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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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Annaleigh's picture

For anyone who was interested in the Rosita documentary (which I mentioned twice recently), if you get Link TV, they show it occasionally. There's another showing coming up at 3 AM EST, and there's probably more on the way.


I've never seen change without a fire

fastfeat's picture

Will check it out.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Annaleigh's picture

Here's the link for the documentary's site.


I've never seen change without a fire

fastfeat's picture

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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Annaleigh's picture

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I've never seen change without a fire

Edwin's picture

The Catholic Church makes my head explode. I'm glad Henry VIII tossed 'em out of England (my heritage) so I wasn't forced to go there. Nuff said.


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

Leadership's picture

Why does C&L continue to promote TV, which we know is an open sewer

of thought and opinion manufacturing? The only bit of BSG I have

ever seen was a military guy beating a fat guys ass because they

didn't agree politically.

Shadowgm's picture

BSG has made a number of incisive political comments, including on the nature of terrorism.

Or were you expecting the warm-and-fuzzy, clean, well-lit future of Star Trek: The Next Generation?

liberalNmoderation's picture

BSG, is by far, the best show on tv in years.
You can tune out the BS.

Annaleigh's picture

The cruel cognitive dissonance they have where they state a 9 year old child is not old enough to have an abortion, but is old enough to carry a baby concieved in rape to term regardless of the consequences to her own life, is mind boggling.

I come from a Catholic background being of Mexican descent, but at least my grandparents were more like religious gypsies, and so were both of my parents, so I escaped being raised either Catholic or Protestant... *sigh of relief*


I've never seen change without a fire

AGold's picture

I've never watched a tv series as religiously and rigorously as I did Battlestar Galatica. I was out of things to rent on my Blockbuster mailer, and happened to stumble onto the Battlestar series. I had heard a lot of good things, so I though, well what the hell. I was hooked from the very first miniseries. It remains to this day the most powerful hour of television you can possible watch. Lost can't hold a candle to it.

The final episodes have so far been great, except for that Saul's Baby episode. That was a bit trite. The last episode I found particularly powerful. Will Giaus redeem himself? Is Kara the Harbinger of Death? Are the notes to the song in fact a map to the new home world? Will they all die?

AGold's picture

PS. I wish it were not ending. I really dig this show. It's lost some of it's better 'ripped from the headlines' moments, but has since moved on to something more timeless and surreal. Can't wait to see how it ends!

ron's picture

Last issue tomorrow. You would thinf that Microsoft founders, Bill Gates or Paul Allen would have found a way to keep the oldest news source in Seattle solvent. It looks like we will have to rely on The Washington Post, NOT! Maybe we can go to something a little less biased. Try Consortium News.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/031509.html

too, per News Hour on PBS. Really didn't sound like online solutions were very promising either.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

ron's picture

There's a large part of the population that doesn't have access to the internet.

smchris's picture

22-1/2 years with home access counting the early services like CompuServe. If people want to be Amish, let them. Over half of Americans have what we call broadband in this country and I would like to see some stats on how many people don't have access to even local dial up before I believe it. It's my understanding my childhood town of 2000 in a rural county of North Dakota has a local broadband provider. Hell, with calling cards at a couple cents/minute, a person could suck down 25 minutes of daily news to read _offline_ at the cost of buying a newspaper retail. That's a creative thought, of course, which is an impediment to utilization.

There will always be an underclass. It's my understanding some of the European countries get their 99.9% literacy rates by just not counting the retarded.

Aside from reading it on the toilet (not a small thing I admit), what's so special about paper? I'm convinced we have such a division of opinion in the U.S. because most people watched the mainstream media, saw Colin Powell waving his pencil around while talking about bio-death, and still believe Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Those of us who live on the internet, thanks to sites like C&L and Buzzflash, got directed to sites like the Guardian whose reporters went to the chicken farm Bush called a bioweapons research facility and the weather balloon trailers that Bush called mobile weapons labs and gave us the truth. The mainstream media in the U.S., INCLUDING the papers, simply aped White House _LIES_. They _un_informed you. Let that sink in. Where's the added value? Where's the journalism and investigative reporting? No, the pigs with lipstick that our major papers have become are terminal, it is time to let them die, and it's just as well.

Only half in jest, I say let the metro tabloids like City Pages take over. Their advertising patronage is massage parlors, bars, concerts, and personal ads. They have the freedom to report on local business and political corruption like the embedded metro papers in truth never had.

Shadowgm's picture

Heck, I live just north of San Francisco, and AT&T only provides the lowest tier of their broadband service because there's apparently no demand. And they have no plans to roll out their UVerse package, either. (We don't use Comcrap because my wife works for AT&T.)

Also, you talk about the internet like it's this pure, unsullied paradise. Don't kid yourself. The web team sits in the same newsroom as the television guys. They use the same wire services, the same video feeds, and - in most cases - answer to the same management team as the traditional media you're disparaging.

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Seattle P-I to publish last edition Tuesday

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will roll off the presses for the last time Tuesday.

The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the 146-year old newspaper, Seattle's oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers.

The company, however, said it would maintain seattlepi.com, making it the nation's largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product.
...

More at link.


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fastfeat's picture

OK, can't find any pics online to illustrate, but I was working outside a gated condo complex here in Vegas with a speed limit sign posted at 11 MPH! WTF?

I mean, if you have to look that closely at your speedo to see that you're not breaking that dreaded 15 MPH barrier, you're probably going to hit a lightpole or Uncle Phil and his dog Sparky.

Weird!


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Annaleigh's picture

that no one takes seriously, which is bad 'cause there's just too many little kids and animals playing in the roads... :S


I've never seen change without a fire

ron's picture

there are not any parents playing in the streets having one of their celebrations about who stole the most money. [Deleted-Sitemonitor]

Annaleigh's picture

but this neighborhood I'm talking about is a poor one.

Still I totally get your point, that would take care of a lot of parasites, wouldn't it?


I've never seen change without a fire

Andy K's picture

Only on private roads, though.

It's an attention grabber. Generally it only works the first few times someone drives past it. Then it's back to normal, driving 5-10 miles above the speed limit.

fastfeat's picture

indicating a curve at 27 MPH. But the other oddball ones have been on private roads, shopping centers, etc, agreed.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Edwin's picture

Slip back over there tonight and paint a ZERO after the 11. Then start a rumour that bankers live inside.


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

dadams's picture

it's time to stop the fucking
military war complex of this country
before they completely take over and
put every man, woman and child in a
tent city because they have consumed
the entire financial contribution of
all tax payers. even russia was smart
enough to get out of afganistan because
it was bankrupting their country.

why are our military leaders fucking
dumber than that and appear to have
IQ's the size of turnips. even the
ostriches take their heads out of the
ground. why are we allowing our military
to put all our heads up their asses?

we seem to be making enemies and not
eliminating any.

Shadowgm's picture

... don't see it because they're suffering from the Immunity of Being Right. What happened to Russia couldn't possibly happen to US, right?

The same theory applies to so-called Christians. They get to lie, cheat, and steal, and it's all good, because their God will forgive them.

MountainMan23's picture

Chicago Tribune: Obama using campaign tools to promote agenda

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's millions of campaign supporters are receiving e-mails urging them to call members of Congress. Groups allied with the White House are running ads scorning the president's opponents. States that were closely contested in the 2008 election are again getting visits from Barack Obama.

Obama made adroit use of the tools of campaigning to win the White House. Now he is back in campaign form to push his ambitious agenda through Congress.

Several examples given. For instance:

On Thursday, Obama will even turn up in Jay Leno's studio to appear on " The Tonight Show." Candidates have often used late-night talk shows to highlight their lighter side, but no sitting president has ever appeared on one, according to NBC.

Interesting. Obama should do well in that venue.

But here's the one I like most. On the one hand it's smart politics.

In promoting its agenda, the White House is also using some rougher tactics.

Even as Obama positions himself as a post-partisan leader who wants to cooperate with Republicans, his White House is operating in a more combative fashion, and it has been consulting with allied groups aiming to marginalize the Republican Party leadership.

Asked on Monday about a weekend TV appearance by former Vice President Dick Cheney, Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs said: "Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy, so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal." Part of the new campaign is a coordinated assault on Republican Party leaders, depicting them as a recalcitrant minority determined to block the president's agenda at any cost.

On the other hand the Republicans have been so damn obliging!!

Regarding Obama's decision to appear on the Tonight Show the LA Times says:

Obama to sit down with Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show'

It will also extend Obama's habit of speaking past the Washington press corps and ditching the capital for events that distance him from the Beltway status quo; for those keeping accounts, Obama may be sending a signal by going on the "Tonight Show" and then skipping Saturday night's Gridiron Club dinner.

The evening of music and comedy hosted by an exclusive Washington journalists' organization is a white-tie highlight of the capital's social season. But Obama plans to spend the evening with his family, becoming the first president since Grover Cleveland not to show up for the first Gridiron dinner of his presidency.

Good on him!


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Rise Up!
Protest!

fastfeat's picture

with Wolfboy tonight, pissing and moaning about Gibbs' remarks. Sounds like he's doing something right.

Good for him going on Leno, though I rarely watch his show. Should expose him to a rather large cross-section of people, many of whom may not be current supporters.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

MountainMan23's picture

Quite a turnaround ..

Dems actually putting Republicans in their place.

Asked on Monday about a weekend TV appearance by former Vice President Dick Cheney, Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs said: "Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy, so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal."

awww .. hurt somebody's feelings?


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

fastfeat's picture

about Cheney's appearance on CNN that touched the WS douchebag's nerve.

Gibbs struck me as a little wimpy, but he can turn a phrase.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Ferrofluid's picture

Quite an interesting dissection of Cheney's paranoid thinking skillz.

http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2009/03/mad-n...

ron's picture

the missing nukes. There were 6 nukes that went from Minot to Barksdale, 5 were recovered. Cheney may be up to something so bad, it will turn our world upside down.

gogetem's picture

methinks he already has.


If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?

Edwin's picture

He's already done that, and if he goes nu-ku-lar, he'll wipe out his workforce of zombie slaves.


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

Shadowgm's picture

... the 'helicopter batteries' sold to China: fuses for nuclear weapons.

And an acceptable explanation for either incident has not been given to this date. The Air Force gave a weak, "Oh, the nukes were under positive control at all times."

Bullshit. If you don't know where they are, or that they've left the fucking base, that's not 'positive' anything other than a positive fuckup.

fastfeat's picture

"After all, this is the man who wouldn't let Google Earth display his residence."
_______________

Would probably just appear as a black hole.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

MountainMan23's picture

LA Times: El Salvador's president strikes conciliatory note

Back in the 1990s, when he was a television reporter who relished tweaking the government, Mauricio Funes accepted an invitation from the president to dine at his home and receive an award.

Funes asked if he could tape the ceremony for his mother. The president, Armando Calderon Sol, consented. Then, at the moment of the toast, Funes launched into a scathing rebuke of Calderon and what Funes considered to be government abuse and corruption.

The right-wing guests, senior officials of the ruling Arena party, were floored.

The incident is preserved in a little-seen video (the one Funes supposedly was making for Mom) and it illustrates his reputation as a crusader willing to take on the powers that be.

That reputation helped propel Funes to victory in El Salvador's presidential election Sunday. When he takes office June 1, he will become the first leftist president in a country where, in the past, supporting the left could be fatal. ..

Funes said his win showed that Salvadorans had overcome their fear, stoked by the right, that voting for the left would bring doom.

"In the end," he said, "hope, hope that this time would be different . . . is what ended up conquering the fear."

More at link.


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Rise Up!
Protest!

momsmerrymelodies's picture

This man single-handedly (almost) defeated the Bush-cabal!!!! Probably Darth Cheney already has his name on his list to be assinated in the very near future, just like it was CHENEY who orcestrated the assination of Wellstone, Callahan, and many others! Kucinich is again right!!! Cheney's little nest of KILLERS needs investigation. He wants to live so long, we'll get that SOCIOPATH into an orange jumpsuit, yet!

tyree's picture

kucinich once again shows hes the man! balls hes got em!

Krackonis's picture

Real courage and a real challenge against those who would call serving the people to be "crazy" and "socialist".


'The devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, the New World Order was born on Sept 11th.' - Immortal Technique

tyree's picture

a men to that brother ,

jakflorida32169's picture

LIBERALS: People for the Ethical Treatment of People

(Hope nobody's done this already. Hate stealing someone else's idea.)


We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!

Edwin's picture

If not, do it yourself.


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

liberalNmoderation's picture

Have you seen the shirts they have at oldamericancentury.org?
They have really really cool shirts. I have about 5.
I know I know, I promote that site all the time...but it's friggin awesome.

Tequila's picture

Will Cuomo find anything illegal in those AIG bonuses? Will the IRS get its $220 million in back-taxes from Stanford? More workers blame age discrimination for recent lay-offs. A narc manages to get into the country with a child's info. The White House goes on the offensive against Cheney the Dick. Legal immigrants are treated only slightly better than
Gitmo detainees. Mexican drug cartels have nastier weapons than our cops.

fastfeat's picture

"Some of the weapons are left over from the wars that the United States helped fight in Central America, U.S. officials said."
______________________

Another fine legacy of Ronnie "Just Say No" Raygun...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

on Discovery Channel for exciting TV. Maybe I'm just getting too old...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Ferrofluid's picture

Amazing how fast some buildings come down...

fastfeat's picture

Maybe a good suggestion for a show topic...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Ferrofluid's picture

Pressure is building in Congress for new inquires, both for the events of september and october of 2001

Funny how the BBC, C4 and other foreign TV stations can have good detailed documentaries on the background facts and questions (back in 2002 and onwards), yet in the US the media is mostly scared to air them.

ron's picture

but just recently we have heard about Cheney's assasination rings. Reporters were threatened.

Ferrofluid's picture

"Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an "executive assassination ring" throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hersh_US_has_be...

That little killing excursion (minigun armed US helicopters) into Syria the other month would have been connected to this.

Andy K's picture

You been living in a cave, Ferrofluid?

Allow me to getchya up to speed. The year is 2009. A black man is the President of the United States. Most shocking of all: someone, somewhere along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, believes that this year the Cubs will win the World Series.

;D

curtilingus's picture

Those would have been my two favorite shows as a child FF. You are not getting old, you are staying young.

Now go blow something up!

fastfeat's picture

Maybe I can still catch a flight to Calgary...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

liberalNmoderation's picture

And yes, I'm old.

etienne's picture

Blue Gal,

Love most of your posts, and love BSG but NOT a purist and can definately make fun of what I love, but... I don't get it. Lame. Weird mashup. You're better at snark than comedy anyway.

calgarylady's picture

The ticket price for dubya's little soiree tomorrow, according to a local radio station.

Somebody, please arrest that man. Thank you.

Ferrofluid's picture

Taking a shoe to wave, would be required by any thinking person.

Hopefully theres a good crowd of protesters outside to chant 'war criminal'

MountainMan23's picture

How ya gonna sneak a shoe past security?

Oh .. wait ..


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

Ferrofluid's picture

wearing steel toe capped work shoes, made the metal detectors buzz like crazy, oops sorry.

fastfeat's picture

Everyone went through metal detectors to scan for stolen silverware, kitchen utensils, etc. before returning to our cells. One guy with a metal plate in his head always resulted in delays...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Edwin's picture

Are they using the good stuff inside? I mean who would want it?


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

fastfeat's picture

They used the good stuff.

And now that I think about it, I remember being there on a St. Patrick's Day. We cooked a bunch of corned beef and cabbage for staff. I remember thinking about trying to sneak off with a brisket.

One of the perks for working in the kitchen was that we ate really well, at least by jail standards.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

liberalNmoderation's picture

KO interviewed a Canadian woman, who is spokesperson for a group of lawyers in Canada who want bush and cheney barred from entering Canada, or arrested once they're inside.
But, seeing as how Canada's PM is a conservative, I'm not bettin on it.

But it was mentioned, that a rather large group of protestors were organized, and had tons of shoes at the ready. A shoe cannon was even mentioned, lol!

fastfeat's picture

?


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

MountainMan23's picture

Calgary activists ramp up anti-Bush efforts

The media is banned from hearing Mr. Bush talk about “eight momentous years in the Oval Office” and “the challenges facing the world in the 21st century.”

Having been himself one of the biggest challenges facing the world in the 21st century ..

Footwear has been collected and a cannon has been constructed to toss shoes at an effigy of the much-maligned leader in homage to the Iraqi reporter who chucked his loafers at Mr. Bush last December and was sentenced last week to three years in prison.


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Rise Up!
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calgarylady's picture

and dubya et al are still free. It truly makes me sick.

MountainMan23's picture

When I lived in the city there were lots of trees behind my apt and the trees were filled with squirrels and several varieties of birds.

They ALL had a common enemy - the surly tomcat that lived next door, who would, from time to time, have one of them for supper.

Then for weeks the squirrels would verbally assault him every time he came into the yard. The birds would join in sounding the alarm. Some would dive bomb the cat, occasionally snipping or clawing his back or ears. One even launched a well-aimed load of birdshit right on the cat's head.

There's lotsa places on this planet Kissinger can't travel.

Pinochet died fighting the courts - a Spanish judge finally issued the indictment that had him arrested in England and returned to Chile to face charges.

At the very least GW's gonna get harassed the rest of his life.


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

calgarylady's picture

the birds love to pick on my youngest kitty. They taunt him mercilessly and he dishes it right back. It's really quite entertaining.

To be realistic, dubya will never be arrested, but I certainly hope he will be hunted, haunted and harrassed for the rest of his life.

Time for zeds ... GNA.

ron's picture

GNA!

gogetem's picture

$400 to watch a piece of human garbage. Just sickening.


If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?

ron's picture

if only a few people show up.

liberalNmoderation's picture

But there's alot of RW fundies in Canada too unfortunately.

lafingas's picture

Suzanne Pleshette!

fastfeat's picture

financial advice next!

I think it's time for me to hit the pillow...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

LA Times: Cities and counties rely on U.S. immigrant detention fees

At a time when local law enforcement agencies are being forced to cut budgets and freeze hiring, cities across Southern California have found a growing source of income -- immigration detention.

Roughly two-thirds of the nation's immigrant detainees are held in local jails, and the payments to cities and counties for housing them have increased as the federal government has cracked down on illegal immigrants with criminal records and outstanding deportation orders.
..
For some cash-strapped cities, the federal money has become a critical source of revenue, covering budget shortfalls and saving positions.

Santa Ana's Police Department, for example, expects as much as a 15% budget cut and has had a hiring freeze since October that has resulted in more than 60 sworn and civilian positions remaining vacant, Police Chief Paul Walters said. To offset reductions, Walters plans to convert two multipurpose rooms at the 480-bed jail into dormitory rooms this spring. That will accommodate an additional 32 immigrant detainees, which he expects will bring in $1 million more in revenue each year. He also hopes to get approval to raise the nightly price per detainee from $82 to $87.

"We treat [the jail] as a business," Walters said. "The cuts could have been much deeper if it weren't for the ability to raise money there."


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Tequila's picture

The CIA engaged in torture, making us as morally degenerate as North Korea. Bums are considered "security risks" at airports.

Edwin's picture

There used to be this funky place called Rome. One guy held all the power and had a Praetorian guard to protect him. The Senators took very good, sweet, loving care of themsleves and their pals, and made sure their position was secured. The people of Rome lived better than those in their colonies, and had just enough to think they were getting somewhere. When the mob became dissatisfied, they mailed them a $600 cheque and told them to go shopping. They also gave them all sorts of entertainement, like FORUM news and Roman Idol. Some poor stiffs got the task of going off to kill "the infidels" far afield, but they soon got forgotten about, almost like there was no war. No one really cared what went on so far away, as long as it didn't stop them from spending their cheques. The people didn't like the wars at first, but there was that cheque, and the games. Oh, the games. They were glorious. Cheap wine and Cheetos for all.

It was a really cool gig that went on for centuries, until they were all so apathetic, thinking it would last forever, everyone forgot what the point of the whole exercise was...

Those who forget their history are destined to repeat it.


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

In Downturn, China Exploits Path to Growth
By KEITH BRADSHER
A $600 billion package for infrastructure, training and research is aimed at making China more competitive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/wo...


Some stuff you can't make up!

ctalk's picture

Will Canada Arrest George W Bush For Torture?

I hope so, that would be awesome.


Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein

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I was wrong in the use of a word referring to you in a post and for that I apologize. I also apologize for the fact that my own bad form had to be brought to my attention.

{ Stop Yelling. SiteMonitor}


Some stuff you can't make up!

carike's picture

Stupid, stupid, stupid Pat Buchanan is blaming democrats for giving money for bailouts to companies like AIG. There was no dem on there to counter his stupidity and his outrageous commentary. Repugnants are damned liars. MSNBC is fake news.

Shadowgm's picture

... what's with SciFi? Heard a rumor they want to rebrand themselves SyFy to increase their 'popular appeal'?

Total garbage. Hugo Gernsback is rolling in his grave.

liberalNmoderation's picture

Hadn't heard that...
What I want to know...Cartoon Network, Adult Swim...what's with all the gawd awful live action crap on there?
Bring me back my damn cartoons.
Half the shit on Adult Swim is unwatchable dreck lately. I used to look forward to watching it every night....now...not at all..

fastfeat's picture

Agree. What is the weird (non-animated) show with the two guys, one of whom dresses in drag? Like a half-hour bad SNL skit.

And the British show (also not animated) that is also a snoozer?

Really slipping. And it's not like the rights to old Futurama, Family Guy, etc shows are probably very expensive anymore.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

liberalNmoderation's picture

It's not funny at all, and it's entirely too gay(not that there's ANYTHING wrong with that) to watch for more than about 30 seconds.
Haven't seen the British one....but Brits are usually funny as hell...
I know, and they used to have excellent Anime on their as well...
And they'd actually show entire MOVIES once in awhile...they change the line up so often, it's difficult to know when a show I actually like is gonna be on.
I guess they're catering to the ADHD crowd...

Crash Chloride's picture
BSG

I love the show and I found the clip hilarious. Then again I'm old enough to be a Bob Newhart fan as well.
_

Bluegal aka Fran's picture

Yeah, Etienne upthread, I'm wondering how old you are, b/c the mashup is with the final episode of Newhart. But if you have to explain the joke....

tyree's picture

my god !thousands of girls riot at some bullshit audition for something or other what has the world come to, today the would be irish will be pissing green from the dye in thier beer , and tomorrow who knows ? the wolf pack waits just outside of the ice flow just waiteing for the cripples to pick off with mark 9 torpedoes , and the democrats still live under the illusion they care about human lives, afganistan iraq packistan henery the nazi butcher kissenger is a hero for homeland security, it dont get any better then this !did i mention joe liberman now cant do enough for us, pat the kill them with sniper rifels robertson thinks were on the right track , and being a liberal means being right of center ,

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)O(

Something for your St Paddy's Day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

tyree's picture

something else to cry about ~

Right Wing Hater's picture

Unfortunately as with all sci-fi shows, corporate tv executives, just don't 'get it' and are only concerned with ratings & advertising revenue....

Which is why all good things must come to an end, before their time...as with most good people.

'Syfy channel' as they'll soon be calling themselves is still run by NBC & GE...so you can count on them cancelling everything else that is worth a damn too...

One of the amusing things about science fiction is the attempt to co-opt the ideas behind it into right wingnut fantasyland myths. Its hysterical how right wingnuts attempt to read into things sci-fi writers put into shows & movies, especially when 9 out of 10 of those writers are absolutely staunch progressives & liberals...

Science Fiction is a reflection of what humanity could, should be... and as long as the genre exists, progressive hopes will always have a home...


We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?

fastfeat's picture

Trailer for new Star Trek movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gty9tLOXpwk

Looks like less technology, more like an episode of 24. Sad.

(thanks to ysb)


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

liberalNmoderation's picture

And most of the Sci-Fi movies are terrible...I watch them for the cheese factor mostly....and when they have a primetime tv series, like Stargate, for instance, which has a HUGE fan base, they go on for years and years...but I remember reading somewhere years ago, it was goin to be cancelled for low ratings...and the fans made a stink... and it was renewed...I think BSG is coming to an end, because it's the end of the story line.
Now, Firefly on the other hand was an outstanding piece of science fiction on Faux, that was cancelled before one year because it wasn't an instant success...some networks give their projects time to grow, others, not so much.
As for the new Star trek flick, I'm looking forward to it...Star Trek's been a part of my life since I can remember...Hell even the last trek show...Enterprise was pretty good...though it did take some time to get used to...and I could NOT STAND the intro music...80's cock rock power ballad sounding bullshit. GAH!


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

tyree's picture

and the news whores believe when thier news papers go out of buisness selling thier crap thats mostly adds, that they will get the dolts who used to read them will pony up a buck to read thier shite on the internet , and they still make money , well maby they will its surpriseing what people will piss thier money away on these days ,and you dont have to go out in the rain and snow to pick it off your lawn,

fastfeat's picture

"Dick Cheney is like a condom machine. Put coins in and something comes out."


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

mudshark's picture

Palin to deliver key note speech at fundraiser.


What is your conceptual, continuity?

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

tyree's picture

the key to selling your home before they take it from you is location ,location, location! if !you were dumb enough to buy one with the citys sewage disposal plant close to your backyard , you made the wrong choice,

But if your lucky, they may pay off your mortgage in full, unlike most buyers...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

tyree's picture

speaking of wich , setting up missiles in poland and eastern block countrys bad ,bad choice, but good for mic buisness!

tyree's picture

whats the difference between this depression and the last one? the banks need some money,

tyree's picture

how do you know thiers a depression , its when your standing in the check out line at the food mart watching the guy in front of you pouring out his coupons he snipped from the papers onto the counter and you have to wait 30 minutes to pay for your purchace with food stamps! the gaul of some freeloaders , coupons indeed!

tyree's picture

how did the saying the luck of the irish come about ? it was dureing the civil war ,when the irish got off the boat they were greeted by army recruiters then inlisted and marched to fredricksburgh , and the grave diggers after the battle said guess they had the luck of the irish,

fastfeat's picture

Thanks Tyree.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

tyree's picture

your welcome fastfeat!

DonnaMalone's picture

Lols nice one, and I thought BSG became a full pledge drama series. This show is one of the best sci fi series that I've ever watch sorry Star Trek.

Donna at the Granbury Home Center

tyree's picture

as you no doubt heard my shelties a wonder dog, yesterday while takeing him for his morning walk he crapped a string of turds for me to pick up, and they were in a series attached to a yellow string , well i thinks this dogs amazine , then today while on our journey , he surprises me with a giant green turd , talk about observeing st pattys day my bandits an all right guy! politicaly correct and im wondering what hes got planned for easter morning!

calgarylady's picture

Thanks for giving me a big laugh, tyree! You are truly a gem.

tyree's picture

your welcome calgary , sometimes truth is stranger then fiction!

fastfeat's picture

Perhaps a litter of bunnies, or, gulp, the second-coming of Jeebus himself! Hope the little guy is ready...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

fastfeat's picture

about drug laws, decriminalization.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

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