Sunday Reads: It being Labor Day and all…
Posted: September 2, 2012 Filed under: fundamentalist Christians, Hillary Clinton, Labor unions, morning reads, Republican presidential politics, the GOP | Tags: Cook Islands, Eastwooding, foreign policy, hurricane Isaac 34 Comments »G
ood Morning
After spending most of the night at the ER with my son, I honestly don’t have the energy to post many links today. So please bear with me…First a few articles to share with you and then a couple of cool links for Labor Day.
I know it has been a few days from the empty chair incident, but this from Juan Cole was good: Top Ten Clint Eastwood Empty-Chair Falsehoods | Informed Comment
From the Maddow blog, halleluiah, praying sent Isaac away from the RNC: This Week in God
Hillary is showing the world how classy she can be: HIllary Clinton Travels to the Cook Islands
And now for the Labor Day links…these are from the website BibliOdyssey. This first one has images from Japanese tradesmen and women. I guess I am partial to these few prints because they deal with weaving.
BibliOdyssey: Japanese Folk Trades
And this one, from a children’s book. BibliOdyssey: Jack of All Trades
This rather rare children’s book of poetry and lithographic illustrations relating to various kinds of employment – some quite unusual – was first published in Fleet St in London in 1900. Text by JJ Bell. Illustrations by C Robinson.
Jack of All Trades – Title Page
The PhrenologistLittle Johannes jumped over his bed,
Little Johannes arrived on his head.
Oh, what a thump!
Oh, what a bump!
Big as a plum, and nearly as red!“Call the phrenologist!” somebody said.
The great man came! Oh, wasn’t he wise,
With a pair of blue spectacles over his eyes?He felt the boy’s head with finger and thumb:
he stopped at the bump, and remarked, “Ha, Hum!”
Oh, wasn’t he wise?
He said that Johannes -if nothing went wrong-
Would likely do something before very long!And this is the end of my beautiful song.
But, wasn’t he wise?
The BooksellerBookseller, Bookseller, why do you weep?
Because I must sell my books far too cheap.Bookseller, Bookseller, why do you grin?
Because an old lady is just coming in.Bookseller, Bookseller, why all this joy?
Because she requires a nice book for a boy.Bookseller, Bookseller, why do you cough?
Ahem! Well, the discount forgot to come off.Bookseller, Bookseller, why are you gay?
Beause it’s my best of business to-day.Bookseller, Bookseller, why are you mad?
Because the half-sovereign I changed her is bad.
Take a look at the rest of those pictures at the links above and have a wonderful Sunday.
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Good morning, JJ. I hope your son will be OK. I love the Japanese prints.
Aren’t they cool?
Jake will be okay, it is another staph infection which he neglected to tell me about. PITA
Melissa Harris Perry tells guest that being poor is what is risky, not being filthy rich. Mediaite characterizing it as “losing her cool.” I’m sorry she apologized. Perry lost her house in the hurricane, btw.
I totally agree with you — MHP was powerful in her “outburst” in defense of those in poverty who struggle each and every day. I don’t feel she had anything to apologize for. I didn’t know she lost her home, but knew her mother lived in the 9th Ward.
NY Attorney General investigating Bain Capital’s tax strategies
As for the Clint Eastwood debacle, the more I think about the more I see it as unforgivable. The sight of a wealthy white man talking down to the POTUS and then projecting foul language and rudeness–putting words in the POTUS’s mouth that he probable never would say in a public interaction was so disrespectful of the office of the President that it’s beyond the pale. And it was Mitt Romney who invited Eastwood. Previously the “surprise” was to be Donald Trump saying “you’re fired” to an Obama impersonator. That might even have been worse.
Romney thought Eastwood’s speech was funny.
Why am I not surprised that Romney thought Clint was funny?
What else would we expect from a man who advises a distressed flood victim in NO to swim home and dial 211? The man lives in an entirely different universe than the rest of us.
Mitt’s own sense of humor can only be described as lame.
When he was at some rehearsed event he made a joke about being “unemployed”. Hee hee.
Seriously? That in itself sound like something on The Onion.
I read somewhere that Eastwood had a speech written up, but went with the empty chair at last minute. The whole RNC was like one big toilet bowl full of…well, you know. Makes me think of Tropic of Cancer and the two turds in the bidet.
It was for real. I read it yesterday. I’ll find a link. Here: Trump’s surprise ruined.
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/16/trumps_surprise_ruined/
Personally I liked Jon Stewart’s take on Eastwood’s performance. Huffington Post has posted the video, in 3 parts: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/jon-stewart-clint-eastwood-romney_n_1848979.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 Jon also slices & dices Romney’s acceptance speech in the video. IMHO, it’s really worth watching.
I just watched it. Pretty good.
This video of a tree kangaroo joey in his mom’s pouch is just too cute not to post: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40845_Friday_Night_Cuteness-_Tree_Kangaroo_Joey_in_Moms_Pouch Total cuteness, preciousness overload.
Adorable!
Melissa Harris Perry’s response to that woman guest who was defending the “risks” that the rich take does not require an apology.
I am so sick of listening to the real “elite” put forth empty argurments about the “trials” they face when Melissa – and Bob Frankel for that matter – ask how much is ever enough?
The hateful traders on Wall Street have managed to squander the savings, pensions, and nest eggs of investers and have escaped accountability but are still angling for more, and more, and more. This is what “privatization” is all about.
What “risks” are they talking about when the federal government offers them blanket support on whatever course of business they choose to apply to their mission statements then demand to keep their outrageous bonuses in the end?
How off balance do we need to go to protect this class of cheats when our entire business model has been overtaken by “whiz kids” who focus on nothing but money, money, money?
Good for Melissa for finally calling out the defenders of these practices.
I cant do the link here but every one should read the Balz piece at wapo
Here’s the link — BB
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-did-not-change-washington-for-each-side-its-clear-whos-to-blame/2012/09/01/a15265a0-f45b-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html?hpid=z1
Great read. I would hate to peruse the 5000 comments on the story though. I imagine the flying monkeys from wingnuttia are in high dudgeon.
Interesting article; filled in some gaps in my understanding of many of those events/discussions/bills. Thanks for the link.
John Cole and Imani Gandy are going to the DNC together. Should make for some good posts at Balloon-Juice.
#AngryBlackLadyCrankyWhiteGuy2012: It Begins
That should be fun!
Invisible Obama is on Facebook as of a little over an hour ago.
This damnable lie is repeated by both the Right and the anti-Obama Left. It’s about time there was some pushback!
Chicago Tribune: Filibuster proof majority?
I’ve been saying this all along but I keep hearing the other pushback that he had a Dem controlled congress for two years, blah, blah, blah.
But having said this, and also knowing what he was up against, I still feel uneasy about Obama’s tendency to give in to compromise when we all know there is no such thing as compromise with these radicals.
We needed someone to strand strong against the Stupak Amendment and if they threatened to shut down the government to get their way, then let them live with the anger as Bill Clinton did.
Instead he buckled under and gave them more support in their attempts to “one term” him but saying the very same things we hear them lie about today.
This is my biggest fear with Obama that his professorial ways don’t quite have what it takes to tell this party to “shove” their poor policies and get out of the way of the public.
We know what he is up against. This much has become a well known factor. It is in how he handles this hostage taking that is troubling for me. I can’t seem to be able to work up that much enthusiasm considering his past efforts to find compromise when it does not exist and that he may further “back down, give in, and surrender” to these policies because it is in his character to do so.
He needs to understand that he is not facing “rowdy students” who need a firm hand but a radicalization of what the future holds for the rest of us who must ultimately bear the brunt of this game of ping pong played out against our will.
He’s not a stupid person. It looks to me as if he has learned his lesson about negotiating with terrorists, economic or otherwise.
He hates Romney too. I want to see lottsa drama Obama
Righteous rant!
truth be told, the republican agenda is to make sure that no democrat is ever elected again to Congress or the White House. They want a dictatorship.
My friend, Cindy Hewitt, is scheduled to speak at the DNC between 9:30 & 10 PM on Wednesday, but only for 1 1/2 minutes. She worked at Dade Behring in Miami when Bain took over, fired people, grabbed their dough & left the business to file bankruptcy. The schedule is tentative.
Cool!
I’ll be watching for her. I hope the Democratic convention has someone from the former Ampad factory in Marion, Indiana speak as well. Bain did the same thing to them. I also hope that have a speaker from Kokomo, Indiana whose job was saved because of the auto bailout.
Many people think Indiana is a farm state. In truth, it is a manufacturing state and relies heavily on the auto industry. Loss of factory jobs has been devastating.
When Mitt Romney came to Marion, Indiana:
Absolutely. The small city I grew up in–Muncie–had many well-paying manufacturing jobs back in the ’50s and ’60s, mostly producing parts for Detroit. But unemployment has been high there since the ’70s really, as the manufacturing jobs disappeared. These days the biggest employers in town are the university and the teaching hospital.
Mike Konczal compares Rmoney’s stated plan with McCain’s and even Dubya’s. TaDa…
Salon: New GOP plan, same as old GOP plan