Friday Night!

Long live jazz!

Sam is on GRITtv right now and this DUMBASS Brandon Brice (from the "Hip-Hop Republicans" - what the hell is THAT?) is a DOUCHE BAG. Period.

There. I said it.

Your comments.

WHY DID YOU STRETCH THE BLOG ON THE LAST THREAD

(SCUMBAG)

STRUCK!

(yeah, coffee cigs and acca-dacca)

tap your toesies...

[warning: only click on the link if you're a real man]
[so that exludes you sam]
[you lost your "Family Jewels" in the womb]

I was caught
In the middle of a railroad track (Thunder)
And I knew there was no turning back (Thunder)

My mind raced
And I thought what could I do (Thunder)
And I knew
There was no help...
no help from you!!

Last night Olbermann slipped taint in amongst his groin area puns.

He has no shame.

who knew - astroturfing refers to a fake grass roots movement.

Has way too much to do with tea baggin to feel real comfy but there you go...

Here is another jewel espoused by the same Conservative radio show host: "Obama is in dangerous territory when he fires the CEO of a major corporation."
========================
Will Obama go deeper into the "dangerous territory"? Hope so. Alexander Cockburn thinks he will. Be prepared, Baden-Powell!

who knew - astroturfing refers to a fake grass roots movement.
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Thanks for the connection, sir.

HAHA! For those that don't get FSTV on yer cable, BITCH to them about it! But, through the TUBES of the INTERNETS we have STREAMING VIDEO so YOU can watch SEDER on GRITtv with Laura Flanders too!

Jeff Madrick: The Media and the Financial Crisis
These topics and reflections on Obama's major economic speech on Tuesday from Jeff Madrick editor of Challenge Magazine and the author most recently of The Case for Big Government, Sam Seder co-host of Break Room Live, and Brandon Brice of Hip Hop Republicans on the media coverage of the past week.

You're Welcome!

Originally aired on the now-defunct Trio channel.

Originally announced on the now-defunct Majority Report. Next announced on the now-defunct Sam Seder Show. Once heard on the now defunct Air America Network. Then hosted on the now defunct Air America channel on Xm radio. If Seder touches it, it turns to shit.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Ed Schultz broadcasts from New York City today!

President Obama will not charge CIA officers for interrogation tactics. We'll bring you the story.

President Obama is talking better relations with Cuba. We'll talk about it.

Citigroup is the next bank to report profits after TARP funding. We'll give you the details.

It's Recession Buster Friday for the 3rd hour of today's show. If you have a business with a website and phone number, call us. We're ready to do business!

We'll have your calls and the latest news, Friday on The Ed Schultz Show.

9/11
ac/dc
derek & clive
&
goatfucking 101

(hey! i only went to that site once)

youtube administrator: "yeah, right"

OMG
Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 8:25pm.
astroturfing means fake grass roots movement. So glad to know that. It all makes sense now.
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I think you are being coy for laughs but I will add that, more important than being fake grass roots, astroturf is manufactured grass roots.

When presented with astroturf (actually AstroTurf, but nobody is anal enough to care), the salient questions are, "Who is the manufacturer and why?"

lol, war-dog

if the young turks got tapped, it'd be wall-to-wall "go cent"

pathetic... you've had your day, dog

you're long in tooth

we may have to give you an injection to put you to rest
and bury you with your favourite hot-tub

you win moran of the weak! Do you have a perception that relates to message?

Red is a populist but from a highly opportunistic crowd. Sam's not just advocating blue collar justice. He talks to the poor and the well off. Ed talks to the job-centric, sadly a growing crowd.

Sam seems to have connections and a fairly deep understanding with all types. Ed talks to a slice.

If you're into INDUSTRIAL METAL you might want to watch this. This is a CLE OH band that used 21 borrowed Macs with video cameras and produced this video using Apple Mac Book's Photo Booth.

Not too shabby.

I am seeing last night's The Daily Show on the computer as I type.

Well...actually, not as I type. I can't type in this little box without switching over from The Daily Show.

Anyway, I enjoyed Stewart's fake outrage at MSNBC for using up all of the scrotal-based jokes.

a great example.

User access

then ben stein is paul krugmn

anyway, GASP!!

malloy is reading an email from a torture victim

it continues after the break

Submitted by air-ono on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 9:21pm.
...krugmn...
------
Years ago a friend was in an auto accident and had his jaw wired shut for several weeks.

He would have said "Krugmn."

Is that where we got 'gringo'? I think so.

there is a guy named paul krugman, too

he writes for the tims

I have also heard that border issues where federales who wore olive green would hear green go. So green go home would be correct.

http://www.answers.com/topic/gringo

WORD HISTORY In Latin America the word gringo is an offensive term for a foreigner, particularly an American or English person. But the word existed in Spanish before this particular sense came into being.

In fact, gringo may be an alteration of the word griego, the Spanish development of Latin Graecus, “Greek.” Griego first meant “Greek, Grecian,” as an adjective and “Greek, Greek language,” as a noun.

The saying “It's Greek to me” exists in Spanish, as it does in English, and helps us understand why griego came to mean “unintelligible language” and perhaps, by further extension of this idea, “stranger, that is, one who speaks a foreign language.”

The altered form gringo lost touch with Greek but has the senses “unintelligible language,” “foreigner, especially an English person,” and in Latin America, “North American or Britisher.” Its first recorded English use (1849) is in John Woodhouse Audubon's Western Journal: “We were hooted and shouted at as we passed through, and called ‘Gringoes.’”

I heard it was from a song from the 1840s. Sung by the barbarian invaders and their colonizers.
On the other hand, "Green Go!" sounds good, too.

that was put in Abu's box.

You say "may" be from "that is greek to me". Now look up "barbarian".

hmmm, well...

there's a greek spanish painter whom they call el greco

btw, fyi & fwiw

i don't discriminate

i just call them dickheads

: )

A/O. I am a Mexican and have records going back to 1601.

I thought you were in your 40s :)

which = the "other"

SAY IT LOUD
AND
SAY IT PROUD...

i'm a non-indigenous australian

old and goofy. Not an attractive combination.

stems from a sheeps "baa"

(as in the beach boys "baa-baran")

spiro: "hee, crank sounds like a sheep"

authur: "let's fuck him then"

spiro: "oi vey, artie! call him a barbarian and be done with it"

Submitted by Leah on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 9:38pm.
...Now look up "barbarian".
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Everybody who's not Greek thinks every stranger is weirdly Greek-like and everybody who IS Greek thinks every stranger is barbarous.

So whatcher point? People are xenophobic assholes? Check.

they must of been 45's

[20 minutes later an addendum]

"i'm a pistol"

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 9:45pm.
old and goofy. Not an attractive combination.
------
Hey, hey, hey! Speak for yourself.

are good.

it's off to frickin verk i go

(later!)

40 minutes later...
//but nobody is anal enough to care//
hey, leave my middle name out of this

My weekend started at 4pm today. Don't forget your pocket astrolube.

cent,

There is more to my response to your suggestion, "What? Are you crazy? Stop listening to that shit!"

The itty-bitty radio station and its call-in show is not Limbaugh or Hannity or Savage or any other money-grubbing asshole who will play to the crowd for a buck.

It's real life, far-right, provincial, mostly poorly educated, untraveled, uber-Conservatives chit-chatting with one another.

There are a few people (one older woman in particular...probably a retired teacher) who are NOT Conservatives and who know a given subject from all sides before they call in to gently straighten everyone out by quoting experts.

But it never penetrates their thick skulls. They don't even realize that they are being corrected. I can hear the radio show host copping Z's when the lady caller is reciting actual facts. Her commentary flies right over his head.

Most of the participants live in a Conservative bubble. They hate MSNBC and Olbermann and that lesbian lady whose name they can never remember and they make no bones about it. They quote Fox News and Senator James Inhofe and Dr. James Dobson and all of the rest of the usual suspects.

I listen so that I don't confine myself to a Liberal bubble. Even though they tend to have the facts wrong and to draw even worse conclusions, I (at least) learn how they think.

It's no wonder that some of them keep the anti-Christ myth alive: It would be really easy to bamboozle 'em with a few Elmer Gantry moves. When you observe them in action, you realize that they have very few buttons that require pushing to make them very happy. They are authoritarians almost to a man and they desperately want to follow a Pied Piper who plays their tune.

It is the classic difference between Conservatism and Liberalism. Conservatives want everyone to march in a line and Liberals wander all over the place like mental patients.

Have we heard about this guy before?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaYfrlR2jY8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=735iN8uwvpU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pTHwaobhWc

Is that really how they refer to her?

..but I've been remiss with my newsin' this week.

Now is this shitty 70s music or shitty 80s music?

Seems kinda liminal.

80s I guess.

Damn good video Fernando!

How about Ministry???
NO W (or no O? eh?)

//that lesbian lady//
Submitted by gloryoski on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 10:42pm.
Is that really how they refer to her?
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And worse. I've heard her referred to as "that dyke" once.

You can listen on the Innernets tubes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday beginning at 10 a.m. Central. (Thursdays are The Garden Show even though it isn't reflected on their cheesy website.)

http://www.kurm.net/KURM_RADIO/index.html

these are self-described Christians we are talking about, so god help you if you are a dyke or a Muslim or (worse) a Muslim dyke.

.

of their accents and verbiage alone is probably worth the agita...

They remind me of those two Japanese soldiers they found still hiding in the jungle on Mindanao a few years ago...Someone need to tell these yokels the war is over....

You have got to figure out how to post a sample...I would love to hear what totally devoid of brain cells sounds like on the air....

Strike that...I see where you posted a link.

Well I don't know why I came here tonight,

I got the feeling that something ain't right,

I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,

And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,

Clowns to the left of me,

Jokers to the right, here I am,

Stuck in the middle with you.

MP3

Don't trust me, see for yourself...

Wal-Mart Indicted! For Killing The Country Store

There is a kick ass forum going on at PACE the whole weekend.

LEFT FORUM 2009

resurrecting in a kind of Buddhist way

Submitted by cent on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 11:11pm.
...They remind me of those two Japanese soldiers they found still hiding in the jungle on Mindanao a few years ago...
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That's an apt analogy. Provincialism will do that to ya.

The Northwest Arkansans' (or Arkansawyers' if you're chewin' 'baccy) biggest campaign is against ee-legals. The headquarters of Wal-Mart is about six miles from the radio station and the headquarters of Tyson's Chicken is about six miles to the south, so lots of Hispanics were enticed (or bused) into the area for corporate labor and the boom in the area due (mostly) to Wal-Mart provided a shitload of construction jobs for years.

When I moved to the Caribbean in 1985, Rogers, Arkansas was a pimple on the map. When I returned in 1996, highways and high-rises and McMansions had been built on the cow pastures. My house is under a corporate jet flight pattern.

The end result is that an all-white hick area with multi-generation roots became a half-Hispanic area. The original hicks are in the minority even without counting the Hispanics because Wal-Mart attracted vendors to headquarter in the area and their people were transplanted from all over the map. Land prices skyrocketed.

It's a pretty weird phenomenon. I'm sure that more than one sociologist has gotten a Master's thesis out of it.

Meanwhile, the hicks are revolting.

[Insert rimshot button here]

Take a listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuG2ILHKj6A

These original sound frequencies were apparently used in Ancient Gregorian Chants, such as the great hymn to St. John the Baptist, along with others that church authorities say were lost centuries ago. The chants and their special tones were believed to impart tremendous spiritual blessings when sung in harmony during religious masses. These powerful frequencies were rediscovered by Dr. Joseph Puleo as described in the book Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse by Dr. Leonard Horowitz. I give honor to both of these gentleman for the part theyve played in helping return these lost frequencies back to humanity.

The Six Solfeggio Frequencies include:
UT 396 Hz Liberating Guilt and Fear
RE 417 Hz Undoing Situations and Facilitating Change
MI 528 Hz Transformation and Miracles (DNA Repair)
FA 639 Hz Connecting/Relationships
SOL 741 Hz Awakening Intuition
LA 852 Hz Returning to Spiritual Order

For example, the third note, frequency 528, relates to the note MI on the scale and derives from the phrase "MI-ra gestorum" in Latin meaning "miracle." Stunningly, this is the exact frequency used by genetic biochemists to repair broken DNA the genetic blueprint upon which life is based!

Music composed by Jandy AKA JesebelDecibel
Category: Education

...

[end excerpt]

I will never be able to think about that song without visualizing that scene with Micheal Maddsen in Reservoir Dogs

*

"But now the sight of day and night, and the months and the revolutions of the years have created number and have given us a conception of time, and the power of inquiring about the nature of the universe. And from this source we have derived philosophy, than which no greater good ever was or will be given by the gods to mortal man."

-Plato, Timaeus

Precisely...!!!!! :)

"Why don't tell me what really happened?" -Nice Guy Eddie Cabot

Wow. That is a lot of change in a short time.

Sounds like that area was still Mayberry when you left and while you were gone it turned into Coney Island...

Sounds like Darrell and his other brother Darrell didn't have a whole lot of time to adjust. I imagine from their viewpoint it probably does look like they were invaded...

Well, you get two choices, you adjust, or move further up into the hills....

Time just don't give a shit...

"Where's the commode in this dungeon? I gotta take a squirt" - Mr. Pink

"The Soul selects her own Society --

Then -- shuts the Door --

To her divine Majority --

Present no more --

Unmoved -- she notes the Chariots -- pausing --

At her low Gate --

Unmoved -- an Emperor be kneeling

Upon her Mat --

I've known her -- from an ample nation --

Choose One --

Then -- close the Valves of her attention --

Like Stone --

Sarkozy slammed for insulting words
London Times calls him a 'bitchy little princess' for insults to Obama, Merkel.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ip7fp6ywZjMbhiW9p-T1r...

Texas House slashes governor's budget
Vote to cut Perry's office budget by 96% seen as rebuke to secession talk.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/041909...

Judge orders former President George W. Bush to testify in SMU lawsuit

06:37 PM CDT on Friday, April 17, 2009
By LORI STAHL /

Judge Martin Hoffman has ordered that former President George W. Bush be deposed in a long-running lawsuit against Southern Methodist University over land acquisition related to the Bush presidential library.

The judge, however, decided that former First Lady Laura Bush would not have to provide testimony about conversations that took place years ago about Bush’s presidential library.

But even as the judge wrote his position, Bush’' attorneys were preparing an appeal that would trigger an immediate stay so that an appellate court would reconsider the matter.

Last week, a lawyer for Bush said the former president would not voluntarily give a sworn statement, but Hoffman had urged lawyers for all sides to reach an accord on how a statement from Bush could be taken.

Two former owners of condominiums near SMU are suing. They claim the university bullied owners into selling without disclosing plans to build a presidential library at the site. They've been trying to get Bush involved in the case since he left office in January.

They want Bush to give a statement about whether SMU officials told him about plans to build on the site before the university bought the land. The plaintiffs have already obtained lengthy statements from top SMU officials including Dallas businessman Ray Hunt and former White House counsel Harriet Miers, who answered questions under oath for hours.

"George Bush is not above the law,'' said plaintiff Gary Vodicka. "The judge should order him to be deposed."

Bush's lawyer contends that the former president's testimony is not needed and that efforts to get his statement are a publicity stunt.

It is rare for a sitting or former president to be compelled to answer questions under oath.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/04170n...

thanks for that post nora!

Bgurls Mom went to an experimental program using sound to destroy the tumors that were part of her breast cancer.

it was quite sucessful.

Brandon Brice, Political Analyst - Hip Hop Republicans
http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/04/17/jeff-madrick-the-media-a...

Parody on Michael Steele
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-michael-steele...

...or did anyone check the back of his head? Scary.

The Citibank profit that wasn't

by Chris in Paris on 4/17/2009 08:27:00 PM
The last time I checked, paying off loans counts so it's incorrect to say that Citibank delivered a profit. Just because they had what appeared to be a profit and then paid down some of the loans doesn't mean they really had a profit. If you tried floating such a pile of bull as a customer at Citi, I doubt they would buy it. I'm not buying it either because it's bull. Playing accounting games hardly inspires confidence though Wall Street may very well run with this "success" today. Some believe these quarterly report surprises are no indication of a long term health of the banks and may be false starts.
Citigroup surprised Wall Street Friday as the company delivered its first profit in more than a year, helped by strength within its investment banking division.

The company reported net income of $1.6 billion during the first quarter, up from a loss of $5.1 billion a year ago.

Yet, after taking into account the conversion price of a $12.5 billion preferred share offering from January 2008, and $1.22 billion in preferred stock dividend payments to the U.S. government among others, Citigroup reported a loss of $966 million, or 18 cents a share.
In other words, it was a loss. Brace yourself for the "stress test" results coming out next week. Few believe Citi is healthy but if the government review shows them looking strong, the entire review will be considered suspicious if not worthless.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/17/news/companies/citigroup/index.htm?postv...

I have been really busy doing this networking promotion kind of thing here from my laptop. My webpage is starting to get lots more hits and I am putting out alot of effort so I haven't been participating as much. I do catch up though and read every goofy word here.

Loved you nudie pic Nando...hubba hubba!

I met Skip after work and we went to the Carson Hot Springs. You can get your own room for 10 bucks each. It is an old funky place that I just love. We just soaked and floated before having dinner and visiting mom in the hospital. She is doing very well after her hip replacement, but is she ever loopy from the oxy's. What a chatterbox.

http://www.carsonhotspringsresort.com/gallery.asp

http://www.carsonhotspringsresort.com/History/history.htm

om mani padme hum

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/is-the-fda-bipolar/

[excerpt]

Is the FDA Bipolar?
by Martha Rosenberg / April 17th, 2009

In February the Justice Department charged Forest Laboratories with illegally marketing antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro to younger patients and burying a study that showed suicidal side effects in children. But the next month the FDA approved Lexapro for depression in adolescents 12 to 17.

In March the Justice Department charged AstraZeneca with knowing and hiding the diabetes side effects of Seroquel. But this month the FDA considers expanding the anti-psychotic’s approvals to depression and anxiety.

And in January, Eli Lilly pled guilty to promoting its antipsychotic Zyprexa for unapproved and dangerous uses in a $1.4 billion settlement. But in March the FDA approved Lilly’s Zyprexa/Prozac combo, Symbyax for treatment resistant depression (TRD). What do you get when you cross Zyprexa with Prozac? Someone who gains 100 pounds and feels great about it!

“TRD” is such a new pharma invention it googles as Toyota Racing Development and Teacher Recruitment Days. But it will soon move ’script like GAD (general anxiety disorder), MDD (major depressive disorder) ADD (attention deficit disorder) RLS (restless legs syndrome) GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and PMDD (Premenstrual dysphoric disorder)–and for the same reasons.

Of course FDA drug approvals are only as good as the studies. Which is the problem.

Forest paid Massachusetts General Hospital’s Jeffrey Bostic, MD $750,000 to chat up Celexa and Lexapro according to US District Court in Boston filings. AstraZeneca paid University of Minnesota Charles Schulz, MD $112,000 to push Seroquel according to US District Court in Orlando filings. And a decade of pain “studies” conducted by Baystate Medical Center’s Scott S. Reuben, MD on Vioxx, Lyrica, Celebrex and Effexor were completely fabricated–including the patients say published reports.

And speaking of “made up, Coast IRB, an institutional review board which oversees some 300 clinical trials and 3,000 researchers agreed last year to approve a human trial for “Adhesiabloc,” a surgical gel which Congress and the Government Accountability Office completely made up in a sting operation. Oops.

[end excerpt]

Bgrl's Mom's healing -- that's wonderful!

A Wonder at minimalism: She got it said, usually, in just four lines, usually alternating tetrameter and trimeter.

Nuggets in ballad verse.

Thanks

CMC Accepting Applications for Co-Coordinator Position
Posted April 15th, 2009 by samantha

After nearly two years in the position, CMC Co-Coordinator Samantha Acosta will be moving to Chicago. The Civic Media Center is currently accepting applications for the position of Co-Coordinator that Sam’s departure will leave open.

The job of Co-Coordinator is a paid, part-time position for applicants who can make a long term commitment (minimum of 1 year) to the CMC. The CMC is looking for motivated individuals with experience or interest in fundraising, event planning, community organizing and social justice. The CMC is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in candidates.

Applications should consist of a cover letter, resume, and 1-4 samples of relevant work including writings, graphic design, and other products of current or previous jobs, internships, volunteer political and/or arts organizing work, or other types of volunteer positions. Sample material may also include fliers, newspaper clippings and/or video, audio, and online media related to your work.

You can email resumes and cover letters to coordinators@civicmediacenter, or simply mail them (or drop them off) to the CMC at 433 S. Main St., Gainesville, FL 32601. All applications will be considered. The deadline for applications is April 24^th at 3pm. Please submit your application as soon as possible if interested.

ellwort.

You choose one now...if you want to I mean.

sleeping...

Catch you next time, ell...Sandman has no mercy...

'Cause I've apparently been blackballed at Huffington Post - though admittedly this can get a little embarrassing in the locker at the gym.

HtonPost doesn't show anything I send, including (in response to this Naomi Klein piece, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-klein/hopeover-hopelash-hopebre_b_18...) this (incendiary?) comment:

YES, Naomi! Good take on many Obama voters - the Hope Forlorn. But then Klein warned about this back in spring 2008 at the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis.

It is kind of appalling. The Nouveau Regime seems just fine to settle into the horrific momentum of the Regime Ancien.

S.O.S. ("same old . . . ):



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE

OK: There are cheerleaders here who hold that Klein would have said this no matter what.

Well take a look:


- Wasteful military spending and nasty cowboy violence in impoverished Afghanistan.

- Responding to the consequences of the predatory banking clusterfuck with appointments to the biggest fuckeruppers

- Free pass (maybe) for the people who rationalized and ordered our kids to engage in atrocities including torture.

There are more: as Klein intimates, the legacy of bigotry that festers in the wake of our great national shame - the blot of institutional slaver - lingers at bottom of the nation’s list of priorities.

PS: For those here who say, "Well, he hasn't been president that long": Obama IS president. As was Bush September 11, 2001. Remember the "accepted wisdom" that the crashing planes here then were possible because of cracks the Democrat Party left in our national safety?

This is no time for complacency. I think we need to forgo the seduction of just drifting. Let's be here, awake.

Anyway - thanks Naomi.


- Arch

Sleep the sleep of righteousness.

Librarians are heroes - I know, I grew up and later wrote most of my graduate school essays in Connecticut libraries (see Goodman & Goodman on dangerous Connecticut librarians in Stand Up to to the Madness).

Imagine also the inevitability of anti- librarians, probabilities who follow from an Umberto Eco suggestion (as Nassim Taleb frames it): http://ruchir75.blogspot.com/2008/01/umberto-ecos-anti-library.html

Pleasant dreams, Alice.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
;) sea-u *Poof*

The Way You Do The Things You Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHstlUiEaos

Just My Imagination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNn361umypM

My Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

p.s. Annie, will you hold up the sky?
Crazy, yes; lost, no.

i'm just being "anal"

can you believe i left out the "n" in australian

ullo, voxxy, me old son

Submitted by air-ono on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 4:19am.

_______________

Ciao, Ace!

I've been concerned about some of your posts recently.

Just want to let you know that I'm well and I don't plan to let anyone fool me.

Hope you bee well.

p.s. I know you can do better and I expect it!

?

and...

//I don't plan to let anyone fool me//

Baby you're so sweet
You know you should have been some honey

[from: The Way You Do The Things You Do]

(yes, i have a chicken that lays golden eggs)
(but he flew the coop and now owns dubai)

just //recently//

Submitted by air-ono on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 4:56am.
?

______________________

Yes. More recently.

Are things not going well there?

I do recall reading some wonderful comments from you about your mum.

we're gonna have to get a little bit crazy

(but not alot)

what can i tell you...

just can't get focused nor motivated

i wax and wane, voxxy

Submitted by air-ono on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 5:14am.

what can i tell you

_______________________

Tell me the moon isn't made of green cheese.

I am sure that you can tell me quite a bit.

In fact, I was thinking about asking you for some help.

whoa!

that's dangerous territory

anyway, shoot me an email

(nb: i'm not a voice box specialist)

i wax and wane, voxxy

Submitted by air-ono on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 5:15am.

just can't get focused nor motivated

___________________

Whatcha need to focus on? Why can't you get motivated?

Better to do something than nothing.

A journey starts with a step. You can always change directions later.

Need Some Inspiration Or A Kick In The Pants?//

um, what's the difference

: )

Loukoumades, similar to donuts, loukoumades are essentially fried balls of dough drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.

(i can live on these bastards)

and a casserole dish of...

Fasolakia freska: fresh green beans stewed with potatoes, zucchini and tomato sauce.

and some hard-boiled commie eggs

but no...

Avgolemono ('egg-lemon' soup)

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

//asking you [as in me] for some help//

Submitted by air-ono on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 5:32am.
whoa!

that's dangerous territory

__________________

I'll take my chances. I can ask you here.

There's a special holiday coming up Down Under and it's your territory.

I would be interested in any special interviews or articles talking about it.

I am positive that it will be the topic of discussion there and you would have better access to the information.

I know last year there was some protesting against war by some progressives in Australia and New Zealand.

Are you planning to go to any special ceremonies or events there?

p.s. It's also a special day on my calendar. I would appreciate your help.

mama bear brought around some...

Submitted by air-ono on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 5:52am.
Loukoumades, similar to donuts, loukoumades are essentially fried balls of dough drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.

____________________

She sounds sweet. When I am in Australia, I will bring some special treat and we can all have some tea.

Then I can demonstrate the difference between a kick in the pants and providing some inspiration.

Of course, I would get your mum's approval first and I am positive that she would agree with me.

you're only a little late buddy, we've all been watching and screaming about the hippety hoppity douche for a little over two days now... maybe that's why you didn't get much of response here, we've moved on to bigger (and some smaller) douchebags by now

..and with my bloggin'

in addition to everything else, been looking at houses, worried about all the burocracy involved in getting a mortgage and buying a house, still not sure i wanna go through with it all, and and and besides, it's springtime in new orleans and there's always so much to do, next week the jazz festival and it's the tradition, the weekend before all that (which would be THIS weekend) there's the free jazz fest for locals in the french quarter, 17 music stages scattered through the quarter, food, street vendors, street art, the annual french quarter fest

looks kinda drizzly though, is it gonna dampen the party? is it gonna be raindated? almost hope so, so i can just stay at home and do nothing without feeling guilty

now off to my drizzling walk in the park with duck watching and all that... and oh yeh don't forget the ipod with the malloy and the camera.... and binoculars

malloy and duck watching? somehow it doesn't compute!

keys, wallet, phone

and the umbrella

i'm starting to wonder whether it's even worth it, doing it all, the "nature" thing :)

you're always worth the price of admission

: )

when!?

that'll be a special treat enough

the harrowing bugle day of company b

it's quite moving...

ANZAC DAY Dawn Service - Auckland War Museum

[a few moments of silence]

then...

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

collingwood versus essendon

i'll keep an eye out for anything that slips by a google search

it's making a comeback amongst young aussies

as more foreigners enter out shores

so it'll eventually become sullied...

a racist rallying cry

compared with the old ww1 vets ("diggers" as they're known)

who never ever want to see war,
conflict,
and carnage...

they had a bellyfull of mud and mustard gas

LEST WE FORGET!

(my ex-best friends' grandfather lost both legs in gallipoli)

i like juicy fruit

Earworm earworm earworm!!

Aaagh1!!

-

A Paschal Greeting...

is an Easter custom among Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians, as well as among several Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians. Instead of "hello" or its equivalent, one is to greet another person with "Christ is Risen!", and the response is "Truly, He is Risen"

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

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! or...
Christ is Risen!
nightbird: He is Risen Indeed!

for star vox in
Latin - Christus resurrexit! Resurrexit vere!

for mire
Italian - Cristo è risorto! È veramente risorto!

for nando
Spanish - ¡Cristo ha resucitado! ¡En verdad ha resucitado!

for toni
Greek - Khristós Anésti! Alithós Anésti!

for jenise
Japanese - Harisutosu fukkatsu! Jitsu ni fukkatsu!

for barack
Hawaiian - Ua ala hou ´o kristo! Ua ala ´i ´o no ´oia!

for sarah palin
Eskimo-Aleut languages
Aleut - Kristus aq ungwektaq! Pichinuq ungwektaq!

for mel
Niger-Congo languages
Swahili - Kristo Amefufukka! Kweli Amefufukka!

for samuel
Hebrew (modern) - !המשיח קם! באמת קם (Hameshiach qam! Be'emet qam!)

for mhappe
Sino-Tibetan languages
Mandarin - Jidu fuhuo-le! Ta queshi fuhuo-le!

for exhausted blogger
Քրիստոս յարեաւ ի մեռելոց՜ Օրհնեալ է Յարութիւնն Քրիստոսի՜ (Christos haryav i merelotz! Orhnial e Haroutiunn Christosi!

for -B
- ! ܡܫܝܚܐ ܩܡ! ܫܪܝܪܐܝܬ ܩܡ
ܡܫܝܚܐ ܩܡܠܗ! ܒܗܩܘܬܐ ܩܡܠܗ
ئەيسا تىرىلدى! ھەقىقەتىنلا تىرىلدى! (Əysa tirildi! H̡əķiķətinla tirildi!)
ക്രിസ്തു ഉയിര്‍ത്തെഴുന്നേറ്റു! തീര്‍ച്ചയായും ഉയിര്‍ത്തെഴുന്നേറ്റു!) (Christu uyirthezhunnettu! Theerchayayum uyirthezhunnettu!)
ქრისტე აღსდგა! ჭეშმარიტად აღსდგა! (Kriste aĝsdga! Č'ešmarit'ad aĝsdga!)

jesus h. christ...

is there an exorcist in the house

Haven't made those in years!

Avgolemono, I make all the time. My favorite.

Also the vegie stew or cassarole. I also add eggplant and bamies (okra).

You had a feast ono!

me & the o.g. had a feast

also, the above recipe is from wiki

mine/ours had bamies

are you a savant?

Irish - Tá Críost éirithe! Go deimhin, tá sé éirithe!

yes, i am an exorcist...

how may i help

an internet savant

i can access wiki

and c&p shit

Funny, isn't it, that the Orthodox religion is the least controversial.

Socialist government privatizes water. The left is often corrupt as well as corporatized.

Tea Parties backfire; Republicans grow nervous from the fallout

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It's been a few days now since angry conservatives hosted a series of tea parties across the country, and the fallout has some Republicans nervous.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/tea-party-fallout-indepen_n_188...

did they think they could just go teabaggin from the Atlantic to the Pacific and border to border and everyone would still show them respect in the morning? No way Nelly! That kind of whoring yourself out has consequences.

Doesn't really narrow the field enough, does it? MLK also a "self described Christian."

I know all about these folks. Went to public school in the south (including South Carolina) until I was 12 and haven't lived under a rock since then.

My surprise was that they were being so genteel.

----

My understanding is that it's a tough row for muslim dykes almost anywhere. ;)

I have an Argentinian professor who is mainly completely utterly cool but does not want to be called "latina" for somewhat the opposite reason. She says that it is an anglo construction that wants to turn everyone into stereotypical Mexicans or Puerto Ricans. She says when people call her a Latina, they are assuming that "her buns are volcanoes about to explode" (for example).

So, I guess, it all depends.

Nando, who were your ancestors in the 1600s? Where did they live? What did they do?

On a variety of issues like North Korea, Mr. Obama has essentially picked up the ball where Mr. Bush left it. - NYT

The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time will require
pesticide manufacturers to test 67 chemicals contained in their
products to determine whether they disrupt the endocrine system,
which regulates animals' and humans' growth, metabolism and
reproduction, the agency said yesterday.

Researchers have raised concerns that chemicals released into the
environment interfere with animals' hormone systems, citing problems
such as male fish in the Potomac River that are growing eggs. Known
as endocrine disruptors, the chemicals may affect the hormones that
humans and animals produce or secrete.

"Endocrine disruptors can cause lifelong health problems, especially
for children," EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said in a statement.
"Gathering this information will help us work with communities and
industry to protect Americans from harmful exposure."

Testing will begin this summer and will focus on whether these
chemicals affect estrogen, androgen and thyroid systems. The tests
eventually will encompass all pesticide chemicals.
ad_icon

Pesticide industry officials said they had anticipated the move,
which initially was prompted in 1996 by the passage of the Food
Quality Protection Act, and they planned to cooperate on the matter.

"It's been a long time coming," said Jay Vroom, president and chief
executive of CropLife America, a major trade association. "For
pesticides, we think the likelihood is extremely low we'll have any
concerns come to the surface."

Just this month, the EPA rejected a petition from CropLife America
that would have changed aspects of the agency's Endocrine Disruptor
Screening Program in an effort to reduce the costs and time
requirements associated with the new testing. But Vroom said the EPA
indicated in its April 3 letter that it would take into account
several industry concerns, including leaving open the possibility of
sometimes using computer modeling rather than relying exclusively on
laboratory animal testing.

"That's an encouraging sign," he said, adding that it appeared the
agency would be willing to lower the number of lab animals required
for testing.

Linda Birnbaum, who directs the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, said the program
represents "a more organized way to look at" how human exposure to
pesticide chemicals could affect such things as bone growth and brain
development.

"This is a good beginning," Birnbaum said, adding that scientists
need to examine how different hormone disruptors might interact or
accumulate in the human body. "It's very important to know: Can
certain chemicals, especially chemicals that are out there that
people are exposed to, impact our hormone system?"

While researchers have observed the most visible effects of these
chemicals in animals, Birnbaum said it is likely that some humans,
depending on their particularly sensitivity, could experience similar
problems.

"I think it's unrealistic that humans are going to be immune," she
said, adding that the studies need to determine "what are doses, how
much of these chemicals do you need for cause and effect?"

Linda Phillips, who manages the EPA's Endocrine Disruptor Screening
Program, said that it will take about two years to obtain data from
the two-tiered screening program, and that it then could take the
agency another year to make a final determination about the
chemicals' effect on hormone disruption.

Vroom said pesticide manufacturers are "very confident our products
will come through with flying colors." He added: "If we do learn
something about our products that raises a cause for concern, our
industry will be at the table, ready and willing to step forward and
take action to mitigate risk."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009
041501960.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Northern Mexico and Southern Texas. Near the silver mines of Saltillo.

Forcing Radio Taliban off the air is a key part of the Pentagon's new Afghanistan strategy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Military communications experts are working to jam the websites and unlicensed radio stations extremists in Afghanistan in Pakistan use to proclaim their power, intimidate residents, plan attacks, and broadcast lists of officials marked for death—hundreds of whom have later been killed.

Rogue FM stations in Pakistan's border area make it possible for militants to go "around every night broadcasting the names of people they're going to behead or they've beheaded," said the special US envoy to the region. The US push to take Taliban propaganda off the airwaves is being paired with a program to fund pro-government radio stations in rural Afghanistan.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124001042575330715.html#mod=fox_australi...

I despise wars, but, what is happening in Pakistan is making me very uneasy. If they didn't have nuclear strength, I would not be as worried. And I really am very angry at how they treat their women. This is a very sensetive area and Bush ignored this area to attack Iraq.

What the solution is, is the question. What to do?

The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend –
Or the most agonizing Spy –
An Enemy – could send –

Secure against its own –
No treason it can fear –
Itself – its Sovereign – of itself
The Soul should stand in Awe –

______

Although I think my favorite is still that non-minimalist and kinda sappy one that starts:

"If you were coming in the fall..."

Big surprise, huh?

we share a view on that disturbing place.

Seems no law is possible when the government is so weak.

I hope President Obama can help provide whatever government they decide on with some teeth.

My friend Gloria's mother is from Guadalajara and her father was from Spain but came to Mexico as a young man. Her maiden name is Quintanar (sp). She said her mother had red hair and looked much like Lucille Ball.

Glory, my ex husband was from Argentina, but his roots are Italian. The family moved there before WWII. Argentina is very mixed backgrounds, as is alot of South America. Chile, Brazil, and the surrounding area. Venezuela as well. It's crazy to categorize them as Latinos only because they speak Spanish or Portuguese.

I have plenty of red and blond haired cousins as well.

I still remember my Grand mothers neighbor who was also a mature woman. She was like Lucille in the hair and her expressions. Not as mischievous as the Lucille on the TV but just as funny. I may have blogged about the large witch doctor once who squashed me as a child to squeeze the evils out of me. Memories of the way she teased me after that still crack me up.

REUTERS - An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-American journalist accused of spying for the United States to eight years in jail, her lawyer told Reuters on Saturday.

After a five-day closed trial, US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was sentenced to eight years in prison by a court in Iran, accused of spying for the United States. It is the harshest sentence of its kind given to a dual national. - F24

Pakistan and by extension Afghanistan is a very troubling area. There are too many factions and they are extreme. Their Muslim religion, like our Evangelicals, seems to be converted to fit the extremists that want power.

How to handle all these factions is the problem. The Taliban, the War Lords are fighting an unstable government that seems to have different factions as well. It's a huge mess and there will never be peace in that area until there is more education of the children, both sexes!

It's too bad we can't provide safe schooling for the children! I think it's the only hope for that area.

Coleman dodges thrown
egg with 'Bush move'

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Republican Norm Coleman used a quick George Bush-esque move to dodge an egg thrown at him outside his Minnesota home. Coleman told police that he heard a thumping on his door Tuesday night and walked outside to investigate.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090417/pl_politico/21380

New pollution limits
seen for cars, big plants

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Cars, power plants and factories could all soon face much tougher pollution limits after a government declaration Friday setting the stage for the first federal regulation of gases blamed for global warming.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090418/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/epa_climate;_ylt=A...

CIA interrogators inflated
suspect's importance: NYT

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Senior CIA officials ordered the first use of waterboarding and other harsh treatment on an al Qaeda prisoner despite interrogators' belief that the prisoner had already told all he knew, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090418/ts_nm/us_usa_security_interrogations

McCain campaign manager:
Religion could kill the GOP

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Speaking publicly for one of the first times since the end of the presidential campaign, John McCain's campaign manager Steve Schmidt painted a dire portrait of the state of the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP has largely been co-opted by its religious elements.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/steve-schmidt-mccain-camp_n_188...

do because of your previous marriage, but I am a "Spanish major."

I call people what they want to be called, in general. I was just commenting upon some of the interesting reasons that people have for what they want to be called.

For example,I know other Argentinians who seem to take for granted that _Latino_ is a useful term for coalition politicking in the US. They are both of partial Quechua descent and live in the US. The mother (who came to this country way after the daughter did) was learning English with a lot of different Latin Americans, especially Mexicans and Central Americans. Whereas the professor I mentioned seems mainly to have Italian in her background and still lives in Argentina for most of the year.

Also, as far as Argentinians and their ancestry, "Latino" could apply equally to Italians, if you go back to the roots of 18th and 19th century Euro/American (as in both the continents plus Central) race theory. Folks are often divided into Latin (Spanish, French, Italian) versus Anglo-Saxon and there were arguments about which was better. Later indigenous people got thrown explicitly into the mix in writing in Latin America, as it suited the purposes (or actual awareness) of the writer and depending on the country (how many "indians" were there).

Analysts: Avis, Borders, Gap, Chrysler will be gone

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It has compiled a list of 12 brands that will we believe will not survive until the end of next year. Each brand and the major reasons for its demise are listed along with some of the public information 24/7 Wall St. examined.

http://247wallst.com/2009/04/15/twelve-major-brands-that-will-disappear/...

Obama, Chavez say hello

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Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's socialist leader, met Friday and shook hands on the sidelines of a summit of their hemisphere's democracies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090418/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_summit_obama_ch...

especially the lady with the teabags around her hat hanging over her face, how can she look herself in the mirror the day after, especially with all the news anchors on all the channels (other than fox) having made fun of her image

was she one of the sufferers from the economic crisis? (keith wondered) is it possible to imagine that somebody who lost their job or house due to the depression - the ones who would actually have some legitimate cause to protest anything - would do and look like that?

The indigenous are entering the mix now. Like Evo Morales. It is truly a melting pot.

Mr. Obama has essentially picked up the ball where Mr. Bush left it nyt, well, my criticism of obama's foreign policy notwithstanding, this sounds like a weasel wording from the nytimes; if that's where the ball was (where bush left it) where else would obama have been able to pick it up?

and the picture with hugo says it all; bush and obama not exactly the same, at least in form and "some" of the substance

i haven't done it in a while and now i have the urge to do it right now!

i think we're talking about the same thing here? it's not exactly a soup, it's more like a risotto which you smear in egg yolk and lemon? at least that's how i used to do it

and like with everything, italians have to put their own twist to it, you can substitute pasta for the rice! ok at that point you can call it something else, no longer avgelemono

If she lost her home and spent money on tea bags to dump then how stupid is she?

At least the Greek recipe is a soup and you can use either rice or pasta. I favor orzo. But it is a Chicken broth with rice or pasta. We beat the egg whites almost to stiff, then add the yolks and slowly add the lemon juice so it doesn't curdle. Then slowly add the hot broth of the soup until the bowl of beaten eggs is almost full and add it to the pot of soup. Mix and reheat and serve. Yum! It's my favorite!

just rude.

to protect government waste and taxes in a tax-payer financed public park, sounds exactly like what an idiot publican would do

Guess I better hurry up and use that gift card I got for Xmas. ;)

and thought about a documentary i saw recently about france during the nazi occupation and the resistance; after the liberation by the american troops, the french resistance took revenge on the nazi collaborators and performed horrible atrocities on them; one was to rip off the eyballs, insert bugs in the cavity and then saw them up; they were taking revenge for the atrocities the nazi collaborators had done to them

Gov: Now do you promise to be a good boy & work for us ?

Hacker:

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Wanted: Computer hackers.

Buffeted by millions of digital scans and attacks each day, federal authorities are looking for hackers — not to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.

General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could "think like the bad guy." Applicants, it said, must understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems.

And in the Pentagon's budget request submitted last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates hung out his own help-wanted sign, saying the Pentagon will increase the number of cyber experts it can train each year from 80 to 250 by 2011.

Con't

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

P just typed in my phone number and up came a site with my name, address, credit card number (with the code on the back) and my email address on this website:

I have my doubts about the ability of the Afghanis to resist the reemergence of the Taliban in short order...Even with good secular education it will take 100 years for it to spread deeply enough into the culture to take root and supplant the tribalism and Taliban influence.

Looking at how things have deteriorated in Pakistan recently, which has had a growing democracy in place for 60 or so years, I have my doubts that any type of Taliban assimilation will ever be accomplished, forget about it happening in my lifetime.

Pakistani culture was moving along pretty well until we scattered the Taliban to the four winds. Maybe Pakistan giving the Taliban the swat valley wasn't such a bad idea in concept. Perhaps giving them another place of their own on the Afgahn/Pakistan border will distract them long enough and pull enough of the Taliban element out of the general population in both countries to give the secular governments a chance to stabilize. The only other alternative I can see is to continue to hunt them down until they are wiped out, and there are doubts that can be done, ever.

Let the Taliban in the region take their sharia law with them into the mountains, for now.

Just an idea...not sure it is a good one...but at least it is a fresh one...

...back to homework..have a nice day ...

*

Love your choice, gski v. nice. :)

I don't know whether I want to follow that link or not!

Have you noticed "suspicious activity" on your card?

Alice - What do you do if all that info pops up,like what just happened to you ?

Besides changing your credit card number,Pronto ?

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

your saturday morning funnies

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4659

"None of them work. Can you put up more?"

So, for whatever reason, Alice's info did not work?

because we've got some interesting conversations going this am, but work calls. My job is evenings and weekends so....

Have a great day.

It's beautiful here today. It will be in the 70s but rain much later tonight.

Keep the conversations going!

Later

will not open up from my browser (maybe the computer security is protecting me from the site) in any case if what alice says it's true i probably should not type in my phone number

what's your telecom provider alice, and is that a land line? maybe you should protest

i use credo mobile and i would think it's secure; i do not have a landline, only vonage computer line and a cell phone, the address and cc info would be on the cell phone line managed by credo

last few years I've gotten new numbers...I don't understand how they catch that but they do...most recently about two months ago..

sites but they are mainly wrong (they say I've lived in Lynchburg, they say I have a landline) and don't purport to have cc info.

Phew!

sorry you have to go

fernando gaggin with his head in the toilet bowl over lemon soup and mire with her french resistance stories of bug torture and alice with computer hackers hacking credit card numbers... great conversation... i should go back to the park and watch some ducks

Check your credit reports and straighten out any mischief.

See what help that cc company offers (if any) with id theft.

That's all I know.

Take the cannoli.

Or maybe just some bread.

..there's only a couple on. I'm thinkin' of taking it offline for a bit but don't won't to pull the plug on anyone.

I thought Alice said you could put your name into that
site & see if anything pops up..

But,since I can't read Spanish I can't see how to do it..

Plus,I'd be very hesitant to put any of my info into a site that I don't trust & can't even read..

Maybe,just my name but,this gringo can't even figure out where to put that info in..

Sometime ignorance is bliss ? :)

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

how did p find that?

Chavez Gifts Obama With Book That Assails U.S. for Exploiting Latin America

April 18, 2009 9:21 AM

At President Obama's meeting with the heads of South American countries this morning, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stood, walked over to him, and presented him with a copy of "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. [There's a link to the Amazon description of the book.]

Obama politely posed for a photograph with Chavez, shook his hand, and accepted the gift.

The book, first published in Spanish in 1971, offers a critique of the consequences of 500 years of European and U.S. colonization of Latin America.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/chavez-gifts-ob.html

...leave the gun...

MOorning! :)

"this machine kills fascists"

mmr. That's nice of you to ask though!

(No se encontraron resultados)

or at least a thread on a blog, where small-time cyber-criminals "network."

desde0= (start) from zero.

Hacker we know.

sobredosis=overdose.

I definitely would not put any of my info into their search engine or even hang out there a lot.

Anyone here listenin' to brr right now?
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 11:22am.
*******
I am now..

But,if you need to take it offline,Np go for it.. :)

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

That site Alice mentioned is trouble waiting to happen.I am confused why all the personal info is available. could someone who is cyber-wise elaborate.

she either gave her details for her own self-inflicted drama

or, and more sinister, it's a set up...

when you click on it, your details are stolen

(or maybe it's bona fide)

New show starts at the top of the hour.

A few more have logged on anyway which tells me Saturday cartoons are over. ;-)

I'm watching the race at Phoenix
Submitted by Fernando on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 11:28am.
mmr. That's nice of you to ask though!
*******
I wish I would have asked you but,I didn't.. :)

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

You know Animal Planet Saturday mornings have gotten out of control when they play porn music for copulating snails ...

"this machine kills fascists"

I should pay more attention to what I'm doing. There are cyber pirates out there.

was the combination to MMRules locker in 8th grade.

..still digging for more.

Alex Jones site making fun of or attacking Jane-ane garofalo
http://www.infowars.com/obamas-followers-more-reprehensible-than-the-neo...

Just thought I might have forgotten it &
that I should recheck how many Med's I took this am..

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

beauty day here.

How are you & family doing ?

Better I hope..

Wasn't Bgurl hurt & her Mom sick ?

Sorry but,I'm abit behind on the threads..

Get better soon you guys.. :)

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

Huh??

(From the Janeane article above.)

That moran murdered his own argument by the third paragraph:

"It should be obvious by now these people are worse — more rabid and mean-spirited and pathological — than the Bush neocons who managed to kill more than a million Iraqis and set the stage for what shall come under Obama..."

So people making fun of teabaggers are the harbingers of future atrocities that will (surely) eclipse the actual devastation left behind by the Bushies.

(how the hell do these people function?!?)

"this machine kills fascists"

SJ :)

was it "microcosmos"?

excellent film, if I recall, the snails were accompianied by an opretta.

ecrasez l'infame

as social commentary..
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04172009/profile.html

om mani padme hum

Drizzling, muggy day here. Great day to play games though! My hands hurt already.

Steve had to go into work due to poor scheduling at the post office. I think his boss needs to give me a call...he seems to be unraveling.

om mani padme hum

we be fine. everything squared away for the moment and a nice sunny day to boot!

looks like everything ticking along fine here too.

just took care of the taxwhackers and came out with refunds for both of us and a really reasonable accountant billing (i cherried out his old pontiac in 03 and he's still delighted).

My mason bees are zipping around and the doggers want a walk around the hood. nice to be in the grove eh?

sure some nice tunes today.

always loved "Genesis" by Jorma Kaukonen.

for SJ et.al.

nice to be in the grove eh?

Long as it's not the bohemian variety. ;-)

Submitted by ellwort on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 1:54am.
A Wonder at minimalism: She got it said, usually, in just four lines, usually alternating tetrameter and trimeter.
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Not that anyone cares but I'm peevish about the overuse of the verb "got" in colloquial English (and sometimes---horrors!---by writers who should know better).

Also, there is an irony in commenting about the merits of minimalism by getting it said instead of merely saying it.

This Sade tune was a tD request. She be into the smooooooth jazz of the smoooooooth operator.

Hey, you got the Skype right?

"Cons[ervatives are] finding out why I generally don't like protests on my side," Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsos said in a post-tea party tweet. "[T]hey bring out the wackos." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/tea-party-fallout-indepen_n_188...

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Got that, comrades?

no, not exactly, ecrasez...unless by "operetta", you mean funky bass and squirmy synthesizers...all that was missing was the moaning...

not that I minded, actually it's just cheeky humor...I've noticed an uptick in sexual innuendo on basic television lately...vibrator commercials, teabagging jokes, etc...it's funny to see us "pulling out" a little from the conservative dark ages

"Microcosmos", is leagues above what I was watching although it was in HD...

"this machine kills fascists"

Yup. I got that gotten.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

You can hear or read the following here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103175352

If I had written it, I would expect everyone to herald my brilliance.
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'The Drunken Driver Has the Right Of Way'
by Ethan Coen

The loudest have the final say,
The wanton win, the rash hold sway,
The realist's rules of order say
The drunken driver has the right of way.

The Kubla Khan can butt in line;
The biggest brute can take what's mine;
When heavyweights break wind, that's fine;
No matter what a judge might say,
The drunken driver has the right of way.

The guiltiest feel free of guilt;
Who care not, bloom; who worry, wilt;
Plans better laid are rarely built
For forethought seldom wins the day;
The drunken driver has the right of way.

The most attentive and unfailing
Carefulness is unavailing
Wheresoever fools are flailing;
Wisdom there is held at bay;,
The drunken driver has the right of way.

De jure is de facto's slave;
The most foolhardy beat the brave;
Brass routs restraint; low lies high's grave;
When conscience leads you, it's astray;
The drunken driver has the right of way.

It's only the naivest who'll
Deny this, that the reckless rule;
When facing an oncoming fool
The practiced and sagacious say
Watch out — one side — look sharp — gang way.

However much you plan and pray,
Alas, alack, tant pis, oy vey,
Now — heretofore — til Judgment Day,
The drunken driver has the right of way.

Excerpted from 'The Drunken Driver Has The Right Of Way' by Ethan Coen. Excerpted by permission of Crown Publishing Group/Random House.

bloggeristas

Although I would also demand accolades if I myself had gotten it written.

Nice day in nyc too?

Somebody splain.

but I gotten it now

tant pis |ˈtä n ˈpē|
exclamation
so much the worse; the situation is regrettable but now beyond retrieval.
ORIGIN French.

Sokay Leah...I don't foresee me protesting for that asshole anytime soon anyway...

Protesting against him some day...maybe...but neva for him. :)

He has always seemed to have trouble realizing it is not "his" side....it is OURS

I'll bet K-Y would sell more jelly, if they shaped their containers differently...

"this machine kills fascists"

As John Stauber notes, the Obama administration has done a swell job hijacking the antiwar movement. MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change, USAction, and other so-called liberal organizations — so vociferous when Bush was running things — have uniformly failed to condemn Obama’s Afghanistan policy. Jon Soltz, the head of VoteVets, went so far as to come out in support of Obama’s Afghan strategy in an Op Ed with The Huffington Post. “Liberal groups don’t want to distract from passing Obama’s enormous domestic agenda,” Soltz declared. “And officials with some of these groups don’t want to lose inside influence with the White House.” http://www.infowars.com/obamas-followers-more-reprehensible-than-the-neo...
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How true is this? Actually, the anti-war movement was hijacked during the campaigns to get a Democrat elected in 2004, as has been often noted. Our priorities are to get Democrats elected, and, I guess, lobby and support legislation to stop the war in Iraq. (What about Afghanistan?) But no protests, for those will, as Chairman Markos reminds us, only bring out the wackos.

..as a wooden Indian is to a cigar store.

..they both attract attention, and that's about all they do.

//these are self-described Christians we are talking about//
Submitted by gloryoski on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 9:14am.
Doesn't really narrow the field enough, does it?
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Au contraire, it does narrow the field.

I contend that the Christians who assert their Christianity at every turn are of a type, and it ain't a good one.

The followers of various Protestant tumors that have evangelism (witnessing, etc.) as their foundation have a ready-made excuse for touting their self-righteousness to anyone at any time. They are merely following orders to "spread the Word."

Others don't need an excuse to proclaim their piety.

OK, I guess. It's just I am used to hearing it in a more racially specific context and since the article was ranting also about race, it just seems confusing.

sunny and 70s!

I see whatcha mean but I still think it's kind of a blanket aspersion to cast on all "self-described Christians."

There are some ecumenical and/or academic discussions, for example, where people say it just to show where they are coming from.

I would have accepted "obsessively self-described."

theoretically i have Skype.

have'nt used it for years. was a POS sorta tha last few efforts.

i have a 3000 minute a month call anywhere phone plan, eo that's what i use.

Submitted by gloryoski on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 9:27am.
...She says that it is an anglo construction that wants to turn everyone into stereotypical Mexicans or Puerto Ricans...
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If she is successful in her battle against Anglo stereotyping, ask her to do something about Caucasian.

I don't even know anyone from Caucasus.

a Richard Thompson tune!

George Bush was to the Presidency
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 1:17pm.
..as a wooden Indian is to a cigar store.

..they both attract attention, and that's about all they do.
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I would add that the cigar store Indian looks like a Chief but isn't.

to make Norm go Away...

Liberal groups make organizing on the Internet seem effortless and I am always amazed at how simple and smart the campaigns are...

On the other hand, Republicans failed so miserably at promoting the tea parties on the web, that they needed FOX to publicize them.

"this machine kills fascists"

Well, there's that, and the fact that they both have a wooden head.....

So true,Cent..

And,me thinks he just might like the advertising revenues his
site generates,too much..

Just saying..

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

If instead a wooden viking was holdin' them stogies I'd be searchin' for my battle axe..

2 thumbs and big toes up for the "...looks like a Chief but isn't" crack Crank.

"Garofalo wasted precious little time (at 8.25 into the video here) dismissing millions of people opposed to Obama’s policies (that is to say the policies of Bush continued). Garofalo called all of us to the man and woman racist. Regrettably, Keith Olbermann agreed with her. "

The people who Janeane described as "straight up racist" were the teabaggers in particular (and I think in the main she is right). She did not say anything about everyone who was opposed to Obama's policies.

Later she further generalized about the limbic brain, but this was in terms of: "your average Republican, or conservative or white-power activist."

Still kinda stupid but she certainly wasn't saying anything about liberals etc. who are opposed to Obama policies--nor, would one think that such a remark would be especially offensive to Alex Jones libertarian types, since they claim they don''t believe in Democratic/Repub or conservative/liberal left/right binarism at all--that it's just a distraction.

IMO, the Democratic/Repub part has some plausibility, and there are people who act as "left gatekeepers" (whether with the direct backing of "the man" or not is debatable) and there can maybe be some coalitions between some parts of left/right in common cause (like defending the constitution.) But I think it's crazy to say that liberalism/the left is not ever real.

At best it's crazy. At worst it's a scheme of their own to sap more force from left politics and emphasize and demonize our disagreements.

Don't like these folks, sorry. They may be right slightly more than twice a day, but that don't mean they got all (or any) of the right conclusions in the long run.

People do hate a playa!

Kos can be very self-righteous and hypocritical and I've disagreed with him often, but the man has been a boon for progressivism.

I often cringe at protesters, myself, but I don't begrudge them their passion, regardless of the volume level or the grandstanding. It's just me reacting to loud displays of emotion, which is a stark counter to my own personality type. For me physical protesting is a silent act. I show up and occupy space to bolster numbers and to selfishly absorb the experience. I'm not a sign carrier or a shouter, and I doubt I will ever be. But, I can easily type down a rant.

I see that activism has many faces and I think they are all important and necessary. Markos has done a lot for Progressives and so has Code Pink and, hell, even if people think they're nuts, everyone knows Code Pink, so they've succeeded, as well. But, people also think Markos is nuts. And, I've seen him foam at the mouth in his posts, so it's a bit hypocritical for him to lambast a Code Pinker when he's just as capable of the literal equivalent. It's passive-agressive and small (and maybe even sexist) of him to deny them their boldness.

Both parties seem to attract a shitload of criticism from all sides and even really ugly hate, so try as he might to separate himself, in the end, Markos is in the same boat with them, so he might as well make friends. We all want the same end result, don't we?

"this machine kills fascists"

Submitted by gloryoski on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 1:09pm.
...Although I would also demand accolades if I myself had gotten it written.
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I'm a sucker for nice-guys-finish-last cynicism.

The humor is fun. And the wordplay, and the sounds and the sing-song. I'm a sucker for all of that, too.

Kubla Khan can. (Yes he can, can.) Is that alliterative whimsy, or what?

The guiltiest feel free of guilt;
Who care not, bloom; who worry, wilt;
Plans better laid are rarely built
For forethought seldom wins the day;
The drunken driver has the right of way.

Ah, sweet cynicism. Sociopath, anyone? No thanks, I have plenty.

Seriously? ;}

Submitted by 60th Street on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 2:21pm.
...I'm not a sign carrier or a shouter, and I doubt I will ever be...
--------
Next time borrow a kid and tape a sign on him/her.

I never pictured you as the quiet type IRL. You are always so outspoken and direct. Heh...just goes to show ya.....

My reaction to kos is predictable....anyone tells me, or any other progressive, to shut up and not voice peaceable dissent, or tries to dictate the manner in which it should be delivered, is gonna get it with both barrels. It is automatic with me.

His venom directed at the Hilbots during the primary was WAY over the top at times and turned me off of him permanently. That said, although KOS is capable of being an real asshole, I would never say an asshole can not contribute to the cause...if I did, I would be disqualifying myself, at times. :)

of Janeane Garofalo when I linked Nimmo's article. It was more to the electoral strategy neutralizing the antiwar movement. Merely voting and relying on good politicians to do the right thing and end the war is a dead end. (I am getting dejavu at writing this.) Anyone here can make a list of progressive movements that had a strong protest component, and the changes they brought about.

Ditto what cent said..

Except the asshole part.. ;-)
**
Plus,Markos banning the Election Fraud advocates on his site & giving Brad Freidman a rash of shit was BS..

But,there are tons of smart people & very good writing on
DailyKos.. :)

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

I guess I got confused because someone else had posted it upblog with a specific reference to "Janeane catching hell from the truthers." 60th posted a derisive comment. I asked about the Indian, and that was it.

That being the case, I took your excerpting directly into the blog as meaning, "Don't dismiss this out of hand. Look how right this guy is about this one thing."

So that lead me to explain why I dismiss him although he may have a point about that one thing. And it's not as though no one else has been commenting on this (cooptation of antiwar).

Your boy Laura's uncle (;))has been on MoveOn's case at least since their bogus poll on the 2007 (?) supplemental that didn't mention the out of Iraq caucus plan as an alternative for which to vote to support. And I agreed completely with him. And I told MoveOn so and also that I hated them for making me agree with Laura's uncle.

I know I have caught myself being hypocritical and try to be cognizent of that sort of egotism, if only to provoke enough guilt and shame in myself to strive to overcome it. :)

I used to really get upset at Jane Hamsher for what I thought was her bing reactionary and egotistical, but, I found out through posting comments on FDL that she actually engages her commenters regularly and often expresses views on a particular topic that she didn't voice in the post. It took me a while to realize that despite her personal objectiveness, she focuses well in her posts and sees that focus through in subsequent follow up posts and is overall a very fair critic.

"this machine kills fascists"

Exceptional in depth analysis on the health care situation...You and ToniD are right on the money on influences pushing the quasi-private model, the obstacles that will need to be moved out of the way, and how to move them to get to a public single payer solution.

...It does (and always will IMO) come down to the difference of taking greed out of the equation.

If you apply that same logic to any commodity necessary for basic human existence and the pursuit of prosperity you end up in a society with the greedheads competing freely over widgets, where they can be as selfish and ruthless as they want, without screwing up the rest of us....

...and, of course, the music this week was, as always, FANTASTIC!

Bravo dude...You have raised your show to an unbelievable level.

Watch Robert Greenwald's brilliant new documentary on why any military escalation in Afghanistan will likely lead to disaster:

http://rethinkafghanistan.com/videos.php

is interesting. He seems to be a good bell weather for me. While I don't agree with all of his components, Leninist, supporter of miliamen and right wing populists, his conclusions are prescient much of the time. Now, he is advising left economists to be prepared to step in because Obama is likely to shift to the left.

I sort of sense his backing of populists, as there are historical examples of these sorts of movement going progressive--and they are already populist. And we can think of what is now going on in places like Bolivia. Recall it was peasants in Bolivia who dropped a dime on Che in 1967. Many more examples.

There I go again. :)~

I watched Janeane's segment on KO's show and it was definitely directed squarely at extremist Republicans. She made that crystal clear in saying that it was all essentially about hating a black man having assumed the presidency.

That's not to say that there aren't millions of people who disagree with Obama's policies/politics, as there clearly are, on both sides. But, the Infowars people, and many other conservatives seeking to validate the tea parties, are deliberately misleading by implying that all of those millions partook of the glory that was teabbaging.

They do it to fudge the numbers of actual Americans behind the so-called "anti-tax" movement and to promote a false sense of unity behind anti-Obamaism overall when that is far from accurate.

"this machine kills fascists"

Submitted by MMRules on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 3:13pm.
...giving Brad Freidman a rash of shit was BS...
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Though I don't doubt that shit could cause a rash, methinks the expression is "ration of shit" as in "ration of rum" albeit less inebriating.

It's just a wild guess, though. I could easily be wrong. I thought that the lyrics to "Blinded By The Light" were "Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night" until very recently. (I don't like Bruce Springsteen's music so I was disappointed to learn that there were no douche's involved, wrapped or otherwise.)

"no douche's involved, wrapped or otherwise"

theres plenty of those involveded.

we just need better lyrics and songs.

Bruce is God in New Jersey!

http://www.counterpunch.org/mokhiber04162009.html

Man,What a Douche Bag !

Link

**

I sure hope Austin & Fernando can then secede from the Country of Texas..

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

I guess I'm not alone.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wrapped+up+like+a+douche

You just encapsulated my whole 3 hour show in about 50 words! Next time I think of a topic I'll bounce it off you first!

Less Talk, More Music!!!!

Move along folks there's nothing to see, er hear here. ;-)

Like that?

School's out for spring break..
Did ya forget to take your pill ? ;-)

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

Submitted by MMRules on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 3:56pm.
...sure hope Austin & Fernando can then succeed from the Country of Texas...
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http://www.answers.com/topic/secede

secede:intr.v.,
To withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance.

[Latin sēcēdere, to withdraw : sē-, apart + cēdere, to go.]

It was Manfred Mann's version that obscured the lyrics. "Wrapped up like a ducent/ another roaner in the night.

By Don Davis

“BY THE TIME WE GET FINISHED KILLING THE GOP’S FUTURE AS A SERIOUS PARTY … JONESTOWN IS GONNA’ LOOK LIKE A TEA PARTY.”

http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=6916
**

We can only hope..

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

tD posted here about a Lewin study and I spent a segment on it. Was not aware of their ties to the industry as it was not disclosed in the piece, but the article I used on Lewin said public care is what the public wants. As does every article on public health, it's all rosy until they bring up the argument that there's not enough dollars to make it fly. But just as they don't disclose who they are representing they fail to mention the 700B a year that is paid to providers and hosptials for questionable referrals, treatments, tests and procedures.

As for L's uncle, I'll give the guy credit for being smart, maybe too smart for me but everything I read by him makes me want to slip into a hot tub with a straight razor and just get it over with because the world is a cesspool and there is no Sooper Roto Rooter to clean it up.

That would have been a good reference to use if only to shine a light on the scoundrels.

Oh - now Lou Dobbs is angry at Janeane Garofalo. Some of what he's saying here makes him sound so square and simpleminded.

He even says her name is weird.

http://www.infowars.com/dobbs-on-garofalo-tea-party-comments-shes-just-n...

'Cause I've apparently been blackballed at Huffington Post

Red Badge of Courage.
The fucking cheer leading there, and at KOS is sickening.
It's nauseating listening to convoluted arguments aimed at proving Barack isn't a complete fraud.

You did good. Fuck them. And fuck Obama.

Leah's right it was Manfred Mann's Earth Band that slurred the lyrics to make them douchier. They also changed the lyrics to "revved up like a Deuce" (as in Deuce coupe)

The original Springsteen lyrics are clearly sung "cut loose like a deuce" and I always took it to mean as in discarding your twos in draw poker, although I see that online the prevailing argument is that Springsteen was also referring to the car.

"this machine kills fascists"

Proof we need her back.
Mark Thomas heaped tons of praise on her last night on MIP.
That show rocks.

That MSNBC is considering having Janeane somehow either on her own or with others in the 10pm slot. Keith has had her on his show a lot lately and very reminiscent of the exposure he gave Rachel before the network took her in.

I also noticed that she was more covered up this time as opposed to the past few times where she was in full sleeveless tat mode. I'll be interested to see if she continues to appear on his show and if she continues to dress up more.

That she is generating all of this response from the wingnuts has to be what MSNBC was gunning for!

Keith certainly seems to be enjoying it! Bless that dude! he really does use his powers for good. :)

"this machine kills fascists"

did anyone else hear msnbc discussing the theory that texas has a clause in its agreement to join the united states that would allow it to split into 5 separate states which would effectively give it 10 senators where it now has 2? of course it goes without saying that the person making the argument was a wing nut and said 8 of those senators would be far right christo fascists.

at ballet.

http://samsedershow.com/node/4666

Eduardo Galeano

"I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."

Galeano is widely known for his memorable quote, regarding the civilian-military administration of 1973-1985:

'People were in prison so that prices could be free'

During an interview with Amy Goodman on the night of Barack Obama's election as President of the United States, Galeano explained that

'The White House will be Barack Obama's house in the time coming, but this White House was built by black slaves. And I’d like, I hope, that he never, never forgets this.'

(Following the creation of TeleSUR, a pan-Latin American television station based in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2005 Galeano along with other left-wing intellectuals such as Tariq Ali and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel joined the network's 36 member advisory committee.)

http://samsedershow.com/comment/reply/4666

"'The national liberal media gets so snarky, it can’t stand itself', Dobbs said. 'Then all these too cute by half ideologues trying to pose as some sort of objective journalists. You know, these fools, start falling off their little high horses – it’s fun to me. But, I’m pretty sure you’re going to see a lot more snarky little nastiness coming out of the national liberal media."

Project much Lou?

"this machine kills fascists"

New York Times coverage by Scott Shane:

"The legal basis for this treatment [of Zubaydah (and others?)] is uncertain, but lawyers at CIA headquarters were in constant contact [emphasis added] with interrogators, as well as with Bybee's subordinate in the Office of Legal Counsel, John Yoo, who was drafting memos on the legal limits of interrogation."

So John Yoo was sitting in his bureaucrat's cubbyhole and was literally -- in REAL TIME -- there with the torture process. John Yoo HAS to be in the sadist category on this -- that category in which the sick individual gets excited not about wholesomeness and affection and beauty in Life, but only gets excited about Life from its proximity to Death.

John Yoo and F(r)iends remind me of those researchers whose unchecked curiosity gets to pathological states: Curiosity without limits always asks "What will happen if I do this?" and never asks the question within the framework of Morality! This is the usual Vivisectors' Code. Just as it makes Bad Science, it makes Bad Law.

John Yoo gives us the Chimera of Sadism -- Law and Vivisection (Torture) from his DOJ office where we can only guess how much sick enjoyment he experienced from his tasks of justifying torture. Yoo has invented a new profession that combines Law and Vivisection.

Is Barack Obama in favor of this development? His defense of the torturers and promise to protect them indicates his unwillingness to clean up the filth left by Bush in our. This indicates an acceptance of the New Law of John Yoo, does it not? And, if not, what does it indicate? Obama should make clear soon what his intentions are, or it will be time to put him in the company of John Yoo and F(r)iends!

Ooops....Sorry about the spoiler (seriously). Truthfully, it didn't even occur to me. So much for my showbiz sense.

I really like the concept of taking one issue and shredding it. You and ToniD did it extremely well, IMO.

Rock on MB.....

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