Ha. Well, I don’t actually watch anything on the Goebbels network anymore, but I see that poor Tom Reynolds missed his appearance on This Weak yesterday, apparently exhibiting “flu-like” symptoms. Uh-huh. Well, looks like he may be getting a nice long vacation to recuperate. Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman is going to give a “major” speech today on “protecting children.” I can only assume it has something to do with covering your ass (so to speak) and doing a lot of lying and whining. God, I sure hope Lamont can make a move in the next 29 or so days. Well, better get back to doing whatever the hell it is I’m supposed to be doing.
Oh, and Happy Genocidal Murderer’s Day! Or, better yet, Happy Thanksgiving to our friends in Canada. You don’t have to set a place for me, but let me know if I can come up there and crash on your couch – just in case things go badly next month.
North Korea tests Nuclear device
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Magnitude 3.6 tremor felt
Australia and South Korea said there was seismic confirmation that pointed to a nuclear test, and a top Russian military officer confirmed the device tested was a nuclear weapon, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. However, Japan and the United States said they couldn’t immediately confirm a test.
South Korea’s seismic monitoring center said a magnitude 3.6 tremor felt at the time of alleged North Korea nuclear test wasn’t a natural occurrence.
The size of the tremor could indicate an explosive equivalent to 550 tons of TNT, said Park Chang-soo, spokesman at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources _ which would be far smaller than the nuclear bombs the U.S. dropped on Japan in World War II.
The atomic bomb that struck Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, had the destructive power of about 15,000 tons (33 million pounds) of TNT.
The U.S. Geological Survey said it recorded a seismic event with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 in northeastern North Korea coinciding with the announced test. The Colorado-based agency was unable to tell whether the event was the result of an atomic explosion or a natural earthquake, USGS official Bruce Presgrave said
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Is this going to be good or bad for GW.. ?:yuck::paranoid:
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
:joe::joe::joe::joe::shock::shock:
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❓ whatever :sheep: le
good morning sheeple
Its the modem dongle….not responding….hmmm
Comment by Melina — October 8, 2006 @ 9:04 pm
You know, I really hate it when I wake up with sex on my mind, especially when I wake up by myself, but this just sounds dirty. I’m sure Melina didn’t mean it that way but I can’t help it. :hubba:
Correction to my post on Sunday’s thread: Claire McCaskill’s opponent is Talent, not Tasker. Tasker is MT, not MO. All those rich Repig white guys look alike to me, I guess. 🙂
10/9/2006, 6:37 a.m. ET
The Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister said Monday that North Korea’s nuclear blast was equivalent to 5,000 to 15,000 tons of TNT.
That would be far greater than the force given by South Korea’s geological institute, which estimated it at just 550 tons of TNT.
By comparison the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima during World War II was equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT.
In 1996, France detonated a bomb beneath Fangataufa Atoll about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti that had a yield of about 120,000 tons of TNT
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By tomorrow they will probably have a fully operational 5 megaton warhead .. :eek::yuck:
hey all
how’s this for a t-shirt talking point ?
“north korea: another fine mess you’ve got us into, bushie…”
like mike said on msnbc morning their psychotic and our psychotic formed a critical mass.
it may well help the dems if they can make the point that republi-cons are REALLY making us less safe now.
what’s a little terror network compared to a major military power at war with american imperialism?
In the 4am hour C-span had the editor of the WSJ editorial page on .. He is a 32 year old Harvard economist ( supply side type) with no real world experience .. I spent the better part of the hour kneeing in front of the throne throwing up.:barf::barf::gate::omg:
:yippee::yippee::yippee: Its Susan and Roxie :yippee::yippee::yippee:
I don’t know if I would call N Korea a real military power. A dangerous one maybe but they would not be able to sustain any military action for very long. :eek::shock::paranoid:
In more important news
NEW YORK (AP) – Star Fleet Capt. Jean-Luc Picard commanded it. Now some Trekkie owns it.
A model of the Starship Enterprise used in the pilot and title sequences of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” sold for $576,000 Saturday at an auction of costumes, sets and props from 40 years of the “Star Trek” sci-fi franchise.
The 78-inch-long miniature of the “Enterprise-D,” built by Industrial Light and Magic, debuted in 1987 in the episode “Encounter at Farpoint,” and then was used in many subsequent episodes, as well as the film “Star Trek Generations.”
More than 1,000 items from the archives of CBS Paramount Television Studios went on the block over three days at Christie’s auction house, and fans forked over a total of $7.1 million for set furniture, pointy Vulcan ears and other props.
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With thugs in charge everything is for sale.:eek:
I spent a few hours trolling the news channels and I actually did see some good analysis of what nk wanted: a nonagression pact from u.s. before they would negotiate stopping their bomb making. a not unreasonable request, it seems to me. I will talk about putting my gun down, if you promise not to jump me as soon as I disarm myself.
at least on CNN, some of international analysis seemed pretty right on.
Preacher says GOP delaying 2nd coming
Monday, October 09, 2006
Becky Gaylord
Plain Dealer Reporter
Voters should oust congressional Republican leaders because U.S. foreign policy is delaying the second coming of Jesus Christ, according to a evangelical preacher trying to influence closely contested political races.
K.A. Paul railed against the war in Iraq on Sunday before a crowd of 1,000 at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, his first stop on what he hopes is a 30-city campaign.
The Houston-based preacher said he believes that the Bush administration has delayed the second coming because U.S. foreign policy has blocked Christian missionaries from working in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
“Somebody needs to say enough is enough,” he said to worshippers who stood, waved and called out in support.
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The Reich wing Christians :barf: .. same line different party.. :barf:
I thought
nk had a pretty massive army, navy, airforce, etc. not much in the way of missiles, but enough firepower to really fuck up japan. they must be getting pretty sick of bushist foreign policy.
Kim has no natural resources that the Reich desires so they put him on ignore thinking their idle threats would solve all their problems. When they find that no longer works and that they do have to govern and no longer know how we are all in trouble.:eek:
another christian whore feeling the worm turning.
more power to him!
This is an article on N Korea’s military..
Roxie is right it does look impressive for such a small country. ( on paper at least)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HH18Dg02.html
stupid reich?
hopefully and not the beginning of their late October surprise. three weeks might be long enough to start another preemptive war.
I too saw the WSJ guy for a few minutes in the middle of the night. He said the Democrats’ message was get out of Iraq and come back to America.” He didn’t think that was a good message.
I’ve never heard that message. Must be ’cause I don’t read the WSJ where, apparently, the Dems have been posting it.
Some of the Demodorps running for the house want out of Iraq but the ones in the senate .. especially that woman , whats her name from NY state. are a bunch of war mongers. :yuck:
Apparently Kolbe, the only openly Repig, knew about the Foley stuff a quite a while ago. This is what they call the drip, drip, drip. It will keep the story going. Hopefully ’til election day. I must stick more pins in my Voodoo Bush doll:
A Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley’s inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications.
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Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) saw messages Foley sent in 2000.
The revelation pushes back by at least five years the date when a member of Congress has acknowledged learning of Foley’s behavior with former pages. A timeline issued by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) suggested that the first lawmakers to know, Rep. John M. Shimkus (R-Ill.), the chairman of the House Page Board, and Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.), became aware of “over-friendly” e-mails only last fall. It also expands the universe of players in the drama beyond members, either in leadership or on the page board.
. http://tinyurl.com/zg32o
dems msg.
very funny stuff, most dems have been backing away from any policy of withdrawal, they’re pretty much tripping over each other.
not that I blame them, given how able — and absolutely prepared — to twist, distort and outright lie about whatever dems say.
that preacher story made my day, tho. thanks.
got to run kids. catch ya later.
Democrats Poised To Assume Majority Of Governorships
Skip directly to the full story.
By MARK Z. BARABAK Los Angeles Times
Published: Oct 9, 2006
For the first time since the 1994 Republican landslide, Democrats are poised to attain a majority of the nation’s governorships, giving the party an important political toehold regardless of who wins the battle to control Congress.
As voters itch for change, election handicappers forecast Democratic gains of four to eight seats on Nov. 7, saying the Republican-held governor’s chairs in New York and Ohio are the most likely to switch parties. The Democrats must gain four governorships to hold a majority nationwide.
Massachusetts, Arkansas, Colorado and Maryland also look promising for Democratic candidates, according to campaign analysts, favoring several more pickups. In Massachusetts – the land of Kennedys – a win would mark the first time a Democratic governor has sat under the gold Capitol dome in more than a dozen years.
Four seats that appear to be toss-ups at this point: Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, all states that could prove vital in the 2008 presidential campaign. All save Minnesota have a Democratic governor now.
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I hope this indicates that the voter finally woke up .. :yippee::yippee:
would love to see Spitzer as NY governor
The first round of wintery weather of the season to hit the Front Range today and tonight! A SNOW ADVISORY has been issued for the foothills and west-central mountains until 6 am on Tuesday. 4 to 8 inches may fall in places like Leadville, Fairplay, Bailey, Evergreen, Georgetown, Nederland, and Estes Park by tomorrow morning. Denver may even see an inch or two of snow by early Tuesday. Look for light rain and drizzle through midday in the Denver Metro Area, temperatures will cool this afternoon, and a rain snow mix will turn to all snow by late today.
:cold::cold::cold::cold::eek:
A follow up to the WCW rally in philly last Thursday:
Don’t think that we are moving towards fascism?
Also check out Dave Lindorff’s (writer, author of The Case for
Impeachement) wrote a piece on the police who were video-taping our the World Can’t Wait permitted rally: ww.thiscantbehappening.net.
During our permitted rally outside of the Municipal Building Plaza, the police were video taping the speakers and the crowd. When asked who they were and who they represented, they made very few comments. Dave Lindorff exploredmthis a bit more and found out that they were from the Counter-Terrorism Unit.
Not only do those video cameras represent scare tactics, but they show how the police/state views political demonstrations. At our permitted rally, the Anti-Terrorism Unit was turning their cameras on a political demonstration as being the “enemy.”
In the aftermath of the the Bush Regime legalizing torture in the name of national security. At their own free will, the US is able to spy on who they determine are “terrorist.” This legislation spills over to spying on people in the U.S. As one member of World Can’t Wait said: “The fact that we are considered terrorist is ridiculous. That is why we must continue and do the things that we are doing (rallying and marching). This is an example to what we are trying to bring to light. That’s why it’s important for people to come together and continue to do things like this.”
Our local chapter will follow up the ACLU and with Dave Lindorff.
Photographing and taping demonstrators was one of Nixon’s tactics during the Viet Nam protests.
“The more things change the more they stay the same,” my mother used to sat.
Millions of tiny, gelatinous creatures have slimed beaches from Rye, N.H., to Hull, congealing into a slippery, tapioca-like sludge almost an inch thick.
Scientists say the invaders are called salps, transparent globular organisms that, with their stomachs, beating hearts, and placentas, resemble humans more than the miniature jellyfish they look like.
http://tinyurl.com/fbyhj
Here’s a picture of a salp
http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/thaliacea.html
The local police forces probably represent a bigger threat to ones liberties than the government does. They, like the army, are made up of people who like to feel the power of their car, their uniform and their gun. They are often not well informed as to what rights the individual has and often take them away but the ACLU can only do so much. Most public defenders understand even less about what the police can and can’t do to their clients. 😮
Good Morning :joe:
I think we call salps water flees. They are not very large though. You usually have to look at them with a microscope. 😮
:yippee::yippee::yippee: Its Krista :yippee::yippee::yippee:
:pup::pup::pup:
Here’s a picture and discription of a water flea. I’m not sure they are salps, but I’ve never heard of a salp before.:
http://tinyurl.com/5o8s3
This is pretty funny. Works for my asshole Congressman, too.
That salp looked even more rudimentary than the water flee did. It sounded like the salps we kind of a gooey yucky mass of tiny little creatures :yuck::eek::paranoid:
That commercial works for Hayworth too. That was good. :rofl2:
Hey Fred! :banana::pup: HA ha! :cold:
And Tancraphead and Muskrat too :rofl2::rofl2:
I still think rethugs are robots and have to operate as one to survive. Disconnect their network and they all will die. humm… reminds me of Star Teck.. 😮
Well Krista not everyone can live in the Sun belt.. Watching all the thugs playing bumper cars on the way home will be entertaining. :eek::eek:
The Republicans are very Borg, indeed.
actually Rethugs remind me more of the Ferengi from Star Trek’s DS9 . I think the Ferengi were actually created as a satire of runaway capitalism.
The fat, bald headed , beady eyed Borg.. :tinfoil::eek:
I actually miss being able to wear my jackets. I haven’t needed to wear a sweater or a jacket here in years. And when I go to the thrift store I always find really great winter clothing but it just ends up being stored if I buy it.
:eek::eek: a cross between the Ferengi and the Borg :eek::eek: and we are allowing them to multiply .. :yuck:
though borg units do remind me of some of the rethugs on C Span, so maybe there is a point to that…
Bastert certainly bears a resemblance to Zek, the Grand Nagus.
Maybe repugs are an unholy marraige between the Ferengi and the Borg.:yuck:
Paramount’s writers were probably creating a satire of their management when they created the Ferengi
All of these thugbots are programmed exactly alike. :eek::yuck::paranoid:
Looks that way, Krista. I think Gene Roddenberry (and writers that followed him) knew what they were doing with Star Trek, though…there’s a lot of political satire in those shows. The Federation for example would not have followed the Rethug/PNAC imperative to go and interfere with every culture they felt like invading. Look at the Star Trek society: no money exists. It was a remarkable idea for mainstream television and they got away with their socialist concepts because it was presented as “science fiction”
Humm… sounds like a start of a good rumor .. especially the unholy marriage part..:eek::omg:
The thugs have an uncanny ability to repeat history. over and over and over again.. Its like the saying that this thing is computer controlled so nothing can go wrong .. go wrong ..go wrong .. go wrong .. go wrong..
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican fishermen captured a 7.5-foot-long crocodile in the Rio Grande, the river that divides Mexico and the United States, and turned the animal over to a local animal shelter, authorities reported on Sunday.
The animal was caught on a fisherman’s line on Saturday in a sparsely populated stretch of the river on the outskirts of Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas.
The crocodile weighed about 130 pounds and appeared to be in good condition, said Jose Moreno Araiza, a commander of the Nuevo Laredo fire department, where the fishermen first brought the animal in the back of a pickup truck.
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Humm one of our new INS agents.. 😮
Rule of acquisition 132: When caugh’t – lie, if caught lying – blame your enemy.
:penguin:morning sheeple
Goyette has Prof Howard Zinn on right now.
:penguin:afternoon sheeple
Krista…re # 42- I always had the best luck with thrift stores in your area because you can buy fantastic suede western stuff that its really too hot to waer there most of the year, and then ebay it to the cooler states!!
Look for great outterwear that you can list and sell….first check the market on ebay for such stuff because some years fringe suede jackets are like $10 and some years they are like $200 depending on lining and stuff….Im pretty picky about what I bother with, but if youre at the stores anyway, why not keep an eye out for whatever the style is….ebay has made listing so easy that its incredible that I have this huge box of stuff here that I havent gotten round to :rofl2:
I need to take my own advice!…or hire some kid to list stuff for me!
:nana:legislators gone wild!
:tongue:hire will!
I dont feel well today…and waking up , afraid to turn on the news…and then finally turning it on only to see that Bolton asshole talking …oh my god!!
If Bush takes the original war vote as a blank check and this thing twists up into…whatever…but with no oil we should be OK…
But my feeling is that Congress goes home, we have no oversignt in anything…China owns us….and fallout effects the whole globe….
Im sure that they are all just posturing, but they are doing it with toxins that will spread round the world…
Then there is the homefront where kids are shooting schools up…taught agression and desperation by a culture where we go out and bomb countries for…? who knows why??? and parents are all working like dogs to make ends meet…and families have no proper healthcare….so everyone is desperate….
God this world is screwed…Maybe if I drink a little more coffee Ill feel better….just not feeling well today…got a headcold I think.
And I HATE this holiday!! I was telling the Indian from India people in Tech yesterday how this is the holiday of when the Native Americans got screwed….
Of course, theyve got their own problems…no water, american jobs polarizing society…..at least the upper castes have some education…..
Will wont do that sorta work….and he is not driven by money or things at all….He still has his x-mas moeny from last year! He really only wants books and origami paper at this point…
we were int he video game store and he wanted a $50 gane and since he had casts on and all I said just pick whatever….so he looked around and got some old used $19 game. I kept saying, ‘but Ill get you the $50 one!” but he doesnt care about that sorta stuff.
See, I wouldve taken the $50 one from a parent and then bought the cheap one with my own money….but he doesnt care….
Its very hard to get thim to do stuff with positive reinforcement because he can be happy with just a piece of paper.
Once in school they took away all distractions and he had a pencil and paper to do work…but they realized that if they took out and turned the eraser over it had a little face drawn on it and he was making the guy into some comedy act when they werent looking….
and he gets perfect grades…..more or less…he tests at the top and beyond for his age….
So, maybe the mexican kid up the street who doesnt know english….I would have to teach him computers because he is from a very small rural village….
holiday?
seanie, you must download Skype…you can use it for free anywhere that you have a signal….get a headset and get skype!
I imagine that I will use it in Mexico in Dec…The club Med has wireless so there is no reason to worry about my cell phone not working from there….
God, the dreams I had last night about Mexico….
Me and Coco and Buck and the birds trying to get there…bringing my Jeep somehow, the massive doubledecker plane and training to pilot the escape copter incase of crash….
and then runnign into all sorts of friends in the streets of Cancun. Is there even a downtown cancun? And heavy fog settling…and having all of my “explicit” CDs confiscated…while arguing that Elvis Costello’s imperial bedroom was not really explicit….at all….but there are too many words to translate and the soldiers threw it in the garbage can….
Oh the freudian possibilities considering that that record is or was my record for many years and Coco was or is me…..
OK, Im off for a bit to try to finish my weekend blog held up b/c of tech support….urgh!
what game did he get? what was the 50 dollar one?
US push for air strikesMark Dunn
PENTAGON hawks will try to persuade US President George W. Bush he should order immediate military air strikes to obliterate North Korean nuclear sites.
Australian National University defence expert Ron Huisken said Mr Bush’s chief advisers would be gunning for action without waiting for a lead from the United Nations.
“The President will receive some advice to the effect that it is better not to wait, that there will not be a clearer trigger point than what we have now,” said Dr Huisken, senior fellow at the ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
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Despite the risks, Dr Ayson, a specialist in North Asian strategy, said the US military option was a real possibility, given Mr Bush has said he could not tolerate a nuclear North Korea.
“Military action is now more likely after the test, but is probably less than 50 per cent (likely),” Dr Ayson said.
US intelligence sources said the Bush Administration was considering naval action around North Korea, stopping short of a blockade but intercepting and inspecting all ships off the peninsula.
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The Chinese will love to see how well their SAM7 and SAM8 missiles work against the B2’s:yuck::eek:
They will also need to notify the USGS of significan restructuting of the geology around Seoul.. :bf:
:tommygun:war! what is it good for!
WORLD DOMINATION!
JOPLIN, Mo. – A 13-year-old student fired an AK-47 into the ceiling at his middle school Monday morning after confronting a pair of students and administrators, telling them, “please don’t make me do this,” officials said.
No one was injured, and the boy was taken into custody.
The student was wearing a mask and pointed the assault rifle at Principal Steve Gilbreth and Assistant Superintendent Steve Doerr, Superintendent Jim Simpson said.
Simpson said the teen told them “not to make me do this,” then fired a shot into the ceiling, breaking a water pipe, and said again: “Please don’t make me do this.”
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An AK47 is pretty heavy weaponry for a 13 year old..:yuck:
The guy that runs Freeperville says he has sold about 200 assault rifles a month since before 2004. His sales of the 50 cal ones is brisk too.:eek:
I hope the sales are all to “collectors” :yuck:
:tommygun:maybe its a thirteen year old from darfur!
Alaska villages await Venezuela oil aid
By JEANNETTE J. LEE
Associated Press writer Monday, October 09, 2006
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In the Arctic village of Ambler, residents are paying $7.25 a gallon for home heating oil as the days darken and the chill of winter seeps into the dozens of homes, most poorly insulated, along the Kobuk River.
The impoverished Inupiat Eskimo community of 280 welcomes any help in the costly drudgery of keeping warm, even if it comes, as critics point out, from a country engaged in a geopolitical spat with the U.S.
“When you have a dire need and it is a matter of survival for your people, it doesn’t matter where, what country, the gift or donation comes from,” said Virginia Commack, who at 56 years old is considered a young elder in Ambler.
Ambler and nearly 150 other Alaska Native villages have accepted money for heating oil from Venezuela, whose president, Hugo Chavez, repeatedly referred to President Bush as “the devil” in a speech to the United Nations last month. Chavez has also called Bush a “terrorist,” and denounced the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
The Venezuelan government, through its Texas-based oil company Citgo, plans to buy 100 gallons of heating oil this winter for each of more than 12,000 households in rural Alaska.
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Isn’t it wonderful to live in a third world country and receive foreign aid.. Especially in a state supposedly rich in oil resources. :barf::barf::barf:
Finally Fantasy 7 Dirge of Cerberus= $50
Megaman X collection=$19
And there is one that is coming out that we preordered…but neither of us remembers for the life of us what it was….
Final Fantasy XII with the book…ships 10/31
:pup:hey i finally figured out if the republicans found someone to run against my congressman brian higgins apparently from what i have found the guy running against him is a rethug DA heres pretty much the only thing i can find online about the guy
got it from here
Republican Candiate Michael J. McHale: Candidate McHale is running as the Republican nominee for Congress in hopes of deposing incumbent Brian Higgins (D-NY). McHale is running in District 27, which serves Western New York and primarily the greater Buffalo area. McHale does not have a campaign site up yet (is he running on a luddite platform?), so we had to do a bit of web research to find out more aobut Candidate McHale. and BOY DID WE FIND DIRT!!!
Candidate McHale is an Asst DA in Erie County. He is also the defendant in a lawsuit levied upon him by a neighbor, Susan Loganathan, 29, who claims McHale confronted her about noise outside her home and during the argument physically assaulted her, grabbing her and pushing her, forcing her to fall to the ground, twist her knee and tear ligaments which have required two operations to correct. Longanahan says she will donate any monies won in the lawsuit to charity.
Oh wait, folks, it gets better. Candidate McHale denies touching Ms. Loganathan, claiming a dog pulled her to the ground while he was in a fistfight with her husband. LOL. I can see him in court: “I totally didn’t touch that lady, I was bashing her husband’s face in at the time”. Riiiiiiggghht. In addition, Candidate McHale and his wife filed for bankruptcy on January 14.
still sounds better than higgins to me!
from everything i read about ff7 dirge of cerbrus the game is horrible then again i am sure they are judging it against final fantasy 7 and they are totally different games
how old is will again? he must be super smart to be playing through final fantasy games!
i suggest the wii come november you can get a wii and 7 games for what the ps3 costs without the game!
:nixon:PJ i am going to start encouraging people to vote for me as a write in candidate but i need help with a website!
Tropical Storm NORMAN
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another one headed for the west coast of Mexico:eek:
Still no revolution in Mexico
http://www.narconews.com/
:hot:its getting hot in here!
im on hold with the rnc right now
trying to find stuff out about this mchale fuck they are running in my district
:growl::jason:worst muzak ever!
i think they just gave me the candidates actual phone number:doh:
716-481-4243
:neutral:the republicans gave kimmy a nuke to blow up to distract from the foley scandal!
:cat:where did everybody go?
yes, that is the feeling…Will really wants a PS3 but there will only be 10 per store and honestly, if I can get one I might put it on ebay and get one from the next round. Meanwhile the Wii is gonna be actually better quality. They are taking preorders and Im gonna jump on one if I can get it…either, actually because we have x-mas and birthday within 2 3 weeks of eachother and he doesnt want much else really….
Will is 12…and he said to tell you that he is an expert at FF games….he only actually wants that one b/c he has mastered them all except 11, which is online and he just hasnt looked much at it.
We are heading out to drum lesson…
Things that go boom in the night
Hi everybody – missed you guys. Had lots of family stuff to deal with – very exhausting – but things seem to be stabilizing. Only thing to say is that cats can keep you sane in bad times :cat: and drive you nuts in good times :billcat:!
If anybody is curious about the different yield estimates for the nuke test, check here on satblog. Also some maps showing where the fallout will go if there was leakage from the test site. (Hint: the Russians will be pissed).
Hu, Bush discuss N. Korean nuclear moves by phone+
Oct 09 12:14 PM US/Eastern
(Kyodo) _ Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President George W. Bush talked about their reactions to North Korea’s reported nuclear test by telephone Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
Hu told Bush that China has issued a statement condemning the North’s nuclear test but warned against taking action which could further aggravate the situation, the ministry said.
Bush said North Korea’s nuclear moves are dangerous but the United States still believes a negotiated settlement of the issue is possible, the ministry said.
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Bush could take a bath in Panda dodo..:eek:
:penguin:im not a dodo im a penguin!
:crap:or did you mean doo doo?
:crap:canned food drive for congressman tom reynolds!
so fucking 80’s! this kicks ass!
Hey, Methaz, good to see ya! Been wondering how you’re doing. Glad to see satblog back up, too. Thanks for sharing it with us, and I hope all is well, and you’ll be back with us on a regular basis.
:tongue:PJ i need a website! i am gonna get more votes than the republican candidate! i want the site sean4congress.com
👿 pj isnt gonna set up a site for me 🙁
Hey, Sean, you’re in luck. sean4congress.com is available as a domain name. I must say, though, that w/ less than a month to go before the election, you’re gonna be hard-pressed to get a website up and running, unless you want a really crappy one, of course.
well the republican candidate doesnt even have a website i just need a page with a short issues section
how much does it cost to get a site?
:doh:i dont know anything about this kinda stuff!
Well, let’s see. About $9 to register the domain name, and then you need to pay to have it hosted someplace. You can probably get more than you need for, oh, less than $10 a month. And of course, you have to have something to put up there.
Or, you can just go to blogger.com, set up an account (say, sean4congress as your username), and then have a free blog (it would be something like sean4congress.blogspot.com). I think that’s the way I’d go, if I were you.
:nana:yep get a website in two years when i really try to run!
SAINT DENIS
(Also known as Denys; Dionysius )
Memorial: 9 October.
Profile: Missionary to Paris. First Bishop of Paris. His success roused the ire of local pagans, and he was imprisoned by Roman governor. Martyred in the persecutions of Valerius with Saint Rusticus and Saint Eleutherius. Legends have grown up around his torture and death including one that has his body carrying his severed head some distance from his execution site. Saint Genevieve built a basilica over his grave. His feast was added to the Roman Calendar in 1568 by Pope Saint Pius V, though it had been celebrated since 800. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
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:pope::priest::pope:
Where is Druid_666?
Homiliny. Chili Beanie. Grant that Druid’s spirit comes out to speak!
(Friendly spirit, I pray.) :omg:
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:jesus:
Welcome to the Shul
Here is the place I stopped by last night, Shemanski:
Congregation Kesser Israel is an Orthodox shul in Portland, Oregon. Since its beginning in the heart of Portland’s Jewish community, Kesser Israel has welcomed all to its traditional services, warm fellowship and joyous celebration of Judaism. Founded in 1912 by Eastern European immigrants, Kesser Israel is a close-knit Orthodox shul of approximately 75 families. (They are moving from South Portland to Multnomah Village.)
The Orthodox Synagogue for All Jews
Kesser Israel reports our NEW LOCATION for Shabbos services, as we prepare to break ground for our new SW location, MULTNOMAH ARTS CENTER, which will likely be our temporary location until our new building is completed.
Multnomah Arts Center is at 7688 SW Capitol Hwy. We will be using the Capitol Room–[Room 30]. It’s on the east end of the building (to the left as you walk in the front door), most specifically on the southeast corner of the building, with east-facing windows. It will be a reasonable walk for many of our members. However, parking is available behind the building.
Hello everyone,
Someone with skype call me please! cnickthomas
Thanks
:nuts:go play a game and stop begging people to call your skype!
What kind of game? I have an Xbox I never use. Want to buy it?
I need to get this fucking thing setup correctly. Where is PJ when you need him?
What is Melina up to? Blue? Travis? Why haven’t you picked up a headset Shawn?
Who Killed Michael Moore?
(Why and What’s the Reason For?)
By MICKEY Z.
(Inspired by the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya)
:omg:
http://www.counterpunch.org/mickey10092006.html
he’s dead? Oh, wait.
:nana:
I do believe someone is sticking their tongue out at me
Cool the recording worked.
anybody call this number? 716-481-4243
:cat:somebody call and go is this michael mchale?
:yippee:do it do it!
http://www.sewardpark.org/sewardpark/history.html
Seattle Ancient Forest
I love the stories about these places
If anyone’s interested, I think I may have found the download for “Quest for Bush”.
:doh:quest for bush?
Rachel talked about it. It’s a mod of a game called Quest for Saddam. Only you hunt down GWB. Aparently it’s been put out by some Islamist group.
or karl rove…………
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Lovers of Roman-era art and archaeology can thank the Vatican’s parking problem for the discovery of one of the ancient world’s best preserved necropolises — right inside the tiny city-state’s walls.
snip.
“We found the kind of things that have usually been lost in past excavations in Rome,” said Giandomenico Spinola, director of the excavation and restoration works.
One of the novelties of the necropolis, located along what was once the ancient Via Triumphalis (Triumphal Way) that Roman warriors used when returning from conquests, is that it offers a mixture of burial sites of both rich and middle class Romans.
http://tinyurl.com/hyuwf
Party of Peace or a Party of War:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=76&ItemID=11133
:nuts:metroid!
This long but it’s a slow night.
Police Spying in the Birthplace of the First Amendment
“This is the 21st Century. Get with it, man!”
This past Thursday I was invited by the group World Can’t Wait to talk about impeachment and Bush’s preparations for war against Iran at a Philadelphia rally–part of the group’s Oct. 5 “Drive Out the Bush Regime” campaign of 170 such rallies around the country. Assembled on the mall in front of the Rizzo Municipal Offices building in central Philadelphia in front of me were some 300 people, mostly young, and all well-behaved, if high spirited.
While I was talking about the Bush administration’s impeachable crimes against the American people and the Constitution–in particularly the ramming through Congress of a bill that, for the first time since American patriots drove the British out of the 13 colonies, authorizes indefinite detainment without charge and imprisonment of American citizens without the right to a trial–I noticed two men in sunglasses with a high-quality video camera and a high-quality still camera with telephoto lense filming the assembled crowd.
After I spoke, I walked over to the two men and asked what station they were with. I was pretty certain they were police, despite their total lack of identification, because normally news organizations plaster their cameras with their station call letters and these cameras had no such identification on them. When I pressed them, both men turned their cameras directly on me, from just two feet away, filming me as I denounced their intimidation.
“You should be ashamed of yourselves,” I said, as young people around me looked on in surprise. “This rally has a police permit, and all the people here are legally exercising their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.”
The two men remained silent, and continued to grimly film and photograph me as I spoke. I began telling everyone around me who the men were and what they were doing, and some of the young people began to pester the officers themselves.
I later saw a member of the Philadelphia Police Department’s Civil Affairs Unit, a Captain William Fisher, who unlike the camera detail, was clearly identified as a police officer by both a card pinned to his shirt, and by a prominent armband saying: Philadelphia Police Department.
Asked why the men were filming the crowd, he responded briskly, “This is a free country. This is a public space. You’re free to be here, and they’re free to come too and to take your picture.”
I allowed as this was true, technically, but that clearly there was an element of intimidation involved when police come and film the faces of everyone who comes to an event that is about criticizing the government.
“Oh, you’re so `70s,” he said, looking at my gray beard and balding head. “This is the 21st Century. Get with it, man.”
Indeed, he’s right.
It is the 21st Century.
When I was a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, it was discovered that the Los Angeles Police Department was sending unmarked police officers like these armed with video cameras to press conferences at places like the Los Angeles Press Club, where they were setting up and filming certain events as part of a campaign of keeping tabs on activist groups.
This revelation caused a sensation, with front-page articles in the Los Angeles Times, and inquiries into the practice by irate members of the Los Angeles City Council. In the end, the police were forced to back down and cease the practice, at least for a time.
Now, here in Philadelphia, birthplace of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, this trampling of the freedom of assembly and speech seems to merit no attention at all in the local mainstream media. When I called the Inquirer’s police reporter, Barbara Boyer, to alert her to what had happened, her response was “Well, I could take your picture on the sidewalk, too, if I wanted. It’s not illegal.”
Apparently the Philadelphia Police Department and most of the local media think that it’s appropriate for police to film people who are exercising their Constitutional rights, and that this is what we do in “21st Century America.” To me, though, this seems more like 1930s Germany, or 21st-Century China.
Inspector Robert Tucker, who heads the counter-terrorism task force of the Philadelphia Police Department, confirmed in a phone conversation the next day that the two men with the cameras were working for him. He apologized for their lack of identification, and for their unwillingness to identify themselves, promising that at future public events, they and others doing that kind of work would wear prominent identification showing they were with the police. But he insisted that their work was appropriate.
“At events like these, there are usually anarchists who show up,” he argued, “and they’re the ones that sometimes end up breaking glass and causing problems.” (It’s an argument that might justify video cams on every street corner of Philly, since crime is everywhere.) He said that by filming the whole group, it would be possible to identify those people later if there were incidents. Asked why the officers were videotaping the entire crowd–and the speakers like myself who were clearly identifiable anyhow–he offered no answer. Tucker claimed that the tapes and photos made at the event would ordinarily not be retained, but would be “taped over at the next event” unless there were an incident involving an arrest, but he also noted that the department does maintain files on “some people.”
What makes this whole thing feel particularly creepy is the anti-terrorism bill just passed by a Congress of supine Republicans and cowardly Democrats, which gives the president the authority, on his own, to call anyone an “unlawful combatant,” or a supporter of terrorism, and to lock them away in a military brig with no right to a trial or even a lawyer. When you put this police surveillance in that context, it becomes intimidating indeed. Especially since the Philadelphia Police counter-terrorism unit is an integral part of the federal joint counter-terrorism strike force, making it easy for such film materials to migrate over into federal hands.
It seems to me it’s time to get back not to the 1970s, but to the 1770s, when Americans knew what was happening to them, and stood up and said, “No more!”
I have a pair of suede western pants and leather flare legged pants that I NEVER get to wear. More, because I hardly ever go out anymore. But now I’m afraid to wear them because I don’t want to be the old lady that still wears leather pants and doesn’t know how tacky it is. A lot of Japanese people come here to thrift and ship it back to Japan and make a TON of money off of anything American. I wonder if that’s still the case with our standing in the world these days. I knew this Japanese woman that would come here maybe twice a year and stay with a friend of mine and she would take this woman thrifting and fill up my friends’ livingroom thigh high with STUFF. Jeans, shoes, clothing, trinkets and stuf stuff stuff! She would ship it back to Japan on a freighter and it became very high dollar fashion in various boutiques.
That’s a good idea about selling the stuff on Ebay. I’d need a bigger place though. Another good place to thrift is in the midwest. Especially smaller towns. They usually don’t know what they have because the midwest is usually about 5-10 years behind in anything cool.
Methaz! Hey, buddy, what’s happening? :rabbi:
Well, obviously we need a leather pants photo contest. Please post photos of youself wearing leather pants :hubba: to the member’s photo page, so we can determine if they are appropriate apparel for you.
Hey, Seanie, if you are serious about running in 2 years, check out the Drupal-based Civicspace (http://www.civicspacelabs.com). I am going to be using it to set up a site for the new Camille Abate Justice for All Institute. It’s tailor-made for campaigns and such. They are beta testing CivicSpace On Demand, which will probably be $50/month, but if you can’t handle that but can either make your way around some PHP/open source stuff or know someone who can, you might want to look into it. AAR’s site is done using civicSpace, so is TPM Cafe.
Domain regs through GoDaddy.com are dirt cheap (under $10/year), and so far I’m with BlueHost for the other stuff.
But short-term, the sean4congress.blogspot.com is a good way to go.
Hey Andy, The Phoenix police were doing that here too. A local talk show host, Charles Goyette, got a call form a listener talking about the Phoenix police driving down the street video taping all the faces. I saw them too. So, a bunch of people called and complained about it to the police commissioner and he apologized for the appearance of intimidation and made the excuse that they were video taping for training purposes and that the videos were only to be used by Phoenix police for that purpose. Whatever. I guess if they can video tape us, then we can video tape them and we should.
When Bush was in town last week, his motorcade went through and again, guns were trained on the protestors like the day he was here when Katrina made landfall. :tommygun:
I dunno, PJ, I may not be able to fit into them after this summer. Some of my jeans are tighter than I remember. :doh:
:razz:depending on what the outlook is for my district in two years i might actually try if i would have known nobody was gonna run against my congressman i probably would of actually put in some effort to get on the ballot shoot it only would have taken 1200 signatures! ugh
shit not only does the guy running against my republicrat not have a website he doesnt even have a campaign headquarters!
Yeah but will it be Congessman Sean? Or Congressman Jeffy? :slap: Or will it be a Jekyll and Hyde thing? :penguin::jesus:
:penguin:ha ha jeffy might come out for a couple issues but i would be way more reliable than my current rep.!
:love:hey you met me you have a better idea than most on here where i stand!
So, are you serious about running for office? It would be great to get someone from the Seditionist party in some kind of office. :pup:
When Giuliani was mayor he came to my neighborhood for the grounbreaking of a community court. Neighborhood folks were invited and we sat in folding chairs set up in the street. Sharp shooters on the roofs of the surounding 2 story buildings trained their rifles on us for the entire time that Rudy was present.
And, you ask why i just love that Rudy.
I bet that made Rudy feel like a BIG MAN :jerk:
:pup:serious about running for something one of these days whatever it might be
City Council is always a good start. I wonder how much that pays?
Hey Krista,
At first I thought they were from a local TV station. It’s pure intimidation but no one paid them any attention.
Did you march last week?
:doh:but my councilman is OK maybe when i buy a house i make sure it has a shitty councilman first!:evil:
:yippee:then again i am more enamored with taking out my congressman than anything else! maybe i can work on a republican campaign next time around then once he or she gets elected i can run against him or her
I protested Bush, doing a fundraiser here, FOR A REPUG candidate last week, but could not do the WCW one. The officers that video taped us were in their cop cars, so, I imagine that the complaints about being video taped will just be responded to with undercover cops next time. In fact, there was a guy vidoe taping at the Bush protest that had a pretty fancy little recorder and he ” looked” FBI to me. But my perception of what FBI looks like is still rooted in the movies, so, what do I know?>?
dont all the wanna-be rethugs dress like FBI guys from the movies anyway?
You could be right Sean.
Keep up the struggle Krista, For now I’m going to bed.
well, I dressed a bunch of bands and musicians during my time in MT….I used to get tons of western snap shirts in funky prints…muchlike whats at Lucky and Guess these days for a mint…and ship them back. I also got tons of good boots and sent them back…and kept quite a few for my own collection, which I have largely sold off on ebay now. But there was a time on Melrose in LA when vintage boots were $500 and I could get the same thing for $10-$15 at the salvation army in Bozeman…I stil have tons of chaps and stuff…just have to find the right wave to ride to get rid of it all.
We need a good western movie….more urban cowboy than brokeback mountain!
OK…night night sheeple…
PS youre not the “old” lady in the leather pants, but they are hot and out of style….and the dogs mess them up….but you certainly dont look old!!
I dont really know if anyone except actual rock stars should wear leather pants anymore. and then maybe only on stage.
They have gone the way of the white 3 piece disco suit and Travolta’s chin!..or multitudes of chins….
They are sort of icky….not that I havent worn them in my day.
My Mom used to wear a really cool custom made pierre cardin blac leather pants and short jacket set when I was a baby…she was a cool chick.
:crap:so shawshank redemption and godfather are tied for best movie of all time on IMDB seems odd to me there are LOTS of better movies out there
nite sheeple!
1. 9.1 The Godfather (1972) 178,352
2. 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 214,755
3. 8.9 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 101,345
4. 8.8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 161,989
5. 8.8 Casablanca (1942) 87,330
6. 8.8 Schindler’s List (1993) 129,784
7. 8.8 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 48,734
8. 8.7 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 46,940
9. 8.7 Pulp Fiction (1994) 184,645
10. 8.7 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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No is the saddest experience you’ll ever know
Yes, it’s the saddest experience you’ll ever know
Cause one is the loneliest that you’ll ever know
One is the loneliest number even worse than two.
🙁
where’s Druid?
Jesus-Judaism
Early form of Christianity, belonging to the brief period when the first Christians considered themselves as Jews. This period can loosely be set to start a few years before the death of Jesus (somewhere between 25 and 40 CE) and last until somewhere between 70 and 100 CE.
The Jesus-Jews were supporters of the new Jewish orientation defined by Jesus and propagated by his disciples. There is at no point any evidence that Jesus intended to establish a new religion, his aim was always to reform Judaism. There is no evidence that Jesus ever deviated from the rule that the Judaic religion belonged to Jews only. This rule would later be one of the keystones in the founding of Christianity.
Modern scientists differ in their interpretations of what background Jesus had, as well as the actual content of his message. The dominating theory among theologians is that he worked on a mission directly from God, as a human personification of God, that he actually was the fulfillment of Judaism’s promise of a Messiah. According to this tradition, most Jews did not recognize this quality, and rejected him.
Another theory is that Jesus was a revolutionary Jew from the monastery-like communities on the West Bank; the Essenes and Zealots (two groups that often are considered as separated, but which easily could be two branches of the same movement). According to this theory his ideas were the ones of this movement, and the quick success of Jesus-Judaism was a mere result of the spread of these ideas prior to the few years Jesus was active before being executed.
The first decades following his death, most of his followers adhered to this idea. Most of the missionary activities of the Jesus-Jews oriented itself towards other Jews, but in some regions, like Antioch (now Turkey) many converts were non-Jews. This was an irregularity seen from standard Judaism.
There were many tensions between mainstream Judaism and Jesus-Judaism, involving persecutions and even killings. Saul (later Paul) is well known for having been zealous in this endeavour before converting to Jesus-Judaism.
Towards the end of the first century CE the schism between mainstream Judaism and Jesus-Judaism had become deep, and at the same time as Jesus-Judaism had gained a followers in many cities around the Middle East, and it was spreading. The strength of this movement, together with influences from other religions lead to the definitions of certain traditions and rituals there were uncommon to Judaism. Administrations were defined as well as structures for religious leadership. From the common sources, the earliest congregations were predominantly flat in hierarchy, and there were no churches, and Sunday had not yet been defined as the main day for rituals.
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