Another weekend in DC. News from indside the beltway is that Laura is tired of George fooling around with Condi, and has moved into the Mayflower Hotel (it’s been confirmed, supposedly, by a Mayflower staffer, that Laura spent at least one night at the hotel). I heard that Laura kicked George out of the White House for a night, which is why he went to Baghdad.
Otherwise, things are quiet, hot, and humid here, with the temperatures supposed to be in the nineties – and the humidity even higher. No swamp coolers here. I think I’ll see if I can make my way to Great Falls VA today, and hang out. If I do, I’ll try and take some pictures (I took some before, but they’re the same goddamn things you’ve seen a million times – the Capitol Dome, Wasington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, yada, yada, yada; really no point in posting them) and post them somewhere.
So, I think we’ve gotten some people’s attention over at AAR. People like Jon Sinton and Doug Kreeger are already Maron fans, but hopefully calling and writing AAR is helping to give them the ammunition they need to move things along. If you write, be polite and coherent, and if you write to Kreeger and Sinton specifically, it wouldn’t hurt to mention that you appreciate their efforts. But let’s keep pushing this until we get some results – not just for us, but for AAR.
The two former CEOs screwed things up considerably, and it’s time things got set right. It won’t be right unless we, the listeners, are a part of it. That’s what bozo’s like Ed Schultz don’t get. “We the People” need to take back our airwaves, as well as our government. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that we can’t do the latter until we do the former. And “We the People” are a helluva lot more than rich, white, male landowners or “Donna Reed” households with a mommy, daddy and 1.2 children. We’re all colors and creeds and shapes and sizes. We’re single parents, we’re two mommys, we’re two daddys, or we’re a “village.” We’re all that, and everything in between. Fuck these intolerant assholes who think they have a corner on what’s “right” for America. We are America. And we are Air America.
So c’mon you lurkers who never post, get out there and join the fight! And you regulars who haven’t called/emailed/faxed/written – you get going, too.
As for me, I’m gonna go hiking. We’re under 50 – 49 to go. Have a good Saturday.
A very disturbing read
I’d cheer about being first, but it only means I didn’t sleep worth a crap last night.
Question of the Day:
Once SusanJoy gets next to NickiRose :love: in the Top Posters list will she be content or will she fight NickiRose for #1 and will NickiRose fight to maintain his status? π
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGG but what the h* its Saturday:eek::joe::joe:
The take Back America Conference was a farce.. It and so many other things that “Democrats” do is to make it look like something is happening. The mainstream DC Democrats are so detached from the people they represent or should represent that they are almost not credible. I think the slightly to the left of center people who probably represent a lot of people in the retired, please don’t rock the boat, but keep social security crowd want to try to slowing stop the movement of the whole structure to the right and see if they can maybe start the pendulum moving back to the left. Since they haven’t tried to do that for 40 years one would doubt they have a clue as to how to really do that.
The offensive against the corportists at the ballot box will be useless because it will happen so slowly that the people will get screwed royally long before any slow change can succeed and screwed people will not or will not be able to financially support the politicians living in “Inside the beltway world”
:gate::omg::jason::fist:
Nicki and Susan are definitely involved in a war of one liners..
This blog has very diverse content ranging from the symposium on Air Conditioning earlier in the week to plays last night. Hey there is even some politics.
C-span actually has the Dems news conference on concerning their agenda for the fall elections. At 4:30 in the morning but hey it was on.
Fall elections are Rove’s next test
Reputation as architect of victory at stake
White House political strategist Karl Rove emerges from the CIA leak case with his reputation scuffed, his power slightly diminished, and Republicans counting on him, once again, to help rescue their House and Senate majorities
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13375505/
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Karl’s techniques are almost criminal. Without slime the thugs would never have a chance except among the 33% made up of the stupids, the rich and the corportists ( translated criminals, criminals and more criminals) He would make a good “target” for left sided activities. :gate::omg::jason::fist:
Whore.. err Hoyer.. Is saying that people can live on a minimum wage of 7.50 an hour .. :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Maybe 8 people to the typical two bedroom apartment :fu::mad::barf::eek::yuck::gate::omg::jason::fist:
have a nice hike, pj.
the only reason i can figure for why these folks want to stay indefinately in Iraq is for the corporations. nothing else makes sense. hillary is right in there with ’em. when i talked to a guy in Jordan about the war – about a year or so in it – i told him I believed the main purpose was for the corporations, he said “Yes, a business war.” With Iraq asking us to set a timetable and the neo-cons STILL refusing, it has to be more than freedom on the march.
isi, don’t know the answer to your question, but Seaniesean better buy his new laptop and get back on board or he’s going to lose the number two slot! :peace:
I love PETA, they just keep on keepin’ on.
Should be fun next week. Margaret Cho will be on TMMS. Jim and Margaret used to be an item :love:
Jim has some hidden talents, I’d say!
Or, should I say, Still Waters Run Deep
Does anyone remember if Sandra Bernhard was on Morning Sedition? Like to see her on TMMS. Is she cool or what!
speaking of peta:
Screwing around with Mideastern politics is certainly keeping oil prices up and making fortunes for big Oil one of Georges major contributors.
Screwing around with Medicare is certainly making fortunes for Big Pharma one of Georges major contributors.
The tax cuts which as far as anyone has seen have not stimulated the economy and have certainly given the upper 1%, major contributors to Georges campaign, a shot in the pocket book.
An ongoing war which uses up military resources and requires continued funding of DOD at high levels makes fortunes for the Defense contractors who are major contributors to Georges campaign..
This goes on and on its all about the money.. greed.. stupidity..
Its a lie its all a lie ..:gate::omg::jason::fist::fu::fu:
Morning Evening :yinyang:
speaking of peta:(2)
Cats and dogs are no longer legal menu items (as of about five years ago) β they still are menu items on the mainland.
I don’t know what to say after a comment like that.
have you eaten dog or cat, KK?
[gawd, that sounds awful!] :yuck:
Please don’t rescue the bears and then ship them to the front range of the rocky mountains.:eek::eek: We seem to have more Bears in the city limits than they have in the mountains .. either that or going hiking in the mountains these days may be more hazardous that one may think. ( insert emo of hiker becoming lunch here)
Farmerkat, I’ve been meaning to ask you if you grow crops like fruit and vegetables and if you do do you sell them in a farmer’s market? Wasn’t sure what kind of farm you had.
since we’re talking about the wholesale slaughter of animals, here’s another problem that punched me in the gut:
:omg:1700 to get a new computer! 2400 ram 120 gig hd video card so i can play all the sweet new games 2ghz processor and it has that lighscribe burn pictures onto cds thing too
I was surprised that we ship horse meat to Europe. I kind of though that most horse meat went into dog food but most dog food is meatless , more like soy protein and grain.. Kind if like a soy burger :eek::shock::yuck:
One winter back in 90/91 I was given a stew of ‘fragrant meat’ which I ate. They later told me it was a euphemisim for ‘dog meat’. :yuck: They were not a crowed I chose to hang around. Did I, yes. Did I know it, no.
FK, The Killing Floor article was gruesome.
Why is there a surplus of horses?
With cats and dogs it’s because people don’t get their animals neutered plus they abandon them. Is that the same for horses? How do you abandon a horse?
I raised these, but then got out of the business when the ticker starting giving me fits. (I miss them.) It’s a small farm, and we are talking about what to do next. Sheep/veges or sell….. next year the teenager (who had a paint chip stuck on his cornea yesterday and we had to have it removed…. terrific summer so far π ) goes off to college and with the mr doing the baghdad commute, I need to figure out what I want to do…… :doh: should i stay or should i go now….thinking of dusting off the law degree and finding something worthwhile to do as well
hey i ate a soy burger the other day!
Laptops are still demanding that high a price ?? The one I bought to replace the one with the fan problem was like $800.. But.. its doesn’t have super duper 8X graphics either. :eek::omg:
horse racing “industry” is part of the problem, as I understand it. As well, people just don’t take care of the animals they have. I’ve seen some pretty gruesome things around here.
KK, “fragrant” = smelly :billcat:
Seanie has returned!!! What flavor computer did you get, seanie?
fred, “Bars” (as they’re called ’round here) are smart and go for the easy grub – your neighborhoods!
1149 plus i bought the replacement plan for 385 plus tax
Wow, no more farmer in farmerkat π―
I was thinking it would be fun to start an organic farm. My grandfathers old farm in oklahoma is just sitting there. Don’t know who owns it. Couldn’t afford to buy all of it. Sort of fantasizing about buying a few acres, though.
The thugs out on the plains ( Muskrats district) seem to quite often abuse their horses. You see an article two to three times a year about a dozen or so horses being found on the verge of death.. Some times they are found in time and saved .. most often not. I got the impression that they were cremated not sent to Europe as horse meat.
cool! That is also one of my fantasies…..
damn, air quality almost at code red…need to get out before it gets any warmer (& we’re about 55 miles from Atlanta)
Ciao!
Bear, deer, Elk, mountain lions all have learned that garbage, and small domestic animals, are easier than foraging in the woods. Especially when it gets as dry as it has been. The thought is that after the drought they will stick around because they found the pickings easier in the Burbs ( that assumes the drought will ever be over .. with Global warming ???????):eek::yuck: π
Going walking on the green way is a good way to meet the wildlife these days.. They even put up signs warning about interacting inappropriately with the wildlife and have lectures to teach you how to react so you don’t get trampled or become lunch.:eek::eek:
Farming works as great exercise as long as the scale of the operation is kept at a minimum and you live in a place where mother nature furnishes the water.
You can grow enough for yourself and some to sell at the farmers market.
If you find your stuff is popular then you have to worry about hiring people, buying a real tractor, water, a bigger truck .. its gets complicated really fast.
FK what a garden to work in!
FK’s garden err barn looks like a great place. You just have to watch where you are walking.. We have that problem on the Green Way too.
L.A. waits for Reggie the alligator to awaken
Mysterious alligator lives in urban lake, but hasn’t been seen since the fall
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13376473/
Speaking of animals in the Burbs..:eek::eek::eek::omg:
Rove: Right use Net to ‘broaden our appeal,’ while left use it to ‘mobilize hate and anger’
Ron Brynaert
In an exclusive interview with a New Hampshire “citizen activist network,” President Bush’s senior political adviser, Karl Rove, claimed that conservatives have broadened their appeal through the Internet while liberals have used it to “mobilize hate and anger,” RAW STORY has found.
“I do also think that the Internet has proven to be a more powerful tool on our side than it has been for the other side,” Rove told VictoryNH.com, a non-partisan Website founded by a former Ambassador who has raised and contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to strictly Republican candidates.
http://tinyurl.com/z9mjt
:barf::barf::yuck::eek::fu::shock:
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Most thugs I know can’t even find the power switch.. Like I was saying Rove would make an excellent “target” for left sided activities.:gate::omg::jason::fist:
New Bush policy adviser said he’d support jail for doctors who performed abortions
John Byrne
On a PBS program aired this weekend and taped in April, new Bush domestic policy adviser Karl Zinsmeister told the host that he would personally support doctors being jailed for performing abortions, RAW STORY has discovered
http://tinyurl.com/ldxcj
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The next big rethug thing :gate::omg::jason::fist:
Report reveals global slum crisis
Family life continues in slums despite the squalor, the report says
Slum-dwellers who make up a third of the world’s urban population often live no better – if not worse – than rural people, a United Nations report says.
Anna Tibaijuka, head of the UN Habitat agency, urged governments and donors to take more seriously the problems of at least a billion people.
Worst hit is Sub-Saharan Africa where 72% of urban inhabitants live in slums rising to nearly 100% in some states
http://tinyurl.com/mm4yg
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The author apparently has never been in the inner city in most US cities.. It doesn’t look the same but it is beginning to smell the same.. A lot of inner city housing has no electricity and no water , some of the buildings may be partially burned out … but people live there.
In the Burbs the working class neighborhoods are slowly looking that way too. Weeds Weeds and more weeds, garbage in bags outside the house.. People tell me the people are living in the dark because their electricity has been turned off.. Bushes great economy..:barf::barf::fu::yuck::eek:
Good morning again. :yawn: :joe::joe::joe:
Hey FK, let’s start an orgainic farm that takes orders on the web. You do all the hard work, and I’ll take care of the web page and the databases. Actually, I have a friend whose sister (a geologist by trade) lives in Moab, Utah, and started growing organic food and selling it to the trendy restaurants that have popped up in the area (mountain bike capitol of the world, not to mention near Arches NP and lots of river rafting). Last I heard, she was doing well.
So, what time does last night’s podcast get posted on Saturdays? Of course, I have a bunch to get through anyway, but still.
Good Morning :joe:
It’s Krista :banana::banana::banana:
Whass up in Phoenix ??
I think I have to go to a baby shower today. Oh well, there’ll be good food.
the podcast isn’t up YET. usually it’s up pretty early on week days.
so pj, will you SELL the produce as part of your end of the bargain????
Isi, how much acreage are you talking about in OK? I’m going to make your pesto this weekend, btw!
to go along with the animal theme today:
π That’s good FK.
I want to own a farm too! What a perfect way to live as morning seditionists.
:billcat: no :joe: yet
Good morning. Yet another dull day.
:billcat:just had mine but still feel:billcat:
Missed the show last night- can’t trust AAR.
Today should not be dull in Seattle today- clouds are threatening and the Solstice parade is happening at noon. Yah know water soluable body paint… Then Randi Rhodes, Dan savage and Ron Reagan Jr tonight. Should I go?
You have to wonder how many planes NASA shot down before they figured that out.
Trains at least give you the opinion of pulling over to the side of the road ( so to speak) when something goes wrong.
Dull day:?::?: I already had a war with the shrub in back of my house and lost:omg:.
I hope that’s not a preminition for Nov.:billcat:
I had to turn the sprinkler system on and go out and play in the water to find a missing sprinkler head.. that was covered up by the bush which is now missing a bunch of its lower branches but following that fun I went to the gas station to buy the car and the mower some gas and the the attendant asked me who knifed me and looking at my arms it looked like I had been in a war. The bush clearly won that round :roll::doh::fustrate::omg:
Any one else have that much fun yet ??
Morning!:omg: I gota go work a festival!
Looks like there is some bad shit going on in Baghdad….I just turned on the news for the first time today (lots of crazy family stuff going on and I thing Im about to just collapse and get back in bed if I have to deal with anything else…..)
I hope Mr FK is keeping his head down.
Kat…Ive been reading about the sustainable table and a local farm round here that is raising beef etc… (And doing some hydroponic Tilapia tanks that then feed the lettuce and greens farms….and its all a foundation that urges small farms to hook up with at least 3 local chefs and smoe small stores and display a symbol that will encourage other small farmers to come in and offer their products….
I wonder if you couldnt mix politics, small farming, and law somehow to further the planet…..
I will send you the links….
My farm share started this week and it was a small first harvest. I was at dinner with friends last night and I brough 3 types of fresh lettuce for the salad and everyone was so happy. It tastes so much better….The fruit should start soon.
I was looking for a meat farm and there is one right in Mt Kisco (which is also RFK Jr’s town!! and just 5 miles or so north of here)
NR is that the :40::40::40::40: festival in Esther Short Park?
Seanie- I got this laptop …starting at $999 but by the time you get the right configuration to last a few+ years its really $2000….but they have good deals usually goign on and they will give you credit with 0% so you can pay it off over 6 months.
Its is the most fantastic thing and the screen is so great! I love this thing….but I have to find a way to pay it off!
FK, my sister who lives in Tulsa is going to Payne Co Courthouse this week to research the farm and find out who owns it now. She thinks the original farm was 160 acres. I couldn’t afford that, but thought it would be nice to have a few acres in the family. When he sold it, he wanted my Dad to buy it, but back then he didn’t realize what an investment that would be, I guess. If I farmed in OK I would have to become well acquainted with the process of “Rainwater Harvesting”!
PJ’s got the right idea. Nobody really cares if our Brave Boys are murdering little babies off camera, or if the neo-nazi leader of austria called bush a “war criminal” in an interview or if a pedophile working for homeland security told his girlfriend [literally] that he met bush and that bush is a liar [both in Rawstory.com today]. Lets go straight to what’s really important:
Do bush and condi play hide the salami, and did it piss off Ms Laura to the extent that she kicked Massa George out of the plantation house?
And here’s part 2- lets get serious and find out once and for all who was doing Jeff Guckert/Gannon: Cheney? Rove? George? Timmeh? There must be a reason why the media really doesn’t want to know what happened here.
Hey, let’s crawl down into the gutter, where the power is! Enough high and mighty appeals to the better angels of our nature – If you want to grab that brass ring, dive into the sewer and pick it up with your teeth!
Thank you, God Bless America, and God Bless the National Enquirer, our holy book.
Well, neither Leonard Clark, Iraq vet or John Vercamp got enough signatures to challenge Jim Pederson in the primary. So, I will have to back up Jim Pederson. He hasn’t said word 1 about getting our troops home or Impeachment or even investigations. He may very well be corporate backed but I spose he’s better than Kyl. I’m hoping anyways.
Ranchers add ladders to save border fences
By LYNN BREZOSKY
Associated Press Writer
FALFURRIAS, Texas (AP) — A few Texas ranchers tired of costly repairs to cattle fences damaged by illegal immigrants have installed an easier route over the U.S.-Mexican border – ladders.
“It’s an attempt to get them to use the ladders instead of tearing the fences,” said Scott Pattinson, who owns one of a group of ranches known as La Copa.
La Copa is just south of a U.S. Border Patrol highway checkpoint that went up 75 miles from the border several years ago, sending migrants through the brambly scrub of nearby ranches instead.
http://tinyurl.com/p4f5g
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Tancraphead just had heart failure.:omg::eek::yuck::roll:
Final score in World Cup action:
USA 1
Italy 1
The officiating was HORRIBLE for both teams. A total of three players were red-carded out of the game – the US had to play virtually the entire second half a man short. They did well to preserve the tie. Way to go, guys – much better than Monday’s mess.
They now play Ghana on Thursday, and I am happy to have had the foresight to request that day off to see Al Gore’s movie, which I saw this morning so I won’t need to see it Thursday. (Anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, if it’s playing in your area, GO. It just opened in Tampa and St Pete yesterday.)
If the US beats Ghana and Italy beats the Czechs, who were upset by Ghana today, the US and Italy both move on to the next round. If Italy and the Czechs tie, it goes to goal differential, which means the US is screwed unless they really pour it on Ghana.
Good luck, gentlemen. :banana::banana::banana:
He may very well be corporate backed but I spose heβs better than Kyl. Iβm hoping anyways.
Comment by Kristapea β June 17, 2006 @ 3:51 pm
“Better than Kyl” is setting the bar pretty low, don’t you think? π
Of course, I should talk. I’m down here trying to fend off Katherine frickin’ Harris.
Maybe Pederson is employing, as the Chimp would say, strategery. In a state with two Repig senators, if he’s not as far left as, say, Feingold, he might be better off campaigning as a moderate. The only danger there is that if he gets elected, people will expect him to vote like one.
Aren’t there any more Udalls living in AZ that could run? π
Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system
Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system with a lethal gas similar to that used in Nazi death camps. They were stopped not by any intelligence breakthrough, but by an order from Osama bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman Zawahiri. And the U.S. learned of the plot from a CIA mole inside al-Qaeda. These are some of the more startling revelations by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind, whose new book The One Percent Doctrine is excerpted in the forthcoming issue of TIME. It will appear on Time.com early Sunday morning.
http://tinyurl.com/f4and
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This happened in 2003
I don’t think DHS has improved security one bit since then..:eek::eek::omg::?::?::?:
Mommy, mommy mommy!
Yeah, well Kevin, we take what we can get here in Az. We haven’t had anyone as ridiculous as Katherin Harris since Gov Evan Mecham though. Unless you count Sherriff “Joe”, the man who likes to sissify his prisoners by making them wear pink underwear. Although worse than that, prisoners have died in his custody from abuse.
Were people in the theater gasping a little at some parts of An Inconvenient Truth like the y were here? I gasped at the disappearance of Lake Chad. :omg:
Yeah, I remember Sheriff Joe from watching Politically Incorrect. He used to feed them green bologna, too. What a charmer.
Jeb is much more civilized. He has boot camps for wayward teens. Rather than give the prisoners pink underwear or green food, he just has the guards beat the shit out of them until they die, then the coroner lists sickle-cell as the cause of death.
The beauty of the system is that Florida doesn’t have to pay for food or clothing for dead prisoners. Republicans, always watching that bottom line.
I can’t fucking wait for Jeb to be out of office. Almost as much as I can’t wait for his stupid-ass brother to be impeached.
:fu::fu::fu:
Were people in the theater gasping a little at some parts of An Inconvenient Truth like they were here? I gasped at the disappearance of Lake Chad.
Comment by Kristapea β June 17, 2006 @ 7:11 pm
Actually, they were. I went to a morning showing and there were only about 20 people there (the auditorium it was in seats about 175), but they were vocal in a number of places.
My gasp came when they showed how much of Florida would be under water if the polar cap melts. I was expecting my place to be under, since I’m within walking distance of Tampa Bay, but my sister and brother-in-law live in the middle of the county on “high” land, and they would also be under. Which would suck for me, because that’s where I go when I have to evacuate. π
Plus… my brother and sister-in-law bought a really nice house northwest of Tampa and relatively far away from the bay. Too bad for them, because they would be under too. :omg:
I guess we’ll all have to move to AZ and help you vote out Kyl.
I thought the animation helped a lot to illustrate some of the points Gore was making. This movie could have potentially been really dry, so to speak, if the material were handled strictly in lecture format, but the animation and some of Gore’s asides talking about his childhood experiences helped to break it up so that it wasn’t monotonous.
Now if the audience would have applauded at the end like they did when I saw Fahrenheit 911, it would have been perfect.
:rofl2:
This came in today’s e-mail from The Nation. I’m guessing it’s probably on their website, but here it is just in case it isn’t.
http://www.novamradio.com/
Maybe if I win the lottery tonight I can hook up with them and finally get that AAR affiliate that Tampa Bay so sorely needs.
:rofl2:
OK, for those of you with nothing better to do, here are some pictures from my summer in DC, so far. I just slapped ’em all on one page, ‘cuz I’m kinda beat. Sorry, but the page might take a while to load for the broadband challenged.
thanks for the sightseeing excursion, pj! π
what a beautiful park and a particularly sucky bed (looks like it could be a bunkbed if you wanted – woop-dee-do!! What shrine is that, btw? :priest:
PS you cracked me up re: Lincoln & Bush
From: John Scagliotti
To: Tom Matzzie, MoveOn.org Political Action
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: MoveOn Iraq ad censored: fight back.
Tom: Here we go again. This time [see MoveOn’s appeal below, AC/JSC ] you want to humiliate yourself, Move On, and your members by taking their money to buy more expensive ads on Republican-owned television stations even after they tell you to take a hike. Then you have the chutzpah to tell us that the Republican party is threatening to sue stations if they run your ads. What a smart move on their part. Perhaps instead of raising money for ads, you should raise money to pay lawyers to threaten to sue stations for running ads by right-wing nut cases. Why not buy your own TV stations. Oh, I forgot, they already own them all because they are rich, have paid off Congress and the FCC in order to keep their monopoly in place. Being rich does not make you dumb.
But mostly the right wing knows it doesn’t have to spend much money on ads because Corporate TV news departments do their bidding for free.
I hope more people are beginning to understand that buying ads on Corporate TV Stations to get a few swing voters to switch to “our side” is a myth. You keep pointing out that you have hired smart media-polling organizations to prove your point. You say, “we’ve tested these ads, and we know they produce a punch with voters-even among people who don’t yet support leaving Iraq.” What political-industrial complex organization are you listening to and how much is this proof costing us? I am sure you realize that the more ads they tell you to buy the more money they make. That’s their job. It is a conflict of interest that you need to advise your contributors about before you keep spending their money on these ridiculous ads. These media consultants are not going to tell you that what they get paid for is to waste of our time and money. They have proof after all.
There are those of us who think you should spend the “grassroots” members money on alternative grassroots media and grassroots organizers in those so-called swing districts. Hire real grassroots people who can deliver the votes. If you dropped your expensive political media consultants and their ads you would have bundles to spend on real organizing. TV is fun and we all want to be on it (hi mom!) but you need to show the proof that these media consultants can swing voters to your side via expensive TV ads before actually asking us for more money.
Meanwhile, why don’t your convene a conference with some folks who do progressive media and ask then how you could raise and spend your grassroots money on grassroots media and organizers to achieve real change.
Sincerely,
John Scagliotti
(grassroots media person)
re: Kev’s post: didn’t we all write the drobneys (sp?) about the demise of MS? I seem to remember writing her…
Nighty Night.
WHERE IS DRUID?
PJ, it does very much look like a dorm room…I like the view though, and the duck…
It’s the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It actually takes a bit of effort to see it from my room and that’s a zoomed-in picture of it through the window and the screen.
Hey, I like the farm. Looks like a good site for Seditionstock.
so i woke up today and made my way to catering stopped and listened to anti-flag for a minute on the way they are pretty friggin good live! went to catering had some salmon a salad potatoes and a tomato! mmmmm yummy tomato! then i started to make my way back to my truck and got sidetracked by nofx! they played a song about how great the beer is in milwaukee but that the coke is better in california anyway well i’m gonna get my trailer loaded and get the fuck over to minneapolis for the morning. gotta make that money!
time to turn on malloy huh! im late im late!
I knew right away that it was Jerry Garcia.
warning: I have been laughing uncontrollably all day and I don’t know why. Ok, wait, they can’t hear you, Suzie…
PJ-Thanks for pix…Ive been travelling down memory lane with Siggy’s baby pictures and your wedding too!
All this while waiting for my new little movie to save and upload and embed and all that. I have no patience so have to keep surfing round while the computer does all that…
Where is Maureen Dowd?
I am trying to fix my real webpage once and for all because I have some NYTimes up there and its just easier to post to a private page rather than on my blog…though it does bring in readers!
Anyway…funny how those rivers and gorges and the Whitehouse look the same when you take pics as they do on poatcards…I like the snipers and the 1 legged duck alot.
Did anything politival happen today? I took mos of the day off from TV and all that…
I think I have pinkeye…ugh!
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Can anyone explain whay this message means?
Its code for “I want to get past your spam filter…now, can I sell you an imitation Rolex?”
Hey PJ, now you know how I live!:rofl2: Except I have my own bathroom!:banana:
Mamaroneck, NY US Open
[On the] cusp of golf history.
The old Mickelson might have panicked and tried to muscle his way around Winged Foot, gambling with wild calculations and firing at pins.
The new Phil stayed calm, knowing five shots behind at 4-over-par as he made the turn Saturday was nothing to worry about.
“I was fighting for pars,” Mickelson said. “It came together on the back nine and I started hitting fairways and it allowed me to attack the pins.”
So Mickelson bore down and split his last five fairways, Winged Foot’s brutal stretch of par-4s where he’s taken control of this major. He’s played those holes in 2 under, making three birdies and a bogey during the first three rounds.
Suddenly, those pre-round putting sessions came full circle. Mickelson dropped a 6-footer for birdie at No. 14. He knocked down a 15-footer at No. 16. Familiar roars cascaded across Winged Foot as New York fans were put in a Mickelson state of mind.
“Three in a row, Phil!”
“Go get it Phil!”
“It’s all yours Lefty!”
Or simply, “Phiiilllll!”
“The only place I’d rather be is leading by a few shots,” he said.
Mickelson stands on the verge of joining Tiger Woods as the only player to win three consecutive majors. A victory here sets up a possible Mickel-Slam at the British Open, where Mickelson has struggled the most of any major. A victory there, matches Woods’ acheivement of four in a row.
This Phil stays in the moment.
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Yeah Kevin, I have to say the polar bear animation really got to me.Now, everytime I decide to use my car I wonder if I’m causing a polar bear to drown. I have been riding my bike more. I can’t believe I’m causing polar bears to DROWN!:cry::knit2:
He must have your number too. Imitation Rolex!:doh:
You know, I was checking out google earth to see if I could figure out if Phoenix will get flooded in the event of 20 feet of water. It’s possible that Phoenix really could be beach front property if I’m looking at the lay of the land right.
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Fuck Ed Schultz!:fu:
Did AAR just report that North Korea is readying to fire a nuclear missile at Japaan? Yell me I am dreaming.
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I am screaming in the dark here!:omg:
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Typhoid Mary out!:fu:
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Got this from John: Book of Revelations!
Number 15 came today :nod:
:::pounces :::: :love:
Did you like it?
yes!
What did you like the best?
really, a good variety of stuff
best? Hmmm, that’s tough.
I have been getting stuff for the next issue.
the articles, the photographs, my own stuff, Jandek, messages from beyond, so much to choose from…
Were the comic panels to your taste?
yeah, I had a feeling you had a lot
I tweaked it a little yesterday. I hate when I find little grammatical errors, and so forth.
very cool, yeah. I even like that they look a little bit dark, it pulls it together somehow
it looks pretty terrific in general…
I tried to lighten it up. For some reason, it came out shady.
it’s okay…I see you put Pennsylvania on the license plate, I should have thought of that
How many issues do you have? Or, I should say, which issues do you have?
I wanted to make sure that the Philly Gang knew they were in the story.
hold on a sec, I’ll tell you
I have 15, 14, I think 13 though that doesn’t have a number on it (has planets on the cover), 12, 11 (two of 11 actually), 8 and 5
not bad π
No bad luck issues.. Two number 11s? Which issue came with the recent cassette?
You don’t have 9 and 10?
the last one I got was 11
hmm, no
Which one came with the june 7th rehearsal tape?
I’m pretty sure it was the Christmas issue, 12
oh, by the way, I have that second video tape lined up to be shown to a couple of people in NJ…Judy is going to have some people over to watch it (seriously). We’ll see what the reaction is. They’re people involved in arts/acting, Rocky Horror, Renne Faire stuff, so maybe they will go for it
It never ceases to amaze me at how creative sorts take to the video.
we’ll have to see… we’ll give it a shot!
You can give that second one away, if you like.
ok. Let’s see the reaction. If anyone out there seems to like it I’ll let them keep it, if not I’ll try to find a new person to send it to. I actually know people all over the country, so who knows
I’ve got my fingers crossed for this Jersey bunch, though…
I would not worry too much. People do go for it. Sometimes the initial reaction is negative. But then, minraud sky.
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There are plenty of tapes where that one came from. So you need not be cautious who you give it too.
I am listening to KGO. Wattenberg is a conservative. Not an hysterical one, though.
alright. I’m hoping I can get out there soon and watch it with them, but maybe I’ll just mail it. It’s been hard for all of us to meet in the same place lately, everybody’s been really busy
there are calm conservatives? Yeah, I guess there are…
He is a fucking neocon. He is making veiled references towards Iran. “We need to stop nations before they can make crude nuclear weapons.”
Now he is ranting about fighting the terrorists in Iraq. He is a jerk!
yeah, I just put it on…something about people on the coasts fleeing and panicking…
“Take your head out of the sand.”:fu: BW!
9/11 is a house party.
eeeeek. here comes the demonizing
Sad but true. Democrats are no opposition.
so is this guy sitting in bomb shelter underground somewhere waiting for dark-skinned people to blow him up…because that’s how it sounds…
true. If you listen to most right-wing spin they don’t say that, though…they class all democrats and liberals together as the “extreme left” or the “hysterical left”
You got that right. That is the genius of the system. Ed Schultz is a flaming communist to right wingers.
The New Deal was an attack on American values, to the right wing and their financiers in the business world.
hmm, my stream just died…
oh, there it goes.
I know, they don’t want ANY social programs. I find that amazing.
About half of the Democrats can be counted on to vote with the Republicans on issues that matter to big business. recall the recent bankruptcy bill. war in Iraq. The pattern goes back a long time. Democrats provide a weak defense–sometimes.
arghhh not a gay basher. I can’t deal with them
I am just now hearing the gay basher. Wattenberg is a moderate on this issue.
I know π‘
“Take your religion and stuff it… Ken from Sausalito.”
well ok, so that’s very decent of him… we wont’ be afraid of gays, but we’ll be afraid of people from the Middle East. Yep!
I have a longer delay than you, it seems. “Ken. Ken. Do you know…?
that’s pretty weird. I have a commercial now…
He is a neocon. “KGO. Time is now 12:44.”
Milgard is now on. Lifetime warranty.
now I’ve got a caller, “let’s take out the North Korean missle sites”
Banjo…..Cruise missiles to Korea. Chris don’t hold your breath.
98 99 estimated 300-400
so according to him “measured response” is the only option because otherwise these people are going to destroy us all tomorrow
11 minutes to go! Linda from SF. “I’m a liberal.”
yeah, Linda is pretty much over here now… she’s being lectured by him about his “reality”
He sounds like fred somewhat. fred holds that China or Russia will take us out, not a dirty bomb terrorist.
Time is short…
He is probably a disciple of Edward Teller–Dr. Strangelove.:omg:
Rattlesnakes!:omg:
so I just stepped through a time portal and ended up in the 1950’s. That’s what it feels like π
Basketful of rattlesnakes that are being bred to kill you.
yeah, not my own government. Bait and switch!
Quite by coincidence, I was looking through my videos today, trying to find the Beckett play. Stumbled across a video calle New York in the 1950s. About radical NYC.
that sounds interesting π
:fu: Strangelove! He was a weapons designer at Livermore Labs.
Wattenberg just signed off.
weapon’s designer…sheesh. What kind of mind you have to have for that
Guess where my hand wants to go.
anything good on this stream coming on now?
hmmm
hehe. Ok
Value-free mind. Edward Teller was a nut job. I used to work for an anti-nuclear weapons organization. Our economy is fuelled by nuclear weapons r&d.
I am known to have quite an imagination… :omg:
value-free mind. What you said there is very frightening. And very scary when it comes to people in jobs like that.
Ok, what?
LOL the immediate thought that popped into my mind? I better not say!
Do we have an audience?
Groucho?
3 people online
Father’s Day song?:rabbi::rofl2:
hehe, don’t you LIKE an audience??? :omg:
my stream just disappeared again
haha, two people online now!
My hand wants to feel your leg.
right leg or left? ::grins:::
I have a tattoo. Very special tattoo, it was done by Anil Gupta, one of the top artists in the country…purple asters (flower). Left leg. I keep forgetting to photograph it
Both. All over.
Left leg. Calf. Shin. Thigh. Right leg…:omg:
hehe
OM ::omg: :bow:
Oh. Deletion. I read it already.:rofl2:
I was hoping you did!
the things I want to say can’t really be typed here for even a second! π
Company.:rofl2:
LOL of course
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chocolate is good. chocolate is amazing. chocolate is useful… π
Have you listened to Denise Levertov?
no, I think I should
Your reading voice reminds me of hers. There is an activist in Portland who sounds like DL when she reads at demonstrations. Today, I heard a blues diva speak. May Palmer. Similar. Don’t know what it is.
I’m curious to hear her now…
I have a cassette of her reading poetry. I’ll bet there is something on line.
http://slought.org/content/11111/
ok, thanks, I was just making my way through other links, but this seems to be an actual sound file…
ok, download just completed now
English accent, I didn’t expect that.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/big_ego.html
oh wow, that’s pretty cool
I just thought I would check-in. I’m still in the process of writing my stuff to ARR, PJ, so I’ll finish that up sometime or something, I think. Alright, well, I have a couple days left in the anchortown and, well, that’s about I’ll I’ve got at the moment:yawn: Later.