So, what’s up for today? On Press the Meat, we’ll talk a little Iraq, as Timmy Potatohead has Jim Jones (the General, not the other one) and Charles Ramsey of the Iraqi Security Forces Independent Assessment Commission, plus Sen. MBNA, Joe Biden, fresh from Iraq. Then it’s a fair and balanced roundtable with Christian Broadcasting nut, David Brody and WSJ hack, John Harwood.
Over on CBS, Bush Buddy Bobby Schieffer has Teddy Kennedy and Gerry Ford’s and Bush I’s National Security Adviser (not to mention Henry Kissinger’s pal), Brent Scowcroft, on to talk abut Iraq, Gonzo, and “Politics.”
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has li’l Lindsey Graham on to shill for the “surge,” and dubya’s “Homeland Security Adviser” Fran Townsend (on to review Osama’s latest video), plus everybody’s favorite DINO, Dianne Feinstein. And then there’s the usual Fux News douchebags.
At the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus hosts the increasingly irrelevant Saint John McCain, plus that guy that ran with John Edwards in 2004. Then, then axis of drivel is reunited, as Sam :omg: Donaldson, Cokie “the hag” Roberts, and George :jerk: Will sit around the table and blow smoke up each other’s asses. Plus Alan Alda will be on to hawk his new book.
Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission consists of George Joulwan (former NATO Supreme Commander), Mowaffak al-Rubaie (Iraqi National Security Adviser), all talk, no action Arlen Specter, Barbara Boxer, Mike “Huckleberry” Huckabee, and Wolfie will trot out Fran Townsend again, as well as a collection of CNN hacks.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Katie Couric (whoopdie-doo) does a story on the of firemen, policemen, construction and other workers who are sick and dying because they breathed the toxic dust on the “pile” at the World Trade Center. I guess Katie must’ve gotten the idea from Michael Moore. Steve Kroft reports on how the rest of you bastids better start bowing down to the geeks if you ever want to use your electronic gadgets and computers again. And then they’ll run an old Mike Wallace story on Pavarotti (who is still dead).
But, who cares about all that shit? It’s football season again! Finally, something us stupid people can sit down and enjoy again. Have a good one.
:pirate: “That’s All I Can Stand, I Can’t Stand No More” :pirate:
Alpha :knit: :pent: A!I!V! … :dancers:
Pretty boring day in the Booblehood. Not much Fred Thompson on the preview.
We might need a little football.
Of Course She Would Have To Do Something as grand since many are complaining — even on many airways. :nana: :rofl2: :pirate:
Subject: Newest Element: Bushcronium
The National Institute of Science, a major research institute, has just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named “Bushcronium.” Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving an atomic mass of 311. These particles are held together by dark forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
The symbol for Bushcronium is “W”.
Bushcronium’s mass actually increases over time, as morons randomly interact with various elements of the atmosphere and become assistant deputy neutrons in a Bushcronium molecule, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to believe that Bushcronium is formed wherever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a “critical
morass”. When catalyzed with money, Bushcronium activates Foxnewsium, an element that radiates orders of magnitude more energy, albeit as incoherent noise, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
PJ are you going to put up with Vernon calling this work of art Booblehood “boring” ? :slap: :yippee: A!I!V! :nana:
andy aka Aquaman re 4 :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: BRAVO :yippee: A!I!V!
just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named “Bushcronium.†:rofl2: :rofl2:
So, this might be bullshit of course, but it’s kinda scary.
If that’s true PJ this is serious shit. It will all be over for us as a nation on a globe of nations.
Mummy of girl sacrificed by Incans prompts gasps
SALTA, Argentina (AP) — Museum-goers gasped at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden that is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she was sacrificed and froze to death in the Andes.
Charles Goyette was talking about the likely hood of us hitting Iran. If service people are starting to feel that way maybe they should just not fight. Suppose they give a war and no one comes. :knit2:
I tried to find that song I mentioned above, on You Tube but could not find it there. I did find it in itunes and downloaded it. Is there a way I can post it here on the blog, PJ? “Suppose They Give a War and No One Comes” by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
If it’s in the proprietary, bullshit, Apple DRM-crippled format, there’s not much I can do with it (not to mention, I’d hate to run afoul of the RIAA). You could always try the torrent (though there may not be a whole lot of people seeding it).
Of course, you could perhaps make a video using that song as the sound, and then post that to YouTube.
I think that’s what other videos are for that band. The only reason I downloaded it from itunes is because I wanted to hear it NOW. I’ll probably just see if the record store could order it for me.
For two hours, President Bush listened to contrasting visions of the U.S. future in Iraq. Gen. David H. Petraeus dominated the conversation by video link from Baghdad, making the case to keep as many troops as long as possible to cement any security progress. Adm. William J. Fallon, his superior, argued instead for accepting more risks in Iraq, officials said, in order to have enough forces available to confront other potential threats in the region.
The polite discussion in the White House Situation Room a week ago masked a sharper clash over the U.S. venture in Iraq, one that has been building since Fallon, chief of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees Middle East operations, sent a rear admiral to Baghdad this summer to gather information. Soon afterward, officials said, Fallon began developing plans to redefine the U.S. mission and radically draw down troops.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090801846.html?wpisrc=newsletter
– Few things united this wildly diverse city more than the devastating events of Sept. 11, 2001. But, as the sixth anniversary of that dark day approaches, that sense of unity is being seriously tested amid a cacophony of controversies that has left some New Yorkers sniping at each other like family members at a funeral.
Perhaps the biggest target: former mayor and Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose planned appearance near Ground Zero on Tuesday to deliver a short reading is being assailed by critics. His decision to speak while running a presidential campaign sparked a scathing New York Times editorial and infuriated a smattering of family members of victims and firefighter groups, particularly those who have long blamed Giuliani for not doing enough to upgrade emergency equipment before the attacks. Those critics, in turn, are being assailed by Giuliani supporters for suggesting that he would use such a reverent moment for a vote-grabbing publicity stunt.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090801459.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Rudy? Use 9/11 as a publicity stunt? How could anybody think that?
And, I know NYC is a “big city” (much like Texas is a “big state”), but does being a fucking mayor really qualify you to be the prez? I mean, there’s a bit of a different scope there. I wonder if anybody has ever become president with no higher elected office experience than mayor?
And an incompetent mayor at that.
A while ago I wrote about an appearance of Giuliani in Red Hook, during which he posted snipers on the roofs with their guns trained on the small audience that had been invited to attend a ground breaking for a local court. I had always thought that that was done because, at the time, Red Hook was feuding with the mayor over the siting of garbage dumps. I WAS WRONG.
A friend of mine is a stained glass artist with a shop in the East Village. Yesterday, she told me that at a similar community event Giuliani had place snipers on the roof aimied at the audience.
Imagine what this megalomaniac could do as president.
Giuliani talks about placing his emergency command center in the World Trade Center because it was in walking distance from City Hall. It turns out that he made that walk often on weekends and evenings where he and the ever obnoxious Judi Nathan took a private elevator to the unoccupied facility .
I am sure, as this was a tax payer financed project, that they were there to make sure that it was functioning properly.
I just assume 😮 Giuliani will never make it this far…
You East Coast Folk will take of ‘im. :nod: :banana: A!I!V! :dancers:
XM Radio has recently started to preempt the Air America channel 167 for football broadcasts. Evidently, they need the extra bandwidth to borrow spectrum from AAR to handle the bits coming from the play-by-play on the other football channels. So its weird in that the AAR channel is still on but a robotic voice keeps repeating what the situation is and that AAR will return in a few hours.
I was really mad at first but then I found that the America Right channel is getting the same treatment. I guess the discussion of all the ills of the USA are no competition for broadcasts of teenagers beating themselves upside the head.
Sue P. re 20 WTF
A friend of mine is a stained glass artist with a shop in the East Village. Yesterday, she told me that at a similar community event Giuliani had place snipers on the roof aimied at the audience. WTF
:tommygun: :dancers:
except friend “working” with “stained Glass” SUPER 8) :dancers:
:fist: A!I!V! … Journey … Now DON’T LAUGH :no: :spank:
So Web, what’s your team down there :rofl2: LBH A!I!V!
(I have teams teehee kinda sorta giggle 8) 🙄 )
Kp, perhaps this will have to do
TSOL, not WCPAEB
Happy Birthday, Miss Pamela Des Barres :cake:
PJ re 7 Yes, I totally believe we are going to strike and there is not a bloody thing i can do except send cards and make calls and feel absolutely helpless. 😥 A!I!V! :growl: :fist: not ready to make nice … dixie chicks
druid:
my thoughts exactly…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giyO8ho74pE
Roxieseattle, Very 8) :peace: 😉 … :pirate: a.i.v.
I am sure, as this was a tax payer financed project, that they were there to make sure that it was functioning properly.
Comment by Sue P — September 9, 2007 @ 1:13 pm
Of course. Judi Nathan was inspecting Rudy’s shaft.
:barf:
Next Week … with Maron :yippee:
Kevin, i can’t believe you would think that of a person running on family values. :no:
In fact, when all this was happening, Giuliani’s apologists told us that he was impotent as a result of his prostate cancer treatment. Made us all feel much better.
Druid, what’s happening next week with Maron?
Thanks Vern, I saw that one too. Now I’m on a mission. Must find anti war song. So, I was talking to my record store friend and I am amazed at how much vinyl is going for these days. He said he sold his Big Black metal case, (was that Headache?) for $700. Said he could of got $1000 if he’d waited for winter. Vinyl is like gold right now!
What anti-war song? One in particular? One from Phil Ochs.
That’s good news on the vinyl if I ever get around to selling mine.
Sam had said Sue P that Maron and Seder are working on something and NEXT SUNDAY Marc “is” on. (so said Sam). :fist: A!I!V!
Kristapea, I heard of that “anti-war song” but if you and Vernon can’t find it I surely am there for a :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: :peace: 😉 A!I!V!
It sounded like a definite maybe to me on Maron next Seder on Sunday and maybe in an ongoing role but Sam did also say that he and Marc might start doing some ad hoc things during the week, whatever that means.
Wonder if Marc hooked up with Angus while in Scotland?
I hope Anguus wasn’t too brutal with him :spank:
SBlueheron , Vernon :no: :spank: :hubba: A!I!V! Not Ready…
I am still trying to get my “head” around this … and having found out recently (certain years) I have some Native American Blood but very intense N.A. Blood (…and Druid, Witch (Wiccan), w/ Sea Sheperds, Animist, Shaman, and … …. Whatever 🙄 … …
I Am So Not Amused! :tap: A!I!V! :tap: :dancers: of :reaper:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_re_us/whale_shot
Dixie Chicks … Not Ready To Make Nice
…and of course Blackwater … :tommygun: :dancers: of :reaper: A!I!V! :pirate: :dancers:
:cold: :paranoid: :cold: 😮 :omg: reading end to amer :dancers:
A reminder that the Univision debate begins at the top of the hour. Only Richardson and Dodd speak fluent Spanish, so the questions will be repeated in English for the other candidates, as well as for us Anglos. One of these days I’m going to learn that language, dammit.
:smack:
Kevin M., Your post has the exact time, thus
“Chiney, Smoke, Our Wish Cannot be Broke___(make a wish)” 😉 :dancers: also thx re debate. 🙂
D666,
My team? The Wolverine teenagers who got pummelled and embarrassed twice in a row. No not really, but funnier than heck.
como est don quixotes?
Dear Mr. W.H.Telescope, My strange computer is being weirdly “strange” and no EMOs so I have to type 😮 :rant1:
Well, first I will say 49’ers, AT TIMES 😳
AND “Wolverines”. WOW. (teehee) just teasing cuz ya said “pummelled and embarrassed” . :dancers: 😉
:growl: A!I!V!
Druid, thanks. That would be a wonderful thing to have Seder and Maron. :banana:
A troop of Red Hook chickens will share a bill with Willie Nelson and Neil Young at Sunday’s eco-chic Farm Aid rock benefit on Randall’s Island.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/35/30_35chickens.html
The chickens in Red Hook, Brooklyn get VIP treatment!
50, Sue P 8) 😉
WebHubbleTelescope … you win. :yippee:
tooooo many “Wolverines” … you can see I only follow on passion. Also, I was the few Proud Poor Starving Students — at Yea Trojans and I don’t mean that kind. :no: :boobs: A!I!V!
This is pretty friggin’ cool.
That is cool, PJ.
Yeah, renting mopeds and driving them on the beach for a couple of hours is also pretty cool.
Off to the beach to make a fire. :bong: Later, peeps
In a simple experiment being reported today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.
Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions.
The results show “there are two cognitive styles — a liberal style and a conservative style,” said UCLA neurologist Dr. Marco Iacoboni, who was not connected to the latest research.
Participants were college students whose politics ranged from “very liberal” to “very conservative.” Scientists instructed them to tap a keyboard when an M appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from tapping when they saw a W.
M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter.
Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics10sep10,0,5982337.story?coll=la-home-center
Well if Nixon could do it, maybe a Dem could.
Click the play button.
vernon et al:
my favorite day/nite on npr. on the media. tavist smiley. up next (on kuow-fm) = american routes — 2 hr special on johnny cash! should be good!
http://www.kuow.org/listen/listen_live.asp
sue p:
but we knew dems are smarter, more flexible, more nuanced (a dirty word to righties). right?
nice to see it proved scientifically, but as randi once said, “forget it. it’s too sciencey!”
another interesting study that just came out:
sue p:
but we knew dems are smarter, more flexible, more nuanced (a dirty word to righties). right?
nice to see it proved scientifically, but as randi once said, “forget it. it’s too sciencey!”
another interesting study that just came out:
CDC issued a flyer to combat myths about the flu vaccine. It recited various commonly held views and labeled them either “true†or “false.†Among those identified as false were statements such as “The side effects are worse than the flu†and “Only older people need flu vaccine.†(sorry kristapea and raging granny)
When University of Michigan social psychologist Norbert Schwarz had volunteers read the CDC flier, however, he found that within 30 minutes, older people misremembered 28 percent of the false statements as true. Three days later, they remembered 40 percent of the myths as factual.
Younger people did better at first, but three days later they made as many errors as older people did after 30 minutes. Most troubling was that people of all ages now felt that the source of their false beliefs was the respected CDC.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300933_pf.html
I wasn’t saying the cdc was lying but I think they exaggerate the need for the flu vaccine. And I’m suspicious as to why they are always pushing it so damned hard. It’s always bugged me. One winter I got the flu like 3 times. It was horrible but I never got antibiotics or a flu shot. I just tried to take care of myself and let my immune system do its job. That following summer I went to Alaska to get rich. Which didn’t happen, of course, but that’s another story. And all the people up from the “lower 48” got this nasty cold they called “The Alaskan Gunk” or something like that. I never got it despite my erratic diet or partying all night or working my ass off on fishing boats. I was healthy the whole summer and I owe it to my super duper immune system that fought off 3 bouts of the flu the previous winter. It’s much better to be sick at home than when traveling.
I, on the other hand, sometimes get 2 shots a year, early in the season and later, in case they altered the virus strains during production of the vaccine. eventually, i’ll have immunity to every possible strain — or that’s the plan anyway.
the only reason, i’d boycott any vaccine is if it was preserved with thimerosol (a mercury compound).
Roxie, I saw that study about how refuting wrong ideas can, in fact, reinforce them. People do hear what they want to hear. Probably Socrates had the best method: keep asking questions until the questionee comes to his own conclusion, led there though he was.
I also read what Krista and RG had to say about the flu vaccine. As they did not explain exactly what makes them doubt its efficacy I can’t form much of an opinion. RG said many health care workers think rather poorly of it. I’d like to know more.
My own experience was as a teacher. New teachers, exposed to all the colds and flus of their students generally have some very bad years and then one of two things happens. Some seem to get some immunity, as KP says she did and some seem to become more susceptible.
Of course, I was in the latter group. In spite of doing all I could including hand washing and a healthy diet of lots of veggies I got the flu every year. The flu vaccine was a my only rescue. Unless there is some important reason not to have it, I would much rather take a shot than have the flu, which is basically the choice I have.
like i said, sue, might be a good idea to avoid thimerosol-preserved vaccine (multi-dose vials must have preservatives, usually thimerosol).
single dose vials or preloaded syringes usually don’t is my understanding.
thimerosol is wierd stuff. some people are sensitive to it, some not. i think that the reaction some people have from flu shots is mercury sensitivity.
when i got contact lenses many years ago, not too long after soft contacts came out, at first i had no problems. within a couple of weeks, however, i started having problems. when i went back to the optomtrist and asked him about it, he said that it could be a mercury allergy.
i said no fucking kidding, i’m an allergic person, “why didn’t you mention that possibility?”
he said they’d just figured it out – some football player had spent all kinds of money figuring it out cause he really needed to use contacts. i said, you could have just asked me. i could have figured it out, a mercury compound….
vernon:
did you listen to the johnny cash special? very nice 🙂 and sad 🙁 .
roxie, I have not had a chance to listen yet. I’ll probably do so Wednesday.