Last Night's Show

we need more seder on the radio. great shows this week.

Now, if you can get Janeane's dad to call in, life would truly be complete.

I wonder how our ToniD is doing.

google "israeli jets" and the overseas sources are reporting that they are being staged and practicing in iraq

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Iraq: Israeli jets using US bases, says ministry source

Iran has test fired long and medium-range missiles this week during military manoeuvres in the Persian Gulf, amid speculation of a possible strike by the US or Israel.

Baghdad, 11 July (AKI) - Israeli Air Force jets have been flying over Jordanian airspace and landing in Iraq for over a month, according to reports quoting Iraqi government sources.

Iran's state-funded Press TV also reported the claim, immediately fuelling speculation about a potential strike by Israel against Iran's nuclear facilities.

According to Press TV, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence told Iraqi news network, Nahrainnet, that suspected Israeli warplanes had landed at the al-Assad American airbase near Haditha, in western Anbar province, as well as a base in Nassiriya in the country's south.

Iran's Press TV also reported that the US had boosted security arrangements around the bases allegedly used by Israel.

According to retired Iraqi army officials, fighter jets have been entering Iraqi airspace from Jordan.

Jordan and Israel signed a peace agreement in 1994.

Sources also claimed that if Israeli warplanes were to carry out an attack against Iran's nuclear reactor at Bushehr, it would take them five minutes to reach it from Iraq.

In June, 100 Israeli warplanes carried out a drill over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece, as a rehearsal for a possible attack on Iran.

A man was walking up and down
To find a place where he could dine
He found himself a fancy place
And entered in with simple grace
And entered in with simple grace

He took his purse his pocket hence
But all he found was fifteen cents
He scanned the menu through and through
To see what fifteen cents would do
The only thing 'twould to at all
Was buy just one meat ball

He called the waiter down the hall
And softly whispered, "One meat ball"
The waiter bellowed down the hall
"This gentlemen here wants one meat ball!"
The guests, they turned both one and all
To see who'd ordered one meat ball

The shaken man grew ill at ease
But softly whispered, "Bread, sir, please
The waiter bellowed down the hall
"You get no bread with one meat ball!"

The wretched man then went outside
looking for a place to hide
There is a moral to this all

Don't ask for bread with one meat ball

Submitted by dan on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 11:07am.
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I guess they didn't learn from the Lebanon disaster. But this time they may be taught a lesson they will never forget. I have no more sympathy for Israel, at all.

The Wall Street Journal has reported this morning that Senator Barack Obama has only raised $30 million in June, about $20 million short of where he needs to be in order to beat the Republican's $400 million machine in November.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/11/8823/20383/349/549866

Just thinking about how much good could be done with that loot instead sends shudders!

WE ARE DOOMED!!!

Our lives are in the hands of insane people.

I like your optimism, but with congress at 9% performance approval and Obama working to turn this country around, I don't see how anything will ever come of the crimes committed by Bush, Rove, and the rest. Time has closed that window. It was right after the 06 election that the Democrats in congress had a shot. Obama is not going enter into a 3 year fight in the Supreme Court over executive privilege while his clock is running.

An official Afghan investigation team on Friday said US-led air strikes a week ago struck a wedding, killing 47 civilians.

There has been no comment yet from the US military.

At the time of the incident on Sunday, it said the strikes over the mountains eastern Nangarhar province killed only fighters.

"We found that 47 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in the air strikes and another nine were wounded," Burhanullah Shinwari, the deputy speaker of Afghanistan's senate, said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/07/2008711996724205.html

pay no attention to the dow dropping thru 11000. stop yer whining.

Something I read today but cannot remember where or who
Submitted by Alice on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 1:08am.
wrote it..

That the Vietnam war was lost on the ground and not stopped by protestors...

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Lost the war? You mean, the US Government stopped dropping bombs on cities, stopped deforesting the land, and ended the ground war by withdrawing combat troops.. The antiwar movement had a lot to do with the decision to withdraw. So did the fact that American soldiers were organizing against the war. The Viet Namese also refused to surrender.

whats dat mean?

gotta run...dont feel like being licked today--poh-poh coming!!

I was reading something last night about how the US is the largest supplier of weapons in the world.

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

For a country that proclaims itself a "Pro-Life" and Christian nation, we push a lot of death and destruction.

really. who knew that wwjd secretly stood for what would jesus destroy?

Speaking of lack of sympathy--

Cheney to have routine checkup on Saturday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7645545

...

My flight was being served by an obviously gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone in a good mood as he served us food and drinks.
As the plane prepared to descend, he came swishing down the aisle and told us that "Captain Marvey has asked me to announce that he'll be landing the big scary plane shortly, so lovely people, if you could just put your trays up, that would be super."
On his trip back up the aisle, he noticed this well-dressed and rather Arabic looking woman hadn't moved a muscle. "Perhaps you didn't hear me over those big brute engines but I asked you to raise your trazy-poo, so the main man can pitty-pat us on the ground."
She calmly turned her head and said, "In my country, I am called a Princess and I take orders from no one."
To which (I swear) the flight attendant replied, without missing a beat,
"Well, sweet-cheeks, in my country I'm called a Queen, so I outrank you. Tray-up, Bitch."

It was something I read as I was skimming past old posts on my blog...it was WARD CHURCHILL who said that...

Ward Churchill Pacsifism vs Pathology - Reviewed by Patrice Greanville 4/07

"American pacifism seeks to project itself as a revolutionary alternative to the status quo. Of course, such a movement or perspective can hardly acknowledge that its track record in forcing substantive change upon the state has been an approximate zero. [Hence]...a chronicle of significant success must be offered, even where none exists.<...> For proponents of the hegemony of nonviolent political action within the American opposition, time-honored fables such as the success of Gandhi's methods (in and of themselves) and even the legacy of Martin Luther King no longer retain the freshness and vitality required to achieve the necessary result, As this has become increasingly apparent, and as the potential to bring a number of emergently dissident elements (.e.g., "freezers," antinukers, environmentalists, opponents to saber-rattling in Central America and the Mideast, and so on) into some sort of centralized mass movement became greater in the mid-80s, a freshly packaged pacifist "history" of its role in opposing the Vietnam war began to be peddled with escalating frequency and insistence." (pp 65-6)

Seeking to drive a stake through the heart of middle-class pacifism, Churchill goes on to detail (and rebuke) some of the main claims made by the peaceful legions, particularly the almost universally accepted notion that it was the protests and demonstrations in the US that finally forced US policymakers to order a withdrawal from Vietnam. Churchill refutes this conceit by noting that the war was lost in the field, which is undeniable, as the humiliating images of Americans escaping Saigon from the rooftop of the US embassy amply demonstrated, and that, therefore it was first and above all a military defeat inflicted on the imperial armies (and their puppets) by the Vietnamese people that created the necessary conditions for a "pragmatic rethinking of the war" by its architects back in the imperial capital.
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to Toni...

Then it hit me...

PEACH Colored Roses... :)

Republican presidential nominee John McCain was still married to his first wife when he obtained a marriage licence to wed Cindy McCain.

According to the Los Angeles Times, court documents show that the Arizona senator received a licence to marry his second wife about a month before a judge granted his divorce from Carol McCain in April 1980.

The report contradicts McCain's account from his 2002 memoir Worth Fighting For, in which he said he divorced Carol McCain in February 1980.

McCain's swift remarriage alienated him from Ronald and Nancy Reagan, who in winter and spring 1980 were campaigning for the White House. The Reagans were close to Carol McCain, according to the Los Angeles Times.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/11/johnmccain.uselections20081

I am starting an online tv show on ustream....it will be kinda like a lefty Buddhist version of Dr. Laura....

watch my recovery show.

Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil
By Robert Weissman
July 11, 2008

Last month witnessed the extraordinary contrast of two perspectives on crime, punishment and ExxonMobil.

Just two days after leading climate change scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Congress that he believed ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel company CEOs "should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature" for their role in delaying a serious global response to climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that a $2.5 billion punitive judgment against Exxon for the Valdez oil spill disaster denied the company the "sense of fairness" to which it is entitled.

Each of these proclamations is extremely significant in its own right.

The Supreme Court's ruling has the more obvious direct importance. Operating in the framework of maritime law, where it is free to establish its own rules in the absence of Congressional guidance, the Court held in a 5-3 ruling that punitive damage awards should not exceed compensatory damages. In other words, the punitive fine imposed by a civil jury should not be greater than the harm the jury found a defendant caused to a plaintiff by its wrongful act.

As a matter of law, this was a remarkable ruling -- a hyper-activist, policy-driven, non-originalist action by a faction of the Court that claims to defer to legislative determinations or seek its legitimacy in the Constitution, law or strongly rooted history. And the policy choices made by the Court are not only corporate-friendly and harmful to the victims of corporate wrongdoing and the environment, they are remarkably poorly argued.

The real premise of the Court's decision, written by Justice Souter, is that "American punitive damages have been the target of audible criticism in recent decades," but it is forced to acknowledge in the same sentence that these criticisms are ill founded. There is no problem of runaway awards, the Court concedes; and punitive damage awards are rising in neither frequency nor amount. Thus the Court is forced to rely on a purported problem of unpredictability in punitive damage awards, even as it acknowledges that appellate courts routinely overturn or limit outlier awards. (Indeed, the original Exxon punitive verdict had been $5 billion.)

Concluding that more predictability is needed, the Court determines that some formula to restrict punitives is appropriate. It settles on the idea of a ratio to compensatory damages. Many states have adopted such ratios, so they seem like a good idea, the Court concludes. A plurality of states have a ratio of 3:1, but having relied on the state experience as the rationale for adopting a federal maritime rule, the Court then declares that the state rules are too different to set the right ratio.

Instead, the Court says it bases its assessment of a reasonable ratio on juries' actual awards -- the very juries it is trying to constrain. The median punitive damage award is less than the compensatory award, so the Court settles on a 1:1 ratio. The Court states, "we would expect that awards at the median or lower would roughly express jurors’ sense of reasonable penalties in cases with no earmarks of exceptional blameworthiness within the punishable spectrum." You can read that a few times. It still won't make sense.

In a very concise dissent, Justice Stevens takes apart the majority argument. In short, he writes, if Congress has not acted, and there are no constitutional issues (none were involved in this case), then appellate courts should review punitive awards and overturn them only if they constitute an abuse of discretion. If the only problem is a few outlier awards, then appellate review easily solves the problem.

"On an abuse-of-discretion standard, I am persuaded that a reviewing court should not invalidate this award," Justice Stevens wrote. "In light of Exxon’s decision to permit a lapsed alcoholic to command a supertanker carrying tens of millions of gallons of crude oil through the treacherous waters of Prince William Sound, thereby endangering all of the individuals who depended upon the sound for their livelihoods, the jury could reasonably have given expression to its 'moral condemnation' of Exxon’s conduct in the form of this award."

Left unstated, but most important for the purpose of deterring bad corporate behavior, is that the very unpredictability disdained by the Court's majority is one of the core benefits of punitive damages. Corporations are not people, and the Court's rhetoric about preserving a "sense of fairness in dealing with one another" is inapposite as regards corporations' wrongful acts against real people. The point that corporations are not people is not just rhetorical; they have different forms of calculus and are differently affected moral restraints. The possibility of facing an outlier punitive verdict for wrongful conduct is a needed control on corporate recklessness.

The direct precedential value of the Exxon decision is limited, because it was issued in the confines of maritime law, and includes some caveats. But it will cast an ominous shadow over state and federal court decisions on punitive damages for years to come.

Dr. James Hansen, the NASA climatologist who was one of the first to sound the alarm on global warming and who has refused to capitulate in the face of Bush administration efforts to silence him, does not specialize in the law but he offers a far keener sense of justice than did the Supreme Court.

"CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual," Hansen told a Congressional committee. "In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature" for spreading doubt about global warming and obstructing needed action.

This notion of justice suggests individual as well as organizational responsibility; insists on connecting the predictable and intended consequences to ultimate instigators without being distracted by intervening factors; and refuses to let perpetrators establish rules to legitimize their conduct.

However, Hansen noted, "conviction of ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal CEOs will be no consolation, if we pass on a runaway climate to our children."

Even more significant than Hansen's call for prosecution of CEOs for crimes against humanity was his description of his latest research. Hansen and colleagues have concluded that the safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide -- the level below which catastrophic, self-reinforcing climate change can be averted -- is considerably lower than previously thought. Not only must the world slow its carbon emissions, Hansen argues, it must reduce atmospheric carbon from current levels. This remains achievable, Hansen believes, if immediate, far-reaching action is taken.

A society reveals its values in what it tolerates and proscribes, in what it authorizes and punishes. The U.S. Supreme Court held that basic fairness means that Exxon, which made more than $40 billion in profits last year, should not be slapped with a $2.5 billion punitive verdict. Representing humanity's better face. Dr. James Hansen asserted that the basic principles of justice and accountability to which street criminals are held should be applied to the rich and powerful, particularly when their intentional actions recklessly endanger the lives of not just one or two or five people, but millions.

The Supreme Court signaled that ExxonMobil should continue business as usual. Hansen said that business as usual is intolerable.

"In my opinion," Hansen said, "if emissions follow a business-as-usual scenario, sea level rise of at least two meters is likely this century. Hundreds of millions of people would become refugees. No stable shoreline would be reestablished in any time frame that humanity can conceive."

Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor, and director of Essential Action .

sending ToniD my best wishes.

How's your rabbits?

There use to be a lot more peacemakers in Israel before Bush-Cheney took the U.S. helm to stir up the Middle East.

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/results/israel/2008/

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070813/gordon

We can't be rid of this evil tag-team, Bush-Cheney Administration soon enough. McCain is NOT an option we can afford either.

Too professional for online TV.
Imo.
*TLL*

...SO COOL...You go girl! Wishing success with this new endeavor.

working real hard on promoting it in the recovery community. I just got banned from a recovery forum as a spammer...ooops.

TL what do you mean? I am a pro. I can say fuck and stuff!

pretty good opening announcement!

well done.

Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives

WASHINGTON — Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.

The book says that the International Committee of the Red Cross declared in the report, given to the C.I.A. last year, that the methods used on Abu Zubaydah, the first major Qaeda figure the United States captured, were “categorically” torture, which is illegal under both American and international law.

The book says Abu Zubaydah was confined in a box “so small he said he had to double up his limbs in the fetal position” and was one of several prisoners to be “slammed against the walls,” according to the Red Cross report. The C.I.A. has admitted that Abu Zubaydah and two other prisoners were waterboarded, a practice in which water is poured on the nose and mouth to create the sensation of suffocation and drowning.

The book, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,” by Jane Mayer, who writes about counterterrorism for The New Yorker, offers new details of the agency’s secret detention program, as well as the bitter debates in the administration over interrogation methods and other tactics in the campaign against Al Qaeda.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/washington/11detain.html?_r=1&oref=slo...

your support is appreciated

you have mine....

Submitted by dan on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 11:36am.
pay no attention to the dow dropping thru 11000. stop yer whining.
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It seems like only yesterday that the DOW dropped below 12,000. (Note sarcasm.)

I've lost track. Has the Bush DOW dropped below 12,000 twice or three times? Or four?

When you look up "languishing" in the dictionary, you are redirected to Bush Economy.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several other groups have filed a lawsuit in an effort to strike down a new law allowing the U.S. government to intercept the phone calls and e-mail messages of people with suspected ties to terrorism.

The ACLU, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other groups filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday, the same day that President George Bush signed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act.
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The new law, approved by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, allows the U.S. National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance of a wide range of people "reasonably believed" to be outside the U.S. The law also will likely require a U.S. court to dismiss more than 40 lawsuits that have been filed against telecommunication carriers that allegedly participated in the NSA program before there was court oversight of the surveillance.

The FISA Amendments Act still allows broad, untargeted surveillance, including spying on U.S. residents who are talking with people overseas, said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/071008-aclu-files-lawsuit-to-chall...

click to give!

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3

"pay no attention to the dow dropping thru 11000. stop yer whining."

Quit your goddamn whining about the whiners...

Can I plug you on BlueRoots?

I know all my listeners need all the help they can get! ;-)

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bluerootsradio

Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 12:06pm.
I am starting an online tv show on ustream....it will be kinda like a lefty Buddhist version of Dr. Laura....
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(gbasin = demoted to Cosmic Cue Card Guy)

Every chance I get!!!

ha! too funny

...the PTSD made him do it :/. mhappenow here is a high profile case for your site inauguration :)

In 1999, McCain responded to the questions about his mental health by allowing selected reporters to peruse 1,500 pages of his health records dating back to his release from Hanoi in 1973. Reporters were not permitted to photocopy any of the documents. The reporters who looked at the records did not describe any mention of a PTSD diagnosis. However, they failed to note that it would have been impossible for McCain to receive such a diagnosis -- since the term "post-traumatic stress disorder" was not in use until seven years after McCain's release from captivity. The term first appeared in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/22/mccain/

The records will not include more than 1,000 pages of medical records that McCain released on a limited basis in 1999 during his first run for the White House.

Those documents included reports from McCain's exams at the Robert E. Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies at the Naval Operational Medicine Institute in Pensacola, Fla. They showed that McCain still suffered some physical ailments from injuries received when he was shot down in North Vietnam and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. McCain has arthritis in his shoulders and right knee and has difficulty raising his arms above his head. The records did not show signs of psychological illness from that experience.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-medical23-2008may23,0,4489839...

December 6, 1999
Release of McCain's Medical Records Provides Unusually Broad Psychological Profile
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
In releasing 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records, Senator John McCain of Arizona has provided an unusually large amount of such material for a candidate for high office, including the broadest look ever given the public at the psychological profile of a presidential candidate.

The reason his file is so extensive is that Mr. McCain, a Navy pilot whose jet was shot down over North Vietnam, was treated for major fractures and other injuries during more than five years as a prisoner of war and received the standard psychological evaluations that were given to all P.O.W.'s after their release.

Mr. McCain's campaign carefully controlled the release of the records in what appeared to be an effort in part to counter discussions of whether Mr. McCain, a Republican, has the temperament to be president.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DEFD7133EF935A35751C1A...

LUNCH TYME!
and when i get back i better read some news..yourll know toniD is not around show some respect for once in yourlls lives!!!

which leaves me free to say quit your whining about my whining about all the other whining. o my god, i've fallen into a rabbit hole.....

i can't watch it from work, it requires a flash update and i am not authorized on this computer. I'll watch it tonight as soon as I get home.

...so we know how toniD is doing? My thoughts and prayers are with her.

how about a dose of ironic hypocricy?

Anti-Gay Alabama A.G. Caught Being Gay

http://wonkette.com/401018/anti-gay-alabama-attorney-general-caught-bein...

This may come as a shock, but a prominent anti-homosexual Republican attorney general has apparently been caught having homosexual sex intercourse with his homosexual gay male assistant. Bonus: The dude’s wife caught him, in their bed. This is the rumor that the AG’s office has officially denied, so now of course everybody is spilling the sordid details

is stupidity a reason for divorce?

mornin dan!

no it is'nt thank gawd! Bgurl would have sent me packing years ago if it was.

unfaithfulness and the lies that go along with it on the otherhand are sufficient grounds for divorce.

The future looks brighter if you close your eyes!!!

i used to laugh and sneer and get all snazzy about these kinds of news about odious republican homophobes (it's always them!) but now i don't know why, this kind of stuff just makes me sad, i actually feel sorry for these pathetic human beings who hate themselves so much they have to become hateful bigots just to have a little self respect, it really is sad, nonetheless i despise their politics and their hypocrisy, hopefully being "found out" will help them to reconcile themselves with themselves and have some honesty though i doubt it.

Danger, i really had enough of your meatballs

immediately!!!

She said Alice would hear from her. If I am guessing right, she is probably in the recovery room just coming to.

and the future sounds better if you close your ears!

good afternoon

sending {{{healing waves of energy}}} to toniD

and to all of us

hi Lucille - i stayed 'til the end (8:40 exactly)

nightbird was there too - read her open mic:

http://samsedershow.com/node/3427

and for sederista photos check:

http://samsedershow.com/node/3431

bbl - have a client now

the pebble in your shoe....you will have a clammy foot!!!

You get no bread with one meatball!!!
Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 4:01pm.
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Billy Mumphrey: "I'd just like to say hello to my meatball."

Hey there. I am new to posting here. I have followed Sam's shows since the Majority Report days. Does anyone know how to contact Nova M to try to get them to give him a regular spot? I miss Mike but I sure have enjoyed these last few nights hearing him on the radio again.

but just got back from the streets.....the kids are wrapped around the block waiting for the new $200 nike sneaker that will be coming out tomorrow morning

bapapabap I'm LOVING IT

no one has opened fire yet well....so when you are ready to do that thing that you said you would do let me know i am ready too...

Alabama US Attorney denies any involvement in university editor's
This 'case is definitely about the first amendment,' says Harper's journalist

The abrupt dismissal of a veteran University of Alabama employee who blogged about the firing of seven US Attorneys has added a bizarre new twist to allegations that the state's US Attorneys targeted political opponents for prosecution.

Roger Shuler -- a high-profile blogger and leading critic of Alabama's judicial system -- has written extensively about alleged corruption among U.S. Attorneys for over a year. In particular, Shuler focused on two US Attorneys from his home state: Alice H. Martin of the Northern District and Leura G. Canary of the Middle District.

An editor in the University of Alabama Birmingham publications office for the last 12 years and a university employee for 19, Shuler was placed on administrative leave May 7 and formally fired May 19.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Alabama_bloggers_firing_raises_troubling_q...

Well.. I might need to revise that to next week.

Oil hits $147+ before pull back

Scary!!

And Sam needs to change his poll to include the following: I used to listen to Air America until they were stupid and got rid of Sam.

Just MHO ...

Much love to my old buddies .. I hope you all are doing better than me. This heartbreak is kicking my ass big time.

NADER TO LIMBAUGH, GET OFF WELFARE

Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies and place them in a conservatorship if their problems worsen, people briefed about the plan said on Thursday.
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Billy...."I only have one meatball to give for my country!"

Prince Georges Feral Friends, SPCA also operates the Adopt A Classroom Program, in which businesses and individuals partner with PGFF to provide humane education materials for students in grades K through 6, to help foster compassion and promote kindness in children in these grades. For a mere $30 a year, donors can adopt one classroom and know that each child in the class will receive their own copy of a professionally-edited and written newsletter each month of the school year. Teachers tell PGFF that the Adopt A Classroom Program definitely changes how children behave and their attitudes toward nature and animals, as well as one another.

The whole Scam Crew of Bush/CheneyCo and now McCain and Gramm -- it is all one big PsyOps disguised as Government!!!

WE ONLY IMAGINE THE PROBELMS AROUND US AND WHINE ABOUT THE FIGMENTS OF OUR IMAGINATION, INSINUATES GRAMM. AND MCCAIN SAYS HE'LL GIVE US GAS CREDITS, NOT BECAUSE IT WILL FIX ANYTHING, BUT BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE US 'FEEL' BETTER....

Randi is hot today, applying the Naomi Klein "Shock Doctrine" revelations....

Just wanted to let you all know about it. No more Randi stuff from me for today.

Colombia's Farc rebels say betrayal by two of their own fighters led to the dramatic release of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages last week.

A DNC/RNC Callout

Everything for Everyone: A Small Demand

On the evening of August 25, the night of the Democratic Party’s fundraising events, we will manifest ourselves not as a focus group but as a force: Against capitalism and in solidarity with those who fight against policing on a daily basis, (in memory of Paul Childs and Frank Lobato both murdered by the Denver police); against the destruction of the planet and for our own needs for a total transformation of society. At 6 p.m. gather as a Black Bloc at Civil Center Park in downtown Denver. Wear black tops and blue denim bottoms. Bring flags and banners. Be materially prepared. We do not seek a mere march against capitalism but rather a communication mechanism to inquire of others a modest question: “We want everything. Do you?”

For the destruction of capitalism and the state,

—A precarious workers-council of Unconventional Action, and comrades from the West Coast, Northwest, Southwest, Midwest, Southeast, East Coast, the UK, and Europe

Here's a start --email addresses and comment line from contact page at KPHX:

Programming programming@1480kphx.com
Comment Line 602-297-6642
Comments comments@1480kphx.com

Address for NovaM:

Mailing Address
824 E Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 85034

I think I'll drop them a letter myself....

May your efforts bear fruit!

http://www.keyflux.com/shep/madcov.htm

Billionaire Texas oilman spend $58m on alternative energy campaign

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/09/energy.energy

Of course he'll make money off the deal you can be sure. But, hey ... it's significant. He starts out in the ad that I saw on CNBC of all things - saying it's b.s. what the President's saying - that more drilling will solve it.

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On another note ... Janeane Garofalo?! Yay!

Wahoooo!

The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this year has proposed construction of the Jirau and San Antonio dams, the first part of the complex in Brazilian territory. But Bolivian residents of the northern Amazon fear it will unleash environmental harm and devastate their lands.

The organisations representing them met Jun. 29 in the northern city of Riberalta and declared an emergency. A declaration by seven labour groups and the Movement of People Affected by Dams of the western Brazilian state of Rondonia, seen by Tierramérica, called on the Bolivian government "not to negotiate or sign any type of agreement" with Brazil.

The Madera, the Spanish name of the river where it begins in Bolivia, or the Madeira, its Portuguese name in Brazil, originates in the Andes Mountains, formed by the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers, and ultimately flows into the Amazon River.

The Madera crosses a biodiverse region, with a binational path of rapids and "cachuelas", or low cascades. This geography is not suitable for river navigation, but has hydroelectric potential.

Researchers at the Institute of Hydrology and Hydraulics of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) and of the Research for Development Institute, along with experts supported by the non-governmental Bolivian Forum for Environment and Development (Fobomade) are trying to determine the risks Bolivia faces in the construction of the dams.

Although the dam is to be built in Brazilian taerritory, there will be impacts in Bolivia as well, UMSA researcher Jorge Molina told Tierramérica.

The preliminary results of the study indicate that there would be blockage of rivers and tributaries, with subsequent flooding, severe losses of aquatic diversity and of farmable land, as well as displacement of indigenous communities.
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WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s demand for a timetable for complete U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, confirmed Tuesday by his national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie, has signaled the almost certain defeat of the George W. Bush administration’s aim of establishing a long-term military presence in the country.0711 02 1 2

The official Iraqi demand for U.S. withdrawal confirms what was becoming increasingly clear in recent months — that the Iraqi regime has decided to shed its military dependence on the United States.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/11/10282/

TOTAL YAY! :) I have to do it on dial up - I really hope it doesn't fail me like usual..I MUST HEAR JANEANE...

McCain adviser Phil Gramm calls America a "nation of whiners." McCain repudiates adviser.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/politics/11campaign.html?_r=1&hp&or...

Senate confirms Petraeus as CENTCOM commander. Byrd and Harkin vote no.

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/07/military_petraeus_odierno_0710...

Once again, our elected representatives doing us proud .... not.

July 10, 2008 -- McCain favors privatization of Social Security

From the Democratic National Committee:

Experts and Advocates Blast John McCain's Statement That Social Security is an "Absolute Disgrace" and His Support for Bush's Privatization Scheme

Washington, DC - In a conference call today, experts and advocates for America's seniors and working families blasted John McCain for saying that the way Social Security is funded, the very essence of the program, is a disgrace and for his support for President Bush's privatization scheme. AFSCME International President Gerald McEntee, Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-FL), Center for Economic and Policy Research Co-Director Dean Baker, and the President of the Alliance of Retired Americans Ed Coyle joined the DNC's Brad Woodhouse on the call to! hold McCain accountable for those comments and his out of touch and reckless approach to the retirement security of millions of Americans.

As part of this week's "relaunch" of his campaign, Senator McCain has claimed he would balance the budget by reigning in entitlement spending, which would mean slashing Social Security benefits for millions of seniors, survivors and people with disabilities. McCain even said he believed the program as it was originally conceived more than 70 years ago is an "absolute disgrace" during the kickoff of his tour in Denver this week. Moreover, McCain has consistently been one of the strongest supporters of President Bush's risky scheme to privatize Social Security, which would turn it from a guarantee into a gamble and blow a whole in the national debt with $1 trillion in transition costs.

Below are excerpts of the call:

Gerald McEntee, President of AFSCME (1:37)

"Senator McCain's comment in Denver is yet another example that he is out of touch, way out of touch. He has no idea with what America's working families are up against every day. It is a disgrace. After being in the United States Congress for close to 30 years, John McCain doesn't understand how the Social Security system works. It's always been 'pay as you go' with today's workers paying for today's retirees. What's a disgrace is, that this is news to John McCain. Working Americans understand that Social Security is the contract between the generations of Americans. It has served our country well since FDR signed it into law. But multimillionaires like John McCain and George W. Bush could care less. What they want to do is privatize it. Destroying a system that works, to benefit the wealthy folks who bankroll their campai! gns. John McCain admits that he doesn't know a lot about the economy. Now we know he doesn't know a lot about social security either."

Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-FL) (4:18)

"I'm running out of fingers and toes to count the number of times now that John McCain is aligning himself with the policies of George W. Bush...

"In the state of Florida we are being squeezed; property insurance, health care costs, gas prices, and you're telling me now that John McCain is going to take the safety net out from below Americans and hardworking families and seniors that put so many years into their jobs and their families? It's a real shame."

Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (8:48)

"...the projections show Social Security will be there as long as we want it to be. It's basically in very very sound shape. Now the other thing that's very scary is he s! eems not to have known what's happened in the economy. We just had a h ousing crash. And this is particularly scary for people who are approaching retirement. We just did an analysis of the federal reserve board survey of consumer finance and we looked at what happened to the wealth of younger baby boomers, people who are between the ages of 45 and 54, so they're approaching retirement, not quite there yet, but in many cases just 2, 3, 4 years from retirement. And we found that because of the housing crash, that they lost more than one third of their wealth from 2004 to 2008. So you're looking at people that, if you take the median, a middle-income family in that 45-54 age group, they're gonna have less than 100,000 in wealth accumulated at the point where they're aged 54. That's not a very good situation to be in. This is a middle-income famiy, so we're not talking about poor people, middle income families are going to be approaching retirement with less than 100,000 in wealth other than their social security. So here we have Senator McCain sa! ying he wants to privatize Social Security for people that have just seen much of their wealth evaporate."

Ed Coyle, President of Alliance of Retired Americans (12:18)

"I really think that this is one of the more insensitive anti-senior comments that I've ever heard a presidential candidate make. Certainly the 42 million people in the country who are beneficiaries in one form or another of Social Security are going to be quite surprised to know that one of the major candidates for president thinks the program is a disgrace. In fact in Senator McCain's own state of Arizona almost a million people are recipients in one form or another of social security including 73,000 children, and 130,000 disabled workers, not to mention all the folks who have worked hard all their lives and now are enjoying some sort of a social security retirement check every month."

or should i say woman showing their asses...i'm loving it!

Yahoo! When you got nothing to lose, who cares?

What I want to know is who is the major volume of trading coming from. The various financial news channels used to give the volume and mention where it seemed to be coming from, but not so much anymore.

July 10, 2008 -- A new website has Omaha and other parts of the country talking

The infamous Frankin cover-up of the 1980s may have been relegated to "cold case" status by law enforcement. But on the Internet, the case is far from cold. A new website, http://www.justiceforjohnnygosch.com/Home_Page.php is dedicated to bringing the child sex slave perpetrators to justice.

Franklin is a story of high-level pedophilia, murder, and cover-ups by the FBI and CIA.

July 11-13, 2008 -- Clinton Secretary of State had her own secretive trysts

Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, an adviser to the Barack Obama campaign and godmother of chief Obama foreign policy adviser Dr. Susan Rice, carried on an affair with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in a flagrant abuse of her office. WMR has received further confirmation from well-placed sources in Croatia, Serbia, and Kosovo that Albright had Thaci at her virtual beck and call for sexual encounters. Thaci was in his late 20s and early 30s when he was having the affair with Albright, who was in her sixties at the time.

On December 10, 2007, WMR reported: "It is rumored that during negotiations on Kosovo in Rambouillet, France in 2000, [Secretary of State Madeleine] Albright had more than a diplomatic interest in Thaci, who was then 31. Thaci is to become the Prime Minister of Kosovo. The New York Daily News reported that when Albright walked into the hotel room of the Albanian delegation in Rambouillet at midnight, one Albanian told her to 'go away' and come back in five minutes. The Albanians thought Albright was a hotel cleaning lady. Albright reportedly exploded in rage and hurled explicit language at the Albanians."

On February 17, 2008, WMR reported: "WMR has learned from sources who were in Kosovo at the time that Thaci was Albright's virtual 'toy boy' and a frequent sex partner."

Thac's close relationship with Albright allowed him to press Washington during both the Clinton and Bush administrations to support Kosovo's independence cause. Currently, Kosovo, recognized by the United States, Britain, France, and other countries, but diplomatically shunned by Russia, China, Greece, Spain, and other nations worried about their own secessionist movements, has become a major center for the drug, cigarette, and weapons smuggling business, as well as human trafficking for purposes of prostitution. The ersatz nation, led by Thaci's former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) cronies, many of whom had close links to Osama Bin Laden's "Al Qaeda" units in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia, is protected by an American military force with a major base at Camp Bondsteel.

Kosovo also represents another example of the nexus between the Russian-Israeli Mafia, which operates quite freely in Kosovo, and elements linked to "Al Qaeda," including Chechen guerrillas. Arch neocon Richard Perle was a major supporter of Kosovo's independence and the KLA leadership as was retired General Wesley Clark, another informal foreign policy adviser to Obama.

Albright's Eastern European lineage -- she was born Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague to Czech parents -- was often seen by foreign policy experts in the State Department as clouding her judgment on dealing with the Balkans crisis. However, additional confirmation that Albright was having sexual trysts with the leader of the KLA, despised as a terrorist by Serbia, made her untrustworthy to Belgrade and a laughing stock throughout the Balkans and the rest of Europe, according to French and German intelligence sources with whom WMR spoke.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080711

July 10-11, 2008 -- 9/11 commission ballot initiative rally held at Foley Square in Manhattan

With the momentum of 20,000 signatures of registered voters in the city of New York already gathered, the 9/11 commission ballot initiative held a rally on July 10 at Foley Square in Manhattan, directly across the street from the US Courthouse for the Southern District of New York.

Speaking at the event were former Alaska Democratic Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel;Tony award-winning actress Christina Ebersole; Philadelphia peace activist Robert McIlvaine, whose son Bob, an employee of Merrill Lynch, died in the collapse of the World Trade Center; Joseph Culp, the producer of the 9/11 motion picture "The Reflecting Pool," to be premiered in Manhattan on July 11, and this editor.

I told the crowd of ballot initiative supporters that New York can lead the way for the rest of the country in demanding answers to the 9/11 attacks and hold those actually accountable for the deadly attack to be prosecuted for their crimes of commission or omission. I said that we all look forward to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and the others doing the "perp walk" into the US Courthouse in New York that served as a backdrop for the rally.

I also reaffirmed that what happens in New York regarding a citizens' commission could be repeated in other cities and locations where possible "false flag" terror attacks took place, including London, Arlington, Virginia, Madrid, and Bali. Former Rhode Island Republican Senagtor Lincoln Chafee and former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura have announced their support for the New York ballot initiative.

The rally was not without disruption. One individual, obviously representing the PNAC crowd -- a remnant of the former Project for the New American Century that called for the necesssity of a "new Pearl Harbor" for America -- interrupted Ebersole's remarks about the two World Trade Center towers not being able to have fallen into their own footprints faster than gravity would allow and be pulverized into fine dust, without a controlled demolition. The disruptor asked who was responsible for the demolition. Gravel disarmed the protester when he instructed him to pay attention to the speakers rather than disrupt them and admonished him that he was not going to be the center of attention at the rally.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080710_3

The Iraqi Government has come to realize that the U.S. is attempting to run the Iraqi state through private contractors who cannot be held accountable for their misdeeds. The Report from the American Congressional Research Service in July 2007 clearly indicated that the Iraqi government has no authority over private security firms contracted by the U.S. Government. A shocking incident in the Green Zone in 2006 has demonstrated that the Blackwater personnel have gained greater impunity than the regular U.S. armed forces. A SUV driven by Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee. The Blackwater guards disarmed the army soldiers and forced them to lie on the ground at gunpoint until the vehicle was recovered.

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater has been a major financial supporter of the Republican Party. Hence Republican Presidential candidate John McCain is an obvious supporter of Blackwater. Even Democratic Presidential candidate Barak Obama has refused to rule out the deployment of private security companies in Iraq. Prime Minister Maliki has realized that the continued U.S. occupation of Iraq is a lucrative business venture for the American private firms like the Blackwater Worldwide. Echoing the popular sentiment the Iraqi Foreign Minister stated that there will not be ‘another colonization of Iraq.’ This is precisely the reason that Iraq has demanded more time for discussions on the Status of Forces Agreement with the U.S.

The mission statement of Blackwater Worldwide reads: “Blackwater efficiently and effectively integrates a wide range of resources and core competencies to provide unique and timely solutions that exceed our customers stated needs and expectations”. The poorly equipped yet struggling indigenous Iraqi forces might be no match for the Blackwater, but it will surely be a national armed force serving and remaing accountable to the Iraqi people.

The demand of Prime Minister Maliki is less reflective of his confidence in the stability of Iraq and more a sign of the growing apprehensions over the privatization of the Iraqi reconstruction efforts.
http://www.juancole.com:80/

I am going to contact them right now.

McCain favors privatization....

Submitted by ghettodefender on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 4:19pm.

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July 11-13, 2008 -- Ban Ki-moon is Bush's marionette at UN

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is increasingly being seen as a virtual marionette for the Bush administration and neocons bent on destroying the UN system in favor of a "League of Democracies" that would be an organization of vassal states to neocon policies and the cause of globalization and corporate global control. John McCain has adopted the creation of the League of Democracies as a major foreign policy plank and he has made no secret of his disdain for the United Nations. Working behind the scenes to destroy the UN system is Israel, which feels that UN is composed of Muslim countries and other states like Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia that are opposed to Israeli expanisionism and suppression of the Palestinians.

Given the long-time interest by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon, no relation to Ban Ki-moon, in establishing a major base of operations at the UN and Ban Ki-moon's own "non-denominational Korean Christian" sectarian bent, more than one journalist covering the UN has inquired as to the Secretary General's own links to Moon and his Unification Church, a cipher for Korean intelligence and various right-wing U.S. political and religious groups.

Known by the South Korean media as the "Slippery Eel" when he was South Korean Foreign Minister, Ban has ruled the UN through the firm fist of the American, British, and French permanent members of the UN Security Council. Former Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday of Ireland has accused Ban of becoming a tool of the Security Council, dominated by Washington, London, and Paris, to pressure Iran on the nuclear issue when Iran has every reason to want to defend itself from the Americans, who have the nation surrounded by occupation armies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Israel, which is threatening a military strike on Iran. Halliday served as United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq under Kofi Annan until he resigned in 1998 over economic sanctions on Iraq, a move Halliday described as genocide and which killed some one million Iraqi children, an outcome cited by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "collateral damage."

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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080711_1

Phil Gramm: "We live in the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat"

In his 1984 Senate campaign in Texas, Gramm allegedly said "Has anyone ever noticed that we live in the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat?" a quote also attributed to Dinesh D'Souza and a favorite of right-wingers leaving comments on Web sites disparaging the American welfare system

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/325

Karl Rove in Sweden. Consults with Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeld's advisers while ducking House subpoena. Add Sweden to the list of neocon-occupied countries.

http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=1353

Italy requires mosque leaders to recognize Israel. Italy under Berlusconi is now a rather standard combination of Fascism and Zionism.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=63282&sectionid=351020606

and a motherfucker that Phil Gramm is, if ever there was one!

"The demand of Prime Minister Maliki is less reflective of his confidence in the stability of Iraq and more a sign of the growing apprehensions over the privatization of the Iraqi reconstruction efforts."

July 9, 2008 -- Art is more than imitating life in new novel

"American Wife, " a new novel by Curt Sittenfeld, has official Washington buzzing. The novel centers on Alice Blackwell, an only child who later becomes a librarian and a Democrat. Alice experiences a tragedy in high school when a car she is driving causes the death of a school mate. Alice later marries the shiftless son of a wealthy Republican family who later becomes President of the United States.

Sound familiar? It should. The word is that the novel is a not-so-veiled reference to Laura Bush, the First Lady.

However, WMR has learned of details about Laura Bush's own extracurricular activities that might make "American Wife" seem tame in comparison. Previously, WMR reported that Laura Bush vacated the White House on at least one evening and took up residence in the Mayflower Hotel after she had a spat with George W. Bush over his frequent "meetings" and trips abroad with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. WMR confirmed with Mayflower staff the presence of Laura Bush at the hotel. Soon, the Marriott Corporation issued strict orders that staff were not to comment on the presence of any VIPs, including the First Lady, at the hotel, which is four blocks north of the White House.

A well-placed source recently told WMR that Laura Bush has stayed in the ill-fated Room 871 at the Mayflower, an elegant room complete with period reproduction furnishings, embroidered drapes, and an Italian marble bathroom. Room 871 was also the room where disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer ("Client 9") had a tryst with Emperor's Club VIP escort "Kristen" for a fee of $4300, a rendezvous that cost Spitzer his job as governor.

Laura Bush's long-term affair with a wealthy Austin businessman is also grist for the gossip mill among Washington's socialite community. The First Lady has reportedly taken her beau on frequent hiking trips, sans George W. Bush, to a variety of national parks, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Denali in Alaska. The First Lady's "very significant other" is reportedly married but his spouse is said to be a "beard" to give the impression that there is nothing more than meets the eye with regard to his friendship with Mrs. Bush.

The appearance of "American Wife" on bookshelves across the country will undoubtedly focus attention on the real "Alice Blackwell," not a welcomed development in a White House that is being buffeted by "kiss and tell" books like that of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080709

gotta go....um if you ask me nicely maybe i will play nice with yourll tonight
i am in a good mood and will be wearing my pearl thong for Sam coz he spoiled me this whole week whispering sweet stuff in my ear 3 hours per night!

Emerging from the Drug War Dark Age: LSD and Other Psychedelic Medicines Make a Comeback

By Charles Shaw, AlterNet. Posted July 11, 2008.

After a 40-year moratorium, credible research for treating illnesses and addictions with psychedelic compounds has made a miraculous comeback.

And in a major milestone, on May 13 of this year, Swiss doctor Peter Gasser administered the first legal dose of LSD in more than 36 years. It was for a study of anxiety in palliative care, which helps terminally ill patients transition more peacefully -- and with as little pain as possible -- into death.

Other complexes like addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder are being treated with what are called the "shamanic plant medicines": ayahuasca, the Amazonian vine preparation whose psychoactive component is dimethyltryptamine (DMT); peyote, the North American cactus whose psychoactive component is mescaline; and iboga, an African rainforest shrub.
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/90958/?page=2

Yesterday was a sad day for the United States Senate.

It is my hope that the courts will undo the damage done to the Constitution.

But let us stand tall, knowing that by working together we were able to make wiretapping and retroactive immunity part of the national discourse these last number of months.

We came together – all of you, Senator Feingold, bloggers like Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald, organizations like the EFF and ACLU, and untold hundreds of thousands of Americans who simply wanted to make sure that this one, last insult did not happen with ease.

I'm sorry we weren't successful.

I just hope I'm lucky enough to have you by my side in the next fight, whatever that may be.

Thanks for all you've done.

Chris Dodd

It seems that Bush [or the puppetmasters behind him] has been totally against Fannie and Freddie all along. It was apparently a huge thing for him to come out today and essentially support Fannie and Freddie by saying there is no problem. So, someone said he'd better say something to support them, that the market tanking like this was not a good thing. What dopes these people are.

Word is that down the line they will get rid of Fannie and Freddie, but it is far more prudent to take them out in an explicit and orderly way.

Wild ride in the stock market[s] today ....
Submitted by Catharine on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 4:06pm.
Yahoo! When you got nothing to lose, who cares?
What I want to know is...
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What I want to know is, who floated today's rumor that the Fed is opening its lending window? Whoever it was could easily have bought in, floated the rumor, then sold out within the hour with no more risk than that the rumor would not "take".

I am long past ready to see some regulation of the markets (and Capitalism) that has the teeth, the desire and the swift ability to file charges and suspend access to the markets pending conviction, and upon conviction permanently barring access to the entire universe of Wall Street.

A timely trip given that Pelosi, a woman in need of retirement lets hope we give it to her in Nov., mentions that impeachment is a consideration. Under impeachment the resident select can't pardon a soul so if you are in town well. Now all we need to do is find out that Scooter Libby lied about something during his trial and charge him with that and throw his ass in jail anyway.

They play this game where they dance something out and make you think they are the Democratic Party only to retreat and become Democrat again.

"Hey there. I am new to posting here. I have followed Sam's shows since the Majority Report days. Does anyone know how to contact Nova M to try to get them to give him a regular spot? I miss Mike but I sure have enjoyed these last few nights hearing him on the radio again."

Try their web site (http://www.novamradio.com/live/). Their Mike Malloy site has a small pro-Sammy thread (http://www1.novamradio.com/msgbrd/viewtopic.php?t=2583&sid=783e85f168d7a...) but you need to be a member. The Rick Copeland isn't not sure if by "member" they mean you simply have to register or you need to be a paying subscriber. Either way, their home page has a means by which you can contact them.

Two opportunities to see The Grip Weeds perform in NJ this Saturday: July 12, 2:00 pm, at Vintage Vinyl (in Fords, NJ; www.vvinyl.com); and 7:30 pm at The Record Collector (as part of The Living Room Concert Series, www.the-record-collector.com). The shows will be celebrating the band's new album: INFINITE SOUL: The Best Of The Grip Weeds! The 2:00 show at Vintage Vinyl is a FREE in-store performance, while the 7:30 pm gig at The Record Collector is a full show (admission is only $5)! After each set, the band will be signing copies of the new album.

McCain favors privatization....
Submitted by ghettodefender on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 4:19pm.

[From Blackwater's mission statement]
"...unique and timely solutions that exceed our customers stated needs and expectations”.

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Note the word "exceed". What does that mean?

When I hire a contractor to put in new windows in my house, I don't expect to come home to find my windows AND doors replaced! If my hometown hires a contractor to put in a new sewer line on four city streets, I don't expect to find out that contractor took it upon himself to put in sewer lines on ten city streets!

I think there's a chance that "exceed" word could be about really BAD STUFF that the corporations don't want written up in their contracts with Blackwater, but Blackwater seeks to reassure the corporations that these things will be done in the "exceed" category.

Spooky.

to the Democrat Party!

I heard Norman Solomon say last night that Ralph Nader confuses "the right to run for president" with the usefulness with the campaign. Like it or not, we are stuck with patriarchal, triangulating, Obama.

This morning, on Hartmann's show, "socialist" Senator Sanders said "A vote for Nader is a vote for McCain". Does that disingenuous faux socialist know the Constitution? A vote for Nader in New Jersey is going to help elect McCain? This is an old, played out charge. How many swing states are there? If the election is close in a few swing states, A Nader (or a Gloria) vote might hurt Obama. One solution is for Obama to take "take Nader's platform. Single-payer health care. Out of Iraq. Impeachment on the table. 2-state solution. But no, Obama has to play it safe to assure the conservative, unelected money party that he won't rock the boat.

What I want to know is, who floated today's rumor that the Fed is opening its lending window? Whoever it was could easily have bought in, floated the rumor, then sold out within the hour with no more risk than that the rumor would not "take".
Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 5:07pm.

that was a pretty special treat courtesy of reuters. it caused a reverse spike across the board that was about 10 maybe 20 minutes wide. an entity that knew what they were doing could make a lot of money in a very short time. amidst all the other volatility, there tracks would be covered pretty well.

Blackwater has a contract to take out a local community leader, so they "take out the leader" and his wife and children, before setting fire to their home.
*TLL*

Time To Police The Playground

Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 5:07pm.

Apparently, a lot of the right people need to lose their money before they think it's okay to put any kind of regulation or enforcement in place.

I actually hadn't heard that the Fed opening up its window was a rumor. I thought that was said by Bernanke regarding Fannie and Freddie.

The only expectations that the contractors exceed is how much money they will bill and how few services they will actually perform.

Catharine,

Here is how, and when, I "learned" what was happening:

Stocks Rally
Friday 07/11/2008 3:00 PM ET - Briefing.com's Stock Market Update
[BRIEFING.COM] Stocks have made a sharp climb on word that Fed Chairman Bernanke stated the discount window would be open for Fannie Mae (FNM 10.17, -3.03) and Freddie Mac (FRE 8.35, +0.35), according to a Reuters source.  The word gave investors reassurance that capital is available if the companies should need it.  Stocks are now at their best level of the session.

The news relieved stress weighing on the financial sector.  Financial stocks still remain 1.1% lower, but that is far better than the steeper losses seen earlier.  The sector had been down as much as 4.8%.
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Gains Surrendered
Friday 07/11/2008 3:30 PM ET - Briefing.com's Stock Market Update
[BRIEFING.COM] Stocks made their way into positive territory after being more than 2.0% lower in earlier trading.  The surge was helped by word that the discount lending window would be open to Fannie Mae (FNM 10.00, -3.20) and Freddie Mac (FRE 7.24, -0.76).  However, the Fed would not confirm that such an arrangement would be available.  In turn, stocks surrendered to renewed selling pressure.
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Fannie, Freddie Fan Fears
84 minutes ago - Briefing.com's Stock Market Update
[BRIEFING.COM]
...Stocks spent nearly the entire session trading with sizeable losses as investors continued to fret over Fannie Mae (FNM 10.25, -2.95) and Freddie Mac (FRE 7.75, -0.25). Only when a Reuters source indicated the two lenders would have access to the Fed’s discount window did stocks rally into the green. The notion that capital would be available to the lenders if they were in dire need assuaged concern and lifted the shares; short-covering aided in the recovery.

However, when the Fed would not confirm it would lend to Fannie or Freddie, stocks surrendered their gains...

I kneeds to know!

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bluerootsradio

Peron files stolen from judge's home
- Thieves have stolen files on the mysterious desecration of former Argentine strongman Juan Peron's grave from the home of a judge investigating the case.

La Nacion newspaper says a laptop and an electronic planner were also taken in Sunday's break-in of judge Alberto Banos' home.

Banos told the newspaper he was seeking access to classified government documents on the case and he believes the robbery was meant to intimidate him.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7646272

Art is more than imitating life in new novel
Submitted by Catharine on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 4:34pm.
July 9, 2008 -- Art is more than imitating life in new novel

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"...WMR reported that Laura Bush vacated the White House on at least one evening and took up residence in the Mayflower Hotel after she had a spat with George W. Bush over his frequent "meetings" and trips abroad with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. WMR confirmed with Mayflower staff the presence of Laura Bush at the hotel. Soon, the Marriott Corporation issued strict orders that staff were not to comment on the presence of any VIPs, including the First Lady, at the hotel, which is four blocks north of the White House."

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Laura Bush living at the Mayflower hotel is supposed to be about HER extracurricular sex life? Anything is possible. But I smell a diversionary maneauver.

If she's not at the White House, what it REALLY means is that George is off-leash! George has turned the White House into an unchaperoned frat house! Were the Jeff Gannon comings and goings just a chip off an icecube off the iceberg?

Laura's personal life is not hardly so relevent as George's. And considering George's previously reported habits, should we expect the interior of the White House to look like that Alabama mansion he rented and trashed in that period when he was AWOL (claiming he was 'working' on an Alabama political campaign, that period before he was sent to Harvard Biz School)?

White Collar Crime

Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 5:47pm.

Interesting. I was watching it go up and down and hearing the news, but I missed that [important] little bit about the Fed not confirming the rumor. I heard Paulson and Bush and Dodd speak throughout the day - and they were generally 'supportive' of Fannie and Freddie - Bush and Dodd after the fact that the market started tanking.

Hardly surprised though. I can only imagine how many people and entities are gaming the market every day. It seems it is even more common lately. For example, someone is apparently trying to take Lehman down too - or at least that's what Lehman is claiming.

let me guess, is it owned by the bilderberger corporation?

room 871 must be pretty special considering all the individuals who stayed there.

White Collar Crime
new
Submitted by Catharine on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 5:58pm.
White Collar Crime

Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 5:47pm.

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That's what I want to know....

there is a lot of short interest in the brokers. there is a sense that one of them is bound to fail and when it does those who are short will make a killing just like they did with bear stearns.

i don't have the numbers at my fingertips, but bloomberg had a note out this morning about how many millions of shares the different financial companies and brokers had of fannie and freddie and when they dropped by half before the market opened this morning, you know someone was making sure the windows on the tall floors were locked.

After Obama won the South Carolina primary, whenever I was asked, I’d say that in the general election my vote was his to lose. Prior to and after their wedding, my ex-offender son-in-law, somewhat of a race man (he planned to vote for Obama "because he is black"), who just recently found out he could vote despite his conviction, constantly reminded me of what I had said, “Remember, you said your vote was his to lose.”

Shortly after his and my daughter’s wedding, a couple of day after Obama’s Father’s Day speech, we were sitting together with a friend of his, a young, married father of one, who was in their wedding party. Once again he reminded me of what I had said about "my vote to lose." I let loose with just about everything I’ve said in this article. I told him to look at his own life and then tell me what he thinks about Obama.

I asked my son-in-law to think about his wedding and the people who were there. There were lots of young mothers and fathers and children, divorcees, second marriages, common-law arrangements, ex-lovers, step-parents and grandparents, etc. Many of those people, if they believed Obama, could be passed off as being “irresponsible” and their kids dismissed as “mistakes.” I asked him: Did he truly believe that many of the people in that church, whose lives he knew, were less moral or responsible than others, as Obama inferred? Ex-offender, former unmarried father of three, rap music producer, isn’t he one of those whom Obama is condemning? On paper, anyway. Yet, he has raised three good kids.

Whenever I suggest to Obama insiders that he’s a lot like Bill Clinton, they go apoplectic. Yet, as race-baiting and race politics goes, Obama has proven himself to be as good, if not better than Clinton, long considered the modern master of race politics. If you believe, as I do, that he “played black men to court white voters,” then all Obama’s protestations about Bill Clinton’s race-baiting were just a ruse. And, in that light he is no better than Clinton when it comes to using race fears. He may even be worse than Clinton because he plays it both ways – assaulted and assailant. I’ll be willing to bet that if Clinton were honest in revealing how he really felt about Obama, that would be at the heart of his grievance...
www.counterpunch.org
KEVIN ALEXANDER GRAY

him and that character the warlock (live free or die hard) are busy gaming the system...

Submitted by dan on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 5:34pm.
...that was a pretty special treat courtesy of reuters...
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Forgive me if I am too simple to understand why the following should not happen.

Two big guys wearing suits with skinny ties and peering through mirrored aviator shades knock on Reuters' door. They flash their badges and politely ask, "Who told you that the Fed would open its lending window?"

They keep following the trail until it goes cold. Then they tell whomever was last in line to provide, like, ten years worth of records.

They don't even need to charge anyone with anything if it isn't a surefire slam-dunk. They merely need to make it very, very costly in time and effort for the obvious culprit to comply with their long-lasting investigation.

could our dry drunk resident be less than dry.

If Jeff Gannon is stopping in I would expect Karl to be parked out front.

Where are you going with this?

The New Clinton?

Submitted by Thespian Lipsti... on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:05pm.

***

I like the way that guy thinks.

Hear. Hear.

if i had to take a guess, i believe pointdexter was the creep behind the total awareness information system or something like that. basically he wanted to create the worlds largest computer and database and store everything about everybody in it under the belief that he could detect an act of terror before it happened.

he was also the one who wanted to create a futures market which speculated on what the next terror attack would be.

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so its not too hard to imagine that this guy could go to the dark side and use his powers of good to game the market.

Reliably Blue?
Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority
by Bob Moser
(New Book)

Sentenced To Harassment
Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:07pm.

Submitted by dan on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 5:34pm.
...that was a pretty special treat courtesy of reuters...
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Forgive me if I am too simple to understand why the following should not happen.

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You're so simple!

The rest of us have had our expectations beaten down so severely that we can't imagine that ever happened.

Mission Accomplished.

Are you a good witch, or are you
a bad witch? (Or are you the main witch himself?)
*TLL*

the Social Security retirement of the elderly?

I wonder where John McCain thinks his Disability pay comes from? -- the Bunny Rabbit?

When he goes to the doctor on his Senate healthplan, by whom does he think that's paid? -- the Tooth Fairy?

Oh, John!: ANY INSURANCE PROGRAM means others help pay for your claims!

Sheesh.

he was also the one who wanted to create a futures market which speculated on what the next terror attack would be. - Dan

**

Ah yes, you are right ...

A little slow on that one.

Couric did not challenge McCain's suggestion that "five Nobel laureates and 300 economists" agree he can balance the budget

http://mediamatters.org/items/200807110004

i went looking for some background information on that and came across the following:

"While the Pentagon program may sound outlandish, there is strong evidence that futures exchanges can predict events better than other forms of analysis. Betting pools on election results have proven more accurate than polls, and options markets are better predictors of future stock prices than the price targets set by individual equity research analysts. The reason, economists say, is that markets are extremely efficient at aggregating information from all investors—including inside information."

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didn't tom cruise do some sort of movie about the government being able to see the future so they would arrest you for a crime before you were able to commit it?

McCain says it's "a disgrace" that young payees pay for
new
Submitted by nora on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:16pm.
the Social Security retirement of the elderly?

================================
Which demographic responds well to this dicredited garbage?

You lose, Rifleman McCain!

that new feature is pretty cute. a few minutes ago when i refreshed i got this white page with a box that says the site is being updated.

is this related to using the amazon virtual computing space?

blows my fucking mind sometimes
HA!

Obama considering NASCAR sponsorship

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - NASCAR's BAM Racing team is in discussions with Barack Obama's presidential campaign about a potential sponsorship deal in the Sprint Cup series later this year.

Should the deal come together, it is believed to be the first time a presidential campaign has sponsored a car in NASCAR's top series - and a fairly bold move within a sport whose competitors spend all year turning left on the track but tend to lean to the right politically.

But the campaign's choice of drivers and car brands might turn out to be a little bit sticky politically.

The car, a Toyota, would be driven by veteran Ken Schrader.

According to the Federal Election Commission's Web site, Schrader gave $1,000 to the campaign of North Carolina Republican congressman Robin Hayes in June 2004, and a total of $2,500 in 2003 and 2004 to the failed Virginia congressional campaign of Republican Kevin Triplett, a former NASCAR official

Yeah, Dan it was Minority Report. Didn't see it, but he's one of the 'cops' and is part of the system... until he is accused himself.

it least now at last we can move around freely

site is off line

Submitted by dan on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:28pm.

**

I got that too.

Network evening news broadcasts ignored McCain's "disgrace" remark about Social Security

http://mediamatters.org/items/200807110003

Submitted by Catharine on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:21pm.
Ah yes, you are right ... A little slow on that one.
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Don't be too hard on yourself. I'm still trying to figure out the oxymoron "naked shorts."

I mean, if you make money, you borrowed the stock, right? And if you don't make money...do you just quietly slink away as if nothing ever happened?

How do I join this club? I'll wear flesh-toned BVD's if that's what it takes. (I suspect that a top hat and a monocle is in the dress code.)

I'm really proud of this painting. My Aunt painted it for me. She has painted a few rosters in the past that I've admired for their surreal pallet. This one is much more down to earth and not nearly as psychedelic as some others but I like it all the same.

It's hard to get enough light on a big painting like this one to get a good picture of it. Today, I went to the beach so I could watch the sun come up. The sun was so bright that I figured it was the perfect opportunity for me to get the light I needed to take a picture of the painting.

If you'd like, you can click on the image and see me holding my big red cock portrait firmly in the wind while on the beach.

was talking about on her show today ?

She was talking about 2 FBI agents living with some of the 9/11 hijackers..

I had never heard of that..If I had I must have forgotten it..(Getting older sucks,right ?)
I've heard about the lady FBI agent in Phoenix and a little bit about the other agent
in Minneapolis..
But,can't remember the FBI actually living with some of the hijackers..

Thanks for the help ! :)

I'd ask PB but she's not online.. :)

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

kind of folk art meets surrealism...love the bold colors...I miss the ocean...we have lake tahoe which is beautiful but there is something about the ocean....all those negative ions..ummmmmmm

Submitted by Catharine on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:30pm.
Yeah, Dan it was Minority Report.
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This isn't a good day for using subtlety with you, is it?

She's good.. :)

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

there's a lot of potential here but i will leave that to crank.

shorting requires that you borrow stock from a broker, sell it, and then buy it back (hopefully at a lower price) and return the stock to the broker.

a naked short is when you do the above but you fake the part about borrowing the stock. i.e. you sell something that you don't have and hope to cover your tracks.

somewhere i saw that when bear stearns collapsed there were a lot more short positions than physical shares of stock. i guess its a side effect of computer based trading where positions are just 1's and 0's in a computer somewhere.

hold on.... I think I know where that is. I've read it before.

Here you go: LINK

that story about Laura Bush and the Mayflower Hotel is from a few years back. I believe that George was boffing Condi and some other cute guys too. Did anyone see the hilarious pic in the Onion of Rumsfeld delivering anal penetration to George...so damn funny...I wanted to post it here but could not find it. It is really old.

That story about the fbi and hijackers took place in San Diego I believe.

Puttin' On The Ritz

Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:36pm.

I mean, if you make money, you borrowed the stock, right? And if you don't make money...do you just quietly slink away as if nothing ever happened?

How do I join this club? I'll wear flesh-toned BVD's if that's what it takes. (I suspect that a top hat and a monocle is in the dress code.)

***

Are you gonna post a picture of this?

is less than nothing without Rachel...she is great on countdown...giving keith a run for his money there.

Russian oil slows to Czechs after accord with US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7646355

By tomorrow night? Preferably white. Men's size 8

i remember hearing that at some point in time however they weren't terrists when it happened. whats really interesting is what google gives you using your phrase:

"FBI actually living with some of the hijackers"

Sheesh.

**

Um.

I don't get it.

in the markets.... My holdings assume a financial catastrophe is upon us.

MAN you just dont understand what a relief this it to us all and danger
we can now move around---
anyone gonna say something nice to me regarding that? jeez!

I made .4% today

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:57pm

Just a hunch.

Im in pimcos mostly. Co. stock down about 18% since xmas.

What Mr. Bashful Conyers might be so shy about is that ifn Pelousy ever dared enforcing their vestigial powers of inHERant Contempt, they might find their puny little sixshooter-armed sergeant-at-arms facing off against a falanx of up-armored super patriotic bush-loyal Secret Service agents backed up by a coupla private presidential divisions of armed-2-the-teeth Black Water goons before heroically slapping his little handcuffs on Mr. Patriotic Karl "above the law" Rove. Perhaps similar patriotic shyness dictated the infamous pelousy off-the-table impeasement pledge, too? Frankly I prefers a soup kitchen menu to the indigestible pelousy table settings...
Ah, what brave cowards we have for democrat congressional leaders.
Just my own seething "contempt of congress" spilling out... like blood. At least we still gots the courage of Mister Dennis Kucinich to give us hope!

I may have to vote for Nadar--
Submitted by ghettodefender on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 6:30pm.
Obama considering NASCAR sponsorship

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - NASCAR's BAM Racing team is in discussions with Barack Obama's presidential campaign about a potential sponsorship deal in the Sprint Cup series later this year....

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

He should have his tailor talk to the tailors of those NASCAR drivers' jumpsuits. All Corporatists like Obama should have the logos and names of their "sponsoring" corporations all over their suits like the drivers do.

Russians and Iranians are purposely cutting US out of oil. That's the supply problem.

Of course, Bush and Co. won't say that, because then the next question would be "Why?"; and then, "What are you going to do about it?" It's easier to keep the pressure on for Congress to open up every last parcel for drilling. Sell it off to US big oil [the guys that pay him] before he leaves office.

Off to Sir Google I go..

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

D'oh!

I'm really firing on all cylinders here today.

Right after you figure out how his name would be spelled on the ballot.

Eew!

It might not mean much to you , Lucille, but I'm pleased for you and Danger that the barrels are gone.

Hi everybody, I'm a longtime lurker since Majority Report days. Usually can't commit to blog for very long at a time, so it seems better if I don't just "hit and run"...Like now. I'm at a hospital computer, just to see if I could post.

Question for you techies (I am a geek, but an absolute beginner, seemingly, techwise.): My computer at home will let me log in, but I can't post a comment. I think it has to do with my security settings (? maybe), but I don't know. Any advice? And sorry for asking. I feel dorky, but I also am tired of basically being a voyeur of sorts. Would like to be able to contribute, and send well wishes to Toni, jamesbennett, etc., over the last month or so (not that it means much from a stranger, but I've been reading you all for a long time).

Gotta go back to work, but will check again later for potential suggestions. I'm bummed to be missing Janeane tonight, but hope I can see the show on VOD or Green 960 later.

Nice to "meet" you all!

vote for the balls huh? meat always ofcourse!

BECAUSE IT WOULD MEAN JOB LOSSES. What?!!!!

Seems to me it would MAKE jobs -- even new jobs -- as compliance means upgrading.

What a formula BushCo has: Destroy the economy, and then say the broken economy is the reason the government won't step in to regulate ANYTHING in regards to global heating.

my cares about my own personal privacy (or yours) pales in comparison to my concern over our troops. John McCain is a wreckless person. I can't disregard that.

I'll vote for Obama under duress. I've been blackmailed into it. I can't vote for anyone else because it may mean sending our already abused American troops to continue paying for GWB's mistakes. I'm not that selfish. I think they need me to not play the prima donna now.

and out of the bloggie closet. I was there for a while too because I am pretty shy. There are lots of really brainy people here who will help you with your computer problems. My only solution is reboot!

Rush, you are a WELFARE JOKER.

http://www.votenader.org/media/2008/07/10/Limbaugh/

geez some respect around here at last!

What I got from a Loose Change blog is that

a FBI informant was the landlord of some of the hijackers pre 9/11 in San Diego..
And,that the FBI wouldn't let the 9/11 commission interview him..
They could only read the FBI reports about him..

Crazy shit man !
If it walks like a duck.......

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

I am right where you are. I have never been able to enthusiastically vote for anyone. As I watch McCains antics I am convinced that he is trying to lose as he is the throw away candidate and they are all laughing their heads off at how stupid the public is to still keep him up in the polls. It is absolutely baffling to me.

What do you think about richardson for vp. I think it is a bit too much brown for the above public. I think he is a great guy.

***

I had a long debate in my head.

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 7:21pm.

my cares about my own personal privacy (or yours) pales in comparison to my concern over our troops. John McCain is a wreckless person. I can't disregard that.

***

I think not. He has been slipping quickly away from that 'promise' too.

LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE---Obama speach

Celestial and terrestrial blessings to him!

nope. I only know McCain would keep them there as long as any lobbyist wanted....

MOTHER NATURE! She'll send something miniscule atcha to make you remember that SHE rules....

Submitted by nora on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 7:17pm.
BECAUSE IT WOULD MEAN JOB LOSSES. What?!!!!
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There are three basic rules for any Conservative presidency.

1.) No, because it would [hurt, slow, impair] the [economy, recovery, boom].

2.) No, because it weakens our national [security, defense, intelligence] capability.

3.) No, because we have invoked Executive Privilege.

Thesipian
"You talking to me?"
"Is you talking to me?"
Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

Thou hath posted thy query to me before I registered, thus even before I existed here on the SamSederShow blog?
How didst thou do that?
Very very prescient of thou.
I art verily impressed.
Or twas it just a lucky coincidence?
Cool.
Which witch art I?
I don't know
Only my psychiatrist knows..
But thanx fer asking anyways...
Why doth thou asketh?
Might thee be thyself a witch, perchance?

brain, breasts, waist, bums, legs---do i need it? what say you?

his FISA Bill vote..
Man,he ticked me off..
Alot of us..

www.marcmaronrules.blogspot.com

Don't let your babies grow up to be politician's..
At least not until we have Public Financed elections !

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

Looking forward to watching tonight's

http://www.nyc911initiative.org/

what a wonderful world this would be...who sang that? if all look alike and think alike and act alike

NOT....

tweety

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 7:21pm.
...I think they need me to not play the prima donna now.
------
So long as you are doing your mea culpa's, you should admit that the "my big red cock" punchline had a setup more lengthy and convoluted than any I have been accused of concocting.

(Concoct reminds me of a prison joke...)

shit!

Catharine on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 7:29pm.

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 7:31pm.

nope. I only know McCain would keep them there as long as any lobbyist wanted....

I should have at least mentioned that the Aunt that painted my cock portrait is a nun....

Right. Here is an outstanding outline of this intelligence fiasco. Even includes San Diego nightclubs visited by the two hijackers living in SD.

There were other hijackers who came to the Parkwood Apartments. One resident said he was certain that the hijackers Ahmed Alhaznawi and Marwan Alshehhi were seen with a man living in apartment 136, which was rented at the time to a man named Al Abdula until August 2000 (who he may have shared the apartment with is unknown). [San Diego Channel 10, 9/20/01] Sorbi’s Flying Club instructor Rick Garza claims that one day Alhazmi and Almihdhar were accompanied by someone who looked resembled hijacker Ahmed Alghamdi, and a San Diego chauffeur claims to recognize Alghamdi as well. [San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/30/01] The Associated Press reported that “the [San Diego] ring may have been much larger” than just Alhazmi, Almihdhar, Hanjour and the “several others who may have helped them.” A State Department official said in a sworn statement filed in federal court in 2002 that San Diego had become a focus of the investigation “because of the high number of hijackers and associates who lived, worked and studied” in the area, but just how many and who they were were not stated. [AP, 5/14/02] The issue is of vital importance, because had Alhazmi and Almihdhar been trailed already as they should have been, their contacts with the other hijackers would have quickly led to the uncovering of the entire 9/11 al-Qaeda cell.
Living with an FBI Informant

http://www.historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essaykhalidandnawaf

and Danger Lucille?

Regarding "instant runoff" ballots:

I like the idea but I would like it better if "None Of The Above" is a mandatory option.

If "None Of The Above" is the winner, then the other candidates would not be allowed to enter the replacement race.

There are very many citizens claiming to be fed-up with the two party system. "None Of The Above" gives those people a voice without having to organize a competitive party.

Yep,I missed it..
On Randi's old blog she would of had it on her site..

I couldn't find anything about it on her new Nova M blog thang..

And,I only heard the last part of what she was saying about it today..

I was living in PHX at the time it happened so I missed it here..

Thanks again..

Also,cool painting ! :)
If ya missed my post..

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

cock!!
confusing

stealing ma music Sam are you?

brain, breasts, waist, bums, legs---do i need it? what say you?
Submitted by Lucille on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 7:38pm.

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you blog, we decide

(have a good weekend. enjoy those kids, puppy, and i think its grover, maybe not in that order)

i'm not sure this is such a good idea. y'all remember how good horse racing worked out for hillary?

I lurked off and on for along time too..

Sorry but,about all I know about computers is how to fry them..
And,make reservations..

But,somebody here will help ya out..

You come back now.. :)

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

obama and nascar
Submitted by dan on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 8:00pm.
i'm not sure this is such a good idea. y'all remember how good horse racing worked out for hillary?
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Does Sarah Fisher at the Indy 500 ring a bell?

Nadir is mine. I just love the BS and talking point eruptions.

(Edit) and now with Gonzo to boot! The gift that keeps on giving. The Commitment Brothers.

so what do you want from me? to make you understand? how can i when you always have it figured out?---at least that is what i read!

Ok. Ok. he can run freely in the passage now that there is no blockage!

ock**I should have at least mentioned that the Aunt that painted my cock portrait is a nun....

Damn, caller Fernando! What are you setting yourself up for? Keep making such double-entendres and you're liable to get smacked upside the head by a Carmelite.

it didn't but wiki told me everything i need to know. hard to believe you would mortage your house to chase a dream.

Is Brett Favre back on the painkillers?

just a question

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

judges boy how i hate dem

I see. Thanks Lucille. Congratulations! You must have trained him well to be confident enough to let him on the loose. I did that too soon to my dog and now I have to replace a bunch of trim in my house when I move out.

ma bad!

I have to replace an area rug...too much pee pee to get rid of the smell. Glad it isn't wall to wall.

Tried to convince Sam to get a poodle(not toy)...he just wouldn't have it.

[Fist in air pulled down tight]

YES!!!!!

Colombia's president has a problem — his supporters are corrupt

Today, 33 members of Congress — about 10 percent of Colombia's House and Senate — are in prison for colluding with paramilitary groups that terrorize rural areas and control profitable cocaine-trafficking routes. Another 10 percent are under investigation, including the Senate president, and more cases are being added every month.
The extent of the corruption has wide implications, as it threatens to undermine the stunning success of President Alvaro Uribe, the Bush administration's strongest ally in Latin America. Nearly every tainted member of Congress has been a strong supporter of Uribe, including the president's closest political friend, his cousin Mario.

"It is most certainly the dark side of his presidency and an inevitable part of his legacy, even if it is glossed over or ignored altogether by his most fervent supporters now," said Bruce Bagley, the chairman of the University of Miami's international studies department. "I believe it still may come back to haunt him in the next 12 months or so."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/43965.html

Sorry, Nora
Submitted by zeek on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 8:23pm.
Nadir is mine. I just love the BS and talking point eruptions.

(Edit) and now with Gonzo to boot! The gift that keeps on giving. The Commitment Brothers.

» =================================

Uh, you went over my head here.

Uber Alles!

Believe in lesser-of-two evilisms and ensure this truth is eternal.
*

i dont train---he has a mind of his own..he can decide for himself!

lucille i haven't seen anyone come forward with platform shoes advice for harold either! and i have been meaning to come online and comment on happe's vid (didn't have time to watch it yet) on the lucky ny sederistas who can get together and go to cool lectures, i really really jealous of that, wish i could participate, on fernando's beautiful c***** well you know that thing he's holding in his hands? beautiful fernando! lucky to have a talented aunt who loves you and gives you some precious and personal gifts; and on the markets' wild rides, there was something in italian news as well, european markets gone bezirk (down down down) and on the welfare for fannie mae, corporations don't have bootstraps folks, they love government! it's only for the people that government is a bad thing, on who's heard anything about tonid etc etc etc

lucille what i was trying to say is there isn't enough time to comment on everything! i am so frustrated by lack of time to do all the things i'd like to do!

by the time i am done caught up reading the blog and finally responding to something the blog refreshes me and will show me who knows how many more vistas opening up on interesting (and NOT - meatballs hint*) conversations, concerns and points of view..... i am also scared to look, ok here we go

Mega thanks to whoever on this board recommended Muse Sick In Hour Mess Age to me.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

55-mph speed limit may be finding support in Washington
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/

NEW THREAD!

Jonathan Turley just stated we can now only saved by having the Bush criminals appear before the Hague.

My mutts have been so mellow, I feel blessed.

If your mutts start drinking too much, you may want to cut your mutts off.

___
bluerootsradio
Sorry, couldn't help myself.

My friend's co-worker took his father home to die after the father had a stroke during an operation that found seriously spred cancer. They have hospice care, but they are giving him no food AND NO WATER. Just pain medications.

Excuse me. But how can pain medications be absorbed and function in the body of a dessicating human being???? It is not logical. I don't care how the painkillers are administered.

Dehydration is painful. Even for a healthy person, dehydration causes wracking body pain, usually with horrible headaches.

To deny someone moisture is wrong. It may speed up the death only by a week -- an excruciatingly painful week where it is painful just to try to draw a breath, or open ones eyes or speak.

What has become of our society where this is common practice?

do so!!!---they will survive regardless! that is what they are born to do! SIR-VIVE!

shit, piss, dont do this do that! FUCK!
i fucking dont care! DONT!..ma mind is mine to mynd! not to be controlled by anyone one but ME!!!
shit happens life goes on!
i know how to control my mynde without anyone reading ME for ME!

I KNOW ME! AND I AM ME!! GONNA BE ME FOREVER!!

FUCK!
(read yourlls fucking arse selves) white people!!
maybe i should take that out coz i am gonna be called a "racist" again---butt i wont!

Make demands on the system!

*TLL*

am tired i told you, i smelt it the first time we met...taking pictures sneakily of me...that is when i just knew!

i ask again???????

I'd like to see or hear the last show Sam Seder did when filling in for the vacationing Malloy but there's nothing there. Am I wrong to assume there should be something there?