Still not back in the swing of things. I'm on quasi- Hiatus. But wanted to update you all.
1. The new blog will roll out within three weeks, maybe earlier. It will allow for sub blogs or diaries.
2. Seder on Sundays will debut in about a month.
3. I am starting to look real good in the Gonzo is GONZO pool. My favorite moment from the hearings yesterday was watching Lindsey Graham (sam gets up closes the closet door) offer Gonzo an incredibly lame alibi (paraphrasing)..."US Atty's got put on this firing list becasue they were having personality conflicts, isn't that the case?"
4. Abramoff continues to sing and now Renzi is reducing his workload.
While it's not criminal to be Republican, it's clear Republicanism is a gateway activity to crime.
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are a criminal conspiracy lightly disguised as a corporate monsters.
or the kind of dinasaurs with two brain pods, one in the head and one in the tail.
I can't see Sam weeding, but I never thought about it
anywoozle I don't think about what he does everyday
but I guess I could start
what is Sam doing right now?
hmmmmm
Im gonna geuss he is writing in his memoirs.
Hello. My name is Sam Seder.
I have a blog. More tomorrow. Also, I am glad that Sanjaya is finally off of American Idol.
-conbo
-conbo
-conbo
just for effect one more time
-conbo
It's an invasion of privacy to keep track of people's medical history, but I guess privacy is so 1990's.
oops
I linked that wrong
here it is:
feds have a database of every prescription written to every American
-conbo
AmericaBlog picks up on this ABC News report on the Virginia Tech shooter that says there may have been a gap in the federal database regarding his medications:
Some news accounts have suggested that Cho had a history of antidepressant use, but senior federal officials tell ABC News that they can find no record of such medication in the government's files. This does not completely rule out prescription drug use, including samples from a physician, drugs obtained through illegal Internet sources, or a gap in the federal database, but the sources say theirs is a reasonably complete search.
John asks, what database? Does the Government keep a list of all of our prescriptions?
The answer is yes. I reported on it in 2005 when Bush signed the bill creating the electronic database:
I quoted from a news article which is no longer online:
President Bush signed into law a bill to create electronic monitoring programs to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs in all 50 states.
The new law creates a grant program for states to create databases and enhance existing ones in hopes of ending the practice of "doctor shopping" by drug abusers seeking multiple prescriptions. It would authorize $60 million for the program through fiscal 2010.
The bill, signed late Thursday at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch, was sponsored by Rep. Ed Whitfield, a Republican representing Kentucky's 1st District.
And there you have it. Yes, every prescription you get is logged in a federal database.
link
-conbo
ceecee said
I am sorry it wasn't good for you
BUT for me it was gooooooooooooood!
Take something for your nausea and get over it. It's done.
April 21, 2007 1:22 AM
You're reminding me of a trio of college girls who practically raped me through a window an hour ago
more on that tomorrow if I'm in the mood... embarassment mixed with unbelievable flattery
Wow I want what he is on
-conbo
Anonymous said...
Wow I want what he is on
-conbo
April 21, 2007 2:43 AM
I'm not "on" anything... I wish I were... I might have capitalized on the situation
Maybe they were trying to escape you by climbing out the window and you thought they were flirting with you
it happens
-conbo
eya #
how ya holding up?
Im good
well Im not actually
but if I tell you why, I would have to kill you
so
yes I am very grumpy
please ignore my grumpiness
-conbo
underneath the grumpiness is love
i hope
i am also kidding
as in hahaha
jokes and such
so I can't be doing too bad
-conbo
omg!
Fred Phelps is now making music videos
God Hates The World
this is not satire
i wish it were, honestly
i am greatly disturbed by this
-conbo
they are so happy that God is going to destroy everyone they are singing a melody
most bizarre thing I have ever seen
-conbo
wow
well
At least I don't go to Fred Phelps church
'count your blessings count them one by one'
-conbo
i just now listened to the show where sam announces the weekday show has been cancelled.
sam, you handled that incredibly well. besides being extremely good at what you do, you're an impressive young man (granted, we're about the same age). good for you.
Pew Research has an IQ test calle:
The Pew News IQ Quiz
What's Your News IQ?
Take the test here:
I got 100%
[searching a few diff. links]
I found this
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Finland
Posts: 55
Location:
Finland
Occupation:
Computer technician
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here
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=24756
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a gamer tech forum ... he says stuff like
"But im not only conplaining, as a gamer I think that, with even these resttrictions that are maybe natural in many ways Still. The number of quality games is great, but i would like to be having my jaw handed back to me by the very guys who have played the first 20 year patch of games and understand everything about them and know how to fuck my brains out =)."
Private Message:
Send a private message to L_i_n_k
http://forum.beyond3d.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=1641
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or is it this guy
l_i_n_k
Member since: Dec 11, 2002
Location: Italy
http://myworld.ebay.com.sg/l_i_n_k/
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or this guy
http://www.myspace.com/l_i_n_k
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his pic
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/339037722_bc0e5363be.jpg?v=0
[google l_i_n_k images] takes me to....
blogs as ck-
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16745400&postID=157967435026022569
methodsofescape@yahoo.com
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http://dsmeet.com/u/L_I_N_K/rating/
link wrote
"nice guy on Apr 05, 2006
nice guy raced him a couple of times...he isnt up 2 my skill level but i enjoyed racing him and...well...the wins anyways gd racer race him if u dare "
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chatroom,
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this looks familiar -- google translation of italian
It tries: Written messages give: L_I_N_K
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personel page
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It would be interesting to hear what kind of gameplay limitations kojima had with ps2 during development of mgs2.
Technical limitations of ps2 should not be in the way of great gameplay or dynamic game progression if your willing to sacrafice graphical quality. soon we´ll see what kojima was talking about.
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'The press has yet to come to terms with
its role in enabling Bush to go to war on false pretenses'
Devastating probe of CNN, other media's march to Iraq War
Tragically late, Walter Isaacson, who headed CNN, observes, "The people at Knight Ridder were calling the colonels and the lieutenants and the people in the CIA and finding out, you know, that the intelligence is not very good. We should've all been doing that." Isaacson is pushed hard and finally admits, "We didn't question our sources enough."
LINK
http://www.sorpiland.com/news-viewcomments.php?news_id=32
Posted by: Karl Posted: 12:52:55 (30-09-2005)
Usernames which have a space ' ' have changed so that the spaces has been replaced with an underscore.
This includes the following users:
'_'
'Alpha_Maggot'
'Grim_Reaper'
'l_i_n_k'
If you are one of these members, and you would like to change your username, please drop me a SorpiMail, or email me Karl@Sorpiland.com
Karl
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[lol]
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.pakkan.jp/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dl_i_n_k%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
e ☆★ popular item ☆★ coming it causes densely and (10 enters) the macaroni herb salt black pepper harshly the series (harshly the ~ harshly harshly harshly harshly harshly)
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http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11676-baking-boosts-efficiency-of-plastic-solar-cells.html
Baking boosts efficiency of plastic solar cells
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http://web.archive.org/web/19991008153443/home.regent.edu/monigoo/
"Hi. My name is Monica Goodling,
and I'm a student at Regent University,
in Virginia Beach. "
http://web.archive.org/web/19991117163049/home.regent.edu/monigoo/football.html
My Grammie would probably be horrified to find her little princess playing football with the boys, and I must admit it does feel a bit risque at times, but it really is a good way to relieve stress.
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http://web.archive.org/web/19991008221738/home.regent.edu/monigoo/friends.htm
talking to Greg in the basement of Fry in a fluffy green Victoria Secret bathrobe with my dripping hair up in a pink turben at midnight...
Richard telling us his views on women, dating, gynecologists, and love (yikes....);...
and bad (setting me up on a blind date with one of my own executive council members, and several kidnapping experiences that are best forgotten).
After Tillman death, Army
went to lockdown mode
Within hours of Pat Tillman's death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connections at a base in Afghanistan, posting guards on a wounded platoon mate, and ordering a sergeant to burn Tillman's uniform.
LINK
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deserves its own post [l_i_n_k age]
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Gunman knew engineer he killed at NASA, police say
HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- A NASA engineer Friday shot and killed another engineer and then turned the gun on himself at the Johnson Space Center, police and NASA officials said.
The shootings occurred in a single office in Building 44 on the sprawling campus.
Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt said two other hostages were involved -- one was shot and injured, another was released without injury. The hostage who was not harmed is NASA contractor Fran Crenshaw, who the gunman allegedly tied up with duct tape.
Crenshaw wiggled out of the tape and alerted authorities about what was happening, Hurtt said. She is talking with Houston Police.
Space Center Director Michael Coats identified the gunman as Bill Phillips, a contract employee, and the dead victim as David Beverly, a NASA employee. The other shooting victim has not been identified.
Police have not determined a motive for the killing, but Hurtt said that there apparently had been "some kind of dispute" between Beverly and Phillips.
Crenshaw happened to be in the area at the time of the shooting and was taken hostage, he said.
"As I understand the chain of events, she was very courageous, a very calming influence during this whole thing," Hurtt said. "There was a positive relationship between her and the suspect. At no time did he threaten to do injury to her."
The situation started at about 1:40 p.m. (2:40 p.m. ET) when police responded to a call that a person with a gun had entered Building 44. A witness reported two gunshots at the time, Houston Police Capt. Dwayne Ready said. (Watch employees being evacuated after gunfire is heard)
"While they [SWAT teams] were trying to establish communication, they heard an additional gunshot," he said.
Believing the suspect may have shot himself, they decided to move in and found that he had committed suicide.
"Also on the same floor was one other hostage that was shot," Ready said. "We believe that may have happened early on in the whole ordeal."
Ready said the gun used was a short-barrel handgun, possibly a .38 or .357.
NASA spokesman James Hartsfield said Building 44 is a small office building on the campus.
"I don't have an exact number of people in that building (but) they evacuated the building," he said.
Hartsfield said that NASA security rules do not allow weapons on the property.
Hartsfield said that initially, NASA advised all employees to remain inside, but later said all were free to go home at the end of their workdays.
Center operations experienced no disruptions, he said.
LINK
toniD said...
After Tillman death, Army ...
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Tillman assassinated ???
ya think?????
a: No evidence of that
[aside to aide: we did burn the uniform and diary right?]
righty right, no evidence of that.
Latest US solution to Iraq's civil war: a three-mile wall
· Concrete barrier to encircle Sunni district
· Construction under cover of night
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Saturday April 21, 2007
The Guardian
The US military is building a three-mile concrete wall in the centre of Baghdad along the most murderous faultline between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
The wall, which recognises the reality of the hardening sectarian divide in Baghdad, is a central part of George Bush's final push to pacify the capital. Work began on April 10 under cover of darkness and is due for completion by the end of the month.
The highly symbolic wall has evoked comparisons to the barriers dividing Protestants and Catholics in Belfast and Israelis and Palestinians along the length of the West Bank.
Captain Scott McLearn, who is based at Camp Victory, the US base on the outskirts of Baghdad, said Shias "are coming in and hitting Sunnis, and Sunnis are retaliating across the street".
Although Baghdad is full of barriers and checkpoints, particularly round the Green Zone where the US and British are based along with the Iraq government, this is the first time a wall has been built along sectarian lines.
Its construction comes as the security situation appears to be deteriorating despite the recent US troop "surge". This week a bombing at the Sadriya market in the city killed 140 people - the deadliest in the capital since the 2003 invasion.
Walls are controversial. The Israeli government insists its wall is effective in reducing suicide bombers but Palestinians, many of whose lives it has seriously disrupted, as well as some Israelis argue that it consolidates divisions.
The Baghdad wall, which will be 12ft (3,5 metres) high, is being built by US paratroopers who left Camp Taji, about 20 miles north of the city, on the first night in a dozen trucks carrying stacks of huge concrete barriers, each weighing 14,000 pounds (6,300kg). Cranes, protected by tanks, winched them into place. Building has continued every night since.
LINK
What's with these people and their walls? It didn't work for the Russians..."Bring down that wall Mr. Gorbachev"! Reagan said.
Now this admin wants to build walls. Gated communities!
Morning James.
"Politics is like driving. To go forward, put it in D. To go backward, put it in R."
Seen at the kollective.
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Hi/bye, everyone.
Morning and Bye WFC
Lionel for Sam?
Got to be kidding! You Green boys are living in the past. Lionel is amusing but he gets old real fast. Would rather beat a dead horse than change topics or admit there's more than just his opinion.
People aren't gonna like this much. I'm out on my membership this week.
Get a real F/ gig Sam - SOON!!!!
-Jimdish
The Saturday Cartoons
Cartoons
US General Issues Scathing Report On Haditha Marines
The Washington Post | Josh White | April 21, 2007 08:24 AM
The Marine Corps chain of command in Iraq ignored "obvious" signs of "serious misconduct" in the 2005 slayings of two dozen civilians in Haditha, and commanders fostered a climate that devalued the life of innocent Iraqis to the point that their deaths were considered an insignificant part of the war, according to an Army general's investigation.
LINK
The Honor of Alberto Gonzales
04.19.2007 David Bromwich
As Gonzales understands his position, he is essentially an emanation of the will of the president. And our boyish president never developed morally beyond the aristocratic reprobate who divides the world into friends and enemies and who thinks the rules don't apply to him.
LINK
Going to work.
Later
lets see who we can character assassinate today:
Running With Scissors
Maureen Dowd makes me physically sick.
How many more days till Sam is back on the air?
I'm boycotting Air America till then.
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What a load of rubbish! Good riddance (to bad rubbish) to the trio!
Liberazione!
__________________
"What Wolfowitz, Gonzales Can Learn From Imus"
by Margaret Carlson
Excerpts:
"In the real world, it takes about a week for someone who has disgraced himself like radio talk-show host Don Imus to lose his job. In Washington, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hang on to their jobs for what seems like forever.
The facts and common sense are all it takes to see that both Wolfowitz and Gonzales should resign.
Instead, they have barricaded themselves in their offices, with the president's approval, impervious to shame or calls from their own party for them to go. It's enough to give due process a bad name."
Link:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_carlson&sid=asnyBvCJyQLg
"I'm the decider, and I decide what is best."
~~~George W. Bush (Washington, D.C. April 18, 2006)
Excerpt from Knowing What’s Nice
by Kurt Vonnegut (November 6, 2003):
...I can hardly call you Twerps, or even Snarfs, if you have never even heard of the next book I want to celebrate. Practically nobody has, since it is basically a medical text: The Mask of Sanity, first published in 1941 and written by the late Dr. Hervey Cleckley, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia.
Some people are born deaf, some are born blind or whatever, and this book is about congenitally defective human beings of a sort who are making this whole country and many other parts of the planet go completely haywire nowadays. These are people born without consciences. They know full well the pain their actions may cause others to feel but do not care. They cannot care. They came into this world with a screw loose, and now they’re taking charge of everything. They appear to be great leaders because they are so decisive. Do this! Do that! What makes them so decisive is that they do not care and cannot care what happens next.
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"Gwen Ifill Calls Out Russert, Brooks For Their Silence On Imus"
Excerpts:
"The offense, the slur that Imus directed at me happened more than 10 years ago."
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"A lot of people did know and a lot of people were listening and they just decided it was okay. They decided this culture of meanness was fine — until they got caught.
My concern about Mr. Imus and a lot of people and a lot of the debate in this society is not that people are sorry that they say these things, they are sorry that someone catches them.
When Don Imus said this about me when I worked here at NBC, when I found out about it, his producer called because Don said he wants to apologize. Well, now he says he never said it. What was he apologizing for?
He was apologizing for getting caught, not apologizing for having said it in the first place.
And that to me is the debate we need to have, David is right, about the culture of meanness, about the culture of racial complaint, about the internal culture within our community about how we talk to one another. But just this week it was finally saying, enough."
Link:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/15/imus-ifill/
its good to see that the blog is still so active. Thats a sign for you Sam ;)
On the home page at AAR:
Best of Sam Seder 9am - Noon
w/ host Lee Rayburn
:/
morning gang!
Jenise - if you're still having problems cancelling your premium account, I recommend you visit the Air America Place message boards (you'll have to create an account, but it's a great board to have as an outlet) and leave a message for bob, the man in charge there.
He's not an official muckamuck for AAR, but he's been the driving force behind the whole podcasting operation from day one and is a great fellow.
Main url for the boards is:
http://www.airamericaplace.com/boards/
The specific area you should post in is entitled:
Technical Forums
You're probably best off posting in the first stack:
AAR Audio Tech Support | Free & Premium Downloads
Good luck!
Dead bee's mean dead yee's!
earth day today!
i'm over at firedoglake reading about bees!
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/21/pull-up-a-chair-44/#comments
"Morning gang! Bless the earth!
(Gaiaa stopped by this morning and left a kiss for all of us!)
just had my Mason Orchard Bee’s hatch here in the Fraser River Valley in British Columbia.
last two years the honey bees disappeared, very little fruit in a neighborhood that is a botanical delight.
this year we get our first hatch from our own generation of bees! cute litle black bees as busy as can be!
heres last years Bee house!
http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adve.....se0014.jpg
the expanded metal guard keeps the woodpeckers from eating the bees!
this years beehouse is a condo now, and this year i actually saw them up close for the first time while looking thru the window.
a good article on bee mortality on slashdot last week, and a much better one here":
http://tinyurl.com/28yops
Last years Bee house:
http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/Bee-House/
shelaghc さんは書きました...
thanks, shelaghc! appreciate you taking the time to reply. still no response so i'll try asking bob. funny how hard it is to get someone to call you back when you want to cancel your service with them ;)
sunshine, good morning. congrats on the bees. i'm just dropping by. before i go to bed, though, i came home to a letter from chubby's corrections center returning the cash i put in his card. surprised the hell out of me (that they would send it back). anyway, apparently cash is not cool. if you talk with him, will you tell him i tried, please...?
kurt is up in heaven now.
that's what vonnegut wanted people to say, his favorite joke. (thank you for the link, cat chew)
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hey guys!
Passing by to say hi!
See you guys later.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Can't fix this! Brooklyn judge Garson guilty of bribes
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/04/20/2007-04-20_cant_fix_this_brooklyn_judge_garson_guil.html
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Queens man kills mom, two others, and then himself
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/nyregion/19dead.html?_r=1&em&ex=1177128000&en=f30249af96497eed&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nydead0419,0,5446469.story?coll=ny-homepage-bigpix2005
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Manhattan: Gossip Writer Sentenced
for Soliciting Sex From 13 Year Old.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/nyregion/21mbrfs-PEDOPHILE.html
yup jenise!
we talked about it on the phone!
resend an international money order if you will!
ChubbyBubba's new address:
Kirk Bowers 302414
Airway Heights Correction Center.
PO Box 2139 Unit TB - 36
Airway Heights Washington, USA
99001 - 2139
sunshine, unfortunately an int'l money order costs more than $50 to get made here. maybe he got the card?
Who is ChubbyBubba and why is he in prison?
"Despite being called out by Ifill, Russert said little during the show about his frequent appearances on Imus’ show. Intead, he suggested that Imus will launch a new show dedicated to “racial reconciliation and healing,” which Russert said he would “absolutely” listen to."
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/15/imus-ifill/
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Duh.
Didn't expect anything less from Russert et al. and the reconciliation and healing thing, of course. I'm still laughing when I think of last Sunday's MTP.
The beltway club which includes both press and pols sticks together like glue. Besides why should Big Russert admit to anything in the world we live in now. All these leaders of the political discourse who didn't do their job in the run-up to the Iraq war are still punditing like crazy. Every one of them. Bad, wrong, and no reporting doesn't get anybody fired. It most likely get you a TV show or column in Times. The you know who thing is just a tiny bump in the road for Russert et al. Well, not even that.
btw. it was because of "America's most trusted journalist and voice," Russert that I started to look into that program in the first place. Didn't know anything about the show, didn't really know the host.
LOL@queen of fake outrage Margaret Olsen whose cozy chats with you know who made clear word by word why Gore received the biased press treatment which put Bush in the White House. The unguearded talks w. press and pols were priceless. No doubt about that.
Yikes. Was not going to comment about this anymore.
Forget what I wrote, please!
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P.S. Sunny Jim,
you have permission to delete any further comment I make in a moment of weakness about you know who.
;-)
eya j!
oh baby, the BS involved with getting him a few bucks are a serious ripoff.
send him mail instead, Pix are ok,
i print up the blog
(bits of it, some of our threads are hundreds of pages. and write and do pix on the other sides.)
wandering about checking bee sites.
decades of amazing stuff, and the centuries of history.
eya shelaghc, morfternoon!
yer fine bridge, no worries.
beauty day here, just gave ruzz a trim.
Who is ChubbyBubba and why is he in prison?""
CB is a longtime poster from seattle, good friend a complex personality, brilliant and funny, weird, grumpy and morose occasionally.
his roomies ripped him for the rent and started plaing head games. he ended up fighting with them and won and then lost...
thanks jim ;-)
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Hello Jenise,
glad to see you on the blog - I usually don't post this early.
Was thinking about you when I saw the film Fear and Trembling
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Fear_and_Trembling/70037506?trkid=189530&strkid=639706657_0_0
The Jap. work experiences of this girl were absolutely terrifying.
It was a great film. Funny, too.
Did you see it?
earlier I did a mis-post
this person has no connection to
L_I_N_K
it is a function of google image search that the alpha search is linked to the first pic it finds linked to on a given page
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his pic
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/339037722_bc0e5363be.jpg?v=0
[google l_i_n_k images] takes me to....
blogs as ck-
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16745400&postID=157967435026022569
methodsofescape@yahoo.com
"beauty day here, just gave ruzz a trim"
--
Does ruzz like it?
My cat always has the perfect haircut but needs brushing a lot now - hairball time.
took a blogger's advice and emailed Lionel.
Invited him to look at all the responses given in Sam's behalf in the"Press" comments and this blog.
Wondered if he would ask Green if he might be willing to fill another time.
(I understand he currently broadcasts at night)
And let Sam remain in the 9-12 spot.
He responded:
Interesting message
Lionel
(Added this deep thought);
If atheism is a religion, than not stamp collecting is a hobby)
guess he bestowed on me a small gift of his wisdom
star vox said...
Gwen Ifill: "A lot of people did know and a lot of people were listening and they just decided it was okay. They decided this culture of meanness was fine — until they got caught."
I respect Gwen Ifill. She is a great journalist.
But note that she didn't say "racist" because she knows damn well that he isn't racist. "Meanness" --the man used cruel humor against everyone
the bottom line: the response was much, much worse than the offense
eya Bridge
Ruzzalyn is a unique peep.
i figured out a backstroke towards the head with the stripping comb that works perfect for her long winter guard hairs, she puts up with it and gives me wet willies while i work over her front )
You know in your heart of hearts that George Bush is insane.
You know he has his finger on the big red button and he believes in the fairy tale of "The Rapture."
Millions of right wing hypocrites, flying naked to the sky is what he believes.
Will you sleep soundly tonight knowing in your heart of hearts that George Bush is attempting to give impetus to Armageddon?
Ruzz is a sweetheart, Jim :)
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While "darn I got caught and now must apologize to the public" Alec Baldwin is digging his hole ....
check this out:
"Explaining himself yesterday on his Web site, the 49-year-old actor said, "Although I have been told by numerous people not to worry too much, as all parents lose their patience with their kids, I am most saddened that this was released to the media because of what it does to a child."
http://www.themoneytimes.com/articles/20070421/alec_baldwin_regrets_for_voicemail_tirade-id-103361.html
It doesn't look good for Wolfowitz and his comb ....
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Wolfowitz Scandal Takes Bank Hypocrisy to New Heights
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"The biggest irony is that Wolfowitz’s primary (some would say his only) agenda inside the World Bank has been to call for its transformation into an organization that battles corruption. Wolfowitz, who has banded around phrases such as “0% tolerance for corruption” and talked about the need to move “decisively and energetically” on an anti-corruption agenda, probably regrets his choice of words at the moment. It is all too easy for Wolfowitz’s enemies, which include an estimated 90% of World Bank staff who opposed his appointment, to throw those words back in his face."
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4165
ya!
i call her fuzz girl...
she's hunting like crazy lately, we have coons and possums now from the other areas getting made into ticky tack apartments.
i put in a koi pond years ago and since then we've had a steady year round stream of visitors of all kinds.
LS says:
April 21st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Tip: If you want to attract honey bees to your garden, put out small dishes with a little honey on them. A scout will find it and the rest will follow. That has been my experience. If they are finding lots of good wild flowers, they will focus on those.
You must get all the frogs visiting - that can get pretty noisy. We had a neighbor once who had a large pond.
Racoons used to climb on our roof of our old house in the eve, a whole family of them, and they made quite a racket. Then they looked down at me thru the patio cover. We called them The Bandits. We had to repaint the patio all the time cause the bandits had dirty feet.
I noticed that the bird population has gone down considerably. It was so obvious because a couble years ago I didn't see a single bird when the year before they still chased each other in the trees.
Wonder what is going on in the bird department.
We do have roadrunners - v. classy birds ;-)
no frogs!
mystery here!
way more birds up here
one new species i've heard but have'nt seen yet.
i feed through the winter and occasionally through the year.
marvelous variety. tons od squirls too, brown/reds, blacks and greys.
Conundrum or enigma?
no frogs? That is odd.
Jim, I am in the desert and have to make sure I don't stumble over huge frogs at night every now and then.
Really worried over the lack of birds, though. Glad you got lots still.
an enigdrum
the worst kind...
my favorite are the mini treefrogs.
1/2 to 3/4's of an inch.
Quandrumigna?
Quandrumigma?
Guess who likes the desert heat?
Rats - Rats everywhere. Tough little guys.
Check out this great Soundgarden video for Blow Up The Outside World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3dYpEUP504
toniD said...
Gunman knew engineer he killed at NASA, police say
Man what are they Putting in the Water at NASA!!
Happy Pre Jesus Day!
Another week of choas in the US has come and gone
At least they aren't playing statements from Cho over and over again on TV
Progress!
-conbo
KPTK 1090 Seattle has free audio streams of Sam's shows starting 3/28/07
http://am1090seattle.com/pages/190905.php
This sounds nutty but
I could feel all the negative energy that everyone has right now
And it was making me feel just weird
-conbo
i wish TV producers would think about the consequences of playing fear/anger/fear/anger on the TV all the time
I mean I don't even watch TV
but I could feel the weird energy from other people
hey look!
someone wrote a diary on this!
cool!
The Month of April
-conbo
Sweet Jesus
made of marshmallow Peeps
I like the chocolate jesus better
-conbo
Buncha Honkees!
WHO FOTTID?
Expoobident?
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eya #
so Bgurls out at the Bee house and they're flying in and out of their nesting tubes and one of the ladies has taken a liking to my gill net floats and is working away at filling them.
one of the tubes is filled allready and we have at least five females working away. think the average on blossoms visited is around 1875!
"It takes about 75 flower visits to gather a full load, and an average of 25 loads for an average pollen wad. The female Orchard bee completes about one cell a day, so that means she visits about 1875 blossoms a day! "
we're both jazzed!
WOW!
blogs are full of weirdos trying to outweirdo each other - too dumb to know better
Sam: time for some spring cleaning
Go for it! The flowers will thank you -
weirdos trying to outweirdo each other
not like us people in the no!
No weird in us!
We square!
We're all brown shoes
and wide ties!
Know weird!
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO
NOT SERVE WEIRDO'S
MISS YOUR SHOW. I have been unable to figure out what happend.
YOU WERE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME.
So many of the shows on air am are milk toast. YOU WERE SOO GOOD , FUNNY, CREATIVE, SMART,CURRENT, LOYAL.
Lots of bees in my arugula yesterday. [western ore.]
Sunshine said...
we're both jazzed!
April 21, 2007 8:28 PM
im glad your bee's did not die, Sunny
I was going to ask about that
but I thought if they did die, then maybe I shouldn't bring it up
-conbo
Take a drive on the highways around Munich on a Saturday morning or afternoon, and you'll notice that half of the cars on the highway have a yellow and black license plate. When you're really paying attention, you'll see that most of 'em are Opel's, Renaults or Peugeot's. When you look in those cars, you see the father driving, the mother is flipping the map trying to figure out where they are going, and on the back seat there are typically two or three kids playing the gameboy. Since almost all the cars are station wagons, the trunk is stuffed with baggage, and sometimes they have the box on top of the car (which we always say that's the place where grandma goes ).
When I'm driving through that kind of traffic, I always wish I have German license plates...
stay on topic Kristile
-conbo
sheesh
that was random
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m the a-c said...
the bottom line: the response was much, much worse than the offense
April 21, 2007 3:38 PM
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Which response? Media coverage? Firing? Other?
Media coverage - Unfortunate! I wish it would have led to serious conversations and dialogue about our society and culture. I would have welcomed some critical thinking and examination of the "meanness" in our society -- regardless of whether it is racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc.
The remark made by Imus was racist and sexist.
Firing -
I think it was appropriate in this circumstance. (I would have reviewed his personnel records and other documentation for a history of other complaints and actions taken in the past -- before I made a final decision if I were his employer).
Learning and being held responsible for his own words and actions are steps in the right direction.
For the record, I think education is key here. I hope Imus learns from this experience. Hating and meanness simply reinforce the culture of fear. Fear is one of the root causes of the meanness and hate in societies.
I recommend both of these websites. Excellent information and resources:
RACE: Are we so different?
Links:
http://www.understandingrace.org/
Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance
"We view tolerance as a way of thinking and feeling — but most importantly, of acting — that gives us peace in our individuality, respect for those unlike us, the wisdom to discern humane values and the courage to act upon them."
http://www.tolerance.org/index.jsp
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Sunshine said...
cute litle black bees as busy as can be!
heres last years Bee house!
April 21, 2007 1:03 PM
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"The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication --on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information."
From "The Honey Bee"
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"Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require its social companionship and support."
"How did bees ever become equated with sex? They do not live a riotous sex life themselves. A hive suggests cloister more than bordello."
From "The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men"
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"Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people’s hearts."
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
(sweet Southern storytellin' about kindness and beekeepin')
Hi star vox,
you might want to check out the Imus article by Matt Taibbi from the Rolling Stones. I like him a lot because he usually looks at things from a diff. side and he is original in every way. He has lived in foreign countries and is able to look at American culture like an anthropologist in the field, with more objectivity than most.
The Imus Sanction
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14197433/the_low_post_the_imus_sanction
Go bees!
happy weekend everyone :)
Cya Bridge!
Go Bees!
beauty day to walk the hood!
think i'll celebrate earth day for the next week or so.
Bees are socialists...
They have no incentive to get ahead...
Bees don't create jobs...
You'll never see a retired bee...
Or a bee driving an RV...
it's fairly easy to kill off a box of bee's, a self defrosting fridge is too dry to store them without moist paper towels inside the bags and the bags need to be left opened for air a bit.
a wood pecker can strip an entire colony for lunch...
we'd just get another box of them at the nursery. they have some for another few months.
the neat thing is being able to hatch them as the trees bloom.
some ornamentals will bloom 3 months from now and you can hatch that late for them no prob.
or smoking a cigar!
but they do a fine job of protecting the nest
and produce one of the finest things in the world, honey.
Buzzzzzzzzzzbuzzzzzzzzzbuuuuzzzzzzzbuuzzzzzzzzz
hee hee hee!
goodun)
Muchas Gracias*
por nada ese'!
Sorry,but can you guys help me?I wish tonid was around since I conSeder him the Link King.But,where do I find a,"How to post active links on This Blog-For Dummies!"Now,stop the laughing!:)I don't want to be a weak linker Anymore!Thank you:)
Your right up there too Sunshine.
kristile said...
Take a drive on the highways around Munich on a Saturday morning or afternoon, and you'll notice that half of the cars on the highway have a yellow and black license plate. When you're really paying attention, you'll see that most of 'em are Opel's, Renaults or Peugeot's. When you look in those cars, you see the father driving, the mother is flipping the map trying to figure out where they are going, and on the back seat there are typically two or three kids playing the gameboy. Since almost all the cars are station wagons, the trunk is stuffed with baggage, and sometimes they have the box on top of the car (which we always say that's the place where grandma goes ).
When I'm driving through that kind of traffic, I always wish I have German license plates...
I'll have whatever she's Smoking:)
Make linksies like this:
[a href="URL here"]Descriptive text here[/a]
BUT change brackets to arrows
[ to <
] to >
toniD is a super lady!
Sam Seder: the light over the scum of the world has been silenced by the facist mob. God speed you. I pray your voice returns to our frightened nation some how. Come back Sam. There is no replacement for you. You are so beyond others. Let us pray.
Sam Samalin
Anonymous:Thank you very much for the help:)oops,Yes tonid is Link Queen,I should have said..She has great info,many links.She puts in Alot of work.And,she should be Thanked too,everyday.Thank you both:)
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mmrules said...
Sorry,but can you guys help me?I wish tonid was around since I conSeder him the Link King.But,where do I find a,"How to post active links on This Blog-For Dummies!"Now,stop the laughing!:)I don't want to be a weak linker Anymore!Thank you:)
April 21, 2007 11:28 PM
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html practice site:
http://www.practiceboard.com/
wayyy cool bee tile:
http://tinyurl.com/39u95k
You can practice HTML here too by using the preview feature.
eya voxxer!
thanks for the check list earlier.
got a counselor lined up and a med check too if possible.
star vox:Thank you:)I don't know how to use it yet,but I'll figure it out sooner or later.
Anonymous:Thanks again.All You folks are The Best!
Sammy,
I miss you so much.
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Sunshine said...
eya voxxer!
thanks for the check list earlier.
got a counselor lined up and a med check too if possible.
April 22, 2007 12:23 AM
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Hi Sunshine Jim,
I appreciate the update. Good to know that she will be getting some help. Glad that I could assist.
p.s. I think it's great that you are helping her there. Way to go, Sunshine!
kids a friend,
watched em grow up,
like to see em get through this
My Latest in the Literary Field:
How Trees Are Conspiring Against Humanity
It is sad
First the socialist bees
now the Anti-American Trees
we are in the last days, indeed
-conbo
FRANK RICH: Iraq Is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac
PRESIDENT BUSH has skipped the funerals of the troops he sent to Iraq. He took his sweet time to get to Katrina-devastated New Orleans. But last week he raced to Virginia Tech with an alacrity not seen since he hustled from Crawford to Washington to sign a bill interfering in Terri Schiavo’s end-of-life medical care. Mr. Bush assumes the role of mourner in chief on a selective basis, and, as usual with the decider, the decisive factor is politics. Let Walter Reed erupt in scandal, and he’ll take six weeks to show his face — and on a Friday at that, to hide the story in the Saturday papers. The heinous slaughter in Blacksburg, Va., by contrast, was a rare opportunity for him to ostentatiously feel the pain of families whose suffering cannot be blamed on the administration.
But he couldn’t inspire the kind of public acclaim that followed his post-9/11 visit to ground zero or the political comeback that buoyed his predecessor after Oklahoma City. The cancer on the Bush White House, Iraq, is now spreading too fast. The president had barely returned to Washington when the empty hope of the “surge” was hideously mocked by a one-day Baghdad civilian death toll more than five times that of Blacksburg’s. McClatchy Newspapers reported that the death rate for American troops over the past six months was at its all-time high for this war.
At home, the president is also hobbled by the Iraq cancer’s metastasis — the twin implosions of Alberto Gonzales and Paul Wolfowitz. Technically, both men have been pilloried for sins unrelated to the war. The attorney general has repeatedly been caught changing his story about the extent of his involvement in purging eight federal prosecutors. The Financial Times caught the former deputy secretary of defense turned World Bank president privately dictating the extravagant terms of a State Department sinecure for a crony (a k a romantic partner) that showers her with more take-home pay than Condoleezza Rice.
Yet each man’s latest infractions, however serious, are mere misdemeanors next to their roles in the Iraq war. What’s being lost in the Beltway uproar is the extent to which the lying, cronyism and arrogance showcased by the current scandals are of a piece with the lying, cronyism and arrogance that led to all the military funerals that Mr. Bush dares not attend. Having slept through the fraudulent selling of the war, Washington is still having trouble confronting the big picture of the Bush White House. Its dense web of deceit is the deliberate product of its amoral culture, not a haphazard potpourri of individual blunders.
Mr. Gonzales’s politicizing of the Justice Department is a mere bagatelle next to his role as White House counsel in 2002, when he helped shape the administration’s legal argument to justify torture. That paved the way for Abu Ghraib, the episode that destroyed America’s image and gave terrorists a moral victory. But his efforts to sabotage national security didn’t end there. In a front-page exposé lost in the Imus avalanche two Sundays ago, The Washington Post uncovered Mr. Gonzales’s reckless role in vetting the nomination of Bernard Kerik as secretary of homeland security in December 2004. ....
http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/04/frank-rich-iraq-is-ultimate-aphrodisiac.html
Stopped by to say Hey Blog .... takes to long to refresh and is a pain ...
See Ya
8-)
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Sunshine said...
kids a friend,
watched em grow up,
like to see em get through this
April 22, 2007 1:24 AM
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Sunshine Jim,
With your help, it sounds like she will get the assistance that she needs. Best wishes!
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bridge said...
Hi star vox,
you might want to check out the Imus article by Matt Taibbi from the Rolling Stones. I like him a lot because he usually looks at things from a diff. side and he is original in every way.
April 21, 2007 10:37 PM
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Thanks, Bridge! I agree with Taibbi on this. I am including some excerpts from the article here. His article reminded me of a thought-provoking documentary on the subject of hip-hop and rap.
Link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14197433/the_low_post_the_imus_sanction
Excerpts:
"Satan himself couldn't have designed a more effective vehicle for marginalizing black culture than modern hip-hop.
In the early days rap music was scary social commentary; it was raw and real and it vividly described a violent street culture that white people didn't know about and didn't want to know about.
But very quickly rap turned into a multibillion-dollar industry in which the same corporate behemoths who sold us crap like Garth Brooks and boy bands and Britney Spears made massive profits selling a stylized, romanticized version of black misery to white kids in the suburbs.
Here you've got the modern-day version of The Man signing big checks to back your record deals and cheering along as all the artistic talent from the black community starts walking around in public wearing one-word stage names like strippers, writing song lyrics featuring preschool-level spelling and primping endlessly for the cameras with gold teeth and swimming pools and pimped-out cars -- all of them absurd caricatures of the capitalist wealth fantasy.”
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"Beyond Beats and Rhymes: Masculinity in Hip Hop"
Excerpt:
"Beyond Beats and Rhymes" is not a crusade to change the face of the mainstream music industry.
"I'm not naive," says Byron. "I don't think my film is going to change the industry. It's an amoral business culture.
They're not concerned with changing society, they're concerned with making money. So I focused on how this affects the people who see this film."
Byron hopes this practical approach will inspire viewers to open their minds and be self-reflective.
"It's up to us as consumers to challenge some of the representations of masculinity that we see in American culture," he says. "We have to start saying, 'I don't buy into this idea that a man is supposed to be violent or sexist or homophobic.'"
Link:
http://www.wiretapmag.org/stories/21386
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"Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes" by Byron Hurt
HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, the documentary, takes an in-depth look at representations of manhood, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture.
God Bless The Child Productions, Inc. is dedicated to bringing various racial and gender groups together to push awareness, stimulate healthy civic dialogue and enlighten audiences using film and video as the medium.
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About the Campaign
The national broadcast of HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is supported by a comprehensive national community engagement campaign designed to educate both young consumers and media makers about issues of gender, race and community values.
(Students said there was little debate about the content of the music or videos, ironic in a medium that flourishes on wordplay).
Links:
http://www.itvs.org/outreach/hiphop/film.html
http://www.bhurt.com/beyondBeatsAndRhymes.php
ok
if you click on my above link it sends you to e-blogger
which is strange
try that again:
How Trees Are Conspiring Against Humanity
-conbo
maron-dude,
here's how to correct your previous effort:
• [1ST] copy & paste the following:
{A HREF="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/21/wmd_conspiracy/index.html"}Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq{/A}
NOTE: the URL is contained in quotation marks, thus:
"http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/21/wmd_conspiracy/index.html"
the formula again:
{A HREF="THE URL"}THE TEXT YOU WANT DISPLAYED{/A}
the only variables in the formula are:
1. THE URL and 2. THE TEXT YOU WANT DISPLAYED
•• [2ND] now replace the curvey brackets { } with corresponding arrows
so if ( } ) points right, replace with arrow that points right ( > )
if you are successful, the truth will be revealed...
right-wing dickheads are credulous scum
(now my fast is broken and my coffee gone cold)
don't come around here no more...
hey
don't come around here no more
-conbo
listening to oldies station
(ok, la•st post befor•e resuming• blog-fast)
CONN•IE'S DIAR•Y IS •A FEASTY BEAST
IT• HAS F•A•N•GS &• •CLAWS •
AND IS GR•EAT!!•!
•
shut up
hey Mister Air Ono
the only thing great about being drunk
is that you are drunk
but the morning sucks
cause then you are not so drunk and then you are more
like grumpy
"American Woman...get Away from Me.."
XOXOXOXXO
i have this to say in my drunken state
Air Ono is a genuis
And anyone else who says otherwise is not knowing Air Ono
-conbo
my name
Morning blog!
Last night was the White House Correspondent's Dinner. There were protests by both sides.
This protest by the RAT was the conservative protest.
Check here for more info and photos.
Climate change disaster strikes Australia. “Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent’s food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.”
The Prime Minister, John Howard, a hardened climate-change sceptic, delivered dire tidings to the nation’s farmers yesterday. Unless there is significant rainfall in the next six to eight weeks, irrigation will be banned in the principal agricultural area. Crops such as rice, cotton and wine grapes will fail, citrus, olive and almond trees will die, along with livestock.
A ban on irrigation, which would remain in place until May next year, spells possible ruin for thousands of farmers, already debt-laden and in despair after six straight years of drought.
Australia is the only major industrialized country other than the U.S. to reject the Kyoto Protocol.
LINK
Analysis: Iraq surge
may be extended
The Pentagon is laying the groundwork to extend the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq. At the same time, the administration is warning Iraqi leaders that the boost in forces could be reversed if political reconciliation is not evident by summer.
LINK
This week Gonzales wavered, Wolfowitz teetered, McCain channeled Sanjaya, and a 3-mile long, 12-foot high concrete wall going up between Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods in northern Baghdad revealed the latest Bush plan for Iraq: peace through segregation ("We will be greeted as liberators East Germans!")
Arriana Huffington
Later Bloggers. Work again!
thanks t.
that f***ing wall.
"how can we prove truly, once and for all, that we are completely ignorant of history?"
"bingo!"
Bacon on the skillet!
Peace on earth!!!
High turnout seen in French election
Charge for the presidency: Sarkozy strikes a pose for the floating voters
Why the French election matters to all progressives by Jerome a Paris
Time is running out:
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Do your friends miss the sound of my voice?
Well, why not delight them with an outgoing voicemail message from me? NOW more exclusive than ever.
Benefits yearly kos!
Posted by SEDER at 4:34 PM
http://www.ykosauctions.com/seder.html
mornin!
Finally! the first day of Earth Week!
and a gorguss morning here!
Dead bees mean dead thees!
I just want to make sure you've all heard about the "We Support A Fair Tenure Process for Dr. Norman Finkelstein Petition":
www.petitiononline.com/nf200704/petition.html
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." Albert Einstein
mommy, why is a iraq such a pig's breakfast?
well you may find out from this man, dear...
his name is Rajiv Chandrasekaran
and he //has written a definitive account of the Green Zone - Chandrasekaran's account illuminates what went wrong, and why, in post-war Iraq.//
he was referenced in frank rich's must read over at kev's:
Iraq Is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac
•
Joni Mitchell
"Pave paradaise and put up a parking lot" 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Qgsn0U340
evening j!
http://www.bananasinpyjamas.com/science/scribblygum/may2005/img/bees.jpg
Ultimate Aphrodisiac's
jenise (why aren't you in your futon)
shelly (away making honey)
connie
meg
cathy
bridge
catharine scrapes in by a bees diaphram
edna
um, that greek woman
and last but not least... you
•
//"Pave paradaise and put up a parking lot" 1970//
man, you can't believe how much i hate that song
(UGH!!)
i broke my strike action for this
: )
i got lonely...
i needed my dose of blog honey
[when] toniD said...
//Climate change disaster strikes Australia.//
fuck me, that was atom bomb!
and the day that "atom bomb" (and it was an atom bomb) dropped on an unsuspecting public, channel 7, one of our major commercial networks, gave it about, um, 30 seconds coverage
//bananasinpyjamas//
that's an auzzie show
: )
i also got 2 apricots in mine
: )
that's if i wore p.j's
: )
ok, thank you & goodnight...
you've been a marvellous audience
AO!
welcome back!
(please deposit a nickel)
Meat me in the alley!
Good Afternoon Sederites!!
Gingrich Blames Virginia Tech Tragedy On Liberalism
In the wake of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich laid the blame for the tragedy at the feet of liberals. Here’s what he said:
“I want to say to the elite of this country - the elite news media, the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite: I accuse you in Littleton…of being afraid to talk about the mess you have made, and being afraid to take responsibility for things you have done, and instead foisting upon the rest of us pathetic banalities because you don’t have the courage to look at the world you have created.”
On ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asked Gingrich if he would apply those same words to the Virginia Tech tragedy. “Yes,” Gingrich said, offering a rambling, nonsensical response that segued into Don Imus and McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. Watch it:
Gingrich has a history of spinning tragedy for ideological and partisan gain.
- In 1994, after Susan Smith confessed to drowning her two children in South Carolina, Gingrich quickly blamed liberals, saying the only way to avoid similar future incidents was “to vote Republican.”
- After former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) was forced to resign over his sexually inappropriate behavior towards House pages, Gingrich declared that conservatives didn’t act to stop Foley because they “would have been accused of gay bashing” by liberals.
- At the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year, Gingrich blamed the residents of New Orleans’ 9th ward for “a failure of citizenship,” by being “so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn’t get out of the way of a hurricane.”
In Gingrich’s mind, anything bad that happens can always be traced back to the culture created by liberals.
LINK
Students want the media to leave Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech’s student government has “asked that all journalists leave campus by 5 a.m. tomorrow,” as students return to class. “Students in general will also be declining all requests and contact from the media,” the statement says. “Please grant us your understanding as this decision was made by the students, with the intent to regain a sense of normalcy as we prepare to move forward as an academic institution and as a community in the healing process.”
LINK
Afternoon T!
had a good morning
cruising around, great posts,
great music, visiting with freinds new and old.
doggers and me ready for brunch and a walk about the hood!
Rove ‘explodes’ at Crow over global warming. Singer Sheryl Crow, “on a cross-country global warming awareness trip, got into it with Karl Rove” last night at the White House Correspondents Dinner. “Jawing like a baseball manager and an umpire arguing a call, Crow and Rove were disagreeing over global warming, with Crow’s pal, Laurie David, offering support.” David describes the scene:
We asked Mr. Rove if he would consider taking a fresh look at the science of global warming. Much to our dismay, he immediately got combative. And it went downhill from there.
We reminded the senior White House advisor that the US leads the world in global warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official Administration position on global warming which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country. […]
In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, “Don’t touch me.” How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unphased, Sheryl abruptly responded, “You can’t speak to us like that, you work for us.” Karl then quipped, “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people.” To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, “We are the American people.”
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If she dis touch him, I hope she washed her hands, well, afterwards!!
Hi Jim,
Just got home from work. 4 days straight and I have two more til I get a day off. Getting tired.
It's in the 80's here today. Hot!! Thank goodness we have a nice breeze.
Don't want to put the AC on yet. It will cost enough this summer!!
Paper: Gore campaign team assembling in shadows Ron Brynaert
Published: Sunday April 22, 2007
Secretly in the shadows, a Gore 2008 campaign team is being assembled, according to a British newspaper's report.
"Friends of Al Gore have secretly started assembling a campaign team in preparation for the former American vice-president to make a fresh bid for the White House," Tim Shipman writes in Sunday's Telegraph, adding that two staff members from Gore's 2000 campaign, which ended when the Supreme Court put an end to Florida's recounting attempts, "say they have been approached to see if they would be available to work with him again."
Adding intrigue, Shipman continues, "But, aware that he may step into the wide open race for the White House, former strategists are sounding out a shadow team that could run his campaign at short notice. In approaching former campaign staff, including political strategists and communications officials, they are making clear they are not acting on formal instructions from Mr Gore, 59, but have not been asked to stop."
"I was asked whether I would be available towards the end of the year if I am needed," one strategist tells the paper. "They know he has not ruled out running and if he decides to jump in, he will have to move very fast. He hasn't asked them to do this, but nor has he told them not to."
In the last few days, both former President Bill Clinton and political strategist James Carville have speculated that Gore would end up entering the crowded field.
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whoa T!
real swings there.
good to see ya keeping up.
deff gonna be a A/C summer on the lakes.
my guess is they'll mess with the electricity in the middle of it.
LIZARDS CHANGING SEX as a result of the warming climate: scientists.
Iraqi PM Orders Halt to Baghdad Barrier
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday that he has ordered a halt to the construction of a barrier that would separate a Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad, saying there are other ways to protect the neighborhood.
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SAM-SAM-SAM-SAM-SAM-SAM
that was weird ...
I couldn't post under blogger id or anon or other ...
what the hell?
and then I went to blogger, and it didn't recognize my id and password anymore. it wanted me to sign in as a new user...
huh?
very frustrated with technology today...
I just sprinkled baby powder on my nuts.
tonid said
In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, “Don’t touch me.” How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unphased, Sheryl abruptly responded, “You can’t speak to us like that, you work for us.” Karl then quipped, “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people.” To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, “We are the American people.”
K.Rove-What a Evil,Gender confused,Nasty little man.
Good for you,fat Tony.Keep it to yourself.Now,go away.
where the heck is the sunday show?
blogger signs ya out if ya reboot
yer first post back has the
sign up spaces empty.
just sign in.
Hallelujah
Allison Crowe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMOdVXAPJ0&mode=related&search=
sunday show is a month off.
i like bag balm myself.
the schedule says 1 am to 4 am. Is this a joke?
Go start your own internet radio show. You'll probably make more money. Go where they treat you like you deserve
One rainy day in England,The Music Played:).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oSx9PeVEII&mode=related&search=
'Devastating' Bill Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming This Week
"the press has yet to come to terms with its role in enabling the Bush Administration to go to war on false pretenses."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003574260
...The program closes on a sad note, with Moyers pointing out that "so many of the advocates and apologists for the war are still flourishing in the media." He then runs a pre-war clip of President Bush declaring, "We cannot wait for the final proof: the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." Then he explains: "The man who came up with it was Michael Gerson, President Bush's top speechwriter.
"He has left the White House and has been hired by the Washington Post as a columnist."
incase you missed this, you can download sam's shows from the archives here;
http://am1090seattle.com/pages/190905.php?
and his last shows here;
http://am1090seattle.com/pages/84914.php?contentType=34&contentId=1199
Air America loses yet ANOTHER station! There is nothing left of The Network.
Fans of liberal talk radio in El Paso awoke to find something else blaring from their radios Monday: oldies music.
Local managers of KHRO-AM, a station owned and operated by Entravision Communications Corporation of Santa Monica, Calif., did not explain their decision to dump the Air America Network.
The only talk segments retained by the station were the locally-produced talk morning programs hosted by Paul Strelzin and David Karls ruher.
Strelzin said he was left in the dark about the decision.
"I'm glad to be on the air, but I think (the change) was handled childishly," Strelzin told his radio audience.
Some listeners called Strelzin's program to lash out against the management of the radio station.
The change did not come as a total surprise. Speculation arose late last year that the station might
cancel its affiliation with Air America after the New York-based company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
CA Congresswoman Millender-McDonald Dies Of Cancer At 68
Associated Press | April 22, 2007 04:28 PM
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., died early Sunday of cancer, an aide said. Millender-McDonald, who was 68, died at her home in Carson, Calif., said her chief of staff, Bandele McQueen.
McQueen could provide no details on what form of cancer Millender-McDonald had.
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The Price of a Punch
East Texas Jury Awards Mentally Challenged Black Man $9 Million for Beating at Hands of White Youths
By JIM AVILA and TERI WHITCRAFT
ABC News Law and Justice Unit
April 21, 2007 — For most of his life, Billy Ray Johnson, a 42-year-old mentally challenged man who loved to dance and always wore a smile, could be found hanging out by the old courthouse on the square in the East Texas town of Linden.
That was before he was beaten and left for dead in a ditch by four white men who were half his age. The assault damaged Johnson's brain, but his attackers were given a slap on the wrist — 60 days behind bars for one; 30 days for the others.
Yesterday, after four years and two criminal trials, Johnson finally got justice. After deliberating for 3½ hours in the old Linden courthouse, a jury of 12 awarded Billy Ray Johnson the biggest verdict the town had ever seen: $3 million for his past and future medical care, and $6 million for pain and suffering.
"I think this jury told us that whether you are rich, poor, black or white … handicapped or not … you stand equal in the face of the law," said Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who represented Johnson pro-bono in the civil trial.
A Gentle Spirit
Those who knew Johnson before the attack describe a gentle soul with a weak mind.
"Billy Ray was a loving, caring person. He was a happy person. He loved dancing, he loved imitating driving cars," said Lenda Beecham, Johnson's first cousin. "Billy Ray would do anything you asked him to do. Anything. He thought everybody loved him. That's why he would take the chance to go anywhere with anybody."
Good! Good news for a change!
Killings of Afghan Civilians Recall Haditha
..But almost a year later, marines killed at least 10 civilians in Afghanistan in an episode that bore some striking similarities to the Haditha killings and suggested that the lesson had not taken, even in a platoon of combat veterans wearing the badge of the elite new Marine Corps Special Operations forces.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/world/asia/20abuse.html?_r=2&ref=world&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
UK's Blair being urged to
quit by May 3rd elections
This weekend senior Labour figures are privately urging Blair to bring forward his resignation to before polling day on May 3, when his party also faces a rout in the Welsh Assembly and English council elections.
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Germany says Wolfowitz situation unacceptable Sun Apr 22, 1:22 PM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany believes Paul Wolfowitz's position at the helm of the World Bank has become unsustainable, a German minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Wolfowitz, a former U.S. deputy defense secretary who helped plan the invasion in Iraq, has faced calls by World Bank staff to step down and questions about his leadership over his handling of a promotion he approved for his girlfriend.
"The situation, as it is, is no longer acceptable," German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, told the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD), in an early release of an article to run in its Monday edition.
"My conclusion is that Wolfowitz should do the bank a service and take the consequences himself. The sooner, the better."
The FTD headline to the story read: "Government expects Wolfowitz's resignation." Wieczorek-Zeul is Germany's minister responsible for World Bank issues.
Wolfowitz, whose appointment to the World Bank presidency in mid-2005 was controversial because of his role as an architect of the Iraq war while at the Pentagon, has refused to step down.
The U.S. government has backed Wolfowitz and urged leading European countries to withhold judgment until the World Bank's 24-nation board decides on his future.
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Laura Flanders Blog is back up
Sunday, April 22: Live from Madison, Wisconsin
by Lynn Standafer on April 22, 2007 - 3:55pm.
We’re broadcasting live from the Barrymore Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. I’ll welcome award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author GREG PALAST to the Barrymore, we’ll find out what’s stories he’s working on. Plus we’ll highlight the independent media movement that finds many of its roots here in Madison, when we talk to BOB MCCHESNEY from Free Press, DIANE FARSETTA from the Center for Media and Democracy, FRANK EMSPAK from Workers Independent News, and MOLLY STENTZ from the Independent Media Center. If you’re in Madison, come on down. Otherwise, tune in!
Sam, I personally miss your show, my mornings are really empty.
Michael
toniD said...
LIZARDS CHANGING SEX as a result of the warming climate: scientists.
Just like Jurassic Park!
-conbo
Are the dinosaurs going to come back too?
Wow
A real life Jesus Horse
Maybe Jesus will come back riding on a dinosaur
Happy Jesus Day!
-conbo
It's those dog eating Christians who created so much sorrow in the country.
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