I hope the Great Pumpkin was good to everybody last night. This huge advertiser blackout against Air America sure is interesting, isn’t it. Just to recap, they had terrible management, are blacklisted by over 100 of the top radio advertisers, and they’re still on the air. Amazing, isn’t it? I can see why the wingnuts are so terrified by the whole idea of left-leaning radio so much. If they ever get a level playing field the Limbaughs and their ilk will be out of business.
Six days to go before the big election, so I’ll plug the Call for Change thing one more time. Sign up, call, it’ll be great.
:banana::pup::banana:1 from manhattan!:banana::pup::banana:
dude you’re in the city? Cool
Number two (from barely out of bed)
yeah you are supposed to bring me a bagel!
:cold::cold::cold::cold::eek::eek::crap::crap::crap:
❗ whatever :sheep: le
I have to work at 4 or I’d jump on a train and join you for bagels. Unless you can get up to Hartsdale earlier
morning Fred :pup:
:nana:theres a sbarro across the street
:fu:i hate the times square area!
Diebold Fumbles Attempt to Stop HBO Airing of ‘Hacking Democracy’!
In Hilarious Statement, Company Claims Documentary — Which They Haven’t Seen — Has Facts Wrong…But They’re Referring to a Completely Different Documentary!
My Own Feature Article on Film Should Be Published by ComputerWorld Tomorrow…
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3708
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Incompetent capitalists in action..:eek::eek::yuck::rant1:
Eyetalian food. I guess that’s ok
you know I guessed either TimesSquare or Grand Central Station when you said “Sbarros”
:banana::banana::banana: Hi Susan and Sean :yippee::yippee::yippee:
Fred, that sounds like a comedy routine… I’d love to see Diebold go down while everybody is laughing and pointing fingers at them…
morning!:tommygun:
Mick Jagger has throat troubles and some Stones concerts have been cancelled 🙁
:doh:i cant tell if they are hookers or just still wearing their halloween costumes!
Bush campaigns for Republicans in rural Georgia, find lots of empty seats
The Associated Press
Published: October 31, 2006
PERRY, Georgia President George W. Bush spent a second day in a row campaigning in rural Georgia, targeting a shrinking slice of America where Republicans think he still can help their cause in next week’s elections.
Bush is spending the final days of the campaign in small town venues, where White House officials hope he can inspire people to vote Republican on Nov. 7.
Polls show Republicans struggling to hold onto power in Congress as voters express dissatisfaction with Bush’s policies in the Iraq war and with congressional scandals. Democrats hope to capitalize on those views by winning control of the House of Representatives, where they need to pick up 15 seats, and the Senate, where they need a gain of six. All 435 House seats and 33 of the Senate’s 100 seats are at stake.
Bush didn’t fill the arena at the Georgia National Fairgrounds on Tuesday — plenty of seats were empty in the back along with nearly half of the vast floor space. But those who came out for the rally were enthusiastic, applauding his calls for tax cuts and against gay marriage. “We don’t want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives,” Bush said from a stage decorated with hay bales, pumpkins and a billboard-size American flag.
http://tinyurl.com/y2jgse
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:roll::roll::yippee::tongue:
Sean ends up in seediest part of town :tongue: :jesus:
:cat:i guess i will find out when they offer me 5 dollar sucky sucky how do these girls live here!
It’s nice to know some seats are empty in rural Georgia, where do you suppose those potential George Bush fans went?
Hmm. I would stick to bagels or Italian food
Truckers and railroaders seem to always see cities from the bottom up.. Tourists from the top down. The bottom side can be pretty ugly.. :eek::eek::yuck::crap:
well as for Times Square it’ll always have that side of it no matter how many NYC mayors try to clean it up…although it used to be more fun and have a lot more character…
This thug on C-span needs the three guys in sweat shits and ski masks to come in and take him away. :yuck:
yeah thats what marc said about times square in one of his stand up bits
i think i am gonna go jack off in a booth
Al Jazeera is to launch its English-language news and current affairs channel on November 15.
The Al Jazeera Network announced on Tuesday that the channel, part of the network and the sister channel to Al Jazeera, will begin broadcasting from its Doha headquarters at 1200 GMT on that day.
The Al Jazeera English-language website is being relaunched at the same time.
http://tinyurl.com/y2a5eg
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I wonder how long it will be before this is banned.:eek:
:priest:no more hookers around i think they all went to their hovels
or maybe sean hannity picked em all up for an orgy?
i want to stab these fucks in their woot wooting faces!
Will a shocking new GOP court victory and Karl Rove’s attack on Ohio 2006 doom the Democrats nationwide?
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
October 30, 2006
COLUMBUS—With a major GOP federal court victory, the Ohio 2006 election has descended into the calculated chaos that has become the trademark of a Karl Rove election theft, and that could help keep the Congress in Republican hands nationwide.
http://tinyurl.com/tkato
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These two guys are spoiled sports after their legal attempt to overturn the 2004 vote in Ohio failed. :yuck:
It is linked from Dirty Underwear here
http://tinyurl.com/y2bwke
Note the people posting there are :crap: ing their underwear.:yuck::yuck:
One poster put up a picture of lots of people in the streets(Ukraine) but from what we see going on in Mexico that was futile ( so far at least)
Maybe someone should have posted a picture of one of these:eek::eek::eek:
http://tinyurl.com/y6f97a
received from rei:
:doh:whats rei?
:banana::banana: Hey Kat :banana::banana:
Nice to see they are concerned about their reputation. Usually capitalists only worry about that based on the number of significant figures on the Total line of your last two orders.:yuck::gate::omg:
they sell outdoor recreational equipment and clothes. Been around for a long time and members share in the profits. They also give to environmental causes. I was shocked to see them on that list. So was this some kind of hoax to foil the blogosphere?
Legion to Sen. Kerry: Apologize Now
Oct 31
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ — The National Commander of The American Legion called on Sen. John Kerry to apologize for suggesting that American troops in Iraq are uneducated.
“As a constituent of Senator Kerry’s I am disappointed. As leader of The American Legion, I am outraged,” said National Commander Paul A. Morin. “A generation ago, Sen. Kerry slandered his comrades in Vietnam by saying that they were rapists and murderers. It wasn’t true then and his warped view of today’s heroes isn’t true now.”
While addressing a group of college students at a campaign rally in Pasadena, CA., Monday, Kerry suggested that they receive an education or “if you don’t, you’ll get stuck in Iraq.”
“While The American Legion shares the senator’s appreciation for education, the troops in Iraq represent the most sophisticated, technologically superior military that the world has ever seen,” Morin said. “I think there is a thing or two that they could teach most college professors and campus elitists about the way the world works
http://tinyurl.com/y2vfq5
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The American legion ( aka grumpy old vets) did something that made me :barf: following the 2004 election..
I think this is where a lot of the crusty old men that call into C-span originate from.:eek::eek::eek:
If you move up one or two levels a lot of companies on that list are also all owned by the same holding company.:yuck::gate::omg:
Hey Sean New Yorkers will be new Yorkers thats just the way they are .. 😮
Fred now hides from Susan and Sue_P:tongue::tongue::reaper:
ummmmm fred must not listen to the young turks or he would know what i am talking about……
You should qualify what you are referencing .. You were talking about Times Square just before that post..
I listened to the Young jerks when they were on by themselves in the evening. I wasn’t overly impressed. :yuck:
I think we’ve found a new job for Marc. Humor consultant to John Kerry. To keep Kerry from putting his foot in his mouth whenever he tries to tell a joke. Honestly, it’s like he’s stuffing thousand-dollar bills in Karl Rove’s pocket.
Having said that, I like that Kerry is atoning for his misstep by beating mercilessly on Bush. Apparently the Swiftboaters taught him a lesson about persistence.
FUCK THE CHICKENHAWKS.
:fu::fu::fu:
i figured everybody would know because they do that stupid ass im a 12 yo retard woot woot shit all the time makes me want to shove a pencil in my ear!
And so much for the “liberal media,” in case anyone’s still wondering. NBC, ABC and CBS all shit on Kerry during the evening news last night. The PBS NewsHour was marginally more fair, but still leaned in favor of the Repigs IMHO.
(No, I haven’t broken my boycott of ABC. I’m permitting myself to watch clips if they are relevant to an issue I need to know more about. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.)
(And this fucking boycott is killing me, not being able to watch Ohio State. I’m considering finally suspending it if they are still undefeated when they play Michigan.)
:yippee:
:banana::banana: Hi Kevin how is Florida (aka the second most corrupt state in the country where they skillfully disguise their shredding machines as mail boxes) :banana::banana:
They’re not going down easy these last six days.. And after election day, it ‘s going to get even worse; with the Dems having to run to court to enforce every subpoena. Theyll tell five lies about Pelosi before breakfast every morning, and Russert will be there to repeat each one. Even with two houses of congress, its going to be “hard work” and then it starts all over again in the presidential race.
When picking a presidential candidate for the ’08 Dem primary; don’t think nice and good on your issues. Think tough, ruthless bastard. :sammy:
The thugs will be just that (thugs) especially if they lose by narrow margins ( because you will know that was really a wide margin but too wide to cheat on)
When they take the election results to court the incumbent stays in office..so we may get a democratic house sometime in early 2008 if we are lucky..
Mean while more Iraqi’s die ,new wars are started, more jobs get exported and more of the world gets ticked off at us.. but… hey we Amerikans solve all our problems through elections..Liberals are nice people.. :bf::barf::reaper::reaper:
Better book mark this link
http://tinyurl.com/y6f97a
cnn has a poll right now on should kerry apologize. 60% say no.
Did anyone hear Malloy last night tie into McCain calling him a war criminal.. It all depends on your point of view.. If you look at the SBR from the view point of someone who’s family was killed by one of our bombs or a death squad run by people from the school of the Americas you get a much better idea of what the rest of the world thinks of us.
We only exist because we smell to high heavens on financial markets and look fearsome from a military standpoint not because people have a great respect for our people or government ( thank you very much Mr Bush):barf::barf::barf::crap::reaper::reaper::reaper:
:yuck::yuck::yuck: Toni Snow Job :yuck::yuck::yuck:
:barf::barf::barf::barf::crap::crap::crap::nana::nana::nana:
Fred switches to Bill (giggles) Press
ok, ok, I’m back, what did I miss…. ah regurgitation after exposure to Tony Snow
because 60 percent remember how he was humiliated by swift boaters and are pleased to see he now grew a pair… :omg:
I think Kerry just had to many martini’s at lunch :alc: loosens you up for a while before it destroys your brain cells.:yuck::yuck:
nah, no excuse alcohol is supposed to make you more aggressive, not less.. although passiveness may be a Democratic disease that no alcohol can cure…
That poll is still up on CNN go vote
at http://www.cnn.com
Humm… you can vote more than once too.. The freepers must not be up yet.:eek::yuck:
Jeeeezus. What a typically “progressive” response to Kerry this has been. If Kerry was a wingnut, the wingnuts would be full of righteous indignation about how terrible the libruls were being to besmirch such a fine man.
As it is, half the fucking libruls are saying “oh, he should just shut up, he’s gonna ruin the whole election” and the other half are whining, “he’s a wimpy weenie because he sucked in 2004.”
And all it does – if it does anything at all – is give credence to the nonsense that the media and the administration are spewing.
the Kerry thing is a stupid distraction, what we need to do is throw focus on something else and scream it and yell it as loud as we can in whatever outlets we have
Surprisingly quite a few of the people that called into WJ thought Kerry should not apologize and some even cited facts to back up what he said :eek::eek:
Personally, I think if the goddamn Republicans wanna shine even more light on their record in Iraq, it’s a good thing.
Hey, he said, “they goddamn know what I meant, and they’re the ones that ought to apologize.” Maybe I’m getting senile in my old age, but I think “the people” have finally figured this shit out – no matter how hard the traditional media try to push things the other way.
Keep dragging out who served and who didn’t. Keep highlighting the IAVA report card, to show who really “supports” the troops. Fuckers.
To the thug base the War in Vietnam could have been won if we just had “paved the place”. In 30 years they obviously haven’t learned much. We will win if we just kill all the Iraqi’s and the rest of those 1.6 billion ticked off Muslims, and those pesky liberal Europeans .. and .. and .. and..
I wonder if Ortho would make us some thug begone..:yuck::crap::rant1:
so is the deal that Bush and his fans…the 30%…dont understand Kerry’s comments?….How stupid. Its nice to see Kerry mad and kicking ass…but its a little too little/toolate….I really feel like so much of what goes on is directed at political timing. So, its hard to take any of it seriously
You can’t kill everybody, ‘cuz you’re always gonna need slave labor, and them brown people are pretty good for that (the white ones get kinda uppity).
agreed PJ. The tide seems to be turning against these tactics by the right and it doesn’t hurt that Kerry is speaking up strongly
Lets see if Kerry can keep it up
The problem is that the M$M (aka fanciest propaganda machine) is making an issue out of Kerry’s comments. It will be a large portion of the liberal media discussion today too from what has been on already.:yuck::yuck:
It’s really that the Republicans have nothing at this point, and they’re trying to make whatever they can out of this, with their sycophants in the media duly helping, and the chicken littles running around quivering and whining and crying.
Hey, he’s Irish-Catholic (with a little Jewish mixed in for good measure). If there’s anything he can do, it’s keep it up
You know, after I got home last night I saw that the Shays folks had already been on my blog. Im sure that they have a kid searching all the time, or have a stanidng google search…but anyway, because of his mild manner and his helpful attitude with all the old folks who have problems…like he can solve any problem in the world and hes gonna do it individually; giving each one his number as if it was only for them….he says “do you have a pencil?” and then calmly repeats his office number over and over…and then gives them a person to speak to…..and he is nice!…so here I am tearing into him for the OTHER stuff he supports which undermines the population that he purports to help, and I fell guilty…as if he himself is reading my blog and very upset…because I offended him and hurt his dignity or something.
He didnt do a Kerry, like how dare I, but it was sorta like that…..and I think that we have to ask these questions. Especially about the timing of all of these flip flops.
So, I need the liberal confessional…I feel bad because I was mean to the nice guy….
I guess I am the angry chick…huh?
hey Im irish catholic with Russian jew…so, yeah…..
But he has that Boston Brahmin sense of what looks right in proper society…thats his big problem.
Nice to see that hes been lifted and botoxed anyway. He looks less scary.
this guy on myspace (he runs the Mike Malloy fan page) put yesterday’s show up:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/buuxqh
Lincoln Chafee seems like a nice enough guy (except he’s stooping to the dark side in his desperation now), too. In other circumstances, there’d be room for a “moderate” Republican. Not this year, though. If this asshole keeps his rubber stamp, I really feel sorry for those of you with draft age kids (or are draft age yourselves).
NovaM also has Malloys Oct 31st show up at
http://tinyurl.com/sbpfy
Good morning :joe:
:banana::banana:Hi Krista :banana::banana:
Hey there, KP.
Times square is disneyland…but the traffic is bad. I kept driving down to the city when grandpa was in the hospital and saying to myself that I would skirt the city and whatever…and then I’d get on the phone or just drift off and find myself in the middle of times square or right at grand central station….
So Ive sat there alot lately….
But the trucker places, like 11th ave does have hookers….but so much less seedy that it used to be.
I love the seedyness of the city…the underside and the smelly subway stops that havent been done up yet.
I guess that I grew up with it and there is something beautiful in the peeling paint and stinky rats running through the tracks….
yay! Lots of options for listening to Malloy. Morning, Krista :joe:
Krista! Hey!! Hows the pup?
they want to institutionalize all of Manhattan and take away all those quirky and kitschy and unique places. I just can’t believe what they did to the Village – there are some cool streets left but it’s not what it used to be – or even 23rd Street where I used to go to school, gone are the days of those great little mom and pop owned book stores. And yes, the subway rocks
Well, when I lived in my apartment in the city I would walk the dog every morning and every car window down Mercer street would be broken by crack heads….now everything is clean and the east village is full of suit wearing wall streeters who are renting 6 floor walkup railroad flats on Avd D for $2700 per month…its not even near the subway!!….so crazy…
But you can see that the whole cafe thing works well for them…and they will probably move on….
It reminds me of the upper west side, Columbus Ave…..it was always sorta seedy and crazy up there on broadway and Columbus…but then it got all cafe and boutique…..and now its sort of getting old again and a little run down…..
But, man, the townhouses up there are fantastic!
Once the gapp came to st marks place, it was over….the only little individual places that do well are the tiny restaurants.
The thugs want the SBR to look like Brazil. A bunch of very modern metro areas surrounded by tin shacks, the swell of rotting garbage and raw sewage running down the middle of the dirt street.
Better book mark this link
http://tinyurl.com/y6f97a
Yeah it looks better but where did all the people who lived there go to ? They didn’t buy the 2 million dollar condos I’m sure..
Like PJ said
a lot of people were priced out of those areas – my town is half full of ex-Manhattanites it seemed. And Hartsdale is not a cheap town, but compartively speaking, hell yeah, it’s easier to afford this particular town than those places in the city. And only 40 minutes from the city by train. I do love Manhattan though, it’s just not in my range.
+All Saints Day+
Holy Day of Obligation
(Latin)
Saint of the Day
Salaun of Brittany (AC/DC)
Born in Lesneven, Brittany; died 1358. Salaun was a poor man, who was content to be despised and considered “a damn fool, for God’s sake.” He reached a high degree of contemplation. Salaun is venerated by Notre Dame le sabot bol team in Brittany.
:priest:
a high degree of contemplating the fact that he was a damned fool :tongue::pope:
How does Manhattan affordability factor in to the SBR Brazilination of the nation campaign?
hmmm
I’d say it has to do with the red heifer and G.I. Jew
Oh. You went there.
Fuck these real estate racketeers!
:fu:
Affordable housing should be a right, not a crapshoot.
John kerry. John Kerry. John Kerry. Badee badee badee.
the system does not encourage affordable housing… I lucked out… it should not be about luck. Like you said, it should be a right.
With the typical worker making something like 12 bucks an hour these days ( down from 16 only 6 years ago) they can’t afford to live almost any where in a major metro area. I am sure that NYC is much worse than most other places. In Amerika we have what were middle class suburbs that turn into slums and slummy ghettos .. With rethugs running state and local governments they don’t maintain the infrastructure so the place slowly devolves back to the equivalent of tin shacks and dirt streets ( American style). The people who live there eventually find they can’t pay their utility bills, or for garbage collection., the sewer backs up and they can’t afford to have the line cleaned out so it runs down the weed patch the used to be the lawn into the street.. That’s what the thugs want your future to look like.. Ain’t it fun.. :bf::yuck::yuck:
I’m listening to yesterday’s Malloy show :fist:
The business people like it that money could be made in real estate. The needs of people be damned.
How is Harold Ford doing in the polls. I thought I heard an analyst on Tyger Thom’s show say that the DCCC have conceded the race.
greed and selfishness are considered American virtues. Of course these word are rephrased as “taking personal responsbiity” and the people who invented and pushed that frame laugh every day how people eat it up
I know some of you guys are Robert Anton Wilson fans like I am. He is an amazing writer and he did much to change my brain. I would say that he is as much of an influence on my thinking as any mentor or teacher or certain types of drug experiences. And I was horrified to find out that he is dying a destitute man! :omg: 😥
He couldn’t even pay the rent!
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/02/robert_anton_wilson_.html
But, apparently fans have raised enough money to keep him for a few months. I guess I am a little late on this. 😥
I wonder if it’s up on mydd.com – they seem to have a running account of how all candidates are doing. I’ll have to look over the site.
illuminatus trilogy… :parrot::nixon:
The real estate market is predicated , much like the stock market on continued growth.. The western states are seeing that that will have to end soon because they are running out of water. The major metro areas see the run down suburbs as redevelopment areas to increase their property tax base but only for people who can afford the half to one or two million dollar condos. The displaced “slaves” have no place to live.. With housing prices climbing and wages dropping the people speculating in land will soon be in a world of hurt. Property values will drop, tax revenues will decline, and the SBR Titanic will sink or all the slaves will be living under a bridge This if course assumes someone doesn’t disconnect the oil supply first.:eek::eek:
kerry
even if he meant what the right wing talkers are saying he meant…so what?
it’s true and most people know it. if you’re poor and uneducated, you’re cannon fodder.
why does the army offer money for collge if you sign up? if you make it back in one piece, you might have a chance to use your brains for something other than target practice.
anyway, it’s changed the subject from gay marriage.
Yeah you can graduate from college and then go back into the army when you discover that there are still no jobs and that there are 10 people in line for the job you had before you joined the army.
After remark, Kerry curtails campaigning for Democrats
After remark, Kerry curtails campaigning for Democrats
November 1, 2006
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John Kerry has canceled plans to campaign for several fellow Democrats after controversy over his comments to college students about getting “stuck in Iraq.”
President Bush’s 2004 presidential rival — who explained Tuesday that his comments were a “botched joke” targeting Bush — will not appear with Pennsylvania Senate candidate Bob Casey on Wednesday night in Philadelphia, as originally planned, a Democratic official said.
“I would be surprised if you see him welcomed out there anywhere,” the official said, “and certainly not in a race that is meaningful.”
Appearing on radio host Don Imus’ program, Kerry said Wednesday, “I’m going back to Washington. I’m going back to tackle this, you bet.”
Kerry said the controversy was “swift boat stuff all over again,” referring to the 2004 campaign issue about his service in Vietnam. “They shouldn’t be allowed to do that,” the Massachusetts lawmaker said.
Strategists at both the Democratic House and Senate campaign committees made a point to their campaigns that the flap is a distraction they don’t need right now.
The Democratic official said the issue doesn’t appear to change the impact of any races, but it may threaten to attract more GOP supporters in close Senate contests in Missouri and Tennessee….
http://tinyurl.com/yezpd9
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^&%$#*()
jezzus:
At the talk a while back with Cynthia Enloe and Cindy Sheehan, they said that only 17% of kids wind up using any sort of college aid from the military, because they have very stringent requirements, and most kids just don’t meet them. Of course, nobody tells them that.
Kerry should say, “I made a remark that Republicans didn’t get, and even when the truth was pointed out to them, they still didn’t get it – or are pretending they don’t get it. Gee, what a surprise. Once again, the Republicans just don’t get it.”
Apparently neither do the demodrps
One Zogby poll you won’t be seeing is for here in my district – the NY-25 – for the race between Democrat Dan Maffei and nine-term incumbent, James Walsh, which had to be re-run (as I worte about before) when Zogby used the wrong district’s makeup to weight the poll. This time around, the Walsh campaign appears to have been successful in getting the poll pulled because they disagreed with Zogby’s basic methodology (read, Walsh was behind). According to one of the poll sponsors, local ABC affiliate WSYR (owned by Clear Channel, which is a contributor to the Walsh campaign):
Yesterday – no doubt fearing the release of the Zogby poll – Walsh – after steadfastly refusing throughout the campaign to release internal polls – posted a message on his website touting an internal poll showing Walsh with a “double-digit” lead in the race, and attacking Zogby as inaccurate, and partisan.
Certainly sounds like things in the 25th are closer than Walsh would like.
Even newsdaddy can’t get the Kerry story right.
Just returned from working at Mike McGraw for congress against Westmoreland. He just got the endorsement from ALPA (airline pilots) and the AJC! Move-on and everyone else is missing this race. It’s District 3 and people do not see how competitive it is here. People hate Westmoreland. McGraw’s a Sam Nunn-style Democrat which goes over big here. Sam Nunn has endorsed him as have afl-cio, teachers, & veterans.
(Pj, you’re missing it, too. =>) :omg:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. John Kerry apologized for “a botched joke” about President Bush’s Iraq policies that led Bush and fellow Republicans to accuse him of insulting U.S. troops. Even some Democrats assailed Kerry, who had some campaign appearances scratched Wednesday.
“Of course I’m sorry about a botched joke. You think I love botched jokes?” Kerry said during an appearance on Don Imus’ nationally syndicated radio program. “I mean, you know, it’s pretty stupid.”
Kerry, D-Mass., said he meant no offense to troops. “You cannot get into the military today if you do badly in school,” he said. But he said the White House was purposely twisting his words, and asserted that it is Bush who owes troops an apology for a misguided war in Iraq.
“I’m sorry that that’s happened,” he said of his comment. “But I’m not going to stand back from the reality here, which is, they’re trying to change the subject. It’s their campaign of smear and fear.”
http://tinyurl.com/y9sgl5
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:rant1::rant1::rant1:
Revealed: U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation Techniques
The true stories of how American troops, killed in Iraq, actually died keep spilling out this week. On Tuesday, we explored the case of Kenny Stanton, Jr., murdered last month by our allies, the Iraqi police, though the military didn’t make that known at the time. Now we learn that one of the first female soldiers killed in Iraq died by her own hand after objecting to interrogation techniques used on prisoners.
She was Army specialist Alyssa Peterson, 27, a Flagstaff, Az., native serving with C Company, 311th Military Intelligence BN, 101st Airborne. Peterson was an Arabic-speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at our air base in troubled Tal-Afar in northwestern Iraq. According to official records, she died on Sept. 15, 2003, from a “non-hostile weapons discharge.”
She was only the third American woman killed in Iraq so her death drew wide press attention. A “non-hostile weapons discharge” leading to death is not unusual in Iraq, often quite accidental, so this one apparently raised few eyebrows. The Arizona Republic, three days after her death, reported that Army officials “said that a number of possible scenarios are being considered, including Peterson’s own weapon discharging, the weapon of another soldier discharging or the accidental shooting of Peterson by an Iraqi civilian.”
But in this case, a longtime radio and newspaper reporter named Kevin Elston decided to probe deeper and filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the government. When the documents of the official investigation of her death arrived, they contained bombshell revelations. Here’s what the Flagstaff public radio station, KNAU, where Elston now works, reported yesterday:
http://tinyurl.com/yektuz
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Rethugs are 👿
Kerry has the right idea-keep punching back. I think it makes him look stronger, probably bolsters a few Dems, and puts the issue of the war back in the discussion.
The Repigs love to have a fight about who loves the troops more. They just keep yelling. Good to yell back, I think.
Melina, how is your grandfather doing?
From a post at DU
Bush was just on the Rush Limbaugh show. He seems to be implying that we will be at war in the Middle East indefinitely, because if we leave, those nations might withhold their oil from us as a blackmail tool. Transcript snippet below, link to full transcript at the bottom, emphasis mine. This has the potential to be HUGE. Bush just admitted that we are at least (partially) at war to protect our oil interests.
From this link ( warning it goes someplace you might find offensive)
http://tinyurl.com/u4tju
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:eek::eek: and :eek::eek::eek:
I think someone should encourage the army to arrange things so that they could come home immediately..:gate::omg:
Hint It sounds a lot like a two door car.:eek:
Seems he’s also telling everyone in the Middle East that we are there to stay. Occupiers, not liberators. The consequences of that may be HUGE,
Saying we are going to fight wars for oil will make the oil producing nations all shut off the valves .. bribe Putin appropriately to remind the SBR that there are 2500 war heads aimed at us and leave us in the dark and the cold.:eek::eek:
It;s easier for me to read the transcript of the Limbaugh Bush interview than to have to watch them and hear them too . :yuck: But, still it is amazing to read the ridicuousness, fawning and obtuce stupidity of those two. It was interesting ,too, to see that Bush was listed as The President in the dialog. And, I’m sure they eliminated all his stammers as well. He still sounds stupid. A leopard just can’t change his spots.
PJ:
melina mentioned skype for mobile so I went to check it out. found some intesting stuff at handango.com but no skype. so I went to skype.com. sure enough, skype mobile.
trouble is, i’ve tried downloading it several times. it downloads something (i assume the install program) and then nothing. there’s a sign-in button but no register as new user. I tried signing in..it doesn’t take me to register either?????
any suggestions?
Other than this Kerry remark causing the demodorps to shake in their booties and the M$M and FAUX to babble about it all day long I have found only about 2 people out of 20 who even knew what I was talking about.. No one watches TV , no one listens to the radio no one reads the news paper. They all live in blissful ignorance ..but most know how they are voting on Tuesday and have known for two years, :eek::eek:
Rethugs are 👿
Florida Repig legislators are dropping like flies. First Foley, and now this asshat:
http://tinyurl.com/y3l9gu
Nice touch that he uses this year’s all-purpose excuse for Repig bad behavior: “I was drunk.” :alc:
Florida politics is NOT the Jerry Springer show.
Oh, wait a minute, it kinda is. :smack:
One nice thing happening down here is that the local PBS affiliate is offering airtime for debates between candidates for state offices and for congressional seats.
My Repig representative can’t be bothered presenting his case to the people, so the Dem running for the seat, Samm Simpson, gets 25 minutes of free airtime tonight at 9 PM!
:banana::banana::banana:
Granted, it’s PBS, but what the hell, it can’t hurt. Maybe a few folks will do some channel-surfing during commercial breaks of Lost. Samm works in broadcasting, and she should use the airtime well.
http://www.sammsimpsonforcongress.com/
:fire:
Roxie maybe Skype mobile doesn’t let people call you .. Can you access the online directory..??
Beast Within Our Corrupted System:
http://www.counterpunch.org/sullivan11012006.html
:priest::omg:
Well, let’s see, it looks like Skype Mobile is only for PocketPC 2.1, so I assume you’ve got that? And I assume you download it to your PC, run the program, and then sync your device to get it installed on the mobile device. Then I’m guessing you have to enter your info in the setup program on your PC, though I’m not sure. Any of that sound like it would help?
Bohemia meant any place where one could live and work cheaply, and behave unconventionally; a community of free souls beyond the pale of respectable society. Several cities and neighbourhoods came to be associated with bohemianism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Montmartre and Montparnasse in Paris; Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side in New York City; Provincetown, Massachusetts; Carmel-by-the-Sea, California; Venice Beach, California, North Beach, Haight-Ashbury, and the Mission District in San Francisco; the French Quarter in New Orleans; Chelsea, Bedford Park, Fitzrovia and Soho in London; Schwabing in Munich; Ipanema and Leblon in Rio de Janeiro; Skadarlija in Belgrade.
Where is Portland on that list?
Some entire U.S. cities, often those associated with universities and elite liberal arts colleges, may have a Bohemian reputation or image; examples include Eugene, Oregon, Santa Cruz, California, Boulder, Colorado, Madison, Wisconsin, Ann Arbor, Michigan, New Paltz, NY, Athens, OH and Burlington, Vermont.
One of the ironies of these neo-bohemian communities in the United States is their tendency towards rapid gentrification and the commercialization and decay of the bohemian culture that provided the initial attractive character of the community.
:omg:
The method by which an urban “artist colony” is transformed into an affluent neighborhood has been well documented for many years. Artists and subcultural students (more recently nicknamed “hipsters,” but also including the hippies of earlier years) often seek out devalorized urban neighborhoods for their low prices and for their sense of authenticity or “grit” (Lloyd, 89). As the bohemian character of the area grows, it appeals “not only to committed participants but also to sporadic consumers” (Lloyd, 104); eventually, those “sporadic” consumers edge out the earlier arrivals. Christopher Mele described the process with hippies in New York City’s East Village in the 1960s: Well, Shemanski? Please comntinue…
Thank you for that Wikipedia moment.
There is a Bohemia New York on Staten island .. Thats where the airport serving the Hampton’s is located. We had a meeting once at the Holiday Inn. :alc::eek::smack::shock:
There are lots of former,19th C., Utopian Towns nearby. Such as Aurora, OR. Oh, what’s the use? Let’s all get into real estate. Homeowners are the backbone of our Jeffersonian nation.
Utopia Creek, Alaska
Today’s weather in Utopia
(Observed from Utopia Creek)
16 F
(-9C)
Cloudy
• Sunrise: 09:09 am
• Sunset: 04:45 pm• Wind Chill: 16F / -9c
• Humidity: 86 %
• Wind: CALM 0mph / 0kph
• Visibility: 10.00 mi
• Dewpoint: 13 F / -11 C
• Barometer:
30.42 Rising
Forecast
Mostly Cloudy
Hi 19 F
-7 C Lo 8 F
-13 CHourly forecast
The lunch time BS session concerned the people who were foreclosed on during the great depression in Oklahoma and Kansas and whether there was any historical evidence of the people banding together and blowing up the sheriffs office and lynching the banker instead of just being evicted from their land.
Denver has the highest foreclosure rate in the nation around 16 houses per thousand. Maybe they will start a national trend. :eek::reaper::reaper:
Just for reference my inside army info source said her husband said that a lot of the new recruits were about as trainable as frogs. That you had to hit them in the shins with your rifle butt to get them to move sometimes. Sounds like some of the people who call into C-span . 😮
NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing growth edged closer to stagnation in October as a housing-led economic slowdown hurt demand across a wide variety of sectors, according to reports on Wednesday.
Softer-than-expected car sales for October also indicated a recent pullback in consumption had yet to abate.
“The broader economy is now slowing, and slowing sharply,” said Richard Iley, senior economist at BNP Paribas.
The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index slipped to 51.2 last month from 52.9 in September, below Wall Street forecasts and its lowest level since June 2003.
Norbert Ore, the head of the ISM Business Survey Committee, said he would not be surprised to see the ISM figure dip into recessionary territory.
…more…
http://tinyurl.com/y3dtoa
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The train that has been going down the track with the brakes applied for the last five years is now going to do what is referred to as putting itself on the ground.. guess who will get blamed ??.. and with no money left to borrow to prime the pump :eek::eek:
:fustrate:
Americans are often thought of as people who believe in God.
But results of a new Harris Poll show that may be changing.
The poll found that 42 percent of all U.S. adults said they are not “absolutely certain” there is a God, including 15 percent who are “somewhat certain,” 11 percent who think there is probably no God and 16 percent who are not sure.
Not everyone who described themselves as Christian or Jewish said that they believed in God. Only 76 percent of Protestants, 64 percent of Catholics, and 30 percent of Jews said they are “absolutely certain” there is a God. However, most Christians who described themselves as “born-again” (93 percent) said they are absolutely certain there is a God.
http://tinyurl.com/ssh43
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How can they say 70% of Amerikans claim to be christens but only have 42 % believe in God .. Zogby must be involved ..or maybe the WSJ .. :eek::eek::eek:
Poor Sblue welcome to frustration ville.:shock::paranoid:
You prime the pump, Fred. Go on a shopping spree and max out your credit cards.
No Nicki that primes China’s pump not ours.. Maybe we can borrow some more money from them by putting California and Oregon up as collateral.. then there is that area south of Baltimore .. some nice granite buildings but not much else worth while there.:eek::eek:
ChiCom Symp.
:no:
Shall we put Bill Gates and Trump up as collateral?
I would bet that if one looked into the Dustbowl era, one would find cases where the local sheriff arrested the bankers for bad loan practices. Just a hunch. I do know that farmers would stage auctions where bids for $1 were frequent. After the “sale,” the land and property was returned to the delinquent farmer.
Lets just write a bill to the RNC for 5 trillion then turn it over for collection.:yuck::crap::rant1:
:razz::!:
I either got a promotion today or fired, I guess I’ll know tomorrow…
Unionize!
The method by which an urban “artist colony” is transformed into an affluent neighborhood has been well documented for many years.
That’s happened to every single “art community” in NYC that I can think of. Of course some skip the stage and go right to artist community for the wealthy only.
well I need a freakin new job anyway. Of course nothing may happen, the big boss just may be calling me in to shoot the bull, but from what everybody tells me he’s just in charge of hiring or firing
someone representing Hillary just came to my door.
outwash the blonde and get a new ringtone!!!! 😉
The search for Bohemia is never ending.
Affodable housing is an absolute right. Eveyr politician worth anything should take up that cry (those exact words are good, too)
Are they streamlining the Center because of a projected reduction in
work?
From I heard they’re hiring more teachers. New manager said he’s signing up more kids. We’ll see. Maybe I’m jumping the gun expecting something monumental either good or bad. I do need a new job though, those resumes are being sent out
It must be nice to be so marketable. I, myself, am stuck in the lumpenproletariat.
I don’t know how marketable I am…that remains to be seen. But I’m fairly good at playing up my good points (or anyone’s – I’ve done people’s resumes) so maybe that will help
I don’t know, we can work on your resume sometime. And get an art website up to market your art
Why would they let you go? Are they paying you too much?
haha. they have no reason to fire me. I’m the best teacher there. I jsut can’t imagine why they would invite me in to see the big boss.
Right. Art. Sell art. Give me incentive to create some.
Is Allen going down?
Lieberman?
Any of those other bastards?.
yes. Your art is marketable
and…create some! What motivation do you need?
A promotion. But you do know how it works at McDonalds? You get too competent, and your liable to get fired.
I am phone banking from a local SEIU place on Friday.
I don’t know if there are any spots that need to be filled. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow what he wants. I suppose it may be something else entirely. I didn’t think they were unhappy with me.
oh good for you! I need to do something like that before the election
Need to step out into the rain……:peace:
I’m going to work on that art piece, youknow who as a Jew :sdavid:
I’m going to check out the ol’ Jew Crewers on myspace to give me ideas
PJ:
re the mobile skype —
I did not know I had to use a pc and sync it. I was downloading it directly to my t-mobile mda! of course the skype site says nothing to thst effect.
back to the friend’s garage where our mutual pc sits awaiting me.
thanks!
Diebold demands that HBO cancel documentary on voting machines
Hey guys…check out Olbermann’s comment tonight…its the best Ive heard. in the last 8 mins of the show for you guys in the middle or western time zones….
hey travis!
I just got my skype headphones…got the new printer set up and am trying to deal with iriver…and have to get the skype phonw up and running. The problem Im having is apparently one that is sorta usual.
is sean still around here? I cant find him.
Nick darlin…I just listened to MOndays podcast while driving Will around and it was great…interesting and fun. Will heard the part about him and he was tickled to be mentioned on the radio…
You are improving every podcast…
I think that we should plan to talk about the upcoming elections and our important races. Since we all represent different parts of the country you could have each of us give the rundown of what is going on….
Or we could talk about ryan phillipe and reese witherspoon…and who got voted off of survivor…and madonna’s adopted baby…
Go Keith!:pup::bow:
so, scarborough is saying that the kerry thing has backfired on the GOP because bringing up Iraq reflects badly on them!
Help:eek: I’m trying to create an account with iTunes so I can podcast Malloy and it’s all in German!:fustrate::tommygun:
How do I change it to english? :omg:
Reality check from the Smirking one.
re: realitycheck
I’ve got a friend who talked to an elected official (Dem) of the city of Denver today. He’s concerned about the results from the electronic machines IN DENVER- A MAJOR CITY CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS!!
we are so fucked:jason::growl:
How did this happen? 🙁
ok…comning up next on msnbc is the debate….katherine harris…heh heh heh eh:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Kevin are you out there?
eeeekkkkkkkkkk!!!
her face is such a sccary color….I think she had a chemical peel before coming out tonight!….could it be my TV?….no…she is so scary!:omg::omg::omg::omg::omg::omg::omg::omg::omg::omg::omg:
I think this is the transcript from Olbermann that Melina was talking about. Outstanding indeed.
lying lying liar….this guyNelson isnt tough enough…he needs to throw off the gloves and bloody her bad…
Thanks Andy…I just sent it around to everyone….Im looking for the clip of it to surfaceon youtube….will take till a little later probably.
What is rich about this debate is that even Katherine Harris with her red raw face, is distancing herself from the Bushies….
she is agreeing with Nelson on so many issues…especially the war.
23% tax …….on Rx’s, doctor’s visits, all purchasing,…..
Take all the payroll taxes out instead….but it sounds bad…it will never fly. She calls it fair tax.
she is a loon….
28% sales tax/fiar tax plan= 4500$ more per year than 95% of americans pay now….but who bothers with those studies anyway…right Katherine?
23% sales tax/fiar tax plan= 4500$ more per year than 95% of americans pay now….but who bothers with those studies anyway…right Katherine?
I really wish I could afford satellite.
Ooooohh, more from the Smirking one.
:bf:
what now?:doh: Throw it down!
Journalists’ group to lead online protest vs Net censorship
:barf:,:knit2:. :-(,:spank:,:slap:,:mad:
oh…hi travis…:holla:
oh! I hope you feel better. Have some tea and take a bath:joe::nod:
Are you going to explain what’s going on? Or are you going to keep me guessing?
:smack:
Um, I know that ailment.
:fustrate:
:crap:
Looks like I’m just making the symptoms worse. I’ll skedaddle, then. Take it easy.:peace:
scram!:cat::billcat:
This whole Kerry situation makes me :barf:
:yawn::gate:
goodnight :knit:
:reaper: (I just like putting :reaper: up for Día de los Muertos :yippee: :wink:) :reaper:
:reaper::dancers: :reaper:
Prop. 207 supporters should ask how Oregon’s 37 measures up
By ERIC de PLACE
Published: 10.12.2006
Speed limits can be annoying. Just last week, I got pulled over for doing 50 in a 40.
It didn’t occur to me at the time, but what I should have told the officer was: “Listen, I’m in a hurry. And if you want me to drive slower so that your town is safer, then you should pay me.”
Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? But that’s the idea behind a rash of ballot measures in the West this November.
There’s one in Arizona called Proposition 207, as well as copycat versions in California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Washington. The details differ from place to place, but they all operate on the same basic principle: If we want property owners to obey the law, then we should pay them. And if we can’t afford to pay them, then we should give them a free pass from the law.
Marching under the banner of “property rights” a group of well-funded activists – especially Americans For Limited Government, from Chicago, and Howard Rich, a New York developer – are backing the six ballot measures.
They’re hoping that Westerners don’t get wise to their racket that would gut protections for property owners and leave communities at the mercy of government by developers – essentially without a say in their own future.
What will happen in Arizona if the Prop. 207 passes? The details will likely get sorted out in court, in a series of expensive lawsuits, because the measure is unclear on a number of key points.
But there is one real-life case study for understanding the results of Proposition 207. It’s Oregon.
Two years ago, voters in Oregon approved Measure 37, the original ballot measure that spawned the six initiatives of 2006. So voters would be wise to look to Oregon to see how well property owners there like it.
Ask Bob and Crystal Vanderzanden what they think of Measure 37. They’re longtime farmers in Washington County, west of Portland, whose farm borders land that’s now slated for suburban subdivisions – a development that will inevitably bring complaints about machinery, spraying and other routine farming practices.
The neighboring land is zoned agricultural, but the county can’t afford to pay the $9.5 million that their neighbor wanted to be paid for not developing. The Vanderzandens are fighting back with a lawsuit of their own.
Or ask Jim and Sandy LeTourneux, a fourth-generation logging family in Oregon’s Coast Range, who own 460 acres of working forest.
They’re proud of their way of life and proud of their stewardship: They’ve twice won awards for wildlife conservation.
The LeTourneuxs don’t like Measure 37, either. Three sides of their property are bordered by land owned by a developer – land that is zoned for forestry. The developer wanted $35 million from the county and because the county couldn’t pay, it was forced to allow him to build as many as 848 houses, increasing the risk of fire in an area that’s scarcely served by fire protection services.
“I’ve put a lifetime of work into putting in a timber resource,” says Jim. “Sandy and I could lose everything from a fire.”
There are many more stories where these came from.
As of August, more than 2,200 claims had been filed in Oregon under Measure 37, totaling far in excess of $5 billion in demands for compensation.
Oregon taxpayers can’t pay, so the laws just get waived instead. Not surprisingly, there has been a growing backlash to Measure 37.
That’s not to say that regulations are always fair to everyone. They aren’t.
Community planning is a balancing act. It can be tough and contentious and not everyone will always get what they want. And even the best laws may be open to allegations of unfairness.
But Proposition 207 is like trying to pull a sore tooth with a sledgehammer. It may fix some legitimate problems, but it will create a much bigger mess.
When the officer who pulled me over last week approached, I didn’t ask him to pay me. I just handed him my license, a bit sheepish that I’d broken a law designed for the good of the community.
I apologized, he let me off with a warning, and I drove the speed limit the rest of the way home. I wonder if Arizona will heed the warning from Oregon.
I thought speed limits were for the benefit of insurance companies