Saturday, January 27, 2007

Another Brilliant Piece by Mo


Maureen and Stephanie - Separated at Birth?

Dear Stephanie,
Maureen Dowd has received some flak lately for her column on Hillary-bashing, but I think that she more than redeems herself with this brilliant piece on the utter derangement of Darth Cheney. It's something that you've been pointing out for quite some time, and I think it is just more evidence that you two were separated at birth (you got the slutty, comic gene and Mo got the brainy, writing gene), nevertheless you are both so clearly on the same wavelength that I'm not sure who owes whom credit for each one's respective success. I've, as usual, taken the liberty of highlighting a few of my favorite passages, but the truth is this column is so rich and full of quotable lines that I think that you could take just about any sentence from this piece and it hits at least a handful of nails on their heads.

"Delusional is far too mild a word to describe Dick Cheney. Delusional doesn’t begin to capture the profound, transcendental one-flew-over daftness of the man. Has anyone in the history of the United States ever been so singularly wrong and misguided about such phenomenally important events and continued to insist he’s right in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?"
Maureen Dowd, NYTimes, Jan. 27. 2007

"You must have a real talent for derangement to stay wrong every step of the way, to remain in complete denial about Iraq’s civil war, to have a total misunderstanding of Arab culture, to be completely oblivious to the American mood and to be absolutely blind to how democracy works. In a democracy, when you run a campaign that panders to homophobia by attacking gay marriage and then your lesbian daughter writes a book about politics and decides to have a baby with her partner, you cannot tell Wolf Blitzer he’s 'out of line' when he gingerly raises the hypocrisy of your position."
Maureen Dowd, NYTimes, Jan. 27, 2007

"Mr. Cheney has turned his perversity into foreign policy. He assumes that the more people think he’s crazy, the saner he must be. In Dr. No’s nutty world-view, anti-Americanism is a compliment. The proof that America is right is that everyone thinks it isn’t. He sees himself as a prophet in the wilderness because he thinks anyone in the wilderness must be a prophet. To borrow one of his many dismissive words, it’s hogwash."
Maureen Dowd, NYTimes, Jan. 27, 2007

NYTimes, January 27, 2007, Op-Ed Columnist, Daffy Does Doom

Friday, January 26, 2007

Grand Opening of GARBO's

Traveling around the Oregon Coast soon? Well, you are in for a real treat! You can stop in Wheeler, Oregon and visit Garbo's Vintage Global Wear on Hwy 101 (695 Nehalem Blvd.) in loverly downtown Wheeler. The proprietor of this glorious Shoppe in none other than this blogger's sister, Lynn Hadley, vintage clothier extraordinaire... So if you find yourself in the neighborhood, please stop in and say hello and tell Lynn that you read about it on my blog and she'll give you a 10% discount. Congratulations Lynnie and best wishes for a magnificent venture!!!
GRAND OPENING
GARBO'S
Vintage Global Wear
Saturday, January 27, 2007
10:00am - 6:00pm
695 Nehalem Blvd. (Hwy 101), Wheeler, Oregon
503-368-GARB (4272)

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Response to the State of the Onion Speech


Stephanie,
I have just one question for Comandante KooKoo Bananas - "Would it fuckin' kill you to say "DemocratIC"? That might be one way to show a true commitment to bipartisanship. How about vowing to stop with the "Signing Statements?" Talk about advancing laws that nobody has voted on (in case he doesn't remember, a majority of Americans didn't vote for him!). I gotta go back to bed, my head is killing me...

“Most Americans believe that escalation will not bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, and that's why I've proposed not just a troop cap, but a phased redeployment that will start bringing our troops home,”
Senator Barack Obama (D - IL)

“It will be clear to us whether he’s ready to work cooperatively to do that or if he’s saying, ‘I’m the decider,”’
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D - CA)

"When one looks at the health of our economy, it's almost as if we are living in two different countries. Some say that things have never been better. The stock market is at an all-time high, and so are corporate profits. But these benefits are not being fairly shared. When I graduated from college, the average corporate CEO made 20 times what the average worker did; today, it's nearly 400 times. In other words, it takes the average worker more than a year to make the money that his or her boss makes in one day."
Senator Jim Webb (D - VA)

"In the early days of our republic, President Andrew Jackson established an important principle of American-style democracy ­ that we should measure the health of our society not at its apex, but at its base. Not with the numbers that come out of Wall Street, but with the living conditions that exist on Main Street. We must recapture that spirit today."
Senator Jim Webb (D - VA)

Monday, January 22, 2007

UPDATE: Navajo Marine Given Conscientious-Objector Status



Man's beliefs pit military vs. Navajos
By Electa Draper
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 01/20/2007

Durango - Ronnie Tallman comes from a long line of Navajo spiritual leaders, but there also were soldiers among his kin.
At the age of 19, he decided to follow in the footsteps of the soldiers, joining the Marines in October 2004. Now he believes it was the wrong path, that his destiny lies in healing, not fighting.

The Navajo Nation and an organization of medicine men agree. The Marines do not, and now a federal court must decide a case that pits the spiritual beliefs of the Navajo against United States military rules. It started in November 2005 while Tallman was on weekend leave on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

There, he says, he underwent a spiritual experience and discovered he had been given the gift of a sacred entity known as teehn leii, a rare form of spiritual diagnosing and healing celebrated among Navajos. Tallman is a hand trembler. While a simple definition is clouded in the translation from Navajo, hand tremblers are rare medicine men who can sense people's problems and illnesses and often restore physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

Best of Monday Morning Quotes

"The war was so successful, they don't have any arguments left. They can't even sound busy. Just two weeks ago, they claimed American troops were caught in another Vietnam quagmire. That didn't happen. They predicted huge civilian casualties. That didn't happen. They said Americans would turn against the war as our troops came home in body bags. That didn't happen."
Ann "Transsexual, Plagiarist, Psychic(?)" Coulter, Jewish World Review, May 1, 2003

"Every single person out there that is of any consequence knows the vice president doesn't know what he's talking about. I can't be more blunt than that. He is yet to be right one single time on Iraq."
Senator Joe Biden (D - Dela.), Jan. 21, 2007

"The most important lies to watch for now are the new ones being reiterated daily by the administration’s top brass, from Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney on down. You know fiasco awaits America when everyone in the White House is reading in unison from the same fictional script, as they did back in the day when 'mushroom clouds' and 'uranium from Africa' were the daily drumbeat."
Frank Rich, Op-Ed column, NYTimes, Jan. 21, 2007

"The war -- literally -- is basically being run by a handful of war-hungry extremist ideologues out of the American Enterprise Institute who are driven by an insatiable appetite for endless war on various Middle Eastern countries and little else. They are backed up by Weekly Standard and Fox News (starring John McCain and Joe Lieberman), and that is all that's left -- a tiny band of fringe war-obsessed extremists who are highly unrepresentative of the American public. But that is more than enough to ensure the pointless, wasteful, and tragic continuation, even escalation, of this war because they are the ones to whom the President listens."
Glenn Greenwald, Blogger at Unclaimed Territory, Jan. 20, 2007