The grand illusion

They're going to follow him around asking "why is he so great?" That's going to be so much fun.

He created a new insect that walks around with his head buried in a dark place. The creature lies to eat. Evolution is not always for the better Darwin thought.

"Thank God George Bush is President".

What the !@#!@$!#$ does that mean?

Why wasn't he thinking, "My God, how could I have been so stupid as to put the Command and Control Center in THE MAIN TERRORIST TARGET OF ALL TIMES??"

It's hackable? if yes, please don't post details!

http://www.nndb.com/people/587/000024515/

He learned well. His father was arrested for petty crimes until marriage straightened him out. Rudy learned not to place so much emphasis in marriage and has been able to continue his pillage.

harmless but yes.

Can that redheaded lawyer at the hearing about Valerie Plame be charged with lieing under oath? After all she insisted that her knowledge of that particular law was without equal and that Plame was not covert. (I have too many windows open to google her name.)

She can be. They gave her a week to keep her testimony open to correct herself. I have no idea what came of that. She's a Liar, I mean a Lawyer. Same thing usually.

...that Victoria Toensing was instrumental in writing the law barring the outing of covert agents?

Or was it some other law that she was instrumental in writing? She was (I think) testifying as an expert.

When it happened. She probably did little more than set the tables. But you can call that instrumental. Still, its well acknowledged even by the CIA that Valerie was a COVERT CIA agent. She is one of the Pinheaded Obfuscatid types to come around of late. I've still got that recorded if you need a replay Crank.

has finally revealed the official report that she was covert, and this Toensing woman was all over the place as the expert who co-wrote the law, assuring everyone she wasn't covert. What a tool.

Check the news. Fitz has spoken.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18927332/site/newsweek/

"Arguing that Libby deserves jail time, Fitzgerald says Plame was a covert agent."

Remember when she was concerned about the disclosure of her age?

I'll check it out.

I read it.

Isikoff and Hosenball are great aren't they! Funny thing is you can see the truth in the body language of the testimony. They are re-hashing the obvious to a serious observer. Good for them.

thanks Kevin I learn a lot from you : )

The People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Japan, and Arab Oil kingdoms have been the key linchpins in limiting the US dollar’s losses by buying US Treasury debt.

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1178038676.php

...while Tokyo’s financial warlords and Arab Oil Kingdoms are firmly committed to the defense of the US dollar, how Beijing decides to use its $1.2 trillion of wealth would have much bigger ramifications for financial and commodities markets worldwide.

The slow pace of yuan appreciation could invite “veto-proof” US Congressional protectionist legislation against Chinese exports in the second half of this year. Until now, Congressional efforts to get China to move toward a more flexible exchange rate with threats of tariffs have been frustrated by the leverage exerted by the Chinese through their huge ownership of US Treasury debt.

But if the US Congress slaps tariffs on Chinese imports into the US this year, it might cause Beijing to switch its allegiance to the “Axis of Oil,” a loosely aligned alliance of top oil producers, who are slowly chipping away at the US dollar’s allure, and aim to thwart American economic and foreign policy at every turn.

dada-

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article13868...

The players are getting played. I'm sure they won't be on cheaters.com soon but it's going to happen.

I sure do. Damn Pinheaded Obsuscatid Roach.

"The U.S. is too big and too bad to resist."

I was just wondering if bush ever did get that bird poop off that bombed on him during last weeks outdoor press conference?

pooping on him. History never quits. Unborn children will curse his name.

Viva comrade Chavez in Venezuela as he goes forward with his communist/socialist revolution not only in Venezuela but in the rest of latin america. He is showing the way towards a red tide revolution that will soon sweep further than latin america.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_chavez_v...

- - -

Nobody

Please don't tell me that that obnoxious insane commie Nobody is back around. That hairy thing knows no shame.

Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan

Posted by adi11235 on May 29th, 2007

Dear Ms. Sheehan,

You have recently written an entry in your diary which, if you’ll pardon me the metaphor, hands in your resignation to the anti-war movement. Even though I have not gone through the same experiences, I strongly sympathize with everything you say in it, and I think I may help clarify some things you might not yet be aware of.

Your thoughtful disillusionment with left-wing and right-wing politics echoes the feeling that other reasonable people, who desire change for the better but realize that politics is always the same song-and-dance, are eventually faced with. You are far from being alone.

To me, the most poignant passage in your entry is this:

The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think.

You, and at least three thousand other mothers of soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of Iraqi mothers, are justified in demanding justice. But such justice will never be granted you by the government, whether it be Republican or Democrat.
...

that kind of language incites agitation.

Peace, tolerance, harmony still exist even if in my dreams.

Thanks for that Sheehan comment posting Alice.

And fuckoff with your nutcake rants nobody.

We have our own food and drug makers who ignore health concerns and sell tainted or unsafe products, and our inspections have become increasingly lax, but can anyone imagine any of these people getting the death penalty? China has just sentenced their Drug Regulator to death for corruption.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/world/asia/29cnd-drug.html

How was Mexico?

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Crank, nice to see you ...I was afraid my post about channeling the other night spooked you or something.. :)

Your thoughtful disillusionment with left-wing and right-wing politics echoes the feeling that other reasonable people, who desire change for the better...

Since when is the Democratic party left-wing? Center v. center-right. The real left-wing would include those who advocate massive non-violent civil disobedience.

is up with the time stamp?

Where is that pervert Michael Jackson when you need him?

I always wondered why MJ needed one hand protected by a sparkly glove.

Time stamp check

by Fidel Castro
5/30

A few days ago, while analyzing the expenses involved in the construction of three submarines of the Astute series, I said that with this money "75,000 doctors could be trained to look after 150 million people, assuming that the cost of training a doctor would be one-third of what it costs in the United States.” Now, along the lines of the same calculations, I wonder: how many doctors could be graduated with the one hundred billion dollars that Bush gets his hands on in just one year to keep on sowing grief in Iraqi and American homes. Answer: 999,990 doctors who could look after 2 billion people that today do not receive any medical care.

More than 600,000 people have lost their lives in Iraq and more than 2 million have been forced to emigrate since the American invasion began.

In the United States, around 50 million people do not have medical insurance. The blind market laws govern how this vital service is provided, and prices make it inaccessible for many, even in the developed countries. Medical services feed into the Gross Domestic Product of the United States, but they do not generate conscience for those providing them nor peace of mind for those who receive it.

The countries with less development and more diseases have the least number of medical doctors: one for every 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 or more people. When new sexually transmitted diseases appear such as AIDS, which in merely 20 years has killed millions of persons, -- while tens of millions are afflicted, among them many mothers and children, although palliative measures now exist-- the price of medications per patient could add up to 5,000, 10,000 or up to 15,000 dollars each year. These are fantasy figures for the great majority of Third World countries where the few public hospitals are overflowing with the ill who die piled up like animals under the scourge of a sudden epidemic.

To reflect on these realities could help us to better understand the tragedy. It is not a matter of commercial advertising that costs so much money and technology. Add up the starvation afflicting hundreds of millions of human beings; add to that the idea of transforming food into fuels; look for a symbol and the answer will be George W. Bush.

When he was recently asked by an important personality about his Cuba policy, his answer was this: “I am a hard-line President and I am just waiting for Castro’s demise.” The wishes of such a powerful gentleman are no privilege. I am not the first nor will I be the last that Bush has ordered to be killed; nor one of those people who he intends to go on killing individually or en masse.

“Ideas cannot be killed”, Sarría emphatically said. Sarría was the black lieutenant, a patrol leader in Batista’s army who arrested us, after the attempt to seize the Moncada Garrison, while three of us slept in a small mountain hut, exhausted by the effort of breaking through the siege. The soldiers, fuelled by hatred and adrenalin, were aiming their weapons at me even before they had identified who I was. “Ideas cannot be killed”, the black lieutenant kept on repeating, practically automatically and in a hushed voice.

I dedicate those excellent words to you, Mr. W. Bush.

I am your worst nightmare fuckhead. Be Forewarned that you don't mess with me in any way and get away with it.

Nobody

Alice, thanks for asking. Mexico was fun.

I learned more about the politics there. It's still better here but the corruption is the same. Exactly the same. Their war on terror is the batalla contra los narco trafficantes. It's all a load of crap.

I went mudding on the ranch in my Jeep drunk off my a**. It almost never rains on the moon. Tons of fun.

It cost me $189 just to get my jeep detailed. It was a bargain thou. I think it had mud in it's tail pipe. Very uncomfortable i'm sure and it prolly affected my mileage.

Handy when you reference a comment and it doesn't have "your" time, it has "blog" time.

Looks like he already "got away with it" Nobody.

Go back to your whacked out paranoia bin.

no more 14 hour bus/train trips to melbourne & back

i'm a wreck...
a wreck that coleridge could only describe as the ship-wreck on a nerve racked reef of mines

(it's down the end of lonely street @ crank-bait hotel) ~ ♪

and i still need to go back on the weekend and see my new girlfriend from taiwan (who i met at a tram stop) -- (the o.g. wanted to take taxi's... i said i want to ride on the tram, sugar daddy - oh, please - and god sent me an angel)

she's perfect in everyway

unfortunately, she's a devout christian

so that ends that beautiful thing...

that thing of happiness

(oh, well)

Alice: "I was afraid my post about channeling the other night spooked you or something..."
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I wonder if that was before or after I levitated above my bed and growled, "Your mother cans lox in Vale"?

Then tell me sir, how did you come by your hook? - Argghhh! he says. That were the time a squall line were blowin in from the North. I's a working the foredeck and bringing in the sheets. Just as me pulled the belayin pin, a big gust of wind come up and blowed out the tall sail. The problem were me hand were caught in the line as the sail blowed out. It ripped her clean off me arm!
Well, I replied. Sounds like you've had some hard times. So tell me, how did you come by your eye patch. Well sonny, the old pirate went on, me was swabbin the deck one day when a frigate and lots of seagulls flewed over the masts. Me raised up me head to look and - SPLAT! - one of them birds pooped in me eye!
- I paused for a second waiting for more of a story, then asked. But sir, I don't understand. How is it that a little bird poop would cause you to lose your eye! ARRGGHH MAITEY!!! That were the first day me had me new hook!!

from Ports & Ships Maritime News

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 9:54pm.

that's not our nobody is it? [tense hehehe]

see any autonomous zones in Mexico?

Crank..

No one cares which Nobody it is. After all he does have over a thousand moods of which almost all are hostile.

(Posted by proxy for Fritz.)

nubudy hostile? I would never thunk it!

hahahahaha!

i ll hav 2 helpins of yur wurst nightmare

air-ono
Crank Bait
jbenet

in the same minute

I wouldn't say that nobody is hostile except that when he came out as a hair covered newborn he started immediately arguing with the doctor and his mother.

how ya hangin jbenet on the coast?

Paranoia strikes deep

into your soul it will creep

it starts when your always afraid

step out of line and the man comes to take you away

stop hey whats that sound, everybody look whats going round

Buffalo Springfield

it's real weird to pick fights with someone who barely if at all ever blogs here...

autonomous zones there Alice. Control is still an illusion. I like that.

I'm concerned how frightened the people are of themselves. That started with the narco language. Some understand the deception. But that's it. Otherwise it's still great and naive.

she has that gentle asian bossy-boots quality

that the blog girls specialize in

: )

their charm knock me out...

"my eyes make pictures, when they are shut"
~ a day-dream

this blog has always been very weird alice

as forest gump said:

"weirdness is as weirdness does"

you got me there, anonymous.. :)

*

So Fernando...what cities or places did you visit?

ono you go to the beach?

I had a born again christian girl friend once.

she said the bible said nothing about sex. : )

Cuba-U.S. negotiations continue
in Havana

HAVANA, May 29 (PL). — Representatives from around 100 U.S. companies were continuing negotiations begun here yesterday with Cuba’s food import company ALIMPORT, with the expectation that contracts will be signed for more than $100 million.

During this round of talks, which began with the presence of five U.S. members of Congress, ALIMPORT director Pedro Alvarez affirmed that Cuba is a principal and new potential market for the United States.

Addressing 265 U.S. businesspeople, Alvarez said that from the start of this one-way trade — given that the United States has outlawed the purchase of Cuban goods — and despite the many obstacles, a total of $2.431 billion in U.S. products has been purchased.

He noted that while U.S. restrictions have increased, Cuba has made contact with 4,351 companies from 45 U.S. states, and has established excellent relations with businesspeople and agencies who broadly support the elimination of all obstacles.
...

Cienega de Flores, La Luna is on Lomas Las Virgenes. My address is literally Rancho La Luna, Hills of the virgins, c/o Flowers of the Swan, Nuevo Leon Mexico.

-Rancho La Luna, Hills of the virgins, c/o Flowers of the Swan, Nuevo Leon Mexico.-

96 °F / 36 °C
Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 5%
Dew Point: 12 °F / -11 °C
Wind: 13 mph / 20 km/h / 5.7 m/s from the NW
Pressure: 29.76 in / 1008 hPa (Falling)
Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds: Few 25000 ft / 7620 m
(Above Ground Level)

== how's your son?

I don't know when, but Conquistadores (not proud of that) were granted lands by the spanish royals. It's ancient stuff.

i fear the sea...

there are sharks in there

and as yet i haven't devolved enough to sprout gills

in short, fuck the beach

we have to reinvent the wheel.

Advisers Fault Harsh Methods in Interrogation
By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON, May 29 — As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies argue that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.

The psychologists and other specialists, commissioned by the Intelligence Science Board, make the case that more than five years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the Bush administration has yet to create an elite corps of interrogators trained to glean secrets from terror suspects.

While billions are spent each year to upgrade satellites and other high-tech spy machinery, the experts say, interrogation methods — possibly the most important source of information on groups like Al Qaeda — are a hodgepodge that date from the 1950s, or are modeled on old Soviet practices.

Some of the study participants argue that interrogation should be restructured using lessons from many fields, including the tricks of veteran homicide detectives, the persuasive techniques of sophisticated marketing and models from American history.

The science board critique comes as ethical concerns about harsh interrogations are being voiced by current and former government officials. The top commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, this month sent a letter to troops warning that “expedient methods” using force violated American values.

In a blistering lecture delivered last month, a former adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called “immoral” some interrogation tactics used by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon.

But in meetings with intelligence officials and in a 325-page initial report completed in December, the researchers have pressed a more practical critique: There is little evidence, they say, that harsh methods produce the best intelligence.

“There’s an assumption that often passes for common sense that the more pain imposed on someone, the more likely they are to comply,” said Randy Borum, a psychologist at the University of South Florida who, like several of the study’s contributors, is a consultant for the Defense Department.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/washington/30interrogate.html?hp

Good night Seder and Sederites, I'm off to "interrogate" someone.

If a virgin is deflowered, then Born Again, is she reflowered?

that malloy was reading out

Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria

or why i hate war-dog

Crank. He's been reflowered so many times I hear.

The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse

Caution:Link to The Rudeness

Submitted by air-ono on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 10:21pm.
...as yet i haven't devolved enough to sprout gills...
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Cheer up. You've got scales. You're halfway there.

that depends if i've potted her freckle

i realise my answer is up in the air, but i pray that it has gone some of the way to satisfying your query

(ty)

i did my best...

and that's all that can be assed of me

have a nice mix of news & fun...

I bet MMRules knows
Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 10:23pm.
Crank. He's been reflowered so many times I hear.

Say what!?I'm right here!

Like a field plowed for many seasons. Tellin ya.

her hair is in 2 pony-tails on either side of her head

she's fun

and she has a master's degree in international studies

unfortunately, she thinks harry potter is fab

which can be a problem

when i eat rammstein for breakfast

(oh, god)

harry potter & i don't mix

Our panel
Glenn Greenwald
Christy Hardin Smith
Dr. Ron Daniels
PLUS "Senator Katherine Harris"
and more!

Now you're talkin'!
A little more Popeil action on that pitch.
Gotta ballyhoo that product:
But wait, there's more!!!

i'm a monkey-eyed taoist

and she...

she's a slant-eyed christian girl

and people ask me why i got a bug up my nose

and write fucked up posts

like, derr...

walk around in my shoes for 5 minutes & you'll need high-voltage electric shock treatment to clam down, or calm down

or whatever

(me & reality took a wrong turn somewhere down the line)

Almost a full moon again. Things are starting to get wierd at work.

I asked the girl I worked with if there was a full moon out b4 I left work, and on the drive home I saw for myself that it was almost full.

I'm totally depressed because I am watching the CBS news story about Kimberly Dozer, the journalist that was injured in Iraq by an IED. They also have the soldiers that were killed and maimed.

I hate Bush and this admin for what is happening and my wish is that they all suffer for what they are doing.

Sorry, tonight this is all overwhelming for me.

If you broke off and took on the entire govt sham...I'd be all over that...

we kind of branched out into our seperate holes

and never the twine shall...

fuck knows

fuck knows

who knows

there are no no-no's

(ono)

Thanks for the Rammstein.... Greatness. Love that shiznit.

MMRules, you must know me. Totally capable of standing there.

Bush to name Zoellick to lead World Bank
1 hour, 12 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Robert Zoellick, a nimble negotiator who has crisscrossed the globe as President Bush's trade chief and as the country's No. 2 diplomat, is the White House's choice to be the next World Bank president. Bush will announce the decision on Wednesday, according to a senior administration official.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_go_pr_wh/world_bank_bush

No Comment News:

"China Sentences Former Drug Regulator to Death

SHANGHAI: The former head of China’s top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death Tuesday after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media.

Zheng Xiaoyu, who served as director of China’s Food & Drug Administration from its founding in 1998 until mid 2005, was detained in February as part of a government investigation into the agency that is supposed to be the nation’s food and drug watchdog.

The unusually harsh sentence for the former director comes at a time of heightened concerns about the quality and safety of China’s food and drug system after a series of scandals involving tainted food and phony drugs.

China is also under mounting pressure to overhaul its food export controls after two Chinese companies were accused this year of shipping CONTAMINATED PET FOOD (EMPHASIS ADDED) ingredients to the United States, triggering one of the largest pet food recalls in United States history.

Be still my heart. My master is BACK!

oh, wow

i've never seen snow
or snow white before

and there she was

she walks the path of jesus
(she prefers the company of lepers)

oh, wow

Cat Chew: "A little more Popeil action on that pitch.
Gotta ballyhoo that product:
But wait, there's more!!!"
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Heard at the proctologist's office: "Butt weight; there's more."

He signed PNAC letter to Clinton. A threat to all mortals.

Lawyer: Cheney visitor logs not recorded
17 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states. The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney's lawyer says logs for Cheney's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the Presidential Records Act

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_secrecy;_ylt=A...

I was feeling overwhelmed.
I don't think much of the 12 step groups,
but I like this part of that serenity prayer:

"...grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference"

But wait, there's more!

http://kucinich.us/node/4338

Now!

Look at him: (Zoellick)

I can see him with an SS uniform on!

No kidding. I've seen prettier people in burn wards.

Lawyer: Cheney visitor logs
new
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 11:00pm.

Cheney's lawyer says logs for Cheney's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the Presidential Records Act

2,2 Presidentas in One !!

TB case brings warning to air passengers
1 hour, 29 minutes ago
ATLANTA - A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis ignored doctors' advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963, health officials said Tuesday. The man, whom officials did not identify, is at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital in respiratory isolation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection;_...

With Cindy Sheehan's announcement this past weekend that she is quitting her anti-war efforts, it is clear there are others who also are tired, hopeless, fatigued and ready to bail out of the near-dead peace movement.

http://www.mikemalloy.com/

The sense of political inertia is palpable and dizzying. There is no furious response to atrocity after atrocity. We now sanction torture? Yawn. We employ mercenaries to kill, destroy and loot countries we have invaded without provocation? Who cares. We are slowly choking to death in a toxic combination of global climate change and attendant environmental breakdown? Let's make fun of Al Gore's professorial demeanor and criticize his home electric bill as he tries desperately to point out what we must deal with if we are to survive global heating and continue as a species.

The list, of course, goes on and on: A broken military; an officer corps that contains an element that truly believes we are battling a cloven-hoofed, horned, Satan in the streets of smoldering third-world countries we have bombed into rubble; a political leadership terrified of a cadre of fundamentalist Christian cultists who quietly dictate both foreign and domestic policy and whose law school "graduates" have thoroughly infiltrated and poisoned our Justice Department; a Secretary of State whose first allegiance is to the oil industry that created her and who obviously is incapable of understanding the depth of the problems her office must confront, much less actually making an attempt to solve those problems; a return to a Gilded Age where one percent of the population controls seventy percent of the wealth, with the gap continuing to expand; a primary and secondary educational system that - with rare exceptions - functions as a holding pen for those who eventually will perform the scut work necessary to maintaining the upper class, or filling the rapidly thinning ranks of a military bereft of honor and now sinking into becoming nothing more than a fist with which a succession of right-wing US demagogues will attempt to beat the rest of the world into submission

But, why continue pointing out the obvious? Most people who come to this page to find out what will be the subject of tonight's Malloy program already are deeply familiar with the sense of the futility in which we all are beginning to emotionally suffocate.

Is it time to stop fighting? Is it time to give up the intellectual and emotional and political resistance and conclude this nation is moving precisely to the configuration programmed into our original documents?

Any ideas . . .?

Admit it. You gotta marvel at that five-pointed star formed in his ear.

Idea 1. Preach having fun.
Idea 2. Preach tolerance.
Idea 3. Preach peace.
Idea 4. Preach charity.
Idea 5. Isolate others who don't do 1-4 and hang them.

Libby defense fund member attacks Fitzgerald.

One of Scooter Libby’s “most ardent defenders, Richard Carlson, a former chief of the Voice of America who serves as a member of a defense trust set up for Libby,” reacts to Patrick Fitzgerald’s latest filing which again states that Valerie Plame was covert:

I think it’s certainly unseemly that he is kicking him while he’s down. For Fitzgerald, to get on his high horse, it’s disgusting and he should be ashamed of himself.

Richard Carlson is the “bow-tied father of bow-tied television pundit Tucker Carlson” who “sent a courier with a check to Libby’s Virginia home…on the morning of his perjury indictment.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/libby-defense-fund-member-attacks-fi...

...
And that’s one of the things that is troubling in the closing of both RCTV and now, potentially, Globovision, who the Communications Minister has accused of encouraging the assassination of the Venezuelan President. Is the government closing down all opposing viewpoints, or are they just doing what we would do if Rush Limbaugh called for a Democratic President to be violently overthrown? (Oh, wait, nothing would happen then. Alright, if Sam Seder had called for the violent ouster of President Bush? Air America would be facing fines big enough to shut them down, and Sam himself would be facing federal charges of threatening the President.)

In the end, I think the jury is still out on Chavez. I think most fears would be allayed if the broadcast license were to be bid upon rather than simply assigned to a propaganda outlet, much like the old USSR’s TASS agency, to broadcast only pro-Chavez material as is currently happening.

I am not well enough informed to make any sort of final judgement, especially since neither side’s story really passes the sniff test. In cases like this, I do tend to lean towards the freedom of the press, with a whiff of that old bit from Hippocrates (though not from the Oath itself), “First do no harm.” If RCTV or Globovision intended harm, there are no depths to the contempt in which I hold them.

I have never called for armed rebellion against Bush, and I never will. As long as the Constitution is the law of the land, we will be safe in the end. For if anything could be clearer than this truth, I don’t know it: this, too, shall pass. Or, as Shelley put it,

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
...

[If Sam did what RCTV did he'd be gone by the next day..not five yrs later...]

& don't think I haven't been waiting for Sam..ok not Sam..but Janeane to have done exactly that...

Crank. I see it.

“The hut is becoming the most comfortable dwelling-place imaginable. We have made ourselves a truly seductive home, within the walls of which peace, quiet and comfort remain supreme.”
~Captain R F Scott ‘Scott’s Last Expedition’ Jan 1911.

“Such extremity of suffering cannot be measured. Madness or death may give relief. But this I know: we on this journey were already beginning to think of death as a friend.”
~Apsley Cherry-Garrard in his book ‘The Worst journey in the World’

“Great god this is an awful place”
~R F Scott on reaching the South Pole 17 Jan 1912.

LMAO!

gotta go...

take a walk in the snow

but honey it's cold outside

Romney to Donate Salary if Elected
Forbes - 5 hours ago
By GLEN JOHNSON 05.29.07, 5:29 PM ET. Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday he would likely donate his salary to charity if elected president, a financial freedom he described as a byproduct of a successful business career...
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The collective national yawn is deafening...

forgot this prt..

Is the government closing down all opposing viewpoints, or are they just doing what we would do if Rush Limbaugh called for a Democratic President to be violently overthrown? (Oh, wait, nothing would happen then. Alright, if Sam Seder had called for the violent ouster of President Bush? Air America would be facing fines big enough to shut them down, and Sam himself would be facing federal charges of threatening the President.)

CIA ordered analysts to cherry-pick intel for Iraq war. In the book The Italian Letter, authors Peter Eiser and Knut Royce reveal that Alan Foley, the head of the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Center, cherry-picked evidence to make the case for war in Iraq:

One day in December 2002, Foley called his senior production managers to his office. He had a clear message for the men and women who controlled the output of the center’s analysts: “If the president wants to go to war, our job is to find the intelligence to allow him to do so.” The directive was not quite an order to cook the books, but it was a strong suggestion that cherry-picking and slanting not only would be tolerated, but might even be rewarded.

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001517.html

Rudy and George on 911

I liken the Rudy and George appearances on 911 to an experience of mine. I've taken pictures backstage at the state ballet. Some of them are quite beautiful. But it is like stealing. Hundreds of people are involved in bringing to fruition that moment when the performance passes through the proscenium. Of course the images are beautiful.

Rudy and George were over taken by events. They put their wee-wee in the zipper ... [wrong simile] Their coterie helped them with their performance as they stood on the lectern of fate and let the cameras point at them. Of course they had to be ready. Years of rehearsal prepared them to speak through their own personal proscenium arch (your TV.) I love it when politicians speak on a theatrical stage; it is clear they are performing.

But did they bring anything extraordinary to the situation in 2001 ? I run a spotlight sometimes. I run the light to the best of my ability whether its a local community show or on the main stage at Woodstock '99. That is the simile that fits. I understand Rudy and George are quite charming on a one to one level. And that is the ability they bring to the main stage.

talk about blatently stealing ideas from Evo...

& yet there were no corporate backers to make any portion of it up as with RRRRRRRRRRRromney...

1 hour locked in a room with his Beyoche!!