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JESUS' GENERAL
"Who knew Christians had their own army? I mean, besides Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan & Pakistan?"

JOE. MY. GOD.
"An ACTUAL New Yorker, captured live, every day."

THE SMIRKING CHIMP
"Still smirking, eight months after the Chimp was kicked out."

ZIMBIO
"It's a magazine. Sorta. It's a blog. Sorta."

OBSIDIAN WINGS
"It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard blog...)"

DAILY KOS
"The big shots need love too. I guess."

FROM THE LEFT
"Open. Left. Any questions?"


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LIBERATED LADIES, DRAMA QUEENS & HARD-WORKIN' WOMEN WRITERS

Sometimes It's Hard To Be A Woman; Sometimes It Kinda Looks Like Fun!

This month The American La Cosa Nostradamus Foundation For The Advancement Of Blog People And Their Blogs, TALCNFFTAOBPATB for short, pronounced: "TALCNFFTAOBPATB," is proud to announce a new category in the Cosie Awards: Women. This new and rising group is taking the world by storm, and promises to have a great future. If the whole "woman" thing works out, we might be willing to try some other genders.

In the meantime, these are great blogs by great ladies who just happen to be female, not that there's anything wrong with that. Every day, or once in a while they will enlighten, amuse and/ or enrage you with their wit, witticisms, and yes, wisdom, though not all of them are Latina's, thank Gawd says Jeff Sessions!

We should all consider ourselves fortunate to have so many brilliant femmes blogging these days, working tirelessly to remove the stain on their gender's reputation smeared there by the excremental Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan and Maureen Dowd, who might otherwise leave you with the impression that all women in the media, like so many of the men, are right-wing *ssh*les, when the reverse is true. Read 'em and weep, laugh, scream, nod your head in wise accord, but read them.


III. JULY 09 COSIES

SUZIE-Q
"Iran Election Riots: Gunmen Open Fire"

' 2:19 PM ET — More details from Reuters. “Iran’s hardline Islamic Basij militiamen killed at least one person on Monday and wounded more when their building was attacked by demonstrators protesting an election they say was stolen by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.” '

PAM'S HOUSE BLEND
"Joe the Plumber...er, scribe(?!)"

' Honest to god, how soon will "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream" hit the bargain bin? You know some conservative think tank will buy a buttload of copies to give away to pump up the sales, but I seriously doubt the teabaggers are going to line up to read this ghostwritten POS. WingNutDaily's fawning coverage reads like a parody, however we did get an idea of Joe's relationship with the Man Upstairs and politics. '

WILLPEN'S WORLD
"So Sarah cut and ran…"

' I don’t know if I am shocked or not by this newest game that Sarah Palin is playing. After thinking about this for a day it seems to me that Sarah Palin’s life is basically one game after another. It’s almost as if she does this to prove something to herself. It is obvious that the woman is suffering from some sort of Narcissistic disorder which I am sure can be found in DSM IV. '

THE MUDFLATS
"Palin’s Health Care Priorities and Alaska’s Daughters"

' Today, Lisa Demer of the Anchorage Daily News has broken a story that adds another scandal to the growing list of scandals that have plagued this administration, and shines the light on Alaska’s very own health care crisis. Demer’s story centers on the horrendous condition of the Alaska’s state programs that are designed to help its most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and disabled. '

WEST VIRGINIA FUR AND ROOT
"Lilac or Lavender (but not purple)"

' Of late, I am not accustomed to things going according to plan. It’s been so bad that I’ve taken to saying that I’m bad at planning. Although properly executed with the appropriate preparation and diligence, things go awry. And nothing goes awry like paint. I have painting stories that’ll curl your stir sticks. Really. While nothing will ever top the Great Tibetan Red Saga, there was the Moose Mousse episode and it’s probably best if I don’t go into the Homestead Antique Cameo story. The Cerulean Blue master bath was not an unmitigated disaster, but it also didn’t end up as expected. I am so scarred by these episodes, coupled with some trauma from my youth, I am afraid of color. So. Imagine my surprise when this past January I started thinking about painting the office at my place of employment lavender. '

NOVEMBER FIFTH
"Baby Steps"

' Emma is slowly climbing out of a hard crash right now. At her vet appointment Monday her blood-work showed she is severely anemic. After an iron injection and several hours with the vet, he sent her home and was cautiously hopeful about the chances she will respond to the new medication we are going to be injecting her with three days a week for the foreseeable future (the same stuff I used when I had cancer a number of years ago, oddly) to help boost her red blood cell count. She could barely walk Monday... Tom and I are both taking this very hard. I "slept" out near the closet where she has been staying for the last several days. '

MUSINGS OF A WANDERING ELF
"Too Lazy to Read? Then Shut Your Pie Hole!"

' That's the best advice that I can give to the deluded masses that insist on deluging our Senate today with calls, emails and letters imploring our elected officials to vote NO on the "Pedophile Protection Act." What, you didn't know that the Senate was going to vote on the "Pedophile Protection Act" this week? Well, then consider yourself more intelligent than Focus on the Family's James Dobson who has also referred to S. 909, commonly known as the Matthew Shepard Act, as "utter evil." Certain so-called "Christian" commentators and general muck-stirrers will have you believe that S. 909 is an attack on Christianity. Yea, they will even have you buy into the notion that it will criminalize Christianity! Come again? '

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THE ANCIENT ARTS OF DEMOCRACY & HOSPITALITY, ALIVE & WELL ON THE INTERNET

Some Places Are More Friendly Than Others. We Don't Reward The Others. Just These:

Yup. This months belated -again- Cosie Awards are going out to our peeps & homies and all the big dawgs & kewl kitties in the left-wing political blogosphere that have allowed us to post links to our bloviations right here in Smalltime, USA. We're not going to wait for Gawd to reward them; he's a notorious procrastinator. (Look how long it's taking to wrap up this Universe thingie! SEVEN DAYS, He said! Typical builder.) So, we're sending out the crystal arrowhead (or whatever it is) to these folks well in advance of Judgment Day, in case they need to pawn them in the meantime. What with these being such mean times, and all. Check 'em out:

MERCURY RISING
"Stop Saying That"
Acid rationality & sweet reason, by the shot or by the pint. Drink up.

' Do the Republicans ever listen to themselves? Do they ever think about what they’re saying? Or does somebody pull a string in their back and out come the talking points? -Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell … “Americans don’t want a government-run system that puts bureaucrats between patients and doctors.”- Senator McConnell, shut up. Just. Shut. Up. '

THE SEMINAL
"Will Republican leaders denounce rash of racist comments directed at President Obama and his wife?"
Self-appointed watchpersons over the whole healthscare thingie and other stuff, these folks even engage with right-wing trolls in their comment section. Not sure why. It's like talking to a wall with nasty written stuff on it. Bring a bucket of liberal paint.

' I know the traditional media has its hands full providing exhaustive coverage of the David Letterman-Sarah Palin saga, but when they get a minute, maybe they can look into the racist and bizarre comments Republican activists are directing at President Obama and his wife. As I mentioned the other day, a Republican activist in South Carolina just compared Michelle Obama to a gorilla. Not to be outdone, today, another Republican activist in SC posted this gem on Twitter: “Just heard Obama is going to impose a 40% tax on aspirin because it’s white and it works.“ Funny stuff–but wait, there’s more. A Republican staffer for a Tennessee state senator emailed a block of paintings and photographs of U.S. presidents. The white presidents were shown in their actual likenesses–Obama was depicted as a disembodied cartoon set of eyes–get it?–he’s a “spook“. '

FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
"Don't Expect Ensign to Resign"
THE place to go for real poll numbers, named for the number of Electors in that notorious "College" which chooses our Presidents. Nate Silver outdid the "experts" in the 2008 Democratic primary races, and he continues to do so himself. His secret? Good math, common sense and applied political savvy. A winning combination. Just ask Barack Obama.

' Nevada Senator John Ensign today disclosed that he'd had an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer. This will make for plenty of interesting water-cooler gossip, particularly since Ensign has a penchant for calling on people to resign for various and sundry moral and ethical lapses -- notably Larry Craig, Bill Clinton and Ted Stevens (but not David Vitter). It seems unlikely, however, that Ensign will resign himself. Although Nevada's governor is a Republican and could appoint another Republican to replace him, that would nevertheless trigger a special election in 2010, when Democratic incumbent Harry Reid is also on the ballot. Nevada Republicans have a very poor bench right now and are already having trouble recruiting a credible candidate to run against the unpopular Reid. They might have a lot of difficulty retaining Ensign's seat in the event of a special election, or alternatively, might compete for it at the price of giving Reid a free pass. '

FROM THE LEFT
"Will Obama’s Firing of an Inspector General Evolve Into a Major Scandal?"
This blog manages to stay on top of stuff better than most. Not a knee-jerk Democratic supporter, sometimes quite offensive, bordering on hate-speech in the comments. But that's the cost of free speech, sometimes. The haters condemn themselves.

' This didn’t take long. Not six months on the job yet and President Obama could be facing a major political scandal. Last Wednesday, a man named Gerald Walpin, a U.S. inspector general investigating the possible misuse of Americorps funds, received a surprise call from the Obama White House informing him was fired. The firing was seen by some as politically motivated and highly illegal. The bottom line: Gerald Walpin accused a prominent Obama supporter of misusing AmeriCorps grant money. After an investigation, the prominent Obama supporter had to repay back more than $400,000 of the grant money and Obama fired the inspector general who shined light on the matter in the first place . '

BOING BOING
"Poop on the moon, and how to protect it"
On Boing Boing, and only on Boing Boing. Cory Doctorow's personal foibles, fetishes & phobies spread out for all the world to see, every day.

' When Neil Armstrong first took that one small step onto the moon, he left behind more than just a footprint. Among the many items still sitting in the Bay of Tranquility are; Neil Armstrong's boots, a gold replica of an olive branch, tongs, four armrests, urine collection assemblies, a hammer, an insulating blanket, and... four defecation collection devices. Yes, Neil Armstrong's poop is moldering on the moon. While bags of frozen astronaut poop may sound unimportant, even a little gross, some "extreme heritage" conservationists are very concerned about their protection--as well as the other detritus left behind by humanity's first moonwalkers. For now, Tranquility Base is still tranquil (there is no wind or rain up there to damage things), but preservationists worry that private space enterprises will one day endanger the Apollo landing site, as well as other important landmarks on the moon. From the Lunar Legacy Site: '

CROOKS AND LIARS
"Some 'neighborhood watch': Forde's Minuteman spinoff outfit was about 'starting a revolution against the government' "
Turn off the Fuxsnooze of the day and check out the real news of the day. The name says it all.

' Remember how all those right-wing pundits proclaimed the Minutemen as being just like a neighborhood watch? Michelle Malkin called it "the mother of all neighborhood watches." Lou Dobbs labeled it "this country's biggest neighborhood watch program". Bill O'Reilly declared: "Talking Points applauds the Minutemen. They are in the great tradition of neighborhood watch groups." Boy, that sure is some neighborhood watch: Accused ringleader Shawna Forde told her family in recent months that she had begun recruiting members of the Aryan Nations and that she planned to begin robbing drug-cartel leaders, her brother Merrill Metzger said Monday in a telephone interview from Redding, Calif. "She was talking about starting a revolution against the United States government," he said. '

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BUMPER STICKERS FOR CHRIST

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AND OTHER NAZI HEROES

WILL NOT FIT ON HYBRIDS:
PERFECT FOR HUMMERS

("What would Jesus shoot?")

From The Bumper-Sticker Minds Of Conservatives

The New Bible is scrawled on bashed-in automobile fenders and pasted in the cracked back windows of pick-up trucks. The morons who pilot these message-driven VEE-hicles don't have time for whole sentences. Grunts suffice. A whole book, even a Good Book is just too much for our Jesus-freaks these days. They have Jesus coloring books, Christ cartoons, divine video games, Xtian DVDs, even Christian rock, for those who prefer to whistle the liturgy.

The real reason they've strayed so far from the New Testament is that they'd really rather be living in the Old Testament. That's where all the intra-familial begettin' & beheadin' is at. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, waterboard for no reason at all. Good old religious torture porn by the chapter and verse. But it's damned, I mean, derned hard goin' for the home-skewld. That's why we've produced these handy bumper stickers that express the true religious feelings of the average red-State redneck. You know, the assholes who put the fundament in fundamentalist?

You're welcome, yawl. Lick 'em before ya stick 'em. That'll he'p yer marriages, too.


Double-click to enlarge, then right-click to download. Hi-rez versions available by request:

("Pregnancy termination is murder, war is just good fun.")

("Let's execute somebody. Anybody.")

("Baby-killer killer on board")

("Jesus loves me, you he hates")

("Defend traditional marriage: Bring a cow as a dowry")

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REPUBLICAN JOKES FOR THE JOHN

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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO WARSHENDEN DEE-CEE

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE REPUKELICKIN'S COULDN'T GET ANY MORE RIDICULOUS...





We Laugh Because It Hurts Too Much To Cry


1. Two Republicans go into a gay bar. The bartender says, "What'll ya have?" The first Republican says, "I'll have what he's having," pointing to his friend. His friend says, "Let me check with Rush. I don't think we're supposed to be in here," noting suspiciously the beefcake beer posters, the complete lack of female customers, the rainbow flag and the guys making out on the pool table. He takes off his tin-foil hat, spits on it and points it toward Miami. A bolt of lightning crashes through the ceiling, killing him instantly. The first Republican says, "I guess I won't have what he's having."


2. A conservative and a liberal are arguing about global warming at the International House Of Pancakes. The liberal is wearing shorts, sandals, a Hawaiian shirt and a coconut hat. The conservative is wearing mukluks, a heavy snowsuit with big mittens attached and a great big Russian fur hat. The waitress comes to take their order and the liberal orders something liberal. The waitress turns to the conservative and asks him why he's wearing all the polar expedition gear in an IHOP in the middle of the summer. "IHOP? I thought this was the UN!"


3. Newt Gingrich is at his sixth wife's death-bed. She's pale and weak and he has no trouble removing all her jewelry, and getting her to sign a new will. "What's this, for, Command Master, dear?" his wife asks feebly. "Well, b*tch, I mean, babe, I need your as--mm-- anus," the Speaker responds gruffly. "Your wish is my command, Master. But why?" the poor woman replies. "Aw, Hell, I can't get the librul media to chew me a new one no more! And I can't hardly talk out of the old one atall!"


4. Bobby Jindal is out jogging alongside a swamp somewhere in Louisiana. A gigantic alligator lunges out of the bayou and blocks the Governor's path. "Heck! What do y'all want, alligator?" "I'm going to eat you all up unless you grant me three wishes, Governor," the alligator hisses. "I don't know that I can do that. Are you a contributor?" "My PAC gives heavily to State Senate races. All Republicans, of course. They understand reptiles." "OK. OK, What can we do for you this fine morning?" "First off, you've got to outlaw alligator shoes." "All right, I guess we can do that." "Second, I want to be designated an endangered species." "Well, I'm against that in principle, but it's Federal, so I guess I could bump it up to them. Sure, OK, as long as it's just you." "Third, when you run for President, I want to be your Vice-President." "Aw, I don't think I can do that. It might cost me the fundamentalist vote. How about Secretary of State?" The alligator lunges at the governor, snaps him up and swallows him whole. From deep inside the giant saurian, a tiny voice emerges. "Is this Jimmy Swaggart in here? DEAL, MR. VICE PRESIDENT, YOU GOT YOURSELF A DEAL!!!"


5. Ann Coulter is having "relations" with a giant venomous snake. She finally gets off, and disgorges the python. The reptile slithers off into a corner and starts crying hysterically. "What the f**k is the matter with you?" Ann asks the snake. "My condom came off!" the python wails.


6. John Boehner is addressing a group of young schoolchildren when little Johnny pops up from the back of the class and asks him a question: "How come your name is 'BONER'???!!!" The Congressman explains that his name is pronounced 'BAYNER,' "It's from the German. It's not pronounced the way it looks." Little Johnny puzzles over this and then demands, "Well how come my Mom says you're such a big dick then?"


7. A Republican and a monkey are shipwrecked together, the only two survivors left in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean. Their supplies consist of two oars, one shiny waterproof thermal blanket, one bottle of water, one box of rations, one flare and one Bible. Both survivors eye all the gear, which plainly is enough for only one of them. The monkey picks up the Bible and tosses it overboard. The Republican jumps in after it and manages to rescue the Good Book. When he tries to get back in the boat, the monkey smacks the Republican's hand with an oar repeatedly. The man struggles, but the monkey won't let him back in the boat, and the man won't let go of the Bible. Finally, the Republican cries out in panic and frustration, "Why are you doing this?" The monkey leans right into the man's face and says, "Still think evolution is just a theory?"


8. A mullah, a rabbi and a televangelist are shot into space together in a new philosophical initiative by NASA. The plan is to set an example of religious tolerance on Earth and to bring evidence of Man's spirituality out into the Cosmos. They're headed for Alpha Centauri, and it's a long trip. Mostly, they spend it in suspended animation, but every few years, the unmanned robotic ship brings them out of it automatically, so they can get some exercise while their cryogenic coffins are serviced. The three clerics each address themselves separately to Allah, Jehovah and Jesus, sh*t shower and shave, and sit down together for a nice meal of salty protein sticks and glucosed mineral-water. After dinner, the rebbe breaks out a deck of cards, shuffles them and deals them out to his shipmates. They're traveling light, so there is nothing physical to wager. The televangelist suggests that they play a game of truth or dare. The loser of each hand has to admit some uncomfortable truth about himself or accept any sort of a dare from the winner of the hand. The Jew loses the first hand, and admits he once tasted ham, just out of curiosity, but only one small bite. The Muslim loses the next hand, and confesses that he once "accidentally" ate some baby-back ribs at a backyard barbeque, but he spit it out when he found out what it was. The Christian loses the next hand and says that he ate Pig all the time back on Earth, and he loved it. The other two are disgusted, but the Rabbi objects, "But, for you, it's not a sin! It doesn't count as an uncomfortable truth in this game." "You don't understand," the minister objects," 'Pig' is what me and my cousin called his little sister."


9. Q: What's the difference between a Republican and a c*nt?
A: Let's not split hairs.


10. Rupert Murdoch arrives at last at the Pearly Gates of Heaven. When he gets to the front of the line, Saint Peter asks the media mogul whether he thinks he should go to Paradise or the Inferno. "Paradise, of course, mate," Sir Rupert says. "Really? And why is that," asks St. Peter. "Well, I've given tens, maybe hundreds of dollars to charity and I've been in church more than twice. And I wouldn't mind doing a good deed, if I ever had the time," says Murdoch, squinting hopefully at the Saint's Golden Book open before him, trying to read it upside down. "Is that all?" Peter says. "Crikey, I've brought goodness and light into the lives of millions with Fox News, the Sun newspaper and the New York Post." "Oh, THAT Murdoch!" the Saint exclaims, and slams his book shut, grabbing the lever that will open the trap door over the chute to Hell, right under Rupert Murdoch's feet. "But wait, there's more!" Murdoch objects. As he yanks the lever, sending the publisher straight down into the fiery furnace, St. Peter shouts down at Murdoch, "You know, we get the Post up here!"


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BILLARY SAYS CAROLINE KENNEDY "UNQUALIFIED":
"SHE'S JUST A RESUME WITH FAMILY CONNECTIONS"



And Hillary's Not Talking About Herself, For A Change

It seems like only yesterday that some catty New Yorkers were saying that Hillary Clinton was nothing but a resume, an empty pants-suit, trying to play on the big heart of the Big Apple with her sad connection to her disgraced husband, ex-POTUS & world-class poon-hound Slick Willie Clinton, in grabbing the Bobby Kennedy seat in the U.S. Senate. In fact, it was just yesterday that people all over the world were saying this about Hill's nomination to the post of U.S. Secretary of State. Other than ducking imaginary fire in Bosnia, and serving tea to other First Ladies in the Rose Garden, what the Hell does Hillary Rodham Clinton know about foreign affairs?

As to diplomacy, it's hard to imagine a candidate less qualified by temperament or style. When tasked with straightening out our national health care mess, an issue almost everyone thought needed attention, Hillary's imperious and secretive ways, her abrasive and dismissive personality, and her husband's philandering pretty much set the cause back twenty years. Just THINK what she could do in the cause of whirled peas, or international security! Oh, well, she knows where Israel is, or the AIPAC office, anyway. You can see it from her office. That's all that really matters.

That's pretty much all that really matters in being Senator from New York, also; besides shipping jobs out of State and overseas. From Jacob Javits to Charley Rangel, New York's congressfolk have established a tradition of not serving their constituencies, unless you count foreign countries. So, who needs experience? It hasn't hurt, or helped Hillary, her lack of it. Who even notices who fills that seat in the Millionaires Club?

I guess the Clintons do. They seem to think they own that seat now, though many NYers still contest their right to have ever even occupied it in the first place. Maybe it's Hillary's Illinois origins. You think she'd be more sensitive about that, in the midst of the Blagojevitch scandal. But, no, Billary wants what Billary wants, regardless of whom it hurts, or whom it doesn't help.

They don't care any more about the people of New York than they did about the people of the whole country during the recent election, when both Hill' and Billy stooped to unheard-of lows in attacking Obama violently and racially, even hinting that, as a black man, he could be assassinated. They seemed to be calling for Obama's killing, in many people's eyes. Despite this, Obama has given them an olive branch, a lot of them, a whole freakin' olive tree in Cabinet & staff picks. It just ain't enough. They want it all. They're the ultimate power-junkie couple. They just can't manage power once they get it. They haven't a clue, or an ideology, or principles, or any respect for Democratic traditions and institutions.

"F*ck Ted Kennedy," as fellow Southron Governor and failed President Jimmy Carter once said. Teddy's dying, but so what? The Kennedy legacy, so central to Democratic iconography and popular mythology, is not good for the crackerocracy of the DINO's. After all, Jack and Bobby split with the Dixiecrats over civil rights, and they may have killed the brothers for it. No bad blood there, hunh? The few blue dog Democrats (In Name Only) who remained with or returned to the Party after the Civil Rights Era are really Republicans, based on their opposition to everything Democratic except the voting trends in their own jurisdictions.

Some Southerners never could bring themselves to vote for the Party of Lincoln, their vanquisher in the Civil War. They may have voted Democrat, but they continually dragged the Party into the conservative swamps. Thanks to them even more than the Republicans, who used to be in the minority much of the time, the progressive agenda was never achieved. National health, federal funding for education, housing, transportation, the environment, etc, and the cause of peace on Earth got held off and put back and shot down every year for the last hundred years. In fact, the DINO's helped get conservative Republicans elected, and even pushed their arch-conservative, anti-progressive agenda. Zell Miller, anyone?

Still, we're supposed to work with these people, a minority within a minority. Why? Because they're armed & dangerous, with a history of political violence? Isn't that negotiating with terrorists? Shouldn't we be fighting these *ssholes, tooth & nail? The recent Presidential and Congressional elections show that the sixty per cent who rarely vote are in fact progressives, not conservatives. Even in the South, record turnouts turned out for a perceived progressive for President and many other offices. The fact that Obama is now squandering that historic victory, that sea-change in American politics, is a victory for the minority DINO's, and a major betrayal of his own vast but diminishing base.

Are the DINO's happy with that? Nope. They gotta have that NY Senatorial spot, too; just to show who's boss, once and for all. They're pissing a line in the sand on this one. How it turns out will show which way Obama is ultimately headed: Toward the right-of-center, or toward the left-of-center. (There is nothing further left than left-of-center in this country, outside of the graveyards.) Will Obama be able to govern the Clintonians, much less the country? The only hope is that all his moves so far have been part of a grand design to give the Clintonista's a chance to discredit themselves with their usual squabbling and bungling, and kick them out of the Party altogether. Of course, then they'll just come back as Republicans In Name Only, still furthering their principle-free, power-for its-own sake agenda. Clinton-Palin 2016, anyone?

No. I didn't think so.


CBS NEWS 2 NYC
"Caroline Kennedy Ready To Emerge From The Shadows"
Female, mom, has worked for children's issues, education, health care, smart, tough, dedicated, politically inclined, well-connected. Hum. Sounds just like Hillary, with better baggage. Much better. Oh, wait, she's gracious and well-spoken, genuine, natural, unpretentious and has a sense of humor. No, she's nothing like Hillary.

' It is a Senate seat that has long been held by political celebrities who had not held prior elective office. First Lady Hillary Clinton grabbed the seat in 2000. Robert F. Kennedy got it in 1965. Now, Caroline Kennedy wants Gov. Paterson to give it to her. Caroline Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law. She has also written seven books, helped Barack Obama select a vice presidential running mate, and in New York City has raised millions for public education. Friends told CBS 2 HD she wants to concentrate on education and health care in the Senate. '

USA TODAY
"Kennedy would follow Clinton as late-bloomer senator "
So, Clintonians hate Caroline, Kennedyites love her. Some news.

' If Caroline Kennedy becomes a senator, she'd be New York's second female celebrity senator to take an unconventional route to Congress. Kennedy is a lawyer who has written about constitutional issues and raised money for the New York City school system. She expressed interest in the job Monday, according to several officials in the state, including the man who will make the choice, Gov. David Paterson. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, named by President-elect Barack Obama to be secretary of State in his administration, was the nation's first lady for eight years before moving to New York in 2000 to run for the Senate seat. Despite her family's political legacy, Kennedy has largely stayed out of politics. New York critics have zeroed in on that lack of public record. "She's not demonstrated the qualifications or the experience for the position," Robert Zimmerman, a Clinton adviser and fundraiser, told the New York Post. Bob Shrum, a Democratic strategist and speechwriter who has worked for the Kennedys, said that "like Hillary Clinton, the minute she got there, she would have influence." '

NY POST
"KENNEDY FOR THE SENATE"
Oh, yeah, she is an actual NEW YORKER, born & raised a City girl, a North-Easterner and an East-Coaster, unlike Hill-Billary...

' Her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, held the very same seat from 1965 until his assassination three years later. But the arguments for her selection go far beyond mere symbolism. Consider her unusually high profile: As the only surviving child of President John Kennedy, she'd enter the Senate with considerably more political clout than the average freshman. While she hasn't been especially involved in New York's political wars, she's hardly unaware of the issues. A city resident since shortly after her father's assassination, she played a critical role in advancing the reform agenda spearheaded by Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. '

NY TIMES
"Résumé Long on Politics, but Short on Public Office "
It's clear where the headline-writer stands. But read the article.

' But friends and associates say that Ms. Kennedy, 51, is no dilettante, and that her career is replete with examples of the kind of hands-on policy work and behind-the-scenes maneuvering that could serve her well. “She’s not shy about pushing people in a direction, and very good at doing it in a way that people don’t even realize they’re being pushed,” said Heather Campion, one board member. “She’s good in the room, but she’s also good at getting people to focus and come together quickly,” Mr. Klein said. Ms. Kennedy is now vice chairwoman of the schools’ nonprofit fund-raising arm, but she continues to visit schools across the city, with no entourage or press aide. Yet Ms. Kennedy spent about six weeks barnstorming battleground states for Barack Obama and took to it with gusto: An aide recalled her strolling into a Republican headquarters near Ocala, Fla., and peppering voters with questions at every turn. “Eric was the quiet one, and she was the one that, really, when I said something, asked, ‘Who? Why? How come?’ ” said Representative Joe Baca, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who met with them to analyze the contenders. “She did most of the talking.” Ms. Kennedy also took it upon herself to write a lengthy memo for Mr. Obama, a senior campaign adviser said. “I think she sized up the field in a way that was thoughtful and sophisticated and right,” he said. “And I think it weighed heavily with him.” Ms. Kennedy has said that it was her children who got her to give Mr. Obama a look last year. Elaine Jones, a retired head of the NAACP fund, speculated that Ms. Kennedy’s children — her two daughters are in college and her son is in high school — were also the reasons she had not entered public life sooner. “A fishbowl can adversely affect a child,” Ms. Jones said. “Her mother found a way to keep her children real. Caroline, I think, wanted that for her children. So I think, without knowing it, subconsciously, she was trying to get her kids to this point.” '

NY DAILY NEWS
"Caroline Kennedy's fine, but a senator? Andrew Cuomo not so sure"
Rival, kicked out of Kennedy family by her cousin, Cuomo disses Caroline. Like HE made it on his own! HAH! Real objective journalism, Daily News!

' Attorney General Andrew Cuomo praised Caroline Kennedy yesterday - but wouldn't say if he thinks she's qualified to be a U.S. senator. "I've known Caroline for years, I have a high opinion of her, but that's going to be up to the governor," Cuomo said. "I wouldn't second-guess his judgment." Kennedy is the cousin of Cuomo's ex-wife, Kerry. After 13 years of marriage, he and Kerry Kennedy went through an acrimonious divorce, with the Kennedys believing that Cuomo fed dirt to the media on his wife's extramarital affair. Cuomo sidestepped questions on whether he wants to replace Sen. Hillary Clinton when she becomes secretary of state. While insisting he's happy as attorney general, he did not deny interest in the Senate seat. He and Kennedy are front-runners. "I think it's a little presumptuous for someone to say 'I'm not interested,'" Cuomo said. '

BOSTON HERALD
"We Hear: Hillary Clinton, Caroline Kennedy and more..."
CATFIGHT!!!

' That Secretary of State-in-waiting Hillary Clinton is lobbying hard to prevent Caroline Kennedy from taking her Senate seat when she steps down. Clinton, who will resign once she is confirmed as Barack Obama’s new top diplomat, is more than a little peeved that Caro - and her uncle Ted - threw their weight behind Obama in the presidential race. '

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
"The Not-Kennedy Campaign"
Billary's Talking Points Memo widely circulated, but secret, and deniable. How Republican!

' Suddenly, weeks after Caroline Kennedy's name first emerged as a candidate to fill the Senate seat that will be opened when Hillary Clinton joins the Obama administration in January, the establishment is very, very concerned—publicly—that she might not have what it takes. But at least one member of the New York House delegation—albeit one outside of the downstate echo chamber—has noticed that the Kennedy critics seem to be reading off the same page. "About two days ago one of my colleagues said that he thought she was too retiring, too private," said upstate Representative Louise Slaughter, who said that similar remarks made publicly by Ackerman suggested that "talking points are out there." For her part, Slaughter said she though Kennedy would be a fine choice to take Clinton's place. "The person who gets that seat has to be someone who has great stature," she said. '

NY DAILY NEWS
"Clintonites Against Kennedy"
And here's where those talking points come from.

' The storyline of pushback by Hillary Clinton supporters against Caroline Kennedy being tapped by Gov. David Paterson to succeed the junior senator whom Kennedy dissed in the Democratic primary is gaining steam. On the heels of questions raised about Kennedy's experience, or lack thereof, by Reps. Anthony Weiner and Gary Ackerman, both loyal Clinton supporters who were also her designated superdelegates at the Democratic National Convention, comes a statement from Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union head Stuart Appelbaum, who says Kennedy is "fascinating and engaging" but "a blank slate on New York issues." RWDSU was an early supporter of Clinton in the Democratic primary and Appelbaum campaigned with her in a number of early primary/caucus states, including Iowa. '

WIKIPEDIA: HILLARY CLINTON
"Hillary Rodham Clinton"
Ah, Memory! Ah, History!

' Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the junior United States Senator from New York and President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for United States Secretary of State. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001.A native of Suburban Chicago, Hillary Rodham first attracted national attention in 1969 for her remarks as the first student to deliver the commencement address at Wellesley College. She embarked on a career in law after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973. Following a stint as a Congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas in 1974 and married Bill Clinton in 1975. She was later named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979, and was twice listed as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America. She was the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992 and was active in a number of organizations concerned with child welfare, as well as sitting on the boards of Wal-Mart and several other corporations.When she was First Lady of the United States, her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan, failed to gain approval from the U.S. Congress in 1994. In 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a role in advocating for the establishment of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. She became the only First Lady to be subpoenaed, testifying before a federal grand jury as a consequence of the Whitewater controversy in 1996. She was never charged with any wrongdoing in this or any of the several other investigations during her husband's administration. The state of her marriage to Bill Clinton was the subject of considerable public discussion following the Lewinsky scandal in 1998.
Senate election of 2000
The long-serving United States Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, announced his retirement in November 1998. Several prominent Democratic figures, including Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York, urged Clinton to run for Moynihan's open seat in the United States Senate election of 2000.[188] When she decided to run, Clinton and her husband purchased a home in Chappaqua, New York, north of New York City in September 1999.[189] She became the first First Lady of the United States to be a candidate for elected office.[190] At first, Clinton was expected to face Rudy Giuliani, the Mayor of New York City, as her Republican opponent in the election. However, Giuliani withdrew from the race in May 2000 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer and having developments in his personal life become very public, and Clinton instead faced Rick Lazio, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing New York's 2nd congressional district. Throughout the campaign, Clinton was accused of carpetbagging by her opponents, as she had never resided in New York nor participated in the state's politics prior to this race. Clinton began her campaign by visiting every county in the state, in a "listening tour" of small-group settings.[191] During the campaign, she devoted considerable time in traditionally Republican Upstate New York regions.[192] Clinton vowed to improve the economic situation in those areas, promising to deliver 200,000 jobs to the state over her term. Her plan included specific tax credits to reward job creation and encourage business investment, especially in the high-tech sector. She called for personal tax cuts for college tuition and long-term care.[192]
The contest drew national attention. Lazio blundered during a September debate by seeming to invade Clinton's personal space trying to get her to sign a fundraising agreement.[193] The campaigns of Clinton and Lazio, along with Giuliani's initial effort, spent a record combined $90 million.[194] Clinton won the election on November 7, 2000, with 55 percent of the vote to Lazio's 43 percent.[193] She was sworn in as United States Senator on January 3, 2001.
After moving to New York, Clinton was elected as senator for New York State in 2000. That election marked the first time an American First Lady had run for public office; Clinton is also the first female senator to represent New York. In the Senate, she initially supported the George W. Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, which included voting for the Iraq War Resolution. She has subsequently opposed the administration on its conduct of the war in Iraq, and has opposed it on most domestic issues. She was reelected by a wide margin in 2006. In the 2008 presidential nomination race, Clinton won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but after a long campaign, she narrowly lost to Senator Barack Obama, who became the party's presumptive nominee in June 2008, and Clinton endorsed and campaigned for him. She is the first First Lady to be subsequently appointed to the Cabinet in any Presidential administration. '

WIKIPEDIA: CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG
"Caroline Kennedy"
Just the facts, Ma'am.

' Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author and attorney. She is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Kennedy was born in New York City and is named after her maternal aunt Caroline Lee Radziwill and a maternal great-grandmother. An older sister was stillborn in 1956. Her brother John Jr. was born in November 1960 and died in a plane crash along with his wife and sister-in-law in July 1999. Another brother, Patrick, died two days after his birth of a lung ailment in August of 1963. She lived in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown until a few months after her third birthday, when her family moved into the White House after her father's inauguration as President of the United States in 1961. Following her father's assassination in November 1963, she moved back to Georgetown with her mother and brother. However, their home soon became a popular tourist attraction in Washington, and they moved to New York City in mid-1964 where they lived in a penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She received her A.B. from Harvard University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, after attending the Brearley School and Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, and Concord Academy in Massachusetts.
Personal life
Kennedy spoke during the first night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. during an introduction of her uncle, Sen. Ted Kennedy.
After interning with her uncle, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, and at The New York Daily News, Caroline Kennedy began work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1980, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg.[2]
Kennedy and Schlossberg were married on July 19, 1986[3] at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts. Kennedy's matron of honor was her cousin Maria Shriver. She was walked down the aisle by her Uncle Ted. Although she is often incorrectly referred to as "Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg", she did not change her name when she married.
Professional life
Kennedy is an attorney, editor, writer and member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bar associations. She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually since 1990 to a person who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. The award is generally given to elected officials who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents. In May 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the NYPD, the New York City Fire Department, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted to save the lives of others during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.[4]
For 22 months from 2002 through 2004, Kennedy worked as director of strategic partnerships for the the New York City Department of Education. The three-day-a week job paid her a salary of $1 and had the goal of raising private money the New York City public schools.[5] In her capacity, she helped raise more than $65 million for the city’s public schools, according to her biography at the Kennedy Library.[3] She currently serves as the Vice Chair of The Fund for Public Schools, a public-private partnership founded in 2002 to attract private funding for public schools in New York City. [6]
In addition, Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library Foundation,[3] a director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre. She is also an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.
Kennedy has represented her family at the funeral services of former Presidents Ronald Reagan in 2004 and Gerald Ford in 2007, and at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in 2007. She also represented her family at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas in November 2004.
2008 United States presidential election
Kennedy on the presidential campaign trail.
On Sunday, January 27, 2008, Kennedy announced in a New York Times op-ed piece entitled, "A President Like My Father," that she would endorse Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.[7] Her concluding lines were: "I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans." This was the first time she had endorsed a presidential candidate other than when she endorsed her uncle, Ted Kennedy, in 1980.[8][9]
Federal Election Commission records show that Kennedy contributed $2300 to the Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign committee on June 29, 2007. She had previously contributed a total of $5000 to Clinton's senatorial campaign in 2006. On September 18, 2007, she contributed $2300 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign committee.[10] '

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THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, UH, LEFT, UM, SORTA

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ANTI-WAR SONGS, THE NEXT GENERATION

STILL ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD

Sunday Music Video Contest & Rock 'N' Roll Party, XXXTREME Edition

Here's some of that semi-articulate rage that helped put Obama over the top, by motivating a new generation of slackers to finally get off their asses and vote. These songs were recommended by Tom Grierson of About.com . Cuz WTF do I know about this sh*t. I'm an old man. Suddenly.

The year's top ten Protest Rock songs, picked by some kid who knows better than me, probly. It's all noise to me, y'know? Where's the melody, the harmony, the lyrics? How can you dance to this? Will anybody still listen to these kids' music in twenty, thirty, forty years or more? Who's going to whistle these tunes? Whose going to make love to them? Who's going to be their balladeer, their troubador, their crooner of sweet melodies, like Hank Williams, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Iggy Stooge, Sid Vicious, or the Dead Kennedy's? Where's the freakin ROMANCE, hanh? I dunno. These kids today. I guess I'm just not "happenin'" any more, or something, y'know? Dag-nab it!


YOUTUBE: FILTER
"filter - Only You (Stripped) - Remixes For The Damned"
Ah, sweet melody of death.


YOUTUBE: BLACK STONE CHERRY
"Black Stone Cherry - Peace Is Free"
It's what the kids are listening to today, I don't know.


YOUTUBE: TOM MORELLO
"Tom Morello - The Fabled City"
Ambiguous populist folk-rant. Not bad, for a Gen-X'er.


YOUTUBE: SCARS ON BROADWAY
"Scars on broadway - They Say Offical Video"
My favorite one of these. Lots of f*cking in it.


YOUTUBE: SHINEDOWN
"Shinedown - Devour - Official Video"
Mainstream Top-40 commercial protest rock, complete with MTV video. Hm.


YOUTUBE: NINE INCH NAILS
"Nine Inch Nails - Letting You Rehearsal"
Anti-Bush Indie Alt-Rock on the heavy side.


YOUTUBE: ONE DAY AS A LION
"One Day As A Lion-Wild International"
Rock-Rap-protest song.


YOUTUBE: DISTURBED
"Disturbed - Indestructible"
Screamin' LA-style punk-metal for "baby-killers" in Iraq. Good beat. I gave it a 7, cuz I could dance to it.


[Cross-posted at CoffeeHouseStudio by cosanostradamus.]
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DRACULA IS DEAD

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AT LEAST, WE THINK HE'S DEAD

ROMANIAN NAZI OILMAN BURIED IN TRANSYLVANIA

Family Requests Mourners Send Donations Against Charity, Rather Than The Traditional Garlic Wreaths

Iosif Constantin Dragan, Romania's richest man, passed away quietly in the Spanish resort of Mallorca, where he had lived luxuriously for many years on his profits from World War II. Dragan was a Fascist, a member of the Romanian Iron Guard, and a corporatist entrepreneur who supplied gas and oil to Mussolini's military in the 1940's.

After the war, Romania fell to the Communists, and Dragan set up shop in Italy, where his Fascist activities during the war did not preclude his increasing his fortune in the petroleum industry. Toward the end of the Communist era, Dragan allied himself with dictator Nikolai Ceausescu. Dragan managed to survive Ceausescu's overthrow, and went on to become Romania's first billionaire under the re-established capitalist regime.

Dragan was an unrepentant Rightist fanatic, and founded Liga Mareşal Ion Antonescu after the fall of Ceausescu. Antonescu was the Nazi collaborator who ran the Bucharest government during WWII, with disastrous effect upon the Romanian people and their neighbors. He built the "labor camps" and the "trains of death" responsible for the "ethnic cleansing" of much of Romania's Jewish and Roma population. Able to support all this, yet continue doing business with all parties, Dragan was a survivor, adapting to his environment like a man turning into a bat at the full moon.

Dragan's old organization, the Romanian Iron Guard, were considered by the Nazi's to be too violently and unscientifically anti-Semitic: Unprofessional mass-murderers. The Guard, or Legion of the Archangel Michael, conducted pogroms and slaughtered Romanian and Ukranian Jews wholesale in orgies of violence that made even the Germans cringe. All together, the Romanian Fascists killed over 300,000 Jews and Gypsies outright, second only to the Germans in the Holocaust.

Unique among extreme Rightist ideologies in Europe at the time, the movement was based upon elements of Orthodox Christian theology, and thus appealed to religious conservatives among the peasantry in the Romanian countryside. Their symbol was the Triple Cross, similar to the "Pound" or "Tic-Tac-Toe" sign on modern telephones. The Iron Guard's founder, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, started out in the National-Christian Defense League, which succeeded the National Christian Union founded by A. C. Cuza, who based much of the group's political philosophy upon Romanian Orthodox Church doctrine, and raw anti-Semitism.

Cuza also founded the Universal Antisemitic Alliance in Bucharest in 1895, pre-dating Hitler by over thirty years, and The League Against Alcoholism, a sort of prehistoric private "War on Drugs." They also considered abortion to be a sin, homosexuality to be a scourge, and demonized liberalism. American Republicans will find much to admire in the Romanian fascist movement. They even controlled the legislature for a time, under the Conservative banner. They also founded private militia's, like America's Pinkertons, Wackenhut and Blackwater. Ultimately, violence and intimidation in the name of the established order of wealthy individuals, giant corporations, and powerful government entities was their hallmark.

In addition to raking in cash, oilman Iosif Dragan devoted his life to rewriting and distorting history, to which end he built up a media empire that might have been a model for Italy's Berlusconi, or Australia's Rupert Murdoch. In all but name, Dragan was a modern American Republican.

Villagers drove a stake through his heart before burying him. "Just a precaution. We don't believe the legends, so much. Just a precaution," the priest said, and hurried away before the sun set behind the Transylvanian Mountains.


THE CANADIAN PRESS
"Ex-Nazi Romanian billionaire Iosif Constantin Dragan dead at 91"

' Iosif Constantin Dragan, a billionaire businessman who supported Romania's pro-Nazi movement during the Second World War, died Thursday. He was 91. Dragan died in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, where he lived, Romanian news agency Agerpres reported, citing a family statement. No cause of death was given. Dragan was banned from Romania after the war by the communist government because of his support for the Nazi Iron Guard movement. He moved to Italy and in 1948 founded petroleum products company Butan Gas. He had an estimated wealth of $1.6 billion in 2006 making him Romania's wealthiest man, Romanian Capital magazine reported. After the communist government was overthrown in 1989, he backed far-right politicians and newspapers in Romania. '

BALKAN INSIGHT.COM
"Romanian Billionaire Buried in Transylvania"

' Thousands of people from the Transylvanian town of Lugoj in central Romania have attended the funeral ceremony of billionaire Iosif Constantin Dragan. Dragan, who was 91, died last week in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Reports in the local media show that in 2006 Dragan had a wealth of around $1.6 billion, making him Romania's wealthiest man. Dragan was mainly involved in business dealings with oil and gas. A close friend of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, he was a promoter of the Latin origin of Romanian people. After the end of communism in Romania in 1989, he founded a university in Lugoj and set up several newspapers, including a hardline nationalist weekly magazine. '

ADEVARUL
"Ms. Milliard"

' At the age of 35, Veronica Gusa de Dragan became the richest Romanian woman. She administers the 1,5 billion dollar belonging to his dead husband. After the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Veronica Gusa de Dragan (35 years old) became the richest woman in Romania. She will administer a fortune equivalent to approximately 1,5 billion dollar. Iosif Constantin Dragan’s widow has lived for 13 years by "Ceausescu’s multi-millionaire" side. Now, she will be in charge of managing ButanGas, company whose turn-over this year will reach 86 million dollar. Actual Ms. Dragan is the only daughter of General Stefan Gusa, former head of the Romanian Armed Forces and the key-character in December 1989 events. The general mysteriously died in April 1994, four years after the Revolution. Veronica married the businessman, former congenial with Iron Guard and, subsequently, with Ceausescu, in 1995. She was 22, he was 78. Yesterday, at her husband’s funeral, the widow behaved like "an iron lady". She denied the access to funeral of the approximately 800 people who wanted to say good-bye from the most popular man in Lugoj. '

WIKIPEDIA
"Iosif Constantin Drăgan"

' Drăgan was involved in a series of controversies, including some alleged deals with the Securitate, his admiration of Romanian Fascist leader Ion Antonescu and being one of the main figures in the Protochronist current of Romanian historiography. Born in Lugoj, he graduated from Law School at the University of Bucharest in 1938, and earned in 1940 a scholarship at the University of Rome, where he studied political science and economics, earning a Ph.D. in law. At the time, Drăgan was attracted to fascist ideals and the Iron Guard, representing a corporatist trend inside the latter. In 1941, he started a company which exported Romanian petroleum products to Fascist Italy. After World War II, in 1948, he established a gas distribution company in Italy, Butan Gas.[6] After the war, with the Romanian Communist Party gaining power in Romania, he was not allowed for 30 years to return to Romania. '

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