Maron V Seder TBD

The world needs more Seder.

On Sunday morning Republican Senator Chuck Hegel of Nebraska was on NBC’s Meet the Press. After talking mostly about the situation in Iraq, guest host David Gregory asked Hegel if there was growing momentum to impeach President Bush. “Well, you can’t just arbitrarily impeach a president. There has to be a grounds for impeachment. There have to be articles of impeachment drawn up based on did the president obstruct or lie or violate something in the Constitution? It’s clear,” Hegel replied. Gregory asked Hegel if he would oppose impeachment, and he answered, “Well, certainly, I don’t see anything today. I’ve just said that I think the president believes in what he’s doing. I think he believes that, that this is the right course of action. I happen to disagree with him.” Chuck Hegel Posted on July 8th, 2007

What do you want for nothin ?

A rubber Biscuit ? ;-)

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

.. no two ways about it.

I suppose Fernando's already showed this one off?

Camera On Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During Landing
May 26, 2008 A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25.

The image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter marks the first time ever one spacecraft has photographed another one in the act of landing on Mars.

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bluerootsradio Thanks Fernando for piquing my interest in this project. The things we take for granted, sheesh!

Hope you all had a good holiday. All my best from the Mid-Atlantic region.

you going to do call ins during the last show?

i'd like to chat with you a bit.

...

I came here from there. Thinking about downloading the screen saver... http://fawkes3.lpl.arizona.edu/screen.php

I know that song..what is that?

Hope ya all had a great holiday weekend.
Busy, busy, busy.

Maggiesboy. ;-)

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

Very slick. They update the pictures every day. Now I find my self not wanting to touch the mouse or keyboard cuz I'm afraid I'll miss something new. They also had a weather widget for mac that connects to here !

It hasn't started yet. Can't wait to see that data.

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bluerootsradio

welcome back!

we saved you a seat on the patio!

beautiful view of the garden there.

Was thinking about you Sandy. Just about to send out a "are you okay?" email

parking meter.

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bluerootsradio (The rest of these folks think we're fucking crazy, 'cept for pbtrue1 cuz she knows the truth about everyone. ;-)

The view is beautiful.

How is things with everyone???

I wonder if it is that thingy that I tried to sign up with Sam but couldn't, twitter, right...seems like every new thread there is a surge....good to see you all:

* Alice
* rdplum
* Sunshine Jim
* zeek
* flutecake

* Crank Bait
* maggiesboy
* trish79
* Fernando
* cent
* dada

* toniD
* Nobody
* chemoelectric
* MMRules
* keiran
* smcgee43

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Damn, the song title escapes me...

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I'm puking watching the manipulation. It makes me so angry.

Link if that doesn't work

?

They used to play it Dr. Demento...

nando....i am using sea monkey right now

the link worked thanks...eewwwwww

I gotta get up early, day after a holiday and all that....

Steve knows.....

Thanks to everyone who tuned in this weekend. Hopefully next show I'll have an extra special Guest hint, hint, nudge, nudge.

Good night
and Good Bloggin'.
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http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/new

It looks like we do our own updating, I don't mind, I can code, but for some, that might be a chore!

How'r your kitties? Have spent Thurs til today alone with the ones who live here...We are a lot alike..playing..eating..sleeping..now I know what I would do if I lived in ANARCHY! :)

steve is not looking forward to monday and tuesday all at the same time...he hurt his back(don't ask how) and I fell flat on mine so we are a couple of old farts right now..

Submitted by maggiesboy on Mon, 05/26/2008 - 10:24pm.
...They also had a weather widget for mac that connects to here ! It hasn't started yet. Can't wait to see that data.
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I'm gonna wait until somebody gives me the All Clear that Al Roker isn't there.

David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.

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May 23, 2008 4:44 AM
The Power of Shareholder Democracy

A big theme in my upcoming book, The Uprising (due out this coming Tuesday), is our culture's inability to see anything other than elections - and specifically federal elections - as a major instrument of social change or democracy. This myopic view expresses itself in all different ways - the media coverage of presidential campaigns, the blogosphere's narrow focus on Democratic Party prospects in election cycles, to name just two. But as I write in my newspaper column this week, there are many other arenas of democratic expression - some far more important for social change than any election.

In the next week,there is a huge example of what I'm talking about: ExxonMobil's annual shareholder meeting. In reporting my book, I sneaked into this meeting last year with a group of shareholder activists who are using shareholder democracy as a means of pressuring and jaw-boning the largest and most powerful energy company on the planet. Their efforts, and the efforts of other shareholder activists pressuring other companies, could be as important - and maybe more important - than any given congressional or presidential election.

Like last year, shareholder activists are promoting shareholder resolutions to force management to invest more of the company's record-breaking profits into alternative and renewable energy. When you understand that Friends of the Earth estimates that ExxonMobil's operations and products are responsible for 5 percent of all human-generated carbon emissions since the late 1800s, you understand that if these activists even minimally change ExxonMobil, they will make a planet-wide impact.

Shareholder activism is a very intricate and esoteric corner of the populist uprising I describe in my book. This column summarizes how it works and why it is so important. But make no mistake about it - shareholder activism is but one example of powerful direct action that we tend to forget about in our obsession with elections, campaign gossip, and glam politics. As a progressive movement, we forget these instruments of influence at our peril. The more we ignore these tools, the more power we allow to lay idle - and the less effective our movement will be.

http://action.credomobile.com/sirota/2008/05/the_power_of_shareholder_de...

Why you picking on me?

They are little shits..... still kinda feral. If I could figure out how
to post a photo of them - - I would. They are beautiful. A lot of
work they are. More than the previous litters. Thank god Scruffy
(momma) is spayed. Finally. Now I just have to get Mystery Kitty.
Things good with you & yours - I hope.

or I'm going nuts. CNN AC360 has a suicide story from Iraq and the government's attempts to both aggrivate and hide the event.

When did CNN wake up and say the drama is already out there?

touchpad too sensitive

Is it called Rubber Biscquit?
*******
I can't remember right now..
I'm still waiting for my brain to start working today..

Sorry,Kind of Migrainey today..

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

may be a critical mass issue if it isn't a fluke...

Thought I'd leave you with this.

25 ways to help a fellow human being today.

1. Smile and be friendly. Sometimes a simple little thing like this can put a smile and warm feeling in someone else’s heart, and make their day a little better. They might then do the same for others.

2. Call a charity to volunteer. You don’t have to go to a soup kitchen today. Just look up the number, make the call, and make an appointment to volunteer sometime in the next month. It can be whatever charity you like. Volunteering is one of the most amazing things you can do.

3. Donate something you don’t use. Or a whole box of somethings. Drop them off at a charity — others can put your clutter to good use.

4. Make a donation. There are lots of ways to donate to charities online, or in your local community. Instead of buying yourself a new gadget or outfit, spend that money in a more positive way.

5. Redirect gifts. Instead of having people give you birthday or Christmas gifts, ask them to donate gifts or money to a certain charity.

6. Stop to help. The next time you see someone pulled over with a flat tire, or somehow in need of help, stop and ask how you can help. Sometimes all they need is a push, or the use of your cell phone.

7. Teach. Take the time to teach someone a skill you know. This could be teaching your grandma to use email, teaching your child to ride a bike, teaching your co-worker a valuable computer skill, teaching your spouse how to clean the darn toilet. OK, that last one doesn’t count.

8. Comfort someone in grief. Often a hug, a helpful hand, a kind word, a listening ear, will go a long way when someone has lost a loved one or suffered some similar loss or tragedy.

9. Help them take action. If someone in grief seems to be lost and doesn’t know what to do, help them do something. It could be making funeral arrangements, it could be making a doctor’s appointment, it could be making phone calls. Don’t do it all yourself — let them take action too, because it helps in the healing process.

10. Buy food for a homeless person. Cash is often a bad idea if it’s going to be used for drugs, but buying a sandwich and chips or something like that is a good gesture. Be respectful and friendly.

11. Lend your ear. Often someone who is sad, depressed, angry, or frustrated just needs someone who will listen. Venting and talking through an issue is a huge help.

12. Help someone on the edge. If someone is suicidal, urge them to get help. If they don’t, call a suicide hotline or doctor yourself to get advice.

13. Help someone get active. A person in your life who wants to get healthy might need a helping hand — offer to go walking or running together, to join a gym together. Once they get started, it can have profound effects.

14. Do a chore. Something small or big, like cleaning up or washing a car or doing the dishes or cutting a lawn.

15. Give a massage. Only when appropriate of course. But a massage can go a long way to making someone feel better.

16. Send a nice email. Just a quick note telling someone how much you appreciate
them, or how proud you are of them, or just saying thank you for something they did.

17. Show appreciation, publicly. Praising someone on a blog, in front of coworkers, in front of family, or in some other public way, is a great way to make them feel better about themselves.

18. Donate food. Clean out your cupboard of canned goods, or buy a couple bags of groceries, and donate them to a homeless shelter.

19. Just be there. When someone you know is in need, sometimes it’s just good to be there. Sit with them. Talk. Help out if you can.

20. Be patient. Sometimes people can have difficulty understanding things, or learning to do something right. Learn to be patient with them.

21. Tutor a child. This might be difficult to do today, but often parents can’t afford to hire a tutor for their child in need of help. Call a school and volunteer your tutoring services.

22. Create a care package. Soup, reading material, tea, chocolate … anything you think the person might need or enjoy. Good for someone who is sick or otherwise in need of a pick-me-up.

23. Lend your voice. Often the powerless, the homeless, the neglected in our world need someone to speak up for them. You don’t have to take on that cause by yourself, but join others in signing a petition, speaking up a a council meeting, writing letters, and otherwise making a need heard.

24. Offer to babysit. Sometimes parents need a break. If a friend or other loved one in your life doesn’t get that chance very often, call them and offer to babysit sometime. Set up an appointment. It can make a big difference.

25. Love. Simply finding ways to express your love to others, whether it be your partner, child, other family member, friend, co-worker, or a complete stranger … just express your love. A hug, a kind word, spending time, showing little kindnesses, being friendly … it all matters more than you know.

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- William Shakespeare

Should have done it this way in the first place.

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

I have mine with salty ham a kitty would love. Funny that 'chipping' is what I call it when I slice country and Smithfield ham thinly for biscuits.

It was done by the Blues Bros but this was the original (I think).

Good grief! Sebelius vetoed the abortion bill because it would have allowed the womyn's husband, mother, sister, brother, in-laws, drunks off the street (ok, I'm kidding about the last one) to sue the doctor to stop the abortion - over the objections of the womyn wanting the abortion. I think Gov. Sebelius deserves a "Thank you." Phill Kline is .... a man who wants to control womyn. He has wanted control over these womyn's abortion records at Planned Parenthood for years .... he finallly got them. He still has some of them ....illegally .... and he won't return them. Now, Gov. Sebelius' Priest gets in the act .... writes in the Topeka Capital-Journal about the Communion (splg?) business vs abortion. Isn't that stepping over the line? Again? How come Novak doesn't write about Sam Brownback and his "Family" religion stuff going on in D.C. I've about had it with this "religious stuff." A couple wrote in the Topeka C-J in support of Gov. Sebelius and tried to say, not all Kansans are .... Catholics and the Governor has to think about all of us, who just might not agree with the Catholics. Geezzzz .... Novak makes no mention about Gov. Sebelius' support of clean energy and how she battled against the coal companies and won .... quite a feat here in KS. How she fought against the forces for Jim Crow laws and won, so we won't be like Indiana. Our Catholic nuns will be able to vote without needing a photo id.!!!

I wonder how much "studying" Novak did about the KS situation? He made it seem as if KS is some liberal bastion of abortionland, with money being profiteer by Planned Parenthood throu our Governor and Tiller. Oh, brother .... Does anyone else live here besides Toni (right?) and me? Remember .... not only do we have Phill Kline, we have Brownback (the Family) and "I don't believe in evolution," Sen. Pat "I believe in illegal wars" Roberts, and the Rev. "I hate gays" Phelps.

Takecare, :) :) :) :)

Peace

Deborah from Kansas

all..plus with the rain the wires get worse and the connection is even slower...

We had a man call the rescue group who had kittens that would nurse from a bottle, (thier mom ditched em)...My group told the man what to do and then good luck happen and there was a nursing mother nexgt door to him to adopted the kittens..got to love the happy ending...

Memorial Day is NOT about patriotism or glorifying war.

The following is from the 1948 address General Omar Bradley made to a Memorial Day gathering in Longmeadow, Massachusetts:

"It is easy for us who are living to honor the sacrifices of those who are dead...Wars can be prevented just as surely as they are provoked and, therefore, we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead. We have come to ask why it is that our young men must spend their bodies against the Siegfried Line -- why is it men cannot live as bravely as they die?"

The newspaper editorial that quoted General Bradley commented: "He [Gen. Bradley] had been as close as it gets to the meaning of our national holiday honoring the men and women in the military who have lost their lives serving our country... He spoke of how...[Memorial Day] should not be a celebration of war, but a day that raises the question of why we have failed, time and again, to avoid war and the tragedies it generates...."

rightwingers get to use it with impunity while liberals and the rest of us observe the taboo --

If Hillary pays no price for using the a-word, and neither does Trotta, I'd say that could confirm that Hillary is a not a liberal.

KPFK?

A poor education benefits no one, except Capitalists that want cheap labor.

Call me crazy. Seder is a steal for the left. What all would KPFK have to do to lure him? What can we do to help them get him? KPFK rocks.

i am now, thanks for the link!

2 find this kind of treasure and bring it for your consideration. It's a win, win, win.

Fret not thyself because of evildoers...for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
---Psalms 37:1-2

Psalms is going to turn "W" into cured pot?

The measure of a democracy is the measure of the freedom of its humblest citizens. ----John Galsworthy

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
---Mahatma Gandhi

To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.
----Confucius

Your Open Mic Rocks!

happy blogging!

KPFK.

Check out their Archives.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other.
---Napoleon Bonaparte

Good way to end the evening. Thanks for the link!

Email me a photo if you can, smcgee43...not too big..dial up and
new
Submitted by Alice on Mon, 05/26/2008 - 11:22pm.

Great about the momma cat adopting those abandoned kitties. :)

Mercury is in RETROGRADE!

They should publish that shit.

Thanks smcgee43.

what does that mean?

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
-Thomas Jefferson

This should scare you.

The planet apears to slow and reverse as it circles the Sun creating a visual effect we call retrograde.

"A planet is described as retrograde when it appears to be moving backwards through the zodiac.

According to modern science, this traditional concept arises in the illusory planetary motion created by the orbital rotation of the earth with relation to other planets in our solar system.

Planets are never actually retrograde or stationary, they just seem that way due to this cosmic shadow-play."

what's up ?

Just getting caught up.. :)

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

Growing up in LA I use to listening to it alot..

They use to pay tons of Albums/Music..Like what old FM radio was like..

But,that was years ago..

It looks like it's a bastion of left talk radio now..
Cool !

Thanks Fernando. :)

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

?

maybe confucious

?

Hermes is cool.

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
-Thomas Jefferson

Maybe this is why I've been having weird dreams.

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
-Thomas Jefferson

I'm listening to Cosmic Barrio from KPFK. It's like from the far east, India, or there abouts. I will dream of blue elephants with eight legs and a insence.

I guess she contributes to KPFK..Haven't gotten that far yet..

But,this is going straight to my Howard Hunt/JFK open mic..

http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

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

I just posted for the first time and think I screwed up royally. If so, sorry. I'm new to this.

I had to look up Luddite..

The blog's still
working, so you did fine.. :)

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

Doing good I hope..

I'm just holding down the night shift. ;)

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

interesting..
Never heard of her before..

Plus,she's a babe.. ;)

http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/

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

Just got home from work. Whad'i miss? About to check on Phoenix's status...

Rubber biscuit..

Zeek's right..It's from The Blue's Bros..

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

;)

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

I think that was on "Briefcase Full Of Blues". If there was only a photobucket for MP3's i'd post it.

Me thinks it's Larry Carlton..

Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive

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

welcome to the bloggie!

Blog rules:

A- There are no rules.

B- Don't feed CrankBait straight lines.

C- All posts welcome! (mostly)

listenin to KPFK

a program by the name of "folk scene"

http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/pls.php?mp3fil=13029

The Replacements - Bastards of Young

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

What do you think of this Martin ?
I can't afford it yet..But,I need an good acoustic..
Thanks. :)

Martin-D15-Custom-Spruce-and-Rosewood-Acoustic-Guitar

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

Just in time to hear someone say g'night. Did i miss the show?

05 - Rubber Biscuit.mp3

(hope this link works, first trial... trying FileDen

Googled this from HANFORD WATCH:

A toxic time bomb in the Northwest
Chris Gregoire and Maria Cantwell
Washington Post, March 3, 2008

Buried in President Bush's proposed budget for next year is a story of broken promises. It's a story that puts our nation's honor -- and our environment, economy and families -- on the line.

The president wants to increase spending on every major category of our government's nuclear program except one: cleaning up the toxic legacy that lurks at nuclear reservations and facilities around the nation...

Just below ground at the Hanford site are 177 enormous steel tanks. They contain 53 million gallons of heavy metals, acids, solvents and highly radioactive elements, including plutonium, cesium, strontium and uranium. Sixty-seven tanks are confirmed leakers, and nearly all are well beyond their design lifespan.

According to the Government Accountability Office, the federal government and its contractors also buried thousands of tons of radioactive and hazardous waste in unlined landfills and injected 450 billion gallons of liquid waste into ponds, ditches and drainfields at the site. That is about the amount of water that flows through the Potomac River in a month.

As you read this, a huge plume of groundwater contaminated with radiation and heavy metals is moving from Hanford toward the Columbia River...

Each passing day increases the risk of leakage and catastrophic tank failure at Hanford. Each delay increases the risk to workers, the environment and more than a million people who live and work near the Columbia River downstream from Hanford.

In the Oregon counties along the river below Hanford, 32,000 companies depend on clean, safe water to provide 500,000 jobs with a payroll of $18 billion -- 30 percent of the state's economic activity.

In the Washington counties below Hanford, 25,000 companies rely on water to provide 280,000 jobs and a payroll of $9.5 billion -- 10 percent of the state's economic activity.

Bush's proposed budget falls $600 million short of what the Energy Department says it needs for cleanup in 2009. The department is grossly out of compliance with major portions of the cleanup order signed 19 years ago on behalf of President George H.W. Bush that includes Washington state, the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.

If this budget stands, only one tank at Hanford will be emptied in 2009. At that rate, it will take 140 years to empty the remaining 142 single-shell tanks and process the waste.

We don't have 140 years. The river doesn't have 140 years.

A dedicated pool of skilled individuals is ready to work, day in and day out, to clean up Hanford. They need our support to get the job done.

A nation that cracked the code to the nuclear era can clean up that effort's toxic legacy. What's more, we are obligated to. Just as we must support the men and women in uniform who defend our freedom, we must also protect those communities that answered the call to duty.

We are counting on the Bush administration and Congress to honor their commitments to the communities that helped win the Cold War. That is the America we can all be proud of.

Chris Gregoire, a Democrat, is governor of Washington. Maria Cantwell, also a Democrat, represents the state in the Senate, where she serves on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

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This is what the situation is NOW. THIS moment.

We don't need any NEW 21st century mistakes by Nuke Industrialists when they refuse to clean up the 20th century messes they've already left us.

rosewood has a beautiful tone and Martin has fantastic closegrain vertical grain tops.

these are THE bluegrass guitars.

if you buy a new one, play several ti you find one that really rings.

they all sound good but there are slight differences that make finding a good one worth it.

lemme see what i can find for you.

back in a few.

I wish i learned to play whenever I listen to bluegrass. I don't know one guitar from the next MM, but that one is a gorgeous. I hope you post some playing sometime...

http://elderly.com/new_instruments/items/D15M.htm

same price with a good hardshell case

MARTIN D-15 GUITAR & HSC

Dreadnought, solid mahogany or sapele back sides & top, low profile neck shape, rosewood fretboard (1-11/16" nut width, standard 25.4" scale), satin finish. Wooden case included.

MORGAN MONROE M-50-V (2006)
http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/20U-11707.htm

EC+, D-size, solid sitka spruce top with aging toner in natural finish, forward shifted X-brace, scalloped braces, solid Indian rosewood back and sides, 15-3/4" lower bout, 4-3/4" body depth, white celluloid binding with abalone-b-w-b top purfling, zipper pattern back-stripe, modern V-shaped mahogany neck with bound ebony fretboard, 20 frets, intricate vine and leaf abalone inlay, herrigbone rosette, tortoise plastic pickguard, bone nut and saddle, ebony bridge, 1-11/16" nut width, 25.4" scale length, enclosed tuners with chrome butterbean buttons, made in China, with black HSC (black lining) (SN:06050035)
20U-11707 .. $535.00

Me too.. :)

I don't have the equipment to do that yet..

I'll have to ask SJ and Maggiesboy about that..

But,I'm on Chronic disability so I can't afford too much..

I've just about gone broke getting my 2 Gibson Les Paul's..
And,my Marshall amp..The stuff's not cheap,that's for sure..

I have a old 1969 Yamaha FG-180 Acoustic that's sitting at my sister in laws in PHX..But,that's not a everyday playing guitar,now..It works..But,I'm saving it for posterity for some reason..Cause it's old and it's My first real guitar..

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

heres a good chinese D 15 copy
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 2:58am.

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

needs minor tinkering to set up:

http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/20U-11700.htm

GOYA T-16 (1960's)
EC-, except needs a lot of work (glue cracked bridge, new bridge plate, glue top crack near fretboard, reset neck, setup, etc. - sold AS-IS), lots of finish checking, natural finish solid spruce top, X-braced, mahogany back and sides, 15" lower bout, double white bound with 3-ply top purfling, bound mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard, off-set pearl dot inlays, rosewood bridge with individual saddles, rosewood headstock overlay with Goya logo, individual nickel-plated tuners with metal buttons, tortoise plastic pickguard, made in Sweden
20U-11700 .. $185.00

She's writing about Bush and the Bush Family history--

[excerpt]

Your very own concentration camps

You ordered the creation of secret camps all over the world and on US territory where you also authorized the torture of countless men, women and children is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, international law, and domestic law. In other words, you authorized war crimes.

We don't know the number of people you have had disappeared, tortured, and possibly murdered. Although we have some idea of what these numbers may be, I doubt the full truth of it all will ever be known.

In 2005, I had a CENTCOM document leaked to me illustrating that since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, more than 70,000 men, women, and children have been detained at one of your various camps Mr. Bush. We don't know what happened to them, if they were tortured, raped, or murdered. What we do know is that less than 2% of those 70,000 had any sort of charge brought against them in a court of law. None of those alleged crimes, by the way, were acts of terrorism. We don't know if that 70,000 figure was the actual and full count of detainees in US custody around the world in 2005. But it is safe to say that in the last 3 years since this document was published, the number of detainees has likely grown.

What we also now know, in great horror, is that at least one of your camps had a crematorium in it, which some of the US soldiers stationed there suspected was used for burning bodies:

"We had some kind of incinerator at the end of our building," Specialist Megan Ambuhl said. "It was this huge circular thing. We just didn't know what was incinerated in there. It could have been people, for all we knew -- bodies." Sergeant Davis was not in doubt. "It had bones in it," he said, and he called it the crematorium. "But hey, you're at war," he said. "Suck it up or drive on."

What we also now know is that Dick Cheney and senior members of your administration carried out a plan of torture and abuse that violated international and domestic law with regard to human rights, down to the type of torture tactics that would be used against prisoners in our custody. This plan, we now know, was approved by you.

[end excerpt]

(From The Falcon & The Snowman fame)Mary Ann, had one of those
Mahogany Martin's..I played it a couple of times,too..
Their father was a Doctor & their mother worked with my Dad in real estate..They had boco (sp?)bucks..Hence the Martin back then..

http://elderly.com/new_instruments/items/D15M.htm

I would like a solid sitka spruce top,though..And,Martin's project sound so well..

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

Larisa Alexandrovna piece at Huffington Post...

bush has that old nazi smell to him.

whole famdamily is rotten to the core.

but do you have any links ?

Thanks. :)

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

sitka spruce!

i know a valley that has at least 50 old growth sitka spruces laying buried in it.

cut into a few of them when i was cedar ratting.

perfect sweet smelling wood. no rot at all, chips were still oily.

48 inches average trunk size. dropped in the 30's when it was'nt worth hauling out with the horse teams.

dam few knots in those butt cuts, maybe 40 footers, that was an average buck size back then.

Yeah,,That's why I have been looking at that Martin for quite awhile..

It's solid Rosewood & Sitka spruce top..

It's the best(cheapest) price I've seen..

I'd love a Gibson acoustic (like Maggieboys)or a more expensive Martin..
But,just can't afford it..

Oh woo is me.. ;)

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

love my old gibson AO mandolin.

been a freind of mine since i got spanked for taking it out of the case when i was three.

was so persistent Dad finally taught me how to hold it and put it away.

dad made her sing like an angel.

mmmmm!
new
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 3:23am.
*******
Who owns the land ?

I wish I had learned how to build guitars !

I bet some Guitar builder or Carpenter would pay
a pretty price for that Old Sitka spruce !

Or,maybe you could get a finders fee from Martin or Gibson ?
Or,some other Guitar builder or carpenter..

They should be made into Guitars though,IMHO..

Do you build guitars,SJ ?
I know you work on them..
Maybe sneak one of those trunks out of there during the night ? :)

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I want one too..
But,only have so much dough.. :(

How old is your Dad's ?
I bet your Dad was good !

Mandolins have such a beautiful sound.. :)

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Is it Ozstralian?

who owns the land where the Old Sitka spruce is ?

Maybe you could work out something with them and you could

both get a finders fee..

You just know some Guitar maker or a Big Guitar
maker would love to get there hands on that wood !

If it's assessable and not too hard to get at..

Sorry but,you telling me about that.. I'm all stoked about
getting that wood into a Guitar makers shop !

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had the story typed out and lost it on the post.

remind me to tell you about the wood and dad sometime.

have some banjo's if you know anybody that likes vega's.

got to crash though, my eyes are crossing.

love y'all!

is coming up on Travis Smiley's show soon..PBS.

At least that's what I thought he said..

KT Tunstall is on now..

Where did you get the name for your record ?

"Plastic Fantastic"..

Try Be Bop Deluxe,dearie !

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oddstralian.

(heh, eya zeek u ol snort!)

crash time for snorky boy i'm afraid.

we'll get together for some tunes before this is all over.

I'l be awaiting on your story.. :)

Get that wood,man ! :)

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but only if it's for a lefty. My fingers don't coordinate well enough to play righty. I tried that a while back and failed miserably.

time to accept that I have to get up tomorrow. ;-)

Cool.. :)

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The Smithereens-A Girl Like You

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Just when you have lost faith in human kindness.
Someone who teaches at a middle school in Safety Harbor, Florida forwarded the following letter.
The letter was sent to the principal's office after the school had sponsored a luncheon for the elderly.
An old lady received a new radio at the lunch as a door prize and was writing to say thank you.
This story is a credit to all humankind. Forward to anyone you know who might need a lift today.

Dear Safety Harbor Middle School :
Thank you for the beautiful radio I won at your recent senior citizens luncheon. I am 84 years old and live at the Safety Harbor Assisted Home for the Aged. All of my family has passed away. I am all alone now and it's nice to know that someone is thinking of me. God bless you for your kindness to an old forgotten lady. My roommate is 95 and has always had her own radio, but before I
received one, she would never let me listen to hers, even when she was napping.
The other day her radio fell off the nightstand and broke into a lot of pieces. It was awful and she was in tears. She asked if she could listen to mine, and I told her to kiss my ass.
Thank you for that opportunity.
Sincerely,
Edna

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I was walking past the mental hospital the other day, and
all the patients were shouting,'14....14....14'.

The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a little gap
in the planks and looked through to see what was going on.
Some bastard poked me in the eye with a stick.

Then they all started shouting '15....15....15'...

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just not me

its raining crazy out here

now to get ready for work to use the faster computer, the rain slows this one up

blame it on the rain, youtubes whatever..just give me a horse and a cart while you at it

good morning yourll

Sorry but,Nobody else Youtube spams like you..

Good morning..

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by digby

In his inimitable unpredictable, mavericky style, Senator John McCain used the occasion of Memorial Day to defend his unwillingness to support the troops:

Con't

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In Memoriam: U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq & Afghanistan as of May 22, 2008.

www.bradblog.com

So very sad....

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain

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Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico - Stephen Lendman

...
Plan Mexico - Exploitation Writ Large

The plan was first announced in October 2007 as a "regional security cooperation initiative." It's to provide $1.4 billion in aid (over three years) for Mexico and Central America on the pretext of fighting drugs trafficking and organized crime linked to it. FY 2008 calls for $550 million for starters with about 10% of it for Central America.

In fact, Plan Mexico is part of SPP's grand scheme to militarize the continent, let corporate predators exploit it, and keep people from three countries none the wiser. Most aid will go to Mexico's military and police forces with its major portion earmarked back to US defense contractors for equipment, training and maintenance. It's how these schemes always work.

This one includes a menu of security allocations, administrative functions, and special needs like software, forensics equipment, database compilations, plus plenty more for friendly pockets to keep our Mexican cohorts on board.

After failing on May 15, House passage will likely follow the Senate's approval on May 22 - below the radar. It's one of many appropriations tucked into the latest Iraq/Afghanistan supplemental funding request, and its purpose is just as outlandish. It will militarize Mexico without deploying US troops. It will also open the country for plunder, privatize everything including state-owned oil company PEMEX, give Washington a greater foothold there, and get around the touchy military issue by allowing in Blackwater paramilitaries instead to work with Mexican security forces.
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and you are who by the way? NOBODY!

this is Sam's blog, if he finds that i am so spamming HE will let me know, not fucking you....

if it were not my you tubes you would have found something else wrong with me thats you and your miserable life

and you think your mp-3's are cute? spunk monkey put up what you can do if you dont want to be bothered by my youtubes...but! no! you want to be bothered by them...now stay bothered coz the more you open your fucking mouth the more defiant i get

you scared of difference

now NEXT>>>

Didn't know if you saw this great profile of Sam at Ghost of Wellstone.
http://tinyurl.com/4nrhls

Spectral 26 (11-5.7.7.7)
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blue galactic storm ~ kin 99

HARMONIZE in order to CATALYZE,
MODELING ENERGY
seal the MATRIX of SELF-GENERATION
with the GALACTIC tone of INTEGRITY.
guided by the power of ABUNDANCE.

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◄ 12.19.15.6.11 ≈ lahca chuen ►

Historic Mass Arrest of Soldiers

In an unprecedented decision, Chilean Judge Víctor Montiglio ordered the arrest of 98 former members of the security forces in connection with the abduction and killing of 42 leftists in 1974.

Never before have so many people been arrested in connection with human rights abuses committed by the 1973-1990 dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

The retired military personnel -- who make up a majority of those to be arrested -- will be held in preventive detention in military compounds, while the few civilians in the group will be taken to the Santiago 1 high security prison in the capital.

They face "aggravated kidnapping" charges in the cases involving 42 of the victims of "Operation Colombo", carried out in 1974.

"Operation Colombo" was a disinformation ploy mounted by the regime’s secret police, DINA, to cover up the forced disappearance and murder of 119 leftists, most of whom belonged to the insurgent Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), who were referred to as "Miristas".
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i go

Sam's not going to waste his time telling you to chill out..

You would think that the number of peeps already who have
asked you kindly to cool it..It would have gotten thru to you..But,nooooo !

You need a personal edict from Sam !

I wouldn't waste my time waiting for that to happen..Get a clue !
Jeebus !

And,why the F*ck do we have to add a computer program just to BlOCK your
Obsessive YouTubes ? !

There's Thousands of Music/YouTube blogs out there..
They would just love all your Many,Many YouTubes !

Incase you haven't noticed,this ain't one of them !

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using Buddhist practice in therapy:

This exercise in focused awareness and mental catch-and-release of emotions has become perhaps the most popular new psychotherapy technique of the past decade. Mindfulness meditation, as it is called, is rooted in the teachings of a fifth-century B.C. Indian prince, Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha. It is catching the attention of talk therapists of all stripes, including academic researchers, Freudian analysts in private practice and skeptics who see all the hallmarks of another fad.

For years, psychotherapists have worked to relieve suffering by reframing the content of patients’ thoughts, directly altering behavior or helping people gain insight into the subconscious sources of their despair and anxiety. The promise of mindfulness meditation is that it can help patients endure flash floods of emotion during the therapeutic process — and ultimately alter reactions to daily experience at a level that words cannot reach. “The interest in this has just taken off,” said Zindel Segal, a psychologist at the Center of Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, where the above group therapy session was taped. “And I think a big part of it is that more and more therapists are practicing some form of contemplation themselves and want to bring that into therapy.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/health/research/27budd.html?_r=1&sq=lo...

Good for them!

Oaxaca in Revolt Again

The teachers' strike has various demands, although it's mostly calling for the freedom for all political prisoners, an end to the arrest orders and ongoing intimidation by the judicial authorities against the movement, new elections within the SNTE, and the handing over of all Oaxacan schools controlled by the pro-government Sección 59.
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I got to see and work with him three years ago in Reno, at Hawkins amphitheater. Unbelievable guitar. Last year another really good band, Madeskie, Martin and Woods, played here w/ John Schofield.
Outstanding...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuCXJlfeq7I

:/

It had to be said ! Sorry..

Get ready for a sh*t load of YouTubes..

That's usually what happens next..

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You worked with Larry Carlton ?
That's really cool !

What did you do ?
Details ! :)

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In the last year, Barack Obama has learned a thing or two about running for president, and Reggie Love has learned a thing or two about Barack Obama.

Mr. Love, who played football and basketball for Duke, stole a pass as the candidate, right, looked on. More Photos »

Mr. Love now knows that when it comes to food, Senator Obama “eats pretty much anything, from chicken wings and barbecue and ribs to grilled fish and steamed broccoli.” But when he is campaigning in a small town with limited options, a cheeseburger is always a good bet. (“Cheddar is the cheese of choice,” Mr. Love added.)

He knows that “the boss,” as he calls Mr. Obama, likes MET-Rx chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of a hard-to-find organic brew — Black Forest Berry Honest Tea. He keeps a supply of both on hand.

And he has learned that all campaigns have their superstitions — Senator John McCain has a penchant for heads-up coins — and that Mr. Obama is no exception. That means that Mr. Love and Mr. Obama, for luck, play basketball every primary day.

Mr. Love, 26, is Mr. Obama’s body man, the personal aide who shadows the senator and anticipates everything he needs — and everything he does not need. He is not a bodyguard (security is provided by the Secret Service), but rather the ultimate assistant, rarely more than a body length away from the candidate.

Young, eager campaign aides are stock characters in movies and on television, but few have quite the élan of Mr. Love, who, at 6-foot-5, is about three inches taller than the tall candidate, fitter than the fit candidate (he can bench press more than 350 pounds) and cooler than the cool candidate.

“There’s no doubt that Reggie is cooler than I am,” Mr. Obama said, laughing, in a phone interview. “I am living vicariously through Reggie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/us/politics/27reggie.html?pagewanted=1...

do you wanna fuck? or can you?

Mr. Rules has alerted us as usual, thank god for him ofcourse who else would give you the rules and heads up around here..Not Sam, NO..he rules, or rather thinks so...

still wanna fuck?

by whom?

who the fuck iz you?

not Sam i see

Re: Larry Carlton...Steve is showering...we cater for all these bands during the summer...just found out that I will be steaming all of Malissa Manchester's wardrobe...

btw:..will you plese let it go about Lucille...this is tiring...read the article about buddhism and therapy..it may help...acceptance is the key...

I grew up in LA too...my mom listened to KPFK when I was just a little girl....it formed my current politic...

they are so fast, unlike my slow piece of shit that i never blame anyone for at home
oh my bad its the rain and the YOUTUBES

lets go>>>>

its usually what happens next

oh and sh*t is spelled SHIT

i just woke up i am fresh, maybe the rules has to go get rest..i did not bring it on remember?

he does not RULE period!!!!

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i will rather listen to music right about now

i cant stop and wont, i refuse to

yah and whenever....

my father is 6 ft under at veskopies grave yard....

continue

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here is our lineup for the summer http://1moe.com/

I am looking forward to Phoebe Snow myself...it is a free concert and we get paid and get all kinds of food to take home...quite a deal...thank buddha my husband owned a really good vegetarian restaurant for 20 years...he has all kinds of connections...

Sorry,I shouldn't have said that..
What do I know..

But,all your doing Lucille is driving peeps away..

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oh but check this out now...his is an analyst too now

stick your love up your arse...i got all the professional help one could ever want

what medication again did you say you were on?

thats exactly what you need to do..try playing with your self sometimes it relieves a lot

You guys do the cattering..

I bet you guys meet all kinds of cool folks..

That's very cool..Must be very fun too..
Good for you guys ! :)

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***UPDATE*** AP reports that when Sydney Pollack died he was surrounded by family.

The New York Times reports that Sydney Pollack has died of cancer at the age of 73:

Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies like "The Way We Were," "Tootsie" and "Out of Africa" were among the most successful of the 1970s and '80s, died on Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 73.

The cause was cancer, said a representative of the family.

The LA Times has a wonderful Sydney Pollack obituary:

After launching his show-business career as an actor and acting teacher in New York City in the 1950s, Pollack moved west in the early '60s and began directing episodic television before turning to films.

Beginning with "The Slender Thread," a 1965 drama starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft, Pollack was credited with directing 20 films, including "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?," a 1969 drama about Depression-era marathon dancers starring Jane Fonda that earned Pollack an Oscar nomination for best director.

Known for what New York Times film critic Janet Maslin once described as "his broadly commercial instincts and penchant for all-star casts," Pollack directed seven movies with Robert Redford, beginning with "This Property Is Condemned" (with Natalie Wood) in 1966.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/26/sydney-pollack-dies-of-ca_n_103...

No Clear Map For Clinton's Political Future

In August 1980, with no hope left of winning the nomination, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy conceded defeat to incumbent Jimmy Carter in the Democratic presidential race.

"For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end," Kennedy said at the Democratic National Convention in New York. "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

And with that, at age 48, Kennedy returned to the Senate, where he committed himself to a career as a legislator, crafting landmark bills on health care, education and immigration. Many Democrats are now pointing to the Kennedy model as a path for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to reshape her own political career, assuming she is unable to wrest the nomination from Sen. Barack Obama.

"I loved the Senate before I ran for the president," Kennedy explained in an interview before his recent cancer diagnosis. Losing to Carter, he said, made him appreciate the opportunities in Congress all the more. "I think I became a better senator, with greater focus and attention," Kennedy said. But he added: "It all depends on the attitude, what's in the mind of the person."

Clinton, Kennedy continued, must decide where her heart lies. "She's got great capacity -- she was a good senator before, and she can be a great senator in the future," he said. The question, he said, is "what she does with this experience."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR200805...

That's a bummer..

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i live amoungst the rats here in newyork city, and they get stomped each time they try

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together.

"Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost," the GOP presidential nominee-in-waiting told The Associated Press in an interview, noting that the Illinois senator's last trip to Iraq came before the military buildup that is credited with curbing violence.

"He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time," the Arizona senator added. "If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn't had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly."

McCain, a Navy veteran and Vietnam prisoner of war, frequently argues that he's the most qualified candidate to be a wartime commander in chief. In recent weeks, he has sought portray Obama, a first-term senator, as naive on foreign policy and not experienced enough to lead the military.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/26/mccains-ap-interview-crit_n_103...

REALLY?

Just another manic Monday.

African Al Qaida Cell A Growing Threat To US

The new faces of terror are militants inside an emerging al Qaeda cell, which U.S. officials warn presents a clear and growing threat to America.

Based in North Africa, the group calling itself "Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb" specializes in kidnappings and suicide attacks, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.

A car bombing last September of an Algerian military barracks killed 28 people. But, follow-up bombings of a United Nations building and a diplomatic office signaled that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has bigger plans.

Keep reading here.

Watch the video report from CBS News below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/26/african-al-qaida-cell-a-g_n_103...

Why do they keep trying to keep this going ?

It's over !
Jeebus ! It Has been over for a couple of months..

We all know that..

Oh..I forgot..It sells newspapers..My bad !

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Mr. Bush and the G.I. Bill

President Bush opposes a new G.I. Bill of Rights. He worries that if the traditional path to college for service members since World War II is improved and expanded for the post-9/11 generation, too many people will take it.

He is wrong, but at least he is consistent. Having saddled the military with a botched, unwinnable war, having squandered soldiers’ lives and failed them in so many ways, the commander in chief now resists giving the troops a chance at better futures out of uniform. He does this on the ground that the bill is too generous and may discourage re-enlistment, further weakening the military he has done so much to break.

So lavish with other people’s sacrifices, so reckless in pouring the national treasure into the sandy pit of Iraq, Mr. Bush remains as cheap as ever when it comes to helping people at home.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/opinion/26mon1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogi...

mmrules,99% of the musicians we meet and work with a very kind and humble.
It's the roadies and managers who are under the gun and uptight.
See ya later

when you think a wart is growing in the palm of your hand---

That makes sense..

Have a good day..

Thanks.. :)

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little ignorant me? why thank you...did not think i had so much power! this has nothing to do with you right? if people leave that is because they want to it has nothing to do with me...like my youtubes they can ignore me if they choose, but i guess they choose not too...

and dont blame me for shit YOU fucking started

sorry i missed your post earlier

I love ya..
Submitted by MMRules on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 8:43am.
Sorry,I shouldn't have said that..
What do I know..

But,all your doing Lucille is driving peeps away..
*******
I be right back..I have to reboot my router..
You can yell at me when I get back.. ;)

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Submitted by Alice on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 7:43am.
Historic Mass Arrest of Soldiers
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"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward Justice."

Martin Luther King

I didn't start it..Someone named Lucille did.. :)

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seems like you missing a mother..um...maybe a wife...probably the only way you get a hard on
fucking pervert

Hair patrol: La. barber ticketed for Monday work

1 hour, 57 minutes ago

HOUMA, La. - Police in this town wouldn't cut a break for a barber who ran afoul of an obscure law barring him from working Sundays and Mondays.
ADVERTISEMENT

Clyde Scott had opened his shop May 19 just to trim up a few students getting ready for their graduation ceremony when an officer gave him a citation.

A law on the books in Houma for decades bars barbers from working Sundays, Mondays, any of several holidays and even the day after Labor Day.

"I didn't know it existed," said Scott, 32, who has owned Clippas barbershop for about two years. "It's crazy."

Parish Council Clerk Paul Labat said he didn't know exactly how long the law has been on the books, but that it dates to the years before the parish and city governments merged in 1981. "It's still an active law," he told The Courier of Houma.

Houma police spokesman Lt. Todd Duplantis said police discovered the ordinance after receiving complaints about people loitering outside the barbershop, and an officer was instructed to issue a summons. Duplantis said it was the first time he had heard of such a ticket being written in his 23 years with the department.

District Attorney Joe Waitz Jr. won't be prosecuting the case. In fact, he's asking the parish council to repeal the law as unconstitutional.

"It's our job to prosecute criminals, not barbers," he said.

James Adams, president of the Louisiana Board of Barber Examiners, the state licensing agency for barbers and their shops, said he thinks the law is a vestige of "strong-arm" tactics used by a barber's union in the 1950s and '60s.

"I'm surprised such a law is still on the books," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080527/ap_on_fe_st/odd_barber_ticketed_4

dont lie rules, please tell the fucking truth big grown ass man like you lying..tell them when it started if they cannot read for themselves

Bush Announces 8-Month Plan To Steal Favorite Desk Lamp

May 23, 2008 | Issue 44•21
White House Hints At Surprise Twist Ending To Bush Presidency January 19, 2007

WASHINGTON—With his term in office coming to an end in less than a year, President Bush announced Monday that he will spend the remainder of his presidency implementing an initiative that will have as-yet-unknown implications for his successors: the stealing of a coveted $27 desk lamp from the East Room of the White House. "Securing this lamp for my den in Crawford has long been a goal of my presidency," Bush said of the plan, which at present consists of the president making sure no one is in the room before cramming the lamp under his shirt and hurriedly boarding a helicopter that will be waiting in the Rose Garden. "In order to facilitate this imperative, historic measure, I have created a new cabinet-level position whose primary responsibilities will be to act as a lookout and create any necessary diversions needed to ensure the swiping of the lamp." Bush's lamp-stealing plan will reportedly cost taxpayers $3.75

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_announces_8_month_planb....

If You're Like Me, Then You Love '80s Music And Haven't Spoken To Your Brother In 10 Years

By Luke Kaufman
May 21, 2008 | Issue 44•21
Luke Kaufman

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I don't know about you, but I'll never forget the music of my youth. Ah, yes, the 1980s: those good times you never wanted to end—and now they don't have to! Because Time Life has put together an incredible collection with all your favorite hits from the '80s, that totally tubular decade when we went a little punk, rode the New Wave, and saw the beginnings of a painful, slowly brewing rift with our older brother, Tom, that would ultimately sever our relationship completely.

Spread the word! The '80s are back, and unlike the bond you once had with your only sibling, they're here to stay. On these two CDs or three cassettes, you'll find all your most excellent favorites like U2, Rick Springfield, the Eurythmics, and more. Remember a little number called "Tainted Love"? Sure you do! It was on that mix tape you spent hours and hours making for your brother for his birthday, but he never thanked you for it or even acknowledged your effort in any way? Now that's a classic.

How could you ever, ever forget?

Now you can have all your favorite '80s songs in one place, unless you'd prefer to skip over "Against All Odds" because it reminds you that the fraternal bond is as fragile as your brother's varsity jacket when you threw it in the campfire that time just to get him to notice you.

And the hits just keep on coming! "Working For The Weekend," "We Built This City," "Caribbean Queen"—all the greats from the decade before it all became so pointlessly sad and irreparable!

Remember how exciting it was to watch all the latest videos on MTV? You'd rush home to see what outrageous outfit Madonna was wearing or Michael Jackson's coolest new dance move, or just to hope that Bon Jovi would rock out hard enough to distract you from the aching feeling in your gut that, if the two of you hadn't been related, you would probably never have had any reason to ever talk to each other at all.

Who's that? Frankie Goes to Hollywood? INXS? Poison? Prince? They're all here! Soon you'll be hearing the bodacious sounds of just about everyone you loved listening to in the '80s except the one person you wish you could just bury your pride and call. That's right, Time Life has gathered more than 48 of your favorite songs on two CDs or three cassettes, so stop blaming your brother because your parents attended all of his football games but never seemed capable of valuing your photography, and call now!

But you'd better hurry. This offer is not available in stores and is only here for a limited time, certainly not the 13 years, seven months, and 10 days it's been since you borrowed that five grand from your brother even though you knew you could never repay him, causing you to sink into a pit of shame and self-loathing that resulted in you trying to get him fired from his job at the Parks Department, so that maybe—just maybe—you wouldn't be the pathetic sibling for once.

Whoa, Eddie Money and Men at Work on one CD! Normally you'd have to spend hundreds of dollars to get all of these great artists. But now that Time Life has brought the sounds of the '80s to two CDs or three cassettes you can listen to them again and again and again and again and again to drown out the pain.

Who doesn't love a little "Karma Chameleon" in the morning? A bit of Bryan Adams on your lunch break? How about the Thompson Twins while you miss your nephew's sixth birthday party in a row to sit in the garage staring at your old baseball mitt again? Get ready to relive the greatest days in your rapidly deteriorating excuse for a life in this one special collection, available now.

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/if_youre_like_me_then_you_love

someday...in the mean time we can watch the brighter parts of the world...like Oaxaca which seems to be re-igniting...

We can skip maniac monday and go right to terrific tuesday.. ;)

Hope you enjoyed your weekend, edna e....

--Maybe there is hope.
Submitted by edna ellen poe on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 9:01am.--

Pretty weak..

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thanks for re-posting the article about Sydney Pollack.
What a great loss - - I loved his films & his was a fantastic director.
I hope that he is @ peace & not in any more pain. :(

too...I loved his work and his acting...he was like a sage one like Nando....

report on my fall yesteday...it was intense, my feet flew out and I landed flat on my back...no pain at all today....

I was very lucky...out have hit my head on a door jam...very lucky...

Submitted by MMRules on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 8:53am.
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I think Hillary is in some kind of delusional shock. After all, Washington insiders were telling her that she was going to be the next president of the United States. Approximately, a year ago, I remember Kristina Vanden Heuvel stating emphatically, "Hillary Clinton will be the nominee." The cartoon mainstream media certainly catapulted the propaganda for Hillary. Over and over, loop to loop, we were told not asked, that Hillary was the Democratic choice. They all counted on Americans being the usual dumb sheeple.

I can only hope MRule that we will continue to prove them wrong.

and it's cold...so I did the most luxurious, self-indulgent thing...I drove my car just to warm my ass up with the heated seats... :) I can't even believe there is such a thing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQhOzeE6Q4

Man it sounds like it..

Glad your not hurting.. :)

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Sounds like my kind of date.. ;-)

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

on American Afternoon yesterday ? AAR..

Thanks..

Or,maybe it starts today ?

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

Submitted by mo lib on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 7:40am.
Didn't know if you saw this great profile of Sam at Ghost of Wellstone.
http://tinyurl.com/4nrhls
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Thanks for the link.. :)

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

I feel the blague coming on.

Wait for it.....

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**HEY BOB**

United States of Insecurity - Interview with Noam Chomsky

Sometimes it's argued that the universities should just be neutral, that they shouldn't take positions on anything. Well, there's merit in that, I would like to see that in some abstract universe, but in this universe what that position entails is conformity to the distribution of external power.

So let me take a concrete case, aspects of which are still very much alive on my own campus. Let's take some distance so we can see things more clearly. Back in the 1960s, in my university, MIT, the political science department was carrying out studies with students and faculty on counterinsurgency in Vietnam. Okay, that reflected the distribution of power in the outside society. The US is involved in counterinsurgency in Vietnam: it's our patriotic duty to help. A free and independent university would have been carrying out studies on how poor peasants can resist the attack of a predatory superpower. Can you imagine how much support that would have gotten on campus? Well, okay, that's what neutrality turns into when it's carried out—when the ideal, which is a good ideal, is pursued unthinkingly. It ends up being conformity to power.

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Let's take a current case. Right now there's a lot of concern about nuclear weapons in Iran. Well, again, take my own campus, MIT. In the 1970s Iran was under the rule of a brutal tyrant who the United States and Britain had imposed by force in a military coup overthrowing the democratic government. So Iran was therefore an ally. Well, in the government, people like Henry Kissenger, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and others, were calling for Iran to develop nuclear capacities and nuclear power and so on, which means a step short of nuclear weapons. And my own university, MIT, made an arrangement with the Shah of Iran, the dictator, to train Iranian nuclear engineers. It was the 1970s. There was enormous student protest about that. But very little faculty protest, in fact, the faculty approved it. And it was instituted. In fact, some of the people now running the Iranian nuclear programs are graduates of MIT. Well, is the university neutral in those respects? No, not really; it's conforming to power interests. In this case, to go back to an earlier part of our conversation, they did conform to short-term commitments to power and profit but with long-term consequences that were quite harmful to the very same people who instituted them.

Henry Kissinger, who at least has the virtue of honesty, was asked by the Washington Post why he is now objecting to same Iranian programs that he was instrumental in instituting when he was in office back in the 70s. And he said, frankly, Well, they were an ally then. They needed nuclear power. And now they are an enemy so they don't need nuclear power.

Okay, he's a complete cynic, but he's an honest one, fortunately. But should universities take that position?

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Hot-assed & hot-headed...You'd have your hands full on a date like that... ;)

its one of those things that you don't know exist, then when you learn they do, you wonder why you would ever want them, then when you have them, you wonder how you ever lived without them.

(i have them on my ford and they really do rock)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc61z9IFu4

-when you learn they do, you wonder why you would ever want them, then when you have them, you wonder how you ever lived without them-

Bush DHS failing, yet again
by Chris in Paris · 5/27/2008 06:02:00 AM ET · Link
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Forget about what Bush, Chertoff and the Republicans say, they are failing across the board year after year. Once again the issue of port security is making headlines and today the Times has a major piece on Border Agents and cross-border smuggling. Of course, this is what the GOP will tell us only happens in poor countries but looking at what they have done to the economy, they've done their best to take the US in that direction. Is this what the GOP considers "safe" for the US?

Increased corruption is linked, in part, to tougher enforcement, driving smugglers to recruit federal employees as accomplices. It has grown so worrisome that job applicants will soon be subject to lie detector tests to ensure that they are not already working for smuggling organizations. In addition, homeland security officials have reconstituted an internal affairs unit at Customs and Border Protection, one of the largest federal law enforcement agencies, overseeing both border agents and customs officers.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/bush-dhs-failing-yet-again.html

UN food programs for children facing massive cutbacks
by Chris in Paris · 5/27/2008 03:36:00 AM ET · Link
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It's bad enough when adults are left hungry but children have nowhere to turn. In our rich countries we can shop more selectively, changes habits a bit or grudgingly cough up a bit more cash to buy what we need. In poor countries, they are well beyond anything like that. They are already eating basics such as cornmeal, rice or plain bread and two times per day, three when they are fortunate.
The numbers are grim. In Burundi, Kenya and Zambia, hundreds of thousands of people face cuts in food rations after June. In Iraq, 500,000 recipients will likely lose food aid. In Yemen, it's 320,000 households, including children and the sick.

Private aid agencies based in the U.S. also said food price hikes are hurting their projects.

Mercy Corps will likely distribute 20 percent less food to Iraqi refugees in Syria and serve 12 percent fewer Colombian families fleeing violence in the countryside. World Vision may stop helping 1.5 million people — nearly a quarter of the number it serves — because of rising food prices and pledged donations not yet delivered. At least a third are children.

In Cambodia, the free breakfasts that started in 2000 have made children visibly healthier, said Nheng Vorn, the principal of Choumpou Proek School, about 40 miles west of the capital, Phnom Penh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080526/ap_on_re_as/food_crisis_hungry_child...

A thirty degree drop from yesterday. It was almost 80 here yesterday and today it is 44. And it's about to rain.

Wierd weather this year.

American Psychological Association Supports Psychologist Engagement in Bush Regime Interrogations - by Stephen Soldz / May 27th, 2008

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Last week, the APA’s Ethics Director Stephen Behnke seized upon newly released portions of an official investigation of US detainee abuse, called the Church Report, as an opportunity to reinvigorate support for the APA policy of psychologist participation in interrogations.

In a letter to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), The APA’s Dr. Behnke stated:

In carefully reviewing the documents, we note that according to the information obtained by the ACLU, psychologists supporting interrogations ‘emphasized their separation from detainee medical care,’ and that a psychologist who suspected abuse ‘recommended the interrogation not proceed and brought in medical personnel to evaluate the detainee.’ According to these documents, APA’s policy of engagement served the intended purpose: to stop interrogations that cross the bounds of ethical propriety.

To give Dr. Behnke credit, he did acknowledge the abuses described in the newly released material as “abhorrent.” However, any unbiased “careful review” of the documents falls far short of supporting Dr. Behnke’s conclusion. Quite the contrary, the report raises new concerns about the roles of psychologists in US interrogations.

Dr. Behnke’s letter to the ACLU was widely distributed within the APA as a defense of the association’s long-contested policy. It therefore important to carefully examine his claims in the context of what is known about interrogation abuses in Iraq.
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FBI Compiled “War Crimes” Dossier on Prisoner Abuse and Torture - by Tom Burghardt/May 27th, 2008

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/35402lgl20080520.html (the report)

McCain says he and Obama should visit Iraq together
Tue May 27, 12:54 AM ET
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080527/ap_on_el_pr/mccain;_ylt=AvEY1uvdldbJ...

NBC News, MSNBC: Uneasy coexistence? By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
Mon May 26, 6:26 PM ET

NEW YORK - NBC News has managed to achieve the near-impossible this election season in getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush to agree on something.

That something, however, is antipathy toward NBC News.

Through its unusual public criticism of NBC's handling of Richard Engel's interview with the president, the Bush administration struck at the soft white underbelly of the news division's co-existence with the opinionated personalities of MSNBC.

"I'm sure you don't want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the `news' as reported on NBC and the `opinion' as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines," Bush counselor Ed Gillespie wrote to NBC News President Steve Capus in a letter pointedly released to the public.

Capus said viewers are smart enough to understand the difference and that the criticism is a reflection of MSNBC's growing popularity.

Clinton's campaign didn't want to talk publicly about NBC, but it has been unhappy about the Democratic candidate's treatment by "Hardball" host Chris Matthews. That culminated in Matthews' apology in January for saying that the reason Clinton is a U.S. senator and candidate for president "is that her husband messed around."

Keith Olbermann has been critical of Clinton and supportive of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on MSNBC's "Countdown."

When Tim Russert declared Obama the Democratic nominee during MSNBC's coverage of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, the words carried extra weight because the "Meet the Press" host is generally considered the top broadcast journalist in Washington.

It was no coincidence when Clinton ran a campaign ad in Oregon criticizing pundits "who talk about who's up and who's down" instead of about issues, pictures of Matthews, Olbermann and Russert flashed past. The only non-NBC journalist was ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who has his own complicated relationship with the Clintons.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080526/ap_on_en_tv/ap_on_tv_nbc_s_critics;_...

what a fucking hypocrite. why is it that when mccain talks about pulling out the troops its because we've won, but when obama talks about pulling out the troops its surrender.

my personal opinion is that insane mccain is lying thru his teeth and has no intention of withdrawing from the iraqi civil war. he is just giving lip service to all those people on the right who know we've lost a war we never should have started.

The era of big Clintons is soon over
55 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - There's been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080527/ap_on_el_pr/clintons_end_of_an_era

Sydney Pollack has died of cancer at 73. If you don't know his name, you should, as he's responsible for some of the best films from the last 40 years.

Pollack was a film director par excellence, a name you could take to the bank. If he was involved, you knew the film would be compelling, and possibly an award winner.

His last credit was as an executive producer of HBO's recent film "Recount," a tight, compelling presentation of the key events in that awful 2000 debacle that passed for an election.

One of the first films of his that I saw left a lasting impression on me. "The Way We Were" was much more than a love story. It was my first introduction to the irrational anti-Communist hysteria that destroyed so many good people's lives in the 1950s.

Then came "Three Days of the Condor," the movie that first sparked my interest in the CIA. In retrospect, the movie was downright prescient:

Turner: Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?

Higgins: Are you crazy?

Turner: Am I?

Higgins: Look, Turner…

Turner: Do we have plans?

Higgins: No. Absolutely not. We have games. That's all. We play games. What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a regime? That's what we're paid to do.

Turner: So Atwood just took the games too seriously. He was really going to do it, wasn't he?

Higgins: A renegade operation. Atwood knew 54/12 would never authorize it, not with the heat on the Company.

Turner: What if there hadn't been any heat? Suppose I hadn't stumbled on their plan?

Higgins: Different ballgame. Fact is, there was nothing wrong with the plan. Oh, the plan was all right, the plan would've worked.

Turner: Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Higgins: No. It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In 10 or 15 years, food. Plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?

Turner: Ask them.

Higgins: Not now — then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!

Underdogs

Pollack directed "The Electric Horseman," about a cowboy who resents being used by corporate America as a symbol of things he doesn't support.

So many of Pollack's movies burst with that theme - the guy who stands up to the world, against all odds. Pollack cared deeply about people, and how we treat each other as friends, as lovers, and as fellow denizens of our shared planet.

Given his sensibilities, it's no wonder he worked primarily with A-list talent. He did a number of films with Robert Redford. He explored journalistic ethics in the film "Absence of Malice" starring Paul Newman and Sally Field.

Pollack showed his versatility by directing one of the funniest comedies of all time. Aided by a brilliant script from Larry Gelbart and the comic genius of Dustin Hoffman, “Tootsie” explores the different treatment of women in men in the world and subjects a man to some of the same treatment.

Then there was the gorgeous "Out of Africa," a lyrical movie based on a memoir of the same name. The film dealt with one woman's fight to prosper on her farm in Africa in the waning days of European control of the continent.

Pollack’s trademark attention to detail showed in every frame, from small set details to soaring cinematography, from the haunting score to the overarching themes of colonization, racism and sexism.

His films were sometimes far better than box office numbers would suggest.

One of my personal favorites is "Havana," a powerful story of a last-chance gambler trying to hit the big time in Havana just before the revolution goes down.

Robert Redford falls for the wife of a Cuban rebel leader, and suffers the consequences of being pulled into a complicated plot. It's a modern day Casablanca against a backdrop of a piece of history about which I am forever curious.

The characters, like the story, are sharp and clear, right down to the restaurant reviewer who is really a CIA operative.

One of my favorite thrillers in recent years was "The Firm," yet another Pollack classic. I had read the Michael Crichton book, and was surprised that, for once, the film was better than the novel. The film has a much more satisfying ending.

“The Firm” dealt with the nexus of criminals and their lawyers, exploring, in the context of a compelling mystery, the moral issues involved.

Pollack was also an actor, playing small roles in many of the films he directed or produced. His portrayal of Hoffman's agent in Tootsie still makes me laugh, no matter how many times I've seen it.

I will miss him greatly. And while he brought a strong social consciousness to everything he touched, he never let the message overtake the entertainment. He made great films that mesmerized and moved and delighted.

You didn't realize until you were leaving the theater that you'd also gotten a little lesson in history or morality as well.

I hope future directors will find the heart and courage to follow in his exceedingly large footsteps. We lost a giant this week.

Lisa Pease is a historian who has studied the Kennedy assassinations and other enduring political mysteries.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/052708a.html

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Behind closed doors, McCain will be "snuggling up" to Bush
by Joe Sudbay (DC)

5/27/2008

The road for the third Bush term runs through Phoenix today -- in private. But, we're getting some analysis of the relationship between Bush and his heir apparent, John McCain:

So why is the Arizona senator going to appear with Bush in Phoenix tonight for a closed-door fundraiser? McCain, whose fundraising totals are dwarfed by those of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, needs Bush to bring in money and signal to conservative Republicans that he can be trusted.

``Any sitting president, even one whose approval rating is in the low 30s, can raise money,'' said Jim Pinkerton, a Republican strategist. ``McCain has to distance himself from Bush, but he also has to reassure the Republican base -- and that means snuggling up.'

con't
http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/behind-closed-doors-mccain-will-be.ht...

I got your email..
Sorry for taking so long to respond..
I was in a sleep coma..

Keep warm.. :)

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

What does it say to even have to worry about your words meaning that you are waiting to see if Obama gets assassinated? What a horrible history we must live with every day.

We each have to individually shove those realities into a hole in the back of our minds so as to pretend it isn't "where we are". Hillary's subconscience came through awkwardly but haven't we all feared something nefarious would happen to our once in a lifetime candidate?

Love is the answer to war. Hope is the answer to fear. Peace is the only way to get there.

PEACE!

this is a disastrous controversy...psychologists walk a tight line between healing others and manipulating others...many, in this case have caved to their own lower urges....

Is that "It can't happen here mentality"...most of us know that the corporatists are very capable and instrumental in assasinations all over the world..

but a democrat would never do that...

this is very naive...any power hungry person is capable....

so we all react very politically correct and say oh she would never wish harm on Barack.....BULLSHIT....

CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR DAVID ADLER CONTENDS.

Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2008-05-27 13:27.

MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF LAW AT ANDOVER

The Bush administration has arrogated powers to itself that the British people even refused to grant King George III at the time of the Revolutionary War, an eminent political scientist says.
“No executive in the history of the Anglo-American world since the Civil War in England in the 17th century has laid claim to such broad power,” said David Adler, a prolific author of articles on the U.S. Constitution. “George Bush has exceeded the claims of Oliver Cromwell who anointed himself Lord Protector of England.”

Adler, a professor of political science at Idaho State University at Pocatello, is the author of “The Constitution and the Termination of Treaties”(Taylor & Francis), among other books, and some 100 scholarly articles in his field. Adler made his comments comparing the powers of President Bush and King George III at a conference on “Presidential Power in America” at the Massachusetts School of Law, Andover, April 26th.

Adler said, Bush has “claimed the authority to suspend the Geneva Convention, to terminate treaties, to seize American citizens from the streets to detain them indefinitely without benefit of legal counseling, without benefit of judicial review. He has ordered a domestic surveillance program which violates the statutory law of the United States as well as the Fourth Amendment.”
Adler said the authors of the U.S. Constitution wrote that the president “shall take care to faithfully execute the laws of the land” because “the king of England possessed a suspending power” to set aside laws with which he disagreed, “the very same kind of power that the Bush Administration has claimed.”

Con't-AfterDowningStreet

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

hmmmmmmmmm, lets take a gander at the News cycle and see whats shakin.

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Carter Urges 'Supine' Europe To Break With US Over Gaza Blockade

Ex-president says EU is colluding in a human rights crime

By Jonathan Steele and Jonathan Freedland

26/05/08 "The Guardian" --

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19985.htm

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

I'll push back on that (technically). I think that an organism who would do that should not be labled "people". By definition animals are not people.

The War Camp in Death Throes is Intent on Striking Iran

By Mehrnaz Shahabi

25/05/08 "ICH" --

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19981.htm

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

cant say i blame him though!

Jimmy Carter calls for US to make friends with Iran after 27 years

By Joy Lo Dico
Monday, 26 May 2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/jimmy-carter-calls-for-...

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

Dateline South Africa—The black priest spoke of all of the places, of the great hills and valleys of his country. He also spoke of the sickness of the land, and how the grass had disappeared, and of the dongas that ran from hill to valley, and valley to hill. He spoke of how the “tribe was broken” and the house broken and the men broken. The group of concerned citizens of the township spoke of the sickness of the land, of the broken tribe and the broken house, of “young men and young girls that went away and forgot their customs and lived loose and idle lives.”

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_georgian_080527_reports_from_sou...

Palestinians reject Israeli offer to hand over 91.5% of W. Bank

By The Associated Press

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/986883.html

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4BD47DA2-ED57-41D4-8B06-57EF3A0BF...

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

Dead Troops Remembered By President Who Had Them Killed

Yes, that's a harsh headline for this piece.

But I'll ask you to forgive me because, as a Veteran, there isn't a day on the calendar that causes my hatred -- and I do indeed mean hatred -- of George W. Bush to bubble over the top more than Memorial Day.

"On Memorial Day, we honor the heroes who have laid down their lives in the cause of freedom, resolve that they will forever be remembered by a grateful Nation, and pray that our country may always prove worthy of the sacrifices they have made," reads Bush's official Memorial Day proclamation, issued by the White House on Thursday.

The Chickenhawk-in Chief says a lot of things that make this Vet's blood boil but stuff like saying that he prays "...that our country may always prove worthy of the sacrifices they have made" is almost vomit inducing.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=60217

what happened to his blog?
he used to keep me updated with everything happening in the house and senate

Submitted by toniD on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 10:20am.
McCain says he and Obama should visit Iraq together
Tue May 27, 12:54 AM ET
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together.
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I wouldn't trust McCrank no where near a war zone.

FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
By Bill Van Auken
23 May 2008

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/fbi-m23.shtml

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

So, no show after all; in a few minutes?

Washington ratchets up pressure on Pakistan’s new government
By Keith Jones
27 May 2008

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/paki-m27.shtml

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

The horrifying burns of Ali Abbas, a 12 year old Iraqi child, demonstrate clear evidence that US forces deployed tactical nuclear weapons – neutron bombs – on innocent Iraqi people, burning most of them beyond recognition and thus hastening any clean-up or cover up efforts required by US forces. - WTH!

Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 10:33am.
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I see an ironic contradiction when Peace is scribed in oversized bold print having an anxious forward slant and commandingly punctuated with an imperative exclamation point.

It doesn't seem very peaceful. Or maybe it's just me.

Is it just me? Okay, it's just me. Never mind.

go figure

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/586BB646-57B7-425F-8CA1-A39F36DE2...

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

SAN FRANCISCO — The browser, that porthole onto the broad horizon of the Web, is about to get some fancy new window dressing.

Next month, after three years of development and six months of public testing, Mozilla, the insurgent browser developer that rose from the ashes of Netscape, will release Firefox 3.0. It will feature a few tricks that could change the way people organize and find the sites they visit most frequently.

Not to be outdone, Microsoft recently took the wraps off the first public test version of the latest edition of Internet Explorer, which is used by about 75 percent of all computer owners, according to Net Applications, a market share tracking firm. The finished version of Internet Explorer 8 could be released by the end of the year and is expected to have additional features.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/technology/26firefox.html?_r=1&oref=sl...

how you feeling this good morning?

Sure it wasn't White Phosphorus? That is some nasty shit. As I am sure you are aware.

And yes Lucille, I am feeling fine, Got my meds today. So I reckon it'll be a semi productive day. But most importantly; a relaxing and reinvigorating day.

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS

May. 27, 2008 | When Mohammed Jawad, a 23-year-old Afghan detainee, was summoned to appear before the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay for his arraignment in March, he told his military handlers that he would not go. After being held for more than five years here, he didn't believe he could get a fair hearing from the U.S. military.

But appearing at arraignments at Guantánamo is mandatory, so as has been done with others, military personnel forcefully extracted
The forgotten kid of Guantánamo
A teenager captured in Afghanistan and shipped to the U.S. prison remained unknown to the world for five years. Now he's being tried as an adult.

Jawad from his cell and brought him to court in shackles. Sitting before the judge in his orange jumpsuit, the color reserved for uncooperative detainees, Jawad buried his face into his hands and announced that he would boycott future proceedings -- a right the commissions allow.

So this month, when Jawad was scheduled to appear at the courthouse for another pre-trial hearing, nobody expected him to show up. But as a cluster of journalists, observers from nongovernmental organizations (including me, as a representative of Human Rights Watch) and military personnel gathered in the courtroom, Jawad, now dressed in khaki, a color reserved for more cooperative detainees, was escorted inside by two guards and quietly took a seat beside his defense counsel and an interpreter. Although he appeared uneasy and nervous, he was markedly calmer than at his arraignment.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=60258

its not contradictory to have a self inflicted wound.

BY LEONARD PITTS
lpitts@MiamiHerald.com
I keep thinking I should be mad at West Virginia.

Not because Barack Obama was recently beaten like a red-headed stepchild -- to use my father's expression -- in that state's primary. No, I'm thinking I should be upset about why he was beaten. According to exit polls, two out of every 10 voters said race was a major factor in how they cast their ballots.

Jon Stewart of The Daily Show ran a clip of a white woman who explained her refusal to vote for Obama thusly: ''I guess because he is another race. I'm sort of scared of the other race 'cause we have so much conflict with 'em.'' She spoke in the vaguely shamefaced, what're-you-gonna-do? voice of someone who knows she should stick to her diet or stop smoking, but just can't help herself.

You'd think this would have me in a state of high dudgeon, fingers blazing the keyboard in righteous rebuke of attitudes so atavistic and wrong. But I can't. Oh, it's disappointing to see bigotry in Appalachia so vividly displayed. Yet I find it doesn't make me angry.

It just makes me sad.

I feel sorry for them. If that sounds patronizing, I apologize. That's not how it's meant.

It's just that, if the headline here is that Obama was rejected by whites on the basis of race, I submit that's not the whole truth. Pollsters say he was actually rejected on the basis of race by whites who lack college degrees and whose household income is less than $50,000 a year. In other words, he was rejected by the poor and the less educated.

Which is a desription that fits many in Appalachia -- and also a vast swath of African America. So for me, the story here isn't simply the old, familiar tale of the nation's stark racial divide, but also another tale, just as old, less often remarked, of how the white poor and the black poor have long been kept at one another's throats as a means of keeping them from looking too closely or clearly at the ways both are maniuplated by the forces of money and power.

And here, let me tell you what I am not saying. I'm not saying all bigots are poor or all the poor are bigots. I'm not saying everyone in Appalachia is poor, or less educated, or atavistic about race.

But I am saying this: The white poor have been victims of a con job going back at least as far as the Civil War, when poor white men were used as cannon fodder for the right of rich white men -- I repeat: rich white men -- to keep slaves. They were told they fought for state's rights.

From then till now, the white poor have often been the front line of white supremacy. You think people with college degrees and six-figure salaries are out there marching around under pointy white hoods, burning crosses? Hardly. (more)

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/story/544738....

For Women Warriors, Deep Wounds, Little Care

THIS Memorial Day, as an ever-increasing number of mentally and physically wounded soldiers return from Iraq, the Department of Veterans Affairs faces a pressing crisis: women traumatized not only by combat but also by sexual assault and harassment from their fellow service members. Sadly, the department is failing to fully deal with this problem.

Women make up some 15 percent of the United States active duty forces, and 11 percent of the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly a third of female veterans say they were sexually assaulted or raped while in the military, and 71 percent to 90 percent say they were sexually harassed by the men with whom they served.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/opinion/26benedict.html

the metal burns straight through the body cleanly. This is not that kind of burn.

Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon Takes Over

Here are words to pin to the Bush years like a wilting corsage: "We don't know what we paid for." That's a quote from Mary Ugone, the Defense Department's deputy inspector general for auditing, concerning massive Pentagon payments made during the occupation and war in Iraq for which there is no existing (or grossly inadequate) documentation. In fact, according to the inspector general for the Defense Department, "the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were bought from contractors in the Iraq reconstruction effort." An internal audit of $8 billion that the Pentagon paid out to U.S. and Iraqi private contractors found that "nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the money was spent."

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=60260

Worries in GOP About Disarray in McCain Camp

Washington - Senator John McCain's presidential campaign is in a troubled stretch, hindered by resignations of staff members, a lagging effort to build a national campaign organization and questions over whether he has taken full advantage of Democratic turmoil to present a case for his candidacy, Republicans say.

In interviews, some party leaders said they were worried about signs of disorder in his campaign, and if the focus in the last several weeks on the prominent role of lobbyists in Mr. McCain's inner circle might undercut the heart of his general election message: that he is a reformer taking on special interests in Washington.

"The core image of John McCain is as a reformer in Washington - and the more dominant the story is about the lobbying teams around him, the more you put that into question," said Terry Nelson, who was Mr. McCain's campaign manager until he left in a shake-up last fall. "If the Obama campaign can truly change him from being seen as a reformer to just being another Washington politician, it could be very damaging over the course of the campaign."

The ousters of some of the staff members came after Mr. McCain imposed a new policy that active lobbyists would not be allowed to hold paying jobs in the campaign.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=60227

I stand humbly corrected...hard to understand that some "people" can be this way...but they are all over the place...

great book on this: The Sociopath Nextdoor

http://www.amazon.com/Sociopath-Next-Door-Martha-Stout/dp/0767915828/ref...

when ever you guys get tired of the long refresh on this one.

Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 10:44am.
...By definition animals are not people.
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Fernando,

The comments which follow are not meant to take you to task. I understand the intent of your sentence within the context of your subject, but I have been arguing on behalf of the opposing view for many years.

People are animals...or, more correctly, one animal type among many.

The claim that animals are one thing and people are something else entirely is what drives some religions, notably Christianity among them.

We have a breathlessly overwrought and haughty opinion of ourselves. We write lines like "dominion over all of the earth" and then claim that The Creator is the author.

It gives us license to be assholes; to be users of, not members of, life.

NEW THREAD NEW THREAD NEW THREAD

UN food programs for
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 10:05am.
UN food programs for children facing massive cutbacks
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the Saudis could pony up more than $500 million..

Considering the price for a barrel of oil has jumped from what,$40 to $135 in the last year or so..
Just saying..

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

The revelations in the FBI report have provoked no significant protests or demands for action from the Democrats in Congress, or for that matter from the party’s presidential contenders, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, neither of whom have made torture an issue in their campaigns.

The New York Times Tuesday carried a lead editorial titled, “What the FBI agents saw,” which laid out the details of the report and stated that it “shows what happens when an American president, his secretary of defense, his Justice Department and other top officials corrupt American law to rationalize and authorize the abuse, humiliation and torture of prisoners.”

The paper’s conclusion: “The Democrats must press for full disclosure” through hearings to uncover “the extent of President Bush’s disregard for the law and the Geneva Conventions.” This, they tell their readers, “is the only way to get this country back to being a defender, not a violator, of human rights.”

Excerpted from briefing.com:

...Various sources are indicating Belgian brewer InBev may initiate takeover talks with Anheuser-Busch (BUD 56.60, -0.01) today...

...South Korea's LG Electronics is taking a closer look at General Electric's (GE 30.53, +0.10) appliance unit...
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I wonder if Joe Sixpack will have an opinion to express while he is removing his Belgian Budweiser from his Korean LG-GE refrigerator?

I cry with you Fernando. The unforgivable horrors that has been perpetuated by this administration, and done in the name of freedom and America, should be on the front page of every newspaper.
US Army AMMO DUMP ATTACK with secondarys - 8 min - Jan 15, 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1410660598904719984
Remember Camp Falcon?

Monday, October 23, 2006
CAMP FALCON: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

by Sarah Meyer
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/10/camp-falcon-what-really-happen...
The nuke funds are hidden in the Energy and Water bill.
One of Rumsfeld's better ideas...
Heavy water, ya know.

OMG I HATE NEO-SCUM!!!!!

Submitted by Bob26003 on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 10:52am.
FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
By Bill Van Auken
23 May 2008

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/fbi-m23.shtml

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This says it like it is.

[excerpt]
The revelations in the FBI report have provoked no significant protests or demands for action from the Democrats in Congress, or for that matter from the party’s presidential contenders, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, neither of whom have made torture an issue in their campaigns.

The New York Times Tuesday carried a lead editorial titled, “What the FBI agents saw,” which laid out the details of the report and stated that it “shows what happens when an American president, his secretary of defense, his Justice Department and other top officials corrupt American law to rationalize and authorize the abuse, humiliation and torture of prisoners.”

The paper’s conclusion: “The Democrats must press for full disclosure” through hearings to uncover “the extent of President Bush’s disregard for the law and the Geneva Conventions.” This, they tell their readers, “is the only way to get this country back to being a defender, not a violator, of human rights.”

...The extent of the Bush administration’s outright criminality has been thoroughly exposed over the course of several years.

The wholesale and deliberate violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention against Torture are, under international law, war crimes—just as the FBI recognized they were. What is demanded is not another toothless congressional hearing, but rather the constitution of a war crimes tribunal. Those responsible must be held accountable.

Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet and Ashcroft should be placed on trial. Those like former White House counsel and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington and Justice Department deputy assistant secretary John Yoo, who crafted the pseudo-legal arguments legitimizing torture, should be prosecuted as well, together with those military and intelligence officials who directed the criminal practices at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other CIA and military camps and prisons.

The Democratic leadership has no desire or intention to fight for such a reckoning. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders have repeatedly insisted that impeachment of the president and vice president is “off the table."...

On a more fundamental level, the Democrats have been complicit in a policy of global militarism and aggression—carried out under the mantle of a “global war on terrorism”—which is directed at using armed force to further the interests of America’s ruling oligarchy. It is this criminal strategy—resulting in the loss of over 1 million Iraqi lives—that has given rise to the crime of torture itself. [end excerpt]