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Hello Mudflatters!
After a blissfully unevntful flight we’ve arrived in Vegas. Bone tired and strugglng to stay awake! Chat on, and I’ll tune back in when the brain is functioning!
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Hello Mudflatters!
After a blissfully unevntful flight we’ve arrived in Vegas. Bone tired and strugglng to stay awake! Chat on, and I’ll tune back in when the brain is functioning!
I had many ‘controlled’ screams at the radio and TV today. It seemed all were talking about the ‘Sherrod incident’ and all were trying to figure out if the WH-Admin-Ag Dept-NAACP was/were out of line *or* if the GOP-T Baggys-Briebart was/were. Those were the two options. Only.
What I was yelling at the radio and TV, was what some have mentioned on this thread… the media –from ABC, to NBC, to CBS, to NPR, to our local newspaper, all those in between– are equally culpable; possibly even *more* culpable.
Had even *one* of them stopped to investigate what they were reporting *to the masses!* before they reported it, the ‘story’ would have been told in a totally different voice. The story would have been that, once *again*, a website had posted a heavily edited video and unsuspecting people were being exposed to what was obviously a fabrication *specifically* intended to thoroughly discredit an employee of the US Department of Agriculture.
But, no.
Instead, all of them picked up –as totally, fully, and wholly legit– what Briebart posted online. And they ran with it. Lazy!, lazy!, lazy! and completely unworthy of the profession they’ve chosen to practice….leastwise as the profession was before the advent of instantaneous ‘news’ via the intertubes and the whole www thingy.
Hell, even I know that when you do the googles on something, if the first 3, 4, 5, or more links that pop up have the *exact* same wording, there is something a bit screwy…that they (the links that pop up in response to your query) are all from the *same* source and Cannot be used/trusted *unless* you investigate further (like go to the *source* for confirmation and/or to the *parts* making up/reported by said source, to make Sure all the parts ‘fit’ and are all legit.)
I think, I hope, this’ll be a lesson to the DNC/Admin/’liberals’ to *not* –ever again!– take as legit *and* actionable the cr@p spewed by the likes of Briebart, Faux, Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, etal, without *first* checking it out six-ways-from-Sunday. They’ve already fallen for the [completely manufactured!] ‘outrage’ over ACORN and Van Jones — hopefully ‘third time’s the charm’ and they’ll finally “get it” this time.
I hope, even more!, that ALL the media will learn from this…and, if not, that ‘we’ will keep their feet to the fire until they do. There is *no* excuse for the media to spread total falsehoods to the public just because they are too lazy to bother actually *investigating* the story *Before* they report it. (Well, except for ‘Fox: The mouthpiece of, and for, the perpetually outraged and the terminally stupid’ — I don’t know if they’d be able to tell the complete, whole, and full truth about the vast majority of things even if they had a twinge of conscience pestering them, anyway…it’s all about the ratings, don’cha know, nothing else.)
Guarandamntee, once the media starts (again!) holding their *sources* to standards of honesty, the likes of Briebart, Palin, et al, will become the laughing stock to the *entire* nation that they already are to us. They’ll fade into the garbage heap, irrelevance, and obscurity in which they belong.
‘sides, which, I *really* don’t like yelling at my radio and TV. People look at me most strangely when I do. beth..
beth I do not disagree with you, but will be a little bit of a devil’s advocate here.
It’s only been maybe ten-fifteen years now that we’ve had a 24/7 news cycle AND massive consumer access to internet with feedback (kinda like what we’re doing right now). This is still really a new animal and we (and our candidates, representatives and POTUS) are going to have to adjust to it.
That being said, naturally there is no manual. There are no instructions. We are making it up as we go along, and the current administration is making the best guesses it can as to how things will ‘play’ with the public, in, as KO says, ‘this atmosphere’. Mistakes can be made and clearly were in this case.
The clear answer to “how can we keep from making this mistake again?” is to take time to talk to the people involve, take time to investigate, take time to research the facts before you make a big judgement.
Taking time, is unfortunately at odds with today’s news atitude that if one does not get the story out right away, they lose.
But the fact is, the taking of at least a little time is the right thing. Everyone should do it. We should all do it.
I had many ‘controlled’ screams at the radio and TV today. It seemed all were talking about the ‘Sherrod incident’ and all were trying to figure out if the WH-Admin-Ag Dept-NAACP was/were out of line *or* if the GOP-T Baggys-Briebart was/were. Those were the two options. Only.
What I was yelling at the radio and TV, was what some have mentioned on this thread… the media –from ABC, to NBC, to CBS, to NPR, to our local newspaper, all those in between– are equally culpable; possibly even *more* culpable.
Had even *one* of them stopped to investigate what they were reporting *to the masses!* before they reported it, the ‘story’ would have been told in a totally different voice. The story would have been that, once *again*, a website had posted a heavily edited video and unsuspecting people were being exposed to what was obviously a fabrication *specifically* intended to thoroughly discredit an employee of the US Department of Agriculture.
But, no.
Instead, all of them picked up –as totally, fully, and wholly legit– what Briebart posted online. And they ran with it. Lazy!, lazy!, lazy! and completely unworthy of the profession they’ve chosen to practice….leastwise as the profession was before the advent of instantaneous ‘news’ via the intertubes and the whole www thingy.
Hell, even I know that when you do the googles on something, if the first 3, 4, 5, or more links that pop up have the *exact* same wording, there is something a bit screwy…that they (the links that pop up in response to your query) are all from the *same* source and Cannot be used/trusted *unless* you investigate further (like go to the *source* for confirmation and/or to the *parts* making up/reported by said source, to make Sure all the parts ‘fit’ and are all legit.)
I think, I hope, this’ll be a lesson to the DNC/Admin/’liberals’ to *not* –ever again!– take as legit *and* actionable the cr@p spewed by the likes of Briebart, Faux, Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, etal, without *first* checking it out six-ways-from-Sunday. They’ve already fallen for the [completely manufactured!] ‘outrage’ over ACORN and Van Jones — hopefully ‘third time’s the charm’ and they’ll finally “get it” this time.
I hope, even more!, that ALL the media will learn from this…and, if not, that ‘we’ will keep their feet to the fire until they do. There is *no* excuse for the media to spread total falsehoods to the public just because they are too lazy to bother actually *investigating* the story *Before* they report it. (Well, except for ‘Fox: The mouthpiece of, and for, the perpetually outraged and the terminally stupid’ — I don’t know if they’d be able to tell the complete, whole, and full truth about the vast majority of things even if they had a twinge of conscience pestering them, anyway…it’s all about the ratings, don’cha know, nothing else.)
Guarandamntee, once the media starts (again!) holding their *sources* to standards of honesty, the likes of Briebart, Palin, et al, will become the laughing stock to the *entire* nation that they already are to us. They’ll fade into the garbage heap, irrelevance, and obscurity in which they belong.
‘sides, which, I *really* don’t like yelling at my radio and TV. People look at me most strangely when I do. beth..
beth I do not disagree with you, but will be a little bit of a devil’s advocate here.
It’s only been maybe ten-fifteen years now that we’ve had a 24/7 news cycle AND massive consumer access to internet with feedback (kinda like what we’re doing right now). This is still really a new animal and we (and our candidates, representatives and POTUS) are going to have to adjust to it.
That being said, naturally there is no manual. There are no instructions. We are making it up as we go along, and the current administration is making the best guesses it can as to how things will ‘play’ with the public, in, as KO says, ‘this atmosphere’. Mistakes can be made and clearly were in this case.
The clear answer to “how can we keep from making this mistake again?” is to take time to talk to the people involve, take time to investigate, take time to research the facts before you make a big judgement.
Taking time, is unfortunately at odds with today’s news atitude that if one does not get the story out right away, they lose.
But the fact is, the taking of at least a little time is the right thing. Everyone should do it. We should all do it.
Does anyone familiar with the AK rules know if you have a kid who is not Native and they’ve been getting health care as though they are, what happens? That seems like insurance fraud, to me. But if the kid is adopted? What are the rules for covering the non-Native adopted kid? Was Menard part Native? Any one know? Could this be the Al Capone moment?
Does anyone familiar with the AK rules know if you have a kid who is not Native and they’ve been getting health care as though they are, what happens? That seems like insurance fraud, to me. But if the kid is adopted? What are the rules for covering the non-Native adopted kid? Was Menard part Native? Any one know? Could this be the Al Capone moment?
We love you too, Kilia.
We love you too, Kilia.
Thank you all for the lovely condolences- I love you all very much!
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(((hugs and love))))
Peace and my most sincere condolences to you and your loved ones.
Thank you all for the lovely condolences- I love you all very much!
<3
(((hugs and love))))
Peace and my most sincere condolences to you and your loved ones.
May be interested in a drop in @ Palingates….
Interesting post …..
sorry — that may not be allowed ;(
May be interested in a drop in @ Palingates….
Interesting post …..
sorry — that may not be allowed ;(
NPR: no drilling in Chukchi (sp).
NPR: no drilling in Chukchi (sp).
Netroots should have a multi-day round table/brainstorming of what can be done in situations where out of context video or quotes is used. Containg specific good strtegies for the accused, employers of the accused, and groups associated with the accused (past and present).
Maybe I’m not expressing what I mean very well, but if there were a manual (or rather, a short pamphlet) on “what evidence should be checked before just believing what you see when watching any edited video” the over-reaction portion of this travesty probably would never have happened.
True, though, if they knew FOX news’ source was Breitbart, that shoyuld have raised the red flag right there to check it out first, let her at least tell her side of the story, before sacking her.
I hope they (WH and Dems) use this a seriously learning-filled teachable moment.
Netroots should have a multi-day round table/brainstorming of what can be done in situations where out of context video or quotes is used. Containg specific good strtegies for the accused, employers of the accused, and groups associated with the accused (past and present).
Maybe I’m not expressing what I mean very well, but if there were a manual (or rather, a short pamphlet) on “what evidence should be checked before just believing what you see when watching any edited video” the over-reaction portion of this travesty probably would never have happened.
True, though, if they knew FOX news’ source was Breitbart, that shoyuld have raised the red flag right there to check it out first, let her at least tell her side of the story, before sacking her.
I hope they (WH and Dems) use this a seriously learning-filled teachable moment.
Rachel is totally rocking tonight. One of her better shows. She is calling out Fox News and doing a damn good job of it. I absolutely love her!!!
AKM, hope you are having a great time in Hot Vegas. Stay inside and drink lots of liquids (preferably fun ones!).
Rachel is totally rocking tonight. One of her better shows. She is calling out Fox News and doing a damn good job of it. I absolutely love her!!!
AKM, hope you are having a great time in Hot Vegas. Stay inside and drink lots of liquids (preferably fun ones!).
*”On behalf of our administration, I offer an apology,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said during Wednesday’s daily briefing, acknowledging that the administration had not seen a full tape of Sherrod’s comments prior to Tuesday evening. “Look, a disservice was done, an apology is owed. That’s what we’ve done.”
Gibbs relayed that Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack had been trying to speak to Sherrod on the phone. And later in the day, the Secretary held a press conference of his own during which he relayed that he had, indeed, talked to Sherrod, offered to hire her back, and apologized profusely for the episode.*
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/gibbs-apologizes-to-shirl_n_654623.html
*”On behalf of our administration, I offer an apology,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said during Wednesday’s daily briefing, acknowledging that the administration had not seen a full tape of Sherrod’s comments prior to Tuesday evening. “Look, a disservice was done, an apology is owed. That’s what we’ve done.”
Gibbs relayed that Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack had been trying to speak to Sherrod on the phone. And later in the day, the Secretary held a press conference of his own during which he relayed that he had, indeed, talked to Sherrod, offered to hire her back, and apologized profusely for the episode.*
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/gibbs-apologizes-to-shirl_n_654623.html
AKM and Shannyn – Have a blast in Vegas – I cannot attend Netroots this year (and I am less than an hour away via airplane). Meeting you last year in Pittsburgh was amazing, and I cherish that time.
I had a dream that AKM put $5 on #5 on the roulette wheel, and she won – hey, you never know!
Looking forward to updates from Vegas, and please give my regards to “K,” aka “enough with the trainwreck.”
AKM and Shannyn – Have a blast in Vegas – I cannot attend Netroots this year (and I am less than an hour away via airplane). Meeting you last year in Pittsburgh was amazing, and I cherish that time.
I had a dream that AKM put $5 on #5 on the roulette wheel, and she won – hey, you never know!
Looking forward to updates from Vegas, and please give my regards to “K,” aka “enough with the trainwreck.”
This was posted after someone read an article about Palin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
This was posted after someone read an article about Palin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
Sherrod goes after blogger and Fox:
http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201007210037
Could go after the blogger but Faux noise won a suit by claiming they were an infotainment station not a news station,but maybe it’s time to make them say it again and in big bold letters Fox is an entertainment station and everything is just opinion not truth .JMO
Sherrod goes after blogger and Fox:
http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201007210037
Could go after the blogger but Faux noise won a suit by claiming they were an infotainment station not a news station,but maybe it’s time to make them say it again and in big bold letters Fox is an entertainment station and everything is just opinion not truth .JMO
Here’s a link to a story about teachers in TX. Great.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/texas-teachers-taking-sec_n_654444.html
Our neighbor has her parents living w/her/husband/2 kids. Her mother just got a job as a teacher’s aide in a 9th grade class for students w/behavioural difficulties. $13,000/yr. Astonishing. That’s less than her husband gets on disability. At least he isn’t a teabagger.
And a couple of days ago while driving down the road saw two cars following each other, local constables, one of them driving a brand new camaro, the other a brand new mustang. What, the standard (cheaper) cop cars aren’t good enough anymore? I don’t get it.
And of course while shopping for school supplies yesterday on our list (among many other things): a ream of copy paper, clorox wipes, baby wipes, dry erase markers. WHAT IN THE WORLD? It’s been a long time since I had to purchase grade school supplies (daughter #1 is entering year 2 of uni this fall), and I remember having to supply her with her own box of kleenex, and I can live with that, but copy paper? Clorox wipes? Dry erase markers? What next, toilet paper?
Meanwhile teacher’s aides get $13k/yr and constables driving brand new sports cars.
And let me point out that our little pocket of tx has 90,000 people, and the average family income is probably over $150k/yr, average education is masters.
Here’s a link to a story about teachers in TX. Great.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/texas-teachers-taking-sec_n_654444.html
Our neighbor has her parents living w/her/husband/2 kids. Her mother just got a job as a teacher’s aide in a 9th grade class for students w/behavioural difficulties. $13,000/yr. Astonishing. That’s less than her husband gets on disability. At least he isn’t a teabagger.
And a couple of days ago while driving down the road saw two cars following each other, local constables, one of them driving a brand new camaro, the other a brand new mustang. What, the standard (cheaper) cop cars aren’t good enough anymore? I don’t get it.
And of course while shopping for school supplies yesterday on our list (among many other things): a ream of copy paper, clorox wipes, baby wipes, dry erase markers. WHAT IN THE WORLD? It’s been a long time since I had to purchase grade school supplies (daughter #1 is entering year 2 of uni this fall), and I remember having to supply her with her own box of kleenex, and I can live with that, but copy paper? Clorox wipes? Dry erase markers? What next, toilet paper?
Meanwhile teacher’s aides get $13k/yr and constables driving brand new sports cars.
And let me point out that our little pocket of tx has 90,000 people, and the average family income is probably over $150k/yr, average education is masters.
One writer’s “defensity” of “refudiate”:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-brody/in-defensity-of-sarah-pal_b_654475.html
Ouch, that hurt trying to read but I laughed!
Wow, do you think Dylan Brody had to take a nap after twisting his mind to write that stuff. I am awed!
I am, too, also. It was so hardster to readifiliate that writingist that pieceification must have been more fundicating.
aaaw, $p, thee jokatician th-ass reeks on runiating
Remember when mama said, “Watch out. Your face might freeze like that!” ?
Well, I’ve found myself floundering in teh word salad on more than one occasion trying to find a way out…I’d best not propulgate this bassackwards speechification, lest I get “stuck like that.” 🙂
One writer’s “defensity” of “refudiate”:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-brody/in-defensity-of-sarah-pal_b_654475.html
Ouch, that hurt trying to read but I laughed!
Wow, do you think Dylan Brody had to take a nap after twisting his mind to write that stuff. I am awed!
I am, too, also. It was so hardster to readifiliate that writingist that pieceification must have been more fundicating.
aaaw, $p, thee jokatician th-ass reeks on runiating
Remember when mama said, “Watch out. Your face might freeze like that!” ?
Well, I’ve found myself floundering in teh word salad on more than one occasion trying to find a way out…I’d best not propulgate this bassackwards speechification, lest I get “stuck like that.” 🙂
Well now, good morning mudpups. I live in a very red part of Alaska. Our local paper has a poll going about whether you would vote for SP for president in 2010. Bwahahahaha. So far the results are 28% yes and 73% No. You can go and vote and even leave a message as to why or why not. It is just a little something to make you feel good for the day (to punch that no button). Anyway, if you want to indulge, go to http://www.peninsulaclarion.com, the poll is about half way down the page on the right.
I saw an article about honey bees.Are they doing better than the ones down in especially california???I read where they were dying off for some reason.IN California that is,
Thanks for posting this, LMD. Not only can we vote, we can explain our reasons! What fun!
Well now, good morning mudpups. I live in a very red part of Alaska. Our local paper has a poll going about whether you would vote for SP for president in 2010. Bwahahahaha. So far the results are 28% yes and 73% No. You can go and vote and even leave a message as to why or why not. It is just a little something to make you feel good for the day (to punch that no button). Anyway, if you want to indulge, go to http://www.peninsulaclarion.com, the poll is about half way down the page on the right.
I saw an article about honey bees.Are they doing better than the ones down in especially california???I read where they were dying off for some reason.IN California that is,
Thanks for posting this, LMD. Not only can we vote, we can explain our reasons! What fun!
I know there’s a lot of buzz about Jeanne and Shannyn possibly meeting Al Franken. But if I may, I’d also like to recommend they seek out Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico. I went to college with him and he served as a perfect big brother (in the familial, not Orwellian sense.) He’s a great guy and I hope our gals get to meet him.
I know there’s a lot of buzz about Jeanne and Shannyn possibly meeting Al Franken. But if I may, I’d also like to recommend they seek out Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico. I went to college with him and he served as a perfect big brother (in the familial, not Orwellian sense.) He’s a great guy and I hope our gals get to meet him.
Julia O’Malley has a great article in today’s paper “The lady doth refudiate on Twitter, methinks” It has a lot of Shakepalin quotes. It’s a hoot.
Please check out Congressman Grayson’s site. He is one of the few who is standing up to the repubs and is speaking against them in congress. He is running for re-election and we need his voice. IF we had more like him, the repubs would not have achance. He quotes real numbers and facts to face down the Repubs and they don’t like it. Support him! please.
did, doing & agree
me also.I donate to people rather than party most times
Julia O’Malley has a great article in today’s paper “The lady doth refudiate on Twitter, methinks” It has a lot of Shakepalin quotes. It’s a hoot.
Please check out Congressman Grayson’s site. He is one of the few who is standing up to the repubs and is speaking against them in congress. He is running for re-election and we need his voice. IF we had more like him, the repubs would not have achance. He quotes real numbers and facts to face down the Repubs and they don’t like it. Support him! please.
did, doing & agree
me also.I donate to people rather than party most times
Check out the ShakesPalin story on Huffpost, pretty funny. She really got a lot of milage out of her refudiate remarks, but probably not the kind she was looking for! Anyone tell her yet that the accoustics in her Wasilla studio are terrible? Todd and his buddies must have screwed up on that one! Sounds like she’s talking in a tin can.
She could harangue in a perfectly tuned theatre and still sound that way!
Check out the ShakesPalin story on Huffpost, pretty funny. She really got a lot of milage out of her refudiate remarks, but probably not the kind she was looking for! Anyone tell her yet that the accoustics in her Wasilla studio are terrible? Todd and his buddies must have screwed up on that one! Sounds like she’s talking in a tin can.
She could harangue in a perfectly tuned theatre and still sound that way!
Have a great time in Vegas. Not my favorite place, but you will be with a lot of fabulous people. Yes, it’s hot, but it’s a dry heat, and building there are air-conditioned. It does always seem to be an odd place for a summer convention, given the weather. I went there in 2006 with my daughter and son-in-law for a Harry Potter convention, and we had a great time. But it would have been nice to be some place a little cooler so we could have spent some time outside.
Have a great time in Vegas. Not my favorite place, but you will be with a lot of fabulous people. Yes, it’s hot, but it’s a dry heat, and building there are air-conditioned. It does always seem to be an odd place for a summer convention, given the weather. I went there in 2006 with my daughter and son-in-law for a Harry Potter convention, and we had a great time. But it would have been nice to be some place a little cooler so we could have spent some time outside.
The legend of Sarah Palin set to music.
The Ballad Of Davey Crockett song link: http://www.televisiontunes.com/Davey_Crocket.html
THE BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN
(sung to the television theme song “Ballad Of Davey Crockett”)
Lives in a compound up in Wassilly,
Behind a big fence so Joe can’t see
She got a taste of being “Mavericky”,
So she quit her job as Alaska’s G
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the lipsticked mama bear!
Tea-Baggers follow her where she goes,
Starin’ at their tv’s when she’s on Fox shows
A Palin sighting sets them all aglow,
As she shakes their hands and then takes all their dough
Sarah, Sarah Palin, spreading her hate and fear!
Through Red State woods she’s a marchin’ along,
Makin’ up yarns like her “death panel” song
Her looks are frightenin’ and she smells quite strong,
She’s really just a liar with facts all wrong
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the brain-dead buccaneer!
Letterman said that she dresses like a whore,
Then she screamed so much that her throat got sore
She had money but she needed some more,
Got herself a Greyhound for her book tour
Sarah, Sarah Palin, profiteering pioneer!
She says the Lord is her guiding hand,
And dinosaurs co-existed with man
All those books that disagree should be banned,
That sciencey stuff she don’t understand
Sarah, Sarah Palin, logic she will not hear!
She believes that Congress should go to Hell,
She will send them there by castin’ a witch spell
Palin wants Washington to listen well,
To all those fabrications that she does tell
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the moonbat of the year!
When she goes home her politickin’ done,
Alaskans all will up and run
But Sarah will pick up her trusty gun,
And shoot up all her neighbors just for fun
Sarah, Sarah Palin, her rifle sight is clear!
She moved to Houston an’ Austin so,
To the southern states she just had to go
Tea-Baggers were fightin’ another foe,
And Sarah hates the immigrant Joe
Sarah, Sarah Palin, nativist without peer!
She’s not the smartest but she is dumbest,
Despite six schools could not pass a test
When it comes to being dumb she’s the best,
She should make her home in a cuckoo’s nest
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the lipsticked mama bear!
Your best yet, Lynnrockets – and you’ve done so many great ones, that’s saying something! Thanks for your brilliance and humor.
Bravo, Lynnrockets!
Lynnrockets!
mucho mirthful mahalo ! you made me & mine smile.
If only her show would send her parah salin’ high above AK’s biggest island, with no strings attached.
Dang, that song is going to be with me all day! Perfect, funny, sassy, and right on target for the Twit!
The legend of Sarah Palin set to music.
The Ballad Of Davey Crockett song link: http://www.televisiontunes.com/Davey_Crocket.html
THE BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN
(sung to the television theme song “Ballad Of Davey Crockett”)
Lives in a compound up in Wassilly,
Behind a big fence so Joe can’t see
She got a taste of being “Mavericky”,
So she quit her job as Alaska’s G
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the lipsticked mama bear!
Tea-Baggers follow her where she goes,
Starin’ at their tv’s when she’s on Fox shows
A Palin sighting sets them all aglow,
As she shakes their hands and then takes all their dough
Sarah, Sarah Palin, spreading her hate and fear!
Through Red State woods she’s a marchin’ along,
Makin’ up yarns like her “death panel” song
Her looks are frightenin’ and she smells quite strong,
She’s really just a liar with facts all wrong
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the brain-dead buccaneer!
Letterman said that she dresses like a whore,
Then she screamed so much that her throat got sore
She had money but she needed some more,
Got herself a Greyhound for her book tour
Sarah, Sarah Palin, profiteering pioneer!
She says the Lord is her guiding hand,
And dinosaurs co-existed with man
All those books that disagree should be banned,
That sciencey stuff she don’t understand
Sarah, Sarah Palin, logic she will not hear!
She believes that Congress should go to Hell,
She will send them there by castin’ a witch spell
Palin wants Washington to listen well,
To all those fabrications that she does tell
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the moonbat of the year!
When she goes home her politickin’ done,
Alaskans all will up and run
But Sarah will pick up her trusty gun,
And shoot up all her neighbors just for fun
Sarah, Sarah Palin, her rifle sight is clear!
She moved to Houston an’ Austin so,
To the southern states she just had to go
Tea-Baggers were fightin’ another foe,
And Sarah hates the immigrant Joe
Sarah, Sarah Palin, nativist without peer!
She’s not the smartest but she is dumbest,
Despite six schools could not pass a test
When it comes to being dumb she’s the best,
She should make her home in a cuckoo’s nest
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the lipsticked mama bear!
Your best yet, Lynnrockets – and you’ve done so many great ones, that’s saying something! Thanks for your brilliance and humor.
Bravo, Lynnrockets!
Lynnrockets!
mucho mirthful mahalo ! you made me & mine smile.
If only her show would send her parah salin’ high above AK’s biggest island, with no strings attached.
Dang, that song is going to be with me all day! Perfect, funny, sassy, and right on target for the Twit!
So glad your party arrived safely and soundly. Looking forward to Brian’s adventures, as well as yours & Shannnyn’s. Field reports are so much fun!
So glad your party arrived safely and soundly. Looking forward to Brian’s adventures, as well as yours & Shannnyn’s. Field reports are so much fun!
Just got back from Vegas — hot, hot, hot! From that trip, I recommend Mario Batali’s restaurant ENOTECA SAN MARCO in The Venetian. It’s just one floor up from The Blue Man Group box office. Take the escalator. Do enjoy. It’s just wonderful food.
Just got back from Vegas — hot, hot, hot! From that trip, I recommend Mario Batali’s restaurant ENOTECA SAN MARCO in The Venetian. It’s just one floor up from The Blue Man Group box office. Take the escalator. Do enjoy. It’s just wonderful food.
Here’s to a good trip to “the meadows” and a productive meeting.
Here’s to a good trip to “the meadows” and a productive meeting.
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now will be broadcasting live from the conference on Thursday & Friday!
http://www.DemocracyNow.org
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now will be broadcasting live from the conference on Thursday & Friday!
http://www.DemocracyNow.org
Hello, Netroots people! I hope today is a good one for you. Have fun, learnlearnlearn, and thank you for sharing with us.
Hello, Netroots people! I hope today is a good one for you. Have fun, learnlearnlearn, and thank you for sharing with us.
Have a wonderful time in Vegas! We are looking forward to reports from Netroots.
Good Morning to everyone else. I spoke to my Dad yesterday and the new pain meds are helping. Dad is finally sleeping at night. That has helped to lift his spirits and I think it will go along way to helping him fight the cancer. I want to thank all of you for your prayers. I am certain that has helped as well. I know I can feel your love. Thank you so much!
{{{{{ merrycricket and Dad }}}}}
and to Dad, sweet dreams, also, too… 🙂
good news Merrycricket! lessening of pain and healing sleep helps to enable us to fight on. sending hugs to you and dad.
Have a wonderful time in Vegas! We are looking forward to reports from Netroots.
Good Morning to everyone else. I spoke to my Dad yesterday and the new pain meds are helping. Dad is finally sleeping at night. That has helped to lift his spirits and I think it will go along way to helping him fight the cancer. I want to thank all of you for your prayers. I am certain that has helped as well. I know I can feel your love. Thank you so much!
{{{{{ merrycricket and Dad }}}}}
and to Dad, sweet dreams, also, too… 🙂
good news Merrycricket! lessening of pain and healing sleep helps to enable us to fight on. sending hugs to you and dad.
Happy safe arrival, AKM! Stay indoors with the A/C on and get a good night’s sleep. Perhaps later you can take Brian out for a stroll. I recommend “Margaritaville”, but you might want to watch out for his roving eyes and hooves this trip. Hope you get to meet and talk with some great people. Ooh..did I read Al Franken would be speaking? Netroots is all over our Yahoo right now here in SoCal. The eyes of the world are upon you…enjoy!
Happy safe arrival, AKM! Stay indoors with the A/C on and get a good night’s sleep. Perhaps later you can take Brian out for a stroll. I recommend “Margaritaville”, but you might want to watch out for his roving eyes and hooves this trip. Hope you get to meet and talk with some great people. Ooh..did I read Al Franken would be speaking? Netroots is all over our Yahoo right now here in SoCal. The eyes of the world are upon you…enjoy!
Good luck in LV – what a strange place. Even if you are surrounded by like minded thinkers. LV is probably one of the strangest places ever engineered for the US psyche – my suggestion is that you go looking for El Dorado while you are there.
Good luck in LV – what a strange place. Even if you are surrounded by like minded thinkers. LV is probably one of the strangest places ever engineered for the US psyche – my suggestion is that you go looking for El Dorado while you are there.
I can’t believe I’m still up. Anyways I’ve been googling the Shirley Sherrod story. It turns out there is another layer. Look who she is married to. http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/sherrod-charles-1937
I can’t wait to read a book about them. They have truly lived the Civil Rights Movement.
Thanks for this information. What a fascinating story.
I am sickened by what happened to Ms. Sherrod. I am listening to Morning Joe and Company spinning this story further. They have talked about it for at least 15 minutes and are blaming the White House for her firing and how this is bad on President Obama. Vilsak is also getting it (as well he should) along with the NAACP. Fox News hasn’t been mentioned, just the news being broken on a “conservative website.” Pity they didn’t watch Rachel last night.
Ooh, Morning Joe and Mika ended the segment laughing about Glenn Beck and what he would say about this tonight. Joe pretended to be crying like Beck and said “Seriously, the WH is afraid of a crying man with a chalk board?”
If only Beck could be dismissed that easily. He is still dangerous in that so many whacko-types listen to him. This whole incident disgusts me and I am hoping Pres. Obama will just come out and blast the living —- out of that far right crap. Enough is Enough. Like Rachel said last night- Van Jones, ACORN and now this. They are wrong in their smears, but end up winning.
KO twittered yesterday that CNN and MSNBC spend all day yesterday trying to fix the damage of FOX’s wrong and misleading information. True (except for Joe.)
Enough is Enough. Seriously.
Plots FOX, Rove, Palin, R-wingers, et.al: ‘Now if we just keep harping on them and hawking our ‘truth’ about them, we can also get rid of the NAACP (for being the same color as the New Black Panthers) and all liberal journalists (for coordinating efforts to thwart us); all will be well… Then we can move on to our next outrage.’
Seriously!, did their parents never teach them to be plain old *honest*?
It’s because of people like them that our court system demands those testifying swear to tell: “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” beth.
I was glad I watched Rachel and Lawrence, in for Keith, last night. They gave a lot of useful information. There was also a brief interview with Ms. Sharrod, who seems to be very forthright and truthful. Wish we could say the same for Fox. I don’t like Morning Joe for just that sort of spin he often puts on things. The truth, but twisted. Besides, by the time he comes on here, I should be asleep.
I think Rachel really got it right – FOX lies and doesn’t research their stories and they continue to get away with it. I’m glad that Rachel and Lawrence called them on it and showed clips of their over-the-top reactions to the lying story.
People connected with the White House really need to start doing their own research on these stories before reacting to them. Firing someone for being a racist is the right thing to do, but only if it’s true. And this obviously wasn’t and didn’t take as long to sort as the Acorn story did. Shame on them for adding to smearing a good woman’s name. Now they need to apologize and offer to re-instate her in her job.
I don’t think Sec Tom Vilsak cared about the racism he accused Shilrey of and making her resign. It was the mean things she said about the rich white folk who own and rule this country.
Vilsack stepped in it, but don’t judge him too harshly. I lived in IA when he was gov. Ad he was a good guy.
I sincerely hope that the White House has finally learned its lesson about rushing to judgement before having all the facts, especially when your source is Fox News. Fox may delight in smearing people with no evidence, but I expect more from our intelligent, reasonable President and his administration.
I saw an interview with Ms. Sherrod last night and she seemed most upset that the NAACP had issued a statement without ever contacting her and asking for her account of what happened. On Rachel Maddow last night, Ben Jealous of the NAACP admitted to making a mistake by making the statement as soon as the story broke in the middle of the night, before waiting to find out what the true story really was. Rachel did a great job, as always, in showing how the main point of Ms. Sherrod’s speech was actually the complete opposite of what the edited video implied and how important facts were left out, like that the incident that Ms. Sherrod was describing in her speech actually took place more than 20 years ago.
The most frustrating thing about this whole situation is that Fox and their right wingnut viewers seems to be seeing this as a great victory, rather than an embarassment for being exposed as the liars and manipulators they are. They give me agita!!!
More background on Shirley.
http://www.ruraldevelopment.org/shirleydirector.html
Thanks for the background info on Shirley. Right now, I feel like this is the most egregious story I’ve ever seen.
I hope the White House review goes farther than just Sherrod’s firing and investigates the heart of the evil that is Breitbart and Fox…and the knee-jerk reactions at the NAACP and Agriculture Dept. I would like to know if Sec. Vilsack acted on his own or in conference with White House staff.
Please let this be a lemon to lemonades story. If Fox isn’t stopped, it will only get worse.
[[leenie17 ~ oooooo, I love when I get to learn a new word. Agita! It’s a beaut. Thank you! beth.]]
Happy to share…that’s the Noow Yaw-kah in me coming out!
I emailed my sister yesterday and used the word ‘verklempt’ and realized that I hadn’t used it in years. It may have been understood by everyone, regardless of heritage, when I lived on Long Island, but it’s not something you hear too often in western NY. It was, however, a perfect description of how I was feeling at the time.
That’s one of the beauties of living in and around NYC…you get to add all sorts of interesting words to your vocabulary!
Conservatives still won’t admit to the acorn tapes being edited.i saw some one using the things for swearing saying the tapes were not spliced and edited when it has been proven they were.
Seems she got the Mama Grizzly treatment.
Eat now, possibly look at the facts later.
I just read an article on yahoo about this and it seems the conservative blogger who put this out edited the tapes to make it sound bad.When the whole tape was listened to it was a very different story,kind of like a few other tapes that have been put out by the other side. nothing new at all.Makes the conservative blogger look like just what he is an as-
Also did anyone see the bride that has her wedding a few blocks from Chelsea’s and was complaining about it ruining her wedding. AS if.If people did not threaten and make death threats to and about or politicians they would not need the level of protection they now have.Especially a young woman like Chelsea.
Why anyone other than Fox even pays any attention to anything Breitbach is beyond me. Historically, his idea of informing is to edit tapes to make them sound the way he wants the story to go. (The man’s responsible for the Acorn tapes, as well.) Knuckledragger, and probably one of Sistah Sarah’s favorite blogs!
I can’t believe I’m still up. Anyways I’ve been googling the Shirley Sherrod story. It turns out there is another layer. Look who she is married to. http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/sherrod-charles-1937
I can’t wait to read a book about them. They have truly lived the Civil Rights Movement.
Thanks for this information. What a fascinating story.
I am sickened by what happened to Ms. Sherrod. I am listening to Morning Joe and Company spinning this story further. They have talked about it for at least 15 minutes and are blaming the White House for her firing and how this is bad on President Obama. Vilsak is also getting it (as well he should) along with the NAACP. Fox News hasn’t been mentioned, just the news being broken on a “conservative website.” Pity they didn’t watch Rachel last night.
Ooh, Morning Joe and Mika ended the segment laughing about Glenn Beck and what he would say about this tonight. Joe pretended to be crying like Beck and said “Seriously, the WH is afraid of a crying man with a chalk board?”
If only Beck could be dismissed that easily. He is still dangerous in that so many whacko-types listen to him. This whole incident disgusts me and I am hoping Pres. Obama will just come out and blast the living —- out of that far right crap. Enough is Enough. Like Rachel said last night- Van Jones, ACORN and now this. They are wrong in their smears, but end up winning.
KO twittered yesterday that CNN and MSNBC spend all day yesterday trying to fix the damage of FOX’s wrong and misleading information. True (except for Joe.)
Enough is Enough. Seriously.
Plots FOX, Rove, Palin, R-wingers, et.al: ‘Now if we just keep harping on them and hawking our ‘truth’ about them, we can also get rid of the NAACP (for being the same color as the New Black Panthers) and all liberal journalists (for coordinating efforts to thwart us); all will be well… Then we can move on to our next outrage.’
Seriously!, did their parents never teach them to be plain old *honest*?
It’s because of people like them that our court system demands those testifying swear to tell: “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” beth.
I was glad I watched Rachel and Lawrence, in for Keith, last night. They gave a lot of useful information. There was also a brief interview with Ms. Sharrod, who seems to be very forthright and truthful. Wish we could say the same for Fox. I don’t like Morning Joe for just that sort of spin he often puts on things. The truth, but twisted. Besides, by the time he comes on here, I should be asleep.
I think Rachel really got it right – FOX lies and doesn’t research their stories and they continue to get away with it. I’m glad that Rachel and Lawrence called them on it and showed clips of their over-the-top reactions to the lying story.
People connected with the White House really need to start doing their own research on these stories before reacting to them. Firing someone for being a racist is the right thing to do, but only if it’s true. And this obviously wasn’t and didn’t take as long to sort as the Acorn story did. Shame on them for adding to smearing a good woman’s name. Now they need to apologize and offer to re-instate her in her job.
I don’t think Sec Tom Vilsak cared about the racism he accused Shilrey of and making her resign. It was the mean things she said about the rich white folk who own and rule this country.
Vilsack stepped in it, but don’t judge him too harshly. I lived in IA when he was gov. Ad he was a good guy.
I sincerely hope that the White House has finally learned its lesson about rushing to judgement before having all the facts, especially when your source is Fox News. Fox may delight in smearing people with no evidence, but I expect more from our intelligent, reasonable President and his administration.
I saw an interview with Ms. Sherrod last night and she seemed most upset that the NAACP had issued a statement without ever contacting her and asking for her account of what happened. On Rachel Maddow last night, Ben Jealous of the NAACP admitted to making a mistake by making the statement as soon as the story broke in the middle of the night, before waiting to find out what the true story really was. Rachel did a great job, as always, in showing how the main point of Ms. Sherrod’s speech was actually the complete opposite of what the edited video implied and how important facts were left out, like that the incident that Ms. Sherrod was describing in her speech actually took place more than 20 years ago.
The most frustrating thing about this whole situation is that Fox and their right wingnut viewers seems to be seeing this as a great victory, rather than an embarassment for being exposed as the liars and manipulators they are. They give me agita!!!
More background on Shirley.
http://www.ruraldevelopment.org/shirleydirector.html
Thanks for the background info on Shirley. Right now, I feel like this is the most egregious story I’ve ever seen.
I hope the White House review goes farther than just Sherrod’s firing and investigates the heart of the evil that is Breitbart and Fox…and the knee-jerk reactions at the NAACP and Agriculture Dept. I would like to know if Sec. Vilsack acted on his own or in conference with White House staff.
Please let this be a lemon to lemonades story. If Fox isn’t stopped, it will only get worse.
[[leenie17 ~ oooooo, I love when I get to learn a new word. Agita! It’s a beaut. Thank you! beth.]]
Happy to share…that’s the Noow Yaw-kah in me coming out!
I emailed my sister yesterday and used the word ‘verklempt’ and realized that I hadn’t used it in years. It may have been understood by everyone, regardless of heritage, when I lived on Long Island, but it’s not something you hear too often in western NY. It was, however, a perfect description of how I was feeling at the time.
That’s one of the beauties of living in and around NYC…you get to add all sorts of interesting words to your vocabulary!
Conservatives still won’t admit to the acorn tapes being edited.i saw some one using the things for swearing saying the tapes were not spliced and edited when it has been proven they were.
Seems she got the Mama Grizzly treatment.
Eat now, possibly look at the facts later.
I just read an article on yahoo about this and it seems the conservative blogger who put this out edited the tapes to make it sound bad.When the whole tape was listened to it was a very different story,kind of like a few other tapes that have been put out by the other side. nothing new at all.Makes the conservative blogger look like just what he is an as-
Also did anyone see the bride that has her wedding a few blocks from Chelsea’s and was complaining about it ruining her wedding. AS if.If people did not threaten and make death threats to and about or politicians they would not need the level of protection they now have.Especially a young woman like Chelsea.
Why anyone other than Fox even pays any attention to anything Breitbach is beyond me. Historically, his idea of informing is to edit tapes to make them sound the way he wants the story to go. (The man’s responsible for the Acorn tapes, as well.) Knuckledragger, and probably one of Sistah Sarah’s favorite blogs!
Have fun. Too bad you’re not here to see the latest move by dip@#*$ Dan, the Mayor. I’m sure you have read about his veto of the assembly ordinance that would allow AFD to continue the “fill the boot” drive for MDA.
Maybe the MDA could orchestrate a protest and boycott of the Mayor’s bar? A blockade of wheelchairs would do nicely.
careful- sounds like the mayor would use the blockade as a speed bump.
Have fun. Too bad you’re not here to see the latest move by dip@#*$ Dan, the Mayor. I’m sure you have read about his veto of the assembly ordinance that would allow AFD to continue the “fill the boot” drive for MDA.
Maybe the MDA could orchestrate a protest and boycott of the Mayor’s bar? A blockade of wheelchairs would do nicely.
careful- sounds like the mayor would use the blockade as a speed bump.
Many of you may know Kilia from her posts to this blog for almost 2 years. She has also been a member of the Mudflats Forum almost from the beginning. Her husband, beloved partner, and companion passed away recently. A memorial in his honor will be held in late July, about 2 hours from Anchorage.
There is information especially for AK mudpups here: https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10336.msg115845.html#new
As well as information for everyone here: https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10307.0.html
Thanks, Lani. Kilia, my thoughts are with you. Peace.
Kilia, I am sorry for your loss May our thoughts of peace and support surround and sustain you.
I am terribly sorry for your loss, Kilia, and I hope that the passing days and warm memories will ease your burden.
My condolences on your loss, Kilia. Hugs.
Dear Kilia
may earth angels hold you close and help you thru. so sad to read of your loss. hearfilled hugs.
Dear Kilia
may earth angels hold you close and help you thru. so sad to read of your loss. hearfilled hugs.
Dear Kilia
may earth angels hold you close and help you thru. so sad to read of your loss. hearfilled hugs.
uuum..obviously I was having trouble commenting, but this is worth repeating. more hugs.
That is very sad news. Hard to find words to express my sympathy on the loss of your husband— please think of this and be comforted by your friends and family who love you:
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die – Thomas Campbell.
((((((Kilia))))))
Kilia, I am so sorry for the loss of your husband. I offer my heartfelt condolences and hope that you receive much support while you get through these trying times.
Sending wishes for peace & healing. May the love & support of all who care make its way to you and offer some comfort.
Kilia, my condolences on your great loss.
Many of you may know Kilia from her posts to this blog for almost 2 years. She has also been a member of the Mudflats Forum almost from the beginning. Her husband, beloved partner, and companion passed away recently. A memorial in his honor will be held in late July, about 2 hours from Anchorage.
There is information especially for AK mudpups here: https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10336.msg115845.html#new
As well as information for everyone here: https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10307.0.html
Thanks, Lani. Kilia, my thoughts are with you. Peace.
Kilia, I am sorry for your loss May our thoughts of peace and support surround and sustain you.
I am terribly sorry for your loss, Kilia, and I hope that the passing days and warm memories will ease your burden.
My condolences on your loss, Kilia. Hugs.
Dear Kilia
may earth angels hold you close and help you thru. so sad to read of your loss. hearfilled hugs.
Dear Kilia
may earth angels hold you close and help you thru. so sad to read of your loss. hearfilled hugs.
Dear Kilia
may earth angels hold you close and help you thru. so sad to read of your loss. hearfilled hugs.
uuum..obviously I was having trouble commenting, but this is worth repeating. more hugs.
That is very sad news. Hard to find words to express my sympathy on the loss of your husband— please think of this and be comforted by your friends and family who love you:
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die – Thomas Campbell.
((((((Kilia))))))
Kilia, I am so sorry for the loss of your husband. I offer my heartfelt condolences and hope that you receive much support while you get through these trying times.
Sending wishes for peace & healing. May the love & support of all who care make its way to you and offer some comfort.
Kilia, my condolences on your great loss.