BBC

The US military has opened a criminal investigation into the alleged killing of an Iraqi family in their home by US soldiers, the US military says.
The investigation began on Saturday and follows an initial military inquiry.

An unnamed official told AP news agency one of the four victims, a woman, was raped before being killed, and that five soldiers were under investigation.

The probe is the latest in a series of inquiries into alleged abuse of Iraqis by US troops.

The US Army's Criminal Investigation Command was asked to look into the incident, which took place in the area of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, after a preliminary military inquiry found reason to open a criminal probe, the military said.

On windows, go to run type this in (tracert nsa.gov) and see what happens.

It is un-nerving!!

Press Release Source: Larry Martz, Freedom of the Press Committee

Bush Attack on New York Times Could Have 'Chilling Influence,' Overseas Press Club Warns
Thursday June 29, 5:57 pm ET

NEW YORK, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Defending The New York Times's recent disclosures of secret government programs to monitor Americans' overseas phone calls and financial transactions, the Overseas Press Club of America today told President George Bush that his administration's attacks on The Times could have a "chilling influence" on editors around the country.

OPC President Richard B. Stolley wrote the President that Vice President Dick Cheney singled out The Times "in particular," even though both the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times had also broken the most recent story on the government's surveillance of financial dealings in search of terrorist trails.

"None of these newspapers need help from our organization," Stolley wrote. "But we are deeply concerned that other editors, who have less prestige, less influence, and less supportive and well-financed publishers, may feel the chilling influence of your words and hesitate to publish controversial stories for fear of being called unpatriotic. This would be a serious blow to press freedom and to the long-range good of the country."

LINK

On windows, go to run type this in (tracert nsa.gov) and see what happens.

It is un-nerving!!

Posted by: toniD at June 30, 2006 02:24 PM

Ok did it ..... what is that showing me?

Texas massacre
June 29, 2006

FOR THE SECOND TIME this week, a splintered US Supreme Court yesterday made America a little more partisan, a little less democratic.

Taking on the Texas redistricting case, the justices scattered like water bugs, producing five different opinions. A majority acknowledged the obvious: Republicans, pushed by US Representative Tom DeLay, capitalized on their new majorities in the Texas Legislature in 2003 to redraw the lines of the state's 32 congressional districts with one goal in mind: to increase the number of Republicans in the US House. They knew what they were doing; in the 2004 election, the GOP membership in the delegation grew by six seats.

The court yesterday agreed that the motive was purely political, and that the Republican mapmakers had drawn several long, narrow districts that look like bent straws to achieve their aims, making a mockery of the compactness that is a recognized goal of redistricting.

Even so, most of the justices threw up their hands. They were staring at one of the most heavy-handed political power grabs in the history of Congress, but they said they couldn't figure out a standard by which to declare it an unconstitutional political gerrymander.

First, the court said it could not bar a mid-decade redistricting. This may be the proper ruling; as Justice Anthony Kennedy said in the controlling opinion, there is no specific constitutional prohibition. Still, it is disappointing, as it will surely encourage partisans in other states to redistrict in purely political fashion whenever they have the power.

But the core of the case was the justices' weak-kneed refusal to call a halt when politics runs amok. Kennedy wrote with deference of ``a legislature's expertise" in redistricting. But on Monday the court dismissed the local wisdom of Vermont legislators in passing campaign finance reform.

Even Justice Antonin Scalia properly skewered his colleagues, saying they had two choices: to throw out the case -- which he made clear he would have done -- ``or else [to] set forth a standard and measure appellant's claim against it."

The majority's insistence that some level of political gerrymand

A White House win in diverting the message at home
By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist | June 29, 2006

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, yet again.

President Bush switched the conversation from war and insurgency to the preferred topics of terrorism and treason.

A week ago, major news outlets were focusing on atrocious Iraq war casualties and a resolution offered by Senator John Kerry to set a timetable for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. The Kerry resolution and an alternative, calling for withdrawal, but no timetable, were both defeated. They were also derided by Republicans as ``cut and run" proposals from pessimistic Democrats.

As it turned out, the Pentagon had a cut-and-run plan of its own. According to a June 25 article in The New York Times, General George W. Casey Jr., the top American commander in Iraq, drafted a plan that projected sharp reductions in US troops in Iraq by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September. During a classified briefing at the Pentagon, Casey outlined a strategy that could draw down American troops from 127,000 to between 50,000 and 75,000 by the end of December 2007.

The Casey strategy sounds suspiciously similar to the scenario Vice President Dick Cheney denounced on CNN as ``the worst possible thing we could do . . . packing it in, going home, persuading and convincing and validating the theory that the Americans don't have the stomach for this fight." Of course, at the time, the vice president was talking about the Democrats' call for withdrawal -- not the Pentagon's plan for withdrawal.

Confronted with headlines about Casey's plan, Bush downplayed it, saying troop presence would be ``based upon conditions on the ground."

And then, the president deftly changed the subject to another New York Times story, this one disclosing a secret program to investigate and track terrorists through an international database that includes Americans' banking transactions. Bush condemned the report as ``disgraceful," administration officials piled on, and the political right joyously joined the chorus. Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, accused the Times of ``treason." The Washington Post, The Wall Street Jour

Posted by: toniD at June 30, 2006 02:20 PM

Jerry: Oh you're crazy.

Kramer: Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?

Jerry: It's impossible.

Kramer: Is it? Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top?

Jerry: It can't be.

Kramer: Can't it? Or is your entire world just crashing down all around you?

Jerry: Alright, that's enough.

...

..

No, toniD, what I'll be happy about is the Democrats taking the House...and working to show the American people they're not vengeful idiots...or listening to vengeful idiots...and that they can GOVERN.

No, toniD, what I'll be happy about is the Democrats taking the House...and working to show the American people they're not vengeful idiots...or listening to vengeful idiots...and that they can GOVERN.

Posted by: Gare at June 30, 2006 02:49 PM

You are very Naieve, Gare!

No bouncing today, Sam?

Damn you to HELL!!!!

;-p

What is that song (that was played INSTEAD of 'bounce your boobies')?

Love Grunge and Post Grunge.

The U.S. Supreme Court's rebuff of George W. Bush over his military
tribunals at Guantanamo Bay marks a historic repudiation of Bush's
self-image as an all-powerful "war president." But the fragility of what
amounts to a one-vote margin on the high court also highlights the enormous
stakes now on the table for the congressional elections in November
2006.

For the full story about this larger meaning of the Court's ruling and
its implication for the future of the American Republic, go to
Consortiumnews.com at

http://www.consortiumnews.com

"Naieve"?....naive, maybe?

Why is naive to think that it might do the Democrats MORE good to show to the people whose votes they NEED (the middle/moderates/independents), by trying to work with Bush to GOVERN....

than for them to try to appeal to the frothing-at-the-mouth Bush haters in their liberal base...

who (after Ralph Nader in 2000)...they have NO FEAR of losing?

evian spelled backwards

a good mnemonic device

No, toniD, what I'll be happy about is the Democrats taking the House...and working to show the American people they're not vengeful idiots...or listening to vengeful idiots...and that they can GOVERN.

Posted by: Gare at June 30, 2006 02:49 PM

________________

The historical accident (serendipitous though it was) of the Clinton presidency you so admire, Gare, is but an anomolous Democratic blip in the nearly 40-year continuity of adversarial backbiting recriminatory vengeful Republican politics.

Vengeful Republican politics have been waged on Democrats for long, long time now -- you just haven't noticed b/c you're far too busy being "measured" and "moderate" in a vainglorious effort to show you are profoundly ashamed of the Democratic base while at the same time appealing and appeasing to radical rightwing revolutionaries who find your political insecurities useful but despise you nonetheless.

"Bipartisanship", especially in the age of Bushism, in the infamous words of Grover Norquist, is tantamount to "date-rape" in the GOP mind.

But, we all serve a purpose, I suppose, and you have found yours. "Voice of Democratic reason" whenever Republicans need bi-partisan approval on some boondoggle.

One little curio, tho':

Republicans never, never, never run away from their base, especially come election time, no matter how imbecilic or racist or reactionary or otherwise embarrassing some of them are (and some of them are).

Democrats, not so much.

No, Garish Democrats play "divide and conquer" just like Karl Rove.

Problem is, Garish Democrats "divide Democrats" and "conquer for Karl Rove".

But, at least you get to be the master of ceremonies at the circular firing squad.

That's something, I guess.

What is that song (that was played INSTEAD of 'bounce your boobies')?

Love Grunge and Post Grunge.

Posted by: I at June 30, 2006 03:09 PM

It sounded like Alice In Chains, Layne Staney or Jerry Cantrell. What was the song, because I hadn't heard it before.

Gare, if you would really read the news, all of it, you would realize that this country is a heartbeat away from fascism. The dems aren't doing anything to fight what this admin is doing to this country. It's not about dems and repubs at this point!!!

It's about fighting to keep this country free and if you are too stupid to realize that, with your moderate ways, then you deserve to live like the Chinese.

I want justice.

Bizarre that Randi would do a radio ad for acquiring gold. She sounds like she has a gun to her head.

weldon and santorum

pennsylvania is red in it's heart and blue in the extremities

Why is naive to think that it might do the Democrats MORE good to show to the people whose votes they NEED (the middle/moderates/independents), by trying to work with Bush to GOVERN....

Posted by: Gare at June 30, 2006 03:11 PM

_______________

You been paying attention?

At all?

Ever?

Sweet Jesus, you are thick.

Ain't you noticed that Bush ain't much innerested in governing?

Bush wants what Bush wants and uses intimidation and deception to get it if it ain't given to him.

Bush don't want to be "worked with".

Bush wants to be obeyed and gets mighty pissy when he ain't.

The coming election is about turn-out.

Now, you tell me, Gare, how are you going to get Democratic turn-out when lickspittle Dems ain't banging the drum about how things gots to change?

If Kerry demonstrated anything, it was that it ain't enough to be simply against someone.

You gotta give people a reason to be for you.

If folks don't get the notion that serious fucking change is in the offing b/c Dems ain't telling 'em about how fucked up Republicans have made things, then why the fuck should they get out and vote?

Huh?

Why?

Bush is a profoundly unpopular president, mired inna mid-30s approval rating.

The Iraq occupation is a profoundly unpopular on-going catastrophe and the president and the Republicans have. no. fucking. answer.

Amnesty for killers in Iraq?

Can you imagine what an insult this transparent desperation and admission of failure in Iraq by the 19 Republican senators who voted for this must be to the soldiers who are serving and still sitting ducks in Iraq?

If Dems were smart -- which they pointedly are not, thanks to Garish consultants -- they'd light that "Republican Amnesty 19" afire like a fucking steel-belted radial and hang it around the Republicans necks.

Bizarre that Randi would do a radio ad for acquiring gold. She sounds like she has a gun to her head.

Posted by: mrd_in_nyc at June 30, 2006 03:23 PM

If I had money, I would buy gold. Just a thought, here...unlike the US, other parts of the world value gold, even though it has it's ups and downs, it is more stable than our economy that is valued on petro dollars and debt and spend.

The emerging markets are betting on gold now also.

Trent Lott 'just' made an ass of himself?

"You can fast wherever you are in your own community."

REALLY?! SIGN ME UP! HOT DAMN!

...god. I'm not going to fast for anyone, let alone 120,000 morons who volunteered (key word: volunteered) to for a meaningless mission

strike "to"

"Culture of treason"

What a fucking cunt!

Besides, if a busybody pedantic nitwit ever superciliously picks on your typos outside a makin' a good-natured joke, you just tell 'em it's a purt-ee poor 'n feeble 'magination what can only think a one way to spell a word.

Posted by: dr at June 30, 2006 12:23 PM

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...or steal a line.

...god. I'm not going to fast for anyone, let alone 120,000 morons who volunteered (key word: volunteered) to for a meaningless mission

Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at June 30, 2006 03:30 PM

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strike "to"

Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at June 30, 2006 03:31 PM

________________

And while yer at it, add an "o" onto "to" to make it "too", too.

Now Mike's too-too is in order.

But don't worry, Mike. We all fuck up.

I forgot the plural-possessive apostrophe on the final "Republicans" in my last post.

The Christian Science Monitor has a great story about what the fallout of the nytimes (and other papers) recent disclosures of classified intelligence mean.

Terrorists already know US monitors their transactions. But revelations complicate US intelligence-gathering.

But, it doesn't mean all that much.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0630/p02s01-usfp.html?s=itm

Didn't Ann Coulter go to Cornell? They must be proud.

Uh-oh.

I gots a richly deserved spankin' comin'.

Didn't read close and found out, belatedly, to my cost, that Mike was right and I was wrong.

Mike is only gotta to-to.

Sorry, Mike.

Like I says, we all fuck up sometimes.

Ha! This Cafferty guy is on CNN?

lol at your false outrage Sam

"Deutschland Deutchland Ueber Alles" actually still IS Germany's national anthem.

Ann Coulter has a "valid opinion"? She's insane at best. The only reason she keeps getting invited by the likes of Fox News Channel, is because she makes the Endtimers look sane.

sAm is cutting off those fascist fucks !!!

HELL YA SAM

FUCK THOSE CONSERVATIVES IN THE ASS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

play the nazi music ---

NAZI MUSIC -- OFFICIAL MUSIC OF THE BUSH REICH.

...or steal a line.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 03:36 PM

___________________

Whose stolen line is it, anyway?

I reckon Mark Twain woulda disavowed us both long ago for Urethra Franklin.

waydogo SAM

shout down the schmuck like they'd do to us.

i feel scummy but oddly satisfied.

Greeting olde and New Blog Friends!

The AC is still out so I'm using a Native American keyboard.

We all fuck up.

I forgot the plural-possessive apostrophe on the final "Republicans" in my last post.

Posted by: dr at June 30, 2006 03:36 PM

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You should have thought of that before you turned in your work.

Native American keyboard.

Posted by: HalfEmpty at June 30, 2006 03:50 PM

EXPLANATION

I spent a little time thinking about my feedback to Fighgrease's song.

I son't think I emphasised how great his vocals were. this can't be over praised.

and I thought about my critisism that the lyrics were too negative re:Janeanne.

so I decided to try to improve them:

She's a shrill shrieking woman

who's stuck with a dull blogging man

He's glued to his website

she mentions when ever she can...

it was at that point I decided I had not improved the lyrics or song's tone one Iota.

So I quit.

Majority Report Cancelled?

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/06/janeane-garofalo-sam-seder-majority.html

or click "Clippy" link to see it.

waydogo SAM

shout down the schmuck like they'd do to us.

i feel scummy but oddly satisfied.

Posted by: bibimimi~☆♪☥♪☥♪ £♡ at June 30, 2006 03:47 PM

_______________

Sam to schmuck:

[lights smoke, inhales deeply, deep-sixes the caller, then says]:

Was it as bad for you as it was good for me?

Native American keyboard.

Posted by: HalfEmpty at June 30, 2006 03:50 PM

EXPLANATION

It's a Seminole designed unit that uses yur own finger taps to power the connection. Bad part is all the big BINGO keys.

The AC is still out so I'm using a Native American keyboard.

Posted by: HalfEmpty at June 30, 2006 03:50 PM

half!

Posted by: Gare at June 30, 2006 02:09 PM

Thanks for conjecture.

Posted by: chris smith at June 30, 2006 02:16 PM

Pay him no mind.

he pretends to be a democrate, but he's actually a troll who belongs at the hate AAR site you mentioned.

Nothing would make Gare happier to see his prediction of AAR's failure.

let's see...is there a group of people who feel that way, too?

Didn't Ann Coulter go to Cornell? They must be proud.

Posted by: I at June 30, 2006 03:37 PM

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

This linguist pegged it, in my opinion:

--------

Commentary: Political Discourse

Linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on the outrageous nature of political talk shows. He uses Ann Coulter's remarks describing Sept. 11 widows as witches to illustrate his point.

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You can hear it here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=06-29-2006&view=storyview

Afternoon bibi! and other musical notes.

"to for" sex ate, what do we appreciate?

Yay, misspellings and typos!

Ogh shit! Speelin counts, next there's gonna be math. You watch.

Majority Report Cancelled?

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/06/janeane-garofalo-sam-seder-majority.html

or click "Clippy" link to see it.

Posted by: Clippy at June 30, 2006 03:57 PM

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Get the fuck out here with that shit. This is the same guy who reported that WLIB was being dumping AAR a few months ago. Complete bullshit.

Didn't Ann Coulter go to Cornell? They must be proud.

Posted by: I at June 30, 2006 03:37 PM

She attended U of Michigan law school, which is actually much more prestigious than Cornell undergrad schooling.

She isn't a moron. She is a thespian.

No, toniD, what I'll be happy about is the Democrats taking the House...and working to show the American people they're not vengeful idiots...or listening to vengeful idiots...and that they can GOVERN.

Posted by: Gare at June 30, 2006 02:49 PM

well, it is very doubtful any swing voters are going to vot for Democrates on a platform of: Because everything is so great, we agree with the republicans on all major issues. We're also pleased as punch about the direction the country is going in.

She isn't a moron. She is a thespian.

Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at June 30, 2006 04:05 PM

WOW... THATS HIGH PRAISE .. NOT

Joeseph Mccarthy wasnt a moron either

you want to praise him too ?

She isn't a moron. She is a thespian.

Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at June 30, 2006 04:05 PM

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

Indeed she is, as well as a performance artist with an eye toward an income.

Again, I recommend Nunberg's commentary on the phenomenon of uncivil political discourse for profit.

Somewhat agree Cman, but at somepoint the Democrats have to come forth and say.... we're gonna do this and the party is united on it.

Besides, Gare, the Democrats have been the republican's whipping boy for over a decade.

who wants to agree with a politician who won't even defend himself from slanderous accuasations?

Democratws are thoiught to be spineless.

you apparently think this is a quality american voters are looking for.

It is hot. There is a red (fox) squirrel laying on a two-inch thick, horizontal, dogwood limb with all four limbs (the squirrel's, not the tree's) dangling limp in the breeze. Limp limbs over the limb, as it were.

His/her eyelids are at half-mast, struggling to remain open until I go away.

Lewis is a sharp guy. He made an excellent point.

She isn't a moron. She is a thespian.

Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at June 30, 2006 04:05 PM

WOW... THATS HIGH PRAISE .. NOT

Joeseph Mccarthy wasnt a moron either

you want to praise him too ?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 30, 2006 04:08 PM

I thought u said "Jenny McCarthy". She has more in common with Joe.

i want jenny mccarthy dangling off my bed like the above mentioned red squirrel

>>She is a thespian.

I thought she was transexual?

thespian.

I thought she was transexual?

its basically the same thing

>>She is a thespian.

I thought she was transexual?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 04:24 PM

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

It's a joke best suited for audio but you get high praise from me for attempting it in text.

...and for not blowing it with a typo.

Damn, slow motion fox squirrels, now that's hot. I advise them to key an eye out for kitty cats with camel bags tho.

he pretends to be a democrate, but he's actually a troll who belongs at the hate AAR site you mentioned.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 04:00 PM

When I was listing the reasons why it's pointless to debate the regulars here, I neglected to mention this one:

If you are a Swedish cunt hair to the right of these motherfuckers, they immediately label you as a Wingnut and a Bushbot.

Now, you can either:

a) Defend yourself from this accusation, a waste of time because they won't believe you anyway.

b) Tell them to go fuck themselves.

Both options pretty much squash any type of civil, rational debate, but option b) is much more satisfying.

>>Posted by: (.) (.)'s McGee

I remember when she was (°)(°)

She isn't a moron. She is a thespian.

Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at June 30, 2006 04:05 PM

Just because you go to Law Schizzy does not mean you are not a moron.

Now, you can either:

a) Defend yourself from this accusation, a waste of time because they won't believe you anyway.

b) Tell them to go fuck themselves.

Both options pretty much squash any type of civil, rational debate, but option b) is much more satisfying.

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 04:28 PM

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Coincidentally, this is the preferred Bush/Cheney option.

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 04:28 PM

When have you ever tried to debate.

I doubt you can. Moron.

°Both options pretty much squash any type of civil, rational debate,

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 04:28 PM

yah, that's what you're here for.

debate.

HA!

Get the fuck out here with that shit. This is the same guy who reported that WLIB was being dumping AAR a few months ago. Complete bullshit.

Posted by: mrd_in_nyc at June 30, 2006 04:04 PM

No, idiot. Brian reported that AAR's lease was up April 1, and that there was a strong chance that it would not be renewed. Turned out, AAR got an extension until the end of August. So, this thing has not been settled.

If WLIB wanted to keep AAR, why didn't they sign them to a long term lease? Who ever heard of a business signing a five-month lease?

Seems like WLIB wants AAR out but the replacement isn't ready to take over.

BTW: a reasoned debate does not include, "get off the blog, you make me sick"

BTW: a reasoned debate does not include, "get off the blog, you make me sick"

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 04:35 PM

good morning

that was 5 minutes

BTW: a reasoned debate does not include, "get off the blog, you make me sick"

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 04:35

I doubt you can. Moron.

Posted by: Bob26003 at June 30, 2006 04:33 PM

This character came about after numerous attempts to debate useless vats of shit like Chubby.

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 04:28 PM

Commie-symp. Should go Cheney himself.

good morning

that was 5 minutes

Posted by: Anonymous at June 30, 2006 04:36 PM

what do you mean?

mr. brown by the wailers

This character came about after numerous attempts to debate useless vats of shit like Chubby.

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 04:37 PM

after you failed time and time again, you went negative.

I see

Next week, Sam will be filling in for Al Franken.

Posted by not sam at June 30, 2006 01:35 PM

Sam should be permanently filling in for Al, IMO....

after you failed time and time again, you went negative.

I see

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 04:40

You haven't seen your dick in 20 years.

Sam should be permanently filling in for Al, IMO....

Posted by: GG 4.33 at June 30, 2006 04:43 PM

dont you mean "enduringly" filling in for al

Commentary: Political Discourse

Linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on the outrageous nature of political talk shows. He uses Ann Coulter's remarks describing Sept. 11 widows as witches to illustrate his point.

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

You can hear it here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=06-29-2006&view=storyview

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 04:01 PM

The trolls try to emulate Coultler but they are less interesting, and less funny, and less attractive. I wouldn't have thought that possible. LOL!

You haven't seen your dick in 20 years.

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 04:44 PM

If you took it out of your mouth once in a while I could!

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 04:44 PM

how stupid of him to give me an opening like that.

goes to show these guys can't think on their feet.

or any other way, for that matter.

Several conservative media figures have issued corrections for reporting Murtha misquote; what about all the others?

After attacking Rep. John P. Murtha over a statement by him that was misreported and subsequently corrected by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, some conservative media figures have not issued corrections for their repetition of the error. Read more

Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't

Declan Walsh in Gardez, Friday June 30, 2006 -
The Guardian

The US government said it could not find the men that Guant�namo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.

Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid, a former Afghan police commander accused of plotting against the United States, to prove his innocence before a special military tribunal. As was his right, Mr Mujahid called four witnesses from Afghanistan.

But months later the tribunal president returned with bad news: the witnesses could not be found. Mr Mujahid's hopes sank and he was returned to the wire-mesh cell where he remains today.

The Guardian searched for Mr Mujahid's witnesses and found them within three days. One was working for President Hamid Karzai. Another was teaching at a leading American college. The third was living in Kabul. The fourth, it turned out, was dead. Each witness said he had never been approached by the Americans to testify in Mr Mujahid's hearing.

More here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1809981,00.html

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 04:37 PM

Try me Fuckola.

Fox and Friends co-host Kilmeade advocates "Office of Censorship" in wake of NY Times banking surveillance story

On June 29, several Fox News media figures suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship" to screen news reports to determine whether they "hurt the country" or are of "news value," in the wake of a New York Times article disclosing a Treasury Department program designed to monitor international financial transactions. Read more

Fox's Kendall adopted misleading Bush administration talking point on signing statements

Fox News' Megyn Kendall adopted the Bush administration's misleading defense of its controversial and frequent use of "signing statements" to challenge newly passed laws -- that throughout history, "presidents have often issued signing statements when they sign a bill into law." But Kendall failed to mention that Bush has, in his signing statements, challenged more individual statutes than all other previous presidents combined, and Bush has far more frequently used signing statements "to waive his obligation to follow" even clear provisions in the law he just signed. Read more

Elections Are Still Stolen the Old-Fashioned Way

By Steven Rosenfeld, TomPaine.com
Posted on June 30, 2006, Printed on June 30, 2006

What's a bigger problem with American elections: disenfranchisment of minority voters or new electronic voting machines stealing votes?

Most people on the political left will answer electronic machines. But last week, House Republicans showed America exactly why old-school election thuggery is a far more pressing problem. In fact, it was Jim Crow tactics, not computer hacking, which gave George W. Bush his Ohio victory in 2004. And such tactics are exactly what a handful of southern GOP congressmen defended on Wednesday when they derailed renewing the National Voting Rights Act, complaining it does not end federal oversight of elections in their states and requires multilingual ballots.

These Republicans want elections in their states to return to the good old days, when mostly white people voted -- just substitute registered Republicans in 2006 -- and ballots were only in English -- no Espa�ol, por favor. Their grassroots rebellion reveals a dirty secret about elections that liberals and Democrats still haven't learned from the 2004 presidential race: The GOP wins elections by targeting likely Democrats, especially minorities and new voters, by creating barriers in voter registration and obstacles to voting itself and ballot counting.

More here: http://www.alternet.org/story/38119/

What’s that cool breeze I feel?
| posted by Shakespeare's Sister | Thursday, June 29, 2006 | permalink |

Something’s definitely in the air:

An odd thing seems to have happened to mighty right-wing talking head media juggernaut. They are still talking, but fewer people seem to be listening — at least on the Internet.

Alexa.com, which is owned and operated by Amazon.com, tracks online usage for all Web sites, large and small. … At U.S. Politics Today, we thought it might be interesting to see how the right-wing media machine was doing. Not well, it turns out.
What did they find out? During the last three months, AnnCoulter.com is down 10%. Fox News down 13%. RushLimbaugh.com down 18%. The Drudge Report down 21%. Townhall.com down 24%. Washington Times’ website down 27%. And BillOreilly.com down 40%.

Could it be that Internet users are getting tired of political sites in general? Maybe so. But http://moveon.org is up 13 percent in the same period.
Delicious! thought I. But I’ve always got to do my own research. So I headed over to make sure there was no cherry-picking going on. What did I find?

Focus on the Family down 18%. Free Republic down 19%. Hugh Hewitt down 21%. World Net Daily down 23%. Michelle Malkin down 30%. The Weekly Standard down 37%. Pajamas Media down 39%.

Raw Story up 6%. Center for American Progress up 12%. Crooks and Liars up 17%. Think Progress up 41%.

I’ve no doubt I’ve forgotten some notable examples that might be exceptions to this trend (although I will assure you I did not find a single right-wing blog whose traffic went up that I deliberately left out), and regular old blogs all seem to be down a bit. Eschaton is down 16%. Daily Kos is down 10%. Shakes is down 8%. But even there, the right-wing blogs look to be doing worse. Little Green Footballs down 19%. Volokh Conspiracy down 28%. Powerline down 33%.

Maybe it doesn’t mean anything. But maybe it does.

LINK

The trolls try to emulate Coultler but they are less interesting, and less funny, and less attractive. I wouldn't have thought that possible. LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous at June 30, 2006 04:47 PM

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I repeatedly invoke the original shock master, Joe Pyne, when attempting to open the eyes of the devoted.

Limbaugh et al are not political scientists. They are not social commentators. They are not learned students of modern American culture.

They are Archie Bunker; a caricature...a comic book character...a redux of Andy Kaufman playing a part while playing himself.

The real and best joke is on the people who take them seriously, quote them and laud them as their spokes-persons.

Web traffic down at right-wing sites

Web Traffic to Washington Times, Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh.com Is Down; Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over?

6/29/2006 10:52:00 AM

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To: National Desk

Contact: David Rothstein of IPD Group, 202-318-8905 or Web: http://www.ipdgroup.com/feedback.php

WASHINGTON, June 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was issued today by U.S. Politics Today, published by the Washington, D.C.-based IPD Group:

An odd thing seems to have happened to mighty right-wing talking head media juggernaut. They are still talking, but fewer people seem to be listening -- at least on the Internet.

Alexa.com -- http://alexa.com -- which is owned and operated by Amazon.com, tracks online usage for all Web sites, large and small. At Alexa.com, you can check a site's activity up to the minute, or follow its trail back for many years.

At U.S. Politics Today, we thought it might be interesting to see how the right-wing media machine was doing. Not well, it turns out.

During the past three months, for instance, http://rushlimbaugh.com traffic ranking has declined 18 percent. He still huffs and puffs away daily on radio, but advertisers might want to double check the size of his audience. If the bottom has dropped out on him online, it likely has had a similar trend line with his radio show.

Even Fox News, that gold standard of right-wing media, is down 13 percent. Here are the numbers: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.foxnews.com

Ann Coulter is coining money by attacking widows and orphans -- a new game for her since she's run out of Democrats, living and dead, to defame and verbally pillage. You would think with all of the attention the promotion of her new book has given her would raise visitor numbers at her Web site, http://

U.S. soldiers may have raped an Iraqi woman and then murdered her and three members of her family, including a child, U.S. army officers said on Friday.

Report: US-led Afghan mission is failing
Drug policy analysts say 'militaristic' attempts to eradicate poppy crop driving farmers to Taliban. | By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

A report by a Paris-based international security and policy advisory group, the Senlis Council, says that the US-led mission in Afghanistan is failing because US policies on eradicating the Afghan poppy crop aren't working.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0629/dailyUpdate.html

Web Traffic to Washington Times, Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh.com Is Down; Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over?

WASHINGTON -- An odd thing seems to have happened to the mighty right-wing talking head juggernaut. They are still talking, but fewer people seem to be listening -- at least on the Internet.

Alexa.com -- http://alexa.com/ -- which is owned and operated by Amazon.com, tracks on-line usage for all Web sites, large and small. At Alexa.com, you can check a site's activity up to the minute, or follow its trail back for many years.

A U.S. Politics Today, we thought it might be interesting to see how the right-wing media machine was doing. Not well, it turns out.

During the past three months, for instance, http://rushlimbaugh.com traffic has declined 18 percent. He still huffs and puffs away on the radio, but advertisers might want to double check the size of his audience. If the bottom has dropped out on him online, it likely has had a similar trend line with his radio show.Even Fox News, that gold standard of right-wing media, is down 13 percent.

Here are the numbers:http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&ur...

(More: Ann Coulter's site down 10%, Bill O'Reilly's down 40% in three months, Townhall.com down 24%,Washing Times web site down 27%, and poor old Matt Drudge's site down 21%.)

A Loss for Competitive Elections

Published: June 29, 2006

The Supreme Court, in a badly fractured decision yesterday, largely upheld Tom DeLay's gerrymandering of the Texas Congressional districts. Instead of standing up for a fair electoral landscape, the court produced a ruling that did little to ensure the vibrancy of American democracy, and that itself had an unfortunate whiff of partisanship.

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In this post-Bush-vs.-Gore era, the court's critics will note that it again split on partisan lines, with the most conservative justices most approving of the Texas lines. That was also true in a 2004 case in which it upheld, by a 5-to-4 vote, a pro-Republican redistricting in Pennsylvania. But that same year the court, disturbingly, affirmed a lower court's ruling striking down a pro-Democratic redistricting in Georgia as unconstitutional. It is disappointing that it could not have come up with a decision yesterday that had a greater appearance of fairness.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/opinion/29thur1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

easy snappin' by theo beckford

Rosa Brooks: Did Bush commit war crimes?
Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld could expose officials to prosecution.

THE SUPREME Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate both U.S. military law and the Geneva Convention.

But the real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court's holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda — a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act.

More here: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks30jun30,0,339573.column?coll=la-home-commentary

In stark contrast with the Right Wing quills, Crank Bait's readership is up over 49%, but only when dr and Chubby don't have something better to do.

Hugo Chávez
By Greg Palast
July 2006 Issue

You’d think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chávez’s behind. Not only has Chávez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina. In my interview with the president of Venezuela on March 28, he made Bush the following astonishing offer: Chávez would drop the price of oil to $50 a barrel, “not too high, a fair price,” he said—a third less than the $75 a barrel for oil recently posted on the spot market. That would bring down the price at the pump by about a buck, from $3 to $2 a gallon.

But our President has basically told Chávez to take his cheaper oil and stick it up his pipeline. Before I explain why Bush has done so, let me explain why Chávez has the power to pull it off—and the method in the seeming madness of his “take-my-oil-please!” deal.

Venezuela, Chávez told me, has more oil than Saudi Arabia. A nutty boast? Not by a long shot. In fact, his surprising claim comes from a most surprising source: the U.S. Department of Energy. In an internal report, the DOE estimates that Venezuela has five times the Saudis’ reserves.

However, most of Venezuela’s mega-horde of crude is in the form of “extra-heavy” oil—liquid asphalt—which is ghastly expensive to pull up and refine. Oil has to sell above $30 a barrel to make the investment in extra-heavy oil worthwhile. A big dip in oil’s price—and, after all, oil cost only $18 a barrel six years ago—would bankrupt heavy-oil investors. Hence Chávez’s offer: Drop the price to $50—and keep it there. That would guarantee Venezuela’s investment in heavy oil.

But the ascendance of Venezuela within OPEC necessarily means the decline of the power of the House of Saud. And the Bush family wouldn’t like that one bit.

http://progressive.org/mag_intv0706

>>Posted by: (.) (.)'s McGee

I remember when she was (°)(°)

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 04:30 PM

time and tide makes spare tires of us all.

I listen when I can but I am having a hard time figuring out if Air America's really in trouble, I doubt things are as bad as some say but I don't think things are peachy kean either with some of the trouble they have had with recent presidents and ceo's and that whole Mark Maron thing which I still don't understand. Anyone know what's really goin on?

"Anyone know what's really goin on?"

Air America is still on the air and streaming and picking up new affiliates. I don't know anything about the latest gossip. Try the right wing blogs, they love rumor-mongering about Air America.

time and tide makes spare tires of us all.

Posted by: bibimimi~☆♪☥♪☥♪ £♡ at June 30, 2006 05:16 PM

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She reclined on the bed, confident of her allure, with her hands behind her head.

Like a non-swimmer, she awaited the next plunge, water wings by her sides.

I was extremely disappointed that when I visited New York, my hotel's radio received only a right wing station on its AM dial.

I could have been in Columbus, Ohio for all I knew

>>Welcome to Infoshop News

I would not quote this as atrue news site.

it's gossip. nothing more.

anyone can post wahtever news they want to `break'.

and, absoluetly no verification needed!

that's news made to order!

customized to your preference, because you write it!

at least the MMR Blog asks for links to verify stories...

I was extremely disappointed that when I visited New York, my hotel's radio received only a right wing station on its AM dial.

I could have been in Columbus, Ohio for all I knew

Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at June 30, 2006 05:28 PM

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They forgot to change it back to normal after Cheney checked out.

More here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/23/cheney.hotel/

Air America is still on the air and streaming and picking up new affiliates. I don't know anything about the latest gossip. Try the right wing blogs, they love rumor-mongering about Air America.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 30, 2006 05:22 PM

Why don't you try applying a bit of logic?

With Janeane gone, Sam *is* the show. But, where is Sam? He's filling in for Randi and Al.

If AAR cared about Majority Report, wouldn't they find another replacement for Al and Randi, and not let MRR flounder without either of its two hosts?

Hell even the traffic on the blog has been minimal lately I'm startin to get worried.

More here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/23/cheney.hotel/

Posted by: Anonymous at June 30, 2006 05:36 PM

Heh.

"Put a chip in there that blocks that left wing stuff.. as long as it doesn't affect my pacemaker."

I'm out.

Bush's war on the moderate descendents of Ben Franklin...
Gotta tell somebody about what I'm reading in Walter Isaacson's great book "Benjamin Franklin--An American Life" (copyright 2003) and encourage you all to look up this book.

On page 266 of the biography starts the section headed "Social Philosophy". As I understand it, Ben Franklin embraced an amazing mix of liberal, populist, and conservative ideas, early recognizing the value of the middle class (being "distrustful of the elite and the rabble"), an appreciator of social compassion (not necessarily born of any particular religious doctrine), and civic cooperation.

When I combine these factors with his role as a publisher and champion of the press and his natural keen skills of observation that made Franklin a scientist and inventor -- you have all the ingrediants that make up Bush Rightwing Repellant.

Polarization between Rightwing Fanatics and the Left makes it understood that the Renegade Bush Rapture Right hates liberal principles and progressive cultural accomplishments. And, lately, it is being mentioned that Bush is destroying the middle class via planned fiscal policies. However, I believe it is time to acknowledge that the Bush Junta also despises all moderate elements in our politics, society, economy, and spiritual life, despises all science and the media (press amongst them)wherever they aren't controlled by authoritarian/totalitarian dictates, and favors only American Taliban Fundamentalist religious expression (to the detriment of all other religious expression).

The sooner moderates understand they are not on the sidelines watching some political playacting between Right and Left, the better! The reality is that moderates ARE the target!

Bush is anti-everything the great patriot Benjamin Franklin represents!

May we be guided to save this nation by the same great source of knowledge and strength that guided Franklin to create it!

Hell even the traffic on the blog has been minimal lately I'm startin to get worried.

Posted by: Liberal Loneranger at June 30, 2006 05:38 PM

Brian Maloney has a mole inside of AAR. Every single one of his scoops has been accurate.

Stick a fork in MRR

It's done.

Hell even the traffic on the blog has been minimal lately I'm startin to get worried.

Posted by: Liberal Loneranger at June 30, 2006 05:38 PM

HOLIDAY WEEKEND, SLAPPY!

HAVE LIFE, PURSUE!

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 04:00 PM

Thanks for the heads up

"Why don't you try applying a bit of logic?"

The top two Air America shows are Franken and Rhodes. Seder filling in during those higher traffic shows is wonderful. Creates interest in Sam Seder and Majority Report.

Did you hear that the Bush gov'mnt has taken to their undergroud hideaways? Wonder what's up.

You may not believe this but I once interviewed judge Weinstein about police corruption.

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Judge Throws Out 'Mafia Cops' Convictions

In a shell-shocking written order, a federal judge ruled today that, despite overwhelming evidence of "heinous and violent crimes," the two retired detectives at the center of what has been termed the Mafia Cops corruption case should be acquitted of all federal racketeering charges—including eight murders—because the statute of limitations in their case had run out.

The ruling by Judge Jack B. Weinstein, reverses almost in its entirety the conviction of the two former detectives, Louis J. Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who were found guilty in April of some of the most spectacular corruption charges in the city's history. Although a jury found that Mr. Eppolito and Mr. Caracappa had participated, as paid assassins, in killings for the mob, the judge's order vacated the murder convictions on legal — if not evidentiary — grounds.

More >>

If AAR cared about Majority Report, wouldn't they find another replacement for Al and Randi, and not let MRR flounder without either of its two hosts?

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 05:38 PM

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Who knows their logic and intent? Certainly not me.

There is, among the possibilities, that Sam Seder has shown the strongest promise and most dedicated interest in becoming a respected political commentator.

If this were true, providing him with exposure in every time slot would help to loft his rising star.

A jeremiad is a lament.

Posted by: nora at June 30, 2006 05:40 PM

very good post

If this were true, providing him with exposure in every time slot would help to loft his rising star.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 05:49 PM

Ok, I'll give you that one.

However, with Janeane's leaving it would be embarrassing to keep this show alive without having its main selling point, JG.

I've seen some bus billboards for AAR. They have Al, Randi and Janeane's pictures.

If the Prohet Jeremiah were alive today, he would be lashing out against Israel's brutal attack on the Occupied Territories. Where are you on this issue, Sam?

Bush's Annihilation of the Moderates is a continuation of the Culture Wars against Clinton. Because the Clintons are hardly Left or Liberal afterall!

"However, with Janeane's leaving it would be embarrassing to keep this show alive..."

Why do you think they named it The Majority Report instead of The Janeane Garofalo Show with Sam Seder?

A Jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in poetry, that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.

Governor's [Jeb Bush] nonprofit foundation has paid pollster, former campaign finance chief

By Dara Kam - Palm Beach Post Capital Bureau - Thursday, June 29, 2006

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Jeb Bush has used his recently revived nonprofit foundation to pay a former campaign finance director and two former campaign aides.

Although Bush has said his Foundation for Florida's Future is not a way of keeping his political machine intact after he leaves office early next year, recent disclosures on the foundation's Web site show that it paid:

• Nearly $99,000 to Ann Herberger, Bush's campaign finance director during two campaign and a longtime political fund-raiser for his family.

• Nearly $70,000 to Neil Newhouse of Washington-based GOP Public Opinion Strategies group for polling last October.

• $48,000 for "management services" to a lobbying and public-affairs firm whose staff includes Mandy Clark and Mandy Fletcher. Both worked on Bush's reelection campaign and on his brother's presidential reelection campaign.

• $23,500 for "legal services" from the Washington law and lobbying firm Patton Boggs.

• $20,000 in February to GOP political strategist Adam Goodman's The Victory Group Inc.

More here: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2006/06/29/a8a_jeb_0629.html

Bring the War Home: SCUD Bush!

Ok, I'll give you that one.

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 05:53 PM

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You can't. I took it.

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I've seen some bus billboards for AAR. They have Al, Randi and Janeane's pictures.

Posted by: umakemesick at June 30, 2006 05:53 PM

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The only reason that I found this blog is because I appreciate Al Franken's humor and I looked forward to the launch of AAR with him on it. Very, very rarely do I listen to his show owing to other demands on my time.

Yet, I am still here.

All this speculation about MRR and AAR is just speculation.

Nothing more.

Does anyone have any proof?

the PLAN:

STEP 1:

LET THE PRICE OF OIL GO UNCHECKED AND OUT OF CONTROL

STEP 2:

SCREW THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DRILL IN ANWR AND THE COASTS AND KILL MARINE LIFE AND REAP THE PROFITS AND RAPE THE EARTH.

STEP 3;

PRIVATIZE SS, CANONIZE GROVER NORQUIST

STEP 4;

TURN NEW ORLEANS INTO A CHRISTIAN THEME PARK

i am calm now.

a peaceful weekend 2u all...even trollfolk.

Talk about Israel's brutal attack on Gaza, Sam. It is connected.

>>If AAR cared about Majority Report, wouldn't they find another replacement for Al and Randi, and not let MRR flounder without either of its two hosts?

It has been pretty clear since the very beginning that when the `prime ' talent takes a vacation, the `lessers' move up.

Sam has filled in For Randy and Franken before.

and the station is still on the air.

911 Truth Conference with Kevin Ryan (His company tested the STE

TORRENT.

Kevin Ryan is a former lab director at Environmental Health Laboratories, Inc. a subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratory, Inc. the company that tested the strength of the steel columns in the World Trade Center in the 1960's. Ryan lost his job following a letter he wrote to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) challenging the official story that fires caused the collapse of the World Trade Centers North and South Towers and Building 7. In his talk, Ryan covers the NIST report.

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Does anyone know where I can find a full-length video or audio of the 911 Truth Conference.?

TURN NEW ORLEANS INTO A CHRISTIAN THEME PARK

Posted by: bibimimi~☆♪☥♪☥♪ £♡ at June 30, 2006 06:07 PM

i am calm now.

a peaceful weekend 2u all...even trollfolk.

Posted by: bibimimi~☆♪☥♪☥♪ £♡ at June 30, 2006 06:11 PM

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Great. Just great.

What am I supposed to do with these Gomorrah tickets?

other demands on my time.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 06:05 PM

LOL!

Crank you encouragable punster!

funniest thing you've ever submitted!

"Demands on hi time," sez the guy that chronicles the lifestyles of the Red Squirrel has "demands on his time!"

Remember to use that one on Letterman if you get the chance?

>>encouragable

I hope Crank's heart help up through that one...

Was sam just reading my ost?

he mentioned something about excessive typo's

Perhaps I shyould change my nic to Typo Dong?

believe it or not,

I posted my prior post completely unaided by a spellcheck!

>>"Demands on hi time," sez the guy that chronicles the lifestyles of the Red Squirrel has "demands on his time!"

the sentence isn't big on structure, but, Man look at the symmetry!

"Demands on hi time," sez the guy that chronicles the lifestyles of the Red Squirrel has "demands on his time!"

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 06:20 PM

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Laugh it up, oh Rajah.

There are squirrels between the house and the shop. In fact, there are squirrels between the house and everything.

If they ever stop thinking individually (like Democrats), I'm fucked.

osama bin red squirrel

Convictions Overturned Against NYC Police Detectives

A federal judge overturned the murder-racketeering convictions of two former New York City police detectives found guilty of working as informers and assassins for the Mafia while they were on the force, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired.

U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein in Brooklyn, New York, acquitted Louis Eppolito, 57, and Stephen Caracappa, 64, of murder charges stemming from at least eight organized crime killings done at the behest of Lucchese crime family boss Anthony ``Gaspipe'' Casso between 1986 and 1990.

More >>

>>guilty of working as informers and assassins for the Mafia while they were on the force, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired.

there is no statute of limitations on murder.

they must not hav actually killed anyone?

So, the message to cops is: It's ok to work part time for the mob?

Metal roofing contractor: "You have a bullet hole in your vent pipe!"

Bait: "I know. I shot it."

Metal roofing contractor: "Why?"

Bait: "The squirrel ducked for cover."

so sam was really serious about the grand jury?

I thought that was a joke!

Alright, Sam, you've now become such a truly DYNAMIC and THOUGHTFUL AAR Performer, that, well, okay, you can SHILL for "FUBAR" 1-2(-to 300-)more times before 7pm, ... 'kay? (Ya, CURVASCOUSLY-CALVED SCHLUB, yas!)

Senators Criticize Payment Plan for Monitoring Veterans' Credit

By KATE ZERNIKE - Published: June 29, 2006

WASHINGTON, June 28 — Two Senate Democrats on Wednesday criticized a White House plan to cut money intended for food stamps, student loans and farmers to pay for credit monitoring for veterans whose personal and financial data was stolen last month.

"The Bush-Cheney administration has no qualms about coming up here and twisting our arms for funding for Iraq, but when it comes to needs here at home for veterans and other ordinary Americans, it's rob Peter to pay Paul," said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/washington/29vets.html

manipura

http://200.221.3.58/som/The_Beatles_-_In_My_Life.mp3

So, the message to cops is: It's ok to work part time for the mob?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 06:34 PM

The message is get the fuck out of here.

That's the message.

so sam was really serious about the grand jury?

I thought that was a joke!

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 06:37 PM

I thought it could be her back.

Manipura, the Naval Chakra - #3 -

When the consciousness is at the level of Manipura chakra, the sadhaka enjoys all the wealth, name, fame, material comforts and luxuries of the world.

Manipura means city of jewels, and control over this center marks the climax of all material enjoyment, power, name, fame, health, and physical beauty, and prosperity.

GOP's Kean plans 'Swift Boat'-style film
Fri Jun 30, 3:43 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Republican Tom Kean Jr.'s campaign plans a "Swift Boat"-style film accusing his Democratic rival of involvement in a New Jersey mob-connected kickback scheme despite public records and statements disputing that claim.

LINK

Campaign lies protected by 1st Amendment?
Can candidates lie about their opponents & chalk it up to free speech?
The Associated Press

Updated: 3:30 p.m. CT June 30, 2006
Olympia, Wash. - Can political candidates lie about their opponents and chalk it up to free speech?

The Washington state Supreme Court is wrestling with how to balance the goal of fair-minded and civil campaigns with the First Amendment's broad guarantee of free speech.

The nine justices presided over a lively debate Thursday over whether the state's law regulating political advertising is constitutional. The case is No. 77769-1, Marilou Rickert vs. state of Washington and PDC.

Political advertising protection
The state's high court previously threw out a law that barred campaign lies and the legislature responded by writing a narrower version that gives the Public Disclosure Commission authority to police candidates' most damaging and malicious lies about their competition.

State Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, invoked the law in 2002 after his Green Party challenger, Marilou Rickert, distributed a flier that asserted that Sheldon voted to shut down a state institution in the district. In fact, he voted against a budget that included closure of the Mission Creek youth camp, although critics said he didn't do enough to support the facility.

He filed a complaint with the PDC, which investigated and imposed the maximum fine, $1,000. By then, Sheldon had easily won re-election. The commission action was upheld in superior court, but overturned by the appeals bench.

The state attorney general's office defended the law Thursday while Rickert's attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union urged the high court to declare the measure unconstitutional.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13639488/

sam. a wooly mammoth is not a dinosaur.

its a mammal.

hence the hair

guilty of working as informers and assassins for the Mafia while they were on the force, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired.

there is no statute of limitations on murder.

they must not hav actually killed anyone?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 06:33 PM

They did it alright.

It's a legal technicality.

(Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskaupf, said the government will ask a federal appeals court to reinstate the convictions)

"Prosecutors charged the two men with participating in a racketeering conspiracy that included murder-for-hire and other acts that allegedly took place in New York before 1991, putting them beyond the reach of the five-year statute of limitations. The remaining acts allegedly took place in Nevada from 1996 to 2005."

Convicted by the darkness of their pasts by Jimmy Breslin

I thought it could be her back.

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at June 30, 2006 06:44 PM

I thought it was a cover story to fill time so Janeanne figgers if she wants to stay or go.

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at June 30, 2006 06:56 PM

my problem is there is NO statute of limitations on murder.

I can't see how a stature of limitations that does not exist...

nirrosen

wonder if we'll get a new thread?

or maybe they'll keep this one up till Sam does Franken's show?

**************** JOSH or MARK *****************

This thread is still open!!

../../../weblog/archives/004296.php#comments

Please close that thread or we will have trouble again!!

it has become abundant clear that the only way to stop the oil companies is to stop using and or buying their products.

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my problem is there is NO statute of limitations on murder.

I can't see how a stature of limitations that does not exist...

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 06:59 PM

It was a conspiracy case.

ly... I left off the ly.

[sigh]

I'm leaving until I can spell and punchuate correctly.

ugh.

hanging head in shame and disgust.

i lived in la

this dude is way to excited for LA

too hectic

he needs to lay back

White House threatens to smear Dems as pro-terrorist
by John in DC - 6/30/2006 04:04:00 PM

This is how the Bush White House treats Congress, as a nuisance to be bullied. And this is how it treats the Supreme Court and the Constitution - as terrorist-lovers.
White House counselor Dan Bartlett says the administration's task now is to determine how to design military tribunals that will pass constitutional muster. Bartlett says Bush could portray any lawmaker who objects to legislation as supporting the release of dangerous terrorists.
So is Dan Bartlett married yet? Just asking.

LINK

It was a conspiracy case.

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at June 30, 2006 07:05 PM

ok. conspiracy to commit is different than murder.

but its a very grey area...

I think the real story is: Mob Controls dirty cops and at least one dirty judge.

Greeeetings to every one of you savvy. liberals

It's Friday night...

Time for fun...

I have money in my pocket...

I'm lookin' sua-vay...

The ladies love me, and...

I'm getting GOOD WOOD!

>>I'm leaving until I can spell and punchuate correctly.

don't punish US cuz YOU can't spell..

we can't wait that long!

How long will sheehan be on hunger stike?
Maybe she and saddam can stike together, he only lasted one day last time.

"How gullible does the administration take the American citizenry to be?"
by Joe in DC - 6/30/2006 11:49:00 AM

Richard Clarke and his fellow terror error expert Roger Cressey have an op-ed in the NY Times today that examines the recent blow-up about monitoring money. That revelation has the entire GOP at war with the NY Times.

The answer to the question is that Bush and company think the American people are incredibly gullible:
Terrorists have for many years employed nontraditional communications and money transfers including the ancient Middle Eastern hawala system, involving couriers and a loosely linked network of money brokers precisely because they assume that international calls, e-mail and banking are monitored not only by the United States but by Britain, France, Israel, Russia and even many third-world countries.

While this was not news to terrorists, it may, it appears, have been news to some Americans, including some in Congress. But should the press really be called unpatriotic by the administration, and even threatened with prosecution by politicians, for disclosing things the terrorists already assumed?
And, Clarke knows why the Bush team is playing this game. Too bad most of the reporting class (and that means you, CNN) haven't clued in:
There is, of course, another possible explanation for all the outraged bloviating. It is an election year. Karl Rove has already said that if it were up to the Democrats, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would still be alive. The attacks on the press are part of a political effort by administration officials to use terrorism to divide America, and to scare their supporters to the polls again this year.

LINK

ok. conspiracy to commit is different than murder.

but its a very grey area...

I think the real story is: Mob Controls dirty cops and at least one dirty judge.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 07:09 PM

Judge isn't dirty.

It's a legal technicality.

It ain't over.

These guys are dangerous..

How long will sheehan be on hunger stike? Maybe she and saddam can stike together, he only lasted one day last time.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 30, 2006 07:12 PM

It took great courage of you to post that. You are an asshole!

the myth that LA is `laid back' is hillarious.

compared to NYC, maybe...

but compared to anywhere else on the west coast?

Gimme a break!

I think Cindy and Saddam are both protesting the invasion of Iraq. Aren't they?

I think Cindy and Saddam are both protesting the invasion of Iraq. Aren't they?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 30, 2006 07:15 PM

You have a tiny penis and it gives you angst.

well i was born on east coast

compared to here .... LA is like : everybody on xanax

i guess seattle and portland are chill too , with rain and the boring pine trees and the mist, etc.

Shut Up! Anon. Bitch

Greetings!

Anyone here in the 18th District of PA (US Rep Tim Murphy)?

Please check out the guy Mr. Mickey's Dad and I are supporting and make a last minute donation online. We've spoken with and were early supporters of Chad Kluko. Fundraising on payday.

I'm asking... would you stop by and at least check him out? Midnight deadline to FEC's financial disclosure and time to contribute to Chad Kluko's campaign.

www.chadforcongress.com

I thought it could be her back.

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at June 30, 2006 06:44 PM

I thought it was a cover story to fill time so Janeanne figgers if she wants to stay or go.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 06:57 PM

I personally volunteer to perform shiatsu massage and physical therapy on Janeane' back until she's completely healed!

:)

Did Bush Commit War Crimes?

The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate both U.S. military law and the Geneva Convention.

But the real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court's holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda — a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act.

"Mr. Airstream" is a recording from WPLP on April 1, 1987. It is a phone conversation in which an irate elderly man in a trailer protests Bob Lassiter's treatment of old people, as well as the President and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker; threatens to report him to the station management, the FCC, the Chamber of Commerce, and even the police; and ends the call by saying, "Have a bad night, hippie!" Many consider it to be the greatest moment in talk-radio history.

http://www.boblassiterairchecks.com/classic/airstream.mp3

Does bush have jungle fever ?

I'm so sorry guys, I'm on a bad connection today and can only open one window at a time :(

I'll be in Jon's chat though if anyone wants to say hello or get a message to Jon :)

I personally volunteer to perform shiatsu massage and physical therapy on Janeane' back until she's completely healed!

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at June 30, 2006 07:23 PM

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Completely heeled:

http://static.abcaz.com/productimages/43/3121451/banana-shoes-nasty-red.jpg

The Israeli government is losing its reason

Bombing bridges that can be circumvented both by car and on foot; seizing an airport that has been in ruins for years; destroying a power station, plunging large parts of the Gaza Strip into darkness; distributing flyers suggesting that people be concerned about their fate; a menacing flight over Bashar Assad's palace; and arresting elected Hamas officials: The government wishes to convince us that all these actions are intended only to release the soldier Gilad Shalit.

Can bush make a running shoe stink?

Anybody see that gross, disgusting picture of Bush running and the double amputee running along his left flank with artificial limbs?

That picture is so offensive, I almost lost it. That son of a bitch and his smirk and his stinking shoes.

So we have apoctalyptic worldview myths, creating fear, which leads to a ton of negative reactions.

We have hope prophecies, which lead to complacency, people doing nothing, expecting a holy handout. And, we get myths wrongly interpreted, which just add more chaos to the whole, extremeists, fundamentalism, etc.

Basically, John Lennon was right. Imagine.

That son of a bitch and his smirk and his stinking shoes.

Posted by: MrMickey'sMom at June 30, 2006 07:31 PM

But Anthony Berusca says Bush was a tender, gentle lover in college.

Signing Away the Constitution?

Last March, the U.S. Congress passed legislation requiring Justice Department officials to give them reports by certain dates on how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using the USA Patriot Act to search homes and secretly seize papers.

But when President George W. Bush signed the measure into law, he added a "signing statement". The statement said the president can order Justice Department officials to withhold any information from Congress if he decides it could impair national security or executive branch operations.

But Anthony Berusca says Bush was a tender, gentle lover in college.
Posted by: Lydia at June 30, 2006 07:33 PM

Then it's time for a college reunion. Big party... only the guys who earned "gentleman's C's" or were beneficiaries of deregulation for companies like Halliburton are invited. Plenty of blow... No condoms...... no lubrication...

MUST READ

Stealing Mexico

The use of the Venezuela’s and Mexico’s voter registry files to fight terror is not visible — but the use of the lists to manipulate elections is as obvious as the make-up on Katherine Harris’ cheeks.

That picture is so offensive, I almost lost it. That son of a bitch and his smirk and his stinking shoes.

Posted by: MrMickey'sMom at June 30, 2006 07:31 PM

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Bitter? Nawwww.

That's just her way of registering abject disgust.

But Anthony Berusca says Bush was a tender, gentle lover in college.

Posted by: Lydia at June 30, 2006 07:33 PM

It wouldn't be a surprise if it turns out the only thing Bush ever did well was puff peckers!

Plenty of blow... No condoms...... no lubrication...

Posted by: MrMickey'sMom at June 30, 2006 07:37 PM

whoa !

you blow your father with that mouth ?

I bet you Bush can get the Fishscale.

What truly disgusts me is that no one seemed to have picked up on this. That picture of the Iraqi war veteran whose dream was to run along side of Bush came true.

There should be some follow-up on so many levels. A double fucking amputee who gets his limbs blown off for a tea baggin, awol'ing, election stealing, country ruining, law-breaking, cock-sucking, fascisit war criminal.

And.... those are the less twisted things to emphasize in viewing this horror.

red, you know you're sick. Mr. Mickey's Mom's dad has been deceased for many years.

That wasn't good.

you blow your father with that mouth ?

Posted by: red at June 30, 2006 07:41 PM

WTF are you being rude to her for?

freedom of the press trumps whatever little bit of national security might come from intimidating the press into not reporting stories that the administration deems inappropriate. Jefferson called the press the 4th estate. Sunlight is the best disenfectant. Jon said "If a reporter learned that Mohammed Atta was planing on 9/11 he should take it to the authourities. Fine, but print it too! The administration was given plenty of warnings - they didn't do anything. I suppose you can come up with scenarios that would argue against exposing everything in the press, but I could come up with more arguements in favor of much more honest, open, vigourous reporting than we have been getting. If the press had done their job - Bush wouldn't be president. If they had done their job - we wouldn't have allowed the invasion of Iraq.

whoa !

you blow your father with that mouth ?

Posted by: red at June 30, 2006 07:41 PM

HEY! What the fuck is kup with you Red? Cut it out!

whoa !

you blow your father with that mouth ?

Posted by: red at June 30, 2006 07:41 PM

HEY! What the fuck is up with you Red? Cut it out!

WTF are you being rude to her for?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 07:49 PM

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

Indignation expressed from a guy who guffaws at squirrel quiet time.

">http://www.futurehi.net/docs/Exopsychology.html">

oh its ok to talk about condoms and no lube?

besides .. its a tony soprano quote ... dont you watch da sopranos?

just jokin , sorry if it was out of line.... really

maybe it isn't really red...

Just Justifyin'!

Thass what Ah'm doin'!

http://www.goldenmean.info/

Atheist advice:

http://www.boblassiterairchecks.com/classic/advice.mp3

its me , i was just being crass... i apologize

Sulzberger Responds to 'WSJ' Editorial Slamming the 'NYT'

By E&P Staff

Published: June 30, 2006 12:30 PM ET

NEW YORK After remaining mum for the past week, even as controversy swirled around newspapers' revealing the banking records surveillance program, the Wall Street Journal editoral page weighed in today. Although the Journal published its own story just hours after The New York Times -- which has taken the most heat -- its editorial defended its own action while blasting the Times.

It even included a personal slam at Times' publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. and said the Times did not want to win, but rather obstruct, the war on terror.

Sulzberger responded this afternoon: "I know many of the reporters and editors at The Wall Street Journal and have greater faith in their journalistic excellence than does the Editorial Page of their own paper. I, for one, do not believe they were unaware of the importance of what they were publishing nor oblivious to the impact such a story would have."

Among other things, the Journal editorial criticized the Times for using the Journal as "its ideological wingman" to deflect criticism from the right. It pointed out that the news and editorial departments are quite separate at the Journal, and the editorial side there would have opposed printing the article the kind of article the Times ran.

Finally, it explained how it got its own story, then slammed the Times for a wide range of sins, claiming that the "current political clamor" is "warning to the press about the path the Times is walking."

LINK

Indignation expressed from a guy who guffaws at squirrel quiet time.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 07:55 PM

sounds like the squirrels got to you, -- you're becoming a squirell sympathizer.

It's okay, red. I know you can be as crude (nay, cruder) than I.

Whatsamatta U? I'm Italian. I've been saying "no lube" waaaay before the Soprano's. Don't have HBO.

Getting back to my point, didn't ANYONE see the absolute horror of running this picture of Bush and an Iraqi war torn vet?

I've been out of the blog loop, so maybe it's been hashed to death.

A blind guy walks into a busy store with his
guide dog. He yanks the dog off the floor and
starts slinging him around in a circle on his leash, over his head! The dog is howling like a
son of a bitch!

A terrified clerk runs over to the blind guy and
stops him while screaming, "good God man, what
are you doing?"

The blind guy says, "I was just lookin' around."

never saw the pic.

too bad there's no link?

he blind guy says, "I was just lookin' around."
Posted by: Shecky at June 30, 2006 08:04 PM

Is that another one of those school-for-the-blind jokes destined to make you groan like Marge Simpson's older sisters?

evening Blog

so maybe it's been hashed to death.

Posted by: MrMickey'sMom at June 30, 2006 08:03 PM

nope didn tsee pic ... but it sounds cringing

i saw baghdad er

it was sobering - it must be a nightmare to care for battle injuries in the hospital every day for 8 months in a row...

and baghdad er wasnt half as bloody as it could have been..

no hbo (or tv) either i download that stuff for free

Aw, SHADD-UP, fiendish DOG-HATER, named "SHECKY". Obviously, from yer name there, you should well know by now, NO IRAQIS allowed on this here Blog, see?!

An' WHY did that SAM "FUBAR" guy, have to lay into Poor WITTLE JANIE G., once AGAIN, late this afternoon? In relation to SAM's, again, picking on"my" poor wittle ROMAN PRINCESS, JANIE G., to paraphrase the MASTERFUL[?!] CURLEY Howard of The 3 STOOGES, "DON'T you DARE hit me in The HEAD; you know I'm not "NOI-MAL"[IE, "NORMAL"]!!"

I must stop to tell you all to turn on Keith Oberman.

Elvis and the Chimp are up next. (so, this is the prime mininster of Japan or something?)

This is the theater of the absurd if you can catch it after the commercial.

you know I'm not "NOI-MAL"[IE, "NORMAL"]!!"

Posted by: Brian and Casper O'Moore at June 30, 2006 08:14 PM

I think you're a big jagoff!

The fiendish Dog-Hater's "Real Name," is{SO! Is TOO!] "SHECKY HITLER"!!

I think you're a big jagoff!

Posted by: Rude Rudy at June 30, 2006 08:17 PM

which one, Brian or Casper?

Greetings Bart.

The new Presiding Bishop Elect of the Episcopal church was interviewed on NPR yesterday...

Katharine Jefferts Schori: There are only 9 provinces of the 38 that don't ordain women at all. Several of the others are in process to ordain women to all orders of ministry. But the reality is that women are leaders as baptized persons everywhere in the communion, and they always have been.

Diane Rehm: I thought it was interesting to hear that Bishop Desmond Tutu shouted "Whoopee!" when he learned of your selection. He went on to say, "When you think we used to say 'What? A woman doctor?!' 'What? A woman engineer?!' 'What? A woman prime minister?!' And now we have, for the first time, a woman Presiding Bishop Elect of the Episcopal Church.

Click here for more.

Re: THE BUSHES BELIEVE THEY CAN DO ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BUSHES

The Bushes don't care. They figure it's their America. They see the world as an oil well & the human beings populating the planet as beasts of burden & cannon fodder. Never mind that they themselves are descended from the rodents that came over on the Mayflower. They figure any criticism of their clan of cutthroats & horse thieves is merely the envy of the great unwashed hoi polloi.

An' even HITLER LOVED his GERMAN SHEPHARD Dog, his beloved "Bitch" Dog, named, ah, "Helga," ah, er, ah, yeah, "HELGA-ROVER-RHODA-MORGENSTERN{That's a "German name," right? is, SO!!]-HITLER".

The President, The PM & The King
President Bush And Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Are On Their Way To Graceland

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/28/politics/main1762844.shtml

I washed my great hoi polloi just this morning.

bright, shiny and squeaky clean!

Hey Brian and Casper,

How do you spell that Yiddish thing?

Oi-vay!

And, by the way, haven't you heard? All us liberal progressive types love dogs and are linked to hitler types by right wing jaggoffs!

June 26, 2006
A word from Lt. Cotton

Lt. Tom Cotton writes this morning from Baghdad with a word for the New York Times:

Dear Messrs. Keller, Lichtblau & Risen:

Congratulations on disclosing our government's highly classified anti-terrorist-financing program (June 23). I apologize for not writing sooner. But I am a lieutenant in the United States Army and I spent the last four days patrolling one of the more dangerous areas in Iraq. (Alas, operational security and common sense prevent me from even revealing this unclassified location in a private medium like email.)

Unfortunately, as I supervised my soldiers late one night, I heard a booming explosion several miles away. I learned a few hours later that a powerful roadside bomb killed one soldier and severely injured another from my 130-man company. I deeply hope that we can find and kill or capture the terrorists responsible for that bomb. But, of course, these terrorists do not spring from the soil like Plato's guardians. No, they require financing to obtain mortars and artillery shells, priming explosives, wiring and circuitry, not to mention for training and payments to locals willing to emplace bombs in exchange for a few months' salary. As your story states, the program was legal, briefed to Congress, supported in the government and financial industry, and very successful.

Not anymore. You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion -- or next time I feel it -- I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance.

And, by the way, having graduated from Harvard Law and practiced with a federal appellate judge and two Washington law firms before becoming an infantry officer, I am well-versed in the espionage laws relevant to this story and others -- laws you have plainly violated. I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will

which one, Brian or Casper?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 08:19 PM

The dumfuk that's selling us that cheese!

The fiendish Dog-Hater's "Real Name," is{SO! Is TOO!] "SHECKY HITLER"!!

Posted by: Brian and Casper O'Moore at June 30, 2006 08:18 PM

No wonder I can't get gigs in the Catskills these days!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/28/politics/main1762844.shtml

(...)

In the campaign of 1992, the first President Bush, seeking re-election, used an “Elvis” reference to try to belittle challenger Bill Clinton.

In his speech to the Republican National Convention accepting its nomination for a second term, Mr. Bush accused his opponent of advocating “Elvis economics.”

“If he gets his way, hardware stores across America will have a new sign up, "Closed for despair.” He said if Mr. Clinton were elected: "America will be checking into the Heartbreak Hotel.”

Later in the campaign, Mr. Bush expanded his reference to Elvis saying: “I think we ought to treat those Clinton/Gore ideas the way Elvis would: 'Return to sender.' "

Blog is BORING and FILLED WITH(My POSTS, excluded!) ATAVISTIC and SHOWY-VICIOUS(IE REPUBLICAN "Americans$$$" YES!! To this "Ex" Marine, "Ex" Harvard, "Ex" "Lover of Boy George O'Dowd"[was SO!!well, from afar, by remote-viewing], undoubtedly so) LOBOTOMY MAL-PRACTICE CASES!! With THAT in mind, "RUDE RUDY," Former Mr. Mayor GUILIANI, you want to STEAL 20008's "Election" for Prez, huh?
Show some DECORUM, ya SMARMY, GEEK-BREATHED, SHOWY-VICIOUS, Always$$ CENS$ORING and S$TEALING, SWINE!!

ok. conspiracy to commit is different than murder.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 07:09 PM

It was proven in court - A jury decided these guys killed people on the streets of New York City for the mob. These are not the kind of people you want walking around in the street. To set them free on a technicality endangers everyone.

Judge Weinstein locked up a Colombian hit man for 6 years for lying to federal authorities about his identity. He had been in New York for a short period of time. Prosecutors thought he may have been involved in the murder of a jounalist here. Weinstein gave him the max. Other than lying to federal authorities about his identity the guy committed no other crimes in the U.S. they were aware of. Prosecutors thought he was dangerous and wanted him off the street. The guy was a professional torpedo and an absolutly dangerous. I was unable to find an online photo of the guy. I remember the original photo taken when he was arrested. You had to see this guy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandeny_Munoz-Mosquera

http://www.dea.gov/pubs/history/1994-1998.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_203

This is the theater of the absurd if you can catch it after the commercial.

Posted by: MrMickey'sMom at June 30, 2006 08:16 PM

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Speaking for myself, this is jenise joke material for weeks if not months.

S$TEALING, SWINE!!

Posted by: Brian and Casper O'Moore at June 30, 2006 08:28 PM

Your act sucks!

I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will..

Signed,

So Proud I'm a Conservative Dumb Ass, I'll stuff this cheese into the Majority Report Blog, cause I'm such a fucking wing nut.

P.S. Ahhhhmmm... I guess you can pass this on to the Wall Street Journal, cause my subscription's almost run out, anyway.

burp

Posted by: ProudConservative at June 30, 2006 08:24 PM

Other things the self-proclaimed conservative is proud of:

Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (Part D)

Attempts to destroy Social Security

The price of war

http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

The cost of war

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Tony Snow saying "it's just a number."

Posted by: ProudConservative at June 30, 2006 08:24 PM

what a brain-washed bunch of goons you righties can be.

Have you not heard that Bush himself mentioned the program DOZENS of time,

SWIFT was never secret.

they have a news paper.

they have a website.

if what I've heard is true, it is impossible to transfer funds into america without the use of a Swift number.

So Shecky, was the dog hurt?

Militants demand 1,000 prisoners for Israeli

Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:47pm E

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militant factions who captured an Israeli soldier demanded on Saturday that Israel free 1,000 prisoners from its jails and end an assault on Gaza launched to win the soldier's release.

A statement from the groups -- the second since Corporal Gilad Shalit was captured in a raid across Gaza's frontier on Sunday -- appeared to cast doubt on the hopes of mediators that diplomacy could soon get him free and demanded an end to "all Israeli aggression" in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank.

Israel has said it will not consider releasing prisoners in exchange for Shalit.

"We are declaring to the public our just and humanitarian demands," said the statement faxed to news agencies by the armed wing of the governing Hamas Islamist group, the Popular Resistance Committees and Army of Islam.

It repeated an earlier demand for the release of women prisoners and minors in exchange for information on Shalit, but made the added request for Israel to free 1,000 "Palestinian, Arab and Muslim prisoners."

It said these would have to include all Palestinian faction leaders as well as humanitarian cases.

The statement did not specify that this would be in exchange for Shalit's release, but Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for the Hamas armed wing, said that was what it meant.

The document cast doubt on mediation efforts

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-06-30T235048Z_01_SCH354578_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST.xml

He is currently serving his sentence of 10 life sentences plus 45 years, all to be served consecutively, at ADX Florence, the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado

BTW, "Shecky," is GREENWOOD LAKE(Flows in both New York and New Jersey, about 1/2 of lake is in each state, respectively) part of THE CATSKILLS? Went there to camp, as a kid, for one summer.

And did they get rid of THEIR, "GREENIE The LAKE MONSTER," Mascot? If so, why so?! WHY, should incredibly BAD TASTE go out of style, especially in these, the "Elected"{he WAS?! Was, NOT!!} G.W. BUS$$H Years?

10 consecutive life sentences plus 45 years..

"Your act sucks"?! "Rude Rudy," you FORGOT to add: "NAH!NAH!NAH!NAH!," to that one, ya "USED PREPARATION-H BREATH," ... YAS!!!

Bush Props Up Another Saddam

I write in my upcoming book Silk Road to Ruin : Is Central Asia the New Middle East?: "Within weeks Uzbekistan was in the throes of a brutal purge of its already beleaguered religious Muslims. That month a presidential decree authorized the punitive arrest of a suspect's father if his extremist sons could not be found. 'If my child chose such a path,' Karimov said, 'I myself would rip off his head.' Head-ripping was a recurring theme of Karimov's rhetoric. He added a promise to 'tear off the heads of two hundred people in order to protect Uzbekistan's freedom and stability.' It is unknown whether Karimov personally supervises such reprisals; however, published reports claim that exactly that number of bodies of 'Muslim extremists'--often the victims are identified as radicals simply because they wear long beards--were strung up from Tashkent lampposts in May. Exceptionally violent and corrupt even by Central Asian standards, the government of Uzbekistan is proof that a ruler can remain in power despite the near-universal contempt of his subjects."

Karimov's police state is pervasive and brutal. Torture is endemic; the battered bodies of political prisoners are returned to their families showing clear proof that they have been boiled to death. Only one candidate, Abdulhasiz Dzhalalov, was allowed to run against the autocratic Karimov in the most recent presidential "election." Dzhalalov announced that he had voted for Karimov.

Sausage is Zen!

23

Okay this guy is disrespecting our intelligence. Enough with him already.

Generals didn't have a plan to overtake Iraq stating they needed over 300,000 troops.

Bullshite! Man...

Daddy Bush knew 10 years ago that going into Iraq was a bad deal.

The terminally ill newspaper business continues to display any lack of insight into its condition. According to peacefire.org, an anti-Internet censorship website:

Reporters working in the L.A. Times have informed me that Internet access in their newsrooms is filtered, although we haven't determined what program they're using. In the L.A. bureau, reporters can't access sites like Playboy.com and are also blocked from accessing Peacefire.org, and I had to give a reporter the address of a Circumventor site so that he could get to our home page. In the San Francisco bureau, the filtering is apparently less restrictive, since Peacefire.org and Playboy.com are accessible, but the more hard-core Penthouse.com is not.

It's the first time I've heard of blocking software being used in the newsroom of a major newspaper, so I wanted to tell the reporters on this list -- except that, you know what would be, like, really funny, is that we should keep it secret from the idealistic young high school newspaper reporter who is dreaming of the day she'll escape from the censorious clutches of her school, and get a job as a real reporter for the L.A. Times.

You can't make stuff up like this. I especially enjoyed the humorous wrinkle about how the San Francisco bureau is subject to less restrictive filtering than Los Angeles. I guess they were fearful that the natives of the Barbary Coast would get restless if they clamped down too hard.

There are two Clear Channel Affiliates in the Central Ohio area. One is a right-wing station. The other is the so-called Progressive Station. Unfortunately, they both have the same right-wing manager. So you know which station is preempted for sports. Tonight, as they snatched Sam Seder off- for Cincinnati Red's Baseball, I tuned in to the right wing station. Surely, it was distributing some news more imperative to the nation- than Sam Seder. Well, shut my mouth, it was.

The dire information being discussed was the new Superman Movie. Yep that's right. Apparently, Superman is not patriotic enough. "He didn't rap himself up in the flag", the host said. Furthermore, the host declared,"he didn't say "truth, justice, and the American way." His 14 year old son was displeased with flick as well.
Why? Well, Junior thought there wasn't enough killing. "Dad, I only counted 4 kills".

There is only one conclusion one can draw from the above:

Oh are we fucked!

Oh are we fucked!

Posted by: edna ellen poe at June 30, 2006 08:59 PM

Edna, as a fellow Buckeye...all I can say is, we
seem to choose to live here!

Oh are we fucked!

Posted by: edna ellen poe at June 30, 2006 08:59 PM

Unless we make them scared to show their colors. Make them fear persecution.

Bush: "I'd like to introduce Japan's best friend since Godzilla waxed Gamura; Go Zoomie."

Koizumi: "That's 'Koizumi'.

Bush: "I thought that it was Godzilla?"

Koizumi: "It was. I am Koizumi."

Bush: "Whatever."

The Adventures of Flossy the Pubic Hair

Pete,

I would love to leave. However, my family is very small. My siblings and I do not have children. There is illness in the family.

At the moment, I can't go anywhere.

Bush: "Koizumi. Does that mean 'fast carp'?"

Koizumi: "What?"

Bush: "I caught the world's biggest perch."

Koizumi: "What?"

No Blogger Keeper Upper tonight either!

Bush: "Mr. Go Zoomie has a hunka, hunka, burning ruv for the United States."

Koizumi: "I can pronounce ells."

Bush: "Rewee? Rets hear it."

Koizumi: "Nuclear."

Apparently, Vote Tampering Is Only Acceptable If It's Done By Americans

The Adventures of Flossy the Pubic Hair!

(ROFLAO!)

http://www.pecosdesign.com/flossyrnc2/

Bush: "We were going to show Blue Hawaii in the White House theater but I said, 'Whoa! Let's not give him any ideas!'"

Koizumi: "What are you talking about?"

Bush: "You know. The house of the rising sun. Hero Neato, and like that."

Koizumi: "Let's do Graceland and call it a day."

Press corps question: "Mr. President, have you given Prime Minister Koizumi a nickname yet?"

Bush: "Heh, eh, why, heh, eh, yes. I have."

Press corps questioner: "What is it, Mr. President?"

Bush: "Heh, eh, Nipper Skipper."

The dire information being discussed was the new Superman Movie. Yep that's right. Apparently, Superman is not patriotic enough. "He didn't rap himself up in the flag", the host said. Furthermore, the host declared,"he didn't say "truth, justice, and the American way." His 14 year old son was displeased with flick as well. Why? Well, Junior thought there wasn't enough killing. "Dad, I only counted 4 kills".

There is only one conclusion one can draw from the above:

Oh are we fucked!

Posted by: edna ellen poe at June 30, 2006 08:59 PM

I cannot believe my eyes!

I am actually in %100 agreement w/EEP!

Remember when the Reagan administration qualified shows like GI Joe, Power Rangers and He-Man/She-Ra, TeenageMutant Nija Tutles as kid's education programming?

Of course, a station had to provide the community with a certain amount of education programming for kids or the station could keep its licence...

It appears that in the 80s the republicans thought it very important that American kids watch lots and lots of empty violence...we desensitize them, let them grow up, give them a gun and send them off to places like Ishaqi and then act surprisec when our kids act like rabid dogs...

I doubt its an accident.

Crank is on fire tonight!

Hey guys!!!

What's going on in the world?

>>Koizumi: "Nuclear."

genius!

Crank, I really think you should reconsider my offer of collaborating:

We split it 50/50:

you do all the work, I take all the credit.

Think about it...

(and I'll let you do all the proofreading you want. ;P )

HAPPY JULY 4TH--REVOLUTION DAY!

Nothing more entertaining than reading what a collection of lib-tard, parasite losers are passing around among themselves...:lol:

Did the blog keepers start the holiday weekend early? Will there be a new thread before July 5th? Tune in for the next exciting episode...

Hey, Mel.

Football is right around the corner.

Are you up for it?

I'm thinking of making it keeper league. (good news for you, that way you get Owens after all that hassle last year. You and I both know he'll be fantastic wherever he ends up).

no troll team this year. I got too much flack last year.

I have never played a keeper league. I don't know what that is.

Nothing more entertaining than reading what a collection of GOP-tard, parasitic looners are passing around among themselves...:lol:

See: http://www.nicedoggie.net/2006/

Emperor Darth! ROFLMFAO

I viewed Flossy. It kinda took the wind outa my sails.

I discovered

many cryptic messages

and now, new meanings.

We split it 50/50:

you do all the work, I take all the credit.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 10:01 PM

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I wasn't born yesterday. It's 60/40 or no deal.

that's where you can keep a certain amount of your team last year.

All I have to know is what player each owner wants.

I'm thinking 3 or 4 a team?

so you keep your favorites and have a draft for the rest of the roster.

or we could keep the whole team.

I want to hear what people would like to do.

I'll try to send out an email to everyone and see whose interested this time around.

That's cool. I had a bunch of people I would probably draft again. So that makes it easier. I like it.

This year I grabbed 4 baseball teams since I'm not working. 2 in first place by double digits and one tied for first or second technically by percentage pts. and one ugly duckling in 8th place but up from 10th last week.

...see WHOSE interested this time around.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 10:20 PM

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I have slit my wrists. The life is draining out of me.

wasn't born yesterday. It's 60/40 or no deal.

Posted by: Crank "And Weekends Off" Bait at June 30, 2006 10:19 PM

Ok, how about this:

you do the work

I get the credit

but YOU get to take all the risk AND take all the risks!

and I'll take the money

so...you get 3 things, I only get two...that makes it 60 /40, your favor.

I really shouldn't make the deal, but you got me over a barrel.

you're a better horse trader'n me Crank, I got to hand it to you.

eya mel!

When it comes to promoting language skills, their is no question that I am a looser.

well since it's friday i say we do an early BBQ just to get in practice!

we got chicken and italian sausage, you guys wanna add some more cookable favorites?

languish skills?

you seem to do purty good far as i'm concerned!

I have slit my wrists. The life is draining out of me.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 10:28 PM

I was talking about people manly enough to play fantasy sports.

there's a reason Wally Cox didn't play for the Bruins...if you catch my drift?

(now I stick my tongue out at you, which make my taunt of yor masculinity OK)

;b

...you guys wanna add some more cookable favorites?

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at June 30, 2006 10:33 PM

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Elections results, over easy.

Not only is Sam good--he's better every time I tune in! Lucky us!

>>but YOU get to take all the risk AND take all the risks!

supposed to be:

but YOU get to take all the risk AND take all the criticism!

I have slit my wrists. The life is draining out of me.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 10:28 PM

I hope you were joking about this.

I'll sue you for breach of contract if you aren't.

but YOU get to take all the risk AND take all the criticism!

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 10:38 PM

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This message has been brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Dept.

I viewed Flossy. It kinda took the wind outa my sails.

Posted by: Crank "Just When You Think You're On To Something, 'Whoosh!" You See Something Better" Bait at June 30, 2006 10:12 PM

*

your dialogue was equally brilliant

so don't sell yourself short, asshole

: )

I hope you were joking about this.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 10:40 PM

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Whose gonna stop me?

(insert maniacal laughter here)

Hey Sunny J

I was away

Watching Mets play

Today

You could say

They looked gay.

Kerik Pleads Guilty for Gifts and a Loan

Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, pleaded guilty today to two misdemeanor charges as the result of accepting tens of thousands of dollars of gifts and a loan while he was a city official in the late 1990's.

Bronx District Attorney's Office
Bernard B. Kerik's mugshot.
He entered the pleas, one to a violation of the city charter and the other of the city administrative code, in a Bronx courtroom before Justice John P. Collins and was sentenced to a total of $221,000 in fines. He was accompanied by three lawyers and three supporters for the proceeding, which lasted about 10 minutes.

Speaking in a quiet voice, Mr. Kerik admitted that he had accepted renovations to his Bronx apartment from a company he believed to be "clean."

Justice Collins acknowledged Mr. Kerik's past career. "The court recognizes the contributions made by Bernard Kerik, particularly on Sept. 11, 2001, and the days after. Still, the defendant has violated the law for personal gain."

More>>

OK jim.

here's a spicy shrimp for your Barbie:

get yourself a buncha the biggest shrimp you can get.

and fpr a marinade, take half a cup of lime juice, a 1/2 table soon of sesame or olive oil. dice up as many habenreo peppers as you think wise, then ad some more. and add some cilantro to the mix.

marinade and skewer, or vice verse, and grill tll the tun pink.

ine of my friends suggests not shelling, or even heading the shrimp until the're cooked cuz it keeps the shrimp moister while grilling. true, but its messier to eat .

Happy Birthday America!!!!

Is she slurring her speech and mumbling or is it just that she can't speek English very well?

What the hell. Where is Malloy...........

HOW TO OPERATE A DVD-RECORDER

1. power on your recorder

ok, cool

"play-back mode: set your appreciated playback mode such as PROGRAM, RANDOM and various repeat mode."

hmmm...

i might ring up larry to say "hi"

4. if you want to skip one channel, select the corresponding channel...

hmmm...

i might ring up barry to say "hi"

7. the SETUP MENU screen asks you to select a setting category from general, speaker, audio and preferences

hmmm...

it might be easier to fly to america, where all my geeky blog friends live

They looked gay.

Posted by: Mel at June 30, 2006 10:46 PM

speaking of which

my team is 4/30 tonight

is that good?

Jane Mayer in The New Yorker: “On December 18th, Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State, joined other prominent Washington figures at FedEx Field, the Redskins’ stadium, in a skybox belonging to the team’s owner.” The group began discussing news reports about the NSA’s warrantless surveillance of Americans. “According to someone who knows Powell, his comment about the article was terse. ‘It’s Addington,’ he said,” referring to Cheney Chief of Staff David Addington. “He doesn’t care about the Constitution.“

LINK

...and fpr a marinade...grill tll the tun pink...ine of my friends...

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 10:49 PM

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Sister Mary Helen is helping me tape my toe to the shotgun trigger.

In spite of the fact that Kerik turned out to be just another petty corrupt cop, he would have still made a better director of homeland security than Tom Ridge or Michael Chertoff. I don't believe he would have abandoned the people in New Orleans.

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"The pleas completed a stunning fall from grace for a public official who rose in a decade's time from a third-grade police detective to police commissioner and a nomination as secretary of the federal Department of Homeland Security."

15 years. The sentence handed out to three Louisianans convicted of looting liquor from a grocery store six days after Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, two men convicted this week of bribing a federal official to falsify Katrina contracting documents received one year in prison and a $5,000 fine.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/30/15-years/

Sometimes you just have to let The Baby Jesus cry. Sometimes The Baby Jesus crying must be demoted to a secondary consideration.

Cry The Baby Jesus. Cry.

Did anyone ever check his diaper? I mean, Immaculate Conception is one thing, but come on!

cranky

if ur dialogue was accompanied with squeaky voiced graphics

the world would be @ your beck & call

an oyster that you could suck down whenever you felt the urge to suck down an oyster

an oyster without end...

one neverending slimy fucking hunk of snot

*

in short, visual impact is the G.O.

(try saying G.O. in a screechy voice... hi-lare-ree-ass)

mickeys mom wanted this earlier. I posted it yesterday too!

Sister Mary Helen is helping me tape my toe to the shotgun trigger.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 10:56 PM

Its good she has a hobby :)

Hey Fishyman!

you know quite a bit about the stock markert,yes?

eya MAT!

what's up for the weekend?

>>(e)ine of my friends...

that'd be Fritz, he blogs here

my team is 4/30 tonight

is that good?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 10:55 PM

I don't even know what you're talking about.

April 30th?

p.s. right KIDS

YAAYYYYYY!!!!

"thanks for the secret to success, air-ono"

no probs, ya little rascals (chuckles)...

now fuck off

what's up for the weekend?

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at June 30, 2006 11:02 PM

Roofing!

Put one on the shed and removing the moss from the house roof.

Proper Release of Griffin in Madison

Here is the info from BookTV's Schedule

The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions
David Ray Griffin

Description: David Ray Griffin takes a critical look at the official 9/11 Commission Report. Professor Griffin argues that "omissions and distortions" in the report amount to a cover-up by government officials and says that the available evidence suggests that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. Professor Griffin covers topics he says have been inadequately answered by the commission. These include questions surrounding the attack on the Pentagon, the way in which the World Trade Center towers collapsed, and the behavior of President Bush and his Secret Service detail following notification that a second plane had hit the WTC. The talk was hosted by the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth (www.mujca.com) and took place at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Includes Q&A.

Author Bio: David Ray Griffin is professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, where he taught for over 30 years (retiring in 2004). He has authored or edited over two dozen books, including "God and Religion in the Postmodern World," "Religion and Scientific Naturalism," and "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11."

As seen on C Span.

162 mb. WMV Video

59 mb. MP3 Audio

in short, visual impact is the G.O.

(try saying G.O. in a screechy voice... hi-lare-ree-ass)

Posted by: air-ono at June 30, 2006 11:01 PM

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Flossy is a good example. The graphics are pedestrian but funny.

The voice is hysterical.

The combination is deadly.

I spent a little time thinking about my feedback to Fighgrease's song.

I son't think I emphasised how great his vocals were. this can't be over praised.

and I thought about my critisism that the lyrics were too negative re:Janeanne.

so I decided to try to improve them:

She's a shrill shrieking woman

who's stuck with a dull blogging man

He's glued to his website

she mentions when ever she can...

it was at that point I decided I had not improved the lyrics or song's tone one Iota.

So I quit.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 03:55 PM

careful!

removing the moss can cause leaks later on.

i kill it first then it comes off fairly easy.

they have strips to put under your top layer of shingles that keep it off the roof

Fishy has a great voice!

and if he plays the guitar too well HOLY CRAP!

Sam should play him on the show for sure!

I don't even know what you're talking about.

April 30th?

Posted by: Mel at June 30, 2006 11:04 PM

tha's what my fatasy baseball team -- Monongahela Mud Cats -- is batting

now its 4/31.

one is a double!

Put one on the shed and removing the moss from the house roof.

Posted by: akaMAT at June 30, 2006 11:04 PM

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Don't use a rolling stone. It won't work.

they have strips to put under your top layer of shingles that keep it off the roof

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at June 30, 2006 11:07 PM

yeap! the neighbors have filled me in on the poop.

They have been around for every step of the shed, slowing us down. : ]

Double edge sword be friendly with the neighbors!

bought a dvd of polanski's "cul de sac" a while back

and played it yesturday

oh, man

(oh, man)

it's to die for

albie & dickie (the 2 gangsters who were wounded in some bungled crime) reminded me of crank & chubby, respectively

and donald pleasence's wimpy character had mel written all over it

FISHYMAN!

are you here?

FISHYMAN!

are you here?

Posted by: akaMAT at June 30, 2006 11:10 PM

if you mean me

yes, i am

Just read the NYTimes excerpt of Clarence Thomas' dissent opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case, and -- how does one say this? -- Thomas' argument is EXPLOSIVE and DANGEROUS! Read this part:

Thomas: "The common law of war establishes that Hamdan's willful and knowing membership in Al Qaeda is a war crime chargeable before a military commission."

The key word for me is "membership". When I combine Thomas' use of this word with the Bush Junta's official change of terminology from "global war on terror" TO "global struggle against violent extremism", just what does this mean for anyone who is a member of any group in the Bushworld that is labeled extreme? The "war" Thomas refers to is the "struggle" (kampf) that Bush claims will be endless!

Here we are in 2006, but had the Bush/Thomas notion been applied in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, ALL the members of the KKK could have been prosecuted for "willful and knowing membership" that encompassed the group's racism and racist lynchings of black citizens.

I doubt Bush would touch the KKK. But vegans and pacifists and the ACLU? I wonder if Bush can't wait to free his own sadism and loose his goons on all sorts of liberal "memberships".

Don't use a rolling stone. It won't work.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 11:08 PM

and why would that be?

Gregorian Masters of Chant, Stairway to Heaven

yes, i am

Posted by: air-ono at June 30, 2006 11:11 PM

I mean fishgrease. I have a question I have to ask him.

But I would like to wave High to YOU!

waving HIGH!

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 11:05 PM

yeah,

fishes vocals were outstanding

as for the subject of the song, well...

we're at loggerheads

*

(he never once called "our" jeanie a biotch)

and why would that be?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 11:12 PM

ROLLING STONES GATHER NO MOSS!!

UGH!

hee!

Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't

Declan Walsh in Gardez
Friday June 30, 2006
The Guardian

The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.
Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid, a former Afghan police commander accused of plotting against the United States, to prove his innocence before a special military tribunal. As was his right, Mr Mujahid called four witnesses from Afghanistan.

But months later the tribunal president returned with bad news: the witnesses could not be found. Mr Mujahid's hopes sank and he was returned to the wire-mesh cell where he remains today.

The Guardian searched for Mr Mujahid's witnesses and found them within three days. One was working for President Hamid Karzai. Another was teaching at a leading American college. The third was living in Kabul. The fourth, it turned out, was dead. Each witness said he had never been approached by the Americans to testify in Mr Mujahid's hearing.

LINK

waving HIGH!

Posted by: akaMAT at June 30, 2006 11:13 PM

oh, yeah

well watch this

*waves even higher*

TOP THAT!

: )

>>HOW TO OPERATE A DVD-RECORDER

Miho's dad wrotes those manuals.

that's how she learned english!

"WAVES HIGHEST!"

: ]

XOX

Yes, MAT, Ima here. I'm cleaning up the kitchen is all.

~~~ you know quite a bit about the stock markert,yes? ~~~

hmmmmm... well, not enough to give advice onnit, besides maybe telling people to get out of it for awhile.

CRAP!

I need to talk to Fishgrease!

but now I have to help the husbot hang some doors.

Later,

Peace

ROLLING STONES GATHER NO MOSS!!

UGH!

Posted by: akaMAT at June 30, 2006 11:14 PM

oh. I thought they might be too heavy or something.

plus the neighborhood kids and pets could get squashed from all the rocks falling from the roof.

ROLLING STONES GATHER NO MOSS!!

UGH!

Posted by: akaMAT at June 30, 2006 11:14 PM

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I feel like Edgar Bergen.

back to it for me gang, late shift.

back later!

But ask your question.

The only thing I can promise is that I won't answer if I don't have an answer.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 11:16 PM

a dvd manual in miho talk would be funny, fun fun

1. send little brother out of room

2. press OPEN/CLOSE BOOM-BOOM button go

3. much love ono-san

4. cry

I still can't believe they pulled off 911. Sonof abitch!

Poor doors.

MAT is hanging doors.

That makes The Baby Jesus cry!

Shut up, Baby Jesus!

Give it a rest!

now its 4/31.

one is a double!

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 11:07 PM

That's pretty bad, dude. However if the other three are grand slam homeruns we can work with that.

I'm in a slump to. You know how much of a homer I am. I have all Mets players and they have been stinking.

5. ENTER miho from rear start playback

too. not to. I of course meant also.

The more people you kill the more money you get.

I have all Mets players and they have been stinking.

Posted by: Mel at June 30, 2006 11:23 PM

don't tell me that! I just traded Pujols for Delgado and 3 other players. Utly, Brandon Webb and Jered Weave

when I get really big I'm going identity theft all the way baby.

I'm going to pretend to be you. And live your life and have sex with your girlfriend(s). It's going to be saaaweeeet.

I just heard this:

K.C. at St. Louis, 5 to 5, tenth inning.

Whoda thunk it?

Actually I have a medium-poor voice (except in the shower, where I sing like one of God's own hairy angels).

I maximize what I can do with a medium-poor voice.

It's like putting a performance chip inna Civic.

Just read the NYTimes excerpt of Clarence Thomas' dissent opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case, and -- how does one say this? -- Thomas' argument is EXPLOSIVE and DANGEROUS! Read this part:

Thomas: "The common law of war establishes that Hamdan's willful and knowing membership in Al Qaeda is a war crime chargeable before a military commission."

The key word for me is "membership". When I combine Thomas' use of this word with the Bush Junta's official change of terminology from "global war on terror" TO "global struggle against violent extremism", just what does this mean for anyone who is a member of any group in the Bushworld that is labeled extreme? The "war" Thomas refers to is the "struggle" (kampf) that Bush claims will be endless!

Here we are in 2006, but had the Bush/Thomas notion been applied in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, ALL the members of the KKK could have been prosecuted for "willful and knowing membership" that encompassed the group's racism and racist lynchings of black citizens.

I doubt Bush would touch the KKK. But vegans and pacifists and the ACLU? I wonder if Bush can't wait to free his own sadism and loose his goons on all sorts of liberal "memberships".

Posted by: nora at June 30, 2006 11:12 PM

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ADDENDUM

Here's an example I can get behind:

What if in the 1950s McCarthyism years every person ever having membership alone in a Communist or socialist group was prosecuted....OOPS....that IS what happened, isn't it?

don't tell me that! I just traded Pujols for Delgado and 3 other players. Utly, Brandon Webb and Jered Weave

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 11:29 PM

Okay... Honesty. Pujols hurting. Delgado hurting. but jered Weaver is a great pick up even if webb is iffy. bottom line you got the better of that deal.

ok, i'll finish this cup of coffee

and apply my pissant brain to figuring out this dvd-recording caper

Is it just me or does dating Jessica Alba totally suck ass. Wait... maybe I arranged those words incorrectly.

Mel, that hitler cat from yoour page. LOL!

there's some of my pics, including Sam's Fubar in Seattle,

Whoda thunk it?

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 11:32 PM

I like ties. I don't think its good to get all partisan about sports.

You got the new Opera Chubby? I just downloaded it but I haven't played with it much.

note to self:

before figuring out dvd-recording caper

1. to enable progress, erase all images of naked japanese nymphs from brain

You can pitch around Albert and not be too worried but if you pitch around Delgado you have David wright waiting to hurt you.

and apply my pissant brain to figuring out this dvd-recording caper

Posted by: air-ono at June 30, 2006 11:34 PM

do what I do:

put on a disguise, go to a pay phone and call the toll free number. (do the have 800 numbers in austrailia? its such a small country, it can't have many more than that);b

Look, this show's either been dumped or it hasn't been. Let's figure it out. The article's here,

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/06/janeane-garofalo-sam-seder-majority.html

or click "clippy" link

Hitler cat can be a viscious task-master. He's always talking to me. Telling me to kill. We are the master feline race indeed.

Posted by: Clippy at June 30, 2006 11:42 PM

hey!

clippy the pinhead is back!

he said the exact same thing last time!

[slurps last drop]

ok,

let the drudgery commence

(do the have 800 numbers in austrailia? its such a small country, it can't have many more than that) [Rimshot]

Mostly posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at June 30, 2006 11:41 PM

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If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

GET THESE MOTHER FUCKING SNAKES OFF THIS MOTHER FUCKING PLANE!!!!

Hitler cat can be a viscious task-master. He's always talking to me. Telling me to kill. We are the master feline race indeed.

Posted by: Mel at June 30, 2006 11:43 PM

yes. we are nothing but useful idiots for the cat race.

at least what my cat. Lennin, tells me.

"Air America Radio has never answered Radio Equalizer requests for confirmation and we've long since given up trying."

That doesn't mean anything, dummy!

They don't answer anything from anybody!

>>GET THESE MOTHER FUCKING SNAKES OFF THIS MOTHER FUCKING PLANE!!!!

LO-fuckin-L!!!

let the drudgery commence

Posted by: air-ono at June 30, 2006 11:44 PM

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Instructions-san:

Must to examine box contents of therein for not completeness.

p.s. the toil will be worth it

because you peeps are the best of peeps

so having you guys watch spaced & the mighty boosh, is the least i can do

also, i'll include the movie "pusher"

My Cat is a Marxist.

Viva the feline revolution.

Catnip is the opiate of the masses.

Posted by: Crank Bait at June 30, 2006 11:48 PM

now you be cook!

with gas!

RadioEqualizer....

Plugs Ann Coulter's book and says Janeane is extreme.

Janeane is my friend.

However Tom is not my friend.

I'm just saying.

Alot of the local cats are Maoist.

Mine are marxist too.

they bress in black slacxks turtlenecks and berrets. hang out in coffee shops, reading poetry and playing bongos.

they're like Maynard G Krebs

RadioEqualizer should be careful.

One of us might be a crackpot liberal nutjob!

Might make it our life's mission to find him and feed him his front teeth!

I mean... probably not.

But ya never know!

RadioEqualizer....

Plugs Ann Coulter's book and says Janeane is extreme.

Posted by: Fishgrease at June 30, 2006 11:53 PM

real fair and balanced stuff

You ever start blogging and then all of a sudden everybody leaves. I have.

My cat is always trying to tell me about Chairman meow tse sandpaper tongue.

I mean... some real fucking loose cannon weirdo liberal mental case might get a piece of pipe and tap RadioEqualizer's knee caps down to his ankles!

You gotta be careful, man!

Never rely on the stability of liberal nut jobs!

>>they bress

sorry. Freudian slip there,

few months back they were going through a phase...they wanted to be mohels.

painful memories.

And RadioEqualizer needs to be careful in restaurants and even, like, Starbucks. You ever see Fight Club, RadioEqualizer?

Look, if it smells even a little bit like urine, it probably is. Mostly, I mean. It would have a little coffee in there too, of course.

That's all I'm saying.

I like...

when Keith Olbermann tears Bill O'Reilly a new asshole.

When Janeane gets REALLY excited.

When David Letterman make George W Bush jokes.

He just said George just turned sixty and he has gotten to that age where people go into rooms and forget why they went and he didn't even have to do the punch line.

Hitler cat made the trains run on time.

Thomas Jefferson is my friend.

but Tom is not my friend.

OMG I killed the blog again.

No President of the U.S. has ever been an only child.

That sound good, RadioEqualizer?

The Mocha with the Wee Wee?

That hit the spot?

hey, that was me on laura flander's a couple minutes ago.

the longest yard ever measured was three feet two inches.

good riff on Laura's CB!

I have the hic-ups.

Please pray for me.

Ol Sarge posts on Jons bloggie

good ol timer, nam vet, navy and air force.

Hitler cat made the trains run on time.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 12:10 AM

and he exterminated the shrews...

you have to acknowledge the darks side.

efficient yes.

but merciless killers as well.

Just

some

angel

graphics

wat up yallz?

I'd listen to air america if I could get my fucking widget to work.

Bars still hiring hoods to lay down the law

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/430833p-363203c.html

Months after bouncers at two Manhattan bars were implicated in murders, tavern owners are still employing criminals to keep the peace, the NYPD's top vice cop told the City Council yesterday.
"As many as 50% or more of the [nightclub security] guards are unlicensed, and 40% of those have criminal records," Deputy Chief Brian Conroy, commander of the NYPD's vice squad, told the Council Committee on Public Safety.

The panel is considering expanding nuisance and licensing laws to give the city more power over nightspots, which are mostly regulated by the state.

Conroy said a sweep of 42 bars around the city last weekend found that 22 employed 41 unlicensed bouncers.

Of the unlicensed workers, 17 had arrest records, including two who had been charged with rape.

The hearing, the first of three by the committee, was prompted by the February murder of John Jay College grad student Imette St. Guillen, allegedly at the hands of Darryl Littlejohn, 41, an ex-con who was a bouncer at The Falls bar in SoHo.

In May, Steven Sakai, a bouncer at the Chelsea bar Opus 22, allegedly shot four people, killing one.

Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens) said the city must look for ways to expand its jurisdiction over troublesome nightclubs.

"The [State Liquor Authority] won't come in and shut them down, but after we pass this legislation, we'll be able to shut them down," Vallone said. "And trust me - we will be shutting them down."

Things scarier than terrorists

http://www.tmcm.com/comics/webcomics/tmcm060605

What up
mucky?

Will it float is my favorite talk show segment theme song.

the longest yard ever measured was three feet two inches.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 12:16 AM

I remeber that one. it was a jets touchdown a couple years back. cost the Seahawks the game and a playoff spot, if I remember yet.

but, to be fair, the little football shaped Jets logo on the QB's helmet (Testeverde?) clearly broke the plane of the goal line.

not so much the ball itself. but, touchdown jets.

so that's what normally happens when the Seahawks visit NYC...so don't worry too much about those 3 famous field goals I'll probably never shut up.

eya Muckie

conbo left a message yesterday...

//Connie, I was reading that exchange between you and muckie last night.//

sorry about that. I like Mucky. Our personalties are very similar. Because of that he can really piss me off at times. It did not belong on the blog.

Sorry Mucky. If I recall I am the one who started the whole thing. We were doing fine and then I had to make a stupid joke.

Posted by: conbo at June 29, 2006 05:38 PM

And an article

I like that first angels wide chrome ass.

I like asses like that.

THAT'S an ASS alright!

>>good riff on Laura's CB!

thanks Jim.

the panic attack was barely noticable, eh?

hmmmmm... well, not enough to give advice onnit, besides maybe telling people to get out of it for awhile.

Posted by: Fishgrease at June 30, 2006 11:18 PM

Well could you tell me why get out and for how long.

Hitler didn't have a cat, He had a dog named Blondie. She was a German Shepard.

Shut up, Baby Jesus!

Give it a rest!

Posted by: Fishgrease at June 30, 2006 11:23 PM

: ]

Boohoo baby jesus!

so that's what normally happens when the Seahawks visit NYC...so don't worry too much about those 3 famous field goals I'll probably never shut up.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 12:24 AM

Wait... who was in the superbowl this year... I forget.

I know who won but who was the second best team in the NFL... not the Jets. Not the Bears. Not the Giants.

Now I remember. No one cares who got second place.

Seahawks got fucked by the refs just like the Mavs did.

Hey A.

Hi Fish! Glad you like it... I did too.. :)

Fishgrease can I e-mail you?

Hitler didn't have a cat, He had a dog named Blondie. She was a German Shepard.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 12:27 AM

Hitler cat is actually the reincarnation of the fuehrer(sp)

I haver a pic on my blog page.

Germany beat Argentina

Italy also won.

Hey "NEWS CONSUMER"... :) Hot summer eh... man I'm boiling up here....

Hi akaMAT, Spike

Hi NC! Hi Spike!

And an article

Posted by: A. at July 1, 2006 12:24 AM

If you have not read Robert Anton Wilson's Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World you really should.

its great. really thouht provoking stuff.

I read it a couple years back and out to again, real soon.

Adam had a cat. It was the cat that narked on Eve about the snake thing. She would have got away with it too if it wasn't for that damn cat.

hiya mel. :)

jimmy, conbo knoes ima luv her at heart. nothin doin. itn all okay. :)

Hot summer eh... man I'm boiling up here....

Posted by: A. at July 1, 2006 12:31 AM

It was a bit cooler here for us today. But muggy.

Got sunburned on the shoulders.

Seahawks got fucked by the refs just like the Mavs did.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 12:29 AM

If you leave the game up to the whim of the referees then you haven't played well wnough to win... Period. If you have to say the referees were not nice to us then you are looking for excuses. The winners can also name several plays that didn't go their way as well but they played well enough to win despite that. Sport is perfect because the humans make the calls. and they are not perfect but neither are the players. And that is perfect.

We came in at a high of 93 and a low of 73. Little to no participation. Moon is waxing creasent with waxing crescetn moon 22% illuminated

today wuz em gud day. gotn em e-mailee ima wulda nevern spekted. my ole hi-skool sweethart from em junyer an seenyer yeerz e-maileed me today. she fown me on em klassmates. hadn't herd frum her in yeerz. :)

lookerin that klassmate site tho kinda wishen peples wuldn't show em "now" pics. kinda depressin...

I don't mind it so much when they steal the presidency...or even a country like Iraq.

But when they start stealing sports championships, that's when you know society's corrupt!

She would have got away with it too if it wasn't for that damn cat.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 12:34 AM

Zoinks Scoob!!

I want to smoke a fatty in the back of the mystery van and wolf down some scoobie snacks. Are you with me?

~~~ Well could you tell me why get out and for how long. ~~~

Yes. Even those folks who say they're confident in the market are dumping small caps and buying large, less risky stuff. The market lives off risk and when people start avoiding risk, the market will fall. We're due another correction.

That said, I still like domestic natural gas producers if for nothing else than a little safety.

In general... with regard to a broad index of DOW, Nasdaq and S&P 500 stocks, cash pays you over 5% right now and that is totally risk free.

Highschool sweetheart coming out of nowhere is my worse nightmare.The Horror!!!!!!

~~~ Fishgrease can I e-mail you? ~~~

Absolutely!

Highschool sweetheart coming out of nowhere is my worse nightmare.The Horror!!!!!!

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 12:40 AM

HOLY CRAP is it ever!

I could tell you my sisters sad story.

Run Mucky! do not answer her email.

The market is high on tomatoes, watermellon, peaches, and peppers. Some demand for Louisiana Strawberries being meet with Texas product. Looking forward to pumpkin futures in the fall with a focus on spirit and jack of latern.

But when they start stealing sports championships, that's when you know society's corrupt!

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 12:38 AM

Stolen. One or was that two presidential elections... 300 billion dollars in the hands of arms makers, oil industry tycoons and terrorists.

Stolen. One football, basketball or world cup match, game or championship which only actually means anything to a small portion of the planet... Priceless.

Hey "NEWS CONSUMER"... :) Hot summer eh... man I'm boiling up here....

Posted by: A. at July 1, 2006 12:31 AM

Weather was pretty nice here today for a change..

>>really thouht provoking stuff.

I think Crank'd like that one.

I have the fucking hic-ups and I think they are going to kill me.

>>Priceless.

LoL~

that's pretty much it.

they do 'cuz they can.

"It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor"

-Paul Simon.

Duo bragged of bloodshed - now face Bronx slay rap

Superbowl we are talking about a point differential of twenty one. The refs decided the game.

NBA.

If you are going to have a guy charging every time to the basket in order to get to the free throw line then let every team have one, not just Miami and not just at home. David Stern is never going to let Mark "Goofy Mother Fucker" Cuban win a trophy. Plain and simple.

//Run Mucky! do not answer her email.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 12:42 AM
//

culdnt be anee werse then em ex-wife.

man, fixing the world cup would be the thing.

mel, maybe me and you can go over there, you know, throw our weight around?

we can figure out who wins later.

hic-ups

Take a teespoon of mustard. Old family thing, works for me every time.

David Stern is never going to let Mark "Goofy Mother Fucker" Cuban win a trophy. Plain and simple.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 12:49 AM

I bet Howard Stern would.

It is wrong to kill someone who has killed someone even if that person was your mother or your sister or your wife.

It is imperative to kill someone if that is the only way to stop them from killing or harming your mother, your sister or your wife.

Ok, I am a homer, but right now I think Howard Stern would be a better commissioner than David "It's my ball" Stern.

culdnt be anee werse then em ex-wife.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 1, 2006 12:50 AM

: ]

check it out.

My older sis, got an email from an old boyfriend from high school.

They started commucating thought email, then phone, then he drove his all of his crap from North dakota to her condo in San Diego and just showed up.

then they started dating and living together then they got married.

then he went on a Drug and booze binge of the worse kind.

Some friend of his shit in my sister closet.

SHIT! I kid you not.

Long story short. She divorced him and he took everything! everything right down to the toliet!

There you go. Some things should stay dead and buried.

hmmmmm... well, not enough to give advice onnit, besides maybe telling people to get out of it for awhile.

Posted by: Fishgrease at June 30, 2006 11:18 PM

Well could you tell me why get out and for how long.

Posted by: AKA Hosbot at July 1, 2006 12:26 AM

That you're asking Fishgrease for advice about the market is reason enough not to be in it.

Fireworks are legal here.

I really don't like them. I'm like the dogs with fireworks.

Some ass is lighting them off right now. Don't they help polute or something.

How am i going to get though this 4th of July?

With a garden hose and ear plugs that's how.

Curled up with the dog.

Prison for killer hubby

Two Queens Men Sentenced For Strangling Relative

//Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 12:54 AM//

hmmm. doent theenk aneetheeng like that gonna happen. lookerin like ex-hi-skoolsweethart4doo gotta purdy good job an her own home. lookn like shez doin purdy good.

David Stern is never going to let Mark "Goofy Mother Fucker" Cuban win a trophy. Plain and simple.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 12:49 AM

Conspiracy theories abound but the refs would like nothing more than to stick it to their boss by him having to give the trpophy to Mark Cuban.

I think you're dead wrong. Wade got fouled more than they called. A lot more. And he singlehandedly took over from the last quarter of game three to the point where they hanede him both trophies. I used to think Jordan got all the calls when he played the Knicks. He did...

He did because he was fouled EVERY TIME.

Get over it.

If the refs were trying to control the game. EVERY ONE WOULD KNOW. There are too many cameras on the court. And like I said it can go either way on a lot of calls. That what sports is. Has been from Roman times or Egyptian times. Or from early African empires in Ghana and Sudan.

Nothing new since Africa.

Pay off your debts before you start to think about investing. What you are paying on your interest is more than you will get in the market most of the time.

wundren why she aynt never got marreed tho....

Hi MAT! :) Yeah everyone at work keeps telling me I'm getting tan but I don't see it..must have been a subtle change...It was nicer here than the last few days..but over 80 and I'm boiling...

good job an her own home. lookn like shez doin purdy good.

Posted by: muck4doo at July 1, 2006 01:00 AM

yeah, that is the same thing the ex boyfriend told my sis.

he told her he had his own computer business.

He had a business all right, with computers... stealing them.

Just keep your wits about you Mucky...Wouldn't want to see that happen to you.

: ]

Don't confuse financial security with mental health. There are some fucked up rich people and some pretty tough poor people.

will keep my wits mat. wuz nise to knoe she wuz theenkin bowt me tho. :)

Hi A!

Did you get my email?

Man arrested 5 years after Queens attack on gay man

I love you guys.

Even the ones of you who don't like me.

Darlene thinks I'm a dirtbag.

Meg thinks I'm a creep.

and a couple of you have voiced your disapproval in my being here.

But I say...

Wait

I'm sorry I just farted.

that wasn't actually what I wanted to say but man if you could smell this you would get my point.

dogs are such weenies about fireworks.

my cats love 'em

got a big box of them from one of the local reservations, either that or they got them on the internet and had them delivered UPS.

they've been lighting them off ever since.

they love those whistling bottle rockets, shoot them at the cars driving by all day.

and they got some BIG mortors for tuesday,

: ]

Always nice to be thought of, in a nice way that is.

yore alwayz welkume to me mel. :)

I always wanted to be buried upside down so that anyone who didn't like me could kiss my ass.

~~~ That you're asking Fishgrease for advice about the market is reason enough not to be in it. ~~~

However that was meant, there's a lot of truth to it.

>>She divorced him and he took everything! everything right down to the toliet!

so his friend would have a place to crap?

and they got some BIG mortors for tuesday,

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 01:07 AM

OH LORD! there nothing but weapon imatations.

Someone will put out an eye, or light someones roof on fire.

Fuck I hate these stupid pointless holidays.

4th of july is almost as stupid has those catholic holidays Halloween and Christmas.

Man arrested 5 years after Queens attack on gay man

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 1, 2006 01:06 AM

What's with the obsession with bad news?

Do you think that we're not aware that bad shit happens all the time?

Has there ever been a time when this wasn't the case.

If you're always thinking about it, you'll never have a moment's peace.

Is that how you want to live?

Don't confuse financial security with mental health. There are some fucked up rich people and some pretty tough poor people.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 01:04 AM

http://durkheim.itgo.com/suicide.html

so his friend would have a place to crap?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 01:09 AM

NO, so he could sell it for smack.

The guy was twisted. rode a harley (figures) and thought he was gods gift.

he was a user, dirtbag, loser, piece of shit.

I always wanted to be buried upside down so that anyone who didn't like me could kiss my ass.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 01:08 AM

Okay I recognize this old chestnut. However, Just being buried upside down would not give the world access to your ass to kiss because it would be six feet under ground. I'm just saying.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 01:05 AM

I will check it now, MAT...

Everything feels funky and weird in my world.

I'll see ya'll later on....

xoxox

The guy was twisted. rode a harley (figures) and thought he was gods gift.

he was a user, dirtbag, loser, piece of shit.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 01:12 AM

I take it you slept with him.

Big screen remote casket came.

I take it you slept with him.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 01:14 AM

my sisters husband?

No Mel, I did not sleep with him.

I was going to wait for him outside a bar and beat the living crap out of him, but my sister was too afraid.

She's a pussy.

Everything feels funky and weird in my world.

I'll see ya'll later on....

xoxox

Posted by: A. at July 1, 2006 01:14 AM

I hear ya Sister!

I have been having the same feelings.

>>4th of july is almost as stupid has those catholic holidays Halloween and Christmas.

not to mention cinqo de mayo and st patricks day!

I was going to wait for him outside a bar and beat the living crap out of him.

Old School conflict resolution.

It has begun to occur to me that the Fourth of July may not be the ideal date to employ pyrotechnics.

As a means of illustrating, I offer the following.

In the last week, the high temperature has not been below 87 degrees on any day. Twice, it has been over 105 degrees.

Not to be deterred by this, my neighbors (three of them, as a matter of fact), are launching bottle rockets and mortars (they have that nifty, distinctive *THOONK* sound) over our houses.

Old School conflict resolution.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 01:18 AM

no... fuck with my sister and I fuck you up.

She is older than me but I was always the sister that watched out for all the other sisters.

I had 4.

I would just like to say that I love blowing things up. I have for years, never set anything or anyone on fire that I didn't want to. Spray down your roofs and hope that people use good sense. Don't you trust your neighbors, mine know better than set my house of fire.

I hope.

Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 1, 2006 01:19 AM

: ]

I was wondering about you today.

I was wondering how you were and was thinking I should send you and email or give you a ringy dingy.

XOXO!

groundhog day too!

fucking papal shit!

She's a pussy.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 01:16 AM

Harsh.

We used to have roman candle wars. Wait till it gets good and dark, get pissed, then shoot great balls of fire at each other. Great fun.

Harsh.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 01:24 AM

Not as harsh as her.

Long story and I have said to much already.

Also Car Surfing (self explanitory) and BB guns wars. We just didn't shoot each other in the face, at least the cool kids.

I need a domain name...

I am a dirtbag dot com

Once you go black dot com

racism gets a lot of white people killed dot com

I want to fuck your sister in the ass dot com.

Funky is a code word for darkie dot com.

We used to have roman candle wars. Wait till it gets good and dark, get pissed, then shoot great balls of fire at each other. Great fun.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 01:26 AM

somewhere in the late seventies I had one of these.

We were all lit up on mescaline!

impervious to ladyfingers!

and lots of booze!

I'm surprized we didn't burn down the neighborhood!

I have said to much already.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 01:27 AM

My older brother use to molest me by buggering my prepubescent ass in the night time...

There now I have said too much.

We were all lit up on mescaline!

yea, ah, mine had a lot to do with Budwieser and a funnel. Kind of the same though without the hard core drug part. close.

luv firewerks an theengs that "go boom" in jenerel. kant help it. :)

A couple of years ago, I watched some kids in Portland setting off mortars in the middle of a crowded street.

Was fine, until one of 'em decided to angle the mortar tube a bit, and the fucking thing hit an apartment building just down the street.

Shit happens.

Already hosed down the roof, so I guess I can just enjoy the show, and have a little faith.

---

Hiya MAT!

Hiya Hosbot!

Must be a dude thang.

We were all lit up on mescaline!

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

Ahhh the high life. We used to go to Studio 54 (you can tell how old I am) on mescaline... the best time.

Or maybe I should say... Priceless.

They have a great fireworks show in DC. So cool to watch it from the National Mall. I do miss that about DC.

Must be a dude thang.

Not really, my high school flame thought it was the hight of fun to run people down with roman candle. They could never out run her so it was a lot like cat and mouse.

This was Andy Warhol days. And I was not old enough to drink but I was a pretty teenaged boy (who use to get buggered by his older brothers) and I could get into any club I wanted to. I have met all the greats but none of them fucked me.

they used to do a national smoke-in on the mall years ago. then it became the beach boys when reagan took office.

I have partied with or hung out with slash impressed... Andy Warhol, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, The Ramones, Madonna, etc.

But none of them fucked me like my brothers fucked me.

I won't light up on the mall lawn now.

there's doubtless a billion zillion cameras watching now.

I'm sorry... what were we talking about?

That is a shame, you could have said that you been buggered by Madonna and didn't even have to buy a record.

I'm sorry... what were we talking about?

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 01:44 AM

I'm really not sure.

For some reason I have a mental image of you taking it up the ass!

: \

Never called it car surfing, it was Urban Surfing where I was from, assume it's the same thing. That was a game best played drunk.

Roman candle wars and BB gun wars were lots of fun.

Haven't done either in about 12-13 years.

By the time I tried any drugs, I'd already graduated to more destructive toys than roman candles, so never got to mix the two.

When I was about 13, I learned that you can use a "wrist-rocket" type slingshot to launch M-80's a fair distance.

That was about the same time that I learned that dry ice + two liter bottle + water = mailbox fun.

And my mom wonders why I'm terrified of the idea of children.

Roll a blunt, they look just like a cigar right. Walk around that bastard blazing away.

I can not control my thoughts.

Is that something other people have trouble with?

I really don't know what to say...(crickets in the distance)...(awkward silence)...

For some reason I have a mental image of you taking it up the ass!

: \

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 01:45 AM

Just you thinking about me getting fucked turns me on.

I'm just saying.

I can not control my thoughts.

Kind of depends.

True crime (genre)

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

And my mom wonders why I'm terrified of the idea of children.

Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 1, 2006 01:46 AM

You keep that fear! : ]

you will be safer that way.

The mothers curse works I do beleive.

"I hope you grow up to have a kid that acts worse than you did curse."

>>For some reason I have a mental image of you taking it up the ass!

Dammit! I was trying to avoid that!

well I can control them to a point. then images come that I have no control over till, I make a point of it.

Ugh, never mind, I'm a flipperdyjibit.

Steppenwolf --
Monster

Sounding like Pearl Jam in 1969. Listen to the lyrics! Fits today's times as well as it fit back then!

Big song too... about twice the file size I usually post here.

LOVE this song!

Fishy did you get that cord page i posted for you?

I think everyone should unleash their inner Hunter S Thompson once in a while*

_______________________________

*Guns, drugs and alcohol void where applicable

chordbook

For some reason I do not think you ever saw it.

If it is like me having thoughts about every attractive women in the room then probably that is natural. If you are seeing a room full of bodies or start having the urge to fill a room full of bodies then you should think about having that checked out.

I'm sorry. This is fun for me.

My six year old ass taking a grown man's cock was not fun. Not just my brothers... they came later. (no pun)

But telling you guys about it... some how that's fun.

Because you don't just ignore me. Everybody else just ignores me. but now that I'm 39 I figure at least my friends shou;d know why I am so fucked up...

Now can we get these snakes off this motherfucking plane.

~~~ Fishy did you get that cord page i posted for you? ~~~

YES!

Best one I've seen!

THANX!

the snakes on the plane really bug me too mel.

The snakes

are they like garden snakes, pythons, or like pit vipers?

THANX!

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 1, 2006 01:54 AM

Oh good.

that was even fun if you don't play.

: ]

Thanks for chatting with Husbot.

I have been talking too much lately.

again! [sigh]

~~~ For some reason I do not think you ever saw it. ~~~

No... I saw it!

I've used it since then!

It even has inversions, which I can't do by myself... some sort of mental block.

Mel, its nice to have some one around that's even more screwed up than me, ;)

My mom never said that to me (matter of fact, she would love more grandkids), but at some point, my brother and I both realized that all of the Cicero men were rotten little bastards as kids. Hell, most of 'em are still rotten bastards.

As a result, neither of us are interested in carrying on the line, a fact that drives both of my parents crazy.

~~~ Thanks for chatting with Husbot. ~~~

My pleasure, MAT.

He's a good guy. Can tell by his pics.

they gotta be boa costrictors.

and some cobras, like, in the closet

People tell me that you should never tell anyone that you were molested or raped by a man when you are a man because they will think that now you are gay.

Is that true?

Do you think I am gay now?

Are women that are raped better off because their sexual preference isn't judged because of it?

However much it is changed by it.

Does getting fucked in the ass when you were six offend less than being raped when you were in college.

I'm just saying.

Are they in cages or like roaming around the cockpit?

Are they in first class or only back in coach?

Mel, its nice to have some one around that's even more screwed up than me, ;)

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 01:57 AM

That's what I'm here for.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 01:54 AM

is that all true?

Because dude, ... I really don't know what to say.

: |

America, where are you now?

Don't you care about your Sons and Daughters?

Don't you know

We need you now

We can't fight alone against the Monster

Does getting fucked in the ass when you were six offend less than being raped when you were in college.

I'm just saying.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:0

SIX!

JESUS!

Oh Mel I'm really sorry.

: [

It's worse for a little kid to raped than anything.

Male, female, animal. It does not matter.

Anyone who would do that to a little kid is a fucking FREAK ass dirtbag.

And I wish that had never happened to you.

FOR THE LOVE OF WHAT THE FUCK EVER!

GRRRRRR!

eya Mel,

lifes a bitch sometimes,

think a lot of folks here accept you

as you are and love you. you get past shit like that

a little bit at a time. i know i did and i continue the process daily.

Because dude, ... I really don't know what to say.

: |

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 02:02 AM

Your saying anything isn't as important than your acknowledging that you heard me and you aren't all of a sudden repelled by me because I am being honest.

Whatever.

Mel, if it helps. I sort of killed my brother. I know it isn't the same thing, but kind of.

20 MEN! in a hour showed up at the pretend little boys house!

20!

20 men who wanted to do little boys.

what the hell!

Preverted justice it was called.

20 men in an HOUR!

I'm just saying.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:00 AM

don't worry. yeah it will freak people out. but what are you goin to do?

you're still suffering from it ans not everyone can understand.family sex abuse is pretty wide spread, and it can ge generational and very hard to break the cycle.

alot of people have dirty little skeletons in their closets, but the kinda of abuse you took is startling.

especially to innocent type folks. and people in denial, too I suppose?

Naw... Mel... just makes me want to hunt down RadioEqualizer and go all Giuliani-time on him.

Your saying anything isn't as important than your acknowledging that you heard me and you aren't all of a sudden repelled by me because I am being honest.

Whatever.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:07 AM

Mel, if I had been your mother, I would have cut that dudes winnie off and stuffed it in his mouth!

I take issues with people hurting little kids and animals.

FOR THE LOVE OF WHAT THE FUCK EVER!

GRRRRRR!

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 02:05 AM

Thank you. I haven't cried like I just cried when I read that in... ever. thank you. I knew there was a reason I posted that.

thank you. I'm sorry if I upset you.

Cry Little Sister, Gerald McMann (The Lost Boys Soundtrack)

Not that I would ever do that... go all Giuliani-time on RadioEqualizer. Of course I wouldn't.

Just makes me want to.

Feel a need to.

A sometimes overpowering need.

Mel, if it helps. I sort of killed my brother. I know it isn't the same thing, but kind of.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 02:07 AM

Dude... I cry now... and you tell me what happened later. I want to know. I'm sorry you feel like that. And I'm sorry I'm being so selfish. I just needed to get that off my chest.

thank you. I'm sorry if I upset you.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:12 AM

Mel, you did not upset me. what happen to you upset me.

But no one can make it go away. that fucker took alot from you the day he did that.

I understand how... well... fuck up it all must feel.

I think you should just be thankful that you can be truthful and that you have people around you that care and would make it go away if they had the power.

Only you know we can't even get satan impeached so we can't take this away either.

But we can give you a bloggie hug! A friend bloggie hug not a prevert bloggie hug!

( ***********)

I think we all carry around shit from the past with us that we are not really able to do anything about. No shame. Life happens. It is cruel. Make the best of it while you still have time.

It is cruel. Make the best of it while you still have time.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 02:18 AM

It's true.

we all have different bags-o-shit.

I think we need to really see the beauty of this planet before we depart for places unknown.

We have no idea where we go after this.

Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears For Fears

I don't know why. I just wanted you to say something. I don't know why. I don't know why I can't stop crying. I don't know why having miss anne say anything about this makes any difference but it does. I'm sorry if that creeps you out but for some reason I feel like because my mom was raped that she feels that because I was raped it just isn't as important. I don't know why I equate miss anne with my mom and I don't know why I just typed that and I don't know why I will post it...

I don't know why.

Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears For Fears

Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 1, 2006 02:20 AM

More songs. Just read and keep your hands off the key board.

We have no idea where we go after this.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 02:19 AM

hopefully its more of the same.

life is a form of energy.

energy changes form all the time.

Trauma: Get Over It

When to let go. How to heal.

—By Joseph Hart, Utne magazine

July / August 2006 Issue

http://www.utne.com/pub/2006_136/promo/12168-1.html

I don't know why it is was so important that my mom tell my grabdmother the she was raped on her death bed and that she acknowledge that she was raped and I don't know why that when I tell my mom that I was raped that it doesn't seem to hold as much weight as making her mother apologize on her own death bed, I don't know why.

I'm sorry guys.

I'm done.

I don't know why.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:21 AM

Maybe because I am a mom Mel.

I'm sorry you are crying. But maybe you need to.

As a Mom I can tell you, That I was raped too. while my children were in my house.

It caused alot of problems for me. But I can tell you that to this day, if a guy (or chick) is creepy with my daughters I get like a tiger.

If fact I chased a work man out of my house by gun point because he did a creep number on my daughter.

Rape is rape and it harms whomever it is done do.

You have every right to FUCKING CRY!

Beat On The Brat, The Ramones

Blasphemous Rumours, Depeche Mode

well if i was running the world there'd be a hell of a lot more smiles and food.

Oh CRAP!

I don't want to hurt Mel!

or anyone!

: [

Bummer in the summer.

Is that how you want to live?

Posted by: Strat at July 1, 2006 01:11 AM

No

I think we all carry around shit from the past with us that we are not really able to do anything about. No shame. Life happens. It is cruel. Make the best of it while you still have time.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 02:18 AM

I think we can all do or best to not passing it on. or ruining our lives.

work through the shit and get on with life.

that's what I want, anyway.

well if i was running the world there'd be a hell of a lot more smiles and food.

and Cheerleaders!

OH my DOG!

I have to learn how to fucking spell and punchuwise!

I mean really, how the in fuck can anyone even understand what the hell I wrote.

Sigh.

I can't die to soon I have so much more still to learn.

fuckin A!

that's what I want,

I want a cheeseburger, onion rings, and a big dill pickle. Plus a cold beer.

So Amy Pohler posted a list of rules for dealing with New Yorkers...

1. Be nice to everyone, especially people wearing hospital bracelets.

2. Don’t ask white girls if they “left their ass at home.”

3. If you have to bring your baby to a movie, make sure he laughs at appropriate times.

4. Don’t eat Cheetos and then sit down at a fancy hotel piano.

5. If you are in Central Park and think you are getting mugged, first check to see if maybe you’re just part of a student film.

6. If you see Oprah at a fancy function, don’t grab her wrist and ask for money. Quietly sneak up behind her and whisper, “You give me that money, Oprah. You hear me?”

7. When walking on a New York street, try not to spit, litter, bleed, or take a crap.

8. If you need to do any of these things, try to do it between two parked cars.

well if i was running the world there'd be a hell of a lot more smiles and food.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 1, 2006 02:27 AM

what did you think of my shrimp recipe, Jim?

Sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

Sweet L'il Thing, Eels

Neighborhood #3 (Power Out), The Arcade Fire

MEL!

please come back!

I really don't want you to leave.

Really, Mel!

I'm not creeped out, or anything like that.

DAMN IT!

Eya MAT,

you're brilliant anyways,

don't sweat the small stuff, heart is what counts.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:33 AM

: ]

don't sweat the small stuff, heart is what counts.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 1, 2006 02:33 AM

Nah Sunny, I want to learn how to do what others have learned how to do.

I want my kid to be proud of me and not have to edit my emails to her.

I need to learn it somehow.

I contacted a brain doctor. I ask him some questions, but i have not heard back from him.

You know what helps with dealing with trauma is good old fashion hard work. Go out a plant a tree or start a garden. Get out in the community and turn that shit into something golden.

can't die to soon I have so much more still to learn.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 02:31 AM

and to do, don't forget do.

I need to find someone who can teach people with learning disabilites.

I bet it costs money, everything costs fucking money.

I freaking hate this whole captialist bullshit.

build a barn.

The Sound Of Settling, Death Cab For Cutie

You've Got To Learn To Live With What You Are, Ben Folds

Poses, Rufus Wainwright

I'm so incredibly sorry guys.

I will try to be funny in a second.

I don't know why I needed to post that and I don't know when some troll will throw it in my face but

I'm not gay.

I have been fucked in the ass but not by choice.

And that doesn't make me gay.

That makes me a victim.

That also makes me pretty dangerous so don't fuck with me.

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary coral reef. (Photo: NOAA)

Coral Reef Photo

Coral Reef Photo

no biggie mel,

thousands of stories like that out there,

it's fine by me to get it out there, takes courage and trust eh?

That also makes me pretty dangerous so don't fuck with me.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:39 AM

: ]

Mel, don't worry about the trolls. you are right about them, but it's no ones dog damn business even if you were gay.

Some of my very best friends in the whole world have been gay and I have never sat around and thought "OH MY DOG! THIER GAY."

I was just happy they were my friends. AND they were good friends the best!

And a Trolls word! Who gives a shit. they are just saying crap to get a rise out of us.

And some of us fall prey to them a wee bit more than others.

But don't put stock in anything trolls say on this blog or any other blog.

Hey here is an idea.

what about helping kids.

Maybe counseling little kids who have been raped or helping to educate the ones that who have escaped being rape so far. Maybe make them aware of what can happen and how they might be able to see the signs before it happens?

just a thought.

Mat's right. Channel it into something productive.

here is another idea.

how about I just shut up now.

: ]

I contacted a brain doctor. I ask him some questions, but i have not heard back from him.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 02:36 AM

you go closest community colege.

tell them, you're a diplsced homemaker who needs skills to enter work place. tell um you want to learn [Insert computer field of your choice] good . maybe they'll fund you. apply for federal aid.

do it before you no longer can. but never take the student loans!

no biggie mel,

thousands of stories like that out there,

it's fine by me to get it out there, takes courage and trust eh?

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 1, 2006 02:42 AM

I had this girl that I liked tell me to never tell anyone that story because they might think I was gay. What she was saying is that she thought I was gay.

I tried being gay when I was in college but really man I'm too hetero. I like women a lot. I like moist, I like wet, I like p..thingy.

I don't deserve to have a girlfriend but believe you me it will be a girl when I merit it.

Underwater Love, Smoke City

In The Waiting Line, Zero 7

If the Space Shuttle goes KAAABOOOOM tomorrow or later kills it's crew, they go immediately to heaven.

Express lane.

Bush has that all worked out.

They will be said to have reached out and touched the face of God.

I think after the third Shuttle disaster it will be time to realize, just maybe, God doesn't like having his face touched.

I don't deserve to have a girlfriend

Don't let that stop you. I don't deserve to have my wife, but I have her (thank God.) If I had to wait around to get what I deserved I would not have shit.

computer field of your choice] good . maybe they'll fund you. apply for federal aid.

do it before you no longer can. but never take the student loans!

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 02:49 AM

would they do that, when my husbot works?

I mean, don't i have to pay for school now that I'm no longer a single mom?

I want to learn a skill! I what to be a valueble memeber of soceity.

ugh... maybe I don't.

I keep forgetting about that LD stuff.

going to school is not really a good idea for people like me.

I don't deserve to have a girlfriend but believe you me it will be a girl when I merit it.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:49 AM

I'm sure there's a perfectly lovely girl just as fucked up you, mel.

finding one that isn't going to self-medicate herself to death...that's another deal.

well sex should be fun, interesting, full of facinating dynamics.

love is a good entry, starts with yourself first of course.

ease up and relax, you're amongst friends.

SHUTTLE CREW: "Hey look! I'm touching God's face! w00t!"

GOD: *SWAT*

My mom is gay. But like I said she was rape when she was 13 or 14. Men are dirtbags.

That's pretty bad but I was raped 9 years later and because I was a guy it was not that bad. Had I been a daughter being rape she would have gotten me help but since it was man on man crime what the fuck. She wasn't too bothered. had I been raped by one of her girlfroends she probably would have been up in arms, Or maybe I'm wrong.

Besides I can't go back to school, husbot says I have to find work like...soon!

he said for me to take whatever I can get at this point.

: [

that's not good. I really do not do very well in public or around people.

GOD: *SWAT*

Posted by: Fishgrease at July 1, 2006 02:55 AM

i would want to pick his zits! : ]

i think you should show your photos.

God doesn't have zits. I am not really sure if God has a face, maybe if he did he would look like Bob Marley, but other than that.

Or maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:56 AM

Maybe, she was so caught up in her own grief and disbelelf of what had happened that she was frozen.

Not making excuses, I'm just saying Mothers are people too, and they don't always react the way we would like them to or think they should.

>>you'll never know till you go down and find out.

but my guess?

you're living in a liberal state, I think probably depends on how much your husband makes.

my bet is you'll qualify.

and the worst thing that'd happen is you might waste a day.

google around for local schools. I bet there's lots of info about the kind of programs I'm talking about. get the number and call.

I think liberal states recognize the real need of peole like you who've raised families and now need skills to enter a way different work force than before you got married.

You could take jpournalism and have the rockiniest paper in oregon!

or lean web design. but definitely start with the basics. even if it means taking english composition and math at some point.

and get a good portfolio together.

i'd be glad to write the blurbs with you

What would you want to do if you had your choice?

and then find a way of doing it.

or lean web design. but definitely start with the basics. even if it means taking english composition and math at some point.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 03:01 AM

I have already taken a college corse on web page design and I got an A!

I took an ROP corse in computer repair, and I got an A!

I took an entry level Photography corse and the professor ask me out, I said no, and I got an A!

I took an english 10 college course and I got a
D!

well Bgurls out,

the doggers is out.

and i'm heading there.

Or maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 02:56 AM

maybe she felt because they were men, she was powerless to stop them?

There is nothing to college. I have two degrees and I am a fucking idiot. If I wasn't so atheletic and good looking I would have starved to death a long time ago. So don't let "college" scare you.

they don't even have a math class that I qualify for .

I mean that I flunked math so badly that they were speechless. they told me to take some kind of college prep corse, while they figured out what to do with me.

They sent me in for testing.

Glosoli, Sigur Ros

Hoppipolla, Sigur Ros

MAT

i reccomend recognising your skills

and disregarding your flaws, just focus on the good stuff.

Mothers are people too, and they don't always react the way we would like them to or think they should.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 03:00 AM7

You're right. I am being selfish. I just haven't had a chance to cry since I remembered being molested.

I just gotta spam for Viagra Pro.

Is there such a thing?

"Open the window. I just took a Viagra Pro."

"The window?"

"Yeah, just do it. You'll see."

To achieve any goal you will have to work at it. If you want to learn math then go out and get the tools you will need to get the job done and then make it happen. The world will not come to you.

PS Ask for Wild American Shrimp!!!!

You're right. I am being selfish. I just haven't had a chance to cry since I remembered being molested.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 03:07 AM

OH Mel, I never said you were selfish. I don't think your selfish.

I really do understand what it feels like to be unvaladated.

I mean, I know what it's like to have something terrible happen to you and for no one to think it's worth crying over.

I do know Mel!

I also know that we all need a good cry now and then and again.

night gang

time to snooze

love ya all, rest easy )

//well if i was running the world there'd be a hell of a lot more smiles and food.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 1, 2006 02:27 AM
//

evern reed grapeapes of rath jimmy? :)

I took an english 10 college course and I got a D!

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 03:04 AM

we all have our Achilles heals.

so you know hat to fix.

I don't remember about LD

what is that, liberal detective?

lady doctor? loonie Dunce?

sweet dreams Sunny J.

Give the doggers a sratch from me!

: ]

Show ya pictures of the shed tomorrow.

Make a path, people!

Viagra Pro!

Thanks MAT....

I will be back to my own self next week.

Take care of your selves and each other. We will live to fight another day.

Bedbugs And Ballyhoo, Echo And The Bunnymen

Ball And Chain, Social Distortion

lady doctor? loonie Dunce?

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 03:11 AM

learning disability.

Dyslexica, Add, Dumbass disease.

that type of thang.

Crap, I just gave the trolls, more ammo.

jeebus. ima goin thru thisn klassmaytes.kom an seein em buncher ole buddyz listed. kant beleeve nex yeerz gonna mayke 20 yeerz sense graduashen.

goddamit! never felt old till now....

You're all freaks.

vigrapro

They sent me in for testing.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 03:06 AM

then why not cheat and use a spell checker?

there is one on the google tool bar. and there's a really nifty plug-in one for the opera browser.

I get excited can forget to use mine all the time.

But it is till nice to have handy.

We will live to fight another day.

Posted by: Spike at July 1, 2006 03:12 AM

will do!

XOXO!

You're all freaks.

Posted by: Mel at July 1, 2006 03:14 AM

I know, the only list I make the top 10 of!

: ]

Goodnight people.

Nadal-Agassi. Nuff Said.

But it is till nice to have handy.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 03:15 AM

Spell checker works for some stuff chubby but it does not catch everything or it says stuff like
"BITCH what the fuck did you just try to spell?"

Or

I get this too!

"WHAAAAAAAAA?"

Or this

"WE have no fucking idea what languge you are trying to type."

or
"YOU AGAIN!" "GIVE IT UP already!"

: ]

Jenny Says, Cowboy Mouth

sweet dreams Mel.

Love to you!

>>Dyslexica, Add, Dumbass disease.

ok, ok.

shit, you thought you could told me earlier.

maybe that explains why you're so pissed at the world?

maybe it would be handy to know?

like you're the on;y one?

like you think its completely impossible I am too?

huh?

nite Jim, Mel.

see you guys doen the road.

not completely.

Just, sick of hearing,

"If you only tried harder."

trying has nothing to do with it.

It's adapping to the way most

people learn. The colleges

do have ways of helping

the Ld's but, MAN!

I already had

adaptive

PE!

"WE have no fucking idea what languge you are trying to type."

or "YOU AGAIN!" "GIVE IT UP already!"

: ]

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 03:18 AM

that's why there are other tricks like using search engines and online dictionaries.

and tricks like looking up int opposite in the theresaurus.

thanks for the information Chubby,

I will check out the cc sitution here. Never know.

that's why there are other tricks like using search engines and online dictionaries.

and tricks like looking up int opposite in the theresaurus.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 03:29 AM

I use those when my daughter is not here! : ]

I have found that I can find more stuff by mispellin it than I can when I spell it correctly.

So many people have fucked up the english languge it's almost impossible to learn it.

there are so many rules!

and see RULES were ment to be broken in my book.

Man, I have huge narly blisters on my left hand from painting and whatknot.

but matt, the real improvent for me is slowing down and looking at the screen once in a while.

Hi still want to look at the keyes.

Blue Eyes, Cary Brothers

Hi still want to look at the keyes.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 03:33 AM

slowing down is not possible for me.

and for some reason I don't always see my mistakes right away or at all.

My daughter sat down and read something I wrote, she called me over, and said "mama did you leave out all of the, the's, and and's and to's on purpose?"

I was like what are you talking about. and she sat me down and said "LOOK" and I could not see what she saw till she pointed at the place were the words should have been.

It is maddening.

>>I have found that I can find more stuff by mispellin it than I can when I spell it correctly.

that explains some of the links you posted.

I just want to be supportive. and remind myself not to beat myself up over the shortcomings. just deal with them the best I can.

I can't believe my spelling end typoes improve when I look at the screen instead of the keyboard.

but I just get over the temptation to look.

; , " . !

all might as well be chinese writing to me.

I kinda get it sometimes and other times I freak out and just go all cattywompus.

It is maddening.

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 03:36 AM

we'll get Crank to tutor us.
;)

New Slang The Shins

why don't you do the world a big favor and open an organic bakery/ coffee shop?

get one of you kids to do the books. you run the kitchen.

we'll get Crank to tutor us. ;)

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 03:40 AM

I asked him one time, but I don't think is was to into the idea.

Can't say has I blame him, many have tried, all have failed.

I can build blank puzzles like a house on fire though!

the lady that tested me said she was amazed at how fast I was and the puzzle portion of the test.

they tested me for three days! The math was the worst!

I felt tortured after they were done with that part.

Math causes my head to split completely in two!

>>but I don't think is was to into the idea.

I think it would make his head explode. maybe not the first hour, or first week. maybe not even the first week or month. but evntually!

why don't you do the world a big favor and open an organic bakery/ coffee shop?

get one of you kids to do the books. you run the kitchen.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 03:44 AM

: ]

it takes money!

FUCKING MONEY! I really could open the best little cyber cafe ever, if I had money and a partner.

I'm a libra, we like to have partners on working type thangs.

Husbot is not into the whole open your own business live by the seat of your pants type thang not enough security i guess.

Me I could open a cyber cafe in a fucking school bus and be happy if I had someone to help me and be happy too.

I better get to sleep. I've already bloggered more than I should.

got to have baklace.

I wonder what ever happened with Ono and that DVD buner?

balance , not baklace.

nite mat!

Long time ago i wanted to open a place to eat called

"never the same plate twice"

Long name i know, but it had a gimic.

nothing would match, no tables, chairs, curtians, dishware, nothing!

then everytime you ate there you get food on a different plate and the menu would always be different.

It would never work though because people are creatures of habit and anything that different would freak them out.

Night chubby,

thanks for the ideas and encouragement.

I'd better hit the hay too.

I have roofing to do tomorrow.

sweet dreams

peace.

Hungry Like The Wolf, Duran Duran

Barely Breathing (Acoustic), Duncan Sheik

Sweet dreams WFC!

thanks for the music!

XOXO

I thik it would be fun

my niec and her friend bought the restaunt she's cooked at so the last 10 years.

really got to crash, its been a long day.

Tiny Dancer, Elton John

Stacy's Mom, Fountains Of Wayne

Night MAT!

X's & O's to you and the fam.

Night, CB!

Wow.

Okay, the dumbest fucking breakup song I've ever heard.

Fuck It (Don't Want You Back), Eamon

Tex Avery's The TV of Tomorrow....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu1jN4_Y48g&search=tex%20avery

theenk yallz need muck4doo englesh traynin. ya havenr choyse...mucky style or thosth stylt

Thanks for the Tex Avery, GG

Good night, all

Michigan J. Frog (La rana Michigan J.) Caricatura de 1955 Creada por Chuck Jones para la Warner Bros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_c5ZAIXbk&search=michigan%20frog

http://www.eyeenvision.com/litterbox/herekittykitty.html

Good Night, Blog.

:)

non traynin fore em week.

>:(

The Fall Of The American Republic

Congressional rubber stamp of military commissions in doubt. Sen. John Warner (R-VA) “said Friday that he was not sure that Congress should pass legislation to create new military tribunals for terror suspects, a stance that raised doubts about prospects for a White House plan to establish an alternative to the commissions struck down this week by the Supreme Court,” the New York Times reports.

LINK

non traynin fore em week.

>:(

Posted by: muck4doo at July 1, 2006 06:24 AM

*

chin up, muck

remember the alamo

Legal Expert: Congress Can’t Rubber Stamp Military Commissions Without Endangering U.S. Troops
Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its decision in the Hamdan case, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went on television and said that all Congress needed to do was provide its “blessing” to Bush’s procedures. Many others, especially critics of the decision, have echoed Graham’s position.

Today, Georgetown Law Professor Carlos Vazquez explained that things aren’t as simple as Graham and others would have you believe.

Vazquez said that Congress could pass a law authorizing the procedures ruled illegal by the court. But according to the court’s decision, doing so would abrogate Common Article 3 of Geneva Conventions. This would have serious consequences because the Geneva Conventions provide essential protections to U.S. troops abroad. Watch it:

Vazquez also noted that — contrary to some interpretations circulating in the blogosphere — the court did not find the Geneva Conventions were only relevant because they were incorporated into the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Even if you amend that law, Gevena still applies.

You can find a summary of Vazquez remarks on the Georgetown Law blog.

LINK

Good Night, Blog.

:)

Posted by: A. at July 1, 2006 05:21 AM

*

goodnight, moo-cow

Good night, all

Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 1, 2006 04:26 AM

*

goodnight, waiting

hope ya don't die in your sleep

hello, hi, good morning

TONID!

just putting the kids to sleep

then we can drink ouzo & reminisce about our ouzo binges

and wear that pretty dress that bearly covers your undies

: )

Ella, ono!! Kali Spera, psihi mou!

i've learnt to record from a video tape to a dvd

however, i have to fine tune it

so next, i have to learn how to erase/edit wot i recorded

then record all the programs i want to post

Posted by: toniD at July 1, 2006 09:15 AM

i'm glad my freshness wasn't offensive

: )

are you having a coffee, toni

i'm about to have one

so if you're having one

and i start having one

we'll both be drinking coffee together

except a million miles apart

we'll both be drinking coffee together

except a million miles apart

Posted by: air-ono at July 1, 2006 09:29 AM

I'm having coffe too!

How about that!

I would love to get a tape/dvd recorder!! Have many movies I won't have to re-puechase and some tapes I've taped from the TV.

Like the Chicago Bull, Michael Jordan Championship games!!

are you having a coffee, toni

i'm about to have one

so if you're having one

and i start having one

we'll both be drinking coffee together

except a million miles apart

Posted by: air-ono at July 1, 2006 09:29 AM

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

Electric!!!!!

if i don't spill coffee on my dvd remote,

that will be super

if i can't manage that,

it will be the same as spilling coffee on your remote

except a million miles away

and the added bonus of your remote not actually suffering any real damage

Carnage in Iraq
by Joe in DC - 7/01/2006 07:34:00 AM

How is the Bush administration going to spin this as more progress?:
A parked car bomb exploded at a popular outdoor market Saturday in a Shiite slum in Baghdad, killing at least 66 people and wounding dozens, authorities said. It was the bloodiest attack to hit Iraq since the death of terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The blast, which occurred around 10 a.m. when the Sadr City market was packed with shoppers, destroyed the stalls where food and clothes are peddled and sent up a plume of gray smoke. Flames shot out the windows of several scorched cars.

LINK

//I would love to get a tape/dvd recorder!!//

just buy the dvd recorder & hook it up to your video

my situation is complicated

owing to my cutting edge t.v. set, from 1988, doesn't have an AV channel

then it gets fiddly

to think my t.v. once flew missions for nasa

and now it can't even connect a dvd recorder

just another piece of junk in space

*

i should ask for my money back

"YO! you told me this t.v. could predict the future!!"

Do you have a DVD slot on your computer, ono?

I hear you can hook up a vcr player to the computer and copy a tape to the DVD writer on the computer.

//Do you have a DVD slot on your computer//

no.

sometimes i feel like i'm a guy on a planet with antiquated outta-date space junk

I hear you can hook up a vcr player to the computer and copy a tape to the DVD writer on the computer.

Posted by: toniD at July 1, 2006 09:51 AM

Having said that, I am sure it isn't as easy as it seems and would need other equipment to do it.

Bah! Technology!! I can get by to do normal things on the computer, but, when it gets really techie, and I have to really concentrate, I lose interest or ask a techie for help!!

i'm waiting for microsoft to release their new operating system

then i'll buy a lap-top with all the bells & whistles...

television

rocket launcher

bazouki player

in short, the works

sometimes i feel like i'm a guy on a planet with antiquated outta-date space junk

Posted by: air-ono at July 1, 2006 09:55 AM

I hear ya!

I now have 3 CPU's, the computer "towers". Each with a problem. Of course there are 3 different manufacturers and I can't take circutry from one and put it in the other coz it doesn't fit. Which means, I still have to buy what I need.

Posted by: toniD at July 1, 2006 09:57 AM

yeah, i know

so just go to a computer shop & tell them wot you want

Posted by: toniD at July 1, 2006 10:01 AM

bummer

it might pay to ditch the lot & start a new

*

i spoke to a friend today, & he told me about these ex-lease computers that are dirt cheap

Ono, check this out!! You can find out if the NSA is monitoring your computer...

With windows:

Go to run

type in tracert nsa.gov

and enter

You can see what is being sent to NSA through at&t!

also,

when i'm get serious about up-dating, i'll confer with sunny jim, or chubby, et al

(and make them earn my admiration)

Posted by: toniD at July 1, 2006 10:06 AM

(lol)

so did you find out if they're monitoring you

//type in tracert nsa.gov//

so i type in "tracert nsa.gov"

Attention: New Yorkers With TIme On Your Hands, July 10th

There's a FReeper protest you can break up...

so did you find out if they're monitoring you

Posted by: air-ono at July 1, 2006 10:10 AM

Unfortunately, yes!!

It would be interesting, since you live out of the country, if you were being traced!

Posted by: toniD at July 1, 2006 10:15 AM

so wot's your next step...

transfer all your funds to the sudan

transfer all your funds to the sudan

Posted by: air-ono at July 1, 2006 10:19 AM

What funds?????

//It would be interesting, since you live out of the country, if you were being traced!//

yeah, i know

i'll do it after the soccer

[they're previewing the game (england v. portugal) in 10 minutes]

and i don't want any interruptions from american spys

//What funds?????//

you know... ...the funds, man

: )

the bread, man

the moo-la

the green cheese

the bread, man

the moo-la

the green cheese

Posted by: air-ono at July 1, 2006 10:26 AM

That's what I mean....What Funds, moo-la, green (mouldy) cheese?

1977 blackout

http://blackout.gmu.edu/archive/a_1977.html

http://blackout.gmu.edu/highlights/blackout77.html

Here's a Soccer rundown, so far

LINK

we'll talk about "THE funds" (the hard cheddar)

after the game.

i like to warm-up with the teams about to play

& sing their national anthems

i really get into it...

when a goal is scored

i pretend that i scored it

then i go wild & hump the furniture

i pretend that i scored it

then i go wild & hump the furniture

Posted by: air-ono at July 1, 2006 10:46 AM

Thought u had a blowup doll!

Have to leave for work soon! So we will talk later, ono.

//Thought u had a blowup doll!//

yeah, i do

but i don't have sex with it

(we're just friends)

"aren't we, pumpkin?"

(tee-hee) she's not answering... she's shy

Somebody wanted some free publicity for their little movie. Glad to see Republicans are willing to oblige.

LINK

Christian Movie's Rating Worries Lawmakers
Email this Story

Jul 1, 7:28 AM (ET)

By SAM HANANEL

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Christian-themed movie about a football coach's faith in God is finding an audience in Congress - not so much for its inspirational message, but for the PG rating it received.

House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and other lawmakers are demanding explanations after hearing complaints that the movie "Facing the Giants" was rated PG instead of G due to religious content.

The Motion Picture Association of America claims the controversy arose from a miscommunication with the filmmakers. It says religion was not the reason for the rating.

"This incident raises the disquieting possibility that the MPAA considers exposure to Christian themes more dangerous for children than exposure to gratuitous sex and violence," Blunt said in a letter to MPAA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan Glickman.

After meeting with MPAA officials, Blunt and a handful of other House members said they remain concerned about the subjective native of the ratings process.

"I'm not satisfied," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who attended the meeting with Blunt. "We probably will want to revisit this ratings process to have some commonality in the standards that exist for movies, videos and video games."

Blackburn said she wants the House Energy and Commerce Committee to hold hearings on the issue later this year.

Blunt also brought up a recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health that found that the MPAA standards on sex and violence in movies have been getting weaker.

"Mr. Blunt does continue to have questions about the process by which 'Facing the Giants' was rated and what that says about ratings creep in general," spokeswoman Burson Taylor said Friday.

An MPAA spokesman did not return calls seeking comment. But in a letter to Blunt earlier this month, the MPAA's Glickman insisted the rating for "F

ok, meg

if you say so

*

thanks for the coffee & cyber-cheese, toni

So many people have fucked up the english languge it's almost impossible to learn it.

there are so many rules!

Posted by: akaMAT at July 1, 2006 03:31 AM

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

There is only one rule:

Thou shalt not irritate Sr. Mary Helen.

Thou shalt not irritate Sr. Mary Helen.

Posted by: Crank Bait at July 1, 2006 12:07 PM

Amen.

Sr. Mary Helen: "Define the past perfect."

Bait: "Last year when I had Sr. John for English."

Sr. Mary Helen: (thwack)

Bait: "Ow!"

---Bait Joke Repair Service---

Sr. Mary Helen: "Define the past perfect."

Bait: "Last year when I had learned English from Sr. John."

Sr. Mary Helen: (thwack)

Bait: "Ow!"

UPDATE: O'Reilly apologizes for Murtha misquote

On the June 29 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly apologized for "pick[ing] up" a quote from a South Florida Sun-Sentinel article that incorrectly reported that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) had claimed that the "American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran." The Sun-Sentinel issued a correction on June 28, stating that Murtha was actually citing a recent Pew Research Center poll of public opinion in the United States and 14 European, African, and Asian countries. Read more

Limbaugh, Hannity continued to attack Murtha based on inaccurate Sun-Sentinel report

During their radio shows, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News host Sean Hannity used an incorrect news report to criticize Rep. John P. Murtha, even though the newspaper that published the report has issued a correction. Read more

Happy 4th of July weekend people!!

Journal editorial overlooked inconsistencies to claim Levin "spun" Hayden's testimony on Feith

A June 27 Wall Street Journal editorial alleged that Sen. Carl Levin had "spun" the testimony given by CIA Director Gen. Michael V. Hayden at his Senate confirmation hearings "to claim support for the Democratic assertion that former Pentagon official [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy] Douglas Feith had 'distorted intelligence assessments on Iraq.' " In fact, when Levin asked Hayden during the hearing whether he was "comfortable with Mr. Feith's office's approach to intelligence analysis," Hayden responded directly: "No, sir, I wasn't." Read more

morning gang.

tracert nsa.gov

do a search and read up on it,

and don't freak. way more to it then pinging the NSA... for example:

"2 Petabytes a day. Massive storage for years on end...I cant even crack the math on that in terms of hardware. What, a few MILLION 500gig Seagate Drives? damn...Lots of good detail: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/index.php?p=318"

WSJ editorial twisted logic to blast NY Times, defend WSJ reporting on financial surveillance

A Wall Street Journal editorial twisted logic by attacking The New York Times for publishing a June 23 article on a Treasury Department program designed to monitor terrorists' international financial transactions while simultaneously defending the Journal's own contemporaneous article on the Treasury Department program. In fact, there appears to be no relevant basis for differentiating between the two reports. Read more

Gitmo win likely cost Navy lawyer his career

....

Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift -- the Navy lawyer who beat the president of the United States in a pivotal Supreme Court battle over trying alleged terrorists -- figures he'll probably have to find a new job.
Of course, it's always risky to compare your boss to King George III.

Swift made the analogy to the court, saying President Bush had overstepped his authority when he bypassed Congress and set up illegal military tribunals to try Guantanamo detainees such as Swift's alleged al-Qaida client, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. The justices agreed, ruling 5-3 Thursday in favor of dismantling the current tribunal system.

Despite his spectacular success, with the assistance of attorneys from the Seattle firm Perkins Coie, Swift thinks his military career is coming to an end. The 44-year-old Judge Advocate General officer, who was recently named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the country by The National Law Journal, was passed over for promotion last year as the high-profile case was making headlines around the world.

"I may be one of the most influential lawyers in America," the Seattle University Law School graduate said, "but I won't be in the military much longer. That irony did strike me."

Hey, Jim.

A 'morning to you!

How's things?

eya MJP,

fine here, doing more trailer repairs,

in the sun. getting a good tan even with sun blocker!

how's it going on your end?

Editor&Publisher: 2 Top Journalism Orgs Hit Latest Attacks on Press

NEW YORK -- Two journalism organizations criticized lawmakers on Friday for condemning newspapers that reported on the government's secret program for tracking the finances of terrorists.

"The administration of President George W. Bush and some members of Congress are threatening America's bedrock values of free speech and free press with their attempts to demonize newspapers for fulfilling their constitutional role in our democratic society," the American Society of Newspaper Editors said in a statement.

ASNE and the Society of Professional Journalists issued separate responses to a House resolution that declared the newspaper reports had "placed the lives of Americans in danger." The resolution, which most Republicans supported and most Democrats opposed, was approved by a 227-183 vote on Thursday.

SPJ said the House had "entered dangerous territory" with its resolution.

"This measure was passed without congressional investigation and without a moment of hearings," said SPJ's president, David Carlson. "There's a thin line between official government condemnation of press coverage and violating constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press."...

Screw You Pigs!

Good Post Jim.

Listening right now.

This is what Nazi's do when they have too much
time on their hands and they have the power...

which, by the way....is ALWAYS!

California Gov. Arnold Schartzenegger's homeland security agency has tracked antiwar and animal-welfare protesters, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The practice has drawn criticsm from the state attorney general, the paper says. "When people exercise their 1st Amendment rights to rally, march and protest, they should not have to worry that intelligence officials are watching them or their activities are in any way being painted with the terrorism brush," Lockyer spokesman Tom Dresslar said in an interview with the Times.

The paper obtained official reports detailing some of the monitoring, which included the tracking of:
* A rally protesting the slaughter of Canadian seals for fur.
* An antiwar rally that featured Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.
* A Women's International League for Peace and Freedom gathering in support of an antiwar protester facing trespassing charges.

eya B3

good to read ya!

Operation "Holy Moly" ... working great.....

Car Bombing in Baghdad Market Kills 66

Good, man.

Just I'm talkin to my relatives and.....

Well, that can be just uncomforatable...

They are are a great bunch!

My uncle (represents Cinglar wireless)

So, HE IS THE COMPANY.

Sad.

I thought, I'd bring up the radiation issue,

but...

Representatives for 10,000 EPA Scientists Fighting Bush's Attempt to Close Research Libraries

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

A letter on behalf of 10,000 EPA scientists asked Congress today to stop the Bush Administration from closing the agency's network of technical research libraries. Jeff Ruch, Executive Director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told BuzzFlash that the libraries "house documents of work conducted by the EPA or related to EPA projects or efforts" and are vital for the EPA as well as research universities and other organizations. "Public access will completely lost."

She should be sharing a cell with those 7 guys from Miami .....

NEW YORK -- In a letter to E&P earlier this week, Lee Salem, the new president of Universal Syndicate, responded to a critical column about his client, Ann Coulter, by E&P's Dave Astor. Salem suggested that Coulter was a brilliant satirist who does not mean it when she periodically wishes violence or even death on liberals and other "traitors."

The next day, in a New York weekly, Coulter refuted the notion that she is only joking, and on Thursday night the subject came up again when she appeared on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes."

Allan Colmes mentioned Salem's claim, and asked her if she wanted to take back an earlier statement that Timothy McVeigh should have bombed The New York Times office, especially if the reporters were inside.

"No, I think the Timothy McVeigh line was merely prescient after The New York Times has leapt beyond -- beyond nonsense straight into treason, last week," Coulter replied.

hee!

Uncles and Aunts eh?

people living "comfortable" lives

are notoriously unconcerned with anyone elses.

so give em some slack. you can't force enlightenment on peeps.

eventually all this will reach out and smack em.

has allready, but they are'nt and won't

be aware of it till it really

dents their lifestyle.

The whole thing is designed so lives are affected as little as possible.

From credit to Chinese goods.

I can't believe the Chinese goods thing has not backfired yet.

Yep,

And I don't need the extra crap either.

But I'll tell you, my uncle is truly and thorougly

a "Company Man".

I find his lack of any non-vetted opinion disturbing to say the least.

ya B3

true in one sense,

but really obvious to those affected.

this is a class/racist attack, successful so far...

Combine that with a deepened sense of self preservation, lack of community and a general sense of not being able to make a difference.... And Pow!

Journalists and 'Leakers' Feel Heat

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8IJ9IO80.html

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By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent

July 01,2006 | NEW YORK -- Headline by headline, a trickle of news leaks on Iraq and the antiterror campaign has grown into a steady stream of revelations, and from Pennsylvania Avenue to Downing Street, Copenhagen to Canberra, governments are responding with pressure and prosecutions.

The latest target is The New York Times. But the unfolding story begins as far back as 2003, when British weapons expert David Kelly was "outed" as the source of a story casting doubt on his government's arguments for invading Iraq, and he committed suicide.

And it will roll on this fall, when Danish journalists face trial for reporting their government knew there was no evidence of banned weapons in Iraq.

In London's Central Criminal Court, too, accused leakers will be in the dock this fall, for allegedly disclosing President Bush talked of bombing al-Jazeera, the Arab television station. The British government threatens to prosecute newspapers that write any more about that leaked document.

Media advocates are alarmed at what they see as a mounting assault on press freedom in country after country, arguing it is potentially chilling the pursuit of truth as U.S. and European leaders pursue wars on terror and in Iraq.

"It's grotesque that at a time when political rhetoric is full of notions of democracy and liberty that we should have this fundamental right of journalists to investigate and report on public interest matters called into question," Aidan White, general-secretary of the Belgium-based International Federation of Journalists, told The Associated Press.

Hey A.,

Just wanted to thank you for the

Clapton, Classisal G., you gave me a while back...

For some reason I'm "extra diggin" it today.

:)

ya, "disturbing"

well they'll be "disturbed"

when it reaches out and touches them...

i make an effort to warn folks but i can't force them to think.

funny thing is how many of my friends who thought i was "exaggerating"

now pay attention. they can see this as an attack on their families and carreers now.

Pentagon: Tell Us How Many Civilians You've Killed

A US military spokesperson in Baghdad told me the statistics were "classified."

Perhaps the Pentagon won't release detailed statistics because checkpoint killings are much more common than they claim, and that releasing such details would result in independent investigations showing the gap.

Earlier this month, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told reporters violence against civilians by occupying troops is "common" in Iraq, adding that many soldiers have "no respect for citizens, smashing civilian cars and killing on a suspicion or a hunch."

Earlier that day, U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint had shot and killed a pregnant woman on her way to give birth.

There is just as much good that needs preserved as bad that needs stopped.

We can't forget what we are fighting for.

Sigh.

Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't

The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.

---

But months later the tribunal president returned with bad news: the witnesses could not be found. Mr Mujahid's hopes sank and he was returned to the wire-mesh cell where he remains today.

---

The Guardian searched for Mr Mujahid's witnesses and found them within three days. One was working for President Hamid Karzai. Another was teaching at a leading American college. The third was living in Kabul. The fourth, it turned out, was dead. Each witness said he had never been approached by the Americans to testify in Mr Mujahid's hearing.

---

The witnesses largely corroborated Mr Mujahid's story, with some qualifications.

ya B3

i figger when they make us paranoid they win.

i also figger when we remain positive and outthink em we win.

been my approach for 40+ years. works fine and preserves everyones sanity.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 1, 2006 01:42 PM

Yep, . We live at a time where peeps really CAN make a difference, and help others. Even if it's only in the attitude and outlook.

KILROY WAS HERE!

GIs may have planned Iraq rape, slayings

BEIJI, Iraq - Investigators believe a group of U.S. soldiers suspected of raping an Iraqi woman, then killing her and three members of her family plotted the attack for nearly a week, a U.S. military official said Saturday.

Up to five soldiers are being investigated in the March killings, the fifth pending case involving alleged slayings of Iraqi civilians by U.S. troops.

The Americans entered the Sunni Arab's family home, separated three males from the woman, raped her and burned her body using a flammable liquid in a cover-up attempt, a military official close to the investigation said. The three males were also slain.

The soldiers had studied their victims for about a week and the attack was "totally premeditated," the official said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The family had just moved into the home in the insurgent-riddled area around Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad.

been my approach for 40+ years. works fine and preserves everyones sanity.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 1, 2006 01:42 PM

LOL Jimmy!

If you ain't crazy...

you're lazy!

hee!

theres a fair amount of that too.

my definition of crazy has gotten so flexible i can do yoga with it.

I started woking on my brand of craze, right around the time this came out....Alan Ginsberg's
"Howl."

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,

who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated

who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,

who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,

who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall,

who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York.

who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night

with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls,

dam i miss Bill Mauldin EB...

despite it all theres some dam good folks out there.

There're too many asses, eliminate them

http://www.neodelight.com/webgames/asstroys

Shell sent me a treasure lately.

"Brave Men" by Earnie Pyle.

he wrote about what

Anzio was like

in WW 2.

Alan and company.

deff worth reading up on.

what do you get out of their experiences?

"The nation that controls magnetism will control the universe".

"Just a flesh wound"

Fearless Fosdick, Al Capp

i'm here because i love you folks.

The Night People
vs.
"Creeping Meatballism"

IN THE LANGUAGE OF "DAY PEOPLE", I suppose, "Night People" may be called many things. Like "soreheads", "wise-guys", "egg-heads", "long-hairs", "outsiders", etc.

Whatever they're called, the fact remains they're a genuine phenomenon. They're the people who refuse to be taken in by the "Day World" philosophy of "Creeping Meatballism."

The average person today thinks in certain prescribed patterns. People today have a genuine fear of stepping out and thinking on their own. "Creeping Meatballism" is this rejection of individuality. It's conformity.

The American brags about being a great individualist, when actually he's the world's least individual person. The idea of thinking individually has become a big joke. Old Thomas J. Watson of I.B.M. came up with the idea for a sign which just said: "Think". And today, it's a gag! This is the result of "Creeping Meatballism".

The guy who has been taken in by the "Meatball" philosophy is the guy who really believes that contemporary people are slim, and clean-limbed, and they're so much fun to be with. . . .because they drink Pepsi-Cola. As long as he believes this, he's in the clutches of "Creeping Meatballism"

The Night People vs. "Creeping Meatballism"

IN THE LANGUAGE OF "DAY PEOPLE", I suppose, "Night People" may be called many things. Like "soreheads", "wise-guys", "egg-heads", "long-hairs", "outsiders", etc.

Whatever they're called, the fact remains they're a genuine phenomenon. They're the people who refuse to be taken in by the "Day World" philosophy of "Creeping Meatballism."

The average person today thinks in certain prescribed patterns. People today have a genuine fear of stepping out and thinking on their own. "Creeping Meatballism" is this rejection of individuality. It's conformity.

The American brags about being a great individualist, when actually he's the world's least individual person. The idea of thinking individually has become a big joke. Old Thomas J. Watson of I.B.M. came up with the idea for a sign which just said: "Think". And today, it's a gag! This is the result of "Creeping Meatballism".
His name deserve's to be spelled correctly. Sorry

The guy who has been taken in by the "Meatball" philosophy is the guy who really believes that contemporary people are slim, and clean-limbed, and they're so much fun to be with. . . .because they drink Pepsi-Cola. As long as he believes this, he's in the clutches of "Creeping Meatballism"

Sorry about the double post.

Wanted to spell Gene Shepherd's name correctly
cause he's a hero to me!

"Thimk!"

appeared within days of Ol Thomas J. Watson coming up with that ya know...

studs terkel on AAR

was a dam good interview with Jackie...

Realplayer link for NASA shuttle video

http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram

"You can't remember everything!"

Best of's on "Working It"

up next:

"Mary Beth Maxwell, Executive Director of American Rights at Work, who will discuss some fundamental freedoms worth commemorating this Fourth of July: the freedom of association and the right to organize."

"The nation that controls magnetism will control the universe".

Posted by: Chester Gould at July 1, 2006 01:58 PM

wot an idiot

whoever invents cheese will rule over all eternity...

"cheese is a kind of meat

a tasty yellow beef

i milk it from my teat

but i try to be discreet...

ooooooooh, cheese!

ooooooooh, cheese!"

~sung by tommy from an episode of the mighty boosh

*

trying to keep awake for the france v. brazil clash

with great nautical cheese songs of the 19th to early 20th century

(moby dick could have been nothing more than a whale shaped hunk of fetta)

I checked my mailbox.

no mity booosch yet.

I'll go back in half an hour.

oooooh, come my children

come hug your father

for i will die

& be too stinky to hug evermore

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 1, 2006 02:26 PM

i have to master the erase/edit function

it's a freakin' racket

eya AO.

some funny shit from you upbloggie.

sometimes yer brilliant snortbutt.

eya, s.j.

wait till you watch spaced & the mighty boosh & "pusher"

then you'll experience true brilliance

it feels really strange that i'm watching the mighty boosh

because it feels like you're all here, too

but you're not...

kinda like when you're looking at a naked chick in a naked chick mag

and you go to lick her vag

and you realise you may as well lick an envelope with money in it

hee!

true brilliance!

(how many watts we talkin here?

fridgeadeezer light or wheel mounted searchlight?)

brazils national anthem is cool

it's sounds like a jingle for lollies

FASCIST PIGS.

GET YOUR HOOVES

OUT OF MY POCKETS.

SWINE LIKE YOU

WANT EVERYTHING.

TO GET IT WITH SLEAZE,

BLINDLY YOU KILL

WITH POLITICAL SWAGGER

AND DEVILISH ROCKETS.

PEOPLE MEAN NOTHING TO YOU.

WITH THE MACHINE YOU IDENTIFY.

YOUR IDEAS SURPASS YOUR SENSES

MORALITY AND REASON YOU DEFY.

FANATICAL CONCEPTIONS OF

RIGHT VS. WRONG

EARS DEAFEND BY MONEY

CAN’T EVEN HEAR

WE ALL DANCE

TO THE SAME SONG.

LAND OF THE FREE

HOME OF THE BRAVE

YOU CAN HAVE SOME TOO

JUST SHUT UP

FALL IN LINE

AND BEHAVE.

SELF RIGHTEOUS RINGLEADERS

GANGSTERS AT BEST

WRAPPED IN YOUR CORPORATE FLAG

OBEDIENCE TO HIPOCRACY

YOUR LOYALTY TEST.

VILE AND WICKED DOMINATION

YOUR COVETED PRIZE

YOUR MASK IS RELIGION

AND FAITH WITHOUT EYES.

FASCISM IS UPON US

KNOCKING AT OUR DOOR

MISGUIDED PEOPLE ROLLING

THE RED CARPET OUT ON THE FLOOR.

Gator ringing doorbell

i'm out,

make sure you wind the bloggie clock and feed the pets.

back to it!

For a live link to the space shuttle launch go to yahoo.com

http://www.yahoo.com/

Click on the Full Screen.

Currently, "No Go," due to weather concerns.

Octopuss kills Shark

Jon Elliott is live at:

http://www.jontalk.com

The chat is at:

http://www.jonelliottshow.com/chat.html

Hope to see you there! Saturdays and Sundays, Noon to 2pm Pacific Time :)

Launch scrubbed due to weather concerns (anvil clouds in area).

Here a little ditty I transcribed just not from an episode of Fernwood Tonight:

Barth Gimble: The Ballad of Watergate by Ferdale school teaching poet, Mr. Martin Worth.

Worth: The late great Watergate Hate Spate

or

Sticks Hicks Fix the Nix

The judge was Scriccian with a heart attack,

but Gordon was strong, even though he Saw Robert Flinch and the heard the rabbi Koerpf.

His job came in the Woods from Rosemay who said,

"John Dean know anything, but his wife knew Moe

than Martha, Mitch'll get will get you in trouble'

unless you lock yourself in the John with a san-Mitch'll keep you happy.

But How Ward hunted for one, saying:

"Gee lord,'n Giddy," as he was.

"I'm no Saint," Bernard said,

"though I am a Barker.

But I swear James Cain of is own McCord"

That was no for Jeb for Stewart.

He was mug rudder than he should have been, asking:

"Where the H are All da men?

And, Alexander, what the Haig is going on?"

As Sam Dashed accrossed the corridor and saw Henry kissing her hand.

"I had Fragg buzz hard, but no one was there."

Mel aired his views but, right or wrong,

Zieggler banged into Leon's Jaw-orski, fighting

And Ervin if he was, Watt's Sam mAdder?

After all, Elliots's rich hard son wanted to work for Archibald in the whole Nixon thing.

Fenton Mulley!

(moby dick could have been nothing more than a whale shaped hunk of fetta)

Posted by: air-ono at July 1, 2006 02:19 PM

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Feta misspelled to a 't'.

---Trouble-shooting Your New DVD Player---

Problem: DVD player does not play DVD's.

Cause: No power supply.

Solution: Plug DVD player power cord into an approved outlet.

Problem: DVD player still does not play DVD's.

Cause: No DVD.

Solution: Place a DVD into DVD player.

Problem: @$#%&&*# DVD player still won't play the @#%$&&*# DVD.

Cause: Operator is an idiot. Angry, too.

Solution: Refrain from operating anything more complicated than a shovel. And watch your language.

"LBJ felt anguish; there are pictures of him, head in hands, suffering. Bush the Elder wept as he talked, with Paula Zahn, about what it was to send men to war. Bush the Younger would breastfeed the military if he could." -- Peggy Noonan, MoonBat

Link

The Gaza Beach Party Massacre

Israel bombs beach-goers and re-invades Gaza – because they can

Bush the Younger would breastfeed the military if he could." -- Peggy Noonan, MoonBat

Posted by: Kevin © at July 1, 2006 04:22 PM

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It shouldn't be a problem. He's a boob.

A Bible-Believing Christian's View of Bush

The Sandy Foundation of the White House

Fundamental universal principles/laws:

-One cannot create an inexhaustible fuel supply.

-Energy is neither created nor destroyed.

-According to Stephen Hawking, the universe has no beginning and no end.

-The Cubs suck.

Greetings blog friends!

Now this is one long thread. Can't be efficient. It is said that bandwidth cannot be created or destroyed only abused by happy people.

Please don't talk about love tonight.

Please don't talk about sweet love.

Please don't talk about being true

and all the trouble we've been through.

Ah, please don't talk about all of the plans

we had for fixin' this broken romance.

I want to go where the people dance.

I want some action ... I want to live!

Action ... I got so much to give.

I want to give it. I want to get some too.

Oh, I ... Ohhh I ... I love the nightlife,

I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea.

Oh, I love the night life,

I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea.

Please don't talk about love tonight.

Your sweet talking won't make it right.

Love and lies just bring me down

when you've got women all over town.

You can love them all and when you're through,

maybe that'll make, huh, a man out of you.

I got to go where the people dance.

I want some action ... I want to live!

Action ... I got so much to give.

I want to give it. I want to get some too.

Oh, I ... Ohhh I ... I love the nightlife,

I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea.

Oh, I love the night life,

I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea.

Oh, I love the night life,

I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea.

Oh, I love the night life,

I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea.

I love the night life,

I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea.

hola blog!

I have already googled for this but can not find the answer.

Does anyone out there know, if the flashing that goes on the side of the roof edge, goes under the underlayment or on top of the underlayment?

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Thanks anyway I found the answer!

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October 2000
Revised February 2004
Drip Edge Placement

Installing a drip edge properly can make all the difference in avoiding problems such as ice damming.

For clarification, a drip edge is a modified L-shaped flashing used along the eaves and rakes of a roof. The drip edge directs runoff water into the gutters and away from the fascia. In terms of placement, the drip edge should be installed under the roofing felt on the bottom edge of the roof and over the roofing felt on the gable ends, if applicable. The drip edge is supposed to be placed with a ¼-inch gap between the flashing and the edge of the roof sheathing or fascia. This gives a drip line that is not butted directly against wood trim.

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Back to work!

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son of god checks

I got the stink eye from husbot I really better get!

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peace!

Good old Stuart Adamson. Big Country had a lot of good singles.

grapeapes of rath

Gawd a mighty of course I've been read the grapeapes of rath. My granny laid down the grapeapes of rath, the figs of wrath, the peaches of rath and the stay hell outa the refrigerator rath. She was tough. I miss her desperately, 35 years ded.

It a lot like gettin the why ot akt red to 'ya.

You know, Mr. 4doo makes it look easy. I will cease and desist.