Saturday, and lots to do (as usual) before Monday gets here. I guess I’d better buy a lotto ticket so I can retire.
Posted by pjsauter on April 1, 2006
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Saturday, and lots to do (as usual) before Monday gets here. I guess I’d better buy a lotto ticket so I can retire.
:priest:whoever is the second poster today will have a plauge fall upon them!
1st the worst!!
2nd the best!!:40:
what if Marc’s not really doing a show tonight? what if it’s a big april fools joke??:paranoid:
where the fucketh was the cardinal last night? are the end times already over? im confused!
EGADS!! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?! my index finger just fell off! damn you Sean!!!!:fu:
:rofl2:its working!!!!! beware ye idolators of craven images:rofl2:
:banana:hey everyody call this number 7166051114 and sing happy birthday to the nice little lady on the other end of the line!
oooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaay…..i’m going to collect the rest of my limbs and crawl my way to the hospital…or to the cardinal:priest:..which ever.
if i hear Eric Idle banging a triangle and yelling “bring out yer dead!!”, then i know i’m in trouble. thanks a lot Sean!!:fu::growl::spank:
:nixon:welcome!
:banana:Nicki Rose-Once in a While (Underground Classic!)
Morning!
i don’t like the hate rhetoric on the immigration debate. It has definately become the wedge issue as repbuks lOVE to hate. oh my.
saw Bill on larry king. I miss bill. big time. the panel was ok, randi started out slowly, i thought. that hugh hewitt (his mother didn’t love him) is one creepy ass dude. :yuck:
i do NOT like missing out on blog conversations….i will have to recover quickly so i won’t miss all the informative comments and discussion threads. my room will have high speed internet and I made mr promise to download tmms. RECOVERY CORNER.
must get the teenager off to the SAT, need to make him a fine breakfast. He decided he wanted to take it as, if need be, he can retake it without penalty. I seem to remember when I took it, you could not retake without them pulling an average….or was that the lsat or….oh, the farmer is losing her mind.
Family members start arriving today. My very liberal big brother :gate: and his little son, mom (good liberal, too, but of the kinder gentler sort) and pop who is a Dem on the issues, but votes & supports republican because he listens to limpshit-crap and gets in the white angry male mode.
hey farmerkat! cool good luck glad misters downloading the show for ya! wouldnt he download it for himself too? anyway im sleepy so later!
:doh:i think i killed quietgirl!
:yawn:i feel bad
i think i’ll sleep on it
yep, he most definitely will listen himself.
Have a good sleepy-sleep Seaniesean!
:priest: yep, I’m never going to post number 2 for fear of the hex.
:cake:so uh everybody call my mommy and sing happy birthday to her!
I see that I have fans here!:nixon:
Revolution! (or a slide into HELL!:omg::priest:)
What the fuck is Tyger Thom doing on the AAR stream?:omg:
Reagan was a neo-Klansman, Hartmann. The minority ruling classes liked his fascist ass; but the public………..:omg:
tyger? :barf: i miss morning sedition!:cry:
:yawn:i going to sleep now!
Nicki : Tyger Thom is always live on the AAR stream from noon until three every week day.. He just gets the prime time stream on Saturday am so we don’t have to listen to Rhodes whining again, more.. what ever.
Hartman’s economics lessons are getting about as unlistentoable as Rhodes however.
Somebody make me a Greatest Hits collection of Johnny K Street comedy.:rofl2: Put it on a CD. Who else? Lawton?
Barry Lank rocked last night on Majority Report.
I think Mckinney should wear an overcoat, bring a Chicago piano to the house meeting and give the rethugs a concerto but that’s just me.
Overall, I like TH.:omg: But, as you say, The Economics lessons. (And the founding fathers, the Constitution….:omg: I prefer Ezra Pound on these matters.)
Good luck to Farmerkat.. I hope everything goes well next week.
I have noticed that the Sacramento station has preempted the last hour of whiny Rhodes with Enid Goldstein.. Enid was on in Denver for a year when they tried out a both sides talk format.. She was the only liberal but got 4x the audience of all the rest of the conservatives on the station. Anschutz owned the station and Bill Owens got him to shut it down because of Enid’s assaults on his stupid rethug state government.
Bush is great!
April fools!
The Book of James argues that merely believing in the existence of God means nothing; he jokes that even the demons believe that. Some of the meanest people I have ever met believed in God. The Nazis marched across Europe with belts reading “God is with us,” singing some of the same hymns and reciting some of the same creeds that the church uses today. With a few notable exceptions, the German church hid in liturgy and theology while their brothers and sisters burned. Surely, the holocaust is a permanent rebuttal of that kind of detached creedal Christianity.
:priest::jesus::rofl2:
I can imagine that with McKinney not towing the line with the rest of the regressive democraps that she gets harassed a lot for speaking out. The rethugs calling into C-span this am are all living in denial that they have lost.. if they steal the election again they will really loose.
WITH USURA
wool comes not to market
sheep bringeth no grain with usura
Usura is a murrain, usura
blunteth the needle in the the maid’s hand
and stoppeth the spinner’s cunning. Pietro Lombardo
came not by usura
Duccio came not by usura
nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin’ not by usura
nor was “La Callunia” painted.
Came not by usura Angelico; came not Ambrogio Praedis,
Came no church of cut stone signed: Adamo me fecit.
Not by usura St. Trophime
Not by usura St. Hilaire,
Usura rusteth the chisel
It rusteth the craft and the craftsman
It gnaweth the thread in the loom
None learneth to weave gold in her pattern;
Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi is unbroidered
Emerald findeth no Memling
Usura slayeth the child in the womb
It stayeth the young man’s courting
It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth
between the young bride and her bridegroom
:yinyang: huh?
Cynthia McKinney is in good shape on the legal front. Unwanted groping is met with a retaliatory blow. Politicians know the law; she wwill back the prosecutor down. People in her district know how the police be corrupt.
:cake:happy birthday to mom happy birthday to mom happy birthday to my mommy happy birthday to her!
I still wonder what the daily life in Hitler’s Germany in like 1942 was like. What was on the radio ? what was in the news papers ? Were there liberals working against his politics ? Did they know what was going on in western Europe ?? Did they know what was going on on the eastern front ? How aware were most people of the ethnic cleansing going on ?, How fast did the news of Dresden’s demise spread.?. What did the Germans think then ?? What happened when nightly clouds of B17’s flying over became common place.. were the Germans happy then ??
sean- how old is she? :cake:
Does anyone wonder what it would be like to get up some morning to find the power off.. You turn on the battery powered radio and find nothing on the air. Eventually you wonder into work and the buzzz is that DC and eight other large metro areas have disappeared in a bright flash over night. and that the resulting EMP pulses have wiped out the power distribution system. There is no conformation though just rumors.. The police come and tell you to go home..In a day or two the trucks stop coming to the market because they have run out of fuel so things on the shelf start disappearing. The water supply stops working.. Cars run out of gas and are abandoned..people start sacking the neighbors house looking for food…welcome to WWIII.
Fred . . . you’re scaring me!
(Mornin’, all.)
#40 referred to #37. (Though #39 was no rosy scenario either.)
David Cobb on Tyger Thom’s show! Cobb is a fucking jerk.
Hello Everybody,
I just listened to last nights show and heard that Brendan is leaving. :holla:
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Medea Benjamin Comes Clean, But David Cobb is still Dirty
By Joshua Frank
Following a critical article of the inter-workings of the Pacific Green Party in Oregon titled, “The Green Party Unravels from Within,” a suspect rumor was brought to light. After talking to a dozen or so pro-Nader delegates that attended the Green Party Convention in Wisconsin last July, virtually all of them came forward with a similar belief: that the founding director of Code Pink and Global Exchange, Medea Benjamin, funded California delegates to attend the event and support the nomination of David Cobb. The money was rumored to have come from George Soros, the billionaire tycoon who has deep ties to the Democratic Party, and hates Ralph Nader with a visceral fury.
Benjamin could not be reached for comment prior to the article’s publication, but she emailed me afterwards to clear her name.
“None of my organizations paid for anyone [to attend the convention], not even for myself,” Benjamin wrote. “I barely even talked to folks before the convention.”
And on issue of George Soros funding efforts to nominate David Cobb? “George Soros funding the Greens? Give me a break,” she quipped.
This is certainly good news for the Green Party, as the climate within the Greens is at an elevated threat level. Call it Code Green. Those that are frustrated with the party’s decision not to endorse Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo want to point the finger of blame at someone. Medea is the perfect target, as her support for Cobb carried a lot of weight at the party’s national convention.
March 6, 2006
Down By Law
The Mysterious Case of David Cobb
By JOSHUA FRANK
You probably don’t all remember Mr. David Cobb; he’s the one who ran for president with the Green Party in 2004. I am not sure he actually ran, as he advocated early on for the Greens to endorse a “safe-state” strategy. Anyway, nominating Cobb for prez has backfired on the Greens. They have lost ballot access and credibility across the country, and rumor has it that they are in dire financial straits while a member of their Steering Committee is under scrutiny and may even be impeached.
In short, the Green Party is a big ol’ mess.
Well, David Cobb has resurrected himself in California where he’s been upsetting the locals. In a recent editorial for the Humboldt Sentinel, Cobb was taken to task for his questionable motives:
“David Cobb has taken his penchant for grandstanding and misrepresentation to new heights with his recent dubious claims that he is an attorney and a national political figure.
“At a minimum, these are misrepresentations that stretch the truth. David Cobb has been suspended from practicing law in Texas since 2003, which also happens to be well prior to his resignation as legal counsel for the Green Party of the United States. Cobb also resigned his post as a member of the National Committee of the GPUS last year, and holds no other offices on a state or federal level within the Green Party any related organization that can be found on the Internet.” […]
http://www.counterpunch.com/frank03062006.html
Sean, you really want your mother’s phone number posted on the Inernet?
Cobb is also holding his cards close and won’t divulge any donation list to local Humboldt Greens. What’s David Cobb afraid they’ll find out — that the Green Party’s Ohio recount was funded primarily by big Democratic contributors? Regardless of ones’ take on the whole vote fraud in Ohio, you have to wonder why Cobb didn’t put as much effort into running for president of United States as he did recounting votes. He didn’t raise a quarter of the funds running for the high post as he did after the election in Ohio.
Probably due to the financing of campaigns politicians are always a puppet for some other interests. They tend to be the charismatic types, the good ones are the ones who can sell an Eskimo a refrigerator. I don’t know if public funding of campaigns would really change this. Most people who know government and economics who would be qualified if you were looking for an employee to fill the job would be so boring no one would vote.
I was rereading yesterday’s blog so I could share all the photo info with hubby (I gave up on trying to surprise him) and I just want to thank everyone who responded. I realize that I was so frenzied yesterday that I didn’t actually see every post directed to me and so didn’t thank everyone in real time . . .
Good Morning lil Seditionists, got my oil changed and brakes fixed I’m ready for a ROADTRIP! I haven’t been out of the city limits in well over a year. I’m itchin’.
Jeffrey St Clair: I think the Greens are kaput, a kind of group political suicide on the order of Jonestown or that strange cult in Rancho Santa Fe who neutered themselves, donned their black sweat suits and Nikes, and poisoned themselves while waiting for the Hale-Bopp Comet. David Cobb is either Jim Jones or Hale-Bopp. Take your pick. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, the founding purpose of the Green party was to be a party of resistance. It was never about party building, or getting school board candidates elected, or anything but being a monkeywrench against a corrupt political system. Once the Greens decided to play nice, they ceased to exist as a force of opposition. Why be a Green when you can be a Dem? Why be a Dem when you can be a Republican? The only choice now is not to vote. Staying home on Election Day under these circumstances isn’t apathy or laziness or political mopery (as much as I admire all of those things) but an act of supreme resistance, particularly against those hysterical Dems who yelp that this is the most important election of our lifetime. Bunk.
Joshua Frank: Would you say that Ralph Nader is playing nice this election season? Is there reason to stay home with him in the race? Or is he just playing by the rules, much like the Greens, unwilling to monkeywrench against the political system?
JSC: I think Ralph played coy for too long. Then he was baited into running by the very smear artists who spent three years mugging him. They really underestimated what Ralph is made of—which just shows that they are as stupid as they are politically corrupt. He wasn’t going to stand by and allow a bunch of political thugs and liars to besmirch his character. Then he was betrayed by his own political progenies, including the Green Party, which he almost single-handedly built into a national force. Ralph is a lawyer and a good one. He lives by rules and plays by them. He’s not a monkeywrencher or revolutionary or even a radical. He believes in ethical government, despite all the odds. If Nader makes the Oregon ballot—a long shot given the slimy tactics used against him by Democrats and some Greens—I will happily vote for him. I take Foucault seriously. Politics is really about power. The only power the Left (loosely speaking) enjoys these days is the power of negation. We can’t elect Nader or Camejo or Jackson. But we can defeat bad Democrats, like Gore and Kerry. Until the Democrats bend in our direction or a new political party rises to challenge them. And it doesn’t take much, other then courage, to make this happen—an all out anti-war and anti-free trade campaign waged in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Oregon, New Hampshire, Maine and New Mexico. Those are the states that matter. Those are the states that will force the power elite to deal with the Left. Until that happens, the Democratic Party will continue to move to the right, outpacing the Repubs on several issues…
Oooh! Tyger is growling about “illegals”.
“They are increasing the numbers of laborers…” Talk about outsourcing, Thom. There is the problem with falling wages.
Is he another Lou Dobbs? Talk about the US prior involvement in Mexico. pay reparations.
Tyger Thom. Tyger Thom. Get off the air. His politics are awful. Through keynesianism, the US economy could create enough jobs to get rid of unemployment. (Of course, this will happen when the cow jumps over the moon. ) Oh, it’s easier to blame Mexican economic refugees than to define the real problems.
:jason:corporate capitalism!
I’m out. Busy day today!:nixon:
Happy Birthday, Seaniesean’s mom!!! :banana::bow::alc:
Well Nicki if the American economy produced even half the goods we import we would probably create 20 million manufacturing jobs. The days of the ten dollar toaster would be over though. The illegals typically don’t work in a skilled labor environment.. pounding nails may be an exception but..
Conservatives are such a bunch of fools… When you watch C-span half the rethug callers sound like they need mental assistance.
:rofl2::rofl2:
FK sounds like you have a fun weekend in store :love:
:cake:Happy Birthday to seanieseanmom
Kristapea, safe travels :gate:
Assistance for their inconsistent mental disposition!!
:billcat:
But the other half sound like they’re recovering from their lobotomies quite nicely.
While Politicians analyse the economic situation the situation just gets worse and worse. The lies about the unemployment rate make politicians live in denial of the problem. The isolation of people in the society make them think its only them that are having this problem.. The number of PHD’s in the soup kitchen line keeps increasing.. One of the guys in line commented that he was going to start making Semtex bricks with a special magnet that makes it easy to attach to the gas tank of escalades.. anyone like to buy one .. cheaper by the dozen ..
After his comment I was just interested in how easy it was to make Semtex…
http://www.powerlabs.org/chemlabs/petn.htm
and
http://www.sciencelab.com/page/S/PVAR/10423/SLP1714
This stuff makes Tim Mcveigh’s experiment in urban renewal look small by comparison and it would appear you can buy the stuff to make it on your MasterCard and have UPS deliver it to your front door.. The instructions in the first link seem to make the fabrication process about as straight forward as making a cake. I would guess that if it falls in the oven so to speak you might not be around any longer though.
From a CNN News story: In a speech Friday at an event organized by the Chatham House think tank, Condoleezza Rice said, “I am quite certain there are going to be dissertations written about the mistakes of the Bush administration.”
“I know we’ve made tactical errors, thousands of them, I’m sure,” she said. “But when you look back in history what will be judged on is” whether the “right strategic decision” was made.
On Saturday, a reporter asked Rice to give examples of the mistakes.
“First of all, I meant it figuratively, not literally.”
A bit of back peddling going on Condee? You had it right the first time.
I stayed up late last night to listen to the show but instead spent the time manually hitting the record button. I was trying to edit the show as it was broadcast. I got a little confused as I tied the segments together. I hope its right. So I uploaded the show to my site just before 3 a.m. (CT) this morning. Now I’m up again at 9:13 a.m. and my head hurts from lack of sleep. My best friend is supposed to drive down from Florence, Alabama today to spend the weekend here in Birmingham. Its about a two hour drive. I donno if he’ll come now cause it looks to be a nasty day with rain and all. So I don’t know what I’ll do if Steve doesn’t visit. Be bored? I guess I should really do my taxes. I’ve been putting it off. Even with H&R Blocks Tax cut software to do most of the work for me I can’t seem to make myself sit down and do this. I generally have other things on my mind on the weekend. But I won’t go there this morning. Not in this blog. O, you can hear Marc’s show by following this link, http://web.mac.com/ofmen/iWeb/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html Let me know if the sequence isn’t correct. Laters ppl!
Figuratively, there were thousands of mistakes, whereas literally there were hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of mistakes.
Hey, Melina, is this one of your dogs?
When a rethug kills hundreds of thousands of people it is just an oops we made a few mistakes.. yawnnn. Union Carbide did that in India though and got away with it too.. Now if someone that’s not on the fortune 500’s list does that then you have an execution televised on all the networks
speaking of a fired up little dog.. I wonder what was in the needle ??
A pope’s last request: ‘Read me the Bible’ So says news reports of Pope John Paul’s final hours. He was a gullible man. I think Christians are stupid. Whoops, hope I didn’t step on any toes here!
Hey guys and ladies . . . up to being a little devious today? Judge Roy Moore is running for Governor here in the state of Alabama. I donno why God decided that this would be a good place for me to be birthed. But thats another story! N e way, y’all wanna piss Moore off? He has a page on the internet at http://www.weneedmoore.com/index.php The page features a BLOG! I dare you guys to go to the Moore blog and “fuck” with these idiot Christians. Now that would be funny.
I hope its clomacalm…it actually does look like one of mine PJ!…actually in that slideshow (very interesting, I must say,) the dog that inspired Ren is alot like dearly departed Coco and my little black bug, Orchid…the needle on is like my Sandy Girl (4th of July in Asbury Park, for all you old folks out there,) except Sandy is old and fat…
Im struggling with this laptop thing trying to figure how to get the HD out and all that…
And worrying about baby bird psychology while defrosting baby mice for the snkes…another day here in the country!
Heading to karate and, god I hope I get to the bills and taxes today…much less the laptop….I have most of everything on my alternate hard drive, but I wonder if I can run it on this computer so I can easily get to my online bill pay and stuff without having to try to figure out the maze of passwords….
I will read back and pop in later….
Oh…and Kat, glad to hear things are going well…let me know if you need any content…I have books, freaky Old Time Radio, not available anywhere else (except the collectors forums) because my grandfather wont release it, tons of AAR content daily…everything pretty much except randi and Springer…
If you have AOL instant messenger the files can be easily transferred, or I can burn and send to get there in just a few days….so by the time youre feeling a little better you will have what to listen to. Hate to depend on the hospital TV situation…usually its pretty bad, interspersed with medical shows like, new Mom, how to bathe your baby and the like;-)
Just say the word and I will assemble a huge audio care package!
Bruce Fein
Deputy Attorney General
Ronald Reagan
Statement on Censure
Maybe I should go to the Moore site and pretend to be a struggling straight guy with homosexual tendencies and ask for Moore’s advice. Just kinda play the part of a troubled young man. Seems sorta funny to me. But I’m bent so I guess what I find funny might be a little different for most others. I remember an episode of this old show called the “Beverly Hillbillies”. It was one where Granny was standing at the cement pond and Jethro comes out of the water in scuba gear. Granny screams: “Make him spit you out Jethro!” Like I said, I laugh at the silliest things.
Hey, Melina.
I’m happy to report that hubby is interested in taking your dad up on his offer! He wants to do a “sample” first of 50-100 negatives (he’s a little nervous about letting them out of his sight) to see how long it takes. He’s gearing up for a big work presentation right now, but once that’s done, we can discuss details.
Ahhh . . . the power of the blog!:bow:
(Remember, I have your e-mail address–I wasn’t planning on working out the details here!:wink:)
Blogger conference call with Schumer and Rahm Emanuel
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firedoglake.com
Joe Biden :rofl2:
Jane Hamsher
firedoglake.com
:knit:
Is it an April Fool’s joke or is Air America Place GONE?:priest::rant1:
Many, many thanks to cnickthomas for saving my day.
thought it might be a just can’t get there from here thing? but i guess not? i subscribed to the podcasts yesterday, this is just so typical.
CK- just let me know how many and Ill tell him and put you in touch with him. Sould be pretty easy. Does he want to do them all?
:knit2:
Just finished listening to the cnick podcast-trying to “not get all weird and despairing” this weekend.
But it is difficult.
I have the neck-shoulder spasm that is trying to move into my throat- Wondering if citizenkahn’s virus started in her shoulder. or is it tree pollen?
Have to fly accross the country on a redeye Tuesday night for a sales meeting- the very idea of that is stressing me out.
Oscillococcinum:billcat:
Kristapea- safe journey on the road to LA.
And thank you PJ!
Sorry for the length. But, this was an email sent to me by a distant cousin that doesn’t know my politics. I’m thinking of responding (in a civil way of course.) Any suggestions??
Thanx Sbluefox! I’m headed out now. I wish I had a digital camera. oh well.
Tell your cousin to check snopes before passing around these old chestnuts.
The torrent for the 03-30-06 show is now up at
http://www.mininova.org/tor/268776
Oh, and if he or she is looking for a hot investment, I know this guy in Nigeria….
There is probably some ocean front property in Florida that just went on the market for long term investment her cousin could also get a good deal on..
Somewhere I saw a map of the percents of GNP earned in the various states too. The ones that Gore won were responsible for something like 80% of the GNP. Hannity loved to show the map of all the red states until you found out that 12 western states have the combined population of Queens.
Rethugs like to live out in the toolies too. That way their somewhat questionable activities are more difficult to monitor.
Thanks pj and fred. This is a middle class guy who owns his business and is a professed christian. People wonder who still supports Bush, well most of my family. My dad was the only one that shared alot of the beliefs I do, but he’s dead. Dad was pissed off at George Bush I for going to Iraq the first time. I know he would have been furious at this turn of events. Would you all respond if it was your cousin??
The person who drives around in his diesel F350 with dual rear wheels and a gun rack in the back window, listens to FAUX news all the time and watches American Idol and Cops.. probably has not the slightest idea that his presidork has us on the verge of WWIII. He will be one of those who will be really pissed off when he wakes up and finds the power is off.
I might. It depends, I guess. Most of these folks have their minds set one way, and a little truth isn’t going to change it. Although, it’s still kind of fun to point out that their “facts” are made up bullshit that have been passed around the Internet for years.
I know a guy that I grew up with, and lost touch with many years ago, after her moved to Texas. He got back in touch a few years ago, and we’ve e-mailed occasionally. I guess he’s on the jesus mailing list, becuase he forwards me stuff once in a while. The last time was the Washington Monument crapola, and I responded to him that it was interesting, and he might want to read more about it. I pointed him to a place that pretty much blew it all away.
I haven’t gotten anything from him since. So, if you do respond, you may find you’re not on the jesus e-mail list anymore (which would be a good thing), but I doubt you’ll change any hearts and minds.
it must do an afternoon weekend talk host’s ego wonders when he pulls an April first joke on his listeners and tells them he is being taken off the air and the station’s switchboard lights up steadily for two hours.
Scooter at KLSD in Sandiego just did that. I wish the Denver station was doing as well. Having these stations streaming over the internet is wonderful..
I’m not sure where the “average” lifetime of a democracy comes from, either. The worlds oldest democracy – the Six tribes of the Haudenosaunee – is still in place (despite the efforts of the US “democracy” to kill its people and eradicate their culture).
Thanks, I might just inform him that I am a liberal, that I probably disagree with him on most political issues, refer him to that check snopes website and leave it at that. Try to make it as light, “not heavy”, as possible.:wink:
Or just say you found the e-mail interesting, and wanted to learn more about it, but were disappointed to find that nearly all of it was untrue, and then refer him to snopes. Then point out that jesus wasn’t real keen on lying (or killing, come to think of it).
At the time America happened I can’t think of any democracies that existed..except perhaps in the culture of the American indian. All the exiting governments were all oligarchies. Today some of the governments of South America seems to be heading toward more of a system of rule by the people than any other countries.. at least from what we can see.
The thing about Gore and the 2000 election really pissed me off. The underlying message is that people that owned land were more valuable and important than people that lived in the city.
Also that bit about
compacency to apathy
apathy to dependence
dependence to bondage
That’s exactly what is happening with the Bush sycophants.
Come to think of it, that email really pisses me off. :rant1: I may not respond at all.
Well, I guess I put an abrupt end to that discussion. Sorry about that. You all gave me lots to think about.:peace:
:knit2:
:rofl2:
Yeah Ck between the knitting, the computer and the driving I’m all wacked out.
How is that Otis doing?
I guess I should check in at your blog…maybe Otis updates there?:nod:
Sorry CK i just had to go vist our poor under patronized Kroger.. Only twelve checkout lines open at the time I was there .. I wonder what the super WalFart was like ??
Rethugs always look at property as a measure of a persons wealth.. If peak oil is a reality all the that rural land in those red states may become worthless. Water is going to become the next big commodity.. land without a way to live on it and no water may be even more worthless.
Isi-If your cousin sent you that email because he/she knows or senses tha tyoure the liberal kind, then definitely send the snopes link…no need to even explain.
I get chain letters from people all the time about sick kids and stuff and when I find these things are a hoax I always tell the people…mainly because what starts as maybe misinformation or a joke, really screws up the internet with excess garbage and is probably really something cooked up by hackers.
I want all of my friends and family (an me too) to get in the habit of checking snopes before forwarding anything on…..I also never forward anything on that promises luck or happiness or whatever depending on if you forward it…and I never forward anything that talks about God or God’s blessings, even if its just sunrises and cute kittens.
There is one I recently got taken in by, along with a bunch of my friends) that is about someone doing a school project and needing names….its a total hoax. Meantime, I know kids who are doing projects for the schience fair that use the internet, so its so unfair….Another friend told me about that after I sent it to her. Im glad she did so I dont send along *anything* anymore, except links to political stuff and humor that I like….nothing that asks anyone to do anything or forward things on….thats my rule!
Tell the cousin is my vote!! (If I have a vote.)
CK, got the candle wax off the wall with the hairdryer and paper towel. Not perfect, but dark indigo wax stains on dark turquoise paint isn’t too obvious. Whew! Thanks to all who input. If only wax were the greatest of our worries!
Safe, fun trip, Kristapea!
Happy bday, Seaniesean’s mom!
Good healing, Farmerkat!
Brendan “PW”
Thanks Melina. It’s hard for me because I get so upset I’m not always diplomatic so I sometimes don’t respond because it’s the easy way out.
sbluefox, I’m thinking tree pollen. I am barely over being sick, and my throat has been scratchy again for days! And if my allergies are flaring up, Otis’s allergic bronchitis should be along any day now . . .
Actually, I haven’t posted an Otis update on my blog in almost a week. However, I’m pleased to say that, as of tomorrow, Otis will be down to just one dose of one medication (the immunosuppressant, which has to taper down slowly)! He is doing really well and actually got up on the bed the other day–by himself! He hasn’t repeated that feat, to my knowledge, but it was a happy surprise, to say the least. Thanks for asking.
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Jill Carroll looks great
She did exactly what she needed to do to stay alive and be free. Take that you idiot McGuirk !!
Melina, I’m with you. If my friends feel the need to send me the e-mail equivalent of a chain letter, that’s fine. But I refuse to participate, and usually delete without even reading.
At my old job I had a great site bookmarked for checking hoaxes, but somehow have never been able to find it again. I was, at one point, the official debunker. It’s so easy to check, I don’t know why more folks don’t. Makes me seem like a whiz (except compared to the folks here).
isi, I’d started to comment earlier but I wasn’t really sure where I stood. I tend to be very careful about who I send political stuff to–I used to preface things with a caveat (you know, “This isn’t intended to offend, please let me know if you’d rather not get these,” etc.) so my list has been fairly winnowed. I did have an unpleasant surprise during the ’04 election with a former schoolmate I’d reconnected with. We grew up together in a very liberal, Jewish area of Long Island . . . I definitely assumed he was anti-Bush. I sent some e-mail about a month before the election and his response went something like “Don’t send me stuff like this, Kerry is a thug.” A thug! I was shocked–this is a guy with two sons in college; I would have thought if nothing else this stupid war would have made him realize what a risk Bush had taken. My response was to completely delete him from my address book; I haven’t been in touch since. (And I’m sorry I apologized to him for the way I rebuffed his advances in high school! :yuck: Let sleeping dogs lie, I say!)
Anyway, I would assume your cousin has no clue that you think otherwise. Just a gut feeling. Not sure if it’s worth getting into it with him. Of course, you could always tell him he’s a thug and that you don’t want to get e-mails like this in the future . . .:rofl2:
Phoener–glad you had some success getting the wax off the wall. Dark turquoise paint sounds lovely!
How’s your son doing?
Melina–
I think ultimately hubby wants to do most of the pictures, he just wants to start small. He’s gonna go through the albums and pick the negatives for the photos he likes . . . I maintain that his dad’s developing skills were such that he might not be able to tell the quality of a photo from the print, but it’s his deal, not mine. So I think he’s going to do a sample–maybe of photos from different eras, just to see how they turn out and also how much time it will take to do X number. (Remember, we’re talking 60 or so years’ worth of picture-taking–could get expensive, even at decent hourly rate!)
Weekend Edition
April 1 / 2, 2006
Did Oprah Pick Another Fibber?
Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel’s Night: Is Frey or Wiesel the Bigger Moral Poseur?
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
When in trouble, head for Auschwitz, preferably in the company of Elie Wiesel. It’s as foolproof a character reference as is available today, at least within the Judeo-Christian sphere of moral influence. One can easily see why Oprah Winfrey and her advisers saw an Auschwitz excursion in the company of Wiesel as a sure-fire antidote to salve the wounds sustained by Oprah’s Book Club when it turned out that James Frey had faked significant slabs of his own supposedly autobiographical saga of moral regeneration, A Million Little Pieces.
Published in 2003, Frey’s irksome book swiftly became a cult classic. (The present author was offered it in the summer of 2004 by a young relative, presumably to assist in his moral regeneration, but after glancing through a few pages returned it, on the grounds that it wasn’t his kind of thing.) Winfrey picked it for her Book Club in September 2005, and it rocketed to the top of the bestseller lists.
For Frey the sky fell in when, on January 7, 2006, the Smoking Gun website published documents showing that Frey had fabricated many facts about himself, including a criminal record. There were later charges of plagiarism. Frey ran through a benign gauntlet of trial-by-Larry King on January 11, and Oprah called in to stand by her Pick of the Month. She said that what mattered was not whether Frey’s book was true (the Fundamentalist claim for the Holy Bible) but its value as a therapeutic tool (the modern Anglican position on the Good Book).
But by now every columnist and books page editor in America was wrestling the truth-or-fiction issue to the ground. Oprah turned on Frey. On her show on January 26, he clung to the ropes, offering the excuse that the “demons” that had driven him to drink and drugs had also driven him into claiming that everything he wrote about himself was true. Publishers including Random House, which has made millions off him, had rejected the book when he’d initially offered it as a “fiction novel”. Oprah brushed this aside. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org
CK- He just mailed me again and said hes got 4 film school kids there who appreciate the work and $8/hr cash…I dont know if thats fair or not, but I guess that in Ojai California for a young student, doing work with a film director/writer (retired for the most part, but still, he has all the equiptment…knowing him hes getting them credit and/or renting rooms to them,)maybe its standard. Around here you cant get anything for less than …well, maybe 3 times that….no kid even wants to rake a lawn or mow a lawn. Thus the illegals….and many of them work for guys who charge $40/hr per guy!
Anyway, I know hes helping all these guys out because thats what he does…he likes to be a mentor, for better or worse, in his spare time.
Just let me know when youre ready and Ill set it up and put you directly in touch….no rush…if there is a turnover in worker bees there are always more where they came from.
Weekend Edition
April 1 / 2, 2006
You’re Damn Right Race Matters
The Press Mob, Their Rope and Barry Bonds
By DAVE ZIRIN
Is Barry Bonds the object of a racist witch-hunt? Over the last week I have had to publicly argue this issue against some of the finest minds of my generation (all right, John Rocker and Jose Canseco). In addition, I have duked it out on talk radio, sports radio, email chats, and various blogs. The dominant argument I hear repeatedly, whether from Mr. Rocker or Mr. Liberal Blogger, is that I am an idiot if I think that the Bonds steroid-mania is all about bigotry run amok. Unfortunately that is not my argument.
To be clear:
I don’t think that everyone against Bonds is a racist. I don’t think every sportswriter who wants Bonds punished is a racist. And I certainly don’t think anyone who believes in harsh penalties for steroid use is a racist. One can hate Barry Bonds and also spend Sundays singing “We Shall Overcome” with the Harlem Boys Choir before reading select passages from Go Tell it On The Mountain. But to argue that race has nothing to do with the saga of Barry Bonds is to practice ignorance frightening in its Rocker-ian grandiosity.
http://www.counterpunch.org/zirin04012006.html
Is Lindsey Graham the biggest ass of the day? Go here to view a video clip of Senator Lindsey Graham questioning John Dean, the former White House Counsel to Republican President Richard M. Nixon, about President Bush’s Domestic Wiretapping survellience. What little respect I had for Lindsey has evaporated after viewing this clip. http://www.bradblog.com/
Makes me wish every damn Republican would go down to defeat. :fu:
ZNet | U.S.
LA Immigrant Rights March
by Ty Coronado and Sarah Knopp; Socialist Worker; March 31, 2006
Ty Coronado, Sarah Knopp, Katie Miller and Avery Wear report from LA on the massive immigrant rights march.
A SLEEPING giant awoke March 25 in Los Angeles as some 1 million people marched to protest anti-immigrant legislation that would make criminals out of tens of millions of people.
The LA demonstration was the largest in a recent string of protests for immigrant rights that have shaken the U.S. It was also probably the largest demonstration of any kind in the city’s history.
People of all races and nationalities, but most of all immigrants and their families, traveled from across Southern California and the Southwest to converge on downtown LA. Aerial photos of the area around LA’s City Hall showed huge seas of people stretching in several directions, as far as the eye could see. Everywhere, the streets were a mass of white–marchers wore white T-shirts to symbolize peace.
The marchers turned out to take a stand against legislation sponsored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.)–and passed by the House in December–that would classify not only undocumented immigrants but anyone who assists them as “aggravated felons.” […]
The Sensenbrenner bill, known as HR 4437, was the final insult that galvanized simmering anger here and across the country about the rise of the racist Minutemen vigilantes and the unprecedented number of deaths at the border due to the militarization of Operation Gatekeeper. Many signs read, “We are not terrorists. We are workers.”
Alfredo Rodriguez, a day laborer originally from Mexico City, traveled to the march from Arizona. He carried a sign reading, “The sleeping giant has woken up,” and a T-shirt that read, “Thank you, HR 4437, for reuniting us.” […]
Rev. Luis Barrios, of San Romero de las Américas, is calling for outright defiance of the law if it is passed. “If we can’t keep Congress from voting against this bill, religious leadership in the United States has the moral responsibility not only to protest this bill, but to refute it and violate it with acts of civil disobedience, because this law violates humanity and has nothing to do with national security,” he said.
Rhadamés Morales, one of the organizers of Sunday’s demonstration, said, “We are warming up for a fight that needs to be much larger, because this law isn’t just anti-immigrant, it’s promoting racism and terrorism against all human beings. This law ignores the fact that this country has been built by immigrant workers…Our next step should be to mount a massive protest in Washington, D.C., right on the steps of Congress.”
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http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10022§ionID=72
Graham thought he was somethin’, being in on the impeachment of Bill Clinton and all, but his lack of gravitas was on full display up against John Dean. He sat there rocking in his chair like a pouting 5 year old after Dean wiped the floor with him.
Spring ahead 1 hour tonight :peace:
Roth Struggles After Replacing Stern
By Associated Press
1 hour ago
Singer David Lee Roth poses for a photograph at …
NEW YORK – David Lee Roth says he won’t jump from his gig as a morning radio host. Roth, who replaced shock jock Howard Stern on seven stations in January, has struggled in making the move from rock star to radio host. But during his Friday show, the former Van Halen frontman vowed to stick with it _ although he acknowledged that problems continue.
“I’m going to give it a try,” Roth told his audience. “I’ve invested too much in this show not to.”
Roth’s show underwent drastic changes last week, with the removal of his three on-air sidekicks and the ditching of background music. According to Roth, he received four letters in five days from CBS Radio officials demanding “extensive changes” in his four-hour show.
The rocker complained that CBS executives had failed to offer him enough support when the show first made its debut.
“I didn’t know what I was doing,” Roth said. “I asked for rehearsal, and they didn’t give it to me.”
Failure to comply meant “termination or disciplinary action,” said Roth, whose show airs in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Dallas and West Palm Beach, Fla.
Does anybody dive a f**k?:omg::rofl2:
And now a word from Stern:
“I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, `I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I’m angry. It should be 20 million,'” Stern says in the magazine, on newsstands Monday.
“It’s insulting to me that everyone hasn’t come with me. I take it personally,” he says.
“I want to say to my audience … `You haven’t come with me yet? How dare you? We’re up to wild, crazy stuff, the show has never sounded better. You cheap bastard!'”
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Good Morning lil Seditionists, got my oil changed and brakes fixed I’m ready for a ROADTRIP! I haven’t been out of the city limits in well over a year. I’m itchin’.
Comment by Kristapea — April 1, 2006 @ 8:35 am
We get to see pictures, right?
Now if you REALLY want to take a roadtrip, the Dali Museum is moving into its new digs probably next year. Or you could check out the old place before they move. It’s a long trip, I know, but just sayin’… 😀
Not to mention that I think I still owe you a :40:
Another wheel or two falls off the cart of horror that is the Katherine Harris Senate campaign, in this special weekend edition of…
CRUELLA WATCH! :omg:
From Saturday’s St. Petersburg Times. Man, this had better not be an April Fool.
http://tinyurl.com/hsynf
Dontcha love how Repigs pay so much lip service to loyalty, then bail when the heat is on them? Warms the cockles of my heart, let me tell you.
WTF can go wrong next? I don’t know, but I definitely can’t wait to find out.
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Check out Al on Russert’s CNBC show…its been on since 7PM EST…but really great. Al is pushing Russert pretty hard.
I recorded the audio clips from the aforementioned blog and posted these audio clips to my podcast page if you’d care to listen to Lindsey Graham showing his lack of knowledge concerning the events of the break-in of the Democrat headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. Lindsey Graham is an ass! Go here to listen to the clips, http://web.mac.com/ofmen/iWeb/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html
:nod:hey has anybody else seen slither?
Nope:knit2:
In about 5 hrs I’m going to see “You Can’t Be Neutral On a Moving Train”- the Zinn flick. Well, it might be four hours and twelve mins. Which ever, I guess
whoa they are playing that in anchorage! i suppose i would see that over slither:doh:
hey did you ever finish peoples history?
Yeah, I finished a couple pages:tongue:
Oh, and yeah, they’re playing the train movie over the internet(s)
My! A lot of top-notch rats have scurried off of the Harris for senate campaign of late. I am sure it is no April Fool’s joke.
:rofl2:
Who will the Repos bring in to run when the SS Harris finally sinks?
george bush! the presidents nephew!
has anybody seen critters? yeah that movie was great i remember seeing it when i was a little kid i need to find it on dvd! yep yep critters! not critters 4 or 3 but the first critters!
:rofl2:leonardo dicaprio was in critters 3!
me and my roommate have a huge poster of the movie very bad things on the wall of our living room!
Hi guys,
Did you know that there were two different versions of March of the Peguins:?: We’re sitting here discusing it and Mr. fk saw the French version and they show intercourse, but in the American version they cut it… wtf? Christian right have hijacked it. :fustrate:
Oh, and I told my family the power of the blog so they’ve all decided to stay home while I’m in surgery :rant1: 😀
Is Lindsey Graham the biggest ass of the day? :nod:
melina, I’d love a “care package” but not sure how to retrieve it… ?
Kat- Just email me an address or the hospital address and I will get it together for you…let me know which shows you want also…I just edited Bobby and Pap (a very sad editing job because Bobby’s wave is tinier than the internet music and David Oreck’s is really huge…have to be careful not to cut Bobby out!
I also have all of last week’s Majority Report, Al franken, and Rachel…and Marc….But I can also do next week and get it out to you…
Just let me know the best place to send where someone can get it to you.
Mail me at doubter at optonline dot net whenever you have a chance and I will get on it.
The other alternative is to sign on to AOL Instant messenger and accept a bunch of file transfers…thats really easy but takes a bit of time depending on the connection and file size. I have a zillion CDs here (I buy them when they go on sale) so burning is not a problem.
And PJ- I finally go into the laptop enough to get into F12 diagnostic mode and its definitley the HD….of course, I broke down and went into debt with evil Michael Dell today because the coupon was just too sweet and they honored it for me even though it had expired in my cart….
So now IM gonna be faced with a dilemma because I ordered the drive and it should be just fine…but the system I have coming is so fantastic that…..
well, I have to assess my debt and see if I can do this. Its 0% for 9 months so…..
It will be a tight 9 months unless I can sell alot of stuff on ebay (which I should be doing now!)
Travis, I saw the Zinn movie the other day…its very good. He is really incredible! I also only got part way in the book….but was meaning to buy it from audible so I could listen to it…then Marc came back on and Replay came into my life…and TV no longer seems all that interesting….;-)
Slither?….ah, to be young again and have time on my hands for anything past the blog and maybe the Sopranos (though Im already 2 weeks behind…with Mahr too!)
I only watch movies lately if I can do paperwork during ’em….hopefully Ill dig out and get my taxes done.
I wonder if Krista is in LA yet….I wish I could go to that show! We should have sent her a digital recorder of some sort to bootleg it. Oh well….;-)
Did you know that there were two different versions of March of the Peguins We’re sitting here discusing it and Mr. fk saw the French version and they show intercourse, but in the American version they cut it… wtf? Christian right have hijacked it.
Yeah but they put vasaline on the lense (practically):rant1:
Nite everyone….a kid is taking over this computer….
I want the french march of the penguins….I have a DVD of it here that my father sent me but I dont know which one it is..I think he was trying out his DVD burner or something…
Ill have to see if it can be rented from the international section of…blockbuster?…naw!
How do penguins do it anyway? dont the flipper/feet get in the way?….
ask maddow if the flippers get in the way!
:paranoid:go here to see how penguins do it!
:lol:or here to see um a penguin that does you!
I hope this isn’t the future of the internet: pay-per-page!:fu:
Bowing to industry pressures and hoping to boost income from its widely-read iPod and iTunes web site, iLounge.com has announced substantial changes to its free content offerings, refocusing heavily on revenue-generating measures. Effective 9:00PM PST today, April 1, thousands of previously free pages on iLounge.com will be locked, and made available only on a pay-per-page or monthly subscription basis. “Having watched the experts at Napster and RealNetworks practically mint their own money with similar plans,” explained Jeremy Horwitz, Editor-in-Chief of iLounge, “we decided to bet the company on a similarly great idea. Soon, users will be able to unlock the site with individual ‘iLounge Keys,’ sold for 99 cents per page, or monthly ‘iLounge Gold’ site-wide access for only $12.95. Everyone else is trying to sell something to Apple fans, so why not us?”
Kerry is on the Franken show rerun. 😮
:paranoid:who is kerry? he isnt running for president is he!:rant1:
ZNet | Europe
The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre*
by Edward S. Herman; July 07, 2005
“Srebrenica” has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as “a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War” in which there was a cold-blooded execution “of at least 8,000 Muslim men and boys.” [1] The events in question took place in or near the Bosnian town of Srebrenica between July 10 and 19, 1995, as the Bosnian Serb army (BSA) occupied that town and fought with and killed many Bosnian Muslims, unknown numbers dying in the fighting and by executions. There is no question but that there were executions, and that many Bosnian Muslim men died during the evacuation of Srebrenica and its aftermath. But even though only rarely discussed there is a major issue of how many were executed, as numerous bodies found in local grave sites were victims of fighting, and many Bosnian Muslim men who fled Srebrenica reached Bosnian Muslim territory safely. Some bodies were also those of the many Serbs killed in the forays by the Bosnian Muslims out of Srebrenica in the years before July 1995.
The Srebrenica massacre has played a special role in the politics of Western treatment of the restructuring of the former-Yugoslavia and in Western interventionism more broadly, and it is receiving renewed attention and memorialization at its tenth anniversary in July 2005. It is regularly cited as proof of Serb evil and genocidal intent and helped justify a focus on punishing the Serbs and Milosevic and NATO’s 1999 war on Serbia. It has also provided important moral support for the further Western wars of vengeance, power projection, and “liberation,” having shown that there is evil that the West can and must deal with forcibly.
However, there are three matters that should have raised serious questions about the massacre at the time and since, but didn’t and haven’t. One was that the massacre was extremely convenient to the political needs of the Clinton administration, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Croats (see Section 1 below). A second was that there had been (and were after Srebrenica) a series of claimed Serb atrocities, that were regularly brought forth at strategic moments when forcible intervention by the United States and NATO bloc was in the offing but needed some solid public relations support, but which were later shown to be fraudulent (Section 2). A third is that the evidence for a massacre, certainly of one in which 8,000 men and boys were executed, has always been problematic, to say the least (Sections 3 and 4).
ZNet | Alternative Media
Why Does Z Magazine Support Genocide?
by Bill Weinberg; July 19, 2005
With all of the current horrors in the headlines, the world has paid little note to the tenth anniversary of the July 1995 massacre of 8,000 at the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica after it was overrun by besieging Serb rebel forces. The town’s women, children and elderly were put on buses at gunpoint and expelled to Bosnian government-held territory. But the adult men were separated out and kept by the Serb forces for “interrogation.”
Their whereabouts became the subject of an international investigation which is now bearing grim fruit–thousands of corpses exhumed from mass graves, held in Bosnia’s morgues, where international teams are conducting the lugubrious work of DNA identification, matching genetic material from the bones with samples provided by relatives of the missing. Some 2,000 of the dead have now been thusly identified, the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) reports. The massacre is rightly called Europe’s worst since World War II.
The leadership of the Bosnian Serb Republic (which now has de facto independence under a peace deal brokered by the US shortly after the
massacre) has also formally investigated, confessed to and apologized for the crime. A total of 19 people have been charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) for the Srebrenica massacre, and 16 are currently being held at The Hague. Three Bosnian Serb soldiers have pleaded guilty to many of the charges against them.
But the supposedly “progressive” Z Magazine, and its online extension ZNet, mark the anniversary of Srebrenica by running a lengthy piece by Edward S.
Herman (one of the American left’s official darlings and a one-time Noam Chomsky co-author) arguing that the massacre never happened–or that it was exaggerated, or that the victims deserved it. Like most genocide-apologist propaganda, the piece never makes its arguments explicit: it just leaves the uninitiated reader with the vague but strong impression that anyone who believes that there was a massacre at Srebrenica is a dupe of imperialist propaganda.
ZNet | Europe
Bill Weinberg supports the onset of World War IV
by Edward S. Herman Edward S. Herman; July 19, 2005
[Note: Weinberg put a very similar version of this critique on his World War 4 web site, which I answered with the reply I reproduce here with only minor bracketed changes that reflect his occasional shifts. But as I noted in my initial reply, I don’t have time to do justice to all of Weinberg’s distortions, as there isn’t a single paragraph, and very few sentences, that are not vulnerable to disassembly for ignorance and misrepresentation, false “implications,” and attack by snide put-downs.]
Bill Weinberg’s attack on my article “The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre” (“The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre,” ZNet, July 7, 2005, http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=74&ItemID=8244) is titled “Z magazine supports genocide.” In that article I did contest the standard narrative about Srebrenica, but for Weinberg this is maddening and illegitimate, and anybody that does this can’t be honest and must be an apologist. This is a standard rightwing smear tactic whereby somebody who, for example, criticizes the Bush attack on Iraq “supports Saddam Hussein” or who opposes the Patriot Act is a “supporter of terrorism.” I can’t just disagree on Srebrenica, I must be an apologist—and for genocide.
Of course, a stronger argument can be made that since the huge focus on the Srebrenica massacre serves, among other goals, to put the Clinton-Blair war against Serbia in a good light, Weinberg’s swallowing this party-line position is apologetics for war, and a war that was part of World War 4, or a natural feed-in to Bush’s wars. There was the same disregard for the UN Charter, war crimes galore in the bombing of Serbia (open attacks on civilian infrastructure, use of depleted uranium), the refusal to negotiate any kind of settlement (notably in the case of the U.S.-Izetbegovic sabotaging of the 1992 Lisbon agreement, and Rambouillet), the insistence on war as the means of resolution, and the building of Camp Bondsteel, a gigantic permanent military base in Kosovo. Its connection with Serb villainy is a sick joke; the most thoroughly ethnically-cleansed areas in the former Yugoslavia are Croatia and NATO-occupied Kosovo. But the standard Srebrenica story tells us that this was all just because we were dealing with true evil, and on one side only. This is war-supportive crap that Weinberg buys and helps disseminate.
In proving me an apologist, one technique Weinberg uses is the false inference. For example, he says that my “first half” (a lie—less than a quarter) is spent arguing the political convenience of the massacre—analogous to “arguing that My Lai didn’t happen because it was ‘convenient’ to the NLF.” But I say explicitly that “political interest hardly proves that the establishment narrative is wrong. It does, however, suggest the need for caution…” This kind of lying is important for Weinberg, because a main feature of his article is its complete lack of caution and his touching assumption that all those folks who have a political interest in the standard narrative are unbiased and simply truth-seekers. The Serbs lie and bury and rebury bodies, but the good guys give us the straight poop. Throughout, he talks about an “international investigation” studying this subject as if the parties doing that investigating have no political axe to grind.
I spend many pages showing how the Bosnian Muslim leadership did lie to try to induce NATO intervention, and I even quote Izetbegovic’s death-bed admission of lying to Bernard Kouchner and Richard Holbrooke. Weinberg dodges these and focuses on my claim of self-inflicted casualties by the Bosnian Muslims.
NY lotto numbers for April 1st; 5, 23, 33, 35, 36, 53
Bonus: 43
torrent for friday night’s show here :nod:
“…a $65/hour consulting service where iLounge editors or high school students (as available) will offer in-person or telephone iTunes assistance and music recommendations to needy readers. “We think that these changes will ultimately benefit both us and our readers,” said Lloyd and Horwitz, “and if they don’t, at least we’ll be able to enjoy the nude photo galleries.”:rofl2::rofl2:
travis:spank:
Oh, yeah, that was an April fool’s day joke. I forgot to throw that down.:doh: Sorry
SeattleBlueFox:bow::omg:
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:fustrate:gran turismo!
:knit2:is this some kind of sexist guys cant knit smiley?
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