NEW BLOGOSPHERISM

:)

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

Just a different server ?

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

I think

Torture Hearing Video now in the DUNGEON.

Am I wrong? John Yoo was the guy who approved his own memos out of the OLC because no one else was cleared?

;)

And,NO I Don't want a Lionel DVD ! !

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

to be all boarded up.
lo and behold
sam seder show's open for business

let me put this little
gold star right in the middle of your
forehead. :P

I ran out of major prizes and fragiles, but
you just can't have too many versions of this.
Pressure Drop by The Specials (MP3-6MB)

if this were a business we would see some donate or cart button. Sam's a bastard for making us sit here and wait to die to pay for this.

yep,
would that make us suckers or what? LOL

Ah camping...back to what? server updates? Any news on Sammer's job prospex?

My late wife Loved that Movie,Cat Chew.. :)

Impeachnow,you can put it on my Irish Ass ! I Kid ! I Kid ! ;-)
My forehead will be fine.. :)

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

and was I surprised to be redirected to the `Quacken Gallery Home'...

I thought the trolls took over, but now I assume it was part of the upgrade process.

then, I was afraid that Sam shut down the blog after hearing about Scalia and his second amendment ruling.

Crank Bait is lurking out there somewhere...

Submitted by MMRules on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 10:48pm.
...you can put it on my Irish Ass...
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...where it will become hopelessly lost amongst the freckles.

CB do you ever tire of people telling you how funny
you are cuz that one there was just....
well lets just say i'll probably be laughing
for the next couple days

George Orwell's famous 1938 account of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War, from his point of view as a volunteer in the POUM militia

[Thanks, Annette!]

Global Research Editor's note

We bring to the attention of our readers David DeBatto's scenario as to what might occur if one of the several contingency plans to attack Iran, with the participation of Israel and NATO, were to be carried out. While one may disagree with certain elements of detail of the author's text, the thrust of this analysis must be taken seriously.

When A Republican says "I think the White House got a better deal than even they had hoped to get," about FISA, you know the Democrats really went out of their way to suck balls...

blog's working fine
good job Incubi
catch ya later sederites!

ColorOfChange.org

After Senator Obama won the Democratic nomination, he and his wife gave each other a "pound" in front of the cameras—a Fox anchor called it a "terrorist fist jab." Then last week, a Fox News on-screen graphic referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama"—an attempt to associate the Obamas with racist stereotypes.
Tell Fox News chief Roger Ailes to stop racism before it hits the airwaves, and make it clear that you'll take action when another racist smear happens.

Petition-Please Sign-Thank You !

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

can a new home for the Seder vs. Maron show be far behind?? (fingers crossed.)

invited Yoo and Addington to Foreign Relations committee hearings. I definitely smell upcoming subpoena's when they say no.

if Seder v. Maron was an option there...

Fingers & Freckles crossed ! :)

Just kidding impeachnow..Sorry..I was just jonesin for the blog to be back up..Needed to let loose some sarcasm..

And,needed to give Crank a straight line.. :)

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

All aboard,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPrmD2g3KNc

ah, those were the days.

Don't try to console me. I'm reeling from today's market and compulsively checking the global markets to see if life as we know it will end tomorrow morning.

If "what's good for GM is good for the country" then Dubya is pretty much good for nuthin'.

There is too much stuff roiling in my head for any one thought to linger. Whatever ill will a person might harbor for the Saudis and OPEC, they left skidmarks in their shorts today along with everyone else. They can buy only so many diamond-studded Ferraris and 747's equipped with hot tubs. The oil barons don't have mattresses large enough for all of their cash so they invest most of it in the markets.

No one wants to see this economic carnage come to fruition. Even the most money-grubbing mercenaries need the markets to function in order to grub more money.

And as a parting shot at Conservatives and Republicans alike who love to spout the trite phrase, "creating a future for our children." Guess what? The Conservatives and the Republicans are not creating a future for our children. They have fucked up the futures of recent college graduates, never mind the next generation.

>>Tell Fox News chief Roger Ailes to stop racism

yes, and then we'll tell R.J. Reynolds to stop selling tobacco...

that's their job. appealing to americans' most base and horrible instincts. it's what they do for food.

why not Seder and Maron??

I'm assuming it's a cost issue. Neither of them want to work for radio money when they're used to real show business money.

BRAINS!!! Must... eat... brains...

Oh, wait...
I was confusing Americans with zombies.
Nevermind.

*

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature - by Murray N. Rothbard

This article, which first appeared in Modern Age for Fall 1973, is collected in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays.

>>most base and horrible instincts

It's startling to see how much of the country is still racially motivated. One of the cable news channels did a story on this a couple days ago. ( http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=5202366 )

but instead of asking people if they were racist, they asked if they were `racially sensitive'...I guess they diodn't want to upset the racists?

(I think I heard about the poll on the Daily Show or the Colbert Report.

Submitted by impeachnow on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:00pm.
...well lets just say i'll probably be laughing
for the next couple days
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Freckled white butts are funny. It's a cheap joke that always works.

Good Job Incubus!

Evening all!

>>Freckled white butts are funny

see?

this is the sort of racially insensitive thing I was talking about!

There are black people with freckles, you know!

8

Obama donates $4,600 to Clinton's debt relief By NEDRA PICKLER and SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writers
47 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama announced Thursday that he will help pay off Hillary Rodham Clinton's more than $20 million debt, personally writing a check in a gesture meant to win over her top financial backers.

Obama met with more than 200 of Clinton's biggest fundraisers at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the first step in a two-day push to bring her supporters onboard his general election campaign. Behind the scenes, the two sides were negotiating her future involvement with the campaign.

Some Clinton donors had been frustrated that the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting had not done more to help her pay the bills even as they are expected to help fund his campaign.

Obama received a standing ovation from the crowd of more than 200 when he said he would enlist his supporters to help pay off her debt.

"I'm going to need Hillary by my side campaigning during his election, and I'm going to need all of you," Obama said, according to a report written by the only reporter allowed into the event and shared with other reporters afterward. He recounted how he had told his top fundraisers this week "to get out their checkbooks and start working to make sure Senator Clinton — the debt that's out there needs to be taken care of."

In a symbolic gesture, Obama delivered a personal check for $4,600, for himself and his wife, Michelle. The maximum individual donation allowed by law is $2,300.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_el_pr/obama_clinton_14

This Just In: Senate Republicans block Medicare bill
John Aravosis (DC) · 6/26/2008 10:12:00 PM ET · Link
30 Comments · reddit · FARK · Digg It! ·

From Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office:
REID: SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK IMPROVED CARE FOR SENIORS AND ALLOW CUTS FACING DOCTORS Washington, DC — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today after Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would prevent the impending 10.6 percent cut in payments to physicians who care for the 44 million American seniors in Medicare, and to make other key improvements to the program: “Our seniors and the health-care providers who care for them have only Senate Republicans to blame when Medicare payments are cut and other key protections expire. The House overwhelmingly passed a good bill in bipartisan fashion that ensures Medicare works better for every American senior and saves taxpayers billions of dollars – but Senate Republicans insist on standing with President Bush to protect insurance companies at the expense of patients and providers. This is nothing short of putting politics above the seniors and people with disabilities who depend on Medicare.”

http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/this-just-in-senate-republicans-block...

Sign them or not,it's up to you..

It's still a free country,sort of..

I would like to see a boycott of Faux Noise's
advertisers..
Until then,I'll sign just about anything that tells
Fascists News to stick it up their ass !
Next.. :)

Knock yourself out Crank.. :)

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

Sadly, not for me. I just tried it on the off chance. Stalled. "Buffer is empty. Wait until it refills" message when the progress bar and my memory minder are telling me it's filling up faster than our Civic. I can start it again momentarily by clicking on either Marc's or Sam's screen, but it doesn't last. [sigh}

Yeh, now it looks like it would be the only option...note that XM dumped calling it "Air America" for the old name "America Left" to go into effect sometime in July...good on them to drop that ridiculous network, although I could think of a thousand better names than "America Left"...

"All That's Left" comes to mind...feels like that anyway

you gotta be kidding

John Conyers grills John ‘torture’ Yoo: ‘I think we understand the games that are being played… He stonewalls
By: John Amato @ 4:53 PM - PDT

Rep. John Conyers grilled former Bushie John Yoo, who was a major player in instituting torture as US policy today’s hearing called: “Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.”

Watch Yoo stammer and stonewall Conyers repeated efforts to get him to admit what he said previously. That the president could torture whenever he thought it was just and he could do it in the most heinous way possible.

Conyers: It was reported that you were asked if a president could order a suspects child be tortured in a gruesome fashion and you responded that “I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that. Is that accurate?

Yoo: Mr. Chairman, I don’t believe it’s accurate because it took what I said out of context. (I see) The quote stopped right before I continued to explain the number of things which I appreciate the opportunity…

Conyers: So far what I read was accurate, but there was more?

Yoo: But it stops at mid sentence, I mean I finished the sentence during the debate but I didn’t get a chance to…

Conyers: OK, thank you…Is there anything professor Yoo that the president can not order to be done to a suspect if he believed it necessary for national defense?

Yoo: Ahhh, Mr Chairman, I think it goes back to the quote you just read because..

Conyers: No, I’m just asking you the question, maybe it doesn’t, but what do you think?

Yoo: I think it’s the same question I was asked..

Conyers: Well, what’s the answer?

Yoo: First, can I make clear I’m not talking about…

(Read the rest of this story…) and video at link

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/26/john-conyers-grills-john-tortur...

John Aravosis (DC) · 6/26/2008 10:12:00 PM ET · Link.

toniD on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:37pm.
did you see it? Have you sat through it? It's 3 hrs long.

Isn't it crazy?

>>Sign them or not,it's up to you..

Don't worry, I signed it.

I just don't think they care what people like me who are outside their key demographic think.

one problem of a boycott of FOXnews: most the people who would boycott FOX haven't watched in years.

>>do you ever tire of people telling you how funny you are...crank

He can't hear you, he has a banana in his ear.

now who's driving the boat?

wat up ?

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

WTF does that mean?

>>people telling you how funny you are...crank

this rings the bell of a far off memory...I think Crank (years ago) told of the dangers of telling a child they were funny. Did Crank use the `Banana in my ear joke' as a point of reference in the tale? I think so.

But there is a danger in complimenting a child on his/her humor: They will spend the rest of their life trying to recapture the moment.

kind of like giving a dog Doritos or rubbing a cat's belly...

Boycott Advertisers, Chubbs..

I'm sure there's a way to find their advertisers without watchin the Crap.. :)

Marge is on !
:)

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

Just Yoo stonewalling Conyers.. :)

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

Addington has consistently advocated that under the Constitution, the President has unlimited powers as commander in chief during wartime. He is the legal force behind over 750 signing statements that President Bush has added to bills passed by Congress. Addington was a legal advisor to President Reagan, and suggested that such signing statements be used to exempt President Reagan from responsibility for the Iran-Contra scandal.

>>WTF does that mean?

an inside joke, I hope Crank got it, `cus if he didn't get it, no one did.

I 1/2 way explained it in my last post.

do you ever tire of people telling you how funny you are...
Submitted by mhappenow on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:35pm.
you gotta be kidding
------
I got tired of waiting for people to tell me how handsome I am.

Addington is an arrogant bastard

and Yoo is scared shitless. (Subpenas and closed session with him.) But what he said is the most cold blooded things I ever heard. A child tortured?

Addington threw him under the bus but the Dems gave him a hard time too. I'd like to punch his arrogant mouth a few times.

*

I think bibi is flying out tomorrow to move to her new home...

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:50pm.
Cat Chew: "WTF does that mean?"

Bubba: "an inside joke..."
------
She's tormenting you, Rajah. She knows that joke better than we do.

I got tired of waiting for people to tell me how handsome I am.

I just got called an awesome chick the other day.
You never know...

with Colbert. Did anyone watch it?

you didn't hear? Crushing the testicles of children in front of their parents. Legal if you might gain information. Yoo memo 2 I think.

Did anyone watch Countdown w/KO a yesterday? He was interviewing Jason Bateman and David Cross came out to anounce he and Jason were geting married.

I have a feeling it's a joke, but still...it is possible.

I bet Sam could shed some light on the subject.

Submitted by toniD on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:52pm.
Addington is an arrogant bastard...
-----
That's putting it mildly. Your restraint is impressive.

>>I just got called an awesome chick the other day.

people were complimenting me on how quickly I drenched my shirt with sweat while carrying boxes up a 20 foot ladder a couple days ago...

the also admired how I spent more time recovering my breath than climbing the ladders.

those are kind of the same as `awesome', right, CC?

Submitted by Cat Chew on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:55pm.
I just got called an awesome chick the other day.
You never know...
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awe:

2.) [Archaic]
a.) The power to inspire dread.
b.) Dread.

Addington puts on quite a show
By: Steve Benen @ 3:00 PM - PDT
At this point, we can finally agree that Cheney is the Vice President, and the Vice President is part of the executive branch, right? Apparently not. Cheney’s reclusive chief of staff, David Addington, told the House Judiciary Committee this afternoon that the VP is “attached” to the legislative branch.

In fact, Addington had all kinds of odd things to say today, including his inability answer questions about torture policy because “al Qaeda may watch C-SPAN,” and his alleged unfamiliarity with the Unitary Theory of the Executive, which Addington has used for years to justify all kinds of shameful behavior.

Just as an aside, I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen any government official express the kind of contempt for Congress as I’ve seen from Addington today. Every response to every question is soaked in pure revulsion. I keep expecting him to spit at the members of the committee after every exchange.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/26/addington-puts-on-quite-a-show/

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

Clinton was forced to look the other way, will Obama?

Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House

Obama sent a clear signal that -- unlike impeachment, which he's ruled out and which now seems a practical impossibility -- he is at the least "open to the possibility of investigating potential high crimes in the Bush White House."

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_torture.html

>>Crushing the testicles of children in front of their parents.

the insanity of this. If this sort of power got in the hands of the wrong sort of person...

and lonly the wrong sort of person would want such power.

It is disappointing that America lost it's values so quickly and it took so very long for the process to rebuke the fascist power grabs.

But, it is heartening that the process to reverse it has started.

>>b.) Dread.

like the Awesome Scott Case

you meet a hot younger lady and find out she's a grandmother.

oh, and the next President is your own age. (47).

Quote of the Day: Vice President Is a "Barnacle" on the Legislative Branch
By Kate Klonick - June 26, 2008, 2:35PM
Between David Addington failing to submit testimony, and John Yoo forgetting his words, not a whole lot was cleared up by the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.

But on the bright side Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), did manage to clarify a very important question. Just what branch of government is the Vice President in?

Cohen: Mr. Addington, what branch are we in?
Addington: Ah, sir, perhaps the best that can be said is that the Vice President belongs neither to the executive nor to the legislative branch, but is attached by the Constitution to the latter. That's from two legal opinions issued by the office of legal counsel to the Department of Justice dated March 9th, 1961, and April, I believe, it's 18th, 1961 by, I believe, Mr. Katzenbach if I remember. . .

Cohen: So he's a member of the legislative branch?

(cross talk)

Addington: No. I said attached by the Constitution to the latter. He is not a member of the legislative branch because the Constitution says that the Congress consists of a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Constitution further says that the Senate consists of Senators and the House of Representatives consists of Representatives and he is neither a Senator nor a Representative.

Cohen: But he is attached to the legislative branch?

Addington: That's the quote I read you.

Cohen: So he's kind of a barnacle.

(voice off camera): Kind of a what?!

Addington: He is attached. . . the word was attached by the Constitution to the latter. I don't consider the Constitution as a barnacle, Mr. Cohen.

Cohen: No, the Vice President. Since he's really not fish or fowl, he's just attached to something.

But don't take our word for it: video at link

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/quote_of_the_day_vice_...

No, I don’t suppose that’s going to happen any time soon. But it should.

The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is evidence that, while the founding fathers were brilliant men, they could have used an editor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgm9H3hmH1o&NR=1

Reuters

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation that directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to use all its authority, including the agency's emergency powers, to "curb immediately" the role of excessive speculation in energy futures markets.

Hedge funds, pension funds and other speculators have been blamed by many lawmakers and some energy experts for doubling the price for crude oil in the last year. The Bush administration disagrees, saying high prices are the result of world oil production not being able to keep up with growing global fuel demand.

The bill easily cleared the House in a 402-to-19 vote. The Senate must still take up the measure.

The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, would require the CFTC to act against "sudden or unreasonable fluctuations" in energy futures prices and other trading activities that "prevent the market from accurately reflecting the forces of supply and demand for energy commodities."

"It opens up a set of new tools they are not using," said Maryland Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen, referring to the agency's emergency powers.........

Free Democracy

Congress passes Iraq war spending bill with new GI benefits, jobless aid

CHARLES BABINGTON
AP News

Jun 26, 2008 21:23 EST

The Senate passed a $162 billion war spending plan Thursday, sending to President Bush legislation that will pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan until the next president takes office.

The bill, approved 92-6, includes a historic boost in college aid for troops, plus a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits and $2.7 billion in emergency flood relief for the Midwest.

The Senate, however, narrowly failed to approve a House-passed bill to cancel a scheduled cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.

It also failed to resolve differences over home mortgage legislation and the administration's electronic surveillance program. Those matters will await lawmakers when they return from a 10-day July break.

The spending bill will bring to more than $650 billion the amount Congress has provided for the Iraq war since it started more than five years ago. For operations in Afghanistan, the total is nearly $200 billion, according to congressional officials.

Last week, the House approved the war funding measure, 268-155. The domestic add-ons were approved separately by a 416-12 vote. The White House has said it supports the combined measure, which technically allowed the measure to advance without senators having to vote specifically for the war funding, a distasteful matter for many Democrats.

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

Obama donates $4,600 to
Submitted by toniD on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:30pm.
Obama donates $4,600 to Clinton's debt relief By NEDRA PICKLER and SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writers
47 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama announced Thursday that he will help pay off Hillary Rodham Clinton's more than $20 million debt, personally writing a check in a gesture meant to win over her top financial backers.

Obama met with more than 200 of Clinton's biggest fundraisers at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the first step in a two-day push to bring her supporters onboard his general election campaign. Behind the scenes, the two sides were negotiating her future involvement with the campaign.

Some Clinton donors had been frustrated that the Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting had not done more to help her pay the bills even as they are expected to help fund his campaign.

Obama received a standing ovation from the crowd of more than 200 when he said he would enlist his supporters to help pay off her debt.

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

Hillary Clinton's primaary campaign debt breaks down this way: 1) She has an open-ended amount of time to pay back the poor venders she stiffed. That means she can string them out for years; and, possibly, even have the latitude to go to court and try to get the court to okay her paying a fraction of the vender debt (do I hear ten cents on the dollar?) And 2) Hillary only has the next couple months to pay off her primary campaign loan to herself, because that's the rules about personal loans to one's primary campaign.

The example of a 1) I heard given was Senator John Glenn who retired his primary campaign debt to venders over many years.

So, this check Obama gave to Clinton -- I'm not convinced it's going to go to the balloon vender someplace in middle America or whatever. I think, since Hillary has only a couple months to repay her loan to herself, the generous gifts sent to Hillary will really be for Hillary.

LA Governor Jindal Signs Bill Allowing Castration For Sex Offenders

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/21656994.html

The Supreme Court Erased 13 words from the Constitution...and nobody seems to care that much.

TPM

By freaktown - June 26, 2008, 1:29PM
The Second Amendment reads as follows:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

If, as the court said today, the right to bear arms is an "individual" right, then why did the founders bother with that whole spiel about "A well regulated militia being necessary to the securtiy of a free state?"

Why wouldn't they have just written "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"?

If that had been in the constitution, the i would agree with the court's ruling. However, that's not what the amendment says.

Can someone explain this to me. This seems an awful lot like "judicial activism" to me. I mean, the supreme court just erased 13 words from the constitution.

Link

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

Would it be wrong of me to say, I wouldn't mind if they had his address when he was home alone?

What irks me is that he and people like him jeopardize all of US. These cowards talk a good game but use all of US as their personal shields. They think nothing of saying "bring it on" and would have no hesitation of throwing an innocent in the way to take the impact while they run. "Have I told you lately how much I hate these people."

Bee's feed us

Anyone have an ice cube?

Like a rocket up in this place now...

I noticed that too. Wha happend?

"people were complimenting me on how quickly I drenched my shirt with sweat while carrying boxes up a 20 foot ladder a couple days ago...

those are kind of the same as `awesome', right, CC?"

Not sure what was in the mind of the person who said it. It might be I impressed them in a similar fashion. I think they were expressing something different, but I'm not Criswell or Lamont Cranston. Eh. Chubby, I had no idea you had so many problems with me. I am probably a bit too snarky sometimes but I haven't meant to denigrate or offend you. I was just noting that someone called me "awesome" and that's very unusual, and I'm pretty sure the person meant it as a compliment, and that's also unusual.

"awe:

2.) [Archaic]
a.) The power to inspire dread.
b.) Dread."

Yes. I don't mind thinking that either. ;)

"In my lifetime we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. If this is evolution, I believe within twelve years we'll be voting for plants."

- Lewis Black

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

>>I had no idea you had so many problems with me.

I'm not aware of any...

Sorry if my snarkiness was misinterpreted.

I just wanted to chime in with how profoundly out of shape I felt.

As heard on The Mike Malloy Show:

The question is: Why does the leadership and the majority of the "Opposition Party" support the policies of a president who has the lowest presidential approval rating in history?

"Policies," in this instance, is a convenient catch-all word representing the ongoing High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Bush Regime.

The leadership and the majority of the "Opposition Party" have consistently approved every single dollar that funds the illegal war in Iraq even though the Senate Intelligence Committee released their report stating that Bush, Cheney, and other administration officials lied the United States into that war.

The leadership and the majority of the "Opposition Party," including their presumptive nominee for the presidency, refuse to consider impeachment even though George W. Bush admitted to breaking the law by authorizing a secret domestic spying program.

The leadership and the majority of the "Opposition Party," including their presumptive nominee for the presidency, actively support sacrificing the rule of law and the Fourth Amendment.

Con't

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

The new server Fernando .... Speee Deeeee!

Scalia: Gore to blame for 2000 decision
Stephen C. Webster

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has claimed, in a recent interview with the UK newspaper Telegraph, that then Vice President Al Gore was to blame for George W. Bush being declared the victor of the 2000 presidential election.

"Richard Nixon, when he lost to Kennedy thought that the election had been stolen in Chicago, which was very likely true with the system at the time," said Scalia. "But he did not even think about bringing a court challenge. That was his prerogative. So you know if you don't like it, don't blame it on me."

Recently, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean claimed the 2000 election was stolen by 'five intellectually bankrupt judges.' Sclia, on the other hand, argued that if a critic wanted "to look for partisan decisions," the Florida supreme court's ruling on the 2000 elections would be a prime candidate.

Scalia continued, claiming that 'of course' he regretted the Supreme Court becoming involved with the 2000 presidential election. "But I don't know how we could have avoided it," he said. "Could we have declined to accept the case on the basis that it wasn't important enough? ... I think our decision in the case was absolutely right. But if you ask me 'Am I sorry it all happened?' Of course I am sorry it happened, there was no way that we were going to come out of it smelling like a rose."

READ THE REST.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scalia_Gore_to_blame_for_2000_0626.html

you might have a point.

Me too.
So can we just get along?
(Don't make me post a cute kitten picture here to emphasize my point.)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:19pm BST

By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Flabbergasted" NASA scientists said on Thursday that Martian soil appeared to contain the requirements to support life, although more work would be needed to prove it.

Scientists working on the Phoenix Mars Lander mission, which has already found ice on the planet, said preliminary analysis by the lander's instruments on a sample of soil scooped up by the spacecraft's robotic arm had shown it to be much more alkaline than expected.

"We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients, to support life whether past present or future," Sam Kounaves, the lead investigator for the wet chemistry laboratory on Phoenix, told journalists.

"It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard, you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well. ... It is very exciting for us."

Con't

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

That is speeding it up! ; )

>>So can we just get along?

Well, duh! ;)

New York launches HIV testing for all adults in Bronx

The city of New York on Thursday launched an HIV-screening campaign that aims to test every adult in the Bronx, the city's borough most affected by AIDS, the health department said.

Forty locations in the region north of Manhattan, including hospitals, clinics, health centers and places of worship, are offering systematic HIV testing to all patients or visitors -- the largest HIV testing initiative in the city's history.

The objective is to test everyone in the Bronx ages 18 to 64 within the next three years. About 250,000 people, or three of 10 Bronx adult residents, have never been tested, the city estimates.

"We'd like to saturate the Bronx with testing," said Monica Sweeney, assistant commissioner for HIV prevention and control.

"Knowing your status is one of the best things you can do to stop the spread of HIV."

Friday is National HIV Testing Day in the United States.

Several community groups are partnering with the city to conduct the tests, mostly administered orally, which yield results in 10 to 20 minutes.

In 2006, 3,745 New Yorkers were newly listed as HIV-positive -- one quarter of them from the Bronx.

Manhattan, the city's most affluent borough, has more HIV-positive residents but fewer AIDS deaths than the Bronx, where a quarter of those infected only learn of their status once they have full-blown AIDS.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/New_York_launches_HIV_testing_for_a_0626200...

Time to sleep, my eyes are closing. It's midnight here.

Later!

Later. Past my bedtime already.
Zzzzz.

Sincerely, Chubby Bubba, you are one of my favorite people to read here. Please ignore that icky Crank Bait fella and his posts that drive a wedge between us. I was not tormenting you, or trying to. I was just being a snotcakes about the "I can't hear you" banana-ear thingie. I couldn't help myself! It's in my nature.

G'night.

>>I was just being a snotcakes about the "I can't hear you" banana-ear thingie

I can't believe you'd joke about such a thing!

Is nothing sacred!?!

I like everyone here.

just like I tell Rufus and Rusty, I love everyone equally.

during Anti-War Protest Today!

The California Highway Patrol arrested six anti-war activists at a demonstration opposing the war in Iraq today about 12:15 p.m. at the State Capitol near Governor Schwarzenegger's office.

VERY URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Contact: Paulette Cuilla 916/956-8678 or Maggie Coulter 916/456-1420
**NOTE: Video of arrests available via an independent videographer**
...
The California Highway Patrol charged the activists with several misdemeanors, including allegedly demonstrating without a permit and illegally entering the Capitol...
...
The arrests took place following a "Freeze-In for Peace," where about two dozen people participated in a demonstration that required them to freeze in place for five minutes. Similar "freeze-in" actions for peace are popping up all over the country.

"This is absolutely linked the budget deficit mess in California.

Our share of the war in Iraq is $67 billion," said Maggie Coulter, one of those arrested. "In fact, just spending the money for these officers to arrest peaceful demonstrators doing little more than what happens in a legislative hearing is also a waste of taxpayers' money," she added.

>>that icky Crank Bait fella

He is a bastard, isn't he?

I really hate the way everyone keeps telling him how funny he is.

...

Yeah - but it's fucking ambiguous. Amendment 2 musta been a hasty redraft that came out of the printer five minutes before the bus came. Ambiguous (and nonsensical): that's the problem with grammatical absolutes. (Explanation from Wikipedia:
'In "District of Columbia v. Heller", the Supreme Court majority held that The Second Amendment is formed with a prefatory clause, followed by an operative clause.[5] The prefatory clause serves to clarify the operative clause, but neither limits nor expands the scope of the operative clause.[6] Four dissenting justices strongly disagreed, calling the majority reading "strained and unpersuasive."
The prefatory clause is similar to a Latin grammatical construction known as an ablative absolute. Proponents argue that the significance of this grammar was understood to the framers who were more schooled in Latin grammar than is common in modern times. [7]')

At least the ambiguous (and shoddy) attempt at an important qualification to the central sense of The 2nd Amdmt is a participial absolute rather than one of those puzzling nominative abslolutes, which are starting to break out like herpes in the blog-burgeoning utterances of our written intercourse.

Moreover: David Addington is an Asshole. John Yoo (hoo?) has to settle for Adjunct Asshole.

Sorry for the pedantry, y'all. I'm checking into this late, FIFO. But this is LO for me tonight. Dozing.
ZZZ

Momentum Building For Bugliosi's Case Against George W. Bush For Murder.

by Linda Milazzo

For Vincent Bugliosi, one of America's foremost prosecutors and authors, George W. Bush's purposeful crime of misleading America into war is a vile, despicable and prosecutable act. It angers Bugliosi deeply. So much so that he's written a new book, "The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder."

To be clear, this is not a partisan effort. Not Republican v. Democrat or an assault on political ideology. It's a legally binding and provable case for murder, that Bugliosi - an American patriot - would bring against any president regardless of any and all affiliation.

In Vincent Bugliosi's own words:

"I want to state that in writing this book my motivation was not political. Whether I'm giving a final summation to the jury or writing one of my true crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. Therefore, my only master - my only mistress - are the facts and objectivity. And this is why I can give you a 100% guarantee that if a Democratic president had done what George W. Bush did, I would have written the same exact book."

It was obvious from his heartfelt delivery and palpable anger, that Bugliosi was telling the truth. The actions of George W. Bush have enraged him. Were Bush a Democrat, Bugliosi's wrath would have been the same. First and foremost Bugliosi is a patriot, seeking justice for his nation - which will come in the form of a conviction.

Con't-Afterdowningstreet

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

I am gonna go listen to me some sad songs ...

Night guys .. love the ones your with while you're with 'em .. cuz sometimes they leave.

Sad Songs to soothe a broken heart ...

Jolene
You Belong to Me
No Place Far
Why
I Need a Man to Stand Beside Me

I am a little too country ...

Wish You Were Here

But then again .. that is a pretty country soundin' Floyd!! Well.. you try not to listen to country when your heart is breakin' .. I dare ya! ; )

Thanks, Fernando
For fleeting moments (many), I KNEW WTF. It was Cosmic. Later, a nice earthy coupla cans of beer in familiarly peaceful surroundings helped soften the crash.

not too country, unless you start with the `boot up your ass, it's the American way'stuff

today now cannot fall asleep...boy what a problem child i am

Two more tree sitters were arrested at the UC Berkeley campus. Wow, doesn't that make you feel safer now?

Rule of law for all but the Power Elite white collar criminals and treasonists like Cheney, Rove, Rice, etc.?

Sheesh.

problems getting in..what the fuck is happening here?

COOL! cubes!!

tyme to try rocking meself to sleep!

There are two statues in a park; one of a nude man and one of a nude woman. They had been facing each other across a pathway for a hundred years, when one day an angel comes down from the sky and, with a single gesture, brings the two to life.

The angel tells them, 'As a reward for being so patient through a hundred blazing summers and dismal winters, you have been given life for thirty minutes to do what you've wished to do the most.'He looks at her, she looks at him, and they go running behind the shrubbery.

The angel waits patiently as the bushes rustle and giggling ensues.

After fifteen minutes, the two return, out of breath and laughing. The angel tells them, 'Um, you have fifteen minutes left, 'Would you care to do it again?'

He asks her 'Shall we?' She eagerly replies, 'Oh, yes, let's! But let's change positions.

This time, I'll hold the pigeon down and you shit on its head.'

A German Park? [insert *RIMSHOT!* here]

Now why I really came here ..

In Fight To Keep Credentials

"A Democratic National Convention delegate pledged to Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hopes to fight off an attempt by Wisconsin Democrats to take away her credentials because of her past statement that she would vote for John McCain if Clinton wasn't the nominee.

She declined to comment on her previous comment, quoted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that she would vote for the Republican McCain in November if the Democratic Party nominated Barack Obama for president. ..."

WTF?? Okay .. really .. this is just getting stupid. Everyone needs to get over it and suck it up. This "Hillary didn't win so I am gonna vote for McCain" crap is just asinine.

Time to come together or the nation is going to experience what happened in Minnesota ... and NO ONE wants to experience life under a national version of Jesse Ventura. And that .. my darlings .. is what a revenge/joke vote will net you.

Nighty Nighty .. Off to listen to ..

or maybe some ...

ahem i really mean it you guys are the smartest and funniest ever - seder and incubus in a class by themselves but all of you (us) too - thanks fernando for the torture video and cb's both of them chubby and crank for all the jokes that make me wake up laughing today and it's friday so i laugh and i am happy

it's a new blog and a new day i feel new and renewed and i slept surprising well last night considering that i fell asleep watching the addington puke and wondering when the blog would be back up - yeah i fell asleep in those few minutes of black-out.....

Re: Hopefully, The VOD's will work Better

Submitted by Cat Chew on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 11:33pm.

Sadly, not for me. I just tried it on the off chance. Stalled. ("Buffer is empty. Wait until it refills") message when the progress bar and my memory minder are telling me it's filling up faster than our Civic. I can start it again momentarily by clicking on either Marc's or Sam's screen, but it doesn't last. [sigh}
*******
Same old crap.. :(

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

am still sitting here at home waiting for my son to come back from work to watch over the girls and boy ofcourse...its not easy when the after school program is not open...geez

How's everyone?

up the hill i go---just come from running in the hallway with danger..he is extremely playful this morning

The World Needs More SEDER!!!

sorry.

It was like being cut off from oxygen.

You da BEST

Glad you are back.

Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the Government - Freedomworks

From Chris Dodd's committee and sponsored by the dispicable S. Grassley.

:)

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

on debian this means you need to screw with apparmor. Not at all obvious..

Say what ?

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

This blog looks the same as the last one. No improvements?

Heh. If it looks the same that means we've done our job. Under the hood there is a massive brain transplant though, to a *much* bigger piece of iron. You *may* notice a *slight* speed improvement..heh..

massive difference. What all did you do Incubus?

what i read is that you have to report the total amount of transactions in a year and that your are excepted if that total is less than 10K or 200 transactions.

it looks like an attempt by the irs to go after underground or stealthy businesses who are skipping out on paying taxes.

The message happens to lots of folks,me too..("Buffer is empty. Wait until it refills")

Also,what were you trying to say on your post before your last one ?

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

RAID10, quadcore 45nm CPU, much more RAM at 1333 front side bus, new OS, etc etc..We summoned the blackest of helicopters on this one..

they put the hamsters on pure meth...

seriously, its a lot faster. nice job.

G'Morning Incubus.How come we can't get the VOD's to work Better
Submitted by MMRules on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 8:30am
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Incubus,

You sometimes ask for feedback. The following happens to me but I don't know if it is due to weirdness on your end or mine.

The two video screens, Seder and Maron, have a pop-up message that repeatedly appears in the center of them advising that the buffer needs to catch up (or something similar). The progression of Sam's audio/video continues as cleanly as usual while Maron's audio/video continues with no more jerkiness and jumps than usual.

In other words, the message seems to be warning me about a problem that never actually exists. I click the messages away and they return as quickly as a Viagra ad. If the "Don't Show Me This Message Again" option were offered, I would have selected it a long time ago.

I bring this to your attention because I have read similar accounts of the presence of the useless buffer warning which leads me to suspect that it isn't a problem being generated on my end.

...and all of the above applies to the old server. I don't know if the buffer warning exists after your new server efforts.

VODs are actually being served off Amazon EC2 instances. All we do here is link to the player and datafiles. The VOD Page will show up more quickly but we havent changed the serving of the files. Note the VOD and Live SammyCam are handled differently (and the Live Cam back end will be changing soon, I think.)

Your problem seems to be likely due to a slow conenction. Wwe are serving two streams at about 320Kb/sec. If you are on DSL you will slip behind. We are testing a single (merged) stream that may change your experience for the better. Stand by.

dang, amazing it looks the same then. Good job!

guess you would need a new OS if you were going RAID on us though. Good choice.

Old OS was a 2.6.15.x kernel. Current server is 2.6.24.x.

that is cool technology.

I hope I never have to go back to dial up.
I'd be a lost pup.
Conservation of the Tubes begins with bandwidth...

it just pops up faster than Mark Foley at a young Republican camp out.

Anybody here planning on going to Burning Man?

What Crank is talking about happens to alot of us with the VOD..
Sorry..But,the Vod's can suck pretty bad at times..
Overlapping.,jerking..And,that damn "Buffer Empty"warning..

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

Hope this will help refresh time.

Thanks Incubus!

lets stress test it!

bwahahahahaha

this summer, sorry. I have friends that go every year though, one of these years i'd like to go

one can always hope

Sounds like Toni is going to Burning Man ! ;-)

Incubus:Too hot out there in the desert..
Have Fun though.. :)

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

I don't think I want to know exactly how you obtained that knowledge, but....

if you say so.

I see the Internet hearing was canceled.
Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force
**CANCELLED** -- Hearing on Competition on the Internet

What's the alternative action today?

novosoft wapt can be pretty mean. we used to use it to test our servers. it can scale up to multiple users real real easy.

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 11:56am.
...it just pops up faster than Mark Foley at a young Republican camp out.
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Shit. The joker competition is ramping up. The market is tanking.

I've had better days.

i tuned in last night (hersh, scahill, laila, and forgot the 4th dude's name) but it was Q&A time so i did not get to hear the prior discussion
when you get it could you post it for me please...besides my love for scahill it sounded interesting

have you considered hiding in PIMCO bonds?

Has ‘Crash Program’ to Build Nuclear Bomb'

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org

This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event Early 1976: US Intelligence Finds Pakistan Has ‘Crash Program’ to Build Nuclear Bomb. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.

here we go with the bondage jokes

Wexler-Colbert-06/26/08

i aint saying shit man

oh goody...more jokes

Clear Channel censors ads for Harry Shearer’s new Bush-mocking CD.
Comedian and actor Harry Shearer’s new album, Songs of the Bushmen, pays comedic “homage” to current and former Bush administration officials like Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove. But media giant Clear Channel doesn’t want people to buy it. The New York Post reports today that the “notoriously conservative” company’s outdoor advertising arm has banned signs for the album “because the cover depicts the president with a bone through his nose.” Here’s what they don’t want you to see:

Before the Iraq war, the company banned music by the Dixie Chicks from their radio stations after lead singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/27/clear-channel-censors-ads-for-harry-...

about bondage. We are all bound somehow and I take it very serious.

Anybody notice occasional white screens on refresh?

UNITY barf session is on now

The House approved financial help to mass transit systems facing a surge in riders because of high gas prices. But Republicans blocked Democrats from requiring oil and gas companies to drill on the millions of acres of government land and water on which they already own federal leases. The House voted 322-98 to authorize $1.7 billion over the next two years to lower fares and expand operations as more riders flock to public transit. The transit measure, which must still be considered by the Senate, marks the first time federal money would be used to support local mass transit operating costs.

if and when it happens again. How do you get back to the blog when it occurs?

my homepage and click on Saturn Incubus. That beams me up.

but I got that blank screen page when I was using my home network. Here at work they have a proxy filter that provides and error page when it happens. So it's blank w/o proxy.

gonna buy the little ones pizza today...they have been real sweet lately helping me take good care of danger

walking around with that target standing there next to her. *snicker

I bet she's having Bosnia flashbacks waiting for the incoming.

*

The PHP opcode cache has been disabled - I think that is the issue. There is an ambiguous bug report on the Drupal forums too, indicating that it may be a Drupal core issue. I havent seen it before so I am assuing it was the php XCache or memcache modules, which are now gone.

It's not really meant to be user friendly as it is a bit like a puzzle.

php XCache module
new
Submitted by Incubus on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 12:43pm.
Anybody notice occasional white screens on refresh?

Yes, I get those white screens. I sent an e-mail with the page info I get from Firefox when that happens.
I shut down the browser and do something else for a few minutes.

Thx for the comments folks. I am shutting the entire box off for about 5 min to move it physically into a different area. BRB

5 min warning..

I'll arrow back and it gives me the screen that IE can't connect to the web page. Then I'll try to reload the site.

i'm so sore after that motorsickle 'bits' move that i can barely move.

so GLAD the boys helped me move that stuff!

and back to work shortly...

It's tough changing an OS imo. That seems to be the hardest part. There are only so many wires in a computer but the number of switches in software are boundless.

blog going down!!!

What kinda bike? Airhead beemer rider, here..

The "unity" thingy is on
http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=

It's so funny listening to the call-ins. The demographic for the repubs side is a woman 80-100yrs old and from the deep south

bloggie...

"shazam"

that was quick

but this general election campaigning is always a let down.

I'll never understand why democrats go so far right after the Primary. Its like they are all made out of goo.

oh look at the two whores finally together....

triunphs:

T100R

T100C (racer model)

TR6R Tiger

(love the beemers, all of em)

all are basket cases.

and a 1000 pounds of spares

never seen anything like this.

a nearly week long heat wave with temps in the 100+ before summer even starts. then we get some days when it's cooler - in the 90s!! then back up to near 100.

it's amazing what we can adjust to.

if we do, that is.

thank you for the link to cspan.
Now I can see the Unity Rally.

I tried the Raw story link but I lack THE BANDWIDTH, to have CNN feed function properly.

I'm on low DSL.

and frankly, i think it jumped the shark about '95. That's just for my taste though, but it used to be small enough that you could meet everyone if you tried. Now it's too populated to have that group-fun people connection... it's difficult to describe, but now when you go for a walk amongst the camps to meet people most of them avoid eye contact like being in the city. I'm just thankful i was introduced to Burning Man before it was "discovered".

was delighted when sam went for it way back when.

running SUSE 11.0 32 bit

because they know we on the left will, for the most part, vote for the Dem. now they have to show the other side that they're not so scary and radical as the rightwing propaganda suggests - and the current battle is for the moderates and independents who aren't voting now for the republican or democrat.

i'm not sure why people on the left get so upset about this process. it happens all the time. just sit back and relax. we already know who we're voting for.

and if a handful of lefties drop out of the process it's no big deal, really. there are people on the right who will also opt out, as mccain tries to appeal to moderates and conservative Dems.

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 12:28pm.
have you considered hiding in PIMCO bonds?
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No, but I immediately zipped to PIMCO's website to check it out.

I am not so much frustrated by my own investment strategies as I am frustrated by the big picture.

On a personal level (for anyone holding diversified investments), a declining market adds time to the accretion of wealth, which is another way of saying "two steps forward, one step back." Many people do not have the time (or capital) to waste on a declining market. Even if investments are managed as well as they could possibly be managed, they will not do as well when knocked-back by a declining market as they would have in a stagnant or inclining market.

On a national and global level, a declining market means more poverty which brings with it a host of societal and inter-societal problems.

And regardless of what anyone says about forces beyond the control of governance, the success of governance is evaluated on the results of performance. The results of the performance of the recent years of Conservative-dominated governance stink. If Conservative-dominated governance walked into your office with its resume, you would not only not hire it, you would worry that your building would suddenly burn to the ground before you could throw the applicant out onto the street.

I believe strongly in regulated Capitalism. The risk is over-regulation but, in my examination, over-regulation results in slowed growth at the worst. Regulation functions like a governor on a throttle: You might have been able to drive faster than the governor will allow and get away with it but you could just as easily have crashed and burned.

Capitalists constantly search for ways to game the system. With too little regulation, Capitalists will find a way to put the pedal to the metal, speed out of control, and crash and burn. (Neither regulation nor over-regulation will stop Capitalists from searching for ways to game the system. The Reaganesque claim "They'll stop investing" is bullshit. Nothing will prevent a Capitalist from searching for ways to make money. Nothing. Even in countries where certain industries have been suddenly nationalized, Capitalists continue to take risks in their search for rewards.)

Unfortunately, everyone on the planet is a passenger in Capitalism's car. All of us would prefer to travel more slowly and not as far during a given period of time, to dying in a fiery heap.

Forgive me for belaboring the analogy further. Regulated and over-regulated Capitalism is like a car with a shifter offering Drive and Neutral.

Unregulated and under-regulated Capitalism is like a car with a shifter offering Drive and Neutral and Reverse.

During the recent reign of Conservative governance, the shifter has spent more time in Neutral and Reverse than in Drive. We are actually farther away from our destination than we were eight years ago.

what ever ground we give up on the left is never - ever recovered. This country has been moving right since FDR. We need a real FDR to fix things now.

I'll tolerate it until he takes office but don't expect me to be very pleasant or nice about it if he continues down this road to ruin.

I did manage to get FUBAR off of iTunes last night, just like you said it was there. I even had a little cash left over on my gift card to get the new David Sedaris book as well. Now i'm converting them to mp3's so i can use them.

but PIMCO bonds often hedge against inflation. It's the safest hedge against inflation I know of. If you know a better one, tell me. This is highly regulated Municipal Bonds and you will also find Gold in those holdings so not too regulated.

Having lived through more than one election in Mexico where government corruption compares favorably to our own here, I'm more skeptical. I don't think free markets really exist during the period leading into and within 6 months after elections here.

I'm hiding for the time being. I'm not making money now, but I'm not losing any either.

Spunk-Monkey
That's what I did too. My iTouch is cool and all but my phone is a better music player I think so it's always with me.

Too bad she's a neo-scum at heart.

Barack is too kind to help her pay off her personal debt. She has to pay herself back before the convention, or she can't get her personal $20 million loan back.
The vendors that she owes will wait til she gets good and ready to pay them.
Just another corporate globalist demanding a bailout.

I lost all respect for Hillary over the last year or so.
She must do an Oscar level performance now, to undue the damage her campaign of hate and division has wrought.

Squinky!

Too many times I hear right wing tools saying that it's not them making the claims because she used it first.

That still ticks me off.

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

I did the job better than the boys.

pfffft

i came across this a while back and while i am not using it, i am looking into it, from the perspective of a self managed 401K. i cannot vouch for anything she says and anything else a big effin disclaimer should say:

all that being said, the portfolio is getting some good returns in a terrible year:

http://invivoanalytics.com/portfolio-strategy/

Having a "conversation" with a repub yesterday. (They are as abundant around here as flies on a turd)
Their comment was that the only one that would benefit from the immunity portion of FISA would be the lawyers. They are waiting in the wings with all their lawsuits. Brought up - its against our constitution.
He said we need to go after the government, but they won't because the lawyers wouldn't be getting their money doing that.
What would be your come back to that Fernando?

Welcome pbtrue.

You can't find good investments in American business if you can't trust the government to follow the law. Countries that do that suffer economically.

Wall Street has much to lose if the NYSE can't be trusted. There are people ready to pay honest lawyers for an honest day's work.

The fact is that there are well financed interests in doing this. Just not as many as there are crooks. Obama had the momentum to overcome the number disparity and bring justice back to this country. Now I'm not so sure.

"And I would like to announce that I have chosen Hillary Clinton as my running mate"

Thanks for your big brain, Fernando

NSA, June 2000 was seeking bids for a project

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000613S0012

June 13, 2000 (1:49 PM EDT)
U.S. Spy Agency To Seek Private IT Partners

By George Leopold ,

The National Security Agency will turn to private industry to develop and maintain most of its unclassified information technology infrastructure as part of an initiative "to refocus agency assets on core functions that directly support its national security missions," agency officials said.
(June 13, 2000 minus one week = June7?, 2000)
The NSA announced the decision last week after completing a 15-month feasibility study called Project Groundbreaker.
[...]
The agency said it will stage a "managed competition" to purchase equipment. A single 10-year contract could reportedly be worth $5 billion.

NSA officials called the decision to purchase commercial equipment a "dramatic change in NSA's long-standing IT operations."

"In order to remain successful in our foreign signals intelligence and information assurance missions, we must immediately begin to invest in our IT infrastructure to secure NSA's agility and adaptability in the Information Age," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, NSA director. "It is critical that we have a robust and reliable infrastructure capable of supporting our missions."
[...]
Four areas will be covered under NSA's IT contract: distributed computing, enterprise/security management, networks, and telephony. The modernization effort is expected to save the government as much as $1 billion over 10 years. The agency said it would select a contractor by spring 2001.

More info at:
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3350
Bush.NSA Warrantless Wiretapping FEBRUARY 1,2001

>>I would never joke
Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 12:39pm.
about bondage. We are all bound somehow and I take it very serious.

So true, F -

Hello Everyone, testing out the new toy blog!

hit and run hiya!

beauty day today.

isn't there just a smidgen of difference between using industry to maintain the unclassified infrastructure and building a room that records every bit of traffic on the internet? or is this just spook double speak?

just askin.

of course privatization. Thanks for that article. This government is rotting from the inside

'tis a beauty day.
Too bad I am at work (but it's my half-day)

Wish I were in my garden.

Gen. Hayden was the director of NSA since '99
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http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20060705122025866
[...]

* "Cheney said if the administration had the power 'before 9/11, we might have been able to pick up on two of the hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon.'"
* Then-NSA chief (and now CIA chief) Michael Hayden "Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives in the United States, and we would have identified them as such," said Hayden

Doh......

been a while. How are you?

this goes back a few years, i remember first reading about it in be here now...

In Advaita Vedanta philosophy, Maya is the limited, purely physical and mental reality in which our everyday consciousness has become entangled. Maya is held to be an illusion, a veiling of the true, unitary Self — the Cosmic Spirit also known as Brahman. The concept of Maya was expounded in the Hindu scriptures known as the Upanishads.

i wonder how long before he'll join the foreign correspondent fun and we'll start hearing about steam love triangles or rectangles with all the bagdad hotties including jeremy and lara logan (families' wrecker that she is!)

i don't think it is innocent. my guess is that the project is like an iceberg. the part you see isn't the part you should be scared of. its done that way so that they can launder the funds spent on the secret part.

bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. sorry, but that is the worst form of revisionism.

how about if bush had gone on 24 hour alert when he got the briefing about al qaeda in august. how about if someone had paid attention to richard clarke. how about if someone stopped whoever it was that planted all the explosives. (sorry, i got carried away on that last point).

Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11
new
Submitted by dan on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 2:18pm.

7 months prior to Sept, 2001, actually just a few days after Shrub took the Oath.
So does this mean that all data mined before 9/11 is open to lawsuits?
I can't see Cheney leaving his ass hanging out like that.

They want immunity after 9/11.

I'm confused

I am staying at a friends house and got to watch tv/cable for the first time in years. Had to turn to CSPAN to see what it is everyone's always talking about. WOW! Broadcast of Yoo, Addington (?) being questioned by a panel headed by Cohen. I was not believing what I was seeing.

Since when has it been ok to lie to a senate panel? play games? finesse?

did you not get the chance to see the torture hearings yesterday on C-Span?

The video is up in Open Mic. That was one messed up hearing. Addington and Yoo testified.

i think this is covered by a catch-22. there was a link in the past few days that described a court case where you can't sue if you can't prove you were wiretapped, and since all the pre 9-11 wiretapping is uber duber super secret, you can't possibly know about it...

I'll definitely have some Harry Shearer on my next episode.

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who has standing in such a case prior to 9/11 or after Feb '07 based on information gained by spying? The CEO of quest was hassled without it.

with their union and local government

While the local government acceeded to the majority of their demands, the most immediately impressive of which being the (supposed) release of "all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Oaxaca and the cancellation of all arrest orders on movement members". The government claims this has been enacted in the form of their discontinued interest in some 250 individuals, but even a cursory glance at the track record of law enforcement agencies within the state creates doubts about their sincerity.

Also within the agreement is an undertaking by the local government to do the following:

-$500 million pesos' (around £24.5 million) investment in infrastructure and equipment for Oaxacan schools, including new kitchens and provisions to provide school breakfasts (school starts and finishes early in Mexico), new uniforms, shoes, amongst other things

-the return to Sección 22 of 108 schools "occupied" by Sección 59 (or rather, "a committee to oversee the regularisation of services in schools affected by conflict")

-an increase in the annual compensation of teachers for their personal contributions to the maintenance of school supplies

-an increase in the number of state scholarships for sons of education workers

-an increase in funding for programmes for homeless children and orphans

-more investment in medical centres in rural areas

-more availability of loans and accommodation for education workers (government programmes often offer both to young state workers in order to keep public services [nearly] afloat)

-the recognition of Sección 22 as the sole representation of Oaxacan state education workers (as opposed to Sección 59)

Most of the budget increases will be at a lower rate than the strikers demanded, according to the common practice of barter in industrial disputes. The local's demands of the removal of Ulises Ruíz Ortíz, the incredibly unpopular state governor, and the shelving of the ISSSTE law (which intends to break up state pensions provisions) were also unsurprisingly successful.
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actually thats why he's screwed. the gov't wouldn't let him disclose in court what he knew and without that information they were able to convict him.

http://kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=8486721

its possible that this was a defense ruse but then you never know because its a secret...

Marc Maron is filling in for Thom on Monday. :)

Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say

By Andrew Harris
Bloomberg.com June,2006
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.

The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages.

``The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,'' plaintiff's lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. ``This undermines that assertion.''
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http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys/
On June 9, U.S. District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel in New York stopped the lawsuit from moving forward while the Federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Washington rules on a U.S. request to assign all related telephone records lawsuits to a single judge.
http://www.jpml.uscourts.gov/
Membership of the MDL Panel
The MDL Panel consists of seven sitting federal judges, who are appointed to serve on the Panel by the Chief Justice of the United States. The multidistrict litigation statute provides that no two Panel members may be from the same federal judicial circuit.

How to rig a court system in 8 short years.
PDF...Telecom Docket MDL-1791 transfer order

Transfered to Northern District of California, assigned to the Honorable Vaughn R. Walker.
Info Vaughn R. Walker
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on September 7, 1989

Is this a cousin?

Somebody knows.

but not as fun as picking up some protection at Walmart.

"I'll never understand why democrats go so far right after the Primary."

Meanwhile, the Rethugs hold their ground, or go further to the right, and end up winning the Executive.
Dems are cowards. That's why they aren't Anarchists or Commies.
Last night, for example, I learned from our savior of democracy, Kieth, and his balding sidekick, Jonathan, that Glen Greenwald is an idiot, and that Barack has a "secret plan" to restore our constitution. Amazing.

I'll pick my first salad greens tomorrow.
I stuck them in a partial shade corner, and they are exploding with all this rain.

And... my tomatoes are blooming.

Mmmm

He really is a maverick.

Glenn Greenwald
Friday June 27, 2008 08:02 EDT
Keith Olbermann's reply and Obama's secret plan to protect the rule of law

(updated below - Update II)

Keith Olbermann went to Daily Kos to respond to what I wrote yesterday regarding his and Jonathan Alter's statements on Obama's support for the FISA bill. Despite his having packed his response with substance-free invective, I'm going to keep the reply as dispassionate as possible because I'm not interested in engaging in some personality-driven spat of the type that he seems to enjoy. What's more, in the scheme of things, I don't consider Keith Olbermann to be The Enemy or, comparatively speaking, even a particularly bad influence to be targeted. I wrote about his comments yesterday because they reflect a broader trend that I do think matters....

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/27/olbermann/index.html

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/SenatorObama-PleaseVoteAgainstFISA

CNN reporting on the myriad of pro-Clinton sites that are trying to dissuade the Clinton-Obama unity meeting/campaign.

No mention of support, of course.

Oh, and don't forget all the Clinton supporters' sites pledging allegiance to McCain.

Lots and lots of those too, according to CNN.

Creationist Bill Signed by Jindal

Science law could set tone for Jindal

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has signed a stealth creationist bill into law, and American educational standards take a huge step backward: Science law could set tone for Jindal.

The creationist front group called the Discovery Institute is quietly crowing, and maintaining the fiction that the bill is not religiously-based.

At the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank that promotes intelligent design and backed the new education act, senior fellow John West said he and his colleagues did not directly lobby Jindal. The group did notify its supporters that groups such as the ACLU and the science organizations were pushing for a veto.

West said critics misunderstand the bill, which he said is not about creationism or intelligent design. Rather, he said, it’s about clarifying that teachers are free to expose their students to the debates that Darwinian scientists have among themselves.

Instead, too many public school students get a “watered-down” discussion of evolutionary theory or nothing at all from teachers, and administrators are too concerned with not angering parents.

“This bill is not a license to propagandize against something they don’t like in science,” West said. “Someone who uses materials to inject religion into the classroom is not only violating the Constitution, they are violating the bill.”

For some reason, though, religious advocacy groups seemed to receive a very different message.

The bill enjoyed support from the Louisiana Family Forum, a group that is upfront in its push for more religious expressions in the public sphere.

Good to see you on the blog Cathy.

Had to go shopping for some things. 2 weeks b4 the operation so I needed some things.

How's the blog doing? Loading faster? Faster refresh?

Conyers subpoenas DoJ for scandal documents.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued a subpoena today to the Department of Justice for documents related to a variety of Bush administration scandals, including the Valerie Plame leak investigation, the U.S attorney scandal, the politicization of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. Read the full subpoena here.

http://judiciary.house.gov/newscenter.aspx?A=994

A senior teacher in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Reggie talks Dharma, controversy and guides the audience through a weird form of meditation.

Congress lifts travel restrictions on Nelson Mandela.
Yesterday, the House and the Senate worked out final legislation that “will remove from U.S. databases any notation characterizing the ANC and its leaders — including Nobel Laureate and former South African President Nelson Mandela — as terrorists.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has voiced support lifting the restrictions — even though the State Department has repeatedly opposed the bill — and it now heads to President Bush for his signature.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/27/congress-lifts-travel-restrictions-o...

Update Today, Nelson Mandela is celebrating his "90th birthday with a giant concert in London" in support of his global AIDS campaign.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jt6o6HGEHiMwJFreYXp7dO1b9S2w

Sens. Craig and Vitter team up to co-sponsor Marriage Protection Amendment.
Larry Craig and David Vitter — “two United States Senators implicated in extramarital sexual activity” — have named themselves as co-sponsors of S.J. Res. 43, the Marriage Protection Amendment. If passed, the bill would amend the Constitution to declare that marriage “shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/27/sens-craig-and-vitter-team-up-to-co-...

..this blog is so fast.
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Sunday, General Clark will join Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation.

do you realize its going to take a generation to undo the damage these conservative monsters have done to america? these people have more in common with the taliban than they do with real americans.

We are almost at 300

...let's go for 400! ;-)

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Cheney hints at disapproval with administration’s decision on North Korea.
During a recent off-the-record session with foreign policy experts, Dick Cheney was asked by Steve Clemons of The New America Foundation what he thought of the upcoming decision by the administration to “de-list North Korea from the terrorism blacklist.” The New York Times’ Helene Cooper reports:

Mr. Cheney froze, according to four participants at the Old Executive Office Building meeting. … [H]e stared, unsmilingly, at his questioner. … Finally, he spoke:

“I’m not going to be the one to announce this decision,” the other participants recalled Mr. Cheney saying, pointing at himself. “You need to address your interest in this to the State Department.” He then declared that he was done taking questions, and left the room.

The Times characterizes the Bush administration’s North Korea decision as the State Department’s win in a “major battle against the Cheney camp.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/27/cheney-hints-at-disapproval-with-adm...

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Right Wing Feigns Outrage Over Delahunt’s Quip, Claims Addington Will Now ‘Be Targeted’ By Al Qaeda
Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted an exchange between Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) and Cheney chief of staff David Addington, in which Addington claimed he could not talk about torture techniques because “al Qaeda may watch C-Span.” Delahunt quipped in response, “Right. Well, I’m sure they are watching, and I’m glad they finally have a chance to see you, Mr. Addington.”

The right-wing is feigning outrage over the comments, incorrectly interpreting Delahunt as having called for al Qaeda to attack Addington. “Inappropriate,” said Megan Mitchell, spokeswoman for Vice President Cheney. “Inciting Al Qaeda to violence,” chimed in Rep. Steve King (R-IA). “That’s absurd. That was not my intent,” Delahunt said in reaction to the exaggerated criticism.

Delahunt’s sarcastic remark about Addington’s penchant for secrecy was the subject of a segment on this morning’s Fox & Friends. Co-host Brian Kilmeade attempted to argue that Delahunt put Addington at risk because “now al Qaeda can see you and understand who’s putting this policy together.” Geraldo Rivera responded:

Fox News airs in 144 countries. They [al Qaeda] knows what’s going on. We tell them what’s going on. That’s the risk of having an open society.

Kilmeade then argued Addington will now “be targeted” by al Qaeda. Rivera and co-host Gretchen Carlson both disagreed, responding, “That is a stretch.” Carlson said if al Qaeda “wanted to knock someone off, they’re going to choose someone at a higher level.” Rivera added that Addington would not “be in the bullseye.” Watch it: (at link)

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/27/right-wing-addington/

of a generation to undo the damage these conservative monsters have done to America is very optimistic.

This corrupt stench permeates every friggen office, local, state and Fed.

I heard estimates of $7.00 dollar gasoline. 40% electric energy increases and the same for Natural gas.
They need to close the Enron loophole that allows speculators to drive up prices. Between the tanked dollar, and the speculators, no one is going to be able to afford to heat their homes this winter.
If I'm lucky, I will have my wood burner installed when I get the roof redone.
Of course, last time I bought fire-wood was 10 years ago, that's probably cost preventative now too.

(on his ipod!)

"A South politician preaches to the poor white man,
'You got more than the blacks, don't complain.
You're better than them, you been born with white skin,' they explain.
And the Negro's name
Is used it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game."

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National Review Falsely Accuses NASA Scientist James Hansen Of Violating The Hatch Act
On Monday, NASA scientist James Hansen commemorated the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking testimony declaring that “the greenhouse effect is here” by again speaking on Capitol Hill. Though he reiterated much of what he’s said many times before about climate change, Hansen sparked controversy when he said that if CEOs of fossil fuel companies “don’t change their tactics they’re guilty of crimes against humanity and nature.”

In an article for National Review Online today, Cato Institute Senior Fellow and prominent climate change skeptic Patrick J. Michaels attacks “Inquisitor Hansen” and accuses him of “terrorizing the American people.” Pivoting off of Hansen’s CEO comment, Michaels also explicitly accuses Hansen of breaking federal law:

Speaking of crimes, what about the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from electioneering? In the hotly contested state of Iowa, on October 26, 2004, Hansen gave a public speech in which he stated that “John Kerry has a far better grasp than President Bush on the important issues that we face.” Kerry lost Iowa by a mere 10,000 votes.

Michaels’s claim is flagrantly false. The Hatch Act, which restricts the political activity of executive branch employees of the federal government, specifically allows federal employees to “express opinions about candidates and issues” and even “make campaign speeches for candidates in partisan elections.”

But Hansen’s speech wasn’t even a campaign speech. It was a lecture on “Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference.” In fact, after Hansen gave the speech in which he did acknowledge he would vote for Kerry, he specifically told the AP that he was “speaking as a private citizen” and that he had “paid his own way for the Iowa appearance.”

Update In 2006, the state of Virginia sent a letter to Michaels asking him to stop referring to himself as the “state climatologist" because it isn't a legitimate state position.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/27/national-review-hansen/

Are Pentagon Apparachiks Setting Up Obama?

The Defense Reform Trap

By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY

Philip Taubman's June 24 article the New York Times and International Herald Tribune is another stellar example of uncritical reportage on national defense. Such stories help sustain a failing status quo by appealing to authority of establishment apparatchiks from an earlier era who are probably trying to worm their way back into the game, perhaps in an Obama Administration.

Cries about a defense brain drain and calls for better systems management have been heard from time to time since at least the 1960s, yet Paul Kaminiski and others interviewed by Taubman talk about loss of expertise and the Pentagon's grotesque acquisition management problems as if they are recent developments. Looking back, did not the F-111 and C-5 cost overrun scandals occur in the 1960s, even though both programs were sold at that time as examples of better systems management in just the same way that the problem plagued, cost overrun infected $200+ billion Joint Strike Fighter program was sold by Mr. Kaminski and his cohorts to the President and Congress in the early 1990s?

All that is new in 2008 is that Pentagon's excesses are occurring without a superpower adversary that would justify bloated budgets, an adversary comparable to the Soviet Union... yet the Pentagon still spends more than the rest of the world's military spending combined. To be sure, the scale of the current excesses is due in part to the monumental incompetence of the Bush Administration, but there is nothing really new going on as Taubman seems to suggest.

The truth is, as I and others have repeatedly documented over the last thrity years, the management/technology/economic pathologies that brought the Pentagon, and by extension the United States, to the current catastrophic state of affairs have been in the works at least since the mid 1950s.
www.counterpunch.org

Dylan:

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/anthrax_hatfill

Ah, the reliable Homeland Security

2.8 million up front; plus $150,000 a year for the rest of his life.

The case of America's only terrorist attack since 9/11 remains unsolved.

Even Bill Gates is barely worth half of what he was just 10 years ago.

Dan, I think your estimate
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 6:14pm.
of a generation to undo the damage these conservative monsters have done to America is very optimistic.

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You know, the damage has been going on for a long time. Bush took advantage of the changes brought about by others. Tax cuts. Deregulation. Huge Pentagon expenditures. Gut social problems. We need democracy.
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Former Anthrax Suspect Receives Over $5.8M Settlement From Govt
Steven Hatfill, painted as a suspect in the 2001 Anthrax attacks, has received a large settlement from the U.S. Government, which he sued for leaking information about him to the press.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/us_settles_for_2825_mi...

Conservative Activist Grover Norquist: Obama Is "Kerry With A Tan"
By Greg Sargent - June 27, 2008, 1:41PM
Hmmm. Check out conservative activist Grover Norquist's less-than-tasteful description of Barack Obama:

Norquist dropped by The Times' Washington bureau today and, as part of his negative critique of Obama's liberal stances on economic issues and other matters, he termed the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee "John Kerry with a tan."
Guess it could have been worse. He could have termed the Illinois Senator "John Kerry in blackface."

Such admirable restraint on Norquist's part!

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/conservative_act...

Yeah, that's mighty damn scary, but what would we have expected from someone who believes that exorcisms can cure cancer?

For a while since the Dover trial i thought the tide might be turning away from creationism and back towards actual science, but no amount of scientific evidence can ever be enough for some people. From what i've seen this only opens the door in allowing teachers to teach BS, but i worry that there's something in the bill which extends the rights of school boards to force teachers to include it. I fear for students in the Louisiana educational system.

On the other hand, this could be a good wedge for introducing a wider audience to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Too often [recent] imperialism is passed off as a product of Bush and the Neocons. In reality, the Democrats voted for these wars and continue to vote for the funding even going so far in the most recent proposed bill to give Bush billions more than he requested. They also opposed immediate withdrawal in favor of redeployment that would leave thousands of “anti-terrorist” troops in Iraq, effectively extending the occupation in the guise of ending it. And neither Hilary Clinton nor Barack Obama could guarantee that they would even be able to implement this plan by the end of their first term.

Even worse, the Democrats have often positioned themselves to the right of Bush in the campaign against their next target in their battle for Mideast imperial dominance—Iran. Hilary Clinton just last week promised to “obliterate Iran” if it attacked Israel. She targeted not just the government but also the entire nation, a threat that can only be called a genocidal. While not sharing Clinton’s Bushite bluster, Obama has stated, "launching some missile strikes into Iran is not the optimal position for us to be in" given the ongoing war in Iraq. "On the other hand, having a radical Muslim theocracy in possession of nuclear weapons is worse." Obama has also promised that military strikes on Pakistan should not be ruled out if "violent Islamic extremists" were to "take over." And both have called for an increase of U.S. troops in occupied Afghanistan, the occupation they view as good and right.

Far from dissenting with this bipartisan imperial project of the so-called War on Terror, the corporate media has loyally parroted it. The corporate media has in fact been exposed as, for all intents and purposes, state-controlled in a manner reminiscent of Stalin’s Izvestia. As the New York Times reported, the Pentagon handpicked the military experts that the major media outlets used for “informed” opinion in support of the war on Iraq. One of the experts went so far as to say that he felt like a Pentagon puppet carrying their line right onto the pages and screens of the corporate media.

ASHLEY SMITH

WTF are they still using the MSNBC simulcast? Rachel's on vacation! It's four MSNBC numbnuts bitching rightwing-style...

Make Bender do the whole three hours!

we've already been warned by duke to expect 30% because our power comes from coal and the chinese are buying all the coal they can. whatever happened to export controls and tariffs?

i don't think you have to worry about something in the bill. i would expect the local knuckle draggers to make enough noise that no teacher who wants to keep their job will fight it.

i never really understood what upsets these buffoons. is it that we are descended from monkeys or that the earth is much older than 6000 years and that jesus never had a dinosaur for a pet (note to self: see if hanna barbera were closet creationists, yabba dabba doo)

WTF are they still using the MSNBC simulcast? Rachel's on vacation! It's four MSNBC numbnuts bitching rightwing-style...

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McCain Gambles with Awkward Joke
June 27, 2008 7:38 AM

In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was asked by columnist Jon Ralston why he didn't choose Gov. Jim Gibbons to chair his Nevada campaign.

"I appreciate his support," McCain said. "As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman."

Why snub the governor? Ralston asked.

"I didn’t mean to snub him,. I've known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we've been good friends," McCain said. "I didn't intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman."

Maybe it's the governor's approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded.

Said McCain, chuckling, "And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago."

Some have found the subject of McCain's joke -- wife-beating -- inappropriate.

To be clear, McCain was alluding to the fictitious leading question "When did you stop beating your wife, senator?" It's a bit of distasteful DC yuckery so commonly quoted it's hackneyed.

But considering the subject McCain was discussing at the time, to allude to that joke was, well, .....awkward!

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/mccain-gambles.html

how dare she. thanks for splaining whats going on, i missed the memo.

bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran

need i say more

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when it reacts so quickly.

I don't have cup holders to secure my drink buzzing through this cyber space.

People be dressing like McCain just to slow this ride down.

Home | Energy, John McCain, Top Story
McCain’s Battery Award Offer Could Pay for Existing Technology

John McCain‘s proposal to award $300 million to the inventor of a better battery to power electric or hybrid cars may send wishful tinkerers to their garage, but that research already is well under way and about to be put to the test in an electric vehicle being built in Norway.

In fact, at least a couple of dozen new venture-backed companies are reportedly already vying to produce high-efficiency battery-operated automobiles. Chevrolet, for instance, is also working on an extended-range electric vehicle called Volt, which it hopes to complete by the end of 2010.

The key to the new electric car is the lithium-ion battery. One of the companies supplying the battery for the “Think” electric vehicle being built in Norway says McCain’s proposal is ‘’very exciting.‘’

‘’It has created buzz and excitement and done wonders for us,’’ said Rachel Carroll, vice president of corporate communications at Ener1, whose subsidiary, EnerDel, produces one of the batteries used in Think’s ‘’City.’’

‘’City’’ will be sold first in Europe, with plans to introduce it in Southern California next year. It is unclear whether the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was aware of that project, or the current state of battery technology, when he proposed a $300 million government prize early this week for the ‘’development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrid or electric cars.‘’

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/27/mccains-battery-award-offer-coul...

Disputed U.S. raid in Iraq reportedly kills a Maliki relative
By Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD — Outraged Iraqi officials demanded an investigation into an early-morning U.S. military raid Friday near the birthplace of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, saying the operation violated terms of the security handover of Karbala province.

Karbala Gov. Oqeil al Khazaali said U.S. forces killed an unarmed civilian and arrested at least one person in the raid in the Janaja district of the southern province. The governor’s brother, Hassanein al Khazaali, said late Friday that the Iraqi killed in the operation was a relative of the prime minister
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/42503.html

Maybe it's my DSL but I'm supposed to have the highest speed AT&T offers. Believe me, it's not. If you are far from their base, it's one step above dialup

every time a comment with a link is posted the server literally has to make a call or a ping to the linked computer when it's streaming information to you. That's how the net works. T^n actually, the longer the thread and T for time goes exponential for each of us. That is both a burden and a virtue here because its worth waiting to read the links you folks find. Especially now that there aren't as many calls to visit Ann Coulter.

The only delay I'm feeling is the internet linking to all of the other computers who are holding information collected and brought here. The server itself is fast.

I know I have a fast line and earlier when there were not nearly 300 comments on this thread with links, it was lightning fast.

Anyone want to speculate what infirmary is holding War Dog?

viv48

Hi Sam. Myla is looking real cute. Miss on air.

vhuber

Here:

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3360#comment-224532

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2938

Ashcroft-Hatfill-person of interest
August 22, 2002
Ashcroft: No charges yet in anthrax probe
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Ashcroft said the investigation has become more intense in recent weeks, but he refused to call Steven Hatfill -- a former federal scientist whose home has been searched as part of the investigation -- a suspect in the case.

Hatfill, has publicly acknowledged he is being investigated in the case but has maintained his innocence.

"Mr. Hatfill is a person of interest to the Department of Justice, and we continue the investigation. For me to comment further, it would be inappropriate," he said.
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Pentagon used expert during anthrax probe
Jul 4, 2003
Hatfill-Pentagon

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