Not much to say this morning, except if you’re out there in the vicinity of Vancouver, you should head out to the CanWest ComedyFest over the next few days to see the likes of Marc Maron and Janeane Garafalo. And nobody could really blame you if you decided to just stay up there. In fact, if you set up a safe house, let me know; I’ll be along shortly.
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❓ whatever :sheep: le
:yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck: Its Thursday again :yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck:
Is it a bad sign when the Israelis send their foreign minister instead of their head of state to the UN meeting ?? 😮
She looked like she was wearing a Kevlar vest under her blouse. 😮 😮
Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project)
up 277,075% – Sales Rank in Books: 8 (was 22,174)
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Amazoo must keep a running average rating the number this AM is different
You can see how popular Chomsky is .. err.. was…………. 😮
Hillary babbles
In a jab at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who has made numerous controversial statements regarding Israel, Clinton referred to him as a “repeated purveyor of offensive rhetoric.” Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at the UN on Tuesday denouncing the United States and Britain as “hegemonic powers.”
“It is my hope,” Clinton continued, “that world leaders will convey the message that through his statements calling for Israel’s destruction … President Ahmadinejad continues to lessen his standing as a credible world leader in the community of nations.”
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We all know who’s pocket she is in .. :yuck: :crap: :barf:
Russia sees no alternative to new collective leader in world, Sergei Lavrov said
18.09.2006, 03.28
LISBON, September 18 (Itar-Tass) – Russia does not see a reasonable alternative to the creation of a new collective leader comprising key, highly industrialized countries in the world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an article published in the Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias over his two-day visit in Lisbon that will begin on Monday.
According to the minister, these key countries should be “representative in terms of geography and civilisation.” “The Group of Eight (G8) may become an important aspect of an informal mechanism of a new collective leader,” Lavrov pointed out.
Russia is ready to make a contribution in the creation of a new universal system that will be safer and democratic based on the principles of law and multilateral cooperation, Sergei Lavrov said.
“Abandoning the ideology of the past in favour of common sense,” now Russia has “a broad and unbiased view on all issues,” the minister emphasized.
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:eek::eek: and :eek::eek::eek::eek:
Third night of Hungarian protests
The prime minister has said he will not tolerate violence
Thousands of people have gathered outside the Hungarian parliament in Budapest for a third night to demand the resignation of the government.
On previous nights the protests have led to violent clashes, which police say have been orchestrated by far-right groups and known football hooligans.
PM Ferenc Gyurcsany remains defiant and has said he will not tolerate violence.
The protests were sparked by a leaked tape in which Mr Gyurcsany said he lied about the economy to win re-election.
The Socialist leader has resisted opposition calls to resign, and says he remains committed to a programme of tough economic reforms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5365940.stm
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I wonder if they will facilitate any change.. 😮
World poll favours Iran diplomacy
World opinion opposes aggressive steps as a way of stopping a possible Iranian nuclear arms programme, according to a 25-nation poll for BBC World Service.
But only 17% of those polled believed Iranian assurances that research it is carrying out is just for energy needs.
The most popular course of action, with 39% support, was to use only diplomatic efforts; 11% favoured military strikes.
Last month, Iran failed to abide by a UN deadline to halt uranium enrichment which could lead to sanctions.
An average of 30% of respondents favoured economic sanctions if Iran continued to produce nuclear fuel.
The survey asked 27,407 people in countries ranging from the US and UK to Brazil, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Israel, Nigeria, Poland, Russia and Turkey.
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Imagine, Hungarians in the street demanding that the P.M. step down for lying about the economy; Mexicans in mass demonstrations setting up an alternative govt. because their election was tainted by fraud.
Freedom is on the march, but not the way Bush wants. :sammy:
:banana::banana::banana: Its Cresttwo :banana::banana::banana:
Whaaas up ??
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in one of a series of high profile television interviews during the annual UN General Assembly, Wednesday defended the practice of suicide bombing and said it was not a “bad thing.”
Ahmadinejad has vowed to wipe Israel off the map, and has snubbed his nose at the international community’s attempt to dissuade it from enriching uranium, a process that can lead to developing nuclear bombs.
Ahmadinejad was asked by an NBC journalist how he would feel if his child became a suicide bomber.
“What would you like your son to do?” Ahmadinejad said. “Would you like him to defend America? I think you would like that.
“It’s the same with our people. If you don’t have arms, what would you do? It’s not a bad thing. The war was imposed on the Middle East,” Ahmadinejad said.
http://tinyurl.com/hvkb8
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If they could just make love to the politicians they would much more palatable.:yuck:
NHS staff prepare for strike over privatisation
Sep 21, 2006, 7:27 GMT
The national health service is to experience its first national strike for 18 years, as staff employed by the NHS’ supplies organisation prepare to stage a day of industrial action in protest at government plans to privatise the service.
Workers employed by NHS Logistics, which delivers medical and food supplies to hospitals and doctors’ surgeries, will stage a 24-hour-walk-out over proposals to outsource the organisation’s work to German parcel company, DHL.
The strike, organised by public service union Unison, will begin at 22:00 BST this evening and will be followed by a second strike on September 26th, timed to coincide with a debate scheduled to take place on the NHS at next week’s Labour party conference in Manchester.
Unison said that of the 900 NHS Logistics staff it balloted over the strike action earlier this month, 74 per cent of its members voted in favour of the walk-out, based on a turnout of 66 per cent.
(snip/…)
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When they do this :crap: the people who know what to do all leave and go into the private sector ( providing there is a job in the private sector) .. Getting them back historically has been almost impossible so the next five times you need the agency to act of something they will fail at what they do and the thugs will say .. see.. see… see.. government is incompetent. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
U.S. to put high-tech towers along borders: report
The Associated Press
Boeing Co. will be awarded a government contract worth $80-million US to provide new high-tech ways to catch illegal immigrants trying to cross land borders into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, a congressional aide said.
Chicago-based Boeing was among several major defence companies competing for the job. While other companies’ proposals relied more heavily on using flying drones to patrol the border, Boeing focused on a network of 1,800 high-tech towers, equipped with cameras and motion detectors, that could feed live information to Border Patrol agents.
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Now if we just had some Border patrol Agents to feed info to..
These also work the other way around.
I think they are building a Berlin wall in disguise. :eek::paranoid:
Anyone want to go into the high tech tower removal business. :growl::paranoid:
The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities, according to former CIA officials and people close to the programme.
The former officials said the CIA interrogators’ refusal was a factor in forcing the Bush administration to act earlier than it might have wished.
When Mr Bush announced the suspension of the secret prison programme in a speech before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, some analysts thought he was trying to gain political momentum before the November midterm congressional elections.
The administration publicly explained its decision in light of the legal uncertainty surrounding permissible interrogation techniques following the June Supreme Court ruling that all terrorist suspects in detention were entitled to protection under Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions.
But the former CIA officials said Mr Bush’s hand was forced because interrogators had refused to continue their work until the legal situation was clarified because they were concerned they could be prosecuted for using illegal techniques. One intelligence source also said the CIA had refused to keep the secret prisons going.
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Maybe they will go looking for the rethugs next and save us the trouble. :omg:
US First Lady Laura Bush opened a summit organized by former president Bill Clinton on major challenges facing the world, and announced that the US government would send water pumps to Africa.
Clinton introduced Bush as someone who “used to be a teacher.”
“Hillary (Clinton) and I have been particularly grateful for her advocacy of education for young women in developing countries,” the former US president said.
The first lady detailed US initiatives for development and unveiled a new one at the second annual Clinton Global Initiative conference, held on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
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Bill was one of the best rethug Presidents ever .. err… I though that was democrat ..uhh must be wrong ..:barf:
:yawn::joe:
Shuttle Atlantis lands safely in Florida
http://tinyurl.com/r9osv
:banana::banana::banana: Its Susan :banana::banana::banana:
:joe::joe::joe::eek::eek:
About 70 federal agents descended on a site near Buckley Air Force Base today and arrested at least 120 suspected illegal immigrants who were building military housing.
In what may be the largest immigration raid in state history, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, some from as far away as California, loaded the men they detained onto three buses and took them away to be processed. Some family members arrived at the construction site, panicked at the possibility a loved one would be deported.
ICE agents also made early morning raids in Pennsylvania and Delaware this morning, arresting 115 illegal immigrants, including some criminals and fugitives who had ducked previous deportation orders.
Officials with the Mexican consulate in Denver said they were told by ICE that 98 immigrants, including three minors, had already been put on a bus to Mexico.
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Once upon a time federal contracts had to use union labor..
I will take bets the contractor was a Democrat.:eek::eek:
it’s impossible for me to wake up this morning :joe::joe::joe::shock:
good morning Fred :pup::pup::pup:
Got to go:yuck::yuck: BBL
I’m supposed to do Dr. Seuss drawings for the bedroom of my one-month old nephew Sam :tongue: SamIAm
uh oh, those faces don’t portend your trip away from the computer will be good… 😮
Oh Chomsky is still popular, there are like half a dozen books by him on the shelves in B&N. I can probably read them all on my breaks from work
of course those books are sandwiched between shelves and shelves of Republican and “mainstream” pundits…got to go down to the (revolutionary) St. Marks bookstore in the Village…instead of plain chairs to sit on they have “plan the revolution here” section (well maybe not, but you get the idea of what kind of books they have)
http://www.stmarksbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
I’m listening to the Young Turks, I doubt they ever hung out in the St. Marks book store :omg:
morning!
good morning Sean
and Jeffy in tow (we need a penguin emo!!!!)
:doh:i dont think they make penguin emos!
:eek::eek: that’s outragous
` :omg:666
PBS newsmagazine NOW this week plans to target what producers are calling, “a stealth campaign for deep cuts in social services,” RAW STORY has learned.
The program is to examine ballot initiatives across the nation that it will characterize as deceptively-titled attempts to slash funding in health care and education. “Initiatives with titles like ‘Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights’ and ‘SOS – Stop Over Spending'” will be the focus of the segment.
The program is also set to assert that one wealthy New Yorker is secretly helping to orchestrate the push by providing major funding for the nationwide initiatives. Questionable legal and campaign tactics will also be highlighted.
Whether or not the program will attempt to link the “stealth campaign” to previous attempts to slash funding for public broadcasting is unknown.
On Friday, the NOW website will launch a state by state guide to the propositions–and related campaign financing.
666!
Megiddo 666
:priest:666?
where did Druid GO, by the way? :pent:
yeah. ..megiddo…what he said
:rabbi:666
ok this Ben guy on Young Turks is kind of annoying
by powers of earth, air, fire, and water. By the sun the moon and all the planets I summon (ok maybe just ask really nicely and respectfully) Druid!!!! :pent:
:neutral:maybe “they” got her:paranoid:
I need to become addicted to caffeine :joe:
Man who shot Pope warns Benedict
BBC News, UK – 2 hours ago
The man who tried to kill the late Pope John Paul II in 1981 has warned Pope Benedict XVI not to visit Turkey, saying his life could be in danger. …
Pope gunman warns Benedict against Turkey visit Daily Telegraph
Lawyer: Pope gunman warns Benedict XVI Houston Chronicle
Lawyer: Pope gunman warns Benedict not to travel to Turkey International Herald Tribune
The Free Lance-Star – Jamaica Gleaner
all 1,581 news articles »
Pope Benedict warned not to travel to Turkey
Hindustan Times, India – 9 hours ago
The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 has warned Pope Benedict XVI, whose remarks enraged Muslims last week, not to visit this predominantly Muslim …
Pope Benedict XVI and his unwise utterances Milli Gazette
BRIEF CASE: Selective Amnesia Times of India
all 3 news articles »
Journal of Turkish Weekly Mehmet Ali Agca warns Pope Benedict: Don’t come to Turkey
Hürriyet, Turkey – 1 hour ago
Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish citizen who shot Pope John Paul II many years ago, has reportedly written a letter urging current Pope Benedict XVI not to come to …
Agca warns Pope: “Do not come to Turkey” Sabah
Agca, Assassin of the former Pope: Pope Benedict XVI had affairs … Journal of Turkish Weekly
Agca: Pope Benedict XVI is ‘Victim of Secret Sex Picture Extortion … Journal of Turkish Weekly
:omg:666
interesting stuff about Murtha and lobbying, though
Hey everyone!…rough AM round here and I feel so damned tired….
Ive got to get going….and Puppy Angelina is not feeling well. JOin the crowd! Lola grabbed Buck’s arm yesterday and bit him good for whatever doggy reason they have in a squabble….and hes limping all over looking pathetic. Thank god for neosporin.
Im glad that Sam is using some of Marc’s chracters and Marc himself on Fridays. If Marc can get Sam to bring in Jim Earl on some level…writing or something…this could build up to something good.
I watched the Today show for a while this morning.
Just cant deal with Turks or anything.
They had Clinton on…oh my God….I just cant get my mind around this having lunch with W etc….He says that he wants everyone to see that we share humanity and all that. I keep thinking that maybe he has a bigger picture vision of whats gonna happen, in that he has been in that office and feels like the changes that happen in 8 years wont break this country and that its more important to be interacting. Though how he can possibly interact with those Bush people is beyond me. But, I think that the real truth of it is that to be a politician you have to be dirty down to your soul. Otherwise how could any of them sit in UN session with leaders who are doing things pretty horribly?….Maybe one becomes numb? Or maybe Clinton has sold out for Hillary’s bid at the White House? Or maybe he has a larger view of it all.
True, that you have to gain control before you can insitiute change…and you have to gain control on so many levels that the whole thing may not be apparent…..BUT, hes gotta realize that alot of us out here are watching and have to know, lest we give up areas of control without knowing, and then wake up one day to a neocon , or other group, run america….
Im trying to not be so disappointed with Clinton. But, I am.
At least I know that he and Hillary have good ideas deep inside, so if they get control again there is a possiblity of some good happening. I dont know if it matters really anymore. Its gonna take real diplomacy and alot of work to begin to unravel the spaghetti mess that the Bushies are gonna leave. Sure, somepme can come in can cancel as much of this shit as can be canceled…but there are long reaching problems there….
Maybe a middle of the road diplomacy minded leader is whats called for, for the following 4 years….no one is gonna come out of this looking good in any way.
What a fucking mess….
I wonder if it might not be good to go and live in Mexico.
My haircutter has a shack on the beach there and he has some people look after it for him…and goes for a month twice a year.
Its really inexpensive to live if youre, say, renting out a house here….can live on that income on the beach somewhere…..
I dont knwo if that does much good…and they have those stupid animal importation laws.
I want a donkey.
I guess they need a little heated barn.
Kat, do they need a real fenced in area or can you use a wireless fence on em?
Seanie, Im gonna have to dig out my little penguin movie from the Mystic aquarium…..
Real penguins are so cool…Jeffy, not so much!
warned Pope Benedict XVI not to visit Turkey, saying his life could be in danger. …
Yeah, that’s going to show em. Let’s threaten his life, that’ll prove we’re not a violent religoin
:pup:yeah jeffy is an evil jerk!
Im glad that Sam is using some of Marc’s chracters and Marc himself on Fridays. If Marc can get Sam to bring in Jim Earl on some level…writing or something…this could build up to something good.
Agree, I was so excited to hear Lawton Smalls. And there was the strong hint that he would be “calling back” and thus a regular character
Sammy is evil but we need him around to either abuse or try to save, depending on our mood…
er I mean Jeffy
Sammy is Jeffy’s not-evil twin (estranged) brother from the North Pole!
eeek 5100
Michael Bloomberg: White House run? Jeez Louise, as what? A Republican or Democrat? He’s a party switcher (listening to the news on AA)
Maron’s on!
Was that Marc? Comeon say somethiong else!
No, that wasn’t Marc. Wishful thinking.
Henrietta “Etty” Allen said Wednesday that she concealed her upbringing as a Jew in North Africa from her children, including Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), until a conversation across the dining room table in late August.
She said Allen asked her directly about his Jewish heritage when he was in Los Angeles for a fundraiser. “We sat across the table and he said, ‘Mom, there’s a rumor that Pop-pop and Mom-mom were Jewish and so were you,’ ” she recalled, a day after Allen issued a statement acknowledging and embracing his Jewish roots as he campaigns for a second term in the U.S. Senate.
http://tinyurl.com/jkx5b
no jeffy has no siblings! just a cousin george!
Bloomberg, supposedly, spoke about a presidential run with some advisers, one of whom was a Democrat (but I can’t remember his name.) There were no Republicans present. He discussed a run as an independent and dismissed it as unwinnable.
I think he would have problems becoming a Democrat again and I can’t imagine the Republicans nominating him.
:omg:oh shit coulter gets gangbanged:bf: on fox news:pup:
im out later sheeple sleep sleep time!
Crap, I may have to repurchase Replay AV. This switching around between 3 shows is stupid!
Hey KP, they should have sent you the activation codes via e-mail when you bought it the first time. If you can’t find them, go to this page to recover them. You’ll need the e-mail address you used originally.
I’m pretty sure the email address I used for that is no more. But I’ll try it.
If that’s the case, e-mail them at cs@applian.com, and let them know the e-mail address is no longer good, and your computer crashed and you need to reinstall. I’m sure they’ll hook you up.
Thanks PJ, I just did. I think my year subscription might be about up anyways. Wasn’t it October that TMMS went off the air?
No subscription for ReplayAV – just buy it once and that’s it. TMMS went off the air in July (this summer; listened to the final show in my crappy little dorm room in DC). MS went off the air on 12/16/05. The anniversary of this site is 11/28. Seems like longer, doesn’t it?
Oh! so, now Walmart is going to be offering lowcost generic prescriptions. I bet they have an exclusive deal. :fu:
Oooh, Chomsky’s on Goyette
Ha! Goyette’s pulling his Libertarian crap on Chomsky! This is great!
My problem with Goyette is he seems to put all the blame on the “people”. And he is right to an extent, but in doing that he seems to not want to hold the govt, corporations, and other entities responsible. They’re getting into that now. What a great debate!
:bow:chomsky steals my ideas whilst i sleep!
:banana::joe::yawn:
Morning sheeple:sheep:
Kristapea are you posting photos? Sorry to abandon you last night.
I was on the computer way too much yesterday.
I want to see your Scout :cat: and Sweet Jane:pup:
Maybe you shouldn’t sleep.:wink:
Okay Blue but it will have to be later because I have to go to work.
:yawn:sleep sleep!
:jesus:SUPERSTAR!
Thanks for answering me Sean…so you will be in Athens Ohio…I can tell you where to go to eat!
:bow::bow::bow:
Summoning Druid666:pent::pope::rabbi::jesus::priest::pirate:
Please come back!:gate:
:fist:
:fire:
Tomorrow (22nd) is Riley’s birthday and next week Wednesday
(27th) is Marc’s, if memory serves me.
Why do I remember this? Because “Morning Sedition” didn’t
just come into my home every morning, it got into my head.
Gosh, I miss that show! Glad to know Marc will be on the
radio tomorrow morning with Sam.
I come back from this F*ing meeting and Franken is laughing it up with Oliphant , Fartman is rewriting the history of the SBR going back to 1750 and now Schultz is coming down on what Chavez and Ahmadinejad had to say at the UN and Wrangle is agreeing with him.. :growl::growl::growl::growl::growl::growl::growl::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
I could really use that Chicago Piano emo right at the moment .. maybe with an RPG launcher attached :growl::growl::growl::growl::gate::omg: ( emo of tree timing truck):growl::growl::growl::rant1::rant1::rant1:
Druid said something about going to computer school in the day time so between that and her rat and cat keeping she may have the need to sleep during the times we usually saw her here.. She also didn’t seem to like our liberal views on immigration. :eek::omg::shock:
Oh goody… Ed Shultz, David Bender and Tom Fartman take this :tommygun: and this :tommygun:and this :reaper::gate::omg::tommygun::tommygun::tommygun:
Ummm… maybe thats a bit to bloody .. 😮
OK… now that I have exercised my option of circling the wagons and shooting at all our centrist allies.. :spank::spank::no::no::mrgreen:
No Nation Should Have Superiority Over Another
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
http://www.counterpunch.org/ahmadinejad09212006.html
Boy I feel better now …:lol::peace::tongue:
Pardon Hinckley:reaper:
I want my ‘effing bananas back please! Man! 🙁 If fred gets to have such a big gun…and it doesn’t even make me laugh.
Well I’ll just have to find the time to call Druid then…
Gypsy and old Zeb are coming up on the train and crashing here for the Marc Maron show in Seattle…we will have pictures and will definately see Roxie there. And of course Travis :pup:
That’s the plan. :knit:
Fred I always have trouble when you say “skin with a boot on it for real player” what the hell is that? And yes it is too, too bloody and offends my delicate sensibilities or, whatever :doh:
Double bubble toil and trouble Conjure up Druid666 from the procrustean mix.
:pent::pent::pent::pent:
Demons creature feature Peter Lorre Boris Karloff Natasha Boris Badinov Milton the Monster Yvonne DeCarlo :omg::omg::omg: Summoning their power Intercede. Contact…….Come. Come. Come out tonight! 666!
:priest:
We really need to harass our affiliate stations and ask them in CAPITAL letters to take Shultz off the air..he is praying on the stupidity of his listeners( If he has any left) to think of this as just another election and to not be proactive in an attempt to facilitate a peaceful end to this fascist mess this November.:tommygun::gate::omg:
Sgt. Schultz is trashing Chavez for his theatrical telling truth to power performance at the UN? That fucking centrist Hillarista! :fu:
Oh that fat fuck is popular. I would rather listen to Springer on the Radio.:shock:
Bring the War Home:tommygun::tommygun:
A skin is the frame in which the buttons and screen of a multimedia window are presented .
In RealPlayer you can go to the view menu and choose alternate skins to make it look like a different customized dodad. You can get skins to make it orange and ornate or look like a TV or a 1930’s radio for instance. I haven’t found one that gives you a virtual boot you can envision putting in the talkers mouth when you push the mute button.:eek:
Go ahead, play with your bananas. All I know is that in an online chat today, Dana Priest of WaPo, who is no liberal, refused to rule out the possibility that’s the Iran attack is already planned and set to go, pre-election. Questioners kept asking and she kept listing the reasons why it was a bad idea, why there is massive opposition by everybody, why its a disaster, etc but she still refused to rule it out. Twice.
This is why i get a bit peeved. My “democratic liberal” representative Nita Lowey, who will get at least 70 – 80% of the vote in the next election, is in favor of such an attack, even though she won’t come out and say it. She takes the straight AIPAC line at all times. So ‘splain it to me again why i should celebrate when “We” take back congress, as they say in the AAR spot. If they can’t oppose an unprovoked criminal attack on a sovereign nation that has done us no harm, what do we need a Democratic party for?
Should I ask Dr. Dean? :sammy:
Thanks fred…and you can have your chicago piano or whatever it is..
Nicki are you coming up for the Maron show?
Thanks for the attempt to conjure anyway…
I think I will go back to the Jason emo.. That emo is not quite as offensive to view as the Chicago Piano .. Thanks though PJ. leave the Chicago Piano up there. I am sure it will be more appropriate for use on the media as the election approaches.
RE #91 :reaper: :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2: :bow:
The thing that bugs me most about Shultz may not be Shultz but the Lilly livered centrist demodorps he has on his show. All they want is their turn at the trough. They don’t see or having DLC in front of the (D) makes them ignore the problems and they refuse to take a position that would fix anything. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
I wonder if Rhodes would scream about it if the tables got reversed and rethugs and DINOs started vanishing. They would become really aggressive and anxious if that happened and she might actually see something happen. ( I wonder how she would look in an orange suit):eek:
In what way was Pope John Paul an assassin? Follow me closely here: Believing that human beings are endowed with free will, the Pope insisted that they are able to choose not to sin. Confronted with the fact that one particular sin exposes the sinner to, and transmits, a lethal illness, he repeated the teaching of the Church that the answer was, not to choose to sin safely, to but choose not to sin at all. Yet many people made the choice contrary to the one the Pope counseled, and died. Ergo, he murdered them.
Clear?
:priest:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two of President Bush’s staunchest domestic critics leapt to his defense Thursday, a day after one of his fiercest foreign foes called him “the devil” in a scorching speech before the United Nations.
“You don’t come into my country; you don’t come into my congressional district and you don’t condemn my president,” Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, scolded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, was blunt in her criticism of the Venezuelan leader. “He is an everyday thug,” she said.
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:growl::growl::growl::growl::growl::growl:
:barf::barf::barf::barf::gate::omg:
Ok I restrained myself .. Oh what the hell :tommygun::tommygun::tommygun::tommygun:
The worst part about that Wrangle, Ploser excerpt was the reaction to it at DU
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Yes. Through those two brief examples, you have shown the limits of political debate in this nation. You rub a liberal like Pelosi the wrong way, and you would think you were talking to Adolf Hitler.
The catholic church is infamous for committing murder in the name of Heresy. I believe they put more people to death during the inquisition than have died in all the wars in the 20th century. :eek::yuck::shock::paranoid:
Actually, I found the debate over at DUon the Rangel/Pelosi statements on Chavez to be a good one. Here is something to my taste:
Devil”
What else would you expect to hear
from the U.S. corporation/government
targeted Elected President of Venezuela?
Carrying on a long history of imperial invasions
and occupations since 1898,
Fearless Leaders, Bush Sr. & Jr. preferring
the CIA’S blood soaked “National Endowment For Democracy”,
for a quick and dirty installation of yet
another U.S. corporation manipulated
South American sham government.
:tommygun:
Wow! Thanks PJ….
I really like lil’grimmy:reaper:
But hoping for boobies still…even in a wet T shirt.
The can be Katherine Harris, if you want!.
I apparently hurt my back this morning while “helping” Will….
And Motrin isnt helping….Mom was coming to help me somehow, but she had to stop at my sister’s house and somehow got wrangled into doing all sorts of kid delivery for her…oh well…
Its the thought that counts. I never end up on the right side of that particular equation.
Here is a way to get all the information you need on just about anyone….really cool….
I would like to embed a mini one of these on my blog!
The Catholic Church got into trouble for such things as supporting the Fourth Crusade. The Inquisition was not mass murder. Unpleasant at times, to be sure. I will look for sources. The Catholic Church can be a sort of sanctuary to organize for good. Liberation Theology. Opposed the El Salvadorean Junta. The US hates the Catholic Church. Enemy to their absolutist plans.
What I saw over on DU was that only about 1 out of three or four saw what Chavez was saying as a commentary about our imperialism. If you can’t recognize the problem you can’t fix it.:eek::yuck:
As a child, nicki rose refused to ride merry-go-rounds unless they had CAMELS.
How did they know that?
I guess I am selective. Writers over at Counterpunch, like Alexander Cockburn, always say that the Democrats unfairly demonize Republicans and Bush, instead of actually opposing them. (Name calling rather that real action). So, when Chavez does the same, the Democrats freak out. Amazing!
:bf::tommygun:
Susan Joy once spoke with a Sudanese telemarketer for 17 seconds.
:omg:
Fred finally got his wish I see! :tommygun:
:rofl2:
if heron needs those bananas to make her happy, I can certainly live with Kristapea’s theory on why we have them! Great photos, heron! Scout looks like s/he was a cool kitty. Sorry you lost her.
Seeing all these kitties & birds it makes me want them! Melina, hope your back feels better. And your donkey wouldn’t need a heated barn, just some shelter from the rain and snow. They need hay in the winter so you’d need some place to store it and fed her.
Well quick drive-by. So Marc tomorrow, right?
The left sided talkers definitely demonize Bushco but never come up with any way to really get them out of there and put someone in their place that will have the capacity to try to fix the things the thugs have so screwed up in the middle east. :bf:
i heard something on the young turks that made me laugh in referring to the Dems …”How addicted to losing are you?”
Well lets see Roves Oct surprise is that we attack Iran, Iran sinks the Ronald Reagen, we nuke Iran , Pakistan nukes Iraq,, and Putin nukes us.. The next entry in the history book is in 20,000 years.:eek::eek::yuck:
:tommygun: This reminds me of when Marc was trigger happy with the machine gun sound.
will there be a 20,000-year future? :paranoid:
damn dogs rolled in something very “fresh” and are smelling the place to high heaven. :pirate:
oh! Was today the day Kev was going to protest?
making homemade pizza for the teen so better get to it.
P.S. I LOVE THE COOL MORNINGS!!!!! :pup: :banana: :santacool:
THAT’s right KP, if forgot that!
The Counterpunch people were referring to Democratic officials rather than people like we bloggers. Bush is a fucking devil! Cockburn says that Dems throw out the fascist and devil charges toward Republicans, then go along with such things as the bankruptcy bill and the Alito confirmation. Hence, the demon charges are merely smokescreens. “Not a dime’s worth of difference” between the two major parties.
What did Rangel and Pelosi say about Bushco interference in Venezuala? How about the Contra atrocities in Nicaragua? How about…
The terrible secret is that the Democrats support US imperialism as much as Republicans do.
Maybe we deserve it at this point….just let the earth start over….
Ive been listening all day to different news outlets and everyone seems pretty upset abotu Chavez speaing up and saying what he thinks. Im so happy these days to hear anyone speak their mind without worry about the repercussions. Chavez then went up to Harlem to talk about his program for affordable home heating oil this winter.
These fucks should be saying that the best part of America is that its OK for this leader of another nation can say whatever he wants here because we have freedon of speech…but then, I guess we dont really, unless you want to take your life in your hands.
Another opportunity to spin this their way thwarted by the stupid heads.
Bush really does act like he runs the world…and he may suddenly get a big surprise, now that the hole hes dug is so deep.
Kat, why dont you get yourself a little parrot? These green cheeked conures are so sweet and they ride around on your shoulder and kiss you all the time. Just have to have a good bird place close by so you can board it when you go away…and preferably so you can get a really young one. Krista, you might also like a bird. They are surprisingly like dogs but maybe a little more intelligent and less driven by doggy instincts…..like Lola took a feather out of Kitty’s tail just now because she cant get over the joy that flapping brings!
Rachel Maddow is a goddamn centrist.
Goddamn conservative AAR. I quit. Stop laughing. :rofl2:
I quit!:fu::bf::bf::bf:
:tommygun:
Wow, great new emoticons, thank you PJ! What’s up, everyone??? Sorry, I mean WASSUP???
I’m bored to death in my cubicle – I would hop into Seanie’s pickup and drive to Canada RIGHT NOW :reaper::tommygun::reaper:
But hoping for boobies still…even in a wet T shirt.
Comment by Melina — September 21, 2006 @ 6:08 pm
Aren’t we all. 😀
I didn’t make it over to Tampa. Got out of the shower at 6:15, turned on the news and learned that the originally-scheduled Bush arrival time of 10 AM had been changed to “sometime mid-day.” Nothing more specific.
Also no way to tell if the White House had been lying, or the progressive organizers fucked up. Either, of course, is definitely possible. :fustrate:
So rather than stay on schedule and take the 9:00 bus over to Tampa, I decided to go back to bed and catch the 11:00 bus instead, so as not to fry in the Florida sun for two hours waiting for Chimpy to show.
I think all of you can guess what happened next.
By the time I woke back up, it was too late to make the 11:00, and the next one wasn’t until 1:00, which would have maybe got me to the stadium in enough time to flip off the limo as it drove away.
So I went to see Little Miss Sunshine instead. Excellent flick.
There were, however, plenty of protesters there in my absence. The local news said “several dozen,” so I’ll guesstimate about 200, since they usually screw us over on body count.
It was so refreshing to see someone go on camera and call Bush a war criminal. I mean, WE all know he is, but the word needs to get out to the people.
Makes me wish I would have been there.
:tommygun::tommygun::tommygun:
(Cool emoticon PJ!)
goddamn f’ing quake radio in San Francisco :fu:
can’t even listen to seder anymore there, except – get this – 12 midnight to 1am Sunday mornings.
And I have to be at work during the aar morning streams of majority report. dammnit to hell :fustrate:
er, that spy thingy says that Rudolph Giuliani also refused to ride merry-go-rounds unless they had camels. Wow, that really burst my bubble :cat::cat::cat:
Cool, torture’s officially OK.
If the preznit of the Unted States can call Iran, Iraq, and North Korea “evil,” and elected officials can equate the Iranian President with Hitler, and a “spiritual leader” and “christian” like Pat Robertson can call for the assasination of Hugo Chavez, I fail to see why it’s any big crime for Hugo Chavez to refer to a person who is responsible for the needless murder of hundreds of thousands of human beings and who continues to justify and lust over torture, secret prisons, and permanent incarceration without benefit of trial – let alone council – as a devil. What moniker would be more apt?
I love the word “moniker”.
You know what else is a great word? pinache. That’s a great word.:sammy:
http://www.pinache.com/
:nixon::tommygun:
If you heard Clinton lay out the case against torture on NPR this morning, clear, succinct and intelligent, easy to understand by anybody, and then listen to some Dem moron on cspan try to say the same thing, it would make you weep.
[I guess Counterpunch couldn’t be bothered to devote adequate
editing time to this piece, so you’ll have to excuse the misspellings
and grammatical gaffes, like “whaling” instead of “wailing”, but it
doesn’t detract from the pertinence of this article.]
http://www.counterpunch.org/murphy08082006.html
August 8, 2006
A Party on the Run … from Its Own Members!
Democrats Running Scared, Again
By JOHN A. MURPHY
The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania is once again trembling in fear.
The last time it suffered such a political panic attack was when it
faced the prospect of having to run against Ralph Nader in 2004. Since it could not possibly deal with Mr. Nader on an issue by issue basis given a candidate like John Kerry, the leaders of the party decided to destroy democracy in Pennsylvania. That sounds like strong language but there are two ways to destroy democracy. One is by preventing people from voting, the other is by preventing worthy candidates from ever appearing on the ballot. In 2004 the Democratic Party removed 63% of the signatures of Pennsylvania citizens from Ralph Nader’s petitions using the minutia embedded in the anti-democratic ballot access laws it helped create and effectively destroyed democracy in Pennsylvania.
The Democrats and Republicans in Pennsylvania worked together, in true bipartisan spirit, to create a set of ballot access laws which would virtually prevent third party or independent candidates from running for statewide offices like Governor, Senator or President. These the same laws even make it four times more difficult for local candidates to run against duopoly candidates. Next to Alabama, Pennsylvania’s are the worst ballot access laws in the nation. In fact, if Pennsylvania’s ballot access laws were to be applied to Utah, the Democratic Party would be disqualified as a major party. If Pennsylvania’s ballot access laws were applied to Massachusetts the Republican Party would be disqualified as a major party.
This year the Green Party candidates, like the Libertarian Party and
Constitutional Party candidates, needed to gather 67,000 signatures just to get on the ballot and needed 100,000 signatures to cover any
possibility of errors. Yet the duopoly candidates only need 2,000
signatures. Independent and third-party candidates in essence are
required to obtain 50 times the amount of signatures needed by the
Republicans and Democrats.
This was an impossible number for any party third party in Pennsylvania to reach let alone an independent candidate. Impossible, that is, unless it had professional help. But the tiny Green Party could not afford such help. Help came nevertheless. Help came in the form of contributions from registered Republicans.
The Republican contributors however did not support the Green Party’s petitioning efforts simply because they believed in fair ballot access laws. Like the Democratic Party, they too are responsible for creating the unconstitutional ballot access laws, the modern-day versions of Jim Crow laws, in Pennsylvania which effectively prevent all but Democrats and Republicans from running for statewide office.
The Republicans funded the petitioning efforts of the Green Party simply because they knew that if Carl Romanelli appears on the ballot, progressive Democrats will vote for him. The way Democrats and Republicans phrase it however goes something like this “Carl Romanelli will take votes away from Bob Casey guaranteeing that Rick Santorum will win”. That is the way they talk. The very phrase itself “take votes away from” says it all. No one can take votes away from anyone unless there is presupposed ownership in the first place. That’s the problem. The Democrats and Republicans both believe they actually own our votes. They
do not believe that our votes must be earned.
While this is not the most noble of reasons for the Republicans to fund the petitioning efforts of the Green Party it does, nevertheless ensure that justice is done in the final analysis and it is hard to think of a better way for Republicans to spend their money. While it is never ethically acceptable to do something wrong in order to achieve something good, the ends never justify the means; it is quite acceptable to do something right for the wrong reasons. For whatever reasons the Republicans had in contributing to the Green Party, they nevertheless did the right thing. They made sure that the Green Party would not be denied access to the ballot simply because of the unconstitutional ballot access laws in Pennsylvania.
Now the Democrats are even more in a snit than they were in 2004. This year the Democratic Party is running Bob Casey. Like his Republican opponent, Casey is both anti-choice and pro war. With the Green Party’s Carl Romanelli on the ballot, Casey will now have to face a challenge from the left as well as the right and deservedly should go down in flames.
This thought makes many rank-and-file Democrats crazy. “What’s wrong with those Greens; do they want six more years of a psychopath like Rick Santorum?” That’s how Democrats have been taught to think. Instead of saying “now we actually have a candidate who represents our political hopes and desires”, they have been conditioned to settle for the crumbs from the corporate owned table of the Democratic Party.
It should be remembered that the corporate owned Democratic Party could have prevented all of this by creating fair ballot access laws in Pennsylvania and by introducing Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). But they did not. They called Ralph Nader a “spoiler” in 2000 and blamed him for the loss of Gore to Bush. If they truly believed that Nader was a spoiler then they would have enacted legislation to install IRV thereby ending the “spoiler effect”. They took no such steps. They want to continue their little party with the Republicans; once again however they see that someone wants to spoil their little party. Now, when a candidate who offers a real choice comes along like Carl Romanelli, instead of changing the position of their candidate, or dumping him altogether and supporting the Green Party candidate, they have decided to remove Romanelli from the ballot in the same fashion as they removed Ralph Nader.
In a recent press release, “RAMPANT DISCREPANCIES IN GREEN PARTY SIGNATURE GATHERING
“, the
Democratic Party of Pennsylvania leader T. J. Rooney even compared the Green Party’s petitions to Ralph Nader’s petitions of 2004 signaling that just as the Democratic Party aborted the democratic process in 2004; they were prepared to do the same thing here in 2006. They even quoted from a judge who never even looked at Nader’s petitions. The Democratic Party removed 63% of Mr. Nader’s signatures yet only 1.4% of Nader’s signatures were rejected as forgeries. The other signatures were all rejected as being from people who were either not registered to vote or not registered to vote at the time of signing the petition. The egregious Pennsylvania ballot access laws were used in a way that can
only be described as “political profiling
“.
In the case of Mr. Nader’s petitions; 6,411 signatures were removed
simply because the signers had moved from one home to another between the time they had signed the petition and the time when the petitions were challenged. 1,869 were removed because the signer forgot to write down the date or neglected to put in their middle initial. 7,851 signatures were removed because they were “in the hand of another”. In other words if a husband filled out all the information like name and address for both he and his wife and then passed it to his wife for her signature, the wife’s signature would not be accepted because part of the entry was “in the hand of another”. This also happened in many cases because one signer might notice a missing date next to another signer’s name and then fill in the blank. 3,513 were removed for “other” reasons. This means that instead of writing the name of their borough they wrote
the name of their township or city.
Without going into all the other bogus reasons for thwarting the will of Pennsylvania citizens we can see that the Democratic Party in
Pennsylvania removed 19,704 signatures for purely frivolous reasons in order to destroy the Nader campaign and at the same time the democratic process in Pennsylvania.
Now the Democratic Party leaders are planning to do the same thing to the Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli. They will probably get away with it. Many rank-and-file members of the Democratic Party literally believe it does not matter how Romanelli is eliminated as long as he is removed. These Democrats have essentially left the mainstream of American political thought and have become virtually totalitarian. Just as the ABB (Anybody But Bush) mania gripped the rank-and-file Democrats in 2004, a similar fear grips them now in Pennsylvania with respect to incumbent Republican Senator Rick Santorum.
Make no mistake about it; Rick Santorum is a monstrosity. Given his record as a pro war, anti-choice Senator it might be supposed that if the Democratic Party wished to defeat him they would have given the people of Pennsylvania a candidate that was significantly different. Instead, their pro war, anti-choice candidate is now faced with a real alternative to Rick Santorum; a pro-choice, antiwar Green who would be supported by an overwhelming number of Democrats. The Democratic Party simply doesn’t care about getting rid of Rick Santorum. The contest between the Democrats and Republicans is no more significant than an intramural softball game. Everybody’s really on the same side after all when the game is over. This is why the Democrats did nothing about voter fraud in Florida in 2000 and nothing about Ohio in 2004.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party doesn’t really mind if it is beaten by a Republican. But if the Republican wins because a real progressive received a significant number of votes, that is a real defeat. The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania is cornered again just as it was cornered by Ralph Nader in 2004. The Democratic Party demonstrated quite dastardly in 2004 just how it behaves when it is cornered.
It is long past time to give up on the Democratic Party. The creation of the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council) as the representative of corporate America within the Democratic Party coupled with the addictive influx of corporate funds has caused the Democratic Party to replace the voter as its constituency with the lobbyists of the corporations that have financed its election campaigns.
The plaintive, futile pleadings to “change the system from within,” to
make the party “wake up and smell the electorate” have become both boring and maddening. This pitiful whaling on the part of progressive Democrats is not a strategy. It is nothing more than a tragic, senseless wish. The Democrats must give up their search for Rumblestiltskin. Their desperate desire to “take back the Congress” ignores the question “take back the Congress for whom”.
The rank-and-file members of the Democratic Party are constantly
encouraged to sacrifice the long run on the altar of the short and vote for the lesser of two evils; yet voting for the lesser of two evils has never given us better Republicans only worse Democrats.
It is also time to get rid of the myth of the “spineless Democratic
leadership”. The leaders of the Democratic Party are not spineless. They are doing just what they are told to do by their corporate paymasters.
It is time to stop fearing what will happen when we have finally given up on the Democratic Party. That fear is really all the Democratic Party has left. The Democratic Party is broken beyond repair; denying that reality supports a sham democracy and one-party politics. The Democratic leaders are not stupid. But those rank-and-file Democrats, who are still expecting something to change, have every reason to wonder about themselves.
John Murphy is independent candidate for House of Representatives in the 16th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. He has been endorsed by Michael Berg, Peter Camejo, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader and Howard Zinn. He has been endorsed by two county level Green Parties, two county level Libertarian Parties, the Pennsylvania Reform Party, the New American
Independent Party of Pennsylvania and the GDI among others. He is alsom one of the founding members of the Pennsylvanian Ballot Access Coalition
, working to change ballot access laws in Pennsylvania. He can be reached at: johnamurphy@comcast.net .
Yeah, that’s all well and good, but it weakens the argument to use the quote about “what do they want, six more years of a psychopath like Santorum?” — you could substitute “Bush” for “Santorum” and the argument loses its charm. As Alterman likes to say, Thanks Ralph. :sammy:
:!::!: Blog!!!!!
grrrrrr Blog. Blog. Blog, SJ :tommygun::reaper:
Nicki come out!!!!Unquit. :pent::pope::omg:
Well, if you wanna get elected and change the system, you’ve gotta actually get elected in the same system you want to change. Saying, “oh, but the Democrats were mean to me” is about as productive as saying “it’s Ralph Nader’s fault I ran a shitty campaign.”
Druid…come out and prayy-ayyy! :pent:
The Plan for Victory. George Soros forks over $750 million to Karl Rove to change sides. Well, at least its a plan.
On the other hand, what if its no joke, and Bush really is the devil? As you know, you can’t beat the devil. He’s undefeated and untied. :sammy:
Better get Charlie Daniels on the job.
Or maybe Daniel Webster?
Explain yourself, crest2!
A torturable offense: Melina Brown once checked out Arabian Nights from the library – and returned it TWO WEEKS LATE!
How about Danny Bonaduce?
Chavez has a great comic delivery, give the bastard credit. What a great guest for Maron, presuming he ever gets the fuck back onto radio. :sammy:
Clash bumper music!
Happy Jewish New Year
:sdavid: L’Shana Tova!
The same thing happened in Oregon for people trying to get Nader on the ballot in 2004. Dirty Tricks! Goddamn SEIU would go to the doors of petitioners and harrass them. Secretary of State rejected signatures in a manner similar to what occurred in Pennsylvania. It’s a a racket, people. We all know it. What are we going to do about it?
:tommygun:
Hey cresttwo. Are you upset at Chavez, too? Like Pelosi and Rangel are?
:sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::rabbi::sdavid::sdavid::jesus:
:fist: do it. Activate. Make it happen homies
666 Conjure 666 :bow: 666 Return from the depths 666 Abandon Oblivion 666 :pent::pent::pent::pent:
My gut feeling about Chavez is that he’s a clown who is not to be taken seriously, who has nonetheless done good things for the poor, which in the context of South America, makes his ascension to power a miracle. I would dearly love to see a coalition of left-leaning rulers in that region; I just don’t see Chavez as the ideal leader for it. :sammy:
666 :pent: come forth
:boobs:
hehe
Oh, he is clown. Therefore he is not to be taken serious. What did Chavez do before he was President of Venezuela? Anyway, I am more worried about what our country is trying to do in Venezuela and elsewhere than towards being critical of Chavez. If Chavez is a clown, what does that make Bush? (Oops! I am falling into ignorant Maddow’s trap.)
I gotta go do art.
Sorry to be such a selfish bastard, but somehow I have a lot of trouble feeling sorry for Venezuela, Lebanon, Israel or Iceland these days. We’re in a helluva lot of trouble right here. The rest of the world can take care of itself, with a few spectacular exceptions like Darfur. :sammy:
:pent: have a good session Mr. artiste
Oh. That made a lot of sense.
Heard Marshal Crenshaw sing this the other night; first time I ever fully understood the words to the first stanza [Jagger mumbles it]:
You’re the kind of person
You meet at certain dismal dull affairs.
Center of a crowd, talking much too loud
Running up and down the stairs.
Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years.
And though you’ve tried you just can’t hide
Your eyes are edged with tears.
You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.
When you were a child
You were treated kind
But you were never brought up right.
You were always spoiled with a thousand toys
But still you cried all night.
Your mother who neglected you
Owes a million dollars tax.
And your father’s still perfecting ways of making sealing wax.
You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nilne-teenth nervous breakdown.
Oh, who’s to blame, that girl’s just insane.
Well nothing I do don’t seem to work,
It only seems to make matters worse. Oh please.
You were still in school
When you had that fool
Who really messed your mind.
And after that you turned your back
On treating people kind.
On our first trip
I tried so hard to rearrange your mind.
But after while I realized you were disarranging mine.
You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown
Night.:sammy:
They were commenting on spoiled, upperclass English women. What can a poor boy do? Psychotic rock.
Man Crest, I agree! Things here are precarious to say the least. It drives me crazy that Bill Clinton his hanging with the Bushies and acting like everything is coolio……..
I keep thinking that maybe if youve been in that place of ultimate power, you get a different perspective on how badly one or two terms can hurt things….like a larger sense of history and time….but, Im worried about the future and I cant see how Clinton can sit down to lunch with those people.
Right around the time that they start angling to make torture legal, I cant imagine what these people can possibly fathom America as…who are we anymore?
I understood the first stanza, must be because my mind is just as warped as the person singing it….
Clinton was good on npr today.
I LOVE marshall Crenshaw. he often plays around here and Ive been meaning to see him. I used to see him all the time in the old days…He was always one of my favorites in his originals and also in his selection of covers and his careful musicology in documenting some of this stuff that we might never know if he didnt cover ’em in his incredible style….
Another artist who is all about the words…
Isnt he living in Brooklyn now?
I’m sorry and so is Brenda Lee….
If Marshall Crenshaw and Jerry Mathers had a child, would it be…:omg:
Keith Olbermann has him tomorrow….
I know that Clinton means well and I think that his aims are untimately good….And I know that he and Hill have the right idea, so that if she gets in the White House they will be able to get alot more done than they were able to do during his presidency….
But I dont like all of this positioning towards the middle…though its probably true that one who doesnt position carefully isnt gonna get in.
Their early problems before came largely from a lack of Washinton experience. I think they are poised to take the world by storm…and people might be ready for such revolutionary ideas as national health care based in Medicare. They also dont like debt….
But, she leaves a bad taste in my mouth…she seems sort of cold and fake anymore.
And no matter how good he is on these shows….I dontl like Clinton with Bush Sr, even if its a good cause…and I really, really hate the idea of Clinton having lunch with W….I cant imagine them in the same room together. What could they possibly talk about?
Oh, I bet old Bill can yuck it up with the frat boy pretty good. But, I suppose, in politics, if you refused to deal with scurrilous scumbags, you might be able to hold your head high, but you’d never meet with anybody. If you can work together with somebody on things that you can both agree with, then you can get stuff done. And then oppose them on what you need to oppose them on. And Clinton is no liberal, but you can disagree with him on a great deal of things, still acknowledging that he is intelligent and hard working. Bush? Not so much.
And a great speaker. Good God, that man could talk the pants off a …. OK, bad analogy.
If we want Bush to talk to Iran, Clinton can talk to Bush.
I love all the emos!
all except….:bf:
Ok I am going to be quiet for a while now:peace:
If Bush and his stupid little base weren’t so terrified of Clinton, he could have him out there doing all kinds of diplomacy. Oh, diplomacy, yeah. I forgot.
Hello Everyone,
I just happened to be surfing the television tonight and caught a portion of Tucker Carlson interviewing Al Franken. I think it was MSNBC. So the subject of Air America’s financial problems came up and Al Franken said he did not know if AAR would go into bankruptcy or not, but that American Airlines went into bankruptcy and continued to fly. Al mentioned to Tucker that he had not been paid lately. So I’m wondering if we’re about to hear more in regard to this subject.
I found a link to KPTK radio with free recordings of the Sam Seder Show. Listened to a bit of it tonight. Sam noted Bush’s change of heart in regard to entering a soverign country (Pakistan) to kill Bin Laden. Bush had said some time back that in order to enter a soverign country with troops one had to be asked. Sounds like Bush is modifing his stance just in time for the upcoming midterms. I’m biting my nails over this election. It can’t come soon enough for me.
Well, I guess I’m outta here for now. Tomorrow Friday! Coolness. Be well and give em hell! Roll Tide and War Eagle!
Night
:pup::tommygun:dead puppy!
:doh:so do we attack iran before or after the elections?
:boobs:whoa smiley boobies!
WTF sean! :no:
oh hey whats up travis!
hey, man! I’m about to go star gazing at this place
I have to go back the equipment into the car. I’ll see you later, man. Take it easy with the puppy slaughter stuff, alright. Gee!
:reaper::pup::tommygun:sure thing buddy!
:bf:
For ex-ny’er and others, http://www.620kpoj.com carries Seder from 6 to 9 PM west coast time.
Um, PJ, is that grim reaper emo related to Willie Nelson from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force? (well, not that Willie Nelson) You remember, “The Shaving” episode with the Onion Guy?
Shauna Tova, y’all.
Hey Old Zeb are you OK with:billcat::cat:?
Absolutely! Always travel with a big bag of Actifed tabs just in case. My dog (12 year old Dal) is best friends with my neighbor’s cat, so I’ll probably be allowed home with the “other” kind of hair on my clothing.
Should be a fun, albeit short, weekend. Thanks for taking such good care of a couple of Southerners — I ahlways depend on the kindness of strangers.
You don’t have to be Jewish to drink L’Chaim, to lift a glass “To Life.” Everyone in his right mind believes that life is good and that death is bad. But Jews have always had an unusually keen appreciation of life, and not only because it has been stolen from them so often and so cruelly. The celebration of life—of this life, not the next one—has from the beginning been central to Jewish ethical and religious sensibilities. In the Torah, “Be fruitful and multiply” is God’s first blessing and first command. Judaism from its inception rejected child–sacrifice and regarded long life as a fitting divine reward for righteous living. At the same time, Judaism embraces medicine and the human activity of healing the sick; from the Torah the rabbis deduced not only permission for doctors to heal, but also the positive obligation to do so. Indeed, so strong is this reverence for life that the duty of pikuah nefesh requires that Jews violate the holy Shabbat in order to save a life. Not by accident do we Jews raise our glasses “L’Chaim.”
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indeed. To Life.
(and I don’t have to work today, yay!)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday affirmed a Commonwealth Court order directing Ralph Nader to pay more than $80,000 to Democratic challengers who successfully removed his name from the ballot during the 2004 presidential election. The court’s rationale was that “massive” fraud infected Nader’s submission of 52,000 voters’ signatures—more than twice the number needed to access the ballot. Nader could thus equitably be required to pay for the transcripts and writing experts needed to prove the Democrats’ case.
This was not the first Commonwealth Court order rebuking Nader’s run for the White House, nor was fraud the only justification for keeping him off the ballot. The Commonwealth Court’s initial rationale for removing Nader from the ballot was his endorsement by the Reform Party of Florida. Given this endorsement, the court reasoned, Nader could not credibly claim to be an independent in Pennsylvania. The court next ruled that Nader’s running mate, Peter Miguel Camejo, who was registered with the Green Party of California, knowingly filed a false affidavit claiming to be an independent in Pennsylvania.
The three-judge Commonwealth Court’s reasons were rejected by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Only after its first failed attempt at removing Nader did the Commonwealth Court find “massive fraud.” And in drawing this conclusion, the Commonwealth Court engaged in a breakneck review of Nader’s 52,000 signatures. Eleven judges were employed simultaneously across the state, forcing Nader’s team to foreclose participation in some locations. The ultimate finding by President Judge Colins was that “there were thousands of names that were created at random and then randomly assigned either existent or non-existent addresses by the circulators.”
President Judge Colin’s claim that “thousands” of signatures were forged appears to be a gross exaggeration. Justice Saylor, the only member of Pennsylvania’s high court to address the merits, found that the Nader campaign, contrary to the harsh language employed by President Judge Colins, had not engaged in “massive” fraud: “[a] review of the tables and exhibits attached to the order … suggest[s] that the problem was of a more limited scale (for example, 687 signatures out of 51,273 reviewed–or approximately 1.3% of the signatures–were rejected on the basis of having been forged).”
Moreover, 588 of these forged signatures (85% of the total) were uncovered by President Judge Colins. The other ten judges found fewer than 100 forged signatures. Granted, there were an additional 1,087 “duplicate” signatures reported, but even including these as “forged” or “fraudulent” raises the total to fewer than 2,000, about 4% of Nader’s total submission.
President Judge Colin’s conclusion notwithstanding, a thorough review of the record reveals that simple technicalities were responsible for the rejection of most signatures. Including information (like dates and addresses) “written in [the] hand of another,” was a common reason for striking signatures. Almost 8,000 signatures were cancelled for this reason. Almost 9,000 signatures were thrown out because otherwise qualified electors—who could vote—were not registered on the day they signed Nader’s petition. More than 6,000 signatures were invalidated because the addresses provided did not precisely match those on the voting roles. Nearly 2,000 signatures were ruled invalid because information was missing. This is hardly the stuff of massive fraud, as alleged by President Judge Colins.
The eleven Commonwealth Court judges responsible for removing Nader, moreover, invalidated signatures at significantly different rates. Judge Mirarchi invalidated almost 93% of the 3,708 signatures he reviewed. President Judge Colins invalidated close to 70% of the 10,794 signatures he reviewed. Judge Smith-Ribner struck 73% of the 12,818 signatures she reviewed. Outside these three judges—who were all on the original panel that removed Nader—the highest invalidation rate of any judge was just over 50%. One of these eight judges even found that 79% of the signatures Nader submitted were valid. In the end, Judges Colins, Mirarchi and Smith-Ribner found more “forgery” than the other eight judges combined. Even though they reviewed only half the signatures, they invalidated significantly more (over 20,000) signatures than the other eight judges put together (just over 12,000).
Even assuming fraud among some supporters, it must be remembered that the Nader campaign itself was found guilty of no wrongdoing. Political sabotage likely played a large part in Nader’s unfolding drama. (Who do you think signed names like “Fred Flintstone” and “Mickey Mouse”?) But even if it did not, I am aware of no precedent or practice holding major-party candidates strictly responsible for the wrongs of voters. In Ohio, for example, Sherrod Brown unconstitutionally signed on to John Kerry’s slate of electors. Kerry was not removed from the ballot or forced to pay a fine. Do you really think George Bush could hold office if he was held strictly accountable for the wrongs of Republican voters in Florida? Let’s face it, election fraud is a constant. Some people vote outside their districts, some vote more than once, some cast votes for other voters. But no major-party candidate to my knowledge has been forced off the ballot or out of office for this reason.
Should states be allowed to use incentives and deterrents to manage their ballots? Sure. But within the bounds of constitutional reason. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on several occasions that states cannot assess non-trivial ballot fees. Forcing a candidate to pay for signature validation clearly runs afoul of this precedent. Forcing an unsuccessful candidate to pay after-the-fact is no-more constitutional.
Mark R. Brown is the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University Law School. He represented the Nader campaign in its unsuccessful suits to get on the 2004 presidential ballot in Ohio.
August 24, 2006
The Litany of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
For Private Devotion.
LORD, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, Queen of Martyrs,
pray for us.
St. Joseph, helper in all needs, etc.
Fourteen Holy Helpers,
St. George, valiant Martyr of Christ,
St. Blaise, zealous bishop and benefactor of the poor,
St. Erasmus, mighty protector of the oppressed,
St. Pantaleon, miraculous exemplar of charity,
St. Vitus, special protector of chastity,
St. Christophorus, mighty intercessor in dangers,
St. Dionysius, shining mirror of faith and confidence,
St. Cyriacus, terror of Hell,
St. Achatius, helpful advocate in death,
St. Eustachius, exemplar of patience in adversity,
St. Giles, despiser of the world,
St. Margaret, valiant champion of the Faith,
St. Catherine, victorious defender of the Faith and of purity,
St. Barbara, mighty patroness of the dying,
All ye Holy Helpers, etc.
All ye Saints of God,
In temptations against faith,
In adversity and trials,
In anxiety and want,
In every combat,
In every temptation,
In sickness,
In all needs,
In fear and terror ,
In dangers of salvation,
In dangers of honor,
In dangers of reputation,
In dangers of property,
In dangers by fire and water ,
Be merciful, spare us, O Lord!
Be merciful, graciously hear us, O Lord!
From all sin,
deliver us, O Lord.
From Thy wrath, etc.
From the scourge of earthquake,
From plague, famine, and war,
From lightning and storms,
From a sudden and unprovided death,
From eternal damnation,
Through the mystery of Thy holy incarnation, etc.
Through Thy birth and Thy life,
Through Thy Cross and Passion,
Through Thy death and burial,
Through the merits of Thy blessed Mother Mary,
Through the merits of the Fourteen Holy Helpers,
On the Day of Judgment, deliver us, O Lord!
We sinners, beseech Thee hear us.
That Thou spare us,
We beseech Thee, hear us.
That Thou wilt pardon us, etc.
That Thou wilt convert us to true penance,
That Thou wilt give and preserve the fruits of the earth,
That Thou wilt protect and propagate Thy holy Church,
That Thou wilt preserve peace and concord among the nations,
That Thou wilt give eternal rest to the souls of the departed,
That Thou wilt come to our aid through the intercession of the Holy Helpers,
That through the intercession of St. George Thou wilt preserve us in the Faith,
That through the intercession of St. Blaise Thou wilt confirm us in hope,
That through the intercession of St. Erasmus Thou wilt enkindle in us Thy holy love,
That through the intercession of St. Pantaleon Thou wilt give us charity for our neighbor,
That through the intercession of St. Vitus Thou wilt teach us the value of our soul,
That through the intercession of St. Christophorus Thou wilt preserve us from sin,
That through the intercession of St. Dionysius Thou wilt give us tranquillity of conscience,
That through the intercession of St. Cyriacus Thou wilt grant us resignation to Thy holy will,
That through the intercession of St. Eustachius Thou wilt give us patience in adversity,
That through the intercession of St. Achatius Thou wilt grant us a happy death,
That through the intercession of St. Giles Thou wilt grant us a merciful judgment,
That through the intercession of St. Margaret Thou wilt preserve us from Hell,
That through the intercession of St. Catherine Thou wilt shorten our Purgatory,
That through the intercession of St. Barbara Thou wilt receive us in Heaven,
That through the intercession of all the Holy Helpers Thou wilt grant our prayers,
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us, O Lord.
V. Pray for us, ye Fourteen Holy Helpers.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promise of Christ.
Let us Pray.
ALMIGHTY and eternal God, Who hast bestowed extraordinary graces and gifts on Thy Saints George, Blase,Erasmus, Pantaleon, Vitus, Christophorus, Dionysius, Cyriacus, Eustachius, Achatius, Giles, Margaret, Catherine, and Barbara, and hast illustrated them by miracles; we beseech Thee to graciously hear the petitions of all who invoke their intercession. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
O God, who didst miraculously fortify the Fourteen Holy Helpers in the confession of the Faith; grant us, we beseech Thee, to imitate their fortitude in overcoming all temptations against it, and protect us through their irttercession in all dangers of soul and body, so that we may serve Thee in purity of heart and chastity of body. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
INVOCATION OF THE HOLY HELPERS
FOURTEEN Holy Helpers, who served God in humility and confidence on earth and are
now in the enjoyment of His beatific vision in Heaven; because thou persevered till death thou gained the crown of eternal life. Remember the dangers that surround us in this vale of tears, and intercede for us in all our needs and adversities. Amen.
Fourteen Holy Helpers, select friends of God, I honor thee as mighty intercessors, and come with filial confidence to thee in my needs, for the relief of which I have undertaken to make this novena. Help me by thy intercession to placate God’s wrath, which I have provoked by my sins, and aid me in amending my life and doing penance. Obtain for me the grace to serve God with a willing heart, to be resigned to His holy will, to be patient in adversity and to persevere unto the end, so that, having finished my earthly course, I may join thee in Heaven, there to praise for ever God, Who is wonderful in His Saints. Amen.
:priest:
wow, I’m really saving that!
Kramer and Sprenger submitted the Malleus Maleficarum to the University of Cologne’s Faculty of Theology on May 9, 1487, hoping for its endorsement. Instead, the clergy at the University condemned it as both illegal and unethical. [1] Kramer nevertheless inserted a forged claim of support from the University into subsequent printed editions of the book. The date of 1487 is generally accepted as the date of publication, although earlier editions may have been produced in 1485 or 1486. The Church banned the book shortly after, placing it on the “Index of Forbidden Works”. Despite this, however, between the years 1487 and 1520, the work was published thirteen times. After about fifty years, it was again published between the years 1574 to the Lyon edition of 1669 a total of sixteen times. The alleged endorsements which appear at the beginning of the book contributed to its popularity by giving the illusion that it had been granted approval.
In all, the text was so popular that it sold more copies than any other work, apart from the Bible, until John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress was published in 1678.
The effects of the Malleus Maleficarum spread far beyond Germany, greatly impacting France and Italy and, to a lesser extent, England.
Despite popular belief that the Malleus Maleficarum was the classic Roman Catholic text on witchcraft, it was never officially used by the Catholic Church and was, in fact, condemned by the Inquisition in 1490. In addition, it was used by Protestants as well, in some of their witch trials.
:omg:
quick few minutes on the computer. Yes, I heard about the Malleus. Pretty heavy stuff
that pope was no innocent :omg::bf:
Innocent was one corrupt pope. I am reading Praise of Folly again. I would bet he has a prominent role in it.
I’m sure. His legacy is far reaching, in a bad way I think