ooof

is top notch. What a talent!

Sybil...

one of the truly courageous.

i'd sure like to hear what she has to say.

take that, Rudolph [Adolph...Gandolph...Ninelevendolph...]

think they can take down Mitch the worm Mcconnell - CQ Politics

I was going to say "eya" but put in caps and it just doesn't look correct. Tea Cheers ;)LOL

O’Hanlon Teams Up With AEI’s Kagan To Advocate Pre-Emptive Strike On Pakistan
In the wake of the recent crisis in Pakistan, Iraq escalation architect Frederick Kagan of AEI and Brookings analyst Michael O’Hanlon penned a column yesterday urging the U.S. to weigh a military option in Pakistan to secure its nuclear stockpiles:

[T]he United States simply could not stand by as a nuclear-armed Pakistan descended into the abyss. … We need to think — now — about our feasible military options in Pakistan, should it really come to that. … Pakistan may be the next big test.

As the “intellectual architect” of the Iraq “surge,” Kagan (who also advocates war with Syria and Iran) was personally invited by the White House to help “hammer out” the escalation strategy last year. O’Hanlon has backed war with Iraq since 2002 and is a chief proponent of a long-term occupation of Iraq.

In the op-ed, they recommend the use of Special Forces to secure the nukes, or a “broader option” requiring “a sizable combat force.” “Somehow, American forces would have to team with Pakistanis to secure critical sites and possibly to move the material to a safer place,” they write. “Moderate Muslim nations” would join the U.S. in organizing a combat force in Pakistan.

The duo claims it is not “strategically prudent to withdraw our forces from an improving situation in Iraq” to implement these plans. But such a plan would eviscerate the “out of balance” U.S. military, according to Gen. George Casey. The National Security Network adds:

Kagan and O’Hanlon clearly have a hidden stash of U.S. soldiers. Even if you were sending “just” 40,000-50,000, our military could not sustain that operation without taking our troops out of Iraq.

O’Hanlon and Kagan’s strategy depends on cooperation from Pakistan and “moderate Muslim nations,” but such cooperation is unlikely as President Bush’s approval rating in Pakistan is currently at nine percent and at similar levels across the Muslim world.

The White House said in July that it would consider strikes against al Qaeda in Pakistan, which drew “a chorus of protests in Pakistan” and caused greater instability. No matter the consequences, the military option is always on the table for O’Hanlon and Kagan.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/19/ohanlon-kagan/

Townsend’s goodbye to Bush: ‘You are such a man.’ Outgoing Homeland Security Adviser Frances Fragos Townsend today sent President Bush a three-page handwritten letter announcing her resignation. A highlight from the letter:

In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime.

Mr. President, you are such a man.

See a full-size version of the letter HERE.

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/cnishared/washington/blogs/window/townsendresi...

HERE

understood George was a stoner higher ground

The rate of fatal terrorist attacks around the world by jihadist groups, and the number of people killed in those attacks, increased dramatically after the invasion of Iraq. Globally there was a 607 percent rise in the average yearly incidence of attacks (28.3 attacks per year before and 199.8 after) and a 237 percent rise in the fatality rate (from 501 to 1,689 deaths per year). A large part of this rise occurred in Iraq, the scene of almost half the global total of jihadist terrorist attacks. But even excluding Iraq and Afghanistan—the other current jihadist hot spot—there has been a 35 percent rise in the number of attacks, with a 12 percent rise in fatalities.

SOURCE:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2007/03/aftermath.html

Blackwater Guards Subpoenaed by Federal Grand Jury

Brian Ross and Pierre Thomas Report:

Blackwaterguar_mn A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. has opened an investigation into the role of Blackwater security guards in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi citizens in September in Baghdad, federal law enforcement sources tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

A number of Blackwater security guards assigned to the ill-fated convoy have been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury next week.

A Department of Justice spokesperson, Dean Boyd, said, "We never comment on whether or not a matter is before a grand jury."

But sources familiar with the Blackwater case say the guards called to testify were, while present, not those who allegedly fired on any civilians.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/blackwater-guar.html

WOWIE ZOWIE!

2 gay black males who want to adopt a special-needs Mexican child, need to marry for property and medical purposes, adoptive child has chronic medical condition...

oh, and one of the males is in the National Guard

we're #1, suck it. surge is workin'. there.

[is that a stat or yer area code?]

Ambulance carrying heart-attack patient delayed at U.S. border
Incident was 10th border delay in 2 years involving patients from Windsor to Detroit

Federal and provincial officials are calling for a review of border procedures after an ambulance rushing an Ontario heart attack patient to a U.S. hospital was held up at the border.

'I don't think it was right, and I'm really angry that someone would even think to pull in an ambulance where someone is dying in the back.'—Kat Lauzon, the patient's girlfriend

It was the 10th border delay in two years involving patients being transferred from Windsor, Ont., to Detroit, according to the CBC's Susan Pedler.

In the latest incident, Rick Laporte was en route from Windsor to a Detroit hospital for an emergency angioplasty on Friday when U.S. customs officials flagged the vehicle for a secondary inspection despite having a police escort and a pre-clearance arrangement.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/11/19/windsor-hospital.html

Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.

So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, “The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed.”

“More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing (of nuclear bombs) has been released from depleted uranium weaponry since 1991,” Moret writes, including radioactive ammunition fired by Israeli troops in Palestine.

Moret is an independent U.S. scientist formerly employed for five years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and also at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, both of California.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_sherwood_071119_radioactive_ammu...

Democrats Face a Shock in November '08: They Could Lose

By Dave Lindorff

For Congressional Democrats, the train has already left the station--and they’re not on board.

A year after the election that gave them control of both houses of Congress, they are exposed as a feckless bunch of frauds posing as an opposition.

As long ago as last January, when the US death toll in Iraq was almost 1000 lower, and the civilian death toll in Iraq was over a hundred thousand lower, they could have brought an end to the conflict by simply refusing to approve any more money for the war.

Instead, they approved administration requests for several hundred billion dollars for expanding the number of troops from 140,000 to a current level of nearly 173,000—a post- invasion record.

They could have brought administration assaults on the Constitution to a screeching halt by initiating impeachment hearings against the president, the vice president, or against both of these criminal usurpers. Instead, the House leadership threatened anyone who might file impeachment bills with various punishments, reportedly ranging from loss of committee chairmanships to loss of access to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee funding.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dave_lin_071119_democrats_face_a...

Tom Lantos to Get Primary Challenge
by: Matt Stoller
Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 16:21:13 PM EST
Tom Lantos, who is one of the worst and most dangerous members of Congress with regards to Iran and Israel and one of AIPAC's top allies, is facing a primary challenge.

Looks like former Peninsula state Sen. Jackie Speier is indeed gearing up for what promises to be a big-money and highly charged Democratic primary run next June against 13-term Rep. Tom Lantos.

"It's Time!" declares an e-mail circulated by supporters to "friends" and "fans" this past week, announcing the first organizing meeting of the Jackie Speier for Congress Exploratory Committee on Tuesday at a home in Hillsborough.

Speier has been consulting with friends and supporters about a run since a poll conducted by allies in January showed her a 2-1 favorite among voters in the 12th Congressional District, which covers northern San Mateo County and parts of San Francisco.

Speier has since hired at least one staffer to start gearing up. Nonetheless, she told us late Friday that she hasn't made a final decision - and that when she does, we'll be among the first to know.

"The good news is Congressman Lantos has finally come back to the district," she said, a digging reference to his trip home this week for the holidays and to attend a congressional subcommittee hearing on the Coast Guard's role in the big bay oil spill.

Challenge or not, Lantos, who will turn 80 in February, said through his spokeswoman: "I fully expect to win the primary in June and the general election next November.

Lantos is the only holocaust survivor in Congress, and has been outspoken on issues of genocide. He's also the Chair of the House International Relations Committee, and the author of the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act. Lantos is a member of the progressive caucus, and has a progressive record on domestic policies. On foreign policy, he is extremely right-wing, though he has distanced himself from the Iraq war after pushing aggressively for authority for Bush.

It's a fascinating and welcome development. I don't know Speier, and I don't know if Lantos has been taking care of business in his district, but the generational argument might work. You can expect AIPAC to dump money into this race, and for the antisemitism card to be used aggressively and repeatedly by older right-wingers rich and insecure Jewish men and defense contractors. Younger progressive Jews like me are willing to step up and organize on behalf of less insane representation for our community, as we did against Lieberman in 2006. I did enjoy being called a Hezbocrat during the Lebanon invasion, which took place during the Lamont-Lieberman race, as well as seeing Moveon and its mostly Jewish staff attacked by the American Defamation League's Abe Foxman because someone on an open forum they run made an antisemitic comment.

This might be one opportunity to organize again, this time more explicitly against AIPAC, though I'd need to learn more about the district and the race before doing so.

Anyone in CA-11 know anything about this?

finally hearing the last hour. far out, man.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/index.html

GIULIANI: I know how to respond to a crisis. I've done that all my life and for some reason, I know how to do that. For some reason, that's something I've developed or it's a talent that I have.

I know how to do that. ..... Respond to a crisis. .....I've done that all my life because he seems to have managed to get himself into crisis after crisis.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. attorney for Minnesota, will be leaving the post to take a position at the Justice Department in Washington, according to a Bush administration official and congressional aide.

Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. attorney for Minnesota, will be leaving the post to take a position at the Justice Department in Washington, according to a Bush administration official and congressional aide

Court Upholds Musharraf Election

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 19 — The newly formed Supreme Court of Pakistan, which was appointed after emergency rule was imposed two weeks ago, today dismissed the main outstanding challenges to Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s election for another presidential term, almost certainly ensuring his confirmation as president later this week.

Ten judges heard the case today. Within three hours, they dismissed five of six challenges to General Musharraf’s candidacy.

“There were five petitions, they have all been dismissed,” said the attorney general, Malik Abdul Qayyum. “There is only one left, and that will be heard on Thursday,” he said after the proceedings, according to news reports.

The sixth petition, which is not a direct challenge to General Musharraf but a complaint to the Election Commission from a candidate who was eliminated from the presidential race, will be heard on Thursday. That is expected to be dismissed, too, paving the way for the court to confirm General Musharraf’s election to another five-year term.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/world/asia/20pakistan.html?_r=1&hp&ore...

In One Fell Swoop, Jay-Z Impresses Critics, Fans, the U.N. and Wall Street

By Mike Nizza

The accolades Jay-Z have recently poured forth from all sectors. His new album was critically acclaimed and sold more than any other last week, which tied him with Elvis at 10 chart-topping albums.

And the acclaim was extended in some unlikely places, such as the dark, rarefied set of the Charlie Rose show. Jay-Z and Mr. Rose traded compliments for the full hour, which culminated in Mr. Rose offering a heartfelt lesson about the meaning of life.

Even the United Nations recognized him for helping to improve water and sanitation across the world with an improbably informal shout-out from Secretary General Ban Ki Moon:

My man Jay-Z has been a wonderful partner to the UN, and a champion of those in need around the world.

Financially, paychecks for his work as chief executive of Def Jam records, a recording artist and builder of a clothing company made him the richest man in hip-hop, according to Forbes.

Last year, he made 34 million in American dollars, but it was his use of stacks of euros in a recent music video that added to jitters credited to Gisele Bundchen and garnered the attention of Wall Street watchers everywhere.

“Jay-Z, the New Alan Greenspan,” the headlines cooed, but another piece of financial advice dispensed during a rap song seemed less likely to win a similar following. In “Laff at Em,” he divulges his portfolio, saying that he has 200 million in cash and 35 million in stock.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/in-one-fell-swoop-jay-z-impr...

Have a great evening.

outa here for now. see ya's sometime later in the week. bouncing manboob webcam Friday is not far away.

Did act I straight through for the first time --

going for act II shortly.

Iowa polls have Obama topping Hillary.

"//Trent Reznor's Warning//

the only aspect i found disturbing was it's clichedness

as cliched as a flower being put into the barrel of a gun

Submitted by air-ono on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:50am.

Of course it seems cliched to you. You've been down that road already, you hang out here. We're ahead of the curve.

Did you notice all the images in that video are the same ones we used for Dead Babies Against Bush? I was pasting those pictures around NYC 2 years ago.

rockettes update

Submitted by jbenet on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 5:06pm.

I don't know if you have contact with the actors, but I know two kids in the show this year. Evan and Michael.

made a note--

look for them at dinner.

The determination and solidarity of the strikers and their supporters on Broadway stood in sharp contrast to the attack on the two-week-old writers’ strike by their national union’s leader, IATSE President Tom Short, who came into New York over the weekend to participate in the resumed talks.

In a November 13 letter to the president of the Writers Guild of America-West (WGA), Patric Verrone, Short blamed the union for “causing irreparable damage to the industry at a time when we can all ill afford to ignore the worsening national economy, the unstable international climate, and the crises in health care and the housing market that are affecting many of our working families.”

Short claimed that he had “predicted the devastation that would come from your actions,” adding, “Those predictions have now come true.”

He further accused the WGA executive director of not being “a responsible labor leader, someone dedicated to the preservation of an industry that has supported the economies of several major cities for decades.”

Short’s reactionary tirade amounts to a brief for the conglomerates that control the entertainment industry and a proscription against any form of struggle that challenges their profit interests.

Their significance for striking stagehands in New York is unmistakable. The same charges that he levels against the striking writers can be—and have been—turned against the Broadway stagehands themselves. And there can be no doubt that based on this outlook, he will work through the negotiations to end the walkout on terms set by the producers and theater owners.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/stag-n19.shtml

To accelerate its adoption by cable companies, Fox News paid systems up to $11 per subscriber to distribute the network. This contrasted with the normal practice, in which cable operators paid stations carriage fees for the programming of channels. When Time Warner bought out Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting, a federal antitrust consent decree required Time Warner to carry a second all-news channel in addition to Time Warner's own CNN. Time Warner selected MSNBC as the secondary news network, instead of Fox News. Fox News claimed that this violated an agreement to carry Fox News, and Ailes used his connections to persuade Mayor Giuliani to carry Fox News and Bloomberg Television on two underutilized city-owned cable channels, which he did.

SOURCE:

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

Dooder, I friggin' sent Rez th' goddamn url!

Did the same with a couple hundred performers on the sane side of the reality divide, everyone from Henry Rollins to Susan Sarandon.

Meant to include ICP, but I dunno if they're democrats.

Are juggalos democrats?

I'm thinkin' we should get permission to use that vid on the site, yah?

Time to ramp The Haunting into full tilt. The day and hour have finally ripened.

* Deception: British Reporter Adrian Levy on How the United States Secretly Helped Pakistan Build Its Nuclear Arsenal *

Adrian Levy examines how five consecutive US administrations from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush have been complicit in building and protecting Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. Levy is co-author of the new book: "Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons."

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1450222

Filing for Divorce After 21 Years

a cogent analysis of the Mongolian clusterfuck that was the last Dem d'bait:

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/19/83043/598

no, they stab people.

Sam never voiced any objection to The Haunting, all the ootsy-bootsy negativity about it came from Janeane. She really hated the name "Dead Babies Against Bush". I just couldn't get her to see that we weren't attempting to recruit joe sixpack, we were looking for activist artists who won't respond to a "mauve decade with lace tatting" approach.

Unca Icey done had ENUFF!!!

They have exhausted my ability to tolerate their abuses.

Anyone wanna play a nice ICEKNIFE style game? All nice and legal, but with MAXIMUM CRUELTY?

Dada, you still here?

I have a bit of odd news for you.

CONGRATULATIONS AND CONDOLENCES.

I, JOHN ICEKNIFE, REVENANT GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HEREBY APPOINT YOU, DADALUX, TO THE OFFICE OF REVENANT GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. YOU HAVE THE HONOR, RESPONSIBILITY, POWER, AND CALLING TO GO FORTH AND METE OUT AUDIOVISUAL JUSTICE IN THE NAME OF THE SLAIN INNOCENTS.

May God have mercy on all who cross your path - we are not in the business of mercy, we're in the business of love... EYE-BURNING RAGE-EVOKING NIGHTMARE-INDUCING "TOUGH" LOVE!

.

we are the conscience of a schizophrenic nation, so we must scream until the windows shatter and birds fall from the sky

Now, who wants to play a game?

I think Lantos is vulnerable. He is another LIEberman in Dem clothing who needs to be gone. I have said that here before. Jackie Speier is a true Dem and can take him and win in November. That could happen because I think she has enough of a name to do it.

Jackie Speier was an aide to Congressman Leo Ryan who was assassinated by Jim Jones people in Guyana and she was wounded on the tarmac in that assault.

And I am honored to be the Revenant General of NY. Thanks.

What's news?

Who liked the name "Dead Babies Against Bush"?
And I think SEDER voiced an objection by hesitating and sighing (a lot) when he spoke of it on the air. Really bad name for a good idea/cause: documenting the fact that war is not the bloodless video game our major media outlets have led us to believe.

Don't say, "dada says hello," they won't know who that is.

If you say "Beckett says hi" they'll know. That's the kid playing video games next to me right now. He was in The Coast of Utopia with them.

You could explain that you blog with George (that's me) and Catharine. Or you could just be mysterious about it.

president of the Writers Guild of America-West (WGA), Patric Verrone...

the writers currently get 4 cents per dvd -- they want 8 cents. [what's a DVD sell for?]

It's a guild, not a union. you can't just join or apply -- they invite you after you as a writer have written something successful.

local one stagehands. this is the first time they have gone out on strike. Other strikes local 1 has been involved in have been in support of other unions.

greetings & salutations from all the goodly spirits that are around you

peacefulness of spirit & mind is our only agenda

peace be with you

~ ~ ~

CC, we settled on that name because we wanted to reach out to the punks/hardcore artists who otherwise wouldn't participate. People who might be turned off by the name are either already doing something, or not going to in any case. It'd make a difference if we thought for a moment that Janeane or anyone like her would even consider doing something like this. Her approval or disapproval is of no interest, only the potential for participation sends up a signal.

Dada, you're the official NY representative of DBAD: The Haunting.

It seems the public is ready to see, and participate. Wadda ya think, should we crank up the hurdy gurdy and put a clean fez on the monkey?

He is living proof that man can live without a brain!

have you heard from Catharine? Why has she forsaken us?

You might as well have screamed "POOPY POOPY POOPY POOOOOO!", meta-tard.

Learn to insult someone as if you'd actually graduated the third grade.

How many times do you have to be told NOT to do viagra while you're alone?

Tonight I was holding my cat as I tyPed on my laPtoP. His Paw was on my keyboard so I moved it back. Unfortunately I didn\'t realize he had hooked his claws in, and he PromPtly PoPPed off my P key. I was PISSED. I spent like 10 minutes working on it before I finally managed to PoP it back on, I was Petrified I\'d have to go get it taken care of at a computer store. Phew.

Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn\'t have given you worse advice

We're here to discuss politics, not your feeeeelings. If you need to discuss your feeeeelings, call your mom or someone else who might possibly give a fuck.

know what iceknife\\\'s problem is, but I bet it\\\'s hard to pronounce.

"should we crank up the hurdy gurdy and put a clean fez on the monkey?"

Sure, I'm ready, and so is the monkey. Round two begins. It'll seem like the first round for the new comers.

I\'m trying to imagine you with a personality.

HCI-FPFS sources revealed the plot's code name - "Operation Cleanse Venezuela" that now may be unfolding ahead of the December 2 referendum on constitutional reforms. According to Sankoh, the scheme sounds familiar - CIA and other foreign secret service operatives (including anti-Castro terrorists) aiming to destabilize the Chavez government by using "at least three concrete subversive plans" to destroy the country's social democracy and kill Chavez.

It involves infiltrating subversive elements into the country, inciting opposition within the military, ordering region-based US forces to shoot down any aircraft used by Chavez, employing trained snipers with shoot to kill orders, and having the dominant US and Venezuelan media act as supportive attack dogs. Chavez is targeted because he represents the greatest of all threats to US hegemony in the region - a good example that's spreading. Venezuela also has Latin America's largest proved oil reserves at a time supplies are tight and prices are at all-time highs.

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=14325&sectionID=45

This is scary shit.

Looks like Gurdjieff.

You suffer from introjected neurotic tendencies .

She's about three feet away from me. She's busy, no time for blogging.

Well...
You said you liked the name a lot for that reason.
Settled is correct. None of the rest of us came up with an alternative. But, honey, I don't recall anyone liking the name much. So it goes. I found there was a just "good enough" reason to support it. I really don't want to hold it against anyone who did not like it. Most of us hated the name, I think. Weird but true, it was mostly the gals on the blog who were not happy with the name. I don't think we are sexist but I do think women are socialized different than fellas, and the fact that SEDER was not as openly opposed as some of the gals here is not really an endorsement. It's still a good idea to document what we are doing in Iraq. Thanks for the push!

" Most of us hated the name, I think."

Interesting you remember it that way. According to my Skype logs, it was mostly just you who hated the name.

before me you unwanted butt kissing whore who has delusions about being the snooty goblin and the slime spewing bureaucrat.

currently 8 users and 40 guests online.
Online users

* dada
* Cat Chew
* Exhausted Blogger
* CeeCee
* ChuckRowles
* ICEKNIFE
* Brett
* keiran

What else?

Talk of 'soft landings' or a 'happy handover' of growth from America typifies end-of-bull-market wishful thinking, says Tom Stevenson

It has been said that the road to every recession is signposted "soft landing". The end of this economic cycle looks like being no exception, even if the terminology is slightly different. This year's wishful thinking is dressed up as Goldman Sachs's "happy handover" or the ubiquitous "decoupling".
# News and analysis on the credit crisis
# How bleak will our midwinter be?
# We may face a crude awakening over oil price

An economy on the brink of snapping

They are new tags, but the principle is the same. America's economy may be going to hell in a handcart - manufacturing slipped into recession again, new data showed on Friday - but the rest of the world will muddle through.

Global growth is slowing, but five years into the expansion it still looks robust - Tony Dolphin, a strategist at Henderson Global Investors, predicts 4.5 per cent next year for the world as a whole. That's down from last year's 5.6 per cent and 5.2 per cent in 2007 but still safely higher than the long-run trend.

The high-octane growth of China and India, however, disguises a gloomier outlook elsewhere. Henderson expects the US, Japan and Britain all to record growth rates of less than 2 per cent in 2008. In Europe too, the stranglehold of an overpriced currency will peg output growth to just 2 per cent.

Even these predictions may be too relaxed. Morgan Stanley said last week that there was a 40 per cent chance of recession in America.

"The real risk is that the current credit crunch and financial turmoil will lead to a US recession, which in turn drags down the rest of the world; and that the weak dollar and high oil price are too much for the European cycle," said Teun Draaisma, a strategist at the bank.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/18/ccecon...

The Chalice that Poisoned the Labor Movements

By DAVID MACARAY

[S]omething emerged in the late-1980s that has the potential to be even more damaging to a union shop than anything that came before it. Having concluded that they couldn't destroy solidarity by attacking, isolating or starving it, management seized upon an alternative tactic, one that no one (or few) saw coming. Companies discovered that union solidarity could be broken down from the inside, by corrupting it.

This was done by introducing something called "special assignments." A special assignment is an arrangement where hourly workers are taken off their regular jobs and assigned to non-bargaining, non-supervisory tasks for periods ranging from one week to, literally, several years.

http://www.counterpunch.org/macaray11192007.html

be right back

The Dollar In Danger
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By Sebastian Mallaby
Monday, November 12, 2007; Page A21

For a quarter-century after World War II, money was based on a loose version of the gold standard. The U.S. dollar was pegged to gold; other currencies were pegged to the dollar; stable prices underpinned the prosperity and soaring trade of the 1950s and '60s. Then in 1971 Richard Nixon balked at the high interest rates necessary to maintain the dollar's link to gold. For the rest of the decade, inflation ripped. The cure, starting in 1979, involved two recessions in the United States and the Third World debt crisis.

Now we face another potential watershed in the world's system of money. Since the breaking of the gold link, the dollar has become the world's primary measure of value, so much so that bank deposits in Uruguay and bribes paid in Russia are mostly denominated in dollars. But the dollar, like the gold standard before it, is under pressure. Last week even Giselle Bundchen, the world's top supermodel, was reported to be steering clear of greenbacks.

Inflation was the cause of the gold standard's collapse as well as its main consequence. As long as the dollar was convertible, investors could choose between owning one dollar and owning one-35th of an ounce of gold; when inflation eroded the greenback's purchasing power, gold was the more attractive option. Foreigners traded in their dollars until U.S. gold stocks were close to exhaustion. Higher U.S. interest rates could have lured foreigners back into dollars. But Nixon wouldn't tolerate high rates the year before an election.

Today's problem is different. The Fed has kept a lid on inflation, but the dollar's vulnerability is caused by debt -- the debt of the federal government and of American households. Year after year, foreigners have provided Americans with the savings that they refuse to generate themselves, and this stream of money has supported the U.S. currency. But if foreigners tire of handing over their savings, the unsupported dollar is almost bound to fall. That is what has happened recently.

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

Could be I was reading between the lines differently. Ask and see. Might also be I was the only one to push it a bit. Hard to say from here. Do you really think that most regular folks embrace that title for that action? Didn't you mention you wanted to hook the young, edgy crowd and not the rest of us?

Coup D'Etat Rumblings Must Be Taken Seriously

Now battle lines are drawn, opposition forces are mobilized and events are playing out violently on Venezuela's streets. The worst so far was on November 7 when CNN falsely reported "80,000" anti-Chave zstudents demonstrated "peacefully" in Caracas to denounce "Hugo Chavez's attempts to expand his power." The actual best estimates put it between 2000 and 10,000, and long-time Latin American expert James Petras calls the protesters "privileged middle and upper middle class university students," once again being used as an imperial tool.

In their anti-government zeal, CNN and other dominant media ignore the many pro-Chavez events writer Fred Fuentes calls a "red hurricane" sweeping the country. An impressive one was held on November 4 when the President addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters who participated in an 8.5 kilometer Caracas march while similar pro-reform rallies took place at the same time around the country. They're the start of a "yes" campaign for a large December 2 turnout that's vital as polls show strong pro-reform support by a near two to one margin.

In an effort to defuse it, orchestrated opposition turned violent and officials reported eight people were injured in the November 7 incident. No one was killed, but one was wounded by gunfire when at least "four (masked) gunmen (who looked like provocateur plants, not students) fir(ed) handguns at the anti-Chavez crowd." In an earlier October demonstration, opposition students clashed with police who kept them from reaching the National Assembly building and a direct confrontation with pro-Chave zsupporters that might have turned ugly.

It did on November 7 when violence erupted between pro and anti-government students, but it wasn't as reported. Venezuelan and US corporate media claimed pro-Chavez supporters initiated the attack. In fact, they WERE attacked by elements opposing the President. They seized this time to act ahead of the referendum to disrupt it and destabilize the government as prelude to a possible planned coup.

we have looked deeply into the sam seder spirit and we find it is good but of course with the normal human faults.

I give it a B+

peace be with you

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i wish you peace anonymous's and everyone here

we are all brother sister human beings

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I has my suspicions, but wuz wonderin' why you post this peculiar reveille, repeatedly?

nice to meet (meat) you.

I'm a bit busy on stage so I can't focus on the blog the way I like to. But I offer the following.

Dead Babies Against Bush Reminds me of Alice Cooper's dead babies...been there, done that. [?killer album circa1971?]

I like your vibe. Whatever works. Have you thought of the myspace "bands" format.
A band can really be anything

my band..... TrackCart http://www.samsedershow.com/node/1644

I'm reading Scott Ritter's Waging Peace and he has a valid point. We need focus. And, for instance,what is possibly one thing we could all agree on? Any guesses?

The Constitution. Everything can flow from there. We The People

What do we want a politician to think of protecting when they get up in the morning?
The Constitution.

What is a rallying cry for people to rally around?
The Constitution.

For me dead babies hate bush has no life to it.

Close them tags, por favor.

just curious

Submitted by dr on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 7:53pm.

I has my suspicions, but wuz wonderin' why you post this peculiar reveille, repeatedly?

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It is several different anonymous's that posts the user data.

my nic doesn't signify what it sounds like.

Just sayin'.

uh oh!

I don't know why anyone would be into or even confused with that Jon Benet thing.

Submitted by ObeseLargeLiberal on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 7:59pm.

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just curious

Submitted by dr on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 7:53pm.

I has my suspicions, but wuz wonderin' why you post this peculiar reveille, repeatedly?

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It is several different anonymous's that posts the user data.

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And you'd know that, how?

Judge Not, Least Ye Be bla bla bla

One of the best known and most misunderstood Scriptures is from Matthew.

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." (Matthew 7:1-5).

If Matthew 7:1-5 is read carefully, one can notice that it is addressed to a hypocrite. Instead of being a deterrence against honestly judging, it is a warning against hypocritical judgment. The last statement of this Scripture commands sincere, honest judgment. If a verse or a part of a verse is taken out of its setting, then it can be made to appear to teach the opposite of what it really means. [and like the bushies do it take something out of its setting and insert it into their setting.]It is easy to misquote almost anything to produce a desired effect or opinion. Misstating God’s word, however, is morally wrong.[and that is not a hypocritical eh? I mean thinking that you are capable of stating God's word.]

Many who quote, "Judge not," out of its context, do so in order to promote their own activities or sins. They do not see their own inconsistency in thus judging those who obey God's Word about judging what is untrue. Much that is anti-Scriptural has found shelter behind a misuse of the words of the bible. It has been used as an excuse to let people do what they wish without the oversight of God’s Law. The greatest danger of our day is not too much judging, but too little judging of morality, character and spiritual nature. [bla bla bla ..... and to little concern for the Constitution.]

You are as a candle, the better burnt out.
-Taken from: Henry IV, part 2

Submitted by dr on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:05pm.

And you'd know that, how?

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It is obvious because that user data logged on info has been posted many times around the clock, every day of the week. No one or two anonymous's could do that 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week.

Submitted by Peter Dragon on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:01pm.

DR...just wanted you to know that my nic doesn't signify what it sounds like.

Just sayin'.

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No worries.

Just a amateur etymologist axin' questions.

Somes gots prosaic nicks what's part a their names: mine, e.g., tonid is another.

Others is gotta story. Was curious if there's a story.

"And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many."

; )

It signifies a contraction of my actual real name you sick bastard. Get over it.

I mean that in a nice way.
: )

Dinner -- 1 hour.....

has been my nic since my teens. I'm 55. get over it.

Ok J Benet

Maybe you might look for another nick because whether you like it or not people will always think of the other J Benet when they see that.

Submitted by ObeseLargeLiberal on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:10pm.

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Submitted by dr on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:05pm.

And you'd know that, how?

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It is obvious because that user data logged on info has been posted many times around the clock, every day of the week. No one or two anonymous's could do that 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week.

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No.

It is not obvious.

B'lieves you is swallowed up in the briar patch of apologia, Br'er Rabbit.

One anonymous obsessive could easily (joyfully) handle such a whinging workload.

(Psst: You still haven't answered the question. Hint: Why?)

"And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Anonymous: for we are cowards."

Submitted by jbenet on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:08pm

Hmm.. quoting scripture out of context..

I never would have thought that you would be a fundy bible thumper jbenet.

Oh well, to each his own.

on the off chance it wasn't obvious, the Bible verse was me.

WfC

The posts in this blog are funny. :)

Not to mention illogical ;)

Good night

and I think you eat way too much. ok {not really just following your lead]

thanks for the advise. so I'm the ghost of a little fashion queen ----- does that effect how you read my comments. Then look in the mirror [you wont have to look very deep] and ask yourself why. : )
bbl

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:20pm.

Whoever the hell you are, you could be anybody.

jbenet

Submitted by jbenet on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:11pm.

It signifies a contraction of my actual real name you sick bastard. Get over it.

I mean that in a nice way.
: )

Dinner -- 1 hour.....

»

That and variations

Submitted by jbenet on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:13pm.
has been my nic since my teens. I'm 55. get over it.

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Look, was just curious. Seriously.

If I made you self-conscious and perhaps a bit peckish, it warn't intentional. In truth: was hopin' the "jonbenet" reference would lead to some levity.

I apologize if you are taking this wrong.

(Perhaps I was foolish to ask for the origins of yer nick whilst asking why the anonymous keeps on a-postin' the active blogroll -- perhaps ill intent were perceived, I don't know. Will say unconditionally -- that was not my intent. Had two strands of inquiry going at once and meant no offense or ill imputation.)

and I'm willing to stick it in here.

I thought your nic had something to do with the Ramsey killing,

too. I was always reluctant to ask. Now I'll butt out.

LOL!

Relax, relax - We are all bozo's on this bus.
This bloggy should be fun, it ain't worth it to get all worked up over it. Relax.

-

a regular with a regular nick posting a rare time anonymously

Easily seen through or detected; obvious: transparent lies

WfC

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:28pm.

"This bloggy should be fun, it ain't worth it to get all worked up over it."

Ok, I agree with that. It's just a little blog that makes no difference. I'm amazed that anyone would get so upset about any of the "it's" they get "all worked up" about.

Yeah I agree.

RELAX

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:32pm.

Yes, your lies are transparent whoever you are. No one cares.

All the many anonymous people out there, put up some good posts please.

Because the anonymous on outnumber registered nicks at least 5 to 1.

What is the deal with all the ads for conservative books and other conservative crap on the Sam Seder Show blog??

DAMN! I don't want to waste my time by seeing that shit! :(

Fixt a breakfast t'other day:

Two cups a coffee, two glasses a grapefruit juice, 'n birds inna nest slathered in habanero salsa.

Must sez: I were humbled.

Perhaps inna age some past I coulda tackled such a frothy witch's brew, but nowadays two outta three's all's I can stomach w/o roostin' on the porcelain perch 'n prayin' for a new GI bill of health.

This blog is an excellent place to come to get really angry at neocons. Log in here, let the trolls piss you off to a fine froth, then use that rage to destroy republican lives. Hee hee! It's FUN! There are literally an endless trail of republican lives waiting to be shattered, all nice and legal, with minimal effort. You just have to want it bad enough. Hang here for a few hours and watch the petty sadists at work, and you become convinced that the only sensible thing to do is make them PAY and PAY and PAY. Go ahead and reveal their secrets, go ahead and drop a dime on them, go ahead and tell their spouse what they're really upto. They begged for it, so it's what they deserve. So what if War Dog or Gare aren't the recipients of your attention? Eventually someone will get to them, even if it's not you or me. All we have to do is take out our share.

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:44pm.

What is the deal with all the ads for conservative books and other conservative crap on the Sam Seder Show blog??

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That would be the invisible hand of capitalism rudely slapping you in the face.

Up blog some anonymous fucker was impersonating me by signing WfC.

Argh! I feel like laying down and dying.

I'm outta this fuckin place!

Oh my GOD, Iran knows about NUKES!

Kill everyone with black or dark brown hair. It's the only answer. We can only be safe when everyone everwhere is white ENOUGH!

"Blue skies are going to clear up..

So put on a happy face.." :)

dr: Was curious if there's a story.
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I'm glad you asked. The Constitutional conversation has sparked a song idea.

---My Rootin' Tootin' Constitution---

No lyrics yet. I'm ambivalent about mingling the irritable bowel angle with the Yankee Doodle dandifyin'. Rootie Kazootie is begging for a piece of the action, too. (I had one of the Golden Books. See link below.)

http://64.23.19.116/rootiedetective.htm

Submitted by ICEKNIFE on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:46pm.

This blog is an excellent place to come to get really angry at neocons. Log in here, let the trolls piss you off to a fine froth, then use that rage to destroy republican lives. Hee hee! It's FUN! There are literally an endless trail of republican lives waiting to be shattered, all nice and legal, with minimal effort. You just have to want it bad enough. Hang here for a few hours and watch the petty sadists at work, and you become convinced that the only sensible thing to do is make them PAY and PAY and PAY ...

_______________________

If I didn't suspect this was all just a grandiose pose, it'd be purty depressing.

Who exactly do you think these little shits are? Were you aware that some of them have IP's in places like Cordelene Idaho? and Metarie, Louisianna?

Quakers and Vegans on the OHS terrorist watchlist... but no mention of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), the Klan, or any of the rest of the numerous violent white supremacist groups in America?

My peppy hobby is a goddamn PUBLIC SERVICE!

Heard you on the radio (and Cam) Sunday. Nice to have a brave voice behind the Blogger.

Depressing? Why?

Submitted by ICEKNIFE on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 9:05pm.

Who exactly do you think these little shits are? Were you aware that some of them have IP's in places like Cordelene Idaho? and Metarie, Louisianna?

Quakers and Vegans on the OHS terrorist watchlist... but no mention of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), the Klan, or any of the rest of the numerous violent white supremacist groups in America?

My peppy hobby is a goddamn PUBLIC SERVICE!

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Nope. Had no idea about any of it. Tx. for enlightening me, Ice.

But to answer yer question:

Depressing b/c that revenge knife cuts both ways, Ice.

'N depressing b/c I thinks you ain't but a peppy knife inna big-gun war.

What you are hopin' to accomplish apart from strikin' a pose, I dunno.

But follow yer bliss, I guess.

The AAR treatment of Malloy is just one of MANY reasons Goldberg is a world class retard.

I was going to put up that Mike is on now
But you beet me 2 it.
How is everyhting going in your part of the world???
Did you have a good weekend?

Revenge is indeed a two-edged blade, and I tend the backswing.

Besides, every time a republican donor goes broke, an angel shits on Reagan's grave - and that's just good organic gardening.

True, there are some white supremacists in and around Coeur d 'Alene. But, as you know, there are also many progressives and others of the farther left.

Coeur d'Alene progressives make known your presence.

What is accomplished

Submitted by ICEKNIFE on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 9:15pm.

Revenge is indeed a two-edged blade, and I tend the backswing.

Besides, every time a republican donor goes broke, an angel shits on Reagan's grave - and that's just good organic gardening.

__________________

Gotta sez: seems like a lotta big talk on the front porch. OK, I'll bite.

What tangible acts have you done/accomplished that strike fear in the hearts of neocons?

(The obvious problem w/alla this is: if you were doing what you are saying/intimating, you wouldn't be at liberty to brag about it on the inkernets. Which suggests it's all a pose. Feel free to enlighten me, and I will happily apologize if necessary.)

Submitted by jbenet on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:08pm

Hmm.. quoting scripture out of context..

I never would have thought that you would be a fundy bible thumper jbenet.

Oh well, to each his own.

===

did you read the post?

its called google adds

click one and sam gets money for the blog site.

Isn't that justice. NeoCons paying for this blog

Submitted by ICEKNIFE on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 9:05pm.
Who exactly do you think these little shits are? Were you aware that some of them have IP's in places like Cordelene Idaho? and Metarie, Louisianna?

Quakers and Vegans on the OHS terrorist watchlist... but no mention of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), the Klan, or any of the rest of the numerous violent white supremacist groups in America?
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How the hell do you know if that is true or not?
And it certainly is mostly untrue about anonymous posters on here.
There is no way to know on here where the IP's are from unless you study the server log and no one does that for this blog. So you are wrong.

The truth is that there are a hell of a lot more haters like that in the major population centers. Why? Because that is where 90% of the people are.

Enjoy the evening!

It's not about striking fear anywhere. It's about ruining lives.

Talking about it here isn't bragging, it's INSTRUCTION and INSPIRATION.

No reason not to discuss it in public, it's all quite legal.

Sandy, it was kind of shitty weekend, I'm not too big on sports, but I do love football. My old High School was eliminated from the playoffs, and I don't have to tell you about the Saints! Other than that it rained (though much needed) all weekend. The thought that this is a Holiday week is somewhat uplifting. : ) So how are you?

US loses wattage to China in Iraq
By Dmitry Shlapentokh

Recently, the US media reported what seems to be a not very important event: China is among the countries that has received contracts for building electric power plants in Iraq. Still, close scrutiny of the event revealed a lot about the nature of not so much China's but the US's foreign policy and political system, and the real state of the US economy.

The very fact that China was invited to build power stations in Iraq looks like a rather surprising development. The point is that this should be done by the Americans, who not only have the expertise but - and this should be quite an important consideration - have allocated literally billions of dollars of taxpayer money for Iraqi "reconstruction", ie, providing the country with essential services, without which, as the George W Bush administration rightly asserts, a stable government is not possible. Still, after several years of work and all the billions spent, as one Iraqi official acknowledged, little has been done to provide even such essentials as electricity.

The report added that one should not blame the US companies engaged in projects because the security situation in the country is appalling. Still, the same security situation will exist for the Chinese, and Iraqi authorities are clearly aware that transferring the assignment to non-US companies will quite displease their masters in Washington.

Still, they decided to do so because the entire experience of the American occupation demonstrates to them the extreme inefficiency of not just the US military machine - the huge dinosaur of a superpower unable to deal with comparatively poorly armed insurgents - but also of the US's economic management. And this might have much more direct implications in the long run for the American imperial presence than a military defeat.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IK13Ad01.html

No reason not to discuss it in public, it's all quite legal.

It is also a good way to become a COINTELPRO target.

"How the hell do you know if that is true or not?"

Port scanners.

"And it certainly is mostly untrue about anonymous posters on here."

Mostly. On the other hand, take the little shit who uses his school account in Austin. He's no white supremacist, he's just a lonely freak trying to impress his freeper buddies.

"There is no way to know on here where the IP's are from"

Riiiight, learned that from SANS, hmmm?

"unless you study the server log and no one does that for this blog."

As far as you know. Was that always the case? And do you automagically assume the system is so secure those logs can't be viewed remotely?

"So you are wrong."

Consider that you might just be incredibly ignorant. And arrogant. And laughably optomistic about the illusion of anonimity.

Might well be... if I wasn't the nephew of an NSC advisor.

As long as I stay legal, I'm good.

dr,

Okay, I'll bite. Why are you conflating theatrics with...with whatever you are conflating theatrics with? Since when did you become a literalist?

If statements of unvarnished fact are the price of admission, I've been outside with the scalpers for a long time. And I remember someone bespoken of hyperventilating bedwetters.

Break it to me gently. They are not actually hyperventilating nor bedwetting, are they? It's that poetic license thing again, isn't it?

Somebody hurt Seth!

reparse

Submitted by ICEKNIFE on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 9:32pm.

It's not about striking fear anywhere. It's about ruining lives.

Talking about it here isn't bragging, it's INSTRUCTION and INSPIRATION.

No reason not to discuss it in public, it's all quite legal.

______________

OK, I'll bite again.

Whose lives do you ruin and how do you ruin them?

keiran
I often read this blog, but I hardly ever have time to weigh in here. Once in a while I call ol' Sammy. You Sederites on this blog make me laugh and educate me. Have a happy Thanksgiving. BTW, for those of you who are following this, I sent Lauren and Sam t-shirts emblazened, simply, with the words "San Anselmo". Sam was mortified that his was XL. It was the only non pink one! Anyhow today I sent him a do-over, size M. With a surprize!!!!! I'm off to put my kids to bed. Love to all. Keiran (waxman--eat it seder)

Might well be... if I wasn't the nephew of an NSC advisor.

That won't protect you. Maybe in the sentencing phase, after a plea bargain.

As long as I stay legal, I'm good.

Ha! Keep believing that. Wait. That is probably true--if there is no action behind your words. In that case, you are correct: nothing to worry about.

You are great keiran. Really enjoyed the Hastert funny. Used it today.

You biting again isn't a reason to think I'll answer again. Just go back in the archives and re-read the last time we had this conversation. Jeeez.

Confused By The Ire

Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 9:40pm.

dr,

Okay, I'll bite. Why are you conflating theatrics with...with whatever you are conflating theatrics with? Since when did you become a literalist?

If statements of unvarnished fact are the price of admission, I've been outside with the scalpers for a long time. And I remember someone bespoken of hyperventilating bedwetters.

Break it to me gently. They are not actually hyperventilating nor bedwetting, are they? It's that poetic license thing again, isn't it?

__________________

If a repetitious windy pose annoys, that makes me a literalist?

Perhaps you should renew your War Dog newsletter.

Go ahead and get me arrested for telling women their husbands are cheating on them, frequenting hookers, using drugs, etc.

Go ahead and get me arrested for telling cops where the meth or coke are being processed, bought, or sold.

Try and get me arrested for sending incriminating photos to the feds. Sure. That'll do it.

These people are CRIMINALS. Are you one of them? Is that why their criminality escapes you, because you're hip deep in it but think that you can't be caught?

You're interesting!

I wonder how many of the "biting" anonymous posts were by John ICEKNIFE?

;)

You never know who might be looking at where & what he posts on various places.

;)

"As long as its legal"

first dress rehearsal 1/2 way thru act I

standing by to bring in Christmas sparkle.

Cashews is sublime perfection.

I don't give a flying fuck if you get arrested for dropping dimes on people or not. I assumed we were talking about political crimes, anyway, not regular crimes. Anyway, I promise not to engage you in debate again.

With my ego, you think I'm actually CAPABLE of anon posting???

DAMN!

THANKS!

You give me a lot more credit that I deserve.

Even when I didn't have a registered nick, I didn't bother trying to conceal who I am.

You wouldn't try to hide it if YOU were ICEKNIFE.

But you're not. In fact, you're just not anyone at all, huh.

"I assumed we were talking about political crimes"

And you based this assumption on....????

Most neocons are child molesters, drug pushers, and murderers. Those are rarely political crimes.

Try READING instead, it's really helpful if you know what you're nattering on about.

Here in the REALITY based community, assumption is MANUFACTURED "reality" and thus NOT REAL!

damn, I hate turnips!

AND LOOK UP THE WORD "DEBATE", TURNIP BOY.

dada:

How did your LA conference go?

(If you wanna talk about it.)

Submitted by ICEKNIFE on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:06pm.

Submitted by ICEKNIFE on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:13pm.

I would guess that hair trigger temper has got you in trouble too many times.

It is not necessary to scream & shout to voice your opinion.

As someone earlier had said:

RELAX

And with that I bid you good night.

I sent him a message that you'd asked hima question, maybe he'll pop in and answer.

um... more weird assumptions. As anyone here who knows me can tell you, I'm sitting in a room fulla people who're giggling madly about all this.

If I relax more than I already am, I'll pass out.

on the left hand side.

keiran
but my soft spot for Sammy makes it impossible. Love you Bimi, Sj, Fernado, Crank, lucille, mmrules, tonid, and the long lost dewey. list not inclusive love you all.

doc - I'ma gonna start a blog's whisperin' campaign fer you -
'cause I believes you mighta need some moral 'n spiritual support!

I didn't knows you'd be practicin' yer singin' 'n dancin' 'n fiddlin' on yer roof.

doc, I wants you to do yer best when you do yer auditionin' fer Fiddler on the Roof.

If it starts to lookin' really desperate there, I reckons we can start a dancin' 'n prayin' campaign here! (sorta like dancin' 'n prayin' fer rain ; )

fwiw, Crank Bait has a special “tortilla” dance 'n fancy moves that he performs (tho' Crank "Cookie" Bait sez it's fer special occasions only! ; )

Peach tea w/a dash a honey is the perfect recipe fer you ('specially if you be singin' yer heart out onna yer roof! : )

**
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

keiran
this is gonna sound crazy but... break a leg?

I asked for peaches and they told me they were out of season. I told them with a cocked look on my face it's never too late m'peaches.

So the nail finally come off.

It died uphill, but it lived on downhill.

So, inna manner a speakin', it hung on for a while.

Hence the expression: hang nail.

hair trigger temper???
Submitted by ICEKNIFE on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:27pm.

Those who are lonely internet addicts will only say they are "I'm sitting in a room fulla people" when all the evidence and commone sense shows they are not.

John, your lonely slip is showing. ;)

LOL! No one here buys what you are selling. Try it on another blog.

Evening peeps, what is going on?

Still getting the goofy anons I see.

The nine year old boy out on the playground scared to death someone will see what pussy he is. So he plays the tough guy, all bullshit bluff of course. If you have ever met a very bad man, that last thing he does is get online to brag.

What we have here is the classic little penis acting out.

♥♫♥♫♥♫ Fiddler on the Roof ♥♫♥♫♥♫

Submitted by Peaches Pseudonymous on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:28pm.

doc - I'ma gonna start a blog's whisperin' campaign fer you -
'cause I believes you mighta need some moral 'n spiritual support! ...

_________________________

Peaches!

Might need!

Jane Russel couldn't help me w/alla support I needs.

Cute mofo, aren't you?
Fuck you, asshole and nic-thief.

who are you calling a little penis?

dr: If a repetitious windy pose annoys, that makes me a literalist?
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Nope. It makes you annoyed. There are all manner of annoying posts and I'm guessing that you allow most of them to pass without comment.

An oft-repeated caricature of arrogance does not annoy me nearly so much as the real thing hiding safely out of reach.

To each his own annoyances, I guess.

Submitted by Cat Chew on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:47pm.
Cute mofo, aren't you?
Fuck you, asshole and nic-thief.
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I would like for it to be entered into the record that I did not comment in any manner, ironical or not.

Gee, how pithy of you, pardon my lithp.

It's unfortunate for you that you're not a real person, hence not welcome here. If you WERE a real person, you'd know that most of the real people here have met me, talked with me on the phone, been to my home, etc.

Haven't gotten a chance to meet Sam, last time he was in town I had work I couldn't escape. Other than Sam, I've never met or talked with CB, L@L, DR, or Toni. Toni I still feel like I know, because we've chatted quite a bit online over the last couple of years.

WHY am I telling you this? So you understand not just how silly your childish attempts at psyops are, but far more importantly how much you MISS by not being a real person.

I really enjoy doing strange art projects with Dada and Cath; without an occasional care package of BLACK-BLACK from Jenise in Japan, my life would be a lot more difficult; Alice and Pierce are among the nicest real people I ever met, because their kindness is genuine and not a pose.

You feelin' the love you're missin' here, chowderhead-without-chowder-or-a-head?

consider being an actual person. as is, you miss a lot.

cat chew try to not be a lap dog for anyone. Why get your panties in a bundle when it isn't any of your concern.

As the post on another blog says, we can register any name that is available.

Sweet dreams!

Noted.

All The World's A Stage

Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:49pm.

dr: If a repetitious windy pose annoys, that makes me a literalist?
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Nope. It makes you annoyed. There are all manner of annoying posts and I'm guessing that you allow most of them to pass without comment.

An oft-repeated caricature of arrogance does not annoy me nearly so much as the real thing hiding safely out of reach.

To each his own annoyances, I guess.

_________________

Yes, it makes me annoyed.

Fair enough.

There is never a man who comforts himself so much as believing he is in on the joke.

Especially when he is not.

Ok Knifey, you have confirmed that you are certifiable NUTS.

Its just a blog with faceless nicks. That is all it is.

Have a good life

the room is fulla people, but it's a small room. we could fit a couple more, but as is, the Mrs, my cousin, one of our co-worker friends, and I (grand total of four people) damn near fill the room.

And they're teasing me for bothering to respond to a fly turd stain.

HOW can they be so MEAN to ME???

Nice as I am, and they tease me. Heartless bastards!

Submitted by Cat Chew on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:58pm.
Noted.
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Furthermore...(Can I "furthermore" a "no comment"? Check the rulebook and get back to me on that.)

There'll be plenty of time to relax later, on the mothership. Slopbuckets of Slack. Slack by the largest unit of measurement you can think of.

Tired (very tired) and clueless.
Knock heads tomorrow and see?
Later.

There'll be nuts by the bushelfull, on the mothership.

Cashews.

I made it all up. Never talk to Jim, never met Jenise or Alice, didn't witness Chubs sending trucks of food and water to Tibadeaux, etc. ad infinitum.

You betcha. MANUFACTURE UP YOU SOME ALTERNATIVE REALITY, WACKYPANTS!

I'm also not involved in emergency relief and disaster recovery, and never started a hurricane relief blog, which is where I never met a lot of these fine folks.

Could you possibly be more of a tuber?

Not to rush anybody, but I'd kinda like-a response from Crank Bait.

Yup Dada, saucers and giant sex goddesses for ALL "Bob"'s people!

I'd write a song about it, if there weren't a few thousand already.

this means I'm hallucinating gum from Japan?

then WHO da FUCK are alla those pics on my hard drive of?

I don't really know those people???

waitaminit, one does NOT forget a stunning creature like Alice.

No.

She's real. Even if none of the rest of us are. Alice is REAL, and can PROVE it.

dr ;) , I have some facts and figures about being Literalists, if interested? ;)

BTW, I have something cool to show you, Ms An!

http://myspace.com/elfpath

"How did your LA conference go?"

It was fun. Learned a bunch, met some people, looked at my music with a critical eye.

Best speaker was the last one I heard, Derek Sivers, CEO of CDBaby, the online music store for independent musicians. He's got a different perspective than the major label people... small start up company, doing what he loves, and providing a service that wasn't available at all ten years ago. The music industry is changing, and that guy is out in front. Plus he had a great attitude about life, and creativity, doing what you love. Much different than the usual music industry line, which is "be original, and by original we mean conform."

Also the conference inspired me to do a better job of keeping up with people, networking.

Just some rambling opinions.

...And We Are Simply (merely) Players.
Dramatis Personae :):(

Thoughts, I guess.

dr,
To what do I respond? Was there a question that I missed?

(Okay. I'll 'fess up. I already had a response written and copied and tossed onto the "less said, the better" pile of never-posted comments. Still, I don't know that my not-posted response is in the same universe as your unseen question?)

nearing end act 2

boss and # 2 fly keep fing up

not me #1 fly ][unless the boss starts helping me.

later

"saucers and giant sex goddesses for ALL "Bob"'s people!

I'd write a song about it, if there weren't a few thousand already."

--

Yes, and there'll be plenty of time for Bob songs on the mothership.

Now it's time for more raising of the awareness of America to the murders that we are responsible for, and raising the old ones from their ancient slumber.

that's a scary feeling..I hope you get better soon...who ever thinks that..because it can be spooky...

But maybe we shouldn't combine those two things.

Somehow I don't think SPM fits The Haunting.

Ok, I have to make food for these people before they start gnawing upholstery.

I'll send yo a myspec message you when I finish dinner, k? If I don't, I'll send in the morning. Been awake about 20 hours, fadng fast, might not be able to get to it tonight. But I'll try.

"Poetry"

Pablo Neruda

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me.

I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.

I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

**
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

Thank You. It is nice to know; however, I do not get to "play" (like D&D, very intense "play") and contemplate, for LIFE in this evil administration is as intense as REAL Game. ;|

Russian Tortoise

Ben Macintyre Says Ptolemy's great book collection at Alexandria had nothing on what is being compiled on the internet: "This digitising of human knowledge is the most profound cultural event since the invention of the printing press itself. In the third century BC the librarians of Alexandria sought to collect “books of all the peoples of the world”, and amassed perhaps half a million scrolls. But even the library at Alexandria was thought to contain perhaps as little as a third of all the books then written."

**
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

Sexy Librarian: Critical Edition of the Original Novel, Julia Weist's first book, will be published in full this fall by design powerhouse Ellen Lupton. It was originally written as a 60-page prospectus that Weist sent to major publishers: the rejection letters she received in return were re-presented as sculptures incorporated into a larger project about failed literature. The book, a quasi-autobiographical meta-narrative that centers around a hip New York arts librarian, explores the relationship between sexuality and information science. Here's More, you know you want more....

"Ok, I have to make food for these people before they start gnawing upholstery.

I'll send yo a myspec message you when I finish dinner, k? If I don't, I'll send in the morning. Been awake about 20 hours, fadng fast, might not be able to get to it tonight. But I'll try."

Understood. I should be doing 5 other things as well.

The Great Alexandria Libray. They found it and some of the sculptures. But I too must sleep, but sadly, not yet. Ohhhhh, but once my head hit's my pillow. :O Big yawn ;)

are we all just lil peeps on the big cats bum of life Like alice once postulated .. Ahhh but what life is this the past falls away the dogs of memories barking at our heals as we in our pokadot pants skamper thru life in to a future we can not see like we have no will of our own at the mercy of the chase of life’s fleeting desires… but alice the signifagence of the magic bowtie ???

Those fortunate enough to traverse the halls of Embedded Technology 2007 could've seen Seiko Epson's latest wonder up close and in person, but for the rest of us, we'll have to settle for the picture and a drool-worthy description over at Engadget. Meanwhile, as Gary Price pointed out, Amazon is betting that e-books aren't a total e-bust. On Monday, the online retail giant will unveil its Kindle e-book reader at a high-profile event in New York, an industry source told CNET News.com Thursday. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos is expected to be present for the announcement, to be held at the chic W Hotel in Union Square.

Hiya pontiff bob...you reminded me...I got a funny birthday card today that you reminded me of..it's two kitties and one is giving the other a massage, and it says..."Just some licking around the butt area please..."

:)

I knew I felt like I was forgetting something all day....

the kitties ..I don't get could you explain ...

: )

the motors - dancing the night away.mp3

MAY prevent breast cancer

A compound found in cannabis may prove to be effective at helping stop the spread of breast cancer cells throughout the body. That’s the finding of a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

The study, by scientists at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, is raising hope that CBD, a compound found in Cannabis sativa, could be the first non-toxic agent to show promise in treating metastatic forms of breast cancer.

“Right now we have a limited range of options in treating aggressive forms of cancer,” says Sean D. McAllister, Ph.D., a cancer researcher at CPMCRI and the lead author of the study. “Those treatments, such as chemotherapy, can be effective but they can also be extremely toxic and difficult for patients. This compound offers the hope of a non-toxic therapy that could achieve the same results without any of the painful side effects.”
...

-are we all just lil peeps on the big cats bum of life Like alice once postulated-

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‘LIBERTY DOLLAR’ RAIDED BY IRS, FBI

By Pat Shannan

Before the doors could open for business Nov. 14, the home offices of NORFED, producers of the Liberty Dollar in Evansville, Ind. were raided by a dozen agents from the FBI and IRS.

For six hours armed agents took all the gold, silver, platinum and almost two tons of “Ron Paul Dollars” that had just been delivered the previous week. According to founder and director Bernard von NotHaus, they also
took all the files and computers and froze the company’s bank accounts.

“We have no money, we have no products and we have no records to even know what was ordered or what you are owed,” von NotHaus wrote to his account holders. “We have nothing but the will to push forward and overcome this massive assault on our liberty and our right to have real money as defined by the U.S. Constitution. We should not be defrauded by the fake government money.”

In addition, all the gold and silver that backs up the paper certificates and digital currency held in the vault at Sunshine Mint has been confiscated.

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Hi Brett!

I'm unwinding from work...I''l have to remember to get those songs in the morning..Tomorrow is my one year review after working full time for one year...

and go back to part time if I don't get it? And two other things I want is a "above expectations" review, and the title of either Library Assistant I or Sr. Library Assistant...I can't decide of adamant to be with all this...

Hope it works out well for you. : )

I'm turning in soon too.

tomorrow I'll post some great torrent links I've found.

I'll hide them on the Oasis.

has a nice ring to it. literally says seniority to the patrons, even if it means something else in the staff hierarchy.

Every day, Democrat in Congress rise up to accuse Vice President Dick Cheney of impeach able war crimes. But when Republicans tried to get a debate going on Articles of Impeachment offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), pictured right, Democrats ran for cover.

When Kucinich asked for floor debate on his impeachment measure, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said they would not take up the impeachment of Mr. Cheney or Mr. Bush. Republicans shocked the House by supporting a debate on impeachment.

“We’re going to give them their day in court,” said Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.).

In the middle of a vote to table (reject) a vote, Republicans began voting against it. The motion failed, opening the door for a debate. Democrats then countered with a resolution referring the matter to the Judiciary Committee, where it has long languished without action. The referral passed, 218 to194.

The House Republican Conference later sent out an email with a mug shot of Kucinich under the headline: “The New Direction of the New Majority.”

It cited the 251-162 vote in favor of a debate, but did not note that that 165 yes votes came from Republicans.

(Issue #47, November 19, 2007)

..."Every day, Democrat in Congress rise up to accuse Vice President Dick Cheney of impeach able war crimes."...
(Really?)

currently 6 users and 16 guests online.
Online users

* Peaches Pseudonymous
* zeek
* Alice
* claypool
* Brett
* the pontiff bob

maybe W should be checking out that Motors song for his big initiative for smooth holiday air travel.

Alice submits:

Why'd you put poetry in quotes, Peaches P?

"Poetry" is poetry!

"Poetry" is the title of the poem.

**
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

"unusual" outside of the regular description of the job...such as the bookmobile driver, and the person who was the only person who knew about computers until I got there...There is a number of hours requirement to be Lib Assistant II, which I will not meet until Feb...they swear they can't have the boss go around that requirement..thought that is not how I understand it...

It's like this...if I go back to p/t relief then I will more than likely end up responsible for the same stuff, but less time to do it in, and no benefits...

I'm confused..probably I should just NOT SPEAK tomorrow...then take some time to think about what they say...it's with three bosses...I AM SCARED....

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

:)

Makes perfect sense now...

A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and
The Subcommittee on Global Change Research
A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2008 Budget

Goal 1: Improve knowledge of the Earth’s past and present climate and environment, including its natural variability, and improve understanding of the causes of observed variability and change.
[...]
Temperature and moisture patterns over North America and Europe are experiencing an earlier transition from winter to summer. The warmer spring temperatures produce earlier spring green-up of vegetation and longer growing seasons.3 Satellite, airborne, and ground-based observations suggest that significant changes are occurring in the mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets that are inferred to be caused by warming at high latitudes.4,5 Analyses of observations and climate model simulations suggest that the pattern of high latitude temperature change is more readily explained by estimated human activity and natural climate forcing than by internal variability alone.
[...]
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ocp2008/ocp2008-analysis.htm

has deliberately distorted Iranian history in a recently published news report

In the news report ‘Tajik capital’s last Lenin plea’ published on its website on Nov. 9th 2007, BBC deliberately distorted the Iranian history by claiming the 9th century Persian poet Rudaki was ‘Tajik’.

“The communists want to move the statue to their party headquarters when the park in which it stands is redesigned. It will be replaced by a statue of the ninth-century Tajik poet, Rudaki…. They believe a statue of Rudaki, the founder of Tajik literature, is a more fitting ideological figure for the city.”

The BBC knows or should have known that Rudaki was in fact Iranian (not Tajik) and numerous reliable sources including ‘Britannica’ have confirmed him to be the ‘Father of Persian poetry’ and the first Iranian poet to compose poems in the ‘New Persian’ in Arabic alphabet.
...

coffee just finished making! Ahhhhh!

How's it going? Thanks for the link about shorter candidates...no need to fear.. ;)

One election at a time...

have my old trifocals on.

computer slot about a 1/4 inch wide...

what a pain in the neck!

In this classic from the Cato institute, Robert Nozick explains how intellectectuals feel entitled to top status in society, and are then bitter when they find out that the top of the pyramid rewards those who follow the rules instead.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n1-1.html

Never mind the injustice and exploitation, intellectuals just want what's coming to them. If they dont get it, they want revolution. Self-important upstarts.

Link courtesy of the bottom of the Capitalism wiki entry.

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

I have a pair of $12.95 drug store specials at the computer.

Trifocals will break your neck.
lol

One election at a time...

Former Marine, war correspondent for World Net Daily and embedded blogger Matt Sanchez spotted Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly arriving and getting ready to spend some time with the troops.

Says Matt:

O'Reilly pulled into Afghanistan to say hello to the troops, but was spared the red carpet treatment.
...

---the top of the pyramid rewards those who follow the rules instead.--

good place to find at least, good, new frames...

Kucinich is gaining!

One election at a time...

From Znet - by Chris Spannos

[This commentary is based on a talk given for the opening panel of the 2007 Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, Nov. 2-4.]

"It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come and do not see the things which happen today. We see them only too well and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forests of prejudices that beset us."
-- Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal

"Anyone who studies the economic and political development of the present social system will easily recognize that [anarchist] objectives do not spring from the Utopian ideas of a few imaginative innovators, but that they are the logical outcome of a thorough examination of the present day social maladjustments, which with every new phase of the existing social conditions manifest themselves more plainly and more unwholesomely."
-- Rudolf Rocker, anarcho-syndicalism

As long as Simon Bar Sinister keeps his grubby mitts off it all.. :)

Submitted by Alice on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 1:39am.

Former Marine, war correspondent for World Net Daily and embedded blogger Matt Sanchez

Did you ever see his videos?

In a March 8 article for Salon.com, Sanchez wrote: "Others [bloggers] were comparing me to Jeff Gannon and claiming that I too had advertised my services as a male escort. I won't deny it, or that I acted in several adult movies 15 years ago under names like Pierre LaBranche and Rod Majors."

Tiny robots programmed to act like roaches were able to blend into cockroach society, according to researchers studying the collective behaviour of insects.

Cockroaches tend to self-organize into leaderless groups, seeming to reach consensus on where to rest together.

For example, when provided two similar shelters, most of the group tended to gather under the same one.

Hoping to learn more about this behaviour, researchers led by Jose Halloy at the Free University of Brussels designed small robots programmed to act like a cockroach.

The robots didn\'t look like the insects and at first the roaches fled from them, but after the scientists coated the robots with pheromones that made them smell like roaches, the machines were accepted into the group, nesting together with the insects.

Given a choice, roaches generally prefer a darker place and the robots were programmed to do the same.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/11/19/science-cockroaches.html

National Bank became the latest Canadian financial institution to lay out the hit it will take from the credit crunch when it said Monday it will take a $575-million charge.

National said the charge, which it will take in the fourth quarter, will amount to $365 million after tax as the bank revalues its asset-backed commercial paper, or ABCP.

National\'s writedown was the biggest announced so far by any Canadian bank.

During the fourth quarter, National said it bought $2.1 billion worth of ABCP, primarily from its own sponsored mutual funds and pooled funds. The bank also bought ABCP from its retail clients.

National already had about $150 million in ABCP on its own balance sheet prior to the purchase.

The bank will release its fourth-quarter and year-end results on Nov. 29.

On the TSX, shares of National Bank rose 76 cents to finish at $51.79.

Most of Canada\'s major banks have already laid out the charges they will take in the current quarter stemming from problems in the world credit market and the U.S. subprime mortgage market.

My new nic! ;)

*

Nope, no idea who that is...so he is uncredible now? Is that what you're saying? I don't know..I wasn't really thinking when I posted the rinf stories...just haven't been able to look at news sites much and saw all the headlines..soo.... :)

Alice submits:

I'm confused..probably I should just NOT SPEAK tomorrow...then take some time to think about what they say...it's with three bosses...I AM SCARED....

In Buddhist texts, consciousness is said to be a field, a plot of land in which every kind of seed has been planted, seeds of suffering, happiness, joy, sorrow, fear, anger, and hope. The quality of our life depends on which of these seeds we water. The practice of mindfulness is to recongnize each seed as it sprouts, and to water the most wholesome seeds whenever possible.

-~Thich Nhat Hanh

Peaches sez:

Practice mindfulness 'n listen to others ('n yerself).

Then reflect upon their words. One cannot control what others say.

I can control how I respond 'n react to others by practicin' mindfulness 'n bein' in the present moment.

I allus enjoy readin' books by Thich Nhat Hanh too! Good books!

Be brave, Alice in Wonderland of books! Whatcha scared of? Ghosts in the library?

Prolly a good ideer to ask questions 'bout options available to you at the land of books. You don't wanna burn yer bridges or jump to the island of conclusions. I recommends a lovely gondola ride or paddlin' yer own boat w/grace 'n wisdom.

**
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

One election at a time...

you have enriched me and helped me remember things...I will REQUIRE those things tomorrow...

NAMASTE...(yeah, I'm yelling it at you... )
XOXO

Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to some of the Blackwater employees present at a Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad in which the company’s security personnel killed 17 Iraqi civilians, lawyers in the case and government officials briefed on the matter said Monday.

The opening of the grand jury inquiry is a significant step in the case because it indicates that prosecutors believe that there is enough evidence of wrongdoing to warrant a formal criminal investigation.

Officials cautioned that the decision to begin a grand jury inquiry did not mean that prosecutors had decided to charge anyone with a crime in what they said was a legally complex case. Some government lawyers have expressed misgivings about whether a federal law exists that would apply to the actions Blackwater employees are accused of committing.

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing grand jury matters, would not say exactly how many subpoenas had been issued, but they said the subpoenas were mainly to Blackwater employees who were at the scene of the shooting but did not fire their weapons. The prosecutors are also seeking company records compiled at the time of the shooting as well as employee work histories and military service files.

The grand jury inquiry in Washington was first reported Monday by ABC News on the network’s Web site.

A spokesman for the Justice Department would not comment on whether prosecutors had convened a grand jury in the case. It was not known whether Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey approved the decision, but it would be unusual for prosecutors to take such a step in a high-profile case without advising the attorney general.

Blackwater’s spokeswoman, Anne E. Tyrrell, said that she could not confirm that a grand jury investigation was under way and that she would have no comment on any federal inquiry involving the company. She did say, however, that it would not be unexpected that federal prosecutors would convene a grand jury to support the F.B.I. investigation.

“It should come as no surprise that this might happen when the F.B.I. is investigating such a matter,” she said.

She added, “If official findings conclude that someone was complicit in wrongdoing, we will support holding that person accountable.”

The existence of a formal criminal inquiry intensifies the pressure on Blackwater, which is seeking to salvage its reputation and preserve its lucrative security contracts with the federal government. The company has earned nearly $1 billion in federal contracts since 2001 and is currently operating under a $1.2 billion contract with the State Department. That contract expires next spring, and State Department officials have said that renewal depends in part on the outcome of the investigations.

Federal agents investigating the events of Sept. 16 have found that at least 14 of the 17 killings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq, said civilian and military officials briefed on the case.

Only 5 of the 19 guards believed to be in the convoy that morning fired their weapons, the officials said. Prosecutors are gradually narrowing the case to the likely targets of the inquiry, the employees who fired upon the Iraqis, including an unidentified guard referred to by investigators as “turret gunner No. 3” who was responsible for a number of deaths.

The ABC News report, citing sworn statements given by Blackwater employees to State Department investigators, suggested that Blackwater guards had given contradictory accounts of the chaotic violence in the episode, in Nisour Square in central Baghdad.

One guard reportedly told the authorities that he did not observe any hostile activity directed toward the convoy before the shooting. But another is said to have reported seeing individuals in Iraqi police uniforms firing at the convoy before Blackwater guards opened fire. It is not known whether these Blackwater guards were among those who received subpoenas.

Criminal investigators found no evidence to support assertions by Blackwater employees that they were fired upon by Iraqi civilians, contradicting initial assertions by Blackwater officials who said that company employees fired in self-defense and that several vehicles were badly damaged by hostile gunfire.

The F.B.I. inquiry has faced a number of hurdles. Agents did not arrive in Baghdad until several weeks after the shooting and were thus hampered in efforts to reconstruct the scene. Federal investigators have impounded several vehicles, but some officials have said they may reveal little forensic evidence.

The State Department, which employs Blackwater to guard its diplomats and other high-level civilians in Iraq, interviewed most of the Blackwater agents involved in the shooting under grants of immunity. Those statements are off limits to the F.B.I. and cannot be used in any prosecution.

In addition, government officials said a number of Blackwater guards declined to cooperate with the F.B.I. and had retained lawyers.

Did you know I posted that quote recently? Like it may have been over this weekend even, or did you just select it now spur of the moment?

I'm just so curious, I HAVE to ask...

at the AIPAC spy trial.

That could get interesting.

Writer Jeanne Cavelos will discuss how after 30 years Star Wars still remains an amazing vision for the future and if the technologies that George Lucas depicted in the films are at all possible.

First Hour: Former Iranian Airforce General Parvis Jafari and Dr. Roger Leir discuss a 1976 UFO sighting over Tehran.

This, tonight...

and whenever I hear the Star Wars music, all I can think of is Bill Murray.... :)

and a slightly inappropriate scarf.

catching that slight flaw will relax em so the can listen to your presentation with out concentrating on whether you make a mistake or not.

Last week two of the bosses were told to give me a pre-review meeting..and that day one boss had a ton of cleavage all out there...I told her it was distracting me... it does throw a person off..Hey..maybe she did it on purpose...?

Singing:Star wars,nothing but Star wars.... :)

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

Alice submits:

I'm pulling out my printer, PP..

you have enriched me and helped me remember things...I will REQUIRE those things tomorrow...

NAMASTE...(yeah, I'm yelling it at you... )

XOXO

~~~~~

**
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

got to love the late birthday call..

See you tomorrow...

XOXO

What a bunch of evil,fascist knuckleheads.
Ya just gotta love those Repukes! Not !

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

Take care.. :)

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

By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: November 19, 2007, 9:00 PM PST

A genetics company and a biodiesel refiner have formed a joint venture to see if they can cut the cost of biodiesel.

Sustainable Oil is a joint venture between Green Earth Fuels, an established biodiesel manufacturer from Texas, and Targeted Growth, which specializes in creating genetically enhanced plants. Targeted Growth has created a version of camelina, a distant relative of canola, with seeds that produce about 20 percent more oil than seeds from conventional plants, according to CEO Tom Todaro. The more oil that comes out of the seeds, the more fuel that can be produced. Additionally, camelina grows on marginal land, requires little water, and isn't eaten by humans.

Sustainable Oil, planned to be formally announced Tuesday, will continue the genetic research already performed by Targeted and sign contracts with farmers to grow its "Elite Camelina" plants. These farmers, in turn, will sell their output to Green Earth. Green Earth has a 90 million-gallon-a-year plant in Houston and has plans to build similar plants in the Northeastern U.S. and California.
Con't-CNET News.com
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

CHICAGO (AFP) - US researchers have developed a method of producing hydrogen gas from biodegradable organic material, potentially providing an abundant source of this clean-burning fuel, according to a study released Monday.

The technology offers a way to cheaply and efficiently generate hydrogen gas from readily available and renewable biomass such as cellulose or glucose, and could be used for powering vehicles, making fertilizer and treating drinking water.

Numerous public transportation systems are moving toward hydrogen-powered engines as an alternative to gasoline, but most hydrogen today is generated from nonrenewable fossil fuels such as natural gas.

The method used by engineers at Pennsylvania State University however combines electron-generating bacteria and a small electrical charge in a microbial fuel cell to produce hydrogen gas.

Microbial fuel cells work through the action of bacteria which can pass electrons to an anode. The electrons flow from the anode through a wire to the cathode producing an electric current. In the process, the bacteria consume organic matter in the biomass material.

An external jolt of electricity helps generate hydrogen gas at the cathode.

In the past, the process, which is known as electrohydrogenesis, has had poor efficiency rates and low hydrogen yields.

But the researchers at Pennsylvania State University were able to get around these problems by chemically modifying elements of the reactor.
Con't

Link-Wave Of The Future-Open Mic
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Bill O'Reilly Shows Up In Afghanistan
Submitted by Alice on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 1:39am
By Matt Sanchez.
*******
Or,
Brillo's Circle jerk--Afghanistan Style !
Hope Brillo brought some Loofah's! Ha!

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

By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press Writer
26 minutes ago

DECATUR, Ga. - The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.

Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk's family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test.

In truth, this is not the first — or even the second — sex scandal to engulf Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair.

The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk's nephew.

"I am so very sorry for the collateral damage it's caused our family and the families hurt by the removing of the veil that hid our humanity and our sinfulness," said D.E. Paulk, who received the mantle of head pastor a year and a half ago.

D.E. Paulk said he did not learn the secret of his parentage until the paternity test. "I was disappointed, and I was surprised," he said.

Earl Paulk, his brother, Don, and his sister-in-law, Clariece, did not return calls for comment.

A judge ordered the test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney's office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which are investigating Earl Paulk for possible perjury and false-swearing charges stemming from a lawsuit.

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January.

In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer. But the paternity test said otherwise.
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By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer
30 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism adviser who gave public updates on the extent of the threat to U.S. security, is stepping down after 4 1/2 years.

Her departure continues an exodus of key Bush aides and confidants, with his two-term presidency in the final 14 months. Top aide Karl Rove, along with press secretary Tony Snow, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and senior presidential adviser Dan Bartlett, have already left.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Tuesday Tehran would agree to a U.S. request for a new round of talks on security in Iraq, Iranian news agencies reported.

"These negotiations will be held in a near future," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said according to the ISNA news agency. The official IRNA news agency carried a similar report.

The two old foes, deeply at odds over who is to blame for the violence in Iraq as well as over Tehran's disputed atomic ambitions, held three rounds of discussions earlier this year on how to improve the security situation there.

"Iran is agreeing to this request in the framework of the policy of helping the Iraqi government and nation and (supporting) stability and security in this country," state radio quoted Mottaki as saying.

Iraq's government spokesman last week said it was encouraged by signs of a thaw in ties between Iran and the United States over Iraq but that it wanted the two sides to have a "proper dialogue" about the issue.
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Support the Military, OR ELSE!!!

As a veteran, I'd like to take this opportunity to tell all americans that you support the military far more than any other sector of our society - with your tax dollars. That's more or less mandatory, despite being diametrically opposed to the stated intentions of the founders of this nation. What is NOT mandatory is moral, emotional, or any kind of lip-service support of our military at ANY level.

You are welcome to see our brave young men and women as patriots seeking to serve our country. I'll think you a child, but by all means, ra ra sis boom bah. You're welcome to see our deranged and enraged youth as being conned, seduced, or even just invited to become killers or victims, property of the state, and agents of corporate security for companies who see them, and all of us, as resources to exploit. I'll see you as cynical, but hey, you have that right. You're welcome to view the disenfranchised and hopeless of our nation as profoundly uneducated in matters of history, both recent and ancient, and seeking the only economic parity they can envision, via the military. I'll think you're paying attention, but you have a right to do that and to express what you see.

YOU DO *NOT* HAVE TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!!

YOU DO *NOT* HAVE TO THINK VIOLENCE IS OK!

YOU DO *NOT* HAVE TO SUPPORT THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, NO-BID CONTRACTS, OR THE THEFT OF YOUR DAILY WORK TO SUPPORT THE TROOP-MAKING-AND-KILLING PROCESS!!!

You particularly do not have to support the failure of NORAD, the Air Force, or The Joint Chiefs to protect our country on Sept. 11th. We spend billions every year for the biggest, most illegal, most deadly military on the planet. It's the only area of endeavor in which we surpass all other nations. So where the FUCK were they on Sept. 11th? Some hack at Popular Mechanics (in their absurd "debunking" of 9/11 conspiracy theories) claimed there were only 14 interceptors scramble-ready in the entire continental US that day. IF that were true (it's not even slightly), where did all our tax dollars go?

9/11 resulted from either insane degrees of criminal negligence and dereliction of duty, OR from confusion resulting from an illegal stand-down order. Either way, they failed us, as did their commander in chief, who had a photo-op he couldn't miss. Of course he couldn't miss it, he WANTED to be with kids when the shit hit the fan. HE WAS PROTECTIFYIN' THE CHILDRENS!!!

Countless americans have died so you can support our military or NOT, as your intellect, emotions, and hopefully your conscience dictate. Some died in battle as soldiers, some died as successful Christians WITHOUT RESORTING TO VIOLENCE!

What many of you don't know is that for some people it's EASY to die. LIVING is hard. A death in service takes only a moment, a LIFETIME of service... that takes ... uh, guess!

Many americans gave their WHOLE lives in service, not just a few months or years. Neither group are to be denigraded. We give what we can, each according to our inner guides. Almost all of us did it in some part, for our constitution - which in turn is meant for YOU.

Many have died, and many have lived, specifically so YOU could believe as you will, and speak of it as you will.

I was one of our troops. You support me by speaking your truth. If your truth is against all forms of needless violence, speak it loud, speak it plain. I risked my life so you'd cleave to the truth and make it your clairion. If your truth is a wish for the death of all who live, say so. No one can tell you that you haven't the right. Generations have lived and died to vouchsafe that right, given you by your creator. You do not support me by telling me what you think I want to hear. You support me by saying what you think. If you'd support your troops well, speak of informed and well researched opinions and ideas.

I'm not a soldier now, but I was for a few moments a long long time ago. It was then I learned of the utter folly of fear in shiny boots, of control mania carried to the extreme, and of what it means to trade humanity for insect mentality. But that's MY truth, and in large part a subjective one. Your truth may differ, but by god I will ALWAYS defend your right to have and speak your own truth.

Support the troops if you like, or not.

Enlisted men and women can always count on help from me.

If you're an officer? Cross to the other side of the street. I don't want you on my sidewalk, because there's a 99% chance YOU HAVE NO HONOR!

do us all a favor and don't bother telling me that you, your spouse, or whoever, is one of the 1%. You have a right to express yourself, I have a right to delete anything I want from my blog.

May the Omniverse grant this poor tired planet PEACE, preferably without removing humanity first.

George Bush died, and was greeted on the other side by thousands of children. Most were blown up, shot, and otherwise mangled horribly, but one in particular caught his eye as he gaped in abject horror. She was caucasian, tiny, and so very thin... but somehow he knew it was her, his little sister Robin, who died of leukemia at age three.

He reached out to her, cried out to her, "forgive me..." his despair was palpable and hung in the air between them, an invisible yet impenetrable wall seperating his darkness from her light.

She looked at him sadly, and whispered "I forgive you, George - but it's not enough. It can't help you now." The entire group was standing stock still - yet somehow, they seemed to drift up and away from him.

"Robin, wait, don't leave me. I... I... I'm afraid! Afraid of the dark!" George's terror made him a genuine object of pity. "You can't go where we're going, George. You took the darkness into you long ago. I'm sorry, but you know you were supposed to be MY big brother, not Orwell's. Goodbye George" her words faded while sight of the children faded for him as well.

He thought he could master the fear that clawed at his soul, was sure of it, until.... he felt the claws, talons, tentacles, and other appendages made of shadow reaching for him, reaching into him, draging him down. He screamed, but made no sound. He's still screaming, and will now scream silently for all eternity.

I woke up feeling, well, *cleaner* somehow, as if made whole by the comforting certainty that time clears the way of all detritus, all lies, all waste, and remakes the world anew.

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If you have one,I'd like to see it..Thanks. :)

Even though you called me Jack Ruby,the other day..Your cool..

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Be honest, did you shoot Lee Harvey Oswald?

heh.

Anyway, it's on my MySpace blog. MySpace affords one a certan sense of lowbrow freedom to be as pedestrian or outre' as the moment inspires. It's a dump.

almost 3:AM here, and even werewolves gotta sleep occasionally.

I don't think he did shoot..The DIA probably had him doped up on something..Who knows??

I just have abunch of comics musicians as my friends,mostly..
He's my goof blog..My homage to animated gif's,I think..

I was and (am still pissed off at AAR)when I picked that name..

Myspace is ..I don't go there much,as I said before..
Good to read ya!
Oh,what's your myspace link..If ya don't mind giving it out..Peace. :)

I'm going to delet those links in abit..Don't want spam from the trolls!

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How ya doing?
Good I hope.. :)

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Sorry, I was at the open Mic posting this:

A Native Person's Thanksgiving Perspective

JIK is an eccentric with a wonderful writing style. I love his dream of Bush. He should send it to Bush! If there is an ounce of truth that Bush feels bad about his sister's early death, I bet that dream story would haunt him.

California to sue toy sellers for lead
by Chris in Paris · 11/20/2007 02:45:00 AM ET
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It's about time someone does this. I know accountability went out of fashion with the Republicans but for goodness sakes, this is a no-brainer. Toy companies such as Mattel and others have done an amazingly poor job at following what should be standard procedure for products that either include their corporate name or products they sell. I know it cuts a few pennies from the profit that comes when you offshore the work in cheap production countries, but really.

One would hope that lawsuits would not be necessary but considering the failures of business across multiple industries, this seems to be the only way to grab their attention. Of course, a little oversight up front might have limited the depth of these problems as well, but Republicans didn't think oversight was fair. Allowing lead in toys for kids was OK though, because kids understand what laissez faire economics are all about. Even if they have brain damage or die, they will have brain damage or die for Republicans values.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/11/california-to-sue-toy-sellers-for-lea...

today would be the day:

mr. whipple has squeezed the charmin for the last time...

Dick Wilson, a character actor who turned "Please don't squeeze the Charmin" into a national catchphrase as exasperated shopkeeper Mr. Whipple in the TV commercial campaign that ran for more than two decades, has died. He was 91.

Wilson died Monday of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, announced Procter & Gamble Co., maker of Charmin tissue.

Np..I'm all over the internets tonight..
I just found he's mySpace site..Interesting to say the least..;)
He writes well and,he cracks me up!

How ya feeling?Better I hope..

I've been having break thru-pain probs for 2 days..Sucks..
It has a mind of it's own..
If it's not the flu(mostly gone)it's this pain crap..
O'well,I'll stop whining..It will get better soon,I hope..

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Afghanistan aid wasted by the truckload
by Chris in Paris · 11/20/2007 03:05:00 AM ET

Ah yes, that pesky oversight issue again. When something happens once, well, things happen. When it occurs over and over and over, you have a trend. In this case, a trend of cynicism, corruption and failure.
Too much aid to Afghanistan is wasted -- soaked up in contractors' profits, spent on expensive expatriate consultants or squandered on small-scale, quick-fix projects, a leading British charity said on Tuesday.

Despite more than $15 billion of aid pumped into Afghanistan since U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban in 2001, many Afghans still suffer levels of poverty rarely seen outside sub-Saharan Africa.

"The development process has to date been too centralized, top-heavy and insufficient," said a report by Oxfam.

By far the biggest donor, the United States approved a further $6.4 billion in Afghan aid this year, but the funds are spent in ways that are "ineffective or inefficient," Oxfam said.
"Ineffective" and "Inefficient" sums up the Bush and GOP years rather nicely. The old $500,000 per year fly-in "experts" always seem to deliver similar results overseas. I thought fly-by foreign aid was proven to be a bust years ago. Then again, the GOP managed to not hear about the financial policies of the 1920s either since they seem intent on repeating the same mistakes.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/11/afghanistan-aid-wasted-by-truckload.h...

Bummer..Where is Jim Earl when ya need him!
Mornin Dan :)

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Mr. Whipple was around for a long time. He sold alot of toilet paper. Just like the Maytag Repair Man, he's gone too!

Obama beats her by 2-1 as the most honest and trustworthy
Barack Obama beats her by 2-1 as the most honest and trustworthy candidate. Her advantage on experience, while substantial, has softened since summer. Only 15% think Hillary Clinton is an honest person. Obama has taken the lead in the latest Iowa preference poll.

http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Vote2008/story?id=3887274&page=1

i didn't realize gordon jump had taken the big jump (i must be channeling jim earl this mornin). i remember him from wkrp in cincinnati. i still think one of their best episodes was the turkey drop...

so is it finally turning into a horse race? i had pulled back on donating to edwards when it seem like george bush lite was a Fait accompli

by Richard Ingham
8 minutes ago

PARIS (AFP) - Emissions of greenhouse gases by industrialised countries are surging anew after a long decline, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said on Tuesday ahead of a crucial forum on tackling global warming.

It blamed continued growth in Western economies and a revival of growth in former East Bloc nations, with pollution from transport the biggest culprit by sector.

"Industrialised countries' overall greenhouse-gas emissions rose to a near all-time high in 2005," UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said in a press conference telecast from Bonn.

"Greenhouse-gas emissions between 1990 and 2000 went down, but then between 2000 and 2005 they increased again, by 2.6 percent."

2005 is the latest year for which the 40 industrialised countries which have signed and ratified the UNFCCC have reported their emissions data, under their obligations to this treaty.

The data released on Tuesday comes on the heels of a grim warning by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

At the weekend, the Nobel-winning IPCC issued a historic report that declared climate change was already visible and could wreak "abrupt or irreversible" damage if unchecked.
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Asian stocks bounce back after Wall Street fall (AFP) - 1 hr ago
AFP - Asian stocks trimmed losses Tuesday with some bourses bouncing into the black as investors decided a recent global sell-off was overdone, despite lingering concerns about the US economy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071120/bs_afp/stocksworld

Euro hits record high 1.4766 dollars (AFP) - 2 hr agoAFP - The European single currency struck a record high 1.4766 dollars in trading here on Tuesday after more bad news from the banking sector hit investor confidence over the US economy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071120/bs_afp/forexeuropeeurodollarrecord

Dollar holds steady against euro (AFP) - 13 hr agoAFP - The dollar held relatively steady against the euro and the pound Monday amid a lack of market-moving economic news, but traders said concerns about the US economy continued to weigh on the dollar...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071120/bs_afp/forexeuropeeurodollarrecord

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction, with rates on six-month bills falling to the lowest level in more than two years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071119/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/treasury_bills

Dollar hit by fresh weakness (FT.com) - 22 hr agoFT.com - The dollar fell to a twelve-year low against the Swiss franc and lost ground against the yen on Monday as fears over the health of the US economy continued to undermine the currency.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20071119/bs_ft/fto111920070913144248

New Readers Coming Soon Look To Launch Ebooks Finally
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Alice,

http://www.charlierose.com/noFlash

Last night the Kindle was featured early in the Charlie Rose show by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com. The device is pretty cool. Among its pretty cool features is a resident bazillion-word dictionary and a resident Wikipedia that can be instantly accessed. All best-selling books and new releases cost $9.99 and can be located, sampled, purchased and loaded by the Kindle at any time.

It is definitely a good option for a heavy reader. The Kindle can hold two-hundred books at one time, it weighs ten ounces and has bigger dimensions than a small book but smaller dimensions than a big book.

Presidential candidate says they work to "make sure that America stays addicted." He along with Clinton and Kucinich spoke at a forum on global warming and energy issues in Los Angeles.
By Michael R. Blood
The Associated Press

On a day when a U.N. panel warned of growing peril from climate change, John Edwards accused the oil and gas industry Saturday of deploying hundreds of lobbyists to Washington to resist efforts to free the nation from its dependence on fossil fuels.

Edwards' criticism came during a Los Angeles forum on global warming, at which he and fellow Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dennis Kucinich outlined similar goals of curbing greenhouse gases, expanding alternative energy sources and growing jobs in a green economy.
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COLUMN: The Immigration Con Artists

Posted November 19, 2007 | 12:07 PM (EST)
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Note: If you are tired of major issues like this getting no coverage in the face of a media blackout and thus you would like to see my nationally syndicated column in your local paper, see the bottom of this post on what to do to make that happen. - D

The debate taking place in America over illegal immigration is not just overheated. As I discuss in my new nationally syndicated column out this past Friday, the debate is dishonest. Both parties are trying to focus attention on the illegal immigration issue in order to distract attention from the underlying problem of worker exploitation and regressive economic/globalization policies that intensify the exploitation. We see it most often from Republicans, but we saw it just last week from Democrats at the presidential debate, as that debate only addressed the immigration issue from a punitive standpoint (driver's licenses, etc.) - rather than discussing the root of the issue, which is economic exploitation of all workers.

The fact is, both Democrats and Republicans know that exploitation is at the heart of illegal immigration, but neither party is really willing to confront that exploitation because that would mean confronting their big corporate donors who are profiting off the status quo. And so, taking a scapegoat play out of the Reagan and Clinton playbooks, the con artists in both parties are trying to channel Americans' intense anger at Big Money interests into a rage at illegal immigrants.

This is particularly disgusting on the Democratic side, mainly because the Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of the little guy, and of fairness. Instead, it is becoming the party of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) - the former investment banker and NAFTA architect who is cravenly trying to protect the moneyed interests that have underwritten his political career by playing to the ugliest societal instincts. The whole debate is about how much or little to punish undocumented workers - rather than about how to punish the moneyed interests that are abusing all workers, undocumented or otherwise.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/column-the-immigration-c_b_73...

testicles doing ok this morning?

My computer thinks I'm French
by John Aravosis (DC) · 11/19/2007 10:41:00 PM ET
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I'm not quite sure when the transition happened, but sometime in the past month my computer got the idea that I was French, and I'm now getting a good deal of ads popping up in French when I surf the Web. Like this a few days ago:

And this today:

Of course it's not as bad as the guy a while back whose TiVo thought he was gay (not that there's anything wrong with it.)

Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."

"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."

Crank.

It wasn't that long ago the 3% was cheering for Civil War in Iraq. What happened to that? Where did that go? Who won? Civil War, the 3%'s would have loved to start one!

Now sing along in a bad western accent--I beg your pardon,I never promised you a rose garden.. ;)

Or,man if you only knew.. ;)
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DENNIS WON the KPOJ Democratic Poll. B U T ....... They are having something called SECOND CHANCE WEEK - to bring back one previously eliminated candidate. (probably in hopes some loser will squeak by...) don't vote this week. Be ready NEXT week to vote for Dennis.

ACTION ALERT Call ! KPOJ has the Loser's poll going now ... in an attempt to get someone (anyone) else to win their poll. CALL in and voice your consternation and displeasure. Be polite - but be firm. Dennis swept their poll ..... and now they come up with this second chance poll. Our president doesn't get a second chance - we need the guy who got it right the FIRST TIME - and that has always been (and always will be) DENNIS ! We don't want the guy with the colorful, charismatic excuse - we want the guy who got it right the first time - and the guy who swept that poll! Call now please!

KEX Poll -- Second Chance poll there -- play the game -- vote now for Dennis! http://www.1190kex.com/pages/pages/straw_poll_2nd_chance.php
second chance poll on KEX -- this is the poll Dennis "fell off of" early on.
ACTION ALERT VOTE NOW

ACTION ALERT read / click / comment - Great piece on DJK, Hilary and John E at the Environmental conference... DJK rules! http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-prez18nov18,1,46364... there is a DIGG button at the bottom. Click it!
then - go to DIGG and comment!

From Richard in Wisconsin:
Write to your local newspaper on December 10th about DK. And write about something other than the war. Some other important aspect. Felt like I needed to give people something to do. The whole social thing (the Action page of the main website) is a waste if all everyone does is talk to each other!

“New Orleans lost out in the competition to host one of the 2008 presidential debates Monday after the commission that selects the sites decided that the city has not sufficiently recovered from Hurricane Katrina to handle such a major event.”

http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/11/new_orleans_rejected_for_pre...

CQ reports that Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) “is ready to play nice when considering President Bush’s latest round of nominees to fill a raft of vacancies in the upper echelons of the Justice Department.” After Bush reportedly called him at home, Leahy pledged, “I’m going to try to move as quickly as I can on them.”

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002630085.html

While the violence in Baghdad declines, “northern Iraq has become more violent than other regions as al-Qaida and other militants move there to avoid coalition operations elsewhere.” “What you’re seeing is the enemy shifting,” Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling told reporters yesterday.

http://www.examiner.com/a-1058927~General_Says_N__Iraq_Most_Violent_Regi...

CBS’s “60 Minutes” is gathering information in Alabama about the case of incarcerated former Gov. Don Siegelman. Siegelman’s prosecution was opposed by DoJ prosecutors and was reportedly interfered with by Bush administration political operatives.

http://stevensonblog.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=700943

“US contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan more than doubled from 2004 to 2006 to over 25 billion dollars but government oversight of the firms involved has slackened,” reports the Center for Public Integrity. Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR topped the list with more than $16 billion in U.S. contracts.

http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/11/new_orleans_rejected_for_pre...

When the House voted on Iraq redeployment legislation last week, three Republicans — Reps. Chris Shays (R-CT), Jim Walsh (R-NY) and Phil English (R-PA) — “voted to order withdrawal for the first time,” likely influenced by the tough re-election campaigns they face in ‘08.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/members-look-to-next-year-as-they-we...

that bad huh? life's a bitch than you marry one!!! sorry!

Morning!

There!

I have attempted to write the following "What If?" opinion several times but I always become overly mired in the details. Here is the short version. You may fill in the details as you see fit.

What if Cheney and Bush were brought down like tragic leaders in a play? In this What If contemplation, they could be brought down in any of several ways but their fall from power must be very public and complete in its scope. Their excesses must be exposed as diametrically opposed to the wishes of the majority of the American people and the spirit of the Constitution.

How Cheney and Bush are rejected in this What If is not as important as the ramifications are. I believe that Cheney and Bush would contribute more to the U.S.A. as deposed rulers than they could through any other actions.

Most of the rest of the world views America as two separate entities; the U.S. leadership and the U.S. people. Most of the rest of the world is dismayed that bad U.S. leadership has traveled a different path than preferred by good U.S. people. If the bad leadership is deposed, how would it affect global opinion?

I believe that the global economy would enjoy a nearly instantaneous bump. The international impression would be that the American people have forced a reversal away from a course of militarism and empiricism. The collective global hope would shift toward the possibility that the U.S. catharsis had opened avenues to international cooperation, that ecological action would replace ecological talk, that the trillions of dollars devoted to fossil fuel selfishness would be replaced with investment in alternatives.

In my opinion, nothing that Cheney and Bush could do would have the profoundly beneficial results that, figuratively or literally, dragging them through the streets to the public square and exposing them as scoundrels would have.

McClellan’s tell-all implicates Bush in Plame scandal. Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will publish a memoir in April titled “What Happened.” In an excerpt posted by his publisher, McClellan implicates “the President himself” in the Valerie Plame scandal:

“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

“There was one problem. It was not true.

“I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.”

McClellan, who orchestrated the White House’s stonewalling of the investigation into the leak, later said he was lied to by those directly involved.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/20/mcclellans-tell-all-implicates-bush-...

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Good I hope.. :)

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Richard D. Parsons
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Dear Mr. Parsons,

I admit I was a bit reluctant to accept CNN Headline News's invitation to serve as Glenn Beck's viewer last night. It's such a big responsibility, and I have a very weak bladder. What if I had to use the restroom? Would some ambitious underling take advantage of the situation and cancel the program while no one--and I mean that literally--no one was watching? I'm not sure CNN's leadership could survive that. Canceling Glenn Beck's show would be seen as an admission that they made a mistake when they hired a right wing radio demagogue to host a "news" show. It'd be like President Bush admitting that invading Iraq was a terrible mistake. It's better that CNN-HN continue to sacrifice ratings like the President sacrifices soldiers--it's a small price to pay to preserve an ego.

In the end, I agreed and watched Beck's program. I can't say I liked it--Beck just seems too much like that uncle whose always giggling while adjusting himself--he's creepy. That said, I was very impressed with the frequency with which he accused people of being socialists or promoting socialist programs. In just the 10 minutes I watched (OK, I admit that I went to the restroom a number of times--but no one noticed), he called environmentalists, scientists, Hillary Clinton, and "the Democrat candidates" socialists, and asked Mitt Romney if his health care plan "might be a little too socialist." By my calculations, that amounts to using the word socialist to disparage someone or some policy once every 2 minutes--I felt like I was watching Joe McCarthy reincarnated.

But even his red-baiting could use a little work. His delivery was rough. Although I enjoyed how he would raise his voice and make constipated straining noises every time he used the word socialist, the effect was ruined when his voice inevitably cracked. He sounded like a pubescent Bobcat Goldthwait.

And that got me to thinking. Does CNN still have James Earl Jones under contract? The "This is CNN" thing he use to do for you sounded like the voice of God. Perhaps you could get him to record the word "socialist" and have Beck lipsynch it. That'd put an end to the voice cracking problem and probably prevent him from having a hernia from making that straining noise.

I bet you might even get a second viewer out of it.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

In my opinion, nothing that Cheney and Bush could do would have the profoundly beneficial results that, figuratively or literally, dragging them through the streets to the public square and exposing them as scoundrels would have.

I was thinking that you might conclude with a Mussolini conclusion.. Oh well, dragging them through the streets and leaving it at that works. They both have a date at the Hague as it is.

so you will be awake today to listen to your main man huh?