Gee, poor North Korea seems to have everybody mad at it. Even China. And they maybe didn’t even have the big boom-boom they were hoping for. At least, according to the US government. The Russian government begs to differ. Hmmm. Tough call as to which one to believe there. Either way, who really cares? It’s all Clinton’s fault.
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:joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::shock:
❓ whatever :sheep: le
Speaking of blaming Clinton
McCain criticizes former President Clinton on N. Korea
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday accused former President Clinton, the husband of his potential 2008 White House rival, of failing to act in the 1990s to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
“I would remind Senator (Hillary) Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration’s policies that the framework agreement her husband’s administration negotiated was a failure,” McCain said at a news conference after a campaign appearance for Republican Senate candidate Mike Bouchard.
“The Koreans received millions and millions in energy assistance. They’ve diverted millions of dollars of food assistance to their military,” he said.
Democrats have argued President Clinton presented his successor with a framework for dealing with North Korea and the Republican fumbled the opportunity. In October 2000, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made a groundbreaking visit to Pyongyang to explore a missile deal with Chairman Kim Jong Il. There was even talk of a visit by President Clinton.
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Fred Fedexes Krista the monogrammed brick and the wrist rocket.:yuck::yuck::yuck:
A team of American and Iraqi researchers estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones produced by other groups, including Iraq’s government.
It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December. It is more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the British-based Iraq Body Count research group.
According to the survey results, Iraq’s mortality rate in the year before the invasion was 5.5 deaths per 1,000 people; in the post-invasion period it was 13.3 deaths per 1,000 people per year. The difference between these rates was used to calculate “excess deaths.”
http://tinyurl.com/emox3
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The liberal view .. Holly S* that’s terrible
The rethug view .. well if you kill enough of them they should quit shooting at our guys and be pacified. :yuck::yuck::barf:
N. Korea: We’d View Sanctions As War
CBS/AP) “Sanctions are nonsense,” says one North Korean official of the punitive measures the United Nations is considering imposing in reaction to Monday’s nuclear weapons test. “If full-scale sanctions take place, we will regard it as a declaration of war.”
http://tinyurl.com/jq648
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So far this morning C-span has had two debates ,one between Dewhine and his Demodrop opponent in Ohio and other between Hofstetter and his demodorp opponent in Indiana.. The demodorps must not listen to Ms Rant .. they are are not up on their facts any better than the thugs are on their lies.:yuck::yuck::eek::gate::omg:
Now we have Tony Snow job talking at an Ohio rethug funds raiser… The room is filling with BS so quickly Fred stands on desk and extends left arm to keep watch safe.. :yuck::yuck::reaper::reaper:
Hi Truthseekers.
Check here for upcoming announcements about the future of the Mike Malloy Show. We expect to have actual news to report this week and hope to be back on the air by the end of October.
As for media news: Here’s an article in the latest issue of Creative Loafing. Mike was also recently interviewed by salon.com for an article they’re writing about Air America Radio past, present, and future. Atlanta Magazine is also considering an article, or at least a blog.
We’re still working on a few issues before we can openly reveal what we’ve come to believe is the backstory to our untimely dismissal from Air America. You better get out a flow chart because there are more twists and turns than entire seasons of “Lost” and “24” combined. It is truly bizarre.
As always, your email, calls, and petitions are tremendously helpful. It certainly is a big boost to our morale and is noticed by potential radio outlets as well. Thank you thank you thank you so much, we’ll be in touch.
Watch your back,
Malloys
10/10/06
http://www.mikemalloy.com /
Tropical Depression OLIVIA
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Tropical Depression NORMAN
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Lots of activity in the Pacific this year .:eek:
APPO, The De Facto Government in Oaxaca, Moves Toward Permanence
As Both Sides Dance Around an Agreement, a Decentralized People’s Government, Based on Indigenous Traditions, Begins to Take Shape
http://tinyurl.com/fb8tx
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Well Sherrod Brown in Ohio was giving his how to get elected speech right out of the DLC how to book and actually sounded pretty good ..Then he brought out his supporters ..Hillary :barf::barf::yuck::yuck::omg:
it’s fred!!:yippee::yippee::dancers::banana:
:yippee::yippee::yippee::banana::banana: Its Sblue :banana::banana::yippee::yippee::yippee:
Fred Fedexes Krista the monogrammed brick and the wrist rocket.
Comment by fred — October 11, 2006 @ 5:31 am
And Kevin Fedexes Krista her choice of beverage to refresh herself after she throws the brick.
McCain is pathetic. Clinton has been out of office for almost six years, and he’s still the target for whatever variety of shit the Repigs choose to throw at him in lieu of having any solution of their own.
McCain is NOT a maverick. He is a media creation and an empty suit sucking at the dry teat of the Bush/Cheney war machine.
So there. :nana:
need more :joe::joe::joe::shock:
I hate these no news mornings. :eek::eek::paranoid::paranoid:
Well Sherrod Brown in Ohio was giving his how to get elected speech right out of the DLC how to book and actually sounded pretty good ..Then he brought out his supporters ..Hillary
Comment by fred — October 11, 2006 @ 6:32 am
Don’t hate on Sherrod Brown because his “friends” suck. Some of them have money. And he needs money to help make Mike DeWhine go away.
Having said that…
:fu: Hillary. Except for her money.
:eek::eek::eek: Its Kevin :alc::alc::alc:
good morning :sheep::wink:
Brown actually sounded pretty good . Hillary on the other hand ..:eek::slap::crap::paranoid:
:yippee::yippee::yippee: Its Susan :yippee::yippee::yippee:
McCain is NOT a maverick. He is a media creation and an empty suit sucking at the dry teat of the Bush/Cheney war machine.
very colorful visualization… I’m also sick of people calling McCain a maverick. Please. Listen to what he says sometime, people. Also people calling Hillary a liberal.
A lot of those who still read the news must only read the headlines .. Those who watch the TeeVee only listen to the sound bytes. Neither the print media or the TeeVee tells you anything important before you elect these fools to office.:gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
ooops I had on radio org instead of AA, no wonder I didn’t recognize the voices. Did I miss anything on the Turks yet this morning?
Best of luck to Himan today Melina…
Take care:knit::gate:
Best of luck to Himan today Melina…
Take care:knit::gate:
Is it possible to “miss” anything when listening to the Turks ?? 50% of zero, zip , nada is still zero.:yuck:
the Jesse Jackson interview today wasn’t bad. And it’s a plus that I’ve been listening for almost an hour and haven’t heard anything about Foley yet :peace:
C-span had its morning rethugs telling everyone how they would pull this ( election) out .. so maybe the Turks zero, zip, nada will be better than that 😮
I can’t watch C span anymore…I tried…I used to watch it all the time. I don’t know what happened. I lost tolerance for the guests, the callers, the attitude, the whole thing.
Saint of the day: Saint Gomer. Gomer is the patron saint of woodworkers, turners, glovemakers, cowherds, and those who are unhappily married, and he is invoked against hernias.
Feast Day: October 11
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Gomer :omg:hernias? That’s very specific.
The Korean bomb test is another example of how the US news media fails to cover news – they mainly parrot US government spokesman/propagandists and use those statements as the basis of discussion. I can’t tell you how many interviews I’ve done, be it on natural disasters, WMD, whatever, where the “reporter” asks what the government thinks of my work, or if they approve of my results.
Pretty much everybody is estimating this thing as nuclear – maybe not as big as NK hoped, but the credible estimates are all 1kt (the French estimate) or higher (mine was 3.6kt based on a magnitude 4.2 quake and a coupling factor of 4), which is almost certainly nuclear. The Russians, who have a lot more experience in tunnel tests than we do, say it was at least 5kt. So for Tony Snowjob to say it maybe wasn’t even nuclear is just plain BS (yeah, I know, and there is gambling in Casablanca!). It almost certainly wasn’t a total dud. And to say it will take “weeks” to figure it out is BS – with the modern networks where the seismic data is obtained in near real time, and supercomputer class computers, it’s already nailed, unless we get some isotopes to analyze (and we won’t get those unless there was a leak from the site).
Orthodox saint of the day: Philip the Apostle of the 70, one of the 7 Deacons. :priest:
Arkadasimi. En iyi dileklerimle. Git ev’n!
yay another Saint and more Turkish.
The Orthodox Church maintains that when Cardinal Humbert walked out of Aya Sophia in 1054, having put the Pope’s bull of excommunication on the altar, he left as an ordinary layman; since he (and his superior in Rome, and all who remained in communion with him) ceased being in open, formal communion with the rest of the Christian Church which continued holding Apostolic doctrine and polity. All who joined themselves with that group of men who left voluntarily the Unity of the continuing Church have remained apostates and schismatics ever since, no matter how vast, wealthy, and vociferous they may be in claiming otherwise.
Whoever either voluntarily sets himself apart from the continuing Unity of the undivided Church founded by Christ, or who alters the teachings defined by that Church, ceases to be a member of it. Orthodoxy alone has remained unchanged throughout the centuries, both in her doctrine and in her organization; all other groups, however huge or widespread, and however they may choose to style themselves, are NOT Orthodox, NOT in membership in that One Church founded by Christ…Thus it is written.
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“whoever alters the teachings of the church” And yet the teachings have been altered many times over the years. Religions are not static. Amazing that people buy this kind of thing.
Christ the Saviour Church is a member of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese, a canonical, autonomous jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church, headquartered in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and under the protection of His All-Holiness, BARTHOLOMEW I, pictured below. As “the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch,” every canonical local or world-wide Orthodox Church is in full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch. The Throne of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is in modern-day, Istanbul, Turkey. He is the “first among equals” of all Orthodox Patriarchs–the visible “spiritual father” of the Orthodox Church, serving many times as its spokesman, but at no time exercising “temporal jurisdiction” over the Church universal. He is the 270th successor of the Apostle Andrew, and twice visited the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese to address the faithful and bless diocesan facilities.
We enjoy the spiritual leadership and arch-pastoral, fatherly guidance of His Eminence, Metropolitan NICHOLAS of Amissos, ruling hierarch of our diocese…
:pope:
I can do with less “fatherly” guidance, thank you… :pent:
:pent::sdavid: but Goddess guidance rules.
There’s been a great deal of emphasis on the hope of reunion with the various Orthodox churches in recent years, and certainly, we must all as Christians hope for the day in which the Great Schism of 1054 will be healed. And yet, some of the more excessive statements one hears in connection with the ecumenical effort come far too close to indifferentism. While it is true that the Catholic Church regards the Orthodox churches as possessing valid sacraments and apostolic success, and as being in schism rather than heresy, this does not mean it is a mere matter of preference to leave Catholicism for Orthodoxy. After all, the SSPX has apostolic succession and valid sacraments, yet I would hope any good Catholic parent would be much concerned if his or her child left the Church for the SSPX.
The difficulty is further exacerbated in that while we consider the Orthodox to have valid sacraments and non-heretical (though not as developed) theology, many among the Orthodox do not consider Catholic sacraments to be valid, and consider Catholic doctrine to be heretical. Essentially, Catholics consider the Orthodox not to be heretics for the same reason that we do not consider Aquinas to be a heretic — one can hardly expect the Angelic Doctor to have affirmed beliefs that were not definitively taught by the Church when he lived. And similarly, the Orthodox can hardly be expected to affirm doctrines that have been defined since the schism…
:omg:
Patriarchical Oppression Rules! :pope:
:rabbi::pirate::priest:
:menorah:
:jesus:
“being in schism rather than heresy” I must be…oh my God, I can just imagine where I am in their book. Jezebel Shekinah S. J. Shemanski
these “fatherly” figures who do things in our Best Interest need to be punished.
Actually, the mutual excommunications between the “Patriarch of the West” (aka the Pope) and the Ecumenical Patriarch were withdrawn years ago. Orthodox and Catholics recognized the validity of each others Sacrements, but are still not in communion. There are some fairly serious theological differences – big one is over the issue of the role of the Pope. In Orthodoxy, the Pope is “first among equals” (equals being Patriarchs, ie senior Bishops) rather than having legal authority over all, and only ecumenical councils can declare dogma with the concensus of the church as a whole, rather than that power residing with the Pope. (Purists may want to argue the above is over simplified, but I think it’s close).
The Orthdox consider Catholic Theology to be “overdeveloped”. A great example is the Assumption of Mary. It has been declared as Dogma by the Catholic Church that Mary was bodily assumed in to Heaven. Orthodox celibrate the “Dormition”, or “falling asleep in the Lord”, on the same date. Many Orthodox believe in something very similar to the Assumption, but since there is no definitive evidence or declaration by the early Church, we leave the issue open – it doesn’t concern salvation, so isn’t needed as “Dogma”.
If you go into any Orthodox Church, the largest Icon, normally covering the East wall of the Church, is of the Panagia, the “Theotokos”, or Mary. All of the prayers of the Church ask for her intercessions – she is the one human who got things right. Not worship (that is reserved for God, who is neither male or female), but Mary is First among the Saints.
I always did like Mary… thanks for the information. “Panagia” is an interesting name for her, wonder if the root is the latin “Pan” “all” ?
Fourth Crusade. 1204.
Susan – that’s right – pan, all, and agia, or holy; the all holy one. Most prayers involve the Greek phrase “E Panagia Theotoke Soso Emas”, which roughly translates to “Most Holy God-Bearer Save Us”. Theotokos, or God Bearer, is another name for Mary.
Re the Crusades: Some Orthodox and some Catholics are long on Memories and short on Forgiveness.
I remember being on a mission to Lebanon in the 80’s, and heard a Marionite Christian leader lecture Rumsfeld for the better part of an hour about every relative (real or imagined) that had been killed by Moslems going back to the 1200’s. We got the same lecture in reverse from Nabi Berri (a Shia Moslem). If you are going to carry around your ancestor’s hate, you’re never going to be able to live in peace.
lawton!:love:
By the way, those “pagans” among you may be interested in the concept of the “virtuous pagan” in Orthodox Theology (and I think Catholic theology as well). Basically, it holds that earlier religions (such as the Greek and Norse Gods, some Goddess religions, etc) are in fact incomplete versions of Christianity, derived from the fact that one can come to a belief in God by an examination of the world around us as well as via divine revelation, and much can be learned from them. (Of course, some would argue the reverse is the case – Christianity is simply a derivation and consolidation of the earlier beliefs and it’s all just electrochemical processes in our brains!)
Hey! Lawton’s on!
On Sam’s show!
Sam can’t make Lawton cry like Marc can. Or did I miss it?
:tongue:morning krista, methaz hmmmmm methaz are you all hopped up on the crystal in the middle of the desert
hey sean, where are you?
:yippee:canuckada london on canuckada to be exact um did anybody ever catch this?
:penguin:stupid progressive utopians with no sense of humor!
Report refutes fraud at poll sites
WASHINGTON — At a time when many states are instituting new requirements for voter registration and identification, a preliminary report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission has found little evidence of the type of polling-place fraud those measures seek to stop.
USA TODAY obtained the report from the commission four months after it was delivered by two consultants hired to write it. The commission has not distributed it publicly.
At least 11 states have approved new rules for independent voter-registration drives or requirements that voters produce specific forms of photo ID at polling places. Several of those laws have been blocked in court, most recently in Arizona last week. The House of Representatives last month approved a photo-ID law, now pending in the Senate.
The bipartisan report by two consultants to the election commission casts doubt on the problem those laws are intended to address. “There is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling-place fraud, or at least much less than is claimed, including voter impersonation, ‘dead’ voters, non-citizen voting and felon voters,” the report says.
The report, prepared by Tova Wang, an elections expert at the Century Foundation think tank, and Job Serebrov, an Arkansas attorney, says most fraud occurs in the absentee ballot process, such as through coercion or forgery. Wang declined to comment on the report, and Serebrov could not be reached for comment.
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Now is USA Today a liberal or a conservative publication..?? If cheating does take place it is done by the county/ state vote counting people not by the voting equipment. The thugs have elections fixed at all levels.. :omg::jason:
Hey Sean –
I’m stoked by actually having time to check the site and blog some! Hard when the :cat:’s keep trying to play with the cursor . . .
Desert? Not hardly – Temp 68degrees F, humidity 80%, 1010mb sfc pressure, background radiation 0.03 msv/hr at my office right now (Savannah, Georgia).
So I am walking around Lowell MA. my second visit here only to find the Textile museum closed.
:rant1:
I hope I can swing through again next week. Lowell is the birthplace of Jack Kerouac.
Travis- I picked up a book for you called Atop an Underwood- all writings by K. before he turned 22. Yep yup
Nice free wifi at Brewed Awakenings.:joe:
The trip started out with my company having no room for me as was promised. 😡 :fustrate:
Slept on one of those rollaway cots. :yawn:
Must go soak up some IWW history if it can be found here.
:knit2:
Apparently the age of consent in DC is 16 so what Foley did was a little shaded but not illegal..
I wish Seder would get off this subject.. :yuck:
IWW
http://www.iww.org/culture/chronology/chronology2.shtml
I’m going to be working the polls this November. As of now, no one has to show ID but that could change. In the primaries, the touch screen machines were only to be used for handicapped people and we weren’t to argue about it if someone insisted they were handicapped. No one used them in my precinct. Having to check ID didn’t seem like a big deal in my precinct and there was always the provisional ballot. With no ID I worry about Repugs cheating. I wonder what I should look for this election?
lowell! i love lowell!
:love:they have a really nice little shopping district!
Hey Seanie!
Are you in Canada still?
Later sheeple:knit:
Keep good thoughts for Melina.:gate:
Maybe, but Foley violated his own federal law to “protect” kids from “Internet predators.” Anyhow, it aint about Foley – it’s about the rest of them.
Yeah, and I’m getting tired of hearing about Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Abramoff, Halliburton, electronic voting machines, Osama bin Hidin….
I’d much rather hear about how Hillary is terrrible, and Al Gore is a fraud and John Kerry is a wimpy weenie, and the Republicans are just gonna steal this election, and even if they don’t, the Democrats suck so things’ll never change, and….
I think the best thing the Dems could do about the Foley thing is stay out of the way and let the R’s self destruct. The media will run with this anyway because “it is a sex scandal and therefore understandable to the average person, where the complexity of other issues is over their head” (condensending, but it’s what most media types think). Then the D’s can do what they do best, whine, that they can’t talk about the issues because of all the R scandals.
Yeah, I think that’s pretty much what they’re doing. It’s hard to believe these people still haven’t gotten their stories straight.
Hypocrisy is well known trait of all these rethugs. The voter not using the alternate media just sees all politicians as liars and hypocrites.
The thugs think of themselves as being so self righteous that their politicians can do no evil and that any scandals are all a fabrication of the “liberal media”
Dobson trying to characterize the Foley thing as a prank on his radio program is a good example. He has quite a following and would Jimmy D lie to them… heavens no..
A kid over the age of consent is an adult.. I have to wonder how that applies when an Internet predator is in a state with different laws than the kid is. 😮
Himm… Greg Palast on the Rush Lippricks show :eek:..
Colorado Democrats don’t suck they just pull a slight vacuum.:shock::paranoid:
The revelation this morning was that the “dem” running against Tancredo worked on the McCain campaign in 2000.. To late now .. but .. hey.. he’s for .. well.. ..errr…ummm… :crap:
I will rephrase what I said about Colorado dems .. The Colorado Dems with the exception of Salazar don’t suck .
Support the Columbia Students who stood up to the Minutemen:
http://www.petitiononline.com/nominute/petition.html
Guilty of Being Homeless in America:
http://www.counterpunch.org/afghani10112006.html
Reports say that a California man featured in al Qaeda videos will be charged with treason and other charges later today.
The twenty-eight year old Adam Gadahn is not currently in US custody and is believed to be overseas. On videos released by Qaeda which threaten the United States, the California man is referred to as Azzam the American, and counterterrorism officials suggest that he has “gone from a valuable translator to an invaluable propagandist for the international terrorist network.”
“Gadahn’s newfound stature is underscored by a sealed federal indictment in Los Angeles that, law enforcement sources say, will charge him with supporting terrorism,” Greg Krikorian and H.G. Reza reported for the LA Times on Sunday.
As Reuters reports, Gadahn “could become the first American accused of treason since World War II.”
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I wonder if Germany and Italy declared Einstein and Fermi as traitors too… :barf:
Franken’s curent guest is pretty sharp. Expert on “netroots”. I only heard that term as applied to progressive bloggers recently. Now I hear that term all of the time.
Fred. You sock puppet.
(Henry Farrell).
:omg:
Karlsruhe, Germany- A federal magistrate ordered a suspected supporter of the al-Qaeda terrorist network to be kept in custody Wednesday after hearing evidence that the
36-year-old Iraqi had been putting video messages from Osama bin Laden on the internet. “There is strong evidence to link the accused to having supported a foreign terrorist organization from his place of residence on at least 28 occasions since September 24, 2005,” the federal prosecutor’s office said.
The man, identified only as Ibrahim R., was detained by police at dawn on Tuesday in the family’s first-storey apartment in Georgsmarienhuette, a small steel-mill town in the north of Germany.
The man reportedly did not resist arrest. Police also seized his laptop computer and disks.
His wife told reporters that police had searched their home on two previous occasions but had released Ibrahim R. both times after questioning.
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People with alternate views are not safe anywhere but the thugs can get away with terrorizing us all the time.:eek:
Check this out, you dumpster-diving sock puppet:
http://bostonreview.net/BR31.5/farrell.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army has plans that would keep the current level of troops in Iraq — about 15 brigades — through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday.
The Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, cautioned that people not read too much into the planning, because it is easier to pull back forces than to get units prepared and deployed at the last minute.
“This is not a prediction that things are going poorly or better,” Schoomaker told reporters. “It’s just that I have to have enough ammo in the magazine that I can continue to shoot as long as they want us to shoot.”
His comments come less than four weeks before congressional elections, in which the unpopular war in Iraq and the Bush administration’s policies there are a major campaign issue.
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Humm.. Lets see at 6 billion a month times 48 months at 38% interest charged to the RNC American express card. :bf:
Netroots: what the right is mostly scared of is not just Daily Kos per se; it’s the fact that much of the left is now united on the internet in the way they weren’t/couldn’t have been before this medium became commonplace. The right has bloggers also, but the most popular ones are left-driven or at least not right wingers (like Kos, the most popular, which is why it gets most of the flack). The right wing has a powerful grip on television and print media, now they’re going after the internet and demonizing anything not right wing. Big surprise? I don’t think so.
The Internet can certainly provide an initiative to others to vote out existing DINO’s but like it was with Lamont and Tasini you still have to get the right people into office considering the emense amount of dollars involved and the typical lack of info on the people who come forward to run. The rapidly diminishing ability of the typical middle class person to contribute much to a campaign might make the netroots prove more frustrating than terribly useful. Just more little kids running below decks on the SBR Titanic to tell more and more people what deck the water is up to today. 😮
Is that a cynical sock puppet? Now bring out the enthusiatic lefty one.
A lot of people who wouldn’t be activists away from the computer are activists online – and many of them are more “regular Joes” as opposed to elitist DLC types. this means a lot of ideas previously not heard are now being heard and debated. That has power to make change. The article brought out a good point that these blogs only make a difference when they’re solution-oriented, but that’s increasingly happened in some of the bigger internet communities, and what bloggers decide and discuss etc are increasingly playing into politics outside of the internet. Just the fact that they’re going to such great extremes to demonize bloggers should tell you that there’s something incredibly powerful that they’re afraid of – not just the right wing, but the “establishment”.
A Qwest stockholder, probably founder Philip Anschutz, sold 66 million shares of the stock worth $540 million, an analyst reported today.
JP Morgan analyst Jonathan Chaplin reported the sale of the large block of stock in a research note to clients.
Anschutz spokesman Jim Monaghan couldn’t immediately be reached for comment, while Qwest spokeswoman Diane Reberger said the Denver telco doesn’t comment on market activities.
Besides Anschutz, there’s only a few institutions that own more than 66 million shares of Qwest stock.
Anschutz owned about 300 million shares of Qwest, or 16 percent of the company, before a series of sales earlier this year.
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Phil must be getting ready for the “bust” to occur. Probably moving to his condo in the Cayman islands.:omg::paranoid:
QWEST. Thanks for reminding me. I still owe those bastards $100 from last month.
I am a deviant netter. I just sent Hawkins for Senate some $$$$$$.
:omg:
We are Terrrorist Mice!
:sdavid::pent:
:jesus:
tm
making a difference are you? Well, well. Power to the people! :fist:
There’s a lot of right wing sites as well -freepers, town hall, instapundit, etc. They may not be sane but there seems to be a lot of them. In that case it seems to be a negative influence – it allows the tin foil hat types to find validation from others, sort of like Mush Windbag does on the radio. My hurricane site was linked from FR a couple of times (during Katrina and Rita, to the oil and gas impact forecasts), and it generated about 0.15 DVPH’s at it’s peak. (1 DVPH = the number of visits per hour when Drudge does a link = approximately 10K visits per hour). From my hurricane research project server records, Instapundit peaked at about 0.3 DVPH’s).
Oh no! It’s the Apostate! :omg:
:priest:
One thing the Internet does is by pass the establishment media’s propaganda and information filter machine. Media sources from abroad or even bloggers that were present can all chime in. Out of 300 million Americans there are maybe only 20 million or less bloggers. Most Americans are of the American Idol and Monday night fartball mentality. I guess I can hope that as things progress that will change.
How many Americans marched during the Civil Rights era?
How many Americans were Abolitionists?
How many…
:peace::jesus::nixon::jesus::peace::pirate::parrot::pent::sdavid::rabbi:
Most Americans *period* are not overly involved in the political scene. Theyre’ simply going to pick a candidate out of family tradition, emotion, or whatever “vibe” they pick up that fits their own psychological profile. That’s not going to change. However the very frames that have been worked on and have permeated society over the past few decades (mostly Republican memes) can start to shift now, because the internet, which is becoming more powerful by the day, is making a real effort to change them, and succeeding. The article brought this out in its description of how the term “netroots” defined an important meme of “netroots” that had ties to working class dems; ties and a message that was missing for a long time. There is a good chance that this message can spread past the internet – it probably will. The internet seems to be an incubator for things that move outside. Once we change the memes we’ll change the way even the TV non-political Americans vote and think.
movements of a small group of determined people can be powerful…
CNN BREAKING NEWS: Small aircraft crashes into a building in Manhattan, NYC. 72nd and York
Real Candidates to the People!
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The number of participants really didn’t matter they just eventually had a political voice. The Abolitionists had to be the early member of the Carlyle group ( there relatives are the anti drug folks of today).
MLK was a leader and was a source of embarrassment for several admins before the civil rights act was passed and he was conveniently disposed of.
Voter disenfranchisement of colored people is still rampant in the South and TexASS.(not to mention Ohio)
Every time you turn your back the cockroaches come back. :yuck::tommygun:
yeah, MLK’s message, not “I have a dream” but “just give up, people, we’re outnumbered by racist White America”
BREAKING NEWS
NBC News
Updated: 2 minutes ago
NEW YORK – An aircraft crashed into a high-rise apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City on Thursday, NBC News reported. There were conflicting reports about whether it was an airplane or a chopper
Video from the scene showed at least three buildings in the high-rise engulfed in flames.
According to local affiliate WNBC, officials said the aircraft was a helicopter, not a plane. That had not been confirmed by any other sources.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15223650/
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I’m looking for that story. I have to go back to work in like ten minutes.
my friend Gail lives on the upper east side in the 70’s … 🙁
If someone was to come forward as a rallying point a lot more would be accomplished. The Dems are to afraid of rocking the corporate and Wall Street supporters boats and now they would certainly be declared a terraist.:yuck::bf:
Live video from WNBC
http://www.wnbc.com/videostream/5822261/detail.html
danke Fred
be back in a couple of hours. I don’t think it’s Gail’s building and it’s not my brother’s building. Later sheeple :sheep::sheep:
Does NYC require gas masks on days like today.:yuck::yuck::yuck:
So WNBC gets Scarborough on to talk about airplanes and fires .. Once again Fred climbs on desk and holds up left arm to protect watch from rising BS. :yuck::yuck::yuck:
There was no immediate word on any deaths or injuries or whether residents were home at the time of the crash. Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI said there was no reason to believe the incident was terrorism-related.
Nonetheless, a military official at NORAD said that as an extra measure of security, there were “numerous fighter jet patrols” over several U.S. cities.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15223650/
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Well, I heard from Bill Nelson today. Actually, this is the third time I’ve heard from him since I sent the e-mail last week, but this is the first communication in which he did not ask for money.
The semi-generic form-letter response follows. I wasn’t expecting much, and he didn’t let me down.
Dear Mr. M—-:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the issue of military tribunals for illegal combatants captured in the war on terror. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I have followed closely the evolution of this important issue.
Congress needed to establish a system for trying terrorist suspects, because the President’s plan for secret trials could have put our own captured troops at risk. I voted for Senator John McCain’s proposal for trying terrorist suspects in military courts and ruling out secret trials. I believe the legislation respects international law and our treaty obligations by preventing abuses during interrogations. I also voted for an amendment to restore habeas corpus rights, but it was narrowly defeated.
I appreciate the opportunity to share my position on this very emotional issue. It is a privilege to serve Florida in the Senate, and I value the views of my constituents. Please do not hesitate to contact me on other issues that are of interest to you.
:jerk::jerk::jerk:
But at least Katherine Harris won’t be able to throw it in his face during their debate that he defended the Constitution and did the right thing. Because that’s what’s important. Helping Bush wipe his ass with our civil liberties.
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MACON, Miss., Oct. 5 — The Justice Department has chosen this no-stoplight, courthouse town buried in the eastern Mississippi prairie for an unusual civil rights test: the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites. ”
The action represents a sharp shift, and it has raised eyebrows outside the state. The government is charging blacks with voting fraud in a state whose violent rejection of blacks’ right to vote, over generations, helped give birth to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet within Mississippi the case has provoked knowing nods rather than cries of outrage, even among liberal Democrats.
The Justice Department’s main focus is Ike Brown, a local power broker whose imaginative electoral tactics have for 20 years caused whisperings from here to the state capital in Jackson, 100 miles to the southwest. Mr. Brown, tall, thin, a twice-convicted felon, the chairman of the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee and its undisputed political boss, is accused by the federal government of orchestrating — with the help of others — “relentless voting-related racial discrimination” against whites, whom blacks outnumber by more than 3 to 1 in the county.
His goal, according to the government: keeping black politicians — ones supported by Mr. Brown, that is — in office.
To do that, the department says, he and his allies devised a watertight system for controlling the all-determining Democratic primary, much as segregationists did decades ago.
Mr. Brown is accused in the lawsuit and in supporting documents of paying and organizing notaries, some of whom illegally marked absentee ballots or influenced how the ballots were voted; of publishing a list of voters, all white, accompanied by a warning that they would be challenged at the polls; of importing black voters into the county; and of altering racial percentages in districts by manipulating the registration rolls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/us/politics/11voting.html
NY Yankee pitcher Corey Lidle was the pilot of the plane that crashed into a building in NYC today.
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SR 20 aircraft. 235 HP engine. Sad story.
If it was an SR20, that just reinforces all the bad things I’ve heard about its controllability. It uses a spring loaded side stick that makes it hard to feel what the airplane is doing at slow speeds. I looked at one and compared it with the Diamond DA40, and the DA40 wins on safety, even tho the Cirrus has a parachute. Insurance on them is double on other airplanes that size/class/cost because they have such a high accident rate.
(added 15m later:)
Just checked the registration – yup. I wonder how much time he had it? Lots of low time pilots get in trouble with these airplanes – pretty high performance.
oh yeah, just heard about Lidle on the radio. Jeez . Were there any other deaths?
Just Lidle and a flight instructor were on board the aircraft when it struck the Bel Aire Apt. Building in Manhattan.
The NYPD said a flight instructor also died .. M$RNC was reporting at least 4 dead all afternoon but Mayor Bloomturd said it was only two at his press conference at 5:30.:paranoid:
thanks. I’m giving the news a rest and listening to AA radio. Ok, now Rachel is talking about Foley again? ::;screams::::
Man, no sleep all night and then I get to drive back through a mini 9-11….what a scene….
I havent even looked at email since last night at midnight or so….
the costco ho hates being called K-lo:doh: wonder if he ever told marc that:?:
So I included a bit of a skype call from a fellow blogger here on morningseditionists.com in today’s podcast. Care to quess who? Give a listen.
Well, nite everyone…Ive got to get som esleep….incredibly tired…
Goodnight Melina
:doh:3 hours no posts?
Hey Seanie Sean:pup:
Yeah I really liked Lowell.
may go back…:yawn:
:billcat:
:yippee:blue!
:penguin::fu::nana:
:boobs:
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
You have baggy boobs Sean
You are also not paying attention Sean :nixon::slap::spank:
Sean : In your skype conversation with Cnick did you get the impression he is living in a different :tinfoil:dimension than the rest of us are ??
:nana:I guess Bama is so economically disadvantaged that things can’t get any worse there so anything is up ??:reaper:
:banana:morning fred!
😮 he lives
:ear:So where is Sean camped out this morning ??
:yippee:london!
:yawn:Do you sleep in your truck when you are on the road 😯
:cold:yep!
London as in Ontario .?? .:tinfoil:I didn’t see the oar ports on your tuck for it to be England.
Do the truck stops have places to plug your truck in at night or do you get to run the engine all night ?? Ahhh. essence of cold four cycle .. gasp… gasp… choke …choke
yeah ontario:tongue: run the truck its nice enough that i dont have to tonight
With the paranoia I detected on the part of the NYC residents after that airplane crashed yesterday I have to wonder how the people in London England managed when entire city blocks disappeared every night for two years.
Americans seem to be fearful idiots.. not at all able to cope with adversity.:shock::rant1:
:pup:
Does the :pup: need to go outside ??:eek:
Dancing :pup: are either happy to see you or you waited to long to let them outside:eek::shock::paranoid: