September 28, 2009 07:30 PM
Open Thread

Mrs. Palin, it MUST be a typo: your publisher's press release says your upcoming book is called "Going Rogue." That can't be true...that's a French word. Whoops, so's "rouge." Oh, whatEVER!
But why did your publisher let us know the title during "Banned Books Week" instead of "Remaindered Books Week"? Is it time to quit your publicist?
Open thread below...



Leahy bill revisting the Patriot Act with amendments to revisit FISA and repeal Telecom Immunity here
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Ralph Nader here
Good piece on the power of the Corporations.
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Bearish News here
Bearish doesn't frame the question quite right.
Nassim Taleb and Richard Bookstaber appear before Alan Grayson, good video here
Taleb explains the difference, he describes his position as Capitalist. You might also use the term Libertarian.
Stated in pure terms, the Socialist view would be that there should not be income disparity of extreme degrees, society intervenes with taxes or in some other way when extreme thresholds are reached.
The Libertarian view would be that the pay disparity should be whatever is agreed to, and don't involve society in the dispute.
Maybe someone else will have more refined thinking.
The real question is: were the Banksters Crooks or Fools. They lost $4.3 trillion, but then they got us to give them our money, again.
They were the Crooks and we were the Fools.
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FBI vet confirms key Sibel Edmonds espionage allegation here
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Chris Floyd on the manufactured US/Iran 'crisis' here
Jason Ditz at Antiwar.com gives a good overview of the case here
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I am SO linking to this honey.
Busted
The rantings of a left wing liberal.
From CommonDreams:
First They Came For ACORN
From ThinkProgress Channel at YouTube:
Mike Huckabee Says US Should Get Rid Of UN, The "International Equivalent" of ACORN
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
... with former NM US Atty David Inglesias on ACORN as "the ultimate wedge issue."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#33064799
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Funding organizations that "recruit" voters is ridiculous and will always be contentious.
MAKE VOTING COMPULSORY.
If they can make paying your taxes mandatory, why the hell can't they do it with voting?
Then you avoid the problem of convincing the downtrodden and disenfranchised to vote.
... nor did I ever think to hear, of anyone who considered registering people to vote as "contentious."
As for compulsory voting, which organization is working toward amending the Constitution for that? I hear you can either get a two thirds vote of both Houses of Congress along with three quarters of the state legislatures' ratification, or you can just keep typing it in allcaps. The former is probably more, um, legal.
And the problem isn't just convincing poor people to vote, it's making sure they are allowed to vote.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
otherwise, why all the demonization of ACORN?
I mean, let's face it, all they do is register people to vote. But they've been turned into the Red Menace and The Mob and The Brownshirts all rolled into one.
2) And other countries do have compulsory voting. Why not? How is it actually a democracy if only half the people vote? Democracy means everybody gets a say.
3) The problem historically has been convincing people to vote, particularly the poor. Agreed, there are places where they are discouraged to vote, but the bigger problem is getting them to care. They came out of the woodwork for Obama, but there are still many, many people whose voices aren't heard.
... doesn't mean something is contentious. Think death panels, birthers, science, etc. Just because they can get cameras on a few wackaloons doesn't mean there's an actual debate. While a four year old may vigorously argue that 2=2 does not equal four, arithmetic is in no way contentious.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
and making a wedge issue out of it, that means ACORN is effective. So, no, don't screw ACORN. And I have to agree with fiver, The Stoopids are just doing what they do best, being stupid. I do wish, however, the Dems would become as wily at using the Stoopids as the republicans have become. It can't be that hard.
On the other hand, ANYTHING is contentious if enough people contend with it, and the republicans have gotten so good at getting the Stoopids to contend. And when it's the Stoopids, you might as well try to make a reasoned argument with a brick. So, I take it back -- fiver is wrong.
the Dems don't have the far left MSM pulling for them as much as they pull for the right wing. Far left MSM is a lie. Plus we get the blue dogs.
With all networks announcing and covering their 9/12 teabagger gathering (and FOX specifically promoting it) (and terrified multi-billion dollar health care corporations providing tons of financing) they still couldn't even get enough people at their national gathering to fill a decent sized football stadium.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Bamboozled - please do some research before being so willing to throw someone under the bus.
ACORN is a national anti-poverty group, which uses community organizing to provide invaluable services to our communities, pressure powerful banks to provide home ownership opportunities for working people, fight to raise workers wages, get traffic lights installed at dangerous intersections, advocate for increased police protection in low-income neighborhoods, and help families avoid foreclosures
ACORN has improved the lives of millions of the poor and working poor by strengthening Americas democracy through its voter registration efforts, as well as helping to lift the working poor out of poverty by building the “living wage” and minimum wage movement—a series of local efforts that contributed to a national increase in the minimum wage.
ACORNs volunteers, poor and working-class, mostly black and Hispanic, number more than 400,000. To support their organization, they pay annual dues.
Anticipating the subprime issue, ACORN campaigned in the late 1990s against the financial giant Household Finance Company because it had hurt homeowners with predatory loans. Through a successful lawsuit—a collaboration with 50 state attorneys general—ACORN obtained over $500 million dollars in compensation for injured families. Had the nations political and financial leaders been paying more attention to ACORN’s work, the sting of recent foreclosures would have been mitigated.
And if "the system" really wanted people to vote, elections would be held on weekends, maybe Saturday AND Sunday, so working people could get to the polls more easily.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
Then people don't have an excuse that the polls were closed or there were too many people.
You would have to amend the Constitution to change the day for national elections which would require 3/4 of the states to ratify the change.
Currently the wording is the "first Tuesday after the first Monday ) in November.
It would not be impossible but if there were also an amendment to eliminate the electoral college there would be a huge turnout.
'Talk to the hand'
Just make the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November National Election Day. Everyone is guaranteed time off from work to cast ballots by Federal law. Extended poll times and expanded locations. That doesn't require changing the constitution.
that would be easier than changing the election to a Saturday & Sunday which would require a constitutional amendment......
........yes, that would be much easier indeed.
'Talk to the hand'
n/t
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
Going Rouge, it means she is not a PINKO, she is not a full blown RED, she is somewhere in between.
But she IS a commie and I knew it all along,
Comrade Palin
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue"'s alternate title is "5150".
She is something of a Rogue, but I still think Rouge is better.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
How gauche!
Ted Nugent Threatens to Kill Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton During Vicious Onstage Rant
Get that "moran" jailed! :s
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
Nugent blamed “stoned, dirty, stinky hippies” for “rising rates of divorce, high school drop-outs, drug use, abortion, sexual diseases and crime..."
I thought HE was a stoned, dirty, stinky hippy.
And funny how the rates of all those social problems are higher in the Red states.
I blame his shitty music for ruining America.
o.O there i thought he was just a racist/fascist fuck!
Hey Ted; Fuck you!
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
as he was one of the originals. He should have added "pants shitting."
And Ted, no one will ever fuck you again unless you pay them, you nasty old has been.EEEWWWWUUUU!!!!! I can tell by looking at your pictures that you smell bad.
Hear hear!
"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.!!
Cat scratch fever is a pretty dirty song. This scumbag is fuckin hypocrite. Please Obama put him in prison where he belongs.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
'The Ted Nugent FEMA Rehabilitation Camp' name the first one after him ;)
And the
tortureextraordinary rendition is blaring his music into the camp 24/7/365.Make him wear a Hillary Clinton pantsuit too.
"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.!!
But I never listened to them to begin with.
I'm surprised he was able to resurrect an audience to play for. Maybe Molly Hatchet was opening.
Then I clicked the link. Story published in August 2007.
Ferrofluid, you've really got to catch up on your reading.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Free 'hate' speech and all that under Bushco...
You'll find coverage here at C&L.
And of course nothing happened....Well, maybe a little questioning by the Secret Service concerning the former First Lady, but only because she was afforded protection at the time.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Secret Service investigates Obama poll on Facebook
me-oww!
who it was that posted it, hold them in custody without any charges being brought for a few years, waterboard them, do some wall slamming and sleep deprivation to see what else they might confess to.
it's called Gitmo, and it's not closing so soon
me-oww!
Get out the electric drill and ask them to say, "Drill baby drill," just for kicks.
"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.!!
signed up for any of their crap. Tonight I got an e-mail saying that some woman wants to be on my friend's list. I hate Facebook. Anyone know how I got there? I cannot find any way to get off. They just don't give you a chance to contact them unless you sign in with your password, etc. I don't have one, and I will not get one just to tell them to leave me alone. Any ideas anyone?
You gotta sign up so you can make them stop contacting you ???
Sounds like a computer virus ..
Buy our product to stop the annoying shit our virus is doing to your computer ..
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
Which one of these abominations does Rupert own? Do you know? It would please me no end if I knew I got to them and they are now trying to exact some revenge.
I wanted to contact a friend there, but I drew the line.
me-oww!
Myspace is owned by Murdoch. Buck up, request the password and go in and delete your profile. Or you can keep it active and turn off all notifications. Either way, if you want to stop emails, you have to do one. I've never heard of an account being created by someone else. Did a friend sign you up, maybe? If someone has your email, I would assume it could happen, though.
If you didn't set it up, if it was me, I'd want to know what that profile said. Just sayin'.
i would never join a murdochian enterprise
me-oww!
Its not MS, it's Facebook (which was created by a lefty, BTW). And if someone signed me up for something, I sure as shit would want to check it out.
Savannah, are you sure it's not span you're getting? I keep getting crap from a couple of supposed social network sites I have never even heard of.
That's why I find it unlikely that Facebook did this. At least they are "reputable" (as long as privacy isn't an issue :-)
and earlier today, they sent me a kind of welcoming e-mail, and later in the day, they sent me another with some woman's name and her picture saying she wants to add me to her friends list. There was a contact address on the first one that I sent an e-mail back to telling them I did not subscribe and wanted to be removed from whatever they had me on. That might have been a mistake. If all someone needs is your e-mail address to do this, perhaps they would like to meet my fine attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, or one of his staff.
If someone wants to screw with me, then they can just bring it. I still resent the intrusion, though. Scan 3/4 done. No virus. I'll check for spyware next.
Rule #1 - don't reply to unsolicited emails, that only confirms they have reached a live person.
Rule #2 - better than #1 - your email program should have an artificial bounce provision, which you can invoke yourself. Do it and they will think they have a dead email address.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Back to normal. Will look into "bounce" function. Thanks.
Murdoch or not, Myspace fucking sucks! or any socializing networks! Fuck twitter as well!
FFFFFFUUUUUU
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
amazes me that they have my e-mail address.
Probably dropped it somewhere. Use a sock puppet e-mail the next time ;)
Edit: gmail is great for it!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
what's a sock puppet email?
An email account you use for a sock puppet. Or for a spam account. A throw away account.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
But do to you have to log into it periodically?
meh, only if you you use it for 419 scam baiting and do not want losing the bait.
Otherwise it's a throw away!
Edit: there are like 10 minutes accounts to sign up for forums and stuff ;)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
If you have Firefox, one of these add-ons might help.
(BTW, why doesn't my Firefox spell checker recognize Firefox?)
Corruption favors the wealthy.
FB has a feature where people can send email invitations, whether or not the people they're emailing is a member or not. I get them all the time and just ignore them.
Ignore it and scan your computer. (for the sake of it) that's about it.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
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...and asks you to be their friend. I just block the sender.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
even whenever I can.
and they showered me with suggestions of people to ask...some of whom I knew, but never went to their facebook page. Someone said they scan your address book. baut one guy, I knew him, but had NO CONTACT with him on this computer.
But I have had 2 people ask me, one my SIL and one this damned woman I went to landscaping school with and she's misused the email addys we all exchanged for school, but neither of them was suggested.
It freaked my shit out. No more social networking sites for me. It's fucking creepy.
me-oww!
I NEVER signed up for an account. The only time I even went there was when I accidentally clicked on the wrong Google link, and quickly shut the page down when it cam up. They seem to have nailed me in less than 5 seconds.
Facebook never gave me any suggestions. I had to hunt for a few people, then it started triangulating other people who were on various friends "friends list" and started making suggestions.
What I hate is that they sell your info to their advertisers...And that I can't figure out how to get rid of the apps that I've downloaded there.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
No file transfer.
Or you need to make friends with a tech who has got nothing but time on his/her hands.
:P
me-oww!
nothing showing up yet.
It's a rootkit with kernel hooker, no wonder it didn't showed up. ;)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
I wonder if he plays this song at his family values 'n guns summer camp for kiddies? I think not.
"Well I don't know where they come from
But they sure do come
I hope they comin' for me
And I don't know how they do it
But they sure do it good
I hope they doin' it for free
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
The first time that I got it
I was just ten years old
I got it from some kitty next foor
I went and see the Dr. and
He gave me the cure
I think I got it some more
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
It's nothin dangerous
I feel no pain
I've got to ch-ch-change
You know you got it when you're going insane
It makes a grown man cryin' cryin'
Won't you make my bed
I make the pussy purr with
The stroke of my hand
They know they gettin' it from me
They know just where to go
When they need their lovin man
They know I do it for free
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever"
I just threw up a lot in my mouth.
me-oww!
what the hell is that?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
Lyrical content wasn't really poetic, simply something that his primary audience-- young pimply boys dreaming of getting some eventually-- could easily learn and sing along.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
Looked more like cat rape.
You do not feck with cats! Some tried and got so burned!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
... never learn.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I don't care for his politics, but some there's some decent riffing in "Cat Scratch Fever." And "Great White Buffalo," from his Amboy Dukes days, still rocks.
That said, I don't own any of his CDs; the only way I'd acquire any is by filesharing.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Never knew before. Now I do. I am not wiser. What garbage music.
"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 Dixie Chicks say they're ashamed the president came from Texas, and they're branded unpatriotic, but Nugent threatens to kill the president and...cue the crickets...not a peep.
Two years ago. When he said it.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
He (Nugent) said something along those lines more recently.
Look, he's a blowhard. He says OTT shit all of the time. I don't think he's making suggestions to his audience that they haven't already thought and/or spoken aloud anyway. Let him keep saying it, because the more he does, the more buffoonish he looks.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I don't remember peeping.
"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.!!
That's awful. Who talks about people that way????? What a low-life!!
"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.!!
A video of the G20 protests in Pittsburgh has been making the rounds. It depicts a group of riot police forcing a handcuffed detainee onto his knees to pose for a souvenir photograph.
Gives the media a point of comparison to show how "the teabaggers aren't so bad."
...are Agents Provocateurs. Just like the old days. Back in '69 and '70, I knew all the local street hippies. When somebody acted really radical during a protest, usually it was nobody from the neighborhood. Hired to create mayhem.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
that's now become the evil parallel universe of itself.
My dad was in the Disneyland band in 1970 on the notorious “Yippie day”. The police arrested this “hippie” who was the instigator of some of the violence that took place that day. They took him to the band shack where my dad was changing for the polka band and the police said for him leave, he did but he could here what was said just outside the door. The “hippie” was an undercover cop and said he was there to provoke the crowd so they would arrest as many “freaks” as they could.
http://www.studiolo.org/Email/DISNEY.htm
Like the all moose she hunted and how great a mother she is.
Up here we have a pot issue with our neo-con govt.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/sto...
Marc Emery goes to jail because of his belief in the healing power of marijuana to help people in pain.
In contrast, Bush and his buddies, after killing millions of innocent people, enjoy retirement in their posh estates. They are laughing at us.
It is outrageous, disgusting and it makes me sick to my stomach.
I appreciate you keeping the need for justice of Bush and his criminal administration in the minds of C&L readers. I try my best, there aren't many of us but we still, and will always, remember the great injustice of aggressive war and profiteering at the expense of many soldiers and totally innocent people, just like you and me. The silence of most Americans on this greatest of crimes is nothing but criminal and makes me ashamed to live in this violent country.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
I'm with you there. I tell people here, I'm Canadian.
I think we can still write the Fed Minister of Justice. A bit of time left.
Did she write her delusional rantings in crayon?
What a maroon.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
names him.
someone should pretend to have stolen a bunch of cash from Iraq, get all dressed up in cartoonish garb, and then go into GoldmanSachs, or a BoA, or (insert corrupt financial institution of your choice) and secretly video them while you ask them the best way to hide this money and make it grow.
I was more thinking about 419 fraud. But whatever!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
A lot of American CPA officials, armed forces, and contractors, had nest eggs to invest after Iraq's $20 billion (from those pallets of bills) went walkabout. A handful have been prosecuted, most got away scott free due to a lack of paperwork.
some big effing scandal and he corruption in Iraq (which is a small slice) goes un-enraged about?? (un-enraged, its late...)
Repugs are better at marketing than the Dems.
Their products sucks but they are gifted in the art of obfuscation and bombastic rhetoric.
'Talk to the hand'
Even Jon Stewart mentioned the Acorn/Pimp 'scandal' yet forgot or didn't know that the sting film maker was a paid indirect RNC plant.
Yeah. That was disappointing.
The Acorn scandal and purge reminds me of a certain date in 1934, night of the long knives etc.
After all 2012 is so far away... do they not know 2010 is a lot closer.
If anything invokes Godwin's Law, it's a statement like that. Are you trying to shut down all conversation on teh intertubes?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Has moved 'up' it is now a part of the junta from hell.
about money from Iraq. He wants to mail me a suitcase full of cash but needs some money to get it smuggled out of the country first.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
I am sure somebody there is skilled at money laundering. They had a little 'problem' with a missing million a few years ago.
More like 'Going Douche'.
Some great Alaskan comments at adn.com
You know, for her own good. She might discover it also includes scary Arabic words like admiral and algebra.
unflattering appeareance/photo of Palin I've seen. Usually she's all dolled up, but she looks downright old there!
Late,
QSE32
enough of the Palin crap. Throw it where it belong, in the crapper.
Blind, seething ambition,
Willful and deliberate ignorance,
Prideful in intellectual mediocrity
Vapid and veiled sexual coquette
Nuclear sense of entitlement
Assumed reciprocal intimacy with God Himself
Manipulative, controlling, vengeful, demanding, petty vagina with fangs...
Alaska's Cold Rush...the Gorilla from Wasilla
Speaking in tongues, word salad,
someday, you'll grow old and sad...
because America figured you out...and didn't make you Queen.
thank you!
I can't wait for her to lose big time in the rethug primaries. That should finally put her 15 minutes of fame to rest. She was a clown from the start, until now, and forever so.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
She thinks anyone who criticizes her is either stupid or doesn't know the real Sarah. Another joke who takes herself seriously.
Who could forget August 25th 2008
She suffers from narcissistic stupid disorder, got to make it simple for the moron wrong-wing to understand.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
Politics for Sarah? No way! Not when there's serious moolah to be made in fancy pagent speakin'! Ask the godly bimbo from Cali .
am I missing? Maybe it's because I can see into her soul? I don't get her.
You're not a dude (er, I don't think so at least). Some seem to find that winking thing hot. Sarah is attractive but has the personality of a cornered rat.
As for the ex Ms Cali...pretty but vapid. She's pretty nasty, too. I think that's a winger trait for females. They have to be ****s first.
1. Let's start asking conservatives how they will PAY FOR a war with Iran. Watch their heads explode.
2. Is it not the case that some of the same people holding the “OBAMA = HITLER” signs and calling Nancy Pelosi a Nazi will go home after the Tea Party to attend white supremacist events where they will dress up like Nazis and salute photos of the actual Hitler?
They're worried about creating a reason NOT to pay for healthcare.
Somehow, the entire country has avoided talking about the White Elephant in the room: the 50 cents on every tax dollar that go to the military.
July4Patriot's Alive and Well address....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjNhjw5iFJE&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGWP9MwOdK0&fe...
Lets see what this Nazi has to say, oops sorry that requires a thought process she is Wacko Right no thought required, just Stupidity, Ignorance, Intolerance, Hatred. Any semblance of free thought is to be discouraged and a mentor of equal Stupidity is to be sort out and allowed to discourage you from this only Hatred and Nazi propaganda is allowed along with the usual misinformation Lies and Misdirection but hat can you expect from a QUITTER and LOSER. May the Bitch rot in hell.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in calculating the value of the country's Oil Stabilisation Fund (OSF).
The edict, issued on Sept 12, follows a recommendation by the trustees of the country's foreign reserves, Iran's English-language daily The Tehran Times said on Monday, citing Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency.
The move was taken because the government wishes to protect itself from the fragility of the US economy and the weak dollar.
It is also used to help both the public and private sectors with their hard currency needs by extending loans.
Press TV meanwhile reported that following the switch the interest rate for facilities provided from the foreign exchange reserves is to be cut to 5 percent from 12 percent.
Since its introduction in 1999 by the EU the euro has gained popularity internationally and there are now more euros in circulation than the dollar.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/568241-tehran-...
The DoD and the MIC is champing at the bit to try and win their third war of the 2000s, third time lucky maybe people will forget the first two failed ones.
OBL in his penthouse in Riyadh must be laughing.
(they seek him here, they seek him there, why not assume the blindingly obvious place...)
...........with the Euro is exactly what most of the world that is not dominated by the USofBLOODYISRAEL has been trying to do for a long time, and exactly what USofBLOODYSIRAEL has been trying to stop. Dollar domination equals more Empire $$$$ to 'liberate' more nations with resources coveted by the Corporatists of USofBLOODYISRAEL.
They are sexing up four year olds, putting them in scanty bikinis for people to drool over on TV now !!!!!!!
Just saw this awful trailer for the program this coming thursday, Modern Television and the people who make are sick
Talk about child porn. Yet no one gets arrested.
Disney had that competition/program with pole dancing kids the other week, now this shite. They are going somewhere rather unsavory and weird.
I'm sure it was approved by the new "safe school czar"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/...
back torture probe.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/092809a.html
Has this been published in the MSM - maybe as an op-ed? Any realistic chance it might be?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
cover the retired professionals that call the right wing on the carpet. They don't even cover the active ones that support investigations.
Thanks for the link though. I'm sending it around.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I post links to that site every now and then. It's a very good source. You should also check out some of Robert Parry's books. A real education about what goes on in Washington and around the world and who's behind some of the shit.
The same Tom Maertens as in the VIPS list, I believe.
Which sums up what happened to Van Jones and also Acorn succinctly.
Being sold down the river in a prison hulk, can not be called a cruise on a liner.
Either theres a very clever game being played in Washington, or Obama is surrounded by cowardly fools.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
this is an interesting video on iran/caspian sea and the surrounding stan(s). the prize "pipeiastan"
Love that one!! The Petroleum Mafia's motive for 'liberating' oil rich countries, 'round the world, coming soon to Iran.
The News Hour had Gail Wilensky on tonight, extolling the virtues of Medicare Advantage, mentioning that she works at Project Hope. It seems she also is, or has been, on the board of directors at UnitedHealth Group as well. A company that profits from medicare advantage's higher costs.
I think someone should have pointed that out. Her information is skewed to favor the health insurance industry.
My info comes from here
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/st....
United Healthcare version of Medicare Advantage and the providers they listed all denied that they contracted with Evercare, a division of United Healthcare. A friend was on the same program and they didn't pay the claims. Medicare Advantage is a ripoff of the medicare trust fund.
those bastards?
and they are the ones the republicans support and are telling people they will lose that kind of coverage, which is no coverage at all.
be treated that way. But it's because they are dopey that they deserve to be protected from the bastards. This all pisses me right off. You, too, I see.
UNITED NATIONS -- The Obama administration and its Western allies are looking at new ways to constrict Iran's energy, transportation and financial sectors in the wake of last week's revelation that Tehran had secretly developed a second nuclear-fuel facility.
But the White House will still face numerous challenges matching its rhetoric on sanctions with real international action, said U.S. and European officials involved in the process. That makes the U.S. Treasury -- and not the United Nations -- the main focus of the West's financial campaign against Iran for now, the officials said.
Iran said it test-fired a medium-range missile seen in this photo released by the Fars News Agency.
China and Russia are still seen as only half-hearted partners in any effort to push forward expansive new financial penalties through the U.N. Security Council. Even France and Germany are voicing skittishness about targeting Iran's gasoline imports, a strategy that is seen by the U.S. and Israel as inflicting particular pain on Tehran.
European officials stressed Monday they are likely to seriously consider new sanctions only at year-end, citing a December deadline, replacing President Barack Obama's September deadline, that has now been set to see if diplomacy with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad works.
The Treasury has pursued dozens of unilateral sanctions against Iranian banks, government officials and defense companies in recent years in an attempt to pressure Tehran. The U.S. has widened its campaign over the past year by targeting Iranian shipping, insurance and trading firms that play a broader role in Iran's economy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1254173421027...
... I stopped by nfl.com and it was pink.
Is the National Football League early on Breast Cancer Awareness Month?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
The Urban Dictionary defines 'Going Rogue' -
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter...
Collins:
rogue
n
1 a dishonest or unprincipled person, esp. a man; rascal; scoundrel
2 Often jocular a mischievous or wayward person, often a child; scamp
3 a crop plant which is inferior, diseased, or of a different, unwanted variety
4 any inferior or defective specimen
- an animal of vicious character that has separated from the main herd and leads a solitary life
- rogue elephant
Sarah is like a Rogue Moose - by the way they shoot them in Alaska
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