Saturday, and today is the last chance Syracuse has a chance to lose play a football game at home this season – this time, it’s Connecticut. This is the part of college football season that we here in Syracuse have come to call “basketball season.” To make matters worse, the game will actually be on ESPN Regional, so SU will have the opportunity to suck on teevee (though I can’t imagine it being much of a draw, especially since all eyes will no doubt be on the Ohio St. Michigan game, to see if Bo Schembechler’s ghost makes an appearance). Otherwise, not much is going on. Don’t forget, you have another couple of chances to catch Marc at the Punchline in Sacramento tonight, if you’re near the area.
666
:sdavid::pent::menorah::rabbi:
SBR!
Roger Ramjet!
Neocons.
Messianic Ex-Trotskyists!
:tommygun:
haha I thought you said I can be first, I’ll get you for that :tongue::rofl2::reaper:
I didn’t want one of the foreigners to be first.
As editor of a radical newspaper, [Benny Levy] was arrested repeatedly by the French police, who were determined to suppress the unrest. By 1970, with arrests occurring more frequently, Lévy and the other editors decided to turn to Jean-Paul Sartre, whom they knew was immune to police harassment. Sartre responded by adding his name to the list of editors, and the arrests indeed stopped. It was then discovered by the government that the proletarian leftwing leader Pierre Victor was, in fact, a stateless refugee. The passport given to him by the United Nations was confiscated, and he was ordered to appear at the local police station once every two weeks with his relatives and a lawyer. By this point, however, Lévy had developed a very amicable relationship with Sartre, who decided to make him his protégé and asked him to serve as his personal secretary.
For six years, Lévy worked with Sartre, and the two men produced four books until Sartre’s death in 1980. While working with Sartre, Lévy began to discover Judaism, initially through his research into the Kabbalah, which he conducted with his mentor. Their work together created a stir among the circle that surrounded Sartre, because Sartre had begun introducing new ideas and terms that evoked religious and, more specifically, Jewish concepts, such as Redemption and Messianism. Some, including Simone de Beauvoir began accusing Lévy of brainwashing Sartre and faking his writings. Two months before his death, Sartre responded to these critics, claiming that he had indeed abandoned some of his earlier ideas.
:omg:
dammit you’re right, Lou Dobbs…I’m second generation but Goddesses have priveleges whatever their ancestry
What did Lou Dobbs say?
Satre and Jewish mysticism…now that’s a new one to me. Interesting!
well you know how Lou always goes on about “those damn immigrant/foreigners”… I was just kidding, you said something about keeping foreigners out of being first
hmm should put work some Hebrew letters or Kabbalistic symbols into this drawing…
In May 1968 (in this context usually spelled May ’68) a general strike broke out across France.
It began as a series of student strikes that broke out at a number of universities and high schools in Paris, following confrontations with university administrators and the police. The de Gaulle administration’s attempts to quash those strikes by further police action only inflamed the situation further, leading to street battles with the police in the Latin Quarter, followed by a general strike by students and strikes throughout France by ten million French workers, roughly two-thirds of the French workforce. The protests reached the point that de Gaulle created a military operations headquarters to deal with the unrest, dissolved the National Assembly and called for new parliamentary elections for 23 June 1968.
sounds like it was practically another French Revolution….
http://wiredforbooks.org/anniecohensalal/
The legacy of Jean-Paul Sartre
Until European intellectuals take on board the racist basis of the Jewish State, their support for the struggle of the Palestinians will always ring hollow, writes Joseph Massad*
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What is it about the nature of Zionism, its racism, and its colonial policies that continues to escape the understanding of many European intellectuals on the left? Why have the Palestinians received so little sympathy from prominent leftist intellectuals such as Jean- Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault or only contingent sympathy from others like Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Etienne Balibar, and Slavoj Zizek? Edward Said wrote once about his encounters with Sartre and Foucault (who were anti-Palestinian) and with Gilles Deleuze (who was anti-Zionist) in this regard. The intellectual and political commitments inaugurated by a pro-Zionist Sartre and observed by Said, however, remain emblematic of many of the attitudes of leftist and liberal European intellectuals today.
While most of these intellectuals have taken public stances against racism and white supremacy, have opposed Nazism and apartheid South Africa, seem to oppose colonialism, old and new, most of them partake of a Sartrian legacy which refuses to see a change in the status of European Jews, who are still represented only as holocaust survivors in Europe. The status of the European Jew as a coloniser who has used racist colonial violence for the last century against the Palestinian people is a status they refuse to recognise and continue to resist vehemently. Although some of these intellectuals have clearly recognised Israeli Jewish violence in, and occupation of, the West Bank and Gaza, they continue to hold on to a pristine image of a Jewish State founded by holocaust survivors rather than by armed colonial settlers.
In an interview with the Revue d’études palestiniennes in 2000, the late Pierre Bourdieu said: “I have always hesitated to take public positions…because I did not feel sufficiently competent to offer real clarifications about, what is undoubtedly, the most difficult and most tragic question of our times (how to choose between the victims of racist violence par excellence and the victims of these victims?).
If by this, Bourdieu was referring to the holocaust, then he was a victim of Zionist propaganda. No matter how much Zionism continues to resurrect it and claim it as the excuse for its racist violence against the Palestinians, the holocaust does not justify Israel’s racist nature. If Bourdieu accepted this, then his dilemma of choosing between Israel and its victims would have been readily resolved.
the holocaust is indeed one of the specters that Zionists hold onto…IMO an idea of a separatist state would make another holocaust more likely, not less…what is the lack of logic here? Everybody you want to hurt in one place….
Nation states are not moral. Their first priority is power. Lots of cynicism involved.
Israel relies on violence to perpetuate its existence. A peace agreement with the Palestinians would be the beginning of the end of the Zionist enterprise.
:crap::crap::crap::yuck::yuck::yuck::eek::eek:
❓ whatever :sheep: le
:eek::eek::eek: Darth Vader is on C-span :eek::eek::eek:
Houston Police Run Over Striking Janitors with Horses
by Matt Stoller, Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 10:49:46 PM EST
Houston police trampled on striking janitors with horses last night. The janitors make on average $20 a day with no health insurance. The companies responsible? Chevron. And Hines Interest, the city’s largest hometown building owner.
These people make on average $5.35 an hour. With no health insurance. That is frakking ridiculous. It is wrong. And when these workers protested peacefully, the Houston police department rode into a crowd with horses to intimidate and injure the workers. It worked, as they arrested 44 workers and hurt 4 of them, including an 83 year old janitor.
http://tinyurl.com/y4t2aq
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The police like the army are a “volunteer” force.. They are being taught to be violent in their training schools ( a form of brain washing) violence solves all problems by suppression ( sound at all familiar)
The citizen must provide certain incentives for this not to be the case ..:bf:
Chavez warns Venezuelan TV not to support coup
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday warned private media he would shut them down if they promote a bid to topple him he says is planned after his expected Dec. 3 re-election.
Chavez, who has gradually increased his control over most Venezuelan institutions, has accused the opposition of planning to oust him if he wins another big majority as most polls expect he will.
He has said he expects the opposition to claim fraud, and to try to mobilize street protesters and the army.
“We have to shut any television channel that
broadcasts messages inciting terrorism, hate or war and calls on people not to recognize the authorities. We have to shut it,” Chavez said during a speech on Venezuela’s Caribbean island of Margarita.
http://tinyurl.com/y5hyd3
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I wish the democrats would decree that media that broadcasts messages inciting terrorism, hate or war or just plain stupidity be shut down.. :bf:
Tony Blair admitted that British intervention in Iraq has been a disaster last night – sending shockwaves through Westminster.
In his frankest admission about the war to date, Mr Blair admitted that Western forces have been powerless to stop the descent into violence.
The Prime Minister stopped short of accepting the blame for plunging Iraq to the brink of civil war – blaming instead the insurgent uprising that has killed 125 British troops.
But his admission in an interview with the Arab new channel Al Jazeera will be seen as an historic climbdown for Mr Blair, who has always fought to put a positive gloss on often disastrous events.
http://tinyurl.com/yj6ddk
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He is leaving for Paraguay and the Carlyle groups condo complex so why should he care what he says.:bf:
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards acknowledged Thursday that amid his criticism of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a volunteer member of his staff asked the world’s largest retailer for help obtaining a hot new Sony Playstation 3 for Edwards’ family.
Edwards, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, told The Associated Press that the volunteer “feels terrible” about seeking the game unit at Wal-Mart while his boss claims the retailer doesn’t treat its employees fairly.
“My wife, Elizabeth, wanted to get a Playstation3 for my young children. She mentioned it in front of one of my staff people. That staff person mentioned it in front of a volunteer who said he would make an effort to get one. He was making an effort to go get one for himself,” Edwards said.
“Elizabeth and I knew nothing about this. He feels terrible about this. He made a mistake and he knows he should not have used my name,” Edwards said.
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You know what the Reich’s media will do with this don’t you:bf:
:slap:i want a PS3
Every time there is a group of thugs on C-span I keep envisioning that the event is going to be interrupted by a team of guys in sweatshirts and ski masks carrying assault rifles barging in and taking them all away. :bf:
:penguin:im calling alberto on you fred!
Someone needs to reverse engineer a software product that will make any PC act like a PSXX
They would probably have to go into hiding to avoid the assault of lawyers and law suits ..:bf:
fred & sean!!!
who’s organizing the janitors, fred?
‘Sham’ Guantánamo hearings detailed
The U.S. military called no witnesses, withheld evidence from detainees and usually reached a decision within a day as it determined that hundreds of men detained at Guantánamo Bay were “enemy combatants,” according to a new report.
The analysis of transcripts and records by two lawyers for Guantánamo detainees, aided by more than two dozen law students, found that hearings that determined whether a prisoner should remain in custody gave the accused little opportunity to contest allegations against him.
“These were not hearings. These were shams,” said Mark Denbeaux, an attorney and Seton Hall University law professor who along with his son, Joshua, is the author of the report. They provided an advance copy of the report to the Associated Press last night and planned to release it today on the Internet.
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The military held Combatant Status Review Tribunals for 558 detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in southeast Cuba between July 2004 and January 2005 and found all but 38 were enemy combatants. Handcuffed detainees appeared before a panel of three officers with no defense attorney, only a military “personal representative.”
According to the report, the representatives said nothing in the hearings 14 percent of the time and made no “substantive” comments in 30 percent. In some cases, the representative even appeared to advocate the government’s position, the report said.
http://tinyurl.com/yb8put
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The SBR is going to regret this for a long long time :bf:
how come?
whenever one of these new electronic must have trinkets are released, there’s never enuff of them?
o you suppose the corp. has some back door sales going on with ebay?
it would make sense. provide fewer than you’re pretty sure will cover demand, than sell the extra stock at ridiculous prices.
More than 5,300 Houston janitors have chosen to form a union with SEIU and are currently negotiating with their employers to win just wages, affordable family health care, full time work, and better treatment on the job.
http://tinyurl.com/yej6o8
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They mist organize between trampling incidents.:bf:
anyone else think it odd that a woman was sentenced to prison for sending rat-laced cookies to SCOTUS and Ann-I-am-a-man-Coulter said someone needed to slip Justice Stevens some rat-poison? What the hell is wrong with these people and were the two events related in one direction or the other?
Morning. :joe:
and, I think the price of that sony thing is obscene.
SCIU, roxie. I read about it a few weeks ago. How’s the doggie today? I was glad to hear things were improving.
The idea is find some favorite electronic gadget then evolve it so that its not very backwards compatible.. Its just a gimmick to make more money :bf:
The question I have is can they continue to do this just with the upper 10% or so making enough money to afford one.:bf:
fred beat me to it. :slap:
SEIU :fist:
fred, the teenager said he rarely plays any of the old games anyway. Once you beat them, you move on. Although, I think Halo and some others are continuous (but I don’t know what the heck I’m talking about really, I stopped playing them when he moved on from Mario. :love: )
SEIU ROCKS!
The local here made mobile automated call centers available to candidates before the electiion (i think it was Melina who volunteered at one). Andy whatshisname is personally developing Unions 2.0: organizing by company instead of job description, jawboning companies into supporting universal health care so that it’s no longer an employer expense, etc. he’s an samazing, smart guy!
600$ or 500$ dollars is not obscene! well not obscene when you consider that it plays blu-ray discs and the cheapest blu-ray disc player on bestbuy.com is 799$
i made calls from their mobile call center, too. It’s amazing. Will Obama’s bill stop that? Is that considered a form of robo-calling or is robo-calling a machine talking?
Without government intervention ( or serious CEO intimidation) Unions are only going to suceed where the company can’t move some place else. To many states have right to work laws and then their is alway China.:bf:
what the heck is THAT?
the teenager stayed in line all night for that xbox thing (360?) (I took him warm dry clothes, food and hot cocoa at 4:30 a.m. before best buys opened). Glad he wasn’t interested in this sony thing. I think he figured out it was just easier to wait until more product came out and prices declined. Thank God.
fkat:
the Shady lady is pretty much back to normal. just humongously hungry — she lost a few pounds. starting to remember what few manners she ever had, when the smell of food isn’t turning off her brain. i’ve been feeding her an extra couple regular-sized cans a day (and man, are the other two jealous) so she’s not looking like a concentration camp survivor now.
i still haven’t a clue as to what she ate. it’s unlike anything i’ve seen or heard of…
I think Obama’s bill is only for controlling Computer based calling systems where no human is involved.. A lot of marketing companies use computer based systems that call all possibilities of phone numbers and then only transfer them to an operator if someone speaks before N rings occur..:yuck::crap:
i’m so glad the Shady Lady rises again! :pup: It would be nice to know what it was so it could be avoided, but as long as she recovered.
I’m going to go do our controlled chaos (walking three dorks).
take care folks, Ciao!
blu ray discs are high definition dvds so that you have something to play on your nifty new high def tv the discs hold like 50gigs or something ridiculous like that basically its so you have to buy all of your old dvds over again well if you want them in high def at least……
Yeah WTH is a blu-ray disc:eek:
wth:doh:
:cold:its cold i am going to go get under some covers…… PJ i am already in buffalo i lost the wi-fi connection yestrerday so didnt know how to get in touch for breakfast i will be back through though!
Crap at 620 x 540 is still crap at 1024 x 768
Once again a gimmick to make more money:bf:
What The Hell
:pup:i wanna play high definition video games! oh and xbox 360 might as well cost as much as the ps3 actually more if you want high def dvds you have to buy an external drive for the 360 plus the 600 ps3 comes with built in wi-fi which the 360 does not so although they try to hide it the top of the line 360 actually costs more than the top of the line ps3 oh and the ps3 has a bigger hard drive and even the cheaper ps3 has a hard drive unlike the cheaper 360 anyway……
:nuts:ah got ya fred! ok well im gonna go not be cold!
This is a link to the discussion on DU about the article on the GOP blocking other democratic initiated legislation through through Filibuster in the senate
if the dems denied the appointment of Reich wing judges
http://tinyurl.com/y2nj2p
The lack of understanding on how the corrupted system works is a bit disturbing..:bf:
Well Aljazeera TV’s first three days must have been successful they want $5.95 a month to subscribe to their stream now ..:yuck::yuck:
One of the ways to retain democratic control is to eliminate the competition.
Rethugs are 👿
I would still like to call C-span and if/when one gets on the air fire my assault rifle into the phone .. (note that was into not at) :bf:
Fred, WTF re 53 …. When will people get it? The rethugs are 👿 and devious and anything they say or do, especially now, is no longer to be adhered to.
:growl::fist:AIV
:penguin:
When you are on C-Span, Fred, please let me know:bow:
Oh, :banana::yippee: NickiRose is #1,#2.:yippee: 😎
… and NickiRose, You called? :rofl2: (a joke:wink:)
There are a couple of competing DVD HiDef standards. Blu-ray (backed by Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Dell, HP, Philips), and HD-DVD (backed by Toshiba, NEC, and Microsoft, among others). Both use a blue laser (shorter wavelength than the red lasers used on regular DVD’s). Blu-ray has a capacity advantage, with 25 gigs on a single layer DVD, and 50 gigs on a dual (and Sony is working on a quad layer, to get that up to 100 gigs). HD-DVD holds 15 on a single, and 30 on a dual. I believe Samsung and probably others are coming out with a dual-format chip. Blu-ray has an edge at the moment in releases from the film studios, but the players and discs are a bit more expensive to produce.
RoxieSeattle, I think it was poison. It happens too often in Northern California, either shot or poison MANY! I didn’t want to bring “darkness” to this situation. That mindset is growing rapidly in certain spaces in Washington.
Most of the current crop of pre baby boomers are not even able to pay their utility bill much less afford a Cd player to play Mp3 Cd’s or anything more advanced than a Regular DVD. I guess this new technology is just going to be targeted for the upper 10% and the Chinese middle class.. :bf:
seanie- I was at ebgames the other day getting little fritz a gameboy for christmas and the guys there said that of the first 15 people on line at walmart or wherever that they knew locally, not one of them is keeping the PS3…its on craigslist and ebay already for up to $9000
Its just crazy to keep it.
I wish Will would want an xbox 360 because I like the pinata game. You can play it online with others who have 360 and there are BAD pinatas thatyou can send out to people and they explode or whatever when the people try to open them…..the graphics are really cool too. Its the first 360 game that Ive seen that makes me thing that platform is OK…Also the bionicle game
Good morning….
Nicki, were foreigners getting on the blog?
Weve got a huge barmitzvah extravaganza tonight in a castle….
Well, a DVD player that will play DVDs, mp3 CD’s, DivX, etc, is about $30 – $40. I don’t think that’s a big barrier for a lot of people
Frankly, I don’t think the baby boomers (or even pre-bably boomers) are all that impoverished. I’m considered the last year of the baby boom, and I’m no spring chicken, so pre-baby boomers are getting harder and harder to find. Too bad that as a society, we treat them like crap, for the most part. And if you saw the people lined up for days waiting the the release of the PS3, you’d see that they apparently aren’t exactly hurting for the bucks.
There’s poverty in the country, but there’s also a lot of people who thing they’re poor, but have cell phones, computers, Internet access, cable TV, mp3 players, and a hell of a lot of other crap that they’ve marketed to us as “must have.” In America, you either have basically nothing, or you whine about how tough you have it, as you spend more in a week on “entertainment” than it would take to feed and house a family of four in some parts of the world.
Violent protests at G20 summit
Anti-globalisation protesters have clashed with police in the streets of Melbourne as the world’s most powerful economic leaders began a summit behind a huge security cordon.
Protesters hurled bottles and dustbins at police, attacked journalists and tried to scale barricades in skirmishes around the G20 conference in Australia.
One protester urged supporters to jump barriers and “arrest” Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank president, for “war crimes”.
Police had blocked off streets around Melbourne’s business area to prevent any repeat of riots that shook the city when it hosted the World Economic Forum meetings in 2000.
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To bad citizen groups do not yet have laser guided bombs ( You could deliver one with a twin engine cessna) or IRBMs :bf:
Foreigners? Not on this blog I hope? Fortunately, we have our own secret blog-killer weapon, capable of neutralizing all blog activity for hours at a time.
Well 10% of 300 million is 30 million and thats probably half adults and half kids so the market is there just to entertain them,. The other 270 million live in relative realities of the dark and the cold and are fed crap by FAUX news and the M$NBC to make them think they have it made. :bf:
Anybody out there [i.e. Nickirose, the middle east specialist of this blog] subscribe to aljazeera english on line? No cable company will touch it, big surprise. I’d like to get it, but as a confirmed coward of 52 years standing, I’d like someone else to do it first, and see if they get put on a no-fly list or get a visit from the FBI. God bless America.:sammy:
A California man whose arrest, detention and prosecution raised questions about the limits of government antiterror powers after Sept. 11, 2001, was acquitted yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan of charges of lying to a grand jury investigating the terrorist attacks.
The man, Osama Awadallah, was a college student in San Diego when he was detained 10 days after the attacks because agents had found a scrap of paper with his name and telephone number in a car at Dulles National Airport belonging to one of the hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi.
http://tinyurl.com/ygkesp
I just love that the repug ex majority is gonna stick with their old gang and plan because they feel like they are just the people to fight the dems and the new wave coming through….what ego….incredible!!
I think they should stay the course……
Uh oh, its raining in Italy…TomKat’s big day and he oculdnt buy the sky?
blog killer?
hey pj, who you callin’ a blogkillah?
excuse me…
that is, dearest blog master pj: to whom might you be referring…
if it’s not too much trouble kind sir!
Can’t say – it’s a secret weapon.
Relative to Nicki’s and Susan’s thoughts of yesterday on the ideal social/economic/governmental system.
It is not so much the system as the people in power (not necessarily the politicians but most of the time those with the $$$$) within the system..
The typical peasant of today is no better at controlling his destiny though politics than the peasant was in the 11th century.
Marxism never really happened in Russia because the people having lived under a dictatorship for hundreds of years were incapable of understanding how government worked so when the Zar fell another dicator took his place. The dictator assumed ownership of all the previously capitalist owned businesses and the people were told that was Marxism. They in reality still owned nothing.
The post WWII blend of socialism and capitalism seems to work pretty well in the worlds other industrialized countries but Americans have been brain washed into thinking otherwise mostly because we could not support the military industrial complex if tax dollars went to help the people..
Since the local police form the first line of defense against the peasantry in any community the underclass is made to see the technology they are up against in dealing with them and most are afraid of what they see.
They are also afraid of escalating the situation for fear of what might happen next. I think that is more or less the definition of a police state. behave your self and you won’t get hurt…:bf:
PJ :WAT’S UP WITH WOOT?
do they really have one deal a day (plus the side deal)?
when do they have woot-offs? do you have to check every 5 minutes or do you have a terminal on permanent woot, pj?
thus far i’ve only been tempted, especially by that itty-bitty computer you mentioned the other day..
druid: tis a mystery!
Hi everyone,
I haven’t been on the blog for quite awhile, but I wanted to see if any other Seditionists were in the Sacramento area. Marc is at the Punchline in Sac this weekend, and I’ve got tickets to the early show tonight. Whoo Hoo! I’m finally going to get to see Maron live! :yippee:
Mo…tell him we all say hi and send our love!
Hey, Mo, tell ’em everybody here says “hey.” And please come back and give us a report on the show.
Yes, Woot has one deal per day, and it goes until it’s sold out (or the day is over). The exception is on the weekend, when if it gets sold out, there’s nothing new until Monday, and when they have a Woot Off, when they have a deal until it’s sold out, and then they put up the next one and so forth all day long. I try to check to see what kind of a deal they have every day, though I don’t always remember (and it isn’t always a great deal, but sometimes it is – plus, it’s always $5 shipping, no matter what the item is).
There are actually some “woot off” tracking sites out there, but, no I don’t have a dedicated wooting machine myself.
PLUS
we all missed him on election nite and (especially) the morning after.
this is a nice little answer to the Al Franken is leaving AAR…finally…because this thing is spreading in the conservative blogs with no real backup at all…they all just refer back to the initial post which is based on nothing, as wvc said…..
Marc is 😎 ❗
:knit:Mo:gate: Great Travels!
(So near…..but oh so far.:wink:)
I love woot….I think you can sign up for woot updates…but a woot watch program would be great.
speaking of cool tech items, Sharper image has a little thing that you slide your ipod into that makes it somewhat of a dvr/video player. it has a 7″ screen on the front and …well, I have to look at it in person to really coment but it has possibilities for people who have th ebig hard drive ipods and maybe oculd save like jon stewart and olbermann for day viewing while driving round…… I still prefer the little archos player …in the area of things I dont really need but just plain want….and that driving round while watching little videos is a little dangerous.
I transferred stewart/colbert/olbermann fromt he other night to my palm card and the sound was not great…so I plugged it into the car speakers but it still was not great….so I dont know what to think because I recorded it in a low to middle range and its still too loud for the bad sound quality of the palm. Oh well…its not really an audio player.
My question is, why does Al need such a huge contract? Is it just that he’s a “star,” and his ego dictates that he get paid commensurate with his star status (of course, they owe him over $300,000 according to the Chapter 11 filing)? You’d think he could take a reduction, since he’s probably doing pretty well. Hell, they still owe Marc over $40 grand.
Here’s a list of wootcheckers.
gesundheit!
the teen says you’ll be able to rent & download in HD movies and such on the new xbox so why mess ’round with the other stuff?
mazel tov! to your friend, Melina.
A dog friend’s dog just turned 13 (this actual dog! Flynn.) so they had a bat mitzvah. her friend knitted a yarmulke with a chin strap for the pooch!
I liked that little computer on WOOT but I did not realize the offer was gone so quickly, yet 😎 for a peek as to what is “hot” and current.
AIV
Farmerkat, :pup: x 3 Tea :joe: Cheers 😉
#82 Melina,
Thanks for that link. I had not been hearing anyone else saying it and AAR and Al seem mum
I was just listening to someone talking about Monk Parakeets. These birds have a colony near Brooklyn College and there are now 4 living in Red Hook, about 2 miles away. Melina says there is a colony in Connecticut and I just learned that there are colonies all over the US.
None-the-less the conventional wisdom is that they either got loose or were released in the US.
Seems to methis does not make sense. If they are so wide spread, seems more like a natural migration to me.
They’re interesting birds. They live in communal nests built on powerlines. They stay close to home. (It’s taken miore than 20 years for them to show up in Red Hook.) And, in the winter, they are completely dependent on people to provide food. :parrot:
:alc: Cheers! Druid.
Sue P, isn’t your daughter due soon?
Sue P, the :parrot:s are suppose to be throughout Los Angeles County and southern california, natually. I heard them in Mt. Washington area (near Highland Park) and S Pasadena.
AIV
:parrot: I saw them on JFK Boulevard E in NJ when I was there.:parrot:
:parrot: no sighting here. hey heron!
FK, I know someone’s daughter is expecting soon but it’s not mine. My daughter has a four year old little girl and claims that she’ll never have another. We shall see.
ahhh, sorry, thought it was yours! four is a great age! :nod:
:knit:
:rofl2:
Hey FarmerKat!
What they say about grandchildren is true. They’re the best. I get to really enjoy her without having all the work and responsibility of bringing up a little girl. And, I get to see a lot of my daughter,too.
Unfortunately, a few more aches and pains seem to be the price.
But no sightings here,in upper northern California :parrot: , yet back east in the super cold :cold: the :parrot: flourish. WOW
:yippee:
sblueheron :knit: tea:joe: cheers 😉
AIV
re#87 seeing as hd dvds are about 20 gig and the xbox 360 has a 20 gig harddrive how many high def movies can you download before you run out of space?
scale covered nuge? sammy did marcs wife!
Downloading a 20 gig file might take longer than the mean time between failures of the hardware too. These DVD movie files that you can get from the torrent sites take a week sometimes to download.:eek::eek:
Druid,
They build their nests right near the transformers which keep them warm and they live in those nests, communally, all year round. I guess people must do a good job feeding them during the winter.
The ones in Red Hook had a good time eating my crab apples and cherries. We just got a bird feeder for them for the winter.
:rofl2:i love polar bears crap!!!!!
banana species are disappearing:paranoid::nana::rofl2:
If Franken leaves, can we keep his guests? That’s the best part of the program anyway.
Since Katherine left, his show has never been better than when Al was on vacation and Christy Harvey co-hosted with Tom Oliphant. Both of them would probably cost AAR less than Franken by himself.
Oh, by the way…
the boycott of the Goebbels Broadcasting Network (and is anyone besides me and PJ still actually doing this?) is hereby suspended beginning at 3:30 PM Easten time today and continuing throughout the duration of the game between the greatest college football team in the land and the pretenders representing, as Woody Hayes used to say, “that place up there.”
As much as I despise ABC, I would only be punishing myself if I chose to not watch Ohio State pound their opponents into a massive pile of Wolverine mush.
The game became even more poignant with yesterday’s passing of coach Bo Schembechler, as the Buckeyes must now pay tribute to this legendary coach by kicking his team’s ass one last time.
The boycott will resume when the final gun signals Buckeye victory.
One will note that I am neglecting to mention the University of Akron Zips. This is due to their season effectively ending two mights ago. Like Nancy Pelosi, I am moving on.
GO BUCKEYES!!!
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
If you’re downloading using bittorrent or other peer-peer file sharing, you’re dependent on other people’s upstream bandwidth, which is typically not terribly high. Presumably if you’re paying to download legally, they’d have hi-speed servers. Still, it would take some time to download 20 gigs. If they were able to serve a movie to you at T-1 speed (roughly 1.5 Mbps), it would take about 31 hours. And that’s a lotta bandwidth for them to have to buy. If they’re serving, say, 1,000 simultaneous users (which wouldn’t seem like a whole lot), that’s like 1.5 Gbps.
Of course, they key would be to partner with service providers. to get them to host your content at their POP’s and then serve it to their customers. Then you might be able to cut costs.
But, as Sean says, at 20 gigs a pop, even a 500 gig hard drive gets crowded in a hurry. Much better to pay $30 for a Blu-Ray version of the Matrix (or whatever) in HD than to download it and store it on your hard drive, only ot have to decide which of your favorite flicks you need to delete before you download another (even if you can re-download it whenever you want, who wants to wait a day?).
Harvey and Oliphant have real jobs too..Unlike Franken who just thinks he is funny,:nana::nana:
I doubt that the typical download speed to the typical home user over most “high speed” connections ever gets up to 1.5 Mbps.. It might get to 100k once in a while but never 1.5Mbps..
The hardwired network in our office space is supposedly a gegabit service but it seldom gets up to even a megabyte per second between two 2.4 gHz machines with builtin Gegabit Network Interfaces on the same network. 😮
Our IS person blames that lack of performance on the use of “smart” switches in the local data center. We blame it on Windoz. The Linux machines with NFS are only a bit faster though:yuck::yuck:
In thinking about the Linux machines they are all 100 base T too.:yuck:.
I have your basic cable connection – RoadRunner – and I get about 9 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up. Verizon standard service is 5 Mbps down and 2 up.
I am not so sure they would not do it. I don’t think Oliphant has a regular gig anymore and doesn’t he live near DC where Christy is. They are already b’casting shows out of the Center for American Progress. Bill Press from there and Schultz last week.
Note that 1 MB per second = 8 Mbps.
Have you actually timed a download or run one of those tests to see what the “real” average speed is ?? Cable networks are generally serial so your average speed goes down as the number of users on your stub goes up.
And your connection would not be a gigabyte connection, it would be a gigabit connection. The OS wouldn’t really make a difference in raw transfer speed. Improper connections and cabling can make a big difference at those speeds, though,.
I use the dslreports speed tests to get actual throughput of non-compressible data.
PJ, from Shoutcast and what is needed and what stopped me: a computer laying around that isn’t used too much, tons of bandwidth, and some knowledge in computers.
This is what made my brain “freeze”.
I use this computer very, very much.
What happens if one uses a computer alot and uses Shoutcast Broadcast?
Just ran one, and with 5 listeners at 24 kbps on Sedition Radio and downloading the George Galloway show, I still get 7320 / 820 (Kbps).
:pup:USC vs Cal :pup:
AIV
(:eek:I should “Refresh” more often cuz I am always behind soooo much :spank:)
Hi Druid. Well, you’ll have Shoutcast running in the background all the time, so you might find your computer a little sluggish, but probably not too bad. There’s a server and a transcoder, so they use a bit of CPU. Give it a try and see how it goes. If it makes your computer hard to use, then you can always shut it down.
Yeah I messed up the byte and bit thing .. Still the max transfer rate should be around 100 megabytes per second and its only one. The TCIP stack is all in software. It has to take the packets off the NIC and dispatch them to the tasks that need them and visa versa. It does that by Windoz interprocess messaging so that probably explains the slow down.
🙁 But that is only listening…
Shockingly, Syracuse has actually won, picking up their first Big East win in about two years.
:rofl2: I knew you would give me all that sexy “computer lingo”,
but even with a friend that knows more about computers, when she had no idea what to do, I think I gave up heart.:omg:
I look at you and Melina and Fred speak computer — well I like to read, even languages I do not understand.
I figure I will sell something I am doing, one year, and have someone set it up or pay to have someone speak in 2year old-ese.
But so very glad to know it is there. I feel it is “the future”.
With gigabit Ethernet, you should see somewhere in the neighborhood of 33% link efficiency – roughly 300 Mbps actual throughput (40’ish MB). You start to lose speed in a bunch of places. A 32-bit 33MHz PCI card will get you typically 560Mbits/sec to 640Mbits/sec.The Windows TCP/IP stack is normally good for about 400 Mbps (Sun can do around 750). So, you won’t see 1,000 Mbps, but you should see better than you’re getting.
I was even ahead of the computer curve (a bit) in the early 80’s, then I went and played with wolves (a few), for 20ish years.
I think Tom Oliphant did retire from the Boston Globe earlier in the year . Harvey is the media person for the Center for American progress so she works there. You only need an ISDN connection to connect them together and to AARs studio. I don’t know if Harvey has three spare hours in her day, every day , she seems busy getting out the message. That would make a good combination.They were much more interesting than franken and guy.
Druid, the key is be unafraid. So many people stop themselves before they even get started, because they’re intimidated. My motto is “just click OK.” That, and have a backup computer so you can get to the Internet and find out what you screwed up. I don’t really know a hell of a lot, except what I’ve screwed up – and then had to figure out how to un-screw it. Every time I start to think I know what I’m doing, reality jumps up and whacks me in the face with a shovel.
They genuinely seemed to like doing the show together. I am sure Christy could get enough help to keep things going. The jobs would sort of go hand in hand and aside from putting off some other ProgTalkers who currently have her on, it might help her in other areas. I think I would rather see her than Randi and Rachel on some of the shows they are hitting.
The nice thing w/o Al is that you get to hear an extra couple of minutes of Christy, because you don’t have to waste time hearing Al sing her in. I just find that so annoying. Once, those intro songs might (might) be funny, but it gets old fast.
Elliot just commented that the new owner of Clear Channel had indicted they would be dumping around 400 stations and keeping only those in the top 10 markets. KLSD was supposedly a keeper. Maybe Nova M can pick up a few .
Whatever happens to AAR, I don’t see how you make a go of it with a shitty station, with no signal, in the biggest media market in the world. The signal on AM 1600, W Who-gives-A-Fuck is so poor that it starts breaking down at 6:30 PM, and I live in Yonkers, [which borders New York City on the north, for those on the far side of the Hudson]. The FM Fordham University station has a better signal. Nobody turns to AAR in NY by accident.
As for Al, he’s been running for Senate for a year, and the only question is who is he going to face in the primary? Is there really any doubt about this? He’s way overpaid, but obviously they needed a big name of some sort to get launched, and he was the closest thing they had. So many blunders….
Al was pretty funny infuriating John Fund on the Tweety Bird Show the other day. Can’t wait till he debates Coleman, who got bitch-slapped pretty well by Galloway, if you’ll recall. :sammy:
PJS, In all reality I :love: the computer and The Net and use to even play with people that invented the workings inside what is now called a computer. I will always embrace this “cold” machine.:rofl2: (I do believe in quantum physics :rofl2:
Cool, that means they’ll drop the Syracuse stations they own. Maybe we can get a progressive station here. It should work – we have a ton of colleges in the area, and have a very progressive history. We are the home of the world’s oldest living participatory Democracy, we were a huge abolitionist area, also a very big Spiritualist area, and are where the struggle for women’s rights in this country began.
So we deserve better than ClearChannel.
I have a dream that the new Congress will begin to rescind the Commications Act of 1996 (signed by Clinton)…
I have a dream that the concentration of media ownership in this country will start to be regulated and conglomerations broken down…
I have a dream the the Fairness Doctrine ended by Reagan in 1987 is brought back into effect…
I have a dream that airwave outlets are once again expected to provide services in the public interest including free political advertising…
I have a dream that radio and television ownership become more local and regional once again…
I have a dream that Seditionist Radio Broadcasting Company becomes the largest media comglomeration in America…
I have a dream…
With apologies
Syracuse – Home of great sportscasters
http://sumagazine.syr.edu/summer02/features/feature3/index.html
Not to mention Lou Reed.
lo all: i just listened to part of Ring of Fire.
guest: rahn emanuel, who is now a “rockstar” in the party after leading the effort to win the house. i heard not one word (tho i might have missed it) about dean. this is now clearly the demodorp plan — to disappear dean (essentially swiftboat him in a polite, liberal way by ignoring his contribution).
I wrote them a little note to their “contact us” link, saying that may be how it looks from the beltway but out here in the hinterlands, many of the grassroots volunteers were deaniacs.
spineless, elitist dweebs.
dean clearly scares the :crap: out of them. what idiots!
I don’t like anyone claiming to be liberal even talking to Rahn Emanuel( DLC demodorp extraordinary):yuck::yuck::barf::rant1:
ewww Rahm Emmanuel. Isn’t he the one who practically did a cheerleading routine with the theme “we will not impeach Bush” around the time of the election?
It would be most undesirable for any DLC democrat to try and assume control of the DNC and try to set the congressional agenda. Kissing the thugs asses will get one no where .:eek::yuck::yuck::gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:.
I need to check out that Ring of Fire. Hosting this week is Jim Earl’s favorite environmental carnivore, Laurie David.
“Bold new vision” these days means Pelosi pledging a drive to notch up the minimum wage. I don’t know about the vineyard, hotel and restaurant that Pelosi co-owns, but the effective minimum wage here in Humboldt country, northern California, is about $10 an hour, which is what you have to promise a young person to mow the yard. The pay-out rises rapidly to $13 an hour if you want to buy the tyke’s loyalty for return visits. Maybe on some slave plantation in southern Florida attainment of the federal minimum wage is part of the American Dream , but elsewhere we have to talk about a Living Wage, which is something altogether different.
But who cares! No one believes the Democrats are ever going to mess with the system, and that’s not why the voters put them back in charge of Congress. They want America out of Iraq. Pronto, just like Rep Jack Murtha said it should, this time last year. To her credit and the chagrin of the Washington Post as well as Fox News Pelosi backed Jack Murtha against pro-war Steny Hoyer to be House Majority Leader and said that Jane Harmon shouldn’t chair the House Intelligence Committee.
Alexander Cockburn
There is a ferocious battle in the offing and the swift rebuff to Pelosi and Murtha is not an encouraging straw in the wind. On the one side is the majority of Americans sickened of the war in Iraq, who spoke clearly on November 7. Their prime institutional ally is the uniformed military which was against the war from the start, and which gave Jack Murtha the briefings that emboldened him to take his stand last year. Their most plausible presidential candidate, Russell Feingold, has just said he won’t run for the nomination.
On the other side is the massed legions of cold war liberalism, of whom the notorious neo-cons – now denouncing Bush and Rumsfeld — are but one battalion. Remember the origins of the neocons, as shock troops of the Israel lobby. Back in the mid-70s Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol , Albert Wohlstetter and the others saw the US facing impending defeat in Vietnam, and feared that the McGovernite peaceniks would rot the resolve of the Democratic Party to stand behind Israel. So they fanned out into the Committee on the Present Danger, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and stoked up the furnaces of the new cold war and greased the wheels of the Reagan campaign.
The apex neocons are a pretty discredited lot these days but there are legions like them spread across the nation’s think tanks and policy institutes, all imbued with exactly the same fears that reverberated across the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Commentary, and the New Republic a generation ago: that America’s “resolve” will soften; that there will be accommodation with Iran; that Israel will be abandoned. And in fact such fears are now more vivid. Thirty years ago the weight of the Israel lobby wasn’t being excoriated by mainstream professors from Harvard and Chicago. Thirty years ago respectable professors like Tony Judt weren’t publicly pillorying the Anti Defamation League. Thirty years the name of Israel, blowing apart children in Beit Hanoun and Gaza didn’t stink in as many nostrils as it does today.
AC
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11182006.html
would love to see the minimum wage upped… ok, let’s see what they do…and what other issues are dealt with
LIVING WAGE! The real battle. $7.25 per hour is not a living wage. Congress will up the current minimum wage a buck or two and then stop.
Are you listening to AAR? Talking about Nicaragua.
I agree…of course they’ll spout some nonsense that only teenagers work for minimum wage…amazing the propaganda that’s out there that people believe…
I can’t do streaming radio till they fix my DSL, the connection is too slow 🙁
Laura Flanders sees what is going on much like we on this blog do and is conflicted as to what to do .. The cry is apply pressure .. apply pressure to make the democrats come out with a real program.. We know that for the next two years the democrats will pretty much go what ever direction the lobbyist dollars make them go. The new voices will be stifled and frustrated by the leadership or lack there of and in the mean time the people will get screwed even more and won’t vote at all in 2008. Laura is to much of peacenik to even think about applying pressure ( probably to a thug or two in the beginning) via a massive transfer of momentum.:yuck::gate::omg::fist:
having trouble getting through to my phone company also. I’m connected to the internet, that’s about all I can say right now 🙁
America, and the Democratic Party, would be far better off if Democrats in the Senate gave Lieberman his marching orders: either support the party caucus on issues like the war, civil liberties and challenging Bush’s unconstitutional abuses of power, or forget getting any key committee assignments. If he doesn’t like it, he can come out of the closet and become an honest Republican.
So what if that means the Republicans take control of the Senate? They still won’t be able to pass any legislation, with Democrats in control of the House. They still won’t be able to overturn Democratic fillibusters. And in any event, a Democratic House and Senate won’t be able to pass any progressive legislation in the next two years anyhow, with Bush in the White House, casting vetos and issuing his signing statements.
Lieberman in the GOP will be a nobody–a welterweight from a tiny state, out of touch with his own voters. He will be toast in his next election, when no Democrats will vote for him.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party will be cut free of one particularly noxious albatross.
Dave Lindorff
Lieberman is going to make a lot of enemies. He’d better watch his back. He’s going to make enemies on both sides and he can’t win – if he doesn’t support democrats, and if he doesn’t support the Republican money that he was given….he may very well turn Republican but I don’t think he’ll do at as quick as people think…it would be a bold move…and you’re right – if we lose the senate things can still be logjammed (providing the Dems have some balls)
Crank up that Grundig Power Ranger.
I’d need an antenna on the roof in order to get NY’s AA station…
:fist:holy crap klitschko destroyed brock! his ears wiggled from the force of klitschkos punch!
re:#75.
Marxism was successful in the Soviet Union. And that is what effectively killed the revolution. The Bolsheviks thought they knew what true scientific marxism was. And that was a tragedy. Marx was a thinker in the tradition of the enlightened tradition. Unfortunately, Marx had a dictatorial streak; that was appealling to the Bolsheviks. Lenin and gang were authoritarian, and they represented a minority in the revolutionary movement. Most wanted some form of popular control. There is literature on the subject.
Klitscko fought last week.
I know that caller. Ben from Aloha, Oregon.
we’ve got to watch our leaders for that dictatorial streak…it can be a bitch… :paranoid:
And when they destroy popular organizations, the combination can be deadly.
Who likes Trotsky here? Fred.
that true Fred? :omg:
Lev Bronstein? C’mon, Fred. How does that slogan go?
“A chicken in every pot and an ice-pick in every trot.”
Come out of the woodwork, you old Bolshevik.
awww. Fred come out and playyy-ayyyy
I finished that painting.
NR
“Eviction Time”
Acrylic on 16×20 canvas
2006
Hey, you crypto czarist. You are not playing fair. United Front with the Mensheviks, huh?
SBR RULES!
:tommygun:
yay!!! :!::peace::jesus:
Where did you go, Kerensky?
:tommygun:
oh the name dropping that goes on here… (I don’t know that one) 😯
During the revolution, the Cacahuates had adopted the popular slogans “all power to the Soviets!” and “land, peace, and bread!” Soviets were councils assembled locally within a city with delegates elected from the workers of the various factories and other businesses. Soviets were the bodies of direct popular democracy; although they held no official position of power in the provisional government, they exerted considerable influence over the hearts and minds of the working classes.
I pulled the above from Wikipedia. Although it is a good, short definition, there is no link to an expanded one. Anyway, “soviets” were the sorts of things that Trotsky killed . All power to the Bolsheviks! We will honor your failure by naming the new nation after your movement, though.
Fred knows who Kerensky is.
Cacahuates
I don’t know why they threw that name in the article.
:billcat:
The popular masses. Seasoned peanuts!
hmm, I wrote “soviets” with an arrow pointing to Bill the cat, but it didn’t appear…
Soviets
Impromptu working-class governing bodies that appeared in 1905. Soviets first appeared as strike committees; by the time of the October general strike they were challenging the local governments in St. Petersburg and other cities. Of course, the Czarist regime crushed them as soon as it was able to, by early 1906. Soviets reappeared in 1917, when the Bolsheviks made use of them to gain power.
* Councils of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies – bodies of elected delegates, created by the initiative of the masses. Until August 1917 the Mensheviks and SRs had a majority in the Soviets.
I want popular masses of popcorn
http://24.196.23.17:8000/listen.m3u
I watched “fiddler on the roof” again recently – there’s a character who was either a Bolshevick or a Soviet, I’m not sure…he was shown sympathetically though (and got arrested by Czarist soldiers)
My Life As a Furry
by L. J. Williamson
Men in rabbit suits and girls in tails and whiskers: cute and cuddly, or sexually perverse? The world of fur fandom is rich in nuance and contradiction. Not surprisingly, the media always seem to get it wrong.
Todd says he first realized he was a Furry when he saw Walt Disney’s “Robin Hood,” an animated movie in which Robin Hood and Maid Marian are foxes, Little John is a bear and King Richard and Prince John are lions.
“I was just a kid, but something about that movie hit me like no other movie ever did,” says Todd, who prefers not to use his last name. “I just thought it was the greatest thing. I was kind of obsessed with it, actually.”
A thickly-built waiter with a pleasantly boyish face, Todd is a self-described “Furry” who spends his free time exploring his passion for anthropomorphic cartoon animals, and attends Furry conventions to meet others who share his passion.
With all the fan-based websites out there, it’s easy to take stock of the numerous topics one can obsess over: teenybopper music, indie films, Star Trek, collectible license plates, Japanese anime — the list goes on and on. But one little-known kind of fanatic obsesses over all things Furry.
The most common response to the question “Have you ever heard of Furries?” is “Aren’t those the people who like to have sex wearing animal suits?” That’s because mainstream media outlets have recently hyped Furries as insatiably kinky animal fetishists. Vanity Fair’s “Pleasures of the Fur” article breathlessly reported on stuffed-animal humping at a Midwestern Furry convention; MTV’s “Sex2K” show aired a story on fur suit sex; and sex researcher Katharine Gates includes a section on Furries in her book “Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex.”
All make it appear that Furrydom is possibly ersatz bestiality, the latest fetish to surface in the Internet age. One thing’s for sure, anyone who would want to get it on with a pep rally mascot has to be a crazy, wild sex freak, right?
Right about the mascot thing maybe, but wrong about Furries as a whole. In truth, the Furry scene is nowhere near as sexy as the media have made it out to be. Furries are strange, sad, eccentric, malcontented and geeky, but sexy? No. It’s much more complicated than that.
“Ask 10 different Furries what Furry is all about and you’ll get 12 different answers,” explains one Furry fan, “but the common thread is anthropomorphics.”
Furries enjoy entertainment and art featuring animal creatures endowed with human traits (like Bugs Bunny). But this common thread immediately frays into several diverse sub-strings. There’s Furry fiction fans, Furry art enthusiasts, Fursuiters, Spiritual Furs, Furry rave kids, Plushies, and “Furverts.”
Go here to read the article.
Gay penguin book shakes up Illinois school
A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is getting a chilly reception among some parents in Shiloh, Illinois, who worry about the book’s availability to children–and the reluctance of school administrators to restrict access to it. The concerns are the latest involving And Tango Makes Three, the illustrated children’s book based on a true story of two male penguins in New York City’s Central Park Zoo that adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own.
Complaining about the book’s homosexual undertones, some parents of Shiloh Elementary School students believe the book, available to be checked out of the school’s library in this 11,000-resident town 20 miles east of St. Louis, tackles topics their children aren’t ready to handle. Their request: Move the book to the library’s regular shelves and restrict it to a section for mature issues, perhaps even requiring parental permission before a child can check it out.
For now, And Tango Makes Three will stay put, said school district superintendent Jennifer Filyaw, though a panel she appointed suggested the book be moved and require parental permission to be checked out. The district’s attorney said moving it might be construed as censorship.
Filyaw considers the book ”adorable” and age appropriate, written for children ages 4 to 8. ”My feeling is that a library is to serve an entire population,” she said. ”It means you represent different families in a society, different religions, different beliefs.”
Go here to read the article.
Michelle & Kristanna in love!
Kristanna Loken doesn’t want to keep quiet about her relationship with sexy star Michelle Rodriguez. Who would?
By Michele Kort
As we sat downstairs in her Los Angeles home, upcoming Advocate cover girl Kristanna Loken—the smoldering star of Terminator 3—found an adorable way of letting us know that she’s involved with her equally sexy BloodRayne costar Michelle Rodriguez.
At first Loken, 27—who has a recurring role as lover of Shane (Katherine Moennig) on Showtime’s The L Word this season—affirmed that she’s in a relationship but wouldn’t specify the name or gender.
Then we mentioned the tantalizing stories Loken has told in past interviews about getting tight with Rodriguez when they filmed BloodRayne in Romania. Here’s what happened next.
Go here to read the article.
peanut (plant and seed)
Why should being gay be a crime?
In 75 countries being gay is still a crime. French activist Louis-Georges Tin, founder of the International Day Against Homophobia, hopes to change that by having the United Nations adopt a resolution calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide. Tin spoke to The Advocate ahead of a press conference in Paris where he announced the news.
By Doug Ireland
On November 17 the Paris-based International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) will launch a global campaign for a United Nations resolution declaring that homosexuality should no longer be considered a crime anywhere in the world.
The proposed U.N. resolution is the brainchild of IDAHO’s founder, Louis-Georges Tin, 32, a professor and author of a number of books (including the Dictionary of Homophobia) who is also a rising star of France’s emerging black movement for equality.
Tin will simultaneously release a list of hundreds of VIP endorsers of the proposed U.N. resolution, including a gaggle of Nobel Prize winners (among them, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Dario Fo of Italy, Elfriede Jelinek of Austria, and Amartya Sen of India); political leaders, including two former French prime ministers (Laurent Fabius and Michel Rocard); academics (such as Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman and world-famous sociologist Richard Sennett); entertainers (such as Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep, David Bowie, Edward Norton, Mike Nichols, Lily Tomlin, actor-playwright Wallace Shawn, humorist Bruce Vilanch, and Spanish actress Victoria Abril); and a host of renowned writers, including Doug Wright, Jon Robin Baitz, Salman Rushdie, Gore Vidal, Sir Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Russell Banks, Bernard-Henri Levy, John Berendt, Lady Antonia Fraser, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Chambon, Peter Carey, and Edmund White.
Go here to read the article.
I see…
Any zionist characters? Notice any Jewish anti-goy chauvinism there?
one of the daughters married a non Jew and was outcast by her father – but it wasn’t presented as “the right thing to do” Each of the daughters who married was more daring about flaunting traditions
nothing about zionism in this particular story – they did move to America due to pogroms at the end of the movie
People like Shahak criticize “Fiddler on the Roof” and such for romanticizing the shtetl life. It was harsh–and patriarchal! A place to escape.
Channeling Gandhi
In late September a small group of dedicated young men and women gathered in the parking lot of Gonzaga University, a small private Catholic school in Washington State. I was part of that brigade of 12 to 15 people who from there embarked on a journey that would take us to a local military recruitment center to demonstrate against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which bans openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual people from serving in the armed forces.
My friend Dana Corral and I were prepared to enlist in the Army as openly gay recruits. We held a small vigil in recognition of the thousands of soldiers who currently serve their country in silence. We then pondered the life teachings of both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Then we headed to the doors of the recruitment center.
Go here to read the article.
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=12204:pirate:
I’m sorry, slow as shit connection…I don’t think it romanticized it – it presented both good and bad… my grandparents seemed to think it was pretty accurate for in many aspects what that’s worth. Of course it was a musical so that’s , well, a musical is a musical…
http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/11cosmo.htm
my grandparents were farmers in eastern Poland and sold their own food…this is an interesting history though
So, they escaped the shtetl. Became Poles.
OBSCENE AND REVOLTING
The comments of Nazi Arthur Pendragon and Noel Ignatiev in Race Traitor Number 5, Winter ’96 were revolting. Their exchange is one of the most anti-Jewish (anti-semitic) that I have seen in a publication that identifies with the left. I was very disturbed at Noel Ignatiev’s arguments for: 1) their non-responsiveness to Pendragon’s anti-semitic statements or when Noel did respond, the inadequacy of his comments, and 2) Noel’s own anti-Jewish comments.
A recurring theme of Pendragon’s is that a central aspect of being Jewish is a belief of being part of a “master race dominating a raceless herd of goyim” (p.21), or “Jewish hatred of all things white” (p.33). Rather than directly challenging this central aspect of Nazi philosophy, Noel responds primarily by stating that he is not Jewish, and that his opposition to white supremacy and support for abolishing the white race has nothing to do with his being of Jewish background. In other words, Noel’s defense is not directed against Pendragon’s attack on Jews but rather to the point that Pendragon falsely attributes Noel’s position to Noel being Jewish.
To Pendragon’s proclamation that his main fight is against “jew supremacy” (p.21), Noel responds that he welcomes challenges to the privileges of Jews or any other group. He then gives an example of an article in RT attacking the privileges of Jews in Israel (p.22). Pendragon is clearly talking about Jewish privilege and supremacy in the United States. Hence, Noel is either not confronting Pendragon’s claim of Jewish privilege in the U.S. or is himself putting forward the concept of Jewish privilege in the U.S. Most Jews in the U.S. are part of the “white race” and thus have white skin privilege, but to write of a specific Jewish group privilege in this country is absurd and is a central aspect of an anti-semitic world view.
Noel does challenge strongly Pendragon’s denial of the Nazi holocaust against Jews. However, after Pendragon admits that if it had happened it would be a crime against humanity, Noel responds by saying there is no point in arguing what happened and goes on to other points. It is obscene to argue whether the holocaust happened but it is also obscene to continue discussion with a Nazi who denies this genocide occurred.
Noel Ignatiev states, “I hate the propensity of American Jews to whine about the past sufferings of the Jews (which they mostly get wrong and did not experience personally).” (p.27) This is a very arrogant and insensitive statement. His use of the word “whine” is totally inappropriate. It trivializes the history of oppression of Jewish people. By writing that U.S. Jews did not experience this suffering personally, I assume Noel means this persecution took place in Europe. This is certainly where anti-semitism has been most deadly. However, he is oblivious to the direct family connections of Jews in the U.S. to this history and also implicitly denies any anti-semitism in the U.S.
Noel Ignatiev sees nothing positive in being Jewish or the history of Jewish people. He says that the Jewish “spirit” to the extent it exists is flawed and a product of their role in petty commerce and its modern extension, the liberal professions. There is not one hint in Noel’s 13 pages of comments on the positive role many Jews or people of Jewish background have played in the fight against white supremacy and for a revolutionary and humane socialism. In South Africa and the United States, Jews have been far more likely than other whites to struggle for liberation and support liberation struggles. In Europe, the situation has been similar. I am not arguing that most Jews are revolutionary or that Jewish tradition is primarily leftist. Rather it is not just coincidence that Rosa Luxemburg, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, Joe Slovo, Emma Goldman, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, William Kuntsler, Abbie Hoffman and many, many others were Jewish or of Jewish background, or for that matter, Noel Ignatiev.
There are other troubling aspects of Noel’s comments not directly tied to the question of Jews. Briefly! Noel writes that he wants a world “where every man can fish in the morning, …and play cello in the evening…” (p.28), or “No man was born to be a master or a slave” (p.29). Where are the women? On page 18, Noel states that “culturally all Americans are a combination of the Yankee, the Indian and the African…”. Where are the people of Asian and Pacific Island background? Further, in responding to Pendragon’s attack on multiculturalism, Noel is opportunistic when he writes, “I view multiculturalism as no solution to anything.” (p.31) I probably disagree with Noel on multiculturalism but in any case Noel’s criticisms of multiculturalism are different from those of the National Socialist White People’s Party so why state this seeming agreement with them.
I hope that Noel Ignatiev and Race Traitor are willing to consider and accept some of these criticisms. They are not motivated by general disagreement with the politics of Race Traitor or Noel Ignatiev. I believe challenging white supremacy is central to any worthwhile radical politics in the United States. Moreover, the article and pamphlet by Noel, “Black Worker, White Worker” is probably the most insightful writing I have read demonstrating why challenging white supremacy is central to revolutionary change and the strategic implications of this position. That is why the exchange between Pendragon and someone who I have had a lot of respect for, Noel Ignatiev, is so distressing.
In closing, let me add a little of my own history. I am of Jewish background, which has certainly shaped who I am and what I believe in, although I am not a practicing Jew. My parents immigrated from Austria to the United States in 1939 and suffered under the Nazis but survived. Although not relevant to my criticisms, I have been consistently outspoken and active against Zionism, against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, have opposed all U.S. aid to Israel, and supported Palestinian self-determination for over twenty years.
Pete Bohmer
Olympia, Wash.
January 1996
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I got the feeling they were still pretty poor…in any case they had to give over their land, they couldn’t keep it nor were conpensated for it when they came to the United States (and they had to come here) …though from what I understand my grandfather had to live in South America for a few years before because he couldn’t come in on the immigration quota
I am interested in learning more about anti-semitism in post-WW2 Poland.
What year did they come over?
you sent me a picture of that guy…
I’m not sure, I’ll have to ask my mom…it was the teens. Before the depression.
The Chomsky picture. I think that the Tribal Jewish Review is some sort of libertarian group. Lots of good info, but…I am a market abolitionist.
Perhaps they left to escape conscription in the Czarist Army. I wonder if everyone who emigrated lost their property, or only Jews.
I can’t stomach libertarian economic philosophy…but yeah, I can see there is some good writing on other things
I admit I’m not strong on that history…my grandparents told stories about it in half English half Yiddish…I really wish my dad was around, he knew more
I am unable to post Ignatiev’s response.
http://racetraitor.org/letters6.html
One thing that am pondering is the hell that the common Jews in the shtetl had to endure at the hands of the Rabbis and the ruling elite.
Libertarians often make good critics of the system. Such as that lawyer who is on Randi Rhodes’s show. But, as you know, their model is a system based on free markets. But still…
this white supremcist stuff is pretty scary
I have the 2 Race Traitor issues in question. I will send them to you.
Libertarians are good for some discussions… they’re horrified at the laws that are encroaching on people’s privacy for instance…
I guess we scared Kerensky away. Or was that Trotsky?
Absolutely.
And who is to say that some libertarians cannot be convinced that free markets are never free?
Trotsky, Watzky, Shemanski, who knows :omg:
the ones I know worship the free market, but then again they’re young…there’s one I do have hope for, she’s pretty liberal in general and I think I sense her breaking free of the Ayn Rand stuff
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I googled images of Hasidic Jews ….
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if you think it’s too extreme I’ll do a more conventional Nicki with a menorah or something
No. Why would I think that?
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she’s probably the reason I can’t log on to a lot of websites with username “susan joy” ,,,,
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I have to jump in the bath. Listening to Jon Eliot. Do you have access to Chomsky’s “Chronicles of Dissent”?
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I don’t know… I can’t seem to get real player to work so it would have to be for windows media player or something like that
It is a book. Barnes and Noble with coffee.
there are a few Chomsky books in the B&N near where I work…I’ll look for it. I think I remember seeing it
In that book, he talks some about the shtetl romantization stuff.
I’ll look for it. I want to wrap myself in a blanket, it’s cold in here.
SBR!
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