December 11, 2009 archive
Dec 11 2009
Docudharma Times Friday December 11
Dec 11 2009
Palin
Pity her, she does not see what is coming down the tracks. Palin scared the living hell out of me. After the first five minutes of her acceptance speech, I was in sheer horror. There it was, crying a cross and everything, couldn’t be wrapped tighter in an American flag.
Fascism of the stupidz. The worst kind.
Someone I knew saw it from the side stage, she called me during the end of the speech and gave me a play by play of the crowd. They freaking loved it. For a few days, Senator John McCain looked like a genius, until the world found out just how stupid Palin can be at times.
And Palin can can her elitism, because she is the stupidz in front of camera, repeatedly. I saw this as a redneck from southern Brazoria County. We have never been so flattered as to be called the elite, unless we’re talking taking care of business and kicking ass.
Even when Palin, herself, isn’t giving a ee cummings like response to incredible softballs that float in on balloons, some absurd antics are going on in the background.
Remember this gem:
I could understand not seeing it, if it was on Palin’s blindside, but how could you not hear it?
America should thank its lucky stars Palin is stupid.
If she was as smart and as savvy as she appeared on the night of her first speech, her finest hour, we would probably have a President McCain.
The Republicans realized something though, their based had a streak of populism in them that they had yet to tap. Their search for a populist began!
The first replacement for Palin, who had shown her red baboon ass in a parade that led to a national crisis in absurdity.
I still think this ended McCain’s campaign:
Right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Here is the whole segment, you want 3m55s.
Maked up like a clown on national tv, during a time of crisis.
He lost the rabble right there.
He was no longer a maverick, he was a politician.
The dream Maverick/Rogue team crash bombed into the ground.
The Maverick went back to God’s Waiting Room, otherwise known as the Senate. Palin went full rogue.
The Republicans thought they found their man to replace her in their populist slot.
He’s unveil was epic.
This Jim Hanson muppet come to life was a big flop. He was full on Barney Fife instead of Andy Griffith. He was also an idiot.
Not quite the stupidz like Palin, but definitely an idiot.
The Great Elephant went fishing, and I think they got their Moby Dick.
Because this dude is a huge Dick.
Not that Dick, but first they had to get rid of the snowbilly.
Bill O’Reilly: Let me be very bold and fresh again, do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?
Sarah Palin: I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have I believe the values that I think are reflective of so many other American values, and I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the uhm, the ah, a kind of spineless, spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite, Ivy league education and, and a fat resume that is based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans are could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership, I’m not saying that that has to be me.
A hatchet job? On Palin? At Fox News?
See the whole interview and more here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Fox News knows framing, they know exactly what they are doing here. They are undermining her credibility and her base which each frame of this interview.
They are creating room, oxygen space, for a new challenger to appear.
You know him, you love him, Lou Dobbs!
Dumb as Palin doesn’t even realize what’s coming down the tracks, how she will be discard and in five years a walking joke, but she will be getting everything that is coming to her.
That is the saddest part of all.
That and Ailes is gonna fund Lou Dobb’s presidential campaign as a populist Republican and use Fox News as the propaganda tool.
That’s gonna be pretty sad to watch, too.
But we will always have the memories of the horror. The Horror.
Dec 11 2009
America 2013
Or the republic has failed.
Make popcorn this is long. Or got get a cup of coffe. Ben, you pull that hair out the bowl and give her a go.
1:27:06 – 1 year ago
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats, and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. With The Take, director Avi Lewis, one of Canada’s most outspoken journalists, and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international bestseller No Logo, champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century. But what shines through in the film is the simple drama of workers’ lives and their struggle: the demand for dignity and the searing injustice of dignity denied. http://thetake.org/
I still say Naomi Klein is a hack who stole her style and content from Kalle Lasn.
This was her redemption, thanks to another Canadian.
Dec 11 2009
Michelle Obama’s Garden, & Transition To A World Without Oil
Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition movement, a radically hopeful and community-driven approach to creating societies independent of fossil fuel.
From his bio at Ted.com:
Hopkins leads a vibrant new movement of towns and cities that utilize local cooperation and interdependence to shrink their ecological footprints. In the face of climate change he developed the concept of Transition Initiatives — communities that produce their own goods and services, curb the need for transportation and take other measures to prepare for a post-oil future. While Transition shares certain principles with greenness and sustainability, it is a deeper vision concerned with re-imagining our future in a self-sufficient way and building resiliency.
Transforming theory to action, Hopkins is also the co-founder and a resident of the first Transition Initiative in the UK, in Totnes, Devon. As he refuses to fly, it is from his home in Totnes that he offers help to hundreds of similar communities that have sprung up around the world, in part through his blog, transitionculture.org
Hopkins, who’s trained in ecological design, wrote the principal work on the subject, Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, a 12-step manual for a postcarbon future.
Hopkins website is “Transition Culture: An evolving exploration into the head, heart and hands of energy descent“, where he asks “How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations” One of the posts I found most thought provoking on his site is Your Free Guide to Setting Up Local Currencies, available in .pdf for download on that page. He discusses in the video below some communities setting up their own currencies and local economies.
Here is Hopkins giving a talk for Ted.com, filmed this past July and posted there in November this year…
Dec 11 2009
Approval Rating Down?
So says John Aravosis.
Think it could have anything to do with this?
Don’t Be Shocked When The Democratic Base Does Not Turn Out In 2010.
Dec 11 2009
Que Ironia: Afghani Nam, Vietistan
A day for intense, personal irony.
The Nobel Prize winner explains how some wars are good and necessary. He’s not old enough to have ever been faced with being drafted. And he hasn’t served. He’s apparently not worried about things like quagmires. He wins an award for peace. The award it turns out was endowed by a maker of explosives who felt guilty about blowing things up. The prize winner explains to people interested in peace how war is sometimes necessary. He is not embarrassed to do so. And the sometimes when war is necessary, he informs us, is now. That does not embarrass him either. Or at least not very much. Has peace ever been so devalued?
Closer to home, well, to my home anyway, number 2 son is in Hanoi traveling and taking photographs. He’s a photographer. Forty years ago, I spent a lot of time and energy on trying not to get to Viet Nam. I could look at that big plane that flew weekly to Pleiku and plan on how I was not going to be on it. No matter what. Now he’s there. Because he wants to be. In of all places, Hanoi.
He sends me a photo of a fish dinner he ate for lunch in Hanoi yesterday. The fish was delicious but, he reports, very bony. What can I say? I tell him the best part of a whole fish cooked like this is the cheeks. You can use a spoon to get to them. How do I know that?
The Hanoi Fish
On docuDharma, a refuge from the craziness of a larger, group blog that is its “blogfather,” there are several essays on the recommended list at this very moment about that particular larger, group blog. And a bazillion comments, including some from me, on what its apparently self inflicted, fatal wounds might mean. And what is happening in that crazy corner of the Internet. A corner from which I am absent and hope to remain so. Except that I keep looking over my shoulder, rubbernecking at the crash. And wondering about the plane to Pleiku.
What can I say? Why is it that I think know I’ve seen these movies before?
Dec 11 2009
Recognizing Genocide Denial Against American Indians
The extent to which a Nation denies the genocide it has committed is a measure of that Nation’s social conscience. The social conscience of the United States is infected with numerous rationalizations that keep the dark light from shining. Federal and state institutions are named after mass murderers, and the land tells a story of massacres and atrocities that occurred. But the truth is not forgotten, it is denied.
8. DENIAL is the eighth stage that always follows a genocide. It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres. The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of the crimes, and continue to govern until driven from power by force, when they flee into exile.
Genocide is not just denied in the United States, it is celebrated.
The term “redskins” actually refers to the Indian skins and body parts that bounty hunters had to show in order to receive payment for killing Indians, the National Congress of American Indians argued in a brief filed before the high court.
What we shall see, is that denying the genocide of the American Indian is for ideological or economic reasons. What we need to know, is how specifically people deny the genocide of the American Indian.
Dec 11 2009
@Organizing 2.0
originally posted by Will Urquhart at Sum of Change
Last weekend, I attended the Organizing 2.0 conference in New York, put together by Charles Lenchner of the Working Families Party. This conference brought people together to hear from some of the greatest minds in the online organizing world. I came out of it with lots of great footage, and today we are previewing some of it. The majority of the footage, however, will be featured in our Training Tuesday series. So check back Tuesday at 6:00pm for more Organizing 2.0 footage. We are also collecting all our Organizing 2.0 footage onto one page here. But if you are reading this, then you really should find the time to watch these videos.
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