GE, Lehman Backing for Emission Curbs Pressures Congress Unwilling to Act Senator James Inhofe, who calls the consensus that humans cause global warming a corruption of science, shot off a warning letter to more than 60 chief executive officers in December. The Oklahoma Republican told the leaders not to support bills this year to cap carbon dioxide emissions, saying Wall Street might penalize shares of their companies.
Thanks. :) Robert Hsu is always a great source, because he combines the usual market knowledge, with actually going there and knowing the culture and the people.
Peace and Freedom Party State Chair Debra Reiger has sent a letter to left activists and groups around the country suggesting that they work together with the party to develop a 2008 presidential ticket. Anyone with proposals for possible Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidates is urged to write to her as the chair of the party’s National Campaign Committee.
She reports that the Peace and Freedom Party “would like to connect with other parties and groups that agree substantially with our platform and are considering mounting or supporting an independent Presidential campaign.”
Reiger writes, prospective candidates “must meet constitutional requirements, be willing to run on the Peace and Freedom Party platform, and be willing and able to campaign in California and other states during much of 2008.” She sets a response deadline of June 30, 2007, but states that “an earlier response would be helpful.”
While noting that the Peace and Freedom Party is considering obtaining ballot status in states other than California, she writes the party “would like to work together with left groups that presently maintain ballot status elsewhere.”
According to her letter, “We offer voters a broad left perspective that is non-sectarian, but specifically socialist. Our party’s platform puts forward proposals for both long-term change and immediate reforms, all intended to benefit working people. In addition to participating in elections, our activists are working for peace, against racism, in defense of civil rights and liberties, for union representation and strong democratic unions, for the needs of working-class families, and for defense of the environment from the ravages of capitalism.”
Reiger also asks for responses from those around the country who would be interested in becoming active in the 2008 campaign. Her address is Debra Reiger, Peace and Freedom Party, 5960 South Land Park Drive #385, Sacramento, California 95822.
Stop the Immigration Raids and the Fascist Assault on Immigrants
Over the last two months immigrants throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been targeted in vicious raids. Hundreds have been arrested and deported as part of a nationwide effort by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) known as "Operation Return to Sender." People have told of agents going to a Home Depot lot where day laborers wait for work, to supermarkets, street corners, houses and apartments, and BART (rapid transit) stations, armed with weapons, grabbing anyone without an ID.
A Nazi-like climate against immigrants is being created in this country. The truth about these raids needs to be told. Every person needs to ask themselves: Can I stand by while my government is terrorizing immigrant communities, while children are afraid to go to school, and parents are afraid to step outside? Can I stand by while families are being broken up, while our immigrant brothers and sisters, who have come to this country to work and survive are deported, while hundred of immigrants die every year in the deserts of the Southwest. This is like rounding up fugitive slaves, or putting Jews on the trains to the camps in Germany. This situation is immoral, unjust and intolerable. It cannot be allowed to continue.
Unless we resist and mobilize others in mass, determined action to put a STOP to these Gestapo-like raids, then we will bear the responsibility for the perpetuation of the these very crimes. By standing up we create the possibility of a different future than one where millions are driven from their homes by the workings of a cruel imperialist system, forced into dangerous border crossings, made to work in the most dangerous and difficult jobs, hounded at every turn and forced to live in the shadows.
Grantham Donates $23.6 Million for Climate Change Institute
By Matthew Keenan
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Jeremy Grantham, a critic of U.S. energy policy and money manager for Vice President Dick Cheney, has donated $23.6 million (12 million pounds) to Imperial College London to establish an institute on climate change.
The gift will fund 10 new research positions, including a director, and establish working space, the university said in a statement. The center, to be named the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, will build on work done in the school's Centre for Environmental Policy.
Grantham, 68, is chairman of Boston-based Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., a $140 billion investment-management firm he helped found in 1977. Writing in a company newsletter last month, Grantham condemned U.S. energy policies over three decades and singled out the administration of President George W. Bush for ignoring or disputing scientific evidence on global warming.
``Climate change is the most important issue we face over the next fifty years,'' Grantham said in the statement. ``It is imperative we find technologies that can be implemented in government policies worldwide. I am confident that the Institute for Climate Change will be an idea leader and a strong voice in championing that endeavor.''
Halliburton to Complete KBR Exit Through Share Swap (Update2)
By Jim Kennett
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Halliburton Co., the world's second- largest oilfield-services provider, said it will complete its separation from KBR Inc. by offering its remaining 81 percent stake in the former subsidiary to current stockholders.
Halliburton, once headed by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, will offer its 135.6 million shares of KBR in exchange for its own stock. KBR is the largest U.S. military contractor in Iraq.
If the offer isn't fully subscribed, any remaining KBR shares will be given to stockholders as a special dividend on a pro rata basis, Houston-based Halliburton said today in a statement.
``It'll be an immediate reduction in the share count for Halliburton,'' said Jason Putman, an analyst who helps manage $56 billion at Victory Capital Management in Cleveland, including 13 million shares of Halliburton. ``It will also be accretive for Halliburton because they'll be swapping'' stock in a higher- valued company for a cheaper one.
Quote of the Day "They want you to tell the truth when you believe you have made a mistake and they want you to change course when something is not working. We have six years, -- plus years now, of a president who has been completely unwilling to do that."
-- John Edwards, quoted by the New York Observer, on what voters want from a president.
Quote of the Day "They want you to tell the truth when you believe you have made a mistake and they want you to change course when something is not working. We have six years, -- plus years now, of a president who has been completely unwilling to do that."
-- John Edwards, quoted by the New York Observer, on what voters want from a president.
What he should have added was.. they want you to able to distinguish WHEN you have made a mistake. And they sure as hell don't want you to have ulterior motives that were always intended to get you rich and them killed.
really...dick cheney killed anna nichole smith. it got scooter off the front page, but more important, he can't let it leak that mary is the real father. it was a dry run before she tried it for keeps. the plan was to take off mother and daughter at the birth, but in a characteristic failure in personnel choices, they sent Mark Foley in as a black op. naturally he was distracted talking to her son and, hearing the nurse at the door, succumbed to a moment of panic and killed the wrong person. at that point he had to abort the mission and flee (after rummaging about in anna's closet and making off with a pair of fat pants for denny hastert) really.
really...dick cheney killed anna nichole smith. it got scooter off the front page, but more important, he can't let it leak that mary is the real father.
China is a communist country and can control it's stock market. China, realizing that the world markets went down because of them, will make sure that their stock market will do better, thus raising the other markets. This is why Crammer is telling people to buy stock now.
LARGE PROTEST CAFTA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IN SMALL COUNTRY OF COSTA RICA
Costa Ricans protest free-trade pact Mon Feb 26, 11:12 PM ET
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Tens of thousands of union members, farmers and political activists marched through Costa Rica's capital on Monday to protest a free-trade pact with the U.S. they say will be harmful to local businesses.
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Costa Rica is the only one of six Latin American signatories to the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, that has not yet ratified the accord. Legislators are awaiting a court ruling to clear procedural issues before voting on it.
Some of the protesters who took part in Monday's march carried signs reading "The North is Invading us Again" and "Farmers equal extinct species."
Much of the opposition stems from requirements under the pact that Costa Rica open its telecommunications, services and agricultural sectors to greater competition. Employees of the state-run telecom company were a major contingent in the march.
Also Monday, the newspaper Al Dia published a poll showing that 47 percent of Costa Ricans support ratifying the accord, compared to 34 percent that are opposed. The rest had no response. The pollsters interviewed 1,215 people, and the margin of error was 3 percent.
The free trade deal has taken effect in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Dominican Republic, a Caribbean nation, was included in the pact, but its implementation there has been delayed by the need for changes in domestic laws.
Costa Rica's Congress failed to approve the pact under former President Abel Pacheco, who had argued that lawmakers needed to pass a series of fiscal reform measures before considering it.
Current President Oscar Arias, who took office last year, is a strong supporter of the agreement.
"SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Tens of thousands of union members, farmers and political activists marched through Costa Rica's capital on Monday to protest a free-trade pact with the U.S. they say will be harmful to local businesses."
A small country of only 5 million people turning out tens of thousands for a protest would be the equivalent of hundreds of thousands in the 300 million population USA.
Dateline NBC relies on the perverts from pervertedjustice.com who get their jollies posing & chatting on the internet as naughty young teens encouraging others to do all kinds of behavior.
George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess met with only middling success when it debuted in 1935, but stagings in the 1940s and 1950s ensured its place in musical history. With Hollywood poised to make a motion picture of the opera in the late 1950s, a number of musicians recorded jazz interpretations of the score, ranging from an ambitious Bethlehem record label project to a small-group version by guitarist Mundell Lowe. We’ll hear from those artists as well as Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Hank Jones, and Bill Potts on this edition of Night Lights; “Porgy and Bess: the 1950s Jazz Revival” airs Saturday, Oct. 15 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU.
Crank Bait said... toniD said...This is a ruse to put down some of the blog regulars. I am quite sure it will be me next. --------------------------------- toniD wears Army boots.
toniD said... Crank Bait said... toniD said...This is a ruse to put down some of the blog regulars. I am quite sure it will be me next. --------------------------------- toniD wears Army boots.
Only when it snows
February 27, 2007 6:48 PM
Maybe I'll need them now with all the troll poop.
What gave them away was the use of the word "liberals".
Mayor Daley was re-elected tonight. He surpasses his father now.
From the Chi Tribune...
Holding a virtually insurmountable lead, Mayor Richard Daley won re-election tonight to an historic sixth term over Cook County Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown and William "Dock" Walls. Daley held nearly 72 percent of the vote with nearly three-fourths of the city's precincts reporting.
The DuPage County Board on Tuesday refused to permit the opening of a transitional residence for up to 30 foreign refugee children in an upscale residential area near Naperville.
The board voted 12-4 to deny an application from Heartland Human Care Services Inc., of Chicago, to open the facility in a three-story residence at 23W735 Hobson Rd.
The facility would have housed about 30 children, mainly from India and China, who arrive in the United States illegally and without parents. The children, ranging in age from infancy to 17, would stay in the house for 60 to 90 days while they were being placed elsewhere.
"We are very disappointed at this outcome," said Susan Trudeau, director of Heartland's child welfare program, which operates a similar facility for 54 children in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. "We were hoping that some of the board members who were on the fence would come around. We plan to review the process, and to determine whether proper procedures were followed."
Neighbors had vigorously fought the plan, gathering more than 600 signatures on petitions and hiring a lawyer to represent them before the County Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals. They argued that the 7,000-square-foot home on 2.5 acres would be too crowded with 30 children. They also argued that a lack of fire hydrants in the area could mean a fire wouldn't be fought effectively.
Hamas chief evokes 'prospect' of peace deal with Israel AFP Published: Tuesday February 27, 2007
The head of the militant Palestinian group Hamas on Tuesday evoked for the first time the possibility of resolving differences with Israel through negotiation.
Hamas political director Khaled Meshaal was speaking after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov assured him that Moscow would press for the lifting of an economic embargo on the Palestinians.
"We have asked the international community to take rapid steps to lift the embargo imposed on the Palestinian people and the unity government and to deal with them without discrimination," Meshaal told an AFP journalist in the Palestinian territories by telephone after meeting Lavrov.
"This will create a political climate that could open a political prospect in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Meshaal said.
It was the first time that a senior Hamas leader had implied that the movement, regarded as a terrorist organization by Israel and the West, could enter political negotiations with Israel under certain circumstances.
Speaking to journalists afterwards, Meshaal stressed that the February 8 accord on a new unity Palestinian government required a change of tack by the United States and its allies.
The new government comprises Hamas and the Fatah faction led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
... "Hello there, illustrious and dear friend, how are you?" Fidel Castro asked President Chavez at the start of an extended conversation on the Venezuelan leader's "Hello President" show.
"I feel good and I'm happy," Mr Castro went on. ...
:) Thanks for the giggle...you know, you & tonbo should do a george & gracie type thing...but something different than that...but like that..but still different...
:) Thanks for the giggle...you know, you & tonbo should do a george & gracie type thing...but something different than that...but like that..but still different...
You wouldn't remember this, Shell. It was b4 your time, but, there was an old radio program called the Bickersons the would fit well too.
The Bickersons From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Bickersons, was an American radio comedy (1946-1951). Born on The Chase and Sanborn Hour and refined on the lesser-remembered Drene Time variety show, it stood the already-typical domestic presentation of radio and its infant offspring, television, so squarely on its head that there were those who feared the show. The show's married protagonists spent nearly all their time together in relentless verbal war, and many people believed that the show was more than merely detrimental to the nation's post-World War II health. (The same kind of charges of "detrimental" were later leveled against programs such as Married... with Children and The Simpsons.)
Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Newsletter, February 28, 2007
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"Seeing all things as naked, clear, and free from obscurations, we understand that there is nothing to attain or realize. Everything is naturally perfect just as it is. All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing patterns of life. These patterns are vibrant with meaning and significance at every moment . . . .
"The continual stream of new discovery, revelation, and inspiration that arises at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity. We should learn to see everyday life as a mandala -- the luminous fringes of experience that radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our being. The aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life experience moving in the dance or play of the universe.
"By this symbolism the inner teacher reveals the profound and ultimate significance of being. Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from everything. This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events that usually irritate us."
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, *The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones: The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action*
Glenn Beck Claims Olbermann Is ‘Killing…The World’s Democracy,’ ‘Smacks Of…McCarthyism’ » MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is profiled in this month’s issue of Rolling Stone. In the piece, Olbermann shares his thoughts on right-wing CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck:
A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The very dangerously bigoted guy who is selling himself as a pragmatic philosopher. I don’t think he sees his own bigotry. There’s something about him that suggests that, one night, he’ll say something that will cost him his career in television.
Glenn Beck responded tonight, calling Olbermann an “intolerant ideologue” whose ideas “smack of the same McCarthyism [Edward R.] Murrow fought so valiantly against.” Beck added, “Hey, Keith, you’re not saving the world’s democracy; you’re killing it, my friend, by trying to limit the marketplace of ideas to only those that reflect your own.”
Rove: YouTube is a disruption. Speaking today to students at Texas State University as part of the school’s “Communications Week,” Karl Rove referred to YouTube, saying: “That can disrupt anything. Just ask former Sen. George Allen.” Note to Rove: It was Allen’s remarks — not YouTube — that disrupted his campaign.
..I can't find a picture now, but I read about this new cat breed called Toyger...
& NC, if you move to California, you will automatically have a roomate waiting for you because the lady gave Leo back to us because he was bothering her two other cats...I hope that's incentive for you to get off the can & on the stick with this moving thing....
So this was an up and down weekend. Saturday was both good and bad. I had a lot of fun with everyone, it's been a while since we've all been together drinking. Nick was a lot of fun, I hung out with him a lot of the night, he's very grabby when he's drunk but then again, when isn't he. I really shouldn't encourage him. I talked to Bacon a lot this weekend, he's a pretty cool guy and i'm glad we are still friends. What I didn't like about Saturday was Rachel, I don't understand why all of a sudden she is in our group of friends, she's a total bitch and I don't like the fact that she tries to boss everyone around and was being really rude to Tom, fuck you Rachel, Tom lives here, he can do whatever the fuck he wants. She also hooked up with John, god, he's such a man whore and I'm pretty sure she's a huge whore too. Someone caught something when that happened. Whatever, I don't fucking care anymore. I just really hope this doesn't last long cause I don't want to see her around. Sunday was a good day. Hung out with Kaydie, Tom, Bacon and Tom's friends. They are all really cool people, I had so much fun just sitting around talking. I didn't go with Lora and them and I'm glad I didn't. Alex is so funny but man, that kid is hyper. He makes a good grilled cheese though. He got way too drunk, he ended up passing out..poor guy. All in all, it was a fun night, talked to Evan for a while too, he's a good guy. I think my favorite people in the house right now are Tom, Kevin and Evan. Lora and John are cool and I love them but I don't know, there always seems to be sooooo much drama associated with them and I don't handle drama very well, I tend not to get involved if at all possible.
i showed "life and debt" last night at the pub. definitely worth watching if you have the chance. looks at the IMF, globalization, destroyed industries has done to jamaica, as one example among many.
Powell's Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a 'Hoax on the American People'
DAVID BRANCACCIO: We've been talking grand policy. The then director of the CIA, George Tenent, Vice President Cheney's deputy Libby, told you that the intelligence that was the basis of going to war was rock solid. Given what you now know, how does that make you feel?
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: It makes me feel terrible. I've said in other places that it was-- constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. My participation in that presentation at the UN constitutes the lowest point in my professional life.
I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council. How do you think that makes me feel? Thirty-one years in the United States Army and I more or less end my career with that kind of a blot on my record? That's not a very comforting thing.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: A hoax? That's quite a word.
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Well, let's face it, it was. It was not a hoax that the Secretary in any way was complicit in. In fact he did his best-- I watched him work. Two AM in the morning on the DCI and the Deputy DCI, John McLaughlin.
And to try and hone the presentation down to what was, in the DCI's own words, a slam dunk. Firm. Iron clad. We threw many things out. We threw the script that Scooter Libby had given the-- Secretary of State. Forty-eight page script on WMD. We threw that out the first day.
And we turned to the National Intelligence estimate as part of the recommendation of George Tenent and my agreement with. But even that turned out to be, in its substantive parts-- that is stockpiles of chemicals, biologicals and production capability that was hot and so forth, and an active nuclear program. The three most essential parts of that presentation turned out to be absolutely false.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: You've said that Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld managed to hijack the intelligence process. You've called it a cabal.
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Decision--
DAVID BRANCACCIO: And--
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: -- making process.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: The decision making process.
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Right.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: Well, let me get it right. You've said that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld somehow managed to hijack the intelligence decision making process. You called it a cabal.
And said that it was done in a way that makes you think it was more akin to something you'd see in a dictatorship rather than a democracy. Now those are strong words. Why a cabal?
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Well, the two decisions that I had the most profound insights into and which I have spoken to are the decision to depart from the Geneva Conventions and to depart from international law with regard to treatment of detainees by the Armed Forces in particular. But by the entire US establishment, now including the CIA and contractors in general.
And the post-invasion Iraq-- planning, which was as inept and incompetent as any planning I've witnessed in some 30-plus years in public service. Those two decisions were clearly-- made in the statutory process, the legal process, in one way and made underneath that process in another way. And that's what I've labeled secret and cabal-like.
Try to catch the Open Thread on Kos in which they show a short clip a Fox segment that links Hillary, Obama, and Sheik--whats his name- the featured terrorist of the day. This is a perfect example of why Markos said Fox is the Premier Propaganda tool of the Republican party. Anyway, please stop referring to them as Fox News--which is an oxymoron. Go with Keith Olbmermann's term: Fox Noise.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 384 of 384GE, Lehman Backing for Emission Curbs Pressures Congress Unwilling to Act Senator James Inhofe, who calls the consensus that humans cause global warming a corruption of science, shot off a warning letter to more than 60 chief executive officers in December. The Oklahoma Republican told the leaders not to support bills this year to cap carbon dioxide emissions, saying Wall Street might penalize shares of their companies.
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Catherine said:
Good one!
Thanks. :) Robert Hsu is always a great source, because he combines the usual market knowledge, with actually going there and knowing the culture and the people.
hello fellow bloggers!
the dollar almost collasped today.
scary, huh!
-conbo
jujixnd
The rest of the world is going to gang up on us.....
Peace and Freedom Party Begins 2008 Presidential Search
by Stewart A. Alexander
Peace and Freedom Party State Chair Debra Reiger has sent a letter to left activists and groups around the country suggesting that they work together with the party to develop a 2008 presidential ticket. Anyone with proposals for possible Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidates is urged to write to her as the chair of the party’s National Campaign Committee.
She reports that the Peace and Freedom Party “would like to connect with other parties and groups that agree substantially with our platform and are considering mounting or supporting an independent Presidential campaign.”
Reiger writes, prospective candidates “must meet constitutional requirements, be willing to run on the Peace and Freedom Party platform, and be willing and able to campaign in California and other states during much of 2008.” She sets a response deadline of June 30, 2007, but states that “an earlier response would be helpful.”
While noting that the Peace and Freedom Party is considering obtaining ballot status in states other than California, she writes the party “would like to work together with left groups that presently maintain ballot status elsewhere.”
According to her letter, “We offer voters a broad left perspective that is non-sectarian, but specifically socialist. Our party’s platform puts forward proposals for both long-term change and immediate reforms, all intended to benefit working people. In addition to participating in elections, our activists are working for peace, against racism, in defense of civil rights and liberties, for union representation and strong democratic unions, for the needs of working-class families, and for defense of the environment from the ravages of capitalism.”
Reiger also asks for responses from those around the country who would be interested in becoming active in the 2008 campaign. Her address is Debra Reiger, Peace and Freedom Party, 5960 South Land Park Drive #385, Sacramento, California 95822.
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/
The rest of the world is going to gang up on us.....
February 27, 2007 3:46 PM
I think I'll start transferring my cash into yen.
do you think McDonalds will honor the yen here in 'merica?
-conbo
duimoo
this is connie
:p
http://revcom.us
Stop the Immigration Raids and the Fascist Assault on Immigrants
Over the last two months immigrants throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been targeted in vicious raids. Hundreds have been arrested and deported as part of a nationwide effort by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) known as "Operation Return to Sender." People have told of agents going to a Home Depot lot where day laborers wait for work, to supermarkets, street corners, houses and apartments, and BART (rapid transit) stations, armed with weapons, grabbing anyone without an ID.
A Nazi-like climate against immigrants is being created in this country. The truth about these raids needs to be told. Every person needs to ask themselves: Can I stand by while my government is terrorizing immigrant communities, while children are afraid to go to school, and parents are afraid to step outside? Can I stand by while families are being broken up, while our immigrant brothers and sisters, who have come to this country to work and survive are deported, while hundred of immigrants die every year in the deserts of the Southwest. This is like rounding up fugitive slaves, or putting Jews on the trains to the camps in Germany. This situation is immoral, unjust and intolerable. It cannot be allowed to continue.
Unless we resist and mobilize others in mass, determined action to put a STOP to these Gestapo-like raids, then we will bear the responsibility for the perpetuation of the these very crimes. By standing up we create the possibility of a different future than one where millions are driven from their homes by the workings of a cruel imperialist system, forced into dangerous border crossings, made to work in the most dangerous and difficult jobs, hounded at every turn and forced to live in the shadows.
http://revcom.us
crank and my good self came together
:p
p.s. you & me, bra
:p
no long-butted articles, please A.
:p
Where have you been a/o...# is tonid.... :)
ok, everyone up against da wall...
the long tongue of ono is in da haus!
:p
do you think McDonalds will honor the yen here in 'merica?
-conbo
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I doubt they'll let you peso.
hahaha
I actually got that!
air ono is stupid
-conbo
eidnfx
//# is tonid//
LORD! have mercy...
it's the end-times
:p
they're here, jeremiah
the end times R hee'ah!
(that's code for: was it good for you too, crank-bait)
:p
//air ono is stupid//
yeah, so what's your point
:p
why can't you be nice?
oh well.
now i am sad.
you have screwed up my positive energy.
i have to meditate now.
-conbo
kiodncds
ah'll be movin' on shortly...
ah'm jist gittin' pysched up teh write me a big ol' long and side winding jail-bird letter to chubby.
dear chubby,
it's nice to be free
c'ya
:p
Grantham Donates $23.6 Million for Climate Change Institute
By Matthew Keenan
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Jeremy Grantham, a critic of U.S. energy policy and money manager for Vice President Dick Cheney, has donated $23.6 million (12 million pounds) to Imperial College London to establish an institute on climate change.
The gift will fund 10 new research positions, including a director, and establish working space, the university said in a statement. The center, to be named the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, will build on work done in the school's Centre for Environmental Policy.
//you have screwed up my positive energy.//
if i have such an effect on you, chica
why don't we get married
:p
Grantham, 68, is chairman of Boston-based Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., a $140 billion investment-management firm he helped found in 1977. Writing in a company newsletter last month, Grantham condemned U.S. energy policies over three decades and singled out the administration of President George W. Bush for ignoring or disputing scientific evidence on global warming.
``Climate change is the most important issue we face over the next fifty years,'' Grantham said in the statement. ``It is imperative we find technologies that can be implemented in government policies worldwide. I am confident that the Institute for Climate Change will be an idea leader and a strong voice in championing that endeavor.''
Halliburton to Complete KBR Exit Through Share Swap (Update2)
By Jim Kennett
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Halliburton Co., the world's second- largest oilfield-services provider, said it will complete its separation from KBR Inc. by offering its remaining 81 percent stake in the former subsidiary to current stockholders.
Halliburton, once headed by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, will offer its 135.6 million shares of KBR in exchange for its own stock. KBR is the largest U.S. military contractor in Iraq.
If the offer isn't fully subscribed, any remaining KBR shares will be given to stockholders as a special dividend on a pro rata basis, Houston-based Halliburton said today in a statement.
``It'll be an immediate reduction in the share count for Halliburton,'' said Jason Putman, an analyst who helps manage $56 billion at Victory Capital Management in Cleveland, including 13 million shares of Halliburton. ``It will also be accretive for Halliburton because they'll be swapping'' stock in a higher- valued company for a cheaper one.
air-ono said...
//you have screwed up my positive energy.//
if i have such an effect on you, chica
why don't we get married
:p
February 27, 2007 4:20 PM
****
How could you pass this up?
I mean, really ....
Quote of the Day
"They want you to tell the truth when you believe you have made a mistake and they want you to change course when something is not working. We have six years, -- plus years now, of a president who has been completely unwilling to do that."
-- John Edwards, quoted by the New York Observer, on what voters want from a president.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/02/27/quote_of_the_day.html
//How could you pass this up?//
LOL
we won't see connie for weeks
it's pay-back
because she took a swipe at me last thread or two ago
toniD said...
Quote of the Day
"They want you to tell the truth when you believe you have made a mistake and they want you to change course when something is not working. We have six years, -- plus years now, of a president who has been completely unwilling to do that."
-- John Edwards, quoted by the New York Observer, on what voters want from a president.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/02/27/quote_of_the_day.html
February 27, 2007 4:30 PM
***
What he should have added was.. they want you to able to distinguish WHEN you have made a mistake. And they sure as hell don't want you to have ulterior motives that were always intended to get you rich and them killed.
really...dick cheney killed anna nichole smith. it got scooter off the front page, but more important, he can't let it leak that mary is the real father.
it was a dry run before she tried it for keeps.
the plan was to take off mother and daughter at the birth, but in a characteristic failure in personnel choices, they sent Mark Foley in as a black op. naturally he was distracted talking to her son and, hearing the nurse at the door, succumbed to a moment of panic and killed the wrong person. at that point he had to abort the mission and flee (after rummaging about in anna's closet and making off with a pair of fat pants for denny hastert)
really.
charlie--the funny farm said...
really...dick cheney killed anna nichole smith. it got scooter off the front page, but more important, he can't let it leak that mary is the real father.
***
I like how you think.
Some people call me Johnson,
but you can call me Ray!
air-ono said...
it's pay-back
because she took a swipe at me last thread or two ago
February 27, 2007 4:36 PM
thats different
i meant it good naturedly
you mean things mean spiritdly
and anyway you suck
-conbo
iodjnet
hahaha!
//KBR is the largest U.S. military contractor in Iraq.//
OMG!
why, oh why isn't this splashed all over the news...
um, derr, nevermind:
the largest!
the horror!
//why don't we get married//
i think you would be a very sorry
you ever heard of the internet or blogs if that were to happen
-conbo
uijklmd
//you mean things mean spiritdly//
NO!
//and anyway you suck//
SOMETIMES!
//i think you would be a very sorry
you ever heard of the internet or blogs if that were to happen//
it would have it's moments
Willis said...
Some people call me Johnson,
but you can call me Ray!
February 27, 2007 4:44 PM
LMAO
willie ray johnson...
now that's a name i can admire
it's a name i can...
dance to
*
!
it would be um
painful
mostly for you
:)
but lucky for both of us I will never ever talk to anyone I know from online ever again.
Except on online.
I think I might go to the YEARLY KOS.
I am going to get a lapel pin that says 'trusted user'.
-conbo
ehifd0
the moments
(momentous!)
hey, s.j.
almost ready to put pen to paper
so chubby has summin to show the inmates
the snail, the minotaur, and the girl with the painted face
Jim Crammer from CNBC's Mad Money is telling people to buy stock. China will control it's market and it will go up again.
//Jim Crammer from CNBC's Mad Money is telling people to buy stock. China will control it's market and it will go up again.//
(very unclear)
whose stock!?
chinese stock!?
see...
//the snail, the minotaur, and the girl with the painted face//
that has clarity
air-non said...
(very unclear)
whose stock!?
chinese stock!?
------------------
China is a communist country and can control it's stock market. China, realizing that the world markets went down because of them, will make sure that their stock market will do better, thus raising the other markets. This is why Crammer is telling people to buy stock now.
hey Jimmy!
here is a good diary:
Canada Goes Sane:Two "Anti-Terror" Laws Scrapped
-conbo
4dyeknjf
//This is why Crammer is telling people to buy stock now.//
american stock!?
if so, what's the connection with the chinese stock market
*
it'll probably require a long technical explanation
so don't worry about it
when i get the chance...
i'll read up-bloggie about the fall in the gringo dollar
Jax is outside barking his brains out at Ms Barn Cat.
i think Ruzz managed to escape and is chasing her...
i'll be back.
send CB a good'un, ya know he's bored out of his skull.
This is a magic place.
39.806N / 83.886W
damn itch...
it'd be interesting how the chinese can control their stock market
(it's a contradiction)
the stock market is affected by market forces
also, can foreigners invest in their stock market
*
eya, jim...
good reading ya
:)
Ono
China has purchased the US's debt
they can control our market now
they are supporting our entire market at the moment
-conbo
iomfern
thanks, ono-hater
: )
i don't want to be known for my probing thought-provoking questions
i want to be known for the pics i post
(is that too much to ask... or am i attempting to push a large envelope up a high hill to oblivion)
*
...
Shell!
why do I open your links!
The tech guy was standing behind me.
great
oh well
my fault
he appreciated it, tho.
:)
-conbo
Sorry tonbo... :)
melt-time...
when
Alice said...
...
February 27, 2007 5:30 PM
//tonbo//
LMAO
(a cute & most excellent hybrid)
no worries Shell
and anyway it was artsy and not lewd
also-i cannot be fired from my job unless I use to the internet to lure 14 year olds to their home
one of the instructors here found that out the hard way
=conbo
connie,
i'm not so much a...
blood-thirsty dinosaur
as i am a...
cone-head dinosaur
i wish I was ToniD
she is a smart lady
but I am not
-conbo
Somehow, some way Sam did deliver a backup blog to comment in while samsedershow.com is slowly constructed for its appearance in 2008. ;)
Personally I don't care for the AAR blog system with it being stalked by fools, spammers, extremist demagogues and other blog cloggers.
//but I am not//
shut up!
you're held in high esteem...
so don't insult our intelligence
//AAR blog system//
i thought they were moderated
that would be quite a trick
luring 14 years to their home
"go home 14 year old! follow the cookie crumb path."
not many online predators do that.
they lure them AWAY from their home.
-conbo
btw i am not an online predator, i am just assuming that is how they operate
//but I am not//
I meant that I am not ToniD
I am having trouble typing today
:)
-conbo
LARGE PROTEST CAFTA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IN SMALL COUNTRY OF COSTA RICA
Costa Ricans protest free-trade pact Mon Feb 26, 11:12 PM ET
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Tens of thousands of union members, farmers and political activists marched through Costa Rica's capital on Monday to protest a free-trade pact with the U.S. they say will be harmful to local businesses.
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Costa Rica is the only one of six Latin American signatories to the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, that has not yet ratified the accord. Legislators are awaiting a court ruling to clear procedural issues before voting on it.
Some of the protesters who took part in Monday's march carried signs reading "The North is Invading us Again" and "Farmers equal extinct species."
Much of the opposition stems from requirements under the pact that Costa Rica open its telecommunications, services and agricultural sectors to greater competition. Employees of the state-run telecom company were a major contingent in the march.
Also Monday, the newspaper Al Dia published a poll showing that 47 percent of Costa Ricans support ratifying the accord, compared to 34 percent that are opposed. The rest had no response. The pollsters interviewed 1,215 people, and the margin of error was 3 percent.
The free trade deal has taken effect in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Dominican Republic, a Caribbean nation, was included in the pact, but its implementation there has been delayed by the need for changes in domestic laws.
Costa Rica's Congress failed to approve the pact under former President Abel Pacheco, who had argued that lawmakers needed to pass a series of fiscal reform measures before considering it.
Current President Oscar Arias, who took office last year, is a strong supporter of the agreement.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/costa_rica_us_protest;_ylt=AlYGwwy8x5jKCFIPfiYpIkRvaA8F
You should be aware that we monitor thousands of blogs for the internet perverts.
"How ya doing?"
"Have a seat"
"Who did you come to see?"
"What did you bring with you?"
Costa Ricans Protest Free Trade Pact said...
Thanks...!
//Dateline NBC said...
You should be aware that we monitor thousands of blogs for the internet perverts.//
Well good! I guess that is easier then journalism.
*(no i am not endorsing online perverts. and I am thankful dateline nbc has found something useful to do during this media blackout in the US.)
-conbo
//Personally I don't care for the AAR blog system with it being stalked by fools, spammers, extremist demagogues and other blog cloggers.//
welcome to the internet, my friend!
now go away
-conbo
Costa Ricans Protest Free Trade Pact said...
"SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Tens of thousands of union members, farmers and political activists marched through Costa Rica's capital on Monday to protest a free-trade pact with the U.S. they say will be harmful to local businesses."
A small country of only 5 million people turning out tens of thousands for a protest would be the equivalent of hundreds of thousands in the 300 million population USA.
Good for you people of Costa Rica!
Dateline NBC relies on the perverts from pervertedjustice.com who get their jollies posing & chatting on the internet as naughty young teens encouraging others to do all kinds of behavior.
NBC Dateline is in pretty sick company there.
yay!
its our good friend liberal at large!
right now we are dissing people who catch pedophiles
i have no idea why we are doing this, except we are contrary
-conbo
I think he is crying
Im serious
I don't know who LAL is or why people hate him
But that is also something dateline NBC could cover
-conbo
We are a website that has up to date news on the presidential canditates websites and their use of technology. We are at:
http://techpresident.com/
-
Anonymous said...
I think he is crying
Im serious
Why would the large fat fake liberal be crying?
I thought I saw him on a recent episode of To Catch A Predator on Dateline NBC.
//Tech President said...
We are a website that has up to date news on the presidential canditates websites and their use of technology. We are at:
http://techpresident.com///
wow. look at all the ambition these people have
nice blog
insightfuls posts
go whore this somewhere else!
we clearly aren't your kind!
-conbo
We are the world!
We are the people that can make a brighter day so lets start living!
Evening all!
conbo, that wasn't liberal @ large. And the following post by Nancy, I think, doesn't speak for the rest of the people of the blog.
This is a ruse to put down some of the blog regulars. I am quite sure it will be me next.
By the way, thanks for the compliment of wanting to be like me.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hey guys
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
I found something toniD might like.
Something brooding and contemplative. Ha!
//Michael Jackson said...
We are the world!
We are the people that can make a brighter day so lets start living!//
Sam
the blog has hit a new low
wooot! we have done the impossible!
-conbo
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
"Porgy and Bess” Night Lights WFIU 59:00
George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess met with only middling success when it debuted in 1935, but stagings in the 1940s and 1950s ensured its place in musical history. With Hollywood poised to make a motion picture of the opera in the late 1950s, a number of musicians recorded jazz interpretations of the score, ranging from an ambitious Bethlehem record label project to a small-group version by guitarist Mundell Lowe. We’ll hear from those artists as well as Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Hank Jones, and Bill Potts on this edition of Night Lights; “Porgy and Bess: the 1950s Jazz Revival” airs Saturday, Oct. 15 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU.
Playlist
AND argyle socks!
Crank Bait said...
toniD said...This is a ruse to put down some of the blog regulars. I am quite sure it will be me next.
---------------------------------
toniD wears Army boots.
Only when it snows
You are a tough smart woman, ToniD.
:)
-conbo
Sunshine said...
AND argyle socks!
February 27, 2007 6:48 PM
toniD said...
Crank Bait said...
toniD said...This is a ruse to put down some of the blog regulars. I am quite sure it will be me next.
---------------------------------
toniD wears Army boots.
Only when it snows
February 27, 2007 6:48 PM
Maybe I'll need them now with all the troll poop.
What gave them away was the use of the word "liberals".
Thanks NC. Have it playing in the background!
the cat survived
the doggers came to the front door when they got bored
and Ms Farm Cat is licking her fur on the neighbors back porch
markos on pbs frontline
the daily kos getting publicity?
that never happens. good for markos.
-conbo
Anonymous said...
You are a tough smart woman, ToniD.
:)
-conbo
Life can make you tough, connie. You're learning that right now. Not easy raising a kid alone. I know.
Don't sell yourself short. You've got alot of strenght in you too!
//Not easy raising a kid alone. I know.//
omg! i have a kid!
bbl
thanks for the reminder
(i am so joking. i am at work ;)
-conbo
Mayor Daley was re-elected tonight. He surpasses his father now.
From the Chi Tribune...
Holding a virtually insurmountable lead, Mayor Richard Daley won re-election tonight to an historic sixth term over Cook County Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown and William "Dock" Walls. Daley held nearly 72 percent of the vote with nearly three-fourths of the city's precincts reporting.
-omg! i have a kid!-
Ha! :)
toniD said...
Thanks NC. Have it playing in the background!
February 27, 2007 6:58 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Damn this is good. :)
eya #
tanks for the canuckastani
post on not renewing the "panic laws"
This is the county I live in and it is very republican. Can you tell?
LINK
DuPage denies refugee home near Naperville
By Joseph Sjostrom
Tribune staff reporter
February 27, 2007, 8:13 PM CST
The DuPage County Board on Tuesday refused to permit the opening of a transitional residence for up to 30 foreign refugee children in an upscale residential area near Naperville.
The board voted 12-4 to deny an application from Heartland Human Care Services Inc., of Chicago, to open the facility in a three-story residence at 23W735 Hobson Rd.
The facility would have housed about 30 children, mainly from India and China, who arrive in the United States illegally and without parents. The children, ranging in age from infancy to 17, would stay in the house for 60 to 90 days while they were being placed elsewhere.
"We are very disappointed at this outcome," said Susan Trudeau, director of Heartland's child welfare program, which operates a similar facility for 54 children in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. "We were hoping that some of the board members who were on the fence would come around. We plan to review the process, and to determine whether proper procedures were followed."
Neighbors had vigorously fought the plan, gathering more than 600 signatures on petitions and hiring a lawyer to represent them before the County Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals. They argued that the 7,000-square-foot home on 2.5 acres would be too crowded with 30 children. They also argued that a lack of fire hydrants in the area could mean a fire wouldn't be fought effectively.
post on not renewing the "panic laws"
February 27, 2007 7:11 PM
the world is waking up-maybe the US will be able to righten itself now.
Tony Blair is not going to Iran with Bush and he is pulling the troops out.
-conbo
redfhih
My insults need some work. No one takes them seriously anymore.
February 27, 2007 7:18 PM
You could try kicking
That always grabs people's attention I've found
-conbo
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Can, Tago Mago
MUST be listened to in order for the full effect...
ABC is showing the "Bob Woodruf" story.
The docotrs said with the inuries to his brain, it's a wonder he is talking today. They show a scene with his kids teaching him to say things again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yOkkPSsZYw
Paperhouse, Live..
Crank Bait said...
My insults need some work. No one takes them seriously anymore.
February 27, 2007 7:18 PM
at ease, solider-boy
she's as tough as the cowboy boots she wears to bed
i've taken her down a peg...
(or so i thought)
then she kicked me
This is hard to watch! My heart goes out to all these young men and women!
And the angrier I get with this admin!!!
Josh Wolf is on the Frontline pt 2 also.....
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hey Alice, Jim, -conbo, CB
For FISHGREASE, where ever he might be..
at 6:02 PM, i thought //Manila Sisyphus// was cryptic and stupid
(the minutes flew by)
then at 6:19 PM i found out it was funny and clever
Does anyone want to guess how Fox is explaining the stock market drop that happened today?
A. China owns the US debt
B. God is punishing us because we
have hit our gay qouta
C.The US was frightened because Dick Cheney almost died in Afghanistan
D. The terrorists hacked some finacial institutions computers
E. The terrorists
anyone want to guess?
-conbo
//For FISHGREASE, where ever he might be..//
small-world with a pin-head, alice
i bumped into his "cold-hearted janeane", moments before i rocked on back here
excellent constitutional scholar on werbe's show.
if only real life was more like "lost highway"...
specifically where a different guy wakes up in jail
and instead of chubby rotting away... it's cranky
My guess, conbo...
D. The terrorists hacked some finacial institutions computers
I kind of like it here at 1035 feet above sea level.
that
toniD said...
//My guess//
then ono said, well, if you're such a good guesser why don't you marry christopher guess
toniD said...
My guess, conbo...
D. The terrorists hacked some finacial institutions computers
February 27, 2007 7:45 PM
Ooooh! Good guess but that would have made too much sense for FOX! Instead they go with this:
C.The US was frightened because Dick Cheney almost died in Afghanistan
-conbo
well, i walked up to her and i asked if she wanted to dance
(dum-dum-dum)
and...
//then she kicked me//
at 7:32 PM
Panic on the Right as America’s Mayor takes lead in polls
LINK
i'd like to sit in on a few of his study sessions.
the fact of the matter is "we" collectively are going to have to do something about this to survive it.
Ooooh! Good guess but that would have made too much sense for FOX! Instead they go with this:
C.The US was frightened because Dick Cheney almost died in Afghanistan
-conbo
You're kidding!?! Well, yeah, it makes sense that THEY would say that.
Ono...
did you see the Cut piece by Yoko I posted yesterday?
That's kooky talk, SJ...
//You're kidding!?! Well, yeah, it makes sense that THEY would say that.//
I am not kidding.
If people believe this, loyal viewers or not-well, they deserve that damn TV station.
-conbo
//did you see the Cut piece by Yoko I posted yesterday?//
yes, ma'am
and duly ignored it
Smegma Jam said...
I kind of like it here at 1035 feet above sea level.
February 27, 2007 7:47 PM
I used to live there and it was OK. Since I moved up to 2300 feet above sea level, things seem better.
anyway, as i was saying,
a funny thing happened to me on the way to the coliseum...
i bumped into an old folder from my early days on the majority report;
there was f.g's "cold-hearted janeane"
leep's "hang down your head jeff gannon"
some best of mike malloy audio
and a stack of great music
but because it was early days, i didn't grab the url's
: (
eya A.!
http://www.dauntseys.wilts.sch.uk/main/publicweb/Docs/Art_School/exhibitions/ArtEx/images/KOOKY%20Anna%20Finch.jpg
Hamas chief evokes 'prospect' of peace deal with Israel AFP
Published: Tuesday February 27, 2007
The head of the militant Palestinian group Hamas on Tuesday evoked for the first time the possibility of resolving differences with Israel through negotiation.
Hamas political director Khaled Meshaal was speaking after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov assured him that Moscow would press for the lifting of an economic embargo on the Palestinians.
"We have asked the international community to take rapid steps to lift the embargo imposed on the Palestinian people and the unity government and to deal with them without discrimination," Meshaal told an AFP journalist in the Palestinian territories by telephone after meeting Lavrov.
"This will create a political climate that could open a political prospect in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Meshaal said.
It was the first time that a senior Hamas leader had implied that the movement, regarded as a terrorist organization by Israel and the West, could enter political negotiations with Israel under certain circumstances.
Speaking to journalists afterwards, Meshaal stressed that the February 8 accord on a new unity Palestinian government required a change of tack by the United States and its allies.
The new government comprises Hamas and the Fatah faction led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
LINK
Cuban president speaks on radio
...
"Hello there, illustrious and dear friend, how are you?" Fidel Castro asked President Chavez at the start of an extended conversation on the Venezuelan leader's "Hello President" show.
"I feel good and I'm happy," Mr Castro went on.
...
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Police Await Autopsy in Death of Bound, Gagged Brooklyn Man
Indy bay a superb site.
http://www.indybay.org/
Ja (Passive Consumer) has a nice blog. Here's the link:
http://passiveconsumer.blogspot.com/
-and duly ignored it
February 27, 2007 8:00 PM-
:) Thanks for the giggle...you know, you & tonbo should do a george & gracie type thing...but something different than that...but like that..but still different...
*
Nice clown, SJ...of the ultra spooky varity...
:)
Alice said...
-and duly ignored it
February 27, 2007 8:00 PM-
:) Thanks for the giggle...you know, you & tonbo should do a george & gracie type thing...but something different than that...but like that..but still different...
You wouldn't remember this, Shell. It was b4 your time, but, there was an old radio program called the Bickersons the would fit well too.
I wonder what became
of Cocaine Elaine?
The Bickersons
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The Bickersons, was an American radio comedy (1946-1951). Born on The Chase and Sanborn Hour and refined on the lesser-remembered Drene Time variety show, it stood the already-typical domestic presentation of radio and its infant offspring, television, so squarely on its head that there were those who feared the show. The show's married protagonists spent nearly all their time together in relentless verbal war, and many people believed that the show was more than merely detrimental to the nation's post-World War II health. (The same kind of charges of "detrimental" were later leveled against programs such as Married... with Children and The Simpsons.)
"Matrimony Is Not A Word. It's A Sentence."
toniD said...
Luckily I have this handy-dandy age-ed husband...apparently we have a tape of that show somwhere in this house.. who knew? :)
The "Bickersons" is definately something Crank would enjoy:
J = John B= Blanche
B: You used to be so considerate. Since you got married to me you haven't got any sympathy at all.
J: I have, too. I've got everybody's sympathy.
B: Believe me, there's better fish in the ocean than the one I caught.
J: There's better bait, too.
B: I don't see how you can go to bed without kissing me good night.
J: I can do it.
B: You'd better say you're sorry for that, John.
J: Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
B: You are not.
J: I am too. I'm the sorriest man that was ever born.
B: Is there any milk for breakfast?
J: No.
B: Then you'll have to eat out.
J: I don't care, I've been doing it all week.
B: What for? I left you enough food for six days. I cooked a whole bathtub full of rice. What happened to it?
J: I took a bath in it.
B: Why didn't you eat it?
J: I've told you a million times I can't stand the sight of rice.
B: Why not?
J: Because it's connected to the saddest mistake of my life.
the punch and judy show would be more appropriate, shell
that
toniD said...
The "Bickersons" is definately something Crank would enjoy:
LOL!
if only to see him chuckle to:
//There's better bait, too.//
*
(he's so vain -- he probably thinks that skit is about him... don't him, don't him)
Here's the show archives for the Bickersons with audio files:
http://www.archive.org/details/bickersons
*
Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Newsletter, February 28, 2007
+
"Seeing all things as naked, clear, and free from obscurations, we
understand that there is nothing to attain or realize. Everything is
naturally perfect just as it is. All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing patterns of life. These patterns are vibrant with meaning and significance at every moment . . . .
"The continual stream of new discovery, revelation, and inspiration that arises at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity. We should learn to see everyday life as a mandala -- the luminous fringes of experience that radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our being. The aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life
experience moving in the dance or play of the universe.
"By this symbolism the inner teacher reveals the profound and ultimate significance of being. Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from everything. This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events that usually irritate us."
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, *The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones: The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action*
*
Glenn Beck Claims Olbermann Is ‘Killing…The World’s Democracy,’ ‘Smacks Of…McCarthyism’ »
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is profiled in this month’s issue of Rolling Stone. In the piece, Olbermann shares his thoughts on right-wing CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck:
A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The very dangerously bigoted guy who is selling himself as a pragmatic philosopher. I don’t think he sees his own bigotry. There’s something about him that suggests that, one night, he’ll say something that will cost him his career in television.
Glenn Beck responded tonight, calling Olbermann an “intolerant ideologue” whose ideas “smack of the same McCarthyism [Edward R.] Murrow fought so valiantly against.” Beck added, “Hey, Keith, you’re not saving the world’s democracy; you’re killing it, my friend, by trying to limit the marketplace of ideas to only those that reflect your own.”
Watch it:
LINK
air-ono said...
the punch and judy show would be more appropriate, shell
February 27, 2007 8:35 PM
hahaha!
-conbo
" Lumps said...
Smegma Jam said...
I kind of like it here at 1035 feet above sea level.
February 27, 2007 7:47 PM
I used to live there and it was OK. Since I moved up to 2300 feet above sea level, things seem better.
February 27, 2007 8:01 PM "
hahahahah! You guys are funny, way up there. I live all the way down here at sea level.
You enjoying yourselves here? I know we ain't no Bob Hope or Al Franken, but we do our best to entertain.
Rove: YouTube is a disruption. Speaking today to students at Texas State University as part of the school’s “Communications Week,” Karl Rove referred to YouTube, saying: “That can disrupt anything. Just ask former Sen. George Allen.” Note to Rove: It was Allen’s remarks — not YouTube — that disrupted his campaign.
LINK
Getting tired. Night all.
Later
//Note to Rove: It was Allen’s remarks — not YouTube — that disrupted his campaign.//
No, it was Windows XP that really screwed George Allen over.
-conbo
Fern....
Fern....
Fern....
Fern....
Fern....
The Society for the Abolition of Suffering
http://www.bltc.com/
and
http://tinyurl.com/yw5bnx
nighty-night, wonderful gorgeous toni
btw,
if this blog gets anymore screwy...
we might have to continue the party over yonder at yo crib
//The Society for the Abolition of Suffering//
when i die...
i'll donate my under-arm deodorant
re: the fernies...
(read on)
//The page cannot be found//
..I can't find a picture now, but I read about this new cat breed called Toyger...
& NC, if you move to California, you will automatically have a roomate waiting for you because the lady gave Leo back to us because he was bothering her two other cats...I hope that's incentive for you to get off the can & on the stick with this moving thing....
:)
Good night.. xox
dammit...change 28 to 26 in the urls a/o...I messed it up..
sweet dream, shells belles
even though you tricked me to your site
to obtain all the crucial details about me that i store on my computer...
you know who am
(i am ono)
Stupidest comment of the day:
//WHAT IS WRONG WITH MRR BLOG?
IT CANT BE BROKEN FOR THIS LONG.//
Oh yes it can...and for longer yet!
Just watch!
-conbo
in case you wake up in the middle of the night...
here's a great cat pic
they're identical to tan and black-&-white
except if b&w was alive, he'd be beating the crap out of tan
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Alice said...
February 27, 2007 9:25 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Soon ----->
Not cali though. As much as
I like cats and warm weather
I have to set an achievable
objective to meet my immediate
needs.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Goodnight Alice.
So this was an up and down weekend. Saturday was both good and bad. I had a lot of fun with everyone, it's been a while since we've all been together drinking. Nick was a lot of fun, I hung out with him a lot of the night, he's very grabby when he's drunk but then again, when isn't he. I really shouldn't encourage him. I talked to Bacon a lot this weekend, he's a pretty cool guy and i'm glad we are still friends. What I didn't like about Saturday was Rachel, I don't understand why all of a sudden she is in our group of friends, she's a total bitch and I don't like the fact that she tries to boss everyone around and was being really rude to Tom, fuck you Rachel, Tom lives here, he can do whatever the fuck he wants. She also hooked up with John, god, he's such a man whore and I'm pretty sure she's a huge whore too. Someone caught something when that happened. Whatever, I don't fucking care anymore. I just really hope this doesn't last long cause I don't want to see her around.
Sunday was a good day. Hung out with Kaydie, Tom, Bacon and Tom's friends. They are all really cool people, I had so much fun just sitting around talking. I didn't go with Lora and them and I'm glad I didn't. Alex is so funny but man, that kid is hyper. He makes a good grilled cheese though. He got way too drunk, he ended up passing out..poor guy. All in all, it was a fun night, talked to Evan for a while too, he's a good guy. I think my favorite people in the house right now are Tom, Kevin and Evan. Lora and John are cool and I love them but I don't know, there always seems to be sooooo much drama associated with them and I don't handle drama very well, I tend not to get involved if at all possible.
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air-ono,
Will you be visiting toniD's terrific blog later?
I would like to talk with you there. Do I need to schedule an appointment with you?
hey Sundrops!
i think you may have wandered away from myspace.
not that it matters, on the whole.
-conbo
ok, s.v.
i'll go now if you like
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air-ono said...
ok, s.v.
i'll go now if you like
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Good idea! I am glad that you saw my post before exiting.
Is this Mandy's Blog? She said I could post here. Do you all know Mandy from step class?
the 12 steps?
post away and welcome
i showed "life and debt" last night at the pub. definitely worth watching if you have the chance. looks at the IMF, globalization, destroyed industries has done to jamaica, as one example among many.
Life and Debt
pairs well with john perkins' speech at the Veterans for Peace convention last year.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=john+perkins
so...
SunDrops said...
So this was an up and down weekend. [and she proceeds regaling us her mindnumbing encounters]
and i said...
THAT'S AWESOME DUDE!
then connie said before i said what i said...
hey Sundrops!
i think you may have wandered away from myspace.
and i thought that was funny, and i said "LMAO!"
then i gave a shout out to sundrops...
YOU ROCK!
(can you add me as a friend)
^
Rachel Maddow
Scorsese got an Oscar
Posted by SEDER at 6:20 AM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
They should have given him one for
Raging Bull.
Who was it that informed The Taliban that Dick Cheney was sleeping at Bagram AFB?
Harry Whittington.
I also like how "preemptive war" has morphed into "preventative war." Let's get ahead of the curve and call the Bush Doctrine "prophylactic war!"
"prophylactic war!"
February 28, 2007 5:02 AM
Has a nice ring..
What became of Chubby? I haven't seen a post from him for a long time.
gee...
Anonymous said...
i was just quietly scrolling by
when it dawned on me
(putting my finger to my chin)
i thought what's become of chubby
i'll post an enquiry
i'll frame it as innocent as a born again christian
to disguise what an insidious fuck i am
*tee-hee*
hanging out for the old blog, anonymous scum
so you can steal ma nikki-nic-nic
SEDER!!!!
WHEN IS THE OLD BLOG GOING TO BE OPERATIONAL!??
YOU MUST HAVE SOME IDEA...
ANNOUNCE IT!!
!!
Powell's Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a 'Hoax on the American People'
DAVID BRANCACCIO: We've been talking grand policy. The then director of the CIA, George Tenent, Vice President Cheney's deputy Libby, told you that the intelligence that was the basis of going to war was rock solid. Given what you now know, how does that make you feel?
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: It makes me feel terrible. I've said in other places that it was-- constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. My participation in that presentation at the UN constitutes the lowest point in my professional life.
I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council. How do you think that makes me feel? Thirty-one years in the United States Army and I more or less end my career with that kind of a blot on my record? That's not a very comforting thing.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: A hoax? That's quite a word.
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Well, let's face it, it was. It was not a hoax that the Secretary in any way was complicit in. In fact he did his best-- I watched him work. Two AM in the morning on the DCI and the Deputy DCI, John McLaughlin.
And to try and hone the presentation down to what was, in the DCI's own words, a slam dunk. Firm. Iron clad. We threw many things out. We threw the script that Scooter Libby had given the-- Secretary of State. Forty-eight page script on WMD. We threw that out the first day.
And we turned to the National Intelligence estimate as part of the recommendation of George Tenent and my agreement with. But even that turned out to be, in its substantive parts-- that is stockpiles of chemicals, biologicals and production capability that was hot and so forth, and an active nuclear program. The three most essential parts of that presentation turned out to be absolutely false.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: You've said that Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld managed to hijack the intelligence process. You've called it a cabal.
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Decision--
DAVID BRANCACCIO: And--
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: -- making process.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: The decision making process.
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Right.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: Well, let me get it right. You've said that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld somehow managed to hijack the intelligence decision making process. You called it a cabal.
And said that it was done in a way that makes you think it was more akin to something you'd see in a dictatorship rather than a democracy. Now those are strong words. Why a cabal?
LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Well, the two decisions that I had the most profound insights into and which I have spoken to are the decision to depart from the Geneva Conventions and to depart from international law with regard to treatment of detainees by the Armed Forces in particular. But by the entire US establishment, now including the CIA and contractors in general.
And the post-invasion Iraq-- planning, which was as inept and incompetent as any planning I've witnessed in some 30-plus years in public service. Those two decisions were clearly-- made in the statutory process, the legal process, in one way and made underneath that process in another way. And that's what I've labeled secret and cabal-like.
LINK
Sam,
Try to catch the Open Thread on Kos in which they show a short clip a Fox segment that links Hillary, Obama, and Sheik--whats his name- the featured terrorist of the day. This is a perfect example of why Markos said Fox is the Premier Propaganda tool of the Republican party. Anyway, please stop referring to them as Fox News--which is an oxymoron. Go with Keith Olbmermann's term: Fox Noise.
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