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Open Thread: It’s Got A Good Beat, and You Can Dance to It…

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The next step after #hashtagactivism. Per the Washington Post‘s Adam Taylor:

On Saturday night, the strong words over the Ukrainian crisis took an unusually vulgar turn: Ukraine’s interim foreign minister, Andrii Deshchytsia, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “d—head.”

“I am ready to be here with you and say, ‘Russia, get out of Ukraine,’ ” Deshchytsia said as he tried to calm protesters outside the Russian Embassy in Kiev. “Putin is a d—head, yes.”…

The song seems to have emerged from the football terraces, and united rival fans…

Kremlin supporters are understandably a little annoyed that Deshchytsia would publicly acknowledge an offensive football chant, but Deshchytsia claims he was trying to defuse a situation that saw Ukrainian nationalists trying to storm the Russian embassy…

I’m trying to imagine an American equivalent, but I can’t think of anyone who inspires the same kind of universal loathing. Donald Sterling? Donald Trump?

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  2. 2.

    jurassicpork

    I’ve got ten candidates who do.

    If you like your political news and satire NSFW, then you don’t want to miss Assclowns of the Week#99: Dr. Strangehate edition. On the spit this week: Rick Perry, Dick & Liz Cheney, the MSM, Pat Robertson, and much, much more.

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    Schlemizel

    I fear Билл из Портленда may show up to defend the beloved Путин in a manly, shirtless way.

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    MikeJ

    I’m trying to imagine an American equivalent, but I can’t think of anyone who inspires the same kind of universal loathing. Donald Sterling? Donald Trump?

    He was addressing a crowd of protesters that he agreed with, and repeated what they were chanting. I can easily see any number of teabaggers addressing a crowd in front of the White House saying, “yes yes, of *course* we should lynch the nigger….”

    Which doesn’t mean that Putin isn’t a dickhead. Of course he is. But it shouldn’t be surprising to find a politician in a country he invaded that will say so in public.

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    Cacti

    Only a fascist would call Putin names.

    I think the CIA made him say it or he wouldn’t get any more cookies from Victoria Nuland.

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    Hal

    Has this story been posted yet? I’m amazed this is legal.

    http://www.occupy.com/article/apartheid-detroit-water-corporations-not-people

    In the spring, Detroit’s Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr ordered water shutoffs for 150,000 Detroit residents late on their bills. Orr is an unelected bureaucrat accountable only to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who appointed Orr and several other “emergency managers” in largely poor, black communities like Detroit, Benton Harbor, Flint, and Highland Park, to make all financial decisions on behalf of local elected governments.

    Orr’s plan will shut off water for 1,500 to 3,000 Detroit residents each week. Neither Orr nor Homrich, the contracting company Orr hired to shut off residents’ water, answered calls for interview requests.

    As the Michigan Citizen reported, residents with delinquent water bills are losing their water while prominent Detroit corporations with much larger delinquent water bills are being left alone. The Palmer Park Golf Club owes $200,000. Joe Louis Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings, owes DWSD $80,000. Ford Field owes $55,000. Kevyn Orr is arguing that the shutoffs are necessary to pay for the DWSD infrastructure – yet when Detroit raised $1 billion in bonds to pay for new infrastructure, $537 million of it went to banks like JPMorgan Chase, UBS and Morgan Stanley to pay off interest instead.

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    Bobby B.

    How do you translate the Post’s censor dashes into Russian? Was Putin a dumb head or a dork head?

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    the Conster

    I made it to 1:09. I’m a genetic liberal and that martial shit just gripes my cookies and freaks me right the fuck out. I told my mother at the age of 5 or 6 that I didn’t want to be a boy scout, a girl scout, a brownie or a rainbow girl at church, and I meant it – she never made me, and I never was. That’s why I’m here.

    ETA: The Obama foreign policy doctrine is to let everyone proceed. Let Putin choke on Ukraine.

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @efgoldman:

    If there really were a hell, Satan would have to build thousands of new flaming dormitories by the thousands just for Wingnuts/TeaHadis.

    Oh, he is. The problem is that Hell has such a hellish bureaucracy that it is the very devil to get some of the damned building permits.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @efgoldman:

    Wouldn’t the world’s worst bureaucracy in hell be heavenly for the devil?

    Not when s/he is trying to get something big down in a hurry. Rules are rules, you know. Can’t make any exceptions.

  19. 19.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Hal:
    How in hell does a person decide that cutting off someone’s water will somehow enable them to pay the bill?

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    WaterGirl

    @raven: I wonder if his music was ever played on TV shows, I’m thinking Rockford Files, Kojak, 77 Sunset Strip, that era. The music is really familiar to me. It’s really good.

    Edit: I keep being reminded of Ricky don’t lose that number.

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    WaterGirl

    @muddy: He just disappeared? How awful. I recall you saying something scary related to a pet and threats from your neighbors. Did I make that up?

    I’m so sorry.

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Hal: A couple of things:

    1) It is inaccurate to say that those delinquent commercial accounts are being left alone. The department in question doesn’t comment on specific accounts. They do say that they are taking action on industrial and commercial accounts as well. Exactly what that means isn’t clear.

    2) Understand, the DWSD is owed $118 million in delinquent bills and more than half of the accounts are not paying. The city is bankrupt. Do you expect them to keep piping water to customers that don’t pay even though they don’t have the money?

  30. 30.

    Gin & Tonic

    @WaterGirl: The “hard bop” era, Art Blakey and sidemen/alumni, was really fecund musically, and lots of good-quality recordings have remained “in print.”

  32. 32.

    TooManyJens

    Well, this sucks. Remember that great post the other day about how Cheney and the rest of the warmongers could go fuck themselves re: Iraq?

    http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/06/absolutely-nothing.html

    This post has been removed.

    It has removed because a number of commercial news sites and radio shows stole my intellectual property without bothering to ask for permission or offering compensation. These thieving sons of bitches took my material and used it to attract readers and viewers which in turn makes them money, none of which was offered to me.

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    muddy

    @WaterGirl: Yes, I had the threats. But there are foxes, fishers etc right behind the house.

    The sad thing is that he used to be really agoraphobic, and freaked out to even see the sky. He’s 8, and just this year he started going out in the yard hunting. He caught a few chipmunks, and lost 3# in as many months from the exercise. He used to get zero, didn’t even like to play much. He’d roll over and try to bat from the prone position. But this is the opposite side of the coin of his freedom.

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    Ripley

    The city is bankrupt. Do you expect them to keep piping water to customers that don’t pay even though they don’t have the money?

    Not in Somalia, no.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    @muddy: Life is a balancing act, it’s so tricky. I’m so sorry you lost your boy. He was beautiful, reminds me of my kitty soulmate. Crying now, for both us and all our lost kitties.

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @raven: The great day photo is amazing. All that talent, what an era. I missed the reference to the Count on the curb. ?

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    The FBI and US Attorney’s office is investigating how former Virginia Democratic state senator Phillip Puckett came to resign his seat and throw state Senate control to the Republicans. Several of whom had promised him a job on the Virginia Tobacco Commission and to smooth the way to a judgeship for his daughter.

    At the time, AG Mark Herring said his office would not be looking into the matter.

    But now descend the Feds. And is it worse to offer a bribe or accept one? Numerically, more Republicans could fall here.

    Popcorn time.

    (Puckett’s pukeitude threw an obstacle into Gov. McAuliffe’s expanding Medicaid, which the GOP staunchly opposes. But this could play out rather sweetly, actually …)

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    I’m really hoping for rain tonight. We are getting 90-degree weather here, and with my tree gone the sun in my back yard is just brutal. 30-50% chance of rain tonight, so I am crossing my fingers.

  46. 46.

    Elizabelle

    @muddy:

    I hope your kitty comes back. How worrying. Any chance whatsoever he could get trapped in a neighbor’s garage, or animal control?

  47. 47.

    muddy

    @Elizabelle: I’ve gone to all the neighbors. Except the evil ones, they got an order of trespass against me because I gave their dog water. I called the 2 local shelters and gave his info. Also the vet in the village, people will often bring animals there as the shelters are in another town. There is no animal control.

    Ailill does not ever go very far from the house, it was just this summer that he went off the porch. I can’t see how he’d get lost. Of course after recent events with the neighbors I fear the worst. And altho we are in the village, there are woods right in the back.

  48. 48.

    Hal

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): BTW, the we don’t comment is a convenient buffer to criticism, but I’m not going to assume that everyone is in the same boat.

    As the Michigan Citizen reported, residents with delinquent water bills are losing their water while prominent Detroit corporations with much larger delinquent water bills are being left alone. The Palmer Park Golf Club owes $200,000. Joe Louis Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings, owes DWSD $80,000. Ford Field owes $55,000. Kevyn Orr is arguing that the shutoffs are necessary to pay for the DWSD infrastructure – yet when Detroit raised $1 billion in bonds to pay for new infrastructure, $537 million of it went to banks like JPMorgan Chase, UBS and Morgan Stanley to pay off interest instead.

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Hal: So who should be paying for the water? I have never lived in a city that didn’t cut off utilities that didn’t get paid.

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Hal: I’m not assuming anything. You are the one that did that, along with the Michigan Citizen.

  52. 52.

    Gin & Tonic

    @muddy: Fishers are a tough beast to deal with. We lost a cat a number of years ago, possibly to a fisher – we were never sure. She was old, always an outdoor cat, experienced, but one day she wandered off and didn’t come back.

  53. 53.

    Gin & Tonic

    @muddy: Fishers are a tough beast to deal with. We lost a cat a number of years ago, possibly to a fisher – we were never sure. She was old, always an outdoor cat, experienced, but one day she wandered off and didn’t come back.

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    muddy

    @Gin & Tonic: There were reports of sightings of a fisher a couple of years ago, and I saw a really large fox after a really fat rabbit the other day.

    The fact that the predator may well have been human makes me feel worse. The natural world is one thing, that’s another.

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @efgoldman: Here’s the thing, though. All of those “corporate” accounts that were listed are for places that are owned by the city of Detroit. That includes Joe Louis Arena, Ford Field, and the golf course. So that’s who you’re looking at there.

    (As an aside, the issue at Ford Field and Joe Louis is a dispute over how much is actually owed rather than a refusal to pay. Those are in arbitration.)

    So in all, the story is not at all what was first presented.

  57. 57.

    Hobbes

    “…I can’t think of anyone who inspires the same kind of universal loathing.”
    The UK has been kind enough to give us Piers Morgan as someone everyone can loathe.

  58. 58.

    Vanya

    хуйло “huilo” is more offensive in Russian than “dickhead” in English. “Giant prick” is probably a better literal translation.

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    HeartlandLiberal

    What is really interesting is the article on Wikipedia is flagged for discussion on whether it should be deleted or not. The comments are as worth reading as the article.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin_khuilo!

    $DEITY forbid history actually record the taunts of the victims directed at their lords and masters.

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    jcgrim

    @Hal: Water is the next worldwide profit opportunity and the neoliberals have been working behind the scenes to privatize all of our water resources.
    If they could meter the air we breath they would charge us for each breath.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I’m trying to imagine an American equivalent, but I can’t think of anyone who inspires the same kind of universal loathing. Donald Sterling? Donald Trump?

    The terrorist leader Obama ben Binden

  63. 63.

    Rasputin's Evil Twin

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): My experience dealing with contractors for public library renovations leads me to conclude hell’s perils are overrated. Neither god nor Satan built hell – it appears to have been contracted out. There is no fiery pit; Satan suffers from hypothermia. God has been sending contractors to hell by the score for thousands of years, and they never show up!

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