My, my, we were busy yesterday, weren’t we? I go away for a couple of days, and you guys blog your fingers to stubs, and the most online at one time jumps up to 33.
I haven’t had a chance to catch up on what went down over the weekend, except to see that Jimmy Carter said the best moment of his presidency was:
“I think the best time was probably dealing with the Middle East issue at Camp David,” he said, “and even better I think was the peace treaty that came along six months later. I made a very difficult decision over the almost unanimous opposition of my cabinet and my staff to take the initiative and to go to Egypt and to go to Israel to try to get Begin and Sadat to agree on a peace treaty. And when they did sign-both of them signed the agreement-I guess that was probably my best moment.”
And Bll Clinton said:
“So many things have happened here at home that have been important to me; passing economic plan, passing the Brady Bill and assault weapons ban, so many things have happened internationally, the role that I was fortunate to be able to play in the peace process in the Middle East and in Northern Ireland….”
And of course George W. Bush said:
“I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake.”
I think that pretty much sums it up, don’t you?
Dubyaspeak.com:ear:
Good morning sheeple. Made it back to work, without much sleep last night but that’s how it goes sometimes.
Where is everybody?
Gotta go. Have a good one!
(Bush still sucks.)
Evening / Morning :yinyang:
Good morning (or evening) seditionists!
Hey everyone…
PJ, how was your trip?
See ripcoco if you missed frank rich or dowd when you were gone.
Kev, welcome back to work…so sorry your vacation ended so quickly!
I didnt sleep much last night…very strange.
And Ive been accidentally getting into this Huff show. I didnt like it in the beginning but its grown on me.
Hey! Where is everybodeee???
last night we got a loonnngg bonding between NIck and Suz…then everyone went to sleep early and dropped off the face of the earth!
This Porter Goss thing has legs and theyre gonna walk….
Sam Seder was wondering how a top official in the government could just quit like that with no prior warning and at a time of “war”?….velly intelesting…
Isnt it a horrible danger to national security to have someone this high up decide ot leave and not even stay aorund much at all to get his successor up on everything?
It may even be against the law to abandon your post like that…? But then Bush accepted his resignation.
This whole thing is gonna blow wide open and I think its gonna be bad…
as I said, whats next? Necrophilia? NAMBLA? cannabilism? serial killing (and why couldnt they do it amongst themselves?)
We’re running out of bad stuff to be involved with here…
This blog has taken a downturn, it seems.:omg:
Firedoglake says Feingold will speak at the National Press Club today at 1 pm. CSpan will broadcast.
Really. We should sink the place.
I slept for about 10 hours and my body feels like cardboard at the moment. Give me a few minutes and I’ll be all back. What’s in the news? Somebody send some links
And of course George W. Bush said:"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake."
And, Bush has a grin on his face like a six year old holding his fish next to his dad.
Ok, Feingold, that’s something to watch anyway.
Hey Kevin, well I hope your sleeplessness was due to having too much fun than just laying there staring at the ceiling. :yawn:
Wow, what happened?? :rofl2:
I copied a comment from PJ’s post and it came out red! Is that because I didn’t credit him??:eek:
I gues The Fall played here last night. I got excited about it then remembered I don’t really care about The Fall. :tongue:
It was very nice. Nice to be able to take all the shit I have on my mind and leave it home for a couple of days and forget about it. Too bad I had to come back.
The only time it should be in red is when the NSA detector is active.Oh MY! 😮
OK :paranoid:
isi- I also copied part of his post but it didnt come out red…but, of course, I gave him credit and linked the site…so……
Sorry that vacations ever have to end, I know that feeling PJ…but we’re glad to see you
God that’s creepy! And I was joking about “different fonts” :omg:
So, ten of “our guys” from the 10th Mountain Division (they’re based at Fort Drum, just north of here in Watertown, NY, so we think of them as our own) were killed when their helicopter rolled in Afghanistan yeasterday.
If you use the code tags, it comes out in
red, courier font.I don’t even know what code tags are 😀
Yeah DC is looking more and more like Rome in about 477 CE.. Do Chinese look anything like the Visa Goths ??
So, ten of “our guys” from the 10th Mountain Division (they’re based at Fort Drum, just north of here in Watertown, NY, so we think of them as our own) were killed when their helicopter rolled in Afghanistan yeasterday.
Oh jeez, PJ, that really hits home, I’m so sorry…
OK, so, you mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to contact the NPR Ombudsman and/or Mara Liarson (I guess the best youcan do is post a comment to her blog, and she’s not there this week or something), and tell them/her to quit lying about Abramoff being a “bipartisan” scandal.
Re: Ten soldiers killed in Afghanistan
There is such sadness and grief from Bush’s wars and for the most part our country ignores the pain.
The Demodorps are predicting they are going to take back the house this year . Rove is saying he is sure they are not .. go figure that one…. Pelosi didn’t say anything about getting out of the WTO and NAFTA.. but it takes both houses to pass legislation so if the thugs still control the senate and the presidorksky what difference will it make ?? The Dems are also not talking impeachment either.. Who do these fools work for .. Oh yeah I forgot .. :rant1::doh::fu::mad:
Here’s the difference it makes: John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee with subpoena power.
Anybody know DC at all? What’s the 3rd St. SE area like?
I Google Mapped that area in DC
From the air that part of DC doesn’t look to bad. It’s the part toward Maryland that you have to be aware of.
Thanks Fred. Yeah, this is actually inside the beltway, about two blocks from the National Republican Club of Capitol Hill, so you’d think they’d have a lot of cops around there.
So the dollar is crashing and the stock market is up 135 points.. People buying worthless stocks or something ??
Maybe foreign investors, getting a little extra bang for their, um, Euro?
I guess that’s true if the relative value of the EURO to the dollar is such that 1 EURO becomes worth 200 dollars it does have more buying power. I need to buy a loaf of bread later today we will see if that requires a wheelbarrow yet.
Bush Turns to Gen. Hayden to Lead CIA
By TERENCE HUNT
AP White House Correspondent
This is the guy that didn’t know what the 4th Amendment says. :doh:
So this slide into hades will look like .. The price of domestic goods will stay the same the price of things at WalMart will skyrocket, The price of imported food will skyrocket, Since we have to borrow all the money to operate the government interest rates will skyrocket unless they start printing all they need then we will have 20% inflation.
He denied that the 4th amendment says “probable cause” :rofl2:
I’ve got a couple hundred euros from my last trip overseas, and they’re up about 12% or so from when I got them – which is better than any of my other meager investments have done.
Thing is, if we hadn’t pissed the whole world off, the low dollar would have increased tourism here. But everybody hates us, so they’re staying away. Theoretically, US exports should be increasing, too.
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival the last two weekends:
npr story
anotherlink
:banana:
Iran’s Leader Writes to President Bush
By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press Writer
Why do I get the feeling this will be greeted with paranoia or just simply ignored??
interesting local story from yesterday’s san jose mercury news:
Risking a life term to protect a child
CONVICTED BURGLAR TURNS OVER SEX-CRIME EVIDENCE FROM STOLEN PROPERTY
link
rep pombo should go says today’s san jose mercury news editorial:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/14527503.htm
i hope this editorial from a conservative newspaper is a sign of the tide changing. they can’t bring themselves to endorse only the democrat (they have to include the republican challenger too), but they do point out what a sleaze pombo is.
i’m the only one here right now. ah well. i send my greetings and good morning/afternoon/evening to you all. :joe:
link with tompaine
Heh. No wonder dubya was so proud about his 7.5 lb perch. The world record is a 4-lb, 3-oz perch caught in 1865.
Dubya down to 31%.
Hey, NPR actually posted my comment on Mara Liasson’s blog.
Now I wonder if the ombudsman will respond.
Dear MoveOn member,
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So today, we’re launching an urgent petition calling on Congress to cancel the May 15th lifetime penalty (also called the “senior tax”) and to fix the Medicare drug program. It’s time to put seniors’ needs above corporate greed.
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haha :rofl2:
pj, i wonder if fox news will report about the size of the world record perch.
let’s see, bush is asked what is his most important moment of his presidency, and what appears in his addled brain is a fast rewind of all the lies he’s told so far, he panics trying to decide which lie was the most important one of his presidency, in the end all he could do was come up with yet another outlandish story, this time about, of all things, a whopper fish.
pj, re your post on mara liasson’s blog, your comment was a good dissection of her ridiculous bipartisan argument. i’m glad your comment was right up there in the #1 spot so everyone will notice it. it won’t change mara’s mind, but other folks might take heed.
I just wonder whether or not these people actually look into the things they report on (in which case, they are deliberately slanting their reports), or if they’re just lazy and report based on a cursory glance at the talking points as spewed by one side or the other. Certainly, there ought to be somebody at NPR who is capable of lookign into these things.
Shouldn’t there?
i think their heads are all messed up. full of delusions. they don’t look for the truth because they mistakenly think they already have a handle on it. when the truth hits them in the face, they don’t recognize it, they are annoyed and swat it away.
but there are moments when the truth seeps in and creates a little crack in the smooth finish, and after a while they have a harder and harder time holding everything together, and then there’s room for a big shift. they see your comment on mara’s blog and say hmmm wait a minute, what’s this.
hey from marc’s blog today, hopes for syndication:
begin quote:
I guess it would be stupid to tell you that we should hear about syndication by the end of the week, but we should. At least then there would be another outlet somewhere that would have the show in its entirety. I’m being held up by Air America Headquarters for business reasons.
end quote
marc on xm :love:
(i can’t use the b-quote feature on the above text because i’m typing with one hand, the other hand is holding a large sleeping purring cat.)
LONDON – Keith Richards had surgery Monday in New Zealand to relieve pressure in his head following a fall, his representative said.
:omg:
I hope Chavez has somebody watching his back. The oil companies won’t like having their record profits infringed upon.
And then they’re so miffed when somebody comes along and says “reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
A lot of “news” is just read off the wire.. Kind of like the analogy of a lecture being a process where information flows from the notebook of the professor to the notebook of the student without passing through the mind of either.
“reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
:nixon:
we’re going to be quoting from colbert’s skit for a long time to come.
i watched the whole skit again this last weekend. the google video version shows lots of laughter from the crowd for every single line. i wonder how fox can get away with saying that the skit wasn’t funny.
Good on ya, PJ 😎
Anonymous AIPAC Memo:
“For expressions of sheer groveling subservience to a foreign power, the pronouncements of Laval and Petain pale in comparison to the rhetorical devotion with which certain Congressmen have bathed the Israel of Ariel Sharon. Command performances before AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a leading organization in the overall Israel lobby ] have become standard features in the life of a Washington elected official The stylized panegyrics delivered at the annual AIPAC meeting have all the probative value of the Dniepropetrovsk Soviet’s birthday greeting to Stalin, because the actual content is unimportant; what is crucial is that the politician in question be seen to be genuflecting before the AIPAC board. In fact, to make things easier, the speeches are sometimes written by an AIPAC employee, with cosmetic changes inserted by a member of the Senator’s or Congressman’s own staff.
“Of course, there are innumerable lobbies in Washington, from environmental to telecommunications to chiropractic; why is AIPAC different? For one thing, it is a political action committee that lobbies expressly on behalf of a foreign power; the fact that it is exempt from the Foreign Agents’ Registration Act is yet another mysterious ‘Israel exception’. For another, it is not just the amount of money it gives, it is the political punishment it can exact Since the mid-1980s, no Member of Congress has even tried to take on the lobby directly. As a Senate staffer told this writer, it is the “cold fear” of AIPAC’s disfavor that keeps the politicians in line.
“As year chases year, the lobby’s power to influence Congress on any issue of importance to Israel grows inexorably stronger.Israel’s strategy of using its influence on the American political system to turn the U.S. national security apparatus into its own personal attack dog–or Golem–has alienated the United States from much of the Third World, has worsened U.S. ties to Europe amid rancorous insinuations of anti-Semitism, and makes the United States a hated bully. And by cutting off all diplomatic lines of retreat–as Sharon did when he publicly made President Bush, the leader of the Free World, look like an impotent fool–Israel paradoxically forces the United States to draw closer to Israel because there is no thinkable alternative for American politicians than continuing to invest political capital in Israel.”
What you don’t see is that these countries in South America that are nationalizing US companies now have developed militaries and have established alliances with Europe and China. Two ships from the Chinese Navy were recently seen in the Harbor in Caracas.
a lecture being a process where information flows from the notebook of the professor to the notebook of the student without passing through the mind of either.
colbert used a similar analogy during his skit, something about the words come from the white house, the reporter writes them down, the words get published, the reporter goes home and writes a novel about a brave intrepid reporter who uncovers the facts, you know, the novel is fiction.
Mearsheimer and Walt excerpt:
That Israel is a fellow democracy surrounded by hostile dictatorships cannot account for the current level of aid: there are many democracies around the world, but none receives the same lavish support. The US has overthrown democratic governments in the past and supported dictators when this was thought to advance its interests – it has good relations with a number of dictatorships today. Some aspects of Israeli democracy are at odds with core American values. Unlike the US, where people are supposed to enjoy equal rights irrespective of race, religion or ethnicity, Israel was explicitly founded as a Jewish state and citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship. Given this, it is not surprising that its 1.3 million Arabs are treated as second-class citizens, or that a recent Israeli government commission found that Israel behaves in a ‘neglectful and discriminatory’ manner towards them. Its democratic status is also undermined by its refusal to grant the Palestinians a viable state of their own or full political rights.
Hey Kevin, well I hope your sleeplessness was due to having too much fun than just laying there staring at the ceiling.
Comment by Kristapea — May 8, 2006 @ 9:03 am
Something like that. My body had shifted from Day Guy to Night Guy during the course of the week, and I think Night Guy still wanted to go out and play some more. It probably didn’t help that the most exciting thing I did all day Sunday was watch LeBron and the Cavs get their doors blown off by the Pistons.
I made it through the work day, though, so I’m happy about that. I can crash tonight after 24. The story of a corrupt president who commits treason against the United States. Good thing that could never happen in real life.
That’s it! The Democratic Party needs its own Jack Bauer! (But one that doesn’t torture, although there hasn’t been as much of that this year as last.)
:jason:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s leader has written to President Bush proposing “new solutions” to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian head of state to an American president in 27 years, a government spokesman said Monday.
Comment by Kristapea — May 8, 2006 @ 11:29 am
I hope he included lots of pictures, so Bush has something to look at while someone reads it to him.
:rofl2:
May 8, 2006
Gag and Smear
The Misuses of “Anti-Semitism”
By NORMAN SOLOMON
The extended controversy over a paper by two professors, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” is prying the lid off a debate that has been bottled up for decades.
Routinely, the American news media have ignored or pilloried any strong criticism of Washington’s massive support for Israel. But the paper and an article based on it by respected academics John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, first published March 23 in the London Review of Books, are catalysts for some healthy public discussion of key issues.
The first mainstream media reactions to the paper–often with the customary name-calling–were mostly efforts to shut down debate before it could begin. Early venues for vituperative attacks on the paper included the op-ed pages of the Los Angeles Times (“nutty”), the Boston Herald (headline: “Anti-Semitic Paranoia at Harvard”) and The Washington Post (headline: “Yes, It’s Anti-Semitic”).
But other voices have emerged, on the airwaves and in print, to bypass the facile attacks and address crucial issues. If this keeps up, the uproar over what Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt had to say could invigorate public discourse about Washington’s policies toward a country that consistently has received a bigger U.S. aid package for a longer period than any other nation.
In April, syndicated columnist Molly Ivins put her astute finger on a vital point. “In the United States, we do not have full-throated, full-throttle debate about Israel,” she wrote. “In Israel, they have it as a matter of course, but the truth is that the accusation of anti-Semitism is far too often raised in this country against anyone who criticizes the government of Israel. … I don’t know that I’ve ever felt intimidated by the knee-jerk ‘you’re anti-Semitic’ charge leveled at anyone who criticizes Israel, but I do know I have certainly heard it often enough to become tired of it. And I wonder if that doesn’t produce the same result: giving up on the discussion.”
The point rings true, and it’s one of the central themes emphasized by Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt. . .
A Nation of Waitresses and BartendersPaul Crain Roberts
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts05082006.html
Back in 2000 when the Internet bubble burst there were lots of rumors that the rethugs got together the investment bankers and caused that to happen because the techies were becoming to much of a political force and more often than not they were democrats or at least progressives. The Internet bubble was indeed a lot of overrated companies doing IPO’s for business plans that were lots of smoke and mirrors but some companies were viable and everything ended almost at once like someone turned off the water. Most wrote that off as not possible.. I am beginning to wonder.
Philly Philly Philly
Body: I know that these things are kind of corny but I had to do it
You Know You’re From Philadelphia When…
You punctuate every sentence with, “You know” at least twice.
You want olive oil, not mayonnaise on your “hoagie”.
You hate the Redskins
You hate Dallas.
You realize that your favorite dessert is “wooder ice”.
You find yourself using “yo” and “youse guys” when talking long-distance to family members.
You know how to spell Schuylkill.
You pronounce ACME “ACK-A-ME”.
You think that $2,500 a year for insurance on a 1977 Toyota Corolla is a bargain.
You find youself at a nice restaurant thinking “I wonder if they have cheese steaks?”
You sleep soundly through gunfire and ambulance sirens.
You visit New York and are impressed by how clean it is.
You can’t eat french fries without Cheese Whiz.
You call sprinkles on top of your ice cream cone “jimmies”.
You don’t think Wawa sounds funny.
You snub a cheese steak that isn’t on an Amoroso roll.
Your parents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles all live on the same block.
You know who Jim O’Brien is and how he died.
You can’t imagine lunch without a Tastycake.
You’re still not sure about Jerry Penacolli.
A vacation at the Jersey shore (pronounced “Down the shoore”) is better than going to an island (there’s more stuff to do, plus you know everybody.)
You know where to find the Rocky statue.
You know that only tourists go to Geno’s, Pat’s and Jim’s for authentic cheese steaks.
You only go if you’re drunk and it’s 3:00 a.m.
You can make a cheese steak and you’ve never been taught
You’ve never been to the Liberty Bell, or the only time you were there was on a class trip in third grade.
You know what and where “Boathouse Row” is
You will buy a pretzel from anyone, anywhere without even thinking of where it was – or where his hands have been.
You can’t imagine a breakfast without scrapple.
You don’t know what a sub is, but you think they are trying to describe an imitation HOAGIE.
You aren’t a bandwagon Sixers fan?you loved them when they sucked, and before they had A.I.
You go to The Gallery or South Street in the summer time just to chill.
You have the pizza place on speed dial.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Philadelphia.
(MySpace Post)
fred, what happened to make you wonder about it?
Wow. I just gotta call from the division of elections. They want me to help out for some election or somethin’, I guess. I think the Nov. 7 one.There is probably a lot of truth to what you wrote about the dot.com burst. Old trick by the elites. Ever look into how the energy people and Wall Street sorts sabotaged Carter in the late 1970s—in order to bring us that crypto nazi, Reagan? (I like it when Tyger Thom goes off on RR.)
Hey, I know it’s systemic, but some oedipal impulse causes me to go off on certain dangerous no-nothing shills for big capital.
Pardon Hinckley!
:omg:
:fu:
Too bad I’m leavin’ Anchortown(Not). That 2004 election job was the best thing I ever did, and it paid well, too.
Here check it
:spank:
Are we sittin’ on our hands here or what? Throw it down sheeple
so travis are you going to work at the november 7 election? i hope so.
Hopefully I’ll be in Central America in Nov.:40:
awww, well good for you, central america, like where, costa rica? ecuador? what a change from anchorage in november. what will you be doing there?
ray mcgovern is on randi’s show!
Well, the itinerary is to go to Sunny Seattle, crash on a friends couch, save some dough, and then go on a two week trip to Belize- more Caribbean than central America, I think- in Nov. Yeah, so, I dunno. Whatever happens happens, I guess.
Who here grew up in the Bronx–like Ray and Colin? CCNY!:omg:
Hey Fred. The US rarely invades another country to impose their colossal will. The usual MO is to find corrupt military officers to do the job on the existing government–or a variation thereof..
Fuck the CIA!
The CIA giving warnings about fascism!:rofl2::rofl2:
Look at your history, J.B.
seattle and belize, it sounds like a plan.
:banana: :alc:
OKAY, Janeane. I will renew my long lapsed subscription to The Nation
nickirose, i am totally midwestern, so much so that i didn’t understand most of the humor in your philadelphia posting. also i didn’t grow up anywhere near the bronx like ray mcgovern and colin powell. did you?
Hell, I loved them before they were in Philly.
I am a Left Coaster. We do have a lot of Bronxer Yankee fans on this blog, though. I was giving them a shoutout, after hearing Ray McGovern, on the Rhodes Show, talk about his (and Colin Powell’s) hometurf, the Bronx.
I collaborate on projects with some in the Philadelphia “creative class”. Portland is getting overrun with cheese steak Philly houses. I know who A. I. is. People from Philadelphia like to gloat about how culturally advanced their ancient city is –compared to P-Town, anyway.
Free Mumia, or Smell Smoke in the Breeze!
Cause and Effect!
:omg:
Syracuse Nationals!:omg:
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
b.PDX and lived here until age 18 then 20+ years right coast and further east. closest to midwest: 6 months in Montreal.
I just love those bananas
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
so who’s from the Bronx anyway?
“Youse guys” is a Jersey thing. But close enough, I guess.
New Jersey! Hurricane Carter.:omg:
Wants to go back to Iraq! What a dumb shit! (I know: It’s a fucking tragedy.)
from one of my favorite Dylan albums, “Desire”
“Singing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you…”:omg:
My favorite is “Another Side…”
Second is probably
Blood on the TracksI like his new style.
now what’s all this about the Bronx? You’re talking to the expert
Those were my two favorite later Dylan albums. I love Blood on the Tracks!
I have to set up my VCR, it’s in the closet. I haven’t used it since I got my DVD player. I feel a need to have it set up. :nod:
In 2000 it seemed implausible that some entity could just end that expansion but some entity did come up with a patriot act over night and a variety of plans to end freedom of speech and civil liberties. It was planned for some time and “they” just had to pull the plug on the good times to put it in motion. Clinton must have screwed up their plans .. or did he ??
when ray mcgovern was on randi’s show, he mentioned that he grew up in the bronx a block away from where colin powell was growing up at the same time. i think that’s what i heard. if i’m missing something, somebody correct me.
hmm, ok, I wonder what neighborhood they’re from. I had heard about Colin Powell being from the Bronx
i remember that they had the patriot act set up and ready to go (thank you ray taliafero), but the idea that financial types could “pull the plug” on the good times does seem a little improbable. didn’t the dive in the stock market hurt more than the progressive tech folks?
MiniNova has the torrent for Neil Young’s album posted
http://www.mininova.org/tor/296414
Each song is a separate MP3
That’s true the market started down in March of 2000 but it didn’t really noise dive until after 911.. If you adjust for inflation its still not back to where it was on Sept. 10th. 2001. People using their 401k’s for retirement income were in a world of hurt.
neil young! :love:
i agree, the stock market was noisy as it did a nose dive in 2000. 🙂
yeah, he still sounds good foggy 🙂
Dot.Com times were not good times. A weak bubble that got popped! Market Discipline. Read Edward Herman for insight on how the US economy imposes “market discipline” on those in danger of getting too big for their britches.
travis, if you’re still around, why did you choose belize?
OUT!
I dunno, I guess the laid-back, not too touristy atmosphere that called to me :ear: And the more I learned about the place the stronger my desire to go there.
Oh, and it’s an English speaking country:banana:
My cousin and I looked at this nasty gram he got and he took it down to the DA’s office to see if they could do what they said they were going to do. Colorado requires the debt collectors to be registered with the state and have a local office.. The last time we looked New Jersey was not part of Colorado.
If they really are going to get litigated against a friend of a friend is an earth moving contractor. .. Google maps has a nice aerial photograph of the building where their office is.
ah intuition plus reasoning. belize sounds like the right place for you. i used somewhat similar intuition/reasoning when in the middle of a northern michigan winter i decided to go to hawaii way back when (ok back in 1966 way before you were born). i’m glad i went. i stayed there 18 months and never regretted a day. you’ll be a happy guy when you set foot in belize.
When you put your money anywhere but perhaps under your mattress which is then locked in a bank vault you run a risk of losing some of it. Investing in the market has been an excellent instrument to improve long term gains as apposed to putting money in Certificates of deposit. A lot of people made out quite nicely in the 1990’s it was just those invested for the long term that saw big losses. Any high school history course will teach you another great depression is not possble..At the moment I am thinking that chapter was probably written by a rethug.
earth moving equipment plus a google map? fred you are too much. :rofl2:
I would think that one of those dual engine cat earth movers and/or other things a earth moving contractor might posses plus a Google map is probably as good as some things the CIA has at their disposal.
You sound like a real true believer, fred.
Anyway, as long as there is some sort of keynesianism in the US economy, a 1929-style depression will probably be avoided. Generally, it’s Keynesianism for the capitalists, free market discipline for you.
all this talk about economics makes me want to jump out of my skin.
over the weekend i heard an hour discussion on bbc with three economists, one said we’re heading for deflation, one said inflation, and the third said, of course, steady on.
David Blane-Drowned Alive!!! Thgis may be worth it if it takes him out once and for all!
He has such a deadpan, boring/dumb delivery…as if the frozen alive and buried alive maybe did deprive him of a little something upstairs….
I missed this, but yesterday they started attacking John Conyers:
Go here for Conyers’entire blog entry
weird – was just reading foggy’s post on inflation, and when I refreshed the page half the post disappeared :omg:
How anyone can see Tim Russert as anything but the partisan hack he is is beyond me…I mean he SCREAMS bias. There is nothing subtle there.
suz, i lost my courage and erased most of the post. :tongue:
well as long as the thought-police didn’t do it… 😐
no, i think they only go after nickirose. 😀
hehe
time to go get an armload of firewood to take the chill off the nighttime drop in temperatures. plus do other outdoor chores. see ya later.
So, PJ are you saying that Bush LIED about this fish? Is the the world record or is it the Maryland record?…and how big are Perch in TX…? That would be one big perch, wouldnt it?
Do farmed fish that are used to stock man made cement ponds where rich guys have the fish drugged so they cant splash them count?
These are the only perch I am finding…and unless hes in africa fishing for HUGE perch…I dont think thats whathe was talking about at all:
Perch, Nile 213-8 Lake Nasser, Egypt Dec. 18, 1997 Adrian Brayshaw
Perch, white 4-12 Messalonskee Lake, ME June 4, 1949 Mrs. Earl Small
Perch, yellow 4-3 Bordentown, NJ May, 1865 Dr. C.C. Abbot
see:
Lake Nasser is the greatest venue in the world for wild Nile perch, which only exist naturally in the African river systems and lakes. By comparison with other lakes in Africa Lake Nasser is remote and sparsely populated, this isolation has allowed the lake to maintain an excellent head of big Nile perch. While your lure is in the water you literally don’t know if the next fish is going to be a 10 pounder or over 200lb.
(This is what they mean by Guns and Butter)
[B]y 1938 the New Deal had run out of steam, the recovery turned sour and what actually bailed out America was the loom and then the reality of the Second World War. Galbraith, still in his thirties, became deputy administrator in charge of price controls for the office of Price Administration.
As far back as the German script for 1914, war planning has mostly been the pragmatic backbone of socialist blueprints and it was easy to imagine that minute supervision of the economy post Pearl Harbor could flower into large-scale economic planning in war’s aftermath. Meanwhile the reality was that the cost-plus ten percenters were cleaning up on war contracts and around the corner lay the corporate counter-attack of the postwar years that gutted the Wagner Act with Taft Hartley.
Ahead lay comfortable Fifties academic visions of “plural elites”, or the “countervailing power” stand-off between business and labor advanced by Galbraith, already contradicted by the AFL-CIO’s postwar acceptance of its role as business’s junior partner at the feeding trough of a postwar boom underpinned by the permanent war economy ushered in by Harry Truman. This was the “war scare” of 1948, father of all those later budget-inflating scares, such as JFK’s “missile gap”, or the first neocon stampede initiated by Paul Nitze in the late 70s, which finished off the post-Vietnam vision of a peace dividend…
(Alexander Cockburn’s tribute to John Kenneth Galbraith)
OK- the european Perch can grow to 10 lbs and would have to have been imported and sticked specially. They also seem to have a limited spawning time, cross breed with the plain old yellow perch and there fore could be making hybrids…
But then, why isnt the prez listed in any records books???
Can the imported perch break out of their ponds and take over habitats, ala bullfrogs? Bullfrogs are not native to the west, but damn!
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Hi. PJ’s post reads like one of those 3-person jokes (priest. pastor, rabbi or brunette, redhead, blonde) sheeesh:doh::rant1:
I dont know Nick, but if anything is gonna turn up with feet pulling itself out of the ooze, its probably the false perch in Bush’s pond. Maybe thats what he needs to show him evolution in action!…
Im getting ready for Perch-gate over on ripcoco…just stocking the pond over there, so to speak…..
Now I have to sleep…its been such a killer day/weekend/week/month….
I gotta get to baltimore.
Apparently the aquarium has an aviary on the roof!
Did David Blane live??
ok well i dont have much time to hit the blog in the next couple of days planned on posting the whole story when i was finished and nothing at all until it was but it is already three times as long as this post will be and im not even to the part about the mexican hookers and the cigarettes and that is two days before the maron show so here is the first installment of my journey to the marc maron show LIVE!!!!! ok well enjoy sheeple
so i picked up an empty trailer in Pensacola on Sunday to head to dallas tx to pick up wardrobe for lord of the dance. Left Pensacola and drove into Alabama stopped at a little gas station to get some eats they had some delicious bbq beef sandwiches. Kept heading west and passed a campaign sign for some guy running for sheriff did a double take of the sign didn’t believe what I saw. Kept driving west passed a couple more could not believe my eyes! The signs said Hoss Mack for sheriff! Go figure. Later that night I got myself into Louisiana looked at my map saw a shorter route than the one I planned so I took it. Rolled down us 90 till I got to this truck stop called king truck stop I pulled in and went into the restaurant it had the best red beans and rice I have had in years! I was impressed. Then I tasted the jambalaya MISTAKE it tated like rotten burnt macaroni and cheese! Spit it back out on my plate couldn’t believe a place with such good red beans and rice could have such bad jambalaya. I finished eating and went back to my truck and went to sleep. Woke up and finished off my trip to Dallas. got there and parked for the night got bothered by some scary looking old toothless black guy didn’t even roll down my window just waved him away. lucky for him he went away.
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KTLK’s stream just carried the whole MMS tonight. I just sent the following note to
feedback@progressivetalk1150.comHi SeanMS if you are still up. I (patiently:bow::doh::bow::rofl2:) await the next installment
:banana:
hey just scanned sundays blog saw the words live at leeds and paused took me a minute then i remembered its the who! and i have it on vinyl! kick ass! its weird i know i have tommy but i was driving yesterday and trying to figure out what my other who record was racked the shit out of my brain but couldnt figure it out so uh thanks blog sheeple! love the who! see even young blogfucks like myself enjoy great classic rock albums!
It’s after midnight here in L’il Beirut. Time for sleep. G’night
oh here vote excellent for gore!
no go vote for gore first!
:bow:okay I voted for Gore:bow:
Night
I can’t sleep
:love: Sheeple:love:
ooh im listening to pet sounds yes so friggin great! ahh yes ok well im off!:fire:
No, no off for you! Damn-it! WTF?
oh i bought the hardest way to make an easy living by the streets the other day and you should too! well but a grand dont come for free if you dont have anything by the streets yet its WAY WAY better ok well i must go traverse the wilds of utah later sheeple!
Oh, yeah, I’m drunbk/
sorry man must go work beckons! omaha awaits!
i love getting drunbk/
:40:ok well later man!
Hey, man, I meant drunk. Whatever!:alc:
I’m not drunk, I’m just upset. I say stupid things and I should be shot. I ruined things. I’m an idiot. Oh well, that has nothing to do with you guys.
:fire::alc:yep yep ok well im really off now!
ruiner! bastard! how dare you ruin things! you should be shot! ok well im going be back uh two nights from now i think? we will see!
:peace:seancrest out!
Later, Sean. I don;t know what you mean, Susan.
i dont get it i want red courier font!
Nah, it’s nothing. I just needed to type somewhere. Not enough sleep for the past week. Putting on the radio now, let’s what they stream at this time ofnight
:nod:later travis you have to get on yahoo one of these days and play a game with me again!
Greetings all….sorry I’ve been MIA…had to entertain a visitor for 10 days! :gate::gate::gate: She’s gone now so now I have some serious catching up to do!!! So I know that Moussaoui got life and we’re on the verge of war with Iran…anything else I missed? :paranoid:
candy is dandy but liquor is quicker, LOL
malloy i think!
tons but does any of it really matter? its not like we can stop em! can we?:fustrate:
that’s another thing, the news has really been depressing me – I need to get rid of this “can’t do anything about it at all” feeling. I’m supposed to be an activist, can’t let that feeling take over…:neutral:
I just had to open some more merlot. Hey, everybody, it’s Gaijinda!Sweet. I’m listenin’ to Neil Young
I love that Neil Young 🙂 Hey Gajinda
Yeah, um, Jason said his mom was comin’ to Japan, so I don’t know where he’s been. What’s goin’ down, G? Yeah, Susan, do have the new neil young cd- Livin’ with war?
I don’t have the CD, was listening to it online though…
Fred said that the new neil young album is at the mininova site.Check it out.That’s where i scored it.:alc:
Blog it down, lurker!
It’s ok, I’m cool. Come back, sheeple.C’mon!:love:
yep, I was going to go that site yesterday but got caught up in other things. I’ll have to check it out
It says two logged on, Travis, I guess the lurker(s) took off… 😮
Sorry, I guess your the lurker:doh::rofl2:
My connection is slow, ’cause I’m downloadin’ a movie
me? Oh I’m so bad… :omg:
I’ve just got Randi on rerun right now
I’m listenin’ to the young and thinkin’ about goin’ on an Alaskan walk. How ’bout I throw it down with ya in 45 minutes. Cool? Alright