And so, we come to the end of another week. This week, the Iowa Hawkeyes come to town to kick the cr…um, I mean, to take on the Orange (they used to be the Orangemen, but last season they changed it to just plain Orange – perhaps they felt it was too difficult to call the women’s tames the Orangewomen, and the men’s teams Orangemen; beats me, I just wish they’d get rid of that stupid Orange plushie mascot, who belongs in an episode of CSI – as the victim. After losing ten football games in a row, maybe they ought to put the “men” back in). Now, being too cheap to pay to see a team that basically sucks, I’d normally watch the game on the teevee.
Unfortunately, the game is being broadcast on the Goebbels Broadcasting Company, and I’ve decided to boycott them from now on. Since there’s not a hell of a lot I really care to watch on GBC anyway (I’ll miss Boston Legal, but I never actually watched Desperate Housewives, and I downloaded the first season of Lost, but never actually got around to watching it), it isn’t that much of a loss. And since I’ll probably be too disgusted with SU watch them stink up the dome, I’m reckon better off with the radio, anyway.
Since it’s actually Disney that’s calling the shots, I’m gonna have to boycott everything else related to them, too, which will be more difficult. No more ESPN (gonna be tough come basketball season), not to mention the Disney Channel (well, that shouldn’t be too tough), SOAPnet (a loss I will endeavor to endure), ABC Family Channel, A&E Television Networks (37.5% equity, which includes A&E, The History Channel – too bad, I like that one), The Biography Channel, History International, and A&E International), Lifetime Entertainment Services (50% equity; includes Lifetime Television, Lifetime Movie Network, Lifetime Real Women, Lifetime Radio for Women, Lifetime Home Entertainment), and E! Networks (39.6% equity; includes E! Entertainment Television, The Style Network).
As for movies, no more Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Miramax Films, Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista International, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment International, and Buena Vista Theatrical Group. And of course, none of their publishing holdings, radio, websites (including NFL.com – bummer), you name it.
Disney – you’re dead to me now (and not just you, Walt, but the whole damn bunch of you).
If you want to let ABC know what you think of their propaganda, use ThinkProgress’ e-mail form. Have a good Friday. Oh, and if you’re out in LA, go and see Marc at the UBC Theatre tonight! You can make fun of the stitches on his face.
Oh, and Happy Birthday Sean! :cake:
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck::crap::crap::crap::crap::crap:
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGG
Good whatever :sheep: le
Welll.. My quick scan of the news hasn’t found anything worth while to post so far .. :shock::eek::paranoid:
PJ should set up the FTP server on the Shout Cast box so we can send him *.wav files or whatever to broadcast . We could make Nicki and his band infamous in no time and we could probably get in trouble with the NSA really fast that way too but it is called Morning Sedition is it not ??
good morning :omg:
happy birthday also Sean, wherever you are out there… :pup:
The coming civil war in Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/m8ora
http://tinyurl.com/o8da4
:banana::banana::banana:Its Susan :banana::banana::banana:
Whasss up ???
Listening to Mark Riley, trying to wake up :om::joe:
So what’s the deal with all the love for Springer on the blog last night, now that AAR has kicked him to the curb? Bring on Seder!
:banana::banana::banana:
I’ll miss Boston Legal
Me too. When I decided to boycott, that was the only show I regretted passing up. But I’m trying to stop watching 10 PM shows anyway (past my bedtime), and the show has been on long enough that it’s probably close to jumping the shark anyway. Which I know sounds like sour grapes, but what the hell.
Please continue to bombard ABC with e-mails, faxes, etc.
But in the meantime, let’s all sing along with the Jackson 5!
ABC
They’re rewriting history
Forget about accuracy
ABC
Limbaugh anal cyst TV
ABC
Republican strategy
Ridiculous and fact-free
ABC
That’s how sleazy TV be!
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For those who remember David Stockman (from todays Washington Post):
To old hands in Washington, David A. Stockman will always be the long-haired numbers cruncher who led the cheers for Reaganomics but nearly lost his job for privately denigrating the administration’s budget at the same time he sold it to the public.
Stockman’s trip “to the woodshed” with President Ronald Reagan and his denouncement of the “rosy scenario” of White House fiscal policy helped coin political phrases that linger in the capital’s lexicon more than two decades after he left government.
Now the man who put one over on Congress could face far more severe consequences for possibly misleading Wall Street.
Lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission recently notified Stockman that he could face civil charges related to upbeat statements he made to investors two months before an auto parts company he ran sought bankruptcy protection last year, according to sources familiar with the issues who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation continues.
Dailykos has a list of non-Disney places to visit in Florida:
With the recent PR Fiasco of the ABC/Disney Crapumentary blowing up in Disney’s face, I thought it might be useful to step outside of a traditional Science Friday and list a few destinations in Florida which might serve as alternatives for those of you with travel plans and excited, nonpartisan children. There are many attractions for every age in the Sunshine State that are every bit as fun, and in many cases much less expensive, than Disney. And, as the winter months approach, keep in mind that those thousands of tourist spots down here, waiting, dry, warm, and sunny, are all chomping at the bit for your tourist dollar.
One more thing: If you do change your travel plans, or if you rule Disney out, be sure and write investor relations and tell them why at investor.relations@disneyonline.com or you can visit this page and leave a comment.
:cake: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEANIE!! :cake:
well, I’ll miss Dance with the Stars, but pleeze don’t tell anyone I liked watching it. 😳
since these jerks are in my backyard and they funded the evil bush campaign, i hope there is fruit on this tree:
Home Depot in fed stock options probe
In a letter to Disney, “The Senate Democratic leadership just threatened Disney’s broadcast license …if Disney tries to meddle in the US elections on behalf of the Republicans, they will pay a very serious price when the Democrats get back in power, or even before.
This raises the stakes incredibly for Disney. ”
http://tinyurl.com/ggndn
Morning / Evening :yinyang:
Happy birthday Seanie! Have a great day.
Sue P – that is great! Thanks for the link.
Howdy there, KK! :yinyang:
Hey FK, I’m just trying to get spiffiedup before I go out.
What is this: :pup:
it’s a puppy!
Oh, that’s right, it’s Friday night there. Do you have a hot date?
I thought this was also interesting on AmericaBlog:
And I thought Apple was supposed to be a “blue” company. :no:
Sadly, no. Just meeting some friends and ‘going fishing’. 🙄
These friends are all a decade or more younger. I’m feeling grey! 😕
merde, pj, and i felt so good about my mac. ok, will compose another letter later today. oh and i bet i could persuade mr fk to do an interview at some point via his cell phone which is a US call for us, if you’re interested.
=> the “distinguished” man is always more attractive than youth, KK, no worries. Happy Trolling!
Ciao!
Time for me to go out in the rain.
881!
re # 22, An inspired idea, FarmerKat.
The Democrats have a petition up about this “path to 9/11” too.
Did you see that Brit Hume apparently read one of the blog posts on DU (with about 30 comments), suggesting that every liberal blog have a “Path to 9/11” post, so that Google search results will point to them, and now the Britster is reporting that DU is planning a “Google Bomb” attack? Pretty Pathetic
How about if you’re just plain old?
:cake::banana::pup::alc:
happy birthday seanie sean!:lol:
Ethnic Cleansing in East Jerusalem
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10907§ionID=107
Everybody at work, I guess. :pent::sdavid::menorah:
ABC Said to Re-Edit Key Parts of 9/11 Show from NY Times Article by Patrick Healy and Jesse McKinley
Under growing pressure from Democrats and aides to former President Bill Clinton, ABC is re-evaluating and in some cases re-editing crucial scenes in its new mini-series “The Path to 9/11” to soften its portrait of the Clinton administration’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden, according to people involved in the project.
Among the changes, ABC is altering one scene in which an actor playing Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser, abruptly hangs up on a C.I.A. officer during a critical moment in a military operation, according to Thomas H. Kean, a consultant on the ABC project and co-chairman of the federal Sept. 11 commission.
Mr. Berger has said that the scene is a fiction, and Mr. Kean, in an interview, said that he believed Mr. Berger was correct and that ABC was making appropriate changes.
The reassessment came as two Clinton aides mounted an unusual attack last night on the motives of Mr. Kean, a Republican and a former governor of New Jersey. In a letter to Mr. Kean, the two aides, Bruce R. Lindsey and Douglas Band, wrote that his defense of the mini-series “is destroying the bipartisan aura of the 9/11 Commission,” on whose findings the project is partly based. They asserted that Mr. Kean was driven by payments from ABC or his own partisan politics.
Mr. Kean, who called Mr. Clinton a good friend, said it was outrageous to suggest he was being swayed by money or politics, and added that any fee he received would be donated to charity. He said he stood by the film because he believed it would draw attention to the commission’s security recommendations, many of which have not been put into effect, and because the film did not pretend to be a documentary.
Yet Mr. Kean, as well as other members of the commission, did say they were concerned that their widely praised investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks might be diminished in some way by the mini-series.
“Mini-series often make things more dramatic by fictionalizing,” Mr. Kean said. “I don’t think the fictional moments reflect on the work of the commission, but I do hope that the controversy doesn’t tarnish it. ABC is trying to be as accurate as possible.”
Democrats and allies of Mr. Clinton unleashed full-throated appeals to ABC yesterday to cancel the broadcast, which is scheduled for Sunday and Monday nights. The Senate Democratic leadership sent a letter to Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent, saying that broadcasting the film “would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility.”
The national Democratic Party drew more than 100,000 signatures in 24 hours to a petition of complaint that it plans to give to ABC today.
Cat smileys…I’ve found a couple I like
Do you prefer this one or this one? I thought this one looked too much like a rat slut but I’ll let you make the decision.
And now I’m late for work. Later, Mi Seditionisti! :fire:
I like the first two.
you’re shit out of luck, I’m afraid. :omg:
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Do we have to have another cat? I’m a dog person.
(i like the first one.)
Kat, I’ll be happy to provide another dog smiley if PJ is willing. I’m a dog person, too. Used to have two dogs and a cat. The oldest dog died and went on to a better life (I SWEAR that dog was a true avatar of the White Tara!) and the cat disliked my second dog so much that she’s living with one of my friends now and getting REAL fat and happy. But I generally prefer dogs.
Is there anything interesting in the news out there or am I doomed to a day of nonsense?
Can you find one that looks like Otis?:pup:
Hey everyone…..just messing with computer stuff and unable to reachmy American only tech support for my American made and serviced desktop…..I think my motherboard is dying again, so Im trying to get things backed up and cleaned out….
:cake:Happy Birthday Sean!:cake:
Hey travis:banana:
How’s that resume? Did you ever get it printed?
Just flying by here!
:fire:
Things that make you say DUH!
:doh:
sblueheron, maybe I’m slow today. Who’s Otis?
Otis is Citizenkahn’s cat.
It’s getting to be lap robe season. Here’s a really simple :knit: pattern for one:
On size 8 or 9 needles, cast on 96 stitches with worsted weight yarn. Work in garter stitch (k every row) until it measures 32 inches. This will take around 12 ounces. Bind off loosely. The only time I made one of these it was in black with orange stripes for my high school colors. I think I’ll start making one in Democratic shades of blue….
So what does the famous Otis look like?
:bong:I don’t remember. But I think Kahn described Otis as looking very Elizabethan or something, when he was sick. You know, wearing a collar. http://tiny.bz/0py/
I think he looked like a tuxedo otherwise, but I may be imagining this.
There is a picture of my cat here and she is adamant that anyone who sees it must give her a treat. She seems to think she can tell, even though her new humans don’t let her near the computer. But just in case, if you click the link, think of a nice bit of catnip for a moment.
:pup:black eyed peas concert tonight! woo-hoo! anyway thanks for the birthday wishes sheeple im gonna go look at some titties for a little bit later sheeple!
:40:oh and get into a stupor so i can be hungover when i have breakfast with the mayor!
gypsy, is that cat of yours grossly overweight or am I seeing things? 🙂
MARON MAIL:
Hey Everybody!
Dave – Godless Kinser – Needs our Help. He says his superiors want proof that he has fans to his podcast. So, go to his site. Leave a comment for him http://www.godlesskinser.com or call his phone line at 1-888-82-REVOLT
Help out your fellow Maronite! Send him your best Wishes.
Thanks
:sammy:
Still not getting my Maron Mail 🙁 :rant1:
I even gave him two addresses:holla:
Otis is a tuxedo black and white shorthair
😥
Seanie- Happy Birthday…enjoy the titties while youre young…too soon they droop…:cake:
PJ, what we need is a boobie emoticon. Either a rolling woody allen one or a pair that goes from perky to droopy!
Next we’ll need a pair of Colbuerre balls….
What a sad Maron Mail. Though Im glad he is so happy, Im sad that he is making no headway on the radio front…and as time goes by it will become more remote unless someone jumps on this….
Oh well…
Who gave Tucker Carlson a show?…..I dont know…but it was Dam Abrams who decided to move him earlier and make him more serious (with his frat boy producer asshole friend, who is now a commentator!)
Sheesh!
Tuckers whole rationale for everything is “why would they?”
Iknow other neocons who ask that…like, why would they lie? Why would they….not take care of people? start a war? make a situation where things like 9-11 can happen?
Godm Tucker, just look at who got rich….who has a big military base in the middle east now?…who built it?
Now a report just came out of Senate saying that there is no connection between saddam and al quaeda…nada…zip….
Chris Mathews calls it Scathing…..
I think that Otis still has a myspace, but it hasnt been updated in a long time….I found it recently….Ill look for it.
Linky link
Saw these in a local shop today:nod:
Yes…Otis is a Tuxedo…Slimmer that Gypsy’s cat…one too many treats there!
I hope CK is OK….I mailed her to come to Marc’s shows but didnt get an answer.
Gypsy- I got tomatillios from the farm group and dont know what to do with them…..can they be roasted? I have two little bunches of beautiful beets and was gonna roast them.
No Linky between Saddam and Al Quaeda!! A damning report from a bipartisan senate committee that has a slight majority of repugs…..actually the members of this committee are quite exclellent.
Gaza is Dying
By PATRICK COCKBURN
Gaza.
Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world’s attention has been diverted by wars in Lebanon and Iraq.
A whole society is being destroyed. There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade. It has even forbidden fishermen to go far from the shore so they wade into the surf to try vainly to catch fish with hand-thrown nets…
http://www.counterpunch.org
Republican efforts to formally confirm John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations hit an unexpected snag yesterday when a Republican senator in a tough reelection bid said he could not support the diplomat until the Bush administration answers his questions on Middle East policy.
The protest by Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) is only the latest development in the long-running battle to get Bolton confirmed to the post he now holds on a temporary basis. Last year, Chafee supported Bolton’s confirmation, but the opposition of Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) prompted President Bush to name him to the U.N. post as a recess appointment.
http://tinyurl.com/zcce3
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And GW can’t appoint Mr Mustache again :banana::banana::banana:
PROVO — Brigham Young University placed physics professor Steven Jones on paid leave Thursday while it reviews his involvement in the so-called “9/11 truth movement” that accuses unnamed government agencies of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
Steven Jones BYU will conduct an official review of Jones’ actions before determining a course of action, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said. Such a review is rare for a professor with “continuing status” at BYU, where Jones has taught since 1985.
http://tinyurl.com/qfuvl
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In UTAH only the mayor of Salt Lake City apparently can be critical of the Bushevik’s. :yuck::yuck::rant1:
Israel Lifts Sea Blockade of Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Israel lifted its sea blockade of Lebanon on Friday, ending the country’s two months of isolation as the task of preventing the entry of Hezbollah weapons falls to international warships patrolling offshore.
In a further boost to peace efforts, Israel also said it plans to pull the last of its troops out of Lebanon within two weeks.
The sea blockade’s end, which came a day after Israel dropped its restrictions on air travel into Lebanon, lifts a barrier that has stifled Lebanon and cost the country tens of millions of dollars as it tries to rebuild from the devastating 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah.
http://tinyurl.com/odz6u
GOP has a party without Harris
A “Unity Tour” of statewide candidates who won primaries Tuesday doesn’t include the one who captured the U.S. Senate nomination.
HIALEAH – Everyone tried to make nice afterward, but somehow Katherine Harris didn’t get invited to the party.
Just two days after her win in the U.S. Senate primary, the congresswoman was noticeably missing as the Florida Republican Party took a victory lap around the state Thursday with Gov. Jeb Bush, its four other statewide candidates and one former opponent.
http://tinyurl.com/s6uj8
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Politics in the SBR needs an overhaul or extensive urban renewal so we can start over again.:yuck::yuck::rant1:
There’s no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his al-Qaeda associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq, the Associated Press reports. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush’s justification for going to war.
According to the AP the declassified document, just released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.
Update at 12:15 p.m. ET. The AP continues:
The report discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam’s government “did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates.”
The long-awaited report, said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., a member of the committee, is “a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration’s unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts” to link Saddam to al-Qaeda.
http://tinyurl.com/k3g9b
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How many times does one have to repeat this:shock::fustrate::paranoid:
The Path to 9/11″ is looking a lot like “The Reagans, Part II.”
Bill Clinton loyalists are demanding wholesale changes to the upcoming miniseries — and while ABC is making some snips, the alterations, insiders say, may not please the Dems.
But a bombshell decision may happen anyway: Sources close to the project say the network, which has been in a media maelstrom over the pic, is mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether.
As for specific criticisms — and changes — the original mini contained a scene in which then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger declines to give the CIA authority to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, even when CIA operatives know where the al-Qaeda leader is.
“This account has been expressly contradicted by Richard Clarke, a high-ranking counterterrorism official in both the Clinton and Bush administrations,” certain lawmakers wrote in a letter to Disney topper Bob Iger.
While ABC declined to comment on specific changes, it’s believed that the Berger scene was among those being reworked.
http://tinyurl.com/hfwgb
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The suggestion has been made that you contact your local ABC affiliate station and yell obscenities loudly into the phone. :jason::jason::jason::jason:
Caisha lives with a couple who think it’s adorable the way she can get into the food jar by herself. I think I’ll give them a new food jar, one that she can’t get into. And, yes, she IS a fat, fat kitty. She was much slimmer when I had her. Mind you, a lot of that is muscle. She’s a tough cat.
I’ll get you some tomatillo recipes, Melina. I grew them last year so I have a few lying around. Not sure about the roasting.
BTW, I have been told that I can’t take Friday off from work so I’ll have to be at the Seattle Maron show on the 30th. Who else is going to be there? And how many of us from Portland are making the trip? Ol’ Zeb and I are talking about taking Amtrack (cheaper than driving, that’s fer shoor) but then we’ll need a living room to camp in until the first train out on Sunday morning. (I have to be back by Sunday afternoon because it’s Yom Kippur and I may be going to hear Kol Nidre Sunday night for the first time in twenty something years…) TALK TO ME, PORTLAND SEDITIONISTI! WE NEED TO GET THE MARONADE CAVALCADE PUT TOGETHER SOON! (Wan Wenxia, you have my email address, right?)
It’s Friday afternoon and I’m a :pup:
Hey guys…I just booked our vacation…we havent been on vacation in so long and Ive been saving…so we’re going to Cancun club med (Kat, thats the one that they just rebuilt and it sounds too good not to choose…whereas Ixtapa…well, we dont know when its been renovated last….so…Im happy…just need to lose 10 lbs and get a fake tan (and hope that Will stays OK!)…..eeekkk!
So, on Dec. 16th-23rd Ill be blogging from Cancun!! (If I live through the Mexicana Airlines flight!)
Petition to take the 911 crapudrama off the air
http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/pathto911/
I agree Melina, the email from Marc was kinda sad. I hope Mike will be back on the radio soon, though.
Melina, you can roast tomatillos but I don’t have instructions for doing so. Use your best judgment.
I made this back when I ate red meat and had so many tomatillos I could have sold them for a profit.
Lamb Chili Verde Stew
Serves 10
3 lbs cubed boneless lamb
3 Tb vegetable oil
1 large yellow onions
3 cloves garlic, minced
salt and pepper, to taste
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 quarts chicken broth
4 fresh poblano chiles, seeded and chopped
2 fresh jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped
1 lb fresh tomatoes, chopped
1 1/2 to 2 lbs fresh tomatillos, husks removed
1/2 cup cilantro leaves, coarsely chopped
In a large stock pot over high heat sear the lamb in the vegetable oil until browned.
Remove the meat from the pot, reserve 1 tablespoon oil in the pan.
Saute the chopped onion and garlic seasoned with salt and pepper in the reserved oil until onions are tender.
Add the cumin, then stir in meat and chicken stock.
Simmer for 1/2 hour.
Add in poblanos, jalapenos and tomatoes.
Puree the tomatillos and cilantro in a blender, and add them to the pot.
Cook for an additional 30 to 45 minutes.
And I just found this one which sounds yummy and I may have to try it (although I’ll have to buy the tomatillos this time. And the chayote. I think I’ll have to buy tequila, too…)
TOMATILLO STEW
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
1 shot tequilla
3 cloves garlic minced
1 large onion chopped
1 Tbsp fresh rosemary chopped
3 poblano peppers roasted, seeded, and peeled
4 cups white navy beans cooked
2 lbs. tomatillos, husks removed and diced
1 chayote squash pitted and diced
5 catus leaves sliced
1 cup chopped cilantro
Instructions:
Place chicken in pot and add onion, garlic, salt, and pepper. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and allow to simmer for 1 hour. Add more water if neccesary. At the end of hour remove chicken and set aside to cool. Strain stock and place stock to side; it will be used again. De-bone chicken and add to pot along with poblanos, beans, tomatillos, squash, and catus leaves. Add enough stock to cover and bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Add more stock if needed. 15 minutes before serving add cilantro and tequilla. Stir well.
Sinn Fein’s Adams meets Hamas lawmaker in Ramallah, prompting Israeli boycott
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams met with a number of Palestinian political figures, including a Hamas parliamentarian, in Ramallah yesterday.
Adams had been invited to Ramallah by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, but the two did not meet because the Palestinian leader is traveling in the Gulf.
The leader of the IRA’s political wing defied Israel’s objections and met with a Hamas legislator, saying that the freedom of Israelis is linked to that of Palestinians.
http://tinyurl.com/mnqxk
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I don’t know if this is good or bad ??:eek:
OK, I’ve loaded a bunch of MS bits into Seditionist Radio (which turned out to be a real pain in the ass for reasons that I’ll tell you about if you actually care). I’ve got about 120 bits in there, which is probably good for about 4 hours or so. Limited to 15 listeners at a time, at the moment.
The M$M is showing the disputed parts of the 911 crapudrama over and over again today so even if it does not get broadcast the “stupids” will think the Demodorps are just trying to cover their tracks.:jason::jason::jason:
How about salsa verde
And this one with I REALLY need to make! All my favorite vegetables all at once.
Tomatillo And Cauliflower Soup
4 Servings
4 cups cauliflower florets; (two heads)
1/2 cup diced onion; white
4 garlic cloves; minced
1 tablespoon unsalted butter; softened
2 teaspoons olive oil
10 oz tomatillos; husked and rinsed in warm water
4 oz chopped jalapeno pepper; stemmed, keep seeds
1 gallon low-sodium chicken broth
8 oz fresh spinach; leaves only, and rinsed and chopped
1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves; tightly packed
salt; to taste
low fat sour cream; optional to garnish
Instructions
Place a rack in the highest position and preheat the oven broiler.
Combine the cauliflower, onion, garlic, and butter in a mixing bowl. Transfer the cauliflower mixture to a baking sheet and broil for 10 minutes, or until the edges of the florets are blackened. Set aside to cool.
In a large pot over high heat, saute the oil, tomatillos, and jalapenos for 5 minutes, stirring often. Add the stock, bring to a boil, let boil 5 minutes, then decrease the heat and simmer.
Add the spinach and cilantro and let simmer 10 minutes. Add the cauliflower. Puree with a handheld blender until smooth. Season to taste with salt. Let simmer 5 minutes.
Ladle the soup into bowls. Garnish with a dollop of sour cream and serve.
:banana: :pup: :fist: :nixon: Randi Rhodes starts in St. Louis on September 18th!!! You don’t know what a shock that will be to the radio listeners here. Wow, get ready Missouri here comes Randi!!!!! Yea!!! Just in time to get the people ready for the show down in November between Claire McCaskill (D) and Jim Talent (R)
Well, I finally got a legal internet connection, so all I have to do now is hook it up. I think it’ll take me a couple days:doh:
for reason better left unwritten:bong:
GARDEN CITY, N.Y., Sept. 8 (UPI) — Scientists are investigating how a flamboyant tropical fish native to the Pacific Ocean is surviving in the chilly waters off New York’s Long Island.
Divers have captured hundreds of lionfish this summer in what a biologist terms “a population explosion,” The New York Times reports.
Known for its brightly colored stripes and multitude of venomous spines, the lionfish is a voracious eater and could pose a threat to indigenous fish, the newspaper said.
Todd R. Gardner, a biologist at Atlantis Marine World aquarium in Riverhead, N.Y., discovered lionfish were spawning in the Atlantic five years ago when he found one clinging to a dock piling by Fire Island. The Times said Gardner has been studying them since then along with biologist Paula Whitfield of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Besides threatening Long Island’s shellfish and fin fish, humans can receive a painful sting from the spines of a lionfish
Mmm, that recipe sounds wonderful – thanks, Gypsy
😉
I guess I’ll go try and find Magnolia Blvd. since I have a car for about an hour or so. I dunno.
Someone throw it down with me for a couple minutes.
Sigh! Time to get outta here, bloggerati. I’ll try to be back this weekend, if my computer allows, and get more of my tomatillo recipes out. Hopefully there won’t be too much news to get upset about.
Hey, I can dream! :tongue:
Interesting that you dont cook the tomatillos when you use them in salsa….you just blacken the skin a little in the broiler.
I just dont know how much of that I could use, and/or how well it keeps…I dont eat chips but could use it in food.
Alright, I’m picking up what you’re throwing down. Later.:peace:
Cnick, I have a calling card, so I can call you sometime. I just lost your email address, though.
The soup is perfect Gypsy! I have spinach from this week and also hot peppers….all I need is a bunch of cilantro and a head of cauliflower…(both of which I usually have)
The other thing that Im trying to use up alot of is eggplant. I usually just roast it….but this week I have alot; 2 larger black ones and 5 or 6 long thin green ones…..I dont like frying it because its like a sponge….but Id like to try something different than my usual roasted with tomato sauce.
Thanks for that soup recipe Gypsy! Im gonna try it, hopefully tomorrow.
:pup: this has no correlation to my current mood, but I thought I’d throw it down for the first time….
Trav- isnt it something like rhubber at yahoo.com..? Maybe there is a number after the rhubber…
Puppy!! :pup:
Seven, I believe.
see, PJ and I have half memory each….by Friday thats pretty good.
So, now to go to Cancun with Will I have to have a notarized permission letter from his father….I guess maybe I can get a notarized affidavit that the father is GONE! I’d hate to have to open that can of worms at christmas just so as I can leave the country with my kid….geeze!
I just hope the flight nonsense is settled down a bit by the time you have to go. Since it’s after the elections, it should be.
Yeah- and its not like its American Airlines or anything….As much as I was worried about flying Mexicana air, it seems like in some ways it might be safer than to be on a US carrier….
My friends were in Europe in the middle of all that and they just came back…poor thing, she was travelling with a 12 year old boy and a ex pat French husband, so hadnt even turned on CNN or looked at a paper, so didnt know about the liquids thing….But she said it wasnt so bad…just that they had to dump some stuff.
There is alot of stuff to look at in going to Mexico…shots, which I think we’re OK on, Medicines and having documentation for all of them, paper allowing me to legally take my kid out of the country, medical kit which is nicely listed by the CDC….
I forgot about all the diseases in Mexico.
Just have to be careful of water and food when outside of club med itself.
Should be fun. I’ve never been to Mexico. You should try to sneak across the border on the way back, just to see how hard it is.
Well, where Ive been in the .gov web, it seems like the whole passport craziness is going into full effect on Jan 8th, 07 for Mexico and Canada…and then shortly after its for all borders.
They are pretty serious…and I might as well apply for passports for us just to have because Will wants to go to Ireland at some point.
Heaven knows that we will soon need them to cross state lines….
i dont want to mess with the border!!…or the drug lords!!…
Hey! I’m back online! :pup: Are you trying to tempt me into getting another dog PJ? Because I’ve really been wanting to get one but I need to stay single for a while. I miss having a dog greet me TERRIBLY! I can resist going to the pound or the humane society, but if I see some kids with a box of free puppies, I can’t be responsible for my actions.
Walt Disney had Nazi tendencies. But FUCK! I didn’t realize they ran so many companies. How is anyone supposed to keep track of THAT!
Fuckin’ Friday night and I’m on the blog by myself. :fire:
Hey Krista!
Is Nick around?…..hes out having fun no doubt…
I always have the puppy fever….its like a disease…but Ive got to stop myself now.
Look at the retired racing greyhounds. There is a track there off of Van Buren, right?…well, there was in 1979 anyway….I didnt check last time I was there.
They are the BEST dogs and really need homes.
Just remember, if you get a puppy…its HELL!
How about a little parrot? They rock!…they are alot like dogs and easier to care for in alot of ways.
Nick, i f you get home at any point…is this the recorder you have? Is it the pro one ? What format do you record in? Can you reuse those discs after you download your files to the computer??
So travis did you get cable/ Comcast or DSL from Qwest. Do they have a wireless router? I am free tomorrow if you guys want help hooking it up or want me to consult from here.:banana:
tell me the story of #77 Travis!
Hey Melina!
Are you here? There are 4 on line and I am just here for a minute.
Hey!:pup:Hold on a sec.
Hey Melina and Blueheron! I had a bird once and wanted to kill it every sunrise and sunset :smack: I don’t hink I’m a bird person. I like fuzzy things! :pup:
Hey Melina,
The one you linked to is a less expensive version of my Sony Minidisc. I bought the MZ-M200 ($399.95), here is a link to B&H Photo.
You could probably get by just fine with the one you linked to. B&H Photo sells that model to. YES, you can erase the discs. I use the second highest quality setting on a (1) Gig disc which will give you around 8 hours of recording time. I’ve yet to use up the disc which came with the unit.
All the man-in-the-street interviews were made at the above settings with a Electrovoice RE50B Microphone ($159.95) attached to the Minidisc. I’ve even connected the Minidisc to my more expensive Studio Mic (the SM7B) as a test and the results are outstanding. If only I didn’t stammer when I talk. Maybe it’ll get better. Or maybe I just need to pace myself. N e way, I’m just doing this for fun. It’s sorta like a hobby. An expensive hobby. But one that I enjoy.
Travis the easiest way to contact me is through my Yahoo email address at rhubbar7@yahoo.com Hope everybody is having a fun Friday night. I had my fun earlier. I’m in for the night. I cannot get my best friend on the phone. I suspect he’s having fun too. Oh well. Later Sheeple!
I just got back from taking B’s mom to the drug store- took 2 hours!:doh:
:pup: This just looks like Seanie sean’s bear to me
Right! Hi Kristapea, Travis:banana: and Cnick!:tongue:
I just got Qwest. Had some communication problems but everything ended up getting installed when it was supposed to so they’re okay for now.
Where was the drugstore riteaid?
Um, we have the Qwest DSL. If you want to tackle the mess in the basement, that would be cool.
I haven’t actually set it up the Qwest -does it have an Actiontec router?
Bartell’s Drugs in the U-Village. I’m having connection problems. I think the neighbors are home.
Hey we were just there at U Village all afternoon…
Everyone I’ve talked to says they are happy enough with Qwest. Except my landlord/friend who says they’re the only company he refused to pay a bill they sucked so much. Supposedly,
Cox(suckers) isn’t charging me for the install. we’ll see.
I have no idea. It’s still in the box.
So write me about #77 eh?
Qwest is pretty good about the NSA right?
Hey everybody. Let’s all have a :40: and then a :bong:. :banana:
Oh, I’ll write ya later. Cool?
Yes, Actiontech. I have a Linksys router and, I have to say, that their tech help was tireless in trying to figure out what was wrong and it ended up not being their problem. I think a good tech support would make me buy a product more than anything.:nod:
Hey cnick did you work on your video today?
So Kristapea if Travis has connection problems maybe we can ask you OK?
HELL yeah! Cnick! I’m already there! Now if only there was a Marc Maron show to look forward to. I think maybe I have lost all my recordings of TMMS. 🙁
Sure Blueheron, it was pretty easy. I just put in the disc and followed the intstructions.
Aren’t they all on snotgreen sea Kristapea?
I don’t know if he has the whole show. I think he just has clips, unless I missed something.
:pup::pup: I sure do love this pup. Can I take him home?
I uploaded a video to my “Video clip” page but it isn’t so good. Just playing around with it right now. There seems no easy way to deliver high quality video through my limited bandwidth. No problem with audio. But the video sucks BIG TIME!
Do you have itunes?KP?
I may be able to burn the shows onto a disc or something..
Kristapea, I have a slew of old discs laying around of Marc’s shows I need to catalog. I think KK has a site of audio clips from Marc’s shows. I tried to pull the site up earlier with no luck. Here is the site.
Hey everyone! I’m on YouTube
Which one am I?
Turn into the skid Cnick, turn into the skid! :nod:
I give up Kristapea.
Huh? skid?
later..:knit:
Make lemonade out of lemons. Maybe a nice southern boy like you would be more familiar with that metaphor! 😉
:smack: mkay Kristapea! So where is everyone tonight?
Everyone is out having a social life, I imagine. Me, I just got online and got a new tv with a dvd player so I don’t need people. But I sure wish my pup was still around 🙁
Oh and PJ has a link under Multimedia (above right) to Seditionist Radio. He’s broadcasting with Shoutcast clips of Marc’s shows I think.
Maybe I’ll watch “The Bear” tonight. That’ll be fuzzy enough. :pup:
I thought about buying a dog. But I’d rather have a house first. I’d like to have a backyard. Some running room for a dog. So it wouldn’t need to by on a leash.
Well, I figured TMMS was available somehow. I’m so glad I put all the Morning Seditionist shows on disc though.
So do you live near some of the other bloggers here Kristapea? I noticed Sean and you went to a movie awhile back. Does he live out your way?
Well. there are breeds that are fine in apts and on leashes. And I bet you would love to have a dog Cnick. They train you to exercise and keep you calm. Jane would get upset if my temper got out of hand and I would feel bad about it and check myself. Dogs are lil angels come down from Sirius to guide the human race. :pup:
No bloggers here in Az unless they are lukers. Sean lives in Buffalo. I’ve hung out with him a couple of times he came through Phoenix.
A sweet way of looking at dogs. Yes, I came very close to buying one. If this complex wasn’t so picky I’d prolly already have a dog. Maybe someday.
So Arizona is John McCain’s state is it not?
Yes, John McCain is our doing. 🙄
Cripes! I just saw the lamest commercial for Sen. Jon Kyl. “stop trying to give Jon Kyl a black eye” :jerk: :jerk:
Well Republicans are pretty well entrenched here.
Course this is the “Bible belt” all these Christians work on my nerves.
They are here too, especially McCain, but the clog is lossening! I think we have a chance with both Kyl and Hayworth.
Jim Pederson just had a great commercial with lots of numbers against Jon Kyl. I just wish he’d fucking say something about Iraq! I can’t believe these Dems would leave that weapon in the closet. 🙄
I wish I could see a change coming here Kristapea. But I donno. I do find it strange that with all my interviews with folks I’ve yet to find anyone who supports the war in Iraq. So I guess those 30 to 40 percent that support Bush’s war must be hiding out or something.
I think that 30% is just loud, obnoxious and either evil or stupid.
People are definitely unhappy with the direction this war has taken our country. We should be rebuilding our infastructure and helping the poor. Working to make life better for people here in America. Not wasting billions of dollars in Iraq not to mention the lives wasted there. Bush has a lot of blood on his hands. I just hope we can win at least the House so we can bring this madness to an end.
That many people in Alabama aginst the war seems pretty good to me, man.
:nod:
Yes, I really thought I’d come across more Bush lovers here. Very unexpected. I guess there is hope. Unless of course they just STEAL the elections.
I turned on KPOJ and Tyger Thom is the guest in hour 3 of TMR. “We’re stuck with the two-party system.”
Take back the Democratic Party.
Yeah, I heard Malloy on there too. Taking back the Democratic party seems the best way to go at this point. But I’m still an independant.
What hour was Malloy on? I probably missed it.
Is Hartmann in NYC?
The last part of the show.
Yes. SEDER is giving the buildup now. Is Hartmann the guest host?
Yeah Sam Seder had a really great show tonight fielding calls from right-wingers who believe Saddam had connections with al-Qaida. These people are f*ed up lunitics!
I donno that I’m gonna like Sam moving to mornings though. That will be 8 to 11 a.m. (Central time) and I’m busy with work during those hours of the day. I guess I’m gonna have to record again. I don’t think Rachel Maddow can last in the evening hours. Her show (gay or not) is to boring for me. The Marc Maron Show would be a perfect fit for evenings though.
Yeah, it’s unbelievable how many people still believe that, unfuckingbelievable. Okay, it’s dvd time! Nite!
Morning Sedition was a GREAT evening show, here. 😉
Good night Kristapea.
So you got it there in Japan in the evenings huh? Cool.
It’s 11:35 P.M. (Central time) here in Birmingham, Alabama. What time there KK?
I was listening to a local conservative militant talks how host. She had on her show some neocon analyst who was making connections between Al Quaida and Saddam prior to the war. It was spurious, but you could tell that it was grist for the mill for the dittoheads.
So do they really believe it Nicki? I can’t believe they do. Just cannot face the truth that there leader is f*ed up and so is their damn party. All this S**T is built on lies.
Here is a link to that “terrorism researcher” that Victoria Taft had on her show last night.
http://thomasjoscelyn.blogspot.com/
And you can’t call into their shows and get past the screeners to confront them and their lies. That is what I admire about Sam. He takes em on. Sam is a hero to our cause.
Taiwan time is 12:39 in the early afternoon. :yinyang:
Is there some space place in B’ham?
Uh, maybe you could help me out tomorrow H?:doh:
Thanks Nicki I’ll take a look at it.
No KK, your prolly thinking about Huntsville, Alabama. The Redstone Arsenal is there. I think they hold “Spacecamp” in Huntsville also. It’s about a 2 hour drive North of Birmingham.
Here is a link to that militant right wing talkshow host.
http://www.kpam.com/victoriaspage.shtml
So you’re in Taiwan KK, so sorry to put you in Japan.
Is there anyway to listen to the rerun of tonight’s Majority Report?
Huntsville also has the “Space and Rocket Center.” A big tourist attraction.
I liked Seder taking on those right wing thug call-ins.
What is B’ham famous for? There’s something in my head that is nagging, “The place that has …..” 😡 Help! What is it?
The Japan and Taiwan crowd hung together in the old days. Easy to group us together. :bow:
Birmingham is a big area for research in the science of medicine. They are studying the Aids virus here. Trying to come up with a vaccine. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) UAB Medical Center. Perhaps this is what your thinking of?
Nicki- have you gone here for old Majority Reports?
The Union Movement. A powerful union movement.
Letter from B’ham…
MLKJr’s Letter from the jail! I wikied it.Thanks for the suggestions. Reads like a great city.
Oh yeah, the Civil Rights movement. The Church bombing.
Malloy brought up the current regime at AAR, that he would never work for AAR under the current executives. I am afraid that I do not know much about them.
Here is what I understand.
Early planning. Huckster Cohen almost brings the network down.
New investors saved the network.
Danny Goldberg comes in with a a plan to make AAR profitable.
:omg:
Danny is cashed out and a reshuffling of the suits. Malloy replaced by SS in NY.
Janeane quits. SEDER is placed in the morning. So is Springer. Syndication. Nation. Mother Jones. Democracy something with David. Rachel…Randi is clipped…
Malloy is fired. Malloy said that the CEO is from the fashion industry. (Bring in Meryl Streep.)
I am goddamned confused.
I was born and raised in Alabama and so I’m bored with it. I’d prefer Atlanta, Georgia. But it would be cool to visit New York, LA, San Francisco and DC. I’ve never been out of the Southeast. 🙁
:yawn:
cnick- all I can comment is GO! I grew up in Detroit, but went to college in WI, London, and Florence. I’m living in Taiwan and have travelled all over Asia. GO! You want to see a new city? Save and go! It’ll work out. (OK, sometimes it doesn’t. But the failures make great stories on the next try.)
:fist:
Well I’m getting sleepy everybody out in the world. I think I’ll turn in for the night. Good talking to everyone. Later :sheep:le
thanks for advice KK, nice talking to you. See you online again soon, I hope!
881 cnick!
cnick- I did got your wave. Thanks! 🙂
:joe:
Susan, are you up late or early? :yinyang:
either or both…late I guess (though I just slept for an hour or two)
Parecon Today
by Michael Albert and Chris Spannos
1. Where did parecon come from? What is its history?
Participatory economics, or parecon, came mainly from the cumulative struggles of diverse populations trying to win liberation from capitalism. Parecon owes, in particular, to the anarchist and the libertarian socialist heritage, to the most recent experiences of the New Left of the Sixties, but also to every historical uprising and project aimed at eliminating class rule from the beginning to the present. It has learned from successes and from failures.
I once heard about a strike, billed as the first, by Egyptian peasants against a Pharaoh who moved from requiring six days labor on the pyramid a week, to requiring seven days, and from providing food to providing nothing. I think parecon harks back all the way to that uprising. I think it owes to every essay, speech, and book, and to every activist project and movement that has tried to shed light on the meaning or practice of classlessness.
Parecon meaning classlessness most broadly was born when revolutionaries of various camps began imagining and seeking a classless economy. Kropotkin, Rocker, Bakunin, Pannekoek. That’s what parecon is, a classless economy. It is not capitalism but it is also not an economy ruled by roughly a fifth of the population that monopolizes empowering conditions. In parecon a few participants don’t dominate the remaining participants.
Parecon itself, the model, came into being more recently, however, with a particular conception of defining institutions, when Robin Hahnel and I thought through our reactions to various schools of anti capitalist activism, and set out our views in a book titled Looking Forward, about sixteen years ago. Since then parecon has been repeatedly refined, partly in its conception, but mostly in how to communicate about it.
yay Parecon
Around here, i’m getting the chores done. The rain will dampen the protest today.
Is it necessary to repeat here the irrefutable arguments of Socialism which no bourgeois economist has yet succeeded in disproving? What is property, what is capital in their present form? For the capitalist and the property owner they mean the power and the right, guaranteed by the State, to live without working. And since neither property nor capital produces anything when not fertilized by labor – that means the power and the right to live by exploiting the work of someone else, the right to exploit the work of those who possess neither property nor capital and who thus are forced to sell their productive power to the lucky owners of both. Note that I have left out of account altogether the following question: In what way did property and capital ever fall into the hands of their present owners? This is a question which, when envisaged from the points of view of history, logic, and justice, cannot be answered in any other way but one which would serve as an indictment against the present owners. I shall therefore confine myself here to the statement that property owners and capitalists, inasmuch as they live not by their own productive labor but by getting land rent, house rent, interest upon their capital, or by speculation on land, buildings, and capital, or by the commercial and industrial exploitation of the manual labor of the proletariat, all live at the expense of the proletariat. (Speculation and exploitation no doubt also constitute a sort of labor, but altogether non-productive labor.)
“The organizers of the activity have signed a statement saying they will ensure that participants of the activity will follow the law. If there are any violations, the police will immediately enforce the law, suspend the permit and dismiss the crowd,” said Lee Chin-tien (???), director of the Taipei City Police Department’s Zhongzheng First Precinct.
Amazing they let them do that much…
My sister was a clothes socialist. She’d share from anyone’s closet. 🙂
As the Second International decayed at the beginning of World War I, socialists who opposed nationalism and supported proletarian internationalism regrouped. In Germany, two major communist trends emerged. First, the Spartacist League was created by the radical socialist Rosa Luxemburg. The second trend emerged amongst the German rank-and-file unionists who opposed their unions and organized increasingly radical strikes towards the end of 1917 and the beginning of 1918. This second trend created the German Left Communist movement that would become the KAPD after the abortive German revolution of 1918-1919.
As the Communist International inspired by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia formed, a Left Communist tendency developed in the Comintern’s German, Dutch, Bulgarian, and Italian sections. In the United Kingdom, Sylvia Pankhurst’s theoretically amorphous group, the Communist Party British Section of the Third International, also identified with the Left Communist tendency.
I shall therefore confine myself here to the statement that property owners and capitalists, inasmuch as they live not by their own productive labor but by getting land rent, house rent, interest upon their capital, or by speculation on land, buildings, and capital, or by the commercial and industrial exploitation of the manual labor of the proletariat, all live at the expense of the proletariat. (Speculation and exploitation no doubt also constitute a sort of labor, but altogether non-productive labor.)
This makes me think of the owners of the teaching center where I work- who don’t teach the students at all but profit much moreso than I do when I do the real work…
do the desperate! (Housewives)…. :tongue:
No way would people submit to such restrictions in this country.
Taiwanese are generally very fair law abiding. They will make their voice known, but never burn a bridge. :yinyang:
Lots of exploitation to go around. Who do the “owners of the center” pay rent to? Are the people you refer to coordinatorss or landlords?
it’s a national chain…. I don’t know. I think there are some that are franchised to people and some that are owned directly by a few people who started the center initially
Have I forgotten what kind of education you’re in or haven’t I asked?
tutoring… all ages
Parents pay for the services. Who gets the biggest cut from the income?
Owners
Local managers
tutors
not me….
How do you like teaching?
So, the owner of the center is not in the office?
I love teaching —- which is why I’m doing it rather than some other mind-numbing (to me) activity…
there’s a supervisory staff
I am intellectually lazy.
I think you challenge people here (and elsewhere)
Where do your checks come from?
I too teach. And love it. As exhausting as it can be, it keeps me vibrant and alive.
the name of the center is printed on them. I think they’re issued from another center that does payroll for this area
what do you teach, KK?
From what I have gathered about your place of work–a fairly typical place–the economist Michael Albert would analyze it briefly as the absent owners (capitalists) in a service industry; the office supervisory staff are the coordinators of capital; the tutors are the workers. They do the work.
Do the tutors have any input to the workplace decisions?
2 -13 year old locals, in English, in Taiwan, every topic you can think of (appropriate for the age group, of course). Thinking Skills, Science, Awareness, and Role Play are my favorite classes.
Ha. No.
What is the name of your employer?
those subjects sound fun…
Huntington Learning Center
We understand that getting your child help isn’t always easy for today’s busy students and parents. That’s why our centers are conveniently located, offer flexible scheduling, and affordable payment plans. After all, if students can’t get to our center, how can we help them?
click here to view a directory of centers by state
Beaverton
14649 SW Teal Boulevard
Beaverton, OR 97007
503-590-6800
Beaverton, OR…interesting
re 181:nod::yawn:
Despite being a Pittsburgh native, J.J. Sorrenti’s only impression of General Nutrition Centers came from a song by local singer-songwriter B.E. Taylor called “Vitamin L,” which began with the line “went into my GNC/and told them what was wrong with me.”
“When I’d walk past GNC stores in malls, I’d start humming it,” Sorrenti said.
With 920 corporate locations, GNC was also healthy, but franchising was a new thing for the vitamin retailer – there were only 25 franchised units by 1990, and unlike most companies starting to franchise, GNC’s primary goal wasn’t expansion.
“It’s a very consultative business, and everybody knows how difficult it is to find personnel in retail operations, so our program always had the intention to find people who do this as their full time job,” Sorrenti said.
open their own.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Click here for more information on the Huntington Learning Franchise
New Huntington Learning Center Franchise CEO To Respond To Rising Demand For Supplemental Education Services
(Oradell, NJ) Fresh on the heels of a highly successful career with one of the world’s leading vitamin and nutritional supplements retailers, J.J. Sorrenti has been named Chief Executive Officer of one of the leading providers in the supplemental education services industry. As CEO of Huntington Learning Center, Sorrenti will lead the company’s efforts to expand its operations in response to the unprecedented strength of the industry, which has grown at a compounded annual rate of nearly 12 percent since 1998, reaching $6 billion in 2004.
Sorrenti comes to Huntington from General Nutrition Centers, where he oversaw P & L and store operations for its global franchise company, with over 3,000 retail franchise stores in the US and 42 countries worldwide.
“Today’s parents recognize that they are consumers of education and they want to be assured that their children are receiving all the support they need to reach their academic potential,” said Sorrenti. “I’m excited about Huntington’s 28-year track record of success in responding to these needs, and the remarkably supportive relationship that our individual centers have established with the educators and school systems in their communities. One of our key initiatives over the next several years is to respond to the tremendous number of franchise candidates and interested consumers who are attracted to this vast and growing market.”
Founded in 1977, Huntington Learning Center is a pioneer and leader in the franchise learning center arena. Through more than 250 learning centers in 37 states, Huntington provides instruction in reading, writing, spelling, phonics, mathematics, study skills and SAT and ACT preparation to tens of thousands of students in kindergarten through 12th grade
I wonder what it takes to run a franchise…
“Today’s parents recognize that they are consumers of education and they want to be assured that their children are receiving all the support they need to reach their academic potential,” said Sorrenti.
:omg:
consumers… 🙁
I hate it when business people apply their concepts onto such things as education. How many consumers did you service today?
Yes. And they consume your services.:40:
I know what you mean. It is treated as a consumer service with products and goods, though, with all that that implies
sun’s breaking out 881!
::shields eyes from Sun::: I’m in a dark room right now and like it that way…
SOUTH END PRESS: What achievements of the Left have given you the most hope for the future?
ALBERT: Ending feudalism, ending slavery, enacting labor laws, winning universal suffrage, ending Jim Crow laws, overcoming much of the mindset and practice of patriarchy as it was entrenched though the 1950s and 1960s, bringing gay rights and liberation into the light of social policy and practice, putting ecology on the political map, and so on. I think most recently, however—during the time of my involvement which is over the last 30 years and almost exclusively in the U.S.—we have had less than average structural impact though way more than average ideological impact.
What do you mean?
Well, we have affected ideas and behaviors and people’s assumptions about life and themselves very dramatically—perhaps as much or more than in any comparable time period. At the same time we have had much less success changing institutions.
that’s interesting – ideas/mindsets have changed but change seems at a standstill…hopefully it will catch up
Can you give an example of this?
There has been remarkable opposition to attacking Iraq despite the fear-mongering that Hussein will put Anthrax in our baby food, and this is the fabled Vietnam Syndrome at work. But where is the massive peace organization that embodies and furthers this ideological change? Where are the new laws bearing on this issue? Or look at typical mainstream culture. There is a tremendous change in people’s understanding of what’s wrong and in the ideas and attitudes that are afoot, but nothing comparable in the form of laws protecting folks or empowering them, or institutions that correct ills or continually fight for gains.
So, for me, the accomplishment of the left is mostly the different attitudes, expectations, assumptions, and habits that pretty much pervade society around such broad aspects of life as sexual relations, gender relations, race, power and authority, ecology, and international relations. To compare average public consciousness, much less the “most enlightened sectors of consciousness” on these aspects of life now and 30 years ago shows a huge change, which is also a huge victory. The weak link is around class, where there has been little structural gain, even less than in other realms, but not much consciousness gain, either.
there’s a popular conception that “class” doesn’t exist as a concept, or that it doesn’t make a difference, and I pin that blame on successes of the right
Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces
January 28, 2005
Dear Senator Frist, Senator Reid, Speaker Hastert, and Representative Pelosi:
The United States military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it to assume. Those responsibilities are real and important. They are not going away. The United States will not and should not become less engaged in the world in the years to come. But our national security, global peace and stability, and the defense and promotion of freedom in the post-9/11 world require a larger military force than we have today. The administration has unfortunately resisted increasing our ground forces to the size needed to meet today’s (and tomorrow’s) missions and challenges.
So we write to ask you and your colleagues in the legislative branch to take the steps necessary to increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps. While estimates vary about just how large an increase is required, and Congress will make its own determination as to size and structure, it is our judgment that we should aim for an increase in the active duty Army and Marine Corps, together, of at least 25,000 troops each year over the next several years.
There is abundant evidence that the demands of the ongoing missions in the greater Middle East, along with our continuing defense and alliance commitments elsewhere in the world, are close to exhausting current U.S. ground forces. For example, just late last month, Lieutenant General James Helmly, chief of the Army Reserve, reported that “overuse” in Iraq and Afghanistan could be leading to a “broken force.” Yet after almost two years in Iraq and almost three years in Afghanistan, it should be evident that our engagement in the greater Middle East is truly, in Condoleezza Rice’s term, a “generational commitment.” The only way to fulfill the military aspect of this commitment is by increasing the size of the force available to our civilian leadership.
The administration has been reluctant to adapt to this new reality. We understand the dangers of continued federal deficits, and the fiscal difficulty of increasing the number of troops. But the defense of the United States is the first priority of the government. This nation can afford a robust defense posture along with a strong fiscal posture. And we can afford both the necessary number of ground troops and what is needed for transformation of the military.
In sum: We can afford the military we need. As a nation, we are spending a smaller percentage of our GDP on the military than at any time during the Cold War. We do not propose returning to a Cold War-size or shape force structure. We do insist that we act responsibly to create the military we need to fight the war on terror and fulfill our other responsibilities around the world.
The men and women of our military have performed magnificently over the last few years. We are more proud of them than we can say. But many of them would be the first to say that the armed forces are too small. And we would say that surely we should be doing more to honor the contract between America and those who serve her in war. Reserves were meant to be reserves, not regulars. Our regulars and reserves are not only proving themselves as warriors, but as humanitarians and builders of emerging democracies. Our armed forces, active and reserve, are once again proving their value to the nation. We can honor their sacrifices by giving them the manpower and the materiel they need.
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution places the power and the duty to raise and support the military forces of the United States in the hands of the Congress. That is why we, the undersigned, a bipartisan group with diverse policy views, have come together to call upon you to act. You will be serving your country well if you insist on providing the military manpower we need to meet America’s obligations, and to help ensure success in carrying out our foreign policy objectives in a dangerous, but also hopeful, world.
Respectfully,
Peter Beinart Jeffrey Bergner Daniel Blumenthal
Max Boot Eliot Cohen Ivo H. Daalder
Thomas Donnelly Michele Flournoy Frank F. Gaffney, Jr.