Oh boy, it’s Monday. I hope you all had a good weekend. I know those of you who made the trip to Beantown to see Marc had a good time. The best I could do was eat a lot of beans, which means that the dog and I have been spending a lot of quality time alone together. Yesterday was doggie central at the park; I guess after all the rain we’ve had, all the fair weather dog people figured they’d get out a bit. There hasn’t been so much butt sniffing since Marc Foley showed up drunk at the page dorm.
BTW, in preparation for the return of Mike Malloy, you may have noticed that I added Multimedia links for the Nova M Internet stream a few days ago (there’s one for Windows Media format, and one for the Shoutcast – mp3 – stream, that will work in anything that supports WinAmp playlists; yes, even iTunes, if you must). Nova M is encouraging everybody to tune in and hit the stream as much and for as long as possible, so they can make sure they have adequate streaming capability (I reckon they don’t want to get caught with their streams in the wind, the way AAR did). So, turn on, tune in, and hopefully it won’t drop out.
:crap::crap::crap: Its Monday already :crap::crap::crap:
❓ whatever :sheep:le
apparently
everybody else is still asleep. must have been an especially bad sunday on the teevee. I caught a few minutes of a ridiculous puff piece on rummy on cnn. switched to cspan 1 then 2, american enterprise inst and some other right wing dufus on book tv. blech!
It seems to be a no news Monday..so far..
C-span had congressional debates on .. members of both parties seem to suffer from terminal IQ failure problems.:eek::yuck::slap::crap::paranoid:
Pelosi doesn’t want the Republicans to be able to use impeachment as an attack issue in the election. I don’t give a damn what she says now, as long as John Conyers is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January.
Comment by pjsauter — October 22, 2006 @ 8:05 pm
Word. Conyers will be all over this as soon as he and the Dems are in position to make it happen. Bet the farm.
everybody else is still asleep. must have been an especially bad sunday on the teevee.
Comment by roxieseattle — October 23, 2006 @ 6:01 am
Highlighted by Donovan McNabb ralphing chunky soup all over his face mask during the Bucs’ victory over the Eagles. Yum yum.
:barf:
how bad is my congressman? the republicans lost by a couple hundred votes in 04 and now they arent even putting enough money into the race to get a website running fot their candidate i wonder why?
good morning sheeple :sheep:
STATE AGE OF CONSENT
Alabama 16
Alaska 16
Arizona 18
Arkansas 16
California 18
Colorado 15
Connecticut 15
D.C. 16
Delaware 16
Florida 16/18 (bill pending)
Georgia 16
Hawaii 14
Idaho 14
Illinois 16/17
Indiana 16
Iowa 18
Kansas 16
Kentucky 16 – [1]
Louisiana 17
Maine 16
Maryland 16
Massachusetts 16/18
Michigan 16
Minnesota 16
Mississippi 16 – [2]
Missouri 17
Montana 16
Nebraska 16
Nevada 16
New Hampshire 16/18
New Jersey 16/18
New Mexico 17
New York 17
North Carolina 16
North Dakota 18
Ohio 16
Oklahoma 16
Oregon 18
Pennsylvania 16
Rhode Island 16
South Carolina 14/16
South Dakota 16
Tennessee 18
Texas 17
Utah 16/18
Vermont 16
Virginia 15
Washington 16
West Virginia 16
Wisconsin 18
Wyoming 16
Puerto Rico 18
14 – I-Da-Hoe
hehe.
ok, I’m losing it….
:hubba:hawaii!
seriously, don’t you notice that conservative states have LOWER ages of consent…like Idaho and South Carolina…
well Hawaii’s just kinky, I mean come on, all those hula dances and beaches…
thats so they can marry em before they know any better FREAKS!
young turks obviously do not have children of their own. Young women can easily be manipulated and exploited for icky men’s
needsperversions. Servitude to men. Turks should also read the NYT report on teenage brains and alcohol.this is an interesting piece on water:
THE LAST DROP
Confronting the possibility of a global catastrophe.
by MICHAEL SPECTER
:joe:
you got that right…that’s exactly why.
haven’t heard the Turks yet, just putting them on now…morning, FK :joe:
keeping young women at home and pregnant insures they’ll remain uneducated and under control.
i got so pissed off at cenk – or whatever his name is – I’m now listening to jazz. (he still has a ways to go in his transformation from rethug to progressive, if you ask me.)
nice to see you sj :joe: cheers! (and everyone else).
PJ, we need a person walking a dog, don’t ya think? There are a lot of dog walkers on this blog, n’est ce pas?
Well I didn’t hear what Cenk said as I just put the radio on, but he’s said some pretty naive things (and really “stupid/macho”) regarding sex in the past, so I’ll take your word for it…
yeah, it’s good to see you too, FK…
:yippee::yippee::yippee: Kat returns .. Hows Susan ??… :yippee::yippee::yippee:
Kat how was the left coast .. where else did you go ??
Didn’t see one W sticker, Fred. Not a one. Ahhhhh
The entire 16 percent who are happy with the repubs live in my community so it was a breath of fresh air!
:crap:yeah these guys suck! morning kat too bad im not gonna be in macon 🙁 i can still get you tickets if you and mr would still be interested in going to see jesus!
morning Fred! Doing fine so far. Streaming the turks and eating breakfast
sex education is the answer.
my niece was about 7 or 8, maybe even 9, living in british columbia. a “nice” young man in the neighborhood would sometimes invite the local kids to his apt for soda or whatever.
one day my niece came home and told my sister that the guy had exposed himself to the kids and tried to talk them into touching him. he told them that “honey would come out.” my niece was appalled at this statement and loudly proclaimed to the group at large, “that’s not true, honey doesn’t come out.” basically offended, not
so much by his pitiful attempts to get touched,
as by the implication that she was that stupid!
so the guy sent them all home in a huff.
the parents had a little talk with the young man and embarraced the hell out of him.
teach your children well…
LAUDERHILL, Fla. — School exams may be detested by students everywhere, but in this state at the forefront of the testing and accountability movement in the United States, the backlash against them has become far broader, and politically potent.
The role of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, has become central to the race to succeed Gov. Jeb Bush (R), with polls showing a growing discontent over the exams, which he has championed and which are used to determine many aspects of the school system, including teacher pay, budgets and who flunks third grade.
Republican Charlie Crist is offering to push forward with the testing regime, but Democrat Jim Davis has condemned what he calls its “punitive” nature, arguing that exam pressures have transformed schools into “dreary test-taking factories.”
http://tinyurl.com/y823zw
I stick with C-span until 9 eastern and then see if Jay Marvin or Sam Seder is discussing something interesting. The Turks are to centrist and off subject for me.:shock::paranoid:
off to walk in the :cold: morning air!
I’m going to try XM public radio with bob edwards. always liked Bob.
(Hey, btw, did you all see Moyers on internet neutrality the other night on pbs? It was outstanding.)
washington journal yay i didnt realize (stupid common misspellings) it was past seven yet!
It’s interesting that the highest achieving schools are the most against the over-use of standardized tests. A nearbye town, Scarsdale, NY, has one of the top schools in the country. That’s because these parents are so involved in the process they understand that their kids are missing out on actual education. The parents decided they would keep their kids home during the tests as a protest. They couldn’t eliminate the actual tests (“No kids left behind” kind of forces the schools to test because of budget money) but they managed to considerably alter the majority of the curriculum so that it didn’t focus 24/7 on “teaching to the tests” In other words, real learning actually went on in the school after the parents were active. This should be a lesson to parents everywhere.
Standardized testing is another way the thugs corrupt the system. Kids learn all the bs required for the tests and nothing else. A lot of school systems used to test at the 9th grade level to see if students were destined for college prep courses or not.. The college prep kids then took tests like the SAT and the CAT when they were seniors in high school.
The idea that everyone can and has to have a PHD is a bunch of BS but it fits into the thugs idea of a world economy where all the manufacturing jobs that paid non college students good incomes go off shore ..
Like so many of the things in this society decisions are made by people who have never been there or done that based on recommendations from think tanks where the people have never been there and done that either.
Rethugs are 👿
Rethugs must be eliminated :gate::omg:
:nuts:im gonna go play video games so i can ignore all this politics crap there is nothing wrong enough here for me to really care!
it’s interesting to me that the people who “improve” education have no experience educating. I had a friend who said that everyone thinks he knows how to teach because everyoen has been a student.
Here, in NYC, many schools have decided to “improve” education by not allowing teachers to have desks (they think desks are a barrier between teachers and students although the students still get to have them) and covering all the blackboards and insisting teachers write on large pads ( because they don’t want children to think that because boards are erased, learning is temporary. )
There’s lots more ridiculousness, but I have to go to work, now.
:yippee::love:i’m in canada!
Ok Sean go live in denial .. just watch your back. err maybe with thugs around that should be your butt…:eek::paranoid:
No teachers’ desks? Seems like things got worse since I taught down in the city (5 years in the west Bronx, but it’s been awhile). Not surprising I guess. The concern was never about the teachers, they were just conveniently set up so they could take the blame on everything that was wrong with the system and looking at everything I see that this has gotten worse. The people with the most input into how the system works are the people who have the least knowledge and often the least real concern about if education actually takes place.
the Turks talk about celebrities too often. I don’t need this when I listen to AA radio.
:tongue:are they talking about michael jackson i remember springer did 3 whole long tedious hours of michael jackson back when he was found not guilty again
Perhaps having a percentage of each classroom on hyperactivity prevention drugs make the kids hallucinate so they think its only temporary.
A lot of high school kids learn that they can get good grades by cramming then after taking a test they immediately push erase memory.. (no need to clutter up that beautiful mind with unnecessary ideas and facts). When they get into college especially technical curriculums where the next semesters / years classes are based on what you learned preciously they find they can not function. I think those people become politicians. A good martini can do that for you too.:rant1::paranoid:
I can’t stand even five minutes of Michael Jackson. Seriously. No, I can’t take the Turks right now, maybe I’ll try them again later or I’ll stream something else.
Hey everyone!! Happy Monday.
Apparently Will missed me because he was so overcome that he felt he couldnt go to school!…ha!…good one!
Hes on the bus!
Roxie- I would think that the pervert should be arrested. Tell them that pedophilia cant be cured…ever….and the only way to get this guy in any sort of registry is to turn him in to authorities…embarassment is not enough!
Next time you dont know what he will do…these guys escalate.
what:omg:
melina
this was years ago. I think this guy seemed like just a lonely kid himself. don’t know if he got “scared straight” or not, but if a child isn’t “groomable” they’re safe from most d.o.m.
not every flasher is a danger, especially if the response is a point and laugh. my girlfriend and I totally deflated (probably literally – I didn’t look that close) a flasher when we were 14 or 15. he closed his coat, turned and walked away muttering…
btw, is the snake (the one in the basement) okay?
Bush to shift message to healthy economy
October 22, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, who gets higher marks for handling the economy than running the Iraq war, is spending two days this week trying to convince voters Republicans are the best stewards of matters affecting the wallet.
White House advisers said Sunday that Bush is not trying to change the subject from a deteriorating situation in Iraq, and that he will continue to talk about Iraq and the war on terrorism as the November 7 election nears. Bush advisers said they think the president should get more credit for recent positive economic news.
Overall, the economy grew at a 2.6 percent pace from April through June, compared with a 5.6 percent pace over the first three months of the year, which was the strongest spurt in 2½ years. Still, voters remain uneasy even though gasoline prices have started dropping, the stock market is hitting record highs, and interest rates on credit cards and adjustable mortgages are leveling off.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Bush intends to mention how optimism about the economy and rising hopes for strong third-quarter earnings lifted the Dow Jones industrial average past 12,000 for the first time on Wednesday. The Conference Board’s index of U.S. leading economic indicators rose last month, and the government reported last week that consumer prices fell in September by the largest amount in 10 months.
America’s voters care deeply about pocketbook issues. Eighty-eight percent of likely voters say the economy is an important issue — on par with the percentage of people who view the situation in Iraq and terrorism as crucial matters, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll….
http://tinyurl.com/yesrqw
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The investor class must be unhappy.. everyone else will be rolling around on the floor holding their stomachs laughing .:rofl2::rofl2:
:banana:i like flashing my butt at people! theres a picture at my dads house
:nana:
OK, my boss justcalled to say we don’t have to meet today, so I’ve got a few minutes to write more about the idiotic ideas that dominate NYC schools.
Here’s another: Accountable talk. That is supposed to be children discussing their reading and learning with each other. They’re taught to say things lie, “I would like to add to what _____ said about that character. They are not supposed to be talking about the things kids really talk about. Everyone is supposed to do this right down to kindergarten. To facilitate this the children sit in clusters and face each other, not the teacher.
Of course, elementary school kids, for the most part, can’t and won’t do this. They insist upon acting like kids. The teachers are pressured to demostrate thagt their students are engaging in accountable talk and the kids , well they’re kids.
So, no desks, no boards, kids facing each other but not the teacher, I’ll bet anyone, other than the genius who thought thiss up, can imagine the outcome.
:yippee:chaos!!!!!
:doh:am i right?
Hurricane PAUL
http://tinyurl.com/yy5rl9
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Maybe a stray tornado will wipe out the Bushstead.:eek:
None of these cockeyed NYC school system ideas surprise me. I’ve always said that the siystem is rigged – they want teachers to have the highest possible education but they give them the least possible input into what they actually do. Can you imagine if a doctor had to take orders from a “higher up” – and from a person who knew little or nothing about medical science – before diagnosing a patient? That’s what this is like.
Sounds like something that came directly out of Albany and Pakashole .. Rethugs love to watch the plunge to the bottom… The rest of us need to be sure we are holding hands with them in the process.
Rethugs are 👿
NYC education has always had great difficulties, huge classes, and many, many problems. Now, however, we have mayoral control, which has made everything political. And, everyone wants immediate results which, under optimum circumstances, are not possible. Learning just insists on taking time.
:nana:chaos? come on do the students end up creating chaos instead of having these “adult” conversations?
sounds like corporate decision making:
people who don’t have a clue about things at the retail level, sit around coming up with “bright ideas.”
south park!
I taught in the days when there were still districts, and it was bad enough then, and I felt I had zero control over what/how to teach (and yes, there was a rush rush about achievement and learning DOES take time) And there were other problems. It kind of sent me into a burnout mode.
The thugs want to destroy every type of organized labor so they have full economic control in their race to the bottom. The NEA is a major force so they are out to destroy the union, the teachers and screw up a couple of generations of kids in the process .. but .. hey .. you can’t criminalize politics.
Rethugs need to be eliminated :gate::omg:
Ha. Sounds like something that came straight out of academia to me. It comes out of the Socratic method. No doubt there have been some wonderful “scholarly” papers written about it (impeccably cited) by people who have never taught kids.
Then again, maybe I’m just fed up with academics and academia at the moment.
Immigrants Flocking to GOP Districts
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer
9:49 AM PDT, October 21, 2006
DALTON, Ga. — It’s a slice of Americana: children playing soccer on a sunny Saturday morning, their parents cheering them on. But at these soccer fields, the dominant language is Spanish, the food truck sells authentic Mexican and few of the adults are eligible to vote.
Along the sidelines, America Gruner lugs a plastic tub filled with blank voter registration forms. Gruner has worked for months to register Latinos, inspired by an immigration debate that has become shrill to many Hispanics. Most politicians in this Republican stronghold in north Georgia offer little sympathy.
(snip)
Republican congressional districts are becoming magnets for immigrants — legal and illegal — but GOP lawmakers are not exactly embracing their new constituents.
Of the 50 House districts nationwide with the fastest-growing immigrant communities, 45 are represented by Republicans. All but three of those lawmakers voted for a bill that would make illegal immigrants felons.
Overall, GOP districts added about 3 million immigrants from 2000 to 2005, nearly twice the number that settled in districts represented by Democrats, according to an Associated Press analysis of census data.
The numbers help explain why illegal immigration is such a big issue in rural Georgia, eastern Pennsylvania and in suburbs throughout the United States.
They also help explain why House Republicans passed five bills on border security in the weeks before Congress recessed for the Nov. 7 elections. Only one measure, calling for a border fence, has become law.
(snip)
http://tinyurl.com/wwqdp
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So many of the GOP’s victims are poor people who key on the thugs low taxes mantra .. The immigrants while being poor are not quite as brain washed and vote democratic.. That’s what happened in the Denver metro area and totally screwed up the rethugs gerrymandering and probably explains why Tancredo has his shorts in a wad.
:paranoid::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
y’know Fred…again, I have to ask…what happens if you “eliminate” all of the rethugs? What of the balance and checks and balances?
What are you espousing?
Dont you agree that we have to try to deal first with the neocons, and then get some better dems in place, shake out the conservatives as well, and see if its even possible to get back to a reasonable balance of people based government with regulations on big business, imports and labor (unions for all and tariffs on non American manufactured goods?
“Eliminate” is way too strong and Im not sure where you, and others who say this are going with it?
Because, what it really does is cause a section of the people listening to write you off as a crank, and another to write you off as angry and illogical…and the rest are few and saying the same thing…but with no plan later on.
So, as Ive said before…once youve eliminated them all…whats next?
You are an incredibly intelligent guy and you make it hard to have any sort of discussion except with people who want to say “yeah, yeah!! Lets kill em all”…
Its just sort of below discourse….and it cuts out alot…
So, explain please, what structure of government would you like where the rethugs arfe eliminated? and who replaces them?
:nana:good-night sheeple i sleep now you go watch south park!
Im off to the world…will check back in remotely….
There are rethugs and there are Republicans they are not the same thing.. The Republicans of the 1980’s were not Reich wing fundy Christians, were not as attached to big corporate business ( they did in general represent the upper middle class and the wealthy but on a local not a national level) were for moderation in government, decentralized control and for watching their pennies.. The rethugs are almost exactly the opposite. These people are sociopaths who care about nothing but themselves, acquiring great wealth and obtaining and maintaining power. Nixon who created the EPA while extremely paranoid was a sort of Republithug but not entirely a rethug . RayGun was the first genuine rethug ( corporatist fascist in disguise).. They have now infiltrated all aspects of government at all levels with their loony ideology. Business schools even teach their form of economics which makes workers the enemy.. that can not be allowed to continue.. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason::tommygun::tommygun:
Hey, today’s Woot looks interesting. It’s an Archos AV-700 portable media player/DVR (schedule and record). Has a 40-gig hard drive, 7″ 16:9 screen, and will handle AVI, MPEG-4, WMV video files, DivX, Xvid codecs, and MP3, and “near DVD quality” – 720×480 @ 30 f/s.
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hold on there fred
nixon was not a rethug? whaaaa?
nixon began the southern strategy. nixon played to the moralists while being a muck-mouthed hypocrit. kissinger not a neo con rethug? just not called that at the time.
agnew not a (re) thug hypocrit? the “silent majority” begat the “moral majority” begat the christofascist zombie brigade.
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Good morning!!!
I’m off to performance!!!
Bye!!!
The SBR could probably use a parliamentarian form of government ( A socialist democracy like Holland for example) allowing for multiple parties all of which would be allowed to introduce legislation. What ever the SBR’s government has evolved into it seems to be the only government of this variety on the planet The rethugs over the last 30 years have brainwashed the people and their media has distorted things to the point where doing something like this will be almost impossible unless some fundamental changes take place. :gate::omg:
:shock:i have been corrected! my congressman did not win by a couple hundred votes it was a couple thousand 3,774 to be exact but anyway it was 49 to 51 percent not a seat you would think the rethugs would not try and steal back two years later right? unless maybe your democrat was a closet rethug? maybe?:paranoid:
:nixon:richard nixon wasnt even a real person it was just a guy in a mask! probably a bush at that…………
:cat:how did you old people even elect a guy that looked like that i mean its not like nixon was pre TV or something like that
I think Nixon’s admin was an intermediate step in the evolution of modern rethugs ..The democrats still had a lot of popular support from labor and people who liked Johnson’s new society and there was no Rush limpprick and Sean Handjob or FAUX news around to brainwash the people.:gate::omg:
olberman…… sleep now
Well, Sean, in 1968 Bobby Kennedy got shot, for starters, which didn’t help. George Wallace took 5 Southern states, which didn’t help. LBJ escalated an immoral and unwinnable war, that was actually an insinuation of the the US into a civil war in Vietnam that had become pretty unpopular (and that didn’t help – especially Johnson, who had to step aside). Humphrey won in NY, though (Texas, too), but basically it was a Nixon electoral landslide, though he only won by seven tenths of one percent in the popular vote. Ah, our wacky electoral college system.
Rayguns anti union stance made the democrats see that labor was in big trouble and instead of trying to do something about it they took the easy out and joined the thugs and corporate America ( where lots of money was much more plentiful) .. The democrats are still just moderate rethugs and are very confused because after 30 plus years the 80% of America that still works for a living has found them out and are not happy at all. ( Americans are bit slow on the uptake) :gate::omg:
how did nixon get elected?
the same bs talking points, plus so much of the antiwar movement was young and angry and scared the shit out of the grownups.
the dems didn’t
abandon the unions. the union members got fat and happy and became exclusionary. trade union membership was sponsored from father to son (and never daughter, and not minorities, etc).
it was interesting to me to note that the only union to officially endorse raygun was patco. raygun showed his appreciation by busting the union.
ps
tony blair was elected by a parlimentary gov. system.
Well, don’t forget that Johnson and the Democrats were responsible for the war. Agnew was the hitman against those dirty filthy hippies. And Wallace appealed to southern segregationists. The popular vote was very close, and I think RFK would have won that election had he not been assasinated.
Johnson, to his credit, accelerated peace talks after deciding not run, but Nixon escalated the bombing – going in to Cambodia – once he was in office. Another 20,000 US soldiers were killed after Nixon took over.
During Rayguns eight years Raygun attacked the Patco union, The Postal Workers Union, the Rail Road Unions, the Steel Workers Union , deregulated trucking which damaged the teamsters union and took down trade barriers against imported cars and steel giving the automobile companies more “flexibility” to negotiate with their unions and allowed the steel companies to claim they could not compete and just happened to make them go bankrupt. The Republican low taxes and small government mantra also attracted a lot of people. I don’t remember nary a word from the demodrops to counter any of this. :paranoid::yuck::spank:
To this day a lot of Reich wingers think that the war in Vietnam was winnable and that the left and the peace movement was an embarrassment. Attempting to pave North Vietnam would have caused a bad interaction with their northern neighbor which is conveniently ignored by the Reich. The possibility of China involving itself in the war following Nixon’s bombing campaign is also conviently over looked. I have to think that some pressure was placed on the Semi Banana Republic by forces other than the demonstrators in the streets to get out of Vietnam before something really bad happened. 😮
:nixon:i know i know! i think i said that all before? still you had televisions…… :love:
isn’t this the same technology used on the new passports?
Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards
Yeah Sean we had TeeVee’s and probably 50 million watched the news every night too. Communism is coming to get us .. be afraid very afraid.. from both parties and the media night after night. A lot of people listened to radio Moscow transmitted by shortwave from Cuba to find out what might really be happening. :omg::eek::eek::eek:
4 dead in ohio
and several more at jackson state u. but they were black so that was ignored.
more than anything else, I think the spector of nat’l guard troops firing on and killing white middle class college students (who were demonstrating against the secret bombing of vietcong supply lines in cambodia. massive “carpet bombing” of a neutral country which eventually led to the kmer (sp?) rouge atrocities.)
in some ways, they don’t make rethugs like the old thugs.
Yeah Kat sounds the same .. Bestbuy and some of the music stores use those RFID chips on there merchandise too. That’s what sets off the alarm when you leave with the tag attached. Sounds like the supermarket could change you a use fee without you ever knowing about it. :eek::eek:
I remember stories about the reception a lot of people gave to the Kent State students when they were sent home following the shootings. Some places in Ohio gas stations would not even pump gas for them when they saw the Kent State sticker on their rear window.. The polarization that caused between the 20 somethings and the their parents was terrific..Something really bad could have indeed happened. In peoples living rooms. :eek::eek:and :eek::eek::eek:
I still say that this discussion just proves you have to provide some disincentive to the rethugs before they will go away. They have such control over the media and state and local governments and are so sociopathic that the things used previously are not going to work this time. The war in Iraq is almost a distraction compared to the other things they are doing.:eek::eek:
Active-Duty Troops Launch Campaign to Press Congress to End U.S. Occupation of Iraq
65 Members to Send “Appeals for Redress” Under the Military Whistle-blower Protection Act
10/23/2006 9:58:00 AM
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, 202-246-5303, or Alex Howe, or Laura Gross, 202-822-5200, for Fenton Communications
News Advisory:
For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, active- duty members of the military are asking Members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and bring American soldiers home.
Sixty-five active-duty members have sent Appeals for Redress to Members of Congress. Three of these people (including two who served in Iraq) and their attorney will speak about this on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. EDT.
Under the Military Whistle-Blower Protection Act (DOD directive 7050.6), active-duty military, National Guard and Reservists can file and send a protected communication to a Member of Congress regarding any subject without reprisal.
What: Three active-duty members of the military and their lawyer, a retired U.S. Marine Corps JAG, make comments and take questions from the media.
When: Wednesday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m. EDT
Conference Call Details: 800-362-0574, Conference ID: “Active Duty”
http://tinyurl.com/yaykr5
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good news that! FTA — fight the army in polite terms.
I hope they don’t get disappeared.
i’m off to bed. it’s been good talking to you fred, pj, sean, et al. I feel like an old codger, remembering the old days, but this really is true: as bad as things are now, they were worse then. no internet, 3 channels, very few sources of truth. the “old left” was tiny and non-existent in most places.
segregation was the law in the south but was practiced voluntarily thruout most of the country. except for college towns, it often wasn’t safe to drop into a café in midwest towns if you had long hair or peacenik attitudes.
the vietnam war went on for years. eisenhauer spoke at the 1954 annual governors’ conference explaining why it was important that we take over the fight against the communists in north vietnam from the french since they “had certain things we need” strategic metals, etc.
the right was not as sneaky then only because they didn’t need to be.
it’s better now than then — fewer would have been shocked or appalled by katrina, for example. it will get better again, maybe not after this election but it will happen, because it must.
Police in Hungary have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters during commemorations of the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule.
Clashes took place with about 1,000 demonstrators close to parliament where officials had earlier laid flowers on the 50th anniversary of the revolt.
Hungary has seen bitter political division since PM Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted he lied to win re-election.
Some veterans of the 1956 uprising refused to shake hands with him.
The latest clashes have been in Elizabeth Square, about 2km from parliament.
The BBC’s Nick Thorpe in Budapest said long lines of riot police were moving down streets and firing rubber bullets into crowds.
Our correspondent said he saw one man being carried away with what looked like a head wound from a rubber bullet.
more
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6078052.stm
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This standing in the streets chanting and holding cute signs doesn’t seem to work anywhere these days.:eek::eek:
Did anybody that attended one of Marc’s shows in Boston get a chance to ask him about Nova M?
Eager to hear the status of his radio future!
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I thought that Melina answered this…
I asked him and he said his agent was working on it and talking to some other people but it all seemed pretty vague.
:doh:
When is Malloy on today?
8-11 pm west coast time, I think:tongue:
Oh…Malloy starts on the 30, right?
thanks travis:pup:
Malloy starts next Monday (10/30). His show will be on 9 – midnight, EST.
I thought it was 9-12 Arizona time.:doh: my mistake
where oh where is jim earl? We can only imagine what he’d do with this one.
No doubt he’d say that Studds elected to be buried face down, so that visitors to his grave would have a place to park their bikes.
:priest:
Forgot to mention it this morning, but the Florida senatorial debate is tonight, live from 8-9 PM Eastern on Florida PBS stations. Our local station doesn’t have a link up to view it online, unfortunately. If I can find one at another station, I’ll post it between now and then.
The strategy for Katherine Harris is to REMAIN CALM and not go off on some sort of religious-fanatic riff or become flustered. Nelson’s strategy will be to blow off any and all smears that Cruella may throw his way, and pretty much just stand there and look senatorial. Which, standing next to Harris, shouldn’t be too difficult.
Hopefully it will at least be good for a few laughs. :rofl2:
The gubernatorial debate is same time Tuesday night. I noticed there was some discussion this morning concerning education, and specifically testing. I’m sure the FCAT will come up as a subject, since Davis wants to use it as just a diagnostic tool while Crist wants to continue to flog students with it the way Jeb has been doing.
http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
Hey everyone!
hello sheeple…maybe I missed the discussion, but if Malloy is on the air on the 30th, how can Nova M be accessed?
Katherine Harris in a real debate…that should be fun to watch..
look over to the right under multimedia for the Nova M link, Susan.
Nova M Radio (Shoutcast)
Nova M Radio – (WM Format)
I think Nova M is just testing the stream early, so to fix any glitches if it’s necessary before Mike’s debut on the network
thanks :nod:
Yeah, Cnick, it sounds like Cash right before he cashed in, bit the dust, hit the hay for the last time.
Hey PJ the Nova M WM stream link links to this URL.:eek:
http://www.mms.gov/
The Nova M station is the AAR affiliate in Phoenix. Like a lot of other AAR affiliates they just have there own programming on too.
Katherine Harris in a real debate…that should be fun to watch..
Comment by Susan Joy — October 23, 2006 @ 3:58 pm
One juicy soundbite, that’s all I ask. It doesn’t even have to be nasty. Stupid is OK too, something along the lines of Ted Stevens calling the Internet a series of tubes.
C’mon Katherine, I know you can do it.
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thanks for all the information. I guess I’ll find a way to stream it. Damn I have to work till 8 pm, I hate late nights there…
I think stupid comes easy to her…the question is I think we’re all “Numbed” by the constant stream of stupid comments from George W…she would have to say something astoundingly, spectacularly stupid to really be noticed…
A Recipe for a Cooked Election
Greg Palast
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=11247
Hey, the Nova M stream has the Peter B Collins show on. Never listened to him before, but after about two minutes, I like him better than Rachel. Of course, that might not last, but so far so good. He has somebody from Media Matters on right now.
I finally found the link for the FL senatorial debate:
http://www.beforeyouvote.org
Next time I’ll check the front page of the local newspaper. :smack:
I won’t be able to blog for the rest of the evening, so my 2 cents’ worth will probably be on Tuesday’s thread. Enjoy the spectacle.
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Nova B stream is not working now for me (just tested it). But then again neither is AA on iTunes, I must have to reboot soon or something
Yeah, I’ve been liking Peter B. Collins. I get him on my way home.
Although, he’s had a few really dumbass callers. I hope that’s not regular.