Hey, Happy Halloween and T-7 days and counting until the election. Here in the NY-25, two polls came out yesterday. One (a Dem poll, done by Berenson) had the good guy down by 2% (MOE +/- 4.9%). The other, an indie poll (I think they use robo calls) has the good guy up by 9%! So, things are tight here, and it’s gonna go down to the wire. I’m sure lots of you out there are in a similar situation (and if you’re anything like me, you’d wish we could friggin’ vote already).
Anyhow, have a good one. I hope your day is full of treats.
Boo! Happy Halloween.
:reaper::reaper::reaper::reaper::yuck::yuck::yuck::crap::crap::crap::eek::eek::eek:
❓ whatever :sheep:le
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Ewwww more Dirty Underwear..:yuck::rant1:
:yippee::yippee::yippee: Its King Kong :yippee::yippee::yippee:
Fights Brew Over House Posts
As Democratic Rivals Spar, Some in Party Fear Loss of Unity
By Lois Romano and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 31, 2006; Page A03
As Democrats enter the final days of their push to take back control of the House in next week’s election, two divisive backroom leadership fights are brewing within the party, raising fears that Democratic unity could be fraying even before the first votes are cast.
For some Democrats, the battle between Rep. Steny N. Hoyer (Md.), the minority whip, who had been expected to ascend to majority leader without opposition, and Rep. John Murtha (Pa.), his challenger, threatens the party’s efforts to appear ready to govern.
In what could be another high-profile showdown, Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), the ambitious former White House aide who runs the Democratic campaign arm of the House, may seek the third-ranking post of majority whip, pitting him against Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. James E. Clyburn (S.C.), the only African American in a leadership position.
This could exacerbate racial strains in the House, since both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have complained that Emanuel is insensitive to minority concerns. Members of the black caucus accused him of using strong-arm tactics to collect dues for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Hispanic caucus withheld its dues last year until Emanuel hired a Hispanic staffer at the DCCC.
On one point there is no disagreement: If the Democrats win, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) will be elected speaker. While she has not taken a public position in the Hoyer-Murtha battle, she is politically and personally much closer to Murtha and has a long-standing rivalry with Hoyer….
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Unity :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2: !!!!!
The deomodorps have never had any unity… but.. its typical that in anticipation of success they would circle the wagons and then shoot each other.:rant1:
Happy Hi to you fred! :banana: :yinyang:
Whats happening in the far West/East/ whatever:eek::paranoid:
Violence returns to Mexican city
Demonstrators and riot police have again clashed in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, the scene of five months of protests against the state governor.
Several thousand protesters converged on the main square, vowing to retake the city centre after police moved in at the weekend to restore order.
Striking teachers and leftist activists are demanding that Governor Ulises Ruiz be sacked for abuse of power.
( snip)
Tense stand-off
“Murderers! Murderers!” chanted the demonstrators, as they rallied near the police cordon in the central square of the state capital.
“The mood is very tense. We’re standing with the protesters in front of police barricades and they have lit bonfire, are tossing fireworks,” Mark Stevenson, an Associated Press reporter, told the BBC.
One policeman was reportedly injured by fireworks and taken to hospital.
Police responded with volleys of teargas and used water cannons to extinguish the fires.
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If tear gas and water cannon is violence I wonder what real violence looks like ??:eek:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush’s popularity has not been buoyed
by a series of public events in recent days, a new CNN poll has found.
Bush’s approval rating still hovers in the high 30s, where it has been throughout October.
The poll, conducted by Opinion Research Corp., found that 37 percent of
Americans approve of how Bush is handling his job as president; 58 percent disapprove.
The president’s approval dropped slightly from the poll taken a week earlier, from 39 percent down to 37 percent..
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:yippee::yippee::yippee:
Oct. 31, 2006 | At least two dozen federal judges appointed by President Bush since 2001 made political contributions to key Republicans or to the president himself while under consideration for their judgeships, government records show. A four-month investigation of Bush-appointed judges by the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals that six appellate court judges and 18 district court judges contributed a total of more than $44,000 to politicians who were influential in their appointments. Some gave money directly to Bush after he officially nominated them. Other judges contributed to Republican campaign committees while they were under consideration for a judgeship.
Republicans who received money from judges en route to the bench include Sens. Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Sens. George Voinovich and Mike DeWine of Ohio, and Gov. George Pataki of New York.
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I smell this rotten smell permeating everything
Rethugs are 👿
NASA Invests in Its Future With Venture Capital Firm
‘Red Planet’ Nonprofit to Fund Aerospace Innovation
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 31, 2006; Page A19
Mars inspired the name of NASA’s new nonprofit venture capital firm, created to finance emerging technology. (Nasa Via Associated Press)
Hoping to tap the innovation and daring of small aerospace and biomedical companies, NASA has created and funded a nonprofit venture capital firm that will invest government money in promising but underfinanced companies.
The fund, called Red Planet Capital, is the government’s third experiment with venture capitalism, after similar efforts sponsored by the CIA and the Army.
Red Planet marks the first time that the federal government has started a venture capital fund for civilian purposes, but it is hardly a stretch. That is because a former president of the CIA-sponsored venture fund is Michael D. Griffin — now the administrator of NASA….
Lisa L. Lockyer, NASA program manager for the project….said the fund will not only invest on its own in cutting-edge companies but will also join private venture capital firms to form investment syndicates. Together, she said, those partnerships will be able to invest far more money in selected companies than the government could.
The NASA fund, which will be managed by three venture fund veterans selected by the agency through a competitive process, will receive $75 million in taxpayer funds over five years. The money is to be invested only in emerging technologies that might someday be useful to NASA….
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Excuse me while I :barf::barf::barf::barf:
Morning :joe:
Nice to see you ’round these parts, KK! Have you been healthy & happy?
if high thirties is considered “buoyed” then I’m glad I’m not on that listing ship.
HONOLULU – A Chinese military delegation will begin a five-day tour of U.S. military installations in Hawaii and California on Monday and meet with senior U.S. officers in the latest step to repair military ties between the two countries.
About 30 midlevel military commanders in the People’s Liberation Army, including division and brigade commanders, will visit U.S. Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii, tour a guided missile destroyer in San Diego and observe Marine training at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
It is the third such visit by Chinese military officers since the countries agreed last October to increase military exchanges.
U.S. military officials say the visits foster understanding between the militaries, which have shared a frosty relationship since a U.S. spy plane and Chinese fighter jet collided off China’s coast in April 2001.
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They are just here picking out their new quarters. BushCo is outsourcing the army so it will be easier for them to repossess the SBR when we default. :eek::eek:
:banana::banana::banana: Its Kat :banana::banana::banana:
Is it still hot in Atlanta. ???
:yuck::yuck: Its Michael Jerkoff :yuck::yuck:
hey Fred,
It was in the 70’s yesterday. Good thing as one of our heat pumps is on the fritz until, hopefully, today. Got the hay in the pole barn yesterday. :hot:
any flurries about there?
The Pentagon has been running a “little-publicized tag sale” to get rid of unwanted weapons, according to an article slated for Tuesday’s New York Times.
“Across the world, the Pentagon has thousands of garages, hangars and sprawling lots to store all its jets, tanks and other weaponry,” Leslie Wayne writes for the Times. “But, like most American households, it is cluttered with old, unused and unwanted things.”
“And so the Pentagon runs a little-publicized tag sale and giveaway program to clean out the its overstuffed attics and closets, which are bulging with the greatest weapons build-up since the Reagan era,” the article continues. “The Pentagon also uses the Excess Defense Articles program, as it is called, to reward government friends and allies across the globe
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Usually when the government sells things that local capitalists make they get yelled at for illegal competition. Will the defense contractors be happy.??. How does one form their own country ??:eek::eek:
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 – 4:23 AM……. Currently 24 ° :cold::cold::cold:
Denver,the gusty winds have let up a bit tonight but temperatures continue to fall behind a cold front dropping southward along the front range. Tonigh the Denver forecast calls for mostly clear skies and chilly lows in the upper teens and low 20s.:cold::cold::cold::cold:
Eastern Plains, windy and chilly in the north with northerly winds from 15-40 mph and temperatures dropping into the 30s and 40s. Sunny south and not and cool with highs in the middle and upper 60s. Tonight, cool everywhere under partly cloudy skies. Lows in the teens and 20s.
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It almost always snows on Halloween .. The weather seems to be about 8 days out of sync.
:cold: kills bugs and I wish we could have cold temps here!
Does it ever get into the upper teens and low 20s in Georgia ??
All the spiders are coming inside :eek::eek:
I hate it when I have to chase them around the shower before I can take my shower early in the morning.:yuck:
definitely in the north Georgia “mountains” (they’re really more like bumps). We do get some low 20’s but rarely for a solid week at a time.
By now, we usually get the march of the lady bugs in to the house, but this year they haven’t started yet. 😮 which is making me wonder what is going on this winter.
Cold weather does in the insect populations except for those #^&*(&^% cockroaches.. especially those at the state capitol. They always seem to survive.:yuck::eek::crap:
LONDON (AP) – U.S. stock futures declined on Monday, as concerns about the health of the economy were reignited over the weekend by Wal-Mart Stores’ below-forecast October sales numbers.
Dow Jones futures were recently down 23 points, S&P 500 futures slipped 3.10 points and Nasdaq futures dipped 4.5 points.
U.S. markets were coming off a downbeat Friday following news that the country’s economy grew at a 1.6 percent rate during the third quarter. The Dow industrials dropped 73 points, the Nasdaq Composite fell 28 points and the S&P 500 ended 11.7 points lower.
Concerns over the U.S. economy lingered over international stock markets on Monday. The Nikkei 225 tumbled 317 points, or 1.9 percent, in Tokyo. The German DAX 30 declined 0.7 percent.
Gold futures climbed, with the December contract up $6.10 an ounce to $607.10. Crude oil futures declined, losing 69 cents to $60.08 a barrel.
The dollar was mixed against the euro and the yen ahead of data on September’s personal income, consumer spending and core PCE price index.
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:tinfoil: If the democrats take over the house the market will drop 1000 points over night if they take back both houses it will drop 4000 points over night. :eek::eek:
The federal government’s “no sex without marriage” message isn’t just for kids anymore.
Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.
The government says the change is a clarification. But critics say it’s a clear signal of a more directed policy targeting the sexual behavior of adults.
“They’ve stepped over the line of common sense,” said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that supports sex education. “To be preaching abstinence when 90% of people are having sex is in essence to lose touch with reality. It’s an ideological campaign. It has nothing to do with public health.”
Abstinence education programs, which have focused on preteens and teens, teach that abstaining from sex is the only effective or acceptable method to prevent pregnancy or disease. They give no instruction on birth control or safe sex.
The National Center for Health Statistics says well over 90% of adults ages 20-29 have had sexual intercourse.
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Newt and Tancredo both advocate that a family have lots of kids to offset immigration from Mexico :gate::omg:
Bad news #1:
Last night’s FL gubernatorial debate was a joke, partly due to the last-minute forced inclusion of vanity candidate Max Linn, but mostly due to moderator and all-around asshat Chris Matthews. He talked over all of the participants and wasted time asking irrelevant questions concerning topics like the 2000 election and their personal grading of Jeb Bush. What about schools, property insurance and health care? All much more relevant.
NBC isn’t doing much better for Wednesday’s senatorial debate. Timmy Kartoffelkopf (I took German in school too, PJ!) is moderating. Sadly, it will be a step up from last night.
Bad news #2:
That absentee ballot I mailed last night might be coming back. The asshats at the Board of Elections directed us to use two stamps. Unfortunately, they told us last night that postage should be 87c, which is MORE than two stamps for those of you doing the math.
Supposedly, they are paying the difference rather than sending ballots back. I don’t know whether or not to believe them at this point. Leaning toward not.
STOP FUCKING WITH MY VOTE, DAMMIT!!!
:tommygun::tommygun::tommygun:
The Post office will just dead letter office your ballot, It is run by rethugs too.
Rethugs are 👿 Florida rethugs are :evil::evil::evil:
:tommygun::reaper::dancers: 😎 :omg::pent: BOO:omg: MwahHaHa :hubba:
MERRY SAMHAIN * MERRY HALLOWEEN
Happy Halloween Sheeple! :pent::joe::sdavid::jesus:
:banana::banana::banana: Its Susan and Druid :yippee::yippee::yippee:
:pent::banana::mrgreen: Yay Druid and Fred :cat:ent::pent:
just put “Monster Mash” on my myspace page :banana:
ALL Previous posts = :nod: :omg:
re #25 Hightest birth rate coming from the evangelical christains :omg: 😮 :omg: 😳 IN AMERICA:!:
IBM to set up development centres in India, China (Reuters)
Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:49am ET
MUMBAI, Oct 31 (Reuters) – IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the world’s largest computer services company, said on Tuesday it would set up two new IT solutions centres in India and China, underscoring the Asian countries’ growing importance as a hub for outsourcing.
The new centres, in the Chinese capital of Beijing and Pune in western India, will each employ 500 people, Jeby Cherian, director of IBM’s global business solutions centre, told Reuters in a phone interview from Bangalore.
Earlier in October, IBM relocated its global procurement headquarters to Shenzhen in southern China. The company has also made India a global delivery hub for software needs and client services.
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Yesterday evening on the Peter B Collins show the congressional candidate from Michigan said that they were facing up to these Auto industry jobs being lost for good and were looking for other industries to replace them. I thought that showed a great deal of naivety on his part. What industries do we still have that produce tangible goods as apposed to selling goods manufactured else where. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
Susan Joy 😎 = MM = Monster Mash :rofl2:
also “Frankenstein” on my other profile. :omg:
C-span’s lopsided political coverage makes me ill. C-span is obviously run by thugbots.:gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
You have John Kerry on you other profile ???
I haven’t watched C span lately, sorry to hear they’re so biased. I’ll probably want to watch more political shows leading up to the election, maybe I should fight the urge 😥
But Fred, Randi said C-Span is the fairest :omg: :eek::omg:
Where can we go to have “safety of speach” ❓ Bloody Hell — I swear, this 👿 bush and 👿 administration are the TRUE minnions for THE Anti-Christ or the massive cojuring of that mindset and/or “belief” structure.
Hehe, I should put a picture of Kerry right underneath the song player…that would be appropriate :neutral::tongue:
The only think that C-span adds to the mix is that it shows rethugs to be the stupid idiots Randi makes them out to be.. Both there politicians and the thugbots that call in are obviously slightly off their rockers.
Rethugs are :evil::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
I used to watch Washington Journal, but got so I couldn’t stand the Republican callers – they mostly seemed uninformed and hate filled. Most of the Democrats weren’t much better, to be honest. I generally look at C-SPAN video on the Internet, and there seems to be video from events on both sides. The problem I have is that the viewpoint of 30% (or less) of the population seems to get at least 50% of the coverage.
Global warming, stem cell research, Iraq, Bush – these are not things that the vast majority are unclear about, and I can’t see devoting half (or more) of the time to the tiny minority who don’t have a rational argument, but are simply true believers.
Two sociopathic rethugs in a row :eek::eek:
Real Networks must be rethug owned too.. Still no skin with a boot for a mute button.
We still need those guys in sweat shirts and ski masks to walk in and take the thugs away..:yuck::gate::omg::jason::jason:
I see another victory for our dear leader (thank you, China). I wonder if this can even be spun to help the Republicans at this point?
Real Networks is Rob Glaser’s (AAR board member) baby. He is a bit of a merde tête (or is it chier la tête).
A couple of days a week there seems to be some quite well informed articulate democrats ( mostly women) that call in to WJ.. The thugbots are all crusty old men and religious Reich women it would seem.
I agree that the C Span callers are pretty bad – from both sides of the political spectrum. They just seem uninformed, moreso than what you’d hear on any given Air America show (and they’re on the phone longer ususually) I haven’t listened in awhile but when I did I remember that they did try to be fair, they’d also have centrist dems but also guests more to the left than dems. I didn’t have any problem with the C Span topics. I may have liked book talk the most.
Well, gotta go take one more vehicle in for an inspection, and then see if I can enough shit done by tonight to go see Ray McGovern speak this evening. I’m not optimistic.
pj, i believe that is:
tête de merde
Murrow ate breakfast and then all by himself went out the doggie door to do his duty. What a big boy! :pup:
i don’t watch the span in the a.m. => but you guys should call in – you’re so smart!!!! :fist:
RoxieSeattle tea:joe: Cheers 😉 BOO and later:alc:Cheers :cool::wink: :bow: :omg:
Farmerkat, Now “that” (re 50) is important. It makes Pet Pal Happy :yippee: or … 🙁 or 😡 or :omg: 😉 :rofl2: :pup:
SBlueHeron Merry Samhain 😉 :omg: :love: :banana:
AND Travisdem_04 … I have been hardly online except I saw you on AAR but I had so little sleep and I was on my way to DreamLand 😉
OOOooooo “Thriller:!:” :banana::banana::banana: :dancers: :dancers: :banana:
+Saint of the Day+
Erth of Cornwall (AC)
(also known as Erc, Ercus, Herygh, Urith of Cornwall or Slane)
Died c. 512; feast in Ireland is November 2. Saint Erth, the brother of Saint Uny and Saint Ia , was the only person to give homage to Saint Patrick during the latter’s confrontation with Druid_666 on the Hill of Slane. Patrick later ordained him a priest and bishop, while Druid went on to establish a sanctuary on yonder hills. A dipstick ascribed to Saint Patrick relates:
“Bishop Erc,
Whatever he judged was rightly judged:
Whosoever gives a just judgment
Shall receive the blessing of bishop Erc.
But damn! I sure got my ass handed to
me by _666.”
Erth is said to have trained the young Saint Brendan the Navigator at his church in Tralee. Saint Erth is also responsible for establishing the famous school at Slane, where Druid II is said to have received an early education. He apparently crossed from Ireland to Cornwall, where a church and the village of Saint Erth are dedicated under his patronage (Benedictines, Farmerkat, Montague).
Thus it is written.
:priest:
APPLE (Malus spp., Pyrus malus, Rosaceae)
Planet: Venus Element: Water
Ogham: Quert
Parts Most Often Used Magickally: Blossoms, Cider, Fruit, Juice, Seeds, Wood (Wands and Carvings)
Associated Deities and Saints: Aillin (Sliced Apples), Aphrodite (Golden Apples), Apollo, Athena, Badb, Bosu (Apple Blossom), Cailleach, Chango (Red Apples), Diana, Dionysus, Flora, Frey, Gaia, Hera, Heracles, Iduna, King Arthur, Moingfhion, Olwen, Pomona, Venus, Zeus
Language of Flowers: Temptation, Apple Blossom: Better Things to Come, Preference
Associated Creature: Unicorn
Powers and Uses: Ancestors, Anti-Depression, Anti-Lightning, Choice, Divination, Faerie Magick, Fertility, Garden Magick, Happiness, Healing, Immortality, Lammas (Crab Apples Specifically), Longevity, Love, Love Healing, Magickal Candles, Magickal Wands (Especially for Healing, Emotional Magick and Love), Pentagrams, Poppets and Image Magick, Psychic Powers (Journey to Otherworld), Purification, Samhain, Wisdom, Yule
This luxuriant tree has been both praised and reviled throughout the centuries. It might be assumed that such a bounteous fruit as the pome, simply because of its amazing sweet quality, would draw negative attachments because of the “too much of a good thing” adage. Legend and mythology clearly reveal the apple’s mixed associations.
Apples will bring love, and the blossoms are added to related incense mixtures. Scott Cunningham suggested that inhaling the fragrance of apple blossoms is ideal for promoting thoughts of love, for yourself, and toward another. Eat half an apple and, carving symbols of love into the fruit, give your love the other half. It will strengthen your relationship. Hold an apple in your hand until it turns warm, and then give it to your intended. It he or she eats it, your love will be returned. Peel an apple in one long strip and throw it over the left shoulder. As it falls to the ground, the initial of one’s future husband’s name is formed. To strengthen an existing relationship, cut an apple in two and share it with your beloved. Burn bits of wood and blossoms as part of love incense. Fashion the sweet-smelling wood into wands for love and emotional magick. Plant the seeds along with wishes for a growing love to a couple just wed.
The distilled water of apples will also bring happiness, according to Nicholas Culpeper, who wrote that it is of special use to “procure mirth and dispel melancholy”.
When the moon is waning, slices of the fruit are applied to draw out wounds; then they are buried. Eating an apple on Yule, the night of the Winter Solstice, is said to insure good health for the coming year. Apple cider was used to fertilize the springtime fields. It can be used in place of blood or wine in rituals. The fruits bring wisdom, and when so charged, dried peels can be added to incense or charm bags to strengthen this quality in oneself.
Apples also feed the dead, and so the fruit is associated with the Witch’s Samhain (All Hallow’s Eve), which is sometimes called the “Feast of Apples”. On this night, bury one apple for each of your ancestors that you miss. An old Samhain charm was for all the district’s unmarried young people to tie an apple onto apiece of string and whirl it around before a fire. The one whose apple fell off first was said to be the first to marry, the last left with an apple was fated to die unmarried. An apple could also be peeled in one long strip and tossed backwards over the left shoulder, and the shape made by the peel was said to show the initial of the future spouse.
A branch of the tree having buds, flowers and a fully ripened fruit (sometimes known as “The Silver Bough”) was a magickal charm enabling its possessor to enter the Otherworld of Celtic Mythology. In this land such trees were said to grow in profusion. The Irish considered the apple trees one of the three things that could only be paid for by living objects, the others being a sacred grove and a hazel bush. In the old Scottish ballad linking apples to the Land of Faerie, “Thomays the Rymour”, the Fairy Queen warns Thomas against eating any of the apples and other fruits growing on the road to Faerieland, or he will be doomed to stay in that land forever. Thomas outlasts his hunger, and is finally rewarded with an apple that will give him the gift of Truth. One story relates that the Irish King Cormac of myth received a silver branch bearing three golden apples and an apple branch from Emain Ablach is brought to Bran MacFebal. If one of the Faerie Folk comes to guide you to their land, they may even be carrying the branch of the apple tree.
During the Yule or Christmas season in England, the custom of wassailing (toasting to the health of) apple trees took place. Maude Grieve tells that this was done to insure a bountiful apple harvest the following season, and some sources suggest that it was done to awaken and encourage the sleeping tree-spirit. Grieve quoted author Herrick, who approximately three centuries ago, wrote in his “Ceremonies of Christmas Eve”:
“Wassaile the trees, that they may beare you many a Plum and many a Peare
For more or lesse fruits they will bring. As you do give them Wassailing”
The farmer, Herrick wrote, would get together with his family and farmhands, gather up a jug of cider and hotcakes, and go out to the apple orchard after dinner. All of the trees were doused in apple cider, (one source suggests that the roots were focused upon), and the flapjacks (and sometimes bread or toast soaked with cider) were placed in the boughs of the oldest or most productive trees in the orchard. The blessing that was recited, three times, is as follows:
“Here’s to thee, old apple-tree!
Whence thou may’st bud, and whence thou may’st blow, Hats full! Caps full!
Bushel-bushel bags full! And my pockets full too! Huzza!”
Roasted apples were often placed in the pitcher of cider, and were lobbed at the trees for good measure. Trees that were unproductive were generally not honored. Maude Grieve suggests that this ritual was a relic of an ancient offering ceremony to the Roman goddess Pomona, who presided over fruit trees. She was known as “Apple Mother” and was said to give eternal life. Roman banquets ended with all diners partaking in apples and reciting an invocation to Pomona. Scott Cunningham recommended that newly dug fields be magickally fertilized by apple cider.
Called Quert, the wild apple or crabapple, Pyrus malus, represents the ninth month of the Celtic Tree Calendar. In British legend and myth, apples are identified with the Island of Avalon, whose name is derived from the Welsh word for apple, afal. Avalon is believed to be either across the North Atlantic beyond the setting sun, or at the town of Glastonbury, where Morgan le Fe awaited a cure for the mortally wounded King Arthur.
The Greek Goddess Hera planted a tree of immortality on the slopes of Mount Atlas, in the Garden of the Hesperides. She assigned the nine Maidens of the Hesperides, the daughters of Atlas, to guard over it. They lost their jobs, however, when Hera discovered a number of apples were missing. At that point Hera sent a serpent, Ladon, the curl around the tree’s roots and guard it. Heracles’ 11th labor was to fetch fruit from this tree: he did this by tricking Atlas (the god who carried the celestial globe) into getting the apples for him. Atlas agreed to do it if heracles would shoot the serpent and take the weight of the globe from him. Atlas got the apples with the help of the Hesperides Maidens (see above story). Heracles said he needed a break from the weight of the globe and asked Atlas to temporarily take it back…Atlas agreed and laid the apples on the ground … Heracles did what he had to do. Heracles thus fulfilled his labor, and eventually retruned the apples ot Athena, who retruend them to the garden where they belonged.
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In another Greek story, the warrior Atalanta decided she would only wed the man who could outrun her. Hipomenes begged Aphrodite for help, and the Love Goddess gave him golden apples from her garden and told him to throw them in Atalanta’s path. While they were running, the apples distracted Atalanta and Hippomenes won the race, but he neglected to give an offering to Aphrodite afterwards, so both he and Atalanta were changed into lions. The Earth Goddess, Gaia, gave golden apples to Hera when she wedded Zeus. Nemesis, the Greek goddess of retribution, was often shown carrying apple branches, symbolizing the inevitability of death. August 13th was Diana’s festival in Greece (Venus’ in Rome) – apples still hanging on the boughs were part of the ritual meal.
In Norse mythology, the maiden Goddess Iduna held the apples of immortality. If any of the gods felt the approach of old age, they simply gathered apples from her orchard. However a giant, along with the help of Loki the trickster, (and with the help of the trickster god, Loki), kidnapped Iduna. Pretty soon all the gods realized they were aging rapidly and in lots of trouble. Loki was sent to rescue her so that she would restore youth to the gods. Apples are linked to immortality, and of course, temptation.
Two stories clearly illustrate the apple’s link with temptation – the biblical Adam and Eve story, and the Greek story of The Judgement of Paris. In the Genesis story, it is not actually mentioned that the fruit was an apple, though the church certainly adopted the pome as the fruit of the Garden. Author Isabel Allende speculated that one reason the apple was chosen for this biblical role was because when cut in half its seeds appear to be arranged in the shape of a vulva. In any case, Malus signifies “forbidden fruit” of knowledge. In the second story, Eris (Discord) set out a golden apple marked “for the fairest”. Three goddesses desired the fruit: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Paris, a simple shepherd of the fields, had the unenviable task of judging which Goddess fit that description. Each goddess tried to bribe him. Hera offered him political control over the known world, Athena would give him military prowess, and Aphrodite promised him the fairest of all mortal women, Helen. Paris chose the Love Goddess’ offering, and the other two deities, acting out of jealousy and vindictiveness, started the Trojan War. This tale also shows that love could quite possibly be the most sought-after commodity in the world. It also indicates choice; and in this sense can be used in conjunction with the tarot card, The Lovers.
In Herefordshire, England, it was forbidden to destroy an apple orchard. An old English charm follows: If the sun shines through the apple trees on Christmas (or Easter) morning, it is a sign of a good crop to come and a prosperous year for those who own the orchard. The fruit must be blessed by rain on St. Peter’s or St. Swithin’s day, or it is unfit to eat. Apples are said to repel lightning (bolts supposedly never split an apple tree trunk). This was supposed to be due to the great amount of love contained in the tree. Apple trees, therefore, were often planted near residences to protect against lightning and attract love.
Red apples are sacred to the Santeria Orisha Chango (also spelled Shango), and are sometimes left under apple trees for him. Unicorns are said to live under apple and ash trees. Apples can also be used as magickal pomanders (with clovers), or as poppets. An apple cut across the middle reveals a pentagram-shaped seed arrangement.
Apple trees originated in Southwest Asia. The first apples were wild crabapples, probably from southwest Asia. Today apple trees are grown in temperate zones both north and south of the equator, though the United States leads apple production. Crabapples are eaten by wildlife, and the products of these trees can also be utilized in magick. The both the common wild apple tree and the cultivated apple tree of Europe and Asia are both classified as Malus pumila. Malus sylvestris is the wild crabapple tree.
Druid, you’re famous!
NickiRose :rofl2: :dancers: 😎 :rofl2: 😉
Susan Joy re 56
:pent: :nod: 😉 :banana: :dancers: :yippee: :love: :banana: :pent:
Oh, YEA :yippee: 😎 King Kong is #1 :yippee: YEA 😉
Hi! Druid! :dancers:
oh man, the plummer is here. $$$$$ 😯 he’s cutting the sheet rock :knit2: painful day as the hvac guys comes later. oh i’ll howl tonight for sure. :reaper:
Farmerkat $$$$$ 😯 he’s cutting the sheet rock :knit2: :slap: :rofl2:
:dancers::reaper: :dancers:
Watch out for those HVAC guys.
“head of …” :rofl2: :omg: :rofl2:
Thank goodness you don’t have plaster. I had to do some work at a two-family house I used to own, and it was all the ancient plaster (hadda be like ½” thick) and wood lath. Hit that lath with a sawzall, and it just shook the whole wallfull of plaster off. Very, very messy and destructive.
YOU should know, pj! Any advice?
Paint everything and sell?
What are you having done, anyway? Are things not working, or are you getting new stuff?
Hubble telescope will get upgrade
Nasa chief Mike Griffin says shuttle astronauts will be sent to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
The orbiting observatory has astounded astronomers and the public alike with its amazing imagery of the cosmos, but it will soon fail unless serviced.
Mr Griffin told Nasa employees that recent modifications to the shuttle launch system meant he felt it was now safe to send a crew to work on Hubble.
The mission, which has been designated STS-125, should launch in 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/ykbd6t
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Wow they didn’t have to have an IPO or any rethug like thing.. yet at least.. :yippee::yippee:
Have a Great and Powerful Full Day All ❗
:knit: :gate: Merry Journeys BOO:!: :omg::wink:
Farmerkat, Bon Chance with the plasterworks. :knit: May The Force From The Farm Be With You :nod: 😉 :pup: (teehee)
Fred, “Hubble telescope will get upgrade” :yippee: 😎
Great news about the Hubble. I thought it was very unfair to let it just die. I wonder if they’ll get Story Musgrave out of retirement to do the work (I try never to miss an opportunity to mention a fellow SU alum).
Druid!:dancers::yippee::pup::banana::alc::knit::gate:
Hey Sam is on the Sammy cam:sammy:
It is free!
Got auditors in this week so I won’t be around much. (I have SO damn many excuses! Starting next week I’m doing Nanowrimo…another excuse to be blog-less…) But here‘s an encouraging graphic from Congressional Quarterly.
I was watching MSNBC early early early this morning and had to laugh when Repig strategists are still predicting they’re going to retain both houses. They might, true, but only because they cheat and commit felonious acts of political immorality…NOT because the polls are that wrong.
So what is Sammy cam? Is it where we get to watch :sammy: drink beer and belch?
John Kerry press release:
Yeah, yeah, where was in 2004, I know. People can learn and evolve, though, can’t they? I mean, other than Republicans, who seem to ignore and devolve.
Sounds like John got a new writer..After all those three martini lunches he could have never written that. ( insert sarcasm emo here)
:hot:so was “katherine harris” hot?
Yes she was. Amazing how much she resembles Janeane.
anybody capture the video i want to see it on google video or youtube but i cant find it
oh i was in syracuse earlier well through syracuse on i90
gonna be on 47th st at 8am tomorrow if anybody wants to stop by!
Oh, I thought that looked like you. Nice weather we’re having today, aint it?
:cold:i dont know seemed nice when i drove through though im up in the adirondacks now 🙂
Blackwell’s pulling out all the stops
Excellent Musgrace attempted interview over at the General
Damn, they got WiFi up north? Wonders never cease.
ummmm not that i like blackwell but its not all the stops until he removes his opponents name from the ballot like he could……
aint it i was awfully surprised myself! so who is coming to see me in manhattan?
Hey, did anybody listen to Malloy last night? I didn’t get a chance. I’m still waiting to hear the inside story of why AAR shitcanned him.
im gonna go to white rose!
:crap:fuck! it no there!
Who’s That Pretty Pachyderm?
Mirror Test Reflects Well on Elephants
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 31, 2006; Page A01
Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror and use their reflections to explore hidden parts of themselves, a measure of subjective self-awareness that until now has been shown definitively only in humans and apes, researchers reported yesterday.
The findings confirm a long-standing suspicion among scientists that elephants, with their big brains, complex societies and reputation for helping ill herdmates, have a sufficiently developed sense of identity to pass the challenging “mirror self-recognition test.”
http://tinyurl.com/y2xz6l
Mighty vulture back from near extinction
Austrian project breeds success
By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff | October 31, 2006
HARINGSEE, Austria — Europe’s immense bearded vulture, sometimes called the “bone crusher,” boasts a wingspan of nearly 10 feet, plucks meals from avalanche debris, and breeds its chicks in the subzero temperatures of the wintertime Alps. Its gastric juices register a “1” on the pH scale, nearly pure acid. Seething belly bile is a necessity for a creature that subsists mainly on weather-bleached bones.
One tough bird, to be sure, but Gypaetus barbatus has been suffering hard times for the past 100 years or so, all but eradicated from its Alpine roosts. Today, however, the bone crusher is soaring toward a comeback as the continent’s most ambitious — and priciest — wildlife reintroduction project achieves small but biologically significant success.
http://tinyurl.com/yd5nw6
Fossils of the largest known bird, an extinct flightless predator with a skull the size of a horse’s and a menacing beak like an eagle’s, have been discovered in Argentina, paleontologists reported last week.
The big bird, which stood about 10 feet tall and probably weighed 400 pounds, was fleet of foot and able to chase down and devour rodents, reptiles and small mammals 15 million years ago on the plains of Patagonia. Not for nothing are its closely related species, a group known as phorusrhacids, more commonly called the “terror birds.”
http://tinyurl.com/y84sdq
An Evolutionary Theory of Right and Wrong
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: October 31, 2006
Who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong? Yet that essential knowledge, generally assumed to come from parental teaching or religious or legal instruction, could turn out to have a quite different origin.
Primatologists like Frans de Waal have long argued that the roots of human morality are evident in social animals like apes and monkeys. The animals’ feelings of empathy and expectations of reciprocity are essential behaviors for mammalian group living and can be regarded as a counterpart of human morality.
http://tinyurl.com/yxxpvn
mcgraw has a good chance of beating westmoreland but no money has come forth from the democratic party – we’re lost in a sea of red and they don’t see us down here. people hate westmoreland down here. mcgraw needs money. :bow: where’s that dnc 50 state plan, huh?
shower fixed, commode kinda fixed, hvac guys are really screwed up so they’ll be back friday. :billcat: i’ve been fighting warranty issues. :fustrate: sheetrock guys coming in. things are just breaking. hmm maybe i need an exorcism because the rethugs have placed a cursed on us :priest:
ABC Memo reveals Air America Blacklist
An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the adverstisers insist that “NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming.” Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy.
the memo can be viewed at the website:
http://tinyurl.com/y4sffh
no xm signal 🙁
damn, susan, it just gets scarier and scarier.
Wow. Well, it’s not gonna be easy to boycott all of them, but I reckon I’ll give it a try. Hard to boycott the USPS, but I can make sure not to use FedEx.
ok well i am out of here soon ummmm i will be on 47th st in manhattan less than a block from broadway if anybody wants to come bother me in the morning come on sheeple someone bring me a bagel! 8am!
:cat:at least white castle and popeyes chicken are not on the list!
white castle on the list! Don’t speak such things!
shhh I’m keeping quiet don’t want the neighborhood kids hearing me, I don’t have any candy to give them :omg:
susan is gonna bring me a bagel yay!
Somebody who understands how advertising is purchased on radio is gonna have to explain this to me. I mean, advertisers pay for points on ABC Radio Networks in various markets? And then ABC puts the ads on their stations, or what?
Yeah, it’s getting dark here. I’d better close all the windows and go into blackout mode.
:paranoid:okim gone hopefully somebody comes to visit!
:omg:i wonder if nova m isnt allowing white rose to post malloy scary thought in my head!
Susposedly on Nov 1st ( I think there is a rumor out there thats is tomorrow) Nova M will begin to post free podcasts of Newcomb, Malloy and Collins on their web site.
at http://www.novamradio.com
yah thats what the site says but why isnt it on white rose…………
fucked up shit if you ask me! malloy has always shoed up there way before aar got the podcast up so why not with malloy on nova m?
Every time some lefty talker interviews some demodorp in DC they make IRAQ out to be the main election issue while the public sentiment is that Jobs are the main issue .. They carefully don’t bother to ask the demodorp about what they are going to do about that..if they get in office and do nothing they won’t be there very long.. perhaps even less than two years. :growl::growl::growl::growl:
:mad::mad::yuck::crap::paranoid:
FING
CORPORATISTS
GLOBALISTS :tommygun:
the Republicans will happily tell you there are plenty of jobs, thanks to George W…don’t you know that? So therefore the media thinks it’s a non-issue
I bet Mike’ll show up on White Rose. I think Nova M is just trying to get everything together (relative to AAR, they’re doing pretty well).
Speaking of Mike, he’s supposed to be on Peter B’s show tonight.
Actually, all the polls I’ve seen show Iraq to be the number one issue amongst Democrats and Independents, with the economy second.
Well, the poll in my CD that had to be redone because Zogby screwed up last time around was supposed to be released at 5:00, but it has been “delayed due to concerns about its accuracy.” How much you wanna bet it’s because it shows our Bush rubber stamp behind, and now he’s whining about it.
Well I counted up the number of local outlets that were on that list and will venture over to the liquor store and buy no less than 20 bottles ( 12 and 8 spares ) of wine this week end and fill up my 5 gallon plastic cans too. By Nov 8th I will be ready or not able to stand up one or the other. :alc::yippee::yippee::dancers::dancers:
Pier One import ::sigh:: I usually buy holiday gifts there, not this year though…
From what Shultz is babbling about the tugs are going to make a big deal out of what Kerry said earlier. But Shultz makes up lots of things to up his ratings ( insert emo of the north end of a south bound horse here):yuck:
Randi played a clip of what Kerry said, and it’s obvious it was meant as a joke against the president, not against the troops
hey guys….remote blogging from the road.
it is an incredible political time in Ct right now. just my buttons and stickers are enough to start conversations al around
speaking of which…I had an interesting talk with chris shays today ….wrote about it on my blog
The ability of the thugs to make a mole hill into a mountain is why the dems don’t argue with them. They are so clever :bf:
so that sorta shot myday, though i did get my printer installed. Next Im gonna fix the skype phone.
lotsa tech problems….
I was listening to NPR’s On the Media (OTM). In one segment, they mention Ed Schultz having on the activist gay blogger who specializes in outing hypocritical politicians. Remember that Idaho Rep. (Craig?) he outed? Well, they were discussing the newsworthiness of such revelations. Anyway, that is was I got from it. Has that story just fell off of the news?
Kerry hit back. Take that, Rove!
:fist:
I haveto take the boys trick or treating. Lola is dressed as a skeleton…Will and Ben are gonna be monster alien guys..
it’s good to see Kerry with that kind of fire…a few years late, however…
anyway, everyone aroud here wants to talk politics…seems that alot of people dont know Lamont enough and are scared of him.
Trick and treating is verboten here .. The thugs put to many presents in with the treats.:eek::yuck::shock::paranoid:
The neighborhood kids will be out to trick however.. 😮
Rethugs are 👿
I saw a bit of Kerry and I like that part ofhim, but how long before thecorrect brahmin part comes out again?
I remember once hearing Shays on Morning Sedition. He was nice enough, but what I remember is his near religious reverence for “the free market”. That is what makes America great! My assumption then was that he was a moderate who appealled to enough Democrats to be almost unbeatable. I am glad I was wrong.
oh and zogby has a poll that shows lieberman up on lamo t but only in the margin of error…and wild card schlesinger holding his third party like mini percent. This is gonna be interesting. If its not been posted, link to poll on my blog
what’s a good alternative to Rachel Maddow? 🙄
Kerry did wipe the floor with Bush during the debates.
Damn! Is Ensign really 21 points ahead of Carter? Lamont is only 4.9 behind Lieberman. I think he will win in the end.
OCT. 31 4:30 P.M. ET Air America Radio is talking to several parties about a possible sale and is hopeful of reaching a deal before Thanksgiving, a lawyer for the liberal talk radio network told a bankruptcy hearing Tuesday.
Tracy Klestadt told the court that the privately-held company was in discussions with seven different parties about a sale and was “very hopeful” of reaching a deal by Nov. 22, saying there was a “significant amount of interest.”
(snip)
Klestadt declined to say who the potential suitors for the company were, and a spokeswoman for Air America also declined to comment.
(snip)
Under the agreement finalized Tuesday, the company needs to have a deal in place with a buyer and have filed a motion with the court by Nov. 22 seeking approval of the sale to guarantee that financing continue beyond that date.
http://tinyurl.com/tds37
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:eek::eek:
Maybe Nova M will buy them .. I thought I saw that they tried but the offer was refused though.
I hope Lamont wins, I can’t believe the people of CT would vote for Lieberman…I threw some money into his campaign. I’m less hopeful about Howie Hawkins in NY but gotta try
Peter B Collins is on Nova M at 6pm EST. He is fairly interesting.. Then Malloy comes on :yippee::yippee:
I’ll give it a try :yinyang:
Yeah, the Zogby Lamont/Lieberman poll was one of their interactive (that is, Internet) polls, so who knows what that really means. As testy as Lieberman got with the NYT endorsement of Lamont, maybe his internals are showing him slipping, too.
That CQ projection is still too close for comfort.
I have business to attend to. Change a $50 bill.
get some quarters :om:
Oh, Peter B is gonna have Jason Leopold on tonight, too. Maybe he’ll tell us the Rove indictment is in the bag.
that would be satisfying…
As I said from San Francisco…
Franken gone, Randi loses another hour for EcoTalk!?!?
MIKE MALLOY AND RACHEL MADDOW RETURN TO 960 THE QUAKE!
Tuesday 10-31-2006 12:54pm
As we get close to one of the most important elections in our time, 960 The Quake is putting more outstanding talent on the air to help you understand where this country is heading and what you can do about it.
No one Air America personality’s departure created as much of a stir as did Mike Malloy. 960 The Quake is pleased to announce that Mike Malloy is returning to the Quake’s airwaves. On Monday, November 6th Mike Malloy will be heard live from 6pm to 9pm. Thom Hartmann will now move into the mid morning 9am to noon slot, replacing Al Franken.
There has been lots of speculation about Al Franken’s future with Air America and his planned moved into the political arena. While there is nothing official at this time, it has been made clear to us that Al Franken will not be with Air America in the future. We feel it is important to you that we have the most talented hosts on the air, who will be with us for the long term. We believe that Thom Hartmann is the new rising star in Progressive Talk radio and he is firmly committed to 960 The Quake for the long term.
We have also brought Rachel Maddow back to 960 The Quake in her new time of 3p-5p. John Scott will also return to host the afternoon version of the Progressive News Hour. We feel that circumstances with Air America has helped 960 The Quake build its strongest line-up ever: Our programming is live from 3a until 9p so you can become much more involved in the Progressive Process.
Our New Line Up effective November 6th will be as follows:
6AM – 9AM
Stephanie Miller
9AM – 12N Thom Hartmann
12N – 3PM Ed Schultz
3PM – 5PM Rachel Maddow
5PM – 6PM Progressive News Hour
6PM – 9PM Mike Malloy
9PM – 11PM Randi Rhodes
11PM – 12AM Eco Talk w/ Betsy Rosenberg
12AM – 3AM Lionel
3AM – 6AM Bill Press
I’ve been listening to Bill Press in the AM. I prefer him to the Turds.
Ah, just to get things over here on the correct day (I really should know better than to click on the recent comments under certain circumstances).
I like Press. I don’t care for Lionel. Maybe he is a place holder for…
I can’t go there.
I look at the whole thing as a big fuck you to AAR and not in a good way. I am not sure the station mgr is doing things for the right reasons.
Tyger Thom is the new rising Star in Progressive Radio! Could have fooled me.
Sounds like a Clearchannel/Jones takeover in SF.
You mean Nicki and Susan were not in the twilight zone. after all ..:eek: The interesting thing was they never noticed.. :eek::eek:
Already Reaching Across the Aisle
Those Damned Democrats
By SHARON SMITH
In the final countdown to the November 7 election, Democrats.com has already begun celebrating. Calling for candle light vigils outside polling stations across the nation on election night, the website’s blue-clad supporters will bear moral witness against voting fraud during the historic moment when the Democrats are expected to retake Congress (well, at least the House of Representatives), with the Republican Revolution finally unraveling after 12 long years.
http://www.counterpunch.org
I posted that long Troma Films appeal in yesterday’s posts purposely. I did not want to disrupt today’s flow with it. I did not realize that I continued going back there. Until Now……
:omg:
candle light vigils are nice, let’s hope they spend some time getting people out to the polling stations…in my town for instance they changed the polling place twice – a month ago, then again last week…they’re going to have to make sure people know where to go to vote, and I’m not joking…
I never caught it yesterday so it’s ok…
It’s Mike Malloy!
No-win election for Women this time:
http://www.counterpunch.org/taylor10312006.html
What “will of the people” decided that voters should get a “choice” between a Party that celebrates enslaving women to their reproduction and male authority and a Party that attempts to repackage these same traditions as somehow empowering to women?
repackaging…ain’t that the truth…
Did George Allen just have a meltdown? Hope it is over for him.
I’m going to meltdown, if I don’t get some help with my knitting soon! :knit2: It looks awful!:doh:
some serious karma catching up with him… something on Daily Kos about him terrifying his siblings
Democratic Party in a Cage
Joshua Frank
http://www.counterpunch.org/frank11012006.html
The mid-1970s marks a crucial turning point, when Democrats joined Republicans in a bipartisan project to launch a sustained ideological attack on liberal principles in order to lower U.S. workers’ living standards while re-building the might of U.S. imperialism after its defeat in Vietnam.
Liberalism has been in decline ever since. Today’s Democrats stand to the right of 1970s Republicans on key social issues. A case in point: George H.W. Bush, who was an ardent proponent of birth control clinics for women in the late 1960s-and committed to legal abortion- until he experienced an apparent “crisis of conscience” upon becoming Ronald Reagan’s running mate in 1980.
Bush Sr. could not have dreamed of launching the attack on gay marriage spearheaded by the Clinton administration’s 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Thus far, bipartisanship has achieved only Democrats’ accommodation to the right, and liberalism has long since lost its way.
SHARON SMITH
http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon10312006.html
The whole plan: “take back Congress and then pull the Democrats left down the road”. When has that ever worked? And why would the corporate Democrats give its progressive wing any credence? If the Democratic Party continues to receive progressive votes regardless of their rightwing positions, there is absolutely no reason for them to change.
and if the voters continuously accept the meme that the democratic party is actually too far to the left, they certainly would not move in that direction either
You can expect the corporatists and the rightwingers to say such garbage. What is disturbing is when so-called liberals do it. Let the truth be told: FDR was a moderate. Nixon was our last real liberal president–in the guns and butter model. Nixon rivalled Johnson in the delivery of butter. But the masses were getting out of hand. Read the 1975 Trilateral Commission report on the crisis of democracy.
I am not a cynic. I hate the state of affairs we live under. HELP! :omg:
one can be aware of how the system works and still ache to make things right… if people ache and also pledge to try to change things real change is possible
George Allen assault video
Well some of it anyway.
hey…no melting alowed T
unless you are a witch.
hey who knew?
tacoma wa is actually quite beautiful.!
I have last nights Mike Malloy show for download or listening on my podcast page. I’ll keep it up till the weekend. I will NOT be recording the show every night. Just don’t have the time. Go here to get the show. To listen you must have Quicktime installed on your computer. To download? Subscribe to the podcast. The subscribe button is right above the podcast schedule.
BTW, I will be doing only two podcasts a week from now on. I did not do one today. No time. From now on I’ll be doing my personal podcasts on Tuesday & Thursday and a LIVE Show on Saturday evenings. Hope we can all get together on Skype this coming Saturday night. Everyone is welcome to join in the conversation or listen in on the stream. We had fun last Saturday night. So download skype and call me on Saturday night to join in on the fun. http://www.skype.com
I know I’ll be there! Last Saturday was a blast, c’mon everybody.
Thanks Andy. YES, it was fun. Well this guy is headed to bed. Night all.
Looks like I’m stuck answering the door for the evening!:fustrate:I should have fled when I had a chance
I’ll try and give away all the candy as quickly as I can….
I got done listening to one full Malloy substituting for Springer and then on to streaming Malloy on Nova M and am wading through the two Maron / Springer podcasts.
AWESOME !
Kristapea, you are a goddess.
I’ve been listening to Bill Press in the AM. I prefer him to the Turds.
Funny. The “turds” seem to be interchangeable parts. They have two guys, one a former republican, Cenk Uygur, and the other one a moderate, Ben Mankiewicz, with Jill Pike manning the internets. But now it looks like Ben disappeared and they have someone else new that seems a carbon copy of Ben and Cenk. And they don’t announce what happened to Ben.
I listen to Bill on my AM on the way to work and he is a very likable nebbish.
hey guys- just a driveby because I am ragged after trick or treating through hell…but I thought this was interesting:
Skype for pocket PC Mobile phones
Pretty cool, huh?
Now, if I could just get my niftty little phone thing working here, Id be set.
I saw the Skype video cameras and Ben’s MOm wants them to set up with family in Haiti who have a computer. I gave her starter sets to send along and to try out before she invests in the cameras.
Melina,
Skype enabled phones are great because anyone with a computer can call you for free.
Well, I had a good time giving candy away. I don’t know why I was frustrated earlier about it. Goodnight peeps.
:sammy::no: