So who creeps you out more? Tom Cruise or George Bush?
At least Tom Cruise knows how to pronounce “placenta.”
“I hear voices. I’m a decider. And I’ve decided to eat Katie’s placenta. But just part of it. I’m gonna feed the rest to Don Rumsfart. ‘Cause he’s a good man. God said so. I hear voices.”
Cruella Watch coming up this afternoon if I can find the picture I saw this morning. (What can I say, it’s early and I’m still half asleep from staying up for Boston Legal last night. Denny Crane.)
in montana only one day in utah! which is good i dont like being surrounded by polygramists ha ok im done wont use that one till i end up in utah again alrighty well must be on my way another 80 miles to go later sheeple!
Im the decider and I decide to decide to be the decider…or maybe I’ll decide not to be the decider…Or maybe I’ll just decide not to decide…watch me decide….Ill decide something big any time now….I’ve decided not to decide right now…..
Im really releived that TomKat decided to have an epidural…that quiet birth can be hell…though I wouldve liked it if everyone had stopped yelling “Push” at me.
but there might be some deciding that you know needs deciding and then there’s the deciding that you don’t know needs deciding and then how do you decide?
hey kk and melina.
melina, hope you have a happier day today. sorry to hear about tweet’s respitory problem. do they think it was viral?
reading an interesting article in salon on rice’s/admin main focus is contain china. suggests containing China is their primary policy focus… thats how she missed 9/11, among other things…my only problem with this is then why have they let china purchase so much of our debt? I’ll finish the piece (interesting) but i don’t see anything yet addressing that particular issue.
I saw the other day where China is now the worlds 4th largest economy after surpassing Britain. I can’t help but think that Bush will fail at containing China.. Russia is also a big oil producer and is right next door.
Hello, all. Been a little busy lately. Finishing up one contract and looking for the next fiscally-friendly endeavor that just might put some food on the table.
Have an article from Vanity Fair everyone should read. Saw Carl Bernstein on Countdown last night. I don’t think Mr. Bernstein likes The Great Decider.
By the way, FarmerKat, if I were to relocate, which neighborhoods in Atlanta should I avoid?
The US’s position in the world is based on a GNP that is driven by things like the interest we pay on our credit card debt and our major exports ( T bills and American corporations). The next thing we are going to sell are some of our less productive states. ( complete with slaves.. err workers)
I wouldn’t go north of the perimeter (I 285) – unless the job IS in the north of Atlanta. The traffic up that way is the absolute worse. Stay away from Clayton Co, south of Atlanta, and I think Dekalb Co has high crime (Becky, is Decatur in Dekalb? if so, I may be wrong on that…) There are some great downtown areas and we are 50 miles south of the airport, in a rapidly growing area.
I saw Carl on Kieth’s show too…would that Woodward was a little more like him…The funniest thing is that Kieth had a station interruption for the emergency system or something…special report: Tom Cruise has Spawned!!
When special reports come on I always say “oh no!” and stop what Im doing…because of 9-11 and everything around that…It was good to have it be something funny.
What can these people be thinking? Who are the 30% who think any of this is OK? Gas here jumped 11 cents a gallon yesterday…and I think thats just the beginning, and probably has something to do with this artificially inflated oil price or $70+.
When do the oil companies give back some of a windfall or put some at least into alternatives….?
And what of China? Ill have to read that article, but Im already so scared and pissed that I dont know if I can take it.
Oh well, another day….
and here is a great little Jim Carroll video for those of you who remember him from the 70’s and 80’s…and/or now…but hes more of a poet who had a moment in the punk rock spotlight…(oh and I guess leo dicaprio was in a movie of his book…I never saw the movie but I liked the book back in my younger days.)
The guy on Maddow’s show was talking about global warming not being in the top five of the things that worried people. I would guess that until the grass roots American is sitting in his living room at 110 degrees, with no job, no beer , no power and no gasoline for his pickumup truck not much is going to happen.
Anybody hear Janeane Garafolo discuss Guy DeBord yesterday. Claimed that he was ideologically similar to Leo Strauss. She said she got her analysis from the latest edition of “October Magazine.”
Led by filmmaker and philosopher Debord, they called their experiments situations: āmoment[s] of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and game of events.ā In pursuit of situations, the SI broke up classrooms, church services, and press conferences; scrawled evocative slogans on walls and clothes; and created films and events that diverted elements of everyday life into new and displacing contexts, all in an effort to reveal the hierarchies of power that the spectacle concealed.Ā
In a leap its theorists would have denied was mystical, Situationism sought moments that would transcend the limits of scarcity and geography imposed by capitalismā āthat Northwest Passage,ā writes culture critic Greil Marcus in a new anthology from MIT Press, āthat unmarked alleyway from the world as it appeared to the world as it has never been.ā For the SI, art is meaningless unless it can change the conditions of powerlessness in which most people live. On the other side of the nightmare, the situationists envisioned an experimental, technological utopia of shifting environments and post- scarcity adventure.Ā
Their influence peaked in the spring of 1968, when Paris, then all of France, shook with slogans and tactics inspired by the SI, bringing the government of Charles de Gaulle to its knees. The SI broke up in 1972, isolated and defeated, but its global influence persists. . .
even more interestingly:
A senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the president had not yet made the announcement, said Wednesday that Rove is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections.
Whoa. Still trying to absorb it. I wondered how long Simple Scotty would be able to keep on with that job, he always looked as though he were ready to explode while lies were slipping out of his mouth. What’s the take on Joshua Bolton, what can we expect from him?
ahahahaha…..McClellan left!!!! guess he couldn’t take the lies anymore.
bye bye Scotty….or as Stephanie Miller would say, See ya Puffy McMoonface!!!:fu:
oh…..and hello seditionists!!!:banana: i came back, i’m still here….it’s just that lately my computer has been occupied by other people….i really need my own:fustrate:
but i’m keeping the sedition alive:fist::jason:
interesting sf chronicle column on main stream media and blogging and journalism:
That was the great irony driven home to me when I attended Howard Rheingold’s class on digital media at Stanford Thursday afternoon.
Rheingold, a true digital luminary who’s written extensively on the digital age and was integral to the Well’s rise as a virtual community back in the ’80s, is spending some of his time these days teaching aspiring journalists and Web types about new media. From blogging to podcasting to vlogging to citizen journalism, his class spent the last quarter probing and debating where the media industry is heading.
i heard a chilling hour-long interview with a woman who was part of a polygamous marriage in utah mormon country and managed to escape from it. here’s how it really works. the girls are taught a very weird scary religious doctrine where they must submit totally to a polygamy situation and see their husbands as lord and master or the girls go to hell forever.
there is a lot of incest with the husbands preying upon their young daughters. the girls frequently marry at age 13 to 15. the more girls a man can marry, the more virtuous he is in the eyes of the lord. it’s a terrifying depressing situation for the girls. i got the idea that a lot of the husbands in the polygamy world are really child molesters, predators of the worst kind.
the interviewee said that real polygamy isn’t at all like what the television show portrays with strong interesting independent women as wives.
she wrote a book about her experiences in mormon utah. she’s been threatened with death several times for writing a book about her experiences. i’ll try to find the reference. i think i heard her interviewed on the terry gross show fresh air. it was about a month ago when the television show first started.
Bush has a positive net approval in just four states (Utah, Wyoming Idaho, and Nebraska), Oklahoma is evenly split, 48%-48%, and he has negative approval nets everywhere else. Not surprising in Kerry states, I suppose, but some huge differences in a lot of Bush states, including 20 red states where his net approval is -10% or greater:
North Dakota -10%
Georgia -12%
Arizona -13%
Tennessee -13%
South Dakota -15%
Montana -15%
Indiana -18%
South Carolina -18%
West Virginia -18%
North Carolina -19%
Kentucky -20%
Arkansas -22%
Virginia -23%
Florida -24%
Missouri -25%
Colorado -26%
New Mexico -26%
Iowa -27%
Ohio -29%
Nevada -31%
I can only hope that this is good news for the midterm elections. Look at Pennsylania. How can it possibly retain two Republican senators when the people are so disgusted, as this poll shows? Me thinks not. I’m sorry, but everybody I’m talking to thinks that if we nuke Iran we’re going to start World War III. I’m finding it harder and harder to find anybody who even sits on the fence anymore. I’m feeling something I haven’t felt since I was a little girl and people were screaming to get the troops home from Vietnam. I’m feeling revolution in the air.
Florida and Ohio, strictly speaking, should not be considered red states. They are battleground states where foul play took place. Karl Rove WANTS you to think of them as red states.
I don’t agree with Bill Nelson on everything, but I give him major credit for being out in front of the Gulf drilling issue, and also for bringing Mel Martinez with him from across the aisle.
Nelson has been working this turf (or should I say surf) for years, and for Harris to accuse him of grandstanding on the issue is pure and utter BULLSHIT.
:fu: Eat shit and die, bitch. :fu:
And, might I add, how lovely of her to quote Lawton Chiles out of context when he’s too dead to defend himself.
This one’s for you, Cruella. Try not to enjoy it so much.
:spank:
And, I understand Rove has been reassigned to work on this yearās elections – meaning, more smear campaigns and stolen elections
Yep, Rove is not out of this…he’s going to continue to do his dirty work. This move is just designed to get him out of the spotlight so the heat is turned down and he’s freer to do what he does best. Smart people know better.
Ohio and Florida will just have to do a little better to not be counted as red, in my book.
Both of Ohio’s US Senators are Republicans. Republicans in the US House outnumber Democrats 12 – 6. The Governor (for the time being, though nobody loves him anymore) is a Republican. 22 of 33 State Senators are Republican. 60 of 99 in their state House of Representatives are Republican.
In Florida, the senators are split, it’s 18 – 7 Republicans in the House, the gov is a Bush, 26 of 40 state senators are Republicans, and they control the state House, too.
It is now seven months before what could be a radically influential congressional election, a vote that could very well give power back to the Democrats, who will (with any luck) waste no time launching a number of long-overdue investigations into Bush’s failed war and the various scandals and lies and fiscal abuses that led us all here.
For Dubya, now is the time. One last, desperate gamble. Slam that last drink, scrunch up your face, screw the rules and let the bombs fly. What, you don’t think he could do it? Don’t think a nuclear attack on Iran is possible? You haven’t looked into the tiny, ink-black eyes of Dick Cheney lately. You haven’t seen Rumsfeld’s arrogant sneer, seen Bush looking confused and lost, wondering where all his “capital” went, desperately hunting for a legacy and finding only irresponsibility and self-righteousness and death.
But hell, as we already know, that’s good enough for him.
“…One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas and talking about the good old days.”
–George Bush today on Scott McClellan
Wow.
Now that I’ve managed to vacuum the froth off my lips since reading the above, and bring my pulse down below 300, and stuff my heart back into my T-shirt from whence it exploded, I just want to chip in my two little cents, to say:
Actually, Mr. President, we have in mind you spending your forthcoming years (should you and we physically survive your Presidency) on trial at the Hague. And thence incarcerated somewhere, for your and your appalling buddies’ egregious crimes against the whole world. And ya’ll can rock there till the cows come home. This on top of any penalties flowing from impeachment. (A long shot; but we live in hope).
America doesn’t recognize the Hague Court as applying to itself, you say?
Fine–then we’ll try you and your cohorts in absentia. And let the world come looking for you.
Divine Strake is not a test of a nuclear weapon , however, DOD will set off a super sized Ammonia Nitrate Fuel oil bomb of some 600 tons. They say it’s to judge how big a nuke would have to be to penetrate to a depth such it could destroy the nuclear facilities in IRAN.. I think its probably more of a show than a test but it will certainly be noisy and it will produce a mushroom cloud.
Over the last 12 years or so several states in the South and East as well as TexASS have turned red under very mysterious circumstances. Colorado almost did that even though it reelected Bush their were some big “red shift” problems in several places. The Dems won back the state house and senate after the thugs destroyed the infrastructure and education system over a period of some 12 years.. A lot of states in the south have citizen legislatures which are not paid so only the wealthy can afford to be their so you get what you get and many southern states have disenfranchisement of the colored voter that makes the problems in Ohio look small by comparison. I don’t really see how you can get back to a point of some normalcy without some radical actions on the part of the people at the grass roots level and I don’t mean giving five dollars to Howard Dean.
…The central project of the Pulitzer Prizes for work done in 2005 has been to remind the world that, appearances to the contrary, the nation is well served by its premier east coast newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
I should rephrase that. The central project of the Pulitzer Prize committee is always to perform that function, only this year the need was more pressing than usual. 2005 was a bad year for the New York Times, dominated by steady disclosure of its important role in manufacturing and then disseminating lies designed to plunge the nation into war in Iraq.
One would have thought that the New York Times would have simply withdrawn its name from contention in the 2006 Pulitzers, but shame was short-lived and the assigned function of the Pulitzer Prize Committee was to winch the paperās name out of the mud… http://www.counterpunch.org
When reality canāt hold a candle to perception, then reality is apt to become imperceptible. And in matters of war and peace, when powerful policy wonks in Washington effectively strive for appearances to be deceiving, the result is a pantomime of diplomacy thatās scarcely like the real thing. When the actual goal is war, the PR task is to make a show of leaving no diplomatic stone unturned.
That kind of macabre ritual was underway on April 10 when the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, told reporters: āThe president has made it very clear that weāre working with the international community to find a diplomatic solution when it comes to the Iranian regime and its pursuit of nuclear weapons.ā The quote appeared the next morning in a New York Times news article under a headline that must have pleased the war planners at the White House: āBush Insists on Diplomacy in Confronting a Nuclear Iran.ā
Ambrose Bierce defined diplomacy as āthe patriotic act of lying for oneās country.ā But there is nothing less patriotic than lying to oneās country — especially when the result is a war that could have been avoided if honesty had substituted for mendacity.
N. Solomon
Sheeze…. a bunch of Shultz listeners or thugs must be reading RawStory.. Re McKinney punching the police officer.. She apparently punched him in his body armor with a closed fist..:no::no::(:omg:
McKinney has taken all kinds of crap. Don’t necessarily say she doesn’t deserve it. But our VP shoots a guy in the face and narry a slap on the hand happens to him. Interesting how the two events played out so differently.
How is it that Costco, a lean and efficient but still for-profit company, can provide consumers with prescription medications for a lower price than a government program subsidized by hundreds of billions, yes billions, of taxpayer dollars? The only possible answer is that the privatized prescription drug “benefit” being forced on U.S. seniors is meant chiefly to pour profits into Big Pharma, not to help Medicare recipients get a better bang for their pharmaceutical buck.
George W. Bush’s presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.
U.S. Attorney Ken Wainstein turned the matter over to the grand jury two weeks ago. Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he met last week with McKenna (the flatfoot who fondled McKinney) and asked him to consider filing a lawsuit against McKinney.
What a perversion! Why does the FOP not let the law take its course? A lawsuit! That jerk has no case. McKinney should file a countersuit.
The FOP are the people behind the campaign to fry Mumia.
Harding was pretty bad. James Buchanan. There have been lots of Mugwumps as presidents. Bush seems to be furthering Reagan’s agenda of killing the New Deal. Every president since Reagan has contributed to the cause. Fuck, I can’t believe that our political culture enables the election of such creeps as Bush and Reagan.
Hey everyone! Just got home.
I dont know if this has been posted before because I havent read back, but its worth posting againā¦.
This oneās for Jim!
Does any reader of online progressive web sites still watch, listen to or read anything from the corporate media? If so, how do you stand it without having a good supply of stomach soothers and strong headache relief handy. I thought most everyone with enough smarts and common sense understood that this collective institutional juggernaut’s mission is to sedate and seduce us – a sort of one, two punch. They mostly do it with diverting and distracting entertainment. Is that what it’s called? You ‘coulda fooled me with what’s on all my 300 + cable channels I don’t watch except when I go to bed and need something mind numbing to make me sleepy. The only reason I have them all is I live in a building that subscribes to the cable service, and everyone gets them, like it or not.
The New York Times Whitewashes the Israeli Takeover of East Jerusalem
by Patrick O’Connor; April 18, 2006
Despite a practiced guise of objectivity, the US corporate mediaās reporting on Israel/Palestine is dominated by the Israeli narrative.Ā An April 16, 2006 feature article by Steven Erlanger, The New York Timesā Jerusalem Bureau Chief, āJerusalem, Nowā in the Timesā Sunday Travel section (http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/travel/16jerusalem.html) exemplifies how seemingly professional journalistic standards can mask insidious biases and misinform readers.Ā Erlanger, guided around Jerusalem by Israelis, omits Israeli violence, stereotypes Palestinians, whitewashes Israeli settlements and covers up Israeli efforts to take over East Jerusalem.Ā āJerusalem, Nowā is among the most political and one-sided mainstream US news articles on Israel/Palestine published in the last year.
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In āJerusalem, Nowā Erlanger repeatedly notes his effort to remain above the fray ā āI try to see it through various lensesā, āI try to see Jerusalem as a place where both armies and souls contendā, āI try to see the barrier from both the Palestinian and the Israeli points of viewā, etc..
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However, Erlanger simultaneously provides clues that Israeli perspectives will dominate.Ā He notes three times that he was guided around Jerusalem by Israelis whom he quotes and paraphrases ā āAvi Ben Hur, the American-turned-Israeli-turned-guideā, āAvner Goren, an archeologist and guideā, āEilat Mazar, an archaeologist.āĀ Ā
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Israelis in Erlangerās article are human beings holding professional jobs.Ā In contrast, he never even names a single Palestinian.Ā Erlangerās Palestinians are an undifferentiated mass with āramshackleā shops on dusty, garbage-strewn streets where they play soccer, and labor.Ā They are enraged and āhateā, āmilitantsā who carry out āsuicide bombingsā, āriotā and open fire on an Israeli kindergarten, and trudge āthrough the dust or the mudā at an Israeli checkpoint designed to āprevent a terroristā attack. . . http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10117§ionID=107
Does any reader of online progressive web sites still watch, listen to or read anything from the corporate media? If so, how do you stand it without having a good supply of stomach soothers and strong headache relief handy. I thought most everyone with enough smarts and common sense understood that this collective institutional juggernautās mission is to sedate and seduce us – a sort of one, two punch. They mostly do it with diverting and distracting entertainment. Is that what itās called? You ācoulda fooled me with whatās on all my 300 + cable channels I donāt watch except when I go to bed and need something mind numbing to make me sleepy. The only reason I have them all is I live in a building that subscribes to the cable service, and everyone gets them, like it or not.
The only “mainstream” news I watch on TV is Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, and I take even him with a grain of salt… I think people are starting to catch on (at least among progressives my age or younger) the mainstream media is an entity with a corporate/fascist agenda at worst and a shallow sound byte factory at best, but the real problem lies with the oldest generation, like my parents. My mom’s a progressive like myself, but over the years she’s placed so much trust in both news shows and newspapers as “legitimate sources” that I can’t shake her of this notion. She’s catching on very very slowly that it’s biased…she’s fairly open minded. Lots of people out there her age aren’t. I think the most hope to shake off the influence of the mainstream media lies with the youngest adult generation – when you read polls you hear that they like “The Daily Show” and blogging. This gives me some hope.
Sounds like a topic I can get into, I’ll look for the book. I kind of know this instinctively but I’d like to see how they explain it and break it down…thanx
You know, I’d feel tremendously better if I had any idea that Bush and his crowd had any idea that they were the worst administration in history…but since they serve a higher power than the constitution and are total freaks, they will never be wrong in their own minds. Even if they all go to jail they will never ever realize. Is it sociopathic to just not care about trying to break apart our government in order to reconstruct it in this fringy serve god David Karesh sorta way?…
I was also thinking today about how democracy is an evolution, and how you cant force it onto a civilization that is not to that point yet….But how, if you dont believe in evolution, and you in fact believe that God created the earth in 7 days, then perhaps it makes sense to try to make things happen…and that things happen quickly rather than over time and change….
Does that makes sense?
I posted today’s Dowd on RIPCoco because it was so damned good and also because I finally got in!! They have an ongoing problem with security settings and allowing cookies. Even if you do, you sometimes cant get on.
PJ- I am still hitting my head against the old laptop and trying to reinstall the system, but the drivers and utilities ahve given me a problem, and I have finally assembled all sorts of discs and located stuff on the Dell site to download….but I cant get the thing on the internet yet so IM making a disc from another computer: Im missing ATI Video drivers and I found those…what I cant find is the USB drivers.
That is all that is conflicted according to the Device Manager. I got the connection to the wireless network up and running but its being blocked on the other side…I think I can refresh and do that…
If you have any ideas of where I could get USB drivers or what they might be called in this long list of things that Ive looked in over and over, Id appreciate it.
Shouldnt that be in the XP discs?
Maybe I should try to search that disc.
You know, Iād feel tremendously better if I had any idea that Bush and his crowd had any idea that they were the worst administration in historyā¦but since they serve a higher power than the constitution and are total freaks, they will never be wrong in their own minds. Even if they all go to jail they will never ever realize. Is it sociopathic to just not care about trying to break apart our government in order to reconstruct it in this fringy serve god David Karesh sorta way?ā¦
Some of them know exactly what they’re doing and have zero conscience – I believe that. Many of them have that “reptilian brain” that we talked about here recently – it’s a deep seated fear of anything different and of being unsafe, and if that sense of safety and fitting in is attacked, they’ll justify anything. The need to worship George Bush, worship him like he’s an actual God or King, is what scares me the most…I see these people as extremely disturbed…I don’t know how that operates – I really don’t get it.
I was also thinking today about how democracy is an evolution, and how you cant force it onto a civilization that is not to that point yetā¦.But how, if you dont believe in evolution, and you in fact believe that God created the earth in 7 days, then perhaps it makes sense to try to make things happenā¦and that things happen quickly rather than over time and changeā¦.
Does that makes sense?
I never thought of it that way before… there’s a good point to it though. I mean these ChristoFascist Zombie brigadeers believe in everything through force and might. I think they pictured themselves sitting on a cloud and conquering Iraq in 7 days like the biblical model, but something went horribly, terribly wrong…like they’re stupid fucking idiots
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susan- I like your way of putting it much better than mine…thats what I was getting at with a little Zeus in the cloud with the lightening bolt…and maybe the returned Jesus riding through on his snorting horse, smoting all of us dirty, unbaptized, unborn-again, heathens…
How did these people get into office?
I justhad a rather hysterical talk with my Grandfather where he was going on about the depression and the wars…and saying that he has never seen anything like this…and I was saying that, look, with this China-Russia thing and the feeling like we dont know if this thing can be turned round, maybe we will have to prepare at some point in the years ahead to flee the country or be able to hide out if there is a war and the rest of the world decides to swat us aside and take over….we are depleted and poor and weak now…and our people are largely uneducated….
So, maybe the greatest generation saw stuff that we couldnt imagine but it doesnt let out the possibility that we could see worse….
Bush has proven how delicate all of those treaties and truces actually are and that without diplomacy we have nothing….Imagine being 96 right now and knowing that you are probably not gonna live to see this unfold in full.
Grandpa is sure that none of these guys will ever pay for what theyve done. They will live out their lives in delusion and comfort, not letting the common folk or their opinions touch them….Look at Michael Jackson, he had to finally go all the way to Bahrain to do that….Expect Bush to end up there or someplace like that, holding hands with other guys in dresses.
Your grand-dad sounds like a wise person… some of the smarter seniors that I’ve talked to are also talking the same way, saying they haven’t seen anything so bad, and that George W. is the worst president in their lifetimes or ‘ever. I haven’t heard anyone recently talk about leaving the U.S.A, but I know if my dad was still alive he’d be warning me about it. He predicted several years ago it would come down to what’s going on now. And yes, I agree with your grandfather about the fate of these evil men. I don’t think they’ll pay really, except future generations might observe it differently and not be so kind to them.
Marc was Great:!: :banana: This (I feel) was the first time in a long time. Tommorrow he’s going to “Talk AboutThe Issues”. Yea:!:
:rofl2:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
Firetruck!:doh:
Was wondering about the Mission Impossible 3 plot. Now I know :omg:
Second :banana: I guess.
Oh, Sick humour time :omg: :rofl2: I entered your link and guess what? I Get It:!: :rofl2:
To All: May there always be a dance in your step:!:
:banana:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
Firetruck!
But tommorrow I will wait until you post or any other being :billcat: — I was gone for several hours and then I posted š® :tongue:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
Firetruck!
Hey Druid, I am just off and on.
Tom Cruise just creeps me out nowadays :paranoid: I keep looking over my shoulder. :paranoid:
So who creeps you out more? Tom Cruise or George Bush?
At least Tom Cruise knows how to pronounce “placenta.”
“I hear voices. I’m a decider. And I’ve decided to eat Katie’s placenta. But just part of it. I’m gonna feed the rest to Don Rumsfart. ‘Cause he’s a good man. God said so. I hear voices.”
Cruella Watch coming up this afternoon if I can find the picture I saw this morning. (What can I say, it’s early and I’m still half asleep from staying up for Boston Legal last night. Denny Crane.)
I thought dubya was an untier, not a decider.
:fist:montana!
:banana:strip clubs and gambling! red state?:nod:
stupid heathens!
dubya was an untier, not a decider.
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sean, are you headed to montana already? You haven’t been in Utard very long it seems.
Evening/Morning :yinyang:
in montana only one day in utah! which is good i dont like being surrounded by polygramists ha ok im done wont use that one till i end up in utah again alrighty well must be on my way another 80 miles to go later sheeple!
Im the decider and I decide to decide to be the decider…or maybe I’ll decide not to be the decider…Or maybe I’ll just decide not to decide…watch me decide….Ill decide something big any time now….I’ve decided not to decide right now…..
The torrent for Monday’s night show is up at
http://www.mininova.org/tor/285637
Melina- good decision! (sort of)
Hey Sean, I like that polygamy show alot…try to download the torrent of it!
And which town are you going to in MT? BOzeman or Billings?
Well, KK, as I said…Im the DECIDER!!!!Just call me the DECIDER!!
1st decision of the day: Tea or coffee?
TEA!!!!! As I said…watch me decide!
Wow…I really did kill the blog last nite….whats happening to the night blogging? Are they blogging on Marcs site?…the youngsters?
(think I just killed it again:eek:)
Im really releived that TomKat decided to have an epidural…that quiet birth can be hell…though I wouldve liked it if everyone had stopped yelling “Push” at me.
but there might be some deciding that you know needs deciding and then there’s the deciding that you don’t know needs deciding and then how do you decide?
hey kk and melina.
melina, hope you have a happier day today. sorry to hear about tweet’s respitory problem. do they think it was viral?
reading an interesting article in salon on rice’s/admin main focus is contain china. suggests containing China is their primary policy focus… thats how she missed 9/11, among other things…my only problem with this is then why have they let china purchase so much of our debt? I’ll finish the piece (interesting) but i don’t see anything yet addressing that particular issue.
Taking aim at the sleeping dragon
Imperial and imperious, the Bush administration’s containment strategy for China may herald the next cold war.
You have to wonder how important China sees the USA when their leader Mr. HU goes to see Bill Gates before he goes to see GW.
here’s the article elsewhere if you can’t get Salon:
I saw the other day where China is now the worlds 4th largest economy after surpassing Britain. I can’t help but think that Bush will fail at containing China.. Russia is also a big oil producer and is right next door.
guess he’s courting republican corporations to sway political policy. – smart – go to the funding head of the snake
Hello, all. Been a little busy lately. Finishing up one contract and looking for the next fiscally-friendly endeavor that just might put some food on the table.
Have an article from Vanity Fair everyone should read. Saw Carl Bernstein on Countdown last night. I don’t think Mr. Bernstein likes The Great Decider.
By the way, FarmerKat, if I were to relocate, which neighborhoods in Atlanta should I avoid?
The US’s position in the world is based on a GNP that is driven by things like the interest we pay on our credit card debt and our major exports ( T bills and American corporations). The next thing we are going to sell are some of our less productive states. ( complete with slaves.. err workers)
Hey NC, I was wondering where the heck you were!
I wouldn’t go north of the perimeter (I 285) – unless the job IS in the north of Atlanta. The traffic up that way is the absolute worse. Stay away from Clayton Co, south of Atlanta, and I think Dekalb Co has high crime (Becky, is Decatur in Dekalb? if so, I may be wrong on that…) There are some great downtown areas and we are 50 miles south of the airport, in a rapidly growing area.
I saw Carl on Kieth’s show too…would that Woodward was a little more like him…The funniest thing is that Kieth had a station interruption for the emergency system or something…special report: Tom Cruise has Spawned!!
When special reports come on I always say “oh no!” and stop what Im doing…because of 9-11 and everything around that…It was good to have it be something funny.
What can these people be thinking? Who are the 30% who think any of this is OK? Gas here jumped 11 cents a gallon yesterday…and I think thats just the beginning, and probably has something to do with this artificially inflated oil price or $70+.
When do the oil companies give back some of a windfall or put some at least into alternatives….?
And what of China? Ill have to read that article, but Im already so scared and pissed that I dont know if I can take it.
Oh well, another day….
Melina re #13 :rofl2:
and here is a great little Jim Carroll video for those of you who remember him from the 70’s and 80’s…and/or now…but hes more of a poet who had a moment in the punk rock spotlight…(oh and I guess leo dicaprio was in a movie of his book…I never saw the movie but I liked the book back in my younger days.)
The guy on Maddow’s show was talking about global warming not being in the top five of the things that worried people. I would guess that until the grass roots American is sitting in his living room at 110 degrees, with no job, no beer , no power and no gasoline for his pickumup truck not much is going to happen.
especially the cold beer, fred, and the teevee
:omg:ScreaM!
Fred, you are scaring me. This is really serious. No beer? Someone high up needs to decide something quickly.
fred, re #33 :nod::omg:
G’Night, G’Day To One And All.
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
Anybody hear Janeane Garafolo discuss Guy DeBord yesterday. Claimed that he was ideologically similar to Leo Strauss. She said she got her analysis from the latest edition of “October Magazine.”
In 1958, an aerial photograph of Paris appeared in the first issue of the journal International situation- niste under the title āNew Theater of Operations in Culture.ā It is an image of the city as an ideological battlefield, pitting the power of capital against the aspirations of the dispossessed. Founded in 1957 by a group of young poets, painters, filmmakers, and cafĆ© philosophers who met in the Saint-Germain- des-PrĆ©s neighborhood of Paris, the Situationist International began its life by constructing new ways to live freely in dystopian capitalist cities.Ā
Led by filmmaker and philosopher Debord, they called their experiments situations: āmoment[s] of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and game of events.ā In pursuit of situations, the SI broke up classrooms, church services, and press conferences; scrawled evocative slogans on walls and clothes; and created films and events that diverted elements of everyday life into new and displacing contexts, all in an effort to reveal the hierarchies of power that the spectacle concealed.Ā
In a leap its theorists would have denied was mystical, Situationism sought moments that would transcend the limits of scarcity and geography imposed by capitalismā āthat Northwest Passage,ā writes culture critic Greil Marcus in a new anthology from MIT Press, āthat unmarked alleyway from the world as it appeared to the world as it has never been.ā For the SI, art is meaningless unless it can change the conditions of powerlessness in which most people live. On the other side of the nightmare, the situationists envisioned an experimental, technological utopia of shifting environments and post- scarcity adventure.Ā
Their influence peaked in the spring of 1968, when Paris, then all of France, shook with slogans and tactics inspired by the SI, bringing the government of Charles de Gaulle to its knees. The SI broke up in 1972, isolated and defeated, but its global influence persists. . .
Everybody must be out making a living; nobody’s blogging.:nixon:
Ha! I lived in DeKalb County in the 70’s. I wonder if it’s worse or better than back then.
Has anyone else noticed that Marc looks a lot like Hank Azaria? Hank was on the Early Show yesterday and I was amazed at the resemblance. CUTE!
i’m sure everyone knows now, but we have to have a post for the news:
McClellan Leaves White House Press Office
even more interestingly:
A senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the president had not yet made the announcement, said Wednesday that Rove is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections.
I guess this is causing a lot less blogging :knit2:
guess this is causing a lot less blogging
Whoa. Still trying to absorb it. I wondered how long Simple Scotty would be able to keep on with that job, he always looked as though he were ready to explode while lies were slipping out of his mouth. What’s the take on Joshua Bolton, what can we expect from him?
:banana::rofl2::banana::rofl2::banana:
ahahahaha…..McClellan left!!!! guess he couldn’t take the lies anymore.
bye bye Scotty….or as Stephanie Miller would say, See ya Puffy McMoonface!!!:fu:
oh…..and hello seditionists!!!:banana: i came back, i’m still here….it’s just that lately my computer has been occupied by other people….i really need my own:fustrate:
but i’m keeping the sedition alive:fist::jason:
:alc: Alright, it lives:fist:
Rove
interesting sf chronicle column on main stream media and blogging and journalism:
more
i heard a chilling hour-long interview with a woman who was part of a polygamous marriage in utah mormon country and managed to escape from it. here’s how it really works. the girls are taught a very weird scary religious doctrine where they must submit totally to a polygamy situation and see their husbands as lord and master or the girls go to hell forever.
there is a lot of incest with the husbands preying upon their young daughters. the girls frequently marry at age 13 to 15. the more girls a man can marry, the more virtuous he is in the eyes of the lord. it’s a terrifying depressing situation for the girls. i got the idea that a lot of the husbands in the polygamy world are really child molesters, predators of the worst kind.
the interviewee said that real polygamy isn’t at all like what the television show portrays with strong interesting independent women as wives.
she wrote a book about her experiences in mormon utah. she’s been threatened with death several times for writing a book about her experiences. i’ll try to find the reference. i think i heard her interviewed on the terry gross show fresh air. it was about a month ago when the television show first started.
Woo-hoo I just got a ticket for the Al Franken show in St. Louis on Tues. Hope there is a big turnout!
Survey USA state-by-state Bush approval ratings (maybe they should call them disapproval ratings).
Bush has a positive net approval in just four states (Utah, Wyoming Idaho, and Nebraska), Oklahoma is evenly split, 48%-48%, and he has negative approval nets everywhere else. Not surprising in Kerry states, I suppose, but some huge differences in a lot of Bush states, including 20 red states where his net approval is -10% or greater:
North Dakota -10%
Georgia -12%
Arizona -13%
Tennessee -13%
South Dakota -15%
Montana -15%
Indiana -18%
South Carolina -18%
West Virginia -18%
North Carolina -19%
Kentucky -20%
Arkansas -22%
Virginia -23%
Florida -24%
Missouri -25%
Colorado -26%
New Mexico -26%
Iowa -27%
Ohio -29%
Nevada -31%
I can only hope that this is good news for the midterm elections. Look at Pennsylania. How can it possibly retain two Republican senators when the people are so disgusted, as this poll shows? Me thinks not. I’m sorry, but everybody I’m talking to thinks that if we nuke Iran we’re going to start World War III. I’m finding it harder and harder to find anybody who even sits on the fence anymore. I’m feeling something I haven’t felt since I was a little girl and people were screaming to get the troops home from Vietnam. I’m feeling revolution in the air.
If PA re-elects Santorum, I’ll start driving around it when I head South. Not that I head South much.
Florida and Ohio, strictly speaking, should not be considered red states. They are battleground states where foul play took place. Karl Rove WANTS you to think of them as red states.
And, I understand Rove has been reassigned to work on this year’s elections – meaning, more smear campaigns and stolen elections
All right, NOW I’m pissed off, so time once again for
CRUELLA WATCH! :omg:
From Wednesday’s St Petersburg Times.
http://tinyurl.com/o9hga
I don’t agree with Bill Nelson on everything, but I give him major credit for being out in front of the Gulf drilling issue, and also for bringing Mel Martinez with him from across the aisle.
Nelson has been working this turf (or should I say surf) for years, and for Harris to accuse him of grandstanding on the issue is pure and utter BULLSHIT.
:fu: Eat shit and die, bitch. :fu:
And, might I add, how lovely of her to quote Lawton Chiles out of context when he’s too dead to defend himself.
This one’s for you, Cruella. Try not to enjoy it so much.
:spank:
And, I understand Rove has been reassigned to work on this yearās elections – meaning, more smear campaigns and stolen elections
Yep, Rove is not out of this…he’s going to continue to do his dirty work. This move is just designed to get him out of the spotlight so the heat is turned down and he’s freer to do what he does best. Smart people know better.
Ohio and Florida will just have to do a little better to not be counted as red, in my book.
Both of Ohio’s US Senators are Republicans. Republicans in the US House outnumber Democrats 12 – 6. The Governor (for the time being, though nobody loves him anymore) is a Republican. 22 of 33 State Senators are Republican. 60 of 99 in their state House of Representatives are Republican.
In Florida, the senators are split, it’s 18 – 7 Republicans in the House, the gov is a Bush, 26 of 40 state senators are Republicans, and they control the state House, too.
heās freer to do what he does best.
what a scumbag – i keep hoping he was moved out of the white house because he’s going down for plamegate. I am such an idealist
Yes, but did you se that Rove’s replacement on policy is one of the “Brooks Brothers” imported 2000 Florida “protestors?”
Yes, but did you se that Roveās replacement on policy is one of the āBrooks Brothersā imported 2000 Florida āprotestors?ā
Comment by pjsauter ā April 19, 2006 @ 4:13 pm
ok, now i’m really sick
This is a good piece by Mark Morford in the SF Chronicle.
has anyone heard anything about a nuclear test in nevada on june 2nd? Other than what Randi talked about yesterday?
Divine Strake, that’s the one.
My sentiments exactly
Yes, but did you se that Roveās replacement on policy is one of the āBrooks Brothersā imported 2000 Florida āprotestors?ā
Ugh…memories of 2000…that goon is just as ugly as they come
:fu:CIA! Nazi-collaborating bastards.
Divine Strake is not a test of a nuclear weapon , however, DOD will set off a super sized Ammonia Nitrate Fuel oil bomb of some 600 tons. They say it’s to judge how big a nuke would have to be to penetrate to a depth such it could destroy the nuclear facilities in IRAN.. I think its probably more of a show than a test but it will certainly be noisy and it will produce a mushroom cloud.
Hey, Marcia Chagall!:nixon:
Over the last 12 years or so several states in the South and East as well as TexASS have turned red under very mysterious circumstances. Colorado almost did that even though it reelected Bush their were some big “red shift” problems in several places. The Dems won back the state house and senate after the thugs destroyed the infrastructure and education system over a period of some 12 years.. A lot of states in the south have citizen legislatures which are not paid so only the wealthy can afford to be their so you get what you get and many southern states have disenfranchisement of the colored voter that makes the problems in Ohio look small by comparison. I don’t really see how you can get back to a point of some normalcy without some radical actions on the part of the people at the grass roots level and I don’t mean giving five dollars to Howard Dean.
Pulitzer Prize Farce
A. Cockburn
…The central project of the Pulitzer Prizes for work done in 2005 has been to remind the world that, appearances to the contrary, the nation is well served by its premier east coast newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
I should rephrase that. The central project of the Pulitzer Prize committee is always to perform that function, only this year the need was more pressing than usual. 2005 was a bad year for the New York Times, dominated by steady disclosure of its important role in manufacturing and then disseminating lies designed to plunge the nation into war in Iraq.
One would have thought that the New York Times would have simply withdrawn its name from contention in the 2006 Pulitzers, but shame was short-lived and the assigned function of the Pulitzer Prize Committee was to winch the paperās name out of the mud…
http://www.counterpunch.org
When reality canāt hold a candle to perception, then reality is apt to become imperceptible. And in matters of war and peace, when powerful policy wonks in Washington effectively strive for appearances to be deceiving, the result is a pantomime of diplomacy thatās scarcely like the real thing. When the actual goal is war, the PR task is to make a show of leaving no diplomatic stone unturned.
That kind of macabre ritual was underway on April 10 when the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, told reporters: āThe president has made it very clear that weāre working with the international community to find a diplomatic solution when it comes to the Iranian regime and its pursuit of nuclear weapons.ā The quote appeared the next morning in a New York Times news article under a headline that must have pleased the war planners at the White House: āBush Insists on Diplomacy in Confronting a Nuclear Iran.ā
Ambrose Bierce defined diplomacy as āthe patriotic act of lying for oneās country.ā But there is nothing less patriotic than lying to oneās country — especially when the result is a war that could have been avoided if honesty had substituted for mendacity.
N. Solomon
Marcia!:omg::rofl2::sdavid:
I’m not following this particular reference… :?::om::tongue:
Ditto :doh::doh::fustrate::fustrate:
Little piggy cried oink, oink, oink all the way home
Oh, what a day.:knit2:
When the presidorks personal infrastructure starts falling apart maybe that says something..
Rhodes must not have listened to Hacket when he subbed for Springer.. We all lucked out there.
I think Rhodes mostly listens to Rhodes much the same as the presidork mostly listens to himself.
Sheeze…. a bunch of Shultz listeners or thugs must be reading RawStory.. Re McKinney punching the police officer.. She apparently punched him in his body armor with a closed fist..:no::no::(:omg:
http://www.rawstory.com/comments/14242.html
McKinney has taken all kinds of crap. Don’t necessarily say she doesn’t deserve it. But our VP shoots a guy in the face and narry a slap on the hand happens to him. Interesting how the two events played out so differently.
i saw those Brooks Brother’s dudes down in FL 2000, but didn’t know their official name. They were horrendous to watch. vultures.
:love: COSTCO!
45 degrees outside, oh yeah! Later, sheeple. :banana:
Farmerkat!:knit: All right, now I’m gone
Hey everyone! Just got home.
I dont know if this has been posted before because I havent read back, but its worth posting again….
This one’s for Jim!
Clips are now playing on ESPN. No excuses tonight.:nixon:
Rolling Stone: The Worst President in History
U.S. Attorney Ken Wainstein turned the matter over to the grand jury two weeks ago. Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he met last week with McKenna (the flatfoot who fondled McKinney) and asked him to consider filing a lawsuit against McKinney.
What a perversion! Why does the FOP not let the law take its course? A lawsuit! That jerk has no case. McKinney should file a countersuit.
The FOP are the people behind the campaign to fry Mumia.
Harding was pretty bad. James Buchanan. There have been lots of Mugwumps as presidents. Bush seems to be furthering Reagan’s agenda of killing the New Deal. Every president since Reagan has contributed to the cause. Fuck, I can’t believe that our political culture enables the election of such creeps as Bush and Reagan.
Hey everyone! Just got home.
I dont know if this has been posted before because I havent read back, but its worth posting againā¦.
This oneās for Jim!
Very cool, Melina, gonna pass it around š
:joe:Cold cuppa:joe:!:omg:
:omg:: :sheep:
Does any reader of online progressive web sites still watch, listen to or read anything from the corporate media? If so, how do you stand it without having a good supply of stomach soothers and strong headache relief handy. I thought most everyone with enough smarts and common sense understood that this collective institutional juggernaut’s mission is to sedate and seduce us – a sort of one, two punch. They mostly do it with diverting and distracting entertainment. Is that what it’s called? You ‘coulda fooled me with what’s on all my 300 + cable channels I don’t watch except when I go to bed and need something mind numbing to make me sleepy. The only reason I have them all is I live in a building that subscribes to the cable service, and everyone gets them, like it or not.
ZNet | Israel/Palestine
The New York Times Whitewashes the Israeli Takeover of East Jerusalem
by Patrick O’Connor; April 18, 2006
Despite a practiced guise of objectivity, the US corporate mediaās reporting on Israel/Palestine is dominated by the Israeli narrative.Ā An April 16, 2006 feature article by Steven Erlanger, The New York Timesā Jerusalem Bureau Chief, āJerusalem, Nowā in the Timesā Sunday Travel section (http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/travel/16jerusalem.html) exemplifies how seemingly professional journalistic standards can mask insidious biases and misinform readers.Ā Erlanger, guided around Jerusalem by Israelis, omits Israeli violence, stereotypes Palestinians, whitewashes Israeli settlements and covers up Israeli efforts to take over East Jerusalem.Ā āJerusalem, Nowā is among the most political and one-sided mainstream US news articles on Israel/Palestine published in the last year.
Ā
In āJerusalem, Nowā Erlanger repeatedly notes his effort to remain above the fray ā āI try to see it through various lensesā, āI try to see Jerusalem as a place where both armies and souls contendā, āI try to see the barrier from both the Palestinian and the Israeli points of viewā, etc..
Ā
However, Erlanger simultaneously provides clues that Israeli perspectives will dominate.Ā He notes three times that he was guided around Jerusalem by Israelis whom he quotes and paraphrases ā āAvi Ben Hur, the American-turned-Israeli-turned-guideā, āAvner Goren, an archeologist and guideā, āEilat Mazar, an archaeologist.āĀ Ā
Ā
Israelis in Erlangerās article are human beings holding professional jobs.Ā In contrast, he never even names a single Palestinian.Ā Erlangerās Palestinians are an undifferentiated mass with āramshackleā shops on dusty, garbage-strewn streets where they play soccer, and labor.Ā They are enraged and āhateā, āmilitantsā who carry out āsuicide bombingsā, āriotā and open fire on an Israeli kindergarten, and trudge āthrough the dust or the mudā at an Israeli checkpoint designed to āprevent a terroristā attack. . .
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10117§ionID=107
Does any reader of online progressive web sites still watch, listen to or read anything from the corporate media? If so, how do you stand it without having a good supply of stomach soothers and strong headache relief handy. I thought most everyone with enough smarts and common sense understood that this collective institutional juggernautās mission is to sedate and seduce us – a sort of one, two punch. They mostly do it with diverting and distracting entertainment. Is that what itās called? You ācoulda fooled me with whatās on all my 300 + cable channels I donāt watch except when I go to bed and need something mind numbing to make me sleepy. The only reason I have them all is I live in a building that subscribes to the cable service, and everyone gets them, like it or not.
The only “mainstream” news I watch on TV is Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, and I take even him with a grain of salt… I think people are starting to catch on (at least among progressives my age or younger) the mainstream media is an entity with a corporate/fascist agenda at worst and a shallow sound byte factory at best, but the real problem lies with the oldest generation, like my parents. My mom’s a progressive like myself, but over the years she’s placed so much trust in both news shows and newspapers as “legitimate sources” that I can’t shake her of this notion. She’s catching on very very slowly that it’s biased…she’s fairly open minded. Lots of people out there her age aren’t. I think the most hope to shake off the influence of the mainstream media lies with the youngest adult generation – when you read polls you hear that they like “The Daily Show” and blogging. This gives me some hope.
I read between the lines. The book “Manufacturing Consent” is useful. Turn the corporate media back onto itsself when you can.
Sounds like a topic I can get into, I’ll look for the book. I kind of know this instinctively but I’d like to see how they explain it and break it down…thanx
You know, I’d feel tremendously better if I had any idea that Bush and his crowd had any idea that they were the worst administration in history…but since they serve a higher power than the constitution and are total freaks, they will never be wrong in their own minds. Even if they all go to jail they will never ever realize. Is it sociopathic to just not care about trying to break apart our government in order to reconstruct it in this fringy serve god David Karesh sorta way?…
I was also thinking today about how democracy is an evolution, and how you cant force it onto a civilization that is not to that point yet….But how, if you dont believe in evolution, and you in fact believe that God created the earth in 7 days, then perhaps it makes sense to try to make things happen…and that things happen quickly rather than over time and change….
Does that makes sense?
I posted today’s Dowd on RIPCoco because it was so damned good and also because I finally got in!! They have an ongoing problem with security settings and allowing cookies. Even if you do, you sometimes cant get on.
PJ- I am still hitting my head against the old laptop and trying to reinstall the system, but the drivers and utilities ahve given me a problem, and I have finally assembled all sorts of discs and located stuff on the Dell site to download….but I cant get the thing on the internet yet so IM making a disc from another computer: Im missing ATI Video drivers and I found those…what I cant find is the USB drivers.
That is all that is conflicted according to the Device Manager. I got the connection to the wireless network up and running but its being blocked on the other side…I think I can refresh and do that…
If you have any ideas of where I could get USB drivers or what they might be called in this long list of things that Ive looked in over and over, Id appreciate it.
Shouldnt that be in the XP discs?
Maybe I should try to search that disc.
Hey, I’m the ZDecider is being played on Mike Malloy right NOW !:holla:
You know, Iād feel tremendously better if I had any idea that Bush and his crowd had any idea that they were the worst administration in historyā¦but since they serve a higher power than the constitution and are total freaks, they will never be wrong in their own minds. Even if they all go to jail they will never ever realize. Is it sociopathic to just not care about trying to break apart our government in order to reconstruct it in this fringy serve god David Karesh sorta way?ā¦
Some of them know exactly what they’re doing and have zero conscience – I believe that. Many of them have that “reptilian brain” that we talked about here recently – it’s a deep seated fear of anything different and of being unsafe, and if that sense of safety and fitting in is attacked, they’ll justify anything. The need to worship George Bush, worship him like he’s an actual God or King, is what scares me the most…I see these people as extremely disturbed…I don’t know how that operates – I really don’t get it.
I was also thinking today about how democracy is an evolution, and how you cant force it onto a civilization that is not to that point yetā¦.But how, if you dont believe in evolution, and you in fact believe that God created the earth in 7 days, then perhaps it makes sense to try to make things happenā¦and that things happen quickly rather than over time and changeā¦.
Does that makes sense?
I never thought of it that way before… there’s a good point to it though. I mean these ChristoFascist Zombie brigadeers believe in everything through force and might. I think they pictured themselves sitting on a cloud and conquering Iraq in 7 days like the biblical model, but something went horribly, terribly wrong…like they’re stupid fucking idiots
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Thanks Melina, I’m really enjoying that:cool:
susan- I like your way of putting it much better than mine…thats what I was getting at with a little Zeus in the cloud with the lightening bolt…and maybe the returned Jesus riding through on his snorting horse, smoting all of us dirty, unbaptized, unborn-again, heathens…
How did these people get into office?
I justhad a rather hysterical talk with my Grandfather where he was going on about the depression and the wars…and saying that he has never seen anything like this…and I was saying that, look, with this China-Russia thing and the feeling like we dont know if this thing can be turned round, maybe we will have to prepare at some point in the years ahead to flee the country or be able to hide out if there is a war and the rest of the world decides to swat us aside and take over….we are depleted and poor and weak now…and our people are largely uneducated….
So, maybe the greatest generation saw stuff that we couldnt imagine but it doesnt let out the possibility that we could see worse….
Bush has proven how delicate all of those treaties and truces actually are and that without diplomacy we have nothing….Imagine being 96 right now and knowing that you are probably not gonna live to see this unfold in full.
Grandpa is sure that none of these guys will ever pay for what theyve done. They will live out their lives in delusion and comfort, not letting the common folk or their opinions touch them….Look at Michael Jackson, he had to finally go all the way to Bahrain to do that….Expect Bush to end up there or someplace like that, holding hands with other guys in dresses.
Your grand-dad sounds like a wise person… some of the smarter seniors that I’ve talked to are also talking the same way, saying they haven’t seen anything so bad, and that George W. is the worst president in their lifetimes or ‘ever. I haven’t heard anyone recently talk about leaving the U.S.A, but I know if my dad was still alive he’d be warning me about it. He predicted several years ago it would come down to what’s going on now. And yes, I agree with your grandfather about the fate of these evil men. I don’t think they’ll pay really, except future generations might observe it differently and not be so kind to them.
ok…nite everyone…time for some shut eye…
Im gonna try not to have nightmares.