I am Tom Freeland,
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Thursday Morning Various
- The Clarion Ledger ran an AP report on the Supreme Court’s decision to take the pardons case. In at least one way it’s a traditional C/L report, though: There are comments by Matt Steffey (According to the report, Steffey thought this a positive development. Interestingly, Jim Hood says that he thought so, too, saying: ”This is a good development.”). CNN– which has had a truck in Oxford and is apparently running a story on Anderson Cooper’s show tonight– reports the development along with details about Ozment, the pardonee served with process while in Wyoming. Reuters has a report that doesn’t add much other than confusing county court and circuit court (hint to Reuters: ”trial court” would have worked).
- Mitt Romney, divider not a uniter: ”I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor.” Yep, Mitt Romney said that, yesterday morning to Soledad O’Brien. It was one of those moments that make one think that, as smart as Romney seems to be, his people ought not let him unscripted near a microphone. He went on to dig in further, I mean, to explain (and, no, I don’t think saying “the poor have a safety net,” or that he’d fix it if it tore made it all right. He said the poor are covered so he doesn’t worry about them). Gail Collins in a NY Times op ed has more.
- Did you ever have the impression that Boar’s Head meats and cheese just came out of nowhere, sort of mysteriously? And they weren’t really as good as they were supposed to be? Well, you aren’t alone, and Slate has a bit of the story.
- In 1865, Col. P.H. Anderson of Tennessee wrote one of his former slaves, asking him to return to work for him. He apparently got a pretty memorable reply that was run in contemporary newspapers. Hilarious and worth reading.
- Clive Stafford Smith, the lawyer who handled death penalty cases across the south for years and is now at Reprieve in the UK, where he’s represented Guantanamo inmates and others, has written a new book (probably not available in the US yet) about the death penalty, focusing on a Florida case of his own. Here’s an interview.
- Michael Hasting’s book The Operator (worked up from his time with Gen. Stanley McChrystal) is on my to-read-soon pile. Now his interview of Julian Assage is in my online cue. h/t Lee.
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Oh wait! I forgot I should apply that test about which candidate would you most like to share a beer with. Ok, here we go.
Mittens – Well I guess being a high-up in the Mormon Church a beer is out of the question. I guess we could drink some Kona Nigari water. Doesn’t sound like much fun. I’m sure the conversation would be stimulating. He could explain creative destruction to me. Oh no!!! Isn’t this a Marxist thing? Damn commies are everywhere. I guess he got this from his commie loving Mexican dad. Next!
Newton – Doesn’t strike me as a beer drinker, but maybe a nice bottle of Graham’s port wine would do. Perhaps I could get one of those history lesions he gave Freddie Mac or he could tell me what private companies are willing to invest tens of billions of dollars for his moon base. Check please!
Sweater man – I’m thinking again that beer would be out … what to drink? Jesus juice? I’m outta here!
The good doctor – Once again, I’m thinking beer is not an option. Prune juice? Go ahead Doc, I’ll stay thirsty. Maybe he could explain to me why a gold standard and not some other commodity. How about cotton Doc? We can grow lots of
cottonmoney around here. Think I’ll go now.Barack Hussein Obama II – Bud Light? Come on now Barry that’s like regular American guy stuff. Are you sure you don’t want some Stolichnaya comrade? Come on now, speak some ruski to me. Wow! It’s almost like he’s a regular guy, just smarter and with bodyguards. Too bad the guy that ran on campaign promises of “hope” and “change” really meant hope I put your ass out of a job and that change has been an embrace of socialism and Marxist policies. He’s so likeable I would vote for him if he didn’t want to destroy the American way of life.
Alan, you didn’t ask, but here is a piece of advice that helped me avoid psychotic episodes.
Less LSD and mushrooms, more beer and marijuana, and you can find that happy place.
Best of luck to you.
I agree, NMC. I don’t think they are liberal either. They seem closer to fascism. Unfortunately Romney and the gang (minus Paul) is all for this. So there’s no where for us to go.
Maybe we should just go ahead and go with Schumer and Graham’s bio-chip plan and get it over with.
I voted for the President, and feel fooled. Say whatever you want about Republicans being evil or whatever makes you feel holy, the awful truth of it all, is both of these sides answer to the same masters. Go ahead and make fun of the paranoia. I hope I am wrong, but something’s rotten in Denmark. Make fun of Ike all you want, but he tried to warn us about it. Kennedy tried to stop it. His brother probably would have too. So here we are.
On the bright side, the sun is highly active right now, and this may be making all of us a little bit loony. Perhaps when it calms down, we will too.
Pike, be careful not to view politics as a football game. If they can always count on you to hate and fight the other side no matter what, then you might end up attacking people who are trying to stop this bus from driving off the cliff. Then again, many scientists believe that time is an illusion and everything has already happened. So what’s the use, it’s over. Go buy you a nice bottle of wine, something you love to eat, listen to music, make love to someone, and watch the stars. Just not all at once.
This rant is worthy of ridicule, so please have at it. Give me something to ponder.
Phil,
As far as your paragraph addressed to me goes, I don’t have the slightest freaking idea what you’re talking about.
Yes we know it doesn’t matter who you vote for the entire world is controlled by the Illuminati.
Pike,
My apologies. It was something Alan wrote earlier that stirred me up. And you may be right, YLHL. I may just be a bit paranoid.
If that is the case, then please forgive my weaknesses. I just have to remember Kevin Bacon’s mantra from Animal House, “All is well! All is well!”
Thanks. Glad to know there are no people who have considerable wealth and power seeking complete control.
Ah, hell, why I’m still awake and feeling plenty weird, anyone ever compared photos of Barbara Bush and Aleister Crowley? Word on Whitfield Street is he had a fling with her mother and is her father. He was also a double-agent in WWII (sorry, YLHL – but even by conspiracy standards that’s pretty solid).
So, Alan, you may be right about some Republicans. Some may well be the seed of “The Great Beast.”
Adios amigos.
Fun day for the GOP yesterday as the race turned into an even bigger clown show. That Jesus loving guru of fashion, Rick Santorum, won all three contests with ease. Mittens was really crushed in Minnesota where Santorum beat him by 28 points and Ron Paul beat him by 10 points! Perhaps the biggest loser was Tim Pawlenty. It appears the people of Minnesota didn’t think much of his endorsement of the Rombot. After failing to deliver his home state, I think his dreams of being Vice-President are out the window.
It was a rough day in the Grand Ole Party for sure. Of course, even if Romney had swept what difference would it make? The GOP is doomed to failure and we might as well start playing for 2016. With the record that President Obama has amassed it is sure to be a landslide victory in November. The Senate will remain Democrat and the House will surely fall as well. Oh, President Obama may lose a few Catholic votes but what does that matter. Maybe some Jewish votes and a couple of people might be turned off by his sudden turn around on Super-Pac money. It will clearly be a landslide victory in the fall and I am ready to go ahead and concede.
At times like this, I find it’s best to look at the good things in my life so as not to fall into a depression. I am reasonably healthy, actually I am as physically fit as most men half my age according to the doctors. I have children who love me, a wife who is way smarter than me, beautiful, and who adores me, a nice home to live in and a new career that is starting to take off. It could be certainly be worse.
What if the opposite were true? What if I were a physically repulsive loser, mocked by those in my own profession, relegated to projecting my own self hatred at better men than me in the only social life that I have – blog message boards. What if that were me? I mean, for instance.
We may be headed down the road to Socialism and even eventually into a Marxist totalitarian state but it will take awhile to get there and I’ll probably be gone by then and for today I have it pretty good.