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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
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Dec 31, 2008

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robot-heart-politics:And this was the best idea they’ve had so far.

Dec 31, 2008

bush leaves in: 19 days, 6 hours, 7 minutes

Dec 31, 20081 note

spintree sez: Ithink for this bit of Blagojevich news we can both laugh AND cry.

A day after Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois appointed Roland W. Burris to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s former Senate seat, new details emerged about how the governor worked behind closed doors to make the appointment, and the United States attorney prosecuting Mr. Blagojevich on corruption charges sought a 90-day extension to bring an indictment against him.

At a Tuesday news conference here, Mr. Blagojevich breezily introduced Mr. Burris, a former Illinois attorney general, as the “next United States senator from Illinois.” But United States Representative Danny Davis, who like Mr. Burris is a longtime fixture of the Illinois Democratic Party and an African-American, said he was offered the seat in a meeting with an emissary of the governor last Wednesday, and turned it down on Friday.

“Given all the revelations and all the controversy, I would not be able to take it from the governor,” Mr. Davis, who has represented a Chicago district in Congress since 1996, said in an interview. “I felt that if I was to take the appointment, I would spend so much of my time deflecting and defending the position that it would take away my real reason for being involved in politics and political life — to find solutions to problems.”

(Blagojevich’s First Pick For Senate Seat Turned It Down - NY Times)

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“Yesterday, the op-ed page of the New York Times asked Benny Morris (the advocate of ethnic cleansing) to represent the Israeli point of view. For the Palestinian point of view, the NYT asked…Benny Morris. Today, the NYT asked David Grossman to represent the Israeli point of view. For the Palestinian point of view, the NYT asked…David Grossman.” —The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Balance on the op-ed page of the NYT (via robot-heart-politics)

“That night, on 9/11, Rumsfeld came over and the others, and the president finally got back, and we had a meeting. And Rumsfeld said, You know, we’ve got to do Iraq, and everyone looked at him—at least I looked at him and Powell looked at him—like, What the hell are you talking about? And he said—I’ll never forget this—There just aren’t enough targets in Afghanistan. We need to bomb something else to prove that we’re, you know, big and strong and not going to be pushed around by these kind of attacks.” —

Richard Clarke, chief White House counterterrorism adviser. Vanity Fair Magazine.

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Dec 31, 200818 notes

enough already, Microsoft should just give up

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Dec 31, 20081 note

Microsoft on their largely successful quest to redefine incompetence

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This is hilarious. A software bug made every 30GB-model Zune crash last night at 2 AM, and they won’t reboot properly.

Dec 31, 2008114 notes

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T. S. Eliot reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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2009: It's on. Like, now.

butterflyeffects:

Get a move on, rest of the world. You lot are so slow…

XX

happy new year to all of our aussie friends !!

what does 2009 feel like ?

:-)

Dec 31, 20089 notes

By Rick Perlstein, Village Voice

Dateline Spring 2004

—via unburyingthelead:jhnbrssndn:retropolitics:

It was an e-mail we weren’t meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that “the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level”—this to a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed by proximity to a volume of Harry Potter. Most of all, apparently, we’re not supposed to know the National Security Council’s top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.

But now we know.

More Here

Dec 30, 2008

“The attacks on civilians represent collective punishment, which is a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm). The perpetrators of attacks against Israel must also be brought to justice, but Israel cannot create a war against an entire people in order to attempt to bring to justice the few who are responsible.” —Congressman Dennis Kucinich (via curate:unburyingthelead)

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