who comes riding around? and guess what i have to run down the hill to catch up with him (bums and titi's jumping around) to buy the girls an icecream. geez
Hell-Fire is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in the April 1951 issue of Amazing Stories and reprinted in the 1957 collection Earth Is Room Enough. It is one of a number of stories, such as "Darwinian Pool Room" and "Silly Asses", in which Asimov worries about the nuclear arms race of the 1950s.
"Hell-Fire" is extremely short, and deals with a journalist, Alvin Horner, who speaks with Joseph Vincenzo, a scientist at Los Alamos, at the first exhibition of a film with super-slow footage of a nuclear explosion. Vincenzo is sure that nuclear bombs are hell-fire, and tells the journalist they shall ultimately destroy mankind. After the scientist's observations, the film starts. For a brief moment, before initiating the full reaction into the infamous nuclear toadstool, the atomic blast resembles a specific shape—-the face of the Devil.
Submitted by ghettodefender on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 2:33pm.
Luxury hotels and golf: welcome to the Green Zone
Pentagon airs plan to turn Baghdad military redoubt into a chic urban oasis
A $5bn (£2.5bn) tourism and development scheme for the Green Zone being hatched by the Pentagon and an international investment consortium would give the heavily fortified area on the banks of the Tigris a "dream" makeover that will become a magnet for Iraqis, tourists, business people and investors. About half of the area is now occupied by coalition forces, the US state department or private foreign companies.
The US military released the first tentative artists' impression yesterday. An army source said the barbed wire, concrete blast barriers and checkpoints that currently disfigure the 5 sq mile area would be replaced by shopping malls, hotels, elegant apartment blocks and leisure parks. "This is at the end of the day an Iraqi-owned area and we will give it back to them with added value," said the source, who requested anonymity.
Potential investors are being encouraged to take a punt that years ahead, Baghdad's fortunes may mirror former war-torn cities such as Sarajevo and Beirut that have risen from the ashes.
Marriott International has already signed a deal to build a hotel in the Green Zone, according to Navy Captain Thomas Karnowski, the chief US liaison. Also in the pipeline is a possible $1bn investment from MBI International, a hotel and resorts specialist led by Saudi sheikh, Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber.
McCain ‘confused about where he was’ during judicial philosophy speech.
During his speech on judicial philosophy today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared to have what Fox News’s Brit Hume would likely describe as a “senior moment.” In his prepared remarks, McCain intended to thank “the students and faculty of Wake Forest University” for their hospitality. But as the AP reports, when he delivered the speech, “he appeared confused about where he was for a moment“:
He appeared confused about where he was for a moment Tuesday, saying, “I appreciate the hospitality of the students and faculty of West Virginia,” then correcting himself to say Wake Forest as the audience laughed.
Wake Forest University is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
http://www.geeksoncall.com/
Richard Cole, chief Geek
[...]
Cole may aspire to the status of chief geek but he is new to the field. He spent 20 years in the outdoor advertising business, cashing out of his last business in 1996 -- an enterprise that had had the distinction of owning about 80 percent of the billboards along the Ohio and Pennsylvania turnpikes. Then, recruited by Frank Batten Jr., CEO of Landmark Communications, he moved to Hampton Roads...
[...]
Cole’s geeks must meet high technical standards: They must be certified as an A+ Comptia technician or a Microsoft certified systems engineer before even entering the Geeks on Call program. Then they must attend “Geek University,” a week-long training program that polishes their technical skills, instructs them on how to run the franchise and inculcates the fine points of customer service. When they emerge from training, the geeks dress in uniform – khakis and a blue or white shirt with the Geeks on Call logo – carry a Geeks on Call briefcase and drive a Geeks on Call PT Cruiser. The heavy black glasses, jokes Cole, are optional.
The company has grown from its home base in Hampton Roads to the Washington area, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham and twelve other major metropolitan areas. Picking up $1.8 million in expansion capital from Envest Ventures, a Virginia Beach venture capital firm, the company is barreling ahead with expansion plans. Offices are scheduled to open in five more cities, including Richmond, by the end of the year.
[...]
by Ari Shapiro http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90223448
The warrant to seize the computers apparently was part of an investigation of whether Bloch violated a Congressional mandate known as the Hatch Act. The act prohibits employees from using their offices for partisan political purposes.
Matt Phillips reports from Indianapolis on the presidential race.
In a Primary Day photo-op at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Sen. Hillary Clinton offered more campaign-as-racing metaphors and indicated she has her own ideas about where, exactly, the Democrats’ primary finish line will be.
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Hillary Clinton tours the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with race driver Sarah Fisher (Associated Press)
“Life is unpredictable. Racing is unpredictable. Politics is unpredictable,” the candidate told reporters standing in the garage of racer and Clinton supporter Sarah Fisher. To reporters’ dismay, she didn’t predict the outcome of the primaries.
Clinton was also asked about the delegate count: Would the race against Sen. Barack Obama end when she or he gets 2,025 delegates – generally accepted as the total needed to secure the nomination — or 2,209 delegates, a number that includes delegates from Florida and Michigan? The Democratic National Committee has said it would not seat Florida and Michigan delegates since their states held early primaries in violation of party rules.
Now Hillary says Obama won't be the winner even if he reaches 2,029 delegates
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Honestly, go ahead. At this point, I'd love nothing better than to see an all-out war in the Democratic party, instigated by Hillary and Bill Clinton. The DNC, God bless 'em, is afraid to take Hillary on. The Democrats in Congress are afraid to take her on. The superdelegates across the board are afraid to take her on. We are a party of fear. Not the Republican kind of fear, that they project outwards on to voters, we internalize our fear and become sniveling wimps. There's a reason that Republicans always brand us as the party of weaklings, it's because sometimes we are. And it's sickening. And it's why people like George Bush and Hillary Clinton are able to step all over our leaders, and repeatedly undermine our agenda. Because we let them, and they know we'll let them. So at this point, I welcome a Democratic civil war to finally clear out the wimp wing, and I suspect the Netroots, in tandem with the black community, will be leading the charge. If it takes spending the rest of this year attacking Hillary instead of John McCain, then so be it. I don't want another President Clinton if it's going to mean four more years of Republican-lite and another stolen election.
Hundreds of Laptops Missing at State Department, Audit Finds
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor
Hundreds of employee laptops are unaccounted for at the U.S. Department of State, which conducts delicate, often secret, diplomatic relations with foreign countries, an internal audit has found.
As many as 400 of the unaccounted for laptops belong to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, according to officials familiar with the findings.
The program provides counterterrorism training and equipment, including laptops, to foreign police, intelligence and security forces.
Ironically, the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program is administered by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), which is responsible for the security of the department’s computer networks and sensitive equipment, including laptops, among other duties. It also protects foreign diplomats during visits here.
DS officials have been urgently dispatching vans around the bureau’s Washington-area offices to collect and register employee laptops, said department sources who could not speak on the record for fear of being fired.
The inventory sometimes strips DS investigators of their laptops for “days, or weeks,” they said.
The State Department’s Inspector General launched an audit of the equipment about three months ago. Only the first stage, or inventory of equipment, has been completed.
A State Department official referred all questions regarding laptop losses to the Inspector General.
A senior IG official, asking not to be identified, said he could “not comment on ongoing work.”
The White House does not have archival copies of e-mails exchanged between administration officials during the weeks leading up to President Bush's decision to invade Iraq nor for the first two months of the war there, according to a just-released filing concerning millions of e-mails alleged to have gone missing or been deleted.
"A White House declaration filed late last night ... makes the stunning admission that the White House failed to preserve ANY backup tapes for the period March 1, 2003 through May 22, 2003, a period of time during which the U.S. went to war in Iraq," says a release from Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, a watchdog group suing for public records concerning the disappearance of internal White House e-mails.
On May 1st, International Workers' Day, ten peace activists in Burlington, Vermont entered General Dynamics and locked themselves together in the main lobby of the building in protest against the company's weapons manufacturing and war profiteering. University of Vermont student Benjamin Dube, one of the dozens of other activists present at the event, leaned out a window of the lobby, and pointed to the GD building, explaining, "This is the gas tank of the war machine, and we are the sugar."
Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 2:55pm.
All the remaining candidates have already been vetted by the powers that be.I agree Obama would be the better of the 3 remaining but even the most honest of candidates have made promises that never get acted on.
The image of urgent, every-second-counts cooperation by U.S. intelligence agencies fighting terrorism takes a modest hit from a new Justice Department internal audit out Monday.
'Highest Priority' Terror Intel Took Weeks to Share, Report Says
Terror-Related Reports Took Between 39 and 76 Days Each to Share With Other
In a review of Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence operations, the Justice Department inspector general found DEA analysts sometimes took months to cable terror-related intelligence obtained by DEA agents to partner agencies.
Justice IG Glenn A. Fine's team reviewed a sample of three terror-related interagency DEA cables, according to the report, which noted DEA has reported taking steps to fix the problem.
One DEA cable reviewed by Fine's staff alerted outside agencies to Stinger missiles and other weapons being sold by a terror leader for use against coalition forces. Two were on how the Taliban was using drug sales to finance terror activities, and identifying a "significant terrorist cell training and operations in a specific district in Afghanistan."
Texans: ‘Racist’ Rep. Tancredo insulted their city, questions their loyalty
Anger has been growing for months in southern Texas over plans to build a wall along the US side of the border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants. The city of Brownsville, which has a largely Hispanic-American population, has been a center of opposition by residents, who cite both environmental impacts and their own centuries-old ties with the Mexicans on the other side of the border.
Tempers flared even higher last week, after Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), an anti-immigration Republican who has been a major proponent of the border fence, told residents at a congressional hearing in Brownsville, “If you don’t want a fence between the city and Mexico, I suggest then you build the fence around the northern part of your city.”
Tancredo’s remark was met by boos and hisses, and Brownsville Major Pat Ahumada denounced it as an insult to his city. “You have people like the congressman there who are bigots,” he told CNN. “It’s a racist thing to them. They’re afraid of us Mexicans taking over politically, I think.”
However, Tancredo has refused to apologize and continues to insist, “Loyalties are actually at stake here. … It’s a question of who you’re loyal to, what country you’re loyal to. In that case, multiculturalism becomes a danger to a nation like the United States.”
Submitted by Crank Bait on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 3:01pm.
Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 2:48pm.
...I used to think it made a difference who got elected but after the 06' dem. victory i see things more clearly.
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After witnessing the Cheney/Bush administration's abuse of power, your own cynicism should have taught you that it CAN matter who wins an election.
Here's one for any right winger to explain to me. We torture to keep ourselves safe (a cowardly move to begin with, these are the guys that would throw women and children out of life boats to save their own skins). This would mean that they believe torture extracts the truth. Well, by that logic, (I know, not their strong suit) John McCain truly hates America because he broke under torture. He must have REALLY believed those things he said if torture works. Why are right wingers voting for a man who hates America?!?!
There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread
"She loves to sit, throw 'em back. So to me this is nothin' new. We all hear about the story that she and John McCain actually had a shot contest, I think in the Ukraine or somewhere around the world. And she actually beat John McCain in a shot contest. She's a girl from Illinois who likes to throw 'em down with the rest of us."
Justice System For Detainees Is Moving At a Crawl
No Sept. 11 Trials Likely Before Bush Leaves Office, Officials Say
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- At the end of a tattered, sunbaked runway dotted with large green tents here is a building aptly called the Expeditionary Legal Complex Courtroom, surrounded by coils of concertina wire, where the most notorious alleged terrorists in U.S. custody are supposed to face charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Nearly seven years later, however, not one of the approximately 775 terrorism suspects who have been held on this island has faced a jury trial inside the new complex, and U.S. officials think it is highly unlikely that any of the Sept. 11 suspects will before the Bush administration ends.
I had to rush back to the hotel so I could listen live to Marc today.
Even passed on the walk out on the beach (Lake Michigan)since my feet are beat.
I'm such an idiot. Did it again. Walked all the way from Lake Shore Drive to GreekTown, and most of the way back. I finally used my pass to take the elevated part of the way back, but by then my feet were already blown open, blisters on both of 'em. Luckily there's a Walgreen's in every neighborhood, so I nabbed some blister pads.
Submitted by edna ellen poe on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 4:05pm.
After all Politico is the same old corporate shills.
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On March 22, 2007, Politico writer Ben Smith erroneously reported via blog that John Edwards would suspend his presidential campaign in the wake of his wife's cancer recurrence, a claim that was headlined by the Drudge Report and cable news channels including MSNBC.Smith later apologized for relying on a single anonymous source for the story.
How do you like Chicago so far? It's not a bad big city.
By the way, no wonder your feet hurt. That a hell of a long walk! Greek Town to LSD! Where are you staying? The Hyatt?
Submitted by mystic23 on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 4:18pm.
I know Hillary didn't kill Vince Foster.
But it's interesting to me that Hillary is now practicing the kind of politics that her friend, Mr. Foster, cited in his suicide note. The politics of personal destruction, I remember in the 90's Hillary used to decry it as something we needed to fight against, to move beyond. I guess it was only shameful if it was being practiced against the Clintons, not when the Clintons practice it. Her friend Vince must be spinning in his grave.
Submitted by gloryoski on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 4:20pm.
Must admit the exposure to this guy I've had before I haven't been too impressed, and I might be tempted to say something snotty like anyone who wants to rag on schoolchildren for not knowing what Farsi is should really know how Barack Obama pronounces his name. But I am trying not to be "distracted" by work so I can give the guy a fair hearing--retroactively.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders wants to know whether Blackwater Worldwide misrepresented itself when it sought city permits to set up an indoor military training facility in Otay Mesa.
Graphic: Planned Blackwater training facility
Blackwater has leased an industrial building near Brown Field where it will operate a shooting range, a simulated Navy ship and classrooms.
Yesterday, Sanders sent a memo to the city's chief operating officer, Jay Goldstone, asking for an investigation into the company's permits with a report by May 23.
“Questions have been raised as to the appropriateness of this location for the uses planned by Blackwater and the means used by the company to acquire the necessary permits from the City,” the memo said.
“Specifically, allegations have been made that the company potentially used misleading names . . . to inappropriately disguise the true identity of the occupant.”
His comment on 'patting Obama on the head, saying Good Boy' reminds me an awful lot of people being surprised he (Obama) is so 'articulate and well-spoken'...
Submitted by Nefferkitti on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 4:35pm.
are a line of designer hotels across the country- they started about 10 years ago I think - buying existing hotels and re-doing them to meet new designer label chic style uniqueness to each one.
The W until tomorrow, then we have to switch over to the Hyatt Regency, ToniD. Just for one night.
The W is uber-high end, as far as I can tell. So we're not touching anything in the mini-bar.
Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
I bet you crossed alot of bridges on your walk today. Not too far away from Greek Town. And Greek Town isn't far away from Little Italy either. The city of different ethnicities.
Did you eat in Greek Town? Great restaurants. Also the Italian restaurants are great. China Town too!
The Lake Front is pretty also.
If you can, visit Michigan Avenue. The Art Museum.
Lake Shore Drive has a slew of Museums. Shedd Aquarium, Natural History, Science and Industry, Adler's Planetarium.
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Wanted to say that I actually find America to be a hopeful place, and not the dumb blind hope either. The informed kind.
You guys have progressives, we berrate our progressives and call them idiots
It's tough, 'cause Sara and the crew have to get up early. But we went to Gianardo's Sunday night.
Ordered a 10 inch pizza. Spinach and tomatoes. Smallest one they had.
Sara and I could only eat half of it. It was three inches thick!
Hope to maybe hit some museums tomorrow, it might rain.
Right now I'm just resting my feet, peering out 28 floors below to the bikini-clad girls on the beach of Lake Michigan.
I'd like to find a cool blues/jazz bar, one that's not too touristy, but also welcoming of outsiders.
Gianardo's bar sucked, they had one microbrew, and the bartender had zero sales skills. "It's disgusting!" ...said the bartender of the beer he doesn't like.
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: May 6, 2008
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee investigating the Bush administration’s approval for harsh interrogation methods voted on Tuesday to issue a subpoena to David S. Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and a major proponent of the methods, which some legal experts have condemned as illegal torture.
Two former administration officials, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, and John C. Yoo, who wrote controversial legal opinions justifying harsh techniques, have agreed to give public testimony to a House Judiciary subcommittee, staff members said.
If the folks in Indiana are impressed by the Hillary Gas Tax so-called Holiday, it's because the Hoosiers there are already dumb enough to PRIVATIZE their roads!
Look, if the Hillary/McCain gas tax repeal gets to Congress it will go through because what is lost in state pork barrel roadworks projects will be gained in direct corporate donations -- abd we citizens will pay by giving away our roads.
And no gas tax for road repair will lead to states and municipalities panicking as infrastructure decays rapidly and road/infrastructure workers go unemployed.
These cities and states will be looking anywhere for money when the pressure builds, and just like the developers in California have been doing, there will be the scam that privitization (government giving the private sector the control and profits and the states and municipalities carrying ALL the liability) is the ONLY answer.
The scam will move so fast when funds from the gas tax are gone.
Is Hillary a loyal CORPORATIST, or what? Is she a con artist or not? Posing as a populist and pandering to the people; what a scammer she is.
She was telling him how talented, intelligent and wonderful he is. That he has had some tough times, but if he keeps his mind open and takes a few risks he will have good times ahead. (this is a shortened version)
He said he had sorta reconnected with his mother. I'm glad!
By ALLISON HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago
SAN DIEGO - Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested after a sweeping drug investigation found that some fraternity members openly dealt drugs and one even sent a mass text message advertising cocaine, authorities said Tuesday.
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Two kilograms of cocaine were seized, along with 350 Ecstasy pills, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine, illicit prescription drugs, several guns and at least $60,000 in cash, authorities said.
Of the 96 people arrested, 75 were students. Eighteen of the students were arrested Tuesday when nine search warrants were executed at various locations including fraternities, said Jesse Rodriguez, San Diego County assistant district attorney.
The undercover probe, dubbed Operation Sudden Fall, was sparked by the cocaine overdose death of a student in May 2007, authorities said. As the investigation continued, another student, from Mesa College, died Feb. 26 of a cocaine overdose at an SDSU fraternity house, the DEA said.
Those arrested included a student who was about to receive a criminal justice degree and another who was to receive a master's degree in homeland security.
"A sad commentary is that when one of these individuals was arrested, they inquired as (to) whether or not his arrest and incarceration would have an effect on him becoming a federal law enforcement officer," said Ralph Partridge, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego.
Some defendants were scheduled to appear in state court to face charges Tuesday.
During the probe investigators discovered that in some fraternities most members were aware of "organized drug dealing occurring from the fraternity houses by its members," the DEA said in a news release.
"Undercover agents purchased cocaine from fraternity members and confirmed that a hierarchy existed for the purpose of selling drugs for money," the DEA said.
The district attorney's office said search warrants were served in San Diego and suburban La Mesa, including the Theta Chi fraternity house and several apartments.
A member of Theta Chi sent out a mass text message to his "faithful customers" stating that he and his "associates" would be unable to sell cocaine while they were in Las Vegas over one weekend, according to the DEA. The text promoted a cocaine "sale" and listed the reduced prices.
Theta Chi's San Diego chapter declined to comment.
"We're talking to our advisers," said John Phillips, a past president of the chapter.
Dale Taylor, the fraternity's national executive director, said he was "obviously shocked and saddened" by the allegations.
Theta Chi has prohibited the San Diego chapter from group activities like parties or sports and will investigate additional disciplinary measures, up to expulsion of members or the entire chapter.
Theta Chi, based in Indianapolis, has 131 chapters in the U.S. and Canada and more than 161,000 initiates. It was founded in 1856.
The San Diego chapter was founded 61 years ago and has 65 members.
"They were on the upswing," Taylor said. "They had improved their recruitment. They were trying to raise money for a new house."
University police and federal drug agents worked together in the investigation, making more than 130 undercover drug buys at locations including fraternity houses, student parking areas and dormitories, authorities said.
Shawn Collinsworth, executive director of the national office of Phi Kappa Psi, said he was told by two of the SDSU fraternity chapter's leaders that four of its members were arrested. He said the fraternity is cooperating with the investigation.
"It isn't behavior becoming of Phi Kappa Psi," Collinsworth said.
San Diego State is one of the largest schools in California's state university system with about 34,000 students. The campus has an active network of fraternities and sororities.
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Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Greg Risling in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
They'll give away their roads, just like America gave away it's airwaves. And look at TV entertainment and media? We can't control hardly any of it, now.
Someday kids'll look back in Indiana and wonder why none of their roads get fixed any longer. Corporations will laugh in their faces, as they'll have nothing to fear.
another door
opens
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Jamesbennett
greetings, earthlings.
Everything seems funnier when you realize you're not *from* here...
The world is more like it is now than it ever has been before. -- Dwight Eisenhower
ok so imna tell yourll off the back who else i dont like
MR SOFTIE
dont let the sun peep out a little
who comes riding around? and guess what i have to run down the hill to catch up with him (bums and titi's jumping around) to buy the girls an icecream. geez
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Nevermind the Bollocks. Mr. Lydon 5th rate singer, first rate vocalist.
The world is more like it is now than it ever has been before. -- Dwight Eisenhower
Breaking: FBI Raids Office of Special Counsel
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/6/131041/7147/460/510092
so i may study you?
ok im back---study this
inquiry into his conduct in office
what the hell is happening here?
Scott Bloch is the incompetent idiot
Appointed by Bush to investigate discrimination charges within the federal government, I think.
"The world is more like it is now than it ever has been before. -- Dwight Eisenhower
ok im back---study this
Hell-Fire is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in the April 1951 issue of Amazing Stories and reprinted in the 1957 collection Earth Is Room Enough. It is one of a number of stories, such as "Darwinian Pool Room" and "Silly Asses", in which Asimov worries about the nuclear arms race of the 1950s.
"Hell-Fire" is extremely short, and deals with a journalist, Alvin Horner, who speaks with Joseph Vincenzo, a scientist at Los Alamos, at the first exhibition of a film with super-slow footage of a nuclear explosion. Vincenzo is sure that nuclear bombs are hell-fire, and tells the journalist they shall ultimately destroy mankind. After the scientist's observations, the film starts. For a brief moment, before initiating the full reaction into the infamous nuclear toadstool, the atomic blast resembles a specific shape—-the face of the Devil.
the face of the Devil
that shit is deep, maybe guy fawkes will get the picture
Gated future world--
Luxury hotels and golf: welcome to the Green Zone
Pentagon airs plan to turn Baghdad military redoubt into a chic urban oasis
A $5bn (£2.5bn) tourism and development scheme for the Green Zone being hatched by the Pentagon and an international investment consortium would give the heavily fortified area on the banks of the Tigris a "dream" makeover that will become a magnet for Iraqis, tourists, business people and investors. About half of the area is now occupied by coalition forces, the US state department or private foreign companies.
The US military released the first tentative artists' impression yesterday. An army source said the barbed wire, concrete blast barriers and checkpoints that currently disfigure the 5 sq mile area would be replaced by shopping malls, hotels, elegant apartment blocks and leisure parks. "This is at the end of the day an Iraqi-owned area and we will give it back to them with added value," said the source, who requested anonymity.
Potential investors are being encouraged to take a punt that years ahead, Baghdad's fortunes may mirror former war-torn cities such as Sarajevo and Beirut that have risen from the ashes.
Marriott International has already signed a deal to build a hotel in the Green Zone, according to Navy Captain Thomas Karnowski, the chief US liaison. Also in the pipeline is a possible $1bn investment from MBI International, a hotel and resorts specialist led by Saudi sheikh, Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/06/iraq
wasnt his latest investigation
oh whitehouse emails and the rove? i thought i saw that somewhere
oh my bad forgot the investigations
were running out of money...oh well i did try now
polls close at 6 right
just in time for mark green to cover it
op another senior moment
McCain ‘confused about where he was’ during judicial philosophy speech.
During his speech on judicial philosophy today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared to have what Fox News’s Brit Hume would likely describe as a “senior moment.” In his prepared remarks, McCain intended to thank “the students and faculty of Wake Forest University” for their hospitality. But as the AP reports, when he delivered the speech, “he appeared confused about where he was for a moment“:
He appeared confused about where he was for a moment Tuesday, saying, “I appreciate the hospitality of the students and faculty of West Virginia,” then correcting himself to say Wake Forest as the audience laughed.
Wake Forest University is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Geeks on Call
http://www.geeksoncall.com/
Richard Cole, chief Geek
[...]
Cole may aspire to the status of chief geek but he is new to the field. He spent 20 years in the outdoor advertising business, cashing out of his last business in 1996 -- an enterprise that had had the distinction of owning about 80 percent of the billboards along the Ohio and Pennsylvania turnpikes. Then, recruited by Frank Batten Jr., CEO of Landmark Communications, he moved to Hampton Roads...
[...]
Cole’s geeks must meet high technical standards: They must be certified as an A+ Comptia technician or a Microsoft certified systems engineer before even entering the Geeks on Call program. Then they must attend “Geek University,” a week-long training program that polishes their technical skills, instructs them on how to run the franchise and inculcates the fine points of customer service. When they emerge from training, the geeks dress in uniform – khakis and a blue or white shirt with the Geeks on Call logo – carry a Geeks on Call briefcase and drive a Geeks on Call PT Cruiser. The heavy black glasses, jokes Cole, are optional.
The company has grown from its home base in Hampton Roads to the Washington area, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham and twelve other major metropolitan areas. Picking up $1.8 million in expansion capital from Envest Ventures, a Virginia Beach venture capital firm, the company is barreling ahead with expansion plans. Offices are scheduled to open in five more cities, including Richmond, by the end of the year.
[...]
http://www.vanewswire.com/Features/04-08-25.htm
FBI Searches Office of Special Counsel Building
FBI Searches Office of Special Counsel Building
by Ari Shapiro
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90223448
The warrant to seize the computers apparently was part of an investigation of whether Bloch violated a Congressional mandate known as the Hatch Act. The act prohibits employees from using their offices for partisan political purposes.
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Jamesbennett
Testicular fortitude
Clinton Counts Florida, Michigan in Delegate Math
Matt Phillips reports from Indianapolis on the presidential race.
In a Primary Day photo-op at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Sen. Hillary Clinton offered more campaign-as-racing metaphors and indicated she has her own ideas about where, exactly, the Democrats’ primary finish line will be.
clinton_indy_art_400_20080506133816.jpg
Hillary Clinton tours the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with race driver Sarah Fisher (Associated Press)
“Life is unpredictable. Racing is unpredictable. Politics is unpredictable,” the candidate told reporters standing in the garage of racer and Clinton supporter Sarah Fisher. To reporters’ dismay, she didn’t predict the outcome of the primaries.
Clinton was also asked about the delegate count: Would the race against Sen. Barack Obama end when she or he gets 2,025 delegates – generally accepted as the total needed to secure the nomination — or 2,209 delegates, a number that includes delegates from Florida and Michigan? The Democratic National Committee has said it would not seat Florida and Michigan delegates since their states held early primaries in violation of party rules.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/05/06/clinton-counts-florida-michigan...
lol lucille
ya that picture pretty much sums whats coming for all of us here in the good old usa.and i mean that literally.
Buy storeable food,guns and plant a garden and have someplace far away from any big cities to camp.
I will understand if you call me paranoid and i will also understand when later on this fall, you say "my god he was right"
just so you understand
Now Hillary says Obama won't be the winner even if he reaches 2,029 delegates
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/06/2008 02:00:00 PM ET · Link
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Honestly, go ahead. At this point, I'd love nothing better than to see an all-out war in the Democratic party, instigated by Hillary and Bill Clinton. The DNC, God bless 'em, is afraid to take Hillary on. The Democrats in Congress are afraid to take her on. The superdelegates across the board are afraid to take her on. We are a party of fear. Not the Republican kind of fear, that they project outwards on to voters, we internalize our fear and become sniveling wimps. There's a reason that Republicans always brand us as the party of weaklings, it's because sometimes we are. And it's sickening. And it's why people like George Bush and Hillary Clinton are able to step all over our leaders, and repeatedly undermine our agenda. Because we let them, and they know we'll let them. So at this point, I welcome a Democratic civil war to finally clear out the wimp wing, and I suspect the Netroots, in tandem with the black community, will be leading the charge. If it takes spending the rest of this year attacking Hillary instead of John McCain, then so be it. I don't want another President Clinton if it's going to mean four more years of Republican-lite and another stolen election.
what the hell is a state secret?
Hundreds of Laptops Missing at State Department, Audit Finds
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor
Hundreds of employee laptops are unaccounted for at the U.S. Department of State, which conducts delicate, often secret, diplomatic relations with foreign countries, an internal audit has found.
As many as 400 of the unaccounted for laptops belong to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, according to officials familiar with the findings.
The program provides counterterrorism training and equipment, including laptops, to foreign police, intelligence and security forces.
Ironically, the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program is administered by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), which is responsible for the security of the department’s computer networks and sensitive equipment, including laptops, among other duties. It also protects foreign diplomats during visits here.
DS officials have been urgently dispatching vans around the bureau’s Washington-area offices to collect and register employee laptops, said department sources who could not speak on the record for fear of being fired.
The inventory sometimes strips DS investigators of their laptops for “days, or weeks,” they said.
The State Department’s Inspector General launched an audit of the equipment about three months ago. Only the first stage, or inventory of equipment, has been completed.
A State Department official referred all questions regarding laptop losses to the Inspector General.
A senior IG official, asking not to be identified, said he could “not comment on ongoing work.”
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=hsnews-000002716318
The entire election
is a sham wrapped inside a hoax wrapped in a charade.
I used to think it made a difference who got elected but after the 06' dem. victory i see things more clearly.
If you want to watch a good example watch 'Endgame" on google video.It's free and covers whats really going on
whop! co-inkydinky
White House admits pre-war e-mails not archived
The White House does not have archival copies of e-mails exchanged between administration officials during the weeks leading up to President Bush's decision to invade Iraq nor for the first two months of the war there, according to a just-released filing concerning millions of e-mails alleged to have gone missing or been deleted.
"A White House declaration filed late last night ... makes the stunning admission that the White House failed to preserve ANY backup tapes for the period March 1, 2003 through May 22, 2003, a period of time during which the U.S. went to war in Iraq," says a release from Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, a watchdog group suing for public records concerning the disappearance of internal White House e-mails.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_admits_prewar_emails_not_0506....
Thats BS Guy
Obama has said he would expect his Attorney General to investigate blatant criminality.
Hillary nor McCain have said that.
MIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppkrg-hNrPk
On May 1st, International Workers' Day, ten peace activists in Burlington, Vermont entered General Dynamics and locked themselves together in the main lobby of the building in protest against the company's weapons manufacturing and war profiteering. University of Vermont student Benjamin Dube, one of the dozens of other activists present at the event, leaned out a window of the lobby, and pointed to the GD building, explaining, "This is the gas tank of the war machine, and we are the sugar."
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/84437/?page=entire
fernando
All the remaining candidates have already been vetted by the powers that be.I agree Obama would be the better of the 3 remaining but even the most honest of candidates have made promises that never get acted on.
boogies gonna get chu
The image of urgent, every-second-counts cooperation by U.S. intelligence agencies fighting terrorism takes a modest hit from a new Justice Department internal audit out Monday.
'Highest Priority' Terror Intel Took Weeks to Share, Report Says
Terror-Related Reports Took Between 39 and 76 Days Each to Share With Other
In a review of Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence operations, the Justice Department inspector general found DEA analysts sometimes took months to cable terror-related intelligence obtained by DEA agents to partner agencies.
Justice IG Glenn A. Fine's team reviewed a sample of three terror-related interagency DEA cables, according to the report, which noted DEA has reported taking steps to fix the problem.
One DEA cable reviewed by Fine's staff alerted outside agencies to Stinger missiles and other weapons being sold by a terror leader for use against coalition forces. Two were on how the Taliban was using drug sales to finance terror activities, and identifying a "significant terrorist cell training and operations in a specific district in Afghanistan."
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4788950&page=1
getting ready for maron?
time to fire up the machine
Stream from AAR.
http://airamerica.com/listen
(open in a new window)
no doubt Guy Fawkes
but at least there is a difference in the point you were trying to make.
The election does matter. We have one candidate that has said he would push to investigate blatant criminality.
We have another that was tortured and regretted to admit things he didn't even believe who won't investigate.
We have another who has not said her position. Why is Hillary avoiding this topic?
go get him Fernando
Texans: ‘Racist’ Rep. Tancredo insulted their city, questions their loyalty
Anger has been growing for months in southern Texas over plans to build a wall along the US side of the border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants. The city of Brownsville, which has a largely Hispanic-American population, has been a center of opposition by residents, who cite both environmental impacts and their own centuries-old ties with the Mexicans on the other side of the border.
Tempers flared even higher last week, after Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), an anti-immigration Republican who has been a major proponent of the border fence, told residents at a congressional hearing in Brownsville, “If you don’t want a fence between the city and Mexico, I suggest then you build the fence around the northern part of your city.”
Tancredo’s remark was met by boos and hisses, and Brownsville Major Pat Ahumada denounced it as an insult to his city. “You have people like the congressman there who are bigots,” he told CNN. “It’s a racist thing to them. They’re afraid of us Mexicans taking over politically, I think.”
However, Tancredo has refused to apologize and continues to insist, “Loyalties are actually at stake here. … It’s a question of who you’re loyal to, what country you’re loyal to. In that case, multiculturalism becomes a danger to a nation like the United States.”
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/index.php?p=974
As Plain As The Nose On Your Face
Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 2:48pm.
...I used to think it made a difference who got elected but after the 06' dem. victory i see things more clearly.
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After witnessing the Cheney/Bush administration's abuse of power, your own cynicism should have taught you that it CAN matter who wins an election.
They don't even have the blurb up for Marc!
Idiots!
oh hold on let me take my pop corn
out the popper
since all my questions never get answered i have another one
when they fill in (Sam & Marc) does AAR pay them, per sit in?
Lucille
I assume they do.
Crank
I hope your right,if there EVEN is an election this fall.
And it does matter who wins.Remember in 2000.Al Gore won the election
And remember in 2004 Kerry won the election.How did those work out for us?
As long as there are diebold electronic voting machines in use reality
is an open question.
As Stalin once said it doesn't matter how many people vote.What matters is who COUNTS the votes
Good afternoon Genuises, Philosopher Kings and Queens!
Yay!
Off topic, but I need to vent.
Here's one for any right winger to explain to me. We torture to keep ourselves safe (a cowardly move to begin with, these are the guys that would throw women and children out of life boats to save their own skins). This would mean that they believe torture extracts the truth. Well, by that logic, (I know, not their strong suit) John McCain truly hates America because he broke under torture. He must have REALLY believed those things he said if torture works. Why are right wingers voting for a man who hates America?!?!
Bush/Cheney's race themesong?
(or maybe it should have been)
King Of Pain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpGz0GvETrE
There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread
yes lucille they get paid
how else would you think marc would do it, when he said how much he despises these fuckers
Is Marc on cam anywhere?
Just asking.
he's gonna have the berman guy on for an interview
trying to beat seder at the excellent interviewees game
AkulA
Good point!
fernando
Belive me i'm for obama.Clinton makes me throw up every time i hear her voice and mccain is,well,mccain(100 year war)
But we are going to need to have jimmy carter monitor our elections this fall cuase the last 8 years have been stolen.
marc doesn't have the sammycam
that's sam's
Barack/Clinton cartoon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/?review=1#url=http://www.caglecartoons.c...
sam owns the sammy cam "technology"
i smile every time i hear them call it "that" just because it reminds me of all the glitches we have experienced
Wish Marc was back in NY
So he could have K-Lo at least on the boards.
trying to beat seder
beat that mr. green
compared to the dumb fucks he had on the last 2 weeks
The funny thing is
there is no way America can maintain 100yrs of our current level of commitment.
Greg Proops
a friend of Maron's, once referred to Australia as
"Arkansas with a beach".
Friends are allowed to disagree.
joe scarborough(oops again)
says hillary's pandering is cool
Why is Hillary so happy lately?
All the reports I have read say she is confident, full of energy, happy. What's going on?
Charlie Crist
wants to save Florida families enuf to buy an extra case of Little Debbies this summer.
[mmmm...genocide with a cream filling!]
Who is in charge of the AA blog for today?
Is it Sam??
They need to post an entry for Maron!
What's going on?
if you could not count you would be happy too...hahhaha
there goes the fingure again
5th time
hahahahahah
here he goes with the cut finger and stitches again!
yeah lucille i thought about you
i knew you'd enjoy hearing it again!
i knew you'd enjoy hearing it again!
the divorce i can handle but the $2,000 finger hurts man..hahahaha
as if alc. bush is not enough
"She loves to sit, throw 'em back. So to me this is nothin' new. We all hear about the story that she and John McCain actually had a shot contest, I think in the Ukraine or somewhere around the world. And she actually beat John McCain in a shot contest. She's a girl from Illinois who likes to throw 'em down with the rest of us."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KMGwpdsByE
what say you Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann
Justice System For Detainees Is Moving At a Crawl
No Sept. 11 Trials Likely Before Bush Leaves Office, Officials Say
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- At the end of a tattered, sunbaked runway dotted with large green tents here is a building aptly called the Expeditionary Legal Complex Courtroom, surrounded by coils of concertina wire, where the most notorious alleged terrorists in U.S. custody are supposed to face charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Nearly seven years later, however, not one of the approximately 775 terrorism suspects who have been held on this island has faced a jury trial inside the new complex, and U.S. officials think it is highly unlikely that any of the Sept. 11 suspects will before the Bush administration ends.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR200805...
Maron & Reich!
I love that Robert Reich gets Marc!
www.robertreich.blogspot.com
what in the world has gotten into
hillary..EVERYTHING
marc doesn't have the sammycam
Of course he doesn't.
He has the marcycam, but Future Marc borrowed it and hasn't sent it back. *snark*
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bluerootsradio
john mccain a little nuts
HA
is this all live? or is it taped
sounds like the old show?
i found this amusing
WTF?
It's always hard not to be in charge of your headlines.
This is now live on the front page of The Politico
In Ben Smith's defense this seems like a very weird headline for the post they appear to be referring to.
or is it taped
its gotta be new..robert reich is not loving the clinton anymore
this shit is great
im working so I can only hope or no shows....so I can hear this...fun
Schuster on MSNBC
with intriguing early comment bout to come on.
pretty sure a lot of this is
taped...
Hey Guys! (More Chicago news)
I had to rush back to the hotel so I could listen live to Marc today.
Even passed on the walk out on the beach (Lake Michigan)since my feet are beat.
I'm such an idiot. Did it again. Walked all the way from Lake Shore Drive to GreekTown, and most of the way back. I finally used my pass to take the elevated part of the way back, but by then my feet were already blown open, blisters on both of 'em. Luckily there's a Walgreen's in every neighborhood, so I nabbed some blister pads.
the page for today's american aft show is up
on airamerica.com
better late than never
taped? How ya figure?
Marc did just say it was his first day back in a long, long time...
He can even be I.M.'d like normal, he's on right now.
this is too funny guys...
I was on I tunes and when I looked down it was playing sedition radio rather that air america.....oops....nevermind!
Not the first time Ben Smith lied!
After all Politico is the same old corporate shills.
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On March 22, 2007, Politico writer Ben Smith erroneously reported via blog that John Edwards would suspend his presidential campaign in the wake of his wife's cancer recurrence, a claim that was headlined by the Drudge Report and cable news channels including MSNBC.Smith later apologized for relying on a single anonymous source for the story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politico#Criticism
intriguing early comment
what the fuck does that mean Fernando?...dont be starting shit now please
Harold i thought you were going
to Germany? am i wrong?
Not wrong, Lu
Chicago till Thursday, then
Germany from the 11th thru the 18th (We won't actually get there until the 12th)
Hope to get home in time to see Marc in Portland for his show at the Baghdad Theatre.
That's where Sam had his book tour appearance here a few years back.
Harold
How do you like Chicago so far? It's not a bad big city.
By the way, no wonder your feet hurt. That a hell of a long walk! Greek Town to LSD! Where are you staying? The Hyatt?
Chicago till Thursday, then
you are such a jet setter...what do you do for jet lag?..that shit wears me so down, i cannot snap back for the longest
from the last thread: un coche se le mato' a un gato tricolor
There are other variations because pronouns are crazy (and pretty hard for non-native speakers) but I think this works.
Vince Foster
I know Hillary didn't kill Vince Foster.
But it's interesting to me that Hillary is now practicing the kind of politics that her friend, Mr. Foster, cited in his suicide note. The politics of personal destruction, I remember in the 90's Hillary used to decry it as something we needed to fight against, to move beyond. I guess it was only shameful if it was being practiced against the Clintons, not when the Clintons practice it. Her friend Vince must be spinning in his grave.
Just heard that we have a rodent problem
at O'Hare Airport. That's not good!!
At least they aren't on the planes. I have to ask my nephew about that.
Morris Burman (or however you spell)
Must admit the exposure to this guy I've had before I haven't been too impressed, and I might be tempted to say something snotty like anyone who wants to rag on schoolchildren for not knowing what Farsi is should really know how Barack Obama pronounces his name. But I am trying not to be "distracted" by work so I can give the guy a fair hearing--retroactively.
Blackwater
How city permits obtained at issue
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders wants to know whether Blackwater Worldwide misrepresented itself when it sought city permits to set up an indoor military training facility in Otay Mesa.
Graphic: Planned Blackwater training facility
Blackwater has leased an industrial building near Brown Field where it will operate a shooting range, a simulated Navy ship and classrooms.
Yesterday, Sanders sent a memo to the city's chief operating officer, Jay Goldstone, asking for an investigation into the company's permits with a report by May 23.
“Questions have been raised as to the appropriateness of this location for the uses planned by Blackwater and the means used by the company to acquire the necessary permits from the City,” the memo said.
“Specifically, allegations have been made that the company potentially used misleading names . . . to inappropriately disguise the true identity of the occupant.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080506-9999-1m6black.html
Where are you staying?
The W until tomorrow, then we have to switch over to the Hyatt Regency, ToniD. Just for one night.
The W is uber-high end, as far as I can tell. So we're not touching anything in the mini-bar.
Not impressed with Berman either.
His comment on 'patting Obama on the head, saying Good Boy' reminds me an awful lot of people being surprised he (Obama) is so 'articulate and well-spoken'...
Racist, yet not obviously so.
they talk about clinton targeting
working class, blue collar voters...in other words RACIST!
not touching anything in the mini-bar
no juice huh?
Patting Obama on the head
I was indeed distracted, so did not hear--but it doesn't surprise me that much.
W hotels
are a line of designer hotels across the country- they started about 10 years ago I think - buying existing hotels and re-doing them to meet new designer label chic style uniqueness to each one.
The W until tomorrow, then we have to switch over to the Hyatt Regency, ToniD. Just for one night.
The W is uber-high end, as far as I can tell. So we're not touching anything in the mini-bar.
Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
not touching anything in the mini-bar
seriously, everything is wired. if you lift it up to look at it, you've bought it.
looks like the w is part of the starwood chain. i wonder if they are a repackaged westin
Juice? Oh yeah, they gots juice.
$5 O.J. (10 oz.)
And $9 bottles of water.
Room service is even more outrageous, of course. high prices and a 20% plus $3 service charge. Per order.
Harold
I bet you crossed alot of bridges on your walk today. Not too far away from Greek Town. And Greek Town isn't far away from Little Italy either. The city of different ethnicities.
Did you eat in Greek Town? Great restaurants. Also the Italian restaurants are great. China Town too!
The Lake Front is pretty also.
If you can, visit Michigan Avenue. The Art Museum.
Lake Shore Drive has a slew of Museums. Shedd Aquarium, Natural History, Science and Industry, Adler's Planetarium.
If you like Deep Dish Pizza, Chicago's the place.
Throw up some comments for Maron at AAR
http://airamerica.com/american-afternoon/blog/2008/may/06/air-american-a...
$5 O.J. (10 oz.)
get the fffffront door!!!!
Life
is a cruel trick.
lucille wait wait
now he's going into his divorce and financial dire straits and even if no finger, it's the maron we know
thinking of committing suicide
hahahaha..go marc
suicidal thoughts
"a spiritual reprieve of the faithless."
-Marc Maron
I'm not entirely sure where Marc's coming from on this point...
Having a gzillion cereals to choose from isn't a good thing. It's a symptom of Supply-side economics.
Build it, and they will come.
So I think he's only attacking Scotland in a projecting kinda way.
If Scotland only had three cereals (an exaggeration, of course) it's because those are the three most popular cereals in the country.
Here, just because things aren't popular or even wanted, doesn't mean they can't become a huge success anyway.
I just had to walk by the new Trump Tower in Chicago. How many bankruptcies have we the taxpayers bailed his ass out on so far?
throw up some comments
i just did
can't get through on the phones
:(
Wanted to say that I actually find America to be a hopeful place, and not the dumb blind hope either. The informed kind.
You guys have progressives, we berrate our progressives and call them idiots
Just commented at the AA Afternoon blog for Marc!
!!
Great email Marc got from his Mom!!
Great advice, too.
later
yourll
Oh yeah, ToniD
It's tough, 'cause Sara and the crew have to get up early. But we went to Gianardo's Sunday night.
Ordered a 10 inch pizza. Spinach and tomatoes. Smallest one they had.
Sara and I could only eat half of it. It was three inches thick!
Hope to maybe hit some museums tomorrow, it might rain.
Right now I'm just resting my feet, peering out 28 floors below to the bikini-clad girls on the beach of Lake Michigan.
I'd like to find a cool blues/jazz bar, one that's not too touristy, but also welcoming of outsiders.
Gianardo's bar sucked, they had one microbrew, and the bartender had zero sales skills. "It's disgusting!" ...said the bartender of the beer he doesn't like.
mo lib i missed it
bathroom break - what did he say about his mom?
just so you understand
good work here, lucille
aar doesn't have the nerve to say this either
did i
italicise? sorry
Naw, nightbird, it was me.
Sorry.
I fixed it.
I also told Maron that Germany has many, many more styles of mustard than America does. More Pringles flavors, too.
I think I'm gonna have to stock up on Paprika Pringles next week...
Naw, nightbird, it was me.
k, thanks Harold...
Looks like Conyers and Co. are cranking up the machine again.
Panel Subpoenas Close Cheney Aide
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: May 6, 2008
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee investigating the Bush administration’s approval for harsh interrogation methods voted on Tuesday to issue a subpoena to David S. Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and a major proponent of the methods, which some legal experts have condemned as illegal torture.
Two former administration officials, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, and John C. Yoo, who wrote controversial legal opinions justifying harsh techniques, have agreed to give public testimony to a House Judiciary subcommittee, staff members said.
[...]
I just wish they would finally find something they could actually hang on these assholes already.
woot
on hold :D
Gas Tax Repeal is Privatization fast track method
If the folks in Indiana are impressed by the Hillary Gas Tax so-called Holiday, it's because the Hoosiers there are already dumb enough to PRIVATIZE their roads!
Look, if the Hillary/McCain gas tax repeal gets to Congress it will go through because what is lost in state pork barrel roadworks projects will be gained in direct corporate donations -- abd we citizens will pay by giving away our roads.
And no gas tax for road repair will lead to states and municipalities panicking as infrastructure decays rapidly and road/infrastructure workers go unemployed.
These cities and states will be looking anywhere for money when the pressure builds, and just like the developers in California have been doing, there will be the scam that privitization (government giving the private sector the control and profits and the states and municipalities carrying ALL the liability) is the ONLY answer.
The scam will move so fast when funds from the gas tax are gone.
Is Hillary a loyal CORPORATIST, or what? Is she a con artist or not? Posing as a populist and pandering to the people; what a scammer she is.
mire
Marc read an email he just got from his mom.
She was telling him how talented, intelligent and wonderful he is. That he has had some tough times, but if he keeps his mind open and takes a few risks he will have good times ahead. (this is a shortened version)
He said he had sorta reconnected with his mother. I'm glad!
Sam & Marc
I like both Sam & Marc.
They have two very different styles.
Would like to be able to listen to both of them on a regular basis.
75 students arrested in San Diego State University drug bust
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_re_us/college_drug_bust;_ylt=A...
By ALLISON HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago
SAN DIEGO - Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested after a sweeping drug investigation found that some fraternity members openly dealt drugs and one even sent a mass text message advertising cocaine, authorities said Tuesday.
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Two kilograms of cocaine were seized, along with 350 Ecstasy pills, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine, illicit prescription drugs, several guns and at least $60,000 in cash, authorities said.
Of the 96 people arrested, 75 were students. Eighteen of the students were arrested Tuesday when nine search warrants were executed at various locations including fraternities, said Jesse Rodriguez, San Diego County assistant district attorney.
The undercover probe, dubbed Operation Sudden Fall, was sparked by the cocaine overdose death of a student in May 2007, authorities said. As the investigation continued, another student, from Mesa College, died Feb. 26 of a cocaine overdose at an SDSU fraternity house, the DEA said.
Those arrested included a student who was about to receive a criminal justice degree and another who was to receive a master's degree in homeland security.
"A sad commentary is that when one of these individuals was arrested, they inquired as (to) whether or not his arrest and incarceration would have an effect on him becoming a federal law enforcement officer," said Ralph Partridge, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego.
Some defendants were scheduled to appear in state court to face charges Tuesday.
During the probe investigators discovered that in some fraternities most members were aware of "organized drug dealing occurring from the fraternity houses by its members," the DEA said in a news release.
"Undercover agents purchased cocaine from fraternity members and confirmed that a hierarchy existed for the purpose of selling drugs for money," the DEA said.
The district attorney's office said search warrants were served in San Diego and suburban La Mesa, including the Theta Chi fraternity house and several apartments.
A member of Theta Chi sent out a mass text message to his "faithful customers" stating that he and his "associates" would be unable to sell cocaine while they were in Las Vegas over one weekend, according to the DEA. The text promoted a cocaine "sale" and listed the reduced prices.
Theta Chi's San Diego chapter declined to comment.
"We're talking to our advisers," said John Phillips, a past president of the chapter.
Dale Taylor, the fraternity's national executive director, said he was "obviously shocked and saddened" by the allegations.
Theta Chi has prohibited the San Diego chapter from group activities like parties or sports and will investigate additional disciplinary measures, up to expulsion of members or the entire chapter.
Theta Chi, based in Indianapolis, has 131 chapters in the U.S. and Canada and more than 161,000 initiates. It was founded in 1856.
The San Diego chapter was founded 61 years ago and has 65 members.
"They were on the upswing," Taylor said. "They had improved their recruitment. They were trying to raise money for a new house."
University police and federal drug agents worked together in the investigation, making more than 130 undercover drug buys at locations including fraternity houses, student parking areas and dormitories, authorities said.
Shawn Collinsworth, executive director of the national office of Phi Kappa Psi, said he was told by two of the SDSU fraternity chapter's leaders that four of its members were arrested. He said the fraternity is cooperating with the investigation.
"It isn't behavior becoming of Phi Kappa Psi," Collinsworth said.
San Diego State is one of the largest schools in California's state university system with about 34,000 students. The campus has an active network of fraternities and sororities.
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Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Greg Risling in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Gas Tax Repeal is Privatization fast track method
yes, and the only one to speake truth is Obama.
I hope people see the scam...
>>un coche se le mato' a un gato tricolor
thank you for your effort. :)
o m g
a bushbot
Facist Hoosiers
They'll give away their roads, just like America gave away it's airwaves. And look at TV entertainment and media? We can't control hardly any of it, now.
Someday kids'll look back in Indiana and wonder why none of their roads get fixed any longer. Corporations will laugh in their faces, as they'll have nothing to fear.
What're people gonna do? Stop driving?
I like both Sam & Marc.
Me too Mo Lib!
Can't wait for Friday's show, it should be a 3 hour long Seder vs. Maron.
Hopefully they'll comment lots during the breaks as Sam does usually.
>>They have two very different styles.
yes...but they share a common trait: `un-radio' voices. both are a little high & nasal compared to the `classic broadcast' voice.
It doesn't make them bad hosts, just (perhaps) a little annoying to newbies.
BTW--the same vocal style gives them en edge in comedy. Bland, vanilla voices don't make for good comedy.
harold
last I heard only marc on fri
gotta run...
bbl!
He'll be flying solo..alas.. Tech issues
Ok, mhappenow, I found Sam's note.
I'm not sure I'm buying 'tech issues' though.
Wonder what's up?
I'll have to listen to Sam tomorrow then, too.