Well, I have to admit I didn’t listen to Jorge “El Decisivo” Arbusto last night because, well I just can’t stand listening to him. He makes me squirm with embarassment. Plus, he’s a piece of shit liar who is building the infrastructure to crush his critics, stifle dissent, and install himself as emperor. Can it be long before Congress passes its own version of the Enabling Act – oh, excuse me, the ‘Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich?’
“The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures…The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one.”
Bush on NSA spying? No, Hitler promising he would use his new powers with restraint.
Where’s Otto Wells when you need him?
May there always be a Dance in your Step:!:
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pjsauter I didn’t watch the LYING ANTI-CHRIST MINION, either. But I did put #3 Impeach Bush sticker on back of car window:!: :fu::fu::fu:
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I think GW’s speach last night is going to cause riot and revolution today. There may be a demonstration to test the resolve of the Colo National Guard.. In around and though Tom T’s offices. ANSWER is calling for wide spread civil disobedience. These people are organized.. stand by..
A.N.S.W.E.R.’s response to Bush’s Speech on Immigration:
Hit the Streets May 16th and May 17th
No to Troops at the Border — Yes to Amnesty and Full Legalization!
Caught between his extreme right wing and racist base, and fearful of the power of the people that has exploded on the streets in the last two months, Bush was compelled to go on national television tonight to announce his version of immigration reform. His announced plans show that militarism is not only the favored method but the actual goal of the Bush administration as it deals with every issue from the Middle East to the struggle for workers rights inside the United States itself.
As a direct response to the heroic mobilizations of millions of immigrant workers and their families seeking to achieve basic civil rights and workers rights, Bush went on national television tonight to announce that he is sending thousands of troops to the U.S.-Mexican border as a support apparatus for the arrests of millions of immigrant workers as they try to cross the border in a desperate search for employment.
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition calls on people all over the country to take to the streets at emergency protests tomorrow May 16 in New York City and on Wednesday, May 17, in Washington DC, to demand: No to Bush’s anti-immigrant campaign! Stop racist deportations and border militarization! Support full civil rights, legalization and amnesty for all undocumented workers! This week Congress is debating immigration bills, Bush wants to sign a measure by the end of the months – it is urgent that the voice of the people be heard.
Immigrant Rights Groups, Unions, Civil Rights Organizations and the Anti-War movement are Building Unity to Stop the Racist and Anti-Worker Campaign of Bush and the Right-Wing.
As with every political program based on racism, the campaign against immigrant workers is based on dehumanizing, stereotypical lies and propaganda. Uprooted from their homelands by the process of corporate globalization and so-called Free Trade, which has led to massive unemployment, millions of workers from Mexico, Central America and elsewhere have migrated to the United States, where they are forced to take employment in low-paid, back-breaking jobs.
In the last year, 1.2 million people have been arrested at the U.S.-Mexican border. Since 1994, when the Clinton Administration further militarized the border at common crossing sights, more than 3,600 immigrants – forced into ever-more dangerous routes – have died in the Arizona desert, in the mountains in California, in other remote locations, or have suffocated in the back of trucks stuffed with human cargo. Bush tonight announced that he would use the military to erect “high tech fences in urban corridors,” a decision that will inevitably consign an ever larger number of people to silent death. This is an effort to force people into ever more dangerous and deadly crossings through the deserts and mountains.
The struggle of the undocumented worker
Those undocumented workers who make it across the border are employed at poverty wages and live with ever-present fear of arrest, ICE raids and deportation. Undocumented workers are viciously exploited by bosses who know that it is difficult for these workers to participate in union drives that would offer protection and higher wages.
Undocumented immigrant workers pay taxes and have deductions taken from their paychecks and yet they are ineligible to collect any benefits. Undocumented immigrants pay more than $7 billion into Social Security each year but unlike other workers who pay Social Security taxes, they can receive no benefits from the program. Likewise, they pay more than $1.5 billion into Medicare each year even though they are ineligible for Medicare. (New York Times, April 5, 2005). Undocumented workers pay sales taxes and property taxes.
Background to the Current Immigrant Rights Struggle — NAFTA’s Impact
In 1993, after negotiating for several years, the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States signed the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA went into effect in 1994.
The results have devastated workers’ communities in all three countries.
First, NAFTA prohibits the Mexican government from subsidizing agricultural production. But at the same time, it allows the government of the United States to continue providing subsidies to U.S. agriculture to the tune of billions of dollars every year. The practical result is that U.S. producers are dumping in the Mexican market their subsidized products at prices with which Mexican producers can’t compete. With no jobs, and in order to survive, many Mexican farmers are left with only one choice: to migrate to the United States.
On the U.S. side, NAFTA has meant that many good-paying jobs have gone to Mexico. For example, U.S.-owned auto plants have set up shop in various parts of Mexico where workers earn a fraction of what those companies were required to pay under the terms of their collective bargaining agreements to their U.S. workers.
Unlike their displaced Mexican counterparts who migrate to the United States, American workers choose not to migrate for obvious reasons. U.S. workers do not have the incentive to migrate to Mexico to earn one-tenth of their former salaries.
What happens next? The agents of Corporate America distort the terrible situation created by so-called Free Trade. They do so by working long and hard to exploit the anger of the U.S. worker to foment racist feelings and attitudes against the undocumented and against everything foreign, especially against non-European immigrants. This is done in order to divide, weaken and maintain effective political control of the working class, and to ensure their continued economic exploitation.
That is why today the U.S. government—instead of offering legalization, equality and amnesty—promotes the Bush “guest worker” immigration plan, which in effect amounts to indentured servitude for immigrants. This after Bush had promised his “good friend,” Mexican president Vicente Fox, an amnesty plan for Mexican immigrants.
In order to leverage the Bush immigration plan, the political right wing in the United States funds and promotes groups like the so-called Minutemen. This fascist group and others like it are spreading like wildfire throughout the country, increasing racist attitudes against immigrants and sowing confusion amongst the working class about who their real class enemies are.
Yes to Amnesty and Full Rights — No to a Guest Worker Program!
Everyone in the immigrants rights movement agrees that the HR4437, the Sensenbrenner Bill that turns undocumented workers into felons, must be defeated. But there are differences over what should take its place. Some in the union movement and the immigrants rights movement support the McCain-Kennedy Bill or the Hagel-Martinez Bill under the assumption that this is “the best we can get.” Many corporations and banks support these “compromise” bills because they are tailor-made to benefit corporations who want low-wage workers who have no rights and are dependent on the employer to prevent deportation.
Some in the labor and immigrant rights movement, reacting to the pressure of the racist right-wing’s opposition to the demand for amnesty insist that the word “amnesty” should never be uttered. This is self-defeating and does not in any way correspond to the sentiments of the immigrant worker community. When people at the mass marches are asked: “What do we want?” no one yells back “a guest worker program.” The chant that resonates at the base of the movement is Amnistia or Amnesty — and it is heard everywhere. The people want equality. They want equal protection under the law, an equal right to join a union, an equal right to live in dignity.
What is wrong with a Guest Worker Program?
The historical record of “guest worker” programs shows that the main beneficiaries are rich business owners, not immigrant workers. The United Farm Workers, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, worked to overturn the Braceros guest worker program as a key element to eventually organizing farm workers into the union.
The Bracero program initiated in 1942, lasted until 1964, by which time the program’s federal director, Lee G. Williams, deemed it “nothing short of legalized slavery.”
In 1942, many U.S. citizens working in agriculture were either drafted into World War II or sent to factories to help with military production. U.S. agribusiness faced a labor shortage crisis and called on the government for help. The U.S and Mexican governments quickly instituted the Bracero program—bracero means “hired hand”—that brought in Mexican laborers for seasonal harvests or a set period of time. After their contracts expired, most of the workers were deported to Mexico.
The braceros were cheated out of hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid labor. After a long, organized struggle, now elderly survivors have only recently won some of this money back. The Mexican government just announced a program to compensate former braceros and their families. Mexico’s program falls far short of what the braceros are actually owed. The U.S. government has offered nothing.
The new proposed guest worker program is nearly a repeat of the Bracero program. Most of the guest workers, like the majority of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., come from Mexico.
This time, the program is meant to expand far beyond agriculture. Employment and deportation will not be based on seasonal harvests. According to the White House website, “The program will require the return of temporary workers to their home country after their period of work has concluded. The legal status granted by this program would last three years, be renewable, and have an end.”
As John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO stated about the “compromise” legislation: they “tear at the heart of true reform and will drive millions of hard-working immigrants further into the shadows of American society, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation.” By dividing immigrants already here into three different classifications, the…proposal will create an undemocratic, three-tiered society that degrades and marginalizes millions of immigrant families in our communities while driving down wage and benefits standards for everyone.”
We encourage everyone to join a demonstration and rally in your area on May 16th and 17th and in the coming week. Now is the time for everyone to stand up for full equality, legalization and amnesty for undocumented workers. The struggle for workers justice has no borders.
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Protests condemning the militarization of the border!
New York City
Tuesday, May 16 at 5:00pm
Department of Homeland Security, 26 Federal Plaza
Chicago
Wednesday May 17 – 5 pm
Federal Plaza (Adams & Dearborn in Chicago)
Washington, DC
Wednesday, May 17
4:00 pm
National Mall at 14th St.
Washington DC
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
http://www.answercoalition.org/
info@internationalanswer.org
National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389
New York City: 212-694-8720
Los Angeles: 323-464-1636
San Francisco: 415-821-6545
Chicago: 773-463-0311
fred, :banana::love: Of what you say, I Hope and Pray (and :knit:(:pent:)) and drink tea :joe:
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Riley once again comes across as a jerk
With probably 12 – 16 million undocumented unemployed many of whom are tech workers who were making 50 – 100 k a year before Bush and are now in there 50’s and unable to find work at any where near the wages they were making this conversation is STUPID.. What do you do when you lose your car, lose your house and use up all your savings just getting by.. Once again Riley’s ride to work in a limo posterior shows though.. JACKASS.
Perfect, I will be staying up just to contact certain offices you listed. “Power To The People”:!:
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Hey, man, can you analyze Marc? Throw it down, Fred.
Left sided talk hosts who refuse to deal with the reality of the problems should be removed.. They are of little or very marginal help in attracting the ticked off portions of the population to the cause.
Most of the liberals/progressives I know no longer listen to AAR because they found the constant bashing of the Bush admin and the reporting of all these gross violations of human rights and gross violations of the law just gave them acid indigestion and solved nothing and they didn’t find the humor a bit funny.
I watched the mess last night. Twenty minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
Where the F-CK does he think he’s getting 12,000 National Guard troops? Hey, asshole, it’s two weeks until hurricane season starts. I would prefer not to drown if that’s OK with you. There are some people who live here who actually vote for you, after all. You don’t have to let them die like you did last year with Katrina.
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But the Cavs won! Series ties 2-2! We’re going back to Detroit!
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KPOJ has this whining jerk from the Portland Rescue Mission on pleading for money… The typical AAR listener is probably not in a position where he can feed his cat much less give him any money.. Just those people on the left lying around the pool waiting for their dividend check.. More JACKASSES.
I “guarantee” that the Cavs won last night [tho barely]. Can these assholes stop with the idiot predictions already? If you’re going to predict and be wrong, like Wallace did, you better rack up, at minimum, 25 points and 15 rebounds, so that at least you did your part, or in the baseball context, get four hits. What a nitwit.
What?.. I have to hit it. Later
I get the impression that
In Dobson land beating your wife and sleeping with your kids, especially if its a she and is over the age of 12 is acceptable behaviour.
Good Evening travisdem_04, Ohhhhhhh, I think you know something about that wonderful, mysterious blogger that rings “Clear and True:!:” in the middle of my night, named Fred. But what I can tell about Marc is that he, like me, is a Libra, but he is a September one and like most Libras (generally speaking) he deals with life “with an iron hand in a velvet glove”. His confusion is real though, as he ultimately, does lean toward the truth. But I trust no one, knowing that 86% of people believe in telling lies. I am a literalist and I don’t think Marc is, but HE IS DEALT WITH UNFAIRLY, so that warps anyone; therefore, his hurt/pain is real.
Last time I talked to you and your site I HAD TO DO A BLOG-SPOT so 😮 but I am about to try again “in the blink of an eye, days or months or years…go by” so….. whenever 😉
“sorry it took so long, I was away.
Also, Greetings to Kevin M and cresttwo and to All.
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Hey, thanks for the throw-down, Druid. I’m kickin’ around a little delusion or two, so, ah, give me like five mins.
Uh, before I drift into the dream world where I’m the one laying next to the pool, I thought I would throw down a delusion I had stirring around in the ol’ ticker. Um, I think Kahn stole my identity.[Ominous music hits crescendo and stops abruptly] Yeah, uh-huh.:nod:’Cause, uh, I gave her my address and my real name and BAM!…she vanished. What other reasonable, rational explanation is there why she left- other than that from the very beginning she had her scopes set on my identification credentials and as soon as she obtain them there was no other reason to stick around? Hmmm? Exactly. Oh, and what rhymes with Kahn? Or, rather, sounds exactly the same?Yes, it’s true, I was conned!
good morning sheeple…I missed the president’s speech plus most of Marc’s show last night. From everything I’m reading here summarizing the speech. it seems like he’s really catering to the racists and xenophobes now. I honestly didn’t know what to expect because he seemed pulled in different directions on this one…though the ultimate thing he answers to is politics of opportunism.
I’m glad I didn’t actually watch it on TV, though, I would have started crying probably.
re: Marc and Druid being Libras, make that three, another one here 😛
Most TV’s are sealed well enough that throwing up on them doesn’t do much. just don’t get stuff in the back.
Uh, before I drift into the dream world where I’m the one laying next to the pool, I thought I would throw down a delusion I had stirring around in the ol’ ticker. Um, I think Kahn stole my identity.[Ominous music hits crescendo and stops abruptly] Yeah, uh-huh. :nod: ’Cause, uh, I gave her my address and my real name and BAM!…she vanished. What other reasonable, rational explanation is there why she left- other than that from the very beginning she had her scopes set on my identification credentials and as soon as she obtain them there was no other reason to stick around? Hmmm? Exactly. Oh, and what rhymes with Kahn? Or, rather, sounds exactly the same?Yes, it’s true, I was conned! She will return…after the Bushies decide to give her back~
Trav, don’t worry…this blog is spooky enough sometimes, what with the “most bloggers online thing” changing willy nilly and posts disappearing…Khan sent me a CD of her son’s music the first week I started blogging here (I thought of it sort of as “welcome present”). Maybe me sending her my e-mail address contributed to to her fleeing in haste? no no, the path of paranoia is not the one for us :tinfoil:
When I watched the RNC convention coverage in 2003 I was amazed that they were saying what they did .. I thought “how will that attract any voters ??” .. The people who thought that was something they wanted to hear need to have help from a medical professional.
hmm, part of THAT post disappeared, I had also written “the Bushies will return her , don’t worry” :omg:
TravisDem_04…She writes with deadlines, plus has this wonderful (sad at times) gift of feelings is what I call it — that makes and allows her to be a writer.
But ohhhhhh it sounds suspicious (:rofl2:)– perhaps a mystery novel is CALLING upon you to write YOUR FEELINGS 😉
A feeling of Paranoia is what the thugs want to happen so that people don’t use the phone or the net to organize opposition to them.. When there is evidence that they actually came after someone then it is time to be paranoid.
Susan Joy I wasn’t going to tell your secret, Lib, but I am glad you did. So now we can say “We three Kings …teehee we are cardinal signs :rofl2:
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True, I’m not really paranoid. But even if I was, it wouldn’t scare me. I just get angry and motivated, I’m not a wimp :fist:
They actually did do that very thing “x” amount of years ago, thus :paranoid:
but I do also believe in :growl: & :fist: :wink:(thx again pjsauter)
yep, and I know that saying about the Iron Fist/Velvet glove thing…thing is I have a lot of fire on my chart (like a Sag moon), so that fist is always bustin’ out…LOL
Why is it that Latins are always so vocal and proactive when it comes to expressing their dislike for things. Would Americans go for flaming banks and gangs armed with assault rifles roaming the streets.. It might disrupt the baseball season
Well, if Jason Leopold is correct, today could be the day for the announcement of the Rove indictment. 24 business hours from the time of the so called grand jury indictment on Friday. It could be that it’s not official until the indictment is filed. And, they have 24 business hours to file it??
Druid if you are referring to the McCarthy era they mostly discredited people as apposed to arresting them. The unions have always been a point of contention with capitalists. I never understood why the union members didn’t organize and shoot back.
A Latino uprising and the Rove indictment.. today may prove to be interesting.
Ewe! K-lo went and saw Guns and Roses. I just heard him on Rachels’ show.
Anyone have a link to this Latino uprising thing?
Good Morning :joe:
Hey, I got an idea. Let’s all trade cell phones periodically to confuse the NSA.
Read the bottom part of the ANSWER email I posted. There are at least three demonstration one of which is in NYC.
I think the NSA is probably quite confused already.. Just place calls to numbers in the middle east that should really get them going. Call Aljazeera’s number in IRAN
I have heard it both ways although fist is truly the way the quote goes and thought since I :growl:, I would sound not so 😮 but I like the f word (fist).
Also, I am a literalist and I don’t trust most since black chops flew to find many etc… thats why I have attitude.
Also, I get deeply into sorrow for this land since I awoke when first I heard Buffalo Springsfield (SP) when I was 13yrs and now people just appear to talk.
Now I have 3 stickers on my back window proclaiming, Impeach! But “things” happen in this society when one takes a stand. Sadly that is a reality, especially today.
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Fred, 😉 :banana: re #33
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Aye, 60’s protest music was also “my introduction” and big wake up call to political ideas.
Yeah, everybody call the Middle East…if their incompetence outstrips their ill will, as I think it often does, they’ll be dancing in circles trying to figure it all out :nod:
Susan Joy, You do understand I am saying much between the lines?
For you Travis, since you said yesterday to “throw it down”. I did a bit…:rofl2:
And I am getting tea:joe:
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Elizabeth Bumiller :love: Bush
Oops, forgot the link to the Bumiller piece
oops = back window = back CAR window which has the 3 different impeach bush signs.
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Nothing going on here.:omg:
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oops… I took it apart before I put it together.
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Ok thats better
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:omg:Ohhhh That chainsaw is deafening.. smells bad too.:no::no::omg:
:smack: sorry I forgot to light incense to cover the smell…
WOW, with all that knitting it makes me think about…
“Untie a knot, tie a new knot, bind it, and set it free…etc” (Susan Joy :wink:)
Fred, I called Washington DC and they said to call San Francisco AND LEAVE A MESSAGE with my #, they have a message machine, and will contact me. However, I am not in San Francisco or Los Angeles at this time, but there should be something at the courthouse or at HSU.
Oh, Susan Joy, regarding what Travis said it was a challenge put to me (it came across stangely) since he knew I did not want to speak…but…hmmmmmm
Also, I wish there was a “Lead Balloon Emo” since I have a different type of sense of humour and what I think is funny comes across as a “lead balloon”. My husband and I have totally different “senses of humour”:( .
Finally:!: My KTLK Stream is working, now, that I am falling asleep.:yawn::yawn::yawn: 🙁
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Hi everyone!…Horrible speech last night! What a mealy mouthed little creep.
The thing is that this whole immigration thing is just the smokescreen to distract us from the real story….
What Bush siad was pretty much nothing. If there was a plan there it was pretty vague. Olberman said as much right after, if you watched the speech on MSNBC. He then had to defer to Matthews who also was sorta…huh?…
I was actually blogging at the time so was railing on about it right as it happened.
My big beef was that they dare to screw up primetime TV on the very night that Prison Break and 24 are on…when there is so little good TV on as it is….and I had to run aorund and make sur ethat the vcrs were taping long enough.
Do Americans sitting down to watch Prison Break (or even Oprah’s gala whatever it was,) want to be forced into watching that sneering asshole?
He has been so heavily coached at this point and he still cant pull off any sort of normal discourse.
Im trying to ignore the immigration thing and try to focus on who is doing what….I dont see how we can even rustle up the troops for the border guard. As Kieth put it, we’ll have one guy every 2 or 3 football fields holding out his arms trying to catch whoever is walking past. Its a crazy plan.
anyhoo….
Will is sick…really sick….from some medicine. And things are pretty shaky right now.
I may have to take him to the hospital if things dont turn around pretty soon.
Interesting. I was just looking through the web server referrer logs, and found this site listed on this wiki page, under the heading of “anti-air america” sites. The description states:
I don’t disagree with the description so much, but I don’t consider us to be anti-aar. Anti-Danny Goldberg, to be sure. At times (and to to varying degrees) critical of certain shows/hosts/guests, but I think that’s because we all want aar to thrive and be a quality alternative to the right-wing blather.
Hey Melina. Good luck with Will. I hope things clear up quickly, and he doesn’t need to go to the hospital.
Melina, Blessings to You and Will. Be Well!
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WOW, with all that knitting it makes me think about…
“Untie a knot, tie a new knot, bind it, and set it free…etc” (Susan Joy 😉 )
Fred, I called Washington DC and they said to call San Francisco AND LEAVE A MESSAGE with my #, they have a message machine, and will contact me. However, I am not in San Francisco or Los Angeles at this time, but there should be something at the courthouse or at HSU.
Oh, Susan Joy, regarding what Travis said it was a challenge put to me (it came across stangely) since he knew I did not want to speak…but…hmmmmmm
Also, I wish there was a “Lead Balloon Emo” since I have a different type of sense of humour and what I think is funny comes across as a “lead balloon”. My husband and I have totally different “senses of humour”:( .
sometimes I’m quite sharp, but I DO slip into my major space cadet moments…in which case, be gentle and direct :doh: LOL
I’m still looking to read the text of Bush’s actual speech (later, when I’m not also trying to work), then I’ll comment more fully. Hi Melina 🙂
My thoughts and prayers will include Will..
OK, I’ve addedthis to that description referenced above (oh, the power of the wiki):
Not actually Anti-AAR. Anti-Danny Goldberg, to be sure (and the group appears to have been vindicated where the former CEO is concerned), and at times (and to to varying degrees) critical of certain shows/hosts/guests, not because they are Anti-AAR, but because they are progressives who want to see AAR thrive and continue to be an important alternative to the right-wing blather that dominates the airwaves.
They know quite well we’re not anti-AAR. All a person has to do is read the blog on any given day and it’s easy to see, by reading the discussions, how many people still listen to the whole range of AAR shows. It’s anti Goldberg but that’s enough for them to try to cast us in a bad light
that’s a good way of putting it, PJ
pjsauter :banana: “We are disenfranchised and are lamenting folk.” Yet, we were mentioned — good or bad publicity is considered still good, so it is said.:rofl2:
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G’Night, G’Day to One And All.
Melina and Will you are in mine and others’ thoughts and prayers:love::knit:.
I just wanted to end on 1010 (Binary Code) :banana: = Matrix
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A sunny low 70s in L’il Beirut. Has Rove been indicted yet?
Hi Wan…still waiting for indictment. I was just listening to Marc from last nite (oh I need the funny today and it was good to laugh out loud while I tried to dry the mail and wade through the flooded basement)
And he was also asking this of Tim Grieve of Salon…there are so many tips flying around but the feelign is that its happening soon. I hope that they get him good!
I guess that he is going along like nothing is wrong…
Hope this immigration smokescreen was his idea too….hes lost his touch, old doughy boy!
Thanks to all of you for your good thoughts for Will.
I hope that things will just work out but Im gathering information from all different drs now on what could be happening to him and why hes feeling so horrible.
I just keep hoping that he gets up and takes a shower and feels…better!! But he doesnt seem to be able to get up at all.
It is getting as hot as hell in this town!
You fucking liberals. Oh, now if Social Security Numbers are not valid, fire the employee. And turn them in. A nation of narcs.
Yeah! Immigration as a wedge issue: expose the undocumented, liberals. Do your part. Who is this dolt on Franken’s show?
(I knew that this was going to happen.)
V.I.V.A A.N.S.W.E.R. !
F. U. You spineless. legalistic Liberals!:fu:
“Hug the TarBaby”?
What is that?
Sound like a White Supremacist statement, Snow.
Keep running your racist mouth, Snow.
Thanks for the forum.:jesus:
Oh hell. Tar Baby. Zippie Doo Dah. Uncle Remus. Who gives a flying flock about the Tony Snow Show when these slimos are destroying the constitution. Can we keep our attention on what’s important? Besides, the poor bastard started crying when he talked about his cancer, and losing his mom. On first glance, Snow doesnt’t seem to be the Roveian Hit Man from Fox that they thought they were hiring does he?
I wrote something, but I think it’s very long!
Cute political cartoons
http://tinyurl.com/gft37
The video of the plane hitting the pentagon is not worth watching.. same old stuff.
Why the Fundamentalists are Freaking Out Over Da Vinci Code
By HARVEY WASSERMAN
Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a daughter?
Questions about Christ’s love life will dominate debate over the release of the DAVINCI CODE this weekend.
The answers do matter. But what really counts is the story’s pagan/feminist core, and its role in the Culture War.
The spin has begun. As freaked-out fundamentalists focus on Jesus’s sexuality, and on petty documentary talking points, they’ll try to obscure DAVINCI’S lethal assault on the Church’s reactionary male theocracy.
What’s at stake is not the fine points of documentation and detail. Rather it’s the contention that male-dominated Christian/Catholic fundamentalism as a repressive dictatorship that has thrown sexuality and sexuality out of balance.
Fiction it may be. But with 45 million copies in print, Dan Brown’s DAVINCI is a force of nature. How Ron Howard’s upcoming feature film deals with its core content will have significant impact.
Opening amidst the catastrophic failure of the macho neo-con Bush putsch and its moral, spiritual and fiscal bankruptcy, it’s no wonder the Church hierarchy is mobilizing Rove-style against DAVINCI’S profoundly subversive truths.
Important issue: Liberals getting on board with the plan for illegals.:fu:
BYE!
Liberals have a plan for the illegals ?? Ohh yeah the dems in the senate went along with Bushes plan.. :barf::eek::mad:
Check SS numbers. Follow the irregular ones…I knew this shit was going to happen. Round them up…Return them to Mexico.
Um, I think Kahn stole my identity.[Ominous music hits crescendo and stops abruptly] Yeah, uh-huh. ’Cause, uh, I gave her my address and my real name and BAM!…she vanished.
Comment by travisdem_04 — May 16, 2006 @ 7:53 am
So dark the Kahn of man. :rofl2:
Extra FICA funds, Randi, you crypto fascist. MILLION DOLLAR FINE! F.U.C.K.
Is anybody out there concerned with the general scenario these liberals are spinning? Smoke them out by making it extremely difficult to get phony documentation. Force the 12 million working people back to poverty in Mexico. Real Bright. “Hey. They are illegal.”
:fu:
You could quicly learn to do guard duty, you dip!
What a plan, Randi. Force the economic refugees back to Mexico, where the US Government will help them to make Mexico a first world country.
How can anybody be this goddamn stupid?:doh:
I am too upset to blog anymore. No one to converse with anyway. Unanswered messages…:omg:
:banana::rabbi::rant1::fire::banana::fist::banana::gate::rant1::rabbi::banana:
Back again.
Melina, I hope Will is up, showered and feeling better.
NickiRose, you are right, it
istoo hot in this town. AND why the hell is it raining on the east coast?No news on Rove…
Does this mean Jason is in the dog house? :smack:
The Truthout Author of the article about Rove is susposed to be on Shultz’s program in the 5pm hour
New Frontiers of Shamelessness
RED Light District: Bono’s Independent
By HARRY BROWNE
“I have no embarrassment at all. No shame.” Bono says it himself, in the course of his luvvie interview with comic Eddie Izzard, and that’s a typically ‘disarming’ tactic. But don’t be disarmed: Bono’s shamelessness is of a whole different order from anything we’ve seen before, and it crosses new frontiers in the edition of the London Independent that he allegedly ‘edited’ today (16 May).
For a day, you see, it’s the RED Independent. (The capital letters in RED are obligatory, for some reason.) Much of the paper is given our to plugging Brand RED, this corporate PR strategy that sees a few big companies buy Bono-bestowed credibility in return for some shillings to Africa. If the word for Bono is indeed ‘shameless’, then the word that comes to mind in relation to the newspaper itself (a usually credible outlet in Irish mogul Tony O’Reilly’s media empire) is ‘prostitute’.
Much of Bono’s RED Indy is online, but its special qualities are best appreciated on paper. RED is somehow related to the colour red anyway, so we get a front-page created by celebrity artist Damien Hirst, soaked in red and declaring “NO NEWS TODAY” and an asterisk leading to the small print: “Just 6,500 Africans died today as a result of a preventable, treatable disease. (HIV/AIDS)” So far, not terrible, highlighting the issue and its absence from the conventional Western news agenda. But why does it say “Genesis 1.27” on the cover? That’s the line about how “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Since Bono is responsible for creating this paper in his image, does that mean he’s God? […]
http://www.counterpunch.org
He said if he was getting hosed by his sources he was going to out them.
Tar Baby
I think it’s great that in Tony Snow’s first press conference he exposed The Fox Network for what it really is.
Well Jason still stands behind or in his story as the case may be. The week still has another three days in it.:yuck::crap::rant1:
Perhaps the Rovian has agreed to name names in exchange for immunity. Or maybe Fitzgerald is working on a bigger case for him.
That slimy fucker is getting off?:omg::mad::rofl2:
Remember the attack on Iran last year. OK. Apples and Oranges.:smack:
I still have trouble believing that with all the c* that comes out of FAUX news that people actually believe people like Gibson, O’liely and Napoleono (sp) and that someone hasn’t taken them off the air… err cable.. how about the ground.
I have this question: Once a grand jury hands down an indictment is there a mandated time period that the prosecutor must adhere to in filing the charges? I haven’t been able to find the answer.
I’m sure farmerkat knows the answer to this. Maybe she has a clue as to what is going on?
It would be hard for Rove to name names much farther up the ladder than he is that would be prosecutable. If congress won’t go after Bush for what he already has done they will just let Bush be heir dictator and let him do anything he wants to. We have a nation of laws except when you can’t or don’t want to enforce them then its a nation of criminals.
Repugs band together to elect Blackwell in Ohio. From the front page of the Eureka Times Standard, our home-town, small-town newspaper in California, 3000 miles from Ohio, comes this front-page story about how our local rich folks are supporting Blockhead:
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It sounded like Rove was served but that his legal team just refuses to acknowledge that fact.. I don’t know why the accused has to admit to it before the press can talk about it though.
I’m not certain, but once there’s an indictment, I believe that’s that. I think the prosecutor presents the chartges for the Grand Jury to consider and then they vote on whether to indict or not. The indictment can remain under seal (like, if making it public would tip off somebody else that they were about to go down, too). Then again, what do I know?
It seems sorta clear that either Leopold was misled, or his sources were unfamiliar with what really went down. The GJ is supposed to meet tomorrow, so hopefully the frog marching can commence some time shortly thereafter.
Why the Fundamentalists are Freaking Out Over Da Vinci Code
By HARVEY WASSERMAN
Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a daughter?
Questions about Christ’s love life will dominate debate over the release of the DAVINCI CODE this weekend.
The answers do matter. But what really counts is the story’s pagan/feminist core, and its role in the Culture War.
The spin has begun. As freaked-out fundamentalists focus on Jesus’s sexuality, and on petty documentary talking points, they’ll try to obscure DAVINCI’S lethal assault on the Church’s reactionary male theocracy.
What’s at stake is not the fine points of documentation and detail. Rather it’s the contention that male-dominated Christian/Catholic fundamentalism as a repressive dictatorship that has thrown sexuality and sexuality out of balance.
Fiction it may be. But with 45 million copies in print, Dan Brown’s DAVINCI is a force of nature. How Ron Howard’s upcoming feature film deals with its core content will have significant impact.
Opening amidst the catastrophic failure of the macho neo-con Bush putsch and its moral, spiritual and fiscal bankruptcy, it’s no wonder the Church hierarchy is mobilizing Rove-style against DAVINCI’S profoundly subversive truths.
Also the version of Mary in the DC, which was just hinted at, alludes to the Mary cult that some (non mainstream) Catholics practice. She’s a very Goddess-like figure. That doesn’t sit well with the church.
Sounds like the latest monster OSX security patch that was supposed to fix 43 OSX and Quicktime vulnerabilities didn’t patch all the Safari issues, and is causing some system hangs and boot problems.
So does this mean I can’t collect my $1,000 fine from Verizon?
I think they’re just so sexually frustrated that it pisses them off that Jesus might’ve gotten laid. It’s why they were so nuts about Clinton, too.
I know that the people in Eureka is not going to let that tranfer of funds go quietly in the night. Ideas. Plans based on ideas. Put the plans in action.
:fu:Fucking immoral rich bastard! Where is Robin Hood when we need him?
In previous times the people who helped to fix elections to get “their man” into office eventually lost. Some times in rather dramatic ways like on the wrong end of a Chicago piano concerto. In the case of the last major adventure into fascism it was on the wrong end of a B17 and/or a B25 or B24. With the advance in technology we may get to experience the wrong end of something Mr Putin and/or Mr HU posses. Gives one something to look forward too.
:growl::mad::omg:
I think they’re just so sexually frustrated that it pisses them off that Jesus might’ve gotten laid. It’s why they were so nuts about Clinton, too.
Ya think???? 😮
What’s that?:omg:
What’s what???
From what we have seen there are a lot of people out there who consider the president as a object beyond reproach so the idea of him being “human” and having human frailties might blow some peoples minds. Having him be a crook and a lier is even more disturbing. Having him be the person responsible for getting them blown off the face of the planet will be even more disturbing ( but not for long)
yep so i checked out that house no good bad bad house floors warped and cielings all tore up oh well will look again in the fall when i have more money saved! yep yep ok well when i leave home again will post more from my trip to maronland!
:tinfoil:i think its a conspiracy to stop me from being able to find the emoticons i like to use yep its a conspiracy
Yeah, Fred, but people need to wake up. This guy is not royalty, he’s an elected official. Wake up call, people!
Sorry about the house, Sean… waiting till you can get something better will pay off, I think.
Can you trade your rig for a double wide sleeper cab?? I saw a KW that some guy who owns formula one dragsters owned and it was a self contained house on wheels that could pull 75,000 lbs. You will be really popular in the FEMA camps after Bush and his followers lose.:tinfoil:
So Rhodes thinks ( oxymoron if I ever heard one) they will round up the immigrants and put them in work labor camps.. That will only happen in some imaginary place in her deranged mind. They ( we) will riot and destroy the capitalists stuff long before it gets to that point. Now if they started out by rounding up people on the left that just might work ( we are so well not organized)
via atrios
Fuck the “illegal immigrant”: thing. I’m so tired of hearing that. Just got off the phone with my mom; she told me the whole story. My grandfather came here illegally to escape the pogroms in Eastern Europe, and because of red tape had to move to Brazil for a couple of years, and then somehow managed to get here. He became a hard-working citizen. In those days there was just as much xenophobia against people coming into the country through less-than-on-the-books means. But those immigrant’s children’s children forgot their roots and history and now become the “xeonphobes”. It’s disgusting. Just because something is “illegal” doesn’t make it wrong: trying to escape oppresion is not wrong.
Whether or not you think that people should immigrate to this country “legally,” it is NOT the big fucking problem they’re trying to make it out to be. It certainly isn’t as if they care about border security, or they’d be concerned about the ports, the coasts, and our northern border.
They just figure that if we have Jose and Maria to hate, we’ll all forget about no WMD’s, the price of gas, spying on US citizens, and no Osama. Since they have the traditonal media in their pocket and the racists on their side, they’re doing a pretty good job of making it a “big” story.
Get a scapegoat, scare the public into submission, and you can try for complete and total domination. Hitler and Goebbels had the Jews and the Gypsies (among others), and Bush and Rove have the Mexicans and the Muslims.
Fortunately, Hitler didn’t have Nuclear weapons capable of destroying the planet and bringing about the end times.
Unfortunately, these fascists do.
I’m just tired of the Reich’s slime and c* spreading in general. They have used immigrants as issues ever since there were immigrants and before them they used indians. If the people weren’t so naive and stupid it would work so really poorly for them… but .. :doh::omg::mad::rant1:
Whether or not you think that people should immigrate to this country “legally,” it is NOT the big fucking problem they’re trying to make it out to be. It certainly isn’t as if they care about border security, or they’d be concerned about the ports, the coasts, and our northern border.
They just figure that if we have Jose and Maria to hate, we’ll all forget about no WMD’s, the price of gas, spying on US citizens, and no Osama. Since they have the traditonal media in their pocket and the racists on their side, they’re doing a pretty good job of making it a “big” story.
Get a scapegoat, scare the public into submission, and you can try for complete and total domination. Hitler and Goebbels had the Jews and the Gypsies (among others), and Bush and Rove have the Mexicans and the Muslims.
Fortunately, Hitler didn’t have Nuclear weapons capable of destroying the planet and bringing about the end times.
Unfortunately, these fascists do.
Good analysis, PJ. This kind of government would not work unless they were distracting people by channeling their hate and fear. If there were no illegal immigrants from Mexico or Muslims, they’d have to invent another group. The whole thing works rather well. No coincidence that he came out with this speech just when his ratings are the lowest and people are angry about their personal lives being intruded upon.
:tongue:trucks fixed but i dont wanna go away yet! i wanna stay home! i was thinking maybe i can lease a place and start an art gallery in the fall i wonder what it would cost to lease a place for a year and how much art and photography i could sell? maybe if i do that susie can come to buffalo and have a show and quietgirl too! damn my overactive mind and its crazy dreams! then again if i could lease a decent spot and sell enough to live and keep the place running it would be a dream come true!
You really want to open an art gallery after watching Art School Confidential?? :rofl2: :doh: I have always had mixed feelings about the art world and that movie hit it on the nail! But I guess the galleries were the ones that made out in the end, huh. At the expense of WHAT!:fu: Did you go to art school Sean?
Boo HooHOO! Why did Morning sedition have to die?? There will never be another show like it, Boo Hoo hooo!
wah! I want Morning Sedition back. I will never be happy again! Wahhhhhh!
Mark Riley isn’t good enough, whine complain! Marc and Jim fight too much. Lament lament 😥
I hate AAR! :fu: That’s why I put so much energy into getting my local AAR affiliate back on the air!
It really sux that they cancelled Unfiltered, isn’t it everyone. Lizz got shafted and AAR sux! We hate AAR don’t we> Booooo!
Maybe if Morning Sedition had survived the Goldburg onslaught Rove would have been indicted a long time ago. I bet.:nod:
And John Kerry would have returned Marcs’ shoe.
yep i went to art school used to be in the army too i also worked in a bank for nine months uh i used to be a mechanic at a bowling alley fixing the pinsetting machines yep was a garbageman for 9 months too so to speak i drove a recycle truck not garbage pain in the ass had to jump in and out of the truck nine bajillion times a day! yep what else did i do? i worked at the bon-ton at the mall when i was a senior in high school uh also delivered newspapers to paperboys while i was going to community college didnt pay much but helped yep ive done a lot think the gallery thing might be a decent idea although i REALLY REALLY want to own a half decent house! yep anyway ok well must be going adios senors and senoritas!
P.S. i went to see art school confidential too and it did not represent what art school really is from my experience but then again thats my experience i went to the art institute of pittsburgh if anyone was wondering yep im a sweet artist! well sometimes ok well im going need to go hang out with my extended family before im out of here again!
seancrest out:paranoid::tinfoil:
I sure do miss Morning Sedition. Hah! Remember Mort Mortenson with the Rememberance bit? Hah1 That was funny. I miss it.:-(
Maybe if we lament long enough they’ll bring back Morning Sedition. Huh everyone, ya think?
:sammy: Remember him? He was funny too. I miss him. Lament lament.
I canNOT believe they cancelled Morning Sedition! Man! I need a beer. :40:
Maybe if I had been a better fan the show wouldn’t have gotten cancelled. :-(:( It’s my fault, I know that now, and I take full responsibility. 🙁
:spank: Yeah, I blame you too. :no:
Hey, uh, I just found out that Otis just turned 10 years old.:billcat:
Will this TORTURE ever END!:knit2:
:tinfoil: http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TDS-Phonescam-Fox.wmv
I ruined Marcs careeer, I know it. I hope he can recover from my horrible lapse as a Morning Sedfition fan. I hope he will forgive me.
:barf:
😯 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/16.html#a8314
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I ruined Marcs careeer, I know it. I hope he can recover from my horrible lapse as a Morning Sedfition fan. I hope he will forgive me.
:barf:
Comment by Kristapea — May 16, 2006 @ 9:48 pm
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:paranoid:
It wasn’t your fault: it was the will of the administration as exercised by their tool, Danny Goldberg…
:tinfoil:
:tinfoil: Vote Dem at the federal level, Green at the state level…while you still can…
http://www.vanish.org/
It was to my fault! I could have sent one more postcard to Goldfuck. I could have called one more sponsor. I could have gone to the top of A Mountain and shouted to the Universe, “Don’t cancel Morning Seditgion~!” But I didn’t. I only wrote 30 postcards, and I only called 25 sponsors. I SUCK :fu:
Oh, how I miss Morning Seditioon. :alc::cry::doh:
Alright, man. I think it’s time we calmed down and assessed the situation rationally. Uh, why the fuck didn’t you send one more post card? Or call one more sponsor? The whole thing toppled because of that inaction. 😡 Now I’m irate; I can’t even think I’m so pissed. Grrr!
Hey, whatchya drinkin’, though? Hmmm?
I’m drinkin’ my tears, man. 😥 Morning Sedition was the GRAETEST shoe EVER! and I BLEW IT!
:smack: Oh, well. What’s done is done, I guess.
O h god when will I stop being such a LOOZER! :blech:
Let’s just chill-out and divert this conversation to something productive…like the weather. What’s the weather like in Phoenix?
And what about Chuck D and Lizz Wi nstead and racherl Maddow?/ Were tyhey booted vfirst because they were on first?
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It was to my fault! I could have sent one more postcard to Goldfuck. I could have called one more sponsor. I could have gone to the top of A Mountain and shouted to the Universe, “Don’t cancel Morning Seditgion~!” But I didn’t. I only wrote 30 postcards, and I only called 25 sponsors. I SUCK :fu:
Comment by Kristapea — May 16, 2006 @ 10:02 pm
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I understand what you’re saying, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to tell you that you unfortunately, do not suck.
You see, in this existence, we do what we can to minimize the chances of failure and maximize the chances of success: there are no guarantees.
Hang on Kristapea, hang on…
This is what we do here ANV, we lament Morning Sedition. That is the purpose of this blog. And to hate AAR. Lament Morning Sedition and hate AAR, yup that’s what I live for! 😉
:V:
…FIGHT…
Fine! I’ll look up the weather on Google!:mad:
:tinfoil: http://tinyurl.com/mpyqs
New phrase: “surveillance state”
Hey, uh, I just found out that Otis just turned 10 years old.
Comment by travisdem_04 — May 16, 2006 @ 9:43 pm
TRAVIS you are using your old handle!
:cake::billcat::cake:
Does that mean you have been talking to CK?
Always good to hear an Otis report.
Check it, Sbluefox http://tuxedoboyz.blogspot.com/ 😉
Glad to see that CK is OK, and that Otis is doing well. That is, when I’m not lamenting the demise of MS, and being anti-aar. 😉
:knit: Thank you Travis…
Too :yawn:tired to read why we are being anti aar but I am even though I paid for premium only out of frustration
Well, I’m not anti-aar. I’m not crazy about Springer, and sometimes Randi bugs me (and even Al, once in a while), but I couldn’t wait for AAR to hit the airwaves, and I’ve been an AAR member for 2 years and 5 weeks (for whatever that’s worth), and frankkly it bugs me to be lumped with that idiot, Brian Maloney, and “BoreAmerica.”
OK, since I’m up and all alone, I’ll try and listen “live” tonight.
That’s cool, man!:alc:
Yo, Travis, ‘sup?
Just hangin’ ’til the show starts. Oh, it’s on now.
Hey PJ, Marc mentioned your most depressing song, A Man Needs A Maid ! 😀
Damn, I fell asleep.
Yeah, he said something like PJ said his most depressing song is…
Good show tonight.
They really packed alot into just 2 hours.
Night :yawn: