Real men of geeee-nyuss...

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Carol Fowler provides an opportunity...

...to put all.that “lipstick” ugliness.behind.us.*

South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate “whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.” - Jonathan Martin

Whew, glad to know we can get back to the issues.

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Storm warnings?

In the comments to this post (via Ace):

Comment by Linda | 2008-09-09 21:39:59

Freedom…a moment please.

Do you see the reaction of people HERE on this blog to your charge of “staged”. [Note: this incident - o.g.]  YOU are looking at the future.

There are Democrats hanging by a thread to justify their vote for Obama.  I mean it.  Those huge shifts have just begun.  40% of this party is NOT going to vote for him if you keep it up.  1/3 if you stop it.

I want Obama to lose.  I DO NOT WANT downticket Dems to lose.  If YOU can’t learn to control your hyperbole, blame and accusations, you are going to cost them an election as people disgusted with Dems just pull a straight Republican ticket to teach THE DEMOCRATS a lesson.

You really need to take a deep breath.  THIS is no longer the primary where the MSM and the DNC will let you get away with whatever you wanted to do to HRC.  It’s the GE and the republicans are going to take your head off and hand it to you in the GE if you keep handing them the ammunition.  And they won’t only take down the Precious…they’ll take down the other Democratic candidates on the ticket by flashing non stop pictures of them with Obama… the disreputable and smearing demon of the Democratic party.

You really need to stop.

Does this represent a trend?


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Well, it’s Wednesday and I see we’re still here...

Does that mean it didn’t work?

Bill Quick channels Arthur C. Clarke:

The problem with technology that becomes sufficiently advanced as to appear magical is that it will be opposed by people who believe in magic.

Elsewhere:  Typo!
Later (added 080911 17:47):  and Another!

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Breaking news: Women Want Time For Families and Isn’t Sarah Palin Awful

Wow, I spent so much time on that last post that there’s not enough left to deal with another item on today’s WSJ opinion page, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman’s “Let’s Talk About Palin’s Family Challenges.”

Actually, that’s probably a good thing.  Otherwise I’d be wasting time over what is, when all is said and done, yet another example of progressive goal-post-moving.  For it seems that, after all those years of feminist agitation, women not only don’t want to “have it all,” but look unfavorably at those who do:

What Sarah Palin did not do, however, is put an end to the latest national conversation about “trying to have it all.”  Because the question we're all asking isn’t can she do it, but why is she doing it?  Mrs. Palin, you see, happens to be bucking a new national trend.  Even as most mothers across America chuckle appreciatively about pit bulls and lipstick and applaud her bravado, they are making choices that look very un-Palinesque.
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Fed up with 50- and 60-hour weeks and a career ladder we didn’t build and don’t want to climb, women are looking for jobs that demand fewer and freer hours.  We want to work but we also want quantity time, as well as quality time, with our children.  Most of us no longer buy the onwards-and-upwards drive to the corner office (or in Mrs. Palin’s case, the West Wing) at the cost of a fragmented family life.  More and more, women are choosing a tapestry of family and work in which we define our own success...

Note the subtile criticism: Sarah Palin has bought “the onwards-and-upwards drive to... the West Wing,” which her more sophisticated sisters (who, in days of yore, dumped their kids into daycare at the earliest opportunity) have decided they no longer want.  How, um, old-fashioned.  Didn’t she get the memo?

It’s because she’s actually pushing the combination of professional and personal ambitions beyond the sensibilities

And, heaven knows, one must never do that!  Somebody might get a case of the vapours.

of this generation of working moms. As women, we may be awed by her, but she’s not necessarily a role model for so many professional women who now say they want to do it differently...

You get the drift.  But before leaving this, I might point out that women with families have always had to balance work and home, and that, outside of the New York-Washington-Los Angeles hothouse, many of them have chosen “nontraditional” forms of employment to better accommodate family needs.  Some of them even get assistance from their husbands.  None of this is new. Except perhaps to (unmarried?) media people.^[1]

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Just wonderin’...

...how many of the trolls spreading the “Jesus was a community organizer” meme have even seen the inside of a church anytime within, say, the last five years?

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A case for bringing back flogging

New slogan at Citibank:

“Stealing from our customers is a business decision, not a legal decision.”

That quote is not made up. Neither is this one:

The same executive later said that the sweep program could not be stopped because it would reduce the executive bonus pool.

From the comments at Consumerist, a comparison:

Becky Schafer steals $3.3 million from Citibank. Her punishment?  38 months in prison.
Carlos Gomez steals $47 million from Citibank. his punishment?   55 months in prison.
Ronald Fisher steals $14 million from Citibank. his punishment?  63 months in prison

Citibank steals $14 million from their customers. Their punishment?  They have to pay interest.^[1]

Ain’t it great to know that an M.B.A. + corporation = Get-out-of-Jail card!  Maybe we should bring back flogging.

Consumerist story:

Via: Techdirt
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No surprise

McCain:

The constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn't a cause, it's a symptom. It's what happens when people go to Washington to work for themselves and not you.

CNN (via Tam):

Democrats say McCain too partisan^[1]

Which demonstrates something....

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Oh say...?

The Land of the Free:

I'm told on game days, every person entering gets patted down. Isn't that special? - Roberta X, at Lucas Oil Stadium

and the Home of the Brave:

(Sign outside the Republican convention, from this Power Line post.)

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Today’s anti-Palin talking point

“She’s just another politician.”

Yeah, just like Pelosi, Reid, Biden, Clinton (both of them), Ted Stevens, Heath Shuler, Trent Lott (gone, but not forgotten)... and, yes Obama and McCain.

Spotted (so far):

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