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Ed Schultz and Jeremy Scahill  debate about Libya and the Middle East in this older clip.

 

Whose ox is being gored

The Times comes out against Obama's surveillance state. I am hoping that the era of overreach is coming to an end. But I still have my doubts.

They link to this Guardian article by Glenn Greenwald that broke the story about government surveillance of Verizon customers.

Rays of hope

I believe that Obama is completely revamping his foreign policy, now that Hillary Clinton has left. This could be good. Samantha Power, the new candidate for Ambassador to the U.N., is an interesting figure. She is the one who called Hillary Clinton a "monster." And Susan Rice will be his closest advisor now on security. Maybe we can see an end to drone  and cruise missile strikes raining down on Pakistan.

The power of pretending to think positively and be nice while boiling with rage underneath

I was looking at  Disney film clips and the interest in posteriors is pretty telling.  All the old Disney animations seem so lousy to me. I thought that even as a kid and have not changed my mind.* But the reason I am looking at this is to see Thumper being chastised by his mother for observing that Bambi can't walk very well. We all remember, don't we, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." Thus the honest opinion of one young rabbit is "not nice," and his powers of observation will be curtailed for the rest of his bunny life.

 

*I always preferred the Warner Bros. stars like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn. Now they were funny!

A few tweets

• Alain de Botton ‏@alaindebotton 1h

  Being Loved: the feeling that another person properly recognizes and amply sympathizes with one's buried distress.

• Scot Nakagawa ‏@nakagawascot 2h
• #racefiles the racial connotations of MS Gov Phil Bryant's sexist slip http://www.changelabinfo.com/2013/06/05/the-danger-of-nostalgia-mississippi-governor-phil-bryants-sexist-slip/#.Ua969Ovuf-E …
  
• Democracy Now! ‏@democracynow 4h
• Samantha Power v. @JeremyScahill: A Debate on U.S. Actions in the Balkans, Iraq & Humanitarian Intervention http://owl.li/lJkgl  (2008)

Earthquake!

We were having lunch out on the deck when everything started jiggling around. There was a sound like a giant door slamming.  Lasted about five seconds. Terry felt the earlier quake, too. At cousin's place  things got knocked off her shelves, but it wasn't so strong here.

It was magnitude 5.2. The earlier one, which is also red on the map, was 3.1.

More: Upgraded to 5.6

Wonkette on Romney

Wonkette is the best organized and moderated blog I have ever seen.  It's part of Gawker Media.  Their article and comments thread on Romney and his plans for running our government enthralled me.  I wonder what it costs to run a blog like that, whether they can carry it with advertisements alone.  It is not a very high-toned endeavor, but Gawker is not either.  And sometimes going for the jugular is a good thing.

Woh! EEW!

 I have discovered Bethany Frankel. I had never heard of her.  She appears in those programs that appear to be aimed at stay at home bored housewives and other shut-ins.  I guess her schtick is something that has caught on with women, but I did not know that she was a source of it.  You know, naughty but nice. Prurient yet conventional. I looked at a segment on the Ellen show where she had an interview with a woman who said that pregnancy made her horny and another one where she talked about COCK tails and having a  high BALL. She wears tarty high heels that she staggers around in. But I guess she has the kind of appeal to conservative women that Sarah Palin has, of being cutely vulgar. Or maybe it's about how to stay thin while being a drunk.

Does anyone really watch this stuff?

Oh, and she has posed naked for a PETA ad. 

PETA are  a bunch of nut jobs. This art is priceless.