Here we are, at the start of yet another week. We ended last week with dubya giving Rummy an attaboy. I find it hard to believe he’ll last ’til the end of the month, but then I find it hard to believe he’s lasted this long. We’ll see what this week brings, I guess.
first??:paranoid:
well, nevermind, i think i’ll go to bed.
have fun bloggin’ seditionists!!
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Good morning sheeple!
Wake up, quietgirl! :love:
Farmerkat, I like the name Rumsfart. I’m going to use it myself if you don’t mind.
So who’s still working on their taxes? I finally sent mine in last week. Yes, I owed money for the second year in a row. I blame Bush, of course.
:fu:
The torrent for Friday nights show is posted at
http://www.mininova.org/tor/283043
I blame Bush too, Kevin. Tax the middle class till they’re poor. Give the rich a pass.
:fu:
Oh. And mornin’, all.
Good morning all 🙂 Yeah, taxes are done. Still trying to open my eyes. Trying to let Rachel Maddow wake me up. I give about 15 minutes until the “anger against what’s going on” starts setting in again, but as of yet, I’m still half asleep therefore peaceful.
morning! :joe:
I’m going to listen to Friday’s show later this a.m. Some said fantastic show, others said crap. I’m really curious to hear it.
kev, glad you liked the creation….use as your own invention.
The extensions have been filed. The house has still not fully recovered from Otis’s illness and my stupid project. Once I get a handle on that, I will, slowly, start pulling everything together for the accountant. But for now we sent NYS and IRS big checks based on his assessment.
For some reason, I thought the extension was till August 15, but it’s a six-month extension. That is scary–I wouldn’t wanna have to do my taxes twice in 6 months (Oct ’06/April ’07). My hope is to have ’em together by June. Yup.:nod:
extension filed here, too, ck. couldn’t pull it together before the big S.
FWIW, I laughed out loud more than once listening to Friday’s show.
Re: the beer companies using the symbols “Kilamanjaro” and “Serengeti,” hopefully these companies will be pressured into being contributors rather than just exploiters. It always annoyed me when a company uses a name to represent something either ecological or healthful when in fact either the product is not, or the company has practices that run counter to their name.
Question: Is there really such a group as “Skinheads against Racism?” One of them has been e-mailing me asking me to help explain to people that he’s not into hate, but when I ask him what he does stand for, so that I know what the deal is, he can’t really explain it. Anyone know the history of this particular group?
When you drink it, it really brings out the devil in you.
Greetings to all. 🙂 Just checking in since going to sleep :yawn: when Rachel is over.
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pj, that’s why, when I drink, I drink red wine!
hello, goodnight, druid!
Good morning everyone.
I thought Friday’s show was pretty funny. Jim is feeling alot more comfortable and startin to work on his shyness in being just himself…I think it needs listener calls…definitley missing the live action, though he is somehow using the blog. I dont know why they wouldnt have some people on the phone listening so they could take callers or whatever…like a phone in center or something.
Rough night and I guess Im dragging myself to the gym and then to try to get some sort of supplies for Grandpa, who is sick and impossible! He has maybe pnemonia or the flu and cant get himself out of bed if he gets in, so my Mom is going over. How do you get someone who needs some sort of nursing care to accept help? I guess this is the age old problem.
I was up worrying last night….
Have a good day sheeple…Im gonna see if I can cancel some things and get moving. I guess I can get a bar to put by the side of the bed and one of those things that help old people stand up from a chair….this and the hearing problem….
Stay young everyone!!…this old age thing is no fun according to grandpa.
Evening/ Morning :yinyang:
…and no US taxes to file again. Filed my Taiwan taxes- 6% of net.
From Tony Hendra of The National Lampoon and This is Spinal Tap fame.
Susan Joy Re #12… I am so glad you said that, since I also believe that. YEA:!: As a matter of fact I have even contacted a few (for naught, yet) because I believe, as examples: Basketball or Football or other national sports, should give to whatever their emblem is. For instance: Lions give to help Lions, Bears give to help Bears, Dolphins give to help Dolphins, and Patriots give to Human issues (to name a few).
I called Ford regarding their Mustangs TO HELP The American Wild MUSTANGS.
I also believe Dems should help the Wild Burro (aka Donkey) and we should Save The Elephants to take the air out of the republicans — plus I love elephants and I want to start to reclaim the elephants since many Dems act to Save the Elephants. (I haven’t heard any Republicans helping the elephants, but probably have.)
I think they need to get two or three Pashman’s in the studio with live mic’s. I agree that Jim is gettign more comfortable. I think he’s been used to writing bits and then performing them (or listening to somebody else perform them), and hasn’t seemed comfortable speaking extemporaneously. And of course it isn’t always to get a word in with Marc. Jim as Ed McMahon doesn’t quite get it, but I think they’re starting to figure things out. They’ve only got 30 shows in the can (not counting the Harrison one), and a lot of them were only half-shows.
Of course, it’s no Jerry Springer. 😉
Druid- what charity would the Red Wings support?
Oh, I’m not touching that one.
I think of Jim more as a Happy Kyne than an Ed McMahon.
Farmerkat, Isi, Melina, and sooo many others I, with much interest, read what all have written on ONLY part of Sundays Blog. Good Stuff:!:
And Isi, I use to watch Old Movies i.e. “In Your Easter Bonnet….. ” BUT I DID NOT KNOW ALL THE WORDS
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pjsauter :rofl2: Trouble brews over Tanzania beer
When you drink it, it really brings out the devil in you.
OMG! I am listening to Tyger Thom. He was supposed to be on Fox TV Friday.:omg:
6% of net
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kk, is that a flat tax for all? how good are the government services? wow.
King Kong I am a literalist, so please excuse me if I am missing a joke … But they could give to birds or PARROTS in the wild. :smile::wink:
usan Joy Re #12… I am so glad you said that, since I also believe that. YEA ❗ As a matter of fact I have even contacted a few (for naught, yet) because I believe, as examples: Basketball or Football or other national sports, should give to whatever their emblem is. For instance: Lions give to help Lions, Bears give to help Bears, Dolphins give to help Dolphins, and Patriots give to Human issues (to name a few).
I called Ford regarding their Mustangs TO HELP The American Wild MUSTANGS.
I also believe Dems should help the Wild Burro (aka Donkey) and we should Save The Elephants to take the air out of the republicans — plus I love elephants and I want to start to reclaim the elephants since many Dems act to Save the Elephants. (I haven’t heard any Republicans helping the elephants, but probably have.)
I like that! I would like to say there would be some sympathy for this idea, because Americans do like animals a lot…images of wildlife often sway audiences to contribute to wildlife causes…those images can be used in public service messages to pressure these comapnies in the same way they’re trying to pressure the beer companies abroad.
(Still trying to wake up)
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Trouble brews over Tanzania beer
When you drink it, it really brings out the devil in you.
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Has Tasmania been moved to Africa? This is just the type of thing that happens when I stop paying attention!
Happy Monday all.
Hey, Nicki and others, I have a questions about Israel. When you hear someone like Simon Peres, or Bibi Netanyahu or the late Ariel Sharon is their accent distinctive israeli and if so how did that accent originate. Since there are so many jews from around the world that live there? Just curious. Always wondered about that.
Susan Joy Mustand/Ford said they have recently have been donating, but I have’t heard how much money they gave so have to research again.
Luckily I can sleep on (tea) :joe:, since I am in deep want of :joe: to help see before I sleep. 😀
FK- The tax form is one side of a legal size sheet of paper. You get a personal deduction and a few others. Depending on your income, you pay 6, 10, 18, or 26 (or something like that) % tax.
Gov. services are fine; employees must all past a national exam. (But it always speeds up if you have a connection.)
(Oh, yeah, and there’s universal health care. My yearly full health check, with xrays, blood work, etc., was about US$40.)
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Nicki, is this in response to my question?
If it’s a stupid question, tell me.
There is nothing nefarious intended..
Druid- they apearently give to a few causes. Not related to birds, cardinals, or wheels.
that’s interesting, KK. Guess not supporting a massive military industry has it’s upside 😉 AND you have a Costco there, right?
All I know is that Netanyahu is a fucking American.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Born in Tel-Aviv on October 21, 1949, Benjamin Netanyahu grew up in Jerusalem. He spent his high school years in the United States, where his father, the historian Professor Benzion Netanyahu, taught history. Returning to Israel in 1967, Mr. Netanyahu enlisted in the Israel Defence Forces and served in an elite commando unit.
Shimon Peres (Labour), Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born in Poland in 1923 and immigrated with his family as a child. He studied at the Ben Shemen Agricultural School, and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Alumot in the Jordan Valley. In 1943, he was elected secretary of the Hano’ar Ha’oved youth.
Cosco, check! The 4 or 5 stores are always busy.
The seedless grapes I’m eating right now are from there.
AND seedless grapes – well, you have everything you need! :gate:
i’ll check back with you all later!
Sorry for misspelling Shimon Peres.
So I guess that means you don’t know if Sharon, Peres, etc. speak in a distinctive “Israeli” dialect? Or, if they do, why?
Israel is a melting pot, consisting of people from all over the world. However, I am sure that distinctive accents are developing in Israel.
As for the people you mentioned, my guess is that their accents are influenced by their places of origins.
King Kong :banana: (I just believe that if one is using an endangered species and making Money off their symbol or image, one should add them to their donors’ list — but their causes are good that you sent. Thanks for letting me know — some teams Get It.)
Ok, peace out everybody, I’m supposed to get some hours of work in today, though I believe I’m getting home somewhat early. See you guys later :nod:
English accents. Modern Hebrew is the official language of Israel.
Farmerkat Glad you are out and about…:banana:
:alc: but with tea
You broke the blog Nicki :no:
Druid, helping out namesakes is a great idea for professional teams.
G’Night, G’Day To One And To All
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Modern Hebrew. That’s what I needed! I found this page at Wikipedia. Very interesting. Here’s a little bit:
King Kong , yes :nod:
But I have thought about how to get the colleges and universities to at least do something in their symbol’s behalf.
But, there just is NO TIME in this 24/7 Work World. :yawn:
Any responses, and I like getting all thoughts, like what you gave, I will be reading later. Be Well. 😉 G’Night/G’Day
CBC ing you! Bye.
Reminder: tomorrow 18 April is Mishna’s and Linda Pashman’s birthday.
Nicki do you have a cat?:billcat:
Having a devil of a time printing out tax extension form- the IRS PDF cuts off the bottom. Hope they accept a screenshot. Somehow the six month extension gives me the willies. Though I should have more “time” in early October.
oops, double post! 😳
The IRS gives 6 extra months?
Talk about turning in your paper late! 😉
Yeah, as long as you “give” them all the money you’re going to owe them (or pay interest).
pj- if they owe you and you wait, will they pay interest?
FIRETRUCK (aw, the old days)
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I thought of you guys last Friday night as I watched “House” -He was pulling a mini-firetruck out of a kid’s nose.:fire:
Forum has been invaded by whatever this is
http://www.morningseditionists.com/msforums/viewtopic.php?t=114
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Thank you.
Haven’t read anything since this morning and am getting ready to take Otis to the vet (penultimate–I hope–post-op visit).
I have been bouncing off the walls since this morning–in a good way–because it looks like we’re really, truly going to Italy this fall! And I spoke to an old, old friend in Bologna (he’s originally from the Bronx; went there for med school and never left), so it feels extremely real right now. Yaaaay!
(Oh, and Melina, I just wanted to let you know I didn’t forget about the book for Will–I’m still workin’ on it!)
A federal jury convicted former Gov. George Ryan today on all charges that as secretary of state he steered state business to cronies in return for vacations, gifts and other benefits for himself and his family.
READ ON
I’m preparing myself for the big transition. Yes, that’s right, I’m going to put the old hard drive in the box to see what happens. Hopefully nothing seriously devastating. I haven’t really done my homework on the subject but I guess it’s not that difficult from what I gather…I guess. Um, any words of wisdom from the Seditionists before I diverge down this path of anticipated limited visibility and rough terrain? I’m really trekking into the darkness here, so, um, yeah. OK. cool. :doh: Oh, and should I be worried about the old info on the old HD- like the old operating system or whatnot?
Man, somebody really broke the blog this morning:mad:
I hope everyone isn’t sick from too many peeps, Sheeple. :barf:
travis – i can try to help – are you putting the drive in as a slave so you can copy data over?
I think it would be a slave. Um, should I just do it and stop worrying about it?:doh:
make sure you set the jumper to slave or it won’t boot
Cool, thanks. :jason: Time to operate, I guess.:omg:Catch ya on the other side. Well, if I make it
:banana:Fuck, that was easy:doh: I feel pretty dumb now since I made a big deal about it.
Huh, saw what? :bong: Nothing to see here. Nope
I saw that, Travis!:wink:
Sorry for the double post:banana:
No apologies necessary. I just thought it was funny I saw it before you got to it!
Divine Strake
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Brendan McDonald is Randi’s new Producer!!
hey everyone! Well Im glad that Huffpo picked up on this because Mom just called me and told me to read it….its pretty incredible how history repeats itself and the same bumbling bumblers are still the same….
Oh, and I got a free year of Sirus from Jeep!…They say they are negotiating to bring back AAR! Now that Danny is gone maybe this will be possible. I think I may cancel XM and take my chances with replay and Torrent. Sirus has much better music and Ill have to check out the other stuff…And then there is Howard….yuck!
They should give Brendan and Pashman their own show! They were so good during Katrina, and they are so good in the studio. I hope that if he gets to be Randi’s producer that she at least talks to him and lets him be on air, because he is pretty fantastic when he gets going.
My cat got on the keyboard and forced the “m” key to stick. (Then the “x” key got stuck.) Is that what caused the blog to bust? It seemed to work fine. One line of x was all that showed up on my screen.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:billcat:
Here I go down the rabbit hole of phone jamming…
Trace it back into the white house and its just a hop skip and jump to the oval office…hey, if it was good enough for tricky Dick, its good enough for our boy W!
I hadnt really looked at this thing before…was too caught up in everything else, but this is pretty compelling.
Sirius also has Little Steven (and Andrew Loog Oldham). Hell, I don’t have either satellite.
Yeah, Little Steven and the disciples of Soul…I love him…
Well this was free…I wouldnt bothe rotherwise but then IM addictred to AAR and can easily fill my spare time with the shows I listen to….I just lose the signal up here at night, so I need to podcast somehow…or stream….and the car came with the thing installed.
In 1991, in an effort to convince Congress and the world that Iraq needed to be forcibly removed from Kuwait, Lantos helped stage a hearing before his private Congressional Human Rights Caucus at which the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, pretending she was a nurse who had been working in a Kuwaiti hospital at the time of Iraq’s invasion, testified that she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers throwing babies out of scores of incubators on to the hospital floor in order to take the incubators back to Iraq.
The story was a total fabrication, but the outrage it engendered was enough to get reluctant members of Congress to change their minds and vote for the war. Despite articles about the fraud in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Harper’s, Lantos was never criticized on the House floor, let alone censured.
But this story is not about Israel or Iraq. It’s about the different treatment afforded Lantos as compared to that meted out by the Capitol Police to our second member of Congress, Cynthia McKinney, who represents the De Kalb district in Atlanta, Georgia…
April 17th
The Touchable and the Untouchable
A Tale of Two Members of Congress and the Capitol Hill Police
By JEFFREY BLANKFORT
It’s another tale of two members of Congress, of racism and hypocrisy, and it serves as a reminder, as if one was needed, that Washington, D.C., is in the heart of the old Confederacy.
Rep. Tom Lantos and Rep. Cynthia McKinney are members of the Democratic Party, but there the similarities end.
Lantos represents South San Francisco and San Mateo County. He is white, Jewish, Hungarian born and portrays himself as “the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress.” He is an unabashed supporter of Israel. That makes him, of course, an “untouchable.”
He is also the ranking Democrat on the powerful House International Relations Committee, which provides him with unusual opportunities to help Israel. He sponsors repressive legislation targeting the Palestinians and Israel’s Middle East adversaries and, when called upon by Israel, he represents it in countries where Israel has no diplomatic relations, a questionable activity by a member of the U.S. Congress.
“He’s true blue and white” – the colors of the Israeli flag – a former leader of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, Israel’s official lobby, told the Jerusalem Post, referring to Lantos’ devotion to Israel. Lantos made his first trip to the Jewish state in 1956 and has been there nearly 60 times since.
And all along you thought his first concern was the voters in his district. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org
Why Won’t Moveon.org Oppose the Bombing of Iran?
By NORMAN SOLOMON
MoveOn.org sent out an email with the subject line “Don’t Nuke Iran” to three million people on April 12. “There is one place where all of us can agree: Americans don’t support a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Iran, and Congress must act to prevent the president from launching one before it’s too late,” the message said. And: “Please take a moment to add your name to our petition to stop a nuclear attack on Iran.”
The petition’s two sentences only convey opposition to a “nuclear” attack on Iran: “Congress and President Bush must rule out attacking Iran with nuclear weapons. Even the threat of a nuclear attack eliminates some of the best options we have for diplomacy, and the consequences could be catastrophic.”
Dont forget the new orleans mayoral debate at 9PM….MSNBC…
My Mom just said that this guy Holtzman, who was just on with Matthews, was on the radio today (he seems to be some sorta military expert,) said that if Iraq falls totally into civil war and they decide to turn on our troops, that the way the troops are disbursed in small groups and spread so thin, they could actually kill most of our army…
Chilling.
Kat, I hope that Mr is not really going back….We really have to get out of there…But htis guy just said to Matthews that in 10 years they can meet back there and that we will still have troops over there…and that when they are in their wheelchairs, we will still have troops over there.
Fuckin Bush…how could he do this?
Im a ding dong…its US Ambassador to the UN Holbrook
We seem to assume a lot about our ability to kill everyone off in IRAQ and IRAN if we get backed into a corner..I think we will find that it us that will get killed .. The look on a solders face when he is facing down 300 people with 2 X4 ‘s and runs out of ammunition will probably not be widely reported.
Here is the draw a pig personality test…
It seems to be pretty full of shit, but its sorta cute…
I broke the Blog? I will blame cats. :omg:
Nite everyone…time for bed!
Check you all in the AM!
:mad:Damned fascist cats:billcat::doh:
i think cheneys coming to shoot me! damn it i need out of wyoming! NOW! fuck more than three hundred more miles to go! fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck! i got inspected three times today! why oh why do weigh stations in the midwest have to hate me so!
:billcat:fascist cats! where?:paranoid: fuck they are probably clawing at my cab as we speak i mean as i type! holy crap so cheney is sending his cat to assassinate me!
:fire:i better drive away!
ok im out later sheeple!
so the guy on myspace never bothered trying to refute krugman because uhhh yep you cant refute krugman! ha see anyway yep so i wrote this as a way of goading the dumb bastard into trying!
ok well yep looks like krugman won! yay for krugman! now if only i could have won the argument on my own i feel like such a failure as a person now! ugh ok well im gonna go put some more money in my mutual fund and fuck all you poor people you should just pull yourselves up by your boot-straps and stop trying to leech off the government you socialist bastards! ha take that neo-liberal establishment! oops sorry sometimes the evil republican part of me takes over i forgot you cant afford the bootstraps to pull yourselves up anymore! so uh yeah i say raise the minimum wage! 10$ an hour for all! yay woo hoo yay yay
I always said, “Your a better man than I(woman), Gunga Din” — since I never would have gone where you have tread, unfortunately, I already, would be dead.
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You’re a Better…. Rats I was feeding and taking care of a dear ol’ Man (Rat) which I have to feed water with finger tips. :):( and then Danu HAD to go outside. And all just took their time! :growl::rofl2:
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