tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post9048534467890827524..comments2024-03-19T05:24:22.725-04:00Comments on the daily howler: GREETINGS FROM BABEL: Did Williams know whereof she spoke? <b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78212780477636226382016-08-20T00:35:56.971-04:002016-08-20T00:35:56.971-04:00You're wrong, she did have more influence. Her...You're wrong, she did have more influence. Here I am today, still reminiscing this as a reason to get people to vote for Trump.gb23https://www.blogger.com/profile/02874076543400328419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-74055564452259956522016-03-10T12:15:30.543-05:002016-03-10T12:15:30.543-05:00Okay. The 4x increase in private prisons under Cli...Okay. The 4x increase in private prisons under Clinton is just criminal aliens, not important people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70173508663250824662016-03-08T15:14:17.039-05:002016-03-08T15:14:17.039-05:00NEW! Now You Can Stop Your Break Up, Divorce or Lo...NEW! Now You Can Stop Your Break Up, Divorce or Lovers Rejection…Even If Your Situation Seems Hopeless! My husband said he no longer loved me at the end of January this year and i was hurt and heart broken i felt like my life was about to end and I almost committed suicide, I was emotionally down for a very long time. Thanks to a spell caster called Dr Frank Ojo, which I meet online, on one faithful day, as I was browsing through the internet and I came across a lot of testimonies about this particular spell caster. 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Name: Clare Burrow, From:UK. <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07375474765012711239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44954596487102627352016-03-08T14:36:40.498-05:002016-03-08T14:36:40.498-05:00"In most environments, outside of presidentia..."In most environments, outside of presidential debates, non-verbal interruptions like the kind he is doing are not petty."<br /><br />So, outside of Presidential debates this is a problem.<br />This just in, this was during a Presidential debate.<br /><br />Reminds me of the old George Carlin joke about "the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world." "If it's undisputed, WTF are they fighting about?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37840549081626916952016-03-08T13:21:51.527-05:002016-03-08T13:21:51.527-05:00Really? Then why did her effort lead to Clinton d...Really? Then why did her effort lead to Clinton disavowing and all but apologizing for the very terms she used in a 1996 speech? <br /><br />Somerby, as a long time liberal blogging pioneer could not even get Rachel Maddow, much less a Presidential candidate, to respond to an inquiry in 2008 by his blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68759960975253778512016-03-08T12:56:15.101-05:002016-03-08T12:56:15.101-05:00"His belief that aggressiveness cannot be tol..."His belief that aggressiveness cannot be tolerated when a candidate is female."<br /><br />What does this even mean? <br />HRC can't be aggressive, because she's a female candidate?<br />Bernie can't be aggressive, because HRC is a female candidate?<br />Explain this, because it makes zero sense sitting in the midst of that paragraph.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5627985886003639452016-03-08T11:28:13.777-05:002016-03-08T11:28:13.777-05:00All the Bernie supporters are working overtime to ...All the Bernie supporters are working overtime to pretend Bernie is just being his lovable self when he wags his finger at Clinton, constantly tries to interrupt her statements with nonverbal mugging and even tells her to shut up. Just read the comments at any of the pro-Sanders sites. <br /><br />No one thinks feminism means letting women be exempt from criticism, except you. <br /><br />With Bernie, it is HOW he goes about addressing Clinton's statements. It is the nonverbal behavior that stinks -- his unwillingness to hear and address the content of her remarks. His belief that aggressiveness cannot be tolerated when a candidate is female. His bullying -- which is just as obnoxious when it comes from Bernie as when Trump tries to shut up others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41303462753007798532016-03-08T11:22:31.699-05:002016-03-08T11:22:31.699-05:00No, she just made a fool of herself.No, she just made a fool of herself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23403885453249334312016-03-08T11:04:35.392-05:002016-03-08T11:04:35.392-05:00Thanks for bringing Bernie supporters to heel.Thanks for bringing Bernie supporters to heel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13753715794177020012016-03-08T10:46:54.661-05:002016-03-08T10:46:54.661-05:00My life became devastated when my husband sent me ...My life became devastated when my husband sent me packing, after 8 years that we have been together. I was lost and helpless after trying so many ways to make my husband take me back. One day at work, i was absent minded not knowing that my boss was calling me, so he sat and asked me what its was all about i told him and he smiled and said that it was not a problem. I never understand what he meant by it wasn't a problem getting my husband back, he said he used a spell to get his wife back when she left him for another man and now they are together till date and at first i was shocked hearing such thing from my boss. He gave me an email address of the great spell caster who helped him get his wife back, i never believed this would work but i had no choice that to get in contact with the spell caster which i did, and he requested for my information and that of my husband to enable him cast the spell and i sent him the details, but after two days, my mom called me that my husband came pleading that he wants me back, i never believed it because it was just like a dream and i had to rush down to my mothers place and to my greatest surprise, my husband was kneeling before me pleading for forgiveness that he wants me and the kid back home, then i gave Happy a call regarding sudden change of my husband and he made it clear to me that my husband will love me till the end of the world, that he will never leave my sight. Now me and my husband is back together again and has started doing pleasant things he hasn't done before, he makes me happy and do what he is suppose to do as a man without nagging. Please if you need help of any kind, kindly contact Happy for help and you can reach him via email: happylovespell2@gmail.com<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61943068698333400492016-03-08T10:40:13.675-05:002016-03-08T10:40:13.675-05:00Did Ashley Williams, age 23 and proudly queer, hav...Did Ashley Williams, age 23 and proudly queer, have more influence on a Presidential campaign through a few minutes of activism than Bob Somerby has had in 18 years of self described futile blogging?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29285030653891409672016-03-08T10:16:28.396-05:002016-03-08T10:16:28.396-05:00Who is excusing Bernie? Looks like someone is loo...Who is excusing Bernie? Looks like someone is looking to excuse another nasty misogynistic codger if you ask me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20040396136843630362016-03-08T10:12:54.006-05:002016-03-08T10:12:54.006-05:00No. I am showing the correlation between Howler re...No. I am showing the correlation between Howler readership and subsequent repetitive commentary. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-51652821645275767552016-03-08T09:57:08.478-05:002016-03-08T09:57:08.478-05:00So, you do admit you're just being a troublema...So, you do admit you're just being a troublemaker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17176950760038872322016-03-08T09:56:06.231-05:002016-03-08T09:56:06.231-05:00Yes, and Somerby is running for office so we must ...Yes, and Somerby is running for office so we must be very concerned about his attitude toward women writers and not care at all about Bernie's sexism because...?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5263924872604761252016-03-08T09:51:53.130-05:002016-03-08T09:51:53.130-05:00Anon. @ 5:12
Blow did not describe conditions. B...Anon. @ 5:12<br /><br />Blow did not describe conditions. Bob said he did.<br /><br />Also:<br /><br />"Contract prisons are secure institutions operated by private corporations. The majority of BOP inmates in private prisons are sentenced criminal aliens who may be deported upon completion of their sentence."<br /><br />https://www.bop.gov/about/facilities/contract_facilities.jspAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11179264818427782482016-03-08T09:23:09.598-05:002016-03-08T09:23:09.598-05:00Someone who knows the facts better than Drum recen...Someone who knows the facts better than Drum recently admitted:<br /><br />["Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday disavowed part of the anti-crime legislation that he long considered one of his top accomplishments, concluding that it went too far in sending even minor criminals to prison “for way too long.”<br />----<br />“I signed a bill that made the problem worse,” Mr. Clinton said. “And I want to admit it.”<br />----<br />“But in that bill, there were longer sentences,” Mr. Clinton told the N.A.A.C.P. gathering in Philadelphia. “And most of these people are in prison under state law, but <strong>the federal law set a trend. And that was overdone. We were wrong about that.”</strong>"]<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/politics/bill-clinton-concedes-his-crime-law-jailed-too-many-for-too-long.html?_r=0 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-49512824929243572122016-03-08T09:16:00.424-05:002016-03-08T09:16:00.424-05:00Bernie's debate posture toward women reminds m...Bernie's debate posture toward women reminds me of Bob's dismissive attitude and language toward women writers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-33997461415581142552016-03-08T09:14:02.783-05:002016-03-08T09:14:02.783-05:00No. I admit I am showing the true believers that ...No. I admit I am showing the true believers that Bob does, once again, exactly what he criticizes others for doing while he is issuing his critique. And you, of course, are showing why I used the term "true believers."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-55751195009031418382016-03-08T06:45:28.718-05:002016-03-08T06:45:28.718-05:00Kevin Drum has looked at the facts recently.
***...Kevin Drum has looked at the facts recently.<br /><br /><br />*************************************<br />...by 1995, when the crime bill took effect, state and federal policies had long since been committed to mass incarceration. Between 1978 and 1995 the prison population had already increased by more than 250 percent. Between 1995 and its peak in 2009, it increased only another 40 percent—and even that was due almost entirely to policies already in place. <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/get-your-memes-right-1994-crime-bill-didnt-create-mass-incarceration" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>mmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-56371705064939066212016-03-08T05:12:03.070-05:002016-03-08T05:12:03.070-05:00Q: To what extent did the 1994 crime bill create t...Q: To what extent did the 1994 crime bill create the conditions Blow described?<br /><br />A:<br /><br />In his last day in office, Clinton told Rolling Stone he regretted mandatory minimum sentencing.<br /><br />According to the Adult Correctional Facility Census, cited by Prison Policy Institute ("Overview: trends in the crime control industry"):<br /><br />In 1991, the number of people in private prisons was under 30,000. By 2001, it was over 120,000.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81936300639618860472016-03-08T00:13:29.222-05:002016-03-08T00:13:29.222-05:00@7:01, Bernie's finger wagging and shushing wi...@7:01, Bernie's finger wagging and shushing will bother most women, regardless of politics. It doesn't matter why he does it. It is a big mistake. It's as bad as when Bush gave Merkel the shoulder rub. So incredibly tone deaf. How can he call himself a liberal and not get that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23461767998721040062016-03-08T00:01:48.991-05:002016-03-08T00:01:48.991-05:00So, you admit that you're just being a trouble...So, you admit that you're just being a troublemaker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87091389048756875632016-03-07T23:39:46.781-05:002016-03-07T23:39:46.781-05:00A Facebook claim cycling among my friends says a d...A Facebook claim cycling among my friends says a devious Hillary called our children superpreditors" back in the 90s.<br /><br />I looked up the words in question and found that HRC actually spoke about gangs and how they could take over kids lives and eventually make them into uncaring superpreditors. But she did not even mention "children". <br /><br />Frankly, some of the Bernie supporters can lie like right wingers. Bob is right...Some of our liberal brethren are rather devious.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516065349693480312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32050798413685444982016-03-07T23:00:12.318-05:002016-03-07T23:00:12.318-05:00In answering for Bob Somerby @ 3:09 wrote:
"S...In answering for Bob Somerby @ 3:09 wrote:<br />"Somerby did describe the crime rates in the 1990's a few days ago."<br /><br />I asked "Do gruesome crime rates define the 1990's? Does Somerby make any effort to show they did or that the 1994 crime bill in any way addressed those crime rates?"<br /><br />Somerby stated the number of one crime, murders, in two cities over a 5 year period. Is that one crime in two cities a sufficient description of national crime rates in the country and that the "gruesome rate" defined the whole decade?<br /><br />I recall Somerby labasting a reporter for a piece on the few women elected to city office in Los Angeles because he did not report how many women were also elected to federal office from California as a whole.<br />I recall Somerby last September lambasting reports of murder rates going up because national statistics were not used.<br /><br />One crime report for five years from two cities does not make a crime rate nor define a decade.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com