We missed you, Rudy!

there is a new thread....So female....

Mr. Lobotomy. How many times has he said I don't recall, I don't remember, I don't remember. Lots of stuff going on at the time. I don't recall...

Q: Does Jeff Sessions ALWAYS insert a large leather covered vibrating egg up his ass before hearings?

Q2: Rumsfeld was the Decider all along? Poppy Cock!

Green Party leaders and candidates expressed alarm that presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has joined President Bush in threatening a US attack on Iran

* Former Senator Mike Gravel Calls for Independent 9/11 Investigation and Prosecution of President Bush and Vice President Cheney *

The former Democratic senator from Alaska discusses his presidential campaign, his role in the releasing of the Pentagon Papers and his support for NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign, a grassroots group seeking to place an initiative on the ballot of the November 6th general election allowing registered New York City voters to create a new commission to investigate 9/11.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/17/former_senator_mike_gravel_calls

and informative hearing.

Lauren is so sweet to let us know
Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 5:05pm.
there is a new thread....So female....
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I'd like to speak on behalf of Incubus but it ain't easy to defend a guy who names himself for a demon rapist.

is span hearings like that

tomorrow Randi should have a real good summary of them...

*

A new born baby was found to be 15 times the adult drink drive limit after its Polish mother got drunk before the birth.

The mother was intoxicated during labor as she gave birth to a baby girl.

Doctors at a hospital in Otwock, on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland called in police after the clearly-drunk expectant mother checked in to give birth on Monday.

Police spokeswoman Dorota Tietz said: "A blood test showed that the 38-year-old woman had a level of 1.2 gram of alcohol at the time of birth."

A level of 1.2 grams of alcohol per 1,000 gram of blood is the equivalent of a bottle of wine or two liters of beer for an adult drinker but its impact is compounded in a new born's tiny body.

As a result, the infant was found to have a level of 2.9 grams, police said.

The blood-alcohol limit for drivers in Poland is 0.2 grams.

The mother, who has not been named, could now face up to five years in prison on charges of having endangered the life and health of her child, Tietz said.

She added: "The baby's life is not in immediate danger but doctors fear the impact on her development."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/17/polish-baby-born-drunk-bl_n_107...

Fired US Attorney: ‘I was working for the Sith Lords’
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane | Uncategorized | Tuesday, 17 June 2008

David Iglesias, who was one of seven United States Attorneys fired by the Department of Justice for political reasons in December 2006, described his experiences to Jon Stewart on Monday’s Daily Show.

“They wanted us to file politically oriented prosecutions instead of just doing what our normal job is, which is enforce Federal law,” Iglesias stated, explaining that Justice Department higher-ups asked the US Attorneys “to file voter fraud prosecutions when the evidence wasn’t there beyond a reasonable doubt. It wasn’t just me. It was a guy in Missouri and it was a guy in Seattle, Washington.”

“What about the other 86 US Attorneys?” Stewart asked. “Are they doing those cases?”

“I want to give my colleagues the benefit of the doubt, with a couple of exceptions,” Igelsias replied cautiously. He mentioned former interim US Attorney Bradley Schlozman, who “could end up getting indicted” because “he rushed some voter fraud — ‘voter fraud’ — right before the election. … We can’t do that.”

“Talk about this other,” prompted Stewart. “There’s a case in Alabama, with the former governor of Alabama, Siegelman, who’s a Democrat, who was thrown in jail on charges brought up by the US Attorney’s office and then just let go.”

“Which is incredibly rare,” commented Iglesias. “Courts of appeal almost never release somebody while they’re serving time. … The court of appeals over in Alabama let Siegelman out — which tells me, really weak evidence.”

Iglesias then suggested it might be possible to go after the Justice Department officials who were ultimately responsible by “using the model we used against the Mob in the 60’s. You find a small fish, you threaten prosecution, you roll them, they give up the bigger fish.”

“It’s fascinating to know that we’re going to be treating this administration like the Gambinos,” remarked Stewart.

Stewart ended by asking Igleaias, “Is the greatest disappointment for you that you were a guy who believed in what they were doing? … Do you feel betrayed in that sense?”

“I thought I was working with the Jedi Knights and I was working for the Sith Lords,” Iglesias acknowledged, as the audience broke into applause.

“For the audience for this show, you could not have used a better example,” Stewart concluded. “I will see you at Comic-Con 2009.”

This video is from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, broadcast June 16, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/17/fired-us-attorney-i-was-working-fo...

I have a couple links for you about weather modification and geomagnetic warfare.

Steering_Katrina

HAARP

Weather Modification Bill

http://radaranomalies.com/

my karmic reward for keeping my goldfish bowl clean when i was 6.

tanks Lauren!

In his own words

In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler's anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was "an individual of great courage...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." (The Guardian, 1/14/92)

I'll check that out after I figure out how to configure this server I'm setting up.

mhappenow - Tomorrow will also be a dramatic day filled with testimony. They might bring up Schlozman, they could also go to Siegelman. Tomorrow is another Rove coffin nail waiting to happen.

Writing of "group fantasies of martyrdom," Buchanan challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka: "Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody." (New Republic, 10/22/90) Buchanan's columns have run in the Liberty Lobby's Spotlight, the German-American National PAC newsletter and other publications that claim Nazi death camps are a Zionist concoction.

Oklahoma to feds: Don't tread on me
State House defends its sovereignty from D.C. intrusion

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67229

Posted: June 16, 2008
10:00 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Steamed over a perceived increase in federal usurping of states' rights, Oklahoma's House of Representatives told Washington, D.C., to back off.

Joint House Resolution 1089, passed by an overwhelming 92-3 margin, reasserts Oklahoma's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and, according to the resolution's own language, is "serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates."

The Tenth Amendment states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Traditionally, this language has meant that the federal government is limited in its scope and cannot usurp the sovereign powers of states. In recent decades, however, as the size and reach of the federal government has expanded, many have come to question whether Washington has stepped on states' rights and gotten too big for its breeches.

Charles Key, the Republican state representative who authored the resolution, told WND that he introduced it because he believes the federal government's overstepping of its bounds has put our constitutional form of government in danger.

"The more we stand by and watch the federal government get involved in areas where it has no legal authority, we kill the Constitution a little at a time," he said. "The last few decades, the Constitution has been hanging by a thread."

Specifically, Resolution 1089 says the following:

"The State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States."

The resolution resolves that Oklahoma will "serve as notice and demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers."

It also instructs that "a copy of this resolution be distributed to the president of the United States, the president of the United States Senate, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the speaker of the House and the president of the Senate of each state's legislature of the United States of America, and each member of the Oklahoma congressional delegation."

The resolution does not, as some have speculated, amount to secession, but it does send a warning signal to Washington: Oklahoma does not intend to be bullied by big brother government.

The Sooner State became a hotbed of federal vs. state authority clashes earlier this month when a federal judge blocked a portion of Oklahoma's tough immigration laws, ruling that plaintiffs would likely establish that the state mandates preempted federal immigration laws.

Oklahoma's immigration statute, known as the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007, originated as House Bill 1804 (co-authored, incidentally, by Key). It has been characterized by USA Today as "arguably the nation's toughest state law targeting illegal immigration."

The statute prohibits illegal immigrants from receiving tax-supported services and makes it a state crime to transport or harbor illegal immigrants. It also mandates that businesses take measures to verify the work eligibility of employees and independent contractors.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and individual chambers of commerce in Oklahoma challenged the latter mandates, set to go into effect July 1, in court.

On June 4th, U.S. District Judge Robin J. Cauthron issued an injunction against enforcing the July 1 mandates.

On AIDS, Buchanan wrote in 1983: "The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS)." (Los Angeles Times, 11/28/86) Later that year, he demanded that New York City Ed Koch and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo cancel the Gay Pride Parade or else "be held personally responsible for the spread of the AIDS plague." "With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide," Buchanan wrote in 1990 (syndicated column, 10/17/90). In the 1992 campaign, he declared: "AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature." (Seattle

Buchanan, who opposed virtually every civil rights law and court decision of the last 30 years, published FBI smears of Martin Luther King Jr. as his own editorials in the St. Louis Globe Democrat in the mid-1960s. "We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people," he boasted (Right from the Beginning, p. 283).

White House advisor Buchanan urged President Nixon in an April 1969 memo not to visit "the Widow King" on the first anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, warning that a visit would "outrage many, many people who believe Dr. King was a fraud and a demagogue and perhaps worse.... Others consider him the Devil incarnate. Dr. King is one of the most divisive men in contemporary history." (New York Daily News, 10/1/90)

>>"The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS)."

I'm still trying to wrap my asymmetrical brain around this...

top of the hour xm news leading into rachel said that bush attended a wake for tim russert.

how is it possible that you would attend a funeral for a media hack (i'll be polite for now) and yet totally ignore the funerals of the thousands of soldiers killed in a war built on a lie?

tell me again why it took him so long to stop playing golf out of respect for the soldiers...

"Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism." (syndicated column, 11/22/83)

"The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer." (Right from the Beginning, p. 149)

"If a woman has come to believe that divorce is the answer to every difficult marriage, that career comes before children ... no democratic government can impose another set of values upon her." (Right from the Beginning, p. 341

On Democracy

In a January, 1991 column, Buchanan suggested that "quasi-dictatorial rule" might be the solution to the problems of big municipalities and the federal fiscal crisis: "If the people are corrupt, the more democracy, the worse the government." (Washington Times, 1/9/91) He has written disparagingly of the "one man, one vote Earl Warren system."

In Right from the Beginning, Buchanan refers to Spanish dictator Francisco Franco as a "Catholic savior." He called Franco, along with Chile's Gen. Pinochet, "soldier-patriots." (syndicated column 9/17/89) Both men overthrew democracy in their countries.

this is pretty fertile ground but i'll kick it off with:

- people like me who are not vegetarians
- people like me who don't exercise on a regular basis
- people like me who really enjoy low country cooking

...

(hey pat - should we sacrifice a goat in the back yard if the cloud cover clears so we can see the full moon. clothing optional of course)

this just in, generalissimo francisco franco is still dead

renewable energy hearing
I think it's a rerun..
http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

Melina speaks on Russert and chicken ranching

http://www.ripcoco.com/

who dat?

its an old (1975) saturday night live sequence that they would do on the news segment with chevy chase, jane curtain, et.al.

when you least expected it they would break in with that.

the historical basis (and this is pretty rough) is that the good general was in charge of spain in the 30's. he was a fascist like hitler and mussolini.

google, girl, google...

also include Chevy Chase in the search

ma bad....i love reading here better--fuck the google---tell me something i dont k-NO

got it! before ma tyme huh?

the op-ed...now who is slow?

Seriously. people who can't/won't look things up for themselves can be a drain on the blog.

the rest of us don't come here to do your research for other people.

besides, you'll find all sorts of things on google searchs, much more than you'll learn from second hand information.

at last a true last name here---NO FEAR!

than youtube's search engine.

and you certainly can find your way around the youtubes! ;)

i resemble that remark :)

slowly i turned, step by step...

that is what i meant to say

drain--whats that mean?...water running down into the sewer?

who dat?

;)

who dat?

;)

now wants to drive up the cost of natural gas.

Maybe they don't need very much in the South West, but the North East depends on it for heating, and the costs are outrageous now.

but not the original with the chix pix.

im learning Chubbs geez!! cut me some slack now!!

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you don't suppose they were talking about a different Melina Brown? the one from WireTap magazine

http://www.wiretapmag.org/authors/6991

toma-HAWK anything to do with chickens?

I bet she didn't call the Belmont...

that would be against the psychic code of ethics!

cuz it would be taking advantage of the situation...nothing at all like charging $150 an hour to chat on the internet.

Oh, did I mention my psychic gift?

I've been here most of the day, you guys owe me at least a grand....

and that doesn't include the google surcharges.

When Sam and Janeanne were on the air daily, we regular bloggers would blog during the show and if Sam or Janeanne didn't know something we'd google it for them.

and they'd almost always give us a shout out.

those were the days.

Queen - These Are The Days Of Our Lives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOJPvxgkvn8

I just read Melina piece on tim russert...she is a fuckin' A class writer...

repeating...wow

she is Brown from the boogie down!!

small wonder, her being a psychic and all...

she knows exactly what we want to read.

google i hope? huh?

psychic googling, Lucille, psychic googling.

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

Set Me Free

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaojZhoeE5s

DNC to Court: Make FEC rule on McCain finance

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/369

Submitted by AmyW on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 1:55pm. Alerts

by Amy Weiss

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Tuesday it will file a lawsuit in federal court next week to require the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) to investigate Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign for president since the DNC believes McCain illegally withdrew from a public financing agreement.

In its statement, the DNC said McCain illegally withdrew from an agreement with the FEC that holds him to spending limits and regulations. This agreement allowed McCain to receive matching funds, where any contributions up to $250 are matched from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. Any dissolution of the agreement requires FEC consent.

The FEC currently does not have enough members to constitute a quorum but Chairman David Mason, a Republican, issued a letter to the campaign notifying it that it cannot withdraw without FEC approval. Mason also suggested the possibility that McCain has already benefited from matching funds, which is the position of the DNC, and may not qualify for FEC approval of contract withdrawal. In May, President Bush withdrew Mason's nomination to another term on the FEC, adding another questionable political firing under his belt.

In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, DNC legal counsel Joe Sandler explained that if the FEC did have enough members to meet and discuss McCain's request to withdraw from public financing, it should not find in McCain's favor. Sandler says a candidate cannot withdraw from the program if he or she has received funds or benefited from the FEC approval to receive public funds. The DNC alleges McCain did the latter, essentially using the rights to matching funds as collateral for a bank loan and thus benefited from them, eliminating his ability to withdraw. Sandler says McCain is not playing by the rules he helped create through the McCain-Feingold Law.

Sandler also indicated that he expects the nominations of five FEC commissioners to be confirmed soon, giving the Commission a functional six members, which would allow them to proceed. Sandler also expects a case involving a presidential candidate and the possible violation of the law would be a very high priority of the new commission. He also says however, that finding whether or not McCain's campaign violated federal election law "would require the FEC to act a lot more expeditiously" than it has in the past.

The DNC originally filed its suit in April but the court insisted they wait 120 days after the original complaint to the FEC had been made. That complaint was submitted in February and the DNC will file the suit on June 24, per court instructions.

More Pat Buchanan

Homesexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle." (syndicated column, 9/3/89)

In a 1977 column urging a "thrashing" of gay groups, Buchanan wrote: "Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family." (New Republic, 3/30/92)

"Gay rights activists seek to substitute, for laws rooted in Judeo-Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie." (Buchanan column in Wall Street Journal, 1/21/93)

eya gang!

i remember helping about a zillion newbies

figger out searching and best search engines

(not google, that POS info vacumn)

without accusing them of

being dumb lazies.

take yer time Luce...

what goes around comes around

on both sides and in every shituation.

i say trying to bring the best out of people is a good approach always.

occasionally helping them is kindness and tolerance.

i hope he gets rubber fucked and never bounces back!!

was dat?

bless your tiny little pink heart for dat...where you lead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IJumrJfdN0

google is your friend!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GtoAwuZlI

An Apology

http://thesockobama.com/

We are very apologetic to all who were upset by our toy idea.

We will not be proceeding with the manufacturing of this toy.

Thank you.

GD

Been home awhile and just catching up on the blog and dinner.

I missed the committee meeting today. I'm going to look for some vids of the high points.

Big Oil fuels Straight Talk Express.
This afternoon in Houston, John McCain is delivering a “speech to energy industry leaders.” Seeking to boost his cash-strapped campaign, McCain appears to be ditching his principles in favor of policies more palatable to oil interests. A whopping 74 percent of McCain’s lifetime campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry has come since he announced for president. Brave New Films has put together this video highlighting the fact that “big oil fuels the Straight Talk Express.” Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/big-oil-fuels-straight-talk-express/

Jeff Gannon blogs at the National Press Club’s website.
Poblano at DailyKos notes that disgraced “reporter” Jeff Gannon is blogging at the National Press Club (NPC). Gannon gained notoriety as the former male escort who, for two years, gained a White House press pass using a pseudonym. There appear to be seven active blogs on the NPC’s site, including Gannon’s. Steve O’Hearn, chairman of the NPC’s new media committee — of which Gannon is also a member — told ThinkProgress that the “current policy” is that any NPC member can have a blog on the organization’s site, although it’s so far mostly members of the committee. Gannon’s most recent post goes after CodePink and its “ties to terrorists and repressive regimes around the world.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/jeff-gannon-blogs-at-the-national-pr...

Rep. Darrell Issa politicizes Russert’s death.
This afternoon, the House of Representatives took up a resolution honoring the life of Tim Russert. Following speeches by several speakers who issued heartfelt condolences, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) brazenly exploited Russert’s death by cynically transitioning his own remarks into yet another push for more domestic oil drilling:

ISSA: We are going to miss Tim Russert when it comes to the people on both sides of the issue of why we have $5 oil — $5 gasoline and $135 oil. I think Tim Russert would have been just the right guy to hold people accountable, who would talk about the 68 million acres that are, quote, inactive, while in fact 41 million are under current lease and use and are producing millions of barrels of oil and natural gas a day. […]

So, Madam Speaker, I am going to miss Tim Russert because this debate is too important not to have a fact-oriented, unbiased moderator who could in fact bring to bear the truth that we need to have.

Apparently, Issa’s heart is overcome with fondness for Big Oil.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/issa-russert/

this one Chubbs? **repost**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efIncRChgL8

Mora: Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are ‘first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq.’
Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on detainee interrogation. Testifying before the committee, former Navy general counsel Alberto Mora, who battled within the Pentagon to shut down the use of torture, blasted the Bush administration’s abusive detention practices as leading to the recruitment of new radicals and the deaths of more American soldiers:

[T]here are serving U.S. flag-rank officers who maintain that the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq — as judged by their effectiveness in recruiting insurgent fighters into combat — are, respectively the symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

Watch it:

Mora denounced the Bush adminsitration’s “decision to use so-called ‘harsh’ interrogation techniques” as “a mistake of massive proportions.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/mora-abu-ghraib-and-guantanamo-are-f...

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White House Derides Investigation That Exposed Drug Testing On Vets As ‘Irresponsible Reporting,’ ‘Awful’
Today, the Washington Times reported on the results of a joint investigation with ABC, which concluded that “mentally distressed veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are being recruited for government tests on pharmaceutical drugs linked to suicide and other violent side effects.”

In studies with the anti-smoking drug Chantix, for example, the VA “took three months to alert its patients about severe mental side effects.” In today’s press briefing, however, White House spokesperson Tony Fratto called the investigation “irresponsible” journalism, complaining that he “had to watch” the “awful” reporting:

I saw the reporting in your paper and on I think it was ABC this morning. I thought actually some of it was some of the most — certainly at least what I saw on television this morning was some of the more irresponsible reporting that I’ve ever seen, in terms of taking what this one — the experience of this one veteran and trying to leave the impression that this was a situation for all veterans. […]

And to try to imply that — and, in fact, not even imply. I see the words scrolled on a television screen this morning that the V.A. is using our veterans as guinea pigs, I thought was one of the most awful things I’ve ever had to watch on television.

Watch it:

If Fratto read the story instead of simply catching the scroll on a television screen, he’d know that thousands are potentially affected. Roughly nearly 1,000 veterans were enrolled in anti-smoking studies, with 143 using Chantix; 21 veterans reported “adverse effects,” including one who suffered suicidal thoughts.

Furthermore, the VA and other agencies are currently conducting 25 tests on 4,796 veterans, “more than half of whom are just returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Fratto also praised the “wonderful leadership” of VA Secretary James Peake, who recently said that concerns about post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans are “overblown“.

Transcript: Read the rest of this entry »

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/wh-responds-vets-drugs/#more-24834

Hurting a bit more now so it's time for the pain pills. Gawd I hate to rely on those pills!

i have not laughed this loud in a minute----geez talk about overboard....(hubby coming out of the room to find out what is tickling me)..STOP!

Uncle Pat

Buchanan was vehement in pushing President Reagan -- despite protests -- to visit Germany's Bitburg cemetery, where Nazi SS troops were buried. At a White House meeting, Buchanan reportedly reminded Jewish leaders that they were "Americans first" -- and repeatedly scrawled the phrase "Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" in his notebook. Buchanan was credited with crafting Ronald Reagan's line that the SS troops buried at Bitburg were "victims just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps." (New York Times, 5/16/85; New Republic, 1/22/96

Submitted by toniD on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 8:22pm.
...A whopping 74 percent of McCain’s lifetime campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry has come since he announced for president...
--------
Even so, I doubt that it amounts to much. I am becoming more and more convinced that contributions to the McCain presidential campaign are the political equivalent to a mercy fuck.

Former presidential candidate McCain will still be indebted as Senator McCain.

Matthews rumored as leading Russert replacement.
The Associated Press writes that Hardball host Chris Matthews is a leading candidate to replace Tim Russert as Meet the Press moderator. “Matthews, a relentless talker, would have to change his style to fit in to Russert’s ‘Meet the Press’ reportorial template,” notes the AP. “Matthews’ long history of strong opinions is in stark contrast to Russert’s nimble, middle-of-the road approach — and could be reason enough for NBC to look elsewhere.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/matthews-rumored-as-leading-russert-...

Update U.S. News’ Washington Whispers writes, “We're starting the bandwagon today for Luke Russert to take over Meet the Press for his dad, Tim Russert.”

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/6/17/let-luke-russe...

story of my mothers life! and she is older than you--sorry!

>>here is what I got when I googled rubber fucked

I think we all learned something today.

fer instance, I never imagined a bordello would limit their guests to stays of only one week!

Submitted by toniD on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 8:33pm.
...Gawd I hate to rely on those pills!
------
Look at the bright side; you could wind up with your own radio show.

and I still don't know what rubber fucked means..I think it has something to do with rubber attire...?

the sockobama is going to be made, they are sorta cute (only when not considering the obvious racial statement).

but I think most buyers will be racially motivated.

Appellate court tosses out key conviction in Abramoff case
By Marisa Taylor | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court overturned the conviction of a former White House official Tuesday in a significant defeat for prosecutors who are overseeing the investigation into the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal.

David Safavian was convicted in 2006 of four charges related to statements he made to officials who were investigating Abramoff, a former lobbyist who pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe lawmakers and bilking his Indian-tribe clients out of millions of dollars.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit threw out two felony-concealment charges against Safavian, saying he had "no legal duty to disclose" details about his relationship with Abramoff to General Services Administration ethics and inspector-general officials. At the time, Safavian was the GSA's chief of staff and helped Abramoff attempt to buy two GSA-managed properties in the Washington area.

"Attorneys commonly advise their clients to answer questions truthfully but not to volunteer information ... " the court wrote. "The government essentially asks us to hold that once an individual starts talking, he cannot stop."

The court also said that Safavian deserved a new trial on charges related to allegations that he obstructed investigators who'd been looking into a golfing trip he took with Abramoff in Scotland and that he lied to the Senate.

Laura Sweeney, a Justice Department spokeswoman, declined to comment on whether they'd retry Safavian. She said prosecutors were reviewing the ruling.

So far, Safavian is the only defendant in the Abramoff investigation to go to trial. Fourteen others have pleaded guilty, including Abramoff, who's serving six years in prison on unrelated charges.

Barbara Van Gelder, Safavian's defense attorney during the trial, said she thought that the Justice Department should dismiss the remaining charges. She accused prosecutors of overzealously pursuing Safavian, a longtime friend of Abramoff, contending that they wanted him to plead guilty and cooperate against other defendants whom he knew nothing about.

Safavian was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but his sentence had been put on hold until the outcome of his appeal. He's been disbarred from practicing law because of the allegations.

"He's suffered enough," Van Gelder said. "I hope prosecutors look at the decision and realize that they took an extreme and aggressive view and consider making a midcourse correction."

The court also said that the trial judge should have permitted defense attorneys to call experts to testify about the meaning of Safavian's statements, a development that his appellate attorney Larry Robbins said would strengthen his client's case if he were retried.

During the eight-day trial in 2006, prosecutors presented dozens of e-mails between Safavian and Abramoff discussing the GSA properties.

Abramoff contacted Safavian days after his old friend became GSA's chief of staff to talk to him about the properties, according to federal records.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/41366.html

Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 8:50pm.
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I don't know either M'hap. Maybe it has something to do with rubber gloves, rubber hoses and rubber rooms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf9d7rSf_Ks

Sorry, toniD. I know you are not a hillbilly, but OxyContin Cretan didn't seem particularly flattering, either.

The Rippingtons - Tourist in Paradise (Live)

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

Jean Schmidt Refuses To Retract False Claim That China Is ‘Drilling Off The Coast Of Florida’
On June 5, Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) took to the House floor and criticized Congress for refusing to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling. To strengthen her point, she claimed that even China and Cuba are drilling off Florida’s coast:

This very day, there is indeed the drilling activity off of our country’s coast. Not by our U.S. companies; that would be illegal. Instead, the Chinese are drilling off the coast of Florida, with their new energy partner, Cuba. This Congress has failed to act time and time again. Our oil resources along our coastlines and in Alaska remain untapped in the name of environmentalism.

Watch it:

Schmidt’s allegation is false. China is not drilling off the coast of Florida. Even Vice President Cheney, who also made the claim last week, put out a statement on Thursday admitting that he was wrong:

It is our understanding that, although Cuba has leased out exploration blocks 60 miles off the coast of southern Florida, which is closer than American firms are allowed to operate in that area, no Chinese firm is drilling there.

Conservative columnist George Will, who also made the claim in his June 5 column, today wrote a correction, stating, “[N]o Chinese company has been involved in Cuba’s oil exploration that close to the United States.”

Schmidt and other conservatives are refusing to back down, however. When asked whether she plans to issue a retraction, one of her spokesmen simply replied, “We will have a discussion.” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO), and Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA), who also made the false claim, have gone further and defended their statements.

Similarly, other conservatives continue to peddle the propaganda. Just yesterday, conservative pundit Mary Matalin made the claim both on CNN and CNN Headline News. A Fox News guest also repeated the lie yesterday on Neil Cavuto’s show.

Update
Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Tim Walberg (R-MI) have also repeated the propaganda.

Update
ThinkProgress spoke with a spokesman for Schmidt who said that the congresswoman is standing behind her statement and still believes that the "Communists understand" what the U.S. Congress doesn't -- "We need more oil exploration." He added that "it doesn't matter" which country is doing the drilling as long as Cuba continues to lease plots of land to foreign countries.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/schmidt-china-drilling/

Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 8:50pm.
and I still don't know what rubber fucked means..
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My guess is: a tryst with someone who is on the rebound and seeking validation (i.e. humped by a dumpee).

are'nt you too old though to be playing with toys?

i think rubber ia a word for condom,no? but i suspect this is not what pat meant

there's something sleazy about rubber, like the guy who suffocated all dressed in a diver's outfit, do you guys remember? some weird turn on which i certainly don't understand and no i don't think google would help

I do know a little something about rubber rooms...

you 'eard

Submitted by mire on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 9:04pm.
...like the guy who suffocated all dressed in a diver's outfit, do you guys remember? some weird turn on which i certainly don't understand...
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What's not to understand? Sea Hunt. Lloyd Bridges.

I rest my case.

christ almighty, you completely forgot about flipper

the contender is on cinemax right now...one of my favorite movies

Sea Hunt
Mike Nelson
Lloyd Bridges

Not on oxi yet. hydrocodone. And not even a high dose of that. The Dr told me to double up on the pills when I need it.

So no hillbilly heroin for me. Yet. Hope I never need it.

June 17, 2008 -- National Press Club moves into the kooky fringe arena

In a pathetic attempt to salvage what little credibility the 100 year old National Press Club has left following its decision to permit a known prevaricator and fabulist named Larry Sinclair to rent the Holeman Lounge press conference room for $3000 on Wednesday, June 18, and following MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's naming the National Press Club as his number 3 "Worst Persons in the World" in last night's telecast, the leadership of the National Press Club is scrambling to dig itself out of a hole of its own creation.

It is not the first time the NPC has gotten itself into trouble during this presidential election year. The decision to invite Senator Barack Obama's former Trinity United Church of Christ pastor Jeremiah Wright to speak at an official NPC breakfast conference on April 28 was done after at least two pro-Hillary Clinton members of the NPC's Speaker's Committee arranged for the Wright appearance to politically damage Obama before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.

Many NPC officers are expressing ignorance about Larry Sinclair, who he is, and who he represents. Sinclair is a political bottom feeder, the type of person who comes to the attention of the Karl Roves and Roger Stones of the world to disparage political candidates without a shred of evidence. Sinclair is from Minnesota and claims to have given oral sex to Obama and used drugs with him in a limo in Chicago in 1999. Sinclair offers no proof or corroborating witnesses. Sinclair is even proffering the fantasy that Obama had something to do with the murder of Donald Young, Trinity's gay choir director, last December. Of course, murders in south Chicago are so rare that one would immediately suspect that a hooded albino priest covertly hired by the Obama campaign must have been the murderer.

Sinclair took two polygraph examinations administered by the website Whitehouse.com and failed them both. Sinclair's reaction: someone paid a $750,000 bribe to the website to alter the results. Uh hum. Tomorrow, Whitehouse.com will hold a press conference in the Lisagor Room on Sinclair's failed polygraph tests.

Sinclair's big media appearance, prior to the NPC conference, was on the Jeff Rense radio program, one of the only shows this editor has turned down for an interview since it delves into subjects that make the "X Files" look like a documentary.

Sinclair has accused the Obama campaign and the Secret Service with threatening him. Almost lost in the debate is the fact that Sinclair had an outstanding arrest warrant for felony fraud in Pueblo, Colorado. Sinclair's other resume grabbers: well, he is an ex-con, a one-time trafficker of drugs from Colorado to South Carolina, and a "coyote," a trafficker of human beings from Mexico into the United States. [Perhaps Sinclair should be asked tomorrow if he ever had a cocaine relationship with South Carolina's former Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, who was also Rudolph Giuliani's South Carolina presidential campaign chairman. Ravenel was convicted last year on federal charges of distribution of cocaine].

Sinclair even photo shopped an older picture of himself with a photo of Obama with his arm around him and holding a crack pipe and posted it on his website. But other than those issues, he is a fine person to stand underneath NPC seal and the imprimatur of the National Press Club on June 18.

...

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080617

christians!!!! HA!

Steve O'Hearn, the chair of the NPC's New Media Committee, asks why the NPC is being attacked for granting a venue for Sinclair, "But suddenly I’m rather curious that an organization like FireDogLake.com would be taking so much effort and going to so much trouble to collect tens of thousands of signatures and petitions and launching a barrage of phone calls against the National Press Club for the sole purpose of shutting down someone’s right to free speech." If Mr. O'Hearn used his "New Media" and did some homework, he would discover that it is not just FireDogLake that has called for people to protest to the NPC. This editor has linked to the petition drive by that website and has signed to petition against the Sinclair event. Other websites are following suit, especially after the Olbermann criticism of the NPC last night.

NPC President Sylvia Smith has claimed the following in an interview with Politico: "I’m not aware that we’ve ever turned anybody away for content.” As John McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Group might say, "Wrong, Sylvia!" Last year, NPC President Jerry Zremski, whose reportage for the Buffalo News gave a number of free passes to the GOP congressional staff cabal that was enmeshed in the House page sex scandal involving Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY), and Speaker Dennis Hastert, pressured the cancellation of an event featuring a group of Venezuelans representing President Hugo Chavez who had rented an NPC room. The scheduled event was, like the Sinclair press conference, not an official event of the NPC but one that the right-leaning NPC leadership saw fit to have canceled.

On the NPC blog, a former NPC member wrote the following cogent comment:

"I’m a former member of NPC, having worked in Washington some years back. Even had an office in your building. Used to attend meetings in the press club and hoist a few in the Reliable Source bar. Nice joint.

I genuinely appreciate the NPC’s commitment to freedom of expression, but the Larry Sinclair situation is not about that. There is no shortage of places for him to hold a press conference. The question is whether the NPC is obligated to let him use its facilities.

While it’s true that the NPC doesn’t endorse every group that rents a room, doing so does give some minimal legitimacy to those who appear there. After all, would the NPC rent a room so a Holocaust denial organization that wished to host a conference on Adolf Hitler’s birthday? I doubt it; you’d exercise some level of discretion, and you’d be within your rights to do so.

Larry Sinclair is a convicted criminal who has served prison time for fraud."

Tomorrow, this editor will be in the Holeman Lounge and ask Sinclair who is paying his freight and a follow up question, "What politicians have you blown recently?" Hopefully, that will pose a problem for the right-wing pro-family media outlets and their NPC friends who will be there salivating over Sinclair's salacious false charges against Obama.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080617

AP to charge $12.50 to quote five words?
News agency wants parties to pay for 'permission' to publish snippets.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010341.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX7H2LFSA5M&feature=related

...[Sorry I ran out of quotable words...]

___
bluerootsradio

How ridiculous.

They should be careful what they ask for. No one will quote. They're toast. What dopes.

Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill
By David Edwards | Uncategorized | Tuesday, 17 June 2008

half-dozen military helicopters flew low over parts of Denver Monday night as part of a security drill organized by the U.S. Department of Justice. Denver police said they were aware of the operation, but could provide no details.

The secret drills coincided with preparations for the Democratic National Convention, which will take place in Denver in late August. The Denver Post reported that the military aircraft “buzzed above the Pepsi Center,” the site of the convention.

A military spokesman, though insisted to the Rocky Mountain News that the military drills were unrelated to planning for the convention, which is expected to draw thousands of protesters as did the 2004 party conventions in Boston and New York.

“It’s nothing more than Special Operations Command training with local authorities,” said Lt. Nathan Potter, with Special Operations Command, which has authority over special forces from all branches of the military.

Potter would not say which branch of the military was flying the choppers over Denver.

The training has nothing to do with preparations for the Democratic National Convention, which will be held in Denver in August, Potter said.

“It’s routine preparation for the global war on terrorism,” he said.

The Rocky Mountain News also reports on further efforts by police to stock up on equipment to suppress potentially unruly protesters, including pepper-spray guns that fire plastic pellets filled with “power that’s ‘like a combination of cayenne pepper and baby powder,’” according to the manufacturer. The city itself is refusing to disclose details of its security preparations.

The city received a $50 million federal grant for security. A senior adviser to Mayor John Hickenlooper has said the city plans to spend up to half that amount on equipment, with the rest going to pay officers.

But the city has refused to disclose how it is spending the money, prompting the American Civil Liberties Union last month to file a civil lawsuit. …

Some organizers of protest groups believe police are buying extended-range Tasers and weapons that incapacitate people with high-intensity sound.

This video is from CBS 4 Denver, broadcast June 16, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/17/military-choppers-fly-over-denver-...

right to kill!

Independent.co.uk
Leading article: The tragic legacy of a disastrous president
Tuesday, 17 June 2008

It gets an outing on every visit of an American president to these shores. And yesterday's appearance of President George Bush in London, stopping by on his farewell tour of Europe, was no different. Both Gordon Brown and Mr Bush paid tribute to the "special" relationship between our two nations.

The "special relationship" is a concept that cuts little ice with hard-headed diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet it was once more than a platitude. While the default position of much of the world has traditionally been to look upon America with guarded scepticism, Britons (at least for the past century) have been instinctively well-disposed to the United States and its leaders. The bonds of a common language and a history of shared struggle in two world wars did indeed make this relationship something out of the ordinary.

So perhaps Mr Bush's most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that once prevailed here. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Bush has done more damage to relations between our two nations than any president in living memory. This rupture is not an accident of circumstance; there are no impersonal forces of history to blame. This sorry state of affairs is the consequence of the actions of a single leader and his small coterie of advisers.

America's invasion of Iraq must, of course, be recorded at the top of the charge sheet. In 2002, Tony Blair announced that he was prepared to pay "the blood price" for the sake of the special relationship. But it was not the then prime minister who paid it. That fate has, instead, fallen to 176 British troops who have lost their lives in Iraq.

Yet President's Bush's malign legacy is about much more than Iraq. Relations have been soured by the prolonged jailing of innocent Britons in Guantanamo Bay, the suspected use of Britain as a stopover point for CIA torture flights and a hopelessly one-sided extradition treaty. President Bush has even helped to undermine the peace dividend from the end of the Cold War. He has antagonised Russia by pushing America's missile defence shield project, an outpost of which is to be situated on British territory.

Of course, one might argue that the real culprit here is Mr Blair, who signed Britain up unquestioningly to President Bush's foreign-policy goals when he was in Downing Street. Mr Blair's burden of responsibility is undeniable. But it does not rescue Mr Bush from the abysmally low regard in which he is held by the majority of Britons. And with his disregard for international law, his arrogant refusal to build alliances, this President would have inspired fierce opposition here, even if Mr Blair had not committed Britain to the Iraq misadventure and the "war on terror".

In one sense, this is a discussion about history. Like all second-term American presidents, Mr Bush's power is waning by the day. His legacy will be for academics to debate. The pertinent question now is to what extent Mr Bush's huge unpopularity has contaminated wider public attitudes to America in Britain. Can a President Obama, or a President McCain, heal the wounds? Or is the damage permanent? One would have to suspect that the situation is recoverable; not least because America itself seems as eager for change as Britain. But whether the relationship will ever return to what it was pre-Bush, is another question entirely.

And whatever the future holds for transatlantic relations, there will be very few in this country who watched President Bush's plane depart yesterday without a feeling of profound relief that the end of this disastrous presidency is finally in sight.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-th...

their fee for quoting under Freedom of speech or Freedom of the press.

That would mean that people could charge AP when they are quoted for one of their articles, or anytime they right about them for that matter. Corporations could also charge them every time they are the subject of their work product. And AP is making money off of everyone and every subject they write about.

What a joke.

hydrocodone...very hard on the stomach...remember when taken for pain alone...no addiction worries...if you take it for emotional pain you can get hooked...

psychological addiction is what makes people junkies.

Sound like you are taking it totally appropriately...you shouldn't have to suffer the pain..

By this time my lungs were aching for air.

president holding a shark steak sandwich..

Chris Matthews says Russert
supported the Iraq invasion

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Chris Matthews' initial comments on Friday referenced the fact that, behind the scenes, Tim Russert supported the Iraq war when it first began.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/how_ff_became_wpitw_873...

June 17, 2008 -- The other Barack Obama

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had some strong criticisms for fathers who abandon their families. There is little doubt that Obama was referring to his Kenyan father, Barack Obama, Sr., who, according to the presidential candidate's first book, Dreams from My Father, writes that his father abandoned him at 2 years old, along with his mother, and returned to Kenya. Obama was raised by his mother's step-father, Lolo Soetoro, in Jakarta, Indonesia until the age of 10 and moved back to his native Hawaii where he was raised by his mother's parents.

Yesterday, WMR spoke at length with the former Prime Minister of a country that borders Kenya. The African political leader knew Barack Obama Sr. after his return to Kenya and paints quite a different picture of the father of the possible future president of the United States.

The former leader said he was in Nairobi and met Barack Obama Sr. and a number of meetings dealing with regional East African transportation issues. He said that he remembered the senior Obama as "very smart" and "impressive," adding that he spoke English with a heavy British accent. "Barack Obama was very well respected" by his colleagues, the former Prime Minister said.

The former Prime Minister said that at the time he knew Obama he had no idea that he had a son in the United States. He and Obama often left their technical meetings and had drinks at the bar of the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. He revealed that Obama, who graduated with a PhD in economic mathematics from Harvard, expected to be given a high position in the newly-independent government of Kenya in 1964.

However, Obama was an ethnic Luo and the British colonial government and the Kikuyu-dominated government of Kenya's first President Jomo Kenyatta mistrusted the Luo because they felt they represented leftist views. Obama was a colleague of Kenya's first Vice President, Oginga Odinga, the late father of Kenya's current Prime Minister and opposition leader Raila Odinga. Oginga Odinga quit the Kenyatta government in 1966 and headed the opposition Kenya People's Union.

Obama's old friend said he was saddened to learn of Obama's death in a car accident in 1982 when he read the obituary in the East African Standard, Kenya's national newspaper. The senior Obama, disappointed that he was not given a significant job with his Harvard credentials because of discrimination by the dominant Kikuyu against the Luo, increasingly began drinking. The car accident that took life was blamed on drunk driving.

Obama's friend said that when he hears Barack Obama Jr. speak he hears the charismatic voice of his father. "Obama's father was a great orator in public meetings and privately," confided his friend. The former Prime Minister feels, in retrospect, that had Obama been given a high-level job in the Kenyan government, he would have brought his American wife and son to live with him in Kenya. His friend said that Obama Sr. seemed ashamed that he could not get a job commensurate with his education and credentials. "His Harvard degree was downplayed by the Kenyan government," said his friend.

WMR has not revealed the identity of the former Prime Minister, an exile from a U.S.-supported dictatorship in East Africa. If the relationship between the former Prime Minister and the father of the possible next President of the United States became known, it could result in problems with the dictator, a longtime client of the Clinton and Bush administrations.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080617_1

>>They should be careful what they ask for. No one will quote. They're toast. What dopes.

the thing is, they don't want bloggers to "quote" them.

It is a copyright issue.

They fear that should bloggers post whole articles, they will be cheated out of royalties.

you know, people won't visit the website that has paid for that content.

Eventually we are going to have to have a supreme court ruling on `fair use' as it applies to the internet .

Really.

What a great investigative reporter that Chris Mathews is.

I hope they give him the show and he blows it. Because you know he will.

I understand. It's a mistake on their part; and it would be easily challenged.

Just like the music industry, they don't understand the "new media" and how to make money in it. It will be another nail in their coffin, as they will only succeed in pissing everyone off to the point that no one will quote them or link to them.

>>and it would be easily challenged.

which is why I think we are heading for a supreme court ruling.

I think they want an absurd amount for the "quotes". probably 100 to 1000 times what they're worth.

Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 9:44pm.
hydrocodone...you shouldn't have to suffer the pain..
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As a bonus, toniD hasn't coughed all week.

you new york? i will meet you!!!! will you meet me?

>> Sea Hunt. Lloyd Bridges.
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 9:45pm.
By this time my lungs were aching for air.
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Wasn't that a recurring Mystery Science Theatre joke? (Not that you'd steal a joke.)

>>Wasn't that a recurring Mystery Science Theatre joke? (Not that you'd steal a joke.)

what would make you assume I have two boxes full of MST3K tapes?

Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell is in very tight race
· 6/17/2008 08:54:00 PM ET · Link
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The latest SurveyUSA poll in Kentucky shows Mitch McConnell leading his Democratic opponent, Bruce Lunsford, by just a 50% - 46% margin.

Mitch McConnell is in BIG trouble. He's already spent millions on t.v., which he started running last November according to the Associated Press -- yet, he's barely breaking 50%. Sure McConnell has a huge campaign war chest, but his opponent is a multi-millionaire who can self-finance part of the race.

Clearly, McConnell's obstructionist antics in the Senate aren't doing much for his stature in his home state. Let's hope Mitch keeps it up. He's going to have to work extra hard and spend even more money just to defend his own seat. And, it's not a sure thing at all. That means less time campaigning and raising money for his other endangered GOP colleagues.

There used to be an "unwritten rule" in the Senate that the leaders weren't targeted by leaders on the other side. That ended when the GOP went after Tom Daschle:
Senate Republican leaders broke an unwritten rule about campaigning directly against an opposition leader and targeted Daschle for defeat, charging that he was an obstructionist liberal in a moderate's clothing.
Now, it's their turn.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/top-senate-republican-mitch-mcconnell...

juz say when and when!! newyork right?

I'll Be There ----NO FEAR!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOKkX5bBunM&feature=related

>>(Not that you'd steal a joke.)

It's a fair use protected issue...it was a parody of MST3K...

Top Senate Republican Mitch
new
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:09pm.

Hey, maybe the AP can "negotiate" habeas corpus for the detainees at Gitmo too
· 6/17/2008 03:12:00 PM ET · Link
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Quite the mensches, our friends at the Associated Press. They sent some bloggers a legal letter telling them that it's illegal for bloggers to quote anything - ANY THING - from an AP story on their blog. Even if the quotation comprises only 39 words, AP says it's illegal (it's not) and they're gonna sue you.

Yeah, that's nice.

Now let me show you what 39 words is. I'm reprinting, below, the first 39 words in this post:
Quite the mensches, our friends at the Associated Press. They sent some bloggers a legal letter telling them that it's illegal for bloggers to quote anything - ANY THING - from an AP story on their blog. Even if...
Yes, according to the Associated Press, quoting two sentences (and two words) from any source at any time is illegal. Now, excuse my legal naivete since all I have is a simple J.D. from Georgetown, but what exactly is AP's legal argument for claiming that the "fair use" exemption to copyright law no longer exists and/or applies?

AP then says, fret not. They're going to "negotiate" with a group of bloggers no one has ever heard of, and come up with their own solution to this "problem." Uh, first off, until AP is confirmed to a seat on the Supreme Court, it doesn't matter what agreements they reach detailing what they think constitutes fair use (I guess AP now thinks they can issue signing statements too). Secondly, who is the "Media Bloggers Association" that AP is meeting with to iron out this deal on behalf of us all? I think I've vaguely heard of this group - they kind of waltz in whenever a mainstream trouble maker is looking for "normal" bloggers to deal with. The problem is, no one has a clue who these people are, and none of us ever picked them to be our representatives. So, go ahead and meet with them, AP. And while you're at it, be sure to meet with the Tooth Fairy as well. I understand habeas corpus needs some retooling.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/hey-maybe-ap-can-negotiate-habeas.htm...

lets show them how we blow heads off!!! thats what we need to do right? "heat"

proove a point!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMryIz0fg9s

Court to decide whether top officials can be sued

By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether top government officials can be sued for the alleged abuse of a Pakistani Muslim arrested and jailed after Sept. 11, 2001.
The case, arising from the federal roundup of Arab Muslims in New York after the terrorist attacks, could be an important test of the personal responsibility of high-ranking officials when subordinates violate constitutional rights.

The court agreed to hear an appeal from former attorney general John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller of a ruling that allowed a lawsuit against them to proceed.

Federal agents arrested Javaid Iqbal at his Long Island home in late 2001 and held him from January to July 2002 in a federal detention unit in Brooklyn. Iqbal alleges he was kept in solitary confinement, beaten and subjected to abusive strip searches. He claims he was picked up and categorized "of high interest" to the Sept. 11 investigations solely because of his race, religion and national origin.

After he was released and deported to Pakistan, Iqbal sued numerous federal officials, including Ashcroft and Mueller, claiming they violated his civil rights. He sought damages and attorneys fees. Justice Department lawyers argued that Ashcroft and Mueller were not responsible for the conditions of his confinement or any alleged mistreatment.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2008-06-16-court_N.htm?...

ACLU

A sham spying “compromise” could be rammed through both the Senate and House this week. It’s moving that fast.

If we don’t stop this, telecom companies that broke the law by supplying mountains of personal information to the government without a warrant will be let off the hook.

Tell your members of Congress to reject this so-called compromise

Please Sign Petition - Thank You

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

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

Former journalist refuses to report for duty with Army
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Tuesday, June 17, 2007

WASHINGTON — A former Army journalist recalled to active duty this month refused to report to his new assignment Sunday night, citing his opposition to the Iraq war.

Matthis Chiroux, who served five years in the Army before separating last summer, said he expects and welcomes legal action resulting from his refusal, calling U.S. operations in Iraq an illegal occupation.

"I don’t feel like I’m doing anything illegal at all," he said. "We basically have no cause for military presence in Iraq.

"I’m making this decision because I believe my first loyalty is to the higher ideals of this country, which are being blatantly violated by our leaders."

Army officials said he faces charges of failure to report and desertion for the move, although no legal action has been taken yet.

...

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=55596

George Bush becomes Mr Mackey
By: John Amato @ 5:40 PM - PDT

Please, make him stop.

Download | Play Download | Play

Bush: We’ve got what we call a Disaster relief fund. There’s enough money in that fund to take care of this disaster. But what we’re concerned about is future disasters this year and therefore we’re going to work with the Congress. Jim Nussle’s going to go up and work with Congress to get enough money in the upcoming supplemental to make sure that fund is,,,ahhh…is got enough money to deal with the potential disaster, another disaster this year.

Mackey: The funds need money, mmmkay? And I want to make sure the funds get money, mmmkay? Because it’s good that the funds have money, mmmkay?

I know it is important to have funds available, but the way he frames the issue is kinda like…..two and two are four….Comedy Central’s Mr. Mackey says.…

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/17/george-bush-becomes-mr-mackey/

Washington calls home neocon ambassador to Bolivia. Philip Goldberg has history of interfering in Bolivian politics and supporting right-wing Bolivians given asylum in United States.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1627216320080616?rpc=40...

NY Governor: Bloomberg is
a 'nasty, tantrum-prone liar'

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The New York Post's Fred Dicker reveals New York Gov. David Paterson (D) was the source for his story yesterday that the governor had privately referred to New York City Mayor Bloomberg as a "nasty, tantrum-prone liar" who has "little use" for average New Yorkers.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/06/17/paterson_outed_as_source_fo...

Submitted by Lauren on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 5:01pm.
Obama's terror policy belies a "fundamental lack of judgment"? Hooray! Rudy you are so wise and good and pure!
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Yep! Rudy showed real judgment when he dressed up in drag. And it was sho-nuff judgment when he brought his mistress to the same house where his wife and kids lived.

On race relations in the late 1940s and early 1950s: "There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours." (Right from the Beginning, Buchanan's 1988 autobiography, p. 131)

For the New Yorkers here...
new
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:50pm.

NY Governor: Bloomberg is
a 'nasty, tantrum-prone liar'

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It comes from the NY Post [i.e. Rupert Murdoch]; and both Bloomberg and Patterson said it was ridiculous and that Patterson would never say anything like that. The Post is just trying to stir it up. They are a tabloid that poses as news. If it was in London, like a lot of other Murdoch publications it would be even more sensationalized.

After Sen. Carol Moseley Braun blocked a federal patent for a Confederate flag insignia, Buchanan wrote that she was "putting on an act" by associating the Confederacy with slavery: "The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance," Buchanan asserted. "How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?" (syndicated column, 7/28/93)

Where Did Cheney Get His Bogus China Story?
A few days ago Cheney repeated a meme about China drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba and Florida in remarks to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce about high energy prices. It turns out he took it from a mysterious letter-writing campaign.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/oil_and_cuba.php

>> "fundamental lack of judgment"? Hooray! Rudy

not to mention the judgement involved in using a taxpayer funded, 1st responders' apartment as a love nest.

I wouldn't put it past Murdock to do something like that. I didn't really know or didn't pay attention to where it came from.

Here's Pat!

In another memo from Buchanan to Nixon: "There is a legitimate grievance in my view of white working-class people that every time, on every issue, that the black militants loud-mouth it, we come up with more money.... If we can give 50 Phantoms [jet fighters] to the Jews, and a multi-billion dollar welfare program for the blacks...why not help the Catholics save their collapsing school system." (Boston Globe, 1/4/92)

McCain Has to Settle For Phony Dems
A few days ago, the McCain campaign proudly released a list of "prominent Democrats and Independents" supporting his candidacy. There's only one problem: the list is a bit of a sham.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/mccain_dems.php

The NY Post was just trying to stir it up and kill a Democrat or 2 with one stone. The telltale part is where they quote the governor, who as you will recall got there because of Spitzer's little fiasco [probably NY Post helped that happen too], as comparing Bloomberg to Spitzer.

Lame.

Is that right?! Boston winning in 3rd, 84 to 54! I saw the end of the last game and figured they must just be toying with them so they can extend the series, make more money and win on home court.

Go Celtics!

Dilberts of the World, Unite!
new
Submitted by Lucille on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:10pm.
In the 1990s, dot-com celebrations were happening everywhere. From Silicon Valley to Boston, from Austin to Seattle, the geeky Lambda Lambda Lambda frat brothers from Revenge of the Nerds were suddenly big men on campus, starting computer companies, swimming in cash--partying, as Prince might say, like it was 1999 (it actually was 1999). As the kegger raged upstairs, though, a group of Microsoft employees at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, called the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers--WashTech for short--was shrieking from the basement about an impending economic massacre. Sadly, very few were listening. Now the party's over--and a white-collar uprising is on.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080623/sirota

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The Corporate Myth that white collar workers have some sort of covenant that protects them and makes them 'elite' by association with the Corporate muckity-mucks SHOULD BE JETTISONED!

It is time for White collar and Blue collar workers to realize they have everything in common with each other and nothing in common with the Power Elite and bagmen managers.

The quotes from Pat Buchanan came from a 1996 article written by F.A.I.R.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2553

White House Derides
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 8:31pm.
White House Derides Investigation That Exposed Drug Testing On Vets As ‘Irresponsible Reporting,’ ‘Awful’

...Human experimentation on "captive" patients

In a "Medical experimentation block in Auschwitz...Mengele used Auschwitz as an opportunity to continue his research on heredity, using inmates for human experimentation...In 1955, he bought a fifty per cent share of a pharmaceutical company...and moved to Paraguay...hoped that Paraguay would be safer for him..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele

...Property in Paraguay

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5324

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

Extradition ?
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080527194458AAZy0yj

http://www.oas.org/juridico/mla/en/usa/index.html

Feeling any better today ?

I hope so.. :)

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

Hamas says it's reached cease-fire with Israel

Hamas' Gaza rulers say they have reached a long-awaited cease-fire with Israel

IBRAHIM BARZAK

Gaza's Hamas rulers on Tuesday said they have reached a long-awaited cease-fire with Israel meant to end months of Palestinian assaults on Israeli border towns and bruising Israeli retaliation.

The announcement came shortly after Egypt, which has been trying to broker the truce for months, said the cease-fire would go into effect on Thursday. Israel refused to confirm a deal, but said a "new reality" would take hold if Palestinian attacks end.

In a last-minute jolt, Israeli aircraft attacked three targets in the southern Gaza Strip. One of the airstrikes destroyed a car, killing six militants inside.

A large crowd gathered around the car's smoldering remains, and a puddle of blood was visible on the asphalt. Gaza militants then fired four mortar shells at Israel, the first of the day, the military said. No one was hurt.

Hamas officials accused Israel of trying to undermine the truce, but said they would not let the violence derail the Egyptian efforts.

"We are going to commit ourselves to the start time that Egypt is going to declare regarding the calm," said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. However, the group's television station said the movement would respond to "any Zionist aggression," underscoring the delicate situation.

Egypt's powerful intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, has been meeting separately with Israeli and Hamas officials for months in hopes of brokering a truce.

Israel has been seeking a halt to rocket attacks launched from Gaza nearly every day, an end to Hamas' weapons buildup, and the release of an Israeli soldier held by Hamas for two years.

Hamas, meanwhile, wants an end to Israel's military activity in Gaza and the lifting of an Israeli blockade that has caused widespread destitution in the already impoverished coastal strip.

The state-run Egyptian news agency MENA cited an unidentified high-level Egyptian official as saying both sides "have agreed on the first phase" of an Egyptian-mediated package to end the violence in Gaza.

It said the first phase would be a "mutual and simultaneous calm" in the Gaza Strip beginning at 6 a.m. Thursday.

An Egyptian official told The Associated Press that if the area is quiet for three days, Israel would begin to open Gaza's border crossings to let more humanitarian supplies into the area. A week later, Israel would allow in additional goods.

The official said in a final phase Israel would consider reopening Gaza's border crossing with Egypt. The Rafah crossing is the main route for Gaza's 1.4 million people to leave the area. Israel and Egypt closed the crossing in June 2007 after Hamas violently seized control of Gaza, a move that has confined the vast majority of Gazans inside the coastal strip for the past year.

The deal is meant to last for six months, he said, and includes the possibility of extending a truce to the West Bank, where Israeli regularly conducts arrest raids targeting militants.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/06/hamas_says_its_reached_ceasefi...

How're you doing?

I haven't been around much. Has he been around?

when do you go in for the surgery? I saw you say you are going to be out of commission for at least 3 months.

to be equipped with an automatic shutdown when given a signal from law enforcement. The gas pedal will quit working.

No more high speed chases.

Where's the sport in that?

On not knowing what words mean
Submitted by Lauren on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 9:58am.
As Steve Benen writes on Crooks & Liars this morning--

"It just keeps getting worse with the Arizona senator. From his press conference yesterday:

QUESTION: The European Union has set mandatory targets on renewable energy. Is that something you would consider in a McCain administration? […]

MCCAIN: Sure. I believe in the cap-and-trade system, as you know. I would not at this time make those — impose a mandatory cap at this time. But I do believe that we have to establish targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions over time, and I think those can be met.

As Kate Sheppard explained, McCain new position is “completely out of line with his own proposal for a cap-and-trade scheme, both the plan he proposed with Joe Lieberman last year and his own presidential plan, released last month. They both would, by nature, be mandatory — hence the ‘cap’ in the name.”

In other words, McCain doesn’t understand his own policy. Or, as hilzoy noted,
“The best you can say for McCain, on this point, is that he is completely unfamiliar with what is supposed to be one of his signature issues. Not knowing what ‘mandatory cap’ means, in this context, is like not knowing what a ’strike’ is in baseball.”
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Good Evening, All!

Previous thread topic posted by Lauren seems to indicate that McCain is off course.

Nope. He is ON COURSE.

That's because he is a PNAC man! And the PNAC Crowd (which includeS JEB BUSH) are the devotees of Leo Strauss who taught his students TO LIE and OBFUSCATE as techniques/methods of grabbing and holding power.

McCain is showing/proving that he's even better at it than George W. Bush! THE MORE CONFUSED WE ARE, THE BETTER. Remember that quote that said in effect (please refresh my memory on the source), "We create reality, you analyze it..."?

Folks, there is a subtext.

I sent you and Shell a email..

Hang in there Buddy ! :)

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

I'm having surgery July 11th for knee replacement. There is alot of physical therapy afterwards and the drs tell me 3 months but it may be less. Hopefully!

Between Crank and dr and myself, I think we covered all the knee pun jokes there were!

McCain seems to be hand-in-glove with PNAC as described in this article --

http://www.truthout.org/article/john-mccains-chilling-project-america

McCain's Ties to PNAC
John McCain's connection to PNAC can be traced back to before its formation in 1997. In fact, he was president of the New Citizenship Project, founded by Kristol in 1994. This organization was parent to PNAC, and served as its chief fundraising organ.
McCain also worked cooperatively with PNAC and Wolfowitz in attempting to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. In 1998, he co-sponsored the Iraq Liberation Act-drafted by PNAC-which decreed "regime change" in Iraq to be U.S. policy, and which appropriated $97 million in U.S. military aid to the Iraqi National Congress (INC). The INC was a group of anti-Hussein Iraqi militants whose purpose was to instigate a national uprising against Hussein. It was led by Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi informant whose subsequent faulty intelligence-claims that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaida-was used to sell the Iraq war to the American public. In 2004, in response to accusations that he deliberately misled U.S. intelligence agencies, Chalabi glibly stated, "We are heroes in error."
The article goes on to chronicle the other PNAC endeavors and PNAC-related endeavors in which McCain was active:
o 2002 McCain co-chair of The Committee for the Liberatation of Iraq (CLI) which financed Chalabi
o 2004 McCain signed on to a PNAC document condemning President Putin of Russia accusing him of the "rhetoric of militarism and empire" (this when Bush had already invaded a sovereign nation for oil and Empire?)

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U.S. holding 25,000 in prisons in Iraq WITHOUT CHARGES.

drops in occasionally more when Sam had the Sunday show. He says he's been busy and thankful for that in this economy.

Between Crank and dr and myself, I think we covered all the knee pun jokes there were!

***

Yes, I was the happy beneficiary of some of them!

***

My dad, and several other people I know have had knee replacement. I think it has gotten better over the years. Here's hoping it is as painfree as possible, with a very speedy recovery.

In China, Coverage Focuses On Obama's Race
Washington Post: Major Newspaper Editorial Says Skin Color Is The Key Issue In U.S. Election
BEIJING, June 17, 2008

America may be discussing whether Barack Obama is tough enough to field a 3 a.m. phone call, but for the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, the real issue is his race.

"Obama's skin color is the biggest focal point of this year's U.S. election," said the opening line in a front-page editorial in the overseas edition of Monday's People's Daily newspaper.

The editorial, while perhaps stark in its analysis, gave voice to a fascination among many Chinese at the sight of a black man running for president in the world's most powerful nation. The U.S. campaign, and Obama's victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton, have provided them with a noticeable contrast to China's own situation, where Han Chinese eclipse minorities by their overwhelming majority and show no sign of relinquishing their hold on the levers of power.

The race issue has become particularly sensitive here in recent months, with the Public Security Bureau accusing Muslim Uighur separatists in the Xinjiang region of plotting terrorist attacks in Beijing, and Tibetans rioting against Han Chinese rule in Lhasa, the Tibetan regional capital, and several other Tibetan-inhabited areas.

The editorial sought to explain that Obama's breakthrough should not be understood as a demonstration that race relations have crossed a threshold in the United States that China has yet to approach. Obama, it said, became the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee because, as a Harvard lawyer, he shares the same "background" as others in the U.S. elite.

"Obama won precisely because he did not emphasize his racial characteristics," the writer said. "He even made a clean break with radical black people. Therefore it can be said Obama won because of his skin color and not because of his skin color. His skin color made him different but his U.S. background made him the same.

"Obama is a graduate from a first-class university," the editorial continued. "He is a symbol of assimilation rather than a representative of different races coming together. Obama did not break the superiority complex of white people. On the contrary, his appearance strengthened the superiority complex of white people."

The editorial was signed by Ding Gang, a name frequently assigned to important analyses in a publication that plays the role of party bulletin board. Chinese journalists said they believe it is a pen name used by senior editors or other party propaganda officials conveying an official point of view.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/17/politics/washingtonpost/main41...

Isn't there a way they could get you in sooner ?

Waiting a month in pain isn't too much fun..

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

Pain from the operation will disappear. Better than the constant pain now. The sad part is that I will have to go through the same thing next year for the other knee.

Maybe I should invest in titanium. I'll have enough of it in me!

Blooowwww Ouuuuttt !

Just suprised the Lakers even got to the Finals..

The Celtics are obviously the better team !

When's Football Season ! :)

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

My Dr is very popular.

I'll manage.

I hear ya !

I should have guessed..
Hopefully that means he's good ! :)

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

"Better than the constant pain now. The sad part is that I will have to go through the same thing next year for the other knee."

Hopefully, it's like childbirth. You'll forget soon after, just how painful it was. Enough so, to do it again.

He's good and he doesn't have any patient complaints against him, which is sayong alot.

Another 9/11 waiting to happen

Wayne Madsen – Wayne Madsen Report June 16, 2008

Roland "Tony" Carnaby, the one-time CIA station chief for the Southeast Region slain by Houston police on April 29, was an advocate of increasing "HUMINT" resources in and around the sprawling Houston port complex, from Houston to Galveston. Houston is the largest port in the United States for foreign tonnage.

Carnaby had in his possession the morning of April 29 information that someone wanted and wanted badly enough to order the Houston police to treat the well-known former CIA clandestine agent and president of the local chapter of the Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO) as a dangerous armed criminal. After an extensive investigation, WMR has learned that those who ordered the "hit" on Carnaby were part of a team, including smugglers tied to the Russian-Israeli mob, who were involved in terrorist planning activities in the greater Houston area.

Carnaby and his intelligence and federal and county law enforcement associates were concerned about the potential for a "9/11-like" false flag attack on either Houston's port facility, airports, or all of them in and around the Memorial Day and Independence Day weekends.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8802

His contracts will still live on.

tall.

Did you ever notice?

;)

Gerry and The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross the Mersey

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

Time to raise the basket ? ;)

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

>>Time to raise the basket ? ;)

either that or put it at a height everyone can reach.

.. that Jackie Mitchell was the first [and probably last] woman in Major League baseball. She actually struck out Babe Ruth and then Lou Gehrig, one after the other and with little effort. She was pretty young too: 17! Not surprisingly, they pulled her out immediately. Major League Baseball would formally ban the signing of women to contracts shortly thereafter. Women were declared unfit, because baseball was too strenuous.

over there NY style?

meet me 'fore popping!!

>>She actually struck out Babe Ruth and then Lou Gehrig, one after the other and with little effort.

in high heels!

I bet she distracted them with her huge bazoombas....

Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes

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

i am mad ghetto!! wanna meet me? lets go>>>>>

yeah. that was it. that's how she did it. not skill.

we really are>>>

so Goodnight all!

you're fucking psychotic

DRAW BLOOD?

received your postcard

thanks

Graham Nash: Be Yourself

That Should Ring a Bell with someone.......

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

recognize one to know one fukr

what dat

who dere

you dare

where mar hair

Hi Ono..How ya been ? :)

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

xo Hope you feel better soon and don't have to suffer another month...

who dat

what dat mean

(moron)

your gungho mannerisms are ill suited for this blog

quick everyone devote themselves to lucilles bullshit head

wot dat mean

old age punk!

fucking ignorant immigrant---cannot stand you!!!!

gottem da hypertension blues

so better go 'fore lucilles infuriating shit causes me to self-destruct...

where be

who where when what

wot da mean

wot "mean" mean

who dat

>>your gungho mannerisms are ill suited for this blog

a bit of the old pot calling the kettle, eh, mate?

I've often thought about lucille and you raising a little brood of rug rats. ;)

I'm glad you got the card, I'll see if I can remember how to mail another.

aye now----A-O learning! does it hurt?

That stuff blows past..
They just aren't themselves most the time..

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

the original Greek/Australian dutch uncle

who dat

(quack-quack)

arm ghetto

arm armed

let's go>>>> doe you mess wid me

who you lookin' at, motherfucker

HA! dreams

she's a seriously disturbed person

SIN!!!!

who dat?

>>she's a seriously disturbed person

aren't we all?

here's link (click)

to an interview with Jeff Sharlet

discussing his book The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism's Shadow Elite

Where ya been, aussie?

Missed ya!

it's a matter of degrees

when i'm being reprehensible & receive criticism

i cop it sweet

and don't challenge my detractor to a duel

didn't ya?....

lmao...

um, guess

(hint: in australia)

who dat

(hint: that's lucille)

are you kidding me?

:P

So, hope all is well..

you not only wanna beat up catharine

but you wanna do it in front of your children

show 'em how tough mama is

(hint: get treatment)

touch & go
touch & go

i sed anything about beating arse hole i sed meeting fucker now you have a problem reading too?

Mick Jagger-Memo From Turner

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

The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care)

i'll post you my email addy

so we can conduct our illicit relationship off-air

: )

ciao

HA!
joke!!
laugh laugh laugh!!

Good song, MM..

but this hot guy that I met from New Mexico has apparently gotten a webcam.

Have mercy!!!

ttyl a-o. Hugs and kisses!

Get my email ?

Ono wouldn't give me he's..What a wanker ! ;)

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

Don't forget to cover your eyes and peek between two fingers first... ;) ttYl, Annette.. xo

Did you ever get over to The Oasis Part Deux ?

I have to start a New one..Part Deux is Too long..It
even takes me about 5 to 10 mins just to get on the thread..

Bummer..Some great tunes there..

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

**sniff**

and that is all that i lived for

I had ono's email and I do not have it now...If I did, I would ask him why he came all the way back to the Blog to rag on Lucille... :)

That Late Night Live from Aussieland has
some great stuff on it..Thanks. :)

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

She actually struck out Babe Ruth and then Lou Gehrig, one after the other and with little effort.

I just read your email..

Could you not read all my email to you ?
There was a attachment too..

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

You know I would if I did..but I don't think I get it.. :/

from Wikipedia:

The Strikeouts

The New York Yankees and the Chatanooga Lookouts were scheduled to play an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 1, 1931. Due to rain the game was postponed until the 2nd. Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell's fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Next up was Gehrig who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. A seventeen-year-old girl had struck out two of the greatest hitters in baseball history using seven pitches and five swing throughs.

Career

A few days after striking out Ruth and Gehrig baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was "too strenuous". Mitchell continued to play professionally, barnstorming with the House of David, a men's team famous for their very long hair and long beards. She retired in 1937 at the age of 23 after becoming something of a side show - once being asked to pitch while riding a donkey. She refused to come out of retirement when the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed. Major League Baseball would formally ban the signing of women to contracts on June 21, 1952.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25213192/

FDA cracks down on bogus cancer treatments

"FDA is very concerned that consumers will purchase these products on the Internet and use them instead of products that have been proven safe and effective," said Michael Levy, director of labeling the agency's new drug division.

The letters criticized unproven claims made about these products including the ability to "destroy the enzyme on DNA responsible for cancer cells," and the power to "neutralize" carcinogens. One product's Web site had a testimonial claiming it had cured a patient's skin cancer in three days, according to one of the letters.

The ingredients of these unproven treatments include bloodroot, shark cartilage, coral calcium, cesium, ellagic acid, and a variety of mushrooms among other products.
[end excerpt]
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The "placebo effect" is REAL. Somebody tell the FDA.

Criminalizing stuff that is harmless but allowing Big Pharma to flood the market with pharmaceuticals that kill (Vioxx etc., and even aspirin kills about 12,000 people a year by causing internal hemmorrages!) -- the FDA can't do anything right, can it?

The only reason for these priorities is, Big Pharma likes it that way. And they don't want to see a nickle going to a harmless herb if instead it can be spent on pain inducing chemotherapy or such!

A white collar crime, this. The FDA is in the Petrochemical/Nuclear Medical Industry's pocket. Big Science -- using the FDA -- is enacting restraint of trade against harmless natural products marketers in the guise of 'bogus cures' enforcement.

Thom Hartmann today mentioned a study where heart disease patients literally changed their DNA by changing their health habits.

Conscious intention, desire, the placebo effect, patient confidence in the practitioner -- these are primary ingredients. And to take away from patients any harmless thing with which to focus their consciousness of healing -- that is a crime.

As I Grew Older, by Langston Hughes
&
The Cremation Of Sam McGee, by Robert W. Service

Pretty, Annette.. :)

It seems to be that
someone is not whom
they claim to be..O'well..It's a crazy world. :)

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

Your correct Nora..

They better change alot of things
when the Democrats get a big majority..

Or,They Will Be Hearing From Us ! !

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

Sucks they kicked her out tho...

*

GREAT post, Nora... :)

I was looking for something I heard on NPR about placebos..can't find it now..

Found these tho.. Half of them were given daily supplements of St. John's wart, and the other half were given placebo pills.

He writes that his 31-year-old patient, Julie, once told him: "I've grown up on medication. I don't have a sense of who I really am without it."

'bye, Cyd!

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PSL Presidential Candidate Gloria La Riva in Iowa

Assisting residents, condemning government negligence, calling for immediate action
Unprecedented flood levels have left hundreds of thousands of people in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri devastated - and the destruction is not over. While George W. Bush has been traveling to Paris and London, the people are left to their own devices, their homes devastated, many who have lost their jobs, and 17 percent of the region’s crops damaged.

Party for Socialism and Liberation Presidential Candidate Gloria La Riva, Illinois State Assembly Candidate John Beacham and PSL Chicago organizer Stefanie Fisher visited the flood-devastated areas of Iowa to help in emergency-sandbagging efforts to try to keep the rising Mississippi River from engulfing more towns, and to express solidarity with the affected communities.

This important delegation was organized on very short notice and involved expenses for last-minute airfare, car rental, gas and more. Your financial support can help to cover the expenses of this trip, distribute its reports, and continue the political campaign. Click here to make an online donation through our secure server, and to find information on how to donate by check.

The delegation is carrying out on-the-spot fact-finding, and issuing reports for PSLweb.org and Liberation Newspaper; showing solidarity with the people there who are suffering from the floods; and beginning a political campaign to demand real action by the government.

from sweetafton23

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

My Space Blues

The years are going by so fast it really is bewilderin'
And we'll be so-called "grown ups" and have mortgages and children
I hope we all gain worldliness, and wisdom, maturity
But I hope most of all that MySpace falls into obscurity

I hope our profiles all go dead, entombed in distant servers
A monument of your youth, although lacking its observers
Your page will be an empty shell, when no one is behind it
I hope your MySpace stays forever - and I hope that your kids find it

How I hope that you forget your MySpace
I hope it slips completely from your mind
And I hope it stays up long enough for the next generation to find
And I hope that it embarrasses your children
I hope their bratty friends all forward it around
And I hope that you forget your password
So you cannot take it down

If your kids think you vaguely square, it will be so much clearer
When they laugh at the pictures you took in your bathroom mirror
And all the bands you listen to, your kids will be exposin'
"Who is this Soulja Boy you reference, who's 'Uh Oh Explosion'?"

They'll marvel at how old you are, they'll "rofl" at your outfits
Your tastes may pass as "vintage" in the future - but I doubt it

I hope your cynical kids say, "Holy crap, this is great
these comments date all the way back to 2008."
I hope they dig through your pictures, and find some we might call compromising
I hope that seeing young Mom in a swimsuit or smoking a hookah isn't too traumatizing
But it will be past their comprehension
They'll ask "Did Grandpa not give you enough attention?"

[insert rocking out here]

They might poke at your top 8 friends, read your comments at the most
I only wish that they could see the inane bulletins you post

To get F.D.A. approval, a drug has to beat a placebo in two randomized clinical trials that typically involve a few hundred subjects who are treated for relatively short periods, usually 4 to 12 weeks.

So drugs are approved based on short-term studies for what turns out to be long-term — often lifelong — use in the world of clinical practice. The longest maintenance study to date of one of the newer antidepressants, Effexor, lasted only two years and showed the drug to be superior to a placebo in preventing relapses of depression.

What do I say to a depressed patient who is doing well after five years on such a drug but can’t stop without a depressive relapse and who wants reassurance that the drug has no long-term adverse effects?

I usually say that we have no evidence that the drug poses a risk with long-term use; and since the risk of untreated depression is much greater than the hypothetical risk of the drug, it makes sense to stay on it.

This large gap in our clinical knowledge is compounded by the public’s growing and well-founded skepticism about research sponsored by drug makers. A study in the January 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, involving 74 clinical trials with 12 antidepressants, found that 97 percent of positive studies were published, versus 12 percent of negative studies.

So? What's the verdict?

I don't use/understand enough features for it to make much of a difference, I think.

-Anybody see any similarities between the Regimes...
Submitted by CeeCee on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 11:12pm.-

Interesting similarity...and not a good answer on the yahoo answer site...

will let you know tomorrow...

Goodnight, All.. xoxo :)

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever

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Whenever a doctor offered me cortisone, I told him I'd rather die from my my ailment than from the cortisone's side effects.

The same goes for the anti-depressants. When one's depressed, it's best to learn/to be told it will run its course when the cause is addressed (and it can run its course if addressed, since depression is a response to GRIEF and grief can be healed). When one takes an anti-depressant for grief, one not only does not get over the grief, on top of it, one is burdened with drug dependence.

That Effexor sounds like Totalitarian Fascism's dream-come-true. No wonder they tested it for such a long time. A drug that one never gets off. A drug that masks the grief so thoroughly, one forgets one is/was grieving. Just the thing for a Brave New World where humans will grieve constantly for their loss of freedom, loss of social mobility, as they are denied civil rights and sane government and justice via rule of law and tenets like habeus corpus.

"It's eight o'clock. Everyone, take your pills."

The Zombies - She's Not There

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I'm on Effexor due to Chronic Pain & Depression and I'm still pissed off !

And,I'm Still Progressive !

But,it helps..
Unfortunately,Chronic Pain Messes with your Head After awhile..Some sooner..It just depends..
:)

But,I'll let you know if I get a sudden desire to buy Black Boots and only Black Clothes.. ;-)

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Now since The Rethug's have used the Effexor's slogan for their Convention slogan,it's not my fault they are Stupid too ! :)

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my favorites!

I rest my case.. ;)

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eya nightowl!

my being a repub has always been an inside joke for over 3 decades.

the fun part is all MY old repub buds have been apologising lately for the snow job they fell for when they elected W and his pack of corporate thieves and accused me of wearing a tinfoil hat...

i love it

I remembered it wrong; not about heart disease; research was with cancer patients.

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http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20080616/change-lifestyle-chan...

Change Lifestyle, Change Genes
3 Months on Ornish Diet Changes 500 Genes, Many With Anticancer Effects
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MDJune 16, 2008 -- If you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.

You can't get different genes, but how you act can change how your genes act, report Dean Ornish, MD, and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Ornish is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF and also a diet guru who's been telling us for years that by improving our lifestyle we can prevent and even reverse many chronic diseases. And Ornish has been putting his money where his mouth is, backing a number of scientific studies that support his arguments.

Now, in a new kind of study, Ornish is joined by UCSF professor and chairman of urology Peter Carroll, MD; UCSF prostate-cancer geneticist Christopher Haqq, MD, PhD; and others. The goal of this pilot study was to see whether the Ornish lifestyle could help 30 men with low-risk prostate cancer who chose not to undergo treatment unless their cancer got worse.

It's too soon to say whether the men's lifestyle changes kept their cancer at bay. But genetic analysis revealed profound differences in noncancerous prostate tissues in just three months.

More than 500 genes changed the way they worked. Genes with beneficial effects, including some tumor-suppression genes, became more active. Genes with deleterious effects, including some cancer-promoting genes, were switched off.

"It is absolutely intriguing this lifestyle change can have as much effect as the most powerful drugs available to us now," Haqq said in a news conference. "We medical oncologists are always looking for drugs that can do this. It is delightful to find that diet and lifestyle can have profound effects and work as well as drug therapies with fewer side effects."

Ornish says the findings may motivate people who think there's nothing they can do.

"People say, 'Oh, it is all in my genes, what can I do?' That's what I call genetic nihilism," Ornish said in a news conference. "This may be an antidote to that. Genes may be our predisposition, but they are not our fate."

Until tomorrow, Bloggers!

Sorry,I couldn't resist.. :)

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I guess i should go close my eyes as well... when i saw the big "We missed you, Rudy!" i was thinking Rudy Ray Moore.

THAT Rudy i'd vote for.

From George Washington's Blog:

Yesterday, in response to an essay arguing for impeachment, I got the following comment:

"If anything, the start of impeachment proceedings might force Bush to start the war against Iran early or cause him to bring about the false flag attack you mention. What better way to show the country how the Democrats engage in devisive partisan politics than to have them impeach him while the country is at war. Bush could also use the threat of impeachment as a pretext for declaring martial law and sweeping aside all opposition. It's better to just let Bush leave office quietly than to risk the horrors that he could unleash on us before then."
What is he talking about?

Well, both Ralph Nader and attorney, longtime activist and 24-year public defender Bob Fueur say

Congressman John Olver disclosed that Congress is terrified that -- if Bush or Cheney are impeached -- they might bomb Iran, declare martial law and suspend the 2008 elections.

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Rubber F-ed by Rubber

Dead Reverend's Rubber Fetish
Autopsy: Pastor found in wet suits after autoerotic mishap

OCTOBER 8--An Alabama minister who died in June of "accidental mechanical asphyxia" was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, and a head mask, according to an autopsy report. Investigators determined that Rev. Gary Aldridge's death was not caused by foul play and that the 51-year-old pastor of Montgomery's Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone in his home at the time he died
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Autopsy report at link.

The Rubber Reverend..

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www.marcmaronrules.blogspot.com

:)

Thanks to:
www.georgewashington2.blogspot.com/

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House Committee
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Nadler, Jerrold U.S. Representative, D-NY
Wilkerson, Lawrence Chief of Staff (2001-2005), Department of State
Feith, Douglas J. Undersecretary (2001-2005), Department of Defense, Policy
Rivkin, David B. Jr. Partner, Baker & Hostetler Law Firm

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What did you think about geomagnetic warfare?

Chris Ayres

“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.”

He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.

Unbelievably, this is not science fiction. Mr Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant Lexus SUV next to us. Not that Mr Pal is willing to risk it just yet. He gives it a month before the first vehicle is filled up on what he calls “renewable petroleum”. After that, he grins, “it’s a brave new world”.

Mr Pal is a senior director of LS9, one of several companies in or near Silicon Valley that have spurned traditional high-tech activities such as software and networking and embarked instead on an extraordinary race to make $140-a-barrel oil (£70) from Saudi Arabia obsolete. “All of us here – everyone in this company and in this industry, are aware of the urgency,” Mr Pal says.
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What is most remarkable about what they are doing is that instead of trying to reengineer the global economy – as is required, for example, for the use of hydrogen fuel – they are trying to make a product that is interchangeable with oil. The company claims that this “Oil 2.0” will not only be renewable but also carbon negative – meaning that the carbon it emits will be less than that sucked from the atmosphere by the raw materials from which it is made.

LS9 has already convinced one oil industry veteran of its plan: Bob Walsh, 50, who now serves as the firm’s president after a 26-year career at Shell, most recently running European supply operations in London. “How many times in your life do you get the opportunity to grow a multi-billion-dollar company?” he asks. It is a bold statement from a man who works in a glorified cubicle in a San Francisco industrial estate for a company that describes itself as being “prerevenue”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece

do you know much about Rivkin...that guy really bugs me and I cannot figure out his accent.

Author of 911 Contradictions: An Open Letter To Congress And The Press, discusses his 6th book on September 11th, 2001.

Audio Link

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"The guidance that was provided during this period of time, I think, will go down in history as some of the most irresponsible and shortsighted legal analysis ever provided to our nation's military and intelligence communities," said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.). - WaPo

pbtrue1 - Hard to say. There is too much I don't understand about the subject. It seems fanciful but you had good links. I'm pretty sure hurricanes are caused mostly by water temperatures and air pressure more than any ion. Weird science.

mhappenow - David Rivken is that guy from the the torture hearings opposite of Phillipe Sands. He is part of the machine that approves of torture. He can not therefore be considered an American. He is a traitor and his approach betrays some deformity within him. He may have been born lacking testicles.

back in an hour

nice cool morning here in the city today..hope it stays this way

gotta lend a helping hand

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A civilian Pentagon official in charge of the largest US military contract in Iraq was removed from his job in 2004 after refusing to pay one billion dollars to KBR Inc. because the company was unable to credibly justify its expenses, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

KBR is an engineering, construction and services company that until April 2007 was a subsidiary of the Houston-based energy firm Halliburton, which was formerly led by Vice President Dick Cheney.

"They had a gigantic amount of costs they couldn't justify," the official, Charles Smith, told The New York Times. "Ultimately, the money that was going to KBR was money being taken away from the troops, and I wasn't going to do that."

According to Smith, the funds were released to KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root), the main US company in charge of providing food and housing for US forces in Iraq.

The US army denied that Smith was removed because of the dispute, the newspaper reported.

Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton on Tuesday called for a congressional probe into contracts allocated by the US administration to KBR.

New US military contractor overbilling scandal in Iraq looms

My guess is David Rivkin is a Russian Jew. Have you done a google on him yet?

Oh, good morning all!

About time you guys got up ! ;-)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDCI72DV7M

A new trench dubbed 'Snow White' NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began excavating a new trench, dubbed "Snow White," in a patch of Martian soil located near the center of a polygonal surface feature, nicknamed "Cheshire Cat." Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging in an area called "Wonderland" early Tuesday, taking its first scoop of soil from a polygonal surface feature within the "national park" region that mission scientists have been preserving for science.

The lander's Robotic Arm created the new test trench called "Snow White" on June 17, the 22nd Martian day, or sol, after the Phoenix spacecraft landed on May 25. Newly planned science activities will resume no earlier than Sol 24 as engineers look into how the spacecraft is handling larger than expected amounts of data.

During Tuesday’s dig, the arm didn't reach the hard white material, possibly ice, that Phoenix exposed previously in the first trench it dug into the Martian soil.

That's just what scientists both expected and wanted. The Snow White trench is near the center of a relatively flat hummock, or polygon, named "Cheshire Cat," where scientists predict there will be more soil layers or thicker soil above possible white material.

The Snow White trench is about two centimeters deep (about three-quarters of an inch) and 30 centimeters (about a foot) long. The Phoenix team plans at least one more day of digging deeper into the Snow White trench.

They will study soil structure in the Snow White trench to decide at what depths they will collect samples from a future trench planned for the center of the polygon.

Meanwhile, the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) instrument continues its ongoing experiment in the first of its eight ovens.

TEGA has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil to look for volatile ingredients, such as water. The baking is performed at three different temperature ranges.

The Phoenix mission is led by Peter Smith of the University of Arizona with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, located in Denver. International contributions come from the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark; Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. For more about Phoenix, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu.

jokes time--HA!

morning toniD...thought you were in bed still decided to lend a helping hand

oh and Rivkin...fucking arse hole

Former Senator Mike Gravel Calls for Independent 9/11 Investigation and Prosecution of President Bush and Vice President Cheney

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/17/former_senator_mike_gravel_calls_f...

I have spent a lot of time googling Rivkin and cannot find his birthplace...It may be South Africa. Ther is something about this guy that has me really curious. He seems like a closet Nazi or something...really twisted.

Experience & Credentials

Practice Areas Administrative Law; Environmental; Energy; International Law; Litigation; Government Relations

Peer Review Rating BV Rated. What's this?

Education Columbia University, J.D., 1985, Georgetown University (B.S.F.S., 1980; M.S., with highest distinction, 1984)

Admitted 1985, District of Columbia

Languages Russian

Born St. Petersburg, Florida, 1956

Biography Phi Alpha Theta. Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Law Clerk, Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman, 1984-1985. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Special Assistant to the Vice President and Associate Executive Director, White House's Council on Competitiveness, 1992-1993. Associate General Counsel, Department of Energy, 1990-1991. Deputy Director, Office of Policy Development, Department of Justice, 1988-1990. Legal Advisor to the White House Counsel, 1989-1990. Special Assistant to the Honorable C. Boyden Gray, Counselor to the then Vice President Bush, 1988-1989. Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor, Fund for America's Future and George Bush for President, 1988. Associate, Baker & McKenzie, 1985-1988. Visiting Fellow, Heritage Foundation. Director, National Center for Therapeutic Riding.

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but, do you have a link to that New US military contractor overbilling scandal in Iraq looms story ?
Thanks. :)

Hope your doing ok today.. :)

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Iraq is insisting on the right to veto any US military operations throughout its territory under a "status of forces" agreement currently being negotiated between Baghdad and Washington, according to a senior member of the Iraqi government.

The agreement will last for a maximum of two years and can be terminated by either side with six months' notice, Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq's oil minister, told the Guardian yesterday.

His remarks come amid intensive closed-door negotiations between the Iraqi and US governments which have led to complaints in the US Congress as well as Iraq that the Bush administration is tying the next US president's hands by seeking to maintain long-term bases in Iraq for possible attacks on Iran and other neighbouring states.

But Shahristani insisted yesterday: "Neither the constitution nor our people will allow any violation of our sovereignty. Obviously foreign troops on Iraqi soil carrying out operations without the prior consent and approval of the elected government is a violation.

"Any arrests, any operations internally or externally against our neighbours without prior agreement of the Iraqi government will be considered a violation ... Land and sea movements and air space is all part of Iraq's sovereignty."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/18/iraq.usforeignpolicy?gusrc=r...

someone else went to the same varsity...i think i read here sometime back? um, i wonder who?

He speaks Russian, born in Florida..so his accent must be a speech impediment...or he is a Russian spy, right? Not much comes up when he is googled.

oh god its way too early...thank goodness i am alone in the office---that fuck is way too ugly to be south african

'Curveball' speaks, and a reputation as a disinformation agent remains intact.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan talks publicly for the first time. Charges that he fabricated intelligence that helped lead to war in Iraq are themselves fiction, he insists. But there are fresh doubts about his ho (That's what it says..They must mean Honesty not Ho..Hee)

By John Goetz and Bob Drogin, Special to The LATimes

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i heard SJ call into the last Sam show...he has an accent too...maybe he is the spy who loved me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ncMGEVkOE