stop showing off your emofulness, susan. i did apolgize at the end of yesterday’s blog for those awful moments of emo-less hell yous guys had to suffer for the sake of us mobile junkies.
oh I don’t mind the mobile version, it’s a good thing for when you’re out and about, but I didn’t understand that that’s where I was! I did miss my emos :peace:
A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected,
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Any one see any shovels on sale ??:yuck::crap::eek::eek:.:reaper::reaper:
Administration Opposes Democrats’ Plan for Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: November 13, 2006
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — The Bush administration said on Sunday that it would strenuously oppose one of the Democrats’ top priorities for the new Congress: legislation authorizing the government to negotiate with drug companies to secure lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries.
In an interview, Michael O. Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services, said he saw no prospect of compromise on the issue.
“In politics,” Mr. Leavitt said, “most specific issues like this are a disguise for a larger difference. Government negotiation of drug prices does not work unless you have a program completely run by the government. Democrats say they want the government to negotiate prices. What they really want is government-run health care.”
Federal price negotiations would unravel the whole structure of the Medicare drug benefit, which relies on competing private plans, Mr. Leavitt said.
Dozens of plans are available in every state. They charge different premiums and co-payments and cover different drugs. The 2003 Medicare law explicitly prohibits the federal government from negotiating drug prices or establishing a list of preferred drugs….
Democrats Call on Bush to Support China’s Draft Labor Law
by James Parks, Nov 12, 2006
Twenty-seven House Democrats called on the Bush administration to support China’s new Draft Labor Law Contract. The law, which is being considered by the Chinese government, would put in place some of the core internationally-recognized workers’ rights that are common in many other countries.
For example, the proposed law would require employers to negotiate with a trade union before a mass layoff and give workers severance pay for certain kinds of terminations.
While these reforms, standing alone, would not guarantee the full range of basic workers’ rights, they are a step in the right direction. The letter was spearheaded by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), who is poised to become chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, and Democratic Reps. Lynn Woolsey (Calif.), Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Barney Frank (Mass.).
Last month, a report by the Boston-based think tank Global Labor Strategies condemned the U.S. business community for making recommendations to the Chinese government that would gut the proposed law. According to the report:
“The obvious motive for such foreign corporations to oppose the law protecting Chinese workers is their fear that it may eliminate the cheap labor costs they now enjoy.”
For example, the American Chamber of Commerce People’s Republic of China said in its comments that under the new law, employers “would be inclined to hire fewer people to economize on labor costs.”
Rep. Lee says such comments show that U.S. companies in China do not respect workers’ rights.
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Where do capitalists move to when China gets to expensive .. Will China let them leave ??:bf:
and the reason against government run healthcare was what?
oh that’s right. we wouldn’t want the gov’t telling us which doctor we could see or what drugs would be covered.
i’d much rather have hmo’s selected by employers, on the basis of cost, make those decisions. i certainly wouldn’t want to be able to have a vote on such matters.
an excellent push issue that most people are much clearer on than during the clinton/clinton health care commission.
it is amazing what drug companies are getting by with. and how much money is wasted in duplication of administration within healthcare insurers. not to mention that doctors now spend almost as much time negotiating with ins.cos. as they spend on patient care. it really really sucks in healthcare land.
11-8-06: Rumsfeld replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting company
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates. Did you know that Robert Gates was involved in the voting machine industry?
Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids.
I can’t get them to save to pdf, perhaps you can. Enter search terms in both “registrant” and “client” fields and put in terms “Rhoads” “Livingston” and “Votehere” (one at a time.). Then look at the gravy train while it was in the process of derailing American democracy.
November 13, 2006
Bush May Get Cool Reception in Vietnam
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:27 a.m. ET
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — When Bill Clinton came to Vietnam six years ago, he drew huge, jubilant crowds at every stop on the first visit by an American president since the end of the war in 1975.
President Bush’s reception at the Nov. 18-19 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi is likely to be considerably cooler.
Clinton was seen as a symbol of reconciliation between the two former foes, and everyone wanted a small piece of the historic occasion.
Bush’s invasion of Iraq, which some critics have dubbed America’s second Vietnam, has many Vietnamese, their own memories of war still vivid, recoiling at the idea of another country taking on the superpower.
good morning everyone….
Ann Curry is back in Darfur doing some great reporting. Check out NBC (though Im sure it will be on MS in rotation later on)
I think that this is an assignment that she really pushes for.
Things are really bad there.
Unbelievable that we could create a situation in Iraq that is “bad” when there are disasters happening that we could be helping with…but we are busy with a disaster of our own creation….
THIS is an illustration of what our role in the world should be as opposed to what Bushco has turned it into.
Yeah, but the dems here are who helped him get into office….so, I doubt we would ever see anyone get together and all say that they were so wrong….there is such a clusterfuck of certain elements here that things played out very strangely…..alot of it is human nature….
I would expect that if Joe goes bad people would just shut up or say that they wanted him to be that way!
The other thing is that we know that Joe is for sale so we could always buy him back…and/or, we know he follows the power so the key with him is to keep the power enough to make him think that his fortune lays with the popular culture as opposed to the Bushies.
Im wondering what the Turks actually know about anything….I so dont really like them.
Its not about recall….its about cold hard cash and where the power lies. The people of CT dont seem to want things to change just yet. Or they are scared…or tryin to hold on to their money….but that doesnt explain the whole thing.
Maybe a good reform measure would to make your reps and senators state employees. The state legislatures could then turn off their water if they misbehaved.:bf:
Not listening to the Turds, but I saw that Joe refuses to rule out caucusing with the Republicans. He says, “I hope it won’t come to that.” So I reckon he’s looking for some super ass-kissing. And if he thinks the Republicans will take the Senate in 2008, then he could flop over to them now, get seniority and some plum committees, and give the tie-breaker to Cheney.
Iran TV broadcasts ‘US ship spy plane footage’
AFP
TEHRAN — Iran’s Arabic language television station Saturday broadcast footage that it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters that it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone.
The brief minute-long film, which was shown on Al Alam television’s evening news bulletin, showed wobbly aerial footage of an aircraft carrier stacked with war planes as it sailed.
The television’s anchor said that the film, the property of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, showed a vessel from “the US fleet in the Persian Gulf.”
“A source in the Revolutionary Guard said the drone carried out its mission without US fighter pilots reaching it,” the television said.
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The SBR becomes the HBBR ( Has Been Banana Republic)
PJ- the message was that Joe would follow what HE thinks is right…..just like his support of the war and like his idea to run even though he lost the primary…..
My experience with what HE thinks is right is a little disheartening…
And even as McCain was telling Timmy that we have to either send many more troops or just get out…..very odd MTP this week….I can barely get over it.
Yeah Joe is one one those pay me and I will go that way democrats… err…. independents … err.. rethugs… err…. North bound end of a south bound horse ?? :bf:
And, if I understand the rules of the Senate correctly (and that’s quite a stretch), 50/50 + Cheney works out very well for the Republicans. The Senate has to pass an organizing resolution at the start of the new session (and Cheney doesn’t get to vote in that, I’m pretty sure). If they can’t agree on one, then they revert to the old agreement – that is, Republicans get a majority in every committee, plus the committee chair.
If you recall the last time it was 50/50, the Republicans agreed to a deal where they got the committee chairs, but the committee membership, staffs, budgets, were split evenly. This was because the Senate was coming off a session where Republicans were in the minority, and so they had to make a deal to at least get the committee chairs (and Lott was criticized at the time for giving up too much).
it will be interesting to see how the folks in CT react to joe as he continues to sell his soul. Will Lamont try again?
Melina, we’re leaning towards keeping Murrow. He still doesn’t have a home and he’s fitting in to the routine here. He’s sleeping well in his crate now and walks beautifully on the leash. He’s pretty much house trained, too. Next – obedience training. He’s still shy around strangers so I try to get him out among crowds. I took him to petsmart this weekend and he was scared of the shopping cart – so I plopped him inside it and pushed him around the store until he got over that and then I walked him around asking folks to pet him. He worked through it.
Well, in 2008, not only is the White House up, but something like 2/3 of the Senate seats that are up are Republican. So, if Joe jumps and the Democrats gain Senate seats, poor old Joe is screwed, so he may not be willing to risk that. I imagine he’ll just be using whatever leverage he’s got to keep his seniority, and get whatever he wants from the Democrats. That in itself sucks, ‘cuz he’ll be able to run his mouth with impunity, and he makes me wanna :barf:.
Yeah compressed hydrogen gas will leak out of gas bottles by passing between the molecules in the metal the bottle is made out of. Typically a full bottle will run dry ( MT) in about two weeks. :yuck::bf:
Kat, I am considering VA Blue. Someone suggested NV Blue, as in Northern Virginia, but NV is Nevada and I already did 3 years in Reno. Maybe I will take on a whole new personna. Maybe I’ll do nothing about it and just keep Carolina on my mind.
:eek:Farmerkat, I just mean what day — NO ONE HAS TIME THESE DAYS and since I hardly am able to read past “blog postings 🙁 ” . BUT I am checking “blog” backwards :nod: :banana:
oh, boy, druid, I don’t have a clue what day! I’ll retell:
Murrow was the result of an accidental breeding of two registered dogs. They’re really nice pups (and akc registered) but since it wasn’t a formal planned litter, the world of dogs tends to do this to them: :nana:
(My friend was in the hospital with pneumonia and her husband was “watching” the dogs when the deed happened.) She asked me to bring a pup in to help socialize him. We named him “Breaking News” and are calling him Murrow. We’re falling in love (which I’m sure my friend knew very well would happen 😉 and mr fk predicted would happen the day I drove to TN to fetch the pup.) 🙄
#56 good one
also, i just found out this morning that i can make (at least some) emoticons come up by typing them in! 😎 huh? have i always been able to do this or is it the new mobile blog or maybe the new (to me) Opera mobile browser that andy mentioned?
druid: time to make a new jomentum doll and start bending him to the left…
RoxieSeattle, time to make a new jomentum doll and start bending him to the left… nod: “jomentum doll”
:banana: :yippee::banana: 😉
A new emoticon: ❗ Joe with a “hanging noose” on his neck, symbolizing “binding” or WhatEver (WE) Mwah HaHa
:rofl2: Then everyone can post their views about “him” then “joe EMO”. :rofl2:
Last I bought was $2.31 and yesterday it was back up near $2.50. And that gas tax prop was voted down here in CA. I guess they have to pay for the bazillion $s they spent fighting it. I imagine smokes went up, too.
From the November 10 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: Its masterminds would argue just how connected or how intentional, but even they would agree the fates of Fox News Channel and the Republican Party are inextricably intertwined. So, guess who else is having a crappy week? Not counting Tuesday’s election coverage, Bill Orally’s ratings are down another five percent just from last week. Countdown’s, coincidentally, are up another 32 percent. A look at that clichéd but coveted 25-to-54-year-old audience from last night: The O’Really Factor, 405,000; Countdown, 321,000; CNN, 210,000; Nancy “I Know What You Did Last Summer” Grace, 200,000. That’s right — we were doing 79 percent of Bill O’s business. And it was worse the hour before at 7 o’clock. Wolf Blitzer, 327,000; Chris Matthews, 302,000; Shepard Smith on Fox, 262,000. Fox, third place. He will be punished severely!
Clear Channel May Get Buyout Offers of $18 Billion (Update2)
By Brett Cole and Dana Cimilluca
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Clear Channel Communications Inc., the largest U.S. radio broadcaster, may receive at least two competing takeover offers later today from leveraged buyout groups that value the company at about $18 billion, two people with knowledge of the bids said.
Blackstone Group LP, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Providence Equity Partners Inc. plan to submit a proposal, said the people, who declined to be identified because the bids are secret. Bain Capital LLC plans to make an offer with Texas Pacific Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP, they said.
Clear Channel’s board, which includes three members of the founding Mays family, put the San Antonio-based company up for auction last month after asset sales and share buybacks failed to boost the stock price. Clear Channel has lost more than 60 percent of its market value since the stock peaked in 2000 as radio stations lose advertising revenue to the Internet and satellite competitors
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This may be why the AAR affiliates are changing their programming.. AAR and 80% of the progressive talk stations may well cease to exist if some Reich wing group buys them.:bf:
I just saw on crooks and liars that the guy they arrested for threats to pelosi, olberman, stewart et al was a guy from Free Republic. A FREEPER! surprised?
Larisa Alexandrovna and Brian Beutler
Published: Monday November 13, 2006
The man arrested on Saturday for sending more than a dozen envelopes containing “fake anthrax” to anti-war celebrities, journalists, and politicians may have ties to the conservative supersite Free Republic, RAW STORY has found.
Chad Castagana, a 39 year old Californian named as the FBI’s prime suspect in the case, is due in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles today, where procecutors are expected to file criminal complaint against him for sending threatening letters through the U.S. mail. Castagana has an extensive online history, often writing about science fiction and conservative politics, and many bloggers are convinced that he is also a contributor at the conservative activist Free Republic website under the name Marc Costanzo, whose online profile, once available here was suspended after this story first ran this morning.
I thought “Speedy” was from Colorado some place..Probably one of those living in his double wide with three junk cars in his yard, four pit bulls and burns his garbage in an open pit ..( insert ugly smell emo here)
Uranium is the energy investment of choice for a growing number of hedge funds, which claim a sixfold gain since 2001 is just the beginning of a rally that will last years.
“We’re in a historic uranium shortage,” said James Passin, who manages $580 million at New York-based Firebird Management and began buying shares of uranium producers five years ago. “We’re in a global nuclear revival.”
Uranium, which recently hit a record $60 a pound, may rise to $70 by January after a flood at Cameco Corp.’s Cigar Lake mine in Canada, said Jean-Francois Tardif, who has $180 million in uranium at Sprott Asset Management. Bob Mitchell at Adit Capital Management says $80 to $100 a pound is possible.
Even with new mines, growth in the supply of uranium is straining to keep up with demand from utilities. Production from five of the six largest mines in Canada, Australia and Namibia fell in the first half from a year earlier, according to Nukem Corp., a Danbury, Conn.-based uranium trader.
NEW YORK (CNN) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani took the first step toward a possible 2008 White House bid by forming a presidential exploratory committee.
A document from the New York Department of State says Giuliani made the initial filing Friday.
Giuliani joins Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee, as the only Republican to officially form an exploratory committee.
Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa formed an exploratory committee Thursday, making him the only Democrat to officially do so.
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Rethug cockroaches are on the march ..:yuck::yuck:
Jurors have found a Republican fundraiser guilty of stealing over $2 million in rare coins from the state of Ohio Worker’s Compensation fund–and funneling some of the money to the Republican party.
Ex-GOP fundraiser Tom Noe had pleaded not guilty to charges of corrupt activity, theft, money laundering, and forgery.
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These guys and a lot of their supporters are in very Mafia like businesses ..I wonder …:eek::eek:.
WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., backed funding for a bridge between Nevada and Arizona that could affect the value of property he owns nearby.
The planned span over the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City, Ariz., got an $18 million boost in last year’s massive federal transportation bill.
Reid, who’s in line to become Senate majority leader after last week’s election, owns 160 acres of undeveloped property in Bullhead City, several miles from the proposed bridge sites. Development is booming in the area and local officials in Laughlin and Bullhead City support a new crossing to ease traffic on the one existing bridge. They also expect it would add to property values.
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I would call this politics as usual but the Freepers and the Reich’s media will make it into a mountain.:eek::eek::crap::yuck:
A liberal leaning watchdog group is blasting incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) for her endorsement of Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) as Majority Leader. Murtha has been accused of abusing his position as Ranking Member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to benefit lobbying clients of his brother.
In a press release sent to RAW STORY, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) questioned Pelosi’s (D-CA) “commitment to eradicating corruption,” after her backing of “one of the most unethical members in Congress,” over Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md), who would normally be in line for the highly sought position.
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In case of Indian attack circle the wagons and shoot at each other .. :yuck::yuck:
Anyone catch Bill Maher? Candy Crowley of CNN was on, and normally she’s a bitch for the GOP [an incredibly large one] but for whatever reason, she was a bit more even handed and mostly reasonable in that admittedly left-wing venue. I have this liberal guilt about Crowley, because she’s extremely overweight, and not particularly attractive, and I’d like to see less of the Ken and Barbie type reading our news. Is this reverse-reverse-reverse bias?:sammy:
In a scenario resembling the dramatic conclusion to a TV crime drama, paleo-forensics experts have produced new evidence to show that the dinosaurs were bumped off by a different meteor than the one that has received the rap for their extinction. The German palaeontologists insist that a mysterious meteor or comet must have done the deadly deed – long after the notorious Yucatan meteor that has hitherto been blamed
:tinfoil: The dinosaurs become extinct because they were governed by rethugs dinosaurs who failed to maintain there infrastructure to prepare for hits by large meteors.:tinfoil::eek::eek:
Comcast pulls plug on English language Al-Jazeera
Yanked by yanks
Comcast backs away from Arab net
By ALI JAAFAR
LONDON — Al-Jazeera Intl. has all but conceded defeat in its effort to gain U.S. distribution in time for its worldwide launch Wednesday.
Execs at the nascent English-language offshoot of the Arab broadcaster said Comcast Communications pulled the plug on talks Monday on a deal the net considered essential to gaining a beachhead in the U.S.
The Associated Press last week reported Comcast had pulled out of talks but, in fact, negotiations continued, with Comcast offering to roll out the channel regionally. Comcast is the dominant operator in the Detroit area, which has one of the nation’s largest Arab-American populations.
But AJI execs were holding out for a full rollout across all of Comcast’s 12.1 million digital subscribers (Comcast has 24 million digital and analog subs), and they believed a deal was imminent.
“We thought we were just awaiting signatures. We feel like we’ve been led down the garden path. It’s a setback for us in the States, but I don’t want this to overshadow the fact we’ve had phenomenal figures in the rest of the world,” said one AJI employee who insisted on anonymity.
Sources within AJI speculated the reasons for the pullout had to do with U.S. uncertainty about Al-Jazeera’s editorial agenda. Negative portrayals of the situation in Iraq are widely thought to have contributed to the Democratic sweep of the midterm elections.
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The problem with fascism ..Perhaps Aljazeera hasn’t heard of streaming media yet.People all over Europe seem to watch C-span on the Internet.:omg:
C-span has this VFW convention on.. All they can talk about is the American victory in WWII and why the liberal press has made us ineffective ever since.. :paranoid:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees.
In court documents filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., the Justice Department said a new anti-terrorism law being used to hold detainees in Guantanamo Bay also applies to foreigners captured and held in the United States.
Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar, was arrested in 2001 while studying in the United States. He has been labeled an “enemy combatant,” a designation that, under a law signed last month, strips foreigners of the right to challenge their detention in federal courts.
That law is being used to argue the Guantanamo Bay cases, but Al-Marri represents the first detainee inside the United States to come under the new law. Aliens normally have the right to contest their imprisonment, such as when they are arrested on immigration violations or for other crimes. “It’s pretty stunning that any alien living in the United States can be denied this right,” said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney for Al-Marri. “It means any non-citizen, and there are millions of them, can be whisked off at night and be put in detention.”
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — As Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon for a second week last July, the Rev. John Hagee of San Antonio arrived in Washington with 3,500 evangelicals for the first annual conference of his newly founded organization, Christians United For Israel.
At a dinner addressed by the Israeli ambassador, a handful of Republican senators and the chairman of the Republican Party, Mr. Hagee read greetings from President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and dispatched the crowd with a message for their representatives in Congress. Tell them “to let Israel do their job” of destroying the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, Mr. Hagee said.
He called the conflict “a battle between good and evil” and said support for Israel was “God’s foreign policy.”
The next day he took the same message to the White House.
Many conservative Christians say they believe that the president’s support for Israel fulfills a biblical injunction to protect the Jewish state, which some of them think will play a pivotal role in the second coming. Many on the left, in turn, fear that such theology may influence decisions the administration makes toward Israel and the Middle East.
more…
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Will this :crap: go away after the dems take over :crap::crap::crap::rant1:
:nixon::pent: good morning, sheeple and emos too,,,, :jesus::dancers::sdavid::pope::priest::pirate::parrot:
what?
#1? where’s fred, where’s sean. wake up little susie (bet you’ve never heard that before).
oh thank goodness! not alone on the blog.
stop showing off your emofulness, susan. i did apolgize at the end of yesterday’s blog for those awful moments of emo-less hell yous guys had to suffer for the sake of us mobile junkies.
oh I don’t mind the mobile version, it’s a good thing for when you’re out and about, but I didn’t understand that that’s where I was! I did miss my emos :peace:
yeah
i miss being able to use them. at least i can see them – some of them anyway. sometimes they’re spelled out.
i wonder if i spelled them out, they’d show up:
:dancers: :nixon:
probably not.
:yawn::yawn::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe::joe:
:yawn::yawn::yawn::shock::shock::eek:
❓ whatever :sheep: le
:yawn::yawn::yawn:
USS Boxer Strike Group, entered the Persian Gulf Thursday, Nov. 9, the largest US landing force to reach this water in a decade
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Is a king sized temper tantrum about to occur ??:bf:
but
A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected,
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Any one see any shovels on sale ??:yuck::crap::eek::eek:.:reaper::reaper:
:yawn: no doubt fred
are you on mountain time or central?
Administration Opposes Democrats’ Plan for Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: November 13, 2006
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — The Bush administration said on Sunday that it would strenuously oppose one of the Democrats’ top priorities for the new Congress: legislation authorizing the government to negotiate with drug companies to secure lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries.
In an interview, Michael O. Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services, said he saw no prospect of compromise on the issue.
“In politics,” Mr. Leavitt said, “most specific issues like this are a disguise for a larger difference. Government negotiation of drug prices does not work unless you have a program completely run by the government. Democrats say they want the government to negotiate prices. What they really want is government-run health care.”
Federal price negotiations would unravel the whole structure of the Medicare drug benefit, which relies on competing private plans, Mr. Leavitt said.
Dozens of plans are available in every state. They charge different premiums and co-payments and cover different drugs. The 2003 Medicare law explicitly prohibits the federal government from negotiating drug prices or establishing a list of preferred drugs….
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Rethugs are 👿
Mountain time zone
Monday, November 13, 2006 – 4:50 AM……. Currently 26 °:cold::cold:
wtf? gulf/chinese sub!
can’t we just all get along now?
the chinese were probably just scouting out what they are going to claim when they call in their markers.
hey it worked! i spelled out yawn with colons front & back and it came back :yawn: an emo.
Competitive bidding for MediCare drugs. Good push issue!
C-span has a Q &A with the new mayor of DC on..
The solution to poverty problems is always…. education…. education…. education.. nothing about good jobs…. good jobs…. good jobs.:bf:
Universal Health Care in the US.
PRICELESS!
too cold
but it’s a dry cold…
Cold on the West Coast for this time of year
Democrats Call on Bush to Support China’s Draft Labor Law
by James Parks, Nov 12, 2006
Twenty-seven House Democrats called on the Bush administration to support China’s new Draft Labor Law Contract. The law, which is being considered by the Chinese government, would put in place some of the core internationally-recognized workers’ rights that are common in many other countries.
For example, the proposed law would require employers to negotiate with a trade union before a mass layoff and give workers severance pay for certain kinds of terminations.
While these reforms, standing alone, would not guarantee the full range of basic workers’ rights, they are a step in the right direction. The letter was spearheaded by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), who is poised to become chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, and Democratic Reps. Lynn Woolsey (Calif.), Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Barney Frank (Mass.).
Last month, a report by the Boston-based think tank Global Labor Strategies condemned the U.S. business community for making recommendations to the Chinese government that would gut the proposed law. According to the report:
“The obvious motive for such foreign corporations to oppose the law protecting Chinese workers is their fear that it may eliminate the cheap labor costs they now enjoy.”
For example, the American Chamber of Commerce People’s Republic of China said in its comments that under the new law, employers “would be inclined to hire fewer people to economize on labor costs.”
Rep. Lee says such comments show that U.S. companies in China do not respect workers’ rights.
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Where do capitalists move to when China gets to expensive .. Will China let them leave ??:bf:
The horses asss… err… House of Representatives begins meeting again this morning :yuck::eek::gate::omg:
YAY!!! PC access again. The business center was shut down all weekend. How long does it take to hang a damn door? Longer than I thought, apparently.
Where’s News Daddy? Vacation, I guess.
I”m trying to shift out of gloating mode, but it’s hard. Like Chaka said, once you get started it’s hard to stop. 😆
Oh Yeah
:yippee::yippee: Hi wvmc3d and Roxi and Susan .:yippee::yippee:
:joe::joe::joe::joe::yawn::yawn::yawn::shock::eek::eek:
Sheeeez :tongue:
and the reason against government run healthcare was what?
oh that’s right. we wouldn’t want the gov’t telling us which doctor we could see or what drugs would be covered.
i’d much rather have hmo’s selected by employers, on the basis of cost, make those decisions. i certainly wouldn’t want to be able to have a vote on such matters.
an excellent push issue that most people are much clearer on than during the clinton/clinton health care commission.
it is amazing what drug companies are getting by with. and how much money is wasted in duplication of administration within healthcare insurers. not to mention that doctors now spend almost as much time negotiating with ins.cos. as they spend on patient care. it really really sucks in healthcare land.
Bush is going to go to China and South East Asia today..probably going to sell the SBR to them.:bf:
:joe:
now this is rather interesting from black box voting:
All the other industrialized countries have socialized health care . How does it work there ?? I suppose a trip to Canada would be out of line..:bf:
OOPS I forgot the SBR is no longer an industrialized country.:eek::rant1:
November 13, 2006
Bush May Get Cool Reception in Vietnam
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:27 a.m. ET
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — When Bill Clinton came to Vietnam six years ago, he drew huge, jubilant crowds at every stop on the first visit by an American president since the end of the war in 1975.
President Bush’s reception at the Nov. 18-19 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi is likely to be considerably cooler.
Clinton was seen as a symbol of reconciliation between the two former foes, and everyone wanted a small piece of the historic occasion.
Bush’s invasion of Iraq, which some critics have dubbed America’s second Vietnam, has many Vietnamese, their own memories of war still vivid, recoiling at the idea of another country taking on the superpower.
http://tinyurl.com/y5kacw
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:rant1::rant1:
good morning everyone….
Ann Curry is back in Darfur doing some great reporting. Check out NBC (though Im sure it will be on MS in rotation later on)
I think that this is an assignment that she really pushes for.
Things are really bad there.
Unbelievable that we could create a situation in Iraq that is “bad” when there are disasters happening that we could be helping with…but we are busy with a disaster of our own creation….
THIS is an illustration of what our role in the world should be as opposed to what Bushco has turned it into.
Will wont get up and he only has a field trip today….:mad:
…and as a bonus for watching Ann in Darfur, you get the family in Turkey that walks on all fours!
melina:
young turks are ranting about lieberman now and wondering if ct has a recall law like ca’s to use if joe starts undecutting the dems.
which he undoubtely will.
Ready for this…
wip.warnerbros.com/foryourconsideration/
Not ready for McCain. What happened?
And Lieberman? WTF?
Yeah, but the dems here are who helped him get into office….so, I doubt we would ever see anyone get together and all say that they were so wrong….there is such a clusterfuck of certain elements here that things played out very strangely…..alot of it is human nature….
I would expect that if Joe goes bad people would just shut up or say that they wanted him to be that way!
Well..wvmc3d Could you maybe fix that link ??
You can’t recall your reps and senators .. only state officials can be recalled in something like 18 states.
wvmc
?
The other thing is that we know that Joe is for sale so we could always buy him back…and/or, we know he follows the power so the key with him is to keep the power enough to make him think that his fortune lays with the popular culture as opposed to the Bushies.
Im wondering what the Turks actually know about anything….I so dont really like them.
Its not about recall….its about cold hard cash and where the power lies. The people of CT dont seem to want things to change just yet. Or they are scared…or tryin to hold on to their money….but that doesnt explain the whole thing.
Is that Home For Purim for real?…thats hilarious!
Maybe a good reform measure would to make your reps and senators state employees. The state legislatures could then turn off their water if they misbehaved.:bf:
Sorry. Try this one
http://wip.warnerbros.com/foryourconsideration/
I just saw the Purim thing.
Before Marc and still, I had Harry. Sitting on many hours of Harry.
Hope this is a good link
http://www.harryshearer.com/
😯
:joe::joe::joe::joe::shock::shock::shock::eek:
:yawn::yawn::yawn::yawn::yawn::tongue:
Not listening to the Turds, but I saw that Joe refuses to rule out caucusing with the Republicans. He says, “I hope it won’t come to that.” So I reckon he’s looking for some super ass-kissing. And if he thinks the Republicans will take the Senate in 2008, then he could flop over to them now, get seniority and some plum committees, and give the tie-breaker to Cheney.
Valdosta, GA!
listening to nova m myself. the young turks are hit and miss. cenk has a lot fire in him which I like, but the show as a whole is rather uninspiring.
Murrow the puppy needs to get some vinegar out of his system this morning. :pup:
kat: blackbox/HAVA/Gates
there’s something to question him about in the upcoming hearings.
Iran TV broadcasts ‘US ship spy plane footage’
AFP
TEHRAN — Iran’s Arabic language television station Saturday broadcast footage that it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters that it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone.
The brief minute-long film, which was shown on Al Alam television’s evening news bulletin, showed wobbly aerial footage of an aircraft carrier stacked with war planes as it sailed.
The television’s anchor said that the film, the property of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, showed a vessel from “the US fleet in the Persian Gulf.”
“A source in the Revolutionary Guard said the drone carried out its mission without US fighter pilots reaching it,” the television said.
http://tinyurl.com/ymppqd
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The SBR becomes the HBBR ( Has Been Banana Republic)
Kat, are you gonna keep Murrow?
PJ- the message was that Joe would follow what HE thinks is right…..just like his support of the war and like his idea to run even though he lost the primary…..
My experience with what HE thinks is right is a little disheartening…
And even as McCain was telling Timmy that we have to either send many more troops or just get out…..very odd MTP this week….I can barely get over it.
Joe will follow what Joe thinks is right for Joe.
Yeah Joe is one one those pay me and I will go that way democrats… err…. independents … err.. rethugs… err…. North bound end of a south bound horse ?? :bf:
And, if I understand the rules of the Senate correctly (and that’s quite a stretch), 50/50 + Cheney works out very well for the Republicans. The Senate has to pass an organizing resolution at the start of the new session (and Cheney doesn’t get to vote in that, I’m pretty sure). If they can’t agree on one, then they revert to the old agreement – that is, Republicans get a majority in every committee, plus the committee chair.
If you recall the last time it was 50/50, the Republicans agreed to a deal where they got the committee chairs, but the committee membership, staffs, budgets, were split evenly. This was because the Senate was coming off a session where Republicans were in the minority, and so they had to make a deal to at least get the committee chairs (and Lott was criticized at the time for giving up too much).
So, me no trust Joe.
:cool::yippee::pent: Susan Joy Is #1 :pent::yippee::cool:
:cool::yippee:roxieseattle is #2 and #3 :yippee:
:cool:Fred is #47 😎 :yippee:
:cool:Melina is #48 :parrot: :yippee:
:cool:pjsauter is #49 😎 :yippee:
😎 and all others too :cool::yippee:
:tongue::teehee 😉
Last Monday in NC. Should I play Chopin’s Polonaises until the movers arrive?
Hydro-Beemer. Just don’t leave it parked too long.
The left sided talkers are still partying a lot considering what PJ just said I would be more :paranoid::paranoid:
Wasn’t it polonaises that kept Rush Limbaugh out of Vietnam?
it will be interesting to see how the folks in CT react to joe as he continues to sell his soul. Will Lamont try again?
Melina, we’re leaning towards keeping Murrow. He still doesn’t have a home and he’s fitting in to the routine here. He’s sleeping well in his crate now and walks beautifully on the leash. He’s pretty much house trained, too. Next – obedience training. He’s still shy around strangers so I try to get him out among crowds. I took him to petsmart this weekend and he was scared of the shopping cart – so I plopped him inside it and pushed him around the store until he got over that and then I walked him around asking folks to pet him. He worked through it.
I’m not partying.
I am just a little happier than 2004.
Lots of work to be done.
Stay warm!
Missing Russ already.
Well, in 2008, not only is the White House up, but something like 2/3 of the Senate seats that are up are Republican. So, if Joe jumps and the Democrats gain Senate seats, poor old Joe is screwed, so he may not be willing to risk that. I imagine he’ll just be using whatever leverage he’s got to keep his seniority, and get whatever he wants from the Democrats. That in itself sucks, ‘cuz he’ll be able to run his mouth with impunity, and he makes me wanna :barf:.
Yeah compressed hydrogen gas will leak out of gas bottles by passing between the molecules in the metal the bottle is made out of. Typically a full bottle will run dry ( MT) in about two weeks. :yuck::bf:
Don’t forget Poland!
Have a good trip north, NC. What will we call you next?
Farmerkat :banana:, where is the info re Murrow. I assume :pup: 😉 . Nice Farmerkat, Nice Farmerkat Ahhhhh:love: :banana: 😎
ha! and now on Today….Islam…in their ongoing series of HEAVEN, and how to get there!!
Does this somehow tie into the story of walking on all fours?
Kat, I am considering VA Blue. Someone suggested NV Blue, as in Northern Virginia, but NV is Nevada and I already did 3 years in Reno. Maybe I will take on a whole new personna. Maybe I’ll do nothing about it and just keep Carolina on my mind.
NC Forever Blue!
druid, there are a couple pictures of Murrow (albeit blurry) on the photo page.
Good Morning.:joe: We got beautiful weather this week. Highs in the mid 70’s lows in the 40’s
:eek:Farmerkat, I just mean what day — NO ONE HAS TIME THESE DAYS and since I hardly am able to read past “blog postings 🙁 ” . BUT I am checking “blog” backwards :nod: :banana:
I will have to go with the advice of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
oh, boy, druid, I don’t have a clue what day! I’ll retell:
Murrow was the result of an accidental breeding of two registered dogs. They’re really nice pups (and akc registered) but since it wasn’t a formal planned litter, the world of dogs tends to do this to them: :nana:
(My friend was in the hospital with pneumonia and her husband was “watching” the dogs when the deed happened.) She asked me to bring a pup in to help socialize him. We named him “Breaking News” and are calling him Murrow. We’re falling in love (which I’m sure my friend knew very well would happen 😉 and mr fk predicted would happen the day I drove to TN to fetch the pup.) 🙄
PJ
#56 good one
also, i just found out this morning that i can make (at least some) emoticons come up by typing them in! 😎 huh? have i always been able to do this or is it the new mobile blog or maybe the new (to me) Opera mobile browser that andy mentioned?
druid: time to make a new jomentum doll and start bending him to the left…
Sam’s wrong on the shared chairmanships, here.
THX Farmerkat TeeHee oh it sounds like you have a big “S” on your forehead :rofl2: like me AND OTHERS HERE :rofl2: 😆 😉
The smilies always work by typing in the code for them. I just added the click on ’em thing so you wouldn’t have to remember the code.
RoxieSeattle, time to make a new jomentum doll and start bending him to the left… nod: “jomentum doll”
:banana: :yippee::banana: 😉
A new emoticon: ❗ Joe with a “hanging noose” on his neck, symbolizing “binding” or WhatEver (WE) Mwah HaHa
:rofl2: Then everyone can post their views about “him” then “joe EMO”. :rofl2:
I am falling asleep :yawn: and had to fix a sentence and again at this time I have No Mind :doh:
:knit: :gate: Good Journeys All 😎
Morning! :joe:
Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus
Oh boy is #77 welcome news! Thanks andy.
You’re welcome Farmerkat! 😀
i’m told the iranians are suspected in this even though it was ruled an “accident” Hence the activity Fred mentioned upstream.
And yet, somehow I’m guessing the price of gas will go up anyway.
Funny that the price of gas has already jumped up almost twenty cents in the last ten days.
Emo virgin.
ROFL
Has it? Not here. Gas prices seem to be steady, for the moment. About $2.36, though I really ought to fill up before it goes up again.
Last I bought was $2.31 and yesterday it was back up near $2.50. And that gas tax prop was voted down here in CA. I guess they have to pay for the bazillion $s they spent fighting it. I imagine smokes went up, too.
Funny that the price of gas has already jumped up almost twenty cents in the last ten days.
Comment by wvmc3d — November 13, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
Think of it as the price we are paying to wipe the smirk off the Chimp’s face. I’d say it’s a bargain. 🙂
Plus, gas prices were going to go up anyway if the Repigs won, so really we’re wiping the smirk away for free!
:banana:
Hey Sean, thanks for posting the Marc videos on Sunday’s thread. I had kind of a rough day at work today, and the funny came in handy.
I’m saving some of them for later in the week, in case additional doses of the funny become necessary.
:rofl2:
Don’t see Fred but I just saw Borat referred to as SBC.
For what it’s worth, here’s a link to the petition to keep progressive talk on WXXM, the Mic (Madison, Wis.):
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/720087508
Seems like a lot of AAR affiliates announced program changes
just after the election. What gives?
(P.S. Wasn’t it just a year ago that I was consumed with another
petition effort? This is getting wearisome!)
From the November 10 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: Its masterminds would argue just how connected or how intentional, but even they would agree the fates of Fox News Channel and the Republican Party are inextricably intertwined. So, guess who else is having a crappy week? Not counting Tuesday’s election coverage, Bill Orally’s ratings are down another five percent just from last week. Countdown’s, coincidentally, are up another 32 percent. A look at that clichéd but coveted 25-to-54-year-old audience from last night: The O’Really Factor, 405,000; Countdown, 321,000; CNN, 210,000; Nancy “I Know What You Did Last Summer” Grace, 200,000. That’s right — we were doing 79 percent of Bill O’s business. And it was worse the hour before at 7 o’clock. Wolf Blitzer, 327,000; Chris Matthews, 302,000; Shepard Smith on Fox, 262,000. Fox, third place. He will be punished severely!
Clear Channel May Get Buyout Offers of $18 Billion (Update2)
By Brett Cole and Dana Cimilluca
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Clear Channel Communications Inc., the largest U.S. radio broadcaster, may receive at least two competing takeover offers later today from leveraged buyout groups that value the company at about $18 billion, two people with knowledge of the bids said.
Blackstone Group LP, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Providence Equity Partners Inc. plan to submit a proposal, said the people, who declined to be identified because the bids are secret. Bain Capital LLC plans to make an offer with Texas Pacific Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP, they said.
Clear Channel’s board, which includes three members of the founding Mays family, put the San Antonio-based company up for auction last month after asset sales and share buybacks failed to boost the stock price. Clear Channel has lost more than 60 percent of its market value since the stock peaked in 2000 as radio stations lose advertising revenue to the Internet and satellite competitors
http://tinyurl.com/y96kby
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This may be why the AAR affiliates are changing their programming.. AAR and 80% of the progressive talk stations may well cease to exist if some Reich wing group buys them.:bf:
I just saw on crooks and liars that the guy they arrested for threats to pelosi, olberman, stewart et al was a guy from Free Republic. A FREEPER! surprised?
Anthrax hoaxer may be Free Republic poster
Larisa Alexandrovna and Brian Beutler
Published: Monday November 13, 2006
The man arrested on Saturday for sending more than a dozen envelopes containing “fake anthrax” to anti-war celebrities, journalists, and politicians may have ties to the conservative supersite Free Republic, RAW STORY has found.
Chad Castagana, a 39 year old Californian named as the FBI’s prime suspect in the case, is due in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles today, where procecutors are expected to file criminal complaint against him for sending threatening letters through the U.S. mail. Castagana has an extensive online history, often writing about science fiction and conservative politics, and many bloggers are convinced that he is also a contributor at the conservative activist Free Republic website under the name Marc Costanzo, whose online profile, once available here was suspended after this story first ran this morning.
http://tinyurl.com/y9vlsm
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:roll::roll::paranoid:
I wonder if his screen name is “Speedy?”
Talk about synchronicity :eek::eek::eek:
I thought “Speedy” was from Colorado some place..Probably one of those living in his double wide with three junk cars in his yard, four pit bulls and burns his garbage in an open pit ..( insert ugly smell emo here)
Uranium is the energy investment of choice for a growing number of hedge funds, which claim a sixfold gain since 2001 is just the beginning of a rally that will last years.
“We’re in a historic uranium shortage,” said James Passin, who manages $580 million at New York-based Firebird Management and began buying shares of uranium producers five years ago. “We’re in a global nuclear revival.”
Uranium, which recently hit a record $60 a pound, may rise to $70 by January after a flood at Cameco Corp.’s Cigar Lake mine in Canada, said Jean-Francois Tardif, who has $180 million in uranium at Sprott Asset Management. Bob Mitchell at Adit Capital Management says $80 to $100 a pound is possible.
Even with new mines, growth in the supply of uranium is straining to keep up with demand from utilities. Production from five of the six largest mines in Canada, Australia and Namibia fell in the first half from a year earlier, according to Nukem Corp., a Danbury, Conn.-based uranium trader.
http://tinyurl.com/yj9pfb
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Nukem Corp :roll::roll::roll::eek:
:rofl2:
NEW YORK (CNN) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani took the first step toward a possible 2008 White House bid by forming a presidential exploratory committee.
A document from the New York Department of State says Giuliani made the initial filing Friday.
Giuliani joins Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee, as the only Republican to officially form an exploratory committee.
Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa formed an exploratory committee Thursday, making him the only Democrat to officially do so.
http://tinyurl.com/ymwyea
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Rethug cockroaches are on the march ..:yuck::yuck:
Jury finds Noe guilty in Ohio Coingate case
RAW STORY
Published: Monday November 13, 2006
Jurors have found a Republican fundraiser guilty of stealing over $2 million in rare coins from the state of Ohio Worker’s Compensation fund–and funneling some of the money to the Republican party.
Ex-GOP fundraiser Tom Noe had pleaded not guilty to charges of corrupt activity, theft, money laundering, and forgery.
http://tinyurl.com/vfw3v
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These guys and a lot of their supporters are in very Mafia like businesses ..I wonder …:eek::eek:.
WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., backed funding for a bridge between Nevada and Arizona that could affect the value of property he owns nearby.
The planned span over the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City, Ariz., got an $18 million boost in last year’s massive federal transportation bill.
Reid, who’s in line to become Senate majority leader after last week’s election, owns 160 acres of undeveloped property in Bullhead City, several miles from the proposed bridge sites. Development is booming in the area and local officials in Laughlin and Bullhead City support a new crossing to ease traffic on the one existing bridge. They also expect it would add to property values.
http://tinyurl.com/yk9c6x
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I would call this politics as usual but the Freepers and the Reich’s media will make it into a mountain.:eek::eek::crap::yuck:
A liberal leaning watchdog group is blasting incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) for her endorsement of Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) as Majority Leader. Murtha has been accused of abusing his position as Ranking Member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to benefit lobbying clients of his brother.
In a press release sent to RAW STORY, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) questioned Pelosi’s (D-CA) “commitment to eradicating corruption,” after her backing of “one of the most unethical members in Congress,” over Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md), who would normally be in line for the highly sought position.
http://tinyurl.com/ta99n
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In case of Indian attack circle the wagons and shoot at each other .. :yuck::yuck:
Anyone catch Bill Maher? Candy Crowley of CNN was on, and normally she’s a bitch for the GOP [an incredibly large one] but for whatever reason, she was a bit more even handed and mostly reasonable in that admittedly left-wing venue. I have this liberal guilt about Crowley, because she’s extremely overweight, and not particularly attractive, and I’d like to see less of the Ken and Barbie type reading our news. Is this reverse-reverse-reverse bias?:sammy:
has nick turned up today?
CNick is OK…I just heard from him.
Good to know about Cnick .. From what was said about the Skype call he sounded pretty down about something..
Re: Crowley Thug bots come in all sizes.. Make your decisions based on what they do and say don’t feel sorry for them..
Check this out, liberals:
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-10/23herman.cfm
😯
holy crap!!!
PJ!!!! look at this!! i just saw this on Myspace!!
look!
:banana::yippee::dancers::pup::40::love:
oooohhh, I got that is a bulletin and didn’t even bother reading… this is wayyy cool :rabbi:
isn’t it awesome Susan!!
Seditionists Radio: Marc Maron Approved!
:fist::fire::banana:
Yeah, he e-mailed me about that earlier, and seemed to think it was pretty cool.
I love being able to turn on Marc and the gang anytime. In fact, maybe I’ll do that now since Monday is such a shitty night for tv. :fire:
I like 60 Sunset
Uh-oh, now he’s sent out an e-mail with it. That should max things out.
I like Studio 60, too. Is that on Mondays?
In a scenario resembling the dramatic conclusion to a TV crime drama, paleo-forensics experts have produced new evidence to show that the dinosaurs were bumped off by a different meteor than the one that has received the rap for their extinction. The German palaeontologists insist that a mysterious meteor or comet must have done the deadly deed – long after the notorious Yucatan meteor that has hitherto been blamed
http://tinyurl.com/ycuqhq
:cat: :billcat: :dancers: :pup: :bow: PJ finally got :love: from :bow: Marc :yippee:
😉 tea:joe: 😎 Wurk’n :tongue: & :cool:Lurk’n:hubba:
:omg:
:fist:AIV:yippee:
Nova M Radio (Shoutcast) is working for me again (after MANY a Moon:eek:) :yippee::banana::dancers:
Congratulations PJ, I just got the email from Marc! Way to go man!
:yippee:
Yeah it took me a minute to figure out who Patrick was. :doh:
Hi self wat up :slap:
It is sooooo good to hear Mike and a bit earlier Marc :love: 😎
Using also the link you (PJS) sent to Marc who sent to me (email)
Hi Aquaman glubglub:cool: 😉
Back to Wurk’n :tongue: & Lurk’n :hubba: …:wink:
:spank:AIV
AIV???
I think Studio 60 is mondays. I have to download it. Seems like in some parts of SF you can’t get NBC without cable.
I L U V SEDITIONIST RADIO! You need a smile. Hit it.
Aquaman 😉
:banana::dancers::yippee:
Original:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM )
VIGILANCE!
Then:
:growl::fist: ARREST! IMPEACH! VIGILANCE!
Then sometimes recently:
:growl::fist: ARREST! IMPEACH! VIGILANCE!
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM )
VIGILANCE!
AND Sometimes:
AIV
Aaahhh.
Listening to some Beatles but God save the Kinks.
Sorry but I am a little old.
:nana::nana::omg:
:tinfoil: The dinosaurs become extinct because they were governed by rethugs dinosaurs who failed to maintain there infrastructure to prepare for hits by large meteors.:tinfoil::eek::eek:
Comcast pulls plug on English language Al-Jazeera
Yanked by yanks
Comcast backs away from Arab net
By ALI JAAFAR
LONDON — Al-Jazeera Intl. has all but conceded defeat in its effort to gain U.S. distribution in time for its worldwide launch Wednesday.
Execs at the nascent English-language offshoot of the Arab broadcaster said Comcast Communications pulled the plug on talks Monday on a deal the net considered essential to gaining a beachhead in the U.S.
The Associated Press last week reported Comcast had pulled out of talks but, in fact, negotiations continued, with Comcast offering to roll out the channel regionally. Comcast is the dominant operator in the Detroit area, which has one of the nation’s largest Arab-American populations.
But AJI execs were holding out for a full rollout across all of Comcast’s 12.1 million digital subscribers (Comcast has 24 million digital and analog subs), and they believed a deal was imminent.
“We thought we were just awaiting signatures. We feel like we’ve been led down the garden path. It’s a setback for us in the States, but I don’t want this to overshadow the fact we’ve had phenomenal figures in the rest of the world,” said one AJI employee who insisted on anonymity.
Sources within AJI speculated the reasons for the pullout had to do with U.S. uncertainty about Al-Jazeera’s editorial agenda. Negative portrayals of the situation in Iraq are widely thought to have contributed to the Democratic sweep of the midterm elections.
http://tinyurl.com/ydvnok
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The problem with fascism ..Perhaps Aljazeera hasn’t heard of streaming media yet.People all over Europe seem to watch C-span on the Internet.:omg:
C-span has this VFW convention on.. All they can talk about is the American victory in WWII and why the liberal press has made us ineffective ever since.. :paranoid:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees.
In court documents filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., the Justice Department said a new anti-terrorism law being used to hold detainees in Guantanamo Bay also applies to foreigners captured and held in the United States.
Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar, was arrested in 2001 while studying in the United States. He has been labeled an “enemy combatant,” a designation that, under a law signed last month, strips foreigners of the right to challenge their detention in federal courts.
That law is being used to argue the Guantanamo Bay cases, but Al-Marri represents the first detainee inside the United States to come under the new law. Aliens normally have the right to contest their imprisonment, such as when they are arrested on immigration violations or for other crimes. “It’s pretty stunning that any alien living in the United States can be denied this right,” said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney for Al-Marri. “It means any non-citizen, and there are millions of them, can be whisked off at night and be put in detention.”
http://tinyurl.com/yb9yga
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Is it January yet ??:eek::eek:
morning fred!
:eek::eek::eek: Its Sean :eek::eek::eek:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — As Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon for a second week last July, the Rev. John Hagee of San Antonio arrived in Washington with 3,500 evangelicals for the first annual conference of his newly founded organization, Christians United For Israel.
At a dinner addressed by the Israeli ambassador, a handful of Republican senators and the chairman of the Republican Party, Mr. Hagee read greetings from President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and dispatched the crowd with a message for their representatives in Congress. Tell them “to let Israel do their job” of destroying the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, Mr. Hagee said.
He called the conflict “a battle between good and evil” and said support for Israel was “God’s foreign policy.”
The next day he took the same message to the White House.
Many conservative Christians say they believe that the president’s support for Israel fulfills a biblical injunction to protect the Jewish state, which some of them think will play a pivotal role in the second coming. Many on the left, in turn, fear that such theology may influence decisions the administration makes toward Israel and the Middle East.
more…
http://tinyurl.com/yzlgh7
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Will this :crap: go away after the dems take over :crap::crap::crap::rant1:
Still moments of GLEE :cool::banana::yippee::dancers: 😎
:yippee::yippee: And Druid :yippee::yippee:
re 187 rethug christians :fustrate: :fu::omg::fu: :spank: :fist:
:banana:
AIV
in utica ny! maybe PJ will come visit me today or tomorrow!
:knit::knit::knit::knit::yawn::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe::joe::shock::eek:
:knit2::knit2::knit2::knit2::tongue::tongue::eek::eek:
:ear:morning druid
New Sheets …. PJ would run a good railroad..
Fred, But tea:joe: Cheers :omg: :nana:
:clearing of throat: Farmerkat EMO ALERT 😉
AND NOT BY ME TEEHEE :rofl2: :dancers::yippee:
:banana: Sean 😉 :banana: