that's Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Softer Side of Narcissism" it went up today and doesn't it perfectly capture michelle obama's appearance on pbs last night. me, me, me.

poor michelle, she really does think the world revolves around her.

today c.i. wrote 'eleanor's smear.' i have known c.i. how many years? i have been a friend for how many years? (first year of college.) and while on 1 level it doesn't surprise me, on another level it blows me away.

it doesn't surprise me because no 1 writes like c.i.

it surprises me because no 1 writes like c.i.

i was lucky and heard it dictated this morning. we were all headed to the first speaking gig on iraq. if you think you love it, read over it again but this time read it out loud.

it is amazing.

there's a part where 'eergh!' needs to be. after amy goodman publishing in hustler there's an 'eergh.'

which isn't me complaining about the friend (i know her) who typed up c.i.'s dictation. she did a great job typing it up.

what a powerful piece of writing.

and done off the top of the head.

we were all ready to go this morning and c.i. was still working on the morning entries. we assumed (wally, kat, ava and i) we'd go upstairs and c.i. would say, 'give me 5 minutes.' instead it was 'i've been stuck in the e-mails. i've got 1 written but ...'

we headed for the car and c.i. explained what was going on. ava and wally filled me on more of it later in the day.

i kind of wish now i had gone with wally, ava and c.i. to see hillary's speech. i just knew i was going to be crying too hard. so kat and i (and flyboy and my baby) came back to the hotel.

women are outraged by what eleanor smeal did. or what she did now.

that woman is pathetic and was born pathetic and died pathetic. she is now post-dead, she is now the undead.

so c.i. has to return 7 calls a.s.a.p. and then we're almost at the 1st place where we're speaking. kat goes, 'we have 5 minutes.'

c.i. says (dialing), 'i can do it, i can do it. just tell me when we're down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds and i'll wrap up.'

and c.i. did it. dictated that in less than 5 minutes.

i was listening with my mouth hanging open.

c.i. captured it perfectly and did an amazing job.

backstabbers is the theme tonight and i'm going with ellie smeal because she is nothing but a democratic party hack.

that is all she ever was. she has never made demands, she has never stood up for women, she has spent years in d.c. 'compromising' with damn little to show for it.

it's no surprise that as soon as the going got tough, ellie bailed on hillary.

that's typical ellie m.o.

and it's no surprise that she would confess to the porcine 'beauty' katha pollitt. oh, let me pull katha in on this.

katha, word to the wise, ugly break ups? not a good idea.

your ex does a wonderful bit about you. i laugh and laugh.

katha is the woman who hates woman and, as c.i. once noted, she's a loud, ugly woman and, due to media stereotypes of feminist, mistakenly assumed to be 1.

katha's nothing but a 20th century closeted communist. her ex does a wonderful bit on katha taking orders from moscow. it's a joke but only slightly.

before cindy sheehan even announced her run for congress, there was 'feminist' katha writing the piece telling cindy not to run.

why?

because she doesn't like women.

like most closet communists of the last decade, katha's all about women's issues matter last.

which is why she wrote nothing on abeer until she was loudly and repeatedly critized. so she tossed in abeer for a 1/2 sentence.

abeer was gang-raped by u.s. soldiers while her mother, her father and her 5-year-old sister were murdered (by u.s. soldiers) in the next room. 3 soldiers took turns gang-raping her and then she was murdered. then there was an attempt to set her corpse on fire. she was 15-years-old.

and katha had nothing to say. nothing to say when it made news.

nothing to say when the article 32 hearing took place.

nothing to say when soldiers entered pleas of guilt.

when she finally wrote it, she was all over the communist promoted story of another woman's death that no 1 knew the reality of (then or now).

but the 15-year-old girl who was gang-raped and murdered? the 1 that 3 soldiers confessed to their role in the conspiracy? she wasn't interested.

and wouldn't have even done a 1/2 sentence on it were it not for the fact that she was being loudly criticized and even alexander cockburn had written about it.

so much for our 'feminist' katha.

red ass katha's all about herself.

she doesn't think media portrayals (or lack of them) matter. so when the naacp called out the networks awful record in casting african-americans in roles, there was katha insisting the naacp was wasting every 1's time.

she only supports barack because his support among the closet communists is legendary.

and, to be clear, barack's not a communist.

but he hung around a lot of wackos and that's good enough for the closet set.

katha was shocked that her hero red betty was meaningless to young women today.

her hero is meaningless because she always was.

my generation had no use for red betty either.

we weren't housewives in suburbia.

and we didn't care for red betty bringing the then party line (communist party) into the feminism movement which would be 'lesbians are sick.' red betty ripped apart lesbians, ripped apart straight women and accused them of being lesbians.

it's largely forgotten today and just remembered how red betty pushed that other feminists were c.i.a. plants but, before red betty (who once made me cry in real life) was repeating that lie, she was running on n.o.w. insisting every woman she hated was a lesbian.

red betty was in a political closet.

and she hated attractive women. i often assume she's katha's hero because, like katha, 'butt ugly' was the only term for her.

that's how i met red betty. c.i. was speaking at a women's liberation event and there i was, still in college and waiting backstage. and red betty didn't want me backstage. red betty thought i was an irritant and a fan of her's.

i didn't recognize her. i just knew some homely woman was ripping me apart.

c.i. came off stage from speaking and saw what was going on and ripped into red betty. c.i. let her have it. i knew c.i. loathed red betty. but that was something to see.

c.i. went over every 1 of red betty's communist publications articles (all vanished from the public record then - they have resurfaced) and all of red betty's meetings and actions in the communist party and told the liar that if she ever spoke to me ('or any woman') like that when c.i. was around, the clipping file (provided by c.i.'s publisher grandfather) would be freely and widely distributed and 'your closeted ass will be cooked.'

red betty was all, 'i'm sorry, i'm sorry. i didn't know she was your friend. i thought she wanted my autograph.' (i hadn't even looked at her until she started talking about how i wanted attention for my tits - 'tits' was the word she used. when she practically screamed that, i looked over to see who the hateful woman dissing me was.) red betty was then telling me she was sorry and trying like crazy to kiss c.i.'s ass.

red betty made a lot of women cry. she was a hateful, hateful person.

she had to be the center of attention and was threatened if another woman was even in the room.

so it's fitting that katha pollitt made red betty her hero.

2 of a kind and all of that.




team nader's super rally took place tonight:

D-Day Denver

D-Day.

Denver tonight 6 p.m.

University of Denver Magness Arena.

Sean Penn, Tom Morello, Cindy Sheehan, Jello Biafra, Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez will be there.

Standing up to the corporate two-party controlled debate commission.

Calling for an opening up of the Presidential debates.

If you are in the area, see you at the event.

If you know people in the area, call them, text them, e-mail them -- and give them the details.

Free Speech TV will be streaming the event live on the Internet. (Wednesday, August 27, 7 p.m. Mountain time, 9 p.m. Eastern.)

Just click here to watch.

Also, Free Speech TV will be broadcasting the event live on Dish Network Channel 9415.

If you are home watching convention coverage on cable, watch for Ralph.

He'll be in the DNC belly of the beast at the Pepsi Center today.

He'll be on Fox TV with Neil Cavuto in this afternoon at about 4 p.m.

And MSNBC with Dan Abrams tomorrow morning at about 10 a.m.

Other mainstream media interviews are being nailed down as we speak.

Stay tuned for more details.

The bottom line is this.

The conventions are supposed to be about democracy.

But in fact, they're two big corporate parties.

Talk about corporate crime and corporate power, and you are drummed out of the building.

Talk the happy corporate talk, and they invite you in for a drink.

Thank you Ralph Nader for having the guts to stand up.

For the American people.

Against the corporate takeover of our democracy.

Stand with Ralph today.

If you are in Denver, come on down and join with us at the Magness Arena tonight at 6 p.m.

If you are not in Denver, give whatever you can afford -- $10, $20, $50, $100 -- to help defray the costs of tonight's event. (Renting the arena, sound, lights, stage hands, video crew and equipment, flying in road trippers, printing of 100,000 fliers -- you get the picture.)

By the way, great start on the fundraising drive -- we're at close to $15,000 after just two days. But we have to hit $100,000 by September 4. So, let's get 'er cranked.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

With your help, tonight, we will shake it up.

Onward to November.

The Nader Team

PS: Remember, if you donate $100 or more, we'll send you three DVDs -- the Denver rally, the Minneapolis rally, and a special debate DVD. (Three DVD offer ends September 4 at 11:59 p.m.)

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we got back to the hotel (kat and i) too late to catch that. we're planning to look for it tomorrow night online. if you caught it, feel free to e-mail.

let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'

the denver super rally is wednesday night.
and this is from team nader:

Obama's Credit Card Connection

Drop $39 now on Nader/Gonzalez.

Why?

To protest Obama's choice of the Senator from MasterCard for VP.

That would be Senator Biden.

(By donating $39 now to the Nader Media Fund, you'll be helping us report more on Mr. Plastic in the days to come, but for starters, check out this account of how Biden fronted for the credit card companies in Congress.)

Why drop $39 now?

As a protest against the VP candidate from MasterCard.

Because $39 is key rip off number for the credit card industry.

Let's say you miss your credit card payment by one day.

What does the credit card company do?

Exactly.

They sock you with a $39 late fee.

And now, if Obama/Biden win the election, MasterCard and Visa will have a lock on the White House.

And who will stand up to the credit card industry and tell them -- no more rip off late fees?

Obama/Biden?

McCain?

No.

And --

No.

Only Nader/Gonzalez will stand up to the avaricious credit card corporations.

Who trap their consumers with --

29 percent interest rates.
$39 late fees.
Over limit fees.
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Disappearing grace periods.
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And every other possible way to rip you off.

To keep you in hock.

Forever and ever.

So, step up to the plate.

And drop $39 on Nader/Gonzalez now.

You'll be protesting the corporate Democrats' descent into credit card hell.

And supporting the only campaign that has the independence and guts to stand up to the industry and say -- enough!

Protest now.

Better late than never.

Onward to November.

The Nader Team

PS: Remember, if you donate $100 or more, we'll send you three DVDs -- the Denver rally, the Minneapolis rally, and a special debate DVD. (Three DVD offer ends September 4 at 11:59 p.m.)

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now i want to talk about the whore amy goodman and whore is the only word for goody.

she coozed up to larry flynt in an hour long snow-ball session on democracy now and of course thought his hustler magazine was just the place for a progressive to publish.


she had 2 hours today and couldn't once note that it was the anniversary of the enactment of the 19 amendment. she doesn't bother with women's history - we're lucky to get 1 segment every 2 or 3 years - and she couldn't note it even though it fit in headlines (hillary speaks tonight) and even though she did a 'women's segment.

she's nothing but a whore.

and i really want you to think about it this week. whore goodman was willing to publish in a magazine that no 1 bought for the article.

she was willing to use women as slaves. use their naked bodies to whore out her work.

she is trash.

and she wants to get props for her crap?

she wants people to look at her and think she's some statement for equality?

she's a whore.

plain and simple, just a whore.

a playboy interview? we'd roll our eyes. but playboy is not hustler.

and she has NEVER apologized for her actions.

noam chomsky has.

he apologized this summer and explained he didn't know anything about hustler. they asked him for an interview and he asked them who they had interviewed. that's all he knew about them. (and he also was surprised that they didn't provide him with a transcript.) amy goodman has never apologized.

all this time later.

she only killed her deal - she was going to publish there regularly - when her ass got called out.

she's always going on and on about when the new york times is going to apologize for this or that. when is amy goodman ever going to apologize?

i stopped to watch hillary's speech.

it was wonderful.

didn't change my vote.

barack's not prepared, he's a sell out and i don't trust him.

onward!


let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'

some things are just too funny. for example, Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Change You Can Believe In"



did you read the garbage in the new york times today about caroline kennedy?

how much of a liar can 1 woman be?

she's acting like she helped pick the v.p. slot.

c.i. told me in april that it was clark if it was hillary and it was biden if it was barack.

i could see the clark because he and hillary are tight. but biden and barack? c.i. explained biden would be forced on barack. the 1st week of june, it was 'it's going to be biden' from all the d.c. crowd. the establishment was pushing for biden.

and some thought c.i. was and that's why c.i. repeatedly highlighted biden beginning in april. no, c.i. just liked a hearing biden chaired as well as a more exploratory 1 biden did. and that's why some barack - misunderstanding that - supporters think c.i.'s about to come on board with barack. not going to happen.

both elaine and c.i. will not vote for barack. that's a decision from years ago when he told them that the u.s. couldn't leave iraq and talked like a war hawk. while begging them for money.

(and, yes, barack begged himself. a no-no for elaine. you let others present ask for your donations. you do not ask yourself. that he hadn't learned that after nearly a decade in the illinois legislature did not go over well with elaine. he either couldn't learn the basics or he was a money grubber.)

so there was caroline who is not the establishment (but appears to want in which means she has no power - they only want what they can't have and if you go your whole life as an outsider - by choice - as caroline did, and then want in, you have no power) telling the new york times this and that and being amazed that she did all this research and, get this, barack asked questions!

i don't know why that's shocking to her.

maybe she expected to brief him while he was on top of some hollywood starlet? you know, like her father would have been.

caroline didn't make the choice, barack didn't make the choice.

it was made for him. the delay might have been due to his wanting to get out of that choice and realizing that he had no choice?

he's in denver, hoping to find some love and votes. lots of luck there. ralph nader is in denver too and this is the latest from team nader:

Nader Flix

As a big part of the homestretch push to Election Day, we are starting a new media fund drive -- $100,000 in ten days -- by the end of the Republican convention.

We're cruising. You've helped get us on 37 state ballots thus far (more to come soon) and Nader/Gonzalez has been at 5% or above in several national polls. But the big bucks news media has responded with a deep freeze-out. So, it's up to us to break through and get our own message out.

Enter the Nader Media Fund.

We aren't tied down by narrow stylistic constraints. We don't worry about offending corporate America. We just need to get much busier creating, filming, editing, and distributing.

You can help us create high-impact media that will get the Nader/Gonzalez campaign message out there -- on television, radio, and the Web. Your contributions will fund radio ads, our creative campaigns will garner free television media (as our "puppet" debate did in 2004), and we will put high quality content in your hands for you to show to your friends and family.

Donate $100 to Nader/Gonzalez now and we will mail to you three 30-45 minute DVDs over the next month with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage hot out of the editing room -- "Nader Flix." First, the Denver Super Rally, then the Minneapolis Super Rally, then a special debate project that we are creating.

Our crew of professional filmmakers includes people from the pinnacle of the business. The photo here shows them in the middle of their drive from Los Angeles to Denver yesterday. They need tape and access to top-notch gear, lodging and transportation. They need your support.

Make our own media. It's what we've got to do. We need your help to make it happen.

Onward to November.

(The 3-DVDs for $100 offer is good until September 4, 2008, 11:59 p.m.).

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ralph's in denver and providing the only unscripted offerings of any candidate.

by the way, i saw something in the new york times business section i wanted to highlight. i am not a big fan of george orwell. but his journals are 'meat' for the online world. jean stanton is posting online daily entries at orwell diaries.

i'm noting that for 3 reasons. the person over the blog (with the estate's permission, by the way) is a woman and i'll toss a bone for that reason alone. second, there's the fact that a lot of you may need a topic in the near future for a paper for school so this could let you consider 1 writer who is well regarded and respected. third, i just liked the idea of it.

i'm just going to turn this into a chatty post.

i was talking to jess this evening on the phone (after kat and i headed back to the hotel and left wally, ava and c.i. to take on the last 2 groups). jess was telling me about all the hideous e-mails to the public account of the common ills. and 1 in particular ticked him off.

that busybody has written me too. she thinks she knows everything. she really has no knowledge base to speak of.

she bills herself as a freelance journalist and apparently to get that title she includes the 14 of so 'letters to the editor' the new york times has published by her in 10 years. i know that because when she wrote me and ticked me off, i mentioned her to c.i. and was reminded of the will & grace episode where the guy upstairs from will and grace (ned) can't shut up about having yet another letter in that paper.

i guess since ned-ette left america, she no longer can get her letters published in that paper so she feels the need to e-mail websites. she's also bothered mike with her crap.

so jess reads her e-mail today and replies with 1 entitled 'when did you get your law degree?'

ned-ette is the most pompous blowhard and oh-so sanctimonous.

she was writing c.i. to inform that robin long was not extradited. (she was also presenting herself as being in charge of canada's war resisters support campaign, which she is not.)

what a dumb idiot.

don't butt in and try to correct c.i. when c.i.'s correct.

1st off, c.i. already researched it. 2nd of all, canadian legal scholars make the same point that it was extradition and not 'deportation.'

3rd of all, the judge used the word 'extradition' (a slip, a telling slip) in the court hearing.

why doesn't ned-ette just shut up? as most of you have probably guessed, she's the nerd who moved to canada because she didn't like the results of the election. she wasn't going to live in the united states if bully boy was president!

poor, little ned-ette.

she really needs to get a life.

no 1 needs to hear from her. jess made that clear to her informing her that if she had news to highlight, feel free to e-mail but that c.i. doesn't need a lay person interpreting the law, thank you very much.

she hadn't written back when i spoke to jess.

she won't. she gets pissed off when you call her on her crap.

jess tossed out his own law professors and his mother (an attorney) who also agree it's extradition. it's only some idiot who knows nothing about the law but thinks she knows everything who doesn't get it.

what a fool ned-ette is.


let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'


Monday, August 25, 2008. Chaos and violence continue, the US military announces a death, sometimes the US and the puppet al-Maliki agree on their stories (and sometimes they do not), and more.


Starting with war resistance. US war resister Robin Long was court-martialed in Colorado Friday and Karen Linne, Fort Carson Public Affairs Office, explained Friday afternoon that he was sentenced to 15 months behind bars, reduced in rank (to E1) and given a dishonorable discharge. Robin was held at the Criminal Justice Center in El Paso Country while awaiting the court-martial and he will receive credit for the time he has served ("about 40 days").

Friday Colorado Springs' News Channel 13 (ABC) reported on the court-martial:


Eric Singer: Now getting back to a story we told you about earlier on in the newscast, a judge at Fort Carlson sentences a soldier to 15 months for desertion. He ran to Canada.

Nina Sparano: Twenty-four-year-old Private First Class Robin Long was supposed to be deployed to Iraq three years ago. Only On News Channel 13's Scott Harrison was in the court room for the sentencing.

Scott Harrison: Early Friday afternoon, Private First Class Robin Long left this court room and walked down this sidewalk for the last time as a free man for the next fourteen months or so as he begins his sentence for desertion. Long seemed in good spirits as guards escorted him to a waiting vehicle. He also got a warm send off from peace activists and anti-war protesters who came to support him. Some supporters hired an attorney from Oklahoma to represent Long.

James Branum: He got to speak his mind about why he did what he did and he knows that, yes, he did the legally wrong thing but the morally right thing.

Scott Harrison: Long's sympathizers expected he would serve some time after going AWOL then fleeing to Canada to avoid deploying to Iraq but they think 15 months is too harsh.

Ret. Army Col. Mary Ann Wright: Four months, five months something like that -- which is pretty common among all of the ones who have gone AWOL and been public about it. I think that would be an appropriate punishment.

Sgt. Matthis Chiroux: Robin Long to me is a hero. He is an individual who stood up during a time of great, great crisis facing overwhelming adversity and opposition and stood true to what he knew to be right.

Scott Harrison: Coming up at six, we'll learn more about the influences effecting Private Long's life that led him to be at this court room today. At Fort Carson, Scott Harrison News Channel 13.

Nina Sparano: Long's sentence will be reduced by forty days because of time already served. He's also reduced in rank to private and will receive a dishonorable discharge.

Saturday KRDO offered another report:

Samantha Anderson: [The court-martial of] a Fort Carson soldier Friday at times became more of a debate about the Iraq War then about the soldier's desertion. In our continuing coverage, News Channel 13's Scott Harrison explains how more service men and women are taking stands to oppose the war.

Scott Harrison: For most men and women in the military, the decision to go to war is a simple one. They follow orders. It's part of the job of being in the armed forces. But Friday's court-martial here at the mountain post attracted other soldiers who have taken stands similar to Private Long in opposing the Iraq War. We told you Friday how Private Long pleaded guilty to avoiding a deployment to Iraq by fleeing to Canada. Among those supporting him at his court-martial were a retired Army Col. and State Dept diplomat.

Ann Wright: I resigned in opposition to the war in Iraq. And that's -- he went AWOL because of the war in Iraq.

Scott Harrison: Also present was a Reserve Sergeant who announced a month before his scheduled deployment that he wouldn't go, considering the war an illegal act of aggression.