The Howling Open Thread

So Howlers - How You Doin'? :D and here's a tune that is near... (3.00 / 1)

and dear to my heart! It's a great new tune:

--poligirl  :D

(-5.75,-4.92) "Compromise sounds a lot like capitulation, doesn't it?" --Elizabeth Edwards

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by: poligirl @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 20:59:02 PM CST

hey poligirl (3.00 / 2)

I'm rooting for the Saints too, even though I'm not that into football, but I do watch the Super Bowl.

I think it's surprising, but I'm relieved to hear Al Franken(who hasn't really criticized this administration ehre enough IMO) is upset with this administration's lack of leadership along with Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown and confronted Axelrod:

Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) put pointed health-care-related questions to senior adviser David Axelrod following Obama's speech, multiple sources tell the Huffington Post. He was echoed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-V.T.) The gist of their concern was that the administration has not shown enough leadership to get legislation passed through Congress in the wake of the party's defeat in the Massachusetts Senate election. Franken insisted that "he really needed to know if the White House was going to lead," according to one Democratic aide.

Axelrod, by several accounts, didn't give a response that Franken found sufficient. And as the two continued to talk, Sanders eventually jumped in.

"My message is that the current strategy is failing and we have to stop being on the defensive," Sanders said, in a statement to the Huffington Post. "We also need to realize we're not going to get 60 votes for anything, so we have to look at a very broad, omnibus-like reconciliation bill -- including health care and jobs -- that will pass the Senate with 51 votes."

This song is great. I hope aid is moving faster in Haiti:

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by: priceman @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 21:38:34 PM CST

hey priceman! glad to hear yer rootin' for the Saints! :D (3.00 / 2)

and was also proud of Franken for standing up for what's right even though he is a freshman Senator. the man's got cajones! geaux Al!

and great tune too!

--poligirl  :D

(-5.75,-4.92) "Compromise sounds a lot like capitulation, doesn't it?" --Elizabeth Edwards

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by: poligirl @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 22:05:06 PM CST

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Indeed :D (3.00 / 1)

I'm also watching Maddow in NOLA as we speak.

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by: priceman @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 22:09:50 PM CST

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Al Franken does his homework and has the eyes of the nation on him (3.00 / 1)

because of his background. He knows how to use the spotlight and how to speak in sound bites. More power to Al!

By the way, I was impressed with how readable the late Professor Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of American Empire, was. It is in comic book format. A had heard/read of bits and pieces of the history in the past, but it was sobering to skim it all in two days. It should be a companion piece to all the text books assigned to students in high school.

Think there also should be a parallel companion piece to World History and the Old Testament, lol.

Abstinence programs breed hypocrites.

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by: OklahomaVoter @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 22:54:45 PM CST

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Indeed. :D (0.00 / 0)

that's when he really got political for a number of years before his run, though he always has been when he wrote the definitive book relevant today about Russ Limbaugh being a big fat idiot.

Wow, that is especially awesome to me. I will have to buy A Peoples' History of the American Empire in Comic book form(I love comics as I am working on one about the Democratic Primary on and off as we speak inbetween my time working on animation).

Howard Zinn's history should be a companion to all text books in high school, because he lets the people's words as in hear the People Speak not too long ago in history on the History Channel(We are blessed that he was able to finish that series before his passing) tell it from their perspective and they were actually there.

You know what? There is if you can believe it. I have it and it's great.

http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-...

And from one of my favorites, Robert Crumb illustrates the Old Testament. I'm definitely getting this.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/...

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by: priceman @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 23:20:06 PM CST

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Am rooting for the Saints in deference to poligirl and what happened (3.00 / 2)

after Katrina to give New Orleans a cheering, unifying victory. Haven't watched a single football game this season.

Am reading The Shadow Elite by Janine R. Wedel. The theme is that much of government has been privatized over the last decade and that these quasi private entities are sorely lacking in oversight and often are subject to serious conflicts of interest and missing principles. The well-paid head players within these organizations often tend to be shape-shifters with extensive networks, competing loyalties, and few scruples. On an international level, these players can privatize public resources, move assets about like chess pieces, and remain unaccountable.


Abstinence programs breed hypocrites.

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by: OklahomaVoter @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 22:45:05 PM CST

hey OKV! sound like a great book, and a scary one... (3.00 / 2)

the world is becoming too corporate...

and LE and i thank you for rootin' for our home team! geaux Saints!

--poligirl  :D

(-5.75,-4.92) "Compromise sounds a lot like capitulation, doesn't it?" --Elizabeth Edwards

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by: poligirl @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 22:50:04 PM CST

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The Neocons were prime examples (3.00 / 1)

of network builders, influence peddlers, and policy makers with ties to academia, American government, foreign government, think tanks, and the military. Through it all, they pursued their private agendas and protected each other. They crash through like bulls in a crystal shop and emerge from the exits largely unscathed. Amazing.


Abstinence programs breed hypocrites.

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by: OklahomaVoter @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 23:10:08 PM CST

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In mid-January an ice sheet the size of Rhode Island broke up (3.00 / 1)

in just a matter of a few days.

Wonder if that made the news anywhere?

Abstinence programs breed hypocrites.

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by: OklahomaVoter @ Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 23:37:18 PM CST