Penile State gets mention in Artsy Article

Styles come and go, movements briefly coalesce (or fail to, more likely), but there has been one huge and dominant reality overshadowing Anglo-Euro-American art in the past 25 years, and The Shock of the New came out too early to take account of its full effects. This is the growing and tyrannous power of the market itself, which has its ups and downs but has so hugely distorted nearly everyone's relationship with aesthetics. That's why we decided to put Jeff Koons in the new programme: not because his work is beautiful or means anything much, but because it is such an extreme and self-satisfied manifestation of the sanctimony that attaches to big bucks. Koons really does think he's Michelangelo and is not shy to say so. The significant thing is that there are collectors, especially in America, who believe it. He has the slimy assurance, the gross patter about transcendence through art, of a blow-dried Baptist selling swamp acres in Florida. And the result is that you can't imagine America's singularly depraved culture without him.. . .Koons is the perfect product of an art system in which the market controls nearly everything, including much of what gets said about art. Robert Hughes.

In Florida: Nuttin'

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We Penilestatians are busy with our foreclosures --

From My Fox Tampa Bay in Florida. “Gone in 60 seconds. That’s how quickly homes in foreclosure sell on the auction block at Hillsborough’s Courthouse. ‘We’ve got about a 60 percent increase in mortgage foreclosures, and of course we didn’t anticipate that,’ said Clerk Pat Frank.”

if not that, then we're beating the crap out of our property appraisers.

Penilers doing what they do best

The General Strike?



Gaining Momentum in some places, according to this.

A Global Day of Action in Many Places.

Just that none of them happen to be in The Penile State:

LOCATIONS

Washington, DC New York City Los Angeles, CA Oakland, CA San Francisco, CA San Louis Obisbo, CA Santa Barbara, CA Santa Cruz, CA Adel, IA Bloomington, IN

Boston, MA Minneapolis, MN Raleigh, NC Dover, NH Columbus, OH Nashville, TN Fort Worth, TX Seattle, WA Arlington, VA Baraboo, WI

Brussels, Belgium Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Cranbrook, BC,Canada Toronto, Ontario, Canada Vancouver, BC, Canada Copenhagan, Denmark Rouen, Normandie, France Dublin, Ireland Kristiansand, Norway Madrid, Spain Stockholm, Sweden Oxford, UK

911 means $9.2 million jackpot for Giuliani

Click to enlarge, or go here for how Rudy turned 911 into his personal pot of gold, not to speak of certain larger political ambitions. $9.2 million will seem like chickenfeed after he starts his interminable fearmongering in The Penile State.

Nationwide to Florida: Drop fucking dead

Of course, it's not just Nationwide. It's State Farm, Allstate, etc., etc. And, it's not just Florida, it's Lousiana, California, elsewhere.

The regulators have baby gums where they need teeth: Gummos.

During the hurricanes of 2004 in Florida, at least on the West Coast, two insurers stood out for fast, hardworking, even compassionate adjusting with reasonable compensation to policyholders: Nationwide and State Farm. The rest belonged in a movie like Sicko for the homeowners insurance industry. Sucko.

Filet of Chad, anyone?

One of the main reasons Florida wanted to move its primary up in the first place was to get ahead of the chaos that already exists. Third World countries like Mexico today hold more modern and truly democratic primaries than America's . . . Time

It's a long shot, but Mr. Stone might be socially rehabilitated by then.

Florida on the. . . on the . . . anybody home up there?

Florida public radio:

Capital Report: A web site you can trust - to be months behind and seriously lame.

Virtually indistinguishable:

Florida on the line: Another web site you can take to the bank for timeliness and taste.

Another Florida Republican Abandons his beloved flock

Mysterious Florida Deaths maybe not so mysterious



Crime Blog delves

More Gayness among FL pols courtesy of Wonkette

Update: Breaking news, another Republican joins the washroom distended society.

Are there any straight Republicans out there who can help us understand what's going on????

Some alleged slimy tendrils of Bush Florida operative Roger Stone

The Republican dirty tricks operative and alleged swinger credited with blocking the presidential election recount in Florida in 2000 has just been booted out of a Republican political operation in New York . . .

The New York Times offers a feckless comment and this rundown on the diverse careers of Roger J. Stone Jr.:

Aside from some notable political victories, Mr. Stone has left behind a trail of short-lived campaigns, feuds with former friends and clients, and, above all, rumors of dirty tricks. As he once put it in an interview, “if it rains, it was Stone.”

He oversaw Ronald Reagan’s campaign operations in New York but was on the outs in some Republican circles after backing the upstate billionaire Tom Golisano’s third-party bid against Gov. George E. Pataki in 2002. A dossier about Mr. Stone’s past exploits prepared by a former opponent and still circulating among New York Republicans runs to 74 pages.

During the Florida recount in 2000, George W. Bush’s campaign enlisted Mr. Stone and his wife, Nydia, who is of Cuban ancestry, to rally support among Cuban exiles in Miami, according to Jeffrey Toobin’s “Too Close to Call,” a book about the recount battle. Mr. Stone was also instrumental in organizing the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot, the book said, when hundreds of Republican activists stormed a county election office in Miami and demanded that workers there cease recounting presidential ballots.

But the alleged activities of Mr. Stone, who is affiliated with a Florida law firm and has apparently been deeply connected through his wife, Nydia Stone, with the right-wing Cuban commmunity in Miami, go well beyond such tame stuff.

Among his alleged activities:

Stone gets credit, along with wife, for working with White House insider and poster boy Jeff Gannon in passing forged Bush Nat'l Guard records to media.

Stone works to defeat Democrat Supreme Ct. justices in Florida

Stone has been credited in television and book accounts with putting together the mixed mob of Cuban and congressional-aide protesters who prevented the count in Miami—universally seen as the turning point in the battle that made Bush president. Village Voice

Roger J. Stone Jr :

Indian Fighter
Old Campaigner
Champion of the Oppressed
Pornstar
Swinger
Golem

Both The Star and The National Enquirer reported that Roger and his wife, Nydia, had placed ads on the Internet and in Swing Fever magazine to attract couples and single men interested in joining them for group sex.

Stone in NY state politics

Stone and Al Sharpton

Stone, Rove, Roy Cohn, Jeff Gannon

Stone, Lee Atwater, Scaife, Rove

Stone's blogged response to latest allegations.

Stone believes Rudy can win.

Car dump 1000 miles long

NPR does Florida:

More than 1,000 miles of canals snake through South Florida — from the Everglades to the Keys. And love them or hate them, the area can't do without them. They're crucial for flood control and serve as, among other things, habitat for alligators and a dump for stolen cars. More than a few of the underwater cars have drivers at their wheels, according to this report.

Academic Distinction for UF

University Of Florida Ranked Among Top Party Schools

POSTED: 7:11 am EDT August 21, 2007

W.Va. -- The University of Florida is ranked among the top of The Princeton's Review's annual list of top 20 party schools this year.West Virginia University claimed the top spot on the list. Last year, WVU was Number three.Number two on the party list is the University of Mississippi, followed by the UT-Austin. Those schools are followed by the University of Florida and the University of Georgia. At the other end of the spectrum is Brigham Young University, claiming the top spot in the "Stone Cold Sober" category for the 10th straight year.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press.



(The above is virtually an almost generic public service image invoked solely for edification. Any resemblance to Bush DNA is nearly 100% random.)

9.11.07

An opportunity for the penile state to show its thinking, the substance of that deep reflection of its alleged mind, upon the adventures brought to us by the Katrinaesque Bush Admin - to show, in short, its colors.

Curtis speaks out on voting software

Clint Curtis on Kos, via fpc:

. . . by chance I was put to work designing prototype software for electronic voting machines for a local company called Yang Enterprises. An upcoming diary will detail my suspicions of just how open to manipulation the code which I helped put into place running touch screen voting machines really is -- in the hands of conservatives without a conscience.

I can't say I know for a fact that the prototype designed to flip votes was implemented. It's a serious charge to make. And as Carl Sagan often said, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. I have worked very hard with the help of election integrity activists since 2004 to document flaws in our voting system. I testified under oath before the Conyer’ s Commission and passed a polygraph as to my knowledge of the attempt to develop fraudulent voting machines. But going forward, there's a simple way to be certain it doesn't happen, and that's to use methods which produce a paper trail in the event a recount is needed and to audit that paper so that any tabulation errors can be discovered and corrected. That's a no-brainer, common sense solution. And yet it seems that that simple idea is opposed virtually exclusively by GOP lawmakers.

Greetings from the North Pole

Arctic sea ice shrinks to record low

The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced today that Arctic sea ice has just surpassed the previous single-day (absolute minimum) record for the lowest extent ever measured by satellite. Satellite measurements began in 1979. Sea ice extent has fallen below the 2005 record low absolute minimum and is still melting. Sea ice extent is currently tracking at 5.26 million square kilometers (2.02 million square miles), just below the 2005 record absolute minimum of 5.32 million square kilometers (2.05 million square miles). This new record was set a full five weeks before the usual late September minima in ice extent, so truly unprecedented melting is occurring in the Arctic. The most recent images from the North Pole webcam show plenty of open water and rainy conditions at the Pole. From the Wunder Blog. See also.

Tampa affirms value, celebrates something