Thursday Afternoon Thread: Thursday Throwbacks

heh….McCain bout to get cussed out:

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McCain, an ardent supporter of the Iraq War from the start, began his questioning of Hagel by asking about the latter’s past statements regarding the so-called “surge” of forces into Iraq in 2007. Hagel, by then a vocal critic of the war, came out strongly against adding additional troops to the conflict soon after the policy’s announcement — just like President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had — calling it “the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam.”

Hagel didn’t back away from previous statements, saying “Senator, I stand by them, because I made them.” When McCain continued to push Hagel, refusing to allow him to offer a nuanced response to the question of the surge, the Nebraska Republican shot back, noting that the surge tactic took place in the wider context of the most “dangerous decision since Vietnam”:

MCCAIN: Are you going to answer the question? Were you right or wrong? That’s a straightforward question. Answer whether you are right or wrong and then you are free to elaborate.

HAGEL: I’m not going to give you a yes or no answer.

MCCAIN: Let the record show he refuses to answer the question. Please go ahead.
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HAGEL: I’m not going to give you a yes or no. It’s far more complicated than that. I will defer that judgment to history. As to the comment I made about the most dangerous foreign policy decision since Vietnam, that was about not just the surge, but the overall war of choice going into Iraq. That particular decision made on the surge, but more to the point, our war in Iraq, I think was the most fundamentally bad, dangerous decision since Vietnam.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/01/31/1521781/hagel-mccain-iraq/?mobile=nc

Miranda you just all up in my youth & young adult days huh. Is the Cameo song a dedication to McCain’s performance at the confirmation hearing? LOL

Lautenberg giving mofos the finger like Tupac!

Steve Kornacki ‏@SteveKornacki
Less than a week after Menendez wouldn’t defend him vs Booker MT @politicalwire: Lautenberg comments on Menendezl: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/01/31/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html …

President Obama Nominates Two to Serve on the US Court of Appeals

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama nominated Jane Kelly and Gregory Alan Phillips to the United States Court of Appeals.

President Obama said, “Jane Kelly and Gregory Alan Phillips have proven themselves to be not only first-rate legal minds but faithful public servants. It is with full confidence in their ability, integrity, and independence that I nominate them to the bench of the United States Court of Appeals.”

MORE: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/31/president-obama-nominates-two-serve-us-court-appeals

Investigation Discovery channel’s Injustice Files is having a special in February. It’s about Trayyvon Martin and other blacks being profiled or killed.

According to my twitter timeline, Beyonce sang the National Anthem at her Super Bowl presser and then said “Any questions?”

If that’s how it happened, MAD PROPS to her…way to shut the fools down.

**Sigh**
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Karl Lagerfeld Doesn’t Care for Michelle Obama’s Bangs

Karl Lagerfeld has always been such a hater. The designer is famous for blasting British celebrities for their fashion choices or figures. Well, now, he’s taken it to American soil and dissed a national treasure: First Lady Michelle Obama.

Wearing his signature black get-up, sunglasses, and ponytail, the Chanel designer appeared on French television network Canal Plus’s “Le Petit Journal” when he was asked what he thought of FLOTUS.

While he claimed he loves “Madame Obama,” he claims she dresses like a news anchor and he’s really not feeling her new bangs.

“I do not understand the change in hairstyle,” he said. “Frankly this doesn’t suit her. The fringe was not a good idea, it’s not good.”

Needless to say, Lagerfeld is pretty lonely in this opinion. In fact, even the President himself heralded the new ‘do as the “most significant event” of the inauguration weekend, adding, “I love my wife’s new bangs – she always looks good.”

The 79-year-old German couturier is the king of dissing celebrities. He famously called Adele “too fat,” said Pippa Middleton “should only show her back” and described Heidi Klum as insignificant in the world of high fashion.

You know, because a man with a big, gray ponytail should talk.

Link: http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/karl-lagerfeld-hates-michelle-obama-184817620.html

I think I pissed this chick off on my FB page today..lol. she posted after the ATL shoting that President Obama “NEEDS” to talk more about violence in the inner cities like Chicago, Detroite and such like he “talks about Newton all the time”.

I pointed out to her that POTUS has always mentioned Chicago in his remarks, and made a point to say that no child should feel unsafe at school and that there is only so much POTUS can do outside of EOs. I told her that it’s Congress job to make laws. So she then says she’s aware of the remarks, but POTUS needs to “DO SOMETHING” more to let people know that it’s important to him.

Ok, so then I told her that POTUS could give speeches in Detroit, visit students in Chicago and sit down with people in LA, but their is only so much that he can do with words. Congress has to do their jobs.

So then she says, well then he should give speeches or something to show he cares. So then I basically told her that speeches only go so far. it’s congress that needs to do something. I also said that the reason the tea party and gun rights advocates seem to be so powerful is because even though they are small, the lobby their members of congress, they “march” they “rally” and they make calls.

then I said that people today think that just posting tweets or FB rants that get like by their “friends” mean they are advocating for something, but the real work is outside of social media. i told her the majority of congress critters don’t even monitor or post to their pages anyway, they are mostly run by interns, and I told her that it’s still the old ways that work to lobby congress (phones, emails, faxes, sit-ins, etc).

I told her that yes social media was a part of why OfA was so successful, but that it did not take the place of person to person contact. “Boots on the ground” is what made OfA and the Obama campaign different from the rest.

i told her that when POTUS urged people to call their congresscritters, that even people in blood red states called their people, cause even if they were few and far between they wanted their person to know that they had constitutions on the other side of the aisle as well.

So she said “well how can “we” help “you” and that she would continue to post stuff to FB “if that was alright by me”…I just laughed cause then I knew that she just wanted to be a keyboard warrior and didn’t want to do any real work, so I just told her something to appease her. I’m too through with her when it comes to political advocacy.

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Girls Just Wants to Have (White) Fun
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Posted: 01/31/2013

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1. Their world is mostly white.

Last season the show was criticized for being too white. Watching a full season could leave a viewer snow blind. This season that white ghetto was breached by a black character who is introduced as some jungle fever lover, with just enough screen time to have sex and mutter a couple of lines about wanting more of a relationship. A black dildo would have sufficed and cost less.

I don’t believe that people of color, sexual preference, or gender need to be shaken indiscriminately into every series like some sort of exotic seasoning. If the story calls for a black character, great. A story about a black neighborhood doesn’t necessarily need white characters just to balance the racial profile. But this really seemed like an effort was made to add some color — and it came across as forced.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kareem-abduljabbar/girls-review_b_2593756.html

Jennifer Hudson joining Newtown students at Super Bowl
Mike Garafolo, USA TODAY Sports2:14p.m. EST January 31, 2013

NEW ORLEANS – Grammy award-winning recording artist Jennifer Hudson will join the 26 students from Sandy Hook Elementary School in singing America the Beautiful during the Super Bowl XLVII pregame show on Sunday, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Thursday.

It will be the second poignant Super Bowl pregame performance from Hudson, who performed the National Anthem before Super Bowl XLIII in what was her first public appearance after her estranged brother-in-law murdered her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.

The NFL invited the students to sing a little more than a month after 26 children and faculty members were killed in the tragic mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

The league is flying the students and their families to New Orleans later this week in advance of the performance, which will be broadcast live on CBS shortly before Alicia Keys performs the National Anthem.

MORE: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/01/31/jennifer-hudson-newtown-students-super-bowl/1880813/

miranda — — DANG! — –The way that THEY went — AFTA Hagel – — —

THIS is WHAT THEY woulda done 2 – -Dr. Susan E. Rice. —

THEN – — WE WOULDA. . . . . hadta –MAKE some –”CALLS!!” – -

Annnnd mcAncient is findin’ a way 2 – - -GET BACK at – -”THAT 1″ — –

He’s —BEYOND — -DISGUSTING!! – — I’m wishin’ alll –KINDSA BAD on him!!! –geesh!! – —

I know I’m on the late freight…just watched the McCain/ Hagel dust-up about the surge. I have a renewed sense of gratitude that PBO beat that ass. McCain would have been an absolute disaster as president, maybe worse that W. He’s a mean and petty a-hole.