I keep hoping Ron Brown will stick to the Clintons.
keep it up, MiaT
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The thought of another Clinton presidency gets scarier and scarier. When are you going to write a book, Mia T? You have most of it done already! God bless you.
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APPRECIATE YOUR WORK, MIA T. KEEP IT UP!
FROM THE TEXT PAGE, A HIGHLIGHT:
BY JAMES ALLEN:
'Mothers don't counsel their sons to be pickers. No adult aspires to be called a picker. In the South it is a pejorative term. He is thought to be a salvage man, lowly and ignorant, living hand to mouth, maybe a thief that doubles back at night and steals what couldn't be bought outright for pennies. I have tried hard to bring some dignity to the work, traveling countless roads in my home state, acquiring things that I thought were telling - handmade furniture and slave-made pots and pieced quilt tops and carved walking sticks. Many people who sell me things are burdened with their possessions, or ready for the old folks home or pining for the grave. Some are reluctant sellers, some eager. Some are as kind and gentle and welcoming as any notion of home, some are mean and bitter and half crazy from life and isolation. In America everything is for sale, even a national shame. Till I came upon a postcard of a lynching, postcards seemed trivial to me, the way second hand, misshapen Rubbermaid products might seem now. Ironically, the pursuit of these images has brought to me a great sense of purpose and personal satisfaction.
'Studying these photos has engendered in me a caution of whites, of the majority, of the young, of religion, of the accepted. Perhaps a certain circumspection concerning these things was already in me, but surely not as actively as after the first sight of a brittle postcard of Leo Frank dead in an oak tree. It wasn't the corpse that bewildered me as much as the canine-thin faces of the pack, lingering in the woods, circling after the kill. Hundreds of flea markets later a trader pulled me aside and in conspiratorial tones offered me a second card, this one of Laura Nelson, caught so pitiful and tattered and beyond retrieving - like a child's paper kite snagged on a utility wire. The sight of Laura layered a pall of grief over all my fears.
'I believe the photographer was more than a perceptive spectator at lynchings. The photographic art played as significant a role in the ritual as torture or souvenir grabbing - a sort of two-dimensional biblical swine, a receptacle for a collective sinful self. Lust propelled their commercial reproduction and distribution, facilitating the endless replay of anguish. Even dead, the victims were without sanctuary.'
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Thank you, Mia.
Pay attention, G-K.
Blessings -- Brian
WTF?? MiaT write it and they will buy it :)
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Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005 6:23 p.m. EDT Bill Clinton: Investigate Judge Roberts' Civil Rights Record Ex-president Bill Clinton is calling on Senate Democrats to investigate Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' civil rights record, based on a memo he wrote as a lawyer in the Reagan administration arguing that Congress should be allowed to bar courts from ordering busing to desegregate schools. The ex-president said that Roberts "apparently had a big fight within the Reagan administration" over his position, "where he was to the right of other people in the Reagan Justice Department." Clinton said the Roberts civil rights memo "might indicate an unwillingness to allow the Supreme Court to be the court of last resort when people assert their constitutional rights." On Wednesday, Clinton told Bloomberg News that he was "surprised" by the Roberts memo, calling his position on civil rights "to the right" of conservative scholar and then-assistant U.S. Attorney General Ted Olson. "I'd like to see that explored in the hearings," he urged. "I think that'd be good for America." Reprinted from NewsMax.com |
8 THE EVIDENCE Helen Thomas Syndrome: the symptoms
Mia T
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Boy, am I glad I have 6mb broadband.
Coming up next season on CSI: The Vincent Foster Murder. The Ron Brown murder.
GONE WITH THE WIND
If Katrina's inescapable allusion is the parting of the Red Sea, (and it is):
Miss hillary's 'plantation' metaphor, ostensibly about Bush and the Republicans, is really about the clintons and Katrina and New Orleans and the Democratic Party. (The Left generally, and the clintons, in particular, are notoriously projectional.) Katrina has opened the eyes of the poor -- mostly black -- underclass, the Left's absolutely essential -- and until now, captive -- constituency. The clintons and the Left are terrified that these poor people will finally see what has been before them for 60 years: Not only a failed idea, but a party whose power depends on perpetuating that failure. The clintons and the Left are terrified that these people will finally see the modern Democratic party for what it is: a bunch of bitter, self-serving, moribund, power-hungry, dangerous elistists whose very existence depends keeping them dirt poor, disinformed and dependent.... This, in contrast to a Republican party whose power depends on their education, self-sufficiency and success. Indeed, the people are already seeing.
'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION' Finally, why the shameless "culture of corruption" harangue? Its tactical purpose was diversionary. Miss hillary had no politically helpful answer to the question, ("Why did you vote for the war?"), having previously staked out Iraqi territory apparently populated by no one. But "culture of corruption" also served a broader, strategic function: the inflation of the clinton legacy. Downward revision ("defining deviancy down") is the classic clinton m.o., (see Jefferson double-helix hoax), (although clinton, exposed, will often argue the obverse: the double negative offers the illusion of higher ground.) Posthumous misappropriation, for obvious reasons the clintons' preferred method of legacy inflation, was unavailable. Not a problem. Miss hillary will take whatever she can get. Yesterday, Daniel Patrick Moynihan died. Today, the clintons are arrogating his soul. Hardly surprising. In 1999, the clintons were not at all shy about seizing his still-warm senate seat.
THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT? |
author Gail Sheehy former Clinton adviser author Jerry Oppenheimer Barbara Olson former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers
Hillary's Scheme Joyce Milton December 7, 1941+64 Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive. We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will? In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst? Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival. What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times. COMPLETE LETTER
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999) p. 11
to author Gail Sheehy
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999) p. 139
quoting campaign aide Paul Fray
State of a Union
(New York: Harper-Collins, 2000) p. 153
Hell to Pay
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1999) p. 5
PBS Frontline, 16 Jan 2001
The Clinton Years
(New York: Crown Forum, 2003) p. 88
Hillary's Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999) p. 11
First Partner
(New York: William Morrow, 1999) p. 259
AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRORE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
Dear Concerned Americans,
December 7, 1941+64
Mia T
AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
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Ironically, the logic of this pronouncement by Martin Luther King would, in short order, be refuted by the reality of his own lynching. King's hope was misplaced and his reasoning was circular. The resultant rule of law relied on by King presumed an adherence to the rule of law in the first instance. Adherence to the rule of law is not something normally associated with the clintons. Moreover, racial and ethnic disrespect, intimidation, exploitation and hate have always been a fundamental clinton tactic and the reflexive use the "N"-word and other racial and ethnic slurs, an essential element in the clinton lexicon. When the "first black president" and his wife ran Arkansas, the NAACP sued them for intimidating black voters at the polls.
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