I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“Doing what”s wanted, adapting and staying the long haul are three elements of a writing career that any writer could sensibly focus on.” p. 161
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
The last time that Myanmar’s prime minister attended a summit meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations he wielded a heavy hand and forced host-country Singapore to withdraw an invitation to United Nation’s envoy Ibrahim Gambari. Now, only four days before a summit in Thailand, Thein Sein is packing his bags again.
And there’s no telling what baggage he’ll carry across the border.
From AFP:
Myanmar’s prime minister, General Thein Sein, will attend the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Thailand this week, an official announced Monday.
The official confirmed a state media report that General Thein Sein would visit the key summit in the Gulf of Thailand, where regional heads of state are set to gather Friday.
“General Thein Sein will attend the ASEAN summit,” said the official on condition of anonymity.
His trip to Thailand comes as the junta appears to be opening up diplomatic channels abroad, with Thein Sein last month becoming the highest-ranking Myanmar official to attend the United Nations General Assembly in 14 years.
The prime minister made a speech before the assembly on September 28, slamming Western economic sanctions against his country as politically motivated as the US mulls greater engagement with the reclusive government.
In the past, human rights abuses by the State Peace and Development Council have embarrassed ASEAN, which includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. With the organization slated to address just that issue, the question has to be: why does the general want to be there for the abuse? Or, as he did in 2007, does he think he can derail the criticism?
That Thailand has amassed more than 18,000 security troops in and around Hua Hin indicates that the participants do not expect a peaceful meeting.
Well, thank you Pee Dee for the free publicity. Just what independent downtown restaurants needed – two new publicly-subsidized restaurants in the Quicken Arena to draw business away from other restaurants.
The Pee Dee Tuesday in a prominently displayed Metro front page applauded the opening of two new restaurants by the “Iron Chef” (Michael Symon).
The Pee Dee devoted four columns, eight inches deep with a nice headline: “Symon opens 2 restaurants at the Q,” accompanied by an attractive photo of the business and one of Symon.
“The superstars won”t all be on the court this season at The Q,” sings the Pee Dee. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. My, oh my, what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine headed their way. Continue Reading »
[Update — 1644] 0949: White House extends the Limbaugh strategy to Fox News – genius, and kinda historic
The Pee Dee has become totally shameless in its promotion of Issue 6 and County “reform.” Totally shameless. News has become propaganda. Again.
The front-page story Monday said that voting for Issue 6 would be “costly to 4 elected Cuyahoga officials.” It”s the top story of the day.
Yeah, let”s get ‘em!
The Issue 6 campaign should have to list the Pee Dee for in-kind contributions. It”s that bad. Continue Reading »
Hey Stan – of course “race just wasn”t brought up”. Did you really think it would get brought up?
Surely Jim Carville, who grew up in the south, knows how well white racists have learned to bury their bigotry under a load of hooey. I would have been shocked if race HAD been explicitly brought up by your subjects, Stan. Go ahead, give them “as much time to talk about race as they could possibly need” and it wouldn”t come up if you waited until hell froze over.
What they did “bring up” was the claim that the first African American president in US history simply MUST have had some power other than his own abilities and appeal to voters to propel him into the presidency. This didn”t set off alarm bells? Did you guys think to ask why these people think this black man wouldn”t be in a high position absent some powerful outside secret force? Do you have to have a sledgehammer hit you over the head with it?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he’s guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
Dan Gilbert, Cavs owner and seeker of a monopoly casino here, laughed off a question about a felony gambling charge against him at the City Club debate here today. He described it as a minor infraction by an 18-year old.
USA Today in 2005, however, described it as an $114,000 betting scheme on football and basketball games by Gilbert and others. He was a student at Michigan State University at the time. The charges, according to USA Today, were “conspiring to violate state gambling laws.” A spokesperson for the Cavs said at the times that shortly after, the charges were “completely dismissed.”
The paper said that Gilbert was given a fine, a three-year probation and community service. After this was completed, the felony charge was erased. Continue Reading »
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“There are many reasons why novelists write – but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world.” John Fowles. p. 160 [What “alternative” world am I trying to create? JH]
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
On this Wednesday, 21 October, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives will hear testimony on Myanmar. Scheduled for the first panel is State Department Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt M. Campbell. The second panel includes Executive Director Aung Din of the U.S. Campaign for Burma.
Joining Aung Din on the second pannel are Advocacy Director Tom Malinowski for Human Rights Watch and Professor Chris Beyrer, Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, and Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In the past two years Quicken Arena and Dan Gilbert have evaded $7.5 million in property taxes. I think if Gilbert has any real concern for Cleveland he”d pay those taxes, most of which comes from Cleveland school children.
Every year Gilbert has owned the Cavs and has use of the mostly publicly financed basketball arena he has been the recipient of a no tax deal worked out by former Mayor Mike White and County Commissioner Tim Hagan. (Every January, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County taxpayers pay some $8.5 million for bonds that go just for the extra cost of the arena.)
Add up $7.5 every two years and in a decade that”s $37.5 million. In 20 years it will be $75 million.
We are not talking chump change. That”s how the wealthy get super wealthy. Continue Reading »
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed access to the other side of the road.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.” George Bernard Shaw. p. 138
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
Yesterday I posted a link to the nearly 200-page-long, 2008 Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and pondered what it would be like to deal with such a large document. Well, one challenge might very well be that you could get lost in the language and miss very important facets; like those enshrining the dictators.
From The Irrawaddy:
When Burma”s new Constitution comes into effect after next year”s election, it will enshrine the culture of impunity that has allowed the ruling junta to commit countless human rights abuses over the past two decades, according to a new report released by the New York-based International Center for Transitional Justice.
The 40-page report, titled “Impunity Prolonged: Burma and its 2008 Constitution,” says the charter-approved last year in a referendum widely dismissed as a sham-contains a number of provisions that protect the regime from future prosecution.
“Burma presents one of the most difficult challenges in the world in relation to making progress toward combating impunity,” says the report, which urges the international community to withhold support for the election until the regime amends the Constitution to end impunity for human rights violations.
When you name yourselves The State Peace and Development Council, you have no shame.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
18 OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
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