Motley Moose – Archive

By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/

There is one thing that I’m very proud that the Obama campaign did – or rather, that it didn’t do. Obama’s campaign never attacked Mitt Romney’s faith.

More below.

Interrogatories

Did you ever have a preference between GM and Ford?

What’s the weirdest thing you ever photocopied?

What was the most amazing meal you ever ate in a restaurant?

Do you visit your local library? Any other libraries? Do you avail yourself to library services beyond borrowing books?

The Twitter Emitter

Summers turn to Fall #badumching

— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) September 15, 2013

BREAKING: UNFOLDING EVENT UNEXPECTEDLY FAILS TO FOLLOW JOURNALISTS' EXPECTATIONS, JOURNALISTS REPORT

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) September 15, 2013

New York Jets Sign Larry Summers As New Starting Quarterback

— Matt Ford (@HemlockMartinis) September 15, 2013

Someone clearly told Summers winter is coming.

— Danielle (@DCPlod) September 15, 2013

PUTIN FOR FED

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 15, 2013

Obama just nominated Ben Affleck to chair the Federal Reserve. Happy now?

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) September 15, 2013

Harriet Miers for Fed chair.

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 15, 2013

I don't want to say Ke$ha is the only candidate Obama should consider for Fed chair but she does have a dollar sign right there in her name.

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 15, 2013

I'm sure Natl Sec Advisor Rice and Amb. Power are mad POTUS chose them for powerful positions instead of golf buddies pic.twitter.com/HbQKufWuAE

— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) September 15, 2013

I have no idea what the Fed even actually does, but WTF, I know who should and shouldn't run the thing! #McTwitter

— Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) September 15, 2013

Miley Cyrus for Fed Chair, will use giant foam finger to provide forward guidance

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) September 15, 2013

  Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was splendid. Mine was…well, interesting is perhaps the best word.

A number of attempts have been made to discern and describe a ‘Putin doctrine’ during the years of his influence on Russian and world affairs, including some recently as a consequence of his reaction to the Syria chemical weapons crisis. Most suggest a doctrine of ‘reasserting Russia’s power‘ or ‘building Russia up by tearing the US down,’ an aspiration and strategy which, while arguably correct, seem to miss Putin’s underlying and unmistakeable political philosophy.

Here we propose an argument for a ‘Putin doctrine’ as follows:

No nation, group of nations or international organisation has the right to interfere or intervene without consent in the internal affairs of any sovereign state under any circumstances short of the proven violation of existing conventions governing the use of weapons of mass destruction.

In other words a sovereign state has the right to deal with dissent, insurgency and secession by whatever means it otherwise sees fit. That this might include conventional warfare against civilians, mass arrests and detentions, summary executions, massacres, genocide and authoritarian terrorism is left to the discretion of the state’s leadership. And if the state is an ally, Russia will actively disable the Security Council from taking action against it on behalf of any majority of the larger international community whom might find such activity objectionable. As Russian ‘hard power’ inevitably increases we need to think this through carefully.

I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

SEPARATED at BIRTH – two fictional characters: movie villain Hans Gruber (as portrayed by Alan Rickman) and Desmond Hume (as portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick) on the television show “Lost”.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the KKK bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama in 1963. Four girls, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, who were  14, and Denise McNair, who was 11 died in this act of terrorism.  

There have been memorial events in Birmingham all week, and there will be a special service at the church today.

A memorial statue, was installed in Birmingham, this week.

The Four Spirits Statue, a tribute to the four little girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. The statue is situated in Kelly Ingram Park between the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and the church.

Joseph Lowery at memorial unveiling: ‘We need to turn to each other, not on each other’

  Make sure you let your peeps

  know where to find you!  

From the White House – Weekly Address

President Obama follows up on his speech to the nation on Tuesday and describes the possibility for a diplomatic solution in Syria, partially because of the credible threat of U.S. military force.

  Make sure you let your peeps

  know where to find you!  

Earlier this week, economist Paul Krugman called the “G.O.P.’s near-complete lack of expertise on anything substantive” the “wonk gap” and pointed to the Republican’s weekly address as evidence:

On Saturday, Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming delivered the weekly Republican address. […] he demanded repeal of the Affordable Care Act. “The health care law,” he declared, “has proven to be unpopular, unworkable and unaffordable,” and he predicted “sticker shock” in the months ahead.

Instead of “wonk gap”, I prefer to call it “the final nail in the coffin of the modern Republican party”.