Rockridge Institute: Credit Cards for Everyone, but a Voter ID for Thee.
[On topic, anyone else noticed Christmas retail displays are up? I mean, it is September 25. Only three more months until Christmas.]
CFAP Report: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel The Rise Of Islamophobia In America
Trumka on The Senate Passing Health Care Reform: They Can Do It, They Just Choose Not To Do It
'Christian Warrior' Charged with Firebombing Oregon Mosque
Scummy Moment of the Week: Dick Morris' untold tale of how Clinton was blackmailed by Janet Reno over Waco
Foxheads dismiss 'Patriot' group's threats to governors as harmless hyperbole |
Church Member Defends NC Pastor: LGBT People 'Worthy of Death' |
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Colin Powell Takes Hannity to Task for His Obsession with Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright |
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John Fugelsang: Only in America Can You Be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-Torture... and Still Call Yourself Pro-Life |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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CNN Host Probes Tony Perkins: 'Why Do Homosexuals Bother You So Much?' |
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Bill Maher Knocks Liberty University: It Cheapens My Degree From a Real School |
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Compassionate Conservatism: Romney Meets Medical Marijuana Patient |
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Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
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Krugman: Romney's Business Career is Fair Game |
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Steve Rattner Says Romney Was Not A Job Creator |
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President Obama Asks to See Betty White's Long Form Birth Certificate |
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SNL: Limbaugh Announces New Sponsors |
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'Family Guy' Does the Tea Party |
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Crowd at Santorum Rally Horrified When Two Men Kiss |
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Bill Maher Knocks Liberty University: It Cheapens My Degree From a Real School |
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And the newest Gay GOP member is..........
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/september2007/240907_homosexual...
George Bush!
the United States Constitution is the ultimate benchmark of America. as citizens we pledge an oath to abide by and uphold this holy grail of democracy as the founding fathers set it up for us. and as citizens we are obligated to Honor and Protect our Constitution against the tyranny of all oppressors.
at this time in our history we find that our own commander-in-chief, bush, and his entire administration is that TYRANNY and in his own words part of the axis of evil terrorists. we must remove this cancer and the time is now.
IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY
bush plans to stay and you can bet unfortunately he will enter or try to enter iran and start a war. we can only hope that those nuclear missiles that were mishandled this last week, DO NOT end up in iran.
these bastards, bush and cheney must be removed from office now.
we CAN NOT WAIT for the 2008 elections, he will devastate the entire world.
btw, bush wants you to shop early and often, it supports the troops.
Legend has it, Mayer Bauer sold his soul and became Mayer Rothschild.
Legend also has it, Adam Weishaupt, who created a certain secret society in Bavaria on May 1st, 1776 (two mo.'s and three days before the Dec. of independence) found Mayer to be a bit of a greedy douche bag, not in line with Enlightenment principles at all.
The president is an idiot!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/09/bush-speech-has.html
Obama beats Hillary on the Internets.
a guy @ 4:
Granted Bush is an idiot but he's not a president. Presidents are elected by the American people, not selected by 5 rouge conservative activist Supreme Court justices. Whenever i hear of people refer to Bush as "president" it makes my skin crawl. He's an unelected incompetent despot, nothing more.
a guy @ 4:
Curtilingus @ 1:
So, Bush is stupid and gay...and this surprises who?
Folow the $$$ to the top, fellow C&Lers. It's bigger than the neocons, it's bigger than Israel, it's bigger than Alan Greenspan.
You wanna understand how the world works, follow the money all the way to the top of the pyramid.
WHO controls the money?
Christmas displays are up?
Damn it, will this war never end?
I hope everyone is watching "The War" by Ken Burns.
Wow, he done it again, its superb in its scope, which covers the first person very, very well.
For someone who's interested in this era of history its a good addition indeed
Tequila @ 5:
And Edwards slams both in straw polls (source dailykos):
Obama
14% 1353 votes
Edwards
40% 3930 votes
Hillary
7% 725 votes
Richardson
2% 240 votes
Dodd
23% 2233 votes
Kucinich
7% 709 votes
Biden (hint: it's definitely not this one)
2% 217 votes
Gravel
1% 190 votes
9597 votes
but unfortunately Hillary's going to be the nominee so good bye coattails hello up hill climb.
As to Bluegal's observation that Christmas stuff is already out...remember when you actually LIKED the holidays? I know this is another off topic, but is anyone else REALLY annoyed with the soundtrack to Ken Burn's The War....what the frig is that? Some dude playing a saw with a bow, seriously, or that funky instrument that looks like a series of jelly jars. Help me out here. I'm about to chuck something at the tv.
Four reasons not to vote for Hillary: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton. Any questions?
The Pentagon doesn't support the Gulf War troops.
jitter @ 9:
And how will we know when it does? When does it stop being a war and start being something else?
Ruthless People @ 11:
Why has everyone conceded that Hillary is the nominee. We all get one vote in the primaries and I haven't found one DEM that wants Hillary.
gosh strawberry i don't know what a person could do about that--turn off the telly maybe?
the other writer complained about the music -- what music?
it is controllable you all.
"When it comes down to it, it's just a song," Crump said. "Arnold Schwarzenegger is governor of California, but in his movies he killed half of Cambodia and he went to Mars and blew up Mars ... but that's OK because he's a white man and he's an actor."
Jenny'O @ 17:
Jenny aside from that one bloody instrument, the footage is amazing. I'm kinda a WW2 buff and some of this footage I've never seen. It's wonderful, but for that one whaaaaaaawhaaaaaaaaaaawhaaaaaaaaaawhooooooooooooooooo. Why? Just why?
And the newest Gay GOP member is……….
http://www.propagandamatrix.co.....ations.htm
George Bush!
Right on! Thanks for the link and info... geez, I'd love to say who would've guessed?! but this doesn't even surprise me. Yep... those who vehemently decry certain behaviors are those who are doing that very behavior they're so "against." What a bunch of fools and hypocrites!
Wake up, America!!
Strawberry @ 12:
It is more than just displays. I am pretty sure some retailer, Target I think, had an ad on the other night with Christmas music in the background. Nordstroms used to refuse to decorate until the day after Thanksgiving, I think they have now joined the "before Halloween" crowd of merchandisers.
It's Christmas in September, bluegal. "Don't cut and run from the war on Christmas", my friend. :-)
Ruthless People
I haven't talked to anyone who wants Hillary but then I live in a small world. I want Edwards.
Did anyone else notice Rep. Jane Harmon(D)-CA. on Countdown with K.O. tonight discussing FISA. I rewound it 3 times to be sure I heard it right. She said "there is LIKELY to be a DIFFERENT president in 14 months". What does she mean LIKELY ?
my prediction burns the wars going to be a flop!
If that's supposed to be lady justice in that picture, then why isn't she blindfolded?
(Xmas stuff - saw the first Chrimbo item in Walmart on Sept 14th. Saw the first Xmas commercial on TV today.)
News heads:
US polygamist leader found guilty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7013402.stm
Any comments from Mr Romney ?
The First Post article about a play being performed at UCLA. It is about a now disbanded Scottish regiment and their tours in Iraq backing up some U.S Forces. Their different perspective on things confused some serving military who went to see it.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=8803
The aisles would be full of Christmas if it were not for Halloween.
Damn Halloween. It is unamerican.
What makes you think the decider is going to let any of us have an election… especially one where Hillary might win or any Dem for that matter?
While the daily outrage is focused on the Blackwater massacre in Iraq, there is the real potential for Blackwater trouble at home. No doubt Bush and Cheney created their merc army to avoid US law and the uniform code of military justice in their activities overseas.
What concerns me just as much, if not more so, is we keep hearing about Blackwater expanding its headquarters here. I can not imagine a more dangerous situation than to have a mercenary army here in the US... with sworn allegiance only to a pay check.
Bush deployed them after Katrina in NOLA and this was a test no doubt about getting around Posse Commitatus and other laws regarding using Federal troops for law enforcement duties. Call me a tin foil hat if you will, but the possibilities for a coup in this country just went up astronomically.
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/598-blackwater-facing-growing-protest-over...
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51429/
I am getting the word out on YouTube with this video: Tell Your Senators NOW To Oppose Kyl-Lieberman Amendment!
Vote it 5 stars, favorite it and pass it on to others. this advertises this to people to tell the Senators.
In 2000 I worked in a grocery store and the Xmas stuff was cramming up the stock room from about mid-October on. As soon as Halloween was over, all that crap came out. One could at least walk in the halls in the back of the store. And of course that was seven years ago, unfortunately, Mr. My-Demand-In-Response-to-September-11-Is-You-Go-Shopping has facilitated such a financial orgy.
Each year the Christmas displays arrive earlier then the preceeding year - and each year I'm inclined to spend less and less. I actually believe that the Christmas 'gifting' will disappear in some segments of our society.
For those C+L'ers that missed it. Kiran Chetry of CNN talks to Roland Martin(not the Bass fisherman) about Bill O'Reillly's ignorance.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2007/09/25/chetry.martin.oreil...
On the Gulf War Syndrome. This panel's chairman, James Binns, said 16 years after the war, 175,000 U.S. veterans -- one in four of those who served -- remain seriously ill, with the sickest among them developing neurodegenerative diseases and brain cancer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/us_nm/gulfwar_illness_usa_dc
The TURDS are still at it.
Overseas military voters had less than half of their votes counted in last year’s congressional elections, according to data released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Monday.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=49006
On the Christmas on Martin Luther King day, here's a little classic Sam Seder -
http://video.google.com/url?docid=-8484175037673641959&esrc=sr1&ev=v&len...
Webbster @ 27:
(I'm assuming your comment is esoteric humor regarding the recent Petraus NYT's ad, so i will have fun and play devil's advocate)
why would he [Romney] feel the need to, talk about a mis-leading headline.
this had nothing to do with Warren Jeffs being; "from the US", "a polygamist", or "a [self proclaimed] leader".
from article:
"He [Warren Jeffs] went into hiding after being charged in Arizona with being an accomplice to incest and sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages between minors and older men.
After deliberating for 16 hours, the jury in St George found Mr Jeffs had orchestrated the marriage of the girl to her 19-year-old cousin and encouraged her to have sex by telling her she would go to hell if she did not."
George W Bush- Draft Dodger
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gyFdZqWDn3c
Curtilingus @ 1:
Larry E. King would be proud of Georgie Boy.
This is really it in a nutshell. We do not take these people seriously. These are bad people folks. Evil and as unAmerican as they come. And it isn't hyperbole to say so. In the end we will have no one to blame but ourselves. We know what they are and yet we let them persist.
Oh well....keep up all this fantastic "blogging" folks. That'll teach'em!
What happened to Thanksgiving?? Damn Turkeys! They finally unionized.
Quote me on this my friends:
There are only TWO things We the People must do to save our fat asses...
1. Unite, stop all us/them behavior and agendas and unite...impeach the bastards and make them pay the consequences for their madness...then we can go back to our agendas.
2. Get Ron and Dennis into the White House.
If we don't get the job done we are dead.
Phonetic guide for Bush's U.N. speech accidentally posted online
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bush_phonetics
sheeple @ 38:
We all know that they are evil and bad. But, there is not really much anyone can do short of taking up arms against them. That certainly would be a foolish act, since they have bigger weapons. I'm sure most people wish they would just go away. I know I do.
My suggestion would be to volunteer for a Progressive, or Liberal, or Democratic cause and donate time or money... they need both. That way you can make a difference where it counts.
As far as us "blogging: folks, we also serve a purpose. To get the Truth out. Thanks.
Blog-pimping alert (pardon me):
Fans of the series Pink Floyd Political Science University (featured in past Blog Roundups) will be happy to know there's a new installment here (part V), or you can see the entire series of posts here.
Just made a video list of generals who have spoken out against the war. http://unrealitycheck.com/articles/move_on_betray_us_generals_iraq/gener...
Rasputin@29 and Sheeple @38 - that's it in a nutshell. They are gearing up for a full-blown police state, and it isn't just to give themselves something to do. They hope to demonstrate to the rest of the world's leaders how easy it is by doing it in the country best known for having a standing tradition of freedom. But it WILL spread quickly to other countries.
Remember, the driving forces behind this are fascist - ie multinational corporate - entities, with no allegiance to any person, country or principle but naked unlimited greed. They will stop at nothing.
I think someone should maybe, I don't know - do something.
NPR refuses interview with Bush: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR200709...
The Bush administration would only do the interview with Juan Williams (who also works for Fox news.) NPR passed on it.
OT,
All the people here that attacked the decision of Lt. Watada and others to dissent, just remember that if the government ever turns those troops on you, you may regret telling them that it is not ok to refuse orders. I know this seems to come out of nowhere, but I have been upset ever since that story was posted here so long ago and about 50%, if not more, of the commenters attacked him saying it was not up to him to choose which orders to follow and which to refuse. If that stuck with me, I am sure it stuck with other military people who were paying attention to the liberal response.
Screw Christmas and the obligatory bank-account-clearing gift giving. I'm coverting to Judaism and THEN
I'm even going to be real lazy and lapse about THAT. Except for calling out REAL anti semites like the Christian Right
who claim to love Israel but really just want to encourage it's right wing politicians to be as warlike and unthinking as Bush so the Rapture loving Christ-Jackers can see Israel destroyed as part of Armageddon and the second coming.
With "Christian" friends like that I'd rather take my usual head butt through dry wall , thank you very much.
Hey, it's 2am. I'm allowed to be silly.
Bake a whole bunch of cookies as gifts and f$%k the retailers. Tell people why on the gift tag. (bluegal alerted us early.)
beth @ 40:
At a speech during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Sydney earlier this month, Bush seemed to confuse the organization with OPEC and spoke of Austrian troops in Iraq when he meant to say Australian.
I guess they gave up on that little box deal he had under his suit.
beth @ 40:
hih-LAR-ee-us.
Why Does Norman Podhoretz Hate America?
http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=11670
Right on! @ 20:
You'd be surprised how many straight guys belts "get loose" after a few beers. I know from experience.
Guess what everybody?
U.S. Soldiers Create Military Base on Iraq-Iran Border
oops, forgot link
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3649942
MooG @ 51:
Because he is an evil neocon?
Ruthless People @ 6:
Actually American presidents are elected not elected by the American people but through a proxy via the electoral college.
Michel Chossudovsky at Global Research.CA is reporting that the pieces are all in place , for the ATTACK on Iran . The Demonization of Iran and it's Pres. is complete , the US puts a small outpost on the border of Iran/Iraq . WHY?
With help from Blitzer & CNN , all of a sudden the United States is outraged about GAYS in Iran , the constant drum beat over and over and over, totally ignoring his comments about SECRET PRISONS , ( he was correct ), about Renditions, or kidnapping world wide( correctamundo again), secret trials, occupations and the killing of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, for OIL .
Learn their lesson , HA. The U.S. media is as complicit as U.S. foreign policy , that goes around the world MURDERING for PROFIT . Now that Blitzer , NBC, ABC, CBS , have repeated the LIE, that he threaten " to wipe Israel off the map"translation provided by a Mossad controlled translation propaganda machine .
Google professor JUAN COLE , who translated his speeches CORRECTLY and HONESTLY at his BLOG , it gives a totally different picture .
I can not believe this VAMPIRE in the whitehouse , this ghoul , is about to murder thousands, and thousands and thousands of IRANIANS . DAMN.
Don your brown-shirts, folks.
The new millenium is upon us.
Personally, I'm about ready to move to Canada or Europe.
I don't know where they find their polls but I have yet to find anyone who is voting for Hillary.
Maybe our votes really don't matter.
Edwards.
Oh, and I have pretty much eliminated my presence from the shopping centers. Or eliminated them from my consciousness.
I suffer from Mall-aise.
Racist O'Reilly has already sent his minions to spam this poll and its comments.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/group-slams-oreillys-race-comments/20070925...
I think it could use some fair balance.
Well the Xmas puddings have been in the supermarkets here since August! I haven't seen any Xmas crackers yet but I'm sure they're out there.
navyswan @ 55:
Exactly, Navy Swan. Here's a little more reading about our Neo-Con monsters and undue Straussian influence.
America's Coming Dictatorship
The theory and practice of oligarchical "conservatism"
"Odd as this may sound, we live in a world increasingly shaped by Leo Strauss, a controversial philosopher who died in 1973. Although generally unknown to the wider population, Strauss has been one of the two or three most important intellectual influences on the conservative worldview now ascendant in George W. Bush's Washington. Eager to get the lowdown on White House thinking, editors at the New York Times and Le Monde have had journalists pore over Strauss's work and trace his disciples' affiliations. The New Yorker has even found a contingent of Straussians doing intelligence work for the Pentagon."
This sudden interest was due to the unusual number of Straussians who had found their way into close proximity to the centers of power in Washington – an extraordinary number of Strauss's students (or students of his leading followers) were employed in and around the Bush administration, particularly at key points in the national security bureaucracy, as William Pfaff pointed out, including then- "Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Abram Shulsky of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, Richard Perle of the Pentagon advisory board, Elliott Abrams of the National Security Council, and the writers Robert Kagan and William Kristol." READ ON:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10911
Not only has George Bush thrown in his prediction that Hillary will get the Dem nomination, he is quietly advising her behind the scenes...
http://www.examiner.com/a-953145~Bush_quietly_advising_Hillary_Clinton__...
Oh...forgot to add that Bush is probably just advising her to start her Christmas shopping early...
"You either shop early or you're with the Terra-ists"
Bush the Liar @ 59:
Sure your votes matter. When you end up voting for her. She doesn't need the left-wing blogging crowd for the nomination, but she knows you'll have no other choice in the end. So now she courts the middle and pretends she's on your side.
The Center Holds
By DAVID BROOKS
The "Christmas" season will truly be upon us when the evangelicals start firing off lawsuits to honor the birth of Jesus Christ.
odanny @ 10:
I haven't had time to watch it, but my parents' reaction was rather amusing. Keeping in mind that my dad fought in WWII, so it's rather relevant to them.
Review was "It's got some really great footage in it, but we can't stay awake." Which is sort of what I've come to expect from Ken Burns--interesting material presented in a monotone with lullaby-like music. It sorta worked in The Civil War, but everything since then has seemed about four times longer than it should have, and five or six times more boring. That could well just be me, though.
On the Christmas in September thing, at least where I am they haven't yet rolled out the Christmas displays. Of course, the Halloween stuff was up in force two or three weeks ago. Seriously--who the HELL is buying Halloween candy a month and a half before Halloween? Are there people sitting around in September thinking "Man, I'd better go get me some paper skeletons and fake cobwebs before they sell out."? If so, what is wrong with them?
To be honest, every time I walk into a store and see "seasonal" stuff on display a good two months before the season in question, I develop a desire to burn the store down, and since that would get me arrested, at least to not buy anything there.
I dislike shopping at big box stores enough as it is. I suppose statistics are on their side, but it sure as heck makes me less likely to buy anything there.
(Actually, I do all my "seasonal" goods shopping AFTER the holiday--why pay full price for, say, egg coloring kits when you can get them at 80% off and just drop them in the closet for a year?)
F... christmas. F... christmas shopping rallies.
Anyone interested in the fate of Burmese monks and civilian protesters?
Military presence at Mandalay protests
Sep 26, 2007 (DVB)�About 30,000 people have been protesting today in Mandalay, despite the visible military presence in the city.
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"The soldiers were fully armed and stood blocking the road, but the monks went a different way to avoid direct confrontation," said the bystander.
Soldiers were also deployed in front of several monasteries to prevent monks from joining the protests.
read on:
http://www.dvb.no/english/news.php?id=471
Yeah, I noticed... what stuff and nonsense.
Police crack down on ongoing demonstrations
Sep 26, 2007 (DVB)�As demonstrations continue today in Rangoon, police have responded with crackdowns across the city, reportedly leaving some monks injured.
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"The police were armed with shields and batons and they shouted profanities at the monks while beating them up. I saw about 5 to 10 young novices with their heads bleeding," said an eyewitness, who claimed that some officers at the back of the group were armed with automatic rifles.
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On Bahan (3) road, near Shwedagon pagoda, police armed with bamboo sticks were seen beating monks, nuns and civilians as they tried to flee.
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Despite the crackdowns, protestors are continuing to demonstrate, with groups of protestors from different places coming together to march towards Sule pagoda.
read on:
http://www.dvb.no/english/news.php?id=470
Reportedly at least 3 monks were killed:
http://www.dvb.no/english/photo1.php
Burma cyber-dissidents crack censorship
By Stephanie Holmes
BBC News
Burma's bloggers are using the internet to beat censorship, and tell the world what is happening under the military junta's veil of secrecy.
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The use of the internet as a political tool is one of the most marked differences between the latest protests and the 1988 uprising, which was brutally repressed.
Thanks in part to bloggers, this time the outside world is acutely aware of what is happening on the streets of Rangoon, Mandalay and Pakokku and is hungry for more information.
Burmese-born blogger Ko Htike, based in London, has transformed his once-literary blog into a virtual news agency and watched page views rise almost tenfold.
He publishes pictures, video and information sent to him by a network of underground contacts within the country.
"I have about 10 people inside, in different locations. They send me their material from internet cafes, via free hosting pages or sometimes by e-mail," he told the BBC News website.
"All my people are among the Buddhists, they are walking along with the march and as soon as they get any images or news they pop into internet cafes and send it to me," he said.
Ko Htike is one of a number of Burmese online activists, almost all based beyond the country's borders.
Reporters without Borders describe how a guide for cyber-dissidents provided to young Burmese was seized upon, copied and feverishly disseminated among a growing group of the young, politically active and computer-literate.
Bloggers are teaching others to use foreign-hosted proxy sites - such as your.freedom.net and glite.sayni.net - to view blocked sites and tip-toe virtually unseen through cyberspace, swapping tricks and links on their pages.
(article continues)
read on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7012984.stm
yank in london @ 62:
Yeah, I remember one year a lot of places started putting up Xmas shit in August. I think that's when I was living in Ohio.
Daily Reading pt 1...
The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming - http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html
Top 100 Effects in a few different categories, some of which seem apparent already today.
Massive Refugee problems, massive scale hot weather disease epidemics, fishing/seafood industry gone, wine industry destroyed, etc...and that's the simple stuff...
"It will be refreshing, I think, to have a president who will actually utter the words 'global warming."' - Hillary Clinton
GOP Senator Says Bush Should Put Children's Health Bill Before Policy Goal, "He's holding it hostage to his policy goals" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/24/AR200709...
JFK Quotes You Probably Haven't Heard - http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/09/jfk-quotes-you-probably-havent...
"Harry Truman once said there are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of other people, the hundred and fifty or sixty million, is the responsibility of the President of the United States. And I propose to fulfill it. "
Stop Lieberman (R-CT) From SNEAKING An Iran War Declaration Through The Senate - http://www.usalone.com/no_iran_war_declaration.php
In case you thought it was just an aberrant moment of lunacy last week when Lieberman pressed General Petraeus for an attack on Iran, just before the weekend he introduced an amendment to the defense bill to authorize exactly that.
CT Voters...you poor, poor....no...stupid, stupid bastards....
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, It's the Oil, Stupid - http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174841
How the Bush Administration's Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry: Greenspan's Oil Claim in Context
"It involved the sale of all Iraqi oil fields to private companies with a view to increasing output well above the quota set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for Iraq in order to weaken, and then destroy, OPEC."
"The Bush administration's failure to achieve its short-term objectives does not detract from the overarching fact -- established by the copious evidence marshaled in this article -- that gaining privileged access to Iraqi oil for American companies was a primary objective of the Pentagon's invasion of Iraq."
U.S. Military fatalities hits 3,800 - http://icasualties.org/oif/
Must See! Jon Stewart Skewers the NRA and Looneytoon Mike Huckabee - http://rackjite.com/archives/640-Jon-Stewart-Does-the-NRA-and-Looneytoon...
The New Giuliani: I am the NRA - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_el_pr/giuliani_bloomberg_guns;...
Daily Reading pt 2...
Restoring Great Lakes Will Create $50 Billion Economic Gain, Report Finds - http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=189400055
Republicans = bomb Iran, Democratics = clean water & health Tough decision in '08....whew..boy..tough decision
Bushevik State Department Won't Allow Blackwater to Testify Before Congress About Its Contract in Iraq! Talk About Aiding and Abetting Murderers. - http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=792
Greg Palast: Dan Rather -- Tased and confused - http://www.gregpalast.com/dan-rather-tased-and-confused/
The Still-Unreported Story of “Top Gun” George Bush (documents & source that 100% confirmed his AWOL)
Solar power is hot: Sun-powered homes defy a cool housing market - http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-solar25sep25,0,1478542.story
The German government has decided to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2020. And Germany is also the world leader in wind power.
It can be done...we just need the leaders with the balls to tell OLD ENERGY (Oil/Coal), to expand into alternatives or die off...like their product
Contrary to popular expectations, however, the solar panels work fine on drizzly days, he said, although they are able to generate only a quarter to half the usual output of electricity. "We are still producing at the moment, even when we have overcast or rainy conditions," - Hans-Joerg Koch manages the Espenhain plant and its 33,500 solar panels.
Stopblackwater.net - http://box165.bluehost.com/suspended.page/
Gee....look what happened to that website....hmmm....looks like the Pentagon's outsourced asian hacker task force is doing some moonlighting....
Romney's Campaign Tainted by the Blackwater Affair - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_po/romney_blackwater;_ylt=AmW77qq...
A giant, universe size middle finger to all corporatists, free marketists, right wingnuttery greed apologists:
Consumers face record winter heating costs: the average family paying $1,834 for the season, up 28 percent - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/us_nm/energy_usa_heating_dc;_ylt=AsE...
Meanwhile the rest of the world that doesn't allow common sense to get in the way of new profit (ie, booming alternative energy industry) are going to be just fine...
"Consolidation, Mergers, Monopolies are great for the consumer...it will lower prices...cut through 'red tape'" - all moron corporatists, 'free marketists', etc
When was the last time your bills were lower??? When you don't have a choice, how is that better for prices, ie consumers??? It takes an act of congress for them to lower their prices - reality
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"No monopolies in commerce" - Thomas Jefferson
Wake Me At Armageddon
http://www.takimag.com/site/article/wake_me_at_armageddon/
Great Christmas picture!:
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/603/300_santafo8.jpg
It's gonna be different next time around, really.
PRESIDENTIAL CONNECTION
How Bill Clinton's Aide Facilitated a Messy Deal
By JOHN R. EMSHWILLER and GABRIEL KAHN
September 26, 2007
Wall Street Journal
Page 1
@ # 75, right wing hater
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The German government has decided to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2020. And Germany is also the world leader in wind power.
It can be done…we just need the leaders with the balls to tell OLD ENERGY (Oil/Coal), to expand into alternatives or die off…like their product.
May I correct you?
The former German government under Social Democratic chancellor Gerhard Schröder has decided to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2020.
The new so called "big coalition" under now Christian Democratic chancellor Angela Merkel is likely to kill this legislation and to submit to the nuclear power lobby´s pressure to keep the nuclear power plants running although some of them are literally crumbling and causing a chain of serious security risks lately.
So there´s in fact no reason to be as euphorically as you appear.
Posner is still a crackpot, even if his crackpot ideas are shared by numerous other conservatives. The only way the Republicans/conservatives can "win" any election these days is by stealing them, using all available means. They may achieve power for a while, but they are vastly outnumbered. And they are, if they had the eyes to see it, vastly outnumbered by people who are smarter than they fancy themselves to be. It isn't just a matter of being outnumbered by the "great unwashed masses".
In their hubris and self-righteous lust for control, they forget something important: It always happens that whenever self-appointed elite-types begin to get what they want, whenever things start turning out just the way they want it, it makes life so bad and intolerable for everybody else, that the pendulum tends to swing the other way. Mostly in an extreme swing. They cannot stop that from happening, because they are ever unable to place limits on their own desires. And, history repeats itself. How many aristocratic heads got lopped off in the French Revolution? The Romanian despot Ceacescue and wife were indignantly berating the firing squad that executed them for having no authority to judge them - right up to the point where the triggers were pulled. A murderous demagogue like Pol Pot arises, and before self-destructing, murders all the "elites", intellectuals and so-on in an act of insane cannibalism that nobody seems able to stop. Or, the world arises against a self-appointed elite like Hitler, who can be stopped by no other means. The seeds of their own destruction are inherent in their basis premises and in the things that they value. As bright as they deem themselves to be, they never figure it out.
Posner and his ilk are fools, completely so, because all he and otherslike him have done is use their own native intelligence to bullshit themselves. And the only thing that has done is make them stupid and blind.
@ # 80, Paul
"Posner and his ilk are fools, completely so, because all he and otherslike him have done is use their own native intelligence to bullshit themselves. And the only thing that has done is make them stupid and blind."
Think again! May I link you to this Arthur Silber essay? Arthur nails it and will provide you with a deeper insight.
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In brief: the major actors in the Bush administration are achieving exactly what they want. They may well be about to launch the start of World War III, which will further enrich their corporate friends by many additional billions of dollars. As the favored few continue to amass vast wealth, the government continues to consolidate political power to an extent that makes a future dictatorship fully realizable. They are well on the road to the achievement of wealth and power on a scale rarely if ever equalled in the history of civilization.
To describe such an achievement as the result of "Monumental Stupidity" is, well, stupid. The problem is one of analysis and method, and it is very widespread. Most major commentators (and almost all bloggers) fall into the same error. The aims I have noted -- the amassing of wealth and power, and the drive to regional (and worldwide) hegemony -- are nothing remotely akin to a conspiracy, unless you view aims stated openly and repeatedly, and pursued over a period of decades in front of the entire world, as a "conspiracy."
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It would hardly do for our national leaders to announce the truth:
We have military power of a kind that allows us to do whatever we want, anywhere in the world. We intend to establish worldwide hegemony, baby. And while we're doing that, we and some of our best friends are going to get filthy, stinking rich. Guess what: most of the governing class is in on the scheme -- and there isn't a damned thing you can do about it.
No, that wouldn't do at all. So our leaders talk of "national interests," which can mean anything imaginable that serves the needs of the moment, and of spreading "democracy." To credit such claims requires as astounding degree of ignorance.
(essay continues)
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/
frankly im dissapointed in ken burns series the war , its not historicaly correct, he leaves out to much that happened , such as after pearl harbor the marine raiders under carlson raided makin island ,a japanese island used as a listening post by japan, then before guadal canal was invaded the us navy fought the battle of the coral sea, where we fought a sea battle that was basicaly a small defeat for the us , we lost a carrier and a few tin cans , while the japs lost one converted carrier of no importence while our carrier the lexington was a firstline carrier, allso the yorktown was nearly sunk, thenyou have the doolittle raid on japan by b 24s flown from a carrier that did little dammage and was only used as a morale booster for the folks at home , and the invashion of guadal canal was bastardised by not showing that the attack was a two pronged attack where thier were two objectives the first was the ajoining small island of tulagi and the second more importent island was guadalcanal, the marines at first met little resistence takeing the canal but tulagi was garrisoned by japanese marines and the battles were fierce with many marines killed, these things being left out shows burns knows jack shit about ww2
dennis @ 66:
hi dennis, as much as i hate to have to agree with you on this your right, they are going to force hillery clinton down our throuts , shes nothing but a republican in democratic clothing, an old goldwater repig who was brain washed back then and stills brainwashed, if hillerys elected we can expect no relief from the policys bush had installed , thier will only be a woman bush in office, thats if they even have an election, im voteing for kucinich if you want more busholini vote clinton , that way you can spend 4 more yrs on here crying the dems are fachist bastards!
How Bush Still Matters
If the Burmese monks can take such a brave and huge stand while being shot and attacked in the name of what is right, why in THE HELL CAN'T WE?
WTF? @ 85:
to busy watching american idol , danceing with the stars, need more jay leno!
Check out Dana Milbank's take on the SCHIP bill in the on line WAPO. I dislike the dragging out of children, old folks, soldiers, etc. for public relations stunts too, but what an asshole Milbank is.
@ tyree, # 82
Try to be a little patient here, tyree.
There will be seven episodes and one of them (I don´t know which one actually) is about the Carslon´s Raiders.
Go to the "The War" website, you´ll find a video clip about the Carlson´s Raiders there among a whole lot of other clips and background information.
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5375.htm
Tyree as usual, you are correct. I think we all need a little more of the sobbing Britney guy screaming into our tv screens since now he has a new reality show.
World War III, here we come!
Israel seeks exemption from atomic rules
VIENNA, Austria - Israel is looking to a U.S.-India nuclear deal to expand its own ties to suppliers, quietly lobbying for an exemption to non-proliferation rules so it can legally import atomic material, according to documents made available Tuesday to The Associated Press.
The move is sure to raise concerns among Arab nations already considering their neighbor the region's atomic arms threat. Israel has never publicly acknowledged having nuclear weapons but is generally considered to possess them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_israel%3B_ylt...
the 4th Reich is rising @ 88:
this is basically about carlsons raiders on guadalcanal , what i was refering to was the raid on makin island , a small island the japs had that was used as a radio listening station and it had nothing to do with the canal, it was done by useing two large submarines as troop ships , the raiders were sent ashore in rubber rafts and attacked the station destroying it , then they evacuated by rafts back to the subs , some were killed dureing the fighting and thier were some marines left behind after the evacuation, that were captured when the japs regarrisoned makin, they were tortured and beheaded, so its apples and oranges makin was not mentioned, allso carlson was a brilliant leader and he learned his gurellia skills from being with mao the chinese communist leader , and later he was shit canned by the marines after jelouse marine officers denounced him as being a communist!
hi dennis, as much as i hate to have to agree with you on this your right, they are going to force hillery clinton down our throuts , shes nothing but a republican in democratic clothing, an old goldwater repig who was brain washed back then and stills brainwashed, if hillerys elected we can expect no relief from the policys bush had installed , thier will only be a woman bush in office, thats if they even have an election, im voteing for kucinich if you want more busholini vote clinton , that way you can spend 4 more yrs on here crying the dems are fachist bastards!
Hey Ty. Thanks. Guess that's two things we agree on here today. The War series is not as good as I hoped, though I am enjoying it. My dad fought in Okinawa and never spoke much about it to me. Ken Burns is showing a different perspective that I can appreciate.
dennis @ 92:
dennis why burns picked thoes four citys to consintrate on ill never know , evansville indiana was i believe 8th on hitlers hit list, we were building many L.S.TS the second largest buildr of lsts in america ,i know because i lived acrossed the street from the shipyard, we built hundreads of thunderbolt p47s , we built tanks ,machine guns , parachutes bullets ,the wings for the corsair fighter , L/S/IS, smaller landing craft, god this city hummed with defence plant workers from every where , every room that wasnt being used by a family was rented to workers , every store had appartments above them in the westside and downtown was full of familys of defence workers, you couldnt walk down main street it was so crowded , now its like a ghost town, jesus they were exciteing days!
yenehC hcaepmI @ 64:
If true, why is she taking advice from HIM???!!!
I'm baking a batch of neocon christmas cookies to celebrate the birth of Jebus but I refuse to bake them until next month.
Dr. Acula @ 94:
i told you sees a repig!
shes
Ho...ho...ho...Holloween!
pookers @ 28:
We must eliminate that godless holiday. Christmas is a peaceloving holiday. It respects the rights of other holidays. Halloween hate's Christmas' freedoms. We have to wipe out Halloween here, so we don't have to wipe it out there.
Curtilingus @ 1:
So I may be correct in thinking that Gannon was his buttboy?
Yeah, let's buy more useless junk. Every Christmas, it seems stupider.
A Richard Head @ 41:
Yeah you are probably correct. The founding fathers of this country were idiots. Sooo foolish. I mean -- taking on the most powerful nation and military that the world had ever seen -- what the hell were they thinking?? We would have been so much better off if they had just donated money to liberal causes and hoped/wished/prayed/begged for King George to go away. Jefferson was a crank. I mean after all he did say: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." He obviously didn't know what he was talking about. So foolish! All it would have taken was a little bloggin and money thrown around.
America is a nation of cowards.
bluegal,
You must have missed the craft stores, they have had Xmas stuff since early July.
'childrens do learn'
Add another one to the list...
That African grey parrot that just passed away spoke better English.
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