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AIPAC strives for political indoctrination for college and grade school students
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

May 7, 2009, 00:24

(WMR) -- The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) might learn a thing or two from Lyndon Johnson’s famous quote about FBI director J. Edgar Hoover: “It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”

Having received no word back from AIPAC on receiving credentials to cover their annual policy conference at the Washington Convention Center, this editor set out to pick up as many side conversations and abandoned AIPAC literature from the attendees’ hotel venues.

This year’s AIPAC policy conference’s theme is “Relationships Matter.”

At a luncheon event at the Hyatt Hotel across from the convention center, 193 student government association presidents from colleges and universities across the nation, including a fair number of historically African American universities, were treated to a right-wing message of unbridled U.S. support for Israel. Although AIPAC’s website states that College Democrats of America were invited to the luncheon in addition to the College Republican National Committee, the AIPAC message was clearly conservative in nature. One student, upon leaving the luncheon, said to his colleagues that he was encouraged by the luncheon’s theme of “spreading the conservative message on campus.”

For AIPAC, that message is ensuring that campus student organizations toe a pro-Israel line and that all campus initiatives to disinvest in Israel are defeated.

But it is not just America’s college students who are being subjected to AIPAC’s right-wing propaganda blitzkrieg. This editor overheard a conversation by another AIPAC attendee about continued non-profit funding for a network of summer camps to stress support for Israel and “Jewishness” among the generation following in the footsteps of college students and the generation following that. Clearly understood in the conversation was that the effort was planning for 30 years into the future

Con't

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4673.shtml

What's something really cheap I can have replaced on my car? Shit. I just had an inspection a month or so ago. The only place I can think of that i can get in to watch a tv at 7:15am and probably get to pick the channel is my car dealership.

Oh!!! I don't want to wait till this comes on YouTube !!!

..if you promise to refer to them as "The Three Fascist Douchebags", I'll even throw in a beer, what the hell!?!?!

p.s. Shannyn Moore is on CountDown tonight. I think to talk about Palin's plunging poll position problem.

om mani padme hum

studios in NYC.

I am often up anyway....and there is always the you tube, facebook, twitter, and on and on and on....

om mani padme hum

FoxNews is on perma-block at my house on all tv's. I made it a point to lock it with a code I don't even know. I can wait for the youtube I guess.

White Evangelicals for Torture

by Brian McLaren 05-01-2009

Too many white evangelicals stand for torture, according to a recent Pew Forum study reported by CNN.com.

White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than six in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.

These are disturbing statistics, and I hope they engender some dialogue among white evangelicals. These figures reminded me of something I wrote last year for Christian Century:

Consider this question: Is it ever justifiable to intentionally target innocent civilians in order to achieve other political or military ends? 86, 81, and 80% of American, Canadian, and British citizens say never. But only 46% of Iranians say never. A striking 24% say attacks on civilians are often or sometimes justified, and 6% say such attacks are completely justified.

The previous sentences are lies, dangerous lies. The fact that these lies nestle so easily into our presumed knowledge suggests why we need to rethink what many of us think we know about Islam — and ourselves. An important new book, Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, Gallup Press, 2007) would be a great place to begin such a rethinking.

The truth is that the scary figures attributed above to Iranians actually apply to Americans, and the more civilized figures attributed to Americans, Canadians, and British citizens apply to the people of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Iran (Who Speaks? p. 95). In contrast to the 6% of Americans who say civilian attacks are completely justified, only 2% of Iranians or Lebanese would agree, and only 4% of Saudis.

What do these statistics say about Americans in general and white American evangelicals in particular? Why would white evangelicals be most likely to support torture? Could some conventional theological assumptions of evangelicals have anything to do with it?

Brian McLarenBrian McLaren (brianmclaren.net) is a speaker and author, most recently of Everything Must Change and Finding Our Way Again.

http://blog.sojo.net/2009/05/01/white-evangelicals-for-torture/

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

..sure they do.

Don't they?

have you ever tried acupuncture like your Aunt? (I think you said aunt)

One category of the effects--

http://www.raw-wisdom.com/genetically-modified-food

[excerpt]

ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THREATS

"Even for the biggest "winners," it is like winning at poker on the Titanic."

Jerry Mander: Facing the Rising Tide

Monopolization of Food Production: The rapid and radical change in the human diet diet was made possible by quick mergers and acquisitions that moved to control segments of the US farming industry. Although there are approximately 1500 seed companies worldwide, about two dozen control more than 50% of the commercial seed heritage of our planet. The consolidation has continued to grow, In 1998 the top five soy producers controlled 37% of the market (Murphy Family Foods; Carroll's Foods, Continental Grain, Smithfield Foods, and Seaboard). One year later, the top five controlled 51% (Smithfield, having acquired Murphy's and Carroll's, Continental, Seaboard, Prestige and Cargill). Cargill and Continental Grain later merged. With corn seed production and sales, the top four seed companies controlled 87% of the market in 1996 (Pioneer Hi-Bred, Holden's Foundation Seeds, DeKalb Genetics, and Novaris). In 1999, the top three controlled 88% (Dupont having acquired Pioneer, Monsanto having acquired Holden's and DeKalb, and Novaris. In the cotton seed market, Delta and Land Pine Company now control about 75% of the market. The concentration is staggering. National farming associations see this dwindling of price competition and fewer distribution outlets as disfavoring and threatening the small family farm. Average annual income per farm has plummeted throughout the last decade. Almost a quarter of all farm operating families live below the poverty level, twice the national average - and most seek income from outside the farm to survive. A similar pattern is developing in Europe.

Impact on Long -Term Food Supply: If food production is monopolized, the future of that supply becomes dependent on the decisions of a few companies and the viability of their seed stocks. Like the example of Peru, there are only a few remaining pockets of diverse seed stocks to insure the long-term resilience of the world's staple foods. All of them are in the Third World. Food scientists indicate that if these indigenous territories are disturbed by biotech's advance, the long-term vitality of all of the world's food supply is endangered.

Biocolonization - In past centuries, countries managed to overrun others by means of fierce or technologically superior armies. The combined control of genetic and agricultural resources holds a yet more powerful weapon for the invasion of cultures. For only when a person loses food self-sufficiency do they become wholly dependent and subservient. That is why 500,000 farmers in India staged a protest on October 2, 1993 against GATT trade regulations and now oppose GM seed products.

Dependency: Under the new regulations of WTO, the World Bank, GATT, NAFTA, the autonomy of local economies can be vastly overridden. Foreign concerns can buy up all the major seed, water, land and other primary agricultural resources - converting them to exported cash rather than local survival crops. This is likely to further unravel the self-sufficiency of those cultures - and as with the past failures of the "green revolution."

[end excerpt]

things like Ms_A said?

Watch now how I'm going talk completely out my ass which is why I am putting a question mark after everything: If it's something serious, your white count might be low?? If your white count is low, maybe you don't want to fool with needles?? (When my mom's was, she didn't) How about Reiki?
(That last one only had a single question mark because it was actually a question.)

It might be a good thing to check before ya go..

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

If so, because anything that isn't a "regular checkup" is a 20$ co pay (like a reg. dr. visit is), but then when they refer me to somewhere it's not covered the same as a "regular dr. visit"...

Yes that is something I haven't tried on this...P is trained in Reiki...good idea...A lot of people swear by acupuncture here at work...or chiropractors...It is serious to have one this long...I'll come up with something soon...Soon as I turn in my final for school maybe it will just go away..cataloging nonsense, and is no fun..I can't imagine it could hurt me this much, but it's possible I suppose...

CENSORED...

Submitted by cent on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 2:45pm.
I always thought the difference between rendition and extraordinary rendition was just the legal status of the prisoner.
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Rendition is like mustering for roll call.

Extraordinary rendition is like rendering lard.

The legal status of one of those involves no torture.
.. unless of course, it involves death. Then it's homicide.

Something has to change. Here, enjoy:

Fernando,

According to Wikipedia, extraordinary rendition is extrajudicial blah, blah, etc.

It is interesting to note that extrajudicial can also be applied to shooting the woman who scratched your car with a shopping cart.

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

Submitted by SEDER on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 5:44pm.
I will be on Fox and Friends tomorrow at 7:15 am ET

UPDATE: BUMPED! if someone is awake at 7:15 let me know who got booked

____________________

Yakov Smirnoff

Maron. Is. God.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

But with retroactive immunity in an extrajudicial process to hide the fact that you were slicing peoples testicles during interrogation just looks like somethings not 100% right.

hmmm... not sure what it is. Something just smells stale or off....

Bumped? Rejected! Replaced! Kicked clean out to the curb! And by Fox News? How fuckin bad do you have to be to not meet the Fox News standards? They must have booked "Stuttering John", they wanted the original!

submitted by nora on thur,05/07/09
This is a very important post and I don't think the average person understands the seriousness of the CORORATE FOOD HUSTLE>

Thinks Sinko de mayo is a is a clogged drain at the Taco Bell he can make money on

Should always be fresh and come from an unopened package. A good Accupuncturist is very aware of the safety issues with the needles.

or her just being extra careful/paranoid.

I took for granted that needles would be sterilized.

My mom's white count was very low.

Forgot I was old and broke down too.

Also, very little talent. (Her, I mean. This is about _new_ wrinkles.)

I'm over it, I guess. ;)

Samantha Fox is going to be on fox & friends

lobbying for busts 4 justice...

woot!

YOU GO, GIRL!!

oops!

another sammy

I could understand being careful. I think it is ironic that accupuncture can stimulate the white cell count sometimes.
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A low white count definitely scares the crackers in the Alabama Board of Elections!

"People think it would be great to have big boobs, but it's an emotional issue,” Ms Williams told the Associated Press

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25446988-2,00.html

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Half the meds I'm on, I'm on for big- boob-related trauma.

As the eldest daughter of the late Patrick John Fox and Carole Ann Wilken, Samantha Karen Fox came from a family of market traders in the East End of London. She has a sister, Vanessa, who is six years younger, and a half-sister, Frederica, from her father's second marriage.

She attended St Thomas More RC School, Haringey...

After famously insuring her breasts for a quarter of a million pounds sterling, she won The Sun's Page Three Girl of the Year award for three consecutive years between 1984 and 1986.

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

THE SUN!!!

i love the sun...

The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland (where it is known as The Irish Sun) with the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world

Owner: News International
Key people: Rupert Murdoch
Industry: Mass media

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(newspaper)

oops!

another sun

is that true? I can't even watch...

cor blimey!!

life must of been unbearable before rock & roll...

oh! behave, you saucy sod

"I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" is a novelty song composed in 1944 by Fred Heatherton, an English songwriter, and celebrates coconut shy (coconut toss) at fairs. [wiki]

(it's all true, fernando)

i've got a lovely pair of coconuts

i just copped an earful of limbaugh on malloy...

"colin powell only voted for obama based on race!
there can be no other explanation for it"

this guy has been on air for what 20 years

and it's non-stop liberal bashing

every show is exactly the same as the previous show

every day
every day
every day!

are the same guy.

non-joe the non-plumber

is leaving the republican party (why)

because he's outraged at republican overspending

and this is your day...

every day
every day
every day!

prove it!

it's got to be hard to go to Sam's blog everyday just so everyone tells you to hum on their balls. TexasT and M the a-c has to carry a bit o damage around.

boom, boom, boom, boom...

bang, bang, bang, bang

~johnny lee hooker

and TexasT is war-dog

(proof!)

his haw-haw-haw gloating goading style is under my skin...

same ol' chipper, puerile bullshit

(m/ac is a genuine fan-boy)

is gonna give me nightmares.

Not nice.

Where is the story from, now? Did anybody catch that?

Oh, really not nice. Lay off Reverend Welton. He's cool.

http://wacsf.vportal.net/?fileid=4131

Philippe Sands, Professor of Law, University College London; International Lawyer representing British detainees at Guantánamo and author of Lawless World

John Yoo, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley; Former Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice and author of The Powers of War and Peace

Philippe Sands argues "Recent American actions are undermining the global legal order established after WW2 and promoting its economic interests at the expense of human rights and the environment."

John Yoo says, “Pressing challenges to the international order and to American national security, such as international terrorism, WMD proliferation, and rogue states, have highlighted the failure or obsolescence of some elements of the international legal system. “

Sands and Yoo will debate America's role in global law.

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so i don't have to delete it, i'll link...

the pussy & the cock

if it's offensive, just concentrate on the top half of the pic (awww)

and not the bottom half (ewww)

: )

I PROTEST!

it's not porn it's, um, political satire

(click pic to enlarge)

if I have to put degrees on it...

Film claims Florida
governor is gay
From Raw Story: The Republican governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, who is strongly considering a run for Senate, will be outed in a independent film being released tomorrow.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/07/gop-governor-eyeing-senate-run-to...

:)

Fawcett's Treatment Has Ended; Golden Locks Gone

Farrah Fawcett’s treatment for anal cancer “has pretty much ended,” partner Ryan O’Neal tells People. The 62-year-old actress spends nearly all of her time in bed now, with doctors trying to make her as comfortable as possible. “I just don't know how to play this one," said O'Neal. "I won't know this world without her.”

O'Neal also says Fawcett's iconic hair is gone. "Her famous hair. I have it at home. She didn't care. I rub her head. It's kind of fun, actually, this great, tiny little head. How she carried all that hair I'll never know. She doesn't have a vanity about it." Fawcett made a documentary about her illness, which will air in primetime May 15 on NBC.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20276981,00.html

Bi seems more normal...
Submitted by Alice on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 10:20pm.
if I have to put degrees on it...
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Gluttony.

Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success and popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [wiki]

no not that poison, this poison...

Several weeks ago the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security released a report - coordinated with the FBI - that examined the potential threats from right-wing extremist groups where it concerns domestic, homegrown terrorism.

The open and constant instigators of the sort of violence described in the report populate, like so many mutating viruses, talk radio and television and operate with complete impunity hiding, as they do, behind the guarantees of the First Amendment - guarantees that they, swine like Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz, et al, have no problem denying rational people.

During the presidential campaign normal Americans were able to watch on the evening news the spear point of this right-wing hate at more than one McCain/Palin rally. The shrieks and screams of “kill him” from the Republican herd in attendance and the repeated references by the candidates - especially the always-on-the-lookout-for-nearby-Demons - Sarah Palin...

more

http://www.mikemalloy.com/2009/05/07/poison/#more-582

I've read about the idea...

Bi Bi Love
Hello gluttony
Hello big orgy
I think I'm gonna cry
Bi Bi my loves oh my...

Peterson arrested on murder warrant

Former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson was arrested today in the death of his ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found drowned in an empty bathtub in March 2004, according to Will County State's Atty. James Glasgow.

At an evening news conference, authorities said a $20 million bail was included in the arrest warrant for Peterson.

Will County state's attorney's office spokesman Chuck Pelkie confirmed Peterson was arrested about 5:40 p.m. during a traffic stop at Lily Cache Lane and Weber Road in Bolingbrook in connection with an indictment in the murder of Savio.

When reached early Thursday evening, Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, said he was unaware of the arrest.

"You know more than I do. I'm on a plane it's taking off in 5 minutes to go to NYC. I guess they'll have a bond hearing Monday," he said.

Another attorney representing Peterson, Andrew Abood, released the following statement:

"Drew has steadfastly maintain (sic) his innocence regarding the rumor and innuendo that has circulated regarding the unfortunate death of Kathleen. Although he is disappointed with the decision of the state, he looks forward to the opportunity to once and for all prove his innocence in a court of law."

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/05/peterson-reported-arrested.ht...

over at the malloy blog

"oh, fuck you, mike -- your constant mocking of christians is painful"

(bounce)

headaches especially. Chiropractors have helped me with those...acupuncture too.

om mani padme hum

Pelosi’s Advisory On Abu Zubaydah And Torture
By: bmaz Thursday May 7, 2009 7:03 pm

As Marcy noted back on April 29th, the issue of Nancy Pelosi's briefing back in 2002 on the Bush/Cheney torture program, whether or not it was being applied to Abu Zubaydah and, if so, to what extent, has really turned into a he said-she said game. (See also here regarding the Porter Goss offensive against Pelosi and Harman).

So, it should not come as any surprise that yet another missive has been launched in this little passion play. Today's strike comes courtesy of Rick Klein at ABC News:

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah in September 2002, according to a report prepared by the Director of National Intelligence’s office and obtained by ABC News.

The report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, appears to contradict Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of waterboarding or other special interrogation tactics. Instead, she has said, she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques.

MadDog has slithered into the depths of Human Events.com to find what they claim is "the report". He has also given us a hand glossary for the abbreviations. The Washington Post seems to think it is "the report" as well, for what it is worth:

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress briefed on the tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House intelligence committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Pelosi has already, of course, issued a denial through a spokesman. More he said-she said. Quite frankly, without more, today's play should be taken with a grain of salt. Multiple major news organizations have this hot off the press info right after Congress receives it and right wing hit rag Human Events (Jed Babbin) is pitching it as a slam on Pelosi. How very convenient. As further evidence of the need for grains of salt listen to Leon Panetta in his own cover letter transmitted with "the report":

“This letter presents the most thorough information we have on dates, locations, and names of all Members of Congress who were briefed by the CIA on enhanced interrogation techniques. This information, however, is drawn from the past files of the CIA and represents [memorandums for the record] completed at the time and notes that summarized the best recollections of those individuals. In the end, you and the Committee will have to determine whether this information is an accurate summary of what actually happened. We can make the MFRs available at CIA for staff review.” (Emphasis added)

As should be crystal clear by now, "those individuals" that worked on the "past files of the CIA" "at the time" were not necessarily the most even handed and/or disinterested arbiters of the truth. The CIA has a big bone in this fight, and it rests completely in implicating Pelosi, Harman and other members of Congress in their bad acts.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/07/pelosis-advisory-on-abu-zub...

Nazi John Demjanjuk
to be deported to
Germany for trial.

Whoops. Wrong Nazi.

The correct Nazi.

the other day.

I don't know whether it was cuz I said shit--prolly partly.

I got mad at something a caller said--not a right-wing caller. It was no big deal. I just wanted to say my say.

Now that it's happened, I don't really feel like listening to Stephanie anymore.

I'm sure I'll get over it eventually.

The next day I turned it on and she was all like "OOOh Ben Bernanke says everything's gonna be ok so..." That was part of it too.

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Spitzer: "a breakdown of capitalism"
by Chris in Paris on 5/07/2009 06:45:00 PM
Eliot Spitzer made some bad decisions in his personal life but he's been on the money for a while when it comes to Wall Street. The interview on CNBC is as blistering as I've ever heard him. He slams Wall Street greed, Greenspan, regulatory failures and also asks hard questions about Goldman Sachs. (Why the heck is Goldman not on the troubled bank list today and how did they receive almost $13 billion via AIG without question?) When I listen to him on CNBC is infuriates me that he made so many poor personal decisions because this was someone who really understand what was going on and how costly the failures would be for the country. The interview is inside the link and definitely worth the investment of 10 minutes. If only we had a few more hardball types out there today who could make a difference.

We won’t know if these bank stress tests are real until we see how the government measures them, said Eliot Spitzer, former governor of New York.

"What we have seen is a breakdown of capitalism," Spitzer said in a live interview on CNBC. "We have seen a libertarianism driven by Alan Greenspan's worldview that was absolutely destructive to the life-savings of middle-class Americans. The Fed has been sliding [money] into these banks through hidden mechanisms, lowering interest rates, this notion of converting the common stock…It is the same scam continuing—and this should not continue."

Spitzer criticized the bank stress tests and said the middle class will suffer the most as a result. He said that without any change in bank behaviors, the banking crisis would only continue to persist and grow.

A trillion dollars and counting yet no changes in corporate leadership or business practices. How does that work? The most troubling is Spitzer's comment at the end when he responded that he does not believe we've learned anything from this crisis. I'd like to be wrong on this but I would agree.

http://www.americablog.com/2009/05/spitzer-breakdown-of-capitalism.html

Some of us got home training.

N.Y. Fed board chair Stephen Friedman resigns
By Emily Barrett

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Stephen Friedman has resigned as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, saying his role had been at the central bank has been maligned.

Friedman notified New York Fed President William Dudley and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke of his decision, effective immediately, in a letter Thursday.

At the end of April, Friedman, a former Goldman Sachs GS) chief executive and White House economic adviser, said he would leave his post at the N.Y. Fed by the end of 2009, a year before his term ends.

The sudden move Thursday follows controversy over Friedman's continued presence on the board of Goldman Sachs last autumn, and his large holdings of stock in the firm when its status switched to that of a bank holding company. In November, when then-president of the New York Fed Timothy Geithner was nominated as Treasury Secretary in the Obama Administration, Friedman led the search committee for his replacement.

The NY Fed had secured a waiver from the Fed's Board of Governors to allow Friedman to stay to the end of 2009 while remaining a Goldman director and shareholder. To remain beyond that, he would have to sell his Goldman shares and leave the Goldman board; he has chosen to leave the Fed board instead.

"Although I have been in compliance with the rules, my public service motivated continuation on the Reserve Bank Board is being mischaracterized as improper," Friedman wrote in his resignation letter. "The Federal Reserve System has important work to do and does not need this distraction."

Executive vice president and general counsel at the New York Fed Thomas Baxter said in a press release published on the central bank's Web site that, "there is no doubt that 2008 was one of the most challenging years in the New York Fed's history," and "we were fortunate to have Steve as our chairman during that time."

Referring to Friedman's purchase of additional Goldman shares in December and January, Baxter wrote "it is my view that these purchases did not violate any Federal Reserve statute, rule or policy."

Representing the Fed's Board, vice chairman Donald Kohn thanked Friedman for his service, adding in the press release, "I particularly appreciate the very rigorous process Steve established to select the new president of the New York Fed."

In keeping with the Federal Reserve Act, Deputy Chair of the board Denis Hughes will take over the immediate vacancy.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ny-fed-board-chair-stephen/story.aspx?guid={BDD6D918-96B7-42AC-A1ED-981F92A849A5}&siteid=yahoomy&print=true&dist=printMidSection

..I would explain to you that the body can only respond to one pain at a time. My prescription and plan for you would be as follows:

1. Have 2 or 3 of your favorite adult type beverages
2. Have p rearrange the furniture all over your home.
3. Put on a blindfold, take off your shoes and go for a brisk walk.

Eventually you'll stub a toe or a shin and it will hurt like hell.

Your headache will be gone!

I'll accept whatever your insurance will pay and waive any co-pay.

Obama’s budget eliminates funding for abstinence education programs.

Keeping with a campaign pledge “not continue to fund abstinence-only programs,” President Obama’s 2010 budget — further details of which were released today — cuts funding for “Community-Based Abstinence Education” and several other abstinence-education programs (p. 491):

picture-11

Indeed, abstinence programs have been shown time and again to be unsuccessful in preventing teen pregnancies. (HT: Ben Smith)

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/07/obama-abstinence-budget/

Mrs. Rosewater.

Cross-gender casting. ;)

a wing nut rings malloy

and malloy will give him the same treatment...

he hangs up on him

then it's half an hour of responding to what an asshole the caller

like, derr

(why he even bother)

It's the simple things that often matter most.

Submitted by maggiesboy on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 11:08pm.
..I would explain to you that the body can only respond to one pain at a time.
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Like air-ono, for instance.

"our threats aren't really from outside this country"

so sayeth malloy...

oi!
it's from both!

moon...about to triple check my final and turn it in...and so I bought some sierra nevada to drink now...to celebrate the end of a very difficult class...I'll give 2&3 to the p-harmacist... :) Your fees are quite fair...

just by emailing them...and the LA Derby Dolls got Gene Simmons to sing the anthem at a bout...cool...

Under Restructuring, GM To Build More Cars Overseas

By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 8, 2009

The U.S. government is pouring billions into General Motors in hopes of reviving the domestic economy, but when the automaker completes its restructuring plan, many of the company's new jobs will be filled by workers overseas.

According to an outline the company has been sharing privately with Washington legislators, the number of cars that GM sells in the United States and builds in Mexico, China and South Korea will roughly double.

The proportion of GM cars sold domestically and manufactured in those low-wage countries will rise from 15 percent to 23 percent over the next five years, according to the figures contained in a 12-page presentation offered to lawmakers in response to their questions about overseas production.

As a result, the long-simmering arguments over U.S. manufacturers expanding production overseas -- normally arising between unions and private companies -- is about to engage the Obama administration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/07/AR200905...

Consumer borrowing plunged in March at the fastest pace in 18 years as Americans put away their credit cards and hoarded cash amid the worst recession in decades.

The Federal Reserve said Thursday that consumer borrowing dropped 5.2 percent in March, the biggest decline since an 8.1 percent fall in December 1990.

In dollar terms, consumer borrowing plunged by $11.1 billion. That's the largest dollar amount on records dating to 1943, and more than three times the $3.5 billion drop that economists expected.

The borrowing category that includes credit cards dropped 6.8 percent in March after a 12.1 percent plunge in February. The category that includes auto loans fell 4.2 percent after rising by 1.2 percent in February.

The Commerce Department last week said that the personal savings rate edged up to 4.2 percent in March, marking the first time in a decade that the savings rate has been above 4 percent for three straight months.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/07/national/w12...

Illinois may pull money from Wells Fargo if Obama suitmaker is shut down

The fight to keep the Hartmax Corp. suit factory in Des Plaines, Ill., alive stepped up Thursday when the state treasurer threatened to pull Illinois' business from Wells Fargo & Co. if the bank backs a bid that could lead to liquidating the company.

"Unless the company remains open, they will not be doing business with the state of Illinois any longer," Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias told a crowd of workers outside the factory, who gathered on their lunch break.

The Chicago-based manufacturer, which makes suits for President Barack Obama, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Jan. 23 and is in talks to be sold soon. The Des Plaines factory, opened in 1982, employs 600 workers making men's suit coats. The company employs roughly 3,000 union workers in the U.S.

Backdropped by signs saying "Wells Fargo gets bailed out, workers get sold out," union leaders said they worry that a new owner would close the factory and liquidate the company or send production overseas. They say the bank has an obligation to protect jobs in light of the $25 billion it received in federal TARP bailout money.

"Wells Fargo has to understand that if they take a short-term approach they're creating the same problem that got us into this mess," said Tom Balanoff, president Service Employees International Union state council.

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2316537

..I'm trying to dumb it down for an equally good reply but it's giving me a headache.

Be back as soon as I chug a couple glasses of Two Dog and run around barefooted in the dark. ;-)

thanks for that swine flu link

but that was last night and since then i got bored with it

if i didn't get bored i'd learn how to splice

alice cooper's poison with samantha fox's touch me

a la nancy sinatra & lee hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning"

I want to taste you but your lips
Are venomous poison...

(touch me -- touch me -- i wanna feel your body)

i had to switch him off for a second time...

he had another wing nut

"what is wrong with you people, i would prefer if you would not call"

well, don't have them on

No wonder your head hurts?!?!?

I was doing so well too. Almost fully functional.

Damn

Submitted by air-ono on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 11:37pm.
thanks for that swine flu link
----------
I read it twice. On the second go-around I paid more attention to the notes following some of the entries.

The accounting appears to have included the initial awareness and the degree of concern of various health and media entities across the globe.

I hope it is accurate and comprehensive. It is comforting if a competent group is connecting all of the dots all of the time.

We made this ad a couple weeks ago—and we've been so eager to show you! It's funny and memorable, and we smile every time we see it. :-)

But we wanted to wait until there was a critical moment on health care to break it out.

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Free Democracy

Governor Calls Obama’s Cuts 'Outrageous' Proposed Budget Cuts for Fiscal Year 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-109

Governor Calls President’s Budget Cuts ‘Outrageous’

May 7, 2009, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today expressed great dismay over President Obama’s proposed budget cuts for Fiscal Year 2010.

The president proposes to cut millions from missile defense funding and to reduce spending for the Denali Commission and the Village Safe Water program.

“These budget cuts add up to about half of 1 percent,” Governor Palin said. “But while they do little to put brakes on the exploding federal deficit, they hit Alaska hard. I join our congressional delegation in their determination to see that Alaska’s unique challenges and its key role in national defense are not overlooked.”

The Obama budget would cancel a second missile defense field at Fort Greely and freeze the number of interceptors being deployed there.

“This is an outrageous move at a time when North Korea has shown its willingness to flout international sentiments and conduct missile tests,” Governor Palin said. “America needs a strong missile defense, and Alaska’s strategic location is invaluable in protecting the nation.”

The president’s proposed cuts also would weaken the Village Safe Water program, which has been key in reducing health risks through improved sanitation in some of Alaska’s poorest villages. Similarly, cuts to the Denali Commission eliminate job training programs in some of the most impoverished areas in the United States, eliminate village health clinics, and eliminate clean-up efforts for waste threatening water supplies.

Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell expressed concern about the Obama administration’s proposed reduction in oil and gas exploration incentives. “That would have the effect of maintaining our dependence on foreign sources of energy, which is contrary to the president’s stated objective. The higher energy costs for every citizen amounts to a tax on everyone. I hope the president will reconsider.”

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BOO FUCKING HOO

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php?id=1822

Free Democracy

..and saw her popularity plummeting.

Uh, she who sees Russia, N. Korea has 0 reliable missiles capable of doing any damage. We have waaaaaaaaaay too many already that can remove them from the planet.

Better call Boss Limbaugh for more SarahPac $$$. You're going to need it.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124172949063297725.html?mod=googlenews_w...

National Day of (Conservative, Christian) Prayer

..."At this time in our country's history, we would hope our President would recognize more fully the importance of prayer," said Shirley Dobson, chairwoman of National Day of Prayer Task Force, which organizes the prayer day festivities. The Family Research Council said Obama's decision to not have a big White House prayer event constituted a "de-emphasis on prayer."

I think this is actually a case of religious conservatives having cut off their noses to spite their faces. Putting aside for a moment the question of whether it's appropriate for the White House to be involved in encouraging prayer, this particular occasion has evolved in a way that almost guaranteed its demise.

The Bush White House had National Prayer Day run by a conservative, evangelistic Christian group...

-Finals?!?!?
Submitted by maggiesboy on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 11:41pm.
No wonder your head hurts?!?!?-

I just sealed the envelope with my assignment inside to send to the teacher...I will be all better by morning...or at least by Monday if I can get some decent carefree relaxing going between now and then...

all the public services are being slash-ola-d...it's stressful for everyone...(and now we can keep up on the unemployment rates with google's public data search....)...

i spoke too soon

last night in bed, i switch on the radio

//Is swine flu really a cause to panic?//

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/episode/0,,4166199,00.html

swine flu just wasn't on bbc's news bulletin

nor were they scrambling for (cherry picked)* experts

[* one for us conspiracy buffs]

: )

about it anymore"...that whole thing was weird...somewhere between your weird and Crank's weird I guess...

What's Italy’s secret vegetable?

FUCK ME!

Parsley...

//Parsley is the world's most popular herb. It derives its name from the Greek word meaning "rock celery" (parsley is a relative to celery).//

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=100

i'm getting into the parsley market

3 bucks for a few extra sprigs of parsley

Wall Street Journal Smackdown Of Conservative Christianiacs
Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 12:11am.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124172949063297725.html?mod=googlenews_w...

National Day of (Conservative, Christian) Prayer

..."At this time in our country's history, we would hope our President would recognize more fully the importance of prayer," said Shirley Dobson, chairwoman of National Day of Prayer Task Force, which organizes the prayer day festivities. The Family Research Council said Obama's decision to not have a big White House prayer event constituted a "de-emphasis on prayer."

I think this is actually a case of religious conservatives having cut off their noses to spite their faces. Putting aside for a moment the question of whether it's appropriate for the White House to be involved in encouraging prayer, this particular occasion has evolved in a way that almost guaranteed its demise.

The Bush White House had National Prayer Day run by a conservative, evangelistic Christian group...

*********************

They wrote a bible verse just for the Dobson's of the world ...

Matthew 6:5-6: "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men....when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...."

alice

: )

because I know that there's no safe way to reply to that....

:)

he found a good way...

(Hi Kev...)

between the o.g. and me to see who runs out of ciggies first and has to go to the supermarket

"oh, and buy some parsley, too... i forgot to buy some last night"

(heh-heh)

we gots cabin fever

how else do expect me to travel vast distances...

WALK!?

what are you outta your mind

...and if you're really good he'll get your parsley too...

8-) BOO YA

And shrimp hang-out at the volcano...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090507-guam-underseavolc...

Washington Post

President Obama's modest proposal to slice $17 billion from 121 government programs quickly ran into a buzz saw of opposition on Capitol Hill yesterday, as an array of Democratic lawmakers vowed to fight White House efforts to deprive their favorite initiatives of federal funds.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she is "committed" to keeping a $400 million program that reimburses states for jailing illegal immigrants, a task she called "a total federal responsibility."
Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) said he would oppose "any cuts" in agriculture subsidies because "farmers and farm families depend on this federal assistance."
And Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-N.Y.) vowed to force the White House to accept delivery of a new presidential helicopter Obama says he doesn't need and doesn't want. The helicopter program, which cost $835 million this year, supports 800 jobs in Hinchey's district. "I do think there's a good chance we can save it," he said.

The news releases began flying as Obama unveiled the long-awaited details of his $3.4 trillion spending plan, including a list of programs he wants to trim or eliminate. Though the proposed reductions represent just one-half of 1 percent of next year's budget, the swift protest was a precursor of the battle Obama will face within his own party to control spending and rein in a budget deficit projected to exceed $1.2 trillion next year.

As small as it is, the list of reductions highlights Obama's first effort to reshape priorities that were tilted heavily toward defense and national security under President George W. Bush. While the Pentagon would get a significant increase overall, more than half Obama's projected savings -- $8.8 billion -- would come out of 14 defense programs, the most from any agency. And for the first time since 2003, the budget would devote more money to the war in Afghanistan than to the one in Iraq.....

-Democrats Assail Obama's Hit List
Submitted by Kevin © on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 1:22am.-

Abolish money...

but it'd worry me...

i wouldn't even go down on a transvestite

no matter how effervescent they were

(update: i don't even want him using my utensils)

sssh...

here he comes

Undersea volcano eruption
Submitted by nora on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 1:22am.

And shrimp hang-out at the volcano,,

I saw that one .... it's pretty good.

...

Just like Iraq? Then add the Desert of Death. Building bases for the militarist occupiers...

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL43643820090507

[excerpt]

A huge U.S. military camp is taking shape in the baking heat of southern Afghanistan for thousands of extra U.S. troops charged with defeating a resurgent Taliban.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Camp Leatherneck, with concrete blast walls and semi-cylinder sand-colored tents, on Thursday as he surveyed preparations for what will be the biggest wave yet in a year that is seeing U.S. troop numbers doubled.

The camp is being constructed in Helmand province next to a British base, Camp Bastion, as Marines and other forces dramatically expand their presence in the most violent area of Afghanistan and heartland of the Taliban movement.

Construction workers clambered on the wooden frame of a new headquarters building as Gates spoke at the camp, where the majority of more than 8,000 marines now flowing into southern Afghanistan are expected be based.

"This place was desert at the end of January. I mean: nothing, said Navy Captain Jeff Borowy," the top U.S. military engineer in southern Afghanistan.

"Now you've got a 443-acre secure facility," he told reporters traveling with Gates.

...

Getting supplies to the remote desert -- named the Desert of Death by local tribesmen because of its extreme summer heat and desolation -- and building the camps in time for the influx of troops has posed challenges, Borowy said. In one innovative attempt to deal with the conditions, marines bagged up recycled water from camp showers and kitchens and used it to prepare sand for the aircraft parking area.

"We're in the middle of the desert so getting water's pretty interesting," Borowy said.

[end excerpt]

the o.g.: "were you just writing about me"

ono: "no, why would i write about you!... you think you're somebody special, dontcha!... a fucking hero, a big shot, some 007 cunt!"

[stab]

: )

[i actually read it to him]

This is a strange thang for sure -- like why stop saving lives?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/07/obama-budget-bans-federal_n_199...

[excerpt]

President Obama's budget released Thursday takes a step backward from a controversial political position he had taken during the presidential campaign.

Obama, during the primary campaign, pledged his support of needle exchange programs to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS. When he took over the White House, the administration website affirmed: "The President also supports lifting the federal ban on needle exchange, which could dramatically reduce rates of infection among drug users."

Yet Obama's budget includes language that bans spending federal money on needle-exchange programs.

White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said the administration isn't yet ready to lift the ban - but Obama still supports needle exchange.

"We have not removed the ban in our budget proposal because we want to work with Congress and the American public to build support for this change," he said. "We are committed to doing this as part of a National HIV/AIDS strategy and are confident that we can build support for these scientifically-based programs."

He added, "In recent years, Washington has used the budget process to litigate divisive issues and score political points. This practice, which both sides have engaged in, has limited our ability to tackle our major economic challenges. President Obama decided not to play politics as usual with this budget and while he remains committed to supporting the program he wants to address that through the normal legislative process."

The White House website no longer features the president's support of the program, however. See the before and after here.

"It's hard to imagine how removing mention of support for a proven lifesaving program from the White House website is part of a grand strategy to 'build support' for syringe exchange," said Tom Angell, a spokesman for the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

[end excerpt]

bettter us than them

: )

Do you have a job?

Wayne Madsen reports that Israelis target students...

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4673.shtml

s...

What makes me think I want to spend any time contending with Government?

Ridiculous...

I work for asked for our cost saving ideas..and even put a website up for us to say so...that's a little bit of something...I think...except that they pay "consultants" a kajillion probably to figure out the same things....which never made any sense to me...

down in dingly dell

Storyteller: Hello, children. Hello. Here is this morning's story. Are you ready? Then we'll begin. "Rumpletweezer ran the dinky-tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dum-dum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and..."

[Shocked, he begins flipping through the book without bothering to read it]

Storyteller: Discipline... naked... with a melon?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650977/quotes

so i put down as my occupation: parsley grower

: )

Storyteller: "One day, Ricky the magic pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumble-down cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly, he grabbed her heavy shoulders, pulling her down onto the bed and ripping off her..."

I just found out that Texas T and air ono
Submitted by Ducavurl on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 1:34am.
are the same guy.

once upon a time it was....

I just found out that Texas T and m the a-c
Submitted by Ducavurl on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 9:20pm.
are the same guy.

and i was going to say your style reminds me of war-dog

but i went against my better judgement

and didn't pre-empt anything

?

gimme an honourable gangsta who has nothing to prove

over your ordinary shmoe, anyday

who has to crawl in through a rat-hole in the middle of the night

to acheive his deeds

(no guts, no glory)

just a snivelling rat

how may i be of assistance...

huh!?

with a melon!?

: )

not real rats

i'm talking about the human variety of rat

such as the gay christian preacher

who denounces homosexuality

and go to see the doc

xox

eeeeeeeeeeeee!

If a stray asteroid destroys us all and all that is left for the aliens to discover is kitteh pictures I'd be kind of OK with that.
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http://www.vodamusic.com/blog/

*

Giving away the bank to all its employees

A: I just never thought that I was solely responsible for the success of the bank. I owned the bank. I enjoyed the profits, the dividends. And I always realized that while there were 400-plus people doing the work, making it successful, the profits were going in one direction.... I felt, particularly based on longevity, that these people were owners. They acted like owners. They worked like owners ... I wanted to acknowledge that.

We had excellent compensation. Unlike many companies, we didn't just pay it out in huge ways to the top people. But I had a formula based on how long people had been there. No one really knows that formula but me. The longer you were there, the more money you got. In many companies, the people who stay the longest are closer to the bottom of the compensation scale. People near the top tend to move around a lot more.
...

I'd be kind of ok with that too..and will be totally ok with that if I drink one more beer... :)

I'm the voice inside your head
You refuse to hear
I'm the face that you have to face
Mirrored in your stare
I'm what's left, I'm what's right
I'm the enemy
I'm the hand that will take you down
Bring you to your knees

So who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?

Eau de bibi... :)

you're war dog now....

Chosun Ilbo

The North Korean elite lead insecure lives nowadays. Some members of the Unification and Propaganda Department of the Workers Party, accused of having bungled their South Korea policy, have recently been sent to the Yoduk concentration camp.

All North Korean intelligence officers assigned overseas were called back home early this year to undergo questioning by the State Security Department. About 30 percent of them have yet to return to their overseas posts, and those who have returned were emaciated from harsh interrogations, according to sources.

Asked what the food situation is like in North Korea, a North Korean overseas official said what was more serious in the North is the manhunt. The State Security Department is hunting innocent people in a bid to ferret out spies implicated in South Korea's recently reinforced overseas intelligence activities.

With economic aid from the South suspended since the Roh Moo-hyun administration ended, the North Korean elite have begun watching their leadership. The North Korean regime, though it managed without much difficulty thanks to the South's handout aid in the past decade, was unprepared for the post-Roh era. Kim Jong-il and the top leadership, despite an extreme economic crisis, shot dead South Korean tourist in the Mt. Kumgang resort, applied pressure over the joint Kaesong Industrial Estate, and fired a missile.

Ordinary North Koreans are pessimistic about these self-destructive acts. The elite fear that if Kim Jong-il goes under, so will they. A recent sharp increase in the defection of senior North Korean figures is not unrelated to that sense of crisis.

The elite have witnessed two types of transformation. One was the German unification and the other China's reform and opening. German unification completely deprived all East German Communist party and military leaders of their privileges and made them jobless. Kim Jong-il had the plight of former East German leaders photographed and shown to North Korean cadres. And many members of the elite, though they detested Kim Jong-il, thought they had no alternative but to follow him for fear of losing their privileges if the regime collapsed. That is why the regime did not collapse despite the 1990s famine that starved millions to death.

The current crisis, however, stems from the gradually growing power of the masses. The state is unable to ration food, the market has expanded and the power of individuals is growing to an uncontrollable extent. The elite have no choice but to think seriously about Chinese-style reform and opening as a way to survive. They generally agree that the North is not a normal socialist country, and that Chinese-style reform is not the betrayal of socialism the Kim Jong-il regime claims it is.

That is why a consensus is emerging in the North that a socialist collective leadership is needed, and that idolatry of the great leader should be abandoned to achieve reform and opening. That the Workers' Party's Operations Department recently shifted its major role from defending the North against the South to safeguarding the political system in the course of revamping the National Defense Commission is one result of that change. The shift shows how determined the regime is to punish anyone who defies it. A power struggle between conservatives, who will share their fate with Kim Jong-il, and the normal elite looms. We should watch closely.

By Kang Chol-hwan from the Chosun Ilbo's News Desk

Kevin.. that rules ! Thanks! :) hahaha.

MOOOOOO!!!

Blackangus!!!

8-)

Free Democracy

jamesbennett's birthday is next wednesday

chubbszs is next thursday

according to some records I found in blog secretary's drawers...

Goodnight Kev..thanks for the fun and nightie to the Blog...

xox

Ha ha, yeah well my brother dropped by today, so there was enough beer involved for me to think that if I could have the aliens find only one thing remaining of our society(ies) I might just pick pet videos.

Would they understand us any better if they had more facts to go on? At least the pet vids show us in a decent light.
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http://www.vodamusic.com/blog/

fox pundits at 7:15 were judith miller, dan giersten, michael gallagher and the 1st topic was too complain about obama's budget cuts. coming up is a discussion of giving welfare money to gitmo prisoners after we release them into the heartland.

and here it was i thought i would see some boobs talking about boobs.

sam, fox news is not worthy.

and see who bumped Sam. Why would I taint a perfectly good day off watching that bad clown show?

g'mornin' kids.

on in the morning drive. its time to dump morning blow.

is Bill Press and he just doesn't cut it. I normally opt for NPR Morning Edition. The content is good but I have problems with some of their newsfolk who just sound too snooty.

decided to go make some breakfast and stare at the paper. goetta and fried eggs. mmmm.

I'm out of eggs and cereal. Could make some oatmeal but I'll have to wait for the coffee to kick in to get my personal stimulus plan working.

Yesterday I slow cooked a roast in the crocker with just 1 big sweet onion and half a cup beef bouillon. When it was done I took meat out, stirred it up and added 1 cup of Famous Dave's BBQ sauce (it's what they had at Costco). I made a sandwich on my homemade whole wheat bread and wondered what would happen if I used some of au jus from the pot. Oh god it was good. Sloppy, prolly fulla fat, but it was good.

I refrigerated the broth so I can skim the fat and do it again today.

Man, now I'm making myself even more hungry. ;-)

sounds like a real treat. its been warm for a few weeks so we've had the grill fired up already.

should be interesting to see if there's a big change in the jobs number after wednesdays adp surprise.

also known as dijon derrangement syndrome.

seems that obama ordered spicy mustard on his cheeseburger the other day and everyone knows that real ahmerikans use catsup.

I use dijon. Must be prophetic because I hadn't had any for quite a while but picked some up the last time I went shopping.

How freaking shallow of that bonehead to try to use a condiment to spread juicy, yet tasteless, innuendo. I'm surprised he didn't say Abu Zubaydah is the Dijon spokesperson.

The right has less than nothing to offer (to the table).

..must get off this food theme!

so is anybody else convinced that tarp and bank bailouts were a scam for bush and his cronies to loot the treasury one last time and in the process cripple the governments ability to offer a safety net for years to come?

these stress tests are a sham.

====

the real question is how did the trilateral commission threaten obama so that he became another corportatist whose mission was to save capitalism. we got change, but the change was in obama.

that the wizards at apple can't put a windows skin on the pc version of itunes.

===

there's two things to talk about that aren't food related.

we lost another 539,000 jobs which was less than the forecast 600,000.

it is lower because we added 72,000 jobs to the government payrolls.

"Dorito pudding?"

Just trying to help out, dan.

Does it say? I know we're down a lot of needed govt jobs cut by Bush. We need to dump most of the costly contractor jobs and civil service them back into the fold with a leaner meaner model. We need to realize that we can hire in some very bright bulbs into the federal govt [who can work] smarter and harder.

..than the pencil pushers of the past.

I slept through MOJO again. Maybe that's good!

Jobs down this week but there's a slew of people being laid off yet to collect. Like my friend Rita who was told this week that her job is gone July 1. That's from Discover Card. And I read that DuPont is laying off 20,000 people.

Still these numbers seem low to me for the hurt I see out there.

don't know. i guess i am undecided as to whether a govt job is good for the economy. i know we need good people staffing the government and i really don't like the outsourcing model but at the same time the number above is 72,000 people who need me to pay taxes for them to get paid.

what would make the indecision go away would be knowing what type of jobs got filled and whether they contribute to the functioning or whether they are workfare so that everyone can make ends meet until the private sector starts growing again.

Corruption So Normal No One Noticed

I guess they finally did.

Stephen Friedman, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, abruptly resigned on Thursday, days after questions arose about his ties to Goldman Sachs.

Mr. Friedman was chairman of the New York Fed at the same time he was a member of Goldman’s board. He also had a substantial stake in the firm as the Fed was crafting a solution to keep Wall Street banks afloat. Denis M. Hughes, deputy chair of the board, will take over as the interim chairman, the New York Fed said in a statement. (Read Mr. Friedman’s letter after the jump.)

-Atrios 22:35

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/friedman-resigns-as-chairma...

they probably are. don't forget the people that don't even get counted anymore as well as the fact that they revise. last months numbers seemed to be an improvement but then they revised -663 to -699 (an additional 36k)

VIEWPOINT: McGovern Warns Obama of LBJ Legacy

By Mike Fritz Harry Hanbury on May 04, 2009

In 1964, President Johnson said of Vietnam that "I don't think it's worth fighting for, and I don't think that we can get out. It's just the biggest damn mess I ever saw.'' Yet Johnson escalated the conflict and America became bogged down in Southeast Asia for more than a decade. Former Senator George McGovern recently sat down with ANP and said that President Obama runs the risk, like Johnson with his Great Society program, of hobbling his ambitious domestic goals if he continues to send troops into Afghanistan.

http://americannewsproject.com/videos/viewpoint-mcgovern-warns-obama-lbj...

US banks race to fill
$74.6 billion stress test hole
U.S. regulators told top banks on Thursday to raise $74.6 billion to build a capital cushion officials hope will restore faith in financial firms and set a course out of the deepest recession
in decades.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090508/bs_nm/us_financial_banks

Doh! Simpsons get
'stamp' of approval
America's most famous dysfunctional cartoon family -- The Simpsons -- were unveiled as the latest faces on a set of commemorative stamps released by the US Postal Service on Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090507/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentustelevisio...

Layoffs might ease, but
firms in no mood to hire
Employers are letting up a bit on the mass layoffs they resorted to earlier this year to cope with the recession, but the unemployment rate is climbing because many businesses remain wary of hiring given all the economic and financial uncertainties.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_bi_ge/us_economy

Calif. Could Go
Bust by July
California could be broke by July if voters reject a handful of upcoming budget proposals, the Los Angeles Times reports.

http://www.newser.com/story/58393/calif-could-go-bust-by-july.html

GOP base rips Cantor's
National Council for a New America
Social conservatives are blasting the National Council for a New America, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) nascent effort to rebrand the Republican Party, as a misguided and weak-kneed initiative that is out of touch with the GOP rank and file.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22242.html

Mother's Day started
as a plea for peace
It is nearly 140 years since Julia Ward Howe wrote her Mother's Day Proclamation, a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco�Prussian War.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/139897/do_you_know_why_mothe...

Government faces weekend
deadline on polar bear rule
A decision involving the iconic polar bear could determine whether protecting endangered species might also help save the earth from global warming.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_polar_bear_clim...

Sign those petitions to save the Polar Bears!

Urge Congress to Permanently Protect the Arctic Refuge!
Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds. It is also the most important onshore denning habitat for America's vanishing polar bears.

But this natural treasure is constantly under siege. Time and time again, the oil industry and their allies in Congress have sought to open this special place to harmful new drilling, threatening all of the wildlife that depend on it for survival.

We need to permanently protect the Arctic Refuge! Urge your Representative to support the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39) to permanently protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/567728305

did you see where as a last defense, the state of california can borrow on demand from the local governments with a note to pay it back over the next three years? talk about subprime financing.

http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/renters-the-forgotten-victim/

I've had them for about a week. Too bad I'm off and can't be there to sell some, but there won't be many sales right now as everyone is stocking up on Forever Stamps.

Dan,

Hopefully a lot of those jobs will be the one's at the IRS so we can start getting the revenue from the tax skipping super rich to not only pay their salaries but put a cork in the leaking budget. Also we need to backfill the park's department slots, EPA and the whole host of regulatory agencies that were trashed under Bush.

I'm sympathetic to your economic impact concerns but without an efficient government...well you know what happened. Pick up a newspaper! ;-)

-

“When Ryan spoke out like that, it was like a sign that it was OK for the goodbyes to begin,” - msnbc

ME THINKS THE REPORTER PROTEST A LITTLE TOO MUCH!

My first reaction was "Oooh, I want one!"

But is it really surviving for some people if the after-effects take them down? What about the country?

So I'm ambivalent.

Not to be a downer or anything.

The dog I'm looking after is a whole new dog. Weird. I have sat for her before and she doesn't get depressed in the winter. Oh I know; she's afraid of thunder, so anytime it gets cloudy there's always a chance....

I thought the same thing re the t-shirt.

My first reaction was to say I wanted one.

Better would be "I'm trying to survive the Bush Admin aftermath"

Submitted by gloryoski on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 10:12am.
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So the little pooch is afraid of the thunder. Well Glo, I have two aunts in their 80's -that are still afraid of storms. To this day, they'll cut off all the lights- and ask everyone to be quiet. No kidding!

Our citizens rights are coming back.
At least we are discussing leashing the credit card companies.
Green Energy is a part of the agenda.

These things take time.

Maybe I have really low expectations. I felt much more threatened last October wondering when a National Emergency would be announced. I'm not saying all clear, mission accomplished.

Survival for me may just be knowing there is window I might get to look through tomorrow. That's more than I had.

Work: 2 of the guys that work(ed) with me r gone. Fired

Personal: Good friend of mine @ work - her brother died
Monday a.m. (Heroin)

Me: Going thru another weird transformation in my head (again)

Money: Want more!!!!

Good Morning Sederites - DREW PETERSON ARRESTED..... FINALLY!

Stung by Madoff, SEC Steps Up Pace, Triples Fraud Cases

– Haunted by the failure to catch Bernie Madoff, the Securities and Exchange Commission is dramatically stepping up its investigation workload, reports the LA Times. Since February, the SEC has frozen the assets of 27 fraud suspects, compared to seven in the same period last year. “The clear message from the commission is we should be acting quickly where investor funds may be at risk from an ongoing fraud,” says the LA office head.

Having a new chief has made a difference, say employees. “I think the pipeline moves a lot faster at the commission than it used to,” says a former enforcement attorney. But the recession itself is also helping the SEC blow open frauds, as cash-starved investors trying to pull their funds find the money gone.

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fi-sec8-2009may08,0,2300313.story?track=r...

The pace has accelerated dramatically. I think the turnover and the new director of enforcement at the SEC is having an immediate impact.
- Patrick Hunnius, former SEC enforcement attorney

(Good to know)

American's elected a non-white President. I didn't think that would happen in my lifetime. I can survive just on that news for quite a long time.

What good is existing without any hope? I had zero hope during the Bush years. I know the pictures we see today are horrific, but they are history. They are past tense.

I will never go hungry, there will always be food and shelter. I am unafraid of that ever changing. I fear more losing the desire to eat or come in out of the rain.

Is it racist, sexist, both or none?

See others:
http://www.racialicious.com/2009/05/06/gisele-bundchens-photo-shoot-is-a...

Cortazar is on Facebook.

Will he be baptized as LDS next?

Hi all! I can't believe it's Friday already! Sorry, maggiesboy, I haven't forgotten about you, just got a rush job this week and been utterly buried under it. (still buried for a few more hours!) I plan on taking some time this afternoon to try and knock out that audio for you! :)

Happy Friday!

(Thanks edna!) That vid above pitting gay activist against clearly closeted empty suit was hilarious!

"I'll take you outside and punch you across the face"!

MEOW!

That dude is obviously petrified of being outed.

10,000 stories in the naked city and he picks the gay-activist-promoting-movie-about-outing to come on his show?!!?

He's pratically begging to be outed!

I LOVED the woman declaring at the end of the segment that the two men have a date and did you catch the suit's reaction!? PRICELESS!

(methinks she knows a thing or two about the suit)

"this machine kills fascists"

I am glad you are feeling more positive. :)

Both feelings are probably valid.

I can only be here for the next coupla months if I don't argue, and besides I'm happy you are happy.

gloryoski. I have these plaster columns in the back yard that looked out of place when they were new. I watched them weather and slowly acquire the patina that made them a part of the garden.

I get a lot of joy watching as the country slowly comes back together.

I don't know, but that woman is HOT!

And, quite long...

(...are they stretching her?!)

"this machine kills fascists"

Thank God He's Gone!

With the picture of Bush picking his nose at the ballpark.

Bristol Palin's campaign to preach birth control with a baby at home again proves what Meghan McCain has always known: Republicans don't "get" sex. "God forbid anyone talk realistically about life experiences and natural, sexual instincts. Nope, the answer is always abstinence," she writes in her Daily Beast column. She's "never understood" the party's resistance to discussing better access to birth control.

"As a Republican, I am pro-life. But using birth control and having an abortion are not the same," she writes. "If we can’t discuss birth control in addition to abstinence, kids will continue to make bad choices." The GOP, she writes, "continues to struggle with open communication about serious issues most people deal with rationally," which threatens to speed the party's "descent into irrelevance."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-07/the-gop-is-clu...

The worst sexual double standard in politics right now is that too many subconsciously believe Republican women are void of sexual desire altogether. - Meghan McCain

You haven't ever noticed before?

Doesn't do a lot for me.

..but don't you just hate it when you day job interferes with your social-political activist play time? ;-)

Cheney: Time for Old-Timers Like Me to Step Aside (we'll put him aside inside a 5'x 8' Jail cell)

Dick Cheney covered the usual ground during a radio interview today—telling Republicans to resist the urge to become moderate and defending the Bush administration—and also said it's time for longtime party vets like himself to step aside, Politico reports. "It helps clear away some of the underbrush," he said. "Some of the older folks who’ve been around a long time (like yours truly) need to move on, and make room for that young talent that’s coming along."

Cheney said it would be a "mistake" for the party to shift to the center to gain votes. "This is about fundamental beliefs and values" about the role of government, he said. Most in the GOP "have a pretty good idea of values, and aren’t eager to have someone come along and say, 'Well, the only way you can win is if you start to act more like a Democrat.'" He also defended waterboarding as a necessary last resort that gained valuable information.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/Cheney_to_GOP_It_would_be_a_...

We resorted, for example, to waterboarding ... with only three individuals. In those cases, it was only after we’d gone through all the other steps of the process.
- Dick Cheney

Submitted by 60th Street on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 10:50am.
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Oh yeah 60th, I think that anchor is familiar with the closet. How about the phony concern for the politician's family? Never mind the fact that these same hypocrites have made life hell for Gays. Don't think for a moment that these kind of wedge issues didn't lead to the death of Matthew Shepherd & J.R. Warren.

did janeane do her show yet where hannity or some other asshole was trying to do a group heckle?

Me neither. I like the "meat on their bones" beauties m'self.

I see it all the time.

Is it Real Time?

Janeane did ask if there were any "hecklers" in the audience.
But there were none.
They both were fantastic....

http://www.sitemasher.com/seed-the-web-blog/my-twittonary--every-twitter...

actually rt means re tweet or to repeat a tweet that somebody else sent

sorry for the delay in the photos -
my house is taking up a lot of my
time.

my garden 2

i'm jealous. sounds like it was a real good time.

both were very nice & gracious.
Fucking Funny they were

To Tweet
Or Re-tweet

Thanks dan for the info.

Boston?

I'll see if I can find something.

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Here: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_05_08_Janeane_Garof...

maggiesboy - Re-Tweet :)

Submitted by maggiesboy on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 9:49am.
Ohh a triple/double entendre. The java is working it's magic.
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Three double entendre's makes a cease entendre (if I correctly remember my French numerals pronunciations).

I choose to stand my gwound and fight!

Submitted by gloryoski on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 10:59am.
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Indeed Glo. Unfortunately women internalized these unrealistic images. It keeps them pursuing a phantom that most will never see. I would wager that most on the blog could name five female super models- but would not be able to name five male super models. Men would never accept a half starving man as a symbol of greatness. Moreover, they would never view a 14 year old male as the epitome of manhood. But women's magazines are littered with images of malnourished, adolescent girls. Some of them look comical dressed up in Mommy's clothes.

As I have said on the blog before, as long as women permit others to define them, they will keep chasing the phantom.

It's too early in the day to raise the comedic level so high.

Submitted by dan on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 11:12am.
actually rt means re tweet
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(Apparently a message from Sylvester.)

Seems like Missouri is getting some really bad weather with high winds, like Hurricane winds and now there are Tornado warnings. There were warnings on my TV that the Schools are closed and there's been a roof collapse at one of the schools from the high winds.

The news is full of bad weather in your area! Glad to see you are here!

its the end, run for your lives...

listening to malloy from last night. he was just reading a letter from some lady named elaine from the poconos area in pennsylvania. evidently this is right wing guns and bible land. she has a neighbor who saw an obama poster at her house and who is now committed to saving elaine.

anyways, elaine's neighbor says the swine flu (hamthrax) is a dry run being done by obama to test the system. the plan is to release avian flu on us this fall to weed out the christians and other people who don't believe in obama.

is this sick or what?

Getting ready to speak about the jobless and job creation and training. He wants people to be able to attend schools to retrain while they are on unemployment.

Submitted by toniD on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 11:30am.
Seems like Missouri is getting some really bad weather with high winds...
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All true but it passed over me earlier today. The worst of the wind and tornado activity is near Springfield and parts east. Fort Leonard Wood might have been pounded, too. The Mississippi river is next...St. Louis through Memphis.

Submitted by gloryoski on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 11:18am.
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Boston Herald is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

I'm trying to picture crank in little garland dress with ruby slippers. and all I can see are the marx brothers + Karl as his protectorate along the yellow btick road.

ecrasez l'infame

The only thing is, except for the "half-starving" part, some women are going to look like that (strangely giraffe-like, including the skinniness, although probably not to such an extreme). Therefore the real thing to emphasize is that culture has probably kept us from having a full spectrum of different "wirings" whereby every (healthy) type has its share of admirers.

I am using _healthy_ in a pretty broad sense-i.e, probably lepers would never be able to get a man and/or woman.

The little-girl-like thing is a different topic, but I don't think that applies to this model. She has the face of a grown woman. But yeah, that's sick.

Speaking of wiring, mb, I like Marilyn when she is moving and being funny. She doesn't do much for me in still photography. And that does not hold for women, or curvy women, generally. I'm not all that blonde-o-philic however (women or men), so that's probably it.

ecrasez l'infame

To be completely truthful, conservatism properly understood has actually been near total demise ever since the election of Ronald Reagan. Nearly every ideological facet of what used to be known as American conservatism has been abandoned largely abandoned by both political parties--or is slowly being taken over in its most benign and idealistic form by the Democratic party as a secondary plank.
Gone is the Old Right--those Paleoconservatives who believe in the venerated American tradition of non-interventionism abroad and rural-values agrarian populism at home.

Gone is the Rockefeller Republican--the pro-business conservative who welcomes government investment in social programs but simply wants to run them more efficiently. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are two the very last of a dying breed--outcasts in both of America's political moieties.

Gone is the Small Government Conservative. As even the Wall Street Journal staff have admitted, "The the era of small government is over. Sept. 11 challenged it. Katrina killed it." The Republican Party is the Party of Big Government Conservatism now (whatever that means), as the Cato Institute has lamented at length.

Gone, also are the old Burkeian and Hamiltonian conservatives whose preference for aristocracy and Republic over mob rule and Democracy has given way to the pseudo-populism of Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, and the unilateral attempt to ostensibly spread direct democracy across the globe.

And gone too are the old Ayn Rand conservatives: those who view selfishness as the highest good, absent all communal forces to the contrary--including not only government but organized religion as well.

con't
http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=7FFC1FBFF196E6B88299AC...

If tea-bagger idiots believe and respond to the hype, then it won't be just hype.

Also, keep in mind this is near the school where a fraternity built a giant snow penis when Audre Lorde came to campus.

Norma Jean wasn't blond anyway.

I need to leave this subject before I say something that might innocently get me into trouble.

Good time to go pickup my new specs and round up some provisions for the weekend.

Damn, this "day off" thing is habit forming! Back a a couple hours.

Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday that getting Dawn Johnsen confirmed to head the Office of Legal Counsel is “probably my top priority.” At a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing, Holder said the office requires the “solidity and continuity” of a Senate-confirmed assistant attorney general.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/05/holder-says-getting-olc-nomine...

with her natural hair color.

Sorry if I'm cramping your style dude.;)

I'm pretty sure anything you said on the subject would be fine with me.

to DC....

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has backed out of plans to attend the White House Correspondents’ annual dinner on Saturday, to which she was invited as a guest of Fox News. Due to “a state of emergency because of record flooding in Eagle, Alaska,” Palin will be unable to make the trip to DC, and has also had to pull out of co-hosting a dinner in Virginia for the Republican Governors Association.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/07/palin-pulls-out-of-white...

before i miss my chance
Submitted by passiveconsumer on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 11:54am.
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Your proposition may be good,
But let's have one thing understood,
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW0SHJo365o&feature=related

I should be looking at these internships that I need to get one and of which there are probably only five in the country...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said yesterday that “Pakistan would launch a full-scale offensive against Pakistani Taliban guerrillas who’ve seized control of the vast Swat valley.” He said the government had tried peaceful negotiation but the strategy failed. Pakistan will no longer “bow our heads before the terrorists,” Gilani said in a TV address to the nation.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/67718.html

No Bernie!!! :(

Well, she's taller than me, that's for sure, and leggy, but I don't consider her repulsively skinny, although I;m sure the potential is always there in that crazy biz!

The pressure on women to look a certain way, thin or meaty, made up, or not, is criminal, to me. Men too, for that matter, but in regard to women, there is a nastiness to the dialogue that I find repulsive.

Don't even get me talking about gender roles!

(I don't like them)

"this machine kills fascists"

Submitted by gloryoski on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 12:05pm.
...I'm pretty sure anything you said on the subject would be fine with me.
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Color me incredulous.

it's a new day in sederville....

Have some errands to do

That's the show that we and treebu and ellwort and maybe zeek too are going to see in two weeks!! Cannot wait!

a new thread yet??

over here:

http://samsedershow.com/node/4738

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