Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen! He is 76 9/21/10. [hat tip to NewMexiKen]
O’Donnell Continues to Fascinate Me…
More precisely, the fact that anyone voted for O’Donnell dismays me.
Think Progress » The Old Adventures Of New Christine
“There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil. I went back to my dorm and asked myself what I was. If your principles aren’t grounded in absolute truth, you don’t know what to think.” [Wilmington News-Journal, 11/12/06] [mjh: Therefore, she is evil.]
Think Progress » The Old Adventures Of New Christine
E.J. Dionne Jr. – Mike Castle’s defeat — and the end of moderate Republicanism
Castle’s defeat at the hands of Christine O’Donnell, a perennial candidate who may be the least qualified Senate nominee anywhere in the country, does indeed mark the collapse of the Republican Party not only of Nelson Rockefeller and Tom Dewey but also of Bob Dole and Howard Baker.
E.J. Dionne Jr. – Mike Castle’s defeat — and the end of moderate Republicanism
Op-Ed Columnist – Horror in the Hedges – NYTimes.com
O’Donnell is a marketing consultant whose clients included the movie “The Passion of the Christ” and a Vatican portrait-painter. One of the most notable things on her political résumé is her well-publicized position against masturbation. (“The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can’t masturbate without lust.”)
… O’Donnell has had a series of financial problems, and her disclosure form says she earned only $5,800 last year, although she claims she had other income that didn’t require disclosing. She said for years that she was a 1993 graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, but it turns out she actually got her degree … last week. And a conservative radio host was compelled to correct her when she claimed that she had won two counties in a 2008 race against Senator Joe Biden. That would have been quite a trick, given that Delaware has only three counties and she lost the election by 65 percent to 35 percent.
“I meant tied,” she said, forcing the host to point out: “You didn’t tie him either.”
Op-Ed Columnist – Horror in the Hedges – NYTimes.com
PostPartisan – Why Christine O’Donnell’s victory is scary
Republican members of Congress look at races such as those in Utah, Alaska and now Delaware and think: There but for the grace of the Tea Party go I. They will be that much more watchful of protecting their right flank against a primary challenge. They will be that much less likely to take a political risk in the direction of bipartisanship. In this sense, it matters less whether O’Donnell will win the general election — that doesn’t seem likely — than that she won the primary.
The Delaware result might be good news for both Tea Partyers and Democrats. It is not good news for the cause of good government.
There is no end to our misdirection
Ted Koppel: Nine years after 9/11, let’s stop playing into bin Laden’s hands
By Ted Koppel
Sunday, September 12, 2010
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, succeeded far beyond anything Osama bin Laden could possibly have envisioned. This is not just because they resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths, nor only because they struck at the heart of American financial and military power. Those outcomes were only the bait; it would remain for the United States to spring the trap.
The goal of any organized terrorist attack is to goad a vastly more powerful enemy into an excessive response. And over the past nine years, the United States has blundered into the 9/11 snare with one overreaction after another. …
Through the initial spending of a few hundred thousand dollars, training and then sacrificing 19 of his foot soldiers, bin Laden has watched his relatively tiny and all but anonymous organization of a few hundred zealots turn into the most recognized international franchise since McDonald’s. Could any enemy of the United States have achieved more with less?
Could bin Laden, in his wildest imaginings, have hoped to provoke greater chaos? It is past time to reflect on what our enemy sought, and still seeks, to accomplish — and how we have accommodated him.
Ted Koppel: Nine years after 9/11, let’s stop playing into bin Laden’s hands
See mjh’s blog — Feel Safer Standing In Line to Take Off Your Shoes?
Fahreed Zakaria: Why America Overreacted to 9/11 – Newsweek 9/4/10
Tramway Wetlands
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The big drainage where 4th St turns to Tramway. Date: Sep 15, 2010 |
Just as much, if not more, evidence supporting Christine O’Donnell should never set foot in the Senate
Think Progress » O’Donnell On Creationism: ‘Too Many People Are Blindly Accepting Evolution As Fact’
The Tea Party’s victorious upstart Christine O’Donnell has paraded some “biblical” viewpoints in her pursuit of public office, equating a lack of school prayer with weekly school shootings and masturbation with adultery.
“Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that [as there is for evolution].”
Think Progress » O’Donnell On Creationism: ‘Too Many People Are Blindly Accepting Evolution As Fact’
Really? Evidence?
Happy Birthday, Merri Rudd! I love you. xox, mjh