If it wasn't costing people's lives, I could almost admire his cussedness.
Peron clinged to power like this, oblivious and without dignity but stubborn in defense of his right to wield the whip right to the last.
Still, there is a vacuum here and politics abhors a vacuum, I doubt it would take much more than a company of well motivated Egyptian infantry to enter Mubarek's hide out take him by the elbow and hustle him to the nearest airfield and a splendid exile in Madrid.
Who'd stop them?
No one I'd wager.
We are past endgame with this guy, the question in my mind is, can we deal with whatever and whoever comes after him?
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
HaleyBarbourstan (Y'know, the Magnolia State)
AKA Mississippi wants to put noted Confederate Cavalry General/Terrorist/Racist, Nathan Bedford Forrest on it's license plate.
The Commonwealth could not top that for loutish inanity if we put Lizzie Bordern bloody axe and all on our license plate.
Ah but according to Virginia's elementary school history textbooks "thousands" of blacks fought for the Confederacy...
Isn't it funny how there isn't a single war memorial down in Dixie to all the African American's who died defending state's rights and human bondage?
Maybe Haley Barbour could scare up a few to put on a license plate...If he got a start now he might find one of these "volunteers" by the time the 2012 New Hampshire Primary rolled around?
The Commonwealth could not top that for loutish inanity if we put Lizzie Bordern bloody axe and all on our license plate.
Ah but according to Virginia's elementary school history textbooks "thousands" of blacks fought for the Confederacy...
Isn't it funny how there isn't a single war memorial down in Dixie to all the African American's who died defending state's rights and human bondage?
Maybe Haley Barbour could scare up a few to put on a license plate...If he got a start now he might find one of these "volunteers" by the time the 2012 New Hampshire Primary rolled around?
Less than a full month ago...
Mitt Romney was being cautiously lauded on the Front Page of the Boston Globe for his declination of the tea partei Kool-Aid.
He was "dissing the tea partei" to quote myself.
I further observed:
The primary season is a full year away and "Brand Romney" has still plenty of time to change up their plans and start abjectly groveling before the shock troops of Republican Conservatism.
And now today here is the proof of the above prediction Romney has clumsily rewritten his dumbass book to include all kinds of freeper talking points for the paperback edition.
Let the groveling and flip floppery BEGIN!
Meanwhile why does the Boston Globe seem to fall for Mitt's bullshit every time?
They are one and all emotionally invested in the delusion that Willard Mitt Romney is a nice Charles Percy style moderate republican...unthreatening and a worthwhile negotiating partner.
Willard's untrustworthiness and spineless truckling to wingbnuttery have been demonstrated time and gain and yet the Globe is desperate to go on believing.
It has become downright strange if you ask me.
He was "dissing the tea partei" to quote myself.
I further observed:
The primary season is a full year away and "Brand Romney" has still plenty of time to change up their plans and start abjectly groveling before the shock troops of Republican Conservatism.
And now today here is the proof of the above prediction Romney has clumsily rewritten his dumbass book to include all kinds of freeper talking points for the paperback edition.
Let the groveling and flip floppery BEGIN!
Meanwhile why does the Boston Globe seem to fall for Mitt's bullshit every time?
They are one and all emotionally invested in the delusion that Willard Mitt Romney is a nice Charles Percy style moderate republican...unthreatening and a worthwhile negotiating partner.
Willard's untrustworthiness and spineless truckling to wingbnuttery have been demonstrated time and gain and yet the Globe is desperate to go on believing.
It has become downright strange if you ask me.
The labor unions in Egypt
have come out hard against Hosni Mubarek.
So I guess that means the anti Mubarek protesters have lost the critical patronage of Jeff Jacoby.
Geez if the Teacher's Union in Cairo takes to the streets, Brian McGrory will be banging the pots for Mubarek before sundown.
KIDDING
KIDDING
KIDDING!
I Kid because I love
I love
To kid!
We all know that Boston Globe columnists are completely resistant to the ravages of cognitive dissonance....
Still in all honesty, a big general strike might be the safest and most effective and non-violent means to effect regime change in Egypt.
So I guess that means the anti Mubarek protesters have lost the critical patronage of Jeff Jacoby.
Geez if the Teacher's Union in Cairo takes to the streets, Brian McGrory will be banging the pots for Mubarek before sundown.
KIDDING
KIDDING
KIDDING!
I Kid because I love
I love
To kid!
We all know that Boston Globe columnists are completely resistant to the ravages of cognitive dissonance....
Still in all honesty, a big general strike might be the safest and most effective and non-violent means to effect regime change in Egypt.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
We suffer when
conservatives are stuffed into the state legislatures.
No sooner are they sworn in than they start writhing on the floor speaking in tongues, brandishing revolvers like they are Deputy Barney Fife and looking for someone, anyone as long as they are sorta weak & ineffectual to rough up.
Case in point, the New Hampshire State Legislature which is planning to fly in the face of a fifty years of settled practice and jurisprudence by trying to restrict the voting rights of college students.
Mighod these mooks are serious the law they propose will not only prevent the Dartmouth Review from voting for Michele Bachmann but it will likely also prevent active-duty soldiery from NH from exercising the franchise.
The GOP super majority in Concord is saying to all the world, "we like student-interns and we can send them out for lunch and get them to pick up our dry cleaning, but we don't like it when they vote..."
The Granite State is still mired in recession and this is what the citzenry's representatives think is a priority.
Not for nothing, but it won't stop undergraduates from volunteering on campaigns, most of Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy's legionaries couldn't vote at all in 1968.
No this is more of the politics of grievance at work, they guys just wanna give someone a hard time, it's an ongoing conservative fixation quite frankly.
Anything to punish the liberals I guess, no matter who get beat up in the process...
No sooner are they sworn in than they start writhing on the floor speaking in tongues, brandishing revolvers like they are Deputy Barney Fife and looking for someone, anyone as long as they are sorta weak & ineffectual to rough up.
Case in point, the New Hampshire State Legislature which is planning to fly in the face of a fifty years of settled practice and jurisprudence by trying to restrict the voting rights of college students.
Mighod these mooks are serious the law they propose will not only prevent the Dartmouth Review from voting for Michele Bachmann but it will likely also prevent active-duty soldiery from NH from exercising the franchise.
The GOP super majority in Concord is saying to all the world, "we like student-interns and we can send them out for lunch and get them to pick up our dry cleaning, but we don't like it when they vote..."
The Granite State is still mired in recession and this is what the citzenry's representatives think is a priority.
Not for nothing, but it won't stop undergraduates from volunteering on campaigns, most of Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy's legionaries couldn't vote at all in 1968.
No this is more of the politics of grievance at work, they guys just wanna give someone a hard time, it's an ongoing conservative fixation quite frankly.
Anything to punish the liberals I guess, no matter who get beat up in the process...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Spotted on Drydock Avenue in South Boston
Former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy nattily turned out in a "Citizen's Energy" windbreaker and looking uncommonly hale and hearty.
I took no picture, as it was lunchtime and the man was clearly at the buffet in a private capacity.
Damn me but the man has at least three good campaigns left in him easy.
Ah but the world on the street is, he has lost all interest in the Great Game.
Helluva shame, his 1986 campaign for Congress was good old fashioned shoe leather political fun from start to finish.
Joe if'n you ever change yer mind, I still fit into my grenadier's uniform and the guy down the street with sharpen my assegai on short notice!
I took no picture, as it was lunchtime and the man was clearly at the buffet in a private capacity.
Damn me but the man has at least three good campaigns left in him easy.
Ah but the world on the street is, he has lost all interest in the Great Game.
Helluva shame, his 1986 campaign for Congress was good old fashioned shoe leather political fun from start to finish.
Joe if'n you ever change yer mind, I still fit into my grenadier's uniform and the guy down the street with sharpen my assegai on short notice!
Monday, February 07, 2011
Texas and the NFL got into a
serious stupidity contest this weekend, and it came down to a dead tie.
You mean to tell me that the biggest loudest crassest football worshipping state in the union can't pull off the Superbowl without bungling the seating for 400 or so rabid gridiron fans?
Texas and it's shitkicker mojo are done mah frenz.
What would Lyndon Johnson say to such a inept loutish spectacle?
Texas is polluted, crime ridden, ruled by blustery book worshippers and crotch deep in firearms...and they can't even execute the god-damned Superbowl.
Don't worry they've got Rick "Secesh"Perry as their Governor, a veritable incubus in Chinese made cowboy boots.
Granted he is dumber than a bag of hammers and more belligerent than a drunken teachable but Governor Perry will find some way to blame the whole mishaugas all on the EPA or illegal aliens or Henry Agard Wallace, count on it.
You mean to tell me that the biggest loudest crassest football worshipping state in the union can't pull off the Superbowl without bungling the seating for 400 or so rabid gridiron fans?
Texas and it's shitkicker mojo are done mah frenz.
What would Lyndon Johnson say to such a inept loutish spectacle?
Texas is polluted, crime ridden, ruled by blustery book worshippers and crotch deep in firearms...and they can't even execute the god-damned Superbowl.
Don't worry they've got Rick "Secesh"Perry as their Governor, a veritable incubus in Chinese made cowboy boots.
Granted he is dumber than a bag of hammers and more belligerent than a drunken teachable but Governor Perry will find some way to blame the whole mishaugas all on the EPA or illegal aliens or Henry Agard Wallace, count on it.
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