: Hot Jazz and the Cold War http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=961 45493. bhelpuri - 12/6/2012 1:25:30 PM Glad to see Brubeck remembered. I will be playing his music (but not Take Five) very loud this evening on the Mandovi riverfront. 45494. bhelpuri - 12/6/2012 1:26:54 PM Thinking about it a bit more, it seems that Brubeck did win over at least this native and his whole family! Viva CIA.
45495. bhelpuri - 12/6/2012 1:30:05 PM Strangely, the CIA does not seem quite as enthusiastic any more about projecting someone like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer who would indeed make a huge difference. Oh for the good old Cold War days... 45496. robertjayb - 12/6/2012 6:10:21 PM Booman says DeMint out...
Well, this is just weird. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina is resigning from the Senate in January to take the top spot at the Heritage Foundation. Governor Nikki Haley will select his replacement and there will be a special election in 2014 for the right to serve out the last two years of DeMint's term.
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In any case, I am glad to see DeMint leave the Senate. He's an irredeemable bastard. I just hope Haley doesn't make Joe "You Lie" Wilson his replacement.
(Booman Tribune) 45497. judithathome - 12/6/2012 7:00:19 PM Nikki Hayley is a bit of an ass, herself... 45498. Wombat - 12/6/2012 9:24:11 PM I wonder what undercurrents are roiling the Republican Party? Some bull goose loony--as opposed to run-of-the-mill loony--Republican congressment got kicked of committees. 45499. judithathome - 12/6/2012 9:30:23 PM I've been telling people to watch out for Iago Eric Cantor...he is after Boehner's job big time. 45500. robertjayb - 12/6/2012 10:22:54 PM Yes, Cantor is bad news.
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WRT DeMint, Juanita Jean posts that the head of the Heritage Foundation makes more than a million a year.
Could this be true? 45501. Wombat - 12/6/2012 10:40:39 PM I'm sure it is. Heritage Foundation is a wingnut welfare sinecure. 45502. concerned - 12/7/2012 1:38:08 AM Your hypocrisy is showing. You have no problems with Lefty heads of foundations making ten times as much. 45503. concerned - 12/7/2012 1:48:00 AM Gallup's unadjusted unemployment for November shows an uptick of nearly a full point, to 8.3%, over October's number.
The Gallup article, unsurprisingly, says that such a large increase is 'unexpected'. Actually, this increase is 'unexpected' only to those who are 0bama bootlickers. Wombat can tell you that 0bama's boots taste like his own ass.
Of course, 0bama will deny all responsibility. He'll point the finger of blame at the administration that has been in power for the last four years, where 0bama is president. That should make perfect sense to Lefty idiots. 45504. concerned - 12/7/2012 2:00:09 AM You Lefties will claim that Socialism has done great things for the world, never mind the 150,000,000 excess deaths resulting from it during the 20th Century.
For instance, Socialists are proud of the fact that they made the trains run on time. In fact, the trains to Auschwitz have a perfect record here. 45505. concerned - 12/7/2012 2:04:44 AM Re. 45503 -
"adjusted" 45506. concerned - 12/7/2012 2:15:09 AM It's been reported in a Washington Post blog that George Zimmerman is suing NBC over their reporting of the Trayvon Martin incident.
excerpt:
Lawyers for George Zimmerman filed suit today against NBC Universal Media over a well-publicized editing error that portrayed their client in racist terms in his pursuit of Trayvon Martin on a drizzly evening in February.
“NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so to set about the myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain,” states the civil complaint in its opening salvo against NBC.
NBC’s editing of the 911 audiotape in the Martin case became a public fixation after the media-monitoring Web site NewsBusters.org noted editing oddities on a “Today” show broadcast March 27. Here’s how NBC News portrayed the audiotape:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.
The full tape went like this:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
Zimmerman thus didn’t volunteer a racial profile of Martin; he was asked to provide it, a point that the lawsuit makes in colorful fashion: “NBC created this false and defamatory misimpression using the oldest form of yellow journalism: manipulating Zimmerman’s own words, splicing together disparate parts of the recording to create illusions of statements that Zimmerman never actually made.”
The suit against NBC alleges four other instances in which NBC-produced shows aired false and defamatory versions of the same events. Zimmerman faces a second-degree murder charge in the case.
The botched edits, charges the suit, were far from innocent mistakes: “Defendants pounced on the Zimmerman/Martin matter because they knew this tragedy could be, with proper sensationalizing and manipulation, a racial powderkeg that would result in months, if not years, of topics for their failing news programs, particularly the plummeting ratings for their ailing “Today Show” as well as for the individual defendants to “make their mark” for reporting a [manipulated] story such as this.” Individual defendants are Lilia Luciano and Jeff Burnside, NBC employees involved in early cases of Zimmerman mis-editing.
No apologies have been forthcoming to Zimmerman from the wrongdoers, including Spike Lee and the NBPP who have been encouraging vigilante action against Zimmerman.
Justice demands that Zimmerman receive a large multimillion dollar settlement from NBC that will allow him to come out of hiding and live securely for the rest of his life.
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