France 2 US 0

what a bum bum!

he would have turned 77 today!

"Do NOT ask me about my monkey!!"

He would be the Oldest guy around ,, 8-)

Free Democracy

just in time for Porter Waggoner to kick it

Washington DC, October 29, 2007 - The National Security Archive filed a motion on Friday, October 26, seeking expedited discovery against the Executive Office of the President to find out what e-mails are missing from the White House e-mail system or backup tapes.

Archive General Counsel Meredith Fuchs explained, “The pressing need for the information arises out of troubling representations by the EOP and its components about its document preservation obligations and the location of its backup tapes. We need information so we can take steps to preserve all possible sources of e-mails deleted from the White House servers.”

Also on Friday, a similar motion was filed in a virtually identical lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on September 25, 2007.

The Archive filed this case on September 5, 2007, against the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and its components seeking to recover at least 5 million federal e-mail records improperly deleted by the EOP. After the government failed to provide adequate assurances that backups and copies of the missing e-mail would be preserved throughout this litigation, on October 11, 2007, CREW filed a motion for a temporary restraining order against the White House defendants in its case. A hearing in CREW’s case was held before Magistrate Judge Facciola on October 17, 2007. Magistrate Judge Facciola issued a Report and Recommendation on October 19, 2007, advising the Court to grant a temporary restraining order. The government has filed objections to Magistrate Judge Facciola’s Report and Recommendation, and CREW has responded to the government’s objections.....

an a whole lot more than 18 minutes of malfeasance...

Bush May Recess-Appoint Homophobic Surgeon General Nominee Who Wants To Cure Gays
President Bush’s Surgeon General nominee James Holsinger appeared before the Senate health committee on July 12, forced to defend his controversial positions on homosexuality. Yet three months later, Holsinger is “no closer to becoming the nation’s next surgeon general.”

ThinkProgress today spoke with a spokesperson for chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA) who said the committee still has not received a response to a follow-up questionnaire it sent Holsinger three months ago:

We sent out the questions on 7/26 and requested that they be returned by COB on 8/10. We have not received the answers and there is no Committee action scheduled at this time.

Holsinger’s lengthy delay indicates that Bush may be angling to recess appoint Holsinger. The Louisville Courier-Journal reports:

The committee must vote before the full Senate can consider the nomination, and senators are hoping to adjourn for the year by mid-November.

The delay leaves open the possibility that Holsinger will either have to wait until next year for a confirmation vote or get the job through a “recess appointment” by Bush. […]

A recess appointment would allow Holsinger to serve as surgeon general until the end of the current Congress late next year.

Bush has been more than willing to use this executive power to avoid or delay battles over divisive nominees such as former U.N. ambassador John Bolton and Swift Boat-funder Sam Fox. In June, the Washington Post reported that Bush had filled 105 full-time positions with recess appointments, compared to just 42 such appointments under President Clinton at the same point in his presidency.

Holsinger has come under intense criticism for his long history of prejudice toward gays and lesbians. He founded a church that “ministers to people who no longer wish to be gay or lesbian” and “opposed a decision to allow a practicing lesbian to be an associate pastor” in the United Methodist Church. In 1991, he also authored a graphic document arguing that gay sex is “intuitively” unnatural and can lead to “lacerations, perforations and deaths.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/29/holsinger-recess-appointment/

Vitter sticks with fellow DC Madam customer. The Senate last week voted on the nomination of Henrietta Holsman Fore to head USAID. She replaces Randall Tobias, who resigned after his name was linked to the D.C. Madam’s escort service. The sole GOP vote against Tobias’s replacement? Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), whose number also appeared on the DC Madam’s phone records.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_50/hoh/20712-1.html?type=pf

Sen. Graham may oppose Mukasey’s nomination. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) may oppose President Bush’s Attorney General nominee if Michael Mukasey says “waterboarding is not torture.” “If he does not believe that waterboarding is illegal, then that would really put doubts in my own mind,” Graham stated. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who also believes waterboarding is torture, suggested yesterday he may still support Mukasey.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/29/sen-graham-may-oppose-mukaseys-nomin...

Edwards' new pitch: Clinton tied to corrupt system
By Nedra Pickler

Associated Press writer

8:09 AM CDT, October 29, 2007

WASHINGTON

Looking to shake up Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential race, John Edwards is making an ardent push for voters to turn away from Washington insiders and a corrupt political system dominated by lobbyists and special interests.

Edwards railed against the "bankrupt ways of Washington" -- but his argument was less against President Bush's leadership than it was to cast Clinton as the insider that voters should reject.

"This corruption did not begin yesterday, and it did not even begin with George Bush," Edwards said in speech excerpts provided by his campaign. "It has been building for decades, until it now threatens literally the life of our democracy.

"Let us blaze a new path together," said Edwards, himself a former U.S. senator.

The Edwards campaign billed his scheduled appearance Monday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., as a "major thematic speech" that his aides said would be a major part of his closing arguments in the last two months before voting begins.

It comes as Clinton has been building strength toward the nomination in polling, fundraising and setting the agenda of the race. But she still has a major vulnerability -- a tight race in the leadoff state of Iowa where Edwards and Barack Obama are within striking distance in current polls.

If Edwards was able to defeat Clinton in Iowa, it's expected the next contest will be New Hampshire, where her lead is even stronger. But a defeat in Iowa could make her vulnerable elsewhere.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-102907-edwards,1,7013...

the same guy Sam and Cenk of the YTs were talking about a while back - reading on radio the pornographic tract he had penned concerning very graphic details of various forms of penetration?

Next time you hear somebody talk about "doing it like they do in France" (health care, social welfare, etc.)...simple response-

"Great. Can we do it 'like they do it' with ENERGY policy, too?......i.e. 75% nuclear?"

Quiets them up or they start digging a hypocrisy hole deep enough to sink a Buick in!

A friendly tip from your ol' pal Gare!

As I said on the previous one, I repeat myself - I am on the french president's side on this one - however much I may dislike him and I do - nancy and the 60 minutes crew really do get on my nerves more often than not - what business of anybody is asking that question and who cares - even the french don't and why should we - the usual fluff the msm chews on and then feeds us that disgusting cud

Thanks for the photos of Janeane.
I miss her wit on the "Majority Report"

who is that with her in the B&W photo?

Jeremy Kramer

Hope ya all had a great weekend.
Well the Bears lost & the Red Sox won.
It will be an interesting Baseball season next spring.

I have a cold...gee I wonder how I could have contracted that. I work @ a BIG High School-
where kids sneeze & cough all over the place -then they don't wash there hands.
Yes I am complaining....sorry bout that

Egypt announces nuclear plant projects By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 38 minutes ago

CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt said Monday that it would build several nuclear power plants, moving into the front of a group of nations raising fears of Middle Eastern proliferation with new pushes to develop nuclear energy.

President Hosni Mubarak announced live on national television that Egypt was building the power stations to diversify Egypt's energy resources and preserve the country's oil and gas for future generations.

"Energy security is a major part of building the future for this country and an integral part of Egypt's national security system," Mubarak said at a ceremony inaugurating the second phase of construction of an electrical power plant north of Cairo.

Jordan, Turkey and several Gulf Arab countries also have announced that they are interested in developing nuclear power programs, and Yemen's government in September signed an agreement with Houston-based Powered Corporation to build civilian nuclear plants over the next 10 years.

Despite the declarations of peaceful intentions, there are worries that the countries could be taking the first steps toward a dangerous proliferation of nuclear technology in response to Iran's nuclear program, which the U.S. calls cover for weapons development.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071029/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_nuclear_3

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 1:35pm.
Next time you hear somebody talk about "doing it like they do in France" (health care, social welfare, etc.)...simple response-

"Great. Can we do it 'like they do it' with ENERGY policy, too?......i.e. 75% nuclear?"
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See strict French government regulation and research and development and nuclear waste processing and income that are integral to the national French nuclear energy program.

Contrast it with allowing corporations and market forces to regulate themselves.

Also, see the dearth of fossil fuel resources available to geographical France.

An even-handed comparison of French energy policies and U.S. energy policies requires more than a sentence.

Where are the honey bees?
By: Nicole Belle @ 10:02 AM - PDT

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There’s some doubt as to whether Einstein ever actually said that if honey bees died out, mankind only had four years left to live. But no matter the authorship, the truth is that we are very dependent upon bees for our food product and agricultural industry. And bees are dying, at a dangerously fast pace. By some estimates, a full 1/3 of the bee population has died off, in a phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder“:

(A) mystery malady, dubbed “Colony Collapse Disorder,” is sweeping through the apiaries, leaving many hives almost completely devoid of adult bees, which appear to abandon their hives and disappear. Apiculturists are looking at a number of potential culprits, from bad weather to bad corn syrup to genetically modified corn to pesticides to miticides, and many suspect the problem is compounded by the presence of the varroa mite, which weakens colonies so that invading pathogens pack a particularly destructive punch. (Scientists suspect the 2005 die-off was exacerbated by a viral event.) While Miller’s bees have not, so far, been affected by the colony collapse, beekeepers in 24 states have reported losses as high as 80 and even 90 percent, and many of the afflicted bees have been in the almonds, rubbing shoulders with Miller’s relatively healthy ones.

60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft looks at the phenomenon with the apiarist credited for sounding the alarm, David Hackenberg. Full transcripts and video available at their website.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/29/where-are-the-honey-bees/

.

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

Have you ever been stuck on the phone while somebody on the other end of the line just, verbally, threw *up* on you?

It has now been 21 minutes, and I swear, this man has only taken 2 deep breaths...

Please, somebody, save me.

Bait ... Crank Bait

Submitted by wil_the_ersatz_[blogger] on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 1:08am.

*

Wait till dr shows up. 'Shaken AND stirred,' indeed. *snark*

So when do we get the Open Mics, 00crankie?

*L@L unscabbards his red pen to en garde*

Go back on the line and tell him you have to take this other call could you call him back.

*L@L unscabbards his red pen to en garde*
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It's not paranoia when everyone is out to get you. (I don't know who said that but I bet he's dead.)

shoulder so sore today i can't lift my arm.

thanks for the bee story. i'm suprised no one has figured out the cause yet.

going in to help with an ancient 65 Parisienne today. 12 feet of bondo shaping ahead with a grinder and sanding blocks. wondering if i can get thru a day of that.

the next time he breathes, I'll mention that...

Oh wait, the phone is ringing!
Yay!

didnt he give bush the military commissions act 2006?

The fog of work: What happened to Fremont mechanic Hamid Sayadi after 9/11?
By Chris Colin, Special to SF Gate

Monday, October 29, 2007

In the beginning, 9/11 was a local story — it was the intimate grief and shock and incomprehension that so profoundly shook us those first days and weeks. Over time it morphed into something political, and we came to see the tragedy through the wide-angle lenses of foreign policy and law and the other spasms of governance it inspired.

But even as the specific event blurred into unspecific politics and symbolism over the years, it continued to affect individuals in concrete ways — ways that Fremont resident Hamid Sayadi claims he paid a price for.

His story is one of the many that have both nothing and everything to do with 9/11. A witty and eloquent Kurdish-American in his 50s, Sayadi waved the flag of his adopted country and cheered its military for three decades — all to end up stripped to his underwear one day, in the boiler room of his workplace, he says, a ragged and sobbing husk of his former self.

The truth of what happened to him, and why, lies shrouded in the fog of endless war, and in the fog of work as well — that odd space where strangers are forced to co-exist for years on end. In that double blindness, even if the parties involved could agree on facts, who could say for sure what was appropriate and what was cruel, even unlawful?

To get to the boiler room, we start in Iraq. Sayadi was an American-by-proxy before he ever set foot in this country. An officer in the Iraqi air force, he fought the Baathist regime from the inside, providing intelligence for the Kurdish revolution — and by extension for the CIA, which was supporting the struggle as part of its broader operations in the region.

It was dangerous work, and eventually rumors of Sayadi's disloyalty began to circulate. Having already seen family members killed in Kirkuk and others tortured — "they peel you like an onion," he told me recently — he fled the military and then Iraq altogether.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2007/10/29/onthejob....

A nuclear energy programme started by Egypt in the 1970s was abandoned in 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.

Mubarak said the programme will take place "within a framework of transparency and respect of commitments to the nuclear non-proliferation system."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FBE8400D-A3F4-4EB3-B7E1-193B18BBD...

I just heard on cnn that he will not be promoted and i dont know if they said he was fired or he resigned to spend more time with his family---

Lies, lies, I can’t believe a word you say; Lies, lies, I’m gonna make you sad someday. . . Rudy Giuliani seems desperate, pathological, and mean. Traits suitable for a mob enforcer, or Blackwater mercenary, but for President? Eh, not so much.

http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2007/10/giuliani---the-.html

‘When the President Does it, That Means That it is Not Illegal’
By: Nicole Belle @ 6:38 AM - PDT

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BILL MOYERS: Remember “The Lives of Others” - the movie that won this year’s Academy Award for best foreign language film….a story of life under East Germany’s secret police. The critic Roger Ebert said: “The movie is relevant today, as our government ignores habeas corpus, practices secret torture, and asks for the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on its citizens. Such tactics, he said, did not save East Germany; they destroyed it, by making it a country its most loyal citizens could no longer believe in.” You want to say it couldn’t happen here but we’ve been close before. During the cold war with the Soviet Union and then the hot war in Vietnam, a secret government mushroomed in this country. …(transcript)

In 1975 the Select Senate Committee headed by Sen Frank Church (D-ID) began looking into allegations first reported by Seymour Hersh in the NYT and found that the CIA, NSA, FBI and other federal agencies had been involved in everything from plots to assassinate foreign leaders, illegal storage of poisons and biological warfare agents including anthrax, warrantless opening of mail and wiretapping and other intel-gathering on US citizens, and misuse of the IRS , just to name a few of the abuses by the Executive Branch they discovered. One of the ways Congress responded to try and restore checks and balances was by passing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, which established a secret court to oversee all domestic wiretapping activity. Bill Moyers looks at the undoing of Congress’ checks and balances put in place following the Church Committee hearings and the unprecedented expansion of Executive authority in the wake of 9-11. You can watch the entire episode online here.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/29/when-the-president-does-it-that...

Through 3 phone calls. 45 minutes! 45 seconds!

Aggghhh...

is that not her husband? the guy they based Milhouse from the 'Simpson's' on? they married in Vegas and never bothered with a de-vorse...

L@L: "Wait till dr shows up. 'Shaken AND stirred,' indeed. *snark*"
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Sacrebleu! dr is en route?

He really must have been churned up about something.

Sunny Jim,

Ice your shoulder for awhile. Takes some of the swelling away.

They've started a youtube for Christians.

Godtube.com

Janeane in B&W foto
Submitted by bibimimi on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 2:26pm.
is that not her husband? the guy they based Milhouse from the 'Simpson's' on? they married in Vegas and never bothered with a de-vorse.

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

and still going..I was this close to 'goodbye' and he changed the subject.

Unfreaking believable.

The Telegraph (UK)

With a year and a few days to go before voters across the United States go to the polls to elect their 44th president, The Daily Telegraph today unveils the first instalments of its list of the 100 most influential Conservatives and 100 most influential Liberals in America.

The 2008 election is arguably the most open contest since 1928, the last time there was no incumbent president or incumbent vice president running for their party's nomination. The victor will become the most powerful person in the world at a time of almost unprecedented challenge and turmoil.

Selecting just 200 principal political figures in such a diverse, ideologically intense and divided country in a time of war was no straightforward task. We consulted widely among our contacts across the political spectrum and outside it, as well as engaging in vigorous internal debate before deciding on our choices.

To qualify for the lists, people have to live and work in the United States. Conservatives are people identifiably – though not always self-described – as right of centre. Liberals – though the term is an unpopular one in the US, with even Hillary Clinton preferring “progressive” – are those identifiably left of centre.

Although there are many Republicans on the conservative list and many liberals on the Democratic list, not all 200 are aligned with a party. The key to inclusion was the term “influence” – which people do, and will, most affect American politics both in terms of ideas and the enactment of policy.

We have chosen political candidates, pollsters, campaign operatives, members of think tanks, journalists, bloggers, fundraisers, big-money donors and the occasional celebrity.

Inclusion does not imply the approval of this newspaper or its correspondents – and the views of many on the lists will be anathema to large numbers of our readers.

When in doubt, we have leant towards those likely to be most influential in the future rather than those whose careers and impact lies in the past. But some historical figures cast such a long shadow that it would have been perverse to have excluded them.

The mere holding of a high office did not guarantee inclusion, though it was often an important factor. The future influence of some figures will depend largely on whether the candidate they are associated with wins their party’s nomination or the presidency. Certainly, a year and a week from today, these lists will probably be very – though by no means entirely – different.

It was far from easy to agree among ourselves as to who to include and in what order. Many readers will dispute a number of those who appear on our lists and no doubt be eager to put forward substitutes.

Today, we publish those ranked 81 to 100 on each list. On Tuesday, we will publish 61 to 80, on Wednesday 41 to 60 and on Thursday 21 to 40 before concluding on Friday with the Top 20 Most Influential Conservatives and the Top 20 Most Influential Liberals in America today.........

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Watchdog groups agree: White House needs to turn over lost email records now

A private watchdog group is asking the White House to show immediately that it has not destroyed archives of at least 5 million e-mails that were improperly deleted from internal servers. So far, the Bush administration has refused to provide such assurances.

A motion filed Friday by the National Security Archive seeks to compel the White House to hand over records that show it has maintained backup tapes of the deleted e-mails, as required by presidential record-keeping laws. A nearly identical case from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, another watchdog, seeks similar assurances that the Bush administration has not permanently erased the millions of e-mails exchanged among scores of White House aides.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_needs_to_turn_over_1029.html

Thousands of South Asian construction workers have gone on strike in Dubai over bad working conditions and low pay, threatening the emirate's already struggling building boom.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3B7DA6A5-F782-4C0A-A19B-FD4EEB0C2...

What You Can Do Today On FISA
By Christy Hardin Smith on Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 06:58 am

Far be it for me to critique the leadership stylings of the uber-busy Beltway brahmins, but this is truly appalling lack of respect for Constitutional principles and the rule of law being sacrificed on the altar of comity and convenience. Or, in the alternative, a statement so off-message and wishy-washy that I don’t even know where to begin. Via Glenn:

The letter-petition to Harry Reid and the Senate Judiciary Committee — co-written and co-signed by several bloggers along with groups such as the ACLU, EFF, MoveOn, Color of Change, Center for National Security Studies and Working Assets — is here, and I’d encourage you to sign it (here) as but the very first step in the campaign to stop telecom amnesty. Reid is going to be the key target — and the key problem — here, as is evident from the quote he gave to Newsweek:

But the maneuvering by the contenders — and the role played by MoveOn — also raised concerns among senior Democrats on Capitol Hill that presidential politics might impede efforts to reach a compromise on such a sensitive and important national-security measure. “We need to get things done on this bill,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Tuesday. (emphasis mine)

That’s brilliant. George Bush continuously decrees: “Give me everything I want on this bill or I will veto it.” In response, Harry Reid says: “I’m very upset by people trying to delay or stop this because the only thing that matters is that we get a deal.” To Reid, apparently, it doesn’t matter what the terms are of the deal they reach or how much they give in to the White House. All that matters is that he deliver something to the White House — like a good boy — that makes George Bush sufficiently happy to sign. It is possible that Reid means something else — i.e., that he only wants to ensure that the Senate pass something to send to Bush, regardless of whether it meets all of Bush’s demands (including amnesty) — but only time will tell.

As things stand, the FISA bill is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee where Chairman Pat Leahy, at least thus far, is reportedly committed to stripping the amnesty provision out of the bill. Having this bill come to the floor without amnesty in it would force the Republicans to offer it as an amendment and would mean they would need 60 votes specifically in favor of amnesty in order to put it back in (because Dodd would filibuster any such amendment).

Here’s hoping that Reid is not insinuating that “leadership” and “capitulation” have become synonymous terms. In case you’d like clarification on that point, you can contact Sen. Reid here: (202) 224-3542 FAX 202-224-7327. Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/what-you-can-do-today-on-fisa/#mor...

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All - and Face Charges if Necessary - to Any Major Television Network That Will Let Her
She's Prepared to Name Names, Including Those of Two 'Well-Known' Congress Members Involved in Criminal Corruption
The 'Most Gagged Person in U.S. History' Tells The BRAD BLOG She's Now Exhausted All Other Channels...

-- By Brad Friedman

Attention CBS 60 Minutes: we've got a huge scoop for you. If you want it.

Remember the exclusive story you aired on Sibel Edmonds, originally on October 27th, 2002, when she was not allowed to tell you everything that she heard while serving as an FBI translator after 9/11 because she was gagged by the rarely-invoked "States Secret Privilege"? Well, she's still gagged. In fact, as the ACLU first described her, she's "the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America."

But if you'll sit down and talk with her for an unedited interview, she has now told The BRAD BLOG during an exclusive interview, she will now tell you everything she knows.

Everything she hasn't been allowed to tell since 2002, about the criminal penetration of the FBI where she worked, and at the Departments of State and Defense; everything she heard concerning the corruption and illegal activities of several well-known members of Congress; everything she's aware of concerning information omitted and/or covered up in relation to 9/11. All of the information gleaned from her time listening to and translating wire-taps made prior to 9/11 at the FBI.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5197

Thanks for that Telegraph List

Please do a follow up each day.

Some of us have damaged brains and are likely to forget!

;-)

podcast from sunday is good. sorry i missed the show yesterday. had maron-like mac problems and needed a new key to the kingdom. turns out i needed new space. i got this box of space to sit under my mac mini giving me more "hard drive". i hate all these computer words. i like calling it a box of space. i'm happy with my box of space.

- Jayson in NC

Down here in southern Utah, hiking, golfing... oh, and that annoying thing called working as well.

Sunny (albeit a bit smoky from the SoCal fires), warm, and simply gorgeous scenery.

Have a great day everyone. :)

GBC

should have taken some anti inflams yesterday and some pain pills to get a good snooze. was hoping it would heal last night without.

did a few stretches, excercises and got some of the kinks out.

part a getting old eh? all the old hurties of youth visiting and saying hi!

US Air Strikes in Afghanistan: A “Macabre Kind of Calculus”

CBS 60 Minutes revealed last night that the US military in Afghanistan uses air strikes in situations it knows will kill innocent civilians, if the commanders also believe enough Taliban might be killed. The result has been a doubling of civilian casualties, such that we now kill as many civilians as the Taliban and al Qaeda kill.

And all Afghan President Karzai can do is plead with George Bush, so far unsuccessfully, that the US stop using air strikes against civilian targets.

In one of many such incidents this year, US forces announced they had carried out an air strike and had killed several suspected militants. However, the military declined to provide further information on who might have been killed, and when reports leaked out that most of the victims had been women and children — innocent civilians — 60 Minutes sent a team to find out what happened.

In interviews with 60 Minutes, US military acknowledged that field commanders had clearance to call in air strikes on civilian targets, knowing that innocent deaths would likely occur, provided they made what one official described as a “macabre kind of calculus” about whether the “target” was “worth” the likely number of civilian deaths.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/us-tactics-in-afghanistan-a-macabr...

looking at pix from there, nothing left but concrete slabs, twisted burned metal, and mounds of ashes...

hard to recover from that insurance or not.

"Annie and Wayne and their pets are fine and using their new htg and AC to filter the residual smoke. Wayne went with his Aunt Evelyn to look at her house which was on the street that the President toured and said was the worst hit. Would you believe it!!! Her house and one other were the only two remaining. That was one unlooked for but very welcome surprise.

The area residents who were spared by the fire are dealing with the health repercussions and hoping this is the end of their trials.

I talked to Annie this AM and we were saying what a blessing the cell phones are in these emergencies. Generators would have saved the contents of their freezer and it is a thought for the future.

This is, I hope, The last fire update.

Love, E"

Hey Jim, how the hell are ya?

- Jayson in NC

Tell Harry Reid: No Immunity for Lawbreaking Companies !

Petition-Please Sign-Thank You !
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

FEMA spokesman loses spy job offer

Former FEMA Spokesman Loses Intelligence Job After Flap Over Phony News Conference

The man who staged a fake Federal Emergency Management Agency new conference has lost a chance to be National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell's top public information officer.

John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's external affairs director, who had been scheduled to move into the new job on Monday, will not be getting it after last week's phony news conference. The staged question-and-answer session was harshly criticized by both the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, whose department oversees FEMA.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/10/fema_spokesman_loses_spy_job_o...

just putting along here.

replaced Bgurls 2 year old heater core this weekend.

under dash yoga. this one made in taiwan, last one made in the USA lasted 38 years...

lately having the same prob with any replacemaent parts made in asia.

we're fucked if this keeps on...

(New Video)

For The President’s Amusement.

Another week begins. Who will outrage the GOP this week? Pete Stark, a lonely nation turns its eyes to you.

88% of CNN respondents say Stark shouldn’t apologize. Who wants those kind of numbers this week?

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/28/late-late-sunday-for-the-president...

That was an interesting piece of news I heard. After getting dumped by AAR, Mark Riley is back on AAR's flagship NY station doing the morning show. He's co-hosting with Richard Bey - who is no Marc Maron. But it's interesting how radio cycles around.

Here's hoping Sam and Marc wind up full time on the air somewhere.

I've had the idea that they could do a TV show together on IFC to compliment Henry Rollins' Friday night show.

Or they could do a show for XM. Like Opie and Anthony only much better. Regular special visits from Patton, Janeane, Jon Benjamin, J. Earl, M. Bamford, the whole hee haw gang. That'd be sweet.

The webcam show is fun and all but I'm not sure it's the wave of the future. When I watch it I put my own webcam on the screen sometimes and watch myself reacting to Sam and Marc. That's kind of weird, isn't it?

- Jayson in NC

doin pretty good all in all.

having fun with a honda 750 basket case i'm chasing parts for currently.

Bgurl says i can't sell this one till we get a summer of riding out of it.

she was some what irked when i got done restoring my 49 Triumph Thunderbird and sold it to a collector without puttong a summer of riding onnnit.

I'm assuming that the Thunderbird had an 8 cylinder. Do you do any converting to make it more economical energy wise?

Blackwater to California: Hire us to Put Out Your Fires

We couldn't make this stuff up. Brian Bonfiglio, vice president of Blackwater West, "I see a tactical operation center for East County fires," said Bonfiglio, noting that Blackwater's proposal includes water tanks capable of holding 35,000 gallons. "Can you imagine how much of a benefit it would be if we were operational now?"
This takes great big balls. This is from the guy who takes orders from billionaire Erik Prince, whom Congressman Waxman is now investigating for tax fraud, among other abuses. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-jacobs/blackwater-to-california_b_699...

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 1:05pm.

Bush May Recess-Appoint Homophobic Surgeon General Nominee Who Wants To Cure Gays

*

...had any political accumen, he would declare, today, in response to this floated trial balloon, that the US Senate will remain in pro forma session until the end of the Bush administration in order to preclude any recess appointments.

If ol' Harry had any political balls, he'd add 'or until Bush & Cheney's successful impeachments, whichever comes first.'

But, sadly, Wallflower Harry will make a fine speech in the well of the Senate opposing Bush's closeted SG nominee...

...and then vote for the little bastard -- all in the name of bipartianship & comity, mind you.

*sighs*

What's disheartening is that even Bernie Sanders said last week on Hartmann's show that Reid shouldn't be removed as majority leader.

Good get ToniD..

I support Sibel Edmonds 100% she is a real American Hero..

JENNY ALLEN

Sibel Edmonds, President, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, will discuss being fired by the FBI in March 2002 for reporting shoddy work and security breaches that may have prevented the 9/11 attacks. She will explain firsthand how government secrecy can be abusive and why defending whistleblowing is a free speech issue. Cosponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Committee and the Committee on Legislation this program is entitled "Paul Reveres or Benedict Arnolds?: Whistleblowing in the Post 9/11 Age".

Link to Video

http://www.nswbc.org/

GOVERNMENT REVEALS ITS OWN ABUSE OF STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE
http://www.nswbc.org/Press%20Releases/Press%20Release-Aug-23-07.htm

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

Book: Ford feared Cheney was GOP liability, called Clinton sex addict

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former President Gerald Ford suggested to a reporter in 2004 that Vice President Dick Cheney should be dumped from the Republican ticket, according to a new book to be published Tuesday.

Ford preferred former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani because he feared Cheney had become a "liability" to President Bush, according to the book's author.

CNN obtained an advance copy of "Write It When I'm Gone," and interviewed author Thomas DeFrank.

Ford privately gave New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton high marks, saying she was "tougher and stronger" than her husband, who Ford said he had mixed feelings about, DeFrank said.

While Ford thought Bill Clinton was the best pure politician he had ever seen, he felt Clinton needed therapy for sex addiction.

"He thought Bill Clinton had a serious addiction here and he needed help," DeFrank told CNN. "And Jerry Ford didn't have a vengeful bone in his body. I think his comments about the addiction business were heartfelt on his part."

In 1991, Ford began a series of off-the-record conversations with DeFrank. The reporter had gained Ford's trust when he worked for Newsweek magazine covering Ford as vice president and president.

DeFrank, now the Washington bureau chief for the New York Daily News, said Ford spoke to him on the condition that the conversations be kept secret until after the former president's death, which came in late 2006.

Cheney served as chief of staff in the Ford White House. Bush's former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, also was defense secretary in the Ford administration.

"Gerald Ford always thought that Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were his favorite proteges," DeFrank said. "He always kind of felt like he raised them as pups. But in 2004, President Ford said to me that he was fearful that Cheney would be a liability on the ticket."

Ford revealed that people within the Republican party had called him inquiring if there was a move afoot to dump Cheney from the ticket.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/29/ford.book/index.html

Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 1:49pm.

Regulate and monitor it as much as the French do.....now...

think we can get the Usual Suspect Franco-philes who want us to imitate France's generous welfare state to support...

their generous NUCLEAR state?

(waiting with baited breath for the NEXT excuse....LOL!---Gare)

BSubmitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 3:10pm.

Really think there's THAT much difference between her "Sharon" character on "Two and a Half Men"...and herself?

LOL!----Gare

This morning as I interviewed Janeane Garofalo on the set of "Binky," a TV movie about the bittersweet relationship between a cranky rock critic and her mother's Jack Russell Terrier, big news was breaking that she'd been hired to play a government agent on the upcoming season of 24.

That the show is right-leaning, and Garofalo is an outspoken Bush and Iraq War critic is, she says, half-joking, "much to my chagrin. That's why I feel like I'm being punked. I feel like the creators are going to make me say things that cause my sphincter to tighten."

Garofalo says she was surprised to get the job, given her politics. And though she might not agree with some of the dialogue, as the 42-year-old actress points out, "I'm not playing myself."

She told me that Rhys Coiro, who plays an eccentric indie film director on HBO's "Entourage," has also been added as a character. The two will work closely together as part of a counter-terrorism task force, but she knows little else about what she'll be doing.

"They don't tell you in the long term because they don't want it to affect how you might behave," she said. "Like if you know you're a good guy or a bad guy."

an interesting concept.

MMRules:

That just doesn't look like Ramis...too thin. Harold has maxed out as of late.

♥Gare, STFU♥

David Sirota's latest piece is about Edwards stand against peru freetrade deal and his stand against current free trade agreements

http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/10/edwards_move_makes_trade_08_ce....

snip..
The move, consistent with Edwards' economic populist campaign, drives a wedge right through the heart of the Democratic presidential primary.......

snip..
As Public Citizen's Lori Wallach said, Edwards move now puts the spotlight on the divide between the progressive movement and what I have called the Money Party (and Edwards has called the Corporate Democrats).

-the other anon

the Triumph Thunderbird was the first twin cylinder 650 cc

motorcycle they made. the world speed record holder for a year or two.

You know, the more I think about it, the more I liken Americans (in general) as frogs in the water pot. Stick 'em in when the water's cold, turn up the heat, and they'll never jump out.

We're just too damn comfortable. We care about nothing unless it affects us personally.

There are far too many "Gare's" in America. [No offense Gare, I appreciate your contribution so we can have a live example to speak to. Variety is the spice.]

Back to the frogs. "Soldiers dying in Iraq? They chose to go there."
"Children without health insurance? It's the parent's fault."
"Bush in '09? He's doing a fine job, leave him in..."
"Tapping our phones? OK cuz there might be terrorists."
"Holding without charging with a crime? Fine, again, terrorists."

It just amazes me the things that people find acceptable. It amazes me!

Free-trade deals offer a boost to the U.S. economy
Congress has a chance to help increase exports to four countries.

Carlos M. Gutierrez

is U.S. secretary of commerce

Better jobs for Americans. Growing exports. A stronger economy. A full 40 percent of our economic growth in the last year has been led by exports. With these results, we should seize every chance we have to increase U.S. export opportunities. Fortunately, Congress has an unprecedented chance to do just that by approving free-trade agreements (FTAs) with Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

These FTAs will create new export opportunities for farmers, ranchers, manufacturers and service providers from Pennsylvania and around the country, and help sustain our country's export-fueled growth.

Last year, exports grew 12.7 percent to a record $1.4 trillion. Pennsylvania already is riding the crest of that growth with export shipments of merchandise totaling $26 billion in 2006 - up a tremendous 60 percent from 2003. And 2006 showed big gains for the Port of Philadelphia, with more than 5 million metric tons of cargo handled last year, 20 percent more than 2005. The best way to keep this trend going is to open new markets. We do that by enacting and implementing free-trade agreements.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20071029_Free-trade_deals_offer_a...

Submitted by bibimimi on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 3:22pm.
MMRules:
That just doesn't look like Ramis...too thin. Harold has maxed out as of late
*******

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

freakin' awesome!

Go Gozer!

US Embassy in Azerbaijan a Terror Target

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- The U.S. and British embassies suspended operations Monday in Baku, where the government said it thwarted a radical Islamic group's plot to conduct a "large-scale horrifying terror attack" against diplomatic missions and government buildings.

The Azerbaijani National Security Ministry said one suspect was killed and several others were detained in a weekend sweep in village outside the capital. The ministry said the Islamic group included an army lieutenant who stole 20 hand grenades, a machine gun, four assault rifles and ammunition from his military unit and made them available for the planned attack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/29/AR200710...

I was thinking of the car Thunderbird!

Sorry!

Also the Triumph car that I used to drive for road rallys!

Nice looking cycle though.

exactly.

normal human nature though.

my prob is i've ignored stuff in the past that came back and bit me so i'm in preventative maintainence mode now.

way easier to fix it now than try a fix when surrounded by chaos and suffering.

as little as it seems sometimes we are making a contribution.

change begins with yourself and ripples out from there.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/Potrero

Fighting Blackwater and helping SD

Not Dead Yet: Obama Ties Clinton in Iowa

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

happens all the time when i talk about it to folks.

big picture is that getting these old beaters on the road is way better economically and environmentally then buying a new one.

getting me hella horny, ya'll.

- Jayson in NC

ps: i know, Too Much Information. yadda, yadda. Just throwin' it out there.

Obama would snub VP offer from Hillary if asked

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said Monday he wouldn’t accept a vice presidential slot should his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, defeat him in securing the Democratic party’s nomination for president.

“I’m not running for vice president,” he said. ”I don’t have intentions of being on the ticket as vice president.”

The candidate made his remarks during the webcast of a “presidential dialogue” co-sponsored by MTV and the website MySpace, which allowed Obama to field instant messages from viewers watching online. One question was about his willingness to “run with Clinton.”

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Obama_would_snub_VP_offer_from_1029.html

who you telling?

A one-cylinder version of a Triumph...

...or, is this crankie on his latest tour. *snark*

*

sunny: take toni's advice & ice that puppy down.

*

Later, kids...got a delivery.

Dodd Opposes Mukasey Nomination
By Paul Kiel - October 29, 2007, 10:38AM
And then there were two: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) is the second senator and first Democrat to come out against Mukasey. Says Dodd: "Mr. Mukasey's position that the President does not have to heed the law disqualifies him from being the chief attorney for the United States."

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004581.php

Janeane if she's reading!

Though Paul Bremer’s infamous Article 17 grants immunity for private U.S. military contractors from Iraqi law, The UN will begin probing whether US military or contractors have violated international law in cases of civilian deaths. ( USA Today, Washington Post)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-10-27-un-us-civilian-deaths_N.ht...

Rep. Jones introduces bill to limit president's war powers
Sue Book
Sun Journal
October 25, 2007 - 7:10PM

WASHINGTON — Rep. Walter B. Jones of North Carolina has introduced a bill to prevent the use of U.S. military force in war without the consent of Congress.

The bipartisan legislation would amend the United States War Powers Resolution of 1973, which was passed in response to the extended Vietnam War.

Jones submitted the bill Sept. 25 and announced it Thursday at a press conference with three of five co-sponsors. One of them, Rep. Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts, a Democrat, is a member of the House subcommittee on foreign affairs which will first hear the bill. Also present were Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and Rep. Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland, both Republicans. The other co-sponsors are Rep. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii and and Rep. Robert Brady of Pennsylvania, both Democrats.

http://www.newbernsj.com/news/bill_37205___article.html/war_jones.html

Harpers reports that even the career prosecutors at the Department of Justice believed that the Siegelman prosecution was politically motivated. Posecutor Louis V. Franklin “admits (1) that the most experienced career prosecutor working with him on the case concluded that the Siegelman case should not have been brought; and (2) that he handled the case hand-in-glove with Noel Hillman, the head of Justice’s Public Integrity Section in Washington, and a man now repeatedly and directly linked to Karl Rove in connection with the prosecution of the case.” (Harpers)

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001540

The Petraeus Gambit

The point of putting him on the ticket is that our political class has already agreed that it's actually illegal to criticize him or anything his magic fingers have touched and turned to gold. Pretty much takes Iraq off the table for the election.

Well played, Demcorats.

-Atrios 11:24

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/29/safire-romney-should-make-petraeus-h...

Nod and Wink

A fascinating thing about Democratic politics is that progressive activists, especially those in marginalized groups, are expected sit down and shut up and take it because they're supposed to be smart enough to know that nods and winks to bigots are just crass political maneuvers that candidates make to court votes.

-Atrios 11:06

http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2109

Brian P. Tierney is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and former Republican activist.[1] He is the chief executive of Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C., and the publisher of the The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.

Tierney, who grew up in Upper Darby, PA, was sent by his parents to Episcopal Academy. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and received a law degree from Widener University. He founded Tierney Communications, a public relations firm, in 1989. He sold Tierney Communications and an ad agency he ran in 1998 to True North Communications.[2] Tierney's most notable public relations client was the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. In the late 1990s Tierney heavily criticized The Philadelphia Inquirer and Inquirer reporter Ralph Cipriano over reports about the Archdiocese. Cipriano later accused The Inquirer of giving into demands from the Archdiocese and censoring his reports.[3]

In March, 2006 Tierney assembled a group of mostly former clients or people that are with him on the board of the Episcopal Academy to buy Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. He and other local businessman formed Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C. and bought The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and philly.com from The McClatchy Company which was selling off less profitable newspapers after buying Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.'s parent company Knight Ridder.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Tierney

Free trade yes please!
Submitted by Lucille on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 3:34pm.
Free-trade deals offer a boost to the U.S. economy
Congress has a chance to help increase exports to four countries.
-------------------------------------

the right wing always say free trade is going to help the US economy and thats how it always gets passed but it has yet to help our economy and has done wonders to keep slave wages, deplorable working conditions in other countries --and how do u think the US can compete with countries that pay their employees 30cents/hr..we can;t therefore we lose again and u think Free Trade is a good thing ?

Courage Campaign
Submitted by ghettodefender on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 3:41pm.
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/Potrero

Fighting Blackwater and helping SD
*******
But,somebody put up about 10 open mics in a row..
So,it's gonna be hard to find..

If San Diego can stop Blackwater,and I say If,maybe other cities can put enough
pressure on their local officials,and stop or curtail their spread! Hopefully!

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

Submitted by Annette on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 3:33pm.

And I'm not comfortable. I'm just borderline nihilistic (easy set-up for a joke for Peter Dragon or others who need an easy set-up for a joke)

The Right are stupid and useless, but seem to embrace their laziness.

The LEFT imagine themselves revolutionaries...for typing on a computer screen. Or imagine themselves activists....for signing an online petition. Or because they listen to a stupid radio show (just like the ditto-heads. Remove the policy positions, any REAL difference between Sammy and Rushie?....okay, maybe the drugs! But has Sam had a drug test?!??!!....LOL!).

So, Annette, want to look for the comfortable? Look at the guys who think that going to HuffPost (or Sam Seder.com) is an act of activism....or cut & pasting a story from Rawstory or Wayne Madsen Report is "fighting the good fight"!

sunny j, toni d[arlin]
Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 3:55pm.
A one-cylinder version of a Triumph...
*******
;)

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

Never read any of those. I do good to listen to Sam.

Too fuckin bizzy.

Speakin' of which...

Another Philadelpia Media Holding free trade lackey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_Brothers Toll Brothers NYSE: TOL is a Horsham, Pennsylvania based company and the largest builder of luxury homes and luxury communities in the United States

I'm often bad and don't check the open mics enough. I just can't believe the balls of these Blackwater fucs. I hope they don't get their way on my old home turf. I was encourage a few weeks ago, however, when I heard BW had given up on expansion plans in North Carolina.

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=14157&sectionID=19

What are you doing to change things?

Goading the people here isn't doing anything to change things either.

You have to know that I am as active as can be and am doing behind the scene work for the groups I belong to. Others here are doing the same thing but don't need to tell every last thing they do.

So don't act holier than thou!

Gay in 30 minutes or less...

if hypocrisy and constant critical blathering were potatoes

you'd resemble idaho.

truth of it is, is that any change in US social attitudes happens 1/300,000,000 at a time and that starts by having an interest in what is really going on.

Let's take to the streets. You push.

The Shitbox of McMansions℠

Which sign are you bringing?

20 headless corpses found in Iraq, police say

BAGHDAD - Twenty decapitated bodies were found dumped near a police station on Monday west of the volatile city of Baqouba in Iraq, police said Monday.

There was no immediate information on who the victims were. Baqouba, about 40 miles northeast of Baghdad, is a mixed Sunni and Shiite city that has been torn sectarian violence.

In Baghdad, a U.S. brigadier general was wounded in an IED attack Monday, the U.S. military reported. He was the highest-ranking American officer to be hurt since the conflict began in March 2003.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21522861/

pin head, big feet, full of potatoes

[and then underneath]

Sha-La-la-la-lah

[my sign]

http://play.napster.com/track/13373641

Might pop in b4 I leave.

Later

Slummy Joe On the Take?

I really don’t know what good Federal election laws are if nobody is going to enforce them. It was infuriating that nobody ever investigated Joe Lieberman’s huge slush fund following the 2006 general election, so hopefully they’ll get around to this:

Contributions from associates and friends of now-indicted garbage executive James Galante to the 2004 presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman have sparked the interest of federal investigators.

Lieberman’s bid for the White House took in at least $14,000 from Galante, his associates and their relatives in the fall of 2003,
according to a Courant review of campaign records.

The contributions to Lieberman, a longtime Democrat who became an independent in 2006, are similar to allegedly bundled contributions to three Republican officeholders that earlier this month led to state charges against Galante, who is also facing a 2006 federal racketeering indictment.

What’s more, people familiar with the campaign matters say, the names of Lieberman, the three Republicans and about a dozen other Connecticut and New York politicians have turned up on what the FBI loosely refers to as a “ledger” that agents seized from Galante’s office while investigating mob influence in the trash industry.

Meanwhile, Lieberman raked in $2.5 million in donations from real estate interests from 2001-2006. Curious now that there’s quite a bit of weirdness surrounding the Stamford real estate deal that just netted his family $17 million dollars, and Joe was executor of the trust.

Any connection?

Enquiring minds want to know, Joe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF0cMbRf8d0

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 4:41pm.

How can I act "holier than thou", to people I'm saying are doing JUST AS MUCH as I do? Or already act "holier than thou" themsleves?

And you spend a HELLUVA lot of time here, posting various C&Ps (takes some time to research that).

Rest of the time at local Democratic HQ?...or your candidates state HQ sending out mailers or making calls, are you? If so, good on yer....just don't think you represent the majority of the "progressives" here.

The Right can be stupid...hypocritical...lazy...and led into cult-like followings of the Leader of the Day (from Dubya to Hannity)...

Guess who ELSE can?

Youse guys have a nice day...see ya later----Gare

long day for me today here! i dont like mondays---

http://samsedershow.com/node/989#comment-89686

revolutionaries

It was $655/0z In late July. The dollar is evaporating 20% per quarter at that rate. One year of that and half its worth goes out the window.

the devaluation of the peso hasn't ultimately lead to better tequila?

Gare.

different drummer. Today he OD's and dies!

Crap...I gotta hire a new drummer!

at 7:00pm

Don't get stranger!

Imagined
new
Submitted by zeek on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 4:59pm.
revolutionaries
*******
:)

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

Meet me
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 5:11pm.
at 7:00pm
*******
.

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

I want 2 B this girl!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NVfuSFREmU

hot like bunha!

That's a classic!

Neither Israel nor the United States has furnished "any evidence at all" to prove that the Syrian site bombed in early September was a secret nuclear facility, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency told CNN.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071028/twl-us-syria-israel-nuclear-iaea-7...

Those Janeane pics got me thinking...

Le Tigre - Hot topic.mp3

You're about to overtake Alice in my favorite DJ category.

C'mere.... ;-)

I've got a hard drive to purge over here. Enjoy!

edit edit edit edit... ;-)

Gas prices hit a record nationwide average of $3.23 per gallon in late May before receding a little, though prices are expected to soar again later this year. Food costs have increased 4.5 percent over the past 12 months, partly because of higher fuel costs. Egg prices were 44 percent higher, while milk was up 21.3 percent over the past 12 months to nearly $4 a gallon, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IJ27Dj03.html

Good quote: "The Fed will embrace any inflation indicator, so long as it doesn't indicate the existence of inflation."

Another good quote: "America's colleges and universities have become, and have been for some decades, the most closed-minded and intellectually dishonest institutions in our society."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX0PhvH5C2k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omwtrLP8Vbk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ck2ygpSUg8

Neither Israel nor the United States has furnished "any evidence at all" to prove that the Syrian site bombed in early September was a secret nuclear facility, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency told CNN.

It was bombed because it was a site that held the very accurate SS-21 missiles, which are capable of taking out Israel's jets while they are still on the ground.

from Porter's most recent release

If War broke out between Israel and Syria:
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2007/10/haaretz-analysis-of-what-israe...

Greg Palast, in a piece titled John Perkins: Jerk, Conman, Shill posted on his website www.gregpalast.com, captures the profound ambiguity in the author’s character in the following colourful language:

To steal millions, you need a top team of armed robbers. But to steal billions, you need PhD’s with colour charts and economic projections made of fairy dust and eye of newt. Perkins had it all – including a magical thing called a computer-generated spreadsheet (this was well before Excel)…..

But, as in every moral tale, Perkins, the modern Dr. Faust, found redemption in confession…..

And in his writings today, Perkins’ heart goes out to the Third World targets of this new empire ruled by shock troops and spread sheets. His empathy extends to those in the occupied territory known as the USA. Because, says Perkins, when the wretchedly ripped-off of the Earth rise in rebellion, the lash of the backlash is felt by the children of the lobstermen of New Hampshire, shivering under Humvees in Falluja, and never the EHM’s clients’ fortunate sons, frolicking in their Ferraris.

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Article/John_Perkins.html

The modern corporation (or government) demands a certain ignorance and naïvetè of its employees if they are to serve its purpose of maximising profit (or voter support). Only a few are privileged to have the opportunity to see through illusions, opt out and warn others. It is a role where success is improbable.

The title chosen for Perkins’ second book on American financial strategies, The Secret History of the American Empire, invites the reader to revisit and reconsider events like the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and ponder on it as the product of a team of economic hit men. It also raises daunting questions about the longer-term viability of major global institutions like the World Bank and IMF.

There is one story of carrying a book by Joseph Stiglitz during travels to Tibet and of reflections about closely related concerns. Globalization and Its Discontents explains spreading discontent and criticism about the international financial institutions. It does this from the perspective of one who served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, was Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank and was the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. Yet, it is important to understand why it is John Perkins and not Joseph Stiglitz who will have the greater impact on the popular American consciousness.

Excellent comments section at the bottom of this post.

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/10/rational-approach-to-political-is...

MIA!
Submitted by bibimimi on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 5:31pm.
I want 2 B this girl!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NVfuSFREmU

hot like bunha!

*

"Barkeep...a double Ron Rico, neat, Red Stripe chaser. Oh, & an ice pack for my lap!"

Sweet jayzeus, is that chica legal?

...and these are the bloggers I'm stuck with!?! ;)

Jesus...I'm even wearing a tie!!!

and *this* is what I get!?!

rap videos?

jesus...

I woulda stayed in the pen!

in his second book...it makes one want to go get the first book and read it over...

better luck next time?

(Oh, BTW -- found a job today...start tomorrow...after that it is 3 12s a week, wed-fri, oh well, it's a start)

Go back. Nobody's stopping you.

some CDs I have on hold...I have about 3 dozen CDs on hold...picked up almost a dozen today.

Dont cha wish your library was hot like Seattle's
Dont cha wish your library was a freak like Seattle's
Dont cha, dont cha
Dont cha wish your library was raw like Seattle's
Dont cha wish your library was fun like Seattle's
Dont cha, dont cha

Still wasting your life trolling this site?

How many years does this make?

What a true loser.

Good to see you!

absolutely never!

And you're still boring.

Congrats!

(I think...)

;) WORK SUCKS!

find it yourself.

You type one handed all the time.

so NEENER! :)

the whole time you were in the tropics and he never said a good

word about you. Let himn go and don't let him goad you. Keep moving

forward. PD

But Naomi Klein, Warren Buffet, Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro couldn't make it. I guess you'll have to settle with us.

I think Obama is doing something on myspace tonight. Maybe you want to go blog with him. I hear he appreciates a nice tie.

Good to see you

Music...paints?

.

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

and `my pet goad' is still the infantile boor he ever was.

what do you think he gets out of trolling, year after year?

perhaps this is as close to a relationship he'll ever have?

very, very sad...

Pants, maybe?

Remembrance

I love the smell of burning flesh in the morning.

Now I'm gonna go chop some onions.

Some new music in the works, should be ready in the next few days.

Also playing some avant garde jazz/noise with some friends tomorrow night. A halloween conjuring.

FILTERED internet!

It is light and oh, so sparklie!

I's got all those nasty heavy toxins removed!

delicious and so good for you!

effervescent!

Anyone feel like a skype session?

Jimmer been around?

or AO

Details Grasshoper :)

haven't seen you for a coon's age!

How hard is it to install skype for goodness sakes

I see your ploy

right now.

15 minutes left on this computer.

it wasn't too much fun, to say the least.

mostly wingnut meth-smokers...gangsters of all descriptions.

low IQ types...6th grade drop outs and the FOXnews addled...pretty much what you'd expect.

no administrative rights...no install at all!

Good Fortunes ...... and Blessings :)

:D

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but, I got a job, so an apartment is the next step!

very tight market out here... But I'll find something quick!

my Cats are depending on me!

:(

Pretty please with a cherry on top .......... Yummmmm

is hardfest when you fight it...when you use his own energy against him you fare better.

like judo..?

?

He sent me a letter while I was down.

and, most surprizingly, BIG bucks!

he forgot the zip code and it took several months to get to me!

I'm going to send him a postcard...someday...

I know exactly what you mean, and you are right.

They had a Kazoo band. It was flat....like Kazoo bands always are!

I stuck around to hear the marching band and ...sure enough,....

the clarinet section was flat, too.

library allows exactly 60 minutes of computer/internet use...then out you go!

I just stopped in to pick up some Bruce Hornsby CDs and a Tony Hillerman mystery.

I might drop off at the sport's bar and have a burger before going to crash...maybe blog when I get there (not the bar)?

got to be AT work @6am tomorrow!

Yikes!

Welcome back!

Center for American Progress.
Are you tired of Bush cronyism? Have you had enough of the ineptitude? Are you concerned that the way this administration has handled the war on terror is making us LESS safe?

The Bush administration treats the war on terror as a way to pad the pockets of friends, such as Halliburton and Blackwater. These companies are making a killing on the taxpayer dime and failing to deliver on services and products promised... or worse, destroying our reputation by their “malfeance” (make that malfeasance). We need oversight in Afghanistan, the real front in the war on terrorists. With Osama bin Laden and the Taliban roaming free in the Afghani countryside, bungling reconstruction there will only help them recruit more terrorists hell-bent on attacking us.

CONGRESS NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU RIGHT NOW!

Fortunately, Congress can do something positive to improve the situation. The House and the Senate are meeting in conference in the next couple weeks to iron out the details on the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (HR1585). While both bills include a Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Senate passed a version that is much more comprehensive. It oversees all of our reconstruction efforts there, not just the Department of Defense’s efforts.

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

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

Paco de Lucia - Entre dos aguas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s

Paco De Lucia, John Mclaughlin y Al Di Meola - Mediterranean Sundance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEZrB_FDw4c

For those of you who can read French here is a funny site.
http://www.cooper1001.com/new/fr/

They need to hire someone who can actually speak French instead of using some translating program.
If you read thru one of the paragraphs you will see that they leather out of balls. They don't say from which animals though. They must need a lot of balls to make a coat.

"N'importe quel type de cuir peut être employé comprenant la vache, les cerfs communs, le gosse, la chèvre, l'agneau, le porc, l'annonce quelques espèces de serpent ou les poissons."

In North America, the French word gosse means balls like in testicules. In France it means kids like in brats.

Al Di Meola / Paco De Lucia / John McLaughlin (Friday Night in San Francisco) WOW...!

Paco De Lucia, Entre Dos Aguas

Al Di Meola / Paco De Lucia / John McLaughlin (Friday Night in San Francisco)

Effin WOW...

Paco De Lucia, Entre Dos Aguas

Hi Sam, I live in the Minnesota. We have experienced the loss of jobs in farming and manufacturing and construction. We used to be a big union place where difficult and unpleasant jobs like construction and meat-packing were well paying. I worked for a large computer company that sent all our jobs to another state where they could be 'more flexible' More flexible in this case where they could pay less wages and NO benefits. With the influx of illegal immigration people go after these jobs and the union goes bust and now many jobs that were well paying are not. The corporations and the government are responsible for these losses. The greed of the corporations and the complicity of the government have worked hand-in-hand to make us a lot poorer.I hear many east coast liberals talk about these illegals doing jobs Americans won't do. Jobs like waiting tables, maids etc. Out here we worry about our jobs. We have lost our good manufacturing and skilled trade jobs to these people. No fault of their's. They need jobs and they come here to work. We should raise everybody up not down.
Sam you look like a typical educated east-coast liberal. I love you pati

You lost your jobs to the owners, the union busters. Not to illegals. Union busting is disgusting. So is outsourcing. Go after those who perpetrate those crimes.

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