Meatballs for peace!!!

Good call not sam..

Almost..

We are in Iraq to install a new government..

One that is not a State Sponsor of Terrorism..

It is the underlying goal of the entire War Dog Plan (WDP)...

What the President will be telling us on Dec 18 is the game plan for wrapping up Iraq in Preparation for Iran..

(1) More American troops. Fight insurgents. Secure Baghdad. Train Iraqi troops.

(2) Stop fighting the insurgents. Go after Al Quaeda.

(3) Side with the Shiites.

I'm ready for war

and not for love.

Although some of my Democrat friends would like to send more troops to Iraq..

I fear it will be another reason for the Iraqis to not take charge of their own streets...

So I would think if one of these options is most likely to be dropped, it would be the troop increase..!!!

Let them fight each other.

They hate each other anyway--so let's get out of there and let them go at it.

Meanwhile we ride bicycles.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children… This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

— Former U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a speech on April 16, 1953

The Sunnis have been attacking the Shiites for 2 years..

The Sunnis are the insurgency..

The Majority has had enough and is fighting back..

Who wouldn't...??

The Majority of insurgents are in the Triangle..

As is the majority of the trouble..

so where does it all end?

so where does it all end?

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 2:35 PM

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

It ends with local enforcement of international laws against terrorism..

It ends when governments that promote terror, such as Iran, are replaced..

It ends when Islam steps up and says no more..

Then we can lay down our arms and return to peaceful pursuits and security..

*************************

Bolton's successor

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By Robert D. Novak

Saturday, December 9, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Zalmay Khalilzad, who was announced this week as leaving as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, is the leading prospect to replace John Bolton as envoy to the United Nations.

President Bush was reported by aides as looking for someone who approximates Bolton's combination of toughness and diplomatic skill and has tentatively decided on Khalilzad. A native of Afghanistan, he has served in government posts dating back to 1985 and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.

>>WHY ARE WE IN IRAQ?

Simple answer: Bush wanted to prove to the world we could kick anyone's ass.

Anytime.

Anywhere.

(sort of backfired, didn't it?)

Posted by: War (Blue) Dog at December 9, 2006 2:39 PM

yes, but I bet the Middle East will still despise each other for ages to come because of tribal differences. If it wasn't for the oil we wouldn't have such an interest in the area. This is why you must encourage us all in America to start riding bicycles. You will be the Bicycle KIng!

maybe we can destroy the sunni baghdad area, and force sunnis into a fenced off camp, persuade them to stop fighting or face death.

or we could help the shiites chase down and cleanse iraq of sunnis in some way or another.

>>It ends with local enforcement of international laws against terrorism..

of course this is an 180 from the neocon's initial response: Terrorism must be responded to with the military, not international law.

War Dog, you want it both ways.

you can't say the UN is irrelevant and then expect international law and to deal with the problem of terrorism.

you can't say the UN is irrelevant and then expect the UN and international law to deal with the terrorism.

sunni or shiite, they both treat their women like dirt......cant say i blame them. middle eastern woman are very bossy and most arabic men will not hesitate to tell you they beat them whenever they get a chance.

maybe we can learn something from the arabs afterall.

Which one of you is bozo?

you can't say the UN is irrelevant and then expect the UN and international law to deal with the terrorism.

Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъå at December 9, 2006 2:58 PM

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The U.N. is beyond worthless...

Countries stop terrorism to ensure there own longevity...

Or they encourage terrorism to expand their influence..

When a country reaches a point of diminishing returns with terrorism..

It will abandon the practice..

Chubby... You make the weakest War Dog ever..

But still...

or we could help the shiites chase down and cleanse iraq of sunnis in some way or another.

Posted by: War (Blue) Dog at December 9, 2006 2:56 PM

I think the problem we have here is that 90% of Islam is Sunni, so it's actually the Shia's who are the minority in Islam. Iraq is a broken land right now with no real government. Malike is seen as a puppet of the US imperialistic aims to occupy the country and steal its resources. This is a public relations problem gone ballistic.

Ha! That's just barely scratching the surface of the issue, War Dog.

http://sirjasonwinters.com/story.htm

In 1977 a large, cancerous growth appeared on the side of Jason's neck. Normal cancer treatments had little effect on the growth and Jason was told to prepare to die. A terminal cancer patient given just three months to live, Jason Winters refused major surgery and traveled the world in search of an herbal remedy. He now has total remission and shares his experiences for the benefit of cancer patients and others seeking to avoid this dreaded illness.

http://www.sirjasonwinters.com/

http://sirjasonwinters.com/test.htm

http://sirjasonwinters.com/teas.htm
Red Clover, Indian Sage, & Special Spice (herbalene).

I think the problem we have here is that 90% of Islam is Sunni, so it's actually the Shia's who are the minority in Islam. Iraq is a broken land right now with no real government. Malike is seen as a puppet of the US imperialistic aims to occupy the country and steal its resources. This is a public relations problem gone ballistic.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 3:07 PM

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You can't run from Radical Islam..

They will find you..!!!

The War Dog Plan calls for facing the problem today..

Everyone knows the Sunnis are the insurgency..

Why pretend they are not..?

Codex Puts Industry Interests Before Consumers, Again

The recent evidence of the European Union project, for example, shows us that the creation of "free trade areas" and regional blocs is merely a prelude to the dismantling of the political and legal systems of participating nations, and the replacing of these with a hemispheric government. As such, the passing of the European Union's highly restrictive and Codex-compliant Food Supplements Directive, in 2002, should serve as a warning to Americans as to what could happen if we allow Congress to abandon the United States of America as an independent country......

http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest101.htm
by Ingrid Franzon, Dr. Robert Verkerk, and Dr. Wong Ang Peng

Everyone knows the Sunnis are the insurgency..

Why pretend they are not..?

Posted by: War (Blue) Dog at December 9, 2006 3:12 PM

Moqtada el Sadr is a shia. Isn't he a problem for us?

Researcher calling for ban of plastics chemical says major chemical company tried to silence his report:

http://www.newstarget.com/021241.html

Ha! That's just barely scratching the surface of the issue, War Dog.

Posted by: Beatrice Baudelaire at December 9, 2006 3:09 PM

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And we would not even care now had not Radical Islam declared a Jihad..

If is was not Iraq it would be Afghanistan that would be the focus..

And if not there...

It would be wherever they could get a crack at us..

It is in their hands..!!!

Posted by: War (Blue) Dog at December 9, 2006 3:15 PM

Umm..I was referring to Chubby's weakness, actually....

You don't really think I read the political rhetoric here. Do you?

Moqtada el Sadr is a shia. Isn't he a problem for us?

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 3:14 PM

Sadr is sure no saint or friend of the U.S...

But he sat there and took a pounding for over a year...

For that he gets credit..

The counter attack had to happen..

Sunnis have overplayed their hand..

They may just be the odd man out.!!!

Iran is threatening Israel. They're having a conference about the Holocaust, claiming that it never happened. Ahmehdinejad wants Israel off the map.

EPA May Drop Lead Air Pollution Limits

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120706P.shtml

The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline, widely regarded as one of the nation's biggest clean-air accomplishments.

The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline, widely regarded as one of the nation's biggest clean-air accomplishments.

Posted by: Beatrice Baudelaire at December 9, 2006 3:19 PM

This is good for my old Pontiac!

You don't really think I read the political rhetoric here. Do you?

Posted by: Beatrice Baudelaire at December 9, 2006 3:18 PM

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It ain't all about you...

But I would like to some short posts from Sir Real...

Is that the name..??

I like the way that guy thinks...

Posted by: War (Blue) Dog at December 9, 2006 3:23 PM

I like the way he thinks too... One of the brightest lights on this blog...

Iran is threatening Israel. They're having a conference about the Holocaust, claiming that it never happened. Ahmehdinejad wants Israel off the map.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 3:19 PM

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

And more than that..

He is willing to take a crack at us with his nukes..

Suicide...??

You bet..

A suicide Bomber on a grand scale..

You're right again, War Dog...it's mostly all about you... :)

I like the way he thinks too... One of the brightest lights on this blog...

Posted by: Beatrice Baudelaire at December 9, 2006 3:25 PM

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Do you post his stuff..??

Or does he..

This is a real person right..??

Not you or a ghost or some such...

You don't really think I read the political rhetoric here. Do you?

Posted by: Beatrice Baudelaire at December 9, 2006 3:18 PM

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

Unless its between the covers of a TV guide or on the back of a cheetohs bag......... no.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_larry_pa_061207_the_life_of_a_breedi.htm

The Life Of A Breeding Sow

A brief look at the tragically painful lives that breeding sows are forced to endure on today's factory farms.

Drug company executives plot strategy for maintaining pharmaceutical
monopoly after Democrats take over Congress:
http://www.newstarget.com/021249.html

How many stations do AAR have left..

Clear Channel is down to 24..

Can't be too many more than that total..

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

Despite Clear Channel's commitment to the two-year-old format -- the behemoth of the radio industry has 24 stations devoted to liberal talk -- the ratings numbers have been weak in most cities. The theory that liberal talk would score well in Washington was based on voting patterns in the Washington area and on the unusually strong ratings that public radio stations win here. Now, Hess says, it could be the strength of public radio in this market that is holding back WWRC: "If you want straight discussion of the news, you're more accustomed to the public stations."

The network is involved in court battles with its affiliates and employees, and it has run through executives at a startling pace.

Now, it's on the verge of losing its one big-name celebrity, Franken, who has said he is contemplating quitting radio to run for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.

With or without prominent hosts, Air America has proved to be an environment that advertisers find unattractive. In October, ABC Radio informed its stations that they were to black out all ads from almost 90 companies that had bought time from ABC but did "not wish to air on any Air America affiliates." The list of companies that wanted to steer clear of Air America programs included Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, McDonald's, Cingular, Visa, Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil, the U.S. Postal Service and the Navy.

Although many of the companies on the list advertise on conservative talk programs such as the Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly shows, Hewlett-Packard issued a statement explaining that its decision to avoid Air America was based on its desire to steer clear of "inappropriate or controversial programming environments."

animals are just food. breed 'e, feed 'em, kill 'e, eat'em

nothing wrong with fur either.

Chubby, tell me why you hate Alice all of a sudden? Why does this Sir Real piss you off so bad..? What does all that mean to you..??

Israel is going to bomb Iran even before we do. Then were in the iran war.

israel is getting nervous with all this baker anti-semitic surrender talk.

the question is will israel use nuclear weapons or conventional?

israel is getting nervous with all this baker anti-semitic surrender talk.

the question is will israel use nuclear weapons or conventional?

Posted by: War (Blue) Dog at December 9, 2006 3:35 PM

when Baker was Sec. of State during the Gulf War he said "fuck the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway" or something like that I recall. He had Israel sit tight while Saddam scudded them. I think Israel will attack Iran if they have a nuke.

http://www.ftc.gov/choicepoint

The Federal Trade Commission's
Settlement with ChoicePoint

The purpose of this webpage is to provide information to consumers who believe they may have suffered out-of-pocket losses as a result of identity theft caused by the data breach at ChoicePoint Inc.

Last year, ChoicePoint, a company that compiles and sells personal information, announced that it had sold information about many consumers to people who turned out to be identity thieves. The FTC, the nation’s consumer protection agency, investigated the ChoicePoint security breach and alleged that, in some cases, these sales resulted in identity theft. The FTC and ChoicePoint reached a settlement requiring the company, among other things, to pay $5 million to be used to reimburse consumers for expenses due to identity theft caused by ChoicePoint’s security breach.

With the assistance of law enforcement agencies, the Federal Trade Commission identified over 1,400 consumers who may have experienced out-of-pocket expenses due to identity theft connected with the alleged security lapses at ChoicePoint Inc. The FTC has mailed claims forms for reimbursement to those consumers. Consumers who do not receive a letter, but who believe that they have identity theft-related expenses due to this incident, may submit a claim by completing the form below.

The form must be postmarked by February 4, 2007 to be considered. Please be sure to include your name and address so that we may contact you regarding your claim.

More information for consumers is available by calling toll-free at 1-888-884-8772, or by emailing cpredress@ftc.gov.

Claims Forms

* English

I can't stop pooping!

Forcing Crank Bait into Nic stealing has a sure sign that he is bankrupt of ideas..
---------------------------------------------
I've never done it. Not once. Long ago, I spaced-out what I was doing and signed myself as War Dog but immediately wrote another post explaining my error (I think that Sister Resistor might have been in the email address, so it was hardly a secret who wrote the post). My apologetic post crossed electronic paths with War Dog's post in which he complained that he had been hijacked by me (by me, because it was obviously one of my posts...I made no attempt to hide who I was because I never intended to sign as War Dog in the first place).

I had always kept Sister Resistor behind my name so that no matter what goofiness I was up to, my posts could always be identified. The recent blog screwiness has made that extra-identification ability impossible. (I gave it a try recently in the URL box per dr's advice but it slowed posting to a crawl.)

I mention this because there have been a half-dozen (or so) occasions when I signed as Sigmund Freud or some other well-known personality when it added something to the joke. Ordinarily I can work with Crank "Fill In The Blank" Bait.

Name-shifting for joke purposes was a lot easier when Sister Resistor was always behind the scene in the email address.

I repeat, for anyone who cares: I don't impersonate other people on this blog. My writer's ego won't let me even if my mean streak would.

Posted by: Crank "Look For The Union Label" Bait at December 9, 2006 4:36 PM

you don't need to

when you can blatantly rip off my ideas & re-package them as your own

*

(you're not robinson crusoe)

The scary 3 Axel:
Why fearlessness is not enough ...

Cause the 3axel takes off on the treacherous unreliable forward outside edge

and before you know it ... pop goes the axel

so once you hurled yourself forwards in the air hoping to accomplish the required three and a half backwards rotations ... you better know where you will end up ... and spin very very fast ... otherwise

pop... pop ... pop ...

the trolls rip me off

the regulars rip me off

everywhere i go

the scabby little lambs are right there behind me

@ my table

picking up the crumbs

sifting through my carcass

removing the diamonds from my eyes

*

"come in here dear boy have a cigar" -- you ain't going nowhere

NOT BY A LONG SHOT

take bridge, for instance

i post dialogue from a movie

lo & behold, the next day

bridge posts movie dialogue

i move my left foot

christy brown moves his left foot

i get around in a baby's pram

you watch christy follow suit

yo, chuck

is everyone watching channel zero

AS IF.... dream on ....

----

that reminds me

saw Woody Allen's SCOOP last night

was a lot of fun

I recommend

//I recommend//

woody was there for me in my formative years

i don't need him anymore

i prefer: bridge at December 9, 2006 5:07 PM

An Open Letter to the New York Times

Smearing Jimmy Carter

By HUGH SANSOM

The New York Times has now joined the slander campaign against President Jimmy Carter following the release of his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. (The paper gets the title wrong -- there's a colon.)

Just how ignorant does the Times think its readers are? All of the "critics" cited -- Kenneth Stein, Alan Dershowitz, David Makovsky and the Wiesenthal Center -- are unqualified apologists for Israel and its occupation.

The paper claims that Stein's "criticism is the latest in a growing chorus of academics who have taken issue with the book". What chorus can the Times have in mind if the only critics it can find just happen to be pro-Israel anti-Arabists?

Stein might be the most moderate -- he's also the most insignificant. One way or another, the Times cites --not one example-- of the claimed factual errors or copying, except to convey Stein's vague (and possibly actionable) assertions about an unnamed source. ... read on

http://counterpunch.org/sansom12092006.html

air-ono,

Shouldn't you be inspecting marsupia or something?

Posted by: bridge at December 9, 2006 5:26 PM

can i wake up first, before i read that ?

well, can i...

punk!

//Shouldn't you be inspecting marsupia or something?//

enough with the aussie references

*

that goes double for EB & bob

p.s. it reeks of desperation

For Sunny J,

http://static.flickr.com/72/166684178_b23e839dbd_m.jpg

uhhh....oh....geez,... I just woke up in front of my monitor. I must have fallen asleep while talking with War Dog a few hours ago.

What's that kangaroo smell here on this blog?

air-ono's lawn service equipment:

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i246/Donna1601/redneck-harley.jpg

oh my .... some people know how to put it ... bravo

--

"I remember her at the Republican convention in New Orleans in 1980. Conservative queen bees like Kirkpatrick and Schafly had, in their proximate physical aspect, an undercurrent of erotic violence ­- Jeane was surely a closet case -- that didn't really come through on camera. Rooted under the rostrum in the Superdome, peering up into Kirkpatrick's flaring nostrils I could see planes of her face that were normally flattened out in the bland imagery of videotape.

Of course she was talking about "national security" with her lips puckered into a moue of cruel delight as she foretold how Dukakis and the Democrats would leave America bound at helpless beneath the Russian jackboot. The only jackboot I could keep in mind was her's: Jeane lashing savagely at the cuffed and whimpering body of effete liberalism. "

http://counterpunch.org/cockburn12092006.html

yes, EB

we read upside-down

(HO-HO-HO... it's christmas time)

watch me make a lame-o gay san fran joke

*

so i'm walking down the corridor in my undies

whose elastic is way past it's use-by date

& i allow them to slide down, revealing my fleshy bum

to freak-out the o.g., who was several paces to my rear...

luck was on my side that day, my friends

for if it had been EB, my rectum, as night follows day, would have been sodomized

(HO-HO-HO... it's christmas time)

Repost

---

Hey, ono, if you're around, you asked me to find this once and I only got halfway there. Remember that whiplash stop at 2:31? Here's the full version.

Tahitian Moon, Porno For Pyros

Posted by: The Bastard Socialist Dane at December 9, 2006 4:18 AM

---

On the way out the door, many blessings, everyone.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i246/Donna1601/redneck-harley.jpg

*

only in america, my friends...

only in america

and here .... so true ... about the slithering lot ...

---
"Meet Senator Slither

The slithery junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama is ensuring himself a steady political diet of publicity by refusing to take his name out of consideration as a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. We're entering the time frame when all such aspirants have to make up their minds whether they can find the requisite money and political base. Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, the obvious peace and justice candidate, has already decided that he can't, which gives us a pretty revealing insight into the weakness of the left these days.

It's a no-brainer for Obama to excite the political commentators by waving a "maybe" flag. It keeps the spotlight on him, and piles up political capital, whatever he decides to do in the end.

It's depressing to think that we'll have to endure Obamaspeak for months, if not years to come: a pulp of boosterism about the American dream, interspersed with homilies about "putting factionalism and party divisions behind us and moving on". I used to think Senator Joe Lieberman was .... read on

http://counterpunch.org/cockburn12092006.html

//I must have fallen asleep while talking with War Dog//

golly,

is that boy still putting lip-stick on his pig (plan)

What's that kangaroo smell here on this blog?
Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 5:39 PM
--------------------------------------------
Someone is cooking up a batch of 'roo roux.

oops,

Tahitian Moon, Porno For Pyros

//Here's the full version.//

LMAO

& here's half a blessing... "bless"

(you forgot the hyperlink)

*

(so important in this day & age)

Posted by: The Bastard Socialist Dane at December 9, 2006 5:47 PM

tankies

: )

For Sunny J,

http://static.flickr.com/72/166684178_b23e839dbd_m.jpg

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 9, 2006 5:36 PM
--

Sunny Jim will love that

its amazing

as i'm sitting here writing "tankies"

i'm squirming with delight at the thought that "tankies" would really irk cranky

: )

//For Sunny J//

LMAO

he turned in his childhood soap-box billy-cart

into a harley

*

(only in america)

EB

while i'm swimming along to tahitian moon

do you have anymore hypnotic persian ditties

uhh....oh...geez,...I must have fallen asleep again reading air-ono's posts.

Say, does anyone here know if dingos make good pets?

I'd better go make some coffee...

GO JIMMY!!!

---
PALESTINE PEACE NOT APARTHEID by Jimmy Carter

is number seven on the list

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/bestseller/1217besthardnonfiction.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

"i don't know if i'll make it to america tonight

but i know i can swelter...

under the australian sun"

*

33°C (92°F) @ 9:00:00 AM & rising [forecast: 41°C (106°F)]

//I'd better go make some coffee...//

LMAO

yeah, you better

you better, you bet

*

(and ya better run too)

Here ya go, airo buddy. Take yer pic of greek diddies from San Francisco.

http://www.edessamusic.com/music/aga.htm

number two - s n o r e ..... zzzzzzz .... obviously two parties are two many options for Mr. Obama
----

THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. The Illinois junior senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions

EB

if i'm ever in your lounge room

i don't mind if we're sitting around naked

but...

no holding hands, k

Posted by: bridge at December 9, 2006 6:09 PM

I'll give you a full report on the book tomorrow after I get a summary from a Jewish scholar.

if it walks like a duck talks like a duck but ummm like in oz ummm something about been confused bal bla platypus

I'm dancing like a greek dervisher on high octane dolmas!

tankies, EB

(you may kiss me once on either cheek of my succulent, pulsating lips)

[LMAO @ bob at December 9, 2006 6:16 PM]

when i go down to the river for a dip

i'll drown a duck in your honour

(you may kiss me once on either cheek of my succulent, pulsating lips)

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 6:16 PM

I do it greek style if ya want

87 weeks on the list -

the Friedmanization has to stop

STOP!!!

Say, thank you, lovely media people, Mr. Friedman!

CRANK

why haven't you made me laugh...

it's been 15 minutes already

*

hop to it, son

//I do it greek style if ya want//

please, god

if he's not talking about coffee

SMITE HIM

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 6:15 PM
--
excellent :)

but don't bother if its another Dershowitzonian

Evening all!!

Blogging from work, just got a break from Basketball games.

War Dog must not be busy...he sure spends alot of time on the blog!!

hi, toni

it's only us gays here

p.s. bridge is trying her darn'dest to keep it non-sexual

but she'll crack

but don't bother if its another Dershowitzonian

Posted by: bridge at December 9, 2006 6:22 PM

This guy is fair minded. He lived in Arab countries and Israel and is a scholar of American history and politics.

I'm interested in what he has to say about Carter. Be sure to show up tomorrow and I'll let you know what he said, if I can remember it all. Actually he'll be broadcasting througout the night here in California on KGO AM radio.

Hi toniD

War Dog gets boring...

listen to this:http://www.edessamusic.com/music/aga.htm

nope .... not me no way ....

---

Hi toniD,

you are working too much :)

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 6:26 PM

---
okay - I will make a note of it

who is it?

http://www.kgoam810.com/home.asp

okay - I will make a note of it

who is it?

Posted by: bridge at December 9, 2006 6:32 PM

His name is John Rothman. He's on the link above from 1am till 6am west coast time.

What a joke. This war in Iraq is a bunch of bullshit, but it's also bullshit saying all the world needs is love. Most people won't love you no matter how badly you want to think otherwise.

MUCKY

were you wearing chaps when you wrote that

if not

that's a pre-condition to posting here

ty.

thanks a mil, EB :)

and posting without the annoying you-know-who

was a lot of fun this afternoon

Take care, everyone!

//Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 6:41 PM//

LMAO!!!

i'm creating a gay-bar ambience

so when mary cheney's dickless child is born

it'll feel right at home

*

(it also comforts EB)

15 more minutes and I get to go home!

I'll see you all later!

What a joke. This war in Iraq is a bunch of bullshit, but it's also bullshit saying all the world needs is love. Most people won't love you no matter how badly you want to think otherwise.

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 6:36 PM

I'll love you if you act and talk correctly--otherwise, I hate what you stand for. I do love the president, though. He's on drugs.

//He's on drugs.//

anyone on drugs gets my vote of approval

i'll support them to the hilt

unfortunately, that's bush's only virtue

Has the President so failed in his duties to the nation that he should leave office? The answer to that question is yes, and the time for the President to leave is not after months of continued national embarrassment but now. Clinton should resign."
---USA Today editorial, Sept. 15, 1998

There's an article on Buzzflash stating that all of the papers that called for Clinton's resignation in 1998 are silent now on Bush.

Just one more reason to despise the MSM...

why haven't you made me laugh...
it's been 15 minutes already
hop to it, son
Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 6:19 PM
------------------------------------------------
I've been daydreaming.

Somewhere along my Catholic school years it was suggested that Hell is a highly personalized place.

I was thinking about War Dog spending eternity in a small room with Jimmy Carter...who would constantly, gently but firmly, be correcting him on his misconceptions about morality, foreign policy and nuclear physics.

(it also comforts EB)

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 6:45 PM

Thanks. I know you like me.

you've been able to interpret through the ancient and cryptic code that I type.

You are able to read between the lines.

(wink)

//I do love the president, though. He's on drugs.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 6:46 PM//

I don't hate Bush. I always thought he would be fun to have some beers with and go cow tipping or something. Don't likee him as president though.

//I'll love you if you act and talk correctly--otherwise, I hate what you stand for.//

That's people for you. You're getting it now. The whole world is stupid except for "me" (me meaning any of us....or "them")...

/Everyone else is just trying to wake everyone else to that fact

Just one more reason to despise the MSM...

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 6:52 PM

oh come on, GG, where's your sense of humor?

"Truthiness". That about covers it all.

/Everyone else is just trying to wake everyone else to that fact

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 6:53 PM

It's called "the human condition". We've created religion to teach us what love is supposed to be about but actually we've created more hell for ourselves. Why should we care if someone loves us or not? If it wasn't for religion we would give it no mind.

A fun article to write would be a quick synopsis of the adult lives of Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Bush twins.

He so loved the world that He gave his only begotten lesbian daughter...

could that work?

A fun article to write would be a quick synopsis of the adult lives of Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Bush twins.

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 9, 2006 6:59 PM

To tell you the truth, I'd skip the first two to get to the juicy parts of the third two.

//Why should we care if someone loves us or not? If it wasn't for religion we would give it no mind.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 6:59 PM//

Funny thing though, next to Jehovahs Witnesses, Atheists are the most preachy people out there today. I hear a lot more preaching from Atheists and Agnostics than I do from Christians, Muslims, Hindus and all others combined (JW's excepted). Funny quagmire it is. "We must spread the gospel that your religion is false!"

/Christian, but somewhat agnostic as well.
//No one knows squat but what their experience has taught them

I was thinking about War Dog spending eternity in a small room with Jimmy Carter...who would constantly, gently but firmly, be correcting him on his misconceptions about morality, foreign policy and nuclear physics.

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 9, 2006 6:52 PM

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

As close to hell as that might be, the only thing worse would be to have Crank Bait reading my screen over my shoulder correctly spelling and sentence structure..

But it might just be more like hell for him than me..

WD, "For the love of God, can I hit post now..?"

CB, "Let's preview it one more time first, and you know, we should change - ya gotta love that - to you should admire a situation that would produce similar results"

WD, "Here, you type the fucking thing again, I am going to get another beer..!!

COUNTRYMEN (& women)

tankies for the lend of your eyes & ears

i got cruisin' to do...

ciao

Funny thing though, next to Jehovahs Witnesses, Atheists are the most preachy people out there today. I hear a lot more preaching from Atheists and Agnostics than I do from Christians, Muslims, Hindus and all others combined (JW's excepted).
Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 7:04 PM
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That is not my experience. Even if it is a given, atheistic and agnostic lip service is a drop in the bucket compared to the volumes spewed via religious media.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 6:55 PM

I'll go and find it...

Down at the IFC Theater tonight, they're showing David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE. Justin Theroux is going to be there, but I feel like shit, so I'm probably not going to go. Theroux, in addition to his acting talents, has co-hosted a radio show occasionally with Janeane Garofalo.

Down at the IFC Theater tonight, they're showing David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE. Justin Theroux is going to be there, but I feel like shit, so I'm probably not going to go. Theroux, in addition to his acting talents, has co-hosted a radio show occasionally with Janeane Garofalo.

//That is not my experience. Even if it is a given, atheistic and agnostic lip service is a drop in the bucket compared to the volumes spewed via religious media.

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 9, 2006 7:08 PM//

You should try visiting Fark sometime. They foam at the mouth telling you about God being an imaginary sky being and the whole spaghetti monster deal. You watch Colbert?

You watch Colbert?
Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 7:20 PM
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Can't. I dwell in the forest as an ogre far from cable and too densely wooded for decent dish reception.

But I can pull in lots of religious programming on the rabbit ears. My favorite religious show promo has the preacher saying, "...and we will take back America together!"

It isn't made clear from whom they will take America back and what they will do with it when they have it.

Great to hear Laura's voice.

Flying high.

The ones who are concerned about god are the ones who preach about god. Maybe on a website, but in the real world I don't hear much preachin' about "there is no god." Who the hell wants to be known as an atheist in this cockamamie world?

Double post? I have no idea how that happened...

One of the biggest preachers on this blog is War Dog. He's preaching his religion about fighting radical Islam and the third world war. He's all hell and damnation, but thank god he doesn't send the collection plate around.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 7:32 PM

A lot of people are saying their atheists nowadays...

It's a backlash against the GOP's attempts to turn this country into a theocracy....

Hi gang. I've had a real nice birthday today. My
wife got me a comfortable new computer chair. It is leather and plush.

She is my sweet love!

I'm feeling fine tonight for an old beatnik fart!

At the same time, I can't help wondering how many
more of our GI's are going to have to die before
this insane president brings them home. If I was
a parent of any kid thinking of joining the
military right now I would be practically twisting
his arm off to keep the hell out!

Bush is a cold MF'er!

A lot of blood will be on that boy's hands.

Double post? I have no idea how that happened...

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 7:34 PM

can you imagine sitting in a theater and watching Gibson's Apocalypto? I can't imagine myself at all because I've never watched a Gibson movie all the way through, even on tv. The Mad Max movie is all I've seen.

A lot of people are saying their atheists nowadays...

It's a backlash against the GOP's attempts to turn this country into a theocracy....

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 7:35 PM

I hope they don't start a church.

A lot of blood will be on that boy's hands.

Posted by: Reefer Jello at December 9, 2006 7:36 PM

Happy birthday, oh wise one. Bush and his dad--that's the ticket.

George W. Bush will be a busy fella for the next
coupla years.

Busy taking the drugs and chemicals his handlers
will be pounding into him to keep him stable
enough to not start drooling on live TV.

Busy with all the hard indoctrination he will be
getting to try to keep him from mumbling anything
stupid and off message.

Busy trying to deflect all the hatred and vilification that is focused on him be people all
over the world.

Busy trying to ignore the fact that his old lady's
ass is getting real fat and that it's obvious she
thinks she married a dork.

Busy ignoring the fact that his spoiled kids are
drunken sluts, probably sneaking away trying to
prove that they can do more blow than Daddy
ever thought possible.

And...they are probably audacious enough to be
attempting to suck more dicks than Daddy did, too!

Posted by: Aristootle at December 9, 2006 12:43 PM

I hope they don't start a church.
Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 7:39 PM
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They haven't. You can visit the unfaithful here if you like:

http://www.nobeliefs.com/

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 7:38 PM

A friend of mine said she would never see it, because she doesn't want her money going to Gibson. She says (quite correctly) that Gibson will end up putting the money in his church. Gibson, as we all know, is involved in an ultra-conservative version of Catholicism. Gibson will probably start his own church, unlike the atheists....

I liked the Mad Max films (none of which Gibson directed), and Braveheart (even though it wasn't completely historically accurate, especially in its depiction of Edward II (son of Edward Longshanks), who was portrayed as an effeminate, flaky person. Edward II was gay, but he was a much stronger person than Gibson portrayed him as).

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 9, 2006 7:46 PM

thanks

thanks
Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 7:51 PM
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The next time I set you up for a "Bless you" joke, you damned-well better take it.

"Apocalypto"

Mel Gibson's latest pretends to care about the fall of man, but it really only wants to impale, flay, disfigure and torture him. Sound familiar?

By Andrew O'Hehir

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/12/08/apocalypto/

Dec. 8, 2006 | To be truly effective, "Apocalypto" needs an exclamation mark. You just can't give a movie a title that silly without one, and also without some portentous '60s-style typeface that looks like it was carved out of limestone, or came pouring out of a volcano. If only this were a cheeseball entertainment out of 1963, where the opening-night audience might be showered with Styrofoam temple blocks and soap-bubble lava, while actors in fearsome Maya regalia bearing plastic severed heads on spears roamed the aisles.
Aftermath

Sadly, Mel Gibson's latest directorial offering is not "APOCALYPTO!" but just "Apocalypto," and despite the silly title it's a relentlessly gruesome, visually impressive and ultimately not very interesting movie with some pretensions to seriousness. Depending on how you look at it, these pretensions are either too much or not enough. As I see it, "Apocalypto" is too bloody-minded to work as pure escapist adventure, but far too limited in intellectual or imaginative scope to be challenging. Unless, that is, your idea of being challenged is to see the many different ways the human body can be impaled and disfigured: with stakes, spears, arrows, knives, pikes, teeth, darts and elaborate spiky wooden contraptions whose names I don't know.

The next time I set you up for a "Bless you" joke, you damned-well better take it.

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 9, 2006 7:54 PM

I'm a little slow when it comes to religious protocol.

sorry....

Do these people know who they are transmitting their ads to?

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 7:55 PM

Wonder if Mel's Passion fans will come out to see it? Probably not, because it's about "brown" people, and they don't like those kind of people.

But they will like the violence. For the record, The Passion of the Christ was a terrible movie.

sorry....
Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at December 9, 2006 7:56 PM
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For penance, say ten Hail Mary's, five Our Father's, knock out a quick rosary and your soul will be whiter than a Klan rally.

Is this blog broken?

Shadows grow so long before my eyes

And they're moving across the page

Suddenly the day turns into night

Far away from the city but don't hesitate

'Cause your love won't wait hey

Ooh baby I love your way every day

Wanna tell you I love your way every day

Wanna be with you night and day

Moon appears to shine and light the sky

With the help of some fireflies

I wonder how they have the power shine shine shine

I can see them under the pines

But don't hesitate 'cause your love won't wait hey

Ooh baby I love your way every day

Wanna tell you I love your way every day

Wanna be with you night and day uh yeah

But don't hesitate 'cause your love won't wait

I can see the sunset in your eyes

Brown and grey and blue besides

Clouds are stalking islands in the sun

Wish I could dry one out of season

But don't hesitate 'cause your love won't wait hey

Ooh baby I love your way every day

Wanna tell you I love your way uuhh

Wanna be with you night and day

Ooh baby I love your way every day

Wanna tell you I love your way uuhh

Wanna be with you night and day

GG,

Until someone makes a Jesus movie better than The Life Of Brian, I'll continue to say "No thanks. I read the book."

Nevermind, that one went through...

Actually, I should rather say it's the anti-theists who are the rabid preachers, rather than the atheists and agnostics.

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 9, 2006 8:14 PM

Life of Brian got a ton of flak from righties back in its day.

Great films about Christ...

1. The Gospel According to Matthew
2. The Greatest Story Ever Told
3. King of Kings (both silent and sound versions)

Just a few...

Gospel's director, Pier Paolo Pasolini, was gay, an atheist, and a Marxist, yet, his film is considered one of the greatest films about Jesus. Even the Vatican approved of it (and they knew about Pasolini's "habits").

Test your geographic knowledge.
http://gamedesign.jp/flash/worldmap/worldmap.html

I got a high of 54 out of three tries.

testing

testing

//Nevermind, that one went through...

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 8:16 PM

Actually, I should rather say it's the anti-theists who are the rabid preachers, rather than the atheists and agnostics.

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 8:17 PM
//

Okay this is weird. That second post was made about 5 minutes before that 1st one was. Blog broken!

//testing

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 8:21 PM

testing

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 8:21 PM
//

Let's do the time warp again!

testing again

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 8:20 PM
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What? No Ben-Hur?
(Okay, so Jesus only had a cameo in that one.)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/09/word.year.ap/index.html

CNN's poll question: "Do you think 2006 can be summed up by the word 'truthiness?'"

"truthiness"= "truth that comes from the gut, not books"

Uuhhhh, I think that one may claim that the last six years were directed by "truthiness."

I am posting this before I actually write it.

This blog is magic.

a wee tribute for waiting

A meatball in hand

is better than two Bush's!!!

[I]f Big Oil wants a change of direction than where is Bush getting his support for "staying the course"?

An AP poll conducted this week shows that only 9% of Americans believe that "victory" in Iraq is possible. Even the hard-core Bush loyalists have abandoned the sinking ship. The only group left touting Bush's failed policy is the "Israel first" camp which continues to wave the bloody shirt of incitement from their perch at the Weekly Standard and the American Enterprise Institute. These same diehards are leading the charge for a preemptive attack on Iran; a criminal act which will have catastrophic effects on America's long-term energy needs.

An article which appeared in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz shows how confident Prime Minister Olmert is in the ability of the Jewish Lobby to torpedo the Baker-Hamilton report and steer the US away from changes in Iraq:

"On his way home from Los Angeles, the Prime Minister calmed' the reporters and perhaps even himself"by saying there is no danger of the US President George Bush accepting the expected recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton panel, and attempting to move Syria out of the axis of evil and into a coalition to extricate America from Iraq. The Prime Minister hopes the Jewish Lobby can rally a Democratic majority in the new Congress to counter any diversion from the status quo on the Palestinians. (Akiva Eldar, "The Gewalt Agenda")

Olmert has good reason to be "calm". While the new Congress is being apprised of its duties to Israel, the Brookings Institute is convening a forum at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy entitled: "America and Israel: Confronting a Middle east in Turmoil". The meeting will be attended by Israeli right-wing extremist, Avigdor Lieberman, as well as political big-wigs, Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The context of the meeting suggests that right-leaning Israelis will be informing their friends in the Democratic Party about the anticipated attack on Iran, as well as discussing strategies for sabotaging Baker's report. If we see the Democrats lambasting the ISGs recommendations next week; we'll know why.

So, the battle lines have been drawn. On one side we have James Baker and his corporate classmates who want to restore order while preserving America's imperial role in the region. And, on the other side, we have the neo-Trotskyites and Israeli-Jacobins who seek a fragmented and chaotic Middle East where Israel is the dominant power. (see "A Clean Break")

The one group that has no voice in this "Battle of the Titans" is the American people. They lost whatever was left of their shrinking political-clout sometime around the 2000 Coronation of George Bush.

In any event, Baker and his ilk are not going to sit back and watch the empire (and the military) they put together with their own two hands be systematically pulverized by a cabal of zealots pursuing an agenda that only serves Israeli hardliners.

That ain't gonna happen.

Expect Baker to wheel out the heavy artillery and fight tooth-and-nail to reassert the primacy of the American ruling class. "The Lobby" may be powerful, but it's going to be tough-going to take the country away from the people who believe they own it.

The struggle between the political heavyweights is about to break-out into open warfare.

Mike Whitney

Sam, I think your blog is broken.

/*Discreetly points finger at Air-Ono*

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 9, 2006 8:24 PM

That was a great film, both versions (1925 and 1959). You never saw Jesus's face.

Or The Ten Commandments? I always really like that one....

sam,

mucky is an enemy of the people

and should be...

wait a minute

gg is about to part her sea of love

(*holy moses*)

an moses did yell from the mountain top

"thou shall not... jesus christ, i just saw the morning dew on gg's [bleep]

... fuck me"

[continued]

"now where was i... um,... nevermind"

Hello bloggers!!

GG,

Do you slap an Aussie into next Tuesday or last Tuesday?
I can never keep that dateline thing straight in my head.

moses to the publishers: "can we edit that last bit out"

and speaking of snatch, here's...

Franky Four Fingers:

"So the biblical scholars mis-translated the Hebrew word for "young woman" into the Greek word for "virgin," which was a pretty easy mistake to make, since there is only a subtle difference in the spelling. But back then it was the "virgin" that caught people's attention. It's not every day a virgin conceives and bears a son. So you keep that for a couple of hundred years, and the next thing you know, you have the Roman Catholic church."

Rumsfeld’s farewell tour makes stop in Iraq. “Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has arrived in Iraq on a surprise trip to thank US troops for their service just days before he steps down from his post, a Defense Department spokesman said.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061209/pl_afp/usiraqmilitary_061209234311

oh, hello toni

thanks for coming around

85 percent: Number of Americans who support “allowing the government to negotiate prescription drug prices for the Medicare program, suggesting there will be considerable political pressure on the next Congress to do so.” The Kaiser Family Foundation poll found “substantial majorities of Democrats (92%), Independents (85%), and Republicans (74%)” support such negotiations.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120801578.html

JESUS came upon a small crowd who had surrounded a young woman they believed to be an adulteress. They were preparing to stone her to death. Jesus said: “Whoever is without sin among you, let them cast the first stone.”
An old lady at the back of the crowd picked up a huge rock and lobbed it at the young woman, scoring a direct hit on her head. The young lady collapsed dead.

Jesus looked over towards the old lady and said: “Do you know, mother, sometimes you really p*** me off.”

Oldie but goodie

Has anyone seen my script?

Brookings Hosts an Ethnic Cleanser: Mr. Lieberman Comes to Washington

An Arab-less discussion of the Middle East fits comfortably with one prominent guest's vision of the holy land. Lieberman is one of Israel's leading advocates of forcibly removing masses of Palestinians in order to alter the country's demographic outlay permanently. This has a more common name: ethnic cleansing.

Has anyone seen my script?

Posted by: Ralph Spoilsport at December 9, 2006 8:55 PM

If you lived here...

you'd be home by now!

Israel drags heels on Tutu visit

A United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip that was to be led by Desmond Tutu is in doubt because Israel has yet to give the Nobel laureate permission to enter the territory, officials said on Friday.

Tutu was to begin leading a six-member team this weekend in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun to investigate the killings of 19 civilians in an Israeli artillery barrage last month.

air-ono,

Here's another one from the land of the free and the home of the brave:

http://www.hi-techredneck.com/grill.jpg

Saddam's Nephew Escapes Prison in Iraq

Dec 9, 1:04 PM (ET)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A nephew of Saddam Hussein serving a life sentence for making bombs for Iraq's insurgency escaped from prison Saturday in northern Iraq, authorities said.

Ayman Sabawi, the son of Saddam's half brother Sabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti, fled the prison some 45 miles west of Mosul in the afternoon with the help of a police officer, according to local police Brig. Abdul Karim al-Jubouri.

Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf confirmed the escape but declined to elaborate.

Sabawi was convicted of illegally crossing the border from Syria and sentenced to 15 years in prison late last year by an Iraqi court. He was sentenced to life in prison in an earlier case for possession of illegal weapons and manufacture of explosive devices.

He was captured in May 2005 by security forces during a raid on Tikrit, the former leader's hometown. His father, who served as a presidential adviser before the U.S.-led invasion, was captured there two months earlier.

http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fapnews.myway.com%2Farticle%2F20061209%2FD8LTFLHG0.html

Rockford man charged in alleged terror plot

Throughout the plot, he never had any weapons or the money to obtain them, Fitzgerald said.
But he did have violent intent, authorities said.

In a recorded conversation with the informant on Nov. 29, Shareef discussed attacking a courthouse in DeKalb County, according to the complaint.

"I just want to smoke a judge," he allegedly said.

The next day, the informant suggested the mall become the target.

"I mean, all right, we gotta look at it this way, we want to disrupt Christmas," the informant is quoted as saying in the criminal complaint.

Shareef allegedly responded: "Oh hell yeah, the mall is where it's at."

U.S. Denies Liability in Torture Case

The Bush administration asserted in federal court yesterday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and three former military officials cannot be held liable for the alleged torture of nine Afghans and Iraqis in U.S. military detention camps because the detainees have no standing to sue in U.S. courts.

//Uruknet receives daily many hacking attempts. To prevent this, we have 10 websites on 6 servers in different places.//

The crack-pipe postings are back.

...and another:

http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/images/redneck_cat_carrier.jpg

Explosive: Ex-page says congressman told him
not to talk about Foley questions on penis size

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Kolbe_former_page_stories_conflict_1208.html

Israeli Nuclear Weapons Whistleblower Speaks Out

When it comes to the issue of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, there is an elephant in the room nobody wants to acknowledge, and that elephant is Israel's large nuclear bomb arsenal.

If we truly want to stop the nuclear arms race in the Middle East, Israel must be required to open its nuclear weapons program to inspection.

Iran offers to help U.S. leave Iraq
Offers help if U.S. 'changes its attitude'; Iraqis leaving country in droves.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fapnews.myway.com%2Farticle%2F20061209%2FD8LTJJ680.html

Active-Duty Military Personnel Will Protest War in Iraq on Wednesday

Wednesday, more than a hundred members of active duty military, reserve, and National Guard will speak out against the War in Iraq. Organizers say this will be the first time active servicemembers will voice a protest since the United States entered Iraq in March 2003.

Senior Navy Seaman Jonathan Hutto will be among them. He wants to make it clear. He's not against war, "I want to state that we're not pacifists here." He's just against this war: The one placing U.S. troops in Iraq.

LOL, crank

but all to no avail

this is my last will & testament:

toni

darling, i'm a traitor

i'm drinking sake

but not from a weeney jap cup

no, ma'am

straight from a weeney greek coffee cup

(god knows, i wish i could take a bath in it with jenise)

so before my dignity erodes any further

i'm going to drown myself in the river

(coroner's report: ono was no match for that duck)

oh, it's a long story

you'll have to scroll up

*

BONZAI!

Here's one for Jenise.

Japanese far right causes unease

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2055584.ece

``Explosive: Ex-page says congressman told him
not to talk about Foley questions on penis size

Now this is foggor for Crank...but I even could think of a few puns here!!

UN arms trade bill: US casts sole ‘no’ vote against

The United States, which is the world’s biggest exporter of arms and accounts for more than 50 per cent of all arms exports, on Wednesday became the only country in the United Nations to vote against letting work begin on a new treaty to bolster arms embargoes and prevent human rights abuses by setting uniform worldwide standards for arms deals. The vote in the 192-nation UN General Assembly was 153-1, with the United States casting the sole “no” vote.

War is the sole reason that the right wing has power...without war...without enemies they have nothing...So they create enemies...out of thin air if they need to.

Ono, did you get to see the picture of the Parthenon I posted?

foggor s/b foddor!

US MILITARY LIKE THE NAZIS: BEFEHL IST BEFEHL?

Ranger alleges war crimes

An Army Ranger accused of holding up a Tacoma bank plans to use the notoriety of his case to reveal what he characterizes as systematic war crimes -- rapes, homicides and political assassinations -- committed by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

UK war effort said undercut by CIA
Sources: UK policies in Iraq and Afghanistan deliberately undermined by U.S.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2062489.ece

U.S., Iraqi troops seal off Haditha

Residents in Haditha, which is at the centre of a U.S. military investigation into the deaths of two dozen civilians in November 2005 by U.S. Marines, said electricity has been cut off and that no food is being allowed into the city.

Ono is this happening?

Drought has outback on verge of ruin

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1968543,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

//Ono, did you get to see the picture of the Parthenon I posted?//

how could i, you bitch

my lungs are full of water

i can't fucking breathe

and you expect me to check out some fucking ruins

(what's wrong with you)

Words Even an Ex-President Can't Say in America: The Media Lynching of Jimmy Carter

"It seems Israel's "supporters" have conscripted me in their lynching of Jimmy Carter. Count me out. True, the historical part of Carter's book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, contains errors in that it repeats standard Israeli propaganda. However, Carter's analysis of the impasse in the "peace process" as well as his description of Israeli policy in the West Bank is accurate - and, frankly, that's all that matters."

Iraqi soldiers killed by US friendly fire

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Three_Iraqi_soldiers_killed_by_US_f_12092006.html

35 U.S. invaders terminated/wounded in Iraq

//Ono is this happening?//

yep

the good news is that the north is wet-wet-wet

Speaking frankly about Israel and Palestine

Jimmy Carter says his recent book is drawing knee-jerk accusations of anti-Israel bias.

By Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. His newest book is "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," published last month. He is scheduled to sign books Monday at Vroman's in Pasadena.
December 8, 2006

I signed a contract with Simon & Schuster two years ago to write a book about the Middle East, based on my personal observations as the Carter Center monitored three elections in Palestine and on my consultations with Israeli political leaders and peace activists.

We covered every Palestinian community in 1996, 2005 and 2006, when Yasser Arafat and later Mahmoud Abbas were elected president and members of parliament were chosen. The elections were almost flawless, and turnout was very high — except in East Jerusalem, where, under severe Israeli restraints, only about 2% of registered voters managed to cast ballots.

how could i, you bitch

my lungs are full of water

i can't fucking breathe

and you expect me to check out some fucking ruins

(what's wrong with you)

Posted by: angry-ono at December 9, 2006 9:18 PM

I thought there was a drought in Australia, where'd you find the water to fill your lungs?

Here's why AAR (and other liberal organizations) do not support the campaign for a new trial for Mumia--or set him free:

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff12092006.html

Corruption, crime inside Homeland Security

Transportation Security Administration employees, including federal air marshals, found themselves arrested for stealing from passengers, child pornography, money laundering, and drug smuggling.

//where'd you find the water to fill your lungs?//

ok,

it's a mixture of dust & dried kangaroo dung

U.S. Tank Destroyed, 5 U.S. Troops Wiped Out in Afghanistan

ok,

it's a mixture of dust & dried kangaroo dung

Posted by: air-ono (oi) at December 9, 2006 9:24 PM

Now that I might believe!

Posted by: PA at December 9, 2006 9:21 PM

Interesting editting...the uneddited version follows.

Moral Cowards on the Hill

A Congress of Hucksters and Pipsqueaks

How pathetic can it get?

140,000 American troops are stuck in the mess that a lying and endlessly deceitful president has made in Iraq, over half a million innocent Iraqis have been killed since the politically-motivated 2003 US invasion, a group of very Establishment, middle-of-the-road politicians of both parties has declared the war an unmitigated disaster and called for a pullout of troops, the president has nixed their call for withdrawal and regional negotiations, and what is Congress doing about it?

the only moisture

is the flies that land in my mouth

i crush them

and suck their fluid

*

REVENGE!!

Smith says Iraq war may be "criminal"

Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, who voted in favor of the Iraq war and has supported it ever since, now says the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal."

Travel Ban For Prominent German Holocaust Myth Denier. Victim of Zionist Trap
Publication time: 9 December 2006, 18:54

Police of Liberal Democratic Germany seized the passport of an outstanding German historian and human rights activist, Mr Guenther Deckert, so that he couldn't travel to Iran to take part in the International Conferece on the Holocaust Myth.

Travel Ban For Prominent German Holocaust Myth Denier. Victim of Zionist Trap

Bush asks Rumsfeld to keep advising him

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Bush has asked outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to advise him until successor Robert Gates is sworn in, aides say.

Bush specifically asked Rumsfeld to stay in power until Gates was in place, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Rumsfeld said he has spoken with Gates twice since Gates was confirmed by the Senate 95-2 Wednesday.

Rumsfeld will preside over a meeting with Bush at the Pentagon Wednesday, which will include a briefing with the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the department's recommendations for a new way forward in Iraq, the Times said.

Photos confirm U.S. soldiers kill babies

with any luck

i'll turn into a fly

and when this happens, i'll buzz right over to your place

so one morning if you see a fly drinking greek coffee

and you swat me

please, make it quick

You are right Nobody. The Israel Lobby is powerful, and are demonstrating their reach. Observe as the reports on anti-semitism become more numerous in the media. But the ruling classes are divided on which direction to take in the Middle East, as Mike Whitney writes in his article. Baker and co. vs. Israel Lobby and the neo-cons. When the elephants fight...

Laws that punish speech...What an interesting concept...

LBJ stopped listening to the people too...What happened next?

Bush sees US consensus over Iraq

US President George W Bush has said he is confident Americans can move beyond political differences and agree a new direction for Iraq leading to victory.

In his weekly radio address, he again praised the report by the Iraq Study Group calling for a change of strategy.

But he made clear he would take no major decisions based upon it alone.

"I tell ya, I've fought tougher flies

He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile

I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss"

and then i put him in the trash-can

Deep Fissures In GOP...
The New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER and ROBIN TONER | December 9, 2006 04:34 PM

The release of the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group this week exposed deep fissures among Republicans over how to manage a war that many fear will haunt their party -- and the nation -- for years to come.

A document that many in Washington had hoped would pave the way for a bipartisan compromise on Iraq instead drew sharp condemnation from the right, with hawks saying it was a wasted effort that advocated a shameful American retreat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/us/politics/10elect.html?hp&ex=1165726800&en=1067668d45c16290&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Here we go:
* Muslims Help Expose Truth in «Holocaust» Claims
World » Events // 20 November 2006, 10:22
* Another German Historian on Trial for «Holocaust» Myth Rejection
World » Events // 19 November 2006, 18:28
* Belgian "holocaust"myth denier jailed
World » Events // 16 November 2006, 00:01
* Another Show Trial Of Unbeliever in «Holocaust» Myth Starts in Germany
World » Events // 10 November 2006, 14:31
* Swiss Writer To Be Sentenced For Unbelieving in «Holocaust» Myth
World » Events // 8 November 2006, 09:38
* Prominent German HR Activist Must Go To Prison For Unbelief in "Holocaust"
World » Events // 6 November 2006, 21:51

The goal is to associate anyone who is critical of Israel with Holocaust deniers and Nazis.

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 9:27 PM

He's up for re-election in 2008, in a very blue state....

He's panicking...he's officially a "moderate", but like all GOP moderates, his voting record is right wing...

Posted by: PA at December 9, 2006 9:30 PM

Not exactly...The ruling classes are more interested in maintaining the status quo than anything...perpetual war is perpetual profits for them...

They will do whatever they can to keep the wars (and I used the plural deliberately) going forever...

Much like what we see in this country with the vast majority of the people against the war and the government ignoring that and going the opposite way you will find the same in the right wing led countries of the mideast...

fuck this smoking caper

imma buy some nicotine patches

*

i don't know how janeane does it

(any thoughts gg)

Isn't there a hate speech bill floating around in congress?

"No talks...bombs...bombs...bombs" John Q wingnut

Iran Offers to Help U.S. Exit From Iraq

Iran's foreign minister delivered a blunt challenge to the United States on Saturday, saying Tehran is willing to help U.S. troops withdraw from neighboring Iraq but only if Washington makes some tough policy changes.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki claimed U.S. troops were responsible for at least half the violence tearing apart Iraq and that their departure would pay security dividends for the entire region.

"If the United States changes its attitude, the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to help with the withdrawal from Iraq," Mottaki told the International Institute of Strategic Studies conference here. "Fifty percent of the problem of insecurity in Iraq is the presence of foreign troops."

Photos confirm U.S. soldiers kill babies

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 9:30 PM

Muck, I can't even click on that link! It is hard for me to even read about this.

He's panicking...he's officially a "moderate", but like all GOP moderates, his voting record is right wing...

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 9:35 PM

There will be more of that panicking coming in the next year...More republicans have seats to defend in 08 that they had this year...It could get really ugly...

The goal is to associate anyone who is critical of Israel with Holocaust deniers and Nazis.

Posted by: PA at December 9, 2006 9:35 PM

You forgot "self hating jew" and uncle toms...

Like the 41% of the population of Israel...As compared to the 42% that are for war...

Not exactly...The ruling classes are more interested in maintaining the status quo than anything...perpetual war is perpetual profits for them...

They will do whatever they can to keep the wars (and I used the plural deliberately) going forever...

Much like what we see in this country with the vast majority of the people against the war and the government ignoring that and going the opposite way you will find the same in the right wing led countries of the mideast...

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 9:37 PM

I was thinking of policy differences. One side sees Israel's aggressive actions a threat to the oilfields, and therefore want them to be reined in. While the Israel first sorts oppose this.

Hear the screeching over the upcoming Holocaust conference in Iran. (I am not a Holocaust denier; let the fools have their conference.) Since Iran's president denies the Holocaust, he is to be attacked.

Secret American talks with insurgents break down
Hala Jaber, Amman



SECRET talks in which senior American officials came face-to-face with some of their most bitter enemies in the Iraqi insurgency broke down after two months of meetings, rebel commanders have disclosed.

The meetings, hosted by Iyad Allawi, Iraq’s former prime minister, brought insurgent commanders and Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador to Iraq, together for the first time.

After months of delicate negotiations Allawi, a former Ba’athist and a secular Shi’ite, persuaded three rebel leaders to travel to his villa in Amman, the Jordanian capital, to see Khalilzad in January.

“The meetings came about after persistent requests from the Americans. It wasn’t because they loved us but because they didn’t have a choice,” said a rebel leader who took part.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2496369,00.html

It's an LBJ moment if ever there was one...

Bush ignores criticism of Iraq war handling

President Bush spoke Saturday about parts of the
Iraq Study Group report that mirror his policies — but he ignored the sections that criticize his administration's handling of the war.

In his weekly radio broadcast, Bush said the bipartisan group's report presented a straightforward picture of the "grave situation we face in Iraq." He said he was pleased the panel supported his goal of an Iraq that can govern, sustain and defend itself, even though that will take time. And he said he was glad the bipartisan panel did not suggest a hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

"The group declared that such a withdrawal would `almost certainly produce greater sectarian violence' and lead to `a significant power vacuum, greater human suffering, regional destabilization and a threat to the global economy,'" Bush said, quoting the report, which was issued Thursday.

"The report went on to say, `If we leave and Iraq descends into chaos, the long-range consequences could eventually require the United States to return,'" Bush noted.>

Carter stepped on his dick this time.

He ought to lower his head and go into hiding.

damn, shoulda prefaced:

Posted by: air-"the fly in black"-ono at December 9, 2006 9:35 PM

with,

"how do you do,

my name is toni dee

now you gonna die"

Hear the screeching over the upcoming Holocaust conference in Iran. (I am not a Holocaust denier; let the fools have their conference.) Since Iran's president denies the Holocaust, he is to be attacked.

Posted by: PA at December 9, 2006 9:44 PM

Hrm...I'm not sure there is that much division between the corporatists and the Israel firsters yet...The goal after all is to spark more war and therefore more profits...

I'm quite positive that a lot of Israel firsters are merely cloaked corporatists in the first place and are using the situation to pursue military/economic goals...

As for the holocaust denial thing...I see great danger for the jews themselves to wield this for pr benefit...Mislabelling people as antisemites does nothing but provide cover and legitimacy for the real antisemites...

Will they use this as justification for an attack on Iran...Probably...Will the blowback from doing so cost them more than they gain...Probably...

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 9:38 PM

Janeane smokes way too much....she's zonked on 2 packs a cigarettes a day, and her Red Bulls....

Why drugs are bad for spiders, and probably us...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Caffeinated_spiderwebs.jpg

It's still about oil in Iraq

A centerpiece of the Iraq Study Group's report is its advocacy for securing foreign companies' long-term access to Iraqi oil fields.

WHILE THE Bush administration, the media and nearly all the Democrats still refuse to explain the war in Iraq in terms of oil, the ever-pragmatic members of the Iraq Study Group share no such reticence.

Page 1, Chapter 1 of the Iraq Study Group report lays out Iraq's importance to its region, the U.S. and the world with this reminder: "It has the world's second-largest known oil reserves." The group then proceeds to give very specific and radical recommendations as to what the United States should do to secure those reserves. If the proposals are followed, Iraq's national oil industry will be commercialized and opened to foreign firms.

The report makes visible to everyone the elephant in the room: that we are fighting, killing and dying in a war for oil. It states in plain language that the U.S. government should use every tool at its disposal to ensure that American oil interests and those of its corporations are met.

It's spelled out in Recommendation No. 63, which calls on the U.S. to "assist Iraqi leaders to reorganize the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise" and to "encourage investment in Iraq's oil sector by the international community and by international energy companies." This recommendation would turn Iraq's nationalized oil industry into a commercial entity that could be partly or fully privatized by foreign firms.

This is an echo of calls made before and immediately after the invasion of Iraq.

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 9:52 PM

Wanna arm wrestle?

Afghanistan war nears 'tipping point'

The conflict in Afghanistan has entered a dangerous phase, and the next three to six months could prove crucial in determining whether the United States and its NATO partners can suppress a revitalized enemy — or will be dragged into another drawn-out and costly fight with an Islamic insurgency, according to senior military and security officials and diplomats.

In short, we are losing this one as well.
It is important to remember that the last military commander to actually conquer and hang onto Afghanistan was Alexander the Great.

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 9:54 PM

While zopped up on caffeine...

Why does this remind me of Vietnam too?

New Pentagon Plan at Odds with Iraq Study Group's

Top Military Advisers -- in Iraq and at the Pentagon -- Present Their Own Plan to President Bush

The recommendations are not complete yet, but sources familiar with the reviews conducted by Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace and National Security Adviser Steven Hadley, tell ABC News that military leaders will advise the president that he change the primary mission from fighting insurgents to training and supporting Iraqi troops.

The plan for U.S. forces seems to mirror the one suggested by the Iraq Study Group. But there's one big difference.

Under the Iraq Study Group plan, released earlier this week, combat troops — about half of all the forces in Iraq — would return home by the first quarter of 2008.

But under the Pentagon's plan, those combat troops would remain in Iraq — with a new mission. Entire companies of U.S. combat forces (units of about 150 troops) could be embedded in Iraqi army and police battalions.

Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the top operational commander in Iraq told Pentagon reporters this morning, "We believe now that what we need to do is to embed those trainers, to make that organic, as part of the Iraqi army and the Iraqi police."

A little gift from the "right"!

GOP Budget Chair Blasts Leadership: Calls Tax Bill "Largest Budget-Buster Ever Brought Forward By The Republican Congress"...
Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | December 9, 2006 12:47 PM

The Senate sent legislation to President Bush early this morning that expands offshore oil drilling, preserves a variety of popular tax breaks for families and businesses and gives permanent normal trading status to Vietnam.

The package was approved after a marathon session in the departing Republican-controlled Congress, which didn't shut its doors until after 4:30 this morning.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900272.html

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 9:55 PM

That article has that "next 6 month" phrase in it....that's a Thomas Friedman favorite....

//Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 9:51 PM//

When the arguements start looking the same, and sounding the same(controlling the world finances, banking, media, wars, and so on), it gets hard to tell the difference.

/It also doesn't help when the "not anti-semites" start using the same propoganda

While zopped up on caffeine...

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 9:58 PM

Now we're talking about a party...Be warned I am ambidextrous...I can drink coffee from a cup in either hand.

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 9:53 PM

boring

all your posts are bore-RING!!! a-ding-a-ding...

the ringing

RINGING!!!

MAKE THEM STOP, MAURICE

oh, and

btw, gg

we know she smokes too-too much (ffs)

but how!?

HOW!?

HOW!?

HOW DOES SHE....!? (ahhhhhhhhh)

THE RINGING - THE RINGING & THE DUST IS BACK

(gulp-glug)

how... how does she do it

don't keep any secrets from me, gg

(gulp-glug)

quick, gg

quench my desire

satisfy my dying wish... how!?

(you bitch)

frankly, i don't know

if this sake & blogging caper

is a good idea

Iraq War a success---mayhem and destruction desired results from the beginning---beginning being long ago---Iran Iraq war, Koo-Wait invasion, Baath Party in bed with CIA/Wall Street...Hussein kills commies for US Emperor...stand in for Leo Strauss/Thomas Robert Malthus...grand chessgame...kill a few of the vulgar masses in NYC and they will all run into the meat grinder to serve their daddy/mafia don/ emperor..."will you love me daddy, if I die for you?"---they want the alpha dog to "annoint" them with his holy "water"---ah the innaresting cooings of the passenger pigeons...see the action, B.J., death camp planet and its inmates, all chatting so nice in the bloggo-gasso-chamber...DGW

A History Of Lies: WMD, Who Said What and When

Intelligence leaves no doubt that Iraq continues to possess and conceal lethal weapons

George Bush, US President 18 March, 2003

Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary 2 April, 2003

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit

Tony Blair 28 April, 2003

We are asked to accept Saddam decided to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd

Tony Blair, Prime Minister 18 March, 2003

It is possible Iraqi leaders decided they would destroy them prior to the conflict

Donald Rumsfeld, US Defense Secretary 28 May, 2003

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction

continued...

It truly is coming full circle.

Time for Bush to Go!

In Bush’s view, the only resolution is for troublesome Muslims to submit to his terms. But that is a possibility receding with the speed of water being pulled out to sea before the surge of a fast-approaching tsunami. In this case, there is a tidal wave of anti-Americanism about to crash across the Middle East.

Burns Leaves In A Huff...
The New York Times | ANNE E. KORNBLUT and JEFF ZELENY | Posted December 9, 2006 08:42 AM

Some lawmakers, like Senator Conrad Burns, Republican of Montana, walked off in a huff...

"I finally got a Rayburn office, but it's in the basement," said Representative Chris Chocola, Republican of Indiana. On the other side of the Capitol, Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania met with his successor, Bob Casey, for nearly an hour on Thursday, their longest encounter apart from their televised debates.

But Mr. Santorum, a Republican whose once-steady rise in politics ended with a resounding defeat, refused to be photographed with Mr. Casey, and brushed past reporters in his closing days in the Capitol.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/us/politics/09depart.html

38.2°C (100°F) @ 12:00:00 PM

39.7°C (= i.5 degrees hotter than 100°F) @ 1:00:00 PM

*

my spider's web is getting wankier & wankier

Norman Finkelstein: The truth about MEMRI

MEMRI recently posted what it alleged was an interview I did with Lebanese television on the Nazi holocaust. The MEMRI posting was designed to prove that I was a Holocaust denier. Below I juxtapose the MEMRI version of my interview (both the actual broadcast version as well as the transcript it prepared) against what I actually said in the interview.

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:02 PM

She likes to see how much abuse her body can take, in terms of chemical substances...

Now go drink some shoe polish with a Pine Sol chaser....

[groan!]

now i know how the dinosaurs felt like when they were getting extinct

did they say, "thought i had something more to say"

(fucking assholes)

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 10:13 PM

LMAO!

thanks

now i'm going down the river

and i ain't coming back

uh oh

moving day.

apparently i have internet connect at my new home.

this is dangerous.

hows ebbrebody?

right-o
gotta go.

Posted by: sake-ono at December 9, 2006 10:16 PM

Air-Ono's goin' on a walkabout....

i'm wondering

if i threw a live toaster in the river

would everyone be electricuted

or would there be a power surge

or what!?

*

(nobody, your thoughts on the matter)

(or do you want some upper-cuts to the throat)

right-o
gotta go.

*

yeah, well

we don't like your type round here

[epilogue]

FARTS)))))))))))))))))

Great place I discovered last weekend not far from here. Had posted some links, but they'll probably show up hours from now. Just go to this URL to see it:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=krause+springs&btnG=Search+Images

Cypress trees are pretty sweet. I still miss the Redwoods though.

Why is President Bush's brother hanging out with an alleged Russian mobster?

If you look at this innocuous little tidbit from the Guardian UK, you'll see that Neil Bush, brother of President George W. Bush, is palling around in public with exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky at a sporting event in England

ah,

i'm alright once you get to know me

but by the time you get to know me, you'll be dead & buried

so stop trying to get to know me

& know somebody else

Why is President Bush's brother hanging out with an alleged Russian mobster?

oh, and um, gg

screw you & your aussie references

i'm a 20th century boy

cosmopolitan front & central

(nobody, your thoughts on the matter)

(or do you want some upper-cuts to the throat)

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:22 PM

No one would be electrocuted unless they were very near the toaster...

You'd blow a fuse soon afterwards...

Not even much of a light show...

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 10:30 PM

umm,

because you're an asshole...

am i close

: )

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:30 PM

Go hang out in New South Wales in a bathtub with a live toaster hung above it....and have yourself a Foster's on me....

Hehehehe...

eye-dot-dot-five-dot-cum

fuck digital

37 million poor hidden in the land of plenty

More than one in 10 citizens live below the poverty line, and the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening

A Weaker Dollar and a Receding US Influence

Central banks worldwide began discarding the dollar in favor of the euro in an attempt to minimize their losses following the decline in the value of the US currency.

i'm talking 'bout a big toaster, hommes

elephant sized

sorry, i failed to cross every eye

but i'm blogging under huger duress

(drinking sake & no smokes)

A Weaker Dollar and a Receding US Influence

hey, GG 4.33 at December 9, 2006 10:33 PM

we got other states too, ya know

the injuns didn't take everything from us

(they left us afew blankets)

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:35 PM

the principle that you need to consider is that electricity takes the shortest possible route to ground...No long trips down river...

//Cypress trees are pretty sweet.//

well i'll chipp all down

just to tweak your nose

(heh)

fucking tree-fuckers

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 10:37 PM

gotcha

ala, lightening

many thanks, asshole

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:37 PM

New South Wales, Southhaven (?), what else? I don't remember....

How many predicted this?...A lot by my memorys count...As always the enemy isn't a nationality or a people...it's big money...

New Orleans to Raze Public Housing

Public housing officials decided Thursday to proceed with the demolition of more than 4,500 government apartments here, brushing aside an outcry from residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina who said the move was intended to reduce the ability of poor black people to repopulate the city.

sorry, mate

i'm recoiling in laughter at //many thanks, asshole//

can't fucking help myself

many thanks, asshole

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:40 PM

eat me Dr. Reach Around

//Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:39 PM//

No eucalyptus over here. We had em in CA though. I'm thinking of a new nic right now. I need a change from Thoth. Let me know if you approve of any new ones.

Planetary triple
play on deck Sunday
Stargazers will get a rare triple planetary treat this weekend with Jupiter, Mercury and Mars appearing to nestle together in the predawn skies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_on_sc/three_planets

Dylan goes punk....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJSGbMs5a1U&mode=related&search=

US has most
prisoners in world
Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061209/ts_nm/usa_prisoners_dc

close enough, GG 4.33

i'm not a hard man

*

("don't touch me there")

THE TUBES

THE TUBES

the hills are live with the sound of tubes

Troops under investigation for Kandahar shooting spree

Fury in Afghan city after targeted British convoy kills civilians

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 10:42 PM

name yourself...

suck-my-dick4doo

Think I like this one for some reason.

Thoth

i'm not a hard man

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:43 PM

There are many medical methods of coping with this condition.

//suck-my-dick4doo

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:44 PM
//

You bring your chaps sweetie?

:)

Bush: Iraq Study Group Agrees With Me

In his weekly radio address, President Bush said the bipartisan Iraq Study Group's report released this week "explicitly endorses the strategic goal we've set in Iraq," though he ignored sections of the panel's report that criticize his administration's handling of the war.

man, the o.g. is gonna ring my neck

when he realises i've i polished off his brand new spanking bottle of sake

(and i've been giving him a hard time of drinking on the premises)

"fuck off, i'm sick of your slurred voice"

(LOL)

famous last "LOL"

Saudi king: Spark could ignite region By ABDULLAH SHIHRI and DIANA ELIAS, Associated Press Writers
Sat Dec 9, 3:38 PM ET

Saudi Arabia's king warned Saturday that all of the Middle East is threatened by escalating conflicts around the region, from spiraling sectarian violence in Iraq to rising tensions in Lebanon to fighting among Palestinians.

"Our Arab region is surrounded by dangers," King Abdullah said at the opening of a summit for leaders of the oil-rich Arab nations around the Persian Gulf. "It is like a keg of gunpowder waiting for a spark to explode."

Palestinian factions are fighting each other, and Iraq is slipping into "the darkness of strife and mad struggle," a danger that also looms over Lebanon's diverse communities, he said in a speech before the leaders began a closed session.

The two-day meeting of the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations is focusing on how to head off wider strife exploding from those conflicts or the nuclear standoff between a defiant Iran and the West.

The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman are also expected to discuss a U.S. advisory panel's recommendations on the Iraq war. The bipartisan Iraq Study Group urged the Bush administration to engage Syria and Iran in a diplomatic effort to stabilize Iraq.

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal warned earlier this week that Iraq "poses a great challenge to the region, its security and its future" and called for "halting all forms of interference in Iraq" — an apparent reference to Syria and Iran.

Each has ties with key factions in Iraq: Iran with Shiite Muslim parties that dominate the U.S.-backed government and have militias blamed for much of the sectarian bloodshed, and Syria with Sunni Arabs, who are the main force in the insurgency. But both Iran and Syria deny supporting violence in Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_arabia_gulf_summit&printer=1

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 10:45 PM

selective blindness, hommes

you will have noted the tubes song

but "oh-no - fuck ono"

bury that motherfucker deep in the ground

Photos confirm US raid child deaths

Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage that confirms children were among the victims of a US air raid northwest of Baghdad. Local officials said that the bodies of 17 civilians, including six children and eight women, had been pulled from the debris of two houses in al-Ishaqi.

In March, Iraqis accused US forces of shooting 11 people in al-Ishaqi, including four women and five children, while US forces maintained it had only killed two women and a child in an air strike.

The BBC later broadcast video footage from the scene showing people with gunshot wounds. The soldiers involved in the case, however, were cleared of all misconduct.

bury that motherfucker deep in the ground

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:49 PM

Not deep...just head downward.

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:43 PM

Thanks...sounds like that Aussie LSD is kicking in...

BBL....

Posted by: toniD at December 9, 2006 10:48 PM

That spark?...An attack on Iran would be more than a spark.

//You bring your chaps sweetie?//

only if my fag boyfriend al pacino can cruise with us

"al... al, baby... mmmm, nice car... i brought a friend... his name is suck-for-doodle,... or something,... he's confused"

yeah, that's right

you american towell-heads

poke a stick at the aussie sterotype

: )

A Young Marine Speaks Out

I'm sick and tired of this patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap. I stood through a memorial service today for a young Marine that was killed in Iraq back in April. During this memorial a number of people spoke about the guy and about his sacrifice for the country. How do you justify 'sacrificing' your life for a war which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man's power, and his ego

poke a stick at the aussie sterotype

: )

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:53 PM

I would but toothless grins on desert worn faces scare me...Well that and Olivia...

[shudder]

GG

do you have a tube i can suck

doesn't matter none

i can suck without one

(yeah, i'm gilding the lilly on that one... have i applied that phrase correctly, in that it's plain & obvious)

When I joined I took an oath. In that oath I swore to protect the Constitution of the United States. I didn't swear to build democracies in countries on the other side of the world under the guise of "national security." I didn't join the military to be part of an Orwellian ("1984") war machine that is in an obligatory war against whoever the state deems the enemy to be so that the populace can be controlled and riled up in a pro-nationalistic frenzy to support any new and oppressive law that will be the key to destroying the enemy. Example given – the Patriot Act. So aptly named, and totally against all that the constitution stands for. President Bush used the reactionary nature of our society to bring our country together and to infuse into the national psyche a need to give up their little-used rights in the hope to make our nation a little safer. The same scare tactics he used to win elections. He drones on and on about how America and the world would be a less safe place if we weren't killing Iraqis, and that we'd have to fight the terrorists at home if we weren't abroad. In our modern day emotive society this strategy (or strategery?) works, or had worked, up until last month's elections.

Gunmen slay Indian activist in violent Oaxaca

Assailants shot dead an Indian activist in Mexico's conflict-ridden state of Oaxaca, police said today. It was not clear if the killing was connected to months of political violence in the historic state capital that has left at least nine people dead.

The bullet-ridden corpse of Raul Marcia Perez was found Friday on a road near the Mixtec Indian community of Agua Fria about 120 miles north of Oaxaca city, state police said in a news release. He had been shot earlier in the day, it said.

Marcia Perez was the leader of a local Indian group and columnist in a community newspaper.
...

//Well that and Olivia...//

well that's a new one on me

did you grab that from the chicken coop[

what's it mean

because i'm very partial to "olivia"

i could lay an egg to the sound of her name

c'mon

try me

and yell out what sized egg you want

Rummy now says Bush is wrong, Iraq isn't about Al Qaeda
by John in DC - 12/09/2006 02:47:00 PM

Okay, here's an interesting quote from Rummy in today's news, via AP:
Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday that the U.S. military is doing everything it can but the war cannot be won only "militarily." He said the power struggle in Iraq is partly about religion, economics and political power, and "not terribly military in its nature."
Excuse me, you left Al Qaeda out of there. The thing George Bush claims is the number one cause of the Iraq war.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/12/rummy-now-says-bush-is-wrong-iraq-isnt.html

try me

and yell out what sized egg you want

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 10:58 PM

Let's get physical...physical...bacack buck buck bacack!

The sad fact of the matter is that we are not fighting terrorists in Iraq. We are fighting the Iraqi people who feel like a conquered and occupied people. Personally I have a hard time believing that if I was an Iraqi that I wouldn't be doing everything in my power to kill and maim as many Americans as possible. I know that the vast majority of Americans would not be happy with the Canadian government, or any other foreign government, liberating us from the clutches of George W. Bush, even though a large number of us would like that, and forcing us to accept their system of government. Would not millions of Americans rise up and fight back? Would you not rise up to protect and defend your house and your neighborhood if someone invaded your country? But we send thousands of troops to a foreign country to do just that. How is it moral to fight a people who are just trying to defend their homes and families? I think next time I go to Iraq perhaps I should wear a bright red coat and carry a Brown Bess instead of my digitalized utilities and M16.

You get no bread with one meatball!!!

In Oaxaca, Questions Abound About 11/25 Fires

During the battle for control of Oaxaca on November 25, fires damaged a hotel, comsumed cars, and gutted government offices. Few doubt that protesters armed with molotov cocktails were responsible for some of the blazes. But many Oaxacans are asking questions about who really started the fires that destroyed offices housing key records of the administration of Gov. Ulisses Ruiz.

Mario (not his real name) owns a restaurant in the Zocalo. He has lost a lot of business during the six month uprising in Oaxaca and places the majority of the blame squarely on a government that left the state's poor majority with no other way to demand their rights. Still, he thinks the APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca) is guilty of its own excesses. But he doesn't believe they were the ones who set fire to the courthouse and other government buildings on November 25.

"I believe [Governor Ulises Ruiz] is responsible for a few of the burnings of the buildings, he said, "The government buildings were made of concrete. Molotov cocktails don't cause that kind of damage."
...

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 11:00 PM

i'm serious, dude

i want something to show my grandchildren

as soon as i get a fuck

and begin the dynesty

imma have 5

like you

so we can re-kindle the ok-shit-fight

between the clamputs & the mc-coys

(you in or out)

if the kids a bastard, i'll call him mucky

if it's a bitch, i'll still call him mucky

: )

Oaxaca Meeting Fails Second Time

The second meeting of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) and the present Mexican administration concluded without agreements on the conflict in that Mexican state.

In the meeting the APPO demanded the release of 138 individuals charged of committing violent acts on November 25 in the capital of that demarcation.

The government limited itself to receiving protests issued by the organization as the meeting was agreed to have dialogue character and a possible stage for the negotiation of any solution.

The APPO confirmed it would carry out the peaceful march set for December 10 and intended to demand the release of the arrested individuals. With that objective, they said, all preventive measures will be taken.

Representatives of the Executive and APPO leaders agreed to meet on December 12 again to analyze the denunciations on human rights violations issued on Friday.

No effects from climate change?...Not according to the insurance companies...

Allstate Calls A Halt

In a dramatic move to limit future hurricane claims, Allstate Corp. said Thursday it will stop selling new homeowners' insurance policies Feb. 12 anywhere in Connecticut - not just at the shore - in a move that some critics said was an overreaction.

Allstate, the largest homeowners insurer in Connecticut, said it won't drop its 121,000 existing home policies here and will keep renewing them. It will also continue to sell new auto policies.

The insurer, which is based in Northbrook, Ill., also confirmed that it will stop selling new homeowner policies in New Jersey and Delaware next year.

"The risk of a catastrophic event occurring in New England has increased dramatically," said Tim Knapp, Allstate's Northeast regional counsel.

Cuba Prepares for Defense

Thousands of Cubans will be participating in the National Defense Days Saturday and Sunday, aimed at training the population to face any possible armed aggression.

The two-day exercises intend to continue improving the preparation of all Cubans involved in the Defense Councils, with the principle of the "War of the Entire People."

Taking into account historic US threats and attacks since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, men and women civilians have formed part of the defense system along with the armed forces.

Members of the Territorial Troop Militias, Special Troops, Production and Defense Units, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces will also participate in the territorial defense drills, it was announced here.

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 11:07 PM

Not the way my family deals with things and your daughters are gonna be too ugly to fuck...I suggest you invest in a distillery...

Notice I never once used the word homeland in any of this. I have a secondary point I want to bring up now. Never once was the term homeland ever used to describe the country of America until Mr. Bush began the department of homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. Taking a 20th century history class will teach us that the most notable countries in the last century that referred to their country in this way were Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Hitler used the term fatherland to drum up support, nationalistic support, for his growing war machine. He used the nationalism he created in the minds of the Germans to justify the sacrifice of their livelihood to build the war machine to get back their power from the oppressive restrictions the English and French had put on them at Versailles. This is the same feeling that has been virulently infecting the American psyche in the last hundred years. This is the same feeling that consoles a mother after her son is killed in an attempt to prosecute an aggressor's war 10,000 miles away. It's also known as Patriotism these days, but I say, "No more." No more nationalistic inanity, no more passing it off as patriotism. Patriotism is learning, and educating oneself to understand what their country really stands for.

dear, gg

now that i'm in the mood

i fantasize about us watching a 12 hour movie together

i don't know exactly the subject matter

it changes

(from condoms to holes in the condoms)

anyway,

6 hours into the movie

you suck my dick

: )

Housing slump projected to 2008

After posting the nation’s fastest price growth since 1980, Massachusetts has seen New England’s sharpest recent housing slump. An October decline in Massachusetts housing prices marked the sixth straight monthly drop, and sales have fallen in 20 of the past 21 months. For the first 10 months of this year, single-family home sales fell 15 percent, and the median price fell 4.4 percent to $312,000. Condo sales have dropped 14 percent through October of this year, with the median price down 1.1 percent to $276,000. Single-family home prices are projected to continue falling moderately until the beginning of 2008, when they will be as much as 7 percent to 10 percent below historic peak levels reached in 2005. Prices are then expected to level off or rise slowly through 2010. From 2005 through 2010, Massachusetts is the only New England state forecast to see a price decline _ an average 1.8 percent per year.

dear, gg

forgive me

if my last post was too cerebral

(or not shot with a wide lens)

i just made that last post up

(on the back of its predecessor)

it's "predecessor" i dreamnt about while taking a whizz

EXCLUSIVE: REP. HOLT SAYS HIS ELECTION REFORM LEGISLATION WILL REQUIRE 'VOTER-VERIFIED PAPER BALLOTS'

Congressman, Author of Leading U.S. House Election Reform Bill, Replies in BRAD BLOG Comments to Our Article Critical of His Statement Suggesting Touch-Screen Systems Should Not Be Replaced Due to Cost Factors...

In a posted comment at The BRAD BLOG, Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) has responded to an article we filed earlier this week in which we expressed concern about a recently quoted comment of his. Our original piece discussed his statement at an Election Reform symposium at Rutgers University, as quoted on Tuesday by New Jersey's Herald News, about the financial cost of moving away from Electronic Voting Machines in light of recent purchases made by jurisdictions across the country.

The Congressman's comments are, indeed, quite notable as we read them, and may well change the entirety of the debate on Capitol Hill and elsewhere concerning upcoming Election Reform legislation....

should i get drunk & blogg more often

or should i buy another bottle of sake

& get mo' drunker

it's "predecessor" i dreamnt about while taking a whizz

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 11:24 PM

Who'd ya take it from?

Democrats frustrated by Bush's reaction to Iraq report

"I just didn't feel there today, the president in his words or his demeanor, that he is going to do anything right away to change things drastically," Senate Majority Leader-elect Harry Reid, D-Nev., said following the Oval Office meeting. "He is tepid in what he talks about doing. Someone has to get the message to this man that there have to be significant changes."

Instead, Bush began his talk by comparing himself to President Harry S Truman, who launched the Truman Doctrine to fight communism, got bogged down in the Korean War and left office unpopular.

Bush said that "in years to come they realized he was right and then his doctrine became the standard for America," recalled Senate Majority Whip-elect Richard Durbin, D-Ill. "He's trying to position himself in history and to justify those who continue to stand by him, saying sometimes if you're right you're unpopular, and be prepared for criticism."

Durbin said he challenged Bush's analogy, reminding him that Truman had the NATO alliance behind him and negotiated with his enemies at the United Nations. Durbin said that's what the Iraq Study Group is recommending that Bush do now - work more with allies and negotiate with adversaries on Iraq.

Bush, Durbin said, "reacted very strongly. He got very animated in his response" and emphasized that he is "the commander in chief."

man, i envoy mucky when he came in here with 6-shooter ablazing

and admire nobody showing incredible restraint

damn,.

that was hot

you guys i wanna congratulate & emulate

air-ono,

Regarding your toaster in the river:

My company rebuilt the roof structure over an indoor pool in a house on the island. Water is precious, so it was decided that we would put scaffolding in the swimming pool and work over the water.

I asked our electrician to do something to prevent death if one of us fell into the pool with a drill or a saw in hand.

He installed Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters into which we plugged our extension cords. I asked him, "How do I know that it will work?"

He threw the female end of an extension cord into the pool and the GFCI clicked the circuit off. He said, "See?"

I said, "How do I know that I won't die between the time that the cord hits the water and the switch throws?" He said, "Relax. It shuts down in milliseconds."

I said, "So does my heart."

The commander in chief does not command the people...The people command him.

//Who'd ya take it from?//

eh, nothing new under the sun

[segue]

still i prefer pashing on with gg in the back seat of ma daddy's thunderbird

than emulating you fuckers

//My company//

where'd you get a company from, white boy

off the backs of us blacks

(THAT'S WHERE)

anyway,

i'll read the rest of your post now

//i'll read the rest of your post now//

LMAO!

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 11:29 PM

Restraint?...More a very deep and unremitting lack of respect...

//man, i envoy mucky when he came in here with 6-shooter ablazing
Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 11:29 PM//

Twas a Red Rider level action BB gun, really.

Posted by: Nobody at December 9, 2006 11:31 PM

stfu, rabbit ears

at least you got a pink convertible to drive around in

Correction:

Lever action...

damn, should i buy another bot of sake

the o.g. was just here

and i'm laughing inappropriately at everything he said

when in fact i was laughing at his bottle of sake i drank

BONZAI!!!!

(motherfuckers)

What's that hey say about criminals returning to the scene of the crime?

Rumsfeld makes secret farewell trip to Iraq

Outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a secret farewell trip to Iraq, ABC News reported on Saturday.

Rumsfeld's trip, his 13th unannounced visit to the country, came one day after he gave a farewell address at the Pentagon and nine days before he is replaced by Robert Gates. CNN also confirmed the Iraq visit.

Pentagon officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Rumsfeld, who became a lightning rod for world criticism over the Iraq war, announced his resignation in November, the day after Republicans lost control of both Houses of the U.S. Congress amid voter unhappiness with the war.

//Lever action...//

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 11:40 PM

whatever

//More a very deep and unremitting lack of respect...//

[reload]

whatever

*

anybody else want some buck-shot in their anus

Grab another air-ono. Why not? You only live once ya know.

Those be copper coated steel. Buckshot is lead. Minor correction there.

//Grab another air-ono.//

ah'll have ta grab two, pardner

one to replace the one imma replace

and w'ern ta replace arm 'bout ta drink agin

hmmm..

"agin"

ryhmes with ouzo

hoooo-eee!!!

mart bar me a bot of vodka

'stead ar'v a 2nd bot ah sar-kee

(fuck those japs)

Now here's an example of really fighting terrorism...and making a buck at the same time...Someones gotta make the water purification stuff right?

Taking on Third World water

Glenn Austin ripped open a credit-card-sized packet and dumped its contents into a flask of muddy water. As he swirled the concoction, dirt and debris began to clump and settle to the bottom. Within a few minutes, the water was clear.

He poured it through a paper filter and drank deeply.

The water-purification powder costs 8 cents and can treat almost 3 gallons of water, said Austin, leader of product development for PATH. It's the type of technology the Ballard nonprofit hopes to bring to millions of people in the developing world, where drinking water is often dirtier and more dangerous than the sample Austin collected from a puddle in his North Seattle neighborhood.

Already renowned for its ability to find low-cost, practical solutions to the health problems of the world's poor, PATH is now taking on water quality with a $17 million, five-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

FRANK RICH: The Sunshine Boys Can’t Save Iraq

IN America we like quick fixes, closure and an uplifting show. Such were the high hopes for the Iraq Study Group, and on one of the three it delivered.

The report of the 10 Washington elders was rolled out like a heartwarming Hollywood holiday release. There was a feel-good title, “The Way Forward,” unfortunately chosen as well by Ford Motor to promote its last-ditch plan to stave off bankruptcy. There was a months-long buildup, with titillating sneak previews to whip up anticipation. There was the gala publicity tour on opening day, starting with a President Bush cameo timed for morning television and building to a “Sunshine Boys” curtain call by James Baker and Lee Hamilton on “Larry King Live.”

The wizard behind it all was the public relations giant Edelman, which has lately been recruited by Wal-Mart to put down the populist insurgency threatening its bottom line. Edelman’s vice chairman is Michael Deaver, the imagineer extraordinaire of the Reagan presidency, and “The Way Forward” had a nostalgic dash of that old Morning-in-America vibe. In The Washington Post, David Broder gushingly quoted one member of the group, Alan Simpson, musing that “immigration, Social Security and all those other things that have been hung up for so long” might benefit from similar ex-officio bipartisanship. Only in Washington could an unelected panel of retirees pass for public-policy Viagra.

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2006/12/frank-rich-sunshine-boys-cant-save.html

I'm a uniter...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/us/politics/10elect.html?hp&ex=1165726800&en=1067668d45c16290&ei=5094&partner=homepage

//ryhmes with ouzo

hoooo-eee!!!

mart bar me a bot of vodka

'stead ar'v a 2nd bot ah sar-kee

(fuck those japs)

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 11:48 PM
//

I'll join you. I wish I had some beer tonight. I've got some Makers Mark whiskey, Everclear, and some Flor de Cana rum. Also have a fresh 2 liter of Coke.

(3) Side with the Shiites.

Posted by: War (Blue) Dog at December 9, 2006 2:10 PM

They call that ethnic cleansing...and yes it's part of the war dog plan...

Shiites Rout Sunni Families in Mixed Area of Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Dec. 9 — Bands of armed Shiite militiamen stormed through a neighborhood in north-central Baghdad on Saturday, driving hundreds of Sunni Arabs from their homes in what a Sunni colonel in the Iraqi Army described as one of the most flagrant episodes of sectarian warfare yet unleashed in the capital.

The officer, Lt. Col. Abdullah Ramadan al-Jabouri, said that more than 100 Sunni families, many with very young children, had left the Hurriya neighborhood aboard a convoy of trucks and cars under cover of the nightly curfew. Government officials tried to urge the families to return by promising army protection, but could not persuade them.

The fighting began around noon, when militiamen began rampaging through the only mixed district in Hurriya, a mostly Shiite neighborhood, and killed at least three Sunni Arabs. One family was shot as they left their home, with a 20-year-old man killed and his mother and younger brother wounded, according to an account given by the man’s father, who was at work as a security guard elsewhere at the time. The man said the three were hit by automatic rifle fire as they finished loading possessions into their car and prepared to drive to a safer area.

Colonel Jabouri said that skirmishes set off by the militia attacks continued for about five hours, until sunset. Meanwhile, a large convoy of Sunni Arabs waited in their vehicles outside the fortified Muhaimin mosque, waiting to drive to neighboring Sunni districts while local leaders negotiated with militiamen for safe passage.

The role of American troops in the turmoil was unclear. The Sunni cleric, Sayed Muhammad, said appeals for assistance from the First Cavalry Division, its headquarters about three miles southwest of Hurriya, had gone unanswered. But Colonel Jabouri said Iraqi commanders had told the Americans there was no need for their h

Posted by: Kevin © at December 9, 2006 11:50 PM

They're not trying to save Iraq...They're trying to save their political power.

continued...

The role of American troops in the turmoil was unclear. The Sunni cleric, Sayed Muhammad, said appeals for assistance from the First Cavalry Division, its headquarters about three miles southwest of Hurriya, had gone unanswered. But Colonel Jabouri said Iraqi commanders had told the Americans there was no need for their help. A First Cavalry Division spokesman said American advisers with Iraqi troops in Hurriya had reported only one instance of sectarian trouble, when Iraqi troops assisted a Shiite family under threat from Sunnis.

after reading this:

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 11:53 PM

i decided to post this as a cautionary tale

*

japs taint nuttin bert samuri-weildin' slarn't-ah'd niggers

er,

did ah say "samuri-weildin'"

er,

sar-ree slarn't ah'd nigger, sir

moonsharn garn stray ter this asshole head ah'marn

(mucker sold me the cheap shit)

if ya wanna use can pull ma front tooth out

WTF!!!! Most of my rum is gone!!!!

pussy

**

difference between

pussy is good

and gg is a cunt

*

that was hot

//Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 11:56 PM//

Don't be hard on Japs. They make good video games and sexy long time video.

/One of the greatest cultures on earth

///Now, Mexicans on the other hand....

WTF!!!! Most of my rum is gone!!!!
Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 11:56 PM
----------------------------------------------
Sorry. I didn't see the Coke.

Air Ono!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arf off snoggie boys!

the tinker king is arrriveded!

Copper War" in Ecuador: Ascendant Copper vs. Local Communities

It's the kind of scenario that makes shambles out of the carefully crafted image the mining industry has spent millions on creating: A transnational mining company using retired military officials, military helicopters and hundreds of contracted armed personnel – "paramilitary force" according to a respected human rights organization- shooting their way through to their mining concessions.

The pre-dawn military-type operation failed, in spite of more than 50 hired goons using tear gas and hundreds of rounds of small arms and machine guns against unarmed community members. The men and women from the community were able to send this group of invaders packing after they ran out of ammunition, but not before one community leader had been shot in the leg. However the failed incursion combined with the presence of hundreds of outsiders forming part of what is seen locally as paramilitaries, has served to rally support against the mining company and its project like nothing before. Of course, it also didn't help the company's image that they actually went out and hired a military helicopter to fly around the area, to attempt, presumably, to intimidate the communities and the opposition. It didn't work.

Soon after seeing their town overrun by paid thugs, and upon hearing of the shooting confrontation, the local government of Garcia Moreno, where the concessions are situated, unanimously decided to withdraw all support for the company, and called on the rest of the Intag region to back the communities. The communities and organizations responded by sending hundreds of people to support the communities at risk. It is currently believed that there are still over one hundred armed "private security personnel" in the area, and more and more communities are sending their people from all over Intag, and Cotacachi County to support Junin; including indigenous communities.

The hard-to-believe scenario is taking place right now in the biodiverse forests of Intag, Ecuador, where the people have been fighting mining development for the past 12 years. Al

//Sorry. I didn't see the Coke.

Posted by: Crank "Do You Have Any Limes?" Bait at December 10, 2006 12:00 AM
//

Either my room-mate or his son hit the rum. I prefer beer myself, and don't like liquor. I'm going to have to start hiding this shit.

continued...

The hard-to-believe scenario is taking place right now in the biodiverse forests of Intag, Ecuador, where the people have been fighting mining development for the past 12 years. All nine local governments of the Province of Imbabura, along with the overwhelming majority of the organizations working in the region, have joined Intag's communities in their rejection of the mining project. The only entity supporting Ascendant Copper Corporation's Junin copper-molybdenum project at this time is the Ministry of Energy and Mines (the Canadian company is listed in the Toronto Stock Exchange and its headquarters is in Colorado). The bad news for the company is that the officials supporting the company are on their way out in January with the outgoing Palacio government. Thus, the last-minute outrageous aggressiveness and violent tactics are likely linked to the political scenario facing Ascendant of doing business with a leftist government that publicly said they will not give away the country's natural resources to the transnational extractive companies.

Arf off snoggie boys!

the tinker king is arrriveded!

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 12:01 AM

Gnome.

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 11:57 PM

huh?

twernt me

*

asshole, i was composing

now lost my train of thought

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 12:01 AM

Is that Canadian slang? :)

now lost my train of thought

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:05 AM

more of a slow boat than a train I think...

mexicans have those lil green chilis that are like mini wmd's, sunny days and great parties they don't gotta bow to no japanerers!

(far as i'm willing to go right at the moment the japanners only gots one edge currently in the world market ant thats jeniserer!)

"more of a slow boat than a train I think...""

more like a seattle variety of 'riding' slug...

Ecuador to Renegotiate Oil Leases `Case by Case,' Correa Says

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Ecuador will renegotiate the oil production contracts of Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA and other foreign oil companies on a ``case-by-case basis'' depending on the return existing agreements give the state.

The renegotiations are necessary because some, but not all, of the agreements between the oil companies and the government fail to share as sufficient amount of profits with Ecuador, said Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president-elect at a press conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

now i WILL buy more sake

to up the ante

AND i won't stop with one

'cause the packaging is attractive

and i'm buying one for the next-door neighbour, et al

*

(sobering up is a drag, man)

Posted by: air-ono at December 9, 2006 11:57 PM

omg...you too huh...

more like a seattle variety of 'riding' slug...

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 12:08 AM

big slugs make for happy birds...

[flips ono the bird]

Now this is strange...

US bugged Diana's phone on night of death crash

The American secret service was bugging Princess Diana's telephone conversations without the approval of the British security services on the night she died, according to the most comprehensive report on her death, to be published this week.

Among extraordinary details due to emerge in the report by former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens is the revelation that the US security service was bugging her calls in the hours before she was killed in a car crash in Paris.

In a move that raises fresh questions over transatlantic agreements on intelligence-sharing, the surveillance arm of the US has admitted listening to her conversations as she stayed at the Ritz hotel, but failed to notify MI6. Stevens is understood to have been assured that the 39 classified documents detailing Diana's final conversations did not reveal anything sinister or contain material that might help explain her death.

Scotland Yard's inquiry, published this Thursday, also throws up further intelligence links with the Princess of Wales on the night she died. The driver of the Mercedes, Henri Paul, was in the pay of the French equivalent of M15. Stevens traced £100,000 he had amassed in 14 French bank accounts though no payments have been linked to Diana's death.

Stevens's conclusion is that Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed, and Paul himself died in an accident caused by Paul driving too fast through the Pont de l'Alma underpass in Paris while under the influence of drink. The car was being pursued by photographers at the time.

//more of a slow boat than a train I think...//

don't worry, buddy

i'll show you "slow boat" one day

one day i'll visit

and we'll have a hole-digging competition

then we'll see who is mr. slow boat

I wish I had a dime for every time I thought about how fucking lame the men are on this blog...

I think I'm just going to have the Makers Mark tonight with Coke, and dump that just about full bottle of Everclear into the rum(Rum is clear too). That oughtta teach someone a lesson.

I had a shocking revelation yesterday. I realized I'm part of capitalism-I run on a budget, a clock. I am a machine. Now this is probably Captain Obvious to the whole world, but it triggered a whole new understanding for me. A deep one. Every single issue posed in this site from police brutality to domestic violence to environmental rape, it's all stemming from this system. Call it what you want-capitalism, imperialism, monarchy, dictatorship, any system of domination and competition, disconnected from nature, breeds suffering, pain, and insanity. From mental illness to unemployment, ADHD, cancer, prisons, wars, I can't help but wonder am I the only one who can see the connection?
I no longer see the CEOs, police officer, rapists, presidents, oil drillers, addicts, criminals and think how bad they are. Instead, they're part of a system that's been in the works before King Louis and European monarchies. They are part of a culture that only knows how to function with development and industry, where some fail and others "win." But more importantly a culture of fear; fear that you don't want to be the bum in the street and you want to be able to own a house, and have a yard and be accepted. You want electricity, a toilet, a car, a driveway, because you can't just live in poverty and you don't know anything about nature because you've been bred in an artificial world. This is all you know.
When I look at CEOs, I'm no longer angry at them. I'm scared. I'm also sad for them. Stalin was a paranoid, always afraid that someone was going to take his power. When you're on top, everyone wants your spot; you've got to work harder to keep it. How can you have a fulfilling life when you work all week? You're overly paranoid about keeping the wealth.
Someone might read this and say, "Well fuck them, my needs are getting met." And I say to that, I'm so deeply sad, pained, because neither are theirs. They might have fancy cars but I feel so sad that someone needs a fancy car to feel accepted. And they must suffer (they just would never allow themselves to tell you. What will the neighbors think?) They are scared humans, and it's scary to me to have fear and power collide. I think of the Holocaust, actually. <

For Sunny J:

http://static.flickr.com/72/166684178_b23e839dbd_m.jpg

Everyone knows logically that police officers see lots of bad things, blah, blah, blah but do we really know what that means? I think to myself, wait a minute, if my life is on the line, day in and day out, if I'm scared but can never admit it, I'd need scapegoats, people that are weak because I need to look strong. Another example of a fear and power collision to me. They've got to act so tough, it must be so scary to show weakness. They must be suffering tremendously but they'd never tell us. (We might think they're cowards.) They face so much hatred, animosity. How many people love the police? I'm sad and scared that this fear is acted out in such disrespectful and harmful forms.
It's harder for me to see the human behind the gun, in the cop car, but let's not be fooled-they are scared and suffering too. They just would never tell us.
Let's take the president. The US has become a powerhouse because we are in charge of continuing development and destruction in order to attain the only lifestyle we know. In order for us to create wealth, we need to use natural resources in unsustainable ways-think construction, creating weapons, any industry. This is a cycle that has been progressing since before monarchy, and it progresses no matter Who is in office.

//I wish I had a dime for every time I thought about how fucking lame the men are on this blog...

Posted by: Bea B. at December 10, 2006 12:11 AM
//

Now that we know your price...

If the President said-no mines, no wars, no nuclear power plants, where will we get the electricity, the copper to make machines run/appear? Those machines that the gas attendant uses, the cashier uses, that Intel has thousands of people employed to make, that delivery men deliver, that I'm writing on? And that's only a machine.
My point, the President may be an easy target for what's wrong, but he's just a cog in the wheel of a system. From him, to the CEO, to the drug lord, to the police officer, the activist, the criminal, the student, the manager, the bum, the bus driver, the HUMAN BEING, every one of us is scared and doing things to protect ourselves, because we are part of a machine, disconnected from nature, that has been updated for thousands and thousands of years, and we don't know a different lifestyle. And we're suffering. Instead of seeing the police officer as an evil person, see him as a scared human being. The CEO as a person who doesn't know that other worlds exist, where you don't have to compete. And please, please, the president, as a human who is scared but isn't allowed.
I saw the Dalai Lama and he told the audience a story. There was a Tibetan monk who was tortured by the Chinese. After he was freed, someone once asked him, what was the scariest thing that happened to you? The monk answered, "I almost lost compassion for the Chinese."
Think-they are all just different parts in a giant system; how can I change it? Then get back to me about it, cause I don't fucking know.
I do know that there have been societies that honor the earth, honor each other, where cooperation and creativity and safety happen. Lots of native peoples had it so it does exist and it is an option. Yet, we must understand who will willingly give up their jobs, money, electricity, toilets, when we have been raised with them? I would... ..if I believed it would work.
For now, all we have is bandages and compassion, and knowing that suffering has to come to an end. The earth can heal-when will it begin? Perhaps when we're not so scared.

S. American Leaders Aim for EU-Like Body

South American leaders agreed Saturday to create a high-level commission to study the idea of forming a continent-wide community similar to the European Union.

The presidents and envoys of 12 nations wrapped up a two-day summit of the South American Community of Nations, hosted by Bolivian President Evo Morales in Cochabamba, a city tucked between the Andes and the Amazon in the heart of the continent.

"We seek that South America be forever a region of peace that works to solve the economic problems of its historically abandoned majority," Morales said.

I wish I had a dime for every time I thought about how fucking lame the men are on this blog...

Posted by: Bea B. at December 10, 2006 12:11 AM

I highly resent that Succubus!!!!!!!!!!!

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

Air Ono, How is it going chap?

For Sunny J:

http://static.flickr.com/72/166684178_b23e839dbd_m.jpg

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 10, 2006 12:12 AM

You want to help that big mouthed fat fuck?

Post him a fucking job!

//You want to help that big mouthed fat fuck?

Post him a fucking job!

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 12:14 AM
//

How do you know that he needs one? Are you jealous that he has succeeded where you have failed?

Post him a fucking job!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 12:14 AM
----------------------------------------------
I just did.
By tomorrow he'll be opening the Pallet Scrap Hog Company.

and we'll have a hole-digging competition

then we'll see who is mr. slow boat

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:11 AM

Not planning on digging any holes for a while...and unless you grew up in the coober pedy I've no worries about winning mate.

tanks crnkr,

love ya bea B.

yer moderating positive

influence is greatly appreciated

and you have gorguss kittens to boot!! so Ha!

//That oughtta teach someone a lesson.//

fuck them water-swilling pigs

now, beatrice

come over here honey

& put some lipsticck on me

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 12:13 AM

Nice riff...needs better formatting.

I just did.
By tomorrow he'll be opening the Pallet Scrap Hog Company.

Posted by: Crank Bait at December 10, 2006 12:17 AM

No, tomorrow he'll be bragging about how he already did that.

Emily sighed. "I was aware of the risks sir. But if i hadn't done it then things might have been worse...much worse. Yes, this is Helena. We are about to go and...organize the worse fate i spoke of." Helena smiled slightly. "Hello."

Anderson smiled. "She's not the same as before...physical changes mostly. She'll be bakc to normal son enough. Helena, what are your plans exactly?"

Heelna sat up strait. "From what Emily has told me of the amry we are going to retreive it might be preferabl if they are kept a secret. i don't want them to be expected. Since that is the case I won't be using them...and I don't want Emily to waste her powers. But I think Marygold wants to keep the rest of the armies together for trianing and such..." she considered. "We'll handle it."

Anderosn frowned. "You plan on holding the fort alone? Just the two of you?" Helena nodded. "As I said captain, we'll handle it." Emily fought bakc laughter. "Alright alright. Anderosn, yua nd your patrol must stay here...Stephana nd his men are free to go where they want between the three forts. the only fort you and they can't go to is the hiddne fort that only I knwo of amoungst you. But that doens't matter now. Unless Marygodl decides to switch you to the third fort...me and Helena will handle it."

Heelna smiled at Emily. "Don't worry abotu it. We're in more danger going to gather up my little amry than we are at the fort. And it's not liek you can spare men to tag along and protect us. We'll be fine. Right Emily?"

Andersons hook shi head. "if it wern't for the fatc I can't takle my trops wiht you i woudl leave here and tag along. If either of you get killed i swear i will revive youa dn kill you again."

Failure by design is a very corporate concept isn't it?

Britain tried to stop the US disbanding the army in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Europe Minister Geoff Hoon has said.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Hoon says British ministers "lost the argument". His comments come after a senior US official described the relationship between the British and American governments as "totally one-sided".

Mr Hoon, who was defence secretary at the time, said he and other members of the government tried to persuade the United States not to purge members of Saddam's Ba'ath party from senior positions in the army.

He told the Daily Telegraph: "We would not have disbanded the Iraqi army. "We were very concerned in the final stages of the conflict that the Iraqi army was a force for stability in Iraq and I think we would have preferred for that army to remain intact."

What makes the smell of sex? is it the male and female, or one or the other??

damn, do the math

i have to buy 5 bottles of sake @ $20 a pop

one for tom

one for next-door guy

one for me

one for o.g.

and another for me...

that's 100 smack-a-roos

(looks like tom misses out)

Tatsuma paging in 3...2...1...

U.S. Rep. William Jefferson easily defeated his fellow Democratic opponent in Saturday's runoff, despite an ongoing federal bribery investigation.

With 44 percent of the precincts reporting, Jefferson, Louisiana's first black congressman since Reconstruction, led with 61 percent of the vote over state Rep. Karen Carter, who had 39 percent.

Carter was unable to capitalize on a scandal that included allegations the FBI found $90,000 in bribe money in Jefferson's freezer.

In a concession speech, Carter embraced family members and pledged to work with Jefferson, especially on the area's recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

"I guess the people are happy with the status-quo," she said.

Jefferson was forced into the runoff against Carter when he failed to win 50 percent of the vote in a crowded open multiparty primary. Carter had sought to become the first black woman from Louisiana elected to Congress.

He described his win as "a great moment and I thank almighty God for making it possible." He called for regional unity to focus on the hurricane recovery and in bringing back evacuees who are still scattered across the country.

Jefferson, 59, was accused of taking bribes from a company seeking lucrative contracts in the Nigerian telecommunications market. He has not been charged with any crime and denies any wrongdoing.

The scandal turned the race into a debate largely divided along racial lines, an age-old dynamic in this city that has intensified since Hurricane Katrina displaced large numbers of blacks and upended their demographic and political dominance.

Whites, who overwhelmingly voted for Carter in the primary and have been her most enthusiastic financial backers, believed a Jefferson win would confirm this city's image as corrupt and untrustworthy as it asks the nation to fund its recovery from Katrina.

City Councilman Oliver Thomas said Jefferson's victory would make the recovery more difficult.

"People are watching this election all around the country and I can only imagine what they are thinking," Thomas said. "It will be very difficult to go back to them and ask them to trust us with the money we need here."

Carter's campaign spokesman and father, Ken Carter, said he felt they had done all they could to compete against Jefferson, but regretted the tone of the campaign in the final stages.

"Race is all too often a factor in campaigns in New Orleans," Ken Carter said. "Here we had a candidate that tried to paint this young African-American woman as a pawn of the white establishment."

One white voter, George Christen, a registered independent, cast his ballot in a predominantly white precinct in the Algiers neighborhood, just across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter.

"I just didn't want Jefferson in. Period," said Christen, 42. "Jefferson is an embarrassment. He needs to be out."

Jefferson did get a vote from Jene Allen, who is black.

"He started the job. Let him finish it," said Allen, who wouldn't give her age. "I know Karen Carter would be the first black woman, but I think she played it dirty, too dirty."

Jefferson drew widespread support among blacks who are skeptical of the federal government's motives in its investigation of him. He repeatedly suggested the probe is groundless because he has yet to be indicted more than a year after the FBI raided his home in New Orleans.

Carter, 37, raised nearly five times as much money as Jefferson, but she was largely outflanked in the endorsement game. Jefferson picked up the backing of Mayor Ray Nagin and other prominent black politicians.

Britain 'tried to keep Iraq army'

//Tatsuma paging in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Thoth at December 10, 2006 12:22 AM
//

Wrong website...

What makes the smell of sex? is it the male and female, or one or the other??

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 12:21 AM

both.

Me an Bgurl got home from the craft fair, i made the brekkers we skipped that morning, at 4:30 O'clock, and we both took naps immediately afterwards... (could not keep my eyes open)

just woke up again and MADE COFFEE!

and the doggers is having a gran prix/kung foo tournament now that we're awake to pay attention to them.

With malice toward women; a handbook for women-haters drawn from the best minds of all time.

I can't stand the way a cunt smells!

Candidates Woo Bush Donors for 'Invisible Primary'

Last month, a group of Republican royalty gathered to be wined and dined by Gov. Mitt Romney in Boston. On Friday night, they ate at Copia, a pricey Mediterranean steakhouse. On Saturday, they had breakfast at the Four Seasons and then lunched at Fenway Park.

Key Romney advisers made presentations about the path to the presidential nomination they see for the Massachusetts governor. Others walked attendees through how a race would be financed.

Among the 160 or so wealthy Republicans the Romney campaign had invited for the weekend was a particularly important group of potential supporters -- the 40 or so men and women who were "Rangers" or "Pioneers" in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns of President Bush.

These Rangers, who raised $200,000 or more for Bush in 2004, and Pioneers, who each collected more than $100,000 as part of campaigns that redefined modern political fundraising, are being intensely courted by GOP presidential aspirants across the country, both in large gatherings such as the one in Boston and one-on-one.

With malice toward women; a handbook for women-haters drawn from the best minds of all time.

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:25 AM

I can't stand the way a cunt smells!

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:27 AM

Same nutjob nick stealer again...

My attitude to women is, naturally, complex and multi-layered but it can be described using four axes:

1. The Holy Whore

2. The Hunter Parasite

3. The Frustrating Object of Desire

4. Uniqueness Roles

I divide all women to saints and whores. I find it difficult to have sex ("dirty", "forbidden", "punishable", "degrading") with feminine significant others (spouse, intimate girlfriend). To me, sex and intimacy are mutually exclusive rather than mutually expressive propositions.

ain't nothing like the smell of naplan in the morning

right, vets

"right, air-ono"

Same nutjob nick stealer again...

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:27 AM

Same nutjob nick stealer again...

//What makes the smell of sex? is it the male and female, or one or the other??

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 12:21 AM//

Women.

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:28 AM

Napalm? :)

//To me, sex and intimacy are mutually exclusive rather than mutually expressive propositions.//

ok, mjp

//Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:27 AM//

Hey retard. Me and Nobs don't get along either, but at least have some balls to take him head on without playing the nic stealing games, douchebag.

Boomerang Effect

When Will the First IED Strike Cleveland?

The Bush administration, as usual, has it exactly backwards. The danger is not that the “terrorists” we are fighting in Iraq will come here if we pull out there.

//Napalm? :)//

sorry, bob

haven't had any for a while

(forgot how it spelt like)

Same nutjob nick stealer again...

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:27 AM

Same nutjob nick stealer again...

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:29 AM

Oh and there is the parrot...

woke up this morning with the most curious tightness in my chest...

was wondering if i was gonna stroke out.

hell of a morning meditation eh?

(ruzzer nagging me for her

evening walk at the mo)

" Freedom Jazz Dance" Miles Davis Quintet 07:16

Miles Davis Quintet

Miles Davis (tp) Wayne Shorter (ts)
Herbie Hancock (p) Ron Carter (b)
Tony Williams (d)
Columbia 30th Street Studios, NYC, October 24, 1966

Oh and there is the parrot...

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:32 AM

Not me! god damned nick stealer again...

The Incredible Lying BushCo

This just in: More irrefutable proof that Dubya's is the slimiest administration in 100 years
Like you even needed more proof.

//woke up this morning with the most curious tightness in my chest...
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 12:32 AM//

Happens every morning for me, except I know it's that I have to quit smoking. Maybe I'll try that tomorrow, and break all my cigarettes before I go to sleep tonight. Other than that, you feeling okay Jimmy?

Oh and there is the parrot...

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:32 AM

Not me! god damned nick stealer again...

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 12:34 AM

Hahahahahaha...

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:34 AM

Get off my nick asshole!

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:34 AM

Get off my nick asshole!

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:35 AM

Except that it's not your nick and everyone can tell the difference?

Except that it's not your nick and everyone can tell the difference?

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:36 AM

Not my Post!

Get off my nick asshole!

I hate goddam nic stealers. Sam, can't you do something about this crap?

woke up this morning with the most curious tightness in my chest...

was wondering if i was gonna stroke out.

hell of a morning meditation eh?

(ruzzer nagging me for her

evening walk at the mo)

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 12:32 AM

Did you have it checked
out or did you drink coffee
and smoke a cigarettes instead?

Not my Post!

Get off my nick asshole!

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 12:38 AM

Get off my nick asshole anon!

At least three people, including two Britons, were killed yesterday when a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims bound for Mecca crashed in Saudi Arabia.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said a number of other British citizens were among about 25 injured people taken to hospital from the accident scene, on the road between the holy cities of Medina and Mecca.

The spokeswoman said she did not have the names of the British casualties. Consular staff from nearby Jeddah and embassy officials from the capital Riyadh offered help to the injured.

Sam, can you please ban nic stealers? I don't care about banning anyone else, but nic stealing is way past the line. Even when the victim is someone like Nobs.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 12:38 AM

Perhaps you should check http://thealphaliberal.blogspot.com

another beauty from information clearing house:

Never Mind The Taliban

//Five years after the fall of the Taliban, western intervention has produced a mafia-style state. [...] a fractured country and an economy dominated by the drugs trade.//

*

damn, i'd die protecting that afghan female parlimentarian

(she's 5 minutes into the video)

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:40 AM

Whoopsy...dumbass.

Ok, the engine that powers this strange medium seems to have accepted my sacrifices, and taken in my ramblings.

relax, nobody

we know who you are

The corporate wingnuts will burn down the world only to sell matches...

60 Killed As Chad Army Retakes Town

Djadallah said government forces had killed 50 rebels and captured 30. He put government losses at 10 dead and said 10 rebel vehicles were destroyed and 10 captured.

we've got mice. lots of mice.

wow. just found out how to insert midi files into webpages ... check out the front page with sound, for a mutilated version of an old favourite of mine from when I was about 17... wonder if I can get mp3-files to play here as well...

we all know you're the biggest asshole on this blog!

relax, nobody

we know who you are

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:43 AM

You assume that I'm not?

and yeah, yeah, I realise it's all self-inflicted and I find what I'm looking for and because I'm so busy looking for all the things that go wrong, I don't see the ones that go right... yeah yeah. it's all in my head.

we all know you're the biggest asshole on this blog!

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:45 AM

go play with your toaster.

besides, however much I keep trying to combat my monkey mind and stay in the calm zen eye of the storm, there is still a sick little puppy clamoring for approval inside me, and it doesn't take much provocation for it to burst through to the surface. and with it come inflated sense of importance, arrogance, self-consciousness, complacency, gigantic messianic ego-inflation complex etc.

and really bad, pretentious writing.

we know you nobs

*

you love to suck

*

nobs loves nobs
and the taste of the shaft 2

//You assume that I'm not?//

who cares

you're a wanker anyway

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:46 AM

Your own behavior describes your position better than I could...

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:47 AM

LMAO

oh, that's me

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:47 AM

careful...that one was almost funny.

Wankering...is it really so bad?

who cares

you're a wanker anyway

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:47 AM

Spoken as the master of wankin it only could.

//we all know you're the biggest asshole on this blog!//

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:45 AM

i know i am

but who am i

*

(weeeeeeeee)

it make my booze come-down enjoyable

//is it really so bad?//

only if you have no choice

Free press, free presses...

if i am a little prick

**

why do i smell like a cunt

**

mommy help me ~

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 12:50 AM

second fiddle I'm afraid but at least now you can say that you've had your nick stolen like the big boys...

I thought Makers Mark would be smoother than this...

Try something else next time.

oye.

Democrats’ New Intelligence Chairman Needs a Crash Course on al Qaeda

The dialogue went like this:
Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?

“Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”

“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.

“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.

He couldn’t have been more wrong.

Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an al Qaeda club house, they’d slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.

second fiddle I'm afraid but at least now you can say that you've had your nick stolen like the big boys...

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:52 AM

Get off my nick asshole!

Fathers and Sons

How George W. Bush has ruined the family franchise.

Dec. 8, 2006 - On the eve of a report that repudiates his son’s leadership, former president George H.W. Bush broke down crying when he recalled how his other son, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, lost an election a dozen years ago and then came back to serve two successful terms. The elder Bush has always been a softie, but this display of emotion was so over the top that it had to be about something other than Jeb’s long-ago loss.

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:56 AM

you're boring me numbnuts.

Obviously someone doesn't understand the power of infamy...Put a cookie in the jar and tell the little ones that it's bad...and when they taste it you've lost them forever.

sssssssh...

the o.g. is reminiscing about his time in num-bul-war, arnhem land

where they'd spear people in the street for wrong-doing

(and nic-stealing)

Damn. Even I can tell the difference between fake Nobs, and real Nobs. You're not doing such a good job there douche.

god almighty

it chills me to the bone

considering all my faults

what it must be like to live without honour

and steal another's identity

(major eek!)

Bush’s father observed between sobs in his Florida speech, “A true measure of a man is how you handle victory and how you handle defeat.” He was talking about Jeb, but surely it’s his first-born who triggers the tears.

That's the break point folks...After this it becomes a flood.

Bush Job Approval: 30%

President slips to all-time low in the Zogby Poll as key demographic groups jump ship

The national job approval rating of President Bush has plummeted to 30%, an all–time low in the latest Zogby International telephone poll, sinking below the 31% approval rating he dropped to in early June.

The President’s positive job rating is down from 36% in late October, in the weeks heading into the congressional midterm elections. Since then, the Democrats swept to control of both houses of Congress, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned and was replaced by Robert Gates, who said the U.S. is not winning the war in Iraq. Release of the Iraq Study Group’s report calling for significant change in the way the U.S. is conducting the Iraq war came as this latest Zogby poll was in the field.

I just love it here

***

no one can smell me here

well i can

*

Its not pretty

maybe I should change panties

//Bush Job Approval: 30%//

There's a sucker born every minute. It won't go much lower than that.

//maybe I should change panties
Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 1:07 AM
//

No need till they get crunchy

FLASHBACK: German Intelligence Says US Knew in Advance About 9/11

It is more difficult to remain happy or positive
when surrounded by others who are unhappy,
or when you are surrounded by
or involved with those
who want something different from you
than you want to give them.

But what we have noticed
as we have been interacting with physical Beings
is that while you may have an experience
that only last five or ten minutes, ...

... and while that experience may be unpleasant
and uncomfortable,
the majority of your negative emotion
comes forth not during the minutes
of that negative experience,
but they come forth in all the hours
that you ponder and chew upon it
after the experience.

Usually, there is much more of your time spent in thought of the negative thing that has happened than in the actuality of what is happening.

The majority of your negative emotion
could be eliminated if,
in those times when you are alone,
you would focus upon
what you now want to think about.

And then, in those briefer encounters,
in those smaller parts of your life experience
where you are actually being harassed by another,
you will grow stronger in your ability
to not notice the harassment so much
and, in time, the Law of Attraction
will not bring you to those experiences
because those thoughts
will no longer be active within you.

"Maiden Voyage" Herbie Hancock Quintet 1965 08:00

Herbie Hancock (p) George Coleman (ts)
Freddie Hubbard (t) Ron Carter (b)
Tony Williams (d)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1965

Courage to Refuse

We, reserve combat officers and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, who were raised upon the principles of Zionism, sacrifice and giving to the people of Israel and to the State of Israel, who have always served in the front lines, and who were the first to carry out any mission, light or heavy, in order to protect the State of Israel and strengthen it.

We, combat officers and soldiers who have served the State of Israel for long weeks every year, in spite of the dear cost to our personal lives, have been on reserve duty all over the Occupied Territories, and were issued commands and directives that had nothing to do with the security of our country, and that had the sole purpose of perpetuating our control over the Palestinian people. We, whose eyes have seen the bloody toll this Occupation exacts from both sides.

We, who sensed how the commands issued to us in the Territories, destroy all the values we had absorbed while growing up in this country.

We, who understand now that the price of Occupation is the loss of IDF’s human character and the corruption of the entire Israeli society.

We, who know that the Territories are not Israel, and that all settlements are bound to be evacuated in the end.

We hereby declare that we shall not continue to fight this War of the Settlements.

We shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people.

We hereby declare that we shall continue serving in the Israel Defense Forces in any mission that serves Israel’s defense.

The missions of occupation and oppression do not serve this purpose – and we shall take no part in them.

Courage to Refuse

Posted by: frog twats and blogspots at December 10, 2006 1:20 AM

Your house is on fire...That's negative...Ignore it...Instead enjoy the warmth of the fire.

//http://www.thememoryhole.org/faz-article.htm posted by Nobs//

Just when I always think I can you give you some respect, you always post the most lunatic fringe crap you can find on the internet. I guess if you found it on the internet, it must be true. It's the news the media won't show you. There's a reason for that though, becuase they know those stories are crap. How does it feel to live in a world of constant paranoia, and constant victimhood? I would really like to do a write-up on this someday.

//No need till they get crunchy//

crunchy peanut butter

it's coca-lossal

Pearl Harbor: The Latest Wave

Joseph Leib, a former New Deal bureaucrat and retired newspaper correspondent, wrote an article which appeared in Hustler magazine, "Pearl Harbor: The Story the Rest of the Media Won't Tell," in which he claimed that his friend, Secretary of State Hull, had confided to him on 29 November 1941 that J. Edgar Hoover and FDR knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor withing a few days, and that the President, over Hull's strident objections, was going to let this happen as a way to get the country into war. Hull's dilemma was that he could not reveal this openly to the press, since the White House would simply denounce him, and no one would believe him. He turned over to Lieb a document containing a transcript of Japanese radio intercepts which supposedly detailed the Pearl Harbor plan, making the reporter promise never to reveal the source. Leib rushed the story, minus the identification of Hull, to the United Press bureau, which refused to run it since it was so incredulous. But Leib did manage to persuade UP's cable editor, Harry Frantz, to transmit it on the foreign cable. Although the story managed somehow to get garbled in transmission, it did create a front-page banner headline in the Sunday, 30 November, Honolulu Advertiser: JAPANESE MAY STRIKE OVER WEEKEND! Thus Leib, writing in 1983, has finally cleared up the mystery of the origins of that headline, which has always been a particularly curious part of the Pearl Harbor puzzle.

//frog twats//

warts & all....

RELEASE THE TAD-POLES

65 years later, his questions linger

Just 17 years old and six months removed from boot camp, Fenton was an oiler on the USS Boise as it escorted five merchant ships carrying air base construction materials across the Pacific to the Philippines. After midnight on the morning of Nov. 28, 1941, the light cruiser’s loudspeakers blared with orders for crew members to man their battle stations.

Fenton scrambled to the deck and saw two dozen ships of unknown origin about 3 miles away on the horizon, heading east.

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 12:57 AM

As the article pointed out, everyone expected Jeb to win in 1994, but he lost. No one expected W. to win, but he did, so they got stuck. But when the Florida controversy started in 2000, James Baker III was dispatched to clean it up for the Bushies. So Bush 41 is being disingenuous. If he didn't really want his son as President, he could have done something.

Besides, Jeb isn't that great either. Sure, he can form coherent sentences and isn't a complete asshole idiot like W., but he was right in the middle of that Schiavo affair, even harassing Michael Schiavo after Terry died. He was also a signatory of PNAC.

eya NC, evening!

i feel bout normal muckie,

and i gave up tobacco last month.

was thinking a reaction to polish & oxides.

think all that cumulative poisoning, allergic reactions eh?

A New Pearl Harbor

And now Iraq is looking to be another American defeat, and the real question is whether this has been the opening skirmish in a much longer war. The Iraq War and occupation have now lasted longer than World War II, with no obvious end in sight and with hugely destabilizing spillover effects across the whole Middle East.

the o.g. had permission to be on arnham land

he was there with ol' carl, a german guy

who had been shot in the face with a 3-oh-3 during WW2

(LOL)

being hit with one of those tumbler bullets

and it's good-bye head

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 10, 2006 1:30 AM

Evidently, sometimes you go to war with the son that you have not the one that you wished you had.

//Instead enjoy the warmth of the fire.//

LOL

(pass the marsh-mellows)

The US housing market is different this time - it's worse

The problem is that when the housing market or the broader economy turns down, delinquencies (late payments) and default rates on subprime mortgages shoot up. And that seems to be what’s happening now. Investment bank UBS reports that nearly 4% of subprime mortgages issued and bundled into MBSs this year are 60 days or more behind on their payments. While that may not sound too alarming, it’s the highest rate in over a decade - almost one percentage point higher than in the 2001 recession - and the economy as a whole isn’t even officially in trouble yet.

These delinquencies don’t bode well for the performance of this crop of MBSs in years to come. Typically, delinquencies and defaults pick up from year three of an MBS’s life; high delinquencies in year one are generally a sign that higher-than-usual defaults can be expected later on (because people who struggle to meet payments from the off are likely to struggle even more in subsequent years). That means that many investors who have bought subprime MBSs may soon find high default rates eating into their returns.

think all that cumulative poisoning, allergic reactions eh?

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 1:31 AM

Shoveling snow?

(pass the marsh-mellows)

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 1:34 AM

That's spelled "marsh mallow" from which the flavoring is derived from...the root to be exact...which is the flavoring for "root beer" btw...

eya GG

jebbies sins?

manifold and hideous.

he's an ugly remorseless asshole

of a calibre we normally don't encounter...

S.J.

how many people you killed

i've killed 14

if i was less sober

the number would have been as high as 104

no where near as high as my IQ

which is a round the 4 billion mark

(of course, that was back during germany's hyper-inflation)

still nothing to sneeze at...

money is money, my friend

Meese of Arabia and the Baker Group's Grab for Black Gold

The reaction from actual Iraqis on the just-released report by the "Iraq Study Group"? They don't like it; it won't work; it's largely a tissue of fantasies and shows no grasp of the true situation in Iraq; it has nothing to do with solving Iraq's problems but everything to do with the American Establishment's desperate attempt to save face, no matter how many people must be slaughtered in the process.

The report calls for the United States to assist in privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign oil and energy companies, providing direct technical assistance for the "drafting" of a new national oil law for Iraq, and assuring that all of Iraq's oil revenues accrue to the central government. President Bush hired an employee from the U.S. consultancy firm Bearing Point Inc. over a year ago to advise the Iraq Oil Ministry on the drafting and passage of a new national oil law. As previously drafted, the law opens Iraq's nationalized oil sector to private foreign corporate investment, but stops short of full privatization. The ISG report, however, goes further, stating that "the United States should assist Iraqi leaders to reorganize the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise."

btw, i want my ring back

and ol Bush senior

is a criminal heartless asshole

of gigantic proportions himself, never mind jebbie.

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 1:32 AM

I read a similar comment like that on another blog today...I think it was Crooks and Liars...

root beer is called "ginger" beer here

as for "root", well...

ask a girl for a root here

and you might get slapped in the face

(or you might get laid)

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 1:37 AM

True, true. The Bush name is officially complete shit now, even though it kind of always has been. These aristocratic families are always like this....

Gov. Romney's Record on Gays Questioned

BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Mitt Romney's beliefs on gay issues are under scrutiny after the re-emergence of a letter he wrote during his 1994 run for U.S. Senate in which he promised a gay Republicans group he would be a stronger advocate for gays than Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Romney's views in the letter contrast with recent statements by the Massachusetts governor, who has emphasized his opposition to gay marriage as he positions himself as a committed conservative in preparation for an expected 2008 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

I read a similar comment like that on another blog today...I think it was Crooks and Liars...

Posted by: GG 4.33 at December 10, 2006 1:41 AM

Haven't stopped by there yet tonight...Thanks for the reminder...

//and i gave up tobacco last month.

was thinking a reaction to polish & oxides.

think all that cumulative poisoning, allergic reactions eh?

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 1:31 AM//

Congrats Jimmy! You are a better man than I am. I think I'm going to go ahead and try cold turkey tomorrow. I think if I don't quit it soon, I won't live to see 50. You are right on the cumulative effects. I was told it takes about 5 years before everything is gone. Don't know if that's true or not.

root beer is called "ginger" beer here

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 1:43 AM

No, two different things entirely...

eya AO,

it's in the details ain't it?

that you ask says it all about that subject don't it?

weigh yourself regarding selfishness and concern for others, and live with the truth.

TOP-LEVEL INSIDERS SELLING THEIR STOCK

America's corporate chiefs are unloading their own stocks at one of the boldest paces in 20 years.

In November alone, leaders of public companies dumped $8.4 billion worth of stock they owned as insiders, most of it awarded as compensation, bonuses or other management incentives.

The Fighting First Family

35.4°C @ 5:00:00 PM

and tomorrow > max: 29°C

man, the temp has been up & down here

//35.4°C @ 5:00:00 PM

and tomorrow > max: 29°C
Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 1:51 AM//

That's what you get for using that metric crap.

oh well,

fuggitt, i love you all,

flaws an all, really, despite the ocasional falls

from grace into childish bullshit and whining due to boredom.

i'm thinking of change and how it occurs and realise it's usually a lonely path to travel.

thanks for the fish, the fun and the company.

night gang.

mmm! pie yum!

I want to feel good.
I intend to feel good.

S.J.

WTF you talking about

are you living in the twilight zone

made out of root beer

: )

a drunk at the bar told me they were //two different things entirely//

(but gee)

Randis cute...

Randi Rhodes vs. The Chickenhawk

Goodnight Jimmy. :)

I am abundance.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 1:53 AM

[hands you a loufa]

//That's what you get for using that metric crap.//

LOL

well, i tried to warn them

that it would end up in catastrophic weather patterns

but,

who listens to butterflies

I love Nobody.

night, s.j.

give your balls a scritch for me

The other Jimmy Carter C-SPAN call

I love Nobody.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 1:57 AM

If you start humping my leg you're going to have to go outside.

Vote for Fark as best online community!!!!

http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_online_community.php

Oh, screw it. Vote for whoever. We're going to win it anyways. Kos and Freepers are fighting for 2nd and 3rd.

/Beware the awesome of Fark
//Awesome of slashie second
///Slashie seconded
////You just don't wanna know

85 percent

Number of Americans who support “allowing the government to negotiate prescription drug prices for the Medicare program, suggesting there will be considerable political pressure on the next Congress to do so.” The Kaiser Family Foundation poll found “substantial majorities of Democrats (92%), Independents (85%), and Republicans (74%)” support such negotiations.

Posted by: Thoth at December 10, 2006 1:45 AM

I need to quit caffeine...

If you start humping my leg you're going to have to go outside.

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 1:59 AM

That sounds fair.
I'm a discretionary humper anyway.
Worry not.

Military readiness lowest since Vietnam War

Expert advisors to the Iraq Study Group say the U.S. military now faces a cold, hard truth: It can't muster many more combat troops for the war.

Whatever its ultimate fate, the Iraq Study Group report released Wednesday should have destroyed the spurious notion that flooding Iraq with more U.S. troops might win the war. As the report makes clear, a major influx of U.S. combat brigades into Iraq is somewhere between totally unrealistic and completely impossible.

In interviews with Salon, experts who served on the study group's "working groups" explained why: The military is running out of troops and equipment. The cold, hard facts about military readiness and a 1.4 million-strong active-duty force rule out a big increase in the size of the U.S. footprint in Iraq. "We don't have enough is the short answer," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University who served on the military and security working group of the bipartisan commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton. Advocating a big increase in troop levels now is just political theater, Hoffman argued. "This is the beginning of the who-lost-Iraq debate," he explained. "No one wants to be a charter member of the club."

That echoes the sentiments of numerous retired military officers who have long argued that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are unsustainable even at the current pace. "Unless things start to improve, we will start to see a serious problem in six to nine months," Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine Corps three-star general and a former deputy chief of staff under Ronald Reagan, told Salon in April 2005.

That sounds fair.
I'm a discretionary humper anyway.
Worry not.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 10, 2006 2:06 AM

[tips his hat]

Women Seeking Women: A Bicurious Journey

From the Madonna / Britney kiss to same-sex sizzle on the OC, there's no denying that women exploring bi-sexuality has become a pop culture phenomenon. But what's surprising is that the trend is also playing out on main street USA.

In a 2005 government survey of American sexual practices, 14 percent of the women surveyed aged 18 to 29 reported at least one homosexual experience -- more than twice the proportion for young men. It reflected a marked increase in female "bi-curiosity" compared to a similar survey conducted in the early 90's.

In spring, 2006, VH1 News accompanied four women (along with their husbands) to the Hedonism resort in Jamaica. While there, they made a bold step in transforming their bi-curious fantasies into bi-sexual reality.

The one-hour cinema vérité-style documentary follows the story of Tammy, a 37-year-old dedicated wife and mom from rural Necedah, Wisconsin -- population 888. Tammy has always fantasized about women, but she never acted on her urge. Now she and husband Mike are traveling to Hedonism, where she plans to have her first same-sex encounter with another vacationer in the group. Will it spice up her 15-year marriage, or lead to its downfall?

Women Seeking Women: A Bi-Curious Journey explores a sexual trend that's captivated, not only saucy celebs, but soccer moms as well.

in half-an-hour

it'll be 30 minutes

and i'll either have passed out or be cooking dinner

GAO: The status quo is unsustainable

From the video on America's Fiscal Future:

…And even if we're able to constrain discretionary spending for the next ten years to the rate of inflation, which we haven't for a long time, we still face large and growing structural deficits in the years ahead. Bottom line? The status quo is unacceptable and unsustainable. We're on an imprudent and unsustainable fiscal path. Tough choices are required. We will not be able to grow our way out of this problem. Anybody who says that suffers from two problems. Number one, they have not studied economic history adequately; and number two; they probably wouldn't do real well at math. Because the numbers just don't add up.

//and i'll either have passed out or be cooking dinner

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 2:17 AM
//

Just make sure you don't do both. This is where delivery and microwave meals come in usefull.

ok, rock fans

on monday the leader of the opposition labour party was ousted

and peter garrett (he of midnight oil fame... oh, you know... the guy with the bald head)

scored the "enviroment & climate change" portfolio

LOL

last time i used the microwave, it shrunk my head

//and peter garrett (he of midnight oil fame... oh, you know... the guy with the bald head)

scored the "enviroment & climate change" portfolio

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 2:22 AM
//

Didn't he sing "Baby I love your way", and was in all those magazines?

i was waiting for a fly to explode

[seconds went by]

nothing happened

and i stuck my head in

"is this thing on"

they probably wouldn't do real well at math. Because the numbers just don't add up.

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 2:18 AM

I truly believeth the numbers gotta add up to something.
And, if they're on big foam blocks, you can even stack them.

i'm thinking of change and how it occurs and realise it's usually a lonely path to travel.

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at December 10, 2006 1:53 AM

Get yourself checked out asap...

Cooked tasty dish...Not Yours!

last time i used the microwave, it shrunk my head

Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 2:23 AM

gotta quit wearin' them tinfoil hats

close, mucky

but no cigar

instead we're awarding you with a solid gold cupey doll

valued at over $500,000 dollars

Posted by: Fuzzy Math at December 10, 2006 2:25 AM

Hahahaha...

if she's a virgin

i'll eat my dick

//gotta quit wearin' them tinfoil hats//

you getting friendly with me, anon

is this your way of saying

"thank you, ono, for being a virgin"

//instead we're awarding you with a solid gold cupey...
Posted by: air-ono at December 10, 2006 2:27 AM//

Cupey...Not Yours!

"Tin Tin Deo" Dave Hassell (Chano Pozo) 03:19

War=profit..blood=money...That's the war dog plan

Black-Market Weapon Prices Surge in Iraq Chaos

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, Dec. 8 — The Kurdish security contractor placed the black plastic box on the table. Inside was a new Glock 19, one of the 9-millimeter pistols that the United States issued by the tens of thousands to the Iraqi Army and police.

one day that cup will be mine

ALL MINE

(muah-ha-ha-ha)

but in the meantime...

30 minutes are up

and i bid you a hearty farewell

"This pistol was no longer in the custody of the Iraqi Army or police. It had been stolen or sold, and it found its way to an open-air grocery stand that does a lively black-market business in police and infantry arms. The contractor bought it there."

I wonder how long it will be before it's realized that we're actually arming the insurgents...

Fare thee well air-ono, I'm almost out of here too.

And yalls get offn my lawn!

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore's Documentary on the dangers of climate change and global warming

//Al Gore's Documentary on the dangers of climate change and global warming

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 2:46 AM
//

If everyone refrained from mowing their lawns a while it wouldn't be a problem.

Faith-off

http://www.sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2006-10-15.gif

We Are All Tortures Now!

The U.S. Government has engaged in "Extraordinary Rendition", an unlawful practice in which numerous persons have been illegally detained and secretly flown to third countries, where they have suffered additional human rights abuses including torture and enforced disappearance.

These prisoners have been transported through many countries with the knowledge of their governments. By permitting the U.S.to use its territory, these countries are in effect endorsing torture of the most vile nature in what the U.S. call its "war on terror".

This video provides some evidence of the type of torture engaged in by by our allies. As citizens of the U.S. each of us is responsible for the actions of our government. We are complicit in the torture, distance from the tools used to inflict pain in no way reduces our part in these disgusting acts of barbarity.

Is global warming real? Or is it a boogie man like the terrorists? You have to love the politics of fear.

//We Are All Torturers Now!//

Fixed it for you

Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq

A documentary film by John Pilger

Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children - many of whom weren't even born when the Gulf War began.

You have to love political correctness. Everyone plays the game now.

War is Sell

Documentary by Brian Standing

How do you sell a war? How do the techniques of government propagandists, public relations consultants and commercial advertisers work, and why are they so effective? How did the United States become a master of domestic war propaganda over the course of the twentieth century?

With, Amy Goodman; Alexander Cockburn; Robert Fisk, John Stauber; Sheldon Rampton; Nancy Snow; Rahul Mahajan; Mary Carpenter; Neil Whitehead.

I'm just glad no one hates Mexicans anymore. It's all about the illegals.

Call me Brian.

Much progress can be made, and will be made. The lunatic fringe won't have that though. Some people aren't happy unless they're convinced everyone is out to get them. Paranoia has a serious problem with never being able to find any solutions.

Boo!

The greatest lie the devil ever told was that he didn't exist.

The good news though, is that you can now say you don't hate Muslims, you hate radical Muslim extremists. You don't hate Mexicans, you hate illegals. You don't hate Jews, you hate Zionists. You get the picture....

Political correctness is a wonderful thing. Everyone is learning how to play it.

http://www.pscelebrities.com/mrr/becausetheworldisround.mp3

//The greatest lie the devil ever told was that he didn't exist.

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 3:03 AM
//

Which boogieman that be? Your boogieman, or someone elses?

Ignorance is both shield and sword...

and ignorance is bliss.

Boo!

http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/elgrito/

U.S. Military killed in action in
Iraq today 12/9/06):2
Current Total: 2,934
Wounded Total (to 12//05):22,157
Wounded (11/29-12/5/06):136

//Ignorance is both shield and sword...

and ignorance is bliss.

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 3:07 AM
//

Is ignorance also knowing what your opponent believes, but not believing as he does in his point of view? If so, then everyone is ignorant. Except for you of course. You have ideas of what should be, and everyone else is a fool for not thinking the same way. The lot of wingnuts everyone be.

High on the hills with the lonely goatherd, lay-od-lay-od-lay-he-hoo
Yodell back with the girl and goatherd, lay-od-lay-od-low

Wind it up
Wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
Yodellay, yodallay, yodal-low

(Yeah)
This is the key that makes us wind up
When the beat comes on, the girls all line up
And the boys all look, but no, they can't touch
But the girls want to know why the boys like us so much

They like the we dance, they like the way we work
They like that way that L.A.M.B. is going across my shirt
They like the way my pants, it compliments my shape (She's crazy, right?)
They like the way we react everytime we dance

Everytime the bass bangs, realize it calls your name
Let the beat wind you up, and don't stop till your time is up
Get in line now

Wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
Wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
Yodellay, yodallay, yodal-low

You've got to let the beat get under your skin
You've got to open up, and let it all in
But see, once it gets in, the poppin' begins
And then you find out, why all the boys stare

They're trying to bite our style
Trying to study our approach
They like the way we do it, so original
[ these lyrics found on http://www.completealbumlyrics.com ]
I guess that they are slow, so they should leave the room
This beat is for the clubs, and cars that go

Everytime the bass bangs, realize it calls your name
Let the beat wind you up, and don't stop till your time is up
Get in line now

Uh, uh, uh, wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
(Ya'll ready)

Wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
Wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
Yodellay, yodallay, yodal-low

Uh huh, it's your moment
Uh huh, come on girl, you know you own it
Uh huh, you know your key is still tick-tockin'
Hell yeah, and you know they're watchin'

Get it girl, get it, get it girl
Get it girl, get it, get it girl
To the font, to the side,
To the back, but don't let him ride

Keep goin' girl, it's your night
Don't let h

Posted by: Bea B. at December 10, 2006 3:14 AM

[smile]

Don't let him steal your light
I know he thinks you're fine and stuff
But does he know how to wind you up?
(Come on)

Wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
Wind it up, uh, uh, uh, uh
Yodellay, yodallay, yodal-low, hey!

http://www.youtube.com/v/qnE5-Ul7fV0

Allá en el Rancho Grande

allá donde vivía,

había una rancherita

que alegre me decía,

que alegre me decía:

Te voy a hacer unos calzones

como los que usa el ranchero,

te los comienzo de lana,

te los acabo de cuero.

Allá en el Rancho Grande

allá donde vivía,

había una rancherita

que alegre me decía,

que alegre me decía:

Nunca te fíes de promesas

ni mucho menos de amores,

que si te dan calabazas

verás lo que son ardores.

Allá en el Rancho Grande

allá donde vivía,

había una rancherita

que alegre me decía,

que alegre me decía:

Pon muy atento el oído

cuando rechine la puerta

hay muertos que no hacen ruido

y son muy gordas sus penas.

Allá en el Rancho Grande

allá donde vivía,

había una rancherita

que alegre me decía,

que alegre me decía:

Cuando te pidan cigarro

no des cigarro y cerillo,

porque si das las dos cosas

te tantearán de zorrillo.

Posted by: Thoth at December 10, 2006 3:18 AM

Hot! :)

*[ these lyrics found on http://www.completealbumlyrics.com ]*

Dammit...I have to be more careful...

Watching Mariachi band vids right now. God, I miss California. We have them here in Texas as well, but it's not quite the same. Tex-Mex is different than being raised a California Mexican.

That may sound weird to everyone. Don't blame yalls if you don't understand.

Hey Bea B,

Striking out tonight.
Can't find anything
I'm looking for. :(

What are you looking for, NC?

New Rulers of the World

A documentary film by John Pilger

'Global economy' is a modern Orwellian term. On the surface, it is instant financial trading, mobile phones, McDonald's, Starbucks, holidays booked on the net. Beneath this gloss, it is the globalisation of poverty, a world where most human beings never make a phone call and live on less than two dollars a day, where 6,000 children die every day from diarrhea because most have no access to clean water.

Hate to say it, but thinking about it....I think the Mexicans here in Texas seem to value education more, and are more blended in to the mainstream. The Mexicans in California seem to value family and the neighborhood more, as well as older traditions. Thinking about it, those are the differences I've noticed. I grew up in a California barrio. Just my observances now that I'm thinking about it. I just knew they didn't seem the same. I miss the second.

I wonder what the first thing Crank downloaded on DSL was?

De la sierra morena
Viene bajando viene bajando
Un par de ojitos negros
Cielito lindo de contrabando

Ese lunar que tienes
Cielito lindo junto a la boca
No se lo des a nadie
Cielito lindo que a mí me toca

Ay ay ay ay
Canta y no llores
Porque cantando se alegran
Cieltio lindo los corazones

Posted by: Thoth at December 10, 2006 3:54 AM

I used to know all the lyrics & how to sing that song...they taught it in Spanish class.

Or....it could be Texas mainstream is more in line with Mexicans than California is. Things to think about....

//I used to know all the lyrics & how to sing that song...they taught it in Spanish class.

Posted by: Bea B. at December 10, 2006 3:58 AM
//

Don't think they'd have kids singing that one today. :)

And it also could be that race mattered much more in east San Jose CA than it does in Austin TX.

Beautiful

http://www.sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2003-02-18.gif

What are you looking for, NC?

Posted by: Bea B. at December 10, 2006 3:41 AM

Whole bunch of stuff
best left for an
earlier time of day...

"Nefertiti" Miles Davis Quintet

Miles Davis Quintet

Miles Davis (tp) Wayne Shorter (ts)
Herbie Hancock (p) Ron Carter (b)
Tony Williams (d)
Columbia 30th Street Studios, NYC, June 7, 1967

"Bags' Groove" Miles Davis Quintet

Miles Davis Quintet

Miles Davis (tp) Milt Jackson (vib)
Thelonious Monk (p) Percy Heath (b)
Kenny Clarke (d)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, December 24, 1954

Trying to figure out who, where & when on this:
(I think this is the correct attribution for the cut.)

"Ah Leu Cha" Miles Davis 05:55

Miles Davis Quintet

Miles Davis (tp) John Coltrane (ts)
Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b)
Philly Joe Jones (d)
Columbia Studio D, NYC, October 26, 1955

http://www.jazzdisco.org/miles/dis/c/

I do think my heritage is the most beautiful in the world though. I guess I'm bigoted like that. Viva La Raza!

Hello Bloggers. Wow, it is 4am

FRANK RICH: The Sunshine Boys Can’t Save Iraq

Posted by: Kevin © at December 9, 2006 11:50 PM

Thanks Kevin :)

Oh yeah. Got to see some decent serf/bluegrass tonight.

Fella named Danny Barnes. Lot of fun, really seems to enjoy doin' a live show.

Some of his tunes:

Funtime

Hey Baby I'm Falling (this was recorded about a year ago at the same venue as he played tonight)

On to Norteno vids.

Racoon Cat

Condition

We Can't Make It Here Anymore

by James Mcmurtry

Will work for food. Will die for oil.

This music video touches on America's economic corporate control, struggles of workers ,conditions of veterans, war in Iraq, and the prison industrial complex.

This guy is funny as hell talking about Mexican music. Link here

With God on Our Side

George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America

Directed by Calvin Skaggs, David Van Taylor - Run time 101 Minutes

By calmly putting all the pieces in a row, it shows how we came to have a president who believes, in the words of one commentator, that "he and his country have a special relationship with God" -- New York Times

Jeebus! Roommates son just got picked up for a D.W.I

I think I know who drank my rum now.

//Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 4:52 AM//

Just out of curiousity, do you ever stop thinking about politics? It festers upon the brain after some time. You really need to give it a break once in a while. Read some history here and there. It has politics, but in a past tense so you don't have to worry about it.

/Obsessing on George Dubya is harmfull to your health

Out. Feel free to go back to your silliness, Nobs.

Religion for a Captive Audience, Paid For by Taxes
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/business/10faith.html

Excerpt:

Since 2000, courts have cited more than a dozen programs for having unconstitutionally used taxpayer money to pay for religious activities or evangelism aimed at prisoners, recovering addicts, job seekers, teenagers and children.

Nevertheless, the programs are proliferating. For example, the Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest prison management company, with 65 facilities and 71,000 inmates under its control, is substantially expanding its religion-based curriculum and now has 22 institutions offering residential programs similar to the one in Iowa. And the federal Bureau of Prisons, which runs at least five multifaith programs at its facilities, is preparing to seek bids for a single-faith prison program as well.

Posted by: Cat Chew at December 10, 2006 5:21 AM

Why no rabbis?

I dunno...teaching religion to the single highest population of sociopaths next to the corporations and government sounds like a good idea to me...

[cough]

FDL has a late night post up regarding Festivus and the "Airing Of Grievances". I will state that I never watched Seinfeld, but I really like this idea, might make it a holiday tradition.

Hiya, Nob. G'night, Thoth.

Atheist here. Don't get me started! You know how much I love to proselytize. ;)

Posted by: The Bastard Socialist Dane at December 10, 2006 5:34 AM

Imagine me airing my grievances?

Atheist here. Don't get me started! You know how much I love to proselytize. ;)

Posted by: Cat Chew at December 10, 2006 5:34 AM

Hell it's difficult enough just to get you to talk...

I hate getting popcorn stuck in my teeth...screwed up my whole day...

I'm a proudly proselytizing atheist as well.

I figure that I spent the first half of my life a lunatic christer. You know, one of those nice, but obnoxious little fuckers that can't shut the fuck up about how awesome god is.

I think that sharing my love of atheism is the least I can do to make up for it.

And yeah, Nobs, I'm writing up my list of grievances. Probably won't waste the space to post it here, but it seems like a fun, kind of cathartic way of thinking a few things out. Maybe it'd be fun for you, maybe not. Just something that caught my eye while I was reading.

Posted by: The Bastard Socialist Dane at December 10, 2006 5:45 AM

Fun...Hell no it would be tedious...I try to air my grievances when they're fresh in my mind...Why waste time in starting on working things out or finding out that they're irreconcilable differences?

Besides if I did list my grievances it would end up being an hour long standup routine anyway...

When I was young a kid told me that they were some religion that I don't remember so I asked my grandmother which religion were we...She told me that in our family we each had to find our own...I never found mine...I spent a lot of time looking...Not sure if I've given up as much as found myself in love with the questions than the answers.

I'm taking a different tack than just real grievances, although I'm listing a few of those as well.

I imagine your list might take a bit...

“The state has literally established an Evangelical Christian congregation within the walls of one of its penal institutions, giving the leaders of that congregation, i.e., InnerChange employees, authority to control the spiritual, emotional and physical lives of hundreds of Iowa inmates,” Judge Pratt wrote. “There are no adequate safeguards present, nor could there be, to ensure that state funds are not being directly spent to indoctrinate Iowa inmates.”

Posted by: Nobody at December 10, 2006 5:57 AM

Gott ist zu mir tot

I imagine your list might take a bit...

Posted by: The Bastard Socialist Dane at December 10, 2006 5:57 AM

Just a bit...I'm not even sure that most of them have anything ot do with me directly...but they sure as hell piss me off...

Gott ist zu mir tot

Posted by: The Bastard Socialist Dane at December 10, 2006 6:01 AM

Dieu vit seulement dans les cerveaux des hommes.

When I dream of the dreaming god do I look upon myself?

: )

Good night, fellow anti-theists.

"Thou art god"

Many blessings

night man...

Rest well, Dane.

For example, the Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest prison management company, with 65 facilities and 71,000 inmates under its control, is substantially expanding its religion-based curriculum and now has 22 institutions offering residential programs similar to the one in Iowa.

The Books of Bokonon

The First Book

Warning from title page: Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma!
[ 118 ]

Verse 1: All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies. [ 4 ]

Verses 2-4 (?): In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

"Certainly," said man.

"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

And He went away. [ 118 ]

Verse 5: Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. [ frontispiece ]

Posted by: Cat Chew at December 10, 2006 6:15 AM

They're desperate ya know...They've been losing people for decades...As vast as those mega churchs seem...The percentage of new converts has been dropping and dropping...

I wonder what will happen when they realize that they are the ones that brought their beast to power...

Posted by: Cat Chew at December 10, 2006 6:18 AM

[smile]

I wonder what happens when the churchs go looking for scapegoats next time...

The Doomsday Code

Tony Robinson investigates the people with powerful political friends in the White House, who are trying to bring about the end of the world. Julia Bard reports.

The Doomsday Code

Tony Robinson, played ("I have a cunning plan") Baldrick in The Black Adder BritCom. I love the episode The Archbishop from the first series. Witchsmeller Puruivant's also rather good. Anyway, nice choice for a host/narrator.

Seems like one of the surest ways to trick many folks into thinking the enemy of the moment is subhuman is to proclaim them godless. Incorrect deity, no god at all, same thing. Comforting that the church numbers are sliding.

Posted by: Cat Chew at December 10, 2006 6:54 AM

One of the better put together documentarys...

Wait until you see their push for Obama...

Another link for The Doomsday Code:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6439295521791525424

Posted by: Cat Chew at December 10, 2006 7:07 AM

I just used the media player link...

Ya know what bothers me...The rapture sounds just a little too much like the effects of a neutron bomb...

aw well...time to rest my weary head...later kiddo.

Rest well, Nob. Later.

Good morning blog!

AMAZING....

La. Dem incumbent wins House runoff By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer
Sun Dec 10, 4:34 AM ET

U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record) easily defeated his fellow Democratic opponent in a runoff election Saturday, despite an ongoing federal bribery investigation.

In complete but unofficial returns, Jefferson, Louisiana's first black congressman since Reconstruction, received 57 percent of the vote over state Rep. Karen Carter, who had 43 percent.

Carter was unable to capitalize on a scandal that included allegations the FBI found $90,000 in bribe money in Jefferson's freezer.

In a concession speech, Carter embraced family members and pledged to work with Jefferson, especially on the area's recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

"I guess the people are happy with the status-quo," she said.

The eight-term incumbent was forced into the runoff against Carter when he failed to win 50 percent of the vote in a crowded open multiparty primary. Carter had sought to become the first black woman from Louisiana elected to Congress.

Jefferson described his win as "a great moment and I thank almighty God for making it possible." He called for regional unity to focus on the hurricane recovery and in bringing back evacuees who are still scattered across the country.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_on_el_ho/louisiana_house_27&printer=1

Iraq report casts military as war-weary By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Sat Dec 9, 1:39 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_us_military&printer=1

Beyond its prescriptions for fixing Iraq, the special commission that studied a new approach to the war also spotlighted less obvious military ills that have deepened as fighting has dragging on.

The military is war-weary, the defense budget is in danger of disarray, and relations between the military brass and their civilian overseers are frayed, the Iraq Study Group said. The bipartisan panel's report poses tough challenges for Robert Gates, who has no previous Pentagon management experience but will become defense secretary on Dec. 18.

According to the commission's assessment:

_The Bush administration's focus on Iraq has limited the military's effectiveness in Afghanistan.

_The Iraq war, playing out simultaneously with the fight in Afghanistan, has so strained the Army and Marine Corps that new attention — and billions of dollars — must be devoted to restoring the capabilities of the military so it is ready for conflicts of the future.

"U.S. military forces, especially our ground forces, have been stretched nearly to the breaking point," the report said. This has made recruiting more difficult and accelerated wear on equipment, it said.

"Many units do not have fully functioning equipment for training when they redeploy to the United States," the study group said. "The American military has little reserve force to call on if it needs ground forces to respond to other crises around the world."

Russian Govt. Launches "Aggressive" PR Campaign To Discredit Poisoned Spy...
The Independent | Cahal Milmo, Jason Bennetto, Andy McSmith and Andrew Osborn in Moscow | December 9, 2006 07:51 PM

The Kremlin has launched an aggressive public relations war designed to undo the damage caused by its claimed involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

After five weeks of allegations that the poisoning of the former KGB agent was sanctioned by President Vladimir Putin, state-controlled media in Moscow made a concerted attack on Mr Litvinenko's reputation ­ describing him as a hard-up fantasist whose death was part of a smear campaign against Russia.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2060070.ece

GOP Budget Chair Blasts Leadership: Calls Tax Bill "Largest Budget-Buster Ever Brought Forward By The Republican Congress"...
Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | December 9, 2006 12:47 PM

The Senate sent legislation to President Bush early this morning that expands offshore oil drilling, preserves a variety of popular tax breaks for families and businesses and gives permanent normal trading status to Vietnam.

The package was approved after a marathon session in the departing Republican-controlled Congress, which didn't shut its doors until after 4:30 this morning.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900272.html

Black-Market Weapon Prices Soaring In Iraq...
The New York Times | C. J. CHIVERS | December 9, 2006 02:32 PM

The Kurdish security contractor placed the black plastic box on the table. Inside was a new Glock 19, one of the 9-millimeter pistols that the United States issued by the tens of thousands to the Iraqi Army and police.

This pistol was no longer in the custody of the Iraqi Army or police. It had been stolen or sold, and it found its way to an open-air grocery stand that does a lively black-market business in police and infantry arms. The contractor bought it there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/world/middleeast/10weapons.html?hp&ex=1165726800&en=442b23bbf0771fe9&ei=5094&partner=homepage

G'morning, Toni! :)

La. Dem incumbent wins House runoff

I would add "Holy crap!" to your "AMAZING..." Sheesh...
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...I'm writing up my list of grievances. Probably won't waste the space to post it here, but it seems like a fun, kind of cathartic way of thinking a few things out. Maybe it'd be fun for you, maybe not. Just something that caught my eye while I was reading.

Posted by: The Bastard Socialist Dane at December 10, 2006 5:45 AM

Dane, that sounds interesting, not like a waste of blog space at all! I hope you let us know how it turns out.
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Later, Toni. I hope your day goes well. Stay warm!

Your war profiteering news for 12/3-12/9.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/09/this-week-in-thievery/#more-5984

A former KBR employee was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $380,130 in a kickback scheme with Kuwaiti dining service, Tamimi Global Co. Stephen Lowdell Seamens, who accepted over $100,000 from Tamimi, also accepted a kickback from a cleaning service.

Seamans, who pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and conspiracy for taking the kickbacks, worked in 2002 and 2003 as procurement materials and property manager for KBR in Kuwait, where he awarded work to subcontractors under KBR's multibillion-dollar LOGCAP III contracts with the U.S. Army.

Former Director of Operations at Tamimi in Iraq and Kuwait, Mohammad Shabbir Khan, was also sentenced — four years and three months in prison. In June, he plead guilty to twelve counts of wire fraud, and one count of money laundering and making a false statement.

Back in September, it was discovered that Blackwater USA was conducting security operations as a subcontractor for KBR even though the Army says Blackwater was not authorized to guard convoys or carry weapons. Earlier this week, Waxman wrote a letter to the outgoing Secretary of Defense, Don "Cut and Rummy" Rumsfeld about this issue, including why the U.S. taxpayers ponied up for "exorbitant prices" for their services.

Christy pointed out that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) is the only committee chairman that does not need a committee vote to issue subpeonas. Okay — having Waxman head the committee is one thing. But the power to issue subpeonas at will? Thanks Republicans!

Oversight, baby! Feel the excitement!

Hey Cat...didn't know you were still here.

You have a good day too!

...I'm writing up my list of grievances. Probably won't waste the space to post it here, but it seems like a fun, kind of cathartic way of thinking a few things out. Maybe it'd be fun for you, maybe not. Just something that caught my eye while I was reading.

Posted by: The Bastard Socialist Dane at December 10, 2006 5:45 AM

Dane, that sounds interesting, not like a waste of blog space at all! I hope you let us know how it turns out.

Posted by: Cat Chew at December 10, 2006 8:28 AM

I agree! Maybe start a blog on that premise and let others add to your grievances!

Here's the Sunday Talking Head line-up. Read it and weep:

ABC's "This Week": British Prime Minister Tony Blair; Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Gordon Smith, R-Ore.; actor Ed Asner.

CBS' "Face the Nation": Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group; Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Trent Lott, R-Miss.

NBC's "Meet the Press": Baker and Hamilton.

CNN's "Late Edition": Baker and Hamilton; Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq; Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

"Fox News Sunday": Baker and Hamilton; Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; composer Marvin Hamlisch.

So…um…do you think they'll be talking about the ISG Report today?

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/10/sunday-talking-head-thread-34/

The Fighting First Family

Jesus General: "I created this tribute to the contribution the Bush children, nephews, and nieces are making to the war effort.this tribute to the contribution the Bush children, nephews, and nieces are making to the war effort."

YouTube Video:

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006_12_03_patriotboy_archive.html#116566141721085047

GAO: The status quo is unsustainable
By: Nicole Belle @ 11:20 AM - PST C-Span's Friday Washington Journal had on David Walker, U.S. Comptroller of the GAO on to discuss two recent reports, one on recommendations for 110th Congress Targets for Oversight and Global War on Terror Costs (both .pdf. You can watch archives of the show here.

Walker was fairly scathing in his assessment of how things are going for the country fiscally. The GAO has produced videos with their assessment that you can download here. It's a lot of information to take in. When they start to toss out estimates in the TRILLIONS, my mind started to reel.

From the video on America's Fiscal Future:

…And even if we're able to constrain discretionary spending for the next ten years to the rate of inflation, which we haven't for a long time, we still face large and growing structural deficits in the years ahead. Bottom line? The status quo is unacceptable and unsustainable. We're on an imprudent and unsustainable fiscal path. Tough choices are required. We will not be able to grow our way out of this problem. Anybody who says that suffers from two problems. Number one, they have not studied economic history adequately; and number two; they probably wouldn't do real well at math. Because the numbers just don't add up.

It's clear from the strength of the language used that Walker feels that this is not being taken seriously at any level. How much coverage do you suppose the mainstream media will give it?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/09/gao-the-status-quo-is-unsustainable/

It's gonna be another Happie Doggie Day..

Don't you just love Xmas...??

Don't you love a Vacation Trip..??

Well I have a Xmas trip coming up soon..

Ya gotta love that..!!

Pakistan wants to buy three P-3 aircraft and services valued at up to $855 million from Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC.N: Quote, Profile , Research) and Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT.N: Quote, Profile , Research), the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Friday.

In a notice to Congress about the possible sale, the Pentagon agency also said South Korea wants to buy $500 million in fighter jet spare parts and equipment, and NATO has asked to buy four Boeing Co. (BA.N: Quote, Profile , Research) C-17 aircraft in a $589 million deal.

Under federal law, the agency must notify Congress of a potential sale.

Pakistan wants to buy three P-3 aircraft and services valued at up to $855 million from Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC.N: Quote, Profile , Research) and Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT.N: Quote, Profile , Research), the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Friday.

In a notice to Congress about the possible sale, the Pentagon agency also said South Korea wants to buy $500 million in fighter jet spare parts and equipment, and NATO has asked to buy four Boeing Co. (BA.N: Quote, Profile , Research) C-17 aircraft in a $589 million deal.

Under federal law, the agency must notify Congress of a potential sale.

Here is Senator Smith's statement:
http://www.counterpunch.org/gordon12092006.html

Run with it.

What is the War Dog Plan..???

You must start and the begining..

I. The Philosophy of Radical Islam

The key figure, in Thompson’s judgment, is the Egyptian fundamentalist thinker Sayyid Qutb--whose systematic thought forms the basis for radical Islam’s struggle against Western ascendancy. Qutb’s signature contribution to Islamic thought was to update the concept of jahiliyya. For centuries, jahiliyya had signified the degenerate state of the world prior to the advent of Islam; according to Qutb, however, jahiliyya should be understood as the underlying spirit of decadence and corruption which exists in all times and all places--and which true Muslims must fight against. There can be no compromise with jahiliyya. "The mixing and co-existence of truth and falsehood is impossible," Qutb wrote. "Command belongs to Allah or else to Jahiliyya." What was required, for Muslims, was to live under the strict Islamic code of laws called the sharia. That was the only way they would be under Allah’s command.

The War on Terror is a response to the Jihad that continues around the world..

A Holy War declared by Radical Islam...

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

Whatever else might be said about Qutb’s worldview, it’s a straightforward, coherent, easily understood system of beliefs--and it’s enormously influential among Islamic radicals, including Osama bin Laden. Jihad is legitimized, in their eyes, as the struggle against jahiliyya. The only question is how far jihad is aimed. The short term project would consist of casting out the infidel Jews and Christians from Islamic holy lands and recapturing the holy cities of Mecca and Medina from the jahiliyya-tainted Saudi regime; the long term project would consist of subjugating the non-Islamic West, which means defeating the United States, in order, first, to keep its corrupting influences out of Islam, and, ultimately, to liberate the West itself from the darkness of secularism.

The War On Terror was brought home on 911..

You can fight this war in the Mideast or in the United States...

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

II. The Confrontation with the West
It seems fantastic, even absurd, to talk about the defeat of the United States--from our perspective. But this overlooks the long view of history taken by Osama and his ilk, a view in which even the most devastating setback is merely temporary and in which compromise is, literally, worse than death. Their hearts and minds are fixed against us, their struggle for our destruction is what gives their lives meaning, and they’re not going to be "won over" to our view--any more than you could be won over, say, to abandoning the welfare of your children.

/It also doesn't help when the "not anti-semites" start using the same propoganda

Posted by: Thoth at December 9, 2006 10:00 PM

Good point, Thoth. Anyway, I am confident that there are plenty of anti-semites among the denier crowd. For what it's worth, I am one who says "Allow the fools their conference." Marketplace of ideas, you know. Subject the ideas to the light of reason.

Radical Islam has taken this twisted thinking to is inevitable conclusion..

The West is the Corrupter of Islam and must be destroyed..

When you view Ahmadinejad in Iran you must understand why he thinks as he does...

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

The radicals ask nothing of us except our extinction. They despise America less for our policies than for our traditions, less for what we do than for who we are, since we are, in effect, the cultural, intellectual and military vanguard of jahiliyya.

(See upblog)

Sen. Brownback’s Solution For Iraq: ‘Park’ Cheney ‘In The Region’ »
One of the key recommendations of the Iraq Study Group was direct, unconditional engagement with Iran and Syria. It was quickly rejected by the Bush administration.

This morning on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Sam Brownback — one of the most conservative members of the Senate — embraced the recommendation, but with an unusual twist. Brownback said that the administration should “park” Vice President Cheney in the region, leading the diplomatic effort. Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/10/brownback-iraq-cheney/

So, the battle lines have been drawn. On one side we have James Baker and his corporate classmates who want to restore order while preserving America's imperial role in the region. And, on the other side, we have the neo-Trotskyites and Israeli-Jacobins who seek a fragmented and chaotic Middle East where Israel is the dominant power.

The one group that has no voice in this "Battle of the Titans" is the American people. They lost whatever was left of their shrinking political-clout sometime around the 2000 Coronation of George Bush.
(Mike Whitney)

Radical Islams feels that it is THEY who are under attack..!!!!

It is the West the challenges THEIR very existence..

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

America, in the minds of the radicals, is the Great Seducer, in a worse way than the giant statues of Buddha in Afghanistan, the Miss World Pageant in Nigeria or the nightclub in Bali: on television, radio and the internet, in glossy magazines, news journals and paperback books, on movie screens, home videos and CDs, we are absolutely everywhere, defying the sharia, acting out in every conceivable manner to seduce the next generation of Muslims away from the path of righteousness

Counter the Israel First crowd:

http://www.irmep.org/Policy_Briefs/3_27_2003_Clean_Break_or_Dirty_War.html

Impeachment rallies held coast to coast

Ron Brynaert
Published: Sunday December 10, 2006

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Impeachment_rallies_held_coast_to_coast_1210.html

This Sunday, Human Rights Day has been renamed "Human Rights and Impeachment Day," as groups hold rallies from coast to coast across the United States calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached.

"The purpose of the events is to organize people to lobby their Congress Members for investigations and impeachment and to lobby their local and state governments for resolutions in support of impeachment," Democrats.com co-founder Bob Fertik writes.

The rallies were "kicked off" yesterday at a New York City forum which featured former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman and anti-war "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan.

As her final legislative act on Friday, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced an impeachment bill, although it was just a "symbolic parting shot" by the controversial Democrat and has no chance of passing.

According to After Downing Street, one of the activist groups helping to organize this weekend's events, there "will now also be rallies to honor and thank Cynthia McKinney."

Events scheduled for today include rallies and parades held in such cities as Seattle, Madison, Chicago, Detroit and Tallahassee. At a beach in San Francisco, human bodies will be used to spell out the word "Impeach!"

Also in San Francisco, "under the spot where the UN signed its charter 60 years ago," activists will sing "carols" while clad in orange jump suits, similiar to the ones that detainees at Guantanamo Bay are forced to wear.

DEVELOPING...AS NEWS FROM EVENTS OF THE DAY TRICKLES IN...

the american people have rarely, if ever, been heard by the government

especially the poor

Democracy Now / Amy Goodman / Elizabeth de la Vega: Impeachment roadmap How to impeach Bush Transcript and audio links for article concerning a new book by a former federal prosecutor who lays out a legal roadmap for the impeachment of Bush

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_democrac_061210_impeachment_roadmap.htm

December 10, 2006
Report on Iraq Exposes Divide Within G.O.P.
By JOHN M. BRODER and ROBIN TONER

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/us/politics/10elect.html?ei=5094&en=9344452516d6e4c1&hp=&ex=1165813200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 — The release of the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group this week exposed deep fissures among Republicans over how to manage a war that many fear will haunt their party — and the nation — for years to come.

A document that many in Washington had hoped would pave the way for a bipartisan compromise on Iraq instead drew sharp condemnation from the right, with hawks saying it was a wasted effort that advocated a shameful American retreat.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page described the report as a “strategic muddle,” Richard Perle called it “absurd,” Rush Limbaugh labeled it “stupid,” and The New York Post portrayed the leaders of the group, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic member of Congress, as “surrender monkeys.”

Republican moderates clung to the report, mindful of the drubbing the party received in last month’s midterm elections largely because of Iraq. They said they hoped President Bush would adopt the group’s principal recommendations and begin the process of disengagement from the long and costly war. But White House officials who conducted a preliminary review of the report said they had concluded that many of the proposals were impractical or unrealistic.

The divisions could make it more difficult for Republicans to coalesce on national security policy and avoid a bitter intraparty fight going into the 2008 campaign.

Senator John McCain of Arizona, a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, rejected the major recommendations of the group because they did not present a formula for victory. Mr. McCain, hoping to claim the Republican mantle on national security issues, has staked out a muscular position on Iraq, calling for an immedi

DEVELOPING...AS NEWS FROM EVENTS OF THE DAY TRICKLES IN...

Posted by: toniD at December 10, 2006 10:34 AM

Good stuff!

A Holy War waged with Terrorism..

A seemingly endless struggle with a fanatical enemy...

How can they be stopped..??

They can be stopped by Local enforcement of International Law against terrorism...

They could hire guys like me. Instead of the wimps they've been hiring!

So why isn't local enforcement working..??

The answer to that is the Axis of Evil...

A handful of countries that not only fail to prosecute terrorism..

The Axis of evil promotes, sponsors, funds Terrorism..!!!!

Local enforcement works in both Western and Islamic countries..

The problem is not with enforcement, but with State Sponsors of Terrorism..

You're full of shit again...

General Dynamics Gets $208M Navy Contract

The U.S. Navy awarded a $208.1 million contract modification to a business unit of General Dynamics Inc. for the construction of a Littoral Combat Ship.

Bath Iron Works will perform the work in Mobile, Ala., Pittsfield, Mass., and Bath, Maine. Production is expected to be completed by August 2009.

Shares of General Dynamics dropped 59 cents to finish at $74.14 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Not to worry War Dog, I'll find someone I can sucker into playing the insult game with.

Muck should be easy.

The War Dog Plan promotes regime change in counties who's leaders are State Sponsors of Terrorism...

In Afghanistan this was done by force..

As it was in Iraq..

In Pakistan, and Libya, compliance by otherwise dangerous leaders has averted war..

Boy, it must be fun to sit around on a nice Sunday
and rap with good, old War Dog.

See ya!

Left unchecked on the Axis of Evil list we have..

N. Korea..

Iran...

Syria..

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N. Korea while a big danger is not driven by Radical Islam..

The KranK B8 plan does still apply in N. Korea and is at this time the best solution..

Iran on the other hand, is an equal danger and is very much driven by Radical Islam..!!!

Radical Islam does not negotiate away it's religious beliefs...!!