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Jack_Burton
01/08/09

In reply to Dear Barack: Don't Piss Off Anne Hathaway
I wish people would let the "Blackberry scandal" die. There's really no credible security reason to deny him keeping one.

Bruce Schneier in Washington Post:

[online.wsj.com]

I highly recommend his blog (and books) as common-sense approaches to security, Jezzies!!

[www.schneier.com]
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JerseyGrrrl
01/08/09

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Help me out here. I'm not sure why we're making fun of Miz Hathaway for voicing a political opinion. Why does someone have to be active in a politician's political campaign to criticize a move he makes? As Jezzies, don't we kind of endorse women being informed and opining. Do we really just want her to look pretty and keep her mouth shut? I don't.
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Hana Maru
01/08/09

@JerseyGrrrl: The Warren pick is an insult to Americans who believe in equal protection under the law and who believe women weren't created to serve men. And for those who don't think equal rights for gay folks are as important as an "olive branch" to unreconstructed bigots, Warren thinks women being beaten by their husbands do not have any right to leave them:

[shakespearessister.blogspot.com]

Honestly, I'm tired of the circular "everything Obama does is feminist/progressive because he does it" excuse to shut down any feminist/progressive that wants him to be accountable to his base.
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meanteeth
01/08/09

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bobby rush is NOT crazy. and the racism quote is a paraphrase of H. Rap Brown, his comrade in the Black Panther Party ... it's also TRUE.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
01/08/09

@meanteeth: Maybe saying racism is American as apple pie is true, but comparing not seating Burris to lynching or siccing dogs on protesters seems a bit over the top.
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DeafChick
01/08/09

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SERIOUSLY?! I work in Arlington near the Key Bridge towards Georgetown and they're going shut it down?
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Laulau
01/08/09

@DeafChick: Something I hadn't thought of until just now - will you be able to walk across the Key Bridge?
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linnyt is a walking cliché
01/08/09

@DeafChick: seriously. [wtop.com] that link lays it all out.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
01/08/09

@Laulau: i don't think so. mass transit only.
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NefariousNewt
01/08/09

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I hear Blago talking Montogemry Burns' voice every time he turns on the TV and sees Roland Burris tromping around Capitol Hill.
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NefariousNewt
01/08/09

@NefariousNewt: "Montgomery"... sheesh.
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Sybil.Ludington
01/08/09

@NefariousNewt: That's funny because I think he sounds just like Mayor Quimby.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
01/08/09

@Sybil.Ludington: Totally.
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graceful_gamine
01/08/09

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weighing into the debate....i love this SO much more than crappy hour. i didn't hate crappy hour, but this is a definite improvement.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
01/08/09

@graceful_gamine: i agree. i like this more because it seems easier to read and digest. CH was a little hard to follow sometimes so early in the morning. (you know, like 10, 11 am)
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Cam/ron
01/08/09

@graceful_gamine: Ditto, everything is to the point and you don't have to wade through IM babble to find good items.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
01/08/09

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makes me glad to be a marylander now. don't have to go to work, but don't have to deal with that road mess or metro.

ok, i don't want the fbi to call me or anything, but wasn't there a bio-terrorism thing in japan a few years ago on the subway? i haven't heard anything about metro security and it would seem like an opportune time to do an attack that way, if one were so inclined. what is going on with that?

fbi, secret service, i'm not planning anything, but if i thought of it, someone else has. don't visit me please.
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LaFemme
01/08/09

@linnyt: Yes, there was a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo metro system in 1995, commited by the domestic terrorist group/cult Aum Shinrikyo.

I am in DC and very curious as to how they are going to try and manage security.
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SomeAuthorGirl
01/08/09

@LaFemme: DC Metro is one of the safest in the country in terms of bioterror attack, some pioneering work was done there. That said, I will be in the area but not going anywhere near a Metro, a bridge, a road, or even a car. But only because holing up in a hotel room with wine and a big-screen tv is way preferable, not because of incident-fear.
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SomeAuthorGirl
01/08/09

@linnyt: @LaFemme: [www.anl.gov] Hm, come to think of it, no clue if they still use it, though it was expensive and would be dumb not to.

SomeAuthorGirl, she knows da govie programs.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
01/08/09

@SomeAuthorGirl: i guess that's good, but maybe they should mention some of the safety measures on the news or remind people that metro is safe from attack. really the only security thing i've heard about recently is how they talked about doing random bag searches a few months ago but they haven't done any yet. that wasn't even related to the inauguration. just from riding experience it seems like the only thing they do is stop trains or send them back mid-run if something goes wrong, like a fire. they don't have sidings or anything like that to move a broken train to.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
01/08/09

@SomeAuthorGirl: that protect things doesn't cover bio attacks. oh well, have fun on the metro everybody! it is crowded enough for a national game and no one even goes to those.
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formergr
01/08/09

@linnyt: I think they don't like to publicize them since then someone can try to come up with workarounds, but I remember reading about some pioneering work that was done with the DC metro security-wise. It's all things you can't see and don't know are there, and I believe this is where they first tested "sniffers" for chemical and biological warfare agents.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
01/08/09

@formergr: they wouldn't have to get too specific, just say something like 'security is in place on metro to prevent or deal with a bio or chemical attack.' remind terrorists that they will be taken out if something happens.
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laureltreedaphne
01/08/09

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Ugh. I wish people would stop being snide about the Blair House thing without actually talking about the facts.

It's not about who is staying there. There are several important events that were booked at Blair House WELL before Obama was even elected. The house is available for the Obamas to move in five days before the election, as is tradition, and the outgoing administration was not able to move events that have been planned months or even years in advance in order to accomodate the girls school schedule.

By all accounts (including Obama's own) the Bushes have been incredibly welcoming and helpful during the transition. So this is really a non-story that the media seems to have jumped on in order to create a little more Bush hate before he leaves office.

Bush was certainly not a good president, and I think pretty much most of the country is glad to see him leave the White House. But these petty accusations don't make him look bad - they just make the people making them look bad.
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Jessi Ramsey
01/08/09

@trakkie: Back in December, there were no foreign dignitaries booked to stay there.
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laureltreedaphne
01/08/09

@Jessi Ramsey:

Again - it's not an issue of foreign dignitaries being booked to stay there. The Obamas cannot live in the house while there are events going on there - those events were not only booked in December, they were booked before Obama was even elected. This is not anything personal against the Obamas.
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Jessi Ramsey
01/08/09

@trakkie: 119 rooms. Are these events going on 24/7? In every sing room? Are these events really more important than the President-elect?

And even so there are events going, the former Prime Minster of Australia gets vacancy over the Obama family? Tony Blair was invited to stay at Blair House at declined and is staying somewhere else. It is such a slap in the face to the Obamas to decline their offer but then ask someone else to stay after weeks after.
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formergr
01/08/09

@Jessi Ramsey: Blair house has 119 rooms?!! I had just assumed it was a residential 3-4 bedroom house! Wow.

@Laulau: I believe in this morning's Express paper, it said that Memorial Bridge will be the only one open to pedestrians from VA.
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Jessi Ramsey
01/08/09

@formergr: Yup. It is a complex of 4 townhouses. 14 guest bedrooms, eight staff bedrooms, 35 bathrooms, four dining rooms, kitchen facilities, laundry and dry-cleaning facilities, an exercise room, a flower shop and a fully equipped hair salon.

But a family of four is just too much. But hey, the Former Prime Minster of Australia and his entourage should get lodging even though the Obamas asked weeks before Bush invited the former PM to stay.
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Jessi Ramsey
01/08/09

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Burris isn't crazy. He has a very large ego and is scarily eager to accept a position of power from a corrupt Governor, but not crazy.
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rosasparks
01/08/09

@Jessi Ramsey: Have you heard about his mausoleum? Please, this guys is bananas.
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Jessi Ramsey
01/08/09

@rosasparks: I have. And also him naming him children Roland and Rolanda. I think it's ego. I don't like calling him crazy as it is a dismissal to try and discredit him. I don't like him and his acceptance of anything from Blago is sheisty in my book b I don't think he's crazy.
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stacyinbean
01/08/09

@rosasparks: Ok I just looked that up, WEIRD.
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Jessi Ramsey
01/08/09

@Jessi Ramsey: in my book but I don't think he's crazy.

Sorry, I left out a word.
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rosasparks
01/08/09

@Jessi Ramsey: True, and you're right. I just find some people who are so egotistical wacky. I am not being dismissive of him, at all. Quite the contrary.
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NefariousNewt
01/08/09

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Anne Hathaway is a) not the only one and b) a little late to the party.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
01/08/09

@NefariousNewt: I'd like to think she's been quietly bitching about it on Jez under an assumed name. Actually, uh, I am Anne Hathaway.
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NefariousNewt
01/08/09

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (2009: a space ovumlord): I knew it!
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pandorasmittens
01/08/09

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (2009: a space ovumlord): You can't be. Never have I heard you talking about "the worst thing that could ever happen to a person". Or, are you just that great at acting?
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morninggloria
01/08/09

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Harry Reid is about as powerful and decisive and intimidating as a hairy reed.
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ellaesther
01/08/09

In reply to Dear Barack: Don't Piss Off Anne Hathaway
Ummm. Hesitating to say this, because I, too, think that the Rick Warren pick was ill-considered. But. I do wonder if it is not also important that Obama picked an openly gay man to direct the Office of Management and Administration? [www.gaypolitics.com]

"In this role he will oversee all aspects of administrative services to all entities of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including direct support services to the President of the United States. These services include financial management, human resources management and research assistance. He will represent the EOP before congressional funding panels."
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ellaesther
01/08/09

@ellaesther: Oops, forgot to mention his name! Brad Kiley. Details, details.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
01/08/09

@ellaesther: I'm still not sure how I feel about this whole thing. On the one hand, yeah, I hate Rick Warren and he's a dipshit and a bigot.

On the other hand, the whole thing seems like a kind of a funny joke. No fundamentalists in the administration, gay men in the administration, "Oh, fundies? Yeah...uh...tell you what, you guys can do the inauguration prayer, okay?"

Maybe it is because I have a tricky brain, but it just seems like a shell game he's playing with them.
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ellaesther
01/08/09

@braak: Thank you for saying that, because I kind of feel that way, too.

I do think that the symbolism of a Warren prayer is significant, and not in a good way. I can only imagine what I would feel if I were gay.

But it's symbolism *only,* whereas Brad Kiley is actually going to be doing shit, and important shit at that. I also think it's incredibly significant that on their online application form (no, I can't imagine how I would know this information, it just came to me in the night!), the transition team very specifically added "sexual orientation" to the list of "we do not discriminate on the basis of..." -- needless to say, the first Administration to do so.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
01/08/09

@ellaesther: It does seem a lot like just throwing them a bone; it's mostly just the fundamentalists that care about who's doing which prayers, anyway. Is letting Rick Warren do the inauguration prayer indicative of a softness towards fundamentalist bigots by the administration, or indicative of the fact that Obama just doesn't think the inauguration prayer is all that important?
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SarahMC
01/08/09

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The Bushes probably think the Blair House is whites only.
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rosasparks
01/08/09

@SarahMC: Bbbbbut, the Bushes do have a black dog and had a black cat! C'mon!
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RedVelvetCake
01/08/09

@SarahMC: Bush has many faults, but I honestly don't think racism is one of them. He did appoint Condi Rice, Colin Powell, and Gonzales to high-ranking positions. He has Mexican relatives too.
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amoureuse est heureuse
01/08/09

@RedVelvetCake: That doesn't mean a thing.It's like saying, "I have black friends so there's no possible way that I can be racist or prejudiced."

Was it racist? No. Was it a dick move? YES.
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Jessi Ramsey
01/08/09

@RedVelvetCake: Doesn't mean he can't be racist. One can hire black people and still be racist. He refuses to meet with NAACP on numerous occasions, Katrina, wanted to get rid of Affirmative action( which is fine if that is someone's opinion but he used race baiting tactics to try and get people against AA all the while strongly encourages legacies), pushing black and Hispanic names off voter rolls in Florida during 2000, etc.

And just because he has Mexican relatives does not mean he isn't racist just like having a sister does not exempt one being a sexist.
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pandorasmittens
01/08/09

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I would suppose Joe Francis's economic woes stem from a combination of multiple tax evasion charges, and the sudden realization by his target demographic that they'll get more "hot action" by using their $9.99 to buy Jager shots instead of GGW videos.

Also gentlemen, while I laud your effort to satirize federal bailouts, these things are far better suited to the minds over at The Onion.
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morninggloria
01/08/09

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This is a very serious international matter. If Barack doesn't appease Anne, American/Genovian relations will be set back decades and Julie Andrews may be forced to invade Maryland.
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BearDownCBears
01/08/09

@morninggloria: ...and she took on the Nazis, motherfucker!
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ellaesther
01/08/09

@BearDownCBears: Well, now, she did sing and run that time. But then, I suppose she was thinking of the children.
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stacyinbean
01/08/09

@morninggloria: No let her invade Massachusetts! I'll great her invasion with open arms and a loud, obnoxious rendition of the 'The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music'!
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AuntieEm (robots from the year 2000 > zombies)
01/08/09

@morninggloria: yeah! then where will we get our pears?!?! I love pears.
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