Nuts, it’s Wednesday again, which means I have to get off my ass and get out of the house early. Plus, that means the dog’s alone until I get back, and he doesn’t like that being alone stuff. On the bright side, it’s supposed to be damn near 40 today, and that’s not too shabby. Maybe today’s the day we find out for sure when the Marc show starts. See y’all later on.
First!!!:banana::banana:
hello Seditionists!!!
awww..PJ, i know how you feel. Friday are my early days. and it’s really hard to get out of bed when it’s so cold.
hmm…it’s 43 right now in LA:eek: that’s unheard of over here!!!
doo doot do……….:40:
hmmm…..no one’s here yet, huh?
okay then……:yawn:
Good morning….quietgirl!
Hey quiet girl! I’m up early this morning, making coffee. Love my coffee.
You mentioned you were working on your animation. Is that your chosen field or just a class?
yay!!! signs of life!!!
morning Gaijinda and Isi!!!
yup, i’m studying animation, specifically 3-d character animation. but right now i’m working on some traditional 2-d animation for a class.:nod:
damn…things are getting even worse in Mexico
mexican miners’ families are still kept in the dark
Terrific, do you enjoy it?
My uncle was an artist back in the days of the old movie poster era 1930’s.
That is the first I have heard of the Mexican Mine Explosion.
hmmm…well, it is really tedious and it takes a lot of patience…which most of the time i seem to be lacking:mad:
but when i get to do my own animation, with my own characters and story, then i really get into it. yeah, you can say i enjoy it. i think i’ll enjoy it more when i actually get paid for all the work i do:fustrate::roll:
that’s awesome about your uncle!! so, he actually did paintings for movies or was he his own artists?
yeah, the officals have hardly said anything to the miners’ families. it’s been almost 3 days and they won’t even tell them what caused the explosion!
It’s great that you have a talent like that, quiet girl.
My uncle was an artist out of Oklahoma City. Worked for the huge movie house there and did original work for the opening of movies. He sometimes did posters 2-3 stories high. He was also one of the 1950’s era children’s tv show hosts and had a puppet and everything on tv in OKC.
all that coverage in Mexico actually makes the Sago mine incident look organized! :omg:
Good Mornin’ Seditionists!:sammy:
Yeah, look at China. They have mining tragedies all the freakin’ time…
that is amazing isi!! do you happen to know any movie posters he may have done? that sounds like a fun job. awesome! your uncle was like a OKC early version of captain Kangaroo!
hey there Jason!!:banana:
Maureen Dowd
NYTimes
2/22/06
Maybe Jason or Melina will post the article later on their sites.
Hey hey QG! Does anyone here know about Malloy walking out on the MR? I saw someone write that yesterday…Is that true? What happened? ❓
I’ve got it up isi here
Jason, there was a post on the majority report blog that said Malloy walked off, but pj said Werbe said they were on vacation. So, sounds like it wasn’t accurate. Don’t know for sure.
Thanks isi…:peace:
umm…this is the first i’ve heard about Malloy walking off…but looks like isi cleared things up.:blech:
Yeah, I didn’t know anything about it. I just saw someone mention it on yesterdays thread…:doh:
Quiet girl, I don’t know the names of the movies off hand, but I do have several of his posters. They were painted on thick card stock type material. I have a large cut out of an old movie star hanging on my wall. You can really succeed if you have talent and motivation. He had talent and desire, was from a small town in Oklahoma, and was a success. So, don’t ever give up on your dream.
Here’s a few more songs I wrote: The Ferris Wheel Kiss
that is amazing isi!
i know..i’m so close to graduating and finding an intership. i just have to get down to business and keep at it:nod:
i need to be whipped into shape:spank: haha…
thanks for the kind words isi:mrgreen::nixon:
I wouldn’t be suprised if this deal with the ports is some kind of smokescreen to:
1. Distract the public from Cheney, Abernoff, and IRAQ
2. Show that the rethug congress is a not a rubber stamp for Bush. ( ie its all an act)
3. The M$M will spin it that the rethugs saved the ports while the dems sat around doing nothing ( even though the dems are powerless the stupids don’t know that)
Riley has a poll up to find out how people listen to the show (radio, stream, xm, podcast). You can go to http://www.airamericaradio.com/markriley
Hey Jason your link is broken
I know Fred. I’m workin’ on it. I don’t know what the problem is…
Please Don’t
awww man…..i’m fading fast…..soooooooooo sleeeeeepy:yawn::yawn::yawn:
Those two are working…
Something that might be useful is that if you post a link to music or video that you say so in the post so clicking on it doesn’t open media player and kill the stream.
:rofl2:ha there wont be any votes for podcast on that poll dumb fucking bastards ok well im off to ottawa
:fist:vigilance
The last one for today: Building Robots After 9/11
Be careful Sean! :fist:
Is everyone getting the blog in BOLD from #26 on down? And, if so, how do I correct that?
I’m not isi. Hope I didn’t break the blog…:oops:
have fun Sean…don’t do anything i wouldn’t do:alc::nixon:
okay you guys…i’m going to go catch a few winks. talk to ya soon :sheep:-ple!!!
hopefully we’ll know if the new show really will start next week or not.:banana::banana::priest::sammy::rofl2:
let’s bring back the funny!!
Jason, it’s not horrible. Just wierd. 😯
sweet dreams QG..:yawn:
isi, i though it was just my computer acting up!
yeah, from 27 on, all the posts are in bold….not really sure why.
I don’t know isi. Maybe try closing your browser and reopen it…maybe? 🙄
Yeah… I am using IE and everything from Jason’s link down is in bold
Hello sheeple! I’m late
Quietgirl, thanks for the comment on the blog. Yeah, your right.
Dude, Building Robots:nod: Yeah, that’s cool!
Ok, is somebody messin’ with me. Every comment is in Bold. What gives?
night night all:yawn::yawn:
:paranoid:why’s it all bold? i think the NSA is responsible ok well im off im in nyc area and have three hours to go 17 miles i dont know if i will make it to my pickup on time
:jerk:ahhhh now im ready to go
I think Peter Werbe told on the first day that Malloy was down with flu hence they would be off and Peter would be filling in. I think Malloy was back last night because I heard him talking about the ports deal.
What did I do? What did I do? :doh:
I don’t have it on my end…:omg:
morning. isi, the blog here looks normal to me (OUR brand of normal, anyway!)
as mentioned yesterday, Iraq is not looking good. Regular iraqis are fleeing the country. (the blog’s inside edition)
then I read this:
ok all….I am off for now….have some cooking and grading to do!If I think of something witty I’ll post, but if not, I’ll just be lurking. 🙂
:gate:
I tried that Fred at first. But the last two links were broken. So, I went in and re-edited the post. I screwed up…sorry about that…never wanted to break up people’s streams. :rant1:
:omg:dah my mouse isnt working properly ok im off to listen to the riley and the maddow and sit in traffic for a couple hours
I don’t think Malloy walked off the show.. The DU folks mentioned something about him taking a long weekend.
Iraq is a mess, thanks Bush! :fu:
:spank: Jason, what happened man?:billcat:
Malloy was out on 16th, 17th and 20th because of the flu. Peter filled in. Never heard of anything about anybody walking out. :doh:
sean, have a good drive, ‘eh!
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Becky, if you’re out there….the vent guy edited one of my vents yesterday and ticked me off!
Good morning quietgirl, Gaijinda, isi and everyone else.
I’m kinda liking the boldface posts. Easier to read first thing in the morning, especially for those of us who stayed up to watch Boston Legal last night. (Denny Crane!)
Good to hear that Marc’s cat and Molloy are both back. Coincidence? Yeah, probably. 😆
OVERRIDE THE VETO!!!
IMPEACHMENT!!!
VIGILANCE!!!
:fire::fire::fire:
Ouch :spank: ouch! Travis, knock it off man! :omg:
I posted some songs I wrote and fucked the blog up!
:no: Oh well, I think I’ll have another :40:
Well, what are we going to do if we need something in bold? Make it Italic.:billcat: That’s crazy
How does Sean blog from his truck ?? I have never been able to use a cell phone to connect to the web reliably and the cost .. WOW.
It’s not bold on my end…
I don’t think it was me, I think it was :sammy:
Yeah that’s right it was :sammy: not me…:nod:
It seems like the Iraqi civil war thing might be a problem.
We should send Bush thank you letters:fu:
thank you notes is a wonderful idea, trav!
There, that should take care of all this boldness.
Yeah, we’re back in business!:banana: What the hell happened PJ?
Pj saves the day! Yeaaaahhhh! :banana:
I guess I better mind my p’s&q’s for now on…:40:
It was me man. All me man. :doh::rant1: Feel free to give me a big :fu:
Hey, they don’t teach you that stuff in American schools. I’ve drinking quarts..:doh:
fish, oh my, i was eating flounder occasionally as I was told it was wild line caught but now i’m reading they use trawlers and then there is that nasty pcb problem. don’t eat mammals or eggs and now my forays in to the pescatarian ways are in danger.
Saw your pic yesterday Trav, where is the rest of ya’? 😉
:rofl2:
Well, bold tags got inserted around an open anchor tag, which had the affect, apparently, of not closing the bold tag. Interestingly enough, it looked fine in Firefox, but not in IE (which is unusual, because normally you can screw things up big time in the code, and IE is very forgiving).
Oh, OK. Sure, that makes sense PJ:doh:
There’s a pic on my blog. No laughing though:no:
Makes sense, I’m using Firefox and it didn’t have the bold type problems…
Hello, y’all.
Thanks farmerkat for that fish link. I was a vegan for like 9 years, but kept gaining weight and had an increase in cholesterol! So, after Dr. Weil said eating salmon is good for your heart, I started to eat wild caught salmon sold at whole foods. Then, I added free range eggs (omega 3) and organic milk. Some tuna, sardines. I lost quite a bit of weight. But, I still have guilt over consuming animal products.
Ha ha! Travis you have that twilight theme on your picture. That’s sweet! I think you should let your hair grow out even more! If I didn’t have such fine hair I’d do the same..:fire: Guess I’ll just continue to shave my head….
Consuming a lot of Soy products is good as well. Not a hard thing to do in Japan…:gate:
Hi Becky! :fire:
RE: #29
I’m with you, Fred. I was thinking the same thing–especially the second point.
:paranoid:
isi – when i was vegan, i gained weight, too. i don’t do well with a lot of grain.
Hey becky! so the VG took my vent
Sooner or later the Republicans will blame the U.S Ski
Team’s poor performance on Clinton.
and made this vent:
Should I blame Clinton or Bush for the U.S. ski team’s poor performance at the Olympics?
WTF? i can’t imagine someone came up with a similar vent as mine, can you?
Hey, Farmerkat, Jason, everybody! I’m sorry I’m such a sporadic poster on here…I’m always trying to get ready for work and make my lunch and feed the cat and all that stuff.
I was a vegetarian for a year and definitely gained weight and didn’t feel very good. Grain doesn’t do well with me either, Farmerkat….
Yeah, I have a sun hate pic. I feel kinda stupid wearing it in Alaska. I guess when ‘they’ pick me up to go to Gitmo, I’ll ask if I can take it.:billcat:
I mean, I’ve never worn that hat before. But while taking the picture, I felt quite stupid. Anyway, new topic. :doh:
That is just sickening, farmerkat.
This administration is disgusting.
Hallucinogenic tea, Yippie!:billcat::barf:
I’m forgetting whole words, so I think that’s the bye-bye signal. Later sheeple.
:fist:
So far
Bush has made a joke out of the presidency
FEMA had made a joke out of Federal agencies
The rethug congress has made a joke out of government
And so Scalia and Roberts are going to make a joke out of the supreme court..
Whats next… Oh yeah Bush will attack IRAN and Russia and China will make a cinder out of the USA
this administration has completly screwed up the middle east:
Well, pass the hallucinogenic tea then…. 🙂
I kind of hoped that Russia and/or China would come to Hamas’s aide. That would flip King George the bird in a very appropriate way.
pj, we need a teacup!
Trav, I like the hat. Hallucinogenic tea? I’ll have some!
Here’s a pic of me when I was a kid in between my two older brothers…here
Cute, Jason! And I love the teacup idea, Kat!
Bye, all….
Farmerkat: The link to the article on Hamas is not working
Jason, what a great photo! Do you get to see your brothers much since you are in :gate:
Thanks isi. We are all living together in Japan. Crazy eh? :gate:
This port thing is so unreal that Im just in shock…what can these people possibly be thinking? Do they want to go down in flames? Maybe they just dont care anymore….but theyve managed to get everybody up in arms….crazy!
Good morning everybody!
Welcome to a wonderful new day of hell!
Im still sick and trying to figure out if I can do the things I have to do or if I should just get back in bed.
Good Morning.
:omg:
You know…it’s reaching the point that I can’t hear that man’s voice without wanting to :barf:
Hey Melina. Malloy was saying this was just a ploy to get the Republicans to look tough by going against Bush on this. Just like you said. Bush doesn’t care anymore. His presidency is awful but for the greater good of the Rapeublican party he’ll take a fall for them. Even though it was Hillary and Menendez that first spoke out against this..I think
Jason- Youre all there together? Wow! What do your parents think of this? Are they here?…or maybe they followed too;-)
Jason, sounds like the makings of a movie. :nod:
Quit ranting about the Dubai non-issue.:omg:
i always attempt to turn the volume down when chimpy comes on to avoid :barf:
I dont think that Bush is taking a fall for anyone…dont you think that what is left is his legacy? Im sure he wants this to go through because he is up those Saudi’s butts and he wants to go and live with them when hes done…being someone who likes that sorta desert with brush terrain….I think that the neocons really believe in privatizing everything…everything….and letting the poor eat dirt. If they believe in this though then the Saudis can buy our polic department, mass transit, bridges…everything…as if they dont own it really already.
Isnt this all part of Reaganomics put into motion and now coming to its fruition?
Nicki-I don’t think it’s a non-issue. I think it’s a wake up call against the corporatocracy. That’s good. I don’t think most people even realized that the ports were owned by a UK company to begin with. I think David Sirota had a good write up about this. Melina-My Mom is in Tennessee. She’s coming for a visit in May. My sister lives in our home state in Iowa w/ count ’em 7 kids! :omg:
In John Dean’s interview with Randi yesterday, he wondered out loud whether the Carlyle Group is somehow involved in the UAE ports deal. My guess is, yes. My feeling at this point is that Bush has been so used to getting whatever he wants that he is genuinely pissed that people are balking on this. It stands in the way of his money, money, money.
How can people think their government is on their side with crap like this Port thing? I’m starting to feel overwhelmed with all the crap.:(
And what would Bush’s legacy be exactly? It’s not a very good record to leave behind.
The port thing isn’t as crazy as it sounds, if you realize that the threat of a WMD delivered by al Qaeda (or anybody else) via the shipping network is probably overblown. But you can’t admit that without admitting we are not really at war, don’t need domestic surveillance or the PATRIOT act, etc. So IMNSHO the screw-up isn’t outsourcing port management, it’s revealing the big lie that we aren’t as at risk as they want us to believe.
The left is playing in to the neocon “permanent war” mentality by going nuts over this.
Bush is probably fooling himself with the help of Rove and Cheney. He never bothers to see anything that isn’t filtered through his cronies.
The core issue in the Middle East is very straightforward, namely oil. Since WWI, when the world began to move onto an oil-based economy, the Middle East has become central in world affairs, for the very obvious reason that it has, by far the largest and the most accessible petroleum resources— primarily in Saudi Arabia, secondarily in Iraq, and thirdly in the Gulf Emirates, and elsewhere. It is, as the State Department described it during the Second World War, when the US was taking over: “It’s a stupendous source of strategic power and the greatest material prize in world history.” “It’s strategically the most important part of the world”, as the president of Columbia University described it, as he was making his transition from Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe to supreme commander of the world— in the White House. Which, I guess, says something about Columbia’s rank in the world order.
Ask yourself why the congress demagogues are flipping out. This is another opportunity to trash Muslims. Fuck these people. Don’t sheep into this non-issue.
I agree with Jason. This seems to be an issue that people can understand and unite around against the outsourcing of our country and the corporatocracy that rules the land.
This is not a company from an Arab country, it is a state owned company whose country was involved in 9/11. It is not benign. I will post this quote again from Maureen Dowd this morning.
I don’t know Nicki. That is exactly what the Bush admin. and the right wingers have been saying. They are saying it’s a race issue, and that’s why everyone is flipping out. I think it’s about private companies manning our ports and that’s being exposed in much more detail.
I don’t think it’s an opportunity to trash Muslims, exactly (although I understand it can be used that way). I think the point is that:
1. The Bush Crime Family (that includes friends) is in the pocket of the Saudis. (Remember Fahrenheit 911?)
2. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi or had ties to Arabia. Certainly a good deal of funding for the operation came from there.
3. Bush has demonstrated repeatedly that he is a fuckup and not to be trusted. We cannot blithely go along with this just because he says it’s fine to do so.
And I agree with whoever said we shouldn’t be outsourcing control of our ports to ANYONE.
I think it may be time to move back to Bologna. My husband’s already studying Italian!
In October 2005 there was a three-week showing of all the films (a complete retrospective each day) in Paris. Similar retrospectives are now being presented in several other French cities. Meanwhile a 3-DVD set of all six films plus the video documentary Guy Debord, son art et son temps (all in the original French) was released in November 2005. This boxed set, entitled Guy Debord—L’Intégral and including a 138-page booklet of texts and illustrations, is distributed by GCTHV (Gaumont/Columbia/Tristar Home Video). Information and film clips can be found at http://www.guydebordcineaste.com/. The DVD set can be ordered from Gaumont Video or from various other online distributors. Note, however, that these Gaumont DVDs are coded for Zone 2 (Europe) and will not play on Zone 1 (North American) machines. There are ways of getting around this coding, but they may involve downloading a special software program or getting an “all-region” DVD player. Be sure that you know how to deal with this problem before ordering the DVDs.
Hartman made the point that if we expect to sell the 2 billion a day in Tbills to someone we have to give them dollars in return so the port deal may just be business to help George bankrupt the US treasury.
Where was the outrage when Great Britain owned the 6 ports. Great Britain: Home to the shoe bomber and thousands more terrorists.
Don’t use racist appeals to kick start a movement.
I thought that Bushco was behind 9/11.
:sheep::omg:
Goodnight my lovely Seditionists! :love:
Fight the Power! :fist:
Yes, I agree isi- The UK company was/is a private company…this is a government that has been directly involved in the 9-11 attacks and other terrorist activities.
I dont like a private company taking over the ports any more than I like privatizing Social Security or any number of things they want to privatize. Its just to line their pockets and the pocets of their friends….This is the long term plan: deregulate, privatize, get rich…and let the charities and churchs deal with the social problems, unless they are something that a private company can get richer on.
But this port thing really raises things to the next level.
Do other countries own and run other parts of our infrastructure? Maybe theyve been slipping this into other bills or something…Im not sure…but they shouldnt.
We’ve already seen how screwed up things get if the ports shut down for even a couple of days. Its not only about terrorism. This country can be easily derailed in any number of ways, and stopping shipping is one of them.
It has nothing to do with racism Nicki.
Later
Nicki- the great britian thing was a private company apparently…and there was outrage…but no one paid attention because its part of the whole shift of things. It should be the same outrage when the medicare drug plan goes private too….it is privatization of all that should be state controlled…but these neocons dont believe that the government should be running these things…they want to outsource and spend muchmore money on it and then create new branches to oversee their friends running things, and staffed by their friends, who are also taking them on vacation to their palace in the sky.
Im thinking that when the big oil guys who really run the world meet…and sit around the table….there are the Arabs and the big corporate hot shots…and Bush wants to assure his spot at that table. How he can keep up is beyond me, because I dont believe that he is that intelligent…but who knows? Maybe the dumb thing is an act.
I really feel like this is about the REAL power in the world, and that may be a group that is above all of this. I dont know if Bush is in that group…yet….
Maybe Im letting myself slip into tin foil hattage….
Scientific Name:
Nicotiana alata ‘Nicki Rose’
Family:
Nicki Rose Flowering Tobacco
Family:
Solanaceae
Description:
Modern cultivars and series of Flowering Tobacco are usually dwarf in size (one foot or less in height), but cultivars from a few years ago were about two to three feet in height, and much more showy and fragrant in bloom, including ‘Nicki Rose’.
:omg::rofl2:
The other thing about calling this racism is…well, Im the least racist person in the world, but I call em as I see em, and I believe that a fringe element in the Muslim religion is inciting stuff all over the world and the leaders need to step up strongly and tell people to cut this out. I dont see a whole hell of alot of strong muslim leaders speaking out on this. I read all day, all sorts of things, and I know that if they were it would be under-reported, but it could be the headline in their own papers and its not.
The Koran doesnt have a part about not depicting God…thats the Torah….right there is a discrepancy that is being carried over by the mullahs from another text into the Koran and causing unrest all over the world.
I hate organized religion of all kinds. I can see what people get from it and I sometimes wish I had that thing that would make me be a believer, because I think its comforting. But, how could anyone take these texts literally? I respect that some people do, but I cant help but wonder if part of that isnt a cop out of some kind. Its scary here with no reason or purpose, but Im really thinking that this may be it, unless Jesus/Mohammud/God comes to me one day…then I take it all back;-)
These texts,if viewed as metaphor, philosophy, great literature, historical documents, or whatever, are fantastic and really bring alot of ideas to the human condition. But if youre gonna depend on someone else who runs a mosque or church or synagogue to tell you what they mean, and if youre gonna blindly follow what they tell you without common sense…well, call it racism or whatever you want, but its just stupid to outsource anything to a culture run by a religion that is so out of control that a portion of the leaders are espousing violence. Its like leasing our ports to a state and maybe Jim Jones or David Karesh might have somehting to do with some of it, their followers are all around, but we dont know and we wouldnt want to offend anyone.
If the Catholic Church or some Synogogue has been out killing anyone in the past couple hundred years (besides Israel please,) then keep them out of running anything also. And also lets separate church and state here. I wouldnt let a state that doesnt have that separation run anything either.
So, its not racist…its religion-ist…and its not everyone in the religion, its the fringe going insane and tearing up countries and killing people.
BLITZER: Are you concerned at one of our top stories today about this Dubai-based company taking control of security at six major ports here in the United States?
CARTER: Well, I’ve been to Dubai, and I’ve seen the remarkable port facilities they have there, perhaps the best in the world. I’m not knocking the ones in the United States, of course. My presumption is, and my belief is, that the president and his secretary of state and the Defense Department and others have adequately cleared the Dubai government organization to manage these ports. I don’t think there’s any particular threat to our security.
Obviously, the Homeland Security would have to be involved directly with, and in a partnership with, the Dubai people as they clear folks to work in their ports, particularly in sensitive areas. So the overall threat to the United States and security, I don’t think it exists. I’m sure the president’s done a good job with his subordinates to make sure this is not a threat.
President Carter has much more faith in Bush than I do. I don’t trust dubya. Period.
As Travis would say, check it
Damn! Hey, NickiRose, I grow that sucker every summer.
Okay, maybe not that specific variety but I almost always have a flowering tobacco plant next to my front door. Maybe this year I’ll grow two, one for you. LOL!
I’m having computer trouble lately so if you don’t see me online for days at a time, that’s why. I’m saving up recipes for once I get this fixed.
Later, seditionisti. VIGILANCE! And cats belong in the home! (I wanted to lecture Mishna when I got that mass cat update email from Marc. Even though it’s clear that La Fonda has learned a fast way to the top in show biz…)
The White House appeared stunned by the uprising, over a transaction that they considered routine — especially since China’s biggest state-owned shipper runs major ports in the United States, as do a host of other foreign companies. Mr. Bush’s aides defended their decision, saying the company, Dubai Ports World, which is owned by the United Arab Emirates, would have no control over security issues.
That was Jimmy Carter being interviewed? Wow, sounds like Carter finally hit senility.
Or else is it maybe a different Carter? Hope…hope…
My Repig ex-Navy boss has declared that any elected official who does not do everything he or she can to prevent the takeover of our major east coast ports by a nation that refused to cooperate in the hunt for Osama bin Laden should be impeached without delay. And he didn’t mean Tom. It’s a big deal when someone THAT dedicated to the party turns on a highly partisan Repig administration. No matter the reality of how good or bad an idea this is…the Repigs would be wise to turn on the Bush administration now. The public is seriously upset by this.
Now I really do need to get to work and let the computer take a nap.
Mustafa Alani, security expert at the UAE’s Gulf Research Center, said the furor over the impending sale was driven by politicians trying to thwart the U.S. government’s drive to mend ties with Arab states.
“This is Arab phobia and it is clearly politically motivated,” he told Reuters.
He said opponents of the deal “are reopening 9/11 wounds, turning this into an Arab-Muslim conspiracy to control the lives of Americans.”
“They want public opinion to sabotage improved relations, but they picked the wrong country,” Alani added.
U.S.-Arab relations had been strained by the September 11 attacks on U.S. cities by 19 Arabs from al Qaeda, including UAE citizens. Washington’s support for Israel, considered an enemy by many Arabs, and its war on Iraq have also inflamed tensions.
Analysts also said the uproar could scare off other Gulf Arab states, all U.S. allies and flush with petrodollars, from seeking similar high-profile investments.
It was an excerpt of Jimmy Carter being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN.
Quit baiting, Springer. Why didn’t you call people into the streets after the Ohio election hijacking?
I think Jimmy Carter’s losing it. Last time I saw him on TV (I forget what for–maybe the 2004 DNC?), he seemed really to be faltering and somewhat out of touch.
That said, and his mistakes in office notwithstanding, I think he is the best example of what a president can be: A good person, trying to do right by his country.
(I think I tend to steer clear of political comments because they make me sound naive. I’m better at the attempted funny, or pop culture references. :neutral:)
This is what I say to mustafa alani:
Bullshit:holla:
Okay bigots. Goodbye!
Nicki, I am not a bigot and I don’t appreciate being called one. We disagree on this issue, nothing more, nothing less.
Tell us how you really feel Nicki! Dont hold back!
Charles Goyette is talking about how the neocons propagandizing and waring against Islam and Arabs is now backfiring with this port deal. :rofl2:
Isi- no one could possibly think youre a bigot. I thought Nicki was joking, but maybe shes upset. If we cant have different points of view then what are we?
If China really owns some of our ports I have to learn about that. I had no idea…why did I think that the port authority ran all of that?…At least they arent fundamentalists or associated wit any…..?…
God I feel like I dont know anything anymore…
Hamas link – it was a canadian site, but here’s another link to the same ap story
sorry ’bout that
Kristapea – actually, I think this port thing shows how far the neocon paranoia on security has taken over; they’ve won this battle. The security aspects of this really are trivial, and the fact that Democrats are going nuts, and Republicans are going against their business interests over it, is to me a frightening indication of how far down the road to a permanent “war mentality” we’ve gone.
You guys have to recall that GWB isn’t realy a neocon; the neocon’s were actually pretty nervous about GWB when he was elected, and still don’t really trust him. His fate and theirs are only partly linked; he is a tool to be used and discarded when broken. They (the neocon’s) probably don’t want the port deal, it was the Bush business folks who did. Trashing the deal is a victory for them – making the left do the dirty work for them is a bonus.
A written report from Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago says Cheney was “clearly inebriated” at the time of the shooting.
Agents observed several members of the hunting party, including the Vice President, consuming alcohol before and during the hunting expedition, the report notes, and Cheney exhibited “visible signs” of impairment, including slurred speech and erratic actions, the report said.
According to those who have read the report and talked with others present at the outing, Cheney was drunk when he gunned down his friend and the day-and-a-half delay in allowing Texas law enforcement officials on the ranch where the shooting occurred gave all members of the hunting party time to sober up.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8184.shtml
So apparently Bush didnt know about the Port deal…if you take the White House at its word….I cant believe that….impossible…unless he really is just the wind up fake cowboy puppet that he appears to be…
If you can’t do it in bed, it aint worth doing.
Well, even if port management has minimal security implications (and, in this case, I don’t see how that can be; we do a piss-poor job of securing the ports as it is – being more interested in trying to get porn search records out of Google – I can’t imagine that people in charge of managing things couldn’t quickly find areas where there are gaps to be exploited – and make sure they don’t get fixed), it’s just plain dumb, politically, to allow it to happen. Joe Sixpack does not want the A-rabs running our ports – even if he had no idea that a British company was running them before.
Thank goodness this administration lacks intelligence and humility or we’d really be in trouble, but why come out and threaten a veto over this? Why not say, well, perhaps we should look into this a little more closely – and then bury it? To come out and threaten a veto as an unpopular president with an unpopular vice-president over an unpopular issue is just plain dumb.
What the Democrats ought to be doing now is bringing up some questions:
First, do we want to outsource the management of something as vital as our ports (or airports, rail system, highways)? If so, do we want to outsource the job to foreign companies – even allies? If so, are state-run companies with financial ties (and two hijackers) to 9/11 OK? And why does this adminsitration (that – literally – walks hand-in-hand with the leaders of these states) feel it’s important enough to threaten a veto?
Enquiring minds want to know.
too many questions, head going to explode.
via http://www.huffingtonpost.com
San Francisco Wants Dog Poop To Be City Power Source…:grin:
Thank goodness, we can always count on Joe.
Joe Lieberman can kiss my ass!
And democrats call him other names as well.
thank god I can use the dog poop for something. i was beginning to wonder.
pj, good questions. Cenk has a funny piece at huffpo if you seditionists are in need of a little funny (with some pretty good comments following)
(oh, what is it with lieberman’s total infatuation with the shrub? I mean, this is sickening.
Joe Lieberman is a problem…
Im sure hes gonna say that hes been there and the ports are run so well or whatever….
I dont think any of our ports should be run by foreign countries…this is outsourcing at its worst and it has to be stopped!
I just saw another WH press briefing with pig-boy McClellan while I was writing, so it ended up in my blog…but anyway; the questioning is like, Helen Thomas says that most Americans dont even know that they had a British company running these ports, and whats that all about?…then another woman reporter tries to ask him about the secrecy involved in all of this….they are trying to figure out what the president knew and when he knew it.
I am just convinced that this is alcoholism and a dysfunctional family at its worst!
Honestly, the point is probably more about the message that all of this sends. They are selling off our ports…oh no, the MANAGEMENT of our ports…we still own them. Who will do the hiring? Will we have any sort of oversignt of who these guys hire? Piggy boy says “well, thats why we’re being so careful in picking this company”…huh?Bush is hand in hand with these creeps.
Im done.
Im going to the chiropractor and hope he can adjust my brain…and starbucks!
Then Ill try to post my thing….Its just too much info coming in too fast.
i thought this was a big issue when it first came out and i still think it will cause a very ugly backlash (like the backlash needs any help :tongue: )
i like his last line!
:nod:the friggin blog is on fire today huh?
hey FRED THE MAGICAL POWER OF THE WI-FI IS HOW I GET ONLINE SO OFTEN PRETTY MUCH EVERY TRUCKSTOP HAS WI-FI NOW-A-DAYS ANYWAY HEY WTF DAMN CAPS LOCK ok anywho
:shock:wow so were in the middle of a race war on the blog damn you BIGOTS im with whoever it is that said they dont want the ports ran by ANYBODY other than us because uh when something gets through it should be OUR fault ok then
CitKahn, don’t be inviting Joe Lieberman to kiss any part of your anatomy if you know what’s good for you.
I’m hearing conflicting explanations here. Is it port SECURITY or just port MANAGEMENT that is being outsourced first to Great Britain and now to the United Arab Emirates? It doesn’t really make that big a difference in the grand scheme of things but I’d like to get my terminology correct.
One of my co-workers says this is a non-issue because (I’m quoting him), “They’ll have to hire Americans to work there. And, besides, they won’t make money off us if they’re more interested in breaking our security than running the port well. I know it’s a government run company but it’s still a company and it still wants to make money.”
He’s a young guy…I’ll cut him a little slack and not rip his head off. But I feel like I keep having to explain my stand on this. It’s not that I don’t want Arabs running our ports. It’s that the company is owned by a government that actively tried to block our hunt for a criminal who committed mass murder within our borders. I see no reason to reward any government that does that.
And with that off my chest (replaced with bread crumbs, apparently) I’ll get back to my lunch.
are you a bigot, sean :spank:
:nod:but i try best i can not to be one
hey i even used to have a black friend and i miss him so there
one time my black friend grabbed my titty so i punched him in the face
If you can’t do it in bed, it aint worth doing.
Comment by pjsauter — February 22, 2006 @ 12:44 pm
There are exceptions to that rule. I can’t plant my foot in the Chimp’s ass if I’m in bed.
Unless he’s there with me, and I don’t even want to contemplate that little Brokeback Mountain scenario. :barf:
Looking Middle Eastern?
You Are a Prime Suspect
By PIROUZ AZADI
As we approach the fifth anniversary of September 11, when the US mainland was attacked by an act of terrorism and suffered the loss of nearly 3,000 innocent lives, the tens of millions of European and American citizens of Middle Eastern ancestry have been devastatingly caught between “a rock and a hard place. In quest for a better life and democracy, these immigrants left their homelands for the West seeking freedom and equal opportunity for themselves and their children. These immigrants, as exemplified, for instance, by the prominent presence of nearly one million Americans of Iranian heritage in the US, are among the most law-abiding, most educated, and most affluent citizens, contributing immensely toward the US economy (in education, research and development, business and manufacturing, arts and civic service) and the advancement of the quality of life for the nation as a whole.
Mostly from the middle and upper classes, many have left their country of origin for fear of religious, ethnic, social, or political persecutions; it is so painfully ironic that they now experience similar mistreatment in their new homeland. While they cannot return to their old countries of origin, they also feel looked down upon and with suspicion by neighbors and colleagues, but particularly by government agents in the US. In one word, their “wine has turned to sour vinegar again. The “Patriot Act and its extensions and extrapolations, and the government programs such as wiretapping of communications as implemented by the National Security Agency, interrogations and imprisonments, etc., have further exacerbated their predicaments. Their US-born European counterparts, whose ancestors arrived just a few generations earlier, feel justified as they look down at their more recent compatriots with suspicion, discriminatory practices, intimidation, and even threats.
As painful as it is, it must be put on record that US-born children of Middle Eastern ancestry are bullied by, not only by their peers, but also by their teachers in schools, while their admissions into colleges and professional schools and professional opportunities are increasingly jeopardized…
http://www.counterpunch.com
I agree with those who post that the issue is “Why are we outsourcing our resources.”
Who is “we”?
(Who is benefitting?)
ZNet | Corporate Globalization
Korea and International Affairs
by Noam Chomsky and Sun Woo Lee; Monthly JoongAng; February 22, 2006
SUN WOO LEE: How is your health?
NOAM CHOMSKY: I am fine, as you can see.
SUN WOO LEE: Is there any recent issue of interest related to Korea which you have been following?
NOAM CHOMSKY: Korea is playing a very significant role in world affairs. First of all, its economic development was remarkable, but then its political development has been equally remarkable since the overthrow of the Jun dictatorship. It is becoming a lively, exciting society. Many things are happening.
[There’re] a number of things I hope to do when I am in Korea. One of the invitations is from a Korea-based international peace organization that is trying … to lessen the confrontation with the North. They have actions that take place right on the Demilitarized Zone. Both sides participate. So I will probably take part in some of those. There is also an invitation from Jeju Island, which I am very interested in going to. I think they have some anniversary of the massacre. It is a place I have been eager to see for a long time. I think, I mean, I think the President and the government are taking a sensible attitude towards overcoming what could be a very serious crisis of nuclear weapons.
SUN WOO LEE: We Koreans have been in the throes of dealing with the shock from Dr. Hwang’s scandal related to his faking of research papers. Have you heard about this?
NOAM CHOMSKY: Oh, sure.
SUN WOO LEE: Apart from controversies about the existence of the relevant stem cell, some people argue that this research which requires cloning embryonic stem cells raises ethical concerns. What is your position on this?
NOAM CHOMSKY: I think it can be done in a way which doesn’t violate human rights…
http://www.zmag.org
“Final Borders” and “Security Zones” Outline Palestinian Bantustan “State”
Israeli Occupation Pursuing Next Stage of Control
by Gabi Becker; February 20, 2006
Escalating Israeli declarations around “final borders” are alarming, particularly in the face of ongoing Occupation pursuits to devour more Palestinian land, control the West Bank, and contain the Palestinian Struggle. Recent announcements, launched during the Herzliya policy conference that ended the day before the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, were not a surprise in the face of the near completion of the Apartheid Wall, confirming Israeli plans to permanently control approximately half the West Bank by imprisoning the majority of Palestinians in walled ghettos. In continuing its current policy and measures, the Occupation seeks to deepen and make official, preferably through negotiations, its de facto annexation of lands between the Wall and the Green Line as well as the Jordan Valley, thus demarcating a Palestinian “state” more accurately referred to as bantustans, ghettos, or reservations.
Already, Palestinians are closed-in/out by the Wall, settlements, bypasses, and checkpoints/terminals all the while the Occupation increases its stronghold in areas outside the Wall—that is, Jerusalem, the “seam zone,” and the Jordan Valley, the latter two Occupation proclaimed “security zones.” Today, the areas between the Wall and the Green Line—the so-called “seam zone”—are de facto annexed, either through their inaccessibility to land owners and farmers, or by the military and court orders that declared them closed or demanding of permits. As the Wall seals the fate of Jerusalem, it also guarantees the annexation of the major settlement blocs of Ma’ale Adumim, Gush Etzion, and Ariel. The Israeli plan is to expand settlements with even greater speed while solidifying the settler linkage between the coast, the Jordan Valley, and Jerusalem, encircling and close-in on the ghettos while targeting Palestinians in the “security zones” with expulsion.
The “zones” are expected to be bases for settlement industries, forcing many Palestinians into cheap labor as the Occupation, once again, seeks to ensure dependency with the ultimate goal of breaking the Palestinian spirit, with the “state’s” sealed “border” acting as the noose around the Struggle’s neck. That is, “security zones” become centers for Occupation brutality and violations, as they represent a huge portion of the West Bank that is closed-off from most Palestinians through gates and checkpoints, where Palestinians going to their lands or villages in these parts are considered “infiltrating” “Israeli-controlled” areas, and where Occupation Forces patrol as they prepare the next attack on the bantustan “state.” Meanwhile, international aid agencies knowingly support this under the banners of “humanitarian aid,” “work for food,” “rule of law,” and “democracy building.”
The Herzliya Conference, attended by the likes of the Occupation’s military generals, “Yesha” council representatives (West Bank and Gaza settlers), Knesset members, government officials, university professors, bank representatives (the list clearly overlapping), US think tanks, members of the US Jewish “community,” and this year’s special guest former US President Carter who stopped by on his way to “observe” the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, all take part in the Conference to make a toast to the past and future of Israeli expansionism. Herzl, the “Founding Father” of Zionism and author of The Jewish State, would be proud. The Herzliya Conference, taking place in Herzl’s namesake settlement of “Herzliya”—built on the destroyed Palestinian village of Abu Kishk—resonates similarities to the World Zionist Congresses, the first of which took place in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland and chaired by Herzl himself. But, unlike the Zionist Congresses that took place in Zionism’s homeland—Europe—this conference takes place after the Palestinian displacement, and this time the plan is not how to establish a Jewish State in Palestine, but how to bring about the final annihilation of Palestine (under the very cynical rhetoric of establishing a “state”)…
http://www.zmag.org
Sean: I didn’t realize the WIFI thing about truck stops but it sounded like you were blogging while you were stopped in traffic. I guess I’m used to the Interstates in the west where truck stops are 600 miles apart.
well i will be on then i will drive and then be on again im all over the place im in pennsylvania now was in jersey all morning
I was reading in the WSJ about these “ports” and most are container off loading facilities. Back in the 1980’s RayGun was to cheap to build any so the Japanese built four on the west coast and one in Galveston so they could load and unload their ships. When Japan folded in the early 90’s they sold them to other Asian countries/firms so China ( the communist variety) now owns the four on the west coast ( LA, SF. Portland and Seattle). P & O owns six on the east coast and some company from Singapore owns the ones in Galveston and NO. They were apparently never owned by the US government.
And where did we get this security crap ??? The people who operate these “port” facilities only provide guards to keep someone from driving their tractor in and running off with the wrong container. Ships coming and going are inspected at sea for safely things by the Coast Guard. On top of that nuclear weapons ( at least the Plutonium variety) aren’t particularly radioactive. I wonder if we import Uranium in containers ??
Turning a Blind Eye to Genocide
Real Holocaust Denial
By SAM SMITH
The jailing of Holocaust denier David Irving in Austria is a reminder of how easy it is to imitate evil even as one excoriates it. The law that convicted Irving is of the sort the Nazis would have invoked, albeit for far different purposes, and was a routine offense in Orwell’s 1984.
Many fail to see this irony because they are engaged in the greatest Holocaust denial of all: a refusal to look seriously at why there was a Holocaust in the first place. To blame it all on anti-Semitism is as dangerously ahistorical as to deny its existence. Yes, Jews were the victims, but why did an ancient and widespread prejudice produce such an extreme result in this case?
We avoid this question because it takes us places we don’t want to go. Like the role of modern bureaucracy and technology in the magnification of evil. Like the commingling of corporate and state interests in a way the world had never seen before. Like the failure of Germany’s liberal elite to stand effectively against wrong eerily echoed today in the failure of America’s liberal elite to do likewise.
Some of the most important lessons of the Holocaust are simply missed. Among these, as Richard Rubenstein has pointed out, is that it could only have been carried out by “an advanced political community with a highly trained, tightly disciplined police and civil service bureaucracy. . .
http://www.counterpunch.com
:love:ahhhh you just have to love the free market
:mad:wasnt there a RED scare some time back?
:evil:arent commies evil?
:40:and the russian variety of them drunks
Lieberman doesn’t have a problem with the Dubai port deal? I am confused about this whole thing. But my main concern is why are we, in some corners, so outraged by Dubai “managing,:, but not at, say, Singapore?
Popular culture in this country has yet to transcend our anti-Arab bias.. We will. :omg:
lieberman just wants that cabinet position so bad he cant get his head out of georges ass:!:
I have a great idea… lets outsource the National Guard to China then they could occupy the US and no one would notice.
If all the Dubai thing is about is facilities management I don’t understand what the big deal is either other than they could just let in an OBL Inc container and no one would be wiser. Not that P & O wouldn’t do the same with the proper palm greasing.
I dont think that this is anti-arab bias in general…this is against a country that recognized the Taliban as the lawful govt of Afghanistan and is against us for all intents and purposes except for Bush and his hand holding brokeback relationship with shiek whomever….. Really, I dont think we should outsource ANY of this stuff. But its not a racial thing…its more of a radical thing.
If, say, the IRA was running Ireland and their church told them to kill non-catholics, I would be against outsourcing these key points to them too. That is just an example….
If a place has church and state too closely tied and a violent fringe element….
These guys laundered money for and sheltered someone who attacked us…. not to mention the human rights issues, but then we dont do much about that stuff anymore so maybe its unfair to consider it
look, its a psychological thing with this administration. They just keep going and going and going….its like the repeat the lie till it sounds true thing that they do…its just so unbelievable that you start to question yourself.
N
icki- I am not either gonna start questioning myself because you keep saying that I am a bigot or whatever, and I dont think that its right for you to try to shut people down like that, and then post a million articles instead of actually defending your position.
… it all makes no sense…Im trying to sort it out….and have to take my son somewhere so maybe will have figured it out in the waiting room….
I was not singling anyone in particular out for bigotry. I included everyone, including me. Our culture. I have to go, but I will write more later.
Perhaps congress is pissed about the thing because they were not consulted until it \was a done deal.
:omg:
even the guy who was supposed to approve it didnt know about it go figure
hmmm i wonder if this will work?
I agree with Gypsy about not letting Lieberman kiss your ass — you don’t know where his lips have been!
I just heard Bruce Bartlett on Fresh Air extolling how bad Bush is, how non-republican. Not that I’m a cynic but I find the timing amd message too convenient. Now that the lame duck has raped and pillaged, the “real” Republicans appear saying, “Bad George! Bad” and then expect the public to elect Frist or some “real conservative” to take the reigns.
Dubya as stalking horse. Dubai Ports as red herring.
Too damned convenient. The clever Rove has pitched a screwball and we are swinging at it like a drunk with the DTs.
I agree that our ports should be run by USA companies. Y’know, ones not based in the Bahamas? One’s with unquesioned and uncompromised allegiance — something foreign entities can’t deliver. (There is some evidence that during WWII that certain industrial facilities in Germany were not hit as hard depending on their international corporate connections.)
The PNAC has dropped the race(ist) card and are watching as we pick it up and do their dirty work. They come off clean, we come off racist or isolationist. Slick trick!
Besides, unloading the ships requires no security. It’s the loading that is of concern. Once the ship enters the port…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster
Most containers coming into the US are inspected at the point of origin. Each container carries a RFID tracking tag which is loaded with the pertinent info about the shipment by the shipper and then fits in a slot on the side of the container. If someone wanted to send us a surprise it probably would not be very difficult. A lot of containers are transshipments going to Europe that are loaded on trains directly at the dock and then shipped to another facility on the east coast and reloaded on a ship. It is a cost trade off between the time and the dollars required to go around Africa or South America. Unfortunately the Panama canal is no longer wide and deep enough to accommodate most of the worlds container ships. They just built a new rail facility in Panama to allow transhipment’s in Panama but the volume coming into the US is still huge.
Come off as racist or isolationist to whom, exactly? This is a loser issue for Bush. In fact, if handled well by the Democrats (which I don’t for a minute think it will be), it could be a great way to showcase the whole issue of privatization, and how the Republicans would sell sell out the health, safety, and welfare of US citizens just to make a buck.
:fist:naomi klein is awesome everybody go read no logo right now do it now damn it i said NOW
If the RNC has chosen this point to diverge from Bush in order to prepare for 2008 — as in jettison the booster rocker before igniting the next stage — they get to make the rules…they get to interpret our motives for the M$M
If the left screams about “foreign” ownership they can say we are xenophobes.
If we don’t raise a fuss they can say we are soft on homeland security.
Agreed, assuming this is a ploy to distance themselves from Bush in anticipation of the next push is a big leap, but the GOP has been playing a long term game. Sacrificing Dubya for the cause would be a perfectly normal strategy.
That, or it is just the usual under-the-table big bucks deals. I’m just guessing here.
sweet all my porn on my computer fit onto one cd kick ass
Thats nice Sean…as long as you have your porn everything is right with the world….;-)
well almost everything!!!!!
My new goal for the coming election is a voter turnout of 10% or less…a vote of “no confidence” in the Republicans and the Democrats, all of whom keep blathering on about a terrorist threat that simply does not exist. For God’s sake, in the US our chances of being killed in a vending machine accident are higher than our chances of being killed by terrorists.
Really, this country is in worse shape than I have seen it in 56 years. Nixon was cake compared to this. We had the balls to disembowel Nixon, at least.
Our craven response to 9/11 was nauseating–our entire nation turned into hysterical jellyfish? Blubbering cowards who couldn’t wait to give away our rights to the creeps who appear at least to have facilitated the attacks? The old Western image of the steady, brave, independent American is now a sad joke. I’m glad Jimmy Stewart can’t see what we’ve become.
One of the things I admire most about Fearless Marc and Jim Urp is that they have no public heroes, no sacred cows but the truth and the funny. Damn, I miss that show!
And please where is my goddam emoticon of the Molotov-cocktail throwing Smiley? I need that son of a bitch!30
Ten percent, huh? The sad thing is, it’s probably easier than you think. Sometimes I really feel like no one cares anyway.
Hey, Audios–are you a newsperson? I haven’t seen anyone sign off with “30” in ages!
If the Democrats are portrayed as xenophobes, then they get more Republican votes. I don’t see a downside there. Isolationists? Even more Republican votes. Against so-called free trade and outsourcing. Even better.
I just don’t see how being against this – no matter how the traditonal media tries to spin it – is anything but a plus. Unless your district has a huge Dubai constituency.
Imagine the campaign ads. “Joe Smith voted to keep our ports under the control of a foreign government. Haven’t we lost enough jobs overseas without losing control of the jobs we have in this country? Bill Jones thinks terrorists are bad, and jobs are good. On November 7th, send Joe Smith a message. Vote for Bill Jones.”
“I’m Bill Jones, and I approved this goshdarn message.”
hey who the hell is audios?:paranoid:
i have never seen an audios on here before:doh:
Hey, Bill O’Reilly wants to cut and run from Iraq. Fucking cheese-eating surrender monkey.
hey sweet i will vote for bill jones!:banana:
:alc:is he any realation of mike jones?
Audios AAR is a very early registered member here. He’s got about 30 posts, going back to December 2nd.
Tom Jones, I think. As long as it isn’t Bob Jones (or Jim Jones).
:rofl2:SURRENDER MONKEY:rofl2:
hey i was just watching bill oreilly thanks to the stupid truckers in the friggin truckstop
marc maron is super great
i like to eat crackers and jam
jim earl is also great
:fu:i am a haiku writing mother-fucker
hey is anybody in here for school vouchers?
At least those imperialistic Brits are out of the picture.:omg:
CEOs Rule!
:fu:
Buy American!:rofl2:
Al Franken Impersonation
“those brits are great ha arent they ha thats what the president said he said those british were great ha yeah he said great british company ha so they must of been great”
:tongue:his daughter sounds kinda cute
The US’s falling into third worldism is too far gone, so say you Majority report guest ? Garbage!:omg:
Paul Craig Roberts was the guest on MR. He posts a lot on Counterpunch. Economist of the supply-side persuasion. He says that we are too far gone. Perhaps, if we slavishly accept the market logic. Power politics of the free markets..This guy champions Reaganism.:omg:
:spank:i dont like being trickled on!!!!!
Overthrow the present paradigm. This system is defunct. Look at the disparity between rich and poor. Is this the way of nature?
this is so gay
Toledo challenged backers of school voucher legislation to amend Bush’s proposal to require that any private school receiving tax dollars enact policies that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation for students and teachers. “We are adamantly opposed to school vouchers because strengthening our public schools requires a commitment, and vouchers are an abrogation of that commitment,” Toledo said. “But at the very least, proponents of school vouchers should demonstrate that under their plan, GLBT students and teachers will not face discrimination.”
:priest::fire::rabbi::billcat:
ok i know what we need we need a shoe emoticon
ha ha go here http://www.myspace.com/seanmstitt listen to the funny if you stick around long enough you can hear the peanut diaries!
:paranoid:im all arone:cry::-(:(:? :-x:neutral:
Hey Sean…you’re haiku’s wrong! It’s supposed to be 5-7-5. 😀
You wrote a rhyme instead!
From,
:gate:
(the obnoxious ass in Japan)
:tongue:no its fine because when i say crackers i say it so it is only one syllable
:rant1:dont question me obnoxious ass
:blech:heres another school vouchers thing from the salt lake tribune
:40:ok i am out of here im going to sleep see y’all in the morning
:paranoid:wait a minute nobody is here gaijinda disappeared where is everybody ok im falling asleep in the truck stop and friggin bill oreilly is on so i must go now
:nod:this better
:fist:we will impeach bush
:spank:kick republican asses
:banana:we can fix it all
Dammit PJ, I hate it when people make rational observations that force me to put my tin-foil hat back in the sock drawer.
whoa whoa whoa!!!!
when did the seditionists start to turn against one another??
so much angst on the blog today….right when i leave.
i know we all have different opinions on various topics, but let’s leave the blog happy:love::love::love: love love love….i’m such a hippy, damn!
remember:El pueblo unido hamas sera vencido!
translation:The people united will never be defeated:fist:
Evening all. Darn most everyone’s gone my now, just like last night when I got here. Ok, I diligently read every post and looked at almost *every* single link here today, so many excellent articles and links. Something really good happened in California last night: no anesthesiologist would agree to participate in the scheduled execution, which was a court ordred requirement this time around due to the ‘discovery’ (it ain’t news except to the liars-pants-on-fire crowd) that the lethal injection cocktail often masks horrible pain and suffering. So…all executions in CA are on hold until a judicial hearing on the issue in May! This gives the moratorium movement a boost, and all the Schwarzenator can do is try to smear the very court he previously said he was abiding by. This is some good news!
And, from my friend Jeff:
The Organized Jewish Establishment (OJE) AKA The Lobby has three campaigns going on at the moment. One is to get the US to confront Iran over its nuclear enrichment, even if it means going to war (in which no member of the OJE will shed a drop of blood). The second is to present the case against the AIPAC’s long time chief lobbyist Steve Rosen and Keith Weissmann, as a government crackdown on civil liberties and the press, avoiding the fact that both are agents of a foreign country and transmitted classified information to that country, and the third is their effort to block any changes in the lobbying legislation that will prevent AIPAC and other Jewish lobbying groups from taking politicians on all expense paid trips to Israel. This article represents the latter.
http://jewishworldreview.com/0206/tobin022206.php3
Sean, thank you for that extra mp3, I’ll listen soon, don’t want to interrupt the Malloy stream on this slow and spotty dialup – ooooh, here comes the next installment of 1984!!!
malloy is so awesome 1984 then sleep:yawn:
:holla:hey sheeple
:banana: i thought i was all alone again
Quietgirl, not to worry — my reply to PJ was appreciative and partly tongue-in-cheek. I like it when folks correct me: I get smarter. A good discussion is not a zero-sum game. The entire community ends up better informed.
:yawn:i go sleep sleep now later sheeple:yawn:
My own vegan comments on today’s dietary-choice comments: I have become convinced that overconsumption of (for some even moderate consumption of, and not just because of allergies) processed soy products (tofu, tvp, soy isolate, tofutti, all those yummy junk food substitutes made from soy) are bad – Asians consume these in much more moderate quantities than Americans and Europeans, so says Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, author of The Whole Soy Story, who blew my mind when I heard her on WBAI radion in NYC in November. She (and my traditional-trained homeopath) recommend only tempeh and miso, the fermented soy products.
(http://www.thewholesoystory.com/). Dr. Alan Goldhammer, a bit of an exremist on nutritional matters in my opinion but who makes some sound points imho, rails against over consumption of even whole grains. There’s no perfect one way to be vegan, and I’ve learned there’s lots of bad ways to be vegan. Jack Norris, a vegan registered dietician (www.jacknorris.com) says at http://www.veganhealth.org/sh#awhile:
Nutritional myths have a way of going from one extreme to the other. For example, people once believed that in order to rely on plant protein, you had to combine particular foods at every meal. We now know this is not true. But in countering this myth, claims have gone from “You don’t need to combine proteins,” to “It’s easy to get enough protein on a vegan diet;” to the harmful “It’s impossible not to get enough protein!”
On average, vegans get enough protein. In fact, many people trying a vegan diet may choose foods that are high in protein without knowing it. Others may randomly choose foods that are not high in protein. Personally, since I do not feel right when I’m not eating quite a few protein-rich foods each day, I can see how someone else might be ready to quit a vegan diet after a few days of not consuming some protein-rich foods. I fear that many people quickly give up on a vegan diet, thinking it made them feel bad, instead of realizing they might have felt differently had they eaten more protein-rich foods.
This is not to say that every person does better with more protein. Some people report feeling better eating less protein. There are many differences among people and how they respond to various foods.
Eating enough calories might be an issue for an uninformed person who decides to give the vegan diet a try for a few days. Someone on the standard Western diet may only be aware of vegan foods that are low in calories (e.g., salads, vegetables, fruits). Eating only these foods for a day might leave someone unsatisfied and thinking the vegan diet is to blame, when all they needed to do was eat more high-calorie foods.
One thing I like about Norris is that he’s not one of those vegan-is-the-only-way snob. He questions and challenges every new assumed latest shibboleth in the vegan community and demands frank and honest discussion of veganism’s shortcomings as well as advantages. I really recommend his sites and links, you’ll get a friendlier view of veganism than at other sites that have an axe to grind. I know that sounds counter-intutive, but take it from a former carnivore like me who always was repulsed by the insufferable self righteous vegans I’ve come across, Norris is low key and friendly to non-vegans.
Long story short on my way of being vegan (that works for me but may not work for the next person): I rely on nuts and seeds for my protein, not ‘processed’ soy! The only soy I’ve eaten in the last 3-4 months is tempeh. Period. Soy gives me the most horrible bloating and gas anyway (sorry, tmi but this is a very common problem with the processed soy foods), and is possibly goitrogenic (goiter-contributing element), and since my homeopath is trying to treat my hypothyroid symptoms, he’s asked me to forego all soy save tehmpeh and miso, as well as cabbage and broccoli. If anyone told me eight years ago I’d be relying on nuts, seeds, tempeh and the occasional legumes for my protein, I’d never have believed them. Grains in moderation too. The only bread, cereal and pasta I keep at home now is this Ezekiel sprouted multigrain stuff that claims to have no flour (I don’t know how the bread holds together without flour, I guess there must be gluten in the sprouted grains). These are the breads you see in the fridge at the health food stores, the ones I never used to pay attention to. And even these I try to keep to a minimum. Which is hard for a noodle freak like me. So rice noodles, and the occasional treat of spinach/wheat or Japanese buckwheat/spirulina or green tea noodles. Over the years, I’ve built up a repertoire of recipes and food combinations that seem to be working for me, the ‘hypothyroid’ diagnosis nothwithstanding.
Okay, not so short; I’ve run on long enough, time for beddy bye and the rebroadcast of Malloy in 38 minutes to listen to until I drift off to sleep.
Stay human, all!
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Sean–
I’ve seen Audios on the blog from time to time, I just don’t remember his story.
Okay, on to Thursday!