Thursday, April 5, 2007
Thursday: Pelosi Loses The War On Terror
Well friends, it's an embarassment of riches today. Newt Gingrich says that Spanish is the language of the ghetto, then apologizes...in Spanish. (Check it out.) Rush Limbaugh slams Nancy Pelosi for wearing a headscarf in Syria, even though Laura Bush did the same thing when she went to the Middle East. Then Glenn Beck claims that he "can't win," because he's a white Christian human living in America, and most people hate those. He's sure got our number. In fact, today we're welcoming three guests with established histories of hatred for humanity. Blogger Atrios on the news of the day, writer Eric Alterman on Chris Matthews' man crushes, and columnist Spencer Ackerman on Iraq. Down with humans!
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combat pay.
the chick Paul Wolfowitz is banging makes more than Condi Rice.
Ewwwww!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/murray-waas/favoritism-shown-towards_b_45038.html
Liberal Una said...
SCOTT, HERE'S THE PROBLEM. If you ONLY keep your eye on 9/11 conspiracies, you will miss all the lying shit that's happening and being unearthed NOW. Those here are very aware of the videos and the facts as they get exposed.
Hay Liberal Una: That stuff is that supposedly is being uncovered is the stuff that is always floating on the top and is used to placate the mob so they get busy with dead ends and sacrifical lambs...
Remember when Scoter was indicted how every liberal just knew that his conviction would lead somewhere.
IT ended with him. Thats how it works.
If you don't change the game board, all you are doing is switching the pieces....
Really. Its time to wake up.
in condition to CAPS again scott
eya T!
sheesh! yer getting all the bloggie smoochies today!
(nice to be appreciated ain't it?)
Both parties are complicit in the mass murders and your party continues to fund the war.
April 5, 2007 12:14 PM
This part.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/142201
War Photographer Chris Hondros Witnesses U.S. Shooting of Iraqi Parents in Car With Six Children
'Outsourced Guantanamo' - FBI & CIA Interrogating Detainees in Secret Ethiopian Jails, U.S. Citizen Among Those Held
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/141256
AMY GOODMAN: So let's talk about Amir Mohamed Meshal. Jonathan Hafetz, you’re with the Brennan Center. Who is this young man?
JONATHAN HAFETZ: Well, he’s a young man, a 24-year-old born and bred American citizen from New Jersey, who has been swept up in these goings on over there and is being held in secret incommunicado detention in Ethiopia and is being denied basic due process rights. The FBI claims they have no -- publicly claims they have no intent to prosecute him. And either through their acts of omission or through deliberate acts, the United States has left him to rot -- an American citizen -- rot in an Ethiopian jail, where he can be faced with torture.
He Jim, nice to be recognized once in awhile.
News coming in slow today. I expect a dump after lunch.
Both parties are complicit in the mass murders and your party continues to fund the war.""
yup that the real issue.
there are some individuals that are exceptions. it's slightly better now.
the real struggle is taking down the fat cats.
i'll know we're over the hump when we prosecute and convict the "world bankers".
Don't say 'hump', SJ...
Hahaha! That alannis video from Willow is gold! :)
http://tinyurl.com/yqcoot
Cooperatives pay big dividends
It's commonly held that employee-owned firms are uncompetitive. But,finds Sue Norris, staff who have a stake in a business can give it a drive and adaptability a plc cannot match
Friday March 30, 2007
The Guardian
When John Lewis announced its employees had received a whopping 18% of their salary as a bonus this year, equivalent to nine weeks' pay, it sent ripples through the business world. The company, with its unusual business structure, had enjoyed such a good year that it could afford to pay out £155 million in bonuses alone.
Follow-up media coverage asked how much of John Lewis Partnership's
(JLP) success was down to the buy-in of the workforce, who have an even stronger vested interest in going the extra mile than staff in more conventional relationships with their employers.
Could it be that, contrary to the popular perception that an
employee-owned organisation is slow and cumbersome, sharing ownership is the best way to motivate a workforce?
Sammy is 24 hours away from being a free man..
No more corporate responsibilities..
No more waking up early..
No more worries..
Life is gonna be sweet..!!!
Thom Hartmann has too many wingfreaks on his show...don't like having to hear this bs.
A little easter humor....
Easter Egg's night out
It will be Green and boys left with the headaches..
Sammy will be going into summer free and easy...
Sleeping in the sun..
Trips to the beach..
The good life..
It will be Green and boys left with the headaches..
Sammy will be going into summer free and easy...
Sleeping in the sun..
Trips to the beach..
The good life..
bibimimi
yes, hartmann is smart, but becoming too much of an "appeaser"
war dog
is any man ever really free
ya T,
long weekend coming up, i'm in at 11 and out at three for set up. off fri, sat and sun.
back to it on Mon. at 10.
(oh baby this is sweet having adjustable hours..)
Hahaha! That alannis video from Willow is gold! :)
no shit, that is a goodun!
hee!
collapsible trolls!
Sams on Thom show now for an interview!
is any man ever really free
April 5, 2007 1:14 PM
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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
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Sammy if off for a summer of love..
No newpapers..
No TV...
No RADIO..
No nothing..
It will be just like being 16 again...
Sorry that link didn't work. I'll try something else later.
Maybe a trip back to St. Kitts to lay on the beach..
Kayaking in the surf..
Sleeping under a palm tree...
Relaxation..!!!!
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Waddo has a blog!
"Money is Time":
http://usaf1969.blogspot.com/
no articles, no posts, no comments...
"No posts match your query"
i'm out.
time for "set up"
love ya all!
Edwards Surging! Obama Tanking!
Just kidding, of course, though Edwards moves from 17 to 19 and Obama moves from 19 to 17 in the latest Cook poll. As impressive as Obama's polling and fundraising has been, the dominant narrative of this as a battle between Clinton and Obama has been a bit silly.
More interesting in the poll results is the fact that Obama/Edwards supporters don't seem inclined to support the other one. Clinton is a popular 2nd choice as well as 1st one, and when Obama or Edwards are excluded from the poll their support largely shifts to Clinton.
And, yes, it's early and national polls are silly and when I find myself talking about this stuff too much I want to shoot myself in the face.
-Atrios 11:25
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Michael Issikof was just on MSNBC talking about this
I listen to Sam replayed on KPOJ rather than listen to Thom Hartmann!
4,000 flash mob dancers
startle commuters
More than 4,000 clubbers danced through the rush hour at Victoria station in Britain's biggest flash mob stunt.
Revellers responded to e-bulletins urging them to "dance like you've never danced before" at 6.53pm.
There were knowing looks and giggles among the casually dressed crowd that gathered from 6.30pm, wearing earphones.
A deafening 10-second countdown startled station staff and commuters before the concourse erupted in whoops and cheers. MP3 players and iPods emerged and the crowd danced wildly to their soundtracks in silence - for two hours.
Continued at This Is London >> >>
Afternoon everyone. :)
The Evidence Is There: It’s Time for Congress to Investigate the Ties Between the Bush Family and Osama bin Laden
The following chapter, "The BCCI Game: Banking on America, Banking on Jihad," appears in investigative journalist Lucy Komisar's new book "A Game as Old as Empire," just published by Berrett-Koehler (San Francisco).
Now that the U.S. Congress is investigating the truth of President George W. Bush's statements about the Iraq war, they might look into one of his most startling assertions: that there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
Critics dismissed that as an invention. They were wrong. There was a link, but not the one Bush was selling. The link between Hussein and Bin Laden was their banker, BCCI. But the link went beyond the dictator and the jihadist -- it passed through Saudi Arabia and stretched all the way to George W. Bush and his father.
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On Olbermann, the Dem rips Bush's conference.
"The president is beyond stubborn," "detached from reality," and the best one: "Unless we've shifted into a monarchy," the Congress is doing a legitimate job with this bill and that the president is the one vetoing the funds for the troops. Their responsibility is oversight, the power of the purse, and not just a body of suggesters.
Senator Feingold, who's been pushing a timeline for nearly two years, relays the thoughts of 7 out of 10 Americans that the War on Iraq ought to end. He then proceeds to lay out the plan that he and Harry Reid have in store for doing so...
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toniD, just read about iglesias. i can't recall this potent a combination of evil and stupidity in a long time.
Weighing up losses to Iraq's heritage by Paul Schemm
Thu Mar 15, 2:47 PM ET
Archaeology in Iraq these days, explains the new caretaker of the country's 5,000-year-old heritage, is less about making new discoveries than finding out what has already been stolen.
"We need a government that takes responsibility for protecting the monuments of all Iraqis," antiquities director Abbas Ali al-Hussainy told AFP in an interview during a recent visit to Cairo.
"Right now we need to take measures to figure out where the sites are and know the extent of the damage and looting at each one," said the slight, bespectacled man.
The pillaging of the Iraqi National Museum in the immediate aftermath of Baghdad's fall in April 2003 shocked the world.
But while many of those antiquities have since been recovered, looting has taken off in the archaeological sites scattered around the perilous countryside.
At a November conference in London on archaeology in conflict zones, Hussainy launched an appeal to all foreigners who had worked in Iraq to send him details of their excavations since the meticulous records kept by the previous regime had all been looted.
"At the archaeological sites of ancient Sumer (in the south), we have lost entire cities from one of the most important periods of human history," he said, listing the cities that had been pillaged.
"There are sites where the looters have made excavations down five meters (16 feet)."
US archaeologists studying satellite photos of Iraqi sites have compared the excavation craters left by looters to the surface of the moon.
Now Hussainy and his badly underfunded and understaffed State Board of Antiquities and Heritage is conducting surveys and inventories of provincial museums to establish exactly what remains in the country.
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The looting further picked up with the decline of security across Iraq in 2005 with the main target being easy-to-transport cuneiform tablets and coins.
"With the occupation and the collapse of security, the heritage was exposed to even bigger disasters," said Hussainy.
One of the more egregious side effects of Iraq's worsening spiral of violence has been the targeting of academics and professionals. Many archaeologists are now dead or have fled the country.
"In places like Samawa (in southern Iraq) where there are hundreds of sites, we have a single archaeologist with a bachelors degree," said Hussainy.
Coalition forces have been faulted not only for not protecting the sites, but in some cases damaging them with parking lots built near the ancient halls of Babylon, an air base surrounding the Ziggurat of Ur -- a Sumerian temple in southern Iraq -- and sniper posts on the massive spiral minaret of Samarra.
Last week, Hussainy was in Cairo for a meeting of Arab antiquities departments over Israeli excavations near Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, but he also took the opportunity to request help from his Egyptian counterpart Zahi Hawass.
"He asked for many things. We can ask people to come for training and help in the documentation, but inside Iraq, the situation is very difficult," said Mohammed Abdel Maqsud, number two at Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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It's up to each individual to find happiness..
And you don't have it coming..
Sam has learned his this..
He will join Janeane in the Land of the Free...
You sentence yourself to this misery...
You have no one else to blame...
~~~ Maybe a trip back to St. Kitts to lay on the beach ~~~
Don't forget your adult diapers.
Especially on the beach.
Think of other vacationers, War Dog.
By the way War Dog, I told you to quit emailing me.
I never should have let you blow me in the first place.
That is on me.
How could I know that you were such a shitty lover.
Can you say...WORST BLOWJOB....EVER?
Keep away from me, you creep!
blah blah blah said...
toniD, just read about iglesias. i can't recall this potent a combination of evil and stupidity in a long time.
April 5, 2007 2:02 PM
Amazing isn't it? And still some people think bush is a god!!
Thank goodness he's incompetent! Can you imagine what he would be like if he had a mind!
Favoritism Shown Towards Wolfowitz's Girlfriend
Murray Waas
Employees of the World Bank have been "expressing concern, dismay, and outrage" regarding favoritism shown by the bank and the Bush administration towards the one-time girlfriend of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, according to an internal memo circulated within the bank by the World Bank Group Association, which represents the rights of the bank's 13,000 employees. Among other things, the April 3 memo alleges that Shaha Riza, Wolfowitz's romantic interest was given a "promotion [that] clearly does not conform" to bank procedures. Moreover, the memo alleges, she was then given a raise "more than double the amount allowed" by the bank's rules.
A copy of the memorandum was leaked to myself and other journalists Wednesday evening as World Bank employees have become more outspoken in their criticism of Wolfowitz's tenure as president of the bank.
Wolfowitz, who as Deputy Secretary of Defense was considered an architect of the U.S. war with Iraq, disclosed to bank board members that he had a romantic relationship with a senior bank communications officer, Shaha Riza, shortly after he was nominated to head the World Bank. Bank regulations disallow bank employees from supervising spouses or romantic partners, but Wolfowitz reportedly attempted to circumvent the rules so he would be able to continue to work with Riza. Informed by the bank's ethics officers that that would not be allowable, the problem appeared solved when Riza was detailed to work at the State Department's public diplomacy office in September 2005--even though her salary was still to be paid by the World Bank.
Before she was detailed over to the State Department, Riza was earning $132,660, according to the bank's payroll records obtained by the Governmental Accountability Project. Had the bank's board adhered to its ordinary rules, as Riza was shifted over to the State Department, she should have only been eligible for a raise of about $20,000. Instead she was given a raise of $47,340, whereupon her salary became $180,000. Then last year, she received yet another raise which brought her salary to $193,000. That salary increase not only meant that Riza earned more than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, but apparently made her the single highest paid State Department official.
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Cheney Says He's Expecting Baby Boy From Daughter Mary And Partner
The Washington Post | Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts | April 5, 2007 12:40 PM
It'll be a boy for Mary Cheney! Her dad revealed the gender of his future grandchild yesterday during an interview with ABC News Radio.
"I'm delighted I'm about to be a grandparent for the sixth time," said Dick Cheney. "I'm looking forward to the arrival of a new grandson."
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Bill Scher
Fighting the Pharma Goliath
If you watch a lot of CNN or MSNBC, you've probably seen the pharmaceutical lobby's ads warning about "changes" to Medicare prescription drug program, because the program is "working." (Then again, you might have heard a few notes of the off-the-shelf Muzak-folk music not good enough to be used in ads for Nexium or Lipitor, and tuned the ads out.)
Nevertheless, these ads are part of a massive lobbying campaign to kill legislation empowering Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices, repealing the current prohibition. Such a bill has already passed the House, and the Senate is expected to take up the issue later this month. This past Sunday, Center for Public Integrity found that Big Pharma has flooded Washington with $155 million and an "army" of lobbyists more than 1,000 strong.
Part of the lobbying campaign is to give the impression that huge numbers of people are satisfied with the status quo, despite the fact that 85 percent of the country supports having Medicare negotiate. (The TV ad currently airing includes flat lies about the stance of one newspaper's editorial board.)
The other part is a wonky misinformation campaign to claim private companies are already negotiating and lowering prices, and Medicare can't do as good a job. The campaign has been aided by the White House and abetted by parts of the media, particularly The Washington Post.
But the White House won't back up its claims. When asked by a House committee for the supporting data, Bush's Medicare officials refused to release it.
And on Wednesday, a new report from Institute for America's Future put to rest any notion that Medicare can't reap significant savings, finding that: "Allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices would bring around $30 billion in savings that can help American seniors and taxpayers." That's $30 billion each year, by the way. That is not chump change.
At a press conference announcing the report, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., called out the glaring contradiction in Big Pharma's arguments. The pharmaceutical companies insist that negotiating by Medicare wouldn't affect prices, yet also complain it would hurt research and development (a.k.a. cut into their enormous profits). Both can't be true.
Howdy Fish..
Folks are getting a bit touchy here today..
I guess they are all nervous..
Uncertain future and all..
People sometimes fear change if they have no control...
I think that is the case here today..!!!
Former Justice spokesman under Bush calls for Gonzales to resign Ron Brynaert
Published: Thursday April 5, 2007
A former Justice Department spokesman who served under the Bush Administration is calling for Alberto Gonzales to step down from his post as Attorney General, according to USA Today.
Mark Corallo, who served as Public Affairs Director for the Justice Department from 2002 to 2005, told USA Today that it was only Bush's sense of loyalty that was keeping Gonzales in his current post.
"Some Republicans, including former Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo, say Lone Star loyalty 'is the only reason Gonzales is still around,'" USA Today reported. "He says Gonzales should step down over mismanagement of the U.S. attorneys flap."
"Alberto Gonzales' loyalty to George Bush has got to trump George Bush's loyalty to Alberto Gonzales," Corallo was quoted as saying.
At TPMMuckraker, Paul Kiel observes, "Now the calls for Alberto Gonzales' resignation are coming from veterans of Bush's own Justice Department."
Corallo has recently come out as a forceful defender of Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff who resigned after news reports of the firing of eight US Attorneys - which some have dubbed "Attorneygate" -- broke wide last month. Corallo believes that his friend, Sampson, has been scapegoated.
"I think it is absolutely appalling that the senior leadership of the Justice Department decided to scapegoat Kyle Sampson," Corallo told the Boston Globe in March. "This is a good guy who didn't do anything wrong."
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According to the Borgen Project, in reality only .16% of our federal budget is spent on poverty reduction, the least among wealthy nations compared to the 50% we spend on defense. We should let our representatives know that we care about global poverty.
Sam will bounce back from this just fine..
Nothing lasts for ever..
And AAR is just plain unhealthy...
Endless negativity and anger with no resolution..
Look what is did to Janeane..
You don't want that..
No on wants that...
Sam will start to get healthy once he get back with real Americans..!!!
Ford give execs huge bonuses despite record losses
Published: Thursday April 5, 2007
Struggling Ford Motor Company awarded multimillion dollar bonuses to its executives last year despite the fact that it posted a record loss of 12.7 billion dollars, according to a document filed Thursday with securities regulators.
The automaker said in March it would be awarding "modest" bonuses to all company employees in order to recognize their work in reducing costs and "courageously" restructuring the company as it shutters plants and lays off 40,000 workers.
The bonuses amounted to an average of 500 dollars each for factory workers.
Chief executive Alan Mulally, who took over from Bill Ford on September 1, received a total compensation package of 28.2 million dollars which included a salary of 666,667 dollars for his four months of work at Ford.
Bill Ford, who currently serves as chairman, kept to his May 2005 decision to forgo new compensation until the company's automotive sector achieved sustainable profitability. While he received no cash salary, bonus or other awards, Ford was nonetheless received nearly 10.5 million dollars in previously assigned stock options and 'other compensation' such as the use of the corporate aircraft.
Among other awards, chief financial officer Don Leclair received total compensation of 4.4 million dollars, which included a salary of one million dollars, while Mark Fields, president of the Americas division, earned 5.5 million dollars, which included a salary of 1.3 million dollars.
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I guess after Sam is gone this blog won't be linked to anything..
Well anything that matters..
That's not good..
Maybe Sam will rework the old blog..
But why would he..????
War Dog....shut up!!
You are the worst nag!!!
Quit speculating on something you know nothing about!
Go away! Go to St. Kitts. Somewhere! A bike ride! A nice long bike ride.
April 05, 2007
Inhofe Worried About '08
According to Tulsa World, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) "thinks he is the next Richard Pombo" and "says the same people who took out Pombo are now gunning for him."
Inhofe, who calls global warming global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," does not have an opponent yet. Gov. Brad Henry (D) and Rep. Dan Boren (D) have both said they will not run for Senate in 2008.
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“That is utter rubbish. It’s electoral propaganda.” CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey on McCain’s trip to Baghdad: “It’s disgraceful for a man seeking highest office, I think, to talk utter rubbish. And that is utter rubbish. It’s electoral propaganda. It is simply not true. No one in his right mind who has been to Baghdad believes that story.”
UPDATE: According to McCain adviser Max Boot, the U.S. embassy’s security coordinator “refused to sign off on McCain’s visit because he thought it was too risky.”
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Quit speculating on something you know nothing about!
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Uh, that's all he does, toni! Why should his MO change now?
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A nice long bike ride.
...right off a cliff. ;-p
Pelosi Challenges White House: If I Gave Syria The Wrong Message, Prove It
Conservatives and media figures continue to claim, without evidence, that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivered an incorrect message from Israel to Syria during her meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Pelosi insists that Israel’s message was communicated accurately, and has suggested a good way to prove it:
[Pelosi spokesman Brendan] Daly pointed out that Pelosi was briefed by State Department officials before her meetings with the foreign leaders and that State Department officials also attended her meetings.
So if Pelosi really committed foreign policy flubs of the first order, the State Department is in a position to confirm as much.
The White House certainly received a read-out of what exactly Pelosi and the foreign leaders said in their meetings. Significantly, the White House has not openly accused Pelosi of the foreign-policy missteps the Post had accused her of.
In an e-mail follow-up, Daly wrote: “WH has not said that because in fact the Speaker did not get the message wrong — she included the necessary caveats and did not say or imply that this was a change in Israel’s position.”
Indeed, despite President Bush’s claim that Pelosi’s trip sent “mixed signals,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said during his briefing today, “I don’t think [the trip] necessarily complicates anything that we’re doing.”
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Hi Charlie!!
I went to the MRR pix site today just looking at the photos. Saw your meeting with Al Franken.
anybody listening to randi this afternoon. she's really on a rip.
Charlie, this is from your State...
Orrin Hatch is saying now that what he said on MTP about Carol Lam was right, but about the wrong person. It wasn't Carol Lam. he misspoke! It was her predicessor, almost 6 years ago which was the US atty that Clinton appointed.
He made a big mistake and is trying to back-peddle now.
I have to go to work soon, so I will miss Rachel's show. She's been trying to get an answer from Hatch since he made the statement on Meet the Press.
Rachel Maddow’s Open Letter To Orrin Hatch
For NEWS CONSUMER
better git hit in your soul by charles mingus mp3
Some people just can not deal with change..
They get nervous and convert that into anger..
Some people need to get a grip..
I didn't cause any of this..!!!
It's right wingers that can't deal with change.
Keeping this business as usual is the conservative mantra.
You are completely ass backwards on this.
Left wingers have always been for change and left wingers have always instigated change.
That's why we don't have that flat earth you guys used to brag about.
Well...if change doesn't effect their poll numbers anyway....huh...
Well I hope you are right..
Things are going to change a whole bunch around here..
Some folks have already adjusted..
Others are playing ostrich..!!
Charlie, this is from your State...
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Orrin's been a thorn in my side for years.
I wrote a letter to the editor about this today to the Salt Lake Trib.
I love Rachel for going after him. She's sending him flowers now. With a note... 'Orrin, call me.'
Saw your meeting with Al Franken.
-!-
That was soooo two years ago! ;-p
I didn't cause any of this..!!!
There you go again ... thinking the world revolves around you.
STFU already, ya tired old dawg.
Roadside Rampage: Salvadoran Murders in Guatemala Raise the Stake of Central American Drug-Addled Violence
In the aftermath of President Bush’s recent failed trip to Latin America, the diplomatic toll mounts:
• In closely scanning the newspapers in the region, not a single significant achievement was wracked up by the Bush trip
• Heads should roll among those in the Bush administration who planned the tour
• Of the five countries visited, only stopovers in Uruguay and Brazil could be even remotely defended as bringing some good news, while Guatemala and Colombia turned out to be total disasters, with Mexico generating a yawn.
"Sooo two years ago."
Bloggie paleontology, fossil posts, broken shards of web pottery.
a record written in electrons and bits...
all we have lefrt of our glorious past.
all we have lerft of our glorious past.
Sprelling Koo!
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tribute to missprells
that tend to prollifirate
despite our effirts
back to it!
Cya
War Dog!
I'd like to meat you in
St. Louis!
Associated Press Fires Oaxaca Correspondent Rebeca Romero
By John Gibler
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
April 5, 2007
The Associated Press fired Oaxaca state correspondent Rebeca Romero due to pro-government bias in her coverage of a six-month-long protest movement that sought to oust the state governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, according to AP reporters familiar with the agency’s work in Mexico.
Jack Stokes, the Manager of Media Relations for the AP declined to comment.
“We rarely comment on personnel issues, including the comings and goings of our paid-by-the-story freelancers around the world,” Mr. Stokes wrote in an email response to questions.
Ms. Romero violated the AP’s code of ethics by accepting payment from the Oaxaca state government for advertisements posted on her website, according to a January 9, 2007 report by Narco News.
Ms. Romero, a former press secretary for the Mexican federal attorney general, also owns an electronic news agency, ADN Sureste (Southeast Digital News Agency). ADN Sureste ran paid advertisements for the Oaxaca state government while Ms. Romero was reporting on the government’s involvement in the conflict, in violation of the AP’s code of ethics.
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Later guys. Off to work
(Listening to Randi...)
Cheney is looking into the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution...
This is pure Third World stuff. They want a 3rd term.
That would go well with the cronyism, the feudalism and all that stuff.
Bush In Crawford, New Protest Site Opens
President George Bush has been in close contact with Prime Minister Tony Blair from his Crawford ranch just outside of Waco.
The president arrived in Crawford late Wednesday night, where he will spend the Easter holiday.
Meanwhile, a new protest site opens Thursday. It's called Camp Casey. It's named after peace activist Cindy Sheehan's son, Casey, who was killed in Iraq.
The protesters will be in Camp Casey through Sunday and also plan to hold the Camp Casey Peace Awards in Austin on Thursday.
Those awards honor people for their dedication and commitment to peace.
Human Rights Protest Goes Horribly Wrong
Harvard Law's human rights community was hit hard on Monday by an anti-President Bush protest that went wrong, leaving nine with third-degree burns, six others in serious condition at Mass General Hospital, and scorch marks scarring Jarvis Field.
After protesting against a federal judge with black hoods and chanting, burying the Constitution in the flower beds, and hanging anti-war bed sheets from the library, leftist students concerned about American human rights abuses decided to one-up themselves via a mass self-immolation at the law school. It was intended to simultaneously protest U.S. inaction in Sudan, continued mistreatment of Guantanamo detainees, and the return of tapered jeans.
However, before the students could wrap themselves in flags, douse themselves in gasoline, and set themselves ablaze, they found themselves the subjects of a number of counter-protests. The Student Animal Defense Legal Fund loudly picketed the burning, angry that the pointy sticks recently set up on Holmes Field to demonstrate Iraqi war deaths had caused four Harvard squirrels to die by impalement.
"They say Iraqi lives are worth as much as American lives, but they turn their heads to the negligent homicide of innocent rodents!" said a counter-protester. "And the snacks for the immolation-viewing are not vegan. SHAME."
The human rights students tried to press on with their demonstration, only to face a counter-counter-demonstration from the Environmental Law Society.
"The animal rights signs are only 10% post-consumer content," explained a counter-counter-protester. "That is ridiculous. Plus, if people want to set themselves on fire, we should let them! Think about how low their carbon footprints will be if they don't pull through."
Topping off the chaos was a counter-counter-counter protest from members of the Federalist Society, who formed a human chain around all three groups and began to chant, "Hippies are lame."
"And you better not be using Chavez-approved Citgo gasoline to set those fires, you freedom-hating libs," yelled Fed Soc president Dan Sullivan.
The four groups quickly got into a screaming match, and a few minutes later, Jarvis Field was one enormous fireball.
Most students escaped with minor burns, and there were no fatalities. The students still in intensive care are expected to be released next week.
"I am truly saddened by this senseless tragedy," said Dean Kagan after the conflagration. "I meant to have a full-time team of sexy firefighter-slash-strippers at the law school to improve public safety, but Dean Cosgrove cut it out of my budget. This might never have happened."
i said...
(Listening to Randi...)
Cheney is looking into the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution...
that old chestnut. they talked about that when Reagan was winding down
I hate to say it, but Pelosi is kind of a Dope..!!!
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Pratfall in Damascus
Nancy Pelosi's foolish shuttle diplomacy
Thursday, April 5, 2007; A16
HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad. After a meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Ms. Pelosi announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that "Israel was ready to engage in peace talks" with Syria. What's more, she added, Mr. Assad was ready to "resume the peace process" as well. Having announced this seeming diplomatic breakthrough, Ms. Pelosi suggested that her Kissingerian shuttle diplomacy was just getting started. "We expressed our interest in using our good offices in promoting peace between Israel and Syria," she said.
Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message. "What was communicated to the U.S. House Speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel," said a statement quickly issued by the prime minister's office. In fact, Mr. Olmert told Ms. Pelosi that "a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel." In other words, Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel's position but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad's words were mere propaganda.
Our government shouldn’t be wasting time on labeling each other. They should try to improve this country and the world. At least Pelosi is trying to communicate with the Mid-Eastern leaders. The US needs to join together with the rest of the world leaders in figuring out a multilateral way of ending terrorism and Mid-East tensions. One of the biggest ways is to end global poverty.
Our leaders need to not abandon Iraq, but support its growth and the growth of other undeveloped countries by funding the UN Millennium Development Goals. According to the Borgen Project, just 0.16 of out federal budget is spent on poverty reduction while $340 billion has been spent on the war. Of all wealthy nations, we contribute the least percentage. We need to redirect our funds to programs that will work to combat the conditions that enable extremism to exist.
Podcasts?
try here GBC.
need to reggie but
you can use any emailie.
http://am1090seattle.com/pages/84914.php?contentType=34&contentId=1199
MLK
Exerpt:
From Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America, King said, the US was "on the wrong side of a world revolution." King questioned "our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America," and asked why the US was suppressing revolutions "of the shirtless and barefoot people" in the Third World, instead of supporting them.
In foreign policy, King also offered an economic critique, complaining about "capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries."
You haven't heard the "Beyond Vietnam" speech on network news retrospectives, but national media heard it loud and clear back in 1967 - and loudly denounced it. Time magazine called it "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi." The Washington Post patronized that "King has diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."
In his last months, King was organizing the most militant project of his life: the Poor People's Campaign. He crisscrossed the country to assemble "a multiracial army of the poor" that would descend on Washington - engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol, if need be - until Congress enacted a poor people's bill of rights. Reader's Digest warned of an "insurrection."
King's economic bill of rights called for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. He saw a crying need to confront a Congress that had demonstrated its "hostility to the poor" - appropriating "military funds with alacrity and generosity," but providing "poverty funds with miserliness."
How familiar that sounds today, nearly 40 years after King's efforts on behalf of the poor people's mobilization were cut short by an assassin's bullet.
In 2007, in this nation of immense wealth, the White House and most in Congress continue to accept the perpetuation of poverty. They fund foreign wars with "alacrity and generosity," while being miserly in dispensing funds for education and health care and environmental cleanup.
And those priorities are largely unquestioned by mainstream media. No surprise that they tell us so little about the last years of Martin Luther King's life.
Jeff Cohen
the author of "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media."
Interesting reading. A book about an African American, who met with Hess and Mussolini, and became the leading voice in American fascism. :)
The Color of Fascism: "Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States", by Gerald Horne
hat old chestnut. they talked about that when Reagan was winding down
April 5, 2007 5:21 PM
They're not Reagan. And this isn't the 1980s.
The guy that plays War Dog on the internet thinks that Ms. Nancy Pelosi "is
kind of a dope."
I wonder what Ms. Pelosi thinks of the guy that plays War Dog on the internet?
Hi, I
Is this what Randi was talking about...? although I agree that it's not out of the realm for these guys to try to pull this scheme off...
http://www.newyourketimes.com/content/article76649.html#secondParagraph
The person who sent it to me wrote back and said it was an april fools story....
Bush, Cheney are Undermining Democracy, Must be Impeached
April 4, 2007 | Susan Prewett
Posted on 04/05/2007 1:31:48 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A letter to the editor
Dear Editor: I am scared, and I am outraged.
As a former prize-winning investigative reporter for a Minnesota newspaper, I am very alarmed as I watch the deliberate destruction of the institutions that have long made America a bastion of freedom and morality. That applies to the dynamic "neutral" press and the U.S. Congress itself.
On Jan. 23, half a million hopeful peace-seekers marched in protest of this heinous and illegal war in Iraq. The New York Times saw fit to print the story -- on Page 21! The Los Angeles Times estimated a crowd of 3,000 -- even when other media estimated a crowd of 350,000 to 500,000. Most of the California press chose to ignore the event altogether.
Our outlandish would-be monarch, George W. Bush, espousing "democracy" in Iraq for our reason for invading, has brazenly and simultaneously launched an attack on our own democracy and press (along with the environment).
Global warming, a phenomenon very alarming to the wide majority of the world's scientists, and increasingly "the people," has under Bush become little more than a political football.
Pundit and Bush-loving columnist Rush Limbaugh has referred to those concerned scientists as "a bunch of wussies." Bush himself has called reducing fossil fuel use "bad for the U.S. economy."
Folks, we are living with a dangerous "Alice in Wonderland" mentality. Up is down and black is white. Liberals are maligned as being dangerous and unpatriotic.
What to do? Scream and holler at the press and Congress, with a demand for immediate removal of the world's most powerful leaders, both of whom I truly believe to be mentally unbalanced and ruthless. Forget the "nonbinding resolution." Charge the dauntless duo with high treason.
Former President Clinton underwent impeachment proceedings for an indiscreet affair with Monica. How about a president/vice president team usurping our so-called democracy, and trying to turn it into a police state?
Who are the real patriots here?
"Time is fun
when you're having flies!"
Make it stop mommy!
Make Mr. Bush go away!
repubs are so evil gay said...
The guy that plays War Dog on the internet thinks that Ms. Nancy Pelosi "is
kind of a dope."
I wonder what Ms. Pelosi thinks of the guy that plays War Dog on the internet?
April 5, 2007 7:17 PM
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I think that his political acumen hovers somewhere between Rush "Hillbilly Heroin" Limbaugh and Tom "Pending Trial" DeLay.
I'd Just Like To Say Hello To My Uncle!
Well friends, it's an embarassment of riches today. Newt Gingrich says that Spanish is the language of the ghetto, then apologizes...in Spanish.
Posted by SEDER at 8:48 AM 312 comments
Why did he apologize? According to the CNN poll, at least 46% of Americans agreed with him.
what a god-awful embarassment this place is sometimes
somnamballistic
?
Oh!
hahahahahaahahahaa!
I think that his political acumen hovers somewhere between
Rush "Hillbilly Heroin" Limbaugh and Tom "Pending Trial" DeLay.
(rofl!)
We're all going to die!
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
Country Joe and the Fish
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on generals, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those reds —
The only good commie is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Huh!
Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.
And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, ignore the facts,
The next stop is Iraq;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
"Deteriorata"
Go placidly
Amid the noise and waste.
And remember what comfort there may be
In owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons
Unless you are in need of sleep.
Ro-tate your tires. Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself
And heed well their advice,
Even though they be turkeys.
Know what to kiss.....and when! Consider that two wrongs never make a right
But that THREE.........do.
Wherever possible, put people on hold.
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment
And despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer main-te-nance.
You are a fluke
Of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not
The universe is laughing behind your back.
Remember the Pueblo.
Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle and mu-ti-late.
Know yourself.
If you need help, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs,
Especially with those persons closest to you.
That lemon on your left, for instance.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
Would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not in love therefore;
It will stick to your face.
Gracefully surrender the things of youth:
The birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan
And let not the sands of time
Get in your lunch.
Hire people with hooks.
For a good time call 606-4311;
Ask for "Ken."
Take heart amid the deepening gloom
That your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
And reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot
It could only be worse in Milwaukee.
You are a fluke
Of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not
The universe is laughing behind your back.
Therefore, make peace with your god
Whatever you conceive him to be---
Hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin.
With all its hopes, dreams, promises and urban renewal
The world continues to deteriorate.
GIVE UP!
You are a fluke
Of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not
The universe is laughing behind your back.
by Tony Hendra 1972
That's ZACTLY why I'm havin' fun....
tonight!
Whoa...a lyrical synchro... :)
Evening bloggers!!
"Whoa...a lyrical synchro... :)"
yup,
that's why they pay us the big bucks...
President Carter: White House ‘Ordered’ Me To Not Go To Syria »
Recently, the White House has launched partisan attacks against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for taking a trip to Syria, while refusing to criticize similar Republican delegations.
Yesterday, former President Jimmy Carter revealed that he was barred from visiting Syria last year when he was abroad monitoring the Palestinian elections: “I have known President Bashar al-Assad since he was a college student, and I thought it might be helpful if I went and urged him to support the peace process in the Middle East. But for the only time in my life as a former president, I was ordered by the White House not to go.” Watch it:
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, also praised Pelosi’s trip, stating, “It’s long overdue, as a matter of fact.” He added, “When there is a crisis, the best way to help resolve the crisis is to deal with the people who are instrumental in the problem.”
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eya T,
how ya feeling?
looks like you have an eiderdowntic memory to me crnkr.
the first warm day today.
heater off and the computer room was warmer when i got back than when i left.
eya crnkr,
that's a sad note.
If anyone would know Deteriorata I would figure you would, Crank.. :)
I swear, that song always makes me laugh, & I'm sure I've posted it before..but when a copy of the book/poem Desiderata came in..like ususal..Deteriorata came to mind & I had to find it..
...."Consider that two wrongs
never make a right
But that THREE.........do."
yes she was,
ironically her maiden name was
Bess Bumperkisser
(taps foot)
Fair Jim. Stopped raining here so no moisture.
Found out something at work tonight. The girl I wasn't sure of her politics, well I am sure now.
She's a Lib!
A lady came in that worked for United airlines and we all were talking. She was saying how many layoffs were happening at United and that they transfered alot of reservations Dept to India. She was wondering about her job.
She'd been on vacation for two week and just came back. I asked if she'd heard the news about the CEO of United and she said "Don't tell me! He got another few million in his pay package!" I said something like that.
My co-worker said "That's what is happening with these big corps today so I am so happy I work for a smaller family owned company. I said "this isn't the United Staes of American anymore but Corporate America and they both agreed.
Then, my co-worker said "We need a change in government and get rid of these idiots that are ruining this country".
"Yes" I said to myself!! I feel much more comfortable with her now.
I really, really HATE Fox News!
Is Gore more dangerous than global warming? Today, Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto did a segment devoted to making the case that “Albert Gore is a very dangerous man.” Energy CEO Bob Murray said, “Albert Gore is the shaman of global goofiness, and we’d better not be listening to him.” He added that the “science is [still] out” on global warming.
Murray, a major GOP contributor, was one of the members of Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force.
LINK
How to Stop a Showdown with Iran, by Noam Chomsky
‘Strangely Quiet’ Scene As Bush Visits Base Where Medically-Unfit Troops Were Deployed
Yesterday, President Bush visited Fort Irwin, California, the main desert training camp where most U.S. soldiers are sent before deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Bush told the troops:
Ours is a remarkable country when people volunteer to serve our country in a time of war. The amazing thing about our United States military is thousands and thousands have signed up knowing full well that we’re a nation at war. The government didn’t say, you have to do this, you chose to do it on your own. You decided to put your country ahead of self in many ways.
That message must have resonated in a unique way for some of the soldiers present. As Salon.com’s Mark Benjamin reported recently, Fort Irwin is where some soldiers with debilitating injuries and other medical conditions, including female soldiers who were pregnant, were deployed for weeks:
Hernandez is one of a dozen soldiers who stayed for weeks in those tents who were interviewed for this report, some of whose medical records were also reviewed by Salon. All of the soldiers said they had no business being sent to Fort Irwin given their physical condition. In some cases, soldiers were sent there even though their injuries were so severe that doctors had previously recommended they should be considered for medical retirement from the Army.
Military experts say they suspect that the deployment to Fort Irwin of injured soldiers was an effort to pump up manpower statistics used to show the readiness of Army units. With the military increasingly strained after four years of war, Army readiness has become a critical part of the debate over Iraq.
As Steve Benen noted, Bush’s remarks to the soldiers yesterday hardly produced the rally-like atmosphere of years past. Reuters reported that troops “sat quietly at their lunch tables, some joined by family members, as Bush spoke.” The Houston Chronicle’s Julie Mason described the event as “less than a rally, more than a stare-down,” and said the troops were “strangely quiet.”
LINK
...and that the answer to life, the universe and everything is divisible by one, two, three, six, seven, fourteen and twenty-one.
April 5, 2007 9:57 PM
No wonder the answer has eluded me for so long...Math!!
I've just been perusing the news and it sucks! Bad!
What do we have to do to get rid of these people?
Nina Hagen, Ziggy Stardust
Then, my co-worker said "We need a change in government and get rid of these idiots that are ruining this country".
"Yes" I said to myself!! I feel much more comfortable with her now.""
ya,
takes a while to get to know peeps when you're being polite.
What do we have to do to get rid of these people?
everything...
starting with ourselves.
it ain't gonna be easy till we get more momentum going.
hopeful sign: people trust the net for news way more than the corporate press.
You know what bothers me... the perception that the government was ever some great defender, helper, of the people...I could elaborate...but it would take me too long....
Rove's RNC Roadshow
By Paul Kiel - April 5, 2007, 4:20 PM
General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan was raked across the coals last week in a House hearing for having Karl Rove's deputy come and brief government employees on the wellfare of the Republican Party. But apparently that presentation was just business as usual for Rove.
TPM alum Justin Rood reports at ABC News:
The White House political office has been giving presentations similar to the one at GSA since at least 2002, briefing officials throughout the government on Republican campaign information, according to a recent book by two Los Angeles Times reporters.
"[White House political adviser Karl] Rove and [former Bush campaign chief and one-time Republican National Committee head Ken] Mehlman ventured to nearly every cabinet agency to share key polling data" leading up to the 2002 midterm elections, wrote Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten in their book, "One Party Country," "and to deliver a reminder of White House priorities, including the need for the president's allies to win in the next election."
While previous administrations had sent officials to cabinet agencies, the duo wrote, "Such intense regular communication from the political office had never occurred before."
Justin also reports that Doan is under investigation by the Office of Special Counsel. The meeting, and Doan's reported enthusiasm for leveraging the GSA's considerable taxpayer-funded resources to help GOP candidates, is a possible violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits using government resources for political means.
Where's conbo, she'll like this story
I've just been perusing the news and it sucks! Bad!""
"ToniD Can't Say That, Can She?"
(hanging out with grandson)
we laughed our butts off the first time we heard gramma say 'Cool!' (1961 or so)
"By the way, my grandson says I'm a dudette!"
ToniD
from her best seller "Blog Confessions"
"ever was some great defender, helper, of the people"
i'm willing to argue that some individuals in goverment really are.
in general it looks like we're making steady progress towards freedoms and personal responsibility.
we just have too many Alpha Assholes.
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Intelligence, The Feith Way
By Paul Kiel - April 5, 2007, 12:48 PM
As I mentioned over at TPM, today Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) released a declassifed version (pdf) of the briefing slides Doug Feith's office used to sell the relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda to White House officials in 2002.
Feith, remember, ran the office of the undersecretary of defense for policy, an office tasked in the runup to the Iraq War with making the case that a relationship existed between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
It's a remarkable document in a number of ways. First, although Feith, unrepetant as always, has claimed that what his office was doing wasn't intelligence analysis, but "criticsm," the briefing is titled, "Assessing the Relationship between Iraq and al Qaida."
Second, the philosophy behind Feith's shop is on full display on a slide titled, "Fundamental Problems with How Intelligence Community is Assessing Information":
In the slide, the briefer complains about the lofty standard of proof of the intelligence community, which had led to a consensus that Iraq and al Qaeda did not have a significant relationship -- as opposed to the "mature, symbiotic relationship" touted by Feith's shop in one slide. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," the slide reads. After all, this was only a case for war.
And just to see it for yourself, in this slide Feith's office pushes the widely discredited claim that 9/11 attacker Mohammed Atta had met with an Iraq spy in 2000.
LINK
Some individuals may be...they're "nothing" compared to the force that controls it since forever...imhe...
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/2912626.html
Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist
By Peter Schweizer
If back in the 80's you happened to like Double's
"Captain Of Her Heart," you can watch and listen to it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKkY3oVmiU
If you would just like to feel damn good for about three and a half minutes and boogie around your computer a few times, go here....
http://www.thisislittleclacton.co.uk/duke_of_earl.htm
hello bloggie!
i am trying to cut back on my internet experience...i am turning into a freak
-conbo
bbl
Just ran across this on YouTube.
The Oval Office
Here's another kind of wierd Video I found on YouTube:
"16 WORDS"
KPOJ Format Changes: More Hartmann
Submitted by LynnS on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 3:48pm.
Starting Monday, progressive talker KPOJ changes its lineup. The bottom line: Less Sam Seder, more Thom Hartmann.
Winner of the job search we noted for a new morning guy is Carl Wolfson, known primarily as a stand-up if you believe the Google, though KPOJ also describes him as a political activist. Wolfson will not be replacing Hartmann and Heidi Tauber in the morning drive slot, instead making it a troika.
Hartmann will then be heard live on his national show, followed by the current line-up until 9 pm when uber-ranter Mike Malloy returns.
http://www.oregonmediainsiders.com/node/1085
Joe Klein in Tomorrow's TIME: Bush 'Clearly Unfit to Lead'
By E&P Staff
Published: April 05, 2007 1:35 PM ET updated 9:00 PM ET
NEW YORK In the upcoming issue of Time magazine, out Friday, columnist Joe Klein considers what he calls the Bush administration’s “epic collapse.” He concludes with a statement that may make some wonder if he is hinting that the president ought to be impeached.
Klein claims, in referring to the president, that he has “tried to be respectful of the man and the office” but now he recognizes that the “defining sins” of his administration “are congenital: they’re part of his personality. They’re not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine yet another two years of slow bleed with a leader so clearly unfit to lead.”
Earlier in the column, Klein hits Bush's "adolescent petulance" and "indifference to reality in Iraq" and charges that his "hyper-partisanship" amounts to "a travesty of governance." He declares that the three major Bush problems of the year “precisely illuminate the three qualities that make this Administration one of the worst in American history: arrogance (the surge), incompetence (Walter Reed) and cynicism (the U.S. Attorneys)."
Klein considers Attorneygate, compared to the others, to be “a relatively minor matter.” Still, it is an area where Karl Rove “has corrupted a policy area – like national security—that should be off-limits to political operators.”
[UPDATE: Posting his column tonight on the Time blog Swampland, Klein notes that despite not being able to imagine two more years with an "unfit" president: "NO! I am not hinting at impeachment. There are no 'high crimes' here. Just a really bad presidency. In fact, I consider impeachment talk counterproductive and slightly nutso."]
LINK
I wish I could see those vids right now, Toni...
They're trying to make our whole city wireless...
http://networksierra.org/
Bush to call up 12,000
National Guard troops for wars
Coming on the heels of a controversial “surge” of 21,000 U.S. troops that has stretched the Army thin, the Defense Department is preparing to send an additional 12,000 National Guard combat forces to Iraq and Afghanistan.
LINK
Shell, if you get a chance to watch them, do. Both are on the wierd side but to the point.
I got sucked into the couch
and climbed back into my body
through the horrible taste in my mouth.
I will..for sure...:)
The Global Marijuana March, May 5th 2007
Get involved in your city and make a difference!
Welcome to the organization page for the Global Marijuana March, May 5th, 2007!
First and foremost, we apologize for the old information and lack of updates. Jodie Emery will be taking over this page and posting fresh material regarding the 2007 Global Marijuana March. Expect information to be added soon.
Cannabis Culture Magazine and its publisher Marc Emery are strong supporters of the Global Marijuana March, and provided free posters to numerous cities around the world for years. But unfortunately, this generous contribution ended in July 2005 when Marc Emery was arrested, and Marc Emery Direct Seeds, the financing machine for the activist movement, raided and shut down by the Vancouver Police Department on behalf of the USA's Drug Enforcement Administration.
Even worse, the USA is seeking to extradite Canadians Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, and Greg Williams (the BC3) to face LIFE in prison for selling cannabis seeds... which was done for over 10 years, to finance marijuana activism worldwide! We truly need support and financial help for lawyers to fight this USA intrusion into Canada and the attempt to steal our citizens who have never been to America!
The Extradition Hearing Begins on May 28th, 2007 and will last for 5 days - please read here for more information.
How To Help:
- Information and updates about the extradition case are always posted in the CC online Extradition forum
- To make a donation to the BC3 (Marc, Greg, Michelle) or to buy a No Extradition shirt, visit the CC Store.
- Print a petition, or write a letter! You can email Jodie Emery and ask for the petition file or the information handout. Send them in to us (address provided with files), as we need copies for court to prove that there is strong opposition to extradition!
No Extradition for the BC3!
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GLOBAL MARIJUANA MARCH 2007
Visit www.GlobalMarijuanaMarch.com for information about the march nearest to you!
"You know what bothers me... the perception that the government was ever some great defender, helper, of the people...I could elaborate...but it would take me too long...."
Hiya, Alice. Like everything else, government breaks down and goes bad and if you ignore it rather than fixing it or replacing it, it gets worse. I could elaborate but, lucky for everyone, I'm not in windbag mode tonight. :)
Bedazzled (1968 with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) was released on DVD Tuesday. Whoo-hoo! Lately, I need more peculiar comedy. btw, liked the videos, Toni.
I'm watching Countdown. Nice to see Dr. Maddow. :)
Bill O’Reilly’s head practically explodes as he screams at Geraldo…
By: John Amato @ 7:10 PM - PDT We've seen Bill lose it before, but I think this one is the wildest segments I've ever seen. I really thought Bill was going to haul off an upper cut to Geraldo's jaw. Geraldo yelled at O'Reilly that the way he used this case was " A SIN!"
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GERALDO: "Cool your jets! It has nothing to do with illegal aliens…it has to do with drunk driving! Don't obscure a tragedy to make a cheap political point. It is a cheap political point and you know it!!"
Silent Patriot says: Bill did the same thing with the tragic Bronx fire last month. He just loves exploiting these isolated incident to, as Geraldo says, to make "cheap political points."
Oliver Willis explains: "A young girl was tragically killed by a drunk driver. But this was not enough for O'Reilly. Instead, because the criminal was an illegal alien he added this incident to his ongoing crusade against the brown people. Luckily Geraldo was on the show and he - to his credit - called out O'Reilly's xenophobia for exactly what it was. This drove Bill O'Reilly insane. I was almost certain he was going to reach across the table and hit Geraldo."
LINK
Cat Chew said...
I'm watching Countdown. Nice to see Dr. Maddow. :)
April 6, 2007 12:19 AM
I'm watching too. She did well.
Yuck! Cheney!
FOX News says Brits captured by Iran were spies
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/05/2007 08:31:00 PM ET
Uh oh. Why do FOX News and Rupert Murdoch hate the war on terror? They just said that their "sister network," Sky News (also owned by Rupert Murdoch), reported that one of the captured British soldiers, before he was captured, said they were there to spy on Iran. Here is Rupert's report.
The captain in charge of the 15 marines detained in Iran has said they were gathering intelligence on the Iranians.
Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested - just five days before the crisis began.
We withheld the interview until now so it would not jeopardise their safety.
So Rupert Murdoch just informed the world that the Brits were spies. I'm sure that will be very useful to our enemies. I'm waiting for Dick Cheney and the White House to blast FOX for not supporting the troops. I believe "treason" was the word the Republicans all used when the New York Times reported on Bush's illegal domestic spying. ...
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Sorry, mu eyes are closing on me. Need some sleep.
See you in the AM. Maybe Sam will say something tomorrow. Maybe he negotiated to stay. Who knows.
I hope he stays though.
Good night all!
north america is running out of people that know how to do stuff.
"I consider impeachment talk counterproductive and slightly nutso."
i consider this administration counterproductive and slightly nutso.
there ya go, is that common ground or what?
"Bill O’Reilly’s head practically explodes as he screams at Geraldo…"
But Bill O’Reilly is a pro at nearly exploding his head.
it's the only thing he's really good at.
and thats good enough.
for some.
night T!
G'night, rest well, and sweet dreams, ToniD.
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King's Prophetic Call for Peace
Eric Stoner
April 05, 2007
Forty years ago this week, on April 4, 1967, and a year to the day before his tragic assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rose to the pulpit of New York's Riverside Church to deliver one of the most controversial speeches of his life.
Entitled " Beyond Vietnam," the address was King's first public antiwar speech, and he gave it only after much trepidation and prayer. Believing that silence in the face of injustice is in fact complicity with evil, King wrote in his autobiography that, "The time had come—indeed it was past due—when I had to disavow and dissociate myself from those who in the name of peace burn, maim and kill."
As anticipated, King was roundly criticized at the time for straying from civil rights, not only by the mainstream media, but also by allies such as the NAACP. "It was a low period in my life," he wrote. "I could hardly open a newspaper."
More here
Dr. King's speech (text) here
MP3 (9.5MB) of Dr. King's speech
eya Catchoo!
a good evenin to ya!
This is the message of the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. Recently one of them wrote these words:
"Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism."
we pick and choose mostly what we want to believe.
what people choose to believe in is not so important to me.
to me, understanding why they choose what they do is what's 'important'.
" "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
the thing i like about MLK is that he wrote his own speeches.
Hiya, Sunshine. Was just trying to catch up a bit (upblog and elsewhere).
When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life.
Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
This Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John:
"Let us love one another; for love is God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us."
Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day. We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation.
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.
As Arnold Toynbee says :
"Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil.
Therefore the first hope in our inventory must be the hope that love is going to have the last word."
eya catchoo,
it's good to read ya!
i'm fading pretty fast myself.
That makes two of us.
G'night and rest well.
and the same.
pleasant dreams )
toniD, you talked about the news report that the captured britons are being called "spies" by their own country. consider the following from the nyt this morning:
LONDON, April 5 — The 15 British marines and sailors held captive in Iran for nearly two weeks arrived back home on Thursday. But Britain’s relief at their safe return was tarnished by questions about how they behaved during their detention and why they had been captured in the first place.
and
WASHINGTON, April 5 — The Bush administration said Thursday that the release of 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran for two weeks created no new openings in dealing with Tehran, and it urged American allies to return their attention to enforcing new sanctions against Iran.
there is a segment of individuals in power in our country who desparately want to start a war with iran. in the same way that sammy bin laden wanted us to overreact on 9-11, this group was looking for a situation that they could exploit with iran overreacting. since that didn't happen we are now seeing a carefully orchestrated character assassination lest any of us think that the hope exists for a diplomatic solution.
plays right into the war dog plan doesn't it.
there is a revealing editorial in the nyt today that discloses something i wasn't aware of. quite simply, after we are done torturing people in guatanomo, they are told that they are breaking the law if they say they were tortured.
Ouch Ouch, Stop, Okay I Did It, Ouch
this is the last time i eat indian food (5 out of 6 on the spice scale) before going to bed:
we're all aware that only democrats engage in show trials and political theatre. i offer up the following as an egregious example that the neocons are professionals at political theatre. for the faint hearted, a word of caution, the link takes you into the heart of darkness at rushlimbaugh.com.
Dick Cheney Interview With Rush Limbaugh
Good Morning Blah 3
Good Morning, i hope Katherine Harris checks out American Pundit Fighting!
One of the many lies of this admin, this one helped to take us to war in Iraq. In spite of this proof, Cheney still lying to us. He still says Saddam had ties to al Qaeda!
Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted
Documents and interrogations confirm that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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U.S. protects Iranian opposition group in Iraq
An Iranian opposition group based in Iraq is receiving protection from the American military despite being considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. The MEK is blamed for bombings in Iran but also credited with helping expose Tehran's secret nuclear program. The U.S. designation of MEK as a terror group means no American can give support to its members.
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G'morning, Toni!
New thread's up.
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