Going, Going, Gone-zo?

Watch it while it's available. It will be pulled in just a few minutes. Count on that.

All versions that had Iraq content are already gone. This one is lame but the song is there.

who is offended when the chimp accuses the dems of political theatre. to wit:

- you could only attend a bush political event if you had a ticket. wouldn't do to have someone who disagrees present in the audience

- if you represented a different point of view, you could get arrested (to wit the individuals tossed out of the state of the union speech)

- it isn't political theatre when you use troops as a backdrop?

- it isn't political theatre when you fly over a disaster area but then do nothing about it?

the list goes on and on, and yet everyone seems content to give the shrub a free pass.

Gas prices: Worse than '81 oil shock

Gas now at highest level, even adjusted for inflation; AAA's reading of nearly $3.20 a gallon marks ninth straight record high in current dollars.

While gasoline had already been in record territory in current dollars, Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the survey, said this is the first time that her survey topped her 1981 record high when adjusted for inflation.

The price of $1.35 in 1981 works out to $3.15 in current dollars, she said. The Iran-Iraq war, which started the year before, choked off oil supplies to the global market, causing that spike in prices.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/21/news/economy/record_gas_monday/index.htm...

the recent comments only work when it references something on the initial page...

His plan was to scare everyone all along.....

We should have figured that out when he picked DICK CHENEY as a running mate.

i thought cheney picked himself...

wasn't cheney head of the committee to identify a suitable vp candidate and he came back and said the only suitable candidate was himself.

:)

Lebanese army pounds Palestinian camp

Dems set war bill without Iraq timeline

Iraq makes plans for quick U.S. pullout

Criticism slows work on immigration deal

Fla. doctor convicted in terror case

Iraq makes plans for quick U.S. pullout By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
48 minutes ago

Iraq's military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout, the defense minister said Monday, as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don't make major reforms by fall.

The U.S. official did not say what actions could be taken by the White House, but his comments reflected the administration's need to show results in Iraq — as an answer to pressure by the Democrats in Congress seeking to set timetables on the U.S. military presence.

Several mortar shells hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone, one striking the Iraqi parliament building but causing no casualties — the latest in near daily barrages on the nerve center of the U.S. mission and Iraqi government that underline the country's tenuous security.

At least 58 Iraqis were killed by attacks or found dead across Iraq, including seven people ambushed on a bus northeast of Baghdad, police said. The dead included 24 men whose bullet-riddled bodies were found across Baghdad, apparent victims of sectarian death squads.

British troops clashed with Shiite Muslim gunmen in the southern city of Basra. Britain's military said one British soldier and a civilian driver were killed when a supply convoy was attacked in the center of the city, Iraq's second biggest.

Elsewhere, U.S. troops raided safe houses south of Baghdad but failed to find three soldiers missing since a May 12 ambush that left four other Americans and an Iraqi dead.

"We've (identified) some safe houses and we targeted a couple of those today and they were able to slip away from us. But we're going to come at things from a different angle," a U.S. spokesman, Maj. Webster Wright, said without elaborating.

U.S. officers said the search by thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers may be forcing the kidnappers to move the three Americans frequently, preventing insurgents from posting pictures of their captives on the Internet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070521/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070519200582&pri...

Sam great to have you back - working in the year - draining hot tub and have Sam on the wireless connection

Next week I will hook up my big speakers so I can get the Right Wing neighbors all stirred up.

But - I have kept my premuim because I knew Sunday with Seder was coming - but now cannot find the podcast - help!

"working in the yard (not year)"

so whats the scoop on honeydo farm? here's some airplane for ya:

Bought myself a farm way out in the country
Took to growin lettuce milkin cows and honey
Bought myself a farm (way out in the country)
Bought myself a farm way out in the country
Spent time in the hayloft with the mice and the bunnies
Spent time in the country
Yes it's good livin on the farm
Ah so good livin on the farm
Yes it's good livin on the farm
Here comes my next door neighbour comin down the road
He always looks so regal ridin on his toad named Lightnin
The toad's name is Lightnin he's ten hands at the shoulder
And if you give him sugar you know he'll whinny like a boulder
Yes he will
Well I gotta get back to work now and clear away some logs
Ah the sun is shinin westwards yeah I think I'll saddle up my frog and
Get outta here

Comey considered ‘interven[ing] physically’ to stop Gonzales and Card from overruling Ashcroft:

Alerted to the others’ visit, Comey raced to the hospital himself, getting there with just minutes to spare. “I remember waiting; it wasn’t long, but it felt like forever,” Comey told U.S. News in an exclusive interview. “And I was thinking, ‘What am I going to do? What if they get him to sign something? Do I intervene physically? What do I do?‘”

Incidentally, James Comey is 6-foot-8.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070520/28justice.htm

NBC’s Today Show on ‘Barack the Magic Negro.’ As we noted this weekend, NBC today ran a piece on Rush Limbaugh’s racist song, “Barack the Magic Negro.” Limbaugh promised to send NBC “encyclopedic documentation” showing “the brilliance of it, the humor of it.” As you’ll see, Media Matters sent their own documentation. Take a look:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/21/nbcs-today-show-on-barack-the-magic-...

ok - They can have the exploration, they can have the futures, they can have the extration. But it is time to take back the refinery and they can then have the distribution.

They are manipulating supply - plan and simply my friends and that is colution and price fixing.

they say it's copyright infringement.

bullshit.

it hits really close.

But this coming from Limbaugh is not just a parody, it is definately racist and definately a political statement!

Time to Federalize the Refinery
new
Submitted by totallynext on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 17:36.

i wouldn't fuck wid 'im!

May 21, 2007 -- 06:39 PM EST

New DOJ document dump. More soon ...

-- Josh Marshall

this is really really sick! throw the f'in bum off the air!

Report: Dem Leadership To Give Bush His Way On Iraq
By Greg Sargent | bio
Updated below.

On Friday we told you that House liberals were worried that the Dem Congressional leadership would ultimately concede the game to President Bush on Iraq, sending him a bill to fund the Iraq War through September with benchmarks to measure Iraqi progress but no withdrawal timetables of any kind.

Now look what the Associated Press is reporting:

In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic programs, officials said Monday...

While details remain subject to change, the measure is designed to close the books by Friday on a bruising veto fight between Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress over the war. It would provide funds for military operations in Iraq through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.

Democrats in both houses are expected to seek other opportunities later this year to challenge Bush's handling of the unpopular conflict.

...officials said the legislation is expected to include political and military goals for the Iraqi government to meet toward establishment of a more democratic society.

Failure to make progress toward the goals could cost the Iraqis some of the reconstruction aid the United States has promised, although it was not clear whether Democrats intended to give Bush power to order the aid to be spent regardless of progress.

As we noted below, House Dems are caucusing tonight and will likely engage in a give and take with leadership about its planned approach. If this is it, a lot of people will be very unhappy indeed...

Update: We're told by sources that the leadership is not confirming this story. So we'll see...

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/may/21/repo...

how u like the new home thus far?

He turns 56 this year.

So I finally got through to a person in Seattle. She was very nice and checked on the podcast situation. Apparently somebody remarkably as effective as Justin was on Sunday's show "forgot to record it".

I meant to record it but my friend Matt wanted to take the f'n monorail ride around the stupid simian park. I didn't get home till it was a quarter of the way done. I had to let him have his way on account of his girl friend insisted. Gawd!

Laura is plugging the Nation's Cruise, not GOLD, unlike other talk show hosts we know.

What is behind that gold push, anyway? Big money in peddling it, I'll wager.

House Dems Warn White House
By Paul Kiel - May 21, 2007, 4:35 PM
The House Judiciary Committee is prepared to use subpoenas to compel the testimony of Karl Rove and other White House officials, Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and subcomittee Chairwoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) warned White House counsel Fred Fielding today.

"We are today writing to express our extreme disappointment in the White House's rebuff of efforts by the Judiciary Committee to obtain voluntary cooperation with our investigation concerning the firing of at least nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 and related matters," they wrote. "We write to make one last appeal for such voluntary cooperation." You can read the letter here.

If this seems like deja vu, it's because Fielding got a very similar letter from Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) last week. As Sen. Leahy did in that letter, Rep. Conyers and Rep. Sanchez note that the negotiation process between Congress and the White House stopped as soon as it started. After Democrats requested interviews and documents from the White House, Fielding replied with an offer to have Rove and others interviewed privately with no oath and no transcript. The Dems rejected the offer. That was two months ago. There hasn't been any progress since then.

As Sen. Leahy did in his letter last week, Rep. Conyers notes that even without the White House's cooperation, it's become increasingly apparent that the U.S. attorney firings were driven by the White House. That role might become even clearer when Monica Goodling, the Justice Department's former liaison to the White House, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee this Wednesday.

Conyers and Sanchez conclude:

"If the White House persists in refusing to provide information to the House Judiciary Committee, or even to discuss providing such information, on a voluntary basis, we will have no alternative but to begin to resort to compulsory process in order to carry out our oversight responsibilities."

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003260.php

I have been rereading some of Tim Leary's words on dropping out. Back in the 60's, Tim, Ram Dass and a few other folks developed quite a lot of material on that subject. The idea is to make yourself as scarce and invisible as possible without leaving the country. I've been applying some of the principles to today, For instance, I have quit watching and reading the news. Total ignore. If you don't make yourself aware of these evil scumbags that are running for office, they don't hold any power over you. They can't piss you off if you don't even know who in the hell they are. I figure that at my current age....68....there isn't much chance that I can do much to change things. I'm too old now to take it to the streets anymore. I'm going to drop out again. I have gotten to a stage of life where I virtually DESPISE Repubs. That was the first step of my latest drop out. I don't have anything to do with ANY Republican. Specially the ones in my own family. I have cut them all off and
don't have anything to do with them anymore. I hate Republicans so much in the year 2007 that just hearing what they have to say ruins my day. So, it's screw them! I'm dropping out again and refusing to give these right wing pissants my attention or acknowledgement. It's probably an excercise in futility but I have to tell ya....I had a really fine day today. Enjoyed myself from the minute I got up this morning.

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 18:46.
He turns 56 this year.

Give $56 to his campaign. That's the latest pitch, anyway.

No Nikki. I bought some gold when it was less than $300 after 9/11 and did well when I sold it. I don't have access to a good fund right now or I would get some more to hedge against the Iran threat. Global instability makes gold skyrocket imho.

Speculators! Have you invested in the puffed up Seattle real estate market, too?

I like it. Some things I don't like, but for the most part, I like the blog.

and buy gold.

I might want to discuss this with you when I get home from work..I can only skim stuff during the day since I'm at work 45 hours a week...

Samantha Bee defines N.I.L.F. as 'News I'd Like to...' David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Monday May 21, 2007

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In this Daily Show commentary on the sexualization of female news reporters, John Stewart begins by saying soberly, "How the news is presented, packaged if you will, is also an important part of the sales pitch. Yes, attractiveness matters."

Samantha Bee interrupts him to insist, "This isn't gussied-up or attractive news we're seeing. This is 'News I'd Like to Fuck.'" She then presents an increasing crescendo of clips showing TV reporters with seductive overtones.

Bee's report climaxes after she refers to Fox News as "the Hustler of news networks."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Samantha_Bee_defines_N.I.L.F._as_News_0517...

Sampson to Comey: There's No "I" in "Team"
By Paul Kiel - May 21, 2007, 10:39 AM
From U.S. News:

Soon after Gonzales became attorney general, his then chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, told Comey that Gonzales's "vision" was to merge the deputy's office with Gonzales's own office. That meant that Comey would have lost some of his autonomy, becoming less of a leader and more of a senior staff member. A source close to Sampson says he merely wanted Gonzales and Comey to operate as a "seamless leadership team," with "harmony rather than conflict," and never meant to "degrade the status or authority" of the deputy. Comey didn't buy it. "You may want to try that with the next deputy attorney general," Comey is said to have responded to Sampson. "But it's not going to work with me."
No wonder Comey didn't last long under Gonzales.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003257.php

ummm?

does that mean we can't tar and feather exxon/mobil corporate sucks?

hogs on twinkies!

EXCLUSIVE: Proposed Bush Pay Raise for Troops Serving in Iraq, Afghanistan Violates Federal Law
Plan Would Deny Legally Mandated Pay Increase, Stiff Military Servicemen and Women Serving in Combat in Most Dangerous Part of the World...
Guest Blogged by Arlen Parsa

Recently the Bush Administration and Democratically-controlled Congress were at odds over how much to pay US soldiers serving in the most dangerous places in the world: Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress said that the troops should get a raise of 3.5%, while the Administration said any raise higher than 3% was not deserved. Administration officials even bluntly said the White House "strongly opposes" giving the troops that extra 0.5%.

Although Democrats have been arguing for the 3.5% raise, what neither they, nor any news organization seems to have thus far noticed, is that the Administration's meager compensation plan would be, in fact, illegal.

Increases in military salary are traditionally determined by increases in average civilian salary, according to a method of measurement called the Employment Cost Index. Regardless of the actual dollar increase in salary, the base pay for service-members must be at least 0.5% above the corresponding civilian pay because of a Defense Authorization Act which Congress passed in 1999.

But according to Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, the Bush Administration's proposed raise of only 3% for active-duty troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is actually less than the average increase in civilian wages from 2006 to 2007 (3.2%), instead of the required 0.5% more than the average civilian wage (which would be equal to 3.7%).

If Congress passes the funding plan that the Administration has proposed, they will, in effect, be illegally depriving the troops of the minimum pay raise guaranteed to them by the earlier law. The move would save the Bush Administration millions and cost the average new US Army recruit, who are the least effected by the proposed pay raise, a few hundred dollars annually.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradblog.co...

We should work to remove the reasons why people get economically insecure, not join in various speculative schemes.

But the gold phenomenon is real and global. It's not an American thing. We detached our currency from value some time in the 70's I think.

INVASION. Midwestern US states are bracing for the coming cicada swarms.

I'm hearing them now. They'll be all over the place soon. They can cover a screened window. And walkways.

Submitted by Fernando on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 18:20.
But the gold phenomenon is real and global. It's not an American thing. We detached our currency from value some time in the 70's I think.

That was Greenspan's idea. Now we live on credit with no backing.

I still have dollars that say

Silver Certificate
One Dollar in Silver Payable to bearer on Demand

I'm very concerned and ultra conservative on financial issues.

Civil rights being a liberal ideal, I'm socially liberal. There is an answer but we won't stop acting like idiots about it. The oligarchy is gaining strength.

just commented about the company buying Chrysler Cebrus or something like that. An old treasury sec and Dan Quale run it.

By MARK STEYN May 21, 2007

Are you a fine upstanding member of the Undocumented-American community? That's to say, are you (if you'll forgive the expression) an illegal immigrant?

Great news! Being illegal is now perfectly legal! Just for being one of the circa 12 million people who shouldn't be here, you can now be here indefinitely! If you were living and working in America illegally before January 1st 2007, you're now entitled to one of the new Z-1 "probationary" visas. And your parents and spouses are entitled to one of the new Z-2 visas, and your children to the new Z-3 visas.

Don't worry, it's not an "amnesty". Every politician in America is opposed to amnesty – if not the concept, then at least the word. That's why the visa starts with the letter that's furthest away from the one "amnesty" begins with. "Z" stands for zellout …no, hang on, zurrender or Zapatista, or some other word way up the other end of the alphabet from "amnesty". But the point is, at a stroke there will be no more illegal immigrants. Because being illegal means you're now legal.

Unless, of course, you came to America after January 1st 2007 and thus aren't covered by the zamnesty. But in that case why not apply for the Z-1 anyway? After all, you're here illegally so how would US Immigration know when you arrived?
...

Saudi chemical giant to buy GE Plastics for 11.6 bln dlrs
Published: Monday May 21, 2007

US conglomerate General Electric said Monday it had agreed to sell its plastics division, GE Plastics, to state-controlled Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) for 11.6 billion dollars.

GE Plastics is a global supplier of plastic resins used in numerous industries, including the automotive, healthcare, building and construction, and telecommunications sectors.

The deal was announced by GE chairman and chief executive Jeff Immelt and SABIC CEO and vice chairman Mohamed Al-Mady, and follows intense press speculation that such a deal was in the works.

"This acquisition represents another important step in SABIC's growth and diversification to become one of the world's leading manufacturing companies," Al-Mady said.

The transaction marks one of the largest acquisitions of a western business by a Middle East company.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Saudi_chemical_giant_to_buy_GE_Plas_0521200...

It's called Ceberus and the ex Secretary of the Treasury Snow is heavily involved. It is similar to Carlyle Group.

That's correct. Sorry. I'm the grateful product of an English as a Second language education.

Although I now hear Carlyle may be going public.

Kelo v. City of New London, CT:

Dissenting opinions
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the principal dissent, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice O'Connor objected to the fact that an unelected (therefore voter-unaccountable) private nonprofit corporation was the primary beneficiary of the government taking. As a result, the dissenting opinion suggested that the use of this takings power in a reverse Robin Hood fashion—take from the poor, give to the rich—would become the norm, not the exception: "Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms." She argued that the decision eliminates "any distinction between private and public use of property — and thereby effectively delete[s] the words 'for public use' from the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment." 125 S.Ct. 2655, 2671
Clarence Thomas also penned a separate originalist dissent, in which he argued that the precedents the court's decision relied upon were flawed and that "something has gone seriously awry with this Court's interpretation of the Constitution." He accuses the majority of replacing the Fifth Amendment's "Public Use" clause with a very different "public purpose" test: "This deferential shift in phraseology enables the Court to hold, against all common sense, that a costly urban-renewal project whose stated purpose is a vague promise of new jobs and increased tax revenue, but which is also suspiciously agreeable to the Pfizer Corporation, is for a 'public use.'" Thomas also made use of the argument presented in the NAACP/AARP/SCLC amicus brief on behalf of three low-income residents' groups fighting redevelopment in New Jersey, noting: "Allowing the government to take property solely for public purposes is bad enough, but extending the concept of public purpose to encompass any economically beneficial goal guarantees that these losses will fall disproportionately on poor communities. Those communities are not only systematically less likely to put their lands to the highest and best social use, but are also the least politically powerful."[4]

This is baffling. Why did the liberals rule for the developers?

Diabetes Pill Tied to Heart Risks
Diabetes Pill Raises Risk of Heart Attacks, Study Suggests, and Critics Say FDA Not Vigilant
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
The Associated Press

A widely used diabetes pill raises the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, according to a scientific analysis that reveals what some experts are calling another Vioxx-like example of the government failing to protect the public from an unsafe drug.

More than 6 million people worldwide have taken the drug, sold as Avandia and Avandamet, since it came on the market eight years ago to help control blood sugar in people with the most common form of diabetes. About 1 million Americans use it now.

Pooled results of dozens of studies on nearly 28,000 people revealed a 43 percent higher risk of heart attack for those taking Avandia compared to people taking other diabetes drugs or no diabetes medication, according to the analysis published online Monday. The study, published by the New England Journal of Medicine, also found a trend toward more heart-related deaths.

The findings are frightening because two-thirds of diabetics die of heart problems, so a drug that boosts this possibility is especially hazardous for them.

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.c...

http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Immigration.html

is there any way I can hear the program somehow? somewhere?

any archives to go to?

Really sorry I missed it as you can imagine

but hope you all had a good time

Go Sam!

One of my favorite bloggers is HillCountryGal. Even thou she makes fun of my spelling ability. C&L listed her today on their round up today.

Hill Country Gal: The displaced children of Katrina are getting sick after prolonged exposure to fumes from the toxic chemical formaldehyde used in construction of thousands of FEMA travel trailers.

And actually, I did too.

He's Argentine so he spoke Argentine Spanish first. Then he came here and learned English and Italian at the same time. He's Argentine but Italian decent.

Me. My first language was Greek, although I was born here. Once I went to school I vowed to never speak Greek again because the kids made fun of me so I really forgot alot.

The fact of the matter is we treat some people like slaves still.

I wish I spoke Greek. Dated the French teacher thou. That's gotta count for something.

Someone should send a link of the LBO article on immigration to Hartmann.

Oooh La La!!

td do you refer to ---

Cerberus the three-headed watchdog who guards the entrance to Hades.

or Cerberus whom now controls 80 percent of Chrysler ?

I'm soooo stupid. Damn it.

by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/21/2007 07:21:00 PM ET

At what point do these so-called conservatives out there plan to speak up against this crap?

From CNet, then my analysis:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual-property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including "attempts" to commit piracy.... The Bush administration is throwing its support behind a proposal called the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007, which is likely to receive the enthusiastic support of the movie and music industries, and would represent the most dramatic rewrite of copyright law since a 2005 measure dealing with prerelease piracy....

The IPPA would, for instance:

* Criminalize "attempting" to infringe copyright. Federal law currently punishes not-for-profit copyright infringement with between 1 and 10 years in prison, but there has to be actual infringement that takes place....

* Permit more wiretaps for piracy investigations. Wiretaps would be authorized for investigations of Americans who are "attempting" to infringe copyrights....

* Allow computers to be seized more readily. Specifically, property such as a PC "intended to be used in any manner" to commit a copyright crime would be subject to forfeiture, including civil asset forfeiture....

* Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America. That would happen when CDs with "unauthorized fixations of the sounds, or sounds and images, of a live musical performance" are attempted to be imported.
Oh where to begin?

First off, what this legislation is really about: The Homeland Security department getting carte blanche authorization to fish through your computer and tap your phones with impunity, whenever they want, so long as they argue that they think you might have ever tried to download even a single song via Limewire or some of other music-sharing software, or have ever copied a photo off the Internet, or even watched a single clip from any TV show on YouTube. They're going to use this legislation to hunt for terrorists, and won't need search warrants, etc. That's what this is about.

Now to the specifics.

1. Why change the law to an "attempt" to infringe? Copyright law has been fine until now, why change it?

2. As mentioned above, they can wiretap anyone who may be "attempting" to infringe on copyright. That means if they suspect that you may have saved a copy on your computer of one of my orchid photos they can tap your phones, without a warrant I suspect. They can also tap your phone if they think your teenage daughter may be "attempting" to download a song online. They could also tap the phones of every YouTube user who has ever posted a clip from any TV show. Think about that.

3. They can seize your computer, forever, if you "intend" to copy even one song or one photo from the Internet. Not if you DO copy it. Just if you even just plan on it in your mind. And the religious right has a problem with hate crime laws? At least with hate crime laws you actually have to have committed a violent crime like murder or aggravated assault. And Bush is threatening a veto of that bill. But he has no problem with a bill that throws you in jail for just thinking of maybe downloading music or a photo or posting a copy of a Washington Post article to your blog or putting a clip from the Daily Show or South Park on YouTube (that too would permit Bush to tap your phones).

And finally, if Homeland Security doesn't have enough work to do already, and has the time to set up a hotline to the Record Industry Association every time little Suzie downloads a Christina Aguilera song, well, then we might as well just pack it in and put up a big welcome sign for Osama to hit us again.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/05/gonzales-proposing-new-orwellian.html

Cerberus the company. However....

Be back in a bit

the hounds of hell. how appropriate...

rachel mentioned this in passing the other day.

citizens of the United States ALREADY have to obey more laws than anyone living in ANU other country on Earth. Each and every day, hundreds of thousands of Americans break unrealistic, stupid and unnecessary laws. They go a few miles an hour over the speed limit. They don't come to a COMPLETE stop at a stop sign. They smoke a joint. They give their wife head in a state where it is illegal to give head. We are a nation af scofflers by rite of passage. At the same time, we are graduating more lawyers from college EVERY YEAR than Japan even has in their whole country. A lot of these gazillions of new lawyers are going to end up drafting more and more laws the we are going to have to obey.

you know their goal is to create a fabric where you can't move or step without committing a crime. then they can pick you up and throw you in their camps whenever they want...

it's 1935, do you know what the nazis are up to?

really sucks. I just put up that long post directed at toniD the MINUTE she announces her departure. I am such a tool sometimes.

can't move or step without committing a crime That's how they pick who votes.

Citizens of the United States ALREADY have to obey more laws than anyone living in ANY other country on Earth. Each and every day, hundreds of thousands of Americans break unrealistic, stupid and unnecessary laws. They go a few miles an hour over the speed limit. They don't come to a COMPLETE stop at a stop sign. They smoke a joint. They give their wife head in a state where it is illegal to give head. We are a nation of scofflaw's by rite of passage. At the same time, we are graduating more lawyers from college EVERY YEAR than Japan even has in their whole country. A lot of these gazillions of new lawyers are going to end up drafting more and more laws the we are going to have to obey.

I have to get stoned! I am such a crappy typer when I'm straight! Last sentence repaired....again!

"A lot of these gazillions of new lawyers are going to end up drafting more and more laws THAT we are going to have to obey."

its called getting ready....

as in, lets get ready to....

too late.

"THEY" ARE GOING TO INTERVIEW SANJAYA ON "THE AIR AMERICANS"!?!?!?!?! BUH-BYE!!!

I'm not sure what you're referring to..but unless Sanjaya is the new War Czar, or the newest conscientious objector then.....Huh...pretty sad..

Submitted by Peter Dragon on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 19:22.
...I am such a tool sometimes.
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Ratchet it up. At worst you'll strip, span or screw something.
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On another, more carnal, open-wheel auto racing note: I'm pulling for the ladies in the Indy 500.

Unsers and Andrettis are fine
When racing to the line
But quick-shift chicks are racier
Whilst rounding curves lacier

http://www.hispaniconline.com/magazine/2005/november/images/Coverstory/d...

http://www.racerchicks.com/images/racer_IM/fisher1.jpg

http://es.motorfull.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/danica_patrick.jpg

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I apologize to any arch-feminists out there. I am merely promoting the idea that small ladies who are strong and skilled can pilot a race car as well as anyone. Janet Guthrie was, well, among the first nationally noteworthy ladies and not particularly attractive. She got screwed by the "Good Ole Boy" network in auto racing as well as the "Good Ole Boy" network for attractiveness (like A.J. Foyt makes for a titillating photo spread). Google Janet Guthrie for more info (she's a physics grad). http://www.janetguthrie.com/

Then Lyn St. James moved the ladies a little further toward the finish line but only after J.C. Penny's came on-board as a sponsor for her Indy entry. Lynn was (is) attractive but mostly in a "every son's mom" kinda way. http://lynstjames.com/

This year we have three very lovely ladies who have racing credentials that any beer-swilling, Camaro-on-blocks owning Redneck would kill to see following his name (likely "Darrell").

If I were the All Powerful, All Knowing and All Ass-Kicking Bait, I would ensure that Danica, Sarah and Milka would be standing on the 2007 post-Indy podium.

(Okay. So maybe I want to see their shirts soaked in champagne. I got my own testosteriffic issues to work out...)

Go ladies! (The "Burn rubber!" exclamatory that was scheduled to appear here has been deleted in the interest of being taken somewhat seriously, for once.)

I heard Mark Riley listing off their interviewees for tonight...one of them is Robert Redford, which I'd like to listen to, but when I heard SANJAYA'S name, I immediately clicked the radio off, made a nasty comment on AARrrgghh's website, and started streaming Mike Malloy. Isn't it soooo sick???

...like putting Tomlinson in pbs....

I had also shot off a quick email to Malloy 20 minutes ago, and he just mentioned the Sanjaya interview on his program, saying about "what Air America has come to"!

comey is 6-foot-8?
new
Submitted by bibimimi on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 18:41.

i wouldn't fuck wid 'im!
»

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Especially that little twit Gonzales.

Every time I hear Gonzo speak I am struck that he HAD to have been beaten up a lot when he was a kid. He's a real sadist himself, so that would unfortunately make sense.

The lowest lowest lowest of insults to all of us...F* Y* Mark Green!!!

pretty good looking gal, tuff too!

"She done a helluva job. The woman drove 500 miles with a broken wrist. I don't know if I could have done it."
- Gordon Johncock
(on the 1978 Indianapolis 500)
Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, May 13, 1979

use the Open Mic section? I try not to post high band width in Sam's comments because L@L sensitized me to dialup.

Laura Flanders is doing a fine interview with Bill Richardson now.

...yep, just about right.

I'm listening AAR on the bz-bz-bz of my portable radio while I stream Mike, to make sure I wasn't having auditory hallucinations the TWO times I heard Mark Riley mention Sanjay. How can they do this to AAR and us???

AAR didn't wait to cut her page/blog after last nights finale. (I switched over to AAR NickyRose)

The answer is yes - it's here if you want it.

What's here if I want it? Is that supposed to be the podcast? It links right back to the Seder blog.

Somebody killed the independent blog set up by Laura fans.

FISA falsehoods. National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell argued in an op-ed today for limiting restrictions on domestic surveillance, saying of the 1978 FISA law:

“Technology and threats have changed, but the law remains essentially the same. … Because the law has not been changed to reflect technological advancements, we are missing potentially valuable intelligence needed to protect America.”

But as Glenn Greenwald notes, Congress altered and “modernized” FISA in 2001, prompting President Bush to say:

The bill before me takes account of the new realities and dangers posed by modern terrorists. … The existing law was written in the era of rotary telephones. This new law I sign today will allow surveillance of all communications used by terrorists, including e-mails, the Internet, and cell phones.

Read Greenwald’s full piece.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/21/fisa_changes/index.htm...

"Another frequent argument against immigrants is that they suck the Treasury dry by their profligate use of public services; according to the polls, this is the public’s biggest problem with our new arrivals. But according to sociologist Douglas Massey, who’s spent more than twenty years studying Mexican migrants, immigrants pay more in taxes than they use in services (and their service use has declined in recent years). Many undocumented workers pay into Social Security system with no hope of ever drawing benefits. Even alarmist studies by anti-immigrant groups make claims like “immigrants costs the federal government $10 billion a year!” without disclosing that that sum represents 0.4% of total expenditures."

Here it is

I think that means something like:

Here it is if you want a home to blog from have at it.

Unfortunately, its not so simple getting to a blog. That's why at the end of each Open Mic I end with the links I have. To make a way to find and post to other blogs (that I'm aware of) here.

http://www.airamerica.com/lauraflanders/

I get it. AAR killed the link to the independent, free form Laura Blog.

Submitted by xtofer on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 21:54.
Here it is

heres the link to the show blog...

http://www.airamerica.com/lauraflanders/node/3353#comment

i imagine it's still open for posting. would be a good one to save too.

I switched it back to the original addy, but

http://web.mac.com/maggies_boy

will always be a good link. This is what you get when you let a rookie do a geeks job. :)

US imperial ambitions
thwart Iraqis' peace plans

Iraq's resistance groups have offered a series of peace plans that might put an end to the country's sectarian violence, but they've been ignored by the U.S.-led coalition because they're opposed to foreign occupation and privatization of oil.

http://www.alternet.org/

has her own site as well.

http://www.lauraflanders.com/pages/radionation.html

Is he at the AA 2.0 party? I hope they're at a party and that's why nobody stayed with Mark. It can't be this boring every day.

Do I understand this correctly?

Greenie cut in to some aar shows with his own show today?

Robert Redford, Chris Matthews, and then.......SANJAYA! Whoo-hoo! The good thing, maybe, is that they think they're saving Sanjaya so we'll keep listening. I think it's GREAT that I can listen to Robert Redford and Chris, and then sign off before they prostitute Sanjaya.

Peace and Freedom Party

:)

I had to turn it off. I don't know what he said.

moved to Nova?

Who owns Nova?

... about how bad the interviews that the Greens are doing, like not asking any tough questions like of Stephanopoulos. They never challenged anyone when they were bullshitting.

I mean... what the hell?!

I hope Media Matters comes out and criticizes the Greens just like Tim Russert and Wolf Blitzer and Katie Couric. They deserve it.

What a bunch of crap!

Nova M is owned by the Drobny's, the ones who founded AirAmerica, the parents of AirAmerica,.. the one's who brought on Mike Malloy and Randi Rhodes etc....

We should really be following them there.

This is the inauguration show, for Pete's sake.

A new person showed up? I wonder if they know Randi.

Randi reminds me of Cleopatra. Especially today when Greene got in her way.

Very wrong, Catharine...

Hey so how did dada's art show go?

I think it went modestly well... Sunday more people were looking and hanging out. There are 5 floors of art studios, although not everyone participated in the open house. He can tell you better... I wasn't there on Sunday.

That's gotta be strange having people look at your art...

Just listening to the interview with Sanjaya and I'm so not impressed. Who was that 13 year old that would call into Sam's show... Ethan??? (maybe not the right name). I used to love hearing him and having hope that other kids his age were becoming enlightened. Sanjaya totally misses the boat here. Not trying to be mean.

The intensification of the aggression came during a day in which the new ceasefire between Palestinian factions was in effect.

here

and the Cuban- and Italian-American mafias in relation to his brother’s assassination

...
IT HAS HAD TO BE IN SILENCE

The May 13 article is an excerpt of the book, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, by David Talbot, published recently by the prominent firm Simon and Schuster.

Robert Kennedy had learned that in Washington, the best thing was to keep a secret when working on something important. That is why he gave misinformation for years, saying publicly that no investigation would bring his brother back. But in reality, his investigation was initiated the very afternoon of the assassination, and it is possible to trace back the time when he frenetically began using the telephone in his home on Hickory Hill to summon all of his top aides there to analyze the crime.
...

having people look at your art

has got to be one of the most interesting things to do with art.

some people enjoy it some don't. personally the interaction with an audience stimulates and inspires me.

side benefit is picking up history and technique from hip people and other artists. it's risky but that's what life is all about.

love that verb...

Mike worth listening to.

mms://wm13.spacialnet.com/novamradio72251

Tells Pope to Apologize to Indigenous Peoples

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez called on Pope Benedict XVI to apologize to the indigenous people of Latin America for his comments on the evangelization of the region. During an official visit to Brazil last week, the Pope defended the evangelization of the indigenous people of Latin America, claiming that Christianity had not been "imposed" upon them. Chavez disputed this in a speech Friday night, calling on his nation to challenge the old capitalist hegemony and create a new society.

In a nationally broadcast speech at an event in Caracas, Chavez criticized the Pope's remarks and asked him to "offer an apology to the people of our America."
...

for Danny Glover Film on Slave Revolt

Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m) to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti. The Venezuelan congress said it would use the proceeds from a recent bond sale with Argentina to finance Glover's biopic of Toussaint Louverture, an iconic figure in the Caribbean who led an 18th-century revolt in Haiti.

It will also give seed money for a film version of The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel García Márquez's novel about the last days of Simón Bolívar, who liberated much of South America from Spanish colonialism.

A document from the congress's finance commission said the culture ministry would be a partner with Glover and give $17.8m for "scripts, production costs, wardrobe, lighting, transport, makeup and the creation of the whole creative and administrative platform".

The project could mark a breakthrough for Villa del Cine, a new government-funded studio outside the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, which is part of Mr Chávez's effort to combat what he sees as American cultural hegemony.
...

I've been known to make art from time to time..it's like (insert more words than I know here) to me...so I wouldn't be comfortable watching someone decide if it's fit for their home...it's personal to me..oddly.. :)

It was fun. Met some people, worked on my talk about my art, saw some other peoples art, got some ideas... that's about all.

Most everyone's favorite is the "Landmine Twister." Though a few people see it and walk right out. But everyone else likes it. Guys from 20-40 years old are usually into the stuff with the toys - "hey, I had that he-man with the battle armor!"

On one collage is a picture of little Chinese ballerina girls all wearing surgical masks. Some people like that image. Another one people like is a picture of Bush with an arrow pointing to him saying "Pillow fight me"

My stuff is a bit different, - there's humor, which you don't find in art so often, I think- and a bit rough around the edges, so it kind of stands out, draws people in.

Hey, I just saw Marion Delgado post a comment at angry arab. That was a poster here about a million years ago. And one of the Majority Report IRCers. I still never got on that IRC. One of these days.

Did people want to discuss politics with you?

"having people look at your art
has got to be one of the most interesting things to do with art.
some people enjoy it some don't. personally the interaction with an audience stimulates and inspires me.
side benefit is picking up history and technique from hip people and other artists. it's risky but that's what life is all about."

Exactly.

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"I wouldn't be comfortable watching someone decide if it's fit for their home...it's personal to me..oddly.."

You should try making art you don't like. Really, It works.

"Did people want to discuss politics with you?"

The commnts section over there is insanely racially charged. You need a very thick skin to even look it over. I find it fascinating of course.
If you can sift through the racist WarDog-like trolls, you can see some interesting posts from Lebanese perspectives.

What a sad sad comment on human psychoses. Not really surprising that her son is such a sick sick kid - so violent it's beyond imagination.

I remember years ago hearing a show of hers, and it reminds me also of Michael Savage's show (which I listened to once while driving at night flipping through the dial). Both have these often mildly retarded people calling in who are pretty much asking the host to beat them up verbally and tell them they are bad. And these sick hosts both deliver. It's bizarre and yet sad. They must have both had some really awful experiences growing up. I almost feel sorry for them, except that they are so abusive and destructive, I have no pity. I do pity their callers though. They need some real help.

[still pondering that idea for myself...]

But are you saying you don't even like your art?
I guess it could be very funny to make art you hate & see if someone falls in love with it...if you were a mean mean artist.. :)

I meant at your show...

I've read angry arab's comments..they are charged up...

U talking to yourself again Alice?

--Both have these often mildly retarded people calling in who are pretty much asking the host to beat them up verbally and tell them they are bad.--

Pierce has mentioned that same thing...they're asking for it..especially if they're men...

Is she still on the air even?

Thanks Toni for the Sicko preview...

If you must know Fernando..I'm talking to the White Rabbit, The Gryphon, The Queen of Hearts, The Caterpillar....etc... :)

I thought you said, Flamenco!!!

p :)

Take one of these then.....

YOU can call me anything if YOU feel better about it. But I have kids who would might think otherwise.

I don't know if she's still on the air exactly, although .. like Ann Coulter she can get on FOX. [What a shock.]

I imagine she doesn't really have much of an audience anymore. She's been "outed" for a bithc and a liar for more than 20 years. Long before the current crop of shock jocks. I remember long detailed articles exposing her lies and the things she did to people "on the way up". I think she was geinuinely psychotic. I mean that literally. A diagnosis she is not equipped to give herself [seeing as she has no psychological training or understanding whatsoever.]

just handed me a rare thing,

a blossom from a rare rhododendron,

gorgeous coloring and a delightful fragrance!

birds of a feather!

I was referring, of course, to the news story Mssr. Riley mentioned at the end of his show:

Gay flamingoes get foster chick

Carlos and Fernando, a same-sex flamingo couple famed for appropriating other birds' nests, perhaps in a desire to become parents, have been rewarded for their tenacity with a chick of their own.

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid45369.asp

p :)

No, not much talking about politics. It's pretty clear where I stand when you look at my stuff. If anyone says something, it's usually to say they agree. No one decided to argue with me or anything. I think the people that walk out do so because they are disgusted or shocked by the horrible images of blown up people, but not because they disagree politically. But that's just a guess.

I overheard one conversation, where someone was saying that socialism can never work because there's always going to be some bastard who'll spoil it for everyone. I was tempted to say "just string up the bastards, and it'll work just fine." But it wasn't my conversation.

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I've been trying to making stuff I don't like for lots of reasons, and I think that it would help with watching while people decide if they want your art for their home. If I try making stuff I don't like, I try things that I wouldn't normally try. It comes out different. I end up liking the finished project, anyway. Plus if I get stuck, I just let it go, with the idea that if I don't like it now, I'll probably like it when I come back later. And it usually works out that way.

Most of my stuff isn't the kind of thing people'd want over the mantlepiece. At the office, maybe. Until it becomes trendy. Then everyone will want one to hang next to their campbell soup can.

Another thing is make alot of stuff, then it's easier to let it all be judged. You get used to it.

How do you do the video or image post?

Is it :

[img src"url.jpeg"]

Except replace the [ and ] with < and > ?

Go slow. I need the simple version, please.

It is really such a pleasure to read you....

posting here . . . having to explain the jokes . . .

WHERE'S CRANKY WHEN I NEED HIM????????

p :)

earlier. At first I thought WTF. Then I thought why do I care what they call their bird?

If you read the article, they were stealing eggs. Stealing is wrong (unless of course if you are starving).

(((((Catharine)))))

p :)

I laid down a reference let me go find it.

I speak html but the syntax is important its like

less than
img
src=""url""

greater than

. . . which is wrong (unless, of course, you dance the flamenco)!

p :)

. . . an audio recording of the premiere?

(my comment, "Too Jewy." in the "How'd you like it?" thread was based less on having actually heard the first episode, and more on three years experience listening to Sam on the radio machine.)

p :)

Pardon Me. Let's not do this, pls

SEDER

Let's try this then:

Iraq For Sale

DIdn't goddamn work!

Sheesh!!!

p :)

Fernando....

;)

wtf?

there's nothing wrong with being gay.

I think you should examine your motivations.

Pete Moon has just the sort of clout to get Wil & Nik-E-Poo back here...

sorry 

Just keep trying until it feels gud. Also case matters. Don't cap a letter unless it really needs it. Superb Pete.

Video file html:

copy paste this, might help

Insert video file: [video width=# height=#]file URL[/video]

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[video width=400 height=350]http://videofile.com/url[/video]

Oh! Cool!!!

p :)

AAAAAAAAAARRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhh!

I meant the Brittney

I do that mornings.

Evenings are for examining yours!

p :)

... unless I am not copying the right URL... hmmm...

[object width="425" height="350"][param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I0sWzO3Gjs0"][/param][param name="wmode" value="transparent"][/param][embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I0sWzO3Gjs0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"][/embed][/object]

replacing square brackets with less and greater than, of course.

p :)

dada...thanks for the detailed reply..it's all very interesting...

I would like to see some Code Pink women playing Landmine Twister at a big street thing...

(Have you copyright Landmine Twister....?) Just curious..nite...

Uni the Hedgehog!

Sam used to come into my car.

With music and some friends. And they "pleasured me orally" every weekday. Now I'm just down to Sunday.

But I still enjoy it immensely. It's better for me than for him I think, not sure. I hope he likes it.

(Sam will never link to me again)

Happy now.

so whassup with flying?

I made a big white space.

I'll stop now. I don't know why this is so difficult...

zzzzzzzzzzzzz....

is whacked!

likes pictures

If it's only on Sundays, I think that makes you bi.

Min Wage Job makes life No Fly Zone. :(

And, I like big white spaces. That one has a nice highlight around it when you put your pointer there.

Toodles for now.

p :)

happy trails!

The last six months, in fact the entire year has been shaped by a punitive streak of ocurrences. I feel like traumatic and disruptive events follow each other according to an inexplicable geometrical logic.

People have died around me, had bad accidents and illnesses, problems of all kinds. My girlfriend of two years is going away for a long, long time, unexpectedly and just as we were emerging from a six-month spell of alienation from each other and were getting along fine for once...

And just as I had finally found a decent flat in this godforsaken hellhole of a city. After four months of living in the back rooms of friends, with borrowed keys and all my earthly goods packed away in bags and threatening to disintegrate for lack of air (I was afraid that when I opened some of my bags the contents would turn to dust, like a sealed Roman crypt when exposed to the air again...), I finally found a beautiful, beautiful warehouse conversion which I'm now sharing with three (soon-to-be-four) good friends.

Considering whether to take up a belief in karma: at least I would feel more in control of what was happening (it's all because of me, even if I don't realise why or how or for what...).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jPMHr8AF14

there is an unhealthy megalomania to the belief that everything that happens around you is determined by your own actions. What about the actions of others?

And how on earth (or in heaven) does all the karma add up neatly in the end? If everything that happens to everyone is determined by their actions in past lives (or in the past of this present one): I commit a terrible, criminal act in a previous life, and when the punishment comes round many others close to me are implicated, and suffer. Who works out the logistics of these equations, and who balances the incredibly complicated moral mathematics of it? According to Hindu doctrines it's not a 'who', it's a 'how' (*l*): it's part of the order of the universe, a natural thermodynamics of morality... It's all beyond my poor head...

Yup: sometimes it seems that there is an underlying pattern to the events, a progression or logic to them which just escapes my understanding, because I can't step back from them to get the whole picture. What if there is something at work, connecting all these apparently unrelated events: one person dies, then a traffic accident and an illness, then another person dies, all unrelated but all of them happening in strict linear succession: first one, then then the next, and when that one finishes another one...

just roll with it,

at least you got a choice.

want help?

though. It's strange but I feel quite comfortable rambling about these topics, with the implicit goal in mind that they be read by other people, complete strangers. I have to imagine a hypothetical reader who is completely unfamiliar with any of my circumstances, yet at the same time consider that many of my friends may come to read it, even possibly my girlfriend, who is the reason why I started writing this in the first place: I hope that maybe she can keep in touch with me and how I think by reading my diary from that far-away country where she is going...

anon. She isn't going far.

Some say "it's a small world but I wouldn't want to paint it."

Mellow Gold is playing at my Open Mic, here.

I'm just gonna update my old threads with stuff like this, instead of making a new one every time.

Enjoy.

I'm one microscopic kog
In his catastrophic plan

Writing for a living seems to be inspiring me with the desire to write for myself, not write about dictated things... finding it difficult to muster great enthusiasm for what I do... Hopefully, this will only be a temporary lapse, part of growing up means conquering the drive to indulge oneself and drift around life... I suppose.

The last few months have been quite stressful, on most levels, and most of all I feel like hibernating.

Nickel creek riffs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I2U2U_nMtI&mode=related&search=

I never faff these days. Always, even at rest, there is a purpose, a future goal: I recharge my batteries for the coming week, or I do things I can't do during the week (office hours including travel easily span the entire day, from morning til 8 or 9 or 10 at night...). Shopping, buying food, cooking, cleaning, packing, unpacking, going to funerals, hanging out with friends, staying up in hospitals, holding ailing hands and telling stories, and you name it...

Anyway: two of my friends are having a birthday bash this evening, a girl I used to live with a couple of years ago and a guy who did my course when we were doing our BAs. Before that I meet another girl for a drink, and after that I entertain guests in our fashionable hip and fashionable modern derelict no-central-heating but we're-so-cool-it-HURTS flat.

Why am I being caustic? I genuinely love my flat. After four months of endless trouble, cheating estate agents infused with the spirit of Satan, working their evil deeds on our deposit money. Rotting houses. Holes in the floors that filled up with infernal sludge and stinking earth-water. Heinous plastic bedrooms with no space, no charm and aesthetic meaning.

The flat we have at the moment is a breath of hope in a world gone crazy, the one thing which underlies all the other dull, sad and pointless events, making them bearable.

God, can't imagine anyone could possibly want to read this boring, pointless stuff. Suppose the art of writing for an invisible audience is something to be honed and perfected, not assumed. Who am I writing for, anyway? Partly for myself, partly for my girlfriend, though I might just never tell her about this now: I'm embarrassed at the conceit and ponderous, unnecessary self-reflectiveness of this.

It's called phases and totally natural.

For a while, I was into rebuilding cars. I don't even change my own oil now.

music...

i change everyone elses!

By nature I'm post-modern and reflexive, but in the sense that I paralyse myself, rather than gain any insight into myself. Questioning my motives ceaselessly, wondering what I should do and could and would do, how people would take what I did, what it would mean, what consequences it would have... And more often than not in a kind of weird, self-blind way which obscures more than it reveals. Neurotic, at heart, though not clever enough for it to assume the dimensions of a Kafka...

The main audience, though, must be others, and the main purpose to exhibit myself and have myself reflected in others. To see what others think of me, basically. How pathetic. Deep-rooted insecurity.

death, confusion and the coming apocalypse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFwdSkdmoEE&mode=related&search=

The death-count continues. A friend of mine was in a bar toilet while a random guy he didn't know was stabbed in the temple in another stall. My brother's friend lost both her parents last month. My girlfriend's grandfather died, just after their grandmother died a couple of months ago (also my girlfriend's grandmother). My girlfriend nearly died in a traffic accident last month, and her friend died of a heart attack immediately after, at the ripe old age of 23. There's about twice as many I don't remember at the moment, but I'm starting to feel really unnerved.

I hope nobody else reads it either Anonibody.

Enjoy, expand, love always. Even in the swamps.

Best part of my life was when I was poor as a starving dog.

Don't goof on death. I've lost too much this year myself.

It happens. Celebrate who they were rather than yourself.

Then again, maybe this was all happening before, only I didn't notice it. When your mind fixates on something you start noticing it everywhere. Can't remember the RAW quote that bears on the subject at the moment, but it's something along the lines that the vast and growing death count I perceive reflects only the vast and growing power and obsessiveness of my imagination...

I try to purge myself of the sly anxiety that this deathtoll links to the millennium, that a slow and semi-visible process is taking place whereby some individuals are dying, vacating the earth for other pastures, as part of some incomprehensibly engineered global scheme... But again, that is only an attempt to read meaning into apparent chaos and entropy, isn't it? The bottom line is it's probably entirely senseless, the whole thing. As the existentialists would have it, we're doomed to be free...

Fact: I don't know *that* many people, and too many of them seem to have friends and relatives who die at the moment. And yet, I haven't been struck yet... I keep expecting someone I know and love to keel over dead for some random reason. 'I walk in the valley of the shadow of death', as the Xtians would say it...

a chance for truth.

suck it up!

Maybe it's just the sudden onset of the consciousness of death hitting me. Never thought much about it before, but at some point I suppose the feeling of immortality (which I never really experienced) gives way to an awareness of impermanence. You never notice you felt immortal until you no longer feel it. My parents seem a little bit older and frailer every time I see them, and so do many of my older friends. I myself sometimes feel acutely aware of the fragility of the vessels that pump blood through my brain, my heart, my organs... I am embodied in an incredibly frail (yet somehow resilient) machinery, in which a thousand things could go fatally wrong at any time...

*brrr*... Sounding increasingly depressive at this point. Have to remind myself (and any readers) that I'm actually of a reasonably cheerful disposition, but at the moment I just harbour a number of depressive thoughts. What do you expect, trying to survive in this city?!?

Are you scripting this. It's tight.

feel like i'm getting too old. sitting in front of a computer screen all day, all week is draining the life out of me. went home for a week and I came back with fresh enthusiasm, sparkling eyes and bushy tail. after 1 day, ONE DAY I feel myself slinking into scrambled apathy again

*brrrr*...

46 here been working out like an animal to keep from losing blood pressure at my desk. And you aren't 24. Most of my friends are 24 and can barely type.

honest, anonymous bloggers

Death Is Not The End, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (and friends)

I'm one microscopic kog
In his catastrophic plan

decided I'm going to write about one significant fact, event, encounter, aspect of my life as often as I can.

has to happen to get Sam to blog with us I say coyly?

speed typer?

yesterday night we were sitting around the living room, chatting, watching Almodovar's Matador out of the corner of one eye, when something like a civil war must have erupted between the various factions of mice that have occupied our flat. it started at about 1.30, in the corner of the main area / living room, near the bathroom: loud squeaking and little grey bodies flying out in all directions. for the next half an hour we saw mice everywhere: running along the pipes on the walls, between our chairs, in under doors... the one tenant we thought we had, had suddenly metastasised into 4 o 5 tribes of verminous, scuttling little creatures.

personally, I'm quite fond of mice. as far as I'm concerned they're cute, quick, furry little creatures with twitching whiskers. my gut instinct is to feed them... in the case of some of my flatmates, however, they awaken primordial hunter personae... we've had incidents of raging, screaming, wild-eyed flatmates breaking frying pans against the floor chasing mice, and trying to smoke them out of our dishwasher by lighting small pyres on the living room floor...

The police came and I had to explain everything. After all was said and done, my 7 guests individually questioned, we all played video games. Calen beat that chimp with a hat to the ground.

He had been practicin.

I hope things go well.

Its a beautiful world. Just don't smell it.

Anybody?

I have always liked this. It's the 18-40-60 Rule: When you're 18, you KNOW that all anyone is thinking about is you. When you are 40, you don't give a shit what anyone thinks. And, at 60, you realize, no one has been thinking about you at all... :D

the apocalypse has been cancelled

...??...

Do you think I'll be able to return my brand new hat with the feathers on it???

my god damn mouse?

Yes, I know they are cute. But, if you think you are seeing the same one over and over again, it means there are probably hundreds of them. Get a CAT!!! They're wayyyy cuter!

was just visited.

a computer programmer, takes great pleasure in inventing devious mechanical ways of killing the little pests. the look on his face as he tenderly explains the mechanism of his latest death-machine acquisition, or the biological cycle of his latest toxin (it kills them by making them thirsty, then rupturing their insides explosively when they drink...) is usually seen in maternity wards...

now, this flatmate, let's call him Programmer, left for the States before Christmas, leaving a handful of his 'babies' around the flat... when he came back, two other flatmates (let's call them Artist and Artistette, becuase Artistette is the only female person in the flat, and she's an artist too...) had pickled the dead mice in jars of vinegar and left them on his mantelpiece. another story entirely...

following this incident, the mice have gradually either solved the riddle of the deathmachines, or natural selection has gotten rid of the ones with a tendency to stick their little heads too close to metal plates with cheese on them... either way, they ignore his strategically positioned boobytraps. which angers him no end. 'I can't believe they're so blase about it!'.

I fear the stakes will rise, as neither side gives in to the other...

It sounds like a Darwin award is in order...the mice win! Move out!

is a killer http://download-v5.streamload.com/1b3b69e3-403f-480e-b01f-c1f4f66f87aa/r...

... if the first Seder on Sunday is just a memory.

A memory that "I do not have" because I was too busy being at work to listen live.

I am so needing a new Seder fix!!!! And the podcast medicine I need is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!

Please, someone, give me some sugar... Somebody must have a copy of the show available!

Put it on eBay, I will bid X amount of dollars for it!*

Donnageddon

* X amount of dollars is limited by my ability to pay, and your desire to not be damned for all time.

You seem a bit self-indulgent, making big issues out of minor ones. You deserve, as a human being, more healthy attention than what you can get on a blog. Big hugs to you, and better flat mates!...xoxo

Ruzz says "mice?! as in plural?!"

//Works like a hose//

Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 04:32.

//What has to happen to get Sam to blog with us I say coyly?//

Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 05:20.

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Men can speak out and say enough of the degradation of women.

Seder does a fine job of speaking out for women on his show.

I don't expect Seder will be posting anything like this. What do you think? Do you think his wife would be impressed?

Mr. Fernando, are these really the best images that you can post on Seder's blog?

Don't we get enough of this trash in the corporate-entertainment-mindless-sexist media?

Is this really the best of Mr. Fernando?

I think your mother, sister, or daughter would expect more from you.

Should anyone else?

-ExpectingMoreHere

wags her tail a bit, kinda quick like.

gives me that 'where?' look...

I hate myself now. *grin*. take it easy everyone...

I saw on some TV spot that if your dog really likes you, their tail wags more to the right. Check it out. Fortunately, I think my dog likes me.

yeaha....

You want more?

Sorry. I'm about to take a vacation for a week and a half at the ranch. I'll check in on my phone but I prolly won't reply ass wipe...

take it easy on yourself!

sadhumasochism (aka. dazed ramble) - 3/7/2001

*gets up on his podium*... *clears throat*... *drinks a glass of water*... *clears throat again*.

little dogs are disgusting.

Crank, because he is short, stout, technically minded and utterly brilliant. you can imagine him in the engine room of a giant steam-driven castle in a final fantasy game. and the name sounds a bit like a machine part. more importantly though, he is the Lord of Abject Misery. he can be the textbook example depressive, morose, crank-y and excessively intelligent miser...

Britney if you get ugly. Totally digged it thou.

Whose dogs are you referring to?

hers are verbs.

she uses her teeth for exclamation marks.

http://www.earthtym.net/bal-project.htm#benefits

She bangs her butt up against things all the time...her way of communicating enthusiastic bliss and requests for play.

little poops.

big assholes, big poops.

physics for dog owners.

figures...

get beat up by tiny cats

and say g'night. bye bye for now

jaxxor's a noser!

his way of epressing interest and invitations

...and mousies, too.. :D

*

Good night.

PEACE OUT!

Are you online here Sam?

I see you in the user space

G'NIGHT ANYWAY

i was sitting here thinking something was missing and then i thought about Molly Ivins.

sure do miss that gal!

anybody know why the blog is stalling waiting on one item?

looks like its 183#comment-3653

thats not it, ie is just showing the last node on the page.

just thinking...

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 06:30.
i was sitting here thinking something was missing and then i thought about Molly Ivins.

sure do miss that gal!>>>

Me too...a very sad loss for all of us.

Gina

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