What with trying to catch up my gutter cleaning, I haven’t had much chance to look at who’s on the bobbleheads this week, but here’s a quick rundown:
Press the Meet has retired general Barry McCaffrey, Markos Moulitsas (aka Kos), Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, Amy Walter of the Cook Report, and the National Review’s Byron the dork York.
Faze the Nation didn’t have their web page update, and it wasn’t worth it to me to try and find out who was on.
On This Weak with George Snufalufagus, it’s L. Paul Bremer, Republican asshole from NY, Tom Reynolds, Rahm Emanuel from Illinois, Token Zakaria, Donna Brazile, George :jerk: Will, and for god only knows what reason, they’re giving airtime to Grover fucking Norquist.
Fux News and their weasel faced host have general George Casey, plus asshole Newt Gingrich, DINO Jane Harman, and complete asshole Dan Senor.
CNN? Who gives a shit.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Bob Simon does a story on the Hobbit archaeologists found, Lesley Stahl looks at Plan B from Outer Space, Mike Wallace (I thought he was retiring) looks at the Tony awards, and And Rooney will whine about something or other.
No Sopranos tonight, but the third season premiere of Deadwood is on for those of you with HBO.
As for me, I’m sad to say I’ll be hitting the road by 3 PM or so, hoping to get to DC between 9:30 and 10:00 (depending on the traffic; hopefully not much later). I’m not looking forward to the drive, much less the arrival. But, it was great to be home for a couple of days. You did a pretty good job asking the traffic gods to help me out on Thursday, so I’d appreciate it if you could ask for smooth sailing tonight, too. Shit, I really don’t wanna go.
Damn. Who’s choppin’ onions?
Skullking pays!
Rabbi Emmanuel Rose’s Retirement with Beth Israel
through June 10.
A special weekend in honor of Rabbi Rose’s retirement. Friday at 6 p.m. there will be a Shabbat service and Saturday at 7 p.m. there will be a Havdalah dessert at the Portland Art Museum.
Temple Beth Israel
1972 NW Flanders St
Portland, OR 97210
503-222-1069
http://www.bethisrael-pdx.org
:alc: drinks to that
Remember C.E.S. Wood in that play? He founded the Portland Art Museum.
Just make sure that it is not Manischewitz.
cool, ok. I like connecting people to other things
this music is very laser-light after eating psychedelic mushroom-ish
Yeah! Rabbi Rose is treading on sacred ground.
Charles Erskine Scott Wood
(1852-1944)
Oregon & California
C.E.S. Wood was a writer, poet, soldier, corporate lawyer, and a lover of books. He was a founder of Portland’s Public Library and the Portland Art Museum. A self-proclaimed anarchist, he was a regular contributor to radical journals of the day.
I had a dream that I took a bus ride in a strange city that I didn’t know to visit an art museum and meet an artist. I never figured out where I was or why I was somewhere I didn’t know. The dream stayed with me for some reason (It was several months ago but still remember it).
Portland Radical History Tour
The following sites were selected and the text written by Kim Fern. The supporting material, including photos and web links, was added by members of the Lewis and Clark College Political Economy Program. As Kim Fern explains, “This tour is an attempt to show you some of what isn’t shown, what has been left out of our city’s heritage and our “movement’s” memory. This is for you to take to the library or the Historical Society or to the City Archives and spend hours finding details that make your heart race. This will show you people, organizations, groups, and events that have inspired and changed us.”
There are many stops which have, unfortunately, been torn down. Those stops are marked with an asterisk (*).
1. 298 W Burnside (1907) & 241 SW Couch (1917)* – IWW Hall
heh, cool…you should give a tour like that, you’d be good 😉
1021 SW Yamhill St.- Louise Bryant’s studio (1915)
Louise Bryant was a relentless critic of U.S. imperialism, although she is best known for her love affair with John Reed. Louise grew up in Reno, Nevada and moved to Eugene, Oregon to attend the University of Oregon. In Eugene she was active in the movement for women’s suffrage. In 1914, Louise moved to Portland. She wrote for The Masses, and in 1917, she traveled with John Reed to Russia to cover political developments. She was highly critical of Nicholas II and the Russian autocracy and believed that democracy could only be achieved through their overthrow. She published her views on the Russian Revolution in “Six Months in Russia.” She came back to Portland in 1919 as part of a national speaking tour, and spoke to an audience of 4000 about the importance of opposing the U.S. military intervention against the newly formed Bolshevik government. She died in Paris in 1934.
Louise Bryant’s house is still there. It is across the street from the main library.
Okay. I am boring you.
hmm, weird, something you wrote showed up in “recent” remarks but never appeared on the actual blog
no you’re not…I’m really into this kind of stuff, when I gave tours of the NY Botanical Garden I studied Bronx history and went around spouting this kind of thing (though not Portland history, LOL)
2. SW Broadway & Taylor- formerly The Heilig Theater (1916)*
The Heilig Theater was where Margaret Sanger spoke when she came to Portland on June 17th, 1916. Three men were arrested outside the theater for selling her book. They violated the Comstock Law, which made it against the law to distribute or publish birth control information.
like for instance did you know the Bronx River Parkway is the very first parkway of any kind in America? Now THAT is boring stuff, LOL
ah, there’s the missing remark!
Oh shit! Is this familiar?
15. SW 4th & Yamhill- Turn Hall (1915)*
On August 7, 1915, Emma Goldman and her partner Ben Rietman were arrested for distributing birth control information, a violation of the Comstock Law. Emma was preparing to speak, having been introduced by C.E.S. Wood, when she was arrested by a plain clothes policeman and taken downtown. Wood bailed her out but she and Rietman received $100 fines.
Is this bar still open ?
Wheeee Good morning I think maybe :alc::eek::joe::joe::joe::omg:
just a little bit, yeah…
The commentary on Emma Goldman is silly. Not entirely factual.
morning, Fred ::;serves either wine or coffee, whatever he prefers:::
yeah, hard to separate history from legend sometimes…oh!!! I FINALLY came up with a name for my herbal encyclopedia. It was the last thing I needed to think up.
6830 N. Michigan- Julia Ruuttilla’s home
Julia Ruuttilla was raised in Eugene, Oregon. Her father was an active member of the IWW and her mother was a strong advocate for birth control. Upon moving to Portland, Julia became a journalist and a life long political activist. Among other things, she supported the 1934 longshore strike and organized a women’s auxiliary in support of the 1935 Lumber Strike. She was called before the House Un-American Activities Commission. She worked for the Oregon State Welfare Division, but lost her job after it was discovered that she had used a pen name to write a series of newspaper articles critical of the Portland Welfare Commission’s handling of the 1948 Vanport flood. Julia was a steady presence at anti-war demonstrations during the 60’s; sat in at the electric company to protest their rate increases; wrote for the International Longshore & Warehouse Union’s paper “The Dispatcher,” and organized and participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. She remained a radical until her death in 1991: “I’m a radical. I think our government is of, by and for the American-based multinationals. That’s radical, isn’t it?” (Julia at age 75).
if the truth is considered “radical,” yeah…I love the sarcastic tone of the last remark
No. There is an historical record on what happened to Goldman in August 1915. She died before WWll started. She was arrested in 1917 for opposing the US enrtry into WWl. She was deported to the Soviet Union soon afterward. The Movie
Redscovers this history somewhat.eek. That’s frightening
The problem or maybe its the norm is that we protest and strike and yell and scream and the “they” back off and give us some of what we want then we think we have it made and quit spending our time being active and the “they” come back.. Like I said the corporatist thugs are like Cockroaches there has to be a way to set a trap and have them all go there to feed and find out to late it was poison. Maybe China is that trap ???:omg::rant1::joe::joe::joe:
Emma eventually ended up in Canada in the 1930s. FDR allowed her to visit the US in 1934, I believe. Film exists of her visit.
I guess there are worse places than Canada…
Arab pop is playing.
yeah, sounds interesting…. I thought maybe it was Indian
:omg: C-span just had fearless leader on and I didn’t get to the mute button fast enough and now I have granola bar all over my keyboard.:shock::eek::blech::yuck:
November 25
Department of Labor orders Berkman’s deportation to Russia. Goldman’s deportation order follows on Nov. 29.
Weinberger meets in Washington, D.C., with immigration officials, including Anthony Caminetti and Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post.
November 29
Goldman and Berkman address an audience of forty-five hundred people in Chicago about their prison experiences. The following day they address another large crowd. Large benefit banquet takes place at the Hotel Morrison in Chicago on Dec. 1. Goldman describes the Detroit and Chicago meetings as “among the most inspiring in our public career.”
December 5
Goldman and Berkman detained at Ellis Island.
December 8
Goldman and Berkman appear in federal court before Judge Julius M. Mayer, who declares that as aliens, they have no constitutional rights. They remain in detention at Ellis Island.
December 9
Goldman and Berkman send a mass appeal for political and financial support.
December 10
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis declines to overrule the lower court’s decision in Goldman and Berkman’s case.
December 15
Soviet representative Ludwig C. A. K. Martens writes to Goldman and Berkman at Ellis Island, assuring them of their right to travel and speak freely in Russia.
December 19
Goldman and Berkman send a farewell letter to their supporters.
December 21
At dawn, Goldman, Berkman, and 247 radical aliens set sail on the S.S. Buford, bound for Russia.
Arabesk.
yes, Fearless Leader’s voice will do that, and worse 😮
:::sigh::: very sad account…
I like the international flavor of his musical set
He is an expert on Kraut Rock.
Now the ‘they” are apt to declare you a terrorist and disappear you to GTMO or someplace where you can rot forever and never bother them again.. That’s what the “they” have wanted to do all along .. only Bush has had the balls to do it.
Thay one song was from Iraq. I used to listen to a lot of Middle eastern pop music. It is distinct from Indian pop. Indian music frequently has pleading female vocals.
yeah…for the moment we’re able to express ourselves on the internet…I think…
Time to turn off KBOO. ras Danny is a freak.
What did Nicki do send Susan a sixteen volume set ?? of course some of the reviews were a little slow while you guys were drunk..:shock::roll::yawn::joe::joe:
I have a pretty good CD of Middle Eastern Pop …. Putamayo puts out some good international CDs of that type
LOL, he called the radio station and dedicated a song to me, but the DJ never played it :tongue:
Shit! Randi Rhodes is still on.
KBOO streams I would assume or has a very very very powerful signal..:omg::joe::joe:
noooo no more Randi right now!
hehe, yeah, I get Philadelphia stations sometimes, but not Oregon!
Reagan Robertson. Robertson is RANDI’S REAL LAST NAME.
C-span has a same sex marriage presentation to the NY supreme court on. The Lawyer presenting the case is a Babe.:omg::love::eek:
is that really her name? I knew Randi Rhodes was a guitarist and she copped that name, but I wasn’t sure what her actual name was
I am going to play a Klaus Nomi CD.
Yes Randi said her real last name is Roberson or Robinson I don’t remember which.. Randi on at 4am :yuck:
:knit2:
I am in Indifrikkenapolis:barf:
Hows Sblue this am ?? Its to early to knit jabbing a knitting needle through you hand would hurt.:yuck::eek::joe::joe:
I’m not listening to anything right now…
Hey SBlue, good morning (I think it’s five something in your time zone?)
Indifrikkenapolis is where Beach Grove is .. there is no FEMA camp at Beach Grove.. ( I don’t know why I put that in there)..A lot of dead AMTRAK passenger cars yes FEMA camp No.. ( there I go again) The whole Midwest is :barf:
No I am in your time zone but it feels like 3am:barf::crap::-(
Gotta go
Need to improve my mood:banana::joe::banana::joe::banana::joe:
Indiana wants to feel important so its on Eastern time.
The streets feel kinda toxic.
I still feel like it’s 3 AM because that’s when I woke up!
I’ve been to Ohio, but not Indiana…
ok, just put on a Springsteen CD
Roberta Kaplan?
who?
Everybody is gone.
ahem…
That was the lawyer arguing the case on C-Span.
ah yes, Fred’s crush…
:jesus::omg:
A classic if but remark … Where have I heard that before ???:idea::shock::peace:
hmm, why do I feel I want to use the spanking emo…
:crap: Go away for ten minutes and some gray haired guy is on ..:eek::yuck::shock:
these urges just come over me…:spank:
When you look at manufacturing facilities you see a lot of places with turn styles at the employ entrances. High tech replaces them with doors with magnetic locks, metal detectors and even x ray machines.. I guess if someone stole something it would set back corporate profits twenty years. The absent minded engineer has to be sure he doesn’t stick things in his shirt pocket. 😮 :doh: A lap top with a company id sticker on it typically goes through all checks without inspection.. Most of the “stuff” is all text and software these days. They frown on you taking the company computers home though.
That AMTRAK shop at Beach Grove was expanded to do a lot of “heavy maintenance” in the late 80’s and early 90’s so they put in heat treating furnaces and refurbed a lot of the buildings but the congress refused to approve the budget so it just sat there looking like a concentration camp with furnaces. Why the barbed wire on the top of the fences faces the wrong direction I have no explanation for. Maybe Halliburton did the construction.
Now hows that for information you can’t possibly use ??:peace:
Did everyone go to bed ??? I can’t understand why you have only been partying all night.. ( we need a headache emo):eek::joe::joe:
if we ever have a domestic insurgency one should remember to hide out in the Rich peoples neighborhoods. The rich will stop the carnage really soon when the army starts blowing up their stuff.
The C-span subject is on the the US marines killing innocent civilians in IRAQ. A lot of callers are saying that was appropriate because you can’t separate the insurgents from the populace. If they would just pull out they would not have that problem.
Fraging civilian houses was a common practice in Vietnam but so was fraging officers tents and houches.
Most of the callers can’t seem to see what is going on over there .. we are doomed..:40::fu:
We are observing the US war for independence from the English point of view. THERE ARE VERY FEW INSURGENTS just Iraqi’s trying to evict a bunch of :fu::fu:bullies and idiots.
:mad::omg:I just noticed that C-spans call in numbers are not toll free numbers .. WJ is a conspiracy between the cable networks and AT&T :fu::fist::gate::omg::jason:
Ok Now that I got the blood pressure up I have to go over to the salt mine early this morning.. The last time I did that before 7 am on a Sunday my key card wouldn’t unlock the door.. I am glad I get paid by the hour for this.:40::mad::yuck::roll::doh:
All these :fu: rethug shills .. The :fu: unemployment rate is :fu: 20% you :fu: Idiot..
PJ-Thx for the rundown…I may just skip George Snuggles….Is he ignoring the Yearly Kos?…wouldnt that be strange considering that its a pretty big deal.
Im so sorry thatyou have to go back to the dorm.
you sound sad….time goes so fast that you will be home again before you know it…meantime you are our man in DC, digging up all the dirt!
George Casey was canceled off Timmeuh’s show…so instead is Barry McCafferty retired Gen and commentator.
I’d like to really hear about suicides…but he is viewing it as a jihad move and not as a real suicide problem.
:billcat:
Isi…thats funny!
Probably the best Timmeuh Ive seen in a while because of that coverage. I cant understand why these other shows wouldnt at least do alittle something on it…
G’ morning everyone :joe:
hey Krista….
I saw Al Gore’s movie last night. People actually applauded after the movie. That doesn’t happen much here. It was pretty shocking and I loved the graphs and charts. It really helps you grasp what’s going on in a big picture kind of way. All you coastal people might want to consider moving inland. It’s not gonna take much for the coastlines to be under water and it can happen quickly. Plus we’re not really doing much to stop it so it seems like a likely scenario.:eek::omg:
Morning Blogmeisters!
pj -> safe journey to DC :gate:
melina, i was actually Cowell College at ussc even though I lived at Kresge at mone point. Lived off campus near Seabright beach the majority of my time there.
got the walk & outdoor chores done before the heat goes full throttle. yesterday was the fifth straight day of giving the donkey a full tube of wormer. i know why the vet doesn’t have you give a dose on the sixth day – said equine wouldn’t come near me! She has a 2 week reprieve and then just one tube one time and another in 2 more weeks and then back to the regular schedule. She’s cleaned out FOR SURE! 😎
so kp, if i just stay put i may have ocean view before long? it would save on moving costs!
Maybe FK. In the photo they just showed the Fla coast line and pretty much the whole bottom of Fla up to Lake Occechobe(I know that spelling is wrong) goes away. I guess it depends on where you are in Ga. 20 feet is quite a bit of water, it seems to me. I need to find some topo maps because me and my friend were just arguing about whether that amount of water would reach me, here in the desert. He says no and I say there is a possibility that there is a pass that water could flood the Valley but I need to look at a map.
Hey Kevin! Get outa there NOW!
Kat- Thats my grandfather’sjoke because this place is the highest place in Stamford and then NY State, just North of here keeps going up….so he says that in the 40″s when he bought this place he figured it would be waterfront one day!….Maybe he’ll live to see it!…of course all the refugees will be camped all over the place so it wont have the same isloated charm that it has now…oh well…
Im dying to see that movie.
Farrell is having a screening for her campaign but I wont give her any n money unless and until she denounces Lieberman!…and it’ll be cheaper to go to the regular theater …and then Ill feel that I must give LaMonte another donation!
Hey guys…well I’m going to try to make the 1 pm showing of the movie, it’s playing right here in the next town over. Ha, I’m actually nervous and checking the elevation of my town. 182 feet above sea level doesn’t quite save me, huh? Living on top of a hill isn’t quite the same as living on a mountain… 🙁
Who is listening to Tyger Thom and one of his standard anti-democratic guests?
Straw Man arguing guests.
From HuffPost
Now this is just pitiful :billcat:
Saw the Gore movie yesterday too. Great job making an hour long college science lecture into an entertaining movie.
Here’s what its come to: the portions showing the ice cap melting and huge land masses home to millions [in similation] being covered by the waves is far less upsetting than the re-running of footage [from Fahrenheit 911 by the way] of the Florida outrage of 2000 and Bush taking office. My wife burst into tears at this part.
And you know, sorry if there’s any floridians out there, but the part where they show Fla going underwater? I had a bit of a hard time working up any alarm over it.
The KKK are a gang of Clowns. On a par with Ann Coulter.
mr fk has been sick with food poisoning along with camera crew & others – ate some bad tuna pizza :billcat: he didn’t know it was tuna until it was too late…. where the hell do you find tuna pizza in baghdad, I wonder. :yuck: he is supposed to go out on an embed in less than 24 hours and he’s over 24 hours in to this “thing.” Hope he makes it.
i think googlemaps have topos, don’t they?…we’ll all have to check our positions! http://earth.google.com/
:rofl2:
Kat-Tuna in Baghdad…? sounds like the name of a punk rock band. It must be canned or vacume wrapped…
Ugh! I hate tuna…too much like cat food to me!
Ha! You may have something, Melina. He said it looked like sausage if that gives you any clue as to the condition of the tuna :barf:
i was invited to a toga party tonight (no, it isn’t at PJ’s dorm), but somehow it doesn’t sound fun to me. Last year the same people had a bellydance theme – THAT was fun. shimmy shimmy! i’m usually too pooped to do anything by evening anyway.
Tuna in Baghdad? Talk about Hot Tuna.
Necro-Porn, Live on CNN
Death is Patriotic
By DENNIS PERRIN
TV talking heads aren’t terribly bright, however smooth their on-air delivery. During the first Gulf War, I did a lot of shows, both national and local, and I was mildly astonished by just how stupid many of those hosts were. Of course, they were conditioned to be that way, ‘else they wouldn’t have been given access to whatever level of mass communication they occupied.
I once did a morning show in Connecticut, double-teamed by a flesh-and-blood Ken and Barbie, and tried to explain to them and their viewers why the corporate media acts as a state press during wartime (or anytime, for that matter). Glass eyes. Blank stares. I believe a tumbleweed blew across the faux living room set. They simply didn’t understand what I was talking about, even though I spoke in English, and refrained from any high falutin’ pomo rad-speak.
When I went back to the Green Room to collect my coat and satchel, their next guest, Vincent Bugliosi, author of “Helter Skelter” and the man who claims he would’ve gotten O.J. Simpson convicted, shook my hand, patted me on the back, and said, “Boy, what a couple of dopes. Wish me luck.” And off he went, game face on, to engage that dim, but finely manicured, duo. . .
Doesn’t Kevin live in Tampa ??
It Looks like he has a hurricane headed his way now..(or shortly)
http://tinyurl.com/k8dg5
I would bet the rethugs would love for all those old people to drown .. :-(:eek:
Kevin lives in St. Petersburg.
The California talkers ( KLSD KTLK) are talking about Gores movie this pm.. Having the control over these fools that we don’t seem to have I would hate to live on the flanks of an active Volcano.. Oh … some of you do .. 🙁 .. What would happen if Mr Rainier erupts ??
Isn’t St Petersburg on the west coast of the peninsula like west of Miami ?? Looks like the hurricane is going North of there but it hasn’t turned yet.
St Petersburg is actually west of Tampa on a peninsula . Keven must be glued to the weather channel.
Being on the front lines of a Hurricane is no fun
http://tinyurl.com/ecstb
VERY disturbing movie. Very well done too. Only criticsm: five minutes or so of it dedicated to solutions and what people can do (he basically just directed people to his website). I think people need more information on this given in the same entertaining manner as the rest of the movie. But in general I liked it.
The movie does a great job at helping to visualize the extent to which we affect our environment and in such a short time. Maybe there’ll be another one that focuses more on that since this one seems to be so popular.
Thanks for pointing me to Google Earth. That is a super cool site. I think if Phoenix gets flooded out it will be via the Gulf of California. 🙄
Hey Susan, you might be interested in this today.
Thanks Krista, I’ll definitely check it out!
You know June is awfully early for a tropical storm to be threatening (re: Alberto)…. of course this is just another confirmation that what I just saw in the theater is not just fiction…
Google Maps is cool its almost as good as your own spy satellite. You can find some location then switch to Aeriel photograph mode and actually see whats their.
I love Google maps. I can’t get Google Earth though, because the version it has for Mac is not the version I’m using 😥
The thugs would like you to believe that this is a normal weather cycle.. The problem is the ice hasn’t melted for 10,000 years or something.. There were not a lot of people around then..:doh: isn’t there a story of a flood or something ??:rabbi: In each instance of a global disaster their were always some species or members of a species that survived. Maybe Dinosaurs is a better name than rethugs. ( that being part of a species that didn’t survive). Unfortunately history always has had people like that so Cockroaches is probably a good description too. Now its hard to find cockroaches in Colorado so why do we have republicans ??
it’s obvious from looking at the data presented in the film that this is an unnatural occurrence and not “cyclical”. The evidence is overwhelming. Really, everyone should see this movie.
Now I seem to be getting spam from Democratic Undergound .. Sheeeez :40::omg::tongue:
There was a temperature graph that I saw some where that showed the average world temp over the last 2000 years or something and in the last 10 years it has increased almost exponentially.. That’s not cyclical.`
if it runs away we might have a big,, well enormous, well not stoppable problem.
No cockroaches in Colorado! Lucky bastards. I have lived in more than one roach hotel.
The hottest years on record, and this is going back thousands of years literally, are all within the last 14 years. All of them. And 2005 was the hottest.
When (I worked at Green Peace in the early 1990s, the researchers and spokespeople would toss out the scenario of the runaway cycle. It is frightening to imagine.
:omg:
I lived in a West Village loft apartment one summer – really upscale building too, surprisingly – with the worst roach problem I’ve ever heard of. To this day I still have nightmares about that place.
Most places in Colorado you only find roaches if you are exceptionally messy and leave corn meal or sugar or something laying around on the floor in your utilities room, I think it’s to cold in the winter time for their eggs to develop. It also kills off the adults that live outside and with natural gas prices it will probably begin to kill off those living inside too.
yeah, you know how the neocons talk about “well we had warming periods in the past” When you look at the graphs in this movie, those “warming periods” are little tiny bumps on a line graph where what is going on now and has been gaining momentum since around the 1950’s and 60’s is not only not a “bump” but about to go off the chart this year. They have to make a steeper graph.
I think in the case of that particular space it was infested because it wasn’t always apartments – maybe a decade before it had been a warehouse. And I have no idea what was in that warehouse, but I have a feeling the roaches just never were properly taken care of when the conversion to apartments began
I miss living in the Village though…:(
The graph, the graph..:omg::omg::omg:
http://usatoday.com/weather/climate/2006-05-29-alaska-globalwarming_x.htm
“drought is killing spruce…” Not only drought, but the fact that the warm weather is lasting longer (in Alaska and other areas of the north) is causing certain insects, who usually die off when cold weather comes, to destroy the trees. Since the cold weather isn’t coming as quickly, the insects have time to literally destroy the trees. They showed miles ofdevastated forests in the film.
Colorado has had a lot of beetle kill problems beginning about 15 years ago. They attributed it to the warmer winters but three years a go it was so warm all winter that we didn’t have any snow in the mountains and no water to drink and water our yards with in the summer..
One out of control camp fire caused a 350,000 acre forest fire that destroyed something like 300 homes and woke a lot of people up.
Some of the south western burbs of Denver were put under a forest fire watch with 2 hours evacuation notice.. All the California transplants panicked. You could see all the smoke and the flames at night . it was pretty scary
Fire fighting resources got strained mostly do to the realization that all the nationals guard KC130’s that they usually used for fire fighting were in IRAQ and all the private contractors planes were falling apart.
The beetle kill areas were a great boom to the people who furnish fire wood for stoves. The forest service would pay them to remove the dead stands of timber and then they could cut it up and resell it to the consumer. Due to high natural gas prices a lot of people use fireplace inserts and wood burning stoves for space heating. After the forest fires they have to go quite a distance from the city to get their wood so I would imagine the price has gone up. I use Excel energy’s not so cheap electricity for space heating but its cheaper in the winter to set the furnace back to 60 degrees and run an oil filled electric heater in the bed room at night.
Hey Kat: Do you know anything about a grass roots effort to get AAR back on the air in Atlanta similar to the one that succeeded in Phoenix.?? Some one on Laura Flanders blog asked. :peace:
The thing about processes like the weather and the warming and cooling of water is that once the process gets momentum it takes a while for changes in habit to take effect. If we were all to stop driving tomorrow, it would seem that the warming process would continue for a while. And who knows if we haven’t already gone past the point of no return with global warming.:omg:
AAR is off the air in Atlanta?? :omg::cry:
Atlanta apparently under went Fundie capture just like Phoenix did. Its just an attempt by the Reich , this time disguised as religious broadcasters, to stifle getting out the truth.:mad::eek::yuck::rant1:
Wow, it’s like a virus. If there is any effort to get AAR back on the air in Atlanta I would love to help. I spent part of my childhood in the burbs of Atlanta. Lotsa religious folk.
The rethugs didn’t change the name of Jimmy Carter Blvd did they? I used to live right off of that street.
KP your are correct about the delay between changing the input and the symptoms of the problem starting to diminish. If China becomes the global giant it looks like it will and does that with Fossil fuels it will make what ever the US does look pretty minuscule by comparison. The Chinese are sort of in the early stages of their industrial revolution and they have a lot of very bright people so they may develop the technology to out flank the problem, That might be what the US corportists are hoping so they don’t have to spend any of their cash on it.
My heart bleeds for Atlanta. Screw AAR. When are we getting Maron back on live radio. Damned if i want to give those premium whores any more of my money. I’d rather buy a satellite radio if he goes there.
Farmerkat lives in Georgia so she might be able to provide some input on these issues.. then again she lives somewhere out in the toolies so maybe not. One would think that Malloy would say something if there was anything going on the AAR’s listeners could contribute to.
The roaches in my place in Portland were these little bastards. But they got into everything. At least we don’t have a big rat problem–Leave trash, and the mf-ers will come. I have stories about rats.:omg:
Malloy was talking about the Atlanta AAR. It seems that the station had grown quite profitable. The owners, in turn, sold it to some Salvation outfit, who then got rid of the AAR programming. The South Shall Rise Again!
“toolies” :rofl2:
little bastards :omg:
our station was profitable too. But it was run by businessmen who only care for profit. Now it is run by bleeding heart liberals and it’s much better!:nod:
oh thank goodness I don’t have stories about rats. Well, not the four-legged kind…
hope we have some bleeding heart liberals here who pick up WLIB in August… :omg:
He’s Back!
Just in time for the U.S. Open, Vijay Singh broke his 21-tournament winless streak with a solid victory in the Barclays Classic on Sunday. Singh racked up his his 29th career PGA Tour, and tied Sam Snead for the most victories by a player over the age of 40 with 17.
:omg:
There are plenty of big cockroaches round my neighborhood but I have an agreement with them that I announce upon arrival to any new home. If I see them in my house THEY ARE DEAD. If I see them outside I leave them alone. I have only seen 2 or 3 in here since I’ve been here and I killed all of them with much theatrics. Thank God for privacy!
The killing of progressive stations is not new, as we all know. In the mid to late 1990s. KKEY in Portland was developing into quite an interesting local station. It had been around for decades, owned by a local family. Well, in 1998, I believe, it was sold to some corporation. All of the interesting local programming was killed for some boring business garbage type stuff. Now I believe it is a Latino station.
We have a green way about a block away so I get field mice in the house once in a while. I have never seen a rat or a cockroach in the Denver area. You get deer, bears, mountain lions and rabbits ( usually just ahead of the mountain lion) but no rats or cockroaches.
You have to be careful of the Colorado wildlife the rodents carry the bubonic plague.
well I’m just hoping that AAR finds a home in NY after August. Even if I can stream it while I’m at home, it’ll be a lonely ride to work if I can’t get AAR.
Are you listening to the conference call Susan?
I don’t think I can do that with my telephone…
i’m listening online
http://www.moveon.org/conf/presentation_av.phtml
try this
I wonder how I can ask about the cattle industry pollution.
I have the website, thanks …it says I need plug-ins, I’m attempting to get them 🙁
Hey Nicki : Flanders is talking about the Portland public financed election system with one of your city commissioners.
Al says he’s not running again.
Sheesh! how many forms of “what can we do?” can be asked of Al??
You people KNOW what to do in your personal life to reduce CO2.Why do you have to ask it over and over!
Erik Sten?
Kyoto Protocols would be a start. Rescind the charters of outlaw corporations. Start there.
Portland is a bourgeois town!
corporations are everywhere…
:omg: Measure 5. Yeah. Fascist-tinged populism. Get government off of our back.
yeah, tell me about it… wow, she’s really talking about your home state a lot
Wedge issues! Talk about corporate domination,, lady. Don’t be just another chair re-arranger on the deck of the Titantic.
Shutup, lady. What a nothing!
seems like she has her pet issues…
Do you know anything about the Populist Movement?
So, I was a little disappointed in the repetition of questions posed to Al Gore but he is offering to train people to do his slide show. He wants the message spread and here is the address to his office in Nashville to contact him about it.
Al Gore
2100 W. End Ave
Nashville, Tn 37205
He wasn’t expecting to be giving out that address but it would be cool if he got a lot of response.
Talk politics.
a bit. It’s about people’s attempt to free themselves from corporations I think
I think it’s cool that he’s expanding things so other people can present the information.
I would do it. I would host an event where those slides are shown
Did you hear the General casey double-talk on Iraqi Army readiness? Does anybody out there know the meaning of basic military technical terms?
casey said that two divisions are readyFurthermore, there are several brigades ready. Aswell as 15 or 16 battalions. What is wrong with the general’s statement? Gobble-de-gook.
I’m military stupid…but it doesn’t surprise me that he’s double talking
Battalions make up brigades. Brigades make up Divisions. (Divisions combine to corps. Corps are put under a command to make an army.) General Casey seemed to be making it look like there were more soldiers that were combat ready. It sounds like bullshit. Are there any army lifers out there who can set us straight?
Alright, um, I just bought my ticket, so I guess I’ll BE out in about a week.anyway… gotta go.
She is a con.
ok. I only know one person who is even “into” military stuff, but I’m not about to ask him
The general said something like “We have two school districts ready. There are also five schools ready, and 15 or 16 classrooms that are ready.”
Ask JoAnne Bowman about the money embezzled from the Urban League?
ok, yeah…I see what you mean…
I guess that is called a “snow job”.
that’s how politicians have been fooling people for as long as there have been politicians 🙁
JoAnne disappointed me. She is a politician. Compromise solution. I will keep shut about the embezzlement scandal.
Another fucking yoyo. Get real Oregon!
YIIIIIIIIKES!!!!!! Shut the fuck up, you jerk!:fu:
Give my state a bad name!
I guess these people are an indication of the activism at present…
Hey Travis- is it just a vacation or are you moving?
Are you going to seattle or soemthing?…I cant remember now.
you’ll have to go out and kick all their asses Nicki Rose! :omg:
Good fucking question, Laura.
Jobs! Affordable housing? Affordable health Care? How about that stuff, JB?
Bus project is lame!
World Can’t Wait! Now that is an organization!
Suz- even though I get the WLIB signal up here durnign the day, I still podcast everything. On days when I dont leave the house till 9 I can even bring the new Rachel with me and the Marc and MR from the night before…in my new car I got an ipod plug thing, but before that I used the cassette thing which I could plug my XM radio into also…but I cancelled XM because Im doing so well with Replay AV…
Also, Suz- I just put up a bird post on my blog….with a little movie too. I should be working on my real blog post in the works but have been messing around in between cleaning house and folding laundry.
Change the power imbalance that chronically exists. :omg:
I think all the people inside the beltway and city hall and country chambers think ( with some obvious exceptions) that this economy is great. Like the guy on C-span did this morning. I don’t think they listen to us.. they listen to big money and think tanks.. both seem to be WRONG
Thanks, Melina…I will look it over… 🙂 (wants bird emo really badly)…I’m really stupid about podcasting, I have no idea how to do any of that. I’m lucky I can get some of my songs in Itunes onto my IPod, I wouldn’t know how to get a radio broadcast…
Excellent question!
All you coastal people might want to consider moving inland.
Comment by Kristapea — June 11, 2006 @ 10:04 am
Is that an offer? :hubba:
But only if you get your cooling issue resolved. 😀
The latest forecast for Alberto is sending him about 150 miles north of Tampa Bay, at least. The storm is slowly disintegrating and may not even reach hurricane status.
I went to the store tonight and bought some stuff just to be on the safe side. Once I replenish the beer supply after work tomorrow, I’ll be set. We all pretty much know the drill by now.
In reference to this afternoon’s geography discussion, Krista had the most correct answer. Technically I’m not in anyone’s city limits, but I’m about 1/4 mile from the northern border of St Petersburg. My phone number is St Pete, but my mailing address is Clearwater.
Imagine that there is a giant clock in the middle of Tampa Bay. The city of Tampa is at about 3:00, the mouth of the bay is between 6:00 and 7:00, St Pete is at 8:00 and Clearwater is at 9:00. St Pete and Clearwater are on a peninsula between the Gulf and the bay, and Tampa is on the inland side of the bay.
This is probably more information than anyone needs or wants, but since it came up this afternoon, I thought I’d throw in my two cents.
Vote the corporations out.
Well I’ll be watching the forecasts, Kevin…it’s always good to be prepared, I think you’re doing the right thing (but living in Florida, I’m sure you know that!)
Stop talking in bunches,, dude!
stop lobbying…
Good luck Kevin..I hope it craps out it might threaten most any where on the eastern seaboard or it might stay out to sea and do nothing but make rain.
I think the comment about moving inland was in reference to global warming. The NOAA model had the oceans rising 70 feet in places.
Art Spiegelman!:omg:
All today’s generals do is bark orders and let the Captain and the lieutenant figure out what in the H* he is taking about. They are almost an exact parallel to General Managers and CEO’s.
❓
as soon as this show is over, I’m listening to that tape again 🙂
At first it appears to be totally black, but upon close examination reveals the silhouettes of the World Trade Center towers in a slightly darker shade of black. Spiegelman states that his resignation from The New Yorker was to protest the “widespread conformism” in the United States media. Spiegelman is a sharp critic of the administration of President George W. Bush and claims that the American media has become “conservative and timid”.
:omg:
Spiegelman gave a plug on the air for the Nation Magazine.
yeah, that sounds like him…
What tape?
oh I see, ok…I missed that.
some mysterioius thing I got in the mail that I’ve been playing…:cool:
Nicki’s rehearsal tapes self destruct after 24 hours ?? ( Fred plays Mission Impossible music)
well, no, but there is a secret code hidden in there, and I’m trying to figure it out :love::alc::nod:
see I got my tape player to play backwards, and I’m getting strange messages about the whereabouts of a missing rock star somewhere in the state of New Jersey :tongue::shock::tinfoil:
:omg:We are under a hairy thunderstorm warning .. its making threatening noises outside.:eek::yuck: quick :bow: to the fire god.
Susan: you should have never played that tape backwards the gods are angry..about 3000 miles out of sync but angry.
I don’t really get the “hairy” part of that…
The people who developed this technology for the Mission Impossible folks obviously never tested it in the real world before it was released. Its also about 20 years old .. maybe it needs calibration.
If you think that the last tape was boxy, you should hear the latest. Do you like the attempted flute (recorder) solo?
I like what I heard, yeah
:40: Just made a beer run. So, yeah, I think I’m moving to Seattle with just two bags of clothes and the creative zen vision:m. I’m not really sure about what I’ll be doing once I’m there though, or even if I’ll be going on that trip in Nov. Oh, but I think for sure I’ll be going to Metolius on the 26th. Anyway, I’m tired of the low sixties and I hope that it’s bit warmer around the sound.
Our thunderstorms are like a big hairy ape coming after you . It gets so dark you have to turn on your head lights then FLASH Ker BOOM. The worst part is when it goes Ker BOOM then you see the FLASH. Then you call the roofer perhaps right after you call the fire department
Good luck with the move, Travis…
Supposed to be nicer starting next weekend travisdem.
Too bad you will miss the Solstice parade…it would be an eyeopener for you:omg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_naked_cyclists_of_the_Summer_Solstice_Parade
Thanks, Susan.:alc:
OH!!!!!:omg: I remember being there one year and there was a gay pride parade with naked people! Most were painted though, I think. I didn’t really see anything, only what was on the local news about the event.:smack:
summer solstice celebration…how very pagan of them 🙂 :pent:
Wow! Anchortown would call the national guard if something like that happened here, Sbluefox:cool:
Back in DC. Whoopdie-doo.
:banana:
I want to say “welcome back” but I don’t think that’s exactly how you feel, PJ… (glad you had a safe trip?) :omg:
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
Hello any and all.
PJ hope you are safely back in DC.
Melina I enjoyed Tweet4 Dog Pack Standoff.
I spent Friday night in a local hospital with abdominal pain that got much better after they gave me some IV anti nausea drugs and antibiotics to treat a nasty urinary infection. So as soon as I got home yesterday I downloaded the torrent and had a nice commercial-free listen to Friday’s TMMS
I’m :40:lots of WATER and watching DVDs of movies I missed.
A good week to all.
I’m just:40: some http://www.alaskanbeer.com/ and some Napa Valley Merlot. Oh, and I keep dropping my keyboard:doh:
OK, I didn’t mean to ruin the flow. Later peeps
Well, on the plus side, I was able to reconfigure things so that I can connect to my home computers, and (more importantly) also to my DVArchive web server, so I can download my ReplayTV recordings. Which means I ought to be able to watch Deadwood tomorrow night. I also got my RMA’d TV thingie, so I can now watch TV on one thing and record something else. It’s good for keeping my brain occupied so I can forget where I am.
Lizz Winstead fans take note. Her latest show which she produced but was hosted by Connie and Maury just got AXED by MSNBC after 6 months on the air. At least Unfiltered lasted longer than that!
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/exclusive_msnbc_axes_maury_connie_38278.asp
I listened to this show on my XM and although I thought it OK but nowhere as good as Unfiltered, I really wondered how a once a week, on a weekend, show that was just half an hour long could make it. With commercials it seemed like they talked for about 15 minutes.
Hope this frees up Lizz to do something in which she can appear on-air herself or find the good talent. Face it, Connie and Maury are not natural-born comedians.
:eek::joe: earlier than 3 AM today… nobody around
Well I survived the attack by the thunderstorm god
A lot of the storms produce verga which are moisture strings that trail out of the clouds that rarely reach the ground. As the storms build during the pm the verga sometimes get longer and longer and then start rotating as it gets darker and darker and noisier and noisier. The verga trails make them look like they have hair hence a hairy thunderstorm. Then the weather radio goes off when the NWS issues a severe thunder storm watch, then a warning then a tornado watch and occasionally a warning.. Some how you are supposed to just go to sleep and know intuitively which blast from the weather radio announces what warning/alert. I think I liked it better when the CD sirens came on in the middle of the night when the tornado watch and then again when the tornado warning was issued. Generally the the thunderstorms pretty well announce themselves.