NETROOTS UPDATE w/pics

Thanks for the report and new (to me) links. Loved your line, "if Al says so, I don't ask questions."

Your voice is always welcome.

photos and commentary, Nando! Feels like I am there with you!

do you feel my presence over your left shoulder?

Tell Sam so far so good. And I send much luv and luck his way!

Don't think Nancy and her kind of Dem aren't afraid! They are. And it is specifically because of net roots and how fast it has taken off that scares them. We all need to push harder.

Ford heckled for supporting FOX at Netroots gathering

The ideological divide within the Democratic Party was alive and well during a keynote session at this year's Netroots Nation convention between DailyKos.com founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and the Democratic Leadership Council’s Harold Ford Jr.

The meeting between two men at opposite ends of the Democratic spectrum was meant to address party unity, but the attitude of the crowd was less than welcoming to political centrist Harold Ford.

Although both men agreed on the necessity of Democratic unity to elect Senator Barack Obama, the crowd showed that it was farther to the left than Ford after he praised FOX News.

During a question and answer with the audience, one man asked Ford why he was on television "smearing Democrats" if he sought party unity.

"I no longer work for FOX News, I did for about a year," Ford said, which brought clapping from those in the audience who didn't wait for Ford to finish his sentence.

"And I have great respect and admiration for my former colleagues there," Ford said, drawing immediate jeers and shouts of "Why?"

Ford added that he now works for the NBC and MSNBC news networks.

The split between Ford and Moulitsas continued with a discussion of the 2010 Democratic primaries, The Wall Street Journal reported.

"Harold will not applaud this, but in 2010 we’re going to have some Democrats we mean business to in some primaries," Moulitsas said, referring to Netroots activists who attempt to oust Democrats they dislike.

Ford countered this view by adding that some Democrats can't always be liberal in more conservative districts.

http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Ford_heckled_for_supporting_FOX_at_0718.h...

"Don't think Nancy and her kind of Dem aren't afraid! They are. And it is specifically because of net roots and how fast it has taken off that scares them. We all need to push harder."

...your knee might be hurtin', but your spirit is as strong as ever.

Thanks for the photos and news, Fernando. Something is up with Nancy. In all seriousness, she's not looking good.

Wow, I thought she looked better and more relaxed than I had seen her in a long time.

We are all very worried about you. I know you can handle any pain but I'm really squeamish so I can't even imagine it.

Any you are right. Ford is a tool. I left before the jeering started because that piece of work was more than I could stand.

CeeCee & Zeek, Nancy treated us like cattle regardless of her appearance imho. Zeek, maybe you can point me to a redeeming fight she has won or even started. If it's not safe, I don't think she's in to play. We need leaders not cowardly paper tigers.

Lessig's opening line was "With all due respect Madam Speaker" ... Then he tore into her lame appearance too. It was like a cool glass of water after coming out of a desert.

I saw her on some other thing recently and she did not look as good.

The right wing jerks like Melanie Morgan have always made fun of her looks with taunts about bug eyes and plastic surgery and botox, a saw that many on her other flank seem to have gleefully picked up on.

There really isn't much to say about her achievements except to refer you to her website. Anything she has done or might have would fall short for you anyway, especially when she can't control the Senate. I am just thankful for the little things like some change in direction and no Hassert and Boehner in charge.

But that's just me. Now I will be willing to settle for some bigger majorities in both houses and an O'Bama presidency. Then maybe we can see what can really be done.You know, if we don't get another Roberts or Alito or Scalia in the SCOTUS, I may just be satisfied with that, too.

BTW, was it really hot in there? Gore was shvitzing like crazy it seemed. Will we see more pictures?

The ideological divide within the Democratic Party was alive and well during a keynote session at this year's Netroots Nation convention between DailyKos.com founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and the Democratic Leadership Council’s Harold Ford Jr.

The meeting between two men at opposite ends of the Democratic spectrum was meant to address party unity, but the attitude of the crowd was less than welcoming to political centrist Harold Ford.

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If these two are at the "opposite ends of the Democratic [Party?] spectrum..." then this just goes to show how narrow the spectrum is. Both are into rule by the few. There are important differences, but neither advocate for real democracy. Both want to elect candidates, and leave it there.

Hey Fernando,
Your code of "nuisance from his contract" is lost on me. I must be way out of the loop here.

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I appreciate the info from netroots... I watched Pelosi's comments online and spent most of my time giving her the finger...I lost the feed before Al came on the stage to rescue her...I was disappointed in the moderator for her segment, any feedback on that?...without talking money, how much of the nuisance's contract is left? thanks again

I saw this infuriating video last night, Conyers really needs to leave Congress...

on the lessig podcast, thanks for reminding me, Fernando, and all the pictures, that was the greatest presentation I have seen from anyone anywhere, inspiring and funny and full of useful ideas

i am so sorry i could not be there in person, I almost had a last minute notion to go, but by then it would have been too late anyway, and when i looked at my work schedule, it was just not doable for me at that time. A pity, because Austin is actually not too distant or hard to get to from New Orleans

i wonder when was that meeting with the veterans taking place, before or after it was decided to hold these "bandaid" moot hearings on kucinich's bill this week

it's possible that this is what made conyers go to pelosi and beg for some gesture that would serve to calm the burning rage he felt expressed there

here's a link to the video with a little more info....

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34942

gotta get some work done

but just so you know i wanna let you know, how they're covering the US presidential race in the mainstream media overseas, in Italy to be precise - i had to laugh as i was watching the "news" - I subscribe to an italian channel which is pretty mainstream , kind of like cnn

so they were talking about barak obama trip in the ME and were showing him shaking hands and chatting with the soldiers, then they moved to mcain and mentioned how he's accusing obama of not enough international experience and blah blah and then - and this cracked me up, that they would say it in that context and the way they said it - mentioned mcain speech about a border of iraq with pakistan, and that he had also made a reference previously to the country of checoslovakia even though there's no such country since 1992!

this makes me think that maybe this italian channel gets its information not from fox news or even cnn but from utube and the blogs

later

Dr. Bob Fitrakis is a College Professor/Lawyer/ Journalist that is the courageous activist that exposed the election fraud of 2000 and 2004. As a matter of fact, the former Attorney General of Ohio tried to sanction Dr. Fitrakis and his law partner Cliff Arnebeck. He has appeared on Sam's show, Hartmann, Miller and Malloy.

On Saturday Dr. Bob was on a radio talk show in Columbus Ohio. He dropped the name Mike Connell. Who is this man, you might ask? Well! He is certainly someone we should all be aware of. God help us!

MIKE CONNELL:

Michael (Mike) L. Connell is President, Chief Political Strategist and CEO of New Media Communications, Inc., a Republican website development and internet services firm based in Richfield, OH. New Media's GOP clients are a "'Who's Who' of Republican politics", having provided campaign web services and Internet strategy for Bush-Cheney 2000/2004, as well as Dick Armey, Spencer Abraham for Senate 2000, Heather Wilson for Congress 2000/2002/2004, Rick Santorum for Senate 2000/2006, and John Thune for Senate 2002/2004 to name just a few.

New Media also designed GOP.com for the Republican National Committee, RGA.org for the Republican Governors Association, and between two and three dozen state GOP sites. In April 2001, Connell spun-off GovTech Solutions from New Media to handle its growing list of federal government clients, such as MajorityWhip.gov for Tom DeLay and Johnny Isakson. Business filings in the state of Ohio show that Govtech's founding members were Connell's wife Heather, and the well-known GOP operative and Chairman of the DCI Group, Thomas J. Synhorst. By 2004, Govtech's clients would grow to include more than 20 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, GOP.gov, the web site of the House Republican Conference, and the House Intelligence, Judiciary, Financial Services, Way and Means, and Administration committees. The latter was acquired while House Administration was chaired by former-U.S. Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio, who was convicted in 2006 of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

NOW HERE IS WHERE IT GETS SCARY!

Basically Connell had access to sensitive data regarding the House of Representatives that include:

· House Intelligence
· Ways & Means
· Judiciary
· Financial
· Administration

THE CONCLUSION:

Now you know why the Democrats are silent. No impeachment! No contempt of congress for Rove! None for Mukasey! Connell knows everything. He knows where all the bodies are buried. Furthermore, he was fired from the in 1990 Mark Pence campaign for election fraud.

NOW YOU KNOW!

Dr Bob Fitrakis is the author of several books on election fraud. He can be reached at:

http://www.fitrakis.org/

http://www.freepress.org/index2.php

FOR MORE ON CONNELL:

http://www.connelldonatelli.com/Mike.aspx

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Connell

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State police spying decried
O'Malley pledges not to infringe on citizens' free speech

By Jonathan Bor and Gus G. Sentementes | Sun Reporters

July 19, 2008

A day after the American Civil Liberties Union released documents showing that the Maryland State Police spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups, Gov. Martin O'Malley vowed yesterday not to allow state law enforcement agencies to monitor people exercising their right to free speech.

In a prepared statement, O'Malley, a Democrat, noted that the spying occurred under the previous administration, that of Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. And while he said the state would "take seriously" possible threats to public safety, O'Malley vowed not to allow police to monitor groups when there is no evidence of wrongdoing.

The governor said his administration "does not and will not use public resources to target or monitor peaceful activities where Maryland citizens are exercising their First Amendment rights."

The police measures, which involved the infiltration of activist groups by covert agents, also drew an expression of concern by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin and a sharp rebuke by Maryland Common Cause, a government watchdog group. Cardin called for a "full accounting" of the police surveillance.

-more-

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.spy19jul19%2C0%2C424606...

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Can the devil get kids to believe being homosexual is normal?
Not with Brent around he won't!!

...nice 'stashe!

nuisance as in starts with an L, rhymes with HELL and think of your childhood train set in O scale. Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me and O. How about an N? End it with HELL and what do you get! NUISANCE.

This is certainly a surprise to wake up to. Thank you Sam! I was finally catching the Ashcroft hearings in its entirety. If you haven't seen it, they say it is 3 hours but it's really 4 hours long. It's incredible testimony, I recommend you catch it at C-Span Archives I passed out at the end while I was recording it. Then my computer automatically upgraded windows software and rebooted so I didn't get a chance to save it. In the end, I went to bed real late.

My daughter woke me up after several phone calls. I was already late for work. I was about to panic when she gave me the bad news that one of our best friends lost his house to fire and she was there helping out.

http://www.aclu-md.org/aPress/Attachments/MSP_Documents.pdf

Submitted by edna ellen poe on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 8:19am.
I was listening to regular radio. During the CNN News break, it was said that the group The B52's were in a plane crash. However, I do not see it on CNN"s website.

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Normally I don't post a quote without a link.

But!

I swear thats what I heard.

Go ahead laugh!

Roll on the floor.

Okay that's enough.

...sorry to hear about the loss.

where did you find that?

No CeeCee. My friend Justin was at the house late last night and the house had just caught fire when he got there so he helped get his mom and little brother and dog out.

this guy's level of cartooning is right about the same as those old matchbooks that promised you could have a career in art...

whats wrong with the people of oklahoma that they would tolerate this crap?

July 18, 2008 at 22:41:54

by Ray Louis Page 1 of 1 page(s)

Excerpt

Let me begin by saying that I am not a Batman fan. I think he is corporate criminal who focuses on street crime while Bruce Wayne's "Wayne Enterprises" acts as an international hi-tech arms dealer. As presented In various forms of the media (comic books, cartoons, and movies), Wayne's conglomerate is involved in many questionable industrial enterprises -- from petroleum extraction and chemical processing to bio-tech and corporate control of the media (through his ownership of the Daily Planet from Superman fame). So while I am in awe of Bruce Wayne/Batman in the same way that I am in awe of Rupert Murdoch or Dick Cheney, I am not a fan of the character and do not see him as a hero.

This current movie goes to new lows for Batman, but before we get to the current movie... first let's look at some of his more well known foes from previous movies. The Poison Ivy character, best known from the 1997 movie Batman & Robin, is an overt environmentalist (albeit a misanthropic one) who overtly and directly accuses Wayne Enterprises of environmental crimes as the motivation for her hostilities. Bruce Wayne quickly produces some greenwashing to his millionaire friends as a response to show her up. In the more recent Batman Begins (2005) the chief protagonist is a militant environmentalist (albeit a misanthropic one) in Ra's al Ghul. Both times, the environmentalist villains are handily dispatched by the billionaire corporatist Bruce Wayne in the form of his technologically enabled alter ego. I could go on with other villains created or motivated by Wayne Industry's indiscretions, but you get the idea.

con't

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Spoiler-Alert---The-Dark-K-by-Ray-Louis...

A pedophile for sure.

Hide those little boys from Brent Rinehart and Troy King!

waiting for the machine shop to open up, making an expresso, and playing with the puppers.

nice riff on netroots but i think it's important to mention what Kos said before she spoke... "no heckling allowed"

and the gang sat still for that? Nancy should be exposed for the flag sucking fraud she is!

ah! coffees done! i'm going outside to yell at the morning glories.

I thought you meant our Brett.... I need to go back to sleep.

Elect Brent!
Submitted by dan on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 10:50am.
this guy's level of cartooning is right about the same as those old matchbooks that promised you could have a career in art...
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Aaarrrr! Can ye be drawin' this pirate? If so, ye might be havin' a career in th' excitin' field o' swish bucklin'.

Did anyone catch the comment I left at the blog for the CEO of Whole Earth Markets?

I was in Austin last week for Netroots. I was surprised to not see your presence. In fact, Dallas just had progressive radio return to our market. Why is it we have to come to your blog to hear about all the great progressive things you do?

Please go to http://rationalradio.org/ and make an inquiry.

Well, it still shows awaiting moderation but now also has a note saying the comment was forwarded within the company.

We need progressive companies to support progressive media. Please consider letting your dollars work for you to shore up our progressive radio stations. Tell them you want them to sell where you listen. Or send a similar message to the Whole Earth CEO at:

http://wholefoodsmarket.com/socialmedia/jmackey/2008/06/05/invitation-to...

the Brent not Brett story.

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Ahh the B 52's! Saw them at gay pride in Piedmont park back when I lived in a real civilization. This is a shot of the midtown Atlanta skyline from lake Clara Meer in Piedmont park.

I left this neighborhood to live in Crowley, LA. huh.
Excuse me while I go hang myself!

Just kidding on the self-offing, but ya know sometimes....

I thought this presentation he made at the National Conference for Media Reform was the best thing I've seen all year.
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Save it for later, it runs about 28 mins.

did you get any idea of how long Lionel's contract lasts?

that's beautiful. Hopefully the people of Crowley appreciate you.

no but it's a whopper of a contract from what I understand.

We need to insist on real progressives for our progressive media outlets. We don't need to be known as weak sauce. We need our champions on the air.

unfortunately Lessig is a fan of democracy.

Democracy means something completely different from what we think it is.

too bad, he's a good guy i think.

Mucho Lame-o...

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Tolerate it?!?!?!? You are too kind dan..."perpetrate it" is closer to the mark.

They are still in the 19th century.

Blasphemy is still a criminal misdemeanor in OK, and Sodomy is a felony (10 years), as a "crime against nature", for gay sex only, of course.....

I agree completely...the idea of an ad group to sponsor Sam on Nova M is great...got any ideas on who might do it?

Promotes:

1. No more PAC money
2. Public finance of public elections
3. Reform earmarks
4. Total transparency

With the above Congress can be changed which can create legislation that will take the media back from the corps, level the playing field and give us all a voice.

The whole Creative Commons concept is compelling imo.

I haven't heard or read any better alternatives for we the peeps.

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Mostly, they don't. It's just the nature of the culture here. They go to churches that worship "supply-side Jesus".
That "Jesus" teaches folks to defacate upon the souls of those with less money and material objects than themselves.
Such a fuckin' joy to be around these people. Typical rural Republican voters.

Someone remind me later to send royalty payments to Al Franken.

Mainstream movie

http://www.archive.org/details/Dementia_13.avi

A good find by the folks at BoingBoing: Dementia 13, Francis Ford Coppola’s slasher/thriller from 1963, can be downloaded for free over at Archive.org (which is where you can also download a nice version of Orwell’s 1984).You can watch an embedded version below, or download an AVI file here.

Here’s the gist of the plot: “An old Irish family is haunted by dark secrets around the death of a little girl seven years earlier. Two women, one married into the family and one soon to be, start unraveling the secrets at a price that couldn’t have imagined.”

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gulfstreamtoo on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 11:45am.

We are their target audience. Why do they advertise elsewhere when we listen to AAR and Novam. They need to fund the local radio station ads to sell to us. I'm just going to find companies that attempt to answer progressive issues about the environment, health care, renewable energy and just write them until someone notices.

It sure would be nice if others did that too. I think bloggers could really make a difference to let them know they aren't really progressive if they are supporting corporate main stream media.

I hear you and will do what I can as well...Thanks

Report: Russia mulls sending bombers to Cuba

Agence France-Presse
Published: Tuesday July 22, 2008

Russia may start regular flights by long-range bombers to Cuba in response to US plans to build missile defence sites in Eastern Europe, the newspaper Izvestia reported Monday, quoting an official.

"Such discussions exist," the unidentified senior Russian air force official was quoted as saying, adding that the measure would be a response to the United States "deploying missile defence systems in Poland and the Czech Republic."

Con't

http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Report_Russia_mulls_sending_bombers_to_07...

This library blocks pscelebrities.com,
but allows usuallydonewhilenaked.blogspot.com

Crazy stuff.

Anyway, I gotta go, later Sederistas!

:-)

blog the call to get others involved if you can too. Lets make some waves.

Elect me, not Brent!

bye again ; )

I've never heard it put like that. My mom once asked my why I get so angry and combative with others who bring up Christianity (such as my 72yo nun aunt). I told her that the Bible just teaches people to hate and embeds bigotry into their belief systems.

She was shocked to hear me say that but now fully understands how it works. Nothing like a few dead babies from an illegal war sold as a crusade to shake reality into some people.

Religion ain't the solution, it's the problem.

My God's better than your God
My God's better than yours
Disagree and I'm gonna kill ya
My God's better than yours.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

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Should be a personal thing..in a perfect world.

maggiesboy,

My god can make a rock so big that your god can't lift it.

his butt off today after I take my bud shopping for clothes and a toothbrush and then go see Dark Knight in IMAX.

some of us have tried for years to talk about what the real shituation is here and globally.

what we're up against is people dedicated to believing in the "myth" of democracy instead of the reality.

we repeat, strike a few sparks and for the most part watch the fire die out in the soggy wood we're working with.

on the bright side, occasionally we get a nice little fire going in an individuals heart that stays lit from then on.

blows me away when i type for hours to enlighten an individual about political realities only to have them forget the whole thing a day later.

short term memory problems? addiction to the security of propaganda myth? inability to read? fear of going against the herd? i've encountered all the above here.

still we persist. i am hoping like hell eventually we'll collectively realise we've had enough of the lies and decide we're not taking anymore of it.

i reccomend listening to Naomi Wolf, "The End of America" for a 'read' on what USA democracy is really about for us and the rest of the world and what we're going to have to do change this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0LvtQAQ6sc&feature=related

we REALLY ought to incorporate as a group and challenge the real assholes on a somewhat level playing field.

We have sex with Barack Obama. We make love to you. - FDL

Sick, twisted writing at the house of Jane....

Great comment from you SJ...

I wonder why...?

After that psycho anonymous (local) was following me around the internet I blocked the IP range of the County so no one on the network can see the psceleb site...I was sure that was someone on the "inside" harrassing me...

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This is the second post in two days where someone is talking God/Jesus/Anarchy..that's odd...

http://dalsol.org/?p=399
"Personally, I loved Joker’s anarchist views. I’ve always known that if I weren’t a Christian I would be an anarchist. You can blame one of my college professors for that. He made us read the Unabomber’s Manifesto and… I’m gonna shut up. I still love Jesus."

Here's the one from yesterday:

http://inhabitatiodei.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/the-anarchic-kingdom-of-g...

The Anarchic Kingdom of God
Posted on July 21, 2008 by Halden

“Anarchism as a principle stands in line with God’s kingdom because the theocracy of God’s kingdom means none other than an anarchist order. The anarchism of God’s kingdom does not mean disorder or chaos but quite the reverse. Here every human being stands in a direct relation to God and in freely ordered and equally based community to each other. The kingdom of God does not run counter to anarchism, but anarchism comes out of the kingdom of God. Where anarchism stands under the rule of God, there is no master-slave relation in the interpersonal realm. The primary rule of God does not tolerate a secondary dominating form of human over human. Where there is the Spirit of the living God, there occurs a voluntary and dominion-free personal community.”

–Paul S. Chung, Karl Barth: God’s Word in Action (Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, Forthcoming)

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And for fun...Chomsky on Anarcho-Syndicalism

http://codesmithy.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/chomsky-on-anarcho-sydicalism...

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Hello Sederistas

I am not a frequent blogger on Sam's blog but after Netroots I certainly feel like I now know many of you more intimately (and that is not always a positive thing- kidding!) I really wanted to thank Fernando for all his help with the SS Meetup -Sam gave me lots of credit for that and Fernando was a BIG, BIG help.

We have tons of photos up if any of you guys are interested -there are some good ones of the Sammy events. http://picasaweb.google.com/dallasairamerica You are also welcome to subscribe to our weekly newsletter too if anyone is interested.

Thanks,

Nancy Cunningham
dallasairamerica@gmail.com
Dallas Air America
http://www.dallasairamerica.org/

Nancy @ Dallas Air America puts Sam to work in the booth

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has called for a strategic alliance with Russia to protect his country from the United States.

"That way we can guarantee Venezuela's sovereignty, which is now threatened by the US," Chavez said shortly after his arrival in Moscow on Tuesday.

Chavez has repeatedly accused Washington of plotting an invasion of Venezuela to destabilise his government, despite US denials.

The president is in Russia to broker a number of deals involving weapons purchases, oil exploration and possibly the creation of a joint financial institution.

It is his first meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, who took office in May.

Welcoming Chavez at his castle resort near Moscow, the capital, Medvedev said Russian-Venezuelan relations "are one of the key factors of security in the (South American) region".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/07/2008722121720488481.htm...

Bulldozer attack hits Jerusalem
A driver of a construction vehicle has wounded 20 people after going on a rampage in west Jerusalem, before he was shot dead.

'Copycat incident'

"This attack was very similar to the one carried out three weeks ago, and has stirred debate as to how the authorities here should respond to such incidents. There have been calls to demolish this man's house, but people are asking whether it is right to punish the family of this 22-year-old man," he said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/07/2008722113412174993...

Building the Infrastructure for High-Tech War Crimes

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With a unified organizational structure and a $2 billion budget for the first year of operations, Cyber Command is touted as the next “big thing.”
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With a mission to “deceive, deny, disrupt, degrade, and destroy” an enemy’s information infrastructure, the potential for mischief on the part of American “warfighters” and “public diplomacy” black propaganda specialists shouldn’t be underestimated.
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dot com

it sounds like what you're trying to do with advertising requires some coordinated effort, a movement almost, gotta be a large number to make some waves. I am with you guys and count me in, but....(I don't have the time right now, but...), but it would seem to me the first thing to do would be some minimal research (google or whatever) to see if it already exists a similar effort initiated by somebody else, just maybe, so we can join forces if something already exists (basically making progressive corps and businesses aware of their progressive target audience and tell them what we want, in the general and in the specific) - i remember a "buy blue" campaign at one point which had a list of "good" companies, don't even know if it still exists nor whether it produced any results - it might be useful to at least check that list to get some ideas of whom to address - we are more focused their campaign was more generalized and consume oriented, but to identify the good companies, that would save us some work right there

there may also be something already directed at media out there on similar lines, it's hard to think there wouldn't be, so to avoid duplicating efforts and wasting time/resources we should do some research i think, but as i said, sorry, right now i do not have the time

I will look for it too.

the party and I was left behind. Great pics Nando thanks for all the work you did.

my show is tonight. I will be talking about attachment....6pm pacific.

Happe Talk

Trader Joe's

More nice pix from Nancy @ Dallas AAR

does Radio supposedly:
http://www.traderjoes.com/radio_flyer.html

We don't have that here in Texas so I don't know where they advertise. Does anyone else know what stations they support? Is it a Novam or AAR station? If not someone who lives near one of these stores should tell them to redirect their ad's to their target audience.

http://www.traderjoes.com/locations.asp

I don't know about Whole Foods politics but I do seem to recall they are pretty anti-union but try to be fair to their employees.

nice eto see the blog keeps rolling!

I just looked them up the other day. They are in a state of "transition" right now.

http://buyblue.org

I remember going there a lot back in '04. They had a lot of ratings for companies as to how "blue" they advertised. I don't recall ever hearing any of them advertise on AAR. The big ones, like OP Gallo, prolly were effected buy the ABC blackout drive.

While I see this as a good thing to do, my gut tells me there's another way and my brain isn't releasing the information right now.
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Obama calls anew for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan
By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers

AMMAN, Jordan — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday that his visit to Iraq and Afghanistan only underscored his desire to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq over a 16-month period and to add more forces in Afghanistan.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/45104.html

* Who's Paying for the Conventions? Corporate Sponsors Pour Millions into Party Coffers *

Less than two weeks after Congress granted retroactive immunity to telecoms involved in the Bush spy program, it's been learned

AT&T will be emblazoned on every delegate's bag at the Democratic National Convention.

Like Comcast, Motorola, Coca-Cola, Google and a host of other corporate sponsors, the telecom giant has donated over a million dollars to the DNC in return for prominent display space and access to elected officials. But none of these companies have fully disclosed their projected contributions to the convention, according to a new report from the Campaign Finance Institute.
We speak with the group's associate director for policy, Steve Weissman.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/22/whos_paying_for_the_conventions

* Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Debates Glenn Greenwald on FISA Vote, Executive Power and Prosecuting White House Officials for War Crimes *

We host a discussion with Cass Sunstein, an informal adviser to Barack Obama and an outgoing University of Chicago Law School professor who has been described as "the nation's most-cited legal scholar," and Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional law attorney and political and legal blogger for Salon.com. The two debate issues ranging from the FISA bill to Obama's refusal to support calls for the prosecution of President Bush and top White House officials for war crimes and other abuses of power.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/22/obama_adviser_cass_sunstein_debate...

ees hokay

AT&T is traditionally up the R's ass...I I saw that first hand working at the Pebble Beach AT&T golf thing, in the VIP tent)....Nice to see they're spreading their crap and corruption to the D's too...

HA!

I know the EU is tired of it....I don't understand why the US is there....and i am windering if we doo draw down troops in Iraq - -would that give personnel for another war, i.e. Iran, not just Afghanistan?
I think the "war on terror" cannot be fought militarily, if there indeed is a "war on terror..." never heard a definition, really.

I'm for you too {{{{fiona}}}}!

disclaimer: "Supply Side Jesus" is from Al Franken's book[s]. The rest of that post, including the analysis of conservative "Christians" is from my experience.

Make the world a better place, give till it hurts:

https://secure.alfranken.com/page/contribute

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Texas is a right to work state.

Good idea happe. Maybe you can help us all to figure out just how we can successfully end this dysfunctional and self destructive relationship we have with the Democratic Party.

They are all (with very few exceptions) still jerking us off, they are just switching hands from right to left and changing rhythm a little to give us a different sensation.

Sorry...that Conyers/VFP clip has me really pissed. That smug assed lyin mutha fucka. "You don't know what my plans are."...Like he really intends to actually do something besides dick us around...and Pelosi at Netroots...pfft. christ. MAN I am so done with these assholes.

Yes We Can. The old Alcoa slogan, back when I was kid working for Jag-In-A-Bag.

Would you like a Fanta, with your Super Taco sir?
Fuck you, Jack.
Thank you, sir. That will $3.24.

Hope on a rope....

Its all the same.

Afghanistan equals Pakistan. A country nine thousand miles away with 175 million people. We lose. Beyond, Kucinich, hardly anyone gets the lesson of 911. Most of the world is sick of our empire and energy needs. Most of our confused and ignorant population is even sick of our empire. When Barack said:"... but more than that,we have to change the mindset that led to Iraq in the first place..," I thought he got it. I'm not sure now. I expecting another pathetic pander speech to AIPAC from Barack tomorrow while his visits the land of the "chosen."

it is way relevant..

Happe Talk

Netroots Nation or Nation of Sheep?

By RONNIE CUMMINS

Saturday morning, July 19. Sitting here at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas with several thousand other online activists. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party Speaker of the House, the third most powerful politician in the United States, is up on the podium, doing her best to damp down the mounting criticism of the Democratic Party's shameful collaboration in funding the war and aiding and abetting the Bush administration's shredding of the Constitution.

Before Pelosi speaks, an announcement is made from the podium that disruptions will not be tolerated--if any of us express our frustrations too passionately with Pelosi and the sell-out Democratic Party leadership we will be arrested. The first question the Netroots moderator poses to Pelosi is about impeachment. This generates considerable applause and cheers from the crowd. Pelosi, notorious for proclaiming that "impeachment is off the table," artfully dodges the question and evasively talks about censuring the Bush administration and getting tough on Karl Rove. This generates polite clapping from the front of the room, where all the tables have apparently been "reserved" for Pelosi fans. In contrast I can see groans, grimaces, and shaking of heads from many of us, the netroots rabble, sitting at the back of the hall.

I resist a strong urge to get up and leave. How long will the centrist bureaucrats of Netroots Nation and groups like MoveOn roll-over for lowest common denominator Democrats and Barack Obama? After an hour of rather boring rhetoric by Pelosi, Al Gore makes a surprise appearance on the stage, letting Nancy off the hook.

After a standing ovation, Gore reminds us that the polar icecaps are melting even faster than scientists had expected. The global climate crisis, he goes on, is about to turn into a climate catastrophe. Gore then points out that global warming is of course connected to the energy crisis, reliance on foreign oil, and the economic crisis, as well as the lack of political leadership in the country. Finally, to cheers from the crowd, Gore calls on the assembled netroots to educate the public and get behind his campaign http://www.wecansolveit.org to generate 100% of the nation's electricity from renewable sources of energy within 10 years.

Pelosi once again joins Gore on the stage and rather unconvincingly tries to present herself and the Democratic majority in the Congress as "revolutionary" on energy matters. This is too much for a number of us in the audience, and finally a man yells out at the top of his lungs, "What about the goddamn impeachment resolution?" The security guards at side of the hall look nervously around, but no one makes a move to arrest the man.

After unconvincingly claiming that she is trying to be "bi-partisan" today, and dodging a question about whether or not she will get behind Gore's campaign for 100% renewable electricity by 2018, Pelosi rather anti-climatically reminds us that nothing will change unless we "get out there and elect Obama and a Democratic majority in November..."

Whether or not you decide to vote for Democrat Barack Obama, Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney, or Independent Ralph Nader in November, please go to http://www.GrassrootsNetroots.org and join a growing radical populist army who believe we need an alternative to MoveOn and Democratic Party centrists. The doomsday clock is ticking. Let's fight like hell to make sure that 2008 is not the year where we tried to change drivers, but still went over the cliff.

So?

Whole Foods is almost everywhere.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/mar/27/supermarkets.usnews

Mackey, 54, runs the empire partly from his 720-acre ranch outside Austin, where he tends chickens (and eats their eggs), venturing out in person and by blog to conduct arguments with people in the organics movement who believe that Whole Foods has betrayed most of its principles. He is an intriguing combination of the patriarchal idealist and a hard-headed, growth-pursuing businessman, with strong libertarian views. Deeply anti-union (he is widely quoted as likening unions to "having herpes"), he is criticised for refusing to back what might seem obvious causes, for instance over the rights and pay rates of migrant labour on American farms. But he still has a quest, according to his blog, to reform industrial agriculture, and indeed "to make the world a better place".

Thanks I'm glad someone actually thinks this is news. Hopefully, 13 years from now, or less, our King George will be headed to The Hague.

In Belgrade, a bizarre picture emerged of how Karadzic, who masterminded the 42-month siege of Sarajevo and is held politically responsible for the massacre of almost 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in July 1995, reinvented himself as a bearded New Age guru and devotee of alternative medicine living modestly in a Belgrade suburb and touring the country to deliver homilies on a better life.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/22/radovankaradzic.mladic

it would make no sense to impeach two presidents in a row. What the fuck is he saying here. The first impeachment was a total sham and this one has merits beyond the pale. This indicates to me that the Washington establishment has no judgement on what the constitution even means. That it is so political that it has lost its conscience. In essence it is a sociopath that is very charming but out to fuck us up the butt.

Situational ethics at its worse. Greenwald nails him good. Principles in Washington have been euthenized.

So do you think I am attached?

Happe Talk

if not your unfortunate choice of terms (sheeple? Blow me.)

But, despite your failures in social skills, I happen to agree with the gist of your post.

So, I joined. See you on the firing lines...who ever you are.

Is mankind killing penguins washing ashore on Brazil's coast?
By Jack Chang | McClatchy Newspapers

Jack Chang / MCT

Hundreds of Patagonian penguins have washed up since late-June on the Brazilian coast. Many of them are baby penguins and arrived suffering from hypothermia, malnutrition and other ailments. | View larger image

NITEROI, Brazil — The discovery of hundreds of young penguins washing up along the Brazilian shoreline over the past month has sparked a scientific mystery over what may have led the birds thousands of miles astray.

"The penguin population is intimately linked to their supplies of food, so this suggests something is happening to the population of fish they eat," said biologist Marcelo Bertellotti at the National Patagonic Center in Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

"It appears the penguins are not finding fish where they normally do, and one reason could be that warming waters and climate change have impacted the fish population."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/45131.html

centrist NetRoots Nation:
http://www.GrassrootsNetroots.org/

July 22, 2008

Conservative Lawyers Urge Bush To Issue ˜Pre-Emptive Pardons' To Officials Involved In Illegal Programs Submitted by Amanda Lang

Such a pardon would reduce the risk that a future administration might undertake a criminal investigation of operatives or policy makers involved in programs that administration lawyers have said were legal but that critics say violated laws regarding torture and surveillance. A BEFORE YOU GO TO JAIL, GET-OUT-OF-INDICTMENT AND-PROSECUTION' CARD?

Con't

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=64516

Antiwar activists split over Obama's troop plans
By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's plan to build up U.S. forces in Afghanistan while keeping perhaps 50,000 troops in Iraq has triggered a deep rift among antiwar activists, a reminder of the difficult tasking facing the presumptive Democratic nominee as he tries to broaden his appeal.

Barbra Bearden, spokeswoman for Peace Action, called Obama's comments about Afghanistan "a bit disheartening."

Ian Thompson, lead organizer in Los Angeles for Act Now to Stop War & End Racism, an antiwar group, found Obama's Afghanistan position similar to that of President Bush and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

"What this shows is that Barack Obama does not really represent any policy shift," he said

But Obama's views troubled many peace activists.

Bearden of Peace Action said that "we've seen the results of these military actions. We create a power vacuum and try to create a government. We did that in Iraq, and now we're talking about using the same failed strategy again in Afghanistan."

Judith LeBlanc, organizing coordinator for United for Peace & Justice, said that "dealing with the threat of terrorism cannot be done on a military basis." She and other activists wanted to hear more from Obama about a strategy for dealing with terrorism around the globe, including more use of diplomacy and economic aid.

The activists agreed on this much: They're not going to vote for McCain

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/45161.html

Your timing is impeccable Anon...
Submitted by cent on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 5:02pm.
if not your unfortunate choice of terms (sheeple? Blow me.)

You don't have a sense of humor? You must not listen to such commentators as Marc Maron, who uses the term "sheeple" both as a mild criticism and as a term of endearment? Listen to him next time he guest hosts on AAR.

Savage Weiner 10 or 15 years ago.

First time I heard 'sheeple'
Submitted by AirBall on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 5:20pm.
Savage Weiner 10 or 15 years ago.

Would Savage recommend an organization that criticizes NetRoot Nation from the Left?

I must be one of those "Progressive Utopians with no sense of humor" he is always referring to.

Rest assured anon, my reply of "BLOW ME" was delivered with an equal amount of affection.

Stay on message. You're doing great.

And the Bush administration? Is it, more or less business as usual or astonishingly wretched?

“They’re practically off the spectrum. The spectrum’s pretty narrow, but they are extreme. I mean, everything they’ve touched” is a “disaster. And they’re really dangerous. I suspect that a McCain administration will be worse. And I think he’s going to win. You can see the ads.”

http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/chomsky.html

A severely burned forest still provides wildlife with things it can use -- lots of leftovers for wildlife condos and places to eat the returning bugs -- BUT that's not what is planned for the fires that Schwarzenegger and Bush allowed to burn for a week before any concerted effort at control! The number of fires has gone down from about 2,000 to 35 or so now. But those fires that hit woodlands are destined to be harvested for the lumber/wood product value when the corporatists get their way. It gets me mad, because, all the while the hourly news would mention yet more fires in California, I could only wonder why the National Guard wasn't being called in yet, why the greatest effort was not being taken to put out the fires pronto. I realize that many local fire personnel were kept in place because the fire danger was so great statewide that local protection had to be kept in place to cover potential fires. However, knowing that makes it seem even more logical that the effort would have been made by the Schwarzenegger and the Feds to act swiftly.

Watching California burn this summer is something like watching New Orleans drown: It is a given that DISASTER PROFITEERING (disaster capitalism as Naomi Klein calls it), is going to kick in as a result of these great losses to the public and to the flora and fauna of California's open spaces.

This has been making me brood, and the Hutto article below just made me have to type it out.

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Richard L. Hutto story on the wonder of nature's regenerative powers -- WHEN THE CORPORATIONS WILL ALLOW NATURE TO REGENERATE; link:

http://www.counterpunch.org/hutto07192008.html

Title: Guess Who's Blogging for the National Press Club? (Jeff Gannon)

http://www.prwatch.org/node/7467

Chomsky- McCain will win
new
Submitted by ghettodefender on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 5:34pm.

Chomsky agrees with me.

Sad day.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

chance to beat Obama....well lets just say it was an interview and not one of his articles. They must have caught him on an off day.

With all due respect to a person of his intellect, editorial hindsight can hide a multitude of mental disorders.....

Former WH Reporter Jeff Gannon Now a National Press Club Activist

By Joe Strupp

Published: June 19, 2008 11:25 AM ET

NEW YORK If you ever wondered what happened to Jeff Gannon, the former conservative reporter whose questionable White House credentialing and ties to several sex Web sites forced him out of a job, wonder no more.

The one-time reporter for Talon News, whose easy press pass access and softball questions sparked a review of White House credentialing policies three years ago, is still in the Washington news game. This time at the National Press Club.

NEW YORK If you ever wondered what happened to Jeff Gannon, the former conservative reporter whose questionable White House credentialing and ties to several sex Web sites forced him out of a job, wonder no more.

The one-time reporter for Talon News, whose easy press pass access and softball questions sparked a review of White House credentialing policies three years ago, is still in the Washington news game. This time at the National Press Club.

Since 2006, Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, has been a member in good standing and currently serves on two press club committees, according to the esteemed journalistic organization. He also blogs on the Press Club Web site, as well as on his own online page, with a lot to say recently about the new book by his old source, White House ex-spokesman Scott McClellan.

"I am not going to go away in the face of adversity," Gannon, 51, told E&P, referring to the negative attention he received in 2005 when questions about his press access to presidential briefings were raised. "Sticking up for free speech is a particularly good thing to do."

Gannon was forced to resign his job with Talon News in the Spring of 2005 after it was revealed he had used a pseudonym, had little journalism background, and had ties to several gay sex Web sites.

Today, he has no full-time position at a news outlet, but he explained, "for a single person, blogging can be profitable."

On his Press Club blog, Gannon has opined on Code Pink, the anti-war group, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, who appeared at the press club several months ago.

"The National Press Club should do more events of this nature, regardless of the outcome," he blogged about the Wright visit. "While I bristled when serial liars Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame received a hero’s welcome at the Club, at least the working press had a chance to question them, however uncritically it did so. I strongly believe that every President of the United States should address the Club each year. It would probably provide a fairer forum than that the ideologically homogenous White House Press Corps."

Gannon said he plans to continue such blogging efforts on both sites, noting "I am doing more commentary and analyzing and not really reporting. I am going to be writing a lot about [the presidential campaign]. How the traditional media is actively campaigning for Barack Obama."

con't

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_con...

start a straw bail community...If he wins I think I am outta here. Especially listening to Democracy now earlier.

Happe Talk

STORY LINK

Back side of the house is missing.

who cheats to win

He needs to explain his support for the Warren Report.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/9/181823/7262/950/532977

This dailykos diary is a a bit long and rough, but read it like fiction and it's fascinating.

Then remember it is constructed of FACTS.

The Obama entourage of reporters WERE delayed long enough for Obama to leave them. The reporters WERE locked in a plane. And the reporters WERE flown to Chicago -- essentially kidnapped.

And the REASON that was given for Obama not accompanying them is not a reason that was unfit for the reporters to report.

So WHERE did Obama go? And why was that a place he did NOT want the reporters to report?

AFTERALL, even when he had that so-called confidential meeting with Hillary at the home of Senator Feinstein (DINO-Calif.), that was not concealed.

What is going on?

Because they ARE out of place and they ARE happy.

They look like party crashers who were given the microphone.

Maybe it's like a cute little coup for the Power Elite.

I dunno. Just strange.

(Did anybody ask Gore to put in a good word with Pelosi about putting impeachment back on the table? Or would that be futile?)

I truly believe Obama is going to beat McCain by the largest margin in US history.

Wait until after the convention....

Many thanks to Senator Barbara Boxer for saying impeachment beongs on the table!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-katovsky/impeach-bush-not-such-_b_564...

Wouldn't she make one hell of a vp and heir apparent....

That is, if we didn't need her so badly in the Senate.

Pelosi (D Beijing)
Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 11:27am.
The Austin-American Statesman published a front-page article on Sunday mocking Netroots Nation and calling Rep. Nancy Pelosi "arguably so left-leaning that her parenthetical should be D-Beijing." Editor & Publisher reports that the piece soon disappeared from the paper's website:

Monday: I was back in New York and had turned the page on all this, until I got an email from Michael King, news editor at the Austin Chronicle, the long-running and successful alt-weekly ...

King informed me that the comments from Beach's article had been wiped and it was impossible to find the article on the paper's Web site, though it might still be there somewhere. Perhaps, he mused, "some editor finally looked at the piece and yanked it out of simple embarrassment."

In fact, the editor has issued an apology -- but only for trying to be funny on the front page:

Readers expect front-page stories to speak directly and clearly about events and issues. Eliminating the possibility of misunderstanding from our work is a critical part of our daily newsroom routine. When we communicate in a way that could be misinterpreted, we fail to meet our standards.

Our front-page story Sunday about the Netroots Nation convention included doses of irony and exaggeration....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/22/anti-pelosi-article-on-ne_n_114...

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IRONY AND EXAGGERATION.

And it was!

Because NEITHER dailykos NOR Pelosi are 'leftists' by any stretch of the imagination.

They should have left it!

Phony etiquette or political correctness (or whatever it can be called) wins again.

Sheeple immortalized in this nine-minute video:

http://informeddissent.com/category/al-gore/

For them to steal an elcetion, it 1st has to be close....
Submitted by cent on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 6:24pm.
I truly believe Obama is going to beat McCain by the largest margin in US history.

Wait until after the convention....

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Should Obama win by the largest margin in history, does that mean when -- instead of bringing the troops home -- he moves U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and the Central Asia Theater and continues the militaristic multinational corporate empire building Bush has put forward, Obama will be able to say he had "a mandate"?

More impeccable timing
Submitted by ghettodefender on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 5:10pm.
Antiwar activists split over Obama's troop plans
By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's plan to build up U.S. forces in Afghanistan while keeping perhaps 50,000 troops in Iraq has triggered a deep rift among antiwar activists, a reminder of the difficult tasking facing the presumptive Democratic nominee as he tries to broaden his appeal...

Ian Thompson, lead organizer in Los Angeles for Act Now to Stop War & End Racism, an antiwar group, found Obama's Afghanistan position similar to that of President Bush and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

"What this shows is that Barack Obama does not really represent any policy shift," he said....

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/45161.html

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I think this means:
We mustn't throw away our "Bring Home The Troops" signs....

CLOSED.

Any news?

Anybody here?

:)

-Because NEITHER dailykos NOR Pelosi are 'leftists' by any stretch of the imagination.-

...I'm commenting silently to myself...

Wow...and how brave is Boxer...I mean...it's only been years since she could have stated that VERY obvious point..Maybe we should send her flowers for being so brave...*gak!*

"The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real."

Reagan Information Agency chief Charles Wick diesAP foreign, Tuesday July 22 2008 By ROBERT JABLON

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charles Z. Wick, who as director of the U.S. Information Agency under Ronald Reagan expanded American broadcasts to Cuba and Russia but whose agency was accused of blacklisting liberals from a government program, has died. He was 90.
Charlie Wick was magnificent in letting the world know about Ronald Reagan's America. He also had a great capacity for friendship, and he knew how to help his friends have a good time,'' former Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz said in a statement.

In 1986, the USIA was accused of censorship for refusing to grant government certification that would make it easier to export seven documentaries that had views contrary to those of the Reagan administration.

Wick also took heat in 1984 when it was revealed that the USIA had a list of 84 people who were barred from agency-sponsored speaking engagements overseas. They included television anchorman Walter Cronkite; consumer advocate Ralph Nader; and Coretta Scott King, the widow of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Wick denied any personal involvement in the list, saying a blacklist was ``un-American,'' but he conceded that ``political bias'' might have had a small role in its compilation.

Wick and Reagan were longtime friends, beginning in 1959, when they ran a hot dog booth during a fair at their children's school. He went on to become an important supporter during Reagan's presidential campaign. When appointed to the USIA post in 1981, he was a businessman involved in financing motion pictures and television productions, health care and mortgage industries. He also headed his own company, Wick Financial Corp.

Wick was the longest-serving director of the USIA.

``He understands the need for the United States to convey its message to the people of the world if we're to succeed internationally. And he knows how to do it better than it's ever been done before,'' Reagan said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7670776

I know that Cenk when he figured out what you had handed him, surely did think it was "AWWWWWSOME" as he would put it...esp with the Center for Constitutional Rights emblazoned on the wrapper... But, in his defense, I must tell you that beleive it or not, he and Wendy became engaged about a month so ago after 4 years together, so he is no longer getting into any more of that kind of trouble.
But I am sure he was pleased to know his "rep" has not been diminished.... LOL ;)
Thanks for all your reporting and pics from the event.
Much much appreciated.

One funny moment at the session was When I went to meet Cenk and shake his hand, I had hidden a Center for Constitutional Rights condom in my palm. The look on his face when he realized I was passing him something was hilarious. He put it in his pocket and I now feel like I've done my duty to keep Austin safe.

One never knows what that Cenk is capable of getting into.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/women39s-jobs-more-vulnerable-down...

..so I went to his site to get the link he had that debunks all those forwarded pieces of flotsam and found something better...

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Beautiful exit Mr. C

Sca-a-ary stuff! Kids!

The possible-state-enemy-Goodman siblings - Amy and David - PRAISE them, specifically these:

". . . four Connecticut librarians who challenged the Patriot Act and refused to turn over their patrons' records."

Ahh. Connecticut! State of my birth. Bones of my ancestors. *sigh*

See also
http://myleftnutmeg.com/

And of course if we have any members in Mexico as well.

PLEASE people if you are in the path of the storm let us know now, and then let us know what you are doing - staying put with all preparations taken, or going inland with home prepared as much as possible.

Then please check in once its safe and let us know YOU and yours are SAFE.

This is of course not an order....but a very very very well worded STRONG REQUEST.

BE SAFE AND BE STRONG. YOU WILL BE IN MY and everyone's (I am taking the chance that everyone will agree with me on this one) thoughts and prayers in all the forms that they may come in.

N-kitti

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

Three residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have lost an attempt to ban the use of the word "lesbian" to describe gay women.

The residents argued that using the term in reference to gay women insulted their identity.

But an Athens court ruled there was no justification for their contention that they felt slighted, saying the word did not define the islanders' identity.

Greeks often refer to the island as Mytilene, after its capital.

"This is a good decision for lesbians everywhere," Vassilis Chirdaris, lawyer for the Gay and Lesbian Union of Greece, told Reuters news agency.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7520343.stm

I didn't hear the actual interview, but I did hear a snippet of a call in @ the earlier call. I think it was as woman who had money in the IndyMac bank which had the run on it last week. She had a complicated specific case regarding her $ deposited in the bank. It included having more than 100K in one bank, and possibly a partner with another large amount, and as the FDIC says - insured up to 100K... over that then there are issues.
So the OVER the 100K there is risk of losing your money... so she lost 8K in some way...
I don't know all the details, so cannot speak intelligently about it.

SO I would suggest you look up info on IndyMac and what is actually going on AND in concern for your own finances, if you have more than 100K in any one bank, I would suggest for your own peace of mind, move the extra to another bank. But of course, I am not an expert on this area of finance... My expertise is wall street and I do not give advise on that. So, please consult your own advisors or your own bank. In fact - go research your OWN bank. that is the smartest thing to do.

Hope this helps.

Uhh... host subbing for Randi is interviewing woman whose bank
Submitted by nora on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 7:33pm.
CLOSED.

Any news?

Anybody here?

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

Amen that. Couldn't have said it better (and won't try). Thanks.
- A

I meant about Tx hurricane.

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bluerootsradio
Running time 5:35 min/sec

Thank you. And may all who are in the path of that storm be watched over and be safe.
(I have been in too many hurricanes and other storms to not worry automatically about everyone in the path of ANY storm...so it goes double to triple for my friends and esp my fellow sederistas) Remember I am the one who had the tree fall on and thru my house... That was NOTHING compared to what a hurricane can do... esp to new construction NOT made for hurricane strength... or flood proof rain)

REMEBER - those in the path - put all your important papers - deed to house, car, insurance policies... and if you do not have this already and have time take pics and/or video with the date and time stamp of all of your most important belongings in your house. .......AND then put all of those things into strong plastic bags NOW. AND if you have pets, get them ready to take with you if you have to leave- and find a place that takes pets to go to ahead of time so you don't have to worry about where to go IF G-d forbid that time comes. ALSO - pack all your medicine in plastic bags as well as all prescriptions in a list.

PLEASE trust me on this - have lost 2 houses, and I know of what I speak.

Amen
Submitted by ellwort on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 8:15pm.
I meant about Tx hurricane.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

Randi's subhost (Harrison? goharrison.com ) has been mentioning the secret session of Congress on March 13....and that the secret session wasn't merely about getting everybody behind the FISA bill they did pass a few days later.

http://www.stomverbaasd.com/?p=1001

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/congress-holds.html

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http://www.teachpeace.com/newsletterjune08.htm

Secret House Sesson

Only four secret sessions have been called in the history of the House of Representatives. The fourth secret session was called on March 13, 2008. The last House secret session was over 20 years ago in 1983 to discuss the secret US war against Nicaragua. It wasn't until the Iran Contra scandal of 1986 that the public learned the U.S. was illegally selling weapons to Iran in order to fund the secret war with Nicaragua. What most Americans still do not know is the US weapon sales to Iran began in 1981 as part of an illegal operation orchestrated by Ronald Reagan while running for President against President Jimmy Carter. For more information about this moment in history read America Held Hostage.

Secret House sessions have historically been used for two purposes: 1) to influence representatives with false information so that they support legislation they would otherwise oppose, and 2) silence representatives as the information cannot be shared with the public. This latter use is likely why Rep. Dennis Kucinich refused to participate in the secret House session. A secret House session seems hard to believe so click here to watch the video protest of Rep. Kucinich.

Leaks from the recent March meeting indicate a key topic was managing civil unrest near the end of this year. Could the civil unrest be connected to a new war with Iran?

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Michael Herzog audio (10 minutes)

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

[Is this true? Is it hype? Is it hoax?]

We all bash people who pretend to have progressive ideals but few as harsh as you do.

Do you have one politician you stand behind or a pox on all of them?

Just wondering.

Kucinich & Carter. Are they positive influences?

nora

Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 9:27pm.

We all bash people who pretend to have progressive ideals but few as harsh as you do.

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What?

When was Nora harsh?

Oy vey.

sigh...
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 7:58pm.

some of us have tried for years to talk about what the real shituation is here and globally.

what we're up against is people dedicated to believing in the "myth" of democracy instead of the reality.

we repeat, strike a few sparks and for the most part watch the fire die out in the soggy wood we're working with.

on the bright side, occasionally we get a nice little fire going in an individuals heart that stays lit from then on.

blows me away when i type for hours to enlighten an individual about political realities only to have them forget the whole thing a day later.

short term memory problems? addiction to the security of propaganda myth? inability to read? fear of going against the herd? i've encountered all the above here.

still we persist. i am hoping like hell eventually we'll collectively realise we've had enough of the lies and decide we're not taking anymore of it.

i reccomend listening to Naomi Wolf, "The End of America" for a 'read' on what USA democracy is really about for us and the rest of the world and what we're going to have to do change this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0LvtQAQ6sc&feature=related

we REALLY ought to incorporate as a group and challenge the real assholes on a somewhat level playing field.
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Thank you in advance for the viddy...

Uhh... host subbing for Randi is interviewing woman whose bank
Submitted by nora on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 7:33pm.
CLOSED.
Any news?
Anybody here?
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My bank is so small it only offers car loans to replace the blocks under your Camaro.

On July 11 killed died from a stab Rosa Pazos, Seville and anarchist activist transsexual. The Local Federation of Trade Unions Seville CNT-AIT want to express the following

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Throughout his life very few people accepted it as it was, not even his family, and very few did, but far from amilanarse always faced the rejection of society for his triple transsexual status, anarchist and sick .

Rosa has been a fighter all his life, for their right to be recognized as a woman, for their right to medical care as such, for their right to social integration and employment, for their right to freedom of expression, their right to privacy, and so on. A constant struggle and uneven that has always arisen from a libertarian perspective and that has led to systematically denounce the institutions and public authorities, whose bureaucracy, as so often, almost always has become a dead letter all these years derechos.
...

Oh god an I tired.

yesterday the job was to pick up and carry heavy objects...today's task was to hold heavy objects over our heads.

lord knows what they'll come up with for tomorrow...

Sorry Chubby -

.. a repeating theme here that none of the candidates are worth voting for. It leaves a reader with a feeling of hopelessness, but we liberals are known for that sometimes.

Even SJ's message is a bit of a downer. Yes, we've never achieved real democracy We never will. It's one of those paradigms where you keep getting halfway there but never really make it all the way.

The fun is in the fight I guess I'm trying to say.

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1. Pick up heavy object
2. Extend arms straight out

Have a nice day!

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"We Are Change NYC" confronts Norman Podhoretz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBzLTjVMhY&eurl=http://informeddissent.c...

short video

I was cheering by the end.

Take that you war-mongering Neocons!

Great challege from these gutsy folks!

I was talking to a co-woerker today. Interesting `kid'. His enlistment in the Army is up soon, but we didn't talk politics. He did tell me he spent 2 months in Afganistan and 3 months in Iraq, I told him he was lucky,. He agreed. He's really into cars. So much so he bought a 72 Charger with his signing bonus. He's excited about going to school, possible as a painter.

My 17 year old nephew - 4 weeks older than my oldest - graduated a year early from school, and enlisted in the Army Reserves.

He promises me that he will go to basic training and come back in 9 weeks and go to college - unless they send him somewhere.

He knows I'm very upset about his decision...

..last night around 2 a.m. Lightning was dramatic lighting up the sky for 5-10 seconds at times. My boy dog JRT sees that as an intrusion on his "space" and has to let the lightning and subsequent thunder know that it had better stop or he will bite them on the ass.

Therein lies the problem. Thunder and lightning have no ass for him to bite so I was pretty much up from 2 to 4 a.m. this morning while he expressed his displeasure of the whole enterprise.

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>>tomorrow's task

you pretty much hit the nail on the head.

we're getting a very large auto parts store ready to open. the heavy objects are the steel frame shelves. twenty-five feet tall!

we got the frames set up by noon, which means putting all those particle board shelves into the unforgiving metal grooves of the frames..

they don't always pop in on the first try...

--Now -- WHY did Obama disappear? It IS a good question.
Submitted by nora on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 6:12pm.--

>>He knows I'm very upset about his decision...

People seem intent on leading their owns lives, what can you do? ;)

The "unless you're needed elsewhere" part is what bothers me.

At the end of his basic training I can easily see them saying, "Don't you know there's a war on!"

Thanks!

Group challenges nasty neocon Podhoretz

Submitted by nora on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 10:07pm.

"We Are Change NYC" confronts Norman Podhoretz

I think about democracy differently since watching that video (I posted youtube link here a few threads back) of Aaron Russo where he says (paraphrase)--

We've been misled to champion and be satisfied with democracy -- which means majority RULES and 51 percent of the people can ignore the other 49 percent -- when, actually, the Founders of the U.S.A. gave us a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC which guarantees that 99 percent of the people can NEVER deny one percent of the people its human rights!

too --

Change of subject, ever hear of Jesse Helms?

Lord, what a piece of work!

http://home.att.net/~jrhsc/helms.html

If anyone here is from North Carolina, let me just give my condolences now..

http://www.memeorandum.com/080713/p68#a080713p68

while we were talking.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/92395/

right on!

the blurb I saw says something similar...

Cries of More Democracy! More Democracy! More Democracy!

equal less and less Democracy...

I'll post the actual paragraph tomorrow...

"Trust Me".

It's all in the inflection.

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Not his typical sort of thing, I would think...

Catharine..is there anything on WM about nora's question?
new
Submitted by Alice on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 10:17pm.

She hasn't responded to my email.
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P's mom has that non hodgkins lymphoma also...(if you heard DN today)...it's come back with a tumor behind her eye...she has been with it, and in remission for way more than 3 yrs though...I should tell her that high doses of Fox News are probably not helping her condition..

OMG Alice.

You have me at a disadvantage. I know of no such tragedy and the way you put that kinda shook me.

This is where I giggle uncomfortably.

July 21, 2008 -- Ecuador's President now in neocon crosshairs

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has now found himself, like his ally Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, in the neocon crosshairs for ordering Ecuador's Deposit Guarantee Agency (AGD) to seize control of some 200 companies belonging to fugitive Ecuadorian banker brothers William and Roberto Isaias. The neocons, especially those that inhabit the greater Miami area and hail from Cuba and New York, are accusing Correa of cracking down on press freedoms. It is the same cant heard from the neocons after Chavez closed two TV networks, RCTV and Globovision, for doing the bidding of the neocons in Washington and Miami.

In Ecuador, Correa's actions had nothing to do with press freedom. The Isaias brothers' Isaias Group owned Ecuador's Filanbanco bank. Filanbanco collapsed in 1998 and the Ecuadorian government was left holding the bag. Ecuador's government claims the Isaias brothers embezzled $661 million from the bank. However, the Ecuadorian government cannot do very much to recover the losses because the Isaias brothers fled Ecuador and now live comfortably, under the protection of the Bush regime, in Florida. They fled to the Miami area in 2000 before an arrest order was issued by Ecuador. The Correa government has asked the United States to extradite the Isaias brothers back to Ecuador and outgoing U.S. ambassador to Ecuador Linda Jewell said the request is being studied.

The Isaias brothers and their friends in Miami, including Miami Herald Latin America correspondent Andres Oppenheimer, are falsely charging that Correa is stamping out press freedom in his seizure of Isaias Group companies because they include three media companies: TC-Television, Gamavision, and Cablevision. However, among the other Isaias companies seized are a sugar mill, construction firms, and trading and insurance companies. Correa has not moved to take over other media companies that have criticized him much more vociferously than the Isaias Group TV stations.

Much like the Russian oligarchs who raided the Soviet and Russian treasuries and then absconded abroad with the funds, the Isaias brothers lorded over a business empire amid the collapse of the Ecuadorian economy in 1998. Ecuador was even forced to scrap its national currency and adopt the U.S. dollar.

Correa, a U.S.-trained economist, is now trying to revive Ecuador's economy and political system, the latter through a referendum on a new constitution, and part of his plan is to try to recover the money embezzled by the Isaias brothers.

U.S. ambassador Jewell, who is leaving her post in Quito, may see Correa as a victim of the neocon U.S. foreign policy that is being dictated from their think tanks in Washington and condos in Miami and Coral Gables. She recently defended Correa and said there is no proof to past neocon allegations that Correa is supporting the Colombian FARC rebels. Colombia conducted a U.S.-supported military raid into Ecuador in March of this year, killing a number of FARC guerrillas, including FARC deputy commander Raul Reyes, as well as others. U.S. support for the Colombian raid was seen as retaliation for Ecuador's ordering the U.S. to leave its military airbase at Manta on the Ecuadorian coast.

The comments by Jewell in support of Correa are sure to earn her the wrath of the neocons in Washington and Miami, which will now place a vendetta against the ambassador high on their "to do" list.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080721

Eisenhower and how he accounted for the time he was making deals with "beings from other places..."

Have they determined the cause?

There was a very disturbing piece on GRITtv last week from CT I believe where firefighters are working forced OT dealing with all the fires being set in homes that are on the verge of foreclosure.

One of the ugly side effects of BushFriedGrahamSpan economic policy.

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The resolution to rename a local sewage plant after George W. Bush goes on the ballot in November.

http://sfist.com/2008/07/17/breaking_news_george_w_bush_sewage.php

Ain't that the shit? Heh heh...

--I believe Fernando was alluding to ..
Submitted by maggiesboy on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 10:03pm.--

that knowing about politics "matters" (for lack of a better term)...The 50% or more Americans who do not read about politics, vote on politics, blog or speak on politics or otherwise pay any attention to the government...yeah..their lives go on...and I'd love to know the major comparisons between those who do and those who don't...

it was the pool heater. I believe that is where it started. My daughter got some great pictures. Some of them are amazing. I'll ask for permission from her to post some.

If Toe-Knee-Dee shows up, give her my best.

Hang tough you princes and princesses of liberty!

If you get overwhelmed with hopelessness just get an image of John Belushi giving his inspirational speech to his frat bros. and act accordingly.

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Good night and
good bloggin'

To this one website. Amazing eye for art and beauty!

http://www.pscelebrities.com/whitelightblacklight/2008/01/blog-post_8574...

Oh ... forgot to respond to something you said ... I am definitely not hopeless. I didn't read Jim's post that way either.

-My bud's house this morning
Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 6:02pm.-

I'd love to reply but see my post above about about the storm last night. I'm already sleep-typing.

Yes, the problem is democracy requires a majority. Most of us think that it is a majority of people, but the rugged truth is it is, and has been, a majority of money that greases the wheels of democracy as practiced since the beginning.

I'd solve that problem right now but like I said, see my post about the !@#@!#@!% thunderstorm last night.

I'll close by saying, I'm all for anarchy, but that only works when the average IQ of all involved is around 140. Sadly, I wouldn't make the cut. ;-)

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The Far-East-Mid-West SSS Blog Sub-Station is closed for the evening.

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That's really odd, Annette - I too stumbled (back on) to that image just yesterday...not on my site, but from where I got it from to begin with I guess..I was looking for things for the new one...weird...Which reminds me...I'm going to email you something now..

I was like, woah! Deja vu, dude!

I'll look for it....

Neighbor: "Do they know what caused the fire?"

Homeowner: "Our son."

Neighbor: "I hope they catch the son-of-a-bitch.

Homeowner: "?"

Yes he is.

If so, do you like it?

How 'bout the 3G?

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Goodnight, MB... :)

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because I like a keypad and not a touch screen.

But I am thinking about getting one as a gift, and just wondering. I looked at the 3G today.

Chavez calls for alliance with Russia. Sees alliance as protection from neocon aggression from U.S.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080722/ap_on_re_eu/russia_chavez

Viagra offers help to some women
Minneapolis Star Tribune - 1 hour ago

Just listening to Sustein on Democracy Now saying that
Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 4:52pm.
it would make no sense to impeach two presidents in a row. What the fuck is he saying here. The first impeachment was a total sham and this one has merits beyond the pale.

...I was driving and scanning the radio to happen upon a Baltimore talk radio station. A few minutes into the discussion, I realized it was one of a conservative nature (the population of northern Maryland counties is smaller but tends to be conservative.)

I am not good at listening at such shows because facts are generally omitted or re-worked to fit their rationale for thinking the way they do. But, impeachment was the topic and since I had parked and had time before I had to leave the car, I thought it was safe for my well-being and psyche to listen. And besides I was interested in knowing what these people were thinking.

Surprisingly, the host (someone I have never heard of) and the callers had all agreed that Bush and Cheney had violated the Constitution, and if it were different circumstances they probably should be impeached. But it was the callers' rationalization that the terror of 9/11 made Bush and Cheney do it out of love for the country and in an attempt to protect the American people.

Further, after the impeachment process for Clinton's self gratification, they are fatigued by the whole idea.

Most callers said that rather than supporting impeachment that they were inclined to vote for any Democrat; but if the Democrats pursued impeachment, they would not. These callers weren't ranting or raving like wild-eyed lunatics.

At that point I knew this regime had ****ed US up, why Pelosi, Conyers, Mikulski and Hoyer have lost their souls and were doing what they were doing and why Gore refuses to get back into politics.

The Republicans gamed the system and played John and Jane Q. Public so they don't know right from wrong and have worn them down to the point of inviting the "devil" in our house.

While there may be more progressive thinkers, there are less progressive actors. America is no longer the home of the brave and land of the free, but of the fearful and tired.

yes.

and

*grrrr*

"... to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others, is really the very best thing that a man (or women) can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living..."- Socrates to the court of Athens 399 BCE

Manly Hall said Pythagoras said something like that Socrates said...

It's in this ot the other lecture I think:
http://www.pscelebrities.com/MH/Ancient%20Mysteries%20and%20Secret%20Soc...

http://www.pscelebrities.com/MH/Ancient%20Mysteries%20and%20Secret%20Soc...

Awesome report Fernando and thanks so much for the info and pics! Nice one in slipping Cenk the condom...hope he dint get the wrong idea!

I don't really care what idea Cenk walked away with. I just hope Austin was safer after that "transaction".

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1037998&id=607383447

Super!

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