NOVEMBER 28, 2009 7:45PM

White House State Dinner "Crashed?" I don't think so

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If there is one thing that I do give Obama and Crew credit for, particularly the wanna be Machiavellian himself and his cohort Rambo, with a serving of Axelturf on the side, it is two things.

1.  They have no consciences.  And are if not politically "smart" then political "bullies."  Or play good cop/bad cop, with no problem in literally beating up opponents.  That's why Obama chose Rambo to begin with.

2.  All three are undemocratic, authoritarian media whores and power hungry bastards who know the art of using pr and media manipulation to a T.  Valerie Jarrett to some extent has a hand in this, but she knows knothing about media, this kind of imagery at this kind of sophistication (although she certainly does have a knowledge of the importance of the promotion of the "imperial" leader through symbolism) or any sophistication about DC.

In fact none of the current White House staff do, with the exception of Rahmbo, and he has no conscience or morals.  The Chicago crowd Buppies on the White House staff are all first or maybe second generation wealth, all corrupt, and extremely tacky, Buppy Oreos.

With NO TASTE. Tacky, as they say in the south.  I'm surprised Michelle Obama didn't give the Indian Prime Minister a copy of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book".  For those of you who DON'T get the reference, the joke or the reference to the lack of Mrs. Obama's cultural sophistication, much less education, which depends far more on WHAT you learn than WHERE you went to school (much as she would like to pretend that she has it or can buy it, right along with "class"), Kipling was a British writer during the height of 1800's English Imperialist rule of "Inja," and while a good writer and sometimes sympathetic to the natives, usually an unapologetic booster of the Crown and British Imperialism.  Not to mention the British East India Company.  In other words the equivalent of giving Gordon Brown, The British Prime Minister, upon HIS arrival at the Obama White House, American movies you could pick up from Target on a format you can't play in England.

But certainly appropriate in this situation, if you have rotten dark humor like me, considering that both the East India Company and Michelle's  husband are doing  the same damn stupid things, two hundred years apart, a few hundred miles north.  And for the same reasons.  But we'll come back to that in a second.

Diplomatically, however, it would have been what those of us who do speak more than one language and do have a background in international affairs would call a major diplomatic faux pas.  Or, in translation, BIG NO NO.

But all of the above is completely lost, if not far above the heads of the elitist, rich Buppies (who got that way through corrupt activities) and white male twits on the make who now staff Obama's White House.  Plus kiss ass Washington insiders, white or black, who flushed their morals down the toilet long ago.  And began cashing in connections for greenbacks, no questions asked, well over a decade ago (see Rambo for starters).

You see why I left DC?

But back to the event and "who dunnit" and why.

I think it was Rambo, Obama and Axelturf's work.  With Stephanopolous on the side.  And Begala.  With of course Oprah.  And Anna Wintour (where is Bravo located, for one thing - New York in case you didn't know -  and who has the kind of pull to GET Bravo to get involved in this kind of stunt?  One word.  Oprah.  Who needs something to do now she's given up her own show and put Obama in the White House, and who's own demographics mirror to a T that damned reality show those two "party crashers" were supposedly "auditioning" for.)

Why do I think this?

For starters, what would an ex cheerleader for the Redskins know about Indian fashion (what was she wearing folks), much less how would she get access to the theme of the event in the first place to know how to dress so she would fit in so perfectly?   Better in fact than anyone except the real Indians in attendance.

And for those of you unfamiliar with Indian fashion, those were not cheap duds.

And if the MENU of the affair was considered a state secret, not to mention the guest list, which it was, you can bet your bottom dollar, that somebody spoke to someone else about what the theme of the event was going to be, not to mention arranged this whole thing on the QT in the first place.

Which means that our "gatecrashers" were plants seeded by the White House.  To sow suspicion, and grow toxic waste just as hazardous to your health as Mrs. Obama's toxic HAZMAT site on the White House lawn.  If not produce equally toxic byproduct for your consumption.  With equally toxic strategies in mind.

Elementary and logic, Dr. Watson.

These are not the kinds of things that are hard to figure out if you have a clue, an education and know where to look.

Or, if you know who's who, and who the White House keeps, um "Classified," if you know what I mean?  Especially in secret ops, and diversions.

Because if looking for finger prints, clues and evidence of perps at the scene of the "crime"  EVERYONE is a suspect.   And sorry for the very bad pun, but I'm really pissed at Obama about all of his crap on National Security, FOIA and FISA, and I couldn't resist.

What are you going to do?  Laugh or cry?

But back to our "gate crashers."

There is no way in hell this was an "accident" or even the work of two idiot "gatecrashers" on the make for their fifteen minutes of fame who, I also doubt would be able to talk their way into this event. Their IQ's aren't that high, for one thing to "talk their way in" which is one of the theories propounded at the moment by a White House reporter who knows damned well that this is impossible.  Even for Einstein.

Not that many of the other attendees were geniuses either, but they at least were celebrities.  These were rich, dumb idiots from one of the wealthiest suburbs of Northern Virginia with nothing to do with their time, and some connections, who decided that this would be a gas to try to pull off and pass off as a prank.

Spin again and try another answer on the "gate crasher" theory.  'Cause that one does not pass the laugh test.  Or as I say constantly the gas test.  In that it stinks.  Of corruption and deliberate media manipulation.  Commonly called manufactured propaganda.

Especially in the kind of distraction and propaganda this kind of thing has already created (i.e. were they terrorists, was the guy a Palestinian operative, was the President in any danger, etc. and if you don't believe me, just watch some of the unbelievably inane conversations on the links to the news coverage I've included in this article), while concealing something devious and at the same time really underhanded, but a connection very obvious to make.

And stinks of the tactics of Obama, Axelturf and Rambo.  With the tackiness of Michelle thrown in for good measure.  Why do I think so?  Keep reading.

That's their favorite kind of game and MO.

Psychopathology in politics is a very interesting subject. I recommend Reinhold Neihber's classic work on the topic about the psychopathology of politicians.

And if you look at the bottom of the link about the man's bio I've included above, guess who cites his work as his "fave."

But if you look at this FABULOUS clip, a true classic from when TV was really TV, and the interview while long by today's standards, excellent, unbiased, and eerily relevant in more ways than one, to modern events, you will see what I mean when, just like Bush, despite all that professed "brilliance," I think Obama is a bit like Otto in that truly fabulous film, "">A Fish Called Wanda" where he, unlike Bush actually read all the greats - he just, like his predecessor, who read the Cliff's notes instead, still didn't understand them.

But Neihber wrote a great deal about both religion and the psychopathology of politicians.  As well as morality in society in general.  I highly recommend this work,  ">"Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics (Library of Theological Ethics)" absolutely required homework and reading, if you're REALLY interested in understanding the inner workings and getting the 411 of what's yet to come from our head honcho.  And apparently a book Obama thinks he alone has read.  Because naturally he's superior to everyone else on the planet.

But just like Bush, who, for example thought my late uncle's phrase "Management by Objective" was to make himself as rich as possible by starting two wars right over the wealthiest oil fields in the world (Cost, what's that?  Taxpayer dollars aren't for infrastructure, they're for fighting wars.  Civil liberties?  Who needs them?  Down the toilet they go. And daddy may have paid for his education, (just like Obama's daddy helped him get into Harvard through legacy preferances and minority advantage) and both Obama and Bush read all the greats, but Bush, just like Obama sure doesn't seem to understand them.

Or deliberately twist them because they either think they can get away with it, or because they assume that nobody will catch them in the act.  Or are claiming they are above the law, because of expanded Executive Privilege.  Also known as BULLSHIT.

And despite all this crap surfacing lately in the mainstream media (written I notice by established, white male journalists with White House access, what a surprise)  about "give the man more time, the "mistakes" are just because he doesn't know what he's doing and therefore forgivable" blah, blah, blah, are wasting both your time and mine.

That's all crap.

They're just the same.

Obama is just as cynical, if not worse than Bush.

Because he ran on a lie.  He is literally on something like 515 campaign "promises broken ALREADY.  And what's worse, making not only a mockery of the Constitution and the presidency by his lawbreaking actions, but COMMODIZING IT.

And not only by the blatent product promotion of Google on the White House Website, but by literally, as of today, begun its own marketing efforts, hawking "can't be missed" Obama embossed winter fleece jackets.  No pun intended.  To fleece me of bucks I don't have since they're doing such a great job up there at the White House with job creation and civil rights for gimps. Not to mention, uh, security, if you really want me to run their noses in it.  Not that I'd ever be a walking billboard for that man in my life.

And now this crap.

I think this "gate crashing" story was a set up all along.  And another way of marketing the Obama brand, the Afghani war, the increased need for a security state (I mean "the safety of the President was never in danger right? gushed one reporter breathlessly) give me a break, and had several other nefarious motives behind it.  Planned not by two dingbat rednecks with money from the rich suburbs of Virginia, but the inner sanctums of  the White House itself.

But this is EXACTLY how tacky the very idea of "branding" a President is, not to mention undemocratic and dangerous, and why I'm opposed to the commoditization of the Presidency in the first place.

Just like there's a separation between church and state, and there's a separation and supposed balance of power between the Executive, the Judiciary and the Congressional branches of power.  Not to mention a suppposedly independent "Fourth Estate" (the press) to act as guard dog, the Presidency IS NOT FOR SALE.  Nor is the President a brand or a commodity.

Or some kind of reality show.

And neither is our Democracy.

So this "gatecrasher" BS is precisely that.  I've been to AIDS fundraisers where the security is tighter than that.

This was deliberate, and planned by the White House.  And Obama knows what he's doing.

And he's doing it very cynically.

And this Tinkerbell and Dingbat Cinderella Act at the White House Ball scenario was just another media event "insider photo op" set up for your amusement and distraction by the Disneyworld La La Land production section of the White House propaganda corps.  Not to mention another way to "brand" the presidency.

Don't believe me?  Okay.  Here's why I think so.

First of all, let's start with the obvious.  The gatecrashers are even claiming, through their attorney that they WERE CLEARED BY THE WHITE HOUSE TO BEGIN WITH, which makes this whole thing even MORE STUPID.

Not to mention suspicious.

But a great eye candy story to take your attention off of what is really going on.  Like the deployment of a great many U.S. troops just north of India next week in an area we still have not formally declared war in, are spending billions of dollars to fight phantoms in for no purpose whatsoever, are going to get our asses kicked, destabilize the region, and need those dollars at home even more.  But that is PRECISELY why the administration DOES NOT want you thinking about those issues.

They want you thinking about rich, bored ex cheerleaders who crash the White House state dinner party (and conveniently disappear right before dinner, knowing damned well they would run a greater risk of being caught, another piece of insider information that someone tipped them off to) again leading me to believe that this was not a, excuse the pun "lone gate crasher" operation.

I told you.

I read the MF as in POTUS, not to mention the witch that is FLOTUS, like there is no tomorrow, now that I know where both are coming from.  I have been consistently right, since I made the fatal flaw of NOT paying attention to the many bells that should have tipped me off last year, and voted for him anyway. And thought Michelle's moving stories about her dad would move her ass on the disability issue.

And then watched, to my horror, as Obama appointed Rahmbo as Chief Pitball. And as for Michelle?  Well, let's put it this way.  Mom-in-Chief, much less showing up at the Vatican in a veil, is hardly my idea of being the epitome of the modern role model for women.   And as much as I despise her politics and her guts, and think she's as dumb as a plank (but given Michelle's screw ups to date, I'm not so sure she's superior in the IQ department either, despite those Ivies), and certainly just as corrupt as this administration, Sarah Palin has a lot more going for her.

At least she's not dressed up as a Saint.  She's a badass bitch from hell and she doesn't care who knows it.  At least she's HONEST about it.  And doesn't put on this BS piety act in public while bitching about how difficult it is to keep two kids in private school at $20K per kid per year plus piano lessons of another $10K per year each, and then take quarter million dollar date nights to New York on the taxpayer dime, wear tennis shoes that cost TWICE as much as those on disability benefits recieved in the bailout (the least any demographic received under the bailout) and rent vacation houses in exclusive enclaves that cost as much per WEEK as the medium annual salary is for the average American worker.  If they still do have a job that is.  All the time talking about her pious understanding of what it meant to grow up poor.  And how her heart bleeds for those poor Americans out of work.  Thanks to her husband's stupid economic policies.

Thanks, lady, but we don't need another Evita Peron.  Stick it where the sun don't shine.

I AM FED UP, with the lies, hypocrisy, deceit, illusions, and smoke and mirrors.

And this latest incident is just another example.  So I thought I would dissect it for you.

But back to Obama.  Since the naming of Rambo to Head White House Bully, it's all been downhill ever since.  On rocket propelled jet skis.

Having worked in DC for well over a decade, both on the Hill and in the national press, including for international news AT White House pressers (i.e. inside the gates of the White House) even before 9/11, there is absolutely NO way that anyone could "crash" the White House.

Especially during a HIGH SECURITY EVENT.

Especially this kind of event and under these circumstances.   Especially during these times.

Not even Desiree Rogers (the White House Social Secretary) is that dumb although of course bravely falling on her sword in media reports, like all the White House staff are supposed to do in the service of the Massah, (although that is no defense of her IQ, which is somewhere around that of her dresses).

The people I feel sorriest for are the Secret Service guys, who are predictably going to pay the highest price for a plan cooked up at what I suspect is real estate very close to if not in the Oval Office itself.

While I'm no fan of testosterone addled, paramilitary outfits and people who work for them, which is basically what the secret service is, I do have respect for the folks who guard the President.

Who, while their heads may not hold the largest brains on the planet and may not be the brightest beans in the basket (although their other heads, at least those of the male persuasion, are quite impressive, I have to say, from personal experience, having dated a few during my tenure in DC, but just like I refused to give my gay (male) friends any salacious details, much as they begged, such details will remain a national security secret in blog form as well, DO NOT make such dumb mistakes as letting people talk their way into White House State Dinners with foriegn heads of state, high ranking U.S. officials and other VIPs in attendance.  Particularly this foriegn head of state.  Particularly right now.  We'll get back to that in a sec if you don't see where I'm going with that one.

However, let's just put it this way.  While the heads they really think impressed the hell out of me, (in reality it was the other ones they have, do not expose in public, and not of the cranial variety that did) they do know how to do their jobs.

Which are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.  24/7.

Which means they are very well trained before ever getting the White House assignment.  Especially on nights when high ranking domestic AND foriegn heads of state and CEOs and VIPs will be present.

They are very brave, well trained, and operate on autopilot to do things like body frisk you, naked, with or without a warrant, in two seconds flat,  if they have the slightest reason to think that you are not supposed to be where you are and you are a "threat," which trust me, they are much better trained to identify than say Fox News, however much they aren't exactly the people I'd go say recruiting rocket scientists from, and I suppose picked for their unswerving unthinking ability to do just one thing.

Protect the head of state and his or her family.  No questions asked, no excuses allowed.  And literally, no bullet dodged.  And no idiots with no ID and no names on ANY guest list, allowed in the door.  No matter how much sweet talking occurs, or cash flashed, unless the right ID is shown and the right names are on the right lists.

Because their job, when one's natural instinct is to duck and run for cover when one hears gunshots, is to literally throw themselves IN FRONT OF THE BULLET or whatever danger du jour potentially confronts the President.  Which no minor White House flunky has the authority to overrrule.  Again as some idiotic DC White House reporters are even mentioning, when again, they know better.

And the Secret Service does this as a matter of course.  Even if they think personally, the man they are putting their lives on the line for is a lying snot.

They are not allowed to even let their own personal political or religious beliefs, much less excuses,  get in the way of literally putting their lives on the line for the Commander in Chief.

That's why they get my respect. And those who are blaming them for this little escapade get nothing but my scorn.

So say what you will about their IQ, but it's a job I couldn't do.  They are brave and put their lives on the line EVERY DAY.

And why this "blame the secret security staff BS" makes me so steamed. I'm not saying that mistakes don't happen.  But this is part of an unfortunate and oft recurring pattern of this administration...and right on the heels of the departure of the White House Chief Counsel.

Who Obama blamed for Gitmo, when it was clearly his fault.  And is also a part of another pattern.  The rampant elitism and classism of the White House.  Not to mention the "blame the fart on the dog in the room" when Obama needs to lay off a screw up on somebody else.

Obama is always blaming someone else for his fuckups and that's when he expects someone to fall on a sword.  That's why I am beginning to really despise him.  And why he's so dangerous.  So far every time he's needed a victim, he's got one to volunteer.   That's the sign of something far worse.

And for this kind of thing to happen at an event like this is even MORE suspicious.

It's like the Reichstaag Fire for those of you with any sense.  Or understanding of history and manipulation of imagery for propagandistic purposes in politics.

This is just the modern day version.  For various nefarious political, propaganda and other purposes which are just as destructive.

And this crap about "investigating" the White House secret service's supposed failure is exactly that.  And what's worse is that the national DC press corps, especially White House reporters, who are reporting on this story, all know that.

They know, as well as I do, and anyone who has ever been anywhere inside the front gates of 1600 Penn, let alone the FRONT DOOR of the White House, knows you are entering Fort Knox.

And practically need your social security number, plus other unassailable ID tattooed on various body parts.  EVEN THE PRESS COULDN'T GET IN THAT NIGHT.

And trust me, with a real press pass, from a mainstream news outlet, or even semi respectible news outlet, and know what you are doing, you can practically get away with murder in DC.  Figuratively speaking of course.

BUT......there is ABSOLUTELY NO FLIPPING WAY that an unknown couple who, let's face it, look like trashy Northern WHITE Virgininian Republicans, (in fact the woman in question WAS a cheerleader for the big DC sports team, the Redskins) and the breaking news is confirming this, (you see I am a very accurate, if cynical ex um "escapee," shall we say ex denizen and commentator) could get in, much less get their names announced, at the event, without somebody checking out and authenticating some ID.  See the picture below?  Disagree with my assessment?

My point exactly.

While I've done my fair share of fancy talking and distracting to get into places I wasn't supposed to be, (as all good investigative reporters learn how to develop those skills if they want to get the real low down on what the government is covering up) getting into State Dinners at the White House, past multiple security checks and guest lists and ID checks with BOTH White House personnel (with MAJOR 'TUDE towards white people who aren't celebrities) and secret service security staff at each step of the way doesn't pass the credibility test with me.  Or the laugh or the gas test for that matter.

To put this in perspective, I'm the ONLY independent filmmaker to get onto the base of Fort Benning, the infamous American army base in Georgia that was also home to The School of the America's (also known as the School of Coups) which had the distinction of training if not directly causing ALL of the coups and overthrowing all of the democratically elected governments in every country south of our border for at least sixty years and causing things like the slaughter of innocent nuns engaged in humanitarian work throughout our Southern Hemisphere during the entire Cold War (at your expense).   Isn't that how you want YOUR taxpayer dollars spent?  But of course, despite the excuse that this was a program necessary to "defend" Americans from the "Communist Threat" kept secret from the American public for most of its existance.

For our own safety of course.

Which is why getting on base was, no pun intended, such a coup to pull off.  And why I know a thing or two about getting into classified, high security, no access to the general public, much less THE PRESS, places.

So take it from a pro at getting in where you're not supposed to go, there is absolutely NO WAY that I could have pulled this stunt off, without some "unofficial" help from the inside.

And trust me, while the White House is secure, it ain't an army base that houses a National Security Secret, Black Budget and highly classified military (and CIA) Program.  Not even close.

And in fact, as several of these news reports I've linked to seem to indicate, it appears they may have been "unofficially" invited anyway.  Which is again, one of those typical, underhanded Rambo/Obama/Axelrod moves.  Remember all that confusion about who contacted the Governor of Illinois over Obama's senate seat?  Doesn't this sound just a tad familiar?

Along with the fact that rather conveniently, who are these "dangerous" gate crashers shown next to?  Well apart from the female CEO of Pepsico India,as seen below....

which is rather convenient product placement for both a domestic and an Indian audience (if you recall that intense "policy" debate from earlier this year about whether White House staffers preferred Coke over Pepsi, like who cares, except a very product and brand conscious White House),  Obama, as seen here....

and in this picture......

and also video, Biden and Rambo.

Gosh, what a coincidence.  Don't you think?  But again, one more piece of evidence, Colonel Mustard that this whole thing was a SETUP.

The dead body and the Candelabra are in the Kitchen.  Thus my filing this under the Open Call Tag.  Not to mention this was a WHITE HOUSE DINNER.

And this is even MORE suspicious when you consider the circumstances under which it took place.

Consider, this was a White House state dinner hosting the INDIAN head of state.  Who for those of you weak in geography, is the country just south of Pakistan, and in fact used to be one and the same country.  And the entire region is just to the south of a country you might of heard about in the news lately called AFGHANISTAN where Obama is about to do the absolutely DUMBEST THING ON THE PLANET and send more troops to go fight Vietnam II, Revenge of Mount Everest.

Where we are going to get our ASSES kicked.  And in fact I think this whole gate crasher thing is one big diversion for that troop deployment, along with something else or two.  That is how Obama operates.

ON TOP OF THAT, these two diptwits are "being considered" (yeah right, the ink was drying on their contracts) and in fact, as this news report, as in others, reveals, were actually being filmed the entire day before they made their White House entrance getting ready for their "break in" BY BRAVO as they were getting ready for the escapade, which makes this even MORE FISHY) for the "reality show" in question and sure enough, there was Bravo, wading right into the middle of the Brew ha ha as soon as the news even BROKE saying they were going to run with this.

Come on folks.  Wake up.  You don't need to have worked in TV to know that these things don't happen "by accident."  Or "coincidence."

UH UH.  Trust me, if you still hold on to that naive thought, try a tin foil hat to keep the solar rays from Mars out.  Works ocassionally (like once in a blue moon), and the neighbors only look at you funny most of the time.

The fact is that network channels DON'T operate like that.

Plus, if the White House is so worried about "terrorists" that we are spending an absolute fortune to literally bleed this country dry to go fight them in lands far, far away, suspend our civil liberties at home, not to mention beats up a gimp (me) at a TOWN HALL MEETING ON HEALTHCARE IN NEW YORK CITY, for merely telling the meeting organizer that his facts were incorrect (I was right, he was wrong) resulting in an NYPD police report documenting CRIMINAL ASSAULT AND BATTERY that the Federal Justice Department has yet to investigate and keeps hanging up on me, and the White House is "embarrassed" about THIS incident, and "considering" dropping charges all the while making noises about "felony acts", which they will never do anything about, with of course the conservative news channels like Fox talking about things like "domestic terrorist threats" (trust me it will never get that far and the White House knows that too much embarressing stuff will come out)  to the point of not even discussing to date forbidding those pictures from airing on the internet "discovering" the perps as it was put on the internet (exactly who was doing any investigating in the first place or why, or knew where to look, (which raises even more disturbing questions about say FISA and electronic monitoring) or lack of any threats from the White House about say putting a ban on any TV network from airing the misadventures of those two, in either still pictures, taking them down from the "perp's" webpage, or forbidding the news from carrying the video of the event, especially given the teeth baring fights the White House is engaging in with Fox right now, and Mrs. Obama is making such a big deal about an unflattering picture of her showing up on a Google search (and Google actually backing off and removing it) are you KIDDING ME?

This was a set up folks.

FROM THE INSIDE.

If you STILL think that this was an "accident" or a "prank" by two idiots seeking their 15 minutes of fame, and not a deliberate distraction created by say Axelturf/Rahmbo/Michelle and Obama to give fairly uneducated, definately politically and visually if not unprepared for this kind of sophisticated propoganda machine - i.e. supposedly what the White House will and is prepared to do, dollars to doughnuts, which is paint or create one way or another, as a paternalistic, noblesse oblige, drop all charges (if any are even pressed) way to let middle Americans have an "inside" albeit pretty low brow if you ask me, voyeuristic peek at a "high society White House event," as well as to divert mainstream America's attention from what Obama is about to do next week, what do you think they were doing?

Embarressing themselves on purpose?

I mean who is the demographic for Real American Housewives....?

Martians?

Bravo has some GREAT shows....but that one ....I can't stand.

Nevertheless, this was a set up. And a distraction.  As well as convenient propoganda.

Call me paranoid, call me stupid, call me anything you want, but I've seen this show before. It's a rerun, if not in content, then in purpose.

It's called propoganda, and distraction, you dumb morons at the White House, who think you are so much more clever than the rest of us.

And welcome to the world of Obama manipulation mind f*cks.

SNAP.

That's the sound of a little Obama rat who's been figuratively caught in a Marguerite rat death trap.  It's little toes are still wiggling.   And it's tail is still twitching.   I hope it suffers a long,  slow and agonizing painful death.

I'm not a sadist, by the way, and I love animals. Even rodents.   In fact I have a mouse in part time residence in my studio apartment.  We cohabitate rather well. His name is Newton.  He has good manners and there is mutual respect.  So please, no PETA threats for that last analogy.

The above latter reference was a metaphorical literary parallel to display my disgust with this presidency.

I know this MF, very well.  And have been calling him and his mindset accurately, ever since the appointment of Emmanuel.

Which was the first sign that something was going seriously wrong.  Not that I didn't have some niggling doubts during the campaign last year.

FISA and throwing out the promise to stick with public financing were understandable.  Or at least that is what I told myself.  And excused Obama for it.  I heard it from sources I still have on the Hill that Obama's arm was twisted on the FISA legislation.  And I know damned well how deep the RNC's pockets are.  I was willing to forgive him that too.

And there were other little things too that were vaguely disturbing.

But I was also very distracted last year.  So I paid them no attention. No candidate is ever perfect.  And look at what the alternatives were.  Especially after Edwards dropped out.  And look at what happened there.  And I still think that HE was also set up in California.  By the same team who brought us THIS scenario.  The fingerprints seem to match rather well.

I told you, after the election, I've done some investigating, partly in just writing these blogs, and especially given the way I've been treated.  And what I'm seeing.  And I REALLY don't like what is going on.   Which is the understatement of the year.

And I mean I was REALLY DISTRACTED last year.  Like developing a life changing disability thanks to my ex employer, filing an EEOC case against a very big bank and dealing with a few other battles of equal shall we say "intensity."  While fighting for literal economic survival.  Which I still am.

But this time, it's the White House I'm directly fighting.  THIS ONE.  Among other Goliaths, essentially on my own and penniless because the god damned government has taken it all all away.  And destroyed my life in the process.  As in obliterate.  And beat me up on top of that.

So I missed things I wouldn't normally have done during the election.  Or explained them away.  As I never would have done otherwise.  I've worked in national politics for too long.  I know DC like the back of my hand.  It's not a boast.  It's what happens when you waste your youth in national politics in DC.

So if 2008 had been a normal year, I would have been a little more suspicious.  Not to mention done my homework.  And a little less elated upon election day.  With far fewer hopes.  And frankly, far less pissed off now.

But 515 campaign promises gone south in less than ten months Obama has been in office and now this?

With Obama "selling" the escalation of Afghanistan next week to "his base?" as one reporter put it.  Are they nuts?

And the blood on the pavement still not dry from Fort Hood?

Folks, you've got to be FUCKING KIDDING.

This was arranged propoganda.  Called a distraction. For a reason.

Call me nuts.

Call me ANY name in the book all you want.   But been there, done that, seen it before.

You want reality TV?

Tell the kids in Afghanistan to start sending their cell phone pictures and videos via wireless internet of what is really going on on a daily basis to the world via any other service EXCEPT YOU TUBE (they lose their intellectual property rights).   G3 phones shoot video clips you can send via email and you can put right on your website.

If the White House really wants to play this stupid game, we can give them REALITY TV they will never forget.  IN THEIR FACE.  That trust me, will be far more embarressing and "dangerous" to the Obama presidency because of his lying BS than any suburban couple who wanted their 15 minutes of fame. And apparently coordinated with both the White House and a network to get it.

And dollars to doughnuts somebody at the White House new media department, along with someone higher up, struck a bargain with Bravo to cook this whole thing up to begin with.

You want reality TV folks, it's time we started watching the channel where the action is really happening.

Instead of being deliberately distracted.

Like the dog....you know...the oldest trick in the book to fool the stupid pooch?  Fake throw the stick and watch ol' Spot run half way across the yard  before he turns around and says 'huh?'  And they you really throw the stick....the other way.

There is a channel of reality TV that America should be watching.  Several of them in fact.  One is Channel Afghanistan.   And don't forget Channel Iraq.  One is Channel Wall Street.  One is Channel Foreclosures and Evictions.  One is the Rising Tide of Jobs Lost & Ain't Coming Back.  One is Channel Global Warming.

And I'm just getting started.  I'm a damned network....a whole series of programming.

But the fact is that Bravo, not to mention the rest of mainstream corporate TV, doesn't cover those shows.  Although maybe it should start.

And the fact that I also have a proposal that is widely circulated AT the White House as well as key cabinet level offices mentioning a reality Bravo show tie in for one of MY projects, so far both conspicuously ignored, and has gotten me beaten up, physically intimidated, threatened in writing, my civil rights violated, and of course completely blacklisted, BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE WHITE HOUSE, is also rather interesting.  Especially in that this is ANOTHER idea that they've stolen from me.  While my phone remains strangely silent on that proposal.

So for all these reasons folks,  to believe anything but "sucker, you've been had," is to be drinking what is known as Kool Aide.

And look at what happened to them.

The ones in Guyana, and the ones here, if you don't WAKE UP.

Happy Turkey Day Folks.  A day or so late.  Consider these the leftovers.

Do you want to be the Turkey for NEXT YEAR's date?  Or the one who gets excused from that fate?

Time to start doing some waking up.  If you haven't already.

In other words, flip the dial.  Turn the switch.  Tune it out.  If not TURN CHANNEL OBAMA OFF ALTOGETHER.

And organize for REAL CHANGE we believe in.

Otherwise, you will be turkeys, if not dinner, for somebody, by this time next year.  With NOTHING to be thankful for.

And that's a reality that probably nobody will even bother filming.

Unless of course you plan on setting yourself on fire outside the White House gates.  And even then they'll probably call you a Tibetan terrorist, so I wouldn't recommend it.  Bravo will be off filming Virginia Housewives II, Michelle will be doing some other Muppets does Hazmat on the White House Lawn Experiment, and Barack, well, I'm sure he'll be bombing Iran by then.  Which although I didn't include it on the map, is also conveniently the neighbor immediately to the left of what country?

Afghanistan.

WHAT A COINCIDENCE.  Right?

And we'll all be out of work, don't worry.

Reality Show "White House Break In" my ass.

Even that's been done before (remember NIXON) by a White House who thinks it's so brilliant everything it does is, as rightly mocked by a very cynical reporter the other day, as "unprecedented" and "original" and of course never done before, when it's clearly old hat.

With mildew growing on it.

Even this little stunt.  Ever heard of Watergate?

How stupid does Obama really think Americans are?  Or how brilliant, in comparison to the rest of the world does he think he is?

That's the really scary thing, isn't it?   Because people carried away with their own ideas of how brilliant they are usually make the biggest mistakes.  I learned long ago that the definition of stupidity was self professed brilliance.  See Exhibit A in the Oval Office.

And we don't need any more stupid and entirely avoidable "oops."  Which weren't really, although they are of course, being played that way.  Now.  However, if you recall even just ten months ago, this administration has been continually warned DO NOT ENTER.  DANGER.  And then promptly blacklisted, if not beaten up, even those who offer constructive criticism.  While breaking CRIMINAL LAW, not to mention civil rights, to do it.

Unfortunately we're about to get even more of them.

Escalation in Afghanistan is just the latest in a line of very avoidable and so far disastrous Waterloos.

You want to watch Reality TV?

Tell the White House to go jump in a lake and send NO to the War emails to all your elected reps, local, state and federal.  Not to mention the White House.

And start getting off your asses and doing something about it.  Plus of course the other issues Obama's screwing up.

You shouldn't be watching TV anyway. There's far too much to do, and we don't need any more couch potatoes.

So turn off the dial and turn up the heat.  And get off your asses and start go kicking some.

Unless you'd prefer to start selecting what kind of stuffing you'd like to be accessorized with as next year's turkey.  I hear cranberry sauce is a nice condiment.

Your choice, Pilgrims.  Now or never.

As for me and Tonto, well, we're heading out, as fast as we can, from this shit eating, one horse country.

Gee up, boy.  Let's get going.

Because the natives of this rinky dink Banana Republic are all bloodthirsty, stupid, cannibals, ignorant and or uneducated, deaf, oblivious, will not learn whatever you do, say or write, and as a result are therefore just as dangerous as the murderous leaders they "elect."

Or asleep.  What is the difference?

Because if they accept it, it means the White House has won.

And Democracy?

RIP.  So long buddy.  Nice knowing ya.

"Interesting governing and social experiment," I can hear the social anthropologists of say two millenium into the future, "but not to be wasted on such idiotic neanderthal primitives."

And if you have any doubts about MY perspective on looking back and analyzing the perspective of cultures long ago, my other paternal uncle began unlocking the secrets and translating The Dead Sea Scrolls in his book on the subject, ">The Dead Sea Scriptures.  A document created by another society ruled by decidedly undemocratic Kings and Queens, that included slavery (who do you think built the Pyramids) and went extinct because of its own dead weight and unsustainable policies.

You want the Constitution to be compared to the Dead Sea Scrolls?  Keep going America.  Because that's where we're headed.

Won't that be a fun "Reality TV" show.  That trust me, you won't have the luxury of watching from the comfort of your lazy boy recliner on your spanking new HDTV.  Because you won't be around  to see it.

 BREAKING UPDATE:   I KNEW THERE WAS MORE TO THIS STORY THAN MET THE EYE

BEEN AROUND THE SMELL OF THE POTOMOC TOO LONG NOT TO HAVE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE.  TOLD YOU, ALL YE UNBELIEVERS.  THIS IS A SETUP.   BLAME THE FART ON THE DOG IN THE LIVING ROOM.  NOT THE ONE THAT DELT IT.

BREAKING UPDATE II:  BLOG POSTING JUST MADE LAW.COM!  YEE HA!  UNDER A SPONSORED POSTING.....BY PEPSI.   Hmmmm that wouldn't lend cred to any of my theories now, would it?  Like say the picture of our gatecrashers with the head of India Pepsico?  NAH....nothing to do with it.....naturally.  Pure coincidence.  That's the way things ALWAYS HAPPEN IN DC.  Right?

BREAKING UPDATE III:  SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!!  NEWSFLASH

Well apparently, the "gatecrashers" at the White House weren't such "strangers at the ball" after all...and my original suspicions WERE CORRECT

It appears that Mr. Obama's friendship with the Saladi's stretches back about five years, and look who is gathered together here (and the date) although Ms. Saladi's credentials are a bit different than recently advertised in DC.  I guess everyone stretches the truth in Mr. Obama's world.   But then again, she's not THE PRESIDENT.

HMMMMM.  What was that again about AN INSIDE JOB? 

Mr. Obama, I believe you need some, um "plumbers" was the word Mr. Nixon used.  Or at least an ORIGINAL EXCUSE FOR A LIE. SINCE EVERYTHING YOU GUYS DO IS UNPRECEDENTED.

Yeah, I guess this one kind of takes the cake, doesn't it?

But please don't blame the Secret Service.  I told you they would take the fall after all.  Even if they weren't responsible.  

OR WHY DON'T YOU JUST STOP LYING, PERIOD?  AND JUST TELL US THE WHOLE DAMNED TRUTH. 

AS THEY SAY, A PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS.  AND THIS ONE IS RATHER DAMNING.  AND I'D SAY IS A DAMNED BIG LIE-BRARY.

J'ACCUSE, MONSIEUR.  CAUGHT IN THAT RAT TRAP INDEED.  I THINK THE TAIL MIGHT STILL BE WIGGLING A BIT.

SNAP, SNAP. 

Caught in your own damned trap. 

Did  you really think nobody would find THIS PICTURE?  I KNOW IT IS FIVE YEARS OLD, DRESSED UP FOR AN EVENT LAST YEAR, BUT THE INTERNET HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LOT LONGER THAN THAT....MR IT PRESIDENT..

OOPS.  What's the Missus going to say now? 

Have a Kobe handy? 

Or was she in on the act too?  'Cause last I heard she was pissed.  But then so again, rumor had it you were too.  Or was THAT ALL an act? 

Jesus.  They both lie 24/7.  Where is the TRUTH & HOPE WE CAN BELIEVE IN CHANNEL?  I THINK IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE. 

DON'T YOU?

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I don't drink coffee. Of any kind. Thanks for the compliment though.
For disaster....and decoding the White House's Annual State Dinner.

Yes. You could call it that. Nobody said you had to eat it.
This is shrieking.
NO to the war is a great call, but what makes you or anyone else think Obama is in a position to stop it ? The war in Afghanistan is none of your business.
Sometimes a bear is just a bear.
Excuse ME? The war in Afghanistan is MOST CERTAINLY my business. It is a war fought in my name. My civil liberties are being eviscerated because of it. American taxpayer dollars are being wasted to fight it. My fellow citizens and Americans, not to mention many innocent civilians overseas are being killed, maimed and tortured because of it. And I have a hell of a background in NATIONAL SECURITY YOU TWIT.

Not to mention history.

I have EVERY RIGHT to express my dissent. And I know a hell of a lot more about the history, the military strategy, the geography and the economics that explains why we and so many empires before have done the same thing.

SO GO FUCK OFF YOU SEXIST TWIT. And learn both civics, and manners.
You should try not to use bad words.
you are an ignorant twit
Of course you have every right to express dissent - good on you.
And you know a hell of a lot more about the history ... ( than ... ? )
- you lost me.
I'm not sexist, I just get tired of people shrieking.
Thanks for addressing my question, though.
1. What is a "bad" word? Rahmbo, Chief of staff uses profanity all the time. It is also called freedom of speech, protected by the Constitution. I would check that out if I were you, if unfamiliar with the concept, or the document. To criticize me for doing so, when I have at least as much experience as he does is a violation of Title XII as well. You should probably also look that statute up too. It's also called the Civil Rights Act of 1964, you twit.
2. Since when is a WOMAN, who writes about national security issues with serious cred "shrieking?' when male reporters who report on exactly the same issues (but really do "shriek" about "terrorist threats" that are no more than phantoms in the woodshed, and the ONLY ones routinely assigned to such stories are never described that way. That in and of itself is a SEXIST COMMENT. The fact that you seem oblivious to that fact is appalling in and of itself.
3. If you did know what you were talking about when it comes to say National Security, or even followed the news or knew ANYTHING at all about Congressional procedure, the expansion of Executive Privilege, FISA, FOIA, national politics, etc. or have given two seconds of thought as to why we are using mostly the National Guard rather than declare war (i.e. requiring a Congressional vote on the matter rather than side step the issue, giving the President SOLE AUTHORITY to authorize more troops, a little BS that G. Bush thought up and Obama is aping, with the SOLE check on that authority being Congress, who has to authorize the budget. Now that is hardly a "check" as most of the people who do the authorizing make HUGE profits themselves or channel them to their relatives. So yes, Obama is DIRECTLY and VERY CAPABLE of STOPPING THE WAR NOW.

The fact that you consider a well informed, well researched, well connected and linked article "shrieking" is just another sign that Americans are just closing their eyes....again.

And get the government they deserve. Because even when they get another perspective, they either close their eyes to it, or try to discredit it.

I write about these things because I have a great deal of experience in them, I know more about them than most people because I have WORKED IN THIS AREA, I have the freedom and ethics, not to mention morals that the mainstream media DO NOT, not to mention the mainstream blogosphere, and because this is my only chance right now of making a living, since the goverment has royally fucked me.

I notice that not a SINGLE person who has responded to this post has said, "Jesus it sounds like you've been through hell."

What do I get? You are an idiot who shrieks, knows nothing, is manic, and is an idiot.

Tell me Ablonde and Ms. Stephans, do you have any DC experience? Or national security experience for that matter? Or perhaps worked in DC at all? Or stepped foot inside the Capitol even as a tourist? Or perhaps have been beaten up at a Town Hall Meeting on Healthcare by the very party you've belonged to all of your lif? Hmm? To the point of passing out for weeks thereafter and not even being able to get medical attention for it? Where's your fucking comment about THAT?

What the hell do you know, number one, and where the hell do you get off even criticizing ME, when you don't have a clue what you are talking about, have NO experience whatsoever, but are quick to condemn another woman who you think is just like you. Stupid, dumb, with no experience in these issues, and apparently a professional idiot.

I also notice that NO woman (or man for that matter) bothered to comment on the fact that I WAS BEATEN UP BY THE OBAMA PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

I guess that beating up women doesn't count as much, or is as important, as trashing or at least trying to, real and professional female journalists who cover a story that NOBODY ELSE IS COVERING.

Good work. You should be proud of yourselves. Because it shows exactly how stupid, and deliberately ignorant the readers of this website are, (including so called "progressives") not to mention sexist, and god help us when it comes to the rest of the country.

You've just proved my point. In spades.
Looks like we've got another one who has gone off her meds...
It's not your information or your research or your connections - it's the Who Do You Think Built The Pyramids tone, I think, that puts us at odds.
( Egyptians, right ? )
Get over yourself, Marguerite. I'm truly sorry if Obama's people beat you up. I'm sorry I didn't sympathise before - I just assumed you were a passionate truth-seeker , and in the course of your work you took a punch. It's your work - though not so much lately, and I'm sorry about that too. Sorry I didn't mention any of that earlier. It seemed beside the point at the time. About the war, I mean.
More than 300 people have read what you had to say, but less than half a dozen have responded. I think you went on too long about something we don't understand, even after reading your post.

Commodizing isn't a word. If you open quotes, remember to close them. I don't mean to detract from your argument, but it looks a bit dodgy. Maybe just impatient.

Telling me to Fuck off you sexist twit doesn't work for me either.
Followed by Learn some civics and manners.

You're having a bad day - we're all having a bad day.

The highway and the pipeline are south of Kandahar now, heading for the coast. It won't be much longer.

Chill. Like Ablonde said, a bear is sometimes just a bear.
Ablonde took the words out of my mouth!
I think the poster who suggested decaf wasn't paying a compliment, more like noticing that this novella-length post seemed to be written in some sort of manic phase. Instead of keeping it about the gatecrashers, we got a literary lecture (I think we know who wrote the Jungle Book, thanks), photos, maps, random racist comments, foreign policy lectures, etc. I couldn't figure it out: apparently all black people are too dumb to find their way out of a phone booth, but *these* tacky, clueless, vulgar folks are actually manipulative geniuses. You have an incredible history of being right about everything, BUT failed to read the many, many warning signs during the campaign but figured everything out as soon as he was elected. Which is it?

I do think the gatecrashing was odd, but not for the reasons you seem to think prove manipulation. The White House, by definition, has a nearly infinite ability to command attention. Why resort to television tricks? The state dinner was an important event; after all, India is not only an ally in a very dangerous part of the world but its population will soon outstrip China's. As much as this administration has done wrong, it seems a bit much that they'd deliberately make their first state dinner a reality show. Besides that, we already know there is going to be a troop buildup next week, so where's the distraction value?

We know where Afghanistan is, thanks. We also know that other countries are, like, close to it. I'm sorry you have a disability; you don't need to wonder if many of us who have tried to navigate the stupidities of our healthcare system aren't already sympathetic.

But really, how about sticking to one general topic and not calling everyone else stupid? I'm sorry, it was not a well-researched, well-informed, well-connected post; more like a full-on rant. Rants are fine; just admit that's what they are.

And it's not brew ha ha, it's brouhaha. Sorry, that's just the editor in me.
Ablonde, I have warned you before, you are in violation of the ADA, and this time I will post a complaint with the OS editors AND THEIR ISP. It is against the law to even ASSUME that one has a mental illness or disability of any kind. That would be FEDERAL LAW you dumb twit, and since OS and it's server and ISP is probably in New York, you would probably be prosecutable under the New York City Human Rights Laws, which are even stronger. So that's what you get. I told you the last time this was going to happen, and you didn't listen. This is what happens when dumb Americans don't.

Secondly, if Americans can't bother to read a story that is about as long as a fairly good length feature in say Time or Newsweek because they are illiterate, then that is their problem, not mine. I was brought up with a formal education, (better than Obama's in fact) with NO HELP FROM GRANNY OR MOMMY in getting into the best grammar school IN ENGLAND at the age of 11. And overachieving both academically and professionally ever since.

When writing an investigative journalist piece, one has to connect the dots that everyone else is not connecting. And nobody is. How did a dumbass cheerleader who's never been to India, didn't have any political connections (nor did her husband, because if he is as "Palestinian terrorist" as the media are trying to paint him to be and that group is in ANY WAY connected to some "terrorist threat" (right) most INDIANS are Hindu, not Muslim. And most Palestians are either Christian or Muslim. That's why Pakistan and India became two countries in the first place. And why I started to connect the dots. Apart from the geography of course.

And despite your stupid comments about Americans knowing where things are on the map, most people don't know the capitol of their own state, 80% of Americans do not own a passport, and as someone who lived the vast majority of my childhood OUTSIDE this country, I was APPALLED at how ignorant Americans were. In general. Not to mention racist.

As to my dealings with the White House, I have personal contacts there as well as on the Hill, and in the agencies. And I know damned well what is going on.

As for creating words....Mr. Shaw (as in Bernard) and a few other writers and artists did it all the time. Does Michelangelo ring any bells....oh, but I forgot, they were men, and therefore biologically superior, right?

And since I don't have an editor, am up to my neck in legal battles, and trying to launch a business at the same time, while trying to stay afloat, and the President apparently, just like you people thinks its more important to "investigate" gate crashers at his stupid parties and blame the secret service for this stupidity than his own goddamned staff who are far more responsible, than instigate an investigation for violence against women and stealing their ideas, we have serious problems in this administration, don't you think? Not to mention this country, and this blogging community who apparently think the same way.

Not to mention, it is very stupid to criticize a post that is both original reporting, an original perspective (which is part of the problem here for unoriginal minds) if not those who are completely IGNORANT of the facts.

For male twit or female one for that matter, to tell me it's none of my business or I don't know what I'm talking about when discussing Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, or any aspect of domestic or foreign policy, is outrageous.

For you people to discredit me when I have more cred than the idiot in charge of the White House right now (and see my website in progress and MY recommendations and achievements which blow Obama's away, and earned without any Ivy, at a much younger age, plus the plan called Work Fair the White House keeps ignoring) at http://myblog-thatgoeswithoutspeaking.com) you will see that I started changing STATE policy at the age of 19, and national policy at the age of 23, in DC. By the age of 27, I had even kicked the White House's ass.

So can it with the tude, the sexism, and if you want to volunteer to come edit my work, feel free. I am already working twenty hours a day as it is....since apparently the Justice Department also feels, just like the White House, Nancy Pelosi's office and various other law enforcement agencies, just like you people, (except I do have that rather embarrassing NYPD report documenting CRIMINAL ASSAULT AND BATTERY) to prove my charges, plus lots more....and have finally started what I hope will be a triangulation effect that will in fact lead to the fucking agencies being forced to investigate themselves.....

You people are the ignorant morons and that is meant as an insult. You close your eyes, walk away, try to pull down, insult or discredit those who would actually OPEN THEM, and repeatedly break the law in doing so.

A blonde, I would suggest a lawyer.

As for the rest of you....go take a reading class.

Oh, and "I'm sorry" about being beaten up doesn't cut it either. It's AGAINST FEDERAL LAW y0u ignorant twit. Several in fact. The Constitution, Title VII, The Hate Crimes Act, The Rehab Act, the 1991 Civil Rights Act, and various others I could cite. Not to mention an appalling act of "I don't care". "I'm sorry" doesn't mean shit. It's like the shooter at Fort Hood saying "I'm sorry I killed all those people, now can I go home?" When you commit a crime, you are PUNISHED FOR IT. A fact the President seems to have forgotten applies to him too.

And if you don't understand what I'm writing about, then a) ask questions, even if you are too embarressed or want the anonymity of sending me an email which people do all the time, b) I've NEVER in all my posts failed to respond to those who do ask them in a polite way c)I find it appalling that people's reading and visual literacy is so low that they wouldn't understand what I've just written, since I have worked as a professional journalist before in the mainstream, NATIONAL media, as well as an independent writer and producer who had no difficulty getting my work understood, much less broadcast, and I think this is a deliberate mental block by people who still want and hope and cling to the stupid idea that Obama is their savior. Get over it. He's a stupid, over hyped puppet, who doesn't know what he is doing, who is more intent on winning elections, raising money, and making it in the future for himself, being a celebrity, and personal promotion and celebrity culture than being a president than anything else. One look at his cabinet will tell you the story you need to know.

And as for this bullshit about the "failure of the secret service" it's also crap. It's just like Obama blaming a cop with racial profiling training for being racist, after his buddy, the black, male, elititist Harvard professor had a fit and called his friend at the White House. Blame the working class first who's job it is to fall on their swords. Not a stupid, corrupt buppy, who has no taste (the social secretary). Not to mention the missus. And if you think Michelle Obama is someone to look up to, I'm sorry, I really am. Last year, as I said in my post, I too was fooled. But given her actions and her words post election, I'm appalled. You are living in the dark ages. Even though I DESPISE Hillary too, the ONE THING that she got right was demanding a West Wing office. And the one thing Mr. Clinton got right was giving it to her.

Michelle thinks her job is to play Mom in Chief and teach girls how to subsume their careers to their men.
While running to hubby as soon as her best friend needs a job.

Obama is a sexist and racist bastard.

Both Obama's believe that their way to riches is to fuck American's for profit. Like the Michelle Obama $200K raise to dump patients. She's never done a fucking thing in her life that is brave, notable (and yes I know Vanessa Kirsh...I knew her when she was trying to launch Public Allies)...I was about to save a fucking Indian Tribe...and kicked the White House, the Pentagon, the Interior Department and the State of Idaho into the stratosphere, essentially on my own, at the age of 27, in stopping what would have been one of the largest illegal land deals in history to do it. Which is more impressive?) Don't answer. The answer is obvious.

Oh, and not being invited by the Obama White House when that piece of land I saved, which was the LARGEST in the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act assigned federal wildnerness protection this year, when the bill was signed into law. They invited a white guy instead who had nothing to do with either the writing of the legislation or its passage. GO OBAMA.

While they continue to ignore and apparently even steal from a very good proposal to put America back to work, and both save the economy and our environment. Something Summers and all the "brilliant minds" at the White House seem incapable of doing.

So I'm sorry that you can't understand investigative blogging, which breaks down each piece of BS and analyzes it. I'll try to keep my sentences short, my words monosyllabic and my pieces written for a Kindegarten audience next time.

How's that?

And by the way, "commoditizing" an asset, while you may not be familiar with the term, is in common usage on Wall Street, something you might want to learn.

Unfortunately writing in two sentences and one letter words was not how I was formally taught to think, write, was trained to operate, and I suggest, that if people don't respond to my posts, so what? They either don't know how to, don't want to for any number of reasons, don't have anything to add because they are comprehensive or don't want to look like idiots because they know NOTHING about the subject, or are too dumb and lazy to go and do the research for themselves.

And finally what exactly is a "rant?" I believe that is also a pejorative and usually sexist term. Never used against say Glenn Greenwald or any male reporter. Like say Krugman. And certainly investigative and even complicated reporting is something I'd like to see more of than the pig excrement coming out of say, Politico, where even one of their star reporters, Ben Smith, just got away with a blog post of literally reposting an unedited (except for deleting the White House email address off the appropriate line) response about what they are doing to address a certain national security isssue. Which was all hyperlinks to national news stories provided by the White House PRESS OFFICE. No commentary or additional research or response by Mr. Smith apparently needed. Since "official" sources, from the White House are always right.

Right?

If that passes for respectable blogging, not to mention "journalism" and you can't follow an investigative piece which breaks down each element of this story and analyzes it for its bullshit, and call it a "rant," especially when the latter was written by (of course) a white man and the latter a white woman with far more experience, then you have some thinking to do about your own expectations of a free press, quality reporting, not to mention an independent media, and your own sexism. As in woman on woman. Also actionable in a decision called Oncale vs. Sundowner under Title VII. Do it again, and I'll report you, just as I'm about to report Ablonde, to the editors and the ISP of this site.

That's not a rant. That's a promise.
Do you know Tom Cruise?
You had me at "brightest beans in the basket". Who knew that the beltway could produce a brunette Ann Coulter? Even though she froths at the mouth, much of what she says is trueish...
Frothing at the mouth?

As opposed to say brown nosing and incestuous?

Like when Stephanopolous (former Clinton campaign senior aide and White House senior staffer) and now senior DC Political Reporter for CBS News constantly in touch with the White House and former Clinton aides inside and outside the White House, earlier in the campaign gave Chelsea "credit" for going to Kerry and telling him to endorse Obama.

Give me a break.
Uhm, do you have a Reader's Digest version of this. In the age of MTV and the Internet, it is best to state your case in less than 500 screeds...erm ... I mean words.
Duh Ms. SmarterthaneveryoneandIknoweverybody, even I, Ablonde, know that George Stephanopoulos (and you spelled his name wrong doofus) works for ABC. You're writing checks your ass can't cash.
Marguerite, it was the way you began, that got me reading. You wrote, "If there is one thing that I do give Obama and Crew credit for .... it is two things."
I thought that was clever, somehow. At least interesting. I realize now that it wasn't even intentional.
Ablonde is right. Look after yourself. Come back when you can explain how the President of a military economy can stop a war without being shot. Whatever your issues with his wife are, work them out with someone who cares. Look after yourself, really.
What, are you threatening me? Find someone else to try and scare. Get some help.
War economies are the most wasteful, destructive, upwardly mobile moving capital intensive resource and least redistributive economic policies there are.

To even attempt to compare this to WWII is ridiculous.

For one thing, the world wasn't melting.

Two, the planet wasn't overpopulated.

Three, this GLOBAL DEPRESSION is far worse than most people think.

Four, the strategy that Obama is pursuing in Afghanistan is stupid. Even to the power structure. He's going to get shot if he pursues this crap. Violence in America is on the rise. Let's say I am completely wrong. This whole thing was a total hoax, these two made it past the gates on their own, the secret service screwed up, yada yada, why did it occur right now?

Because the president knows he's about to commit to a deeply unpopular war. That is going to mandate the draft. They are literally running out of bullets and troops. And the troops they do have are either melting down, killing each other, themselves, or doing both. No. This is a very cynical strategy. Real politique. That Obama can simply say no to. End of story.

Show some guts. That is why you become a leader, after all.

Not to lead your lady at the ball.
Girlfriend: this is coming from a guy who is largely in agreement with you about a couple of things - this piece is about 5000 words too long. And it's nearly incoherent in its harangue and reliance on so-called insider perspective. I'm not sure which audience you came looking for here, but you won't find a friendly one with something akin to tossing a bucketful of chum on the tabula rasa.

@Frank Apisa: your best.comment.ever.
you were beaten up? yeah, i totally missed that part. was that somewhere in your recipe or a comment?
well, i was diligently poring through the comments to find the story where you go beat up, but instead i found you threatening ablonde with prosecution for calling you crazy.

wtf. not much of a first amendment rights champion when it comes down to it, are you? what part of the ada is that?
Boy did I hit a nerve.

1. Sorry that Salon readers have the attention span of a nat. I'll try to keep my sentences shorter, as well as my blogs, use one letter words and two word sentences. Just like they do over at say Politico where they post the White House propoganda verbatim.
2. Sorry about the typos but I'm in hurry, have alot to do, this doesn't have spell check and if any of you would like to fact check or spell check for me, feel free to volunteer.
3. Sorry that the fella missed the part about me being beaten up, but yes, that is what happens when you can't read, or your reading comprehension is about as high as a gnat.
4. It is against the ADA and the Rehab Act for one to assume that a person has a disability, much less what kind of disability one has. I have warned Ablonde before not to make that kind of statement. It is both discriminatory, perpetuates stereotypes about PWDs, I do not have a psychiatric disability, nor is she entitled to say those things. In fact it is highly illegal. Despite the protections of the first amendment, which I support, you do not call someone a retard. Just like you don't call someone a nigger. The fact that ablonde has REFUSED TO DO THIS is why I am reporting her. It is time Americans started following disability law, and realizing how damaging disability discrimination is.
5. Yes, sorry about the ABC/CBS mistake, but honestly, what is the difference. Mark Halperin is the director of ABC News and just as sexist as his father, my first boss in DC. NONE of the major networks do any decent reporting. And quite frankly I can't tell the difference anymore. It's all crap.
6. And yes, I am angry. That this White House has violated its own campaign agenda, and that you people are sitting there like guppies doing nothing about it. I have had my life run over by a fucking truck.
7. As as for "throwing chum on the tabula rasa" I hope you are not referring to me critizing Obama. The man is as corrupt as they come.

So go away little guppies, swim swim away......or as Paul Krugman said about the frogs in a slowly heating pan of hot water....they don't jump out until it's too late....because they don't realize that they're being boiled alive.

I don't see ANY male journalist getting this kind of shit. And all they produce is crap.

If you guys want to pretend that Obama is your savior, feel free. I am also free to write what I see going on and unlike all of you I actually have the experience IN DC to know what is really going on.

Oh...one last thing...I don't threaten. I warn. I tell people when they are violating civil rights law and I also, like I warned ablonde before, not to do it again. I am a reasonable person, but I will not have MY civil rights violated. A threat is very different than a warning. So please take your passive aggressive shit out on someone else. The fact that so many women have decided, when they clearly have NO CLUE or BACKGROUND in this topic, to trash me based on deluded "opinion" is sexist and a violation of Title XII, under a case called Oncale vs. Sundowner. I am warning you again. If you want to dispute me on the facts, go at it. I admit mistakes...we all make them. But these comments are stupid, mean, degrading, sexist, illiterate in many ways, put my professional experience down, both as a woman and as a journalist, and you most certainly are, those who have been warned, in violation of civil rights laws. And if you don't understand the ADA, or the Rehabilitation Act, it is time you started to learn about it.

PWDS or people with disabilities are 1/5 of this country's population. They have a 90% unemployment rate, mostly because of rampant discrimination, and attitudes just like ablondes' and because of both government policies which are worse than ANY racial discrimination, the courts have decided that this community has less contractual value (as in slavery), most live in abject poverty, with no adequate healthcare when there is no need for this and something called adaptive technology levels the playing field.

In fact the discrimination at the federal level is so bad that the disability unemployment rate is not even counted in the "official" unemployment rate. And the percentage of the federal workforce with disabilities is about 1%....and on average 2 grades below their able bodied employees...it doesn't matter what the disability is....its all about discrimination.

THAT is why I am kicking ablonde in the ass, figuratively speaking....to teach her and everyone else who is reading this a lesson. And that is why I am warning the other sexist twit she better have a very good reason and experience before she challenges me on national security, political or media strategy, or what goes on in the nation's capitol. Unlike Mrs. Obama, I know that you have to get the soil tested first before you claim your garden is organic. And unlike Sarah Palin I do know where Russia is. In fact, if you look at my website in development, you will see that I have more experience that Obama himself in both changing state and NATIONAL policy at a far younger age, not to mention getting commendations from US Supreme Court Judges at an age Obama was still screwing around at a single housing project out in the Midwest somewhere.

Website is still under development and not yet live, so no snarky comments about things missing or spelling mistakes etc.....but you can get a sneak peak at http://myblog-thatgoeswithoutspeaking.com

And then tell me who has more experience. And who is more credible.
Do you know Tom Cruise or not?
Oncale v. Sundowner was a sexual harrassment case. It has nothing to do with assuming mental illness, which you implied. Have you not noticed a disconnect here? -- accusing everyone who dares to respond to you of racism, sexism, stupidity and then dish out far more racist and sexist comments than anyone else.

The point of this post, which you seem to have forgotten in your all-purpose spew, was to accuse the Obama administration of orchestrating a television stunt to distract the masses from the many failures of his administration. Not first amendment rights, not disability law, not Michelle Obama's dress, not Jew comments, not buppies, not your own assault issue, not the fact that you have really saved the world and are, like, the smartest person ever but no one is paying attention to you.

You can threaten to sue people for daring to suggest that you have anger issues, but it's not going anywhere. If that were the case, we could sue you for calling us twits and dumb and stupid. Oh, the irony! We are freely allowed to say that your post eventually makes no sense, is over-the-top in its anger and is doing a fine imitation of someone who is off the rails. And no, I'm sorry, you are not more credible than anyone else. If you are one-quarter as smart as you keep saying you are, you would have declined to ever support Obama in the first place.

Seriously, get some help. If posting this stuff makes you feel better, go for it. But it has to be taking up a good deal of your time, and I doubt people are asking if you'll be their leader. I can find posts critical of Obama just about anywhere; but they make their comments about him or his policies and leave it there. We get the drift.
There are two laws here. One is Title XII discrimination as in women against woman which is Oncale.

The other is disability law. In both the Rehab Act and the ADA, which I worked AT the ACLU legislative offices on Capitol Hill who were instrumental in drafting the legislation as it was being written and passed through Congress, so I am VERY familiar with that piece of legislation, and of course since it is modeled on the Rehab Act that too, it is ILLEGAL to assume that one has a disability, number one, number two, it is illegal to assume what kind of disability one has, number three, it is illegal to make any assumptions of what that disability limits one to be able to do or not do and make it a negative reference. Furthermore, it is also illegal, if one knows for example that somone has a disability for example as a supervisor at work, for them to reveal that their employee HAS a disability. Under a law called Hipaa. AND Disability law. If you really want to tangle with me on civil rights labor law lady, I wouldn't. I am right in the middle of federal EEOC proceedings and I have helped my attorney do case law research in ALL the major circuits on the multiple and well documented claims that I have. Okay. So back WAY the fuck off until you know what the hell you are talking about.

Do you know what an arachnoid cyst is? Or dystonia?

Get back to me when you do.

Okay. Otherwise go jump in a lake.
Yes, I know what both are. If this is the way you feel you should spend your time, have at it.
sshhhhh

SSHHHHH!

she thinks she's smarter than Ann Coulter.

she makes Ann Coulter look like/sound like Hillary.

ssshhhhh
Ablonde, she doesn't know him, but she has opinions about him.

Oh, and she's Orly Taitz' second cousin, once removed.
WOW - this is a joke right? You are planted here like the party crashers at the state dinner were a plant...only you are planted here to prove how crazy parties like libertarians or anyone anti-Obama are (I don't think libertarians are crazy or stupid) I don't think you are crazy or stupid but this post could have been a lot more poweful and persuasive if you hadn't had this manic, condescending, angry James Joycian gone to the darkside thing going on...if you had just stuck to that central hypothesis of why you thought the party crashers were a plant, we could see the point even if we didn't agree. It's not that we have a short attention span but this is a blog site - and a liberal, left leaning site so I'm thinking that you are a plant to justify and prove that anyone in disagreement with the main socio-economic political stream of this site is crazy, manic, ranting, stupid and can't stay on topic or write basic composition...you can get mad with me and say nasty things because I know this is a joke and you are really funny...
It appears that you might be a "whackadoodle." This is a relatively new word, and soon I expect to find it in mainstream dictionaries. An acceptable definition does exist, courtesy of the Urban Dictionary:

1. Whackadoodle

-A person not of sound mind or body.
-My boss went all whackadoodle on me today, when I reminded him I was leaving early.

2. Whackadoodle

A person who is acting insane, bizarre or highly unusual or the result of when a person with mental illness decides they are 'better' and goes off their meds.
My mom was acting like a complete whackadoodle yesterday. What a surprise, she went off her meds AGAIN!
Marguerite: here's some free legal advice (I'm a real lawyer, too - CA ABA #127434, you can look it up): Title XII and the ADA - they don't apply to private citizens. If you want legal recourse against anyone commenting on your blog here, I suggest you stick to common law tort claims such as libel and defamation. I might even be willing to take your case, but I'd need a hefty retainer up front. Just sayin'.
What a great day for the "progressive" community.

Women undercut women.

Women fuck with Title XII.

Women have NO fucking clue about disability law and repeatedly break it. Ablonde unless you are a doctor, you have now broken Federal disability law multiple times. And each time you do, you will be reported.

Just because I don't like Obama and am independent and DO have a career that is not a "pink collar ghetto" job like you "girls" obviously do, and have, does not give you the right to shit all over my work. You don't know what the fuck you are talking about and you don't know how stupid, sexist and otherwise discriminatory you look. And if you take a look at Glenn Greenwald's column say, from yesterday, and the Time article on the fall of the Chief Counsel in Time this week, you would see that a great deal of what I wrote about the inner workings of the White House are CORRECT.

So until you do know what you are talking about, do yourselves a favor. Buy yourselves a muzzle and shut the fuck up.
sshhhh - I've figured it out.

It's Karl Rove, and he's in a lame-ass anti-and-therefore-pro misogynistic disguise.
I am trying to sort through and got stuck.

"It is against the law to even ASSUME that one has a mental illness or disability of any kind."

"You people are the ignorant morons and that is meant as an insult."
I take offence to being told I have the attention span of a nat.

I'll have you know it's as big as a whole gnat.

That's at least 25% more.
Now I know you are a plant...this can not be taken seriously...

Women have to know this is satire...

Women have to have broken out in laughter multiple times and each time you laughed you will be reported...

woah - wait a minute...is this Karl Rove?
GeeBee - could be, but purposefully and literally, or clinically?
Notice the other articles against the war?

Notice that nobody jumps on their shit the way you people jumped on me?

Notice that NOBODY TELLS THEM THAT WRITING A BLOG ON AFGHANISTAN IS NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS?

NOTICE THAT MOST OF THE OTHER WRITERS IF NOT ALL OF THEM ARE MEN?

NOTICE THAT NOBODY WHO HAS POSTED A COMMENT ON THIS POST TO DATE, PARTICULARLY THE NASTIEST, HAS ANY DC EXPERIENCE, NOT TO MENTION ANY CLUE ABOUT DISABILITY OR LABOR LAW AT ALL? Much less any in national politics, national security, dealing with DoD, (or any federal agency for that matter, much less the White House) Congressional experience or Labor or Civil Rights Law? Either in legislative form as in creating and passing it through Congress or case law?

It's impressive, I have to say, that so much invective is coming my way from people who don't know shit about squat. But seem intent on trashing me anyway.

Folks, your response to date, has been appalling, sexist, illegal, and yes, does in fact, break disability law, Title XII, the 1991 Civil Rights Act and the New Hate Crimes Bill.

But rather than get bogged down in legalize let's just focus on the main disability laws right now. Per both the ADA and the Rehab Act, when someone says, "go take your meds" it is a nasty, pejoritive way of saying you are mentally ill. PER CASE LAW. And interpreted by the Judiciary, you know those funny guys wearing the black robes, and nowadays thankfully some women too, as a way of discrediting someone. And therefore illegal. And considered both abusive and discriminatory under both disability laws I just mentioned, retaliation per the Civil Rights Law of 1991, and abusive per the new Hate Crimes legislation.

OOOPS.

Guess you haven't been following Congressional legislation, huh?

Telling someone to "take their meds" when you don't have a fucking clue if they have a disability or not or what kind of disability they have or if they need medication for it, but is usually used to imply mental illness is just like calling someone a coon or a nigger or a cunt. Except worse, because disability rights haven't even been really addressed yet. And the courts don't even give us proper protection. PWDs don't have affirmative action and even are considered to have less contractual value...as in slaves. We make up TWENTY PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY AND HAVE A NINETY PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATE....THAT THE LABOR DEPARTMENT NEVER COUNTS BECAUSE THEY CONSIDER US WALKING GARBAGE. Just like you do, based on the comments I've just elicited from some very discriminatory and bigoted individuals who have no idea what they are talking about.

Now, I don't attach stigma to someone who is mentally ill, because I don't attach stigma to disabilities. Of any kind.

But I am in the minority. Unfortunately.

Why?

Because I have disabilities myself, although of the physical kind, number 1. Number 2, I started losing friends to a devastating one called AIDS at about the age of 18, thanks to horrific government prejudice that Obama has yet to address so while people my age (and I'm Gen X) were going to weddings I was going to funerals, when the family allowed friends to attend that is, and 3, because I consider disability discrimination and civil rights for this community, which is TWICE AS LARGE AS THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY, just as important as racial and women's civil rights, right along with those of the LGBT community.

Clearly you people have not thought of those things at all. That is not unusual. Nobody thinks about gimps at all except to make fun of them. Like the President did when he made fun of retards on national TV. Notice how much action he's taken on the issue?

NONE.

That's why so many PWDs don't get hired, live in appalling conditions and poverty and don't even get access to proper healthcare. It's the American Apartheid. Right down to Bantu education. Separate and very unequal.

However, in making my point, which caused a hysterical reaction from the perps who said such appalling things in the first place when they had already been warned by me NOT to use such language again because it is illegal and HIGHLY OFFENSIVE, is that it IS VERY AND HIGHLY ILLEGAL per the language of both federal disability acts, one which applies to government, and one which applies to the private sector, which say very clearly (and I worked at the ACLU on Capitol Hill when the ADA legislation was being drafted, primarily by that office and inched through the Judiciary Committee, where Joe Biden at the time was Chair and Klein, now his Chief of Staff was his head counsel) and then worked that bill through the rest of Congress, that it is ILLEGAL per FEDERAL LAW to A) assume that one has a disability at all B) Assume what kind it is C) Diagnose or presuppose what kind of disability it is without the proper license...i.e. if one has a neurological disability, a psychiatrist cannot diagnose you, much less some dipshit anonymous blogger is allowed to say "take your meds" and yes, there is a difference between psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists, which is where there is going to be a huge amount of trouble for DoD/VA if not already with TBI plus PTSD and I have already warned ABlonde repeatedly NOT to say such things as "you must be off your meds" which implies by connotation that I/ or anybody has a mental disabililty. PER FEDERAL CASE LAW. It is also illegal to not hire somebody because of a disability if they are qualified for the job, not promote them because of it, not give them reasonable accomodations because of it, and give them all and equal access...which DOES NOT HAPPEN AND IS NOT ENFORCED.

I most certainly do not act that way. And while I do not find the issue of having any kind of disability stigmatizing, I find Ablonde's attitude and discriminatory comments appalling, offensive (and not just to me, but to a community far bigger because such things perpetuate stereotypes which are very damaging, so I'm not going to let her get away with that shit. She has no idea of the kind of suffering she is helping to perpetuate.

And it is HIGHLY ILLEGAL.

And since it does perpetuate stereotypes I'm going to put a stop to it. If I can kick the White Houses' ass, which I am in the process of doing, and not for the first time, to right an injustice that is appalling, trust me, Ablonde should be very careful where she steps with me. As should the rest of you people.

My neighbor, a homeless vet, named Charlie, lives around the corner from me. He lives in the Bowery Mission, which is famous in New York. He's a Vietnam vet and lost his leg there. He is one of the few guys who lives in the Mission who is not ashamed of calling it "home." He also has TBI, which alot of our vets have (it's being called the signature wound of both wars we are fighting) but also alot of civilians have. Natasha Richardson just died of it. So did Princess Di. There is NO PLAN IN PLACE NATIONALLY TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM. NO DOCTORS OR NURSES ARE TRAINED IN IT. THERE IS NO REHAB PROGRAM PLANNED FOR IT. NOTHING. EXCEPT FOR ONE PLAN. MINE. And I don't want to see another generation of Charlie's. So before you write me off as some nasty blonde bitch (i.e Anne Coulter or Ablonde) consider THAT too. As well as one of the reasons I am so pissed off at this administration. Because that is one of the BIG TICKET ITEMS that it has just completely walked away from. And if you think that this is a charity issue, you are WRONG. My plan saves YOU, the taxpayer, at least the equivalent of the national debt, even the REVISED BIGGER ONE, annually, by letting these folks back into the work force. Which the government is specifically keeping out of it. That is another reason why I am taking NO PRISONERS, metaphorically speaking. I have a sense of humor about alot of things. But not that kind of suffering and pain. Or people who make fun of it and have to go through it. Those people I figuratively speaking of course, NAIL TO THE WALL. BY WHATEVER MEANS I HAVE AT MY DISPOSAL. CAPICHE?

I have warned Ablonde repeatedly and she has not listened, therefore, I am going to stop her if necessary by legal action if she does not either cease and desist or take the hint. Or rather in this case DIRECT WARNING and already submitted complaint, because this is not the first time this has happened.

If ANY OF YOU people had any idea what kind of shit the disability community in this country actually does have to face because of stereotypes, discrimination, lack of funding and sheer nastiness (1/5th of the population folks) because of the kind of stereotypical nastiness and crap and rampant discrimination that is on full display here, and I was trying to teach Ablonde a lesson so she would stop her nasty discriminatory shit, you would also can it. Clearly you also do not. Mixed with the kind of sexist crap which was on full display last year as well, with comments like "Hillary is pimping out Chelsea." On one of the networks. I don't remember which one, but again, they all look the same, report the same things, and all hire the same clones. And only send male reporters to cover the prestigious career building beats. In case that's skipped your attention too.

I can't stand Hillary Clinton, but I would have had somebody's job over that. IF NOT HEAD ON A PLATTER FOR SAYING SOMETHING LIKE THAT ABOUT MY DAUGHTER. That was APPALLING.

What century are we in again? Are dinosaurs still on the planet? Are men still neanderthals, because they sure are acting that way. Starting with OBAMA. THERE ARE NO WHITE WOMEN AT ANY LEADING ROLES IN THIS ADMINISTRATION IN THEIR THIRTIES OR FORTIES EITHER IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR AT THE HEAD OF A CABINET POSITION.

WHY NOT?

It is appalling. It is sexist, it is racist and the image of Michelle Obama is setting women's rights' back at least 20 years. I don't care if she is black and went to an Ivy. She is doing really stupid things. The proposal I sent to my buddies in the White House days after the inauguration included a whole section on organic gardening....except that because I had done my homework I had also lined up all the soil testers I needed because UNLIKE Mrs. Obama, despite the fact that I don't have a staff of 20, I did MY HOMEWORK, chased down the soil testers in my district and sent the proposal to her staff. As well as my personal contacts at 1600 Penn. Not to mention met with my Congresswoman who is also head of the Small Business Committee in Congress. But of course, Mrs. Obama knows better, right, because going to an Ivy means you're smarter, right?

WRONG.

And that is one of the biggest critiques I have of this administration. Not to mention DC.

Where money, "prestige" where you went to school (not what you learn) and power are all that counts. Not meritocracy or working your ass off....the things that America was built on and capitalism is all about. But rather parlor tricks, including media manipulation which I suspect to this day is what the "break in" was, given my working knowledge of how the White House works. Based on the fact that I have working knowledge of the fucking real estate in question.

Now...challenge me on those facts all you want. But it better be based on experience not prejudice, sexism, disability Bullshit or we just don't like her because we like Obama better even though we don't know what the fuck we are talking about.

Which is why my next blog is going to be about the cruelty of this society in general towards people with disabilities and the way that they are treated by the so called "mainstream."

Secondly, I find it appalling that a woman with real national security and national White House and media experience not to mention media literacy who sits down and writes an investigative article on what I know the mainstream media IS NOT REPORTING and in fact many of the aspects of this story are being born out in mainstream mags already (i.e. the Time Story on the politicization of the White House and its image not to mention policy decisions, and the departure of the Chief White House Counsel) not to mention the fact that I have probably more experience than most MALE reporters currently in DC in terms of time spent ON MILITARY BASES NATIONALLY, not to mention the Pentagon itself, and getting into places where I wasn't supposed to be, all I get is sexist discriminatory bullshit and mostly from women at that. And charges of "shrieking."

Did any of you geniuses ever notice that Dianne Sawyer was dressed in blue as in "Nun" when she did her series on Prostitution? on ABC was it? I told you, I never remember those stupid networks any more. They are all the same. But the imagery here is important. This is how visual propaganda works. This is how media strategists work. How do I know that? I have worked at it and in it in the nastiest shark tank on the planet. And around the best of them. FOR YEARS. Not only that, but I also studied Hitler's propaganda machine and a female filmmaker he used (my father was a German Jew and Holocaust survivor and most of my family died in Buchenwald) and my family is WORLD FAMOUS in several different fields, including industrial design and art. Which also makes me very practiced in things like visual design, use of color, strategic placement, strategy, etc. You have no idea who you are trashing. And I find it highly insulting because you are doing it to a woman you think is a nobody who you can get away with doing it to.

YOU CAN'T.

Not to mention, since when did anyone call Glenn Greenwald "shrieking" over his continued critiques of the Obama administration? Hmmm? Much less the Bush administration?

Oh, with a comment from a guy that flipped my wig about "what business is it of yours about what we do in Afghanistan."

When did someone say the same thing to David Sirota?

When the fuck did you ever read that kind of misogynist BULLSHIT on ANY MALE REPORTER's blog?

Starting with male reporters right here on Salon? Who I have at least as much experience as as both a reporter and in Constitutional law. AND NATIONAL POLITICS. Not to mention business, national media, IT and a few other things as well. And in DC and in New York. Not to mention a stint on Wall Street as well as very well developed understanding and experience in high levels of finance and business, not to mention IT infrastructure and design. And am one of the leading cleantech experts in the country. One of my paternal uncles INVENTED THE PHRASE "THE INFORMATION ECONOMY AND WORKER." Jesus you people are condescending and sexist. Not to mention dismissive of anyone who doesn't say "STARLET HERE." This whole nation is a country of star fuckers. No wonder you love Obama.

Get over it.

Celebrity sucks. It makes people fucked up. Look at what Tiger Woods is going through. Would you want that kind of attention paid to your private life?

If any of you had visited my website, I seriously doubt that Mr. Greenwald (or any of you for that matter) has a letter of commendation from a U.S. Supreme Court Justice named BRENNAN for HIS WORK at the age of 25....even without going to LAW SCHOOL. NEITHER DOES OBAMA. And while I respect the work of Mr. Tribe, there is that saying in academia....those who cannot do, teach. And Mr. Obama didn't even go to Harvard until what, he was at least five years older than I was when I got my recommendation? And I'm five years YOUNGER THAN HE IS.

SO CUT THE CRAP. ASAP. It is offensive, defamatory and illegal.

I have experienced the most appalling discrimination I have ever seen in my life over the past couple of years.... And part of it is because of how our society has changed, thanks to Bush. We have become a very intolerant, racist, sexist, discriminatory country. But in term of my life, I have faced unbelievable shit from both a Wall Street bank and the government. At all levels. And now I am watching the circus going on in DC with disbelief. The Democrats have become the Republicans and the Republicans, with some notable exceptions are somewhere in the Twilight Zone. Yet Mr. Obama is going right like there is no tomorrow. Why?

I am also watching the supposed "progressive community" still support a President who has now broken something like 515 campaign promises in less than 11 months in office and BIG ONES, that affect YOUR PRIVACY AND THE CONSTITUTION. You know, things that made me personally, I don't know about you, vote for the man in the first place.

And know without a doubt because of his backsliding, that this country has taken a major step backwards in things like women's rights, any sort of economic equality, the disability issue is one that HAS to be dealt with unless you want to take the Limbaugh approach and exterminate everyone right now. Because that stinking healthcare bill doesn't even deal with TBI. And run of the mill neurological disorders like say Parkinson's or brain tumors cost on average about thirty grand IN COPAYS ALONE PER YEAR TO TREAT.

YOU HAVE THAT HANDY? FOR SAY TWENTY YEARS?

I didn't think so either. 1 in 3 Americans faces that risk. And shit like the kind dished out by Ablonde. Not to mention a life of poverty, substandard living conditions, sadistic "healthcare" workers, appalling access to healthcare and if you have those kinds of conditions, you won't be able to afford your meds, thanks to the stupid healthcare bill. Unlike some people I DO THE MATH. AND READ THE FUCKING LEGISLATION.

THESE ARE ISSUES THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION PROMISED TO ADDRESS THAT IT IS DUCKING, DODGING OR EVEN ABANDONING COMPLETELY. THAT IS APPALLING. To the point that Nancy "Don't Cry for me Pharmantina" Pelosi could strip Medicaid patients from being able to get abortions.

Get real folks. Do you really want another poor mother to bring another poor kid she can't support onto the planet? Where are your heads as in pocketbooks and economics, since your hearts are cold as stone? This is a disaster in the making. That I, unlike most of you apparently have done my homework on, gone through, line by line and analyzed as a business model and economist as I was classically trained to be....and this bill makes no sense. ECONOMICALLY. EVEN AS A COMPROMISE.

And yet all I get is "Anne Coulter Lite" or "You are off your meds"

Don't you read the blogosphere? Or the mainstream press....like say that way out lefty mag called TIME MAGAZINE?

Don't you read about the morning phone calls between Rahmbo and Stephie and Begala, not to mention Cue ball Head? What do you think they are doing? Swapping girl talk? Hem lines? The latest in fashion? Or maybe recipes for Banana Bread?

Have you ever read of the Gulf of Tonkin...do you know what that was? Or meant? Or triggered? Or was used as an excuse for?

Do you understand what leaders will do to distract people so they can go off and do other things in secret...like say oh, Roosevelt did with "Cash and Carry" during the thirties...which gave him an excuse to do business with EVERYONE including Hitler until Pearl Harbor, even though he knew the Jews were already being slaughtered, to help the US economy while pretending of course that Hitler was terrible. And forbidding all immigration to the U.S. for European Jews through who? Joe Kennedy, daddy of the famous Kennedy clan who was an anti semitic fuck. Oh, didn't know about that did you? Thanks to him most of my family died in Buchenwald. Thanks Joe. You bastard.

My father's first wife discovered Marilyn Monroe. My older brother used to play softball with her in the surf when she and Norman Mailer lived next door to my dad and Eve Arnold. So I know stories that I'll never tell about the amount of illegal drugs that went into the fucking White House. And why the FBI has sex tapes on Marilyn. So can it with the fucking bullshit. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO I AM, WHERE I COME FROM AND WHAT OR WHO I KNOW. I AM AS MUCH A CYPHER AS A BLACK CANDIDATE FROM ILLINOIS WITH A FUNNY NAME.....AND NOBODY GAVE HIM ANYWHERE NEAR THIS KIND OF SHIT....except for one thing. His Muslim middle name.

Unlike Obama however, I'm not a politician. I stick by my guns, (figuratively speaking....I hate the real things, although I'm not going to get into any 2nd Amendment discussions) and I've NEVER sold anyone out. EVER. FOR ANYTHING. HONOR. BRAVERY. LEADERSHIP. THE BUCK STOPS HERE. Boy, you got me any day of the week. But this crap?

NO WAY. It's bullshit. Camille Paglia, who I rarely agree with, even called Obama a young Peron, and I have to say I agree with her. He has no principles...he's all politics. Which is not what America needs right now. And goes to that saying...if you won't stand for something, you'll go for anything....

You wanna be the next Turkey to be sold out? Keep putting me down. Keep shutting your eyes. Keep telling yourself "it could never happen to me." Go right ahead. I'm not stopping you. There's the fucking gun. Point it at your head. Play Russian Roulette all you want. BE MY GUEST.

I have said this before and I will say this again. If you disagree with my politics fine. But it's clear that most readers don't even know what my politics are.

If you don't understand something I've written or the connections I've made, ask a question, either by posting a comment or sending me an email. I'm always polite to a polite question. I always answer my email.

But this bullshit misogynist, trashing of my work as some sort of whacked out lunatic is both out of place and illegal. Under all statutes mentioned above. Not to mention unbelievably inappropriate. And abusive.

For those of you who do NOT read my posts on a regular basis, I do have disabilities, one caused by the illegal activities of a big, rich, Wall Street Bank. The disability in question is called DYSTONIA which is a neurological, physical disability, which in this case was caused by additional brain damage because of illegal behavior by a bank bailed out by billions of your tax payer dollars while I'm still waiting for the goverment to investigate my case. And out of work for almost three years because NOBODY HIRES GIMPS.

Dystonia is a condition that causes uncontrolled muscle cramps, and in my case affects the entire left side of my body, hurts like a mother, and also gives me a speech impediment which developed over the last two years or so, so now I get called "retard" to my face as well. And will for the rest of my life.

Isn't that fucking funny? Hysterical even? And when those bastards beat me up, they smashed my head right into the wall right where my first disability is...caused by TBI....causing me to black out for weeks....but not covered under the shit called Medicaid that I have to live on now because I don't have any of my savings left.

Aren't you laughing your asses off now? Isn't that fucking funny? It's also illegal under the HATE CRIMES BILL OBAMA JUST SIGNED, but his staff ignored it and beat me up anyway. WHAT DO YOU ASSHOLES SAY TO THAT NOW. STILL LAUGHING?

But NEITHER OF MY CONDITIONS are MENTAL DISABILITIES. Which is another reason why I find Ablonde's comments so offensive. Not only for my sake...but also because I know that this is EXACTLY what our vets are going to face since Obama's fucking staff, not to mention Obama himself refuses to sit down and talk about the proposal that his own goddammed DEFENSE DEPARTMENT who hated my guts when I kicked their asses on a regular basis IN MY TWENTIES, loves.

WHY NOT?

PRIDE?

It would save you a shit load of money and put you people back to work. I find that offensive too.

I also find it highly offensive that the men on this site would brush aside a professional career of over 20 years that kicks the ass of even the fucking President's. And I have just as much experience in DC as Rambo. I just never have been a bully. I don't like them very much. In my experience they are usually cowards and assholes.

I started changing STATE Policy at the age of 19, with a god damned loaded double barrel shot gun held to my head, BY KLANSMEN, putting my life and my academic scholarship on the line for racial rights for minorities, and started changing national policy in Congress at the age of 23. Have any of you done that?

Including saving USUHS, the school that trained the shooter at FORT HOOD, from a misplaced budget ax. It is the ONLY MILITARY MEDICAL SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY that trains doctors military medicine....which means they learn how to deal with mass casualty as well as how to read maps...all things that doctors in the field have to know when dealing with battlefield conditions. So unless you have a record like that I seriously suggest that you keep your trap shut about my knowledge of DC, my comitment to a better world, who I am, what I know, who I know and what I have done, not to mention my experience and that I know what the fuck I am talking about.

So can it with the Bullshit, the condescending crap. And most of all, the highly illegal insinuations that I have a mental disability.

Furthermore, I voted for Obama, despite, what you might not want to know, faced considerable discrimination from the campaign itself, WAS beaten up by the Obama people themselves with an NYPD police report to prove it this August, plus have a witness to testify, and the FEDERAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PLUS THE WHITE HOUSE AND NANCY PELOSI'S OFFICE HAVE ALL REFUSED TO INVESTIGATE. And this with two of my undergrad colleagues at senior positions in THE WHITE HOUSE. Who are also refusing to look at what DoD has called one of the best proposals they have ever seen on both greening DoD and dealing with THE MOST COMPLICATED DISABILITY THERE IS. Not to mention passing it on to the Oval Office. In fact, DOD told me that my proposal is not only light years ahead of them as an agency, but the best in the country. And even better, it provides jobs for the able bodied too. NOW. THAT MEANS YOU.

Even more reason to not meet with me at the White House, right? When they are doing such a great job themselves at things like Job creation.

You can deny it, you can try to call me a Republican, you can call me crazy (although I will report all violations of civil rights laws to the editors of the site and their ISP) but this is what is going on in THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. Who by the way, also, through DOJ just tried to get through the the ISP of a liberal blogzine, just like Salon, although a little more to the left, addresses and all personal information including home addresses, telephone numbers, credit card information and social security numbers, not to mention things like email accounts and password information, and those who visited the zine site....Luckily the ISP, following best practices of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sort of a techier ACLU, doesn't keep logs and routinely dumps them, and who refused to give it to DOJ. But this is what this administration is doing...and of course has a huge impact on the disabilities community who uses the internet and adaptive technology to level the playing field...how I'll explain in my next post.

But this is another thing that the mainstream media is NOT REPORTING. While the Obama administration is repeating the fiction that they are committed to an open government.

BULLSHIT.

So watch your fucking asses...and there will be a story forthcoming on that appalling scenario shortly too. I'm splitting my time between building a website, writing legal briefs and dealing with your shit. Which includes such grown up commentary as pointing out my spelling mistakes. BFD.

I notice that nobody ever calls Glenn Greenwald nuts, or David Sirota the male Anne Coulter. Or discredits them or tries to, based on spelling errors, when there is no spellcheck on this fucking site.

Take a long look at yourselves in the mirror and your own prejudices and maybe reread the above, more slowly next time before you post such disgusting things again. It's also actionable under defamation laws. Which are even more expensive.

FYI

I'm done commenting on this blog, but I have to say, it is a very poor commentary on those who are on this site and have left such appalling comments.

And do me a favor....read my next blog and get back to me on whether that is a "rant" or not. Which personally I have no idea what qualifies for or not...except if you like it or not or it takes a position you agree with or not. Which is what I think is what you people call a "rant." Again, something I NEVER hear or read as a description on reporters blogs like Sirota or Greenwald who are reporting on exactly the same kinds of things and critiquing the same issues of this administration. Is it because they have penises that they are allowed to say such things? Is that your point?

Because if that's the angle you are coming from you know where you can shove it.

Or whether you start to understand why I am so pissed off with this administration.

Including the fact, as I will discuss next time the fact that despite Mr. Obama's stated goal to make disability issues, specifically autism, which is a neurological, physical disability, although yes, it does occur in the noggin, affecting among other things, communication, a major goal of his administration, he has just basically ordered the British Government who have disgustingly complied, to hand over, as in extradite, against his will, a 42 year old computer genius and hacker who happens to be autistic (autistics often find that adaptive technology is the best way they can communicate) who managed to hack his way into the deepest part of the US National Security Complex.

Why?

He was looking for aliens, UFO's and evidence of intelligent alien life. Trust me, he won't find any there. Exhibit A: Invasion of Afghanistan.

Laugh all you want to, but in this case, he was for real. He really was looking for aliens. And in an odd way it makes sense. Have you ever heard of Area 51? A place so secret out in the Nevada Desert that it's still an official "secret" but where they used to test the Stealth Bomber. And for years a whole culture was built up around people who swore UFO's were visiting earth on a regular basis. Check out the Deseret Rat sometime....it's the local publication of the area that regularly posts "sightings"....and these are "normal" every day Americans.

But in this case, who knows what the guy was thinking. I happen to think that what he says is true. His mom, who he still lives with, is heartbroken. She knows she's losing her son forever for something that he thought was completely innocent. But Obama, in his I know better, I'm going to be tough on "terrorists," has decided to put to death. Still laughing now? ISN'T THAT FUCKING FUNNY?

I'm sure Ablonde would tell him to take his meds too.

However, it is appalling that this administration would take this position. And a horrific case of disability discrimination. People who's brains are wired differently, think differently too. Just like people who have more melanin in their skin look different than Caucausians. And men's brains are different than women's and wired differently also. That doesn't mean that one person is smarter, better, or more intelligent. That is the great lie of IQ tests and one of THE most insidious issues about disability discrimination.

Obama plans to put him on trial as a terrorist...seeking the death penalty. When this guy is a 42 year old kid, literally...a Matthew Broderick on a War Games kick, who did something that most people could never do.

I mean can you hack the NSC?

Give it a go sometime. I DOUBT IT.

Instead of killing him, they should hire him. He could teach those dipshits a thing or two....certainly considering the White House's screwups about "security".

But Obama, despite all the lip flap of the campaign, and despite the fact that his wife for all her BS on the campaign trail of having a father with a neurological disability too, is going to try to kill this poor guy. And that is hypocritical, discriminatory and abusive.

It is also one of THE MOST DISGUSTING STORIES I can possibly imagine, but typical of the kind of cruelty and lack of understanding that goes right along with disability discrimination. Not to mention Obama's continual hypocrisy.

Not to mention our president's continual "spin". ON EVERYTHING. Which is exactly what the blog was about in the first place.

And I want to end this with a special little morality tale to hopefully make you understand why I am so disgusted. Both in general and specifically with this administration on certain issues and overall in its approach to governing, it's hypocrisy, it's lies and it's deceit, which includes, whether you like it or not, a HUGE dollop of media manipulation. Whether or not the "break in" was a setup or not.

Remember the story about Sarah Palin's email account being hacked when she was the Republican VP candidate?

Well, they caught the perp. He was the twenty something, "able bodied" son of a Democratic southern state senator, and when caught, got a slap on the wrist for doing so. Now, I don't like Palin. In fact, I despise her for exactly what Obama is turning into. She stands for what is absolutely the WORST about this country and is absolutely uneducated, stupid, greedy and corrupt, although I have to say this administration is doing it's best to catch up.

That said, I would NEVER VOTE FOR HER. HOWEVER, at the time her email account was hacked, she was was running for VP, and thus this hack was also considered a breach of national security. Yet this kid got off with a slap on the wrist because of who his daddy is (A Southern Democratic politician) and because he is "normal" not to mention because Sarah Palin of course is both a woman and a Republican ex Presidential VP (with a kid with a disability at that) and the British autistic hacker is probably going to be executed as a "terrorist." Who has no relatives here and no way to hire a real defense attorney.

Do some thinking about that.

Now do you understand why I am trying to reach out to you so you can start to decipher the cipher....or what some Republicans called on the campaign trail The Manchurian Candidate.

Guess what? Some of them were right. Obama is political...he doesn't have a party. Except his own.

That is why he hired Rahmbo as COS. And he is a nasty, MF with NO MORALS WHATSOEVER.

That has always been Rambo's MO, as long as I've been in DC and known him, which at this point is over twenty years. And I'm sorry if that is intimidating to those of you who just learned who he is, but I've known about him and been about two people removed from him for about two decades. Now I'm one person away from the President. BFD.

I learned long ago, that labels don't mean anything. Neither does "status". Nor does celebrity. Just because I vote democrat, doesn't mean that I don't THINK.

I also think Ron Paul (Republican House member from Texas) rather unbelievably, is a goddamned hero for leading the charge to audit the fed, legalize pot and a few other things.

But you people have a lot of thinking to do about your own prejudices about women in society, women in the progressive wing of the party, women in business, media and politics, not to mention the military and national security, and of course economics. Not to mention discrimination in general and of course disability issues.

At 1600 Penn, Mr. Summers thinks that anyone who has tits is biologically naturally inferior, despite the fact that a woman just won the Nobel in economics this year. And a woman warned Mr. Greenspan of the danger of unregulated derivatives in what 1998/99 for which he promptly ruined her career. Along with Mr. Summers. I don't hear too much about that these days either.

I notice nobody on the Hill much less this site, said a damned thing about that prize in economics. And she deserved the prize for HER work a hell of alot more than the man at 1600 Penn.

So if you don't understand this article, read the article again. Line by line. I broke it down, element by element for a purpose.

If you have questions, send me a message or post a polite email. I will respond to that.

But trashing me isn't going to shut me up, it's only going to piss me off.

And as far as I can tell, the nastiest comments are coming from people who are either morons as in idiots with no education (not with learning disabilities, there is a difference, and if you notice I make a distinction that none of you do) most of the women here seem quite jealous that I have experiences that none of them have, along with quite a few of the men, although it cost me alot to get it, and I'm fighting a hell of a battle right now as we speak. That I doubt many of you could even begin to fight. Or even know how. And I can't talk about yet but I will as soon as I can. It is unbelievable, corrupt, and involves almost every agency in this goddamned administration. With a paper trail that probably leaves me responsible for the deforestation of at least a quarter of Central Park.

So instead of tearing me down, for yes, what was a tongue in cheek piece, but about a very serious subject, please examine your own prejudices instead.

And remember....minds are like parachutes. They only function when open. Clearly there aren't too many of them that are on this site at the moment. Or people feel very threatened by the fact that their "hope and change president" ain't.

Or feel extremely threatened by a woman with serious professional cred who challenges the status quo and writes a story that nobody had even thought about. Not to mention the cred of the White House.

GOD. As Melville once wrote, the more original, the easier it is for critics to trash you.

Congratulations.

You are proving the greatest literary genius of this country absolutely right. And they called Melville crazy too. For writing a book called Moby Dick that today we consider the greatest novel ever written in American literary history.

Something for you all to consider...and check out on my URL...especially as I am also writing about Melville. You'll find the opening chapters on the website too.

So until next time, think about your own discriminatory bullshit before posting any more manure.

Until next bat time on the same bat channel.

Gimp Godzilla over and out.
Over and over again, I ask you, politely, about Tom Cruise. You refuse to answer me. I have many reasons for asking if you know him. A lot of reasons.

Otherwise, I have little more to say except that you are truly bat shit over the top crazy. CRAZY. When you are finally carted off by the men in the white suits (do they do that anymore?) I hope the admin of the nut house has the presence of mine to cut off your access to the internet, if only as a humane gesture to spare us all from your convoluted drivel. Get a grip lady. Take the meds. It's so fucking obvious that you are bipedal and its time to hop on another bike.

You need help, I urge you to get it. There is some form of intelligence lurking in there, get some help and put it to work. Stop cursing at everyone here and using nasty words too.
Interesting how you're just certain that everyone who responds to you is some ignorant rube. You have no idea where we are, where we have lived, our experiences, etc., but are mighty quick to decide that we're all idiots. Maybe we have a lot more experience in matters that are relevant to you but just don't dine out on them. A little food for thought there.

You can complain all you want about the men on Salon not getting grief for their posts, but Glenn Greenwald doesn't accuse anyone who disagrees with him of being anti-Semitic, threaten to take people to court, or remind them who his relatives are (who cares? I'm glad you have distinguished relatives. I have no idea how they are relevant here.) If Greenwald wants to write about Evan Bayh and what a sleaze he thinks he is, he lays out his case and that's it -- no discussions about his health, his work history, his IQ, his shoe size -- just Evan Bayh. The other writers do the same, male and female. They may argue back with posters, but refrain from the "Do you have any idea who you're talking to?" or "Obviously you have never been to DC" responses. That's why you're not going primetime. I actually do a lot of this for a living. If you can't stay on topic, your readers won't either.

I'm sorry, but this is blogarrhea. I am a crack typist and even I couldn't get all this stuff out without taking a good bit of time. Go ahead and accuse any female of being jealous and any man of being threatened by your intellect. You're obviously intelligent, but it's difficult to accept, with no other evidence, much of what you say. I'm even having a hard time believing that you're hard at work on your case (and I know a *lot* more about disability than you think, but probably so do a lot of other posters here). I'd suggest you spend your time working on your health; surely that's challenging enough.
This post is challenging in a few ways. It is quite long. It challenges the mainstream narrative directly. It speaks from a place that is obscure to most.

I think folks can read it, or not, and take it for what it is to them, for better or worse.

Reeling off uninformed insults in a blog comment thread is not helpful, to the commenter or to the poster. Accusing the poster of not 'getting' readers different experience compounds the original insult with a kind of hypocrisy. After all, aren't readers who are put off not 'getting' the posters experience?

We are all ill-situated to confirm or deny any aspect of a blogger's experience or claims.

We should all have some humility about this and confine ourselves to engaging people whom we understand and enjoy.

Sorry to be all smarmy and 'high road' about the thing. It's just a natural consequence of my new goals of peace, love and understanding.
I read this post twice and while I possibly agree with the idea that these people didn't simply "crash" the dinner, this post doesn't persuade me one way or the other.

You make a lot of statements of fact, backed up only by the notion that you know the truth and the rest of us don't. That's not usually enough to influence people's opinions, certainly not mine.

Also, the Rudyard Kipling reference makes no sense to me. You devote a couple of paragraphs to an incident that didn't happen. Why is what Michelle Obama didn't do relevant? She also didn't offer the Prime Minister a hamburger. What am I missing here?

I'm not going to name-call here, but this post is a long-winded road to nowhere.

In the end I haven't learned a single thing about the President, the State Dinner, the gatecrashers, or the culpability (or not) of the Secret Service.
Glenn doesn't get comments like "Afghanistan is none of your business" or that he is "shrieking". Those are very gender coded words as anyone who has taken a gender awareness class 101 knows and NOT gender neutral. Not to mention I have worked in the national press for too long not to understand very well what they mean.

Secondly, having worked in disability rights, and being as familiar as you say that you are, then you should know that the statement to someone you don't know, and who have no clue about, much less if they have a disability or what kind of disability they have to "go take your meds" is illegal. EXTREMELY so. And given the appalling state of the disabilities community which you would also know, and should be actively fighting for, EVERY TIME someone says something like that it is to be countered and FORCEFULLY.

Perhaps I overreacted to the other comments. If I did, I am sorry. I am used to writing and producing for a sophisticated political national audience who gets the references I use.

If that is not this blog, but certainly the language used by the men on the front pages of Salon, then again, there seems to be a disconnect. Do you people not read Sirota and Greenberg's work, or does it seem "disconnected" when it is written by a man instead of a woman? Again, I'm sorry, that seems to be a gender thing as well.

Because I have never seen such comments before in my life.

This was a very easy story to understand.

White House set up "break in"

"Break in occurs"

"Staff falls on swords to protect real devious masterminds"

"This is a diversion from what is really going on."

"The events are connected by proximity"

"These are the reasons why I believe this is the case that this was not an "accident."

Very simple. With a little humor, flavor and literary flowery language thrown in for good measure.

If that style is not what Salon readers want, or can understand that's fine. I welcome the feedback.

It just doesn't have to be so bitchy, sexist, and I will not, EVER, take the disability shit again. There are too many people suffering from the effects of that kind of disgusting discriminatory attitude which shows both ignorance and bigotry and is leading, for example, to a man with a disability, and a severe one at that, just losing his second round of appeal for extradition to the U.S. to be tried as a "terrorist" and probably put to death, because he has a very complicated neurological disorder, originally in the first article I saw it was printed as autism, but the latest article I saw it was Auspergers, but the same is true of that condition...people with both conditions find it harder to communicate in person than with adaptive technology and computers. And this was a 42 year old genius hacker who hacked himself right into the core of the NSC computer super duper computer center looking for aliens. Something that his "disability" gave him the "ability" to do. I mean I sure as hell can't do that.

And fucking Obama is going to put him to death.

That is beyond disgusting and beyond the pale. It is inhumane, it is indecent, and it shows a fundamental lack of understanding of what disabilities are, what that disability is, what neurological vs. psychiatric disabilities are and what gifts they bring as well as the drawbacks. And how we as a society need to adapt to them. NOT PUNISH THEM.

They should be fucking hiring the guy. I mean that's what they did with the Nazi's to help them build the bomb. If they can hire Nazi war criminals to build a bomb, they can certainly hire a man with a disability who was innocently looking for UFO's to help them strengthen the security of the U.S. rather than executing him. Especially as the white, "able bodied" son of a DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR FROM THE SOUTH was finally fingered as the perp who hacked Sarah Palin's email when she was running for VP. Now again. I don't like Sarah Palin. I will never vote for her. But as a candidate for VP she was under secret service protection and therefore all of her communication was under protection of the U.S. government and classified as top secret as well. And that should and must be honored, whether I like her or planned to vote for her or not. THOSE ARE NATIONAL CANDIDATES IN A U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. I couldn't care less what I or you or anyone else thinks of her personally. Once she becomes a candidate, the rules change dramatically.

The U.S. kid with the well connected daddy and no disability got a slap on the wrist. The poor gimp from England is going to get fried so Obama can "look tough on terrorists."

This is called abuse. It is also called discrimination. Of several kinds. Of power, of money, of political connections. AND IT IS ILLEGAL.

But this is the kind of shit, along with a 90% unemployment rate mostly due to discrimination, substandard EVERYTHING, from education to housing to healthcare that this community gets. And if that stupid twit does not stop with mental health Baloney she will get sued. For several reasons. One, right now I am in the middle of several very large battles with several large Goliaths. I am not going to let some dumb bitch who has no idea what the hell she is talking about spew verbal shit into cyberspace and let it go unchecked. I can't. Legally. Second of all, she has no fucking clue what she is talking about when it comes to me. I have PHYSICAL DISABILITIES. She seems to think I have psychiatric disabilities for some reason and is using that as a way to put me down. She is not a doctor, she has not examined me and she is not fucking qualified legally to even say such things. THAT IS DEFAMATION. AND ACTIONABLE. And not only is that insulting because I have repeatedly told her to STOP and she doesn't listen, which is annoying enough and bordering on abuse but ILLEGAL.

But it is also illegal because I have also taken both the risk of exposing my own private medical condition online, which are PHYSICAL DISABILITIES in public to try and teach her something for her and other people's good, not because I personally think that having a "mental" or more accurately psychiatric disability is stigmatizing, because I don't have that kind of discriminatory attitude, but because I know that it adds to a discriminatory environment and stereotypes.

And that is why I am not going to let her continue with this crap. I am going to make sure that she and anyone else who does this is taught a lesson. End of conversation. And if you are a doctor or a mental health professional, you will understand entirely what I am talking about. There is too much suffering and too much discrimination to let that kind of shit continue unchecked. It is why I have been an activist all of my life, and for many causes, including the disability cause, starting with AIDS, but actually with racism and the GLBT community because one of my best friends in high school who was gay tried to commit suicide after coming out to his parents who promptly disowned him. And I started going to funerals when my gay friends in college started dying around oh, 18, 19 or so. So I have a long history of dealing with mental health issues. And physical ones too. Other people's. And mine. And sure, I get depressed sometimes myself. Developing a life changing second disability that gets you called "retard" to your face and will affect my life forever was no picnic folks. There have been bad days. But I'm not clinically depressed. I have chosen to focus my life in a positive direction. And that is to fight for my life and dignity in it and those who are caught in exactly the same situation.

Luckily for me, I have not had a visible disability all of my life. I am very well educated, although I am routinely treated as if I am retarded, and this forum I'm sorry, is sexist, and the combination in general in the real world SUCKs to the point of in fact called retard to my face, gone through absolute hell both in terms of an illegal termination, developing this fucking thing, re-aligning my entire universe and figuring out what I am going to do next. While barely surviving. I know. Small violin for me. There's a starving child in Africa. Right? It just hasn't been the easiest three years of my life. But one of the other things I do know is that I am NOT going to let some stupid woman with excuse the sexist expression, but I can't think of a better word, "hard on" for "diagnosing" me or dismissing me as some kind of manic depressive head case get away with that bullshit. There are alot of reasons why I am making such a big deal about this. Most people DO NOT KNOW THEIR RIGHTS. And part of what I am doing is trying to at least, help really dispossessed people reclaim their lives. As well as help the average American go green. That is what my website and Work Fair are all about. And that is how I have chosen to refocus my life. And give it meaning. However big the Goliaths I have to face.

However, a large part of that is also education about what disabilities are and what they mean.

And for most people, DISABLED and having a disability are one and the same. It means stupid, garbage, crazy, not worth anything, the courts actually think you are worth less, state programs and even insurance companies or worse, doctors will sometimes send you to the wrong kind of person to document your disability in those situations where you have to ask for accommodations at work. That is a biggie. So let's say you have a neurological condition but it is misdiagnosed by a psychiatrist. You go to court. Thanks to the redo of the ADA last year, the rules are relaxed, you make it through to trial (before the change in the law, most ADA cases never made past what is called summary judgment and were dismissed because the judges found fault with the plaintiff's argument, usually that they weren't disabled enough under the law to be covered by it....yes it's stupid, but that is one of the problems with this whole mess) judges still regard having a physical or neurological disability as being more of a "person" than having a "mental" condition. Unfortunately. So because you were misdiagnosed, you lose alot of money because of the vaguaries of case law. Although that is a very primitive way of thinking, that is reality. And that is what I face.

And if that dipshit doesn't realize it, despite my repeated and polite attempts to explain my condition and for her to stop it, I'm going to rub her fucking nose in it until she fucking gets it and STOPS.

I know a great deal about neuroscience, my conditions and my treatment. Ultimately the brain is one big electrical circuit. But again I am responding to you in a polite and professional way because you seem to be a professional and asked a polite question. Ablonde is off on some other planet. I don't know who she is, I have disclosed personal medical information to educate people for a reason, about very rare and comorbid conditions that are extremely difficult to treat, even harder to find a specialist who treats both, and in fact can't be treated properly on this shit called Medicaid that I'm currently living on because you know they can bail out Wall Street in two seconds flat, but hey, I can wait over three years and well, why do I need any help, right?

There is NO HELP in fact no program exists EXCEPT MINE in the country that the leading FEDERAL AGENCY HAS PRAISED AS AHEAD OF EVEN THEM...the TBI CENTERS FOR EXCELLENCE...which is located out of DoD...and I think I make it pretty clear on my website that DoD and I had a fairly uh, tempestuous relationship while I lived in DC....I worked for some time for a very cool, small Pentagon watchdog that basically paid my rent and I raised the rest of everything and went out and kicked their asses. On everything. Budget overruns. Illegal programs...etc. But I did help save USUHS. Anyway...despite that...and I did remind them of that, they love the program. I am ONE PERSON, an undergraduate anti apartheid organizing colleague, who is now Deputy White House Counsel, and who went to Harvard with Obama, away from getting this to him. Not only is she refusing, knowing that you know there is pressing need for this not only for vets but for civilians with disabilities, and not just with TBI, but of all kinds, but that it creates regular jobs. FOR DAYS. And good paying ones. And helps people save their mortgages. Among many other things. Not to mention I've been without an income for THREE YEARS. She makes six figures and brags about her limited edition sports cars.

And told me the day I called her up to congratulate her on her new gig, that I was "privileged," literally refused to take the proposal until threatened with discrimination and has subsequently refused to do her real and assigned job, which is investigate why four federal agencies have discriminated against me at the CABINET LEVEL. Not to mention this appalling abuse issue. And on top of that I have State and City issues to deal with. So basically I am at war. Not with an ouzi, let me hasten to say. I am a pacificist. But I am fighting for my literal life, will not take this stupid crap from an even stupider woman who is determined to be abusive, ignorant, nasty and insulting and has issued put down after put down after put down.

And I'm sorry, but I see a great deal of sexism as well in the rest of the comments. Since when is Glenn compared to ANYONE. He's just Glenn.

I'm the "brunette Anne Coulture." Why? Because I kick ass? Because I think Obama is corrupt? Because I'm critical of this administration? So are alot of people. Michael Moore is too. I don't hear him being called the fat Glenn.

Furthermore, people don't go out of their way to correct male writer's spelling, tell them that their blogs are too long, question their experience (which mine certainly was) and then when I respond I get double punched as I'm bragging. And oh, well you know it all. Jesus. You people just don't see yourselves. AT ALL.

Or the double standards you apply to women and not men.

There is a post on Open Salon today about how all the top best sellers are all written by men.

What a fucking coincidence.

There are also no women in the White House inner sanctum either. Widely criticized inside the Beltway as "the boy's club."

And no women running major U.S. companies (well what 3, maybe).

And none on Wall Street after they blamed the prime mortgage meltdown on Zoe Cruz over at Morgan Stanley before it became obvious that it was global system meltown....but how typical, right. Blame the woman first.

People wake up.

Women are tearing women apart.

Men are basically telling women to stay in their place. I mean when I heard a reporter the other day say with a straight face "The President expects Mrs. Obama to be the mother of his children," I almost threw up. It's like what, she's NOT going to be. No. That means she gets to be MOMMY and I get to be THE BOSS. Women have slipped professionally in every way under Bush. And I can tell you as a woman gimp its' even worse.

So right now I'm in Kung fu mode.

I am trying to be as polite as possible.

And frankly I thought the goddamned piece was pretty funny.

I still believe it was a setup. That IS the way Washington works. Why do you think "leaks" happen? To influence policy. To start destractions. This is the kind of thing that does. And again, one of the things it's destracting from, is real coverage of the "increased threat" supposedly. Which is why that poor guy with Ausperger's lost his second round of appeal. GODDAMMIT.

And educating people about disability issues is a very big part of my life. And it will be a part of my blog posts.

And I'm sorry that some of you feel that this is not the right venue for this kind of story. But I am sorry, I beg to disagree. I also got a lecture that I was being too simplistic. So I can't win here, can I?

I will certainly try to be more succinct. That message I got loud and clear. I'm not deaf to constructive advice. But again, right now, I am very busy, and well edited and constructed pieces take time to write and to edit. And right now, I am under several guns.

Bear with me.

Thanks to all. But I will not ever put up with any more defamatory, sexist, anti disability shit posted on a comment on my site without a warning once and report every time it happens again. Capiche? There are too many things at stake. For a lot of people. And I'm sorry, but that fucking extradition makes me lose even more respect for Obama. And you want to know why? Bush's favorite thing to do was execute mentally retarded inmates on death row in Texas...in fact Texas is still the leading state in the nation that executes poor, mentally retarded, or learning disabled inmates, usually wrongfully convicted, because their attorney's show up half an hour before going before the judge, all state defenders of course, and it is a tragedy. And for Obama to let this happen to look "tough on terror" is disgusting. And just another sign that fuck it, it's all political. I don't believe in anything. Let it slide.

Well sorry. I've worked long enough in national politics to know that usually you've got to compromise. But on some things you never do. And if you don't stand for something, you'll go for anything. And that is exactly what Obama is going to do.

WITH EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE.

That's why I don't trust him.

Bye. I've got work to do.

But you guys think about that before you put your blind trust in leaders.

And fuck with me again.
Glenn doesn't get comments like "Afghanistan is none of your business" or that he is "shrieking". Those are very gender coded words as anyone who has taken a gender awareness class 101 knows and NOT gender neutral.
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Actually, Glenn Beck gets accused of shrieking all the time -- because that's what he does. I only used Glenn Greenwald as an example because I had just read his latest blog. He might not get the gender stuff, but the 'dirty Jew' comments come out. I'm not sure in what universe that's ok, but he seems to choose his battles carefully. What I like is that he doesn't throw in extraneous information -- even if it might be true -- and distract his readers from the topic at hand. I have seen a bazillion threads go off track because people seized on one little bit that didn't need to be there.

By the way, it's a little inconsistent to complain about sexist comments and then accuse other women of being jealous of you. *That's* sexist, and in some circles would be considered bitchy. Just telling the truth here. Just because people disagree with you, as long as they are in the bounds of some level of civility, doesn't mean they have an agenda.

Like I said, pick one topic and stick with it. If you want to talk about disability rights, stay there. If you want to talk about the White House, that's your beat. Don't throw in *everything* you're ticked off about or it becomes a rant. I know the temptation is there if you are passionate, but one thing at a time.

Also, because I want to give you some respect, I'm not letting you off the hook. It's not ok to post racist comments and then declare that you were just having some fun. We know the coded words: monkey, dumb, affirmative action, out of their league, etc. If you're sensitive to unfair judgments based on _____, that should be out of your repertoire.
The title to this blog post was compelling enough to get me over here to read it. But the same thing happened as other times I have tried to read your work. Anyone of your posts could be 5 or 6. It just wanders all the heck over the place and pretty soon even a college educated person is confused. Some others here have suggested also that you stay on topic. You could most likely develop a following if you did so.

But when it gets disjointed and devolves into so much anger I think you lose people. That and the code words you use yourself are disagreeable. I have mentioned myself to you that your language is thinly veiled racism. You deny that. So be it. But others see that too.

Write several posts on the days that you feel so compelled to write. Keep them topic specific and I bet the quality of discourse and responses would change. Until then you're seeing already what it brings out in others.
Ablonde! This is the ADA come out with your boobs up ;-) Or Barney Fife will hafta lock you up in the hoosegow with Earnest T.
You say you have Dystonia?

Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. The disorder may be hereditary or caused by other factors such as birth-related or other physical trauma, infection, poisoning (e.g. lead poisoning) or reaction to drugs, particularly **neuroleptics**

Neuroleptics are a group of psychoactive drugs commonly but not exclusively used to treat psychosis, which is typified by schizophrenia, but can also be present in severe bipolar disorder, as well as many other conditions.

Seems Ablonde was on the right track, eh?
Tip: If you lay off the Barney Fife bit and drop all the secret service type acronyms in an attempt to make us believe you were a badass security Navy Seal, Men/women in Black type of person (which I don't buy for a second), and seriously shorten what you say, we might pay attention. Might. But I doubt it.
Margarite ist ein armer Autor. Es ist hart, Ihnen Punkt für Punkt zu folgen. es regnet, es gießt. der alte Mann schnarcht. Er ging schlafen und stieß seinen Kopf und könnte nicht morgens aufstehen.
Auf Wiedersehen
Special agent that!
No...Ablonde was INCORRECT. I have an arachnoid cyst, which is a neurological disorder that apparently I have had since I was a kid.

It is considered a PHYSICAL DISABILITY.

It causes, in my case, movement, balance and auditory problems as well as coordination issues.

Dystonia can be caused by drugs or by brain damage but in ALL cases it is ALSO considered a neurological disorder...ie physical not psychiatric and can be caused by a variety of things, from drugs, to brain damage, usually in the basal ganglia of the brain.

There is a very big debate going on in the neurological community right now about how to treat it, but the best way to treat both conditions is through stimulation of the endocannabinoid system of the brain through use of extracts of the marijuana plant. Which the FDA is now doing and in fact I do take Marinol which is in fact fake THC. Israel also has a drug on the market which the US is currently banning for no good reason.

In my specific case, it is a brand new condition and was specifically caused after my former employer assigned me work I was never told I was to do, I asked for accommodations, they did not give them to me, heaped more of the same work on me, and this shifted the cyst, which is basically a fluid filled sac of fluid in the front of the brain.

Because of that shift, I now have dystonia.

Ablonde was making an assumption that she a)has no right to make b)is not qualified to make c) doesn't know what the fuck she is talking about d) I have repeatedly explained to her what the situation is anyway and she has decided that she knows better anyway. All of the above is HIGHLY ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW. Now in this situation, since I am also an expert on civil rights and employment law as well as disability law as well as where they connect with say technology, she has broken several, for which not only she but Salon and their ISP are liable. And so will you be if you don't knock it off now.

1. The ADA. Because people make money off the site, this is considered a freelance employer, and thus covered under the ADA. Therefore technically, she is not even supposed to be saying things like "take your meds" that alone is actionable under American Disability law. It also implies that I have a mental or "psychiatric" disability," which I do not.
2. She is assuming that I have psychiatric disabilities. I do not. She is not a doctor and she doesn't have a fucking brain in her god damned head. By federal regulation the ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE ALLOWED TO DIAGNOSE YOU ARE MDs. The only qualification she has is IDIOT. My neurologists are the experts and thanks all the same, but I will go with my own doctors rather than an ignorant, pushy, abusive bitch who would not stop after repeated polite requests to do so.
3. She is also liable under the new Hate Crimes Legislation for continued abuse and harrassment of a person with a disability
4. She is also liable for retaliation under the 1991 Civil Rights Act
5 . She is also liable for defamation. See above.

So unless you want to also be reported or you also think that you are smarter than I am or can read minds or diagnose me without knowing what the fuck you are talking about or decide that you too can make diagnoses without knowing me, or without a fucking licence in contravention to FEDERAL LAW, or keep this shit up, I will report you and then take legal action against you too.

This is exactly the kind of absolutely disgusting abuse, humiliation, degredation and discrimination that people with disabilities face every fucking day. And I do not put up with it from anyone.

So you have a choice. You can either go away, act like a decent human being and apologize or internalize this information and shut your trap. And please don't bother me again with your ignorant verbal shit.

Oh, and as for my professional experience. Where the FUCK do you get off doubting my professional experience. That is not only another violation of the ADA, lady, but Title XII. Oh and I can probably throw a defamation charge in there as well.

So fuck with me some more and you will see exactly how tough I can be.

But you know, you could also look on line. Alot of my scripts for the stuff that I did is still on the internet. As well as my first digitally shot and edited film in 1993. So before you make yourself look anymore idiotic and stupid than you just did, I would check your facts if I were you. Because you just basically not only just stepped in a pile of dogshit up to your neck but punched yourself in the eye as well.

You are just as stupid, ignorant, sexist, abusive and dumb as the dumb cunt you are defending. And just as out of line. You know absolutely nothing about me. Who are you and where the FUCK do you get off doubting my experience when you have no grounds to make any assumptions whatsoever. That is also actionable by the way under several rather big and expensive statutes.

Don't you feel smart now? You certainly look dumb as a post. Although I have to say that is probably being generous in the IQ department.
August 11, 2009

White House Nominates Disability Advocate

From the White House (August 6, 2009):

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals for key administration posts:

David C. Gompert, Principal Deputy National Intelligence Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
William E. Kennard, Representative of the United States of America to the European Union, with the rank of Ambassador, Department of State
Alan D. Solomont, Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, Department of State
Robert J. Grey, Board Member, Legal Services Corporation
John G. Levi, Board Member, Legal Services Corporation
Martha L. Minow, Board Member, Legal Services Corporation
Julie A. Reiskin, Board Member, Legal Services Corporation
Gloria Valencia-Weber, Board Member, Legal Services Corporation

President Obama also announced that he will designate Ruth Y. Goldway, currently serving as a Commissioner on the Postal Regulatory Commission, as Chair of the Postal Regulatory Commission...

Julie A. Reiskin, Nominee for Board Member, Legal Services Corporation

Julie Reiskin is the Executive Director of the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC), the only statewide organization of and for people with disabilities that has a focus on systemic change. CCDC has taken a leadership role within Colorado on publicly funded long-term health care. Ms. Reiskin has proposed and helped to implement many solutions to create a sustainable and client friendly Medicaid program, acted as a respected advocate for individuals and has trained many others in health advocacy and health policy. Prior to becoming the Executive Director for CCDC in 1996, Ms. Reiskin served as the organizations’ policy analyst. Ms. Reiskin moved to Colorado from Connecticut in 1994. In Connecticut, she was a partner in a consulting firm, specializing in diversity issues throughout Southern New England. She also had a private psychotherapy practice. Previous work includes, but is not limited to, several positions working with "hard to serve" youth and positive youth development, AIDS/HIV Education, and grassroots community organizing. Ms. Reiskin has taught extensively in the areas of disability rights, disability culture and disability policy, along with other areas related to diversity in human services. Ms. Reiskin got her Masters in Social Work from the University of Connecticut, with a major in community organizing in 1989. She obtained a B.S. in Women’s Studies from the University of Connecticut in 1985...

>>> For the Full Release

Comment Below: ...From the JFA Moderator: Congratulations Julie! We are confident you will do a superb job in representing our community on the Legal Services Corporation Board and in guiding LSC to seek equal access to justice for members of the disability community, to whom justice is so often denied.
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Notice the emphasis on disability as an "illness" and not picking someone used to job development.

It still doesn't excuse Obama's appalling deal with the pharma execs over not negotiating with them over pharma costs. Who's going to pay the donut hole? Jesus?

And for those of us with rare disabilities that the government deliberately created monopolies in for pharma companies to manufacture, that means that we're going to get doubly shafted.

He's an absolute discriminatory, hypocritical a-hole. Then again, with a wife and two closest advisors who participated in a patient dumping scheme, what else do you expect. It's all about money and prestige for Obama. Not to mention book deals, speaker's tours and business deals once the White House gig is over. Us gimps, well, we're just not worth anything. Not even hiring to White House positions.

Or even possibly considering that his secret wheeling and dealing with pharma execs breaks the 1973 Rehab Act, as do all the state cutbacks for every disability related program because they limit our equal access under the law to the same services, medical, transportation, education and job related, as those without them have. Including the fact that those on disability got the least of anyone in the bailout bill.

That's a big oops I can't believe anyone hasn't caught yet.

But along with 508 accessibility class actions against government websites, represents an awfully good opportunity to start kicking ass and taking names.

For those interested, give me call. The only thing I lack is a law degree, so I can't file the papers in court. But I have the legal and technical background.

And the first target? The White House website.

Then they'll start taking us seriously. Because if money and power is the only thing Obama respects, which is unfortunately the way he operates, his prejudices are going to cost a whole lot of money and embarresment. Which he richly deserves and is way overdue.

Not to mention will make us look like heroes for saving the government so much money.

As I said in a response to an online post who was lamenting discrimination against women, the LGBT community and minorities, it pales against what we gimps have to face, a community as big as the GLBT and African American communities lumped together.

We're so invisible to most that discrimination against us isn't even documented. Not to mention that the Department of Labor doesn't even list OUR unemployment rate (another official act of discrimination in action) in the official unemployment statistics.

For those interested in either the lawsuit idea or working with me on the first cleantech business to boost the economy and employ both the able bodied and those with disabilities, please get in touch through my blog.

Posted by: Marguerite Arnold | August 11, 2009 at 07:32 PM


Marguerite Arnold, the last I've checked there is still low-cost/no-cost mental health counseling services available that sounds like it may better fit your needs at this time. Take Care of Yourself.

Posted by: Sherrie F. Eugene, Oregon | August 13, 2009 at 05:23 AM


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Posted by: Oce Harrison | August 13, 2009 at 09:13 AM


To Ms. Eugene:

I beg your pardon? What the hell do you mean by that? That I'm some sort of lunatic? Apart from the fact that I actually WORKED at the ACLU legislative offices on the Hill (that would be in Washington DC, in case you don't know your geography) when the ADA was passed (in case you ignorant person didn't know, the private equivalent of the Rehab Act), and am very familiar with disability law, I do have in fact, have TWO neurological disabilities, one caused by an illegal firing from a Wall Street company that's developed over the last two years, from a six figure job I might add, and further exacerbated by two years without health insurance for a rare and very dangerous health condition caused by TBI, like a lot of our male veterans have. So going to see a shrink wouldn't be much good now, would it? Or didn't you know that psychiatry and neurology are two different specialities? Heads up. They are. Even though they do both occur in the noggin, they are very different. Difficult concept for simple minds like yours to understand I know, but why don't you take a stab and look up both specialities on the internet.

My pharma costs alone are running the government, thanks to its own misguided policies, over six grand a month since now I'm officially impoverished I qualify for Medicare. The EEOC has taken over two years just "investigating" my illegal termination case. Which is a very good one by the way. Or bad, depending on how you look at the situation.

In the meantime, since my second disability, while further affecting balance, and creating horrific and extraordinarily painful muscle spasms, along with a speech disorder that gets me called "retard" in public, I can't get a job anywhere. Except showing up at government sponsored "disability rehab" centers, which for civilians assume you are mentally retarded, and everyone slow tracks you into jobs I cannot do. And pay probably a quarter of what I was making, when there is no logical argument whatsoever, except discrimination.

Furthermore, the reality is, particularly in the age of adaptive technology, along with proper training, like teaching kids how to read braille, and new knowledge we are learning about things like autistic kid's ability with math and data manipulation in excel, it is both a human rights crime, a federal civil rights violation (at least in those states slightly more progressive than Texas, although why they aren't suing Arnold in California yet, I don't know), the fact is that most people on "disability" could indeed work and work at high paying, middle class jobs. The reason they are on the benefit is literally for survival. Nobody will hire them. Not even the government, who's official stats on PWDs in the federal workforce is just under one percent. And those with disabilities are, on average, employed two grades below what their able bodied colleagues are. It's called discrimination in action. Officially sanctioned by the government. Indeed built into every program created by them.

The problem is that this movement is headed by either social workers and doctors who see us as helpless, or inherently flawed and to be treated like doormats. Or politicians who think they can walk over us like doormats because we don't contribute to their campaigns. Or shepherded into 'public advocacy groups' who are so tame it's pathetic. If there was ever a time to come out yelling and screaming, like the rest of America is right now, particularly about healthcare, the disabilities community should be front and center.

As for your slur about my mental capacity,
I don't know about you, but I went to a very good University on academic scholarship, in the honors program, and tested out of my first two years. How about you? And stopped one of the largest illegal land deals in the country at the age of 27, brokered by DoD, the Department of Interior, the State of Idaho, and backed by the Clinton White House, when Obama was still "community organizing" at a single project in the midwest. In fact I first started changing public policy on a state wide basis at the age of 19, and national policy at the age of 23. How does your professional record compare to that?

I would be very careful about the comments you throw around. I have one of the best cleantech plans in the country right now that will both stimulate national job growth and integrate people with disabilities into the workforce, very fast.

I expect an apology from you, you stupid woman and can only assume that your remarks were made out of complete ignorance. Otherwise, you wouldn't have made them. And would have kept your uniformed, bigoted mouth shut. Otherwise you've just committed what is called both violation of the ADA, (that would be the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you didn't know, since you are obviously so ignorant on the subject) and slander. Not to mention defamation of character. All very, very expensive to defend against in court. Especially since I have written evidence you made them. Since I know who you are, I don't think you want me to pursue this. I kicked the White House's ass at the age of 27. And know software engineering and IT, particularly even from the technical perspective when it comes to the intersection of disability law.

Quick. Give me a definition of 508 compliance, and which federal agencies are not compliant. See. You don't don't know jack.

Some ditz who doesn't know what the hell she's talking about doesn't hold any water.

And typical of the many barriers and discriminatory attitudes, even among our own community, this community faces to getting the equal treatment and opportunity we deserve.

As for you lady, I'd do a little more research before you shoot off your mouth again and say such stupid things in public. You sound just like Obama.

Posted by: Marguerite Arnold | August 14, 2009 at 12:26 AM


Marguerite Arnold, I find quite a few similarities to our stories. However, it sounds as those you should know better than I that false accusations, conspiracies theories(whether real or imagined) and outrageous verbal attacks upon anyone only reduces the respect and seriousness to the REAL issues that you sound as though you are desperately trying to address. Counseling for calm within may better prepare you for the strengths needed to carry out your missions, so as not to slate yourself of any credentials you state.

Good Luck to You.

P.S - Thank you very much for the compliment in your last sentence. :)

Posted by: Sherrie F. Eugene, Oregon | August 14, 2009 at 09:13 AM


Dear Sherrie:

Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Marguerite Arnold | September 28, 2009 at 01:51 PM

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I will be adding a blog shortly on the appalling amount of disability discrimination that exists in this country.

While there were alot of extremely inappropriate remarks about what has turned out to be a breaking and credible story, there are two people...women in fact, who's screen names are ablonde and Apache Savage, who have decided to "bait the gimp."

They have gone out of their way to post the most inappropriate and frankly wrong, including medically, legally, ethically and even defamatory coments on this story, in what I can only assume is an attempt to either undermine the story itself, or undermine me. Despite repeated attempts on my part to get them to stop, they have not, and in fact have escalated. I have now escalated to the senior management of Salon and this may turn into legal action if nothing is done about it.

The harrassment and abuse is so bad that Ablonde even took postings out of context from other blog sites of coversations between equally ignorant people like herself and me and posted them here under my name.....in other words to make it look as if I did it. Alot of this centers around the fact that they do not understand that alot of neurological disabilities are sometimes treated using off label psychiatric drugs. Used in neurological treatment. Under the supervision, per federal regulations and guidelines of both a neurologist and a psychiatrist. The psychiatric drugs, when they are used, are used in much smaller quantities than when given to psychiatric patients, but they are still very dangerous drugs.

There are better alternatives at least for me.

Yet these two ding dongs have goine out of their way to paint me as some kind of lunatic or psychiatric head case when they are clueless.

This is called ABUSE. Among other things.

For them to do things like post appointments Obama has made is LUDICROUS. They have NO Washington experience. They don't know what is going on. They have no idea how cynical this White House is and what it is doing or not doing. They don't have people and I'm not going to reveal sources, but who tell them as they have told me that for example Seth Harris, the Deputy Assistant at Labor, who has a disability is "basically there for show."

He wasn't even at the Obama meeting with the disabilities groups two weeks ago. Even though Solis (the Secretary of Labor went).

Now. I have said this before. I am a reasonable person. I will go out of my way to explain things to people who don't understand them.

But when two idiots try to undermine me by posting all sorts of garbage out of context, yada yada....I mean there's a conversation above between another woman and myself who again, like many people, thinks that TBI is a psychiatric condition. Trust me.

I have an MRI that shows a big black space where the grey matter should be. Okay. There is no judge in the world who is going to say that that is a psychiatric disability. For these two idiots, who don't know me, have never met me, have decided, apparently to gang up on me to abuse and harrass me or undermine me, is unfortunately the face of disability discrimination. It is very common. Because the so called "able bodied" assume that gimps are stupid, worthless, can be made fun of, don't know their rights, can be pushed around, don't know the law, that they automatically know less than everyone else...trust me...it happens all the time. Every day in fact.

So either the editors of Salon are going to take action against these two, or I am going to take legal action against Salon and their ISP.

Simple.

Because this is disgusting, humiliating, degrading, and it is called DISCRIMINATION. AND ABUSE AND IT IS HIGHLY ILLEGAL:

And despite multiple and polite attempts on my part to get both of them to stop, they kept pushing their fingers through the cage.

So now they are going to learn what it means to fuck with Gimp Godzilla.

Although hopefully it won't get that far. Hopefully the Salon management will intervene.

But if these two ever do this again I can assure you that again, there will be further escalation. As in state, federal etc.

I know my rights. And these two just stepped on them. Actually marched a fucking battalion accross them apparently because they thought it was funny.

So for all of you who run across this at the end, this is what disability discrimination looks like.

And one of the many reasons I am so pissed at Obama is that he has DONE NOTHING TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.

It's as if these two had been calling me nigger, okay? While some of you may not understand all the terminology and the implications of it that is what it boils down to. I hate the N word and I never use it. But I am using it here to get my point across loud and clear to show a pretty clueless able bodied blog audience what disability discriimination looks like. So you won't do it to somebody else.

This is a community that is 1/5 of the US
Has a 90% unemployment rate mostly because of the government who excludes us both from employment and from the unemployment figures
Lives in appalling conditions and has no access to real healthcare, proper nutrition, live appalling lives, nobody will hire them and are routinely subjected to this kind of appalling abuse.

To the point that I had one of these two ding dongs actually questioning my professional experience. Not only can you find my website in development on line. You can find my resume. You can find my nationally broadcast TV scrips. You can find national press coverage. Even the article itself has the script of the show that I refer to about getting onto a very secret location. With my name on the script on the linked location. And they still wouldn't stop giving me shit.

So this is it.

And anyone else who tries this crap is going to get the same kind of feedback.

I highly suggest that you don't.
I made no assumptions. I read your damned resume. online. You don't have any security clearance because you could never pass it with your big blabber mouth. I did investigate you and I came up with a computer tech with some rather unimpressive experience. The "movie" you produced was through a public access network and is so shoddy I would never admit to having anything to do with it, if I were you.

And please shut up about title XII which is a intergovernmental thing or a social security act involving disability. You are NOT a government employee - you are unemployed. I am not a government employee and therefore title XII has absolutely nothing at all to do with me or blogging, your topic, your commentators, or even you. It's like saying Mary J is legal in Holland as a defense for getting busted with a quarter bag in the US: It's irrelevant. And just so you know. I already did tell the editors what you said to me in PM which was way off the chain and over the top. You DON'T use the mother of all cuss words on a blog site that has rules. I would advise you to read and respect them since you agreed to abide by them, but are currently in violation of them.

You taking fake THC? Then why, pray tell, are you so uncharacteristically aggressive, contradictory of the behavior of a stoner?

Please also give the disability thing a rest, as well. You have a physical disability as you just explained, not a mental one, as you have insisted, so nothing we say about your intellect, knowledge or lack thereof or mental health is "picking on" your disability. Considering you were a computer tech, I also can't see why your disability, which sounds like a little bit of twitching, would keep you in the self-proclaimed 90% unemployabilty pool.
Decaf is a good suggestion. For a professional journalist you do write long.
oh yeah and
you live in NY, before that Arlington VA and before that Washington DC.
You are 42 years old and you have a brother (?) whose name starts with D and is 34 years old and also lives in NY.

Information on high security clearance folk is not available online.
The war in Afghanistan is your business. You are right to oppose it.

What meds you take or don't take is no one's business but your own.

Your blog would be much better if it was half as long or less.

That young kid you gave the advice to is in India getting the bone marrow transplant she needs to live. Hopefully she will make it.
Apache:

You are so full of shit, not mention ignorant, that I almost sent this as a private email, but I'm now going to publicly humiliate you.

1. I NEVER said that I had security clearance. I said I had press access. Do you not know the difference?
2. Thank you so much for your assessment of my work experience. Tell me. Have you ever saved an Indian Tribe. Or perhaps kicked the White House into outer space at the age of 27. Or perhaps gotten a letter of commendation of your work and understanding of Constitutional law at the age of 25 from a US Supreme Court Justice named Brennan? You don't know shit from shineola. And I'm not even going to sink to "defending my experience and my resume any more. If you read my next post you are going to look so stupid that you are wish you had never written that. Which is one of the reasons I am posting this. But one final word sweetie. In 1993, NOBODY WAS USING DIGITAL ANYTHING. The technology was very primitive. If I were you, I would do some checking in the archives of the Washington Post, The Washington City Paper, The Wall Street Journal and there a few more, but that's a good place to start for some very extensive and flattering reviews and coverage of my work and projects. So not only are you an incompetent researcher, you are an idiot.
3. Title XII is the 1964 Civil Rights Act you dumb bitch. It is also called Title 7. It is a civil rights law protecting women and minorities.
4. Disabilities civil rights law is primarily covered under the ADA (the private sector), The 1973 Rehabilitation Act (the government) and the 1991 Civil Rights Act.
5. No I am not going to "shut up about them" because you have violated them and I intend to sue your ass unless Salon takes action. Since this is a workplace because peope make money off of blogging, and the ADA covers freelancers and 508 now thanks to the Target decision also covers private sector websites, this is a workplace. So you are royally fucked, in so many ways and in shit so deep that you should, in addition to looking for counsel as in a lawyer, also be looking for a counselor. Because you have serious issues lady. Oh, and there is one more law I forgot to mention. The new Hate Crimes Bill. You are also guilty of violating that.

I told you. Don't fuck with me lady. I may not have gone to law school, but just like ol' Abe I know the law very well.
6. I am not aggressive. I have been very firm and I asked you and ablonde repeatedly to STOP this crap about what kind of medication I was taking and all the rest. You refused. When people trample all over my rights and do not stop doing things like that, I kick their asses into outer space. That is called self defense against two people who repeatedly would not stop harrassing, abusing and breaking the law.
7. Per a Supreme Court Decision, The People vs. Larry Flynt, "indecent" whether it is pornography or language that may offend a community is still protected under the first amendment and Salon can try to make that arguement, but they will lose. And I doubt that they are stupid enough to do it.
8. The reason that you don't understand anything about disability discrimination and the reason you have been so discriminatory yourself is because you know nothing about the issue. I have repeatedly and politely tried to educate both you and ablonde about this in private so you don't look fucking stupid. But it is a horrific and cruel situation, it is the equivalent of the American Apartheid, Obama is doing nothing about it and in fact is making it worse and I am not going to stop writing about it until there is real justice for this community. I get called retard in public lady because a big rich bank shared exactly the same fucking attitudes as you and Ablonde and worsened my first disability which is called an arachnoid cyst, thereby giving me a second and visible one. Which not only brands me as a GIMP, but basically has completely destroyed my life. Nobody hires people with disabilities. When are you going to get that through your thick head? And get shit from people like you and ablonde that I am bipolar when you have no idea what you are talking about much less the right to tell me what medicine I should be taking. It is none of your business, you are absolutely appalling and I am going to take legal action against you unless Salon does something first.

And if you don't think that getting onto the base of the School of the America's is a big deal, you are the one who is ignorant. To the point of being literally stupid. And that script was hyperlinked to the goddamned blog.

As for "a little bit of twitching" you are out of your mind. Dystonia is one of THE most painful neurological disabilities there is.

And I don't have a brother who's name starts with D, much less lives in New York.

You are so off base that you are shooting at me and only shooting yourself in the foot.

Why don't you get a life and stop harrassing me, stalking me, abusing me and making such inane and self embarressing statements. Or perhaps learn how to read. And then you might learn something. Because the next blog I'm going to post is going fry your circuits. But I would suggest reading the one I have already posted after this one first. You might learn something.

Then again, I use big words, multisyllabic ones in fact and address quite sophisticated topics that someone who appears to have about a third grade education might not be able to understand.
Dorinda:

This is investigative journalism. It is not fluff.

Fluff is what most people are used to.

I am also DECONSTRUCTING something that is complicated.

If people don't want to be educated, that is fine. They don't have to read my posts.

But this is a very complicated story, with many moving parts.

Most people do not have this kind of background and the mainstream press does not and will not report these kinds of stories.

I do hope that you follow the next piece of this, because it is going to blow your mind. The next segment is already online. It is very short.

However, I am finishing a much longer piece that I will be breaking up into segments so people can read each shorter blog post.

But I am used to doing "old fashioned" ie informed journalism. Nobody says to Bill Moyers that his hour on TV is "too long."

And most people do not know how Washington works.

Therefore I have to explain that to them otherwise they won't get it. I have just caught the President of the United States with his pants down around his ankles....and all you guys are doing is saying...oh....yeah...your piece is too long

Are you people out of your mind?

What is further going to fry your circuits is that I believe that Congress is also going to try to cover this up. But for that you are going to have to read my blogs.

Yes, they are long. But that is how you learn. And despite the fact that people have gotten used to Twitter, that is not my MO. And it never will be. I write professional, well researched pieces, and Salon just happens to be one of the places I post.

It's up to you. Read it or not. But I highly suggest that you do.

Your Constitution is in danger. I am not the crazy one here....that is what they said to Daniel Ellsberg when he revealed the Pentagon Papers. I used to work for Mort Halperin who Nixon and Kissinger first suspected of doing so. I know very well how the NSC and security state works. I also have a very, very good technical background despite the appalling ignorance of certain people on this site who are absolutely determined out of some bizarre, and very very abusive reason, to try and undermine me. And at this point appear to be online stalking me.
Love it! Way to stand up, Marguerite! Some of these clowns wouldn't know a fact if it hit them in the face.

Personal attacks are what keep their hate alive.
Rated.
First in ten, SIMMA take the snap, drop back and fly DOWN in the endzone for a touchdown. NAH come on and kick the extra point. Simma to Down followed by Nah is Simma Down NAH!

http://s83.photobucket.com/albums/j301/cbyington77/?action=view&current=SNL-CheriOteri-SimmerDownNow-Burger.flv

You talk too much, homegirl, you nevah shut up.
If your responses were not 83 miles long I might read them. But as for now. I just don't. I saw you addressed me and got as far as how you are going to "humiliate" me (eyes rolling). Whatever. You have already proved what you are and you didn't need any help from me or anyone else, Barney. Go back to Mayberry, I here Otis needs to spend the night in the tank and Earnest T. is on the lose with a sack full of rocks. Just try not to shoot yourself in the foot... oh right. You already did.
Call me a bitch one more time.
Oh my here we go. I read some of your response but couldn't get all the way thru it.

you said:
"In 1993, NOBODY WAS USING DIGITAL ANYTHING."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're the IDIOT. I was working for the FAA, Barney, on the INTERNET in 93. Making interactive web based training programs for aviation maintenance and in fact I DID get a letter of commendation with in the FAA for my "cutting edge" designs and technology "raising the bar" for aircraft safety and maintenance. The internet wasn't the size it is now in 93, but it was there and people were using it. My graphics and video that I did back then, are still pretty kick-ass. I was doing digital graphics and video in 1990 for crying out loud!

You said:
"It is also called Title 7. It is a civil rights law protecting women and minorities."

From what - in regards to your blog? No one is discriminating against you. You are calling everyone profane names and when you get a taste of your own medicine you cry foul. What's with THAT? Don't dish it out, if you can't take it when it comes back to you.

You said:
"I intend to sue your ass unless Salon takes action."

You are not suing anyone for commenting on your *public* blog. What would you be suing me for??? Hmmm? Lost wages? Damage to real property? Copyright infringement where I gained financial compensation for your work? To SUE someone, you must first prove there is a real and tangible reason in which that person should have to pay you money. Go drink a hot cup of coffee at McDonalds or drop a piece of a finger in you chili at Wendy's b/c you sound like the ultimate grifter.

OpenSalon taking action? The only person I see who might get action is you for calling people cunts and twats openly and in PM. I hope they delete your account due to your excessive verbal abuse towards other users.

Let me tell you a little story:
I suffered *real and tangible harm* from an online stalker. I called the police and turned over the evidence, in my possession, of harassment as well as the phone numbers where they could gain access to user information and activity that I, a civilian, did not have privileges to access. I myself discovered the stalker's true identity and turned that information over to the police. The police did their little bit, but it all came down to nothing they could do legally, however I had a very strong civil case to sue this person for real lost wages in excess of 60 grand. However, I have been down that road before when I sued the mechanic who blew a hole in my engine the size of a man's arm. I paid an expert to provide proof of negligence $1400, hired a lawyer - $2600, went to court and WON - meaning the mechanic was ordered to pay me the blue book value of my car at that time which was $4500 (I had already spent more than this just preparing to go to court) and then the icing on the cake? Mechanic never paid a red cent of that which he was ordered to pay. I tried to get him on contempt of court - no dice. I hired collectors to harass him - nadda. So taking my stalker to court, and again I can prove all that I claim in receipts, is going to get me to exactly the dead center of NO WHERE.

You said:
"Since this is a workplace"

Uh, I must have been missing my paycheck then, for, oh, the last YEAR. .....Kerry?????
This is not a workplace. We are not paid bloggers. This is recreational. Did you think you were the only one not getting paid? lol!

You said:
"So you are royally fucked, in so many ways and in shit so deep that you should, in addition to looking for counsel as in a lawyer, also be looking for a counselor. Because you have serious issues lady."

What's THAT? Say AGAIN? I need a WHAT? A COUNSELOR, you say? Oh my my what a pity, you just insinuated I have a mental illness and THAT"S A VIOLATION OF TITLE XII ADA TITLE 7!!!!!!!!!! HURRY SOMEONE CALL THE COPS!!!! idiot.
Don't bother deleting it, I already did a screen shot of it.

You Said:
"Oh, and there is one more law I forgot to mention. The new Hate Crimes Bill. You are also guilty of violating that."

If I kicked your ass because you are white - that's a hate crime. If I said you remind me of Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show, that is NOT a hate crime or ANY crime at all, but it is what I originally said that you replied I would be going to jail for, further solidifying your Barney Fife-ism.

you said:
"I told you. Don't fuck with me lady."

Is that a threat? I guess you don't know the law all that well because I actually can take legal action against you for issuing threats, but you're lucky that I am too busy with real life to go to all that trouble over you.

you said:
"When people trample all over my rights and do not stop doing things like that, I kick their asses into outer space."

That is most definitely a threat. They call them terroristic threats - which sounds a bit over the top but prank phone calls fall into the same category and you can spend the night in the clink for it..

you said:
"That is called self defense against two people who repeatedly would not stop harrassing, abusing and breaking the law."

You did not ask me not to comment further. In fact you sent me a PM telling me to go see what you had written in response to my Barney Fife comment (obviously wanting a response from me).

you said:
"The People vs. Larry Flynt, "indecent"

uh huh, see Lenny Bruce 1964 who was arrested for using profanity that was offensive to the general public (not your average "damn") in a public place, went to trial and was sentenced to four months in the workhouse. I believe that also was the Supreme Court.

you said:
"I have repeatedly and politely tried to educate both you and ablonde about this in private "

So you think PMing me and calling me a "twat, cunt" and "bitch," was POLITE?????

YOUR PM TO ME AND I QUOTE:
"I don't know who the fuck you think you are

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Marguerite Arnold to apache savage
Lady I suggest you go back and read what I just wrote in response to what you wrote on my blog.

First of all, you clearly DO NOT know what the ADA is.

I was working at the ACLU legislative office of the ACLU on Capitol Hill IN DC who basically wrote the majority of the language in that legislation and then dealt with Biden and his chief counsel Ron Klain, who is now his Chief of Staff in The White House to get it through the Judiciary and then Congress. So just on that issue you stupid twat I would back all the way back to california. Because it is clear that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

Secondly Ablonde is an abusive bitch.

And you just acted the same way.

Unless you are a doctor you don't have a fucking clue much less right to make an assumption, certainly not online about a medical condition when youu don't have a fucking medical license. Per FEDERAL REGs.

Finally, who the fuck are you to question my background, professionally, personally, or in any other way. Have you done an internet search? Did you read the link to the script I linked you >>>>>>>>dumb twat?>>>>>>>>>>You are absolutely one of the dumbest cunts,>>>>>>>>>>abusive bitches>>>>>>>shitheads like you
Sorry, your uber polite PM to me did not fully make it in the last comment so I am pasting it here"

YOU SAID AND I QUOTE
"I don't know who the fuck you think you are

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Marguerite Arnold to apache savage
Lady I suggest you go back and read what I just wrote in response to what you wrote on my blog.

First of all, you clearly DO NOT know what the ADA is.

I was working at the ACLU legislative office of the ACLU on Capitol Hill IN DC who basically wrote the majority of the language in that legislation and then dealt with Biden and his chief counsel Ron Klain, who is now his Chief of Staff in The White House to get it through the Judiciary and then Congress. So just on that issue

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you stupid twat>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Ablonde is an abusive bitch.

And you just acted the same way.

Unless you are a doctor you don't have a fucking clue much less right to make an assumption, certainly not online about a medical condition when youu don't have a fucking medical license. Per FEDERAL REGs.

Finally, who the fuck are you to question my background, professionally, personally, or in any other way. Have you done an internet search? Did you read the link to the script I linked you dumb twat? Because just that alone is enough to fucking prove that yes, I do know alot about getting into very fucking secure places.

However you thought it would be funnier to humiliate the gimp.

I highly suggest that you read my response to you in my blog and that you don't EVER fuck with me again.

Otherwise you are going to be reported to the editors of this site and other action will be taken that I can assure you you do not want.

Capiche?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>You are absolutely one of the dumbest cunts,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>abusive bitches>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>shitheads like you, which leads to a 90% unemployment rate for 2 "

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Apache:
I am not going to respond to you again. But this is the last time I am going to say this. I have repeatedly told you, both in private and in public to knock this off. You don't know what you are talking about, you have harrassed me, stalked me, broken several major laws which you even misquote in public on this post, will not knock it off after I have asked you to politely, firmly, and finally told you to fuck off.

I'm not threatening you. I am TELLING YOU, you are conducting ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR THAT IS ACTIONABLE AND I INTEND TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

If I were you, I would go and get some therapy and start looking for a lawyer.

You are very abusive and everything I have said to you has been in self defense. It is very easy to see who started this, that I have repeatedly tried to educate you and you won't listen, so yes, I figuratively kicked your ass. That is called self defense. Because I don't take that kind of shit. FROM ANYONE.

What you are doing is passive aggressive and abuse or as they call it in the disabilities comunity "bait the gimp."

And very common. Tragically. Because we don't need anymore to deal with. Our lives are hard enough as it is.

But your behavior is also called disability discrimination. You might as well have just called me Nigger. Because that is what your behavior is the equivalent to.

Now. You have two choices. You can go get some psychological help, learn about disability issues and the civil rights laws that protect this community and find yourself some counsel and leave me alone, or continue to harrass me. And cyber stalk me. You don't know how many monitoring tools I have on the other websites you have looked for on me and the words you have used about me in those searches, which are also actionable and I highly suggest that you knock it off now.

As it is, there are already several complaints against you. And after taking one look at the kind of stuff that you have posted on this page and the serious story I am writing and the posts that I am about to post to follow up, it is not me that is going to look mentally unbalanced.

I don't know what is going wrong with your life or why you decided to pick on me, but I can only assume that you thought it would be funny.

And again, that is another form of disability discrimination.

Trust me. There is nothing funny about the fact that because of the law breaking activities of a big rich bank, my life has been completely destroyed. I will never live another day in my life again without chronic pain. Isn't that funny? Aren't you laughing now?

For people like you to have done what you have is not only extraordinarily abusive, cruel, discriminatory and beyond the pale, but sadly, a fact of every day life for about 1/5 of this country. That so far our president has done nothing to address. I plan on changing that.

You are just a typical and very ignorant person who acts like the majority of people who think that disability is something to be made fun of, that you can put down, that you think you know better about when you don't know anything about it, to the point of mixing up women's and minority's civil rights law with disability law (I mean that really took the cake) to trying to tell me that not only do you know better than I do what kind of meds I should take but what my disability feels like.

You don't even know me. Do you realize how crazy you sound?

And the fact that you are going out of your way to harass and try to embarrass me is just making you look even worse. Because anybody looking at this page is going to see (and I have already asked a medical doctor on this site who I am friends with to take a look at your comments when he has time) how absolutely off your rocker, not to mention illegal just those comments were. You see, you need a medical license in these fields even to diagnose much less suggest a medication for ANY medical condition. And I don't believe that you are a doctor as in MD, let alone a neurologist.

As to your discussion about my language, you should also know that I am protected under disability law for that too. People with head injuries tend to use what is known as profanity more often. And per disability law I am allowed what is known as reasonable accomadation. Which this would easily fall under.

So please. Stop playing lawyer, doctor or whatever it is that you are playing. And preferably go away. Or not. If you want to keep posting defamatory crap on this page, you are just digging your own grave.

But in terms of "threatening you" I have never done that.

I have merely warned you of the laws you are breaking and which are actionable if you didn't stop this kind of behavior. Which of course you ignored.

So now I will be taking action.

Goodnight, goodbye and see you in court.
Are you confusing Salon with Open Salon? Because I think Salon hires people like Glenn Greenwald to write for them, and pays them, and is a workplace. But Open Salon is a free blogging site where anyone with and email account can sign up, and post whatever they want, but they don't think they get paid, unless their ads make money, and that would be paid by Google. On Open Salon no-one really knows who you are, and someone could even post as Marguerite Arnold, who is a real live person and online elsewhere, but no-one here will check to see if you are that person.
And I may not really be two rescue kittens named
~rocco and rusty
Are you confusing Salon with Open Salon? Because I think Salon hires people like Glenn Greenwald to write for them, and pays them, and is a workplace. But Open Salon is a free blogging site where anyone with and email account can sign up, and post whatever they want, but they don't think they get paid, unless their ads make money, and that would be paid by Google. On Open Salon no-one really knows who you are, and someone could even post as Marguerite Arnold, who is a real live person and online elsewhere, but no-one here will check to see if you are that person.
And I may not really be two rescue kittens named
~rocco and rusty
Dear Rescuers:

If you read my next series, or even this one, which has a link to a script I wrote for national broadcast with my name on it, you will see that I am a real person, number 1, and secondly even though Open Salon doesn't pay me directly, it is a forum for me to make money. I am also in the process of building an audience for my online site, which I am building out, and three, talking to the editors now, about adding additional advertisers who I can bring with me.

Furthermore, despite yes, I know, I am a girl, and biologically inferior, according to many male dickheads and apparently female dickheads too, who seem to think that men are the only ones who know anything about the law or national security, I do know disabilities law very well, having worked at the ACLU legislative office in DC when the ADA was being written and passed through Congress. Not to mention spent over a decade in DC working on among other things National Security. Glenn Greenwald has only INTERVIEWED Mort Halperin. I used to WORK FOR HIM. Please, do not make the mistake of Apache Savage and try to discredit me, based on your discriminatory prejudices.

I know what I am talking about, and am about to go to court against a very big MF of a bank to defend my rights. Unless you are a lawyer, which I doubt that you are, and a labor lawyer conversant in disability law AND telco law which I doubt even further, (since there are very few that are) I would suggest that you do your homework, not to mention do a little digging in case law before you post such uniformed opinions on this site again. It only makes you look ignorant. Not to mention discriminatory.

Capiche?
You should scroll back up and read the comment from Lonnie Lazar. And I can attest to the fact that he is NOT a woman.
Also, the Rescuers have been around much longer than you and I'm pretty sure no one here knows their real identity, so don't assume...
I'm just sayin'...
Spotted, I appreciate your feedback, but I think it's pretty obvious that I am who I say I am. I have my picture and real name on the site, plus work of mine that has my name on it. If you read my next series, it has even more evidence that indeed I am who I say I am.

While there may be plenty of people using different names, I am indeed who I say I am, and I'm doing it for a reason.

So while I appreciate your comments, and you have every right to "suspect" me, there is plenty of evidence in my blogs alone that is pretty hard to refute that I say I am who I am.

Unless of course there is another alien from outer space, who looks exactly like I do with the resume I have, the background I do, and the life I have led. In that case, I would love to meet my doppelganger. In the meantime, I am going to let people come to their own conclusions. But one of the reasons I am using my real name is that I am basically telling the National Security State to go fuck itself. Internet Freedom is something that is seriously under attack and I am taking this opportunity to fight back. For various reasons. There is alot of very scary stuff going on, and if you read my next series, you will begin to understand why I am doing this, and what IS in fact going on. A subject for a next blog or so when I get there.

But again, thanks for stopping by, and I always appreciate readers. The next part of the series is going to blow your mind. I suggest that you read it.
Yeah, um...I don't care about any of that, but I appreciate how fast you type.
And my mind has been blown for years, but thanks anyways!
Keep on keeping on,
The sun is going to rise on this post and my brain will still be exploded.
Uniformed opinions? Discriminatory prejudices? Whaaaa? I'm sorry, you're confused. What prejudices? What uniformed opinion did I post?
Salon is not Open Salon. Glen Greenwald posts on Salon.
You post on Open Salon. We post on Open Salon. No opinions, just facts. We like facts. Well, we like weekend OS parties too, but mostly we like facts.
~rocco and rusty
Rescuers:

Open Salon and Salon are both the same website, number one. Secondly, any forum online, whether it is Open Salon or Salon is the same legal entitity. Legally. Therefore the law applies. If you are a lawyer, feel free to debate me on the law, and give me case law to support your claim. Otherwise, you are blowing smoke out of your ass. I on the otherhand know what I am talking about. Based on PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. So to blow me off based on either ignorance on your part because I a woman, a PWD or because you think you can just post any kind of stupid defamatory, crap on this site is discriminatory. LOOK IT UP. Or better yet, get an education. And I'm sorry, to be so direct, and what you are probably going to consider rude, but so what, considering the amount of shit I have already taken that MEN do not get, let alone the so called "able bodied" I DO KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. And if you would like to challenge me based on case law, go right ahead. Where are the cites, and what were the cases. Otherwise, keep your ignorant OPINIONS to yourself. I on the otherhand KNOW what I am talking about based per above, and extensive LEGAL RESEARCH, not to mention PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. Why don't you focus on what I am writing, instead of trying to undermine me? That is far more serious than trying to put me down. The President of the United States is LYING. And all you people are doing is trying to put me down.

What is wrong with this picture? You want to defend a crook in office, who is fucking you, as I just proved and my series of next blogs do as well, even further, or put down the person who is trying to fight for your rights as well, and expose this son of a bitch because you think, based on your ignorance, and what certainly appears to be prejudice and discrimination, if not inferiority complex, that you want to jump on the bandwagon of those who think I don't know what I'm talking about.

I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG. GET USED TO IT. And unless you can prove it by showing me case law, I would shut the hell up. Because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you are blowing steam out of various orofices and are doing no more than that. So if you would like to keep doing it, go right ahead. It just makes you look like a discriminatory, ignorant, idiot.
The war in Afghanistan is none of your business.
You live in a country that makes war.
That's your choice, not your business.
The business of the war in Afghanistan is for those who live there, fight there, loved ones, relatives, and shareholders.
Your issues are about Barak and Michelle Obama, from what I can make out in your diatribes. You could make those points clearer by following the free and friendly advice offered on this site.
You might even attract a readership that doesn't mind your abuse.
Excuse me, but if I hear one more stupid comment that the Wars we are fighting are none of my business, you are going to get a charge of Title XII thrown at you. You don't say that to Glenn Greenwald, do you? They are my business, as they are everyone's business who pays taxes to support these wars. Number two, yes, I am very pissed off at Michelle and Barack Obama who lied their way into the White House and are now reneging on campaign promises and worse, making a profit on America's pain.

And as for attracting a readership and following, this blogpost alone has generated over a thousand hits. So Stuff it in your ignorant idiotic, sexist orifice of choice, if I hear one more idiot comment. Because I'm not just criticizing the big boss at 1600 Penn, I'm also criticizing Congress.

But if it was up to you, women like me would either be in the kitchen, the bedroom or ten feet under. And when I meet attitudes like that, I kick their asses into outer space, just like I'm figuratively kicking yours.

You are an ignorant, sexist twit, who doesn't know what he is talking about. And yes, I will tell that to everyone who posts such idiotic statements on my posts.
' the Wars we are fighting ... '
No, Marguerite, not ' we ', not you, not anyone else but the people in Afghanistan, and their relatives, and the shareholders.
You're fighting another war, here, and using all kinds of crazy useless language, and judging by your comments tally, you're not making any headway. A thousand hits ? Mosly people who wanted to see what all the shrieking was about. Near as anyone can make out, it's got something to do with Michelle Obama being black. The war, swine flu, whatever it is, it's about you, the Obama's, and some knucklehead who didn't let let you through the door - didn't he know who you WERE ?
Call me sexist, call me a twit, call me whatever you like - I'm fine, throw Title XII ( whatever that is ) at me. Do whatever you like, but don't ever pretend for a second that what you do, or say here, matters.
Sorry ( sp ) ' Mostly ' and ' Obamas "
Oh, I heard you were giving out Titles here. Can I have one?

Try using Statscounter. Then you can tell how many of the 1000 hits are you and the other 5 people watching this show.

Toodles.
"I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG. GET USED TO IT."
Well, bless your heart!
We're going over and post our blog on the Salon website.
Peace out!
~rocco and rusty
(who just might be really real)
... unless you're Steve Blevins, or someone.
Maybe someone funny, who makes you laugh.

... and anyway, what's hate done for you lately ?
Beauty is only skin deep
but ugly goes straight to the bone.
That's right Ablonde. Now, go look in a mirror. That is the face of hate. I didn't go out of MY way to diss a real and reputable story. Not only that, but I didn't break federal law to do it.

That's not "hate" from me sweetheart. It's all coming from YOU. So the face of hatred you are seeing is your own.
Yes JK....and so if you know about it, then you will also know that the stats counter DOESN'T COUNT HITS FROM YOU ON YOUR OWN DAMNED BLOG SITES.

Jesus you people are stupid, and going out of the way to make yourselves look that way in an effort to discredit me. It boggles the mind how stupid you people really are. And are looking stupider ever effort you make to try to discredit me.

EXCELLENT JOB. GREAT WORK. A PLUS.

IN STUPIDITY. If not sexism, discrimination, and lawbreaking behavior.
Since we're so awful, why don't you leave? You're just aggravating yourself reading and responding to the commenters here.

You could always put up your posts and close comments. These 'exchanges' below are not a good scene for any of the parties involved.
I am here because I want to be here. It's called education, number one, and I'm not afraid of your shit. Or being unpopular. It's called having a minority opinion, and defending it against people who apparently think that mob rule and trying to drive someone away by their ignorance and law breaking behavior, is in some way acceptable, protected by law, or in any way threatening to me. It's not. See the Constitution. And if you people think you are threatening me, you are dreaming. I'm up against the "big boys" right now....like a multinational bank and several government agencies, plus the White House. So if you think that some stupid ding dongs who don't even know the law, and mix up, I can't believe that she was so stupid, women and minorities civil rights labor law with disability law and then thinks she has ANY credibility whatsoever, she is dreaming. Or the male poster on here who thinks that he has the right to say that I'm not a stake holder and therefore I have no right to comment on what is going on in Afghanistan. What do you think taxes go for, you ding dongs? DoD is the largest place where your tax dollars are spent, other than entitlements, so called.

So get over yourselves, and maybe start reading my posts and learn something instead of spending all this stupid vitriol in trying to discredit me. It's a waste of your time.
I'm sick and tired of you fucking us over our fucking ice cream dessert in DC. We have been taking on some big MF's during this whole hale of bizarre accusations from you, in hopes that the ice cream would soon be on the table. But apparently your waiters hate women, anyone not the race de jour, and handicapped people because still there is no ice cream. One waiter came over and asked if he could get me something.That is clearly a violation of law because he was working in his work place at the time he asked it. I looked up case law and found that it is in violation of code WAYWTINIC.789.21 (Wait All You Want There Is No Ice Cream.789.21). That son of a bitch has got it comin to him. He better call Judge Wapner and Judge Judy and Starsky and Hutch and maybe even Eric Estrada and Tom Cruise, just in case.
comprenda?
oh almost forgot - the stat counter actually DOES log your own page loads unless you specifically go to a specific tab and tell it not to by checking or unchecking a box there. You act like none of us have ever used it. If we could post pictures in comments I would do a screen grab of it.

Oh and by the way y'all (other commenters) she is baiting us. She knows she is beyond a shitty writer and starting bizarre arguments is her only way to get hits, by pissing people off they come back, eventually they bring a friend or attract someone else due to the extremely peculiar nature of comments - almost none of which are about her post but rather about her far outside of normal aggression. It's a freakshow by design. Notice how she keeps trying to entice us to read her next series. Man I could barely get through this one - every direction in the world - post, much less a whole series of them. I refuse to bite. Which is why I continue to comment on this and only this post. If we ignore her she might go away.