Hey, it is Monday, right? I can’t remember anymore. Not much sleep the last few days, and for an old fart like me, that aint easy. I haven’t had much chance to look at the blog, but I did catcha couple of things that I’ll try and address here. First, yeah, there was trackback spam. I got rid of it, and for now have disabled trackbacks (if somebody links to a post or comment, it creates a comment with a link to the orginating page, so you can see what they wrote about it). What else? Um, no no fun for Siggy the last few days, either, and not much fun in his short-term future. I guess it’s good practice for him, as I’ll be gone for the summer before you know it. Cnick, I think you might wanna get to know Linux a little better before you try for the triple boot, but if you don’t mind risking having to restore your computer, go for it. It doesn’t sound all that hard, but having never tried what they’re sayign, I can’t guarantee it’ll work. Worst that can happen is you wipe out your partition and have to redo everything. So, assuming you know how to do that, and want to mess with it, I guess you can give it a go. Too bad bootcamp can’t play nice with LILO. I”d much prefer NTFS to FAT32, too. Nicki, sounds like you’re having javascript troubles.
OK, that’s all I can manage for now. Have a good Monday, y’all. Clippers game tonight at 7:30 PDT.
Morning Seditionists! First? PJ thank you for the advice. It’s officially “Confederates memorial day” (yeah you heard me) “Confederates memorial day” here in the state of Alabama, the heart of Dixie, the home state of Judge Roy Moore, the state where God (if there is one) saw fit to have me born to a God-fearing straight mother and father. How I turned out this way is anyone’s guess! :doh: Have a great day ppl.
cnickthomas YEA #1 :banana:
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I know I’m a virtual stranger here but can I just say: I MISS MARC IN THE MORNING! SO bad. Air America totally ruined a good thing when they changed Morning Sedition. Damn them…DAMN them, I say! :growl:
Good morning everyone 🙂 Welcome, Becky…I miss Morning Sedition too, (big time!) but I’m glad that I can hear Marc again… I remember it wasn’t so long ago that I thought I’d never hear him on radio again.
congrats to cnick on being first :joe::jesus:
My question to the traitor Goldberg is:
Now that David Lee Roth has been kicked to the curb, how FUCKING STUPID do you feel for pulling the plug on MS? Marc and Mark could be tag-teaming Opie and Anthony for NY market dominance.
Dumb-ass.:fustrate:
Hey Becky, don’t be such a stranger. We miss you. Be strange instead.
:banana:
Thank goodness, Cnick, that there are progressives like you in Alabama… no place is totally “red.” I have liberal friends in Georgia and “deep in the heart of Texas.” Everywhere in this country there are some people who understand what the deal is.
I wonder what the AA morning show ratings are like as compared to how the Morning Sedition ratings were. I know MS was poorly marketed and did not reach its rating potential, but I find it hard to believe that what’s airing now is doing any better… good morning, Kevin
Howdy, Kevin! Good point about MS.
And I am strange, dude. Rest assured…. Gotta go to jury selection today so I’m gonna try to look as strange as I can….
good morning sheeple!
another week and Ive had a migrane thing in my eyes all night and it continues…maybe due to the pollen popping and the rain?
We all seem to have it.
Ive got the Scooba doing overtime and I guess I may have to get a new air cleaner. My old one broke at the end of last summer.
Any ideas on which is best at this point?
5 dogs and a bird or two plus the heavy yellow tree pollen thats just starting to fall…ugh!
My Hunter Air Cleaner has been doing its thing for nigh on 7+ years. I just clean it and change the filter about every 6 months.
http://www.hunterfan.com
Congress doesn’t seem to be able to get bush arrested although he has broken the law, lied, and cheated; therefore, can assbite be sued in a class-action suit by “We, The People”?
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morning!
What is the Thin Man series? Chris (on trms) needs a culture education! AGH!
Becky, don’t be too strange or you’ll get picked for sure!
sorry to hear that melina has a post-b-day headache.
druid – glad you’re hubby is coming home – that is a looong stint away from home.
watched the 60 Miinutes piece last night…i was shocked to hear they had pulled the Niger thing from an OH presidential speech BEFORE the state of the onion speech….
Farmerkat, I immediately thought of you and your puppy (but forgot spelling of Astor (sp))
I loved old movies especially The Thin Man :love: and “Arsnic and Old Lace”. You probably know the male lead :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:
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Asta
if you missed the 60 minutes piece and want to see it, you can watch it here.
Farmerkat I watched 60 Min… so how dare anyone call him President, he should be a #(number). That show was so powerful. But don’t tell anyone 😉 but at the end I cried. I do not know how to wrap my brain around why that assbite is not arrested? He (Bush) is such a criminal:!:
“This is all I can stand:!: I CAN’T STAND NO MORE:!:”
quote by a wise old character
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Now Maddow and Bender go down in the book of Fucking assholes with Riley and Bender. She completely misses the point that the war in IRAQ , the hundreds of thousands of people killed there and the hundreds of thousands of people effected at home by the actions of these rethug assholes surpasses politics and makes them criminals that should be executed , not reelected.
Where is the enthusiasm this morning. Has this blog died through lack of interest?
:omg:
Rachel is a mainstream liberal in many ways–like David.
PJSAUTER before this “blog” grows further — I saw your PIXS when you posted several days ago.
I:love:those pictures you posted of Siggy and feline family. They all look like they have their humans trained well :rofl2: I loved Siggy lying looking soooooo cute and the feline 3 looked sooooo just as precious. I especially loved the snow shots, it reminded me of my mountain snow … save we had nobody around us so no lights..only forests. I saw the Hale-Bop Comet and did some oil pastel drawings and one that even had a very firey, large and very long lasting shooting meteorite descending somewhat near the Comet. Your special furry pals gave me glee looking at them during a sad period of dealing with Karma’s death. They made me feel warm and fuzzy:love:
😉
via atrios
The Fable
Rachel said :jason:
:nixon:Tyger Thom!:omg:
Hey everyone, just passing through to say hi to all…going to be gone until this evening and probably won’t be able to log on this time due to boss being a beeyotch and hiding her computer from me. But I’ll be around this evening
enthusiasm is here, just have to get mine later…
I’m glad the mini-invasion of emo-stealing and spam pushing aliens are gone…
:jesus: later
Farmerkat thx regarding Asta :love: and thank for your well wishes for my hubby and I, but me darlin’ FK, you are/had experienced and endured what most people haven’t ever. Yeh, most are not away from mate for the periods of time — thus we share that, but then your endurance goes far beyond that. So thank you in teaching one like me to endure time. :wink::love:
Huh? What did Rachel say exactly?
Well, the ratings were going up when Goldfuck pulled the plug. MS didnt have the huge ratings of the top 3 or 4 networks but it was doing very well in the lower tier. How Goldmember could ever think that he might break through to that elite top rung with Riley and then Rachel is just…beyond me…
But to cancel the show and go on vacation on the day that Howard Stern released some 9 million fans to decide if they want to pay for Sirius or find somehting else to listen to was just insane….
And now we find that some 6 million of those people didnt follow Stern and have been looking for where to land…and I doubt its been on Riley’s show…or Rachel for that matter.
The best thing the new management (as new as it might be) could do is to try to backtrack and at least try to put on some sort of morning show that works.
Even my Mom wont listen to Riley, and she listens to everything!
Druid, I hope youre feeling a bit better about Karma….its just so hard.
Im looking at all the little baby birds that they just brought into the parrot store and I still miss Tweet so much that I dont have much feeling about it. I guess I will start holding them and one will stand out to me….
Isi- thnks for the tip. I think they carry those at HOme Depot….I know I have a couple of HUnter ceiling fans.
My last one lived for aroudn 4 or 5 years but was a surgical grade one that had very expensive filters. I was never all that sure if it was moving the air enough. I may get 2 smaller ones this time.
ZNet | Israel/Palestine
Sumud vs. Apartheid
by Jeff Halper; April 23, 2006
This is, as they say, the crunch. This is the political moment all Israeli governments – all of them, Labour, Likud and ‘National Unity’ – have been working towards the past four decades of Occupation: the final push for an expanded Israel, the permanent foreclosure of any viable Palestinian state and a unilateral declaration that the conflict with the Palestinians is over. Indeed, it is the final taking of the entire Land of Israel between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River that Zionism has dreamed of for the past century.
On the surface, Israel’s election was humdrum, with none of the 31 parties running raising issues that grabbed the public. No party emerged ‘victorious’ or in a position of domination. The largest party in the Parliament, Kadima, Sharon’s party now run by Olmert, received only 29 seats out of 120. Overall, the election saw the strengthening of the Right, even the extreme right (I don’t accept the notion that Kadima of Sharon and Olmert is a ‘Center’ party; it’s extreme right-wing, only slicker) i.e. those parties that refuse to even consider the notion of a viable Palestinian state, won 73 seats. The number of left/liberal seats stands only at 30.
Humdrum sums up how the Israeli public viewed the election. The only substantial issue raised was that of the plight of poor and working class Israelis, and that issue failed to ignite any popular enthusiasm. Yet it is precisely this ‘hum-drum-ness’ that is the big news. Ehud Olmert put his intentions right in the public’s face: the most immediate and pressing task of his new government will be to determine the permanent borders of Israel, meaning that the massive settlement blocs, the ‘greater’ Jerusalem area and the Jordan Valley will be annexed to Israel, confining the Palestinians to some five isolated, impoverished and non-viable cantons (Sharon’s term) that they will be expected to accept as their ‘state’.
The people at AAR need to make sure that if the thugs win the election this year that all their listeners are ready with wine bottles and rags, assault rifles, hunting rifles, or anything they can concoct in the lab in their basement to make sure the thugs never get to take office in January.. With this being the only media that will tell you whats wrong but never propose a real solution it is beginning to suck.
I love Asta dogs…
You KNow, Grandpa leased the Thin Man way back when and did the radio thing before the TV show…I believe it was before….I have to ask him about that and where the scripts are. He had a really good sense for good writing that would work. I wish they had saved those shows but I think that tape had metal in it and the war was on or something….
Phil Stanford, Tyger Thom. Stanford used to have a local talk radio show.
Well, Fred, I think that having that extreme of a position would definitley make AAR the fringey fringe of broadcasting and less viable as a voice for the left….and I cant remember an insurgency that was announced on the radio….
I think its best to just keep pointing out the truth as a news outlet with a bit of commentary.
I’ll bet that Goldbrick factored cost into his decision to kill Morning Sedition. He figured that it would be much cheaper to replace mat&Mark with Air America Mornings.
Hartmann is peddling Purina Cat Food. :rofl2:
It was Spanish speaking radio outlets that got most of those Immigrants into the streets.. Since AAR is the only outlet for the left that broadcasts over the air they should be willing to do the same. The threat of being lynched is a much more potent threat to a thug than an election will ever be.
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10150§ionID=107
[W]e Palestinians will not submit. We will not cooperate. We will not play your rigged game. And in the end your power will be for naught. So costly will we make this conflict to Israel, the US and the international community that you will come to us to sue for peace.
cheap in the sort run but really costly over the long run…and not only for the network but for the culture and for liberal causes, that goldfrick claims to care so much about…and now he continues to take a salary that he doesnt need rather than just taking stock options or something and withdrawing to whatever hole he crawled out of….
Melina, thank you…I keep thinking with :rofl2: of your birds on you shoulder/neck and my rat on my shoulder/neck. Death is a part of life…but it still hurts. They are in a better place, but we are here missing them. That is also why I am glad to be Irish — An Irish Wake is part of my transition. I have 6 other rats and 7 ex-:billcat:(stray) cats with attitude, and monster, teenage HUGE pup to give me
distraction and TLC:love:. Cheers, Here’s to the Special Bird for you to become apparent soon.
CEO’s must learn in business school that the most expedient thing to do is that which leads to the most profit in the shortest time. Radio typically takes two to three years from start up to seeing what their ratings really are. Goldenturd seems to think he is Google not radio.
Good Morning. :joe:
Hey Cnick, My friend in Chicago just loves you and listens to the shows you post all the time.Thanks for doing that. She loves your site too. :love:
fred, :nod: That’s what I also say! I am being so nice not demanding his death, but I do demand his imprisonment.
Figurately speaking, As the Red Queen (Lewis Carrol)said, “Off with his head.”
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I am closing down home:yawn: so back in a few, to bid all adieu, although I :love: talking with all of you.:wink:
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The other thought is that the left sided radio is mimicking right wing radio so 90% of what they tell you is BS. Most people on the left can read so we know its not.. There has to be some dividing line between politics and criminal behaviour. I would think starting a war without a legitimate reason is criminal( I believe it is a war crime) and those keeping justice from happening are complicit.
David Bender,Rachel, Riley and Springer seem to think its politics as usual maybe they are complicit too.
fred, :nod: Again as (mostly) usual I agree with you. I feel if the rethugs do not do what is Right they should be put on probation for 3 years for not protecting America and us citizens!
I feel AAR has been repeating the issues enough — the masses finally are getting “it”. So AAR should move to directing National protests and actions — since they have The Voice (ie microphone) and most of us do not.
:yawn: People are working 24/7 and do not have the ability to be away from work.
Sadly, just a dream…..:yawn:
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I think one of the problems we have is that there are a few of us that listen religiously to AAR and know all about the fact the US is a M*F*er but over the last 30years or so we have leaned to solve these problems by sicking the justice dept on the offenders or by elections. Neither of these things work in today’s political frame work..but we have a choice of intellectualizing it or getting our hands bloody.. So far we have taken the intellectual approach and although we feel community it is not solving the problem. I’m sure Germany had people just like us in 1942 who were still intellectualizing the situation the day before the Allied air-forces blew Dresden off the face of the earth. If Putin and/or HU decide that they have had enough and feel that our military has been weakened to the point where they can risk the retaliation or can get here undetected it will make Dresden look pale by comparison.
The torrent for Fridays show is up at
http://www.mininova.org/tor/289192
fred, I think there are a few of us that knew and saw what was happening WAYYYYYYYY before AAR. AAR was to “awaken” the many.
The protests of yesteryear are not able to happen since they now call “every protester” a terrorist.(rethugs:growl:)
And even many that want to do something back they are “forced” to NOT MOVE and have to work, That’s why I hope for AAR to DO MORE than just weak jokes.
I led groups down south, but now we only have hope for this ’06 election. But I do not trust Dieboldt (sp whatever) … they are forcing dominance even in CA.
We locally are calling for monitors and counters to head count, even if votes go in DIE’s machines. Although I am working on it — I do not believe in an honest vote anywhere. Great, up here will hope to have a check, yet, what of Ohio and Florida and other…
So lies are happening … and yet NO ACTION against the lies are occuring.
I will wait until elections…but then I hear Jerry Springer WHIMP out and I scream at we Dems and say :omg: where’s your backbone.:yawn:
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I am going to bed:yawn:Fred I enjoy “talking” with you … I am showing other thoughts, but I feel it is damn near down to the two choices of yours.
(I just wish I could type faster. 😮 When in early twenties I got up to 100WPM but then after school I lived up in the mountains for 20 years and focused on my wolves and (hand)writing and painting. I would be lucky if I did now 20-30WPM. I must find time for Garfield. (improve typing cd – with Garfield teehee).
Talking with you helps my sanity in these insane times. Be well Fred.
G’Night G’Day To One And All — especially the ones who blog’d whilst I was writing this diatribe:wink:
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Buffalo, NY—Today, Congressman Brian Higgins sent a letter to New York Governor George Pataki and New York Department of Transportation Acting Commissioner Thomas Madison, calling on them to depart from their pattern of inaction with regard to Buffalo’s waterfront and to make the commitment to infrastructure improvements which will allow private development to proceed. Higgins wrote that the lack of interest the Pataki administration has displayed with regard to waterfront development has placed in jeopardy $350 million in private sector investment by Opus-Uniland along Buffalo’s Outer Harbor.
“The failure of the Pataki administration to make a firm commitment for infrastructure improvements at our Outer Harbor is unacceptable,” said Higgins. “They know how to talk a good game about waterfront development in Buffalo, but deliver little in the way of tangible improvements. This administration’s pattern of broken promises has left Buffalo’s waterfront broken, and without swift corrective action, that will be a sad legacy for the Governor. It is my sincere hope that the Governor will depart from his administration’s pattern of inaction with regard to Buffalo’s waterfront and make the commitment to these infrastructure improvements which will allow private development to proceed. This administration cannot continue to fiddle while Rome burns; our waterfront has suffered for 50 years, and cannot wait one more day.”
Opus-Uniland has been jointly selected by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) as the preferred developer for the Outer Harbor property, which has lain dormant for some 50 years. Opus-Uniland is prepared to make a $350 million investment in private funds in Buffalo’s Outer Harbor waterfront. This group has asked of the Pataki administration for a firm commitment for needed transportation infrastructure improvements at the Outer Harbor, namely for the construction of two new intersections and needed improvements to Fuhrmann Boulevard. To date, no commitment to meet the two objectives has been made and the Pataki administration has failed to list any Outer Harbor infrastructure improvements among those projects slated for funding in the Transportation Bond Act, which goes before the state’s voters in less than two weeks.
hey look who gave brian higgins money!
ZAEPFEL, LAURA
AMHERST,NY 14226
UNILAND DEVELOPMENT/EXECUTIVE
5/11/2004
$1,750
Higgins, Brian M
ZAEPFEL, LAURA
AMHERST,NY 14226
UNILAND DEVELOPMENT/CORPORATE RELAT
6/25/2005
$1,000
Higgins, Brian M
ZAEPFEL, LAURA
AMHERST,NY 14226
UNILAND DEVELOPMENT/CORPORATE RELAT
11/21/2005
$1,000
Higgins, Brian M
ZAEPFEL, LAURA
AMHERST,NY 14226
UNILAND DEVELOPMENT/EXECUTIVE
5/4/2004
$250
Higgins, Brian M
MONTANTE, CARL
AMHERST,NY 14226
UNILAND DEVELOPMENT/EXECUTIVE
5/11/2004
$2,000
Higgins, Brian M
MONTANTE, MICHAEL
CLARENCE CENTER,NY 14032
UNILAND DEVELOPMENT/EXECUTIVE
5/11/2004
$1,000
Higgins, Brian M
:paranoid:hey where is everybody?
i dont want to have to bash my congressman all b y myself!
Ok so am I the only one worried about citizenkahn?
Last we heard from her was last Monday and she was taking Otis to the vet.
Anybody hear from her?
When I get some time I will try to find her email-lexikahn at somethin something:(
:paranoid:are they starting to knock us off?
Marc posted over at the other blog already.
I didn’t want to be first.
I feel the steam going out of these blogs.
🙁
:shock:watch your back pj!
Sean- At least you and I are moving targets.
:knit2:
yeah i need to stop telling the blog where i am!
This from Marc’s blog today:
Interesting.
MOTHER FUCKING FUCKER FUCKS! WELL THEN FUCKING HAVE HIM LIVE SO I CAN CALL THE FUCK IN BASTARDS!
Oh shutup you mainstreamer. Rachel.:omg:
huh rachel who?
Obama’s Game
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
I was harsh about Senator Barack Obama of Illinois here a couple of weeks ago, and the very next morning his press aide, Tommy Vietor, was on the phone howling about inaccuracies. It was an illuminating conversation, indicative of the sort of instinctive reflexes at work in the office of a man already breathlessly touted as a possible vice presidential candidate in 2008 and maybe a presidential candidate somewhere down the road from there.
Obama’s man took grave exception to my use of the word “distanced” to describe what his boss had done when Illinois’ senior U.S. senator, Dick Durbin, got into trouble for likening conditions at Guantanamo to those in a Nazi or Stalin-era camp. This was one of Durbin’s finer moments, as he read an FBI man’s eyewitness describing how he had entered interview rooms “to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more.”
“If I read this to you”, Durbin told his fellow senators, “and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime–Pol Pot or others–that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case…
http://www.counterpunch.org
Obama is one of those politicians whom journalists like to decorate with words as “adroit” or “politically adept” because you can actually see him trimming to the wind, the way you see a conjuror of moderate skill shove the rabbit back up his sleeve. Above all he is concerned with the task of reassuring the masters of the Democratic Party, and beyond that, the politico-corporate establishment, that he is safe. Whatever bomb might have been in his head has long since been dis-armed. He’s never going to blow up in the face of anyone of consequence.
AC
Bushco is cornered; Dangerous times ahead
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff04242006.html
The counterpunch article sums up the reasons I think the people on the left need to be encouraged to go after the thugs if we don’t regain control of either house in congress this November. People like Karl Rove need to be neatly disposed of. The thugs are no different than the men with guns that ruled many western towns in the last half of the 19th century and the gangs that ruled Chicago in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The thugs need to be treated like they were members of Al Capone’s gang where you substitute oil for Whiskey. The people of Laramie Wyoming finally organized and rousted their bosses out of their beds in the middle of the night, locked them in a box car and shipped them to the middle of Arizona in the middle of the summer. We have many movies concerning the “interaction” between the Feds and the Capone gang.. giving meaning to the descriptor Chicago Piano.
It would certainly be nice if Marc wasn’t on in the middle of the night.
Lee Raymond’s Unconscionable Platinum Parachute
By RALPH NADER
Exxon Mobil reports that it is sending retiring chairman Lee Raymond off with one of the most lavish executive compensation and retirement packages in history–an estimated $398 million in total.
This unconscionable windfall cannot be justified by any serious measure of Raymond’s performance, especially since the company’s record-breaking $36 billion annual profits last year had more to do with the Mobil merger, refinery bottlenecks, politically-driven tax breaks and geopolitical events than it did with managerial effectiveness. . .
:omg:
I am left to asking cliched rhetorical questions.
Why do we allow these corporate obscenities to happen?
How many people would be lifted out of poverty if a fraction of the payout went towards such ends?
Had enough?
:mad:someone else say something bad about my congressman!
Ya Know Nicki: It has occurred to me that the reason Riley’s show is turning into sports radio and Maddow is becoming Stephie light is because there are a lot of people on the left who don’t want to face up the challenges that they have to fix the problems. They would just rather be entertained. Kind of like the reason the band on the Titanic continued to play until the angle of the ship was such that it was no longer possible.. maybe that’s why :bong: and :40: are so popular with people on the left.
Sean: It sounds like your congress person exemplifies the comment that someones Pork is often someone else’s job. Public financing of elections sure would be nice.
did anybody hear my congressman on franken today? ugh i hate my friggin congressman!
:fu:he pulls down a lot of pork i think its his payback for voting with the pigmen on the right!
This from Marc’s blog today:
Syndication talk has been stalled a bit because the new brass at AAR have some big ideas they want me to hear. I’ll try to keep you in the loop.
Interesting.
Comment by isi — April 24, 2006 @ 3:07 pm
Hmmmmmmmmmm… correcting the biggest mistake of all, perhaps? Morning Sedition 2.0, anyone?
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but SHEEEEEET… I need to have something to dream about besides the new trainee at work who has smiled and said hi to me six days in a row now. Don’t want to creep her out too soon, after all. :hubba:
see scumbag!
REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN M. HIGGINS REPEATEDLY REFUSED TO PROVIDE ANY
RESPONSES TO CITIZENS ON ISSUES THROUGH THE 2004
NATIONAL POLITICAL AWARENESS TEST
REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN M. HIGGINS REFUSED TO PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION WHEN ASKED TO DO SO BY:
Major News Organizations
and key national leaders of both parties including,
John McCain, Republican Senator
Geraldine Ferraro, Former Democratic Congresswoman
Michael Dukakis, Former Democratic Governor
Bill Frenzel, Former Republican Congressman
Richard Kimball, Project Vote Smart President
corporate scumbag!
Representative Brian M. Higgins voted NO.
Read statements Representative Higgins made in this general time period.
Official Title of Legislation:
H J Res 27: Withdrawing the approval of the United States from the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization.
Project Vote Smart’s Synopsis:
Vote to withdraw the United States from the accord that establishes the World Trade Organization.
House Passage Vote: 06/09/2005: Failed: 86 – 338 (Roll No. 239).
Sean: So what has your rep done to make himself reelecable?? .. You haven’t had diebolt around that long.
ummm like i said he pulls down the pork like a crooked politico should!
and he is a democrat and no democrats are going to vote republican in times like this and im assuming he is angling to get the repigs to not run a strong candidate against him since he has ben being a good little boy (so to speak) but uh thats just my assessment
We have Mark Udall for a rep. I think he came with Colorado.. His whole family is into politics in both Colorado and New Mexico. I can’t think of anything he has done except be there to get reelected.
this is only his first term!
where do you live fred?
I live in LongMont.. That’s between Denver and Boulder in Boulder county.
Here is a fairly good article on Israel/Palestine by Jimmy Carter, although he puts the US in too fine of a light. (US enables Israel to forward their annexation of Palestinian territory.)
http://www.tompaine.com/print/colonization_of_palestine_precludes_peace.php
I’lle take that back.. Mark Udall was accused by his rethug challenger of being the reason Ball Brothers Research lost a big contract just after the Bush admin took over. These thugs are such nice people :jason::gate::omg: The fact Udall was a democrat was the reason the contract was lost.
ahhh ok yep i went to the movies there before i think real big amc place 25 theaters or something yep yep i always confuse boulder with colorado springs! i always think that boulder is where all the evil christo fascists are :doh:
:nixon::jesus::fu: Yay! Stop these obscenities! (I am listening to the Studio 360 show on Jandek, from 2001.)
:banana:and it is a bright 68F in L’il Beirut. Changed from flannel to regular cotton sheets today in the hope that things will stay on the warm side.
:yawn:anyway im going to sleep for a while!
lol yep 75% yep yep you gotta have faith i guess!
Its barely above 30 here and the wind is blowing like crazy.. The snow they forecast didn’t happen .. The building is heated to about 65 and my feet are cold.
By THOMAS WHITAKER
Showbiz Reporter
PRESIDENT George Bush “can’t get no satisfaction ” after Mick Jagger grabbed his hotel room.
The Rolling Stone splashed out £3,600 a night for the suite days before the US leader tried to book it.
Now Mick, 62, who has been a fierce critic of the Bush-led war in Iraq, is refusing to give it up.
The veteran rocker hired the luxury Royal Suite at the five-star Imperial Hotel in Vienna, Austria, for June when the Stones are due to play a gig in the city.
:fu: George!
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A Right and Responsibility to Speak Out
PRESIDENT George Bush “can’t get no satisfaction ” after Mick Jagger grabbed his hotel room.
The Rolling Stone splashed out £3,600 a night for the suite days before the US leader tried to book it.
Now Mick, 62, who has been a fierce critic of the Bush-led war in Iraq, is refusing to give it up.
The veteran rocker hired the luxury Royal Suite at the five-star Imperial Hotel in Vienna, Austria, for June when the Stones are due to play a gig in the city.
Yay Mick! :bow: He’s not royalty, you are 🙂
hey its an impostor travis!:shock:
:40: It’s still me, man. I just thought I’d mix things up a bit.
n the infancy of the Republic, in 1798, Congress enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts to smear Thomas Jefferson and accuse him of treason. Newspapers were shut down, and their editors arrested, including Benjamin Franklin’s grandson. No wonder Thomas Jefferson himself said: “Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism.”
yeah…good ol’ John Adams who everybody loves now is the author of that horrible act…
:paranoid:sure!
Hey, anybody know of any good torrents or audio books for history. I found a history of the Supreme Court torrent but haven’t been too interested in listening to it. I’m hoping to spend my time this summer using all info that I can pack into my new zen vision:m to actually learn stuff:doh: Any suggestions?
Oh, and about the filter thing. I’ve seen a lot of ads on the tube for the Ionic breeze or something.
Dude, it’s me, man. Really:alc:
Has Congress gone and arrested 👿 bush and his :evil:administration (:evil:bush and … are only :evil:minions) or am I still dreaming:yawn:?
Must have tea NOW :joe: (whilst making :joe: :nod::rofl2:
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travis get lies my teacher told me its a great audiobook!
Oh, yeah, I got the People’s History by Zinn audio book!:doh:
Yeah, I’ll look for it. Thanks, mna
:rofl2:has anyone seen this?
Zinn is on audio book? That would be fun…
Cool an AAR MTV commercial
SeanMS, The AAR commercial made me cry (wishing for hope)…They (AAR) have to go to the next “higher” step. (I haven’t had much sleep for past days — so, although a bitchy positive being, now I am “tres” :growl:)
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Oops. Nevermind. I have to go cook something. Later.
Good evening, all. Watched the AAR commercial–good move using LeAnn Rimes (sp?); appeals to the red-staters. Might be my shit speakers, but I couldn’t understand half the words. Otherwise, it’s appealing. Taken from Left of the Dial? Ack! I’d rather see Randi as she appears on Lou Dobbs, than back in the beginning. She was very sick then. She looks great now, very healthy glow, and I’m glad she’s getting some CNN coverage.
Don’t say “fuck” to Air America executives. We have to find a way to fight the right wing without actually offending anybody, or bringing discredit on ourselves.
Ooh, I hope that word “fight” doesn’t sound a little too strident.
Hey Bush is down to FAT 32. If they send the guys out with the butterfly nets, it’ll get knocked down to 24. If they start arresting all the people wanted on KlanWatch and ArianNation, that’s good for another seven. When do we stop talking about impeachment and start talking about resignation for the good of the GOP?
You know, when you get down to it, if you were a far leftist or Islamofascist looking to destroy America, you’ll never, ever get anyone as good as this guy.
I am reading (although I am not the reader I used to be) Paul Revere’s Ride. Nothing extra-special, but I’ve always loved the history of the 1770s. Visited Boston last year, and saw his house. At the time, I felt kinda blase’ about it, but now I’m glad I’ve been there. All the years I visited Massachusetts’ North Shore, every summer, and never got to see the historical sites in Boston. So I did it last year. Went to Lexington and Concord, too. Dropped by my aunt’s in Beverly, showed my husband where I was conceived there, across the bridge from Salem (which explains much about me–BWAAHAAHAAA!).
Am also listening to Audible’s The Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. It’s something I started years and years ago, and never got past the first few chapters. It’s 14th Century European history and chronicles the great changes that happened during that time.
Well Travis, I think you should start a new gamee to keep :growl: folk (like me) super 😎 by guessing which songs someone would pick :rofl2: according to their (feeling) blog(s)…..:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
So guess which one? (I’ll give you a hint:wink:, if ya want.)
I am a literalists and hardly (N)EVER laugh or even force to take time to listen (these days) to ‘kickin’ tunes — PERFECT LINK:!: 😉
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Phoener re “BWAAHAAHAAA!”
:nod: 😉
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You are a sweet pea! Krista. Thanks for the kind words and thank your friend also. So I read on Marc’s blog that tonight is game night. Damnit. So us streamers will only get the last hour of Marc’s show. Hope the word from the higher ups at AAR is to make Marc’s show available on AAR and at a reasonable hour. Live would be good too! This streaming is for the birds! Something is kind of missing from a taped show. Jim Earle really should stop saying the show is “live” during the opening. Kind of misleading. Live to tape isn’t live to air!
So wouldn’t you just know that Apple Computer would tempt me with a new toy! They just announced a 17 inch Mac Book Pro. This baby screams! I want it so much. But I know I cannot justify such a purchase. For God’s sake (if your out there) I already have three computers!!! I’m literally computer poor. I really ought to buy me a dog. A little bitty dog. Reminds me of the old and obscure Monkees song: “I want to buy me a dog.” It was a silly song. But I digress – Where was I? Oh yeah, the 17″ Macbook Pro. As much as I’d like – I don’t think I’ll partake of it or the dog.
I drove over to the Honda dealership this afternoon to look at Hybrids. They make a nice Civic hybrid. But I’ve so much negative equity in my Maxima that I’d have to fork over 10 grand to get into a cheaper Honda. Wonder if Rock Hon-da would make me a better deal? 😉 The cheapest price I found for gas today was $2.78 a gallon. Their saying we’ll all be paying $3.00 a gallon before long. I have to believe that if Al Gore hadn’t been robbed of the 2000 election we’d be further along in alternative fuel sources and we wouldn’t be in Iraq either! It was nice to see Bush has hit a new low in the polls. 32% approval rating. Ha Ha Ha. That son-of-a-bitch. Hopefully he’ll drag down all those criminal Republicans along with him. Don’t get me started!
Hope you all have a great evening. Laters.
cnickthomas :eek:It’s $4.?? for premium 😮
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Just how many pharmacists do you know who also dabble in astrology?
The kids in pharmacy school used to call me the master of the mortar and pestle. And I’d just answer with (another) BWAAHAAHAA which was completely lost on them. 😉
I buy the cheap stuff Druid_666! Remember I’m up to my eyeballs in credit card debt and cannot afford that premium grade of gas! :doh:
Cnick, I bought gas last Thursday at $2.75. Today’s it’s $3.09, in Philly. Tomorrow? Who knows! :fu: Exxon/Mobil. (Although it’s me getting the :fu:, isn’t it?)
I still want a Prius, but from what I’ve been reading, I may be getting more MPG from my 2002 Accent.
We’re all getting :fu: Phoener, by big oil and those damn credit card companies. Bush is a Mf’er and I wish there was a hell for an evil bastard like him and all those sons-a-bitches who squeeze every last dollar out of the poor and middle class folk! Before long all that’ll be left are the Rich and the Poor. G’damnit-to-hell! But don’t get me started!
cnickthomas Montana 😮 I would be “shot”! I was threatened even in L.A. (lalala) CA 😮
As I say to “moving” SeanMS and now to you, “You’re a better man than I (woman) Gunga Din”
(I go cheap too BUT NOW EVEN DIESEL COSTS AN ARM AND LEG ie The Most (:!:) :fu: gas owners
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A guy told me this afternoon that his brother talked to a dealership in Florence, Alabama about a Toyota hybird. But that he was reluctant to purchase after someone told him that if the battery went out in a hybird that it would cost 6 grand to buy a replacement! Hmm . . . so I donno. I think they’ve got us by the b*lls, if you know what I mean? I might as well save up for a .38 and put a bullit in my head if the Repub thugs find some way to steal the 06 and 08 elections! They’d be no hope for ppl like me in a world of retarded Republicans. That’s why I gringe at the thought of Karl Rove spending all his time working on the 06 elections! That is one evil little bastard there, let me tell you! I’m just hoping Fitzgerald will hurry up and get off his ass and indict Rove. We’ve got to get rid of that asshole.
I want to talk you out of that bullet, Cnick, but ’06 will be more of the same Bushit that hit us in 2000. :crap:
Yeah, man, H.S. Thompson took the easy way out. Not cool.
I was just joking fellows. I like pissing off Republicans and being a thorn in the side or ass to self rightous Christians much to much to miss what comes next. Guys . . . I’ve gots to watch the final minutes of “24”. BRB
so uh someone e-mail me frankens show from today? or send it over instant messenger or something?
cnickthomas re #125 :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2: Watch your back” in :eek:…M O N T A N A…:eek:
😉
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Gotta go nite-nite so’s I can be fresh for my wonderful friggin’ job tomorrow. So, ‘Nite, all.
:yawn:
Fucking NeoCon!:fu: George.
That ignorant Fritz from the Majority Report glog was on the air. He is a clown!
Gotta getaway, you neocon apologists.:rofl2::nixon:
Later, Phoener. Keep the drugs flowin’:fist:
okie . . . I’m in and now out again. Got’s to setup my machines to record what I can of tonight’s show. “24” was wild tonight. I hate it that this is a “FOX” network show. I feel dirty for watching it sometimes. One day we’ll rule once again. And all will be right with the world. So for now its good night to all you good folks in seditionland. Much love and peace to you all.
Phoener BB:wink:
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cnickthomas, Be Well 😉
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Oh god, I hope I taped 24!!….I didnt even look at the TV guide…ugh…
Well, good night genius’….I hope you all enjoy the show.
I hope that the new powers realize what theyve got and the mistake goldfrub made…and are going to feature Marc in some great slot, like 10-12, or better, 10-1 am, eastern time…maybe even taped and broadcast live 7-10 Western time….however it works out, I want Jeaneane and Sam to stay on, but ideal, I suppose owuld be to get rid of Jerry and put Marc there….
The possibilities are endless…with my favorite possibility being Al’s spot!
Hope I can get the show tonight. The desktop has been hijacked and I have to get on the phone with tech support somehow…just havent had time.
catch you all in the morning…
say hi to Marc for me;-)
also- cnick- look at consumer reports car issue that is just out or is just last month…the hybrids arent all that they are cracked up to be and maybe more of a PC statement than a real savings or help to the ebviornment.
I got a car that switches between 4 and 8 cynlinders….its a new technology and I dont know if it makes that much of a difference , but it apparently saves up to 20% on gas.
Hybrid id only really good for downtown stop and go driving and the upkeep and extra costs are supposedly $13,000 over the first 5 years….besides the battery. If the battery goes out in the first 5 years they replace it, but its still a big deal if in the 6th or 7th it goes out….They havent got this down enough yet.
I do mostly highway type driving so it turns our that I can drive on 4 cyl. most of the time…but its still nto good enough.
I want to make a corn oil vehicle…got a catalog about it and its really interesting.
So, at some point I will get an old jeep and transform it to a veggie mobile….
Nite…
Melina- have you heard from citizenkahn?
Sean, thanks for the link dude! :rofl2:
Hey Fred,
AAR Phoenix announces protests and other local events. If all the local affiliates get real active in that way I think we’ll have a movement. But that all depends on who owns and runs the station and what their intent is, as we have seen here.:growl:
:roll::knit2::roll:
cnick- I want the 12inch Macbookpro- I just threw my powerbook on the kitchen floor:doh:wish it had that quick release power cord.
:nod:
Don’t want to creep her out too soon, after all.
Comment by Kevin M — April 24, 2006 @ 5:07 pm
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what’s up with that commercial? was it or is it being shown?
:santacool:
sbluefox, I wrote CK an email (after I searched for her previous email for her e-address). No answer yet 🙁
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Thks Druid
Does she have a yahoo address?
I can remember the first part. I wanted to write to her too.
Going back one week was all I had time for.:fustrate:
sbluefox not yahoo it is bizzare and she posted the address somewhere on last week post (I think) and I had a message but I NEVER use it but looked it up. Please dear sbluefox I am a lituralist so yes I have her address now but I never use it so I can’t pass it on — BUT WHEN SHE REAPPEARS I know she will…! I’m sorry, even your email address, give me your address and I will keep it until death, if you don’t advise otherwise. 😉 But I am honest about it 😀
Just check my email and nothing from her…If I hear you will hear:nod:
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Well, I don’t think her absence has been long enough to cause too much concern. I think she’s finishing up her book on the war of 1812 and just may be busy.
The last I remember, she told me not to apologize for double posting. I didn’t respond and so now you guys are making me dwell on my bad blog etiquette. I feel like a jerk.
I hope everything is cool with Otis and that nothing happen. Probably just a good vacation from the blog- you know, from our craziness:paranoid:
Chomsky rules!:omg: I’m listening to someting about control of the public mind.
We are all sheep!
Travis I figured she was writting, but touch on all subjects with TLC but I just hope she is writting. 🙂 I go into different realms too … but if I disappear it could be for months :doh::eek::joe::rofl2:
I am listening a third choice 😆
I can get this type of Tunes on yahoo? 😀
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Me especially. Catch ya on the flip:cool:
Yay Chomsky, I just started reading him the other day…I feel more informed since
Susan Joy G’Nite / G’Day 😉
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Susan Joy Oops, that was a Greeting not a G’Bye
So Cheers :alc: (but with tea or :joe::wink:
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S’ok, my typing is kind of off tonight also… how’s it going, Druid? Lately I’ve been waking up at approximately 2:30 AM, don’t know why…too late to miss most of Marc, and too early for anything else…I think I’m weird…
Susan Joy, I like the night ohhhhh :[ (no bat 🙁 )
“People Are Strange” 😉
You are fine, you have JOY in your name. My real name has death in it:!: :[ Mmmmmmwhahaha :rofl2:
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Well sometimes it’s more like “Susan CrankyAndUpTooLate,” not Joy. So what is your name, Morticia Addams???? Listening to that James McMurtry song that PJ turned me on to.
Actually Druid is a nice name, I like the whole trees and Celtic spirituality aspects of it…
“Susan CrankyAndUpTooLate,”
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2: That’s similar to what I wrote at the beginning-ish of this blog. So I am on the 13/14th so I get two days of :banana:. What time where you 😀 if you don’t mind me asking? I go by my middle name and it is really Morrigan (even on driver’s license). But I just go by D.M. Conway-Mucha usually — but I :love: my mid name mmmmmwhahaha.
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:pent:I have a secret to tell you…..I am a Reverend…and in the Druid Order and have married and cared for…many — Druid through England, but also most all my life I have been Wiccan. I am a solid believer. A Wiccan Druid (:wink:) :love::pent:
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It’s 4:13 AM here right now on the east coast. Morrigan is a wonderful name! I like the Arthurian tales, though, so I’m biased. Sorry I missed some earlier references in this blog, Robitussin is wrecking havoc on my concentration now (I have a bad cold and I’m trying to fight it off … another reason I’m up late)
Druid, I belonged to a pagan church for about 12 years…I’m Jewish by heritage and currently exploring Judaism (mostly on the esoteric side) and practice a kind of eclectic paganism that incorporates my own ancestry…I also wrote a magical herbal encyclopedia, so we might have a lot in common…
AND A LIBRA :banana: Be Well….. I am “kinda retired” for awhile working on things…..
Have you tried the Gnostic Faith? I have been up in the mountains before coming down here so I feel like erasing what I wrote to you since I am mostly a “recluse” now since in 80’s and before I was sooooooooo extremely external now just wanting to be internal, but sadly even locally there are toooo many issues calling me out. :smile::( But “I’m in town now( with snap “Z”). :billcat:
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Was there a stream of Marc’s show? All I got this Tuesday morning was a clippers game. Damnit
Susan Joy, Did you take Vit C (only if you are still in “fighting cold” stage it can cure …)but good to build ya up 😉
I would love to hear more about your practice and/or church and/or you writing “Great Focus” (I think I with hubby lived with wolves (I was imprinted with full ones too) too long (never too long for me)(I use to do many actions to protect them, thus, learned of a certain zoo program … — Regarding the “herb encyclopedia” :banana: great for you — I have to chain me down to write, but will finish some year :rofl2: .
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AHHHHHHHHH I am saying toooooo much — sorry. I think due to me writing and wearing thoughts on my sleeves. 😮 I told you my name and dates — so date? But if you don’t want to 😎 I wish I could erase most :grin::( (Dramatis Symbol)
Nothing wrong with going solo …my religion is personal and I don’t fit in with any one “thing” with right now. To be honest I’ve had it even with the alternative “organized” religious groups, and believe me, I’ve done it all. I’m open to religious ideas, but not dogma if that makes any sense, and dogma is everywhere…people telling people what to believe. I’d rather just learn by being aware and living life, since most human beings don’t seem to have any answers.
Blah, I missed Marc’s show second night in a row…
Aww, you don’t have to worry, i won’t spread anything you said and if you want I’ll erase my memory ::activates memory erasure::: Actually my memory erasure mechanism is Robitussin tonight, I can’t think properly at all, let alone remember anything! What were we talking about anyway? :omg:
(seriously, don’t worry)
Sue
Susan Joy , I use to be a national figure (a bit-ish) now I want to be in my “tower” 😉 for now but more and more are coming “around” again.
Re Marc YOU DO NOT MISS JACK-ANYTHING except a (great)poem and a woman running for a representative down south. about 1/2 hour ONLY! 🙁
Susan :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
cnickthomas Was there a stream of Marc’s show? All I got this Tuesday morning was a clippers game. Damnit
That was about all there was save for a (great) poem and a female representative running down south in L.A. area. About 1/2 hour was ALL :doh::growl:
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