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Saturday, November 29, 2008
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Come join me at Saturday In the Park, I Don't Think It's The 4th of July on StrangeWorld
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: [iChat] Pimp my bookcart!
this kind of shit is all these peckerheads care about. They all deserve to be unemployed in a dying profession. but as always, the thoughtful end up in the same boat as the morons
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Monday, November 24, 2008
[ILoveIshtar] Fwd: eBay Saved Search: Ishtar Soundtrack
Here's your chance to get the Little Darlin / Portable Picnic 45 for your very own! Don't start a bidding war amongst yourselves, now!
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: Take a look
Dear John
I was going to write "Dear Mr. Podesta" but since you seem to think we are on a first name basis, I'll respond in kind. No need to be excessively formal here.
I really feel sorry for young people (and frankly not-so-young people, it's been a very long slog) who were thrilled with Obama because during their whole lives as voting citizens, they've had nothing but Bush - Clinton - Bush administrations.
20 years is a long time for two political dynasties to control the fate of the entire nation. So why do I feel sorry for them? Because they are going to be so disappointed when they figure out that Obama is just another name for Clinton II.
What do all these Clinton retreads have to do with "Change"? Oh, I know the slogans are just window dressings, just as Obama claims he wants to hear what we have to say, so we dump our sincerest wishes into an electronic sinkhole. It would be nice if a real person would get back to us instead of an autoresponse, but we know that isn't going to happen, because how would Obama explain how the guy who is going to use diplomacy is taking foreign policy advice from that ghoul Madeline "500,000 dead Iraqi children is worth the cost" Albright? That's just for starts of course, but I won't go on, as you know far more than I do about what Obama has planned in the deception and hypocrisy department.
And I certainly doubt this message is going to get to you with a return address of "autoresponse@
But you know, John, that's YOUR loss, because I'm going to make sure EVERYBODY ELSE sees my message to you. Maybe some diehard Dem (I hear tell there are still some of them left, but there's less of them everyday, thanks to Obama's bungling the massive amount of good will he had - similar to how Bush threw away the good will the world had towards the US after 911) will be kind enough to find some back channel to get this to you.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:34 PM, John Podesta, Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team <autoresponse@esmtp.change.gov > wrote:
Dear Matt,
62 days. That's how much time we have left to prepare for the Obama-Biden Administration that will bring the change Americans demanded so strongly in this past election.
President-elect Obama has set a high bar for the Transition team: to execute the most efficient, organized, and transparent transfer of power in American history. As a co-Chair for the Transition, I want to tell you about a few steps we've already taken to achieve this goal.
First, we adopted the strictest ethics guidelines ever applied to any transition team. President-elect Obama pledged to change the way Washington works, and that begins with shifting influence away from special interests and restoring it to the everyday Americans who are passionate about fixing the problems facing our country.
Opening up the Transition means listening to your ideas and stories and providing a window into how the process works.
To give you a look at how we're approaching some of the nation's most pressing issues, we filmed this meeting of our Energy and Environment Policy Transition Team and interviewed team member Heather Zichal.
Watch the video and submit your ideas on energy and the environment:
President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden have set an ambitious agenda, and we are going to make Change.gov a source of information, as well as a place to participate in the decisions being made about your government.
Since the decisions we're making affect all Americans, we're counting on citizens from every walk of life to get involved. You can help us right now by making sure your friends and neighbors know about Change.gov and give their input, too.
We're continuing to develop new ways to open up the process, and we'll keep you posted along the way.
Thanks,
John
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Six Words to Inspire a Nation
I got an e-mail from the Publishers of the Six-Word Memoir anthology Not Quite What I Was Planning. I'm proud to say my submission made it into the anthology.
In the email they wrote:
"Try out a new challenge with Six Words to Inspire a Nation, a collaboration between SMITH and The National Constitution Center. Play speechwriter and provide President-Elect Obama with the six words you'd most like to hear him say."
I hope you like what I submitted:
and I hope others will submit something, too!
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Friday, November 14, 2008
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Share your story with President-Elect Obama
| Here is my 2nd pass at advising President-elect Obama, who says he wants my opinion. This time I wrote: I envision a country where the president: Establishes an independent, nonpartisan commission with subpoena powers to investigate the treatment of U.S. detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Navy base in Cuba. Dismantles the Department of Homeland Security Repeals the Patriot Act Ends spying on American citizens. Declassifies and discloses any and all records that reflect the activities of executive branch agencies during the Bush Administration years. Is unafraid to post what the American people want of him on his website, so we can measure his progress against their hopes and expectations. *** You may or may not find that this is time well wasted. As always, I'm interested in what you write, if you do. The address is: http://www.change. Thanks. |
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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Obama spams supporters, Canadian pathetically grateful for it
It's astonishing and discouraging to see how easily fooled Canadians are by US politicians... very much like their gullible neighbors south of the border. While Canadian political life has taken a beating in recent times (mostly due to adopting a US style approach to politics favoring image over substance) they still have a better deal here than in the US. But they don't know it.
Following is a column from a local magazine, followed by the comments I left on the website.http://seemagazine.com/article/city-life/city/ninja1113/
I Got An E-Mail From The President
Obamarama is still raging, and we hope it doesn't stop until things change. Like, really change.Published November 13, 2008 by Fish Griwkowsky in City Life • Comments (0)
"I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there," U.S. president-elect Barack Obama wrote to millions of others and me in a mass e-mail last week, "but I wanted to write to you first.
"We just made history. And I don't want you to forget how we did it. We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next."
Holy shit, he just might! That last sentence contains one of the most magnificent ideas using one of the most revolutionary uses of technology in history: direct communication from an incoming world leader. Spam you can get behind. As Bono said at a concert the night Bill Clinton first got elected, "Let's hope you're half the man we think you are."
The first glaring thing I noticed when Obama got elected was a sharp dropoff in my daily e-mails. To fulfil John McCain's greatest fears about not knowing exactly who had been contributing to the mixed-race candidate's campaign, I can safely say that there are people up in Canada who donated small amounts of money to Obama's campaign. Good-looking folks who, instead of putting — say, er — my address, used a fake one in the States.
But the thing about this American election was, like the two before it, this was successively the most important one in history. Further on the subject, it was the most internationally watched one, if only in terms of all-important optics.
Instantly, like it or not, the ethnic flavour of the new president made America less of a terrorist target from any number of agendas. So while it's true there are office pools about how long it will take some Klansman type whose wife either did or did not throw the TV out the window on Nov. 4 to try and assassinate the greatest community organizer in American history, certain arguments are now officially over. For example, Morrissey's lyrics that it's "where the president is never black, female, or gay" are suddenly as dated as the U.S.S.R. cosmonauts in Arthur C. Clark's 2010.
What I felt down on the streets in the U.S. was no different from what any number of you felt up here: relief. But also, a sudden sense of possibility. Global, personal — it doesn't matter. Hope, not fear. Issues like Guantánamo Bay, the bullshit ban on Cuba, rebuilding Louisiana, and even getting more spaceships on Mars all seem discussable again. By apologizing for his future mistakes, he outmaneuvered Bush as a gentleman by at least seven years.
But most importantly, via these e-mails, the man has a direct line into the attention of his supporters — people who have already worked hard to get him in place. He must use it. Must. If he manages to continue organizing and asking for help, for the poor, for the troops, for anything that could use help fixing from his people in great numbers, and appealing to people's decency instead of numb patriotism, well, America could really boast being the greatest country in the world. In other words, we could learn a lesson from them, in a good way. Damn!
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [progressive] Wash. Post 11/11/08: Ousted Japanese general defends comments about WWII
Speaking of education... while I might come across as somebody who thinks he knows it all, I think of myself as somebody that knows something about a few things. I like to weigh in on those things, and mostly keep silent about things that I don't know much about.
One thing I don't know much about is the war of 1812. I only remember a bit about it from school, and have remarkably enough never learned much more in the thousands of pages of history and political science that I've read over the years.
So it interested me to hear on the CBC that Canadians are concerned that revisionist history in the US is gaining ground... a revisionist version in which the Yanks believe they won the war of 1812.
"What revisionism?" I shouted at my wife as I opened another bottle of beer with my teeth. "That's not a new idea, I've known my whole life the US won the war of 1812!"
The story as I remember it is that the British attacked (unprovoked, of course) the US, marched on Washington, burned down everything in their path... but somehow the plucky Yanks fended them off, defeated the Brits for the 2nd time, defending freedom, yadda yadda yadda.
Well, the Canadians have a different version, wouldn't you know?. To them, The War of 1812 was about the US invading Canada in the expectation of taking over all that territory too. The Yanks expected - get this - that the Canadians would be so happy to have the yoke of British domination lifted from around their necks, they'd greet the invading yanks as liberators, throwing flowers at their feet and pulling down statues of King George or whoever was head of the British empire at the time. Then they (the CBC) said some snarky rubbish about people who don't know history are condemned to repeat it.
What's this got to do with the Japanese? I'd bet that if US military officers - or anybody else in the US - was expected to know history (real history, not state propaganda) to keep their jobs, the unemployment rate would be about 90%.
At least it looks like the Japanese care something about historical accuracy.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Rick Kisséll <rick@kissell.org > wrote:
Ousted Japanese General Defends Comments About WWII
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
TOKYO, Nov. 11 -- A former Japanese air force chief, removed from his post last month for writing an essay that says Japan was not an aggressor in World War II, is refusing to quietly fade away.
Pugnaciously defending his version of Japan's role in a war that killed millions across Asia, Toshio Tamogami, 60, told parliament Tuesday that he does not see "anything wrong with what I wrote."
The ousted general's revisionism, together with revelations that 94 air force staff members might have written similar essays this year, has triggered demands in parliament for a full-scale investigation of the training given to military officers to determine if it is consistent with government policy, which states that Japan deeply regrets and apologizes for its wartime aggression.
Questions have been raised about officer training at the Joint Staff College, where Tamogami served as a commandant and personally revised the curriculum. Some of Japan's elite military leaders were trained at the college.
Members of parliament said Tuesday that Tamogami might have taught trainee officers to deny Japan's aggression in the war.
"I think there is a need for reeducation and for a complete examination inside the military," Tokushin Yamauchi, an opposition lawmaker, said during his questioning of Tamogami.
Tamogami was dismissed for writing, among other things, that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because of a "trap" set by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also wrote that "many Asian countries take a positive view" of Japan's wartime role.China and South Korea, the principal victims of Japan's brutality before and during the war, have voiced shock and anger over the general's claims.
In parliament Tuesday, Tamogami said he had no regrets. "I was fired after saying Japan is a good country," he said. "It seems a bit strange."
The affair of the noisily unapologetic general, whose views echo those of many prominent nationalists in Japan, is turning into a substantial political liability for Prime Minister Taro Aso, who must call a general election in less than a year.Before he became prime minister in September, Aso, 68, an elder in the ruling party, had made a series of statements that suggested his nationalist leanings. He upset the governments of North and South Korea by praising his country's 35-year colonial occupation of their peninsula, saying Japan did many good things there.
As foreign minister in 2006, Aso annoyed China by suggesting that Japan's emperor should visit Yasukuni, the shrine in Tokyo where convicted war criminals are honored along with 2 1/2 million war dead.
Documents have surfaced in recent years showing that during the war, Aso's family's cement business used thousands of Korean, Chinese, Australian, British and Dutch prisoners as slave laborers. Asked about the matter in September, Aso said that he was 5 years old when the war ended and that in his work at Aso Cement, he had "never been involved in this issue."
Aso moved quickly to rid his government of Tamogami, who was demoted within hours of his essay's appearance on a Web site Oct. 31.
The Defense Ministry, however, said it could not fire Tamogami outright -- and deny him a $600,000 retirement bonus -- without waiting several weeks for paperwork to be processed. So it allowed him to retire with the bonus. Demands are growing, even within Aso's ruling party, for the government to withhold the money.
Tamogami will have none of it. He told parliament Tuesday he has no intention of voluntarily giving back his retirement bonus, which has yet to be paid to him.Since the general was forced out, an investigation by the Defense Ministry has
found that his office encouraged air force officers across Japan to participate in the $30,000 essay contest that Tamogami ended up winning. The theme of the contest, which was sponsored by a longtime friend of the general's, was "The True Perspective of Modern History."
Sixty-three entrants were air force staff from Komatsu Air Base, where Tamogami was formerly a commander. It is not yet known whether those essays also expressed revisionist views of the war.
In the past week, Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada has apologized to parliament for educational material used in navy training. Since the end of World War II, the training information said, "Our nation has been gripped in the belief that we are an inferior race."
Under former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who served one year before abruptly quitting in September 2007, Japan backed away from its previous apologies to the "comfort women," the term used for the estimated 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women forced by the Japanese government into brothels before and during World War II.
Abe, who had strong support in the nationalist wing of the ruling party, said there was no documentation proving that the Japanese military coerced Asian women into becoming prostitutes. His statements pushed the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a resolution calling on Japan to apologize for its treatment of the sex slaves.
Studies by the Japanese government itself have uncovered more than 100 documents showing Japanese military involvement in the building of brothels and the recruitment of women, according to a 2006 report by the Congressional Research Service.
Also under Abe, the government tried to whitewash the history of the war as taught in Japanese public schools. Last year, the Education Ministry deleted references in textbooks to orders by the Japanese military in 1944 that civilians in Okinawa commit mass suicide rather than surrender to invading U.S. forces.Courts here have since recognized the military's role in wartime mass suicides on the island, and textbooks have been rewritten to acknowledge that fact.
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