speaking of better late

and look, no photos!

thank you and good morning Brett!

You can stretch my blog any day o' the week, babah. :-)

lovely day here!

All travellers in the U.S. will be required to get government-issued credentials and official clearance before every flight, both within the United States as well as internationally.

POAC 10-25

http://tinyurl.com/2a5jx5

:-)

Head of State Dep't Anti-Corruption Office in Baghdad Is A Paralegal

TPM

How well are the State Department's anti-corruption efforts in Iraq managed? Don't ask Condoleezza Rice.

Rep. John Tierney (D-MA) laid it all out. Not only are there duplicative U.S. offices in Baghdad to oversee anti-corruption efforts -- the Anti-corruption Working Group and the Office of Accountability and Transparency, to name two -- but coordination is so bad that the OAT for months boycotted the meetings of the AWG. Rice said she was "not aware" of that.

Another point she wasn't aware of: OAT has had, according to Rep. Tierney, four acting or permanent directors in the past ten months alone. The most recent one isn't a diplomat or a trained anti-corruption official at all, but rather a "paralegal" who works at the U.S. embassy. "I should get back to you with a sense of how we manage these programs," she replied......

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Either Blackwater is lying, or the Bush Administration helped them evade $31 million in taxes. Don't get too excited - Kerry's getting involved.

POAC 10-25

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/24/8334/2042

morfternoon!

Check out this report of what happened when Horowitz spoke at Emory University last night (Oct. 24):

David Horowitz stopped his own speech mid-way through his event at Emory University, and in typical fashion is claiming to be the victim of the "fascist left". The headline on IncorrectU.com is already screaming "Leftists Force Horowitz from Stage & Shut Down Free Speech at Emory!!!" Let's be honest: he walked off the stage himself and decided not to return, due to the overwhelming opposition being expressed in the auditorium.

Tuesday's edition of the Emory Wheel published a half-page ad announcing Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and inviting the public to attend David Horowitz's speech Wednesday night. In a previous edition of the Wheel, College Republicans stated that they hadn't invited Horowitz to speak at Emory, but he had actually invited himself.

When people arrived at the auditorium, there were flyers and orange armbands being passed out, but many people had already gotten flyers earlier in the week on campus and were already wearing orange. Some people also wore green based on the Facebook campaign to show solidarity with Muslims that day. The College Republicans had a table at the entrance and were informing people that if they wanted to ask questions, they were to write them down on index cards and turn them in - that people would not be allowed to directly pose questions after the speech.

The lecture hall was filled with at least 200 people, about 80% of whom were in opposition to Horowitz. Most were wearing orange armbands, creating a visible presence of opposition in the room. A member of Veterans for Peace had 2 large posters with pictures of Iraqi children killed by the U.S. war and occupation. A couple of other people had posters, one saying "Dissent Free Zone, Brought to You by David Horowitz", and another with pictures from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo with the caption, "Islamo-Fascism??" The crowd was a mix of mostly undergraduate and graduate students from Emory with some from other colleges, faculty, political activists, Black Muslims from a local Mosque, and the general public. There was a large presence of Muslim students.

When Horowitz came onto the stage, he was met with a combination of applause and loud booing. As he started his speech, several people sequentially stood up and turned their backs to the speaker. Signs pinned on their backs had the international no symbol over the words IFAW. As he continued his speech, different people in the audience interjected questions and corrections. More people stood up and turned their backs, and this emboldened others in the audience to continue to challenge Horowitz as he spoke. Horowitz was visibly taken aback by the opposition and stopped his speech several times, having difficulty getting back on track. His retorts to the audience consisted of childish name calling, disparaging the IQ of the audience. Some people in the crowd vocally opposed the disruptions and called for silence.

This went on for about 20 minutes, at which point there were about 25 people standing with their backs turned. The campus security then stopped the program and announced that if people didn't sit down or move to the back of the auditorium, they would be escorted out. At that point, one person shouted "Everyone stand up & they can't haul us all out!" Others echoed the same sentiment, and several people said, "Don't Taser Me, Bro." About 20 or 30 more people stood up and turned their backs. This created a lot of turmoil and heated discussion throughout the room. During this period, Horowitz walked off the stage. A chant broke out, "Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay, David Horowitz Go Away". After a few minutes, a College Republican came on stage and announced that David Horowitz decided that he would not continue his speech, and they ended the event.

Horowitz could have continued despite the vocal opposition, as other speakers on the IFAW tour apparently have done this week under similar circumstances. It was clear that the majority of the audience was determined to continue interacting with him throughout his speech, since there was not going to be an open question and answer period at the end.

Many small group debates broke out at that point, with the main question being whether it was good or bad that people weren't able to hear Horowitz's entire speech. People with a deep understanding of who Horowitz is and his agenda of playing the victim while organizing attacks on dissent and critical thinking on campuses, creating a pogromist atmosphere against Muslims, and preparing the groundwork for war on Iran, argued that it was crucial to expose his lies and demand that he answer to what the United States is doing to people here and around the world. Others, while opposed to Horowitz's position, argued that they still had wanted to hear what he had to say in person, and were very upset that they were prevented from doing so. Some thought that his right to free speech had been violated, and that this would taint Emory's reputation. Others were overjoyed and inspired by the strength of the opposition.

In one group discussion, someone summed up that "I think what happened was fine, because if Horowitz continued his speech he would have told more lies, selectively chosen the questions to answer, and then instead of this controversy, people would have been outside in the hallway complaining about the fact that their voices weren't heard."

David Horowitz's immediate blog on Frontpagemag.com concluded, "Universities like Emory are paying the price of not taking care of the important task of establishing a campus decorum appropriate to civilized discussion. As I have said many times, there should be zero tolerance for disrupters at campus events, and that means a sufficient police presence to eject the barbarians when they enter the gates."

Just as with everything David Horowitz puts out, this statement must be critically dissected. There are 3 things to say about this:

The required "campus decorum for civilized discussion," in the world according to Horowitz, includes free reign for his claims that Blacks owe a debt to white America for slavery and that the Muslim Student Association is a front for Islamo-Fascist Jihad; Ann Coulter's statements that in the "war on terror" we should "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" and Rick Santorum's calls to eliminate birth control and keep women out of the workforce. And of course, "civilized discussion" cannot include critiques of the official history of this country and its current role in the world, or Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as expressed by Ward Churchill and Norm Finkelstein or any of the other "dangerous" professors targeted for removal from their universities.

The policy of "zero tolerance for disrupters", in the world according to Horowitz, does not extend to College Republicans who answer his call to sit in at Women's Studies departments during IFAW.

"Sufficient police presence to eject the barbarians when they enter the gates" amounts to nothing less than a call for pre-emptive police powers to clamp down on any potential dissent.

White House makes a stealth move to further consolidate the media

POAC 10-25

http://dorgan.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=286005

the city!

Byron Dorgan said on the rachel maddow show last night not over his dead body will that happen

Naomi Wolf: Interview on closing American society and the end of America

Run time: 38:25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0LvtQAQ6sc

One of Giuliani's closest advisors advocates World War IV with Jordan, Iran and Syria.

POAC 10-25

http://tinyurl.com/ysa9h8

news skull fuckers penetrated my eyes earlier.

ARGGGGGHHHHH!

The Senate is considering a bill that would grant immunity to any telecom company that assisted in the administration's illegal wiretapping. Chris Dodd promised to put a hold on any such bill, and Joe Biden and Barack Obama pledged to uphold it. We believe that any bill coming before the Senate that includes provisions for so-called 'amnesty' for large companies involved in illegally spying on Americans should be opposed, and have authored a letter to this effect addressed to Majority Leader Reid. You can co-sign it below. The letter will also be sent to Senate Democratic leadership and the Senate Judiciary Committee members. You can read the full text of the letter here

Sign on to this letter and tell Harry Reid: No Immunity for Lawbreaking Companies!

Link-to Petition ! Please Sign ! Thanks

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Bush administration officials are now acknowledging that “they heavily edited testimony on global warming

POAC 10-25

http://tinyurl.com/29epcb

yum!

i make killer chilli verde!

(fresh tortillas! a selection of sauces!)

The first posting was sucked into a thread time warp and directed to the wrong person.

Lucille
Submitted by Crank Bait on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 2:12pm.
Submitted by Annette on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 12:28pm.
Re: the Plumpy'nut stuff...never mind. I finally found it!
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The 60 Minutes article on Plumpy'nut included Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres) which seems to be the organization behind the distribution of Plumpy'nut (if I recall correctly). Here is a link to their website with the 60 Minutes article shown top and center of the page:

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/home.cfm

That whiner pulls that "I'm a Victim" cry all the time.

Perfect leader for the Social Retard Movement.

Hmmmm .. yesterday they said it wasn't. Must not have killed all the witness's.

back in the old country "chillies" are hot peppers---just thought would mention it and yeah..."cold outside"

Never mind - you redeemed yourself.

:-) :-)
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In other news - I sent them (the makers)Mom's email. Hope they're able to send her some valuable information on how to get started with it. She's real excited about the idea of sending it overseas to her friends. She's got 'em everywhere. Burma, Nigeria, Dominican Republic. If it's cheap and easy to either make or buy and send, then she's all for it.
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Sunny J - great news about your sis's house!

thats their second name

"sniveling coward pychopath assholes" IS a bit long.

Americans working in Iraq for Halliburton spin-off KBR have been outraged by the massive fraud they saw there. Dozens are suing the giant military contractor, on the taxpayers' behalf. Whose side is the Justice Department on?

POAC 10-25

http://tinyurl.com/ysmv96

CAUTION — Cheney going hunting this weekend.

The Poughkeepsie Journal in New York reports that “Vice President Dick Cheney is coming to Dutchess County again to go hunting.” On Monday, Cheney is “expected to leave Poughkeepsie and head to the Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club.” No word on whether the Vice President will be drinking beforehand this time.

*sigh*

(oh bernie! yer a scream!)

Grand jury finds priest repeatedly fondled underaged boys, but can't be prosecuted due to statute of limitations. Priest finds new work in private sector anyway. Working for Rudy Giuliani

POAC 10-25

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=3753385&page=1

41% of Americans can't name a single Republican running for President.

POAC 10-25

http://tinyurl.com/2hzkpn

(buahahahahahahahaha!)

Rudolph Giuliani comes from a long line of revered statesmen. Just kidding. His dad was a baseball bat-wielding enforcer for a relative's loan sharking operation

POAC 10-25

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/rudy/rudy.html

Rudy Won't Say Whether Waterboarding Is Torture, Blames Liberal Media
By Eric Kleefeld - October 25, 2007, 1:15PM

In a town hall meeting in Iowa last night, Rudy Giuliani offered an extended explanation of his views on torture — and refused to say whether he thinks waterboarding constitutes an inappropriate technique.

Rudy also made it clear that he favors "aggressive questioning" of terror suspects, and blamed the liberal media for his refusal to clarify his views of waterboarding, saying the media inaccurately describes what waterboarding is by making it seem unacceptable in all cases.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/rudy_wont_say_whether_waterboardin...

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Reid readies for reelection

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
In Washington, Reid has seemed to relish the national profile that has come with the majority leader’s job.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, struggling to sustain his popularity back home amid his rise in national prominence, will run for reelection again in 2010 and plans to remain the top Senate Democrat until then, if not longer, according to advisers briefed on his new political plan.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6544.html

Eight bodies found in Baquba

Reuters: Mortar attacks kills 2 children in Khalis

Baghdad Sunni teacher shot dead

Gunmen kill man, wound another near the town of Suwayra

Moratr fire wounds man in Iskandariya

Handcuffed and blindfolded body in Mahaweel

Motorist killed by IED in Mahaweel

Child killed as car refuses to stop at checkpoint in Kufa

Turkish troops repulse rebel attack

US Soldier Trial in Rome Thrown Out

Iraqi soldiers kill three gunmen, arrest 65

U.S. forces kill three gunmen, detained 11 others

3,837

You know how the Congressional Budget Offices puts the price on Iraq at 2.4 trillion dollars?

Not a single member of the party of fiscal responsibility is outraged, or showed up at the hearing...

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/24/2400000000000/

Just so we're clear, the debate isn't between passing some potentially sensible modifications to the FISA legislation and doing nothing. The debate is between letting George Bush own the debate or not. Here's what's going on:

George Bush says "Give me everything I want, including retroactive immunity for telecom companies for breaking the law or I'll veto it."

Democrats then have a choice. They can send him more reasonable legislation, at which point he vetoes it and says the Democrats are going to let Al Qaeda eat your babies. Subsequently, they can either point out that George Bush vetoed the anti-Al Qaeda baby cannibalism bill or they can scamper like cowards and give him everything he wants.

Or they can just give him everything he wants right away.

This isn't about sensible FISA adjustments, this is about whether George Bush gets the power to do whatever the hell he wants because the Democrats in Congress think the best way to be strong is cave into the bullying of Mr. 24%.
Link

-Atrios 09:47

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ugly shit non-stop 24/7.

the empire strikes.

My subscriptions to a couple of Israeli newsletters landed me on a mailing list that includes David Horriblewitz' organization[s]. I highly recommend it and let me tell you why. It cost him money! About every quarter I receive a little box with a nice faux mont blanc pen asking me to use said pen to sign his petition de jour, which of course I put in file 13. Sweet pens though, so thank you David Horowitz! David, you too should feel free to go fuck yourself!

Yesterday was Hump Day ... aka GOP Rent a Date for lunch Day

$38 Million Computerized Accounting System Proving Useless in Iraq

A $38 million U.S. effort to create a computerized accounting system for the Iraqi government has been suspended because the Ministry of Finance there has continued to use a paper system, according to the latest report of Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.

"Nobody noticed" when the computerized Iraq Financial Management Information System was inoperable for a month, and no one relies on it to produce reports, Bowen said in a report released by his office yesterday.

Bowen's statement follows a disclosure earlier this month by the Government Accountability Office that $8 million was spent to train about 500 Iraqi government employees in various ministries to use the computerized system, but the Finance Ministry refused to drop its paper spreadsheets.

Installation of the new accounting system was halted last May when a British contractor and his security team were kidnapped from the Ministry of Finance office, located outside the protected Green Zone where many international officials live and work.

Bowen reported that despite the substantial U.S. investment in the system, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad "does not have a firm plan or strategy for addressing the next steps in the development of the system."

LINK

Signed the petition & sent it to about 8 buddies & family members.
How are things going in your neck of the woods. Hope everything is going well.

he might impregnate himself whilst having fun

Ya, SJ, responding to this supreme asshat.

it's done

On 10/25/07, Lucille wrote:

SAMUEL,
Please help---Anon is bugging out on the blog and getting on my fucking
nerves. Kick his ass please.

Thanks,

White House On $2 Trillion Iraq War: ‘Not Worried About the Number’

(or the fact that we're borrowing the money from china, or that the monthly interest is staggering, or that the note is being passed off to the next 30 generations of dumbshit iggnerant gullible stupid ass mericuns?)

10-25 POAC

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/wh-not-worried/

news sum-er-uppers

CA Guard Warned Of ‘Less Effective Response’ To Fires Due To Equipment Shortages Caused By Iraq

10-25 POAC

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/ca-guard-equipment/

Submitted by Alice on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 3:05pm

Why are you allowed to post porn?

anon,

have you noticed what a prude killjoy you've become?

Comedian Colbert Reaches Double Digits As Third-Party Candidate

Comedian Stephen Colbert is not a threat to win the presidency, but the odds are that that his satire will win plenty of laughs and maybe even some votes.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1...

Bush's base

I am convinced that history will record George Bush as the worst president in American history.

Bush and his accomplices have started a war of aggression without any thought beyond the initial invasion. They have destroyed America's image in the world as a beacon of freedom. They have waged war on the Constitution and depleted the treasury. They are the most secretive, anti-democratic, heartless, dishonest, arrogant and incompetent group of ideologues ever to occupy the White House.

And finally, the American people are beginning to realize it. Well, most do. The latest Zogby-Reuters poll suggests that about 24 percent still believe the president's lies. These people are referred to as "the base." Funny, the Arabic term for "the base" is al-Qaida.

Marc Hoenig
Salt Lake City

poor simpleton can't discern art from gratuitous sex photos. tsk, tsk, what a pitty.

have no idea who that is...

i'm dancing a tango with Shell!

(gorguss dress and shawl she's wearing eh?)

God just killed a kitten, my bad.

what a perfect mind...i am jealous!!

did you hear the Libertango..? I like that one.

http://static.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/22coversantorum.thumbnail.jpg

Back from the Naprapath. Soon leaving for work.

Is it me or is the chimp getting uglier every day?

both were delicious,

and yer not so bad yerself dancer lady!

Romney open to Iran ‘bombardment.’ Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) said today he would be willing to conduct a “bombardment of some kind” to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iUmQdfSXbXKYG9Njenn0Yqpee4jw

choke hold..be careful...

Putin warns against sanctions on Iran
1 hour, 54 minutes ago
LISBON, Portugal - Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned strongly against new international sanctions on Iran, saying they would lead to a dead end.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_summit;_ylt=Am...

Local patronage abuses are of course a bipartisan activity, but the Republicans seem to have a special talent for it.

The governor's comments followed a Daily News report that the Parking Authority payroll had doubled since Republicans took over six years ago, in a political coup engineered by House Republican leader John Perzel.

At least 20 Parking Authority employees are now drawing six-figure salaries, led by Vincent J. Fenerty Jr., a longtime Republican ward leader who makes $194,500 as the authority's executive director.

That's bigger than anyone on the city payroll. It's $50,000 more than Mayor Street makes and $30,000 higher than Rendell's salary.
...
"The Philadelphia Parking Authority has become a bloated political-patronage machine where employees feel compelled to contribute time and money to candidates to keep their jobs," McGeehan said in a memo to other House members.

Meanwhile, the authority has become "a quasi-law-enforcement agency" by taking over police functions including towing, impoundment and the new red-light-camera program, McGeehan said.

"No agency anywhere in the state with such broad law-enforcement authority permits any form of partisan political activity, and rightly so," McGeehan said.

-Atrios 09:24
Link

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

"I would be willing to conduct a “bombardment of some kind” to prevent Romney from making sociopathic ignorant statements."

More lip service! Back up what you say this time!!

how ya feeling?

as i said before old saying from the country "if wishes were horses beggars would ride"

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White House Offers Surveillance Documents to Senate Judiciary Leaders

The White House has offered leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee access to legal documents related to the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, senators said Thursday.

But Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., said while the White House had offered the documents to both him and the panel’s ranking Republican, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, he was pushing for the entire committee to receive access to the documents. But he also said he would take advantage of the offer and review the documents.

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqm/cqmidday110-000002613272.html

Britney, K-Fed together again for class

October 25, 2007

Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline reunited Wednesday for court-ordered parenting classes.

Spears and Federline attended their first Parenting Without Conflict class, which lasted several hours, at the Beverly Hills Hotel, according to People.com.

"She's not nervous, she's actually looking forward to it," a Spears source told the Web site.

But shortly after Spears, 25, arrived at the hotel she was seen crying in the hotel's bathroom, according to TMZ.com.

Spears' court-ordered parenting coach submitted her report this week and said the singer is disinterested in her two children, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.

Spears and Federline return to court Friday.

Jennifer Newman

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/619864,CST-FTR-brit25.artic...

The Naprapath help mor than the shots did. At least I can walk awhile now.

dumbshit

another kitten bites the dust.

scuse me

can tell yer fingers is hurtin kiddoo.

America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn't

Because there is no shortage of things to yell about regarding the War on Terror, Iraq, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, and so on, deciding what to write about is always fun.

This week, I was going to yell about how the Bush administration leaked classified information — again — but we've been there before. Then, I thought I might write about Blackwater, but compared to so many things, Blackwater looks like back water.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304306,00.html

US soldier's trial thrown out in Italy
1 hour, 30 minutes ago
ROME - A court on Thursday threw out the case of an American soldier charged in the 2005 shooting of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, stirring anger in a highly emotional dispute that soured relations with Washington.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_eu/italy_iraq_us;_ylt=Aq.9t...

Kevin see he is getting ready to put in a

Submitted by Lucille on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 3:27pm.

choke hold..be careful...
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He just got done "dusting" the statue

Dear Peace & Justice Friends,

I’ve just received word that both the police and the Minutemen have been harassing the volunteers at the Chicano Park donation site all morning. The organizers there feel that it’s a clear case of racism, and they have asked for support from our community.

Specifically, they feel that more “mainstream” (read: Caucasian) volunteers at the site would lessen the harassment, so if you are one of these folks and can spend an hour or more volunteering at Chicano Park today, your time and presence would be greatly appreciated.

If you have any questions, feel free to call me at (619) 549-8082
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007

Contact re: Donations—Joni K. Craig, (619) 549-8082

Donations Still Needed at Alternative Drop-off Site

Food, water, and other supplies are still greatly needed by fire victims throughout the county. The following items can be dropped off at Chicano Park on Logan Avenue under the Coronado Bridge (5 Freeway, Cesar Chavez exit) until 7 pm tonight:

Non-perishable food (preferably items which don’t need to be cooked)

Water / Juice

Blankets / Sleeping bags

Tents / Canopies / Tarps (for shade)

Eye drops / Face masks

Toiletries / Feminine hygiene products / First aid supplies

Sunscreen / Hats / Sunglasses

Baby products (diapers, formula, food, etc.)

Activities for children (books, games, toys, etc.)

Small- to medium-sized boxes for sorting & transporting supplies

The antiwar protest and march scheduled for Saturday Oct. 27 at Horton Plaza is postponed, due to the fires.

Judy Hess, Leader
PDA Metro San Diego Chapter
www.pda-metro-sandiego.org

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Online losers"

I am an anon poster here but I put my name on my posts. I think the person that posted the above should be banned along with the person that posts the photo of Hillary on every thread. No censoring of political thought and ideas from any spectrum but banning for obvious goaders like these examples. That is my opinion on this interesting subject.

posted by Remes Pecquer

Security Crackdown
Cuts Illegal Crossing
But Aids Smugglers
By JOEL MILLMANP
October 25, 2007; WSJ

EL PASO, Texas -- A security crackdown on the Mexican border is believed to have reduced the number of people trying to cross illegally into the U.S. while increasing business for professional smugglers with ties to the drug trade.

love y'all! )

the 9 lives---

Iran: Constructive nuke ideas put forth
Wed Oct 24, 11:50 AM ET
ROME - Constructive ideas that could yield progress over the impasse on Iran's nuclear program were introduced during talks this week with top Italian and European Union officials, Tehran's former top negotiator said Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071024/ap_on_re_eu/iran_nuclear;_ylt=Aj82dq...

ignore em.

builds character.

Hope you feel better. I gave you an intro last night and you bailed, I guess you were hurtin'. Wish you wouldda stuck around, you could have helped prevent my posting faux pas! ;-)

what the fuck does that word mean to him...he got some cookies?

President Bush got a bird's eye look of the devastation wrought by wildfires this afternoon as he took an aerial tour of scorched Southern California.

"I fully understand that the people have got a lot of anguish in their hearts," Bush said before lifting off. "They just need to know a lot of folks care about them."

Bush, who arrived aboard Air Force One at Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar about 12:30 p.m., could be seen rolling up his shirt sleeves before joining Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and embarking on a chopper tour over a devastated area that's twice the size of New York City.

"We have some incredibly brave citizens who are risking their lives to protect people and property in California and we owe a great debt of gratitude to our nation's firefighters," Bush said.

I was up awhile because of the pain. Took a pain pill and was finally able to sleep.

Sorry I missed you!

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Sweet blog column: Obama says he would "take up arms" to prevent another 9-11. And no trouble "going down low" to fight rivals.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.—White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) never served in the military. But at a town hall meeting, Obama said he would “take up arms myself” to prevent another 9-11 from happening.

The comment came during a wide-ranging question and answer session in Dover, N.H. where Obama also said he would have no trouble “going down low and throwing elbows” if opponents went after him.

Obama’s taking up arms remark came after woman, who said she was a Republican, told Obama that it is easy to criticize President Bush “but you’re not in office. How would you have handled that? What would you have done that was so different?”

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/10/sweet_blog_column_obama_says_h.h...

Rep. Henry Waxman: "The Bush administration's worst nightmare"
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 10/25/2007 08:56:00 AM ET

Henry Waxman -- The name that strikes fear into the hearts of the Bush administration:

Waxman has become the Bush administration's worst nightmare: a Democrat in the majority with subpoena power and the inclination to overturn rocks. But in Waxman the White House also faces an indefatigable capital veteran -- with a staff renowned for its depth and experience -- who has been waiting for this for 14 years.

These days, the 16-term congressman is always ready with a hearing, a fresh crop of internal administration e-mails or a new explosive report. And he has more than two dozen investigations underway, on such issues as the politicization of the entire federal government, formaldehyde in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers, global warming, and safety concerns about the diabetes drug Avandia.

"We have to let people know they have someone watching them after six years with no oversight at all," said Waxman, 68. "And we've got a lot of low-hanging fruit to pick."

And the former chair of the Oversight Committee, Tom Davis (R-VA), admitted he didn't do any oversight of Bush:
"For the administration, and for a lot of others, people need to be careful now," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.), the ranking Republican on the committee. "Someone is looking over their shoulder."

Yes, be careful now. Because Davis and the GOP let Bush do whatever he wanted. Look where that's gotten us.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/10/rep-henry-waxman-bush-administrations...

Every time an anonymous poster is kind to the reg. users, a kitten gets a life back.

I thank you Remes, on behalf of the kittens.

Nice
Submitted by Alice on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 3:06pm`
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You have been coming up with alot of cool sites ! :)

Maybe that's how we can get rid of the Trolls/Troll Posts..
with more shadowed women!!

The Repressed wack jobs might not be able to handle it..
Or,find they keep going back to Jeff Cannon's website..Either,or..
It's a free country,well sort of ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Blair really was a wolf in sheeps clothing
by Chris in Paris · 10/25/2007 04:20:00 AM ET
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I can only imagine how many more stories like this will be hitting the press. Labour really sold out to have Blair running the show. I would expect such anti-consumer/pro-business actions from a Tory (or a Republican in the US) but to have the Labour party acting so harshly against consumers is revolting. I think "revolting" pretty much sums up Tony Blair though.
Britain lobbied against European Union plans to impose price caps on mobile phone roaming rates which were put into place earlier this year, The Times reported on Thursday.

Citing government e-mails and minutes of meetings it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the newspaper said that the British negotiator regularly communicated with Britain's major mobile phone networks to keep them abreast of developments, and to discuss Britain's stance on the proposals.

Fortunately consumers won the battle and mobile roaming charges have plummeted since a new law kicked in, despite the efforts of the Blair government.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/10/blair-really-was-wolf-in-sheeps.html

on another blog directing people to the "pity party" the link brought me here. :(

I am an anon poster here but I put my name on my posts. I think the person that posted the above should be banned along with the person that posts the photo of Hillary on every thread. No censoring of political thought and ideas from any spectrum but banning for obvious goaders like these examples. That is my opinion on this interesting subject.

posted by Remes Pecquer
*******
Email Sammy
samsedershow@gmail.com

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Harry Reid "breakthrough"
new
Submitted by Lucille on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 3:46pm.

what the fuck does that word mean to him...he got some cookies?

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Seems poor Harry is Bipolar.

The one instance where a "breakthrough" is not a good thing.

today just knowing that wonderful peckerhead prez is flying around over head in a helicopter.

posted by Remes Pecquer

ugh - I'm *eatin* here!

BBL

out of fascists department reporting: Rick Santorum pro-peace for Iran!

This is a real about face for Santorum. I'm glad we gave him something new to think about.

'Ex-gay' McClurkin's alleged lover: I was with him after he prayed away the gay

Looks like a bit of a PR problem... Journalist Clay Cane has an exclusive interview with an alleged former lover of recloseted homosexual anti-gay gospel singer Donnie McClurkin. Well, perhaps he isn't so "ex-gay", as the man alleges he had a sexual encounter with McClurkin long after he claimed to have prayed away the gay. Clay Cane:

In this revealing interview "Rob" details his relationship, or as he described, "roller coaster ride" with the “We Fall Down” hit maker from 2001 to 2004, which is ironically during the height of McClurkin's anti-gay rants and calls for conversion. How they met, his status in the gospel industry, their sex life, why he stayed and why they ended it. Plus, their last encounter in March 2007.

Nice! He carried it around for 2 weeks..

http://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/25-10-2007/99585-homemade_bomb-0

Were all pulling for you !! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

"it is easy to criticize President Bush but you’re not in office. How would you have handled that? What would you have done that was so different?”

How about not attack the country that didn't attack us, for starters?

posted by Remes Pecquer

I'm sitting here, minding my own business, listening to the radio, and a guy came through and said "you're listening to that communist news show!"

Communist? Excuse me?

Have a Wonderful Day
new
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 4:02pm
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No wonder your Soooooo Bitter !
That's why I call you Buttcheeks,Cause ya Butt Ugly !!

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

does that mean shimz leaving?

Thompson: Iraqi insurgents 'a bunch of kids' with IEDs

Watch Thompson's comments Wednesday.

BLUFFTON, South Carolina (CNN) — At a campaign stop in South Carolina Wednesday, Fred Thompson said that the Iraqi insurgency is made up of "a bunch of kids with improvised explosive devices," and suggested that the appearance of losing to such an enemy would harm U.S. national security.

Thompson was confronted about Iraq by a Bluffton resident named Bernhard Steinhouse, who asked Thompson whether he would bring back U.S. forces from the country.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/10/25/thompson-iraqi-insurgent...

From Mediachannel.org ...

A PERSPECTIVE ON SOME CALIFORNIA FIRES THAT THE MEDIA DOESN'T SAY:

As the fires rage in California, here's an excerpt from a brilliant article and book by Mike Davis who showed part of what's behind these savage fires. Yes-there is a background and context to what we are seeing unfold in front of our eyes. Here is an except from the best book I have read on the subject.

Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast
Mike Davis

Fire in Malibu has a relentless, staccato rhythm. The rugged coastline is scourged by a large fire, on average, every two and a half years, and at least once a decade a blaze in the chaparral grows into a terrifying firestorm consuming hundreds of homes in an inexorable march across the mountains to the sea. In one week last month, 10 homes and 14,000 acres of brush went up in smoke.

menaced the Malibu area throughout the 19th century. During the boom of the late 1880s, the entire ex-Tapia latifundium was sold at $10 per acre to the Boston Brahmin millionaire Frederick Rindge. In his memoirs, Rindge described his unceasing battles against squatters, rustlers and, above all, recurrent wildfire. The great fire of 1903, which raced from Calabasas to the sea in a few hours, incinerated Rindge's dream ranch in Malibu Canyon and forced him to move to Los Angeles, where he died in 1905.

From the time of the Tapias, the owners of Rancho Malibu recognized that the region's extraordinary fire hazard was shaped, in large part, by the uncanny alignment of its coastal canyons with the annual fire winds from the north: the notorious Santa Anas, which blow primarily between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, just before the first rains. Born from high-pressure areas over the Great Basin, Santa Anas become hot and dry as they descend avalanchelike into Southern California. The San Fernando Valley acts as a giant bellows, sometimes fanning the winds to hurricane velocity as they roar seaward through the narrow canyons and rugged defiles of the Santa Monicas. Add a spark to the thick vegetation (frequently above 40 tons per acre in the Malibu area) on such an occasion, and an uncontrollable wildfire will result.

Less well understood in the old days, of course, was the essential dependence of the Santa Monicas' chamise chaparral, coastal sage scrub and live oak woodland upon this cycle of wildfire. Decades of research (especially at the San Dimas Experimental Forest in the San Gabriels) have given late 20th-century science vivid insights into the complex role of fire in recycling nutrients and ensuring seed germination. Conversely, science has established that it is accumulated growth that determines fire destructiveness. As fire ecologist Richard Minnich has said, "You can send an arsonist to Death Valley and he'll never be arrested."

Another revelation was the relationship between the age of vegetation and the intensity of a fire. Botanists and fire geographers have calculated that half-century-old chaparral, heavily laden with dead mass, burns with 50 times more intensity than 20-year-old chaparral. Put another way, an acre of old chaparral is the fuel equivalent of 75 barrels of crude oil. A great Malibu firestorm, therefore, may generate the heat of three million barrels of burning oil at a temperature of 2,000 degrees.

And such extreme fires can destroy the structure of the soil itself. A water-repellant layer is created that dramatically accelerates subsequent flooding and erosion. All of which means that "total fire suppression" — the official policy in the Southern California mountains since 1919 — is a futile, indeed disastrous, strategy that makes doomsdaylike firestorms and subsequent floods virtually inevitable by preventing the recycling of dead chaparral by more frequent small fires.

For a generation after Rindge's death, his widow, May, struggled to keep the family Shangri-la isolated and intact. Like one of the iron-fisted heroines played by a Barbara Stanwyck, the so-called "Queen of the Malibu" closed the ranch roads in 1917, strung barbed wire along the perimeter and posted armed fence riders with orders to "shoot to kill." In one famous episode, Rindge gunmen provoked a tense confrontation with deputy sheriffs after driving off a road-survey crew. Hysterical newspaper headlines warned of "Civil War in Peaceful Southern California!" Following one of the most protracted legal battles in California history, however, the courts granted the state a highway right of way across Rindge land. Opened to traffic in 1928, the Pacific Coast Highway gave Angelenos their first view of the magnificent Malibu coast and introduced a potent new fuse — the automobile — into the flammable landscape.

The indefatigable Mrs. Rindge continued to fight the road builders and developers in the courts, but the costs of litigation forced her to lease choice parts of Malibu Beach to a movie colony that included Jack Warner, Clara Bow, Dolores Del Rio and Barbara Stanwyck herself. The Colony's unexpected housewarming was a lightning-swift wildfire that destroyed 13 new homes in late October 1929. Exactly a year later, walnut pickers in the Thousand Oaks area accidentally ignited another blaze that quickly grew into one of the greatest conflagrations in modern Malibu history.

The 1930 Decker Canyon fire was a worst-case scenario involving 50-year-old chaparral and a fierce Santa Ana. Faced with a five-mile front of towering flames, 1,100 firefighters could do little except flee for their lives. As the firestorm unexpectedly wheeled toward the Palisades, there was official panic. County Supervisor Henry Wright, his nerves shaken by a visit to the collapsing fire lines, posted 100 patrolmen at the city limits to alert residents for evacuation. Should the "fire raging in the Malibu District get closer," he gasped, "our whole city might go." Fortunately, this apocalypse (which may have provided the idea for the burning of Los Angeles in Nathanael West's Day of the Locust) was avoided when the fickle Santa Ana abruptly subsided.

In hindsight, the 1930 fire should have provoked a historic debate on the wisdom of opening Malibu to further development. Indeed, a few months before the conflagration, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. — the nation's foremost landscape architect and designer of the California State Park system — had advocated public ownership of at least 10,000 acres of the most scenic beach and mountain landscape between Topanga and Point Dume. Despite a further series of fires in 1935, 1936 and 1938, which destroyed almost 400 homes in Malibu and Topanga Canyon, public officials stubbornly disregarded the conservationist common sense of Olmsted's proposal. The county of Los Angeles, for example, squandered an extraordinary opportunity in 1938 to acquire 17,000 acres of the bankrupt Rindge latifundium in exchange for $1,100,000 in delinquent taxes. (At a mere $64 per acre, this might have been the deal of the century.)

I can't run all of this but suggest you read Davis's book for the story most of our media is not telling us.

Mike Davis is the author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles (London: Routledge, Chapman & Hill, 1990).
Reproduced from the LA Weekly, 1996.
Copyright © 1996, Los Angeles Weekly, Inc. All rights reserved.

Breaching protocol, Mr. Spock has transported to the helm of the starship Eldorado without first requesting permission to board. As Captain Le Roy jumps to his feet, Mr. Spock speaks in a measured tone, "Don't phase me, bro."
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Todd wanted nothing more than to spend his college years in the I Phelta Thigh fraternity house. His ambition was dampened somewhat on the night he learned that he was destined for a painful and degrading initiation ritual. From the circle of frats surrounding him, Boofoo approached from behind. Just then Todd shouted in anguish, "Don't haze me, bro!"
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Agent Martinez infiltrated the tortilla cult through guile and by chance. He had saved the homely Josephina from a habanero overdose without knowing that she was the sister of Burrito Carlito, the capo of the mole cartel. In gratitude, Carlito appointed Agent Martinez his security lieutenant, but secretly had The Jackal checking into his background. After the agent's Interpol identity was uncovered, Burrito Carlito walked with Martinez into a massive corn field. The long stroll was ostensibly to discuss security measures in private but eventually aroused the agent's suspicion instead. When the sense of danger overwhelmed him, Martinez wheeled around to discover that he was all alone but for a sea of corn stalks. He cried out, "Don't maize me, bro!"
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The elevator operator was among the last of a dying breed. Without turning to face his passenger, he asked dispassionately, "Floor, sir?" "Basement" Larry answered. The operator thrust the lever forward in an arc and the car began to move. Larry blurted impatiently, "Don't raise me, bro!"

Turks Riot in Brussels; Attack Armenians & Kurds

Cheney caught napping at emergency cabinet meeting
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday October 25, 2007

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Vice President Dick Cheney was caught dozing off on live television during an emergency cabinet meeting called on Wednesday to coordinate federal efforts to deal with the devastating California wildfires. "I believe the effort is well-coordinated," President Bush told reporters after the meeting, emphasizing that his administration is working to avoid the mistakes made with Hurricane Katrina.

Cheney was previously spotted napping in April 2006, during a press briefing by President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao. Although he insisted he had merely been looking down at some notes, photographs clearly showed him asleep, and there was speculation that he might be preparing to step down for medical reasons. Cheney was seen sleeping again during a meeting on Iraq in May 2006.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheney_caught_napping_in_cabinet_meeting_1...

When I was young I used to pray for a bike, then I realized that God doesn't work that way....

So I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.

Fallibility + Unchecked Power = Trouble
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 by RLR
From The Pioneer Press
By Peter Erlinder

At the same time the House and Senate are reconsidering the Bush administration’s claim that it needs the power to tap all foreign phone calls without asking a court to issue a warrant, the American people got concrete evidence why limits on executive-branch power are built into the Constitution.

This month, the reality-based film “Rendition,” in which an innocent person is seized in the U.S. and tortured by a friendly government on the order of a well-meaning intelligence expert played by Meryl Streep, was released just days before Congress publicly apologized for the real-life “rendition” and torture of a Canadian citizen of Middle-Eastern descent, based on bad information. Just like the movie.

And, on Monday, a Texas jury rejected “terrorism” charges against the Holy Land Foundation, which was formerly the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. until it was shut down by presidential decree not long after Sept. 11, 2001. The Texas jury’s decision followed refusal to convict anyone by juries in Tampa and Chicago, in the two other major trials of supposed Palestinian “terrorism supporters” in the U.S. After hearing all the evidence, American jurors refused to convict on even ONE of the hundreds of individual charges brought against nearly a dozen defendants in these three major “terrorism” cases.

In these instances, the executive branch was certain it was right, but ordinary U.S. jurors - part of the system by which Americans check the power of their government - found the evidence lacking.

More here:

http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_7269928?nclick_check=1

..she said, "Don't graze me, bro."

No, scratch that.

theft solved...call the cops it was Kevin, i have to let you know i cried many nights hope you are happy

How are things in your area? I heard mention of Riverside County on the news. Rubidoux still in tact?

US troops only pretending
to be on patrol

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Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here in upstate New York say that morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed "search and avoid" missions.

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ26Ak07.html

US troops only pretending
to be on patrol

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Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here in upstate New York say that morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed "search and avoid" missions.

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ26Ak07.html

Inhaled steroids protected
9/11 firefighters: study

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As New York City firefighters struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was thinking about how to keep them safe from toxins in the air.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071024/us_nm/wtc_lung_dc;_ylt=AhkjJb3kn7TRV...

Haunted by his ineptness, Bush keeps eye on California fires

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Haunted by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina, the White House is scrambling to make sure the Southern California wildfires don't become another public relations nightmare for President George W. Bush.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071024/pl_nm/california_wildfires_bush_haun...

Environmental group
backing Edwards

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A national environmental group that recently endorsed Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards will begin airing a radio ad Thursday praising him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_po/edwards_environment;_ylt=Agh_o...

Obama says he doesn't
need Gore's help

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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama says Al Gore would play a role in his administration, but he doesn't need help from the former vice president in getting to the Oval Office.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_po/obama_gore;_ylt=AgEEXruopvZX_j...

All quiet her ToniD just smokey. Bush is here, so everything is OK.

8-)

I'm off to work myself.

Later

Just wanted you to know on a scale of 1-10, your posts are tops, with tonid coming in at a close 2nd. :-) Now, how do I tap into your library? Is there a membership fee? You've got some interesting shit over there, ma'am.

Heh heh.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I wanted to go with "Don't maize maze me, bro" but I lost interest before I was able to weave the cornfield labyrinth into the story.

http://www.answers.com/topic/corn-maze

Rancho Bernardo residents began their journey back home with a surprise today.

They were stuck in traffic for two to three hours sitting in their cars at a standstill because of President Bush's visit to their community.

Police and the CHP had blocked off Interstate 15 ramps to West Bernardo Drive, which leads to the recovery center that was opened yesterday. Cars lined up for miles on the freeway.
. . .

Fed up with waiting, Barbara Gandre said she needed to drive her 87-year-old mother home to pick up medication for her 89-year-old husband. Her mother just recovered from pneumonia in September and the family did not have masks to wear over their faces. They sat in their car with the windows rolled down because they only had a quarter tank of gas left.

Busy...tis silly season, after all. : )

*

Crankie: You've been on fire lately. ub1fmf!

But, re: Alice's vignette on The Girls of Vivaldi...

...to which you responded to Alice's "fortissimo" w/ "dildossimo."

Your Italian/Latin has failed you.

In that story's historical context: pizzicato.

In a more modern context: vibrato.

*snark*

NPR is owned by the Soviet Union!

Or at least that's what Fred Thompson told me...

Free Democracy

Tomorrow's a brand new thread...:-)

I haven't heard 'communist' so many times in the last 30 years as I have in the last 30 days. My children report the same from school - Mommy my teacher says Hillary Clinton is a Communist.

And then today when I was listening to NPR, a contractor we use walked through my office and made the C comment.

What in the hell? Who started it, and why?

Don't craze me, bro...

Short Stories

*******
I Want What Crank Is Smoking ! ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

L@L,
Put them specs on boy, you're misreading. I wrote "diddlissimo" but would have been happier with dildoissimo or pizzicato/vibrato. (Diddle doesn't look right after it has lost its 'e'.)

"Lauren knows everything." -Thom Hartmann

how's it going?

cooking me by sautéeing in fat and then simmering slowly in very little liquid, I have only one thing to say:

Don't braise me, bro

looking for work. disappointing...

I finally made it to the library and have 1/2 hour left on themachine today.

Don't daze me bro!

If you've lost you`e', you've diddled far too much.

"Don't phrase me, bro..."

"don't graze me, bro"

Do you have a resume/cover letter/online search and attack plan in place?

Unfortunately, I'm sort of an expert on seeking/finding jobs. Haven't had to look in quite awhile, but there for awhile, throughout the 90's, job hunting was my hobby.

"Don't glaze me bro..."

(this also works for donuts & bakers)

"don't chaise (lounge) me bro..."

thanks

"don't quays me bro"

(quay (kē, kā) Pronunciation Key
n. A wharf or reinforced bank where ships are loaded or unloaded. )

"Don't praise me, be"

got all that stuff
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 5:22pm.
thanks
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I'd love to see how you dummied-up your "responsibilities" in you most recent position.

Self preservation engineer

Self-starter responsible for covering own ass and minding own business.

"don't trays me."

cafeteria, not cafetia...sorry...

if you give up your standards...

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 5:24pm.
...(quay (kē, kā)...
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cay (kē, kā)
n.
A small, low island composed largely of coral or sand.
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A very tiny uninhabited island only a few hundred feet from the island that I inhabited is called Protestant Cay. It is so called because the colonizers during the eighteenth century wouldn't let the Protestants bury their dead on the main island.

I love that story. God bless religion.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

In order to know where we are going, we must first know where we have been...

Well, I'd say Karl Marx started it.

Seriously, I don't get it either. It's just an old, tired label for leftists that really doesn't hold any water anymore.

Frankly, I think they are just so pissed that everything has gone so south on their party, that they'll just say and do anything anymore to make themselves feel better.

It's funny to me actually. Like Chavez in Venezuela. He's democratically elected, yet because he's a socialist, somehow that makes Venezuela communist in their eyes. They conveniently forget he was elected.

But, maybe China bought NPR when the Soviet Union went bankrupt. I'd be surprised though, because I'm sure Rush Limbaugh would've reported that. ;-p

Don't haze me, future bro

George bush is Hitler. But you don't know who started it and why? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

...on his show today that this is the 5oth anniversary of the HollywoodTen...I can't quite remember the name...anyway it was to do with the Hollywood blackisting & Joe McCarthy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

Submitted by GBC on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 5:35pm.
...But, maybe China bought NPR when the Soviet Union went bankrupt. I'd be surprised though, because I'm sure Rush Limbaugh would've reported that.
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Ol' Bimbaugh kinda has his hands full trying to refute the avalanche of global warming evidence. It's become a vocation.

I'll see if maybe I can blog a little from my frien's house later on tonight?

see you all down the road!

I'm sure it will be great.

Take care ex-chubby :)

Rajah,
Countdown to l'esprit de l'escalier.

Why do they feel so free to call us that? I was shocked when it first happened on another blog...what was that blog again? Unexplained mysteries or something. Someone called "Real American" attacked the shit out of me.

Welcome back! Your contribution to the stew hereabouts was missed.

Promise we won't "braise" ya. *snark*

Good luck w/ the job search & settling back in.

Submitted by MMRules on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 5:46pm
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Do you know the origin (actual first existence) of this photo? Is it taken from a film/movie?

The conservative front group Family Security Matters (FSM) today released its list of “The Ten Most Dangerous Organizations in America.” ThinkProgress earned the 10th spot in the rankings. FSM writes that these 10 “hate” organizations are “growing powerful in the world of politics” and share a common “unwillingness to bend in their strictly biased view of the world.” FSM’s board of advisers includes Frank Gaffney, Barbara Comstock, and Laura Ingraham. Here are 10 most dangerous organizations:

10) ThinkProgress
9) Muslim Student Association
8) CodePINK
7) American Civil Liberties Union, National
6) Family Research Council
5) Center for American Progress
4) League of the South
3) MoveOn.org
2) Universities and Colleges
1) Media Matters for America

Watch your back, Universities and Colleges. We’re coming after you.

~-~-~

So, all higher education is the second most dangerous organization in America, eh?

How do people buy in to this shit? Stay away from college, for God's sake! We can't have you getting an education, because you'll learn to see us for the transparent phonies we truly are! Gotta keep'em dumbed down, I guess.

LINK

And they say anybody who isn't Republican is crazy? *That's* crazy.

"currently 7 revolutionary activists and 28 agents of sabotage and reaction online.
What a balance.

really

Well I used it on Ono once.."Ono after a long day,and a half session in The YouTube !"

I found it along time ago.I think at Boing Boing..But sorry Crank,I can't remember what it was concerning..When I get a chance,I'll try and find it..Might take awhile though,since Boing Boing is a picture fest..Mucho pix..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

(Notice the common political persuasion.)
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/22/4727/
Revive Liberation Theology! Long live...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In Christianity, liberation theology is a school of theology that focuses on Jesus Christ as not only the Redeemer but also the Liberator of the oppressed. It emphasizes the Christian mission to bring justice to the poor and oppressed, particularly through political activism. Some elements of certain liberation theologies have been rejected by the Catholic Church.
At its inception, liberation theology was predominantly found in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. It is often cited as a form of Christian socialism, and it has enjoyed widespread influence in Latin America and among the Jesuits, although its influence diminished within Catholicism after the Vatican issued official rejections of the theology in the 1980s and liberation theologians were harshly admonished by Pope John Paul II (leading to the curtailing of its growth). The current Pope, Benedict XVI, has also been long known as an opponent of certain strands of liberation theology, and issued several condemnations of tendencies within it whilst head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).

Oct 27 LA Peace March: Fund Human Needs Not Private Greed
by & Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007 at 5:27 AM

The horrifying fires we have all witnessed in Southern California are a direct result of stealing our tax dollars from all social services at home and giving them to the war machine. Please turn your grief into action and join the October 27 peace march in Los Angeles at 12 Noon from Olympic & Broadway and March to downtown federal building.

The horrifying fires we have all witnessed in Southern California are a direct result of stealing our tax dollars from all social services at home and giving them to the war machine. Please turn your grief into action and join the October 27 peace march in Los Angeles at 12 Noon at Olympic & Broadway and march to downtown federal building.

Two-thirds of California's population of 37 million people live in Southern California. Let's see one million people at this Los Angeles peace demonstration. The world wants to know just how many Americans want peace and want to abolish the fascist terrorist state that is US imperialism. And we Americans cannot live like this anymore. We live in a very rotten, crumbling, viciously fascist society, and it will only get worse of there is no protest. They say cut back; we say fight back! We are black, brown, yellow, red and white, same enemy, same fight, workers of the world, unite!

For more information on transportation and many other useful items, see
http://www.answerla.org/
For more information, call 213-251-1025 or email answerla@answerla.org.

Organizers and Endorsers are:
African Americans Against the War
Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
ANSWER Coalition-LA
ANSWER Coalition-OC
ANSWER Coalition-Ventura County
Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid-Southern California
Coalition for World Peace
Code Pink
Comite Pro-Democracia en Mexico
Democratic Club of Westside Progressives
Frente Amplio Popular Los Angeles
Free Palestine Alliance
GABRIELA Network
Global Women's Strike
Hermandad Mexicana Nacional
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Islamic Shura Council of SoCal
International Socialist Organization
January 27th Coalition
KMB Pro-People Youth
Korean Americans for Peace
LA National Impeachment Center
LA Area Iraq Moratorium
La Red de Resistencia Obradorista en California
Latino Movement USA
Military Families Speak Out, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Gabriel
Muslim Student Association-West
National Lawyers Guild
National Council of Arab Americans
Office of the Americas
Palestinian American Women's Association
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles
Riverside Area Peace and Justice Action
Students for a Democratic Society UCLA
South Asian Network
Topanga Peace Alliance
US Labor Against the War
United Teachers Los Angeles
VC Stop the War
World Can't Wait
Youth & Student ANSWER

Endorsing Organizations

Action LA
Addicted to War
American Friends Service Committee
Americans for a Department of Peace
CAIR-LA
ChicanoForums.com
Chischilly Pottery
Clothing of the American Mind
Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights-LA
Code Pink Riverside County
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES-LA)
Committee in Solidarity with the People of Iran
Conspiracy of Thought
Ecumenical Fellowship
Fellowship of Reconciliation-LA
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles
Free Iraq Now
Freedom Socialist Party
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