By pm317 on Aug 6, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
This nice lady in the video thinks she was punked. Here is why: “He’s just not as advertised,” she said. “Nothing’s changed for the common guy. I feel like I’ve been punked.” Video from this article.
Now contrast that video with the other videos of townhall meetings you have seen. It is the [...]
By pm317 on Jul 26, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
HT to our highly popular NQ writer AGI for bringing this article to our attention on the writers’ group.
Apparently a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman has let out a bizarre and highly personal and sexist attack on Hillary Clinton. After reading it, what came to my mind was not however a reaction to the [...]
By pm317 on Jul 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
This post was written by my spouse who goes by the name Monster.
There is no question that our healthcare system needs urgent fixing – the rise in cost has far outpaced inflation and that is unsustainable. Healthcare costs were a big part of the reason for the bankruptcy of our auto industry (there were [...]
By pm317 on Jul 19, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
Did you?* No! Because there was none. Hillary needs no teleprompter.
Here is the press conference from Mumbai, India with the remarkable woman who should have been America’s President.
Share with us what you have read/heard so far about her trip to my fair country, India.
*The title was of course inspired by Obama’s teleprompter crashing [...]
By pm317 on Jul 13, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
Feminism as a word to describe a movement has outlived its usefulness. As a political movement it has been co-opted, subverted, misinterpreted, and even sabotaged. Instead of fighting a losing battle of reinstating it to its initial glory, how can we adapt to the changing times? I feel that there is a need for [...]
By pm317 on Jul 8, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
You hounded another female politician out.
Palin, the quitter — that is what they say. Convenient, isn’t it when they are the ones who chased her out? Yes, I do mean chased, hounded her out. For all womankind, I hope it is a temporary retreat and she comes back to give them hell. [...]
By pm317 on Jun 19, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
May be not senile. He was confused and disoriented at enough times and exhibited other behaviors that led us to question his capacity to serve.
I am of course talking about Obama.
Poor Mr. Walpin seems fine — I would stop looking for tell-tale signs of senility in his videos, if I were you. [...]
By pm317 on Jun 14, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
The video below is of riots in Iran going on right now over the election of Ahmadinejad as president again. Many are protesting election results implying they were rigged. A lot is happening.
I can’t help but draw the parallel between our 2008 Democratic primary election results to the Iranian elections. But of [...]
By pm317 on Jun 13, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
Feminists on the Left, who needs them? The lines below dripping with condescension and elitism came from a blog that calls itself “Feminist Law Professors.” Good luck to them. I don’t think they will make much progress with this attitude.
Ugh. Enjoy the great many cringe-worthy moments in this article about Sarah Palin’s recent [...]
By pm317 on Jun 12, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
If you can’t keep up or defend your network’s hypocrisy and propaganda, if you feel guilty for what they make you do, quit, Contessa, quit. Where is your outrage?
Watch this video and see Contessa Brewer lose it. What has become of journalism in America?
By pm317 on Jun 8, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
That was one of the questions George Stephanopoulos asked of Secretary Clinton on his Sunday talkshow. Clinton hate or Sexism? I think a whiff of both. What does a woman have to do to get R.E.S.P.E.C.T if she is a Clinton? Read on.
On his Sunday talkshow, George Stephanopoulos interviewed Secretary Clinton (Transcript), her [...]
By pm317 on Jun 6, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
(bumped up from earlier today)
Can you believe a “journalist” said this? Newsbuster’s Kyle Drennen sums up Newsweek’s Evan Thomas’s jaw-dropping remarks on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews:
[Evan] Thomas elaborated on Obama as God, patronizingly explaining: “He’s going to bring all different sides together…Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn’t even [...]
By pm317 on Jun 4, 2009 in Current Affairs | Comments
Speeches, more speeches. We have a one trick pony donkey in our midst. Yawn!
On a superficial level it all sounds good, doesn’t it? He is reaching out to the Muslim world. What a nice guy! This may just be the new beginning we all have been waiting for.
In Axelrod’s words, “There’s been a [...]
By pm317 on May 16, 2009 in Current Affairs, Pakistan, Taliban | Comments
If you find the title puzzling, I am referring to this from Steve Clemons post republished at NQ here:
One other interesting tidbit here in Qatar is that many Arabs who have moved in and around Pakistan believe that President Zardari is no longer “Mr 10%.”
They call him “Mr. 20%.”
It is difficult to tell who is [...]
By pm317 on May 13, 2009 in Buddhism, Religion | Comments
(Bumped up from earlier this evening.)
In this age of religious extremism and terrorists abusing religious ideology, a pacifistic religion like Buddhism must resonate well with everyone. Last week, coinciding with the full moon (aka Buddha Poornima), India, Sri Lanka, and many Southeast Asian countries celebrated the birth anniversary of the founder of the religion, Siddhartha [...]