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]
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LINK
toniD said...
"Paper Money is a Claim on Wealth "
Interesting article. Can't say I disagree with it. In my neighborhood out of 100 houses 25 percent are on the market and about half have been on the market for a year or more. People aren't buying homes...
There is a rather prophetic statement about the law of unintended consequences:
Thanks to corn-based ethanol subsidies, a huge portion of the country's corn-derived food supply - everything from sweeteners in packaged foods to chicken and beef - will suffer from shortages and price increases.
I don't recall whether you posted it or I read it somewhere else but there was an article that said in california where the minimum wage was increased at the beginning of the year, that gasoline prices have risen to take back more than one third of the gain.
Hi everybody! Hi Toni! Happy Holiday to any of you Mick's out there. I am off to a good start!
Say....what DO you do with a drunken sailor?
Hey Reefer!
Drunken Sailor: Put him to bed.
Blah 3,
I signed up for an email from "The Daily Reckoning".
It's kind of the leafty report for the markets. A little more truth than say Bloomberg or Market Watch.
Here's the link:
LINK
hey reefer,
you got a rusty razor?
have a good one
toniD - i saw that link. it looks like an interesting email. one of the links on the main page was to an article about the upcoming collapse of civilization as we know it and the need to be in gold. seems like you can run but you can't hide from the tin foil hats.
You know, this is a damn shame!!!
Beyond Building 18. Maryland TV station WUSA9 reports on “allegations from a former inspector at Walter Reed of widespread and dangerous problems in nearly all the buildings at the Army’s premier hospital. Burst steam pipes near electrical cables, rats, mold, and holes in floors and walls — all of that extends far beyond the well-publicized problems at the notorious Building 18.” A photo from Building 40:
photos at link.
LINK
Don't know how old you are Blah 3, but Reefer and I are in our 60's.
I am going to go out on a limb and say it's just us old coots on the blog right now. Or shall I say expereinced Seniors!
i don't think the public has any grasp of how bad our military infrastructure is. i have friends that in the reserve and report to fort knox once a month. the housing and facilities there are terrible. for the most part they will stay off base except when they have to be there.
now consider that thru inaction and non-regulation payday loan services have sprung up around all military installations. in a perverse way, the circle is complete. there is an uber rich family in this area that owns a chain of them. so consider, we kill the educational system so that people can't get ahead. we make things bad enough that serving in the military is a way out. these individuals fight the wars so the wealthy can make more oil money. they borrow money at predatory rates just to get by. the rich make even more off their misery...
sorry, i'm ranting.
My family migrated here from Belfast. My grandfather loved to get tanked on this day and sing Danny Boy. He was an emotional old Mick and would really get into the verses and all my old drunken uncles would be weeping. This was back in the Empire Club in Rhode Island in the 1940's.
UP THE ENGLISH!
geez thats old :) i'm in my mid fifties with teen agers that keep me a lot younger.
Sampson: I Failed to Organize "Political Response"
By Paul Kiel - March 17, 2007, 9:11 AM
Boy, has Kyle Sampson learned his lesson, or what? He hasn't resigned because of his role in a scheme to fire prosecutors for political reasons, oh no: he resigned because he didn't succeed in organizing "a more effective political response" to the charges of impropriety. No wonder people thought he'd be the next Karl Rove.
LINK
Blah...are you the guy that does the Blah3 blog?
I've been reading it for a long time.
Blah 3, I have one teen-aged grandson. He'll be 15 in Sept.
The other 2 are still single digit in age and I waorry about all of them when they grow up. All boys. What kind of world will they live in?
Reefer, I am celebrating tomorrow!
Since I was born the day inbetween two saints.
March 17: St Pats
March 18: St Toni
March 19: St Joseph
Heh!
reefer - not i. i started seriously following seders blog about six months ago. i didn't have an id and i didn't like anonymous coward. so i came up with blah blah blah which is all that my kids hear when i talk to them.
don't know toniD. i've often wondered the same. i think kids have it a lot tougher now then i did back in the 60's. on the other hand maybe change is a constant. my old man who grew up in the 30's thought the same about the 60's.
my biggest disappointment was that we gave up on exploring space in a serious manner.
Iraqis killed in chlorine attacks
Suicide bombers driving trucks laden with chlorine launched three chemical weapons attacks in Iraq that killed at least two and exposed hundreds of people to the potentially deadly gas.
LINK
I am disappointed also. Alot of good things and advancements came from Space exploration.
I see that other nations, like China, are now getting into Space exploration.
It's not just the Russians and the US anymore. And that's a loss for us.
War Anniversary Draws Protesters to D.C.
Saturday March 17, 2007 3:46 PM
AP Photo DCLJ107, DCLJ104, DCLJ105
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators and supporters of the U.S. policy in Iraq shouted at each other Saturday from opposite sides of a street bordering the National Mall as protesters formed a march to the Pentagon to denounce a war entering its fifth year.
The anti-war group carried signs saying ``U.S. Out of Iraq Now,'' ``Stop Iraq War, No Iran War, Impeach'' and ``Illegal Combat.'' The other side carried signs saying ``Peace Through Strength,'' ``al-Qaida Appeasers On Parade'' and ``We Are At War, Liberals Root For the Enemy.''
Police on horseback and foot separated the demonstrators, who were on opposite sides of Constitution Avenue in view of the Lincoln Memorial. Barriers also kept them apart.
Cheryl Davis, 62, a library assistant from Celina, Ohio, endured a nine-hour overnight drive in the wake of a late-winter storm to raise her voice against the conflict that has killed more than 3,200 members of the U.S. armed forces. ``I just want peace,'' she said. ``I just have to do my part.'' She had supported the Vietnam War when her ex-husband fought in it.
LINK
Dublin Throws Diverse St. Patrick Parade
Saturday March 17, 2007 3:31 PM
AP Photo JMC104
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Associated Press Writer
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Lithuanian musicians, drum-beating Punjabis and West African dancers used Dublin's St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday to celebrate their place in a booming Ireland that has become a land of immigrants.
One man dressed as St. Patrick in papal hat and sunglasses did the samba, while another float nearby featured ``Miss Panty,'' Dublin's premier drag queen.
Dublin's freewheeling parade drew a half-million spectators and included Christine Quinn, the first openly gay leader of the New York City Council. Quinn is boycotting the more conservative New York parade because the organizers refuse to let gay and lesbian groups march.
This year, she accepted an Irish government invitation to be part of the Dublin City Council contingent.
LINK
For the good of the nation, Bush & Co. should resign.
Unlike most candidates, Valerie & Joe Wilson have the credibilty and integity to be our next President and Vice President.
Cat Chew said...
Now, this guy can dance!
Outtakes
(Do not look at the man boobs.)
http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/
March 17, 2007 3:58 AM
Moobs.
Hey! That's the Gonzo pic (over @ MR page) I sent in
= )
unless there's another Carol.....?
Oooh I feel so validated = J
//it's just us old coots//
OLD!?!
nah,
your voices sound youthful
(laced with wisdom)
Hello Bloggers :)
OMG, look at this, it is absolutely great. Donald Trump ripping into Bush:
Bush Sux
congrats, pinellas
so, um...
you're female
: )
well, i'm a boy
but my ma won't admit it
(~from a who song)
thanks for those //Outtakes//,
cat chew
"cat who?"
cat chew, that's who
"oh, bless you"
Today is St. Patty's Day.
Who wants some Beer!
Rousing, Emotional Start for War Protest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602318.html
Dozens of demonstrators, many of them Christian peace activists,
were arrested outside the White
House late last night and early this morning as part of a protest against the war in Iraq.
About 11:30 p.m., police began handcuffing the first of about 100 protesters who had assembled on the White House sidewalk to pray in a planned act of civil disobedience.
If nations are to be judged by their leaders, what does the rest of the world think of the United States of America? Our citizens are not ignorant, yet an endless stream of disinformation pollutes our politics. Although we live in a republic, we cannot allow the wealthy and influential to decide what's best for the rest of us. We must stop using our blood and treasure to invade / occupy other lands. "Do unto others ..."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031607EA.shtml
This Was World's Warmest Recorded Winter, US Government Says
Reuters
Friday 16 March 2007
Washington - This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the U.S. government agency that tracks weather reported Thursday.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the combined global land and ocean surface temperature from December through February was at its highest since records began in 1880.
"Who wants some Beer!" sez bob @ 12:57 PM
"Today is St. Patty's Day." he sez
well, bob...
know your history
any self-respecting mick would be well & truly inebriated by now
Air Ono, are you getting drunk for St. Patty's day?
//Donald Trump ripping into Bush://
"it's all a big lie"
CLASSIC!
trump to bush...
YOU'RE FIRED!
that was yesturday, bob
today is toni's birthday
so when the liquor shops open their doors for trade, i'll buy some ouzo & toast her
see, bob
although i live in the future,
here in oz, it's the present
and i don't know what the fucks going on
the only wisdom i can impart is...
don't eat sunscreen
(unless you wanna be sick)
in which case, it's ok to eat sunscreen
tonid,
re finances, investments
what do you think of Suze Orman - don't watch her show except for a few moments here and there. Do you like the financial advice she gives?
She has a new book out and I just ordered it from the library
Women & money : owning the power to control your destiny
"Well, I think Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States...
Everything is a lie."
~The Donald
hyperventilating bedwetter headline:
DONALD TRUMP AIDS & ABETTS AL-QAEDA
BBIALW, Have a little Housecleaning to do. Dishes and whatnot, and I reckon I am gonna run the vacuum cleaner!
Ouzo, is that tequila?
Danny Boy,
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.
And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.
And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
amy goodman, valerie plame, and girls on the blog
can rule my life anyday
: )
hey, jimmy
i was worried for you...
cuz a day without jimmy is like,
well,...
like a day without sunshine
"I'm a stone dead tripper
Dying in a fantasy"
so imma gonna make some inroads into some virk
so i can get stinko for toni's b-day
VIVA! LA TONI
: D
"Ouzo, is that tequila?" asks bob
no, bob
it's greek sambuca
eya snorky
last night was a bitch.
no painkillers, wanted to see how bad it is this go around.
it's deff nasty. may have to get real serious bout getting it fixed.
if i can... it ain't that easy. even in canada.
i get a jolt or two every time i try to move. Bgurl nursing me thank gawd.
(snicker)
AO discovers Ouzo!
(get it on film, properly done, everyone starts out with their own bottle)
Hi Jim,
v. sorry to hear about your pain. Its your back, right? What happened? Did you have an accident?
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
March 17, 2007 6:55 AM
Even without a moustache, Dennis Kucinich bears a slight resemblance to news photos of Hitler. His campaign war chest is nearly empty. Yet who has been more correct in committing our troops to war?
did the first one in 74 tossing hay bales for a freiend. did two more winter crabbing. got one sorta repaired but all three are going again.
been going thru this for thirty years. got lotsa practice. thank god for laptops!
proplem is, i have fat fingertips.
this is an accumulation of 42 years with a few other things thrown in like arthritis and diabetes.
no biggie, i can handle it,but i won't be dancing any jigs today!
Ya NC.
i caught it.
it's always a possibility.
ugly way to go eh?
question is why?
"got one sorta repaired but all three are going again. "
three what???
Myth #1: Our verbally-challenged President is entirely incompetent.
Fact: His "base" has received huge tax breaks and huge military bases have been built in the cultural, religious and petroleum craddle of civilization. Priceless!
Myth #2: Justices who were removed for political reasons were from the same party as the Bush Administration.
Fact: Not all Republicans are Neo-fascists.
Myth #3: The White House did not try to find out who leaked classified information about Valerie Plame Wilson.
Fact: Why should the Bush Adminstration bother to investigate something it already knew?
BARTENDER....two green beers...
for two Mick queers!
My professor in Irish class said:
"The Irish don't have a problem with alcohol. They have a problem with women."
Happy MSNBC Day!
Good News! I guess Federal Prosecutors as an unwritten rule don't prosecute smugglers coming through with less than 500lbs.
Of Weed that is!
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three what???
three blown disks rubbing against my sciatic nerve.
the vertabrae and the disc are like an old leather football with the laces removed and the bladder squeezed out when you put weight on it.
it rubs against the major nerve bundle running up yer spine and locks up all the muscles painfully.
drives me to the floor when they're really bad.
usual treatment is traction and bed rest for a few days or weeks or months.
that was my son
heh
he said Hi my name is William and then he described Jurassic Park :)
-conbo
St'Patricks day!, i miss all the friends i celebrated that with!
well, a little celtic music goes with the day rather nice!
Ashley Broder and Jamie Laval "Paddy, Jenny, and The Boys" (celtic)
http://www.mandolincafe.net/mp3/broder.mp3
if i was'nt gimped up i'd ask the girls to dance!
and then he described Jurassic Park :)
-conbo
March 17, 2007 3:52 PM
Connie, it's remarkable how much your kid types like Chubby!
Why is this guy so popular?
-----
....."Q: “What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions about using contraceptives? Or should it be Bush’s policy, which is just abstinence?”
Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “Ahhh. I think I support the president’s policy.”
Q: “So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?”
Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “You’ve stumped me.”
Q: “I mean, I think you’d probably agree it probably does help stop it?”
Mr. McCain: (Laughs) “Are we on the Straight Talk express? I’m not informed enough on it. Let me find out. You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception – I’m sure I’m opposed to government spending on it, I’m sure I support the president’s policies on it.”
Q: “But you would agree that condoms do stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Would you say: ‘No, we’re not going to distribute them,’ knowing that?”
Mr. McCain: (Twelve-second pause) “Get me Coburn’s thing, ask Weaver to get me Coburn’s paper that he just gave me in the last couple of days. I’ve never gotten into these issues before.” ... read on
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/mccain-stumbles-on-hiv-prevention/
eya #!
happy green beer day!
(or i can give ya a Guiness if you'd like?)
say hey to William for me and compliment him on the typing!
dinosaurs are a favorite of also!
take him here for me will ya ? think he'll enjoy these pix.
http://tinyurl.com/26m3g7
Sunny...about that back surgery thing
I know a friend in the library who had back surgergy done
She was in pain for 3 plus years and had to lay on a board...a board!
And then one of my other friends husbands had it done
the same thing
back surgery is sort of not refined yet
at least from what I hear
does anyone else know about back surgery?
-conbo
Hey Jim, I see you're here. I would prescribe some solid tokes for your current sitya...ation!
Nothing works better....but why use nothing when you have buds with little purple things on them?
will says ooh!
now we are going to look at them
all
over and over
bbl
-conbo
"usual treatment is traction and bed rest for a few days or weeks or months."
--
What kind of mattress do you have, SJ? The right mattress can do wonders for your body .... the wrong one can ruin it. I am not kidding. We just thru out all the old mattresses in our house. New one is heaven.
When I refresh this page, I keep getting a security tab that pops up and freezes the refresh. Anybody else get that? Any way to take it out?
eya Reefer Jello!
ran out a while ago but had a friend drop by with one yesterdiddy.
the pain level dropped instantly.
i save the oxy's for when i absolutey can't move without getting a jolt.
i had maybe 50 or so major back spasms in the last 24 hours.
anti inflamatories really help the most in terms off healing.
i need to let disks shrink and stop triggering the nerve bundle.
reefer jello
I get it now and then, too. Also something pops up when I want to leave the blog but I can't. They are persistent with their questions. Does it have something to do with the Patriot Act?
I think I just figured out how to turn my name blue. I've been trying to do it for a week!
Oh yeah Jim, I know the pain in back stuff....real well. Too bad about your lack of hold!
If I didn't live about 3000 miles east, I'd stop over and write you the perfect prescription. LOL
ya we got a really good un last fall. makes an INCREDIBLE difference really!
this episode from working on a buncha cars steady in awkward positions. can't do it like i used too.
i need surgery and like you say they ain't exactly got it down yet so i'm trying to limp along til they do.
one of my friends just got the stainless steel implants, we're keeping tabs on her recovery. also she weighd about 130 pounds sopping wet and i weigh 215 now.
i lost 45 pounds last year and it really helps.
Does it have something to do with the Patriot Act?
March 17, 2007 4:29 PM
It says that this page displays secure and insecure items and asks me to choose if I want to display the insecure ones.
tanks RJ!
just you saying that makes me feel better!
the pop ups are probby due to yer browser set up?
Miles Davis Knew The Secret
what OS and browser are ya using?
reefer,
was just having fun with the Patriot Act ;-)
The thing that pops up for me usually asks me if I want to leave the site for sure and then I have to click ok or cancel ... I think those are the choices. But even then I have problems getting away from here ... ;-))
eya shell!
feeling better yet?
Video from Oaxaca, The Blue Nightmare
Why Oaxaca Matters
There are numerous elements of the Oaxacan movement that have international significance— people in nearly every country can relate to oppressive governments, institutionalized poverty, and barbaric dictators; Oaxaca has merely destroyed the myth that no alternative exists.
A revolution is democratic or it is nothing. The ‘popular assembly’ method of government lays the very foundation for a wider revolutionary process, where masses of people are drawn into social life and given the opportunity to actively participate. It is this element that the upper-classes fear most, and why they strive to destroy it whenever it rears its head.
Now I've lost my blue name again. I'm using Windows XP and the new Explorer seven. Works OK usually but this pop up is a pain.
Events in the history of Ireland
http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/events/index.shtm
Anybody drinkin Beers yet?
I get that stinking pop up too Reefer Jello.
I'm trying to get my good BLUE name back!
Hi SJ, sort of, how about you?
Irish colonists brought Saint Patrick's Day to what is now the United States of America. The first civic and public celebration of Saint Patrick's Day in the 13 colonies took place in Boston, Massachusetts in 1737.[10] The first celebration of Saint Patrick's Day in New York City was held at the Crown and Thistle Tavern in 1756,[11] and the first Saint Patrick's Day Parade was held in New York on 17 March 1762 - by Irish soldiers in the British Army. In 1780, General George Washington, who commanded soldiers of Irish descent in the Continental Army, allowed his troops a holiday on March 17. This event became known as The St. Patrick's Day Encampment of 1780. [12] Today, Saint Patrick's Day is widely celebrated in America by Irish and non-Irish alike.
ABOUT SAINT PATRICK
Saint Patrick is believed to have been born in the late fourth century, and is often confused with Palladius, a bishop who was sent by Pope Celestine in 431 to be the first bishop to the Irish believers in Christ.
Saint Patrick was the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland who is credited with bringing christianity to Ireland. Most of what is known about him comes from his two works, the Confessio, a spiritual autobiography, and his Epistola, a denunciation of British mistreatment of Irish christians. Saint Patrick described himself as a "most humble-minded man, pouring forth a continuous paean of thanks to his Maker for having chosen him as the instrument whereby multitudes who had worshipped idols and unclean things had become the people of God."
Saint Patrick is most known for driving the snakes from Ireland. It is true there are no snakes in Ireland, but there probably never have been - the island was separated from the rest of the continent at the end of the Ice Age. As in many old pagan religions, serpent symbols were common and often worshipped. Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably symbolic of putting an end to that pagan practice. While not the first to bring christianity to Ireland, it is Patrick who is said to have encountered the Druids at Tara and abolished their pagan rites. The story holds that he converted the warrior chiefs and princes, baptizing them and thousands of their subjects in the "Holy Wells" that still bear this name.
There are several accounts of Saint Patrick's death. One says that Patrick died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, on March 17, 460 A.D. His jawbone was preserved in a silver shrine and was often requested in times of childbirth, epileptic fits, and as a preservative against the "evil eye." Another account says that St. Patrick ended his days at Glastonbury, England and was buried there. The Chapel of St. Patrick still exists as part of Glastonbury Abbey. Today, many Catholic places of worship all around the world are named after St. Patrick, including cathedrals in New York and Dublin city
I know this isn't very important in the grand scheme, but I just thought I'd mention that I've moved the "Air America" uncyclopedia article to "Air America Radio."
I decided that I'll let the trolls have the old page, because it will be more fun to let them do their thing, and then make a mockery of it.
So the real page is now here:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Air_America_Radio
and the troll page is at 'Air America'. Although I didn't change it back for them, I just left it as is and told them to feel free to do their thing, and that I will be back to mock them when they are done.
Jimmy....the Ten Finger Solution To Back Pain...
Two fingers to clutch tight that doob....
Three fingers of good, fresh Jamesons.......
Five female fingers wrapped
firmly around your schwans!
Back problem alleviated!
Air America Radio sounds more correct anyway.
eya shell,
i feel pretty good spiritually.
been a trying cpupla months has'nt it?
if it helps, we always get depressed just before spring. i think it's hardwired into our souls.
Back problem alleviated!
o yeah! if only i could address pain so decadently!
if nothing else i could get a chapter for my book out of the experience.
Sunshine Jim said...
o yeah! if only i could address pain so decadently!
Just pulling your coat Jim!
Hope you'll be feeling better.
Laughter helps kill pain unless it only hurts when you laugh!
eya B3
i was thinking about
posting a little of St Pats history earlier.
good stuff bud! say hey to Unk and bro for me!
I'm not depressed.
It's more like restless, frustration...
http://duskdawn2.free.fr/images/Art/Ravendusk/eris.gift
ya rj
it's worth the laff even if it does hurt.
it does make ya feel better having friends around when yer hurtin.
one of the reasons i visit vet hospitals when i can.
can't blame ya shell,
have had a fair amount of that myself.
we got every reason to feel that way.
and a few reasons to rejoice as well.
eya DADA
right on bud, right on!
SJ,
losing more weight will help you for sure. V. happy you lost 45 already.
Here is The Story Of My NEW Bed ;-) and How my new mattress chased my pain away.
I am a bit of a skinny minny so I don't have to worry about weight and I don't have chronic back problems etc.
But I got some pain in my shoulders, arms, legs etc. all of a sudden, just like that, after we moved and I had to sleep on a v. firm mattress for the last couple years (all our furniture are still in storage ... long story). I always did stretching exercises and some easy gymnastics I can practically do in my sleep - and all of a sudden it was a problem for me. Had no idea why that happened.
Read a great article about mattresses and how to pick the right mattress and that did it. Right after Xmas we bought a mattress with all the bells and whistles. I picked Aireloom Eurotop with memoryfoam which is a true revelation IMO. It really is. Molds to your body like a dream. No more pressure points to worry about.
However, on top of the memoryfoam Eurotop is the piece de resistance: the Pillowtop 500 Pima Mattress Pad. I insisted to go all out this time and I'm glad I did. Its worth every dollar spent.
(Try it, Sunny Jim!)
(I was thinking of tonid, too, when we discussed the mattress last night with friends at home)
Anyway, My Muscle Pain is gone, I sleep so much better, my gymnastics are slowly back to normal. Still a bit stiff but its getting there.
Firm mattresses are badbadbad.
Viva my eurotop :-))
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http://www.pieman.org/blumrichlinks.htm
http://www.archive.org/details/musicaty.net2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/17/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Iraq-Protest.php
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/media/0,72970-0.html?tw=rss.index
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://www.picfindr.com/
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Sunshine Jim said...
question is why?
March 17, 2007 2:36 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Probably a drug informant.
It happens like that.
And when it does that
usually what it's about.
(They left out the part
of how they found him -
half way in and half way
out the doorway...)
Sunshine Jim said...
question is why?
March 17, 2007 2:36 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
To send a message...
A shy Irish guy goes into a pub in London and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage, he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?"
She responds by screaming, at the top of her lungs, "NO! I won't suck your little mick cock!" Everyone in the pub is now staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table.
After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology, and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations."
To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you fookin' mean, 200 quid?!"
jesus, joseph, and mary
everyone here is here for some kind of therapy
none more so than crime-consumer
damn, boy
you're ploughing on a different plot of land altogether
Sunshine Jim said...
question is why?
March 17, 2007 2:36 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
He probably informed on
local dealers right there
in the building where he
lived.
It doesn't take much to
provoke that sort of thing.
Especially when the cops are
inept and corrupt.
ya bridge!
tanks for the suggestions.
the top Mattress Pad on the top of the memory foam is the cat's meow!
this takes a while to heal up and it usually shows a day or two after the actual injury.
great set of links A.!
It's biologically impossible for a true Irish man to get drunk or a tan!
PAAAAAAAARRRRRRRTYYYYY!
Alice said...
I'm not depressed.
It's more like restless, frustration...
[WIMP!]
i got the trifecta:
With everything I've had and everything I've done
I still can't be satisfied,
Riding on the Black Train
(~gun club)
(Pssst.... John ((Kennedy)) used "Man Tan)
goodun RJ!
"a rabbi a a priest and a zen monk walk into a bar. they all hurt their foreheads."
just in for a few,
good sunday best people
just collecting a few gun club lyrics,
that's all
I have yet to hear anyone call Gonzo Tio Tomas. A name by which I have been thinking of him since he arrived on scene.
I like 'Speedy' better than GONZO
as someone mentioned at the Kos, calling Gonzales Gonzo is an insult to hunter thompson
Happy St. Patricks Day!
as usual I am spending a Saturday night in front of my computer
Im so freakin cool
-conbo
air-ono said...
jesus, joseph, and mary
everyone here is here for some kind of therapy
none more so than crime-consumer
damn, boy
you're ploughing on a different plot of land altogether
March 17, 2007 5:43 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
You don't know this place.
Evening all!
Just got home from my brothers house. They made dinner and a cake for me. The dinner was corned beef and cabbage for St. Pats. Carrots and potatoes too.
Nice afternoon. Had the day off work!
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hey Jim,
I just came across an article about school desegration in Brooklyn dating back to 1972.
You should see what the place looks like today.
Hate Grows in Brooklyn - Nov. 13, 1972
jeffrey lee pierce's lyrics represent man's soul, me, and america
he was jesus
a beacon...
a modern day beast of the blues
hey, toni
tonight i'm buying a bottle of ouzo to toast your birthday and to good health
: )
air-ono said...
hey, toni
tonight i'm buying a bottle of ouzo to toast your birthday and to good health
: )
March 17, 2007 7:42 PM
Thanks Ono! Be caeful you don't lose your legs with that ouzo. Always happened to me. A few ouzos and I couldn't walk. Just sat there and smiled all night!! :)
derr, n.c.
you're missing the point
and that is your unhealthy obsession with crime
coupled with it's a parochial issue
it has limited appeal...
due mainly that it's a staple of the msm
(you may as well print celebrity gossip)
(which is just as hideous)
if you gave it a wider political perspective...
then that's a different story
all you're doing is reporting on specific cases
(aka, the effect of social entropy)
over & over again
(aka, spam)
yeah, we get it...
"houston! we have a problem"
(lol)
i'm only going to have a few nips
then several shots
and one for the road...
so i should be ok
then i might fly to phoenix and see what connie's up to
"GO AWAY!"
("lemme in ya wench")
Past U.S. attorneys outraged by prosecutor purge. “People who understand the history and the mission of the United States attorney and Justice Department — they are uniformly appalled, horrified,” said Atlee W. Wampler III, chairman of a national organization of former United States attorneys and a prosecutor who served in the Carter and Reagan administrations. “That the tradition of the Justice Department could have been so warped by that kind of action — any American should be disturbed.”
LINK
OMG!!!!
you all want to hear the biggest funniest thing ever?
I just went over to the anti rotts
apparently there is an internet movement called 'Misha Watch' and they think I started it!
bwhahahaha!
that's why they haven't posted my drunken rant i left for them the other night!
they are trying to be 'nice'
hahahahaha
-conbo
tonid,
re finances, investments
what do you think of Suze Orman - don't watch her show except for a few moments here and there. Do you like the financial advice she gives?
She has a new book out and I just ordered it from the library
Women & money : owning the power to control your destiny
P.S. Happy Happy Birthday to You! :)
re: regarding New's Consumer
post of crime
he is trying to paint a picture for us Ono
there is something weird going on in NY since Guilliani...
no kidding
-conbo
Evening bridge!
re finances, investments
what do you think of Suze Orman - don't watch her show except for a few moments here and there. Do you like the financial advice she gives?
She has a new book out and I just ordered it from the library
Women & money : owning the power to control your destiny
I like Suze Orman. She speaks finance in layman's language so you can understand.
When you read about spiders and triple witching fridays, she explains what they are. I think you'll enjoy her book.
Thank you for the birthday wishes :)
is it ToniD's b-day?
happy birthday Toni!!!!
:)
-conbo
here is something for you to watch Air Ono:
the awful truth
-conbo
Anonymous said...
is it ToniD's b-day?
happy birthday Toni!!!!
:)
-conbo
Thanks Connie, it will be in a couple of hours. Actually the 18th. Because it is already March 18 in Australia, ono is celebrating my birthday already. Another reason for some ouzo ;)
//Another reason for some ouzo ;) //
what is ouzo?
-conbo
tonid,
I really must get money smart. Maybe Suze's book will help. I like her, too.
hmmm .... triple witching fridays? ... was reminded immediately of Victoria Toensing yesterday ;-)
Good night, everyone!
re: regarding New's Consumer
post of crime
he is trying to paint a picture for us Ono
there is something weird going on in NY since Guilliani...
no kidding
-conbo
March 17, 2007 8:15 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Jack Maple: Betting on Intelligence
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=94865&issue=4:1999
Short of stature -- about 5-foot-7 -- and rotund, 46-year-old Jack Maple is given to wearing two-tone shoes, striped shirts, bow-ties and a homburg hat. But don't let his taste in clothing fool you. He cut his stylistic teeth in New York City's hot lunch spots, while cutting his professional teeth underground, in what New York's finest derisively refer to as the caves.
The caves are the New York subways -- once considered as dangerous a place as any in the world. In the 1980s, Maple was an aggressive transit cop who moved up to the rank of transit lieutenant. When he got tired of responding to crime instead of fighting it, he went home and put his unschooled but analytical mind to work.
"I called them the Charts of the Future. On 55 feet of wall space, I mapped every train station in New York City and every train," Maple recently explained. "Then I used crayons to mark every violent crime, robbery and grand larceny that occurred. I mapped the solved vs. the unsolved."
Connie, another good movie to watch if you haven't seen it b4 is
"Paying it Forward". It's sad at the end but there is a moral to it that I think everyone should follow.
//what is ouzo?//
it's a greek pernod
what is ouzo?
-conbo
March 17, 2007 8:34 PM
It's a Greek Liquor, similar to Sambuca. Very strong!!!!
i see
does paying it forward have carebears?
i kid, i kid
i haven't watched a recent movie in ages and ages
-conbo
NOW DON'T FREAK OUT, CONNIE
jest some lyrics from:
Ghost On The Highway
//you slaughtered your loving man
killed him in his sleep
the blood and crying of your murder
simply stains your sheets//
: )
ok, gtg
//Look, down the line, Johnny
Of the American unknown, Johnny
I'm out there in the desert
All your dreams lie dead in the desert//
[~Good Bye Johnny]
I'm still handsome!!!
Happy St. Patty's Day
and Fuck Bush!!!
Here's some info on "Paying it Forward" Connie.
Pay it forward or paying it forward refers to repaying the good deeds one has received by doing good things for other unrelated people.
Many people mistakenly believe the phrase "pay it forward" as a moral philosophy first appeared in Catherine Ryan Hyde's novel Pay It Forward, which in 2000 was adapted into a Warner Brothers film, Pay It Forward. Science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein, however, used the phrase in "Between Planets," a book published in 1951, some 50 years before Ryan Hyde's novel.
Heinlein both preached and practiced this philosophy; now the Heinlein Society, a humanitarian organization founded in his name, does so.
One of the most vocal popularizers of the concept before the book and movie, was probably author Spider Robinson, who made repeated reference to the doctrine, attributing it to his spiritual mentor Heinlein.
In Ryan Hyde's book and movie it is described as an obligation to do three good deeds for others in repayment of a good deed that one receives, and that such good deeds should be things that the person cannot accomplish on their own. The recipient of such acts of kindness is then expected to do three good deeds for others in repayment for the help they have received. In this way, the need to help each other can spread exponentially through society, creating a social movement with the hopes of making the world a better place.
LINK
air-ono said...
derr, n.c.
you're missing the point
March 17, 2007 7:51 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
There's a lot to this.
I can't explain why people do
the things they do. I used to think I could but not anymore.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
I'm trying very hard to be civil.
NC, sometimes I think it is desperation along with anger and having to be in neighborhoods with others that are the same, it breeds crime!
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
It's not gratuitous.
- Unhealthy.
Thanks for reminding me.
I'm working on it..
well NC
personally i'm delighted you have'nt fallen too badly into that meat grinder.
Howdy Bloggers.............
Saw a very shocking story today on the CNN. They only gave it a minute.
In the US, we have what are called food deserts. In Ghettos across the US, poor folks sometime have to drive up to an hour or so away for groceries. Why?
You guessed it, the Grocery chains don't see these areas as conducive to profit.
Lovely eh?
tonid, it's your birthday here, too. happy, happy birthday! hope it's a great one.
on my way to the protests here. since the japanese troops came home (yes, there were japanese troops there) the protests have been really small, but...they happen. even in kyoto.
sunshine, my mom had the same disc/sciatic nerve thing. she had surgery and hasn't had problems since. whatever you do, hope you're feeling better soon.
toniD said...
NC, sometimes I think it is desperation along with anger and having to be in neighborhoods with others that are the same, it breeds crime!
March 17, 2007 9:07 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Sounds like a description of the Bush administration. :)
Hi Jenise, thanks for the b-day wishes.
NC, this is funny. My cousin sent me a birthday card, and also called me that it was on the way. Said I would really appreciate the card!!
I got it today. My cousin is a brat. Heh. She sent me a card with a birthday wishes and a picure of George and Laura Bush.
She knows i absolutly despise them and so does she, but she's just a brat!
Oh my...
has someone been flatulent?
eya j!
greetings!
pix and a report from the protest please?
Happy Birthday ToniD!
may everything go well for you!
Bob26003 said...
the Grocery chains don't see these areas as conducive to profit.
March 17, 2007 9:32 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Mot a coincidence you
should mention that.
hee!
your cuz has gotcha pegged!
Sunshine Jim said...
Happy Birthday ToniD!
may everything go well for you!
March 17, 2007 9:59 PM
Thanks Jim!
Hope your back gets better. Had some shots 2 years ago for my back so I know what you are going through. Couldn't get out of bed without agonizing pain.
Have you tried a napropath?
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
http://mysite.verizon.net/swoose/home/george_laura.jpg
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Crazy weather.
70 degrees on Thursday.
Felt like spring.
Yesterday we had sleet. Today
snow.
I'm going to bed.
I'd Just Like To Say Hello To My Uncle!
I'm off too. Later
allegro con spirito
napropath?
don't know a thing about em T!
tune me in tomorrow, and a pleasant evening to ya.
Nite NC, have a good snooze!
allegro con spirito.
beautiful!
why can't I post??!!
http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2007/03/dc-protest.html
"More chanting. Bush and Cheney are preparing new war against Iran! The Democrats suck! We have to stop this war! We have to drive out the Bush regime! We need more protests! We haven't seen the campuses shut down! ..."
...
Crowd leaving. They don't look happy. Or empowered.
Down and out in Mexico City (okay, not VERY down and out)
I've quit my job, kissed my boy goodbye and I'm off ... on the other side of the world, where everything is upside down and back-to-front.
Only five nudists actually climbed the trees. Everyone else found it more prudent to lie on the ground
//air-ono said...
NOW DON'T FREAK OUT, CONNIE
jest some lyrics from:
Ghost On The Highway
//you slaughtered your loving man
killed him in his sleep
the blood and crying of your murder
simply stains your sheets//
you are so funny
not
why didn't you just post the lyrics w/out the 'now don't freak out Connie?'
-conbo
Susbequently, I antipicate your revunge.
Cryptographer Solves Psychic Challenge
In January, James Randi secured a mystery item in a specially designated locker in his Florida office, and challenged clairvoyants everywhere to use their remote viewing skills to divine its nature and claim a million dollar prize.
As usual with Randi's contests, there's weren't a lot of takers in the professional psychic biz. But for perhaps the first time in the history of the supernatural challenges issued by the 79-year-old skeptic, there was a winner of sorts. Cryptographer Matt Blaze and a colleague correctly identified the contents of Randi's black box from a thousand miles away, using only the powers of their minds.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2935427412876205051&q=chomsky+duration%3Along&hl=en
Noam Chomsky: Creating Another World in a Time of War - December 19, 2006
Alice said...
allegro con spirito
March 17, 2007 10:41 PM
: )
Number of registered voters dwindles by Cerena Johnson, 3/17/2007
Voter registration is on the decline.
According to a 2007 Report of Registration released every two years by the California secretary of state, nearly 1 million fewer people are registered to vote in California than two years ago. In 2005, 81,563 Humboldt County residents were registered out of 98,521 eligible.
By 2007, 76,652 residents were registered, with 98,067 eligible to register.
Alice, I found the rest of that psychic article. Turns out the guy was a genius not a psychic. :D
**************
Blaze identifies the contents on his website, and in a terse e-mail to 27B Stroke 6, Randi conceded that that the cryptographer's conclusion is correct.
This isn't the first secret that Blaze has revealed. In the 1990s, it was Blaze who found the flaw in the Clipper Chip that helped kill the Clinton's administration's misguided key-escrow dreams. In 2003, he published an attack on master-keyed pin tumbler locks that locksmiths had evidently been concealing for years. And last year he went public with a vulnerability in some law enforcement wiretapping gear.
If Blaze has supernatural talents, we'll have to view these Amazing Feats in a whole new light. In truth, though, this was just another puzzle. It turns out that Randi published an enciphered clue to the contents of the lock box in his newsletter, to provide evidence later that he hadn't switched the mystery item with something else just to foil the psychics. The clue was this:
0679438866/275 -14Blaze and colleague Jutta Degener stared at this puzzle for a bit, then developed a hunch about what the numbers were. That led them to the identity of the mystery object. (They are not asking for the million bucks.)
I won't reveal the secret here, in case you want to try cracking the mystery numbers yourself. For the solution, check out Matt Blaze's blog, which also explains things from a cryptographic theory perspective.
As an aside, I'll says it's a sad state of affairs when the world's best psychics are shown up by a couple math geeks. I assume Sylvia Browne chose not to participate because she's embarrassed about a 15-year-old kidnap victim recently turning up alive, four years after Browne told his parents and a national television audience that he'd been murdered and his body dumped in a wooded area near two large, jagged boulders. How this woman sleeps at night is an unsolved mystery that I'd wager even Blaze can't unravel.
those are interesting blogs, Shell!
:)
-conbo
The tomb of China's first emperor is potentially one of the most spectacular on Earth, but a heated debate is developing over whether to excavate it at all. Chinese archaeologists have expressed concern that they do not currently have the expertise to properly preserve what they find inside the tomb - located in China's central province of Shaanxi – but new technologies may be closing that gap. Qinshi Huang's enormous tomb complex is the home of Xian's famed terracotta warriors; 8,000 life-size figures that were discovered by accident in 1974. The tomb itself, though, has not yet been disturbed. Historical records suggest the coffin of the first emperor, ruler of the Qin Dynasty (221 BC to 207 BC), is encased in copper and sits in a large tomb chamber full of fine vessels, precious stones and other rarities. The ceiling of that chamber is thought to be studded with jewels that represent the stars, sun and moon - while on the floor, rivers of mercury represent the earth. Recent preliminary surveys have found high concentrations of mercury under the chamber, backing up that claim
Maybe he's both, Bob...:)
A recent Fox News report about UFOs, in particular covering the O'Hare sightings. Includes an interview with the Illinois director of MUFON.
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewvideo.php?id=qlfHDuVkp98&tid=89468
Look Bob
http://www.ufocasebook.com/videos2.html
Awesome collection of UFO clips!
Check this one out!
http://www.ufocasebook.com/carlynch.ram
Check out the clip labeled carl lynch :o
I guess the Christians are finally coming out against the War. Hundred or so of them got arrested.
Spiritual Awakening?
I guess the Christians are finally coming out against the War. Hundred or so of them got arrested.
Spiritual Awakening?
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=88863
Extra-special cat has 26 toes
Billy Eckstine Music
//mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=88863
Extra-special cat has 26 toes//
that is special, Bob
-conbo
i like the Mexico city blog Shell
very interesting
im off to my dust mite filled bed
(i heard to day that beds are 40% dust mites. that means mine is probably 60%, considering that i am a slob.)
asta!
-conbo
Cool, conbo....good night...sweet dreams! :)
a quick drive by
//why didn't you just post the lyrics w/out the 'now don't freak out Connie?'//
because you tend to accept it at face value...
ok, so now you know me well enough to realise it's cartoon violence
: )
[ a quick drive by ]
in square brackets
[a quick drive by]
to see how close the square brackets can get to the formula
remember, connie
those lyrics were posted in relation to:
//he is trying to paint a picture for us Ono//
(i thought they were appropriate)
i thought it needed some psycho scene
i thought you could figure it out
and i was right!
: )
//Be careful you don't lose your legs with that ouzo. Always happened to me. A few ouzos and I couldn't walk. Just sat there and smiled all night!! :)//
~said tonid to me @ 7:49 PM
oh!... what's this!?
it's a photo
(hmmm)
a photo of...
TONI-D'S OUZO BINGE
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B
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i went to google to track down a photo of a frill-neched lizard scampering, intended for connie
and here's my story...
there wasn't one there
but i was guided to a video on...
how to make a frill-neck lizard
(using hands, scissor, & paper)
it's tedious to watch (so i wrote this post during the screening) and the finished product is weak; which proves to this author that mother nature is the best origami artist
but the soundtrack to the making is great ~(velly twancy)~ and in this author's much sought after dinner mint opinion... the only way to eat sushi
it sounds like an old japanese guy strumming on a bouzouki stoned on heroin and his anime niece sings along and her girlfriends chime in with the bubble-gum chorus ("ch-o'hee/ch-o'hee")
so sit back, relax
while you sway to the music
(& you will sway)
NKorea says readying nuclear shutdown: envoys
North Korea said Saturday that it had begun preparations to shutdown and seal its key Yongbyon atomic reactor in a step toward honouring a landmark nuclear disarmament deal.
...
Progress on the agreement has been hindered by Pyongyang's demands that Washington release some 25 million dollars of North Korean funds frozen in a Macau bank under US financial sanctions.
North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator earlier Saturday said the country would not close its facilities until the United States released all the funds.
http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/070317201532.3zleshrm.html
the reason the frill-neck lizard was //intended for connie// is because she reminds me of one when i post my sordid material... showing me a clean set of heels
i'm in "not-a-hair-out-of-place" mood (which i hate), but while i'm at it... that last line of my last post should have read: (&!!!!... you will sway)
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