Man, that was a quick week. So, who’s on today?
Let’s see, Timmy Potatohead David “Gilligan” Gregory hosts Senator Chipmunk Cheeks himself, “Maverick” McCain on Press the Meat. :yawn: As if that wasn’t enough, he’ll also have retired general Barry McCaffrey, Dr. Vali Nasr of the Naval Postgraduate School, and good old John Harwood.
Over at Faze the Nation, speaking of :yawn: (not to mention :jerk:), bush buddy Bobby Schieffer has Joe “the Schmuck” Lieberman, on to tell us how only he can save us all from terrorism, and to tell us just why it is he’s even the least bit relevant at this point. Plus, it’s WaPost media whore, Jim VandeHei.
Over on This Weak with George Snufalufagus, John Kerry will be on to say “I told you so,” plus the British Home Secretary, John Reid. At the roundtable, it’s Fareed “Token” Zakaria, the Robin Wright that isn’t married to Sean Penn (this one’s from the WaPost), a person they’re billing as a Middle East “expert” (he’s a former CIA operative and one of those brilliant neocons from the PNAC, so he must be quite the expert), Reuel Gerecht, plus Geroge :jerk: Will. And we’ll also hear from Spike Lee, to see if dubya’s got all those black folks cleared out of New Orleans yet.
Over at Fux News Sunday, that little weaselface prick has Chuck Hagel, schmuck congressman Peter King from NY, Rafi “Daffy” Ron, who used to be the head of Israeli airport security, and Rand Beers, who used to be a counter-terrorism advisor for the president, until he found out what a fucking idiot loser president we got stuck with.
Over on CNN, well, you’ll have to look at Wolf Blitzer, and whoever the hell he has on from Lebanon and Israel, to talk about whether the cease fire will last (hint: only if you define “cease fire” as Israel can do whatever it wants).
Later, on 60 Minutes, in a story sure to hold its key demographic in rapt attention, Steve Kroft tells us all about the multi-billion dollar “anti-aging” racket, Morley Safer interviews the creator of “Submission,” which has apparently pissed off the Muslim World, and Ed Bradley interviews Michael Jordan for some reason.
Down to two episodes of Deadwood, sorry to say. They really ought to time these things out so that nothing good ends before football season begins (no, pre-season doesn’t count). Enjoy your Sunday.
:banana::banana::banana: Its Sunday wooohooo:banana::banana::banana:
YEA :banana: MoonLightMan is #1 :banana: YEA
Looks like I am #2 — but hopefully Travis is :banana:
Re Evanes…
She is a Great singer Mostly Gothic and with her band a bit Hip Hop.
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:yawn::yawn::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::joe:
Uhhhh…. Is this bar still open :?::?::?:
just closing….we will give you the keys:jason::jason::jason:
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Good morning/afternoon/evening/tomorrow/whatever
HaHaHa I was just saying how I like Led Z, Hildegard Von Bingen, and Evanescence. I made Margaritas just as everyone left … thus MoonLightMan was sharing a Last Call 🙁
Ahhhh ..I just love the smell of a two cycle engine in the morning :yuck::omg:
I had no idea fred was such an early riser.
Well I will be passing the baton:jason:
Druid and I love getting ill watching C-span this time of day.. :yuck::eek:
I still am listening to Z … “Stairway …. Did you warm the Cognac .. or have you put away and did you see what SeanMS said about you …. hehehe
Fred re 11 you know I am demented enough I will be joining you soon :rofl2:
Margaritas at 2am ???? How are the rats and the cats this morning ??
awwww 2-cycled engine “in the morning” :rofl2:
Goodnight Druid……Good day Fred…..have fun with cspan and the morning shows. John Kerry should be a real treat!:barf:
Rats get food in Morn, before I close the Crypt, cats fed, but stays said before 3am 😉
Led Z. or C-Span now that’s hard:?: :doh::rofl2:
I don’t quite understand why people are so afraid of getting blown up in a terrorist attack and yet drive out in front of an oncoming train ?? Getting killed in a terrorist attack is about as probable as getting run over by a train on Midway island .. where the nearest railroad is 3000 miles away.:eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe::joe:
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:omg:Lets have a war on mixed freights.. aka rolling bombs..:eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck:
tea:joe::growl::fist::jason:
I’me really good at talking to myself this time of day…. blog with ya later..:paranoid::yawn::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe::joe:
” A great deal of the media is biased against conservatives and republicans “:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::barf::barf::barf::barf:
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If Frank Rich was right yesterday that should ruin the rethugs day.. we need to be vigilant so we can catch the rethugs planning and carrying out the next terrorist attack on American soil.. It has to be the “we” since the demodorps are to busy going to the rethugs cocktail parties.:yuck::yuck::eek::eek::crap::crap::crap::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
Who do we give truth serum too??? Rethugs need to be reprogrammed .. :tinfoil:first you have to erase memory…. according to the DARPA manual on maintaining your thugbot connecting them across a 7700 volt AC line works well :eek::eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck:
OOPs I read the manual wrong that erases the entire device.. ( inset emo of bright flash here):eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck::yuck:
:nod: A Line sounds good :nod:
Now Now Now changing you mind in mid thought is no fun Druid.. That’s why we are the Seditionists.:nod::nod:
If you don’t have a 7700 volt AC line or are afraid of high voltage a tree and a rope work well too.:eek::eek::eek::joe::joe::joe::joe::omg::fustrate::paranoid:
I didn’t change my mind … I shared, but as a “wolf” I get timid. 😉
I’m sorry, I will play nicely:wink: :paranoid::fustrate:::growl::fist::jason:
The rethugs are not lying to us they actually beleve the crap they are spewing.. That makes them extremely dangerous to both the rest of us and everyone in the world.. They seem to be multiplying.. even European nations have them in positions of power .. we must :gate::omg::gate::omg::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason::jason::jason:
them :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Fred, I do not know what to say. except this psychology
mindset was a Game and sodium p might be the only way … if I knew when, where, and with who … must feed :billcat: now …
I’m late, I’m late, I’m late for a very important date ,
no time to say Hello, Goodbye, I’m late, I’m late, I’m late…
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny – refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.
The incident fuels the row over airport security following the arrest of more than 20 people allegedly planning the suicide-bombing of transatlantic jets from the UK to America. It comes amid growing demands for passenger-profiling and selective security checks.
http://tinyurl.com/k5njg
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They apparently didn’t read Frank Rich… :eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck::yuck::crap::crap::crap:
Bomb Squad Sweeps (Delta Air) Plane, Man Questioned (San Antonio)
Associated Press
08.20.2006, 01:15 AM
Bomb-sniffing dogs swept a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta upon landing Saturday after authorities said a passenger tampered with a smoke detector and moved ceiling panels in a lavatory.
The passenger, a San Antonio man who was not identified, was being questioned by federal authorities at San Antonio International Airport, FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said.
“We’re just trying to determine what his intentions were,” Vasys said. “It may be a simple issue which does not result in an arrest.”
The passenger on Delta Flight 6492 was overheard being “disruptive” in the lavatory by flight attendants and had spent an extended amount of time there, said Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin.
http://tinyurl.com/q93ve
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They also apparently haven’t read Frank Rich
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A cooment on this from DU
So much crying “wolf” these days, so close to the (s)election – hmmmmm
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And where WERE those pesky F-16’s this time??
There have been so many false alarms –
The REAL threat will sneak through unnoticed
and August 22 is REAL close .
Fred, reading your post :omg:Scary Great as usual :omg:
Fred, Anything exciting on C-Span now — I just can’t listen much today… :doh: where is my sarcastic mechanism … it just doesn’t seem to be working:?: :doh:
The Washington Post does a nice recap of the wingnuts denounciation of The Shrub.:nod:
http://tinyurl.com/lw3ed
That is what I do not understand … why does ANY listener even listen to ANYONE on the conservative side, They have proven that ANY Thoughts of the rethugs have proven illogical … especially regarding the “deficit” … and ANY ACTIONS of the rethugs:!:
DHS Terror Research Agency Struggling
Science and Technology Unit Crippled by Turnover, Budget Cuts, Priority Shifts
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 20, 2006; Page A08
The federal research agency in charge of countering emerging terrorist threats such as liquid explosives is so hobbled by poor leadership, weak financial management and inadequate technology that Congress is on the verge of cutting its budget in half.
The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate has struggled with turnover, reorganizations and raids on its budget since it was established in 2003, according to independent scientists, department officials and senior members of Congress.
http://tinyurl.com/g7g48
regarding 42, :fustrate::barf::fustrate::barf::fustrate::barf:
In one way I wanted to say Yea but all I can do is to muster :barf:
G’Night, G’Day One and All
:knit::gate:Good Travels
I think their lack of interest in the DHS shows that the Rethugs don’t really think terrorism is a serious threat. It’s just something they drag out to distract folks so the rethugs can do damage to our country and constitution.
Sometimes they really scare me and sometimes I manage to remeber that we’ve been on terrible paths before.
well, at least its David Gregory subbing for Timmeuh!
thanks for the morning ’round-up, PJ. You and Frank Rich always start my Sundays. :love:
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how timely!
Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry
and
How’s your bite coming along, Melina?
hey Dru- mom says that its about knowing what they are thinking and doing….no one listens to them to believe what theyre saying.
And now…its interesting to watch them reposition frantically while looking cool.
cCain just called Lieberman a great American but said that he has to support the candidate of the Republican party from CT…but the party is skirting the endorsement issue altogether.
If you want more info on bozo schlesinger, who wont step aside, look at ripcoco one post below frank rich…..
What a clown!
A gift to Stewart and Colbuerre….
funny but it got a bad bump and briuse which still hurts…then that spread and faded really quick leav ing a little whitish area and now its OK…except that my joints hurt in my hands…but thats the Lyme…
Hopefully its just going away…if it was a recluse or whatever, I might get sick a few days later, right?
Oh well….how is Mr?…food poisoning passed? It must be horrible to get all dehydrated in that sorta heat then have to pull it together and rehydrate quickly….
a cople of dogs here seem to be throwing up and having the big D….cant tell whats up but am giving peptobismol, because it works!
Has anyone heard of this MyBio20?
Its in NY right now and is home heating oil that is 20% soybean or corn oil and the state gives a tax rebate and its cheaper…and you dont have to change your burner for it…? I heard a commercial here for it. I wonder what the word is….
At least interesting till I get the solar….
om just called and said that Lamont is on ch 2 (Kirtzman and Kramer?) and that there is something on 5 about parrots…She wanted to screw up my Sun schedule….
Ned does teaching in the Bridgeport school systems and hes saying how most of the highschool kids are out by 2:30 and go home to an empty house…that we need to expand arts and sciences and afterschool programs…he is all abou education and is teaching high school kids what is needed to start a business.
The martha Stewart Pet guy is on Fox…I love him…lots of Parrot stuff….Ferrets…ugh! Will wants one but they smell so badly I have to say NO!!
This is from yesterday’s New York Post, the wingnut paper of NYC. I love the logic:
‘RIGHTS’ RUN AMOK
By ARNOLD AHLERT
August 18, 2006 — THREE pillars of liberalism – moral relativity, the sexual “revolution” and the obsession with “rights” – are on a collision course with reality in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
In a recent pre-trail motion, Phillip Distasio – accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities – claimed that having sex with children “is a sacred ritual protected by civil-rights laws.”
“I’ve been a pedophile for 20 years. The only reason I’m charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry [Distasio claims he is the leader of a church] is to get these cases out of the courtrooms,” said Distasio.
Shocking? Certainly not – if one takes the aforementioned pillars to their “logical” conclusions: Right and wrong are relative, sexual taboos are anachronistic and individual rights are paramount.
Well, we know about the Post….The great one was the baby bomber last week. I did a blog post on that but it got lost…wahh…
They had a huge headline saying that the terraests were gonna now use babies and that a plot had been exposed…and it was written is nuch sensational terms as to make the Enquirer look tame….and then it turned ou that it was nothing. No evidence rules the day…and hysteria coming from any fringe element floating any crazy idea. These people should take their Thorazine and shut the hell up….
But the whole point was it wasnt before SNBC brought in a specialist on Terrahests who talked abot the emergence of women as bombers but said that children have not been used and women are actually rather rare and usually only in it because of a man that theyve fallen in love with or something…not God.
So, when the Post starts talking about NABLA and its offshoots I start looking for what they want to distract me from….
Like there is nothing that bush can do now.
This AM on …oh one of the shows…the conservative begin questioned said that no october surprise will reverse whats gonna happen the the Repugs in the midterms….
Of course…I never relax because maybe a meteorite heading to NYC could be arranged or something…
Fight em in space before we have to fight ’em at home….
that’s outrageous, sueP….. :billcat:
Sunday Thought:
Is it futile or too optimistic to hope for an AAR announcement about a new radio show called, “Mornings with Marc Maron” ? I daydream.
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hey PJ, just noticed the MS logo in the address bar. How long has it been there (in other words, how unobservant am I)?
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…and that fits with the beastiality idea begin floated….
Sam actually did a funny thing on where we draw the line.
Anyone who goes for that line of “logic” is part of a tiny fringe faction…because we have a built in empathy for children in that theyre cute and we were them once….so we know that they cant consent…ha!
Its different when youre floating something that we know nothing about.
The logical conclusion to free sex is not sex with children and animals unless youe a pedophile or into beastiality…right? and thats really fringe…I mean…yuck!!
Leave it to the POST…
I used to like the post when I was a kid int he club business because we had to deal with page 6 all the time to get press and plant storie of who was coming to what party….and I always had that “Headless Body in Topless Bar” front page on my office wall….That was before murdoch, I think…
And Pete Hammil used to have a colum in either the news or the post…along with Breslin….
But then there was the Soho news and the real Village Voice too…
NYC has been taken over by an element that doesnt really reflect the people at all….or its all in jest….
Its pretty new Kat…I only noticed last night….and maybe its only in Firefox…?
The NY Post is a wonder at misinformation. They were very good at propping Rudy and hiis thugs up. At the time they were the cheapest paper in the City at 25 cents. The Times of course, is $1.
nope…not on IE
OOOHHH…Sue, did you hear that there is a book ocming out abou 911 that smears Rudy and what really happened?
maybe its Kerrick…..
one of those guys…..
Why was the control center in the WTC which was known to be a target? Why was the FUEL RESERVE in one of the WTC buildings? Why was the GOLD all down there?
What genius of safety planning set that up?
The only reason that Rudy was down there was because thats where the control bunker was…..BUT that was the target always…since it was built as a big Fuck You to the world!
glad I’m relatively still “with it” melina. I’m using Safari so it’s working on this as well.
today is wash & wax day for a certain Briard i know. :billcat:
What a great photo op for Rudy but he really ducked into a storefront and went into the basement and hid for most of it….then got to march out in the dust with photogs snapping his pic.
Its as bad as Bush arriving and posing then leaving.
Chelsea Clinton was also down there…but she didnt go out and march throgh the dust for the photogs…if she had she could have been a “hero” too.
I sorta wonder when the real heros start standing up and saying that this was a bunch of shit…and that Rudy couldnt get along with anyone before that….his governing style was to sweep the streets over and over rather than trying to solve problems…
Problem is that so many of the real heros are hooked to O2 tanks now and cant stand up…and they arent getting much care either…
Sue, are you in manhattan?
I need to do that too…I managed one or two this week of the little ones, but its Lola who is DIRTY….she goes up to the dog run and runs with puppy….oh, and she is a mess…it rained all night.
uh-oh Kat….Bartolomo has the rich kid syndrome on TV….bad parenting and no limits and society sending wrong messages….
Oh, I added that yesterday, I guess. Been trying to think of something a bit more creative, but at 16 x 16 pixels, you’re kinda limited. I also added a thing for FireFox at the end of the sidebar (but you should only see that if you’re not using FireFox. Saw somebody that posted the other day that FF chokes on this site, but it’s all I ever use (unless I’m checking to see what IE is doing to it), so I don’t think that’s the problem. One thing that slows it down is waiting to load the “Save the Internet” thing, and also loading the statcounter thing tends to slow it down, too.
I find I can’t “live” w/o my FireFox extensions, but Opera is a good browser, too, and the free version with the ads isn’t too annoying. I use IE7 beta 2 when I use IE (not a bad effort – it has tabbed browsing, but not the extensions).
a friend or ours was in charge during the recovery – he’s already had one surgery for a brain tumor.
any kid who wants to work up here will make a mint because no one wants to shovel or mow or anything…..they are all travelling in europe or at fancy camp…..
Oh, it works w/ IE7, but the wife has IE6, and it isn’t on there, for some reason. Oh well, go figure.
glad I’m fairly observant, pj.
ciao!
om has dust still coming in her apartment. There was always black dust in the city…but since 911, its white dust.
It worries me because om was down there walking around the zone for the whole 2 weeks that everything was shut down…even though she cold get a train she wouldnt leave….they kept saying the air was OK…but it was clear that it wasnt.
Brother in law walked north and got out that night on one train running…and friend who was on 19th floor also walked north and went home to brooklyn saying over and over that he had left his wallet in his desk….and then never talked about it….
friends on ave D and 7th st photographed the second plane from their roof and then stayed down there for another year with PTSD…now are travelling all over the country sort of rootless.
And I was in Yoga at the JCC where I ran ot throgh all the cop cars that had screeched up to protect the Jewish center and ran for gas and water and William (one of our schoolmates father was in the Pentagon and he was saying that there were 7 unaccounted for planes….)
Ive been really remembering it alot this year with September coming…..
almost like the fight against Bush really has kept my mind busy and now that hes finally going down Im starting to look at all thats happened along the way….
Melina, I’m in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which is across the water from Manhattan. We watched 9/11 from the roof and the waterfront. My husband saw the first plane hit as he walked the dog. And, all the smog blew right across thye river and over us.
As for Rudy, he built the bunker on the 23rd floor of Bldg 7, in the World Trade Center because it helped some real estate pal of his. (I’ve forgotten all the details) The decision was roundly criticized by everyone. Rudy didn’t care. His one objective, like every rethug, was to make himself and his friends rich.
Although many people do not remember, Rudy was not doing well before 9/11. His performance that day, got him accolades from the country but he was still reviled in the City. His reaction to 9/11 was to try to put off the mayoral election and to stay in office for a further period of time. There was no support for it in NYC.
If the new book lists but a few of the underhanded, crony-driven, ineffectual and counterproductive stuff he did it will be devastating. And then there is his personal life…..
My pre-teen wont do much, but I do what they said to do in that I make him go back a re-do what he does wrong…like the towels on the floor…otherwise I have another load of laundry with how fast things mildew here….
OK, time to get stuff done….
Ah, I grew up in Cobble Hill….
Oh Yeah…I hope Rudy runs in the primary at least…just for the fun of smearing him.
Remember him pulling all funding from the Brooklyn useum because of the elephant shit madonna….and the piss christ?…we were so innocnet back then!
I think a big problem w/ the “left” is that nobody’s ever “good” enough to get support from everybody. I’m very conflicted. On the one hand, I think it’s important to hold the politician’s feet to the fire, and try to keep them to the left of Mussolini as much as possible. On the other hand, when I see shit written by people who never, ever seem to think anybody is left enough, or a perfect enough candidate (who never seem to actually do anything, except for criticize everybody else), I get annoyed.
I mean, in the end, it’s only the people who stand a chance of getting elected to office that can actually change the system. And of course, once they get in because of the system, they tend to try to protect the system.
And the ones who can’t get elected in the current system can only piss and moan about how everybody’s being mean to them, and how nobody’s any good.
When Donna went on TV and told what was going on…and then he had to leave the mansion….sweet!
meantime, the police were tasked with moving homeless from heating grates and they would go setler someplace else and then get moved again…homeless people on no sleep….then, and still, it seems that the homelesss sleep during the day…..there are more and more.
Yeah, but now the left has moved and the right has moved…and people like Ned Lamont are hopefully gonna come forward …people who owe the system nothing.
Yeah, except I’m sure Ned isn’t “left” enough, either. And they really need to get Joey to drop out of the race – hopefully at a late enough stage where the other Republican candidate doesn’t stand a chance of getting elected.
Melina, How nice to know a fellow Brooklynite. But, you’re not in Brooklyn anymore are you?
As for Rudy, it is hard for me to contain myself when I think about him. I had a Voodoo Rudy doll which my friends and family stuck many LONG pins in. When he came down with prostate cancer I felt gratified and guilty.:oops:
Melina, when you were growing up in Cobble Hill, did you get to Red Hook? The neighborhood has always had such a bad rep that even people from the surrounding neighborhoods didn’t go there.
Sue, we took the 61 bus…..Mom says that the Observer (which is online now) has a whole section on Red Hook and how people get there….that its called the supermarket of heaven and the parking lot of hell.
Its the best place to live now….according to Mom.
We still have the house in cobble Hill and Mom rents it out to a few architect boys.
PJ….Schlesinger wouldnt stand a snowball’s chance in hell either way. did you see the clips off my blog of him on hardball?…god what a dolt! There is NO WAY!
Sue…here is the article…apparently about the new Fairway. The NY Observer has a new owner and is online….JOe Conasin is their international correspondent.
I read something somewhere that said Lamont needs to come out and attack Schlesinger, in order to legitimize him and split some of the Republican vote away from Lieberman.
Thanks, Melina.
When I moved to Red Hook there was no supermarket. Just many bodegas. I couldn’t buy yogurt or cottage cheese but I could get a pink Twinky at midnight. The streets were so quiet at night I could hear my dog’s nails clicking on the cobblestones and the only sounds that interfered were the fog horns.
Now we have Fairway. A really amazing supermarket. But, it’s brought a lot of traffic, several accidents and one traffic death.
We all got out our signs and whistles etc and had a nice protest on Van Brunt Street and got to glare at the Fairway traffic. Now we have painted crosswalks but no traffic lights. I guess the crosswalk will tell the speeders where to aim!
Well, its always like that…did you grow up in Brooklyn? When I was a kid, I was in a very bad neighborhood that straddled the miafia and puerto ricans, with a little pocket of arty single moms and muslims in the middle. It was rough but we ran all over the place in those days….and bought our pot on president st and down by the docks…and hung out on a stoop on congress street, often walking all the way to park slope and through prospect park and then back. The across the brooklyn bridge to dim sum in chinatown and back…My Mom was a big walker so we became like that too as we got older.
But gentrification has been sweeping through for my whole life, and hardly any of the bodegas or the old vegetable lady who made fresh candy apples, and Roy the meatman (who happened to own his building and theone next to it and realized one day that he was rich)….I guess it happens.
Spike Lee lived on my street until he was a teen…THEN he moved to Bed Stuy….ha! I went to public school with his sister Joy who is now JOIE….
So funny.
My Mom was just saying that she had looked at some buildings down there and knew that she shoulda bought but it was so hard for her, as a single Mom, to just manage us and what she had…but she saw it coming up and watched helplessly….
Same thing with Cape Cod…oh well…
At least Grandpa bought this place in the early 40’s when no one would come up here!
off to drop Mom at the station….
i saw :sammy: in the address bar and *POOF* it’s now a world. But I use to see the MS, so that’s weird. hmmmm must be this Safari that some think is evil. If it killed Sammy, then perhaps it is. :omg:
:sammy: IS ALIVE!! :sammy: IS ALIVE! :gate: 😀
Our Blog Lord must be playing! :bong:
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Melina,
I love your descriptions of Brooklyn. I guess you’re one who knows where South Brooklyn actually is.
I grew up in Brooklyn, down near the Belt Parkway. I came to Red Hook looking for pot and found a neat little scruffy place with not a lot of people. It is certainly gentrifying, though. Too bad.
We have a 200 year old house. Very small. Needed lots and lots and still more work. 200 years in a poor neighborhood means lots of cheap renovations, each reflecting the skills of the renovator. Lots of tin ceilings. Tin walls too. Scary, very inadequate electricity that consisted of one light bulb in the middle of every room with one of those screw in things that allows you to plug things into the light outlet. There was a bathroom too. It was little better than the outhouse it replaced. We dug up the old outhouse. Found bottles, a rusted gun, lots of metal spikes and tools and lots of bones…no skulls. We sincerely hope they were not human bones.
We also found a canonball from the English ship, the Roebuck, that fired on Red Hook during the revolution. I know this because we had it authenticated by the now deceased borough historian, John Gallagher.
We’ve been working ont this little house for almost 20 years. I am nothing if not patient.
Giuliani for President? Sure, why not just burn the rest of this disaster to the ground.
Rudy was so brillant in fighting crime in NYC that he managed to have the same exact effect in almost every other major city in the US during the 90’s. Couldn’t have had anything to do with the fact that the entire US population got older, and most 45 year olds aren’t too good at mugging, could it?
Forget about Giuliani’s lack of credentials to be president: what type of walking, breathing cancerous tumor calls a press conference to announce that he’s been cheating on his wife, without making any attempt to screen his children from it? Care to predict the psychiatric history those kids are going to have?
Oh year; there was also the time that the cop murdered the 14 year old black kid, and Rudy announced before he was in the ground that “he was no choir boy, you know” and it turned out that he was!
And with all that, he’s still a better person than George Allen. :sammy:
Giuliani better than Allen? No way. Just a different accent.
Mexico Bracing for Social Unrest
Tanks are deployed as the nation awaits a ruling on who won the July 2 presidential vote.
By Héctor Tobar, Times Staff Writer
August 20, 2006
MEXICO CITY — A line of armored vehicles awaits outside Mexico’s Congress building. Most are brand-new and have never seen action. But many Mexicans wonder whether their menacing presence is a harbinger of this divided country’s future.
Federal authorities deployed the tanks to prevent supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador from shutting down Mexico’s legislature in a bid to pressure the Federal Electoral Tribunal to order a full recount of all 41 million votes in the disputed July 2 presidential election.
On Monday, the first and only street battle of Mexico’s election controversy erupted outside Congress when federal police arrived to disperse supporters of Lopez Obrador. A handful of lawmakers were bruised in the melee.
“What happened at the legislative palace may be a rehearsal for what we can expect after the tribunal renders its final decision,” said Leo Zuckermann, a political analyst here. “Lopez Obrador knows he won’t win before the tribunal…. What he is trying to accomplish now is to start a social movement.”
http://tinyurl.com/oyg28
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Tanks against a bunch of unarmed peasants.. :fu::fu::fu::fu::fu::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason::jason:
:fist:
From the WSJ
12:30 p.m.: Israeli officials say Prime Minister Olmert has rejected the presence of peacekeepers in Lebanon from countries that don’t have relations with Israel. Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh — Muslim countries that do not have diplomatic ties with Israel — are among the only countries to have offered front-line troops for the expanded force.
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If Israel keeps up the genocide there will only be Muslim counties and no one will recognize Israel. Several South American countries have broken off diplomatic relations over this last fiasco
But hey the 22nd is Tuesday..:eek::eek:
Hillary gets ready to run
Her Husband has begun to coordinate speeches with senator If you ask anyone around Hillary Clinton the question that everyone is asking, the answer comes back in a shot: The freshman Senator from New York is far too busy concentrating on her re-election in November to be giving even a passing thought to 2008. Thank you very much. But politics is ultimately a game of logistics, and the junior Senator is putting the machinery in place for a campaign that looks far grander than a re-election cakewalk in New York. All it will need is for someone to throw the switch. Against virtually nonexistent opposition for her Senate seat, she is raising money as though she were in the fight of her life, bringing in more than $33 million. What’s left over—which might easily be $10 million or more—could be the seed money for a presidential campaign. And as her husband did the year before launching his 1992 bid for the presidency, she has been putting together the intellectual pieces of a campaign agenda in a series of centrist, high-fiber speeches around energy policy, the economy, privacy and even rural issues. Her political operation has grown to an army of 32 full-time employees, plus 10 from her Senate office who draw part of their salary there and 13 consultants who are building, among other things, a national direct-mail operation. She recently added an Internet guru to their ranks. And offering his services for free is the best Democratic political strategist on the planet: Bill Clinton is “thinking about [her presidential prospects] all the time,” says one of Hillary’s advisers. “He’s thinking about it and talking to a lot of people, promoting Hillary. This is something he is very focused on.”‘s campaign.
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Read the comments..:omg:
Hillary Shmillary…of course when people (dems, usually) around here find out I’m not voting for her and I don’t like her they nearly have heart attacks on the spot…. why don’t they freaking erect a statue to her, sheesh….
State of Belief will be in Portland for a conference next week. The preacher told KPOJ listeners to be sure to attend. I switched over to KPOJ–I was streaming– and it was a Randi rerun!
:omg:
I tried to get 1600 on my little clock radio and could barely hear it…worse than WLIB! I really am going to have to fix the Grundig…
Vote for Tasini! At least send a message to that megalomaniac:
No Presidential Run!
:omg:
I will do that…
GRUNDIG! Mercedes-Benz of radio.
I need a new antenna on it also…but it is such a cool radio
Grundig G4000A
AM/FM/SW/SSB Radio
The Grundig G4000A, with its sleek titanium look, is packed with features like no other compact shortwave radio in its class.
Coverage is complete including long wave (144 – 353 kHz), AM band to 1710 kHz and shortwave from 1711 to 30000 kHz. FM stereo is provided to the headphone jack. A thumb wheel knob on the side of the radio provides smooth single sideband (SSB) tuning. Single Sideband allows for the reception of two-way communications such as amateur radio, military, maritime and international aeronautical traffic.
The illuminated digital display provides tuning resolution at 1 or 5 kHz on shortwave. Precise tuning is assured. Two bandwidths are featured. The narrow position affords maximum selectivity, or the wide position may be chosen for best audio fidelity. The keypad will quickly get you to any frequency or store up to 40 of your favorite stations in the presets. The presets may be accessed directly or you can scan through them by using the radio’s second set of UP/DOWN buttons. The G4000A can also frequency search. The dual digital clock is visible while the radio is playing. Other refinements include: snooze and sleep buttons, lock, Hi/Low tone switch, Local/DX switch, and 9/10 kHz MW step selection.
* Black leatherette protective case
* Back of the radio even has a flip-out tilt stand
* Requires six AA cells (not supplied)
* External earphone jacks
Includes: AC adapter, stereo ear plugs, wind-up antenna, owners Manual and vinyl carry case.
Dimensions: 8 W x 5 H x 1.5 D; Weight: 1 lb. 5 oz.
Grundig G4000A Radio
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Grundig
shortwave AM/FM radios
Is it a small portable radio?
small, but not transistor sized…
AM antennas are probably readily available at the local Lafayette, of independent electronics store.
http://tinyurl.co.uk/rrc1
that’s the radio
Table radio? One you could keep in a kitchen?
Anyway, an AM antenna would be easy to obtain.
I’m sure once I find an electronics store to fix it they can also put on an antenna
You would bring in AM 1600 easily, with a cheap antenna.
I want one!
:omg:
It needs repair? What is wrong with it?
tell me when your birthday is 🙂
I think it’s the on/off switch. I think so because before it stopped working I had occasional trouble turning it on, but then other times it would turn on easily
I have so many radios. But Grundig makes some special ones. Anybody get that C-Crain radio that AAR and Art Bell both tout?
http://www.tasinifornewyork.org/
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warmonger Hillary may find less people voting for her than she thinks… the war is hardly popular these days, Lieberman found that out…
Howie, not Hillary (or even Jonny).
interesting, PJ. I’ll read more about him
Don’t vote for DLC demodorps ..just don’t.., object to you local party if they run them.. throw bricks at them if they do run ( balloons filled with yellow paint are also cool):eek::eek::eek:
I wouldn’t vote for one of those… :omg:
Howie was one of the co-founders of the Green Party in the United States, in 1984. You can read the Wikipedia entry on him (among others) for more info.
The ocean is slowly claiming Malasiga. They say it’s global warming.
By Evan Osnos
Tribune foreign correspondent
Published August 20, 2006
MALASIGA, Papua New Guinea — First, their fathers noticed the palm trees that seemed to be inching toward the water’s edge and the fire pit that vanished beneath the tides.
Later, researchers came, scribbled measurements and offered a grim diagnosis: The sea is coming.
-snip-
“There used to be two rows of houses,” said Mickey Tarabi, a wood carver in his 50s, nodding toward the crystal blue sea. “The first one has been moved, and the second one will be gone soon.”
-snip-
Here, rising waters are swamping coastal villages and small islands. Salt water is inundating coastal farms, destroying vital crops and orchards. Among the hardest hit areas are the Carteret Islands, where citizens have tried and failed to hold back rising waters. In April, a minister who visited the area returned to report that islanders were surviving on only coconuts and fish after relief supplies ran out.
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“In 1997, some graduate students came and told us this was going to happen,” he said, “And now it has happened.”
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This is from the Chicago tribune.. You apparently have to be a paid subscriber to read the whole thing.
Susan should go down to the docks on the east river and see if their is a water level indicator some place and give us a weekly report. When the ocean starts flooding the trading floor of the NY stock exchange it will be a bit to late.:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
there’s been an awful lot of rain in NYC area this past spring and summer…(record breaking, in fact) so rising rivers and waterways may also be indicative of that..of course the rain could be part of the global warming thing also…
thanks for the information PJ…
Is Howie running in the primary against Nicola Clinton?
Colorado seems to be having April and Mays moisture this August.. If this rainy weather keeps up through the same time next month we usually will start to have have SNOW
:eek::eek::eek:
yeah, that’s Denver for ya… get the snowblower out, Fred 🙁
Acting on [Obrador’s] complaints, Mexico’s electoral tribunal completed a recount of ballots cast at 9 per cent of the polling stations on Sunday. It has not yet released its findings. The tribunal, made up of seven magistrates, has until 31 August to rule on the complaints. They must formally name the new president by 6 September.
Media reports in Mexico have suggested that the partial recount may have shifted the numbers very slightly away from Mr Calderon and revealed scattered problems, including mathematical errors in the count. But the problems do not seem to be on a scale sufficient to change his status as the winner, or lead the tribunal to accept Mr Lopez Obrador’s demands for a full recount of every vote.
Most analysts still believe that Felipe Calderon will finally be declared the winner. In the first count, he held a razor-thin margin of 244,000 votes over Mr Lopez Obrador, equivalent to about half of one per cent.
A spokesman for the PRD this week implicitly accepted that Mr Calderon may in the end take the keys to the presidential residence. But Gerardo Fernandez warned:
“He will be a president under siege… he will not be able to operate outside his office.”
DAVID USBORNE
Where have we heard that?
For the Lebanese, the view is very different. In the thirty day war, most of the country’s political groups and most of the country have come together in supporting the struggle against Israeli aggression led by the Shiite Muslim-led organization. First among these is the country’s Maronite Christian President Emile Lahoud, who is not shy about praising “the leadership of Hezbollah in the national resistance.” Everybody acknowledges that Hezbollah’s sterling military performance is the source of what the Daily Star calls the “unprecedented level of solidarity” of Lebanese society today. Domestic critics who, at the start of the war, accused Hezbollah of dragging Lebanon into war by capturing two Israeli soldiers for prisoner-exchange purposes are quiet in these heady days of national pride.
:rabbi:
TEHRAN, Aug 19: Iranian armed forces held a massive military manoeuvre on Saturday to test new weapons and tactics against a potential enemy, state television reported.
The first stage of ‘Zolfaghar Blow’ commenced in Sistan-Baluchestan. The manoeuvres will continue in 15 other provinces.
The army’s chief commander said the country should be ready for possible attacks by the United States and Israel.
“The enemy has gone insane because of the capabilities of Lebanon’s Hezbollah. And given the insane enemy’s history, we should always be prepared,” Maj-Gen Ataollah Salehi was quoted as saying by IRNA.
“The main objective of this operation is to adopt up-to-date tactics and use new equipment to be able to respond to possible threats, enabling us to confront the enemy in several fronts in the country,” Brig-Gen Kiumars Heydari said.
According to the report, the manoeuvre tests a new anti-aircraft strategy to “make the air space insecure for the enemy,” while using different types of helicopters, fighter planes and land forces warfare. “We have been alert and watching the world’s developments and we have invested in both modern tactics and equipment,” Brig-Gen Heydari said.—AFP
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Like I said above the 22nd is Tuesday..:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
No, Howie is running as a Green. So, after Tasini loses by a narrow margin (still would’ve preferred Greenfield, but anyways, if you’re a registered Democrat, Tasini – who has been linked over the on the right for many, many months now) it’s time to vote for Howie. Howie was the only person with the guts to run against our scumbag Republican Congressman last time around (got 10% of the vote, which I guess isn’t too shabby, considerign all the money the other guy has).
You guys don’t get a hell of a lot of snow out there in Denver, do ya?
Post by LucidNation:
Aug 20, 2006 3:07 PM
Subject The Rebirth of Music? (Why Wired is Full of Shit)
Body: Have you seen the new issue of Wired? The pink one with every music fan’s favorite scientologist Beck staring out like a deer caught in headlights? Intersecting his torso is the bold headline “The Rebirth of Music.”
Wired, Beck, and most intelligent music fans and creatures of the music business understand the music business is changing fast. TV and movie people are watching the destruction with the fascination of homeowners in Pompeii watching lava take out the suburbs.
These days in the music business you have a choice. Climb on board The Titanic for a short but luxurious cruise or get in your covered wagon and hit the bumpy road to the new frontier.
Now, like my Kentucky ancestors I’ve been out here on the frontier for a long time in my coonskin cap. So I was anxious to see what these city slickers would make of my neighborhood. At least it was worth a few laughs!
Well, Wired certainly got the idea, alright. But they sure missed the point! To get started, who better to ask about the future of record labels than Beck, the art star who has had his ass kissed by indie and major labels all his life? Beck can’t imagine a future without record labels of one kind or another. Isn’t that surprising?
Wired talks to Beck about “The Future of the Album.” Beck and Wired agree the days of the CD are numbered. Beck thinks each release should now be an amorphous collective of videos and tracks remixable by fans. Wired gilds this lily with the phrase: “the infinite album.”
I called my version of the future of the album the hundred song march and broke it up into episodes for each phase in my life as an artist. What seems to have escaped Wired is the simple beauty of a musical autobiography, ongoing and archived. Something every band should have but almost no band has.
It’s no surprise that of the twenty or so shining lights of the new music business profiled by Wired only three are female, two Pitchfork employees a nervous looking woman who picks which dumbshit band gets to sell its soul for a song on The OC. Wired describes her as the most powerful music talent scout in the business. Yikes.
And about Pitchfork. Did you know they are so daring they gave a zero point zero to Sonic Youth once? Oh. My. God. Balls of steel there my friend. But here’s the real mind blower. When Pitchfork gave a nine point nerf to the band Social Scene, MORE PEOPLE CAME TO THEIR SHOWS! Staggering! Groundbreaking! Look, anybody who rates records with a number with a decimal is a weiner.
But my favorite was the suit without a suit Wired trotted out as the primo example of the new music business. What revolutionarily great cultural phenom of a band has this genius brought to the public? Bare Naked Ladies. What underground techniques has he pioneered to break through the corporate strangehold on distribution and publicity? NASCAR promotions and SIMS placement. Woof.
Did Wired give little feature boxes to a band that really broke on the web like say Dresden Dolls? Nope. This isnt the rebirth of music, it’s selling the same old crap in a new way. If this is the new music business it’s anthem should be a song by The Who, especially those lines: “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
I stick to my vision of the rebirth of music. Artists with their own cameras, digital recording and wifi net access will create masterpieces of communication and emotion. Most won’t waste very much time on magazines and other functions of mass media. Music fans will become hunter gatherers. The best bands will be like new flowers in a sunny field discovered by bees.
Tamra
Lucidnation
Right On!:omg:
:jesus:
No the winter itself is really dry.. The going into and coming out parts are not… Usually we get the most snow in the spring time but the night time temps get down into the 30’s starting in mid September and if it rains and that continues into the night time you get a couple of inches but its all gone by noon. In the spring we get blizzards, and six to ten inch snow falls. They too only last a couple of days.:eek::eek::eek::omg:
stick to my vision of the rebirth of music. Artists with their own cameras, digital recording and wifi net access will create masterpieces of communication and emotion. Most won’t waste very much time on magazines and other functions of mass media. Music fans will become hunter gatherers. The best bands will be like new flowers in a sunny field discovered by bees.
Methinks the internet is the future of music, unless of course they kill it… it can expose new artists and talent (as well as old disappeared talent _ :omg:
I remember riding in the back of an open pickup truck in May, up through the Eisenhower tunnel. Started out warm, but got so goddamn cold as we started going uphill, I thought I was gonna freeze to death. Very pretty, though.
“They” can only “kill it” if we allow them to monopolize the scene.
DIY is the only way
To be with God on your
Dying day.
they won’t kill it if I have anything to do with it… :fist:
I knew Beck in Olympia. I did not know he was a Hubbardite.
:omg:
Beck
One of the most inventive and eclectic figures to emerge from the ’90s alternative revolution, Beck was the epitome of postmodern chic in an era obsessed with junk culture. Drawing upon a kaleidoscope of influences — pop, folk, psychedelia, hip-hop, country, blues, R&B, funk, indie rock, noise rock, experimental rock, jazz, lounge, Brazilian music — Beck created a body of work that was wildly unpredictable, vibrantly messy, and bursting with ideas. He was unquestionably a product of the media age …
In 1992, Beck traveled to Olympia, WA, to record for Calvin Johnson’s K label, and also inked a publishing deal with BMG. At the beginning of 1993, Beck finally saw his first official releases: the single “MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack” on Flipside, and the full-length, cassette-only Golden Feelings on Sonic Enemy. In September, Bong Load finally released “Loser” as a 12″ single, and it became an instant smash on L.A.’s independent radio stations, so much so that Bong Load had trouble pressing enough copies to keep up with the demand. Combining a funky drum-machine track and Beck’s nonsense raps with bluesy slide guitar and a sample of Dr. John’s “I Walk on Gilded Splinters,” “Loser” sounded like nothing else. Word spread quickly, helped out by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, who raved about Beck after seeing him perform at a backyard party. A major-label bidding war ensued, and Beck signed an innovative contract with Geffen that allowed him to continue releasing uncommercial material on smaller independent labels.
:omg:
seems like he knows an awful lot… ❗
“I’m a loser, baby
Why don’t you just
fucking kill me
Is George Allen the son of the great NFL coach?
Comment by NickiRose — August 19, 2006 @ 9:08 pm
Yes. Sorry to take so long responding, Nicki, but this is the first time I’ve been on the blog since last night just before you posted.
George and Bruce Allen’s sister (I don’t remember her name) wrote a book recently about growing up in such a football-oriented family. Someone was discussing it last week – can’t remember whether it was Rachel or Stephanie Miller. Apparently young George was quite the racist bully in his youth. Hard to imagine, I know.
Aaaargh! Cnick is ahead of me. I knew it was coming, but didn’t expect it so soon. Looks like last night’s blogfest did it.
Congratulations, dude. Now I have to worry about someone else passing me sight unseen and knocking me off the list completely. Guess I need to post more.
I’m a loser baby so why don’t you kill me?
:omg::pent:
:jesus:
Or do one of these deals
Where I take one or two ideas
And shred them into multiple posts!
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
honestly, that’s like the one song I know by Beck…
So I signed up for a MySpace account
So I could link to Maron as a friend and get his appearance schedule
In case he ever gigs in FL. As if.
But now all the women who want to be my friend
Want me to pay them money
The riot grrrls scene in the NW really started trashing that “loser, baby” song and the cultural fad it spawned.
To watch them take their clothes off
ah, there’s also Maron’s fan site (run by Quiet Girl)
http://www.myspace.com/maronfans
Now this does indeed sound friendly, BUT…
OK. You caught nick thomas’s ass.
If they were REALLY my friends, they would take their clothes off for free, right?
LOL Kevin, that’s what happens to all the guys when they start with my space…
Hey, I caught Cnick. Cool. I can stop now. I know it won’t last, but what the hell.
LOL Kevin, that’s what happens to all the guys when they start with my space…
Comment by Susan Joy — August 20, 2006 @ 7:45 pm
Gee, I thought I was special.:rofl2:
One of them actually claims to live in St Pete, but I’m thinking I should probably take that with a rather large grain of salt.
And I mean, I guess what I’m saying is “I’m just too cool… to be on your fuckin record.” You know? It’s like I really don’t wanna perpetuate or be included in a thing where it’s just a bunch of like, I don’t know, just like this new. The music coming out by guys right now in the sort of like rock world or alternative rock world or used-to-be-punk world or whatever. It’s like the whole, “I’m a straight, white, middle class, male, rockstar guy, but I’m so fuckin oppressed.” “I’m a loser baby why don’t you kill me.” [Sigh] Yawn. Like super fuckin yawn. So yeah, I guess what I’m saying is No. No. No. No. I’m not interested. No. I don’t wanna be on your fuckin record. No. But ummm. Mr. Watt. Dude. Babe. Sir. Uh, you need to get me my fuckin Annie soundtrack back like soon cuz you’ve had it forever and I know you haven’t even fuckin listened to it yet. Just like, gimme a call and tell me when that’s going to happen. And ummm. I’ll talk to you then. Bye.”
(Portion of a phonecall by a Riot GRRL!!!!)
I’m going to stop now before I annoy anyone more than usual. Good night all. :sheep::sheep::sheep:
PJ should only count one liners after 11 pm..After three glasses of wine or two bennadryl its difficult to come up with more than one line at a time at that time of night.:yawn::yawn::fustrate::paranoid:
so girls (grrrls? spare me…) who resent men with fake angst replace the scene with their own fake angst…. rahhhr. Go girls, go
And I mean, I guess what I’m saying is “I’m just too cool… to be on your fuckin record.”
Comment by NickiRose — August 20, 2006 @ 7:47 pm
Oh man. I used to have that Mike Watt CD. Lost it a couple of years ago and really miss it.
OK, this time I’m out. For real.
:40:
Kevin, a guy I know actually thought one of those was a real girl in his hometown who wanted to date him…he wised up quickly. At least you seem to know what the deal is 😉
Riot Grrrl (or Riot Grrl) is a feminist musical movement that reached its height in the 1990s but continues to exert significant influence over alternative music and culture. The term Riot Grrrl is also a genre designation, referring both to the punk rock music made by the movement’s initial members, and can also encompass the diverse array of music created in its wake. The term can also refer to individual self-proclaimed Riot Grrrls, who continue to foster a woman-friendly Do-It-Yourself punk subculture by organizing all-female bands, female-centric music festivals, group meetings, and independent publications (or zines).
Hey. I do not mock that scene!
some of the music may well be really good (probably some bands I know) but what’s with the anti male rocker stance? Oh, whatever. I can see if they’re against the real anti-woman rockers like Axl Rose etc but Beck was pretty harmless
It is not that bad. Anyway, I knew a number of the Olympia people–and the stories I could tell. Cover and dilute my slogans and activism!
:omg:
OOPs I thought Nicki was confessing to Susan….:oops: That’s what you get when you don’t read the whole post.:shock::roll:
mm rock n roll stories, you’ll have to share them with me sometime
I saw Bikini Kill at one of their first performances. BAD! But then….minraud!
:omg:
read whole posts! Yes, please do! :omg:
sometimes you have to suffer through one band to hear something really good…well, lots of times in fact… what the “we’re albinos, we’re latinos” or whatever band, Nirvana, did you see them in their heyday?
I don’t think Beck was particularly trashed by the RGs–not for sexism, anyway. Criticism was of the “loser, baby” attitude that had become the hip persona in the mid-1990s. Beck may represent mainsteam now, but that is hard no to do after…
yeah, that did become a commercialized image for male rockers
I had friends in Olympia who had a neighbor named Kurt. Loud band practices!
Cover my political expressions, MF’er!
:omg:
mmm those were the days…
I saw them in their early days. Halloween party in A-Dorm.
Does a tape exist of that?
:omg:
hehe I want to hear (and see) :pent:
Did you catch Gus Van Sant’s impressionistic film of Kurt Cobain?
It was ok. I got a more positive response by the recent pic about a similar rockstar of an earlier era, Stoned. People were telling me about how bad it was. Not really. Some flaws, to be sure. But it did tell the story of his last days.
no, I meant to see that one, just another to add to the list
Beyond the Multiplex
Was the Stones’ Brian Jones murdered?
By Andrew O’Hehir
Stephen Woolley believes he has solved a 37-year-old murder mystery, and the world is pretty much divided into two kinds of people: Those who will be utterly fascinated by “Stoned,” Woolley’s film about the 1969 death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, and those who couldn’t possibly care less.
You don’t have to have been alive or conscious in the summer of 1969 to care about Brian Jones. To a certain breed of rock ‘n’ roll guy (and an ever-larger tribe of rock ‘n’ roll gals), whether young or old, Jones is an immortal, the first and in many ways the purest of rock gods. As Woolley explained to me during our telephone interview, Jones was pretty much the guy who invented rock-star flamboyance and decadence, as well as rock’s first true guitar hero.
Jones’ career was short and he has almost been obliterated within the history of his own band, which has soldiered on without him through four decades of sold-out stadium shows. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards long ago stopped seeming satanic or messianic. They’ve become veteran showmen like their blues heroes, rocking into middle age and beyond, but Jones is perennially trapped in the glamour and danger of swinging London, a symbol of the 1960s at its most vibrant and treacherous. In one direction, his legacy leads to axe legends like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page; in another to a long list of rock martyrs: Jimi, Janis, Morrison, Cobain. (In many ways, Gus Van Sant’s Cobain film, “Last Days,” is the same movie as “Stoned,” only without any dialogue you can understand.)
it would be interesting to find out who they think murdered Brian Jones…
The filmmaker clearly shows who he thinks did it.
We will never know, but I wonder if Jones was too far gone–sort of like Syd Barret– to have gotten back to making music.
You know, people have not stopped talkig about him since he died. Did his death cause as big a contemporary splash the way, say, Jim Morrison of Jimi Hendrix? Probably not. I do remember vividly when Cobain died. Media saturation. Of course, we had a much bigger video media by then.
The advanced commodity spectacle! :omg:
I have to go!
ok, talk to you later
Hello everyone. Is it Fall yet? :hot:
if you travel by air with homeopathy remedies
br prepared for extensive
search and questioning
what a f#&king pain.
has the night shift started yet?
Greetings all:
working :tongue: and lurking here a bit
:bow: where’s Fred?
NickiRose still won’t talk to my posts “playing” with him… 🙁
Susan Joy get him :wink::spank: :banana:
SBlueHeron, where are you “flying” 😎
Cheers all. and Melina” “One day I’ll get you and your lil dog, snake, parrots, and teenage too 😉 :rofl2:” (LBH Yea Travis:wink:)
That 60 min about that Muslin woman creator of Submission was amazing.
Back soon
Hey Druid! You don’t have any crocodiles do you?
I’m on duty. But I’m not reporting, ’cause…yeah.
Oh, I guess that was just some LBH, huh, Druid?
:peace:
cyanobacteria will save us!:sammy:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/159cl7kj1qf6qqge/
Kristapea, Hi how are you doing?
I am strange regarding my rats, cuz they ( on the average ) last for a few years — 3 years is rare 😮 , and I am having to “contemplate” this. I never had rats…but rats are great but “ouchy” wee nails — especially the big ol’ guys. And no it is not to scare big ol’ dudes going “rats” 😮 :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2: okay my bad again :spank: weeeee teehee :omg: It is just nearing The Dead :omg: Season… :rofl2: (snicker)
Hi Travis 😉 :alc: :omg:
I was thinking I was the only one on BUT I just looked and then there was 5 :eek::omg::eek: (error I didn’t refresh)
Travis did I explain Evanescence Okay? I am not 20 I think? :rofl2:
I feel like dancing :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
My error then there was 1 and I assume that would be me …
back to work, Mor … :spank: (error, I forgot to refresh)
Home again- two hours on the plane and two hours to get home from the airport.
Not much going on here so :jason::omg:
Current users online: 1
and I’m no fun at all :billcat:
:yawn:i slept all day!
Crocodiles have the right to exist but I won’t watch the first few minutes but I believe in coexistence WITH HUMANS :growl: 😮 😉
I have to run but will be back if any are around 😉
An open letter to my congressman Brian Higgins.
I was reading on your web site that you believe that no American that works full time should have to live in poverty. While this is a noble goal that I fully support, your support of legislation that does not do enough to address poverty or the minimum wage appalls me! the legislation you co-sponsor is just another step in shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle class by eliminating the estate tax. This legislation also does not raise the federal minimum wage enough to bring full time workers above today’s poverty line let alone what it will be come 2009 when the raise in minimum wage would finally reach $7.25.
At $7.25 the yearly wage of a minimum wage worker would reach $15,080. In doing a quick google lookup to see what the poverty line is you will discover that the poverty line is $16,600 for a family of three a full $1,520 short of what we would reach come 2009 with your co-sponsored legislation. APPALLING!
I can’t sleep
good letter, Sean…
:bow:thank you massa i is so happy you likes my letter!
:fire:ok im out of here before i get caught in rush hour traffic!
:fire:bye!
:fire:adios from the big red truck!
:fire:im going!:nod:
:fire:away!:evil:
:omg:
:fire:now!:evil:
I started posting to the very dead morning seditionist group on myspace. Tell me that’s not pathetic. :doh:
:rant1:fine nobody say goodbye!:cry:
he’s leaving now, folks… :(:?:
me too!
I’m forcing you to stay
:fu:
:mad:somebody say goodbye!
ok, well maybe not
:neutral:please?
:tongue: goodbye Seanie
:crap:im going now!
where’s Druid?
Bye Bye Sean :yawn::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe:
:yawn::yawn::yawn:Need more :joe::joe::joe::joe::yawn::yawn::yawn:
It’s staying dark a lot longer these days so Druid should be able to stay up longer .
:banana: hello, Fred… (ok, I may be dancing inside but my body is still partially zombitized by sleep…) :joe:
:banana::banana::banana: It’s Susan :banana::banana::banana:
Need much more :joe::joe::joe::yawn::yawn::yawn:
My :banana: is dancing in FireFox this morning whaaa happened :?::?::?:
Heloisa Helena, the candidate of the PSOL [Party of Socialism and Liberty] for the coming presidential elections in Brazil (October 2006) was born in Alagoas, one of the poorest states of Brazil. A nurse by profession, she was elected senator and soon became a leading figure in the PT’s [Workers Party] left, before her exclusion. She is a young woman of remarkable charismatic power; a Christian Marxist, she does not hide her commitment to socialism, to anti-imperialism and to the struggle of the Brazilian workers and peasants for social liberation. Her fiery speeches in the Senate, denouncing political corruption and the policies favoring the oligarchy, have gained her much popular sympathy, well beyond the organized ranks of the radical left.
While Lula and Alckmin — the candidate of the conservative right-wing coalition — were expected to monopolize the presidential election, the presence of Heloisa Helena introduced a new and unexpected dimension in the political debate: she is the only candidate to raise a radical criticism of neo-liberalism from a socialist perspective. She has received the support of a large spectrum of socialists, trade-unionists, leftist intellectuals and Christian liberationists, and public opinion polls indicate that more than 12% intend to vote for her.
The elections in Brazil concern socialists and radicals everywhere. This is the reason why various people, after having protested against Heloisa Helena’s expulsion from the PT, are now calling to support her.
The Orthodox and Chasidim typically use the word “shul,” which is Yiddish. The word is derived from a German word meaning “school,” and emphasizes the synagogue’s role as a place of study.
Conservative Jews usually use the word “synagogue,” which is actually a Greek translation of Beit K’nesset and means “place of assembly” (it’s related to the word “synod”).
Reform Jews use the word “temple,” because they consider every one of their meeting places to be equivalent to, or a replacement for, The Temple.
The use of the word “temple” to describe modern houses of prayer offends some traditional Jews, because it trivializes the importance of The Temple. The word “shul,” on the other hand, is unfamiliar to many modern Jews. When in doubt, the word “synagogue” is the best bet, because everyone knows what it means, and I’ve never known anyone to be offended by it.