Sunday's show

YouTubes spam !

She won't listen to Any of us..

Only to you ! Thanks !

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

Anybody home ? :)

Oh..And,it would be nice if you also told her to stop

threatening people after they ask her to cool it with the Obsessive Embedded YouTubes !

Thank you.. :)

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

he is one passionate guy

got Ickey to walk out.

just so the fucking rules can be read to me...see you than...now what? say something else Mr. Rules!

reminds me of the contender...

i'll be there...now what?

How come there aren't any polls from him as VP? He's got not tolerance for BS.

Take back his father's seat. In no way does she represent the spirt of Bobby Kennedy. This is an insult to his memory.

too....hubba hubba

what an ass kicker too

Wexler should be considered.

Claimed by live bloggers on KOS.
No doubt we will hear more about this later. Frankly, I don't know if this is good sign or not.

and i love my sirota too...what happiness!

Definition of "fair reflection" by Hillary's peeps:
anything that only benefits Hillary.

WTG Wexler. :)

Good News !

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO - A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.

It is the first large study to affirm wider anti-cancer hopes for Zometa and other bone-building drugs called bisphosphonates. Zometa, made by Novartis AG, is used now for cancers that have already spread to the bone.

Con't

Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

you want any call ins on your last show?

I never saw or heard one ad to vote uncommitted. So I voted for Dennis.

High point of the game so far.
That'll played over and over.

hope better!

oh man this terrible weather out there and i want to go out...damn...i rather stay here with you listening to your whinning, but sorry honey...(oo. thats not a threat by the way) i'd rather stay **embed**

It would be cool if you could tell David Sirota I'm sorry I wrote that thing about "where the hell was he?" although I doubt he'll remember or care. That was harsh, anyhow.

I would say I was very sleep deprived, and it would be true, but that's just another thing that Hillary has ruined for everyone.

Hmmm, what if I try to make myself misremember that it was Hillary, not Ellen, who ruined "Shoop." (And, no, it was NOT ruined already.) See, if I were McSame I would probably be doing that right now.

By DownWithTyranny

Well... alas, pretty big. In the new issue of Rolling Stone Tim Dickinson takes on the Democratic Senate leadership. Below I want to talk anecdotally about some Democratic Party letdowns but first take a look at what ex-Democrat/current independent candidate for Congress, Steve Porter has to say and let's look at some of Dickinson's most salient points. He points out what a shill NY reptile Chuck Schumer has been for crooked billionaire Wall Street operators, "championing one of the biggest tax breaks for billionaires in the history of the republic [as] Democrats in the House fought to close a loophole that levies a tax rate of only 15 percent... on hedge-fund managers who make as much as $3.7 billion a year. But when the debate reached the Senate, Schumer broke with his fellow Democrats and sided with Wall Street-- inspiring the hedge-fund industry to hail him as its 'guardian.'"

Con't-AAR

Many Dems simply didn't vote. Between, Detroit, Mich St, and the U of M Barack would won outright-- just like Wisconsin.

Please put on helmets and flak jackets. Thank you.

Sam.

perfect? no.

shoots hoops good!

wasting time trying to exlain away his fuck up.

John McCain.

If any good can ever come out of this natural disaster, it's the rural communities relating to the Buddhist Monks as naturally evolving local relief group.
In Burma, the UN says the military junta continues to deny unfettered access to areas devastated by Cyclone Nargis. Aid officials have been barred from several parts of the Irrawaddy region where the cyclone’s impact was worst. At least 130,000 people are dead or missing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/world/asia/31myanmar.html?hp

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/shocked-how-the-oi...

By Andy McSmith, Jerome Taylor and Nigel Morris
Saturday, 31 May 2008

British pensioners who cannot afford to heat their homes. European hauliers and fishermen whose livelihoods are under threat. Palestinians forced to fill up their cars with olive oil. Americans asked to go down to a four-day week.

All around the world, in a multitude of ways, the soaring price of oil is hurting rich and poor alike. For the lucky ones, it is simply a matter of changing their lifestyle. But those most vulnerable to the price of oil have been driven on to the streets in angry protests, which raise a fundamental question: what can we do to survive in a world where a barrel of oil costs $127 (£64)?

Great Britain

The rise in the oil price could not come at a worse time for Gordon Brown. After a week that has seen hauliers blocking roads and air passengers facing higher surcharges, yesterday it was the impact on fuel bills that came to the fore. The Prime Minister's attempt to ease the pain felt by pensioners and low-income families from rising fuel bills was dismissed as a "sticking plaster to hold back a catastrophe". It consists mainly of advice on coping with the cost of heating rather than extra money.

The number of Britons in "fuel poverty" – 10 per cent of their income goes on energy – is thought to have reached four million. The average annual household bill for heat and light is now more than £1,000. The Government plans to reform data protection laws so that low-income families can be contacted directly by the companies and offered help. The aim is to ensure that the "social tariffs" get to the people that need them most.

Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, said the energy suppliers had agreed to increase "social assistance" from £50m a year to £150m by 2011. The money will be used to switch consumers to lower tariffs and insulate homes.

Kate Jopling, the head of public affairs at the charity Help the Aged, described the measures as a "sticking plaster to hold back a catastrophe". She said: "While it is welcome news ... this initiative does not go nearly far enough to deal with the looming fuel poverty crisis."

The Government's announcement came at the end of the week in which Mr Brown saw a rerun of the political crisis he faced in his early years as Chancellor. Lorry drivers blockaded roads into London and in Wales to demand that a planned 2p rise in fuel tax be scrapped and that "essential users" should be granted a rebate. The only time between the 1997 and 2001 elections when the Labour government looked vulnerable was when Mr Brown suspended rises in fuel taxes after a similar blockade.

Separately yesterday, Britain's Silverjet airline announced it had stopped flights after failing to get a $5m loan from Abu Dhabi-based investors, becoming the third London to New York business class-only carrier to run out of money.

Europe

Luxembourg's Finance Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs the commission of European Union finance ministers, issued a call to all EU governments yesterday to hold their nerve and avoid the temptation to use the tax system to relieve the misery of high oil prices. He reminded them that, when they met in Manchester in 2005, they agreed that such a move would encourage demand and send the wrong message to oil producers.

That is not what France's President, Nicolas Sarkozy, wanted to hear yesterday, after a week of protests by French truckers and fishermen left several motorways blocked and ports paralysed. M. Sarkozy suggested capping fuel taxes if the oil price rose further.

In the Netherlands, the protests caused less inconvenience, but made more noise when, at 11.45am on Thursday, lorry drivers across the country simultaneously blew their horns in protest at diesel prices. In Bulgaria, lorry and bus drivers launched a joint protest.

The protest spread to the seas yesterday, as fishermen across Europe went on a one-day strike, blocking ports. The biggest demonstrations were in Spain and Portugal where 10,000 protesters converged on Madrid. Some handed out free fish to underline their point that, with the current cost of fuel, they are practically giving their catches away. Passers-by pushed and shoved to get their hands on the free hake.

Meanwhile, the Newcastle to Scandinavia ferry route is being cut by the Danish company DFDS Seaways, who said it was a loss-making service incapable of being turned around. The company blamed "dramatically increasing oil prices, over-capacity in the travel marketplace and the economic slowdown".

The United States

There are signs that the fuel crisis is persuading Americans to think about leaving the car in the garage. In March this year, the number of miles driven by American motorists was 11 billion fewer than in March 2007, according to the Transportation Department. That is the sharpest drop year on year that the department has ever recorded, and the first fall of any kind recorded in the month of March since 1979.

The US Energy Department projects that this year, domestic gas consumption will drop by 190,000 barrels a day and overall petroleum use by 330,000 barrels a day, the first annual fall since 1991. But those figures look less impressive when expressed as percentages. Eleven billion fewer miles is a drop of 4.3 per cent and 330,000 barrels is less than 1 per cent of the country's total daily consumption.

Even so, this is good news for the environment, since the US's greenhouse gas emissions fell by nine million tonnes in the first quarter of 2008. And insurance companies report a sharp drop in road accidents.

An increasing number of employers, anxious to keep their staff, are offering them the option of working longer but fewer days, to cut out journeys to work. There is a plan to offer public employees on New York's Long Island the opportunity to work four 10-hour days, instead of five eight-hour days – a move which, it is reckoned, would save more than 30 barrels of oil a day. When Kent State University, in Ohio, offered this opportunity to 94 security staff, 78 of them snapped it up.

But the changing travelling habits have created problems for America's bus and subway systems, which are having to cope with a sudden increase in passengers at the same time that they are paying more for fuel. In Eugene, Oregon, 16 per cent more people took the bus this month than in April, but the town's main bus company, Lane Transit District, is losing money and cannot afford to expand.

Airlines, which are struggling to break even, are reluctant to raise the price of tickets and are introducing fees for baggage handling instead. American Airlines has slapped a $16 fee on the first piece of baggage checked in by economy-class passengers. Other airlines have followed.

But Southwest Airlines, in California, is laughing, because it took a gamble at the start of the year and bought 70 per cent of the fuel it estimated it would need in a full year for a paltry $51 a barrel – two-fifths of the current price. It is probably the only US airline that will be able to make a profit without increasing charges.

In Northern California, one man thought he had found a way to profit from the crisis. He was spotted rummaging around in the garbage behind a Burger King, with a tube and a storage bin. When police caught up with him, they found that he had 2,500 gallons of used fryer grease stolen from various restaurants. Chip pan fat is worth more than four times what it was a few years ago, making that haul worth more than £3,000.

Outside Seattle, the owner of a pizza restaurant is thinking of installing a CCTV camera over its 50-gallon cooking-oil barrel to keep rustlers away. "Fryer grease has become gold," its owner, Nick Damianidis, told The New York Times. "And just over a year ago, I had to pay someone to take it away."

making waffles, want one?

blueberry Bgurl preserves?

wonderful dark roast celebes?

rolling one gathers no moss---mm. maybe south africa and apartheid! who knows?

let me hit the streets.....

Waffles?

How appropo for today!

Making them in fair reflection of Harold Ickes?

LOL

we love you,

hang in there lass.

and split the delegates that way...

and soon. The push and the shove. The action and the REaction. What did I see in my most recent spin, out in the grandfather clock? Angry, hungry people in America's cities, taking it to the streets in the most violent of ways. Fire everywhere. They just can't keep up with the burning buildings. Naturally, our governments react only to try to control the raging populace and beat them down. Trying to fix the problems was out of the question because the biggest of wigs are making big bucks on all of it. So much destruction. Blood in the streets. Your grandma gets beaten by the cops and dies. One good thing comes out of the horror. You don't see so many huge lardasses walking around. They are all dead and some of them have been eaten. Ugh!

I,also, would like to add my objections to lucille's rude and insulting remarks to various people on this blog and also ask her to stop with the constant blog slowing stream of you tube videos.

She should be reminded that this blog is not her own personal myspace page and perhaps should be asked to take a 'time out' to reflect on her past posts.

On a happier note ,I sure hope sams live appearance tomorrow carries with it good news.Cant wait.

thats a great idea, ya know...

i could make a mold that would would make a 'Big ears "W"' Pancake, or the ever popular "Cheney Torture Waffle"

made with super hot habenerro's...

Levin is the cause of the problem (3+ / 0-)
Recommended by:gmb, HoosierDeb, loveendures
The biggest force behind the Michigan move is Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who has been irritated for years that a big state like his has been taking a back seat to smaller states. Iowa and New Hampshire get all the attention, in addition to millions of dollars from the campaigns and the media, who keep their restaurants and hotels full, their rental cars on the road and their television stations flush with cash from ads.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...

"This is nothing like your mom waffles!"

Thee Acme Waffle Company

but looky looky who dropped in right on time.....

((Guy Fawkes)) where have you been old fuck? still unpacking are you?

missed you!

Buchanan called McClellend "A JUDAS".

Now, you can't have a Judas unless you have a Jesus.

Who's Jesus in this allusion? It's George W. Bush!

This isn't the first time an emperor like Bush has been referred to as a 'divinity'.

During the Roman Era -- the time Jesus is said to have been living -- the Romans lost their republic to the forces of tyranny. It was Octavian (nephew of Julius Caesar) through years of systematic removal of his opposition (through exile, by assassinating, intimidating, confiscating personal property, arresting on trumped up charges, etc.) and finally the defeat of Marc Antony, turned the republic into an Empire with himself, Octavian, as the Emperor Augustus. Once he was emperor, temples were erected to worship him.

This "Cult of the Emperor" seems to be alive now. In the Bush temples, however, the statues will need to show Bush nude because we know the emperor has no clothes.

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

Please sign wexlers petition to begin impeachment hearings against Dick cheney.It's never too late.

MMRULES
new
Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 1:31pm.
I,also, would like to add my objections to lucille's rude and insulting remarks to various people on this blog and also ask her to stop with the constant blog slowing stream of you tube videos.

She should be reminded that this blog is not her own personal myspace page and perhaps should be asked to take a 'time out' to reflect on her past posts.

On a happier note ,I sure hope sams live appearance tomorrow carries with it good news.Cant wait.

******
We all could use some good news on the Sammy front,That's for sure.. :)

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

Why not just follow the exit polls they already have?

~-~-~

Harold Ickes is such a fucking liar!

What about the FACT that Hillary said she would take her name off the ballot in MI and then didn't?

And think about giving him some money too, if you can. We sure wouldn't want to lose him (unless it's to the WH).

That is obvious from what Icky is saying now.

of time lucille.Get in your 2 cents while your still allowed too.
Soon you will be joining war dog and intellect in the outer reaches of the blogasphere.

S P I T

that the only solution is a tiered nationwide primary...I went to my state caucus and was NOT able to vote for who I wanted...Edwards...my choice had been decided by the earlier state votes...that is fundamentally unfair in a primary... we should have a nationwide primary to narrow the field down to 5 or so, then several months later have another that narrows the field again to anyone with over 30% or so support then at the convention choose through delegates the strongest candidate...It will cost more money and we will have to vote more than once, but we will also arrive at a candidate that represents the entire democratic party....just saying...

When will an Obama supporter ask this very important question about "principles?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmUVr_Qt2Wg

http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/30/news/economy/oil_cftc/?postversion=20080...

Oil trading probe may uncover manipulation
But overall, any wrongdoing is likely to play a small part in soaring crude prices. Meanwhile, speculators aren't expected to hang.

By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: May 31, 2008: 10:28 AM EDT
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Speculation is not illegal. Markets need oversight and regulation capable of acting swiftly to prevent capitalism from cannibalizing itself.

The recent credit crisis is the result of new investment vehicles and techniques being introduced into the market without regulatory oversight. The market does not always know best.

The claim that oil prices have escalated because the supply is static while demand is increasing is only partially true.

The demand for purchasing futures in oil increased. Huge amounts of money began to flow into oil futures speculation after oil began to rise slightly. More demand for purchasing oil futures = higher prices for oil futures = higher prices for oil.

This may seem terribly esoteric, but there is a distinct difference between the demand for oil and the demand for oil futures though an increase in the demand for either, or both, results in higher oil prices.

Despite the new demands for oil placed on the market by China and India and nearby regions, the new demand is not five times what it was nor will it be five times what it was anytime soon. And yet the price of oil IS five times what it was.

Why? The demand for purchasing oil futures is much more than five times what it was. It is dozens upon dozens more than it was. The more futures they buy, the more the price of oil rises and the easier and less risky it is (or appears to be) to make more money by buying more oil futures.

Oil future speculation is not the only reason for the increasing price of oil, nor was it necessarily the trigger that began the recent rapid rise, but I believe that speculation in the futures market is much more responsible for what we are witnessing than is being claimed by the "experts".

It is a perfect example of a bubble-like rise in price that could have been short circuited by a regulatory agency with the power to suspend the futures market long enough to allow it to cool.

But the Conservatives and the laissez-faire marketeers and the Republicans fight tooth and nail against any type of market regulation.

The mortgage crisis and the subsequent credit crisis, followed by the oil crisis, ought to be enough to make the "let the market decide" idiots see the light.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...

Looks like the Clintons want to destroy the DNC and replace it with the DLC.

Look at this --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgyqWydgLz0

Wierd. This can't help the Dem Party, it can only harm it!

This is thuggery.

The Clintons must feel "entitled" to break the rules, and must feel entitled to act like thugs too.

by digby

It quite amusing watching these members of the press dance on the head of a pin trying to sell us on the idea that they didn't actually kiss George W. Bush's ass for nearly six years before it finally became too unfashionable to do so. They are acting as if this has never been brought up before and they must defend their honor.

Sorry guys. Scotty is just saying what everybody who pays attention to this stuff already knew. Remember this?

Con't

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

Exactly.The media is acting like mcclennen's admissions that we were all lied into this war is something 'New'.

anyone who is active in politics has known this for years.the mainstream media in this country is as much as a mouthpiece for the Bush administration as dana parino or tony snow ever was.

when the committee is going to vote or decide on mich. and florida.

is it today?

And reward the one who broke her pledge.

Clinton's going to steal it.

by dday

Let me be the first to congratulate Digby for getting credentialed to the 2008 DNC. It's richly deserved. I'll be there as one of the representatives for Calitics, and through the state blogger program we'll actually be seated on the floor with the California delegation. So between us, there'll be non-stop convention coverage!!! Because, you know, that's exactly what we do here.

Link

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

She wonders why a candidate would live up to the rule not to participate? She wonders why they followed the rules of her committee?

That's a Hillary supporter for you.

probably not retarded. "Dopey and jerky" sounds like a definite possibility tho'.

"It's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything." - Hillary Clinton

made a ruling devised to punish Mi and Fl for VIOLATING the primary rules (scheduling a super early primary vote in those states). The punishment was that there would be NO Dem campaigning -- the campaigns being big revenue moneystreams for a state. THAT, my friend maintains, was the punishment. It had nothing to do with taking candidates' names off the ballot or not counting the subsequent votes. The punishment was not to deny the vote count.

I don't know if he's correct, but it sounds okay. Is this the Clinton argument?

More Good News ! :)

Source: New York Times

Strong Backing for Ex-Governor's Appeal (54 Former State AG's File Brief Supporting Seigelman)

By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: May 31, 2008

Fifty-four former state attorneys general filed a brief Friday supporting the appeal of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, convicted two years ago on bribery and corruption charges in a prosecution depicted by his supporters as politically motivated. Robert Abrams, a former New York attorney general and an author of the brief, said the document was unprecedented in bringing together a large number of former top state judicial officers, mostly Democrats but also some Republicans. Mr. Abrams said it reflected “strong feelings” that an injustice had been done to Mr. Siegelman, a Democrat who was freed on bond from a federal prison in March after serving nine months.

Last year, 44 of the former attorneys general petitioned Congress to look into the Siegelman case, which a House committee is now doing.

Con't-DU

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

all of the very COOL Sederites.
What the fuck is going on???

Fire Dog Lake:

By: emptywheel Saturday May 31, 2008 10:18 am

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/31/the-mi-challenge/

And,

Liveblogging the Rules Meeting — It’s Getting Hot In Here
By: Jane Hamsher Saturday May 31, 2008

http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/31/liveblogging-the-rules-meeting-its-getting-hot-in-here/

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

what is up with you & Lucille?
This has been going on now for some time.
I know I have been OUT of the loop - but
what the hell is up???

Off To Denver
Submitted by MMRules on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 2:09pm.
by dday

Let me be the first to congratulate Digby for getting credentialed to the 2008 DNC. It's richly deserved. I'll be there as one of the representatives for Calitics, and through the state blogger program we'll actually be seated on the floor with the California delegation. So between us, there'll be non-stop convention coverage!!! Because, you know, that's exactly what we do here.

Link

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WOW, that's great!!!

It had nothing to do with taking a candidates names off the ballot or not counting the subsequent votes. The punishment was not to deney the vote count.

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So, Hillary lied.

Your friend sounds like he has it half-right.

But, why would the DNC say that the delegates could NOT be seated according to the rules set forth by the committee?

"We need to think about November." - Hillary hack.

Ummmm... Obama and his supporters have been THINKING ABOUT THAT for many weeks now. Hillary's the one that's fucking that up, doughboy.

Shoot the Messenger welcomes David Sirota.

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I'm Not the only one..

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

my lawn - - I'll be back!

Digby,hopefully Sam too..

And,others..

We will have some Great insights into what will be going on there..

Plus,Sam can interview her.. :)

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

Enough of this campaign spending dominating the primaries (as well as the general elections).

Really, it's not the issues that states seem to be concerned about, but how much campaign money a candidate spends in their state prior to the election.

If the primary election occurred on one day for all states, following a number of sanely-arranged, issue-centered, accessible network media broadcast debates, it would make more sense.

have the house sargent at arms go physically bring carl rove in to testify if he doesn't do so on his own.

Man i cant wait to see that.

http://judiciary.house.gov/newscenter.aspx?A=979

But who cares about Air America anymore?

Laura and Sam are the last remnants of a once vital network. Mark Green knows nothing about what makes good leftwing radio. He wouldn't know leftwing if it smacked him in the behind. 'Oh Barack Obama, he is just a community organizer'. Really, Mark?

First they replaced Randy Rhodes with Joyce Behar, and then Roseanne Barr (see where they're going with this?), because Randi doesn't have a fanbase, no, she has 'a demographic'.

Then, he gets rid of 'the future of Air America' (in the words of Al Franken), Sam Seder.

Well I say - good riddance to Air America, and it's incompetent management, which as always is 'more avarice than inspiration' (to borrow a phrase from Thomas Harris).

So what shows are left on Air America? There is Laura Flanders on the weekends.

I don't listen to Lionel. (What a perfect reflection of Mark Green he is.)

Thom Hartmann - I always listen to, but I listen to him on NovaM Radio, so I don't have to switch over when Randi Rhodes comes on.

Rachel Maddow. Hmmm... Nowadays I listen to Jeff Farias on NovaM too. I switch between the two a lot.

Then Mike Malloy - also on NovaM, of course.

And by the way, I think Sam needs a good co-host. The technical staff doesn't really do. They certainly don't replace Janeane Garofalo - not by a long shot.

Some reason from the committee! Who is this guy?

[Primary was] not flawed as long as we penalize Obama for following the rules.

if Sam will continue to be the editor of AAR's website if they don't give him the job.It's disgusting the way their auditioning maron against him,as well as others.

I like maron a lot but sam is,without a doubt,the next in line for the empty time slot.Boy i wish novam would hire him so he could make a 'clean' break from AAR.

what a joke.

We want to break rules and be rewarded for it.

And listen to those Clinton hacks.... it's okay to break the rules! It's okay! As long as MY candidate wins.

got a big and well deserved applause for her rebutal to the dishnest arguments of the michigan governor (he's now claiming hilllary played by the rules, now as i type!)

she's great, now i wish she was running for president (or at least vp)

well said.Sam is gone and the only show i can stomach is 'ring of fire'.I don't think they even get paid to do it so maybe thats why their still on.

It really is a great show despite the fact i think rfk jr. is a hilly fan.The PAP attack is always good but your right,it seems that all the owners of AAR want it to fail.

They may be new world order for all we know.

always guilty of some lookism can't avoid noticing how they look like republicans, the whole dirty bunch of 'em

Ok, this is probably really dumb but...is it really only one "guy" on duty at a time? (I mean there has to be more than one person overall,a detail or whatever, but...) Couldn't Karl Rove just keep running away from one guy with a gun? I mean, he'd probably have advance notice, right? If Congress can't put out an APB/BOLO, does this really work? It seems like he wouldn't even have to leave the country to get away, just keep "not being in."

Can they deputize people?

And, I heard on Randi that technically they even gave that power away. J. Edgar convinced them (surprise!).

"MY MOMMA TAUGHT ME TO PLAY BY THE RULES."

All Right!

LOL, i'm not sure.I heard it on randi also.I think it's probably more than one old dude with a walker.I hope.

But i do belive congress still has that power if i understood randi correctly.

Amen Sistah!

"MY MOMMA TAUGHT ME TO PLAY BY THE RULES."- DB

:)

to lift off at 5 pm.New toilet to be on board.

Man thats a long time to hold it.I don't want to know what they've been doing in the meantime.

Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 2:53pm.
well said.Sam is gone and the only show i can stomach is 'ring of fire'.
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Sam always lasers right to the heart of each topic. Sam wastes no time. Sam consistently covers the most important issues and does so thoroughly. And Sam's interviews are THE best, superb.

I agree, closest thing to Sam is Ring of Fire. However, the RofF guys lack interview skills. Like Hartmann, they don't let the guest (the expert/expert witness/authority) extrapolate with the majority of the time allotted for the interview. With RFK2 and Pap (and Hartmann is guilty of this also), the guest gets cut off and one never gets the full extent of the expert's information/contribution. Interviews where the interviewer wants equal time are usually a BIG frustration and disappointment. (Ego-bags don't make good interviewers; they need to learn some humility in the presence of another expert....).

Oh, I miss Sam.

What slot would NovaM promote for a live Sam show? I keep asking myslef that question. What slot would their sort of home station KPHK Phoenix give Sam. It appears problematic; they have a popular line-up now. Yet I agree, I would prefer Sam got out from under Green et al and their not subtle DLC/Hillary point of view.

After the Florida portion of the meeting was finished, I watched an impromptu press conference in the lobby of the Marriott that included Jon Ausman, Senator Nelson, former Senator Graham, Rep. Wexler and a couple other Florida Democrats. The theme was one of unity. Ausman said he could accept Rep. Wexler's proposal for seating the Florida superdelegates with 1/2 vote each. Generally, the theme was one of unity. The speakers gave the sense that they feel there will be a resolution from the Rules Committee today that will make satisfy most of them. Avi Zenilman has a similar report.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/floridas-democratic-leaders-expect.ht...

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Ooooo! That was good. Thank you Todd Spangler on CSPAN... all the boos and hisses came from CLINTON SUPPORTERS while Obama surrogates were making their case.

THAT'S HILLARY supporters for you.

"...The punishment was not to deny the vote count."

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It's a good theory, but as this is a public issue that can only carry so far. They still have to give the appearance of issuing some form of "punishment" to those who decided to move their primaries anyway, and appease as many voters in those states as they can.

My gut says they'll split the delegates to match the current national split, then allow the supers to do as they wish. I would far rather they just followed the rules, and make sure it's CLEAR that it's because of those who decided to move it in the first place; revoke their super-status, and banish them to a remote island with nothing more than sporks to survive.

Portland was the latest city to host a performance of Voices of a People's History of the United States, the primary-source companion to Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States.

The book features the words of rebels, dissenters and visionaries from our past -- and present.

The Portland performance included readings by actor Viggo Mortensen, performance poet Staceyann Chin, singer Shontina Vernon, musician Eddie Vedder, poet and musician Trevino L. Brings Plenty, actor Michael Ealy, Portland student activist Sarah Levy, editor and author Anthony Arnove, and other actors and activists.

For a review of the event see:

"Viggo Mortensen and Eddie Vedder sing the revolution on a hot Portland night"

by Kristi Turnquist
The Oregonian
Sunday May 18, 2008

"Friday night, the line outside First Baptist Church in downtown Portland stretched around the block . . ."

YES YES YES.I'm not sure who is on before randi but that would be a good slot for sam.Randi and Malloy are not going to be moved.

Let us hope that Sam's live 6:30 appearance tomorrow will give us the good news we have all been waiting MONTHS to hear.

Roslyn Zinn, 85; blended social activism with the arts

http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2008/05/20/1211338...
Lovely photo of them...

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"After years as a teacher and social worker, I turned seriously to painting, which throughout my life had sparked and enlivened my spirit," Ms. Zinn wrote in a brief introduction to "Painting Life," a collection of her work that was published last year, a few months after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. "What I see in the world, so burdened and troubled, and yet beautiful in nature and in the human form, impels me to seek to create images that give the possibility of hope."

A glorious spray of tulips, the gentle curve of an unclothed hip, the deep smile lines etched around her husband's mouth - Ms. Zinn's brush found in each of her subjects a sense of serenity and promise. And those same qualities, present in her along with a radiant delight in life, impressed those she met her during her long marriage to historian Howard Zinn as they walked arm in arm in marches protesting wars from Vietnam to Iraq.
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Thanks Guy! I nearly forgot!

I think they should bring a couple port-o-pottys up there and teather them to the space station.Then they could suit up and head on out if this happens again.

Two weeks before Ms. Zinn died, she told Carlsson-Paige during a visit that she had just finished two paintings. In one, Ms. Zinn sensed a need for something more.

"She said, 'I had to put an apple in it,' which I saw - it's this beautiful yellow apple," said Carlsson-Paige, who asked her friend whether she was pleased with the paintings. "And she said, 'Oh, I'm very happy with them.' She was just completely joyful."
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I always wondered if Myla Seder was named after Myla Kabat-Zinn...

gives a fuck about Howard Zinn...

There are real issues to deal with.

Why waste the time blogging about Zinn?

spectrum.

Fuck the DNC. Fuck the candidates too. Let the people vote. Obama will win anyway, and won't it be that much sweeter when he does.

One "man", one vote. The people are more important than the process.

Disenfranchising the people because the assholes in charge behaved greedily, is saying the people get what they deserve because their leaders are dicks.

Rise above it, people.

'Sides...rules were made to be tested and broken.

Nora, for what it's worth, I agree with your brainiac friend. It's was always about the gittas.

Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 3:23pm.
I think they should bring a couple port-o-pottys up there and teather them to the space station.Then they could suit up and head on out if this happens again.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that you don't get a lot of phone calls from rocket scientists, do you?

You're right! Heck, every other construction site has a dozen or more... Somewhere I have a model rocket kit from the 90's that's like a miniature port-o-potty. Might be time to donate that to my rocketry club.

how the Hillary people can go on and on about how we have to count the Florida vote...

How can that vote be a hallmark of democracy when only one candidate was on the ballot?

I was A joking.i'm well aware that port-o-pottys would be too cost prhibitive.

I do work for the Bush science team however.If george says we can do it then who am i to argue.

was a euphemism for the voices in his head?

the way they are CB? Not even Obama wants this to happen this way.

SOMETHING needs to be done to correct this.

I would rather start the whole fuckin thing over again than live with disenfranchising anyone.

BTW CB, WRONG!!! I am not for Hillary.

Hmmm, I'm mulling that one. I don't think I agree with that sentiment. I've read some of his books and I don't think that Mr. Zinn would appeal to idiots. You should rethink that statement, in my opinion, of course. It did convey an ample expression of anger, though.

the element of rage is creeping back into his karma. He should be on the alert.

http://counterpunch.org/ccr05312008.html

Bugliosi Makes the Case
By CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER

If Vincent Bugliosi were prosecuting George W. Bush for the murder of the more than 4,000 American soldiers who have died in Iraq, he would seek the death penalty.

“If I were the prosecutor, there is no question I would seek the death penalty,” Bugliosi told Corporate Crime Reporter in a wide-ranging interview.

Bugliosi is the author of the just published book The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Vanguard Press, 2008).

“I’m urging here that an American jury try George Bush for first degree murder. I want to see him on trial for murder before an American jury. And if they convict him, it will be up to the jury to decide what his punishment is. One of the options would be the imposition of the death penalty. If I were prosecuting him, absolutely I would seek the death penalty. As Governor of Texas, George Bush signed death warrants – 152 out of 152 – most of them for people who only committed one murder.”

Bugliosi said he is sending a copy of his book to all fifty state Attorneys General, offering his assistance in prosecuting Bush for homicide.

“I’m herein enclosing a copy of my book The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,” Bugliosi writes in the letter to the Attorneys General. “I hope you will find the time to read it and that you will agree with its essential conclusion – that George W. Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers who have died fighting his war in Iraq.”
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Makes Vincent Bugliosi his attorney general.The only problem would be there aren't enough nooses around for all the convictions that would follow.

Bug-liosi (ala Manson) huh....

I thought you were an Edwards man....

What about considering Zinn makes many of us idiots?

"Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind."

The trolls are back

Forget about that asshole. He is a worthless scumbag. A zit on the ass of John McCain.

Hey Hows it going Girlie?

Im gonna watch that DVD tonight :)

Looks good

Really

BTW Alice are you a member of ZNet

That is the Anarchism and Socialism haven. The new site is phenomenal. Blogs, Vids, Articles, Chomsky even has his own blog there.

So how have you been ? :)

this is a political blog in a Democratic republic...

From what I gather Zinn is a proponent of anarchy (a very ill-defined word...means, basically whatever one wants it to mean) and (again from what's been posted here) he has no idea how anarchy would be achieved, how long it would take or the societal costs involved.

To me, discussing his ideas as much relevance than discussing how many angles are dancing on the head of a pin.

right NOW the DNC rules and by-laws committee is meeting...

Excerpt from 'The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla'
By Stephen King
PROLOGUE: ROONT

ONE

Tian was blessed (though few farmers would have used such a word) with three patches: River Field, where his family had grown rice since time out of mind; Roadside Field, where ka-Jaffords had grown sharproot, pumpkin, and corn for those same long years and generations; and Son of a (expletive), a thankless tract which mostly grew rocks, blisters, and busted hopes. Tian wasn't the first Jaffords determined to make something of the twenty acres behind the home place; his Gran-pere, perfectly sane in most other respects, had been convinced there was gold there. Tian's Ma had been equally positive it would grow porin, a spice of great worth. Tian's particular insanity was madrigal. Of course madrigal would grow in Son of a (expletive). Must grow there. He'd gotten hold of a thousand seeds (and a dear penny they had cost him) that were now hidden beneath the floorboards of his bedroom. All that remained before planting next year was to break ground in Son of a (expletive). This chore was easier spoken of than accomplished.

Clan Jaffords was blessed with livestock, including three mules, but a man would be mad to try using a mule out in Son of a (expletive); the beast unlucky enough to draw such duty would likely be lying legbroke or stung to death by noon of the first day. One of Tian's uncles had almost met this latter fate some years before. He had come running back to the home place, screaming at the top of his lungs and pursued by huge mutie wasps with stingers the size of nails.

They had found the nest (well, Andy had found it; Andy wasn't bothered by wasps no matter how big they were) and burned it with kerosene, but there might be others. And there were holes. Yer-bugger, plenty o' them, and you couldn't burn holes, could you? No. Son of a (expletive) sat on what the old folks called "loose ground." It was consequently possessed of almost as many holes as rocks, not to mention at least one cave that puffed out draughts of nasty, decay-smelling air. Who knew what boggarts and speakies might lurk down its dark throat?

Continues......... http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/excerpts/2003-11-14-wolves-calla_x.ht...

has changed to chat room mode.

later.

http://counterpunch.org/kozloff05302008.html

From a Texan-Venezuelan to an Ecuadorian Giuliani

By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF

Having failed to halt the tide of South America’s Pink Tide, Washington is seeking to cultivate relationships with secessionist leaders in order to facilitate the breakup of countries which share left leaning governments. In Bolivia, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has explicitly supported demands of the political opposition for greater regional autonomy in the eastern section of the country and has funneled millions of dollars to the right.

It’s an inflammatory move which has incited a diplomatic firestorm throughout the region. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, an important ally of the Morales government in La Paz, has said that his country will not stand for secession in Bolivia’s eastern lowland states. The stage now seems set for confrontation, as Bolivia's largest and richest state overwhelmingly backed a referendum calling for greater autonomy earlier this month.

Chávez declared that his government has not meddled in the domestic affairs of other Latin American nations, but would do so if Bolivian states now seeking greater autonomy from Bolivia's central government push for total independence. On his weekend radio and television program, the Venezuelan leader blamed "oligarchs" and "fascists" in Bolivia for the unrest.
"The CIA and its lackeys" aimed at seizing control of regional governments through illegal referendums, Chávez said, "but we will defeat that plan through integration, political union and ideological strength."

News of the secession movement in Bolivia has alarmed the Venezuelan authorities. It’s not difficult to see why: in western Venezuela, the right wing opposition is pushing for greater autonomy from the central government. In response to the political crisis in Bolivia, Chávez likened opposition efforts to win control of states near Venezuela's border with Colombia to "separatist" moves in the impoverished Andean nation to the south. With secession rapidly turning into a worrisome political dilemma for regional governments, right wing opposition figures are now coming to the fore.

Who are these secession leaders who wish to derail South America’s Pink Tide?
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I think they all misquoted Dean this morning recounting his talk with Al Gore. Didn't he say that Al Gore told him
"this is not about you it is about your COUNTRY"...they all said that he said, "it is not about you it is about your PARTY

Please help me on this...

Ever heard of Noam Chomsky. Labels are just that ; bullshit labels.

A Democratic Anarchial Populist leaning society is a HIGHLY organized construct.

As a matter of fact there is a video of Chomsky discussing just that. Hold on lemme find it.

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Noam Chomsky - Questions about Anarchism - 1 of 5

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nO2e0DrnYg4&feature=related

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Watch and Learn

I think of him primarily as someone who is at his best pointing out where the bodies are buried, long after the "winners" have re-written history. Most everything Zinn-related i've experienced has been historical in nature, and talking about what he thinks it says about society and how to try and prevent it from continuing to happen. I've never seen him advocate anarchy, though. And none of it precludes discussing what's going on now in the DNC rules committee.

What a bummer :/

I'm on my way out to work outside...let me know what you think after you see it...

has switched to tantrum mode.

Later, Chubs!

Those who know me from other blogs know I get really pissed off when I think good people are rationalizing trampling someone's rights.

Somehow I can accept it, even expect it, from the thugs, but when I think we are doing it, I panic a little, and have trouble keeping my trap shut.

That said, you all know how I feel.

Later.

what karma deals you when you yield to rage. Mr. Bubba has also long had difficulty with dealing with subject matter that doesn't fall within his personal guidelines. Little by little, one can see his rage sneaking back in to the picture. He must exercise caution to stay above the fray, as they say.

Divide and launch an insurgency. Probably very mercenary in nature. Mercs hired via American funneled capital.

I don't think it will work though.

As a matter of fact, didn't they just announce another* alliance?

************ Here:

The Socialist United States of Latin America?

What are the real interests behind the creation of the Union of South American Nations?

By Carlos Prado

28/05/08 "WSWS" -- - Last Friday, May 23, presidents and representatives of 12 South American countries met in Brasilia to sign a treaty creating the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20003.htm

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Plus Alice , OPEC is behind Hugo too.

Chubbs just KNOWS for certain what is going on. He is CERTAIN what we must do and HOW we must do it.

Anything else, he seems to dismiss as looney leftist crap.

I don't get it.

Maybe he had a bad day. Who fuckin knows.

I know one thing. I am getting mighty sick of him trying to bully Alice just cause she thinks outside the box.

We need to put an end to that shit. Pronto.

You are correct.Dean did say Country,not party.Msnbc(general electric) is as much of a joke as fox news and all they care about are ratings.

I watched this event today from the DNC RBC and thought to myself … self I have a pretty good understanding of this…HA what a moron. What I see here is a group that has delegated those they want to hear from and those they don’t. They want diversity and fairness so we look at a state as diverse as Florida and decide the Republicans there did a very bad thing moving the primary up and took away the Democrat Party delegates.

Oh…the very bad thing that New Hampshire did by moving its vote up to be second against the wishes of the rules committee. I mean diversity be damned it is all good. Oh and when the Republicans in South Carolina did a very bad thing and moved up the primary well shucks that was them there bad Republicans.

We had a President that with the aid of a constitutional body barred from entering into a state election process do just that only for a second and then said we unrang that bell and it can never be done again. We disenfranchise votes and ignore their wishes in an effort to manipulate the system. We have another constitutional body led by a woman paralyzed with fear not able to enforce the laws of the land against an administration that has morally dipped lower than many third world nations I can think of.

They spoke today about being in touch with those on the ground and how important we are. Let me tell ya I am on the ground sitting next to the mushrooms that are getting fed regular by all those great folks helping me.

I am Bob, been around for a while.

Mind telling me a little about yerself ? :)

What do you enjoy, hobbies, etc?

:)

Where ya from?

principles above personalities...

cent it takes a big person to apologize..I have no idea what you did but thanks for being accountable...

In a nice way of course :)

The two best sources ive ever seen on whats happening in south america are the 2 books by john perkins:

'Confessions of an economic hit man'

'The secret history of the american empire'

Both out in paperback and stunning reading.

If you read this SJ, gimme a call if ya can bud. Got a few positive updates Id like to share with ya :)

Plus I just like rappin with ya

Here with sam since day one but only blog occasionally.

Thought that was Smedley Butler?

My Uncle Dave is big on that one. Told me all about it.

Goes to show that even the most heinous of actions perpetuated over time willingly by well people who do those things can lead to an awakening of concience.

I still don't trust Scotty though, Though I must admit, I am not familiar with the whole shindig.

Awakening of morality. Not bullshit Evangelical Gay bashing marching orders either. I mean real integrity and decency.

It is what we really need. People who actually give a fuck about other People.

Out of common decency and fellowship of Man.

But like I said, I am VERY skeptical of Scotty's awakening.

But as I said, I am not educated enough on the whole thing to pass judgement.

But if he did repent. More power to him. And that would definately be a very good sign. Cause he was fully indoctrinated. And People died because of his lies.

I am not a Holy Roller but I do Believe. And you can't lie to the Man upstairs eh

Read both those books.Belive me,John perkins is no scott McClellen.

"People should not be afraid of their governments.Governments should be afraid of their people"

I am itching :/ :)

in 10 minutes or so.Finally ,a toilet for those poor folks

We gotta try to get Sam and Maron to head on over.

Let AAR have the blue dog management.

scotty didn't reveal anything that us here havn't known for years.For the mainstream media to call McClennen's revelations 'shocking' is a slap in the face to anyone with a brain.

has some really good news for us all tomorrow at 6:30

because his life will be hell for about the next 3 years. He knew that and still came out with the book.

It is shocking that he is willing to take it up the ass for the truth(that we all knew all along)

Submitted by Bob26003 on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 4:48pm.
...It is what we really need. People who actually give a fuck about other People.
Out of common decency and fellowship of Man.
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Right plan, wrong species.

(n.b. Flatworm is also known as platyhelminth unless you don't have a lisp.)

but NovaM is trying to grow itself at a sustainable rate. I just feel like they took a big risk extending themselves enough to take in Randi; great decision, but with some potential risk. I think if we keep NovaM aware of the existing fanbase then they'll consider it once they see a way to make it work. And they need Rachael as well.

For those of you not watching the shuttle launch, load this in WMP:

http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx

T-minus three minutes...

Now, here's another statement I don't agree with. It is my opinion that Mr. McClellan has ample experience in taking it that way. (see a Mr. Gannon.)

I see bob you are a fellow king fan.Kudos to you.Ive read everything he's ever written.Helps to keep me sane in an insane world.

My niece Susannah was named after one of the characters in the gunslinger series.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

while circling the Earth.

just wrapping up From A Buick 8, and next starting the Dark Tower series. ;-)

stated they would be happy to go to novaM if offered a job there? It's not for them to say yes or no when they have not been asked, so your "trying to get to head on over" should be aimed not at sam and marc but at novaM management, they would be the ones to make the decisions to hire them and from what i understand (I may be wrong)they are more than willing were it not for not having the money right now to do it - they need to increase their membership and their revenues after which i am sure the first thing they'd do is to hire this very valuable talent if available at that point.

lol, they probably do

platyhelminthes...sorry to correct the corrector...

"Oh, Man! When you called 1-800-HungryPlumbers because of our 24-hour service, I didn't know the plugged toilet was so far away! This is ridiculous! You are NOT going to get the bargain rate I quoted over the phone! You'll be billed my travel time! PlUS, I don't think our principle that "sh-- flows downhill will work up here!"

I wonder if people read while taking a dump
Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 5:05pm.
while circling the Earth.
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Astronaut: "I had an obstruction."

Doc: "Where?"

Astronaut: "It wasn't geosynchronous."

platyhelminth
Submitted by mhappenow on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 5:08pm.
platyhelminthes...sorry to correct the corrector...
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You referred to several...all, actually, within the phylum. I referred to one.

(Ya gotcher singular and ya gotcher plural.)

Loved' from a buick 8'.

Just finished his brand new one "Duma Key" I do belive he is back in form.

I think were all going to find out at 6:30 tomorrow.I hope.

mhappenow,

If you had a foam bat and if I was within reach, I'd let you beat me with it.

Port-O-Gravity
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 3:34pm.
Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 3:23pm.
I think they should bring a couple port-o-pottys up there and teather them to the space station.Then they could suit up and head on out if this happens again.

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Who knows what's in that shuttle? Classic outhouse design completewith crescent moon...

although i still giggle at the words "ascent" and "duty". A friend of mine saw a foam strike visible around the 3:20 point (he's watching in HD), but probably no biggie. Just a few more launches and the Kibo module will be fully operational.

I'm so thankful that the current administration wasn't able to kill space exploration as they had originally planned.

funny movie...

couldn't do that Crank...bad karma

Then I may read Duma Key next... i would like to tackle the tower series all at once.

I haven't read King since i was in high school, so it's interesting to revisit his style, locations, references, etc. Last week i wrapped up Needful Things, which has been on my to-do list for many years. It's nice to take a break from exclusively reading politics or bedtime stories for my daughters. ;-)

Yes!Great launch. It always hits me that us humans are capable of such great things(the shuttle) and then i think of all the hell that is modern day earth and i just get depressed.How can a species so capable of beautiful kindness be capable of such horrible nightmares?

Oh Man, the audiobooks of the Dark Series are Excellent.

The First Three are read by Frank Muller, the remaining by George Guiddell.

The two very best readers I believe.

Also "Little Sisters of Eluria" is read by Muller

A torrent site called demonoid.com has Thousands of audiobooks. All the King and Koontz and Saul and Tolkien you could want.

If you would like me to get you an invite code I would be happy too.

To me, Nothing is more relaxing than a good audiobook.

I still say Wizard and Glass is the Best book I have ever listened to. Truely an amazing Love story, and from a Man who is supposedly the King of Horror.

So few realize that most of King's works are not horror. More Fantasy IMO.

IMO he is by far the best at Character developement. So good in fact, that even a dull plot is hard to put down.

Also Dolores Claiborne and Rose Red on audio are Fab. Beyond Fab.

Dolores Claiborne is probably the second best book I've ever listened too. Amazing!

The Film is OK too

Twas good indeed. Have you done "Blaze" yet.

Absolutely amazing. Truthfully I liked it better than Duma. The audio performance is astonashing.

There is also a short out called Gingerbread Girl.

And of course King's son Joe Hill has released "Heart Shape Box" and "20th Century Ghosts" The latter is a composition of shorts and novellas.

and yep, he is definately carrying the torch.

He will be the next Horror master. He allready makes Koontz look like an amatuer IMO.

How can a species so capable of beautiful kindness be capable of such horrible nightmares?

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The majority are not. It is the ruling classes clinging to power and wealth through the easiest means. Morals be damned.

how to post the stupid pictures w/out stretching the thread?

Seeing now that the bloggistocracy is smacking down and naming names, maintaining order and making sure everyone knows how and what to blog. Another purge in the works?

I was hoping that Sam might let a few trolls back in so the good people here don't cannibalize each other.

A little more love for Utah (anarchist?)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91028141

mhappenow,

I don't believe in the short term justice-dealing aspect of karma...at least not until there is a resurgence of leprosy.

The long term aspect doesn't appeal to me either. What good is justice if we cannot witness it? If one self-absorbed man reincarnates as a cockroach, one man learns a lesson. If one self-absorbed man instantly becomes a cockroach, everyone learns a lesson.

(The Universe screwed the pooch when it failed to put me in charge.)

John Saul - Black Lightening

Audio Books : Horror : MP3/128Kbps : English
Not my rip....but great quality.

Book Description:
For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer's bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal--crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair. Now the day of execution has come. A convicted killer will meet his end. Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she's dead wrong. . .

From Publishers Weekly
Fast pacing and skillful narrative misdirection make this supernatural thriller one of Saul's best, and one of his few not to focus on children in peril. Richard Kraven, the novel's heavy, is as nasty as they come: he eviscerates his victims before they die, in the misguided hope of learning the mystery of life. He also seems to be extending his murder spree after his execution in the electric chair. At least that's what reporter Anne Jeffers tries to prove to the incredulous Seattle police as the killings strike ever closer to her home and family, apparently in retaliation for her help in putting Kraven behind bars. Saul ratchets up the suspense by intercutting chapters told from the points of view of Anne, detective Mark Blakemoor and a serial murderer who thinks of himself as "The Experimenter." He complicates matters by introducing another murderer and by raising suspicions about Anne's husband, Glen, who suffered a heart attack at the moment Kraven died and now experiences blackouts that coincide with the killings. Saul depends on remarkably unobservant cops and a contrived occult explanation to tie all the subplots together, but he sustains the mystery of the killer's identity and motives throughout.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1492061/775222/

That strange disparity is one reason why i make time for launches whenever possible... These things help me charge my batteries when the horrors humans can cause get me down.

Bob: I didn't realize that Demonoid was back up! I'm a fan of audio books as well, and listen mainly since my only time to "read" is during my hour+ commute each way. A good MP3 player makes for happier drive times.

I mostly enjoy King when he reads it himself. It takes a Maine-er to do those voices. And i'll be listening again in one month, when i drive a truck from the San Francisco to Portland, Maine. I'll be loaded with audio then. I was hoping to have a new sat radio for Sammy's new show but that's not looking likely. :'(

We should start our own King thread.I'm going to read BLAZE next.Isn't that an old unpublished sister to the bachman books.

And yes,one of the real treats of being a king fan is that iv'e lived close to him my whole life so i recognize all the 'Derry' locations he writes about.

You have to have your fantasy world.None of us can do politics 24 hours a day and stay sane.

The Stand will always be my fav.One of the greatest novels ever.

Just heard on CNN

Obama is resigning from his Church.

Nora, for what it's worth, I agree with your brainiac friend. It's was always about the gittas.

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Answer: It goes like this perhaps:

top campaign fundraising > top campaign $pending > top revenues to states and media > leading exposure to voters/viewership and increased NameRecognition/ImageBought > top vote tallies = the one with the purchased exposure wins

Hillary is BUSTING this established equation by creating high Name Recognition through name exposure by means of (false?) CONTROVERSY instead of spending campaign cash she doesn't have because noone wants to give her any. WOW, the Clintons are the most corrupt gamers in an already corrupt game.

keiran
to bloggers for your kindness and support...you know who you are
keiran
(sscr-y)
(that means sorry so chatroom-y)
off to cry and play my sad songs

Ickes stomped off in a huff. Just couldn't take his tit being bettered by Wexler's tat!

Lots a backroomin' goin' on now maybe?

it is simply cause and effect..can't argue with that can you Crank...

the justice issue is the Christian spin..

The philosophical explanation of karma can differ slightly between traditions, but the general concept is basically the same. Through the law of karma, the effects of all deeds actively create past, present, and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own life, and the pain and joy it brings to him/her and others. The results or 'fruits' of actions are called karma-phala. In religions that incorporate reincarnation, karma extends through one's present life and all past and future lives as well.

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

Happiness and misery, which are the common lot of humanity, are the inevitable effects of causes. From a Buddhist point of view, they are not rewards and punishments, assigned by a supernatural, omniscient ruling power to a soul that has done good or evil. Theists, who attempt to explain everything in this and temporal life and in the eternal future life, ignoring a past, believe in a ‘postmortem’ justice, and may regard present happiness and misery as blessings and curses conferred on His creation by an omniscient and omnipotent Divine Ruler who sits in heaven above controlling the destinies of the human race. Buddhism, which emphatically denies such an Almighty, All merciful God-Creator and an arbitrarily created immortal soul, believes in natural law and justice which cannot be suspended by either an Almighty God or an All-compassionate Buddha. According to this natural law, acts bear their own rewards and punishments to the individual doer whether human justice finds out or not.

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma.htm#1

What's going on? Did I miss sosmething? Are you okay?

Goes along with all the great book review shows Sam has had. Maybe it could also have an archives of Sam's book review interviews!

Guy Fawkes and Spunk-Monkey, it would be so nice...

It'll be interesting to see his statement on that later tonight. I gotta run out for now, will be back later once i wrap up some chores.

Keiren: I left a song for you last night that might help counter the sad songs; it does for me when my things get to their worst. I thought there was a reference to you being a San Francisco blogger; if i read that right and you're in this area, and need a hand with anything, feel free to speak up. ;-)

Can someone give me an update of what is happening at the DNC Rules Cmt meeting?

Look me up when u get to portland.Ive only done audio books once but i loved it.Didn't want to stop driving.

I even read Koontz(not as good as king) but he is my 'west coast version' of king.

His new book "the darkest evening of the year" is great if your a golden retreiver lover,or just a dog lover.It's a tribute to his golden who passed away.sad but uplifting.

"I make the rules, I interpret the rules, I break the rules, I am Authority, I am Hillary."

Waht a small bloggie world we live in! Let me know if you need me to pick up something across the country, a jackalope, etc...? ;-)

got his ass handed to him. Is that what happened?

Some King readers, eh! That takes me back! :) It's been a long time since I read anything of his or the overall "genre", in general. I used to inhale those books, plus those by Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, etc.

Another much lesser known, but really amazing author is Robert R. McCammon. He has a post-apocalyptic epic called Swan Song, akin to The Stand, that is incredible! ...talk about character development!

I was making prep for dinner

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

LOL,if my new world order info. proves correct please pisk me up 5 rocket launchers and a 4 year food supply.I don't think cheney and bush are going to give up power to some silly election.

I'll keep some 3 pound lobsters ready for you.

and then stopped...too ghoulish. he has a wonderful memoir called "On Writing"..very personal...

I love his references to my generation...full of great colloquialisms..

Submitted by toniD on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 5:48pm.
Just heard on CNN
Obama is resigning from his Church.
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Disgruntled Parishioner Dispewts Self

Barack Fires Brimstone

Sanctuary Sought Outside Church

Candidate's Race Colors Him Gone

"Swan Song" by McCammon is one of the best books iv'e ever read,and yes,it is McCammon's version of 'The Stand'

Long live Randell Flagg!

Great headlines
Love the last one particularly!!

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

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

Obama resigning from his church - CNN

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/31/174632/551/585/526231

Disappointed Barack caved in, but knew he would when he didn't go to bat for Wright. Hopefully, he will demonstrate greater resolve over policy issues, but I'm beginning to think no one can challenge the corporate consensus on any issue.

Silence.

And lets watch Robert's Rules of Order in action. G-d I HATE them, but they are interesting to watch.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

mhappenow,

I considered the possibility that you would take me to task for relying on the pop culture definition of karma. It's one of the many risks I take for the sake of a joke.

However, according to the final sentence in your citation, I did not venture far astray:

"...According to this natural law, acts bear their own rewards and punishments to the individual doer whether human justice finds out or not."

I am soliciting your vote for me as Mostly Benevolent Ruler Of The Universe. As such, I promise laboratory-grown chicken meat that never had consciousness in every pot, and immediately-gratifying-and-recognizable justice for all wrongs. And a pooper-scooper law.

here is a good one...the Tibetans do not believe in killing but as you know they eat mostly meat and barley. The way they "avoid karma".... they have the local Muslims kill the yaks and since they are already dead it is ok to eat.

I think this is hilarious..

http://www.waterbutts.com/Butt/index.html

Submitted by Nefferkitti on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 6:12pm.
Great headlines
Love the last one particularly!!
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Me, too. I'm expecting some flak for that one. Sometimes I pun my way into an angry mob.

New friends and bloggers i must go make dinner.

Kale and organic tomato home made pizza.This could get ugly.

See you all tomorrow for Sam's,hopefully, big announcement!

Yeah it's been a while. I turned a lot of my friends onto Swan Song and they all loved it too. I have never known a King fan to not like it, actually. I remember King even referencing McCammon in Library Policeman. I am asking one of my buds what the context was right now. I wanna say it was that the librarian wasn't able to keep Swan Song in stock or it kept getting stolen or something.

Both are amazing but the first, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" will make your eyes pop outta your head.

Reads like a spy novel; except it's all true!

Y'gotta check 'em out Bob. I know they have bookstores, even in W. Virginia...

www.flickr.com/photos/hdj

Sounds like Ickes
Submitted by toniD on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 6:04pm.
got his ass handed to him. Is that what happened?
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I don't know. I'm in as much dark as you. I tried to access C-SPAN online but gave up after several failed attempts. Usually a bloggy technogeek gives me an idiot-proof link to this stuff.

Quite childish.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

full Florida vote.

Yes, FLA and MI were played, and played extremely well. Expertly. That is the DNC's bad...

If they dig into the instigation behind the primary moves, they will probably find Bill as head cheerleader. There is no question in my mind this was planned from the git go.

Expose it and move on.

Stifled voices?...not my cup a joe.

Tap those in charge and fire'em all. Cast their asses out of politics forever. Whatever.

"RULES" and "courts" deciding things like this is how we ended up here.

Let the people vote.

Try this for accessing CSPAN and the rest of the CSPAN family of channels

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

The Clintonists are chanting DENVER...fuckers (1+ / 0-)
Recommended by:cookiesandmilk
Empty the room. Kick out ALL observers, Clinton and Obama supporters.

I wanted to listen before I listened to Rachel's show...

Do the people responsible for podcasts always go home early on Fridays?

"Usually a bloggy technogeek gives me an idiot-proof link to this stuff."
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Maybe I'm already paying a karmic price for upsetting Lucille?

for half vote.

What a woman!!!

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Motion denied. (1+ / 0-)
Recommended by:Dem in the heart of Texas
12 votes for.

15 against.

http://c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

Hope it works for you.

Small, but distinguished.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/nyregion/01drinking.html?em&ex=1212465...

Your link doesn't work for me. Can you link it?

Crank-Bait, Maybe they are!
Submitted by nora on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 5:22pm.

Port-O-Gravity
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 3:34pm.
Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 3:23pm.
I think they should bring a couple port-o-pottys up there and teather them to the space station.Then they could suit up and head on out if this happens again.

============================

Who knows what's in that shuttle? Classic outhouse design completewith crescent moon...

A Plush Flush- AZ Republic

Royal Restrooms also was elected when President Bush visited the Valley, Fuller said. He is the proud owner of what now could be called the First Flush, not bad for the (formerly) humble throne.

Cost for a one-night stand is $500-$2,500, depending upon the size of the toilet trailer. Local companies can also provide an attendant at an additional cost.

And though these traveling toilets sell for $30,000 to $110,000, those who rent them out say they are, yes, flushed with success.
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WayneMadsenReport.com
7-5-6

Even Bush's crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush's recent trip to Vienna. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush's visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House "toilet security" ("TOILSEC"), which has Austrians talking the most.

The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush's personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush's security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president's bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush's feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush's waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop.
[...]
http://www.rense.com/general72/fexc.htm

And if anyone can read German, here is the original article.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,374845,00.html

New BRR set to start around 7 p.m. EDT. Warning: Johnson's been hittin' the bottle again... ;-)

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for Hillary, did they?

For some reason your link worked when my own own route to C-SPAN streaming did not.

The Universe must be showing me its displeasure.

[Bait throws away his lottery ticket and reconsiders his next trip to the top of twenty feet of scaffolding.]

from getting invited to house parties and other lame social events. Then, two years ago, I began telling people that I am suffering from chronic, uncontrollable flatulence.

It seems to be working.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/nyregion/01drinking.html?em&ex=1212465...

Run, DNC!

By David Knowles
May 31st 2008 6:06PM

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/05/31/run-dnc/

Filed Under:eHillary Clinton, Democrats, Barack Obama, Breaking News

The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee met today to try and hammer out a solution to the problem of how to apportion Michigan and Florida's delegates.

There were many fireworks, but a compromise seems to be holding for Florida, where Clinton will take away a net gain of 19 delegates.

Michigan remains less clear. Clinton's Camp is fighting tooth and nail to seat all of the delegates in her favor, even though Obama's name wasn't even on the Michigan ballot.

Carl Levin, and the Michigan state Democratic party had suggested a compromise, giving Clinton a net gain of 10 delegates. The split would effectively kill Hillary's final chance of winning the nomination.

The hearing has been highly partisan, as one might expect. The big question now is how the committee will decide Michigan.

fomenting as much division as possible and there it it is---

THIS IS GOING TO THE CONVENTION

BAGHDAD — U.S. military deaths plunged in May to the lowest monthly level in more than four years and civilian casualties were down sharply, too, as Iraqi forces assumed the lead in offensives in three cities and a truce with Shiite extremists took hold.

But many Iraqis as well as U.S. officials and private security analysts are uncertain whether the current lull signals a long-term trend or is simply a breathing spell like so many others before.

Say "Hello" to President McCain!

Every Thursday Night, Liberal Politics and Pints

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By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN
Published: June 1, 2008

On Thursday night in Hell’s Kitchen, an impassioned discussion of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s remarks about the Bobby Kennedy assassination as a reason for her staying in the presidential race took place in the backyard of Rudy’s Bar and Grill. Across the yard, Rachel Maddow, a host on Air America Radio, poured glasses of beer for a table of friends and debated Senator John McCain’s war record.

Among the regular patrons at the bar on Ninth Avenue were a few unsuspecting tourists. Dozens of people were squeezed together talking politics, drinking beer and eating free hot dogs. The conversation was cut short for an anniversary toast.

“To many more years, and many more chapters,” said Justin Krebs, 30. Mr. Krebs was one of the founders of the progressive social networking group called Drinking Liberally that has been meeting at Rudy’s every Thursday night for the past five years.

“We knew our friends wanted to talk about politics and the state of the country, but it felt like that was a taboo thing to do in a social setting,” Mr. Krebs said. “We wanted to create an environment where people would be told that politics is not off the table — that in fact, it’s what we’re here for,” said Mr. Krebs, a founder of The Tank, a nonprofit space for performance and public-affairs events in Midtown.

In the beginning, Mr. Krebs and his partner in starting the club, Matthew O’Neill, 30, would show up on Thursday, with just the two of them sharing a pitcher of beer. Since then, online social networking has helped the group grow into a national organization with 250 chapters across the country, at least one in each state.

“Eight years ago, someone told me that the Nader folks were trying to create a sort of potluck dinner group in every state across the country — the idea being that you organize people socially and out of that can grow a network that will move progressive politics forward,” said Sam Seder, a radio host on Air America. “The brilliance of this group is that they’ve actually done that.”

Link

Funny how that works; they stop counting all off-field casualties, no friendly-fire incidents, now they don't even count IED explosions.

The death toll is bound to get even lower if they start only counting head wounds or attacks from the front...?

Blue Roots Radio

to go to Credentials committee
OVER 4 DELEGATES.
YES - 4 DELEGATES.
4 DELEGATES
4 - COUNT 'EM
That's a threat....and fight'n words.

THREATS ARE NOT WHAT I CONSIDER DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

that Mrs. Clinton is in the employ of high powered, right wing mobsters. Her assignment? Destroy the Democratic Party and Barack Obama. I ask you today....how's she doing?

chigan proposal: 69 delegates for Clinton, 59 delegates for Obama. Everyone, including superdelegates, gets a half vote.

Harold Ickes, in ending his statement against the proposal:
"Mrs Clinton has asked me to reserve her rights to take this to the credentials committee."

In other words, Hillary Clinton announces her intent to possibly scorch the earth rather than act in the best interests of the party, the country and the world.

If we let her take votes out of people's hands, she has won.

THEY have won.

This must be done and done right.

Obama WILL be president...WITHOUT the fucking asterisk.

...Slick Willy's dick.

It's written in the stars. Nothing she can do about it.

Doesn't matter how many who haven't figured it out, only the number of those who have.

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Well, that's closer. They will win. One way or THE other, they will win. Who's the they? Corporate mobster goons that now have control of this country. They are not giving up their power. Once Fascism is in control it only gets stopped by outside forces.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Send that link to Sam. Don't know if he's seen it or not.

I would also send a copy to pcollin@aar.com and highlight Sam's part.

I hope your hanging in there..

I don't know if you saw my earlier post..
Asking how you are doing..
I hope you can get the pain
to go away asap !
Keep us imformed..Email,blog or smoke signals.. :)

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

Is that Obama is a stealth liberal.

If he is, as my nightmares have suggested, another layer of the Fascists, we are screwed.

But, I am ready.

Done.

With pleasure.

EDIT

BTW, the only variation that did not get bounced was 'pcollins@airamerica.com'

There wasn't a damn thing the dems couldve done to stop the moving up of the florida primary by the reps... Thanks for supporting the reps gaming of the primary

Question though... Did Hillary campaign in Florida?

Mich? The voters there added Obama to the ballot but his campaign had it removed... Why?

You're going to tell me tha( when
Hillary was out polling Obama in both those states that the calculation wasn't made to block those delegates?

How about we do something neat, how about we look at the candidates policys and voting records...

I know the only vote that matters is the vote to authorize action in Iraq right?

You bought the republican talking point hook line and sinker because that authorization had a requirement that Bush come back to congress for authorization before he commited any troops and he didn't... All that anyone voted for amounted to allowing limited action in afghanistan.and NOT Iraq.

So my friends do me the favor since I'm browser impaired, of posting something about Obamas proposed policies?

I'd like to hear your justifications of them since I believe that he's actually to the right of even the first Clinton

... sure he's right of most of us, but many of us are to the left of Jesus. It's not so much important as where he sits on the political spectrum, but that he has indicated a willingness to try and change the business as usual bullshit inside the Beltway. In my mind that's impossible to change but the fact that he even speaks to change it is indicative of where his head's at. I'll defer to his Harvard education on this one.

There have never been times like these. No one can hope to call the shots. It's like going back to the beginning of this election cycle. Remember how wrong all the "experts" were then? I think that's where we are headed. Whether it's next week or during the convention, this is all brand new.

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bluerootsradio Don't watch too much TV, it's only job is to alter your consciousness.

in that meeting room and yet she's going to drag this to the convention...If it wasn't for Obama's WILLINGNESS to RECONCILE THROUGH COMPROMISE, she probably wouldn't have gotten what she did get. Hillary Clinton is not even capable of being gracious in the presence of a sort of political kindness/gesture of respect. Sheesh.

THE CLINTONS HAVE DONE THE IMPOSSIBLE: Hillary ENTERED THE PRIMARY AS THE celebrated FRONTRUNNER (all be it the frontrunner who didn't deliver), and now that she has been defeated at the polls, the Clintons have turned her into THE UNDERDOG! In Denver she will be cheered on to "ROCKY" themesongs, eh?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7419751.stm
Skynet military launch postponed
By Jonathan Amos
Science reporter, BBC News

Skynet 5 is intended to provide British forces with a secure, high-bandwidth

capability through to 2020.

A successful launch will complete the in-orbit part of the £3.6bn project.

Additional work has included upgrades to ground stations and the installation of new antennas and terminals on military ships, planes and land vehicles.

Taken together, the three Skynet spacecraft - known as 5A, 5B and 5C - will provide coverage from the Americas to Asia.
See how the Skynet 5 system is being deployed

If people monopolize a thread with 20 videos and others complain then just listen to the complaints. Else people leave and will be much happier. When someone gets abusive vote by just saying fuck this nonsense!

Didn't see it. But I've been in the kitchen part time cooking dinner.

Great recipe for Spinach and Rice for you Vegan people. If you want I'll put it up in an open mic.

Aye MB. I understand your point. But I do not agree with it. I am too old not to understand the need to "play the game" to make it past the corporations and have a chance at holding the reins. But Obama is here to fore "unproven" in his "liberalness". To my discriminating political eye, he poses as a left centrist, with corporatist leanings. My discriminating gut is telling me there is more there.

Suffice it to say I trust my gut more than I do my eyes.

So many naive "Democrats" that still haven't figured out
new
Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 7:05pm.
that Mrs. Clinton is in the employ of high powered, right wing mobsters. Her assignment? Destroy the Democratic Party and Barack Obama. I ask you today....how's she doing?

» ==========================================

And yet the spin will be that Hillary went to the Convention as the underdog. Leave it to the Clintons to finesse that out of an early start frontrunner who was clearly defeated.

Cool music mix this week.

Thank you!

Blue Roots Radio

When I can get the knee replacement, that, after awhile will take away the knee pain. Have to live with it til then.

Sorry Nobs but I don't think anything would have been fair in the case of Florida and Michigan. If you follow rules you're screwed and when you don't follow rules, you're screwed.

I don't like what this whole thing has done to the country as well as the Dems. Maybe after this election, it will be time to change the rules.

Sorry MMR
new
Submitted by toniD on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 7:41pm.
*******
I think I actually posted it yesterday..
That time warp thing again.. ;)
Just hoping your doing ok.. :)

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

I can't assume that he would be so calculating to to turn down "the good life" as a top grad of Harvard Law school to go back to Chicago to organize at the street level. If money was his motivator he'd be working on Wall Street or Madison Ave now and not trying to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

You may be right cent, I'm a sucker for hope. American's have been getting fucked over for about 30 years now, I think Obama is aware of that. I don't like the alternative of not taking him at his word.

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How's Sombody doing? Meant to ask last time you were on the blog.

Thank you. I'm waiting for the sky to fall since I played Public Enemy. ;-)
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More Chruch Street Blues comin'...

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The primaries have been pretty well covered in Ecuador. I assume it's the same over the rest of the world. From what I have seen, Clinton has become increasingly desperate and relatively petty in my mind. Even translated in Spanish, this was clear in the reporting and quotes of hers and, especially, her campaign.

Honestly, since I've been back, Hillary has seemed to be not so much rendered the underdog as rendered irrelevant by a confluence of events: The math favoring Obama, McCain attacking him directly and Obama engaging that directly and her gaffes. The media, the country and even a lot of Clinton supporters seem to be kind of numb and wanting to move forward with certainty as to who the nominee is. Even if she does take it to the convention, I think Obama is going to move on and declare victory after Tues. He really has no choice unless he loses really badly in the remaining primaries. Even then, it will favor him to declare himself the winner much more than floating in purgatory for two more months. At this point Clinton is just going to continue losing ground and support.

>>an early start frontrunner who was clearly defeated.

not to mention broke.

corporations give to Hillary (at least they did before she fell behind)...PEOPLE give to Obama

Yes. Me too.

It, for me, has come down to the old "lesser of evils". In comparison, well, there is no comparison. Hillary is a flat out NeoCon. So, Obama is THE ONLY choice here. So, we close our eyes and roll the dice, and hope like hell he doesn't turn out to be a friggin nightmare.

"Turn down the good life"? Come on MB, check the record. Lets be honest, he is no angel. And, he is a millionaire. But, to a cynic, that is a plus. It means to me, he has already "got his". So, I can take a chance and trust his integrity.

All things considered, I will "hope" for the best, but, as I always do, I will prepare for, and, unfortunately, expect, the worst.

C'est la Vie.

I'm with this guy.

Hillary supporters can kiss my gay ass. You want to take it to Denver? Bring it on you bitter, old queens!

ciao~

..and neither am I or you. The only angels I know of play baseball in California.

What I do believe he is not the spawn of Satan, that one is already in the White House so we have better than a 50/50 chance of getting someone who is not evil incarnate.

I don't think Obama the President will veer sharply right, not with the number of lower dollar contributors.

Strip yourself of the media spin, read the dude's own words, consider his history, study his family. The real powers that be want to buy him off for sure. Will he be bought? I say no.

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bluerootsradio Fucker better not. I just checked. I've given him over $100 so far! I own you Obama! ;-)

listening now!

glad to have ya!

Pretty much all 60's soul this set.
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go for it!

now I find out Obama is in the pocket of `Big Maggiesboy'!?!

can things get any worse?

testimony or opening comments etc...as well as Obama's speech afterwards and a link to Clinton's comments etc...
Geek that I am, here is the link to where you can find all of that and more.
Bookmark it - I tend to find some interesting policy and other wonky forums and other types of meetings/discussions etc....that never make it to the SPANS at convienent times.

Knock yourselves out!!

http://www.cspan.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Good tunes ! Thanks. :)

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

bluerootsradio

loving it and GRITtv

Chubby Bubba. Anything coming your way is headed for the override-proof veto! ;-)
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Got applauses from the neighbors

Best neighbors you could ask for :)

They are Lebanese

and She can cook some Christmas cookies let me tell you ;)

So here is a cheerful jam :)

Coldplay feat. Michael Stipe - In the Sun
Lead Singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) with Lead Singer Micheal Stipe (REM) Austin City

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NVBM9CCT1rM

...if it keeps you at home and not running with the street gangs, then my work here is done! ;-)

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...have you played a Gibson Songbird Deluxe yet?

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REM-The One I Love LIVE
and vocalist Michael Stipe. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mNBKM5so8tQ

That aint no good .

I've had big yards, medium sized yards and now a tiny yard. Size has nothing to do with it, it's all yard work! ;-)

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so just listing to Sam's old podcasts on aar. The first starts on Sam's 3rd radio anniversary. Just great! Even better back then when he didn't have to do the Sunday bobblehead shows. They are free. Hope AAR is noticing.

MMRules, ....
new
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 9:08pm.
...have you played a Gibson Songbird Deluxe yet?

*******
But,I can't afford one of those puppies !

I wish I could..

I'm hopping Against all odds that that

Martin Custom D Classic Rosewood Acoustic Guitar I've been

watching will come down a couple of hundred bucks..

I'm dreaming..But,dreaming is cool.. :)

Or,I can find a Good Blem one..

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

Not well... Haven't been able to get last three stints done... Combination of circumstance and finance... Next couple months and well get them done

REM - Man On The Moon

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

... MMRules.

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THE AMERICAN MEDIA.

IT INCITES NOT INFORM.

You mean I actually have mail that's not from a progressive

outfit ?

Sake's alive ! ;-)

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

You can gimme a call if you want, I am here alone, feel like bullshitting for a few?

Wanna talk about Bering Sea Fisherman

Ever done that?

As I heard this week on Democracy Now!'s interview with Utah Phillips, the aim of television is to alter your consciousness to get their desired result. I'm not saying all TV is bad, just most of it. Right wing radio is as bad but it lacks the visual cue to incite as much.

The media's the immediate problem.

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I was going to tell you to get a hanky ready cuz I was playing TVZ's Tecumseh Valley this week. It's playing as I type this.

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http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0822,crucial-caustic-postcards-from-ne...

got the rest of the weekend and two other computers.

never fished the bering sea.

repaired a few of the fishboats from there.

i fished tuna up into canada, but not into alaska.

most of my crab fishin was off the California/Oregon coast.

Yeah, I hear Dr. John had moved to NY right after Katrina. I think it was on Steve Earle's AAR show. Yeah, it sounded like he was never goin' back. Go figure?!!?!?

Oh well, there's no figuring musicians, how silly of me. ;-)
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Bill Clinton's Enemies List:
The Media, MoveOn.org

Politico | KENNETH P. VOGEL | May 30, 2008 at 09:22 PM

With Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on the verge of defeat, Bill Clinton has been placing blame on enemies including a brazenly biased media that tried to suppress blue-collar votes, a powerful anti-war group that endorsed rival Barack Obama and weak-willed party leaders unable to stand up to either of these nefarious forces.

Pieced together from the former president’s public remarks at his wife’s campaign events and a private conversation last week with top donors to her campaign, the theory goes something like this: After Hillary recovered from a string of losses to rival Barack Obama with March 4 wins in Texas and Ohio, powerful forces conspired to pressure the superdelegates who will decide the nomination to back Obama by discouraging her supporters from voting and trying to hide evidence proving she would fare better than Obama against presumptive GOP nominee John McCain

While the former president has offered parts of this theory publicly, he fleshed it out more explicitly during a conference call last week with maxed-out donors to his wife’s campaign, a recording of which has been obtained by Politico.

Hear Bill Clinton's callAfter rattling off a series of poll numbers showing Hillary Clinton faring better than Obama against McCain, Bill Clinton told donors: “We are in the strongest conceivable position electorally and not in a good fix with the superdelegates, because they have felt all the pressure from the Obama side, from the media, from the MoveOn crowd — who they think is an automatic ATM machine for everybody for life. So, they’re reluctant to take on all that.”

While the campaign has been blasting the media for weeks for prematurely calling the race for Obama, President Clinton has added a new entry to his enemy list: MoveOn.org, the anti-war group that endorsed Obama and that, through its political action committee, has raised millions for Democratic candidates, money the Clintons apparently believe has unfairly purchased superdelegate support for Obama.

Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson offered another interpretation, telling Politico that “the president was referring to efforts online to pressure superdelegates in support of Sen. Obama,” pointing to a petition the group circulated in February asking superdelegates to “let the voters decide between Clinton and Obama, then support the people's choice.”

That means supporting the candidate with the most pledged delegates, said MoveOn spokeswoman Ilyse Hogue, who wouldn’t comment on Clinton’s charge, except to say that “we respect the president very much.”

Hillary Clinton has privately complained about MoveOn before, at a small fundraiser held after the Super Tuesday primaries. “They flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me,” she said, according to an audio recording obtained by Huffington Post. In the recording, she also refers to the MoveOn's fundraising prowess, telling donors that "MoveOn.org endorsed [Obama], which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down."

On his call with donors, President Clinton also directed his fire at the media, asserting that he’s “never seen anybody persist against greater odds and against a more hostile media environment and a more imbalanced one” than the one Hillary Clinton has faced.

This elaborated, or at least amplified, a theme Clinton has been asserting at least since her lopsided loss in North Carolina and surprisingly narrow win in Indiana on May “It’s over, bag it. And the rest of you poor folks, you just get in line and stay home” is how he characterized the media coverage while introducing his wife at an event in Lexington, Ky., on the eve of the May 20 primaries in Kentucky and Oregon.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10715.html

Hey, don't be that way...how about just a little highway bill?

or maybe an ethanol subsidy?