Well, what’s in store for us this week? On Press the Meat, Timmy the Potatohead (did you know, watching him is only “half the experience?”) has the dick from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, plus an increasingly disappointing Chuck Schumer. Then it’s a discussion on just how free a free press should be with, get this, Bill “Double or Nothing” Bennett, John Harwood (prick from the WSJ), Bill Safire (retired prick from the NY Times), and token press person Dana Priest, who reported on the US’s secret gulags around the world.
On Faze the Nation, Bush buddy Bobby has Bill Keller from the NY Times on to grovel and seek forgiveness, plus faux moderate who can be counted on to talk sorta kinda tough, but always willing to roll over and take it for his pal dubya, Arlen Specter, along with Carl Levin.
On CNN’s Late Emission mit Wolf Blitzer, it’s Republican asshole and anti-free speech douchebag Peter King, on with Barney Frank. Then we’ll see whether or not Shimon Peres and Saeb Erakat strangle each other. Next up, it’s NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, and then Tony Orlando. Really? Tony Orlando? OK, well, that’s nice (trivia time: Telma Hopkins – half of Dawn, or one third of TO and Dawn, I guess – is the person who says, “shut your mouth,” after Isaac Hayes sings about Shaft being a “bad mother…”). Oh, and whoever books for CNN apparantly fucked up and booked Sy Hersh; maybe he’ll smack Wolfie upside the head.
This Weak with George Snufalufagus has fake moderate and enemy of the Internet, John McCain, plus fake Democrat, Dianne Feinstein. At the roundtable, it’s fake liberal and mental midget Joe Klein, Cokie “Sea Hag” Roberts, and, he doesn’t just play a Republican schmuck on TV, he’s one in real life, too: former Senator Fred Thompson. Plus, Mia Farrow on UNICEF’s fight for the world’s children (she should get Woody involved; he’s got a warm spot for the kids).
Over at Fux News, “Fuxface” Wallace has Lindsey “Poof” Graham, plus Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, on to talk about how this week’s ruling by the Supreme Court really isn’t gonna change a fucking thing at Gitmo. Plus, I guess Michael Griffin really gets around, since he’ll stop by to talk some shuttle, and what’s up next for NASA.
Later, on 60 Minutes, it’s the first man on the moon (assuming it wasn’t all a hoax, of course), Neil Armstrong (who doesn’t say much, so this might be worth watching). Then, Bob Simon interviews – believe it or not – Elian Gonzalez, who’s 11 now. :jerk: And Lara Logan talks about how the US “took back” Tal Afar from Al Qaeda. I guess.
There’s a new episode of Deadwood on tonight, plus new (I think) episodes of the 4400 and The Dead Zone.
Have a good Sunday.
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good morning/evening/whatever
:tinfoil:I think all the reporters took the weekend off..
Cencom /NORAD/Space command seems to be on a elevated state of alert as of Thursday some time
The thought was a toilet probably overflowed .. but..
http://www.krdotv.com/displaystory.asp?id=11449
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:fist::banana::omg:YEA Fred #1 YEA:omg::banana::fist:
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:banana::banana::banana: Its DRUID :banana::banana::banana:
:yawn::yawn: C-span has the Paulson conformation hearing on .. He is a thugbot.. bald head, beady eyes ..small glasses :tinfoil: He apparently has a malfunction in his optical processor..:yawn::yawn::joe::joe:
Today is election day in Mexico.. Karl apparently went on a consulting mission.. pray for a wide margin..:no::omg::joe::eek::joe::yuck::joe::crap:
It was bad enough seeing the Judices talking points, but then it turned into a Black Tie and Tux affair for the “retiring” Prime Minister of Japan, then turned into a “beautifully catered” luncheon — all explained by Mrs. Slime bush, then I ended the feed after Stray Cats’ Strut :billcat:
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= taking a vacation of C-SPAN for a lil bit.:doh::no:
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Sean: Live in fear…:omg:
* “Interstate System Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Pilot Program” allows the tolling of existing interstate highways, bridges, and tunnels to fund repair of existing highways.
* “Interstate System Construction Toll Pilot Program” authorizes tolling existing facilities on the interstate system to fund new interstate highways.
* “Value Pricing Pilot (VPP) Program” allows new tolls on existing toll free facilities such as high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, tolls on new lanes added to existing highways, and electronically collected variable tolls on existing and new toll facilities.
* “Express Lanes Demonstration Program” allows tolling to finance new lanes. Automatic toll collection is REQUIRED and revenue collected may be used to provide a reasonable rate of return on PRIVATE financing, operation, and maintenance costs.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/safetealu/factsheets/tolling.htm
Gas prices skyrocket and now they are going to charge you to drive to work too..I wonder if they will have a scale to weight the big trucks and a machine that accepts American Express only.:eek::yuck::yawn::joe::joe:
Gaza power plant hit by Israeli air strike is insured by US agency
WASHINGTON — The Palestinian power plant bombed by Israeli forces Tuesday is insured by a US government agency, and US officials say they expect American funds to be used to pay for the damage
but
But paying a claim on the plant, which was insured for $48 million, could prove problematic for the United States, which cut off funding for all infrastructure projects in the Palestinian territories after the militant group Hamas won legislative elections in January.
Administration officials said the restrictions on working with a Hamas-led government could further complicate the repair of the electric facility, which could take weeks, if not months, to fix because of the escalating violence in Gaza.
http://tinyurl.com/g6q8h
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Grasp left rear pocket and yell loudly..Or maybe they could get China to repair it and save all the markups by the middle men. :eek::yuck::crap::joe::joe:
Federal agencies reportedly tracking activists
California officials condemn DHS practice of listing rallies in intel briefings
Updated: 8:21 p.m. MT July 1, 2006
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s anti-terror office said Saturday that it has never monitored the activities of political groups in California, denying a newspaper report that it had tracked rallies and protests.
Matthew Bettenhausen, director of the state Office of Homeland Security, said consultants had twice included upcoming political events in a daily security briefing they were developing, but they were told to stop the practice.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13662497/
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The Bushes must have missed there June Payoff
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Flyby blogging. Fred, congrats on #1.
Enjoy the Sunday. Mine was spent at the multiplex. (There’s air conditioning and salty popcorn, what more could I ask.)
Night. :40:
re #9 it has never monitored the activities of political groups in California, denying a newspaper report that it had tracked rallies and protests.
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morning! kudo’s Fred!
this was a bit helpful regarding Mexico’s election:
Tom Hayden: Mexico’s Presidential Front-Runner May Roil U.S. Conservatives
=> think the cia would let Obrador actually win?
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at the airport last night, my son said, look mom, and pointed at the tarmac. A large box, clearly a coffin, with a large American flag over it was being towed in a three-sided luggage trailer. A man in military uniform was riding next to the driver of the tractor. It was so sad to think that we are not allowed to give our soldiers the respect they deserve when they come home in coffins. I told my mom and I remarked that that was somebody’s child. Mom said, those children are our children, not just someone else’s. We should all be honoring each and everyone as such. :gate:
Farmerkat :wink::cool:
THX for Link re #12
…and Blessings:gate:
it’s nice to be on the blog with you, druid! :love:
we usually pass in the night!
and on a much lighter note… (wish there were pictures!)
here’s a “new” sport for you! wonder if there was an american team?
Farmerkat, Cheers (with tea) :alc: …from “the other ship” 😎
…and what can I say except I also wish there were pictures and…:omg::rofl2::omg: :wink::rofl2:
fred, Here’s to a WIDE Margin :alc: – tea:joe:and margarita later :banana:
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(wish I could have a margarita – they make my head spin) 😮
P.S. melina: So I asked the teenager if because I asked you to please not bring home a rethug as your significant other when you get older, will that make you bring one home? He said, no, I don’t really like them either. :love: :rofl2: :nixon:
Farmerkat :banana::rofl2::banana:
:mad:stupid ass weather!
SeanMS, Where are you now? Bad, Bad Weather :fu:
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:yawn::cool::banana:SciFi Sunday afternoon
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G’Night, G’Day To One and To All:wink:
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good morning sheeple :sheep::jesus:
Good Morning
The French historian Robert Muchembled has chronicled the changing attitudes towards execution in Europe from the 15th to the 18th centuries. In certain times and places, we may discern a desire for exacting vengeance on the condemned in the cruelest and most painful way possible. At other moments, the criminal is accompanied to his death by throngs of weeping nuns, who sprinkle him with holy water, and whisper to him reassuringly of God’s love and of the promise of redemption, and who ensure that death arrives both swiftly and gently. Yet the more compassion is showered on the condemned, the more his death takes on the character of a human sacrifice: the pagan Greeks wept too as they led bulls to the altar, though they refrained from offering fellow humans for the appeasement of their gods. One may be touched by the nuns’ compassion, yet wouldn’t true compassion require simply canceling the whole affair? You can sprinkle a man’s path to the injection table with rose petals, but he will hate it just as much as a gauntlet of jeers. The problem with execution is the death that results from it, not the etiquette of those who carry it out.
we still have a long way to go in this society regarding our attitudes toward punishment and putting people to death.
We abolished slavery. We can abolish capital punishment, too.
I agree, and we’re making progress, but I’m just saying we have some ways still to go. Other countries are more progressive in this regard than we are. 9/11 set a lot of people back, too, it seemed to bring out the idiotic “eye for an eye” mentality in a lot of people here…
Ha. We just changed the way slavery works, so the master no longer has to pay to feed, house, and clothe the slaves.
Good morning everyone!
Pj- thanks for the rundown…and
is hysterical and oh so true!
I actually saw Mia Farrow and her gang of teenagerly kids in the city the other night on my mildly starfilled night of sorta not fun with my sister…Mia was just going from a building to a limo with all of these kids.
I was walking along sweating with sister and looking for starbucks and venue…it was so humid and my stomach was sweating by then so I didnt care much when sister pointed out farrow and crew to me though I did get to see who we think is Woody’s natural kid with her.
la-dee-dah…
Fred- why do you think the bravo plus?? Its seems strange that they are scrubing launches and talking weather (with Cheney there, no less) and putting those guys way the hell up there on bravo plus.
Can they protect from the weather? Or maybe its the huge asteroid that plummeting its way towards earth right now….
God, everything is just so iffy these days.
Kat, but do the teens know why the do much of anything? I know that Will doesnt like Rethugs either and he wont ever last without someone very sharp intellecutally, which maybe could be mary matalin or coulter, but likely isnt his type….
I think hes gonna go for the blonde booby girls at first. Hopefully he can find some smart ones…
Im really not looking forward to that whole thing…and hope that I will be able to build a new houise out back by then because this hose is too damned small for giggly girls and me to fit.
We are on countdown to surgery and very very worried…at least he sorta slept last night…but its not gonna be easy…
I have to rearrange his room today and get things ready.
Hes got a friend coming over with airsoft guns and I believe that they are gonna try to shoot eachother’s eyes out!
If they close Guantanamo where are they gonna put the prisoners? Someone on TV just said to send the m to other countries where they can torture them legally and secretly…
At least at Guantanamo we know where they are and are watching their treatment while we try to get them processed. If they mill them out the poor guys will never get any sort of help.
These guys all need lawyers.
Considering how few of them are actually proven combatants….I cant even imagine how one lives through the fallout from so many yaers of false imprisonment and inhumane treatment.
Suz- I was thinking that too when at the end of Capote they hung the guy. It was so brutal and the whole thing just left so many open questions….what did it serve as opposed to life without parole? I thought it was a very good scene in its starkness and brutality.
I can’t really imagine this Supreme Court ruling changing anything. This administration doesn’t feel that the law – any law – pertains to them. The Congress backs them up, out of fear or greed or lust for power or whatever it is they thingk they’re getting out of this. If Bush breaks the law, they’ll ignore it, until such time as the law is changed to suit them.
zanax is a WONDERFUL pre-surgery drug, in my book. I’d never have gotten to the hospital without it, given my severe case of white-coat syndrome. :omg:
my teenager thus far has brought home some very nice girls. Good Omen. Will it last? he is too bright for his own good, though. he’s a teen going on 30. I think I went to law school just to have the resources to raise him.
mr fk is making fried chicken with country gravy (he took packets from the US) and mash potatoes as one crew is leaving and a new one is coming in – party time!. I think that sounds disgusting given the heat and it’s meat and ……he said everyone is really excited to have a good ‘ole country american dinner – 30 people he’s cooking for,
water around here is becoming scarce. the resevoir in town is at least 10 feet low; I was shocked to see it this a.m. we’re on a well. please make it hold…. :gate:
nickirose – who wrote this?
I’m fed up with MTP. someone like MoveOn should put together a list of Russert’s sponsors – they can’t all be huge government contractors who are impervious to boycotts. There have to be some consumer products in there. They should be inundated with complaints about this disgusting show – every freakin’ week, the right wing bias is blatant. I can’t stand to watch it anymore. I would argue that Russert is 20 times more helpful to Bush than Fox, because the zombies who watch Fox can’t be effected either way, while Russert’s audience includes independents and liberals, and many of them are unaware that they are being propagandized.
What happens to these phony former Pat [“sure I’ll have another”] Moynihan “liberals” like Russert and Tweety Bird that they turn into such effective and shameless hacks for Karl Rove?
What a great balance on today’s show: Safire [Nixon’s original self-hating Jew], Harwood, and Father Bennett, ‘balanced’ by Dana Priest. Did you ever ask Priest a question on her WaPo chats? She’s no liberal – she assured me that there won’t be any permanent US military bases in Iraq, because, uh, well, there just won’t be any, that’s why. She’ll be quite polite to her elders today, I’m sure.
:mad:stupid connection i keep losing it every time i try to post something!
PJ => the blog needs some tweaking – numbers have started over! did I do something wrong on my last post?
SEANIE – is that why we haven’t seen your pretty face around here lately?
Cresttwo = i can’t watch mtp anymore; too afraid i’ll destroy the tv.
:banana:hey im number 1!
Oh, we didn’t use our blockquotes correctly. :no:
Interestingly, it only screwed it up in IE – in FireFox, it was just fine.
Sorry Sean – now you’re 37. Don’t worry, I wouldn’t mind being 37 again.
I thought this was interesting, and illustrates why I stay the hell away from iTunes (as well as MS or anybody else’s DRM or proprietary formats). Give me the CD (or the FLAC) and let me encode it in Ogg or mp3 or whatever format I want, at whatever bitrate I decide is best, to play it on whatever device(s) I want. Sometimes I think they forget we’re paying for this shit. So iTunes, MS, and Dianne Feinstein can all kiss my ass, damnit.
Hey guys…has anyone read frank rich today? Its fabulous!…up on ripcoco now
Yeah, I read it earlier. Good column, as usual.
Pj- I use itunes mainly to rip cds into for my ipod. I have only bought one or two CDs from them but now that you tell me this, I think I will still e getting my CD’s in CD form and using iTunes as a platform.
Also, if anyone else is ever switching computers or some such and is looking to loose their music on their ipods, talk to me first…there is a way (which I will type up as soon as I can and PJ can post in the files here) to put your songs from your ipod onto another computer. Im not sure about switching formats from PC to Mac but Ill check that. I found it in a book and it enables ipod users to access their files and put them into another computer.
Ive heard of 2 people in the past week who lost everything due to a computer switch…one did also because her sone messed with her itunes with his ipod and somehow erased everything….
eeekkkkk….
I always have preferred to have an LP in my hands…second choice has to be CD I guess…but a piece of plastic will do.
My LPs got ruined in all the floods….so sad.
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assume it was me, i typed my own blockquotes just to try it…guess I’ll stick with the no-brainer method. I’m using Safari, though.
ummm, PJ, what’s DRM? I know now not to buy itunes music but how do I know whether the music has this drm or not at time of purchase?
air so hot & contaminated that I’m now “In” for the rest of the day. It’s inhuman to have to hide in the summertime.
this is excellent on the Hamdan case.
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Generally, it means that the stuff you bought is only capable of being played on “authorized” equipment. Usually, you can have it on more than one device (iTunes, for example, will allow you to copy to an unlimited number of computers, but only five can be authorized to play them at any given time). So, you would have to deauthorize one in order to authorize another. Assuming whatever runs the license management system is working, of course, and the device you want to use is capable of playing the format (and is compatible with that particular DRM scheme).
Its unbelievable how many people visit my blog from all around the world and the search words that get them there…I have one today from Doha Qatar who came in on a google search of Arab Girls Pictures…which might be in there somewhere from may back, but I wouldnt remember where….
I also get alot from Technorati.
Its just interesting to see how far and wide this stretches, even if they arent returning visitors, of which I seem to have few, except that it has to do with cookies dropped at hourly intervals, so it might not mean much at all.
I may have posted Rich too soon though because I seem to be the only one…uh-oh…just call me a target.
The interesting thing is that in the google blog search that brought the person in using his name alone, there is another blog post saying how important Rich’s column is today but how unfair that it is the thing that is walled off on the NYTimes site. Thats true…why do they choose the important things to not allow out there and is it worth the $ that they are making on select or whatever…its like AAR and their dumbo membership. At least release the shows at some point later on so that people can check them out!
But what if you rip the CD to a disc and give it to a friend? They have to name each song etc…you dont get the cool ability of information on each track, but isnt it free and clear by then?
Well, iPods can play mp3’s, right? I personally wouldn’t rip a CD to aac – I’d use mp3 (or Ogg, which my player can do). I have at least five programs (probably more, if I look around) that will take a cd, recognize it, and rip the tracks to mp3. Even get the album art, if there was some reason I needed to do that. Replay Music will even capture streaming music and analyze it on the fly to figure out what song it is (gets it right at least 90% of the time; pretty amazing).
I’m I correct in assuming that iTunes will allow you to rip to mp3 or other formats?
Sure, you get the info for each track, assuming you make an mp3 (or other similar format) CD.
I don’t see why AAR doesn’t make an on-demand stream of the shows available for a week or something so that people can listen to shows they missed – especially for people who can’t get it from a terrestrial radio station. They could still have their commercials and their godawful jazzac, and make it so people can’t easily skip it. But I reckon that would cut into the premium service. I wonder how they’re making out with that? If it’s at least paying for the bandwidth they need to provide it.
Im sure that the premium forecasts are that it will take X years to break even. I cant imagine that so many people have signed up…but I guess that charging for this stuff is the wave of the future. It just doesnt make sense unless you have a huge following. Look, Ricky Gervais didnt charge till he was the most downloaded in the world.
Yeah, iTunes lets you do all that stuff. I think that in the beginnning it was all locked up but that they had to release it because people were mad….just like the battery thing. I hate that they are so precious at apple…really cant stand them.
AAr is too busy trying to kill itself to do anything logical…Im hoping that they havent screwed Marc…but maybe he could get an HBO show or something better than this. Hes really put up with alot of shit.
They sem to have handled everything badly…Poor Jeaneane has become the whipping boy for the whole left and now Sam might even be screwed…he said that they werent talking to eachother….I have a very bad feeling that things might be going south.
If so, what then? My life was so crappy before AAR.
How can we go back to no national liberal outlet?
Hey Lamonte and Lieberman are finally gonna debate this month. I have to figure out how to save it on my computer (its on WVIT ch. 30, though you’d think that it would be a nationally televised debate, really, considering how its gonna serve to warn these DINOS and liberal Repugs about their jobs being in deep doo-doo….)
I have to go to Lamonte’s place tomorrow and get some signage….7PM Thursday.
think anyone can access this article.
A Sweetener With a Bad Rap
I find it interesting that
she writes the following but never follows it through. the lack of hormone production is precisely what is at issue. She also doesn’t talk about diabetes and hfcs at all.
oh, if you could see the diagram of how this crap is made, you’d laugh at it being called, “natural.” multi-nationals in control of our food.
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you use to be able to access Rich via the international herald tribune starting Sat. without being part of NYT Select; but they caught on to that a while ago.
after losing all my music (before melina kindly offered a fix) I almost always try to download from CD’s. guess i had discovered one way around the issue without realizing the nuts & bolts of it.
Yeah, well, they were paying $4 grand a month for bandwidth to provide the podcasts at AA Place, so if they’re getting anything, it’s more than they got before. Plus if less people are subscribing than were downloading for free, they’ll need less bandwidth, which will save a few bucks.
here’s the clip of the mtp round table.
Also looks like the next attempt at distraction is social security again.
The problem with execution is the death that results from it, not the etiquette of those who carry it out.
Justin E. H. Smith
ok party time :alc:
RE:54
thats such a sad statement….4 grand is nothing to a national network with offices in Manhattan…if its losing money then its a writeoff.They have jumped into premium too quickly and at the very peril of the station.
For a generation now, workers have been asked to make sacrifices to gain security in a future that never comes. Corporations on the other hand have gotten pretty much everything they’ve asked. Isn’t is about time that we have a national discussion on the amazing disconnect between the remarkable economic success of the American economy we hear so much about and the argument that workers must lower their expectations? The corporations have gotten what they asked for and haven’t delivered. Isn’t it their credibility that we should be focusing on, not workers trying to hang on to what they have? What is it about how our society is structured-how power is allocated and priorities set-that has led to technology being another threat to our well-being instead of a liberating force?
Isn’t is about time that we have a national discussion on the amazing disconnect between the remarkable economic success of the American economy we hear so much about and the argument that workers must lower their expectations?
All those statistics about a great economy seem out of touch with reality. The stats don’t measure the right things