First off, though it took them double overtime to do it, I’m quite sad to report that Syracuse has now extended the longest losing streak in its 117 year football history to 11 straight games. And the only team they beat last year was Buffalo, which shouldn’t really even count. So, I reckon it’s time to start looking ahead to basketball season. Anyhow…
Today on Press the Meat, it’s a Dicksclusive, as Timmy Potatohead trots out Darth Cheney. The only reason to watch these two assholes is to try and spot the lizard crawling arounnd inside Cheney’s nostril.
Speaking of lizards, Bush buddy Bobby Schieffer has the Lizard Queen herself, Condi Rice, as well as Governor Potatohead (no relation to Timmuh), George Pataki (musta been desperate for guests), and Chuck Schumer. Hmm. No reason to get out of bed so far.
Condi slithers on over to Fux News Sunday (whoopdie-doo, whoopdie-doo), as does Howard Dean, who’s pretty much always worth watching, though I don’t know if he’s worth wading through the shit that is Fuckface Chris Wallace and the presidential, helmet-headed, Lizard faced concubine.
ABC is dead to me, so fuck This Weak with George Snufalufagus. Really.
Lizard bitch will also be on CNN’s Late Emission, as will John Kerry, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the US, Said Jawad, Mark Malloch Brown (UN deputy secretary-general, which I think is a lot like being the #2 Al-Quaeda guy, or assistant manager at Friendly’s), Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the Iraqi national security adviser (which is like being the bus-boy at Friendly’s), John Miller, who is the assistant director of the FBI for public affairs (what, the director of PR for the FBI is busy?), and Brian Jenkins of the RAND Corporation, who is billed as a “terrorism expert,” and who I’m guessing is an asshole. Don’t really know – just a hunch.
Later, on 60 Minutes, oh boy, it’s Katie Couric, doing a story on Kristie Whitman saying the air was just fine around the WTC after 9/11, which she of course is selectively remembering these days.
So, the best thing to do is sleep in, and get ready for some football (none of which is on ABC), and while their showing that shit peice of propaganda, there’s a brand new season of the Simpsons (not not manage Family Guy and American Dad) to watch. So have a good Sunday.
:nixon: me me me me me me
:nixon: me two me two me two
:?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?::?:
AAARRRRGGGGGG
❓ whatever :sheep:le
http://tinyurl.co.uk/evhj
Nicki, that video on VHS available here
Learn how to trace your Jewish family history with help from Jewish genealogist Arthur Kurzwell, who takes you on location to Ellis Island and other sites and guides you on a step-by-step process of acquiring and researching historical documents and relevant records.:sdavid::sdavid:
I thought I found one for 29.99.
We’ve got about four or five generations on both sides of the family documented
I really would like to find Poletown. Classic community struggle movie.
oh that’s much better…I didn’t spend much time looking admittedly
Well. You are definitely accounted for. I am a little shaky myself.
I think I can account for you… :omg:
:pent::pent::pent::pent::sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::menorah::menorah::menorah::menorah::sdavid::sdavid::rofl2::jesus::jesus:
:rofl2:
Beaten leader plans ‘parallel’ rule
From correspondents in Mexico City
September 09, 2006
DEFEATED presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans a shadow government, insisting he is the rightful leader of Mexico even as president-elect Felipe Calderon seeks reconciliation.
“We will decide if we want to obey an obsolete government that is run by a minority or if we will declare the abolition of this corrupt regime,” Mr Lopez Obrador said in Mexico City’s downtown square late Thursday, the 40th day of his campaign of “peaceful civil disobedience.”
He announced a September 16 rally, on Mexico’s independence day, at which his supporters would decide his title, whether “chief of the resistance government,” or “president of Mexico” or merely “coordinator” of his movement.
Mr Calderon, the official president-elect, has extended his hand to Mr Lopez Obrador and insists he is open to dialogue. However, Mr Lopez Obrador rejected the offer this week, calling his opponent an “illegitimate president” responsible for a “coup d’etat” which he said was sending “Mexico’s institutions to hell,” in remarks to hundreds of admirers outside the electoral tribunal in Mexico City.
http://tinyurl.com/ovgg4
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Who knows what happens next 😮
Am I adopted? :menorah:
interesting…on my dad’s side (Poland) there are Kohains.
“Kohanim tend to be identifiable by their last name (for example, Cohen, Katz, Kahn, Kohain)”, my grandmother’s last name was Katz
What happens next? Which side does the army back? Short term solution.
is that what you think? Do you look like either of your parents? (Not that that’s always proof)
:nixon:
My Great great ….grandfather was named Jacob Katz.
No. Adopted by you? Your tribe. :omg:
oh wow.
The Republican Party ‘plans to get personal’ in the final 60 days of fall elections campaigning, according to a front page article in Sunday’s Washington Post.
“Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said,” report Jim VandeHei and Chris Cillizza for the Post.
“The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads,” the article continues.
http://tinyurl.com/gfbzv
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I will bet all we hear form the left is a lot of How dare they say that.!!. this is unfair … !!
:omg::omg::yuck::yuck::crap::crap: and other phrases like they didn’t anticipate it would happen.. :jason::jason::jason:
adopt you? Well I’ll take you home with me… hmmmm.
Are you listening to KBOO? :omg:
yep “brand new from Kookoo” or something
A kohen (or cohen, Hebrew ????, “priest”, pl. ???????, kohanim or cohanim), is assumed to be a direct male descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses.
During the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem, kohanim performed specific duties vis-à-vis the daily and festival sacrificial offerings. The Kohen Gadol (High Priest) played a special role during the service of Yom Kippur. Today, kohanim retain a distinct personal status within Judaism and are still bound by special laws in Orthodox and, to a lesser extent, in Conservative Jewish communities.
Male descendant — fuck patriarchy :fu:
What about Cobain?
hehe
What about the Shemanski faction? :bow:
On his HBO show Real Time, Bill Maher, along with his panel of guests, agreed that ABC should correct details in the miniseries “Path to 9/11” or not air it all.
“It’s worse than you think,” said panelist Joan Walsh, editor of Salon.com, who had seen a review copy of the docudrama.
video at the link
http://tinyurl.com/mlzak
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It has already been shown in Australia .. There is a brief review of it at DU
http://tinyurl.com/oy5wt
yep, that’s High Priestess/Goddess side :pent:
:omg::pent:
Kohanim!:rabbi::jesus:
Nicki!!!!!
Shemanski from Tarrytown, NY?????
Tarrytown!
Did he say Shemanski?
well I’ve visited Tarrytown… :omg:
hehe no
Hurricane FLORENCE
http://tinyurl.com/h3gym
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Looks like its going to be Wasmuda shortly and its turned a bit to the West .:eek::eek:
great. That’s all I need is the remnants of another hurricane knocking down trees all over town again
Shehanimski
Keep your fingers crossed that it is only a remnant. They expect it to continue to gain strength after is drowns Bermuda and who knows where it is going ..:eek:
my name continues to evolve to include both the historical and mythical :omg::pent::sdavid::tongue:
Ricky Lee Jones and Have You Had Enough in a Flash annimation
http://tinyurl.com/z8m29
mareseatoatsanddoeseatoatsandlittlelambseativy!
so it’s a reptilian kind of day, is it? can’t believe they’re having darth vadar on – what are his un-approval ratings now?
my grandparents came over via Ellis Island (saw a mention up stairs, there ^), but they were Greek. Papu was 12 years old when he immigrated to the U.S. by himself. Can you imagine? Yaya came over by herself in an arranged marriage.
OOPS 😳 wrong stream :doh:
YEA:banana: Susan Joy is #1 :pent: :pup: :billcat: :omg: :pent: :banana:YEA
Morning, Druid! :banana:
YEA :banana: FRED is #2 :pup: :billcat: :banana: YEA
and :banana: 😉 Farmerkat is #46 😉 :banana:
from NR’s book review…
gotta get the black and tan bookends out (love that description, Druid!) and hunt and gather the Sunday papers.
Laundry won’t dry with all the rain! :rant1:
Morning Evening :yinyang:
Al Gore
:fist:
“Party until the End.” They are proclaiming The End Times :omg:
Why doesn’t everyone just SUPER Proclaim that if one believes in the End Times then they are no longer valid as Law Makers, since all is from a “twisted” mindset:?:
Al Gore link
Isi , I still has his “Al Gore for President 2008” Pins :pup: :billcat: :banana:
I was/is the contact, in this area, for his (GORE’s) “2nd coming”. :rofl2:We go under the “Believe” and he WILL Run campaign. :rofl2::banana:
You’re all set, Druid :peace:
That is the first time that I can remember Gore saying he hasn’t ruled out running for president. 😀
Religious police ban cats and dogs
By Donna Abu-Nasr in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Published: 10 September 2006
Saudi Arabia’s religious police, the Muttawa, are normally tasked with chiding women to cover themselves and ensuring men attend mosque. Now they are turning to a new target: cats and dogs. They have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets, seen as a sign of Western influence.
The prohibition on dogs is unsurprising, since conservative Muslims despise the animals as unclean. But the cat ban has astonished many, since Islamic tradition holds that the Prophet Mohamed loved cats even in one instance letting a cat drink from his ablutions water before washing himself for prayers.
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http://tinyurl.com/r8wh7
:billcat:
re: 59 – these politicians are so arrogant…
Prime Minister John Howard, a friend and ally of Bush, = :fist::spank::fist: = in Howard’s face :banana:
I prefer to take policy advice from assholes.
SJ and FK I envy you all knowing when and where your ancestors came to America. I have spent years (off and on) trying to trace especially my fathers lineage. A thin paper trail goes back to 1749 in Virginia, an area called the Northern Neck of Virginia, now West Virginia. I even enlisted a cousin to submit to DNA testing (my father had all girls). It is a very interesting journey though. I hope to find out at least my father’s immigrant ancestor and the country he originated from from before I expire! Of course, I already know my first country of origin Africa :fist:
Sue P, re 58 I am appaled:!: Just when I want to accept them(ish) , they do this kind of :crap:…
To me it all comes down to serial killers. If one does not treat animals well then reform or :jason::!:
I have my dad’s side of the family (on his father’s side) back to the late 1700’s in Bayern, and on his mom’s side, pretty far back, too. My cousin has all the stuff on my mom’s side, going back to Ireland, then Canada, and then the US. Found out some pretty intersting shit, like my grandfather’s first wife killed herself by turning on the gas jets and sitting in her rocker with her knitting. He died in 1939, so I never knew him.
Isi, but Great Journeys awake or asleep in finding. The South with Farmerkat, Cnick, others, and YOU:?::!::?: If in the South then another great reason why I might have to care for that area — for great ones like you. Here’s to talking Over The South :banana::banana::banana::wink: 😎
I wish I had more living ancestors to tell me stories but luckily my aunt went over to Hungary and then to Czechoslovakia a few years back (where grandparents on my mother’s side were from) and actually followed a couple of trails there (as well as the Ellis Island route). Isi, good luck on the research…yes, we all are from Africa, aren’t we? That kind of puts a good spin on things I think.
Susan Joy re 67 :pent: :nod::pup::billcat::banana: :pent:
Druid, re #64. I agree.
What happened to the idea of new cat emo? The current one looks as if the poor guy got into the catnip once too often,
Sue P HaHaHa :rofl2: — I take care of the Strays too. I call them names as Tomb or Grave or Skull since they are horribly battered and near death and similar to This Cat Emo :billcat: when they get to me, but end up WONDERFUL. (Farmerkat you gave me “That Cat Woman” didn’t ya ❓ 😉 😎 )
I look like that Emo :billcat: (inside “mostly” :rofl2: ) usually
😎 :rofl2: 😮 :rofl2: 😉 .
What? You dont like Bill? Here’s a Cat Smiley for ya.
So, I keep seeing “signs” that I should get another dog. Like yesterday I heard a commercial on the radio advertizing a pet store and adoption. I have NEVER heard an ad for a pet store on the radio. And then PJ adds the dancing pup to the emoticons and this morning there is a story on the local news section of my homepage about how Maricopa county’s animal shelters are overcrowded and they had to euthanize 30,000 animals last year. Now I feel like I need to save one. I don’t know how much longer I can hold out, man. :pup:
The cat smiley does not meet the approval of my cat. He feels that he is not being properly portrayed. After all he is quite persickety about his appearance and would never allow himself to be seen before his morning ablutions.
Kristapea :pup: You were given the Traditional 3 Signs. You pal is waiting for you. :banana: 😉
There’s been more than 3 signs.
OK, OK. But Bill the cat embodies the spirit of what I seem to step in every morning.
Hey KP, if you feel like getting a dog, it probably means that you should get a dog.
Sue P Before we have the needed :billcat: and after is a persickety one ( I get so :billcat: since all stays end up with MAJOR Attitudes :banana: and listening to yours I can see that we (for our meows) must have a “prescious” cat emo) Awwwwww :rofl2:
I don’t like the bf emo!
Oh, how sweet :cat::cat::cat: reminds me of our 3 little tigers. And of course :billcat: has to stay because that is our little Tiny Elvis. Little pukers all. :pup::pup::pup:
Naughty :spank: :bf: :spank: :rofl2: :rofl2:
Thank you. Lovely cat emo. Clifford, my big red cat, feels vindicated. :cat:.
Isi, re 79 :rofl2: :rofl2: :spank: :rofl2:
:bf: Wow, banana on banana sex. 😯
The urge to get a dog is not going away. But I should wait til after the election because I’m going to be pretty busy the next couple of days.
SJ, FK and JP and anyone else interested in genealogy, you might find http://www.familytreedna.com a fun site to visit. You could look up a surname project that is applicable to you and also visit the forum they have set up. In that forum, SJ, there is alot of discussion of Jewish ancestry. Also, since you all already know a lot about your heritage submitting a dna sample might help someone else find their ancestry.
:billcat: I’ll stick with Bill!
Kristapea , now or then or whenever Awwwwwww :pup:
Or one :pup: now but accepts your lifestyle.:grin:
No, no, no. They’re just dancing. Banana fun. Buncha perverts. It just reminds me of that AAR muzak song – the one that goes “whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.”
Beat the Flesh:jerk: and :jerk: Dick is on … and I am still awake :omg:
That’s funny, PJ calling us perverts :rofl2:
So, this is interesting. I have been looking for a land line phone now that I have a landline again and I went to Target to get a cheapie one. So I got a $30 GE phone because that’s all they had in corded phones. The next morning Jeff Farias on our local AAR was talking about some weapons issue and mentioned how evil GE is and I decided to take the phone back and get another brand.I went to Best Buy to get the Qwest modem because that’s where they said you could get them. When I was there I looked at the phones and again, all GE in the lower priced corded phones. But there was a Staples in the same plaza, and I know they’re blue so I went there to look at the phones and they had everything BUT GE phones. Interesting huh.
re: #84 – Thanks, Isi, I will check out the forum …
Kristapea :banana: , I so glad for we “crazies”. Even my husbad tries to get certain items that are so on the rethug side. :banana: (I have difficulty calling “Blues” the Dems, since I am ambidextrous. But for now :banana: Blue is in:banana:.) :banana:
Kristapea, But Bravo , I just applaud you (as one of the growing many), and when power is exhibited by just not accepting:!:
:bf: I thought I was seeing double trouble! ARGH! our blog is X-rated now! :no: we need an up or down vote on that one. I VOTE NO.
bill is one my favorite emo’s! :love: :billcat:
thanks, isi for that info. On my paternal side, we are supposedly related to John Alden who came over on the Mayflower. We’ve been trying to find the link and Grandmother told us it is on the female side which, as you’ve discovered, is a bit toughter to follow. Damn paternalistic society. (I’m really really ready for a change.)
I’m reading the Mayflower which is very interesting and I learned in there that Alden was a cooper and not a puritan. THAT definitely fits my family! :billcat:
:bf: I think that this emo symbolizes what the wealthy are doing to the poor and middleclass.
I definitely vote no on what looks like the non-consenual sex emoticon.
:hot:
:bf: I think it will have its uses.
I think it is funny but I haven’t had my coffee yet:joe:
That better not be a yarn ball that cat is playing with. Cats and yarn:no:
:knit:
KP may have a point. (I vote YES on the new dog, btw! since I seem to be exercising my right to vote today.) although my thoughts were the same as isi – it looked non-consensual.
GORE :fist:
My Vote = 😐 leaning for the keeping … It did make me laugh. I also think a valid “emo” saying , “I did not ever say you can use my taxes, for this war OR for Riding them and “We are screwing them .”
Shoot, the nasty pics of old were always about screwing women :growl: now :bf: :rofl2: 😆 :rofl2:
:doh:my little sister called the blog stupid:mad:
:bf:whoa! what the hell is going on here!
:cat:ok well im going to take my degenerate sister to the movies later sheeple!
SeanMS Have Fun :banana: 😉
Must Brew and then to INFUSE Tea :joe: (Just one more cup to be warm by:pup: before :yawn:)
:love:i will! ok im out now before my sister starts crying because i kicked her off myspace to hit the blog up!
Hey everyone! I ike the new emoticon!! Still waiting for the one with boobies!
Hey, a kittie too!!:cat: Im not much of a cat person…but anyways….
:bf: Is this perverted?…I didnt realize….I guess Im behind the times. I thought he was just boxing the little guy’s ears.
I still like it….
:bf:I think it’ll get me into trouble. I’m with Farmerkat.:nod:
oh, and isi
Hey, did anyone make it through Russert today? Noone but me could watch here…and I need some exactitude for a blog entry…
Nevermind, I found the transcript….ugh..its worse to watch than read certainly…but also worse the second time around. This guy is evil.
I’m out:neutral:
Merry Journeys All :gate: :banana:
And Merry Tea or coffee Cheers :alc: To you Travis, 😉 :banana:
I hope to be here later.
SBHeron 😉 :knit: 😎
wherever you are, :banana:
And Melina I hope you and Will are :knit: doing well :banana:.
We hardly meet, but soon Mwah HaHa 😉
Now to bed :banana: 😎 :yawn:
:bf: :rofl2: :banana: :yawn:
:bf:Censorship:bf:
:bf::rofl2:
Hey, did anyone make it through Russert today? Noone but me could watch here…and I need some exactitude for a blog entry…
Comment by Melina — September 10, 2006 @ 2:21 pm
Not me. It airs in the Tampa Bay market at the same time as Snuffelupagus, and no way was I missing my future wife Katrina vanden Heuvel:hubba::hubba::hubba:
especially on the last day I can watch ABC before I begin the boycott.
Isn’t that a Cole Porter song?:?:
OK, so technically Katrina has to divorce her current husband before we can hook up. Not to mention actually meet me. Minor technicalities.:hubba::hubba::hubba:
For those who missed it, try to catch the roundtable discussion online. Katrina was great. Plus it’s worth watching just to see the constipated look on George Will’s face.:crap:
The boycott begins at 8 PM tonight, provided ABC does not come to their collective senses and pull their bullshit propaganda “docudrama.”
DOC THIS!!! :fu::fu::fu:
I guess this means I won’t be watching Ohio State vs. Cincinnati next Saturday, since it’s on ABC. Shit. Maybe I’ll go see Hollywoodland. Diane Lane in a slinky black dress sounds like a good idea. Don’t tell Katrina.:hubba:
…and speaking of ABC….what of their plans to air this thing internationally? I believe that Austrailia has seen it already …?
Fuck ABC….
Uh-oh…there go Will and Ben up to the pond…
OK I have to get in gear.
Hey everyone,
I will watch the ABC “911” Miniseries tonight and Monday night so I can see for myself how ABC deals with the objections of the Clinton Administration and we Liberals. I want to see for myself if ABC deletes the fallacious content from this film. If not, I will boycott ABC. The only thing I watch on ABC is its Evening news and “Lost.” I guess I won’t be watching “Lost” after this week. I hear that this miniseries will run without commercial interruption. I don’t know if this is true. If there are commercials I will take note of the ads and boycott the advertisers also.
Well,I have to leave for a few hours because I have to fog my house. I found TICKS!!!! :omg: I can’t sleep here until they’re dead. I don’t like the idea of fogging but I’m kinda freakin’ out a little over here. This is an emergency! :fire: Everything food wise is covered in plastic. We’ve had so much rain and the bugs have been horrible this summer. Mosquitos, ticks, and termites :fu: And mini crisis after mini crisis. Can the Universe leave me alone for a while?? 🙄
Hey Cnick, Make a list of those advertizers and post it. I doubt I’ll watch. I have too many things to do, especially since I*’ve spent half the day dealing with ticks.
I found TICKS!!!!
Comment by Kristapea — September 10, 2006 @ 3:31 pm
So I guess that puts the new-dog decision on hold for a while.:grin:
There will now be a ten-second pause to allow Krista to call me an asshole.:spank:
Yeah , I was actually kind of thinking that Kev. Maybe I’ll wait til it cools off. Thing is, you can put that Frontline stuff on them but then the ticks have no where to go but hang out in your rugs, and curtains and I found one in the bed too so these sheets are history. They come in on the dogs.
Cnick watches so I don’t have to anymore? Cool. Just like Stephanie Miller. 😀
But seriously, posting a list of advertisers/supporters would be a great service. Plus the season premieres of The Simpsons and Family Guy are on tonight, so I wouldn’t be able to watch the “docudrama” anyway.
…and speaking of ABC….what of their plans to air this thing internationally? I believe that Austrailia has seen it already …?
Comment by Melina — September 10, 2006 @ 3:11 pm
Australia and New Zealand. According to ThinkProgress, they did minimal editing to some scenes that were supposed to have been chopped more severely. Sandy Berger, call your legal counsel.
http://thinkprogress.org/
Thanks PJ! I LOVE that Tick! :love::rofl2:
I found one in the bed too
Comment by Kristapea — September 10, 2006 @ 3:37 pm
Not this one, I’m guessing?:grin:
:bf: Thank you, PJ :bow:
:rofl2: That would be scary TOO! I don’t want either tick in my bed.
This :bf: makes me really really mad today.
What would Maron say?
That really made me laugh and now::rant1::mad:
How is this any better:fu: or this::spank:???
I want my dirty dancing bananas back.
I may have to resign over this :fustrate::jason:
:growl:
:tongue::rofl2:
Ahhhhhhhhhhh I wish 9/11 would pass without all these shows and dramas and specials, even the accurate ones…. :omg:
Later bloggie poos
i’m going to do my best to ignore the TV.
I guess I am feeling pretty cranky :crap:
sblue, I have said the expression f**k you, and have used the phrase rape and pillage but to have to look at a characterization of someone getting raped, even if it is a cartoon banana, crossed the line for me.
:jason::bf::cat:
:fu::bf::growl:i quit!
Damn! I missed the two bananas fornicating emo. :omg:
TMR cut into an hour of RoF. Ricky Lee Jones lived in Olympia the same time I did. I always thought she grew up there. But yesterday, I heard her say she that grew up in Chicago.
Was it mutual lovemaking :bf:? or was it rape?
:fustrate:
Let’s talk about the issues, we’re fighting for our lives here:fustrate:
looked a lil like rape to me…but I still think the banana was just boxing the little guy’s ears….
They looked like they were having fun to me! :rofl2:
WTF!
I hope I am proved wrong, but what will we do if the Dems win the House and do not set out to impeach Bush?
:banana: :no:
start drinking heavily now. Oh yeah, and do other things as well.
Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!”
“I mean, if I went ’round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!”
#150?:paranoid:
ARTHUR: Shut up, will you. Shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
Re 154:
What am I missing here? I don’t get it.
Just throw it in the googleator, NickiRose all will be revealed…
just try and live with it. That’s what I do
or do 159. I don’t care
Monty Python and the Holy Grail :omg:
Travis what’s up buddy?
not much
:doh:
This is the time I turned on Ring of Fire yesterday. Damn! I was hoping to catch the first hour from yesterday. Oh well. Get podcast. Help, SJ!
do you have I tunes? I think it allows you to get podcasts (haven’t tried it yet, though)
Guess not…:-(
travis where are you?
No. I am so incompetent in computer stuff, that someone needs to hold my hand through the process..
They are describing, breaking down, the right wing echo chamber. Terrific!
Oh, I’m here. But I, uh, don’t have the messenger anymore. I dunno
I’m going to look on the Ring of Fire website now and see what it says about getting podcasts
The podcast isn’t up at ITunes yet NR.
maybe it is here
there are podcasts available on the website, but you have to be a premium member.
Kittens! :cat:
yup yup
I don’t think Ring o’ Fire is part of premium
You can download “Ring of Fire” podcasts in iTunes. Just go to the Music store in iTunes and run a search for “Ring of Fire”. Then subscribe to the podcast. I do not think the most recent episode of “Ring of Fire” is available yet. I just downloaded the Sept 2nd episode as a test. Works fine.
well maybe it is free somewhere else, but on that website it wouldn’t let me download without signing up for premium. Maybe I’m in the wrong place, though
ok Cnick, I’ll try it, thanks
yep, it’s in itunes – Nicki, do you have the itunes music player?
and it is free there :nod:
Everything is cool, but I don’t feel good:barf:
Cnick is right – this weekend’s version doesn’t seem to be up yet –
🙄
I mean, do whatever.
:bf:i miss the banana love! :pup:doggystyle!
:bf:
I’m out.
I don’t care if ABC cuts out everything from the opening credits to the closing ones – It doesn’t matter anymore what the movie says. The crux of it is that right wing crypto fascist zombies have not only infiltrated main stream network media, they have done it undercover. [And ‘moderate’ Tom Kean helped them do it! Still think there are honorable Repubs worth your vote? ]
Any dope knows that Fox news is a wing of the GOP, and that the other network news is uneven, usually parroting GOP talking points, occasionally not. We usually see the propaganda coming from miles away. But this is a stealth maneuver – Rush Limbaugh’s lies spoken by credible actors like Harvey Keitel. And when they got caught, Disney refuses to admit that they’ve been infiltrated by these psychotic traitors to our constitution and what’s left of their integrity compromised. They don’t believe that anything will be done to them. Boy, does our side need a Nixon to show them they’re wrong. :sammy:
mr fk has been on high alert – lots of tension past few days as there’s indication something big could hit there tomorrow. one great thing – the military found today 2000 pounds of explosives in their neighborhood! Glad that’s out of there. So hopefully, they’ll catch anything else going down. guess the “chatter” has been pretty big, though. The loving wife’s advice: I told him to sleep on the floor so he won’t get blown out of bed again. He said, “Thanks dear.”
he’ll be on tonight.
SOOOO I have total tractor envy. Since my tractor is in the shop, my girlfriend bush-hogged with her tractor one side of our pasture (the donkey’s eyes get red and sore if the grass is too high). My friend has the nicest tractor – 10″ Bush hog, air conditioning, CD player. :hot:
Gave the donkey her late summer bath this afternoon. :love: She’s clean as a whistle.
I heard Russert gave Cheney a pretty tough going over – is this true?
CNICK, thanks for doing the dirty deed of watching the evil abc network.
OH MELINA => the Ninja teevee changer WORKS!!!! heh heh :banana: buhbye f*x & abc!
crest2 => exactly :nod:
The crux of it is that right wing crypto fascist zombies have not only infiltrated main stream network media, they have done it undercover.
:barf: :bf:
Can the lackluster Democrats retake Congress?
B-Team of Corporate America
by Todd Chretien; September 09, 2006
[…]
Who runs the Democratic Party?
The Democratic Party is one of the oldest political parties in the world. Over the last 150 years it has jointly ruled American capitalism with the Republican Party, its younger rival. The Democrats have absorbed massive challenges from the Left and kept the profit system and the American empire on track. As Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously retorted, “I’m the best friend the profit system ever had.” In the 1960s and 1970s, the party absorbed a layer of antiwar and civil rights leaders and talked left in order to co-opt sections of those movements. This maneuver explains its lingering liberal reputation.
Yet today, the Democratic Party’s leadership is more right wing than it has been at any time since the 1950s. There are still old school liberals in the party, but they have been pushed to the margins by an aggressive pro-business leadership. In the mid-1980s Bill Clinton and Al Gore helped launch the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) in order to dispel any perception that the party was bound to any “special interests,” by which they meant civil rights and women’s organizations and trade unions. Twenty years later, the DLC wing of the party can claim total victory. This is a powerful fact that anyone who aims to push the party to the left must explain.
Real power in the Democratic Party is shared between conservatives like Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and Dianne Feinstein and centrists like Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and John Kerry. Liberal Democrats like Barbara Lee, Dennis Kucinich, Russ Feingold, and John Conyers are locked out and hardly register in the party’s calculations…
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10921§ionID=72
that’s an excellent summary. I guess I finally shook the “child of the 60’s and 70’s dem = liberal” thinking off and I”m facing reality on what the party is really about
In 2004, the antiwar movement demobilized and threw its support behind John Kerry, even though he promised to send more troops to Iraq. In 2006, the leadership of the largest antiwar coalition, United for Peace and Justice, is urging, in place of mass mobilizations, a “legislative” strategy to oust prowar politicians. The tragedy of this 2004-all-over-again is that it also requires muffling the antiwar movement’s support for Lebanon and Palestine against the Israeli onslaught, as no Democratic politician will countenance support from anti-Zionist organizations or movements.
However, the rot is deeper than simply a “tactical” decision by antiwar, labor, women’s rights, and civil rights leaderships to support Democrats in these elections. Since the Second World War, the main organizations of the liberal Left have embraced the Democrats and fought aggressively against any attempt to break movements free from their political domination or to organize left-wing electoral alternatives. Now the chickens are coming home to roost…
Now that the Democrats are proudly displaying their true pro-corporate, prowar colors, the liberal Left organizations have almost nothing left with which to defend themselves. So, for instance, when Senator Feinstein destroyed any serious attempt to filibuster John Roberts or Samuel Alito for Supreme Court nomination, all that the National Organization for Women and NARAL Pro-Choice America could do was send out a few e-mail alerts. There were no marches, no sit-ins-no real effort to defend abortion rights.
The American Left faces a much more difficult task than simply turning existing organizations against allegiance to the Democrats. By and large, the American Left must build from scratch, or at least from a historically weak starting point, the very organizations in which this debate can be thrashed out. There is no point in pretending this will be easy. But it must be done.
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Todd Chretien is the 2006 Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California.
Goddamnit we are in a bad state of affairs. :priest:
I don’t think its going to matter in the long run what message the right-wing controlled media is trying to send. People are getting tired of Bush and his administration blaming everything on Clinton. They see through this charade. And they don’t feel safer. Ask them. They’ll tell you. I live in the most right wing state in the US and could not find anyone who felt good about what is happening in Iraq. I have to believe that the people are not buying into the right’s efforts to paint the left as “soft on terrorism.” We’ve just been lucky. Our borders are porous and our ports are not secure. And Bush has had ample time to do something about it. This blame it on the Democrats just does not work anymore. Nevertheless the Democrats cannot sit back on their asses and think its “in the bag.” I believe we will take back the House. Perhaps even the Senate. But I do not think the Democrats will impeach Bush and perhaps that is the proper course. Just make him and his corrupt administration and his party bleed a little. More effective in the long run.
The American Left faces a much more difficult task than simply turning existing organizations against allegiance to the Democrats. By and large, the American Left must build from scratch, or at least from a historically weak starting point, the very organizations in which this debate can be thrashed out. There is no point in pretending this will be easy. But it must be done.
It seems like continuing to inform people in this fashion is a good start at least…
I think Bush’s crimes have been to the extent where anything less than impeaching him would be maddeningly unfair…
So, are we going to get the BF bananas back?
You talking to someone here who would laugh out loud if some nut put a bullet in Bush’s head. Yup, you heard me. I wish Bush was DEAD! But I’m not gonna do it and I don’t think the Democrat Party will impeach Bush either. Somehow we’ve got to bring this country together. Not tear it apart. And if you cannot convince the majority to follow you then where does that leave you? I do not think that you will ever see the United States as Liberal as I’d like to see it. Not in my lifetime.
maybe having the BF bananas back is a start, Cnick?
I don’t know why impeaching Bush should “tear the country apart” that sounds like a DLC (or Republican – same thing ) meme. If punishing this man would “tear people apart” then people are just too fucked up for words. In any case, I believe crimes should be punished.
So its either compromise, persuade or break apart. Perhaps Iraq will break apart. Perhaps someday we to will find ourselves moving in that direction. When we’ve suffered one to many disappointments and loose all hope that things will ever change. Or perhaps militancy will spring up here in this country.
Yeah, I’d like to see the BF bananas back. You’d think Liberals would be less prudish about such things. I mean for God’s sake their not real. It’s not real. Where other than here have you ever witnessed a banana dance or fuck?
I just worry about how an impeachment of Bush would be preceived by mainstream America.
honestly, I could give a fuck about mainstream America… :omg:
crimes should not go unpunished to “appease people”…that’s not what this country is about
Well Susan I’m with ya, but we aren’t in the mainstream. We’re far to the left and never likely to see the majority within this nation move in our direction. I’d love it if pot were legal and gay marriage were to. And the government would respect privacy. But you have many, perhaps the majority out there who question why anyone would have a problem with the government listening in on our private phone calls. “You must be doing something wrong or have something to hide.” That’s how they think.
It’s the corporations who may not want an impeachment. They have great powers of persuasion to get their way, too.
Crimes go unpunished all the time. Criminals are pardoned and innocent people are wrongly convicted.
that’s why there should be no death penalty
Has this nation ever elected a Liberal?
Exactly Travis, I’m with ya on that one.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%20/Manufac_Consent_Prop_Model.html
re: 211: But we don’t want that obviously.
Why does everything suck?
Because Corporations Rule!:fist:
Corporations pretty much dominate our culture, including the government. Are corporations democracies?
The corporations control it all Nicki. I’m with ya on that. And religion is right there backing it up. But if I want to earn a living I have to play by some of their rules. I am (however) sneaky. I stab them in the back as often as possible. And secretly wish they’d all burn in hell. But that place is apparently reserved for me.
Manufacturing Consent: Holy Book of deconstructing propaganda
Are corporations legitimate to you? (I am not asking you if they are legal. They are. So was Auschwitz, for that matter.)
:fustrate::bf:
Oh, didn’t you use to write that potassium is good for blood pressure or leg cramps or something?
Here is another good Chomsky book. An essential book on his political thought.
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/UnderstandingPower/
My best friend Steve is calling me long distance. So I guess I’m to stupid to follow what your asking Nicki. Please explain.
yes…that’s the one I’m going to buy this week
“state of belief” is a pretty good AA show (listening to it now)
re#223
yes
edited
You seem to accept as permanent the rule by corporations (Religion is their handmaiden, for the most part). If that is the case, then cause of democracy is doomed.
Stimulate. :omg:
Democracy probably is doomed.
Nicki :pent::sdavid:
Even if we win the midterms does anyone here really believe things will change? Not so much for me.
I refuse to be defeatist :fist:
mm this poster I’m drawing is really coming out good… :nixon:
so-called democracy is not the kind of democracy I envisioned as a youth.
Well I tend to be a pessimist.
I don’t want Bush dead. I want him to suffer at least as much as the families and friends of the people who have been killed in his bullshit war.
DEATH IS TOO GOOD FOR HIM.
AND CHENEY.
AND RUMSFELD.
AND RICE.
AND EVERYONE ELSE IN HIS CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION.
If you kill him, you make him a martyr, at least to the delusional 36% or whatever it was in the last poll.
I don’t want him dead. I want him imprisoned for his war crimes and crimes against humanity.
And I want that prison to be Oz.
:fu:
How about CORPORATIONS are DOOMED! :fist:
Perhaps a realist. Like I asked earlier: Has this nation ever elected a Liberal as its leader?
I do not think the majority in this country feel Bush has committed “war crimes.”
Liberal president.
Well, popular movements shook the FDR administration to such an extent that he pushed through the New Deal.
right on, Kevin!
Arghhhh commercials for 9/11 specials :doh:
Presidents during the 60’s and 70’s (even the Republicans) were more liberal than any president of recent years….
Maybe when the demodorps say that impeaching Bush would divide the country they mean divide their corporate supporters . Those 30 something percent of blind Bush supporters need to see Bush put on trail and his demise live on the Teevee to make them go away or they will have to be eliminated . Like a colony of cockroaches you can’t just get rid of a few and have any progress in making change occur they will just come back to screw up things again and again.:jason::jason::jason::gate::omg::yuck::yuck::paranoid:
the majority of this country may well believe a lot of nonsensical things. In fact I’m sure they probably do. That still doesn’t mean crimes should go unpunished. We’re not talking about “what the majority of people want matters” here; impeachment is not election of the general public.
I guess I have a different definition of the word liberal. I doubt FDR would have favored the legalization of Pot or Gay marriage.
True, FDR’s “liberalness” comes from the new deal. Gay marriage and acceptance will have its day and polls continually show that younger people are more accepting; we have a couple of decades to wait, which I know is frustrating. However during the 70’s for instance some liberal concepts were more acceptable than they are now: ecology and feminism and separation of church and state are a few.
They always come back Fred.
yay Laura Flanders
The majority of the American people are “liberal”. It is the government that is challenged on the matter. Did anybody listen to the AAR show yesterday with Chomsky on it? The one hosted by the head of the Riverside Church? There waas a good discussion over what we are talking about here.
sorry I missed that one…
The guy from the Vietnam war who was on with Flanders last night explained it pretty well that if we have another big terraist attack on US soil it will only drive the SBR farther to the right because all the little old purse string holders will be cowering under their beds That will do nothing for either world peace or the establishment of a for the people government here. The only way to solve that problem is to create a situation where the SBR is not safe for investment because their own population is shooting people and blowing things up. That will crash the sock market and drive the industrialists and the investor elite out or they will all be killed one or the other. Rethugs are the ultimate in sheep and can not function without their authoritarian leaders get rid of their leaders and their financing and they will be minimalized.:gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:
Well, theyre airing it….unbelievable! I was so sure that they would pull it.
Im sure theyre putting a big disclaimer at the beginning….I hope they get sued for libel.
On CBS is the documentary on 9-11…I think this is the actual one where the guys were shooting another documentary at the time and had footage…this is an actual documentary…
The other…well?…are they gonna have suddenly edited out the parts that are questionable?
The peace movement in the SBR has been ineffective because it contains to many peace at any cost nicks. It was not the numbers of people in the streets that ended the Vietnam war but the bad press the thugs got when they killed a few to many for no reason. The same thing happened with Gandhi’s movement in India. The students had lessons on how to neutralize the police and how to perform mob action. In California there was a lot of burning of college laboratories run for DOD . When the protest formed in DC in 1972 the congress was so afraid they would be lynched they had to be evacuated from their chambers. It was not a bunch of people carrying cute signs parading around in circles that ended that conflict.. When the DC police put snipers on the roofs of the buildings they found themselves staring at people who were on the roofs of other buildings who appeared to be snipers that were not police. You have to scare the :crap: out of rethugs before they do anything. :gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:
CNT.
Have you studied the history of the “Gay Liberation” struggle in this country? Harry Hay? Mattachine? Check it out.
http://www.shapingsf.org/ezine/gay/files/gaymatta.html
One Magazine
by David Bianco
The 1996 Supreme Court decision that found Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2 unconstitutional was not the first time the high court ruled in favor of gay people. In January 1958, the court delivered its first pro-gay ruling in a landmark decision that allowed lesbian and gay publications to be sent through the mail.
ONE, Inc., a homophile educational organization, was founded in Los Angeles in 1952 by about a dozen members of the Mattachine Society who wished to publish a monthly magazine. The name “ONE” (also the magazine’s name) was chosen from a quote by 19th-century British essayist Thomas Carlyle: “A mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men one.”
One of the magazine’s early editors, Martin Block, later said its underlying message was that people could be proud to be gay. “That in itself was radical,” he noted.
ONE appeared in January 1953 with the Carlyle quote on the first page. It featured articles on the Mattachine Society and several personal essays. From the beginning, the founders insisted on a professional look; even though they were paying the initial publication costs themselves, they opted to typeset and print ONE instead of mimeographing it. The magazine distinguished itself with bold graphics, eye-catching artwork and, eventually, paid advertising (one of the first ads was for men’s pajamas). found a pool of eager subscribers in the membership of the Mattachine Society, and, within a few months, the magazine was selling 2,000 copies a month.
Besides drawing gay readers, however, ONE also caught the attention of law enforcement officials. In July 1953, the FBI initiated a full-scale investigation and even wrote letters to the employers of ONE’s editors, advising them that their employees were “deviants” and “security risks.” Despite these underhanded tactics, none of the ONE staffers lost their day jobs, and the FBI never succeeded in shutting the magazine down.
Postal authorities, however, were nearly able to close the magazine several times. The first time was in August 1953, when the Los Angeles postmaster seized all copies of ONE on the grounds that its content was obscene. But U.S. Post Office officials in Washington decided that ONE did not violate federal law. The following year, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, Alexander Wiley, renewed the attack on ONE, writing to the Postmaster General to protest “the use of the United States mails to transmit a so-called ‘magazine’ devoted to the advancement of sexual perversion.” Wiley’s letter led to a second effort by the Post Office to keep ONE out of the hands of its subscribers.
In October 1954, postal officials once again seized the magazine and charged the editors with sending obscene material through the mail, a violation of the 1873 Comstock Act. The editors hired a heterosexual defense attorney, who argued in federal district court that ONE was educational and strove simply “to create understanding of an extremely knotty social problem.” But the judge ruled for the Post Office, and on appeal, a second judge concurred, dismissing ONE as “cheap pornography.”
Determined, ONE took its case all the way to the Supreme Court. On January 13, 1958, the Court delivered an astonishing unanimous pro-gay decision, overturning the rulings of the two lower courts and limiting the power of the Comstock Act. As a result, lesbian and gay publications could be mailed without legal repercussions, though many continued to experience harassment from the Post Office and U.S. Customs.
I’m sure this would not have been done had people not bucked the odds and kept on fighting….
Identify allies and people who can change to the better. Educate, Agitate. Organize.
I rented an old “Have Gun Will Travel” dvd yesterday, largely because there was an episode about Oscar Wilde. (He did visit San Francisco in the 1890s.) Paladin. Paladin. Where do he roam?
“have fun will travel” Wow
That “guy from the Viet Nam era” was Tom Hayden, Fred. He had a lot of good things to say yesterday.
Oscar Wilde was a remarkable man.
“Oscar Wilde is widely celebrated as an artist persecuted for his homosexuality, a sort of protomartyr for the cause of gay rights, and the center of a circle of unconventional poets and artists known as decadents and aesthetes.”
All I heard Hayden say was doom and gloom .. He sounded like Randi Rhodes on Prosac.:yuck::eek:
er I meant gun.
‘In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” – oscar Wild
Oscar Wilde was a forerunner for moi! NR.
Well. Take those blinders off.
“look at the people, in the streets, in the bars. We, all of us, in the gutter – some of us looking at the stars”
Christopher Street is a street in the West Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, that was at the center of New York’s gay rights movement in the late 1970s. To this day the street serves as a symbol of gay pride.
The street was once called Skinner Road after William Skinner. The street got its current name in 1799, when the land was acquired by Charles Christopher Amos.
Christopher Street is the first stop in Manhattan on the 33rd Street Line of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson rapid transit railroad. The PATH identifies Christopher St station with a large single capital ‘C’.
Christopher Street is the site of the Stonewall Inn, the bar whose patrons started the 1969 Stonewall riots that are widely seen as the birth of the gay liberation movement. The Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee formed to commemorate the first anniversary of that event, the beginning of the international tradition of a late-June event to celebrate gay pride. [1] The annual gay pride festivals in Berlin, Cologne, and other German cities are known as Christopher Street Day or “CSD”.
Christopher Street magazine, which began publication in July 1976 was, for many years, one of the most respected gay magazines in the U.S., until it folded in December 1995.
Near Sixth Avenue, Christopher Street intersects with a short, winding street appropriately named Gay Street.
:bow::pent:
I lived a few blocked from Christopher Street one summer… Bethune Street
:rofl2::pent:
I’ve been trying to. Now stop trying to get away
Send that neoliberal a message and vote for Tasini on Tuesday.
guess what I’m going to wear when I …… see you
oh yes, there are Tasini signs everywhere around here. I think it’s a good sign :jesus:
now get over here. Do you hear me?
Nothing. :jesus:
Or Work Clothes. :omg:
:pent:
I will call you soon. :pent::pent::pent::pent::sdavid::sdavid:
I thought that Tasini just said he was Benno.
hehe, we’ll see
I need phone stimulation. :omg:
I finally see the method to your madness!:nod: I think you’re right, Fred.
VOTE TASINI!
I had to interrupt and stop this conversation
Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation
I’d like to talk when I can show you my affection
I can’t control myself :bf:
And you know what scare’s them the most? Being out of control.
::scares Republicans near and far::::
:omg: I didn’t see that
OUt of here!:peace:
ttyl 😉
Hey, if anyone wants to file a formal complaint about “The Path To 9/11” go here
Very sad documentary on ABC….the Naudet piece…unbelievable that this thing could have been subsequently twisted by this administration into the horror of the neverending war…
Hey Kevin, So Halloween is going to be an eighties extravaGANZA here in…………………………..SunCity WEST! Devo, Animotion, Dramarama, Flock of Seaguls and bi-level haircuts! Be there
AND be square! :pup:
Is Kev coming west?….Oh, God, arent the 80’s best left forgotten?
Oh, God, arent the 80’s best left forgotten?
Comment by Melina — September 10, 2006 @ 10:14 pm
No! It’s all I have left! :knit2:
Kevin’s not coming out here, I’m just trying to make him jealous. 🙂
All you have left? IMpossible!! Hey, I was big in the 80’s…but I had to let it go…go….go…..
What a strange time that was in NYC….not my best, most favorite years, for sure…
Im trying to get a blog post up and get Frank Rich etc…up as well….its gonna take another 15 or 20 mins ….if Im lucky…
Have to take Will very far to a Dr tomorrow so I hope its not long.
:cat:
It’s Sunday:doh:
:peace:
yep yup…
:paranoid:
😆
😆 Hows the Great Heron?
Oh, not that again:crap:
:spank:
mad as hell
Yikes, why?
http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/wp-images/smilies/censor.gif
I do not “get it”.
not really..just watched The Trouble With Harry so i should be ok.
This is something i can’t seem to let go of::bf:
How have you been?
I have been alright, quite busy actually, made a cake it was really good
What kind of cake?
I have been looking at my grandmothers old recipies and found one I remember long ago………………………..
A hummingbird cake, and it was quite good!
nice…nice that it came out OK
:tongue:
MM would not eat hummingbird cake:mad:
It has been added to the “favorites” list
Why?
http://cake.allrecipes.com/az/HummingbrdCake.asp
oh…:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
you were serious!
MINE HADE BUTTER/ CREAM CHEESE FROSTING!
goodnight mm…thanks for stopping by:nod:
Goodnight actually I have to go as well. See you all later!:pup:
icing for Hummingbird Cake
8 oz. cream cheese 1 box powdered sugar 1 stick butter 1 tsp. vanilla
Mix all together and put on a:cool: cake.
travis…:knit: goodnight!
Yes, but I found that 1/2 of powdered sugar box will do fine. Actually my cake only had two cups of flour……I think it’s why it was so moist and delicious.
Bye all see you soon! Night Travis, dont drink too much!