Big anti-war rally and march planned for today here. It’s supposed to be the biggest anti-war demonstration in these parts since the Vietnam War, and is sponsored by some 60 organizations throughout New York State. It’s supposed to be a beutiful day, weather-wise, so that ought to help the turnout, and there are supposed to be people coming from all over NY, and even places like Vermont and Massachusetts. We’ll see what happens, I guess. Later, after the rally and march, Scott Ritter is leading a discussion panel on “The Peoples’ Response to the Patreaus Report,†with Dahlia Wafsi, and Jimmy Massey. I don’t know that I’ll get to go to that. I feel bad enough about leaving the dog all alone for so long as it is.
It’s always fun to be amongst like-minded people, of course. And there are more and more people who realize what a mistake all of this was. Mostly because we’re not “winning,” of course. If this administration hadn’t been so incredibly inept at everything they’ve done (another reason why I don’t buy the controlled demolition or the Twin Towers theory; these clowns just don’t have the competence to pull it off), 70% of the people would be cheering things on, and we’d be in the minority. But I don’t really expect any of this to change the minds of the people in charge, and I’ve long since lost any hope that people marching in the streets would give the Democrats that much needed spine transplant.
I’d be quite happy to be wrong, though.
Enjoy you Saturday.
PJ, have a good time and don’t forget those glasses so you can read all the signs.
Good morning, :joe: :joe: Gotta go walk those dogs.
Yeah, I need a little screw.
For my glasses. Get your minds out of the gutter.
Two career investigators in the office of State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard have charged that they were threatened with firing if they cooperated with a congressional probe of Krongard and his office.
Told by Terry P. Heide, Krongard’s congressional liaison, that he should not agree to a request for a “voluntary” interview by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Special Agent Ron Militana said he was then advised that reprisals could be taken against him. “Howard can fire you,” he said Heide told him. “It would affect your ability to get another job.”
Militana said in a telephone interview yesterday that he took that comment and others as direct threats. He and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brian Rubendall, another career investigator who was also present at the Sept. 25 meeting with Heide and an IG lawyer, are among at least four IG investigators who have sought protection under the Whistleblower Protection Act. They also include the assistant inspector general for investigations and his deputy, who recently resigned after charging Krongard with impeding their work.
In recent weeks, the agents relayed their concerns about Krongard to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the oversight panel. Waxman has said he is investigating allegations that Krongard has repeatedly thwarted investigations into alleged contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, including construction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and weapons smuggling allegations against Blackwater USA, a private security firm working under government contract in Iraq. The committee has scheduled a hearing on Oct. 16.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092801003.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Tape works well for most of us geeks, PJ.
:joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 😯 😯
❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ Whatever :sheep: le
An effort to change the way electoral votes are apportioned in California has been stunningly abandoned and left for dead, even though most voters didn’t even know this patient was sick.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/calif-electoral-vote-proposal-falls-apart/index.html?hp
The trouble with fixing one’s glasses is that you have to take them off to do the repair and then you can’t see them. :fustrate:
Congress being inside the beltway think they are in a castle surrounded by mote. I assume they all beleive that there is a double 10 foot electric fence with land mines in between the fence rows and the DC national guard ( which doesn’t exist) protecting them from a visit by a rogue Vigilance committee. :reaper: :reaper:
I think the only way a demonstration in the street is going to be effective is when it leaves certain “things” hanging from the lamp posts ( or cherry trees) in its aftermath. :jason: :jason:
Heartman earlier in the week was playing up the “totally nonviolent” protests in Myanmar and how effective they have been.. One should notice how very silent he has been about them as of lets say Thursday. :reaper: :reaper:
Nuclear power surge coming
In the next 15 months, US regulators expect applications for up to 28 new plants.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0928/p01s05-usgn.html
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Kellogg Brown and Root ( a totally owned subsidiary of the Duby company Halliburton) is the only prime contractor/integrator for domestic nuclear power plants that is licensed by the Federal regulatory commission. :reaper: :reaper:
I thought PJ just got “new” glasses .. They should still be under warranty .. I doubt that any of his computer equipment uses screws quite that small hence warrant taking his glasses apart to make an “emergency” repair. 😮
Firms Seek Access to Myanmar Oil Fields
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Just last Sunday — when marches led by Buddhist monks drew thousands in Myanmar’s biggest cities — Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora was in the country’s capital for the signing of oil and gas exploration contracts between state-controlled ONGC Videsh Ltd. and Myanmar’s military rulers.
The signing ceremony was an example of how important Myanmar’s oil and gas resources have become in an energy-hungry world. Even as Myanmar’s military junta intensifies its crackdown on pro-democracy protests, oil companies are jostling for access to the country’s largely untapped natural gas and oil fields that activists say are funding a repressive regime.
China — Myanmar’s staunchest diplomatic protector and largest trading partner — is particularly keen on investing in the country because of its strategic location for pipelines to feed the Chinese economy’s growing thirst for oil and gas.
Companies from South Korea, Thailand and elsewhere also are looking to exploit the energy resources of the desperately poor Southeast Asian country.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iwgIAFKH84bda2glBRBESszwr8nQD8RV1BE03
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Now does this all make more sense.. :paranoid: :paranoid:
Those stupid little screws that hold glasses together love to work themselves loose. There are repair kits that contain a variety of screws and a tiny screwdriver sold in most drug stores. But, they never come with a magnifying glass.
In more fallout from the Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad that left 11 Iraqis dead, Blackwater USA apparently has stopped its expansion projects.
On Wednesday, the North Carolina private military contractor canceled a $5.5 million deal to buy 1,800 acres of farmland near Fort Bragg, where it was going to set up a training ground for soldiers and corporate executives.
The diplomatic and public relations damage from the shooting, combined with next Tuesday’s scheduled testimony before Congress by Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince, prompted the company to put all new projects on hold, according to the president of the company that had agreed to sell the land to Blackwater
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/20101.html
One of the more necessary tools for a techie to own is a florescent light with a magnifier. It has many other uses including reading the print on the credit card privacy statements.
Has anyone found the link to the promised “cleaned up” video of Sam and Marc’s vidcast last Tuesday?
nope, but i’d love to see it!
WHAT A GOOD NEWS DAY:, guys.. california initiative dead or dying, verizon folding it’s censorship move. now if only we could get china to sit on their ppuppet goons in mianmar, we’d really be getting someplace ❗
not tianimen square all over again! AIV,esp the V.
:reaper: :reaper: :reaper:;
death to all internet censorship — you got that GOOGLE and YAHOO!!!
Cheers, Ladies … 😉 ask and you will receive…
Roxie but 2ndly Sue P. Please I am not here, but “flew by” … I had to ask, since I knew it was somewhere but not sure where … So I Asked, and Fernando, who did what he could … put up the answer. ….. LOOK UNDER FERNANDO, just several from last post. It says HERE.
Please know, I am not usually here, there, or anywhere, consistently.
ROXIE, sad with an anger chaser … Mwah HaHa
also when you “edit” my comments on your site check Marc’s front page :dancers: It Is Very Nice Here (weather wise)… How Goes It There?
(But you may have to send me on myspace or emails or whatever 😉 ) :dancers: ARREST! IMPEACH! VIGILANCE!
I will “pause” a few to give Time, if one has a response. 😉
oh, and the SCHIP program — that ought to be an easy one to score on. where’s a link to an online petitiom?”
or the group doing the overall organizing?
I just noticed a message from Fernando … he was only able to clean up a bit — it was really a “bumpy” ride — and he was able to get only about an half an hour or so. Sam was unable to do better.
A!I!V! I am leaving in a few …
Oh, Roxie, if talking to me I have some info re SCHIP. Be right back…
cms.hhs.gov/home/schip.asp
Schip – News Results
Using Kids As Props In SCHIP Debate? You Betcha CBS News – Sep 28 12:19 PM
Senate Passage of SCHIP Measure Increases Pressure on President Bush The Online NewsHour – Sep 28 5:29 PM
Shields and Brooks Discuss SCHIP Clash, GOP Debate The Online NewsHour – Sep 28 5:29 PM
*poof*ARREST! IMPEACH! VIGILANCE! 😉 C-Ya *poof*
So I just started this astronomy class, and I need to write a paper about a misconception people have about scientists/astronomers knowing where the center of the universe is.
I need to correct the misconception and give a three minute presentation to the class.
Here’s what I’ve got so far
A common conception that the universe has a center and scientists have located it with direct observation is false. Thus inferring the center of the universe is not Fremont in Seattle; Times Square in New York; London, England or even one’s self- though, that is debatable .
Scientists are actually still searching if there even is a center to the universe; though, the consensus among cosmologists is that there may not even be an center.
The universe is enormous, possibly even beyond enormous- infinite. The observable universe from Earth may be 93 billion light-years across. Beyond which there may be more of the same but we are unable to directly see because of the speed at which light travels, the vastness of space and its expansion.
The expansion of the universe is accelerating. Scientist have been able to devise methods to determine the relative direction in which stellar and galactic objects seem to be moving. The method by analyzing the frequency of stars’ and galaxies’ light waves has given significant basis to the theory that space between galaxies is expanding. The furthest galaxies from Earth are relatively moving faster away than those galaxies that are nearer. The Andromeda galaxy, though, is actually moving towards us and in a few billion years will collide with the Milky Way galaxy.
The expansion of the universe is accelerating, but there’s no center to the expansion.
I think I should right about the cosmological principle- whatever that is.
I mean write. My brain needs some work done to it. :doh:
No input from here I guess.
sounds good to me trav, i mean if it had a center it wouldn’t be the universe, right? it’d be just a larger gallaxy or something like that. right? in order for it to have a center, it would need something to revolve around, maybe god! :jesus:
maybe the synclastic infindibulum!
see: slaughterhouse 5 by vonnegut.
druid: i don’t know what you mean about editing your posts. i have no such amazing power! ask pj!
as far as your computer is freezing, etc , GET RID OF YAHOO DESKTOP (IF YOU CAN!) IT SEEMS TO REINSTALL ITSELF WHENEVER BOOTING….
:spank: :no: bad desktop utility ❗
i can’t help you further than that suggestion!
Dear Roxie … oh I so seem to confuse one …. Marc posted my comment; however, probably no longer #1
Re YOUR My Space sight … I posted a comment to you … especially since Gore was dated May 29 or May something…
I will recheck and see if I can do yet, but I think Only you can edit a “comment” . I guess I hit toooo hard and IT POSTED TWICE (twice is good for me) but NOT WITH WHAT I POSTED :doh: HiiiYaaaA!I!V! 😮 8) :omg:
Well, my new glasses didn’t lose a screw; it was the old ones. The old ones that I can see out of, vs. the new ones that suck. Fortunately, a good old fashioned twist tie works quite nicely. And, I don’t need the glasses to see up close. I just have to take the glasses off to see up close. Now, with the new glasses, I can’t see up close or far away, which is apparently a “feature.” Oh, except for the one little “bullseye” target area, which is very clear.
So, we had about 3,000 people here today. Great day. I took about 400 pictures, but it was so bright out, I couldn’t tell what I took pictures of. We’ll have to see later. Granny has the camera, and will be going to the panel discussion later on.
So Pj
I remember “discovering” Top Ramen in high school and I am sure I am older than you! :nod:
I just picked up some new progressives too and it takes getting up and putting them on first thing in the morning. You have to train the old brain.
The eyestrain is giving me a stye-any home cures out there? 😳
Travis- that looks great! :pup:
It figures. The one Akron game all season that’s televised, and the Zips get their doors blown off. Aaargh. :barf:
Although I’m still basking in the warm glow of South Florida’s upset of West Virginia last night. The local news is still leading with the story almost 24 hours later.
Apparently Petraeus is over in Iraq conducting some sort of walking tour to demonstrate how “safe” it is now. Tell that to the families of the 40 Iraqis and two US soldiers who were killed there today. It must be really uncomfortable to conduct a walking tour with the Chimp’s hand up your ass.
:fu:
Really? Ramen back that long ago? I don’t remember them in college, and I’m sure I’d have bought them. Oh well.
So far the only way that the progressives don’t drive me freakin’ crazy is if I :bong:
Which of course I would never do. :no:
kev: is that amy w. i see on all those ipod nano commerciials wit
this = funny
kev: is tjat amy i see in that im ip0d nano cammercials
No, THIS is funny
:rofl2:
The NY Times version of the story about the California initiatve to change the way delegates are selected says:
But The Daily News reported Friday on its political blog that a top fund-raiser for Mr. Giuliani, Paul E. Singer, told the paper that he was the sole financial backer of the initiative.
So, apparently, the ever underhanded Rudy was behind the effort.
:barf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/us/politics/29ballot.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
Rox..It’s Feist :knit:
Call when you feel like talking-Iming is good too.