I want to talk about ice skating, a fond pastime I indulge in, as well as Senator Bayh’s bye bye baby moment. And demonstrations in Dresden and Vancouver. Life is very interesting, as usual.
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Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo Win Gold in Olympic Pairs – NYTimes.com
Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who came out of retirement last year to try to win an Olympic gold medal, finally got their wish Monday, adding a gold to the two Olympic bronze medals they already owned.
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They also had won China’s first Olympic gold medal in figure skating, and after skating together for nearly two decades and winning three world championships, they finally could rest.
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ΩΩI used to figure skate for fun at the NY/NJ rinks and watched a number of Olympic skaters train there. We often discussed the esthetics of skating as well as development of various moves and tactics. The Chinese skaters have impressed me for much of the last decade due to their dedication and determination to perfect their difficult art.
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ΩΩI am not even slightly surprised to see the Chinese win the top two medals in this Olympics. Most pairs skating has evolved into such great difficulty that nearly all performances are marred by falls, sometimes many falls. This isn’t due to skaters being poor athletes but rather the extreme difficulty of pairs skating’s moves.
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ΩΩAs the difficulties rise, one wonders if this can be sustained when along comes great athletes like Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo. They manage to make these death-defying moves look natural and easy. Now, I wish to raise a criticism here about the choreography and moves being used in this Olympic’s performances: there is altogether way too much grabbing of the back of the skate and crimping the knee in this rather crippling gesture.
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ΩΩA Russian pair grabbed their skates this way over 10 times. I began to wonder when they were not going to be holding onto their skates! Everyone did it at least three times in their programs. But by far and away, the worse instance of this bent-knee maneuver was during the ‘death spiral’. As we see above, this looks really angular and keeping this shape of the #4 while going in a tight circle defeats the purpose of the death spiral’s internal logic. It becomes not a relaxation of the line, extending the force from the man who is reaching outwards with one arm
while hanging on with the other to the female who is basically ‘fainting’ or ‘falling’…instead, it looks like a traffic accident with the female trying to hang onto the nearest lamp post!
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ΩΩThis is what a good death spiral looks like. The eye traces the motion from the outward left palm of the male who translates this energy to his right hand holding the woman’s right arm as she effortlessly circles the man who is the center of rotation while her own left skate etches a circle around both skaters.
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Death spiral (figure skating) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The backward outside death spiral was invented in the early 1900′s by Charlotte Oelschlagel, although it was first performed with the skaters holding both hands and the lady not fully lowered towards the ice. The current one-handed version was developed in the 1940′s by the Canadian pair Suzanne Morrowand Wallace Diestelmeyer. The other death spiral variants were invented by Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov in the 1960′s.[1] They assigned the following names to them:[2]
- Backward Inside: Cosmic spiral
- Forward Inside: Life spiral
Forward Outside: Love spiral
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ΩΩThis loss of elegance of line is typical of all art systems. Once an art form is mastered and then perfected, people continue to tinker with it until it ceases being compact or closed or well-designed but then moves to extremes and creates more angularity and abrupt changes in direction and then it all dissolves into chaos and over reliance on shocking people. Whole art systems can fall into total decay this way. Then a new fashion or new system starts the whole process over again, always by returning to ‘classical’ origins of the art form.
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ΩΩThe fact that pairs skaters are going all angular and sharp which defeats the entire aesthetics of using steel gliding on ice, is a sign the entire system is about to collapse into chaos and there will have to be a push back to simplicity and wholeness.
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Vancouver Olympics protest takes violent twist | Raw Story
“Police dressed in riot gear were face to face with a group of aggressive protesters near the Lions Gate Bridge and Stanley Park,” The Boston Globe reported. “One spit in the direction of a policeman, while another protester charged in an officer’s direction, only to retreat and hold up his camera as if to take a picture.”
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In the Globe’s video, a protester holding a camera can be heard justifying the destruction wreaked upon an Olympic souvenir shop. “Get informed!” he yelled. “This is nothing for a company like the bank.” Then another comment, calling out a “class war,” with a response of “you’ve made your point” from one of the onlookers.
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ΩΩAll demonstrations of all sorts are now marred by roving gangs of anarchists. This, in turn, is used as an excuse to not allow any demonstrations of any sort or to crush any dissension. Of course, when students rage in Teheran, they are heroes. When they rage in the West, they are enemies of the state and should be crushed ruthlessly. It always irks me how the media owners and politicians praise civil disorders in China or Iran but get all hysterical when a window is broken at home. Much less, raging mobs of tribal rioters burning stores and killing the employees or beating other citizens to death for not being members of a tribe! Wow.
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With counterprotesters ready to move nearby, police contained the neo-Nazis in a barricaded area outside the train station, where an estimated crowd of 6,400 listened to re-enactments of the Dresden bombing. The city deployed around 5,693 police to manage public safety on Saturday. Those surrounding the neo-Nazis said: “Do not attempt to leave the prescribed area.”
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On the other side of the station, anti-fascist demonstrators hurled several cobble stones, offering a preview of what might follow if the neo-Nazis were allowed to march through the city. Police retaliated by firing water cannons. Ultimately, police concluded the left-wing blockade to be intractable and they ordered the neo-Nazis to disburse the area by train.
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An anti-fascist leader, speaking on a stage shortly after the neo-Nazi gathering ended, announced proudly, “The Nazis are being deported, destination unknown” — an allusion to the fact that the Neustadt train station had been used by the Nazis to deport Jews.
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ΩΩThis was, amazingly, another victory for the Nazis! The entire point is, the State and whoever is asking the State to repress someone, has violated the civil liberties of the Nazis who, in turn, will use this as proof that the State is the Enemy. The leftists who cooperated with the police in preventing a legal march were acting in a fascist way. Creeping fascism is a mental disease which happens with people use force to dispute historical facts.
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ΩΩIn Europe, it is verboten to debate the Holocaust in any way, shape or form. While it is OK to demean the Nazis who richly deserve this, it is not OK to draw a direct connection between Nazi ideology and its mirror twin, Zionism. This will put you in prison. Instead of expanding civil liberties which is true liberalism, the ‘liberals’ want to have restrictions exactly like the right wing wants restrictions.
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Bayh won’t seek Senate re-election – CNN.com
“Congress is not operating as it should,” Bayh said at a news conference in Indianapolis, adding there’s too much partisanship and “the people’s business is not getting done.”…
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HAHAHA. Good gods! Partisanship is what politics is all about! Dummy. Of course, the ‘people’s business’ is stalled because the Senate is allowing the minority party to stall it. So what does this goofball do?
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He is a member of the majority party so he quits so it will stall out even more. This is illogical. And what is the ‘people’s business’ as this guy sees it? I fear, he means, ‘corporate business’. So far, for half a century, the true business of the people has been studiously ignored. That is, protecting us from a flood of imports and the export of most of our best jobs. As well as preventing wars that suck us dry.
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…He cited the Senate’s recent failure to pass a jobs bill and legislation that would have created a deficit reduction commission as evidence of what he characterized as a broken political system….
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That blasted, stupid deficit reduction commission was, like so many right wing initiatives, rigged from the get go: no military spending cuts to be considered! The Tea Baggers, bagged by FOX TV and now harnessed to the right wing sleigh of hand, is jingling along merrily, all about cutting social services, not military spending.
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…”He hates the Senate, hates the left bloggers,” a friend and longtime adviser to Bayh said. “They are getting their wish, pure Democrats in the minority.”
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ΩΩBayh is a happy warmonger. He has happy bipartisanship whenever warmongering is the goal. The GOP gets cold feet in war matters when there is a Democratic President but they all still want to be pigs at the pork dinner when it comes to war money sent to their own districts. The pall of war spending covers our country like a thick blanket of snow. It has displaced most other industries. Now, to balance trade, we must export weapons.
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ΩΩI looked into Bayh’s voting record in this bipartisan spending on wars. He voted against the Iraq Withdrawal Amendment which was voted in by our warmongering Senate (24 – 71) even though many top Democratic Senators supported this amendment, he voted against his own leaders in this vital matter. Of course, he voted yes for the 2009-2010 Defense Appropriations (68 – 29) and the Funding for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan (70 – 26).
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ΩΩNormal defense bills pass 88-8 while the rip-roaring Iraq and Afghanistan War Funding, Unemployment Benefits Extension, and GI Bill (92 – 6) saw only 6 brave souls voting nay! Even more ridiculous, keeping Bush’s war secretary in power was opposed by only two brave souls. Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense (95 – 2) and ditto Nomination of General Petraeus as Military Leader of the Middle East (95 – 2).
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ΩΩA number of lefty bloggers noted Bayh’s war votes and he is mad that we hate him for this. Of course, the troops will never come home if Congress refuses to bring them home. This is leading to a lot of dissatisfaction with Congress which the media is desperate to channel somewhere useless. A lot of us really don’t care if Bayh leaves in a snit. He isn’t doing us much good.
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ΩΩBayh’s real snit is over the healthcare reform efforts: he is one of many, many Senators in the back pockets of K Street Insurance industry lobbyists. I fully expect him to be instantly employed when he gives up and leaves the Senate. K Street is a hop skip and jump away from Congress.
It looks like someone has finally put the puzzle together–as Elaine has been explaining for years
“China Isn’t Supplanting The US, It’s Supplanting The World Bank, And It’s Making The Yuan The World Currency”
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-isnt-supplanting-the-us-its-supplanting-the-world-bank-and-its-making-the-yuan-the-world-currency-2010-2
Well, billy “bling” tauzin retires from his high paying job as head lobbyist for phrma and on the same day bayh shocks his staff and tells them that he is retiring. Coincidence? We’ll see.
Maybe now corporate amerika can stop the facade of paying his wife as a “professional director” to buy off her husband and evan can freely feast on the fruits of his deceit without using his wife as a intermediary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Bayh
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Of course Bayh is leaving the Senate to cash in. This is why Evan Bayh made his announcement to not seek re-election on such short notice. This way his crony Ellsworth has an open field to get the Democrat nomination; no one else can declare their candidacy in time. I recall that Bayh’s wifey-poo sits on the boards of some health insurance cartels. I’m just curious to know how long it will be before Bayh collects his payoff from his owners.
“The leftists who cooperated with the police in preventing a legal march were acting in a fascist way”
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Sorry Elaine but this doesn’t wash, particularly with regard to what’s going on in Britain at the moment. To paraphrase Richard Seymour, one must fight fascism with the sword as well as the shield:
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2010/02/uaf-conference.html
You don’t fight a political ideology by destroying civil rights. Period. No matter how odious a belief system and I think many such systems are odious, everyone has the right to have these ideas. All human organizations are by definition, dangerous. Even nice ones launched to save people can turn dangerous if there is ideology involved.
I am totally against this. I think the right wing has the same rights as the left wing. They lose their rights, everyone loses their rights to assemble.
Instead of destroying things and hurling projectiles a better strategy would be to just have thousands of people laugh at them as they walk by.
Indiana is possibly the most corrupt state in the union. Seriously.
@Coldtype,
I think Elaine’s point is that the biggest recruiting tool for the far right is the image of a repressive state. If they can get people to relate to their feelings of persecution, the movement will grow. If the wider public sees them as nothing more than violent thugs, they will stay in the margins.
Honestly, there is no escaping a certain amount xenophobia during an economic collapse. Besides, if you’re worried about the BNP sweeping to power, it’s about 99% certain that as they attempt to grow their base, they will be co-opted by the money men, just like the American tea bag crowd. Their platform will be watered down as they try to move to the centre to gain supporters and they will cease to be relevant to the extremists.
That’s the real reason people don’t vote in most developed nations, incidentally. By the time any political party has compromised enough to form a government, everyone knows it’s going to be business as usual! I think Obama has proven this beyond a doubt.
…”He hates the Senate, hates the left bloggers,” a friend and longtime adviser to Bayh said. “They are getting their wish, pure Democrats in the minority.”
Democrats like Bayh, who needs them? We might as well have him and the other ConservaDems join the Republicans! There really won’t be any difference.
What he means when he says Congress isn’t operating as it should isn’t about partisanship at all.
It’s that Congress has been sidelined, our vote hijacked, and the country being run by hedge funds masquerading as banks, private contractors with their snoot in all phases of government and his own votes for this or against that being worthless unless they coincide with the substantial control of the men who are not elected.
Our Congress in other words is just for appearances. More than likely he will quietly join one of the private organizations and institutions that resemble off balance sheet liabilities which are the iceberg and not its tip.
You all have to get over your democrat and republican partisanship and wake up to the fact the our government has been stolen from us. Ask yourself: How is it possible that not one single bankster has been arrested, indicted or prosecuted but for a piddly ass civil suit against Ken Lewis?
Congratulations to 趙宏博 and 申雪. Motherland and all Chinese over the world are proud of you two and appreciate very much of your hard work. You two are the prize and future of Chinese nation. We love you and proud of you two.
Thank you.
Actually a few banksters have been criminally tried for fraud but they were acquitted. One element of fraud is often difficult to show beyond a reasonable doubt.
As far as ‘our’ government being stolen goes, in reality our government has always been more or less controlled by so-called elites. It’s just that in the past some of these controlling elites had a genuine interest in preserving U.S. sovereignty so the ‘huddled masses’ benefited to a certain extent.
When the Pentagon began to assume control after WWII there was a revolution in the 1960s, of which I am an indirect remnant, which eventually failed.
my favorite thing about the olympics is that they remind me how badass other sports are
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rings are hella cool… gymnastics BOOYAH… and all the ice skating features are mind numbing… i like skiiing and such but its not as impressive on screen
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so yeah war mongers and lobbyists run the government
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but what is up with Palin in the tea party movement as any voice… its like they can co-op the democrats then all so easily reduce the far right to a ‘neo centrist’ corporate tax anomaly
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just like fiat… how unreal can leadership fudge an idea before thats the only thing left to believe in
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http://www.cahrecords.com
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turn the world on its ear
Could Sen. Evan Bayh be getting out because he knows where this is heading – and maybe he does not want to be part of it?
“Congress is not operating as it should,” Bayh said at a news conference in Indianapolis, adding there’s too much partisanship and “the people’s business is not getting done.”
We need some congressional whistle-blowers to come forward…I hope Bayh starts a parade.
London Lizards plan to financial ruin every member of the EU community.
Then, herd all these poor countries together into a Imperial Feudal Empire, governed by benevolent Lizard Aristocracy, and maintained by minimum number of serfs.
The same fate awaits America.
Dr. Charles Krauthammer comments to Center for the American Experiment last Monday:
1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be underestimated. He is a cool customer who doesn’t show his emotions. It’s very hard to know what’s behind the mask. The taking down of the Clinton dynasty was an amazing accomplishment. The Clintons still do not understand what hit them.. Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.
2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making you think he’s on your side, agreeing with your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!
3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He can’t be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along.
He has a heavy hand, and wants to level the playing field with income redistribution and punishment to the achievers of society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada.
4. His three main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, and NATIONAL HEALTHCARE by the Federal government. He doesn’t care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The cap and trade will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive RATIONING of services, like in Canada. God forbid!
5. He has surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they are going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industries. This obviously can’t work in the long run.. Obama is not a socialist; rather he’s a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left.. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.
6. Obama doesn’t really see himself as President of the United States, but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their
agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America, as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!
7. He is now handing out goodies.. He hopes that the bill (and pain) will not come due until after he is reelected in 2012. He would like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, and Dr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcissist.
8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. Republicans are pining for another Reagan, but there will never be another like him. Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in February) are the future of the party. Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage. Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts and info if she is to be a serious candidate in the future. We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller government, personal responsibility, strong national defense, and state’s rights.
9. The current level of spending is irresponsible and outrageous. We are spending trillions that we don’t have. This could lead to hyperinflation, depression or worse. No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity. The media is giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will come due and people will realize the huge bailouts didn’t work, nor will the stimulus package. These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Obama’s allies, unions and the Congress to placate the left, so he can get support for #4 above.
10. The election was over in mid-September when Lehman brothers failed, fear and panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, and the war was grinding on indefinitely without a clear outcome.. The people are in pain, and the mantra of change caused people to act emotionally. Any Dem would have won this election; it was surprising it was as close as it was.
11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be swept back into power. If it’s under 8%, the Dems continue to roll. If it’s between 8-10%, it will be a dogfight. It will all be about the economy. I hope this gets you really thinking about what’s
happening in Washington and Congress. There is a left-wing revolution going on, according to Krauthammer, and he encourages us to keep the faith and join the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but we’re right on most issues and can reclaim our country, before it’s far too late.
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ELAINE: This has to be the stupidest analysis I have seen in a long while. Obama’s problem isn’t him changing things, it is his inability to change even the slightest thing. This is destroying the Dems.
Voting GOP means we continue our decline to destruction. The GOP thinks we can spend spend spend on the war machine nonstop while charging all of this to our direst rivals. Well, people who vote GOP will be in for a strong lesson ins futility. Nothing wrong will be fixed. The flood of illegal aliens will continue and the outsourcing of jobs will continue. And there will be zero unions and this means, no working power for the people and we will all revert to peasant status. Great tea party there!
Plovering, very good analysis.
A friend returned from Korea today. He said that ALL of Asia is buzzing about the takedown of Toyota (and Honda to a lesser degree). They see it as the USG playing hardball to get the US auto industry back on its feet and the best way to implement immediate job creation.
Asia’s impression is that they underestimated Obama and are getting a taste of Chicago politics writ large. Asia respects show of power, and they are getting it big time.
“Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but…”
Plovering… Really? Look, I found whole rant really with little evidence. Obama has been making totally same agenda as rebublican president before him, NOTHING has changed except speeches. If we want to look at the actions, yeah, those are TOTALLY same all the way, wars are progressing, closing gitmo is moved indefinitely etc… Health care reform is almost buried, financial corporations saved…
This is NOT socialism, this is NOT capitalism, this is corporations running the government and switching the party to get the blame to stay in power. As long as people still believe another political party will “change” things, this will go on and on. Wake up already, rebublicans lead country in this mess and democrats are not pulling out of it. BOTH parties are at fault.
To cut to the chase: Where, now where is the ACTIONS that Obama are making that are socialist? Zero achievements so far.
I apologise for this off-topic post, but I came across this ,
” There are other splendid descriptions in Crile’s book, including some of CIA officials who believe in witchcraft (and actually try to use it; quite amazing) ” – from Brian Cloughley’s review of the book “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley02162010.html
I had thought some of your posts were just metaphor, I apologise for that.
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ELAINE; Good lord, the Bush clan are all witches! The Skull and Bones is a satanic ritual coven! And yes, they think people hit by lightning have special powers…HAHAHA. I know better than anyone, these beliefs. Some of which were launched by my ancestors.
“Most pairs skating has evolved into such great difficulty that nearly all performances are marred by falls, sometimes many falls. This isn’t due to skaters being poor athletes but rather the extreme difficulty of pairs skating’s moves.”
What they’re doing isn’t “figure skating” – compulsory figures were eliminated a long time ago. What those people are doing is gymnastics on skates.
“One spit in the direction of a policeman, while another protester charged in an officer’s direction, only to retreat and hold up his camera as if to take a picture.”
That sounds like a very Canadian and even Python-esque sort of demo: “I fart in your general direction. … Now go away before I taunt you a second time.”
“A number of lefty bloggers noted Bayh’s war votes and he is mad that we hate him for this.”
On the other hand… did you notice that John Murtha checked out a short while back? Beloved of the lefty bloggers for his war votes (voting against after he voted for), but one of the most profligate porkers in Congress… I guess it doesn’t pay to be too picky.
I was too pressed for time to comment on him. I never promoted him as an icon, go look through my many years of postings.
When Dresden was bombed, my family lived in an attick room on Peter Cornelius Strasse in Weimar. This was then the last street before the farm country began. I was eleven years old. When the Foll Alarm came, we grabbed our rucksacks and quite literally ran for the fields. Dresden is about 200 km east of Weimar. The two nights of burning are now caleidoscoped into one. It was an awesome sight even at this distance. Five of my childhood friends from the Baltics and their parents were burnt there. I am far from a Nazi, but I am glad someone reminded the world of this atrocity.
@Elaine:
So let me get this straight. You are FOR AFSCME, is that correct?
You really think the teachers, police, fire and other government employee unions have been a net benefit to the United States?
Private industry unions have all but committed suicide, are as corrupt inside and out as any right wing think tank, and have so twisted the original principals of unions
as to emulate the crime lords.
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ELAINE: Anyone who is in a system where workers have no say, no unions and no rights, is ruthlessly exploited. True, unions can be ‘corrupt’. ALL human organizations are ‘corrupt’ by nature. Fixing things so corruption is under control of Libra is the key. Killing systems off entirely doesn’t work. Anarchy doesn’t work. Oh, by the way, my husband belongs to SEIFU. A union. Gets significant but not sufficient protection thanks to this. I wish he had more protection or he wouldn’t have been badly injured at work (State wanted to save money so they made his workplace fatal).
”ΩΩThis loss of elegance of line is typical of all art systems. ”
True,
painting used to excite the optic nerve but this is now considered passe because the METHODOLOGIES have become hackneyed. Instead most are now dead to this and will accept the most dull thing as exceptional. Mental exercises are considered a good substitute as they make the viewer feel clever.
@Billibaldi
I knew a guy that was in the U.S. navy. Here is a story he told me:
The ship he was stationed on had a string of chicken bones strung up on the main computer console. A new officer came on the bridge and ordered them removed. The seamen said, “I wouldn’t advise that, sir”. The officer persisted. The console malfunctioned. After several failed attempts at repair by professional technicians the officer agreed to put the bones back up. The ship resumed its normal course of business.
Did I mention ground was broken on the Pentagon on Sept 11, 1941?
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ELAINE: 9/11 has long been a magic number day. I pointed this out in the past including the founding of the Pentagon day.
Hey – did you watch the men’s finals last night? We beat the Commies!
And, man… did Veek-tor look pissed. Once upon a time the judges would’ve been afraid to not hand the gold medal to Russia.
(I still think the Olympics were a lot more fun when it was the Free World against the Bloc.)
Russia is commies? What planet do you live on?
Hey… when it’s the Olympics, they’re the Commies.