The FBI arrested at least five suspects, including Dritan Duka, Mohammad Ibrahim Shnewer, Eljvir Duka (also known as Elvis Duka), Shain Duka and Serdar Tatar, according to official documents.
A sixth possible co-conspirator, Agron Abdullahu - who allegedly helped procure weapons because he had a gun license - is also mentioned in the court filing. The suspects appeared to be foreign, but it was not clear from where or if they were in the country legally.
The plot began to unravel in January 2006, when FBI agents received a tip from a retail store that it had duplicated a suspicious video into a DVD that showed '10 young men ... in their early twenties shooting assault weapons at a firing range.'
They were 'calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic, 'Allah Akbar' (God is great),' the charges stated.
Tatar, who expressed concern about the welfare of his family, also said he was willing to die in the attack.
'It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away. It doesn't matter. Or I die ... I'm doing it in the name of Allah,' Tatar was quoted as saying.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is "solidifying'' her lead over Sen. Barack Obama and others in the Democratic contest for the 2008 presidential nomination, a new Gallup Poll conducted for USA Today shows, and Rudy Giuliani holds a lead in the GOP.
In the first survey conducted since candidates in both parties – eight declared Democrats and ten declared Republicans – staged their first televised debate, pollsters have found little change in the standings – except for a "slightly better showing for Clinton.''
Read more about the poll here, and see the Gallup report:
The May 4-6 poll found 38 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying they are most likely to support Clinton for the party's nomination. Barack Obama is a "clear second'' at 23 percent, followed by Al Gore (with 14 percent) and John Edwards (with 12 percent.)
Clinton has regained a double-digit advantage after an earlier survey found a smaller – 31 to 26 percent – edge over Obama.
And if the name of Gore – the former vice president who ran for president in 2000 but says he isn't running this time around – is removed from the equation, Clinton gains more support: With a 45 – 27 percent margin over Obama.
Tatar, who expressed concern about the welfare of his family, also said he was willing to die in the attack.
'It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away. It doesn't matter. Or I die ... I'm doing it in the name of Allah,' Tatar was quoted as saying.
----------- War Dog, who expressed concern about the welfare of his family, also said he was willing to send others to die in the attack.
'It doesn't matter to me, whether they get locked up, arrested, or get taken away. It doesn't matter. Or they die ... I'm sending them in the name of Neoconservatism,' War Dog was quoted as saying.
(AP) WASHINGTON The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 soldiers to prepare for deployment to Iraq beginning this fall.
The move would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing build-up of troops through the end of the year if needed.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday the deployment orders don't mean that the military has decided to keep the increased level of 20 brigades in Iraq through December. A brigade is roughly 3,500 soldiers.
Instead, he says the decision gives the Pentagon the "capability" to carry the build-up to the end of the year. He says the replacement forces would give commanders in Iraq the flexibility they need to complete the mission there.
Among the ten brigades told to prepare for deployment are the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, both from Fort Hood.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Xinhua) -- New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton enjoys a 15 percentage-point lead over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll released here Tuesday.
Among Republicans, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani maintained a 14-point lead over Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Clinton is the choice of 38 percent of the Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters surveyed, up 7 points from a survey taken three weeks earlier.
Obama is at 23 percent, 3 points lower than the previous result.
Giuliani is supported by 34 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters surveyed, compared with 20 percent for McCain.
Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies polling, cautions against making too much of shifts in national surveys 18 months before the election.
Still, Clinton strategist Mark Penn attributes her boost in the poll to her performance in the first public debate among Democratic presidential hopefuls on April 26.
The survey of 1,010 adults was taken last Friday through last Sunday.
Political directors from Germany, the current G8 president, and the five permanent Security Council members -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- will meet on the sidelines of the G8 meeting to discuss developments on Iran.
"They will discuss possible language for a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran," a diplomat from one of the six powers told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The Chinese delegation will participate in the talks by telephone, diplomats said.
U.S. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns will represent the United States at the meeting where delegates will discuss a recent meeting between European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.
"They're going to have another consultation on the Iran nuclear issue to talk about Mr. Solana's past discussion with Mr. Larijani as well as the one that is planned for the next week or two," U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington. He gave no date for the new meeting.
Solana said earlier this week that his talks with Larijani were very difficult as Tehran stressed it had no intention of suspending uranium enrichment.
Several diplomats told Reuters that world powers were satisfied with the impact the sanctions against Iran were having. They said Iranians were growing increasingly worried about the negative economic impact the penalties were having.
In his 1980 State of the Union address, President Jimmy Carter called for domination of the Middle East: "An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force." In other words: We run the region and control the flow of its oil.
George W. Bush took earlier administrations' power plays to new heights of reckless militarism and unilateralism, seizing the moment after 9/11 to declare to all nations: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." In other words: We demand global capitulation.
The only way to transcend this ugly history is through an honest national dialogue and a promise of a sea change in U.S. policy.
Look around the world at the results of U.S. strategies. Rhetoric about democracy and free trade has masked the enforcement of political and economic subordination to the United States and U.S.-based multinational corporations. The people of Latin America, much of Africa and the Middle East, and many parts of Asia can offer compelling testimony to the impact of those policies, enforced now through more than 700 U.S. military bases spread across the globe in over 130 countries...
CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ten Republicans running for president seems like nine more than needed. So what's the deal with Fred Thompson -- why all this talk about adding one more to the pack?
According to the non-campaign, the Thompson for President bandwagon includes a number of former Reagan types who are putting together a meeting with the former senator to discuss issues.
And the non-candidate is already polling ahead of actual candidate Mitt Romney -- Thompson's in third place, behind Rudy Giuliani and John McCain with 13 percent to Romney's 10 percent and the 9 percent of another non-candidate, former Georgia congressman and House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
A small cadre of unofficial Thompson advisers reads that as dissatisfaction with the current lineup of choices.
"Frankly, people are so hungry for this race that the feedback that I am getting ... is 'When? When can we go, when can we start?'" said Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tennessee.
Dang, War Dog. Maybe you should spend more time taking trips and less time salivating over nooking the evil-doers who have access to WMD like box-cutters and shoe bombs. You are sounding even nuttier than usual. I know it's shtick, but get a grip! If you need someone to pay attention to you so badly, maybe you should get out of your basement and start interacting with folks. And knock off the blog-hogging. Really creepy, inconsiderate shit to be pulling when so many here only have dial-up access.
Oh fun, SJ..I learned something today too...Listen to the still small voice when it's telling you to NOT delete a file... Made my first huge blunder at work...works out ok in the end..but still...probably wiped out all the good stuff I've done in the last two years...you know how people sometimes only remember the dumb stuff :)
A few weeks ago I wrote to you about divestment - a crucial effort to cut off funding for the genocide in Darfur.
By withdrawing investments from companies that help finance the genocide, we can build economic pressure to end the atrocities.
That's why we are calling on the investment firms with the largest ties to Sudan, such as Fidelity, to divest their holdings now, before more lives are lost.
Click here to sign the petition calling on Fidelity to divest from companies that help fund the genocide.
Fidelity is a major holder of PetroChina, the Chinese oil company that is one of the biggest offenders in helping to fund the genocide in Darfur.
Despite complaints from concerned citizens and investors, Fidelity has not accepted responsibility for its role in investing in companies that help fund the genocide in Darfur and has refused to withdraw these investments.
Tell Fidelity it's time to stop investing in companies that help fund the genocide. Click here to sign the petition asking them to cut their ties with businesses supporting the genocide.
While diplomacy is crucial, most international efforts have failed to get through to Sudan.
But money talks -- Sudan has been very responsive to economic pressure in the past. That is why we believe divestment could be highly effective in forcing Sudan to cooperate with the international community.
Divestment helped end apartheid in South Africa in the late 1980's and it can help end genocide in Darfur in 2007.
Click here to demand that Fidelity do their part to help end the violence by divesting from companies that help fund the genocide.
Thank you again for your commitment to helping the innocent people of Darfur.
No it was on th network drive...ISS was going to be abl to restore it from backups..but the boss reedited the whole 900 names list & I'm now inputting it all..she used an old list on the drive & Thank goodness I printed it out when I used the good one last time...so we end up with better, cleaner data now..but still.. argh...
Not quite it. Not for me anyway. Optimism doesn't even figure into it. "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry" is more the flavor I get. Hmmm... Inflatable bosoms... Can you still buy those at Fredericks of Hollywood? I had a glamorous aunt who had a stack of catalogs with illos. One showed a gal inflating her brassiere by blowing through a straw... Strange days!
Cat Chew: "One showed a gal inflating her brassiere by blowing through a straw..." May 8, 2007 5:20 PM --------------------------------- I've done that! Only it wasn't her brassiere, it was her nipples. And it wasn't a straw, it was her ear.
That's just beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I have been racking my brain for some time now trying to figure out his appeal. If he didn't have some sort of appeal, then surely CNN wouldn't have given him his own show.
As it turns out, no, he was a pretty bad investment for ya' there, huh CNN? Nice work, Fox-lite.
TPMtv Guide: Tuesday, May 8 By Ben Craw Senate Judiciary Committee sent Mr. Schlozman a letter requesting his cooperation in their ongoing investigation of the U.S. Attorney firings.
At a nursing home a group of seniors were sitting around talking about all their ailments. "My arms have gotten so weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee," said one.
"Yes, I know," said another. "My cataracts are so bad I can't even see my coffee."
"I couldn't even mark an 'X' at election time, my hands are so crippled," volunteered a third.
"What? Speak up! What? I can't hear you! said a fourth.
"I can't turn my head because of the arthritis in my neck," said a fifth, to which several nodded weakly in agreement.
"My blood pressure pills make me so dizzy I can hardly walk!" exclaimed another.
"I forget where I am, and where I'm going," said an elderly gent.
"I guess that's the price we pay for getting old," winced an old man as he slowly shook his head. The others nodded in agreement.
"Well, count your blessings," said one woman cheerfully, "thankfully, we can all still drive!"
The Hawks are fond of making a false pro-Iraq war argument, "There haven't been any attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11." This is supposed to prove that "we" have forced the "terrorists" to fight "us" elsewhere.
There have been thwarted attacks since 9/11. The most recent was publicized today.
This would seem to belie the claim by the Hawks. Does it only count when it succeeds? And, wouldn't it be true that as more and more failed attempts are added to the total, the more likely that the next will not fail?
It's childish logic. Me and a zillion other people have known for decades that terroristic acts would eventually reach these shores. It isn't rocket science. All one needed to know is that terroristic acts had become a tactic elsewhere on the globe and that they were increasing in frequency.
and that sort of glosses over the multitude of evidence pointing at the current administration either being directtly responsible for 911 or at least aiding and abbetting it.
White House Blames Gov. Sebelius For National Guard Shortages Kansas is currently missing approximately 60 percent of its National Guard equipment because of the war in Iraq, hampering its ability to respond to the recent tornadoes.
In a “spat reminiscent of White House finger-pointing at Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco after the federal government’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina,” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow this morning blamed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for the shortages, saying he was “not aware of any prior complaints” by the governor about the equipment:
If you don’t request it, you’re not going to get it. … As far as we know, the only thing the governor has requested are FM radios. There have been no requests to the National Guard for heavy equipment. … We are eager to provide what Kansas needs. But again there are also - you also have to go through the process of making the request first.
Snow’s statements are incorrect. On repeated occasions, Sebelius made clear to the White House that Kansas was dangerously low on National Guard equipment:
– Dec. 30, 2005: Sebelius writes to Rumsfeld requesting new equipment. “The Guard was critical to responding to recent blizzards and floods in Kansas, yet its ability to respond to similar situations is being diminished by a lack of equipment,” wrote Sebelius. Included with her letter was a list of equipment Kansas had lost to the Iraq war. [Kansas City Star, 1/21/06; Topeka Capital-Journal, 6/29/06]
– Jan. 23, 2006: Sebelius personally urges Bush to increase National Guard funding. In an one-hour motorcade ride in Kansas with Bush, Sebelius expressed concern about “a reduction of National Guard troop strength in its next budget.” Bush assured her he was “dealing” with the shortages. [Topeka Capital-Journal, 1/24/06; Kansas City Star, 3/11/06]
– June 28, 2006: Sebelius sends Army Secretary list of equipment lost in war. In a meeting with Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey, Sebelius told Harvey that the state had lost about $140 million in National Guard equipment to the Iraq war. Her office then sent him a list of the lost equipment. [Topeka Capital-Journal, 6/29/06]
– Sept. 2006: Sebelius lobbies for replacement of National Guard equipment sent to Iraq. “Kansas’ congressional delegation, Sebelius and governors from around the country have been lobbying the Pentagon for increased funding to replace National Guard equipment that has been left in Iraq or damaged beyond repair after repeated use in war.” [AP, 9/5/06]
– Feb. 27, 2007: Sebelius pushes White House and Congress for more funding. “Now the Guard needs Washington’s help,” Sebelius said in press conference on Capitol Hill. “The President and Congress need to step up to the plate and give our Guard members the support they deserve.” [Press Release, 2/27/07]
At today’s White House press briefing, a reporter confronted Snow about Sebelius’s past requests. Snow simply replied, “And what happened was, she actually did get — there was not a formal request. But they’d had conversations.” He also admitted that Sebelius did request more than FM Radios.
35,000 soldiers told to prep for Iraq. “The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 soldiers and Marines to be prepared to deploy to Iraq beginning this fall, a move that would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing buildup of troops through the end of the year if needed. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday the deployment orders, which have been signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, do not mean that the military has made a decision to keep the increased level of 20 brigades in Iraq through December.”
Murtha: Bush May Double Forced Iraq Extensions » The Bush administration announced last month that all U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq would have their 12-month tours in Iraq extended by 3 additional months.
The forced extensions place an extreme burden on soldiers in Iraq, whose strains “are in some ways more severe than those borne by the combat forces of World War II,” Army researchers say. The also highlight the U.S. military’s current readiness crisis, which has left virtually all of the U.S.-based Army combat brigades “rated as unready to deploy.”
In a little noticed remark late last month, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) said the worst is still to come. During a speech on Congress’ Iraq legislation, Murtha said he has heard rumors that the forced extensions will soon be increased to 18 months. Watch it:
In April, when the 15-month extensions were announced, U.S. soldiers on the ground reacted with “muffled outbursts of anger and frustration laced with dark humor.”
“At no time in our military history have Soldiers or Marines been required to serve on the front line in any war for a period of 6-7 months.” A quarter of all soldiers who spend 6 months in Iraq show signs of mental trauma.
in reality, what Sarkozy's victory means for France is something closer to the so-called "Reagan Revolution" in the U.S. that began in 1981 the process of dismantling and destroying the institutional New Deal legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Chirac was a Gaullist, and the political heritage of General Charles De Gaulle, who led France from 1958 to 1969, included a vigorously statist approach to the economy and defense of a wide series of social protection and social safety-net measures that had been instituted by the left's Popular Front government in the mid-1930s, and which were renewed and extended by post-war governments dominated by the political activists of the Resistance movement to Nazi occupation, who had a conception of government as a guarantor of economic security for all. Sarkozy is of a new generation than Chirac and, ideologically, not a Gaullist -- but rather in phase with the "Chicago school" of economics led by Milton Friedman, which believes in minimal government, a slimmed-down state that interferes as little as possible in the economy, an aggressively laissez-faire approach that is dear to the economic barons of the MEDEF, the French business leaders' association, whose tycoons were solidly behind Sarkozy's candidacy. Sarkozy has already promised to, in effect, abolish the ISF (the tax on large fortunes), accord more tax breaks to big business and the upper-middle-classes, and make more cuts in the state-run national health system (declared by a U.N. survey to be the finest in the world in terms of delivery of health services and quality of care.) Sarkozy's economic program is designed to help the already-privileged classes retain and extend their socio-economic position, to the detriment of the have-nots (the massive pro-Sarkozy vote in the upper-income neighborhoods today confirms that they understood Sarko's message to them.) And he has promised a major down-sizing of the civil service employed by state agencies.
Sarkozy is a skilled demagogue who, on the stump, tried to give the impression (like Bush's first presidential campaign did) that he was a "compassionate conservative." But Sarkozy's so-called "compassion" is strictly rhetorical -- his concrete economic orientation is bound to deepen the gulf between the haves and the have nots, to aggravate what Jacques Chirac -- in a famous phrase from his 1995 re-election campaign -- had baptized the "social fracture."
Life for the have-nots will become even more difficult under Sarkozy's hard-right, anti-immigrant, law-and-order society. He has announced "zero tolerance" for illegal immigration, has deported tens of thousands of immigrants during his two terms as Interior Minister and split up immigrant families while making it tougher for them to become French citizens. He has proposed strict minimum sentences for all sorts of crimes, thus removing all discretion from French judges, and France's already-crowded prisons will soon be overflowing with expanded, and younger, populations. French prisons, like ours, are training institutes for criminals, and by sending ever-larger numbers of young people to them for petty offenses Sarkozy will, in fact, be manufacturing new generations of hardened voyous (thugs in French.) In 1986, I was in Paris during the legislative elections that made Jacques Chirac prime minister for the first time -- and the next day, the police -- who sensed that the right's victory had unleashed them -- displayed an openly hostile and noticeably new aggressive posture toward people of color in the streets. I've had reports from French friends that the same thing happened after Sarkozy's strong, lead showing in the first round of this presidential election two weeks ago. Now, with Sarkozy's election, one can expect that the forces of law-and-order will consider that all restraints on them have been removed, and it will be more unpleasant than usual to be an Arab or black in France. (Remember Sarkozy's hard-line program of repression during the October 2005 ghetto riots against racism, exclusion, and unemployment that had all France in flames?)
Does anyone have doubts about the Fort Dix Six? Is this another propaganda hoax, like the guys in Florida who the FBI entrapped with the promise of matching boots and jackets?
CNN hate-host Glenn Beck sees ratings plummet by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/08/2007 04:51:00 PM ET Discuss this post here: Comments (139) · digg it · reddit · FARK · · Link
Hate is so last year. From Eric Boehlert: [W]hereas CNN last year traded away its good name in exchange for debuting Beck's factually challenged and hateful brand of broadcasting, at least CNN execs were getting a ratings boost out of the Faustian bargain. Today, Beck's still making a mockery out of CNN's reputation on a daily basis, as he disparages liberals, gays, Democrats, blacks, immigrants, and Muslims at will. But in return, CNN's now stuck with a Beck program that's trapped in neutral and shows signs of sliding into reverse.
Well played, CNN....
It truly has become amateur hour at CNN.
James Zogby got it right late last year. After watching Beck's nearly year-long McCarthy-like crusade against Arabs and Muslims, the president of the Arab American Institute wrote, "While [the CNN] network may have hoped that Beck's flamboyant style would increase ratings, the cost to their integrity has been staggering."...
Indeed, the dirty little media secret is that Beck's show has hit a ratings brick wall. Despite the glowing press from The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others, which showered Beck with profiles because his show was being touted as the fastest-growing program on prime-time cable news, Beck in recent months has been flat-lining. In fact, he's actually losing viewers. And Beck's ratings are plummeting. Advertisers should have been already skittish aligning their products with a show that worries that every single Muslim-American is working with the terrorists, but add poor ratings to hate and you've got a recipe for an advertiser exodus. Not to mention, it's hard for the senior brass to defend Beck against the very real inside-CNN insurgency taking place against the hate jock when Beck isn't even bringing in viewers, but rather is simply tarnishing CNN's good name. The Nielsen rating numbers from April were particularly telling and highlighted how Beck's show appears to have completely maxed out less than 12 months after its debut. April was a news-heavy month, which produced a huge spike in cable news viewership following the campus massacre at Virginia Tech. Except, that is, for Glenn Beck. (On the night of the VT shooting, Glenn Beck finished last among prime-time cable news programs, excluding those on CNBC.)
Overall, for the month of April, ratings for CNN Headline News' prime-time lineup, which is anchored by Beck, were up a microscopic 4 percent, compared to healthy, double-digit gains posted by CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
Kansas Tornado As Greensburg, Kan., looks to rebuild after Friday's tornado, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said recovery efforts were hampered by National Guard troops being sent to Iraq. ---------------------------------- Governor Sebelius responded directly and in depth to Snow's remarks. You can listen (see?) it here:
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 5/8/2007 3:08PM JUST IN: FEINGOLD TO PROPOSE LEGISLATION TO END WAR, CUT OFF FUNDING
Majority Leader Reid Set to Support Along with 8 Other Senate Co-Sponsors So Far Exceptions for Funds Cutoff to Be Made for Fighting Terrorists, Security for U.S. Troops and Infrastructure, Training of Iraqi Security Services... In a statement just sent to The BRAD BLOG, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) says he is prepared to up the ante in the fight with the White House in light of Bush's spending bill veto, and will be proposing that war funding be cut off by a date certain.
Feingold adds that his proposed legislation has a number of co-sponsors already on board in the Senate. His statement just in to The BRAD BLOG:
“With brave Americans fighting and dying for a failed policy in Iraq, members of Congress shouldn’t delay action to end this misguided war for weeks or even months just for the sake of political comfort. That is why, when the Senate takes up the Iraq supplemental, I plan to offer the Feingold-Reid bill as an amendment to force the President to safely redeploy our troops by March 31, 2008 at which point funding for the war would be cut off.” In addition to Reid's commitment to support the bill, the co-sponsors already on board as listed at Feingold's website include Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), John Kerry (D-MA), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
You know what? I saw a youtube o this guy Beck..he was saying if Al Gore really wanted to stop global warming he would quit eating meat...! Wow...I couldn't even watch the whole thing..
toniD said... White House Blames Gov. Sebelius For National Guard Shortages Kansas is currently missing approximately 60 percent of its National Guard equipment because of the war in Iraq, hampering its ability to respond to the recent tornadoes.
In a “spat reminiscent of White House finger-pointing at Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco after the federal government’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina,” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow this morning blamed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for the shortages.
May 8, 2007 7:42 PM
Bush is a misogynist. He has no regard for and demeans leaders who happen to be women.
ceecee, I provided a link to the interview of Governor Sebelius on the Lehrer News Hour upblog. I watched the interview on the boob tube tonight and am impressed with her smooth speaking style and clarity. I knew nothing of the Governor before tonight. I assume that she has had a rough several days with little sleep, yet she handled herself expertly during the interview. Much better than most. She even managed to slip in a wry dig at Snow.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about how culture fits into this story? You’ve just written a new book, one of your many. This is called The Culture Struggle. Why focus on culture now?
MICHAEL PARENTI: I’ve found that culture is a highly contested area. There are immense and important struggles going on all over the world in regard to culture. And what we're taught is an enlightened view, that in reaction to cultural supremacism and cultural imperialism, we're taught that we shouldn't really judge cultures. And yet, every single culture, including our own, needs to be judged, because cultures are not neutral things. Some people benefit and other people can be victimized by culture.
One of the greatest victims, universal victims, of just about all cultures in the world are women, for instance. And the more I went into this, the more I realized how that was true. And by “victimize,” I don't mean job opportunities only or life roles or this, but in sheer physical survival. The amount of harm and abuse and violence that is delivered upon women in all cultures is really horrifying, and it seems to me -- I mean, there are some village cultures in Central Asia and the Middle East and some parts elsewhere, other places in the world, where if a young woman is raped, her father then kills her to restore the honor of his family. I mean, this is what we're facing. And even in our own culture, the violence against women in this culture is pandemic. And I think much of feminism, which is so focused on lifestyle issues, personal expression, personal development issues, which are all important and good issues -- I think maybe much more militant attention should be directed to this issue.
toniD said... 35,000 soldiers told to prep for Iraq. “The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 soldiers and Marines to be prepared to deploy to Iraq beginning this fall, a move that would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing buildup of troops through the end of the year if needed. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday the deployment orders, which have been signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, do not mean that the military has made a decision to keep the increased level of 20 brigades in Iraq through December.”
May 8, 2007 7:45 PM
Again, Bush providing an offering by giving al Qaeda what it wants.
Crank Bait said... ceecee, I provided a link to the interview of Governor Sebelius on the Lehrer News Hour upblog. I watched the interview on the boob tube tonight and am impressed with her smooth speaking style and clarity. I knew nothing of the Governor before tonight. I assume that she has had a rough several days with little sleep, yet she handled herself expertly during the interview. Much better than most. She even managed to slip in a wry dig at Snow.
...Corrales' promoter, Gary Shaw, said Corrales, whose career faltered the past two years, recently bought the racing motorcycle he was riding when he was killed...
...Police said Corrales' 2007 Suzuki hit the back of a car Monday evening while trying to pass at high speed on a busy residential street about 7 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip and not far from his home.
Corrales, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 7:22 p.m. crash. He was 29.
Las Vegas police blamed speed and rider inexperience...Las Vegas police Sgt. Tracy McDonald said investigators found an April 21 bill of sale for the motorcycle... --------------------------------- Corrales' final calm thought: "I wonder how fast she'll accelerate if I really crank her on?"
Alice: "You want me to do this... why?" May 8, 2007 10:25 PM ------------------------------- It's the Lord's will. You should go barefoot more often, too. Oh, and quit your job.
OK Lord...I will go barefoot more, as soon as I paint my toenails....& I'll quit my job as soon as my husband goes to the doctor, & has all his teeth fixed...and when I can't handle it anymore...working full time sucks, Lord...as you know..... But hey...at least we get Sundays off for fornicating... :)
Published on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 by the Guardian/UK
Deadly Dust: Study Suggests Cancer Risk from Depleted Uranium
by James Randerson
Depleted uranium, which is used in armor-piercing ammunition, causes widespread damage to DNA which could lead to lung cancer, according to a study of the metal’s effects on human lung cells. The study adds to growing evidence that DU causes health problems on battlefields long after hostilities have ceased.
DU is a byproduct of uranium refinement for nuclear power. It is much less radioactive than other uranium isotopes, and its high density - twice that of lead - makes it useful for armor and armor piercing shells. It has been used in conflicts including Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq and there have been increasing concerns about the health effects of DU dust left on the battlefield. In November, the Ministry of Defense was forced to counteract claims that apparent increases in cancers and birth defects among Iraqis in southern Iraq were due to DU in weapons.
Now researchers at the University of Southern Maine have shown that DU damages DNA in human lung cells. The team, led by John Pierce Wise, exposed cultures of the cells to uranium compounds at different concentrations.
... The Masturbate-a-thon record for most male orgasms is 6! Of course, women are a little ahead in this game with a record of 49 orgasms in a single masturbate-a-thon event. ...
There's a patron at work named Richard S. He is about 4 foot tall..& has "something" going on, brain-wise..so he comes in about every other day, & he tells my co-worker &/or I a David Letterman or Jay Leno joke from the night before...like a rain main type thing...Today his joke was a Paris Hilton joke... & of all days, today, I didnt understand the punchline..it was like.."Did you hear about Paris Hilton...? She's going to ail for 45 days..."
I didn't get it..like he must have messed up the joke or something..Cuz normally he makes me laugh...?
000 WONT41 KNHC 090312 DSAAT SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1115 PM EDT TUE MAY 8 2007
A NON-TROPICAL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...CENTERED ABOUT 175 MILES EAST OF JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA AND ABOUT 160 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA...HAS BEEN MOVING SLOWLY WESTWARD AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THE LOW IS PRODUCING GALE-FORCE WINDS NEAR THE COASTS OF NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTH CAROLINA...GEORGIA AND NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA. THIS SYSTEM HAS CHANGED LITTLE SINCE THIS EVENING...AND NO SIGNIFICANT STRENGTHENING IS EXPECTED. THE LOW IS BEING MONITORED FOR SIGNS OF TROPICAL OR SUBTROPICAL CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT...AND AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT IS SCHEDULE TO INVESTIGATE THE SYSTEM TOMORROW MORNING.
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I know your eyes in the morning sun I feel you touch me in the pouring rain And the moment that you wander far from me I wanna feel you in my arms again And you come to me on a summer breeze Keep me warm in your love Then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show How deep is your love? I really mean to learn 'Cause we're living in a world of fools Breakin’ us down When they all should let us be We belong to you and me
I believe in you You know the door to my very soul You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour You're my savior when I fall And you may not think I care for you When you know down inside That I really do
And it's me you need to show How deep is your love? I really mean to learn 'Cause we're living in a world of fools Breakin’ us down When they all should let us be We belong to you and me
And you come to me on a summer breeze, Keep me warm in your love Then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show How deep is your love? I really mean to learn 'Cause we're living in a world of fools Breakin’ us down When they all should let us be We belong to you and me
A U.S. judge has thrown out all charges against anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles, less than a week before he was supposed to go to trial.
Department of Justice spokesman Dean Boyd said U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas dismissed on Tuesday the seven-count indictment accusing Posada Carriles, 79, of immigration fraud.
"We're reviewing the decision," Boyd said.
Posada Carriles attorney Felipe Millan said Cardone ruled that statements by Posada Carriles that were to be used against him in the trial starting on Monday had been obtained unconstitutionally.
"They tricked him," Millan said.
Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for trial on charges he masterminded the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner, had been out on bail in Miami awaiting trial and left the El Paso courthouse a free man, Millan said. ...
I'm going to start calling him Sunshine Juan... I wish I could capture the essence of this cool kid and send it to you to experience... I was thinking about the very same thing you were, on the way home from work today...He's the sort of boy who might start crying from happiness..(my favorite sort of boy..)
wait till he gets a good whack from a propeller! that'll def bring a few tears down.
he's gonna need a buncha advice and a few more trinkets to fire up those engines, some glue to start building, an exacto knife and a few # 11 blades. the small engines are stuck from the old castor oil hardening up. i left em that way on purpose but if he tries to force them to turn over with out heating them and oiling them with a little 3 in 1 oil he'll break the crankshafts. that's also why i did'nt send along any props.
got any way of getting him to a good old fashioned hobby shop?
if not i think i have a few peeps in the area that are long time modelers and might be willing to help out.
The only thing I could do is buy for him exactly what he needs to get a plan in the air. I will. Is that list complete in your last post? Tell me what he needs, in the way I would tell a hobby shoppe person without them looking at me weird... :)
Ok..I'll do the best I can with it...I'm glad you found the booklet... I'll bt my father in law would love to build it with him, if there's no one else...very cool, SJ... this'll be great, thank you.
From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine
IN CHINA At least 18 people, most of them in Guangdong Province, died in a month last year after they ingested contaminated medicine.
By WALT BOGDANICH and JAKE HOOKER Published: May 6, 2007
The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.
Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents.
The syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in some antifreeze.
It is also a killer. And the deaths, if not intentional, are often no accident.
Over the years, the poison has been loaded into all varieties of medicine — cough syrup, fever medication, injectable drugs — a result of counterfeiters who profit by substituting the sweet-tasting solvent for a safe, more expensive syrup, usually glycerin, commonly used in drugs, food, toothpaste and other products.
Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has never been determined. But records and interviews show that in three of the last four cases it was made in China, a major source of counterfeit drugs.
Panama is the most recent victim. Last year, government officials there unwittingly mixed diethylene glycol into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine — with devastating results. Families have reported 365 deaths from the poison, 100 of which have been confirmed so far. With the onset of the rainy season, investigators are racing to exhume as many potential victims as possible before bodies decompose even more.
pretty sure a body shop in the area would donate a sticky 6 inch 220 grit sandpaper disc no prob those are the best. any flat piece of wood comfortable for him to hols is fine, probably a 1 1/2 X 5 or 6 X 3/4 inch piece of scrap lumber will be fine. just make sure one side is perfectly flat and smooth. that where ya stick the sticky sandpaper disk.
medium thick super glue and accelarator is the best for begineers. show him how the pins are used to position the parts for glue up. and make sure he uses wax paper to keep from gluing the parts to his building board. (a 2ft x 2ft chunk of smooth flat plywood scrap)
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Ongoing research shows that tart cherries are a rich source of antioxidants, including melatonin, which help maintain a healthy body and fight the effects of aging. Tart cherries also offer natural anti-inflammatory properties to help relieve joint pain...
A majority of Americans, not informed on current events and unaware of the history involved, are silent. Mainstream media, one of Big Pharma’s largest clients, is silent. Only the power of the internet, which rivals the invention of the printing press in significance, is making it possible for individuals to understand what is going on.......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron27.htm by Byron Richards, CCN
2- S1082 = The Voice of the People is Being Heard
Unfortunately for Big Pharma and the FDA, Charles Grassley (R-IA), a man concerned with true and meaningful safety reform, has gone through S1082 with a fine tooth comb. He has proposed 11 amendments to close the Big Pharma loopholes that Kennedy, Enzi, the FDA, and Big Pharma built into this legislation. Big Pharma and the FDA hate all 11 Grassley amendments and Big Pharma has its legion of lobbyists trying to defeat them as you read this. Support the Grassley amendments for true and meaningful safety reform.......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron26.htm by Byron Richards, CCN
3- S1082 Update - Senate Stabs Americans in the Back Noteworthy in this group of Senator’s failing the American public is Norm Coleman (R-MN). He could be seen grinning from ear to ear following his vote, while getting patted on the back by fellow Republicans. Coleman has been in favor of drug reimportation for some time, helping Minnesota set up one of the most progressive programs in the country to import drugs from Canada. Who bought his vote? He certainly wasn’t representing the citizens of his state....... http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron28.htm by Byron Richards, CCN
Rock Washington, DC Now: FDA, Supplements and So-Called Hate Crime Bill
I'm going to cut to the chase here on the latest efforts by non elected government bureaucrats and Congress to further destroy our natural rights. First, our right to natural health care and supplements, which cuts into the mega billions of dollars in profit to the big pharmaceutical companies.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd265.htm by Devvy
They who look upon Liberty as having accomplished her mission when she has abolished hereditary privileges and given men the ballot, who think of her as having no further relations to the everyday affairs of life, have not seen her real grandeur -- to them the poets who have sung of her must seem rhapsodists, and her martyrs fools! As the sun is the lord of life, as well as of light; as his beams not merely pierce the clouds, but support all growth, supply all motion, and call forth from what would otherwise be a cold and inert mass all the infinite diversities of being and beauty, so is Liberty to mankind. It is not for an abstraction that men have toiled and died; that in every age the witnesses of Liberty have stood forth, and the martyrs of Liberty have suffered.
Our primary social adjustment is a denial of justice. In allowing one man to own the land on which and from which other men must live, we have made them his bondsmen in a degree which increases as material progress goes on. This is the subtile alchemy that in ways they do not realize is extracting from the masses in every civilized country the fruits of their weary toil; that is instituting a harder and more hopeless slavery in place of that which has been destroyed; that is bringing political despotism out of political freedom, and must soon transmute democratic institutions into anarchy.
the better he positions the parts the better it'll fly.
he may need a bit of old fasioned modeling clay, the kind that sticks good to wood, to balance evrything, like a teaspoon full is lots more than he'll need.
he does'nt need to 'finish' the wood though i usually put a thin coat of clear 'dope' on mine to water and dirt proof them.
decoration can be done with waterproof felt pens.
a spray can of clear or colored dope is the easiest way to go for his first finish. put on the thinnest coat possible, don't load it up. it's beautifully translucent when done right
May 08,2007 | WASHINGTON -- A recent Newsweek poll showing Democrat Barack Obama leading top Republican presidential hopefuls could have been made up and might help al-Qaida, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said in her latest verbal broadside.
Coulter, a best-selling author known for outrageous and often controversial statements, was asked Sunday on Fox News' "At Large" what she thought about the survey results.
"I think this is Newsweek doing more push polling for al-Qaida," she said, referring to campaign-season telephone calls to voters masquerading as neutral surveys but designed to build opposition to targeted candidates.
Asked by host Geraldo Rivera whether she thought Newsweek would make up the results, Coulter said, "Yes, I do," adding, "In polls where people are actually allowed to vote, Republicans do a lot better."
In the very centers of our civilization to-day are want and suffering enough to make sick at heart whoever does not close his eyes and steel his nerves. Dare we turn to the Creator and ask Him to relieve it! Supposing the prayer were heard, and at the behest with which the universe sprang into being there should glow in the sun a greater power; new virtue fill the air; fresh vigor the soil; that for every blade of grass that now grows two should spring up, and the seed that now increases fifty-fold should increase a hundred fold! Would poverty be abated or want relieved! Manifestly no! Whatever benefit would accrue would be but temporary. The new powers streaming through the material universe could be utilized only through land. And land, being private property, the classes that now monopolize the bounty of the Creator would monopolize all the new bounty. Land owners would alone be benefited. Rents would increase, but wages would still tend to the starvation point!
This is not merely a deduction of political economy; it is a fact of experience. We know it because we have seen it. Within our own times, under our very eyes, that Power which is above all, and in all, and through all; that Power of which the whole universe is but the manifestation; that Power which maketh all things, and without which is not anything made that is made, has increased the bounty which men may enjoy, as truly as though the fertility of nature had been increased. Into the mind of one came the thought that harnessed steam for the service of mankind. To the inner ear of another was whispered the secret that compels the lightning to bear a message around the globe. In every direction have the laws of matter been revealed; in every department of industry have arisen arms of iron and fingers of steel, whose effect upon the production of wealth has been precisely the same as an increase in the fertility of nature. What has been the result? Simply that land owners get all the gain. The wonderful discoveries and inventions of our century have neither increased wages nor lightened toil. The effect has simply been to make the few richer; the many more helpless!
Can it be that the gifts of the Creator may be thus misappropriated with impunity? Is it a light thing that labor should be robbed of its earnings while greed rolls in wealth -- that the many should want while the few are surfeited? Turn to history, and on every page may be read the lesson that such wrong never goes unpunished; that the Nemesis that follows injustice never falters nor sleeps! Look around to-day. Can this state of things continue! May we even say, "After us the deluge!" Nay; the pillars of the state are trembling even now, and the very foundations of society begin to quiver with pent-up forces that glow underneath. The struggle that must either revivify, or convulse in ruin, is near at hand, if it be not already begun.
The fiat has gone forth! With steam and electricity, and the new powers born of progress, forces have entered the world that will either compel us to a higher plane or overwhelm us, as nation after nation, as civilization after civilization, have been overwhelmed before. It is the delusion which precedes destruction that sees in the popular unrest with which the civilized world is feverishly pulsing only the passing effect of ephemeral causes. Between democratic ideas and the aristocratic adjustments of society there is an irreconcilable conflict. Here in the United States, as there in Europe, it may be seen arising. We cannot go on permitting men to vote and forcing them to tramp. We cannot go on educating boys and girls in our public schools and then refusing them the right to earn an honest living. We cannot go on prating of the inalienable rights of man and then denying the inalienable right to the bounty of the Creator. Even now, in old bottles the new wine begins to ferment, and elemental forces gather for the strife!
The economic and political struggles of the past two centuries are not finished. Old Marx's dialectical materialism hasn't yet played out to it's logical conclusion. The jury is still out. The big wave hasn't crested.
Should Vice President Cheney be impeached? Consider the evidence and then vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll, and it will also send your personal message to Congress at the very same time.
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You can vote yes. Or you can vote no. But we cannot remain silent.
------------ dada said... Is International Law Relevant to Arms Control? By Thomas Graham, Jr. Chicago Journal of International Law Spring 2003 May 8, 2007 1:32 AM ____________________
George began as a Lincoln Republican, but then became a Democrat, once losing election to the California State Assembly. He was a strong critic of railroad and mining interests, corrupt politicians, land speculators, and labor contractors.
One day in 1871 George went for a horseback ride and stopped to rest while overlooking San Francisco Bay. He later wrote of the revelation that he had:
“ I asked a passing teamster, for want of something better to say, what land was worth there. He pointed to some cows grazing so far off that they looked like mice, and said, 'I don't know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre.' Like a flash it came over me that there was the reason of advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege.[1] ”
Furthermore, on a visit to New York City, he was struck by the apparent paradox that the poor in that long-established city were much worse off than the poor in less developed California.
Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia in official lies, official murder and the systematic brutalisation and corruption of their population? Only a shallow empiricism can fail to see that such monstrous societies are not the product of a national peculiarity (the German character) or a system of government (“communism”) but are part and parcel of our civilisation. Everything that has appeared in these monstrous societies is endemic in every contemporary nation. Millions in the United States know that Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia will have nothing to teach the American bourgeoisie when it finds itself threatened by the revolutionary American workers seeking the complete expression of democracy which is socialism.
CLR James is most widely known as a writer on cricket, especially for his autobiographical 1963 book, Beyond a Boundary. This is considered a seminal work of cricket writing, and is often named as the best single book on cricket (or even the best book on any sport) ever written. [1]
The book's key question, which is frequently quoted by modern journalists and essayists, is inspired by Rudyard Kipling and asks: What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? James uses this challenge as the basis for describing cricket in an historical and social context, the strong influence cricket had on his life, and how it meshed with his role in politics and his understanding of issues of class and race. The literary quality of the writing attracts cricketers of all political views.
After 55 years on the throne and having met US presidents stretching back to Dwight Eisenhower, the 81-year-old monarch by any standards is one of the most permanent fixtures on the international scene. But even she was not around in Philadelphia 231 years ago, as Mr Bush almost implied.
"The American people are proud to welcome your majesty back to the United States, a nation you've come to know very well," he said in front of 7,000 notables and not-so-notables assembled on the South Lawn of the White House on a sunny, spring morning. "After all you've dined with 10 US presidents. You've helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 - in 1976," he said.
As he realised his error, America's current King George looked somewhat sheepishly at her. She looked back at him from under her hat. Whether she was amused or not was impossible to say.
But Mr Bush rescued himself with deft self-deprecation: "She gave me a look only a mother could give a child," he said to much laughter.
[Two] hundred years have passed since the fast friend of American liberty - the great Earl Chatham - rose to make his last appeal for the preservation, on the basis of justice, of that English-speaking empire, in which he saw the grandest possibility of the future. Is it too soon to hope that the future may hold the realization of his vision in a nobler form than even he imagined, and that it may be the mission of this Republic to unite all the nations of English speech, whether they grow beneath the Northern Star or the Southern Cross, in a league which by insuring justice, promoting peace, and liberating commerce, will be the forerunner of a world-wide federation that will make war the possibility of a past age, and turn to works of usefulness the enormous forces dedicated to destruction.... +++++++
hmm...
Instead we lord it over the rest of the world. How long do you think it will last.
After the Repression in Texcoco and Atenco, the Other Campaign Marches to Demand Freedom and Justice for the Country's Political Prisoners
By Juan Trujillo, Special to The Narco News Bulletin May 8, 2007
Mexico City, May 3rd 2006: “We are living a process of change, and everyone has to understand that we should not wait for the conditions to fight… do not forget that Atenco lives and the fight continues, that Oaxaca fights and fights, because Oaxaca lives and lives,” said Amos, an indian Zapatista support base (addressing communities in resistance and Councils of Good Government), to the multitude that made up the political rally in front of the Ministry of the Interior this afternoon, a year after the brutal police repression in San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco.
The peaceful protest carried out by the operatives of counterinsurgency in those two Mexican villages started at 5:10pm on Ángel de la Independencia Reforma avenue, just after the EZLN Sixth Commission, comprising of Comandante Hortensia – who carried her 3 or 4-year-old daughter Lupita (who they call Delegate Five and a Quarter, as her mother holds the fifth position on the list of the seven delegates that left the Chiapas mountains in September to support the fight to free the prisoners), Amos (support base special envoy) and Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos at the forefront of the march with the Peoples Front in Defence of the Earth (FPDT, in its Spanish initials) of Atenco. ...
"Look over the history of the past. What is it but a record of the woes inflicted by man on man, of wrong producing wrong, and crime fresh crime? It must be so till justice is acknowledged and liberty is law."
Reminds me of someone else...
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
Take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman did his and her will--the true will--there would be no clashing. ``Every man and every woman is a star,'' and each star moves in an appointed path without interference. There is plenty of room for all; it is only disorder that creates confusion.
From these considerations it should be clear that ``Do what thou wilt'' does not mean ``Do what you like.'' It is the apotheosis of Freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond.
Do what thou wilt--then do nothing else. Let nothing deflect thee from that austere and holy task. Liberty is absolute to do thy will; but seek to do any other thing whatever, and instantly obstacles must arise. Every act that is not in definite course of that one orbit is erratic, an hindrance. Will must not be two, but one.
At the same time, a 26-page indictment unsealed Tuesday indicates that the group had no rigorous military training and did not appear close to being able to pull off an attack. The arrests in the case began Monday night after two defendants arrived at a local home to buy assault weapons, which had been supplied and disabled by the FBI, officials said.
Much of the evidence in the case was obtained with the help of two paid informants, including one described as an Egyptian military veteran who befriended one suspect about a year ago and surreptitiously taped many of their conversations. The defendants were also tripped up by information obtained from computers and cellphones, according to records and officials.
Who is Liberty that we should doubt her; that we should set bounds to her, and say, "Thus far shalt thou come and no farther!" Is she not peace? is she not prosperity? is she not progress? nay, is she not the goal toward which all progress strives?
Not here; but yet she cometh! Saints have seen her in their visions; seers have seen her in their trance. To heroes has she spoken, and their hearts were strong; to martyrs, and the flames were cool!
She is not here, but yet she cometh. Lo! Her feet are on the mountains - the call of her clarions ring on every breeze; the banners of her dawning fret the sky! Who will hear her as she calleth; who will bid her come and welcome? Who will turn to her? who will speak for her? who will stand for her while she yet hath need?
But what makes the Zapatistas so truly unique is their almost Yippie-esque knack for publicity and their saavy use of the Internet to get their message out unimpeded by the monolith of the Mexican state and the not so “free press” there.
Below are links to several sites devoted to the new form of information warfare pioneered by the Zapatista Rebels. It’s guerilla
"Sudan: Arms Continuing To Fuel Serious Human Rights Violations in Darfur"
This report describes the arming process and its effects on the people of Darfur and neighbouring eastern Chad, many of whom have been forcibly displaced. It provides details of violations of the United Nations arms embargo on Darfur that occurred during January to March 2007.
It shows how the Government of Sudan violates the UN arms embargo and disguises some of its military logistics operations in Darfur, and what arms supplied to Sudan from China and Russia have been used for violations of the Security Council's own mandatory arms embargo.
Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur, the new global "Make Some Noise" project from Amnesty International, seeks to mobilize millions around the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan.
It combines the power of John Lennon's music recorded by some of the world's best-known artists, together with cutting-edge forms of instant activism enabled by Internet and mobile technologies.
Habeas Restoration: Move Quick By: Logan Murphy on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 at 6:40 PM - PDT Via MyDD:
I'm told there's an outside shot that House Democrats on the Armed Services Committee will put a restoration of habeas corpus into the Defense Department Authorization Bill being marked up tomorrow and Thursday. Apparently Chairman Skelton has the votes but there are concerns about whether to have this fight now.
Now's the time to let them know that this is something that we elected them to get done. There's a bit of fear that this vote could put freshmen members at risk, though I don't really know why as the data on this isn't compelling and the attack ads just didn't work in 2006.
The most important members to contact are Ike Skelton, antiwar freshmen, and members of the Armed Services Committee. Pelosi and Hoyer would be good too. Each link below goes to that member's email form, and their phone numbers are to the right. I've only included Democratic members of the committee since the decision on whether to make a vote will be made within the party - the full list of Armed Service members is here.
I have solved the problem with Bill O'Reilley and the rest of the talking heads who lie, lie, lie
Apparently there used to be a law:
The Fairness Doctrine was a regulation of the United States' Federal Communications Commission which required broadcast licensees to present controversial issues of public importance, and to present such issues in what was deemed an honest, equal and balanced manner. It has since been repealed by the FCC and aspects of it have been questioned by courts.[1]
From wiki
This is my new cause....to get the fairness doctrine back...hahahahahha
White House struggles to fill key posts. “The Bush administration is facing growing difficulties in filling a rising number of high-level vacancies following a recent spate of senior departures. In the last 10 days alone Mr Bush has lost four senior officials and more resignations are expected to follow. ‘I wouldn’t describe this as disintegration,’ said one senior official. ‘But there are worrying large gaps opening up and it is very hard to recruit high-quality people from outside.’
EARLY DEPARTURES CLIP BUSH SECURITY TEAM Top members of President Bush's national security team are leaving in one of the earliest waves of departures from a second-term administration — nearly two years before Bush's term ends. (USA TODAY)
TWO STEVENS ASSOCIATES COP PLEA Two oil company executives with personal and financial ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, extortion and tax fraud in federal district court in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday and have agreed to help federal investigators in their case against a growing collection of Stevens’ associates, including former aides to the veteran lawmaker and his son, Ben. (Roll Call)
CNN Poll: 57% of Americans support Democrats on Iraq by Chris in Paris · 5/09/2007 04:18:00 AM ET
Americans want a timetable to get out of Iraq.
Most Americans disagree with President Bush's decision last week to veto the war funding bill that contained a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
What do they think Congress should do now?
Former Sen. John Edwards said Congress shouldn't back down. "If we don't have the votes to override the veto, the Congress should send him another bill with the funding authority for the troops, with a timetable for withdrawal," the Democratic presidential candidate said.
The public agrees. In the new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 57 percent want Congress to pass another bill with funding and timetables.
Senate panel approves fuel efficiency program by Chris in Paris · 5/09/2007 03:09:00 AM ET
Coming as no surprise to anyone, Republican enablers and Big Auto is crying about the push to become both competitive and environmentally friendly. Apparently Big Auto and the GOP managed to overlook the tens of thousands of lost jobs due to massive corporate failure, incompetence and smear campaigns, so that card has already been played. What other industry can fail to improve efficiency despite technology advancements that are obviously working elsewhere in the world?
The US offers two cars (Prius and Civic hybrid) with average mileage of 40mpg whereas Europe offers 113. The European market has been able to offer fuel efficiency, so why not in America? Why does Big Auto hate America?
Time To Become A Vegetarian By: Nicole Belle @ 6:02 PM - PDT David Goldstein has been watching closely the tainted gluten/melamine story, and he has even more disturbing news:
During an ongoing media teleconference call, USDA/FDA officials have revealed that melamine-tainted "protein concentrate," imported from China, contaminated fish meal manufactured in Canada. The tainted fish meal was then distributed to an unknown number of fish farms in the US and Canada.
Other revelations:
50,000 swine have been quarantined in Illinois due to suspect feed. The tainted "wheat gluten" and "rice protein concentrate" at the center of the pet food recall, was actually misrepresented as such. Further tests have determined that it is wheat flour, adulterated with melamine. UPDATE: FDA refuses to reveal how many fish farms and in which states. But you can be pretty damn sure that NW farmed salmon is likely on the list.
More from David: FDA = Faith-based Dining Administration?
Feds Investigate Suspicious Trading Prior To Murdoch’s WSJ Bid By: Logan Murphy @ 10:41 AM - PDT AP Via Yahoo:
Federal and state authorities are investigating suspicious options trading in Dow Jones & Co. stock prior to an announcement last week of News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the financial news publisher.
News last Tuesday of the $60-per-share bid by Rupert Murdoch's company sent Dow Jones shares soaring. A spokesman for Dow Jones, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, said Monday that it has received a subpoena from the New York attorney general's office and a request for information from the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding options trading.
News Corp. didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Monday. A company spokesman told the Journal late last week that News Corp. had received a subpoena from Cuomo's office and an inquiry from the SEC. Read more…
Very interesting.
UPDATE: Apparently, the WSJ knew of Murdoch's plans to make a bid, but sat on the story for a week.
Cheney in Baghdad Vice President Dick Cheney met Iraqi leaders in Baghdad on Wednesday and was expected to press for more progress in meeting political benchmarks aimed at ending sectarian violence.
Congressman Allen will try to grab Collins' Senate seat A six-term Democratic congressman will attempt to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) in a race shaping up as one of a handful likely to draw the national spotlight in 2008.
Pelosi threatens to sue Bush over Iraq spending bill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill.
Corporate media afraid to take on Bush Just as it failed to question the lead-up to war, the US media is failing to dig deep about what's happening inside the Bush administration. The U.S. media actually brought down a president for 18 minutes of missing tape while today, missing White House emails are lumped in with Alec Baldwin’s voice mails.
Democrats slam Big Oil over $3 gasoline prices The U.S. Senate's top Democrat on Tuesday accused big oil companies of shutting down refineries temporarily to raise gasoline prices and rake in"obscene profits."
State orders gas station to raise prices A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
Hospitals charge uninsured more, study says U.S. hospitals are charging uninsured patients about two-and-a-half times more than those with health insurance.
GOP telling tall tales about Reagan Sensing their own smallness, contemporary politicians often seek to puff themselves up by appealing to myth and legend.
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"Run dandelions, Run!
Too late."
hee hee
I don't care for that Highwayman song after all..
And don't "see dada it isn't about your wild-eyed views" me.
You can't weasel out of responsibility on this.
May 8, 2007 1:07 PM
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This is just the beginning of the lefts problem with "National Defense"....
Hillary will scuttle further to the right..
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The FBI arrested at least five suspects, including Dritan Duka, Mohammad Ibrahim Shnewer, Eljvir Duka (also known as Elvis Duka), Shain Duka and Serdar Tatar, according to official documents.
A sixth possible co-conspirator, Agron Abdullahu - who allegedly helped procure weapons because he had a gun license - is also mentioned in the court filing. The suspects appeared to be foreign, but it was not clear from where or if they were in the country legally.
The plot began to unravel in January 2006, when FBI agents received a tip from a retail store that it had duplicated a suspicious video into a DVD that showed '10 young men ... in their early twenties shooting assault weapons at a firing range.'
They were 'calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic, 'Allah Akbar' (God is great),' the charges stated.
Tatar, who expressed concern about the welfare of his family, also said he was willing to die in the attack.
'It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away. It doesn't matter. Or I die ... I'm doing it in the name of Allah,' Tatar was quoted as saying.
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Clinton stronger, Giuliani still strong
Posted by Mark Silva at 9:37 am CDT
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is "solidifying'' her lead over Sen. Barack Obama and others in the Democratic contest for the 2008 presidential nomination, a new Gallup Poll conducted for USA Today shows, and Rudy Giuliani holds a lead in the GOP.
In the first survey conducted since candidates in both parties – eight declared Democrats and ten declared Republicans – staged their first televised debate, pollsters have found little change in the standings – except for a "slightly better showing for Clinton.''
Read more about the poll here, and see the Gallup report:
The May 4-6 poll found 38 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying they are most likely to support Clinton for the party's nomination. Barack Obama is a "clear second'' at 23 percent, followed by Al Gore (with 14 percent) and John Edwards (with 12 percent.)
Clinton has regained a double-digit advantage after an earlier survey found a smaller – 31 to 26 percent – edge over Obama.
And if the name of Gore – the former vice president who ran for president in 2000 but says he isn't running this time around – is removed from the equation, Clinton gains more support: With a 45 – 27 percent margin over Obama.
To War Dog
Tatar, who expressed concern about the welfare of his family, also said he was willing to die in the attack.
'It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away. It doesn't matter. Or I die ... I'm doing it in the name of Allah,' Tatar was quoted as saying.
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War Dog, who expressed concern about the welfare of his family, also said he was willing to send others to die in the attack.
'It doesn't matter to me, whether they get locked up, arrested, or get taken away. It doesn't matter. Or they die ... I'm sending them in the name of Neoconservatism,' War Dog was quoted as saying.
hi !
I'm fine. Actually Im not.
I need to go find some equaliberum.
Im going to go stick my head in the sand for awhile and pretend this is all going to end happily with free tickets to Disney Land.
laalalalalalalaa!
-conbo
bb a lot lot later
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
The Stones
If it were the only the "Surrender Monkeys" who would be killed by the Terrorist, no one would really care...
It would be the law of Just Rewards...
Or you might call it Natural Selection...
But because Real Americans would be killed in the Terrorist Attack, we must elect folks who are not so lacking in judgement...
We don't elect Wankers..!!!!
Providing for the Common Defense means you must save the Wankers from themselves...
18 months...!!!!
conbo:take care now :)
Oh forgot:See ya at Disneyland :)
SCUD Bush!
Who are the haters?
by Geoff Staples on Tue 08 May 2007 12:27 PM CDT .Radio Left.
Link
This is just the opposite of what the Terrorist would like to see...
The Terrorist much prefer Nancy's Cut-n-Run....
Too bad for them Nancy is not President..!!!!!
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Pentagon Announces New Iraq Deployments
(AP) WASHINGTON The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 soldiers to prepare for deployment to Iraq beginning this fall.
The move would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing build-up of troops through the end of the year if needed.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday the deployment orders don't mean that the military has decided to keep the increased level of 20 brigades in Iraq through December. A brigade is roughly 3,500 soldiers.
Instead, he says the decision gives the Pentagon the "capability" to carry the build-up to the end of the year. He says the replacement forces would give commanders in Iraq the flexibility they need to complete the mission there.
Among the ten brigades told to prepare for deployment are the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, both from Fort Hood.
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Hillary will be the nominee...
Others need not apply..!!!!!
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Hillary leads Obama by 15% in poll
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Xinhua) -- New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton enjoys a 15 percentage-point lead over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll released here Tuesday.
Among Republicans, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani maintained a 14-point lead over Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Clinton is the choice of 38 percent of the Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters surveyed, up 7 points from a survey taken three weeks earlier.
Obama is at 23 percent, 3 points lower than the previous result.
Giuliani is supported by 34 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters surveyed, compared with 20 percent for McCain.
Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies polling, cautions against making too much of shifts in national surveys 18 months before the election.
Still, Clinton strategist Mark Penn attributes her boost in the poll to her performance in the first public debate among Democratic presidential hopefuls on April 26.
The survey of 1,010 adults was taken last Friday through last Sunday.
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Step by step...
We keep turnin up the heat on Iran...
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NEW U.N. RESOLUTION ON IRAN
May 8, 2007
Political directors from Germany, the current G8 president, and the five permanent Security Council members -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- will meet on the sidelines of the G8 meeting to discuss developments on Iran.
"They will discuss possible language for a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran," a diplomat from one of the six powers told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The Chinese delegation will participate in the talks by telephone, diplomats said.
U.S. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns will represent the United States at the meeting where delegates will discuss a recent meeting between European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.
"They're going to have another consultation on the Iran nuclear issue to talk about Mr. Solana's past discussion with Mr. Larijani as well as the one that is planned for the next week or two," U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington. He gave no date for the new meeting.
Solana said earlier this week that his talks with Larijani were very difficult as Tehran stressed it had no intention of suspending uranium enrichment.
Several diplomats told Reuters that world powers were satisfied with the impact the sanctions against Iran were having. They said Iranians were growing increasingly worried about the negative economic impact the penalties were having.
In his 1980 State of the Union address, President Jimmy Carter called for domination of the Middle East: "An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force." In other words: We run the region and control the flow of its oil.
George W. Bush took earlier administrations' power plays to new heights of reckless militarism and unilateralism, seizing the moment after 9/11 to declare to all nations: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." In other words: We demand global capitulation.
The only way to transcend this ugly history is through an honest national dialogue and a promise of a sea change in U.S. policy.
Look around the world at the results of U.S. strategies. Rhetoric about democracy and free trade has masked the enforcement of political and economic subordination to the United States and U.S.-based multinational corporations. The people of Latin America, much of Africa and the Middle East, and many parts of Asia can offer compelling testimony to the impact of those policies, enforced now through more than 700 U.S. military bases spread across the globe in over 130 countries...
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hey guys..
Conrad Black Ordered Funds Transferred, Former Partner Says
AP.
Link
Ricks of 'Wash Post': Media Focuses on Iran's Aid to Iraqi Insurgents -- But Not Saudi Money
By E&P Staff
Link
Anonymous said...
To War Dog
May 8, 2007 2:44 PM
(ROFLMAO!!! perfect timing)
Something about Fred: Thompson catches GOP eye
11:00 a.m. EDT, May 8, 2007
From Candy Crowley
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ten Republicans running for president seems like nine more than needed. So what's the deal with Fred Thompson -- why all this talk about adding one more to the pack?
According to the non-campaign, the Thompson for President bandwagon includes a number of former Reagan types who are putting together a meeting with the former senator to discuss issues.
And the non-candidate is already polling ahead of actual candidate Mitt Romney -- Thompson's in third place, behind Rudy Giuliani and John McCain with 13 percent to Romney's 10 percent and the 9 percent of another non-candidate, former Georgia congressman and House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
A small cadre of unofficial Thompson advisers reads that as dissatisfaction with the current lineup of choices.
"Frankly, people are so hungry for this race that the feedback that I am getting ... is 'When? When can we go, when can we start?'" said Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tennessee.
eya NC!
hoping you're OK.
good to read ya.
Dang, War Dog.
Maybe you should spend more time taking trips and less time salivating over nooking the evil-doers who have access to WMD like box-cutters and shoe bombs. You are sounding even nuttier than usual. I know it's shtick, but get a grip! If you need someone to pay attention to you so badly, maybe you should get out of your basement and start interacting with folks.
And knock off the blog-hogging. Really creepy, inconsiderate shit to be pulling when so many here only have dial-up access.
eya catchoo!
i've had such a day! Oy!
and i'm not even jewish...
things i've learned today.
where the rubber meets the road there is a prexisting oil slick.
people in charge of taking care of things don't have the time to actually take care of anything.
theres more... sigh.
What's the Italian equivalent of Murphy's Law anyway?
So, tell.
Oh fun, SJ..I learned something today too...Listen to the still small voice when it's telling you to NOT delete a file... Made my first huge blunder at work...works out ok in the end..but still...probably wiped out all the good stuff I've done in the last two years...you know how people sometimes only remember the dumb stuff :)
A few weeks ago I wrote to you about divestment - a crucial effort to cut off funding for the genocide in Darfur.
By withdrawing investments from companies that help finance the genocide, we can build economic pressure to end the atrocities.
That's why we are calling on the investment firms with the largest ties to Sudan, such as Fidelity, to divest their holdings now, before more lives are lost.
Click here to sign the petition calling on Fidelity to divest from companies that help fund the genocide.
Fidelity is a major holder of PetroChina, the Chinese oil company that is one of the biggest offenders in helping to fund the genocide in Darfur.
Despite complaints from concerned citizens and investors, Fidelity has not accepted responsibility for its role in investing in companies that help fund the genocide in Darfur and has refused to withdraw these investments.
Tell Fidelity it's time to stop investing in companies that help fund the genocide. Click here to sign the petition asking them to cut their ties with businesses supporting the genocide.
While diplomacy is crucial, most international efforts have failed to get through to Sudan.
But money talks -- Sudan has been very responsive to economic pressure in the past. That is why we believe divestment could be highly effective in forcing Sudan to cooperate with the international community.
Divestment helped end apartheid in South Africa in the late 1980's and it can help end genocide in Darfur in 2007.
Click here to demand that Fidelity do their part to help end the violence by divesting from companies that help fund the genocide.
Thank you again for your commitment to helping the innocent people of Darfur.
Best regards,
David Rubenstein
Save Darfur Coalition
http://ga6.org/campaign/fidelitydivestment/i87s3n54pb5kjx3?
Cat Chew said...
mmrules said...
To conbo,and everyone on the Blog. :)
Free Hugs Campaign. (music by Sick Puppies)
That hit the spot :)
My inner hippie approves of that message.
I'm leaving in a better mood than I was when I popped in.
Thanks, mmrules!
Cat Chew:Cool.NP :)
Wolfowitz Found Guilty of Conflict of Interest; Aide Resigns
By: Nicole Belle on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 at 12:22 PM - PDT
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http://givefreehugs.blogspot.com/
http://phreehugz.blogspot.com/
http://morefreehugs.blogspot.com/
They're all the same, but I LOVE the Free Hugs thing too...thanks for bringing it up, mm...probably just what I need today too..:)
probably wiped out all the good stuff I've done in the last two years..."""
don't turn off the computer!
it's still there in your backups too!
right?
No it was on th network drive...ISS was going to be abl to restore it from backups..but the boss reedited the whole 900 names list & I'm now inputting it all..she used an old list on the drive & Thank goodness I printed it out when I used the good one last time...so we end up with better, cleaner data now..but still.. argh...
Dog, we all enjoy your vacations.
Keep tripping!
if you want it back we can get it back.
theres a number of ways including freeware undelete proggies.
i have one on file for XP i can email you.
(once i find it again)
willing to help save 2 years of work...
murpys law in latin?
good question...
something like
optimisma sans dissapointus et null.
Optimism without disappointment does not exist.
my favorite latin expression is
"Nullis prentis"
'no commercial potential'
we should develop and market a hug vending machine.
like a boxie version of the robot in "lost in space"
padded in front, with optional inflateable bosoms.
Sunshine Jim said...
we could have a few other inflating accesories under the "you just glad to see?" option
Not quite it. Not for me anyway.
Optimism doesn't even figure into it.
"The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry" is more the flavor I get.
Hmmm...
Inflatable bosoms...
Can you still buy those at Fredericks of Hollywood? I had a glamorous aunt who had a stack of catalogs with illos.
One showed a gal inflating her brassiere by blowing through a straw...
Strange days!
i always figgered
anything 'best layed",
be it mice or men, would'nt have the energy to 'gang aglay'
inflation
is always a problem.
"inflation
is always a problem."
Heh!
sorry,
i'm obviously coming down with a case crankbaititis.
Cat Chew: "One showed a gal inflating her brassiere by blowing through a straw..."
May 8, 2007 5:20 PM
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I've done that! Only it wasn't her brassiere, it was her nipples. And it wasn't a straw, it was her ear.
(The principle is the same, though.)
lemme guess,
everything was fine til you pulled out the tire pressure checker.
That's just beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I have been racking my brain for some time now trying to figure out his appeal. If he didn't have some sort of appeal, then surely CNN wouldn't have given him his own show.
As it turns out, no, he was a pretty bad investment for ya' there, huh CNN? Nice work, Fox-lite.
Melanie
I've lost track. What was inflated?
you should have offered her a free rotation.
crank baits ego?
"And it wasn't a straw, it was her ear."
Stop him! He's setting up another banana joke!!! AArrrgh!!!!!
You guys are crackin me up! :)
he carries an infatable bannana wherever he goes just for 'emergencies'...
now that dogger has left we can get the ROFL stats back up.
eya mmrules
jump right on in.
(don't forget the sunscreen!)
nothing worse than a sunburned bannana.
Heh!
Sorry, Crank Bait.
You're much better than lovely new takes on old jokes.
Still, that's the stuff that grabs me best!
Later...
AP Played For Chumps As Another GOP Hit On Pelosi Bites Dust
May 08, 2007 -- 04:36 PM EST //TPM.
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take my joke.
please...
TPMtv Guide: Tuesday, May 8
By Ben Craw
Senate Judiciary Committee sent Mr. Schlozman a letter requesting his cooperation in their ongoing investigation of the U.S. Attorney firings.
Link
At a nursing home a group of seniors were sitting around talking about all their ailments. "My arms have gotten so weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee," said one.
"Yes, I know," said another. "My cataracts are so bad I can't even see my coffee."
"I couldn't even mark an 'X' at election time, my hands are so crippled," volunteered a third.
"What? Speak up! What? I can't hear you! said a fourth.
"I can't turn my head because of the arthritis in my neck," said a fifth, to which several nodded weakly in agreement.
"My blood pressure pills make me so dizzy I can hardly walk!" exclaimed another.
"I forget where I am, and where I'm going," said an elderly gent.
"I guess that's the price we pay for getting old," winced an old man as he slowly shook his head. The others nodded in agreement.
"Well, count your blessings," said one woman cheerfully, "thankfully, we can all still drive!"
The Hawks are fond of making a false pro-Iraq war argument, "There haven't been any attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11." This is supposed to prove that "we" have forced the "terrorists" to fight "us" elsewhere.
There have been thwarted attacks since 9/11. The most recent was publicized today.
This would seem to belie the claim by the Hawks. Does it only count when it succeeds? And, wouldn't it be true that as more and more failed attempts are added to the total, the more likely that the next will not fail?
It's childish logic. Me and a zillion other people have known for decades that terroristic acts would eventually reach these shores. It isn't rocket science. All one needed to know is that terroristic acts had become a tactic elsewhere on the globe and that they were increasing in frequency.
ya crnkr,
and that sort of glosses over the multitude of evidence pointing at the current administration either being directtly responsible for 911 or at least aiding and abbetting it.
Evening all
White House Blames Gov. Sebelius For National Guard Shortages
Kansas is currently missing approximately 60 percent of its National Guard equipment because of the war in Iraq, hampering its ability to respond to the recent tornadoes.
In a “spat reminiscent of White House finger-pointing at Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco after the federal government’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina,” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow this morning blamed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for the shortages, saying he was “not aware of any prior complaints” by the governor about the equipment:
If you don’t request it, you’re not going to get it. … As far as we know, the only thing the governor has requested are FM radios. There have been no requests to the National Guard for heavy equipment. … We are eager to provide what Kansas needs. But again there are also - you also have to go through the process of making the request first.
Snow’s statements are incorrect. On repeated occasions, Sebelius made clear to the White House that Kansas was dangerously low on National Guard equipment:
– Dec. 30, 2005: Sebelius writes to Rumsfeld requesting new equipment. “The Guard was critical to responding to recent blizzards and floods in Kansas, yet its ability to respond to similar situations is being diminished by a lack of equipment,” wrote Sebelius. Included with her letter was a list of equipment Kansas had lost to the Iraq war. [Kansas City Star, 1/21/06; Topeka Capital-Journal, 6/29/06]
– Jan. 23, 2006: Sebelius personally urges Bush to increase National Guard funding. In an one-hour motorcade ride in Kansas with Bush, Sebelius expressed concern about “a reduction of National Guard troop strength in its next budget.” Bush assured her he was “dealing” with the shortages. [Topeka Capital-Journal, 1/24/06; Kansas City Star, 3/11/06]
– June 28, 2006: Sebelius sends Army Secretary list of equipment lost in war. In a meeting with Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey, Sebelius told Harvey that the state had lost about $140 million in National Guard equipment to the Iraq war. Her office then sent him a list of the lost equipment. [Topeka Capital-Journal, 6/29/06]
– Sept. 2006: Sebelius lobbies for replacement of National Guard equipment sent to Iraq. “Kansas’ congressional delegation, Sebelius and governors from around the country have been lobbying the Pentagon for increased funding to replace National Guard equipment that has been left in Iraq or damaged beyond repair after repeated use in war.” [AP, 9/5/06]
– Feb. 27, 2007: Sebelius pushes White House and Congress for more funding. “Now the Guard needs Washington’s help,” Sebelius said in press conference on Capitol Hill. “The President and Congress need to step up to the plate and give our Guard members the support they deserve.” [Press Release, 2/27/07]
At today’s White House press briefing, a reporter confronted Snow about Sebelius’s past requests. Snow simply replied, “And what happened was, she actually did get — there was not a formal request. But they’d had conversations.” He also admitted that Sebelius did request more than FM Radios.
The Mahablog has more.
LINK
35,000 soldiers told to prep for Iraq. “The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 soldiers and Marines to be prepared to deploy to Iraq beginning this fall, a move that would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing buildup of troops through the end of the year if needed. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday the deployment orders, which have been signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, do not mean that the military has made a decision to keep the increased level of 20 brigades in Iraq through December.”
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Murtha: Bush May Double Forced Iraq Extensions »
The Bush administration announced last month that all U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq would have their 12-month tours in Iraq extended by 3 additional months.
The forced extensions place an extreme burden on soldiers in Iraq, whose strains “are in some ways more severe than those borne by the combat forces of World War II,” Army researchers say. The also highlight the U.S. military’s current readiness crisis, which has left virtually all of the U.S.-based Army combat brigades “rated as unready to deploy.”
In a little noticed remark late last month, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) said the worst is still to come. During a speech on Congress’ Iraq legislation, Murtha said he has heard rumors that the forced extensions will soon be increased to 18 months. Watch it:
In April, when the 15-month extensions were announced, U.S. soldiers on the ground reacted with “muffled outbursts of anger and frustration laced with dark humor.”
“At no time in our military history have Soldiers or Marines been required to serve on the front line in any war for a period of 6-7 months.” A quarter of all soldiers who spend 6 months in Iraq show signs of mental trauma.
He's not going to leave Iraq, he's building up again
in reality, what Sarkozy's victory means for France is something closer to the so-called "Reagan Revolution" in the U.S. that began in 1981 the process of dismantling and destroying the institutional New Deal legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Chirac was a Gaullist, and the political heritage of General Charles De Gaulle, who led France from 1958 to 1969, included a vigorously statist approach to the economy and defense of a wide series of social protection and social safety-net measures that had been instituted by the left's Popular Front government in the mid-1930s, and which were renewed and extended by post-war governments dominated by the political activists of the Resistance movement to Nazi occupation, who had a conception of government as a guarantor of economic security for all. Sarkozy is of a new generation than Chirac and, ideologically, not a Gaullist -- but rather in phase with the "Chicago school" of economics led by Milton Friedman, which believes in minimal government, a slimmed-down state that interferes as little as possible in the economy, an aggressively laissez-faire approach that is dear to the economic barons of the MEDEF, the French business leaders' association, whose tycoons were solidly behind Sarkozy's candidacy. Sarkozy has already promised to, in effect, abolish the ISF (the tax on large fortunes), accord more tax breaks to big business and the upper-middle-classes, and make more cuts in the state-run national health system (declared by a U.N. survey to be the finest in the world in terms of delivery of health services and quality of care.) Sarkozy's economic program is designed to help the already-privileged classes retain and extend their socio-economic position, to the detriment of the have-nots (the massive pro-Sarkozy vote in the upper-income neighborhoods today confirms that they understood Sarko's message to them.) And he has promised a major down-sizing of the civil service employed by state agencies.
Sarkozy is a skilled demagogue who, on the stump, tried to give the impression (like Bush's first presidential campaign did) that he was a "compassionate conservative." But Sarkozy's so-called "compassion" is strictly rhetorical -- his concrete economic orientation is bound to deepen the gulf between the haves and the have nots, to aggravate what Jacques Chirac -- in a famous phrase from his 1995 re-election campaign -- had baptized the "social fracture."
Life for the have-nots will become even more difficult under Sarkozy's hard-right, anti-immigrant, law-and-order society. He has announced "zero tolerance" for illegal immigration, has deported tens of thousands of immigrants during his two terms as Interior Minister and split up immigrant families while making it tougher for them to become French citizens. He has proposed strict minimum sentences for all sorts of crimes, thus removing all discretion from French judges, and France's already-crowded prisons will soon be overflowing with expanded, and younger, populations. French prisons, like ours, are training institutes for criminals, and by sending ever-larger numbers of young people to them for petty offenses Sarkozy will, in fact, be manufacturing new generations of hardened voyous (thugs in French.) In 1986, I was in Paris during the legislative elections that made Jacques Chirac prime minister for the first time -- and the next day, the police -- who sensed that the right's victory had unleashed them -- displayed an openly hostile and noticeably new aggressive posture toward people of color in the streets. I've had reports from French friends that the same thing happened after Sarkozy's strong, lead showing in the first round of this presidential election two weeks ago. Now, with Sarkozy's election, one can expect that the forces of law-and-order will consider that all restraints on them have been removed, and it will be more unpleasant than usual to be an Arab or black in France. (Remember Sarkozy's hard-line program of repression during the October 2005 ghetto riots against racism, exclusion, and unemployment that had all France in flames?)
Doug Ireland
Updated my blog: LINK
Does anyone have doubts about the Fort Dix Six? Is this another propaganda hoax, like the guys in Florida who the FBI entrapped with the promise of matching boots and jackets?
juliane, Olbermann is talking about it now.
This supposed threat to Fort Dix was not well planned. Too many stupid decisions. Conspiracy theory? Anything is possible with this government.
CNN hate-host Glenn Beck sees ratings plummet
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/08/2007 04:51:00 PM ET
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Hate is so last year. From Eric Boehlert:
[W]hereas CNN last year traded away its good name in exchange for debuting Beck's factually challenged and hateful brand of broadcasting, at least CNN execs were getting a ratings boost out of the Faustian bargain. Today, Beck's still making a mockery out of CNN's reputation on a daily basis, as he disparages liberals, gays, Democrats, blacks, immigrants, and Muslims at will. But in return, CNN's now stuck with a Beck program that's trapped in neutral and shows signs of sliding into reverse.
Well played, CNN....
It truly has become amateur hour at CNN.
James Zogby got it right late last year. After watching Beck's nearly year-long McCarthy-like crusade against Arabs and Muslims, the president of the Arab American Institute wrote, "While [the CNN] network may have hoped that Beck's flamboyant style would increase ratings, the cost to their integrity has been staggering."...
Indeed, the dirty little media secret is that Beck's show has hit a ratings brick wall. Despite the glowing press from The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others, which showered Beck with profiles because his show was being touted as the fastest-growing program on prime-time cable news, Beck in recent months has been flat-lining. In fact, he's actually losing viewers.
And Beck's ratings are plummeting. Advertisers should have been already skittish aligning their products with a show that worries that every single Muslim-American is working with the terrorists, but add poor ratings to hate and you've got a recipe for an advertiser exodus. Not to mention, it's hard for the senior brass to defend Beck against the very real inside-CNN insurgency taking place against the hate jock when Beck isn't even bringing in viewers, but rather is simply tarnishing CNN's good name.
The Nielsen rating numbers from April were particularly telling and highlighted how Beck's show appears to have completely maxed out less than 12 months after its debut. April was a news-heavy month, which produced a huge spike in cable news viewership following the campus massacre at Virginia Tech. Except, that is, for Glenn Beck. (On the night of the VT shooting, Glenn Beck finished last among prime-time cable news programs, excluding those on CNBC.)
Overall, for the month of April, ratings for CNN Headline News' prime-time lineup, which is anchored by Beck, were up a microscopic 4 percent, compared to healthy, double-digit gains posted by CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
More here
Sam nailed it with his links on the main page and now it's on the Amerigablog!
Beck will be Bye Bye real soon!
toniD,
This was on the Lehrer News Hour tonight:
Kansas Tornado
As Greensburg, Kan., looks to rebuild after Friday's tornado, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said recovery efforts were hampered by National Guard troops being sent to Iraq.
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Governor Sebelius responded directly and in depth to Snow's remarks. You can listen (see?) it here:
Link
Will Beck go to Fox?
Crank,
Another incompetence of the Bush admin blamed on the victims!
Will this admin never end? Every day, every tragedy of nature, especially in an area with a Dem leader is just ignored!
Poll: 54 percent oppose Bush veto
POLL: 39% SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 5/8/2007 3:08PM
JUST IN: FEINGOLD TO PROPOSE LEGISLATION TO END WAR, CUT OFF FUNDING
Majority Leader Reid Set to Support Along with 8 Other Senate Co-Sponsors So Far
Exceptions for Funds Cutoff to Be Made for Fighting Terrorists, Security for U.S. Troops and Infrastructure, Training of Iraqi Security Services...
In a statement just sent to The BRAD BLOG, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) says he is prepared to up the ante in the fight with the White House in light of Bush's spending bill veto, and will be proposing that war funding be cut off by a date certain.
Feingold adds that his proposed legislation has a number of co-sponsors already on board in the Senate. His statement just in to The BRAD BLOG:
“With brave Americans fighting and dying for a failed policy in Iraq, members of Congress shouldn’t delay action to end this misguided war for weeks or even months just for the sake of political comfort. That is why, when the Senate takes up the Iraq supplemental, I plan to offer the Feingold-Reid bill as an amendment to force the President to safely redeploy our troops by March 31, 2008 at which point funding for the war would be cut off.”
In addition to Reid's commitment to support the bill, the co-sponsors already on board as listed at Feingold's website include Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), John Kerry (D-MA), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
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personally i hate being lumped in with those criminally insane assholes and anyone else willing to kill in order to manipulate us as a citizenry.
i'm more than willing to defend myself and my family even if the primary terrorists i'm concerned about are the bush administration.
you have to be blind to not beware of the scam they're running, and that emphasizes our need to get the word out effectively.
organise or die, theres no way around it and it is that serious.
nuff! i'm taking a break.
toniD said...
Will Beck go to Fox?
May 8, 2007 8:28 PM
You know what? I saw a youtube o this guy Beck..he was saying if Al Gore really wanted to stop global warming he would quit eating meat...! Wow...I couldn't even watch the whole thing..
Jon Stewart on the GOP Debate
LINK
You can't take Beck seriously because he was a dope head and a drunk. He's working with two brain cells and one is short circuited!
toniD said...
White House Blames Gov. Sebelius For National Guard Shortages
Kansas is currently missing approximately 60 percent of its National Guard equipment because of the war in Iraq, hampering its ability to respond to the recent tornadoes.
In a “spat reminiscent of White House finger-pointing at Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco after the federal government’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina,” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow this morning blamed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for the shortages.
May 8, 2007 7:42 PM
Bush is a misogynist. He has no regard for and demeans leaders who happen to be women.
ceecee,
I provided a link to the interview of Governor Sebelius on the Lehrer News Hour upblog.
I watched the interview on the boob tube tonight and am impressed with her smooth speaking style and clarity. I knew nothing of the Governor before tonight.
I assume that she has had a rough several days with little sleep, yet she handled herself expertly during the interview. Much better than most.
She even managed to slip in a wry dig at Snow.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about how culture fits into this story? You’ve just written a new book, one of your many. This is called The Culture Struggle. Why focus on culture now?
MICHAEL PARENTI: I’ve found that culture is a highly contested area. There are immense and important struggles going on all over the world in regard to culture. And what we're taught is an enlightened view, that in reaction to cultural supremacism and cultural imperialism, we're taught that we shouldn't really judge cultures. And yet, every single culture, including our own, needs to be judged, because cultures are not neutral things. Some people benefit and other people can be victimized by culture.
One of the greatest victims, universal victims, of just about all cultures in the world are women, for instance. And the more I went into this, the more I realized how that was true. And by “victimize,” I don't mean job opportunities only or life roles or this, but in sheer physical survival. The amount of harm and abuse and violence that is delivered upon women in all cultures is really horrifying, and it seems to me -- I mean, there are some village cultures in Central Asia and the Middle East and some parts elsewhere, other places in the world, where if a young woman is raped, her father then kills her to restore the honor of his family. I mean, this is what we're facing. And even in our own culture, the violence against women in this culture is pandemic. And I think much of feminism, which is so focused on lifestyle issues, personal expression, personal development issues, which are all important and good issues -- I think maybe much more militant attention should be directed to this issue.
Alice: Get yer biscuits in the oven and yer buns in the bed.
Sincerely,
As God Intended
toniD said...
35,000 soldiers told to prep for Iraq. “The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 soldiers and Marines to be prepared to deploy to Iraq beginning this fall, a move that would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing buildup of troops through the end of the year if needed. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday the deployment orders, which have been signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, do not mean that the military has made a decision to keep the increased level of 20 brigades in Iraq through December.”
May 8, 2007 7:45 PM
Again, Bush providing an offering by giving al Qaeda what it wants.
Crank Bait said...
ceecee,
I provided a link to the interview of Governor Sebelius on the Lehrer News Hour upblog.
I watched the interview on the boob tube tonight and am impressed with her smooth speaking style and clarity. I knew nothing of the Governor before tonight.
I assume that she has had a rough several days with little sleep, yet she handled herself expertly during the interview. Much better than most.
She even managed to slip in a wry dig at Snow.
May 8, 2007 9:39 PM
Thanks! I'll check it out.
Former agent: Corrales always a 'thrill-seeker'
Associated Press
Posted: 31 minutes ago
...Corrales' promoter, Gary Shaw, said Corrales, whose career faltered the past two years, recently bought the racing motorcycle he was riding when he was killed...
...Police said Corrales' 2007 Suzuki hit the back of a car Monday evening while trying to pass at high speed on a busy residential street about 7 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip and not far from his home.
Corrales, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 7:22 p.m. crash. He was 29.
Las Vegas police blamed speed and rider inexperience...Las Vegas police Sgt. Tracy McDonald said investigators found an April 21 bill of sale for the motorcycle...
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Corrales' final calm thought: "I wonder how fast she'll accelerate if I really crank her on?"
as god intended said...
May 8, 2007 9:53 PM
You want me to do this... why?
Alice: "You want me to do this... why?"
May 8, 2007 10:25 PM
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It's the Lord's will. You should go barefoot more often, too. Oh, and quit your job.
Sincerely,
Lord
OK Lord...I will go barefoot more, as soon as I paint my toenails....& I'll quit my job as soon as my husband goes to the doctor, & has all his teeth fixed...and when I can't handle it anymore...working full time sucks, Lord...as you know..... But hey...at least we get Sundays off for fornicating... :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,2074419,00.html
Published on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 by the Guardian/UK
Deadly Dust: Study Suggests Cancer Risk from Depleted Uranium
by James Randerson
Depleted uranium, which is used in armor-piercing ammunition, causes widespread damage to DNA which could lead to lung cancer, according to a study of the metal’s effects on human lung cells. The study adds to growing evidence that DU causes health problems on battlefields long after hostilities have ceased.
DU is a byproduct of uranium refinement for nuclear power. It is much less radioactive than other uranium isotopes, and its high density - twice that of lead - makes it useful for armor and armor piercing shells. It has been used in conflicts including Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq and there have been increasing concerns about the health effects of DU dust left on the battlefield. In November, the Ministry of Defense was forced to counteract claims that apparent increases in cancers and birth defects among Iraqis in southern Iraq were due to DU in weapons.
Now researchers at the University of Southern Maine have shown that DU damages DNA in human lung cells. The team, led by John Pierce Wise, exposed cultures of the cells to uranium compounds at different concentrations.
Alice,
Remember to keep holy the Sabbath. The Sabbath is pretty much any day you want it to be. And holy? Who knows what holy is?
Sincerely
Supreme Being
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/opedne_anne_mce_070506_throwing_children_in.htm
By Anne McElroy Dachel
Throwing Children Into Oncoming Traffic: The Truth About Autism
Totally, Supreme Being...totally...
http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Fox-News-Interviews-Me-13217.aspx
Fox did a "Special Report" on me a few weeks ago that was anything but "fair and balanced". See how they manipulate and distort the truth.
I don't know if you're into this sort of stuff, SB...but...
The 2007 San Francisco Masturbate-a-thon
...
The Masturbate-a-thon record for most male orgasms is 6! Of course, women are a little ahead in this game with a record of 49 orgasms in a single masturbate-a-thon event.
...
(C'mon Lord...are the chicks faking it?
Or what?)
OutFoxed sent out to Mercola's 800,000 list members.
OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428&q=outfoxed
Alice: "C'mon Lord...are the chicks faking it? Or what?"
May 8, 2007 10:56 PM
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Alice,
Quoting Mary Magdalene, "The Lord works in mysterious ways."
Sincerely,
The Lord
Oh Lord, wheres my Mercedes Benz?
Janis,
Gotta run. Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
Sincerely,
The Lord
One more joke before bed (I scour the planet for good jokes so you don't have to).
From Letterman's Top Ten List for Monday, May 7th, 2007---
Top Ten Ways Paris Hilton Is Preparing For Jail
#2--Telling herself, "Heck, 45 days? That's not even a month"
http://thepaincomics.com/
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Good night, Supreme Being Lord As God Intended...
I won't tell Janis that you can't afford a Mercedes Benz anymore... :)
Crank Bait said...
One more joke before bed (I scour the planet for good jokes so you don't have to).
From Letterman's Top Ten List for Monday, May 7th, 2007---
Top Ten Ways Paris Hilton Is Preparing For Jail
#2--Telling herself, "Heck, 45 days? That's not even a month"
May 8, 2007 11:31 PM
LMFAO!!!
Crank..I have the longest story for you before you go to bed...
There's a patron at work named Richard S. He is about 4 foot tall..& has "something" going on, brain-wise..so he comes in about every other day, & he tells my co-worker &/or I a David Letterman or Jay Leno joke from the night before...like a rain main type thing...Today his joke was a Paris Hilton joke... & of all days, today, I didnt understand the punchline..it was like.."Did you hear about Paris Hilton...? She's going to ail for 45 days..."
I didn't get it..like he must have messed up the joke or something..Cuz normally he makes me laugh...?
anyway...point being...
Nothing...
Goodnight.. :)
oll: 54 percent oppose Bush veto
POLL: 39% SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT
May 8, 2007 8:53 PM
Those are huge numbers, what are they waiting for?
Bob26003 said...
May 8, 2007 11:49 PM
Hey! Cool it with the crazy questions, Bob...
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FORECASTER BROWN
I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I wanna feel you in my arms again
And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love
Then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love?
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breakin’ us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour
You're my savior when I fall
And you may not think I care for you
When you know down inside
That I really do
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love?
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breakin’ us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
And you come to me on a summer breeze,
Keep me warm in your love
Then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love?
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breakin’ us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
Right War Dog! Tell me how much your buddies want to get the terrists! You fucker!
Judge drops charges against anti-Castro militant
A U.S. judge has thrown out all charges against anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles, less than a week before he was supposed to go to trial.
Department of Justice spokesman Dean Boyd said U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas dismissed on Tuesday the seven-count indictment accusing Posada Carriles, 79, of immigration fraud.
"We're reviewing the decision," Boyd said.
Posada Carriles attorney Felipe Millan said Cardone ruled that statements by Posada Carriles that were to be used against him in the trial starting on Monday had been obtained unconstitutionally.
"They tricked him," Millan said.
Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for trial on charges he masterminded the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner, had been out on bail in Miami awaiting trial and left the El Paso courthouse a free man, Millan said.
...
eya A.!
i am having the best time thinking about Model Airplane kid when he unwraps the loot.
i did my best to get him a snazzy airplane nut care package that will delight!
for me a lot of it is payback for every ol timer that had fun showing how build, fly and made donations to my balsa wood pile.
tell him i figger he's getting a dandy introduction to the tradition of making dreams possible for kids.
when his turn comes around i figger he'll take care of the generation that follows him.
According to NPR, (today or yesterday, I think)..there's also evidence against Carriles for bombings in 1997....
Sunshine Jim said...
May 9, 2007 12:17 AM
I'm going to start calling him Sunshine Juan... I wish I could capture the essence of this cool kid and send it to you to experience... I was thinking about the very same thing you were, on the way home from work today...He's the sort of boy who might start crying from happiness..(my favorite sort of boy..)
8-)
!
who might start crying from happiness""
wait till he gets a good whack from a propeller! that'll def bring a few tears down.
he's gonna need a buncha advice and a few more trinkets to fire up those engines, some glue to start building, an exacto knife and a few # 11 blades. the small engines are stuck from the old castor oil hardening up. i left em that way on purpose but if he tries to force them to turn over with out heating them and oiling them with a little 3 in 1 oil he'll break the crankshafts. that's also why i did'nt send along any props.
got any way of getting him to a good old fashioned hobby shop?
if not i think i have a few peeps in the area that are long time modelers and might be willing to help out.
oh def take some pix!
show him these too.
http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/ModelPlanes/
The only thing I could do is buy for him exactly what he needs to get a plan in the air. I will. Is that list complete in your last post? Tell me what he needs, in the way I would tell a hobby shoppe person without them looking at me weird... :)
*plane
not much for those first planes.
some glue, a flat piece of wood with some sticky back sandpaper glued to it to make a sanding block and he's got it made.
theres directions with the kits.
and i finally found that booklet i was looking for and put one in the box.
what he really needs is a good modeler and i'm a phone call away.
if you have the patience read the booklet and the instructions yourself.
sound good?
I wonder if he has a dad to build it with...?
Ok..I'll do the best I can with it...I'm glad you found the booklet... I'll bt my father in law would love to build it with him, if there's no one else...very cool, SJ... this'll be great, thank you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/americas/06poison.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine
IN CHINA At least 18 people, most of them in Guangdong Province, died in a month last year after they ingested contaminated medicine.
By WALT BOGDANICH and JAKE HOOKER
Published: May 6, 2007
The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.
Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents.
The syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in some antifreeze.
It is also a killer. And the deaths, if not intentional, are often no accident.
Over the years, the poison has been loaded into all varieties of medicine — cough syrup, fever medication, injectable drugs — a result of counterfeiters who profit by substituting the sweet-tasting solvent for a safe, more expensive syrup, usually glycerin, commonly used in drugs, food, toothpaste and other products.
Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has never been determined. But records and interviews show that in three of the last four cases it was made in China, a major source of counterfeit drugs.
Panama is the most recent victim. Last year, government officials there unwittingly mixed diethylene glycol into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine — with devastating results. Families have reported 365 deaths from the poison, 100 of which have been confirmed so far. With the onset of the rainy season, investigators are racing to exhume as many potential victims as possible before bodies decompose even more.
pretty sure a body shop in the area would donate a sticky 6 inch 220 grit sandpaper disc no prob those are the best. any flat piece of wood comfortable for him to hols is fine, probably a 1 1/2 X 5 or 6 X 3/4 inch piece of scrap lumber will be fine. just make sure one side is perfectly flat and smooth. that where ya stick the sticky sandpaper disk.
medium thick super glue and accelarator is the best for begineers. show him how the pins are used to position the parts for glue up. and make sure he uses wax paper to keep from gluing the parts to his building board. (a 2ft x 2ft chunk of smooth flat plywood scrap)
**For Toni**
Cherry Concentrate, Montmorency (Red Tart)
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Ok..
1- S1082 - What is Really Going on at The FDA
A majority of Americans, not informed on current events and unaware of the history involved, are silent. Mainstream media, one of Big Pharma’s largest clients, is silent. Only the power of the internet, which rivals the invention of the printing press in significance, is making it possible for individuals to understand what is going on.......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron27.htm
by Byron Richards, CCN
2- S1082 = The Voice of the People is Being Heard
Unfortunately for Big Pharma and the FDA, Charles Grassley (R-IA), a man concerned with true and meaningful safety reform, has gone through S1082 with a fine tooth comb. He has proposed 11 amendments to close the Big Pharma loopholes that Kennedy, Enzi, the FDA, and Big Pharma built into this legislation. Big Pharma and the FDA hate all 11 Grassley amendments and Big Pharma has its legion of lobbyists trying to defeat them as you read this. Support the Grassley amendments for true and meaningful safety reform.......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron26.htm
by Byron Richards, CCN
3- S1082 Update - Senate Stabs Americans in the Back
Noteworthy in this group of Senator’s failing the American public is Norm Coleman (R-MN). He could be seen grinning from ear to ear following his vote, while getting patted on the back by fellow Republicans. Coleman has been in favor of drug reimportation for some time, helping Minnesota set up one of the most progressive programs in the country to import drugs from Canada. Who bought his vote? He certainly wasn’t representing the citizens of his state.......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron28.htm
by Byron Richards, CCN
Rock Washington, DC Now: FDA, Supplements and So-Called Hate Crime Bill
I'm going to cut to the chase here on the latest efforts by non elected government bureaucrats and Congress to further destroy our natural rights. First, our right to natural health care and supplements, which cuts into the mega billions of dollars in profit to the big pharmaceutical companies.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd265.htm
by Devvy
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
They who look upon Liberty as having accomplished her mission when she has abolished hereditary privileges and given men the ballot, who think of her as having no further relations to the everyday affairs of life, have not seen her real grandeur -- to them the poets who have sung of her must seem rhapsodists, and her martyrs fools! As the sun is the lord of life, as well as of light; as his beams not merely pierce the clouds, but support all growth, supply all motion, and call forth from what would otherwise be a cold and inert mass all the infinite diversities of being and beauty, so is Liberty to mankind. It is not for an abstraction that men have toiled and died; that in every age the witnesses of Liberty have stood forth, and the martyrs of Liberty have suffered.
Our primary social adjustment is a denial of justice. In allowing one man to own the land on which and from which other men must live, we have made them his bondsmen in a degree which increases as material progress goes on. This is the subtile alchemy that in ways they do not realize is extracting from the masses in every civilized country the fruits of their weary toil; that is instituting a harder and more hopeless slavery in place of that which has been destroyed; that is bringing political despotism out of political freedom, and must soon transmute democratic institutions into anarchy.
Oh no, not anarchy!
the better he positions the parts the better it'll fly.
he may need a bit of old fasioned modeling clay, the kind that sticks good to wood, to balance evrything, like a teaspoon full is lots more than he'll need.
he does'nt need to 'finish' the wood though i usually put a thin coat of clear 'dope' on mine to water and dirt proof them.
decoration can be done with waterproof felt pens.
a spray can of clear or colored dope is the easiest way to go for his first finish. put on the thinnest coat possible, don't load it up. it's beautifully translucent when done right
Oh no, not anarchy!
May 9, 2007 1:24 AM
*shakes head like a hardcore christian at the sight of the devil*
No! NO! We can't have any of that anarchy nonsense!
Coulter: Obama Poll Lead Helps al-Qaida
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By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer
May 08,2007 | WASHINGTON -- A recent Newsweek poll showing Democrat Barack Obama leading top Republican presidential hopefuls could have been made up and might help al-Qaida, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said in her latest verbal broadside.
Coulter, a best-selling author known for outrageous and often controversial statements, was asked Sunday on Fox News' "At Large" what she thought about the survey results.
"I think this is Newsweek doing more push polling for al-Qaida," she said, referring to campaign-season telephone calls to voters masquerading as neutral surveys but designed to build opposition to targeted candidates.
Asked by host Geraldo Rivera whether she thought Newsweek would make up the results, Coulter said, "Yes, I do," adding, "In polls where people are actually allowed to vote, Republicans do a lot better."
I'm not totally comprhending it all now, SJ..but something tells me I'll be hanging on your every word when it comes time to get 'er up in the air...
what they've done before, dada, is concentrate the wealth and then crash the country.
it's what they're doing now.
listen ravenously to what's *not* being said
In the very centers of our civilization to-day are want and suffering enough to make sick at heart whoever does not close his eyes and steel his nerves. Dare we turn to the Creator and ask Him to relieve it! Supposing the prayer were heard, and at the behest with which the universe sprang into being there should glow in the sun a greater power; new virtue fill the air; fresh vigor the soil; that for every blade of grass that now grows two should spring up, and the seed that now increases fifty-fold should increase a hundred fold! Would poverty be abated or want relieved! Manifestly no! Whatever benefit would accrue would be but temporary. The new powers streaming through the material universe could be utilized only through land. And land, being private property, the classes that now monopolize the bounty of the Creator would monopolize all the new bounty. Land owners would alone be benefited. Rents would increase, but wages would still tend to the starvation point!
This is not merely a deduction of political economy; it is a fact of experience. We know it because we have seen it. Within our own times, under our very eyes, that Power which is above all, and in all, and through all; that Power of which the whole universe is but the manifestation; that Power which maketh all things, and without which is not anything made that is made, has increased the bounty which men may enjoy, as truly as though the fertility of nature had been increased. Into the mind of one came the thought that harnessed steam for the service of mankind. To the inner ear of another was whispered the secret that compels the lightning to bear a message around the globe. In every direction have the laws of matter been revealed; in every department of industry have arisen arms of iron and fingers of steel, whose effect upon the production of wealth has been precisely the same as an increase in the fertility of nature. What has been the result? Simply that land owners get all the gain. The wonderful discoveries and inventions of our century have neither increased wages nor lightened toil. The effect has simply been to make the few richer; the many more helpless!
Henry George. Smart guy.
hee!
all the old kits use to tell you to test fly it over tall grass to avoid damaging the plane.
we have a cintest in the desert for old vintage free flight designs, some with 6 foot wingspans.
one of the prizes for this contest is a 4 inch diameter pot of tall grass.
Not just a little smart, a lot smart.
Now I'll go see who that is..
Can it be that the gifts of the Creator may be thus misappropriated with impunity?
Is it a light thing that labor should be robbed of its earnings while greed rolls in wealth -- that the many should want while the few are surfeited?
Turn to history, and on every page may be read the lesson that such wrong never goes unpunished; that the Nemesis that follows injustice never falters nor sleeps!
Look around to-day. Can this state of things continue! May we even say, "After us the deluge!" Nay; the pillars of the state are trembling even now, and the very foundations of society begin to quiver with pent-up forces that glow underneath. The struggle that must either revivify, or convulse in ruin, is near at hand, if it be not already begun.
The fiat has gone forth! With steam and electricity, and the new powers born of progress, forces have entered the world that will either compel us to a higher plane or overwhelm us, as nation after nation, as civilization after civilization, have been overwhelmed before.
It is the delusion which precedes destruction that sees in the popular unrest with which the civilized world is feverishly pulsing only the passing effect of ephemeral causes.
Between democratic ideas and the aristocratic adjustments of society there is an irreconcilable conflict. Here in the United States, as there in Europe, it may be seen arising. We cannot go on permitting men to vote and forcing them to tramp. We cannot go on educating boys and girls in our public schools and then refusing them the right to earn an honest living. We cannot go on prating of the inalienable rights of man and then denying the inalienable right to the bounty of the Creator. Even now, in old bottles the new wine begins to ferment, and elemental forces gather for the strife!
The economic and political struggles of the past two centuries are not finished. Old Marx's dialectical materialism hasn't yet played out to it's logical conclusion. The jury is still out. The big wave hasn't crested.
Should Vice President Cheney be impeached? Consider the evidence and then vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll, and it will also send your personal message to Congress at the very same time.
NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php
You can vote yes. Or you can vote no. But we cannot remain silent.
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dada said...
Is International Law Relevant to Arms Control? By Thomas Graham, Jr.
Chicago Journal of International Law Spring 2003
May 8, 2007 1:32 AM
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Good post, dada! Thanks!
George began as a Lincoln Republican, but then became a Democrat, once losing election to the California State Assembly. He was a strong critic of railroad and mining interests, corrupt politicians, land speculators, and labor contractors.
One day in 1871 George went for a horseback ride and stopped to rest while overlooking San Francisco Bay. He later wrote of the revelation that he had:
“ I asked a passing teamster, for want of something better to say, what land was worth there. He pointed to some cows grazing so far off that they looked like mice, and said, 'I don't know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre.' Like a flash it came over me that there was the reason of advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege.[1] ”
Furthermore, on a visit to New York City, he was struck by the apparent paradox that the poor in that long-established city were much worse off than the poor in less developed California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia in official lies, official murder and the systematic brutalisation and corruption of their population? Only a shallow empiricism can fail to see that such monstrous societies are not the product of a national peculiarity (the German character) or a system of government (“communism”) but are part and parcel of our civilisation. Everything that has appeared in these monstrous societies is endemic in every contemporary nation. Millions in the United States know that Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia will have nothing to teach the American bourgeoisie when it finds itself threatened by the revolutionary American workers seeking the complete expression of democracy which is socialism.
C L R James
Sure thing, Star Vox!
Writings on Cricket
CLR James is most widely known as a writer on cricket, especially for his autobiographical 1963 book, Beyond a Boundary. This is considered a seminal work of cricket writing, and is often named as the best single book on cricket (or even the best book on any sport) ever written. [1]
The book's key question, which is frequently quoted by modern journalists and essayists, is inspired by Rudyard Kipling and asks: What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? James uses this challenge as the basis for describing cricket in an historical and social context, the strong influence cricket had on his life, and how it meshed with his role in politics and his understanding of issues of class and race. The literary quality of the writing attracts cricketers of all political views.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_L_R_James
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air-ono said...
May 8, 2007 7:53 AM
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Sunshine Jim said...
i did my best to get him a snazzy airplane nut care package that will delight!
May 9, 2007 12:17 AM
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Nice posts!
"If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
MUTATION OF TIME
The world's first tidal-powered moon clock
"Imagine a breathtaking sculpture that combines cutting edge design and technology with an ancient knowledge of the
Earth's
natural
rhythms."
http://tinyurl.com/ytuwsk
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"Bush meets the Queen - and she ages 200 years"
Excerpts:
After 55 years on the throne and having met US presidents stretching back to Dwight Eisenhower, the 81-year-old monarch by any standards is one of the most permanent fixtures on the international scene. But even she was not around in Philadelphia 231 years ago, as Mr Bush almost implied.
"The American people are proud to welcome your majesty back to the United States, a nation you've come to know very well," he said in front of 7,000 notables and not-so-notables assembled on the South Lawn of the White House on a sunny, spring morning. "After all you've dined with 10 US presidents. You've helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 - in 1976," he said.
As he realised his error, America's current King George looked somewhat sheepishly at her. She looked back at him from under her hat. Whether she was amused or not was impossible to say.
But Mr Bush rescued himself with deft self-deprecation: "She gave me a look only a mother could give a child," he said to much laughter.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2521642.ece
God Bless You, Mrs. Rosewater
[Two] hundred years have passed since the fast friend of American liberty - the great Earl Chatham - rose to make his last appeal for the preservation, on the basis of justice, of that English-speaking empire, in which he saw the grandest possibility of the future. Is it too soon to hope that the future may hold the realization of his vision in a nobler form than even he imagined, and that it may be the mission of this Republic to unite all the nations of English speech, whether they grow beneath the Northern Star or the Southern Cross, in a league which by insuring justice, promoting peace, and liberating commerce, will be the forerunner of a world-wide federation that will make war the possibility of a past age, and turn to works of usefulness the enormous forces dedicated to destruction....
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hmm...
Instead we lord it over the rest of the world. How long do you think it will last.
Is it too soon? I hope it's not too late.
So, does anyone believe this so-called terror bust?
eya B3
depend on which part of it you mean
Zapatistas Marching for Atenco: “We Are You, We Who Must Not Wait for the Conditions to Fight”
After the Repression in Texcoco and Atenco, the Other Campaign Marches to Demand Freedom and Justice for the Country's Political Prisoners
By Juan Trujillo, Special to The Narco News Bulletin
May 8, 2007
Mexico City, May 3rd 2006: “We are living a process of change, and everyone has to understand that we should not wait for the conditions to fight… do not forget that Atenco lives and the fight continues, that Oaxaca fights and fights, because Oaxaca lives and lives,” said Amos, an indian Zapatista support base (addressing communities in resistance and Councils of Good Government), to the multitude that made up the political rally in front of the Ministry of the Interior this afternoon, a year after the brutal police repression in San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco.
The peaceful protest carried out by the operatives of counterinsurgency in those two Mexican villages started at 5:10pm on Ángel de la Independencia Reforma avenue, just after the EZLN Sixth Commission, comprising of Comandante Hortensia – who carried her 3 or 4-year-old daughter Lupita (who they call Delegate Five and a Quarter, as her mother holds the fifth position on the list of the seven delegates that left the Chiapas mountains in September to support the fight to free the prisoners), Amos (support base special envoy) and Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos at the forefront of the march with the Peoples Front in Defence of the Earth (FPDT, in its Spanish initials) of Atenco.
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"Look over the history of the past. What is it but a record of the woes inflicted by man on man, of wrong producing wrong, and crime fresh crime? It must be so till justice is acknowledged and liberty is law."
Reminds me of someone else...
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
Take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman did his and her will--the true will--there would be no clashing. ``Every man and every woman is a star,'' and each star moves in an appointed path without interference. There is plenty of room for all; it is only disorder that creates confusion.
From these considerations it should be clear that ``Do what thou wilt'' does not mean ``Do what you like.'' It is the apotheosis of Freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond.
Do what thou wilt--then do nothing else. Let nothing deflect thee from that austere and holy task. Liberty is absolute to do thy will; but seek to do any other thing whatever, and instantly obstacles must arise. Every act that is not in definite course of that one orbit is erratic, an hindrance. Will must not be two, but one.
Sounds to me Jim like these were a bunch of guys who they were saying stupid things.
Its a shame, but I dont believe a damn thing they pump out anymore.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050800465.html
At the same time, a 26-page indictment unsealed Tuesday indicates that the group had no rigorous military training and did not appear close to being able to pull off an attack. The arrests in the case began Monday night after two defendants arrived at a local home to buy assault weapons, which had been supplied and disabled by the FBI, officials said.
Much of the evidence in the case was obtained with the help of two paid informants, including one described as an Egyptian military veteran who befriended one suspect about a year ago and surreptitiously taped many of their conversations. The defendants were also tripped up by information obtained from computers and cellphones, according to records and officials.
Who is Liberty that we should doubt her; that we should set bounds to her, and say, "Thus far shalt thou come and no farther!"
Is she not peace? is she not prosperity? is she not progress? nay, is she not the goal toward which all progress strives?
Not here; but yet she cometh! Saints have seen her in their visions; seers have seen her in their trance. To heroes has she spoken, and their hearts were strong; to martyrs, and the flames were cool!
She is not here, but yet she cometh. Lo! Her feet are on the mountains - the call of her clarions ring on every breeze; the banners of her dawning fret the sky! Who will hear her as she calleth; who will bid her come and welcome? Who will turn to her? who will speak for her? who will stand for her while she yet hath need?
-Henry George
Good to see you all. Night
tell ya B3,
we have so many catastrophes balanced on a razor edge it would be childs play to start 'tipping' them over.
if a dumb shit like me can see that, what are we doing to to about some really smart people with a few bucks?
so far i'm of the opinion that this administration has kept them on that razor edge on purpose just to keep the fear factor fed.
Alice said...
Great pic of Huey on the mickey page, bridge..
http://www.mickeyz.net/images/Shames_002727_Huey_WEB_LG.jpg
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I know, Shells
looks fab
I like my cats black ;-)
I like my cats black ;-)
May 9, 2007 3:06 AM
Hells yes we do!
Goodnight, bridge, Blog... xox!
oops..& this.. excellent links...ok now bye... :)
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But what makes the Zapatistas so truly unique is their almost Yippie-esque knack for publicity and their saavy use of the Internet to get their message out unimpeded by the monolith of the Mexican state and the not so “free press” there.
Below are links to several sites devoted to the new form of information warfare pioneered by the Zapatista Rebels. It’s guerilla
Offers several papers and articles regarding the tactics of the ‘post modernist’ high-tech Zapatista rebels in Mexico and their use of the Internet as an effective means of information dissemination.
Black is beautiful!
Peace, Cats, and goodnight to Shells
and all :)
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"Sudan: Arms Continuing To Fuel Serious Human Rights Violations in Darfur"
This report describes the arming process and its effects on the people of Darfur and neighbouring eastern Chad, many of whom have been forcibly displaced. It provides details of violations of the United Nations arms embargo on Darfur that occurred during January to March 2007.
It shows how the Government of Sudan violates the UN arms embargo and disguises some of its military logistics operations in Darfur, and what arms supplied to Sudan from China and Russia have been used for violations of the Security Council's own mandatory arms embargo.
Link:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAFR540192007&lang=e
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It combines the power of John Lennon's music recorded by some of the world's best-known artists, together with cutting-edge forms of instant activism enabled by Internet and mobile technologies.
Take action:
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http://noise.amnesty.org/site/pp.aspx?c=adKIIVNsEkG&b=1199681
Habeas Restoration: Move Quick
By: Logan Murphy on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 at 6:40 PM - PDT Via MyDD:
I'm told there's an outside shot that House Democrats on the Armed Services Committee will put a restoration of habeas corpus into the Defense Department Authorization Bill being marked up tomorrow and Thursday. Apparently Chairman Skelton has the votes but there are concerns about whether to have this fight now.
Now's the time to let them know that this is something that we elected them to get done. There's a bit of fear that this vote could put freshmen members at risk, though I don't really know why as the data on this isn't compelling and the attack ads just didn't work in 2006.
The most important members to contact are Ike Skelton, antiwar freshmen, and members of the Armed Services Committee. Pelosi and Hoyer would be good too. Each link below goes to that member's email form, and their phone numbers are to the right. I've only included Democratic members of the committee since the decision on whether to make a vote will be made within the party - the full list of Armed Service members is here.
Stand Up For Your Rights
Hello!
I have solved the problem with Bill O'Reilley and the rest of the talking heads who lie, lie, lie
Apparently there used to be a law:
The Fairness Doctrine was a regulation of the United States' Federal Communications Commission which required broadcast licensees to present controversial issues of public importance, and to present such issues in what was deemed an honest, equal and balanced manner. It has since been repealed by the FCC and aspects of it have been questioned by courts.[1]
From wiki
This is my new cause....to get the fairness doctrine back...hahahahahha
It is the only way to stop the the insanity
Be afraid Bill O'Reilley, be very afraid...
-conbo
mmrules said...
To conbo,and everyone on the Blog. :)
Free Hugs Campaign. (music by Sick Puppies
Link
May 8, 2007 1:38 PM
Link
Conbo:
FAIR-Fair and Accuracy In Reporting.If you don't already know about this site.Good info.
Link
Morning all!
News about the White House...
White House struggles to fill key posts. “The Bush administration is facing growing difficulties in filling a rising number of high-level vacancies following a recent spate of senior departures. In the last 10 days alone Mr Bush has lost four senior officials and more resignations are expected to follow. ‘I wouldn’t describe this as disintegration,’ said one senior official. ‘But there are worrying large gaps opening up and it is very hard to recruit high-quality people from outside.’
LINK
EARLY DEPARTURES CLIP BUSH SECURITY TEAM
Top members of President Bush's national security team are leaving in one of the earliest waves of departures from a second-term administration — nearly two years before Bush's term ends.
(USA TODAY)
LINK
TWO STEVENS ASSOCIATES COP PLEA
Two oil company executives with personal and financial ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, extortion and tax fraud in federal district court in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday and have agreed to help federal investigators in their case against a growing collection of Stevens’ associates, including former aides to the veteran lawmaker and his son, Ben.
(Roll Call)
LINK
CNN Poll: 57% of Americans support Democrats on Iraq
by Chris in Paris · 5/09/2007 04:18:00 AM ET
Americans want a timetable to get out of Iraq.
Most Americans disagree with President Bush's decision last week to veto the war funding bill that contained a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
What do they think Congress should do now?
Former Sen. John Edwards said Congress shouldn't back down. "If we don't have the votes to override the veto, the Congress should send him another bill with the funding authority for the troops, with a timetable for withdrawal," the Democratic presidential candidate said.
The public agrees. In the new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 57 percent want Congress to pass another bill with funding and timetables.
LINK
Senate panel approves fuel efficiency program
by Chris in Paris · 5/09/2007 03:09:00 AM ET
Coming as no surprise to anyone, Republican enablers and Big Auto is crying about the push to become both competitive and environmentally friendly. Apparently Big Auto and the GOP managed to overlook the tens of thousands of lost jobs due to massive corporate failure, incompetence and smear campaigns, so that card has already been played. What other industry can fail to improve efficiency despite technology advancements that are obviously working elsewhere in the world?
The US offers two cars (Prius and Civic hybrid) with average mileage of 40mpg whereas Europe offers 113. The European market has been able to offer fuel efficiency, so why not in America? Why does Big Auto hate America?
LINK
Time To Become A Vegetarian
By: Nicole Belle @ 6:02 PM - PDT David Goldstein has been watching closely the tainted gluten/melamine story, and he has even more disturbing news:
During an ongoing media teleconference call, USDA/FDA officials have revealed that melamine-tainted "protein concentrate," imported from China, contaminated fish meal manufactured in Canada. The tainted fish meal was then distributed to an unknown number of fish farms in the US and Canada.
Other revelations:
50,000 swine have been quarantined in Illinois due to suspect feed.
The tainted "wheat gluten" and "rice protein concentrate" at the center of the pet food recall, was actually misrepresented as such. Further tests have determined that it is wheat flour, adulterated with melamine.
UPDATE:
FDA refuses to reveal how many fish farms and in which states. But you can be pretty damn sure that NW farmed salmon is likely on the list.
More from David: FDA = Faith-based Dining Administration?
LINK
Daily Show: John Oliver Crashes the GOP Debate
Feds Investigate Suspicious Trading Prior To Murdoch’s WSJ Bid
By: Logan Murphy @ 10:41 AM - PDT AP Via Yahoo:
Federal and state authorities are investigating suspicious options trading in Dow Jones & Co. stock prior to an announcement last week of News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the financial news publisher.
News last Tuesday of the $60-per-share bid by Rupert Murdoch's company sent Dow Jones shares soaring. A spokesman for Dow Jones, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, said Monday that it has received a subpoena from the New York attorney general's office and a request for information from the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding options trading.
News Corp. didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Monday. A company spokesman told the Journal late last week that News Corp. had received a subpoena from Cuomo's office and an inquiry from the SEC. Read more…
Very interesting.
UPDATE: Apparently, the WSJ knew of Murdoch's plans to make a bid, but sat on the story for a week.
LINK
Cheney in Baghdad
Vice President Dick Cheney met Iraqi leaders in Baghdad on Wednesday and was expected to press for more progress in meeting political benchmarks aimed at ending sectarian violence.
LINK
Congressman Allen will try to grab Collins' Senate seat
A six-term Democratic congressman will attempt to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) in a race shaping up as one of a handful likely to draw the national spotlight in 2008.
LINK
Cartoon: Fred Thompson for VP?
Link
Triangulation Rules!
Cenk supports NAFTA?
Welfare reform?
What a jerk he is.
Pelosi threatens to sue
Bush over Iraq spending bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill.
LINK
Corporate media afraid
to take on Bush
Just as it failed to question the lead-up to war, the US media is failing to dig deep about what's happening inside the Bush administration. The U.S. media actually brought down a president for 18 minutes of missing tape while today, missing White House emails are lumped in with Alec Baldwin’s voice mails.
LINK
Democrats slam Big Oil
over $3 gasoline prices
The U.S. Senate's top Democrat on Tuesday accused big oil companies of shutting down refineries temporarily to raise gasoline prices and rake in"obscene profits."
LINK
State orders gas station
to raise prices
A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
LINK
Hospitals charge
uninsured more, study says
U.S. hospitals are charging uninsured patients about two-and-a-half times more than those with health insurance.
LINK
GOP telling tall
tales about Reagan
Sensing their own smallness, contemporary politicians often seek to puff themselves up by appealing to myth and legend.
LINK
Impeachment polls surprisingly well
By: Steve Benen on Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 at 5:09 AM - PDT
LINK
Fairness Doctrine Must Be Re-Instated
-conbo
Hillbilly Report:Big Oil Greed
Link
new thread...
Anonymous said...
Fairness Doctrine Must Be Re-Instated
-conbo
conbo:I signed!!9'er.You should post it again,later,when there's more people around :)
My God I miss the show so much.
KevinK
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