A little bit early today, but what the hell….
Just in case you haven’t gotten the Marc mail yet:
Hey, Folks-
I am taping a Comedy Central Presents half hour stand up special 8PM on August 27th at the Hudson Theater in NYC. If you are going to be in the vicinity and would like to come to the taping you can go to:
http://www.ocatv.com/schedule.php?
show_id=26&event_id=2819To get some free tickets. Hope to see you there.
Thanks,
Maron
Anyhow, I have a lot to do today, but if I get it all done, I can leave tomorrow morning. If I can’t, well, then I’l have to go in again on Friday, and leave after work. I’d much, much, much rather leave and drive during the day, so I guess I better get going and get this shit over with. See ya.
:mad:im not number 1!
Well, just when I thought the world and everything in it sucked, they run a news story about a 90 year old lady living in an apartment w/o an air conditioner. Her neighbors called the cops (who said it was about 110 degrees in there), who actually showed up with a brand new window a/c, and installed it for her. The look on that woman’s face (and the two smiling DC cops, drenched in sweat from dragging the thing up the stairs and putting it in the window) was enough to restore your faith in humans again. As long as you don’t look at the rest of the news.
NEW YORK – It’s not a term economists toss about lightly, but signs of slowing growth and rising inflation in the U.S. economy have some using the “S” word: stagflation.
Combining the words stagnation and inflation, the term is used to describe periods of rising prices and a stalled economy. While the United States is far from the last severe episode of stagflation in the 1970s, when major economies were dogged by deep recessions and double-digit inflation, many economists are getting nervous.
“I think we could be headed for something like ‘stagflation lite”‘ said Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at New York University and principal at the consultancy Roubini Global Economics. “We’re going to have a recession for sure, based on the shocks that are hitting the economy — including higher oil and commodities prices, rising rates and a slump in housing.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14153846/
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This is what happens when you start a war and then stay in power to long.. It catches up with you..Carter inherited RayGuns failed policies .. but it was all Carters fault.. :gate::omg::jason::fist:
:fustrate:is it working?
:tinfoil:theyre coming to take me away ha ha!
Stephen Colbert would be very proud of Barney.
:rofl2:
Wookey Hole. Sounds like something Chewbacca’s proctologist would specialize in.
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGG Its Thursday already :yuck::yuck::yuck:
Apparently they just had an earth quake in the mid 3 magnitude in the Portland area.. Mother Nature is angry .. live in fear.:eek::joe::joe::joe:
Link to the WSJ’s Middle East News page
http://tinyurl.com/epu8o
Re#2 ‘scuse me, Fred, but I believe RayGun (1981-89) came AFTER Carter(1977-81) , not betore:tongue:
Gerry Ford was Prez before Carter. Carter inherited Nixon/Ford shit.:doh:
:priest:take that blog demon!
carter was my first president!
From the WSJ
11:00 p.m.: WSJ’s Karby Leggett and Jay Solomon report. The Middle East war intensified as Hezbollah fired more than 200 rockets into Israel, some hitting as far south as the West Bank. Israeli troops, meanwhile, made their deepest penetration into Lebanon, snatching Hezbollah operatives stationed in the Bekaa Valley, near Syria. A look at how Hezbollah has developed as a military and political force shows why Israel has been having a more difficult time than it expected in driving the group out of southern Lebanon. And it also shows how tough the road will be to permanently disarming Hezbollah and promoting long-term stability in Lebanon. More.
9:30 p.m.: WSJ’s Karby Leggett reports. As Israel and Hezbollah engage in expanding ground combat in Lebanon, they are also battling, in a region now saturated with satellite television and Internet access, to secure their image as the Middle East’s most fearsome force. How the two sides fare will shape the perception of victor and vanquished in the postwar period. It will also help decide if the crown jewel of Israeli military doctrine — deterrence by way of overwhelming military force — emerges from the conflict intact, or if Hezbollah manages to raise doubts about that.
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A bunch of insurgents with big bottle rockets may defeat a modern military force .. wait until the other 1.6 billion Muslims get a handle on this..:gate::omg::jason::fist::fist::fist:
Re #3 –:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Poor Barney — He must have been s-o-o-o-o bored having to guard all those bears who were probably NO fun at all. Or, they may have started talking to him and telling him to kill-kill-kill. Kind of like Son of Sam. Well, sounds like he needs to find another line of work. That’s what you get when you leave the dog to guard the bear house.:roll::eek:
Siggy, however, is perfect:love::nod: and would never, ever dream of ripping the head off a bear. Except maybe if it had a squeaker in it.:ear:
Well, that stuffed Panda of my mom’s lasted for quite a while, but he eventually decided to settle down and eviscerate it.
OOPS you are right Granny..I listen to Hartman to much where everything is RayGuns fault..it was Nixon who spent all the money … unable to find any buyers for US T-bills Carter printed money..caused 8% inflation for three years in a row. RayGun fixed that by getting his congress to authorize selling T-bills to foreign governments. :rant1::yuck:
Yep, Carter came after Ford, and before Reagan.
There was very high inflation under Ford. Anybody got a WIN button (Whip Inflation Now)?
working yet?
🙁 blogs not working for me!
Of course, I barely remember Ford, since I was just a child. 😐
Actually, the Carter/Reagan/Anderson election was my first presedential election (I was 20). I voted for Anderson (which I actually kinda regret now).
M$RNC’s headline Reads Chris Weakens but the article says
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Tropical Storm Chris weakened slightly as it swept through the eastern Caribbean early Thursday, dumping rain on the Virgin Islands and prompting tourists to flee Puerto Rico’s east coast.
A hurricane watch was in effect for the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, meaning hurricane conditions with winds of at least 74 mph were possible there by late Thursday.
At 2 a.m. EDT the storm was centered about 115 miles north-northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was moving west at near 11 mph. Meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center said they expected little change in strength during the next 24 hours.
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Hummm.. It turned from a strong tropical storm into a weak Hurricane..:eek::yuck:
Wait’ll it gets into the Gulf. All that warm water should give it some zip.
WAYYA, Lebanon, Aug. 2 – There were no cars in the winding streets of this southern Lebanese village. Not many people, either. The signs of life were the buzz of Israeli surveillance drones overhead and, below, a gaggle of Hezbollah loyalists, sitting in a small storefront along an abandoned street. There was a walkie-talkie, bottles of water and, according to the half-dozen or so men, patience.
“We are waiting,” said Jamal Nasser, a burly man in civilian clothes. “We are here, and we’re not going anywhere.”
Three weeks into its war with Israel, Hezbollah has retained its presence in southern Lebanon, often the sole authority in devastated towns along the Israeli border. The militia is elusive, with few logistics, little hierarchy and less visibility. Even residents often say they don’t know how the militiamen operate or are organized. Communication is by walkie-talkie, always in code, and sometimes messages are delivered by motorcycle. Weapons seem to be already in place across a terrain that fighters say they know intimately.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14156111/
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But.. but.. but.. Israel has the most potent army in the middle East .. It can not be defeated.. its is all run by the same computers the US military uses nothing can go wrong .. go wrong ..go wrong ..go wrong .. go wrong..goo.wwwrrroonng .. go.wr.. go .. g ( insert emo of large explosion here)
:tinfoil:the blog hates me!
You know, if they’d stop excluding people who ever smoked a little dope, they might be able to come up with something better.
:fustrate:work damn you!
For every computer oriented security measure there is a room full of hackers.
nothing can go wrong .. go wrong ..go wrong ..go wrong .. go wrong..goo.wwwrrroonng .. go.wr.. go .. g ( insert emo of large explosion here) .. Remember this explosion occurs in your hip pocket.. OUCH..:gate::omg:
Yeah but shit, at least encrypt the data, and make them work at it a little. I mean, especially when you’re using radio. RFID chips maybe don’t supposedly have much range, but I’ll bet somebody will (if they haven’t already) come up w/ a receiver that can pick them up from a distance. I know they’ve already managed to show that the proprietary encryption they use on cars and on the Exxon/Mobil SpeedPass is crap (one of the things I learned in security class is to always use the publicly available encryption algorithms; right now, AES is basically uncrackable, given a decent sized key length – unless you have a few million years). Of course, they’ll crack that eventually, but it ought to take them a while.
:40:work dam you!
Of course, I barely remember Ford, since I was just a child.
Comment by pjsauter — August 3, 2006 @ 5:51 am
Nice try. Your leisure suit and gold medallion gave you away. :rofl2:
Wait’ll it gets into the Gulf. All that warm water should give it some zip.
Comment by pjsauter — August 3, 2006 @ 5:54 am
Actually, if it doesn’t change course very much, it should peter out before it gets to the Gulf. The Atlantic water isn’t warm enough to maintain its strength, and it doesn’t dare run through Cuba while Fidel is still sort of alive.
Point, click, drive.
:banana::banana::banana:
Well, that’s it then. Global Warming is all a hoax.
The problem with most RFID devices is the micro watt power output .. You can’t put a rechargeable battery in them and they have to have a certain life expectancy and are volume limited..
The FHWA was developing a project jointly with DARPA to put road side transponders on major roadways that would take a snap shot of the cars speed..and other “things” Each car would have a RF network device as part of their engine control computer. One of the other things it would do is to allow the police to push a button and stop the engines on every car in a range of 5 miles. The auto makers shot the program down because they said if the consumer found out about it they would stop buying new cars.:eek::eek::yuck:
Yeah, coming of age during that time kinda sucked. The only places to go look at females were the discos, and I just couldn’t deal with that shit. Fortunately, I was able hook up with the folks listening to Pink Floyd, the Dead, Little Feat, that kinda stuff. Plus I started getting in to jazz and the blues. The plastic “me” generation that Reagan spawned was really shit, and we’re still feeling the ramifications.
Actually, the passive RFID chips don’t require an internal power supply. The incoming RF signal provides the power (one reason they need to be close up to the reader). The semi-passive ones have small power supplies that last a long time. Active ones have batteries that last for years, and much greater range (and of course, much larger size).
:crap:Well I have to commence to think about getting my s* together for the Thursday morning meeting 😮
Blog with ya all later..
Have fun Fred. There’s nothing I love more than meetings, except maybe having my front teeth drilled w/o Novocaine (I just can’t watch that part of Marathon Man).
Hopping Thursday around here! :yinyang:
pj- I thought you said you had to get work done! I hope all your informative posts don’t stall you from driving Friday morning.
Have a safe drive. :fire:
One Day Left Before The Unification Occurs.:banana:
(PJ and RAGING Granny:wink:)
Greetings All:banana:
:nod:still not working!
Druid what’s going on there? All US news here is Mel Gibson. :barf:
This sounds familiar.
Tomorrow it’s going to cool down back there ❗ There’s No Place Like Home :banana::banana::nixon::omg::hubba::jesus::bow::40::bong:
On #
Well, that’s it then. Global Warming is all a hoax.
Comment by pjsauter — August 3, 2006 @ 7:06 am
In China they have 200k majoring in Alternative Energy Engineering we have well one hell of a lot less if they can afford to finish my grandson is starting in fall to be a teacher (good kid thinks he needs to help kids!!)He would have liked to go to Oregon State but it’s community college :growl::(:fustrate:
fuck!:fu:
Uh Oh, Lieberman looks like toast. Week to go, way down in the polls, even The Times says enough is enough.
Actually, if Holy Joe looked like toast, he would look a lot better than he does.
I think his face is actually a problem, no kidding. Has that ‘death’s head’ aspect to it. So does Rudy Giuliani, especially when he smiles. Gives me the willies.
AAR has an ad running here saying that they’re moving to 1600 AM in NY on Sept one. What’s running there now, crop reports? How about they move off the dial entirely, to 2930 AM or something? My dog can listen and let me know what Springer’s into. I guess NY is a trivial radio market.
Screw them. Signed up to see Maron at the comedy central taping, and I’m pleased as punch.
Hi everyone-
Ill have to ask Mom abotu 1600 AM….Not sure what that is but she will know.
Too bad that they spent so much oney and time getting 1190 to be a recognizable presence and now they have to start again…..but then…maybe its best if they start again…..from scratch
Yesterday was wild round here…and I was out all day. There were ambulances taking people off their lawns etc…like, why not mow your lawn when its 103 on the thermometer?…And they shut down a huge shopping center and evacuated it and that whole parking lot. Looked like a gas leak to me….it was shut all day.
So, NY area Maronistas? What day are you all considering going to Gotham. Ive got to make reservations and I dont know if its worth it to try to also make that taping (again, you have to be over 18!)
I was gonna go to Gotham on Saturday, but if IM also going to the taping maybe Ill go Friday….?
What are you guys thinking??
1600 AM is this it??has Armstrong Williams,Alan Colmes on there now:!::!::!:
http://www.wwrl1600.com/
sounds right….let me ask mom
her aol messenger guy is sleeping….may have to wait
OH, Sblue…if youre up….Seanie’s AOL IM is usually defered to his phone when hes driving or doesnt have a signal, so you can always IM him, but he cant always answer…it just turns into a message on his IM.
Did anyone see Steve Colbert with the empty chair for Lieberman? Joementum not returning Steve’s calls has made this thing blow all out of proportion…and Lamont was on already…
Time to go Joe!!
:fu:why cant i post?
The AAR deal may not include morning drive time. I have no idea what thet means. 1190 may also carry some AAR programming.
Mike Malloy said something about wanting to remain with AAR but that it is always iffy. He also said to save your eamils ’cause the execs don’t care.
test
it means rileys show sucks and so does maddows
PJ- If youre out there….Seanie cant post. I think hes in the SPAM filter….!!!
Wow…Malloy is saying that? I know that they ultimately dont care, but to just say it like that is pretty harsh.
I got my taping tickets!!!
Hillary no live on MSNBC etc…questioning the top commanders on Iraq
PJ-Im running out but also wanted you to know that Kat is stuck in the SPAM filter too….will answer all IM’s and emails when I return from gym….Afternoon at home today… Yay!!! Boys here for Will! Yay!!
I have not received the last two Maron Mails and I even signed up again with the gmail.
🙁
Sad face not working.
Anybody here?
Catch you later then.:doh:
Yep 🙁 Sad face needs a leading space to work ..I think ..maybe ..we will see.. 🙁 🙁
Seems like it also can’t be the first thing on a new line..
I hate the way Harfart and Frankfurter make this election out to be just another election… Ho Hummm .. Rethugs are really evil they need to be eliminated…:gate::omg::jason::jason: really ..
Once the bombs stop falling who will be asked to rebuild Lebanon? The United States? I say: Let Israel rebuild Lebanon. Of course what I and millions of Americans think does not matter. So once again, yours, mine and our tax dollars will go to fund the rebuilding of Lebanon. This is the kind of SHIT that drives me cRaZy! So I listened as Gen. John Abizaid told Senators that sectarian violence could plunge Iraq into a civil war. WTF, if whats going on in Iraq isn’t a civil war I don’t know what it is? So the answer to the problems in Baghdad is to move American troops (from one smoldering place) to another to put out the fire in Baghdad! Brilliant thinking US military! If this isn’t evidence that there wasn’t enough troops sent to Iraq to secure the country I don’t know what is? Our country fought for our Independence and did not ask anyone for help. If the Iraqis can’t defend themselves then F them. I’m becoming more an isolationist. Say to hell with the rest of the world and take care of our own. It would be nice if we could ignore every other country on this globe, but there is to much interdependence now. We depend on the Middle Eastern countries to supply our country with oil because BIG OIL wants it that way. While they get rich, we get screwed. Does anyone in power give a damn? Hell no, they are more worried about getting what they can out of lobbists to worry about the Middle Class and the Poor in this country. They screw us all the time and we just take it! Let’s face it. The wealthy and the powerful hold all the cards. The middle class and the poor just roll over and it disgusts me. I don’t want one goddamn dime of my money going to that fucking war in Iraq or to the mess Israel has made of Lebanon. But we’re all slaves to the rich and the powerful. So what do we do? Perhaps those of us who are truly tired of all this shit should find a small pleasant state with sufficient natural resourses and move there. Once there we take control of the state government by electing leaders who would introduce legislation to secede from the union. Then we can start anew and create a system that works. Simplistic? Sure it is. But you can’t blame me for dreaming. There has to be a better way than this!
:-(:sammy:
No, I turned the spam filter off last night, so I don’t know why Sean and FK are having problems.
Hey, Melina!
PJ votes for Saturday for Maron. Not sure if my son will come, too. But put us down for Sat!
PJ should be coming home tomorrow during the day (weather gods & Smithsonian gods willing:billcat:)
Will get back for sure as to how many of us there will be ASAP, but definitely no more than 3 from Syracuse!
Thanks!:doh:
So Fred- Earthquake was centered in BattleGround WA if that means anything :omg:
Later sheeple:banana:
An opinion piece at Haaretz.com by Ze’ev Sternhell regarding the present Israel/Lebanon conflict.
OK, unless I can break something in the next hour or so, it looks like my work is done. Of course, my eyes are bleeding, and my head feels like it’s gonna explode, but other than that, it’s all good.
I’d like to go to the Maron taping, but Granny has to work Monday morning, and you never know how long these tapings can go. Plus I have a class that night, and it’s hard enough to stay awake.
Been busy as hell, sheeple, but I have a few minutes over lunch to drop by and say, “What da hell earthquake are we talking about?” Even His Highness Faraday of Fluff and Bark slept through it. And I’m about twenty minutes by car from Battle Ground. Probably closer as the crow flies.
I’m trying to ignore the news today. Listening to Dixie Chicks and Bruce Springsteen CDs. Did I miss anything important? Or just bullshit as usual?
ETA: I just got to the very bottom of the article referenced below and realized it’s based on data gathered in late 2005 and thus doesn’t actually relate to the present situation. But I sure as hell want to know what those stats would be like today.
Damn, Israel is just shooting itself in the foot, isn’t it? When Lebanon turns against Jews in general, and in favor of terrorism, Israel has made a big mistake.
Yay, huge thunderstorms moving in!! Hootie and the Blowfish pushed back 1.5 hours because the power went out in all of downtown today…and theyve still got this other huge shopping center closed and all the cars evacuated from the parking lot…and lots of craziness with people actually camping out to see Hootie…ugh!! and here comes the dangerous weather….
So the boys are sending me to Boston market…
granny…I will call for info on reservation. Sat is fine and probably best for most people…the taping on Sunday is at 8 so thats enoughn time to rest before going down there again.
guest quarters will easily hold your son too because the couch folds out….never been used;-)
Off to Boston Market before the deluge….
Goddamn, it’s hot out there. :hot:
It’s time for another excursion into the bizarro, twisted world of
CRUELLA WATCH!:omg:
From Thursday’s St Petersburg Times. Followup to last night’s breaking news.
http://tinyurl.com/fq59m
Latest rumor has the Repigs strong-arming Harris after the primary to drop out, so that they can replace her with whoever is defeated in the Repig gubernatorial race, which most likely will be Tom “Preachy McHypocrite” Gallagher. Gallagher has run for the Senate before, but without victory.
This plan, however, presumes that the Repigs will be able to get Harris to come to her senses, which seems unlikely. A better plan might be to send her on a hunting trip with Cheney.
:rofl2:
How the Kyoto Protocol was (Al) Gored:
http://www.counterpunch.org/frank08022006.html
And yes, I stole the nickname thing from Stephanie Miller. I’m still trying to come up with one for gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist that doesn’t involve a suntan.
Harris is beyond nicknames by now. (Escept for Cruella, of course, which is perfect. And which I also sort of stole from Stephanie Miller.)
GET THOSE PUPPIES!!!
:mad:is it safe?
:hot:yay ok where did this come from?
ok well im heading off to denver now!
Re: 49: “secede from the union” should read: “secede from the US.” It was that southern rebel in me that made me do it.
Disappointing article on Al Gore…wonder if he can be counted upon (or if so to what degree) if per chance he’s ever elected to the big seat?
oh here
Thank god Bush got appointed over Gore in 2000.
Rumsfeld says that violence is up in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the weather. He blames it on spring,summer and fall.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/03/afghan-violence/
(How come that doesn’t become a link?)
If the violence doesn’t abate by winter, he can blame it on glabal warming.
well…I mean if you look at it that way it’s Gore all the way…but…why do we have to look at it that way?
:neutral:so why did the blog hate me pj?
:tinfoil:i thought maybe i was banned!
Well, I’m not enough of an expert on the subject (certainly not as much as Frank, who is such an expert he doesn’t bother with much in the way of explanation), but as I recall Al Gore negotiated a lot of the Kyoto Treaty, and I seem to recall the Senate at one point voting 95-0 against ratification, so I think if Gore counseled Clinton not to submit the treaty for ratification, it had more to do with it having no chance of getting ratified, and the defeat hurting the chances of eventual ratification more than a non-vote. Unfotunately, I’m too damn tired to really research it to the extent that I’d like to. Maybe when I rest my brain.
Hey Sean, I think that maybe you were posting from an open or insecure proxy (or it thought it was), and when the spam filter was on, you got held up in moderation, but when it was off, it just got boinked and went away.
:hot: Kinda what Siggy & I looked like yesterday:hot:
Much, much nicer today, although still hot. NOt as humid. Hope everyone else is managing to stay cool & safe! :nixon:
What is Revolution?
Michael Albert
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-04/08albert.cfm
Ah, here we go. The Byrd-Hagel resolution of 1997:
Passed 95 – 0 (that’d zero Democrats, and zero Republicans).
:roll:damn spam filter! ok well im really off now later!
Perhaps Al Gore’s greatest blunder during his years as vice president was his allegiance to the conservative Democratic Leadership Council and their erroneous approach to environmental policy. Gore, like Clinton who quipped that “the invisible hand has a green thumb”, extolled a free-market attitude toward environmental issues. “Since the mid-1980s Gore has argued with increasing stridency that the bracing forces of market capitalism are potent curatives for the ecological entropy now bearing down on the global environment,” writes Jeffrey St. Clair in Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature. “He is a passionate disciple of the gospel of efficiency, suffused with an inchoate technopilia.”
JOSHUA FRANK
95-0! What does that say about the leadership quality of Clinton/Gore on the Kyoto Treaty?
Well, he’s just a very, very bad man. :spank:
It says that Clinton/Gore and others did a very bad job of making the environment and threat of global warming an important enough issue to the American people that they would force their representatives to take it seriously.
If only somebody would try to do something to present this issue to the people today.
After Gore. (2002)
A. Cockburn
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/2/2002/35
Oh, it also says that when Frank writes “Gore advised Clinton not to send the Protocol to the Senate to be ratified. The blame could have burdened the Republican Party, not the Democrats,” he either doesn’t understand that both parties already sent a clear message that they wouldn’t ratify, or he deliberately omits any mention of it (and fails to at least ponder how many signatories Kyoto would have lost had the US Senate soundly defeated it).
It also says that Clinton/Gore were in the pay of Big Oil. (Both parties are. What was that Zinn quote on Majority Report?)
A short, Amazon.com review of Al Gore: A User’s Manuel
Dilemma of Conservative Democrats, January 2, 2006
Reviewer: DEE (PA) – See all my reviews
I read this book with a sickening feeling inside of me. Liberals and progressives like me are compelled to support the Republican-lite wing of the modern right leaning Democratic party politicians. Clinton and Gore were not progressives or true men of the people. They did not promote the common good or enhance domestic welfare. The authors forget to mention in their very excellent book that Gore wrote to the airline industry executives and told them that his airline safety initiative would not harm their financial base. Proper airline safety,profiling, baggage checking and secured cockpits would have diminished the probability of Sept.11. Gore is a typical dixiecrat, son of the South, rich man’s spoiled son who pandered to defense,nuclear and corporate interests who bankrolled him. The book is truthful,intelligent and compelling. We liberals must stop electing rightist Southern “democrats” who support militarism,intervention and the gutting of the social safety net. The liberal renaiisance of the Democratic party must develop and conservative social darwinism must decline in our nation. Gore is Bush without neoconservative advisors. Let us demand democratic politicians who promote health care,nursing home reform,consumer rights,affordable housing and safe environments. I want to thank the authors for their courage and integrity in writing this painful and troubling book.
Yes, both parties are. And Al Gore has some environmental skeltons in his pocket, no doubt about it. I just hate it when people on the left, right, or in between write one-sided articles on issues that aren’t quite so one-sided, when you take a look at them. Because most people don’t have the time to really look into them, and trust the author. And when I take the time look into what somebody wrote, and find it lacking, lazy, or ojust plain bullshit, it makes me wonder about everything else they have to say, that I don’t have the time to check.
You forgot to post how many user’s found that review helpful.
Occidental [Petroleum] is a company with deep historical ties to the Gore family. It’s founder, the tycoon Armand Hammer, was Albert Gore Sr.’s top political patron and when he lost his senate seat in 1970, Hammer put Gore on the Oxy board of directors and made him CEO of the company’s coal mining subsidiary. Hammer was also generous to Al, giving him money for his early congressional and senate runs and loaning him his private jet. Gore now controls between $500,000 and $1 million worth of Oxy stock and despite his professed environmentalism and concern for indigenous peoples he has refused to speak out against the oil company’s assault on the U’wa tribe. U’wa leaders, who have traveled to the US several times in the last few years, were supposed to have spoken at the rally, but at the last minute the State Department denied the tribe a visa.
(Jeffrey St Clair, 2000)
http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/24/21/stclair2421.html
TWO people found the review useful. (I deleted it as extraneous information.)
a candidate should be looked at from all angles. The thing is there’s plenty of stuff out there (especially right now) about Gore and global warming in a positive way…that’s one side. It’s helpful to hear about the other side.
Politicians sometimes do become great statemen when they are out of power. Jimmy Carter comes to mind. He was little more than a Tri Lateral Commission neo-liberal with good human rights rhetoric while president. Now, he does very good work on the behalf of humanity. (For what it’s worth, Trotsky became sort of a socialist humanist after he was driven from power by Stalin. But look at what he did while in power.)
Absolutely, all sides shoud be examined. I’m pretty familiar (not an expert, by any stretch) with the Gore family ties to Armand Hammer (among other things – Hammer used to like to say that Gore Sr. was in his back pocket, and Jr. has been a beneficiary as well), as well as some of the other Gore skeletons.
Somehow, I doubt you could find any career politicians who aren’t in somebody’s pocket to a certain extent. Unfortunately, those are the pepople who can actually do something. I’m all for poeple trying to keep them on their toes, and expose their hypocrisy. I’d just like them to do it in a honest manner.
As for Gore, he’s (supposedly) not running for anything at the moment. If environmentalism is a big scam to make him money, well, it’s better than the other scams going on.
:nixon:
:nixon: yep! I’m drunk at the bar:40::smack:
:hot: New emo. It’s not working on the ‘puter, though.:mad:
Who is not being honest in exposing politicians like Gore (or whoever)?
Frank’s article was not honest. A person reading that would say, “wow, Al Gore shut down Kyoto for no other reason than he’s in the pocket of big oil.” In fact, it’s also a classic example of how not to write an article. He should have anticipated other points and addressed them. He didn’t. It was dishonest, either deliberately, or out of ignorance.
Okay. I’ll let you take that up with Frank, if you please.Or ignore him. I As for me, I would like to see Al Gore transform himself into a populist FDR New New Dealer. Usher in the Revolution.
That’d be nice. I’d rather see dubya turn into FDR, pull us out of the Middle East, and end unqualified support for any action that Israel takes, in an effort to leave a legacy that’s more than blood and greed and death.
Somehow, I doubt either will happen, but I hope Gore’s movie will create the tipping point for taking the environment seriously. And I think there’s big bucks to be made there, if the corporatists need a little motivation, too.
pjsauter, Scientist: Invisibility Is Possible
Reuters – The Invisible Woman had the right idea. She curved space to bend light, and, says one physicist, that’s what future devices will do…
😉
I am working and lurking and writing political “things”.:eek:
Anybody read Fiasco yet? I’m getting it in a couple days, when Barnes and Noble gets their second shipment in.
Yeah, I actually saw something a while back about a cloaking device being possible. Sounds cool.
Unfortunately, they of course want to use to make better ways of killing people.
Hey Travis, no. It’s getting tougher and tougher for me to read words on paper, especially this summer, after doing more heavy-duty computer gazing every day than I have in a long time. Now I remember why I wanted to quit being a web guy.
Oops. Nevermind:doh:
I thought for sure that you wrote Kevin
Gore is our ONLY hope right now. And I BEG he runs (and I do not beg anyone):!:
Hillary disappoints me. Gore is our future FOR NOW no one is better and I think it is grand that he wants to protect our life’s future.
I don’t have kevin’s address, though I could e-mail, I guess.
Uh, I have to go play guitar with some guy. Later.
Ms Rant has sure been worthless this pm. Why did we spend two hours proving at least ten times that Rummy is worthless piece of shit.. She is not psychotic as it probably sounds to most of the stupids in the middle she probably tells the truth but what is one supposed to do with it .. Find the nearest escalade and run it off the road.. ??
Ed Shultz was really preaching to his base of demodorps lounging around re pool when he talked about having lobster and steak for dinner and tipping the waiter $15.00.. My idea of a night out is at a Carl’s Junior.. :rant1::barf::crap::yuck:
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I really hope Hillary doesn’t run. I’ll vote for Tasini (though I suppose I’d vote Hillary if we were in danger of actually getting Pirro or whoever the hell it is they’re running against her now).
Con Edison has told its commercial customers in NYC to expect to loose power for quite some time tonight because projected demand will exceed supply sometime around 9 pm and there is not any excess to supply anywhere in the NE from which to buy more power.:eek::eek::fustrate:
Check out what some jerk posted on the Majority Report blog:
I hated Marc Marin, and was so glad to see him go. But I’d be the president of Sam’s fan-club and personally organize the email campaign to keep him on the air. I was just thinking today how lucky we are that Janeane insisted he be her cohost, because with her doing the choosing, we ended up with a REAL liberal. And there’s really not that many of them on AAR. Malloy and Rachel Maddow I guess, but the rest of them are all moderates (yes including Randi, despite her protestations). Were a good portion of Majority Reports audience really listening for Janeane, and they never warmed up to Sam? Sounds like airheads to me, they preferred Janeane because she was famous. These were people who didn’t really give a shit about the issues then, if they’ve taken their ball and gone home. Good riddance, except now I guess the show risks cancellation.
Posted by: Anonymous at August 3, 2006 7:46 PM
Via c-span watching the The Congress:barf::jerk: makes me MAD :mad::doh::fustrate::mad::fu::growl::fist::jason:
Awwwwww:hot: 🙁 — work at night for so many “entropic” reasons :joe: = Lead Balloon Humour
…then I wouldn’t be so alone BWah HaHa :hubba:
Most of MR bloggers are..
1. Drunk
2. Infatuated with Janeane’s boobs
3. High on something
4. Go into reset every day and have to be reprogrammed
5. Are Not very bright
6. Enjoy listening to JG bash the Busheviks not realizing for a moment that they may die in a bright flash because of what they are doing
7. Enjoy yakking and slamming each other and don’t even listen to the program
8 . definitely don’t appreciate people interrupting their virtual wine and cheese party by telling them to get off their asses and do something.
:omg:
supporttheshow@majorityreportradio.com
supporttheshow@majorityreportradio.com
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I like the Majority Report myself. Wasn’t a big fan of Jeanane. I think it was her tone of voice that worked on my nerves after awhile. Similar feelings for Randi Rhodes. How could anyone listen to four hours of her ranting? She often seems to pull her facts out of her vagina. I know this is gonna sound sexist, but I prefer male radio talk hosts. I guess I’ll be in trouble for admitting that here since this blog seems heavily weighted toward the female gender. Oh well, I’m not running for political office so there. I love women in a non-sexist, non-sexual kind of way. Just happy I can turn the radio off when there isn’t anything worth a listen. So I did kind of get a chuckle out of Al Frankin making fun of our beloved Sec. of Defense Donald Rumfuck on his show this afternoon. His rhetorical questioning of himself. That man needs a mental evaluation. I think the whole lot of them do. And Hillary scored points with me in her blasting Rumfuck’s ass in the hearing this morning. I just wish someone would have been more pointed with Rumfuck. Challenge his ass OK! To bad everyone is so PC when it comes to these hearings. I think the public would love a “give em hell” “tell it like it is” kind of politician.
Before long there won’t be anything worth listening to on Air America. And I’m beginning to doubt that Marc will ever find his way back to radio. Just a gut feeling. If Sam Seder goes AAR might just as soon not exist for me. BTW, I’ve been getting calls from the national Democrat Party for a contribution. I gave lots of money in the runup to the last Presidential election and we see what good that did. That idiot/imbecile is still in the White house. I do not know if I’ll ever give money to the party again. Sometimes I question my party affiliation since it appears there are just a bunch of spineless ppl in the Democrat party. Maybe I should become a Libertarian? Need to investigate that party I guess.
I have to run errands :barf:
but my vote is for Randi and will “Throw it down (Travis:wink:)” when I return. Bwah HaHa 😉 (she’s better than most)
Wow…Joe Scarborough just sais something true…
Diving, drenching rain has washed throuhttp://morningseditionists.com/msblog/wp-images/smilies/banana.gif
:banana:gh NYC and it is :banana::banana:a lovely, cooler night
He was talking about Hill and Rummy etc…and he said that all in all this guy Lamont has said what he really believes and hes gonna win the election in CT…that everyone has to start figuring out what they believe and saying it. Its gonna be the new wave…all the rage…politicians are gonna have to have actual beliefs!…take a freakin chance and have some actual integrity and philisophy…imagine ethics that come from within as opposed to trying to position oneself in the path of the mainstream! Unbelievable!
One should not underestimate Scarborough. I rarely watch TV anymore, but I do recall that Joe often has lefties on his show. He lets them speak their mind, too. Joe is no O’Reilley.
Sue…great…we had alot of warnings and the temp dropped quite a bit…showers and ongoing warnings but nothing big yet….
Thank the Goddess or whoever…
And who is this anonymous who is posting on the MS board?
If they are so afriad to say their name then I dont give them much creedence…and if whoever it is ddidnt like Marc he/she is in the minority….report….(pun)
Well, he is hard to take but the last two shows with the producer drinnking as much as Mel and then trying to see if he could feel anti semetic or whatever, has been classic!
Also, this Rummy thing…..he talks like a crazy person.
Hillary….who knows?
and finally, Elizabeth Hasselback from the View finally being told to shut up, in not so many words, by Walters…
Hasselblad is a busine neocon, ex survivor contestant and she is totally stupid….she was the real downfall of that show…just horrible….
OMG Melina . . . . THE VIEW! I’d rather slash my wrists than watch that show! I liked it when the late Gilda Radner used to imitate Barbara Wah Wah in one of her routines on SNL. Those were the good old days of television. When it was worth watching. I donno about now. I watch to much news . . . its depressing and I’m depressed because of it.
Admittedly I laugh at the sillest of things. But it appears that those kind of television programs have been replaced with shows like “Jackass” which I find as mindless, tasteless and unfunny. So I spend much of my time cruising the internet from this site to Manhunt and back again. A sad pathetic life I lead. Wonder if it will be more fun in hell? A big sex orgy between ouches?
yet another test
:hot:
finally!
Hi! But now I can’t stay long but tomorrow a.m. I’ll check in.
:gate: HAPPY TRAILS PJ!
I’d like to hear what gore has to say about kyoto, btw.
(don’t get mad at me, but there’s a fire in the fireplace here. It is wonderfully cool and I’m enjoying my goosebumps.)
Friday is just around the corner thank whoever! I wish there was some way to slow down the weekends. Make Saturday and Sunday into 48 hour days? Yeah, I guess that wouldn’t work would it? I’m certain I’ll be BAD this weekend. Why change now? Besides it’s much to fun. It remains HOT in Birmingham, Alabama. But we’re used to the heat down here so. Be warned. I’ll prolly do another one of my unprofessional podcasts tomorrow afternoon. It is nice that (thus far) we live in a country where we can speak our minds even if we don’t know what we’re talking about. Ha. I hear my song playing, “Knowing when to leave.” Hope everyone has a wonderful sleep. Good night everyone.
Its safe to come out now!
…a big sex orgy between ouches?…ha hah….I love that but it sounds a little like my life now!!!
(or maybe Im just kidding!!???)
I watched the view when it was first on but I only really liked Meredith …and usually just saw it at the gym on the bike while reading a magazine. I never sit down and look intently at a show unless its a DVD of something like Syriana or something subtitled…or Big Brother, which I LOVE!!! Sorry, that is my despicable/lowbrow part!….definitely not Manhunt, but then Im not on the manhunt lately…Im taking a break from all that nonsense.
But I LOVE the clips and gossip from these things, and for some reason I was writing emails and playing with my birds and there was scarborough country doing a big feature on Baba wah wah.
Im not even gonna say where and how I used to watch Gilda Radner in the early seasons of SNL…but it was so much fun in the beginning at some coffee shop in manhattan in the middle of the night with all these cool people who couldnt go out until SNL was over…because it was so damned good!! But old Gilda is buried in the emetary up the street from me and her old husband and his new wife live right by here…
What a loss!…and Baba Wawa hasnt ever been the same since!
Colbert is on….just so great!
Yay Kat!!
Catch you manana!
:40: OK, um, now I’m at the Irish Immigrant!:alc: Where ever that is.
night cnick!!…this weekend is gonna be cooler here…and its much cooler already!
Jon Stewart had a great bit with the 5 day forecast sun guy with a smile and sunglasses…and they zoom in while hes saying to look at the little guy with the smile and glasses, That there is something wrong with im somehow, and then the Alien baby monster pops out of its stomach with goo and slime coming out of it….very funny.
Hey Trav…ar eyou having fun?
Sounds like youre drinking alot…or maybe its the names of the places you go….heh….
My Mom is Irish, lest you think Im making a slur against my half people!
Irish Immigrant -Slainte:alc:
The U district. How was the guitar scene.
I am in Pacific City. Perfect weather but no dinner to be had.:no:
:hot: Oh jeeez- this is just too funny:rofl2:
Druid! when ya goin’ to “Throw it down” with Travis?:nod:
Someone else is here..I just know it:tinfoil:
I think I misspelled immigrant. Oh, Hey, what’s up?
:alc:
MAYBE Not. I’m kinda out of it
Sleepy time:nod:
I thought it looked good- Are you still there?
Is it as rough a place as the Moon?
Who’s the lurker? “cause I’m out in a second
Hey!:banana:
Hey 1 what?
Oh:smack:
No. I’m out on the smoking deck.
Someone gave me a ride.
I’ve drank al ittle bit too much. Maybe
There were some deer in the front yard of this place I’m at.
Hey, you’re going to see the meteor shower with Bill and me, right?
these people are talking with me
Where when?
I always miss it!:omg:
Around the 12th
I hear a dog snoring…
Um, they’re getting mad. I think I have to talk to them
I’ll be back
Ok Maybe Gypsy will be around for the meteor showers Persieds I think.
When are you going to bein seattle?
Not for another week.
well, we’re good then. You’ll see it . bill has some telescopes and stuff. I’ll write ya when I’M SOBER.
Hey the Fiasco that you are looking for is that the one about Iraq?
Or the one about Wall Street.
The failure in Iraq
see you tomorrow, sblue:nixon:
Ok=
I misspelled everything in that post- Time to sleep. Too early though.
There should be a MArc maron show right now!
Bye:knit:
My Bad… 🙁 I just got upstairs — too much to do AND Zero Time in Life for anyone…:smack::(
Hey you- did I miss you?:doh:
Hi 😉
I am writing an answer email to Foggyblue.
I know you are having to go and do…so I do not want to stall your actions, but it is good to say hi. I am just writing 🙂 🙁 responses and just by going to Costco I DO NOT FIND ANY RECYCLED Stuff so I have to get after Costco.
Druid I was worried about you yesterday but then I’m a worrier.
We will catch up sometime.
Goodnight!:banana:
No, You ARE probably “sensitive”. I will tell you later.:wink: G’Night
As my dear friend Norman in Vermont says” I could feel your emmanations”
I agree, but you should be in bed. 🙁 🙂
I have no problems if we had a good President 😉
I’m in bed reading “The Jerusalem Syndrome” and Marc just spelled “emanations” correctly.
I’m trying to pick up on some girls here. I’m not sure if they’ll dig me , though
:hubba:
Just don’t:barf:
Ok?
Travisdem_04, You are adorable and brilliant. The women will go crazy :wink:.
And remember what:sammy: says…
I said I had a computer and everything and they still didn’t dig me:doh:
sblueheron :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Yeh Travis, no :barf:
They said they would just hang out at the bar
Oh, well. I guess that’s the way it goes
Maybe they would hang with you if your ibook was decorated like say:
http://www.moonpost.com/jeremy/archives/001878.shtml
Travis, they are just trying to know you. Hang in the bar a bit.
http://repair4laptop.org/notebook_modding_hacks.html
Re: 188. I don’t know about that one. I ‘ll see what they say.
I’ll talk with them some more. thanks, Druid
Travis, I wanted to say have a notebook but didn’t UNTIL I saw SBlueHeron’s post sooo THAT’s TWO saying similar. You have a story and we gals like stories. It may take a bit. But take a notebook or laptop to a Cafe and just write. Women will be drawn I swear.
I think I have to be up and outahere at 8am so Gnite and Goodluck to all:nod:
Travis, if you have the $ just hang out in the bar a bit, Cafe for another hang spot. Ask the women funny questions like the computer, but do some writing like that link SBlueHeron sent about “his story” — and SEATLE is the place for your age (I would go there if I was just starting my life again) — I did get to go there and found it CHARMING.
sblueheron :love::knit::love:
PJ when I saw you say WIN …I thought you were abbreviating WINAMP :rofl2: …well it made me stop and look closer.
PJ 15 hours 😎 :banana: and RAGING Granny
😎 Here’s to The Unification :alc: :banana::wink:
:hot::hubba: :rofl2:
:joe:Hey, Druid
The final countdown begins:hot:
But first a day at the salt mines :doh: PJ may be home before I am, depending on when he leaves deecee and on traffic/weather.
It has been a l-o-o-o-n-g two months!!:hot:
Thanks for the good wishes:nixon:
> I think if there were really such an apt parallel between being called a self-hating American and a self-hating Jew (and I think they are actually very different phenomena), then people accused of being self-hating Jews would be able to make the kinds of positive declarations people accused of being un-American can make. (Jeremy Anderson)
And I can do exactly that. I can say I have nothing whatsoever against Jewish people and nothing against Jewish religion per se (any more than I have differences with virtually all organized religion, myself being an athiest). And so on. But I literally find it demeaning to myself and to others to make idiotic statements like that, as I would in the analogous case of saying I have nothing against Americans per se. If a person can’t see that, in my work, life, writings, etc. Nothing I say will make a difference. Why should it? I am not my own proper judge.(Michael Albert)
> And it was just such a positive discussion I tried to have with Noam Chomsky when he was a guest on my show. But when I asked him what it meant to him to be a good Jew, he refused to answer saying (this is verbatim, I checked the tape), “I don’t think it’s anybody’s business but my own.” (Anderson)
It seems like a perfectly reasonable answer to me. One I might give to in certain circumstances. But here is another answer, one I wouldn’t ordinarily give, but for the precise circumstanaces we are in.
If you asked me, what might it mean (after all there are countless ways) to be an exemplary person, a morally righteous and worthy person, who is Jewish, I might say, take a look at Noam Chomsky. Offhand, I can’t think of a better exemplar. (Albert)
> As I said to you on the air, I regard his refusal to discuss this as unfortunate. But that doesn’t mean that the same question (and others) can’t be directed toward you. (Anderson)
Noam talks about topics he feels he has something worthwhile to offer. Topics where he feels he has knowledge or thoughts, due to special preparation or research or connections with information sources, that can aid others. I suspect he felt, quite reasonably, who am I to tell anyone else what it means to be a good anything…
But you can go ask him, if you like. (Albert)
> What does it mean to you to be a good Jew? What do you think Judaism is? Why do you think the Jews have been atacked so often? And last, but not least, what do you think anti-semitism is? (Anderson)
At the risk, of ridiculous over-simplification…
>>What does it mean to you to be a good Jew?
This question, I admit, simply does not arise for me. In my case, if I have to answer, it means the same as to be a good person. Literally no difference that I can think of. (Of course, I am not religious, so I don’t have any norms of behavior or of custom, etc., that I feel I should respect simply due to their lineage/heritage. This sort of obediance is, in fact, the element of religion that I do not like.)
Okay, perhaps there is one arguable difference between a sensible answer to what is a good person and to what is a good Jew. By virtue of being Jewish I suppose that one MIGHT argue that one has a greater responsibility re opposing injustice against jews than other constituencies (due to having a higher consciousness of it through experience) but one could as easily argue the reverse, that the highest morality is to treat ALL equally, and to therefore be just as attuned to any injustice as to an injustice directed at oneself and one’s community. Obviously, as to being unjust toward others, there is no difference…don’t do it.
>> What do you think Judaism is?
A religion. A cultural heritage. The two overlap but are not identical by a long shot. Both are shot through with diverse stands and threads, sometimes quite at odds. As with any religion and cultural heritage. The Israeli state, is, of course, not Judaism, though, again, there are relations, regretably, in that a state–insofar as these exist–should certainly not be identifed with a single cultural community of any sort.
>> Why do you think the Jews have been atacked so often?
I think it is largely a historical phenomena having to do with the position they have held and the history that has evolved. I certainly don’t think it is an intrinsic result of internal features of the religion, as compared to others.
>> And last, but not least, what do you think anti-semitism is?
I think this phrase can have a few meanings, like anti-black, say. It can be the systematic denial of rights and opportunities, the oppression of Jews (the label semitic is somewhat misleading, but that’s another issue) by systemic institutional relations. It can also be the denigration of Jews as inferior, as a group, genetically or by virtue of collective traits and beliefs that are deeply held, as manifested in the behavior of other individuals or groups, with greater or lesser impact.
I am against homophobia, which happens to be very widespread in black communities, and, I think it is fair to say, in black culture. I don’t think this makes me racist. If I thought that black homophobia was the result of a gene, that would be racist.
And so on. (Michael Albert)
Artists, poets, philosophers and politicians use both the inherently unknowable and the seemingly explainable to present audiences their world view. And, as I have argued, scientific endeavor is also in the world of story and myth creation. The believer in the scientific project need only review how fashions and beliefs change, explanations and supposed causes change from one historical period to another to see the scientist as a story teller, be it Darwin or Hawking. Their explanations do not get us closer to Truth although they help us redefine the pyramid of beliefs that we are expected to carry around in our heads. One wonders whether cosmologists at universities are less fanciful than astrologers in understanding the stars, or is it that they have more funding and better PR ?
MARCUS RASKIN
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004422109
Oh, nothing happened last night. I did meet a political consultant who helped some democrat run against Maria Cantwell in a primary race, though. He was pretty bummed ’cause his candidate just lost last night. He said the race was very similar to the Lamont and Lieberman race.
Oops. I think I posted on the wrong open thread:doh: