Hey, had some problems, in case you didn’t notice. I decided to upgrade WordPress (a fairly simple process), but of course things didn’t go exactly as planned. The process involved backing up the database and all the files, then turning off everything I’ve added, overwriting all the files, and then going back in and turing everything on one at a time to see what worked, and what got broken.
Easy enough, but just as I was in the process of getting it back up and running, I lost my Internet connecton, and it was down all last night, so I was powerless to fix it. Finally got everything back up, and I’ll be tweaking things during the day today, if my Internet connection stays up. See ya.
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seems to work from this end!
Still a few problems to iron out, but we’re getting there.
same prob as the other boards over there? was just reading about that
I’m not sure what other boardsyou mean. This was a problem with my Internet connection crapping out before I could fix the upgrade. :doh:
this is what started my reading
http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?showtopic=91363
:banana::banana::banana: Yeah its back :banana::banana::banana:
AAAARRRRRGGGGGG :omg:
Good morning/evening/whatever:sheep:le
A best of Mark Riley shows isn\’t that a bit of an Oxymoron ?? :jason::?::?::rofl2::eek::yuck:
Is the :omg: emo working ?? apparently not whasssup ????
From DU.. The center seems confused..
Does anyone here see the Iraqi insurgents as ‘the enemy’?
http://tinyurl.com/epdmv
I have a feeling those who don’t see violence as a solution when you have 80% unemployment and American troops raping and pillaging are the ones sipping a cold one while sitting around the pool waiting on their dividend checks to arrive..:jason::gate::rant1:
Another interesting thing from DU
What Iraqis Think of the US Occupation – A Summary of Poll Results
http://tinyurl.com/ksuj8
I’m surprised the pollster survived to post the results.:eek:8O:roll:
Yay! We’re up and running! :banana:
Was that an April Fool’s joke?
You had us a bit concerned, pj. I think we’re hooked. :billcat:
a bit of a drive-by today.
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This was posted on the MMblog:
cause for celebration?
prediction: woke up and still in that twilight sleep was thinking seder takes franken’s spot so franken can run, maron takes seder’s spot. the aar “offer” being stay in LA and be syndicated or move back to NYC and take seder’s spot. What do you think? an aar suit wouldn’t fly out to la to tell him bad news…..too cheap….would have done that over walkie-talkies.
Hey, if the beloved blog can go down, anything can happen! :gate:
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Be good :sheep:ple !
:nixon:
is there such a thing? :rofl2:
Well .. having Marc on the syndication page seems like progress.. now they just need to get his show in the schedule..We all know AAR believes in the take small steps principle…. maybe in 30 years..:rant1:
Good morning…the place is looking good again, PJ…missed everyone yesterday :peace:
:banana::banana::banana:It’s Susan :banana::banana:
I was having blog withdrawal last night.. :blech::fustrate::fustrate::tongue:
Yeah, me too. I went to SLEEP! It felt weird :omg:
Damn, just missed Bobby Kennedy on Mark Maron…well, only caught the end of what he saying regarding voter fraud 🙁
The Mexicans seem as confused as the Americans.. The election was to close to call.. but unlike the US both candidates declared victory.. I thought the left was supposed to just concede and go on vacation.:eek::nixon:
PJ must be working on emo’s.. the shock emo is not working
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well that one works, yay!
C-span is having a tour of the capitol and is showing the places you never see, Talking about the ongoing restoration efforts. You can see why the people we send there immediately think they are in France era 1788.:gate::omg::jason::fist:
Tell me if Maddow is or her fill in is live today .. WJ usually has to many rethugs sitting around their pools waiting on their dividend checks during the week. The corps probably have all the dems chained to their desks today..:omg::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::rant1:
David Bender is filling in… that’s not so terrible
Well we will try out Bender .. PJ better have his blog mop and bucket handy.. Bender usually causes me to :barf::fustrate::doh:
Oh no Kent Jones is in Colo. :omg::omg::omg::tongue:
:omg:The omg emo is not omging properly
Years of pummeling by the press and Congress, plus wrenching changes produced by the FBI’s shift in focus to antiterrorism, have depressed morale at the bureau and are causing senior agents to mull job offers worth as much as $600,000 a year in the private sector, TIME’s Brian Bennett and Adam Zagorin will report in Monday editions, RAW STORY has learned. More from a release
http://tinyurl.com/jclto
Hummm no FBI .. No national Guard maybe its time to ….:jason::gate::omg::fist:
hmm, guess they’re tired of the hyped up “war on terror,” or Geroge Bush, or both…
:omg:NJ says they are closing the casino’s on Wednesday ..:billcat: All those poor lost rethugs won’t know what to do with those dividend checks.:spank::eek:
I was reading about that…very strange. My poor mom is not going to know what to do on weekends if she can’t get to Atlantic City :smack:
I love Joan Jett! I want to get her new album now and hear her trash “no Child left behind” and “clear skies”
Interesting posts from Marc’s Blog
PJ, is this your new moniker?
Thanks for working so hard to get the blog up and running! :banana:
:?hmmmmmmm the smiley lineup has changed:no:
I think it’s the same smileys, he just organized them better!
:joe:
For workers the dog-eat-dog, race to the bottom economic model now being touted as the new competitive reality has all the social validity of a epidemic for which only the elite have access to a vaccine. The shake-outs in the domestic auto industry are only the latest in a continuous pattern of corporate restructuring which now features refashioned bankruptcy laws to aid an ongoing, neo-liberal attack on workers and gains won through collective bargaining.
:joe::D
They’re Playing a clip of Eisenhower on KPHX. His exit speech. http://aaphx.com/
His warning about the military.
PJ!!! Thanks!!!
I have to run out for testing for Will at the board of ed…ugh…but will be back a-blogging this afternoon-ish.
Yay Blog!!
Clapton and Richards set off a riveting blues jam, bleeding chunky guitar riffs that oozed from the stage like a tantalizing potion pouring sheer magic. Steve Jordan’s extraordinary drumming was yet another high point of the musical moments of the film. As part of the set’s new features, Jordan is interviewed about how he was chosen as the band’s drummer, and he candidly addresses some of his professional experiences. Other must-see compelling interview footage in the film, itself, includes Bruce Springsteen, always a captivating storyteller, talking about the night he backed up Chuck Berry in New Jersey.
Hey Krista… What did Eisenhower say about the military? Never mind, I’ll find text of it online somewhere…
Nicki, what film?
Election in Mexico
Calderón (PAN) Corportist Bush lover
Lopez Obrador (PRD) leftist
with 94.26% of votes counted: PAN 36.55%, PRD 35.46%, PRI 21.28%
Popular vote:
PAN 13,666,231
PRD 13,257,302
PRI 7,954,720
Invalidaded ballots 788,139 (2.10%)
http://tinyurl.com/nd33v
:omg::fustrate::tongue:
They’re playing a huge 15 minute chunk of it. It’s still on and Ike was a bit prophetic.
fuck.
It’s over
thanks Krista
Didn’t Rove go down to Mexico yesterday? Do you think his hands are in that election? 8O:paranoid:
PAN: 666! :fu::jason:
Now he’s gonna play LBJ signing the civil rights bill.
Yay, Pan, the horned God!
PAN is Dead!
1AD :jesus:
Jeff Farias is playing clips of speeches.
Apocalypse.
Mariners sailing close to the shores of Tuskini heard a voice call out from the hills, the trees, and the sky. The great god Pan is dead. Pan, god of Panic. The sudden awareness that everything is alive and significant. The date was December 25, 1 AD.
But Pan lives on in the realm of imagination. In writing, painting, and music. Look at van Gogh’s Sunflower’s, writhing with pretentious life. Listen to the Pipes of Pan in Jajouka. Now Pan is neutralized, framed in museums, entombed in books, and relegated to folklore. But art is spilling out of its frames into subway graffiti. Will it stop there?
:jason:
That number of invalidated ballots was exterenly disturbing..
Matt Pascarella in Mexico City
Greg Palast in London
Monday, 3 July
Gore v. Bush. Kerry v. Bush. Obrador v. Calderon.
As in Florida in 2000, as in Ohio in 2004, the exit polls show the voters voted for the progressive candidate, but the race is “officially” too close to call.
But they will call it — after they steal it. Reuters News agency reports that, as of 8pm Eastern time, as voting concluded in Mexico, exit polls show Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the “left-wing” Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) leading in exit polls over Felipe Calderon of the ruling conservative National Action Party (PAN).
We’ve told you again and again: Exit polls tell us how voters say they voted, but the voters can’t tell pollsters if their vote will be counted. In Mexico, counting the vote is an art, not a science — and Calderon’s ruling crew is very artful indeed. The PAN-controlled
official electoral commission, not surprisingly, has announced that the presidential tally is too close to call.
Calderon’s election is openly supported by the Bush Administration.
On the ground in Mexico City, our news team reports accusations from inside the Obrador campaign that operatives of the PAN had access to voter files which are supposed to be the sole property of the nation’s electoral commission.
We are not surprised.
This past Friday, we reported that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation had obtained Mexico’s voter files under a secret “counterterrorism” contract with database company ChoicePoint of Alpharetta, Georgia. (See BUSH TEAM HELPS RULING PARTY “FLORIDIZE” MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION)
http://www.gregpalast.com/stealing-mexico
The FBI’s contractor states that, following the arrest of ChoicePoint agents by the Mexican
government, the company returned or destroyed its files. The firm claims not to have known collecting this information violated Mexican law. Such files can be useful in challenging a voter’s right to cast a ballot or in preventing that vote from counting.
It is, of course, impossible to know if the FBI destroyed its own copy of the files of Mexico’s voter rolls obtained by Choicepoint or if these were then used to illegally assist the Calderon candidacy.
But we can see the results: as in the US, first in Florida then in Ohio, the exit polls are at odds with “official” polls.
In November 2004, US Republican Senator Richard Lugar, in Kiev, cited the divergence of exit polls and official polls as solid evidence of “blatant fraud” in the vote count in Ukraine. As a result, the Bush Administration refused to recognize the Ukraine government’s official vote tally … which proves once again that Republicans are incapable
of irony.
The foreign mainstream press has already announced, despite the polling discrepancies, that Mexico’s elections were fair and clean — which would be a first for that country where Obrador’s party has seen its candidates defeated by “blatant fraud” before. The change
this time is that the fraud is simply less blatant.
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Watch for our video reports from Mexico City at http://www.GregPalast.com to be carried on Democracy Now!, with Amy Goodman, this Wednesday, July 5. Rick Rowley, in Mexico City, contributed to this report.
Matt Pascarella is North American producer for GregPalast.com. Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “ARMED MADHOUSE: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal ’08, No Child’s Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.”
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Consider an apocalyptic statement: nothing is true everything is permitted. Hasaan I Sabah, the old man in the mountain. Not to be interpreted as an invitation to all manner of unrestrained and destructive behavior, that would a minor episode, which would run its course. Everything is permitted because nothing is true. It is all make-believe . . . illusion . . . dream . . . art. When art leaves the frame and the written word leaves the page, not merely the physical frame and page, but the frames and pages that assign the categories.
Out in the streets..No more neoliberal bullshit.
:fu::jason::omg:
“is not Pan a male god?” asked Alobar.
“true, he is, but he is associated with female values. To diminish the owrth of owmen, men had to diminish the worth of the moon. they had to drive a wdge between human beings and the trees and beasts and thewaters, because trees and beasts and waters are as loyal to the moon as to the sun. They had to drive a wedge betwen thought and feeling, between the lamplight by which they count the day’s earnings and the dark to which Pan is ever connected. At first they used Apollo as a wedge, and the abstract logic of Apollo made a mighty wedge, indeed, but Apollo the artist maintained a love for women, not the open, unrestrained lust that Pan has, but a controlled longing that underminded the patriarchal ambtion. When Christ came along, Christ, who slept with no female, Christ, who played no musical instrument, recited no poetry, and never kicked up his heels by moonlight, this Christ was the perfect wedge
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Now he’s playing Malcome X
Christ slept with no woman! Tell that to Mary Magdalene.:rofl2:
the mythical Christ didn’t…in reality… 😉
I never heard Malcolm X speak
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And that Samarian woman at the well.:priest::peace:
hey krista lunch tomorrow?
:joe:or coffee! or something? anyway im in phoenix tomorrow!
Capitalist Pig Party PAN::fu:
Hey Sean, yeah IM me. My dad is passing through in the next couple of days too so at some point I will be hanging out with him, but he usually just passes through. So IM me, I’m online most of the time anymore.
The Samarian woman, the first missionary, lived in Sychar, Samaria. Jewish people avoided talking and associating with this race of people who lived in Samaria. Even the country was avoided by Jews crossing the Jordan River and traveling along the eastern side to get to Galilee. They had no dealings with each other, there was always increased hositility between the two nations.
:jesus::sdavid:
Oh.. :omg: and all this furor over the poll workers in California taking the voting machines home with them .. It is apparently common practice all over the US for poll workers to take the voting machines, punch cards, ballot boxes, ballots, registration books etc home with them the day before the election so that they can be to their polling station at 6 am the next day to set up.:fustrate::tongue:
What happened in the 1988 Mexican election for president?
“oy vey, would you TALK to that Samarian woman? She keeps trying to get your attention, Goldie…” “No, she’s from the other side of the river” “New jersey?” “Oy vey, no, Jordan, you’re NOT LISTENING!
:sdavid::sdavid::jesus::rofl2:
Legend has it that the Well Woman was hot.
taking voting machines home with them? Well that’s news to me!
Now they’re playing Jimmy Carter about the future of energy.
Well you know what they say about well women. Women who hang out near holes and such.
yay, Jimmy! Thanks for turning me on to this radio show, Krista
TIJUANA, Mexico Jul 3, 2006 (AP)— Thousands of Mexicans living in the United States traveled by plane, bus and car to Mexican border cities to vote in Sunday’s hotly contested presidential election. For some, it was a futile journey.
The Mexican government set up 86 polling stations along the 2,000-mile border, mostly for migrants who missed out on Mexico’s historic absentee ballot campaign.
But the special polls meant for people away from their registered homes had only 750 ballots each, apparently to prevent fraud. And hundreds of voters were turned away in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, after 18 special polling booths ran out of ballots four hours before polls closed.
“This shows how irresponsible electoral officials are,” said Javier de Anda, a construction contractor from the northern Mexican city of Monterrey who was turned away after waiting in the blistering sun for two hours.
“If they know that many of us will be away from our voting districts, they shouldn’t limit the number of ballots,” he said
http://tinyurl.com/gzhk2
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Essentially the absentee vote was not counted..:yuck::rant1:
I have to be in to work today at 12 :mad::cry: Where is this morning going?
:omg::sdavid::rofl2::pent:
I guess she’s a lesbian. I dunno. Hmmm…
FDR is coming up.
:smack:
Jeff Farias has a show on the weekends at 2pm PST I think.
:pent: Yeah! Go after what you want, don’t just sit there.
Ask not what your country can do for you
So if your hungry, fuck you!
I always had a problem with that Kennedy line…
Join the Green Berets.
If you are hungry and oppressed go forth and bump off some rich person and the state shalt feed you and house you for the rest of your natural life..:jason::omg::billcat:
Roosevelt is talking about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Did he mention Karl Rove?
Wow, those Japs (and I dont mean Jewish American Princesses) are really going after a lot of countries, according to Roosevelt…
Ah, no, that wasn’t what happened here. Mine was self-inflicted. I’ve been wanting to upgrade things for a while, but have been putting it off (now you know why). Not many differences that you’d notice here, but a lot of backend stuff. Of course, I’ve made a bunch of customizations, and not everything worked (or worked “as is”) with the latest version.
Things were pretty slow here, so I went ahead and started the process. I figured things would be a little funky for a few minutes while I got everything fixed, and, really shold have been back up w/in a few minutes. Unfortunately, some pretty severe storms passed by just to north of us, and (whether that had anything to do with it or not) my Interent connection died. I kept checking periodically throughout the night, but no luck.
Once I got the Internet back, things were up and running again w/in a couple of minutes.
I think (hope) I’ve worked out the bugs. :omg:
No, just one I set up that has limited rghts to do things, that I use to check things from a “regular” user’s perpective.
That would have been interesting “I’m possessed by someone from the year 2006 and a baldish pig-faced man is telling me to stop the damn new deal now”
I don’t get KPHX. I am not in this party.:fire:
Have fun, all.
that show is over now, I think. But you can get the stream here: http://aaphx.com/
Hey Nicki read post 36
Kennedy was in office to close to the McCarthy era. Couldn’t have the government helping the people as much as Johnson later did. It would look like ..:omg::omg: Socialism :omg::omg:
::gasp::: that word…
Wow, I wonder if we could get Ted Stevens to guest lecture next semester. He has such a great was of explaining how the internets work.
Well Hartman is talking to some lady about Herbal essences and Ms. Heart is talking to some laughing hyena liberal about the Colo Special session on illegal immigration.. Why must these people talk like they are on laughing gas.. hummm .. maybe they are on .. hummmm Maybe thats why no one is in the streets :bong::yawn::eek:
So, shall we get a little pool together as to what decision Marc has to make re: his future at AAR? If it comes down to “that’s it – thanks for the memories,” I’m gonna be really bummed out.
Thanks for your hard work putting the blog back up, PJ. We really appreciate that you still have this site for us. Let’s have some love for PJ, folks! I’ll start:
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uh im homophobic so uh no love from me but uh pj gets mad props from me fo rizzle my nizzle and what-not!
I’m an optimist – if there wasn’t something that Maron found acceptable in the offer, he probably wouldn’t have thrown it out for his fans’ consideration. a “teaser” for Wednesday. He’d probably just announce that he’s out of here, and F’ you AAR. Hope I’m right. Or do I?
How’d Pendejo do in the Mexican election? El Dumbass Mos Grande Del Mundo!
Yeah, I guess I was thinking more along the lines of “they want me to go back to the East Coast to do a new morning show, but I’ve decided I’d rather live with my wife,” or, “they offered a lot less money than it will take to produce a quality show,” or something along those lines. I hope not, but it seems clear that they offered him something somewhere in between a million a year as the cornerstone of the network with complete freedom to produce the show in any way he sees fit, and “don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
Hopefully it’s something much closer to the former than the latter.
Marc wrote this on a firedoglake blog. So the decision he is weighing may not include his LA show.
i fucking cant stand this damn safari browser! anyway well im going sleep sleep later sheeple!
ummm how do we know this post is actually marc?
Well, if you look at the conversation at FDL, it seems pretty clear it’s him.
im not totally convinced! too many spelling errors. ok well safari is fucking gay and wont let me post on marons blog FUCK MAC stupid ass one button ass computer ok well uh marc dont take no shit from those corporate manager retards in nyc i would rather there be no more show than to see you continually treated like a talentless piece of shit oh i have a nominee for dick of the year AAR management! peace and love brother maron! can someone post this on marons blog for me so he reads it im having “problems”
Sean- just put the:40: down now. Okay, now pull the :fire:truck over ever so slowly, gently, glide to a complete stop. Put you blinkers on- verry good. Now turn the AC on high, pull a blanket over your head and sleep it off:rofl2:
sweet dreams:sheep:person
Hey Sean, I seem to recall people saying that if you’re gonna use safari on the AAR blogs, you have to disable rich text (little link under the text box for posting).
Hey! The blog is back. Cool. I tried a couple of times last night, wasn’t sure if the problem was on my end, but everything seems fine now.
Had today (and tomorrow) off, so finally went to see A Prairie Home Companion. I don’t listen to the radio show, but enjoyed the movie anyway. Although now I have some fantasies about what Virginia Madsen had on (or didn’t have on) under that white trenchcoat. :hubba:
Let’s hear it for Obrador! Assuming they ever get all the votes counted, of course. They must think they’re in Florida or something.
:rofl2:
Sean, I just posted your message over on Marc’s blog.
#111 verbatim.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — Ruling-party candidate Felipe Calderon said Monday that a 400,000-vote advantage sealed his victory and began building a government to unify a polarized nation. His rival vowed to scrutinize every suspicious vote.
Electoral officials said a preliminary count gave Calderon an edge of 1 percentage point but were preparing for a manual review of every ballot box beginning Wednesday. They said they would not declare a winner in Mexico’s closest race ever until it is done.
Many had predicted violent street protests if the vote was too close to call, but supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador apparently were waiting for orders from the leader they revere with a messianic devotion. He was holed up in his apartment with top aides to figure out his next move.
http://tinyurl.com/m4kgb
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seanie:
that’s exactly right. and you sometimes have to keep disabling the thing because it seems to default to rich text.
and pj :love: :love: :love: :bow: :bow: for this blog!
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I’m going to bank on the offer to marc being decent since they took the time to go to him to talk to him. bad news doesn’t travel.
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Iraq’s going after Sadam’s daughter in Jordan is the shiite way of needling/attacking the Sunni/Jordanians; REGIONAL civil war commencing?????
crap, just saw this. what a chickensh*t he is:
He shouldn’t be allowed to call himself a Democrat – “independent” or otherwise.
Hey, over 100,000 visitors. :alc:
:alc: cheers pj!
“individual Democrat” wtf is THAT (liebermonkey’s term)
maron on fdl: :rofl2:
The Fox administration sought to prosecute Lopez Obrador on an obscure charge related to the construction of a local hospital. Congress impeached him, stripping him of his immunity.
But the charges were dropped after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Mexico City. Lopez Obrador returned to office and his popularity soared.
“[A]iling liberal radio show…” :omg: Well, ailing is not necessarily dying. :rabbi:
Another Encounter with Chuck Schumer
Just as Hawkish as Hillary, But Nastier
By ALAN SINGER
Although New York State’s senior senator, Charles Schumer, and I have lived in the same Brooklyn community for the past 15 years, two of our children attended the same high school, and I picketed in front of his apartment building (9 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215 for those who would like to write him) with members of Brooklyn Parents for Peace, we had only bumped into each other in the neighborhood once before. Then on June 24, 2006, our paths crossed twice.
While biking across the Brooklyn Bridge to join a “Grannies Against the War” rally (I am a grandfather), I passed Schumer biking in the other direction (Symbolic?). Two hours later, I biked past Schumer’s building while he was being interviewed outside.
I could not resist the opportunity to stop and chant anti-war slogans. Schumer told me to leave, but I pointed out we were in a public space and I had every right to be there. I demanded to know if he had reconsidered his position on the war against Iraq (he hadn’t) or if his daughters had left college (one attends Harvard, his alma mater) to enlist in the military and defend the nation against terrorism (apparently neither had)…
well, here we go blogistas…im on the road still but had to drop in to saythat joe lieberman is calling our homes to ask us to sign a petition to get him on as an independant…
I need to find out if the lamonte office in norwalk is open tomorrow so I can go over and at least do the postcards to everyone I know…joe is on the run…..
Election was predetermined. PAN=666
Let’s see what the Obrador followers do. Hopefully they won’t follow our example.
Many readers have concluded that Bush assumed the war criminal’s mantle when he illegally invaded Iraq under false pretenses. The US itself established the Nuremberg standard that it is a war crime to launch a war of aggression. This was the charge that the chief US prosecutor brought against German leaders at the Nuremberg trials.
The importance of the Supreme Court’s decision, however, is that a legal decision by America’s highest court has ruled Bush to be in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
There are many reasons to impeach Bush. His flagrant disregard for international law, US civil liberties, the separation of powers, public opinion and human rights associate Bush with the worst tyrants of the 20th century. It is true that Bush has not yet been able to subvert all the institutions that constrain his executive power, but he and his band of Federalist Society lawyers have been working around the clock to eliminate the constraints that the US Constitution and international law place on executive power.
Paul Craig Roberts
July 3 (Bloomberg) — Mexican election authorities will conduct a recount to determine who won yesterday’s presidential vote, with nearly complete returns showing former Energy Minister Felipe Calderon in front by the slimmest of margins.
Calderon, of President Vicente Fox’s National Action Party, had 36.36 percent of the vote, followed by former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with 35.39 percent, based on 97.6 percent of ballots counted. Both candidates, separated by 371,786 votes, declared victory. A recount will start July 5, and authorities plan to say that night how long it may last. The electoral court has until Aug. 31 to decide any challenges.
“We’re in the realm of scrutinizing individual ballots, just like in the U.S. in 2000,” said Chappel Lawson, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in an interview from Mexico City. “It’s looking bad for Lopez Obrador, but I don’t think we can say it’s over.”
http://tinyurl.com/jm2ak
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Greg Palast was just on with Hartman who is filling in for Ms Rant. He said that the BBC will probably report tomorrow that the election in Mexico was stolen due to US intervention to disenfranchise about 2 million voters mostly in the Mexico City area. Same techniques used in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio and Florida in 2004
If the BBC reports that hopefully the left in Mexico will find a new use for light poles.
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its actually a tape of him but its him…what a freak…at least we know ,and he admits that hes not a dem
its actually a tape of him but its him…what a freak…at least we know ,and he admits that hes not a dem
hey pj did i just double post? no error msg at all
Phone tag! You are it.:sheep:
Remember that in American election campaigns the person running can use any funds left in his confreres for personal purposes following the election. Lieberjerk probably has a lot of Corporate givers who are stupid enough to give him money to run. ONK ONK squeal squeal:barf::fustrate:
Good caller. Neocons need to distort.
TH: “If only everybody did what I say…”
Get them to do what we say by any means necessarily?
Fucking shrink!:omg:
Shut up, Steve from Portland. Keep Thom busy, by any means necessary.
Bill Bradbury! Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!
What will happen if Lieberman runs for senate as a third party? Will it hurt Lamont’s chances?
Blogging with my self! :omg::pent:
If Lieberturkey runs it will be as an Independent.. He lost the primary.. There is no such thing as an Independent Demodorp. He has to get on the ballot first.:gate::omg::jason:
Is it today or tomorrow that there is no mail delivery ??:?::?::!::roll:
Would a Lieberman as Independent candidate cost Lamont the race for senate?
Any third party candidate will weaken the vote for the other candidates.. Depends on how potent Lieberturkey is ?? If I were the dems I would have a long talk with him in an alley somewhere.
Hartman is going to keep saying what he says so many times I’m going to start believing it pretty soon..Oh.. yeah… that’s the idea isn’t it.:blech::yawn::yawn:
:peace:
I am addicted to AAR…:omg:
no top posters on this list anymore? :omg:
British trust in ‘arrogant’ US leadership plummets to just 12%
THE leadership of the United States is more unpopular in Britain than ever, a new poll has found.
The YouGov survey found that only 12 per cent of Britons trusted Americans to deal wisely with current world problems – half the number who had faith in the 1975 White House.
The poll found that most Britons saw America as a cruel, vulgar, arrogant society, riven by class and racism.
They also believed it to be crime-ridden, obsessed with money and led by an incompetent hypocrite.
American troops are failing either to win “hearts and minds” in Iraq or bring democracy to that country, according to respondents.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=968492006
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And this is probably the best we can get.. How soon before they come after us ??
Hartmann has a good political analysis. It is some of his prescriptions for what to do that I have a problem with. Liberals give me headache frequently.
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The poll found that most Britons saw America as a cruel, vulgar, arrogant society, riven by class and racism.
My friends in England have been telling me for years that everybody in their country hates American culture (and politics). Nothing new.
Heroin is good for the soul. It is too expensive. (I am kidding. Expert junkies like Burroughs and Richards claim that heroin is not physically damaging to the body. It is the attached politics that cause the physical damage. Psychological damage…apomorphine and blood changes please.)
I need to get the stream going. What are his prescriptions?
I want the Top Poster Chart back. I want to know what it is like to be pursued and overcome by SJ.
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Hartman’s only prescription to solving a problem is to vote the people out.. no matter how uniformed the electorate might be, how corrupt the election system is, or how detached from reality they are .. Its getting hard for a lot of people to hold their breath for two years much less five or six. :jason::fustrate:
Crack down on corporations who hire illegal (Mexicans). Work within the Democratic Party. He is sort of a granola liberal. Petty capitalist. But he will surprise you sometimes. Keynesianism. I don’t think he realizes what it will take to wrest power from corporations.
haaa I’m going to capture you with or without a Top Posters list!
Capture and enrapture…:omg:
right…get out the vote…fine, Hartmann, but it doesn’t end there… the statement “if you vote you’re a good citzien” doesn’t cut it anymore, when the voting process itself is suspect. And there’s so much more that needs to be done.
Nothing happening in suburbia. But the URBAN areas. Get ready for Corrupted System!
Hartmann is critical of corporations…his prescription is some sort of regulated small scale capitalism. Is voting the vehicle to get there?
hard to know where an uprising is going to start…
No fast on my video, though.
well, he’s a capitalist. Most people are. You get stomped on if you say your’e anything else, even among Democrats.
Hey. I helped plot the take over of the Washington State Capitol building in an Olympia coffeehouse. Dancing Goats on 4th Street. Positively 4th Street.
It used to not be that way. No. These liberals will say they want regulated markets. Government will regulate the market.
I wish I was there… :omg: (well, I was in 4th STreet in Greenwhich Village anyway…and I was in the Erotic Bakery 😉
Uprisings happen all of the time. Getting them to spread is the tricky part.
Since it takes both houses of congress and the president to vote in legislation I find it pretty amazing that we have gotten this far .
Taking back just one house will only provide grid lock.. Thats probably fine for the major portion of their audience which at this time of day I am convinced is pretty much a bunch of liberals or people who can’t stand Hannity sitting around the pool or in their TV/pool room streaming him or listening to their radio while waiting on their dividend or Social security checks.
It doesn’t do a thing for the GM employ losing his job or the Whirlpool worker who lost his 50k a year job three years a go, or the accountant or IT professional who’s job is going to India. These people need answers NOW that have to have some known result not a roll of the dice at a crap shoot called an election. Most of them are not going to go out and fire bomb some place. They have just reconciled themselves to a new life living under a bridge.
The Bush admin is the first admin since Hoover that has really screwed up peoples lives and brought them to an understanding that Government has a role in their lives. Most people don’t want rhetoric but some action by someone.. with the performance of the demodorps they are totally lost.
I don’t know what circumstance allows it to spread. I would say “something extreme”, but then extreme things have been happening in this country for years now…and yet….
We planned a sit-in in the main lobby of the Capitol Building, and not leave until our reasonable demands were met. During our action, somebody discovered that the House Chamber was unlocked, and everybody rushed inside. People stayed there for several days.
Real change can come about when we make it so that 1% does not have the overwhelming power to influence and decide. Until such a time…
That’s very cool…I guess in a small city that could work… can’t imagine it working in New York City, but then again other things can be planned here
Stolen elections can be a catalyst to an uprising.
People have to be convinced they’re stolen. When people’s heads are in the clouds, or the mainstream media won’t cover stories and only bloggers do, things are rough
Maybe I just have to go out and kick some ass :fu:
People knew that Florida was stolen. It was Democratic Party’s fear of the masses that kept people from doing effective street actions. Let’s see what the politicized Mexican masses do if nafta/wto calderon is declared the winner.
Republican Convention 2004. What did people do there?
People here are sheep (not to be confused with sheeple :sheep: )
There was a lot of energy, but it wasn’t focused enough. It was just “we hate Bush” Plus the media kind of killed it by underrepresenting it or misrepresenting it. It was the first time I’d been out in the street in years though, and it felt good.
In a country this size its hard to get any news out that’s not capable of being broadcast on TV. Groups like UPJ have relatively large followings in all major metro areas but the P part of the description seems to be paramount in their politics. Our group now has come to the conclusion that demonstrations that do nothing are an act of insanity.. So they are into local politics where we can recall state and local officials.
That unfortunately doesn’t do much for stopping the war in Iraq or stopping the thefts of elections.
C span covered the protests, but C span has a small audience. On ther regular networks I saw a brief clip of thep rotest and a commetnator said “look at how those people dress …those are clearly fringe elements. This is not a serious protest” And they WEREN’T fringe elements, they were regular New Yorkers…New Yorkers tend to be flamoyant on any given day. Not a mistake. It was a planned misrepresentation
Chomsky frequently says that people under far more desperate conditions than ours have brought about change. It can happen here. It must happen here.
Hey- Mom just called the second I walked in to say that the yearly Kos is being rebroadcast on CSPAN2 from 4-something during the holiday.
Hello lovely :sheep: persons.
Check out this 5min.45sec. clip of video footage from the June 14 police attack on the teachers in Oaxaca:
http://www.workingtv.com/oaxaca-wpf.html
I checked out some of the posts at Marc’s blog and here, and I see the suspense about whether he’ll be back in syndication again; keeping my fingers crossed, and listening to clips. I love Leonard Cohen, can’t wait to see the movie (play?). Four actresses are sharing the part of Janis Joplin in a new musical play based upon letters and a book by her sister; one of them sang four of her hits with a live backup band at SF Civic Center over LGBT pride weekend, and she was incredible, not at all hoaky or strange like I expected.
Hey, tomorrow, I hope some of you are up for some street action. Find out what’s happening in your area. Groups of us will dress in orange jumpsuits and travel around the city to various 4th of July celebrations, to call for ending torture. http://www.actagainsttorture.org
No torture:no:
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This guy from The Nation must have taken his finger off the pulse on college campuses somewhere along the line.. In most state 4 year colleges the cost of tuition has gone up 50% or more since 2000. A lot of students have had to drop out to help with family expenses because mom and dad both got laid off. A lot of students have had to take out loans where they could have depended on a fathership in the past. The students can’t find good jobs when they graduate. I know of a bunch of students that went back to graduate school in like 2003, 2004 and 2005 because they couldn’t find a job and are just now graduating with an MS or a PHD and still can’t find a good job. Maybe its different at the Ivy league schools he takes the pulse of.:jason::fu::barf::yuck::fustrate:
I sure do like The Young Turks.:love: I really love the low tech presentation. Some people talking on mics. I always wanted to see what was going on in the studio at Morning Sedition.
A.M.E.R.I.C.A. — What it now means
Amount of
Money
Each
Rich
Individual
Can
Amass
That is what most Americans concentrate on — making money .. ONK ONK squeal squeal..:jason::gate::omg::fist:
a Lieberman run as an independent probably wont do much to Lamonte…unless Lieberman could get the Repug vote, which is a possibility. Whoever is advising him is in desperation mode and/or probably realizes that Lieberman might have a go with the repug vote. I suppose that he couldnt think that it would be the Dems who would come out for him considering that he doesnt think that he can win the primary…so maybe he is courting the repug vote. I dont thin that the other parties amount ot enough in this very Democratic state to be able to put him over the top.
Everyone around here is very fed up with him actually. he has gone against a New England tradition to be really rather liberal socially even if youre conservative in general.
This Kos thing goes from 4 to 8 apparently…
Is that what you’re listening to Fred? TYT?
That’s what happens when you don’t make enough to cover your basics. All you think about is how you’re going to make enough money to cover things.
Keith is showing an Oddball retrospective
From Buzzflash
Olbermann named Melanie Morgan “Worst Person” for suggesting NY Times’ Keller might deserve “gas chamber.” Another Psychotic, Pathological Right Wing Commentator Allowed on Air..
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The M$M is really the biggest problem.. The only way you fix them is by legislation breaking them up or with a couple of well placed 30 foot trailers.( same result slightly different meaning)
Thats called surviving..:jason::fist:
I’me listening to the guy from KLSD.. John Elliot on the Majority Report. I keep forgetting about the Young Turks
Florida: The state that keeps Oddball in business. THANK YOU Florida!Oddball Salutes You!
Cable TV news programs suck ..:fist: I hardly watch any TV.. PBS perhaps..maybe .. once in a while..:jason:
Boy does Lieberman look like shit.
He’s won office three times and he’s falling apart like Mussolini’s army. [I’m Italian, so this is permitted].
Check out crooksandliars – the CNN mediawhore rips him a new one, without half trying.
Hey Senators Schumer/Clinton/Cong. Nita Lowey: Can I run against you guys in the primary, and if i lose, run independent and call myself a “petitioning Democrat”?
Jomentum is hanging his hack friends out to dry. Damn shame, eh?
So TYT sounds like MR and Hartman slightly out of order. These guys and girl used to be to centrist for me.. listening..:knit::knit::knit:
Oh Man, I love the japanese girls with the pork chops on their heads, sticking up through a hole into a Kommodo Dragon tank!! Its a Japanese game show….
Are we sure this isnt florida?
Sounds more like California Florida has been taken over by a bunch of boring old people..
Haggard had to look more Christian like.. His “church” is much to close to Focus on the Family to be really Christian.:yuck::eek::jason:
was the k.dragon supposed to EAT the chop or what? I couldn’t tell what the purpose was? oh boy, wish i :bong: after THAT!
melina, won’t this split the vote and possibly let the rethug win in CT? Agree, benedict-lieberman needs a chat in the dark alley.
I think I may need to go get ice cream :hubba:
Why don’t the stores sell rum raisin? Is this how it starts?
and while we’re at it, what happened to that really great Paul Newman Red Wine Vinegar dressing [not the inferior Lite one] – Can’t find it anywhere! Those fascist bastards! Will they not leave us any of our freedoms?
Speaking of crest- what about Tom’s of Maine fennel?
Heard they were bought out by Colgate- I thought fennel was their signature flavor who the hell wants effen apricot toothpaste?:jason:
Joe could split the vote…He is pretty unpopular now…even among his people.
I think he is gonna alienate alot of people with this move. The people who Ive mentioned the chance of this to have been in disbelief that he even could do that!
I just blogged a bit about it…and something that freaks me out is that he is likelyusing the DNC calling lists and $ given to him as a Dem candidate. I know that the repubs are giving him lots of $ and that they will probably pour money into this unaffiliated run just to split the vote.
But if he decided to run as a republican wouldnt he have to give back contributions to people who contributed to him as a dem?…
I think that he is wrongly idealistic and egotistical…and a little crazy.What a loon. I used to think that he was a little off when he did his overt jewish thing during the presidential election. He presented the religion as so precious that it probably set judiasm back 50 years!
But he is totally out of touch with what people want anymore. He represents so few of us and the people who were voting for him out of loyalty are really pissed.
I have to talk to more people around town who know him to try to find out what the fuck hes doing…because this is just so crazy.
I think hes gonna go down hard.
I put up some pics of my new bird…Jardine baby….
I need a name for her….
Oh and Fred- I LOVE cable TV…and all TV….of course I ignore most of it, but what I watch like Keith Olberman and TDS, and Colbert, I wouldnt want to live without.
REscue Me, Sopranos, Big Love, L Word…and the news, news, news….
Would you like cable TV better if Marc was on it?
Who was the dude Peter ? w/ David Bender this morning? The guy totally dismissed the problems with voting irregularities, claiming the Democrats had done it in years past. What a complete buffoon. Once I find out who this Peter is, I won’t buy his book.
Melina,
I happened to listen to the Oddball show over XM Radio. I have no idea what Olbermann was talking about so thanks for your play-by-play.
By George Lewis and Cecilia Alvear
NBC News
Updated: 7:19 p.m. MT July 3, 2006
MEXICO CITY – “Fraud! Fraud!” they shouted as they stood in a steady downpour. The noisy demonstration, by supporters of candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, capped a bizarre evening in Mexico’s presidential election.
One of Mexico’s most popular exports to the United States are “telenovelas,” Spanish-language soap operas that command huge audiences among Latinos. This election has turned into its own sort of telenovela, complete with cliffhanger suspense designed to keep people tuning in.
An official told a national television audience that the results wouldn’t be available until after a detailed recount of millions of ballots later this week. So, Mexicans will have to wait to learn whether their new president is a leftist who styles himself as a champion of the poor or a pro-business conservative who says his opponent’s policies will drive Mexico into bankruptcy
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13690875/
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M$RNC is already trivializing the people contesting the election
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From Dorpus Underground
http://tinyurl.com/k34ug
GM down 25.7%; Ford down 6.9%; Chrysler down 13%…Happy Birthday America!
GM
http://tinyurl.com/fo2n9
Ford
http://tinyurl.com/gx6jw
Chrysler
http://tinyurl.com/klcnt
He then points out the foreign auto makers are all up by some percent
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:tinfoil: Most of the dorpuses at DU seem to see this as result of poor quality and not making cars that fit the American market place.. That may be some of the problem but ….
All the automakers see the US market collapsing because the baby boomers who have purchased their c* for the last 30 years begin retiring into utter poverty.
They then see China and India as potential markets with 10 times the number of consumers.
They spend billions on building new plants in India, China and Mexico.. to get them both closer to the new emerging economies and also to reduce labor costs.
The combination of these expenses and laundering their books make it look like they are going bankrupt which allows them to break American labor contracts and off load commitments made to retiring American workers.
Another contributing problem is the lie about the US unemployment rate.. If it is really 14 – 20 percent that might also be reflected in these poor sales numbers.
How may wealthy people do you know who buy Fords ??
One solution might well be to nationalize them and send their CEO’s to GTMO.
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BuzzFlash
CIA Analysts: Osama bin-Laden Wanted Bush Elected and Produced Videotape to Help Bush. For Real.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/070306.html
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The “summer rains”
we are showering on Gaza are not only pointless, but are first and foremost
blatantly illegitimate. It is not legitimate to cut off 750,000 people from
electricity. It is not legitimate to call on 20,000 people to run from their
homes and turn their towns into ghost towns. It is not legitimate to penetrate
Syria’s airspace. It is not legitimate to kidnap half a government and a quarter
of a parliament.”
Mark Twain, having been called a “traitor” for criticizing the U.S. invasion of the Philippines, derided what he called “monarchical patriotism.” He said: “The gospel of the monarchical patriotism is: ‘The King can do no wrong.’ We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had—the individual’s right to oppose both flag and country when he believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it, all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.”
If patriotism in the best sense (not in the monarchical sense) is loyalty to the principles of democracy, then who was the true patriot, Theodore Roosevelt, who applauded a massacre by American soldiers of 600 Filipino men, women, and children on a remote Philippine island, or Mark Twain, who denounced it?
Today, U.S. soldiers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan are not dying for their country, they are dying for their government. They are dying for Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld. And yes, they are dying for the greed of the oil cartels, for the expansion of the American empire, for the political ambitions of the President. They are dying to cover up the theft of the nation’s wealth to pay for the machines of death. As of July 4, 2006, more than 2,500 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, more than 8,500 maimed or injured.
Mark Twain was very cool…
By using vastly disproportionate force against Gaza, Israel has once again demonstrated its contempt for international law and its cruel indifference to human suffering. America’s blind support may give Israel immunity in the short term, but the longer term consequences of such irresponsible behaviour can only be dire.
Arab and Muslim loathing for the Jewish state — and for its American ally — will inevitably be cranked up still further, with everything this implies for the security of Israelis and Americans everywhere. There will always be Palestinians and others who will seek revenge, in one form or another, including a resort to terrorism.
Political pressures on Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories, even from the spineless Europeans, will steadily increase. Alarmed at American inaction, Britain and France are already working quietly on a project to define their own parameters for resolving the conflict. They will not endorse the unilateral annexations Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has in mind.
When he travels abroad, Israel’s chief of staff Dan Halutz may find that he has joined the list of Israeli generals wanted for war crimes.
True, that kind of thing is only going to increase terrorism. Will just accelerate the hatred
Sunnyside contains a large collection of Irving’s original furnishings and accessories. In particular, all furniture and most accessories in his writer’s study are original. The dining room, drawing room, and picture gallery, as well as most bedrooms, are open to the public and contain much of their original furnishings.
The house is beautiful…a bit claustrophobic though, I think each room is like 2 feet by 2 feet… the grounds are really amazing though
I need chocolate!
From the left is Rob, Julie, me, Nicki Rose and Rachel. Was tucking your jumper in to your jeans ever actually fashionable? 😉 …