Not just for Honduras anymore

It's actually really easy and probably would have never explored it had my crock pot not broken a couple of months ago and I decided to look it up. I had heard of it but never known anyone who did it.

The magic is that it is approx. 45 minutes from bag to plate. AND, that you can pressure soak as well as pressure cook the beans. They are soft and yummy just like regular slow cooked beans.

PRESSURE SOAK:
After picking through and rinsing about two cups of dry beans, I put them in the pressure cooker immersed in cold water about 2.5 inches above the beans. (The water should not fill up much more than 1/2 the volume of the pressure cooker).

Put cooker on stove @ medium high (with the regulator "rocker" weight on the vent pipe) until the pressure valve pops up. Cook for 5 min and turn burner off. Let it sit and the pressure will release on its own from the pot(vs taking rocker off and forcing pressure out under a running faucet). This takes about 15 mins for me

Once pressure is out and valve is down, open cooker, drain water, re-rinse beans.

PRESSURE COOK:

Before putting beans back in the pot, I drop in three slices of bacon snipped into 2" pieces, let the fat render a little and saute onions and whatever peppers I am putting in (today I put in a few tiny red jalapenos and a poblano) and whatever spices (today ground cumin seed, and some Tony Chachere's Creole). Then add the beans stir all ingredients to mix and add water to the same level as before (should only be about an inch or so above beans at this point, again, don't go too far above halfway mark with water). Cook on med high 'til valve pops up. This time cook for 15 min. Turn heat off and let pressure vent on its own again.

Done. Magic beans! :)

"this machine kills fascists"

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That's a great way to make that. Try opening the pot when it's done, throw in more than a half a beer at room temp and close. Wait for 15 min. Valve open. Garnish with cilantro.

Why can't the press just say: '...the Bush Administration's use of torture, which they euphemisticly called mere "enhanced interrogation",....'

I'll try that next time, F.

Cilantro, a cubed avocado tortillas & and cheeeeese!

nom nom nom

"this machine kills fascists"

Wasn't he the precursor to guys like Chuck Norris?

No. Look at the pop culture change between the time of the Billy Jack films and the let's finally win the Vietnam war films of the eighties that Norris was in. Coming out of the sixties, both Shaft and the first Billy Jack film were released in '71.
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid came out in '69. In Cassidy and Sundance- a classic Robin Hood story- you have strong, fighting proletarians figures who literally fight the corrupt bankers by robbing from them.

Reagen was the precursor to Norris. Red Dawn (greatest film ever made,viewed 17 times and counting) came out in '84. Fascism had progressed so far by the eighties, and the humanism of the sixties had been so thoroughly rejected in pop culture, that tough guys could only be right wing action figures.

We need Billy Jacks now. Thousands of them.

Medical Liability - The Debate
Medical Liability is constantly pushed by the GOP as a reason medical costs have skyrocketed. The cost of liability insurance is very expensive for Doctors and Hospitals. But if you are permanently disfigured or die because of a mistake a doctor or hospital made, what other alternative does the patient have or the patient's family?

I have long thought that doctors don't police themselves enough and hospitals, like the Catholic Church covered for their wayward priests, cover for their doctors.

The New York Times has an OP-ED today written by Tom Baker that delves into medical liability:

Liability = Responsibility

OUR medical liability system needs reform. But anyone who thinks that limiting liability would reduce health care costs is fooling himself. Preventable medical injuries, not patient compensation, are what ring up extra costs for additional treatment. This means taxpayers, employers and everyone else who buys health insurance — all of us — have a big stake in patient safety. More...

http://tonidsyathink.blogspot.com/2009/07/medical-liability-debate.html

Leave it to Marc to give America Mad Cow Phobias where man and fish can't coexist.

or Fernando's, to be called up--

McChrystal says he won't pull punches on Afghan proposals

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Sunday that when he gives his assessment to the Obama administration next month of what is needed to defeat the Taliban, he won't be deterred by administration statements that he cannot have more U.S. troops.

In an interview with McClatchy, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal also said he won't be guided by concerns in Washington over deficits and the cost of the current campaign in Afghanistan.

McChrystal indicated Sunday that Jones' comments, which Jones repeated to McClatchy in an interview after returning to Washington, would not color his recommendation.

Gates, McChrystal said, "directed me to do an assessment that said 'Tell me what you think of the situation. Assess the situation. And tell me what you think you need to be effective in the missions that he has given me.' "

That includes the cost of supporting an expansion of the Afghan Army. The U.S. military has said it wants to expand the Afghan Army to roughly 134,000 from its current 85,000 at an estimated cost of $4 billion.

But some McChrystal advisers think the army should really be 270,000. Such an expansion would cost $8 billion — far more than Afghanistan, which generates only about $800 million in revenue annually, could afford. The additional cost would almost certainly be borne in part by U.S. taxpayers.

McChrystal also acknowledged that eight years into the war in Afghanistan, U.S. officials here still don't how many Taliban fighters coalition forces face in Helmand province, scene of the Marines offensive.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/71698.html

you can disagree with my position but you are offensive when you compare me to Norris. So FUCK YOU ass wipe!

13 Doctors Demand Inquest Into Dr. David Kelly's Death ("I think highly likely he was assassinated")

The death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide. Dr Kelly's body was found six years ago this week in woods close to his Oxfordshire home, shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the grounds for war in Iraq. Unusually, no coroner's inquest was held into his death.

- snip -

Critics regarded the report as a 'whitewash', and Mr Blair remains acutely sensitive to the accusation that he has 'blood on his hands' over the scientist's death. But now a team of 13 specialist doctors has compiled a detailed medical dossier that rejects the Hutton conclusion on the grounds that a cut to the ulnar artery, which is small and difficult to access, could not have caused death.

It will be used by their lawyers to demand a formal inquest and the release of Dr Kelly's autopsy report, which has never been published. It will also be sent to Sir John Chilcot's forthcoming inquiry into the Iraq War. The 12-page opinion, a copy of which has been seen by The Mail on Sunday, concludes: 'The bleeding from Dr Kelly's ulnar artery is highly unlikely to have been so voluminous and rapid that it was the cause of death.

'We advise the instructing solicitors to obtain the autopsy reports so that the concerns of a group of properly interested medical specialists can be answered.'

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1199109/13-doctors-demand-inq...

It's fun to consider the absurdity of Palin bringing up her wanting to avoid being a lame duck as part of the reason she was quitting.

Aside from the obvious fact that she was only halfway through her term, Palin wouldn't have had to endure very much of a lame duck period without having decided to announce prematurely that she was not running again. So, how can it be one of the the reasons? It was utterly self-fulfilling.

Now she's throws out an empty threat to shake up the parties by announcing she would stump for Democrats and Independents who share her views??!?

Absurd.

"this machine kills fascists"

Goldman Sachs Likely to Post Huge Profits, Analysts Say

Most of Wall Street, and America, is still waiting for an economic recovery. Then there is Goldman Sachs.

Up and down Wall Street, analysts and traders are buzzing that Goldman, which only recently paid back its government bailout money, will report blowout profits from trading on Tuesday.

Analysts predict the bank earned more than $2 billion in the March-June period, thanks to its trading prowess across world markets. If they are right, the bank’s rivals will once again be left to wonder exactly how Goldman, long the envy of Wall Street, could have rebounded so dramatically only months after the nation’s financial industry was shaken to its foundations.

The obsessive speculation has already begun, along with banter about how Goldman’s rapid return to minting money will be perceived by lawmakers and taxpayers who aided Goldman with a multibillion-dollar cushion last fall. . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/business/13goldman.html?_r=1&hp

Hey, Norris is rich. In good shape. And when Palin wins, he'll probably be in the Cabinet.
Go with a winner.

btw you got an inside track:
On March 9, 2009, Norris wrote a column for the WorldNetDaily expressing the possibility of Texas seceding from the United States of America, and running for its president.

n a very important development, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the most senior cleric living in Iran, and one of the top two* marja’ taghlid (source of emulation) in Shiite Islam, issued a series of Fatwas, calling the Supreme Leader illegitimate and saying that he was working with the government against religion. Montazeri has called on people to take action against this injustice, even if they have to pay a heavy price for it.

Ayatollah Motazeri, who has long been one of the most outspoken critics of Iran’s hard-liners, issued the Fatwas in response to a letter that Dr. Mohsen Kadivar, a progressive cleric and a former student of his, wrote asking for answers to several pointed questions. (Dr. Kadivar was jailed a few years ago for his outspoken criticism of the hard-liners and now lives in the United States.)

The letter congratulates the Grand Ayatollah on the occasion of last week’s anniversary of the birth of Imam Ali, the Shiites’ first Imam, and a cousin and a son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammad. The letter says that the anniversary has fallen at a time when peaceful protests against rigged elections have been met by injustice by the government, which has resulted in tens of deaths, hundreds of injured, and thousands of arrests — all carried out in the name of Islam and Shiism by those who use Imam Ali’s name but take the path of his enemies instead.

http://tehranbureau.com/grand-ayatollah-montazeris-fatwa

Internal strife. The revolution has begun!

Republicans Reject Science; Scientists Reject Republicans

"Once, there were sizable portions of the scientific community in basically all portions of the American political scene. No longer..."Partisan and Ideological Differences", of 2500 polled scientists, just 6 percent of the polled identify themselves as Republicans (as opposed to 23 percent of the overall population)."

"this machine kills fascists"

TIM GEITHNER REFUSES TO ANSWER BRAD SHERMAN'S QUESTION
Submitted by Alice on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 2:16pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccPO-lkK8I

JULY 10, 2009

AUDIT THE FED

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Amazing!

Yes --- AUDIT THE FED!

AND kill the derivative scamming device!

Link

Good for you ghettodefender. You've just proved the value of your commenting. I'm sure you're impressed with yourself.

Obama Orders Investigation into CIA-backed Prisoner Massacres
Submitted by 60th Street on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 4:10pm.
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Obama (in Prissy costume and speaking in a falsetto): "Ah don' know NUTHIN 'bout 'vestigatin' no Bushies."

Nearly everyone else as Scarlett: "Well, you're gonna learn...and we'll help ya."
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Another metaphor is Obama as Pontius Pilot who washes his hands of the fate of Cheney and Bush, leaving it to the gathered masses to decide.

If any of this applies, Obama is slicker'n a credit card company: The gears of justice will turn as freely as they possibly can and Obama won't have a spec of grease on his hands.

The NHS is preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5806751/Swine-flu-vaccine-t...

Jesus plus nothing:
Undercover among America's secret theocrats

By Jeffrey Sharlet

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

—Matthew 10:36

This is how they pray: a dozen clear-eyed, smooth-skinned “brothers” gathered together in a huddle, arms crossing arms over shoulders like the weave of a cable, leaning in on one another and swaying like the long grass up the hill from the house they share. The house is a handsome, gray, two-story colonial that smells of new carpet and Pine-Sol and aftershave; the men who live there call it Ivanwald. At the end of a tree-lined cul-de-sac, quiet but for the buzz of lawn mowers and kids playing foxes-and-hounds in the park across the road, Ivanwald sits as one house among many, clustered together like mushrooms, all devoted, like these men, to the service of Jesus Christ. The men tend every tulip in the cul-de-sac, trim every magnolia, seal every driveway smooth and black as boot leather. And they pray, assembled at the dining table or on their lawn or in the hallway or in the bunk room or on the basketball court, each man's head bowed in humility and swollen with pride (secretly, he thinks) at being counted among such a fine corps for Christ, among men to whom he will open his heart and whom he will remember when he returns to the world not born-again but remade, no longer an individual but part of the Lord's revolution, his will transformed into a weapon for what the young men call “spiritual war.”

“Jeff, will you lead us in prayer?”

Surely, brother. It is April 2002, and I have lived with these men for weeks now, not as a Christian—a term they deride as too narrow for the world they are building in Christ's honor—but as a “believer.” I have shared the brothers' meals and their work and their games. I have been numbered among them and have been given a part in their ministry. I have wrestled with them and showered with them and listened to their stories: I know which man resents his father's fortune and which man succumbed to the flesh of a woman not once but twice and which man dances so well he is afraid of being taken for a fag. I know what it means to be a “brother,” which is to say that I know what it means to be a soldier in the army of God.

“Heavenly Father,” I begin. Then, “O Lord,” but I worry that this doesn't sound intimate enough. I settle on, “Dear Jesus.” “Dear Jesus, just, please, Jesus, let us fight for Your name.” More...

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525

was saying that prior to the inauguration, Obama pressured him and other congress people to pass the bailouts with the threat of the market dropping 1,00 points a day or something..Naomi Wolf was speaking about it just before the inauguration....

Justice Ginsburg: Roe v Wade Decision Predicated On
Submitted by Alice on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 2:19pm.
Population Reduction

In an interview to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion was predicated on the Supreme Court majority's desire to diminish “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50819

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Wow, spending that much time with the Patriarchal Justices must help one to catch on to the subtextual import of stuff, huh?

In the last thread, I think, Cent, I think, posted the following link, and it, too, helps one to see 'patterns'.

This quote from that piece by Science CZAR Dr. John Holdren indicates how containing/controlling/subjecting women and children is a major part of the EUGENICS movement. And I observe that EUGENICS dovetails perfectly with the aims of the Dominionists in their views that women and children are chattel/property to be used as needed.

And getting people used to the idea of abortion, the role of the State in human reproduction decision-making (whether pro or con, it hardly matters), I find very interesting.

The kicker is the one fact Thom Hartmann, 'bless' his 'soul', is willing to bring up repeatedly: When women are allowed to hold equal power with men, the reproductive rate drops and population stabilizes!

But until then, the crazies are wielding the power to guide society's choices....

Source of quote:

http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/

Quote:

One way to carry out this disapproval might be to insist that all illegitimate babies be put up for adoption—especially those born to minors, who generally are not capable of caring properly for a child alone. If a single mother really wished to keep her baby, she might be obliged to go through adoption proceedings and demonstrate her ability to support and care for it. Adoption proceedings probably should remain more difficult for single people than for married couples, in recognition of the relative difficulty of raising children alone. It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society.

Here's what I posted earlier....

Posted a Raw Story about this on last thread
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 8:24am.

Attorney General may launch torture
probe against Bush administration

Contrary to White House wishes, Attorney General Eric Holder may push forward with a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's harsh interrogation practices used on suspected terrorists.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090712/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_holder_interrog...

But is it really contrary to White House wishes? Or is it an under the table encouragement? We will see if Holder starts an investigation and how strongly the WH fights him on it.

Report: CIA plan to seize, kill Al Qaeda chiefs at heart of Congress controversy

The controversy over claims the CIA lied to Congress by withholding information about a counter-terrorism program centers around an "attempt" by the agency to seize and kill Al Qaeda leaders in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

According to the story, the CIA program that agency director Leon Panetta learned of last month, and then disclosed to the House Intelligence Committee, was "an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives."

The Journal cites unnamed "current and former government officials" who reportedly said the program had never become fully operational before Panetta ordered it shut down last month.

Cryptically, the paper states: "Republicans on the panel say that the CIA effort didn't advance to a point where Congress clearly should have been notified." No explanation is given as to why only Republicans on the committee would have been privy to this information.

The paper also states:

In 2001, the CIA also examined the subject of targeted assassinations of al Qaeda leaders, according to three former intelligence officials. It appears that those discussions tapered off within six months. It isn't clear whether they were an early part of the CIA initiative that Mr. Panetta stopped.

Last week, Democrat members of the House Intelligence Committee released a letter stating that Panetta informed them the CIA had kept a program concealed from Congress for some six or seven years. That spawned a flurry of speculation as to what the program may have been, including questions about whether it was, in effect, a "secret CIA army" that assassinated individuals abroad and was run directly by then-Vice President Dick Cheney.

The controversy grew this past Saturday when the New York Times reported that Cheney may have directly given the order to keep the program concealed from Congress -- a violation of the National Security Act, if proven true.

The Journal's report implies the program may have never become fully functional, but questions still remain about the specific details of the program, whether Cheney ran it directly, and whether he ordered the CIA to keep it from Congress.

The Journal writes:

Republicans on the [House Intelligence] panel say that the CIA effort didn't advance to a point where Congress clearly should have been notified.

CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said the agency "has not commented on the substance of the effort." He added that "a candid dialogue with Congress is very important to this director and this agency."

The official noted that Congress had long been briefed on the [presidential finding ordering the CIA to hunt and kill Al Qaeda agents], and that the CIA effort wasn't so much a program as "many ideas suggested over the course of years." It hadn't come close to fruition, he added.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/report-cia-plan-to-seize-kill-al-qaeda-...

Just who were Bush/Cheney/Rove spying on, really?

From WaPo:

"Extraordinary and inappropriate" secrecy about a warrantless eavesdropping program undermined its effectiveness as a terrorism-fighting tool, government watchdogs have concluded in the first examination of one of the most contentious episodes of the Bush administration.

A report by inspectors general from five intelligence agencies said the administration's tight control over who learned of the program also contributed to flawed legal arguments that nearly prompted mass resignations in the Justice Department five years ago.

The program "may have" contributed to successful counterterrorism efforts, some intelligence officials told the investigators. But too few CIA personnel knew of the highly classified program to use it for intelligence work, the report stated, while at the FBI, the program "played a limited role," with "most . . . leads . . . determined not to have any connection to terrorism."

So much for the war on terror meme. Now let's ask some serious questions:
1. Why create a massive domestic spying program if not to use it for fighting terrorism? What is its real purpose?
2. What did the "leads" have a connection to?
3. Given what they have already done, what would officials of the Bush admin do with such a powerful tool?

Now some other things to consider:
1. Karl Rove had the highest security clearances. Was he aware of this program? If so, why? His role was political after all.
2. During the Nixon Watergate crimes (of which Rove was a part), massive political spying and blackmail took place.
3. Why has Congress been so compliant, with members going as far as as to ruin their own careers in order to assist the Bush White House?
4. Did Dick Cheney pull a Hoover and keep a stash of "control files" in that man-sized safe of his?
5. Did Bush so fear political dissent that he initiated a COINTELPRO operation using this system of domestic spying?

There are only three reasons why a system of domestic spying - having nothing to do with counterterrorism - would be created and used on this level.

* To cover up something already done for fear of the public finding out (who is talking about something, who is writing about something, who is investigating something? etc.). Conversely, to cover up something after the fact.
* To control individuals through blackmail (need an investigation killed, need a vote from Congress, need a judge to play ball? etc.)
* To profit from information known to only a handful of people (corporate deals, etc.). Also to sell information on the intel black-market.

I have long suspected that members of Congress were blackmailed by the Bush cabal. I would also wager that foreign leaders were likely also blackmailed, some into joining the war on terror game.

I have one other question of importance that should be considered. Was the spying system a strictly one way mechanism? In other words, was this a collection tool or did the system actually interact in some way? Let me give you an example of what I mean. Was part of this operation used to simply monitor and collect cell phone data, usage and such? Or were some phones at some particular time actually jammed? Was email simply collected or were servers actually flooded in order to crash them? Is this a one way system or a two way system?

Thoughts?

http://www.atlargely.com/atlargely/2009/07/just-who-were-bushcheneyrove-...

Marcy Wheeler is all over this torture investigation
Submitted by cent on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 4:52pm.
She is making a strong argument against the consensus that feel prosecuting CIA while BushCo walks would be unfair...She has an excellent point here too...

"We're not, actually, talking about low level CIA interrogators. We're talking about contractors. James Mitchell, to be exact. And if James Mitchell is not the psychologist/interrogator who acknowledged he had exceeded the limits in John Yoo's Bybee Memo, but justified it by saying he had exceeded those limits (by using way more water, for longer time, and pressing on the detainee's gut) because those things make the simulated drowning technique "for real--and ... more poignant and convincing," then it's almost certainly someone who works for James Mitchell and probably used to work for the DOD entity that administers SERE.

I, frankly, have no problem with prosecuting Mr. Poignant the sadist torturer and, given his acknowledgment that he exceeded Yoo's guidelines, that's probably where an investigation would start.

Now, as I said, Mr. Poignant is either James Mitchell or someone associated with him--the "psychologist/interrogator" strongly suggests this person is a contractor, not a CIA employee.

That means that going after Mr. Poignant gets you, in either one step or two, to the contractors who worked from the start to profit off torture.

And that gets you, almost immediately to the process that the torture architects used to authorize their torture. That's because there is a paper trail showing that the torture architects knew and intended the torture to exceed even Yoo's memo. This is a document that both Jim Haynes and John Rizzo had and--between the two of them--gave to John Yoo during the drafting process for the Bybee Memo as the basis for his own description of waterboarding. "

Emptywheel

Personally, I am a strong believer in individual responsibility for behavior, and anyone who willingly participated in torture needs to fry, so I am behind her argument all the way here....

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I think there's a big possibility that this crazy debate is fueled by Bush insiders or maybe even bloggers paid by them in some way, because this position completely skirts the responsibility for the ONLY REASON these traitorous, sadistic torturers got away with torture AND murder is that it was USURPER BUSH CABAL/ADMINISTRATION POLICY. (I don't wish to impugn this blogger or everyone who jumps in once the debate is FRAMED, but it really is not good to buy into the debate of the FRAMERS and fall into their trap. (It is the way I see the healthcare reform 'public option' position too -- just something used to get away from doing the healthcare reform job correctly with Comprehensive Single Payer. In this case at hand, we can debate this forever about who should be prosecuted or not since Bushetal are free, when in reality ALL should be prosecuted!))

Only when the POLICY is addressed can the net be cast to round up every disgusting torturer and torture facilitator and TRULY clean-up this mess. Anything else is a FARCE!

2. During the Nixon Watergate crimes (of which Rove was a part),

He was a protege of one of the conspirators who got convicted I think but did he have any direct involvement? I don't think he did, did he?

Beer is the world's oldest[1] and most widely consumed[2] alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.[3] It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—the most common of which is malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), and rice are widely used. Most beer is flavoured with hops, which add bitterness and act as a natural preservative, though other flavourings such as herbs or fruit may occasionally be included.

Some of humanity's earliest known writings refer to the production and distribution of beer: the Code of Hammurabi included laws regulating beer and beer parlours,[4] and "The Hymn to Ninkasi," a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, served as both a prayer and as a method of remembering the recipe for beer in a culture with few literate people.[5][6] Today, the brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries.

The basics of brewing beer are shared across national and cultural boundaries and are commonly categorized into two main types — the globally popular pale lagers, and the regionally distinct ales,[7] which are further categorised into other varieties such as pale ale, stout and brown ale. The strength of beer is usually around 4% to 6% alcohol by volume (abv.) though may range from less than 1% abv., to over 20% abv. in rare cases.

Beer forms part of the culture of various beer-drinking nations and has acquired various social traditions and associations, such as beer festivals and a rich pub culture involving activities such as pub crawling or pub games such as bar billiards.

The coach didn't come tonight so I skated for two solid hours instead of the usual skate a little, stretch, do drills and stop in between each one, skate, stretch...I blew off a lot of steam, I literally felt better as I skated as fast as I could and really felt how pissed I am about working for less pay...Now I might make it until Tuesday's practice without exploding a gasket ...

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20090709.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMUn4T-GQKk&feature=PlayList&p=7FC6C4BBC2...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psc7eimMtv0

Reuters claims Sachs is in a no-win because big profits will look bad after such unpleasant news about how they obtained their loot.- Reuters

Give me a break.

WTH?

& Tea Cheers to All ... ;)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x61vwt_too-short-feat-ant-banks-and-lun...

- Many times over. It's also rescued more than a few bad dates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jP1PliAiuc

Bush - Glycerine

Bush - Glycerine

has the president of the RCP on his AAR radio show. WTF!

A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST and CARL DIX

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THIS EVENT promises to be a crackling evening of passionate and penetrating conversation over matters that many are seriously concerned about but have not dared to discuss out loud and in public. Cornel West and Carl Dix will break the silence and address from their different philosophical perspectives what the election of Obama really means for people in the U.S. and around the world. And they will exchange over the need for resistance and the prospects for and path to liberation for the oppressed in the U.S. and indeed, for all of humanity.

CORNEL WEST is one of America's most provocative public intellectuals and has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision." Dr. West currently teaches at Princeton University.

CARL DIXis a longtime revolutionary and a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. In 1970 Carl was one of the Fort Lewis 6, six GI’s who refused orders to go to Vietnam. He served two years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for this stand. In the aftermath of the 1985 bombing of the MOVE house in Philadelphia, Carl initiated the Draw the Line statement, a powerful condemnation of the attack. He co-founded the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality in 1996. Carl coordinated the Katrina hearings of the 2006 Bush Crimes Commission.

Proceeds of this event will benefit Revolution Books in New York City and the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund, which provides subsidized subscriptions to Revolution newspaper and other revolutionary literature to prisoners. Information about the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund is available at: www.prisonersrevolutionaryliteraturefund.org

Submitted by toniD on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 10:09pm.
Here's what I posted earlier....
Attorney General may launch torture
probe against Bush administration

Contrary to White House wishes...
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toniD,

I've been trying to digest this presidency as a whole. I think I'm seeing a pattern of Obama issuing a statement of White House policy and following it up with the power of the bully pulpit

and

a pattern of Obama issuing a statement of White House policy with zero follow-up "umph" behind it.

It is obvious to most observers that Obama (or any president in his circumstances) is loathe to waste political capital on a search-and-destroy mission directed at the previous administration's actions. The moral righteousness of hunting down criminal acts and the criminals behind them might thrill cent, but it would energize and mobilize ten Republicans to attack and stonewall Obama for every Lefty cent it thrills.

The Republican party is scavenging for anything it can build a movement around and Obama would be crazy to throw the Right some red meat with his name on it.

If investigations ensue despite a lack of vocal support (at least initially) from the White House, the Republicans will only have lesser officials to attack who are pushing the investigation effort. Obama has already insulated the White House from accusations of spearheading an investigation movement by issuing a few statements (with no "umph" behind them).

I could easily be wrong in thinking that the White House team is making slick moves and staying a step ahead of the opposition but if I am, I'm not alone.

It is possible that the White House has long been aware of a lot of the nasty stuff that is trickling out in the press related to the Bush administration's shenanigans (and more that has yet to be exposed to the public), but was also aware that the information would "out" over time without any need to make Obama the symbolic leader of an anti-Bush era attack.

There is a lot of "common knowledge" that floats around on Capitol Hill, especially within the White House, that reporters and others must struggle to verify as fact before they can expose it. Extra-marital sexual affairs are a minor-league case in point.

Add to the "common knowledge" of Capitol insiders the fact that the President is and can be privy to highly sensitive information and he can be aware that some of it is too widely known for it to remain in the shadows, and you get to a point where you can surmise that the President's best option is to step back and let the Attorney General and a few people in both houses of Congress take the heat for hanging Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld from lamp posts.

If investigations continue to go forward, regardless of how far forward they go, I am going to be inclined to believe that Obama's actions helped to facilitate them despite his statements to the contrary.

It's an on-going theory, though, and I reserve the right to change my mind if Obama uses the bully pulpit to slow down or squash the investigation movement.

For now, it looks like Obama is sending the kids out into the rain with the meaningless admonition "Don't play in the mud."

He's cool...

There's one of those bookstores in Berkeley, CA too..

http://revolutionbooks.org/

An unidentified man who burst into a Kansas VA medical center with a gun surrendered after trading his ammunition for a pack of cigarettes. - USA Today

i can tell you, i will go crazy.

if bob posts another bush song.

"I'm better now, I'm O.K."

Let's hope it's so!

Night all!

my funk soul brother Dick Cheney withholding information from congress?

my stars what a shock!
my reality will never recover.

"I'm better now, I'm O.K."

hope chi-towns beautiful for you tomorrow.

"I'm better now, I'm O.K."

New York Times-International Herald Tribune
Global Edition
Magazine
By CHARLES SIEBERT
Published: July 8, 2009

~snip~
The suspicion of a causal relationship between whale strandings and either seismic tests or the use of new high-tech sonar tracking devices in military-training exercises had been mounting for some time. Similar coincidences had been noted off the coasts of Brazil, the Bahamas, the Galápagos Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Japan, as well as in the waters off Italy and Greece. Necropsies performed on a number of the whales revealed lesions about their brains and ears. The results of the examinations performed on the Canary Islands whales, however, added a whole other, darker dimension to the whale-stranding mystery. In addition to bleeding around the whales’ brains and ears, scientists found lesions in their livers, lungs and kidneys, as well as nitrogen bubbles in their organs and tissue, all classic symptoms of a sickness that scientists had naturally assumed whales would be immune to: the bends

It might sound like something out of a bad sci-fi film: whales sent into suicidal dashes toward the ocean’s surface to escape the madness-inducing echo chamber that we humans have made of their sound-sensitive habitat. But since the Canary Islands stranding in 2002, similar necropsy results have turned up with a number of beached whales, and the deleterious effects of sonar and other human-generated sounds on ocean ecosystems have been firmly established.

As described in a 2005 report published by the Natural Resources Defense Council, “Sounding the Depths II: The Rising Toll of Sonar, Shipping and Industrial Ocean Noise on Marine Life,” oceans that as recently as 100 years ago had been one vast, ongoing whale and piscine chorus have now essentially become senses-wilting miasmas of human-made noise. At a 2004 International Whaling Commission symposium, more than 100 scientists signed a statement asserting that the association between sonar and whale deaths “is very convincing and appears overwhelming.”

The question of sonar’s catastrophic effects on whales even reached the Supreme Court last November, in a case pitting the United States Navy against the Natural Resources Defense Council.

~snip~
Whales, we now know, teach and learn. They scheme. They cooperate, and they grieve. They recognize themselves and their friends. They know and fight back against their enemies. And perhaps most stunningly, given all of our transgressions against them, they may even, in certain circumstances, have learned to trust us again.

TEN BIG PAGES!
Watching Whales Watching Us
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12whales-t.html?_r=1&pagewant...

I know you know, but i'm sayin it again.
Submitted by edna ellen poe on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 7:47pm.
...

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Possible main reasons U.S. print press media is in trouble--

o U.S. literacy rate is collapsing. And it is dang hard to find any studies on it (last time I tried) so I wonder if it is being kept from the taxpayers.

o American lifestyle is not a reading lifestyle -- Americans are too busy driving, commuting, working, eating fastfood to take time to read. We do not have a relaxed cafe/pub lifestyle at any level.

o Reduced readership because the TV-radio media lead the public to believe nothing is going on that is worth reading about! (I think this one is the BIG SLEEPER as I've never heard it mentioned anywhere yet! Did you hear it here first?)

o Media Consolidation with borrowed money: Being bought out with highly leveraged money (MASSIVE DEBT (at high interest) leading to massive cash flow problems, which leads to the self-cannibalization using lay offs, closing offices, ending correspondent reporting, less research/investigation, reduced frequency, outsourced printing and so on

http://www.fourthcornerexchange.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlUkOopLUK4

A lot of stop-and-blink-twice-before-you-read-on insights in this PHIL ROCKSTROH piece!

like this one:

"...I noticed my fellow peak-years-of-the-Baby-Boom teenagers were not the progeny of The Woodstock Nation, as the beleaguered authoritarian types of the era had feared. Instead we were the floating spirit-incarnate of a pop culture Weimar Republic. As a rule, we used drugs neither to expand our awareness nor as an act of social or political rebellion -- rather they were utilized as apolitical agents of anesthetization...."

Read more here:

http://dissidentvoice.org/July05/Rockstroh0731.htm

Here's another excerpt:

"...we shield ourselves from our complicity in the carnage by choosing to remain fixated by our small concerns and mind-numbing distractions, rationalizing the corruption of the corporate and political classes is in no way a reflection of our own self-serving proclivities; we march through our commodified, daily lives -- Storm Troopers of our venal, corporatized agendas (all maintained by bunker buster bomb imperialism and planet-looting ecocide); our thoughts as banal as Eichmann's as he calculated the weight capacity of death camp bound boxcars as, all the while, foreign blood is spilled in our name and the natural world that sustains us dies.

Yet, more than likely, the readers of this essay are as mortified, heartsick, and enraged by the actions of the US Government and the corporate overlords who own and operate it as is this writer -- nevertheless, we carry the empire within us as deeply as we carry the imprints of our parents' faces. It is too immense for us not to; it is too pervasive and invasive for us to avoid; it weaned us and socialized us -- and even when we rebel against it, our actions are generally restricted within limits set by it. Otherwise, the consequences would be too crushing for most of us to endure: financial ruin, destitution, homelessness, prison. There are reasons the neoliberal oligarchs endeavor to widen the class distinctions in the United States and abroad: The harsher the economic consequences are for the laboring classes to risk defiance the more obedient we will grow, particularly when we are incessantly plied with the synergy of corporate salesmanship and state propaganda -- and everyday we must negotiate our way through a collective mindscape as hyper-commercialized, zoning-bereft, and nature-denuded as the endless clip joints of corporate capitalism spanning the length of the land."

I'll accept that well intentioned although grossly overstated and barbed characterization....

If you will accept the idea that more direct action from Obama, preferably due to more political pressure from the Left, would help get more liberal agenda passed, sooner...

basic physics Crank...

about having a secret plan to kill Qaeda leaders? Isn't that what they went there to do in 2001? Who didn't know they were working on a plan to topple Al Qaeda and kill their leaders? Something sounds fishy.

simply because the are already a day old when you get them.

and i know that not everyone can afford iphones, but i bet that all the people who can used to buy the paper everyday.

every single one of them.

"I'm better now, I'm O.K."

Today I perused the Google News page as is my habit. On the top right of the page is a list of news items that may or may not be included in the paragraph-long news items that occupy the rest of the page (Business, Sports, etc.).

In the mini-list was "Viagra available on-line!"

I clicked on it to see if something other than the usual Viagra spam was the subject. Perhaps the spam WAS the subject?

Nope. I was given a compilation page of:

Results 1 – 30 of about 962 for Buy VIAGRA. (0.21 seconds)

Below is a link to the compilation page which has to be the highlight of a hacker's day.

http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=Buy+VIAGRA&num=30&ict=it...

high-tech military sonar tracking devices killing whales
new
Submitted by FilthyRich on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 11:54pm.
New York Times-International Herald Tribune
Global Edition
Magazine
By CHARLES SIEBERT
Published: July 8, 2009

~snip~
The suspicion of a causal relationship between whale strandings and either seismic tests or the use of new high-tech sonar tracking devices in military-training exercises had been mounting for some time. Similar coincidences had been noted off the coasts of Brazil, the Bahamas, the Galápagos Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Japan, as well as in the waters off Italy and Greece. Necropsies performed on a number of the whales revealed lesions about their brains and ears. The results of the examinations performed on the Canary Islands whales, however, added a whole other, darker dimension to the whale-stranding mystery. In addition to bleeding around the whales’ brains and ears, scientists found lesions in their livers, lungs and kidneys, as well as nitrogen bubbles in their organs and tissue, all classic symptoms of a sickness that scientists had naturally assumed whales would be immune to: the bends

It might sound like something out of a bad sci-fi film: whales sent into suicidal dashes toward the ocean’s surface to escape the madness-inducing echo chamber that we humans have made of their sound-sensitive habitat.
******
see above or

Watching Whales Watching Us
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12whales-t.html?_r=1&pagewant...

Submitted by cent on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 11:57pm.
...basic physics Crank...
------
This is where you and I part company.

There is no basic physics in politics. Politics includes levitation, slight-of-hand, phrenology and beliefs in weird supernatural beings.

I understand your drive to mold politics into something that makes sense to you. I spent years with the same attitude before I gave up. The attitude is based in morality and justice which are goals that I would never argue against.

Unfortunately politics operates on its own shape-shifting set of rules that have no relationship with the Universe at large. I want to ferret-out those liquid rules so that, once in a while, I understand how to get to morality and justice in spite of the game.

It's sorta like keeping the attention of the Three Card Monte scam artist on me as his mark, while my confederate picks his pocket. Sure, politics has made me a grifter and a scammer and a thief in the process...

...but it's for a good cause.

I hate making predictions because...it's a fool's game.

So I'm a fool this time around. Sonia Sotomayor will run rings around her attackers in the confirmation hearings.

The average Republican politico who wants to play to his or her constituents back home doesn't have the language or deliberative or extemporaneous chops to take on a woman of Sotomayor's caliber.

She has been playing the language game for decades but, unlike politicians, her language game has been a matter of record to the utmost.

She won't be trapped in a hearing by the likes of Inhofe.

Larisa's blog
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 10:19pm.
Just who were Bush/Cheney/Rove spying on, really?

From WaPo:

"Extraordinary and inappropriate" secrecy about a warrantless eavesdropping program undermined its effectiveness as a terrorism-fighting tool, government watchdogs have concluded in the first examination of one of the most contentious episodes of the Bush administration.

A report by inspectors general from five intelligence agencies said the administration's tight control over who learned of the program also contributed to flawed legal arguments that nearly prompted mass resignations in the Justice Department five years ago.

...

========================

Very interesting to watch a great investigative reporter, like a good lawyer, take an evident conspirators' crime and work to get to know it. One difference: Where the reporter might be interested in motive, the lawyer just has to prove the crime was committed -- no motive needed.

To add to the possibilities, I contribute this: The Bush Crime Family isn't done. They left protections in place for their friends at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase. They have every intention of making a full public comeback, in my view. They've been at this wholesale rip-off of the USA at least since Skull&Bones was founded in the 1800s, since grandfather Walker worked with J.P. Morgan on the railroads, and since American Industrialists perfected war profiteering during World War One.

Whatever information they've gleaned, I think it will have to do with wiping the map of all groups, institutions and individuals who bear witness to their crimes and/or hold the information they choose to suppress and destroy. Because PUBLIC IGNORANCE is their primary tool in fashioning their brand of despotism and exploitation and slavery.

She'll Smoke 'Em
new
Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:50am.
I hate making predictions because...it's a fool's game.

So I'm a fool this time around. Sonia Sotomayor will run rings around her attackers in the confirmation hearings.

The average Republican politico who wants to play to his or her constituents back home doesn't have the language or deliberative or extemporaneous chops to take on a woman of Sotomayor's caliber.

She has been playing the language game for decades but, unlike politicians, her language game has been a matter of record to the utmost.

She won't be trapped in a hearing by the likes of Inhofe.

========================

If that's so, they'll hate her all the more for it, Crank. And they are a nasty group.

Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 9:53pm.

Another metaphor is Obama as Pontius Pilot who washes his hands of the fate of Cheney and Bush, leaving it to the gathered masses to decide ...

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Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:28am.

There is no basic physics in politics. Politics includes levitation, slight-of-hand, phrenology and beliefs in weird supernatural beings ...

__________________________

Slight of Pilate, sleight of pilot?

Submitted by nora on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:50am.
...Because PUBLIC IGNORANCE is their primary tool...
--------
[Yawn]

Next!

Jeff Sessions saying her appointment "is not a foregone conclusion", means it is exactly a foregone conclusion.

I'm just gonna tweet Sessions and tell him Crank said so just to speed things along.

"this machine kills fascists"

Submitted by dr on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:58am.
Slight of Pilate, sleight of pilot?
--------
I was referring to the little-known aviator, Lt. Pontius Pilot.

later if anyone sticks around.

~`ordinary's just not good enough today - olp`~
Jamesbennett

That should be Lt. Pontius, pilot.

Submitted by Crank Bait on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 1:03am.

Submitted by dr on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:58am.
Slight of Pilate, sleight of pilot?
--------
I was referring to the little-known aviator, Lt. Pontius Pilot.

_____________

Yeah, Wright.

I'm pretty sure that mire dated Lt. Pontius back in the day.

Ain't gotta go home, but can't stay here.

Sopwith that??!!

"this machine kills fascists"

"Yeah, Wright."
Submitted by 60th Street on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 1:16am.
Sopwith that??!!
------
Fokker!

Can I weave Spad into a spaz joke?

No, I can't. Not yet, anyway.

The stench of overly-perfumed (synthetic oil by-product no doubt) laundry dryer exhaust wafting through the air, day and night -- especially night.

;)
re:dr on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 1:08am.

newspapers are obselete
Submitted by Rich Phittswell on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:00am.
simply because the are already a day old when you get them.

and i know that not everyone can afford iphones, but i bet that all the people who can used to buy the paper everyday.

every single one of them.

...
===================

Okay.

That's another point.

Will really be a powerful point, too, if it goes along with a fact like Americans have more computers than Brits. But I don't know if that is the case....

Why are the blockades still in place? Because the Israelis are sadistic despot bigot colonialists.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/the-two-state-solution-israeli-style/c...

by Jonathan Cook

[excerpt]
This is creating a culture of absolute Israeli control and absolute Palestinian dependency, enforced by proxy Palestinian rulers acting as mini-dictatorships.

For a growing number of Palestinians, the conditions of bare subsistence and even survival are Israeli gifts that few can afford to spurn through political activity, let alone civil disobedience or armed resistance. The Palestinian will to organise and resist as their land is seized for settlements is being inexorably sapped.

It is little mentioned but Israel all but abandoned completing its massive separation wall in the West Bank some time ago. There are significant gaps waiting to be filled, but, with things having grown so quiet and the cost of each kilometre of wall so high, the sense of political and military urgency has evaporated.
...

As the normally restrained International Committee of the Red Cross reported last month: “Most of the very poor have exhausted their coping mechanisms. Many have no savings left. They have sold private belongings such as jewellery and furniture and started to sell productive assets including farm animals, land, fishing boats or cars used as taxis.”

[end excerpt]

high-tech military sonar tracking devices killing whales
Submitted by FilthyRich on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 11:54pm.
...
===========================

Really horrible. This must be stopped.

I saw a documentary on Egypt the other night and instead of discussing why the Egyptian culture lasted so long, the documentarians rather presented the entire program in terms of Pharoahs and their conquests and EMPIRE. That is the single lens through which we in this country view everything -- even history. EMPIRE, EMPIRE AND MORE EMPIRE. Like an atrophied reasoning skill -- we're frozen in mono-analysis.

The longest-lived, most stable cultures have been the agricultural, low-tech cultures. Never a word was said in that direction on the program.

Take our American culture, for instance. It is not that the democratic experiment has failed. What is collapsing on us is the entire MACHINE of Industrialization and the Consumerism it requires. We are proud and protective of our technological advances, but technological advances are the death of us because they are used only for profit by a few and are not used to seek sustainability. For instance, the natural cycles of the Nile River sustained the Egyptians for millennia; then modern technology built a giant dam that now prevents the deposit of fresh silt to keep the ag lands fertile, salts are building up in the soils, and since no fresh water is flowing into the Mediterranean from the Nile, the Mediterranean Ocean is losing fish habitat.

Sonar may be a great toy for the EMPIRE set along with all their other toys like nuclear everything, but they are creating a sesspool of death out of this Blue Planet.

;)

I remember walking with a crowd in a stone passage transition area and see a local boy hang a quick right and then another in a narrow side passage. I'm a few steps behind and we end up 4' above the heads of the crowd passing beneath us. They don't see us. The best part, we are facing across the passage the most beautiful carved panel...2'x4'(?) Don't remember what it was of, prob. some pharaoh conquest thing [ ;) ] lost the pics I took there.

some good points nora.
---Our jewel of a Planet -- and 100+ years of Industrialized Tech
new
Submitted by nora on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 2:30am.---

http://www.ask-aladdin.com/karnak.html

~`ordinary's just not good enough today - olp`~
Jamesbennett

"an international pedophile network" is beyond the pale.

I was raised Catholic, and I hate it the same as all religions. Organized or not, for that matter. I'd love to have a religion of some sort, but they're all ridiculous and have no basis in reality. Existentialism is the closest I've found.

BUT THAT IS ALL BESIDE THE POINT.

Look, the only reason that the Catholic church can be seen as a "pedophile network" is because THERE IS A CATHOLIC CHURCH. In other words, there's a hierarchy that you can follow up the chain. If you think any other Christian sects don't have sickos in their clergy then I'd ask you to rethink your logic.

The fact that the Catholic church has a hierarchy, believe it or not, is a good thing in this case. Hear me out. Yes, it allowed church officials to move priests under suspicion around. But, once unearthed, there's a "network" to follow, a chain of command to investigate. I fully believe that this is just as much of an issue in other Christian churches. But you don't hear about them, because Protestant churches are their own little kingdoms. One discovery of a crime does not immediately lead you to the next if you are investigating them.

There is nothing in Catholic teaching that sanctions child sexual abuse. And keep in mind that the Catholic church is far to the left of most Protestant churches on loads of issues. I could just as easily make a blanket statement about Protestant churches being a bunch of Neo-Nazis, but I won't, because its unfair and ridiculous and intellectually lazy.

Just to be clear, I'm not defending at all the intensely evil actions of the American Catholic church. I shouldn't even have to reiterate that. And that said, fuck religion anyways.

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http://www.vodamusic.com/blog/

July 13, 2009 - Palin Out Edition

First of all I want to apologize for leaving Free Republic off the list this week. I'd almost finished the Top 10 when the story came along and I was so done with right-wing douchebaggery by that point, I couldn't bring myself to write about it.

If you missed it, you can check out the scoop here. And now, on with the show. Sarah Palin (1,2,3) takes her ball and goes home, John Ensign (4) asks mom and dad for some extra pocket money, and Brian Kilmeade (6) is a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.

ghettodefender, I must ask, are you crazy?! ;)

No shot in hell that woman wins anything. On top of her being a completely crazy person who nobody likes, now she can't even run on her record as governor, saying as she failed to complete a single term. You run against her on the fact that she's 1) crazy and 2) a quitter. She's the very definition of Toast, my friend! ;)

IMO, it's such a sure bet that I'm almost willing to contribute money to SarahPac if she runs for the Rapeublican nomination. Almost...
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http://www.vodamusic.com/blog/

What to Watch for at Sotomayor's Hearing

CQ Politics: "Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will have to perform a rhetorical high-wire exercise during her Senate confirmation hearing, which begins Monday. She will need to show the Judiciary Committee a mastery of constitutional law without being too specific on any particular legal issue. She will have to respond dispassionately to pointed questions, demonstrating a judicial temperament worthy of the high court."

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000003164112

Politico says a "200-plus-page White House playbook distributed to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats" outlines "a streamlined, no-drama strategy modeled on the flawless performance of Chief Justice John Roberts back in 2005. Roberts bedeviled Democrats by deflecting questions about his judicial philosophy with the law school equivalent of Greenspan-speak, the art of saying virtually nothing in the most expansive language possible."

Said one Democratic aide: "Roberts is our gold standard."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24850.html

Meanwhile, The Fix has the five senators to watch on the Judiciary Committee during questioning.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/morning-fix/071309-sotomayor-hea...

CIT Warns Demise Would Create Crisis, Put Manufacturers at Risk of Failure

CIT Group Inc., the century-old lender that hasn’t been able to persuade the government to back its debt sales, says its demise would put 760 manufacturing clients at risk of failure and “precipitate a crisis” for as many as 300,000 retailers.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=antG4OSxVsHQ

Pandit's `Globality' May Pique Regulators Pressured to Keep Loans at Home
Citigroup Inc.’s plan to profit from growth in foreign markets may put Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit at odds with the U.S. government’s stated interest in curbing risk and stoking the domestic economy with loans.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ay611KakOJ8Q

Cubs Bankruptcy Looms as Way for Buyer to Leave Zell's Debt-Laden Tribune

The Chicago Cubs may become the first Major League Baseball team in 39 years to file for bankruptcy as Tribune Co. seeks to sell the franchise after months of negotiations.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aArEAGUlLmS8

In spite of losing, the Cubs were doing well. Wrigley field is always full, many times to capacity and the cubs logo things sell well. If the Cubs organization is going bankrupt it is because they were used for a money feed for the Tribune's other endeavors, mainly the loss of advertising and the sale of newspapers.

BusinessWeek Put Up for Sale as McGraw-Hill Said to Hire Evercore Partners
McGraw-Hill Cos. hired Evercore Partners Inc., the boutique investment bank founded by Roger Altman, to sell BusinessWeek magazine, a person close to the situation said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=abELiuNJa7K0

Bernanke May Explain Exit Strategy From Fed's Biggest Monetary Expansion
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke probably will show how the central bank will exit the biggest monetary expansion in history when he reports to Congress next week, economists said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aNU.UkT9EB68

Obama's Stimulus Money Starts Flowing to Projects as Jobless Await Results
David Oneglia was looking at the likelihood of layoffs at his construction company. Then he landed a contract funded by the federal stimulus program to repair roads and bridges on Connecticut’s Merritt Parkway.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=abzHCz7Sl.84

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/5019#new

New Thread..

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/5019

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

http://www.alternet.org/story/141212/

But fears abound that the teeny genie is escaping from its bottle.
The asbestos parallel causes particular concern--prompting the
Australian Council of Trade Unions, for example, to call for that
country to adopt nano regulations by year's end. At the Bethesda
workshop in February, Harvard industrial hygienist Robert Herrick
advocated an all-out effort to gather information about nano
exposures and possible related illnesses. The asbestos industry could
have undertaken a similar effort in the 1930s, he noted. Instead,
industry execs decided to keep the subject quiet. If they had gone
the other way, Herrick wondered, "how different would history be?"

/ Carole Bass, a journalist, writes about the environment, workplace
health, legal affairs and other subjects. /

Fee fi fo fum...
Take that, you Fokkers!

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