It starts over here.

Breaking news of the last, oh, century or so:

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The story is here; but this is the money shot:

"During remarks to a U.S. Chamber of Commerce legal summit in Washington, Bush had tough words for the president in response to an audience question.

"I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism,"...

Republicanism in 2009: still grappling with, and attempting to defeat, undermine, and outright destroy, the legacy of people named Roosevelt.

For instance, from the current occupant of the White House:

"I suffer no illusions that this will be an easy process. It will be hard. But I also know that nearly a century after Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform, the cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and the conscience of our nation long enough. So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year." - President Barack Obama, February 24, 2009

For the next century, their plan is to deal with the legacy of Theodore Kennedy.

...and stepped up their game by opting for The Shoe-Banging Party thing.

Along with being addressed by the FOIA, would that be an RIAA or a DMCA issue; or possibly addressed by both?

The one covered here.

After thinking it over, and not reading anything on the issue, I've made up my mind.

Clearly, the Republicans are on to something. But we cannot leave it to the politicians.

Today, the kind of war we're fighting is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. We, as citizens, have to step up.

For myself, I can no longer sit back and allow Muslim infiltration, Muslim indoctrination, Muslim subversion and the international Muslim conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

I wonder if this will result in a need to cite "those who fail to learn from history"?

At the NYT, there is this story:

New Way to Tap Gas May Expand Global Supplies By CLIFFORD KRAUSS Published: October 9, 2009

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel. Italian and Norwegian oil engineers and geologists have arrived in Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to learn how to extract gas from layers of a black rock called shale.

The author:

"Clifford Krauss has been a correspondent for The New York Times since 1990. He currently is a national business correspondent based in Houston. "

A version of this article appeared in print on October 10, 2009, on page A1 of the New York edition.

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That' s democratic, with a small 'd'; but it's intended to refer to something that individuals using the label Democrat seem to be starting to do.

There is this and then this.

Then this guy pops up.

It seems that Pelosi is moving assertively.

Then, there is Alan Grayson on Olympia Snowe, among other things. I recommend watching this one.

While not all of this is exactly like bringing guns to the knife fight, and is maybe more like aluminum bats for some; it's what I see as a movement toward democratic behavior.

Time will tell, I suppose.

"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed" --Randall Terry

This is a regressive view of health. And it is, in this case, centered around who controls someone else's vagina and other relevant parts of someone else's body; and these parts include, but are not limited to wombs, at the level of the organ; and T-cells at the level of components of the immune system. When one's gaze is upon T-cells, one is not far from seeing all human blood.

From questions about our common blood, one can wander into deeper questions; questions about myth; being; and generalized notions and inquiries about "what are we going to to with ourselves?" and "well, what is a self?"; or into questions about medical research and what that might look like in, say, 75 years. Some of us will be alive in 75 years.

I'd say a medieval view of health; but apparently, it was (while relatively primitive by our standards) not entirely bad in the bad old days; see pages 78-80 about, of all things, female ejaculation.

The personal remains political.

There is not a limit, there is no boundary, that will not be crossed or violated by the kinds of people who dress like Nazis and go to gun shows because, they say, of a wish to protect their culture from fascism.

Over here wossname reports that some random click-n-drool hominid banged on his keyboard.

Some questions:

1) What the hell is cyber? Is it even word? Or is it just filler-text from a hot-key on some keyboard only available to newly enfranchised computer owners with access to blogging software? Something with a logo explained in an eMachine's manual as meaning "Hip phrases for the technologically challenged"?

Seriously. The only definitions I can find indicate it means:

a) to have; as in 'To have bigots'...no, I don't think so.

b) that it is somehow derived from kybernetes, Greek for "steersman" or "governor"; giving us....Steersman Bigots? Governor Bigots? WTF?!?

c) The theoretical study of communication and control processes in biological, mechanical, and electronic systems, especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems.

So perhaps he's saying "Given the ubiquity of connectivity, we in the larger society can make a close study of bigotry; its nature, how it spreads; its content; and develop strategies to mitigate its damage to the larger culture. Since we can do this, we should probably banish them before we undertake to understand how we can engage in preventative self-defense against the insidious nature of their activities."

An even bolder WTF?!?

If it has no meaning in a discourse, is it really a word? If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a bell?

2) Did Gerson suggest banishing the Cyber bigots to Free Speech Zones?

Using a simple search phrase:

disparity in health care for women

at that thing called Google

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On September 16, 2009, at 12:28 PM I posted this:
Meme Watch: The Pity Party
[snip]
"So let the Republicans frame their argument on how racism will not lead to health-care discrimination against Americans."

This popped up today; and it looks like they are testing syntax:

25. A "quota" system which would determine who would determine who would get treatment on the basis of race or age?

Here we see manifest the generation of abstract tools intended to generate self-loathing in young boys, coupled with use of the resulting shame, as a means of social control.

The American Taliban.

And his attendance at the 2009 Values Voter Summit. This Bill Bennett.

Watching the video of the man telling a group of women that the vote was gifted to women by men; and not one, it seemed, had the presence of mind to retort:

"It was men who took it from women; it was men who maintained that abrogation. That same majority you now praise."

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