does it get worse? you know it does, we live in a bully boy world.
so after inadequate response, after his phoney photo-op and his less than reassuring words, the no-accountability bully boy apparently has a new mission.
this is from democracy now:
White House Tries To Blame Flooding on Environmentalists
The Mississippi Clarion Ledger is reporting that it has obtained internals emails from the Justice Department that indicates the Bush administration may be seeking to blame the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina on environmentalists. The Justice Department is seeking information from various U.S. attorneys offices on whether they have defended any cases involving environmental groups seeking to block the Army Corps of Engineers from working on the levees around New Orleans.
you read that correctly.
why would they do that?
it's all part of the war on the environment.
blame the environmentalist and then what do you need?
restrictions and laws on them.
they're trying to outlaw dissent and protest already, now they want to make life even easier for those who would destroy our environment.
this is step 1. i'm making a prediction here.
if they can run with this, they will use to go after so-called 'eco-terrorists.'
have you heard that word?
lots of little nobodies in congress, little repubes who were excited that their pubes did grow back after shaving, were fond of it in the 90s. it took bully boy staggering into the oval office to make it popular with the administration.
'eco-terrorists' bad. bombers of abortion clinics they remain 'non-committal' on.
so having used the false term repeatedly and gotten many in the press to use it, they'll now begin expanding the term. it'll include the sierra club and on down the list all the way to your aunt sally that wrote her senator saying 'i do not want a nuclear power plant in my backyard!'
fbi agent: did you write this?
sally: i wrote my senator.
fbi agent: with exclamation points. cuff her, we're taking her in.
i'm not really sure what's going on with bob somerby. i think he's in his tangle up in blue period.
i called c.i. this morning and c.i. was about to post and i said, 'you don't mention the daily howler, do you?' and c.i. says yeah, the friday post is quoted because it looked like bob was off that 1 topic. i said, 'the new 1's gone up' and read it over the phone.
i don't know what's going on with bob.
it's like the film what's the matter with bob?
and that film wasn't funny either.
i keep thinking of this line melanie griffith says in the movie in the spirit, 'he's like a really mean cat with a bird.'
c.i. told me that e-mails were coming in to the common ills about people saying how glad they were to see sunday i was feeling better.
i've gotten a few of those here as well. i appreciate the concern. the whole john roberts junior thing really brings me down.
wally asked me to put my stuff up here so i will.
this is from "the third estate sunday review news review:"
C.I.: Thank you, Jess. I'll add that NOW is participating in the D.C. activites as well. Many organizations are, but the reason I mention NOW is that if people are unable to come to D.C. but wish to be heard, they can call their local chapters of NOW to inquire about activities in their area. We now go to Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude with an editorial report on Roberts and the state of Roe.
Rebecca: Disclosure, I've had an abortion and in the same set of circumstances, I would have one again. The dog & pony show that was the John Roberts hearings were disgusting. This is NOW's Kim Gandy cutting through the crap:
But I think it's clear from what he has said, I don't think he has been dishonest in the sense of what "is" is, but he has been misleading. He has very brilliantly -- I agree with the right wing commentator that he has brilliantly given answers that have led some people, including ones on the committee, to believe that he supports the right to privacy and the Roe framework, when infact he has been laying out, and I hope never to need to say, "I told you so," because I hope he won't be confirmed, but if he is confirmed, I think that people will look back and they will say, "Oh, yeah. See here, right here in the hearing, he talked about erosion. He talked about workability. He talked about extensive disagreement as being grounds for reversal, and gee, isn't it interesting? These are the exact grounds they used to reverse Roe."
Rebecca (con't): That was Kim Gandy on Democracy Now! Tuesday stating what the mainstream press wouldn't tell you either because they don't understand Roe or because they don't care about Roe. For those who care about Roe, it was difficult to get through the 'happy-happy, let's all laughs and hey, there's John Roberts Junior listing his favorite movies and what do you know Porky's didn't make the cut.' Those expecting a hard grilling of Roberts from Diane Feinstein, were disappointed. Never has she played it so demure. Listening to her offer "I don't know nothing about no lawyering" and other similar comments, one wondered if she longed for the day when "ladies" wore hats and gloves. When Anita Hill faced the Senate Judiciary Committee, there were no women sitting on the committee. For all of her sunny disposition, Feinstein might as well have not been sitting on the committee. If she thinks that cuts it, she better think again. As Bully Boy begins preparations to fill the other seat, Roberts is up for the late Rehnquist's seat not O'Connor's, Democrats better be more prepared and more combative. And unless Lindsey Graham intends to french kiss the next nominee, perhaps Arlen Specter better put a leash on him. Listening to his annoying dipthong bounce up and down in a pitter-patter motion not unlike the way his heart appeared to flutter over John Roberts Junior, it was difficult to tell which was more annoying "Miss Diane," soft and genteel, or the Senate's apparent Blanche Du Bois fussing over Roberts the way Blanche attempted to make Mitch seem much more than he was. Keep it up, Graham, and people will start saying, "'Lindsey. It's a French name. It means no wood. You can remember it by that!" Watching the nonsense, you were aware that even those participating knew it was nonsense, as when Arlen Specter stated, "They may be misleading, but they are his answers." But was their a method to his misleading?
Kim Gandy, president of NOW:
Roberts in fact appears to be laying out a roadmap for how he would overturn Roe. As grounds for overturning precedent, he cited both "extensive disagreement" and whether a core holding has become "unworkable," both of which are very common arguments made by the right-wing for overturning Roe. Additionally, by repeatedly turning to Casey v. Planned Parenthood while addressing Roe, Roberts suggested erosion of the precedent as additional grounds, since Casey significantly eroded the Roe protections and reasoning, as has subsequent state and federal legislation.
C.I.: Thank you, Rebecca, for that editorial report. For those who missed it, "It means no wood" is a play on Blanche DuBois's lines in A Streetcar Named Desire. We now go to Mike of Mikey Likes It! who will give us what The New York Times doesn't.
a lot of you liked my comments about feinstein and the 'hats' and 'gloves.' but most of you liked my comments about lindsey graham and 'it means no wood' best.
i was in a funk all last week. being with everyone and working on the thing above helped me a lot (so thank you guys!).
now this is what i said at the common ills sunday:
C.I.: Good because between Kat's finding and Dona's I need a bottle of aspirin, Excedrin Tension Headache, and a handful of Tylenols. Rebecca, talk about the men's fashion thing you grabbed.
Rebecca: Well, they go with Joaquin Phoenix as their cover boy but the photos take pains to hide his scar. I think everyone knows he has it. I don't know whom the photographer or the paper thinks they're protecting. I also don't know why in "Men's Fall Fashion 2005" it was needed for a full page ad of a woman's naked back to be run. They do a spread entitled "The Great Rock and Roll Swindle" and I've never seen a group of uglier young men. In uglier clothes. Including one sweater that is so ugly no one would even use it as a bath mat if it was the only thing in the house and they needed to take a shower. This sweater, I'll also note, is worn off one shoulder as though Jennifer Beals popularized a "rock look" for men in Flashdance. I can't figure out the caption on a page in "Mad Togs and Englishmen." It reads ""Fashion Editor: Allan Kennedy." If that means the photo of the aged man in low slung jeans and shirtless is the fashion editor, that certainly explains the fashion disasters that have appeared for two weeks now in this paper. A hint, your pecs sag and you're too old for the outfit you wear. It doesn't look cool, it doesn't look sexy. You look like a homeless man. The only totally do-able man appears in the Supima cotton ad. This is what Matt Lauer would look like if Lauer weren't bald and ugly. The guy in the Macy & Bloomingdale's 2 (x)ist underwear ad was sexy until I noticed his hairy legs. That's not a problem; however, they're very hairy and it's obvious that he must wax his chest and his stomach. As I've stated before, shaving legs is murder for women. We're really not in the mood to go out with a man who finds time to remove more hair than we do.
Jess: How do you know he doesn't just have hairy legs.
Rebecca: Sweet, innocent Jess. When you've seen as many naked men as I have, you learn that when a man's legs are that hairy, that thick with hair as they run up to his crotch, his chest is not usually as hairless as a new borns. In addition, he usually has hair below his bellly button. The model doesn't. He looks like a freshly plucked chicken from above the groin. It's a turn off, even if you can make out, I'm trying to keep this as clean as possible, the head of his unit including the slit through which urine passes. That better have passed the "work safe" standard because I could really go to town at my own site. Also check out how thick his eyebrows are, after they've been shaped. There's no way that his chest doesn't sprout hair. Free Country has one of the ugliest models in their ads and he's not helped by the fact that he's apparently borrowing Donna Mills' fall 1984 hair style. One that looked foolish even on her and was quickly abandoned before winter.
Kat: What about the guy in the Prada ad?
Rebecca: Ick! He looks like he's on psychotropics but hasn't taken them in days. Look at his eyes, what's going on there?
Kat: Check out the All My Children actor, I don't watch the show, it says in the ad for Hathaway shirts that he's on All My Children.
Rebecca: Too much lipstick and he looks like such a Republican.
Dona: Jim likes Jennifer Jason Leigh. She's in a photo and she looks really good.
Rebecca: I didn't even recognize her. "Romanov Holiday" makes Romanov look like it's populated by ugly gay porn performers. What is it? Bel Ami that puts out those videos? Silence. Total silence. I guess I'm the only one who's ever watched two men get it on. (Laughing) Prudes.
we were being silly. we is
**Participating are The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Ava, Jess, Ty and myself, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills), Mike of Mikey Likes It! and C.I. of both The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review. **
we had been up all night having nothing but problems at the third estate sunday review had kept us up even later. the time on that piece is when we started, and a lot got edited out because the decision was made to go funny so we were all looking over it and debating what to leave in and what to take out. jim had a funny bit that he took out and i wished he had left it in.
i'm glad everyone enjoyed the jokes but kat and i weren't the only 1s being silly. maybe next time when we're all that tired (and the thing didn't get done until after meet the press was on because i had the tv on the background and remember thinking 'are we ever going to sleep?' poor mike fell asleep during it) we can be silly again.
kat didn't take out anything. you know kat and her 'it is what it is.'
the other thing i wanted to point out is that we used my site to put up the stuff isaiah did for the
"From the work area of the Bully Boy ("It's Hard Work")" to go up. we ended up putting it up here so my readers did get a treat if they came by sunday. if you missed it you can scroll down.
isaiah was on the phone with us before we spoke to maria and he was at a drug store, i think, naming off the coloring books that they carried. the wiggles was 1 i was pushing for because they make me laugh. isaiah ended up mentioning them in his intentionally crude sketches. (thank you isaiah) but there was 1 that isaiah said something like 'oh there's a hog on the cover' and no 1 was really paying attention there except c.i. who started saying 'you got to get that coloring book!' and so isaiah picks it up and tells us what's in it and there's a pig on a skateboard.
so my readers got 1st glance at the drawings and since there's a problem with that post, i've still go the exclusive if you want to see the illustrations ha ha.
