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July 29, 2005

Friday Mid-Morning Open Thread

Go on. You know you want to.

Posted by not sam at July 29, 2005 10:27 AM

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//Mornin'! Folks seem to be popping in and out this am.

Posted by: gotdaredstateblues at July 29, 2005 10:23 AM
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them hangoveries needer wake up cal.

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riise an shiine

an giver god sum gloree gloree!

riise an shiine

an give god teh gloree gloree!

rize an shines an... give god teh gloree gloree

chilrun of the lord.....

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 10:29 AM

Protest dams water privatization in Malaysia

Jun 29, 2005

By Anil Netto

PENANG - Malaysian civil society groups have scored a stunning victory, with the government announcing it is scrapping plans to federalize and privatize the management of water. But activists are now worried that privatization could take other forms and that a proposed federal-level water assets holding company would control millions of dollars in infrastructure spending.

The surprise reversal came last week, when Energy, Water and Communications Minister Lim Keng Yaik said the proposal for the federal government to take over management of water from the various state governments had been called off. Lim said that although he had spoken about privatization and federalization of water services at a forum in 2004, the government changed its stance after consultations revealed that total privatization was not suitable for Malaysia. "So we have cut out the word 'privatization'."
The minister said two bills, to be tabled in Parliament in July, were aimed only at setting up a regulatory body, the proposed National Water Services Commission (SPAN) and at regulating the management of water supply. The minister's announcement came on the heels of a demonstration outside Parliament on Tuesday by people who wanted to hand over a memorandum endorsed by 127 groups opposed to water privatization. The action was organized by the Coalition Against Water Privatization, which includes the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC), the umbrella body for the country's unions.

Some analysts believe the government was taken aback by the broad spectrum of groups that endorsed the memorandum, ranging from rights groups and trade unions to Islamic and Church-based bodies.

Posted by: Paper Boy at July 29, 2005 10:30 AM

//Posted by: Paper Boy at July 29, 2005 10:30 AM//

wacher owt teh beez! teh beez chasin yoo lad!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 10:33 AM

aw... damn it.

yeah, I do.

Posted by: Meta 4 [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 29, 2005 10:33 AM

Good morning!

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Headlines for July 29, 2005


- Marines Killed In Iraq

- IRA Ends 30-Year Armed Campaign

- Israel Building New Barrier to Surround Gaza

- War Resister Benderman Sentenced to 15 Months

- Bill Frist Breaking With Bush on Stem Cell
Research

- GAO Report Says US Diverting Iraq Humanitarian Funds for Security

- State Department Admits Bolton Didn’t Disclose
CIA Interview

- Judge Blasts Bush Policies: We Don’t Need a ‘Secret Military Tribunal’

- Saddam Asks to See Ramsey Clark

Posted by: at July 29, 2005 10:34 AM

Posted by: http://eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html at July 29, 2005 10:38 AM

//- Saddam Asks to See Ramsey Clark

Posted by: ♥ at July 29, 2005 10:34 AM
//

nuther cheetohphile

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 10:38 AM

goddam cheeze rapists

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 10:39 AM

Posted by: Meta 4 [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 29, 2005 10:43 AM

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 10:43 AM

//Go on. You know you want to.

Posted by not sam at July 29, 2005 10:27 AM
//

evrybudees doin it. watevern gets yoo thru teh nite. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 10:44 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Clark

Following his term he worked as a law professor and was active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. He visited North Vietnam in 1972. In 1974 he was the Democratic Party's candidate for the United States Senate from New York but lost to Jacob Javits.

More recently, Clark has become well-known for his outspoken, far left-wing political views. He has also provided legal counsel and advice to controversial figures in conflict with the US or western governments, including:

* NORML Advisory Board during late 1970s and early 1980s

* Branch Davidian leader David Koresh

* Nazis Karl Linnas and Jack Riemer

* antiwar activist Father Philip Berrigan

* American Indian prisoner Leonard Peltier

* Crimes of America conference in Teheran
in 1980

* Liberian political figure Charles Taylor during his 1985 fight against extradition from the United States to Liberia

* Alleged fascist Lyndon LaRouche, who faced charges of conspiracy and mail fraud

* Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a leader of the Rwandan genocide

* PLO leaders in a lawsuit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the wheelchair bound elderly tourist who was shot and tossed overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1986

* The state of Iraq, serving as legal counsel for the Hussein regime.

* Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq who was removed from power during a 2003 invasion led by the US

* Camilo Mejia, a US soldier who deserted his post claiming he did not want any part of an "oil-driven war"

Clark is affiliated with VoteToImpeach, an organization advocating the impeachment of President George W. Bush. He has been an opponent of both Gulf Wars. It is also widely claimed that his association with Lyndon LaRouche in the early 1990s went beyond legal counsel to advocacy. He is the founder of the International Actio

Posted by: at July 29, 2005 10:47 AM

Sam, quit defending the democrats. they are as bad as the republicans. the cancer you speak of is the 2-party system. let's see some real progressive ideas, call em both out and foster an independent movement from this. we don't need barely left, we need off the map left, you're persistent defence of the values of the democratic party leads you astray...the democratic party is only as progressive as the acts that they have committed, not the values the party claims to espouse. hegemony is the problem, and hegemony is reproduced with the 2-party system.

Posted by: bram at July 29, 2005 10:48 AM

Clark and the IAC helped found the anti-war group ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).

In December 2004, Clark went to Iraq to join the legal team defending Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi Special Tribunal in a trial expected in 2005.

Posted by: ♥ at July 29, 2005 10:48 AM


Postage stamp honoring child labor reform

http://www.virtualstampclub.com/images/labor.jpg

Child Labor Reform Exhibits

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/special/child/childlabor.htm

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/special/child/group1.jpg

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 29, 2005 05:46 AM

Posted by: peeter repeeter at July 29, 2005 10:50 AM

why wuld aneewun wanna defend saddam hussayn?

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 10:51 AM

I have had it with akaMAT these days.

She hates, dadalx on the show, she hates the Yahoo Pic group, She fucking hates everybody and thing... She hates dKos, she hates everything and I don't like her much....

Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 03:53 AM

She's got issues...She's covering up a lot of pain and sometimes it gets to her...ok it gets to her a lot...She hates me worst of all and I can't hate her as much as she pisses me off at times...

Have some mercy on the girl for her failings. She is after all only human.

Posted by: Nobody at July 29, 2005 04:00 AM

Small minds discuss people.

Big minds discuss events.

Great minds discuss Ideas.


So THERE YA GO!

Bye BLOG I will leave you small minds to disgust me.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 29, 2005 10:56 AM

I saw that anonymous post this morning MAT.

I've been thinking about how to respond to it...

I'm glad you did...

:)

Posted by: ♥ at July 29, 2005 10:59 AM

//Bye BLOG I will leave you small minds to disgust me.
Posted by: akaMAT at July 29, 2005 10:56 AM//

doent yoo dare leeve mat! yoo kno yore wuna my faves heer.

indeed a smal mined talkerin like that bowt ya. doent lettum get to ya.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:00 AM

What size minds discuss my feet?

They itch, all of a sudden.

And I been wearing clean socks and I ALWAYS bathe right after a hike.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:02 AM

Have some mercy on the girl for her failings. She is after all only human.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 11:02 AM

Good morning everyone!!

Hi Mucky! I have something for you to watch. I laughed till I had tears in my eyes.

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/4048c35...fRHk6CBJtJXRrMY

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:02 AM

hiya dar. :)

shure ya got teh rite url dar?

ima kep gettin thes messaje:

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hiya fish an shell. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:05 AM

Well ya know Muck, I have had it with Nobody.

He has singled me out from the get go.

Strong women scare him. Turns him into an ugly human being.

Hate is stong word and I only use it because I can spell it.

I don't hate dada, I find him to be a bit of an opertunist. but hating someone I have never met is not me.

and I refuse to wear the label.

So Sorry MUCKY I love you dearly, or at least as much as a man hating nasty old hooker can love anything.

peace to you mucky. xoxo

Posted by: akaMAT at July 29, 2005 11:06 AM

You tell her muck...don't leave MAT...it's hell here without you!

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Before I go get ready for work...can I just say how excited I am that I got these two books for free the other day?

Illustrious Americans : Their Lives and Great Achievements.

Hale, Edward Everett - Introduction.

Book Description: International Publishing Co. Philadelphia 1896. Illustrated cloth soiled, edgeworn. Hinges weak. Some foxing. Else clean, tight. 10 books in 1. From founding to present day. Portraits and other engravings. 735 pp. Hardbound.

Scenes From Every Land. Over Five Hundred Photographic Views, Embracing the Most Beautiful and Famous Palaces, Cathedrals, Churches, Monuments, and Statues of the Old World; Feudal Castles, Heathen Temples,and the Classic ruins of Italy, Egypt, Syria ...

Knox, Thomas Lowell (Editor); Wallace, General Lew (Introduction)

Book Description: Springfield, OH U.S.A.: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1893. Hardcover decorative embossed brown cloth Oblong Folio; Very good, with heavy rubbing to edges including bumped corners and light fraying of cloth near spine edges. Hinges have been neatly repaired with white leather. Contains many beautiful black and white photographs.


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Old, heavy, awesome books.... drool.....

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Sorry I gotta run again dar! One more day of work!

xoxo

Posted by: ♥ at July 29, 2005 11:06 AM

darn it didn't work...hold on

You have to see it...brb

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:08 AM

L8R Fishgrease! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥


Posted by: ♥ at July 29, 2005 11:09 AM

It sounded like Nobody was sticking up for MAT to me.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 11:09 AM

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:10 AM

Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 11:09 AM

Not me.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 11:11 AM

drat!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:12 AM

we luv ya to mat. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:13 AM

"I don't hate dada, I find him to be a bit of an opertunist."

is that a bad thing?

heh..

you're not really thinking of leaving, are you miss a?

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:14 AM

Bye Fishy and SHell sorry to miss you again.

*Big sloppy kiss* Heres a napkin...lol

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:15 AM

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-17-2004-57994.asp

American Independent Party

American Reform Party

Association of Green Parties

California Peace and Freedom Party

Communist Party USA

Constitution Action Party

Expansionist Party of the United States

Freedom Socialist Party

Green Parties of North America

Labor Party

Light Party

Libertarian Party

New Union Party

People For the American Way

Progressive Labor Party

Reform Party

Socialist Equity Party

The New Party

U.S. Pacifist Party

World Socialist Party (USA)

World Workers Party

Posted by: Tres Fiesta at July 29, 2005 11:16 AM

Not me.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 11:11 AM

"She's got issues..."

Who doesn't?

"She's covering up a lot of pain and sometimes it gets to her"

True or untrue?

Would it be a bad thing if it were true?

"I can't hate her as much as she pisses me off at times"

What a terrible thing to say about someone that you "can't hate them"

"Have some mercy on the girl for her failings."

Everyone makes mistakes it's best to give them the benefit of the doubt?

"She is after all only human."

Aren't we all?

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 11:16 AM

lmao dar!

gotta post that one to me blog. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:18 AM

And I been wearing clean socks and I ALWAYS bathe right after a hike.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:02 AM

well you know... my python boot is too tight

i couldn't get it off last night

a week went by, and now it's july, i finally got it off, and my girlfriend cry:

"you got stinkfoot!"

here fido...bring the slippers...arf arf arf

the poodle biee yi ee ites

the poodle chews it...

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:19 AM

mebbe him foot posesed.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:20 AM

Posted by: Meta 4 [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 29, 2005 11:20 AM

You offer so much to the blog...no one else thinks like you do - please don't let this make you leave MAT...

Posted by: ♥ at July 29, 2005 11:21 AM

Good Morning Everyone

Formating muff...

One of my favorite things to do.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 11:23 AM

The posts tell more about the posters than they do about MAT! ! ! !

Posted by: ! ! ! ! at July 29, 2005 11:23 AM

lmao dar!

gotta post that one to me blog. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:18 AM

I knew you would like it...:)

Hi Dada congrats.. you sounded great....lol

Mat and Shell watch the dog video it will lift your spirits...;)

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:25 AM

i was thinking about something robert anton wilson said

"it only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea"

so in 2025 this will be a conservative blog, and air america will be the conservative radio station

so get ready...

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:25 AM

Heya Muck, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, Dada, MAT.

I think its the dart-grass seeds (my nomenclature) that make their way down into my shoes. Ain't stinkfoot cause fungus don't survive here. There's almost no humidity. When a H2O molecule floats through town... we have a parade.

Whatever it is, it went away. Just itched like the dickens for a few minutes.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:27 AM

Formating muff...

One of my favorite things to do.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 11:23 AM

hahaha!

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:27 AM

//i was thinking about something robert anton wilson said

"it only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea"

so in 2025 this will be a conservative blog, and air america will be the conservative radio station

so get ready...

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:25 AM
//

ben givin em luminati paperz em re-reed latelee meself.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:27 AM

The posts tell more about the posters than they do about MAT! ! ! !

Posted by: ! ! ! ! at July 29, 2005 11:23 AM

welcome to the blog

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:28 AM

Stay tuned on this blog channel for another episode of "As the Stomach Churns" where tomorrow we ask the burning questions "Why does Fishgreases feet stink so badly?" and "Why is everyone acting like they've been snorting foot powder?".

Posted by: ? ? ? ? at July 29, 2005 11:28 AM

wuz reedin this litle artikle bowt bucky fuller then mornin dada:

3d model of the dymaxion car

Also on this subject: Wallace Johnson's three-wheeled car material.

For those that haven't heard of it, the Dymaxion Car was a teardrop-shaped (least air resistance), 3-wheeled, rear-wheel (single) steering, 20 foot long, Aluminum bodied auto, designed by Buckminster Fuller in 1933 to achieve maximum output and service with minimum material input. It was about 6 feet tall (kinda like a big van), seated the driver and 10 passengers, weighed less than 1000 lbs., went 120 miles/hr on a 90 horsepower engine, and got between 30-50 miles to the gallon of gas. Fuller referred to it as the "Dymaxion Car", "Dymaxion Vehicle", and "Omni-Medium Transport" since it was ultimately intended to go by land, water, or sky. Only three were ever built.

Since i will probably never see one in real life, and certainly never drive one, i would really like to do the next best thing: model it in 3D and simulate driving it.

A biographer said "Bucky [...] took the idea of demonstrating what you are talking about very seriously. He said if you can't make a model of it, don't talk about it."

There are scattered bits of information about the car, in print and on the web, but i haven't found a complete history, so i attempt to compile one below.

I have a printed copy of the original patent for the car, which has diagrams like the one to the right, from the out-of-print book "Inventions: The Patented Works of Buckminster Fuller". It includes top, side and front views, so there should be enough information to model at least the external body.

more...

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:29 AM

ben givin em luminati paperz em re-reed latelee meself.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:27 AM

ya, i talked to a friend i haven't talked to in years, and he's really into RAW right now too

i think it's robert anton wilson season

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:30 AM

ben tryin ta get # to reed RAW

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:33 AM

I have had it with akaMAT these days.

She hates, dadalx on the show, she hates the Yahoo Pic group, She fucking hates everybody and thing... She hates dKos, she hates everything and I don't like her much....

Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 03:53 AM

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She's got issues...She's covering up a lot of pain and sometimes it gets to her...ok it gets to her a lot...She hates me worst of all and I can't hate her as much as she pisses me off at times...

Have some mercy on the girl for her failings. She is after all only human.

Posted by: Nobody at July 29, 2005 04:00 AM

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Small minds discuss people.

Big minds discuss events.

Great minds discuss Ideas.

So THERE YA GO!

Bye BLOG I will leave you small minds to disgust me.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 29, 2005 10:56 AM

_______

Don't worry about it, MAT.

Nobody just as easily could have concocted the anonymous post himself just so he could respond to it and look like a swell guy.

Notice the ... and .... in the anonymous post.

Also, the "anonymous" came out of nowhere to vent about MAT, with no talk of MAT anywhere preceding it.

Then once Nobody had had his "big-hearted say", the "anonymous" just as quickly disappeared into the ether, having served its purpose.

Ironic coincidence or the Nobody version of bad cop, good cop.

You decide.

Posted by: "Anonymous" at July 29, 2005 11:34 AM

so in 2025 this will be a conservative blog, and air america will be the conservative radio station

Bite your tongue! No no way. the horror....

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:34 AM

The posts tell more about the posters than they do about MAT! ! ! !

Posted by: ! ! ! ! at July 29, 2005 11:23 AM

welcome to the blog


Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:28 AM

Thanks! ! ! !

Posted by: ! ! ! ! at July 29, 2005 11:35 AM

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:29 AM

wow

great stuff!

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:36 AM

dont sound like sumthin n wuld do nonymous. doent kno why hed havto.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:38 AM

If I hadda exorcism for my feet... they'd cover it on FOX News.

On MSNBC and CNN, Scarboro and Nancy Grace would immediately pronounce me guilty, without specifying what I'm guilty of. Just guilty.

Nancy Grace would ask, why, if I'm not guilty, my feet itched.

NANCY GRACE: "You have to admit its suspicious. Why would they arrest him if there weren't evidence?"

FISHGREASE: "No one arrested me. My feet just itched for a few minutes. Nothing really."

JOE SCARBORO: "What is going on in Aruba? This guy isn't in custody? What are the police in Aruba doing?"

FISHGREASE: "I'm not in Aruba. I'm in Wyoming. My feet just itched, is all. It stopped. They don't itch any more."

JOE SCARBORO: "This has been a hallmark of the Aruban police. Now his feet don't itch. That evidence is gone. GONE, I tell you! Why didn't they arrest him earlier?"

NANCY GRACE: "He's guilty."

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:38 AM

SWEET JESUS FISH HATES NANCY GRACE! ! ! !

Posted by: ! ! ! ! at July 29, 2005 11:40 AM

dada, Nice job the other night.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 11:40 AM

yoo wach dars videyo link fish? now therens a need fore feet exercism!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:40 AM

Your voice matched up real good with MRR's mics, Dada. You see my post on those?

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:41 AM

ya fish

i'm gonna get me one of them mics like they have in the studio

or at least make sure i use one when i go record soon

~~~

"Hi Dada congrats.. you sounded great....lol"

cool

~~~~

hee hee dr@postinganonymously.com is funny

~~~~

thanks kevin

i was alittle nervous, but i didn't clam up and still managed to make my "i work for mossad" joke

i was proud of that

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:46 AM

Posted by: http://unity2008.org/ at July 29, 2005 11:47 AM

they got 2 more:

Two bomb suspects arrested

· Oval and bus suspects held
· More arrests at Liverpool St
· Possible explosions heard

James Sturcke, Mark Oliver and agencies
Friday July 29, 2005


Metropolitan police officer guards a residential street in Notting Hill Gate in west London after a police raid. Photograph: Hugo Philpott/EPA

Two of the three remaining chief suspects wanted by police investigating the failed suicide bombings of July 21 were today arrested in west London by armed police.
The man sought in connection with the attack at Oval tube station, who has not been named, was arrested at Dalgarno Gardens, a block of flats in Ladbroke Grove after a dramatic siege, a security source told Guardian Unlimited.

Muktar Said-Ibrahim, who police believe attempted to blow up a No 26 bus in Shoreditch, was arrested less than a mile away at a residential property in Tavistock Road, the source said.

more...

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:48 AM

They gotta piece of monofiliment fishing line attached to that dog's foot.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:49 AM

//i was alittle nervous, but i didn't clam up and still managed to make my "i work for mossad" joke

i was proud of that

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:46 AM
//

lol!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:49 AM

Posted by: "Anonymous" at July 29, 2005 11:34 AM

dr@postinganonymously.com

----

dont sound like sumthin n wuld do nonymous. doent kno why hed havto.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:38 AM

__________

Actually it does sound like something Nobody would do. In fact, it sounds exactly like something Nobody would do.

Why he would have to is another question entirely.

But I am guilty of something I've gotten a tad ired about my own self, so I will deal w/it promptly and forthrightly.

I have engaged in reckless conjecture, based upon mere anecdotal evidence that is not supported by concrete evidence.

In essence, I have spoken from my gut, not my mind.

So I apologize.

I apologize to Nobody -- unreservedly and w/o continuing rancor -- for dealing in speculative conjecture that is not warranted by provable facts.

It is a damnable thing to do.

(btw, for any needing a template on how to apologize when you are wrong, the above will serve as well as any) -- dr

Posted by: dr at July 29, 2005 11:50 AM

If I hadda exorcism for my feet... they'd cover it on FOX News.

LMAO yuck...:) I'm not a foot person :)

yoo wach dars videyo link fish? now therens a need fore feet exercism!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:40 AM

hahahaha true...

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:51 AM

//They gotta piece of monofiliment fishing line attached to that dog's foot.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:49 AM
//

wel that pissens me off.

>:(

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:51 AM

dont sound like sumthin n wuld do nonymous. doent kno why hed havto.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:38 AM

i agree

i think there is a snarky anonymous shit stirrer-upper around, and my guess is his name is syna

but that's just my opinion, and what would i know... i mean, i'm just another nobel prize nominated majority report blogger

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 11:51 AM

heer ima thinkerin him foot jus simplee posesed.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:52 AM

~~~ i was alittle nervous, but i didn't clam up and still managed to make my "i work for mossad" joke ~~~

And then tied in the memory erasure facet! I thought it was hilarious! Sam and Janeane never get anyone elses' jokes. They're too interested in gathering a good comeback. Its supposed to be comedy, not a tennis match. You don't gotta hit every ball back over the net.

They do the same thing with other commedians on the show. Saps the humor right out of it.

There... I did my Wanda bit.

Its true though.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:53 AM

made for funy videyo tho. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 11:53 AM

http://www.citizen.org/

The House and Senate will likely vote this week on an energy bill first conceived by Dick Cheney and his 2001 task force, which worked in secret with lobbyists for big energy companies. This bill will do nothing to bring down sky-high gasoline prices. But it hands billions of taxpayer dollars over to old-style, polluting energy companies and will help utilities build new nuclear plants at taxpayer expense. It also lets oil companies, banks and other big conglomerates buy electric utilities by repealing the Public Utility Holding Company Act, a vital consumer safeguard. Take action now!

-

Too late....we lose again....

Posted by: http://www.citizen.org/ at July 29, 2005 11:54 AM

Posted by: Tres Fiesta at July 29, 2005 11:56 AM

//They gotta piece of monofiliment fishing line attached to that dog's foot.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 11:49 AM //

wel that pissens me off.

>:(

OMG No way really? I did not see that, how terrible...:(

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:58 AM

Posted by: Sister Joyous Whip of Enlightenment at July 29, 2005 11:58 AM

Women Activists: Challenging the Abuse of Power by Anne Witte Garland

Synopsis

These fourteen women activists are working to protect their families and neighborhoods and to challenge unsound corporate and government policies. They offer moving, inspiring examples of individuals doing something concrete to control their lives and improve society. For course use in: civil rights movement, peace studies, social movements

Posted by: A Book at July 29, 2005 11:59 AM

Posted by: Sister Joyous Whip of Enlightenment at July 29, 2005 11:59 AM

I can't see it where is it tied?

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 11:59 AM

Women Activists: Challenging the Abuse of Power by Anne Witte Garland

Synopsis

These fourteen women activists are working to protect their families and neighborhoods and to challenge unsound corporate and government policies. They offer moving, inspiring examples of individuals doing something concrete to control their lives and improve society. For course use in: civil rights movement, peace studies, social movements

Posted by: A Book at July 29, 2005 12:00 PM

~~~ OMG No way really? I did not see that, how terrible...:( ~~~

Hard to notice until the last half of the vid. You can see the foot being pulled into a position a dog's would never naturally go. You can tell the leg is being pulled.

I don't know how mean it is. If the dog were to bite his foot, yeah.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 12:01 PM

Morning ... See Shell already posted about this .. but just read the NYT article and think it is interesting...not just on the Stem Cell front .. but also on the ... Whoops! The Ivory Tower of the United Republican Front seems to be cracking.

And so the downfall begins .. not with huge steps .. but little cells .....

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 12:01 PM

Just turned on C-SPAN 2 and they are voting on a spending bill, doubt anyone votes no. Results are in 99 YES -- 1 NO.

Bet it had a Pay Raise in it.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:03 PM

Hello David....:)

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 12:07 PM

I've been thinking about that ridiculous "CONE OF INSTABILITY" from FOX yesterday. What they did, was to draw lines around all the places where the London bombers came from, adding where the bombings against Australians happened over a year ago down in the Philippines. THEN... and this is important.. they added Iraq.

Clowns are STILL trying to tie Iraq into the London bombings. They just gotta justify Bush's mistake!

Never mind there's NO evidence and in fact, evidence to the contrary. You don't need evidence when you can draw lines on a telestrator!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 12:08 PM

Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 12:01 PM

Shit .. not enough Coffee yet this morning! This were me.

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:08 PM

Posted by: Sister Joyous Whip of Enlightenment at July 29, 2005 11:59 AM

:)

--

Have a great day blog!

Almost the weekend.....weeeee!

--

Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them.

In her quest to uncover why this is happening, Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast implants. She examines a culture in which every music video seems to feature a stripper on a pole, the memoirs of porn stars are climbing the best-seller lists, Olympic athletes parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the pages of Playboy, and thongs are marketed to prepubescent girls. Levy meets the high-powered women who create raunch culture--the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds who eagerly defend their efforts to be "one of the guys." And she traces the history of this trend back to conflicts between the women's movement and the sexual revolution long left unresolved.

In the tradition of Susan Faludi's Backlash and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth, Levy pulls apart the myth of the Female Chauvinist Pig and argues that what has come to pass for liberating rebellion is actually a kind of limiting conformity. Irresistibly witty and wickedly intelligent, Female Chauvinist Pigs makes the case that the rise of raunch does not represent how far women have come, it only proves how far they have left to go.

Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy<

Posted by: ♥ at July 29, 2005 12:10 PM

Sounds like they just screwed the Capitol Police out of Money, Not a very smart thing to do, seeing how they are Protecting those Morons. Blaming it on the House Republicans and Hot Tub Tom Delay.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:10 PM

Hello David....:)

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 12:07 PM

-------

Hi Dar.

Life's given you a pretty tough slog here of late.

Hope there are some sunny days in your future.

Gotta go.

dr

Posted by: dr at July 29, 2005 12:11 PM

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-17-2004-57994.asp

American Independent Party - You're joking right? Independant Party? LOL!!!

American Reform Party - probably commies

Association of Green Parties - Group of commies

California Peace and Freedom Party - Commies

Communist Party USA - Democrats

Constitution Action Party - Never heard of 'em, but I'm suspicious

Expansionist Party of the United States - Who?

Freedom Socialist Party - Commies

Green Parties of North America - Tree huggin' Commies

Labor Party - Commies

Light Party - Complete Whackos

Libertarian Party - Liberals with guns

New Union Party - Who?

People For the American Way - Super Commies

Progressive Labor Party - Definately Commies

Reform Party - Commies

Socialist Equity Party - Commies

The New Party - Probably Commies

U.S. Pacifist Party - Commies

World Socialist Party (USA) - Commies

World Workers Party - Commies

Posted by: Savage at July 29, 2005 12:12 PM

This story was why I used the nic Ol' Coot for a while.

Posted by: Meta 4 [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 29, 2005 12:13 PM

Have a Great Day Shell

8-)

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:13 PM

Wishes for happy days for you too David...

I have to go guys....love you lots
Dar

Posted by: dar at July 29, 2005 12:13 PM

Posted by: Savage at July 29, 2005 12:12 PM

Three or more is better than only 2 with 1 head.

Keep pretending that you have a choice.

It amuses me.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 12:14 PM

~~~ U.S. Pacifist Party - Commies

~~~ World Socialist Party (USA) - Commies

~~~ World Workers Party - Commies

Savage -- Frightened wingnut pussy


Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 12:15 PM

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:15 PM

Posted by: http://www.nesara.us/ at July 29, 2005 12:16 PM

//Libertarian Party - Liberals with guns//

an dont forget it. :)

speekerin wich, gladn see teh rethugs finely do sumthin yooseful:


Senate Rejects Move to Sue Gun Dealers


Friday July 29, 2005 2:31 AM


By LAURIE KELLMAN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate sparred Thursday over legislation to shield the firearms industry from some lawsuits, rejecting an argument that gun makers and others are liable if they irresponsibly allowed a criminal to obtain a weapon and use it to kill or wound.

``We should not protect those folks from their own reckless conduct, their own negligence,'' said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.

Levin's amendment to allow some suits by victims of gun crimes failed 62-37. The bill's supporters said the proposal would undermine the purpose of their legislation: keeping the gun industry out of financial peril from damage suits.

``What this is all about is trying to drive gun manufacturers out of business,'' said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

more...

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:17 PM

Posted by: http://www.nesara.us/ at July 29, 2005 12:17 PM

Posted by: http://www.nesara.us/ at July 29, 2005 12:18 PM

An update on my proposed new reality series on Fox ... When Country Stars Go Bad

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:18 PM

Posted by: http://nohoax.com/ at July 29, 2005 12:19 PM

HI Willow

8-)


He sure plays a mean pinball....

HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Explorer

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:19 PM

Posted by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_politics at July 29, 2005 12:20 PM



Party Politic
Shutting out third parties cheats voters out of choice

BY GEORGE TAYLOR

*In 1996, only 21 percent of eligible voters in the United States registered Republican, and only 33 percent Democrat. That same year, a Times-Mirror poll showed two-thirds of Americans want a third-party option.

The problem is this: while the country needs new solutions, and third parties offer new solutions, the public rarely hears them because the two major parties have written unfair election laws to keep competition off the ballot.

This violates the ethics of democratic fairness as well as the 1990 International Helsinki Accords, which guarantee universal and equal suffrage to all adult citizens, including equal access to election ballots. Although the United States signed the Helsinki Accords, we don't have equal access to election ballots in this country.

The losers are the American people. Scholars show that a great many of the key ideas that shaped our democracy have come from third parties, including the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and child labor laws. New parties may not always win, but their ideas change history by taking part in the public debate. Without them, the flow of new ideas is dammed, and democracy stagnates.

Although this may shock most Americans, ours is the least democratic of all democracies when it comes to ballot access. Every state has different laws. Some require no signatures, some an impossible number, others have secretaries of state who have said that no amount of signatures will put a third party on the ballot -- regardless of what their state laws say.

Although this may shock most Americans, ours is the least democratic of all democracies when it comes to ballot access.

Independents and third parties are hard-pressed looking for justice. The Federal Election Commission and the courts are comprised of Democrats and Republicans, appointed by Democrats and Republicans. Third party and independent candidates are denied equal access to debates, the media and federal campaign funds, as well. The result is that more than half of Americans are being cheated of their freedom to choose candidates who r

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 12:22 PM

HTTP 404 - File not found Internet Explorer

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:19 PM

Hum ... well that is just annoying!! Lemme try again...Pinball Wizard

And if that don't work ... a copy and paste link for your approval!!! http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/07/28/blind.gamer.ap/index.html

Hope this works!!

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:23 PM

myoosik nyoos fore wanda:

'Hick-hop' is a new sound


Yup, black country rapper bringin' clickety-clack to mainstage

By Mike Ross

For the first time since Charley Pride, there will be a black person on the mainstage at the Big Valley Jamboree.

For the first time in history, that person will be rapping. And no, we don't count the "talking cowboy poetry" thing. This is a real rapper - a country rapper, but a rapper nonetheless.

His name is Cowboy Troy. Taking the stage with Big & Rich on Sunday night, Troy may be the first artist of his kind, and no, Kid Rock doesn't count, either.

Here's a sample of Troy's country rapping: "People said it's impossible, not probable, too radical. But I already been on the CMAs.

"Hell, Tim McGraw said he like the change, said he likes the way my hick-hop sounds, and the way the crowd screams when I stomp the ground, I'm big and black, clickety-clack ..."

lots more...

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:24 PM

Jon Kabot-Zinn, author of WHEREVER YOU GO THERE YOU ARE

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 12:25 PM

morning gang,

just stoppin by to say hi!

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 29, 2005 12:25 PM

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:26 PM

//The problem is this: while the country needs new solutions, and third parties offer new solutions, the public rarely hears them because the two major parties have written unfair election laws to keep competition off the ballot.//

ben sayin that fore yeerz.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:27 PM

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 12:15 PM

--------------------------------------------------

High praise coming from an enemy colaborator.

Posted by: Savage at July 29, 2005 12:28 PM

good mornin jimmy! :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:32 PM

One more time for old time sake!! Pinball Wizard!!

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:26 PM


amazing just like the movie

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:33 PM

//High praise coming from an enemy colaborator.

Posted by: Savage at July 29, 2005 12:28 PM
//

fish! how daren yoo!

stop budyin up with chainey!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:34 PM

eya muckie!

just clanking along here.

taking a coffee break and then back to it.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 29, 2005 12:35 PM

doin em clankity-clak eh jimmy? :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:36 PM

~~~ stop budyin up with chainey! ~~~

Hey!

Chainey from Wyoming!

Not really... but he registered to vote here so he didn't have to register in Houston where he really lives.

Savage is okay.

For a frightened wingnut fuck.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 12:37 PM

Morning Sunny J!! Happy Friday to you! - You, too, Muckie!! [Here would be a great place to insert Debbie Reyonolds signing "Good Morning!! Good Morning!!" from "Singing in the Rain" ... but alas... can't find that in a wav anywhere! So ... you'll have to settle for a pic instead!!]

Good Morning!! Good Morning!!

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:37 PM

C-SPAN 3 has the daily McCellen de-pantsing

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:40 PM

how ya doin todaye wil? :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:41 PM

amazing just like the movie

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:33 PM

Kinda felt like I was being babysat by this dude fer a bit there!! Fiddle About!!! Fiddle About!!!

Damn .. I miss Keith Moon!! : (

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:42 PM

Hey SJ

Done with your project yet?

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:42 PM

how ya doin todaye wil? :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:41 PM

Pretty good, Muckie! How's by you?? Did you end up getting rained on last night on the way home?

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:45 PM

~~~ speekerin wich, gladn see teh rethugs finely do sumthin yooseful ~~~

Here here!

My bumper sticker.... (in response to one saying "shoot a liberal")

WYOMING LIBERALS SHOOT BACK

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 12:45 PM

stopin em lowd partee by stabin evrywunz ushualy not to brite an ideer:

Loud Party Leads To Street Fight, Stabbings Fri Jul 29, 8:52 AM ET


San Antonio police said four people were stabbed during a street fight on the city's West side early Friday morning.

ADVERTISEMENT

One victim, a 16-year-old boy, was critically wounded in the incident, according to police.

Police said three other victims -- a 30-year-old man, a 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl -- were also being treated for stab wounds at University Hospital.

Police were called to the intersection of Rounds and Navidad about 1:30 a.m. to investigate a street fight.

Details were sketchy, but police said the fight began when a 27-year-old man tried to break up a loud house party, but was attacked by several partygoers.

Witnesses told police the man went home to get a knife and then returned to the party, where they said he started stabbing anyone he could reach.

According to police, partygoers took the knife away from the man and began stabbing him.

Police were trying to determine who should be charged in the incident.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:45 PM

I wish that NASA would have a live stream just showing the Earth from the ISS. When they showed the Shuttle doing the back-flip yesterday I thought the Earth zipping by looked neat.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:47 PM

eya wil, mornin to you as well!

eya kev, 3 or 4 more days to go on this one

a tricky lil project but fun, next time i find some help!

back holdin up so far.

well back to it!

love u all!

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 29, 2005 12:47 PM

//Pretty good, Muckie! How's by you?? Did you end up getting rained on last night on the way home?

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 12:45 PM
//

jus a litle. turn owt to be not to bad.

//WYOMING LIBERALS SHOOT BACK

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 12:45 PM
//

lmao fish!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 12:48 PM

American Reform Party - probably illuminati

Association of Green Parties - Group of illuminati

California Peace and Freedom Party - Illuminati

Communist Party USA - Lizards

Constitution Action Party - Witches

Expansionist Party of the United States - Aliens

Freedom Socialist Party - Illuminati

Green Parties of North America - Trilateral Commission

Labor Party - Masons, Illuminati... same thing

Light Party - Dutch... killed Natalie Hooloway


Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 12:50 PM

Posted by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_politics at July 29, 2005 12:20 PM

Third Parties become more and more intriguing to me everytime our party sells us out by two votes.

Those two votes are nothing more than a cover.

They even had it look as if the vote could have been tied with one Congressperson caught in traffic, the other not getting their vote in and niether one was a accident.

It was a SHAM. A PUT ON! A schtick to fool the hay-seeds in the sticks.

Every congressperson who voted against this bill knew they could do so with impugnity.

They knew full well they would get their pork projects, get their industrial tax breaks, get their cake, get their kudos, eat everything on their plates and still appear to their constituents with a brain that they disapproved of the ANTI-AMERICAN nature of this CAFTA bill by voting against it... all the while KNOWING FULL WELL IT WOULD PASS WITH TWO VOTES!!!

The fifteen Congresspersons who voted YES must be made to PAY! It's the only way they will learn they can't fuck the American people while pretending to "make love."

No support from Unions!!

No Support From Air America Shows!!!

No Support from the Liberal - Progressive Blogsisphere!!!

In fact, INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES SHOULD BE RUN AGAINST THEM!!!

DLC? Dead!

Dean Wormer? Dead!

Kappa Alpha Dip-shits? Dead!

The Bush Neo-Con Nightmare? Well, you get my point.

I would still never use that word at the same time I mentioned our president. Even though he stole office, even though they sent our troops into a war for oil based on lies... I could go on with the littany of Bush crimes, but let's just suffice to say that until we impeach the bastard... he's still the fuck head in chief.

Posted by: Meta 4 [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 29, 2005 12:51 PM

Unctuous U S President has Oil Problem
------------------------------------------------------


2.45pm

Oil prices surge after refinery blaze

Mark Tran
Friday July 29, 2005

Oil prices today rose to a two-week high after a fire at a BP refinery in the US
renewed concern about tight supplies.
The price of US light crude topped $60 (£34) a barrel - just under its July 7
record high of $62.10 - while London Brent crude was up 44 cents at $59.20 a
barrel.
The increase followed last night's fire at BP's giant Texas City refinery. The
blaze, brought under control this morning, came four months after an explosion
at the same plant killed 15 workers.

Article continues

Texas City, one of five BP refineries in the US, processes 433,000 barrels of
crude oil a day and 3% of America's petrol. "We are talking about a minimal
impact on production output of petrol," a BP spokesman said.
The fire at the third-largest refinery in the US, came on the same day as a
blaze at the Murphy Oil's refinery, in Louisiana. The incidents have underlined
concerns over tight refinery capacity and market unease about the possibility of
any disruption to oil supplies.
US petrol inventories fell more sharply than had been expected last week, posing
questions over whether refiners could meet demand as Americans take to the road
over the summer holidays.
However, soaring oil prices are beginning to curb demand in Asia, forcing
refiners to reduce their operations and economists to pare back growth
forecasts.
High demand from China and India for petrol and supply disruptions such as
refinery blackouts and weather-related shutdowns, pushed up oil prices in both
2004 and much of this year.
Prices are now more than 40% higher than they were a year ago, but would need to
reach $90 a barrel to match the all-time inflation-adjusted high set in 1980.
In its latest short-term energy outlook, the US Department of Energy said
worldwide spare production capacity had fallen recently. The department said it

Posted by: Dr. Zimmerman Robert at July 29, 2005 12:51 PM

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 12:52 PM

See Ya SJ

Whatever it is your making, you've got me curious to see it.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:54 PM

continued

Unctuous U S President has Oil Problem
------------------------------------------------------


The department said it
could decline from 2004 levels over the next two years if world oil demand grew
more rapidly than expected.


Published on Saturday, April 30, 2005 by Energy Risk
Expect oil at $150 in a decade, Soros colleague warns
By David Walker
Jim Rogers, co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, has predicted oil
will be at $150 within the next 10 years.

Speaking at the Hedge Funds World Global Opportunities 2005 conference, Rogers
was negative on chances of the oil price being forced down in the near future.

"The question on oil will be how high the price goes and stays, because there
may be vast amounts of oil in the world but no one has discovered a great
oilfield in over 35 years.

"The Alaskan and Mexican fields are in decline, and while the North Sea has made
the UK one of the great oil exporters in the last 20 years, within the decade
the UK will be a net importer.

"In the 1960s we discovered North America, Mexico and the North Sea, and the
world knew the oil would come to market. But the price of oil went up 10 times,
because it could not get to market quickly enough.

"If you think the price of oil is going to $32 and staying there, let me know
where the oil is coming from. I expect the price will be $100–$150 within the
decade, and the bull run in commodities will come to an end when it reaches
$110."

Adding to this woe is Rogers' outlook for Saudi Arabia – one of the world's
largest oil producers: "The country is basically run by three people who are
over 80 years of age, and about 70% of the Saudi people are under 21. There is
huge tension and unrest under the surface, and there are huge numbers of
foreigners such as Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis doing all the work and
running the businesses. So either there will be chaos in Saudi Arabia – and
that's likely – which means the price of oil will stay high – or the royal
family w

Posted by: Dr. Zimmerman Robert at July 29, 2005 12:55 PM

continued

Unctuous U S President has Oil Problem ------------------------------------------------------


So either there will be chaos in Saudi Arabia – and
that's likely – which means the price of oil will stay high – or the royal
family will pay everyone off."

Rogers went on to say that a serious decline in the source of revenue coupled
with a lot of young people was bound to cause instability in the country going
forward. "People have said all commodity bull runs end with a war. If that's
true, by the end of the next decade there will be a lot more turmoil in the
world," he said. "When you have a country on the rise it always clashes with the
dominant power in the world. At the moment that power is the US and the country
on the rise is China."

In short, alternative sources of energy "cannot happen fast enough," he said.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editorial Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Another article with more predictions by Rogers appeared last year in the
Guardian: Indiana Jones and the China crusade.

Energy Risk, in which this article appeared, covers "topics relevant to our
growing readership - from the quants to the CFOs at producers, consumers and
traders of oil, gas and electricity."

Note added May 3, 2005:
It might be good to keep in mind that Rogers is selling a book on commodity
trading and has a fund devoted to commodities. This doesn't mean that he is
wrong, but he does have a financial interest in the discussion. Rogers has a
homepage at www.jimrogers.com/ .

-BA
Article found at :
http://www.energybulletin.net/newswire.php?id=5778

Original article :
http://db.riskwaters.com/public/showPage.html?page=217558

Posted by: Dr. Zimmerman Robert at July 29, 2005 12:58 PM

Texas Republican Switched Vote on CAFTA


For weeks, Rep. Robin Hayes, R-N.C., was colorfully adamant in his opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement. "What does CAFTA sound like? NAFTA," Hayes declared. "It's not in the best interests of a core constituency I represent. Every time I drive through Kannapolis and I see those empty plants, I know there is no way I could vote for CAFTA."

But an hour into what is normally a 15-minute roll call - and still short the votes needed to avoid handing President Bush an embarrassing defeat - Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., told Hayes he could promise increased GOP attention to the challenges China poses to the domestic textile industry.
Hayes switched his vote, and the agreement passed 217-215.

Democrats vow to make Hayes' change of heart an issue when he seeks a fifth House term in 2006 from a textile-heavy district in a state where many voters blame the North American Free Trade Agreement for the loss of tens of thousands of well-paid manufacturing jobs in furniture and textiles over the past decade."Rarely have we seen a member of Congress so adamantly speak on one side of a position in public only to support the other side on the floor," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Call it a flip-flop or a pander or whatever you want - to most North Carolinians I know, that's what's called simply not telling the truth to your voters."

In a telephone interview Thursday, Hayes said he had voted no when the clock ran out on CAFTA late Wednesday night, with the measure apparently headed to a 214-210 defeat. That's when House Speaker Dennis Hastert asked if Hayes was willing to switch."They came to me and said, 'Negotiations are open. Put on the table the things that your district and people need, and we'll get them,'" Hayes said.Hayes said he didn't have a laundry list of demands. But he said he told Hastert he wants the White House to step up enforcement of existing trade regulations with China and to impose sanctions if China co

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 12:59 PM

jus herd they got em 4th london bomin suspekt.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 1:00 PM

Shine on you crazy Diamond ... but I am more in this kinda mood right .... Well now I’ve been good for way too long!!

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 1:01 PM

Texas Republican Switched Vote on CAFTA

Correction

North Carolina Republican Switched Vote on CAFTA

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 1:01 PM

Did any of the money from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club found its way into the pockets of the people at the Minority Report? Or was it just used up by Air America in some general fashion? Are you going to be talking about New York City's investigation on your radio show? Sounds like a major conflict of interest for AirAmerica...plus taking money from kids and senior citizens. Wow.

http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/331339p-283184c.html

Posted by: Dave S. at July 29, 2005 1:03 PM

watn hellz this?:

Fatal error: input in flex scanner failed in /htdocs/www/weblog/templates_c/%%8D^8DC^8DC8E06B%%mt%3A14.php on line 212

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 1:03 PM

jus herd they got em 4th london bomin suspekt.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 01:00 PM

yep .. on the run in Rome ....

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 1:03 PM

About One Million Reasons

CODEPINK has launched an innovative, new initiative called One Million Reasons to End the War in Iraq.

The idea is for people from all over the world to write in with their reasons why we must stop the occupation. We want people from all walks of life--celebrities, veterans, mothers, environmentalists, people of faith, health care providers, teachers, students, elected officials, union members, business leaders--to join the global call. 

On September 26, as part of the big Washington DC mobilization against the war, we'll be delivering these messages directly to the White House, as well as to the Iraqi people through the Iraqi media. The reasons will be delivered by people in the 'uniforms' of the occupations or organizations they represent. We want to show the breadth of the community being ignored by the White House and send a message to the world.

We encourage organizations to join in and be represented.  Go to become a supporter and send this message out to your community.

http://www.onemillionreasons.org/article.php?id=428

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 1:04 PM

~~~ yep .. on the run in Rome .... ~~~

FOX: "Rome, Iraq"

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 1:07 PM

Fatal error: input in flex scanner failed in /htdocs/www/weblog/templates_c/%%8D^8DC^8DC8E06B%%mt%3A14.php on line 212

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 01:03 PM

I think it's kinda like the next generation of the "show box" error we used to get?? Been gettin' it alot as of late .. but usually after alot more than 147 posts! : /

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 1:07 PM

Well now I’ve been good for way too long!!

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 01:01 PM

8-)

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 1:07 PM

//yep .. on the run in Rome ....

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 01:03 PM
//

he shuld thanck him lukee starz he werent in london

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 1:09 PM

FOX: "Rome, Iraq"

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 01:07 PM

SERIOUSLY??? Fucking Fox .... they just really need to stroke over Iraq don't they.. limp dicked war-mongers.

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 1:10 PM

~~~ he shuld thanck him lukee starz he werent in london ~~~

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yep! Saw that "Do Not Run" sign you posted!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 1:11 PM

It has not just dawned on the Bush national security apparatus that a "war on terror" described a never-ending battle against a tactic. Dropping the signature phrase of the Bush presidency is part of an effort to cobble together some sort of expedient political solution that will allow U.S. troops to be drawn down before disaster strikes the Republicans in the midterm elections of 2006. "Shock and awe" has been replaced by stunned and confused. By stuffing the old slogan down the memory hole, the Bush administration has withdrawn credibility from its neoconservative policy. Unfortunately, ideology has consequences.

The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has arrived on the bloody scene to warn of impending civil war. But U.S. intelligence does not have an accurate sense of either the number of insurgents or their composition. "That would not be a worthwhile metric," Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita said recently. Thus Rumsfeld's assistant secretary for public affairs acknowledges that he doesn't know precisely who the enemy is.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/07/28/war_on_terror/index.html

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at July 29, 2005 1:11 PM

FOX just called about my foot itching.

Asked if I would go on-air as a "Terrorism Expert"

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 1:15 PM

~~~ SERIOUSLY??? ~~~

No... not like I posted it. They did work Iraq into the conversation. They always do.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 1:17 PM

Senator Roberts just gave a Five Minute speech bitching about how he has to be at his Daughters Wedding rehearsal at 5:00pm and Senators giving speeches are cutting into his not being able to vote on ammendments before he has to leave on the 5 week vacation.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 1:21 PM

sales slitely higher in iraq:

Jacko's new album flops

jus like iraq war

Jackson ... just 8,000 sold
in first week


By EMILY SMITH
US Editor

MICHAEL Jackson’s new album sold just 8,000 copies in its first week in the US.

The greatest hits CD charted at a lowly 128 as fans snubbed the star.

The flop is a huge blow for Jacko, 46, who hoped to make a comeback after he was cleared of child sex abuse charges last month.

hader make em corte apeerence just like saddam is goner hafto in iraq

The Essential Michael Jackson was even beaten by 1970s star Carly Simon’s new CD Moonlight which sold 58,000 copies.

but never toored iraq

New CD ... not Essential listening

iraqi polise trainin is tho

A spokeswoman for Neilsen Soundscan, which monitors US record sales, confirmed: “Carly Simon sold 50,000 more albums than Michael Jackson.”

The figures are a far cry from Jacko’s heyday when he sold 40MILLION copies of Thriller worldwide.

thatn inloodes iraq

The singer has scarcely been seen since he was acquitted of abusing teenager Gavin Arvizo.

hez not iraqi

He was taken to hospital with dehydration after the trial and then fled America for a holiday in Bahrain.

which is close to iraq

Posted by: fox4doo at July 29, 2005 1:26 PM

450 experts on Osama bin Laden

But none seem to know where da muthafucka hidin

Experts on this

Experts on that

Ever notice how all these experts is fat?

Expert on terror cells inna foreign land

Turns out Skippy never left Maryland

FOX got 100 experts onna growing list

Got more terror experts than the world got terrorists

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 1:28 PM

~~~ hader make em corte apeerence just like saddam is goner hafto in iraq ~~~

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 1:32 PM

reminders me caltrans fg. one guy shovelin an 4 supes standerin overn him doin they supervisen

Posted by: fox4doo at July 29, 2005 1:32 PM

Okay .. gotta go to the U of MN now .. Have a Great Afternoon all!

BEEP!! BEEP!!

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 1:33 PM

more fox nyoos comin up

Posted by: fox4doo at July 29, 2005 1:33 PM

~~~ one guy shovelin an 4 supes standerin overn him doin they supervisen ~~~

And 4 engineers back in the office with last minute changes!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 1:34 PM

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 01:28 PM

I know. Most of them have never even been in a bad part of town.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 1:34 PM

Caltrans?

Two of the guys standing around are interpreters!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 1:35 PM

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 01:33 PM

See ya Willow, hope the trip to U of MN is good news for ya.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 1:39 PM

Woman sues Denny's over toilet burns


shure she werent at taco bell?


Jul. 28, 2005 at 9:56PM


9 a.m. bagdad time


A Kansas woman has filed a lawsuit seeking damages for severe burns on her rear end caused by chemicals used to clean a toilet at a Denny's Restaurant.


saddam use cemical wepons on teh kurds in northurn iraq


Kathleen Williams' suit names Denny's Corp. and Jomar Investments LLC, owner of the St. Louis-area Denny's where she was injured.


spekin of...troops were injure today in iraq...

Williams claims she did not see the chemicals but felt them as soon as she sat down. Pedro Irigonegaray, her lawyer, said that she had to be hospitalized immediately and suffered permanent injuries.


kurds in iraq nevern gotta chanse to sit down. but they ben liberaterd now


"Sadly, as a result of the chemical injury, nerves were injured that create a sensation of pain 24 hours a day," Irigonegaray told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.


zarkawi a pain in em ass to


He said Williams has to take medication for pain and wear special underpants designed for burn victims.

thees were speshely desine for em iraqi liberashen war...er....strugle


thinkerin ima got thes fox nyoos reporterin down pak. gonna go send em me resoomay

Posted by: fox4doo at July 29, 2005 1:41 PM

//Caltrans?

Two of the guys standing around are interpreters!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 01:35 PM
//

lol!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 1:42 PM

---Caltrans?----

When I worked construction, the Phone Company did the same thing except they had a guy who was incharge of putting the safety cones around the truck. SCE does the same thing.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 1:45 PM

Senator Sessions is speaking que the "Dueling Bajo's" music

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 1:49 PM

viva zapata!

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 1:54 PM

//they had a guy who was incharge of putting the safety cones around the truck.//

musta had em mba.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 1:55 PM

musta had em mba.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 01:55 PM

withouy that guy putting those cones out nothing gets started. Most powerful guy on the job.

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 2:02 PM

I stayed up late to listen to you on the repeat broadcast of MR here in Seattle (I missed the show earlier).

Well Done, Dada!

Happy belated birthday, too, hope your wishes come true...


off to work some miracles...


BTW, does anyone here think it's possible that WaDo's meds have been tampered with and he's now reduced to idiotic yelping on the blog? He use to be somewhat respectable. I can't even read him anymore, I'm just so embarrassed for him.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 2:04 PM

See ya all later

Posted by: Kevin at July 29, 2005 2:05 PM

bye c-sea an kevin. :)

dunjens an dragons fore dummies

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 2:07 PM

>>450 experts on Osama bin Laden
But none seem to know where da muthafucka hidin


I believe he's in Indonesia, if he's not dead. I think when they make for the white house to haul Bush's brain off in chains, Bush will pull bin Laden out of his ass, where he's been hiding him. Or he'll announce bin Laden's in Indonesia. One or the other.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 2:08 PM

bin laden in columbeeya tryin skore sum coke.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 2:11 PM

>>PlanetFargo: Dungeons & Dragons Made Simple
This week, Fargo simplifies the complex world of D&D in honor of a recently published book.
By Dave 'Fargo' Kosak | July 14, 2005

Thanks Mucky! I'll take a look! One of my multiple personalities is a 14-year-old boy, which explains my love of sci-fi and fantasy.

Now, off to yoga!

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 2:12 PM

>>riise an shiine

an giver god sum gloree gloree!

riise an shiine

an give god teh gloree gloree!

rize an shines an... give god teh gloree gloree

chilrun of the lord.....

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 10:29 AM

...off to yoga with this is my head....

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 2:13 PM

bye c-sea. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 2:16 PM

Oh! This is rich! This is the campaign that's going after Hackett, the Iraq veteran running as a Dem in Ohio.

(snip)


After Jean Schmidt was embroiled in an ethics scandal, she turned right around and gobbled up the maximum contribution from the poster boy for corruption, Tom DeLay.

Since then, her supporters have been Swift Boating her opponent, smearing his service to try to score cheap political points.

Schmidt has focused her campaign on family values, but now it looks like her Campaign Manager may have used the internet to satisfy his bizarre sexual fetishes. If this is true, it is the ultimate in hypocrisy.

Here's how this whole thing came about. People who emailed the Schmidt campaign had their email's bounce back. The details of the bounce back showed that the email joe@jeanschmidt.com actually went to deanofcorn@aol.com . This is important because it shows that Schmidt Campaign Manager Joe Braun was using his AOL account for campaign purposes.

People googled this AOL account and apparently found that the same email account being used for the Schmidt campaign was also being used for a profile on a BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism -- think of the pawn shop in Pulp Fiction) website used by freaks to meet other freaks.

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/07/time-to-get-s...

Posted by: Oleander at July 29, 2005 2:33 PM

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/07/time-to-get-scrunchy.html

Not that being a freak is a bad thing. But hypocrisy is.

Posted by: Oleander at July 29, 2005 2:34 PM

~~~ kurds in iraq nevern gotta chanse to sit down. but they ben liberaterd now ~~~

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 2:37 PM

The smoking gun appears to be the fact that this profile was removed within a couple of hours after it had been linked to Joe Braun on the blogs (screenshot here).

Jean Schmidt's family values campaign is nothing by crass hypocrisy if her Campaign Manager is a pervert.

But my guess is you'll hear little from Jean Schmidt on this. Because she's too busy smearing Hackett and doing whatever it

Now, I disagree with Bob, there is nothing perverted about BDSM. It's perfectly acceptable, as private behavior. It isn't my taste, but neither is yogurt.

What I agree with is this: Schmidt is running around, talking about the evil gays and family values, while her campaign manager is engaged in bashing people in alternative lifestyle. And no, that isn't just code for gay.

In the past, a lot of people would have been decrying this kind of thing as dirty politics.

My reply to that is: so fucking what? Max Clelland was lied about for political gain. The man lost three of his limbs as an Infantry officer in Vietnam, and he's soft on defense?

Gays are all thoughout the GOP, hidden in a closet.

They disrespect our patritoism, our service, our beliefs, and we're supposed to help them keep their secrets?

No fucking no. No more.

It's time to get scrunchy, get in the dirt and spread it around and play as dirty as they do. They can run on the issues if they choose. But if they don't, we don't have to either.

Update: Oh yeah, there's more to do

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/07/time-to-get-scrunchy.html

Posted by: Oleander at July 29, 2005 2:37 PM

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Howard Zinn

Excerpt, page 173

From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American Democracy. I was a radical, believeing that something fundamental was wrong in this country-not just the existence of poverty amidst great wealth, not just the treatment of black people, but something rotten at the root. The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society-cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416825/

Posted by: A Book at July 29, 2005 2:37 PM

RNC Dumping Cash into Race - Considering that this race should be a cakewalk for Schmidt, that's a sign they are truly terrified. Not clear how much, but looks to be in the six figures. Trying to match our ActBlue scratch, no doubt.
Republican Group Calls for Election BOYCOTT - Damn, talk about the "Shooting Yourself in the Foot" department. Please, conservatives, take this group's advice!

The Hackett Campaign Needs Volunteers - E-mail to VOLUNTEER@HACKETTFORCONGRESS.COM. Housing is available.

NRCC Poll Shows Hackett Down Just FIVE? - This is according to Tim, and is truly stunning news. No Dem has received more than 30% of the vote in this district in the past two decades. If this poll story is true, that's amazing.

Dayton Daily News Endorses Hackett - Another area newspaper comes through for our man.

Swift-Boating of Paul Hackett Kicks into High Gear - As Atrios says, these chickenhawks have real contempt for those who actually have served in our nation's military. Disgusting.

Posted by: Oleander at July 29, 2005 2:39 PM

Check out my new anti-Bush shirts & bumper stickers at www.cafepress.com/103reasons and send me some feedback please. Also check my blogs linked on that page. DON'T JUST THINK IT, DISPLAY IT.

Posted by: 103reasons at July 29, 2005 2:40 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You GOTTA read this one!

My
Dog Is Tom Cruise

Humor from The New Yorker!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 2:40 PM

Posted by: Gwen at July 29, 2005 2:42 PM

Excerpts....

I’ve got a bowl of hard kibble with some soft stuff mixed in. My name’s on the bowl! I am passionate about this lamb-and-rice recipe.

...

Do you know the history of crate training? ’Cause I do. Don’t talk about things you don’t understand. Like saying dogs are wild. Dogs are wild—that is glib. Dogs are . . . I’ve done the research; there are crates that they put us in to quote unquote train us. They throw rattlesnakes at us. Electric-shock tags! I’m not making this up. This is . . . it’s history.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 2:43 PM

Look at my tail! I’m panting 24/7. hahahaha! I purr, even. Like a cat, man. The cat looks at me and he’s, like, “What did they put in your kibble?” haha! I don’t care. I’ve never cared what that cat thinks. But I care about him even though he’s a cynic. I care about the glib parakeet and those jerks the gerbils, but I’m not sure those are the same gerbils as before. hahaha! Those gerbils! We have fun. I bark, they run on the wheel.

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 2:45 PM

The Democrats make me ashamed to be an American.

The Republicans make me ashamed to be a human being.


Posted by: Montana independent at July 29, 2005 2:48 PM

//Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 02:40 PM//

lol! wishen ima haff brook sheelds e-maily

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 2:50 PM

~~~ lol! wishen ima haff brook sheelds e-maily ~~~

I'm sure she saw it.

wishen brook sheelds haff ma bebbe!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 2:58 PM

Ever wonder how War Dog can talk with such ardent admiration and yet still be so delusionally misguided about our beloved nitwit war president?

Wonder no longer.

Dive straight down into the belly of the beast.

Yes, read it straight from the horse's ass -- er, mouth.

This is what we are up against in America today.

Mass-fucking-hysteria being coerced upon America by graceless panicky delusional excuse-making men.

Posted by: Powerline post at July 29, 2005 3:00 PM

that kinda remineden me of sith101 to.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:01 PM

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Howard Zinn

Excerpt, page 173

From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American Democracy. I was a radical, believeing that something fundamental was wrong in this country-not just the existence of poverty amidst great wealth, not just the treatment of black people, but something rotten at the root. The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society-cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416825/

Posted by: A Book at July 29, 2005 02:37 PM

Posted by: Dr. Zimmerman Robert at July 29, 2005 3:04 PM

sawg im meenin

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:04 PM

goddamit!

dawg im meenin

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:05 PM


Posted by: Savage at July 29, 2005 12:12 PM

Nice list Savage. Where'd you get that? Fox's Recycle bin?

Don't forget though-

UnoCal Oil: Commies

All I know (and I've said this before) is 20 yrs ago if a Russian (or Cuba! Could you imagine?!?) company, let alone a Russian Government company, were to so much as try an' buy a hot dog stand in this country; we'd nuke 'em!
Now China wants to buy one of our largest Oil companies- and no one says a word?

Posted by: Harold at July 29, 2005 3:09 PM

"It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile."

Rather exactly like a great painter who is unappreciated.

Like in This Movie

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 3:12 PM

Going to the Brewer's Festival Today! Gonna get sloshed!

Posted by: Harold at July 29, 2005 3:15 PM

billmon attempts to capture the essence of the New Gilded Age (part imperial Roman arrogance and decadence combined w/the backwoods illiteracy squalor of Twain's Huckleberry Finn), while giving pictorial evidence (proof is far too strong) that, yes, Virginia, even Texans can look good in a toga.

Posted by: billmon post at July 29, 2005 3:18 PM

Nap time!

Later freaks!

Love you all!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 3:19 PM

And hey Wanda!

Guess who's playing in Bend, Oregon Sunday night?

BOB DYLAN! (He's still going!)

When's the next Slint show? hmmm?

Posted by: Harold at July 29, 2005 3:22 PM

bye fg. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:24 PM

doent blasfeem slint harold

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:29 PM

Jezuz! all kinds of news abreaking today!

Murdoch's Son and Expected Successor Quits News Corp.

By VIKAS BAJAJ
Published: July 29, 2005
Rupert Murdoch's son and heir apparent at the News Corporation, Lachlan K. Murdoch, abruptly resigned from his executive posts at the media company today and said he was moving back to Australia with his family.

His departure raises fresh questions about executive succession at one of the world's most successful and powerful media companies. Though Rupert Murdoch, 74, has refused to publicly pick a successor , it was widely believed that he favored Lachlan, his oldest son, to replace him as chief executive and chairman upon his retirement.

"I look forward to returning home to Australia with my wife, Sarah, and son, Kalan, in the very near future," he said in a statement. "I would like especially to thank my father for all he has taught me in business and in life. It is now time for me to apply those lessons to the next phase of my career."

Rupert Murdoch said: "I am particularly saddened by my son's decision and thanked him for his terrific contribution to the company, and also his agreement to stay on the board and advise us in a number of areas."

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 3:32 PM

Remember to come out and play tonight Fishgrease!

Posted by: Gwen at July 29, 2005 3:33 PM

this isn't really news...more like reconfirming your worst fears:

W.House gives strong signal on Bolton appointment By Steve Holland
21 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House gave its strongest signal yet on Friday that President Bush will soon bypass the Senate and appoint John Bolton to become the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

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Senate Democrats have stalled the nomination of Bolton, a favorite of conservatives, over accusations he tried to manipulate intelligence and intimidated intelligence analysts to support his hawkish views while the top U.S. diplomat for arms control.

Bush can bypass the Senate and give Bolton a "recess appointment" when the Senate begins its August recess this weekend. Bolton would be able to serve until January 2007, when a new Congress is sworn in.

Asked about the possibility of a recess appointment for Bolton, White House spokesman Scott McClellan argued that the job needed to be filled relatively quickly.

"We need our permanent representative in place at the United Nations at this critical time. There is an effort under way to move forward on comprehensive reform. We have outlined the comprehensive reforms that we want to see put in place to make sure that the United Nations is an effective multilateral organization," he said.

"And it's a critical time to be moving forward on this. The United Nations will be having their General Assembly meeting in September, and it's important that we get our permanent representative in place," he said.

He said Bolton has enjoyed majority support from the Senate, "but unfortunately Senate Democrats have taken the path of playing politics."

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 3:35 PM

Gun lawsuit protection bill set for Senate vote

By Joanne Kenen
29 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the Senate set to pass legislation that would halt civil suits that aim to hold the firearms industry responsible for gun violence, foes of the bill made a last-ditch effort to try to weaken it.

ADVERTISEMENT

The "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" would provide broad immunity from civil lawsuits filed by dozens of cities and municipalities against gun makers, dealers and distributors. It would also make it much harder for individuals to bring civil liability suits if they or their family members were harmed by guns.

The bill is a top priority for the National Rifle Association, the influential gun lobby, and has strong support from President Bush.

About a dozen Democrats, including Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, support the bill along with most Republicans.

The Senate vote is set for later Friday. The House plans to pass it after the summer recess that begins next week.

Critics of the legislation said they knew from the start this bill was unstoppable, yet they had hoped to amend it to include some gun control provisions, such as requiring background checks for gun shows. But they were outmaneuvered.

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 3:36 PM

Foul-mouthed British parrot banished by embarrassed keepers


LONDON (AFP) - A foul-mouthed parrot previously owned by a lorry driver has been banished from public areas in a British animal sanctuary after repeatedly embarrassing his keepers, they said.

Barney, a five-year-old Macaw, is now kept indoors at Warwickshire Animal Sanctuary in Nuneaton, central England, when outsiders visit after abusing dignitaries with swearword-littered insults.

"He's told a lady mayoress to f..(expletive) off and he told a lady vicar: 'And you can f... off as well'," sanctuary worker Stacey Clark said.

Nor did the forces of law and order escape, she added.

"Two policemen came to have a look at the centre. He told them: 'And you can f... off you two wankers'."

Clark said sanctuary workers believed Barney either picked up the phrases from television or was taught them by his previous owner, a lorry driver who emigrated to Spain.

"He does say 'Hello, big boy' and 'Thank you' when you give him a biscuit," she added.

"But it's mainly naughty words and always to the wrong people. We're trying to teach him not to swear. Macaws are very intelligent birds."

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 3:39 PM

hiya cb. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:43 PM

I'm wondering if we could arrange for an on air debate between the parrot and Wanda re: Dylan versus Slint?

That parrot loves the Dylan.

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 3:43 PM

hey muck!

how you doin'?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 3:45 PM

doent theenk shed mined a litle debate

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:45 PM

so far she's taken all comers!

and beaten them all by TKO!

which isn't as hard as it sounds...she referees all the matches too!

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 3:48 PM

doin purdy good cb.

mebbe we can teech em parot to say "get yoren ankels behined yore eers!" in preperashens

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:50 PM

AWWWK!

Fuck Off, Wanda!

! Arrrk!

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 3:55 PM

lol!

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 3:58 PM

they say the Macaws are pretty bright, we could probably teach him to do it faster than we could convince Wanda of anything

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 3:59 PM

What's the latest on War on Terror are we speaking arabic yet, yeah massa bandar bush . . . I know you teach the bush a lesson a go back to saudi with American treasury yeah yeah yeah . . . that's why we need democrats to jerk a knot in yo . . .

50 Iraqis - 2 marines - 1 brit - coupula kidnappings

Is it on? are we winning? or have they scared us to death

Big Dick Cheney countin all that money he robbed from you fools

Posted by: pablo at July 29, 2005 3:59 PM

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 03:59 PM

that there is what we lazy bastards that hide behind other nics for the sake of a joke (or worse) call an "oopsie"...

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:01 PM

About One Million Reasons

CODEPINK has launched an innovative, new initiative called One Million Reasons to End the War in Iraq.

The idea is for people from all over the world to write in with their reasons why we must stop the occupation. We want people from all walks of life--celebrities, veterans, mothers, environmentalists, people of faith, health care providers, teachers, students, elected officials, union members, business leaders--to join the global call.

On September 26, as part of the big Washington DC mobilization against the war, we'll be delivering these messages directly to the White House, as well as to the Iraqi people through the Iraqi media. The reasons will be delivered by people in the 'uniforms' of the occupations or organizations they represent. We want to show the breadth of the community being ignored by the White House and send a message to the world.

We encourage organizations to join in and be represented. Go to become a supporter and send this message out to your community.

http://www.onemillionreasons.org/article.php?id=428

Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 01:04 PM

Posted by: Dr. Zimmerman Robert at July 29, 2005 4:03 PM

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 4:04 PM

STOP THE WAR

Divest from USA Now! Join people of conscience to ...

Posted by: Dr. Zimmerman Robert at July 29, 2005 4:07 PM

I got to take a moment and consider the time honored `talking parrot' gag.

I don't know who used it first. but it does work.

I'm pretty sure the Marx brothers used it, Gilligan's island too.

So, it is perfectly thinkable that a talking parrot would post here? so long as it was a politically motiated parrot, it makes a certain level f sense that he'd blog here.

nothing strange or out of the normal for a talking Makaw to blog here, that's all I'm saying.

And, as far as time honored traditions of comedy go, the talking parrot bit is there in spades.

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:14 PM

besides, wasn't it Shakespeare that said "many a truth are hidden behind a talking parrot?"

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:20 PM

SquawkK!

Fuck Off, Fatboy!

ARRRK!!!

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 4:21 PM

rite up their with ruber chikens. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 4:24 PM

From Muck's Mars site:

When will Mars Express HRSC take pictures of the so-called ‘face’ in the Cydonia region?

ESA’s Mars Express orbiter was not in a suitable position to collect images of Cydonia area until late in 2004. Until then, Mars Express could observe closely only southern latitude features. Planetary scientists are interested in Cydonia because it is part of the boundary between highland and lowland areas, and it was planned to map this boundary area during October 2004.

Mars Express did cover this area during orbit 262 but it was not possible to obtain images of high enough quality due to factors such as the swath width at that location, atmospheric distortion and poor resolution. Now, the highland/lowland boundary will be covered in January to February 2005.

When the orbiter arrives over a suitable position in the northern hemisphere, it will be using its High Resolution Stereo Camera in the course of its planned and routine mapping of the surface, but not specifically to study any ‘face-like’ features. The mesas of Cydonia are of interest to planetary scientists, but they are not a priority for observations. These images will be used to look at the geological formations in this region to see where water once flowed, as some scientists think the northern plains are all that is left of an ancient Martian ocean.

Twenty five years ago, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars, taking photographs of possible landing sites for its twin, Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face in the region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. The ‘Face on Mars’ became a popular icon. It has starred in films and appeared in books and magazines for 25 years! Some people thought the ‘face’ is real evidence of life on Mars.

Although most scientists did not believe the face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor when it arrived at the Red Planet in 1997. In April 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time and took a high-resolution photograph, ten times sharper than the original Vikin

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:27 PM

(...)

Although most scientists did not believe the face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor when it arrived at the Red Planet in 1997. In April 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time and took a high-resolution photograph, ten times sharper than the original Viking pictures. It revealed a natural landform, there was no alien monument after all.

But not everyone was satisfied, because the camera on board Mars Global Surveyor had to peer through wispy clouds to see the surface. Perhaps, the sceptics said, alien markings were hidden by haze. In 2001, Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look and captured an extraordinary photograph using maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 image represented 1.5 metres, compared to 43 metres per pixel in the best Viking image from 1976.

The picture showed a feature called a ‘mesa’, like the landforms common in western USA. The Cydonia region is littered with many mesas like this, but which do not look like human heads and they attract little popular attention. Subsequent laser altimetry scans, with height measurements made to within 20 to 30 centimetres, confirm that its shape and all of its dimensions are similar to the other mesas and not exotic in any way.

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:28 PM

besides, wasn't it Shakespeare that said "many a truth are hidden behind a talking parrot?"

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 04:20 PM

i thought it was bertrand russell

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 4:28 PM

//SquawkK!

Fuck Off, Fatboy!

ARRRK!!!

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 04:21 PM
//

mus be em slint fan arownd

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 4:28 PM

i thought it was bertrand russell

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 04:28 PM


you are probably right

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:31 PM

no no no Mucky, that's the egg-over-easy-on-mars.

By the way, my newly ex-brother in law's website is bif on Face-on-MArs stuff.

http://www.lunaranomalies.com/

he's been on Art Bell and other shows, and speaks at conventions. Right now he's writing a book with Richard Hoagland.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 4:31 PM

Humor from The New Yorker!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 29, 2005 02:40 PM

ha!

miss the fishgrease-interprets-the-New-Yorker- cartoons...

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 4:34 PM

hey, i missed you before you went to yoga, c-sea

thanks! glad you liked it

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 4:36 PM

looks liken intrastin site c-sea.

bookmarken that wun. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 4:36 PM

hey cat

just about to get out of here...

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 4:37 PM

Bush also flipped off some students during a campaign tour last year.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3035

Posted by: bluepilgrim at July 29, 2005 4:38 PM

Does that whole explaination of why they didn't get a picture of the face on Mars sound quite right?

I mean, its the same deal you always get from the government. "no we don't have the pictures, we didn't think we would want pictures because we didn't think anything was there in the firstplace. and it was way out of the way. not to mention cloudy. and the pictures we did take had problems with resolution and pixils and sciencie stuff like that...

that's the same line they use for everything!

the very same line!

from Vietnam to Valerie Plame, it's the same old line of bullshit!

am I wrong?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:39 PM

where are you dada?

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 4:39 PM

mus be em slint fan arownd

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 04:28 PM

There aint no use having a talking parrot around if you don't use him once in a while!

;]

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:40 PM

Is Air Amer Radio going to pay back the $500,000 that it "borrowed" from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club? Are Sam and Janeane going to return the portion of their salaries that came from this money to the kids that it was taken from? Wouldn't that be the right thing to do? Or does Air America Radio watch out for the rich at the expense of the poor?

Posted by: Dave S. at July 29, 2005 4:41 PM

>>looks liken intrastin site c-sea.

He loves to find intrique and secrets wherever he looks. Hey, I like a good conspiracy too. For the last 15 years or so, it's all we've had in common to talk about.

He and Richard Hoagland have taken me to a lecture (given by them) on Mars and Nasa at...where else...a Mason hall, with a meeting that Mike and I weren't allowed to attend afterwards.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 4:42 PM

where are you dada?

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 04:39 PM

"here"

hee hee

you know...

i'll call you in like 10 minutes

Posted by: dada at July 29, 2005 4:42 PM

he's been on Art Bell and other shows, and speaks at conventions. Right now he's writing a book with Richard Hoagland.


Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 04:31 PM

You have to love a website where the introduction is on the same page as the disclaimer.

he GOP's site aint that way.

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:43 PM

>>Posted by: Dave S. at July 29, 2005 04:41 PM


Hey Dave, put your money where your mouth is and call the show tonight and ask.

Or better yet, call Randi's show right now and ask her.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 4:45 PM

he still has his Bush/Cheney04 link up!

you know...this guy is the ET version of the tin-foilhat guy...

but, yet, the world sees US as wacky!

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:45 PM

//am I wrong?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 04:39 PM
//

nope.

nuthin an see heer. moovealong moove along

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 4:47 PM

Or better yet, call Randi's show right now and ask her.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 04:45 PM


You don't think its some sort of desperate smear campaign to keep dittoheads from noticing their beloved president is going down in flames?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:49 PM

>>but, yet, the world sees US as wacky!


I know, it's totally ironic. He considered ME to be the lunatic in the family, becase I recycle, grow veges, and wear Birkenstocks.

Still, I love how sincere he is about this stuff. I was the only one who'd listen to him in the whole family.

BUT he was a total wing nut.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 4:51 PM

nope.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 04:47 PM

good, cuz I wan't sure if they used the old `dusty-pixil fly-by' routine with the Silverado Savings and Loan...its been so long

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:53 PM

I knew my ex was cheating on me when I asked where she had been and she started blathering about swath width , atmospheric distortion and poor resolution...

I mean, come on...

like we haven't heard THAT one before?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:57 PM

maybe I'll stick to talking parrots

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 4:58 PM

>>You don't think its some sort of desperate smear campaign to keep dittoheads from noticing their beloved president is going down in flames?

Posted by: : ??????ÿ?ß????? at July 29, 2005 04:49 PM


no, it's something Evan Cohen cooked up. The NY charity lent air america nearly half a million dollars. They shouldn't have, so as far as I can see, they are the ones under investigation. But Even Cohen use to be on the board of this charity so it looks bad. FOR HIM. Air America didn't do anything wrong.

Even Cohen was replaced by the guy from realnetworks earlier this year (I forgot his name). Air America is in the clear, the charity got it's funding yeanked, a politico in NY got emergency funding reinstated, and Air America got the bad repuatation, even though, basically, it was the one who got fucked.

Pardon my language.

Dave S doesn't really give a shit about the boys and girls club, he doesn't care about anything other than trying to make us think Air America did something wrong, and get panicky about it. Dave S only want's to annoy us, if he really wanted answers to those questions he asked, he'd ask someone who actually works for Air America, not the blogger, for god's sake. He won't call Randi, or MR, I can gaurentee it.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 5:00 PM

BU$H BUNCH SELLS OUT U.S. WORKERS

WHY DIDN?T THE NYT PUBLISH THE CAFTA HOUSE ROLL CALL VOTE--WHO & HOW THEY VOTED?

American Workers should know who their friends are!

ATTENTION! These 15 Democratic sellouts are not your friends:

1. Melissa Bean - IL
2. Jim Cooper - TN
3. Henry Cuellar - TX
4. Norm Dicks - WA
5. Ruben Hinojosa - TX
6. William Jefferson - LA
7. Jim Matheson - UT
8. Greg Meeks - NY
9. Dennis Moore - KS
10. Jim Moran - VA
11. Solomon Ortiz - TX
12. Ike Skelton - MO
13. Vic Snyder - AR
14. John Tanner - TN
15. Edolphus Towns - NY

Jim Moran & Ike Skelton, in particular, have proved themselves complete disappointments.

The 217-215 roll call Thursday by which the House approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

A "yes" vote is a vote to approve the agreement.

Voting "yes" were 15 Democrats and 202 Republicans.

Voting "no" were 187 Democrats, 27 Republicans and one independent. [MORE]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/07/27/national/w213621D68.DTL&type=printable

Comment: Let the crapitalist imperialist corporate totalitarian pigs tremble as they keep creating more & more enemies at home & abroad & the conditions for global social explosions!

Posted by: greenpagan at July 29, 2005 5:06 PM

i miss randi rhodes ... she really does do a fantastic job at eduMcating...

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 5:07 PM

at this point the wingnuts need any sort of diversion.

How many scandals are they looking at?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 5:10 PM

Gosh, maybe Dave S went to call someone who could answer his pretend questions of concern.


What do you mean you miss randi Rhodes, Catharine?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 5:10 PM

The wacky liberal losers of the left leaning MRR blog will be shocked to know that CNN is reporting that Michelle Malkin has proof that Al Frankin and others at ARR are stealing money that was intended for little children. Shame ! That is certainly not to be found in the right. They wait for abundant funds, old age and senility before they fleece the public.

Posted by: War Dog's Book at July 29, 2005 5:16 PM

Michelle proposed the brilliant idea of rounding up middle easterners here in America and putting them in concentration camps.

She also attacked feminists for not rejoicing when iraq's women voted last Feb....voted for their continued oppression, that is.

I hope War Dog's Book remembers to cite what a font of credibility Michelle Malkin is.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 5:21 PM

i can't believe that republican who just called in to randi ...

he was so sure that he had the clincher ...

oh yeah ...

he went for it ... 'how can you say Bush is stupid if he got the same grades at Yale as Gore ...?'

oh yeah, buddy ... you got it!

that sure is 'proof'

idget.

that'll show us...

he wasn't even trying to prove that bush was stupid, but rather that gore was too ... which is ... boy you got us there ... getting into school and passing when you're GHW Bush's son is really difficult ... 'cause, of course, he worked at things just as hard in life as anyone else ... no probably harder ... ya know 'it's hard to be president'

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 5:24 PM

so .. what's the deal with Jay Leno? he was a big republican supporter ... is it possible he has changed his tune?

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 5:25 PM

And the War goes on, did ya ever stop to think

What kinda mofo says and the War goes on?

Bring it On!

and they don't make him take "the Pill" for his own good

Posted by: pablo at July 29, 2005 5:27 PM

That;s funny that it took them so long to think to come up with Gore and Kerry's grades at Yale for comparison!

Ha hA!

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 5:28 PM

>> ... is it possible he has changed his tune?


I wondered that myself. Maybe he just follows the polls and adjusts to reflect the growing hatred of Bush across the board.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 5:30 PM

What do you mean you miss randi Rhodes, Catharine?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 05:10 PM

oh. should clarify. I am listening to her now, but i never get to anymore. so, i am realizing now how much i do...

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 5:30 PM

My dad always defended her when I'd say I found her too abrasive. He'd say that's exactly what we need. He has cable, so He hears non-stop hatred of liberals all day and is fed up.

Now I agree with him. My attitude is that you shouldn't call her up if you don't want to get hit. I don't feel as sorry for callers anymore.

She sure knows her STUFF!!

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 5:33 PM

ya know 'it's hard to be president'

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 05:24 PM

he thinks about it everyday

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 5:33 PM

Sorry if this was already discussed, but is JG leaving the show? Or reducing her time? I don't see how she can be a regular on West Wing and MR.

Posted by: Cocky-with Christ at July 29, 2005 5:34 PM

West Wing and MR.

Posted by: Cocky-with Christ at July 29, 2005 05:34 PM

Haven't heard.

I think she can handle both if she wants.

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 5:36 PM

Posted by: Dave S. at July 29, 2005 04:41 PM

yeah, buddy.

you know, you just showed yourself as the fool who never learned to think or read critically.

you can't imagine how dumb you look coming on here - a place where people actually have learned to read and think critically, and are much better informed in general - and think that
we'd ... what? ...

say "oh no! [gasp] do you think that's true..? golly gee ... i'll never trust air america again"

what you're saying is that you are the kind who would believe every bit of crap you see on the "tee vee" ... because you aren't able to think for yourself.

pity, for you.

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 5:43 PM

You know,

Randi could probably do a week or two on why they haven't been covering the detailings of nation building in Iraq

If it's such a big deal to pass out some candy to children and slap some white wash on the mud walls and call them schools let's have a look with independent media

No. Why NO?

Let's witness the democratic processes at work. Like which US resources are nation building

What is the Administration afraid to show the American people about Nation building. Where are the video carmeras and news reports

Why is Iraq the Center of War on Terror?

What are they hiding from the American Public?

It will come out in the light and they will say it didn't happen.

Then why are you denying reporters to film, and write stories if the deeds are honorable such as spreading democracy in the middle east and fighting freedom crusade etc...

Posted by: pablo at July 29, 2005 5:44 PM

onlee in utah...:


8-Year-Old Charged For Sexual Conduct With Sitter


(KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah A mother is upset after a 14-year-old babysitter engaged in sexual conduct with her eight-year-old boy, and the eight-year-old was charged with lewd conduct.

Prosecutors have since dropped the charges against the boy, but his mother is still concerned.

The sexual conduct occurred during a game of “truth or dare” while the boy was being watched by the babysitter.

Prosecutors say that, while the babysitter initiated the contact, the young boy was a willing participant.

“She dared my son to touch her breasts,” says Michelle Grosbeck, the boy’s mother.

After hiring the teenager to baby sit, Grosbeck got the feeling something was wrong.

“It was just that sense that something wasn’t quite right with this 14-year-old girl,” she said. She asked her son what had happened. “He just came right out as if nothing was awry, and just started talking about what had happened.”

Grosbeck went to police and child protection workers, and the case went to the district attorney, after which her son, age eight, had been charged with an act of lewdness with a minor.

Grosbeck says the Salt Lake County District Attorney told her both the child and teenager were equal participants. But Mrs. Grosbeck didn’t believe that.

“My son is eight, he’s a little boy. He does not have the ability to participate on the same level as a fourteen-year-old,” she said.

Although the charges against her son were dropped, she is concerned that the same thing could happen to other victims of sexual abuse.

“I don’t want parents to be afraid to go to the state agencies that are supposed to be protecting our children when things like this happen, out of fear that their children are going to be charged

The district attorney’s office confirmed the charges had been made, and that they had been dropped. Other than that, they wouldn’t comment. The Division of Child and Family Services also declined to comment.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 5:45 PM

Michelle Malkin is a little Miss Bitch Tits?

(A young Imelda Marcos type?)

http://www.notes.co.il/corinna/user/michelle%20malkin's%20book%20satirized.jpg


Posted by: greenpagan at July 29, 2005 5:47 PM

yeah, i don't know, Cathy.

someone suggested his wife is more liberal than he, and may have influenced him over the past couple of years, but i don't know....

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 5:49 PM

Michelle Malkin is one messed up person. What won't these conservative women do to get their republican male overlords to slip them some approval?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 5:52 PM

i used to think randi was too abrasive too, but i really started appreciating her ... particularly after the election ... she showed her true stripes ... she was a veteran of politics and didn't get all weepy and sad ... she had just the right things to say ... a number of my friends thought the same thing at that time ... she made us feel much better about it .. by talking about what we could do to keep making changes ...

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 5:54 PM

Voted for CAFTA to aid state, Snyder says
BY PAUL BARTON
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder said potential opportunities for Arkansas farmers and manufacturers moved him to vote for the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

Snyder’s vote on the agreement early Thursday morning put him in disagreement with fellow Arkansas Reps. Marion Berry and Mike Ross. All three are Democrats. The delegation’s lone Republican, Rep. John Boozman, joined Snyder in voting for the bill.

"This bill is about opening up markets for our products," Snyder said. "It’s very clear to me that agricultural exports have the opportunity to gain."

Snyder noted that many Central American goods enter the United States duty-free, while high tariffs are placed on U.S. goods exported to those countries. The bill was a way of addressing that problem, he said.

Both sides have overstated the potential impact of the bill, he said.

"These are six tiny countries," he said. "This is not China."

Snyder, a doctor, drew fire for his vote from the Global AIDS Alliance. The group said intellectual-property provisions of the treaty will make it harder to market generic anti-AIDS drugs in those countries.

"How could Rep. Vic Snyder, a medical doctor who has been an advocate of greater AIDS funding, vote in favor of the treaty?" asked Dr. Paul Zeitz, director of the group, in a statement.

"His vote is not only a betrayal of people living with AIDS, it also is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath, which says, ‘Above all, do no harm.’"

In response, Snyder said he is confident that side agreements to the treaty will enable those countries to get the AIDS treatments they need.

Meanwhile, Berry denounced the free-trade pact.

"The benefits of the CAFTA agreement are minimal and hardly worth the risk to American workers. The agreement gives Central America an advantage by making it harder for American business to compete against countries with lower wages and working conditions," he said in a statement.

Ross issued similar concerns.

"Arkansas lost 9,343 jobs under NAFTA and if you liked NAFTA, you are going to love CAF

Posted by: Scott E at July 29, 2005 5:56 PM

//Michelle Malkin is a little Miss Bitch Tits?

(A young Imelda Marcos type?)

http://www.notes.co.il/corinna/user/michelle%20malkin's%20book%20satirized.jpg


Posted by: greenpagan at July 29, 2005 05:47 PM
//

wunder ifn she knoews that theirs lotta al-qaida in em filipines? wach wat yoo wish fore michele cuz ya jus mite get it.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 5:56 PM

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 5:59 PM

(cont'd)

"Arkansas lost 9,343 jobs under NAFTA and if you liked NAFTA, you are going to love CAFTA," he said in a statement.

NAFTA was the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiated a decade ago.

Boozman, in an interview, said he saw CAFTA as valuable because it would lower tariffs on U.S. goods exported to Central America.

"For that reason it looks to me like a pretty good deal," he said. "What this does is level the playing field."

The Senate had already passed the treaty. Arkansas’ Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both Democrats, supported it.

This story was published Friday, July 29, 2005

Posted by: Scott E at July 29, 2005 5:59 PM

Quote of the Day: “There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to
hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations in opposition to their inclination and interest." — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XLIX

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

Posted by: Eric Alterman nails it again at July 29, 2005 6:00 PM

A Conviction in Coingate....Every day we see progress!!

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:01 PM

Hey Mel .. if you are lurking .... Firefly is starting right now on Sci Fi .. know you love Joss as much as me ... thought you would want to know!!

: )

Posted by: Wil at July 29, 2005 6:01 PM

A Conviction in Coingate....Every day we see progress!!

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 06:01 PM


like sorting through a heap of elephant shit for a few peanuts

It.Doesn't.Matter.

It's over :)

Just sit back and enjoy the view of hell.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 6:04 PM

The legend of rebel pants is on sci-fi?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 6:04 PM

he thinks about it everyday

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 05:33 PM
missed this before .... Har!

Posted by: Catharine at July 29, 2005 6:06 PM

watching firefly is tactic aproval of racism!

those are racist pants the guy is wearing, racist rebel pants.

and I don't mean no daisy dukes, neither!

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 6:07 PM

On the above aticle I posted on Vic Snyder:

Normally, Snyder is a good Congressman for my district. Out the entire Arkansas delegation, he is the only one who I would say is a progressive. The other Democratic congressman and our senators are "blue dogs," so I expected them to vote for this awful bill. I am pleased that Marion Berry and Mike Ross voted no, but saddened that Nazi, John Boozman, to vote yes.

If a third party candidate runs in my district in 2006, I may just have to vote for that person.

Scott Easterly in Little Rock

Posted by: Scott E at July 29, 2005 6:07 PM

On the above aticle I posted on Vic Snyder:

Normally, Snyder is a good Congressman for my district. Out the entire Arkansas delegation, he is the only one who I would say is a progressive. The other Democratic congressman and our senators are "blue dogs," so I expected them to vote for this awful bill. I am pleased that Marion Berry and Mike Ross voted no, but saddened that Snyder voted with that Nazi, John Boozman.

If a third party candidate runs in my district in 2006, I may just have to vote for that person.

Scott Easterly in Little Rock

Posted by: Scott E at July 29, 2005 6:08 PM

>>Just sit back and enjoy the view of hell.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 06:04 PM


No Thanks! We whiney lefties are influencing everything. Even when it looks like the Repubs have won something...they haven't, because the only way they can win anymore is by bending the laws of democracy. That's nothing to be proud of! They win, but at what cost? The poll numbers for their man are in the toilet.

Everyday brings us more victories, and them - more shame.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:10 PM

i'm voting a strictly anti-struggle ticket.....

Posted by: ¹³Ъзй at July 29, 2005 6:11 PM

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 06:10 PM

hate to tell you this, but the poll numbers for "their man" were "in the toilet" a few days prior to November 2

and I believe the tallies

I don't believe in "widespread voter fraud"

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 6:13 PM

>>'m voting a strictly anti-struggle ticket.....


....but what if it turns into a full-fledged dust-up?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:13 PM

i'm voting a strictly anti-struggle ticket.....

Posted by: ¹³Ъзй at July 29, 2005 06:11 PM


do you go to them struggle protests?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 6:14 PM

Remember, Now, Be Here Now

As it's not like it was before.

The past, was, Be Here Now

As it's not like it was before - it was

Why try to live a life,

that isn't real,

no how

A mind, that wants to wander,

'round a corner,

is an un-wise mind

Now, Is, Be Here Now

and it's not what it was before,

Remember, Now, Be Here Now

as it's not like it was before - it was

*

Be Here Now, By George Harrison

Posted by: *Crackerbox Palace* at July 29, 2005 6:15 PM

>>hate to tell you this, but the poll numbers for "their man" were "in the toilet" a few days prior to November 2

41% approval. If that's true, then there's all the proof you need to realize there was voting fraud.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:16 PM

I'm going to lay down my sword and shield,

Down by the Riverside!

Down by the Riverside!

Down by the Riverside!

I'm going to lay down my sword and shield,

Down by the Riverside!

And I ain't gonna study struggle no more!


I ain't gonna study struggle no more!

I ain't gonna study struggle no more!

I ain't gonna study struggle no more!

I ain't gonna study struggle no more!

I ain't gonna study struggle no more!

I ain't gonna study struggle no more!

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 6:17 PM

Posted by: *Crackerbox Palace* at July 29, 2005 06:15 PM

"All Those Years Ago" (a tribute to John Lennon) is my favorite Harrison song

Talking all about love

While they treated you like a dog

..And you were the one who they said

Was so weird

All those years ago

You said it all when not many had ears

All those year ago

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 6:18 PM

http://www.bangladesh-america.com/music/mp3s.php


Cool site, thanks Crackerbox.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:19 PM

White touted Bush ties to help get federal post
Now he investigates GOP, Noe

Gregory White sought Bob Taft's help in 2002.

By MIKE WILKINSON and STEVE EDER
BLADE STAFF WRITERS


COLUMBUS — U.S. Attorney Gregory White, a leader in a multiagency task force investigating powerful Republicans in Ohio, asked for help from Gov. Bob Taft’s office to get the federal post he now holds, records released by Mr. Taft’s office yesterday show.

Mr. White asked the governor to call President Bush on his behalf in August, 2002. A week later, top Bush aide Karl Rove was given the phone numbers of Brian Hicks, the governor’s former chief of staff.
In February, 2003, after Mr. White was named interim U.S. attorney, Mr. Hicks sent a congratulatory e-mail to Mr. White.

“Great to hear! The Gov. just asked me this morning if I had heard anything about your status. He was pleased to learn of the news,” Mr. Hicks wrote on Feb. 2.

The e-mails show a relationship between one of the lead attorneys in Ohio’s biggest corruption scandal in decades and the governor whose administration is under intense scrutiny.

Mr. White could not be reached for comment last night. Both the Justice Department and the White House could not say what role, if any, Mr. Taft played in the appointment.

Posted by: Story link here at July 29, 2005 6:20 PM

she hates everything and I don't like her much....

Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 03:53 AM

she hates, she hates

so wot

fuck u

i dig her hate

she's crazy beautiful, with crazy-beautiful issues

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:21 PM

>>All Those Years Ago" (a tribute to John Lennon) is my favorite Harrison song


I fall to the floor when I hear "Give Me Love", and "Isn't it a Pity".

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:22 PM

Struggle! - huh- yeah-

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing

Uh-huh

Struggle! – huh – yeah-

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing

Say it again y’all

Struggle! – huh – good
God
What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing

Listen to me…

Ohhh… Struggle! I despise

Because it means destruction’

Of innocent lives

Struggle means tears

to thousands of mothers
eyes

When their sons go to
fight

and lose their lives

I said - Struggle! Huh – Good God y’all

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing

Say it again

Struggle! Whoa, Lord

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

Listen to me…

Struggle! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker

Struggle! Friend only to the undertaker

Struggle! It’s an enemy to all mankind

The thought of struggle blows my mind

Struggle has caused unrest in the younger generation

Induction then destruction-

Who wants to die?
Ohhh… Struggle – Good God Y’all

What is it good for?

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 6:25 PM

I miss George Harrison. .......And I REALLY miss John Lennon. May they rest in peace.

SE in LR

Posted by: Scott E at July 29, 2005 6:26 PM

hi, chubby - wishes he was bruce lee - bubba

hi, cathy - practising her enter the dragon moves - in seattle

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:26 PM

//41% approval. If that's true, then there's all the proof you need to realize there was voting fraud.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 06:16 PM
//

not nesesarily c-sea. gotta knoew whatn persentaje didnt aproove an what persentaje didnt give a flyin fook and wat persentaje of eech showed up to vote an then factor in nader an badarik an deevide by pi.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 6:28 PM

why do hate me

is it because i hate u

is it because i shot john lennon

it was a mistake, i thought it was u

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:28 PM

bruce lee wishes he was me!

see, I mastered one of them zen-mind tricks he never quite grasped: Breathing after the age of 35!

in your face, bruce lee!

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 6:28 PM

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 06:28 PM

LMAO!

u showed him

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:29 PM

Fuck off, Ono!!!

AWWWKK!

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 6:30 PM

hi, muck - baby, please don't go - 4doo

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:30 PM

Posted by: *Fantasy Sequins* at July 29, 2005 6:31 PM

Miss Ann is incredible, and one of my favorite bloggers.

I would hope that we'd all take what each other say with acceptance in our heart, knowing we are all on the same team. I think we have known each other long enough to cut each other some slack for differences.

I consider he to be an asset here, and my friend. It's ok with me that we sometimes see things different. Her spirit is incredible.

Normally, I wouldn't mention her w/o her being here (unless referencing something she said) but I felt the gossipping about her was uncalled for.

Hell, when I want to gossip about someone, (other than a troll or Repub), I go off-blog.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:32 PM

macaws rock my world!!!!!!

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:33 PM

hiya ono. :)

Posted by: muck4doo at July 29, 2005 6:34 PM

also "My Sweet Lord"

(i'm listening to Something now....man oh man oh man oh man.....)

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:35 PM

To Cathy in Seattle:

I don't believe that there was widespread voting fraud. However, widespread ELECTION fraud is very likely. How else can one explain exit polls that diverge from the actual election results in nearly every location that used electronic voting machines? And let's not forget that Diebold provided many of those devices.

SE in LR

Posted by: Scott E at July 29, 2005 6:37 PM

I realizing W srewed us terribly the other day when he changed this war to a struggle.

We don't have a decent struggle protest song!

Posted by: : ۞ĈħůБъÿ٭ßΰБъǻ۞ at July 29, 2005 6:38 PM

she hates everything and I don't like her much....

Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2005 03:53 AM

OUTTING THE LEAKERS

that post was penned by none other than the "nefarious blogger gang" :

muck-i killed jimi hendrix-4doo

chubby-i killed bruce lee-bubba

and nasty cathy-i killed lennon-in seattle

:)

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:41 PM

Scott, I was responding to someone using the term "Voting Fraud". I think there was election fraud, but not necessarily wide spread. Just where it counted.

>>How else can one explain exit polls that diverge from the actual election results in nearly every location that used electronic voting machines? And let's not forget that Diebold provided many of those devices.


EXACTLY!!!!!


scott, where's LR?

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:45 PM

Everyone let's all be careful!!

I think this is close to the period that Bush and Cheney will turn into the alien creatures that possess their bodies. They are multi-tenticled, twin headed, fire breathing monsters that have glowing eyes which shoot death rays!

The only fear they have and our sole weapon against them is wanda.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:45 PM

Squawk!

Yoko murdered Jim Henson!

AWWK

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 6:49 PM

>>and nasty cathy-i killed lennon-in seattle
:)
Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 06:41 PM


And don't forget yourself,

air "don't call met Yoko" ono

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:49 PM

EB is from outer-space

*

EB, if u're gonna serenade wanda, i heard she's partial to "she bangs, she bangs"

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:49 PM

eya gang!

sheesh! hotter than an oven here!

wanna see what i'm doing here, this is a decorative

arch for that project i was telling you about. this

is the glue up with epoxy glue, with Mz Bgurl assisting!

http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/SmArchGlueup/

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 29, 2005 6:50 PM

Exhausted BloggerExhausted Blogger
. Fuck off!


Awwwk!!!

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 6:51 PM

Jim, you are such a cutie-pie.

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:53 PM

Sguawwwwwk!!!

Fuck off Sunshine!

Posted by: the foul-mouthed Macaw at July 29, 2005 6:53 PM

Wow! bgrl looks great in a tube-top!

Posted by: Cathy in Seattle, Nobel Prize Nominated Blogger at July 29, 2005 6:54 PM

back off, cathy

putting nic's inside peoples nic's is my gig

it's all i got

i'm destitute

Posted by: air-ono at July 29, 2005 6:54 PM

1,000,000

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 29, 2005 6:55 PM