Will Gonzo be gone-zo over the weekend? If so, it would seem that Maron wins the bet. Which means he would win a copy of his own book, in addition to Sam's book and Conason's book.
[Thanks to Carol for the Gonzo pic]
Friday, March 16, 2007
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 780 Newer› Newest»Alice, in regards to the article you just posted: I recently watched a Chomsky speech in which he was talking about the textile workers in Mass. and the popular socialist sentiment that existed in the mid and late 1800s.
According to Chomsky, it was mainstream to believe that the blooming industrial structure was demeaning to a person and devastating to culture and essential rights.
Kind of like subjegation.
Do you know much about the early popular socialistic movements in this country?
Reclaiming What Makes Us Human
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Thanks, Shell! I got her latest book from the library, had to return it unread.
G'night, all.
In 2000, when Israel evacuated South Lebanon, the interrogation personnel were transported to Israel. With valid Israeli passports, some of the interrogators emigrated to countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia. Some had been sentenced to death in absentia by Lebanese judicial authorities for their war crimes in Lebanon. A full report on the El Khiam matter was forwarded to the Norwegian government in 1991, and in 2002, to the War Crime Section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The Canadian police officer in charge of the investigation was, according to UN sources, Blake Leminski.
Torture pic
Straight Talk: McCain is Losing It
This exchangewith NY Times Reporter Adam Nagourney is just bizarre. McCain won't take a stand on an issue, then asks others around him what his position is. When asked if condoms stop the spread of HIV, he says he's stumped. I think we are seeing the end of the Straight Talk Express...
-conbo
g'night cat chew...
Hola Conboni!
The Dancing in the Streets one Cat? I can find a link to the intro for it...or it may have even been the whole first chapter...you can see tomorrow...Good night... :)
March 16-18, 2007 -- WMR has learned that plans by the White House to fire U.S. Attorneys was hatched in 2005 with a view to ensure the 2006 re-election of GOP Senate and House members through massive voter fraud, a repetition of that which occurred in Ohio and other states in 2004. Of particular interest was an assurance that newly-appointed GOP U.S. Attorneys, unconfirmed by the Senate, would aggressively pursue Democratic registration drives in certain states in order to drive down voter turnout, especially among minorities.. Rove's plan, with the support of a new cadre of politically-driven U.S. Attorneys, would be to scare new voters away from registering and voting with threats of arresting those who could not prove they were U.S. citizens and other forms of intimidation.
Yep, Shell. I'll get to it eventually. Thanks, again.
G'night, Catherine
Bob26003 said...
No, I don't...I'm not very good at retaining information like that...
hi Catherine :)
-conbo
can you believe these 'stories' about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
how stupid do they think the American Public is (barring Fox news viewers)
-conbo
it baffles
Organizational History of the "International Working Men's Association"
THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND
As the labor historian Selig Perlman has aptly noted, modern American socialism began in the years immediately following the Civil War. While the bloodbath between the United States and the Confederate States solved the fundamental social issue of the day, the slavery question, the four year rush to produce goods of war also accelerated a process of industrialization that changed the economic kernal of society. No longer was the United States merely a nation of small farmers, artisans, and small-scale industrialists ruled by an educated elite. A new centralized and urbanized production process was rapidly coming into being, a process needing a steady supply of labor-power to keep the mills and machines of modern industry whirling. Amidst the smokey bowels of this new mechanized world, a distinct working-class began to emerge and to become conscious of its own existence.
This process of economic expansion was global, Morris Hillquit observed just 40 years after the fact:
"The advent of steam power and railroads had rapidly revolutionized the former slow methods of production and transportation in Europe as well as in America. Home industries and small manufacture were supplanted by gigantic factories and a system of mass production. New machines were invented, new industries created, new markets discovered, and new relations established. A fresh breeze wafted through the old countries and imbued them with a new energy and vigor. The industrial progress was followed by a general political awakening and a renewal of the working-class movement."
(fn. Hillquit, History of Socialism in the United States [1903], pg. 175.)
This new class-consciousness took deepest root amongst the sizeable population of German-Americans, who for reasons of linguistics and culture found the socialist agitation of Ferdinand Lassalle (which began in Germany in 1863) and Karl Marx (whose London-based International Workingmen's Association was established in 1864) most amenable. German-Americans were no small fringe group in American society: from 1850 through 1890, more Germans emigrated to the United States than the nationals of any other country until by 1884 fully one-third of the population of Chicago, the archetype of modern American capitalism, consisted of first- and second-generation German immigrants.
(fn. Kiesewetter, "German-American Labor Press," pp. 138-139.)
http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/index.html
An eye of gold
The inevitable is evitable and I run into growing numbers of people who know I am an Iranian, question me about this nouveau war and whether I have family in the region. I simply nod my head yes and walk away with a feeling of absolute gloom. But this news of a golden eye, a massive Amazon woman of supernatural cleverness has given me refreshed hope. Maybe it's a sign, a peace offering from the burial gods of the Burnt City saying look what happened to us, can't you ever learn?
When I rise I am jitttery and not at peace, even though it will not be my home where those US bombs are dropped. Not even my parents home. They came to the United States in the seventies, and I live in the US and Europe. But it still does not stop me from the dreaded fear that my cousins and aunts will be bombed. I cannot escape this bitter feeling.
In my daily work, I am a defender of human rights, a genuine revolutionary for egalitarian change. But increasingly I am realizing that perhaps the only hope for the salvation of my country-- will be loosely dependent on late antiquity Zoroastrian spirit. Perhaps then the supernatural will come and rescue me from my nightmares.
A child of the Iranian Islamic Revolution once removed (I moved to the US in 1976 and instead suffered mean taunts from American families who thought my family was related to the American hostage takers in Iran), I recognize that I am not at the forefront. Never mind then that my stomach turns at the thought of seeing Iranian children in hospitals with shrapnel wounds and mothers screaming on streets for the dead. Much like the daily images of our Afghani and Iraqi neighbors.
I have no choice but to turn to illusions of magic priestesses with golden powers. I recognize I am thousands of miles away, but still try desperately to connect to my golden lady by virtual text message. Dear Golden Eye, my country sends an SOS -- look what happened next door.
P.S., send a little love to Afghanistan as well, if you get a chance.
http://www.iranian.com/Dowlatshahi/2007/March/Golden/index.html
Cat Chew said...
Yep, Shell. I'll get to it eventually. Thanks, again.
G'night, Catherine
March 16, 2007 9:56 PM
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Aww..
thanks for the goodnight lullaby...
sweet dreams...
Sorry for misspelling your name, Catharine.
can you believe these 'stories' about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
how stupid do they think the American Public is (barring Fox news viewers)
-conbo
it baffles
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yeah; it's sad.
"Considering,
That the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves; that the struggle for the emancipation of the working classes means not a struggle for class privileges and monopolies, but for equal rights and duties, and the abolition of all class rule;
That the economical subjection of the man of labour to the monopoliser of the means of labour, that is, the sources of life, lies at the bottom of servitude in all its forms, of all social misery, mental degradation, and political dependence;
That the economical emancipation of the working classes is therefore the great end to which every political movement ougth to be subordinate as a means;
That all efforts aiming at the great end have hitherto failed from the want of solidarity between the manifold divisions of labour in each country, and from the absence of a fraternal bond of union between the working classes of different countries;
That the emancipation of labour is neither a local nor a national, but a social problem, embracing all countries in which modern society exists, and depending for its solution on the concurrence, practical and theoretical, of the most advanced countries;
That the present revival of the working classes in all the most industrious countries of Europe, while it raises a new hope, gives solemn warning against a relapse into the old errors and calls for the immediate combination of all disconnected movements;
For these reasons-
The undersigned members of the committee, holding its powers by resolution of the public meeting held on Sept. 28, 1864, at St. Martin's Hall, London, have taken the steps necessary for founding the Working Men's International Association;
They declare that this International Association and all societies and individuals adhering to it, will acknowledge truth, justice, and morality, as the basis of their conduct towards each other, and towards all men, without regard to colour, creed, or nationality;
They hold it the duty of a man to claim the rights of a man and a citizen, not only for himself, but for every man who does his duty. No rights without duties, no duties without rights."
(fn. Marx, "Provisional Rules of the Association," in Marx-Engels Collected Works, v. 20, pp. 14-15.)
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The Archaic Roots of Ecstasy
DANCING IN THE STREETS: A History of Collective Joy
Introduction: Invitation to the Dance
fuvk off with the marx, commie bob
anyway,
i watched the "media in democracy" vid you posted
and...
amy goodman has the most beautiful hands
(she can run them through my hair anytime)
On August 1, 2005, Democratic Representatives John Conyers and Marcy Kaptur sent the following letter to Alberto Gonzales, which suggested malfeasance and a conflict of interest in convicted GOP fundraiser Tommy Noe in the selection of Gregory White, the US Attorney for Northern Ohio:
"We write to request that the U.S. Department of Justice immediately appoint an outside special counsel to assume the Department's investigation into alleged illegal contributions by Mr. Thomas Noe to federal and state political campaigns. In light of recent disclosures that Governor Taft's office, which is a subject of the investigation, made a direct political appeal to Karl Rove for Gregory White, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio to receive his job, there is little doubt that this is a textbook case for the appointment of a special counsel.
" . . . there are myriad conflicts of interest for Department prosecutors to continue the investigation on their own. To begin with, the United States Attorneys investigating the case, those for the Northern and Southern Districts for Ohio, both of whom were appointed by President Bush, would be in the untenable position of investigating a leading official of the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. We now know that Mr. White has very close connections with the Governor's office and the White House. In fact, recently released records show that Mr. White sought Governor Taft's help in obtaining the U.S. Attorney position. The Governor's Chief of Staff, Brian Hicks, apparently communicated with Karl Rove, then a counselor to the President, about Mr. White's interest in the post. In an e-mail to Mr. Hicks, Mr. White wrote, 'I believe that my record speaks for itself, and I doubt there are too many county chairs for the Bush campaign that worked harder.' This is the same Brian Hicks who was convicted along with his executive assistant, Cherie Carroll for accepting gifts from Mr. Noe in violation of state law (both are now lobbyists). In assessing this prong of the regulations, the test for appointment of a special counsel does not rest on the prosecutor in question's perceived reputation or the characterization of his reputation by others, regardless of their political stripe; it is based on whether the conflict of interest exists at all, which is clearly the case in the present instance."
yo, commie bob
you're putting alice, catharine, & dada in the shade with the long-ass posts...
(welcome back)
: )
Gonzales took no action in appointing a special counsel in the Gregory White case.
The word also from informed sources in Washington is that much of the details about the U.S. Attorney firings and Rove's and Gonzales' roles in the scandal are emanating from a "highly placed and stable" source in the Bush White House.
air-ono said...
yo, commie bob
you're putting alice, catharine, & dada in the shade with the long-ass posts...
(welcome back)
: )
March 16, 2007 10:13 PM
***
Oh no! I can still chap your ass with the length of my posts [heh]!
I live to torture you.
Aren't you flattered?
***
Yeah.. welcome back, Bob!
Fine Air Ono........
Grind that Hamster Wheel.... :D
Just Kidding
Eya Mate!
On people like Glen Beck:
Glen Beck is truly one of those people who could care less who dies or is tortured or bombed. Even his own kid [if he had one]. He only cares about how he could make money off talking about it.
Without Rosie, he'd have nothing to talk about. AND he'd have no show.
It raises the question about which is worse: Someone who is determined to bomb the "towel heads" out of a sense of misplaced hatred that is really fear; or someone who uses those people and everyone else for personal gain, particularly monetary gain.
I say, as awful as those hate-filled people are, it is really the Glen Becks of the world that are the scourge of humanity.
So, I guess the Brothers are going to riot in NY if they let those pigs off the hook that shot Shawn Bell 50 times.......
50 times!!!!
So, I guess the Brothers are going to riot in NY if they let those pigs off the hook that shot Shawn Bell 50 times.......
50 times!!!!
eya, catharine
i'm not only flattered...
i'm humbled
and in a supine postion...
(one of these day i'll have enough strength to do what bob did... walk up to that large sink... rip it off, pick it up and slam it through my window)
i could just open it,
but...
i like the sound it makes
Keyvan Chemirani
Abbaye de Royaumont, August 2004
http://keyvan_chemirani.mondomix.com/en/video2400.htm
Video is a few minutes long. This song is a mix of musical styles from Iran, India and Mali.
Rosie O'Donnell attacks Bush and screams for his Impeachment
03:02
Oh boy Rosie at it again, Rosie O'Donnell Wants Bush Impeached
The View gives their opinion of the State of the Union Address
Props to Rosie! You Go Girl :)
Video
the torture never stops, catharine
bob's double post just drove the final nail into my coffin...
(made of delicate flowers)
Fox News' Hill: Plame "skirt[ed] the issue" of whether she was covert in House testimony
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703160013
On the March 16 edition of Fox News Live, host E.D. Hill asserted that "it sounded like" former CIA operative Valerie Plame's testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was "completely skirting the issue of whether she still fell under those rules of being considered covert" when her identity was leaked. In fact, Plame specifically testified that she was "covert" until syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Robert D. Novak publicly revealed her identity in a July 14, 2003, column.
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"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining!"
The good news is, it won't take a lot of effort to dismantle these right wing propaganda machines who pretend to be news.
You don't even have to take them on directly. You just phave to get the truth out there.
5 years of such flimsy, poorly disguised lies is easily destroyed with one 3 minute explanation.
They are not particularly ept at what they do, they just say it really loudly.
All you need is to say your truth softly when they have to take a breath.
//yeah; it's sad.//
it's sad and strange
They did not put much effort into that little thing
A little more thought and they could have come up with something beliavable
weird
well, only an complete idiot would believe all those things about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
-conbo
Debashish Bhattacharya. Indian slide guitar
http://debashish_bhattacharya.mondomix.com/en/video3250.htm
Check out Debashish
//Video is a few minutes long.//
nevermind...
just c&p the transcript
(heh-heh)
[and here's the punchline]
but!
not in sanskript
: )
those delicate flowers are from me, oh dear ono. ;)
it's difficult for me to show you my true feelings...
Test....... Test....... Testing 1 2 3 .......
ok,
no more cheap shots
i want to develop the kind of brain that can attract a smart, sophisticated woman such as valerie plame
man, she's impressive
I would totally bang rosie now!
man, she's impressive
March 16, 2007 10:34 PM
That is the understatement of the century. She could probably show you how to make a pomb out of a gum wrapper, rock salt and some electrical tape.
I remember seeing a History channel doc about how the Russians used vixens as spies. Trained in the arts of seduction and information gathering.. etc.
So you know she could put it on you! :D
um, catharine
you may want to re-read that post...
those delicate flowers in the shape of a coffin, contains my dead body
anyway, if you really want them...
ring news consumer to dispose of the corpse
and you can keep the flowers
Sooooooooooooo.
How many bloggers fell off the wagon?
So just to update everyone, I am now about a quarter of the way through my audiobook "The Stand"
Very good so far. Not for the faint of heart though.
A chilling testament to how devastating and awesomely gruesome such an pandemic would be.
Horrors beyond imagination.
the way i'm travelling
i'll probably end up with marilyn manson's ex-wife
(which, all things considered, isn't such a bad consolation prize)
she's a bit freaky,
but i can live with that
//How many bloggers fell off the wagon?//
EB & mucky i don't think have posted once
i'm kind of like the boss, now
: )
but i don't have subpoena powers
i'm in this madhatter crazy writing mode
but i'm gonna restrain myself
Air Ono is the blog king, eh?
Can you get Sam to maybe fix the blog, your highness?
As much fun as this blogspot thing was at first I am now getting nightmares.
Seriously.That is why I am the kos all the time.
-conbo
//at the kos all the time//
-conbo
i have sucessfully lowered the level of discourse there
:)
blogspot sucks
blogspot sucks
blogspot sucks
blogspot sucks
blogspot sucks
blogspot sucks
-conbo
i wonder how Sam found this place
did he google 'blog' and 'spot'?
and viola! a new blog!
blogspot sucks, blogspot sucks, blogspot sucks, blogspot sucks
-conbo
http://www.thephoenixlights.net/
Check the vid at the bottom o the page.
i say alot of stoopid things, connie
somedays i proclaim i'm jesus
LOL
i'm going to ascend to heaven, now
(aka, the attic)
and santa-bob will be my representative here on earth
(aka, so ya better be good)
Final Fantasy VII - Aeris's Theme.mp3
Final Fantasy VII - Tifa's Theme.mp3
speaking of stupid things
i went over to the anti idatarian rottweilers the other night
i was sort of um, well shall we say imapared
i totally went off on them
i told them they were aiding the new Hitler with their propaganda and that AIPAC sucked and that they didn't love
it was in their chat room
but they took a screen shot of it
they haven't put it on their page yet...I don't know why yet
maybe they are going to blackmail me with it.
a little reminder for everyone: whenever you type something on a blog, it is there for life
-conbo
OK, harken thy spell
"wishy-washy hocus-pocus"
LET THE BLOG BE ENGULFED IN DARKNESS!
yo, beelzebud!...
prepare thy trusty steed
(it's a low-rider)
the bastards tracked my IP and emailed my roomate the screenshot
he was a little confused
never drink and blog
it's not pretty
do i look like i give a shit about your wonder-lust
: )
I was just trying to make you feel better Majority Report Jesus
:)
I wasn't bragging...oh look at me I can post on more than one blog! what a feat!
hahahaha
you are silly Ono
-conbo
well that'll learn ya, miss connie
...TO STRAY!!
(adulteress)
(i'm staying)
i'm happy in this glove
sometimes Ono, i even have more than one window opened
yup
Crazy shiit!
:)
shelly once strayed
and she came back with a wart on her nose
I wish Sam would fix the blog!
I don't know why it makws such a difference but it does
on the flip side tho, no one bothers to troll us anymore
they look at this and think
oh why bother
-conbo
Did not!
Liar!
I thought Bob got a life
I was happy for him
:)
-conbo
but the draw of loserville was just to much! and now he's back!
http://www.pieman.org/pigcheckpoint.jpg
oh, there's still one pesky malodorous troll
(ewwww)
//Did not!//
don't pick at it
i am wondering how many people are at home right now blogging, on my space,
ect
everyone is online
-conbo
//loserville// is right out my front door
(being out the other night at the boxing fight gave me the willies)
no fun, huh
oh well
-conbo
i'm totally pissed at myself
i wasted my lucrative tax return money on a piece of shiite car that is now sitting in my driveway
I should have used it for a downpayment on a car, but I hate car payments
so here I am
still sharing the car with my roomate and still living here even though I was planning to at least move into a place by myself and my son
i've been totally depressed lately. i have missed a lot of work. i feel like I am stuck in a major major rut
i should have moved home
-conbo
it was dirt-dumb fun
a kind of semi-fun that you might find in the ground @ a stoopid town near you
things could be worse, connie
you could be me
: )
move up to portland with miss anne & waits
things could be worse, connie
you could be me
: )
oh no, i think being me is a lot worse
i have basicly wasted my life because i am scared of change
and now I am really fat on top of everything else...don't know how I pulled that off as I have a really fast metabolism, but there again I am good at being a loser
and Im always terrified my son's father is going to sue for custody
or that my son would rather live with his Dad when he gets older
that would totally devstate me
but if that happens i just have to accept it
his Dad is such a smooozer
everyone thinks he is a patron saint
Im sure my son will too
-conbo
shelly lives in a town that was stoopid enough to try and fashion it's name out of my nic
their hair-brained scheme to try and avoid paying me royalties by slotting in part-2 of my nic in amongst other letters, really backfired
(now they have to suffer)
you're no loser, connie
crank's a loser
not you
(just ask him)
//Dear Ask Sam,
I hate libraries and everyone who frequents them. I'm thinking of wearing a Dewey Decimal Detonator. What do you think?
Yours,
conbolescent
Dear conbolescent,
Are you working the day shift?
Ask Sam //
this is not me
I like libraries...and the people who frequent them are like everyone else, some are cool and some are um. well they are not. and some leave no impression, ect.
-conbo
~*~
~*~
he's developed an alter-ego that he hopes will pull in the chicks
"hey, baby... ask sam"
chick at the bar: "who's sam"
crank: "oh, baby"
We love you, Conbo
Australia has been postponed for me. A year, anyhow.
bummer, fish
with losers like us
who needs winners
: )
right on, crank
BURN THE BLOG!!
"Im sure my son will too
-conbo
March 17, 2007 12:13 AM "
Disagree. If your personality is even half of what is on the nets, you got nothing to worry about.
ah, Fishgrease!
:)
i think we are a weird family here
im going to try and go to the yearly kos
-conbo
(to paraphrase madonna)
"i fell in love with beautiful losers"
So where's Yearly Kos this year?
I should keep up with that.
Denver?
$%^&*()_(*&^%$#%^&*()*&^%$#%^&*()*&^%$
#%^&*^()&^%$^&*()*&^%$^&*()
'
%$^%^*&(&^%$^&*(&^%&*()*&^%
#%$^&*()_(*&^%$#$%^&*()_(*&^%$#
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
actually, the b-52's "deadbeat club" comes to mind
The capacity for collective joy is encoded into us almost as deeply as the capacity for the erotic love of one human for another. We can live without it, as most of us do, but only at the risk of succumbing to the solitary nightmare of depression. Why not reclaim our distinctively human heritage as creatures who can generate their own ecstatic pleasures out of music, color, feasting and dance?
http://www.inthesetimes.com/main/print/3060/
Just been in a mood lately WFC....thanks...peevish...
It'll pass...
im more outgoing on the net
because i figure i'll never meet anyone anyway
i have count them: 4 people who actually 'know' me here
and thats because I've worked with them so long
-conbo
i am very introverted...
Not that I would go to Yearly Kos.
I've had to go to enough stuff like that for work that it ruined it for me.
Too many lunchmeat platters.
Hotel carpets.
Uncomfortable seating.
i don't know where the daily kos event is
i guess i should find out
it would be cool if everyone who can went to that too
that way we can all go to a bar or something if everyone is to snobby
'Im a kossack, and my # is
482de0bv-what's yours?'
'um...i like pie'
-conbo
Sam is going to be there too probably-he was last year
she's ok, waits
it's just the cuckoo-sounding town that she inhabits and dwells in
(it has my nic in it)
You're just blowing your own horn.
March 17, 2007 12:40 AM
well if that is something to be happy about sure
im the wall flower!
yay!!1
-conbo
she's a shameless self-promoting introvert, crank
best give her a wide berth
Hope it passes soon, A.
You Are My Sunshine, Norman Blake
: )
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Think I'm gonna try for Ykos,too, #. Timing would work, but I can't imagine it'd be cheap.
we could wear nametags that say Nobel Nominated Bloggers
hahaha
that would be funny
-conbo
how much is it to go?
they charge? how lame
-conbo
she's a closet-dwelling attention whore
[ok, keep your trousers on while i regale you]
i walked by this closet once...
and a hand reached out and tugged my ear
the voice behind the closet door said,
"ha-ha ono i got ya ear"
before i could verify if it was connie or not, she went behind the curtains and i never saw her again
LOL. Go for it, A. ono can handle it.
; )
the only horn i blow
is the one that miles davis gave me in my dreams
that way he said, i'll never lose it
and i'll never be a loser ever again
how much is it to go?
they charge? how lame
-conbo
Have to charge, they reserved the McCormick Center, and got discounted rates at the connecting Hyatt.
Registration is $225, lodging not included. I figure with plane tix and room and board, about $800-1000, minimum.
...a sheetrock lily.
March 17, 2007 12:48 AM
why are you so grumpy?
i am really shy
i never go out
im not kidding...
if i did go out would i be online all the time?
for real
-conbo
Crank Bait said...
(Cicero mistook Central Daylight Savings Time to be one hour backward.)
March 17, 2007 12:55 AM
: )
he also told me that if i ever get flustered, to turn invisible
and to appear with my cloths on banging some ho you can't see because she's like totally transparent
//Registration is $225, lodging not included. I figure with plane tix and room and board, about $800-1000, minimum.//
I could sell my piece of shiite car for parts and then go
-conbo
heh
congrats, waits
now do you believe me when i tell you you're kos-diary worthy
bbiaw
that took me a minute Cranky!
but I got it!
Shiite and Sunni
very good
-conbo
good almighty,
look at the time...
it's 7 o'clock already!!
i have to stand up and sit all the way back down again
good god,
//god// not //good//
Maybe Sam could have a drawing and I could win a free trip to the daily kos!
I think that is a good idea
OR I could be a correspondant for the Majority Report while I am there
Yeah! I could around and not talk to people
heh
-conbo
your funny Cranky
so funny
ahahaha
-conbo
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well if that is something to be happy about sure
im the wall flower!
yay!!1
-conbo
March 17, 2007 12:43 AM
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Ms. Conbo,
I respectfully disagree.
I think this is a good time to remind you of your official blog title -
"Happy Feisty Blogger!"
*************************
I submit the following as evidence:
Im a happy feisty blogger!
:)
Posted by: conbo at February 8, 2007 1:45 AM
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Cheer up! It will get better.
Wishing you the best!
P.S. What would you like to change if you could?
***************
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!
hi Star Vox
i was making fun of Lieberman at the time and his happy fiesty warrior remark in the New York Times
-conbo
Cranky, do you have a some kind of physic connection with Sammy?
Are you morphed now?
-conbo
It's the middle of the night and I am up watching Kate & Leopold.
Dkos is in Chicago this year.
Don't know when it is but I have been thinking of getting that knee replacement this year so I can walk again without a cane. It would be nice to go to Dkos but I can't with this bad knee.
hi ToniD!
I probably won't end up going anyway...I will chicken out as usual.
I almost went to a book signing for crashing the gates and I sat down for like one minute and took off.
i felt out of place. everyone was so. so. smart and stuff
-conbo
who is Kate and Leopold?
-conbo
It's a movie, Connie.
It's about a Duke from the 1800's that chases a man through a time portal into the 20th century NY.
The man is an ex boyfriend of Kate who lives above him in the same bldg. The Duke is Leopold and he has to get used to the 20th Century.
It's a love story.
i wish i could back to the 1800's
that would be cool
scurvy and what not
:)
-conbo
Here's a better explanation:
Kate & Leopold is a 2001 romantic comedy motion picture that tells a story of a Duke who time travels from 1876 to the present and falls in love with a career woman in New York.
In 1876, Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Gareth Thomas Mountbatten, Duke of Albany and inventor of the elevator, is a stifled man and dreamer, like his contemporaries Edison and Westinghouse. Strict Uncle Millard has no patience for Leopold's delusions of grandeur and disrespect for the monarchy, chastising him and telling him he must marry a rich American, as the Mountbatten family finances are depleted. His uncle has told him that on his "thirtieth birthday he had become a blemish to the family name".
In the meantime, the puzzled Duke finds Stuart Besser, with an amateur physicist (and descendant of Leopold, according to deleted scenes) perusing through his schematic diagrams and taking photographs of them. He had seen him only earlier while listening to Roebling's speech about the Brooklyn Bridge. Leopold follows Stuart and tries to save him from what he thinks is a suicide, falling after him into the portal that brought the man there in the first place.
Leopold awakens in 21st century New York. (Consequently, all elevators malfunction.) He is at first confused and, thinking that he has been kidnapped, he immediately takes a strident and defensive stance against Stuart. Stuart describes to him that he has created formulae to forecast portals in the temporal universe and that Leopold must stay inside his apartment until the portal opens again a week later; he is "held in the time-after". As Stuart takes his dog out, he is injured by falling into the elevator shaft, and is eventually institutionalized for speaking about his scientific discovery.
Leopold is intrigued by the cynical and ambitious Kate McKay, Stuart's ex-girlfriend, who comes to the apartment for her Palm Pilot pointer. He observes that she is a "career woman" and states that he once dated a librarian from Sussex. Kate rudely dismisses him and sends him out into the city, demanding that he take Stuart's dog for a walk. Leopold is overwhelmed to see that Roebling's bridge is still standing. Back at the apartment, he befriends Charlie, Kate's brother and an unemployed actor, who believes him to be an actor as well, steadfast to his character.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_&_Leopold
this is a good diary
“First I was sad. Then I got angry!”
-conbo
that sounds like a cute movie, ToniD
-conbo
Sometimes, Connie, you have to let yourself go into a fantasyland to get away from this awful world we are living in. Just to stay sane!
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i was making fun of Lieberman at the time and his happy fiesty warrior remark in the New York Times
-conbo
March 17, 2007 1:21 AM
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Hi Conbo,
I know that you were making fun of Lieberman.
I still like -
Happy Feisty Blogger!
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the only way for that movie to be cute is to drink a whole bottle of ouzo and throw up on it
sounds as interesting as those switcheroo movies (where the son goes into the father's body and vice versa)
and other farces such as when cultures collide
(etc)
"let yourself go" she tells me
(that's easy for her to say, i think to myself)
"have another ouzo" she adds
(ok, cheers)
im always in fantasy land Tonid
;)
i dip into real life as a diversion
i was watching PBS this evening (forget which show!!!) and the correspondant has a panel on and was talking about the terrorist who has confessed to everything from 9/11 to sour milk, and I was so unimpressed with how they handled the story.
The PBS spokesperson tentaively brought up the fact that the 'terrorist' will not have a regular trial and 'do you think that will be detrimental to the American pysche?'
the answer was bs, bs, bs, bs, and the PBS person did not even call him on it
Even PBS has no teeth
the press has to get its act together and soon
So I turned Carebears on soon forgot the whole thing
-conbo
I do like Carebears, probably more than my son.
What will I do when he outgrows it?
what a blog!
"if god made anything better, he kept it for himself"
(to apply a mr. burroughs' description of heroin)
then he sold it for a mint
and went to live in paradise
Happy Feisty Bloggers!
are we
Why can't there be Carebears in real life?
Little fuzzy multicolored Bears that appear to give you advice
"You know Conbo, maybe you shouldn't buy a used car from this place"
Or
"You know Conbo, maybe you should go to work today. ect. ect"
Carebears is better than Barney!
My grandson used to watch Barney all the time.
"I love you
You love me
We're a happy family...." Yech!
LOL! (connie-bear)
you're absolutely precious
Barney
oh hell no
my son watches that in his room and I watch carebears in the living room
:)
-conbo
ylech
im not precious
ono must be through his six pack by now
he gets a tad lovey
-conbo
no, ma'am
(no alcohol involved)
i know class when it's presented before my senses
jk ono
i should go to bed
nite ToniD
enjoy your movie...i wish your knee replacement could happen soon...i have no idea how you can deal with that sort of pain.
-conbo
p.s. it's one of my talents
: )
night, precious one
//knee replacement//
what goes on there?
do they put in a prosthetic knee?
:|
i'd be rubbing ouzo into it
(it's a panacea)
and when i say "i'd"
yes, i mean me
: )
Night Connie! Sweet dreams of a carebear world.
Yea, ono, it's a titanium knee joint. No more joint pain.
cool!
(titanium rules)
ono, hate to leave you alone, but I am getting sleepy again.
It's the middle of the day for you, isn't it?
(8:30 PM)
many splendid dreams, toni mou
Anyway, see you later :)
It's 4:30 AM here.
kali nichta!
yes, i'm familiar with american time
(and all your zones)
air-ono said...
Happy Feisty Bloggers!
are we
March 17, 2007 2:02 AM
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air-ono,
I will be sending you another email soon. My plans were temporarily placed on hold. I apologize for the delay.
ok, s.v.
(touchdown!)
400 COMMENTS
(strutts up to the microphone)
just call me...
the 400 comment man
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air-ono said...
ok, s.v.
March 17, 2007 2:40 AM
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Good to know that you read my post!
I was reading thru (got a little depresing there)
Is that what we all have in common?
we're 'losers'
LMAO
how nice we've found each other. : )
jbenet
i'll be waiting
(but not waiting)
hey, jb
i swear to god
i'm going to die googling images
still here air
I've a talent for dropping in just as everyone's left
jbenet
I gotta sleep
2 shows tomorrow
Chita Rivera -- A Dancers Life
the air is always here, jb
that means...
the ono is not far behind
thats
Chita Rivera -- The Dancers Life
jb
are you going to watch 2 shows
or perform in them
as you can see from my photo above
i'm a great dancer...
being in great physical condition
Regardless, they're all just whacking off, and that gets dull after awhile no matter what.
Posted by: Aaron | July 20, 2006 at 05:04 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Cocaine Rap For Gal Cop
Break In The Case Against FBI Rogue
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Guyanese woman dies in Queens after throat slit
Pot-dealing Sanit captain draws year in prison
Money launderer gets six months in jail
Couple pleads guilty in Queens online gambling case
Iraq: focusing on the wrong things
by AJ in DC · 3/16/2007 08:34:00 PM ET
The Pentagon finally admits that Iraq (or, as the report says, "some elements of the situation in Iraq) faces a civil war. The report comes to conclusions similar to those of the Iraq NIE, saying, basically, that things are really bad and "big challenges remain." Well, then.
The most telling information, though, is not the number of attacks but rather the measures of civil society. I think we're basically past the "blame the media" point, wherein the news apparently was hiding the true utopia in Iraq, but at this point I'd argue it's actually the reverse: that by focusing primarily on attack numbers, the media obscures the fact that Iraq as a whole has ceased to be any kind of functional state. I mean, how often do you see this kind of information on your TV:
[J]udges who don't succumb to the myriad threats against them often fear handing down guilty verdicts against defendants with ties to insurgent groups or militias . . . the Iraqi prison system remains overcrowded, and correctional services are "increasingly infiltrated by criminal organizations and militias" . . . The economy, too, is crippling Iraq's ability to recover . . . Inflation in 2006 averaged 50 percent. And while estimates of unemployment range from 13.4 percent to as high as 60 percent, a January 2007 survey by the U.S. military's Multi-National Division-Baghdad found that only 16 percent of the city's residents say that their current income meets their basic needs. And the daily power situation remains dismal . . . the number of daily hours of power in Baghdad was 6.6 in the last quarter of 2006 . . .
Those are stunning numbers. Inflation at 50%. Fully 84% of the population don't have the income to provide for basic needs. Fewer than 7 hours of power every day (which isn't just a matter of refrigeration and air conditioning, remember, that means businesses can't function).
And they blame the U.S. for all of this.
Two thirds of Iraqis say that conditions for peace and stability are worsening. They're right.
LINK
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Woman Guilty In Assault of Son By Scalding
Cartoon of the day:
LINK
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hospital TB Testing Begins
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Knock - And - Kill Harlem Shooting
March 17, 2007 -- A Harlem man was killed yesterday after he opened his apartment door and a gunman blasted him.
The 55-year-old victim, whose name is being withheld pending notification, answered a knock on his door at 413 W. 145th St. at 3 p.m., police sources said.
The gunman shot the victim once in the head, then fled the scene.
The victim was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Is anyone tired of living in Bush World?
When will the Real World return?
You say the Real World wasn't so great? At least we had more options and not such a narrow view of things.
The newest terror threat. Of course we want to take people's minds off the problems of the Bush admin. Lets threaten the kids now!
Please ignore the outed CIA agent, and the perjured Attorney General, behind the curtain
by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/16/2007 03:42:00 PM ET
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Surprise! Terrorism is everywhere! Be afraid! Change the story! From the Associated Press:
Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police.
Then read the next line:
An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."
Is it The Onion or the FBI? You decide. Either way, yet again, sounds like another total lie in order to change the subject from outed CIA agents, from perjured Attorney Generals, from bigoted real generals, from convicted top aides, from disastrous wars, and more.
LINK
toniD said:
Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police.
adds new meaning to "we have nothing to fear but fear itself"
babs must have read george stephen king novels when he was a little tyke. remember the one about the boogey man?
here's a great molly ivins column about fear:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2006/1418
From Al Gore:
On March 21st, I will testify before Congress on the immediate action that needs to be taken to end the climate crisis. At the hearing, I will deliver the 294,374 messages you signed, demonstrating that hundreds of thousands of people share my sense of urgency.
If an additional 55,626 people sign our message, it will be as though 350,000 of us are there at the hearing expressing our determination to convince Congress to act. Having served in the House and Senate, I can tell you that members of these committees would find this to be a meaningful and impressive show of support.
There are only 5 days left before the hearings begin, so please do not pass up this opportunity to join in showing the broad public support we need in order to solve the climate crisis. I know you have friends or family who care deeply about this issue but have yet to sign our message to Congress.
Ask them to help fill that committee room with 350,000 messages by visiting:
http://www.algore.com/cards.html
blah blah blah said...
here's a great molly ivins column about fear:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2006/1418
I miss Molly's columns!! :(
LINK
Molly's column.
Neocons in Cheney's Office Fund al Qaeda-Tied Groups ... and No One Cares?
By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Seymour Hersh's recent report that Iran-Contra veterans working out of Dick Cheney's office are using stolen funds from Iraq to arm al Qaeda-tied groups and foment a larger Sunni-Shia war is a very big deal. Read more »
LINK
This is what is happening in my area today. I'm going to try to go later.
WEST SUBURBAN REGIONAL PEACE RALLY, MARCH & VIGIL
Marking the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, ordinary citizens from across DuPage, western Cook and Kane counties, will rally together at Congressman Peter Roskam's Bloomingdale office - to call for the end to this unjust, illegal and immoral Iraq War. Join us in raising our voices together to say Stop the War! Bring our Troops Home Now!
RALLY: 2:30pm at Old Town Park, Bloomingdale
(1 block West and South of Lake St. & Bloomingdale Rd.)
We'll gather to rally at Old Town Park in Bloomingdale, blocks from Congressman Peter Roskam's office. Join us for song, spoken word and rousing speeches from community, faith and labor leaders - addressing hundreds expected to join the rally.
CNN is doing a story about the Pink lady standing behind Valerie Plam at the hearings yesterday.
is the pink lady story just an attempt to deflect the plame hearings?
i heard something last night, i think on john elliot that the pink lady was with code pink. was that 1+1=3?
The Lady in Pink yesterday is a transgender man that is a retired Navy officer. Heh!
His/her name is Midge!
Yea blah 3,
He/she is a member of code pink. The story says that they try to position themselves to be in every camera shot and when Gen Peter Pace was testifying, "Midge" was behind him flashing the Peace Sign and it looked like rabbit ears over Gen. Pace's head.
Blah 3, you're into the Market so you may appreciate this:
Paper Money is a Claim on Wealth
by Dan Amoss, CFA "What are the long-term costs of paper monetary systems? How can an economy develop in a healthy, sustainable manner when wealth's scale constantly changes? Dan Amoss looks to answer these questions - and more - below…"
LINK
"Paper Money is a Claim on Wealth "
You will have to move down half way through the page to reach this article.
Gonzales apologizes. “Attorney General Alberto Gonzales apologized to the nation’s 93 U.S. attorneys in a conference call Friday as he tried to hold on to his job amid the scandal over the firings of eight federal prosecutors. … Across the country, morale within U.S. attorneys’ offices deteriorated, leaving many feeling misled by the Bush administration. ‘They feel a strong sense of betrayal,’ said a former Bush administration Justice Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his friends in the administration.”
LINK
UPDATE: “Two New Mexico lawyers with strong ties to the state Republican Party met last summer with a top aide to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and complained about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias,” the AP reports. One of the lawyers, Pat Rogers, “has represented the New Mexico GOP in legal matters for several years,” and “was among the names that Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., submitted to President Bush for consideration as Iglesias’ successor.”
LINK
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