Running this Colbert piece from last December in honor of World Wide Knit in Public Days, this weekend and next.
From Code Pink's nationwide group-knitting protest for peace, to my own humble video blogs, knitting is definitely capable of issuing a radical political statement.
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I just happened to see this from today's Washington Post. It seems we have quite a few "lawmakers" invested in the very healthcare insurance corporations we are asking them to deep six.
Ain't gonna happen:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
You'd think there'd be a law against these "lawmakers" having ANY investments while they're serving in Congress??!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Question:
Answer:
The insane profits that can be made from mass destruction.
Go read the book 'Merchants of Death' (1934) for some very insightful history of the latter 19thC and early 20thC war machine and its methods.
btw the books also covers in some detail the rise of the third reich and connections to western arms companies who armed and supported Hitler.
Theres a lot of forgotten history in this book, key players from the scandals of the early depression and the disarmament and rearmament of the 20s/30s.
Some of the facts of poison gas warfare are very interesting, details that have been twisted and reinvented by WW2 onwards 'historians' , the ratio of poison gas production is very telling. 8 to 1 on one sides favour.
read this book and understand where the 30s pacifists came from, it wasn't just ivory tower rose coloured glassed ideology, but cold calculated facts.
The human race collectively has learned nothing from WW1 or WW2 or any of the big wars.
The book's final words
PS; gotta go, Paris and Britney are on TV in a minute.
I know what you mean ferrofluid....
I've read so many books over the years, some with conflicting information. I've often wished I could just pick up a Cliff Notes version of history that is simply the truth....warts and all. But there is no such book so we just keep digging and cramming for knowledge.
Has everyone seen the book, "Addicted to War"?
And one last thing. Here are some recent links for anyone who would like to come up to speed on where the healthcare debate thang is:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/...
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/11-13
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090610_...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Has anyone checked out the doc "Iraq For Sale"? Really shocking shit.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
Same old story, almost the same happened during WW1 according to that 'Merchants of Death' book.
It shows that political corruption for profit is the norm, we have no oversight or responsibility in Washington. Kleptomaniacs running amok.
What about World Naked Bike Ride ???
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That chick is cheating ... she's still got her bra and shorts on.
Uh .. the chick on the left is cheating .. but .. uh .. the hot blonde on the right seems to be playing fair ;)
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She even has pixelated breasts!
I hear it takes a special plastic surgeon to do that operation...
Top 10 Most Absurd Covers of TIME
And then there were better days of TIME and its role in journalism but that mag has jumped the shark
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
Stolen Election, Brutal Repression - What happens next?
Laura Secor: Iran’s Stolen Election
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Doesn't sound like fun over there at the moment.
US news companies are ignoring it according to sources earlier.
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NY Times: Protests Flare in Tehran as Opposition Disputes Vote
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Diebold make a big sale in Iran?
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/...
People should attempt to read reactions from the real world, instead of just US media and government Bullsh*t. The guy won fair and square. Just not the CIA backed one. Oh the horrors. And groups of protestors took to the streets. Oh the shock. He still won by a majority. Now if you want to see stolen elections, please refer to the United States federal election of 2004. GeeDubya Bush screwed up everything he touched completely in his first term, and somehow won decisively re-election. No voter fraud there huh? The entire world went "WTF?"
You have people on the ground in Iran who can confirm this, or are you just blowing smoke out your tailpipe?
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I'd like to donate something, but I'm waiting for a new debit card to replace the one that I left in one of the old-style ATMs (takes your card into the machine while performing the transaction, instead of working off the swipe) I walked away from the machine and the card became property of Brinks. (They own the ATMs, not the bank). But a big thanks to Wells Forgo Bank for keeping this fine technology installed at your Garbage Grove (CA) branch; next time I'll use one of the newer ones at Stop and Rob down the street...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
while we're doing a donation drive right now, you will find a contribution button on the sidebar most every day. Thanks very much.
Any swag, a-la PBS and NPR, for donations? (Just kidding, but it would be cool to get some C&L products perhaps some day. You've got a couple of cool logos that would make cool t-shirts, coffee mugs. Me--XLG t-shirt with cigarette pocket please...)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Whole Paycheck????
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Just the quickie back info, I posted in last night's open thread and the CA bailout thread about how I feel we shouldn't allow Arnold to get his filthy mits on funds and services for the poorer classes in the state. I also shared that today I got two conflicting letters from Social Security, one saying that my state benefits had been cut yet again, and another saying I would no longer be recieving benefits period. I also mentioned that it was possible I would actually be recieving more benefits from another Social Security program and that may have been why I got my current benefits terminated, but that they hadn't bothered to tell me, so I was very upset.
Well...to fill in some more information I was too upset to mention, is that my mother/caregiver and I were likely to be reciving some back funds because 10 years ago I was terminated earlier than I should have from recieving benefits from Dad's Social Security that'd been getting after he passed away.
It appears the best case scenario has happened. We checked our bank account balance this evening and we got the shock of our life because the U.S. Treasury left us a big surprise. So I believe that the money we were owed after SSA's mistake has kicked in.
Anyway, to make a long, happy story short, I still believe that we cannot leave the poor out to dry. Our politicians need to be taught the lesson, not the people who can least afford it.
I've never seen change without a fire
I'd transfer those funds to another account (if possible), just in case they change their minds...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
get some questions answered and then decide where to go from there. Tonight we're really just gobsmacked...we knew we might have a lump sum coming, but it was much larger than we thought it would be.
Btw, thanks for the kind words earlier, I read them as I was headed out the door. Went to town to try and decompress and did have to ride with the wingnut bus driver but I prefer to have my headphones on so I wouldn't have to sit thru a convo... :)
I've never seen change without a fire
with Social Security. I don't remember the exact circumstances, but basically, SS claimed that they had overpaid her for several years following my dad's death and she owed them quite a few thousand dollars. She tried to appeal, but to no avail. This is why I suggested putting the funds (I assume they did an electronic deposit to your account) into another account. With one hand they may give, with the other, take away.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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I've never seen change without a fire
If they think you owe them money they'll just reduce the amount of future checks until it's paid back. THEY can make mistakes over and over, but you will be the one who pays. Make sure you keep a record of any meetings and record the name of the person you are dealing with. If you think you are being robbed, asked to speak to their supervision and make sure you write down that name as well...make sure they see you writing it down.
:D
I've never seen change without a fire
Don't we all? :D
Yup, I hope the market gets better.
I wish I knew how. It's been on my to do list for years. It looks soothing.
"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.!!
The War on Drugs continues to backfire, as a pair of NY Latinos racially-profiled for selling coke manage to prove the cops wrong, and indirectly indict
members of the force in the process. Barry's new health care discount plan. I hope y'all have a better Father's Day than Erik von Brunn. It only took a few deaths, but Congress finally protects our food. Seven hundred thousand people weren't ready for DTV.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Try this.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"Jose quickly got the tape to defense attorney Rochelle Berliner, a former narcotics prosecutor. She couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"'I almost threw up," she said. "Because I must've prosecuted 1,500, 2,000 drug cases ... and all felonies. And I think back, Oh my God, I believed everything everyone told me. Maybe a handful of times did something not sound right to me. I don't mean to sound overly dramatic but I was like, sick.'"
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And all felonies? Maybe this prosecutor only handled felonies, I don't know, but, as I mentioned earlier in another thread, perhaps the time has come to reevaluate the automatic classification of any amount of some drugs as felonies. Currently, a baggie with a few granules of cocaine or speed, or one valium without a prescription, or one ecstacy tablet, or a few hits of acid will result in felony charges in (almost) all cases. Given all the other issues facing this country (why is KKKarl Rove still a free man, for example), do these types of cases really warrant the costs (of law enforcement and prosecution by DAs) to pursue? Maybe reduction to misdemeanor charges in many cases would help?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Forget misdemeanor ..
De-criminalize ALL possession ..
It's MY body ..
Besides .. cops & courts have plenty of bigger problems ..
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One good thing that will come out of the impending financial collapse, is that a large section of the parasites that prey on the public, will find themselves unemployed. The keenness to continue the GWO(Everything) will wane when theres no paycheck for doing it.
I suspect the various local uniformed crime gangs will go freelance, thus formalizing their current semi hidden activities.
That 'crime family' in that Texas town, raked in $3 million over two years from highway robbery from out of state minorities.
And the possibilities for arresting and imprisoning non locals into a jail/prison labor force, makes for a very lucrative profit opportunity too. Its a return to a feudal system.
it's the general public (sheeple), used to living with a police state telling them of what they need to be vigilant, that need to be "sold" the idea. I think that Joe Q. Public could more easily digest a reduction to misdemeanor of some felonies (sold to Joe Q. as "They're still criminals. They'll still have records," than the legalization ("God forbid, those drug users are criminals. I'm not like them.") of even marijuana. I'm not saying you're not correct on principles, but as we've seen with the 'Murkin public time and time again, most think 'principles' exist for disciplining their spoiled, bratty kids smart off to their teachers or get caught smoking in the bathroom...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I may have found this link here??
This is a very interesting case of DEA corruption way up top that TIME magazine looked at and wanted to do an "exclusive" then they backed down:
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2009/06...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Did you see the news clip of Randall Terry last night talking about Sonia Sotomayor and deliberately mispronouncing her name as soe-toe-mire? The first time he said it, I thought, "How ignorant!" But then as he repeated it I began to think he was trying to make it sound Jewish, as in "meyer."
how many of you Fox listeners/watchers are noticing when they talk about the latest incidences they have one of their own discussing how bad the liberals are portraying things but they don't have any liberals on. Beck/Golberg, O'Reilly/Beck etc.
The irony of the Idiocracy hating real reality intruding into their 'reality' TV watching.
he said that he would bring american style democracy to the mid east, and with the massive voter fraud and stolen election in iran, he has succeeded
shrub's theft of the '04 election that obviously worked "just fine." I heard that they were stored in several Florida warehouses, awaiting buyers, so that counties could recoup some of their losses. Maybe we got a couple of barrels of oil?
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---Southwest Airlines
I want my mangoes !!
We traded the Indians uranium for their mangoes .. right?
I never got mine :(
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I was trying to remember which fruit was involved and couldn't quite put my finger on it ... thanks, MM
gna ... :)
ciao 4 now ;)
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Iran is the world's largest producer of pistachios, though the US may have taken that title away following last year's cold snap:
http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1130.html
Of course, leave it to Israelis' love of pistachios to subterfuge the US' economic embargo of Iran:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond...
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---Southwest Airlines
But I found it appalling that Terry McAuliffe tried to BRIBE Nader during the 2004 elections. According to Nader McAuliffe asked Nader to "stay out of my 19 states"....
Here's the link:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article2...
I was absolutely THRILLED when McAuliffe lost the gubernatorial primary in Virginia! Snake. He should have been indicted.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
have proof of voter fraud? Honestly, real proof? Anyone? Besides what is written by some reporter?
But Mehran Kamrava, director of the centre for international and regional studies at Georgetown University's campus in Qatar, cautioned that the displays of support for Mousavi were not necessarily an indication of fraud.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/...
they shut down phone lines, cut access to internet sites
and they did this why?
come on... dont be so naive
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scuffle over who has the bigger emergency:
http://www.emsresponder.com/online/article.js...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KluItc365hU
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---Southwest Airlines
AIG don't wanna compensate plane crash survivors. Palindrone may just give Dave a ratings boost.
Lots of blather about "media propaganda," presumably about his opponent apparently winning. No mention whatsoever of his opponent's efforts. Watching him gave me chills, much like the ones I got when shrub stole 2004. Really pretty creepy...
Ahmedinejan (via translator, in response to reporters' questions): "Iran has absolute freedom!" and, regarding protestors "They are not important."
I feel sorry for the good people of Iran who may not have had their votes counted (or ignored), if that is what really occurred. Doubtful that the truth will ever be known. Welcome to the nightmare that was the past eight years here; hope you survive it.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
you see protesting on the US and western media are probably all US backed hellraisers. Doesn't mean that Ahmedinejan won or lost, it just shows US background influence as usual. Surprised the CIA didn't send in a hit squad to take him out. Really it doesn't make sense. Why would Iranians be so upset over the election of someone who has very little power or say over any of their laws?
You obviously haven't been paying attention to what's been going on in Iran for the last week or two.
You're just bashing the US - again.
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of Ahmedinejan's opponent. Of course, the dick blew her off. Then, on the second attempt, after she gave him the opportunity to agree that her question was lost in translation, he argued that he had answered her question, comparing his (opponent's) status to one who "has broken some traffic laws."
Hmmm.
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---Southwest Airlines
he really didn't know because the leaders never told him? He really is not much more than a political puppet. Reading and listening to the US ostracize (sp?) Iran and Iranians for decades, a person really has to take these media reports with a grain of salt. The US hasn't had anyone in Iran in 30 years or more that would have any clue what Iranians think or feel. According to MidEastern media, he is widely popular in Iran, and only a minority opposes him at all. Compare that with US media reports. Someone is right, someone is wrong I guess.
Came across this, just had to share it for the very first entry alone;
http://www.cracked.com/article_17341_5-terrif...
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
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http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090614/NEW...
This is a new story from Everett, WA on this nutjob that carried out the murders of a 9 year old and his father earlier this week.
This has a tie to another home robbery last weekend in her mother's town in CA.
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Mitten Romney, a combat dodging chickenhawk himself, has 5 big strapping boys of fighting age none of whom are fighting in the Republican war in Iraq. Mittens excuse back then for his boys not serving in Iraq was that "they were serving this country by helping me with my presidential campaign". Well, Mittens failed campaign has long since been over, still none of the Romney boys have yet to enlist but Mittens is still gunning for war with other nations. Question is, what would Mittens excuse be for none of his 5 boys fighting a war in Iran or with north Korea?
Combat dodging chickenhawks who push for war for someone else's kids to die in really disgust me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/14/romn...
PS - Breck Girl Mitten's hair is looking particularly shinny today. His hairdresser is good with the color I might ad.
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