Haven’t had a chance to pay much attention to anything the last few days, but from what I gather, the Democrats caved and AAR sucks. In other words, nothing new going on. I gave up on AAR already anyway, and as for the Democrats, well, I never exactly had great expectations for them. Still, I can’t help but think about what a continued rubber stamp Congress would be doing right now. It may not seem like much, but it’s something.
don’t cut your wrists over the feckless, ball-less Dem congress- check out juancole.com today for a level headed overview of iraq — we’re getting out, and everybody knows it , but its going to be bumpy sailing, like the Newfies fixing the car blinker: “its working, its not working, its working…” I like the line about making sure that the monster US Embassy in Bagdad has to have a big roof, so the evacuation helicopters have plenty of room.
Now AAR, that’s a hopeless case. :sammy:
Good morning. I have nothing to say today. The Dems suck.
:fu:
Im sure that there is some big picture logic to this whole mess and how best to get us out of it…and not have the american people turn on the dems (which this is surely about…tho I expect that they have made a horrible mistake)
But the other thing that really gets me is this immigration bill…I spent alot of time trying to digest the parts of it that I could …and, damned if it doesnt put all the heavy lifting on the immigrant and not focus on the large corporations that are hiring these people….
what a limited view of the world these people have…for guys who are globalists they certainly dont take into account the big picture of our work in the countries that provide us with all this cheap labor….
The immigrants will probably not do anything different than they are now .. If their employers find that they are here illegally they will probably just pay them in cash.. The Social Security wasn’t benefiting the immigrant and is a savings for the employer.. Buy a company truck and keep it parked but say that 2k a month is for fuel .. who would ever know. 😮 :paranoid:
…and this may be the part of the cycyle where we look at who among the dems is worth a shit and who isnt…because even if we get a dem president…well, its not like we can just relax…remember that Gore tend to be a hawk…remember that NAFTA also happened under clinton gore and I seem to remember gore being keen on globalism.
…and the welfare reform thing has been pretty damned detrimental for children across the board… from where I stand I see a whole generation or two of kids who are left alone and at underfunded programs who are angry and…parents are angry…and it serves nothing because the parents could never work enough to get out of the hole. I see so much hope though…and its based on nothing; the impossibility of getting money scraped together for a car and then being able to afford running it….
I see a lot of Hispanics working for city and state government as well as the railroads and in home construction. A lot work for hotels and restaurants too. The service sector employees often get paid in cash/tips because they are not full time. and work several part time jobs.. Who is going to audit the books of city and state governments ?? Colorado passed this law saying that undocumented adults would not be eligible for welfare and food stamps .. The state social service agencies flipped them off. It was unenforceable. :reaper: :reaper:
My take is that the blog world is all too quick to declare either The End of the World or The End of This Hideous Mess. Remember when Fitzgerald was going to solve all our problems? And now this defeat on the Iraq bill means the war will continue for ten years? Don’t believe it. Vietnam dragged on for more than a year after Nixon and Kissinger ‘made peace’ and it was damned difficult, but about one year after Nixon was kicked out, it ended. This will be similar; whoever gets inaugurated, and I really do mean, whoever, is going to be forced to draw down whatever we have there, presuming that we still have 130,000 there.
We got eighteen months of almighty shit till then. :sammy:
As long as Bushco or Hillaryco don’t preemptively attack some other country like Iran or Venezuela ( remember Brazil is developing nuclear power) the war in Iraq will look like Vietnam.. It was the bill run up by that war that caused three years of 12% inflation during the Carter administration. Two of our major creditors buy their oil from Iran and we buy like 11% of our oil from Hugo and company. What would happen if China and Japan turned off the credit and Hugo turned off the oil. :reaper: :reaper:
Good Morning. :joe: I don’t see how the dems can sleep at night knowing that more of our soldiers are gonna die because they caved in. I’d like to document who dies now and the story of each of those families and show it to them. These people would be alive if YOU hadn’t caved in to a petulant little child.
fred , cresttwo then there is NSPD51 Homeland Security Issue. An Executive Order. :smack:
:tommygun: :fist: :jason:
I am Not Amused :growl:
ARREST ❗ IMPEACH ❗ VIGILANCE ❗
Kristapea, I am on hold AGAIN with the Sen … they knew I called the week of the 9th.(re NSPD51) ……. I believed what they told me then about MY Sens were suppose to have a statement nothing until I heard Thom’s show…….. I no longer trust and calling daily until they respond.
BUT WHAT POWER DO WE HAVE!?!
I even , for the first time, may be joining to change to an Independant or WHATEVER they are called Bloody L
:smack: …I guess we Dems are sell outs :fustrate: :growl:
they are stupid whores (not all whores are stupid) just rethugs and now weak twit dems — bloody L or :fu: Dems :barf:
isn’t Monica suppose to be on c-spam 2 :jerk: :yuck: ?
Elmer Fudd is on Hartman’s show again. What an ass. :fu:
“The govewnment is thewe to pwotect ouw wights and pwotect us fwom fwaud.” :rofl2:
I’m not at the point yet where I’d do online gambling, but I certainly understand that urge to throw everything down and not care which way it’ll turn up
Just had a bad encounter with Derek…the Owner of the Wedgwood Broiler
now I’m expelling my contempt to an empty blog
Tell us where Derek is, Trav, we’ll teepee his house. :nana:
If the the dems caved because they don’t want to go home to an RNC commercial calling them weak on defense and/or terrorism one could fairly easily arrange for there to be no commercials at all. :rant1: :yuck: :reaper: :reaper:
One can kind of see why once a fascist state is established that it is so hard for a popular movement to get rid of it .. In the case of Germany and Italy it was just much easier to let the allied air forces do it for them. :reaper: :reaper:
How long is it going to take for Ms Rant :barf: :yuck: to get through her head that their are no checks and balances, that if anything is to happen in DC it has to be 2/3 or really close to it rule by one party or the other ..
These hearings are all a gigantic show the results of which will be zilch, zero, nothing.
The executive branch especially when it corrupts the justice dept can do anything they want.. I wonder how it worked for so long when we were only 20 minutes from total destruction… humm…. maybe that was why it worked if the people being IDIOT MORONS can’t/won’t/can’t see that they have to facilitate change let some outside force do the pushing back for them. :tommygun: :tommygun: :reaper: :reaper:
In reference to NSPD51 being able to declare martial law and being able to enforce it are two entirely different things. Of course sheep may be lead to believe almost thing like if they resist something really bad might happen to them. Remember that the army and a lot of the national guard is in Iraq and that the police are “soft” targets. :reaper: :reaper:
It of course takes organization. Running around in your front yard with your bee bee gun might attract the swat team and trying to shove the cardboard tube with your protest sign on it up a cops nose might not work much better but 200 cops or even military surrounded by 3000 people with hunting rifles would look pretty silly. :reaper:
From the channel 9 weather center.
Rain and thunder will continue through the evening rush hour with some minor street flooding.
Overnight we’ll have rain showers in the Denver Metro area with lows in the middle to upper 30s.
THERE WILL BE SNOW IN THE FOOTHILLS! At and above the 7,000 foot level 3-6 inches of wet snow will fall, not only to the west of Denver, but south over Douglas County and Monument Hill as well. For folks between 6,500 and 7,000 feet there will be some wet snow, 2-4 inches with a lot of melting as it falls.
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When the rest of the country turns green Colorado tends to turn white. :cold: 😮
If you didn’t catch Monica on C-span
The reviews on DU sounded like she was a total airhead.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=952534&mesg_id=952534
House approves stiff gas-gouging penalties
but
White House threatens veto
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18825910/
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This may not wait two more years to fix but I don’t think our “economy” has much to do with the ability of 80% of the population to get to work :reaper: :reaper:
Ha, didja see this myspace bulletin from Jim Earl?
rachel’s good today: lots of “keep on pushing” the dems in congress.
depressing day. no good news to be had. at least we haven’t attacked iran yet. without the 2006 election results, i have little doubt that this would be the case.
what an incredible fucking mess the neocons and their dlc sympathizers have made. it’s tiring just thinking about all that needs to be done, especially when we seem to be making such a slow start….
i guess we all need to take turns running the bi-polar coaster.
pj: saw that from jim. damn, tricked again!
The couple of people I know that worked for the engineering dept at Rocky Flats say that suitcase nukes are not possible unless you consider a package 3 x 3 x 5 feet that weighs 200 lbs a suit case.
fred: finally some good news, thanks!
we have tactical nukes that are the size of soccer balls.
complete and missle ready. the ruski’s lost a shitload of them.BTW.
sorry roxie,
i should’nt have said anything.
Cheney’s daughter gives birth to baby boy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, Mary, has given birth to a baby boy, the vice president’s office said on Wednesday.
Samuel David Cheney is the first baby for Mary Cheney and her longtime partner, Heather Poe. He is the sixth grandchild for the vice president and his wife, Lynne. He weighed 8 lbs, six ounces (about 3.8 kg) at birth at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington.
Mary Cheney, 38, was an aide to her father during the 2004 presidential election campaign and was hired last year as an executive for America Online.
She has expressed opposition to a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The measure, backed by President George W. Bush, failed to pass in Congress.
So, I wonder who the sperm doner was. Did she go to a sperm bank or was it donated by a friend?
jim: i missed something.
what did you say that you shouldn’t have?
btw, enjoyed your raven tales from last nite: buzz and yolanda — obviously (by their names) an interesting bi-ethnic couple.
that was wierd, jim. your 2nd post showed up before your 1st. different routing i guess.
tanks roxie,
poor ravens! i was the one that hung those names on them.
Buzz was such a hot shot flier that that seemed natural at the time.
Yolanda reminded me of a high school girlfriend. it took a coupla years before she trusted me enough to even say hi, but she’s been a good friend since then..
Are Suitcase Bombs Possible?
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/DoSuitcaseNukesExist.html
Sounds like the description…. generator 4 megawatt two man portable. Sounds pretty amazing as long as you leave out the fact that its a locomotive. 😮
There are a lot of legends out there..
I’ll make up for bummin freds story…
House panel ends new nuclear warhead!
http://tinyurl.com/33cquo
WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) — A key U.S. House committee has halted controversial Pentagon and Energy Department plans to create a new nuclear warhead to replace aging bombs in the arsenal.
The House Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittee struck all $88 million in 2008 funds from the Energy Department’s 2008 budget request for the Reliable Replacement Warhead.
“Given the serious international and domestic consequences of the United States initiating a new nuclear weapons production activity, it is critical the administration lay out a comprehensive course of action before funding is appropriated,” said subcommittee Chairman Peter Visclosky, D-Ind.
“Minimizing nuclear weapon diameters has been a subject of intense interest for developing nuclear artillery shells, since the largest field artillery is typically the 208 mm (8.2 inch) caliber, with 155 mm (6.1 inches) artillery being the workhorse. Nuclear artillery shell designs with diameters as small as 105 mm have been studied. Packaging a nuclear artillery shell in a suitcase is an obvious route for creating a compact man-portable device.
The US has developed several nuclear artillery shells in the 155 mm caliber. The only one to be deployed was the W-48 nuclear warhead developed by UCRL, packaged in the M-45 AFAP (artillery fired atomic projectile) shell. The W-48 nuclear warhead measured 86 cm (34″) long and weighed 53.5-58 kg (118-128 lbs). Its yield was on the order of 70 to 100 tons (it was tested in the Hardtack II Tamalpais shot with a yield of 72 tons, predicted yield was 100-300 tons).
The smallest diameter US test device publicly known was the UCRL Swift device fired in the Redwing Yuma shot on 28 May 1956 . It had a 5” (12.7 cm) diameter, a length of 62.2 cm (24.5 inches) and weighed 43.5 kg (96 lb). The test had a yield of 190 tons, but was intended to be fusion boosted (and thus would probably have had a yield in the kiloton range) but its yield was insufficient to ignite the fusion reaction and it failed to boost in this test. This test may have been a predecessor to the W-48 design.
Later and lighter 155 mm designs were also developed — the W74 (canceled early in development), and the W-82/XM-785 shell. The W82 had a yield of up to 2 kilotons and weighed 43 kg (95 lb), but included a number of sophisticated additional features within this weight. Since it was capable of being fielded with a “neutron bomb” (enhanced radiation) option, which is intrinsically more complex than a basic nuclear warhead, and was in addition rocket boosted, the actual minimum nuclear package was substantially lighter than the weight of the complete round. Its overall length was 86 cm (34″).
It is reported that designs least as small as 105 mm (4.1 inches) are possible. A hypothetical 105 mm system developed for use in an artillery shell would be about 50 cm (20 inches) long and weigh around 20 kg.”
pretty easy to put in a roll around toolbox , or a auto tow truck tool box.
let’s see, jim: how did you get your handle?
just kidding, dawg. knowledge is power.
listening to randi (delayed here) with greg pallast. he sez they’ve got 500 smoking guns (those mis-sent emails). :yippee:
the mills of the congress grind slowly…
God…what a day!!
I just got a threat down email from some “fan” of Hi’s who was selling certain bootlegs on ebay and because of an affidavit on file there the listings were removed…well, the guy decided that he was gonna stand up to ebay because the shows were important tohis fahter who passed away and so they should belong to him or some such…and ebay suspended him…which of course id MY fault!
So he writes me about looking at the google sattelite of my house and all about the streets and stuff…
What an idiot…but if Im suddenly murdered, it was a guy named Michael Faillrad from ebay…
though I wrote him back saying that I was posting his letter to the radio mystery theater forums and also sending it to the police…
and that I had huge dogs and a security system…which I do….sorta…the dogs have big personalities and I have an attack parrot…but the alarm system is pretty damned good….
so, what are you guys up to> blowing up the world?
Seems like that would be kinda redundant.
You did forward it to the police, right? What did they say? 😮
I’ve been lucky in that I haven’t run into a lot of crazy people online and I’ve never been threatened. :peace:
Ain’t it nice that Mary Cheney named her son after Sam Seder? :nod:
BTW, for those of you who just can’t get enough baby pictures…
melina:
actually a attack parrot sounds pretty scary!
fred’s shooting everything in sight with his tommygun and he and jim are comparing notes on suitcase nukes. i’m getting ready to go to work… 🙁
PJ…thanks for that…I needed that. Granny must be in heaven!
well…I didn’t do that yet…I suppose I should….also have to forward it on to some others…I think the guy is all bark…it was nothing direct except to say that hes looking at my house and stuff…then call me all sorts of names and blame me for everything thats happened to him from his father’s scleraderma to his current problem with ebay….
I dont know why I bother….
here is a little marc thing…from the google tubes and them there internets out there.
Dear Coalition troops:
Go AWOL now, while you still have the chance.
Cheney don’t luv you.
I used to know an attack conyer named Eno. She was such a bitch, she would attack all women that came to the house. Very jealous bird. I was not sad when she finally flew away. :parrot:
Melina, just stopped by for a brief “fly” bye (LLBH)
Contact the police (or Sheriff Office) == hopefully they are better than “the new” pedestrian Jerk cops … they will be there to take a report after the fact ……… I was on the otherside: PD and SO down south a bit. friends AT ONE TIME went all the way to the FED (ATF) line……. also high in certain PD’s and SO’s …………..
MELINA, MAKE A REPORT………… if you can afford it GET A RESTRAING ORDER ❗ (one can get financial breaks to assist one) ❗ each conversation PUT: DATE and TIME ❗ KEEP A LOG ❗
NO MATTER THE AGE: Take Martial Arts, AT LEAST SELF DEFENSE
I will check back since I do believe in the fairness of letting you ie the other side, to respond, if one does so or if there are further communications needed — it is only fair ❗
Melina, it truly may not be a serious threat … but you are a woman alone with children. Protect! :fist: HiiiYaaa
Take Back the Night as WE Chanted many years ago and I was part of the beginning one (an Active Art piece at UCLA) and the movement is still going –decent but a lil weak ie WEAK Vigilance!
MAKE A REPORT — THEN TAKE DOWN THE REPORT #
(caps for emphasis only)
A ❗ I ❗ V ❗ … Caribbean Blue … Enya …
i keep forgetting, my time is different than most others 🙄