The top story of the week?

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Cheney's the story this week

I really don't think I can support this poll in good conscience.

 
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how about some crap about the creationism museum?

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Next week's Story Of The Week will be Paris Hilton unless California falls into the Pacific, in which case next week's Story Of The Week will be that California fell into the Pacific, tragically taking Paris Hilton with it.

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Snork off you furball footy winkler!

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The Next Four-Branch Presidency
by emptywheel

Since Fred Thompson got into the Presidential race in a big way, I've increasingly been getting this creepy feeling. I keep thinking: when was the last time we had a charismatic (if ugly, in this case) candidate who knows nothing about policy and is even less interested in taking a stand on policy, who seems to be hiring the right advisors, but who himself, still seems to be Bush league. Yeah--I'm getting a weird Bush feeling from Thompson.

Add in the fact that he might easily prevent Al Gore from winning the Presidency (again) by ensuring a Tennessee win.

Most importantly, though, I have imagined that Thompson is the GOP's best chance to replicate the un-American structure of the Bush Presidency, where all the major decisions appear to be made in the margins, by Cheney, all the while Cheney protects himself by invoking his creative theories of being a fourth branch of government. You see, I'm really beginning to believe that Thompson is in so that those committed to continuing the basic policies of the Bush Administration can do so, once again behind the facade of a puppet president.

And then I read this:

Politico's Mike Allen told NPR that Fred Thompson has a notable foreign policy advisor: first daughter of the OVP, Liz Cheney.

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/06/the-next-four-b...

:)

How goes everyone's saturday?

If we listen to the land, we will know what to do. - Terry Tempest Williams

Obama blasts religious right for "hijacking" religion

by John Aravosis (DC)

"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a 30-minute speech before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.

"Faith got hijacked, partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, all too eager to exploit what divides us," the Illinois senator said.

"At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design," according to an advance copy of his speech.

"There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich," Obama said. "I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version."

http://www.americablog.blogspot.com/

i'm reposting this (it just came in at my blog link)

and I thought you regular MRR veterans might be able to answer the questions better, if you have a moment

thanks. (below)

//Lots of changes

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/23/2007 - 11:10pm.
When did Sam go to Sunday only?
When did the blog change?
Is everyone happy with the changes?
Wow, it's really different.
Are War Dog and Nobody still around?//

yes, yes, yes
toniD on Sat, 06/23/2007 - 11:11pm

That is exactly what the string pullers want. Another delegator, a Straw Man.

I wonder if I could get any national traction with my Motel 6 heiress story?

Excerpt:

"At any given moment, she owns more than 100,000 bagels, 48,000 prints of Van Gogh's Sunflowers and enough tiny bottles of shampoo to fill several real bottles of shampoo."

{you had to be there]

sign in, you get more options.

Reflections from a Psychedelic Grandmother...
06/23/2007 - 11:10pm

It's an easy target, but it's time to stop mocking the States. They could sure teach the Brits a thing or two.

Once again, this time for a report commissioned by the broadcaster itself, the ostensibly neutral BBC stands accused of a sneaky preference for dressing to the left. Much of the evidence for this is, at best, wobbly, but one witness employee, Washington correspondent Justin Webb, needs to be heard. The organisation, he peeved, is anti-American; it treats the US with scorn and derision and accords it 'no moral weight'.

He is, thus far at least, correct. The last 10 years have seen American stories relegated to a slew of 'and finally' freak shows, a vast country's talents reduced to synchronised gas-guzzling as choreographed by Paris Hilton. The trouble is that it is not just the BBC; disdaining Americans has become a national sport, regardless of the fact that it requires the skill of all sports involving fish, guns and barrels.

Everybody knows the check-list, only their priorities vary: stem cells, lethal injections, indelicate warfare, creationism, the second amendment, Wal-Mart, reproductive choice, pointy white hoods, chewing tobacco and obscene chocolate. ...

... the more than half of the US who did not vote for Bush express a visceral dismay at the electoral consequence with a passion that far outweighs the languid, late-night punditry of the more than half who did not vote for Blair. The price of democracy, they queue to tell you here, is how often it sucks.

That these people, by the tens of millions, should be damned with the same contempt deservedly dished to fundamentalist fools (cheering local bumper sticker: 'The Christian right is neither') is not fair; nor does it serve either their or our better interests. For here in flyover America, far from the hotspots better known to foreigners - Noo York, Washington, La-la - is where, and how, most Americans live. And for all that much of it is indeed as corny as Kansas in August, a great deal more is attractive and, frankly, ripe for the copying. ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2110037,00.html

i'm not good at detecting the nuance
between fab and non-fab anons
i know others can pick up on the subtleties distinguishing anons
i like to give the benefit of the doubt
since i can just claim being dumb later
and be sincere about my shortcomings

(oh god, now i'm sounding like air-ono after drinking bongwater and studying all night for a urine test)

or something :) yikes

What did Nancy Grace do now?

by digby

Sidney Blumenthal has written a devastating piece on the current state of the Imperial presidency which rightly notes that in small, incremental ways (and some large ones) the executive theory of the Bush presidency is being legally dismantled. (I suspect we'll be living with the fallout for a long time, however, if they pay no price --- they are zombies with this stuff.)

Blumenthal makes some news, at least to me, and it's quite interesting because it sheds some light on what might be motivating some of the Scooter Madness that I find so bizarre:

In private, Bush administration sub-Cabinet officials who have been instrumental in formulating and sustaining the legal "war paradigm" acknowledge that their efforts to create a system for detainees separate from due process, criminal justice and law enforcement have failed. One of the key framers of the war paradigm (in which the president in his wartime capacity as commander in chief makes and enforces laws as he sees fit, overriding the constitutional system of checks and balances), who a year ago was arguing vehemently for pushing its boundaries, confesses that he has abandoned his belief in the whole doctrine, though he refuses to say so publicly. If he were to speak up, given his seminal role in formulating the policy and his stature among the Federalist Society cadres that run it, his rejection would have a shattering impact, far more than political philosopher Francis Fukuyama's denunciation of the neoconservatism he formerly embraced. But this figure remains careful to disclose his disillusionment with his own handiwork only in off-the-record conversations. Yet another Bush legal official, even now at the commanding heights of power, admits that the administration's policies are largely discredited. In its defense, he says without a hint of irony or sarcasm, "Not everything we've done has been illegal." He adds, "Not everything has been ultra vires" -- a legal term referring to actions beyond the law.
Con't

town in U.S. embraces dollar alternative

...
"I just love the feel of using a local currency," said Trice Atchison, 43, a teacher who used BerkShares to buy a snack at a cafe in Great Barrington, a town of about 7,400 people. "It keeps the profit within the community."

There are about 844,000 BerkShares in circulation, worth $759,600 at the fixed exchange rate of 1 BerkShare to 90 U.S. cents, according to program organizers. The paper scrip is available in denominations of one, five, 10, 20 and 50.

In their 10 months of circulation, they've become a regular feature of the local economy. Businesses that accept BerkShares treat them interchangeably with dollars: a $1 cup of coffee sells for 1 BerkShare, a 10 percent discount for people paying in BerkShares.
...
The BerkShares program is one of about a dozen such efforts in the nation. Local groups in California, Kansas, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin run similar ones. One of the oldest is Ithaca Hours, which went into circulation in 1991 in Ithaca, New York.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=18698

Case against CNN, Nancy Grace to be tried in federal court
By The Associated Press
06.20.07
OCALA, Fla.

A judge has ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit claiming that CNN's Nancy Grace pushed the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning on her cable television legal affairs show will be tried in federal court.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary R. Jones ruled yesterday that federal court would handle the lawsuit filed by Melinda Duckett's relatives because the involved parties are from different jurisdictions, according to court documents.

The lawsuit was filed in November 2006 and names the talk show host and CNN as defendants.

Grace, a former Atlanta prosecutor, grilled Duckett on Grace's CNN Headline News show in September 2006 about the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son, Trenton. Duckett fatally shot herself before the network aired the pre-taped interview. Duckett's family accuses Grace of pushing the emotionally distraught woman over the edge.

Authorities, who have said they believe Trenton is still alive, have named Melinda Duckett as the prime suspect in his disappearance.

Attorneys involved in the case did not return phone messages left at their offices in time for this story.

--studying all night for a urine test-- Sir Real

FUNNY
--Motel 6 heiress...She Likes To Leave The Lights On-- Crank Bait

How r things?

left a gas burner on for hours without a flame, apparently

wonder how many brain cells got killed?

probably a good thing i go outside to smoke the weed

note: above sentence unrelated to gassing house

mystery of my headache apparently solved, though

*phew*...

I'm ok thanks...going back to work Monday...

Crucifixtion to the song "Yakety Sax" (the Benny Hill theme)

This one goes out to my good friend Crank Bait.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32488.pdf

i usually am more aware (but i was possible distracted by my headache)

at least you got tomorrow off

work (ack!)

my better half still likes the library, though
(she worked 9 hours today, double ack!!)

i had the kids & the foster d.d. guys home all day
(and it was 108 degrees)

Her flashing dark eyes are so jealous,
The left one keeps watching the right,
And those teeth that I love are like the stars up above
Because they come out every night.
Oh, my girl is one in a million,
Often have you heard that said,
But she is not one in a million,
She looks like she's won in a raffle instead.

An oilman from Texas once tried to impress
This shy and this sensitive waif,
He said, "I've so many gold teeth
That I sleep every night with my head in a safe."
He said, "There's 400 quid if you'll come with me, kid, to my flat."
It was most unexpected,
But she didn't fret, and she wasn't upset,
She just kept cool and calm and collected.

Tongue-tied, I sat with Zandoona
While licking its paws was the cat,
I nervously stammered, "Zandoona,
I'd like to see you do that."
And suddenly, my Zandoona
Slapped my face, and she left me because
By the time I had said what I wanted to say,
The cat wasn't licking its paws.

---

From the song "Zandoona."

Bloody genius, thats what it is.

BILL MOYERS: One beltway insider is quoted saying the neo-cons are "weighted down by the sheer, glaring unfairness" of Libby's sentence. And there's the rub. None seem the least weighted down by the sheer, glaring unfairness of sentencing soldiers to repeated and longer tours of duty in a war induced by deception. It was left to the hawkish academic Fouad Ajami to state it baldly, as he pleaded on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal for Bush to pardon Libby. For believing "in the nobility of this war," wrote Ajami, Scooter Libby had himself become a "casualty" -- a fallen soldier the president dare not leave behind on the beltway battlefield. Not a word in the entire article about the real fallen soldiers. The honest-to-god dead and dying and wounded. Not a word about the chaos or the cost. All the beltway warriors can muster is a plea of mercy for one of their own who lied to cover their tracks.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06152007/watch2.html

I thought that was well said.

BILL MOYERS: Every day people from all walks of life make their way up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to pay their respects to the martyred president. From here Lincoln broods over the city he once saw as the seat of government of, by, and for the people. But this is no longer their city. or Lincoln's. This is an occupied city, a company town, whose population of lobbyists constitute the permanent government. The number of lobbyists registered to do business in Washington has more than doubled since the year 2000. There are now twenty five lobbyists for every member of Congress.

This is where you start if you want to know how it is that some truly awful regimes around the world keep on winning favors from our government. I mean regimes ruled by dictators, despots, and tyrants of every kind -- governments that send their critics to prison, torture dissidents, steal from their own people, control the press, and make a mockery of human rights...yet still wind up with trade agreements, U.S. tax dollars, business deals blessed on high, and a hearty welcome in Congress and the White House.

If you've ever asked yourself, why are we helping those guys, you are about to meet a tour guide of our nation's capital who can show you what dirty little secrets lie behind some of Washington's fanciest addresses and prominent letterheads.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06222007/watch.html

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010549.php
Iraq Renews Saddam-Era Oil Deal With China by Steve Soto

Kurdish leader and Iraqi vice president Jalal Talabani is close to Dick Cheney and is one of our staunchest allies inside the Iraqi government. He wants us to stay as long as possible.

He is also cutting oil deals with the Chinese without our State Department knowing about it.

Nigerian unions called off a crippling strike in Africa's top oil producer on Saturday after the government agreed to freeze fuel prices for a year, both sides said in a statement.

The four-day-old general strike had halted most economic activity in Africa's most populous nation, but vital exports of crude oil were not affected.

"The general strike is suspended with effect from midnight," said a joint statement issued by unions and the government.

Earlier on Saturday, the government sweetened its offer of reducing petrol prices by five naira to 70 naira (55 cents) per litre by agreeing to freeze it at that level for a year.

Unions had previously rejected the five-naira reduction, holding out for a 10-naira cut to completely reverse an increase introduced in the dying days of the previous government, which stepped down on May 29.

Unionists said the offer of a 12-month freeze on prices was the deal-breaker, although they were also reassured by the government's agreement to set up committees to examine fuel prices and the controversial privatisation of oil refineries and power stations.

The strike shut down most sectors, including government offices, banks, ports, airlines and big businesses. However, oil shipments were maintained because Western companies replaced key union staff with management.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2341082620070623

Well that's an interesting development. The scumbags over at the Wall Street Journal are probably disappointed. Now the evil unions won't be attacked by the government on Monday.

The strike by nearly one million South African public sector workers is having massive political implications. Cosatu union federation members have struck for three weeks demanding a 12 percent pay rise.

This is increasing pressure on the ANC government, which has pushed through neoliberal policies during its time in office since the end of apartheid. The South African Communist Party (SACP) is part of the government. But the strikes have led to increasing numbers of SACP activists questioning the party’s role.

“Are we going to live this life forever, having to go to the streets and then back to the round table to act as if we are friends again with those in government?” said one SACP member.

He believes this is a key question raised by the public sector strikes, which have been the biggest since the end of apartheid.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12121

“What has been interesting about this strike is the high morale on the ground, and the feeling of them and us,” said Tebogo, a socialist on strike. “The question everyone raises is why are the bosses getting so much while we remain poor?”

The fact that there are many “partial strikers”, who work some days and attend rallies and toyi-toying (dancing) on other days, shows that a new layer of people are being attracted to the revolt against inequality.

...For the government, two things are at stake. First, the public service workers are being used to set an example of wage restraint for the rest of the working class.

Second, it wants to beat one of the strongest sections of a growing revolt whose key themes are poverty, democracy and equality.

The riots preceding the local elections in 2005 were rebellions against poor sanitation and a government that was not listening. Tyres are still regularly being rolled out to block streets to prevent evictions.

Last year, three long strikes by some of the poorest contract workers grew partly from outrage at executive pay.

This time, strikers complain that the government “only thinks of itself”.

South African unions turned down a revised offer of a 7.5 percent pay rise on Friday, ensuring that the country's biggest strike since the end of apartheid will go into a fourth week.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) said it was unable "at this stage" to sign up to the package which Public Services and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said would remain open for another month.

"The majority of public service unions agreed that they cannot at this stage sign any agreement with the employer," said COSATU in a statement after the latest round of talks broke up.

"The unions will meet again on Sunday 24 June" to discuss their next move, the statement added.

http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=070...

Unions had been angered by an earlier warning from the government to accept the offer by the end of last Wednesday, but the minister signalled that she was now prepared to wait for a final answer for another 21 working days.

"But I trust and I am quite confident that it will happen much sooner because there are signals that there are number of unions that are ready to sign," she added.

Asked what would happen should the unions refuse to sign the agreement, Fraser-Moleketi said: "We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."

On Friday afternoon, Cosatu announced that the majority of striking unions would reject 7.5 percent.

The unions now have 21 days to come back with a fresh mandate, and will meet again on Sunday. But the rank-and-file appear to be dug in, so uncertainty could loom over the country for another three weeks.

[Public Service Minister Geraldine] Fraser-Moleketi said: "This is our final offer. We will not return to negotiations", though she privately told this newspaper she was "seriously seeking closure that will bring the public service back to normality" and so had caved in to the union demand for minimum service agreements.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=vn200706...

Tough talk. Sounds like Bloomberg talking to the striking subway workers. I think he called them "selfish thugs." Something like that.

h/t Written Rebellion

Tough talk. Sounds like Bloomberg talking to the striking subway workers. I think he called them "selfish thugs." Something like that.

Is the public behind Bloomberg's tough talk? Is the Youngstown Model still effective?

Time to go to an all night drawing session.

;-)

What a pleasant surprise.. :)

When it comes down to it, besides Kucinich, Bloomberg is no worse than any of the Democrats in the horse race. Though that's not really saying much. Not really setting the bar too high there.

So for the Republicans we've got Guiliani or Reagan II, and for some reason McCain still shows up in the polls, though it's beyond me why anyone takes him seriously anymore. Any of the Democrats are better than those choices. Again, not setting the bar very high at all. (Listening to Guiliani recently, I swear he's the reincarnation of Mussolini. The impeccable fascist. A perfect new world law and order candidate)

And who are the "serious" Democratic candidates; Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and that guy who isn't running, what's his name again...

I've had it with all of them. Out of the four of them, I think Edwards talks the best game, but I'm not convinced it isn't some strategic populist rabble-rousing. So we've got Edwards on one hand, and Bloomberg on the other. When you put it that way, Bloomberg's not looking too shabby.

I never thought I'd see the day when America's favorite colorless billionaire was the best choice for president. Go figure. After Kucinich, of course.

Ok, I'm done with my president rant for now.

:-0

I am WiccanDruid, JFI and I did last anon <>

He showed his true colors on that one. Typical elite disdain for the working class. He had nothing but venom for the dignity of the people who make this city run.

Hard to say if the public was behind it... I got into heated arguments with people over that strike. Of course the media hated the strike. Except for NY1, they were actually alright. But all the papers were vicious.

The best is my Marxist brother. He wasn't happy with the strike, thinks they could've done better, organized more effectively. I think that any organized action needs to be judged in the context of the time and place it takes place in. In NY 2005, that transit strike was as good as it gets. Sad, in a way.

No one striking would be taken seriously in NY, unless it was the cops, maybe. Capitalism has an image to maintain, afterall. NY is one of the jewels in the crown. Anyone else besides the cops striking would be radioactive. To be swept under the rug. No one wants to hear it. You might as well be the 9/11 families, or the firefighters. Just go away, you're making us uncomfortable.

hm... It must be ranting night.

(June 21st, 2007)

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/06/meanwhile.html

The women’s struggle at that factory was a clear proof that the fight for the liberation of women is not a fight to take away the veil or the niqab… Virtually all the women in the Talkha factory were veiled and few were in niqab, but they left their families and slept outside their homes, sharing one roof with their male colleagues, which is a bloody TABOO for women in Egypt, even those upper-class secular feminists in Cairo… It’s not about that bloody piece of cloth (though I support neither of the veil nor the niqab), but I’m not gonna waist my time debating those liberal feminists over that question.. they can go to Farouk Honsi instead and he’ll be all ears… Ya Farouk, you who equated the veil with backwardness, can you see what the veiled women in Mansoura-Espana did? Was that backwardness?

The workers in the Mansoura-España factory would like to send their warmest regards to all the journalists and activists who stood by them… And they ask you to keep an eye on the factory, lest the United Bank betrays the agreement… Now those women can go back to their homes, with their heads up high, they have gone through so much hardship, but they won…

I would vote for Victoria Woodhull ;) ... Cool

.

http://victoria-woodhull.com/platform.htm

"A complete reform in Executive and Departmental conduct, by which the President and the Secretaries of the United States, and the Governors and State officers, shall be forced to recognize that they are the servants of the people, appointed to attend to the business of the people, and not for the purpose of perpetuating their official positions, or of securing the plunder of public trusts for the enrichment of their political adherents and supporters."

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Wouldn't that be sweet to just make her reappear and run now, Wiccan.. :)

There are several measures that can be taken with minimal danger of promoting U.S. foreign policy objectives.The extent to which these steps have not been pursued is itself a clear indication of how much substance lays behind Washington’s fiery rhetoric on Darfur.

To take but the most elementary point of departure, one would expect that if actually concerned with Darfur, the United States and the rest of the West more generally would shower humanitarian funds onto the aid organizations operating in the region. This, of course, is consonant with the wishes of Darfur activist groups, and is the bare minimum that could be expected of the munificent leaders of Western Civilization, renowned as they are throughout commercial media and our intellectual culture as committed to alleviating suffering around the globe. Returning to Planet Earth, one finds the relief agencies in a similar situation to the Darfurian people – teetering on the edge of collapse. Due to insufficient financial support, services to displaced victims such as health care have been restricted, “Feeding centers have had to be closed, food cannot be distributed, staff are being reduced, [and] teachers in camps are no longer being paid.” At one point, the World Food Program was forced to cut its food rations in Sudan by half, due to funding shortages – especially serious since the UN estimates that there are some four million Darfurians “in need of aid to survive.”

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4314

Alex de Waal, a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard and a director of Justice Africa, London, criticizes the framing of the entire debate about Darfur, arguing that: “A political settlement has been completely overlooked or downplayed by the U.S…The whole debate has gone off on a red herring—UN troops.”

Darfurians deserve better than a potentially ill-conceived UN intervention, which may plunge the region into further chaos and serve as a vehicle for U.S. geopolitical interests. Their suffering also merits more than the crocodile tears being shed by Washington, or an activist movement which has done much to bring attention to Darfur but has largely failed to realize that a Western-backed force would not be equivalent to “the armed wing of Amnesty International.”

...Finally, the West cannot be allowed to continue hampering the AU forces in Darfur; these troops require full funding, a broadened mandate, and a proper opportunity to halt the violence in the region – not to be completely sidelined for the “red herring” of UN troops. The fact that these steps have not been taken is sufficient to understand Washington’s true position vis-à-vis Sudan–a reality that should not be lost on Darfur activists.

And if you don't like it, you can go to Farouk Honsi!

hee

Great underbeat pounds with primitive tribal beat. However, the primitive tribal beat just pulses and it makes one Move while working ;)

Night, my darlings.

Later...

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Venezuelan Unemployment Drops to New Lows

Venezuela’s unemployment rate dropped to a new low in May, to 8.0%, the lowest level in over a decade, reported the country’s National Institute of Statistic yesterday.

This means that out of a total workforce of 12.1 million, 973,375 are without work. This is 2.2% lower than the same time last year, which means that there were 240,572 fewer unemployed than 12 months ago. Since the total employable workforce increased, though, 484,330 found work in that time period.

The largest drop in unemployment was among the young, between the ages of 15 and 24, where there were 108,279 fewer unemployed.

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Goodnight, dada...

dada
Submitted by dada on Sun, 06/24/2007 - 1:10am.

Goodnite :)

I found a picture you might like.
A girl on a Horse.Did you see it?
It was on the last thread.

It takes more than protests.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/24/14753/1741

who is to blame for Darfur ... We should be there not Iraq. The killings in Darfur are horrid and beyond mere words. America is that important and toxic bush is showing us Americans as bungling, idiot morons. eck. (LBH but Thx Fred;)

CHENEY: ‘I’M NOT FROM SECOND BRANCH, BUT THIRD REICH’
.

"I've always thought Cheney was way out there — the most Voldemort-like official I've run across. But even in my harshest musings about the vice president, I never imagined that he would declare himself not only above the law, not only above the president, but actually his own dark planet — a separate entity from the White House."

in the deep of night

Oh yeah I did! Sorry I forgot to say so.. it was BEAUTIFUL...thank you. :)

It looked like the ones you have in some of your
open mic's. :)

So many words, no action. ::doh:: ::frustrate::
______
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Evanescence, STING, Hilde Von B., Renaissance, Journey (HaHaHaHaHa) just to prove I listen to something other than Pink (kinda) LOL & LBH

Cheers ... I saw you listed on the side ... are you just passing by or here to "play" & work? Probably "flying" by ;-)

Anon, Good Link (and post)
Submitted by WiccanDruid on Sun, 06/24/2007 - 4:10am.
So many words, no action. ::doh:: ::frustrate::

Your right that was a very good post!

http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/

http://www.thejoyofsoxmovie.com

The Joy of Sox: 'Weird Science' and the Power of Intention

The Joy of Sox documentary film explores the world of subtle energy science through the lens of baseball fandom.

Do fans affect players through the power of their intention?
Is it better to pray for your team or against the opposition?
Is Fenway Park a sacred space?

-
How sweet it was... when the Boston Red Sox finally answered the prayers of their devout fans with their unforgettable 2004 World Series victory. The Sox won with a combination of good pitching, timely hitting, and an intangible X-factor that was equal parts Fenway magic, support from far-flung members of Red Sox Nation, joyful team cohesion and uncanny good luck.

Amazingly, modern science now has data that supports all of these superstitions - that distant prayers have a measurable impact on people, that Fenway Park holds a special invisible energy, and that loving fan support can change how a team plays. This documentary will explore how these invisible forces contributed to that memorable victory.

http://www.thirdpartynews.net

http://thirdpartywatch.com

Great Posts and Pixs ... ;)

turn on your sound...

Our purpose is to examine subtle correlations that reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world. We have learned that when millions of us share intentions and emotions the GCP/EGG network shows correlations. We can interpret this as evidence for participation in a growing global consciousness. It suggests we have the capability and responsibility for conscious evolution. We make the world we live in, and we can create a Planetary Smile.

Are you going to be awake to listen to the show tomorrow?

We've had it. We're putting our comments into an escrow account until you make the necessary repairs.

Lucy and Ricky

Alice! :)

If your still there.I took that link that
Anon posted from the Daily Kos story about
The Pentagon Papers,and made a Open Mic.
That is a Great story.Wanted more people to
have a chance to see it.Yea,I stole it.But,a good motive.. :)

She's talking about Roger Nelson from Princeton in it so it reminded me of the GCP site...

is on Book-tv(c-span2)right now..

a sheltered life.I've never heard,or seen it before.
It's cool..

There's this show on that just ended called Reel Talk..and it's two people who review movies...& the guy just did his last segment about how "Some teachers are refusing to teach about the holocaust because it's so offensive to some people"..I think he called them holocaust denyers, then suggests a bunch of documentaries & some movies based on trues stories (Schindler's List etc..) for them to watch with their family, friends, and students to learn em 'bout some holocaust... Then the female co host agrees with him and says "Yes, some aren't teaching about the crusades either because it offends muslims"...

I find the whole thing odd in the context of the type of show that it's supposed to be....

On YouTube !!

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Too many people in this country are rushing backwards.

Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' to be executed for genocide
8 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (AFP) - An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced "Chemical Ali," one of Saddam Hussein's notorious former henchmen, to death by hanging for genocide over the mass slaughter of Kurds in 1988.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070624/wl_afp/iraqtrialgenocide_0706240943...

Brown to be confirmed as head of Britain's Labour Party - finally
2 hours, 44 minutes ago
MANCHESTER, England (AFP) - Gordon Brown will be confirmed leader of Britain's governing Labour Party on Sunday, the first step in a new political era which starts when he becomes prime minister later this week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070624/wl_afp/britainpoliticslabourbrown_0...

Eight more US troops killed on a bloody day in Iraq
Sat Jun 23, 1:22 PM ET
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Eight more US troops died in Iraq on Saturday, mostly in roadside bombings in Baghdad, as the American military battled suspected Al-Qaeda insurgents in other parts of the country.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070623/wl_afp/iraq_070623171359;_ylt=AkILB...

Started an open mic on Cheney

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/633

sleep well

...for the show a bit later. I might stay up another hour to see if I can make it thru a repeat of Mystery :0 ;)

Cool ;)

RE: "If your still there.I took that link that
Anon posted from the Daily Kos story about
The Pentagon Papers,and made a Open Mic.
That is a Great story.Wanted more people to
have a chance to see it.Yea,I stole it.But,a good motive.. :)"

Rest Well ...

Pleasant Dreams. ;)

Did I just see you? Cool. ;)

Women want to be priests...I think this is a healthy sign. This is how religions change (for the better)...

Since 2002 about 40 Catholic women have been ordained as priests in defiance of Vatican law. While a small number of renegade female priests may seem like more of an irritant to the Vatican than a threat, their numbers are growing. More than 120 women, many with long ties to the church as nuns, college professors, chaplains and lay leaders, are currently in training for ordination. Eleven North American women are expected to be ordained by the end of the summer.

whole story here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/magazine/24wwln-essay-t.html?ref=magaz...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qjnjw3YIp8

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

What did that loud bitch do now?

Really.

When I hear her name my earholes fuse.

Someone enlighten me.

I was thinking we'd be on th alternate blog for the show.

Nancy has a suit against her for the woman that commited suicide because Grace pounded on her so hard about killing her child. I guess it wasn't proven that this woman killed her own child.

A New Cheney-Gonzales Mystery

Newsweek
July 2-9, 2007 issue - A new battle has erupted over Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to submit to an executive order requiring a government review of his handling of classified documents. But the dispute could also raise questions for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. For the past four years, Cheney's office has failed to comply with an executive order requiring all federal offices—including those in the White House—to annually report to the National Archives on how they safeguard classified documents. Cheney's hard-line chief of staff, David Addington, has made the novel argument that the veep doesn't have to comply on the ground that, because the vice president also serves as president of the Senate, his office is not really part of the executive branch.

Cheney's position so frustrated J. William Leonard, the chief of the Archives' Information Security Oversight Office, which enforces the order, that he complained in January to Gonzales. In a letter, Leonard wrote that Cheney's position was inconsistent with the "plain text reading" of the executive order and asked the attorney general for an official ruling. But Gonzales never responded, thereby permitting Cheney to continue blocking Leonard from conducting even a routine inspection of how the veep's office was handling classified documents, according to correspondence released by House Government Reform Committee chair Rep. Henry Waxman.

Why didn't Gonzales act on Leonard's request? His aides assured reporters that Leonard's letter has been "under review" for the past five months—by Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). But on June 4, an OLC lawyer denied a Freedom of Information Act request about the Cheney dispute asserting that OLC had "no documents" on the matter, according to a copy of the letter obtained by NEWSWEEK. Steve Aftergood, the Federation of American Scientists researcher who filed the request, said he found the denial letter "puzzling and inexplicable"—especially since Leonard had copied OLC chief Steve Bradbury on his original letter to Gonzales. The FOIA response has piqued the interest of congressional investigators, who note Bradbury is the same official in charge of vetting all document requests from Congress about the U.S. attorneys flap. Asked about the apparent discrepancy, Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the OLC response "was and remains accurate" because Leonard's letter had generated no "substantive work product."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19391241/site/newsweek/

Russert: ISG Commissioners Say Giuliani’s Excuse For Leaving Is Untrue »
Earlier this week, Newsday reported that former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani quit the Iraq Study Group after co-chairman James Baker offered “him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit.” Giuliani had failed to show up for a single meeting during the two months he was a member of the commission.

In response to the story, Giuliani said he left the group because he “didn’t want the group’s work to become a political football” for his nascent presidential campaign, a claim that has been thoroughly debunked.

On Meet The Press this morning, host Tim Russert offered more evidence that politics was not an issue in Giuliani’s decision to leave the ISG. “Several commission members have said to me that presidential politics never entered the discussion,” said Russert. “It was all about Giuliani’s schedule and commitments versus showing up for the Iraq Study Group.” Watch it:

As PBS’s Gwen Ifil pointed out, the important work of the Iraq Study Group should have come before any political considerations. “Even if it were his presidential ambitions,” said Ifill. “Is that really a good answer that you were so political that you rather focus on politics than focus on the nation’s security?”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/24/giuliani-isg-russert/

Gonzales apparently not probing Cheney exemption. After Vice President Cheney’s office refused to follow a presidential order on classification procedures, National Archives official J. William Leonard asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to have the Office of Legal Counsel help solve the impasse. Justice Dept. officials said last week that the matter has been “under review” for five months. But it appears that’s not the case:

[O]n June 4, an OLC lawyer denied a Freedom of Information Act request about the Cheney dispute asserting that OLC had “no documents” on the matter… Steve Aftergood, the Federation of American Scientists researcher who filed the request, said he found the denial letter “puzzling and inexplicable” — especially since Leonard had copied OLC chief Steve Bradbury on his original letter to Gonzales. The FOIA response has piqued the interest of congressional investigators, who note Bradbury is the same official in charge of vetting all document requests from Congress about the U.S. attorneys flap. Asked about the apparent discrepancy, Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the OLC response “was and remains accurate” because Leonard’s letter had generated no “substantive work product.”

House oversight chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) now says he will investigate Gonzales’ handling of the issue.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/24/gonzales-apparently-not-probing-chen...

The blog is back! :)

Illuminated with wit and wisdom by Mark Steyn: can't quite discern which is which

clicked the consv book club

luv the reviewer

I did hear that...

I guess it didn't stick because i thought she should have been smacked down for that sooner than this. Glenn Beck should go, too.

It's Charlie!~

Women as priets ... it would be about time. But (Mwah HaHa), they would only be copy=cats of many ole faiths.

now says he will investigate Gonzales’ NON-handling of the issue.

Gonzo lays down like a good dog.

just tried to post anon about how I like the reviewer on the consv book club google add link (always new books -- )

no anon posts?