Frist!

Posted by annatopia at August 24, 2006 10:00 PM

You are a sick and twisted individual...

heh.

Uh...

Homeland security moving to classrooms

Schools offer programs to train professionals

You can fight terror with bombs, or guns, or even with tough words. It's a battle that has taken Americans to foreign lands and into the realm of cyberspace. In Delaware, the struggle has entered the classroom. The weapon of choice is knowledge.

Across the nation and around the world, colleges are increasingly creating degree programs and other courses to prepare students for work in "homeland security," the broadly defined realm of protecting communities and businesses against terror attacks and natural disasters.

snip...
Across the country, such programs are showing "dramatic growth," said Todd I. Stewart, director of the National Academic Consortium for Homeland Security, an organization that encourages collaboration among schools. The alliance now includes more than 330 universities and community colleges, including some overseas.

"There is not much consistency in these programs," he said. "They tend to emphasize different things. Some are broader, others are much more focused. Typically, a college or university takes a program they already have a strength in and builds on that."

haha! anna

Now you made me crave a peanut butter and Jelly sandwich! Haha!!!

heh.

Posted by: annatopia at August 24, 2006 10:16 PM

When I get that song out of my head we'll be having words...and that is if and only if it doesn't require a lobotomy...Pure evil I tell you...

[shudder]

that joke doesn't get old to me ever. it's RIDICULOUS!

Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List

Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.

The omission is inadvertent, said Katherine McLane, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, which administers the grants. “There is no explanation for it being left off the list,” Ms. McLane said. “It has always been an eligible major.”

Another spokeswoman, Samara Yudof, said evolutionary biology would be restored to the list, but as of last night it was still missing....

Scientists who knew about the omission...said they found the clerical explanation unconvincing, given the furor over challenges by the religious right to the teaching of evolution in public schools. “It’s just awfully coincidental,” said Steven W. Rissing, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio State University....

Dr. Rissing said removing evolutionary biology from the list of acceptable majors would discourage students who needed the grants from pursuing the field, at a time when studies of how genes act and evolve are producing valuable insights into human health

wow. we have moving pictures on the blog now.

we are definately moving ON UP!

Look out Atrios!

Hrm...I always wanted a degree in paranoid psycho militarism and illegal wire tapping...

If the usage of an was the the worst grammatical error of mine, you'd be speaking for me :)

Also, I'm sure I'm speaking for all the excellent bloggers in thanking Anna for ALL of your hard work in cleaning up the blog and chatting with us over the last week, on top of doing GREAT THINGS in Texas and finishing your degree.

chIMPEACHes =)
peace

The Job "Recovery" Is Over

LRA Online - August 15, 2006

With the fifth anniversary of the end of the last recession now
approaching, both employment and wages should be fully restored to their
pre-recession levels and growing in real terms. Instead, both are still
below their 2000-2001 peaks, with no sign of any improvement before the
business cycle turns down again.

Real weekly earnings declined in ten of the past 12 months. With
inflation still rising and unemployment edging up once again, there will
be no improvement in real wages through the end of the year.

The modest upturn in job growth that occurred in the second half of2005
ended abruptly this year.

Job growth hit 200,000 in February - a sufficient level to absorb new
entrants and a small number of the unemployed. But since then, job
growth has averaged only 119,000 per month, well under what is needed to
ease joblessness and keep any upward pressure on wages.

Unemployment is rising nationwide and in most major urban labor markets.
From Miami to San Francisco, large cities have lost most of the ground
they gained in the first quarter of 2006, with unemployment rates back
up to the same levels as a year ago.

In many large labor markets, the unemployment rate jumped by half a
percentage point or more from June to July 2006.

The number of mass layoffs, which dropped below 1,000 for the first
quarter of 2006, rose to 1,213 in the second quarter as GDP growth
slowed and companies in several sectors made substantial workforce cuts.

A new study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics clearly demonstrates
that the recession ended in November 2001, but employment did not
recover to its pre-recession level until early 2005.

http://www.laborresearch.org/story2.php/422

Also, I'm sure I'm speaking for all the excellent bloggers in thanking Anna for ALL of your hard work in cleaning up the blog and chatting with us over the last week, on top of doing GREAT THINGS in Texas and finishing your degree.

chIMPEACHes =)
peace

Posted by: chIMPEACHer at August 24, 2006 10:24 PM

seconded!!!!

Texas politics is really changing lately! I know its because of the Texan bloggers. (i don't live in texas thank God! but I follow the burnt orange blog and the others on it)

Translation: "If we don't get our way we're gonna hire some of the guys that used to bomb abortion clinics and head to the mall"

Bush revamps fighting terrorism message

In the thick of an election campaign,
President Bush has revived and retooled his argument that the U.S. must fight terrorists overseas or face them here. Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, some GOP candidates are borrowing Bush's line.

"We leave before the mission is done, the terrorists will follow us here," Bush warned at a news conference this week.

Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., locked in a tight Philadelphia-area re-election race, went a step further. "We either fight them there, or we fight them in the supermarkets and streets here," he said Wednesday in an interview with CNN.

The fight-them-there theme has been part of Bush's national security stump speech since 2003. But the "follow us here" part is a relatively new twist.

Noting polls that show growing Iraq war opposition, Bush and other Republicans have been stressing links between Iraq and the broader war against terrorism — a connection Democrats generally dismiss.

RePeach!

(tanks for the new thread Anna)

Pluto loses status as a planet

and now my world is turned upside down

i'm going to look foolish praying to pluto in my big mac suit

"oh, great pluto - greatest planet in whole damn solar system - greater than the ol' king kong - greater than the great khan from greater mongolia...bla-bla"

it took me 400 years to get the meter down

& now this

changing it to "greatest celestial body previously known as a planet" fucks up the flow

*

in other news

the oh-gee is still here

he's a psycho-killer

& i'm a psycho-chicken

& together ("HI!") we're the psycho-shits

anyway...

he beat his best friend with a bread board over a leather jacket

Question: How long does it take to download a musical cartoon of one minute and forty-five seconds length using dial-up at a connection speed of 42.6 Kbps?

Answer: This isn't the answer. I'm still waiting.

Answer: You have no idea how much patience this requires.

Answer: If I had a wife, I would be beating her right now. The kids, too.

Answer: 27 minutes.

hey yall i am out for the night. have to rise early tomorrow.

see ya in the A.M. and have a good night!

Thank You

Posted by majority at 8:16 AM | Comments (382)

BBC Radio Four, Archive Hour, Sat 31 July, 20:00 - 21:00 (57:16)

Since 1949 Pacifica Radio has been a unique voice of dissent, an arena for protest and a space to imagine an alternative American dream. Raided by the FBI, blown up by the Klu Klux Klan and frequently torn apart by internal troubles, Pacifica has both reported and reacted to the major social upheavals of American life and liberty. Mike Marqusee pieces together an epic archival history of radical American radio.

night anna...

sweet dreams kiddoo!

Good Night anna!

[anna]

you are the one, neo

i'll write up my obituary to gare after the mike malloy show

currently i'm listening to it through headphones

& there's a large dull drone (no schitzo jokes, please)

which makes concentrating difficult

Just update Economic Epiphany blog

http://economicepiphany.blogspot.com/

While Gares bitching that getting thrown out of our house for being a dick is censorship...Something to consider

New Yorker arrested for broadcasting Hizbollah TV

U.S. authorities have arrested a New York man for broadcasting Hizbollah television station al-Manar, which has been designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. Treasury Department, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Javed Iqbal, 42, was arrested on Wednesday because his Brooklyn-based company HDTV Ltd. was providing New York-area customers with the Hizbollah-operated channel, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

It did not say how long Iqbal's company had been providing satellite broadcasts of al-Manar, which the U.S. Treasury Department in March had designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, making it a crime to conduct business with al-Manar.

Iqbal has been charged with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the statement said. Federal authorities searched HDTV's Brooklyn office and Iqbal's Staten Island home, where Iqbal was suspected of maintaining satellite dishes, the statement said.

goodnight, anna

if you fart in bed

think of me

: )

EDIT: think of me... and i'll be there

Inquiry Opened Into Israeli Use of U.S. Bombs

The State Department is investigating whether Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons, two officials said.

The investigation by the department’s Office of Defense Trade Controls began this week, after reports that three types of American cluster munitions, anti-personnel weapons that spray bomblets over a wide area, have been found in many areas of southern Lebanon and were responsible for civilian casualties.

Gonzalo Gallegos, a State Department spokesman, said, “We have heard the allegations that these munitions were used, and we are seeking more information.” He declined to comment further.

Several current and former officials said that they doubted the investigation would lead to sanctions against Israel but that the decision to proceed with it might be intended to help the Bush administration ease criticism from Arab governments and commentators over its support of Israel’s military operations. The investigation has not been publicly announced; the State Department confirmed it in response to questions.

Posted by: air-ono at August 24, 2006 10:34 PM

David Cross thing...

"SO, I went and got your book, "Gitting-R-Donned", and excitedly skimmed past the joke about that one time you farted and something farty happened, on past the thing about the fat girl who farted and finally found it, . Well, needless to say I farted. I farted up a fartstorm right there in the Flyin' J Travel Center. I fartingly bought the book and took it home with an excitement I haven't experienced since I got Bertha Chudfarter's Grandma drunk and she took her teeth out and blew me as I was finger banging her while wearing a Jesus sock puppet in the back of the boiler room at The Church of the Redeemer off I-20 (I don't care who you are, that's funny.)"

Answer: This isn't the answer. I'm still waiting.

Answer: You have no idea how much patience this requires.

Answer: If I had a wife, I would be beating her right now. The kids, too.

Answer: 27 minutes.

Posted by: Crank Bait at August 24, 2006 10:28 PM

--

Shut-up you cheap mother fucker. You get just what you pay for. The government owes you broadband, right?

A.

if you are pleased with my post in future

a simple "lol" will suffice

: )

Comedy...

Texas Sheriffs Say Terrorists Entering US from Mexico

Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez of Zapata County, Texas told Cybercast News Service that Iranian currency, military badges in Arabic, jackets and other clothing are among the items that have been discovered along the banks of the Rio Grande River.

Still No Info on Terror War's 'Ghost Detainees'

The human rights group Amnesty International is appealing decisions by the United States government to withhold as secret information detailing the incarceration of so-called ghost detainees as part of the Bush administration's self-styled "war on terror."

The requests, which were submitted under the Freedom of Information Act with the help of the International Human Rights Clinic of New York University (NYU) School of Law, concern detainees who are--or have been--held by or with the involvement of the United States government, where there is no public record of the detentions.

Ann Coulter gets her freak on
By: John Amato @ 7:31 PM - PDT

Whenever Ann is faced with the reality that Osama hasn’t been caught yet by this administration–well–Poor Ann. Kirsten Powers actually responds to Coulter’s ridiculous line that Afghanistan is going swimmingly and brings up the fact that Osama is still alive and well. Coulter then plays her usual Clinton card and freaks. "Sean, help me–Sean, where are you? Sean, these mean people are talking…I can’t get my 10,000 words of Liberal hate speech in…I’m melting." Michael Brown didn’t mind that Hannity talked over him during the segment..

Video-WMP Video-QT

Peanut Butter and Jelly.... Da Da Da Da...!

TSCRA: Cattle Groups Ask For Immediate Disaster Relief

Saying that cattle producers are facing some of the toughest times ever, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association President C.R. Sherron and Texas Cattle Feeders Association Chairman John Gillcrist repeated earlier calls for passage of disaster assistance for livestock producers. Texas agriculture groups had already asked for federal drought assistance in January, February and March.

In a letter to the Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico congressional delegations, Sherron and Gillcrist noted that there was very little water and very little grass left in many areas. Livestock-related losses have already reached $1.6 billion in Texas alone. “A drought of historic proportions faces us, already equal to that of the 1950s,” they pointed out.

Peanut Butter and Jelly.... Da Da Da Da...!

Posted by: Bob26003 at August 24, 2006 10:48 PM

Argh...you started it up again...

What a Moronic Presidential Press Conference!

Defeating terror by promoting freedom—it's "the fundamental challenge of the 21st century," he has said several times, especially when it comes to the Middle East. But here, from the transcript of the press conference, is how he sees the region's recent events:

"What's very interesting about the violence in Lebanon and the violence in Iraq and the violence in Gaza is this: These are all groups of terrorists who are trying to stop the advance of democracy.

What is he talking about? Hamas, which has been responsible for much of the violence in Gaza, won the Palestinian territory's parliamentary elections. Hezbollah, which started its recent war with Israel, holds a substantial minority of seats in Lebanon's parliament and would probably win many more seats if a new election were held tomorrow. Many of the militants waging sectarian battle in Iraq have representation in Baghdad's popularly elected parliament.

Unwinding the Credit Boom
For several years now, artificially low interest rates have been propping up the economy. But what's going to happen when that support is removed?
By Robert J. Samuelson

Updated: 6:12 p.m. CT Aug 24, 2006
Aug. 24, 2006 - We are at the end of the credit boom—certainly the six-year boom and maybe the 60-year boom. Has any society ever created so many ways for people to go into hock? In 2003 Americans had 1.46 billion credit cards, or five per person. Home mortgages total $9 trillion, and some initially don't require borrowers to repay all their annual interest. In 1946 households had 22 cents of debt for each dollar of disposable income. Now they have $1.26. Behind these numbers lies a profound social upheaval: the "democratization" of debt. Everyone gets to borrow. But this process may have reached its limits.

Although Americans are routinely stigmatized as credit junkies, that's unfair. Of course some people overborrow, and some financial institutions lend abusively. Still, the democratization of debt has generally been a good thing. Millions of families can now borrow for college, cars and clothes. The biggest boon has been the expansion of homeownership, up from 44 percent of households in 1940 to 69 percent today. (Three quarters of household debt consists of mortgages.) At heart, Americans' appetite for credit reflects national optimism. We presume that today's debts can be repaid because tomorrow's incomes will be higher.

The origins of today's credit culture date to the 1920s and the advent of installment lending for cars and appliances (stoves, refrigerators, radios), says economist Martha Olney, author of "Buy Now, Pay Later." Attitudes changed. In the 19th century, "it was thought that only irresponsible families bought on credit," she says. "By the 1920s, it was only foolish families that didn't buy on credit and use it while they were paying for it." In the mid-1920s, 60 to 70 percent of cars were sold on one- to two-year loans.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14504791/site/newsweek/

Night all!

Later

Israeli fugitive sought by US escapes to Sri Lanka

Maariv reported Thursday that Kobi Alexander, the voicemail technology fugitive wanted in the US on stock option manipulation charges, has escaped to a small fishing village in Sri Lanka.

"Alexander, a dual citizen of Israel and the US, is the former chief executive of US-based Comverse Technology Inc. Comverse is one of two companies implicated in the Israeli Spy Scandal that was discovered operating in the US just prior to 9-11."

On this blog dick = disagreement.

Show some spine and tolerate some dissent. After all, aren't you guys the ones who are always quoting the made up quote:

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism".

Go ahead and ban me again.

No!!!!!

For the last time Air Ono. I will not fly to Oz to make sweet love to you.

Quit e-mailing me!

Go ahead and ban me again.

Posted by: Gloatmaster2006 at August 24, 2006 11:10 PM

Nothing to do with disagreement at all...Nor dissent...You're just a dick and you choose to be one.

This is our house...understand that?

"War, Peace & Pacifica" produced by Brian DeShazor and Chri Sprinkle for Pacifica Radio 43:33

Pacifica Archive Special: We Hear the Voices of Martin Luther King Jr., Nixon, Pacifica Reporter Dale Minor, Vietnam War Resisters and More Wednesday, November 19th, 2003.

Many people are comparing the current U.S. occupation of Iraq to the quagmire of Vietnam. As we celebrate the Pacifica Archives we go back 30 years to hear the sounds and voices of the Vietnam war in a piece produced by Pacifica Radio titled “War, Peace & Pacifica.”

Giuliani Aide Found Strangled in Manhattan

A man who once served as a press secretary to Mayor Giuliani was strangled to death in his Greenwich Village home Monday night as an apparent tryst turned fatal, police said.

This story from the New York Sun has us scratching our head

Democrats are calling on Wal-Mart to repudiate a statement by a talk show host and Wal-Mart proponent likening the party's leading lawmakers to members of a terrorist group, Hezbollah.

In a column published Tuesday, the commentator, Herman Cain, repeatedly used the term "Hezbocrats." Mr. Cain defined them as "a roaming band of militant guerrillas seeking their party's 2008 nomination for president" and said they were lobbing "rhetorical bombs at Wal-Mart."

Senator Kerry of Massachusetts denounced Mr. Cain, who serves on the Georgia steering committee of a Wal-Mart-funded advocacy group, Working Families for Wal-Mart.

"I won't stand for the 'Swiftboating' of working people and Democrats who ask tough questions of big corporations," Mr. Kerry said.

UrbanDictionary.com defines swiftboating as "the process of smearing a military veteran's service record for political purposes." So it would have been "swiftboating" if Cain had said of the Wal-Mart detractors, say, that "they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."

But he said nothing of the sort. Indeed, he didn't say a word about their military records. So what in the world is Kerry talking about?

But he said nothing of the sort. Indeed, he didn't say a word about their military records. So what in the world is Kerry talking about?

Posted by: Gloatmaster2006 at August 24, 2006 11:19 PM

Charactor assassination...DUH!

This is our house...understand that?

Posted by: Nobody at August 24, 2006 11:14 PM

--

You are sitting in a shit-house with no door on it! That is your house!

What a nobody!

that joke doesn't get old to me ever. it's RIDICULOUS!

Posted by: annatopia at August 24, 2006 10:20 PM

I'm glad someone enjoyed that.

got 1/2 through it...pointless repetitnion doesn't do much for me.

You are sitting in a shit-house with no door on it! That is your house!

Posted by: You are a dork at August 24, 2006 11:20 PM

It has nothing to do with being a dick at all does it?...

Go ahead and ban me again.
Posted by: Gloatmaster2006 at August 24, 2006 11:10 PM
------------------------------------------------

Here came I to be a cretin
'Till my ass got firmly beaten
How could I know that I was vexin'
The rarest of rare; a progressive Texan?

She, a lefty lassie, no less,
A loony liberal feminist anarchist
Took me right down and up me she roughed
Said "Goddamn it, Gare, enough's enough"

Next thing I knew, I was out here
Tossed unceremoniously out on my ear
Given no chance to cop a plea
Or whimper "I'm sorry" repeatedly

So now I lurk in the web's cornucopia
Waiting for revenge on l'il annatopia
She'll get hers, just wait, you'll see
(Unless I happen on a healthy hobby)

It has nothing to do with being a dick at all does it?...

Posted by: Nobody at August 24, 2006 11:21 PM

--

Dick - dork what ever you want to call yourself!

What a nobody!

Posted by: Gloatmaster2006 at August 24, 2006 11:21 PM

More "nobodys" in this world than there are rich, poweful or famous folk.

It must be difficult for you to associate with the common folk eh?

NEW YORK - A businessman was charged with providing satellite broadcasts of a Hezbollah television station to New York-area customers, authorities said Thursday.

Javed Iqbal, 42, was arrested Wednesday on conspiracy charges of enabling the broadcasts of al Manar, which was designated by the U.S. government this spring as a global terrorist entity, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said in a statement.

Garcia said Iqbal used satellite dishes at his Staten Island home to distribute the broadcasts through a Brooklyn company called HDTV Limited.

The probe began after a tip from a confidential source in February, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Dick - dork what ever you want to call yourself!

Posted by: You are a dork at August 24, 2006 11:23 PM

You went to the "I'm rubber and you're glue" school of rhetorical quips and jibes eh?...

How very clever of you...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani opposition lawmakers walked out of federal parliament in protest at government proposed amendments to Islamic rape laws.

Rights groups have been demanding the government repeal the current laws which place an almost impossible burden of proof on women and expose victims to charges of adultery.

Opposition MPs mostly from the hardline Islamic alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal shouted slogans and tore up copies of the bill before walking out after Law Minister Wasi Zafar introduced the legislation to change the laws.

“Death to (President Pervez) Musharraf,” “Those who are friends of America are traitors” and “Allah is Great,” the politicians shouted.

“This bill is against Holy Koran and Shariah, we reject it and (will) try to block it in any possible manner,” said opposition leader Maulana Fazalur Rehman.

Posted by: Gloatmaster2006 at August 24, 2006 11:24 PM

I posted that one with a link on the last thread...

Does anyone have the contact address for the show? The Air America web site makes you register before you can get to their "contact us" page, and I'm not sure if that contains the address.

OTTAWA (AFP) - A Canadian lawmaker resigned his job as the opposition’s assistant foreign affairs critic over comments last week touting dialogue with Hezbollah that sparked a furor in Ottawa.

Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj proposed during a visit to war-torn Lebanon that Canada should try to negotiate with the militant group to secure a lasting ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.

But Hezbollah is on Ottawa’s list of banned terror groups, thus all direct contact is prohibited. Wrzesnewskyj called on Ottawa to soften its anti-terror legislation to facilitate talks.

“Hezbollah has a political wing. They have members of Parliament. They have two cabinet ministers. You want to encourage politicians in this military organization so that the centre of gravity shifts to them,” he was quoted as saying.

The comments sparked a backlash within his own party with fellow Liberals demanding his resignation, as well as analogies between Hezbollah and Nazis from the governing Conservatives.

was there anything in the second half that wasn't in the first?

Posted by: Gloatmaster2006 at August 24, 2006 11:25 PM

Talking down an ally?...

Nice metre even if I do say so myself.

The Men Who Knew Too Much? NSA Wiretapping Whistleblowers Found Dead in Italy and Greece

Bible Publisher Tyndale House Faces Boycott Over Anti-Christian Game

It is unprecedented for conservative and progressive Christians alike to close ranks in condemning a Bible publisher. It is unheard of for Christians to call for a boycott of a Bible publisher for licensing a real-time strategy videogame that caricaturizes Christianity as a crusade, puts modern military weapons in the hands of children, sends them on a mission to convert or kill infidels, and even lets children role play commanding the armies of the AntiChrist, unleashing demons that feast on Christians.

Ann Coulter: America's fiery, blond commentatrix

One crack about 9/11 widows and the author of Godless loses her audience. Too bad

MARK STEYN

Ann Coulter's new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with. After all, the progressive mind regards it as backward and primitive to let religion determine every aspect of your life, but takes it as advanced and enlightened to have the state determine every aspect of your life. Lest you doubt the left's pieties are now a religion, try this experiment: go up to an environmental activist and say "Hey, how about that ozone hole closing up?" or "Wow! The global warming peaked in 1998 and it's been getting cooler for almost a decade. Isn't that great?" and then look at the faces. As with all millenarian doomsday cults, good news is a bummer.

But nobody's talking too much about the finer points of Miss Coulter's argument. Instead, everyone -- from Hillary Rodham Clinton down -- is going bananas about a couple of paragraphs on page 103 and 112 in which the author savages the 9/11 widows. Not all of them. Just the quartet led by Kristen Breitweiser and known as "the Jersey Girls." These four widows have been regular fixtures in the New York TV studios since they first emerged to complain that the average $1.6 million-per-family compensation was insufficient. The 9/11 commission, in all its ghastly second-guessing showboating, was largely their project. As Miss Coulter writes:

"These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. The whole nation was wounded, all of our lives reduced. But they believed the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was an important part of their closure process. These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."

And at that point Senator Clinton jumped in to denounce the incendiary blond commentatrix as (dread word) "mean-spirited." Maybe so. But in 2004, the Jersey Girls publicly endorsed John Kerry's campaign for president: they inserted themselves into the political arena and chose sides. That being so, to demand that they be insulated from the normal rough 'n' tumble of partisan politics merely because of their biography seems absurd. There are any number of 9/11 widows. A few are big George W. Bush supporters, many are apolitical. I was honoured to receive an email the other day from Deena Gilbey, a British subject whose late husband worked on the 84th floor of the World Trade Center and remained in the building to help evacuate his colleagues. A few days later, U.S. Immigration sent Mrs. Gilbey a letter informing her that, as she was now a widow, her residence status had changed and they were enclosing a deportation order. Having legally admitted to the country the men who killed her husband, the U.S. government's first act after having enabled his murder is to further traumatize the bereaved.

The heartless brain-dead bonehead penpusher who sent out that letter is far more "mean-spirited" than Miss Coulter at full throttle. Yet Mrs. Gilbey isn't courted by the TV bookers the way the Jersey Girls are. Hundreds of soldiers' moms believe their sons died in a noble and just cause in Iraq, but it's Cindy Sheehan, who calls Bush "the biggest terrorist in the world," who gets speaking engagements across America, Canada, Britain, Europe and Australia. When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi winds up pushing up daisy cutters, the media don't go to Paul Bigley, who rejoiced that the man who decapitated his brother would now "rot in hell," nor the splendid Aussie Douglas Wood, who called his kidnappers "arseholes," nor his fellow hostage Ulf Hjertstrom, a Swede who's invested 50,000 bucks or so in trying to track down the men who kidnapped him and visit a little reciprocal justice on them. No, instead, the media rush to get the reaction of Michael Berg, who thinks Bush is "the real terrorist" rather than the man who beheaded his son.

But it wasn't until Ann Coulter pointed it out that you realize how heavily the Democratic party is invested in irreproachable biography. For example, John Kerry's pretzel-twist of a war straddle in the 2004 campaign relied mainly on former senator Max Cleland, a triple amputee from a Vietnam grenade accident whom the campaign dispatched to stake out Bush's Crawford ranch that summer. Maybe he's still down there. It's gotten kinda crowded on the perimeter since then, what with Cindy Sheehan et al. But the idea is that you can't attack what Max Cleland says about war because, after all, you've got most of your arms and legs and he hasn't. This would normally be regarded as the unworthy tactic of snake-oil-peddling shyster evangelists and, indeed, the Dems eventually scored their perfect Elmer Gantry moment. In 2004, in the gym of Newton High School in Iowa, Senator John Edwards skipped the dreary Kerry-as-foreign-policy-genius pitch and cut straight to the Second Coming. "We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases . . . When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." Mr

"What crackpot argument can't be immunized by the Left's invocation of infallibility based on personal experience?" wonders Miss Coulter of Cleland, Sheehan, the Jersey Girls and Co. "If these Democrat human shields have a point worth making, how about allowing it to be made by someone we're allowed to respond to?"

Now that's a point worth making. As it is, thanks to Coulter cracks like "Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy," even chaps on the right are doing the more-in-sorrow shtick and saying that they've been making the same basic argument as Ann and it's such a shame she had to go too far with her cheap shots because that's discredited the entire argument, etc.

The trouble with this line is that hardly anyone was objecting to the professional widow routine pre-Coulter. Well, that's not strictly true. Yours truly objected. After the Zacarias Moussaoui trial, I wrote:

"The first reaction of the news shows to the verdict was to book some relative of the 9/11 families and ask whether they were satisfied with the result, as if the prosecution of the war on terror is some kind of national-security Megan's Law on which they have inviolable proprietorial rights. Sorry, but that's not what happened that Tuesday morning. The thousands who died were not targeted as individuals: they were killed because they were American, not because somebody in a cave far away decided to murder Mrs. Smith. . . It's not about 'closure' for the victims; it's about victory for the nation."

But nobody paid the slightest heed to this line. For all the impact my column had, I might as well have done house calls. Then Coulter comes in and yuks it up with the Playboy-spread gags, and suddenly the Jersey Girls only want to do the super-extra-fluffy puffball interviews. So two paragraphs in Ann Coulter's book have succeeded in repositioning these ladies: they may still be effective Democrat hackettes, but I think TV shows will have a harder time passing them off as non-partisan representatives of the 9/11 dead.

So, on balance, hooray for Miss Coulter. If I were to go all sanctimonious and priggish, I might add that, in rendering their "human shield" strategy more problematic, she may be doing Democrats a favour. There's no evidence the American people fall for this shtick: in 2002, the party's star Senate candidates all ran on biography -- Max Cleland, Jean Carnahan (the widow of a deceased governor), and Walter Mondale (the old lion pressed into service after Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash). All lost. Using "messengers whom we're not allowed to reply to" doesn't solve the Democrats' biggest problem: their message. The Dems, says the author, have "become the 'Lifetime' TV network of political parties." But, except within the Democrat-media self-reinforcing cocoon, it's not that popular. A political party with a statistically improbable reliance on the bereaved shouldn't be surprised that it spends a lot of time in mourning -- especially on Wednesday mornings every other November.

"state determine every aspect of your life."

Uhhh...Reason that one out again...Who exactly is the state?

Posted by: Gloatmaster2006 at August 24, 2006 11:34 PM

Ya know...common practice is to provide a portion of the article and then a link for those that are interested in reading it...Otherwise it's just spam.

that mindless jibber-jabber about peanut butter, jelly and baseball bats...was that supposed to be entertaining?

Pure, unadulturated, Window Frog exploitation!!

>8-(

Michael Collins: Political Free-Fall In The USA

Americans strongly oppose the Bush administration and show signs of mounting anger. Popular anger is clear from the very low Bush approval ratings in the mid to low thirties. Only 27% of Americans think that the country is headed in the right direction, while 60% or more think it is not. These shocking right/wrong direction figures have been constant since October 2005.

Che Guevara on Cuban Revolution

On December 16 1964, Chris Koch from Pacifica Radio in New York met with Che Guevara. In this interview, Che talked about Cuban revolution and the situation in Latin America at that time. This historic interview is becoming ever more relevant as news of Fidel Castro's poor health condition spurs the question: What is the fate of Cuban Revolution after Fidel? [00:31:00]
August 16, 2006

The Lincoln Cult’s Latest Cover-Up

On July 19 the Associated Press and Reuter’s reported an "amazing find" at a museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania: A copy of a letter dated March 16, 1861, and signed by Abraham Lincoln imploring the governor of Florida to rally political support for a constitutional amendment that would have legally enshrined slavery in the U.S. Constitution.

"The American Civil War was about whether or not states had a right to secede from the union, and whether the then-unconstitutional strong central government would rule the states. Lincoln needed an issue to sell that war and chose slavery as the cover for a war of conquest in the South, much as Bush has used "terrorism" as the cover for a war of conquest in the Mideast."

[[ALL THE RAGE]]

Jim Derych: Confessions of a Former Dittohead

(heh-heh)

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the worm toins...

GOP candidate says 9/11 attacks were a hoax

A Republican candidate for this area’s congressional seat said Wednesday that the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Posted by: air-ono at August 24, 2006 11:41 PM

anything in the mailbox yet?

i'm back,

had to try diff browsers to get past the SQL/DB Errors

http://beernow.blogspot.com/

What Part Do You Want To Play?

Two statements that will serve you very well.

The first is: There will always be war. There will always be those who aggravate within others a sense of trouble in order to promote the solution that they already have their mind made up about. And so you’re never going to come into agreement as a mass consciousness that this is "the way." There will always be disagreements; therefore, there will always be turmoil; there will always be war.

The other statement, that is our favorite, is, Well-Being will always abound, so the dominant experience of the majority of people will always be one of Well-Being. So, you can decide, at any point in time, in what part of this you want to play. You can use anything as your excuse to align with Well-being, or you can use anything as your excuse to not align. The thing that we think is at the heart of this discussion, is my own personal power. We think that’s what you are, sort of, struggling for and reaching for.

(Abraham-Hicks)

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 24, 2006 11:43 PM

They quit spontaneously Jim...Acts like someone is trying to DoS the blog again.

17 Seconds of Pure Thought

We encourage you to play with spending 17 seconds on any topic. If you hold any thought, positive or negative, wanted or not wanted, if you hold a thought purely for 17 seconds, that at the 17 second point, another thought just like it joins it. And as these two thoughts coalesce, there is a combustion. And as these two thoughts combust, they are parlayed into one more evolved, faster vibrating thought. And when it happens, you feel it. It feels like heightened interest or enthusiasm. If you hold that, now more evolved, thought for another 17 seconds, then when you cross that 34 second mark, the same thing happens. Another thought like the more evolved thought now joins it, and there’s another combustion point. Only this time, it moves much further than it did the first time, because the two thoughts that combined were bigger to begin with. Purely hold a thought for 17 seconds until it combusts and another thought joins it, and the Energy in that combustion is equivalent to 2,000 action hours. If you work a normal 40 hour a week job, that’s about what you work in a year. 17 seconds of pure thought, allowing the combustion, gives you that much Energy. Your action is not very important by comparison. Cross the 34 second mark, and you can multiply your action by ten. That’s 20,000 action hours. Cross the 51 second mark, and you can multiply by ten again. That’s 200,000 action hours. If you can hold a thought, purely, without contradicting it, until you cross the 68 second mark , that’s just four times 17 , you can multiply by ten again. That’s over 2,000,000 action hour equivalent. We’re talking about accessing the Energy that Creates worlds. And the reason that it is not fathomable to most of you is that most of you don’t make it past the eight second mark without contradicting your desire.
...

http://www.justaskanditisgiven.blogspot.com/

Posted by: A. at August 24, 2006 11:44 PM

A similiar form of self hypnosis is used in a number of cult indoctrinations.

Posted by: Nobody at August 24, 2006 11:46 PM

prrfffffffffffft.

prrfffffffffffft.

Posted by: A. at August 24, 2006 11:47 PM

Nice thing about the internet...You don't have to smell it.

Nice thing about the internet...You don't have to smell it.

Posted by: Nobody at August 24, 2006 11:48 PM

Agreed... :)

The Nation: Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet - by Jeffrey Chester

Agreed... :)

Posted by: A. at August 24, 2006 11:48 PM

The technique works...Intelligence agencies use a similiar one...Be careful what you focus on when you try it...It's useful but dangerous.

It's quite similiar to clearing your mind and keeping it clear as in meditation and martial arts.

Jimmy...you busy bud?

>>had to try diff browsers to get past the SQL/DB Errors

a total waste of time, Jim

why won't you believe that?

it is caused by too much network traffic.

it has nothing to do with which browser you are using.

study up on the OSI model and you'll understand that even though the issue is in the Data level, it is the 5th level problem (session) rather than the 6th (presentation) or 7th (application) level.

your browser only formats and presents the info it is presented with.

but why should you listen to me?

I've only been studying this stuff the last year.

Posted by: Nobody at August 24, 2006 11:52 PM

I would have to be all wrapped up in negative crap to use the technique to my detriment. And I'm not, so I won't. Thanks for the warning.

I feel like I'm not wanted here
and I wonder what I'm living for
discerning eyes are burning me
they make me feel like an outlaw

Do you need a uniform
to see the band tonight
are the people here for fun
or maybe looking for a fight

You can't come in if you don't look right
Doesn't the music make it right
It seems fashion keeps the youth confined
We have missed the whole idea
I thought we listened with our ears
But we keep them closed with fear

Brutality and snobbery
will keep the cults at war
it's just music why such hate
there's nothing to be solved at all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DbP5fwlb4

I would have to be all wrapped up in negative crap to use the technique to my detriment. And I'm not, so I won't. Thanks for the warning.

Posted by: A. at August 24, 2006 11:53 PM

Naw...It's not just a matter of "negativity"...You can literally overwrite your own personality and memories...This is how and why it's used by the intelligence agencies...

Specifically for deep cover agents...

Posted by: Nobody at August 24, 2006 11:56 PM

Oooh...spooky.

It's also used by "regular" people. Like me.

Human rights organization warns of humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza Strip

n a statement issued today, Al Dameer warned of a "humanitarian catastrophe as Israeli occupation forces practice collective punishment against the citizens of the Gaza Strip."

"The situation continues to deteriorate," wrote the Gaza City human rights organization Wednesday. "The collective punishment has gone beyond all limits, norms and laws. We demand immediate intervention to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip."

As such, the human rights organization says that it is the responsibility of the international community to force the Israeli administration to respect its obligations under international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention Concerning the Protection of Civilian Persons in a Time of War.

Oooh...spooky.

It's also used by "regular" people. Like me.

Posted by: A. at August 24, 2006 11:58 PM

But it should not be used carelessly...Just because it is powerful.

Your snipping makes me think that you've another axe to grind.

You're offended by my injecting caution into the discussion?

What's your problem?

Good night, Nobody, Blog... :)

Che Thirty Years Later

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0326254

//anything in the mailbox yet?//

YES!!

IT ARRIVED IN THE ANTARCTIC

(in other words, "no")

*

are you sure you didn't typo "australia"

You're offended by my injecting caution into the discussion?

What's your problem?

Posted by: Nobody at August 25, 2006 12:00 AM

Didn't you hear?

people like us are too challow to understand stuff like that.

Good night Shell...

Refuse to be Terrorized

The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act.

And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

We're all a little jumpy after the recent arrest of 23 terror suspects in Great Britain. The men were reportedly plotting a liquid-explosive attack on airplanes, and both the press and politicians have been trumpeting the story ever since.

In truth, it's doubtful that their plan would have succeeded; chemists have been debunking the idea since it became public. Certainly the suspects were a long way off from trying: None had bought airline tickets, and some didn't even have passports.

are you sure you didn't typo "australia"

Posted by: air-ono at August 25, 2006 12:03 A

AustrALia?

I thought you said Austria!

Geez...

"I watch none. He [former President Bush] sits and listens and I read books, because I know perfectly well that, don't take offense, that 90 percent of what I hear on television is supposition, when we're talking about the news. And he's not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that. But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer."

Really, why waste your beautiful mind on negativity...

nah N

just relaxin with the puppers.

well CB, it won't show in some browsers and it will in others...

what's the fix on this end?

what's the fix on this end?
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 12:09 AM
------------------------------------------------

Dial up. It's flawless.

[the dude (of "big lebowski" fame) & walter in the mailing room]

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the dude: "what's this say, walter - it's a cross between austria & venezuelia"

walter: "fuck it, dude - send to the antactica"

gtg, chaps

well CB, it won't show in some browsers and it will in others...

what's the fix on this end?

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 12:09 AM

Jim...there is no fix on your end.

its because of a network bottle neckneck on the other end.

too many server hits at the same moment.

its com[pletely random, that's why it seems to be different on different browsers.

remember a couple months ago during the spam email attacks that took MMR down for days on end?

I got 3 different error messages at that point, the most common was the one you got. they all indicated an error when trying to establish the session. contact the server.

I wish there was a fix.

actually, best thing you could do is get 3 or 4 punds of sea salt, nest your computer in it...(the cpu, not the monitor)... surround the whole deal with as many quartz crustals as you can muster.

take a rattle made from a turtle shell and shake it over your modem while alternately chanting your modem or NIC's' Mac address and the url of the server you are tying to contact.

in other words, think positive thoughts and refresh, you'll get there.

)

c you airie one!

I have one thing to say to the staff of Air America:

THANK YOU BITCHES!!!!

anyway, that's my prognosis.

others may correct me.

but I think I got a handle on what's going on there.

I get that diffucult SQL connection thing from time to time. it ususally clears up after a refresh or two.

sorry, I meant "diffoccult SQL connection"... ;P

good evening, all.

great news about sam's contract and new time slot. i can now listen at night in japan! much better for me...

nobody, chubby, i think A. was trying to explain that she's aware of the dangers, but the cautions kept coming, which is why she got defensive...

so i'm back in seattle again - for the third time this trip so far!

nobody, how's somebody doing? better than my father i hope...

thank you, thank you, thank you, annatopia (and nice to see you here again)

The Nation: Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet - by Jeffrey Chester

Posted by: A. at August 24, 2006 11:51 PM

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

YOU CAN FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES CONTACT INFORMATION AT THE LINKS BELOW:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

http://www.house.gov/

it's not always good to get rid of things you don't understand.....

One strange and quirky thing about Opera, it does not handle tables.

never has.

I don't know why, but it isn't designed to.

eya lil j!

nice night up here is'nt it!

hey, sunshine! how are you? how was trip? and the trailer?

i'm sitting around waiting for a phone call from the husband to go pick him up at the baseball stadium. he's seen 9 games in the two weeks he's been here. the man's insane!

I keep telling you, liberal talk radio is a tough sell.

WDOD Radio Switches From Air America To Music Format

Chattanooga’s oldest radio station, WDOD, has ended its 11-month experiment with progressive talk radio.

At 10 a.m. this past Monday, the station switched to a format featuring musical oldies and standards from the late 1950s and the 1960s and 1970s, according to Danny Howard, director of programming and operations for WDEF and WDOD.

The decision to drop Air America talk show programming grew out of the format’s failure to attract adequate advertiser support, Mr. Howard said.

The fact that Air America is only a few years old and has been through some tumultuous times made it more difficult to attract advertisers and listeners, he said.

just got the call as i posted that! i'll be back later tonight. let's make pacific northwest plans, guys...

and, yes, sunshine, it's a beautiful night up here. the weather's just like i like it...

trip was a hoot, pix here

http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/TrailerCamping/

Vintage trailer meet we went to last week,

http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/TrailerCamping/

sure!

my number,

604 864 9649

Its better to understand the things we get rid of.

*****

Hello, Jenise!

how is everything with you?

we on the west coast are a bit mixed with the `good news'...yes, its great Sam is still n the air, unfortunately the new time slot is horrible for most of us.

way too early in the morning.

and I really doubt if the local stations will carry the show...AT ALL!

they are firmly stuck in their Hartman at 9. ED shultz at noon...Franken at 3...Rhandi at 7 and Malloy at 10pm

man...if they'd just see the light and get rid of Schultz...

I'd have Sam bump Hartman into Schultz's spot.

and let the Jones radio network `take one for the team'.

the m's yankees game ended a little bit ago.

My telephone service was out for twelve hours prior to 2:00 a.m. this morning (that I know of).

I had a dial tone. Every number I called was either my dialing error (recording) or busy. Even the phone company had numbers that didn't exist. 800 numbers didn't work. I called my ISP dial-up number (a local call to another state, don't ask). It didn't exist either. I called the bank, which answered, so I thought, "Good, it's fixed." Nope, it wasn't. Apparently I had a hot line to the bank.

This was the second weirdest phone service screw up I have experienced. For over a month in the Virgin Islands I received calls to someone else (mostly Spanish speaking) and they received calls to me. We finally figured it out (DON'T HANG UP, DON'T HANG UP! WHAT NUMBER ARE YOU CALLING? PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TELL ME!). We exchanged one-another's numbers so that we could call each other and give our messages to each other.

After a while, both of us had friends and acquaintances who had "learned" our "new" numbers. Then the splicers figured out what they had done wrong and fixed it, so we still had to call one another with messages from friends and acquaintances who were using the old "new" numbers. This was all made more comical because only a few of them spoke broken English and my girlfriend and I spoke lousy Spanglish creole.

Here is a typical conversation.

Brriiinnng. Brriiinnng.

Bait: "Hello?"
She: "Hola, Jose."
Bait: "No, this isn't Jo--"

Then she said about sixty words in Spanish real fast, paused, then said, "Jose? Jose? Jose?"

Bait: "No, not Jose. Bait. I am Bait.
She: "No English."
Bait: "No Spanish."
She: "Oh."
Bait: "Si. Oh."
She: "Sorry. Bye-bye."

One minute later:

Brriiinnng. Brriinnng.

bringg, brinngggg..

Bait: Hello?

caller: this is Jose' any calls for me?

that one?

;P

or did the banana in my ear interfere with my ability to parse your meaning?

Nausea, Beck

Hmm...

Will this work?

Sometimes I feel like I'm turning into Mike Malloy, patience wise...

goodun crnkr!

Chubby,

It was actually more complicated than I made it out to be.

When I called MY number, the folks on the other end did not own the number that was ringing at my house. I had somebody else's number. When I was told the number that was being called by someone who rang onto my phone, I had the number of the people whose calls I was receiving but no way to contact them. Eventually they did what I did; they called their own number and got me.

So...I had messages for Jose but Jose didn't have any messages for me. I had to get MY messages from Carlito but I didn't have any messages for Carlito.

This all happened during a cables rehab that had contracted splicers working all over the island. Someone screwed up, moved on, and it took forever to find and fix the problem.

Hey WFC,

You ever see this:

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at August 24, 2006 10:30 PM

Nope.

Beck's new video, from The Information.

Nausea

I make joke.

See?

Hey WFC,

You ever see this:

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at August 24, 2006 10:30 PM

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at August 25, 2006 1:08 AM

Downloading it now. :) Thanks!

Crank, I've heard of the sort of thing you are talking about, but nver to the degree you are talking about.

and the fact it took so long to fix is incredible!

but, on the other hand, I've heard through the telecom jungle that that part of the world has problems getting and keeping good engineers for long.

Brriiinng. Brriiinng.

Jose: "Hola?"
Bait: "Hola, Jose. Bait here."
Jose: "Bait? OH BAIT! Si. Si."
Bait: "Maria called. I gave her your new number."
Jose: "Number?"
Bait (speaking slowly with cheesy Italian accent): "Maria. She-a call-a you-a."
Jose: "Maria? Si! Si!."
Bait: "I give-a her-a your-a numero."
Jose: "Numero? Maria? Si! Si! Gracias."
Bait: "Bye."
Jose: "Si! Bye."

hahahahaahahahahaa!

beaut!

Maia: ¿Por qué tiene usted un plátano en la oreja?

Bait: Yo no entiendo. ¡Tengo un plátano en la oreja!

Chubby,

The electricity went out weekly; sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours (one power plant with up to five generators burning bunkers fuel oil, one grid, eleven feeders).

My business partner was (is) an impatient guy. He almost always tried to call the Water And Power Authority (WAPA) to ask how long the power would be out. Usually the phone was busy or rang endlessly. Sometimes a human answered.

One time he had this conversation with the lady on the other end.

Partner: "I'm on feeder eleven outside of Frederiksted. The power is out."

She: "It does be rainin', ya know."

(snicker!)

Cebo: Finalmente dando para arriba,

"el bananna está en 3rd Baso."

She had him there. It WAS raining. You can't argue with the facts.

.

and I thought things were bad while I lived on Guam.

the whole island was, well, on island time.

my dad had a contract with the telephone company.

his biggest complaint was the work ethic of the locals. sometinmes the local guys would disappear with the trucks and not show up until quiting time, no work was done...well, none that was accountable.

another com[plaint was they would fix their families up wtih phones that were not officially connected.

and the locals had BIG extended families.

I understand was even worse at the cable tv company.

[BACK-TRACK! or the case of the cute posterior]

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HEADLINE: //Pluto loses status as a planet//

Posted by: akaMAT at August 24, 2006 12:10 PM

=======================================

That's my planet dammit!

Grrrr......

Posted by: A. at August 24, 2006 12:16 PM

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I LOVE SHELLY

(she's my little vamp)

Downloading it now. :) Thanks!

Posted by: The Bastard Dane at August 25, 2006 1:12 AM

The Price of Liberty ~ The Trial of Peter Zenger. (1950)" 14:41

eya AO

whas up in wallaby land?

eya AO

whas up in wallaby land?

evenin NC

nice and slow tonight.

we'll see if we can get more links per post

sorry, jenise

no sassy pic for you... you got your sassy debra harry pics not so long ago

sheesh!

I'M NOT MADE OUT OF SASSY PICS

i'm flesh & blood ("dammit!")...

so get off my case

*

eya, jim

you can get off my case-2

: )

and when Typhoon Pamela hit the island, it really got wierd.

suddenly payola seemed to be the only way to get things done.

But my dad wasn't that sort of guy. He turned down offers of boose, money, sex...whatever, to get preferential treatment.

he played by the rules and dispatched the calls in the order they came in.

his underlings weren't so restrained.

but we still got our share of typhoon bootie. outr neighbor worked at one of the big naval air stations. so, while the whole islanda had no power and water he'd give us c-rations, fresh water, etc...he even gave me a new pair of combat boots. the black high tops used in the viet nam era.

early on he turned up with a generator and enough gas to power half the neighborhood.

this was back in a time when you used to get 4 prerolled ciggies in each k-ration.

From the Babbling Academy
The Model, Kraftwerk

back later

Chubby,

Guam sent linemen after Hurricane Hugo to help restore power to the island. They made our guys look like they were standing still. Our guys had bucket trucks. The linemen from Guam climbed the poles using spurs. One man was killed when a multi-transformer-laden pole snapped.
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A trick for getting quick service from the electrical or phone guys was to include in your complaint that the problem might be the over-loaded mango/avocado/carambola tree hanging over the line.

If it was true that there was fruit within reach of the right-of-way, the bucket trucks made regular visits. They cruised like sharks.

Check this out....Coulter makes a massive fool of herself...this is brutal...seriously, it's great...and on Fox News no less!

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/H-C-Coulter-crie.mov

guam stories are always interesting.

>>. They made our guys look like they were standing still.

I believe thios can be explained by the Guamanian linemen had no family on the island.

evenin NC

nice and slow tonight.

we'll see if we can get more links per post

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 1:46 AM

Chill.

You see any of the stuff I posted.. Tilden, DC 1968?

not as good as Crank's VI stories.

funny how none of the wingnuts complain when France sends troops to Lebanon...

the first fiesta I went to on Guam had a pig roasted in the sand.

on a beutiful beach on the south end of the island.

the owners had a spead that went from the surf to the foot hills. Hufege spread for the area. It had probably been in the family since shortly after Magellan's visit.

ya caught the reference,

what was it?

ya Coulter got her ass handed to her by the powertalkers.

Cats Found Killed, Mutilated In Bellingham

POSTED: 9:10 am PDT August 24, 2006
UPDATED: 9:29 am PDT August 24, 2006

BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Cat owners in a Bellingham neighborhood are keeping their pets indoors at night after someone killed and mutilated two cats this month, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.

One cat disappeared from a home in the Fairhaven neighborhood on Aug. 1. Its body was later found mutilated.

A few days later, another cat was found dead. It had been disemboweled.

Humane Society officials said owners should keep a close watch on their pets.

"This is something we are taking very seriously. We want to catch the person or persons responsible," said Laura Clark of the Whatcom Humane Society.

Veterinarians are examining the remains of a third cat to see if it was also mutilated by a person.

Anyone with information that can help in this investigation is asked to call the Bellingham Police Department.

Anne Coulter was mad because that Democrat Girl was way way hotter than her!

Austrian girl found after eight years of captivity

Jean-Michel Stoullig | Vienna, Austria

24 August 2006 06:03

An Austrian girl held captive for eight years after being kidnapped as a 10-year old has been found while her presumed abductor committed suicide, police believe, resolving one of the country's longest-running mysteries.

Austrian police said on Thursday that a young woman found wandering in a Vienna suburb the day before had been identified by her family as the kidnapped girl.

The woman identified herself as Natascha Kampusch, whose abduction in 1998 while she was on the way to school provoked national anguish and one of the most intensive police investigations in Austrian history.

Her presumed captor, 44-year old telecommunications technician Wolfgang Priklopil, apparently committed suicide late on Wednesday by throwing himself under a train in Vienna.

It was not immediately clear if Natascha had been sexually molested but an investigation is under way into the motives of the kidnapping, police officer Nikolaus Koch told reporters.

Natascha's parents, Brigitta Sirny and Ludwig Koch, recognised their daughter -- in part by the presence of a distinctive scar -- but police are awaiting the results of DNA tests for additional confirmation of her identity.

Extremely pale but apparently in good health, the young woman says that she listened to the radio and read newspapers during her captivity, but was never allowed by her captor to leave the compound where she was sequestered, in the village of Strasshof.

Her captor had apparently tutored her and kept up her schooling, Austrian television said, citing a police source.

Police said the girl was held captive in a small chamber under the garage of Priklopil's cottage-like house, and has been gently questioned about the conditions of her captivity.

Psychologists cited by a local radio station said she probably suffered from "Stockholm syndrome", a condition in which captives develop a positive relationship with their c

hey. back from the pick-up.

sunshine, looks like a great trip. cool cars, beautiful lake. and i love the bathrobe and baseball hat look ; )

chubby, i can sympathize re the morning time slot. that's where i've been for the past three years. so any news about the picnic?

air-ono, what??? no sassy pictures. geez, i guess the honeymoon's over...

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 2:07 AM

The amazing thing was they held the 3 shot for a while, and Anne just looked like she was caught in a daze. She looked like a complete imbecile, which of course she is.

She's going to be on Bill Maher tomorrow. Why Bill puts her on I don't know.

what was it?

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 2:05 AM

Posted a bunch of links yesterday on 2 subjects & themes. Already had most of the links collected.

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at August 23, 2006 10:04 PM

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at August 23, 2006 10:25 PM

Lots more on the page..

Posted by: Bob26003 at August 25, 2006 2:11 AM

Surprised that Fox would let a real intelligent, aggressive liberal on....Colmes is a DLC nimrod....

And, yes, she's hotter than Coulter. My cat is hotter than Coulter...

eya lil j,

was real nice to take a break with Bgurl.

the lake, that was one of her childhood spots

I know nothing about any picnic, but as you may have read, MAT and seaCat had or are having a great visit in Oregon despite MAT's tribulations.

I'm always up for a picnic, but I haven't pushed it. I thought you and Sea Cat were arranging it?

like I said earlier, I'll be happy to do what ever I can, but I don't really want to organize it.

I wouldn't really know anyone to invite aside from those who already know aout it.

I don't even know when or where it'll be

I imagine lincoln park will be a good place

that was one of her childhood spots

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 2:23 AM

childhood spots?

is that like a birthmark?

anyway, I'll ask Seacat what is up with the picnic next time she's oneline.

her mac book is busted and she's still at her dad's place near MAT's last I gathered

yup followed this one...

"Dangerous Liaisons: Governor Dewey, Lucky Luciano, and Operation Underworld." John C. McWilliams 23:05

Prof. John C. McWilliams, of the Pennsylvania State University—DuBois Campus, speaks about the complex relationship between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, mobster Lucky Luciano, and several US federal agencies. Recorded at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Toronto, April 22, 1999, by Gerald Zahavi.

Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at August 23, 2006 10:04 PM

the rest i did'nt, was helping an ol hot rodder buddy of mine.

anyway, I'm pretty tired,

for some reason I've been extra sleeply lately.

maybe it's the cool weather?

all I want to do is find a big, hot, flat rock and sun myself like an aligator lately...

nite folks

so j

you still want to come up for a visit?

night CB

rest easy bud.

give the cats a scritch for me!

hee! j must be on a dial up line!

could'nt believe how slow they are after dsl

lessee, no posts for a while,

think the bloggie acting up again.

just eating dinner, nice bread from the local market, two doggers in attendance, lissinin to mahalia jackson...

Dangerous Liaisons:

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 2:29 AM

That's why they were able to take over the unions, persist in their activity and flourish. They had help.

The heroin thing in the 50's was the same as the coke/crack thing in the 80's. The only difference between gangs of the two periods is their country of origin.

DC in 68 is a retrospective. The other pieces/links are also contained in the Kerner report.

sorry, sunshine. i'm sharing the computer with an obsessive sports fan at the moment.

i'd love to come up. my husband flies back to japan late tomorrow night. thought i'd start making concrete plans after that. i have several more interviews to schedule over the next few weeks. so when would be good for you and bgurl?

chubby, if you're still lurking, i haven't gotten in touch with anyone yet. i'm not sure i know where lincoln park is...

familiar with the period NC, good articles.

eya j,

no sweat, many sport maniacs in the crew.

anytime is good, labor day week end fine and we're flexible.

how much would you like to do and how long would you like to stay?

The Myth of Mob Gallantry

shoot me yer number and i can call if you want.

Bgurl management here, maybe consult with her too?

we're both still up puttering around.

ya NC

the family went through hell with the mobsters in the 20's and 30's. they leaned on great grandma, tried to dishonor her and toss her in jail to steal great gramps business after they killed him.

familiar with the period NC, good articles.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 3:07 AM

Thought you would be.

The legacy lives... They can keep it.

Moloch

Your not going to build something like this without offering sacrifice

ya NC

the family went through hell with the mobsters in the 20's and 30's. they leaned on great grandma, tried to dishonor her and toss her in jail to steal great gramps business after they killed him.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 3:27 AM

What fucks.

This place stinks. :/

intereating title for that pic NC.

lots of sacrifices...

starting to nod out...

been a long ass day. busy tomorrow fabricating some stuff.

intereating title for that pic NC.

lots of sacrifices...

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 3:42 AM

Howl.

http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/ginsberg.html

been a long ass day. busy tomorrow fabricating some stuff.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 3:47 AM

Nice to work with your hands outdoors.

yup

one a my favorite ginsberg pieces.

Fernando Wood Mayor of New York City
1860-1862

William O'Dwyer Mayor of New York City
1946—1950

Vincent R. Impellitteri Mayor of New York City
1950—1953

one a my favorite ginsberg pieces.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 3:53 AM

Thought about it today.

The city's a fucking shrine.

nite NC

i'm out fer the night.

love ya all!

nite NC

i'm out fer the night.

love ya all!

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 25, 2006 4:13 AM

Get some rest.

Posted by: jenise at August 25, 2006 12:35 AM

"nobody, chubby, i think A. was trying to explain that she's aware of the dangers, but the cautions kept coming, which is why she got defensive..."

She posted for public consumption and the reply was for public consumption...Taking it personal is just out of place...I validated that it was indeed a powerful technique before I noted the danger of it...The derision is based upon something other than self defense and annoyance methinks.

"so i'm back in seattle again - for the third time this trip so far!"

How long you going to be in town?

"nobody, how's somebody doing? better than my father i hope..."

She had another heart attack today...Took nitro and it mellowed but I'm on watch regardless...

[sigh]
Scary.

ya...

I'm beginning to hear voices and there's no one around
Well, I'm all used up and the fields have turned brown
I went to church on Sunday and she passed by
My love for her is taking such a long time to die

I'm waist deep, waist deep in the mist
It's almost like, almost like I don't exist
I'm twenty miles out of town, in cold irons bound

The walls of pride are high and wide
Can't see over to the other side
It's such a sad thing to see beauty decay
It's sadder still, to feel your heart torn away

One look at you and I'm out of control
Like the universe has swallowed me whole
I'm twenty miles out of town in Cold irons bound

There's too many people, too many to recall
I thought some of 'm were friends of mine; I was wrong about 'm all
Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud
Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood

I found my world, found my world in you
But your love just hasn't proved true
I'm twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound
Twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound

Oh, the winds in Chicago have torn me to shreds
Reality has always had too many heads
Some things last longer than you think they will
There are some kind of things you can never kill

It's you and you only, I'm been thinking about
But you can't see in and it's hard lookin' out
I'm twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound

Well the fats in the fire and the water's in the tank
The whiskey's in the jar and the money's in the bank
I tried to love and protect you because I cared
I'm gonna remember forever the joy that we shared

Looking at you and I'm on my bended knee
You have no idea what you do to me
I'm twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound
Twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound

Three angels up above the street,
Each one playing a horn,
Dressed in green robes with wings that stick out,
They've been there since Christmas morn.
The wildest cat from Montana passes by in a flash,
Then a lady in a bright orange dress,
One U-Haul trailer, a truck with no wheels,
The Tenth Avenue bus going west.
The dogs and pigeons fly up and they flutter around,
A man with a badge skips by,
Three fellas crawlin' on their way back to work,
Nobody stops to ask why.
The bakery truck stops outside of that fence
Where the angels stand high on their poles,
The driver peeks out, trying to find one face
In this concrete world full of souls.
The angels play on their horns all day,
The whole earth in progression seems to pass by.
But does anyone hear the music they play,
Does anyone even try?

Well?

She had another heart attack today...Took nitro and it mellowed but I'm on watch regardless...

Posted by: Nobody at August 25, 2006 4:28 AM

Oh, sorry to hear that Nobs. Couldn't sleep, so I've been lurking and reading the blog. Good they gave her nitro. Is she resting now?

Ya she is...I'm not...dunno if I'll ever sleep again at this rate.

Published on Thursday, August 24, 2006 by the Jerusalem Post / Israel
Israel May 'Go it Alone' against Iran
by Herb Keinon

Israel is carefully watching the world's reaction to Iran's continued refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, with some high-level officials arguing it is now clear that when it comes to stopping Iran, Israel "may have to go it alone," The Jerusalem Post has learned.

One senior source said on Tuesday that Iran "flipped the world the bird" by not responding positively to the Western incentive plan to stop uranium enrichment. He expressed frustration that the Russians and Chinese were already saying that Iran's offer of a "new formula" and willingness to enter "serious negotiations" was an opening to keep on talking.

"The Iranians know the world will do nothing," he said. "This is similar to the world's attempts to appease Hitler in the 1930s - they are trying to feed the beast."

He said there was a need to understand that "when push comes to shove," Israel would have to be prepared to "slow down" the Iranian nuclear threat by itself.

Having said this, he did not rule out the possibility of US military action, but said that if this were to take place, it would probably not occur until the spring or summer of 2008, a few months before President George W. Bush leaves the international stage. The US presidential elections, which Bush cannot contest because of term limits, are in November 2008.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in a meeting in Paris with French Foreign Minister Phillippe Douste-Blazy Wednesday, said Iran "poses a global threat" and needed to be dealt with by the whole international community.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0824-03.htm

Ya she is...I'm not...dunno if I'll ever sleep again at this rate.

Posted by: Nobody at August 25, 2006 5:16 AM

Is there a way you can get help? You do need to rest to be able to help her. Found that out after taking care of my parents.

~~~ Pure, unadulturated, Window Frog exploitation!! ~~~

And they even linked to your server!

That's some nerve! I mean, stealing the pic is one thing... but STEAL it! Don't link to someone else's pic on THEIR server and make up a story about it!

Don't need the help...Worry is eating me is all...He dad had to have cancer surgery today...I think that's what set her off...got the call about 1 am that he was ok...Then she went to lay down again...

From C-SPAN. Just watched it on TV and thought that alot of interesting points brought up on the Middle East. James Dobbins is featured.

Here's the video:

New America Foundation on "Moral Clarity & the Middle East"
The New America Foundation Hosts a panel discussion on "Moral Clarity & the Middle East: Long War, Wider War, or the Return to a Peace Process?" Speakers include: The Hon. James Dobbins, Dir. of the Int'l Security & Defense Policy Center, RAND CORP.; Daniel Levy, Sr. Fellow & Dir. of the New America Foundation/Century Foundation Middle East Initiative; and Steve Clemons, Sr. Fellow & Dir., American Strategy Program/New America Foundation
8/24/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 1 hr. 30 min.

Don't need the help...Worry is eating me is all...He dad had to have cancer surgery today...I think that's what set her off...got the call about 1 am that he was ok...Then she went to lay down again...

Posted by: Nobody at August 25, 2006 5:30 AM

Stress and worry does that! Seems like with me, the attack would happen after the fact. After something happened, when things started to settle down, that's when the attack happened.

City Won't Un-"Democrat" Joe

The city won't allow Sen. Joe Lieberman to be stripped of his Democratic party affiliation, announced Democratic Registrar of Voters Sharon Ferrucci (pictured) Thursday.

Earlier this week, local activists filled Ferrucci's office asking her to start the process that would allow the local Democratic Party to expell Joe now that he's pursuing a third-party reelection bid against the Democratic-endorsed candidate, Ned Lamont.

Ferrucci shied away from using the authority given her by a little-known state law. "While Section 9-60 of the Connecticut General Statutes provides a process for excluding or expelling a voter’s name from the list of registered voters in the Democratic Party, such authority, in my opinion, should be rarely and cautiously exercised.

"The Democratic Party is founded upon principles of inclusion and diversity of opinion, and the promotion of debate. In that spirit, I do not intend to summon anyone enrolled in my party to defend the good faith and bona fide nature of their affiliation with the Democratic Party," said Ferrucci in a written statement.

City Won't Un-"Democrat" Joe

Stress and worry does that! Seems like with me, the attack would happen after the fact. After something happened, when things started to settle down, that's when the attack happened.

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 5:44 AM

I just wish it would settle down...

I just wish it would settle down...

Posted by: Nobody at August 25, 2006 5:52 AM

I hope it does too! Seems to come all at once when it happens, doesn't it!?!

Rep. (Mean Jean) Schmidt's marathon ad questioned

Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt is fast, capable of running a marathon in 3 hours, 19 minutes, 6 seconds.

At least that's what a photo on the Ohio congresswoman's Web site shows.

No way, says a rival who contends that the picture from the 1993 Columbus Marathon is doctored and complained to state election officials. A four-member commission panel ruled Thursday that there was enough evidence to look into the complaint.

State law prohibits candidates from publishing false statements designed to promote their election.

I hope it does too! Seems to come all at once when it happens, doesn't it!?!

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 5:55 AM

That and the wave of babies...I don't get to be a grampa but everyone else in the family does...I hate them all...

Hello fellow MRR bloggies.

You're up early...

Apply directly to the forehead.

JG Wentworth.

Fucking Ditech Guy.

Please try my product? (Learn How to Buy and Sell on eBay).

I'm Billy Mays.

underaged-broke Girls paid to Gone Wild.

Digger the Dermatophyte (monster who lives in everyone's toenails).

Do you... Moto?

Hello Moto.

Sorry, looks like I never gave the link to that C-SPAN video. It is really interesting!!

New America Foundation on "Moral Clarity & the Middle East"
The New America Foundation Hosts a panel discussion on "Moral Clarity & the Middle East: Long War, Wider War, or the Return to a Peace Process?" Speakers include: The Hon. James Dobbins, Dir. of the Int'l Security & Defense Policy Center, RAND CORP.; Daniel Levy, Sr. Fellow & Dir. of the New America Foundation/Century Foundation Middle East Initiative; and Steve Clemons, Sr. Fellow & Dir., American Strategy Program/New America Foundation
8/24/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 1 hr. 30 min.

http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100

I see Israel has two new nuclear subs.

Cool, just what the region needs.

The US has diminished influence in the world tody because they refuse to talk to the Middle East leaders. And because of that, it is hurting Isreal.

The US must talk to Syria and Iran.

You're up early...

Posted by: Nobody at August 25, 2006 6:06 AM

I woke to a dull

bmmm bmmm bmmm bmmm ...

I'm thinking it's the sound of our war drums
playing for Iran, or I should say our terror
drums beating out reasons to be afraid and
vote for our current fascist majority.

Am I the only one that fantasizes about an airborn virus programmed to attack white matter (the type of tissue that is created in the brain when you lie) somehow getting loose in the environment and dropping an entire generation of sociopaths in their tracks?

I'm thinking it's the sound of our war drums
playing for Iran, or I should say our terror
drums beating out reasons to be afraid and
vote for our current fascist majority.

Posted by: Ajax at August 25, 2006 6:19 AM

Riots in the streets?

They tempt civil war...8 million Iraqis aren't going to make near the mess that 280 million americans could...

The US must talk to Syria and Iran.

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 6:18 AM

toniD quit being such a rational problem solver,
we can never talk to Syria and Iran because ...
ummmmmm
well, because our Dick-tator and his cabal
say we can't.

I'm just testing something. Don't mind me for this post.

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/intl/intl082406_clarity.rm

Zalmay Khalilzad

And we have two more years of this idiot. I really think he is having some mental health issues. Really! I think one of his three brain cells has died and the other two are fighting each other.

US Army to Use Force to End Baghdad Violence

Baghdad. US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad warned that the US command is discussing the unsuccessful security plan in capital Baghdad to be replaced with extremely strict measures for curbing the terrorist attacks and violence in Baghdad and around the country, online edition of Iraqi newspaper Az Zaman informs.

According to the diplomat the US army in Iraq has already started preparing to implement the new strategy.

Gosh it looks like we aren't going
to hear anymore about the Pakistani
"mastermind" of the Brit
Blow Up 10 Planes with Gatorade Plot ?

Geez, I wonder why ?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_terror_plot

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 6:35 AM

not necessarily 20 more years...there is an election coming up...and some of those people that would like to see the evil bastard impeached might do just that...Impeach em all the way down the line...bloop bloop bloop bloop

~~~ US Army to Use Force to End Baghdad Violence ~~~

Carpet-bombing, no doubt. Napalm.

Spector gunships.

There's no peace like the peace of a city with a deceased population. Smells awful, but it's pretty damned peaceful.

Posted by: Ajax at August 25, 2006 6:39 AM

Dude...Gatorade IS dangerous you know?...That stuff gets warm and it's definitely a biohazard...

Posted by: Fishgrease at August 25, 2006 6:40 AM

Can't hold water in a fist.

I'm going to try to get some sleep since I have to work later today!

Later!

~~~ Can't hold water in a fist. ~~~

Can't rollerskate inna buffalo herd.

~Mystery surrounds the role played by "key suspect" Rashid Rauf, a Briton with dual Pakistani nationality who has family ties to a notorious Pakistani militant.~

LOL

Yes, mystery surrounds him like
a black cape in a stage play of
Silas Mariner.

Can't rollerskate inna buffalo herd.

Posted by: Fishgrease at August 25, 2006 6:45 AM

bullshit...really big wheels and a buffalo hat for camoflage...

Smells awful, but it's pretty damned peaceful.

Posted by: Fishgrease at August 25, 2006 6:40 AM

Yes, they're going to bring some Fallujah peace
to Baghdad.

Great news Sam, you're my favorite AAR host. Really, I'd get so excited when I'd hear you were filling in for Randi or Al, and made sure to tune in or download it everyday. Now they just need to move my other favorite AAR host, the network's other true, flaming LIBERAL, up a few hours so he'd reach a large audience. Malloy's on after a lot of people's bedtimes now.

~~~ bullshit...really big wheels and a buffalo hat for camoflage ~~~

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Okay. That's it. I laughed too damned hard at that. Ima going to bed.

Good seeing you Nobes, Ajax, Shell, Toni, everyone else.

Me too.

Keep your eyes on the road
and your hands upon the wheel !!

Aw well I think I'll go find me a comfy chair and a guitar to keep me company until the sun rises...One of these day's I might even figure out how to play the damned thing...

I'm out.

Before I crashed, I remembered I needed to re-post this (posted above by Toni). If you haven't seen it, please do.

Ann Coulter gets her skinny ass whupped by a TOTALLY HOT, yet calm and intelligent Kirsten Powers ON Hannity's show... ON Fox News.

Seen it a dozen times now and it still gets me hard.

'morn,

anybody here?

Morning MJP!

Friday, August 25, 2006

Washington Post does a massive profile of "Macaca"
by John in DC - 8/25/2006 07:57:00 AM

George Allen needs to learn that if you let your aides blast the media, the media gets the last laugh.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082401639.html

Good day to you miss!

What is this I hear about the "Garish" one being

banned?

Is that true (giggles)?...

Tip of my cap to Ana.

Banned! Oh my God! What shall become of me? Cast into the dark unknown never to be seen again. Oh, woe is me! But I must admit, this place take up too much time.

Look at the loons who stay up all night, sleep all day, then bitch because they dont have money. My oh my, I wonder why? Too sick to work, but feel fine to blog 12 hours a day.

Gare just went too far. It wasn't what he wrote so much as his attitude when writing and the attacks on Sam. and others on the blog as well.

Now if we can just ban the nic theif!!

Rove's imagines different outcomes for 9/11 -- how about if his boss was paying attention?
by Joe in DC - 8/25/2006 12:05:00 AM

Karl Rove is in full campaign mode. It's terror, terror, terror. He's always speculating about all the ways 9/11 could have been prevented:
Presidential adviser Karl Rove criticized a federal judge's order for an immediate end to the government's warrantless surveillance program, saying Wednesday such a program might have prevented the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Rove said the government should be free to listen if al-Qaida is calling someone within the U.S.

"Imagine if we could have done that before 9/11. It might have been a different outcome," he said.
It might have been a different outcome if we had a President who didn't ignore the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S." Imagine if we had a President who took terrorism seriously back in 2001. We didn't. The reason Bush and Rove accuse everyone else of being weak on terror is because they were weak. They ignored the warnings. And, Al Qaeda did strike in the U.S. -- as predicted by the CIA.

Bush got a free ride after 9/11...his failure to protect America was never fully exposed. If anyone challenged him, they were unpatriotic. As we approach the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and the first anniversary of Katrina, the White House will be in spin overdrive. Never forget that both of these disasters happened on Bush's watch.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/08/roves-imagines-different-outcomes-for.html

Jill Carrol Was Tortured While In Captivitiy

'Now we're going to kill you'

"Jill, we asked the Americans for the women prisoners and there were none," he said. Normally his voice was slow and quiet; now it was loud.

"Oh," I said, crouched in darkness, blind, hot and breathless.

"And then we asked the government for money, and they gave us none," he said.

"Oh yes, I know," I said.

"Now we're going to kill you," he said, agitated and close to my head.

I thought they were going to do it. I imagined the gun. All they'd told me that day had been lies.

I knew I couldn't be afraid. I had to make them think they were good people who weren't capable of killing me.

I forced a laugh.

"No, Abu Rasha, you're my brother, you wouldn't do that!" I said, trying to keep the desperation out of my voice.

He laughed, more convincingly than me. "No, we're not going to kill you," he said. "We're going to take you to the Iraqi Islamic Party and drop you off."

I went limp.

Tired, frozen, spent, I didn't know what was going on anymore. I couldn't make sense, couldn't analyze. I had nothing left.

Gare, your pompous ass will be banned again.

Tell me, once and for all, how old are you?

Link for previous post:

Jill Carroll Was Tortured In Captivity

After seeing a couple of Carrol's interviews
I can see why the let her go.

"Yes, yes, whatever get the hell out of here !!"

Wonder if I'll get banned for this?:

I disagree with the decision to ban Gare. What's the real reason he was banned? I believe because he's insulting to the "regulars" in here...and because he make some pretty convincing arguments.

Any dissent or deviation from the party line in here is labeled as trolling.

There are regulars in here that have done far worse in here than Gare has ever done.

~I disagree with the decision to ban Gare.~

Gare ? Gare who ?

Posted by: Ajax at August 25, 2006 9:31 AM

So you like that she was tortured then?

There are regulars in here that have done far worse in here than Gare has ever done.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at August 25, 2006 9:32 AM

That's true

~So you~

No, I don't like that US military prisoners
are now tortured under the orders
of a fascist regime.

Jeeeezz!

I'm sorry I brought it up!

But too you "Gare"

Fuck off flea.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at August 25, 2006 9:32 AM

Wasn't his arguments, was his attitude. And unlike the freeper sites, banning here isn't forever. It's like a time out.

There's a way to present an argument without insulting the intelligence of your opponent. He called me an old hag because I didn't agree with him. You disagree with me! I disagree with you.
Your the anonymous Coward troll. Fine! Does it insult you to be called a troll?

War dog was here a long time yet he had an identity. We disagreed with him but was personal with him as well.

When I am attacked, you better believe, I will attack back. But I would prefer not to. But I will. Mostly I am attacked for what I post. The words of other people that make a point. Alot I agree with, some I don't. But it is posted for discusion not for attacks.

So you like that she was tortured then?

No, I don't like that US military prisoners
are now tortured under the orders
of a fascist regime.

Posted by: Ajax at August 25, 2006 9:41 AM

That's called spin. Can't answer the question can you. You can't bring yourself to condemn the torture and murder carried out by terrorists.

Thanks for showing your true allegiance.

You can say what you like now to try and obfuscate your hypocrisy. I won't answer cause - I'm out. Gotta go to work.
You know: "work". Look it up.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at August 25, 2006 9:32 AM

Wasn't his arguments, was his attitude. And unlike the freeper sites, banning here isn't forever. It's like a time out.

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 9:46 AM

I know that to be untrue. Please give evidence of a ban that's been undone.

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 9:46 AM

-----------

Nicely put.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at August 25, 2006 9:32 AM

There's a way to present an argument without insulting the intelligence of your opponent. He called me an old hag because I didn't agree with him.

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 9:46 AM

He was called much worse by the regulars in here. Why were they not banned?

GOP candidate says 9/11 attacks were a hoax

By ALBERT McKEON, Telegraph Staff
amckeon@nashuatelegraph.com

Published: Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006

A Republican candidate for this area’s congressional seat said Wednesday that the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In an editorial board interview with The Telegraph on Wednesday, the candidate, Mary Maxwell, said the U.S. government had a role in killing nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, so it could make Americans hate Arabs and allow the military to bomb Muslim nations such as Iraq.

Maxwell, 59, seeks the 2nd District congressional seat. The Concord resident opposes the incumbent, Charles Bass of Peterborough, and Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson in the Republican primary Sept. 12.

Maxwell would not specify if she holds the opinion that the government stood by while terrorists hijacked four domestic airliners and used them as weapons, or if it had a larger role by sanctioning and carrying out the attacks.

But she implicated the government by saying the Sept. 11 attacks were meant “to soften us up . . . to make us more willing to have more stringent laws here, which are totally against the Bill of Rights . . . to make us particularly focus on Arabs and Muslims . . . and those strange persons who spend all their time creating little bombs,” giving Americans a reason “to hate them and fear them and, therefore, bomb them in Iraq for other reasons.”

She said this strategy “would be normal” for governments, citing her belief that the British government – and not the Germany military – sank the Lusitania ocean liner in 1915. The deaths of Americans on the cruise liner helped galvanize U.S. support to enter World War I, and benefited England, she said.

In turn, the Sept. 11 attacks “made the ground fertile” for more stringent laws, such as the Patriot Act, and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, Maxwell said.

Near the end of the interview, Maxwell pounded her fist on the table and asked editors of The Telegraph why they weren’t publishing more stories about the government’s role in the terrorist attacks or

~You can't bring yourself to condemn the torture~

Sure I can, I condemn the torture of
US military prisoners under the orders
of a fascist regime.

christ, what's so hard with that ?

I not only condemn the torture but the torturers
and those who have ordered the torture.

Sheeesh, peace of cake.

If some are here just to be obnoxious and are not ejected, shun them, ignore them, do not play into their sick need for attention or their paid attempts to sow discord.

He was called much worse by the regulars in here. Why were they not banned?

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at August 25, 2006 9:51 AM

Because he incited it himself. And Lets just say, this is our house, Sam's house. You don't insult your host or his invited guests. You can stick up for him all you want, but the majority here don't like him. The majority!!!

You can stick up for him (Gare) all you want, but the majority here don't like him. The majority!!!

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 9:56 AM

How do you know that?

You can stick up for him all you want, but the majority here don't like him. The majority!!!

Posted by: toniD at August 25, 2006 9:56 AM

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That is right! We do it to niggers all the time. Gare is a blog nigger, thats all! And we are the great white hope. Now Sam didn't ban Gare. Anna did! She is part of the great white hope, Sam is not! We dont need any blog niggers around here. Get used to it! WHITE POWER!

Rep. Shays (R-CT): To Succeed In Iraq, We Need A Timetable For Withdrawal »
Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) is the latest member of Congress to advocate a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq. Shays has visited Iraq 14 times. This morning on Fox, he said that the way for the United States to succeed in Iraq is to “incentivize the Iraqis” to take control of their own country. The way to do that, according to Shays, is to let them know “there is a limit to our presence there.”

Shays noted that previous timelines — to hold elections and create a constitution — are what has spurred the greatest progress in Iraq. Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/25/shays-withdrawal/

new thread up!

Back in my day the solid south was our house too. Now look at it. Niggers running around back talkin. Hell they even think they are the same as us.

Now the same thing can happen here if we dont put our foot on these blog niggers heads. There aint no room here of anything but good white thinkin. Let them blog niggers make their own blog. We white folks own this one. Go Anna! Go White Power!