And forbid them not; for such is the kingdom of heaven.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Miss him? Yes.
I viewed this video this morning. It's linked on Twitter by @MornCommute. Actually, I thought I viewed it at Ace of Spades, but I can't seem to find it over there now. It touched me. Forgiveness is a fascinating topic for me, and it doesn't surprise me at all that George W. Bush is quick to forgive.
Yes, I miss him. Very much.
Yes, I miss him. Very much.
If You Could Tell Your Eleven Year Old Self Two Things......
.....what would they be?
Imagine that you can visit your eleven year old self in a dream and impart two nuggets of wisdom that you acquired in your adult life. What would they be?
I would tell eleven year old Haz these two things:
Telling him or her to never be a Giants fan is okay.
Imagine that you can visit your eleven year old self in a dream and impart two nuggets of wisdom that you acquired in your adult life. What would they be?
I would tell eleven year old Haz these two things:
Do what's right and everything will be okay in the long run.
Learn to play the piano and stay with it for your remaining years. It will bring decades of joy and happiness when you reach your adult years.What two nuggets of wisdom would you give eleven year old you? And since this is not a place for personal things, who to marry or to not marry, sex related things, and so forth are off limits. .
Telling him or her to never be a Giants fan is okay.
George Takai on Al Jazeera
* Tea Party is crazy.
* Not just regular crazy, Takei means lunatics
* They closed down government
* Throw people out of jobs
* Hundreds of thousands of people
* Tea party says they're doing it to create jobs. Madness!
* It's like Japanese internment in its madness
* Takei's life shaped by craziness on one side and shiny ideals on another * Democracy memorialized in monuments nearby
* Tea party people do not understand constitution
And that is why George Takei is one flat stupid ignorant arrogant sanctimonious son of a female dog in heat used for breeding purposes, I meant to say a bit misinformed. Takei has his ideals reversed. A polar shift occurred when he wasn't looking, yet he remains fierce, that makes him a dumbass.
Were Takei in possession of a streak of common sense and were Takei true to his "shiny ideals' he'd join the tea party in their efforts and not criticize them so profoundly ignorantly. And he'd be wary of government that does such miserable things. He would be criticizing progressive government.
If he knew anything at all he'd know that knowing the constitution inside and out is the central focus of tea party activity, with an emphasis on its limitations, not just electing hardliners. They hold classes on that. It is what they are about.
He knows too the Japanese internment was under FDR. Should know. Must know. Or else he really is too stupid to take on. Takei describes the political insanity that formed his own political activism, a touching story that, one damning to progressive politics, but Takei dumbly reverses the positions and then publicly masturbates to his reversed concept of "shiny ideals."
I think Takei is describing Senate tea party, I'm not sure, even there he is flatly wrong. I don't think it has sunk in those senators are there because regular people not usually involved in politics came alive and put them there. People who are disgusted with just that type of misguided overreach. He is slow on the uptake.
Stick to overacting.
legalinsurrection
He knows too the Japanese internment was under FDR. Should know. Must know. Or else he really is too stupid to take on. Takei describes the political insanity that formed his own political activism, a touching story that, one damning to progressive politics, but Takei dumbly reverses the positions and then publicly masturbates to his reversed concept of "shiny ideals."
I think Takei is describing Senate tea party, I'm not sure, even there he is flatly wrong. I don't think it has sunk in those senators are there because regular people not usually involved in politics came alive and put them there. People who are disgusted with just that type of misguided overreach. He is slow on the uptake.
Stick to overacting.
legalinsurrection
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/11/george-takei-those-tea-party-people-are-crazy-i-mean-theyre-lunatics//#more
Sarah Palin Poo-Poo's Martin Bashir's Potty Mouth Comments
She also comments on ObamaCare and the Senate rule change.
Clear, verifiable
Secretary of State John Kerry insists Israel is safer now. The agreement halts in place progress toward development of nuclear weapons. The agreement is not based on trust, but on access and verification. That simple message is repeated throughout. And by repeated, I mean repeated.
It is the sort of item seen on Hot Air that is most often skipped because both interviewer and interviewee repulse me. Having said that I must admit that Candy Crowley really does make the challenges that right-wing politics is interested in making. It is not a fluff interview. However she accepts the answers at face value without argument and gets along to the next question or charge. And the answers are pablum. Here's a recap:
Verify verify let me be clear verify verify verify, clear verify, clear, verify, clear verify verify clear clear clear verify verify verify better than before, lifting some sanctions will not have an affect, verify, verify, get unstuck, clear verify verify.
The reason I watched is because the display frame appeared obviously cartoonishly Photoshopped to me, as you might exaggerate the jaw of Jay Leno. I was certain of it. How dare Hot Air Photoshop a video. Is the whole video Photoshopped? What's going on here? That is why I clicked. Turns out, it is not Photoshopped. I was wrong. Kerry's chin really is that comedically rounded and exaggerated all the way through. I cannot quite believe it. Like his whole lower jaw is filled in with fat from his... somewhere else in order to purposefully produce a cartoon, and yet the new arrangement actually does speak.
And his darting tongue is so incredibly reptilian that I cannot take my eyes off his face. I am absolutely mesmerized by Kerry's lips and lower jaw. I look back at Candy Crowley and the natural repulsion that occurs despite the apparently good questioning drives me straight back to John Kerry's face, and my fascination with his facial tics and cartoon jaw and annoyance at droning about verify verify verify and lipreading a straight line with darting tongue that nonetheless discusses State foreign policy, selling his agreement has me riveted on his lips waiting for the tongue to pop out again.
Of all the strange videos I've watched this year to date, they're all right there faithfully listed on YouTube history, it's quite incredible, this must be the oddest of all, because this is the face of my American media and this is the face of my American State Department.
(It's a sales pitch. I sense Candy Crowley does not buy the vacuum cleaner, even if she might suggest she did.)
Obama doing what no other U.S. president found possible
Causing cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia on their own. Israelis inspect Saudi bases for staging strikes against Iran. I left out "secret" because it is no secret when kleinonline.wnd is linked by Drudge. And I left out "could" to heighten the dramatic effect, because there is no other reason for such a trip I can think of offhand save for propaganda.
That Israelis are even in Saudi Arabia strikes me as news by itself.
The officials said Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and other Arab and Persian Gulf countries have been discussing the next steps toward possible strikes on Iran's nuclear sites.
The officials said the US. passed strong messages to Israel and the Saudis that the Americans control radar capabilities over the skies of Iran and that no strike should be launched without permission from the Obama administration.
Klein online is Democrat unfriendly. Here are a few titles of other articles there.
BENGHAZI WITNESSES: ‘PERSONNEL WERE NOT ARMED.’ Directly contradicts narrative in State Department review report
OBAMACARE MARKETERS: ‘PERCEPTIONS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FACTS’ Shock statements by architects of health-care law’s imaging
Immigration bill quietly brings more Afghan war refugees. Increases threefold number of eligible asylum seekers
U.S. TECH GIANT CLICKS WITH FOREIGN VOTE-COUNTER. Just weeks after leftist billionaire buys major stake
BENGHAZI STAFFERS TOLD: ‘YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.’ Lawmaker puts blame squarely on Hillary Clinton
MEDIA MATTERS FUNDED OBAMACARE DECEIT. Financed outfit that crafted ‘keep your plan’ lie
Bill Clinton in 1993: ‘Americans can keep doctors, plans.’ Made pledge while peddling healthcare-for-all
That Israelis are even in Saudi Arabia strikes me as news by itself.
The officials said Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and other Arab and Persian Gulf countries have been discussing the next steps toward possible strikes on Iran's nuclear sites.
The officials said the US. passed strong messages to Israel and the Saudis that the Americans control radar capabilities over the skies of Iran and that no strike should be launched without permission from the Obama administration.
Klein online is Democrat unfriendly. Here are a few titles of other articles there.
BENGHAZI WITNESSES: ‘PERSONNEL WERE NOT ARMED.’ Directly contradicts narrative in State Department review report
OBAMACARE MARKETERS: ‘PERCEPTIONS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FACTS’ Shock statements by architects of health-care law’s imaging
Immigration bill quietly brings more Afghan war refugees. Increases threefold number of eligible asylum seekers
U.S. TECH GIANT CLICKS WITH FOREIGN VOTE-COUNTER. Just weeks after leftist billionaire buys major stake
BENGHAZI STAFFERS TOLD: ‘YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.’ Lawmaker puts blame squarely on Hillary Clinton
MEDIA MATTERS FUNDED OBAMACARE DECEIT. Financed outfit that crafted ‘keep your plan’ lie
Bill Clinton in 1993: ‘Americans can keep doctors, plans.’ Made pledge while peddling healthcare-for-all
Which OR for the Ore?
A story from the NYT:
Under the proposed six-month deal that six major powers are negotiating with Iran in Geneva, Iran would eliminate its current stock of uranium enriched to 20 percent by diluting it or turning it into fuel rods or oxide powder, forms that are unusable for weapons, senior Western officials said Friday.Hmmm, given that Boolean choice of "OR's" (dilution, or conversion to fuel rods or oxide) which one neutralizes its weapons potential? Which one merely stores it, a few simple chemical steps away from weaponizing it?
U.S., Western Powers reach agreement with Iran
Alex Goldstein
And the Iranian President just retweeted Secretary of State John Kerry. Welcome to Twitter diplomacy in 2013. pic.twitter.com/mqhONiic66
Caleb Howe
Let me be clear. We promise to guarantee that we're committed to our commitment we agreed to in maintaining our vow to promise to keep. It.
AJELive
Iranian foreign minister says #Iran's nuclear programme has been recognized, says it's a major success, Reuters reports
Aaron David Miller
Iranian Deal: Champagne and party hats? -- Not Yet http://politi.co/1fybIM0
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Obama/Kerry = best policy team since Bush I/Jim Baker. Congress is finally becoming embarrassed by Netanyahu’s efforts to dictate US policy.
Aleister
Obama on Republicans: Hostage taking terrorists.
Obama on Iran: Let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
Wisdom for Women
“@SaloumehZ: RT @AuthorAIJacob: Saudi Prince Says Iran Playing Obama Like A Fiddle http://zite.to/I8AmEs ”
Stephen Yates
Real downside to believing everything you do is unprecedented... You don't see that same deal has been sold and broken before.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Obama has achieved one of his main goals, preventing an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Peter Ingemi
No MT @jjauthor Doesn't it strike you as odd that O will make a deal with Putin,Assad & Iran but not w Congress & the American people? #tcot
Legal Insurrection
Nuke Deal Reached – Iran gets to keep its enrichment program http://nblo.gs/Rmhmh
Dalton Glasscock
You know it is bad when my parents and I begin to take bets on how late the President will be
Moe Lane
Can somebody explain to me why the f*ck @barackobama can never start a speech on time? It's at the point where being late hurts him.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Man charged with hate crime for knock-out assault in Brooklyn
I changed the word "suspect" to "man", and dropped the word "possible" for the customary 15% minimum increase in dramatic effect.
The victim said he overheard the people who attacked him talking about the knockout game before they punched him in the face on 18th Avenue in Boro Park.
AP actually states the race of attackers and victim. In my mind confuting a long standing right-wing grievance about race-reporting.
nbcnews
It is all fun and games until your intended victim shoots you twice and sends you to jail.
These stories appear to be NYC and WDC-centric, but this second report with beforeitsnews points to cities in the Midwest.
In this YouTube video Marvell Weaver says, "It was just a lesson learned."
The victim said he overheard the people who attacked him talking about the knockout game before they punched him in the face on 18th Avenue in Boro Park.
AP actually states the race of attackers and victim. In my mind confuting a long standing right-wing grievance about race-reporting.
nbcnews
It is all fun and games until your intended victim shoots you twice and sends you to jail.
These stories appear to be NYC and WDC-centric, but this second report with beforeitsnews points to cities in the Midwest.
In this YouTube video Marvell Weaver says, "It was just a lesson learned."
Yeah, Marvell, it's all about you learning a lesson, nothing at all about a guy being attacked. What lesson did he learn? What lesson will I learn? Does your lesson include setting back race relations by decades?
Yes. Obama writes of his own grandmother who raised him, the white one, being afraid of blacks, one in particular who approached her at a bus stop in her view overly aggressively. Apparently she talked about it if Obama is believed. Expect whites to cut wide swaths around Marvell in public for a very long time, decades, after he gets out, his very long lesson will include why it is so for him and for his whole gang. His action impugns all his friends, falsely or not. And remember it is the white guys mostly showing up at the Citizens Marksmanship Program and we've got the photos linked by Third Coast in comments that show it.
Better Shred Than Dead...
In writing too small to be legible here, the photo above recites:
Better Shred Than Dead...Dick Dale has been around forever. Here he is playing on Ed Sullivan the year before The Beatles famously washed ashore:
Creed of the King of Surf Guitar.
There's no retreat in his vocabulary
and no quitting in his strings.
Here is Dick Dale a couple years ago playing an anthem standard:
I saw him play a very emotional show a few years ago at the famous "Coach House" in San Juan Capistrano. I blogged about it here.
I would like to see this American icon play the national anthem at the Superbowl halftime show instead of the usual fare. It won't happen.
Yet Another Reason To Disrespect Our President
First, this from Legal Insurrection: Obama Personally Lobbied For Senate Rule Change
And people seriously wonder why people dislike him more and more and view his credibility as a joke.
Here is what Obama said about the nuclear option in 2005:
And people seriously wonder why people dislike him more and more and view his credibility as a joke.
Saulus Paulus...
...or a brief history of polity:
Action: I never thought of walking on the grass until I saw a sign saying 'Keep off the grass.' Then I would stomp all over it. ~Saul Alinsky
Reaction: Get off my lawn!
Resolution: And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Action: I never thought of walking on the grass until I saw a sign saying 'Keep off the grass.' Then I would stomp all over it. ~Saul Alinsky
Reaction: Get off my lawn!
Resolution: And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
"Portraits of Americans and their guns"
“I was essentially looking for normal people, people like you and me,” Ommanney said of the project. “The only difference being that they live in a community or in an environment where shooting and owning guns is a way of life. I wanted to speak to people who weren’t going to start predictably talking about the far-right and FOX news and how their Second Amendment rights were being violated by Obama, which is what we hear every day of the week from every stereotypical gun owner.”
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| The Baker family - Ashburn, Ga. |
More pictures at this MSNBC link
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