Deathwatch DAY 7

[arendt]

The GOP is the Party of Death and Destruction (PODD)

NOTE: For background on Deathwatch see:

The Party of Death - A Primer for Democrats ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/145arendt

This is so easy to do that, despite saying I would stop, I will continue it for a while.

Comments on today's headlines: What is striking to me is the lack of focus on the Yoo/Addington torture story. This story was hot yesterday, but seems to have vanished today. Does this mean that DU takes its lead from the Corporate Media (who have buried it under a bunch of Clinton trivia)? Or, does it mean that the war (i.e., the whitewash of the Basra disaster) and Petreus' testimony has caused everyone here to move to that topic?

In any case, war and the cratering economy continue to dominate DU. The environmentalists have brought a lot of bad news today, too. The corporate media is in damage control mode on the Seligman/US attorney mess; so it doesn't get too much exposure.

I would appreciate anyone else's take on why the PODD frame is not getting picked up at DU. Is it because everyone at DU slavishly follows the corporate media, who are focused on irrelevant trivia like Obama's bowling?

arendt

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KILLING THE PLANET
Climate target is not radical enough - study (Hansen: 550 ppm "disaster", 2m sea rise this century)
Rainforests Being Rapidly Cut And Cleared For More Rubber Plantations In Southern China
Renewables' Replacement Of Fossil Fuels Lags Well Behind Estimates
Peak Of Austria's Stubai Mountains Vanishes - Glaciologists Suspect Climate Behind Melt, Erosion
Seahorses - Native To Africa & Mediterrenean - Now Living In Thames Estuary
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DESTROYING THE CONSTITUTION (examples of systemic corruption)
Finally. On TeeeVeee. "Bush Administration Officials Will Be 'Indicted For War Crimes" War on Drugs = Voter Disenfranchisement?
Another Test for Habeas Corpus
Siegelman Future Hinges on Appeal ("60 Minutes" Interviews Freed Governor - 'Rove Needs to Testify')
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DESTROYING PUBLIC SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
no items today
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DESTROYING GOVERNMENT REGULATION (examples of failure and more deregulation)
no items today
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DESTROYING THE MIDDLE CLASS (examples of job loss and economic stress)
Stagflationary Abyssal Part II - More Evidence and Suggestions for What to Do
"We are seeing .. the collapse of the modern day banking system"
U.S. retailers cut jobs as shoppers stop shopping
Strip Mall Vacancy Rate Highest in 12 years
Medical Tourism: Pathway to Outsourcing Physician Jobs
Dell will focus on emerging markets to boost growth
Congress doing little to help homeowners, unions charge
Iraq War costs every American family $100 a month
$3 Trillion May Be Too Low by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
For bargain basement America, foreign investment no panacea
Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) and the mess they have made
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DESTROYING SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
no items today
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KILLING PEOPLE IN WARS

----Today's Laugh----

REAL WORLD:
LAT: Officials foresee no ebb in Iraq violence
Gunmen set Baghdad's largest food market on fire - eyewitnesses
Blackwater contract renewal not approved by Iraq: Maliki
Frank Rich: Tet Happened, and No One Cared

MC-INSANE'S WORLD:
McCain insists Iraq buildup is working

US congressional hearings on Iraq foreshadow aggressive stance against Iran
Petraeus Testimony to Defend False "Proxy War" Line
Israel, U.S. plan to release details on Syria attack
Sherwood Ross: Bush Military Buildup Recalls Stalin And Hitler
Robot armies - another military revolution?
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[arendt]

1. kick n/t

[Tyler Durden]

2. A thread on whether or not Obama was the sexiest man you'd ever seen....

Got 6 posts and 5 recs before locking.

YOU do the math. Thanks, by the way, for reminding me there was a good reason for taking you off IGNORE about three months back.

[electropop]

4. The problem with the OP is that it's not very coherent

It looks like a lot of pieces of headlines, but there is no story to understand the headlines.

What would work is a compelling narrative, weaving these stories together in a way that demonstrates repuke (PODD) hypocrisy on all these issues.

[arendt]

5. Thanks for the feedback. I include the link to the original essay for the "frame", but...

I can see that a lot of people aren't going to click on that link.

Maybe I should clip out relevant sections of the original essay (The POD - a primer) and put that clip in front of the title for each of the headline topics.

Again, thanks.

arendt

[electropop]

8. If you're linking to another post, put the grabber stuff in the link.

The list of headlines is just hard to grab on to.

[arendt]

9. ATTENTION: I reformatted this, and started a new thread. Please continue at: ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3120078


Thanks, electropop.

arendt

[arendt]

10. Oh, when you go to the new thread, could you please re- K&R? Thanks. n/t

[arendt]

Thanks for giving my stuff another look.

The vapidity of most DU threads is depressing.

I'm not saying my stuff is Thom Hartmann, but at least I try to connect some dots.

arendt

[Tyler Durden]

3. Have another K on me...I already R'd.

[satireV]

6. have one on me too~

K!

[flashl]

7. K&R

[lonestarnot]

11. Excellent death watch!