In case you missed it

Art Levine, Truthout: "On the same weekend that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin addressed thousands of followers on the mall in Washington, DC, with a religiously cloaked Tea Party message to 'restore honor' to America, the Democratic Party set itself the ambitious goal of knocking on 400,000 doors to start rallying disenchanted Obama supporters to vote in November. It's not clear yet whether they came anywhere near that outreach goal, but, ironically, there are early signs that some of the most engaged but disappointed progressive constituencies - from labor unions to the million-strong Democracy for America group founded by Howard Dean - are still willing to work hard to prevent a GOP take over of Congress."

Art Levine, Truthout: "On the same weekend that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin addressed thousands of followers on the mall in Washington, DC, with a religiously cloaked Tea Party message to 'restore honor' to America, the Democratic Party set itself the ambitious goal of knocking on 400,000 doors to start rallying disenchanted Obama supporters to vote in November. It's not clear yet whether they came anywhere near that outreach goal, but, ironically, there are early signs that some of the most engaged but disappointed progressive constituencies - from labor unions to the million-strong Democracy for America group founded by Howard Dean - are still willing to work hard to prevent a GOP take over of Congress."

...last Saturday, I watched the broadcast reporter interview one of the Beck rally attendee who elaborated on her reasons for being there.

She sounded like she had rehearsed for this answer. The reporter smartly asked when she thought the country had started going in the wrong direction,and she answered, with a slight pause and an inflection, "3 years."

My personal assessment was that she was prepped, or, otherwise thought it best to include the one year of the previous administration to sound like she was a rational person. Sorry but the very fact that she was there for that rally dispelled that impression

Article: What Obama Won't Say Tonight
For OpEdNews: Ray McGovern - Writer

President Barack Obama's aides say his speech this evening marking the end of "combat operations" in Iraq will avoid the vainglorious aspects of President George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech in 2003. We'll see.

On the chance Obama might be open to pivoting away from the reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq and addressing honestly the worsening quagmire in Afghanistan. I have offered him the following text:

My Fellow Americans,

" so much for Iraq. Turning now to Afghanistan, let me be clear. My learning curve has been steep, as the New York Times noted last weekend. The curve has also been jagged as I have tried to assimilate the not-always-consistent advice the four-star generals have given me.

It's been more than a little confusing. When I took office, Gen. David McKiernan was running the war in Afghanistan. He had expressed himself openly and strongly against an Iraq-style "surge" of forces, emphasizing that Afghanistan is "a far more complex environment than I ever found in Iraq," where he had led U.S. ground forces.

"The word I don't use for Afghanistan is "surge,'" McKiernan told a news conference on Oct. 1, 2008, singling out for mention the country's rural population and mountainous terrain, which deepen the nation's tribal divisions and weaken national cohesion.

As I was campaigning for president, McKiernan also warned that we could not do Afghanistan on the cheap. Rather, what would be needed was a "sustained commitment" that could last many more years. At the time there were 33,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan (as compared with close to 100,000 now). McKiernan wanted no more, unless he could count on having them for the longer term with the objective being clear.

So, let me tell you how things changed from then to now...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Obama-Won-t-Say-Tonig-by-Ray-McGov...

that the housing bubble bursting then the bailout was her watershed moment.

Doesn't have to make her particularly well-informed/intelligent/rational--whatever. But she may not be lying or rehearsed. In fact I find it kind of unlikely.

Why would anyone be coaching her to be negative in re Bush. Most of the astroturfers have ties to the rightest wing of the Republicans. You send people out to start bashing Bush to make your talking points look balanced, you are just gonna confuse a lotta people who are easily confused. [No, I take that back--they are allowed to not like him on deficit spending right? Like w/ Mittens? But I think that's playing to an audience on a marginally higher level...folks who might have already been delegates to the republican convention in 08--say.]

Otoh, I beLIEVE that Glenn Beck now recants any past support for the bailout under Bush. (Not sure.) So again, if that's the case, not lying or prepped in any organized way so much as parroting. Maybe that's splitting hairs.

So Leah, now that I'm on I have to ask you, before I go again.

Is "Only you" in reference to "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires" (aka Rethug sweep)? Or to the song(s) "Only You," implying a kind of hopelessly romantic self-destructvie attraction to Obama and the dems?

Or something else?

... I begged before Obama was elected to PLEASE put him in the VP seat ATT ...cuz DEMS gave me no other choices. {I WANTED GORE.} Hil was "slightly" rethug/Democrat better.
(A way to get thrown off another blog, but not from here yet...;)

However, this is where we are at now, thus VOTE OBAMA {as I just "spit up" a lil in my mouth ;}

for telling your truth. thats all there is to that. august 31st 2010
I am sure one could get thrown off for obscene ,continous harrassment .

Harassment is a crime. If proven, depending on the severity and frequency of the conduct and the harasser's prior criminal record

failure to be funny as a violation of Rico Act has not reached the docket of The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (where the conservative court is hesitant to interpret a continous lack of humor as a Rico Violation.)

There is no legal precedent except The Dave Chappelle contract which is still being defended by his Team of crack lawyers.

Dedicated to the Noble Peace Prize Winner, the Commander in Chief:

Love Vigilantes by New Order

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l36eO6BwPq8

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

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I don't even think it's about THE truth. It's about YOUR truth. (Barring harassment.) How's that for cheesey?

(I'm trying gd. I'm trying. You invoke again.)

Chapelle--that also reminds me...

I only found out about this the other day. Of course the series just ended.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/frangela

They are much bitchier off terrestrial. It's great.

(Get yr estrogen boys... ;) )

Medea Benjamin was on with Bill Press this morning.
I got to ask her if she agreed with the words of Glenn Beck's hero, MLK, that the US is greatest purveyor of violence on the planet.

(Sam was very sharp last night on TYT. Ed and Cenk, and no Sam-- pathetic.)

esp if the podcast is not free (which none of them are anymore).

Strange Brew
new
Submitted by ghettodefender on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 3:3
YOu got to ask her that great question did you get an answer?

you probably ran into a hard break ( before she could asnwer) as they say on radio

On the International Day of the Displaced, activists say fate of hundreds of missing indigenous women must be examined

The Canadian government has not lived up to its responsibilities to stop disapperances, critics say [GALLO/GETTY]

As human rights activists around the world marked the International Day of the Disappeared by focusing on Peru, Iraq, Nepal and Mexico, Leslie Spillett sat in her office in Winnipeg, contemplating the fate of more than 500 indigenous women who have disappeared in Canada.

The violence, primarily targeting young women from disadvantaged backgrounds over the past three decades, is "truly appalling" according to Amnesty International and, say human rights groups, has not been properly addressed by security forces in one of the world's richest countries.

When framed purely in numerical terms, the disappearances in Canada pale in comparison to the 15,000 who vanished during Peru's battle with Shining Path fighters in the early 1990s and come nowhere near to the estimated one million who have disappeared in Iraq during 30 years of dictatorship and occupation...

'Starlight tours'

Most of the disappeared indigenous Canadians are thought to have been killed by sexual predators or serial killers like William Pickton, who was convicted of murdering six women and is thought to have killed dozens more.

But there have been isolated cases of security forces actively attacking indigenous people - hauling them to the outskirts of cities and leaving them to freeze in a process that has become known as the "starlight tour".

In 1990, 17-year-old Neil Stonechild was found frozen to death in a remote field outside Saskatoon. The temperature was -28C that night and Stonechild was found wearing only one shoe.

His mother and indigenous leaders believe police drove him out of the city and left him for dead, in what could be considered an extra-judicial killing.

After years of stalling and bad press, the government called an inquiry into the teenager's death.

Police admitted to bungling the investigation, and closing his case file without interviewing the proper witnesses.

The two officers blamed for driving him out of the city were fired from the force, but no one was charged over his death.

In 2000, two veteran police officers admitted to picking up Darrell Night, an indigenous man, and driving him to the outskirts of Saskatoon, leaving him alone in -22C weather.

A jury found the men guilty of unlawful confinement, not murder, and sentenced the pair to eight months in jail. They served half that sentence.

Law undermined

These cases do not count as enforced disappearances because the bodies of those involved were found, but comparisons have been drawn with extra-judicial killings.

However, even if Canada was considered to have participated in enforced disappearances, it could not be held accountable under international law as it has not signed the 2006 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance - joining Algeria, Colombia, Israel, Saudi Arabia and a host of other countries.

"We are calling on states to enforce the convention, because it still hasn't been ratified," Nicole Engelbrecht, a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), says.

Canada is particularly troubled by article 33, which demands that states "adequately investigate ... those responsible for the death and disappearance of indigenous women" and article 26 which calls for taking "measures to combat socio-economic discrimination which is a cause of continuous violence against Aboriginal women".

While international treaties on forced disappearance are often not worth the paper they are printed on, signing conventions at least signals a willingness to address the issues.

Presently, 19 countries have signed the agreement...
http://english.aljazeera.net/quoteofday/2010/08/201083018253280225.html

(No, of course, we aren't a signatory either.)

Put up audio please...
Submitted by gloryoski on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 3:37pm.

esp if the podcast is not free (which none of them are anymore).

I'll go check his website out. I only have about 30 minutes more here though, and I'm enjoying these New Order youtubes.

(No hard, break. First she laughed about how Beck didn't quote much from "Beyond Vietnam" this weekend. Then see agreed and talked our world wide military empire. It went well.)

Guests

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I think I spoke to Medea at about 8:15est. I'm the first caller (only two for the segment), "Matt."

KEWL ;)

I HAVE SAID (many months running) AND JUST HEARD CENK SAY similar -

{my quote} ...when The GOP pays ALL THE MONEY BACK TO "SOCIAL SECURITY" then I will speak of seeing to fixing!
;D

would be a perfect pair, Cenk with his "fire with a bite" and Sam for his tad bit more of a "balance of fire".

First Ever Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Becomes Law

Earlier today, New York Gov. David Paterson signed the first law ever in the United States to give domestic workers the same protections that most other workers have enjoyed for decades. The enactment of the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights means that the over 200,000 nannies, in-home caregivers, housekeepers, and other domestic laborers throughout New York State will now finally be guaranteed an eight-hour work day, overtime pay, one day of rest each week, paid vacation days, protection against workplace sexual harassment and racial discrimination, and temporary disability benefits...

http://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights-womens-rights/first-ever-dome...

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This seems like relatively good news...Know anything that isn't here tz?

subbing for each other at both places. (Cenk would have to get a steady gig first, but he could push for Sam as a sub-sub in the meantime, no?)

Because Sam is best in long format and with lots of room.

and then the giddy laughter--

Worse than "traveling."

:)

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I'm only telling you what I would want you to tell me. Although you never do... :}

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Sam and RJ are really good together too. (No giddy laughter.)

to help them deal with the solitude.

According to La Jornada.

I'm not getting anything done anyhow.

*sigh*

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Oh. Early. can't see fer shit no more.

All of a sudden we're alone.

Doesn't usually happen when ur here.

davidcnswanson

full text, turn off the tube: http://tinyurl.com/2dv6mcw

The Seven Churches of Asia are all located in Anatolia; Ephesus (Efes), Smyrna (Izmir), Laodicea ad Lycum (Goncali), Sardis (Sart), Pergamum (Bergama), Philadelphia (Alasehir) and Thyatira (Akhisar).

These churches are associated both with Saint Paul and with Revelations (the Apocalypse); letters written in c.95 AD to the Seven Churches by John. For some people John is a visionary who lived on the island of Patmos. But some people say he is the Apostle John.

There should have been more than seven cities with major Christian congregations in Anatolia at the time that John wrote and it is unknown why he addressed only these seven. These were possibly the most important ones at that time or letters to other churches were lost.

These churches were not church buildings as such but congregations. These early congregations had their meetings in private homes as there had been no original church buildings until the 3C AD. St. Paul possibly founded some of the Seven Churches on his missionary journeys between 47-57 AD, as he was thought to have visited all seven cities.

August 31, 2010

Why the Left Should Take Him Seriously

Glenn Beck's Redemption Song

By ROBERT JENSEN

About halfway through Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the DC mall, I realized that I was starting to like Glenn Beck.

Let me explain. It’s not that I really liked Beck, but more that I experienced his likeability. Whether or not he’s sincere, I came to admire his ability to project sincerity and to create coherence out of his incoherent rambling about religion, race, and redemption.

As a result, I’m more afraid for our political future than ever.

First, to be clear: Beck is the embodiment of everything I dislike about the U.S. politics and contemporary culture. I disagree with most every policy position he takes. I find his willful ignorance and skillful deceit to be unconscionable.

So, I’m not looking for a charismatic leader to follow and I haven’t been seduced by Beck’s televisual charm, nor have I given up on radical politics. Instead, I’m trying to understand what happened when I sat down at my computer on Saturday morning and plugged into the live stream of the event. Expecting to see just another right-wing base-building extravaganza that would speak to a narrow audience, I planned to watch for a few minutes before getting onto other projects. I stayed glued to my chair for the three-hour event.
http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen08312010.html

http://www.zcommunications.org/austerity-in-the-face-of-weakness-by-doug...
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in New York City. And it was just a few weeks ago Congress finally passed a bill to fund teachers' jobs across the country. A great debate had broken out about it. Republicans had said it's time for austerity; any of this stimulus program is really a waste of money, doesn't create real jobs. Democrats are saying, well, we need some stimulus. But President Obama seems to be taking rather seriously the need for moving to an austerity program soon. He signed on to the G-20 declaration that called for halving the deficit by 2013. So the stimulus-versus-austerity debate—who's right? Or maybe they're both wrong. Now joining us to help us understand this issue is Doug Henwood. He's been for almost 25 years editor of Left Business Observer. Thanks for joining us.

DOUG HENWOOD, FOUNDER AND EDITOR, LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER: Good to be here.

JAY: So what do you make of the stimulus/austerity debate?

HENWOOD: Well, it's kind of depressing. You know, we have an economy that's really in very bad shape. It has stopped falling apart, but it really can't get up and begin to recover in any serious way, and it does need some adrenaline coming out of the public sector. The private sector is not spending very much, the household sector not spending. Businesses are very profitable, they have a lot of cash on their balance sheets, but they're not spending it on investment or hiring. So the government really has to take up the slack there. We also have, still, broken credit markets for the most part—they're funding speculative activity on Wall Street but not much else. So the public sector does need to inject some juice into the economy.

barack obama, the war criminal.

Keeeping the Big Apple safe.

Plaxico Burress denied work-release program

Former Giants Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress has come up short in his bid for work release during his two-year prison sentence in a gun case, a denial that could keep him behind bars until at least next spring, prison officials said Tuesday.

The state Department of Correctional Services said the nature of his November 2008 crime merited turning down his request for a work furlough, which would have let him spend some portion of his time free and working. Burress can appeal the decision but otherwise can't reapply for a work furlough until June 6, 2011, the date he comes up for potential full release if he gets time off for good behavior....
http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2010/08/31/sports/doc4c7d9392925f3692...

Yes that would be great.

Sam & Cenk at 2008 DNC Denver (sammycam)
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CeeCee, you could very well be right but it's just possible
Submitted by gloryoski on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 1:53pm.

...so neither of us can be sure, and unfortunately, I can't find the actual news clip (but Derrick Ward was the reporter in that one and in some of the other clips below) but since many attendees were bussed in for the event by Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity Group, etc., there is certainly opportunity to disburse their propaganda for the ride. And then there is the opportunity for the attendees to "randomly" gravitate to anyone with a microphone in hand.

The person woman interviewed in the clip I saw didn't make any reference to the housing bubble, nor any particular issue to demonstrate where the country went wrong other than the intangibles that sounded strikingly similar to the others mentioned below--culture, values, religion, morality. Do I think she was coached to say something bad about Bush? No. I think she was smart enough to think that some variance to the rally-issued or encouraged meme may have been her own way to sound like she had a solid reason and credible awakening that didn't coincide with "black" man elected into office. IMHO

With the corporate media editing, we will never know how many interviews before hers that she waited through to get her chance on camera.

Sam is a media--journalist/pundit--guy and I trust him so I look forward to more of his "At The Rally" footage.

It was a long ride for most and alot of time for indoctrination:

Official Transporation for the "Restoring Honor" Rally
http://www.callawaytransportation.com/restoringhonor.html

http://www.americansforprosperity.org/061410-summitrally-dc-road-trip-fl...

Freedomworks CEO: Expect 400,000 to 500,000 people at Glenn Beck rally
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/freedomworks-ceo-expect-4000...

http://www.americansforprosperity.org/072710-defending-american-dream-su...

http://defendingthedream.org/beta/
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Local coverage:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/101726528.html
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/100_000_People_Expected_for...

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Ah the "saying nothing, but thinking it is not telling WTP a lie..." concept hahaha
;)

If only President Obama would've told us who is paying for the mercenary forces now -- us taxpayers or the Oil Corporations who now get the oil profits? (Even if the Oil Corporations are paying, I would have to wonder if they are paying out of that missing $9+ billions....)

Thanks for the text of the speech, Gloryoski.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rHNOTtShwM&feature=related

DUFFY - An Education

--Cheers Miss A -
hope you like this song
the film is great
xo

Is SJ's birthday...But you ain't heard that from me...

-Blog Secretary

-Huh. That was fuckin' weird, Sj.
Submitted by gloryoski on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 8:15pm.-
:)

Similac Crumb.

(Sorry.)

he's been around.

Forgot about that bus ride.

and brown...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11986708&id=426533150025&ref=fbx_a...

Wonder what the patch on the sleeve says...

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I DO NOT find the brown shirt on the official GB merch site. Only on the FB.

BTW it has been on one of my "loops" {listening again & again & periodically throughout the night}.
It just hits the spot ... down to one's "base".

See, again She is just calling me back...
especially when I think of Obama... HaHaTeaHee

I've never seen the Movie ... but now will keep in back of head to check into finding... ;)
(song just "fits" so well)

Again, Thank You. I am listening again to her... wow
{snap - as in "beat") ... " There's no smoke without fire... baby, baby, you're a liar.."

;)

;) ur song kewl 2 but trying to get to your other one but... on a "loop" ATT hahaha {snap, move'n to a grand guttural voice ATT, again} ;) wow...

but ur first song was "high" kewl 2

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- California's Senate has voted down a measure that would have banned plastic bags at grocery stores.
The new ban was rejected by a 21 to 14 vote late Tuesday. The ban would have included grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores.
The California Assembly passed the legislation in June.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had said he would have signed the measure into law, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Environmental groups such as the Sierra Club encouraged Californians to contact their state senators to push for the measure.
The group Heal the Bay produced what it calls a "mockumentary," narrated by actor Jeremy Irons, called "The Majestic Plastic Bag" that charts the life of a plastic bag. The video is on YouTube.
The measure had its opponents, too.
The American Chemistry Council criticized California Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, who proposed the bill.
"Assemblywoman Brownley's inflammatory comments are obviously intended to distract public attention from the substance and dire consequences of Assembly Bill 1998," the group said. "Her proposed legislation to ban plastic grocery bags in California ... is bad for the economy and bad for the environment: It will eliminate several hundred California manufacturing jobs and dismantle existing plastic bag recycling programs."
According to its website, the chemistry council represents companies that "make the products that make modern life possible, while working to protect the environment, public health, and the security of our nation." In this case, that includes plastic bags.
Brownley said she was disappointed with the vote.
"This is a sad day for California," Brownley said. "Communities across the state were waiting for the state to adopt a uniform, statewide ban on single-use bags before they adopt their own ordinances. The state failed them."
Brownley has been fighting to reduce plastic bag waste for three years, calling single-use bags "an unnecessary scourge that blows like urban tumbleweeds into every corner of the earth."
Her bill gained support from the California Grocers Association, which decided to back the bill after Brownley agreed to su

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/31/paterson-signs-domestic-worker-ri...

The very rich are finally forced to deal witt the rights of the nanny's and other domestic workers. It is actions like this that make Paterson an easy target for all sorts of attacks.

Do we care about his baseball tickets? .

my parents wanted to send me {when i was a teen} to my father's sister's IN GEORGIA to learn to be a proper young lady ... hahaha ... I never went, I left hahha

Oh, to act as a woman ... don't we "kinda" do anyway ... haha (btw friend & almost me eek was a "WAVE".) Although I was radical, I was, for a brief second, in C.A.P. - Civil Air Patrol - I always had a "multi-weird" side 2 me kewl LOL:}

All I can say is WTF ... I thought done deal!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11135500

In regards to the plastic bag law. Jobs will be lost (animals will suffocate). Too much of a strain on businesses to supply re-cycled hemp shopping bags ( the kids will smoke the grocery bags)
As that mass of plastic gagbage the size of an Island floats around I can only hope a big storm brings it on the shore's of the gated community where Dupont and Dow Chemical Execs enjoy their summer playground.

It is going to take some Hungry Algae to eat that plastic Island

Some local politicians want to make it a law to use vaccines to "solve " the salmonella problem.
HOW ABOUT INFORCING SOME LAWS ABOUT SANITATION , AND USING TIME PROVEN PRODUCTION TEQHNIQUES WHICH WONT DONT ALLOW FOR FEEDING ANIMAL BY PRODUCTS OR ABUSIVE LIVING CONDITIONS.

Rudolf Steiner: A Biographical Introduction for Farmers ...
When you become interested in biodynamic agriculture, you do not get very far into it before you are confronted with Rudolf Steiner. ...
www.biodynamics.com/steiner.html - Cached - Similar
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90% of the mega egg farms in the states already are using vaccines so I can only assume that the egg problem is caused by BAD sanitation and unethical treatment of animals. I went to the store and there are plenty of organic/free range poultry products for a little more money.

http://food.change.org/

;):( re taozen on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 8:45am.

re taozen on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 8:37am. "They" had recycled plastic & hemp bags & STATIONERY back IN THE EARLY '90s so you can image my - GRRR

ALL I CAN SAY IS WTF! {& GRRR :) }
;) {Blame Bridge {hehehe} I have to go back onto my "loop". hahaha}

2183215949

via Feministing

:)

Of Course "we" work to understand each other, the way it should be. I
am concerned with the rest of the world and the mis- conceptions the
sheeple bank their future on.. as a person interested in the
communicative arts,writing,music,films I think "we' could do a better
job" with the low information thinkers. You might laugh but I have
seen that giving some better nutrition/ B vitamins and dIgestive
ensymes and probiotics to confused people has a big effect on their
clarity. brain fog is a very big side effect from diabetes and other
diesease of mal absorbtion. and then there are brain allergies from
outrageous chemicals in the environment along with heavy metals that is
creating a class of people with the thinking capacity of a mass
produced caged chicken. God knows what cell towers and other forms of
transmissions (fox news)do to the brains of our fellow humans.

--------------Addled eggs for addled thinkers-------
as an adjective, addled, today's word can mean either "rotten" or "muddled".

http://www.cockatiel.org/articles/nohatch.html
+++++++++++
http://www.cockatiel.org/articles/inbreeding.html
learning from a cockatiel breeder.

Let's Fact Check The AP's Fact Checking On Obama's Speech
By David Swanson

http://www.davidswanson.org/node/2850?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=...

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You know I've heard he DID go to hs w/ Madonna. On the SPSNN.

Alan Simpson Condemns Disabled Vets for Breathing Agent Orange
By: David Dayen Wednesday September 1, 2010 6:30 am

Alan Simpson’s scorn for people who use federal money goes beyond… well, everyone, in the form of Social Security. He also doesn’t like it when Vietnam-era soldiers breathed Agent Orange and put their greedy little hands out to cough into them because they had respiratory trouble the rest of their lives...

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/09/01/alan-simpson-condemns-disabled-ve...

GOP Governors Try To Defund Health Care, Pit Teachers Against The Poor

As we get deeper into the electoral cycle and things get more polarized, it should come as no surprise that attitudes have become more polarized on health care. The health care question stands in for the political mood, which cuts against Democrats at the moment. Whether or not that holds depends on the implementation process. I don’t know that the public will be willing to wait until 2014 when the whole program comes on-line, and then evaluate it on the merits. But even if they do, at least a couple Republican Governors have decided to stoke their most committed partisans by deliberately trying to distort and defund the law.

In Nebraska, Governor Dave Heineman appealed to education groups in the state to fight to repeal the reform law, because expanding Medicaid would necessarily lead to less money for education. This pitting of one set of social programs against another has not yet worked, and even Bad Nelson has spoken out against it. Heineman bases his claim about Medicaid spending on bad data that inflates Nebraska’s responsibility by five-fold. It goes without saying that Heineman is running for re-election...

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/08/31/gop-governors-try-to-defund-healt...

UK exits EU human trafficking directive
Wed Sep 1, 2010 9:18AM

The British coalition government's refusal to sign up to an EU directive against sex trafficking has been considered as a green light to human traffickers.

Labor's former Europe minister Denis MacShane called on the coalition ministers to rethink their decision to leave the directive whose objectives have been announced as “to coordinate European efforts to fight the menace”, the British media reported.

The Home Office decision comes at a time after police reported earlier this month that at least 2,600 women had been trafficked into the UK and forced to earn a living as sex workers.

The figure of 2,600 migrant women trafficked into England and Wales is obtained through a 12-month research period.

The estimate is lower than the 4,000 estimate produced by the Home Office in 2003.

As the UK Human Trafficking Center's estimates show only five people have been convicted of human trafficking in the first six months of this year compared to 33 last year...

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/140837.html

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Why?

Free Market Has Turned Us Into 'Matrix' Drones - Business News, Business

Ha-Joon Chang, the new kid on the economics block, is out to bust open a few myths

A leading economist has likened the nation's acceptance of free-market capitalism to that of the brainwashed characters in the film The Matrix, unwitting pawns in a fake reality. In a controversial new book, the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang debunks received wisdom on everything from the importance of the internet to the idea that people in the United States enjoy the highest standard of living in the world; an iconoclastic attitude that has won him fans such as Bob Geldof and Noam Chomsky.

Dr Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism is one of a spate of tomes published in recent weeks that question the future of the current system, including Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky, and Ian Bremmer's The End of the Free Market. Economists are keen to tap into the market for popular books on seemingly impenetrable subjects – highlighted by the runaway success of Freakonomics, which has sold more than four million copies since it was published in 2005 and is about to be made into a film...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/free-market-has-turned-u...

realistic present day status
Submitted by taozen on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 9:59am.

"...You might laugh but I have seen that giving some better nutrition/ B vitamins and dIgestive ensymes and probiotics to confused people has a big effect on their clarity. brain fog is a very big side effect from diabetes and other diesease of mal absorbtion. and then there are brain allergies from outrageous chemicals in the environment along with heavy metals that is creating a class of people with the thinking capacity of a mass produced caged chicken..."

...I have experienced it myself and seen it in others. I think you are right on, Taozen. I am reading a book now, "Relaxation Revolution," that I bought after hearing the author on the Diane Rehm Show.
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-08-24/dr-herbert-benson-relaxatio...

Sort of like mind over matter book.

But I think that is why they don't want single payer health care because that will force them to see how the food industrial complex and the environment and commercialization is damaging us.
http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/Archives-by_date.php

Mississippi Shrimpers Find Oil Throughout Waters, Refuse To Trawl
August 30, 2010
Dahr Jamall

They tied an absorbent rag to a weighted hook, dropped it overboard, then pulled it up to find it covered in a mix of BP's crude oil and toxic dispersants.

The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and marine life due to the BP oil disaster.

"We come out and catch all our Mississippi oysters right here," James "Catfish" Miller, a commercial shrimper in Mississippi, said in an interview. Pointing to the area in the Mississippi Sound from his shrimp boat, he added, "It's the only place in Mississippi to catch oysters, and there is oil and dispersants all over the top of it."...

http://www.alternet.org/food/147968/mississippi_shrimpers_find_oil_throu...

Posted on Sep 1, 2010

Today on the list: The guide to killing goyim, more evidence of Glenn Beck’s self-obsession and proof that bears do not make the safest pets.

https://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/a_handbook_for_killing_non-...

Only not laughing-laughing.

Chilling effect and all that. ;)

"But I think that is why they don't want single payer health care because that will force them to see how the food industrial complex and the environment and commercialization is damaging us."

preventive and complimentary medicine is about saving money and resources so that "they" can be shared more equitably. (socialism) This is a threat to the out of control MIC ( medical industrial complex) that generates profits to the top 2 % and those that want to be in that exclusive club.

Obama dissapoints me because he doent know how to talk about these issues and keep the iron in the fire.. He appears to be so invested in stock market profits as a solutiuon to our economic troubles. Maybe he is not the only one doing it , Most of the senators and congress people are not helping the situation. He wanted to be the president so take some punches ,stand up for the change you campaigned on or are you just like all the rest?

His roll over to the drug companies is one of his most blatant ,patently dishonest acts of dis-loyalty to the majority of regular people. aka the middle class.

( icant do it alone he moans, my congess and senate keep betraying me and my ernest attempt to bring you all the change you expected from my blue dog,bush laden econmic team of gonif's It is just so hard.) Take some brain nutrients and get off the chemically sprayed golf courses so you might seperate facts from reality.

you sleep with blue dogs and you have left the people behind to become another bill clinton
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Confronting Obama's falures is the adult thing to do.. staying quiet and loyal to his concept of the democratic party is not.

submitted by gloryoski on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:29am.
Free Market Has Turned Us Into 'Matrix' Drones - Business News, Business

snipped
Dr Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism is one of a spate of tomes published in recent weeks that question the future of the current system, including Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky, and Ian Bremmer's The End of the Free Market.

...and strengthen our leadership in this young century."

Pakistan air raids kill scores

Military air attacks targeting fighters kill at least 45 people in the country's northwest

'Civilian victims'

Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder said that, according reports from the area, the military has confirmed that the attacks involved aircrafts and some helicopter gunships of the military.

A local government official said that civilians including women and children had also been hit.

"Many civilians, including women and children, have been killed in air strikes," the official told AFP, asking not to be named.

Hayder said that "it is not yet clear whether all the targets are militants or whether they may be civilians or tribals as well."

"This is an area... where in April earlier this year, up to 50 tribals were killed. [The incident] was later investigated [and] the Pakistani military chief apologised when it was found that those were loyalists of the government".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/08/2010831193849255946.html

...the burden of promoting liberty and human dignity overseas, understanding its link to our own liberty and security."

Rights groups sue US over kill list

Federal lawsuit says decision to put US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki on a CIA "kill or capture" list is unconstitutional.

The lawsuit notes that al-Awlaki has not been publicly indicted on terrorism charges.

"The United States cannot simply execute people, including its own citizens, anywhere in the world based on its own say-so," said Vince Warren, the executive director of the CCR.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of al-Awlaki's father, Nasser al-Awlaki, a former agriculture minister in Yemen.

US defends kill list

The US justice department has defended the "kill or capture" list, saying it was allowed under "domestic and international law".

"The US is careful to ensure that all its operations used to prosecute the armed conflict against those forces, including lethal operations, comply with all applicable laws, including the laws of war," said Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the US justice department.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/08/2010831134842819315.h...

Very very very kewl. :)

"Today, old adversaries are at peace, and emerging democracies are potential partners. New markets for our goods stretch from Asia to the Americas. A new push for peace in the Middle East will begin here tomorrow. Billions of young people want to move beyond the shackles of poverty and conflict. As the leader of the free world, America will do more than just defeat on the battlefield those who offer hatred and destruction — we will also lead among those who are willing to work together to expand freedom and opportunity for all people."

what to post.

I guess one thing to post would have been this thing.

Sorry y'all.

YAFHARDCORE | August 25, 2010
www.yaf.com Cal YAF opposes the "Bag Tax" legislation that would eliminate plastic bags and only allow grocery stores to use specific recyclable bags that can be toxic. The big grocery stores get a kick back while the little guys get hit! Tell the state legislature to stop spending our money. The only other government to fully carry out the bag tax plastic bag legislation has been Communist China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CHLS2afm2E&feature=player_embedded

takes no prisoners in his battle against the machine

BECAUSE HE IS HELL BENT ON SETTING PRISONERS FREE FROM THE "SHACKLES "OF UNETHICAL GREEDY CORPORATISM AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

I am glad SO glad to have you out there on the radio keeping the focus on the bigger issues..

shift change,good bye.

"...no one could doubt President Bush’s support

for our troops,

or his love of country

and commitment to our security."

"I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards."
January 2009

obama by immediately ruling out prosecuting the Bush Crime Family, makes obama's own supportive propaganda of Bush soon believable.

Leading rabbi: Abbas should perish

Former Israeli chief rabbi calls Palestinians "evil, bitter enemies of Israel".

The spiritual leader of Israel’s Shas party denounced upcoming talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and wished for the death of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli chief rabbi, called Palestinians "evil, bitter enemies of Israel" during his weekly sermon on Saturday.

"Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this world," he said, using Abbas' common nickname. "God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians."

Saeb Erekat, the chief negotiator for the PA, said Yosef's remarks were tantamount to a call for "genocide against Palestinians".

The 89-year-old Yosef is a respected scholar among Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent.

He has made similarly offensive comments before: He has referred to Arabs as "vipers," and in a 2001 sermon during the Jewish holiday of Passover, he called for Israel to "annihilate" Arabs.

"It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them," he said. "They are evil and damnable."

Yosef's provocations are not limited to Arabs, either: In 2005, he blamed Hurricane Katrina on the "godlessness" of New Orleans, and on former US president George Bush's support for Israel's disengagement from Gaza. And last year, he criticised women who pray at the Western Wall as "stupid".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/201082913280929137....

“If you’re alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living.”

Mel Brooks

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
Eugene Ionesco

“All of life is a foreign country.”
Jack Kerouac

“We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.”
E.F. Schumacher

“Don’t be humble. You’re not that great.”
Golda Meir

“Life itself is the proper binge.”

Julia Child

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.”
Laurence J. Peter

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein

“I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
Vincent van Gogh

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
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http://www.thesunmagazine.org/paper_lanterns?utm_medium=email&utm_source...

CEO compensation totaled $598 million at the 50 companies that laid off the most workers

The nation’s biggest job-cutting companies paid their top executives an average of $12 million last year, according to a report released today.

The 50 U.S. chief executives who laid off the most employees between November 2008 and April 2010 eliminated a total of 531,363 jobs, according to the Institute for Policy Studies, a research group that works for social justice and against wealth concentration.

In “CEO Pay and the Great Recession,” the institute said the $598 million in combined pay for the 50 executives would have paid one month’s worth of average-sized unemployment benefits for each of the laid-off workers.

The top 50 layoff firms reported a 44 percent average profit increase for 2009, the report said.

“These numbers all reflect a broader trend in Great Recession-era Corporate America: the relentless squeezing of worker jobs, pay and benefits to boost corporate earnings and maintain corporate executive paychecks at their recent bloated levels,” the authors wrote.

In the 17th annual executive compensation report, the institute once again focused on the gap between big-company CEO pay and average wages for American workers.

Last year, the report said, median CEO pay in the 50 largest U.S. firms was $8.5 million, or more than double the $4.1 million median in the 1990s. But the 2009 median was down from the $9.2 million median in the 2000-05 period.

In 2009, median CEO pay was 263 times the average pay of U.S. workers. In the 1970s, the CEO-to-employee pay ratio was about 30-to-1. The report noted that management guru Peter Drucker, who coined the term “knowledge worker” and was instrumental in shaping American management theory until his death in 2005, believed the ratio of pay between worker and executive should be no higher than 20-to-1....
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/01/2191243/ceo-compensation-totaled-59...

Democrats unlikely to repeal tax cuts for the rich

...a small but growing number of moderate Democrats are balking at boosting taxes on the rich. Many face electorates that recoil at the mention of any tax increase. Some represent areas that are loaded with wealthier taxpayers. Further, some incumbent senators who don't face voters this fall are reluctant to increase taxes on anyone while the economy remains sluggish.

Without their support, the push to raise rates on the rich probably will fail.

"The economy is very weak right now. Raising taxes will lower consumer demand at a time when we want people putting more money into the economy," said Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., who isn't seeking re-election...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/01/99992/democrats-unlikely-to-repeal...

The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City.[1] In the aftermath of the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the 1894 Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with Labor as a top political priority. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.[2] Cleveland was also concerned that aligning an American labor holiday with existing international May Day celebrations would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

obama forces workers to concede:

One of Obama's Social Security Slasher Wannabes Threatens Small Town with Nuclear Annihilation
David Cote is so dangerous he's willing to risk nuclear fallout in order to force uranium workers to cut their retiree health care and pension plans.

...Simpson isn't the only unhinged fanatic on Obama's Debt Commission. One man, in particular, stands out as far more sinister,and he was

hand-picked for the Commission post by Obama himself.

Meet Honeywell CEO David Cote -- perhaps the most dangerous man in America. So dangerous that he's willing to risk nuclear fallout in order to demand that uranium workers agree to cut their retiree health care and pension plans...

Cote has...pushed back against calls by Senator Tom Coburn, R-OK, to cut waste in the military by suggesting instead that the military cut the pay of its troops overseas (many of whom are already relying on food stamps) and make them pay for their own health care...

Cote's decision-making process personifies the short-sighted mentality of those calling for cutting Social Security....

David Cote, a man who would threaten an entire town with nuclear annihilation in the name of corporate profits, has no place deciding Social Security's fate...
http://www.alternet.org/economy/148044/one_of_obama%27s_social_security_...

{but tis "brew'n" now} ;);( {gotta sea what i missed ;}

Party
By Michael McGehee
Sep 01, 2010

"As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business,
the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance."
John Dewey

I won’t bother critiquing the Republican Party in this post. In fact, I usually make it a point not to bother. This is not because I sympathize with them (because I don’t). I don’t have any right-leaning tendencies. It’s because the right isn’t worth the time and effort to criticize. The liberal left and the Democratic Party, however, is. And the latter is what I will briefly focus on. And while some liberals like to in order to improve their image I got two (rhetorical) questions: why do you think comparing yourself to the lowest common denominator is good? Could it be that you have nothing to show for yourselves than to say “we are just a bit better than the worst”?

Kent: Senator Dole, why should people vote for you instead of President
Clinton?
Kang: It makes no difference which one of us you vote for. Either way,
your planet is doomed. DOOMED!
Kent: Well, a refreshingly frank response there from senator Bob Dole.
Liberal leftists usually over-emphasize partisan politics and voting. Noam Chomsky said it about as well as it can be said a couple of years ago: "sensible choices have to be made. But they are secondary to serious political action. The main task is to create a genuinely responsive democratic culture, and that effort goes on before and after electoral extravaganzas, whatever their outcome." Liberal leftists don’t help in this regard. They think playing in the rigged political system will somehow alter the game. It won’t. If the game is altered in our favor it will depend on the popular movements that exist outside of the electoral system. We won’t vote in change or hope. We build it in our communities and we use it to pressure our government and the Lords of Capital (the true constituents our elected officials hook for) to respond favorably.

As it stands the candidates with the most funds available to them have the best chances to win (re)elections. Because we allow private donations we pervert the electoral system. A system we should call “market elections.” Because like markets in other economic transactions, you vote with your dollars and those with the most dollars get the most votes to sway the end to reflect their interests. If you ever wonder why plastic surgeons are everywhere in Beverly Hills the answer is the same as to why the candidates with the most corporate funding have the highest chances of winning elections: their customers have the cash to buy their services. The candidates will use the money they receive from their "customers" to stage elaborate PR campaigns and to saturate the minds of voters so when it comes time to vote you will be more familiar with and likely to vote for Mr. X who has branded himself in your mind.
http://www.zcommunications.org/10-ways-to-tell-the-democratic-party-is-n...

... anyone know what up? {nevermind, i heard right...} ;)
Where's Cenk?

Blessings hostage guy ... I understand you are upset about the horrors to this environment - PLEASE LIVE - I'll write to you in JAIL --- PLEASE LIVE!
{tears}

The Noses. :}

A gunman has taken at least one person hostage in the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in the US, according to police.

The man, who is reported to have packages resembling explosives strapped to his chest, entered the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, tonight.

Maryland police confirmed there was an ongoing situation in the building, and said the man had taken "a small number of hostages".

Speaking in a press conference outside the building, an unnamed police officer said negotiations with the man were ongoing and had been continuing for nearly an hour. He could not confirm the number of hostages. "We are going on the assumption that there are explosive devices," the officer said.

He said police had received no confirmed reports of any injuries, but added that officers had been unable to access some parts of the building to check for potential victims...

Gunman takes hostage at Discovery Channel headquarters

Adam Gabbatt and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 20.49 BST
Article history

A gunman has taken at least one person hostage in the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in the US, according to police.

The man, who is reported to have packages resembling explosives strapped to his chest, entered the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, tonight.

Maryland police confirmed there was an ongoing situation in the building, and said the man had taken "a small number of hostages"...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/01/discovery-channel-hostage-ma...

September 1, 2010

Anti-Empire Report

Things Which Don't Go Away

By WILLIAM BLUM

Iraq

"They're leaving as heroes. I want them to walk home with pride in their hearts," declared Col. John Norris, the head of a US Army brigade in Iraq.[1]

It’s enough to bring tears to the eyes of an American, enough to make him choke up.

Enough to make him forget.

But no American should be allowed to forget that the nation of Iraq, the society of Iraq, have been destroyed, ruined, a failed state. The Americans, beginning 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one excuse or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the government, killed wantonly, tortured ... the people of that unhappy land have lost everything -- their homes, their schools, their electricity, their clean water, their environment, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their archaeology, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their state-run enterprises, their physical health, their mental health, their health care, their welfare state, their women's rights, their religious tolerance, their safety, their security, their children, their parents, their past, their present, their future, their lives ... More than half the population either dead, wounded, traumatized, in prison, internally displaced, or in foreign exile ... The air, soil, water, blood and genes drenched with depleted uranium ... the most awful birth defects ... unexploded cluster bombs lie in wait for children to pick them up ... an army of young Islamic men went to Iraq to fight the American invaders; they left the country more militant, hardened by war, to spread across the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia ... a river of blood runs alongside the Euphrates and Tigris ... through a country that may never be put back together again.

"It is a common refrain among war-weary Iraqis that things were better before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003," reported the Washington Post on May 5, 2007.

No matter ... drum roll, please ... Stand tall American GI hero! And don’t even think of ever apologizing. Iraq is forced by the United States to continue paying reparations for its own invasion of Kuwait in 1990. How much will the American heroes pay the people of Iraq?
http://www.counterpunch.org/blum09012010.html

Environmental Militant Takes Hostages at Discovery Channel Headquarters
Suspect James Lee Rails in Manifesto Against 'Filthy Human Babies'

87 comments By LAUREN EFFRON and RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Sept. 1, 2010

(w/ vid that I haven't watched yet)

[snip]

Lee has posted a rambling manifesto on a website in which he rails against "disgusting human babies," "parasitic infants," and says people should "disassemble civilization."

[snip]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/gunman-enters-discovery-channel-headquarters-em...

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"Rambling manifesto". Pffft. Who doesn't have one of those...

Remember (to this blog} I said WHO IS TAKING OVER EMBASSIES {or similar}?
sadly {tears} HE IS DOING SOMETHING!

Now does one "GET IT"! *Poof*

;);(

You don't put (relatively) innocent people's (or other animals', for that matter) lives in danger in order to protest to one media outlet offa your idea about what they should or should not be broadcasting. (Especially the damn Discovery Chennel.)

I don't know when, if ever, you do do that but I know this is when you don't.

of folk living the US consumerist lifestyle...but ultimately it's not about the number of folk (is it?) but about how they live. (And they can live that lifestyle in China, in India...)

Doesn't SJ have different ideas about how the concept of overpopulation is being used in oppressive/genocidal ways? I would like to know what he thinks.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/gunman-enters-discovery-channel-headquarters-em...
... I wish I was there. {I am a Druid, a Buddhist, a Wiccan {Witch}...}. I have "talk'd" as a negotiator before {for PD & SO}...{& I am an official "reverend" yet since I am not there...
/|\om...hung)0( /|\om...hung)0( /|\om...hung)0(
BLESSINGS AND PLEASE KEEP SAFE!

Recycled? just simple bloody steps...
SO MUCH MORE CAN BE DONE!

He at least had a bomb. I guess {when all arrested} it was okay that I was taken by a different route and was beaten...THEN TAKEN TO A PD...

Yeh the cops are real fair (& I went as far as the head of FBI in CA at a certain time... remember I can take Sodium Pentathol...

I DO NOT BELIEVE POLICE! IF ANYONE DOES NOW-A-DAYS YOU ARE FOOLISH!
\
BLOODY HELL!

Are you hearing that Msa?

Bartholomew hopeful Orthodox Church will survive

Patriarch Bartholomew İstanbul-based Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew said he is hopeful the Orthodox Church will survive and that he will not be the last “Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople,” despite the persistent problems surrounding his small and rapidly shrinking community.

“We are not all in despair for the future of our church,” Bartholomew said. “It is not easy, but it is not impossible,” CNN reported in its special documentary aired on Friday. He dismissed rumors that his has no successors and said they trust in divine providence, and the guarantee given to them by the Lord himself, “that the church can survive.”

Ankara rejects Bartholomew’s use of the title “ecumenical,” or universal, arguing instead that the patriarch is merely the spiritual leader of İstanbul’s dwindling Orthodox community.

Nonetheless, Bartholomew’s optimism is apparently not baseless since recently Turkish officials disclosed that Turkey has offered citizenship to foreign archbishops to help in the election of the next patriarch.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has quietly led in the gesture to the Orthodox community, who face a shortage of candidates to succeed Bartholomew, who is 70 years old, and serve on the Holy Synod, which administers patriarchate affairs.

Turkish law requires the patriarch to be a citizen. But the Orthodox community in Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country, has fallen to some 3,000 from 120,000 a half-century ago, drastically shrinking the pool of potential future patriarchs.
http://www.archons.org/news/detail.asp?id=416

:|:(

That's not what I'm saying. You know that, right?

And no, I don't believe the cops on faith. Or the M$M That was my point in contrasting the two reports.

But what you seemed to be doing is accepting the more sensationalistic reporting and still siding with Mr. Lee. I don't agree with that.

eventually it winds up in the trash. That's wrong. I should do better. You are right about that.

I keep forgetting to take the cloth bags to the store.

There are many other more important things that I forget too. (Related to everything, not just being green.) Wish that weren't so but it is.

Blessings Dear Sir

Yeh, it sounded as a bomb. HE went in just to get attention & to ONLY scare - & the cops shot him.

... People have children, did you teach your children how to grow plants - even in a bloody apartment! HOW IMPORTANT (especially for children) did you teach to recycle... Teaching is not being done ...

I understand, but IT IS NOT THE '80s! SCIENTISTS ECHOED
that IF LUCKY we had ONLY until 2000c.e. ... GUESS WHAT? TIMES UP! IT IS now 2010c.e.

I HAVE TO BE A CARDINAL {ARTISTIC & SPIRITUAL LIBRA. Libras, as most signs, can be MANY TYPES.}

I led many for many type of actions ... It is when cops feel "NO Control" and that equals "beating" to submission. And if one does not comply ..."BASH" ... thus it is!

"spray" - they never do what they are paid extra for...

I don't think cops should get hazard pay EXCEPT SOME FIREMEN (persons).

time to think about shooting anyone. Probably more to do with getting the network back on the air so not to lose revenue.

Or, if not, just what you said. Cops like to use their (violence) training. They like to use their toys.

:):(

...and sparked the major revitalization of the city, so much so I was overwhelmed by the development and how much it changed since I, and my son, grew up there. Sorry Mr. Lee couldn't come up with a non-life threatening idea to protest. According to traffic reports, all roadways surrounding the building are still closed down @6:30 pm.

September 1, 2010 6:16 PM
Discovery Channel Hostage Suspect Dead; James Lee Shot, Killed say Police
Posted by Kevin Hayes
Continue reading here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20015383-504083.html

Really? I despise that characterization.

Since I got rid of my tv a couple years ago, I been spared episodes of this brilliance: Sarah Palin Teams Up With Discovery Company
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/sarah-palin-teams-up-with_n_513...

Joe Stack's "manifesto" wasn't Anna Karenina, but he still had legitimate arguments against our health care system and Enron.

or like what Anna Karenina's rambling manifestos might have sounded...

Nevermind.

Yeah, that was kind of my point. Easy enough to characterize just about anything that way (or if Fox News et al, anything). And if you write a lot on line, which is a relatively spontaneous medium, it is going to be especially easy for people to find stuff to characterize that way.

I still think it was an ill-considered action--even crazy. You can be nuts AND make legitimate points. These can co-exist. Easily. Only closed-minded people think otherwise.

"Just to scare" doesn't cut it for me. People can die of fright. From heart attacks. From asthma attacks. People can die from being held just long enough that they don't get the medicine that is keeping them healthy. Somebody (a hostage) can decide to try to "be a hero" and if you bring a gun into the situation everyone can get killed. That's why this does not meet the burden of proof for me. Not by a long shot.

But that doesn't mean he needed to die.

Wall Street finished HIGH today.

What does it mean? Perhaps this: Wall Street LOVED Obama's speech affirming 'business as usual'-- that is, business with continuity between Bush Dynasty New World Order corporate imperialism and Obama New Dawn lingo for the same.

My friend sez Operation Flush Toilets, Operation Electric Lights, Operation Medical Supplies or other necessities might be more practical and healthy 'operations' after 7-1/2 years of grinding occupation.

Good to read you.

Submitted by nora on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 7:46pm.
Wall Street finished HIGH today. Business as usual after O bama's speech

What's More Important For Black Leadership? Turning Off Fox News? Or Stopping the President's Cat Food Commission?

Rev. Al Sharpton and the NAACP's Ben Jealous, along with most of the old black political class want us to think the most important thing happening is their ongoing clown fight with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin....

And everybody knows what the commission’s targets are. They won't recommend ending the wars in Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan. They won't suggest closing a few hundred of the thousand military bases the U.S. maintains in foreign lands, or scaling back the hundreds of billions Uncle Sam spends on militarizing Africa, or propping up its client regimes in Israel, Egypt or Colombia and elsewhere. The commission won't try to get back any of the trillions the Fed has given away to Wall Street, or stop it from handing out more. The commission is not about to close the banking loopholes that let wealthy corporations and individuals move trillions offshore to evade taxation, or shut off the many forms of corporate welfare. The commission's targets are Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security....
http://blackagendareport.com/?q=content/whats-more-important-turning-fox...

the UK gov't would not sign on to that EU agreement about clamping down on human trafficking? (See upthread, this morning.)

Like our folks here--as on Rachel--bad for business?

Dutch release 2 men arrested on flight from Chicago
September 1, 2010 1:27 PM | 2 Comments | UPDATED STORY
WASHINGTON -- The two Yemeni men arrested after flying from O'Hare International Airport to Amsterdam were released from custody in the Netherlands today after an investigation showed no evidence of a crime, a Dutch official said.

The two initially had been suspected of preparing for a terror attack.
Floris van Hovell, an official with the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, said the men were released at approximately 11 a.m. Chicago time.

Van Hovell said Dutch authorities took the case very seriously because U.S. officials had told them that a preliminary test on luggage belonging to one of the men showed traces of explosives after both already had left aboard a United flight from Chicago to Amsterdam.

The test apparently was done on luggage retrieved at Washington Dulles International Airport. Further tests determined there were no explosives present, he said.

more
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/09/dutch-release-2-men-arrested-...

nora likes it when HE teases. Then we get to watch.

:)

MANY ARE LATE TEENS & 20 plus years, they care about this environment...

Why do I come here? WELL AFTER CONAN, the tv show with Al Franken & MARC MARON...I was here from the beginning, shoot even with SAM & JANEANE... I followed Sam & Marc everywhere... even when I was for Hill (proclaiming every 3rd time when I saw someone was saying the opposite ... with no "working" knowledge thus Marc's blog kicked me off ...whatever}
;D
you iz kinda near my age some are ...tea hee...
{FRED wherever you are I hope you are well! Come over here! Tea Cheers...

It is a shame folks just don't "Get IT"

Be not afraid.

Even if I knew what you looked like, I wouldn't. Probably. No, I'm fairly sure not.

You don't look anything like Peter Falk, do you?

Been enjoying your posts and following as many of your links as I can!

I woke up this morning thinking "Operation New Dawn?" Why the choice of "New Dawn", and why does that seem familiar? Then I remembered Bush I's New World Order rhetoric.

[Gloryoski, seriously, the flush toilet is a great waste of waste, isn't it? No keeding! :) All that potential soil replenisher turned into sewage, pollution and toxic sludge. Perhaps Step One is: End the Chemical Fertilizer (Mining) Industry's stranglehold on our soils and their use. (Sometimes I wonder if the Chemical Fertilizer Industry is behind demonizing the word "shit".) Also, I sure hope they perfect those enzyme digesting toilets someday, and design homes with restrooms as a separate structure joined to homes by a passageway only, so we don't have to have sewer pipe in our living space, the hygiene of which I have questioned ever since having the experience of working in an office on the ground floor of a 16-story building that had an overflowing/backed up toilet discharge on the top floors that drenched all lower floors with sewage. There must be a better, cleaner, safer, recyclable alternative to the way we handle waste today.]

But "you don't have to weep for me, baby / I weep for myself."

;)

WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!

:)

Listening to Cenk, he does just sound crazy. This afternoon drama seems so ho-hum to me now-- just another sequel to "Falling Down"-- I'll be lazy for the time being and rely on Cenk.

Perhaps,James J. Lee, should have read some Tolstoy:

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without Authority, there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power ... There can be only one permanent revolution – a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

when I saw that one it made me think that if Human Trafficking was banned, the next anti-slavery demarcation point for the transnational corporations and other slavers would be contract entrapment of guest workers and so on, and Halliburton et al do not want that since they are evidently factoring in this form of worker transport to and enslavement in lands foreign to the victims into their corporate profit margins!

This perspective is similar to my view that the slavers continue unscientific animal research not for legitimate science but for high profits only, and fight against animal rights activities because if inalienable animals' rights are acknowledged, the slavers would also lose the so-called 'high ground' to parse and dicker over the legitimacy of human rights. If ALL forms of slavery were banned, that would disturb the predatory profiteers freedom to devise new camouflage for their slaving techniques.

The Exploiters use of slavery and imperialism go hand-in-hand, imo.

...including U
...AND THE ANIMALS...

Does anyone know that when one is mean to animals &/or the innocent &/or the homeless of today... one is mean to U &/or one's Child{ren} & this Society....

We are a "sick" selfish society...
i'm just say'n....

Judge orders pricey selenium cleanup at 2 coal mines

A federal judge has ordered Patriot Coal Corp. to spend millions of dollars to clean up selenium pollution at two surface coal mines in West Virginia.

Environmental groups said it was the first time a court had demanded restrictions on selenium, a trace mineral commonly discharged from Appalachian surface mines, where the tops of mountains are blown away to expose coal.........

"We are particularly disappointed with the contempt ruling," Patriot's president and chief executive officer, Richard M. Whiting, said in the company's statement. He said Patriot had "dedicated significant resources over the last several years to take an industry-leading position in identifying viable treatment technology to address selenium discharges."

Patriot and other mining companies have been lobbying for looser federal selenium standards. In Tuesday's statement, the company said it was waiting to see the written court case before it decided what to do. A company spokeswoman didn't return calls Wednesday.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/01/100003/judge-orders-pricey-seleniu...

...yet in reality it was for one which was here Moons ago... ...

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

Amy & Duffy {thx Bridge} a "loop" again ;)

It was a joke, facetious. ("Tea hee.") Hence the smiley, which I don't use in every single circumstance and so it has some meaning, when I use it.

>>>I<<<< will leave it there for now.

Hope you do too...

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/article607538.ece

or
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article586467.ece

>

JAIL but let's send environmentalists to jail...

Amy & Duffy {thx Bridge} still on "loop"

...have a sense of humour. WE do not have the same humour. Mine at this time is truly a Gallow's type of Humour, plus I have a Led/Lead Balloon Humour = LBH - it just doesn't fly, but I think funny. I have ways, I am working on even other actions "over The Web with younger teens... and older folks ...2.

I also do other non-violent ... "in real life" {tis non-violent} but shows not so passive on The Page...
...I do many things and I am on the lighter side of 108 years... teahee

I do not follow most "humour" nor joking by most, here. I no longer "get" since my late 30's... & before & after... I laughed most my life till then...
:):(

Probably never.

I admire your commitment.

That doesn't absolve you of your responsibility not to decide to hurt other people on a whim, as if you were 12 or 13 years old.

I think you are very selfish in some ways. Very. Very.

I am in absolute despair right now. It is mostly my fault, but you played your part.

Think about not doing that anymore, to the next person. There are people behind these words. I always try to remember that. I don't always succeed, but I try.

... I was just explaining and reminding about me...

NOW THIS PART WAS AN ATTACK FOR I NEVER SAID WHAT YOU SAID I SAID EYE-ROLL!

RE-READ & U might sea...

"I also do other non-violent ... "in real life" {tis non-violent} but shows not so passive on The Page...
...I do many things and I am on the lighter side of 108 years... teahee

hmmm I think I said NON-VIOLENT!
I DID NOT WANT TO SAY UNTIL YOU PRESSURED ME BY PURPOSELY misstating me...!
...I am a Reverend - I can speak to some in JAIL! ..but you called me "out" BY YOUR WORDS -- I WASN'T EVEN TALKING to you...!

"but shows not so passive on The Page..." == A BLOODY ACTION TYPE of ..."WHATEVER"

Talk about a vainglorious cruel individual , well as you said you did like me = DITTO Back to u, yet I help many - so I think selfish tis you.. as you attacked me when you said:
"I think you are very selfish in some ways. Very. Very."

DITTO ... What if anything do you do? We did this before - JUST DON'T ADDRESS ME EVER!

I am going to walk Shadow Wolf, just to LEAVE for a bit ... *Poof*

on here or else you are like a winger reverend with no real compassion for anybody who doesn't fit your narrow standards of a righteous person.

We are not talking about what we DO or don't DO right now. We are talking about how you treat other people.

I think that you are LYING when you say that you weren't addressing me when I mentioned that I was joking and you went on and on about your lack of a sense of humor. You always fall back on "I wasn't addressing you." Fine. You were goddamn good and bloody well RESPONDING to my words at least. And if you do that, you are going to get a response from me.

creep.

Don't worry.

I'm done.

for saving INNOCENTS, never u...

OF COURSE I TAKE THE whatever "off" ... especially when I come here. I took off "over-all", but put "back on" especially since a goodly amount "contacted" me ... I don't allow many in an official manner ... SINCE I AM WORKING ON OTHER "PROJECTS" NOW FOR ME -- which I did for everyone save me...UNTIL NOW MY PROJECT IS FOR me & certain other ones....

I even tell others only "certain" ones can contact me...

You don't get to ever call me a LIAR about anything and get away with it ... = a response by me.

Your statement was the last of a line of "newer" individuals, here on this Blog. I have been waiting TO HAVE TIME TO ANSWER a bit of me ... since I am obviously an action oriented protester more than many newer here.
Yes you were the last one in a line of newer "folks" on this blog - HERE I WAS WAITING TO HAVE TIME TO "explain" as I confuse you - you confuse me also - but your statement was a line in using "my words" and saying YOUR thoughts = thus I can say my thoughts of your thoughts...eye-roll SO I THOUGHT, FOR ALL TO JUST TALK INTO The Void "what I wrote": those to whom received = received, those that didn't, didn't. You evidently didn't.

I WAS ONLY ANSWERING YOUR Statements
AGAIN I WILL WASTE MY PRECIOUS TIME answering YOUR HORRID FALSE STATEMENTS.

NO, enough! I WILL SETTLE THIS - AGAIN, DO NOT TALK ABOUT OR TO me... I am fair - if you spittle against me I GET TO RESPOND & DITTO, but hopefully you will either ANSWER YOUR WORDS & STATEMENTS YOU MISWROTE & WRONGLY {which I proved} ABOUT ME! Or just "LEAVE ME ALONE". YOU cannot even deal WITH YOUR DIRECT QUOTES.
{whatever}

Duff could be also used for you. You gave your opinions, thus my opinion...!
Going to Work but "flying" about in case I HAVE to respond ;) *Poof*

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html

even if it is a Maybach Mercedes ,esp if you are on parole from a federal beef

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1647031/20100902/t_i_.jhtml

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/09/02/Suspect-Planet-does-not-need-h...

...Thanks Free Trade!

Fort Bragg investigating infant deaths
August 31, 2010

FORT BRAGG (WTVD) -- Fort Bragg families whose babies have died while living on post say they want to know if there is a common link.

Army officials confirmed at a press briefing Tuesday that they are currently investigating whether their houses had anything to do with the 10 deaths, which have been classified as SIDS deaths.

The Army says right now, they have more questions than answers.

"We have found what we think is an issue and we're looking into it," said Brig. Gen. Michael X. Garrett.

The Army declined to say exactly what base neighborhoods the deaths occured, but did say two occured in the same home - which they called especially troubling.

They said so far, they have not found any positive proof of environmental factors.

Three families, who all lost babies, tell ABC11 Eyewitness News there is too much in common for there not to be a connection.

Spc. Nathanael Duke and his wife Krystyna say their son Gabriel Duke was just a month-and-a-half old when Krystyna found him dead inside his crib in March.

"I knew he was gone," Krystyna Duke said.

"She just kept saying over and over again, my baby," Spc. Nathanael Duke said.

Jayvair Pollard was 2-and-a-half months old when his mother realized he'd stopped breathing last year.

"I would wake up in the middle of the night and hear my son cry and he's been gone for 16 months," Melissa Pollard said.

Her brother and his fiancé lost their little girl, Ka-Mya, while they were staying in Pollard's home just three months later.

"Why did she die," mother Bianca Outlaw said. "What happened to us? I just have so many questions."

All three families say they've gotten few answers. They say each baby died in a home on Fort Bragg after their parents say they suffered coughs and congestion.

An e-mail one of the families shared with ABC11, appears to reveal the Army was looking into a possible link back in November.

It states the deaths were in the time frame that there was a potential of contaminated sheetrock from China being used in new family housing.

When the Duke's lost their son this year, they say Army investigators removed drywall and carpet samples from their home and told them something they'll never forget.

"They told us the sample over Gabriel's bed tested positive for Chinese drywall," Krystyna Duke said.

"Get out of the house, seek medical attention, do not wait," Spc. Nathanael Duke said.

They say the Army has since come back with a second round of test results that are negative for Chinese drywall.

The Army also tells ABC11 that all of tests were either negative or within allowable limits.

While the families say they don't know what to believe, one of their attorneys feel the deaths are related.

"It's far too coincidental that these deaths, so many deaths have occurred," Jamie Hernan said.

"I want to know what's going on, I want to know why," Melissa Pollard said.

"I just want the truth," Spc. Nathanael Duke said.

The families tell ABC11 the Army is now changing the cause of their babies' deaths from sudden unexpected death to undetermined.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7639569

Update: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/20...gwater_070708/

Lawmakers are looking for trichloroethylene — once carelessly dumped in landfills, leaky underground vats or right in the dirt — in the drinking water at 12 Air Force bases.

Air Force environmental leaders, while acknowledging widespread groundwater contamination, say the scrutiny will show its drinking water is not threatened by the toxin.

“Bottom line, there’s no detectable [trichloroethylene] at any Air Force bases,” said Kevin Billings, the service’s deputy assistant secretary for environment, safety and occupational health.

The substance, more commonly called TCE, can break down a person’s nervous system and damage the liver and kidneys.

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce is taking a fresh look at North Carolina’s Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, where for three decades, Marines and their families drank and bathed in TCE-polluted water until toxic wells were shut down in the late 1980s. More than 800 former Lejeune residents have filed legal claims seeking nearly $4 billion total in compensation.

Some members of the House committee, such as Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, suspect there may have been unrecognized TCE-related health problems at Air Force or Army bases.

But Air Force officials insist that harmful amounts of TCE have contaminated bases’ groundwater only, not their drinking water. Under Environmental Protection Agency rules, the Air Force routinely monitors all of the water piped into each base. Federal guidelines allow a whisper of TCE — five parts per billion — in drinking water, but no base’s levels push that threshold, Billings said.

Federal law requires the Air Force to clean all past spills and provide nontoxic water to its personnel and nearby base residents when potable supplies are compromised. In the past, the service has distributed bottled water after TCE was found in drinking water wells.

In terms of units drunk, he confessed, he was definitely at "the outer limit" of what would be regarded as healthy to drink in a week.

Ginned up the numbers and killing people for oil ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11152307

No Military Necessary, Just Import Consumer Goods...
Submitted by CeeCee on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:06am.

but the groundwater has TCE
Submitted by taozen on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 9:54am.

...thank you for your service.

...Sorry.

happy birthday sunshinejim?
a long and winding road

who knew we would outlive John and george

ringo will last for ever he just is happy to be who he is and get out and move around.
he moderates his pleasures and allows his pains a place to run their course. he has a good ,loyal mate that helps.. from one of the many that you have touched and keep connected. as Cee cee says thanks for your service!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/09/02/mideast.hamas.resistance/

there is a time for anger and there is a time for reflection? still too angry to change unhealthy patterns?
I am just a blue man in a world of red.

for peace talks anyway?

I dont think the hindhus would consider the retrograde mercury cycle as a time for clear communications.

for people with no interest in astrolgy please excuse my superstitious proclivities.

drugs against war.

tony blair's drug of choice,alcohol has some terrible side effects on one's conscience.

I just think a good mushroom experience would have helped him come to grips with the broken paradigm that he couldn't seem to let go of. he loves money more than he loves others,

his contrtition and new vulnerability is not cutting it with me. jailtime for those who commit such crimes. go to jail and I will accept your repentance
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/...

# AP: Gulf oil rig explodes off La. coast. http://apne.ws/c4mjlF less than 10 seconds ago via AP Mobile

# BREAKING NEWS: There's been another oil rig blast at another location just west to the BP oil spill!

A burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico is owned by Mariner Energy, according to trade sources and local media reports.

All 13 crew were accounted for and the platform continued to burn 90 miles south of the Louisiana coast, CNN reported.

I was just thinking how lucky we have been with hurricaines and the BP oil spill.. the storm season is upon US.

2010 Apache announces that it was purchasing major assets from BP in Texas, southeast New Mexico, western Canada, and Egypt for a total sum of $7 billion, to pay for BP's response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.[7]

2007 Apache CEO G. Steven Farris writes to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in favor of limits on nonbinding shareholder proposals at public company annual meetings

2008 Natural gas pipeline explosion at Apache's Varanus Island processing hub on 3 June 2008 curtailed supplies to industrial customers in Western Australia.

2010 Federal judge upholds Apache's decision to exclude from its annual meeting ballot a corporate governance proposal from a person who had not proven on a timely basis that he actually was one of the company's shareholders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Corporation

BP's Pain Is Apache's Gain

... Apache waited until 2010 to really make it rain. In April, the company bought Devon Energy's (NYSE: DVN) shallow-water Gulf of Mexico assets and then snapped up deepwater-focused Mariner Energy (NYSE: ME). These purchases, both announced in the days leading up to the Deepwater Horizon accident, totaled roughly $5 billion. The company probably could have saved several hundred million bucks had it made these acquisitions after the incident, but Apache still got a good deal, if not a great one.

Speaking of the catastrophe, on Tuesday afternoon Apache announced an even bigger deal with corporate persona non grata BP (NYSE: BP). As part of its plan to divest $10 billion of assets, BP is selling three groups of assets to Apache for a grand total of $7 billion. Apache is already active in all three areas, so this is basically one huge bolt-on acquisition...
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/07/21/bps-pain-is-apaches-gai...

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Friday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.

The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the area Thursday morning. All 13 people aboard the rig have been accounted for, with one injury. The extent of the injury was not known.

Coast Guard Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau said some of those from the rig were spotted in emergency flotation devices.

Seven Coast Guard helicopters, two airplanes and three cutters were dispatched to the scene from New Orleans, Houston and Mobile, Ala., Ben-Iesau said. She said authorities do not know whether oil was leaking from the site.

The Department of Homeland Security said the platform was in about 2,500 feet of water and owned by Mariner Energy of Houston. DHS said it was not producing oil and gas.

The Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP was in about 5,000 feet of water when it exploded and sank in April, killing 11 workers and triggering a leak of about 206 million gallons of oil.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9247794

I read this last night when I was checking wiki about Discovery:
RFID

In August 2008 it was reported by The Consumerist that Discovery Channel had stopped their popular MythBusters program from airing an episode examining RFID security in regard to its implementation in credit cards because the episode would upset credit card companies, who are major advertisers on Discovery Channel.[15] It was later determined that the decision not to investigate the issue was made by Beyond Productions, the MythBusters production company, and was not made by Discovery Channel or their advertising department
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Channel

So today, of course, at CommonDreams:

Oh The Places You'll Go, But Not Without Your RFID Electronic Tracking Chip

Exhibiting scarily Orwellian tendencies, a preschool in California has decided to track their small charges with electronic chips, sewn into tags in their shirts, to monitor where they are, when they're eating and other childhood imponderables that once upon a time actual human beings, preferably parents, kept tabs on. Some pesky opponents worry about the loss of privacy and dignity inherent in treating children like livestock, but the Feds funded the $50,000 project so it must be a good idea.

"Now, when we feed the children lunch we just have to push a button and it's done," said teacher Simone Beauford. "We don't have to check the papers, check the papers, check the papers..."
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/09/01-1

Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work in Britain
Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book Propaganda, published in 1928, Bernays wrote that the "intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society", and that the manipulators "constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power in our country". Instead of propaganda, he coined the euphemism "public relations"......
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/02-9

http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Quality-Safety/California-finally-rej...

this pisses me off big time! first the platic bags and now the plastic baby bottles.

---------
these lyrics come to mind

(Sing a song, brother)
If the sun refused to shine,
I don't mind, I don't mind.
(Yeah)
If the mountains fell in the sea,
Let it be, it ain't me.
Got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you.

Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,
I don't mind, I don't mind.
If all the hippies cut off their hair,
I don't care, I don't care.
Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through
And I ain't gonna copy you.

White-collar conservatives flashing down the street
Pointing their PLASTIC FINGER at me.
They're hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high . . . HIGH!

Hah, hah
Falling mountains just don't fall on me
Point on mister Buisnessman,
You can't dress like me.
Nobody know what I'm talking about
I've got my own life to live
I'm the one that's gonna have to die
When it's time for me to die
So let me live my life the way I want to.

Oh, shit.
Here we go again.
I'm afraid that, like Wall Street, we will learn that 0 progress has been made since the BP explosion.

"You look so tired-unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us"
-Radiohead.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Alright. Disaster averted...

"You look so tired-unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us"
-Radiohead.
www.sigzone.blogspot.com

The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.

The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office's defiance "unprecedented," and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminate against people with limited English skills....

n a separate investigation, a federal grand jury in Phoenix is examining allegations that Arpaio has abused his powers with actions such as intimidating county workers by showing up at their homes at nights and on weekends.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9247871

thanks for the B'day wishes and for remembering me!

(September 4th is the day, and i usually call MomO and thank her "for having me")

love y'all!

If only he had to wait for his case to come to trial in one of his inhumane tent jails!
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rachael has been working the privatised prison story in AZ and Jan Brewer ! good on ya

http://www.kpho.com/news/24834877/detail.html

Rallies for fascism. Rallies against the environment.

US oil industry protests against drilling moratorium

SEPTEMBER 1 2010

Thousands of oil industry workers rallied on Wednesday to lift the moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and head off new taxes and punitive measures in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Companies ranging from Chevron to

Apache

bussed in up to 5,000 employees to the Houston convention centre to underline to Washington the industry’s contribution to the country.
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Video interview with API’s Jack Gerard - Sep-01
In depth: BP oil spill - Jul-12

“We make America run, we make America work, and they need to remember that,’’ said Carroll Robinson of the Citizens Chamber of Commerce to cheers and applause. “If you stop drilling, if you stop producing, America stops working.’’

Attendants donned red T-shirts handed out at the door that proclaimed: “We are energy nation.’’ Others wore the “I am an energy citizen’’ and “Rally for jobs, our jobs, our future,’’ included in the gift bags. They roared when several speakers noted President Obama’s Air Force One flew on fuel the industry produced and the nation watched his speeches on televisions powered by industry fuel.

“So why are we cutting off the Gulf of Mexico?’’ said John Hofmeister, former president of Shell USA and chief executive of Citizens for Affordable Energy. “You cut off your nose to spite your face, Mr president."......

Organisers, which included the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s national trade organisation, said the oil and natural gas industry supported more than 9.2m jobs nationwide and accounted for 7.5 per cent of the US economy. It has invested nearly $2,000bn in US capital projects since 2000.

The Houston rally was one of three held across Texas on Wednesday. Others are planned for Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and Colorado in the next two weeks.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/26da540c-b5f3-11df-a048-00144feabdc0.html

And then the regulators are clowns too:

“We don’t have any evidence that oil has contributed to these mortalities,” he said.

Up to 90% of oysters dead in DMR’s reef sample

Scott Gordon, director of the DMR shellfish bureau, said there have been more oyster mortalities this year, but he doesn’t know whether it can be attributed to the BP oil spill.

“We don’t have any evidence that oil has contributed to these mortalities,” he said.

Still, the abundance of hollowed shells from Wednesday’s dredge concerned him.

http://www.sunherald.com/2010/09/01/2446838/dmr-gulf-sample-shows-abunda...

US indicts 11 executives for honey smuggling

Some of the imported honey was adulterated with antibiotics US authorities have indicted 11 German and Chinese executives for conspiring to illegally import $40m (£52m) worth of honey from China.

The executives were accused of being part of an operation which mislabelled honey and tainted it with antibiotics in an attempt to avoid import duties.

The case is part of a crackdown on illegal imports of substandard and counterfeit products.

Officials say it is the biggest food smuggling case in US history.

Ten of the suspects were senior executives at Alfred L Wolff, a German company, which allegedly bought cheap Chinese honey and, en route to the US, filtered out "pollen and other trace elements that could indicate that the honey originated from China", according to the charge sheet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11169094

YOUR DAY{S}... hmmm the 4th ;) tis truly a Sunshine Jim Birthday Season :D

{& thank u TZ & CeeCee for advising... {from one of the ol' "dark sheep" {hmmm sheep? oooOOOooo} of the blog }}

Afghan election campaign workers 'killed in air strike'

Ten election campaign workers have been killed in an air strike by Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, officials say.

The governor of the northern province of Takhar, Abduljabar Taqwa, told the BBC that two people were also wounded in the attack in the Rostaq district.

President Hamid Karzai condemned the incident, saying that "pro-democracy people should be distinguished from those who fight against democracy".

A Nato spokesman said a "precision air strike" had hit a militant's vehicle....

The governor said Abdulawahid Khorasani, a parliamentary candidate on his way to campaign in Rostaq with about 100 of his supporters and several armed guards, was among those hurt...

"I want the international forces to use proper channels for intelligence. A Taliban commander or a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan does not travel in a 100-vehicle convoy.''
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11163742

"Peak oil has happened or will happen some time around this year...

The result would be the collapse of the industrial supply chain. "In the medium term the global economic system and every market-oriented national economy would collapse," the report states.

That collapse could, in turn, cause many countries to abandon free markets principles, the report states...."

It gets better:

"...the economic crisis caused by shrinking oil supplies and skyrocketing prices could be seen by the general public as a failure of market economics as a whole -- and with it, the political institutions that created those economic systems.

Public anger at the existing system would create "room for ideological and extremist alternatives to existing forms of government." Populations would fragment along political lines and "in extreme cases" this could "lead to open conflict....

Peak oil -- which refers to the moment when the world's production of oil begins to shrink -- is a controversial concept, but few doubt the basic logic underlying it: That eventually the world's finite supply of oil will run out, and nations will have to turn to other sources of energy, or face economic disaster...."

Cheney's a useful idiot. Live like he does and kill capitalism. Turn all the lights on. Turn the thermostat up. And, listen Fox. They're driving the nails in their own coffin.

Published on Thursday, September 2, 2010 by The Raw Story
German Military Report: Peak Oil Could Lead to Collapse of Democracy
by Daniel Tencer
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/02-7

MACROCOSM of a sample of certain" "creative individuals" {that follow Sam {& Marc} Blogs}.

NOT EVERYONE FINDS THIS PLACE...

>>> GLORYOSKI <<< we do not agree, SO WE DON'T TALK EVER...WE CAN SCROLL PAST EACH OTHER!!! We are still of the ones that "found" this blog...so like it or not you are one here - BUT YOU SCROLL PAST "CERTAIN" ones always!

I like the differences, including me: ... some older than me and younger than me {yet around hubby's age}, some as Crank and some as me and some which stayed and some not, but checks in, and some have never returned!
If you must leave, so be it...YET AGAIN You and I do NOT get along. We have tried several times. I may be a bit terse {at times {for reasons}}... but rhetoric, I do not have time "to play".

If you return, SCROLL PAST THOSE U DO NOT "get on" with.

Bedouin Land Fight
Claim For Native Title Threatens Jewish State
By Jonathan Cook

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

(Hura, the Negev) -- Nuri al Uqbi’s small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighbourhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel’s Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicentre of a legal struggle that some observers say threatens Israel’s Jewish character.

Inside, the 68-year-old Bedouin activist has stacks of bulging folders of tattered and browning documents, many older than the state of Israel itself, that he hopes will overturn decades of harsh government policy towards the Negev’s 180,000 Bedouin.

For the past few months, Mr al Uqbi has been in court pursuing a case that has pitted his own expert witnesses against those of the state.

Mr al Uqbi claims the right to return to a patch of 82 hectares in the Negev, close to the regional capital, Beersheva, that he says has belonged to his family for generations. But as both the government and the judge in the case, Sarah Dovrat, seem to appreciate, much more is at stake.

Should Mr al Uqbi win his case, tens of thousands of Bedouin, who long ago had their properties confiscated, could be entitled to repossess their agricultural lands or seek enormous sums in compensation.

Theoretically, it might also open the door to claims by millions of Palestinian refugees scattered across the Middle East.

The Negev, constituting nearly two-thirds of Israel’s territory, has been almost entirely nationalised by the state, with the land held in trust for world Jewry. But the Bedouin have outstanding legal claims on nearly 80,000 hectares of ancestral property.

Tom Segev, an Israeli historian, observed that the historical documents presented by Mr al Uqbi “raise a fundamental question: Who does this country belong to?”

The lawyers and witnesses in the case, Mr Segev added, were not just “arguing over a plot of land. They are arguing over the justness of Zionism”.
http://www.zcommunications.org/bedouin-land-fight-by-jonathan-cook

I wish you'd make up your damn mind. Can we "speak into the void" or can't we?

There were other misunderstandings last night too. Some were on me, some not. But like you I do not care to waste my time and when that's the case I don't go on for paragraphs in concrete (wannabe) "poetry" about it.

Leaving was/is not because of you either. No way could just you EVER make me.

Bye.

will come later, when I can get this bad taste outta my mouth.

Chief rabbi challenges Stephen Hawking in row over origins of universe

Lord Sacks accuses astrophysicist of logical fallacy in book excluding possibility of supernatural creation

The chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, hit back at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist said God did not create the universe.

In his new book, The Grand Design, published next week, Hawking concludes that science excludes the possibility of a deity and that it is unnecessary to "invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going".

But his finding were described by Sacks as an "elementary fallacy" of logic.......
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/02/lord-sacks-stephen-hawking...

"A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it."
Sigmund Freud

Bill Press, the Catholic, has got a little, saintly feud going on with Beck now.
Not that I give a shit, but Bill, this a swipe at Mormons:
“We don’t need a Mormon to teach Christians what the gospels are all about.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/glenn-beck-mistakenly-accuses-mediaite-co...

I have to tell you how YOU BAITED ME (prob w/o knowing)
to respond.

You posted about " IKE ". He is one of my ICONS, since I did not have many as a youth... He is a Libra. HIS Birth Date was/is October 14th ... He is my Hero, as are the ones below.

Eleanor Roosevelt ALSO My ICON! She is a Libra, born on October 11th.

Desmond TuTu - ALSO MY ICON! He also is a Libra, born October 7th.

YoYo Ma, is also MY ICON! He is also a Libra, born also on October 7th.

{...and others...}
ALL MY ICONS... ;D ... sea what happens when I hear "IKE" ;) {tea cheers kewl & a wee "poof"}

I want to go out and start driving-- and keep driving:
Submitted by ghettodefender on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 3:42pm.

"Peak oil has happened or will happen some time around this year...

The result would be the collapse of the industrial supply chain. "In the ... ... more at post & link...
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This to has been talked about how we will be "hitting"Peak Level Oil, for decades. In '80s it was kinda here kinda very soon. Now "Peak" Oil has been HIT.
WTF and "WTP/NERO Plays on...whilst {Neo-}Rome BURNS...

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ghettodefender on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 2:54pm. - WTF GRRR!

Long-term use of bone-strengthening drugs - used to treat fractures - may boost the risk of oesophageal cancer, Oxford University research suggests.bisphosphonates

The study of 3,000 people found taking for five years upped the risk from one in 1,000 to two in 1,000 for 60 to 79-year-olds.

The researchers said the risk was small, but reliable information on risks and benefits was needed.

But experts said for many, the case for taking the drugs "would be strong".

The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, were based on an analysis of anonymised GP records.

They contrast with previous research which found no increased risk for the bone-strengthening drugs.

" Anyone who is taking these drugs and is worried about their risk of cancer should talk to their doctor”

Quote Dr Laura Bell Cancer Research UK

It is not known why the risk may be increased, although the drugs are known to irritate the oesophagus.

Thousands of stomach and colorectum cancers were also studied, but no increased risk was found.

Lead researcher Dr Jane Green said even if the findings were confirmed by other studies "few people" taking bisphosphonates would ever develop the cancer.

"Our findings are part of a wider picture. Bisphosphonates are being increasingly prescribed to prevent fracture and what is lacking is reliable information on the benefits and risks of their use in the long term."

About 600,000 people in the UK are currently taking the drugs - including a tenth of all women over the age of 70.

Dr Laura Bell, from Cancer Research UK, agreed the findings should be treated with caution, pointing out the risks were "still small".

"Anyone who is taking these drugs and is worried about their risk of cancer should talk to their doctor."

The National Osteoporosis Society said: "It is a case of balancing the reduced risk of fractures against the side effects of treatment.

"When you consider the fact that there are 230,000 osteoporotic fractures every year in the UK and 1,150 hip-fracture-related deaths every month, the case for treatment is strong."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11166308

A Tribute to the Black Panthers, featuring David Murray, the Last Poets and the Roots

After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers

Musicians don't often end up on FBI watch lists, but the Last Poets did, thanks to their links with the Black Panthers. Dorian Lynskey looks back at a time when pop and politics collided as never before

...n 1970, the year the Last Poets began their album with the ominous phrase "time is running out", it seemed to many US radicals, black and white alike, that revolution was imminent. But within a couple of years, the Black Panther Party was in disarray, largely thanks to the dirty tricks of the FBI. "Those who have the power always have the time and resources to get together," Hassan says. "They took their blows for a minute but then they realised, 'We gotta come back at this.'"

The agency fomented civil war between Newton and Cleaver, with bloody consequences. Douglas, who was regularly tailed by FBI agents, remembers seeing his artwork imitated on a forged pamphlet attacking another black organisation. "They tried to destroy and discredit the Black Panther Party by any means necessary," he says. "We knew what was going on but you couldn't put your finger on it." The Watts Writers Workshop, the base of the Watts Prophets, was burned to the ground by a trusted employee who, it transpired, was an FBI plant. The Last Poets were constantly monitored, as Hassan discovered years later when he saw his FBI files. "We were on President Nixon's list, the defence department list, the national security list. It kind of blew my mind."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/02/black-panthers-last-poets-po...

Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl

· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified
· Defence says 'confirming the kill' standard practice

An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday....

Following the verdict, Capt R burst into tears, turned to the public benches and said: "I told you I was innocent."

In the recording, a soldier in a watchtower radioed a colleague in the army post's operations room and describes Iman as "a little girl" who was "scared to death". After soldiers first opened fire, she dropped her schoolbag which was then hit by several bullets establishing that it did not contain explosive. At that point she was no longer carrying the bag and, the tape revealed, was heading away from the army post when she was shot....

Although the military speculated that Iman might have been trying to "lure" the soldiers out of their base so they could be attacked by accomplices, Capt R made the decision to lead some of his troops into the open. Shortly afterwards he can be heard on the recording saying that he has shot the girl and, believing her dead, then "confirmed the kill".

"I and another soldier ... are going in a little nearer, forward, to confirm the kill ... Receive a situation report. We fired and killed her ... I also confirmed the kill. Over," he said.

Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body.

On the tape, Capt R then "clarifies" to the soldiers under his command why he killed Iman: "This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/nov/16/israel2

an Israeli MILITARY court. ?!!? that story is not making for a good shabbas

:):(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake_(plant)

In Genesis 30:14, Leah gives Rachel mandrakes in exchange for a night of sleeping with their husband.
During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields
and found some mandrake plants,
which he brought to his mother Leah.
Rachel said to Leah, "Please
give me some of your son's mandrakes."

with your last two videos.
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mandrake the original ruffie? depends on wiTch way you want to take it.

Thank god we have Diebold.
Submitted by ghettodefender on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 3:24pm.
Afghan election campaign workers 'killed in air strike'

Ten election campaign workers have been killed in an air strike by Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, officials say.

The governor of the northern province of Takhar, Abduljabar Taqwa, told the BBC that two people were also wounded in the attack in the Rostaq district.

...
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Why is this not considered a political assassination? I wonder.

The USA has unsolved (even unacknowledged?) political assassinations in our history and are we continuing to export it (as in, the Allende assassination was not an anomoly)?

Many Happy Returns of the Day! (Cyberconfetti flurry!!!!)

"... in my dream, I seemed to see a woman
both young and fair; along a plain she gathered
flowers, and even as she sang, she said:
Whoever asks my name, know that I'm Leah,
and I apply my lovely hands to fashion
a garland of the flowers I have gathered."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/02/BAOQ1F6UA5.D...

[excerpt]

The parents of a man who died after a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy stunned him with a Taser has filed a federal lawsuit against the manufacturer of the shock weapon.

The complaint comes the same week a Marin County man filed suit against the sheriff's office in that county, accusing deputies of excessive force when they shocked him with Tasers in an incident that was videotaped by cameras mounted on the weapons.

In the Sonoma County incident, Nathan Vaughn, 39, was throwing and breaking items in a home on Brighton Drive in the unincorporated area of Larkfield when the deputy arrived at the house on Dec. 20, 2008, authorities said.

The deputy stunned Vaughn once, then two more times when Vaughn continued to fight, authorities said. Vaughn was pronounced dead at a hospital.

District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua cleared the deputy of wrongdoing in January, saying an autopsy concluded that Vaughn had died from abusing prescription medication, including the antidepressant bupropion. The deputy's name was not released.

The incident began when Vaughn's mother, Doris Vaughn, called 911 and told a dispatcher that her son was hitting his father and damaging the home, authorities said.

Vaughn's father, Ronald Vaughn, suffered multiple cuts and bruises in the incident, none of which required immediate medical attention, according to the Sheriff's Department.

Ronald and Doris Vaughn filed suit against Taser International Inc. last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claiming product liability and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The company has not responded to the suit in court.

Vaughn had been convicted of drug possession and use numerous times, according to the sheriff's office. He also had several theft-related convictions and had served time in state prison for burglary.

In the Marin County incident, Peter McFarland, 64, was stunned with Tasers by sheriff's deputies who believed he was suicidal after he injured himself in a fall at his Woodacre home on June 30, 2009. McFarland refused to be taken to a hospital and was shocked several times in an incident that was captured by cameras that are activated when the Taser's safety is removed.

McFarland filed a civil rights lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Oakland against the sheriff's office.

In a statement, Marin County sheriff's Sgt. Debra Barry said that "after all the facts have been made public, we are confident the actions of our deputies will be found to have been both within the law and department policy."

[end excerpt]

:( I lost but finally found again...... :)

Duffy {snap move snap}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rHNOTtShwM&feature=related

Now for a bit of Amy:

{snap...dance}
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;);( re Leah & Spinoza {/|\ ;| )0(}

Ohio: Fox Accused of Illegal Help in Campaign
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Democratic Governors Association filed an elections complaint on Thursday in Ohio alleging that the Fox News illegally helped the Republican nominee for governor solicit funds. The association says Fox allowed John Kasich to request contributions from viewers during an Aug. 18 broadcast and displayed the address of his campaign Web site. The complaint alleges the free publicity is an improper campaign contribution. A Fox spokeswoman said that the network had not yet been served the complaint and that she could not comment.

"I told you I was innocent."
Submitted by ghettodefender on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 8:34pm.
{grrr!}

"I told you I was trouble..."
;);( {grrr!} tea cheers

Submitted by Ms_Anthrope on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 3:56pm.
...I like the differences, including me: ... some older than me and younger than me {yet around hubby's age}, some as Crank and some as me...
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"What do you think, Batty Roy?"

"I think 'Aiieeee!' What do you think, Pris?"

"I think 'Aiieeee' too."

"Be Here Now," by Ram Dass

THE PARTY OF NOTHINGNESS IN "BE HERE NOW"
Nothing was happening ... I could see nothing below the kneecaps ... there was nothing in my universe ... and nothing new had happened ... there was nothing to say ... nothing seemed to happen ... he twinkles at me and nothing happens ... there was nothing ... he does nothing ... nothing turns you on ... nothing to do ... nothing's happened to any of it ... I do nothing but sadhana ... there is nothing ... can I say there is absolutely nothing ... the guru taught me nothing ... nothing to do with worldliness ... no food, no nothing ... nothing to do ... nowhere to go ... there is nothing to be ... doing nothing, that's drama ... nothing is really happening at all ... nothing ever happens ... there's nothing you've got to do ... it ain't nothing but stuff ... sine qua non (without which nothing) ... nothing has happened ... I am nothing ... nothing less than death and rebirth ... it profiteth me nothing ... our will has nothing to do with it ... there's no doer to do it anyway ... and then you're in the void ... the final place that game leads to is where you live consciousness, in all of it, which is in nothing ... stay in a place inside yourself where nothing is happening at all ... beyond that there is nothing ... moving toward Zen, reflect nothingness ... in the end this is the nut: it's all or nothing ... he goes into one-with-it-all into the void ... YOU ARE THE VOID ... then you go through the final door and you go from form into the formless into the void, into the beyond the beyond ... push far enough into the void ... and then you're in the void.

a rude and tacky pix - when u know & u know I know u know ... all I can say is ... jealous? hahaha gotta go "brew" ... since Lara Croft is on soon.
{snicker snicker} hug hug kiss kiss {teahee}

http://www.american-buddha.com/

http://www.naderlibrary.com/index.htm

OK now I feel old...I've been on american buddha...since back in the late 50's... :) (old Letterman joke)....Something made me go look at it again and what I posted is what was there...All that AND a Nader Library.. ;) NICE.

The First Year of the Era of Woman – Primo Anno Femini

May the declaration spread like light passed from one candle to another. We hereby declare the beginning of a new era, Anno Femini. We speak it in the old language of the Romans because to undo a malediction, you must revoke its power in the same language. It is done. Go forward in the new light of this new era. In this new era, the fortunes of women will rise, and as they do, the happiness of humanity will grow. As the love of life is restored to its proper place in human hearts, the love of death and destruction will be despised as a black art. As the earth’s fertility is respected, the health of the world will be restored, and disease and sickness will decline. As the gift of life is no longer despised, children will be loved and nurtured, war will no longer be used to provide fake solutions to disputes, and peace will gain firm root all over the world. As the years roll along in the era of Anno Femini, human joy will grow like a strong tree that produces flowers, fruit and shelter, and the voices of happy beings will resound in all the branches of the tree. The priests who sold evil and fear will be completely forgotten, except on the day, once a year, when we raise their images and set them afire to remember the past that once plagued us, and to rekindle our vows of kindness.
snipped
http://www.american-buddha.com/

Submitted by Ms_Anthrope on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 12:31am.
...first I growled, then I laughed and show to say such a rude and tacky pix...
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If it did not piss you off then make you laugh, it was a waste.

seemed to have more of an effect in it's original natural brown paper, or maybe it was the effect of some other brown paper that had the effect. long ago,seems like yesterday blotter

happy birthday weekend for Sunshine Jim *

...as Lara floats from the ceiling, "the men in black" enters...
Lara then battles... ;)

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/a_study_of_the_worldly_art_of_...

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/warning-lsd-turns-ho.html?utm_sourc...

http://www.naturalnews.com/029628_cacao_chocolate.html

If you have a loved one who loves chocolate ....

Sunny J HB Weekend ... {kewl dude ;}

GE Sugar Beets: Groups Condemn USDA Action Avoiding Court Order
Attempt to Circumvent Recent Federal Court Order Making the Plantings Illegal
WASHINGTON - September 2 - On September 1, 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it was in the process of issuing permits to authorize the planting of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings this Fall, without performing any review of the crops’ environmental impacts. These GE beets have been altered so that they can tolerate being sprayed with Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup. The unprecedented permitting process for a commercially-grown genetically engineered crop was initiated without public notice and comment or any environmental review. Last week the agency met with companies involved and invested in promoting the gene-altered crop.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/09/02-5#

From the White House Blog
Two New Studies: Health Reform Benefits Small Business
Posted by Stephanie Cutter on September 02, 2010 at 10:01 AM EDT

Under the old health care system, many businesses found it difficult, if not impossible to provide health insurance benefits to their workers. Over the past decade the percentage of small firms offering coverage decreased and many businesses have suffered under the weight of high health care costs.

The Affordable Care Act helps make it easier for employers to provide health benefits. This year, small businesses are eligible for health care tax credits and starting in 2014, small businesses with up to 100 employees will have access to state-based Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Exchanges, which will expand their purchasing power. Additionally, the Business Roundtable estimated that provisions in the legislation could save $3,000 per person in health costs.

In less than a day, two new studies have confirmed that the Affordable Care Act will deliver significant benefits to small businesses. Yesterday, the Rand Corporation released a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine that indicated that the Affordable Care Act will strengthen employer-based health insurance. Here’s how the LA Times summarized the report:
http://healthpolicyandreform.nejm.org/?p=12339&query=home

An economist and two health policy researchers at the nonprofit Rand Corp. conducted a simulation to predict what is likely to happen once employers are able to offer coverage through these exchanges. Overall, they estimate that the proportion of U.S. workers who will have access to health insurance through their jobs will jump from 84.6% to 94.6%. That works out to 13.6 million additional workers having the option to buy affordable health plans.

Most of that bump is likely to come from smaller businesses with 50 or fewer employees. Today, only 60.4% of these employees can get health insurance through their jobs. Once the exchanges are functioning, the Rand researchers forecast that 85.9% of small business employees will have the option of buying health plans at work – an increase of 10.5 million workers.

Part of the reason for that growth is that the policies that will be offered through the exchanges will be less expensive, the researchers said. Small companies will be able to band together to pool their risk, which will give them more leverage to bargain with insurance companies. It also means their premiums should be more stable from year to year.

Today, the Commonwealth Fund finds that millions of small businesses will benefit from the new small business tax credits included in the new law. The study notes that 16.6 million Americans work at firms that could be eligible for the tax credit in the next three years alone and predicts that the new law will extend employer-based coverage to up to 7 mil­lion people who are currently without employer health insurance. Check out the new study by clicking here.
Stephanie Cutter is Assistant to the President for Special Projects
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/09/02/two-new-studies-health-reform-...

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2010/S...

URGENT National Actions to Protect Social Security

***Social Security for All Generations National Call-In Day: September 13th (9-5 ET)
Call 1-800-795-5336 and for more info, please go to: www.gu.org/socialsecurity.asp for more info.

***Join the One Nation March on October 2nd, 12 noon, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC View the calendar of events and get details here:
http://onenationworkingtogether.org/?p=206

There’s a myth flying around Washington DC as part of the Federal deficit commission that to control the deficit, we must cut Social Security. There’s just one problem: Social Security does not contribute to the deficit. Social Security keeps millions of seniors out of poverty, including RNs whose hospital employers provided little or no retirement benefits.

Cutting Social Security would not reduce the US budget deficit, and is fully funded until 2023. Adjustments in contributions, by applying the social security taxing to earnings over $106,000 for example, would extend fully funding to 2031. Members of Congress are expressing their opposing to any cuts in Social Security.

AS NNU Co-President Karen Higgins recently testified to the deficit Commission: “Cuts to Social Security disproportionately affect women in general and nurses in particular.”

PLEASE JOIN NATIONAL NURSES IN SAYING:

No benefit cuts
No raising the retirement age
No privatization
http://ga1.org/cna/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=28145302

;) ...I think SS should JUST SAY -- "WE will not even talk ANYTHING about Social Security ... UNTIL RETHUGS PAY ALL THAT THEY "TOOK" FROM SOCIAL SECURITY! JustMyBloodyOpinion!

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/08/women-“politicals”-not-in-the-news/#more-21401

Middle East peace talks are 'doomed to fail', says Ahmadinejad
Iran's president urges Palestinians to continue armed resistance against Israel at al-Quds Day rally

snip
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today launched an angry attack on "doomed" US-brokered Middle East peace talks and urged the Palestinians to continue armed resistance to Israel.
Ahmadinejad used the annual al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally in Tehran to scorn the Obama administration's efforts in launching the first Arab-Israeli negotiations in nearly two years.
"What do they want to negotiate about? Who are they representing? What are they going to talk about?" the hardline Iranian leader said of the Palestinian negotiating team in Washington.
"Who gave them the right to sell a piece of Palestinian land? The people of Palestine and the people of the region will not allow them to sell even an inch of Palestinian soil to the enemy. The negotiations are stillborn and doome

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/03/ahmadinejad-middle-east-talk...

http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/300704/jewish/The-Jew-and...

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my hindu side is very annoyed

Democrats Unlikely to Repeal Tax Cuts for the Rich
Wednesday 01 September 2010
by: David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers

SS Poster Note:
Among the Democrats who oppose repealing the Bush TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH-
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana), who is not running for re-election
Net Worth: $1,299,022 to $3,039,000
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota)
Net Worth: $1,486,029 to $3,328,000
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska)Democrat
Net Worth: $6,949,062 to $17,953,000
Senatorial Candidate Robin Carnahan, (D-Missouri)
Net Worth: **
Senatorial Candidate Jack Conway (D-Kentucky)
Net Worth: $3.9 million*
Rep. Brad Ellsworth, (D-Indiana)
Net Worth: $125,028 to $651,000
Rep. Gerald Connolly, (D-Virginia)
Net Worth: $1,173,044 to $3,229,999

Unless otherwise noted, Net Worth obtained from OpenSecrets.org
*Info obtained from:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100825/NEWS01/308250082/Jack+Co...
**Searching

Washington - Democrats in Congress are poised to play a leading role this month in thwarting their party's effort to raise income tax rates on the wealthy.

Tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 expire at the end of this year. President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders have been eager to extend the breaks for individuals who earn less than $200,000 annually and joint filers who make less than $250,000. Those who earn more would pay higher, pre-2001 rates starting next year.

However, a small but growing number of moderate Democrats are balking at boosting taxes on the rich. Many face electorates that recoil at the mention of any tax increase. Some represent areas that are loaded with wealthier taxpayers. Further, some incumbent senators who don't face voters this fall are reluctant to increase taxes on anyone while the economy remains sluggish.

Without their support, the push to raise rates on the rich probably will fail.

"The economy is very weak right now. Raising taxes will lower consumer demand at a time when we want people putting more money into the economy," said Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., who isn't seeking re-election.

Democratic leaders still vow a big effort this month to boost the top tax brackets, now 33 and 35 percent, back to 36 and 39.6 percent, the rates that were in effect in the 1990s. Both House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who faces a tough re-election fight, want a vote before the election Nov. 2.
"We still expect to have a bill on the (Senate) floor at some point in September," Reid spokesman Jim Manley said. "Whether Republicans will allow us to pass anything is a whole other story."

"The speaker and the president have been clear they want to extend the middle-class tax cuts because they have the greatest economic benefit," Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said.

Many Democrats and Republicans are eager for a tax cut battle, seeing it as emblematic of each party's economic principles.

"Now the administration is calling for a massive tax hike on small businesses in the middle of a recession," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who maintains that higher rates on the wealthy would hit small business hard, a point the Obama administration disputes.

"So it's no surprise," McConnell added, "that most Americans think the country is on the wrong track and that Democrat policies have failed to do anything to fix their top concern, the economy."

Democratic leaders are convinced that voters won't buy that argument. Not only will the public back higher taxes for the rich, but "we have an opportunity to generate $700 billion that could go to deficit reduction and badly needed programs," said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., a co-chairman of the House Progressive Caucus.

The middle class-only extension is thought to have strong support in the House, where Democrats have a huge majority, but some Democrats are reluctant.

Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., represents the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, one of the nation's wealthiest districts. Median family income there in 2008 was $117,892, well above the national average of $63,211. He said that repealing the top rates would have political consequences.

"Sometimes we forget how we became the majority. We did it by winning some affluent districts," he said.

The bigger problem for Democrats looms in the Senate, where Majority Leader Reid's immediate problem is getting the 60 votes needed to cut off debate on the measure. Democrats control 59 seats, and at least three of them — Bayh, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Kent Conrad of North Dakota — have signaled that they won't back a permanent repeal of the tax cuts for the wealthy.

They suggest a way out of a stalemate — temporarily extending all the expiring tax rates — but so far the leadership isn't going along.
Sean Neary, a spokesman for Senate Budget Committee Chairman Conrad, said the senator backed such an extension "for now."

"The general rule of thumb is that you do not raise taxes or cut spending during an economic downturn. That would be counterproductive," Conrad said.
Nelson also offered what's become the centrist Democratic mantra. He, too, said he'd back extending the tax breaks for the wealthy "for at least a period of time because raising taxes in a weak economy could impair recovery."

That stand could be even more popular with Democratic candidates for the Senate who aren't incumbents. The hottest races are in conservative states, such as Kentucky, where Republican Rand Paul and Democrat Jack Conway are battling for the seat now held by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning.
Of the expiring tax cuts for the wealthy, Conway spokeswoman Allison Haley said that he "believes we should extend them now, especially when so many Kentucky families and small businesses are struggling under this recession."

In Missouri, Republican U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt and Democrat Robin Carnahan are in a tight race. Despite a welcoming embrace with Obama at a Kansas City fundraiser in July, Carnahan said last week that she wanted to extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone.

"Now is not the time to raise taxes," she said.

In Indiana, U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., who's seeking to replace Bayh, told the Evansville Courier & Press this summer that all the Bush-era tax cuts should become permanent.

That position makes sense, said Bria
http://www.truth-out.org/democrats-unlikely-repeal-tax-cuts-rich62897

September 3 - 5, 2010

Palestinians as Second-Class Citizens

Terms of Coexistence

By GEORGE BISHARAT

"Where is the Palestinian Mandela?" pundits occasionally ask. But after these latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail -- as they inevitably will -- the more pressing question may be: "Where is the Israeli de Klerk?" Will an Israeli leader emerge with the former South African president's moral courage and foresight to dismantle a discriminatory regime and foster democracy based on equal rights?

For decades, the international community has assumed that historic Palestine must be divided between Jews and Palestinians. Yet no satisfactory division of the land has been reached. Israel has aggravated the problem by settling roughly 500,000 Jews in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, eliminating the land base for a viable Palestinian state.

A de facto one-state reality has emerged, with Israel effectively ruling virtually all of the former Palestine. Yet only Jews enjoy full rights in this functionally unitary political system. In contrast, Palestinian citizens of Israel endure more than 35 laws that explicitly privilege Jews as well as policies that deliberately marginalize them. West Bank Palestinians cannot drive on roads built for Israeli settlers, while Palestinians in Gaza watch as their children's intellectual and physical growth are stunted by an Israeli siege that has limited educational opportunities and deepened poverty to acute levels.
http://www.counterpunch.org/bisharat09032010.html

Pakistan suicide bomber kills 43 in Shia parade backing Palestinians

78 injured in procession blast as death toll from series of sectarian attacks mounts

Suicide bombings targeting religious minorities killed at least 44 people in Pakistan today, sharply increasing the death toll from sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding.

A blast killed at least 43 people in the south-western city of Quetta during a Shia procession calling for solidarity with Palestinians, police said. A spokesman said 78 people were wounded, several of whom were in a critical condition....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/03/pakistan-suicide-bombers-kil...

A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its limpid, spring-fed waters.

The invasive Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea, is known as the "golden clam" in the aquarium trade and the "good luck clam" in its native southeast Asia. But in Lake George, scientists call it an unwelcome invader that could cause ecological and economic harm.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9249867

Judge blocks charges against US military supplier

A judge says charges should be dropped against a Kuwaiti food company that was accused of swindling the U.S. government in contracts to supply troops in Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9249865

U.S. Army avenges the Grattan Massacre

On this day in 1885, General William Harney and 700 soldiers take revenge for the Grattan Massacre with a brutal attack on a Sioux village in Nebraska that left 100 men, women, and children dead.

The path to Harney's bloody revenge began a year before near Fort Laramie, Wyoming, when a brash young lieutenant named John Grattan and 30 of his men were killed while attempting to arrest a Teton Sioux brave accused of shooting a white man's cow. Despite the many eyewitness reports that Lieutenant Grattan had foolishly threatened the Sioux and practically forced them to attack, the incident quickly gained infamy around the nation as the "Grattan Massacre."

General William Harney, to lead a punitive attack against the Sioux. Harney decided an appropriate target for retribution was a village of 250 Sioux led by Chief Little Thundercamped near Ash Hollow, Nebraska. Refusing to accept Little Thunder's offer of immediate surrender, Harney ordered a full-scale attack that completely destroyed the village and killed more than 100 Sioux.

One Sioux boy who witnessed the brutal massacre would never forget or forgive and would take his own revenge 21 years later at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. His name was Crazy Horse.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-army-avenges-the-grattan-m...

The U.S. State Department Thursday flatly denied reports that the Obama administration is considering swapping the ``Cuban Five'' spies in U.S. prisons for a U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Havana.

The denial came a day after Cuban-Americans in Congress expressed concern over reports of a deal to free Alan Gross, held without charges since his arrest in Havana on Dec. 3.

``The United States is NOT considering the release of any member of the Cuban Five in exchange for Alan Gross,'' Mark Toner, director of the State Department's press office, wrote in a statement e-mailed to El Nuevo Herald on Thursday.

``We are committed to using every possible diplomatic channel to press for Mr. Gross's release, but we will not consider a `prisoner swap,' '' Toner added. ``We continue to urge the Cuban Government to release Alan Gross immediately.''

In letters Wednesday to the Departments of State and Justice, the five Cuban-Americans in Congress wrote that they were ``seriously concerned about increasing reports that the Administration is conducting negotiations with the Castro regime'' for a swap.

``The U.S. must be careful not to telegraph to rogue regimes that they may be able to successfully extort our government by abducting innocent Americans,'' said South Florida Republican Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln and Mario Diaz Balart and New Jersey Democrats Sen. Bob Menendez and Rep. Albio Sires.

Cuba has long demanded the release of its five spies, who are serving sentences of 15 years to life, and ruler Raúl Castro in April of 2009 offered to exchange them for the island's political prisoners.

But rumblings of a possible swap began spreading after the arrest of Gross, a U.S. Agency for International Development subcontractor who delivered satellite communications equipment to Jewish groups in Cuba. No charges have been filed against Gross.

Former Cuban ruler Fidel Castro lent credibility to the rumblings when he declared on July 26 that the release of the five ``is very close . . . very much before the end of the year.'' He repeated his prediction a week later, saying, ``There's no guess work here.''

But the rumblings spiked again when New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat close to the Obama administration, visited Cuba Aug. 22-27 for what his office described as a trade-promotion mission. Several Cuba blogs speculated that he would try to broker a swap.

Richardson won the release of three Cuban political prisoners after a visit in 1996, and has negotiated the release of U.S. citizens held in North Korea, Iraq and Sudan

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/03/1805926/us-denies-cuban-five-priso...

and said a big BAD war that America and UK and Israel want to have with Iran is very near.

Summary of Machiavelli's La Mandragola

Arguably one of Machiavelli's finest works, Mandragola is a comedy that offers
an in-depth look into the world of Machiavelli. The play's action takes place in
the span of 24 hrs. It is the story of Callimaco, a young Florentine who lived
in Paris for 20 years. One day he overheard a fellow Florentine tell the
Parisians about a woman of extraordinary beauty back in Tuscany. Compelled to
see her for himself, Callimaco returned to his native land. Once he saw her
beauty he was determined to have her. There are several problems to his plan
however. The first is that the woman, Lucrezia, is married and the second that
her virtue seems above reproach. Callimaco enlisted the help of Ligurio, a
rascally marriage broker who had had dealings with Lucrezia and her husband,
Nicia. Using his skills at arranging things, Ligurio devises plans to allow
Callimaco to have his moment of bliss with Lucrezia.

Pretending to be a doctor, Callimaco assures Nicia, whom is without the heir
that he so desperately wants, that the ingestion of a potion made from the
mandrake root will result in pregnancy. Nicia accepts the advice, complete with
the consequence that the first man to sleep with the woman who takes the potion
will die the next day. With Nicia's money, Ligurio and Callimaco enlist the help
of the friar. Frate Timoteo convinces the unwilling Lucrezia that it would be
best to take the potion and sleep with another man at first, so that he might
draw out the poison. Though her conscience is heavy, she accepts the advice of
her confessor and the reassurance of her mother. Nicia is persuaded to capture a
young man (Callimaco in disguise) in the street at night and bring him in to
take upon himself the fatal effects of the drug. The affair goes according to
plan: Callimaco gets his night with the lovely Lucrezia and Nicia will have his

re Leah on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 5:41pm. ;);(

{also this....} The affair goes according to
plan: Callimaco gets his night with the lovely Lucrezia and Nicia will have his

hahaha weird... ;);( off 2 brew