Sorry, only time for a quickie:
On Press the Meat:
Russ Feingold, David Broder, Ron Brownstein, David Gregory and Anne Kornblut
Faze the Nation:
Dick Lugar, Barbara Boxer, Doyle McManus
This Weak:
Mitch McConnell, Dick Durbin, Larry Summers, Fareed “Token” Zakaria, Martha Raddatz, and Lou Dobbs. Plus John “Complete and total asshole” Stossel
Fux News & Fux Face Wallace:
John Warner, Carl Levin, Arlen Specter, and Peter King
On CNN’s Late Edition with the Wolfster:
Hamid Karzai, Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel, Hussein Shahristani, Madeleine Albright, and Henry Fucking Kissinger.
No clue what’s on 60 Minutes. New episodes of the 4400 and the Dead Zone.
Have a nice Sunday.
First? :nod:
:yinyang: Morning Evening
thesnotgreensea has a lot of bits up. I needed some weird.
:banana:Yea King Kong Yea:banana:
😉 Yes, you are first:wink:
And what animal are you?… In the Year of the Monkey:?: TeeHee :rofl2:
Mornin’ Duid, KK.
good morning :joe:
Druid, I’m a horse no matter what year it is. 😆
Hi, pj and susan!
😉 Morning/Evening All
King do you read Tibetan? I was going to tell you my names (I was buddhist for 20 years:wink:)
I love the Year of the Horse
— My 2nd full wolf was name Danu Epona. (All were with first name Danu 2nd Epona for the Celtic Horse Goddess for she was born also in the Year of the Horse.
Eek 😮 I am sorry King Kong, I just glanced and saw Horse, thus assume(d)
Ass (out of) U (and) Me SORRY….
(I don’t have much humour except my lead balloon)
But I try… :doh:
No, Druid. sorry I know no Tibetan. But years ago I spent two weeks in Bhutan.
Chinese year of the horse. 😳 I should have been more clear. There’s a neighborhood BBQ going on. I’m going to wander downstairs and see if I can ‘help’. Have a great day!
PJ cheers :alc: but with tea:joe: — if I was watching those shows in that room 😮 but we gamers Rock 😎
Morning Susan Joy :banana: Farmerkat is a Lib too :banana: 😉 (I fantazie so is PJ:rofl2:)
King Kong You Wild Mustang (Horse:wink:) You
Well, with all those mistakes I am going back to Cleaning House 😮 and watching Harry Potter and X-Men
Bad, Morrigan, Bad :no:
wurking and lurking (here mostly:grin:) and :joe:
:banana:orlando calrissian!
SeanMS, I will get that out too 😉
Ola Blogthren!
:joe:
saw gore’s film yesterday – very well done. Saw it with “Becky in Atl”
will this country every learn?
:doh:
Global Warming Skeptics Engage In Denial And Spin Over New Academy Report; Gore Responds
Reruns of “The Critic” on Comedy Central at 7AM! And here I was starting to think life sucked.
AAAARRRRRGGGGGG
:yawn::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe:
The fools calling into C-span still haven’t figured it out WE LOST you dumb ^&*(%$# the victor dictates the terms.
Good morning/evening/whatever :eek::eek::joe::joe:
:crap: I have to go already blog with you all later..:joe::joe::fustrate::shock::billcat:
I looked it up! His name really is Henry Fucking Kissinger! No wonder he’s such a psychopath!
Did you know that the screen credit for “wardrobe” on what is commonly considered the worst movie ever made, Plan 9 From Outer Space [Ed Wood Jr’s, uh, masterpiece]
is “Dick Chaney.” This might mean something.
cresttwo, :rofl2:
Well, I am “signing off” :billcat:
G’Night, G’Day to ALL :yawn::wink:
Great BBQ in the street. I passed out tea in box and everyone wanted to feed me with great, hot food.
:40: Taiwan Beer was also involved.
With noone else around, I’ll say :fire: and write. :pent:
omg, do people actually believe this twisted “logic” on the heritage foundation’s web site?
HOW CAFE INCREASES RISKS TO MOTORISTS
The evidence is overwhelming that CAFE standards result in more highway deaths.
:rofl2:
the guy who wrote that has his JD. Always said they should do character profiles before accepting people in to law schools.
Wow, that is an amazingly ridiculous article on cafe standards. I hope these people burn in hell for spreading such lies.
and to think some of our supreme court justices hail from such a place. :omg:
NY Times has a piece on Bobby Kennedy. I’ll post the link, but maybe Melina can put it on her blog (WHERE IS MELINA, ANYWAY??)
the article is in Sunday Style. Heaven forbid they put an article about potential voting fraud and environmental issues in with the serious news. Keep it among the weddings. :tinfoil:
Yeah,where is Melina? I hope her boy is okay.
Kat, thanks for the RFK Jr. article! :nod:
I thought somebody wrote yesterday that Melina was at an Origami event?
hope that’s where she is and everything is ok. i just checked her blog and the last entry is from June 19.
I might add that the NYT put the disection of Hillary & Bill’s marriage on their front page. and don’t hold your breath for the articles on Laura going to the Mayflower to get away from Georgie. and the radical-right anti-human/pro-corporatists call it a liberal publication.
😯
I did think the RFK article had a slight to-the-right slant. Not blatant, but I do notice the language used appears to describe him as more controversial or radical than I think he is, which is what the right does more overtly. I don’t think the NY Times is a liberal publication, that’s a laugh.
yep, they mention the salon piece, but not Kennedy’s slam dunking it.
Frank rich is good as always. The Road From K Street to Yusufiya
You all have a great sunday.
Hey, HGTV has a blonde bimbo (ok, that’s not fair, she may not be a bimbo) named Tava Smiley. I wonder if she’s any relation?
:crap::crap::crap::crap:
Today none of the left leaning media is doing anything accept instructing the democrats how to apply the vaseline this November. The guys on the Calif stations are a bunch of surrender monkeys. WAAAA the dems have no plan WAAAA the dems are weak.. and this is left sided radio… :!::!::!: Then there was David :barf::barf: Bender in his centrist we have a long ways to go style..:fu::fu::fu::fu: 🙁 :gate::omg::jason::fist:
I thought the NYT showed its true disdain for investigative journalism in that RFK article :barf::barf::eek::yuck::gate::omg::jason::fist:
:crap::crap::crap: Now my rec room is full of :barf: and smells like two cycle engine oil …:eek::yuck:
Mexico 2006: López Obrador 35.4%, Calderón 30.5%
Mexico 2006: López Obrador 35.4%, Calderón 30.5%
June 25, 2006
(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador could win next Sunday’s presidential election in Mexico, according to a poll by Milenio. 35.4 per cent of respondents would vote for the former Mexico City mayor.
Former energy minister Felipe Calderón of the governing National Action Party (PAN) is second with 30.5 per cent, followed by former Tabasco governor Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) with 29.6 per cent, Patricia Mercado of the Social-Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party (PASC) with 4.1 per cent, and Roberto Campa of the New Alliance Party (PNA) with 0.5 per cent.
Support for López Obrador increased by 1.2 points since mid-June, while backing for Calderón dropped by half a point.
(snip)
On Jun. 23, López Obrador pledged to keep the economy in order, saying, “We are going to have money because we are going to govern with honesty, because there will be no luxury for the government, and because we will put an end to all privileges.”
(snip/…)
http://tinyurl.com/znme4
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Maybe some good news for a change..
:omg::wink:
:billcat::banana::rant1::banana::billcat:
Hi fred and whoever else is here. We are in our 2nd day of hot weather alert. It’s dry heat so I use primitive evaporative cooling==pour water on myself and eat raspberries from my own canes. Time to turn off the ‘puter before it gets overheats.:bow::bow::bow:
Glad to hear it’s dry heat… :billcat:
Heading your way Wan- may see you friday:knit:
I’ve downloaded some ring of fire podcasts for the road.
:banana:banana::banana:
hOORAY HOORAY Hope you make it Friday
Wow, quiet day…I expected to come back from my excursion into the city and see this place hopping. Anything interesting on the political shows this morning?
You know back in the day, in old Phoenix, before the swamp cooler proper, they used to hang wet towells in the window for evaporative cooling.
Or go up north for the summer.
Well nothing much happened of any national significance today.. The Iraqi’s apparently decided they were not setting a time table for us to get the h* out of there… after they said at least three times they were setting a time table..
The power went off due to a huge lightening storm about 2:00 pm. That shut the meal prep process at the soup kitchen down and the power was off for 2 and a half hours.. They may get operational again about 7 tonight.. Lots of people in line when I left to feed my own face. The temp was only about 70 today so the 80% humidity wasn’t so bad.
:-(:eek::yuck::rant1::nixon::peace:
hey guys….perching at starbucks on 7th and 34th to get online….still alive but have had little contact with the outside world
lotsa craziness here betw origami people and visiting family…old stomping grounds…and Will only so-so…
but Ben is doing well and the othr kid is a pain in the ass
nyc is a very lonely place….i forgot that about it.
there are so many homeless here too…seems worse.
im ready to go home.
I hate it when Flanders’s blog turns into a wine and cheese party..or maybe its a whine and cheesy party.. Everyone patting themselves on the back:eek::yuck::rant1:
Hey Melina! Everyone’s been missing you. What have you been up to? It’s an origami convention? (I love origami)
yeah…every year they hold it at FIT
i dont fold but my son does. origami people are a little freaky
ah, christ. boom-booms and heavy rain – there goes the sat signal. right at the start of the 4400, too.
im ready to go home
took alot of pics….actually there are a few pics of models from last year. this aint your basic crane folding…
oh yeah, I can barely do it..I just think it looks neat. I did teach kids to make paper cranes, but that’s about it. I guess your son enjoyed it then
I was in the city today too…met a couple of friends, but they brought along some neocon types, what a sad surprise. anyway, I was polite and sweet for about three hours, but I’m glad to be home!
yeah pj….paper and water dont mix either….ill have alot to blog about…but must get food and check wild boys.
im starving and achey….want to go home…
In their zeal to save the country from the trouble-makers, the Marshal and his helpers did not even consider it necessary to produce a search warrant. After all, what matters a mere scrap of paper when one is called upon to raid the offices of Anarchists! Of what consequence is the sanctity of property, the right of privacy, to officials in their dealings with Anarchists! In our day of military training for battle, an Anarchist office is an appropriate camping ground. Would the gentlemen who came with Marshal McCarthy have dared to go into the offices of Morgan, or Rockefeller, or of any of those men without a search warrant? They never showed us the search warrant, although we asked them for it. Nevertheless, they turned our office into a battlefield, so that when they were through with it, it looked like invaded Belgium, with the only difference that the invaders were not Prussian barbarians but good American patriots bent on making New York safe for democracy.
up on ripcoco i meant
too bad ididnt know suz…could have met up and kicked some neocon butt…
im off to eat. will check back as i can.
My friends, when I say we love America, I wish you to remember that we don’t love the American Wall Street, that we don’t love the American Morgan, that we don’t love the American Rockefeller, we don’t love the American Washington, we don’t love the American ammunition manufacturers, we don’t love the American National Security League–for that America is Russia transferred to America.
Privacy? Hah. Foreign concept these days
ok, take care Melina…we’ll do it another time 😎
well, guess i’ll turn on the local aar station, and see if they carry laura flanders. they have a national guard commercial on now.
well some people do love all that. I love the actual land. Like the trees and stuff. Air, mountains, lakes, and so on. “America the beautiful” not “America the corporate”
Me too, Suzie. I’m one of mother nature’s sons.
I’m really a fish out of water – or a bunny out of woods – here. In Syracuse, I can be in the middle of the woods in about ten minutes. Here, not so much.
well NY State is really beautiful and inspiring. I completely understand. I don’t know the DC area but I guess it’s pretty urban for miles around there
There are nice areas here, and nice places in MD and VA, but there isn’t the traffic and obstruction to getting away from the urban areas up in Syracuse, and the Finger Lakes region is a great place to get out into the green stuff and clear your brain from all the nastiness that this country and this life have become.
ah, the heavy rains have passed, and the satellite signal is back (for now). now, how long will it take my “delicious red” wine box to chill?
I’ve never been to the finger lakes, but I heard great stuff about it. I still have to see the Adirondacks. I’ll never be tired of the Catskills or Hudson Highlands but I need to see more
Lowell. MA. Lowell farmgirls.
Ah, well, if you get up to CNY, my wife and I will give you a tour.
That is, if my wife still remembers me, and hasn’t decided it’s actually better not to have me around, getting in the way. In that case, the dog and I will show you around.
1919 Seattle General Strike!:fist:
sounds very cool, PJ, thanks 🙂
We’re just a short distance from the foothills of the adirondacks, the finger lakes, canada, the 1,000 islands and st. lawerence seaway, you name it. and “rush hour” lasts about twenty minutes.
who went on strike, Nicki?
Oh. No one here is listening to Laura Flanders Show. My postings look like the rantings of a mad man.
I was in Syracuse a couple of times. I had a friend who lived up there several years back, but we didn’t go on any nature tours, she just wanted to go clubbing, so that’s what we did, oh yeah, and saw some rock concerts at SU’s carrier dome
I lost the stream a few minutes ago, I just got it back
no, I should have realized you were responding to the show :tongue:
Utah Phillips. I met him once. He and Jack Elliott.
Utah is a cool name
Utah Phillips has a national radio show on. Mondays. Who’s show is Laura doing next week?
Alexander Cockburn is on Wednesday.
“the immigrant’s rights movement” as just the starting point of taking back working class America :fist:
Don’t tell that liberal Tyger Thom that.
maybe he NEEDS to hear it!
He has an ideology that will not allow him to hear it.
:love::bow::omg:
Yeah…he seems very set in his ways. Lou Dobbs bit his neck one night and he became afraid of foreigners
I don’t know what those emos are in response to… :doh: not Thom Hartmann I would think
The AAR talkers need to get real people from the real world on their shows.. Not these people who write books and philosophise about things that can not happen unless the rethugs are disappeared.:eek::yuck::gate::omg::gate::omg::gate::omg::gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:
Don’t know if I want to listen to Steve Earle’s show right now…
Laura’s philosopher was talking about the Ludlow massacre. That occurred in like 1914.. The mines were unionized in the 20’s and operated up until the time the EPA regs on using open hearth furnaces for making steel went into effect in the 1980’s.. Now there are a lot of abandoned mine buildings and ripped up railroad grades in that part of Colorado.. Unless you can mine coal from the surface you probably don’t mine it at all.
its all a lie a lie I say :fu::fu::fu::gate::omg::jason::fist:
Greetings all. :banana: 😎
:love:Farmerkat Still trying to wrap my brain around
Can Oil Sand (and destruction)(60 Min) and C.A.F.E (aka CAFE) (what you sent link on :omg::fist::omg: — and wash dishes and clothes:omg:(not realy):rofl2:
:billcat:Wurkin’ and Lurkin’ Around 😉
NickiRose- Where might I find Utah Phillips radio show- Ok Yeah I’ll google it.
Welcome back to the blog Melina- I have heard about that paperfolding crowd from my NJ pal who is nuts for that stuff.
He had some funny tales to tell.
We missed you.
Now Travis needs to get on line.
I hope he is warm enough- It reached 100 in Portland today.
Gonna make work tomorrow a drag:knit2:
Nickirose
Utah Phillips at The Alladin 11/9/06
Seattle 11/11/06
Melina, any papercuts :rofl2: 😉
sbluefox :banana: yea
I appear to get here when all is gone
🙁 :omg:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
I keep checking Druid- I think I have that OCD checking thing.
A friend just gave me an Airport Express and now I have my own wireless connection in my hotel room.
sbluefox , I was teasing C U Z in truth I am the “CHAOTIC” one:wink:. (:grin:my pathetic LEAD BALLON HUMOUR again — it just doesn’t fly :rofl2::doh::rofl2:)
papercuts:spank::doh:
I hate it when Flanders’s blog turns into a wine and cheese party..or maybe its a whine and cheesy party..
Comment by fred — June 25, 2006 @ 8:53 pm
Ned Flanders has a blog? Scrumdiddlyumptious!
:rofl2:
The preceding smart-ass comment was designed solely to get this thread into triple figures. You’re welcome.
We can ignore the weeks of shelling by the Israeli army of Gaza, the firing of hundreds of missiles into the crowded Strip that have destroyed Palestinian lives and property, while spreading terror among the civilian population and deepening the psychological trauma suffered by a generation of children.
We can ignore the deaths of more than 30 civilians, and dozens of horrific injuries, in the past few weeks at the hands of the Israeli military, including three children hit in a botched air strike last week, and a heavily pregnant woman and her doctor brother killed a day later as a missile slammed into the room where they were eating dinner.
We can ignore the blockade of Gaza’s “borders” by the Israeli army for months on end, which has prevented Palestinians in the Strip from trading goods at crossing points with Israel and from receiving vital supplies of food and medicines. As a captive population besieged by Israeli soldiers, Gazans are facing a humanitarian catastrophe sanctioned by Israeli government policy and implemented by the Israeli army.
We can ignore Israel’s bullying of the international community to connive in the starving of the Hamas-led government of funds and diplomatic room for manoeuvre, thereby preventing the elected Palestinian leadership from running Gaza. So desperate is the situation there that Hamas officials are being forced to smuggle in millions of dollars of cash stuffed in suitcases to pay salaries.
And finally we can ignore the violation of Palestinian territory by Israeli commandos who infiltrated Gaza a day before the Palestinian attack to kidnap two Palestinians Israel claims are terrorists. They have been “disappeared”, doubtless to be be held in administrative detention, where they can denied access to lawyers, the courts and, of course, justice.
None of this provides the context for the Palestinian attack on the army post — any more than, in the BBC’s worldview, do the previous four decades of occupation. None is apparently relevant to understanding the Palestinian attack, or for judging the legitimacy of Israel’s imminent military “reprisals”.
In short, according to the BBC, we can ignore Israel’s long-standing policy of unilateralism — a refusal to negotiate meaningfully with the Palestinians, either the old guard of Fatah or the new one of Hamas — with its resort to a strategy of collective punishment of Gaza’s population to make it submit to the continuing occupation.
The establishment of the so-called Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC) in late 2005, just in time for the federal election of January 2006, has elicited heated debate within Canada’s Israel lobby. B’nai Brith Canada’s Jewish Tribune, for instance, first reported the development under the headline “Mystery surrounds Jewish political committee CJPAC,” and has since been harshly critical of the initiative. CJPAC claims to success following the election did little to change this. In a March 2006 story titled “CJPAC’s wall of silence not in spirit of lobbyist’s code of conduct,” Tribune correspondent Julie Lesser blasted the organization for “continu[ing] to maintain a wall of silence surrounding the availability of basic information to the public.” In early May (p.3), Lesser upheld the point, stressing that “CJPAC remains an organization that conducts business under a veil of secrecy.”
Amidst a mix of inattention and controversy, CJPAC is moving forward with its “multi-partisan” lobbying work. Exactly what this involves remains unclear. What is tolerably clear is that CJPAC constitutes yet another Canadian foothold for the U.S.-Israeli alliance. In fact, it appears to have emerged under the direct guidance of this alliance’s North American powerhouse, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
The creation of CJPAC is part and parcel of the dramatic restructuring which the Canadian Jewish establishment has undergone in recent years. This restructuring, which began in earnest in 2002, has weakened B’nai Brith’s position in the community, hence the criticism from the Tribune. But the changes have been far from progressive. For decades, elements of corporate Canada represented by a fundraising federation structure closely tied with the United States and Israel have been increasing their control over mainstream Canadian Jewish organization. Newly organized as the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA), they have now entrenched their position.
Daniel Freeman-Maloy
Strangers probably do not go unnoticed in the town of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where Mumia Abu-Jamal is incarcerated. Waynesburg is a small rural community of Western Pennsylvania with a total population of 4,000. It is certainly not racially diverse: roughly 97% of the inhabitants are White. Thus, you have to work hard to see a Black or Hispanic person walking around in this town. In fact, according to the U.S. Census, there are only 68 Blacks, 4 Native Americans and 27 Hispanics in the whole county of Green, Pennsylvania, which includes within its boundaries the town of Waynesburg. This is certainly very much in contrast with Springfield, Massachusetts, where my journey to visit Mumia Abu-Jamal began on May 23, 2006.
Yet, what is more striking about Waynesburg is not the lack of racial diversity, but the widespread poverty. This is a town where White people are still employed in jobs that usually minorities do in other communities: fast food restaurants jobs at the local truck stops, agricultural jobs of different sorts, some manufacturing employment (for the lucky ones) and construction jobs. The local supermarket, not far from the town’s entrance, is not even stocked with the latest products in the market. After all, it is surrounded primarily by trailer parks and residences of families that have to live on meager incomes and poorly paying jobs (the income per capita is only $15,000). Waynesburg, by the way, supported George Bush in 2004.
One of the major employers -if not the most important one- is the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Green, located in the outskirts of Waynesburg. The economic significance of the correctional facility can be gauged perhaps by the name of the street where it is located: Progress Drive. It reminds me a lot of upstate New York and some of the prisons located in small towns, like Hudson or Poughkeepsie, where I worked as a teacher for a prisoner’s education program years ago. Everything revolves around the prison complex. For instance, the biggest and fanciest hotel in Waynesburg -the Comfort Inn- is about two minutes from SCI at Green, and it actually offers its guests a clear view of the prison’s entrance. Talk about a room with a view! Visitors are allowed to enter SCI at Green from Wednesday to Sunday, as a general rule. Accordingly, you cannot find an empty hotel room in Waynesburg, except on non-visit days. A lot of people -merchants I mean- seem to be making money out of the arrangement of housing relatives of death row inmates on visiting days.
On the positive side, the correctional institution has the racial diversity that the town of Waynesburg lacks. I did not see too many inmates inside the correctional campus (this is a close-security facility), but the ones that I saw where Black. Strangely, I felt some relief inside the prison walls, at least culturally and racially speaking. The lack of ethnic diversity of the town is, simply stated, suffocating.
In any case, I had a powerful reason to feel excited: I was in Waynesburg to visit Mumia Abu-Jamal, a friend of the Rosenberg Fund for Children and a revolutionary thinker who I admire. We spoke for about three and a half hours. The interview that follows cannot capture entirely what this experience has meant to me. Suffice perhaps is to say that in that small room at SCI, listening to Mumia and exchanging ideas with him, I was able to escape from the overpowering sense of hopelessness that permeates our culture at large, even amongst leftists. I know that this might sound odd, but I came out of my visit to the death row section of the State Correctional Institution at Green -thanks to Mumia- with more hope on mankind than before. The toughest part of the whole journey was leaving the confines of those oppressive walls, knowing that such an extraordinary person, Brother Mumia Abu-Jamal, is still there, unjustly incarcerated.