Senator Saint Celebrity BBQ POW McCain is getting increasingly desperate, taking the Sugar Momma Express Low Road Express manufacturing controversy and going negative, and taking damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t criticism of Obama’s planned visit with the troops. But by calling out Obama’s ‘celebrity’ and comparing him to Paris Hilton (and Britney Spears), he may have inadvertently alienated a prime GOP financial supporters – namely, the Hiltons! Paris’ parents Kathy and Rick have been relatively stingy given their wealth, but her grandfather, William Baron Hilton has contributed nearly $400k [cumulative] according to FEC records via Newsmeat. This excludes any contributions to entitites where disclosure is not required, such as PACs. Keep in mind that the Hilton’s are one of the 18 hyperwealthy American families who collectively pushed for the repeal of the Estate Tax to protect their family wealth. I’m not certain I’d want them against me…
Posts Tagged: Paris Hilton
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Oct 07
Daily Links
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“Really? From serious broadsheet to scandalous tabloid?” I wonder if this plasticity is miraculous or ludicrous. “From Ben Bernanke to Paris Hilton. And could this work, from unreconstructed crypto-Fascist religious right to loony absolutist left?”
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tnr.com — Fucking brilliant article on the linguistic perspective of swearingMore…
(Offbeat News)
10
Aug 07
Stu Bykofsky is RIGHT. But free speech does have consequences in the marketplace?
AND he should be fired for this nonsense :
America's fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.
What would sew us back together?
Another 9/11 attack.
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Is there any doubt they are planning to hit us again?
If it is to be, then let it be. It will take another attack on the homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore America's righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail.
The unity brought by such an attack sadly won't last forever.
The first 9/11 proved that. *
E-mail stubyko@phillynews.com or call 215-854-5977. For recent columns:
This last 6-years has been a slow-motion train wreck. OBL is still on the loose. The Anthrax attackers are still on the loose. We're stuck in a quagmire in a war of choice in Iraq, losing a winnable war in Afghanistan, and then contemplating opening a third front of the Great War on Terror in Iran (and Pakistan).
I'm tired of staring into the abyss. In addition to the 3000 lives lost on 9/11 and the near 5000 (3600 military deaths, and an estimated 1000 contractor deaths) in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can chalk up threats to free speech, habeas corpus, our own privacy, and any semblance for advocacy for the middle class in Washington. We are distracted from true threats like class inequality, our aging infrastructure, precarious financial environment, and global warming with bright and shiny objects like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and divisive social wedge issues like abortion, gay marriage, and evolution.
Although Bykofsky takes the easy way out and (correctly) states that another 9/11 would finally unite us, he's correct, but I hope he's thinking of the wrong outcome. He thinks that another 9/11 would would cause us to put aside our partisan differences to get "it" done – I'm assuming by "it" he means the War on Islamofacism. But there's danger in these thoughts. With the right proudly proclaiming that we are safer BECAUSE there have been no new attacks, another 9/11 might have the complete opposite consequences – reinforces the disgust and despair many of us are feeling towards our media and political institutions.
The next-9/11 will preceed one of two outcomes – either the police state, or the beginning of the American Renaissance, where we cast of the dead weight and corrupt institutions of the past and become the America we thought, hoped, and dreamed we were.
Should Bykofsky get fired? Should free speech have consequences? Vote here.
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Jun 07
Daily Links
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“The data shown in this page correspond to the [economic and fiancial] described on the International Monetary Fund’s Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB) [to which the US has committed].”
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Talk of authenticity, it seems, lets commentators and journalists put down politicians they don’t like or praise politicians they like, with no relationship to what the politicians actually say or do.
