this wasn't the first or only infraction?  I agree with Traveller's general points.  But the USA used to be fairly liberal, in general, on these issues - what about Marilyn Monroe, JFK etc?

than shoring up its universities and schools.  What horrors will be next?

...and wield a Veto pen where necessary.

Mr. Brown is urging lawmakers to demonstrate frugality and the "prudence of Joseph." As he said the other day, "we've got to make sure over the next few years that we pay our bills, we invest in the right programs, but we don't go on any spending binges." 

We don't know this yet, but it is possible that as the Democratic Party is now the party of Intelligent Foreign Policy, we will also become the party of good, responsible, local governance.

We will see.

Best Wishes, Traveller

didn't have a byline: do you think it because it was considered an "editorial" piece, or because the writers were too embarrassed to attach their names to such a simpleminded screed?

You do have half a point, though: Jerry Brown has indeed been given the responsibility for the "reins" of a fairly, ummm... spirited horse: but where that steed is set to run, and how fast/far is yet to be determined (and trotting across the finish line well in the lead is NOT a given, by any means); and it isn't quite the halfwitted dichotomy (AFAICT, "taxes vs. prosperity" with a dash of union-bashing as seasoning) the WSJ seems to think it is.

You ever wonder just WHY it is that "California Republicans have been virtually irrelevant for fifteen years"? I'm sure there are numerous explanations, but I favor the simplest one: while the State of California in the year 2012 has something like ninth-or-tenth-largest economy by GDP in the world (and a population larger than all but 33 nations), the California GOP has clung to an economic (to say nothing of the social) model of politics more suited to the California of 1928 than the present day.  And it has finally come back to bite them in the @ss, and reduce them to an impotent crank-fringe in Sacramento, besides. Oh, and indulging in ideological purity purges every few years hasn't helped.

More commonly transliterated as 'Isa' however. I learned this from watching Homeland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa_(name)

...life can be capricious. He had a weak moment...with who would be interesting to know...and then he was on the roller coaster...real life being lived by real people.

I have a lot of sympathy for that.

(I've moved my other comment here)

Easy, I'm Getting Old, Life is Hard, I Deserve Love...

(#295760)

...there is nothing terribly complex here in human terms.

Who is to say his choice was a bad one?

Didn't that South Carolina Governor marry his Argentine princess?

The only problem is America's reaction to people being human.

Best wishes, Traveller

Traveller

he's not a civilian, he's still subject to the UCMJ as a retired officer.

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left to play? I'm betting we'll see a round of subpoenas here shortly.

Penis giveth, penis taketh away

to her choice of the book's title.

but the first thing I had to do was a google search for a pic to see what he thought was worth screwing up his life for.

Can you guess what group of voters seem to be disproportionately affected by the "irregularities" at the polls?

On Thursday, Secretary of State Ken Bennett revealed the magnitude of the situation: 631,274 votes remained uncounted, he said, more than in any presidential election in memory and enough to anger voting- and immigrant-rights advocates, who have called on the Justice Department to investigate. (By Friday, there were 524,633 uncounted ballots. There are 3.1 million registered voters in the state.)

 

 

The advocates, who have been staging nearly continuous protests outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center, where most of the votes are being tallied, have raised accusations of disenfranchisement, saying the same Latino voters they worked so diligently to register may have been disproportionately affected. Based on accounts they have been collecting since before the polls closed, among the 115,000 voters who cast provisional ballots in Maricopa County on Tuesday were many first-time minority voters who signed up to get their ballots by mail, but never did.

 

“We’re concerned that some of the barriers we’re seeing fell heavily on Latino and African-American voters,” said Monica Sandschafer, acting coordinator for One Arizona, a coalition of nonprofit groups working to increase voter participation among working families.

Activists say that they believe, based on what they have heard from people in the field, that provisional ballots tended to be used most often in Hispanic and black neighborhoods. But that cannot be verified until all the ballots are counted, and officials in each of Arizona’s 15 counties have until next Friday to do that.

Matt Roberts, a spokesman for Mr. Bennett, said that all valid votes would be counted. Advocates and elected officials are worried, though, that voters who had to cast conditional provisional ballots because they forgot to bring identification to the polls, as state law requires, may not know they have to present their ID at the county elections office by Wednesday for their vote to count.

Deborah Curtis, a poll observer at Xavier College Preparatory in Central Phoenix attending the same protest, said she saw a black voter being told she could drop off her early ballot only in her neighborhood precinct, although early ballots can be left at any polling place.

 

 

“I wondered how many other people were told the same thing,” Ms. Curtis said.

is what I get when clicking on your link.

I stand with my brother brendan against this appalling government censorship. 

they're doing a great job flagging spam and keeping it off the site, but they occasionally flag legitimate content as spam. Your diary has been restored.

Thanks for this.  When war overload and fatigue have set in, it takes visceral imagery to refocus the mind.

. . .will be a force of nature, if she's allowed to grow up. One hopes that she will be a *positive* force of nature.

Whoa, more gnashing of teeth in comments

We need to hold not only the Romney campaign accountable, but also the conservative press (specifically the Murdoch press - Fox was the worst of the bunch), and the establishment talking heads like Karl Rove and Peggy Noonan. We need to get clear about something: these people are selling us a product. They have been taking our money and telling us bedtime stories. 

No kidding.  Can I just devote the whole weekend to schadenfreude?  Oh, and sports b/c I have to watch my fantasy football team lose in dramatic fashion.  Again. 

Of course, had Romney won, his consultants would be hailed as geniuses...

$300 dollars to wealthy charlatans?  I'm sorry to have to break it to you, dude, but if Romney would have won it would have went to the same place.

No one (except the usual insanely paranoid idiots) thought that Monica Lewinsky might have been using her, ahem, sessions with Bubba to steal classified information and funnel it to the Mossad (or even to her diary). A CIA chief who lets his gonads endanger national security is too stupid to live, much less continue to serve. The only question is when did the White House know about it, since leaving someone with such obvious bad judgment in such a a crucial position would be likewise inexcusably bad judgment, and transparently to keep a vulnerable, easily manipulated figure in the position until such time as it was no longer convenient. Why oh why would they want to do that?

The Washington I know doesn't drum senior appointees out of office for having an affair, unless there's more than meets the eye (or Republicans in Congress are witch-hunting).

the CIA doesn't. The FBI was investigating because they had some sort of information regarding an attempt to break into or use Petraeus' email account. That's when his relationship was discovered. Also, the standard is different for retired generals, they're not civilians and are subject to the UCMJ which specifically bans adultery.

(insert obvious comment about his "war on teh coal" here)

But I actually didn't vote for the guy.  Somehow I voted for Jill Stein and Romney didn't win because of it.

I have a clean conscience and voted for who I thought was best.  Some folks around here...well they have to deal with knowing they helped elect that.

The real question is what Obama will do with respect to weed legalization in WA and CO.  Methinks he's going to come down pretty hard.  Anyone care to wager?

A link, good sir!

. . .USC is struggling against Arizona State (14-14 going into halftime, Barkley has thrown 2 picks). LA may see some more bloodletting in the head coach department before long, and if anyone deserves to be unemployed, it's Lane Kiffin.

That defender who jumped and cost the Tide their last chance is a freshman--he'll be Saban's favorite chewtoy for a *long* time.

The GOP really locked up the House with their gerrymanders in swing states.  Bear in mind this was the compromise map:

[the grey district up north was won by an unopposed Democrat; the one down south was won by an unopposed Republican (John Boehner)***]

The one the Ohio Republicans drew before that was even more lopsided.

Time for a diary from me on why our institutions are what is standing in the way of progressive change.

***That won't happen again.  I'll friggin run if Boehner is unopposed in 2014.

At the time, it might not have been obvious to an official, but after reviewing the evidence if it's that obvious, the player should be suspended for the next game.

you'll just get better actors.

What an excellent picture!  What's the story behind it?

and if you had a garden you would too. I rejoice every time the cat kills another one.

Traveller

Traveller

If you run the table, and you're a FBS school, you deserve to play for the national championship.  I don't care if you're in the Sunbelt or the SEC.

Do I think Oregon and K-State are better than ND?  Yes.  Does that matter?  No.  If we go by who is the best on paper, then we might as well just have Oregon and Alabama play each other right now.

Though the linked article is incorrect, 97% of Ohio voters are gay :)  Seriously, this is an issue where limited government Republicans have let social conservative Republicans have their way.  The limited govt types need to take some ground back.  It's not just the 'gay vote' either, it's also peeling off some of the young vote.

You can do a lot of fun stuff for what a car costs, assuming that you're paying for it yourself at least partly and have to choose.

it's just a different attitude about cars and driving. Skype and texting also seems to make a difference.

...from speeches by Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Renault and Nissan.

I am not sure the causes are well understood, but it seems to be common to developed countries that already have a lot of cars.

Is it good news? Probably but it's a bit early to say. I'd like to have more insight into it. I drive very little, less than 4,000 miles a year, but I'd have a hard time not having a car at all, or at least easy access to one. Car sharing schemes (or microrentals) could be an effective car replacement for me. Not driving at all is hard for me to envision.

Then again, I am a product of 1970's and 1980's suburbia. First driver's license was a ritual. My friends and I used to drive back roads for the sake of it, with no destination at all, and no cell phones.

More on sharing:

By the way, Ghosn is counting on his strategy to sell cars to India and China, who are both on the up slope of the car demand curve, to compensate.