Another snark, another Sunday.
Today, Timmy Potatohead hosts the “future of the Democratic Party.” No, not Joe Lieberman (good guess though). It’s Senator Barack Obama, apparently (according to Time Magazine, anyway). Then an even worse “Roundtable” discussion than usual, with tired old has-been and WaPost “senior” hack, David Broder, WSJ hack John Harwood, pollster Charlie Cook, and Count Novakula. I think I’ll pretend it’s next week, and sleep in an extra hour or so.
Over at Faze the Nation, Bob Schieffer hosts Chucky Schumer, and icky Liddy “no wonder Bob needs Viagra” Dole, along with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report.
On Fux News Sunday, fuxface Chris Wallace hosts a discussion on how dear leader did such a great job with those evil old North Koreans, with a buncha worthless Senators – Dick Lugar, John Warner, and Senator MBNA. Plus Carl Levin, who isn’t as worthless as the rest of them (IMHO). Then weaselface has Richard Branson, who I hope will offer send the whole damn bunch of them into orbit – and leave them there.
Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission has a typically fair and balanced™ show, with Bill the Cat (killer) Frist on to answer the question, “will Republicans hold Congress, or will the world go up in a big mushroom cloud?” Plus, batshit crazy (and nowhere near as good looking as Liddy Dole) Kay Bailey Hutchison and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, will be on to “debate strategy in Iraq.” I guess Hutchison will argue that the Bush administration has a strategy. Other fairly imbalanced guests include Al “I have assumed control” Haig, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stormin’ Norman Ornstein, Mikey Allen of Time, and Andrea “my Dad’s Ted” Koppel.
There might be a good reason to end the boycott of the Goebbels Broadcasting Network, but This Weak with George Snufalufagus sure as hell isn’t it. First, there’s an “exclusive” with dear leader himself, and then it’s John “don’t blame me I voted for” Kerry. Next, the axis of drivel is reunited, with George :jerk: Will, Cokie “the hag” Roberts, and the man with the worst toupee in the business, Sam :omg: Donaldson. Then it’s a hard-hitting news piece, as Kelly Kulick discusses her passion for bowling. Yes, Kelly has apparently broken the glass, um, bowling ball, and become the first woman to qualify for a full season on the PBA tour. I’ll bet she even has her own shoes.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl profiles Nancy Pelosi (they’re teasing this story as her maybe possibly being two heartbeats away from the presidency if the Democrats take back the House; wishful thinking, or are they trying to scare the Republicans?). Then, Steve Kroft tells us how millions have been stolen from Iraq’s treasury. The Bush admnistration declined to comment, at least until they’re done distributing it to Halliburton. Finally, Scott Pelley tracks down “Jacob,” who fled his village in Darfur to escape mass murder – leaving his family behind. Well, hopefully there’ll be wacky commentary on paperclips or something from Andy Rooney to pick us all up after that one.
Have an enjoyable Sunday.
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:penguin:whatever! :banana::pup:I’m numero uno!
SAINT HILARION
Patriarch of the Solitaries of Palestine
(†372)
Saint Hilarion was born of pagan parents near the GazaStrip, and was converted to the faith while studying grammar in Alexandria. He renounced games, the brechtian theater and all the vain amusements of young people, to attend the reunions of his fellow Christians. He desired to see the great Saint Anthony in the desert and went to Egypt, where he remained near him for two months. He carefully observed everything in his life and conduct — his affability, his gentleness towards others and his severity towards himself, then returned to Palestine with a few solitaries to settle his affairs. His father and mother had both died, and he kept nothing of his heritage for himself. At this time he was only fifteen years old.
Despite his youth and delicate health, he retired to a desert; he practiced severe mortification, tempted continually by the demons expending all their efforts to make him abandon this life of total renouncement. He redoubled his austerities, tilled the ground and, following the example of the Egyptian monks, made baskets of reeds and willow branches. He lived first in a cabin of reeds, then in one of clay, so low and narrow that it seemed more like a tomb than a lodging for a young man. He learned all of Holy Scripture by heart and repeated it with admirable devotion. When thieves approached him one day he told them he did not fear them, because he had nothing to lose, and death did not alarm him since he was ready to die. They were so touched by his answers they promised him to abandon their life of pillageand join him in plowing the desert.
He soon began to work miracles by his prayers, and visitors made their way to his former solitude. Several remained nearby to become his disciples, and thus gave rise to the monastic life in Palestine, of which Hilarion is regarded as the founder. Saint Anthony esteemed him highly, sometimes wrote him letters, and sent to him the sick persons who came to him from Syria, telling them they had no need to make so long a journey. Saint Hilarion was a master exorcist and healer of all illnesses, but he refused all remuneration for his assistance, saying to his visitors from the city that they were better placed than he to distribute in alms the money they were offering him. Frequently the scattered solitaries of Palestine came to him to listen to his instructions, and he also visited them. The shemansky pagans too gathered around him. His exhortations to abandon idolatry were so powerful that on one occasion a group of Saracens promised to convert, asking him to send them a priest to baptize them and establish a church. One day, accompanied by three thousand persons who were following him, he blessed the vine of a solitary who received him. The vine furnished a triple harvest and all in the crowd were well nourished.
Saint Hilarion found his solitude transformed into a city, and decided at the age of sixty-five to go elsewhere. His Palestinian disciples attempted to change his mind without success, and taking with him only forty monks, he set out for Egypt on foot. After spending some time in Egypt, he went with only two religious to a village a few days’ distance from Babylon. He remained only a short time there also, singing “By the Rivers of Babylon/the famous Jew song”. Shemansky disciples were well pleased. Transportinghis entourage to Sicily, he delivered a demoniac, and then a crowd came to surround him once again. In Dalmatia, near Dubrovnik, he worked still more miracles, and saved the city from being engulfed by tidal waves raised by an earthquake. In 1980, the tsunamis returned. These traditions are still alive in the regions where he passed. He tried many times to live unknown but never could succeed.
Saint Hilarion died in 372 on the island of Cyprus, at the age of seventy years. His last words were: “Go forth, my soul; why dost thou doubt? Nigh seventy years hast thou served God, and dost thou fear death?” His body was found incorrupt some time afterwards, and was transported to Palestine to his original monastery. Saint Jerome, the guy who wrote the Vulgate Bible, was his original biographer.
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Katherine Lanphere is the guest on O’Franken Factor.
:love:michael badnarik is my myspace friend!
You Libertarian, you.
:paranoid:libertarian? where?
The bagel is believed to have originated in Europe around 400 years ago. Bagels not only are a popular breakfast food, but also serve as a tasty snack treat for virtually any time of day. They are an ideal complimentary item to be served alongside a hot cup of coffee or tea, a glass of milk, fruit juices and other beverages. In fact, bagels have become so popular in America that bagel specialty shops or bagel shops have opened to serve this delicious treat to a multitude of clients who relish the unique variety of flavors and toppings offered. :sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::pent:
[Michael] Badnarik is a Libertarian, believes in the Non-Aggression Principle, and his political philosophy emphasizes individual liberty, personal responsibility, and adherance to what he considers to be an originalist interpretation of the US Constitution. All of his positions arise from this foundation. In economics, Badnarik believes in laissez-faire capitalism, a system in which the only function of the government is the protection of individual rights from the initation of force and fraud. He therefore opposes institutions such as taxation, welfare, and business regulation.
Badnarik first ran for public office in 2000 as a Libertarian, earning 15,221 votes in a race for the Texas legislature; he ran again for the same seat in 2002. Badnarik is a participant in the libertarian Free State Project.
:doh:wasnt he on my 2004 presidential ballot as well?
there’s a whole group of people on my mailing list who voted for Badnarik. They’ve tried to convert me more than once to libertarianism. Interesting how kids react after reading a little Ayn Rand. Badnarik had quite a following, though
yeah, Sean, he did run for president…
i heard him interviewed ONCE because you know third parties dont deserve press
[edit] 2004 US Presidential Election
In February 2003, Badnarik announced his candidacy for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination, and spent the following 18 months traveling the country, teaching a course on the United States Constitution to dozens of libertarian groups. He has written a book, Good To Be King: The Foundation of our Constitutional Freedom (ISBN 1-59411-096-4) on the subject of constitutional law; the book was first self-published by Badnarik, but was released in hardcover in October 2004.
Badnarik was viewed as unlikely to win the Libertarian presidential nomination, facing challenges from talk-show host Gary Nolan and Hollywood producer Aaron Russo. At the 2004 Libertarian National Convention, Badnarik gained substantial support following the candidates’ debate (broadcast live on C-SPAN). In the closest presidential nomination race in the Libertarian Party’s 32-year history, all three candidates polled within 12 votes of each other on the first ballot (Russo 258, Badnarik 256, Nolan 246). When the second ballot placed the candidates in the same order, Gary Nolan was eliminated and threw his support to Badnarik; Badnarik won the nomination on the third ballot 417 to 348, with None of the Above receiving 6 votes. Richard Campagna of Iowa City, Iowa, was elected separately by convention delegates as his vice-presidential nominee.
Badnarik is a Free Market zealot. Does he not know that Free Markets always crash?
I love the Lanphere/Franken Reunion.
I think I heard that interview…he was on C Span with a few other candidates (don’t recall Nader being there, though). There was the Green party candidate and the Constitutional party (I think that’s what it’s called) candidate. It was interesting to hear some alternative views.
Yeah, Nicki, free markets are everything to libertarians even more than Neocons I think… that’s all they really talk about…it’s very odd. They’re for keeping certain freedoms in place (unlike neocons) but don’t realize how the corporate rule is compromising their freedoms. So it’s an weird place that they’re coming from
Neocons know the score. They believe in the use of power to maintain the disparity between haves and have-nots. Neocons want free market for you and protection for the corporations. Con is a good term for them.
the con works with a lot of Americans…that’s some propaganda machine they have out there. Of course they’ve had a couple of centuries of US history to perfect it.
I just gave a dollar to each of the candidates listed here on the ActBlue roster.
no this was a one on one with some malloy hour of the night local radio guy in north carolina
The free market con permeates the whole culture. Sort of like an article of faith. It is used as a weapon to keep the people down. Free Markets Crash! Markets need intervention to keep them going. The elites know this.
Come again! :omg:
I am alone. Atone.:omg:
Ned Lamont commercials on the air a lot over here…
hehe. Gnostic magick
Send Ned some $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Get rid of that goddamned Lieberman.
I’m going to use that particular ritual :pent::wink:
you’re right. The time is right now.
By the rivers of Babylon, it was there we were allowed to
rest; when we reached the shores of the Tigris and
Euphrates, then we found time for tears.
The harps we’d brought with us — what was left of them from the
Temple’s wreck — these we leaned against the riverside trees,
we sat on the bank and wept for what had been Zion.
Then our Babylonian captors demanded music,
commanded us to act glad, saying:
“Sing us one of your Jew songs!”
With what cheer could we sing the songs of Jah
kidnapped to this new shore?
Jerusalem! If I ever forget you may I have a stroke!
May my right arm be paralysed, my tongue forget how to
speak —
if Jerusalem isn’t still more to me than any pleasure,
and no pleasure true or real that I can’t share with her.
Remember, Adonai, what Edom did, how they helped
Babylon’s armies,
don’t forget Jerusalem’s last day, when they shouted:
“Plough it under,
tear out Jerusalem’s rocks by the roots!”
And Babylon, God remembers you,
Babylon about to fall.
Lucky! whoever gets to do to you what you did to us,
who’ll seize your children and smash them against rocks.
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that’s pretty freaky, actually…
Jacob Rabinowitz, the translator, said that this translation is more accurate–and honest–than those found in most bibles.
seize your children and smash them like rocks…sounds honest
The New Revised Standard Version has the last verse as:
Happy shall they be who takes/ your little ones/ and dash them against the rocks!
King James Version:
Happy shall be he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
the bible is scary, let’s face it
I hate when smoke alarm batteries need to be replaced, they shriek and make horrible noises till you climb up there and change the batteries (poor Nush woke up)
You should read Rabinowitz’s translation of “The Lamentations of Jeremiah” [How].
I take it this Rabinowitz version is not as readily available as some of the more common and “softer” translations…
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=158
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=136
oh yeahh that’s on my reading list :pent:
I have to go mail some packages.
I like the reggae version much better.
maybe this was the inspiration to the spanish priests when they first baptised and then bashed out the brains of the conquered indians’ babies (aztecs or mayans, I can’t remember which).
their justification was that they were doing them a huge favor, sending them straight to heaven instead of leaving them with their pagan parents and going to hell after a later, more or less natural death.
christianity has always involved the age old competition between lucifer and god: a “soul count” like the u.s. “body count” used in vietnam to figure out who was winning.
GOOD MORNING NEOCONS!
apologies for being awol. computer time has been next to nil.
Other than being royally pissed off about this military commissions act, all is a-ok on the farm.
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Why The Military Commissions Act is No Moderate Compromise
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mr fk is ok in this network flare-up – although cut-backs are rarely a good thing in the news business. the news division is very profitable and their ratings are tops, so I guess they have to cut its expenditures. :billcat:
How the hell are you guys? KP – how’s the puppy?
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jeffy got on mike malloy (subbing for jerry springer).
several birthdays. gypsy’s dad died.
melina & blue saw marc and chatted about the new progressive nova m radio possibilities — phoenix and little rock are on the air and malloy start his new show there on the 30th…
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thanks roxie.
Sorry to hear about Gypsy’s dad. That’s a shame.
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Jeffy on Malloy? Ha! Really glad malloy will be back on. wonder where marc will end up….
there’s a note from mike newcomb of nova m on the blog somewhere last week I think, with our marching orders regarding promoting marc to all and sundry.
everyone’s getting a little “testy” with pre-election jitters except fred who seems a little calmer than usual. go figure.
actually now i’m not sure sean was on malloy.
I know he was on sam’s friday show with marc and they both seemed to buy it.
I think he was on mike’s but all these delayed, hard to capture, audio files are kinda running together in my brain, i’m obsessing on the election.
help me somebody…
Good Morning all you lil Seditionists. :joe: Hey FK! :pup: Nellie has been great except for digging up my squash plants and Morning Glories. :no: She’s making friends at the dog park and she was very gentle when playing with the little boy the other day. The other dogs in the yard still try to pretend she doesn’t exist.
How to Make Pumpkin Pie Straight from the Pumpkin
Ingredients
* 1 Sugar Pumpkin (approximately 6″ in diameter)
* 2 Frozen Pie Crusts
* 4 Large Eggs
* 1c. Milk or Cream
* 1/2c. Sugar
* Ground Cinnamon
* Ground Nutmeg
1. Cut a round cap around the stem and pop it off.
2. Peel the tough outer skin of the pumpkin with a sharp knife.
3. Scoop out the stringy insides and seeds.
4. Cut the remaining outer shell into squares.
5. Boil the squares uncovered until they’re soft (the smaller the squares, the faster they’ll cook). The longer you cook, the thicker the resulting texture of the baked pie and the stronger the flavor.
6. Place the squares into a blender with concentrated milk, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg to taste. This will become your filling.
7. Prepare two bowls, putting a cup’s worth of filling in each.
8. Add two eggs to each bowl and mix.
9. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit (190 Celsius, Gas Mark 5).
10. Transfer the filling from the two bowls to two pie crusts.
11. Sprinkle gently with cinnamon.
12. Wrap the pie crust edges in foil so that they don’t burn.
13. Put the two pies in the oven for 45 minutes. Make sure they are on the same rack. If one gets more heat than the other, you’ll end up with one burnt pie and one uncooked one. Check on your pies after 30 minutes, to avoid burning.
14. Let them cool at room temperature before eating. Refrigerate leftovers.
Tips
* Line the pie crusts with a layer of thin apple slices sprinkled with cinnamon before pouring in the filling to mix things up.
* Sprinkle a teaspoon cumin powder on top of the pie before placing it in the oven for a dramatic flavor.
* As an alternative method, instead of boiling and peeling, cut the pumpkin in half at the equator. Scoop the seeds and strings, then place each half cut side down on a sheet pan in a 375 degree (190 Celsius, Gas Mark 5) oven until it is soft and a fork pierces it easily. Let it cool and scoop out the pumpkin, leaving the skin behind.
I can’t believe how pretty Nellie is, KP! digging….mine regularly try to find China.
sooner or later I’d think the other pooches will switch off the ignore button.
Medical mystery over WTC dogs
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 21, 2006
They dug in the toxic World Trade Center dust for survivors, and later for the dead. Their feet were burned by white-hot debris. But unlike thousands of others who toiled at Ground Zero after Sept. 11, these rescue workers aren’t sick.
Scientists have spent years studying the health of search-and-rescue dogs that nosed through the debris at Ground Zero, and to their surprise, they have found no sign of major illness in the animals.
They are trying to figure out why this is so.
“They didn’t have any airway protection. They didn’t have any skin protection. They were sort of in the worst of it,” said Cynthia Otto, a veterinarian at the University of Pennsylvania, where a study of 97 dogs began five years ago.
Although many Ground Zero dogs have died – some of rare cancers – researchers say many have lived beyond the average life span for dogs and are not getting any sicker than average. Owners of the dogs dispute the findings, saying there is a definite link between the toxic air and their pets’ health.
Otto has tracked dogs that spent an average of 10 days after the 2001 terrorist attacks at either the trade center site, the Staten Island landfill where most of the debris was taken, or the heavily damaged Pentagon.
As of last month, she said, 30 percent of the dogs deployed after Sept. 11 had died, compared with 22 percent in a comparison group of dogs who were not pressed into service. The difference was not considered statistically significant, Otto said.
A separate study, to be published soon by a doctor at Manhattan’s Animal Medical Center, focused on about two dozen New York police dogs, and comes to similar conclusions. :pup:
http://tinyurl.com/y3hvko
SYDNEY (AFP)—A 380 million-year-old fossil has filled a gap in understanding how fish evolved into the first land animals, Australian scientists say.
The perfectly preserved skeleton has revealed that fish developed features characteristic of land animals much earlier than once thought, said lead researcher John Long of Australia’s Museum Victoria.
“We’ve got a fish from the Devonian period about 380 million years ago and preserved in three-dimensional stunning perfection,” Long told AFP.
“It has revealed a whole suite of characters that link it to the higher land animals or tetrapods, so it’s filling in a blank in evolution we didn’t know about before.”
The fossil of the Gogonasus fish, found in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia at a site of a former major coral reef, shows the skull had large holes for breathing through the top of the head.
It also had muscular front fins with a well-formed humerus, ulna and radius–the same bones found in the human arm, the researchers said.
http://tinyurl.com/ss82u
Elizabeth Dole is on cbs…go figure…
Barak must have caught the shuttle to DC…he was just here.
Mom thinks he might run for prez…
Nice lineup if he does…hopefully we’ll get Hill, Gore, Edwards, Obama, and…..well, that alone will make for hot shit fun for a primary.
morning!:cat::knit::joe:
:doh: Must get coffee for this headache.
Hey farmerKat!
Roxie…maybe fred is mellowing with age..
hey blue:
I don’t know if i’m more mellow in my old age or just more easily tired out sometimes…
you’re back in town?
Just got in last night…
trying to open my eyes..Rudi just threw up at my feet…nice kitty:billcat:
They are happy to see me.
I think a dog peed on my suitcase…There was no rain on either end of the trip.
awww
you’re truly one of the annointed this morning.
The Bush administration is handing out money for teachers who raise student test scores, the first federal effort to reward classroom performance with bonuses.
http://tinyurl.com/y64aqh
This is a popular idea with people who do not understand about teaching and learning. It makes 2 wrong assumptions: First, that teachers are not teaching and second that the variable in student scores is the teacher.
Of course, if this were true, there would not be low scoring schools, but rather low scoring classes, within a school.
Hi FK, glad to see you and Mr. are alive and well.
Kat!!! Wahoo!!
Im just about to post on my blog, including Frank Rich…in around 10 mins…then I have to think of getting packed….Im hesitant to go back but it seems like I have to.
If you have about an hour to kill, you might wanna watch Bill Clinton speaking at the Center for American Progress on Values and US Policy (Real Media link, via C-Span). Say what you want about Bill, but this is what a real President sounds like, IMHO.
I think my MOm was raving about that one PJ….check Frank Rich etc…on ripcoco
I gotta get ready to hit the train….
Late as usual….
:penguin:ummmmmm i dont remember jeffy being on any radio show well he was on cnicks show last night but not vocally just in messages he sent cnick anyway
:doh:where is everybody!
:yippee:i’m going home!
hey guys!
melina, hope your grandpa is having a decent day.
as far as ’08 => ABAR (anybody but a republican)
im voting obama edwards thats my ideal ticket either combination
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It’s Sunday and that means GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IS ON TONIGHT AT 8 PM CENTRAL TIME!!!
Come one and all to listen to archived Marc Maron and Morning Sedition Players and to me ramble on.
The web cam IS WORKING as well as the fraked up chat window. As long as people keep showing up for the live show, I’ll keep posting the podcasts (which some people apparently enjoy).
So I’ll see you tonight, folks!!!
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Alright, I have to catch the bus…later
Sorry to post this so late, but I know everyone’s weekend would not be complete without the Zips’ final score from Saturday…
Akron 24
Miami (OH) 13
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The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew ????? ????) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. It is traditionally read by the Jewish people on Tisha B’Av, the fast day that commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem…
The god of the old testament is a revengful terrible figure.. Most of the mainline Protestant churches use the old testament only as a history of the religious politics of the times to explain why Jesus came to earth. Religious leaders quite often used stories of gods violence to keep their sheep in in line.
The Catholic church found talking in tongues ( usually Latin) which no one in their parishes understood made god mysterious and feared and only capable of being communicated with through their clergy.
I think most modern protestant denominations explain that Jesus died for the sins of man and that no matter what you do you will go to heaven ( or whatever) ( fundy :yuck:and Southern Baptist churches :yuck::yuck: still seem to be stuck in the 17th century someplace):fustrate::paranoid:
yo Fred
reading the archives of this blog – I was curious when I first started blogging here, it’s only about 6 months…hard to believe
I seems like Morning Sedition went off the air ages ago too. It has been less than a year I believe,:eek:
Must feed face BBL
My first post was April 7th. I actually “signed my name” at the end of the post, LOL. I think the Marc show out of California had just started.
Damn Susan Joy for only being on this blog since April 7th you certainly have rocketed to the TOP of the posting list! I’m still somewhere down near the bottom. 🙄
It’s :cold: in Birmingham. Brrr!
Nancy Pelosi is on 60 minutes right now and once again has pledged not to impeach the Chimp and his minions. What the hell is this woman’s problem anyway?
Hey CNick… I guess I found a home here. I got enthusiastic :peace:
She realizes that we’d be left with Dick Chaney as President if we impeach Bush! :omg:
I think I read online somewhere that 51 percent of Americans think Bush should be impeached (that’s the current figure). I guess she thinks that’s not high enough?
We’ll just make Georgie’s last two years in office a living hell. How ’bout that? The Rethug’s did afterall go after Clinton from day one. Like a pack of bloodhounds they were. So I feel like whatever goes around . . . comes around. Ha Ha, Bush, you asshole! You’re gonna get yours buddy!
I don’t think he’s enjoying the office of president lately…maybe I’m wrong, but it’s just a feeling… :omg:
That’s why Cheyney gets impeached first!
Seems the ancient Egyptians did what I must do tomorrow, go to the dentist.
“The arrest of tomb robbers led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists
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The tombs date back more than 4,000 years to the 5th Dynasty and were meant to honor a chief dentist and two others who treated the pharaohs and their families, Hawass said.
Their location near the Step Pyramid of King Djoser – believed to be Egypt’s oldest pyramid – indicate the respect accorded dentists by Egypt’s ancient kings, who “cared about the treatment of their teeth,”
http://tinyurl.com/ymvt2b
Maybe some “nut” will take care of our problem? But I somehow doubt it since they tend to go after leaders on the left. Pardon John Hinckley!
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This place opened for business on November 28, 2005. Seems like a lot more than 11 months, doesn’t it? The last MS was on December 16.
ndia’s booming call-centre industry has been getting a bad press, what with the arrest of a bank employee who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds from UK customers’ accounts, and documentaries exposing security shortcomings. But the Catholic Church has found something else that it’s much more worried about: sex.
Stories have been emerging for some time of promiscuity in the 24-hour centres. There was the call centre where the drains were choked with condoms. And the woman worker who told the press that she and her colleagues went to work with condoms in their bags.
http://tinyurl.com/yzavt7
Pelosi doesn’t want the Republicans to be able to use impeachment as an attack issue in the election. I don’t give a damn what she says now, as long as John Conyers is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January.
I started to read this blog before Morning Sedition went off the air because I wanted to know what was happening to the show and because I loved the dancing bananas.
Not to mention Charlie Rangel, Ways and Means, Henry Waxman, Government Reform, and Barney Frank, Financial Services.
It’s so hard to believe we’ve gone through the demise of MS, and the rise and fall of The Marc Maron Show, which went off the air, what, two months ago already? And now Malloy is gone (’til next Monday, anyway), and MR is history.
I wonder if Melina had a chance to talk with Marc about Nova M?
If Ploser is as described just Hastfart in women’s clothing minis the ( known) corruption and the dems don’t get a 2/3 majority in the house and take the senate too she will have the same grid lock the thugs have exhibited. Then it will be another two years of nothing happening , more job losses, more wars same o same o..:gate::omg:
PANAMA CITY, Panama Oct 22, 2006 (AP)— Voters overwhelmingly approved
the largest modernization plan in the 92-year history of the Panama Canal
on Sunday, backing a multi-billion dollar expansion that will allow the
world’s largest ships to squeeze through the shortcut between the seas.
About 79 percent of Panamanians voted in favor the expansion with 42 percent
of 4,416 polling stations reporting, according to preliminary results released
by the country’s electoral tribunal. Nearly 21 percent opposed the plan.
There were not enough ballots remaining to be counted reverse the trend.
Early returns pointed to a dismally low turnout with nearly 60 percent
of the country’s more than 2.1 million voters abstaining.
Thousands of supporters in green “Yes” T-shirts cast ballots endorsing the
$5.25 billion overhaul which would allow the canal to handle modern container
ships, cruise liners and tankers that are too large for its current 108-foot-wide
ocks. The plan is to build a third set of locks on the Pacific and Atlantic ends
by 2015.
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http://tinyurl.com/yz2y37
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That should make it easier for tankers to get from Venezuela to China and the Chinese Navy to get into the Caribbean.:eek::paranoid:
No matter how bad the Dems may be at least they will stop a lot of this awful lesgislation and they will have a platform from which to frame their differences with the Repigs
First off, you don’t need a 2/3 majority in the House to have total control of it. Just a simple majority. And when you have total control, you have investigative power.
And through what “media” are the dems going to voice these differences it will still be six repigs spewing garbage for every democrat. Hardly anyone listens to the news anyhow.
The procedure
1. The house creates legislation
2. it goes to the senate for modification
3. The two bills go to committee to iron out differences
4. The bill goes back to the house
5. It it passes it goes to the senate for ratification
6. If it passes it goes to the presidunce where it may be vetoed
Congress can override the veto, and in doing so, passes the bill over the president’s formal objection. Overriding a presidential veto requires a two-thirds majority vote of the members present and voting (in other words, those who are actually in the chamber rather than two-thirds of the total) in each chamber.
Hence nothing, zilch, zero will happen:gate::omg:
If they have the house they can introduce legislation and they can block Repig lesislation. That will at least getsome mainstream coverage. If they get the senate too……..
Hey folks!!!
Grand National Championship featuring archived material of Maron and the Morning Sedition players is starting in less than 10 minutes!!!!
There’s a show on the air right before mine, now, so you can enjoy those song stylings!!!
Maybe the dems can get good at having override votes an hour after lunch. They can then sneak egg salad left out in the sun for half a day into the rethug dining room.:hubba::hubba:
They can do real invesitagtion, for starters. You realize that it’s very rare to have a veto proof majority, right? You realize the Democrats didn’t have one in either house of Congress in 1974, right? Also, control of the conference committee is huge. And the Republicans will run like hell from Bush when the shit comes down. So, force them to have a vote on raising the minimum wage, for instance. Keep them from passing more enabling acts. But, for christ’s sake, they may not even get a simple majority in either house. Do we have to fucking doom everything ahead of time?
No, there will be no ice cream and cake. Everything will not get all better all at once. That’s unfortunately the problem with reality.
I like the egg salad plan.
Scenario 1 The dems only take back the house.
We see that house passes bill, senate changes bill, bill dies in committee.
Scenario 3 The dems take back the house and the senate
We see that house passes bill, senate changes/agrees to bill, bill goes to committee gets ratified by both houses and goes to the presidunce who vetoes it.
Bill goes back to congress and dies for lack of votes to override veto.
Zip zero zilch gets does.:gate::omg:
Cnn and ABC news report that Dems are obstructionists, dems say they need more power..
This congress is made up of a bunch of what seem to be reasonable dems and fascist rethugs… There will be no compromise. They want nothing to happen until they can milk the middle class for all its worth and move to Paraguay to be with Bush.
Eviction Time
Six figure bills and they’re always red
Dollar signs running through my head.
Rent man’s coming he’s coming to town
He’s going to kick my fucking front door
down.
Seven hundred dollar telephone bill
Pretty soon I’ll be popping pills.
Suicidal thoughts running through my brain
Life in the United States it’s a crying shame.
It’s eviction time. I said it’s eviction time.
Oh yeah. It’s eviction time But I ain’t committed
no crime.
Three months late three grand in the hole.
Sheriff comes he ain’t got no soul.
Got his papers in his right hand
Going to lock my store going to
take my stand.
So in debt I’ll never get out
Makes me want to scream and
shout.
Sell my shit and move along
Can’t be weak, God I gotta
be strong.
It’s eviction time. I said it’s eviction time.
Oh yeah. It’s eviction time But I ain’t committed
no crime.
It could happen to you it happened to me.
But it ain’t no damned tragedy.
The system’s corrupt you know the score
The biggest winners are the hucksters
and whores.
The system will change keep our goal in sight
Affordable housing is an absolute right.
It’s eviction time. I said it’s eviction time.
Oh yeah. It’s eviction time But I ain’t committed
no crime.
:nixon:
You forgot the scenario where the Republicans keep both houses and continue to rubber stamp everything Bush wants.
the politics of NR…:tongue:
Anybody listening to Laura Flanders? Her guest, Tariq Ali, was an inspiration for the song “Street Fighting Man”.
:fist:
Smash neoliberalism!
that’s a bit of trivia I didn’t know…
Hey! Are we going to let those motherfuckers steal this election?
Out in the STREETS!
:fist:
Senerio three the dems have controll of both houses and and in 2008 the presidency.
mean while the sock market ( aka crap shoot) plummets through 4000..
Unemployment goes to 25%
The US debt is 15 trillion.. No one will loan us any more money to prime the pump, China calls its loans , Inflation goes through 20% per year. Interest on mortgage loans surpasses 12% .The congress suspends medicare, medicaid and social security The Reich yell “its all the dems fault”
Tens of thousands of old people parish.
:gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
Tariq was a student leader in London in the 1960s. “I went down to the demonstration/to get my fair share of abuse.”
I always wondered what those lyrics referred to
(or who Mr. Jimmy” was)
Here is something I found on the web:
Although Street fighting Man was pulled from most US radio stations and the cover of the single had to be changed (it showed a policeman beating up a protester)–the song was really more of a “what can we do about it”
The song was inspired by the anti-government April/May 1968 student riots in Paris and the pro-Vietnam riots in London’s Grosvenor Square outside the American Embassy on March 17 that Mick attended.Mick was politically disappointed in the governments “compromise solution” Mick sings that he realized that his vocation was to sing in a rock and toll band. He understood that revolution could not be started by a record alone. His contribution was as commentated voyeruism instead of practical participation.
Here are the instruments used in the song
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Acoustic Guitars: Keith Richards
Sitar & Tamboura: Brian Jones
Bass: Keith Richards(?) or Bill Wyman
Drums:Charlie Watts
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Shehani: Dave Mason
Backing Vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
The scenario where the thugs retain both houses is that grid lock will still occur while corporations run off to foreign lands, the war in Iraq continues, we have to borrow 3 billion a day to stay afloat, Bush declares himself a dictator , the constitution is suspended ,social security is privatized, the stock market crashes anyhow and every one’s 401k and social security investment is lost other wise its the same as the dems being totally in power.
His contribution was os commentated voyeruism instead of practical participation.
Well, protest music back then did make a difference…it influenced almost everything it touched, so i don’t know, maybe he could have participated in other ways as well, but as it is he (and the band) did help spread an important message…
I did not notice that last snarky line. But hell. He reported what he saw. And he did go to demonstrations and got abused.
William Burroughs, who was living in London at the time, thought that the Rolling Stones could help spearhead a revolutionary movement, led by young people.
Goddamn. Tariq Ali is a smart bastard, in’nt he?
It’s nice to hear someone back then say something like that, other than “rock n roll is evil” or “it’ll be gone in a couple of years”
another book I’m going to have to read…sheesh
:pirate:
I really need to get back to reading more often; either that or get everything on tape and absorb it all that way
That was 1968-69. Anyway, I have to go somewhere.
:nixon:
somewhere? Aye, ok
who killed the blog?:tommygun:
evening sheeple
any out there?
I was thinking we should try breakfast again at PBC- like next Sunday?
With Travis too?
hmmmm
maybe later.
aha
there you are.
i’d love to, but i’m working straight thru til halloween.
I have the week before the election off. want to go pass out position papers for darcy burner. we can all walk the streets of lovely downtown bellevue, mercer island and issaquah…?
damn blue…
what the hell? you gone to bed or something?
oh well… manana.