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Last night I had the pleasure of dining at the Chef's Table at Becasse, ahead of

He is SO much a closet case

Who else but someone in the closet has the kind of obsession with curing Teh Gay that Michele Bachmann's husband has?

When trying to figure out where presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) gets her stringent, anti-gay views, you only have to look as far as her husband. Dr. Marcus Bachmann, who has described himself as his wife’s “strategist,” runs a Christian-based counseling center in Minnesota that has been rumored to offer reparative treatment for those looking to “ungay” themselves.

Just last summer, Dr. Bachmann explained his position on homosexuality while offering theoretical advice to parents concerned that one of their children was gay.

BACHMANN: We have to understand: barbarians need to be educated. They need to be disciplined. Just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn’t mean that we are supposed to go down that road. That’s what is called the sinful nature. We have a responsibility as parents and as authority figures not to encourage such thoughts and feelings from moving into the action steps…

And let’s face it: what is our culture, what is our public education system doing today? They are giving full, wide-open doors to children, not only giving encouragement to think it but to encourage action steps. That’s why when we understand what truly is the percentage of homosexuals in this country, it is small. But by these open doors, I can see and we are experiencing, that it is starting to increase.

I'm sure "Dr." Bachmann would be happy to administer some of that =ahem= discipline all by himself.

Not sure why, but the ravings of the man to whom Michele Bachmann declares her to be subservient reminded me of Rory O'Malley singing "Turn It Off" in The Book of Mormon:

It's easy to laugh at the Bachmanns and their obsession with curing Teh Gay. It's easy to note the hypocrisy of this couple that has taken government-issued checks for decades while railing against them for others. But when you have someone who gives these kinds of cues that there's an fiercen struggle going on inside him, and whose response to it is first to try to turn it into a cash cow and then to amass national power in order to remove temptation, yes, we DO have to point it out.

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Congratulations to JasmyneTea who has won two tickets to a Taste Food Tour in Bankstown worth $160.

Missed out this time? You can still enter to win a 12-month subscription to the Stonesoup Virtual Cookery School. Enter now!

A governor's job is not to be "fan-in-chief"

One would think that now that New York has legalized gay marriage and the world hasn't ended, New Jersey would be the next likely place for equality to take place. Unfortunately, we have a governor who thinks that just because HE is a Roman Catholic (and frankly, a church hierarchy that has harbored and protected child molesters for decades ought to have no moral authority over anything), he, not the voters, gets to decide whether everyone in the state should have this right.

What bothers me most about Chris Christie's stand is the language he used on the David Gregory Fellate the Republicans Hour on Sunday: “I’m not a fan of same-sex marriage.”

No one is asking Chris Christie to be a "fan" of same-sex marriage. No one is asking him to sit in the stands with a plate of nachos, three hot dogs, and an extra-large beer, and watch gay people get married. I would be hard-pressed to find any gays in New Jersey who would even WANT Chris Christie at their weddings -- or at their Sunday barbecues after the honeymoon, either. Gay marriage is not something you should be a "fan" of -- as if it's some kind of team game. This is about the same fundamental rights the rest of us have. If Chris Christie isn't a "fan" of same-sex marriage, then he should do the same thing as someone who isn't a "fan" of the New York Yankees does -- just ignore it.

After signing legislation codifying equality into law.

A Hint of Why Bernie Sanders is Our Best Living Senator

For those of you who'd missed it on TV today, this is but the mere preamble to Bernie Sanders' second orgasm of outrage of 2011. If you have the time and patience to read his entire speech, you can read it here.

There's not really much that a layman like me can add to this without descending into mere opinionating and commentary but let's break down some of the numbers of Sen. Sanders' proposed 13 part plan for reducing this supposedly runaway deficit.

1) Taking away Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest 2%, which would save us $70 billion a year. It makes no fiscal or moral sense to continue to keep these silk-swaddled ticks on the links while there are still 5 unemployed Americans for every job and 45,000 Americans are dying in the US each year through lack of health insurance.

2) A 5.4% surtax on these same golf club-swinging parasites would put $38.3 billion more into the Treasury each year. As Sen. Sanders points out, 81% are all for the idea. Think about what a 5.4% surtax would be on a billion dollar private ocean liner like the ones these leeches are having built for them.

3) $58.2 billion a year would be slashed from the deficit if we but closed the tax loophole on corporations that outsource jobs overseas and move their HQs outside the jurisdiction of the IRS. Obama made a little noise about this on the campaign trail and a little more after he became the President but nothing about this in a long time. Time to put our money where his big mouth is.

4) We could shave a bit more off the deficit by simply ending tax breaks and subsidies for the petroleum racket, $4 billion annually, to be exact. At a time when much of the country is still paying up to $4 for a gallon of unleaded and blaming the skyrocketing oil prices on the Libyan invasion, it doesn't make sense to not bite into the white, pasty flesh of the fat fucks in places like Exxon's "God Pod" by taking away these incomprehensible tax breaks since they're not putting any real money and effort into R&D for alternative energy sources, their one biggest reason for the continuance of these tax breaks and subsidies.

5) Burning down tax shelters overseas would save taxpayers a whopping $100,000,000,000 a year (not ten years, a year). That fact alone shows how rotten and corrupt the current tax code is.

6) Bringing back the speculation fee on Wall Street, which was first enacted in 1914 and doubled under Hoover and helped pay for the New Deal, would add another $10 billion a year to the national coffers. Sanders is actually proposing a minor tax of less than 1%, which you could probably find at any one time between the cushions in Goldman Sachs' waiting room.

7) Taxing capital gains and dividends the way they ought to be taxed in a nation not ruled by avaricious psychopaths would trim another $73 billion annually from our deficit. In case you don't know, capital gains tax had withered during the Bush years (2003, to be exact) to a mere 15%. Until Congressional Republicans cut capital gains taxes in 1978, the rate was 35%. Ah, the good old days.

8) Raising the estate tax on 0.3% of the richest estates would add another $7 billion to the Treasury each year. But Republicans would have you believe the Deeeeeaaaaattttthhhhhh Tax would affect everyone, if your definition of "everyone" excludes 99.7% of the population.

9) Waste at the Pentagon costs us about $10 billion a year. For instance, we still have a huge discretionary budget for arms programs to combat a USSR that hasn't existed in 20 years. Lord only knows how much more we can save by simply cutting off war profiteers like Blackwater, Halliburton and Bechtel, to name but a few.

10) Allowing Medicaid to negotiate drug prices with Big Pharma would put another $15.7 billion into the budget every year. Plan D was one of the biggest Bag Over the Head con jobs in this nation's history. It's hard to imagine Billy Tauzin's beloved mother actually having to survive on the clusterfuck that is Medicare's Plan D.

11) $6.8 billion more annually could be trimmed from the deficit if we give everyone the option of signing up for the much more streamlined and cost-efficient Medicare, at least Medicare as we now know it and not the joke of a voucher system that cock heads like Paul Ryan want to turn it into.

12) We could make a cool $50 billion a year if we slap a fee on China every time they further imbalance the trade deficit by manipulating their currency. Of course, this will never come to pass since the Reds essentially own half the United States and would take out all their money in this country and call in the note for the trillions we've borrowed to float the deficit largely created by Bush's tax cuts.

13) $20 billion more could be saved if we just get rid of the corruption, waste and outright fraud in all our government agencies. Personally, I think this is a severely low estimate.

All told, Sen Sanders' modest and fair proposals would save the United States $473,000,000,000 each year, or nearly $5 trillion over the next decade.

It would be nice to see the Obama administration tout these numbers and force the Republicans to come up with arguments as to why these measures are unreasonable. It's getting kind of obvious to even hardheaded Republicans that liberals and Tea Baggers alike are finally finding common ground and are opposing the Ryan Spanish Inquisition of a budget and that any Republican or Democrat who supports even part of it will put them on the unemployment line along with 9.1% of us.

But of course, the Obama administration will completely ignore Sen. Sanders' powerful speech, his very real numbers and his commonsensical and very humane 13 Point Plan for deficit reduction because Tom Donohue and Andy Brietbart will say nasty things about him. Then again, it's said that the President, unlike his predecessor, can actually read so please sign Sen. Sanders' petition if you haven't already. 3000 people have already signed the letter since I began this post an hour ago.

If only we could be sure that her entire campaign will be like this

Count me not among those gleefully rubbing my hands together at the comedy potential of the Michale Bachmann presidential candidacy. You can laugh at Sarah Palin because she's a dim, willfully ignorant, aging high school mean girl who's addicted to attention. But Michele Bachmann is the Real Deal -- a confirmed theocrat who can put to relatively coherent sentences together. It's a mark of how serious a candidate she is that even Chris Wallace of Fox News joined the pileon over the weekend. Bachmann cannot be promoted by the media for entertainment potential, because as Matt Taibbi writes in a piece not to be missed:

She is at once the most entertaining and the most dangerous kind of liar, a turbocharged cross between a born bullshit artist and a religious fanatic, for whom lying to the infidel is a kind of holy duty.

This quite possibly schizophrenic woman could very well find her way into the White House, unless she keeps making mistakes like this one:

Michele Bachmann delivered her presidential announcement in Waterloo, Iowa, Monday because she was born there, but she inadvertently ended up reminding residents of a dark chapter in their town’s history.

In an interview with Fox News Channel, Bachmann, the Minnesota conservative, pointed out that John Wayne, the actor, was from Waterloo. “That’s the kind of spirit I have, too,” Bachmann said.

Small problem: John Wayne didn’t hail from Waterloo. The former Marion Morrison was born in Winterset, Iowa, more than 100 miles to the south.

The most famous John Wayne from Waterloo is instead John Wayne Gacy, the infamous “killer clown” of Chicago, who was convicted of killing more than 30 young men in the 1970s and stashing their bodies in a crawlspace in his house.

Of course given the media love affair with All Things Republican, this will no doubt be spun as showing what a Regular American® she is. And perhaps she is -- a willfully ignorant Jesus freak who pulls stuff out of her ass and spouts it as truth.

Another reason not to fly unless you have to

There really is no reason for this:

A woman has filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security over how her elderly mother was detained and searched by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.

News Herald reported that Jean Weber filed the complaint after her wheelchair-bound 95-year-old mother, who is in the final stages of her battle with leukemia, was asked to remove an adult diaper during a pat down search.

According to Weber, her elderly mother was first taken to a glass-partitioned area and patted down before being taken to another room. As she was waiting outside of the room, officers conducting the pat down told Weber that her mother's Depends diaper would need to be removed because it was soiled and impeding their search.

“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”

Weber took her elderly mother to the bathroom and removed her diaper, then returned to complete the pat down. She said she did not have another clean diaper with her.

A spokesperson for the TSA said that officers must follow the same procedures for everyone to prevent terrorists from finding vulnerabilities in the security check points.

/speechless.

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It All Started at Stonewall

My guess would be even the most idealistic activists who'd taken part in the Stonewall Inn riot of 1969 would never have thought that gay marriage would one day be a reality in New York within 42 year's time. Of course, the primary impetus for Stonewall was not a demand for gay marriage or even civil unions but one for the simple, abstract right to not be singled out and persecuted (and prosecuted) for their sexual orientation.

When NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the gay marriage bill into law last night, thereby allowing same sex couples in New York to legally marry in 30 days, it was a watershed moment in not only New York but national politics, with the full weight of historical import felt both in Albany and on the streets of the West Village. Passing 33-29 in a deathly quiet chamber, the outcome hanging in the balance and not known until the final votes were tallied, four New York Republicans joined with all but one Democrat to give the New York LGBT community the rights given to their brothers and sisters in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa and, briefly, Maine and California.

It was still a hard line party vote but it bears repeating that four Republicans did vote for it while being threatened by Tea Baggers outside the state house. Said GOP state Senator Grisanti from Buffalo:

I apologize for those who feel offended. I cannot deny a person, a human being, a taxpayer, a worker, the people of my district and across this state, the State of New York, and those people who make this the great state that it is the same rights that I have with my wife.

That's not political grandstanding. That's a courageous statement coming from the heart that gets immediately to the heart of the matter, a heart that's been beating in the chest of every liberal since time immemorial: That if you're a gainfully employed taxpayer, a voter, an American citizen and a human being, you, too, ought to be accorded the same constitutional protections, civil liberties and human rights granted those in the straight community.

Anything less is, at best, cowardice and political expediency, at worst, hateful bigotry.

Last night was indeed a great night to be gay and bisexual in New York state, one of the most momentous acts of legislation in recent New York history.

But there was a summer night like this in Sacramento, California not too long ago, three years ago, to be exact. Within six months, gay marriage was taken from the state in a dirty, overfunded and extra-legal dirty trick called Proposition 8. And to this day, even though retired Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Prop 8's constitutionality, his judgment has been stayed and had been until a week and a half ago challenged by die-hard wingnuts who claim that the openly-gay Walker's ruling was a conflict of interest (Oh, the irony!).

Walker's ruling is expected to be tried before the right wing Supreme Court. So let's not forget California and Maine, which lost legal same sex marriage before it had even become law. As Jefferson famously said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Paul Le Poulpe Nouveau 2011

Un nouveau poulpe a été désigné pronostiqueur officiel du Mondial féminin et succède à Paul, star de la Coupe du Monde 2010.

BERLIN - Le poulpe qui a succédé au défunt Paul, renommé pour avoir prédit avec précision les résultats du Mondial-2010 de soccer en Afrique
du sud, a prédit vendredi une victoire du Canada face à l'Allemagne, dimanche à Berlin en ouverture du Mondial-2011 dames.

Diffusé en direct sur une chaîne d'information en continu allemande depuis l'aquarium de Constance, le rituel a été suivi par des dizaines de cameramen et de photographes.

Le successeur de Paul, une pieuvre d'origine française, dont on ne sait pas encore avec certitude s'il faut l'appeler Paul ou Paula, a pris le temps de la réflexion puis s'est dirigé résolument vers la boîte contenant des crevettes en guise d'appâts, et a choisi la porte surmontée du drapeau rouge et blanc à la feuille d'érable.

Un pronostic pour le moins audacieux tant les Allemandes, double tenantes du titre qui évolueront à domicile devant plus de 70 000 personnes, sont archi-favorites face aux Canadiennes, qui n'ont passé le premier tour de la compétition qu'une fois en quatre participations.

Toutefois, la divination n'étant pas une science exacte, les Allemands ont pris la précaution d'organiser simultanément à 05H00 une sorte de casting en demandant aux poulpes des sept autres aquariums de la chaîne Sealife leur avis.

Paul, surnommé «l'oracle d'Oberhausen», la ville d'Allemagne de l'ouest où il vivait, était devenu l'invertébré le plus célèbre du monde en prédisant tous les résultats de l'équipe d'Allemagne au Mondial-2010, y compris sa défaite en demi-finale face à l'Espagne, ainsi que la victoire en finale des Espagnols.

Quelque 600 chaînes de télévision avaient suivi ses prédictions concernant la finale du Mondial.

Signe de son influence, un nombre significatif de parieurs britanniques qui avaient misé sur une victoire des Pays-Bas face à l'Espagne lors de cette finale avaient changé leur fusil d'épaule après son ultime augure.

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Remind me again why we're supposed to support Democrats

Here in my little town in Outer Whitelandia, a populace that's been asleep for thirty years is finally waking up to the reality of the one-party rule that's been running the town for the last three decades. The primary intersection in town is a bottleneck every single day at rush hour. There are nights when it can take me twenty five minutes to go twenty miles, and another twenty minutes to go two. This intersection is in a residential neighborhood, but a small gas station on the corner has been grandfathered in, and there is a large catering hall on another corner, owned by a guy who has over the last decade been quietly buying up houses on the main drag and letting them fall apart. For the last five years, the first thing you see when you come into town is a house with boarded-up windows and a hole in the roof. There have been rumors that the catering hall puts up its undocumented workers in these hell houses, but they are just rumors.

Now the owner if the catering hall and the owner of the gas station have simultaneously come up with grand plans to turn the gas station into a Wawa-like convenience store/gas and diesel station complex and the dilapidated houses into a strip mall containing a CVS with a drive-thru, a hair salon, and a coffee shop -- while a quarter mile down the road, there is already a half-empty strip mall with plenty of parking on site that has a Rite-Aid, a hair salon, a Dunkin Donuts, and a bagel shop. And finally the citizenry has awakened, even though the local government refuses to allow the public to talk at the zoning board meetings that are supposed to be where people can be heard.

In 2008, the town held its first contested election in thirty years -- and the sheeple in this town voted back in the same people who had been giviing crony contracts to their friends for years. Part of the problem was that in New Jersey, we vote not office-by-office, but on a giant screen where each candidate is in a party's line. So if you tend to vote Republican, as most people in this town do, you are not going to jump around the ballot. It of course didn't help that the Democratic candidate, who had lived in town barely two years, was the brother of one of the biggest Democratic Party hacks in he state.

It's like that in Democratic Party politics. Not a month goes by when someone doesn't tell me to run for office in town, but believe me, you do not want to touch these people or play their game. Every two years, they either refuse to run a candidate to run for Congress against the odious teabagger Scott Garrett, who was a teabagger long before the Tea Party kooks even existed; or else they run a weak candidate and then refuse to support that candidate with money. The New Jersey State Democratic Party, like the natonal party has been under everyone except Howard Dean, is only interested in fighting battles it knows in advance it can win.

And so the stage is set for the travesty that happened in Trenton yesterday, where Governor Gasbag, Chris Christie, succeeded in getting bipartisan support in the state Assembly for a law to gut public worker benefits and remove their ability to collectively bargain, with the help of Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex), who had shepherded the bill through the state Senate on Monday.

Everyone knows that the state pension system is dramatically underfunded, after being stiffed for decades by governors of both parties, What most people don't understand is that the police, firefighters and teachers who receive these pensions also pay in. So when politicians decide to gut these benefits, it's money paid out to these workers that's stolen for other needs -- mostly to keep from having to raise taxes on the wealthiest people in the state.

If the Democrats on the national stage won't stand up for people who pay into Social Security and Medicare all their lives and are then told not to depend on it because they stole all the money; if Democrats won't stand up for the rights of all Americans to be the same under the law; if Democrats won't stand up for the rights of workers; then why on earth should we reward them with our votes?

We know what Republicans are -- greedy, venal, hateful, cold-hearted and devoid of empathy. Republicans will do what Republicans do. We know this. Our problem is not them; it is the Democrats -- the party that increasingly pisses down our backs and then tells us it's raining.

Than Give You Control

NJ.com:

In a divided vote, the state Assembly passed a landmark overhaul of the health and pension benefits for public employees in a historic defeat for New Jersey’s powerful unions and a political victory for Republican Gov. Chris Christie.

Under the provision, now headed to Christie's desk, public employees will have to pay more for their benefits.

Assembly members, who debated the bill for almost three hours, approved the legislation in a 46-32 vote in a largely partisan vote. Booing erupted in in the gallery after the bill passed.

...

Supporters of the bill — including Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex) — have said the state needs to cut costs because the pension and health systems are underfunded by more than $120 billion total.

Christie, who has staked his reputation on shrinking government costs, has called the bill an example for the rest of the country. New Jersey is one of 23 states that have asked employees to pay more for their pensions since the Wall Street financial crisis battered retirement systems in 2008, according to the Pew Center on the States.

This was not unexpected, but it is a truly devastating development for state workers, who are taxpayers and voters. What should also not come as a surprise: this is an election year. And in just a few weeks, Democrats who joined Republicans in voting to gut working people will come to the unions with their hands out.

This time, "Where else you gonna go?" is NOT going to cut it.

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• Agadir Gnaouas et Bagad St Nazaire (Maroc-France)
• Laryach (Souss-Maroc)
• Shenaji (Maroc)
- Dj Nadbil (Algérie)
- Vj Italovideo (France)

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* Rayssa Kabira Tabaamrant (Souss-Maroc)
• Registan (Ouzbékistan)
• Abderrahim Souiri (Maroc)

Jeudi 23 Juin 2011

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• Awade Adrare (Maroc)
• Rays Hassan Arsmouk (Souss-Maroc)
• Goran Bregovic et l'Orchestre des Mariages et des Enterrements (Serbie)
• Archach (Souss-Maroc)
- Dj Prez (France)
- Vj Italovideo (France)

Théâtre de verdure – dès 20h00
• Amadou et Mariam
• Hindi Zahra (France/Maroc)
• Kayah

Scène Bijaouane – dès 21h00
• Rass Derb (Maroc)
• Bart Peeters & Les Belges (Belgique)
• Barry (Maroc)
- Dj Serhane (Maroc)
- Vj Kalamour (Maroc)

Vendredi 24 Juin 2011

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• Daqqa Roudania & Macadam Pan Groove (Maroc-France)
• Inerzaf Lahcen Bizenkad (Souss-Maroc)
• Kool and the Gang (Etats Unis)
• Oudaden (Souss-Maroc)
-Dj Prez (France)
-Vj Italovideo (France)

Théâtre de verdure – dès 20h00
• Calipso Rose (Tobago)
• Sophia Charai (France)
• Ihsan Rmiki et le Groupe Zaman Al Wasl (Maroc)

Scène Bijaouane – dès 21h00
• Imazzalen (Souss-Maroc)
• Dick et Hnatr (Nouvelle Calédonie)
• Mayara Band (Maroc)
• Funk Atlas (Maroc)
-Vj Kalamour (Maroc)

Samedi 25 Juin 2011 - Soirée de clôture.

Place Al Amal dès 20h00
• Ahwach Foum Lahcen (Maroc)
• Daoudia (Maroc)
• Najwa Karam (Liban)
• Rayssa Fatima Tabaamrant (Souss-Maroc)
- Selecta Pacha (France)
- Vj Italovideo (France)

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Let the Sun Shine

On this foggy, rainy morning in New Jersey, public workers are taking to the streets in Trenton. You can call 888-875-6558, input your zip code if you live in the Garden State and be connected to the offices of your representatives. Please tell your representatives that you support public workers rights to negotiated benefits. It's especially important now to refuse to feel helpless. What we do matters. See?

The Chinese legal authorities released the dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Wednesday after a three-month detention, apparently ending a prosecution that had become a focal point of criticism of China’s eroding human rights record.

Why was Ai Weiwei released?

...China came under unusually heavy pressure from all corners of the globe, not only from standard diplomatic channels but also from prominent people like Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, who harangued China in May at a Manhattan opening of an outdoor sculpture exhibition by Mr. Ai, and Anish Kapoor, a leading sculptor in Britain who this month canceled a show planned for the National Museum of China in Beijing. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China was scheduled to visit Britain and Germany starting on Saturday, and he almost certainly would have encountered protests and condemnation, whether on the streets or in private meetings.

“Without the wave of international support for Ai and the popular expressions of dismay and disgust about the circumstances of his disappearance and detention, it’s highly unlikely the Chinese government would have released him,” Phelim Kine, an Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, said in an e-mail. “The public announcement of his release signals that the Chinese government has had to respond to this pressure and that the cost-benefit ratio of continuing to detain him was no longer tenable.”

It's not too late. What we do matters.

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Mercredi 22 Juin 2011 - Soirée d'ouverture :


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• Agadir Gnaouas et Bagad St Nazaire (Maroc-France)
• Laryach (Souss-Maroc)
• Shenaji (Maroc)
- Dj Nadbil (Algérie)
- Vj Italovideo (France)


Théâtre de verdure – dès 20h00
• Hommage aux répertoires des Rayssates :
* Rayssa Naïma Demsiriya (Souss-Maroc)
* Rayssa Kabira Tabaamrant (Souss-Maroc)
• Registan (Ouzbékistan)
• Abderrahim Souiri (Maroc)


Jeudi 23 Juin 2011


Place Al Amal dès 20h00
• Awade Adrare (Maroc)
• Rays Hassan Arsmouk (Souss-Maroc)
• Goran Bregovic et l'Orchestre des Mariages et des Enterrements (Serbie)
• Archach (Souss-Maroc)
- Dj Prez (France)
- Vj Italovideo (France)


Théâtre de verdure – dès 20h00
• Amadou et Mariam
• Hindi Zahra (France/Maroc)
• Kayah


Scène Bijaouane – dès 21h00
• Rass Derb (Maroc)
• Bart Peeters & Les Belges (Belgique)
• Barry (Maroc)
- Dj Serhane (Maroc)
- Vj Kalamour (Maroc)


Vendredi 24 Juin 2011


Place Al Amal dès 20h00
• Daqqa Roudania & Macadam Pan Groove (Maroc-France)
• Inerzaf Lahcen Bizenkad (Souss-Maroc)
• Kool and the Gang (Etats Unis)
• Oudaden (Souss-Maroc)
-Dj Prez (France)
-Vj Italovideo (France)


Théâtre de verdure – dès 20h00
• Calipso Rose (Tobago)
• Sophia Charai (France)
• Ihsan Rmiki et le Groupe Zaman Al Wasl (Maroc)


Scène Bijaouane – dès 21h00
• Imazzalen (Souss-Maroc)
• Dick et Hnatr (Nouvelle Calédonie)
• Mayara Band (Maroc)
• Funk Atlas (Maroc)
-Vj Kalamour (Maroc)


Samedi 25 Juin 2011 - Soirée de clôture.


Place Al Amal dès 20h00
• Ahwach Foum Lahcen (Maroc)
• Daoudia (Maroc)
• Najwa Karam (Liban)
• Rayssa Fatima Tabaamrant (Souss-Maroc)
- Selecta Pacha (France)
- Vj Italovideo (France)

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The New York Times really, really, really, really hates Keith Olbermann

Fresh on the heels of the Bealean portrait of Keith Olbermann in the Sunday New York Times Magazine section comes this hit piece by Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley on the morning after the return of Countdown:

Keith Olbermann returned to cable television on Monday mad as hell and pointedly madder than other self-described liberal anchors on his former channel, MSNBC.

[snip]

Mr. Olbermann’s new show looks the same as the old one, even down to the features, music and title, “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” but the pulpit is markedly different from his old perch at MSNBC. Current TV, a small, earnest network co-founded by Al Gore in 2005, favors civic-minded programs and averages about 50,000 viewers during prime time. Mr. Olbermann was wedged between two documentaries, “The OxyContin Express” and “Gateway to Heroin.”

[snip]

And his guests stoked his ego. Mr. Moore praised Mr. Olbermann for “keeping the good fight going.” Markos Moulitsas, founder and publisher of the liberal Web site Daily Kos, who is also a contributor to the show, called Mr. Olbermann a “national treasure.”

And it could well be that Current TV is better suited to Mr. Olbermann’s personality than even his politics. Rachel Maddow and Mr. O’Donnell, the liberal commentators he brought to MSNBC and helped showcase, have developed their own followings, and Mr. O’Donnell has done respectably in his stead. Both anchors share Mr. Olbermann’s righteous indignation, volubility and even his snarky sense of humor, but they come off as reasonable, respectable and even-keeled. ( Unlike Ed Schultz, the host of “The Ed Show,” who follows Ms. Maddow and seems like the cranky uncle who rants in post office lines — in May, Mr. Schultz was suspended from the network after calling the conservative firebrand Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut” on his radio program.)

Mr. Olbermann, who has a colorful history of fighting with bosses and getting fired, is famously mercurial and thin-skinned. (Full disclosure: this critic was named “Worst Person in the World” at least once by Mr. Olbermann when he was on MSNBC.)

Oh. THAT's why. Well, that explains everything. And it goes on and on like this. Clearly Ms. Stanley is not find of Mr. Olbermann.

But how did he do?

Here at Casa la Brilliant, where depression has pretty much ruled the roost of late, it was one brief and shining hour where it seemed that the world had somehow been put back on its axis. We've been watching Lawrence O'Donnell up until now, who in recent weeks has been clearly trying to get his Olbermann on, as when he recently assured people that the world isn't going to end soon. But O'Donnell is at heart an even-tempered kind of guy; he even used to be part of the Morning Schmoe crew for a while. He's good, and his heart's in the right place, but when you're living in a house where one person is perpetually exhausted from working at least 10 hours a day, seven days a week; and the other one can't find a job, even-temperedness is sometimes the last thing you need after a difficult and exhausting, or futile and frustrating, day. It's kind of sad that we have to make a choice at 8 PM, especially if watching one and recording the other would result in unwatched old news stacking up on the DVR like planes at LaGuardia during a thunderstorm.

The new Countdown is very much like the old one. Yes, the graphics are different, and "Oddball" is now "Time Marches On", so as not to incorporate Chris Matthews' laugh. And it's clear that while Olbermann is ecstatic at being turned loose in a broadcast environment where no one is going to smack him around because Scarborough gets pissy, there's a certain aura of kid who just bought not just candy, but the entire candy store.

The correspondents for the new show are a mixed bag. I'm not sorry to see a lack of Richard Wolffe, but Michael Moore isn't the kind of correspondent who's going to give the show mainstream gravitas, and neither is Markos Moulitsas, though the Great Orange Satan has shown in the past that he can comment on a story in a professional manner. I'll cut him a little slack this first time out, because I do think it's important that the question of exactly why he was banned from MSNBC be brought out into the open (even if he didn't reveal that the tweet that got Joey the Scar's knickers in a twist was a reference to a certain dead intern in Scar's office during the Summer of Condit. But now that THAT's out of his system, I hope he gets down to being the solid commentator he's shown he can be.

Other unfortunate choices include for some strange reason actor Donald Sutherland, and "comedian" Richard Lewis doing the Neurotic Jew comic beat. I realize that Lewis and Olbermann are friends, but the propsect of the spectacularly UN-funny Lewis makes me weep at the lost potential of what a WTF moment on the show could mean for both Countdown and that OTHER neurotic Jewis comic we promote here all the time -- you know, the one who's actually FUNNY.

More promising are the people with gravitas that MSNBC hasn't already tied down with contracts -- Matt Taibbi, John Dean, Jonathan Turley, and Jeremy Scahill.

So how does it look out of the gate? Very much like the old show. If you've always needed to bring Olbermann into your house in the evening to feel sane, you'll feel relieved that he's back. If you think he's a lunatic blowhard, you'll still feel that way. And it remains to be seen how the Ego of Keith fares given complete license and the power to build a lineup around his brand. I do miss the end-of-show banter between Keith and Rachel Maddow,and it grieves me that there seems to be this gulf between them (at least for now), but it's good to have him back, and it's good to know that if the still-uncertain MSNBC (which has recently hired former Republican chair Michael Steele as a correspondent and is said to be working on a show for Chris Hayes) decides to tack right, Rachel will have a place to go.

Now how about bringing The Majority Report to, say, the 10 PM slot?

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Updated response to "Everyone's a Critic"

The ensuing discussion after my post on the Weekend Australian article on food blogs has only illustrated the fervent passion by everyone involved in this topic: food bloggers, food blog readers, journalists, public relations consultants, chefs and restaurateurs.

I've added some extra comment to my original post which I think was necessary after reading some of the questions raised in the

Hilarious.

Because anything that can make me laugh at a time when the idea of a sudden fatal heart attack is an appealing thought, deserves to be posted.

Everyone's a Critic

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Eagle-eyed readers would have noticed the article, Everyone's a Critic, written by Elizabeth Meryment in The Weekend Australian magazine.

Even after reading the final piece several times, I'm still not sure what my final thoughts are. There are a

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fête des pères 2011 ou fete des pere

Chaque année nous fêtons nos papas. Nous les remercions de leur protection, du temps passé avec eux et surtout de l’amour qu’ils nous donnent. Qu’il soit papa poule, papa gâteau, autoritaire ou protecteur, nous disons je t’aime à notre papa tous les ans en juin.

La fête des pères français

Qui l’aurait cru ! En France, ce n’est ni un maréchal ni un traité qui a lancé la première fête des pères. Il faut remercier Flaminaire, une marque bretonne de briquets, qui est à l’origine de la première journée pour les papas français.

Ce n’est qu’en 1952 que la fête des pères a été instaurée en France. Attention, on a bien dit instaurée car la fête des pères, contrairement à celle des mamans, n’a jamais été officialisée. Elle a pris sa place dans nos calendriers et nous la célébrons chaque année mais ce n’est pas une fête officielle. Souvent considérée comme une fête commerciale comme la fête des grands-mères, la fête des pères a du mal à prendre autant d’ampleur que la fête des mères.


La première fête des pères a donc été célébrée deux ans après l’officialisation de la fête des mères. En France, nous fêtons nos papas le troisième dimanche de juin.
La fête des pères est l’occasion d’offrir un cadeau à nos papas ou de passer un moment en famille pour les honorer.

La fête des pères chez Les Autres

La date de la fête des pères varie d’un pays à un autre :
En Belgique, elle est célébrée le deuxième dimanche de juin soit une semaine avant nous.
En Italie, au Portugal et en Espagne, on fête les papas le jour de la saint Joseph, le 19 mars.
Au Luxembourg, les pères sont fêtés en même temps que l’automne, c’est-à-dire au mois d’octobre.
En Allemagne, la fête des pères est célébrée le jeudi de l’Ascension, en mai.
En Suède, les papas sont honorés en novembre.
Chez nos voisins Anglais, les papas sont fêtés le deuxième dimanche de mai.
En Corée du Sud, la fête des pères et la fête des mères sont le même jour, le 8 mai.
Certains pays ont un ou deux jours de congés par an pour fêter les pères.
Quelque soit la date officielle de la fête des pères, dans tous les pays du monde, nous disons à nos papas que nous les aimons tous les jours !

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Or George Walker Obama, if you prefer. Once one president snatches powers not granted to him by the Constitution, all others will keep it:

President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to officials familiar with internal administration deliberations.

Jeh C. Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline D. Krass, the acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, had told the White House that they believed that the United States military’s activities in the NATO-led air war amounted to “hostilities.” Under the War Powers Resolution, that would have required Mr. Obama to terminate or scale back the mission after May 20.

But Mr. Obama decided instead to adopt the legal analysis of several other senior members of his legal team — including the White House counsel, Robert Bauer, and the State Department legal adviser, Harold H. Koh — who argued that the United States military’s activities fell short of “hostilities.” Under that view, Mr. Obama needed no permission from Congress to continue the mission unchanged.

But the only stories deemed newsworthy by our media are Anthony Weiner's weiner and Dead White Child

The other day the lead stories on Good Morning America were:

1) Anthony Weiner's weiner
2) Candy Spelling's mansion
3) The Casey Anthony trial

So now the media and the Democrats have gotten the scalp they wanted and Anthony Weiner has resigned...but last night Chris Matthews insisted on devoting most of his show to this faux "scandal" anyway. At least now we know that the whole thing was just because the media's sole reason for being is becuase they like to make dick jokes. Maybe Trey Parker and Matt Stone really ARE America's greatest humorists after all. So if Mr. Weiner expects the whole thing to go away now that he's capitulated and left Congress, he'd better guess again. Because nothing gets in the way of print and broadcast media people with the sexual maturit of a nine-year-old and their weiner jokes.

But in the news that is actual news and ISN'T being covered, there's this:

A fire in Nebraska's Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant briefly knocked out the cooling process for spent nuclear fuel rods, ProPublica reports.

The fire occurred on June 7th, and knocked out cooling for approximately 90 minutes. After 88 hours, the cooling pool would boil dry and highly radioactive materials would be exposed.

On June 6th, the Federal Administration Aviation (FAA) issued a directive banning aircraft from entering the airspace within a two-mile radius of the plant.

"No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM," referring to the "notice to airmen," effective immediately.

Since last week, the plant has been under a "notification of unusual event" classification, becausing of the rising Missouri River. That is the lowest level of emergency alert.

The OPPD claims the FAA closed airspace over the plant because of the Missouri River flooding. But the FAA ban specifically lists the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant as the location for the flight ban.

The plant is adjacent to the now-flooding river, about 20 minutes outside downtown Omaha, and has been closed since April for refueling.

WOWT, the local NBC affiliate, reports on its website:

"The Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Facility is an island right now but it is one that authorities say is going to stay dry. They say they have a number of redundant features to protect the facility from flood waters that include the aqua dam, earthen berms and sandbags."

OPPD spokesman Jeff Hanson told Business Insider that the nuclear plant is in a "stable situation." He said the Missouri River is currently at 1005.6" above sea level, and that no radioactive fuel had yet been released or was expected to be released in the future.

Asked about the FAA flight ban, Hanson it was due to high power lines and "security reasons that we can't reveal." He said the flight ban remains in effect.

Sandbags and berms -- and a wing and a prayer. That is a nuclear plant right here at home. Oh, and by the way, you haven't heard a peep about the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, lately, have you? After all, what is a nuclear plant meltdown in terms of newsworthiness compared to a Congressman's salacious tweets? But here's what's going on there, in news the media refuses to cover because they'd so much rather just titillate:

Gov't to designate new evacuation spots near Fukushima plant


Tech companies to begin cleaning water at Japan nuclear plants (Sorry, but I just don't buy that nuclear waste can be turned into glass and that we won't see it in food containers in a store near you.)

Radiation "hotspots" hinder Japan response to nuclear crisis

Radioactive caesium found in whales

Greenpeace finds radioactive sea life off Japan

But hey...Anthony Weiner sent naked photos!

Because the heads of these investment firms just aren't making enough money

Even record profits aren't enough for Wall Street (NYT link):

Wall Street plans to get smaller this summer. Faced with weak markets and uncertainty over regulations, many of the biggest firms are preparing for deep cuts in jobs and other costs.

The cutback plans are emerging even as Wall Street firms have mostly recovered from the financial crisis and are reporting substantial profits again. But those profits are not as big as they were before the crisis, and it is expected that in the coming months it will be even more difficult for firms to make money. Worries about debt in Europe and the shape that the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul rules will ultimately take, combined with the usual summer doldrums, are prompting banks to act.

[snip]

Even Goldman Sachs, Wall Street’s most profitable firm, is retrenching. Senior executives at Goldman have concluded they need to cut 10 percent, or $1 billion, of noncompensation expenses over the next 12 months, according to a person close to the matter who was not authorized to speak on the record. The big pullback will cause Goldman employees, who have already been ordered to cut costs, to re-examine every aspect of their business.

The firm, this person said, had not set final targets for layoffs, but Goldman was “certain” to shrink headcount in the coming months. Decisions on bonuses are still months away, but they are sure to come down as well if business does not pick up.

Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and Barclays Bank are also mentioned.

Now it's difficult to muster up a whole lot of sympathy for stockbrokers losing their jobs, but I'm quite certain that there will be a fair number of secretaries, tech support reps, network administrators, programmers, and other support staff booted as well, so that Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon can stuff their pockets even more.

And still the sound we hear in the American street about what the banks have done to our economy is not outrage, but crickets.

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Top 10 Changes Since Anthony Weiner Decided to Resign

Today it was confirmed that Rep. Anthony Weiner (NY-9) will resign as a US congressman after it was revealed three weeks ago that he'd sent lewd pictures of himself to several women on Twitter. Many Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and even President Barack Obama, had called for Rep. Weiner's resignation. Already, things are changing on Capitol Hill in the wake of WeinerGate. What are some of the biggest changes?

10) Americans can now immediately resume trusting Democratic and Republican politicians again after both parties proved their moral purity and superiority at Weiner's expense.

9) Weiner resignation now allows lawmakers and the POTUS to focus on less important issues such as the imminent immolation of the world's largest economy.

8) Now that Alan Grayson and Weiner are gone, Blue Dog Democrats no longer hamstrung and put on the spot by funny and passionate but embarrassing Jewish liberal congressmen.

7) Faith in pogroms and witch hunts restored by having the will of Weiner's constituency subverted.

6) Andrew Breitbart one step closer to looking like a responsible, crusading journalist and one step removed from looking like a racist, spittle-flecked douchebag.

5) Sen David Vitter reportedly wearing Huggies again because of nonstop paroxysm of laughter.

4) Rep. Weiner's final post on his official congressional page is picture of fully erect penis with the caption, "Suck on this, Democrats."

3) Democrats no longer crippled with paralyzing fear that Letterman, Leno, Conan and Craig Ferguson will take down their party with penis jokes on late night TV.

2) Dozens of Republicans reported buying digital cameras and starting up Twitter, Yahoo Instant Messenger and Facebook accounts.

1) Dozens of Democrats reported selling their digital cameras and deleting Twitter, Yahoo Instant Messenger and Facebook accounts.

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This is working America under corporate and bankster greed

From David Frum, of all people:

Any questions?

Of course the Republican candidates would answer his questions with more tax cuts to "unleash freedom" for corporations. Yesterday I read a column by the hacktacular Dana Milbank which contained the following piece of idiocy:

The private sector has stabilized, profits have returned, productivity is high, American competitiveness has improved, and large sums of money have accumulated on corporate balance sheets.

The most efficient way to produce jobs, then, is to give the private sector incentives to spend its big pile of cash on new hires. That’s why Obama, last week, was at a community college in Northern Virginia touting little-known policies such as “Skills for America’s Future” and the “Workforce Investment Act.”

Corporations are profitable again. Banks are ridiculously profitable again. All are sitting on what Milbank calls "piles of cash." Milbank makes the mistake of thinking that our nation's employment problem is that we lack the skills corporatins are looking for.

Two anecdotes:

1) Mr. Brilliant recently beat out dozens of other candidates for a job. That's the good news. The bad news is that the company for which he interviewed subsequently laid off a good chunk of its workforce so no offer was made. Back to square one.

2) The husband of a colleague of mine was let go from his job six months before he was supposed to fully vest in the retirement plan. He is in his late forties.

Both of these men are highly skilled people. Mr. B has been out of work for nearly six months. There have been interviews, but no offers. Sometimes it's been that they love him over the phone and the minute they take a look at his over-50 self, his candidacy for the job is over.

Don't tell me that there aren't skilled people in this country. Don't tell me there aren't people who can learn on the job. I got my current job right before the economy went into the crapper. My department was being rebuilt from scratch, and I don't delude myself for one minute that it's because of my great skills in the area in which my department focuses. At that point, I had a pulse and could put two sentences together and I think at that point it was enough. Six months later I was thrown into a coordinating role for the most difficult projects in the division, and nearly three years later I know an awful lot about cancer. I learned everything on the job. Hire smart people, and give them a bit of breathing room to grow, and they will work their guts out for you (which is why you don't see me blog lately -- I am trying to figure out how I will be able to stay awake for 48 hours straight to get my project to testing on time this Monday).

It's not about "incentives" or tax cuts. It's about greed and the destruction of the middle class The people running businesses in the government and in the chattering classes simply do not understand, or understand full well and don't give a rat's ass, that it is not stockpiles of cash that create jobs, nor is it the goodness of company owners and executives. Demand creates jobs. When people can afford to buy your products, or products that contain what you make, or require your service to be created, demand increases and so does hiring. I don't know why this concept is such a difficult one for our political and chattering classes to understand.

Melaka Central Market and cooking with Florence Tan and Adam Liaw

You haven't really visited a city until you've seen its market. On our second day in Melaka, we woke early for a morning visit to Melaka Central Wet Market, hosted by the bright and bubbly Malaysian chef, Florence Tan.


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Florence Tan with Adam Liaw

The markets are lively with activity, vendors cajoling their wares, and locals patiently inspecting each item of produce.

This is what happens in the aftermath of "voting by tantrum"

Those independent voters who see Mitt Romney as a shiny new object that they can live with just because they're all pouty and angry at Barack Obama might want to look at Florida governor Rick Scott as a cautionary tale. Because in a sea of really shitty, mean-spirited teabagger governors, this greedy bastard takes first prize:

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed “a landmark Medicaid overhaul” yesterday that will put “hundreds of thousands of low-income and elderly Floridians into managed-care plans.” The proposal “gives managed care companies more control over the program that’s paid for with federal and state money,” a shift the state GOP claims will “hold down spiraling costs in the $20 billion program.” However, as TP Health editor Igor Volsky pointed out, a five-county pilot program in Florida already revealed that such a plan produces “widespread complaints and little evidence of savings.” Under managed care, states “have to ensure that private payers aren’t looking out for short term profits by denying treatments or reducing reimbursement rates” and — given what occurred during the pilot program — the results “are already less than promising.”

But Scott may have another reason to push a dubious bill into law. As Mother Jones reported, one of the private managed-care companies that stand to gain from the new law is Solantic, “a chain of urgent-care clinics aimed at providing emergency services to walk-in customers. Solantic was founded in 2001 — by none other than Rick Scott:

The Florida governor founded Solantic in 2001, only a few years after he resigned as the CEO of hospital giant Columbia/HCA amid a massive Medicare fraud scandal. In January, according to the Palm Beach Post, he transferred his $62 million stake in Solantic to his wife, Ann Scott, a homemaker involved in various charitable organizations.[...]

“This is a conflict of interest that raises a serious ethical issue,” says Marc Rodwin, a medical ethics professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. “The public should be thinking and worrying about this.”

But they won't. Because after all, Anthony Weiner has a penis, and that's SO much more important.

Baby. It's what's for dinner.

I Can Has Babeeburger?

Nom nom nom nom nom.

But it's really GREAT shit, Mrs. Pressky.

Ew.

Japanese researcher Mitsyuki Ikeda has come up with perhaps the greenest alternative to the livestock industry yet: he's engineered fake meat from human feces. Ikeda's artificial meat is made from extracting lipids and protein from "sewage mud," combining these lipids with a reaction enhancer and putting the whole thing in an exploder to combine it. Steak sauce and soy sauce add saltiness and a dash of umami to the fake meat.

Mitsyuki Ikeda's fake meat from human feces may not float your proverbial boat, but it's an innovative form of food production that reuses one of the most renewable substances on the planet. Ikeda notes that the "burgers" are low in fat and, because they don't rely on livestock, won't raise carbon emissions or waste.

The Magnificent Seven

Calvera: If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.

Vin: You elected?
Chris: Na. I got nominated real good. (right after Chris got the end of his cigar shot off.)
The Magnificent Seven

Last night's "debate" amongst the first 7 GOP contenders was not actually a debate as seven morons who had only one message to convey: The n****r must go. Another problem: Having these seven lunatics on stage so they could agree with each other about how awful the black guy is is like having a pole position heat before all the drivers have arrived (Palin, Perry, Huntsman, etc).

True to form, the MSM such as the increasingly right-leaning NY Times and host network CNN, never once to my knowledge asked themselves, "Gee, Election Day is almost 17 months away. We're not even close to caucuses or primaries or anything substantial in the way of conservative voter preferences. Isn't it kind of early to be having a GOP debate in which the participants don't actually debate each other?"

True to form, the Magnificent 7 couldn't offer anything magnificent at all, not even broad strokes, and Michele Bachmann became the darling of the night when she pathetically blurted out like a Tourette's patient, "Obama's a one-term president!" without demonstrating in either word or deed how the Republican Party is going to somehow manage that feat of right wing political engineering.

"Thank you for not pointing out how bat shit insane I am, Rick, even though you can't talk."

Oh sure, they mentioned jobs for the proles and how little Obama has done about that. But in reality the only job that counts is the one these six lily white people and their token want. If the Republican Party actually gave a shit about jobs, they would've addressed the issue after taking control of the House this past January instead of avoiding the subject.

Summer product launches (remember what Andy Card said about them taking place in August?) are never a good idea. John McCain had his product rollout in late August 2008 and look how well that worked out for him.

And if Sarah Pailn's cherry-picked emails (cherry-picked by her successor after she cut and ran from Juneau) show her to be an "engaged" and "dedicated" leader, if her freshly white-washed administration, with the help of the media, represents Sarah Palin 2.0, the Ultimate Reboot, then last night's pathetic assemblage of contenders should serve to show how intellectually, politically and charismatically anemic the GOP truly is these days.

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All that tea party outrage against immigrants who might get medical care, but NO outrage about this

The teabaggers have never uttered one peep about this squandering of American tax dollars:

After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born.

Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time.

This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash — enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.

For the first time, federal auditors are suggesting that some or all of the cash may have been stolen, not just mislaid in an accounting error. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be "the largest theft of funds in national history."

The outright theft of billions, billions more given in no-bid contracts to Halliburton and KBR, the wholesale squandering of the entire Clinton-era surplus to pay for George W. Bush's wars -- wars without end that Barack Obama feels somehow obliged to continue.

When I draw the verbal picture of billionaires pointing our attention at the poor while they're lifting the last few bucks out of our wallets while we're distracted, this is exactly what I'm talking about.

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