Republicans hate

O'Reilly did not even bother to take off his hood for that one

there is no disguising that bit of lunacy

comment required

Seder: "Finally, how bat crap crazy do you have to be to think there's a secret conspiracy "to break down the white, Christian, male power structure" by simply importing low wage latino workers?!?!???"
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If it was up to me to topple the white, Christian, male power structure, I'd do it with infected golf balls.

precious Miller Lite from my nostrils.

Infected golf balls: Birdie flu.

is the white, Christian, male power problem. I suggest a mirror.

Oh, he got all'a that one!

Its in the hole!

Nobody but nobody can beat a dead horse like I can.

Another Bogey
new
Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 12:22am.
Infected golf balls: Birdie flu.

A good chuckle. Thanks!

And he needs to go.

"What does "new" mean and how much time passes for it to cease to be new?"

I believe new means you haven't read it yet. A new post is one posted since the last time you looked at the thread.

It's new if it's new to you.

>>Bill O'Reilly: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have.

Way to go, Billy. That was supposed to be a secret from the African American, Hispanic, Jewish, and Asian Republican voters.

Oh, and your mother wants to remind you that those are your "inside your head" words.

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

Smokin' Banana Peels
Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 12:36am.
They coulda made this easier for us simple folks.
And for the rest of my life I am gonna have to hold my tongue...
This is the sort of myth that can cause civil people to turn violent.
__________________

Crank Bait,
I can't imagine Crank "Banana Smoothie" Bait sayin' sumpin' that woulda cause any sorta of violence at Sam's Saloon. (Does it go by...Seder’s Salon and Blog now?)

(Does quoting Crank Bait break the rules? Rules are meant to be appealed, right?)

Crank Bait's Challenge:

"And for the rest of my life I am gonna have to hold my tongue..."

As Mr. Bait said,

"This is the sort of myth that can cause civil people to turn violent."

--------------------

Seriously, I like reading your posts.

p.s. In particular, I enjoy reading those serious posts by Crank Bait -- that he posts once in a blue moon!

Assimilated Press:

Washington, D.C. - The five major corporations that control most of the information management in the media are expressing remorse over their decision to help install and prop up the George W. Bush presidency. Over the course of the last year they have begun to realize that they severely miscalculated in their selection and are now worried that their ability to project themselves as serving the interests of the American public has been fatally compromised.

Unfortunately, they believe that their choices are limited and that they are now stuck with a pig in a poke. Given the urgency of the matter, these corporations have scheduled a meeting in the Bahamas which will include representatives from Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Merck Pharmaceuticals, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in which they will discuss new procedures to ensure that the next president they install meets minimal intellectual standards while still being able to faithfully follow orders without question.
Link

How's it going?Good I hope.
Alittle late nite bloggin?

A careful reading of the article...

I thought, (160,000 vs. 100,000 dollars is that all the solicitors bring in?)
like this right-wing blogger.

No, that is one person being quoted, so extrapolate times 65.

10,725,000 - 6,500,000 = 4,225,000 less.

The people really doing damage to the white, Christian, male power structure
are people like this [a very slick web site]
and this [a very sad website.].

you too mmr?
or early.. does it matter : )
doing research on a rudy Giuliani question
I expect him to be on the weekend watchdog soon.

But fortunately they covered their asses and are not in danger of losing stockholder money BECAUSE THEY OWN EVERYTHING!

edit no delete

re bill press

Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,

yes it's THAT fox

huh? woman? king?

click the 3 books for a $ : )

shows the importance and power of accusing others First of your own failings.

They are your (neo-con) failings not the ones you accuse. It doesn't matter because the attention naturally falls on the accused.

Salon:

The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms -- with zero public accountability.

By Tim Shorrock

June 1, 2007 | More than five years into the global "war on terror," spying has become one of the fastest-growing private industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has kept details about its use of private contractors a closely guarded secret. Intelligence experts, and even the government itself, have warned of a critical lack of oversight for the booming intelligence business.

Con't

Question for Fred Thompson (re paraphrase Glenn Greenwald)

Mr. Thompson. Newsweek's Howard Fineman recently admiringly described you as "tough on defense," and youself as a "tough guy." You play a tough guy on TV, however, do you really expect the American people to believe that, when you have no military service, you were "a high-paid Washington lobbyist for both foreign and domestic interests" for over two decades and except when you were an actor in Hollywood, you've spent your entire adult life in Washington ?

Salon:

As administration lawyers scramble to find a new legal underpinning for "tough" interrogation techniques, the Senate Intelligence Committee slams a once-secret CIA program and its methods.

By Mark Benjamin
June 1, 2007 | WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee has signaled to the White House that an infamously abusive secret CIA program to interrogate high-level al-Qaida types may have to be scrapped, given "the damage the program does to the image of the United States abroad." It is a stinging rejection of a program that President Bush late last year called "one of the most successful intelligence efforts in American history" and comes as administration lawyers are reportedly crafting new, secret rules to govern it.

Con't

...

Radio Left:
by William D. Hartung
A few years back, when President George W. Bush described Libya’s decision to put aside its nuclear weapons program, he applauded the Qaddafi regime for abandoning its quest for “weapons of mass murder.”

When it became clear that Iran was seeking to develop its own capacity to enrich uranium, the Bush administration made veiled military threats by stating, “No options are off the table” in addressing Iran’s program.

Then after years of calling for sanctions and other “tough” measures, the administration engaged in serious negotiations with North Korea about its nuclear weapons programs.

This record of anti-proliferation activity – however uneven its application – certainly gives the impression that stopping the spread of nuclear weapons is a top administration priority. But a closer look at its policy on this issue suggests that nothing could be further from the truth.

Con't

Somehow fate seated me in the seat next to Robert Rubin at a local theater dinner in NY on Wednesday. I just wanted to share a few moments with the Seder blog.
Rubin said he didn't know what he would be doing in this election season when I mentioned the growing support Hillary was getting. He asked me what I thought of Hillary and I responded by saying that I am an Edwards supporter since the previous election. He looked surprised and said, "That won't last, he's running as a Populist." I disagreed.
I told him I was a big fan of David Sirota and he proceeded to tell me,"You should remove him from your email list." I told him that was not going to happen and that he should not be telling anyone to remove Sirota from their reading. He knew Sirota was moving from Montana and said "there were alot of people happy about that." I told him he sounded like a Republican.
Overall the conversation was very intriguing. He seemed surprised that I was discussing the secret trade deals, "they were done in the dark of night," or health care, or Casey vs. Santorum.
Rubin was not entirely comfortable with the DLC as a descriptive phrase but was totally aghast at the use of corporatist. He said, "You are making it worse." He said the division in the party "is all about trade and income distribution."
I told him I thought Krugman and Sirota were basically on the same page on trade and he said he had clipped Krugman's article and was going to reread it.
Having written off Edwards' run earlier in the evening, I found it very interesting when Rubin said,"If we get this back,(the presidency) we'll need re-education camps." I gathered for progressives. I told him I thought "camps" was a poor word choice and I preferred to go my own way.
In closing, just some things he was unaware of that really surprised me.
-Rubin did not know the phrase the Rapture Right or the definition of the Rapture.
-For a professional with his own Project, he had never heard of the Drum Major Institute.
-He didn't seem to know Keith Olbermann when I discussed Gore's interview the previous night.
-He hadn't heard of Greg Palast's book Armed Madhouse. So I am sending him a copy next week.
Overall I had fun talking to him but he only seemed progressive on healthcare issues. And interestingly, he was very excited about Obama's campaign, if I heard correctly there is an ardent free trader among his economic advisors There you have it.

going to sleep any time now
Submitted by jbenet on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 6:04am.
you too mmr?
or early.. does it matter : )
doing research on a rudy Giuliani question
I expect him to be on the weekend watchdog soon.

Did you see News Consumer post,last thread.Everything Rudy!
It looks like your not the only one with Rudy issues!Just kidding!

"NEWS CONSUMER"
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/31/2007 - 4:46pm.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Mobbed-Up Nyc Mayor
MOBBED-UP NYC MAYOR

Pigtown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigtown,_Brooklyn

touch it and you're a goner.

while its always good fun to stick a sharp stick in o'liellys eye or limbaughs butt, its like shooting fish in a barrel. i think immigration has the ability to hurt all and even swing the election to the neocons. as individuals many of us share making the american dream available to all. at the same time, we all have a dark side, whether its unquantifiable fear or outright racism, whose nerve is touched by immigration.

consider that if you're older than 40 that theres a good chance your parents or your grandparents have memories of immigration or of being 1s.t generation americans. i don't know what the rules were then, but i've heard the stories about how individuals were so proud of becoming americans, that they embraced the english language as well as their native language and so on. the rules have changed. now there's fear that english won't be the oooficial language or that we will become a dual language society, that american traditions (whatever the hell those are) are being pushed aside. these older people whose lives were touched by immigration don't necessarily support whats going on today.

going back to o'idiot, he's not the real problem. the real problem is someone like lou dobbs who softly preaches hate of non-americans every day. they are taking your jobs. they are ruining your economy. they are stealing the dream. this registers at some subliminal level.

as we come up to the election next year, the republicans will use this below the surface emotion to stir up hate of a democratic candidate who supports anything short of sending 12 million people home.

bummer of a birthmark hal...

.

can you put a width attribute on your image tag so we can get the right frame back?

Tried to make comic smaller.Didn't work.
Blog signed me out,so can't edit.Shit!
But,at least I didn't lock up blog
like last time.Small wonder!
To make pix smaller,don't you just change
sizing numbers?2050to1000,or 200

I think I'll go hide for awhile!

Never would have posted comic
if I knew blog had signed me out..
Again Sorry!

I am old enough to be conflicted by this immegration issue. And I am 1st generation.

I agree with you that Dobbs is more of a problem than both O'Leily and Limbaugh but on some things I so agree with him because I experienced it.

The "thing" I agree with is the healthcare Public aid issue. At one point, because of my condition, I went to public aid to get some help and was refused. Of course a lot of this has to do with the public aid system and the numbers they use to consider who would need help. But what impressed me, after I got over being embarrassed about even being in the public aid office, was the people in the offcie.

There were several white and black young women who were there because they were single mothers and needed help with food stamps and healthcare for thier family. The rest, besides me, in the office were hipanics and East Indians and Pakistanis. The whole family was their for these Hispanic families. Many spoke no english and the Public Aid office had to have Spanish speaking people to translate.

These people were getting help. Food stamps, medicaid, help with rent, etc. I am sure that many in that office were not citizens or legal residents.

When I left, after having been turned down for the medical help I requested, I did feel that, after having paid taxes all my life and now needing a little help and was refused, and that people come here and had never paid taxes and got much help, I felt they were playing the system.

And they do. They know just what they can get. The girl that helps me, who is from India, told me that many people who come here, eventually bring their elderly parents and when they come, they collect Social Security and get medicare and medicaid.

So I do feel that things have to change in that regard.

I am not against immegration, however I do think it should be done legally. Both my parents came through Ellis Island and waited there weeks to be permitted into this country.

We do need better border control and we do need to make these people in this country already, legal residents so that they can help support themselves by paying taxes.

I think that the politicians have to address this issue. Limbaugh and O'Liely are wrong in the way they think, as is Dobbs, but there are things that do need to be addressed about these illegals.

i blew out the right hand side of the blog yesterday but found i could go back and edit so i for what its worth i used the following:

img src="xxx" width="500"

without the carrots so you can see the html.

Will be on C-Span in a bit.

This should be interesting.

i hear you. not sure where it was, but i agree with the idea that the current administration has deliberately ignored controlling immigration because it furthurs their economic goals of destroying the middle class and providing cheap labor for the corporations.

maybe the answer to public health is to send the bill to mexico, india, pakistan, whatever or apply it to the trade imbalance.

its almost like we need a new marshall plan to pull all these countrys up by their bootstraps as opposed to whats happening with the united states being pulled down.

taxes are a funny thing. i like you feel they should entitle you to something but the reality is different. i remember years ago when my wife quit work to be a full time mom. we were strapped for money and used her retirement savings only to get raped by taxes on it because we took it before reaching retirement.

if you think about it, the neocons have the weapon in their hands to achieve their desire of destroying social security. 12 million new people who haven't paid a lifetime into it can easily bankrupt the whole thing.

***

Does Turkey Have Plans to Invade Iraq?
Turkish Prime Minister Won't Talk Strategy, but Troops Have Been Deployed to Border

By TERRY McCARTHY
May 31, 2007
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Print Just when it looked like things in Iraq couldn't get worse, a new threat is emerging -- from Turkey. And it's creating a huge headache for U.S. policymakers.

Impatient at continued attacks against Turkey by the Kurdish guerilla group PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party), whose members are based mostly in northern Iraq, Turkey has moved troops and tanks close to the border with Iraq. Iraqi newspapers have expressed concerns that Turkey may be planning to cross the border in pursuit of the PKK guerrillas.

The PKK, which the United States has designated a terrorist organization, has conducted a low-level guerrilla war against Turkey since 1984.

Last week, a suicide bomber in Ankara, the capital, killed six people. The government said it was the work of the PKK. And a bomb in southeastern Turkey, where the PKK is most active, killed six Turkish soldiers.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this week, "We want all acts of the terrorist organization to come to an end." When asked if Turkey would invade Iraq, Erdogan said, "One does not talk about whether these kinds of operations will take place or not, it would simply be carried out."

Some of Erdogan's rhetoric may be political posturing -- he faces an election in July and needs to appear tough on terrorism. But underneath the current tension is a bigger problem -- the growing autonomy of Iraq's 4 million Kurds.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3232007&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSF...

Regular C-SPAN

Washington Journal

gotta catch up on my chores before the weekend. no more bloggin this mornin.

if wado shows up encourage him to take a long bike ride...

I just spewed
Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 12:14am.
precious Miller Lite from my nostrils.

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now that was funny. thanks cb.

ACLU files Arizona suit over TB case

same strain as the "I hope they will forgive me guy."

Daniels, 27, is under a court order and has been isolated in a jail ward at Maricopa Medical Center for 10 months, although he was not convicted or charged with any crime.

"There are cameras on his room 24 hours a day. He's subjected to strip searches. We think the county could make alternative accommodations for him while protecting the public."

"And he's at the mercy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. [serves inmates green balogns and makes them ware pink underware] He needs as much support as possible, and the ACLU is supplying that support."
Arpaio maintains Daniels must abide by security measures. "I run a safe jail, and he's going to be treated like anyone else," Arpaio said.

Arpaio [another tough guy neo-con] said his office is considering possible criminal charges against Daniels.

wanted to share the tb

http://www.bilderberg.org/2007.htm#participant

31st May to 3rd June 2007, Istanbul

http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/bilderberg-2007-agenda-and-partic...

Zoellick is also a member of the unelected policy makers and rampant globalization advocate groups the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. He is also a regular at the powerful global policy defining Bilderberg Group meetings, having attended in 1991, 2003 and 2006 and currently attending the 2007 Bilderberg meeting which begins today in Istanbul, Turkey.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17803.htm
Repudiation, Not Impeachment

By Scott Ritter

05/31/07 "Truthdig" -- -- It is a question I am faced with at every public event I participate in: What are my views on the impeachment of President Bush and others in his administration? Generally, the question is preceded by an emotional statement listing the “crimes” which Mr. Bush is accused of committing, and the questioner has already found him guilty. Whether it is the war in Iraq, conspiracy theories about 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, or any given variation of the theme of constitutional abuse of power, the one thing all of the questioners have in common (besides the desirable outcome) is their singular conviction that the president is guilty.

I have considerable sympathy for this stance. I myself have stated on more than one occasion that I believe President Bush has lied to Congress and the American people about the reasons for going to war with Iraq (i.e., the whole WMD/al-Qaida intelligence fabrication/misrepresentation fiasco). I also believe that the president’s sanctioning of warrantless wiretapping, along with a litany of other abuses of power stemming from the Patriot Act approved by Congress after Sept. 11, 2001, likewise constitutes grounds for impeachment. Several Democrats in Congress are actually discussing the possibility of impeachment of President Bush, and the irrepressible Congressman Dennis Kucinich has actually introduced articles of impeachment for Vice President Dick Cheney.

Even some Republicans are getting on board the impeachment bandwagon, although with caveats. “Any president who says ‘I don’t care’ or ‘I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else’ or ‘I don’t care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed’—if a president really believes that, then there are ... ways to deal with that,” Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, said of President Bush in obvious reference to impeachment.

Hagel is correct: Impeachment is the constitutional remedy for a unilateral president whose governance is an insult to traditional American democratic norms and values. However, impeachment alone is simply a measure which addresses the symptoms of a larger malaise that has stricken America. The arrogance associated with the concept of the unitary executive is prevalent throughout mainstream American political life. The passivity of the legislative branch is one byproduct of the dominance of the unitary executive. It is also an indicator that the will of the people, as expressed through their election of the people’s representatives to the Congress of the United States, no longer has the weight and bearing long associated with the American democratic experience.

continued at link

From Allen's Newsletter:

Propaganda, disinformation or the truth? You decide, but please remember ~ this is an illegal occupation, not the leading edge of Bush's self proclaimed war on terror.

Allen L Roland
http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/05/31.html

If I were an Iraqi, as I am an American, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms ! Never! Never! Never! : Allen L Roland

Here is a short video message from the Iraqi resistance which is well worth listening to ;

MUST WATCH:

"We are simple people who choose principles over fear ~ once you said ' Bring it on ' and we did ~ do you have another challenge for us, Mr Bush ? "
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7468.htm

People of the world! These words come to you from those who up to the day of the invasion were struggling to survive under the sanctions imposed by the criminal regimes of the U.S. and Britain .

We are simple people who chose principles over fear.

We have suffered crimes and sanctions, which we consider the true weapons of mass destruction.

Years and years of agony and despair, while the condemned UN traded with our oil revenues in the name of world stability and peace.

Over two million innocents died waiting for a light at the end of a tunnel that only ended with the occupation of our country and the theft of our resources.

After the crimes of the administrations of the U.S and Britain in Iraq , we have chosen our future. The future of every resistance struggle ever in the history of man.

It is our duty, as well as our right, to fight back the occupying forces, which their nations will be held morally and economically responsible; for what their elected governments have destroyed and stolen from our land.

continued at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7468.htm

image tag
Submitted by dan on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 8:51am.
i blew out the right hand side of the blog yesterday but found i could go back and edit so i for what its worth i used the following:

img src="xxx" width="500"

without the carrots so you can see the html.

But,like I said earlier the blog
signed me out,somehow.So,I can't go back and edit.
I was using preview to try and get pic down
to size.Tried post.Thought no prob.I'll just edit.
But,logged out somehow.Thanks for the Code.
I tried to lower all
the numbers.Wrong. :)
There's Randi!

http://www.rosie.com/blog/2006/12/24/make-them-hear-u/

http://rawstory.com/comments/32439.html

Gore comes out against impeachment and suddenly Mr. "Inconvenient Truth" becomes....inconvenient to the Frothing-at-the-Mouth crowd!

How many Impeachers do you figure were "Gore in '08" guys hoping that Al would decide to run and knock out Hillary & Co.?

How many you figure do TODAY?

LOL!

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By Scott Ritter
Submitted by Alice on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 9:32am.

With AL GORE opposing impeachment (see above), it's got as much chance of happening as....

somebody who doesn't like Hugo Chavez being allowed to speak on Venezuelan TV!

Employers add 157,000 jobs in May

However, 12,000 jobs will disappear in June, Dell and Motorola layoffs.

when it comes to this admin!!

Zoellick likely to be approved
as World Bank chief
The Bush administration appeared on Thursday to have averted a fight with other World Bank member nations over its choice of Robert Zoellick to head the poverty-fighting agency, with his approval already widely considered a foregone conclusion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070601/pl_nm/worldbank_dc;_ylt=ApNZQpiuOLW2...

TB quarantine
raises legal questions

The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection_l...

Oil prices rise
after US supply drop
Crude oil prices rose Friday after a U.S. government weekly fuel supply report showed an unexpected decline in crude oil stockpiles.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices;_ylt=AjHq1_kb...

how do you explain RCTV having an active license 02-til now?

Detroit expects half
of Iraqi refugees
Immigration aid workers here expect that as many as half of the nearly 7,000 Iraqi refugees who will be brought into the United States by the end of September will settle in the area.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_re_us/iraqi_refugees;_ylt=AjqM...

Oh anonymous... (I'm going to call you Newman!, now)
Submitted by Alice on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 9:55am.
how do you explain RCTV having an active license 02-til now?

How do YOU explain why Venezuelan students are PROTESTING the shutting down of RCTV and "investigating" Globovision, when obviously Big Hugo has their best interests at heart and is trying to protect them from those evil counter-revolutionaries?

Perhaps they need some form of....re-education?

is so right on about Public Financing of Elections!!

-Walter Duranty

Seems to me that the majority of the college students in Venezuela are children of the opposition of Chavez since it is the wealthy that can afford to send their children to college.

I read somewhere that there would be a counter protest by the few college students that were for Chavez. Few because there are not many poor to middle class Vuenezuelans that are able to go to college.

CARACAS (AFP) - Hundreds of students marched for 182 minutes in Caracas Wednesday to demand the release of 182 people arrested this week while protesting President Hugo Chavez's decision to close an opposition TV station.

A letter was delivered to the city ombudsman's office "telling him we have 182 students under arrest simply because they want democracy, freedom of speech," student leader John Goicochea told reporters.

He said the ombudsman had told the students that a few detainees would be set free later Wednesday.

The Attorney General's office, in turn, told AFP it was seeking to prosecute some 45 detainees, including several minors.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets since last week to protest Chavez's refusal on Sunday to renew RCTV's license on grounds it was conspiring against him and had supported a brief, failed coup in 2003.

On Monday several people were injured in Caracas as police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators.

The government later said 182 people, including 107 minors, were detained across the country during disturbances on Monday and Tuesday, and that 19 policemen were injured.

Chavez on Tuesday said the student demonstrators were being manipulated by people seeking to destabilize Venezuela, and called on Venezuelans to defend the country from "a new fascist attack."

In response, Central University of Venezuela student Carlos Julio Rojas told AFP that Wednesday's protest march was also meant to disprove Chavez' accusation.

"We want to show that we're not being manipulated by any political group," he said. "All we want is freedom."

The United States on Wednesday renewed its concern over RCTV's shutdown and the erosion of human rights it signals in Venezuela.

"We are obviously concerned ... about any actions that would be taken that would limit freedom of expression, that would limit the rights of people to gain information from a variety of sources," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey.

Top Democratic US lawmaker Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, issued a statement calling on Chavez to "reconsider this ill-advised decision."

"President Chavez should know that efforts to suppress the media will not only ultimately fail, but are also a detriment to one of the pillars of democracy: freedom of expression," Pelosi said.

RCTV has been broadcasting for 53 years and until its shutdown midnight Sunday was Venezuela's most popular network. It has been replaced by state-sponsored TVES.

Also, the station that was taken off had the most popular soap opera shows that the young seem to like to watch.

Why don't people look at the whole situation instead of just the sound bites.

I have been guilty of this from, time to time, myself.

Never thought of that ToniD....

and Nancy Pelosi is rich....so obviously she'd oppose it!

Good eye!

Top Bush Adviser Bartlett Resigns »

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AP | TERENCE HUNT | June 1, 2007 09:28 AM

Dan Bartlett, one of President Bush's most trusted advisers and his longest-serving aide, said Friday he is resigning to begin a career outside of government.

The move was announced on Bartlett's 36th birthday. He has been with Bush for nearly 14 years, from Bush's first campaign as governor of Texas, through two races for the White House and more than six years of a presidency marked by costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an ongoing battle against terrorism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070601/bush-aide-resignation/

As you drive in to the city of Caracas, which is surrounded by Mountains, all you see on the hillsides are tin roofed shanties. There are chickens and goats outside.

There are many poor in Venezuela. These poor have been ignored for years.

Chavez is their hope to educate their children and assimilate into the city life.

Like any other leader, Chavez isn't perfect, and needs guidance. There is oil money for this nation and it could be used to make life more equal.

Most of the poor are the Indians that were their before Spain took over the country. But they didn't have reservations with schools and they didn't have much help at all from former governments.

Have you been to Venezuela? Have you been anywhere out of the country? And if so, were you just a tourist or did you try to find out about the country you went to visit?

With a video from CNN announcing it.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/dan-bartlett-resigns/

Smart ass anon...
Submitted by toniD on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 10:28am.
Have you been to Venezuela? Have you been anywhere out of the country? And if so, were you just a tourist or did you try to find out about the country you went to visit?

Okay, so ....have YOU been to Iraq?

Then I guess you should shut the hell up about it, huh?

Seriously, you and Alice are the reason that "progressives" weren't trusted on national security and it took Bush's monumental SCREW-UP in Iraq to win Congress back for Democrats and change that image...atleast for Democrats, not their base.

Yeah, you read right...I think Bush screwed up and the war in Iraq is a disaster....but I also don't go around APOLOGIZING for socialist dictators repressing the Media, just because they're socialists, when, if you and Alice had ONE OUNCE of honesty, you'd admit that you'd NEVER apologize for some RIGHT-winger shutting down opposition Media in EXACTLY the same way for EXACTLY the same reasons.

You people have been pulling this crap for 70 years (since Duranty and the Soviet apologists of the 30s, to the Cuba apologists of the 60s, to the Gorbachev-philes of the 80s)....and all it's done is force the Democratic Party to try to distance itself from its nutty Fringe.

Want to learn the reason that the Party of Roosevelt, Party of Truman, Party of Kennedy became in the eyes of many Americans the "Weak On Defense" Party....look in a mirror!

Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan declares today that President Bush “has torn the conservative coalition asunder,” with consequences “for the American future.” This White House “thinks its base is stupid,” she writes, while “conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome.”

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010148&mod=RSS_O...

because of this Venuzuela thing. That's typical.

Had you read the blog more you would have noticed that I did not approve of Chavez taking that station off. It was a bad move.

I posted that here a few days ago.

But there is more to this story. One dictator, Bush, tries to kill another ditator, Chavez. Chavez was able to escape and totally turned his venom on Bush.

Like I said before, lets get the whole story or at least most.

Both sides.

Maybe if you weren't so arrogant in your posts, ther would be more discussion and less insults. You seem not to like it when people come back at you but you instigate all the time.

So your rant in that last post is rediculous. Narrow vision.

And no, I have not been to Iraq. Turkey, Egypt and Morocco, but not Iraq.

Have you?

One dictator, Bush, tries to kill another ditator, Chavez.

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The Crazy Talk alone is worth the visit..!!!

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...

Not much left here, but they are fightin to keep the Crazy Talk alive...

Is today GONZO DAY...?????

hahahahahahahahahaha..!!!!!

You go girl!! :)

Cuz fuck the Democratic Party...they don't represent me....

No I wouldn't apologize, in case you haven't noticed the corporate airwaves are cluttered with right wing crap..there are no rules on them to even tell the truth...

*

Star Vox...what I mean by entire govt...I mean a show that investigates Dem & Rep politicians & their ideas...coming from the view of the "little people", like me...They could also introduce new ideas, parties etc....

*

Good Morning, & How cool you went to Venezuela, Toni..any photos?

Radio Left:
by William A. Collins
Read the paper
Every day?
News no longer,
Comes that way.

A professor recently informed us that the three newspapers in Nicaragua – one on the right, one on the left, and one in the mud – are all owned by the same conservative family. In Venezuela, all papers skew to the right, busily attacking Hugo Chavez. In Britain, they’re all over the place, and in the United States, they’re all no place. The only papers here that print regular serious opinions are the conservative offerings of Rupert Murdoch, Sun Myung Moon, and “The Wall Street Journal.”
Publishers, after all, have to watch what they say. They’re closely monitored by Wall Street, their own investors, big advertisers, and Alberto Gonzales, at least for the moment. And with the steep price paid for media companies nowadays, one can’t afford to alienate creditors, investors, or customers.

Con't

As of this morning the entire state of Maine is without Air america.

Air America has,without Any warning,been replaced by espn sports radio.

After 3 popular years and tens of thousands of rabid fans Nassau broadcasting decided to yank aar without any explaination.if this can happen here,it can happen to you.

please help us mainers out and call Nassau Broadcacting and tell them how disgusted and outraged you are by this horrible decision.

The local corporate suit here is Patrick Collins and he can be reached at (207-797-0780)ask the operator for his ext.

They tried to do the same thing two years ago but enough of us complained and we kept it on the air, so come on all you Sammy fans,help us keep AAR alive,Thankyou

I'm about to listen to a debate on the RCTV subject on DN, yesterday's show...

I have an open mind..I will listen carefully...

Listen

-Walter D.

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 10:40am.
Want to learn the reason that the Party of Roosevelt, Party of Truman, Party of Kennedy became in the eyes of many Americans the "Weak On Defense" Party....look in a mirror!
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I don't believe that commonly-held false "truisms" such as "the weak on defense party" have their foundations built on fact as much as their foundations are built on campaign sloganeering. In a sound-bite driven system, "ring around the collar" is repeated until many people actually believe that only one product can eliminate neckline shirt dirt.

Last I checked, a Democrat president is the only human on the planet to have authorized death by atomic detonations.

As support for my belief, I offer the righteous moral authority bestowed on Conservatism by the Moral Majority and, later, the "Religious Right". Some voters, driven by their religious zeal, actually voted for George Bush because he is "Born Again" as if, somehow, his being like them assured that his soul is stained by fewer sins than the other guy (and, presumably, that THIER souls are stained by fewer sins than the rest of the electorate's souls) and, further, that a whiter soul assures better governance.

Want more? I've heard the moniker San Fran-losi which (I guess?) is supposed to imply that all things San Francisco-an are undesirable and that nothing good can ever be found within anyone hailing from San Francisco.

I respectfully submit that such phrases generally ascribed to a group are a load of crap. I am in a minority (I think?) that believes that a "strong defense" can be achieved just like it was in WWII. That is; the resources of this nation can be shifted into a defense effort at any time and rapidly when the need is clear and broadly accepted. I believe that devoting a huge percentage of this nation's resources at all times to "a strong defense" (as if a mysteriously powerful bogeyman might arrive unexpectedly from Mars) is harmful to the nation and to the world and, just as important, is an ever-present temptation to Neocon-like nutjobs who ascribe to the notion that possessing a "strong defense" means that we should be using it as a geopolitical offense.

I am not "weak on defense". I don't think that it is possible for the U.S. to be "weak on defense". If the entire U.S. military were miraculously cut in half, across the board, from materiel to personnel, it could still be resurrected to full strength in very short order by a citizenry bent on repelling attackers.

I can make a very good argument that a weakened capability to defend ourselves has resulted from America's relentless dependence on oil to the exclusion of other energy sources...from WalMart helping to shift a huge chunk of Treasury notes to China...from the Health Care debacle that has drained resources away from other investments in our economy...

We would all do well to ignore the "ring around the collar" slogans. It makes a lot more sense for us to read the ingredients listed on the back of the soap boxes.

Let's keep it up! In less than three days, we've submitted an amazing 239,000 comments to the FCC urging them to open our airwaves for a better Internet.

The FCC deadline for public comments ends on Monday, June 4. Phone and cable giants are lobbying the FCC to hand control of these airwaves to them. We need to get more than 250,000 comments to the FCC. You can help put the public's interests before those of corporate gatekeepers by taking action:

Save Our Airwaves for a Better Internet

If used right, this public "spectrum" could revolutionize the Internet in America. Its wireless signal passes through concrete buildings and over mountains; it can connect tens of million of Americans who are being passed over by Internet providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.

Broadcast television channels will soon vacate these airwaves when they go digital by 2009. These public airwaves could revolutionize the ways we connect to laptops, cell phones, PDAs, music players and other mobile Internet devices. They can deliver an open Internet into your house without the need for a telephone wire or cable modem.

Phone and cable lobbyists are pressuring the FCC to hand over this spectrum to companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. Their plan is to horde this valuable public assert and stifle competitive and cheaper alternatives to their established networks.

This would be a disaster. After years of phone and cable company control over Internet access, the United States has fallen to 16th in the world in high-speed Internet rankings, with few choices and some of the highest prices for the slowest speeds in the world. We will continue this decline as long as we let AT&T, Verizon and Comcast dictate the terms of Internet access for the majority of Americans.

Help us end their stranglehold and demand a better Internet for everyone:

Act Now: Keep the New Internet Open to All

More than a quarter million comments to the FCC is an incredible accomplishment that cannot be ignored. Act now and help clear the path for a technology that will connect more Americans to a faster, more open and affordable Internet.

Thank you,

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net
www.savetheinternet.com

http://www.savetheinternet.com/airwaves

Yes I have a few but not the greatest photos. I was on a very shakey bus. We had the cutest tour guide though. I must have asked him a gazillion questions.

I have one picture I posted before. Let me find it. It's of a memorial for Simone de Bolivar and his Generals and is on the parkway of the Costera Simone de Bolivar in Caracas.

We even took a tour up into the mountains and I saw my first 3 toe'd sloth.

Costera Simone de Bolivar, Memorial

oh right I remember now..duh..sorry Toni..I have that picture....

By: TeddySanFran

How cool was that, firedoggies? Wednesday afternoon, Connecticut Senator and presidential candidate Christopher Dodd vlogged at FireDogLake about his Amendment to this summer's Defense Authorization Bill. We had a great dialogue, thanks to your terrific questions, Dodd Squad blogger Matt Browner-Hamlin's excellent reading of our questions, and Senator Dodd's thoughtful and considered responses. For me, the video and audio worked great — for those of you with challenges, try watching the vlog again, or check out egregious's excellent transcriptions, starting about comment number 202.

Senator Dodd took a brave stance during the frustrating vote on the Supplemental Warbill, one I think got Senators Clinton and Obama to vote against the bill. Early on, he made clear he'd vote against the bill and challenged other Senators to join him. Teefs-n-Tufts Biden voted for more war, more death, more occupation. But Barack — and finally, Hillary — voted with Dodd to oppose the President. Dodd proved that you don't have to be an ex-Senator to show leadership to end BushCo's disastrous Iraq occupation.

Con't

Thanks, That was a great comparison.

Good rant too!!

AAR has been replaced by espn sports talk here in maine.

after 3 great years we are now without our progressive station

please call Nassau Broadcasting and tell them that you want AAR back

the local v.p. here is Patrick Collins (207-797-0780)

We saver AAR here once and with your help we can do it again

Call!!!!!!!

c'mom everyone,you could be next

Iraq war vets punished for free speech. “As some returning Iraq veterans join anti-war protests, free speech advocates say disciplinary cases against three outspoken former Marines could stifle dissent by those who may know the most about conditions in Iraq.” The cases involve members of the Individual Ready Reserve, “a group most servicemembers enter after active duty. Unlike regular reservists, they receive no pay and are not required to drill or attend annual training.”

UPDATE: While veterans speaking out against the war are being punished, Lt. Gen. William Boykin — who infamously described the war on terrorism as a battle between a “Christian nation” (the United States) and “Satan,” and claimed that Muslims worship an “idol” — was promoted to lead the U.S. special operations command.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/iraq-war-vets-punished-for-free-spee...

Defense Secretary, Top General Endorse 50-Year U.S. Presence In Iraq »
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and top U.S. commander Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno both declared yesterday that they support the “Korea model” vision of maintaining U.S. forces in Iraq for decades.

Gates told reporters in Hawaii that he is thinking of “a mutual agreement” with Iraq in which “some force of Americans…is present for a protracted period of time, but in ways that are protective of the sovereignty of the host government.” Gates said such a long-term U.S. presence would assure allies in the Middle East that the United States will not withdraw from Iraq as it did from Vietnam, “lock, stock and barrel.”

Later, Odierno, who oversees daily military operations in Iraq, said that having “a South Korean-style force there for years to come” is a “great idea.” “I think it would be very helpful to have a force here for a period of time.” Watch it:

Modeling our Iraq strategy off the U.S. experience in Korea relies on a grossly inaccurate historical comparison, and runs directly opposite Americans’ view that the U.S. should disengage from Iraq. As Fred Kaplan writes today:

To sum up, we intervened in South Korea as a response to an invasion and as part of a broad strategy to contain Communist aggression. We intervened in Iraq as the instigator of an invasion and as part of a broad strategy to expand unilateral American power. We remained in South Korea to protect a solid (if, for many years, authoritarian) government from another border incursion. We are remaining in Iraq to bolster a flimsy government and stave off a violent social implosion.

In other words, in no meaningful way are these two wars, or these two countries, remotely similar. In no way does one experience, or set of lessons, shed light on the other. In Iraq, no border divides friend from foe; no clear concept defines who is friend and foe. To say that Iraq might follow “a Korean model”–if the word model means anything–is absurd.

In Newsweek, Jonathan Alter adds:

The only two reasons to station troops in the Middle East for half a century are protecting oil supplies (reflecting a pessimistic view of energy independence) outside the normal channels of trade and diplomacy, and projecting raw military power. These are the imperial aims of an empire. During the cold war, charges of U.S. imperialism in Korea and Vietnam were false. Those wars were about superpower struggles. This time, the “I word” is not a left-wing epithet but a straightforward description of policy aims–yet another difference from those two older wars in Asia.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/korea-model/

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated

that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) the bacteria
found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting..

Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit!

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service..*

I don't believe that commonly-held false "truisms" such as "the weak on defense party" have their foundations built on fact as much as their foundations are built on campaign sloganeering.

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Let me explain...

It's not all Democrats...

I'm a Democrat..

It is the Radical Left Wing that thinks Response is the Same as Defense...

From now until the Primary, you will hear lots of folks playin down the Defense of America..

Then we get to the real election...

You won't see any Surrender Monkeys at that point..!!!

Fired staffers say McCain was anti-religious. “‘In the end, you came away with the strong sense that they had contempt for the faith-based community,’ says Marlene Elwell, one of those fired staffers. Elwell, a prominent Christian-right activist, was hired by McCain in December 2005 to be national director of his ‘Americans of Faith’ coalition. ‘The way we were being treated it was as if we had leprosy.‘” Doesn’t McCain get any credit for being the first out with a press release on Jerry Falwell’s death?

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/fired-staffers-say-mccain-was-anti-r...

"...The living sloths belong to one of two families, known as the two-toed sloths (Megalonychidae) and the three-toed sloths (Bradypodidae). Both families have three toes: the "two-toed" sloths, however, have only two fingers. Two-toed sloths are generally faster moving than three-toed sloths..."
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Got that? All sloths are three-toed except for the two-toed sloth which has three toes but only two fingers.

Apparently that extra finger on the three-toed sloth really slows it down.

They coulda called 'em the three-fingered sloth and the two-fingered sloth but no-o-o-o-o. That would be too goddammed easy.

And when keeping track of body part counts really counts, what do they give us? The camel and the dromedary. Not a single mention of one hump or two. No wonder we can't keep this fauna stuff straight.

Gates, U.S. General Back Long Iraq Stay
U.S. Presence Said to Reassure Allies

By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 1, 2007; Page A11

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR200705...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a senior U.S. commander said yesterday that they favor a protracted U.S. troop presence in Iraq along the lines of the military stabilization force in South Korea.

Gates told reporters in Hawaii that he is thinking of "a mutual agreement" with Iraq in which "some force of Americans . . . is present for a protracted period of time, but in ways that are protective of the sovereignty of the host government." Gates said such a long-term U.S. presence would assure allies in the Middle East that the United States will not withdraw from Iraq as it did from Vietnam, "lock, stock and barrel."

Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, who oversees daily military operations in Iraq, supported the idea at a news conference in which he also said U.S. military units are trying to reach cease-fire agreements with Iraqi insurgents.

Odierno said he sees benefits in maintaining a South Korean-style force in Iraq for years. "I think it's a great idea," he said, adding that the Iraqi and U.S. governments would have to make that decision.

"That would be nothing but helping the Iraqi security forces and the government to continue to stabilize itself, and continue to set itself up for success for years to come, if we were able to do that," Odierno told Pentagon reporters in a videoconference from Baghdad.

The comments represented the second time this week that administration officials invoked the American experience in South Korea in citing the need for a long-range U.S. military presence in Iraq. Concerns that U.S. forces might stay for a lengthy period have provoked considerable controversy in the region.

Given that it's just about squashing evil right-wing opponents (supported by Bush, of course) of the people's glorious leader....

and NOT squashing any opposition's access to national media....

If somebody opposes Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and wishes to say so on national television....where will they be allowed to appear?

I love listening to Senator Sanders on Hartmann's Friday show.

I believe this. The Board of Ed needs more money. What for? They
don't educate anyone.

I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge.
I gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave the
money back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in my favor.
She became indignant and informed me she was educated and knew what she
was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the money back
again ... same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64. This
actually happened in Austin at MoPac Boulevard and Parmer Lane.

T hey Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail.

I walked into a Starbucks with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a
Grande Latte. I handed it to the girl and she looked over at a little
chalkboard that said "buy one-get one free."

"They're already buy-one-get-one-free," she said, "so I guess they're
both free."

She handed me my free Lattes and I walked out the door.

They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail.

One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when one of
them shouted, "Look at that dead bird!"

Someone looked up at the sky and said, "Where?"

They Walk Among Us!

While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent
which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun
waking him up every morning.

She asked, "Does the sun rise in the north?"

When my brother explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for
sometime, she shook her head and said, "Oh I don't keep up with that
stuff."

They Walk Among Us!!

I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center. One day
I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center
was open. I told him, "The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, 7
days a week."

He responded, "Is that Eastern or Pacific time?"

Wanting to end the call quickly, I said, "Uh, Pacific."

They Walk Among Us!

My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car designed to cut through a
seat belt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the trunk.

They Walk Among Us!

My friends and I were on a beer run and noticed that the cases were
discounted 10%. Since it was a big party, we bought 2 cases. The
cashier multiplied 2 times 10% and gave us a 20% discount.

They Walk Among Us!

I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area, so I went to
the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never
showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained
professional and I was in good hands.

"Now," she asked me, has your plane arrived yet?"

They Walk Among Us!

While working at a pizza parlor ... I observed a man ordering a small
pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he
would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time
before responding.

"Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6
pieces."

Yep, They Walk Among Us! They walk amoung us ... and they reproduce
and worst of all ... they vote?

If we could compare an alternate universe to our own...one in which one-tenth of the money and resources spent on perpetuating oil dependency were devoted to finding and developing a non-petroleum energy source, can anyone imagine that the alternate universe would not be in better shape?

The "50-year" occupation of Iraq will cost, what, a bazillion dollars? Propping-up the Shah of Iran cost us how much? Environmental damage has cost us how much? The shift of geopolitical power is costing us how much?

The list goes on and on. If nothing more than the cost of the current war in Iraq, to date, were instead magically applied to a national effort to shift the U.S. energy source from oil to something other than oil, we would be ahead of the geopolitical game and a lot of people would not be casualties of war.

Sigh. Oh, well. I'm learning to live with the fact that the average I.Q. is 100, which means that for every three-digit opinion there is a two-digit opinion.

Still, I'd like to think that the two-digit folks who readily scribble calculations of the benefits of tax cuts and reducing food stamps would sharpen the same pencils for an analysis of cost, risk and return in oil dependency and the war mongering necessary to support it.

Dobbs: NYT are ‘commies,’ ‘fascists’ for criticizing me. » On the May 30 edition of his CNN show, Lou Dobbs previewed his response to a scathing New York Times article about him, by saying “We’ll tell you who’s really telling the truth and who the commies are and who the fascists are, who have the temerity to attack me.” Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/dobbs-nyt-are-commies-and-fascists-f...

David Neiwert debunks Dobbs’ response here.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/05/dobbs-on-rampage.html

"What's it all mean Mr Natural?"

U.S. Media Blows Coverage Of Bush’s Climate Speech, Needs Tutorial From International Press

After President Bush gave a speech yesterday outlining his energy and climate change strategy, the U.S. media quickly heralded Bush’s “new” policy as a “shift” from his previously dismal environmental record:

Washington Post: President Bush sought yesterday to take the initiative on global warming talks…signal[ing] a shift in the administration’s often-criticized approach.

New York Times: Bush, fending off international accusations that he was ignoring climate change, proposed for the first time on Thursday to set “a long-term global goal” for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. … It would be a major shift for Mr. Bush, who has resisted such absolute goals.

Los Angeles Times: Bush offers to take climate lead. The U.S. and other big emitters would set goals under his plan.

The reaction to Bush’s speech from the international community — whose ambitous proposal to reduce global warming Bush recently tried to gut — was “far from positive”:

The Guardian (UK): George Bush yesterday threw international efforts to control climate change into confusion with a proposal to create a “new global framework” to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Der Spiegel (Germany): US President George W. Bush seems confident that his climate change initiative will find broad support. But the first reactions out of Europe have been far from positive.

Deutsche Welle (Germany): European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has sharply criticized plans outlined by US President George W Bush to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying the United States needs to set more ambitious goals.

The international press got it right. Bush did not mention the words “global warming” once yesterday, yet the U.S. media reported as if he did. Furthermore, Bush’s plan “listed no concrete targets or dates, no enforcement mechanism and no penalties for noncompliance. It also wouldn’t take effect until four years after Bush leaves office.”

Instead, Bush’s policy would continue the ineffective policy of voluntary caps on emissions. White House science adviser Jim Connaughton, who oversaw the elimination of references to global warming in White House documents, summed it up: “In this instance, you have a long-term, aspirational goal.”

More at Gristmill and Climate Progress.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/us-v-international-press-on-climate/

my friend Jamillah sends in a $100 check to

NovaM for the "Founders Members Club"

the check is cashed in a week.

months go by and no more

info shows up AND

theres no way

to contact

them...

anyone know how to contact them?

my guess is that there is no way to contact them...

Bruhahahahahahaha! You're a pisser, toni D[arlin].

Yep, and lest we forget, this is how "They" voted for one of their own.

"Be afwaid...be vewey, vewey afwaid."

"The George Seldes book from 1943"

Thanks alice, I'm going to check that one out.

"As Chance Would Have It
Submitted by Janet on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 7:59am.

Somehow fate seated me in the seat next to Robert Rubin at a local theater dinner in NY on Wednesday. I just wanted to share a few moments with the Seder blog."

That's the kind of blogging I like to read. Thanks Janet

Janet hammered it down and i would venture to say that Rubin,

like most everyone else has NO IDEA what's really going on,

and is only influenced by issues that affect his own

narrow minded ambitions. that said, WTF over...

"Seems to me that the majority of the college students in Venezuela are children of the opposition of Chavez since it is the wealthy that can afford to send their children to college.

I read somewhere that there would be a counter protest by the few college students that were for Chavez. Few because there are not many poor to middle class Vuenezuelans that are able to go to college."

It's true. Though they're working on that:

"There will be 11 new national universities, in addition to 13 regional ones, and 4 new technical institutes," explained Chavez. He went on to explain that the new national universities will be organized into the following specializations: University of Health Sciences, University of Basic Sciences, University of Art, University of Hydrocarbons, University of Security, University of Languages, University of the South, University of Economy and Fiscal Sciences, University of Tourism, University of Communications, and a University of Agricultural Sciences.

All university staff will receive salary raises for 2006-2007 and will be paid back pay that the state has accumulated over the past 15 years. All workers will receive between 28 percent to 34 percent pay raises, depending on their position in the public universities.

Chavez added that Bs. 1.4 billion has been approved to pay all retired upper education personnel up to December 31st, 2006. $12 million will be invested in university cafeterias and 1,800 computers will be given to high schools and universities. University scholarships will also be increased by 10,000 this year and all scholarships will be raised to $100 per month in all the universities in the country.
Also, all entrance examinations to public universities will be eliminated, so that students only need a high school diploma in order to enter the university system. The entrance examinations had constituted a major filter mechanism that skewed university entrance in favor of the upper and middle class, who could better afford entrance examination preparation courses.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2310

I think in the past few days we've gone over all the relevant information about the Venezuelan TV station with the shady history not getting it's license renewed.

I notice Gare didn't like the facts the first time, so he's pretending he didn't read them and asked the same questions again.

But I already knew he wasn't interested in hearing the truth, he just wants to come here and call people names.

Like pavlov's dog, if you say "Hugo Chavez," the poor bastard can't help foaming at the mouth.

dada: "Like pavlov's dog, if you say "Hugo Chavez," the poor bastard can't help foaming at the mouth."
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I have the same problem when I hear "Milka Duno".

So will he get a chance to cure Mary Cheney and her lover Heather Poe? And if Mary and Heather are cured, then will Heather still be the parent of their child? Has Bush at least asked Mary to try to be cured by his Surgeon General nominee? Or does Bush not believe that his Surgeon General nominee's anti-gay science is legit, and if so, then why is he nominating him at all?

Link

Is a lot of beer money. I'm not giving NovaM a dime until Crank Bait says its a go and Seder is on weekdays.

I posted another delicious episode of Senator Katherine Harris on Open Mic here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I.

give me a little more info

do you know how to access my gmail reference on this blog (I don't) : )

I'll drive down to the office,walk in and ask them.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Rove Pick for US Attorney Resigned After Conyers Requested 'Vote Caging' Evidence from BBC
House Judiciary Chair Tells Palast in Interview: 'We're Not Through With Griffin by Any Means'
Indicates Caging Operation Could Not Have Been Done Without Knowledge of Rove, According to Palast Team...
As reported previously, investigative journalist Greg Palast was scheduled to meet with John Conyers this evening for an on-camera interview for the BBC. His team, just out from the interview, sends this dispatch to The BRAD BLOG...

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Sic 'em, Conyers.

There are a number of this administration's officials I'd like to see sporting orange jumpsuits. But I'd make a devil's bargain for the rest to ensure that Rover gets a nice long stretch in Levenworth.

a pet peeve of mine

except for the occasional lurk

get a nic

OR SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

get with the conservation or don't

or better yet Please go away. : )

''They have finally awakened,'' said Patricia Andrade, head of the Venezuelan Awareness Foundation in Miami-Dade, referring to the crowds of college students who have staged five days of civil disobedience in the streets of Caracas.

''This is totally new. Venezuelan kids have never turned against Chávez,'' she said. ``I'm glad, but I pray for them, too.''

you could post as Anonymous unless you registered under that handle. This blog doesn't really allow for that does it? I was of the impression that Anon was the handle of the same poster and I thought I knew who that was.

helping to incite students in Venezuela....

They've been known to do that.....

go figure,

Me, Fernando missing a chromosome again.

Elizabeth Holtzman

repost of link The Impeachment of George W. Bush

The new AG gets nominated - as during Nixon. ( did dems control both houses in 1972?)

no vote on approval of new AG unless the new AG agrees to appoint a special

prosecutor. (Which the AG had and continues to have the power to do.)

"Like pavlov's dog, if you say "Hugo Chavez," the poor bastard [Gare] can't help foaming at the mouth."

*snark*

Pavlov's dope
Submitted by dada on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 2:10pm.....

If it's not about shutting down opposition voices in the Media....

where does an opponent of El Presidente-para-25-anos GO to be seen on national TV in Venezuela?

Like pavlov's dog, if you say "Hugo Chavez," the poor bastard [Gare] can't help foaming at the mouth."

Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 2:45pm.

And if I say "free press"...no foaming, just lap-dogs.

I tend to jump in and vent sometimes.

go with the instinct ...

there was an "Anonymous." I thought I saw (note the period)

but why confuse the issue? We are good people trying to communicate.

Whout Joo Like To Take a Wride?

Vroom!! Vroom!!!

?

I forgoat to sign Een!

Wil

r burnin

Why talk to someone with a bag over their head
Submitted by jbenet on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 2:51pm.

Few people know this .. but I am an intellectual...

: D- LOL!!!

Fernando: "...I was of the impression that Anon was the handle of the same poster and I thought I knew who that was."
-------------------------------------------------------
Bait: "If you knew who, it wouldn't be anonymous."
Fernando: "First base!"

Ersatz, eh? : ) Good to read ya, willow.

Gotta fly, kids.

gud hair.

Steven Weinberg is a bonrhrsd when it comes to Israel:
http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen06012007.html

I dit eat agayn!

Okay .. I am in far too silly of a mood (painkillers are a wonderful thing) to be in such a serious and erudite place!

Besides .. this migraine is kicking my ass...

Have a good one ya'll

Wil

Hi and Bye Sweetie Pie!

to have a map said the
drunk to the blind man.

How about that?

Wil,

This is my favorite picture of Milka (on an airline magazine cover, if my crappy Spanish comprehension is on the mark):

http://www.milkaduno.com/articles/06_pasajero.pdf

The Rasmussen poll showed that more Dems were against
the bill than Republicans.

" The measure is opposed by 47% of Republicans, 51% of Democrats, and 46% of those not affiliated with either major party. "

It's the Democrats that are xenophobes.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/just_26_favor_se...

"only influenced by issues that affect his own
narrow minded ambitions. that said, WTF over..."

Ya. I don't know, Jim. What's next? There's the "progress by small steps" crowd, and the "new third party" crowd...

personally, I think the answer is in all the disenfranchized people. Non-political people. A new party that becomes the hot new trend or something, get all the non-voters on board.

Something like the guns and dope party, but with a wider appeal, and less of a libertarian thing:

http://www.maybelogic.com/gunsanddopeparty/

A bit more of the sugenius angle mixed in:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/bob/subman.htm

Of course, there are people who think anything deviating from the two party system is doomed from the start. That's why it needs to appeal to the non-political non-voters. There's no hope in political people.

If I could design a party that got George Carlin to say "WTF, why not, I'll vote for it" then I know I'd have something there.

I have no idea, just typing as I think.

Washington’s New Imperial Strategy In Venezuela

by Chris Carlson

First used in Serbia in 2000, Washington has now perfected a new imperial strategy to maintain its supremacy around the globe. Whereas military invasions and installing dictatorships have traditionally been the way to control foreign populations and keep them out of the way of business, the U.S. government has now developed a new strategy that is not so messy or brutal, and much sleeker; so sleek, in fact, that it’s almost invisible.
...
And so, just as they did in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and others, Washington has deployed its forces in Venezuela with the intention of getting rid of the Chavez menace. After trying many things over the years, including a short-lived coup, electoral manipulation,

and mass protests,

Washington has not been able to topple the popular leader. But they haven’t given up. To the contrary, they’ve actually just continued to increase their level of involvement.
...

on the surface it would appear that:

Dems against Immigration bill

however, going to the site, its a poll of 800 people. while 51% of the dems oppose it how do we know that there were equal number of democrats and an equal number of neocons? perhaps you have the premium content to backup your claim?

The third issue put forth in the editorials is the recent announcement by President Chávez that the license of private television station RCTV to operate on the public airwaves is up for review in May 2007 and most likely will not be renewed. The government has based its denial of the license renewal on RCTV’s lack of cooperation with tax laws, its failure to pay fines issued by the telecommunications commission, CONATEL, over the past twenty years, and its refusal to abide by constitutional laws prohibiting incitation to political violence, indecency, obscenity and the distortion of facts and information. The public airwaves, as in the case of the United States, are regulated by government. Television and radio stations apply for licenses from the telecommunications commission and are granted those licenses based on conditional compliance with articulated regulations. When a station does not abide by the requirements, it generally is fined and warned, repeatedly, until compliance is assured. In the specific case of RCTV, the station and its owner, multi-millionaire Marcel Granier, have refused to comply with the law and have continued to abuse and violate the clear and concise regulations that are supposed to guarantee Venezuelan citizens their constitutional right to “true and accurate information” (Article 58 of the Constitution).

RCTV’s owner, Marcel Granier, played a key role in the April 2002 coup d’etat against President Chávez and has used his station to engage in an ongoing campaign of anti-Chávez propaganda and efforts to destabilize the nation through distorting and manipulating information to create panic, apathy, fear and violence in Venezuelan society. The station’s clear violations of the telecommunications regulations and the Constitutional guarantees that protect freedom of speech and access to true and accurate information provide sufficient reason to deny the renewal of its license to use the public airwaves. Unlike the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times (Fidel Chávez?, January 11, 2007) mistakenly claims, Chávez and his government are not “shutting down” the private media station. RCTV can continue to operate on the private airwaves, i.e. cable and satellite television. As would be the case in any country where law and order are respected, RCTV will not receive a renewal on its license to remain on the public airwaves because it repeatedly violated the law during more than a decade

http://www.pscelebrities.com/alice/2007/01/confused-about-venezuela-by-e...

"where does an opponent of El Presidente-para-25-anos GO to be seen on national TV in Venezuela?"

Anywhere, as long as s/he doesn't call for armed insurrection.

Sounds like a good book
Submitted by dada on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 1:43pm.
"The George Seldes book from 1943"
Thanks alice, I'm going to check that one out.

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Worst part being that you merely have to change the names & it could have been written today...Complete with a lying, scheming media...

stop, stop, stop. you are confusing us with the facts. haven't you learned anything in the past seven years. its not the truth that matters, it's what the shrub wants...

i think venezuela raises some interesting questions. for years it was a two class society with the ultra rich and everyone else. as some have pointed out, it has huge pockets of abject poverty, yet it sits on top of huge oil deposits. socialism might just be what the country needs to take care of the most number of people since the rich elite have failed to recognize that it helps them to help the least.

emailie me yer phone # and i'll give ya the details!

sofrajones@telus.net

should you ever want to see what Hugo is doing for poverty with the oil money...

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The main arguement about the RCTV debate on DN yestrday was the man who was against the non renewal said basically..'well if they did it to rctv for their coup participation, why not to the other ones who participated too?' (Like when you get in trouble for something your brother or sister did too...lame arguement).....

He also said that the government needs to prove it in court..which I do not know if that's true or not...& that the courts ruled against the govt claims in the past..I don't know if that's true either...If so, I would need to know the political makeup of the court he is referring to...

don't know as i'd organise as a 'third party'.

what i'd like to do is grab everyone who's

real upset about all this BS and organise

a general 'lean on em economically,

rebellion and social club', eh?

socialism might just be what the country needs to take care of the most number of people since the rich elite have failed to recognize that it helps them to help the least.//

When the oil runs out what then? How about education, jobs, capitalism? How about teaching a man to fish.

Jerry Fartwell Falwell Versus the Ass Babies and the Brownish Indigo Children (Improv Fictional Comedy written here on this MRR Blog)

"And if I say "free press"...no foaming, just lap-dogs."

Smart.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_testing01.3df...

The April 23 test, known as the "logic and accuracy test," showed that the 20- to 25-year- old machines the county uses performed with 100 percent accuracy, county officials said.

Thursday's demonstration was in response to the complaints by Save R Vote, a Temecula-based group, and other critics, such as Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party members.

A small group of viewers gathered in the registrar of voters' main office to watch through a large glass window as an elections worker ran a stack of dummy ballots through the system that scanned and tabulated the votes. Then she projected the dummy votes on a large screen connected to her computer, but there was no verification that the results matched the votes marked on the ballots.

"This was all set up. This was a big dog and pony show," said Tom Courbat, one of the organizers of Save R Vote. "This wasn't reality."

"a general 'lean on em economically,

rebellion and social club', eh?"

You may be right about that. "Third party" already has many negative connotations. Too limiting.

Good thinking.

got news fer ya,

there ain't hardly no fish left anymore.

better to teach mitigation and enhancement hands on skills.

of course, that's why they pay me the big bucks.

Color me a 'let the OTHER parties in the game person...' every aspect of elections is controlled, measured a doled out to the non-studious, busy public....this crap about having a certain amount of money to be taken seriously is a joke...the money comes from the same corps who OWN the candidate after the elections...Besides...it doesn't need to be one or the other (econ lean or 3p)...it can be BOTH & MORE imo...

you all had yer chance to give me bloggie love

and now i have to scuffle for an existence, i'm out!

allie is the anon.

Conservative collapse. Over at National Review, “Kathryn Lopez says she has “Bush Derrangment Syndrome,” David Frum says ‘It’s Divorce,’ … and Mark Levin says ‘The President is Losing Me.‘”

UPDATE: Cernig documents more.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/conservative-collapse/

CIA Bars Plame From Publishing Materials It Released Publicly 15 Months Ago
Valerie Plame Wilson sued the CIA yesterday “over its refusal to allow her to publish a memoir that would discuss how long she had worked for the agency.” The CIA contends that her dates of service “remain classified” and that Plame’s publication of such details in her upcoming book “could have serious ramifications” for national security.

The CIA itself, however, has previously publicly and voluntarily disclosed the very information in question. In February 2006, the CIA sent an letter to Wilson that was subsequently entered into the public domain when it was published in the Congressional Record. The letter, though supposedly classified, remains available online from government websites today.

Plame’s suit argues that the CIA cannot unfairly target her as the only person who is not allowed to publish this information:

“Defendants cannot unring the bell by asserting that their documented, authorized and voluntary disclosure was just a mistake,” the suit said.

“There simply is no basis for the CIA to maintain in effect that Valerie Plame is the only person in the world who is not entitled to publish this information,” it said.

As author David Wise explains, “there are, apparently, good secrets and bad secrets, and it may depend in part on who’s telling them.” While the Wilsons are being censored, Wise notes that vocal advocates of Bush’s policies, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates and former CIA Director George Tenet, “have discovered that selling their secrets to the public between hard covers can reap big bucks.” For them, he adds, “It’s a slam dunk.”

– Ryan Powers

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/plame-classified/

36 percent. President Bush’s approval rating during the month of May, “the lowest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports. That’s down a full three points from April’s 39 percent which had previously been the lowest rating for the President.”

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_update...

Air America Grounded In Portland

By News 8 WMTW

POSTED: 6:11 am EDT June 1, 2007
UPDATED: 6:25 am EDT June 1, 2007

PORTLAND, Maine -- Nationally-syndicated Air America Radio if off the air in Portland.

News 8 has learned that Nassau Broadcasting, which owns Air America affiliate WLVP-AM, has changed the station's format, effective Friday. The station will now carry ESPN Sports Radio.

The station, which broadcasts at 870 and 1470 AM, will now be known as "Maine's Sports Station."

...

ok?

“It was simply time to put the best product possible on 870 AM WLVP and without question that is ESPN sports radio” said Patrick Collins, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Nassau Broadcasting Maine.

After months of rumors and speculation, Nassau Broadcasting today pulled the plug on Air America. It would have been more appropriate if this nonsensical format shift had taken place on April 1st. It has all the earmarks of a lame joke. By eliminating the only source for progressive thinking on-air in Portland in favor of yet another homogeneous, lack-luster sports talk format, Nassau has clearly demonstrated a total lack of social conscience.

"When the oil runs out what then? How about education, jobs, capitalism? How about teaching a man to fish."

I posted something about education in Venezuela up thread.

That "teach a man to fish" saying is really loaded with ideology. It goes with that whole tough love 'compassionate' conservative attitude. It's not about caring whether people are self-sufficient, it's about "deadbeats mooching off me, and the government helping them."

If you really care about people taking advantage of the system, your focus will be on doing something about corporate subsidies.

give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Randi appears to have crashed Palast's site...

Do you think he still has a job with Fred Thompson?

give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day

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Old Communist saying:

They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work..!

It is the uneven distribution of Capitalism that brings illegals across the border into the United States...

book sales?

http://www.bunganutlake.org/giveamanafish.htm

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. - Karl Marx

to the anons

see WD has a nic -- it's not so hard : )

Give him "Fish Aversion Therapy" and you eliminate the craving for life.

thanks dada

26 uniques right now

http://news.google.com/news?tab=wn&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1116816925

As I remember, Palast did an article for BBC on the emails and no one paid attention.

OMG!

"It is the uneven distribution of Capitalism that brings illegals across the border into the United States..."

And we all know there's only one solution to that...

More Capitalism!!!

Later Sederites!

Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor
Friday, Jun. 01, 2007 By ADAM ZAGORIN/WASHINGTON

In the rough and tumble of Alabama politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. At the moment, the state's former Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, stands convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and faces a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Siegelman has long claimed that his prosecution was driven by politically motivated, Republican-appointed U.S. attorneys.

Now Karl Rove, the President's top political strategist, has been implicated in the controversy. A longtime Republican lawyer in Alabama swears she heard a top G.O.P. operative in the state say that Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. attorneys.

The allegation was made by Dana Jill Simpson, a lifelong Republican and lawyer who practices in Alabama. She made the charges in a May 21 affidavit, obtained by TIME, in which she describes a conference call on November 18, 2002, which involved a group of senior aides to Bob Riley, who had just narrowly defeated Siegelman in a bitterly contested election for governor. Though Republican Riley, a former Congressman, initially found himself behind by several thousand votes, he had pulled ahead at the last minute when disputed ballots were tallied in his favor. After the abrupt vote turnaround, Siegelman sought a recount. The Simpson affidavit says the conference call focused on how the Riley campaign could get Siegelman to withdraw his challenge.

According to Simpson's statement, William Canary, a senior G.O.P. political operative and Riley adviser who was on the conference call, said "not to worry about Don Siegelman" because "'his girls' would take care of" the governor. Canary then made clear that "his girls" was a reference to his wife, Leura Canary, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Alice Martin, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.

The rest here:

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2F...

I wonder if Chavez will soon have to build a fence to keep the New Yorkers from slipping in under cover on night...!!

You are so cool!

http://cliffschecter.blogspot.com/2007/06/this-doesnt-look-good.html

with Randi on the radio. Damn.

An analysis of public testimony and dates by RAW STORY may reveal that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales continued to discuss the process that resulted in the firing of eight US Attorneys with members of his staff other than Monica Goodling after Justice Department offices began an internal investigation into the matter. Gonzales had insisted that he did not discuss the firings to avoid biasing the outcome of the investigation.

"At some point, it's clear that the Attorney General stopped talking to people," former White House liaison Monica Goodling told the House Judiciary Committee on May 23.

http://20-248-e.onlinestoragesolution.com/spikepriggen/public/frito.mov

my bad.

you all had yer chance to give me bloggie love

Have fun while out.

"Give him "Fish Aversion Therapy" and you eliminate the craving for life."

You're welcome, jbenet.

Marxist Patented Fish Aversion Therapy:

http://www.gregpalast.com/wp-content/uploads/palastconyerswsubtitle.jpg

everyfucking day -- more bullshit

sam, for...

fucking fucks sake!!!

1. set the blog program to automatically reduce pics to a reasonable size, because all the little boys & girls want to show their wares and in their excitement they fuck up

2. kill the trolls i.p. & don't allow anonymous posts

that's a good boy then, sammy...

thanks asshole-daddy

i walk in here & get ticked off big time

this or that...
it cuts me to the bone

Justice Department sends crime-fighting teams to Mesa, 3 other cities

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0601mesa-crime0601-ON.html

what makes no sense. Mesa, heart of the Mormon church in the southwest.

and you are there

but I like seeing you nic on : )

larry ? is the admin

.

i walk in here & get ticked off big time

this or that...
it cuts me to the bone//

You're in America now pal, not some backwater criminal colony!

Every woman
every man
Join the caravan of love
stand up
Stand up

♪

oh, who am i kidding... i'm in a bad mood
& i got a ton of washing to do

not that i have to go down to the river jordan
and smash my cloths over an arabs head
to get them clean

anyway...
I’m your brother ~♪
I’m your brother don’t you know

: )

Oh, is THAT the new standard, Toni D?
Submitted by jbenet on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 2:37pm.
a pet peeve of mine

except for the occasional lurk

get a nic

OR SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

get with the conservation or don't

or better yet Please go away. : )
--------
jbenet,you Go Girl too!! :)

//You're in America now pal//

we're watching you, asshole

actually thinking of buying a rainbow lorikeet...

oh, goody
a loads ready
hang the fuckers out
& bung another in

Damn,the Ladies are throwing around a few F-bombs.

And,Crank Baits on fire!

Somebody in Congress is finally listening to Greg Palast!
Karl Rove could became somebody's Prison bitch!

I only screwed up the blog alittle bit this time..

What a great day to be in SammyLand! :)

Old Morning Sedition frequent caller, Brian from Everett, just called into David Bender. He seems sane now.

What have you got against Harry Potter, ono

Has that nut Jesus been telling you stories again?

Did he tell you Harry is a gateway to satanism and witchcraft?

Well, that never stopped you before...

hmm...

fish
Submitted by jbenet on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 4:41pm.
Give him "Fish Aversion Therapy" and you eliminate the craving for life.

Is that old, or did you make it up? Very clever...made the library ladies laugh...thanks :)

New thread

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New thread up and running!

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baby you can drive my car
Submitted by dan on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 3:01pm.

Hell no! I have my own car.

Damn, you could have at least posted a good picture of me with my car.

Why the hell would I ever want to drive your car, slow dude?

I am not your baby either.

http://www.feedburner.com/google

Water or Wine...
Submitted by toniD on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 12:30pm.

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit!

--

After a long crappy day, this was just what I needed. Thank you!

Mexico is Mexico, and the sixteen or so families that run that benighted land are not interested in making anything better for anyone but themselves. We have no choice but to stop massive illegal immigration by all available means. It has absolutely nothing to do with race or color. A huge supply of cheap labor guts the middle class, and makes it easy for demagogues and right wing haters to get elected.

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