Dr. Iesha

For the last two weeks I've been going to physical therapy to rehab my knee.I'm a big believer in[...]

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Open Thread

Landslide winner of the "vote for your favorite Carrie Prejean LOLcat" balloting at my tiny blog. Open thread below...

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Monday Stuff

Jonathan Alter of Newsweek basically calls "America's Mayor" on his "Terra! Terra! Terra!" BS here on "Countdown" (and I can't believe I'm on the same side as Bob Barr, David Keene and Grover Norquist, but I am)...

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..."Worst Persons" (I know I already took a shot at Steve Douchey earlier over "the bow," so I won't waste more time with him; Glenn Beck says we should try KSM in The Hague, but he''s wrong - that's where we should try Bushco; and I already went after Kristol Mess earlier today I know, but I think he deserves another shot for the reason K.O. tells us here - that is, Irv's son basically says the hell with due process and let's kill Maj. Hasan without the benefit of a trial, and thus dishonoring the sacrifice of his victims who served to preserve our way of life)...

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...and here's something for the grownups; the debut of "The Sound of Music" took place today on Broadway in 1959...


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...and here's something for the kids.


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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are mtperson, Lousiana 1976, HoosierDeb, dopper0189, shayera, ybruti and grog.

• harvstpt describes issues related to Wisconsin's dairy industry in The manure will take care of itself... (ybruti)
• In an informative, well-researched diary devtob details the impact of The CIT bankruptcy and jobs on the economy as a whole. (Louisiana 1976)
• Professor Smartass considers the question of a Jobs Program? How about a Clean Energy Conversion Corps?, while ger has suggestions for A Massive Bottom-Up Jobs Program. (ybruti)
• BorderJumpers shows how innovative urban farmers in a Kenyan slum have become a seed source for rural Africans in Farming on the Urban Fringe. (dopper0189)
• NoWarButTheClassWar describes the increasing problem of Food, Food everywhere and not a bite to eat...... (ybruti)
• The Opportunity Agenda highlights the importance of the ADA in An American in Paris, and Beijing, and London... (shayera)

jotter gives us the day's High Impact Diaries: November 15, 2009, while virgomusic has Top Comments - Sara's Second Act.

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Edwards Got Trimmed by the Obama Campaign

The other tell-all book being released is Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe's aptly named The Audacity to Win. Today, Ben Smith of Politico had a confession to make well because it was about to be divulged anyway. Smith's source for the John Edwards[...]

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A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction

Reposted courtesy of TruthdigBy Chris HedgesWe can join Bill McKibben on Oct. 24 in nationwide protests over rising carbon emissions. We can cut our consumption of fossil fuels. We can use less water. We can banish plastic bags. We can install[...]

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Fighting War on the Backlines

We often gauge a war by who conquers whom, and look to which army stands at the gates when the fighting ends. We talk about insurgents and militias and which warlords control what parts of the globe. So often, we fail to see the distinction between[...]

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Late Night: The Grifters II It Takes One to Know
One

Oh, Sarah. It’s no wonder you so dislike your daughter’s baby daddy — he reminds you of a younger you, back in the day when you were hopping from college to college, first honing the art of the grift.Playgirl spokesman Daniel Nardicio[...]

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C&L's Late Nite Music Club with The Swell Season

Title: Feeling the Pull/Low RisingArtist: The Swell Season
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I did an LNMC last year featuring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova and their Academy Award-winning song from the movie, Once.

Hansard (late of The Frames) and Irglova have formed a new band, The Swell Season, and their album, Strict Joy, was released in October of this year.

Here they are singing an acoustic version of Feeling the Pull and a studio version of Low Rising, both from Strict Joy.

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The Wages of Compromise: Defeat

If the White House and Senate Democrats still think, despite all evidence to the contrary, that compromising with the anti-healthcare forces is going to lead to a better reform bill - or any bill at all - they would do well to study the fresh, still warm and bloody lesson of the Stupak Amendment.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains:

Conceding That Abortion Is Icky -- Not An Effective Strategy

Lizardbreath is 100% right about this:

I can't help thinking of the Stupak amendment, prohibiting abortion coverage in any health insurance plan that's paid for in part by federal subsidies under the House health reform bill, as the payoff from all that talk about how pro-choice voters should be more respectful of pro-lifers' beliefs. If we just acknowledged that abortion was always tragic, and always kind of wrong somehow, and that prolifers' total opposition to anyone being able to get an abortion ever was a deeply held moral belief that pro-choice voters shouldn't hold against them, then they'd respect us more in return and abortion would stop being such a hotly contested political issue.

Turns out, no. What happens when you treat pro-life views with solicitous respect and make sure pro-life politicians feel completely welcomed in your big tent party is that sixty-four House Democrats vote for poor women to be unable to get abortions or, most likely, to in at least some cases get late-term rather than early abortions because they can't get the money together in time. Solicitious respect isn't just interpersonal decency that will make political conflict over abortion less intense, it's unilateral political disarmament, and it has real policy consequences.

The logic that by which "emphasizing that abortion is gross and women who get abortions are immoral" actually benefits the pro-choice position has never made any sense, and surely the Stupak amendment settles the question. The idea that anti-choicers don't actually want to legally restrict abortion for poor people but just want Democratic politicians to give them a pat on the head makes no sense in theory and is pretty clearly wrong in practice.

Katha Pollitt at The Nation makes a passionate case for those of us who support full human rights for women to stop surrendering for the sake of a future victory that never arrives.

You know what I don't want to hear right now about the Stupak-Pitts amendment banning abortion coverage from federally subsidized health insurance policies? That it's the price of reform, and prochoice women should shut up and take one for the team. "If you want to rebuild the American welfare state," Peter Beinart writes in the Daily Beast, "there is no alternative" than for Democrats to abandon "cultural" issues like gender and racial equality. Hey, Peter, Representative Stupak and your sixty-four Democratic supporters, Jim Wallis and other antichoice "progressive" Christians, men: why don't you take one for the team for a change and see how you like it?

For example, budget hawks in Congress say they'll vote against the bill because it's too expensive. Maybe you could win them over if you volunteered to cut out funding for male-exclusive stuff, like prostate cancer, Viagra, male infertility, vasectomies, growth-hormone shots for short little boys, long-term care for macho guys who won't wear motorcycle helmets and, I dunno, psychotherapy for pedophile priests. Men could always pay in advance for an insurance policy rider, as women are blithely told they can do if Stupak becomes part of the final bill.

President Obama, too, worries about the deficit. Maybe you could help him out by sacrificing your denomination's tax exemption. The Catholic Church would be a good place to start, and it wouldn't even be unfair, since the blatant politicking of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on abortion violates the spirit of the ban on electoral meddling by tax-exempt religious institutions. Why should antichoicers be the only people who get to refuse to let their taxes support something they dislike? You don't want your tax dollars to pay, even in the most notional way, for women's abortion care, a legal medical procedure that one in three American women will have in her lifetime? I don't want to pay for your misogynist fairy tales and sour-old-man hierarchies.

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The big prochoice and feminist organizations are up in arms--NOW and Planned Parenthood want to see healthcare reform voted down if Stupak is retained--but writing in the Daily Beast, Dana Goldstein nicely captures the bewilderment of leaders caught by surprise. "It's the feeling that you've been rolled," said Eleanor Smeal, of Feminist Majority. Or haven't been paying attention. Smeal was onto something, though, when she told Goldstein, "Here we are playing nice guy again, we didn't want to make a fuss." Consciously or unconsciously, by not organizing in advance to insist on coverage of abortion, prochoicers set themselves up to be out-maneuvered. In fact, as Sharon Lerner reported on TheNation.com, Democrats stood by while antichoicers kept contraception out of the reform bill's list of basic benefits all insurers must cover. So much for the "common ground" approach where we all agree that birth control is the way to lower the abortion rate.

Enough already. Prochoicers have been taking one for the team since 1976, when Congress passed the Hyde amendment, which Jimmy Carter would later defend with the immortal comment, "There are many things in life that are not fair." Time for the theocrats and male chauvinists to give something up for the greater good--to say nothing of the twenty prochoicers, all men, who supported Stupak out of sheer careerism. After all, if it weren't for prochoicers, there wouldn't be much of a team for them to play on.

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Fuck it.  From now on - for abortion, for universal health care, for stopping climate change, for a real jobs program, for gay rights, for bulldozing Wall Street, for the whole liberal wish list:

No Retreat.  No Surrender.  No Quarter.


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