Well, we finally got those Secret Service logs to show how often Jack Abramoff visited the White House. Of course, we already knew – according to snotty Scotty McFelon – that he’d been there at least for two Chanukah parties and “a few staff-level meetings,” but the logs show he’d been there – twice? According to Judicial Watch (who sued for the records) president Tomm Fitton, “[a]t first glance, these documents seem incomplete when compared to other White House visitor logs obtained by Judicial Watch. We therefore have reason to believe there are additional details about Jack Abramoff’s visits to the White House that have not been disclosed.” Gee, ya think?
And of course, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson now says the was just joshing with his tales of contracts for patronage, saying he “deeply regrets” the “anecdotal remarks” he made. In fact, Jackson now says that “no contract has ever been awarded, rejected, or rescinded due to the personal or political beliefs of the recipient” during his tenure at HUD. Does that mean he was just kidding when he said, “why should I reward someone who doesn’t like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president? Logic says they don’t get the contract. That’s the way I believe.”
I guess that’s a question HUD Inspector General Ken Donohue wants an answer to, too. Hey, note to you Republican criminals out there? Don’t be fucking with Irishmen. We thought you learned your lesson with Patrick Fitzgerald. The last thing you want is an honest mick on your ass – we’re worse than bulldogs.
Damn, forgot to turn this one on after I wrote it. Sorry about that.
2! uh thats fine just good to know your ok pj!
On January 28, 2006 Carol Fisher was attacked by Cleveland Heights police as she posted signs saying “Bush Step Down.” She was handled violently by the police and arrested, even though she agreed to take the posters down when informed that posting is illegal. When she was shackled hand and foot, one cop said to her, “I’m sick of this anti-Bush shit.” She was taken for a psychiatric evaluation (!) where she was forced to strip before male cops, denied the right of a phone call and held for six hours. The Cleveland Heights police have the nerve to say Ms. Fisher attacked them.
The result of the trail is at:
scroll to the bottom, Ithought it was a little too long to post.
So, are the Sabres gonna finally do it this year? I used to go to the games, back when I was in Buffalo. My buddy in Buffalo would be ecstatic if they won. I don’t think he’s ever gotten over Scott Norwood missing that field goal in the Super Bowl.
:growl::mad:dont bring that up man!me and my dad had season tickets until i got out of high school went to every home game that season!
:crap:friggin norwood!:roll:
More about Carol Fisher
Andy, that’s amazing. Gulag stuff indeed. I think I’ll be staying away from Ohio.
hey no fair i posted about that yesterday i want a sean thats amazing gulag stuff indeed comment too! friggin i have to go through ohio tomorrow!
I guess we shouldn’t worry about this stuff, right?
Sean, that’s amazing gulag stuff indeed.
:banana:woo hoo!
I like this guy’s column (sorry to excerpt so much, but there’s more worth reading):
Dobbs to president: Do you take us for fools?
By Lou Dobbs
CNN
Thursday, May 11, 2006; Posted: 7:32 a.m. EDT (11:32 GMT)
NEW YORK — Reports this week that the Border Patrol is notifying the Mexican government of the locations of Minutemen volunteers are being denied by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. True or not, the Bush administration continues to follow absurd policies on both issues of border security and illegal immigration.
President Bush continues to push his guest worker program and amnesty for anywhere between 11 million and 20 million illegal aliens, and he insists still that nothing less than what he calls comprehensive immigration reform is acceptable.
And the lies keep coming from both political parties. This president is not enforcing the immigration laws enacted by Congress, and this Congress is failing in its duty of oversight to demand that those laws be followed.
Only a fool, Mr. President, Sen. Kennedy, Sen. McCain, would believe you when you speak of new legislation. You don’t enforce the laws now.
Would you do so if the law were more to your liking? Would you secure our borders and ports? Would you halt illegal immigration? Those are rhetorical questions, only, I assure you. The answers are obvious; obvious because of your conduct.
As many as 3 million illegal aliens continue to cross our border with Mexico each year. Enforcement against illegal employers of illegal aliens in this country is all but nonexistent, Mr. President. How do you explain that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have all but ended their investigations and inspections of employers that hire illegal aliens? Again, only a rhetorical question, because we all know the answer.
But here is the official record of your sense of duty: 318 employers out of five and a half million in this country have been fined for hiring illegal aliens since 2001. In 2004, only three employers were fined. That is a dismal record, Mr. President, as dismal as the fact that the number of ICE agents assigned to enforce immigration laws in the workplace has declined from only 240 back in 1999 to now less than 100.
The problem in our lack of border security and illegal immigration is becoming increasingly obvious: two political parties that are beholden to corporate America, the largest employers of illegal aliens, and the leadership of both parties that are selling out American citizens in search of cheap labor and political advantage. How dumb do you all think we are? Again, that’s only a rhetorical question.
Over the next few days on my broadcast, I’m going to make a suggestion that I hope may help the leadership of both the Republican and Democratic parties begin to take some notice of our laws and our expectations that those laws be enforced. And also take at least some notice of the fact that Republicans and Democrats also represent American citizens, not just corporate America and special interests.
What do I want out of all this? Why, a governmebnt that adheres to the law. That includes both observing the law and enforcing the law. If that means impeaching every last law-breaking elected official and cabinet-level appointee in Washington DC then so be it.
If you missed Countdown last night you must hear this sound clip with Jonathan Turley, professor of law.
ooh video games are going to be sooooo friggin awesome in the next couple of years!
If you can, make a small donation to World Can’t Wait. It seems things are getting pretty serious now.
Hey, they catered lunch today, so I’m at my desk with a turkey sub to bring you an expanded “Bense Rules!” edition of…
CRUELLA WATCH!:omg:
From today’s St Petersburg Times. Warm and fuzzy action photo on the first link. Stories on the next two.
http://tinyurl.com/htbp8
http://tinyurl.com/fwbq6
http://tinyurl.com/l3acc
24 hours left for the Repigs to find someone to take on Harris. (Put your hands down, guys. I didn’t mean like that.) :jerk:
I do like that Harris is giving a big f u to the Bush Brothers!
:banana::banana::banana::banana:
HI!
Stay the course, Cruella Kat!:omg:
Richard Perle! Damn, Franken.:omg:
World Can’t Wait…
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
This one’s for you, Richard Perle:
SWEET NEO CON
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
You call yourself a Christian
I think that you’re a hypocrite
You say you are a patriot
I think that you’re a crock of shit
And listen, I love gasoline
I drink it every day
But it’s getting very pricey
And who is going to pay
How come you’re so wrong
My sweet neo con…. Yeah
It’s liberty for all
‘Cause democracy’s our style
Unless you are against us
Then it’s prison without trial
But one thing that is certain
Life is good at Haliburton
If you’re really so astute
You should invest at Brown & Root…. Yeah
How come you’re so wrong
My sweet neo con
If you turn out right
I’ll eat my hat tonight
woohoo Mick do it
Darfur intervention? Not so fast:
http://www.counterpunch.org/frank05112006.html
Perle is so erudite. Proper, clipped English. Mr. Big Words!:omg:
Smooth talking con artist.
:bow:
Thanks, Nicki for those lyrics.
Darfur intervention? Not so fast:
http://www.counterpunch.org/frank05112006.html
Interesting bit in there about the reason Nixon set up the EPA. I didn’t think he did it out of the goodness of his heart (or that he was “concerned”) but I always wondered what his motivation was. Tricky Dicky indeed. I wonder if this bit of reasoning about Bush/Darfur/Iraq is really true, though
Larisa Alexandrovna
Raw Story
5/11/06
MORE
U.S. Senate poised to pass $70 billion tax cut
Thu May 11, 2006 2:04 PM ET
I visited the record store, yesterday. Bought a used cd of
FunHunt
by the Voidoids. Playing it now. Almost bought a vinyl of another Richard Hell/Voidoids. Almost purchased a New York Dolls LP of outtakes and promos. I never heard of it, but I consider it essential! You will not have lived…Mecca Normal is an avant art band from Vancouver, BC. They played Portland a few weeks back, and caused quite a buzz. One result was that all of their copies of recordings at the record store have since sold. Almost all of them. I found a used 7 in. of the band, which I bought.
The Cafferty File
CNN
“Some little-known facts about the Darfur situation: Both sides in the conflict are black, and both sides are Muslim. So, despite what the major news media may say, this isn’t an Arab-on-black or Muslim-on-Christian nightmare. And perhaps worst of all, there isn’t a good side to be on. Both have committed horrible atrocities, and both want to slaughter the other. Not to mention that entering the region militarily would only feed right into bin Laden’s rhetoric – much like we did when we shocked and awed Baghdad. So I think it’s safe to say that hatred of the U.S. would only increase among closet jihadists in the Middle East and elsewhere if we invaded Darfur. That doesn’t make us, or them, any safer.”
J. Frank
ABC No Rio.
Cat posting. tttbillcat:
Cafferty Buzz: Damn! Cruella is Hott!:omg:
I consulted a cup of coffee
But it didn’t want to talk.
Just like this blog.
Reps. Jane Harman (D-CA) and John Conyers (D-MI) today introduced the “Lawful Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA Act” (The LISTEN Act), RAW STORY has learned.
Fuck Lou Dobbs and his warped anti-immigrant analysis.:fu:
Rhodes is babbling on and on and on about how she saw all this coming three years ago and keeps talking like ” its all your fault now I told you so”. What did she tell us to do about it ?? We wrote to our Dempublicons but they said it was spam, we demonstrated ( I think) but no one saw it , no one heard it, Now we have proof it wasn’t just AQ they were spying on, of course what did they do with what ever they got ??. Is it all BS, probably so, Has anyone been disappeared ?? ( not many apparently). I think Rhodes hasn’t the slightest idea of what she should be doing.. She has to be scaring the little old ladies she has for listeners half to death. Will a bunch of scared little old ladies keep us from bombing IRAN, probably not..
Tyger Thom Alert!:omg:
Next week’s highlights on KPOJ
Tune into Thom Hartmann from 6am – 9am
Monday, May 15th:
Eric Schlosser – “Chew on This” – “Fast Food Nation” for kids
Rolling Stone contributing editor Eric Boehlert – “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush”
Portland-based investigative reporter Rebecca Clarren on sex, greed and forced abortions in the Mariana Islands
David Helvarg – “50 Ways to Save the Ocean”
Tuesday, May 16th:
Washington Congressman Brian Baird
BlueOregon.com’s Kari Chisholm
Betsy Leondar-Wright – “The Color of Wealth”
Wednesday, May 17th:
Oregon’s primary election results and reaction
“Black Hawk Down” author Mark Bowden – “Guests of the Ayatollah”
Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio
Oregon DEQ director Stephanie Hallock
Willamette Week editor Mark Zusman
Thursday, May 18th:
Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer
Historian Richard Brookhiser – “What Would the Founding Fathers Do?”
Friday, May 19th:
Weekly labor update with Oregon SEIU Local 503 executive director Leslie
This is Important, People!
For Immediate Release – All-Star Concert To Aid Rock Legend’s Medical Expenses
Benefit Concert For LOVE’s Arthur Lee To Be Held At NYC’s Beacon Theater on June
23rd.
An all-star benefit concert, titled WE’RE DOING IT FOR LOVE, will be held at New
York’s Beacon Theater on Friday,June 23, which will attempt to cover the massive medical expenses of rock legend Arthur Lee (LOVE) who was diagnosed in February with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML). Unfortunately, Arthur has no medical insurance, already has medical bills in excess of $100,000 and is facing a probable bone marrow transplant.
With a rapidly increasing lineup at press time including Robert Plant, Ian
Hunter, Yo La Tengo and Garland Jeffreys and a host of other significant artists
expected to be added in the coming weeks, in addition to hopefully solving a
major financial crisis, this concert will shine a long overdue spotlight on the
hugely influential but greatly underappreciated music of one of the truly
innovative and influential rock artists of all-time.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 12th at noon at the Beacon Theater box office
(74th & Broadway) and all Ticketmaster outlets (212-307-7171),
http://www.ticketmaster.com. All of the concert’s proceeds will go to Arthur’s medical
expenses.
The Benefit is presented by talent manager Alicia Gelernt and Produced by
veteran New York concert promoter Steve Weitzman of SW Productions, in
association with Arthur Lee’s manager Mark Linn.
FOREVER CHANGES
, BABY!Oh, the snot has caked against my pants
It has turned into crystal
There’s a bluebird sitting on a branch
I guess I’ll take my pistol
I’ve got it in my hand
Because he’s on my land
And so the story ended
Do you know it oh so well
Well should you need I’ll tell you
The end-end-end-end-end-end-end-end
And…
Yes I’ve seen you sitting on the couch
I recognize your artillery
I have seen you many times before
Once when I was an Indian
And I was on my land
Why can’t you understand
And so the story ended
Do you know it oh so well
Well should you need I’ll tell you
The end-end-end-end-end-end-end-end
And…
Arthur Lee :omg:
George Washington was a liberal! Come on, Tyger Thom.
:joe::joe::joe::40: Get goin’, sheeple. MAN!
May 11, 2006
The Fourth “Supreme International Crime” in Seven Years is Already Underway, with the Support of the Free Press and the “International Community”
US Aggression-Time Once Again: Target Iran
By EDWARD S. HERMAN
and DAVID PETERSON
With the United States having initiated wars in violation of the UN Charter, and hence engaged in the “supreme international crime,”1 against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq in 1999, 2001, and 2003, one might have expected that its commencement of a fourth aggression only a few years later against Iran would arouse the UN, EU, other international institutions and NGOs, and even the supposedly moral and independent Free Press, to serious protest and counter-action, including referral to the UN Security Council under Chapter VII’s “threat of peace” articles and support of possible diplomatic and economic sanctions. This has not happened, and in fact the Bush administration has successfully mobilized the UN, whose “primary responsibility” is the “maintenance of international peace and security,” and the EU, as well as the Free Press, to facilitate its fourth attack…
http://www.counterpunch.org
Check this out before buying into Tyger Thom’s conspiracy theory.
Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © 1993
An all-star benefit concert, titled WE’RE DOING IT FOR LOVE, will be held at New
York’s Beacon Theater on Friday,June 23, which will attempt to cover the massive medical expenses of rock legend Arthur Lee (LOVE) who was diagnosed in February with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML). Unfortunately, Arthur has no medical insurance, already has medical bills in excess of $100,000 and is facing a probable bone marrow transplant.
:omg:
ok, come ON, windows media player, let me hear something…
Richard Hell, yay. I think I have everything by the Dolls except that one.
Did Tyger Thom do this blog in?:omg:
Perhaps, but I’ve been digesting the three MSM network’s treatment of the NSA Telco story. NBC was MOR, ABC was toadying good ‘n’ hard, and CBS actually tried to be neutral and informative — and succeeded!
However all puked forth the verbatim pap from the gum’ment such as stating that “no names or addresses were collected.” Yup, why collect redundant bits — you got the number, you got the rest. They all understated the number of records collected by at least four orders of magnitude
I thought I killed it, though he could have done something while my back was turned…
Hey there Zeb. Long time no see.
Tag! You’re it.:omg:
The Random comment hour: paid for by the People Whose Brains Are Burnt From Work and other strange things and have no notion of what went on in the news today and ate too much choclate
Harris Interactive Poll has Bush’s ratings down to 29 percent. Wow. (Looking for a good link, the one I have from Josh Marshall leads to Wall Street journal, and I don’t have a subscription)
Hey, remember when Sean said he bought some equipment for making audio blogs and was goin’ to do that and stuff. What ever happened to that plan? Anyway, somebody needs to get Melina and Kahn on the blog to give this place some life. Oh, and Susan needs to start throughin’ it down, too- I mean more than the past day or so, which has been basically zilch (I know, that connection thing or something) Um, yeah, so I don’t know where I was goin’, but I guess we’re here. Um, carry on, sheeple.
For some reason I can’t help but think that I’m ruinin’ the blog. I dunno
Hey Travis…what was this about audio blogs? ‘Splain it to me please, is it like voice chat except with blogs? Yeah, where’s Melina and Krista and Druid? I have an excuse, I’ve been given extra hours at work (along with extra responsibility – kind of stressful) the last few days and my lack of sleep over the last couple of weeks has been catching up to me. I will try to stay up for Marc’s show tonight, but we’ll see. I haven’t listened to ANY Marc show all week, either live or recorded
Wait..maybe I fucked-up. I just meant a podcast from Sean. But, hey, that would be cool if there were a blog that was just of people on multiple lines talking to each other- kinda of crazy though. Oh, it would mostly be of people makin’ sounds while they eat:40: and drink, I think
:omg:Ohh! It would be cool if you could talk and blog at the same time.
LOL ok then. Yeah, we’ll have to corner Seanie and find out what he’s doing. I’ll put off hearing the voices of Seditionists for the time being 😮
Not sure if voice blog would work well, like you said, mostly the sound of people eating, etc. It’s not exactly real time the way a chat room is, though sometimes when it’s busy it can be that way. I didn’t even have voice chat yet – the one time I tried in another group everybody was kind of just “DUH” because they got all shy or something, it was silly…
You could have different forums and have the Voip lines correspond to them. Coolness. I think vontage may have something like that. I’ll check it out. save internet
So, if the government wants a data base of all phone calls, maybe we should give them something to listen to. Maybe, if a whole lot of people just start slipping suspicious key words into their vocabulary when they’re on the phone they’ll just be too overwhelmed and give up.:roll:
They could be recorded thoughts instead of real time conversations. I think that would help with the shyness and the different time zones and bloggeroos’ availabilities
Thanks, I’ll sign the petition on here and pass the link around. “find out if your representative has voted for or against net neutrality” I see it’s one NY rep who voted for Net neutrality and one who didn’t…I’m interested to know what the rep in my district did, but that isn’t showing here.
NSA-gulag-gitmo-wmds-spying-bombs-osama! There, that’s my part of “secret mission: overwhelm”
No, wait, they don’t care what is said- they just want the phone records to see who has connections to whom.
That sounds like an interesting idea, Travis…I’m more comfortable that way also )…hey Krista…that’s a good idea, should I just say things like BUSH IS A NAZI or maybe quote some of the Stephen Colbert thing verbatim…or we can say misleading things like “we’re going to do this at such and such time” and of course not do it. My friend and I did that once when we thought our phones were tapped (probably paranoia). We used it as an excuse to go absolutely crazy on the phone. Probably a dumb idea but nothing happened. Our phones probably weren’t being tapped.
Yeah, this phone record thing scares me.
hey…I’ll be back in a little while, hopefully by the time the show comes on …unless I fall asleep :doh:
Oh, I was on the phone. Sorry.:doh:
What’s up with CK? I miss her. Haven’t heard from Meilina today, either.
uh it annoys me when people are sooooooo concerned with kfc! annoys annoys annoys stupid kfc protests how do people have time to protest kfc when there are so many way more important things to oppose! ok well im off again just had to vent a little about my myspace comments on my newest blog posting about the kfc/taco bell being closed! here was my response to the anti kfc person
stupid friggin asshead ass taco bell/kfc!
Current mood: angry
Category: Food and Restaurants
i was soooooooo hungry and i tried to stop at a taco bell/kfc and it was 9:30 pm local time and they were closed already friggin bastards! ugh and i was sooooo friggin hungry i should buy something that comes in a glass bottle get some diesel fuel in it put a rag out the top and throw it at the friggin place! i so wanted popcorn chicken and a burrito! now i want mighty taco! i need to go home!
Currently reading:
Fast Food Nation : What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World
By Eric Schlosser
Release date: By 31 March, 2002
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i’m bigger than the sound
kfc is evil.
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com
you should get ur popcorn chicken from people who don’t boil their chickens alive. that would be a nice thing to do.
YAY taco bell
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYMIGHTY!
p.s. no kudos
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TEDDY BEARS NOW!!!!!
taco bell kfc and pizza hut are all owned by the same company YUM brands or smething so uh if you are gonna be against kfc you have to be against both of them by association yep so uh boooooo taco bell! boooooo pizza hut! whatever theres more important things than fast food and i wouldnt eat at either if i wasnt on the road! i say we pay no attention to fast foos until the more important issues have been handled! you know stopping jeb bush from becoming president stopping corporations from illegaly hiring people increasing unionization universal health care civil rights lots of things that are more prescient than kfc im gonna just ignore kfc for now the cattle industry is way worse than debeaking chickens big source of pollution boycott mcdonalds instead yeah their cattle operations are way way worse all the methane and what not yep yep shoot this is getting way too long anyway appreciate your comments so uh can i get another comment with some kudos for replying to your kudoless comment? please? pretty please!
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I’ll try and send those sheeple some lines, PJ. Just to see what happens.:knit2:
Hey Pj and fellow Seditionistas!
Been recovering from some “work” on my immune system. Suppressing Interleukin-12 can make moss grow on the north side of your lungs…Who Knew! (Thanks Dr. Rumsfeld) Have not even been lurking, but am getting back to the usual suspects more often. Great to be back again with folks whose IQ is in the triple digits!
prescient
i misused that word didnt i? someone look at my thingy and tell me if i used it wrong i spelled food foos too im a dumbass i am ashamed of myself!
I miss CK too.
Just checing in from the road and glad to see Travis knitting.
:knit:
Yep, Sean, you misused prescient {having fore knowledge] you meant important, I think.:spank:
:rant1::banana::rant1::banana:
It’s the most important thing to the chickens! :nod: