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Chris Matthews Can Suck My Left Nut

As a matter fact... double suck.

Chris Matthews may be a Democrat... I don't know. Most adult liberals I know voted for AL Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008. I'm not sure I can look at Chris Matthew's record and say for sure that is how he voted... but that's his business... or is it?

Chris Matthews is fun to watch when he gets on a liberal rant, and he has had a few, but I can't get the taste out of my mouth (and I'm sure he can't either) of his prostrating before George Bush, Jr. I mean this grown man had a hard-on on Hardball on more than one occasion.

I'm a Democrat. I'm a liberal. I'm a grown up. I vote. I post to this blog. I give money to candidates. I read bills. I listen to debate. I hated the Bush, Jr./Cheney Administration. I was getting ready to move back to Pennsylvania and declare for the U.S. Senate if Chris Matthews decided to run.

There are a plenty of bad guys out there today Chris, enemies of Democratic Party, most of them are on TV and in the Republican Party. Some, obviously are Democrats themselves.

Iam not one of them nor are the net-roots or bloggers or progressive blogosphere or whatever you want to call us... (back-benchers, bitchers, children.)

Chris Matthews has been a recipient in the past of a ...Sucks Big Fat Elephant Dick headline for sucking up to the Republican Party... he has created a new category all together. Your stupid is starting to become unforgivable.

"fighting with shadows in the streets": American Media Fails In Its Coverage Of Iran

The American Media and its right wing enablers are having trouble reporting on Iran. They want Iran to be another bogeyman for Americans, but the people of Iran are fighting that same bogeyman.

The Iranians are taking to the streets like Americans never do. In fact, Iran's taking to the streets against Americans in 1979 effected politics in America to this day, ushering in Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr.

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, Republican John McCain was singing songs about bombing Iran, and then peace protests broke out in the streets of Iran. Wouldn't that have been a mess if Republicans has their way and bombed Iran?

So when you have the Republican Party and the right wing Media misreading and misleading Americans about Iran... you get more coverage of celebrity sex lives.

What the Iranians are using the on-line social networks for should humble Americans, who are sending pictures of their asses to each other.

The BBC has kept up with the latest events in Iran.

In the capital Tehran, police and militiamen used batons and teargas, and witnesses said there had been gunfire.

The protests, led by Iranian students, were over the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and suppression of academic freedom.

It appears to be the most widespread unrest in Iran for months.

Foreign journalists were banned from reporting on the rallies, and the Iranian authorities closed down mobile phone networks and severely restricted internet access.

STFU Already

Can the progressive blogs please stop reporting on every word, move and bowel movement of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Newt Gingrich.

It's bad enough the networks still worship Joe Lieberman and John McCain, but at least they hold office.

I'm surprised there isn't a live blog of Senator Vitter that I have to SKIP before reading some of the A-List progressives.

Here is what Senator Al Franken has been up to?

Saturday Musings 'Too Much Time On My Hands' Edition

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Whenever the Crazy gets turned up too high for me to deal with, I re-read some Hunter S. Thompson to put my life in perspective. The man knew how to cope.

I work all the time and having four days off in a row over this Thanksgiving holiday has given me time to think... which means it has given me time to worry...My thoughts on the week that just passed.

We have terrorists blowing up trains in Russia.

We have non-terrorists killing soldiers in America.

Tiger Woods wife is taking a golf club to his head.

Glenn Beck is on my TV, my radio and my computer every day. Even the progressive blogs feature every utterance of that man.

Sarah Palin is back and bigger than ever. She even has a porn-side show with her little hockey player.

Oprah is quitting.

Joss Wedon’s new show was canceled.

The dollar is falling.

CHASE bank keeps chasing me around like a fucking PAC MAN eating my banks as fast as I can open a new checking account. Don’t you guys get it. I do not want a CHASE account!

I thought I voted in a liberal President, hell, he was even half black! But instead I get a Republican who happens to not be a neo-con. Is that the best I can expect from the Democratic Party?

I didn’t do any shopping on Black Friday.

I recycle.

I have two fucking 15 year old cats.

I donate to KPFK.

I don’t eat as much red-meat as I want used to.

I grow my own fucking tomatoes.

I fly three thousand miles to see my mother at Christmas and the holiday costs me about $1,500 each year. I've already got the tickets and they cost over $1,200... so I'll be over my limit by 12/24/09.

I buy expensive health care through my job and I can only get one pair of glasses per year.

I don't understand Obamacare.

I’ve had the same three Netflix movies sitting on my TV for two months.

Everyone is getting Frank Sinatra's A Man Alone for Christmas.

I’ve read fewer books this year than anytime since I was 6 years old...

It was at this point I decided to find Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

Saturday Musings: 'Does President Obama Like Chinese Food?' Edition

A bunch of old rich white men, and maybe a few women, but they probably won’t speak, are debating whether or not to debate the future of American health care. This ought to be a real treat.

The United States Senate… what a pack of losers, bought, sold and scared. Not scared of their constituents, but of the lobbyist and the media. Whatever they come up with, I probably don’t want, because it is not in my interests they meet today.

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I heard that President Obama visited China last week. I saw it on the BBC. I tried to find some wall-to-wall coverage of the President abroad, but American TV didn’t  cover it. I wonder what the President and those 2 billion Chinese talked about?

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I wish the progressive blogs would write more posts featuring progressive people and less time on what conservative and crazy-right pundits had to say. I really don’t need a re-cap of what Glenn Beck said every day. I don’t watch him for a reason. I don’t want to hear what he has to say. A strange cycle some blogs have found themselves in… recapping the stupid.

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I have a good idea for health care… Medicare… and extend it to every U.S. citizen. How do we pay for it? Let’s try not fighting a foreign war for maybe like a decade and see how much money we save… or maybe only just fight one, you know, to keep us in shape.

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Can you imagine if President Obama announced the end of military activities in Afghanistan, effective immediately. And then he puts the 9/11 left-over terrorists on trial  in Manhattan and kind of just wraps up the Bush, Jr/Cheney era war on terror… you know, starts his own version of peace and security instead of trying to prop up what previous administrations have done…and starting in 2010 we have the Obama Doctrine. I wonder what that would look like.

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My television is dying. I have the last fat, really heavy, tube TV in the United  States. Last night it started to fade to black and then slowly fade back up to picture again. I thought it was just the movie I was watching, some strange film editing trick, but then the picture would turn purple and only fill half the screen, then bounce back. I guess it’s time to go flat screen, LCD, LED, HD and all that. I don’t watch any weekly series. I don’t have TIVO... I wonder if I can get by with just my computer.

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I broke my two month on-line book buying fast. I bought a birthday present that had to be shipped across the country. I bought my nephew Philip Caputo’s The Voyage.

Is This Really What President Obama Sees When He Looks At Us?

“bloggers need to take off their pajamas, get dressed and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult.”

Yes, and we put that difficult job in your hands... not in Hillary Clinton's and not in John McCain's and Sarah Palin's.

And can someone in the Obama Administration show me one example of a network news room supporting your policies?

Can some one in the Obama Administration show me one example of bipartisiansip helping the country since Inauguration Day?

Have fun beating Jeb Bush in 2012 without the left wing bloggers.

At What Point Do You Just Stop?

 

KPFK in Los Angeles has been in the midst of a Beg-A-Thon fundraiser for weeks. Look folks, I love you all, and support you, but maybe people can't afford to give this year.

I can't listen to the pleading anymore. It becomes pointless after a while. Maybe...obviously... no one is listening and that is what you should be concentrating on.

Sorry.

Saturday Musings: 'What If They Gave A Summit And Everyone Came' Edition

This is not a snarky or facetious question… Why was it better that banks that we were told were too big to fail receive billions of tax payer dollars… no questions asked… so they could put money bank into the lending pool… as opposed to them failing.

They failed in opening up lines of credit with the money.

Where is the corporate media and birther, teabag outrage at TARP?

Can some one convince me that Bush, JR. didn’t simply loot the U.S. Treasury at the end of his term?

And convince me that President Obama didn’t know any better and his advisers were bankers, so instead of being FDR… he may end up being Herbert Hoover?

I would like to hear the President (Obama or Bush, Jr.) explain TARP to me again…where the bailout money came from and where it went and why.

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Our news cycle if quick and this morning’s news is yesterday’s news… but I would like to go back a few weeks to President Obama’s State of the Union speech… yeah the one where a Republican Congressman shouted ‘you lie!’

Obama took a swipe at the left wing blogs… not sure why… maybe he thought it would prevent Republican Congressmen from interrupting his speech… but I have this to say… and it is a bold statement… can anyone, including President Obama imagine him winning the election without the progressive blogosphere?

What would the Democratic message have been…after being filtered through the corporate, Republican media?

If it weren’t for the progressive blogosphere…maybe doing noting more that yelling ‘you lie’ to the media, then we probably would be living under a McCain/Palin Administration.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

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TV’s new season sucks. Teenage vampires and fuck-buddies with no parental supervision, retard-reality shows plus some wise-ass sitcoms where all characters snark with the same voice. (Sons of Anarchy excluded).

Whatever happened to shows written with the wit of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?

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Hey, finally Gordon Brown was allowed to speak at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. You know Brown being all working class, miners dust and Pittsburgh being all…all former steel and working class and stuff. Workers of the World, Unite! If you dare.

Saturday Musings: 'Having A Cuppa' Edition

It would be nice if all the progressive blogs, especially the A-list ones, simply didn’t report on what FOX News and Glen Beck said that day.

That way only the people who watched FOX News would know. We can start by picking one day a week for not telling everyone what FOX News said. Then try expanding that to one week of not relaying FOX News headlines, them maybe FOX News will wither on the vine or go to just being what the Republican Party actually is, a side-lined, fringe group.

I’ve been trying it on this blog and my traffic has increased. I thought it would go down if I wasn’t always on the Republicans and their Media, but there are other ways of presenting liberal views while not raising the opposition to a position of authority by making them the only alternative voice.

For example, instead of reporting what Chris Wallace thinks, here are some statistics from President Franklin Roosevelt’s’ Works Progress Administration or WPA: The breadth of WPA public works and social programs was enormous: It built 65 0,000 miles of roads, 78,000 bridges, 125,000 civilian and military buildings, 800 airports (built or improved), and 7 00 miles of airport runways. It also served almost 900 million hot lunches to school children, and operated 1,500 nursery schools. It presented 225,000 concerts to audiences totaling 150 million people, performed plays and circuses before another 30 million, and created 475, 000 works of art.

That’s something people can sink their teeth into. Their Government doing good things for them when Democrats are in control. Arguments against ring hollow.

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And I wouldn’t mind hearing a speech from Secretary of State Clinton now and again, maybe interrupt the news cycle or games shows and show Americans their State Department in action. She made a good one at the UN General Assembly last week.

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I do hope President Obama hasn’t completely missed his ‘New Deal’ moment. They don’t come along very often.

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Well, the summer is over. That was quick.  Rush hour traffic is back to full capacity. It’s getting dark earlier and earlier. I needed a hoodie the other night when I went out.

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Music: I somehow fell into a time warp and am exploring the early Abbey Road Studios. The Pretty Things and Pink Floyd are getting a work out.

Books:
In the Bathroom: Nothing To Fear (FDR’s Inner Circle And The Hundred Days That Created Modern America) by Adam Cohen.

On the Night Stand: The Turnaround by George Pelecanos and The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble.

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And right now I am enjoying a strong cup of Scottish Breakfast Tea from Taylors of Harrogate… with a splash of milk.

Saturday Musings: 'Who The Fuck Is Bob Dylan?' Edition

Remember, no TV news this weekend. Only surf the net. Read blogs. At least you know most of what they say is just opinion. TV News lies to you and presents it as news.

In fact, let’s all not watch TV at all this fall. When all the new shows debut… let the box be black. Fuck ‘em.

What have they done for you? The news is a lie. Reality TV makes people not want to lead their own lives. And as for drama: cops and hospitals… two things people try to avoid, so why have it in your living room each night?

Maybe, just maybe if the box stays black, corporate networks and cable news networks will start programming for the people.  Real news, real educational programs, intelligent drama to sell soap… and drugs.

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Health care reform. The Left has to start busting heads. Sorry, that’s the way it needs to play at this point.

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The Clintons still rule, still are the smartest people in the room, as a couple and individually, and are the most interesting people on the planet.

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Senator Jim Webb can kick any Republican Senator's or Media Pundit's ass, with one hand tied behind his back, while rescuing Americans from evil-doers' prisons at the same time.

Jim Webb Head-butt! BAM!! You are down. Democrats rule when it comes to rescuing captured Americans.

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You know what is interesting about American Media’s coverage of the health care reform debate? Not a fucking thing.

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Music: Bob Dylan and Woodstock don’t mean a damn thing to young people today. And Joan Baez wins the week! What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?

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Books: I am discovering a trend in American and British novels trying to come to terms with that sloping border between middle age and old  age. (see Jim Harrison’s The English Major) I guess the boomers are feeling the aches and pains. I need to do more research. Will keep you posted.