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Masters of the Meltdown

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:28:00 +0000

Recommended reading: Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse If Harvard MBAs are all so clever, how come so many are now in disgrace? “What we have witnessed is a stunning and sobering failure of financial safeguards, of financial markets, of financial institutions and mostly of leadership at many levels.”—Times of UK The MBAs of the Meltdown – Where Did Those Bankers Go to Business School? Harvard Business School, NYU Stern, Cornell … What are they teaching at these places?$ $ $ Must-read: Four...

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Yay for Soliz, Boo for Warren: Obama Disappoints Again on Gay Inclusion

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:07:00 +0000

To use the word disappointment in conjunction with Obama's decision to choose Rick Warren for a place of honor during the Inauguration is to greatly understate the feelings and dismay of so many in the Gay and Lesbian community, as well as family members, loved ones, supporters, allies and friends. Perhaps he should also invite a leader or two to represent some anti-semitic, racist philosophies, organizations and churches. Maybe a Grand Wizard of the KKK to make sure everyone feels 'included'...

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First they came

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:24:00 +0000

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”"First they came…" is attributed to German Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German citizens and...

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Day Without a Gay 12/10/08 : Call to Action/Economic Boycott

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:53:00 +0000

December 10th 2008: Day Without a Gay. via Join the Impact.com Day without a Gay is taking a new spin on the concept of a boycott — already enacted by "A Day without Mexicans" in recent civil rights efforts — to show the effects on every day commerce and life when everyone gay disappears from that commerce and economy. During the busy shopping season where analysts have year over year numbers, we want to watch the graph dip as we take our tax dollars and keep them. Instead, we will give to...

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Defend Equality : Love Unites + Stop the H8 National Protest Locations & Downloadable Flyers

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:02:00 +0000

Stop the H8 : Defend Equality : Love Unites Join the Impact has national and local protest location listings here: http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/ Downloadable L.A. Flyers Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant (and the iconic Obama Hope Change Progress posters) created a new "Defend Equality : Love Unites" poster in solidarity with Gay and Lesbian rights, and to help the anti-H8 cause. Here's another site dedicated to the national movement, Love Not Hate, and pro-gay / lesbian rights.

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A Patriot's Message to the Right-wing & Republican Party

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:18:00 +0000

Came across this among the responses to David Broder's newest column entitled "The GOP Loses Ground" at the Washington Post website. charliemunn wrote: I'm an average, Independent American who retired from the USAF. I don't believe in pre-emptive wars, and do believe in fiscal responsibility. I hate Big Money Lobby and our bought and paid for, do nothing, blow hard congress. Because I retired from the USAF, wife and I have good health care which mimics socialized medicine. We've also long...

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We Shall / Must / Will Overcome

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:49:00 +0000

Hat tip and thanks to doubting thom for a thoughtful entry: Judith Warner’s most recent New York Times column, “What It Felt Like to Be Equal.” The quotes Warner shares from gay people who were directly affected by the passage of Prop. 8, about feeling that gays are now perhaps the only group it is okay to publicly disdain and legally discriminate against, and how the otherwise historic election of Barack Obama can feel painfully hollow, capture exactly how I have been feeling since last...

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Yes We Did! : Newest Shepard Fairey Obey Giant Obama Prints & Posters

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:04:00 +0000

Yes-We-Did!Shepard Fairey’s Newest Obey Giant Barack Obama Poster Lithograph Limited Edition Print for Moveon.org in honor of the 44th President-elect Victory on November 4, 2008.

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Outing the Haters & Boycotting the Homophobes: Californians Against Hate Dishonor Roll

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:03:00 +0000

The Californians Against Hate Dishonor Roll. Californians Against Hate want the country to know who gave the $36 million! to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign that took away existing same-sex marriage rights in California. They have posted all major donors on their web site who gave $5000.00 and more, many much more! [Just imagine what better use $36 Million Dollars could be put to!] They have gleaned public information from the California Secretary of State’s Office and added telephone...

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HISTORY is Made: Barack Obama is 44th President of the United States of America

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Congratulations America! We have a new American Leader: President Barack Obama!

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Where Does Palm Beach FL Find Their Ballot Designers?

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:17:00 +0000

Remember 2000 and the Butterfly Ballot? This year it's the 'Connect the two parts of the arrow' Ballot, again in Palm Beach, FL. It looks like a JOKE but I assure you, it's not. Some dim bulb by the name of Dr. Arthur Anderson, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections is apparently responsible for approving this ballot design which is causing lots of 'read errors' and rejects according to at least one news report I caught earlier this evening. Where do they find these bozos? Have they...

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Complete Set of Shepard Fairey Campaign Posters Signed Obama Prints

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:07:00 +0000

From the Tres KEWL Files: Signed Obama Prints Now on Sale Complete Set of Shepard Fairey Obey Hope Change Progress Rock the Vote Campaign Posters

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Win a Chance to Meet the New President & Attend the 2009 Inauguration!

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:52:00 +0000

Going, going.... Gone! Too late, unless they list new ones. :-( Lifetime Opportunity to Meet the New President & VP! (presumably President Barack Obama) Meet Barack Obama in person January 2009 Inaugural Events VIP Inaugural Invitation Pass Charity Benefit Auction!

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McCain Hypocrisy: I'm Shocked Shocked!

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:31:00 +0000

Nothing Like Contradictory Messages (and contradictory consciousness): McCain pleading for a 'Culture of Life' while his fanatical supporters shout "Kill Him", "Off with his head", "Hang him", "Terrorist" about Obama. For shame.

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Those Zany German Media Elites!

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:05:00 +0000

From the 'No Comment Could Ever Replace the Image' Files Obviously they're 'Liberal' Media Elites who Lieben Obama Google translation tool German to English

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McCain's Campaign Suspension Gimmick: Ripe for Parody

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:26:00 +0000

And Steven Colbert is the One to Do It .

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I Can See Russia from My House

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:02:00 +0000

In case you missed it: Watch the brilliant Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and the incomparable Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton in the now-classic Saturday Night Live / SNL video of this past weekend, September 13, 2008

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Logic That Can Not Be Denied

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:29:00 +0000

Simply The Truth:This nation has suffered through eight years of an ill-prepared and unblinkingly obstinate president. One who didn’t pause to think before he started a disastrous war of choice in Iraq. One who blithely looked the other way as the Taliban and Al Qaeda regrouped in Afghanistan. One who obstinately cut taxes and undercut all efforts at regulation, unleashing today’s profound economic crisis. In a dangerous world, Americans need a president who knows that real strength requires...

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September 11 Seven Years Later

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:11:00 +0000

In Memoriam — Buddhist Heart Sutra — by Imee Ooi . Peace for All Sentient Creatures . Related: Alternate Versions Reality-check Must read: Roger Cohen "In the Seventh Year" For Bush ruled over the whole nation and so sure was he of his righteousness that he did foster division until it raged like a plague. Each tribe sent pestilence on the other. And in the seventh year after the fall, the dust and debris of the towers cleared. And it became plain at last what had been wrought —...

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Liberal & Media Hatefest Of Hysterical Hypocrisy: The Mommy Wars

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:15:00 +0000

The Unbearable Class Snobbery of Privileged Elite, White Women in the Media and Democrat Party SANDRA TSING LOH has an opinion piece in the NYTimes yesterday entitled "The Rantings of a P.T.A. Mom" asking why the other candidates couldn't send their kids to a public school like Sarah Palin did. ...it is with huge grief-filled disappointment that I discovered that the Obamas send their children to the University of Chicago Laboratory School (by 5th grade, tuition equals $20,286 a year). The...

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Hillary's Amendment

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:50:00 +0000

Hillary has dutifully been on the campaign trail for Obama and other democratic candidates: "To slightly amend my comments in Denver .... No way, no how, no McCain, no Palin." .

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And Now the Press Begins Picking Apart Obama: No longer the shiny new object

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:16:00 +0000

Contains updated material: As the iconic California pol, Willie Brown, wrote a couple of days ago: "The democrats are in trouble. Period." His column was entitled "Palin floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee." "Whenever you start having to explain things, you're on defense." He added that dems don't win elections while on the defensive. Since the brilliant pick of Palin, the dems have been on the defensive. Completely and totally. And totally screwing it up. The media is bored with...

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Fortuitous: Colbert Interviews the "Uppity" Congressman from Atlanta

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:11:00 +0000

Update on earlier entry: "How Far We Haven't Come: Racism & Sexism Partners in Bigotry" about the Republican Georgia Congressman, Lynn Westmoreland who recently called Michelle and Barack Obama "uppity." In the good ole Old South the term was "uppity negroes" or "uppity N-word". Westmoreland later claimed [lied] that he had no idea that was a racially tinged /charged term. Bullsh*t. Too bad Colbert didn't know about that quote before this interview. However, the redneck bigot comes...

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A Neocon's Admission: Good Reasons for The Vanishing Republican Voter

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:52:00 +0000

"the trend to inequality is real, it is large and it is transforming American society and the American electoral map. Yet the conservative response to this trend verges somewhere between the obsolete and the irrelevant." [Meanwhile...] Wealthy Americans live in a world in which things work. In case you missed it: Excerpts from David Frum's New York Times Magazine editorial 9/7/08: pervasive economic unease ... is capsizing the Republican Party ... Republican economic management ... has...

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Desperately Seeking ... intellectual honesty and internal consistency?

noreply@blogger.com (BZZZT) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:15:00 +0000

Samantha Bee and Comedy Central visit the Republican Convention What's that word I'm Looking for? Bristol Palin has made the decision to have her baby, but Samantha Bee tries to remember another word for it. More republican right-wing hypocrisy on choice, privacy, personal decisions: do as I say, not as I do. It's my choice but I'll take away your right to make your own decisions.

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Links for 2008-01-30 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 PST

Clinton Should Not Cede the South to Obama or the Republicans
Clinton Should Not Cede the South to Obama or the Republicans: a new wave of Dixie Democrats is awakening and it's not the same ole bigots of the past.

Remember the guy who warned us about the Military Industrial Complex? [Flickr]

buzzzed — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:08:08 PDT

buzzzed posted a photo:

One Republican President Who Actually Served in War and knew when a war was unwinnable.

He said: "The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this [military industrial complex] endanger our liberties or democratic processes....Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the HUGE industrial and military machinery of defense with our PEACEFUL methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."

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