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Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 6:08pm.
I was floored last night when I heard Chris Dodd's Spanish. I think he is more fluent than I even. His accent was like one would find in the DF, not Norteño, not Castillian. I almost fell out of my chair.

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Dodd is fluent in Spanish. In a recent interview, Dodd talked about being inspired by his parents and John F. Kennedy.

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Following his graduation from Providence College, Dodd, who is fluent in Spanish, spent two years in the Peace Corps working in a rural village in the Dominican Republic.

Upon returning to the United States, Dodd enlisted in the Army National Guard and later served in the U.S. Army Reserves.

Dodd’s commitment to public service and human rights was instilled at an early age by his parents, the late Senator Thomas J. Dodd and Grace Murphy Dodd.

Thomas Dodd was one of the lead prosecutors during the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals before he was elected to the United States Senate.

Link:

http://dodd.senate.gov/~dodd/index.php?q=node/2954

By Jane Hamsher on Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 02:00 pm

From Rep. Zoe Lofgren:

These assertions of executive privilege have wide-ranging implications for both Congress’ day-to-day oversight of the Bush administration and for efforts to hold the President and Vice President accountable.

That is why I introduced the Executive Branch Prosecutions Act. This legislation would suspend the statute of limitations for crimes committed while the president and vice president hold office. Federal law currently suspends the statute of limitations for crimes related to national security. That suspension should extend to any crime committed by the President or Vice President while in office.

President Bush has already shown his willingness to do what he can to avoid scrutiny of his actions even after he leaves office. A federal judge recently struck down part of his 2001 Executive Order giving former presidents and vice presidents the right to review executive orders before they are made public under the Freedom of Information Act. Confronted with this administration’s unprecedented demand for secrecy, Congress must do all it can to inject some measure of accountability and transparency where possible. The Executive Branch Prosecutions Act goes a long way toward accomplishing that goal.
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purdy face
Submitted by Lucille on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 3:50pm.

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Lucille,

Thanks for this post.

It’s great to see a positive and inspirational picture of a woman of color on the blog.

I hope Roberts wins her fight against breast cancer.

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Links:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCallPlusBreastCancerCommunity/story?id=38695...

http://www.komen.org/

http://www.acoustix.com/MP3's/AX%20S&S/Stars%20&%20Stripes.mp3

Every time the people hear the bell of freedom calling, (calling) one and all.
Every living patriotic citizen will answer, (answer) freedom's call.
Everywhere the bold and gallant souls come forth to bear the cross of duty.
Rising up as one to fight and die behind the flag of freedom's beauty.
Patriotic hearts will falter never, following the stars and stripes forever.
Marching to the quest, to east or west, they quell distress, the freed oppressed cry out.

http://www.acoustix.com/ax_stars&stripes.htm

But first the whole epoch of collective artistic production rises reborn in the tunnel of the doomed empire.
A museum of masterpieces from all ages opens up beneath the jerkings of the old Germanic mousetrap.
The church has been blown in two, and the third part, demolished as indicated, is now set up as a prison on the Alexanderplatz (a pleasant break from all work-, Sun-, holi-, and putsch-days).
The green sheet underneath the mousetrap represents the open countryside, while the wheel of fortune beside it (still turning and transforming new lives still tied to it) withstands the test of metaphysics. The tunnel and the two parks are overflowing with Platonic ideas.
Just as they are grabbing the Supreme Dada, the ghost and consequences of the World Wars of 19 January 1908, 8-9 April 1910, 4 September 1912, 13 August and 26 September 1913 violate and overpower him. The exclamation mark, already noticeable in the first floor’s geometry, now becomes Herr von Münchausen’s beanstalk, and with the assistance of his flag (the Supreme Dada personally supports its pole in the cosine of the isosceles angle of all square triangles), he jumps above every illusionist pathology and up to the third floor level, that of initiation.

http://nacip.net/articles/baader_dio-dada-drama.htm

Even Paul Scheerbart pulls up in a crystal coach and plants himself like a bomb beside the dusty crate of architecture.
Meanwhile there appears the first ever Woman unveiling all her secret charms (only a REAL man can become President).
The Association of underground construction engineers and the German Bank fall into ruin, they grab the declaration of 2 August 1914 from the mouth of the Vagina sanguinalis protastata , and thus, from the embryonic conception of the W (Coronation and Founding of the Cosmos; Cassiopeia; Kaiser; Airplane; Tramway; the Sum of all our Woes (Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Chapter 19, verse 17 and subsequent) is born organically part four, the World War.
4th Floor The World War is a newspaper war. In reality it never happened. The Figure of History, whose severed head of authentic Bavarian beeswax has been hung in front of the remnants of a royal Prussian Rex pressure-cooker, would never have allowed the maniacal paroxysm of the World War to become a reality.
That’s why it’s better not to believe newspapers. It’s all hogwash, from the first reports of the mobilization, to Liège, the Battle of the Marne, the retreat from Russia and the armistice — the press has created the World War. The Supreme Dada will put an end to it.
5th Floor This is the world revolution of Communism, the builder’s stone and the madness of the proctatorship of the diletariat (Hausmann), that the world cries out for the big Hand yet refuses to taint its lips with the redemption given by the /W/ . This is the Disgrace of the world’s historical Situation and yet: I will smash it to smithereens: whoever’s not for me is against me (sorry, that’s how they spoke in the past) today, Controlled Economy Communism is the broom with which I’ll sweep the world clean. Here, from this cylinder, on the wings of the pulpit of Hagendorf, I transmit through the ether the final Salvation from suffering and death. Whoever goes to bed without Supreme Dada is a fool.

Go to bed.

Oaxaca Succeeds in Governor Protest

Leaders of the Teacher's Union and Oaxaca People's Assembly (APPO) called successful on Friday a protest in that Mexican state that prevented Governor Ulises Ruiz from presenting his report to the legislature.

Thousands of people started in three points of Oaxaca's capital, to arrive at the legislative palace, where the governor's report had to be presented in a document written by his Government Secretary Teofilo Manuel Garcia Corpus.

APPO head Ermeterio Marino and SNTE Section 22 leader Ezequiel Rosales asserted that the march denounced the assassination of 27 teachers and activists, of which they accused Ruiz' government.

In the demonstration, both organizations demanded from the Institutional Revolutionary Party governor's resignation, and protested detention of around 500 of its activists, after the protests in 2006.

They also denounced the situation of some families, the children of which have remained orphans, due to execution of their parents, as well as torture suffered by the detainees, practiced by police agents.

Deputy Zenen Bravo Castellanos, an APPO supporter, said the mobilization represents the voice of thousands of citizens of that state in the Mexican southwestern area, who have felt affronts in Governor Ruiz' repressive actions.

The Oaxaca legislator said repression there has caused in a year dozens of deaths and hundreds of detainees, besides missing people.

tuckered out here, had a good day today though.

Let Them Know Were Out There! And,We Want The Impeachment Bill Moved Forward !

John.Conyers@mail.house.gov
Or,
http://judiciary.house.gov/Contact.aspx
Randy Rhodes in Detroit: Was Conyers listening to the Kucinich/Cheney Impeachment issue?
By: John Amato on Friday, November 16th, 2007 at 5:15 PM - PST
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I talked to Curt Gayette today and he thought we have a chance to move the impeachment ball forward….Email and call John Conyers office early and often and ask him to proceed with the bipartisan support of Kucinich’s impeach Dick Cheney resolution! Phone: (313) 961-5670 Phone: (202) 225-5126

Bernie Sanders and Russ Feingold have been saying on the radio that they haven’t been hearing from the public on Kucinich’s proposal so they don’t think we want Shooter impeached…If they get calls all week we may get some movement on this…Go here to find your Rep’s info…Your Rep's Info

http://sanders.senate.gov/comments/
http://feingold.senate.gov/contact_opinion.html

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Sign our petition! Thanks !

I support the Fair Elections Now Act (S.1285), the bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate that would create a voluntary system of publicly funded elections. Elections should empower voters and volunteers instead of campaign donors and wealthy special interests. Modeled on the successful Clean Elections programs in cities and states around the country, the Fair Elections Now Act would give congressional candidates an opportunity to win elections by speaking with constituents to earn their trust, respect and votes instead of by chasing campaign dollars. At a time when scandal and corruption sometimes appear to touch all levels of government, I am excited that members of Congress are working to enact a proven solution to the pay-to-play system.

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More bad news for John Howard
by Chris in Paris · 11/17/2007 03:26:00 AM ET
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Uh oh. Bush's friend is in trouble now. A scandal emerges as news of millions of taxpayer dollars to friendly districts (and nothing for districts of the opposition) just as Labor party candidate Kevin Rudd (the earwax guy) opens up an eight point lead.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071116/wl_afp/australiavote;_ylt=AnugtbJMa...

Paulson must believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny
by Chris in Paris · 11/17/2007 02:41:00 AM ET
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Nobody seriously thinks the Bush administration has a "strong dollar" policy and nobody believes the economy is going to continue growing. With daily reports of bad news from Wall Street, only a fool would think good times are just around the corner.

"We have very much a strong dollar policy ... that's in our nation's interest. Our economy, like any other, goes through its ups and downs but I believe the U.S. economy will continue to grow and its long-term strength will be reflected in our currency markets," Paulson told 567 Cape Talk radio.

In two or three years, perhaps, but 2008 is going to be rough sailing thanks to the failures of Bush, Greenspan and the Republicans. Long term in this case means after the Republicans are gone.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/16/AR200711...

Alvin ‘Buzzy’ Krongard resigns. “The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide on Friday, two days after the relationship with the security contractor was sharply criticized by a congressional oversight committee. Erik Prince, Blackwater’s top executive, said the conflict-of-interest questions raised by the connection prompted Alvin ‘Buzzy’ Krongard to submit his resignation.”

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/14/national/w07...

Al Gore goes to the White House. White House spokesman Tony Fratto announced today that “on Monday, November 26th, the President will host the 2007 U.S. recipients of Nobel Prizes, the Nobel Laureates.” As the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore will be in attendance. AJC’s Ken Herman writes, “Should be an interesting reunion of a couple of buddies from the 2000 presidential campaign and its historic aftermath.”

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washingto...

publicity...blackwater must be very sad today

“We used to love America…. But why isn’t the U.S. standing up for Pakistan when we need it most? Is America even listening to us? We are calling them Busharraf now. They are the same man.”

Swift Boat Funder T. Boone Pickens Renegs On John Kerry Million Dollar Offer
By Jane Hamsher on Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 04:51 pm Rich Texas bastard T. Boone Pickens boasted that he would give $1 million to anyone who can disprove “even a single charge” leveled by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who he funded to the tune of $3 milion. Kerry offered to meet with Pickens and do so, with the million dollars going to veterans’ charities.

But now Pickens is reneging:

Pickens, who provided $3 million to bankroll the group during Kerry’s race against President Bush, responded by saying he won’t consider giving Kerry the reward unless he surrenders his combat films, additional military records and wartime journal.

In other words, Pickens was full of bravado when he made the offer in a keynote address in front of a bunch of friendly right wingers at an American Spectator dinner, but when Kerry took him up on it, he was a bit too cowardly to back it up:

“While I am prepared to show they lied on allegation after allegation, you have generously offered to pay one million dollars for just one thing that can be proven false,” Kerry wrote to Pickens. “I am prepared to prove the lie beyond any reasonable doubt.”

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/16/john-kerry-to-swift-boat-funder-t-...

The Executive Crimes Prosecution Act”
By Jane Hamsher on Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 02:00 pm From Rep. Zoe Lofgren:

These assertions of executive privilege have wide-ranging implications for both Congress’ day-to-day oversight of the Bush administration and for efforts to hold the President and Vice President accountable.

That is why I introduced the Executive Branch Prosecutions Act. This legislation would suspend the statute of limitations for crimes committed while the president and vice president hold office. Federal law currently suspends the statute of limitations for crimes related to national security. That suspension should extend to any crime committed by the President or Vice President while in office.

President Bush has already shown his willingness to do what he can to avoid scrutiny of his actions even after he leaves office. A federal judge recently struck down part of his 2001 Executive Order giving former presidents and vice presidents the right to review executive orders before they are made public under the Freedom of Information Act. Confronted with this administration’s unprecedented demand for secrecy, Congress must do all it can to inject some measure of accountability and transparency where possible. The Executive Branch Prosecutions Act goes a long way toward accomplishing that goal.

Bush has defied congressional subpoenas and used his presidential powers to illegally thwart investigations into criminal activity committed by his administration. He openly mocks the whole concept of oversight, as if it were some petty personal snub. This seriously compromises the ability to conduct any investigation within the statute of limitations.

The party elites scoff at Dennis Kucinich and his talk of impeachment, even as the country (and last night’s CNN audience) openly cheers. If Democrats don’t want to dirty their hands holding this lawless administration accountable, at least leave the door open so others with firmer constitutions and a stronger sense of civic duty can do so in the future.

Kucinich/Cheney Impeachment issue?
By: John Amato @ 5:15 PM - PST Curt Guyette (Metro Times) reported that John Conyers had a few words with Randy Rhodes after she gave a keynote speech in Detroit—Peace Action’s 50th anniversary–and the topic of their chat was: Impeaching Dick Cheney! Go to the 19th minute of the vid…

C&Ler Carol emailed me this article:

After her talk, Rhodes knelt alongside Conyers’ chair and they had what looked to be a friendly chat that ended with an embrace. We then collared the always-congenial Conyers and asked him what was going through his mind as he heard Rhodes endorse the call for impeachment and saw the crowd of lefties stand and give that endorsement thunderous applause.

“I can’t tell you,” responded Conyers.

We pressed him, pointing out what he’d told us in the past about impeachment being counterproductive. But that was before Republicans voted to make this an issue, Conyers explained.

“Events have changed the situation,” he said.

But, if what Rhodes told us is accurate, it’s up to us to force the hand of Democrats on this issue. As longtime activist Al Fishman told the assembled crowd at the Westin, the name of the group being celebrated had two components, peace and action…read on

I talked to Curt Gayette today and he thought we have a chance to move the impeachment ball forward….Email and call John Conyers office early and often and ask him to proceed with the bipartisan support of Kucinich’s impeach Dick Cheney resolution! Phone: (313) 961-5670 Phone: (202) 225-5126

Bernie Sanders and Russ Feingold have been saying on the radio that they haven’t been hearing from the public on Kucinich’s proposal so they don’t think we want Shooter impeached…If they get calls all week we may get some movement on this…Go here to find your Rep’s info…

http://tinyurl.com/36fzlq myspace

India.Arie's "private Party"

i have a thing for beauty----

1 question..Do you ever read upthread?
Just kidding ! ;)

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ok gotta go....cleaning to do, for thanksgiving is upon me, and in-laws are coming...YYYYYYYAAAAAAARRRRGGGGG

Wondering why in the hell I'm up this early...

Happy birthday fellow Scorpio!!!! I hope the private party is quite pleasant. May the cats take part!

i always love middle sextion rather thank you very please MMR if you have to know!!

We went to a celebration over the weekend and stumbled upon what might be some big news. The emphasis, though, is on the words "might be." The occasion was Peace Action's 50th anniversary, with the local affiliate marking the milestone in high style with a soiree at the Westin Hotel in Southfield on Sunday afternoon. With a who's who list of local lefties among the 350 in attendance, the banquet room was filled with an air of camaraderie and high hopes. You would think that after seven years of the worst administration in U.S. history, and more than five years of a disastrous war in Iraq, the peaceniks would be left somber and reeling. But with people in the audience who've been activists since before the group that would become Peace Action was founded in 1957, it was possible to take a longer view, and to see that there've been crusades before that seemed daunting, but were won in the end.

Maybe it's the fact that change is most likely when things are at their worst, and that, in some ways, our situation has never seemed more dire. Look at the polls regarding public support for George Bush or the need to end the Iraq War and it is obvious that a sprawling swath of Middle America has caught up with what people gathered at the Westin Hotel have long been saying. That's certainly cause to celebrate. And the fact that a group like Peace Action has survived for a half century is surely reason to sing and dance.

The event's highlight came in the form of keynote speaker Randi Rhodes, a popular host on the liberal talk radio network Air America (heard locally on WDTW-1310 AM). Rhodes delivered a series of one-liners — not jokes, but rather elements of the progressive canon. From opposition to "pre-emptive war" to the privatization of conflict ("The military is not in service to corporations, " said Rhodes, "and corporations are not the military.") to warrantless searches, seizures and wiretaps being conducted in the name of national security, she laid these touchstones down one by one until they formed both a link to the past and a road to the future, all built on the bedrock foundation that our Constitution is the law of the land and that no man is above it.

http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12025

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A jot here, a tittle there....

i did look up and saw your conyers posting...so i am taking it further now---

bloggers anon telephone number

Group hopes to 'flood the Oval Office' with 25,000 copies of the Constitution
Katie Baker
Published: Friday November 16, 2007

Even though a human rights group believes the Commander in Chief has been naughty, they plan to play Santa Claus this year and make a political statement at the same time.

The Center for Constitutional Rights plans to "flood the Oval Office with copies of the Constitution this holiday season ... as a seasonal reminder that the Constitution needs to be upheld; not destroyed."

Those interested can also sign an accompanying letter addressed to President Bush, which poses a multitude of questions reminding the president "that he swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States."

"I would have hoped that you'd be pretty familiar with [the Constitution] already," writes the anonymous author, "because you have at least three times in your life taken a solemn oath to uphold, protect and defend it, but all the signs indicate that you either don't know what's in it, or you don't care."

The diatribe covers controversial topics such as habeus corpus and torture, and beseeches the President to "uphold, protect and defend [the Constitution], like you swore you would."

Interested parties can donate money to help cover costs if they wish, but the offer itself is completely free. The CCR hopes to send the President more than 25,000 copies of the Constitution by January 2008.

Visit www.ccrjustice.org for more details.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Feel_holiday_spirit_send_Bush_copy_1116.ht...

Power lines confirmed as cause of San Diego wildfire

SAN DIEGO (AP) — California's state fire agency said Friday that sparking power lines ignited the largest of the wildfires that ravaged Southern California last month. The fire killed two people, burned over 300 square miles and destroyed more than 1,000 homes.
The fire, which blew into the heart of north San Diego from chaparral-covered canyons to the east, merged with a smaller fire also caused by power line sparks, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

State authorities previously blamed a third fire on downed power lines. That fire burned through nearly 15 square miles in a rural area near the community of Fallbrook, destroying 206 homes and damaging avocado groves.

All three fires are in the service area of San Diego Gas & Electric Co., which serves 3.4 million customers in San Diego and southern Orange counties.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-16-wildfires-causes_N.htm?cs...

No crazy political dreams to report this morning, sorry. Have a great day.

and I don't remember what it was about.

Typical.

but wanted to leave this for Shell/Alice

No problem, plenty of political dreams you can share right here. Why not start with Impeachment, your dreaming if you think it is ever gonna happen!

Now I really feel like Im saying Good Morning - because it is mornin'. 8:10a.m. to be exact.

Chicago Tribune Headlines for November 17 2007

"A call for equal justice"
"Cops drop hammer on towing scam"
"Head starts changing face"
"GOP rivals get probe into dirty trick 'poll'
"Study : Feminists are better mates"
"Net hoax turns deadly, turns town against neighbors"
"Peterson's 3rd wife was killed, experts claim"

HAVE A GREAT DAY!
HAVE A BIG COCKTAIL ON ME
&
TAKE A BIG HUG

Hillary vs. Obama

by Robert Novak

Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party's presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it. The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed.

This word-of-mouth among Democrats makes Obama look vulnerable and Clinton look prudent. It comes during a dip for the front-running Clinton after she refused to take a stand on New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's now discarded plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

The video shot back in 1990's of Obama using cocaine may yet surface. Could be a career ending moment for Osama.

If Obama has some dirty dark secret that reflects on his character it should be known by the America people. No person should vote for anyone with scandel lurking behind their life and actions! We the people deserve to know the truth.

I'm thinking Bush and Cheney should be brought up for war crime charges in the world court. Impeachment? That's too good for them.

Who doesn't have a scandal lurking somewhere?

All I know is, if the rightwingnutjobs are starting to attack Obama, it means he's finally becoming a legit threat to them. So, good for Obama!

So Kerry takes them up on the offer to prove they had lied - but they take the million dollars off the table.

Pussies.

Plus, Kerry was going to donate the million to disabled veterans. Why do the Swift Boaters hate our troops?

Pussies.

It's Hillary that has the goods. Well, you could be right. Hillary is almost a Republican!

i'd say truth commission like they had in SA...before the whole world!!

If she's "almost a Republican", then so is Dennis Kucinich, as their respective voting records say they are pretty much the same in that respect. Obama is the most liberal of the Dems running at this time, even though he's running a more conservative campaign.

ps:

I like that Obama says he's not running to be President of just the blue states or the red states, but of all America. That's a nice sentiment and I wish more politicians would at least say stuff like this.

say happy birthday to alice! here's hoping this year is the best yet!

and to leave this for tonid. looks like something you might be interested in...and it's in your neighborhood. (though it seems that US courts might not be the least biased place for a trial on this...geneva or brussels maybe?)

Litigating Human Rights Violations: Can the Arab- Israeli Conflict be confronted in US courts

Maria Lahood is a visiting assistant clinical professor at Northwestern law school's McArthur Justice Center and senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Maria specializes in International Human Rights litigation, seeking to hold the government officials accountable for torture, extrajudicial killings, and war crimes abroad.

I'm jonesin for the latest installment. Was there one this week? I think the "headroom" effects are due to a syncing issue that comes about when Maron tries to interject during a Seder soliloquy. When Maron is talking there seems to be no problem. On my end the problems arise only when Marc tries to interject; (i.e. get in a word edgewise.)

Another name for Maron's opening diatribe..."Cats and Catastrophes"

Keep up the struggle. I'm eager to pay for the service.

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, that in the time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality"

Can this be something for Ring of Fire's GoLeft.tv ?

Well, Hillary's vote on Iran might be a problem. And Dennis Impeachment bill another. But in any event Hillary will soon be the only game in town.

Don't mess with Hillary or you'll get the horns !

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 9:20am.

Hillary vs. Obama

by Robert Novak

Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party's presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it. The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed.

This word-of-mouth among Democrats makes Obama look vulnerable and Clinton look prudent. It comes during a dip for the front-running Clinton after she refused to take a stand on New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's now discarded plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

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Obama using cocaine ?
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 9:21am.
The video shot back in 1990's of Obama using cocaine may yet surface. Could be a career ending moment for Osama.

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Let the truth be known !

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 9:25am.
If Obama has some dirty dark secret that reflects on his character it should be known by the America people. No person should vote for anyone with scandel lurking behind their life and actions! We the people deserve to know the truth.

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Oooh, neat-o! A horse's-ass whisperer campaign!

May I rudely cut to the chase?

It is a widely-known political-insider's secret: Barack Obama snorted cocaine offa Hillary Clinton's bare ass-cheek (the left one, natch) whilst George W. Bush nose-tackled a powder trail on the starboard cheek whilst they was all-three engaged inna four-way eatin'-ain't-cheatin' frolic w/Robert A Gentleman Never Tells Novak, all secretly filmed by Dick Cheney for use inna time and place of his choosing.

Hence the saying: "politics makes strange voyeuristic coke-snorting bedfellows".

You can even google it. I'm sure it's there somewhere.

Well it did seem odd that Obama was so meek in the last debate. Maybe he a a reason to back off Hillary.

She's not my fave but I like her ok.

I don't consider her "republican lite" ... or a corporatist. At least no more or less than anyone in the political playing field accusing her of being that.

You make that sound like a bad thing. There is nothing wrong with working with the lobbyists, it is perfectly legal. And you can't be the top fund raiser in the world without corporate money. Capitalism is the heart and soul of the Untied States.

... it's true you can't rise to the top without the big bucks.

Iran 'tried to buy nuclear items 75 times'

By Alex Spillius

Last Updated: 1:52am GMT 17/11/2007

Iran has tried 75 times in the last five years to buy materials that could be used for making a nuclear weapon, it has been reported, as Teheran vowed "never" to give up the pursuit of nuclear power.

Diplomatic sources told the New York Times that the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, an off-shoot of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, had refused repeated Iranian requests to buy "dual-use" products - useful for peaceful or military ends.

The group, which aims to control and monitor the trade of nuclear-related materials, keeps its records secret. But a leaked list of items sought by Iran included key ingredients such as nickel powder, compressors, furnaces, steel flanges and fittings and electron microscopes.

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The 75 refusals were from only seven of the 45 member states, suggesting that Iran had made many more efforts to buy sensitive goods.

Swift Boat Pussies
Submitted by mystic23 on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 9:29am.
So Kerry takes them up on the offer to prove they had lied - but they take the million dollars off the table.

Pussies.

Plus, Kerry was going to donate the million to disabled veterans. Why do the Swift Boaters hate our troops?

Pussies.
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The Swift Boat people are already regarded as the most loathesome pieces of shit in the American political arena. They are already historical jokes.

I'll never forget the night Chris Matthews had one of those morons on this show-- a Bubba who weighed probably 350 pounds, had a $5 or home-done haircut and a 1/4 inch brow-- dumbest, ugliest hick you've ever seen telling the most horrid lies about John Kerry.

To this day I want to beat the shit out of that moron.

-M the a-c

Kerry decided against launching a second bid for president, but vowed to defend his record and prevent other candidates from being “Swift-boated.”

Damn shame what happened to Kerry. Those protests and that metal toss sure didn't help him at all. Hillary won't make that same mistake. Hillary plans to be tough on terrorism. Her vote on Iran shows she is going to run as a tough Commander in Chief.

None of this wishy-washy, namby-pamby stuff for Hill!

and thanks Star Vox for the Dodd info.

have a great one Alice

Democrats Unable to Bring Troops Home
By ANNE FLAHERTY – 14 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year after anti-war voters put them in power, congressional Democrats remain unable to pass legislation ordering troops home from Iraq. Frustrated by Republican roadblocks, Democrats now plan to sit on President Bush's $196 billion request for war spending until next year — pushing the Pentagon toward an accounting nightmare and deepening their conflict with the White House on the war.

"We're going to continue to do the right thing for the American people by having limited accountability for the president and not a blank check," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a $50 billion bill by Democrats that would have paid for several months of combat but also would have ordered troop withdrawals from Iraq to begin within 30 days. The measure, narrowly passed this week by the House, also would have set a goal of ending combat in December 2008.

The 53-45 vote was seven votes short of the 60 needed to advance. It came minutes after the Senate rejected a Republican proposal to pay for the Iraq war with no strings attached.

Now, Democratic leaders say they won't send President Bush a war spending bill this year. They calculate the military has enough money to run through mid-February.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcWJu9bbzrJZ7uNHjvMn0BuTGqHQD8SV4AN00

threeeeeeaaaad
new
Submitted by Lauren on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 12:16am.

:)
what wuz the lovely ms kirchner doing up so late?

i dig me sum midnight oil, i burn me very l'il.

:)
Better late than never!

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

Columnist: 'When did we become like Syria?'Jason Rhyne
Published: Saturday November 17, 2007

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The secretive US policy of transferring suspected terrorists abroad for severe interrogations is akin to something the Syrian government would do, according to a Syrian-American columnist and lawyer.

"When visiting my grandmother's house in Damascus a few years ago, I never could have imagined sitting one day in a U.S. court, listening to the U.S. government defend its covert transfer of a Canadian citizen to Syria to be tortured," writes Salon columnist Alia Malek. "Yet, that's precisely what happened..."

Malek's column is entitled "When did we become like Syria?"

The columnist was present in court last week for the appeal of Maher Arar (above right, with daughter), a Canadian born in Syria who was arrested by US officials in 2002, purportedly for his suspected links to Al Qaeda. "He was denied access to counsel and access to a court. Twelve days later he was sent in chains and shackles to Syria," writes Malek. "There he was tortured for nearly a year and coerced into making a false confession, before being released after the tireless campaigning of his wife."

Arar's case against the US government, originally thrown out by a lower court, is the first legal challenge to the policy of rendition, the transfer of American-held detainees to foreign countries known to employ torture measures.

"The interrogation lasted about seven or eight hours, and then they came, and shackled me and chained me," Arar told 60 Minutes II in 2004 about his experience in US custody. "I said, 'What's happening here?' And they would not tell me. They said, ‘You are gonna know tomorrow.'...What they accused me of being is very serious. Being a member of al Qaeda."

Two weeks later, Arar was deported to Syria, according to CBS. "They read me the document. They say, 'The INS director decided to deport you to Syria,'"Arar said in the interview. "And of course, the first thing I did was I started crying, because everyone knows that Syria practices torture." Arar was later released -- a year and a half after his arrest -- following a protracted campaign from his wife, Monia, who lobbied the Canadian government to look into the matter.

Early this year, the innocent Arar was awarded $9 million and an apology from Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.

"The story is already disturbing, surreal, Kafkaesque," continues Malek. "It also left me with this realization: The sharp line I had drawn as a child -- between what could happen to a person under a dictatorship like Syria's and what could never happen to a person under a constitutional democracy like that of the U.S. -- seemed to be disappearing."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Columnist_When_did_we_become_like_1114.htm...

"toodle-f*cking-oo??!"
Submitted by bibimimi on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 1:01pm.
--Dr. Jennifer Melfi
*******
Who is Dr.Jennifer Melfi?
Thanks :)

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

Publishers Clearinghouse can suck it!

mornin' rules!

practice now gotta get the other from tutoring...no rest for the wicked i guess...will pop in later--while cleaning---

The Soprano's Dr.?

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

First you need a tv.

Then you need cable or Satellite.

Then you need to buy HBO.

Then you must get off the blog to watch it.

So never mind.

she's Tony Soprano's shrink.
she runs in to him casually one night, he gives her a really warm kinda 'see ya later', she waves and gives a very coquettish 'toodle-oo!' and then later berates herself for being so dippy. it was amusing...like seeing some guy you boinked and having to act so cool...

Be safe..

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

oh, *raspberry*!

A better drama question for a regular.

Who is Chubby and why did he do time?

They know that one!

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

ßlonde master race Fox newswench

Sieg Fox!

Didn't mean to point out that you have no life.

I just love the girls they hire. They look hot!

don't take no fertilizer!

to see A Crime Family At Work..
We Have One In The Whitehouse !!
Pay attention Dim Wit!!

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

they cook with gas, unfortunately it's all from their buh-ind.

or $...

i have 2 relocate

l8r, mein chickens!

IF there was even a grain of truth in that, don't you think they would have been impeached by now? Or are you trying to up in inventory in this dream world?

I have even less of a life and have to live vicariously through you.

keiran
Melfi and Toni had the hottest non sex scenes ever. Did they really "go all the way?" I cancelled cable for my kids sake. They get to watch videos tho.

I hope you have a most excellent day.

http://www.samsedershow.com/vod

... HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME! ;)

*******
Ms_Anthrope ; *poof*

hope it's a superb day for you!

.

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

5 of the best...3 older ones 1 done with college other 2 in college than as i said i am never satisfied...i started all over again....2 little ones (had to become a citizen one way or another) just kidding Grover is the best american ever ever...

O’Reilly attacks the LA Times for lecturing the Pope! Forgets he called John Paul a “Saddam Enabler!”

And,2 little ones..Man.Good for you!
I can barely take care of myself..Props to you!
My Mom had 5 too..
I'm the youngest..The wiseass of the family..
Coulda guessed,aye?
When is you Birthday? :)

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

toodle doo

Lindsay: "Eighty-four minutes! I clocked it."
Paris: "I spent more time walking to and from the slammer. Twice."
Nicole: "I did eighty-two minutes, but I write faster than Lindsay does."
Britney: "I can't drive!"
Lindsay, Paris and Nicole: "We knew that!"
Britney: "I mean, I can't drive my kids."
Paris: "To do what?"
Britney: "To do anything!"
Nicole: "You need a nanny."
Britney: "I need a chauffeur."
Lindsay: "I need a drink."
Paris: "I need an endorsement."
Nicole: "I need a cigarette."

is this why you such a little brat? HA my birthday is April 11th, my mom had 11 and i am the 7th and all alone here in the US...tough mutha fucka i am....teeheeheeheee....will be back ( i am the only greedy one though with so many kids, rest have 1 or 2 thats it)

best of the day to all!

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

Again, Happy Birthday! Why don't we swap birthday presents? Since you're in the neighborhood of Hollywood and all, I'll take this...let me know what you'd like. :-)

Rules?

I saw Sammy's name up there..
I was waiting on a new thread..
But,nada !

Your a Taurus like me..
I'm the 25th of April..
We be stubborn but,creative..

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

aries forever baby..the ram....pretty pretty subborn no lie about that...oldest brother is 4/25..sweetest loyal "stubborn" person ever too...

I can never remember the dates..

Oh ya,I can be stubborn..
My late Wife was a Taurus too..
We could out stubborn each other..Hee!

When are the in-laws coming to town?
Soon?

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

they live in the town....mmmmmpppphhhhh...but they will be coming over for thanksgiving to stare in my fucking face....but i will be ok as usual...

Gobble ;)

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

word to big bird!!!

We have contard spammy hammy meltdown in the AAR blog.
Neo-con mice are playing since the cat is...where is the cat?

One election at a time...

I warned him about that..

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

Communities buying stronger water-treatment chemicals to make water drinkable
With drought tightening its grip on the Southeast, the Atlanta area's reservoirs are almost down to the dregs -- the dirtier, more bacteria-laden water close to the bottom -- and it's going to require more aggressive and more expensive purification.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_re_us/drought_dregs;_ylt=Al3nf...

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Study: 320 million trees killed by Katrina, fueling global warming

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U.S. researchers say the millions of trees killed or severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have become a major source of carbon dioxide emissions. Forest trees act as a carbon sink, sucking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to provide themselves with food.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2007/11/16/study_320_million_trees_...

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Climate change: Expect extinction of large numbers of species

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Melting ice sheets that could lead to a rapid rise in sea levels and the extinction of large numbers of species brought about by even moderate amounts of warming, on the order of 1 to 3 degrees.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/science/earth/17climate.html?ei=5065&e...

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UN issues dire
climate report

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The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer age at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of species extinction.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21844627/

Saudi minister warns
of dollar collapse

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The dollar could collapse if Opec officially admits considering changing the pricing of oil into alternative currencies such as the euro.

http://www.thebusiness.co.uk/news-and-analysis/358346/saudi-minister-war...

Bush has destroyed the importance of the US dollar around the world

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"An American businessman over here who is given the choice would take anything but the dollar," David Buik of Cantor Index said yesterday. "I would want to be paid in yen, and if not yen then the euro or sterling."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3169638.ece

Court rejects early
Michigan primary

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A state appeals court on Friday dealt a blow to Michigan political leaders' hopes of holding a presidential primary on Jan. 15.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071117/ap_po/michigan_primary;_ylt=AlZscVE9...

PBS' Moyers on planned media consolidation rule change: FCC/industry 'revolving door' moves to further give away your airwaves
Nick Langewis
Published: Saturday November 17, 2007

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was heavily criticized by members of the public, along with his colleagues, at the sixth and final public hearing, held on November 9, 2007, on his planned changes to rules on media consolidation.

Input from the public, leading up to the vote, is being accepted until December 11, 2007.

Attendees were heavily suspicious of the short notice given, five business days, as a tactic to prevent more of the public from learning about the hearings, as well as being able to attend and provide input in an already short time window before the commission's vote takes place.

Running this hearing with five days' notice, and then trying to jam media consolidation through by mid-December, to me is damning evidence, by the total abuse of the process itself, that you're up to some kind of no good.

If this is a legitimate issue, then it deserves and demands a legitimate public process to determine the outcome.

You ought to be ashamed of yourselves for not respecting the democracy you live in. --Hearing participant

Martin's proposed changes, condemned by colleagues, senators, and the public alike, would soften rules on media ownership to allow the owner of a newspaper in one of twenty major cities to also own a television or radio station, a move seen by some as a homogenization of news coverage and content, nonetheless a handout to already thriving media giants.

More here:

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

Obama: Don't 'swift boat' me

By: Mike Allen and Ben Smith
Nov 17, 2007 12:54 PM EST

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) took the rare step of issuing a statement in his own name on Saturday to call attention to a report by columnist Robert D. Novak that New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is sitting on “scandalous” information about Obama.

The information was not described and there is no proof it exists.

Obama accused Clinton of “Swift boat’ politics” and vowed he will not be intimidated.

“I am prepared to stand up to that kind of politics, whether it's deployed by candidates in our party, in the other party or by any third party,” Obama said. “The cause of change in this country will not be deterred or sidetracked by the old ‘Swift boat’ politics. The cause of moving America forward demands that we defeat it.”

Howard Wolfson, Clinton's campaign communications director, said she has "no idea" what the item is about.

"Once again Sen. Obama is echoing Republican talking points, this time from Bob Novak," he said in an e-mailed statement.

"This is how Republicans work. A Republican-leaning journalist runs a blind item designed to set Democrats against one another. Experienced Democrats see this for what it is. Others get distracted and thrown off their games. Voters should be concerned about the readiness of any Democrat inexperienced enough to fall for this. There is only one campaign in this race that has actually engaged in the very practice that Sen. Obama is decrying, and it's his. We have no idea what Mr. Novak's item is about and reject it totally. Instead of pointing fingers at us, Sen. Obama should get back to the issues and focus on what this election is really about."

The dual objective of the Obama claim is clear.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6949.html

busy cleaning up big job!

I'm gone for a bit myself

My youngest child has the same birthday as you do, was almost the day before. A wee hours o' the mawnin' child.

Superbugs caused by anti-bacterial soap?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR200711...

Maybe, maybe not, but we sure didn't have these MRSA ills 5 years ago, or even 10.

Photo O)ps or Time Wasting BS Sessions?
Phyllis Bennis
** The agenda for the talks has not yet been finalized, but it will not include the goal of reversing Israeli occupation and dispossession and ending Israel's discriminatory apartheid policies.

** Because of U.S.-Israeli control of the agenda, "success" in Annapolis will depend on whether the Palestinian leadership can be coerced to sign on to a U.S.-Israeli text that many Palestinians will view as further abandonment of Palestinian national goals, and many in international civil society will see as violations of international law and human rights. There are serious questions whether the meeting as currently envisioned will be convened at all because of Palestinian refusal to accept U.S.-backed Israeli preconditions.

** With the U.S.-Israeli-led international boycott remaining intact, the conference is unlikely to lead to any even short-term improvement in the humanitarian crisis exploding across Gaza.
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=14307&sectionID=107

This is more of the same old BULLSHIT! US/Israel do not want a just settlement. This exercise will ensure another cycle of violence.

Submitted by Annette on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 4:22pm.
Superbugs caused by anti-bacterial soap?
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I have the VW joke. What I don't have is an audience old enough to get it.

If the U.S.-Israeli goals for Annapolis are realized, they would probably lead to the following "two-state solution" results:

Borders
A Palestinian "state" would be announced on a series of non-contiguous truncated Bantustan-like cantons comprising something less than 50% of the West Bank plus Gaza. Israel might, with great fanfare, charitably "adjust" very slightly the current route of the Apartheid Wall to seize slightly less land that the current route (which Israeli Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni earlier announced would be the basis for any border). All of the West Bank's major water aquifers will remain on the Israeli side of the Wall.

Settlements
All the major West Bank settlement blocs would remain intact on the Israeli side of the Wall, leaving between 180,000 and 200,000 of the current 250,000 West Bank settlers in place. With great fanfare most of the 105 small symbolic "outpost" settlements constructed since 2001, which together house only about 2000 settlers, will be dismantled. The entire Jordan Valley would remain in Israeli hands. In exchange, Palestinians would be offered a "land swap" which would almost certainly involve a significantly smaller amount of land, of far less arability and viability.

Refugees
The Palestinian right of return, codified not only in general international law but specifically in UN resolution 194 (1949), has already been officially rejected by Israel but also by the United States, in the Bush-Sharon letter exchange of April 2004. Israel's Annapolis agenda plans to reassert that rejection though a demand that the Palestinians accept language recognizing the "Jewish character" of Israel, or accepting the definition of Israel as "the state of the Jewish people" as opposed to a state of its own citizens. So far Palestinian officials have indicated they will not accept that language, which Israeli Prime Minister Olmert says is a precondition to any negotiations. The rejection of the right of return will be further entrenched by an Israeli "offer" to Palestinian refugees the privilege of "returning" to the erstwhile new "Palestinian state," rather than the right to return to their actual home territory inside what is now Israel.

Jerusalem
International law (UN Security Council resolution 181, which divided Palestine into what was supposed to become a Jewish and an Arab state) calls for Jerusalem to belong to neither state, but rather to be a "separate body" under international jurisdiction. Virtually no governments (not even the U.S.) recognize Israel's annexation of occupied Arab East Jerusalem, and numerous UN resolutions have reaffirmed that East Jerusalem is occupied territory. The Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem (known as neighborhoods, not settlements) include over 200,000 Israeli settlers, and they will remain in Israeli hands. The Israeli position in Annapolis will call for continuing Israeli control of all of Jerusalem, with some kind of Israeli-controlled "autonomy" for Palestinian neighborhoods and parts of the Old City's Muslim shrines.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1685199,00.html

A Last Warning on Global Warming

The language of science, like that of the United Nations, is by nature cautious and measured. That makes the dire tone of the just-released final report from the fourth assessment of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a network of thousands of international scientists, all the more striking. Global warming is "unequivocal." Climate change will bring "abrupt and irreversible changes."...
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Who ya gonna believe, Rush Limbaugh or a bunch of lyin' scientists?

Such a fun surprise to wake up to... whatta bunch of £o♡es!
THANK YOU!!

♡xoxo♡

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Opening monologue...
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheOuting.htm

Jerry: I don't know about you, but I'm getting sick of pretending to be excited every time it's somebody's birthday, you know what I mean? What is the big deal?

How many times do we have to celebrate that someone was born?

Every year, over and over... All you did was not die for twelve months.

That's all you've done, as far as I can tell.

Now those astrology things where they tell you all the people that have the same birthday as you? It's always an odd group of people too, isn't it? It's like Ed Asner, Elijah Muhammed and Secretariat.

"Everything for everyone, and nothing for ourselves."
-Zapatista slogan.

The group was founded on November 17, 1983 by non-indigenous members of the FLN guerrilla group from Mexico's urban north and by indigenous inhabitants of the remote Las Caadas/Selva Lacandona regions in eastern Chiapas. Over the years, the group slowly grew, building on social relations among the indigenous base and making use of an organizational infrastructure created by peasant organizations and the Catholic church. The Zapatistas appeared on the national and international scene on January 1, 1994, the same day that the North American Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada became operational, as a way of stating the presence of indigenous peoples in a globalized world.

Indigenous fighters wearing the black ski masks (pasamontaas) or red bandanas (paliacates) that have since become the group's trademark, some of them armed only with fake wooden rifles, took hold of five municipalities in Chiapas. There was token resistance in four of those and hundreds of casualties in and around the city of Ocosingo. The Zapatistas officially declared war against the Mexican government, and announced their plans to march towards Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, either defeating the Mexican army or allowing it to surrender and imposing a war tax on the cities that they conquered in their way. After just a few days of localized fighting in the jungle, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, then in his last year in office, offered a cease-fire agreement and opened dialog with the rebels, whose official spokesperson was Subcomandante Marcos. After twelve days, the fighting stopped.

The dialogue between the Zapatistas and the government extended over a period of three years and ended with the San Andrs Accords, which entailed modifying the national constitution in order to grant special rights, including autonomy, to indigenous people.

on Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTV3RWxekQ
Does Capitalism ways lead to Democracy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9WKWgXi1o&feature=related

hoarse, hoarser, horse

Now I have to look it up, I vaguely remember Ed Asner's birthday being in Nov...I must investigate now...

Oh no...
well this might explain why I can't paraphrase anything
I have too much useless vague information in my brain...

Tony Blair: ‘I wanted war.’ In an upcoming BBC documentary entitled The Blair Years, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair “admitted for the first time that he ignored the pleas of his aides and ministers to deter President Bush from waging war on Iraq because he believed that America was doing the right thing. And he has acknowledged that he turned down a last-ditch offer from Mr Bush to pull Britain out of the conflict.” By the spring of 2004, Blair was suffering a “crisis of confidence” about the decision he made:

Tony Blair suffered an extraordinary crisis of confidence which almost triggered his resignation three years before he left office, his friends have suggested.

In the spring of 2004, Mr Blair was deeply depressed by the failure to secure a lasting peace in Iraq and relations had plummeted to a new low with Gordon Brown because of his refusal to set a date to quit 10 Downing Street.

http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/the_blair_years/article288654...

a bunch of hot chicks

Elle MacPherson, Lucy Lawless, Jill Goodacre, Jennifer Capriati, Amy Sedaris, Annabella Sciorra, Marina Sirtis...they used up all the hot B4 they got to me.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned Saturday that oil prices could hit 200 dollars if the United States attacked Iran or Venezuela, in an opening speech at a summit of OPEC leaders.

"If the United States was mad enough to attack Iran or aggress Venezuela again, the price of a barrel of oil could reach 150 dollars or even 200 dollars," he said.

Greedy bitches!

:)

-Marina Sirtis- - never heard of this one...

Hey Bib..have you ever read an Amy Sedaris book? I've been Amy-curious when I see people checking them out...

make me feel tiny and lucky to get to blog next to you.

Dylan Walsh [from 'Nip/Tuck'...woof!], RuPaul, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Stephen Root [a genius!], Howard Dean, Roland Joffé, Lauren Hutton.

I meant 2 write U back, Alishelle. went out 4 food liquor ans drugs. How's the lair treating u? Hot green tea, sake, or Beaujolais?

I got "I Like You" 4 my sister 4 her birthday. It's art direction reminded me of my mother's old Hamilton Beach blender cookbook.

was Counselor Troi on 'Star Trek--NexGen'

The word APOCALYPSE refers to the idea that a huge approaching confrontation or transformation will dramatically change society. This can have positive outcomes; and, in a sense, all social change organizers are somewhat apocalyptic. Apocalyptic (or millennialist or millenarian) social movements on the Right, however, often combine their apocalypticism with dualistic demonization and scapegoating in a way that promotes hatred and violence directed at an “Other.” Some in the Christian Right employ apocalyptic frames and narratives drawn from the Bible’s book of “Revelations” to justify hostility toward the “sin” of gay marriage or support for the most aggressive policies of the Israeli government toward Palestinians.

from Hard Right Styles, Frames, and Narratives
by Chip Berlet

http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Nov2004/berletpr1104.html

Hope your day has been good.

I am eating 1/2 of a double chocolate chip cup cake in honor of your birthday. It's huge to begin with, so half is enough!

with sour cream frosting? *orgasm*

Fernando, so's yer old man!

for a long time I thought no one new would ever come here... :)

(Not that there's anything wrong with that...)

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-Hamilton Beach blender cookbook-

Have you seen that graphic of all the incarnations of Betty Crocker...it's very disturbing for some reason..

The lair is fun...! I'm not going to move today..that's my gift to me...I've been reprogramming myself to not think about a vaccuum or laundry all damn day...My birth mother's birthday is Nov too..and we both notice every year how hard it is to buy a card that doesn't bring up the whole "when you were born" and "growing up" and all that...She wrote in her card that she wishes she could buy that sort of card...like a small sign of regret for giving me up...odd..She said it was a big big storm in the Bay Area when I was born...and she wrote that good things can come from a horrid, rainy day... *Sniff*...

b. March 30, 1970
d. October 4, 1989

Yum.

feminine ideals are always a creepfest when its a sexualized mommy

MILF

or my favorite Garry Shandling joke "I don't look at other guy's mothers and think 'gee, I wonder what her macaroni and cheese tastes like.'"

hot Greek chick...AND SPEAKING OF WHICH

Hi, Toni!

on the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
(December 1998)

The 50th anniversary of the UD provides a welcome occasion for reflection on such matters, and for steps to advance the principles that have been endorsed, at least rhetorically, by the nations of the world. The chasm that separates words from actions requires no comment; the annual reports of the major human rights organizations provide more than ample testimony. And there is no shortage of impressive rhetoric. One would have to search far to find a place where leadership and intellectuals do not issue ringing endorsements of the principles and bitter condemnation of those who violate them -- notably excluding themselves and their associates and clients.

http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/chomud.htm

didn't somebody do a morph of all the Bettys?

State IG's Brother Gives Waxman Perjury Ammo
Cookie Krongard's brother tells the House Oversight Committee chair what he told TPMmuckraker: he informed Cookie about his Blackwater post weeks ago. And he offers up even more damning information.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004734.php

Gonzo's Got Some 'Splainin' To Do
Fired Washington State USA John McKay, on what Alberto Gonzales could be facing:

"It's apparent that he had a conversation with the president about David Iglesias and David Iglesias was fired six weeks later," he said. "There was real live investigation and the Republicans wanted the indictment out in time to help them in the election, and Iglesias said 'no' and they fired him.
"Now if all of that's true and the attorney general was aware of that when he fired David Iglesias, then he has some 'splainin' to do -- and probably in front of a grand jury."

This isn't the first time that McKay has suggested criminal culpability may attach to Gonzo's conduct. I've had a hard time seeing things evolving very far in that direction, but then again an attorney general doesn't crank up a legal defense fund unless there's a "real live investigation" going on.

--David Kurtz

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2007/nov/15/mckay-former-us-attorney-gener...

I just read something else saying nearly the same thing...

Feeling better today?

I am. Early work and home to take a power nap.

Hot? Maybe years ago! The only ``Hot`` now are flashes!

*NSFW*

I just read something else saying nearly the same thing...

I am Legion.

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

buzzy. That's amazing toniD.

In my mind it went down like this. The aristocracy at Blackwater, insulted with the tarnish of Buzzy's miscalculation, fires Cookie. Cookie can't pay his ho's no mo and goes insane. Then he implicates his brother in a kind of sibling asshattery revenge.

One has to wonder....

Real dang ding dong 2day...it's cold here, tho'. Left the house 2day because they are calling 4 wet snow 2morrow.

Putting Thanksgiving 2gether. We are gonna eat like it's 1999.

THE MOVIE!

Street Fighting Man
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/06/1060145719333.html

Issues and ideas: these are Ali’s comfort zone. His sense of being part of a Muslim world? Clearly, given that he is fervently anti-clerical himself, this invites a comparison between the secular Islamic societies and the religious ones: let us take the case of Iraq and chew on that for a while.

Well, what about the struggle, about the fact that you have devoted your life to an idea of radical social change that now seems further away than ever? Do you never lose heart? But no, that one isn’t going to work either. It is not a matter of heart, but of analysis.

"Regardless of whether we can achieve success or not," he says, "that cannot be the only criterion. Few movements have been successful in that sense since the slave revolts of Spartacus." Spartacus! I try to talk about Ali’s inner life and he dodges the question by more than two millennia.

That is the old lefty way, of course; in the context of class struggle, your own feelings are too small to matter. Actually, I suspect there might be something of the stiff upper lip in there, too. Like many of his countrymen, Ali often sounds like Biggles. "I was fond of Gorbachev. I still am, in a funny sort of way," he muses at one point in our interview. "He was a very decent politician."

Fox News Alert
Always good to check in from time to time on the latest nonsense Ailes' bunch has cooked up:

Because if high gas prices aren't Nancy Pelosi's fault, then whose fault are they?

--David Kurtz

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/059100.php

I have to find that..sounds cool..this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs is the best morph I've seen so far..I think I got it from here...

watch the footage, he had the same smirking 'I'm Lying thru my teeth fuck you' look on his face perfected in the Erik Prince School of Dicketry.

Rove v. Kos: Does pissing off the right and the left really mean Newsweek is doing good journalism?

--David Kurtz

notable exclusion 'Girl With Pearl Earring' and any Klimt

Wow really?! I thought I saw both of them...tho I could be OD'd on art that I don't know if I saw them there or not..

maybe I did, but I waited for Griet

time to wipe out sum tape

I'll watch it again Monday... I loves a good mystery... :)

How ya doing? :)

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SCOTT HORTON
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November 17, 8:28 AM
Change or Continuity for the Bush Justice Department?

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001683

By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A Democratic senator on Saturday accused President Bush and congressional Republicans of hindering his party's attempts to chart a new course in Iraq even though U.S. troops are fighting violence "they cannot possibly resolve."

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said increased troop levels ordered earlier this year to give Iraqi politicians breathing space to meet political and diplomatic goals have not had the intended result.

"That means our troops are fighting for a peace that we seem more interested in achieving than the Iraqi politicians do themselves," Casey said while delivering the Democrats' weekly radio address.

The White House has said there have been positive developments in Iraq, such as a reduction in violence and increased economic capacity.

On Friday, Senate Republicans blocked a $50 billion Democratic bill that would have paid for several months of combat. It also would have ordered troop withdrawals from Iraq to begin within 30 days and set a goal of ending combat in December 2008.

Democrats now plan to sit on Bush's $196 billion request for war spending until next year, which pushes the Pentagon toward an accounting nightmare.

Bush has said Congress should not be telling military leaders what to do.
Con't

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Submitted by bibimimi on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 5:09pm.
i share a birthday with...Amy Sedaris...
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Maybe there is something to this numerology stuff after all...

Join over 30,000 people calling for the California Democratic Party to censure the Senator.

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If you haven't done it already..Please sign....Times running out..

Dianne Feinstein is failing us. Send the Senator a message she can't ignore.

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

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She didn't get to choose immunity. Leahy pulled that provision didn't he?

I don't trust any of these Bastids anymore!
Until I see the final bill voted on..

Judge Leslie Southwick
Judge Michael Mukasey
Just 2 of her assine votes..
Lieberman of The West Coast!

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

I believe that President Bush is over the edge. It's not a new development. It is merely becoming more rock-solid apparent. He is not controlling events. Events are controlling him.

The "uniter not a divider" rhetoric is long gone. There isn't even a pretense that it ever existed. There are dozens of adjustments that our President could make to improve his lot and the lot of human beings in Iraq and the U.S., but he has dug an impressive hole and continues to wield his shovel as if pay dirt is just below his feet.

I don't get it? I can only look to the inside information released from the Johnson and Nixon eras for clues. For some reason, powerful people find it impossible to say, "Enough is enough. This won't improve, so I'm stopping it now."

History cannot compare what occurs with what would have occurred. If Johnson had ended the Vietnam War, he might have forever been seen as a loser. No one would have known how awful it would have played out otherwise, that he had saved thousands of lives.

For my part, I'm willing to assume that a leader with the balls to end hostilities, or to not begin them in the first place, is a hero and a visionary. Carter takes a lot of historical heat for the Iranian Hostage Crisis, but it ended well and its success wasn't measured by a daily body count.

Bush isn't so lucky.

I'm being mugged by a black Russian.

;)

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Submitted by Fernando on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 7:47pm.
I'm being mugged by a black Russian.
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For three months in early '86 I was a Black Russian-drinking billiards player. The two go together better than you might think.

You always have the cue to lean on.

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Hi Toni!

Quiet tonight!

Anyone here?
Submitted by toniD on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 9:28pm.
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Shhh. Dragon's off the wagon. Fernando hasn't been able to pronounce Kahlua since 8:00 p.m. Let them sleep it off.

Echo.. :)

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Crank ! :)

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Wake up Peter!!

Hi Crank, MMR!!!

Lots of college games tonight.

My local High School Football team is going to State. Very exciting!! The PD was all abuzz and we had the game on local TV so the lobby was filled with cheering today.

we have to get Crank out of Kevin's den of iniquity ! Hee!

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How are you doing? :)

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At my age, that's saying alot.

Looks like we have a Dem war going on between Clinton and Obama.

Not good.

We all know they are very good at that!

Glad your local football team is doing good..
That's always fun when that happens..
:)

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Bizarre, Bizarre: Down and Dirty Between Clinton and Obama, and Bob "The Traitor" Novak is Involved. Ouch!

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_con...

I'm just in between a few things tonight....that's all!

We have a little party going on. Kahlua makes a hazlenut liquer now.

It is quite good in egg nog.

Playing games!

Howdy Peter.. :)

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It's good over ice cream too.

so I will miss part of the show.

Have to make up for the days I missed while in the hospital.

Can you believe the hospital sent me a thank you note. Thanking me for choosing that hospital. Like I had a choice!

India: Tourist Sites Refuse the Dollar
By REUTERS
The Ministry of Culture has begun insisting that tourists visiting the country’s monuments, including the Taj Mahal, pay the entrance fees in rupees rather than in dollars. Entrance to many sites for foreign tourists is priced in dollars and then converted to rupees, but the ministry has been losing tourism revenue as the dollar slid more than 12 percent this year against the rupee. The government had fixed a $5 entrance fee for World Heritage sites like the Taj Mahal and Humayun’s Tomb and $2 for other monuments at a time when the dollar was worth about 50 rupees. It is now worth around 39 rupees. The new rate for Heritage sites is 250 rupees, meaning a foreign tourist will pay the equivalent of about $6.50.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/world/asia/17fbriefs-dollar.html?_r=2&...

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smarmy to me. Ugly man!

Audit: Terrorists got U.S. aid
Agency's screening called inadequate
By Jim Tankersley

Washington Bureau

November 16, 2007

WASHINGTON

The agency that distributes billions of dollars in American foreign aid cannot "reasonably ensure" that its money does not wind up in terrorist hands, an internal audit has concluded.

The United States Agency for International Development funded groups with ties to terrorism on at least two occasions, the agency's inspector general found in an audit. That included approving $180,000 for a Bosnian group whose president was on a "watch list" that barred him from entering the United States, and $1 million for an aid "partner" who later pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about his involvement with a disciple of Osama bin Laden.

Officials cut off the funding in both instances after the terrorist affiliations were discovered.

"Although it conducts programs in countries where terrorism is a major concern," the audit warned, "USAID has not developed or instituted a worldwide anti-terrorism program. ... USAID risks providing funding or other material support and resources to terrorists or terrorist organizations."

Officials reviewing report

Agency officials said that their system to screen grant recipients for terrorist links is "very comprehensive" and that they look to strengthen it.

"We have reviewed the [inspector general's] report," said David Snider, a USAID spokesman, "and we are taking it very seriously."

The audit, obtained by the Tribune, is dated Nov. 6 and marked "sensitive but unclassified." It has not been released to the public. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) asked USAID officials to conduct it earlier this year, following a news report that the agency gave $140,000 to a university linked to Hamas, the Palestinian group labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/friday/chi...

Kansas and Mizzou play for all the marbles next week in Arrowhead (Chiefs) stadium in Kansas City.

It is a rarity for Kansas to have a decent football team but their basketball program is usually pretty good.

Mizzou's football team usually stinks. When I was in school, they were good enough to be invited to the second annual Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona. The WHAT Bowl? (That's what we said.) Mizzou lost.

I have family members from Kansas, from in or near the Kansas City metropolitan area. My uncle graduated from K.U. My brother lived in Lawrence for a few years. It's a lovely college town not far from Kansas City.

So I have some allegiance to both schools. I'm glad to see M.U. and K.U. get it right for a change. For decades Oklahoma and Nebraska have kicked their asses.

I wish I could move to your street just to hang with you on days off. If I lived near you we could light bags o shit in front of many big insurance companies :)

I am not!
Submitted by Peter Dragon on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 10:16pm.
...We have a little party going on. Kahlua makes a hazlenut liquer now...
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If you called it Ka-hoola, you've had enough.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/1766

Rove Newsweek column debuts
First piece details ways GOP can beat 'hard and brittle' Clinton in '08.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/71000/page/1

My brother went to MU. I have a kid who out of rebellion chooses to be an MU fan. OK so they beat K-State. Who cares? I stick by my Jayhawks. :-)

But yeah, it will be the game of the week in these here parts, fo' sho'!

Vampire douchebag
Submitted by Brett on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 10:51pm.
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Speaking of douchebags, I love the SNL skit, The 2007 Douchebag Awards. If you don't know douchebags who do douchebaggy stuff like the contestants do, I could introduce you to a few.

Amy Poehler is a terrific Sharon Osbourne and, in a rare lapse of control, she can't stifle a laugh after repeating "douchebag" several times in her Sharon accent.

http://gawker.com/news/the-record-of-the-times/saturday-night-lives-2007...

I'll watch it now. You know there's a new thread right?

too funny! :-)

What happens in Vegas, stays in my pants! :-)

I can't tell you how many douchebags imposed their Forrest Gump impressions on me. I always told them the same thing: "You know who does a good Forrest Gump? Tom Hanks."

The satire of the douchebag who does Borat and Austin Powers and Jim Carrey hits the mark.

I will be polite when I call and say "Hello, This is Sam Seder, from Air America Radio. Good Morning Mr.Thompson you droopy old redneck drunk! My question to you, you moribund dessicated old rectal wart of an albino snail, is simply this: How th' FUCK can we even BEGIN to take you, an ACT-TOR, seriously, with yer EE-LEETER Hollyweerd Homo Junta pals, like Rob (JOO) Rhiner, Ed (JOO) Asner, and Gary (SECRET JOO) Burghoff all shilly-shallying along behind you, sashaying and swaying to satanic disco melodies and throwing cocaine and kiddie porn to Britney Spears fans, but WITHOUT a former head of the CIA as a viable vice president and puppeteer? Are we to imagine you think you'll be the first ACT-TOR to be a REAL president? Is THAT your game, Mr.Hollywinkie Thompson? HUH? HUH, CHEESE BOY, HUH, YA LITTLE THREE LEGGED HOG'S NUTSACK FULLA GRITS AND WEEVILS? THAT YOUR DEAL, YOU GREASY THREE WEEK OLD CURRIED CAJUN KANOLI?"

Yep. Polite, brief, and doing my best imitation of Sam.

I'm ready fer muh close-urp, Mistur DeMille!

ok, new political system...

an ICEKNIFEOCRACY.

You ask me about some dumb problem, and I go "oh for fuck sakes figure it out for yourself". And you do. And we all win and win, have a barbecue, get drunk, and dance around like retarded herons.

Any questions?

HAPEE BURTHDAE, ALICE DEAR ALICE!!!

You don't look (or smell) anywhere NEAR that old!

Yuh, I noticed on my myspace birthday alerts that your life clock was turning.

DO NOT TRY TO RENEW!!! CAROUSEL IS A *LIE*! YOU CAN LIVE! RUN, RUNNER, RUN!!!

sorry. Flashback.

and, um, Franjelico is lovely with iced coffee and a little vanilla icecream (instead of milk or cream and sugar).

The thing about the term "frames" is, it's a BAD FRAME!

BWAHAHAHAHA

fuk. fuk and CHEESE, goddamnit!

So now we're going to get sucked into who's better at lying, instead of learning to rip away the lies and talk plain hard truth?

HEY POLITICIANS, TRY THIS, BITCHES:

"When I tell you it's time for us to get out of Iraq, it's not cutting and running, it's admiting to the world that I made a terrible MISTAKE in trusting a president who'd willingly MURDER a few hundred thousand people for political and personal economic reasons. Admiting my mistake in trusting a criminal sociopath isn't the cowardice you suggest - rather, it is YOU who've failed find the courage to challenge an administration known across the world as corrupt and criminal! Where are you decency and courage, sir? At long last, where ARE your decency and courage?"

-You don't look (or smell) anywhere NEAR that old!-

I'm all a-swoon! Thanks sweetie! :)

Yuh, I'm uh silver-tounged devil, is wut. Or a silver-throated greebler. I can never rememeber which. Lemme get my Audobon field guide, I'm in there somewhere.

So, wudja git fer yer burthdae?

Goats? Cheese? Head? Goat head cheese? Cheese-head goats?

HEY! GREAT news...

thanks to cell phones, in 20 years everyone except the Amish and a few tribesmen of the Kalahari will be DEAD from BRAIN TUMORS!

Is that COOL or WHAT!

Is it true that laptops (or wireless connections?) have a sort of similar risk?

I got enough cash to pay for the most recent vet bill for my birthday... :)...got to love that.... plus all the nice wishes on the blog...very sweet...

Have you thought about what the Olympics will look like with just Amish and K!ung competitors?

I've already helped make one safe cellphone with a friend. It's the antena that does the damage, so we put it in a telescoping toy lightsabre. People smile when he uses it, until he whispers "safe cellphone" - then their eyes widen, and they often wait for him to hang up, to ask him where they can get one. Of course the earpiece would also be dangerous, but he uses a hollow one instead of a copper filled one.

HAHA!

Safe cell phone eh..Sounds like a big big hit..

While I haven't read the medical papers on the damage caused by cellphones, it seems the proximity to the head is the real problem. In that light, I suspect wireless laptops are less of a problem, if indeed they present any problem.

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