It’s kind of nice to have a Saturday where I don’t have much to do. Well, I do have a ton of laundry to do (I’m almost through my backup undewear, after which I have to go to the auxiliary underwear and, if things get really desperate, even the emergency bachup underwear, though I’m several weeks away from that). One thing you might want to check out is the start of George Galloway’s new call-in radio show on the talkSport Network in the UK:
Galloway, who was expelled from the Labour party in 2003 over the Iraq War, will tackle both political and non-political topics during the two-hour current affairs programme, inviting listeners to join in and air their views.
“Most politicians – and most politics – are boring. I don’t think even my worst enemy could call me that, ” Galloway said. “I intend to make this the most talked-about talk show on radio – and I think I have a pretty good track record of stimulating debate!”
I mean, he’s no Jerry Springer, but he’s got a really cool accent, so how bad can it be? And the show has a blog, so maybe we can make him an honorary Morning Seditionist.
The link for the stream of the station is here, and it’s on from 8PM – 10PM on Saturdays and Sundays in the UK, which ought to be 3 – 5 here on the East coast. I have the RelayAV set to record it. I wonder if they’ll have an international tollfree number to take calls?
:bow::banana::billcat::wink:OTIS and rest of family:wink::billcat::banana::bow:
Galloway’s a dick-he led an absolutely ruthless campaign against an incumbent who was the only black (woman too!) in the house of commons running on a platform of race issues and SOMEHOW won. He threw a temper tantrum and stormed off the set when the BBC anchor asked him, “George, how does it feel to be the one that removed the only black member of the House of Commons?”
Guaranteed to not be be boring…but guarateed to be a MAJOR ass.
OK 2 cents worth done… 😀
Hmmmm I liked when he (Galloway) told the U.S. Congress off. But he does have an attitude, but so do I. :rofl2: Do you think he stormed off since he was tired of dealing with him taking the only “black”. Perhaps he thought he was to “talk of the issues” and stormed out when BBC wanted to talk about a black person, which he “bumped”. What was her belief and party and what did she believed in?
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My impression of George Galloway is that of an honest–and brash– lefty, willing and able to speak his mind. If he took out a good MP through, racial politics, sleaziness or whatever, I want to know. But I find it hard to believe that such is the case. I mean, Galloway has been championed by the likes of Laura Flanders and Alexander Cockburn. And he has certainly made enemies among the neocons in the US. If there were racist skeletons in the closet, they would have been exposed, by the left and the right.
What were the politics of the person he beat? Perhaps she was not progressive. I will look into this.
This rant is a result of the C-span WJ this morning.. Apparently the Cherry Creek school district in Denver is going to require that the teachers express both sides of an argument.
If a teacher had to present both sides of the issue on the Bush administration I would think that would extremely difficult to do. Liberals use facts ( well they are supposed to at least), Rethugs use lies ( almost all the time).. If the students parents view the lies as the truth and the truth as lies what is one supposed to do ??. The teacher should always present the truth.. hence no matter what his opinion he would be a liberal.
I’d LOVE for that rule to be in place here, Fred! You should hear the propaganda they tell my son. I remember at the beginning (kind of) the Iraq war one of his teachers said that we were losing the war because of the media. (FAUX news statement). I told mr f (who was in Iraq) who promptly sent the school and teacher a letter along with his resume and I made such a stink that the teacher had to apologize in class. That one was tame compared to some of the others. So I’d love that rule here.
btw, mr f’s blog which refers going to sadr city – he rode in one of those m1-whatevers we were discussing yesterday. (there was a sand storm and couldn’t take helicopter)
i was reading this from huffpo and then saw the dude was up for a fed judgeship. gotta love the rupuks choices:
Well..One should have read the RockyMountainNews before listening to C-span this morning. Apparently the Cherry Creek school district is also going to let students change schools if they don’t want to listen to “biased information” in the class room. So now we will have Republican and liberal high schools ?? That will be a new form of apartheid for sure.
does anyone know anything about this group? a friend of my dad’s sent me something from them. looks pretty extremist to me…
American Congress for Truth.com
WTF?
unreal
Colorado already has laws that let students choose what school they want to go to. I think you can even go to a school in a different school district. Things paid for by the school district like riding the school bus don’t apply if you choose to do this. Most parents choose neighborhood schools.. ( they may also not know about this) This may also require an agreement between school districts. The state funds ( used to fund at least) about 60% of the school budgets so that is what makes this practical.
I’m here, barely conscious. Thank you again, Druid, for your good wishes!
When I was in High school our inner city school district opened a third high school (we now have 6 high schools).. Suddenly you found that your friends were rooting for the enemy. I could see where transferring to a cross town high school might create tensions in the neighborhood.
Good morning everyone!
Isi/seanie- yeah, hartford is central…so maybe the linty belly button rather than the armpit…but definitely a place that is a pain to get to and get through….Not exactly where I go unless I need to see a special Dr or…get a hunting license!! Actually, my uncle comes to hut sometimes and cant believe that you ca oly get a licese in the capital! We have a tremendous deer problem and lots of deer v. car problems, and the towns hore very expensive biologist bow hunters to cull the herds in a PC way…meawhile the locals are working 2 jobs and hardly would go hunting much less have time to go further than KMART for a license…and the city people would never consider it anyway.
I love having the deer around but of course everyone has or had Lyme disease and eve if you catch it early enough it leaves problems like lyme arthritis in so many cases…annd its not eve the deer that infect the ticks, its the mice! But they do spread the ticks…ugh!
Anyway…yes, I said armpit and I said western…I also said IMO….
I love HuffPo today…these Bushies are so above the law that they would even risk everything for 5 grand….either the govt. is full of crazy self destructive people or the climate all around that crowd is one of being very highly above the law!!
And the funny thing is that the Friday news dump is hardly working anymore because the regular news is picking up on the feeding frenzy while they begin to eat their own!!
Farmerkat- I so wish that Mr FK would write a letter to my son’s karate teacher and a few others here in town who believe what they believe because of the comments on Faux from “alot” of soldiers who are just back from Iraq….where do they even find the people for those interviews?
Travis- If youre up yet-the other mails didnt come back so I hope that you got those other 3 slowly at night or something. I can cut em smaller and resend if you havet worked out the torrent thing…you should be able to get up to 10 megs per mail in that acct….and you have alot of storage too…
Farmerkat Re (American Congress for Truth.com)
She is christian terrorized by Muslins in Lebanon. I have been listening to her story on a video clip. She is probably on Bush’s War side, but I can understand why she would be. She had it rough. But…hmmmmmmm
She is being very caring for the jewish who had to fight against Lebanon and is very endeared to them.
Shit! I’m in spasm again! Back to the tennis ball . . .
I dunno, watch the way Galloway kicked the crap out of Norm Coleman (et. al.) in his Senate tesimony, and it’s hard not to like him.
Speaking of gmail, it occurred to me that someone could, hypothtically, open an account and use it solely to e-mail the show to that account as an attachment. Then, if one were to share the username and password of that account with close personal friends, they all log in and save the attachment at their leisure.
hey morning everybody
melina youre not kidding i have no clue where all that traffic comes from in the hartford area it is totally rediculous!
hillary and wal-mart
Re (American Congress for Truth.com)
but she is open.
She was a jounalist and worked in Isreal (sp) but she does not understand how our media is bias for one rethug thought, and not fair for our side. I might even listen again tomorrow (today) when I awake.
I will be online for a few minutes, but basically I am asleep.
CitizenKahn 😉
regarding the “mock” trail regarding bush, it is suppose to be ended next week.
And now more lies told to students, not TRUTHS. ………. I remember luckily many students will see the facts and act accordingly. I was 13 1/2 from biased parents who didn’t get it. But I heard. But I would try to tell my parents the facts and their answer was to beat me. But it didn’t CHANGE FACTS. And I worked for the Dem by the time I was 14 1/2yrs. But eventually my dad apologized, although they both knew they were not going to change MY MIND, especially since I was into TRUTH BY FACTS. Some YOUTHS will “get it”.
:yawn: here for a few minues more……:yawn:
Ew, I got AOL on me. Sam Walton back in the day was a big difference from his spawn that now run the show.
Have to reread blog when I awake — many links.
G’Night, G’Day To ONE and ALL:!:
ARREST!
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VIGILANCE!
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Good Morning everyone,
Thanks for letting us know about Galloway.I’m gonna record it also. I guess I don’t know much about him except what I saw when he bitch slapped Norm Coleman. That was fuckin’ great!:banana: Maybe he does play kind of rough, but I think we need to learn how to play rough:jason:. I don’t even know if we should play fair anymore, that’s how nasty these right wingers have become. I think a lot of people underestimate their sleaziness and greed. I think I am still underestimating how far these a-holes are willing to go.
yeah definitely i just never knew she used to be on the board there
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Hey PJ, When I downloaded the software for playing bit torrents, it asked me if I needed to install a newer version of java and I said no. It looks like I probably need to do that so I went back to the page where I thought I saw that but it doesn’t seem to be there anymore. Maybe I should reload the software.
Also, apparently that streamload site won’t let you download more than 10 mb at a time with a free account. Maybe I’ll sign up for a gmail account.
hey sheeple want to be dragged through the negro streets at dawn? click here for howl
where is everybody?
apparently o’connor is an ass since she left the bench while believing this
I, said O’ Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and formerly Communist countries, where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.
Yay!:banana: We are getting rain! Finally! Leaving the space heater outside has attracted some REAL rain clouds, FINALLY!
:rofl2:Leaving the space heater outside has attracted some REAL rain clouds
:paranoid:i have to drive to south dakota!!!!!
well i suppose i will be ok as long as i dont need an abortion!
Yeah Sean and you probably know how to blend in, being a trucker and all.
nope i’m not your normal trucker!
seanie, are you being sarcastic when you call o’connor an ass?
mr just called from a thuraya phone and he’s safe; not too happy about this weekend escapes.
thanks guys for amerian congress input.
CK, you might not like it but you can put those tennis balls in the freezer and they’ll hold the cold and help freeze the affected area.
melina, people use the deer/car excuse here, but we’ve got plenty of armed hunters ’round these parts. I usually tell these “hunters” when I see a dead dog hit by a car and ask them when open season on dogs is since there must be too many of them. :tongue:
Hey, I’ve posted a page that’s hopefully not too long and boring about BitTorrent over there under pages.
KP, the latest JRE is here.
As for the deer, stop taking away the places where they live (IOW, the Woods), and they’ll be happy to stay away from people.
Yay, thanks PJ. I’ll look at it in a bit, now I must do errands.
It’s RAINING! And it looks like it might rain all day.
I found this about Oona King, whom Galloway defeated, on Wikipedia:
well if thats what she thinks but she didnt stay on then yeah im serious
Oh, I just saw Milosevic croaked. Well, that ends that trial.
:jason:milosevic
i wonder if bush will croak before his trial ends!
i wonder if o’connor wasnt forced out?
Funny you should say that, FK–I actually suggested that to hubby the other night, but only as a joke. Who knew?
Re: Milosevic- Didn’t his buddy mysteriously hang himself a few days ago or something? Seems suspicious that their deaths would be so close together. I guess I should look that stuff up, maybe
you got THAT right, pj!
Hey, Travis, if you’re out there–
I tried three or four times to send you Thursday’s show from my own gee mail account but it wouldn’t complete for some reason. So keep us posted on how much, if any, of the show you’ve gotten.
:doh:
Oops. Didn’t see you there!
whoa this game gets pretty hard!
Thanks, Kahn. Yeah, I got the first 15 mins. of the show thus far! So, if it’s possible to send the show to me or to create a communal show gmail account– like PJ suggested– that be damn Skippy. :fist: Thanks, again, people!
I don’t know how to write:doh:
I’m gonna try again, Travis. But gee mail is slow in general today. (I started an account there solely for the purpose of sending show files, btw.)
:fu:stupid terrorists! die already!
Um, I haven’t read this or anything. But this is about that hanging
ok well im out sheeple off to so. dakota!!!!!:paranoid:
Later, sean. :nixon:
Travis, that is an interesting “coincidence.” Thanks for the link.
Still tryinna send you the files . . .:fustrate:
OK, back to the news:THE LARGEST OIL SPILL EVER on the north slope. Good times. Oh, also, there’s another spill here, but it was only 500 gallons, so it’s no big deal, I guess–no news coverage. AND there’s been a dogie fatality in the Iditarod
environmental news does NOT get sufficient coverage.
someone sent this in an email but here’s a link to it (it’s rather cool)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8608767523218085402
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Sean, if you haven’t driven off yet..
I thought oconnor was defending the judiciary AGAINST these evangelicals who have their own agenda so I don’t look at her as a ass. that’s why I was confused.
(HAPPY DRIVING)
not that it will do any good, but i emailed msnbc and cnn and huffpo asking why they are not reporting the oil spill.
not yet going though long drive 600 miles!!!!! yeah i thought she was too and apparently she knew she was so why did she leave the bench then? im confused! craziness ok well i am really out later people
:priest:fucking skippers or whatever the fuck the problem was last night screwed us out of a visit from the cardinal oh well there is always last fridays mp3!!!!!
I miss the Cardinal. :priest:
it was a huge disapointment when she left the bench. she had been very ill with breast cancer and I believe her husband also has been ill. I did not always agree with her decisions, but they were rational decisions which differentiated her from the other conservative justices. (all except her decision to stop the recount in shrub v gore, whch makes NO sense.)
she was conservative not wacky
which is rare in a conservative.
O’Conner’s husband has Alzheimers, but I woulda liked to see her take a leave of absence rather than step down at this time…Maybe they wouldnt let her do that.
I dont thik that dogs should be running round on the road no matter how rural the area is. I have a huge dog run and that has to be it for my guys besides walks….
Some people have those wire underground fences and I would consider it if I had the money…maybe next year!…or I can put one in myself for alot less. Its the collars that are expensive and I would need 4 or 5 of them!
PJ I live right next to the Greenwich waterworks preserve that is and has been protected…its 400+ acres here and then there are another thousand up there…Its less the building being a problem ad more the populations growing because the natural predators are gone…we have a slowly growing coyote population and bobcats…but its not enough to stop the deer from throwing themselves into the merritt parkway…we also have a big turkey problem with huge flocks of turkeys walking slowly across rt 1. They are protected and people feed them so they hang out close to the houses. I like them alot…but in the long run I guess its bad for them to be so near to traffic.
The deer are right outside the door and they are not scared. I also really like them but I know that there are too many.
The humane thing is a barrell thing that someone invented that you fill with corn and it has brushes aroud the top so the deer feed and you can put birth control and frontline on the brushes…but they havent taken hold yet. I guess theyre expensive.
I have some little bait boxes that the mice run through that put a streak of frontline down their backs so the ticks fall off before they can attach and get Lyme.There is no reason that science cant selectivly cull the herds with transdermal birthcontrol.
The thing is that there are just too many and no one is eating them anymore….and some of them have a variant of Mad Cow anyway, and its just a matter of time before that jumps to humans…
Sean- there was never going to be a show last night…Marc said they were off totally because of sports programming…but it wasnt those damned snippers;-)…so he gets a day to recharge. Im sure its going to take him a while to get used to being on the radio again. It must be really intense to talk for 2 hours nonstop…not to mention the preparation.
Sean- Thanks for Howl-
I grew up in a house where my Mom had that written around the top of the black bathroom walls and spiralling down…Ive read it alot but never heard it read like that!
We also had TS Elliot on the back door…
My Mom is a crazy hippie artist…but a little conservative like a good irish catholic girl too….It was a little bohemian when I grew up…the 60’s!
More lunatics with nuclear weapons
Guardian Unlimited – October 12, 2003
Israeli and American officials have admitted collaborating to deploy US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Israel’s fleet of Dolphin-class submarines, giving the Middle East’s only nuclear power the ability to strike at any of its Arab neighbours.
The unprecedented disclosure came as Israel announced that states ‘harbouring terrorists’ are legitimate targets, responding to Syria’s declaration of its right to self-defence should Israel bomb its territory again. According to Israeli and Bush administration officials interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the sea-launch capability gives Israel the ability to target Iran more easily should the Iranians develop their own nuclear weapons.
Although it has been long suspected that Israel bought three German diesel-electric submarines with the specific aim of arming them with nuclear cruise missiles, the admission that the two countries had collaborated in arming the fleet with a nuclear-capable weapons system is significant at a time of growing crisis between Israel and its neighbours.
According to the paper, the disclosure by two US officials is designed to discourage Israel’s enemies from against launching an attack amid rapidly escalating tensions in the region following a raid by Israeli jets on an alleged terrorist training camp near the Syrian capital, Damascus. In a clear echo of the Bush doctrine of pre-emption, the Foreign Ministry’s senior spokesman, Gideon Meir, insisted: ‘Israel views every state that is harbouring terrorist organisations and the leaders of those terrorist organisations who are attacking innocent citizens of the state of Israel as legitimate targets out of self defence.’
http://tinyurl.com/jvnp6
I would bet a Russian ss28 launched from some where in the Ukraine wouldn’t even have to leave the atmosphere to get to Israel if they use one of these.
:rofl2:These are good:rofl2:
WORD ALTERATION
The Mensa Invitational once again asked members to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the year 2005’s winners:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.(This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. (Also known as the O’Reilly effect)
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.
And the pick of the literature:
18. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole
Well, really, there are just too many humans, who continue to encroach upon the land – not just building, but clearing everything (not to mention we deliberately poisin ourselves and our environment). 400 acres is really nothing.
Sure, deer will continue to wander into the roads as long as there are roads to wander into (so will bugs, but they’re easier to ignore and wash off your windshield), but the more forest we take away, the farther they have to go to look for food. And then we pay bounty for the pelts of their natural predators, like coyotes, because we can’t stand to see them encroach upon our nice little suburban homes. Also, in the US, the big macho deer hunters like to kill the best animals (and then have their pictures taken). What they ought to be doing is taking the poorest ones, thereby improving the herd. They’re really screwing up the whole survival of the fittest thing – which is why you see an increase in diseased animals (that and all the shit we humans are dumping into our environment). And, no, it isn’t pretty to see animals starve or be torn apart and eaten by other animals, but that’s how it works (“he who made kittens put snakes in the grass” and all).
Get too many of one thing, and starvation or disease or predation thins them out, sooner or later (it’ll happen to humans, too; this modern medicine is just delaying the inevitable). Where I grew up, there were cycles. For few years, there’d be tons of pheasants. That would encourage the raccoons, who’d eat their eggs. Then there’d be tons of raccons, but the pheasants would fade away. Next the bunnies would be all over the place, but eventually something would eat them, or there just wouldn’t be enough food to sustain them, and so it went.
I don’t really have a problem with hunting, so long as they hunt for food. It’s actually a more honest way to come by your meat than by buying it sliced, diced, and shrink-wrapped. I guess I do wonder about people who get a kick out of killing things. It just doesn’t seem like lotsa lotsa fun to me. More of a necessity, assuming you’re gonna eat meat. You really ought to respect the fact that something else has given its life in order to feed you, and not think it’s some really fun thing to kill another being. I read where Cheney was considered a great white hunter, and had killed 70 turkeys in one day. Wow. What a man. I’m sure he ate every last one, too. But why would somebody who doesn’t bat an eye at killing hundreds of thousands of human beings give a shit about a few birds?
Also, vegetarians aren’t off the hook, either. You have to clear a shitload of land to grow enough soybeans to produce an amount of protein calories, relative to the amount that you get from meat. This means clearing the land and destroying the habitat for lots of cute furry little animals. I’m not saying that vegetarianism is bad – or even that it’s not a lot better for you – it’s just that there are consequences for all of our actions, and we need to remain conscious of that. Everything we do affects everything else, in both positive and not so positive ways.
thats awesome kristapea.
This snow is bumming me out- I wanted to go mt. bike riding, but too muddy (and kinda cold), so instead i am at the local library looking for a job. Boooo that 🙁
I do believe this, pj.
And, in the area of politics, ignoring the constitution and doing what was expedient in 2000 and not counting all of the votes in the presidential election has had devastating consequences for our country. I believe the suspension of the constitution and our laws in order to torture and spy, and the corruption and incompetence of this government is linked to that one action by the supreme court.
Got this from Democrats.com:
Impeachment: Which Democrats Are Blocking Us?
…there are now 29 co-sponsors for Conyers’ Select Committee on Impeachment, H. Res. 635.
That’s a good start – but ALL 202 Democrats should be co-sponsors. After all, Bush deserves impeachment far more than any president in American history, and a solid majority of Americans want Congress to impeach him NOW.
What’s holding back the Democrats? According to reporter Dave Lindorff, “members of Congress – even firebrands like Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) – have been strong-armed behind the scenes by the Democratic National Committee not to introduce an impeachment bill in the House.” The DNC chairman is Howard Dean. Ask him why he is blocking impeachment here:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also opposes impeachment, urging Democratic activists to focus instead on winning the House in November. We reject that because every single DAY that Bush remains in office is another day in which American soldiers are killed or maimed in Iraq, Iraqi civilians are killed or maimed or poisoned, prisoners in America’s Gulag are tortured, America’s ports are left vulnerable, our phones and computers are wiretapped, and our planet races towards climate catastrophe. Also, since a solid majority (52%-53%) of Americans support Bush’s impeachment, it’s both good policy and good politics. Ask Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership why they are blocking impeachment here.
Activists who are particularly savvy have embraced the “Rutland Resolution” to urge their state legislatures to submit impeachable charges directly to the U.S. House of Representatives under Section 603 of the Manual of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives. This strategy is best suited to states that have strong Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature: CA, MA, HI, RI, and VT. Learn more here.
I agree with you, isi, on O,Connor and her unpardonable vote to hand the election to Bush in 2000. Did she not state that she did not want to retire while a democrat was president. (I was never a big fan of hers. Better than the terrible trio, to be sure. But again, Mussolini was better than…):omg:
“She’s an able person who will be back in politics and in Parliament. It wasn’t her defeat, it was a defeat for Tony Blair and New Labour. And I’d like to thank Oona King for her eight years in this constituency and wish her well for what will be her resumed political career.”
George Galloway
More Galloway stuff:
Galloway wins apology over sex allegation
Matthew Tempest, political correspondent
Monday March 14, 2005
Labour MP Oona King has issued an apology and made a settlement with rival MP George Galloway over allegations she made in a press release last year.
The two MPs are locked in a tight, and increasingly personal, battle for Ms King’s Bethnal Green & Bow constituency in London, which Mr Galloway is fighting for the anti-war Respect coalition.
Last week Ms King paid Mr Galloway’s legal costs, and made a £1,000 charity donation, over allegations she made in a press conference and press release last year about sexually improper behaviour. . .
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1437579,00.html
hello Seditionists!!
just wanted to say hi to everyone…or whoever’s here:doh:
just 2 weeks till i’m on spring break!!! but of course that means 2 weeks of hell:fu:
well, back to work with me.:fustrate:
bye :sheep:ple!:fist::banana:
Democrats: When the War Was Lost
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Here we are, in early 2006 and the headlines are briefly given over to the disclosure that the oil companies have been underpaying their royalties from drilling on US public lands by $7 billion. One of the firms, Kerr McGee, is saying defiantly it doesn’t owe the U.S. Treasury a penny and is suing in US court to have that view confirmed.
There was a time, a generation ago, when people here in the United States thought and wrote about the underpinning of the US economy — the energy industry — in a serious way. In the mid-70s the country was bustling with groups pushing for public control, for extending the regulatory powers of the Federal Trade Commission over natural gas prices, for break-up of the oil companies. In the late 1970s I remember a bill put up by Senator Jim Abourezk of South Dakota calling for divestiture of the oil companies failed by only three votes on its first reading. Abourezk remembers Texaco immediately pumped millions into a pro-oil pr campaign.
In the 1976 Democratic primaries every candidate, from the left-populist Fred Harris to the center-right Jimmy Carter felt obliged to sign on to a statement thrust under their noses by a group called Energy Action committing themselves to aggressive moves to extend public control over the private energy sector. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org/
OK, so maybe “close” wasn’t the right word to use.
Hey, QG. Good luck with the two weeks of hell. Sucks, I know.
Hey, you want to trade hells? Mine’s frozen. Hmmm?!? :santacool:
PJ, I’m downloading the BitTorrent stuff.Thanks for the page. It’s funny, too!:banana:
Hey, Anchorage’s average temperatures aren’t much colder than Syracuse. And we get more snow!
Hey, man, it’s darker here!:santacool:
You got me there, dude. I hope the BT thing works out for you.
I’m still in the dark about all this stuff. I think I’ll have to read more about it. But I’ll still just be in the shade:doh:
hey Kristapea!! this rain is Famous!!:nod:
i’m happy it’s raining over here too.:banana:
I agree with the fatal repercussions of 2000. Kennedy also should have known better, in my estimation.
mr f questioned this when I asked him about it! (i don’t always believe mr f because i’m, well, AN ISI, too!) he said something about the guy announcing it was a new guy on the ground or…. can’t remember, but was not a terribly reliable source for the info. and I can’t reach the mr as he’s out and about (he’s delighted about being out, but I am NOT.)
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now you all have linked to some interesting stuff that I will later read. i’ve plum worn myself out trying to do spring chores (like empty and close up fireplaces). I’ve been listening to Marc all the while! ,It’s about 80 degrees here today. flies are back; had to spray the donkey’s legs.
That sounds a euphemism for something vaguely perverted, but I’m not sure what.
I don’t know what i did, but the stuff at the chomsky site seems to be sending me the MARON!!Yes, good stuff!:bow: I’m about 3/4 done:banana:
ZNet | Israel/Palestine
How Britain helped Israel make its A-bomb
by Meirion Jones; New Statesman; March 10, 2006
Mirage jets swoop from the sky to destroy the Egyptian air force before breakfast; tanks race across the desert to the Suez Canal; Moshe Dayan, the defence minister, poses with eyepatch after the Jerusalem brigade has fought its way into the Old City. These are the heroic images of the Six Day War and they defined Israeli daring: here was a people who, it seemed, risked everything on a throw of the dice. Years later the world discovered that there was an insurance policy.
They had a secret weapon – two, to be precise. In the weeks before Israel took on the Arab world in June 1967 it put together a pair of crude nuclear bombs, just in case things didn’t go as planned. Making them required not only Israeli ingenuity but also plenty of help from abroad. It has been known for some time that the French helped build Israel’s reactor and reprocessing plant at Dimona, but over the past year our research team at BBC Newsnight has unearthed something no less astonishing and much closer to home – top-secret files which show how Britain helped Israel get the atomic bomb.
We can reveal that while Harold Wilson was prime minister the UK supplied Israel with small quantities of plutonium despite a warning from British intelligence that it might “make a material contribution to an Israeli weapons programme”. This, by enabling Israel to study the properties of plutonium before its own supplies came on line, could have taken months off the time it needed to make a weapon. Britain also sold Israel a whole range of other exotic chemicals, including uranium-235, beryllium and lithium-6, which are used in atom bombs and even hydrogen bombs. And in Harold Macmillan’s time we supplied the heavy water that allowed Israel to start up its own plutonium production facility at Dimona – heavy water that British intelligence estimated would enable Israel to make “six nuclear weapons a year”. . .
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=9889
Dude, isn’t Saturn a car? :billcat: Sweet!:bow:
It’s a magic box! I don’t know how it works, but it’s crazy!
Brian!:banana: from Everett:alc: They see you:paranoid:
On the high plains you find dear and antelope living wild on the farm land where they find maize and corn and other veggies to eat. Someone estimated that Colorado had more dear on the eastern plains than people. The farmer/ranchers also don’t typically like people hunting on their land so the wildlife thrive. Another place where there is an over abundance of dear is on the reservation of the Air Force Academy. They have so many dear there that they had to have a special hunting season to thin out the heard so the weak ones wouldn’t have to forage so hard during the winter months. The locals thought that was a horrible idea because the dear are almost pets and nick named it the Bambi hunt. It worked so for about the last five years or so they have had a week long hunting season there compete with pickets and people yelling and screaming. Last year they wouldn’t let the demonstrators on the grounds for “security reasons”.
Kat: Doesn’t owning a donkey make you feel somewhat like a lobbyist. ??
Hey, PJ! Anchortown, AK Syracuse, NY
Totally different!
You do get a lot more precipitation
OK, one more deer story. Near here is the Seneca Army Depot (on Seneca lake). It used to stockpile nuclear weapons, including (they say) the once-famous Neutron bombs. I had a friend who went to school at Hobart, and lived over on that side of the lake. One day I went to visit, missed his house, and suddenly found myself at a gate with guys with machine guns. I turned around.
Anyhow, this former munitions stockpile has a herd of 200 white deer – supposedly the only ones of their kind (at least, the only herd of them). Apparently, the Army used to manange the herd by hunting, but left the white deer to breed and multiply.
And they’re pretty darn cute, too. The deer, that is.
Yeah, your winter starts sooner, and your average temps are lower, but if you look at the winter months, we’re not that much colder, really. I’d just as soon have your summer temps (I don’t like the heat too much anymore).
Hi, Sheeple! I was “gutted” (sounds like a deer huntin’ reference, don’t it?) to find that there was no MMShow to download this morning. Blasphemers!
I’ve had a couple of wee drinks…can you tell? That’s assuming that there’s anyone out there to read this drivel I’m posting.
I’m here, but I’m all “conversationed” out:doh:
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OK, I’m out now. Later.
I am NOT one of Maron’s cats:!:
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How ’bout a practicing Democrat:?:
(She REALLY needs a bath, btw, and the goat needs a good brushing and his tooth floated)
My geese are getting hot and heavy with each other so I imagine there’s an egg around here somewhere. Racoons usually eat those before she has a chance to sit very long (Ernie and Mathilda are the geese and we have foreigners visiting from Canada. Ernie is Mathilda’s second husband…since we’re talking animals here today.)
did anyone else listen to ring of fire? I started listening when they were talking about nukes and I got all pissed off. :growl:
(Saturdays mean Car Talk & Ring of Fire.)
pj, isn’t seneca really polluted? Spent much of my childhood at Keuka and got married at the chapel on the bluff.
hey becky, i’ve a bit of wine myself.
I’m into the gin and tonic myself, Kat. I’ve now run out of tonic so maybe I’ll have to cut myself off!
:alc:
oh boy:
I’m so proud of everyone who takes a stand against this “government.” It takes a lotta guts….
No, not that I know of. Onondaga Lake (here in Syracuse, and the sacred place where the Peacemaker brought five regional warring nations together into a union based on principles of peace, forming the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and upon which our democracy was founded – except our founders kinda left out the part where women counted) is the most polluted lake in the United States, but as far as I know, Seneca is OK. Of course, I don’t know what I don’t know, except that what I don’t know is a lot, so it could be.
Ouch!
Cuttin’ off the alcohol DOES hurt, dunnit?
Kat, I listened to part of Ring of Fire…I really like that show…but I was a bit distracted and didn’t absorb much. I need to add that to my podcast list….
Hey- does anyone remember who Sam Seder was referring to when he was telling the story this week about the question posed to the wingnut that if you were in a fire and there was a 2 year old toddler there and some petri dishes with stem cells in them, which would you save?
Im going crazy trying to find who he was talking about that posed the question ad to whom…I wonder if any of you heard it…cat remember if it was on his show or Randi’s
it was such a SAM week!
gin and water? will that work?
Melina, I read about that…let me see if I can find it again.
I’m thinking it was on Randi’s show, Melina, but I may be mistaken…..
Kat, maybe just gin and gin…..
I love Car Talk too! And Prairie Home Companion….
Has Jim Earl done a Rapture Watch on Maron’s show? I heard the War on Brains. (Thank you, Supreme Deity in whom I don’t believe.)
PJ- as far as who hunts, I think its changed alot, but when I lived in MT alot of the locals out there hunted for meat, and that was fine with me but I just didnt want to see the dead animal.
My uncle on my Mom’s side is a commercial fisherman on Cape Cod and has been there most of his life. He has been fishing and hunting since he was a young boy in a town in Mass….some people are just like that. He always eats the meat and he is pretty spiritual about it.
The funny thing is that over the past 20 or so years his feer hunting every year has devolved into sitting o the tree stand and watching them go by. He hasnt wanted to get a rack since he was a young guy (in MT the many pointed racks are actually worth alot of money and Ive seen people who wat to kill or collect them as much as they collect morrell mushrooms and asparagus for the fancy restaurants out there…the rich folks like to make them into chandeliers and stuff!)
He comes here and just goes back and sits out there in the freezing cold and full gear….this is a type of person…
what makes him still go out to the ocean on his little wooden boat at 61 yars old?
Im sorta lucky that Im not a big meat eater in general and I prefer veggies to just about anything….but my son likes beef…
After listening to the Ring of Fire with the factory slaughterhouse story and the guy with the book about the inhumane practices used in these places, I decided to ot eat anything that was raised inhumanely if I can avoid it. I dont want to go all crazy about it because it cann get very expesive and sometimes we are in a place where there is no choice, but I try really hard to make sure that any animals involved in production of my food have at least been able to walk around outside.
I still feel like there is no way to live on this planet without upsetting the order of things and that everything we do reverberates forever. But at some point I gotta let it go…if its between me and the deer I will try to co-exist peacefully…I actually like them quite a bit and will keep the land here as safe for them as possible, save for my uncle coming and sitting on his stand for hours;-)
Im more worried about us encroaching on the Indian’s land than on the land of the deer.
And now that we’re working towards outlawing abortion we can count on more and more people getting born. They are actually fighting endlessly about putting some 70 houses right up the street from me with communal septics that, if they break, will taint all the water for this whole area.
But the fancy lawyers look like they are pushing it through.
Hey Travis, this same uncle actually just did a road trip all the way from Mass. up to where you are in a motor home with his g’friend and some other fisherman and wife. He took over a month and went slowly through…not to kill though I know that they fly fish too…but he loved it up there! Sent lots of pics back….I know its dark…one of my best friends lives in Sweden and its dark there too…but youre in some sorta heaven to alot of us….
I guess the ideal is to go for part of the year and then leave for the dark part!!
yeah, i’m having trouble finding it. it was from the guy who tries to teach people how to get on misguided radio shows.
gin and gin!
pj, men tend to forget about us women. it will bite them in the ass one day.
I thought it was in the Ned Lamont interview because it comes up when you google it on crooks and liars, but its not in that clip…though I seem to remember him sayig it on Randi’s show and that I was in the car…so it was the afternoon….
And I dont replay Randi…I shoulda this week to catch Sam but I was able to hear alot of it live.
Oh well…its not important…just something I referred to in my blog and if I just say that Sam was talkign about some guy who said to another guy….it sounds lame…and I cant reference it.
Becky, Jim did do a fantastic Rapture Watch…I have to try to edit that out. Cant remember what day though…PJ, I guess if youre gonna get a log together we’d better combine forces, all of us, and start now…or its gonna be a mess later on!
Girl, I know THAT’S right.
Melina, I have all of last week’s shows downloaded so maybe I missed it somehow. I’ll try to find it…thanks.
Not where I come from. Besides the Haudenosaunee tradition, CNY is the birthplace of the Women’s Rights movement (not to mention a important stop on the Underground Railroad, and where Harriet Tubman lived out ther remainder of her life). We’re proud of that kinda stuff around here.
well, no luck, but if I have a 💡 moment, I’ll post it here, Melina. I did read it somewhere.
women have been repressed oppressed and suppressed toooo long. i’m also really tired and frustrated with mainstream christianity’s view on women. :fist:
I never got over that Gore thing in 2000. I really thought that he shoulda fought on and on…but then he fought so much more that Kerry did! I will never ever forgive Kerry for backing down so quickly. Edwards looked so surprised. No sooner had he come out and said that they were gonna make all of our votes count than Kerry pulled the plug!
God I hate him for that…and all of his worry of appearing unseemly in the face of this life or death situation that hes gotten us into. he should have fought until there was nothing left to do! Even just the fact that there werent enough voting machines in the inner cities was against the law…that people stood onl ine for 12+ hours!…how could he back down in the face of that? Look where he left us!
Edwards also should have stood up and fought against Kerry…of course then he wold have found out right as he launched a fight that his wife h ad cancer…but still!These people worry too much about their political standing…but I guess you have to or they go crazy tryig to take you out, like Dean.
And O’Conner should ever have let Bush have it…she should have stood up…
But back then we really couldnt have known the horrible extent of this toxicity….how could we have imagined that anything could be this bad?
Its OK Farmer…not all that important…though I do find it a compelling argument and it flustered the guy who was asked it…the guy wouldnt answer. I’ll check Randi’s blog.
I think i was thinking Cayuga Lake – i believe cornell dumps crap in that lake.
Haudenosaunee – interesting on wikipedia
It occurred to me just a few days ago, Kat, that the oldest tyranny in the world is men’s oppression of women. Am I wrong??? (said in a Marc Maron voice)
I think it’s high time women had a turn at running things. Men have mucked it up pretty well so how much worse could women be? Who knows…maybe they’d even be better.
Kerry has long since forgotten who he was. I’m not sure what Edwards could have done without Kerry wanting to fight. Gore, well, other than run a better campaign in the first place, I’m not sure what more he could have done. There’s not really a higher place to go than the Supreme Court, right or wrong. One of the senators could have stood up with the CBC on elector’s day or whatever it’s called.
We’d be in a better place right now if Gore had been named president, I think Exept the media and the Republicans would have been relentless in making sure he was ineffective. They wouldn’t flinch at a filibuster or worry about looking like meanies, and with the majorroty, they’s probably have found somethgin to impeach Gore for.
But back then we really couldnt have known the horrible extent of this toxicity….how could we have imagined that anything could be this bad? comment by melina
mr f covered the 2000 election in FL for c n n. i drove down there with my son to watch history. I was stunned at how genteel the Democrats were. Gore played way too cleanly, in my estimation. The Bush folks were nasty as hell, balls to the wall, and Gore’s people held the high ground. A lot of good it did him. It was horrible what I saw in terms of these neo-con white boys descending on the recount places, each side’s press handlings, etc. Mr. f was sooo fair in covering it I accused him of being partisan to the Repbulicans! He’s extremely fair, the mr f, far more than I am, that’s for certain. it was an education.
Well, as the song goes:
Far above Cayuga’s waters
There is a terrible smell
Some say it’s Cayuga’s waters
Other say it’s Cornell
I think you are right, Becky. let’s start with the bible and write it like the Gnostics (for those that want the Christianity stuff)
on ring of fire when they were talking about how Clinton and the dems backed down at prosecuting the iran contra protaganists, (how bush immeditely starting reclassifyig all those documents when he took office.) I realized even more that the dems have not had the brass ovaries to fight. they could have jailed half these neo-cons and we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.
The democrats had better find it. but maybe becky’s right, give it to the women.
HA! i’ll email that song to my brudder who is moving there.
good night all!
Good night!
Thats what I was thinking about regarding what Krista wrote earlier about us needing to be more underhanded.
What we are seeing now is the fruition of a plan that these f*ckers have been working on since Reagan…and before…but seriously since Reagan…and even with Clinton in the White House they were able to advance some important pieces of their plan…
The deregulation that has gone on…the shift away from unions…the shift towards rewarding the CEO’s and top guys on the backs of the workers….taking everything as private as possible….it goes on…
If they had picked a smarter candidate than Bush they might have been more sucessful in the last 5 years, but Bush is too short tempered and swayed by power. He did an OK homey cowboy routine for a while but the petulant little rich kid came through and hes just so unlikable ultimately. I think that he really cracked. If they made him go to AA he might have been more controllable but since hes still a drunk…oh well…
hes really not very nice or conscious of how he acts and his impact on people.
We need to get very serious about the plan…whatever that is (and so far I like the 5 points or so that they have put together.) Dems are all over the place because we are idealistic. We love this system and we think it should work. But it cant work if there are a bunch of guys removing the floorboards one by one over time until there is no foundation left.
We have to stop being idealistic and aim to win bit by bit until we can be sure that there is breathing space to be idealistic again. If not, we are gonna end up in a dictatorship with few rights and people starving on the street in front of us.
Reagan did alot of that in 8 years, Bush has ruined the enviornment horribly in such a shorter time…and made quite a dent in our liberties…and created a court that will effect our kids…damn! These guys seems so much more able to effect change in a very much shorter time than before…and thats because they have been planning it for 20 years so all the ducks are in a row when they get there….
Now Im getting depressed…
Id better head to bed.
Oh, I put Dowd at the end of my blog entry. Im gonna put it up in a minute. Very good Dowd today.
Good night all…
Travis, I hope you enjoyed the show!
Glad you have the torrent…theres alot of great stuff out there you can grab with that!
hey sheeple i am deep in the heart of enemy territory i should be ok i hope i got scared when they stopped me at the weigh station entering so. dakota i thought they were going to nail me on thought crimes!!!!! luckily they let me go with a warning they said “take that damn commie book and throw it in the trash, we dont like that kinda thing around here.” i really thought the guy was gonna search long and hard to find something to nail me on after he mentioned my copy of the communist manifesto but he was fair with me. i think he must have noticed my copy of the declaration of independence and the constitution sitting right next to it. i mean he had to notice one if he noticed the other right? anyway must continue on to rapid city!!!!!
druid, i read your poem about danu, it was beautiful, thank you. :love:
hey here just watched this fucking hannity is such a dirtbag his super security must defend the homeland ass is mad because the democrats arent being so easily swayed by the quick change on the dubai port crap hes all the issue is over our ports are secure now dont look at the man behind the curtain ugh have i told you yet today how much i hate these people!!!!! i dont think so let me tell you now i hate these people more than i hated it when this girl pushed me through a window and i had a huge piece of glass jutting out of my back um i didnt do anything to get pushed through the glass we were just being flirty and the glass broke way too easily ugh stupid thin glass that shit sucked!!!!! ok well i really must be going!!!!!
kristapea, glad to hear
your space heater outside did the trick after all. congratulations!
sean, are you really reading the communist manifesto, boy you’re getting a full education, aren’t you, back in the day THEY wouldn’t serve us in restaurants when we looked like hippies, we had to tie up our long hair and put on shoes just to get food, are you itching for a fight, do we need to worry about you, it’s exciting following your adventures through north and south dakota but hide your books when you’re at the weigh station for god’s sake, they’re mean and vindictive and don’t need much excuse at all, be careful….
these far right nazis are evil man yeah i am really reading it lets see on my dash right now i have these books
nologo by naomi klein
fear and loathing in las vegas by h. s. thompson (audiobook)
food court druids cherohonkees byrobert lanham
jerusalem syndrome no name needed we all know who wrote that!
the zombie survival guide by max brooks (we all need to read that book so we are ready when the republicans start eating brains)
the two i mentioned earlier
the hipster handbook by robert lanham
warrior politics by robert kaplan
and my audiobook that we have discussed me having before that almost made me stab myself in the ear
I’m listening to George Galloway. It’s so funny to hear the same complaints in the Queens English. 😆 And being refered to as “yanks” is kinda funny. Galloway has to deal with sports crap too. I bet he doesn’t get pre-empted though.:roll:
:fire:seancrest out!:peace:
G’Eveing and G’Day To All ….. I am running and doing up and downstairs.
Foggyblue, we have much to talk of. I think I might know a few you might know :eek::omg: but give me a few “beats:love:” to recontact them first. I am a misthropic reluse so by that alone they probabably “will get it”. I also found my address IS OLD. I also represent Gore up here, and now I realized my address IS SOOOOOOOO WRONG AND SOOOOOOO Old. Thx for forcing me “to see” again. :eek::omg:
😉 to all — this is my only few scifi/fan day and a few hrs tomorrow — so I will check later. 😉
“If you want me…..?” If you want me….?” from Labyrinth
I personally think all “mocK” hunters are WHIMPS. I lived with the WILD and mock hunters just follow easy signs. I had bears come to my door and I am only 5’3 1/2. I KNOW HOW TO SHOOT — to protect my self from Evil Jerks.. Yet only idiots KILL. I have written how they TEACH their YOUNG how to kill.. I guess I must get back to work and write more ABOUT IDIOTS and …. Moreso… after I listen to Ring of Fire, tommmorrow. There are other ways and other ideas besides the some old way. I grew up a meat eatter, loving the taste of blood and prime rib juices dripping down my mouth, but now much has changed. I still have a hybrid and understand the different traumas. We need a Counsel. I am part Irish/British and part Mexican and a bit APACHE! There are other ways. First let us all GET RID OF bush. That is #1, then we all can talk between the Dems and the Grns. I AM SOOOO “DONE” WITH THE rethugs. They can no longer play, until YEARS of proof they can PLAY Fairly.
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
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:banana:They see you:paranoid:They see you! No, you don’t see them, but they see you!:rofl2:
Truth :paranoid: :banana: :paranoid: Truth
War? No thanks!
We’ll Burn Your Fucking Banks!:jason::omg::rofl2:
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Hey gang.
I’m blogging without benefit of having read the posts since early Saturday.
I’m up in the middle of the night–no big surprise given what’s been going on–but not quite conscious enough to be focused or productive. So I thought I’d check in.
Otis is holding steady, sort of. I mean, some things are better and some are not. They have now bandaged up even his operated-on paw (see what I mean about not conscious), because the swelling wasn’t going down because he hasn’t been active. So this is some kind of compression to move the fluid up. With three paws out of commission, he’s given up trying to be mobile, and I can’t say I blame him. There was a slight build-up of fluid internally, so they cut back on his IV fluids (or cut off, I don’t remember). The details wash over me at this point, and hubby says they don’t really matter, what matters is the big picture. With the days melding into each other, how could the details remain clear?
Otis did seem much better yesterday (Saturday evening)–not so grumpy, thrilled to see us, purring. We took off the e-collar so hubby could wash it and I took the opportunity to clean his little face, which I think he appreciated. His red-cell count has actually gone down since they gave him oxyglobin (synthetic hemoglobin) the other night, but the oxygen boost from the oxy kind of made it a wash. But he’s still not eating enough, and if he doesn’t pick up steam they’re gonna insert a feeding tube today. (They told us to feel free to bring food next time–I wish they’d told us sooner, maybe then they wouldn’t threaten the tube.)
Maybe I’ll start at the top and read the whole blog. Or maybe not. I still have two stinkin’ kids’ books to work on; the only good thing is that the current one was a week late, which gave me more time to be on call for Otis this past week.
Thanks for listening . . .
:love::bow: Mrs & Mr citizenkahn :billcat: :billcat: :bow::love:
pjsauter I was reading your article regarding Torrents and then I had to close this site for a bit — and poof you and article “vanished”. I hope to read your site again, once it reappears. THX — you remind me of the com sci guys I use to “play” with.
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Yes, Galloway’s show is on talkSport, and the stream is here.
Just my 2p, but doesn’t the fact that the UK only has 1 black person in the House of Commons say more about the UK’s House of Commons than it does about Galloway?