Its official -- Bush White House on Patrick Fitzgerald performance: "has not distinguished himself either positively or negatively." That includes his performance in indicting key officials of Hollinger Corporation, a neo-con multinational media operation controlled by ex-Chairman Lord Conrad Black, Richard Perle, and Henry Kissinger. *******
March 20, 2007 -- On March 14, 2007, WMR reported that a copy of a March 2005 Justice Department e-mail sent to the White House listing all 93 U.S. Attorneys in three categories:
"Bold = Recommend retaining; strong U.S. attorneys who have managed well, and exhibited loyalty to the president and attorney general. Strikeout = Recommend removing; weak U.S. attorneys who have been ineffectual managers and prosecutors, chafed against administration initiatives, etc. Nothing = No recommendation; have not distinguished themselves either positively or negatively"
The copy of the e-mail was sent to Congressional investigators looking at the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys. WMR noticed that one of the names, that of Northern Illinois U.S. Attorney (and CIA Leakgate special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald), was also taped over. A non-redacted copy of the e-mail now shows that Fitzgerald was put into the third category by the Justice Department: "No recommendation; has not distinguished himself either positively or negatively."
We wrote, "If it turns out that Fitzgerald was . . . on the chopping block to lose his Chicago base of operations" that could constitute White House interference in Fitzgerald's investigation of the CIA leak. The malfeasance of the Bush administration clearly calls for Congress to re-enact the Independent Special Counsel statute with a view towards the criminal prosecution of Karl Rove and other senior White House personnel.
So the Democrats say they will subpoena Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, and Bush says he'll defy them. Mark Kleiman asks the question:
What leverage do the Judiciary Committees have over the Administration with respect to the Overblown Personnel Matter? Why shouldn't Fred Fielding just stonewall to his heart's content?
Answer: a Congressional subpoena isn't a request, it's an order. (Sub poena: "under pain.") If the order is ignored, the Committee that issued the subpoena asks the parent body to vote a Contempt-of-Congress citation. Contempt of Congress is like contept of court: defiance means jail. In principle, the Justice Department could refuse to prosecute but at that point even the Republicans in Congress would probably have reached the limits of their tolerance. In addition, either House of Congress has (though it seldom uses) the power to order its Sergeant-at-Arms to simply arrest anyone who defies a subpoena; that power, like civil contempt of court, is coercive rather than punitive. That is, confinement lasts only as long as defiance lasts.
The person subpoenaed can challenge the propriety of the subpoena on various grounds: for example, that the investigation doesn't actualy serve a legislative purpose, or that the material is covered by the attorney-client privilege. If the Congress has exercised its arrest powers, the person arrested can challenge the arrest by means of the writ of habeas corpus. (So far, Congress has no facilities at Guantanamo.)
Kagro X says that congress relies on the executive branch for its enforcement powers — in this case, the US Attorney from Washington, DC, who reports to Gonzales. In other words, no easy answers.
He also points to what might be on the stonewalling Bushian mind by quoting this piece from Time Magazine:
What the invasion and occupation of Iraq seems to bear out is that the imperial episode in US foreign policy has failed, writes Dr Alejandro Colás
On the eve of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld was asked by an Al Jazeera journalist whether he feared his country might become a colonial power in using military force to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. “We’ve never been a colonial power,” the Defence Secretary replied. “We don’t take our force and go around the world and try to take other people’s real estate or other people’s resources, their oil. That’s just not what the United States does.”
...The USA is an especially vulnerable global hegemon because it relies on the compliance of other powerful states and local social forces in reproducing this global leadership....
Realize that the resolution of this stand-off will determine the extent to which the Congress is able to investigate everything that's still on their plate. If they lose this showdown, they lose their leverage in investigating NSA spying, the DeLay/Abramoff-financed Texas redistricting, Cheney's Energy Task Force, the political manipulation of science, the Plame outing… everything.
And that's why Bush is playing it this way. Remember, too, that his "administration" is populated by Watergate and Iran-Contra recidivists, chief among them Dick Cheney, who has wanted to relitigate the boundaries of executive power since forever. Cheney and others on the inside believe that this time, with a friendlier judiciary, these issues can be decided the "right" way, overturning the victories won against Richard Nixon's insane theories of executive power.
Their thinking is that they'll either win it in courts, or run out the clock trying.
And the day they get five Justices to say they're right, everything you thought you knew about checks and balances becomes wrong.
Chuck Schumer is talking tough now. With so much on the line, will he be able to back it up when things get ugly? Because it looks like that's where we're headed.
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - British troops in Iraq's southern Basra oil port pulled out of their heavily attacked base in the heart of the city on Tuesday, the first to be handed to Iraqi forces who are slowly taking control of security.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said in February that Britain would begin withdrawing a quarter of its 7,000 troops, who are stationed mainly in and around Basra in Iraq's largely stable Shi'ite south, in the coming months.
The commander of British forces in southern Iraq, Major-General Jonathan Shaw, characterised the pullout, on the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, as a repositioning of his troops and not a withdrawal.
He dismissed suggestions that British troops had been "bombed out" of the Old State Building in central Basra, a frequent target of mortar attack, saying the pullout was according to a timetable.
The troops have moved to Basra airport, the biggest of four bases still in British hands. The others are the Shatt al-Arab Hotel in northern Basra, the British consulate at Basra Palace and the large Shuaiba logistical base west of the city.
He is so absolute in what he is saying. That is always a sign of psychosis.
The psych tests they sometimes give that are basically hundreds of questions that are very similar... well... the trick is that they are subtly different and a "normal" person will answer each one differently. The psychotic person will never vary. Perfect consistency.
March 20, 2007 -- Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel, the former Democratic Senator from Alaska who spearheaded the de-funding of the Vietnam War and the draft and released the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, has protested his exclusion from the New Hampshire presidential debate.
CNN, the Manchester Union Leader, and Hearst-owned WMUR-TV formally decided to exclude Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Mike Gravel from the debates they will be sponsoring in New Hampshire. In response to the decision, Gravel said, "By denying me the same opportunity afforded to other presidential candidates to discuss in public debate the major issues that confront our nation, the sponsoring media outlets––CNN, The Manchester Union Leader and the Hearst-owned WMUR-TV––are exercising censorship, unbecoming in a free society. They are dictating whose political voice they will permit New Hampshire and American citizens to hear.”
* Bacchanalia. During this week-long extravaganza, work and business will be suspended so that all adults can enjoy sexual play, whether it be solo, dyadic, or in groups. To promote acceptance of the holiday, the Fool Czar will head up a new Federal Bureau of Lust. Served by advisors drawn not from the ranks of porn stars and scientific sex researchers but from tantrically trained poets and musicians, the Bureau will sponsor educational campaigns to help every citizen learn to honor the libido as a sacred gift from the Goddess.
March 20, 2007 -- Yesterday's article on Karl Rove's and the GOP's manipulation of foreign elections brought us further indications and warnings (I&Ws) about possible additional interference by the Republicans. One I&W suggested that Chiquita Foods was funneling money on behalf of the GOP to right-wing elements, including paramilitary death forces, tied to the present government of President Alvaro Uribe, who George W. Bush just visited in Colombia. Another I&W pointed to past GOP assistance for the Likud Party of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel. If the GOP is conducting illegal election tampering and funding it abroad, the party is running afoul of a number of foreign laws, as well as Racketeering-Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) criminal laws in the United States. The Democrats in Congress should begin immediate hearings on the interference of U.S. political parties in foreign elections.
Hey...I got my bluename back! That was a tired troll in here earlier. I have little patience with people telling us how stupid and powerless we are yet we're responsible for all the problems at the same time.
Tired rhetoric like get a haircut or love it or leave it!
Someone ate the baby. It's rather sad to say. Someone ate the baby So she won't be out to play. We'll never hear her whiney cry Or have to feel if she is dry. We'll never hear her asking "Why?" Someone ate the baby.
Someone ate the baby. It's absolutely clear Someone ate the baby 'Cause the baby isn't here. We'll give away her toys and clothes. We'll never have to wipe her nose. Dad says, "That's the way it goes." Someone ate the baby.
Someone ate the baby. What a frightful thing to eat! Someone ate the baby Though she wasn't very sweet. It was a heartless thing to do. The policemen haven't got a clue. I simply can't imagine who Would go and (burp) eat the baby.
* Unhappy Hour. During this gala bitch fest each Tuesday afternoon, celebrants will have license to howl and mutter about everything that hurts their feelings. Having flushed all their venom in one neat ritual spew, they'll be free to enjoy generous thoughts and expansive fantasies the rest of the time.
* Dare to Be Boring Day. We all deserve a break from the oppressive demands to appear smart and to be entertaining. On Dare to Be Boring Day, it will be socially unacceptable to demonstrate your wit and verve. Long-winded, rambling monologues full of obscure details will be mandatory. The more clichés and buzzwords you use, the better. Tell worn-out stories your friends have already heard several times. Flesh out your disjointed sentences with awkward silences. Discuss at length your plans for switching laundry detergents, the collection of matchbooks you had as a child, and the time you almost traveled to the Wal-Mart in another town, but didn't.
The Ups of Pleasure and Downs of Satisfaction, by Daniel Gilbertson
Hive-moralists for millennia have lamented the innate, pervasive tendency of human beings to kick-out in bursts of irrationality and pleasure seeking. Extrasocial self-indulgence.
It is important to distinguish between two very different hedonic reactions.
1. Hedonic experiences caused by activating higher-faster-future brains at the service of and controlled by self. Pleasures.
2. Intoxication and narcotic escape experiences caused by activating slower-lower circuits. Satisfactions.
Both of these experiences take consciousness away from domesticated robothood. Pleasures move one into the post-social-self-actualized future. Up from hive routine. Intoxicants, tranquilizers and narcotics move one back to the past—down from domestication, to primate and mammalian instinctual satisfactions.
Civilized terrestrial humans, robotically and blindly harnessed to species tasks, dependent upon gene-hive rewards for duty well-done, apparently need to slow-down, turn-off, escape domesticated pressure. Boredom and social inefficiency would result without some sequential opportunity to regress from hive morality, to activate the primitive circuits of the brain. Intoxicants and narcotic escapes are built-in devices to allow ritual regression to earlier, lower, slower stages. Their power and delight is that they are conventionally naughty.
//St. Paddy's Parade Turns Ugly in Colorado Springs//
speaking of paddy whacks on st. paddy's day...
on that day ireland defeated pakistan in the 1-day international world cup series, being played in crank's old stamping ground, the west indies, and in the process eliminating them from the finals
and if you know your cricket, it's the same as a frog killing a tiger
in other words, a huge disgrace
anyway, the next day the pakistani coach is found dead!
although "The post-mortem into the death of Mr Woolmer was inconclusive," his death is suspicious...
//[he] was discovered by hotel staff on the floor of his room with his mouth wide open, blood was discovered on the bathroom floor, there was vomit on the walls and signs of diarrhoea.//
i for one don't suspect foul play...
indian bookies "probably" fixed the match so it was out of the coach's hands (now cold)
at any rate, if it he was murder he wasn't to blame for the loss
//[he] was discovered by hotel staff on the floor of his room with his mouth wide open, blood was discovered on the bathroom floor, there was vomit on the walls and signs of diarrhoea.//
he was hoping for more letters, all he's gotten are mine.
he sait tell he does'nt need money that bad, he's just bored out of his skull...
he sait to suggest printting up some blog pages and sending that, so we don't even have to write anything...
i told him the blog was composed of the dearest most wonderful, incredibly disorganised humans on the planet with a million reasons for not writing him.
he laughed, we had to hang up. the ten minutes we talked cost $20 US.
Your comment ain't but an excuse to (shamelessly) brag onto how lucky I got here a coupla weeks back.
Hadda flight to Vegas here recent. Offered a prize of a coupla tickets to "The Blue Man Group" at the Venetian to whomever could come closest to guessin' the plane's weight (gross: plane, peeps, baggage, fuel, etc.).
Flight attendant she give a coupla clues: number a peoples (155, plus 7 total in crew), gallons o' fuel (1,350).
So I broke the plane down into its component parts in my melon 'n done me some guessimatin' 'n come up w/a provisional figure a 144K.
So then what happens?
Then she give the game away is what happens, or so I thought.
Before axin' us to submit our figure for the contest (gotta be in pounds 'n ounces for the [ludicrous] tie-breaker), she give ever'one the gross maximum take-off capacity for the plane itself: that bein' 169.7K.
Well, hell, thinks I. Surely at least half the plane woulda guessed wildly in error 'n off-base (anywheres from a million pounds to 20K and everywheres in between).
But now, w/the maximum gross take-off figure, ever'body knows it's gotta be *somewhere's* close (but under!) 169K or so. Now ever'body's gotta rough parameter w/in which to guess.
Thought I hadda chance to win there for a minnit, but now luck enters the equation.
Well, it's a short flight (last leg from Michigan; Denver to Vegas), so I reckon 1.35K in fuel ain't nowheres near fulla jet juice, but I ups my guess anyways from 144K to 147,801 pds. 'n 2 ounces.
Actual take-off weight they give: 148K.
W/a little guesstimation ('n a lotta dumb luck), come w/in 2 hunnerd pounds of the plane's take-off weight.
what i been doin is printing up articles and pix we run into on the web that i think he'd like on both side of 6 pages of printer paper and writing in the margins through the day then shipping em off coupla times a week.
i think AO should natter at em, thow in a few FY's and post it off.
you can send him pix and the funny papers folded up in an envelope.
that and a $9 US money order.
he can use a few bucks, he was flat broke when he went in.
no fault of his, just storing his stuff and paying off his bills.
ya, he's still waiting for a good classification, he stuck in a funky holding pen, everyone is weird as can be and he's had the same three books for 2 or three weeks now.
he misses his cats, is hoping to work release in sept. go back to school. he'll get transferred next month to another prison. i told him to try for the library gigs.
he thought that was a good route himself.
he has plenty of time to think there. your other life slams to a halt as soon as you walk through the doors.
that's why having a link to the real world is so important...
the o.g. is trying to welsh me on the amount of cash he owes me
(the prick)
so i told him if an all-knowing object of pure truth came and visited us and showed the o.g. how much net excess i've spent on him compared to his share of household expenditure... that he would die of fright and shame
If you have some extra time, why not head over to ePluribus Media to do a little research on the documents just released by the DOJ? They've organized the docs pretty well, made 'em searchable, and set up comment threads to discuss.
For more info, please see this thread, at the kollective.
From: Cummins, Bud (USAARE) [Bud.Cummins@usdoj.gov] Sent: Friday, December 15,2006 1257 PM To:, USAEO-USAttorneysOnly Subject: RE: It has been a great ride ...
Friends and Colleagues: Next Wednesday, December 20, will be my final day as United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Arkansas. Simply put, this is the best job I have ever had. It may be the best job there is. I am very grateful that President Bush gave me this opportunity to serve. Perhaps the best aspect of this job has been getting to know each of you and establishing contacts all over the country with such special and talented people.
I could write a long essay about my feelings about this job and my experience here over the past five years, but I know you could write the same essay. Suffice to say that it has been an honor to serve in this way and at this fime and with you. My contact information can be found below. I have not completely committed to the "next endeavor." Jody and I have four kids and the youngest is only five, so I know that whatever I do next may need to last awhile, so I am being a little picky. Maybe greedy is a better word. When Alexander Hamilton left the Department of the Treasury, he supposedly said "Having taken care of the nation's finances, I go to take a little care of my own which need my care not a little." l am currently thinking along those lines as well.
In the meantime I will be working on some individual cases and other projects.
I hope that you would never hesitate to contact me if I can be of senrice to you at any time.
from an email from a friend of mine in bangladesh. this may definitely be worth keeping an eye on and learning from... though as he says, army involvement is a bit uncomfortable...
The political situation in the country has changed over night in a very positive direction. Now we have a new interim government which is working very well and cleaning up the severely corrupted administration. On the other hand they are arresting all the "Big Fish" from circle of the corrupted politician who were accused for corruption during the last 30 years of their. Both the major political parties are now forced to face the reality and see what they have done in the last thirty years of their political power: almost nothing, except the spreading of corruption in sector of political institution. Now, with the help of the army in the background (which is a not a very comfortable fact), the interim government is determined to clean up as much as possible and organize a fair election. Even if the army is backing the Government, it is still under control of the honest personalities who also enjoy the maximum support of the people. Another positive news is that Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammod Yunus (Grameen Bank) is preparing to establish a political party which will let us, who are just fade up with the old parties, a space to participate in the healthy political process of this country. This is also welcomed by the majority of the population.
I was really scared at the beginning of January that the country is heading towards a civil war. But the on the night of 11th Jan. everything turned just upside down. It is almost a revolution, a different kind of revolution.
The most outspoken critics of the $124 billion wartime spending bill in the House are facing withering support in their fight to defeat it.
California Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey said that many of their liberal colleagues were caving under pressure from Democratic leaders who, according to at least one congressman, have threatened to block requests for new funds for his district.
They also cited MoveOn.org's endorsement of the measure Monday as a blow to their efforts.
"This is the process: people who feel strongly about this issue hold out as long as they can," said Waters. "A lot of pressure comes to bear and they can't hold up under the pressure."
The $124 billion emergency spending bill, backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), includes not only more funds this year for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also new military readiness standards, benchmarks for the Iraqi government and an Aug. 31, 2008 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
A floor vote is planned for Thursday.
Democratic leaders have also added billions in funds not related to wartime spending in a bid for more support.
That additional money was attractive for at least one lawmaker, Rep. Peter DeFazio ☼ (D-Ore.), an Out of Iraq Caucus member. His spokeswoman, Danielle Langone, cited $400 million for a one-year reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act.
"That's pretty vital for our district, so we'll be voting for the bill," Langone said.
He points out that Tony Snow's op-ed and comments on Faux about Executive Privilege during the Clinton era fly directly in the face of the talking points he will be trotting out.
Hoping they can clean up the corruption and establish a government with a minimum of violence. Having the military act as a police force will make that tricky.
Greenwald quotes Snow's op-ed, dated March 29, 1998:
"Evidently, Mr. Clinton wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration. Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything. He would have a constitutional right to cover up.
Chances are that the courts will hurl such a claim out, but it will take time.
One gets the impression that Team Clinton values its survival more than most people want justice and thus will delay without qualm. But as the clock ticks, the public's faith in Mr. Clinton will ebb away for a simple reason: Most of us want no part of a president who is cynical enough to use the majesty of his office to evade the one thing he is sworn to uphold -- the rule of law."
the whole situation sounds tricky and delicate. he's not typically very optimistic, more of a cynic. writing in english is hard, though. (something i understand well!) i'm sure there are many more detailed reasons for his optimism. i'm supposed to see him in april so i'll hear more of the details then. i'll let you know. yunus' organizing does seem like a good thing.
As soon a Libby figures out he is alone, he will flip on Rove. Oh yes! Rove will be arrested. He will be frog marched out of the White House. Fitz is just pretending to be done with this case. In the end Bush will be impeached and so will Cheney. You mark my words Fitzmas will be the END of the Bush administration.
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Article Tools Sponsored By By DAVID C. IGLESIAS Published: March 21, 2007
Albuquerque
WITH this week’s release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters.
...
What’s more, their narrative has largely ignored that I was one of just two United States attorneys in the country to create a voter-fraud task force in 2004. Mine was bipartisan, and it included state and local law enforcement and election officials.
After reviewing more than 100 complaints of voter fraud, I felt there was one possible case that should be prosecuted federally. I worked with the F.B.I. and the Justice Department’s public integrity section. As much as I wanted to prosecute the case, I could not overcome evidentiary problems. The Justice Department and the F.B.I. did not disagree with my decision in the end not to prosecute.
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President Bush addressed this scandal yesterday. I appreciate his gratitude for my service — this marks the first time I have been thanked. But only a written retraction by the Justice Department setting the record straight regarding my performance would settle the issue for me.
David C. Iglesias was United States attorney for the District of New Mexico from October 2001 through last month.
was helping the hood kids with some bass tabs at a music site and their lil gambling pop up froze the machine and we ended up with none of the windows i had up from this week.
so wed link sends ya to googleland and parks ya at yer home page.
375 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 375 of 375Its official -- Bush White House on Patrick Fitzgerald performance: "has not distinguished himself either positively or negatively." That includes his performance in indicting key officials of Hollinger Corporation, a neo-con multinational media operation controlled by ex-Chairman Lord Conrad Black, Richard Perle, and Henry Kissinger.
*******
March 20, 2007 -- On March 14, 2007, WMR reported that a copy of a March 2005 Justice Department e-mail sent to the White House listing all 93 U.S. Attorneys in three categories:
"Bold = Recommend retaining; strong U.S. attorneys who have managed well, and exhibited loyalty to the president and attorney general. Strikeout = Recommend removing; weak U.S. attorneys who have been ineffectual managers and prosecutors, chafed against administration initiatives, etc. Nothing = No recommendation; have not distinguished themselves either positively or negatively"
was taped over in several cases.
i can write chubby a letter
i don't have his address tho
i can get it
The copy of the e-mail was sent to Congressional investigators looking at the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys. WMR noticed that one of the names, that of Northern Illinois U.S. Attorney (and CIA Leakgate special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald), was also taped over. A non-redacted copy of the e-mail now shows that Fitzgerald was put into the third category by the Justice Department: "No recommendation; has not distinguished himself either positively or negatively."
We wrote, "If it turns out that Fitzgerald was . . . on the chopping block to lose his Chicago base of operations" that could constitute White House interference in Fitzgerald's investigation of the CIA leak. The malfeasance of the Bush administration clearly calls for Congress to re-enact the Independent Special Counsel statute with a view towards the criminal prosecution of Karl Rove and other senior White House personnel.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Love this graphic from FDL:
Deal or no Deal
toniD said...
Love this graphic from FDL:
Deal or no Deal
March 20, 2007 8:11 PM
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Very nice.
So the Democrats say they will subpoena Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, and Bush says he'll defy them. Mark Kleiman asks the question:
What leverage do the Judiciary Committees have over the Administration with respect to the Overblown Personnel Matter? Why shouldn't Fred Fielding just stonewall to his heart's content?
Answer: a Congressional subpoena isn't a request, it's an order. (Sub poena: "under pain.") If the order is ignored, the Committee that issued the subpoena asks the parent body to vote a Contempt-of-Congress citation. Contempt of Congress is like contept of court: defiance means jail. In principle, the Justice Department could refuse to prosecute but at that point even the Republicans in Congress would probably have reached the limits of their tolerance. In addition, either House of Congress has (though it seldom uses) the power to order its Sergeant-at-Arms to simply arrest anyone who defies a subpoena; that power, like civil contempt of court, is coercive rather than punitive. That is, confinement lasts only as long as defiance lasts.
The person subpoenaed can challenge the propriety of the subpoena on various grounds: for example, that the investigation doesn't actualy serve a legislative purpose, or that the material is covered by the attorney-client privilege. If the Congress has exercised its arrest powers, the person arrested can challenge the arrest by means of the writ of habeas corpus. (So far, Congress has no facilities at Guantanamo.)
Kagro X says that congress relies on the executive branch for its enforcement powers — in this case, the US Attorney from Washington, DC, who reports to Gonzales. In other words, no easy answers.
He also points to what might be on the stonewalling Bushian mind by quoting this piece from Time Magazine:
LINK
http://www.afterbirthofthecool.com/Louis%20Prima%20-%20Beep%20Beep.mp3
The limits of American Empire
What the invasion and occupation of Iraq seems to bear out is that the imperial episode in US foreign policy has failed, writes Dr Alejandro Colás
On the eve of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld was asked by an Al Jazeera journalist whether he feared his country might become a colonial power in using military force to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. “We’ve never been a colonial power,” the Defence Secretary replied. “We don’t take our force and go around the world and try to take other people’s real estate or other people’s resources, their oil. That’s just not what the United States does.”
...The USA is an especially vulnerable global hegemon because it relies on the compliance of other powerful states and local social forces in reproducing this global leadership....
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/bbkmag/20/limits.html
Savage on "double-talking slut" Barbara Walters: "[T]he woman is vermin"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703210002
ono!
don't put his address on the net you freak!
now the trolls will start sending him letters
-conbo
Here's the rest of that article:
Realize that the resolution of this stand-off will determine the extent to which the Congress is able to investigate everything that's still on their plate. If they lose this showdown, they lose their leverage in investigating NSA spying, the DeLay/Abramoff-financed Texas redistricting, Cheney's Energy Task Force, the political manipulation of science, the Plame outing… everything.
And that's why Bush is playing it this way. Remember, too, that his "administration" is populated by Watergate and Iran-Contra recidivists, chief among them Dick Cheney, who has wanted to relitigate the boundaries of executive power since forever. Cheney and others on the inside believe that this time, with a friendlier judiciary, these issues can be decided the "right" way, overturning the victories won against Richard Nixon's insane theories of executive power.
Their thinking is that they'll either win it in courts, or run out the clock trying.
And the day they get five Justices to say they're right, everything you thought you knew about checks and balances becomes wrong.
Chuck Schumer is talking tough now. With so much on the line, will he be able to back it up when things get ugly? Because it looks like that's where we're headed.
Jon Stewart has John Bolten on as a guest!
delete it, hurry
-conbo
i know its not his 'home' but his real name is up there
toniD said...
So the Democrats say they will subpoena Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, and Bush says he'll defy them. Mark Kleiman asks the question:
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I say this is great!!!
They are playing this SOOO badly... (Karl Rove that is).
I agree that he is NOT and NEVER WAS smart or clever... he just managed to escape justice more than once.
He has NO friends anywhere at this point. The Repubs don't like him either.
Ha!
And remember... his #3 goal, as he stated, was to get rid of defense attorneys...
...oops.
British troops pull out of base in Iraq's Basra
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - British troops in Iraq's southern Basra oil port pulled out of their heavily attacked base in the heart of the city on Tuesday, the first to be handed to Iraqi forces who are slowly taking control of security.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said in February that Britain would begin withdrawing a quarter of its 7,000 troops, who are stationed mainly in and around Basra in Iraq's largely stable Shi'ite south, in the coming months.
The commander of British forces in southern Iraq, Major-General Jonathan Shaw, characterised the pullout, on the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, as a repositioning of his troops and not a withdrawal.
He dismissed suggestions that British troops had been "bombed out" of the Old State Building in central Basra, a frequent target of mortar attack, saying the pullout was according to a timetable.
The troops have moved to Basra airport, the biggest of four bases still in British hands. The others are the Shatt al-Arab Hotel in northern Basra, the British consulate at Basra Palace and the large Shuaiba logistical base west of the city.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/20/worldupdates/2007-03-20T193440Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-291691-1&sec=Worldupdates
//delete it, hurry//
sunshine jim put it up there
i copied & pasted it from him
but if you want me to, i will
I can't believe he has Bolton on!
Bolton is a weird dude!
He won't laugh of course. He is a PSYCHO!
dada said...
March 20, 2007 8:20 PM
Jeremy Scahill, on DN this morning explained how the private contrators would fill the void of the british pulling out...
retards
he is going to be mad
oh well
i have copied and pasted it
now i have to write him a letter too
-conbo
*contractors
He is so absolute in what he is saying. That is always a sign of psychosis.
The psych tests they sometimes give that are basically hundreds of questions that are very similar... well... the trick is that they are subtly different and a "normal" person will answer each one differently. The psychotic person will never vary. Perfect consistency.
---------------
air-ono said...
for crying out loud, connie
who do you think i am ?
star-vox!?
March 20, 2007 8:07 PM
*****************
For clarification, I am not air-ono.
-------------
(air-ono the enigma, why that particular link?)
um Ono
can you paste that again
i thought I had it
heh
-conbo
March 20, 2007 -- Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel, the former Democratic Senator from Alaska who spearheaded the de-funding of the Vietnam War and the draft and released the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, has protested his exclusion from the New Hampshire presidential debate.
CNN, the Manchester Union Leader, and Hearst-owned WMUR-TV formally decided to exclude Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Mike Gravel from the debates they will be sponsoring in New Hampshire. In response to the decision, Gravel said, "By denying me the same opportunity afforded to other presidential candidates to discuss in public debate the major issues that confront our nation, the sponsoring media outlets––CNN, The Manchester Union Leader and the Hearst-owned WMUR-TV––are exercising censorship, unbecoming in a free society. They are dictating whose political voice they will permit New Hampshire and American citizens to hear.”
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
//now the trolls will start sending him letters//
why should we be the only ones to suffer
why should we suffer in silence
he's the one behind bars
besides, it'll make him feel at home
: )
Greetings:
Tell me it isn't true? I was reading some of the posts from this morning. The new owners offered Mark Maron Sam's show?
They couldn't.
They wouldn't.
Oh say it isn't so?
I wonder if Sam is going to fix the other blog
-conbo
* Bacchanalia. During this week-long extravaganza, work and business will be suspended so that all adults can enjoy sexual play, whether it be solo, dyadic, or in groups. To promote acceptance of the holiday, the Fool Czar will head up a new Federal Bureau of Lust. Served by advisors drawn not
from the ranks of porn stars and scientific sex researchers but from
tantrically trained poets and musicians, the Bureau will sponsor
educational campaigns to help every citizen learn to honor the libido as a sacred gift from the Goddess.
http://tinyurl.com/qaj62
Kirk Bowers
302414 R4-D13
Washington Correction Center
PO Box 900 Shelton Washington
98584
!
(this message will self-destruct in 5 minutes)
Krok Baxter
323719 R2-D2
Washington Correction Center
PO Box 900 Shelton Washington
98584
it ain't so, edna
//Jeremy Scahill, on DN this morning explained how the private contrators would fill the void of the british pulling out..//
DN is that democracy now?
-conbo
it was all a big misunderstanding by maron's big flapping mouth
I have this handsome thing
going on!
Yes.
DN is Democracy Now...with the Goddess Amy Goodman...
March 20, 2007 -- Yesterday's article on Karl Rove's and the GOP's manipulation of foreign elections brought us further indications and warnings (I&Ws) about possible additional interference by the Republicans. One I&W suggested that Chiquita Foods was funneling money on behalf of the GOP to right-wing elements, including paramilitary death forces, tied to the present government of President Alvaro Uribe, who George W. Bush just visited in Colombia. Another I&W pointed to past GOP assistance for the Likud Party of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel. If the GOP is conducting illegal election tampering and funding it abroad, the party is running afoul of a number of foreign laws, as well as Racketeering-Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) criminal laws in the United States. The Democrats in Congress should begin immediate hearings on the interference of U.S. political parties in foreign elections.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Would Like to stay up and chat but I am fighting sleep and I need it right now.
So Good Night all.
Later
Thanks Ono.
But are you lying?
Are you?
Huh?
Huh?
night ToniD
:)
-conbo
because he talks about his life in a rapid hustler fashion he considers himself worldly & funny
his fans obviously do...
they think they're down there on the street being hip, shooting the breeze, selling drugs
oops,
marc's off the drugs
did you know that...
well listen to him for 5 minutes & he'll tell you... without any prompting... he also doesn't cheat on his current wife...
he needs a good smack in the mouth to make him reflect in the slow lane for a while; and bruised swollen lips has that property
g'night Toni...
do ever insult my truthiness, connie
: )
however, so you can have a comfortable sleep, double check with jim
and apologize to me in the morning
air-ono said...
do ever insult my truthiness, connie
: )
however, so you can have a comfortable sleep, double check with jim
and apologize to me in the morning
I am confused
Did you drink the whole bottle of NyQuil again?
-conbo
//(air-ono the enigma, why that particular link?)//
well, it's a most unfunny story...
(read on)
i was going to put "popeye"
when i saw your nic
and i thought your nic could do with some spinach
and well, that's my story
(toot-toot)
btw, it's a compliment...
popeye rocks!!
Good night, Toni....sleep well..
connie,
did you or did you not write the following
//But are you lying?//
at 8:44 PM
if so, does my reply not seem suitable
*
i should be the one confused...
now will people please stop asking me to explain my previous posts to them (including this one)
hint: if it doesn't make sense, then it's probably not meant to make sense
so file it away under ding-bat if it'll alleviate your confusion
(now i need a transfusion)
testes..one, two
Hey...I got my bluename back! That was a tired troll in here earlier. I have little patience with people telling us how stupid and powerless we are yet we're responsible for all the problems at the same time.
Tired rhetoric like get a haircut or love it or leave it!
--I have little patience with people telling us how stupid and powerless we are yet we're responsible for all the problems at the same time.--
They do do that sometimes, huh...good point...
omg!
(oops!)
it was edna who questioned my truthiness
*
sorry to all concerned
and when i said //do ever insult my truthiness//
of course, i meant "don't"
*
i might do a big mass delete
(including this one)
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
William Odom on Charlie Rose.
hahaha!
too late!
I copied and pasted everything
-conbo
As obscure as our blog has become....set off in this weird corner....a person would have to be a sick, lame loser to spend time trolling.
Puritans are just freaked out by the thought that someone...somewhere...mightbe having fun!
[a confusing re-enactment of what happened]
you're scolling, scrolling
struggling to meet deadlines
and everything becomes blurry after a while
so that...
edna ellen poe said
Thanks Ono.
becomes...
Anonymous said
night ToniD
[-conbo]
thereby "connie" accidently gets registered in the membrane
and makes it to print
//and makes it to print//
only to find connie tucked in bed
oh, well...
sweet dreams, precious
it's safe to say i'll never aid & abett edna ever again
: )
No fascist likes to see cohesiveness of a different stripe....
trolls
eh!
they're dead in the water
----------------
Crank Bait said...
March 20, 2007 8:25 PM
*********************
Crank Bait,
I had no doubt that it was your post. (If I did, I would not have posted my earlier message). I understand why you resorted to subterfuge.
Seriously, I thought you made a good point in your post. This is what I should have said earlier.
Good point about the party power trumping all other concerns.
I will not sue. I do apologize. No offense intended.
Excellent idea:
"Think of it as a non-violent, passive protest...sort of a literary sit-in."
Can I join the literary sit-in?
if trolls didn't troll, they'd be getting drunk at their local strip-joint
so i wouldn't mind them so much if they put a few bucks down the front of my panties ocassionally...
the cheap bastards
[collecting the dots]
Star Vox said...
//I understand why you resorted to subterfuge.//
Crank Bait said...
//(I used air-ono's return address.)//
joining the dots of raw data...
now analysing the dots...
E!-gad
star-vox is popeye!
and crank is j. wellington wimpy!
(i knew it)
'Dreadful'
Someone ate the baby.
It's rather sad to say.
Someone ate the baby
So she won't be out to play.
We'll never hear her whiney cry
Or have to feel if she is dry.
We'll never hear her asking "Why?"
Someone ate the baby.
Someone ate the baby.
It's absolutely clear
Someone ate the baby
'Cause the baby isn't here.
We'll give away her toys and clothes.
We'll never have to wipe her nose.
Dad says, "That's the way it goes."
Someone ate the baby.
Someone ate the baby.
What a frightful thing to eat!
Someone ate the baby
Though she wasn't very sweet.
It was a heartless thing to do.
The policemen haven't got a clue.
I simply can't imagine who
Would go and (burp) eat the baby.
-- Shel Silverstein
NEW HOLIDAYS
* Unhappy Hour. During this gala bitch fest each Tuesday afternoon,
celebrants will have license to howl and mutter about everything that
hurts their feelings. Having flushed all their venom in one neat ritual spew,
they'll be free to enjoy generous thoughts and expansive fantasies the
rest of the time.
I wrote to the Rajah on eight pages of 80 grit sandpaper.
I hope he knows what to do with it.
(I used air-ono's return address.)
hahaha!
-conbo
* Dare to Be Boring Day. We all deserve a break from the oppressive
demands to appear smart and to be entertaining. On Dare to Be Boring
Day, it will be socially unacceptable to demonstrate your wit and verve.
Long-winded, rambling monologues full of obscure details will be
mandatory. The more clichés and buzzwords you use, the better. Tell
worn-out stories your friends have already heard several times. Flesh out
your disjointed sentences with awkward silences. Discuss at length your
plans for switching laundry detergents, the collection of matchbooks you
had as a child, and the time you almost traveled to the Wal-Mart in
another town, but didn't.
_______
New research opens a window on the minds of plants
*
Catharine, the new Rob newsletter rules... :)
connie, how could you laugh with such gay abandon
when i...
i was the butt in that joke
...sorry, you are no longer precious
: )
wow
i guess i didn't get the joke
I thought it was funny because it meant that Chubby could sand his out of jail
-conbo
im not that brilliant most of the time
i'm more like an idiot savant
-conbo
The Ups of Pleasure and Downs of Satisfaction, by Daniel Gilbertson
Hive-moralists for millennia have lamented the innate, pervasive tendency of human beings to kick-out in bursts of irrationality and pleasure seeking. Extrasocial self-indulgence.
It is important to distinguish between two very different hedonic reactions.
1. Hedonic experiences caused by activating higher-faster-future brains at the service of and controlled by self. Pleasures.
2. Intoxication and narcotic escape experiences caused by activating slower-lower circuits. Satisfactions.
Both of these experiences take consciousness away from domesticated robothood. Pleasures move one into the post-social-self-actualized future. Up from hive routine. Intoxicants, tranquilizers and narcotics move one back to the past—down from domestication, to primate and mammalian instinctual satisfactions.
Civilized terrestrial humans, robotically and blindly harnessed to species tasks, dependent upon gene-hive rewards for duty well-done, apparently need to slow-down, turn-off, escape domesticated pressure. Boredom and social inefficiency would result without some sequential opportunity to regress from hive morality, to activate the primitive circuits of the brain. Intoxicants and narcotic escapes are built-in devices to allow ritual regression to earlier, lower, slower stages. Their power and delight is that they are conventionally naughty.
Crank Bait said...
Sue me.
March 20, 2007 8:25 PM
____________
Onna Liza-bed.
(e-Liza onna Doolittle innernet platform.)
----------------
Crank Bait said March 20, 2007 9:35 PM
-------------------------
If you post as "other" on this blog, it will ask you for a name and web page.
You could add "Sister Resistor" as your web page if you desired.
Check out my name for an example. I include some type of web page -- so my name will appear in blue.
One can post a link to a referenced story too! Then the reader can click on the person's name to go directly to the web page cited.
//St. Paddy's Parade Turns Ugly in Colorado Springs//
speaking of paddy whacks on st. paddy's day...
on that day ireland defeated pakistan in the 1-day international world cup series, being played in crank's old stamping ground, the west indies, and in the process eliminating them from the finals
and if you know your cricket, it's the same as a frog killing a tiger
in other words, a huge disgrace
anyway, the next day the pakistani coach is found dead!
although "The post-mortem into the death of Mr Woolmer was inconclusive," his death is suspicious...
//[he] was discovered by hotel staff on the floor of his room with his mouth wide open, blood was discovered on the bathroom floor, there was vomit on the walls and signs of diarrhoea.//
i for one don't suspect foul play...
indian bookies "probably" fixed the match so it was out of the coach's hands (now cold)
at any rate, if it he was murder he wasn't to blame for the loss
(cold comfort, to be sure, to be sure)
breaking:
The 18-minute gap, Bush-style
-conbo
"Double doh!"
re: //i guess i didn't get the joke//
to tell the truth i didn't get it either
it was vague &/or you had to have on your possession a great wealth of inside knowledge
all i know is that it sounded funny
and that i cast aspersions...
i've said too much already and jeopardized my life
sorry, i can't say anymore...
i'm being followed
the next day i'm found dead
there's a note in my hand...
"i killed the malaysian prime minister & the pakistanis coach"
2 guys in trenchcoats look on as my body is stretchered into the van
crank: "the prick"
star-vox: "yeah"
//it was vague &/or you had to have on your possession a great wealth of inside knowledge//
i was right! i understood it
Here is the inside knowldge:
sand paper can be used to create friction which can eventually, sand something down, say a wall in a jail cell.
a little far fetched, but it was a joke so it didn't have to be realistic.
-conbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Z_08o108E
WSB - Thanksgiving Prayer
May the sun bring you new energy
by day, may the moon softly restore
you by night, may the rain wash
away your worries, may the breeze
blow new strength into your being,
may you walk gently through the
world and know its beauty all the
days of your life.
~~Apache Blessing
//You have no idea how many Bics I ruined while writing a letter on eight pages of 80 grit.//
hahaha
-conbo
ok, here's what i think what crank's joke was a alluding to:
the sandpaper was meant to be used as toilet paper and this would make chubby angry
hence, the return address to me
in which case i was making a joke about the joke, hence, the "butt"
um
thats funny too
:)
-conbo
re: //Here is the inside knowldge//
interesting theory, connie
not funny,
but interesting
air-ono said...
//[he] was discovered by hotel staff on the floor of his room with his mouth wide open, blood was discovered on the bathroom floor, there was vomit on the walls and signs of diarrhoea.//
March 20, 2007 10:12 PM
______________________
Curt Vommigut?
Now I am completey confused
Crank Bait
what did your joke mean?
was it even funny?
-conbo
re: //thats funny too//
ok, yours was funny *too*
: )
p.s. and interesting
re: //Curt Vommigut?//
you'll be followed by 2 men in trenchcoats too, herr dr
//interesting theory, connie
not funny,
but interesting //
its not a theory...why else would you write on sandpaper and send it to someone in jail?
like you know the old cake in a saw jokes
-conbo
Crank Bait said...
Next time I'll just tape a note and a stamp to a mill bastard.
March 20, 2007 10:28 PM
____________________
Address it to Filonious Monk.
saw baked in a cake that is
-conbo
air-ono said...
in which case i was making a joke about the joke, hence, the "butt"
March 20, 2007 10:31 PM
______________
But butt ugly.
explain your joke Crank Bait
-conbo
as they lower dr's coffin into the grave
crank: "the prick"
star-vox: "yeah"
[wait!]
was it dr's body in that coffin
or is he lying on a beach somewhere in the west indies plotting his revenge
*
(dun dun dun)
air-ono said...
you'll be followed by 2 men in trenchcoats too, herr dr
March 20, 2007 10:36 PM
______________
Sounds kinky, great-blue herr ono.
re: //like you know the old cake in a saw jokes//
hmmm...
interesting
looks lie we got ourselves a pot-boiler
Im right
My joke was funnier
yours just wasn't
-conbo
Anonymous said...
explain your joke Crank Bait
-conbo
March 20, 2007 10:42 PM
_______________
This, I b'lieve, is the nearest to sacriledge this blog is gotten.
By my lights, anyways.
I just wanted to know.
But if that makes me a heathen then I will just assume I was correct in interrupting the joke.
-conbo
is it me or has the blog been transported to foggy ole london town
cobble stoned alley ways
illuminated by gas-lights
and wankers calling you "guv"
too much NyQuil
-conbo
if you hadn't interpreted the joke, he woulda had time to finish.
Crank Bait said...
I cannot express how upset I am that Chubby is not available to quip about The Rajah of Bhong Hits 4 Jesus.
March 20, 2007 10:44 PM
_______________
"Jesus, don't bogart that joint!"
i saw the joke way after he posted it
and i laughed
even though what I laughed at wasn't 'funny'
please check the date stamps
I guess I don't understand how sandpaper as toilet paper is funny
woe is me
-conbo
how many times must i be painted with the //NyQuil// brush
i'm beginning to look like a //NyQuil// billboard
lol!
nah, i'm kidding
honestly, i'm kidding
no seriously, i'm really kidding and i'm not fucking kidding about kidding
dr said...
Crank Bait said...
I cannot express how upset I am that Chubby is not available to quip about The Rajah of Bhong Hits 4 Jesus.
March 20, 2007 10:44 PM
_______________
"Jesus, don't bogart that joint!"
March 20, 2007 10:55 PM
ok I got that one
Jesus as the cuss word.
its a pun
-conbo
-----------------------------
air-ono said March 20, 2007 10:24 PM
air-ono said March 20, 2007 10:42 PM
dr said March 20, 2007 10:43 PM
***********************************
Wow!
I thought I joined Crank Bait in a non-violent passive protest…sort of a literary sit-in.
Crank Bait said:
"Think of it as a non-violent, passive protest...sort of a literary sit-in."
I guess I don't understand how sandpaper as toilet paper is funny
woe is me
-conbo
March 20, 2007 10:57 PM
______________
True grit: may your TP of life never be butt ugly.
to tie up how & why i thought cranks joke that led to all this cuffle, via:
//too much NyQuil//
i don't know what ny-quil is
(i could find out, but for the purposes of this post i'll remain ignorant of it's effects)
i suspect it's some trippy medication
and although "you're off your meds" put-downs don't take my fancy
i understand the jist of it...
so despite the "vaguenss", i get by
and people nod in approval of me, "wow, that ono sure knows his meds"
Sacre bleu!
IDed and sacrile[d]ge, ODed.
NyQuil is cough medicine
Its not a 'nutty' medication
Your good at guessing things aren't you?
-conbo
//Your good at guessing things aren't you?//
I wasn't being sarcastic
-conbo
what i meant was you are good at putting things together when you don't know anything.
-conbo
[that 1st sentence again:]
i'll tie up how & why i thought cranks joke, that led to all this cufuffle, was "funny" without fully grasping it
i'll do it via connies //too much NyQuil// quip
*
(ty)
[the rest remains the same]
//what i meant was//
no need to explain...
i know exactly what you meant
for it's beyond the scope of this blog to explain
wtf?
-conbo
i have no idea what you are talking about now
so i talked to CB on the phone today,
he was hoping for more letters, all he's gotten are mine.
he sait tell he does'nt need money that bad, he's just bored out of his skull...
he sait to suggest printting up some blog pages and sending that, so we don't even have to write anything...
i told him the blog was composed of the dearest most wonderful, incredibly disorganised humans on the planet with a million reasons for not writing him.
he laughed, we had to hang up. the ten minutes we talked cost $20 US.
he loves ya all.
[that 1st sentence again:]
i'll tie up how & why i thought cranks joke, that led to all this cufuffle, was "funny" without fully grasping it
i'll do it via connies //too much NyQuil// quip
*
(ty)
[the rest remains the same]
this
i found to be confusing
-conbo
ok, s.j.
here's my solemn promise:
(cough)
I AIN'T BLOGGING AGAIN TILL I'VE DISPATCHED A LETTER TO CHUBBY
(cough)
so help me god
it's not for the literally minded, connie
p.s. it's more for the surreally minded who don't give a fig
(like me)
oh I see
i should just go back to being dumb
i can do that
-conbo
cough!
(i'll tell em)
cough...
oh I see
i should just go back to being dumb
i can do that
-conbo
this was in response to this
[that 1st sentence again:]
i'll tie up how & why i thought cranks joke, that led to all this cufuffle, was "funny" without fully grasping it
i'll do it via connies //too much NyQuil// quip
*
(ty)
[the rest remains the same]
-conbo
i feel like I hurt myself
Anonymous said...
Your good at guessing things aren't you?
-conbo
March 20, 2007 11:10 PM
______________
Your comment ain't but an excuse to (shamelessly) brag onto how lucky I got here a coupla weeks back.
Hadda flight to Vegas here recent. Offered a prize of a coupla tickets to "The Blue Man Group" at the Venetian to whomever could come closest to guessin' the plane's weight (gross: plane, peeps, baggage, fuel, etc.).
Flight attendant she give a coupla clues: number a peoples (155, plus 7 total in crew), gallons o' fuel (1,350).
So I broke the plane down into its component parts in my melon 'n done me some guessimatin' 'n come up w/a provisional figure a 144K.
So then what happens?
Then she give the game away is what happens, or so I thought.
Before axin' us to submit our figure for the contest (gotta be in pounds 'n ounces for the [ludicrous] tie-breaker), she give ever'one the gross maximum take-off capacity for the plane itself: that bein' 169.7K.
Well, hell, thinks I. Surely at least half the plane woulda guessed wildly in error 'n off-base (anywheres from a million pounds to 20K and everywheres in between).
But now, w/the maximum gross take-off figure, ever'body knows it's gotta be *somewhere's* close (but under!) 169K or so. Now ever'body's gotta rough parameter w/in which to guess.
Thought I hadda chance to win there for a minnit, but now luck enters the equation.
Well, it's a short flight (last leg from Michigan; Denver to Vegas), so I reckon 1.35K in fuel ain't nowheres near fulla jet juice, but I ups my guess anyways from 144K to 147,801 pds. 'n 2 ounces.
Actual take-off weight they give: 148K.
W/a little guesstimation ('n a lotta dumb luck), come w/in 2 hunnerd pounds of the plane's take-off weight.
So me 'n a friend seen us some Blue Man Group.
Which were quite a spectacle, take it all around.
Night, owls.
damn, connie
YOU'RE NOT DUMB!!
my stuff is deliberately "dumb"
in other words, there's really nothing there
what i been doin is printing up articles and pix we run into on the web that i think he'd like on both side of 6 pages of printer paper and writing in the margins through the day then shipping em off coupla times a week.
i think AO should natter at em, thow in a few FY's and post it off.
you can send him pix and the funny papers folded up in an envelope.
that and a $9 US money order.
he can use a few bucks, he was flat broke when he went in.
no fault of his, just storing his stuff and paying off his bills.
CB's an occasional asshole, so am i, WTF over.
i love the blue man group!
lucky you Dr!
:)
have a good night
-conbo
i will write CB a letter
i will, I will
print out the pages and send them to him is a good idea
we are thinking about him
-conbo
wow!
bravo, doc
Q: how did you know how much a gallon of gasoline weighs ?
i mean, i know you knew...
the question really is why?
why would anyone know the weight of gasoline
: )
printing out the blog is cheating
beside, my printer don't work
: (
[it works but there's no touchy-feelie communication going on with the actual computer]
I have no idea how to do that either
Do any of us here have any practical knowlegde?
hahaha
I just realized that is what we all have in common
-conbo
ya, he's still waiting for a good classification, he stuck in a funky holding pen, everyone is weird as can be and he's had the same three books for 2 or three weeks now.
he misses his cats, is hoping to work release in sept. go back to school. he'll get transferred next month to another prison. i told him to try for the library gigs.
he thought that was a good route himself.
he has plenty of time to think there. your other life slams to a halt as soon as you walk through the doors.
that's why having a link to the real world is so important...
besides, i promised him i'd hustle you all.
ok ok
i'll write him a lot
sheesh
-conbo
what about Crank Bait
he should too
he constantly bemoans his abscense
-conbo
[there's a riot going on]
the o.g. is trying to welsh me on the amount of cash he owes me
(the prick)
so i told him if an all-knowing object of pure truth came and visited us and showed the o.g. how much net excess i've spent on him compared to his share of household expenditure... that he would die of fright and shame
: )
//what about Crank Bait//
who?
oh, you mean the hot-air balloon
//he constantly bemoans his abscense//
for crank, abstinence makes the heart grow fonder
fonder,
jane fonder!?
(shaken, not stirred)
this post will culminate in the same number of comments as there are days in a leap year
366
this one'll click along for a bit.
nice and fast, if ya have broad band.
Good evening.
Request:
If you have some extra time, why not head over to ePluribus Media to do a little research on the documents just released by the DOJ? They've organized the docs pretty well, made 'em searchable, and set up comment threads to discuss.
For more info, please see this thread, at the kollective.
ya WFC
that's an interesting thread so far.
should be pretty good as people run thru the data.
oooh. this is sad:
A letter of resigination, but its not happy:
from Bud Cummins,serving the Eastern District of Arkansas.
read it here. you can't copy and paste with adobe or I would. If you can I don't know how
it just struck me as very very sad. He states does not even have a job lined up and he has five kids!
he leaves his contact information in case anyone has any ideas for him.
-conbo
well damn!
let me try again:
link
-conbo
ok, you have to scroll through to get to his letter of resignation,
but its worth it once you do.
That letter does not sound like a person who actually wants to quit his job.
I am not exaggerating.
-conbo
This whole thing is just fucked up. I keep waiting for "rage fatigue" to set in, but it doesn't.
Anyway, I'm gonna read some of the docs that they have up about Carol Lam, and crash out.
Many blessings
Im not kidding, Cis.
I wish I could copy and paste his letter of res.
do you know how to do that on Adobe?
-conbo
I think so. One sec.
thank you!
-conbo
From: Cummins, Bud (USAARE) [Bud.Cummins@usdoj.gov]
Sent: Friday, December 15,2006 1257 PM
To:, USAEO-USAttorneysOnly
Subject: RE: It has been a great ride ...
Friends and Colleagues:
Next Wednesday, December 20, will be my final day as United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Arkansas. Simply
put, this is the best job I have ever had. It may be the best job there is. I am very grateful that President Bush gave me
this opportunity to serve. Perhaps the best aspect of this job has been getting to know each of you and establishing
contacts all over the country with such special and talented people.
I could write a long essay about my feelings about this job and my experience here over the past five years, but I know you
could write the same essay. Suffice to say that it has been an honor to serve in this way and at this fime and with you.
My contact information can be found below. I have not completely committed to the "next endeavor." Jody and I have
four kids and the youngest is only five, so I know that whatever I do next may need to last awhile, so I am being a little
picky. Maybe greedy is a better word. When Alexander Hamilton left the Department of the Treasury, he supposedly said
"Having taken care of the nation's finances, I go to take a little care of my own which need my care not a little." l am
currently thinking along those lines as well.
In the meantime I will be working on some individual cases and other projects.
I hope that you would never hesitate to contact me if I can be of senrice to you at any time.
Best Regards,
Bud
Bud Cummins
Probably a guy whose views I wouldn't share. He still got hosed for not being a big enough hack, and that sucks.
thanks Cis
how did you do that?
-conbo
Right click anywhere on the pdf, switch from "Hand Tool" to "Select Tool"
Then you can copy and paste. Keep an eye out, pdfs will sometimes misread what's written in the document.
my son woke up
i will figure out how to do it
i saw another letter of res.
that looked sad, too
i am going to try to find all of them
bbl
-conbo
Good night again, #.
Later
from an email from a friend of mine in bangladesh. this may definitely be worth keeping an eye on and learning from... though as he says, army involvement is a bit uncomfortable...
The political situation in the country has changed over night in a very positive direction. Now we have a new interim government which is working very well and cleaning up the severely corrupted administration. On the other hand they are arresting all the "Big Fish" from circle of the corrupted politician who were accused for corruption during the last 30 years of their. Both the major political parties are now forced to face the reality and see what they have done in the last thirty years of their political power: almost nothing, except the spreading of corruption in sector of political institution. Now, with the help of the army in the background (which is a not a very comfortable fact), the interim government is determined to clean up as much as possible and organize a fair election. Even if the army is backing the Government, it is still under control of the honest personalities who also enjoy the maximum support of the people.
Another positive news is that Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammod Yunus (Grameen Bank) is preparing to establish a political party which will let us, who are just fade up with the old parties, a space to participate in the healthy political process of this country. This is also welcomed by the majority of the population.
I was really scared at the beginning of January that the country is heading towards a civil war. But the on the night of 11th Jan. everything turned just upside down. It is almost a revolution, a different kind of revolution.
Sorry, too weird not to share.
Kidnap The Sandy Claws, She Wants Revenge
Yeah. Bizarre.
Also, from those new Intel ads:
Different Sound, Teddybears featuring Malte
www.politico.com--
By: Josephine Hearn March 21, 2007 05:06 AM EST
The most outspoken critics of the $124 billion wartime spending bill in the House are facing withering support in their fight to defeat it.
California Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey said that many of their liberal colleagues were caving under pressure from Democratic leaders who, according to at least one congressman, have threatened to block requests for new funds for his district.
They also cited MoveOn.org's endorsement of the measure Monday as a blow to their efforts.
"This is the process: people who feel strongly about this issue hold out as long as they can," said Waters. "A lot of pressure comes to bear and they can't hold up under the pressure."
The $124 billion emergency spending bill, backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), includes not only more funds this year for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also new military readiness standards, benchmarks for the Iraqi government and an Aug. 31, 2008 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
A floor vote is planned for Thursday.
Democratic leaders have also added billions in funds not related to wartime spending in a bid for more support.
That additional money was attractive for at least one lawmaker, Rep. Peter DeFazio ☼ (D-Ore.), an Out of Iraq Caucus member. His spokeswoman, Danielle Langone, cited $400 million for a one-year reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act.
"That's pretty vital for our district, so we'll be voting for the bill," Langone said.
Also, check out
Running Up That Hill, Placebo (Kate Bush cover)
My Violent Heart, Nine Inch Nails
And don't miss Greenawald today.
He points out that Tony Snow's op-ed and comments on Faux about Executive Privilege during the Clinton era fly directly in the face of the talking points he will be trotting out.
Fun, fun, fun.
Good news, j?
Hoping they can clean up the corruption and establish a government with a minimum of violence. Having the military act as a police force will make that tricky.
Greenwald quotes Snow's op-ed, dated March 29, 1998:
"Evidently, Mr. Clinton wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration. Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything. He would have a constitutional right to cover up.
Chances are that the courts will hurl such a claim out, but it will take time.
One gets the impression that Team Clinton values its survival more than most people want justice and thus will delay without qualm. But as the clock ticks, the public's faith in Mr. Clinton will ebb away for a simple reason: Most of us want no part of a president who is cynical enough to use the majesty of his office to evade the one thing he is sworn to uphold -- the rule of law."
hey, waiting.
the whole situation sounds tricky and delicate. he's not typically very optimistic, more of a cynic. writing in english is hard, though. (something i understand well!) i'm sure there are many more detailed reasons for his optimism. i'm supposed to see him in april so i'll hear more of the details then. i'll let you know.
yunus' organizing does seem like a good thing.
K.
I'm gonna catch some z's now. Have to quit reading before bed. Keeps me up hours later than I should be.
Many blessings, j-sama
sweet dreams, waiting.
As soon a Libby figures out he is alone, he will flip on Rove. Oh yes! Rove will be arrested. He will be frog marched out of the White House. Fitz is just pretending to be done with this case. In the end Bush will be impeached and so will Cheney. You mark my words Fitzmas will be the END of the Bush administration.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/opinion/21iglesias.html
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By DAVID C. IGLESIAS
Published: March 21, 2007
Albuquerque
WITH this week’s release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters.
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What’s more, their narrative has largely ignored that I was one of just two United States attorneys in the country to create a voter-fraud task force in 2004. Mine was bipartisan, and it included state and local law enforcement and election officials.
After reviewing more than 100 complaints of voter fraud, I felt there was one possible case that should be prosecuted federally. I worked with the F.B.I. and the Justice Department’s public integrity section. As much as I wanted to prosecute the case, I could not overcome evidentiary problems. The Justice Department and the F.B.I. did not disagree with my decision in the end not to prosecute.
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President Bush addressed this scandal yesterday. I appreciate his gratitude for my service — this marks the first time I have been thanked. But only a written retraction by the Justice Department setting the record straight regarding my performance would settle the issue for me.
David C. Iglesias was United States attorney for the District of New Mexico from October 2001 through last month.
Oops..kinda messed that one up..
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qamvidb1RRc
Chicken Lady works the phone sex line
For some reason Wednesday comments section is screwed up. It should be back to normal tomorrow.
not sam said...
For some reason Wednesday comments section is screwed up. It should be back to normal tomorrow.
March 21, 2007 5:33 PM
Thanks not sam. This little blog always was a strange bit of cyberspace.
I couldn't get wednesdays comments page to come up even though I have a google account.
ya, just had the same prob.
was helping the hood kids with some bass tabs at a music site and their lil gambling pop up froze the machine and we ended up with none of the windows i had up from this week.
so wed link sends ya to googleland and parks ya at yer home page.
bad redirect.
this is the current top thread on the google home page:
some peeps there too.
http://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1260223047421551014&postID=8394358599442723377
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