It’s supposed to be miserable hot here today. No, not 130 degrees or anything, but hot and muggy, which is pretty sucky. Fortunately, there’s some cooler air behind it, so all we have to do is get through some thunderstorms (the dog really doesn’t care for the boom-booms, unfortunately), and then there’s supposed to be some better weather for a few days. Probably turn to shit for the weekend.
Juneteenth
Good Evening / Good Morning ALL
Tea Cheers … :joe:
I’m Coming Out,
So you Better Get This Party Started.
….
Will be looking fashion,
in my Mercedes-Benz
…
I’ll be burning rubber.
You’ll be kissing my ass
…
I can go for miles, ya know what I meannnnnnnn.
Sweet Dreams are made of this….Everbody is looking for something…..
Everybody Dancing and they’re dancing with me.
… I’m Coming Out So You Better Get This Party Started.
Get this Party started, yeh, Get This Party Started…..
A!I!V! … (I didn’t know she sang one of my favorite songs)
HEY, WHAT’S GOING ON … PINK! … I PRAY (TIME) FOR A REVOLUTION
I didn’t think anyone was here.
Tea :joe: Cheers Vernon … I talked with Roxie tonight :love:
A!I!V! What’s Going On? ,,, Pink :fist: 8)
No more News Daddy?
❓
In the words of Amy Winehouse, WHAT KIND OF FUCKERY IS THIS?
:fu: Green.
What a shitty way to start the day.
:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 😮 😮 😯 😯
❓ ❓ Whatever :sheep: le
Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe
Source: ABC News
Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.
A Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some 300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on their suicide missions.
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U.S. intelligence officials described the event as another example of “an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign.”
http://tinyurl.com/2sa3xv
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:omg: 😮 😮 😯 😯 🙄 🙄
Congress to Vote on School of the Americas this Wed.
Source: School of the Americas Watch
Congress Will Decide the Fate of the former School of the Americas this Wednesday June 20th, 2007
Washington, DC – Congress is expected to vote this week on an amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill that would cut funding to the controversial Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the School of the Americas (SOA). The amendment will be offered by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA).
The SOA/WHINSEC, a military training facility for Latin American military and police, has graduated at least 11 military dictators and over 60,000 soldiers, many of which have been linked to some of the worst human rights abuses committed in Central and South America. The school made headlines in 1996 when the Pentagon released training manuals used at the institution that advocated torture, extortion and execution. Despite this admission and hundreds of documented human rights abuses committed by soldiers trained at the school, no independent investigation into the facility has ever taken place.
Support for the former School of the Americas has significantly declined. In May, the Costa Rican government vowed to stop sending Costa Rican police to train at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). The Central American nation is the fourth country after Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela to cut ties with the school, citing its history of military intervention and human rights abuses.
On June 9, 2006, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) introduced an amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill that would have cut funding for the SOA/WHINSEC. While the amendment failed by a 15 vote margin, 35 Representatives who opposed the amendment lost their seats in the 2006 mid-term elections.
Protests calling for the closure of the School of the Americas/WHINSEC have taken place at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia every November since 1990. The annual vigil and nonviolent direct action coincides with the November 16 anniversary of the University of Central America massacre during which SOA graduates assassinated 14-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and six Jesuit priests in San Salvador
Please Take Action and contact your Representative and urge her/him to support the McGovern amendment to cut funding for the SOA/WHINSEC –
http://tinyurl.com/36lsgx
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If the demodorp congress funds it that should say something about who’s pockets they are in .. :reaper: :reaper:
U.S. Homebuilder Confidence Declines to 16-Year Low
Source: Bloomberg
On June 18 (Bloomberg) — Confidence among U.S. homebuilders fell this month to the lowest since February 1991 as interest rates climbed and delinquencies surged.
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Homebuilders including Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. are losing money as they cut prices to stem a slide in sales amid stricter standards for getting mortgages. Builders have scaled back projects to work off bloated inventories, a sign housing construction will weigh on growth for the rest of the year, economists say.
“There will be continuing declines in home building through the second half” of this year, said Robert Mellman, an economist at JPMorgan Chase Corp. in New York. “If rates hadn’t gone up, we would have expected it would have stabilized. We’ve put off the stabilization in housing until early next year.”
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Housing Starts
Building permits, which signal intentions of starting projects, fell in April to the lowest since June 1997. The Commerce Department may say tomorrow that housing starts fell last month to an annual rate of 1.473 million, from 1.528 million in April, according to the median forecast.
http://tinyurl.com/2n4jm4
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According to Fartman if there are no jobs the Mexican immigrants they use for labor will go home :paranoid: :paranoid:
On the other hand campaign contributions may take a big hit just before the big pay off .. err. election.. :reaper: :reaper:
Farmers File Federal Lawsuit Over Hemp
Two North Dakota farmers have filed a lawsuit to grow industrial hemp, a cousin of marijuana used to make everything from paper to lotion, without interference from federal drug agents.
The lawsuit filed by Dave Monson, a state legislator who farms near Osnabrock, and Wayne Hauge, a farmer from Ray, is backed by Vote Hemp, an industrial hemp advocacy group.
In February, Monson and Hauge were issued the nation’s first licenses to grow industrial hemp, which falls under federal anti-drug rules.
The state licenses are essentially worthless without permission from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, and the farmers could be arrested for growing the crop.
http://tinyurl.com/3cg8fk
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Since you can’t smoke hemp why is it controled by the DEA ?? .. Maybe the distillers are afraid you might make your own bourbon.. and 😮 😮 Your own ethyl alcholol to run your car. :crap:
Wall Street’s undertow: drugs and anxiety
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street’s push for record profits is ruining careers, tearing apart families and keeping drug dealers busy, mental health experts say…
http://tinyurl.com/yr89ja
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Not to mention the possibility of going on a prolonged vacation at San Quentin. :reaper: :reaper:
BTW :pirate: :yippee: Vernon is #1 , ALPHA :yippee: :pirate:
A!I!V! … G.T.P.S.
And
The news summary .
. From our valued left sided media
😮 😮 Oh dear
😮 😮 Oh dear
Oops up against a hard break now a PSA from the DEA
And
From the Reich disinformation service
:yawn: :yawn: :yuck: :crap:
:yawn: :yawn: :crap: :yuck:
Now a word from our sponsors Lockheed Martin and ADM
Tea Cheers Fred :pirate: :yippee: now I have to go and read what ya wrote 😉 its time to get this party started :pirate: :yippee:
SENATORS DEMAND JUSTICE DEPT. INVESTIGATION INTO TIM GRIFFIN, RNC 2004 VOTE CAGING ALLEGATIONS
Sens. Kennedy and Whitehouse Send Letter to DoJ Inspector General’s Office Seeking Probe into RNC Voter Supression Tactics
Inquiry Into What Justice Officials Knew About Griffin’s Vote Caging Activities When He Was Named as US Attorney for Arkansas
Senators Kennedy and Whitehouse have sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demanding a probe by the DoJ’s Office of the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility into “allegations that the Republican National Committee engaged in ‘vote caging’ during the 2004 elections.”
The letter, sent today to Gonzales, also requests an investigation into “whether any Department officials were aware of allegations that Tim Griffin had engaged in caging when he was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and whether appropriate action was taken.”
The complete letter, and a press release sent along with it, is posted in full at the end of this article.
“The Republican Party has a long and ignominious record of caging – much of it focused on the African American community,” Kennedy and Whitehouse explain in their letter which gives details of the RNC using voting caging tactics to suppress minority voters in both 1981 and 1986. After both incidents, the GOP had signed consent decrees that they would not engage in the activity in the future…
http://tinyurl.com/2zx7fx
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I’m sure Gonzo will take action .. Do you get the impression that things are a bit F*ed up :reaper: :reaper:
re 6 Fred, what is there left to say:
:omg: 😮 😮 😯 😯 🙄 🙄 :omg:
and a few Silent Screams — bloody hell
BTW re hemp :yippee: I hope they get to grow a plantation.
Oy, 80 degrees out already, and the elevator isn’t working. Tough day to be on the ninth floor (though I found the walk up rather invigorating).
re 8 cut funding for the SOA/WHINSEC – :yippee:
re 9 :nod: :paranoid: :omg:
As long as the illness effecting the elevator doesn’t spread to the AC it sounds like you are ok until lunch..
Its only around 60 right now but is supposed to get up to 85 today :hot: :hot:
PJ, Good To See You Pop In…..Keep On Keeping On, Oh Great Leader 😉
A!I!V! … G.T.P.S. and WHat’s Going On … Pink
re 10 Fred, Wall Street’s undertow: drugs and anxiety
GREED is Good I guess. :barf:
14 :pirate: :yippee: … Hit them HARD ❗
A!I!V! … Let’s Get This Party Started :dancers:
I don’t think the DEA goes after the elite only the poor who can’t afford a lawyer where they probably confiscate the drugs and then re sell them under the table to the elite .. That avoids the possible scenario of the DEA arresting the DEA in the act of suppling the DEA Thats the way the Mob works you know :reaper: :reaper:
The sad thing is that once upon a time … there were educated cops is how many Sheriff O.’s and P.D.’s
where moving toward a very few decades ago.
Now it is JUST dull big muscle goons in “black garb” with semi’s .
A!I!V! LOOP’D … Get This Party Started and WHAT’S GOING ON ❓ … reminds me of “stop baby what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going ’round”?
Uh-oh. Now my window A/C died. This could really suck when it gets above 90.
SELFISH STUFF:
So what is everyone listening to? Steph is a rerun and I will no longer bother with Lionel.
Well, I will for now just have on and dance to PINK 😉
(and I am really dancing :dancers: )
“I’mmmm coming out so you better get this party started”
The Beat and the Dancers and PINK! are perfect and work even for (giggle) scanning :yawn: Misanthropic “stuff” 🙄
AND the video makes Me Smile And MOVE. 8) … A!I!V!
PJ, sorry. I guess I am having to much fun at work …
I hear when the A/C dies in NY it really, really “sucks” …
A!I!V! … Tea :joe: Cheers and Poof 😉
:smack: So, my computer froze this morning. The mouse was moving but nothing was clicking when I clicked on it. I tried force quit etc… So, I called tech support and since my 90 day support was over with I had to buy the Applecare package. I figured I’d have to buy it someday but I wanted to wait til I needed it. So, I bought it and the guy couldn’t help me and said I would have to bring the machine in to a store to see if it was the computer or the wireless devices blah blah blah. While sitting here dejected, I decided to turn the mouse off and on and whadda you know, it works now. :smack:
Maybe you need to get a PC
Been dying to say that
Are you kidding?? That was the first problem I’ve had with this. And it wouldn’t have been a problem if I’d thought to turn the damned mouse off and on.
I am kidding but how do you turn a mouse on and off?
always turn on and off and plug and unplug….it resets the device…
Lookee here…a 500 gig hard drive for $99!!
Ive been watching the msnbc candidate forum with chris matthews questioning the dem lineup…its been very good.
plug and unplug…some have a button to connect to wireless…
pop battery in and out….??
I thought it said “steam”. It made me miss Jim Earl.
:rofl2: 😮 I am glad for my PC for once. :rofl2: Sick Humour :doh:
A!I!V! … G.T.P.S. …. (loop) PINK
90 days and then you have to pay for Applecare?
Question? When on Sam’s site and one EDITS confirm it HAS to go back to the beginning? The EDITED posts looks like one has just posted, when in truth it is an old post. Also except for posting a time on it, is there anyother way?
A!I!V! Pink (like MY 😮 (one must be kidding) house. But 8) )
Since asking about Sam’s site, I have never been able to sign off yet, since I am on Sam’s Blog — how do I sign off? Do I have to bring up another page?
A!I!V! … PINK ….. G.T.P.S. (on loop)
I should listen to something important, but this DANCES
(also when I turn off computer … it does not take my name off Sam’s site. — others sign off?
a steam computer 🙂
A computer that could run from the steam coming out of my ears :rant1: 😡
Hmmm anger as a renewable energy resource. :rofl2:
a steam computer
Probably not available from Apple
I am kidding but how do you turn a mouse on and off?
Comment by vernon — June 19, 2007 @ 10:25 am
Mouse porn? Naked pictures of Minnie?
Teeny tiny vibrators?
:hubba:
kevin
those are all turn ons.
turn offs?
dirty fingernails, cat pix…
oh oh oh!
we need some de-con for the rats in the whitehouse!
I keep serving it up for you guys to knock it out of the park.
Now who will be the first to call me vermin?
vernon:
i guess we now know what the other kids called you. i’ve heard worse.
actually that would make a good quizilla: your name and unfortunate childhood nickname.
From the venerable rock scribe Dave Marsh…
If you could send and/or post the following email message wherever it might find receptive minds, that would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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Worth checking out and subscribing to sez VERON.
:no: You naughty Vermin, you. Except you do know how I feel for My Rats … right? :love:
Nary a thought for toxic vermin rethugs, vermin tsk tsk :dancers: 😉
A!I!V! G.T.P.S. ……… (still loop and dance) PINK!
Back in the 80’s a couple of new age types wanted to open an acid rock and rap radio station in Rapid City SD and couldn’t understand why the FCC turned down the request for the call letters KRAP :paranoid: :paranoid:
There has to be some parallel in history for Randi Rant..Maybe in the French puppet government controlled part of France during WWII explaining why there “government” was having to go along with the Reich so much, “The grand apologist.” :reaper: :reaper:
I don’t know Krista…. turning on your mouse sounds…. well…. 😮
I thought Apples were infallible ..but yours is an Intel apple :fustrate: :fustrate: :paranoid: :paranoid:
But in Seattle there was KRAB..remember Roxie? :nod:
It amazes me how many people that call into the lefty talk radio think the SBR is the only super power on the planet and is invincible.. Between the Chinese and the Russians we probably have no less than 1600 ICBMs with 4000 warheads aimed at us. and then there is the almost undetectable FEDEX and Sea Land delivery systems. :reaper: :reaper:
Not to mention the Chinese contribution to our food chain 😮
Mayor Bloomberg leaving Republican Party
Michael R. Bloomberg, a longtime Democrat who switched to the Republican Party to run for mayor of New York City in 2001, announced this evening that he is changing his party status and registering as an independent.
Mr. Bloomberg maintained that “my plans for the future haven’t changed,†but his decision — the first change in party affiliation by a sitting New York City mayor since 1971, when John V. Lindsay switched from Republican to Democrat — immediately set off intense speculation that he will enter the 2008 presidential race as an independent.
Mr. Bloomberg, 65, a billionaire businessman, narrowly beat a Democrat, Mark Green, in his first run for elected office, in 2001. He was re-elected by a wide margin in 2005.
http://tinyurl.com/3x5uco
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Did Bloomturd have a revelation ?? Perhaps it was a vision of his head and :gate: :omg:
States Face Decisions on Who Is Mentally Fit to Vote
Advocates for the mentally ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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How about disqualifying sociopaths :reaper: :reaper:
Lawmaker sued over incident with cockroach-clad protester
An anti-abortion leader is suing a legislator who was fined for assaulting him while he was protesting in a cockroach costume during last year’s Kansas State Fair.
Troy Newman, president of the Wichita-based anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, alleges Rep. Vaughn Flora, D-Topeka, violated his free speech rights. The lawsuit, which calls Flora’s conduct “socially outrageous, politically oppressive and beyond the bounds of decency which a civilized society should tolerate,” seeks $75,000 in damages.
The incident occurred in September 2006, as Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat seeking her second term, was debating her Republican opponent at the fair before more than 2,000 spectators. Flora ripped Newman’s mask off his face, leaving a 2-inch cut, according to the lawsuit.
“We’re looking at a situation here where a message is sent to a crowd of about 2,000 people that this how we deal with political dissent,” Bryan Brown, Newman’s attorney, said in an interview Monday. “It’s a message that in Kansas, pro-life political dissent can be dealt with a smash to the face.”
http://tinyurl.com/2pxfq6
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One shouldn’t go to such extremes to identify ones self as a rethug :reaper: :reaper:
I always ask at Asian restaurants if they use real crab or krab with a “k”.
The SF Giants used to have an anti-mascot called Crazy Crab. Now they have an atrocity named Lou Seal who more resembles a giant rat than a seal. I like to think they were trying to taunt pitcher Dave Stewart for an embarrassing incident he experienced once as an LA Dodger.
Carla Marinucci: Bloomberg-Schwarzenegger in ’08?
Yeah, that kinda blows, so I’m gonna try and get my money’s worth out of it. I think they offer other services with that.
the mouse has a little switch on the bottom, on off. So does the wireless keyboard.
OK, if any of you are jonesing for 24, here is something and where is PG24 anyway?
Scalia asks, ‘Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?’
Is there something in the CT water?
:yawn: … bah humbug
WHO THE BLOODY HELL ARE THESE FREAKS
YUCK …. A!I!V! What is today that I am not getting them — Where’s STEPH?
G.T.P.S. … WTF
I Cry Sometimes When I’m Lying in Bed
Just to Get It Out Whilst It’s In My Head…
…..
I’M Feeling A Little Peculiar….
I STEP OUTSIDE ….I take A Deep Breath ….
AND GET REAL HIGH AND
SCREAM AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS
WHAT’S GOING ON?
AND I SAID HEY , WHAT’S GOING ON?
I PRAY FOR THE SAKE OF DAY
FOR A REVOLUTION! … PINK
yeah blue,
i remember KRAB — i was so pissed when they sold the license and set up the “jack straw” foundation.
a radio statiion is a terrible thing to lose.
:omg: Bloomberg-Schwarzenegger in ‘08? 😮
plus: latest chinese trade good atrocities — floating eyeball toys filled with kerosene and toy train sets with lead-based paints… this can’t all be accidental!
Many small SF stations are no longer there … sniff
WHAT’S GOING ON?
I feel The Chinese GOV is trying to poison us and our animals. AMERICA Is Wrong To EVER Trade With Them Again!
GET IT AMERICA ❗
Why? LAND! Close All Borders UNTIL WE CAN SEE
WHAT’S GOING ON!?!
None of my Apple mice have an on/off button so I can’t get them off or on. :nana:
The Good . :nod: … Branford M . (and Winton M….. 8)
A!I!V! … Whoever…
WOW …. Now I Understand …. It’s PM NOT AM :smack:
Now that was strange …. it’s evening Bloody L…
A.I.V. …… G.T.P.S. …… Pink!
C-Ya, I have to finish what I was working on — SCANNING = :yawn: … No Tea :joe: First. :yippee:
GOOD EVENING, Roxie, SBlueHeron, Vernon, and anyone else … T- :joe: CHEERS … Actually, I wish I would fall asleep at this time, ALL THE TIME, but i have to do it on purpose …..PERFECT! Now It’s SUNSET, :pirate: :yippee:
druid: i think you can change your computer’s clock to 24 hrs. with your crazy schedule, you need something like that.
roxieseattle, :rofl2: my computer aught to Luv to be 24 hr (NOT :spank: Bad Computer) And NEVER wake to Laura :omg: … (nice! Pink Floyd)
A!I!V! … Evanesence …. … Going Under
Yea Mike :pirate: :yippee: ….mwah haha
:pup: :bong: hi from the rockies……