Posts from January 2009
holstein fawn!
bowie, an irc friend of mine who lives in texas, sent me these photos that his nephew took. ~beautiful fawn~ great photos :D
shelfari is ~teh coolest~
i’d had my books listed over on gurulib, but i found their site to be cumbersome. after stumbling onto shelfari, i decided to move everything over to it. it’s just taken me this long to get my books imported, then checked against what i actually have, and organized. (not due to the site, but cuz i’m slow!)
if you’re an avid reader, want to join a book discussion group or get advice on what to read, check it out!
for whatever reason, their widget doesn’t like my site, so you can view my bookshelf here!
(now to find more time in my day)
obama remembers the poor… give them some pie!
speaking today on the necessity of the economic stimulus package, president obama remembered that the poor, too, need help.
On the middle-class tax force, Obama said “we’re not forgetting the poor because they, too, share our American dream.” He said his administration wants to make sure low-income people “get a piece” of the American pie “if they’re willing to work for it.” - Obama signs orders to ‘level the playing field’ for unions
because you know, the poor, they’re lazy fuckin’ bastards who just lay around and mooch off the government. unlike successful business people. who run corporations.
if the poor are willing to work for it ...for a change, we’ll do what we can to get them a piece of pie!
and if that fails, why, let them eat cake :D
obama reaches for the right, will democrats bring him back?
throughout obama’s campaign, i stated repeatedly that i thought obama was far too conservative, so it was no great surprise to see him surround himself with “center-right” DLC types. especially with the amount of press being given to the idea that we are a *center right* nation. regardless of what polls actually show (that most americans actually support leftist policies). his eagerness to reach out to conservatives, over the left which help put him where he is, worries me. don’t get me wrong, i’m not a democrat. i don’t put party first, but i ~am~ a leftist and i am fully cognizant of the fact that conservatives are 1) unwilling to work with democrats when the situation is reversed, 2) that a progressive agenda will never be supported by them, and 3) that they believe it is in their best interest to fuel anger…
from The Obamathon Has Begun: How Long Will The Honeymoon Last?:
48% of the country did not support Obama. He knows that and hence his symbolic attempts to neutralize his opponents with smiles and civility, a preacher at the ceremony, and a few Cabinet positions. Will that assuage the hard right “movement activists,” the Limbaugh ditto heads or the Hannity hard heads?
I doubt it, but for now, they are on the defensive. Bill Clinton says he thinks the days of ideology are waning, that the polarization of the past will go away because the right has to become more pragmatic to return to power.
I don’t buy his consensus of the center viewpoint for several reasons.
The right radio heads and Foxoids don’t go venomous because they believe their rants. They do it to build audience among disaffected wingers and whiners. It’s a marketing tactic, not necessary an act of conviction. Posturing fuels controversy; controversy builds anger and audience. They need this strategy to stay in business, just as tabloid journalism needs sensation and trivia to sell newspapers or build ratings.
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