must read in november: "heretics" mccain will NOT be the next prez the power of hollywood fox is still fox jim webb is not very conservative howard kick your asses "socialists":4 libertarians: -1 tancredo vs kerry ann coulter is a chicken afghan women not so free after all
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25 years ago
today ABBA
released their last album.
coolest haircauts
in music to have
sold more than 250 million records
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"Apartheid"
Jimmy Carter on Hardball
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"MEPs to shame 11 EU states in final CIA report" EU Observer
Italy, the UK, Germany, Sweden and Austria saw terrorism suspects snatched on their territory the report by Italian socialist MEP Claudio Fava will say, while the UK, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Romania and Poland hosted hundreds of secret CIA flights.
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"Civil War"
The Daily Show on "civil war" OGM
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A former US President uses the A-word!!
Get the book from Simon & Schuster
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"May be a Communist"
A fine old propaganda film how the commies are infiltrating the US and how you can detect them.
Yep, "end KKK terror". She's a commies.
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Iraq
- Chechnya
Chechnya - Iraq
"You're to soft on your critics George.
Smearing is just not enough for me"
We all have different ways of dealing with people who disagree with us. Vlad always has to take it to the next level.
"Russian spy: Putin responsible for my death" CNN
"You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics claim," Alexander Litvinenko said in a statement released Friday.
Putin had labeled Litvinenko "a terrorist". Guess that means the case is closed. Another win for the good guys in the War on Terror™.
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This American Life "Heretics"
Rev. Carlton
Pearson of Tulsa comes to the conclusion that there is no hell.
His old buddies at the evangelical megachurches don't like that one bit, so
they make him and his family outcasts, heretics.
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Quote of the day
"We
went to the Borat movie. It was hilarious. However, during the scene when
he's singing the national anthem at the rodeo the whole place went quiet.
There's still things you don't joke about.
As we left the theatre I listened to some of the audience members and it dawned
on me that not everyone understood what the movie was about. They still thought
they'd seen a movie making fun of Kazakhstan"
- The father of one of the Swedes for Obama currently living in Virginia
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St McCain
could, but won't,
face
media problems
"Will McCain support continued U.S. military presence in Iraq if Bush doesn't increase troops" The American Prospect
There is
no ambiguity there whatsoever: McCain very clearly stated that if additional
troops aren't sent into Iraq, the war will be unwinnable. And if that becomes
the case, McCain said, he "cannot" ask soldiers to return to Iraq.
This would be "immoral," he says.
Okay, then — if President Bush decides against troop increases,
will McCain then stop supporting the continued troop presence there and call
for withdrawal? Will the media press him on this point? And if McCain does
continue to support the U.S. troops staying in Iraq — which by his own
lights would be "immoral" — will reporters and commentators
note the glaring contradiction?
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You gotta love flat stuff
The Media Academy in Gothenburg have put together this years "confidence ranking".
Who do the Swedes have confidence in?
1. IKEA
2. Sverige Radio (NPR)
3. Universities and Colleges
4. SVT (PBS)
5. Volvo
6. Small businesses in general
7. Riksbanken (the Fed. Reserve, sorta)
8. Ericsson
9. TV4
10. SAAB
14. The Swedish
Church
15. Big businesses in general
20. The unions
26. Coca-Cola
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Dallas, Texas:
6 degreees (celsius)
Stockholm, Sweden: 7 degrees (c.)
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Another
clueless neocon
turns his back on Bush
"Key allies turn on wounded Bush over chaos in Iraq" The Independent
In recent days, Kenneth Adelman, a member of the Defence Policy Board and the man who in 2003 predicted that the military operation to oust Saddam Hussein would be a "cakewalk", has joined the chorus of conservative voices criticising Mr Bush.
Are these guys ever right on anything? Why should we believe anything these guys say in the future?
The only positive thing coming out of this is that it reminds us to call our dads and tell them how much we love them more often.
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Jim Webb is Bernie Sanders
Here he is on Meet the Press
- - 2006-11-20 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
John McCain will NOT be the next President of the United States
Giuliani is now alone with holding a moderate position among the conservative hopefuls. This after McCain have (desperately) joined "the christians-wing" of his party, a group he earlier didn't have much love for.
McCain on This Week C&L
From the same interview. McCain is literally checking his talking points.
Very straight talk if you ask us.
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"Soft Power" rules the planet
Land of the free
- no
Home of the brave - nope
Continent of opportunity - no
Country of crazy celebs - yeees
"Propaganda Isn't the Way: Soft Power" Joseph Nye
Hollywood often portrays consumerism, sex and violence, but it also promotes values of individualism, upward mobility and freedom (including for women). These values make America attractive to many people overseas, but some fundamentalists see them as a threat.
Earlier pod. about how american pop culture (especially MTV) is far more powerful than political talk.
In a lot of ways MTV is in the middle of that global pop culture universe. MTV has probably done more to globalize this planet than it gets credit for.
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Jon Stewart do
a little bit of commenting on Timothy McVeigh's Glenn Beck's interview
with Keith Ellison, the first muslim elected to the US Congress
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friday prayers
at Tehran University
"Week in pictures" BBC
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FOX is
also FOX
(and so is Regan Books)
 |
The Culture Warrior is angry about the OJ Simpson* special on FOX. Then he's angry that other media outlets don't cover the OJ Simpson special on FOX. "Bill O Condemns FOX, Simpson" C&L |
* For our European readers. OJ Simpson is a former american football player who killed his former wife and her boyfriend but got off the hook after hiring a lot of expensive lawyers. There was also a racist cop involved (now a FOX News "legal expert") and a whole lot of other F-list celebrities. OJ is probably better known over here for his excellent work in the Naked Gun movies.
UPDATE: "O’Reilly: ‘Far Left Loons’ Are Linking Fox News With O.J. Interview On Orders From ‘Their Internet Masters’" ThinkProgress
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We're hoping to get our hands on some of that "liberal media"
Funny, how
when Trent Lott defeated Lamar Alexander by one vote for the Senate minority
leadership yesterday, it was characterized in the media as a remarkable comeback
story, with the random kidding reference to that ironical word “minority.”
But when Steny Hoyer and Jack Murtha both stood for the House majority leadership
today, that was characterized in the media as Democratic infighting,
with frequent implications that the Dems were already coming apart at the
seams.
- Keith Olbermann
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The most underrated is gone
Ferenc Puskás 1927-2006
Puskás died of Alzheimers. Dying not knowing you were one of the greatest ever is a faith not wished on anyone.
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Not all socialists look like Bernie
Chirac and his corrupt buddies better watch out. Segolene Royal is gearing up to run against the finest the French Conservatives can produce in aprils election.
"France Socialists vote for Royal" BBC
Segolene Royal will be the French Socialists' presidential candidate at elections next year, after beating two rivals in a ballot of party members.
"It’s Ségo" SuperFrenchie
...or, in the words of Flocon, “an unmarried woman who has been living in sin for over 20 years.”
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But, but, but they had purple fingers - part II
"Five years on, conditions for women in Afghanistan are still poor" Raw Story
70-85% of women in Afghanistan remain unaware of the rights afforded to women in Islam.
It is estimated that between 60-80% of all marriages are forced, with 57% of girls married before the age of 16 and some as young as 6 years old. Many more, if not married during their childhood, are betrothed without their consent or knowledge.
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Al Gore kissing our green asses this summer
"Sweden
Tops Climate Change List"
Washington
Post
About one-quarter of the energy consumed in Sweden in 2003 came from renewable sources _ more than four times as much as the European Union average of 6 percent. In Stockholm, one-quarter of city buses run on ethanol or biogas.
...and they're very quiet to.
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Tempting Faith
God works in mysterious way, sometimes she supports love and peace, sometimes it's apartheid and cluster bomb.
"For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is God’s Foreign Policy" NY Times
He (Rev. John Hagee) called the conflict “a battle between good and evil” and said support for Israel was “God’s foreign policy.”
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"Mackris
v. O'Reilly: Mackris
v. O’Reilly is the new work by Igor Keller. The oratorio (which
is basically an opera |
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Come here girl, go head be gone with it - Come to the back, go head be gone with it - VIP, drinks on me
Barbara, the hot Bush twin, makes sure she always have a drink nearby when hanging out at some ivy league event.
When daddy went to Harvard he didn't have time for drinking or social events.
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Angry, angry cons
Can you imagine if conservative politicians and TV-hosts received these letters. It would have been the leading story for the past couple of weeks on cable news.
"Calif.
suspect in threats due in court"
Yahoo (AP)
The letters, which had fake return addresses, were received by Pelosi, a California Democrat who is in line to become speaker of the House; comedians Stewart and David Letterman; Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York; and MSNBC host Keith Olberman.
UPDATE: The guy
caught by the police was a
FReeper. Suprise, suprise.
He also seemed upset with the political
correctness in Sci-Fi entertainment.
He most have written his rant in the 80's when the phrase "political correctness" still was used without irony.
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Place your bets
Swedish online betting firm Unibet recently put together some odds for who will be the next US president.
DEMS
Hillary Clinton 2.30
Al Gore 4.50 (!!!)
John Edwards 5.25
Barack Obama 7.50 (from 20 to 7.5, nice!)
Evan Bayh 12.00
Russ Feingold 12.00 (hope you didn't bet)
Bill Richardson 12.00
Tom Vilsack 16.00
John Kerry 25.00
CONS
John McCain 2.50
Mitt Romney 4.00
Rudy Giuliani 6.00
Condoleeza Rice 10.00
George Allen 12.00 (12 today, 45 tomorrow)
Bill Frist 12.00
Chuck Hagel 12.00
Sam Brownback 12.00
Jeb Bush 25.00
George Pataki 25.00
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Sorry, but Nancy is not Newt
Rachel Maddow smacks Arm$trong William$ (and the desperate MSNBC host) when they just repeat baseless GOP talking points.
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"We have income inequalities in this country not seen since 1880"
Who said that? "Commies" Ted Kennedy and Bernie Sanders? Hillary, it has to be Hillary. Nope...
people who believe Jim Webb is a
conservative are in for a suprise
Listen
to Jim Webb kicking
clueless "liberal" NPR's ass
Renee Montagne: The central issue of your campaign and what many presume put you over the top was the war in Iraq. What are you gonna do when the new senate convenes in january, what are you gonna propose?
Jim Webb: Well, let me clearify something because I've seen a lot of stuff in the media saying I only ran because of the Iraq war and that it was a single issue campaign and it abolutely was not. I'm gonna answer your question, but it absolutely was not. I decided to run because of my concern about what has happened with the economical breakdown along class lines
Here he is talking to Lou Dobbs about the same "socialist" issues.
In a closet somewhere in Florida, Rush Limbaugh is crying.
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Colbert sees
the light at the end
of the tunnel for the Republicans.
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Say whatever you think will make the defeat easier for you. "The libs are moving to the right" or "it was the Republicans that screwed up"
No matter how you twist and turn it, this guy kicked your asses, big time.
"The 50-state
strategy is looking
pretty good this morning"
The Carpetbagger Report
...I think there are some Dem leaders who deserve some credit. In addition to the leadership on the Hill, let's not forget Howard Dean took a very big gamble over the last two years, and today he looks pretty smart.
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Oh happy day
Watch MSNBC's round up of the election results. The winners, the losers and bitter, bitter Katherine Harris.
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"Commie"
Scandis at the top
Libertarian haven at the bottom
The Corruption
Index of '06 have Sweden as the 6th most "honest" country in the
world when dealing with the public sector.
Our neighbours to the east won this one, the Eurovision Song Contest and just
beat us for the top spot on the
competitiveness ranking, all in the same year.
Damn you Finland with your Conan lookalike President and your heavy metal
bands with catchy choruses.
"CPI Table" Transparency International
The 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index is a composite index that draws on multiple expert opinion surveys that poll perceptions of public sector corruption in 163 countries around the world, the greatest scope of any CPI to date.
TOP
1 Finland
1 Iceland
1 New Zealand
4 Denmark
5 Singapore
6 Sweden
20 USA
BOTTOM
160 Guinea
160 Iraq
162 Myanmar
163 Haiti
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Faking it: USA
"Blogger Handcuffed at George Allen Rally" APNews.com
On Saturday, Allen supporters formed a human wall to block Stark's access to the senator, who is in a tight election race with Democrat Jim Webb. As Stark tried to sidestep the wall, he brushed the side of a supporter, who fell. A deputy sheriff grabbed Stark, put his arm behind his back and led him away to the cheers of about 100 Allen supporters.
Stark said that he had little contact with the man and that he overheard him tell another supporter that he planned to "take a dive."
The supporter who fell refused to give his name or talk about the incident.
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Saturday Fun Pod.
Tired of Borat. You crazy!!
Here he is with some dudes called Opie and Anthony (part 1)
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Am I a failure - yes
Does no one like me - sure
Will papers from four branches call for me to step down on monday -
"All 4 leading military papers will call Monday for Rumsfeld to resign or be fired" Americablog
Editor & Publisher was able to get the entire editorial via The Ross Report. It will be published Monday in the Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times. Here is the text:...
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Evolution
and Nintendo Wii
comes to South Park
- But dad
I want to learn everything
- No you don't. Shut up!
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Tancredo
vs Kerry
Who's the biggest nazi?
"Radio Station Censors Ad on Tancredo Ties to Racist Groups" Political Cortex
NRC Broadcasting has refused to run the newest campaign ad by Bill Winter, Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in CD-6. The ad, that began running earlier this week, highlights Congressman Tom Tancredo's personal and financial ties to a number of leaders and organizations in the "White Power" movement.
Remember the last time we had a pod. about Tancredo, of course you don't cause that would be really sad.
Anyway, "brown shirts" showed up at a Minutemen rally in DC and Tancredo (who helped organize) was shocked, absolutely shocked.
Talk Radio News (.mp3)
"Hatin' the haters means you're nothin' but a hatin' hater of haters"
If only John Kerry had organized that DC rally, then it would have sounded different...
"Is John Kerry a nazi?", "Will Kerry's nazi ties end his political career?" and of course "How many more Democrats have ties to nazis?"
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al-Qaeda
hate Hollywood
libs more than the cons do
Mariane Pearl - Angelina Jolie - Mariane Pearl
"Jolie,
Pitt face al-Qaeda threat"
Financial Express
Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, shooting for the film A Mighty Heart based on the life of slain Journalist Daniel Pearl at Pune have been provided with Y category security due to threat to their lives from the al-Qaeda, Intelligence Bureau sources said in New Delhi on Thursday.
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CNN
MAnnie chickens out
In this pod. we were suppose to have a comment about the Sam Seder-Ann Coulter debate on CNN, but appeantly Ann didn't "feel comfortable with the arrangements".
"Coulter Freeeaks!" Bluestateblog
Coulter later debated someone she (and CNN) did feel comfortable with.
UPDATE: Atrios has more.
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Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O'Reilly have a longer review of the Culture Warriors latest book Buzzflash
For instance, I'm an agnostic liberal who believes in the separation of church and state, progressive taxation, a woman's right to choose, gay marriage, a multilateral approach to foreign policy, and universal health care, but I'm also politically incorrect enough to say that blue windbreaker Bill wore for his dust-jacket photo makes him look like a total gaywad.
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"America's Anchors" Rolling Stone
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert faked it until they made it. Now they may truly be the most trusted names in news.
"Is Fake News Necessary? Maureen Dowd Writes About Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, And Herself" Huffington Post
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Kerry to Bush
F**k you!
When the Bushies,
desperately, tried to make it seem John Kerry were attacking the troops (see
any lazy, lazy M$M source), we all thought Kerry would back down and apologies
for it all and everything else.
How wrong we were. Kerry actually strikes back and talks about the real issue.
Watch Kerry's response at JohnKerry.com
"I'm sick and tired of a bunch of despicable Republicans who will not debate real policy, who won't take responsibility for their own mistakes."
From (Republican) Lou Dobbs show on CNN
"Do you
believe John Kerry owes
our troops in Iraq an apology?"
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"But, but, but they had purple fingers"
"Women's lives no better in new Afghanistan" The Independent
The iconic images of women throwing off their burqas after the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 were always a fiction. Except among a small elite in Kabul, the overwhelming majority of women in Afghanistan are still forced to cover their entire bodies and faces.
Dammit! Stupid newspaper for reporting what's happening and not allowing us to continue in our freedom-bubble.
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Finally a tiny bit of snow in Stockholm this morning. To bad we had to wait until November. Now get ready for an extreme winter (again).
What do they call it when the normal seasons are all messed up? It has to do with the global... something something.
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