Tony Blair, the British prime minister, could end up swapping Downing Street for a job as the first full-time European Union president, under a plan being actively touted by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.
Mr Sarkozy is understood to have discussed the idea with other EU leaders ahead of next week’s European summit, Mr Blair’s last major international event as prime minister.
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Spreading Democracy .. err..Fascism American style world wide . I guess the whole world should prepare for the long struggle
Colbert ‘confused’ by Republican candidate Ron Paul
On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert welcomed
Ron Paul to The Colbert Report, saying, “With my help, he could become the Republican Mike Gravel.”
“I’m not sure how to feel about you,” Colbert told Paul, “but I’m passionately ambivalent. You voted against the Patriot Act, you voted again the Iraq War. But you also hate taxes and you hate gun control. You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery. Are you a Republican or are you not a Republican?”
The U.S. House of Representatives this morning voted to withhold federal emergency services funding for “sanctuary cities” that protect illegal immigrants.
Anti-immmigration champion Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., sponsored the measure, which he says would apply to cities such as Denver and Boulder. He was elated by its passage, which stunned critics and supporters alike.
The Littleton Republican’s amendment to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill appears to have no language specifically defining a sanctuary city. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has long disputed giving the city that label.
“The issue has come to fruition,” Tancredo said by cell phone after the vote. “The people of the country really have spoken. It’s a really good indicator of just how much closer to the people the House is than the Senate is.”
War veterans lack adequate mental health care: Pentagon report
Military mental health services lack personnel and money to properly treat a growing number of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, said a Pentagon report out Friday.
“The military system does not have enough resources, funding or personnel to adequately support the psychological health of service members and their families in peace and during conflict,” concluded a year-long Pentagon mental health task force report: “An Achievable Vision.”
NEW ORLEANS –The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to foreign countries for help to rebuild as federal hurricane-recovery dollars remain slow to flow.
Kenya Smith, director of intergovernmental relations for Mayor Ray Nagin, said city leaders are talking with more than five countries. He wouldn’t identify the countries, saying discussions were in the early stages. But he said the city is “very serious” about pursuing foreign help.
“Of course, we would love to have all the resources we need from federal and state partners, but we’re comfortable now in having to be creative,” Smith said. He did not know if the city would have to overcome any obstacles if it got firm pledges for aid, but “we want to make sure we’re leaving no options unexplored.”
For months Nagin has complained bureaucracy is choking the flow of much-needed federal aid dollars to New Orleans – slowing the city’s recovery. As of June 8, the city said it had received just over half of the $320 million FEMA has obligated for rebuilding city infrastructure and emergency response-related costs. The city has estimated its damage at far more than that – at least $1 billion. And that doesn’t include other improvements – such as raised neighborhoods – meant to help build the stronger city promoted by Nagin and his recovery director.
Americans felt the pinch of higher gas prices and eroding wages last month, even as an important gauge of inflation drifted lower, government figures showed yesterday.
Over all, the Consumer Price Index rose 0.7 percent in May, the Labor Department reported. The core rate, which excludes food and energy, was up just 0.1 percent, a welcome development that encourages the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates steady.
But for consumers, the news was hardly reassuring. Prices for staple household purchases like gasoline and food rose to even higher levels last month, effectively causing most Americans to take a pay cut. After taking inflation into account, the average weekly earnings for workers in nonmanagement jobs — some 80 percent of the work force — fell for the second consecutive month in May.
“Everybody has to eat, and everybody has to drive to work,†said Mark Vitner, senior economist for Wachovia. “For households, the headline number truly is the more important number, and clearly the run-up in gasoline prices in the last few months has left consumers with less money to spend on everything else.â€
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In case you hadn’t noticed.. For some reason the cost of food and the cost of diesel fuel are related. :reaper: :reaper:
I think that if you examine the cost of a agricultural product most of that cost is in transportation and warehousing .. It used to be that a box car ( 200,000 lbs of something) cost about 7k to move from coast tp coast. Most agri products move by truck (the warehouser at the destination objected to his lettuce and tomatoes arriving as a tossed salad when shipped by rail).. Sean can fill us in on how much it would cost by truck. 😮
Trucks are most often limited to 70,000 lbs
In either case you have to truck the product from the field to a warehouse and keep it under refrigeration for maybe 24 hours before it is shipped then load the truck/box car and unload it at the destination where the product is again warehoused before it can be delivered to the market. All this handling involves labor of some sort snd probably diesel fuel too.
It was your threads that keep me moving and going to these strange rides (Ms Toad’s Wild Ride as a dance teacher would say when I was late).
And then Raw Stories “feed” was hugely strange and I thought it was done as an art statement — :doh: — silly me — for when I went back “it was normal”. 😮 😯 Now back to more tea and read and cartoons a bit later — :yippee: .
A.I.V. … Hildegard v. B.
I would get stuck in reading the different paths regarding 3 and 4 and a touch of 5. :smack:
So Fred Liberal or Progressive hmmmm
I’m still for both. :yippee:
I think we — the people — keep getting caught on the rhetoric and semantics.
A.I.V. Caribbean Blue … … Enya
Entropy ENTROPY Entropy … Now I just hope there is still time for a sea-change … rats … hell it might be time to enjoy life and get in that fetal position with thumb in mouth.
A!I!V! … it seems to always come back to …
Dark Angel Butterfly .. by H Chopper
Yeah Druid when you are surrounded by people some of who might even have progressive attitudes but live in denial of the problems and the solution its hard to be much of an activist when all you hear is a lot of voices saying “sit down” .. You can see why they called them “good Germans” :reaper: :reaper:
There are also a lot of awfulizers out there, who will do nothing but tell you how awful everything is, and that it’s impossible to ever change things. Especially if change doesn’t happen immediately, or in the exact manner in which they think it should. So what’s the point of even trying?
Progressives are often described as a heard of cats so getting them all going the same direction at the same time is almost impossible. Its just easier sometimes to go to Starbucks and get a latte and put a bit of Irish whiskey in it. :alc: :40: :fustrate: :fustrate: :paranoid:
Well some they with an idea is a lot better than a lot of whining and/or yelling we can fix this because after all we are the greatest nation in earth and then find you can’t even finance a local recall election or keep an attorney on retainer which of course results in just more whining. :yuck:
Good morning. We’ve made it to Wyoming havng traveled through the very southerrn part of South Dakota.
I have been very surprised by the lack of pro-Bush signs and bumper stickers, although last night I did find a “Love It or Leave It” sign at a gas statiion.
In South Dakota, there were three signs put up by a family that has a “family shrine”, after advertising the shrine one said that Dakotans reject animal right and the other was anti abortion.
I remain amazed that the religious right is so focused on things that Jesus never mentioned: abortion and gays. As for animal rights, what happened to St francis Assisi?
I only know one way to live on the external realm … and that is as an agitator. I might get angry (and many get angry with me) and :fustrate: and cry and do constant ::Silent Screams:: but what else? This is EPIC TIMES. As I said, in the 80’s can we endure until near 2010? I just could not imagine the Polar Ice Caps melting, although I HERALD to “Do Something”, or they WILL MELT, back then.
I am working on plans the will affect things … if I live so long, IF I “Get Her Done” but such is LIFE (LBH :rofl2: ). IT IS OTHER’S TURN … I have done more than my share … AND STILL am always working on The Future (local and national Actions) and Other Projects! One Only Lives Once (in this life :rofl2: — if that is how one believes) …
A!I!V! Dark Angel Butterfly … H. Chopper
I don’t get why people think Jesus had issues with gays. After all, he wore a dress and hung out with twelve other guys, right? Not to mention the S & M stuff that Mel Gibson so lovingly depicted on screen.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 😀
As for abortions, if men got pregnant, abortions would be free. End of debate.
Typically movements are not the result of committees.. Would the NAACP have existed if wasn’t for Martin Luther King ??.. The American labor movement existed if it wasn’t for Walter Ruther. The Teamsters if it had not been for Jimmy Hoffa.. I think one will find that most movements started out at least as mini dictatorships 😮
Sue P, You are a better Man (Woman) than I, Gunga Din.
That’s really going into “The Belly of The Evil Beast”. Shoot, if I was constantly threatened Death in LA/ “southern CA area”, I can only kinda :rofl2: ….. regarding YOUR Wild Ride. 😉
A! I! V! … NOW Please!!!
In the late 60’s, crossing the country with NY licence plates and long hair was really scary. One of the reasons I avoid Texas and those southern states. Oklahoma was really bad too.
Sue P., It is a shame we can’t even cross OUR America without death threats. Gosh, that’s why for a long time I did not trust “certain Oregonians”. 😮 :rofl2: 😮 … LBH
:growl: NOW! A! I! V!
In the south in late 60’s the locals may have confused your NY license plates with you being one of those Civil Rights advocates interfering in there business ( spelled apartheid ) from up north.. I don’t think things have changed much. It just doesn’t expose its ugly head as often.
My cousin who lives in Alabama says all the white people she knows ( her husband is a doctor so go figure) send their kids to private schools to avoid interacting with the colored population. Alabama also must have the lowest infrastructure investment in public schools and teachers of any place except Afghanistan.
Bringing up politics in a place where you are not certain of the local attitudes can be difficult today although the war in Iraq seems to be something most people dislike except in places where there is a lot military then being antiwar isn’t supporting the troops 😮 😯
When you think about it Al Capone was very instrumental in getting prohibition repealed.. His organization may be the prime example in the SBR during the twentieth century of a limited group of people using direct action to affect a political process . In his case very unintentionally. 😮 😯
The IRA direct action techniques seem to be sort of limited in their effectiveness relating to an independent Northern Ireland but quite effective in Iraq 😮
A little too chilly for a semi-nude painted parade.
I don’t feel up to hassling with the traffic, and the fucking parking can give you a stroke if you’re not careful.
And the furnace is still irritating the hell out of me.
I should make some hate breakfast
re 37, 😳 sorry Fred, the Link is bad for me. I even tried on different servers.
re 39, True, however I ultimately just want us all to play nice. But that is but a dream… 😉
A! I! V! … Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) … Marvin G.
Actually, yeah, the NAACP was indeed quite successful before MLK. The things that he did would never have been possible without everything that led up to it, including the NAACP and their founders (like Ida B. Wells and WEB DuBois), and people like Asa Phillip Randolph. I guess you’d have to say MLK was a failure, too, since we’re nowhere near an equal society even today – almost 40 years after his death.
I guess I’ll be waiting til all the hubbub is over to get my iphone, maybe 6 months from now. I don’t like being tied to AT&T either. I hope it doesn’t stay exclusively AT&T or I may never get it.
None of the movements I listed above are much of a success today.. No leadership and nothing happens or things go backward .. everything operates on the Bowl of jello principal to keep things going forward you have to agitate, agitate, agitate. During the RayGun admin to many groups were marginalized by threats of legal action by the government or by bashing by the Reich’s media. If they had burned it down at that time then we may not be having these problems now but the new leadership either got in bed with the capitalists to fill their own pockets or were made afraid of them . 😡
I went to the parade alone. It wasn’t what I thought it would be.
I waited fifteen minutes for a cup of coffee at Peet’s because there were like fifty people waiting in line.After that, I walked around a bit, then sat for over an hour waiting for the parade to start- ruminating. Basically feeling silly that I went to that thing alone.
Anyhow, the audacious bicyclists were sort of boring. Maybe it was my state of mind, but I thought it was over rated. I left in short order and gave up a premium parking spot to beat the rain home.
It was colorful. Most of them just let it all hang out. People on the side of the streets gathered on the corners so when the bicyclists had to make a turn, they wold slow down, giving the on lookers a more vividly longer show. The semi-nude bicyclists were just going back and fourth for more than a half hour. After seeing them once, I got sort of fed up with it. The best part was seeing a giant penguin go after all the little kids trying to give them hugs- scaring the shit out of some of them.
I don’t think we are doomed but the demonstrations to date have not been any more than the boring parade Travis just described when it comes to threatening the sociopaths running the federal government and many state and local governments too.
They didn’t disturb any commerce, cost some major capitalist major money..in essence they did nothing that influences sociopathic behavior.
Its not possible to embarras a sociopath so that he retreats
Perhaps ANSWER or some other far left groups will again come up with another Weather underground or get more directly active themselves.
Maybe someone will take lessons from the French underground during WWII
Or Maybe we will just have to wait until someone else decides it is time for the SBR to go away .. :reaper: :reaper:
Well it could have been a giant turkey.. They are much easier to find in North America than penguins .. Most people have at least one in their neighborhood. 😮 :paranoid:
Last night on KPHX one of Jeff’s callers may have expressed what a lot of the audience thought but wasn’t sure they could say when he said there were a lot of really ticked off people out there and if this situation didn’t change soon they might show the politicians what western justice was like ( or something to that effect) :reaper: :reaper:
It seems like the people in the west that call the local liberal talk shows ( except for Jay Marvin) and even the Reich wing ones are ticked off at congress and seem to want more proactive action now that the democrats have shown themselves to be a bunch of defuses. When only 21 % think the country is on the right track one has to wonder how many different routes we don’t seem to be on.
People are pissed at the immigration issue at the Iraq issue and the lack of action against the Bush admin by congress issue .
Sheep like to mill around bawling loudly until the wolf has his dinner or the sheep herder or better yet his activist dog come to their aid :reaper: :reaper:
Fred, … I agree with you. I call you: a beacon, a heralding, always speaking what is truly out there, with some wonderful cynicism. Repetition is the key. It just is in the DNA … 😉
:reaper: :dancers: A! I! V!
i’ve been crazy busy. among other things, trying to get everything done, healthcare wise that i needed to do, since the f*ing corp i work for canceled my health plan, group health…assholes!
oh well…
trav: i went to the solstice parade a few years back and handed out “wake up sheeple” flyers promoting morning sedition. the naked bicyclists were pretty cool — just the fact that it’s allowed makes it worth seeing once.
fred: unfortunately, extreme activism like the weather underground was exciting but imho led directly to the raygun backlash. it scared the shit out of the sheeple who ran directly into the arms of the fascists.
i understand your frustration but i think all of us “progressives” are doing much better this time around…
I don;t think it was the Weather Under Ground that drove the sheeple into the arms of Ronald the orator RayGun.
. Six years previous Jerry Ford had lost the Vietnam war for us and Jimmy Carter and his attermpt to understandingly deal with the Iranians ticked off the people who weren’t ready to admit the empire was already in decline.
The rise of the Reich wing media also played a role.
RayGun won more on emotion than substance.
RayGun destroyed organized labor who should have organized a lynch mob but were more afraid of going to jail.
Letting big steel create virtual corporations off shore ( In Korea) and then escape from the Nixon EPA regs and the United Steel workers by going bankrupt was never explained to the sheeple as was our involvement in Central America..
As with the Busheviks the Media was either in denial or was complicit.
We could have used some liberal voices then but we waited twenty years hiding under the bed with our thumb in our mouths . :gate: :omg: :jason: :fist:
Hey Kevin… did you meet the lady with the tropical garden yet ??
Comment by fred — June 16, 2007 @ 10:17 am
Yeah, I spoke with her briefly last evening. Her name is Amy (not Winehouse, before anyone asks), not sure how old she is but certainly not older than me. I had been suspecting that the garden was the work of a retiree with a lot of time on her hands, but apparently Amy is just good at growing stuff. She said the plants are outside because she has too many now to keep in her apartment.
I was going to ask her what types of plants she is growing inside :bong: but decided to wait until we know each other a little before springing that one on her. 😀
She generously offered me use of her area whenever I want to come outside and relax, but we both agreed that this time of year it’s too damn hot to be out during the day unless it’s early AM or almost dark.
I’m thinking someone with such an interest in nature might share political leanings as well. Fodder for future conversations, hopefully.
fred: the turn to the right began years before reagan of course. but much of it was a response to the self indulgence and arrogance of the left.
included in that right turn were many of the nominally “antiwar” kids who got married, had kids, and said: sex, drugs and rock n roll were fine for me in college, but i don’t want my child exposed to that!
as far as the unions were concerned, there were few groups more right-wing and reactionary than labor unions. in their opinion, we got ours and everyone else should go fish. remember that patco endorsed ronald reagan and then paid the price.
it’s easier and more satisfying to break windows and call everyone who is acting against their own best interest a moron, i agree. but not very useful in the long run.
trust me, things are much better now in so many ways than they were in the sixties. not as fun, but we are winning the struggle.
why don’t you and pj and melina and the rest of you techies design a vid game: taking out the neocons!
think of the psychic release it would offer. maybe one already exists — seems pretty obvious… who capture (aiv) or :tommygun: would be worth more points? bush, cheney, rove?
How do you come to the conclusion that we are winning anything .. WE seem to have elected a bunch of spineless MORONS this time around.. The Sheeple will just reelect rethugs if all the demodorps can say is we need more votes..
hardly anyone understads how this debachel we call government works and that seems to include most of the people in congress. :reaper: :reaper:
the unions were toothless or corrupt. the trade unions like electrical workers, plumbers, etc were closed to women, minorities and anyone not a relative or friend of a current member. if the unions had continued their organizing activities into the fifties, sixties and seventies, there would have been no prez. reagan.
union members and officials got fat & lazy over their gains and were happy to exclude other workers rather than sharing the wealth or endangering their own priviledged positions.
ltely — finally — unions are turning around. andy what’s his name of sieu is a shining example. there have been other enlightened labor leaders. another guy who’s name i can’t remember headed up the aerospace machinists’ in the reagan eighties and preached against production of weapons and military hardware in general. he didn’t get much traction, however. those fat military contracts are too tempting.
You know, Fred, I don’t know much about the rules on that but they have bipartisan support for that recall. Some repug group whose name I can’t remember, signed onto that and others too. We recalled a governor here in the 90’s so maybe our state constitution has a provision for that.
the IDIOT MORONS of my youth and young adulthood were far bigger IDIOT MORONS than the :sheep: le of today.
honestly, things are improving — perhaps because conditions must achieve a certain horribleness to get people’s attention. racism exists but less all the time. sexism has certainly lessened a thousand percent. you just don’t understand how bad things were. anymore than i truly understand how tough things were for my parents (teenagers during the depression), my grandparents (young parents during…),…etc.
The IBEW had women electricans working at GE in 1974..One was even a shift supervisor. She was a real pain in yhe drain when it came to the salaried employees working on things. The BrotherHood of Locomotive Engineers also had women engineers in that same time frame..
My Opinion………. First I Truly figure Fred was just teasing with a cynic twist, always based on truth.
I only joke here, the rest of the time — I do not have ANY LONGER a sense of humour (except smiles due to The Animals and The Seasons and the changes of the Sun or Moon and Stars. [Marc made even folk like me welcomed]).
I only know how to speak through Actions … I have traveled most of the Animal Rights/Wild Animals, Environmental, and Religious Rights, gentle and harsh.
In the early 70’s there were those who were taught to bypass the naysayers. To keep on walking through the negativity — and there always are those that are negative.
I have seen many of the few folks working for the different causes even older than I am now, when I was only 13 to 14, when I hit the streets for the DEMS. I watched, saw the “GOOD”, die along the battle side. And I am (was) the speaker also for those that couldn’t speak.
ALL SIDES ARE NEEDED! HOWEVER, I have heard the “calmer” side whilst proclaiming and “doing” gentle to intense actions. By louder Actions ONLY did we bring forth the awareness AND THE CHANGES — MANY came to be what we did in early 70’s to mid to 80’s — both for humans and animals.
Fred saves me from putting damn near exactly the same thing, so I have time to write. His sarcastic humour — always with Truth, must be herald. Alban Heriun. This is the period of The Time of The Light Of The Shore. To Arms (however you can)! To Arms (however you can)!
(he’s part of the whole)
I think the new AAR is moving to a “DO SOMETHING!” Attitude == ACTION == 8)
We believe in the positive and the glass is 1/2 full but we also need to STATE what is “going ’round” — and respond. Also, we do not know what level inwhich Fred speaks. I say “elan” but who knows. (Shhhhhh)
I am not speaking for Fred. These are just MY Views.
It is our way of LBH …….. It makes me at least laugh, with LBH.
A! I! V! … Get The Party Started ……. PINK!
Okay, I saw a cool 60’s garage punk band last night called
The Love Me Nots. 2 chicks 2 dudes. The lead singer was so cool in her white knee high boots and mini skirt. She was playing the cheesy organ but was not trapped behind it like so many. She rocked that thing back and forth like someone trying to get their stuck candy bar to drop from the candy machine. I’ve been listening to their cd all day. I am such a sucker for that kind of music and they really pull it off well.
yeah, i’m much more negative in attitude about environmental/nature rather than political stuff.
still, as a species, we’re awfuly good at getting out of the shit we get ourselves into. bacterial cultures “crash” when they run out of nutrients and/or toxify their environment with waste. the babylonians and egyptians figured out how to grow and store grain on a large scale and the romans built the first serious sewer system.
Oh, too cool, I didn’t know they were from here, I thought they were just passing through with another band. Yay! My garage punk hankering can be satisfied on a regular basis now! :yippee:
Hey, the first place I ever lived in in SF is on the market for almost a mil. My rent was $165, not an hour. And I am talking about two 1 BRs in what used to be the flat on the first floor at the top o’ the steps. There are 4 more 1 BR units above.
I saw that. I was probably in VA at that time and saw a few. There was also a Great Speckled Bird that would fit into the Farina and Kweskin niche featuring the Tysons (no foul puns intended 😉 ).
ever see “the helix” from seattle? i worked on that for a year or so. the underground papers were the internet of the day.
information is so much more available now, thank goddess.
we even had a news service, LNS, liberation news service. sort of like “truthout” or “raw story.” every paper that subscribed to LNS sent copies to every other member and had automatic copywrite permission.
the local chapter of the black panthers used our typesetting equipment for their dispatches to the national panther paper. of course none of the panther guys would do the typing…that was their girlfriends’ job. we white women’s liberationists
found that both disturbing and amusing.
on the other hand, purity was very much an issue then too. advertising was the main revenue and the record companies and the dirty movie houses were mainstays — so we got trashed periodicaly by the more radical feminists.
I get here just when all is leaving? Is anyone still here or did I kill the BLOG
…and as even David Bowers said, agreeing with Dave Foreman,
Entropy is running rapid … as dried grass is to a fire … we are on flames. As Marvin Gaye said …
Mercy, Mercy Me … (The Ecology)
How Much More From Man Can She Stand? to be cont……
A! I! V!.
But still listening to Pink …… Rock 😉
and great outfit.
:billcat: cheney is evil………
:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :joe: :joe: :joe: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 😮 😮 😯 😯
❓ ❓ Whatever :sheep: le
You to Sean
Push for Blair as new EU president
Tony Blair, the British prime minister, could end up swapping Downing Street for a job as the first full-time European Union president, under a plan being actively touted by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.
Mr Sarkozy is understood to have discussed the idea with other EU leaders ahead of next week’s European summit, Mr Blair’s last major international event as prime minister.
http://tinyurl.com/2eo99o
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Spreading Democracy .. err..Fascism American style world wide . I guess the whole world should prepare for the long struggle
:barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :crap: :crap: :crap: :fustrate: :fustrate: :paranoid: :paranoid:
Liberalism Is Dead, Long Live Progressivism
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fscholarsandrogues.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F15%2Fliberalism-is-dead-long-live-progressivism
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Progressivism definition.. A political philosophy by which people wishing for change hide under their beds in a fetal position actively engaged in the long struggle while waiting for
1. The end of the world
2. Some power greater than they to come save them
3. The democrats to get backbone
4. There government to come and save … err.. get them
😮 :yuck: :fustrate: :fustrate: :paranoid: :paranoid:
:reaper: :reaper:
Colbert ‘confused’ by Republican candidate Ron Paul
On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert welcomed
Ron Paul to The Colbert Report, saying, “With my help, he could become the Republican Mike Gravel.”
“I’m not sure how to feel about you,” Colbert told Paul, “but I’m passionately ambivalent. You voted against the Patriot Act, you voted again the Iraq War. But you also hate taxes and you hate gun control. You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery. Are you a Republican or are you not a Republican?”
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Colbert_confused_by_Republican_candidate_Ron_0614.html
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:rofl2: :rofl2: 😮
Colbert must really confuse the IDIOT MORONS
Tancredo wins surprise immigration vote (Affecting Sanctuary Cities)
The U.S. House of Representatives this morning voted to withhold federal emergency services funding for “sanctuary cities” that protect illegal immigrants.
Anti-immmigration champion Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., sponsored the measure, which he says would apply to cities such as Denver and Boulder. He was elated by its passage, which stunned critics and supporters alike.
The Littleton Republican’s amendment to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill appears to have no language specifically defining a sanctuary city. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has long disputed giving the city that label.
“The issue has come to fruition,” Tancredo said by cell phone after the vote. “The people of the country really have spoken. It’s a really good indicator of just how much closer to the people the House is than the Senate is.”
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5587755,00.html
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Another candidate for a visit by a vigilance committee. :reaper: :reaper:
War veterans lack adequate mental health care: Pentagon report
Military mental health services lack personnel and money to properly treat a growing number of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, said a Pentagon report out Friday.
“The military system does not have enough resources, funding or personnel to adequately support the psychological health of service members and their families in peace and during conflict,” concluded a year-long Pentagon mental health task force report: “An Achievable Vision.”
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/War_veterans_lack_adequate_mental_h_06152007.html
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The army produces a lot of sociopaths ..aka rethug converts. I don’t think there is any treatment for that . :reaper: :reaper:
New Orleans turns to international aid
NEW ORLEANS –The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to foreign countries for help to rebuild as federal hurricane-recovery dollars remain slow to flow.
Kenya Smith, director of intergovernmental relations for Mayor Ray Nagin, said city leaders are talking with more than five countries. He wouldn’t identify the countries, saying discussions were in the early stages. But he said the city is “very serious” about pursuing foreign help.
“Of course, we would love to have all the resources we need from federal and state partners, but we’re comfortable now in having to be creative,” Smith said. He did not know if the city would have to overcome any obstacles if it got firm pledges for aid, but “we want to make sure we’re leaving no options unexplored.”
For months Nagin has complained bureaucracy is choking the flow of much-needed federal aid dollars to New Orleans – slowing the city’s recovery. As of June 8, the city said it had received just over half of the $320 million FEMA has obligated for rebuilding city infrastructure and emergency response-related costs. The city has estimated its damage at far more than that – at least $1 billion. And that doesn’t include other improvements – such as raised neighborhoods – meant to help build the stronger city promoted by Nagin and his recovery director.
http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/77475.html
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Have a banana 😮 :yuck: :crap: :fustrate: :paranoid:
Cost of Gas and Food Rose Sharply Last Month
Americans felt the pinch of higher gas prices and eroding wages last month, even as an important gauge of inflation drifted lower, government figures showed yesterday.
Over all, the Consumer Price Index rose 0.7 percent in May, the Labor Department reported. The core rate, which excludes food and energy, was up just 0.1 percent, a welcome development that encourages the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates steady.
But for consumers, the news was hardly reassuring. Prices for staple household purchases like gasoline and food rose to even higher levels last month, effectively causing most Americans to take a pay cut. After taking inflation into account, the average weekly earnings for workers in nonmanagement jobs — some 80 percent of the work force — fell for the second consecutive month in May.
“Everybody has to eat, and everybody has to drive to work,†said Mark Vitner, senior economist for Wachovia. “For households, the headline number truly is the more important number, and clearly the run-up in gasoline prices in the last few months has left consumers with less money to spend on everything else.â€
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In case you hadn’t noticed.. For some reason the cost of food and the cost of diesel fuel are related. :reaper: :reaper:
I think that if you examine the cost of a agricultural product most of that cost is in transportation and warehousing .. It used to be that a box car ( 200,000 lbs of something) cost about 7k to move from coast tp coast. Most agri products move by truck (the warehouser at the destination objected to his lettuce and tomatoes arriving as a tossed salad when shipped by rail).. Sean can fill us in on how much it would cost by truck. 😮
Trucks are most often limited to 70,000 lbs
In either case you have to truck the product from the field to a warehouse and keep it under refrigeration for maybe 24 hours before it is shipped then load the truck/box car and unload it at the destination where the product is again warehoused before it can be delivered to the market. All this handling involves labor of some sort snd probably diesel fuel too.
:paranoid: :paranoid:
:doh: I got lost in the internet fog and just found my way back. :dancers: Tea :joe: Cheers
A!I!V! …
:yippee: :yippee: Its Druid :yippee: :yippee:
The lost has been found.
It was your threads that keep me moving and going to these strange rides (Ms Toad’s Wild Ride as a dance teacher would say when I was late).
And then Raw Stories “feed” was hugely strange and I thought it was done as an art statement — :doh: — silly me — for when I went back “it was normal”. 😮 😯 Now back to more tea and read and cartoons a bit later — :yippee: .
A.I.V. … Hildegard v. B.
I would get stuck in reading the different paths regarding 3 and 4 and a touch of 5. :smack:
So Fred Liberal or Progressive hmmmm
I’m still for both. :yippee:
I think we — the people — keep getting caught on the rhetoric and semantics.
A.I.V. Caribbean Blue … … Enya
Morning / Evening :yinyang:
Good to see friends, fred, Druid, and sean (#1, today)
Entropy ENTROPY Entropy … Now I just hope there is still time for a sea-change … rats … hell it might be time to enjoy life and get in that fetal position with thumb in mouth.
A!I!V! … it seems to always come back to …
Dark Angel Butterfly .. by H Chopper
Hey Kong whats happening tomorrow ❓ ❓
G Day Tea :joe: Cheers Sean and King Kong :yinyang: 😉
A!I!V!
Yeah Druid when you are surrounded by people some of who might even have progressive attitudes but live in denial of the problems and the solution its hard to be much of an activist when all you hear is a lot of voices saying “sit down” .. You can see why they called them “good Germans” :reaper: :reaper:
There are also a lot of awfulizers out there, who will do nothing but tell you how awful everything is, and that it’s impossible to ever change things. Especially if change doesn’t happen immediately, or in the exact manner in which they think it should. So what’s the point of even trying?
Progressives are often described as a heard of cats so getting them all going the same direction at the same time is almost impossible. Its just easier sometimes to go to Starbucks and get a latte and put a bit of Irish whiskey in it. :alc: :40: :fustrate: :fustrate: :paranoid:
Well some they with an idea is a lot better than a lot of whining and/or yelling we can fix this because after all we are the greatest nation in earth and then find you can’t even finance a local recall election or keep an attorney on retainer which of course results in just more whining. :yuck:
Good morning. We’ve made it to Wyoming havng traveled through the very southerrn part of South Dakota.
I have been very surprised by the lack of pro-Bush signs and bumper stickers, although last night I did find a “Love It or Leave It” sign at a gas statiion.
In South Dakota, there were three signs put up by a family that has a “family shrine”, after advertising the shrine one said that Dakotans reject animal right and the other was anti abortion.
I remain amazed that the religious right is so focused on things that Jesus never mentioned: abortion and gays. As for animal rights, what happened to St francis Assisi?
Now I have to find a place to do some laundry.
I only know one way to live on the external realm … and that is as an agitator. I might get angry (and many get angry with me) and :fustrate: and cry and do constant ::Silent Screams:: but what else? This is EPIC TIMES. As I said, in the 80’s can we endure until near 2010? I just could not imagine the Polar Ice Caps melting, although I HERALD to “Do Something”, or they WILL MELT, back then.
I am working on plans the will affect things … if I live so long, IF I “Get Her Done” but such is LIFE (LBH :rofl2: ). IT IS OTHER’S TURN … I have done more than my share … AND STILL am always working on The Future (local and national Actions) and Other Projects! One Only Lives Once (in this life :rofl2: — if that is how one believes) …
A!I!V! Dark Angel Butterfly … H. Chopper
I don’t get why people think Jesus had issues with gays. After all, he wore a dress and hung out with twelve other guys, right? Not to mention the S & M stuff that Mel Gibson so lovingly depicted on screen.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 😀
As for abortions, if men got pregnant, abortions would be free. End of debate.
And Scooter Libby’s going to jail!
:dancers:
Typically movements are not the result of committees.. Would the NAACP have existed if wasn’t for Martin Luther King ??.. The American labor movement existed if it wasn’t for Walter Ruther. The Teamsters if it had not been for Jimmy Hoffa.. I think one will find that most movements started out at least as mini dictatorships 😮
Hey Kevin… did you meet the lady with the tropical garden yet ??
Sue P, You are a better Man (Woman) than I, Gunga Din.
That’s really going into “The Belly of The Evil Beast”. Shoot, if I was constantly threatened Death in LA/ “southern CA area”, I can only kinda :rofl2: ….. regarding YOUR Wild Ride. 😉
A! I! V! … NOW Please!!!
The lack of pro Bush signs in Wyoming may be a result of a lack of a poplation in Wyoming .. Those antelope can’t spell any ways. 😮
Kevin M, re 25 :rofl2: :rofl2: :banana: Perfectly Put :rofl2: :rofl2:
:growl: :fist: HiiiYaaa A! I! V! :pirate: :yippee: :pirate:
Fred, re 26 :nod: 😉 re 29 :nod: :rofl2: :no: :rofl2: :nod:
A! I! V! … :no: Shame on U (the ‘faceless’ and/or the ‘masses’ U) … git ‘er dun” A! I! V! :banana:
In the late 60’s, crossing the country with NY licence plates and long hair was really scary. One of the reasons I avoid Texas and those southern states. Oklahoma was really bad too.
Sue P., It is a shame we can’t even cross OUR America without death threats. Gosh, that’s why for a long time I did not trust “certain Oregonians”. 😮 :rofl2: 😮 … LBH
:growl: NOW! A! I! V!
In the south in late 60’s the locals may have confused your NY license plates with you being one of those Civil Rights advocates interfering in there business ( spelled apartheid ) from up north.. I don’t think things have changed much. It just doesn’t expose its ugly head as often.
My cousin who lives in Alabama says all the white people she knows ( her husband is a doctor so go figure) send their kids to private schools to avoid interacting with the colored population. Alabama also must have the lowest infrastructure investment in public schools and teachers of any place except Afghanistan.
Bringing up politics in a place where you are not certain of the local attitudes can be difficult today although the war in Iraq seems to be something most people dislike except in places where there is a lot military then being antiwar isn’t supporting the troops 😮 😯
When you think about it Al Capone was very instrumental in getting prohibition repealed.. His organization may be the prime example in the SBR during the twentieth century of a limited group of people using direct action to affect a political process . In his case very unintentionally. 😮 😯
In the case you have not being paying attention Hamas and Fatah are having a civil war on the Palestinian reservation in Gaza..
Fatah —-> US/Israeli puppet
Hamas —> democratically elected government.
The SBR is interfering ( again)
http://tinyurl.com/2l9495
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regarding 36 … Kinda Cool 8) as a case study. 😉
A! I! V! Dark Angel Butterfly … Hasson Chopper
Although
The IRA direct action techniques seem to be sort of limited in their effectiveness relating to an independent Northern Ireland but quite effective in Iraq 😮
A little too chilly for a semi-nude painted parade.
I don’t feel up to hassling with the traffic, and the fucking parking can give you a stroke if you’re not careful.
And the furnace is still irritating the hell out of me.
I should make some hate breakfast
re 37, 😳 sorry Fred, the Link is bad for me. I even tried on different servers.
The link works for me maybe your ISP doesn’t like MSNBC 😮
I had some cold veggie pizza for breakfast yesterday my stomach hated that all morning. :blech:
re 37, 😳 sorry Fred, the Link is bad for me. I even tried on different servers.
re 39, True, however I ultimately just want us all to play nice. But that is but a dream… 😉
A! I! V! … Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) … Marvin G.
No, :rofl2: I think it all comes down to my computer’s moods. :slap:
I usually do not have problems with your links. :nod: 😉 :peace:
Here is why the Internets are so clogged this morning
fred, if you want to send contact info to wvmc3d at sbcglobal dot net I will forward to MySpace Joy for you.
If you mean MLK Jr., the NAACP was founded in 1909 – 20 years before he was born – so I gotta go with “yeah” on that one.
They were apparently really successful at doing what ever it was they weren’t doing right up until MLK came along. 😮
Basic research falters as government and corporate funding lag or collapse
http://tinyurl.com/yusube
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Wasn’t it during Slick Willy’s admin they canceled the Super Collider and the Nuclear Fusion reactor projects ??
Most “Basic research” in the SBR has been financed in one way or another by DOD since the end of WWII.
Actually, yeah, the NAACP was indeed quite successful before MLK. The things that he did would never have been possible without everything that led up to it, including the NAACP and their founders (like Ida B. Wells and WEB DuBois), and people like Asa Phillip Randolph. I guess you’d have to say MLK was a failure, too, since we’re nowhere near an equal society even today – almost 40 years after his death.
I guess I’ll be waiting til all the hubbub is over to get my iphone, maybe 6 months from now. I don’t like being tied to AT&T either. I hope it doesn’t stay exclusively AT&T or I may never get it.
None of the movements I listed above are much of a success today.. No leadership and nothing happens or things go backward .. everything operates on the Bowl of jello principal to keep things going forward you have to agitate, agitate, agitate. During the RayGun admin to many groups were marginalized by threats of legal action by the government or by bashing by the Reich’s media. If they had burned it down at that time then we may not be having these problems now but the new leadership either got in bed with the capitalists to fill their own pockets or were made afraid of them . 😡
Are you saying we’re doomed, fred? :reaper: 😯
I went to the parade alone. It wasn’t what I thought it would be.
I waited fifteen minutes for a cup of coffee at Peet’s because there were like fifty people waiting in line.After that, I walked around a bit, then sat for over an hour waiting for the parade to start- ruminating. Basically feeling silly that I went to that thing alone.
Anyhow, the audacious bicyclists were sort of boring. Maybe it was my state of mind, but I thought it was over rated. I left in short order and gave up a premium parking spot to beat the rain home.
Was the parade colorful Travis. ??. What did they do paint their bodies so you couldn’t tell what part was clothed and what part wasn’t ?? 😮 😯
I think that FOOKED is more like it, Kp. :yawn: :tommygun: :reaper:
It was colorful. Most of them just let it all hang out. People on the side of the streets gathered on the corners so when the bicyclists had to make a turn, they wold slow down, giving the on lookers a more vividly longer show. The semi-nude bicyclists were just going back and fourth for more than a half hour. After seeing them once, I got sort of fed up with it. The best part was seeing a giant penguin go after all the little kids trying to give them hugs- scaring the shit out of some of them.
No, not a real penguin! :penguin:
I don’t think we are doomed but the demonstrations to date have not been any more than the boring parade Travis just described when it comes to threatening the sociopaths running the federal government and many state and local governments too.
They didn’t disturb any commerce, cost some major capitalist major money..in essence they did nothing that influences sociopathic behavior.
Its not possible to embarras a sociopath so that he retreats
Perhaps ANSWER or some other far left groups will again come up with another Weather underground or get more directly active themselves.
Maybe someone will take lessons from the French underground during WWII
Or Maybe we will just have to wait until someone else decides it is time for the SBR to go away .. :reaper: :reaper:
Travis, Rats, there could have been so much “stuff”. Bloody L. Sounds :yawn:
:pirate: :dancers: A! I! V!
Well it could have been a giant turkey.. They are much easier to find in North America than penguins .. Most people have at least one in their neighborhood. 😮 :paranoid:
I saw some wild turkeys in La Conner
That was cool Travis how do they distinguish them from the local rethugs .. ??
Last night on KPHX one of Jeff’s callers may have expressed what a lot of the audience thought but wasn’t sure they could say when he said there were a lot of really ticked off people out there and if this situation didn’t change soon they might show the politicians what western justice was like ( or something to that effect) :reaper: :reaper:
It seems like the people in the west that call the local liberal talk shows ( except for Jay Marvin) and even the Reich wing ones are ticked off at congress and seem to want more proactive action now that the democrats have shown themselves to be a bunch of defuses. When only 21 % think the country is on the right track one has to wonder how many different routes we don’t seem to be on.
People are pissed at the immigration issue at the Iraq issue and the lack of action against the Bush admin by congress issue .
Sheep like to mill around bawling loudly until the wolf has his dinner or the sheep herder or better yet his activist dog come to their aid :reaper: :reaper:
Fred, … I agree with you. I call you: a beacon, a heralding, always speaking what is truly out there, with some wonderful cynicism. Repetition is the key. It just is in the DNA … 😉
:reaper: :dancers: A! I! V!
afternoon all:
i’ve been crazy busy. among other things, trying to get everything done, healthcare wise that i needed to do, since the f*ing corp i work for canceled my health plan, group health…assholes!
oh well…
trav: i went to the solstice parade a few years back and handed out “wake up sheeple” flyers promoting morning sedition. the naked bicyclists were pretty cool — just the fact that it’s allowed makes it worth seeing once.
fred: unfortunately, extreme activism like the weather underground was exciting but imho led directly to the raygun backlash. it scared the shit out of the sheeple who ran directly into the arms of the fascists.
i understand your frustration but i think all of us “progressives” are doing much better this time around…
I don;t think it was the Weather Under Ground that drove the sheeple into the arms of Ronald the orator RayGun.
. Six years previous Jerry Ford had lost the Vietnam war for us and Jimmy Carter and his attermpt to understandingly deal with the Iranians ticked off the people who weren’t ready to admit the empire was already in decline.
The rise of the Reich wing media also played a role.
RayGun won more on emotion than substance.
RayGun destroyed organized labor who should have organized a lynch mob but were more afraid of going to jail.
Letting big steel create virtual corporations off shore ( In Korea) and then escape from the Nixon EPA regs and the United Steel workers by going bankrupt was never explained to the sheeple as was our involvement in Central America..
As with the Busheviks the Media was either in denial or was complicit.
We could have used some liberal voices then but we waited twenty years hiding under the bed with our thumb in our mouths . :gate: :omg: :jason: :fist:
:rofl2:
Hey Kevin… did you meet the lady with the tropical garden yet ??
Comment by fred — June 16, 2007 @ 10:17 am
Yeah, I spoke with her briefly last evening. Her name is Amy (not Winehouse, before anyone asks), not sure how old she is but certainly not older than me. I had been suspecting that the garden was the work of a retiree with a lot of time on her hands, but apparently Amy is just good at growing stuff. She said the plants are outside because she has too many now to keep in her apartment.
I was going to ask her what types of plants she is growing inside :bong: but decided to wait until we know each other a little before springing that one on her. 😀
She generously offered me use of her area whenever I want to come outside and relax, but we both agreed that this time of year it’s too damn hot to be out during the day unless it’s early AM or almost dark.
I’m thinking someone with such an interest in nature might share political leanings as well. Fodder for future conversations, hopefully.
Afternoon folks
stupid?
you want real stupid?
real stupid and ignorant to boot,
is not realising that we’re all in this together, like it or not.
Like I said, FOOKED! :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:
Actually, roxie, you pretty much got it right.
:banana: my new tv!!!!!
Got to read what you wrote 😉
A! ! V! …..Get The Party Started ……… Pink
fred: the turn to the right began years before reagan of course. but much of it was a response to the self indulgence and arrogance of the left.
included in that right turn were many of the nominally “antiwar” kids who got married, had kids, and said: sex, drugs and rock n roll were fine for me in college, but i don’t want my child exposed to that!
as far as the unions were concerned, there were few groups more right-wing and reactionary than labor unions. in their opinion, we got ours and everyone else should go fish. remember that patco endorsed ronald reagan and then paid the price.
it’s easier and more satisfying to break windows and call everyone who is acting against their own best interest a moron, i agree. but not very useful in the long run.
trust me, things are much better now in so many ways than they were in the sixties. not as fun, but we are winning the struggle.
god that sounded so “old left”: “winning the struggle” — perhaps the battle for hearts and minds is more apt?
:tommygun: winning the war for common sense……
Yeah the unions were arrogant so why didn’t they do something when RayGun screwed them ??
Were they all in la la land ??
hey sean!
why don’t you and pj and melina and the rest of you techies design a vid game: taking out the neocons!
think of the psychic release it would offer. maybe one already exists — seems pretty obvious… who capture (aiv) or :tommygun: would be worth more points? bush, cheney, rove?
And
How do you come to the conclusion that we are winning anything .. WE seem to have elected a bunch of spineless MORONS this time around.. The Sheeple will just reelect rethugs if all the demodorps can say is we need more votes..
hardly anyone understads how this debachel we call government works and that seems to include most of the people in congress. :reaper: :reaper:
Dennis Kucinich Pt. 1 of 4 I couldn’t find the other 3 parts but there was a link to NovaM and I imagine they are there.
fred:
the unions were toothless or corrupt. the trade unions like electrical workers, plumbers, etc were closed to women, minorities and anyone not a relative or friend of a current member. if the unions had continued their organizing activities into the fifties, sixties and seventies, there would have been no prez. reagan.
union members and officials got fat & lazy over their gains and were happy to exclude other workers rather than sharing the wealth or endangering their own priviledged positions.
ltely — finally — unions are turning around. andy what’s his name of sieu is a shining example. there have been other enlightened labor leaders. another guy who’s name i can’t remember headed up the aerospace machinists’ in the reagan eighties and preached against production of weapons and military hardware in general. he didn’t get much traction, however. those fat military contracts are too tempting.
Hey Krista how do these recall McInsane people in AridZona get off thinking they can do that ?
No federal rep or senator is recallable :crap:
There petition will be worth less than a non binding resolution :yuck:
You know, Fred, I don’t know much about the rules on that but they have bipartisan support for that recall. Some repug group whose name I can’t remember, signed onto that and others too. We recalled a governor here in the 90’s so maybe our state constitution has a provision for that.
fred: what i’m trying to say is:
the IDIOT MORONS of my youth and young adulthood were far bigger IDIOT MORONS than the :sheep: le of today.
honestly, things are improving — perhaps because conditions must achieve a certain horribleness to get people’s attention. racism exists but less all the time. sexism has certainly lessened a thousand percent. you just don’t understand how bad things were. anymore than i truly understand how tough things were for my parents (teenagers during the depression), my grandparents (young parents during…),…etc.
and i’m white.
The IBEW had women electricans working at GE in 1974..One was even a shift supervisor. She was a real pain in yhe drain when it came to the salaried employees working on things. The BrotherHood of Locomotive Engineers also had women engineers in that same time frame..
My Opinion………. First I Truly figure Fred was just teasing with a cynic twist, always based on truth.
I only joke here, the rest of the time — I do not have ANY LONGER a sense of humour (except smiles due to The Animals and The Seasons and the changes of the Sun or Moon and Stars. [Marc made even folk like me welcomed]).
I only know how to speak through Actions … I have traveled most of the Animal Rights/Wild Animals, Environmental, and Religious Rights, gentle and harsh.
In the early 70’s there were those who were taught to bypass the naysayers. To keep on walking through the negativity — and there always are those that are negative.
I have seen many of the few folks working for the different causes even older than I am now, when I was only 13 to 14, when I hit the streets for the DEMS. I watched, saw the “GOOD”, die along the battle side. And I am (was) the speaker also for those that couldn’t speak.
ALL SIDES ARE NEEDED! HOWEVER, I have heard the “calmer” side whilst proclaiming and “doing” gentle to intense actions. By louder Actions ONLY did we bring forth the awareness AND THE CHANGES — MANY came to be what we did in early 70’s to mid to 80’s — both for humans and animals.
Fred saves me from putting damn near exactly the same thing, so I have time to write. His sarcastic humour — always with Truth, must be herald. Alban Heriun. This is the period of The Time of The Light Of The Shore. To Arms (however you can)! To Arms (however you can)!
(he’s part of the whole)
I think the new AAR is moving to a “DO SOMETHING!” Attitude == ACTION == 8)
We believe in the positive and the glass is 1/2 full but we also need to STATE what is “going ’round” — and respond. Also, we do not know what level inwhich Fred speaks. I say “elan” but who knows. (Shhhhhh)
I am not speaking for Fred. These are just MY Views.
It is our way of LBH …….. It makes me at least laugh, with LBH.
A! I! V! … Get The Party Started ……. PINK!
Okay, I saw a cool 60’s garage punk band last night called
The Love Me Nots. 2 chicks 2 dudes. The lead singer was so cool in her white knee high boots and mini skirt. She was playing the cheesy organ but was not trapped behind it like so many. She rocked that thing back and forth like someone trying to get their stuck candy bar to drop from the candy machine. I’ve been listening to their cd all day. I am such a sucker for that kind of music and they really pull it off well.
Any verdicts on Lil Bush? Worth seeking out and watching for this IM?
IM what IM.
druid:
yeah, i’m much more negative in attitude about environmental/nature rather than political stuff.
still, as a species, we’re awfuly good at getting out of the shit we get ourselves into. bacterial cultures “crash” when they run out of nutrients and/or toxify their environment with waste. the babylonians and egyptians figured out how to grow and store grain on a large scale and the romans built the first serious sewer system.
I think I’m going to sleep early (not that anyone cares). :yawn:
Maybe I’ll wake up and have a Greek omelet.
The Love Me Nots on MySpace :omg:
hello/nighty night trav,
are you going to the am1090 thing july 14th (thom, young t’s, steph, mike, big heady)? i’m working, unfortunately.
vernon:
haven’t seen it yet. is it on tonight?
Oh, too cool, I didn’t know they were from here, I thought they were just passing through with another band. Yay! My garage punk hankering can be satisfied on a regular basis now! :yippee:
Hey, the first place I ever lived in in SF is on the market for almost a mil. My rent was $165, not an hour. And I am talking about two 1 BRs in what used to be the flat on the first floor at the top o’ the steps. There are 4 more 1 BR units above.
:omg:
Lil Bush on Comedy Central. Not sure when it repeats. I’d have to seek it on the internets.
vern:
speaking of the sixties, did you know that mike malloy worked on “the great speckled bird,” atlanta’s underground paper. cool, huh?
I saw that. I was probably in VA at that time and saw a few. There was also a Great Speckled Bird that would fit into the Farina and Kweskin niche featuring the Tysons (no foul puns intended 😉 ).
and who said anything about the 60s?
v:
ever see “the helix” from seattle? i worked on that for a year or so. the underground papers were the internet of the day.
information is so much more available now, thank goddess.
we even had a news service, LNS, liberation news service. sort of like “truthout” or “raw story.” every paper that subscribed to LNS sent copies to every other member and had automatic copywrite permission.
the local chapter of the black panthers used our typesetting equipment for their dispatches to the national panther paper. of course none of the panther guys would do the typing…that was their girlfriends’ job. we white women’s liberationists
found that both disturbing and amusing.
on the other hand, purity was very much an issue then too. advertising was the main revenue and the record companies and the dirty movie houses were mainstays — so we got trashed periodicaly by the more radical feminists.
jeesh: fred has got me waxing nostagic tonight…
Oh, those 60s. :doh: :smack:
I don’t remember The Helix. I was EC then , but I do remember LNS and the Panthers and their sexism.
As long as we can keep it operational, the channels of communication are far superior to what we had then. Lots of opportunities but I am just one IM.
hey hey
lil bush is on at 3:30 after 6 episodes of south park, only 2 of which i’ve seen.
big saturday nite for moi!
later.
I think Seanie liked it. I guess I will DL it if the internets be kind.
:yawn:
I get here just when all is leaving? Is anyone still here or did I kill the BLOG
…and as even David Bowers said, agreeing with Dave Foreman,
Entropy is running rapid … as dried grass is to a fire … we are on flames. As Marvin Gaye said …
Mercy, Mercy Me … (The Ecology)
How Much More From Man Can She Stand? to be cont……
A! I! V!.
But still listening to Pink …… Rock 😉
and great outfit.
C-Ya 😉 *Poof*
A! I! V! ….. Get This Party Started …….(loop) PINK!
My Lil Bush download is complete so perhaps I’ll report later.
Lame.