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August 15, 2004
Sunday Best
please defile.
UPDATE
great piece by kevin drum on kerry's war position. (via TPM)
Posted by majority at August 15, 2004 11:04 AM
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wow clean sheets two days in a row!
Posted by: Miss Anne Thropic at August 15, 2004 11:07 AM
I really should not be blogging anyway. Places to go peeps to see!
Posted by: Miss Anne Thropic at August 15, 2004 11:07 AM
love is unchanging and limitless.
Posted by: Miss Anne Thropic at August 15, 2004 11:09 AM
Have a wonderful day bloggers
PEACE!
JANEANE AND SAM get back to work we miss you!
Posted by: Miss Anne Thropic at August 15, 2004 11:10 AM
The troll pratroll are not doing their JOBS!
The trolls are still on the old Thread!
Posted by: Miss Anne Thropic at August 15, 2004 11:11 AM
I just can't stand the satellite sisters on WLIB radio on Sunday! Thank goodness for streaming audio, but I wouldn't mind more live programming
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 11:15 AM
good morning
Al's interview
w/ Sen Robert Byrd
a real penetrating look
at this criminal administration!
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 11:25 AM
new song posted in the MRR Sounds yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MRRsounds/files/Audiojam%21/
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 11:36 AM
just popping in to say "good morning".
have yall seen this? pictures of the inside of the ali imam mosque in najaf. this is BAD, folks, very BAD
http://www.karbalanews.net/artc.php?id=925
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at August 15, 2004 11:43 AM
mornin anna!
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 11:50 AM
The 15 ways to stop global warming
Hindustan Times - 10 minutes ago
A new study by researchers at the Princeton University indicates that there are enough existing resources to replace the ones that cause global warming. The researchers suggest that these resources could last us for 50 years till scientists come up with resources could last us for 50 years till scientists come up with other methods to combat the climatic phenomenon.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_949550,00040003.htm
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 12:05 PM
Bye Jenise..
i myself do not believe that is why the bombs were dropped,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When you have time..
I would be interested in why you believe the bombs were dropped.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 12:05 PM
Cool Weather Means Slow Business At Local Pools
Pools Will Close Labor Day
POSTED: 8:56 am CDT August 13, 2004
UPDATED: 10:16 am CDT August 13, 2004
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- You will find few people complaining about record cold temperatures this summer, unless you head for the pool.
KMBC's Bev Chapman reported the weather is great for electric customers, but not so great for the people who manage local pools.
"Our attendance is down approximately 60,000 citywide," aquatics supervisor Bryan Toben said.
Toben is not alone. At the Prairie Village pool, it was too cold to even open.
"This is an odd summer to say the least. I can't remember the last time I had to look for a jacket in August," Toben said.
Youngs Park Pool in Overland Park is heated to 78 degrees or 80 degrees. So it should feel warm, right?
"In theory, yes. You still have to get out of the water though," Toben said.
Chapman said that last year at this time, residents were sweltering in triple digits and air conditioners were sucking 3,600 megawatts an hour. But residents only pulled about half as much power on Wednesday.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 12:07 PM
temple pix
wayyyy interesting
note a lotta green headbands!
what language on the site? Farsi?
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 12:13 PM
History: an account mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. - Ambrose Bierce
http://www.angryfinger.org/index.html
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 12:21 PM
Why is war dog here if he is not willing to open his ears, mind and eyes and listen to some Air America programs?
That doesn't make sense to reasonable americans.
I don't automatically tune in to any AAR program. I check on the web site and blogs to see who the guests are. If they are interesting I tune in to hear what they have found out and what their views on the facts they have found.
bush just on live politicizing another disastor with jeb. the man has no shame and is causing a huge diversion from the help those people need. shame on bush and his politicizing every bad thing that happens. He is now using Fema disaster aid for his constant politicizing of everything.
Eternal Shame on bush.
Posted by: no nick at August 15, 2004 12:22 PM
images from some of the troops.
http://images.somd.com/categories.php?cat_id=65
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 12:23 PM
*
Weather Koo
Global warming and
other environmental
disasters waiting
CLIMATE NUMBERS THAT COUNT!
FACTS, FACTOIDS AND STATISTICS!
Climate Numbers That Count
All data sourced from Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
by Guy Dauncey & Patrick Mazza (New Society Publishers, July 2001)
Years since we started consuming oil
140 years
Worlds total supply of oil
2000 - 2800 billion barrels
Quantity of oil consumed up to 2000
900 billion barrels
Quantity of oil consumed in 2000
28 million barrels
Quantity of oil discovered in 2000
6 million barrels
Number of days US oil supply in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
152 days
% of the worlds carbon emissions that result from burning oil
33.3%
Years since we started consuming natural gas
110
Worlds proven reserves of natural gas
5,146 trillion cubic feet
Current rate of consumption of natural gas
83 trillion cubic feet a year
Forecast consumption of natural gas for 2020
167 trillion cubic feet a year
% of new US electricity planned to come from natural gas
96%
% of the worlds carbon emissions that result from burning gas
16.3%
Main ingredient in natural gas
methane
Factor by which methane is a more potential greenhouse gas than CO2 over 100 years
23 times
Factor by which methane is a more potential greenhouse gas than CO2 over 20 years
62 times
Years since we started to destroy our planets forests
3,000
% of worlds carbon emissions that result from forest loss
22.5%
Years needed before a clearcut Douglas fir old growth forest recovers its lost carbon
150
Quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere before the industrial revolution
288 parts per million
Quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere in 2000
370 parts per million
Amount spent by oil and gas companies in 2000 Presidential campaign
$30 million
% given to Democrats
20%
% given to Republicans
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 12:24 PM
Maureen Down coming up in 10 mins on CNN Late Edition with that neo communist host Wolf Blitzer ;)
Posted by: no nick at August 15, 2004 12:24 PM
*
(My preview does'nt work right in Opera)
Amount spent by transportation companies in 2000 Presidential campaign
$51 million
% given to Democrats
27%
% given to Republicans
72%
Daily subsidy given by the US government to the oil, coal and gas industry
$50 million
Estimated daily worldwide subsidy given to fossil fuel industry
$643 - $959 million
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimation of
reduction in CO2 emissions if subsidies were removed
4% - 18%
Primary energy needed for sustainable world in 2025
500 quads
Renewable energy needed by 2025 if 80% is renewable
400 quads
Land needed to generate 400 quads if all was from solar energy
330,000 square miles
% of Earths total land area that this represents
0.57%
% of North African and Middle East deserts that this represents
5%
Global wind energy potential
341 quads
Global geothermal energy potential
468 quads
Global tidal energy potential
72 quads
Global biomass energy potential
254 quads
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 12:25 PM
"Shia backlash wrecks US strategy"
"Iraq’s Shia population appears to be becoming increasingly radicalised by the current rebellion, making it very difficult for the US and its allies to portray it as the actions of a small, embittered minority."
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=941632004
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:31 PM
//Maureen Down coming up in 10 mins on CNN Late Edition with that neo communist host Wolf Blitzer ;)
Posted by: no nick at August 15, 2004 12:24 PM//
neo communist
LOL!
and last night some goof called "tens" was saying Wolf Blitzer was a dangerous right winger which is just as laughable
Posted by: Naomi Wolf at August 15, 2004 12:31 PM
Naomi Wolf, only thing was that "tens" was actually serious unlike you
Posted by: no nick at August 15, 2004 12:34 PM
Why is war dog here if he is not willing to open his ears, mind and eyes and listen to some Air America programs?
That doesn't make sense to reasonable americans.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Majority Report Weblog
That is the name of the blog.
I care nothing about Al or the rest.
It I did I would post on their blog.
I have...
AM
FM
XM in the house, car, and RV..
Directv on Sat and Cable Tv... both!
And all web on the fiber optic cable..
But because I don't agree with you, I don't listen and miss the facts!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 12:34 PM
You are most welcome to our website www.islamset.com. If you have any questions on Science, Environment and Other Islam related Science subjects, Please do not hesitate to mail us your comments, questions and/or suggestions.
http://www.islamset.com/introd.html
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 12:34 PM
Good to see Maureen Down author of Bushworld coming up on CNN Late Edition
Posted by: bush is a mentally ill dictator at August 15, 2004 12:38 PM
//I don't listen and miss the facts!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 12:34 PM//
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 12:39 PM
War Dog...you should listen to Malloy...he sounds like me only he's wimpier ;D
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:39 PM
General: Iraq Rebuilding to Quicken Despite Violence
Sun Aug 15, 2004 09:41 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Surging violence in Iraq this month has disrupted reconstruction work in parts of the country, but plans are still on track for a tenfold increase in the number of projects, a U.S. general said Sunday.
Hundreds of people have been killed during an 11-day uprising led by radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Najaf, Baghdad's slums and other areas in the worst fighting in Iraq since a similar rebellion in April.
General Thomas Bostick, in charge of implementing projects paid for from $18.4 billion of U.S. money slated for Iraq, said clashes had caused only delays in the worst trouble spots.
"We're not going to put contractors in between bullets," he told Reuters in an interview in his office in a marbled palace formerly used by ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
"When violence occurs in a place like Najaf, then the kind of construction that we would like to be doing, whether it's schools or hospitals, is obviously going to slow down," said Bostick, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.
U.S. strategists see rebuilding Iraq's wrecked power, water and sewage facilities as vital to boosting the legitimacy of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's government and undermining support for insurgents ahead of elections due in January.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 12:43 PM
LOL Nobody!
Have you tried calling into the Malloy show yet or posted on his forum?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 12:44 PM
Musk this a site for you and me!
http://www.all-creatures.org/index.html
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 12:45 PM
Naw I'll get around to it eventually...I just don't have short issues to discuss...when I talk it takes 3 hours too as I'm sure might've gathered already...
My republican friend that came to visit left with an apple pie...calling themselves a liberal republican...and saying "I'm voting for bush...just teasing"
I woulda taken the pie back I swear!
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:47 PM
Here she comes, Mauren Down On CNN Late Edition
bush calls her "The Cobra" ;)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 12:47 PM
It Takes a Following to Make an Ayatollah
Sistani, who is 74 and an adroit religious politician committed to a form of parliamentary democracy, has intervened in key ways to shape Iraq since the fall of Saddam. More than a week ago, he abruptly quit Najaf for London, a departure that signaled the beginning of an all-out campaign against the fiery Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia.
The beefy Sadr, who is 30, peppers his interviews with rough, gutter Arabic, though as a seminarian he is perfectly capable of eloquence. As a young man, he saw the bullet-riddled bodies of his father and two elder brothers brought home after Saddam's secret police sprayed their car with machine-gun fire. An angry hothead, with a ruthless streak born of his struggle against the Baath Party, Sadr leads a radical Shiite minority throughout the south that is loyal to his father's ideals.
His movement is sectarian and based on charisma, appealing predominantly to the young and poor. His followers demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and advocate an Iranian-style, clerically ruled state. They view the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi as a mere puppet.
Though Sadr is too young to be taken seriously by Sistani and the other Shiite ayatollahs, he has inherited the followers of his father, who inspired fanatical devotion in many poor slum dwellers in the south, and they have transferred their loyalty to his son.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64131-2004Aug13.html
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 12:47 PM
No what's disrupted the reconstruction work war dog is dishonest contractors...otherwise it would've been done already.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:48 PM
Because Sadr has no support...in any of the 7 cites that rioted last night
"Thirteen killed during separate clashes south of Baghdad"
"Hillah, Iraq (dpa) - At least thirteen people were reported killed Sunday in separate clashes between followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi security forces in and around the city of Hillah, south of Baghdad"
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=Cqr7FWeientGWofrOAxj0zwvUA2LSBgvKz.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:51 PM
Nobody, in a recent interview where former multiple term Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson refused to endorse Alan Keyes Thompson said:
"There is no more liberal republicans"
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 12:51 PM
I think Al-qaeda chopping thier heads off may have been a factor in the slow down.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 12:51 PM
For the Fishyman
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/iraqdeaths.html
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 12:52 PM
I made one...they had to admit that they agreed with everything I said...but they suggested that someone had to drag the party back out of the muck...
There ain't none...pshaw...I know two of em now even if I had to make one myself.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:53 PM
When it's all said and done, 911 happened on these people's watch!!!
Their Watch!
Their Watch!
Their Watch!
And do we need a new Homeland Sec., CIA chief, NORAD, FAA, etc.
NO.
We need a new President in November...
If the news and talk radio and media whores would repeat this until November we will have a new President.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 12:53 PM
Oh and Keyes...he's just a nutjob ;)
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:53 PM
"Deadly bomb blast as leaders gather"
"At least one person was killed and five people wounded when three mortar bombs hit a street a few metres from the venue of a major political gathering of Iraqi leaders yesterday."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/15/1092508262939.html?oneclick=true
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:54 PM
"George Bush 41 invaded Iraq to prove that you can't invade a country unilaterally"
"George Bush 43 invaded Iraq to prove that you can invade a country unilaterally"
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 12:55 PM
That was Maureen Dowd
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 12:55 PM
The decisions Washington makes or ducks today will impact us years after its politicians are no longer with us. We need to be heard on anything that will affect our lives. When our older brothers and sisters, Generation X, chose to walk away from a political system that they did not like or trust, they gave up the chance for their views to be heard.
september11generation.org, launched in early April, aims to be the headquarters of our generation’s efforts to participate America. It’s 100% owned by students, students who discovered the power they had when they led Freedom’s Answer and broke a national voting record in 2002. We learned that those who are part of the political system – those who produce votes, who scream so loud they can’t be ignored – those are the players at the table. We have earned the right to be heard. We have the power to change what we don’t like.
http://www.september11generation.org/about.php
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 12:58 PM
U.S. forces kill scores in Iraq; Najaf truce collapses
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
BAGHDAD - Truce talks aimed at ending more than a week of violence between Shi'ite militants and U.S. and Iraqi forces in the holy city of Najaf broke down Saturday, Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie said.
"I feel deep sorrow and regret to announce the failure of the efforts we have exerted to end the crisis in Iraq," he said.
Al-Rubaie, who had headed the negotiations on behalf of the government, said he was going to leave the city.
U.S. forces killed scores of insurgents in two Iraqi towns on Saturday. The fresh violence erupted on the eve of a national conference aimed at advancing Iraq's progress towards democracy, already overshadowed by a 10-day Shi'ite Muslim uprising led by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
The U.S. military said it had killed about 50 fighters near the northern town of Samarra, a mainly Sunni Muslim area where U.S. troops have launched repeated raids to flush out guerrillas opposed to the presence of foreign troops in Iraq. Altogether, some 93 Iraqis were killed in fighting.
Warplanes screaming overhead dropped 500-pound bombs, while insurgents responded with rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades, a U.S. military statement said, adding there were no U.S. casualties.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 12:58 PM
Here's an interesting one...hehehe...man...I tell you...the world is even a stranger place when you look closely...
"An Israeli / Rove Connection?"
"Here we go again. Another political bombshell hits the American people and there is yet another connection to the subterranean labyrinth of possible Israeli intelligence activities. .. The fact that White House chief dirty tricks operator Karl Rove has close connections to the political spin machine run out of Sharon's Jerusalem office is also a concern when it comes to Israeli-connected dirty tricks operations being run against Democratic politicians in the United States."
http://counterpunch.org/madsen08142004.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 12:59 PM
They sometime fly over my house:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39953000/jpg/_39953362_bomber300.jpg
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:00 PM
Both former Illinois republican governors(Jim Thompson & Jim Edgar) refused to endorse Alan Keyes.
They were last seen running away from him ;)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:02 PM
Najaf, Aug 14: Iraq's interim government said on Saturday it was restarting military operations in the holy city of Najaf after talks with rebel Shi'ite militia collapsed.
The Iraqi interim government is resuming military clearing operations to ... establish law and order in the holy city," national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told a news conference. He said the government had made every effort to find a peaceful solution to 10 days of conflict that has killed hundreds.
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=35040
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:03 PM
Your a sick man war dog
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:04 PM
"adding there were no U.S. casualties."
However War Dog there were Iraqi women and children casualties in sammara.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:07 PM
Things On Lisa Rein's Fair and Balanced Mind Today
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:07 PM
However War Dog there were Iraqi women and children casualties in sammara.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Easily preventable
Just vote..
Don’t run around in the street with a gun..
Same there as it is here.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:09 PM
Maureen Dowd - how big do you think her tits are?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:11 PM
Not sure what this is but lots of photos of Iraq
http://gallery.colofinder.net/iraq-gallery-2/iraq_fallujah_capt_bag10803311349_iraq_bag108
Posted by: Miss Anne Thropic at August 15, 2004 01:13 PM
You must be having problems war dog. You are ignorant of the fact that The women & children in Iraq don't "run around in the street with a gun" It's the US & Iraqi forces that do that.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:13 PM
yes War Dog...bombs are that discriminating...
cluster bombs...daisy cutters..."precision"
Damn them 4 yr old Iraqis and their runnnig down the streets with guns...
"I swear it looked like a real gun I didn't know it was a toy before I dropped the bomb from 30,000 feet"
Sometimes War Dog you go beyond stupidity.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:14 PM
Maureen Dowd - how big do you think her tits are?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:11 PM
Is she possibly well indowd?
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:15 PM
Nice pick Mat..
Those are american burnt on the street..
But we still want them to vote for their leaders.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:15 PM
well Dogger
i just had a B=17
called "Sentimental Journey"
fly over my house, mmmmmm neat sound!
"in Pratt and Whitney we believe!"
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 01:16 PM
anyone know what this dudes trip is.
Lots of pictures of him with Satan.
http://wwwc.house.gov/gibbons/about_photo.asp
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:17 PM
uh oh, war dog got caught big time in his latest mistake
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:17 PM
Payola Pioneering:
Exposing the Bush Pioneer/Ranger Network
Who they are--What they got!
http://www.tpj.org/pioneers/pioneers04/index_pio.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:18 PM
Perhaps your advise would be better if sent to Sadr...
He called for them to go armed into the street..
You reap what you sew..
We asked them to come vote!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:18 PM
Susan Sarandon has a terrific rack, of course.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:18 PM
For Sunshine Jim. (hi sunnny j)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=7125
Posted by: Miss Anne Thropic at August 15, 2004 01:18 PM
The Teletubbies Greet Bush On The Carrier!
http://www.peterhansen.com/teletub-bush.jpg
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 01:20 PM
Va Va Voom!
http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2002/5/d5-i-129.jpg
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:21 PM
Here's how I spent a
precious year of my life!
... 2003 at war ...
his personal photos of Iraq.
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:21 PM
It would be cool to see..
Better yet to go though the inside..
I did get in a B-52..
So big the wings almost touch the ground..
B-52 still handy in a pinch!!!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:22 PM
War Dog you're playing word games...You want I should play too?
[cracks knuckles]
Bush want's them to vote for who he chooses for them to vote for...
Pretty much like the fair and honest election of 2000...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:22 PM
"Get ready to vote again, suckers!"
"Okay zombies, get ready to vote again! But first, sit down and feast on a delicious propaganda burger with a side order of lies followed by a fresh disinformation salad and a tall glass of Kool-Aid. Now you're ready to vote for the corporate approved candidate of your choice."
http://www.unknownnews.net/040813a-lf.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:24 PM
[bats his eyes innocently]
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:25 PM
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:25 PM
Have you seen the Iraqi ballot???
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:25 PM
*
Weapons:
http://www.bradmesser.com/images/weapons.jpg
*
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 01:26 PM
I love Sunny J!
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:27 PM
Go figure...
"Rumsfeld escapes blame in 'whitewash' Abu Ghraib report"
"A Pentagon report on prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison is being labelled a whitewash before it has even been released."
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:27 PM
In today's Sunday Times:
1. article about voters in Mich/Wisc, and within this, a paragraph about factory workers to be laid off, and someone says (paraphrasing) that these about to be laid off men will still vote for Bush, because they are hunters, and are afraid that if elected, Kerry will take away their guns. (aka 'what's wrong with kansas')
2. great book reviews in the books section..
- "SNOW" by Orhan Pamuk
-"boiling point" by Ross Gelbspan, with review by Al Gore, who writes about the media's coverage of global warming being hijacked by the energy companies and how a lobbying groups for energy companies influence the news.
3. Chistopher Hitchens's review of three books about Kerry , one of which is written by Kerry. "he still gives, to me at any rate, the impression of someone who sincerely wishes that this were not a time of war. When critical votes on the question come up, Kerry always looks like a dog being washed."
and in the magazine:
interview with Yale economist Ray Fair, who has a model that predicts a bush victory of 57.5 percent. he says that social agendas and issues are just 'an error term' in his model, accounting for only 2.5 percent of the total decision. This depresses the interviewer.
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Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:28 PM
"Get ready to vote again, suckers!"
Was that a Nader ad?????
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:28 PM
Nice video clips of Kerry/Edwards campaign "On the Road"
2 Years of Community Service = Paid in State College Tuition
... and more
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 01:28 PM
I've seen the order by paul bremer on his last day changing iraqi law so that any candidate could be excluded from the ballot...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:30 PM
what a bunch of fucking louneys running our military check this out!
These are leaflets we dropped in Iraq!
Not only do we kill their people we litter too!
http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/resources/iraq/
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:31 PM
"Iraqi Troops to Take Lead In Battling Sadr's Forces"
"Between this story, the lack of a Saturday update regarding US casualties, and the fact that the US initiated the last cease-fire, I suspect that Najaf has proven more costly than we are being told."
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:31 PM
They offered Sadr a place..
He turned it down..
He sealed his own fate.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:32 PM
Good to see that war dog will not be voting for bush but for Nader ;)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:33 PM
Tim Robbins is one luckly dude!
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:33 PM
"Israel is not my issue" War Dog
"The Preemptive Invasion of Iraq Was Staged in the Service of Israel"
"Over the years, that segment, the organized American Jewish community - in short, the Israel lobby - has amassed unparalleled political power through skillfully combining the wealth of its members with its extraordinary organizational skills to achieve what amounts to a corporate takeover of the U.S. Congress and virtual veto power over the presidency. It was no secret that Israel had long been interested in eliminating the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and redrawing the map of the Middle East to enhance its power in the region. Initiating that undertaking became a task for key individuals in and around the White House with deep roots in right-wing Israeli politics. The attack on the World Trade Center supplied the opportunity. That Iraq had nothing to do with it was immaterial...The first step has been completed. Saddam Hussein has been removed, not by Israel, but by the U.S. and its "coalition of the willing."
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_international&Number=292860751&t=-1
Good articles on the links
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:35 PM
Iraqi government evicts reporters from Najaf
Iraqi police ordered all journalists to leave the holy city of Najaf today, just as a new U.S. offensive against militants hiding out in a revered shrine there began.
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/02/iraq/
Posted by: Miss Anne Thropic at August 15, 2004 01:36 PM
If Saddam and the CIA and bush stooge Allawi
stupidly decides to destroy sacred places and try to kill Sadr it will explode back on Allawi & bush a thousand fold. Iraq will explode and Allawi will need much more than the 100 heavily armed bodyguards he has now. He will either have to leave or he will die.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:37 PM
eya MAT
Mornin to ya lass!
great links u diggin up!
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 01:38 PM
Note from the webmaster: we called it "killed" when the person is dead in war action. "Murdered" if it is cold blooded assesinated. "If war is a crime, warriors are..."
http://www.thenausea.com/usa-iraq.html
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:39 PM
"Our Computer Ate the Info (GOP blocks foreign donation disclosure similar to Cipel to GOP.)"
"The Bush administration is offering a novel reason for denying a request seeking the Justice Department's database on foreign lobbyists: Copying the information would bring down the computer system. "Implementing such a request risks a crash that cannot be fixed and could result in a major loss of data, which would be devastating," wrote Thomas J. McIntyre, chief in the Justice Department's office for information requests."
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=62072
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:39 PM
AL Qaeda is a Mossad false flag op.
It is the Mossad's new global version of Abu Nidal's organization.
Get some original info to try and fool us with.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Great stuff there!!!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:40 PM
war dog do you know that bush policies have screwed over vets and soldiers in a number of ways? Those are the facts.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:41 PM
The Mossad links have been reported around the world...
the Mossad have a bad habit of getting caught...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:41 PM
Holy Crap!
http://www.socialconscience.com/articles/2002/iraqgate/
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:41 PM
war dog do you know that bush policies have screwed over vets and soldiers in a number of ways? Those are the facts.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hey no nic..
I don't respond to No nics..
But for this I will..
I am looking for those facts!
Post them..
News links..
No website.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:43 PM
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Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:45 PM
War Dog...you've no right to ask for links...You never post them yourself.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:45 PM
Here's an article with a few more links on the subject...
"THE WAR FOR ISRAEL - (and you thought the oil was for the U.S.)"
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:47 PM
Gotta get video clip together for students history lessons this year!
We requested White House approval to include links to the presidents well crafted bs on "tribal sovereignty."
A Mind - A Terrible Thing to Waiste.
This is your brain, this is your brain on crack, smack, coke, and liquor & marijuana all at the same time.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 01:47 PM
this is sad : [
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 01:48 PM
war dog, bush cut veterans benefits, bush cut veterans hospital budgets, bush cut veterans hospitals, bush cut combat pay, bush soldiers health benefits, bush instituted a backdoor draft by stop loss orders that extended multiple times tours of duty for not only regular soldiers but reservists as well
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:48 PM
I am looking for those facts!
Post them..
News links..
No website.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:43 PM///////
Christ almighty dogger
we already posted alla dat
stuff a zillion times allready
why don't you go diggin for yourself?
u don't read even 5% of the stuff we post!
repliying to you is a waste a time
on substantial issues!
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 01:49 PM
Gotta get video clip together for students history lessons this year!
We requested White House approval to include links to the presidents well crafted bs on "tribal sovereignty."
A Mind - A Terrible Thing to Waiste.(sp) Waste
This is your brain, this is your brain on crack, smack, coke, and liquor & marijuana all at the same time.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 01:47 PM
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 01:49 PM
Ariel Sharon said:
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:50 PM
the information on bushs many cuts of veterans & soldiers is well known and out there war dog. If you weren't so uninformed you would know that. Don't be lazy and just dig a little. You always want other people to do your work for you.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:52 PM
That is exactly what I thought..
Not one link..
Case closed!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:52 PM
War Dog You provide no links...stfu...
You're a beggar here you get whats given.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:54 PM
Case closed..
All if have seen is op ed crap..
No one can produce a news link..
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 01:56 PM
here...I throw you a crust of bread War Dog
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:57 PM
You truly are completely ignorant war dog if you aren't aware of how much bush has screwed over the vets and soldiers. Case Closed
Why do you so actively pursue close mindedness and ignorance? You must be more comfortable remaining ignorant. Case Closed
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 01:58 PM
Oh that's total bullshit War Dog...click my name retard.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 01:59 PM
I hear no evil of bush
I speak no evil of bush
I see no evil of bush
I am a blind deaf mute monkey for bush
Case Closed
Posted by: war dog at August 15, 2004 02:01 PM
That is why I do not respond to No nics.
And the reason they fly under the radar.
When asked to produce.
You get nothing but more crap.
It never fails.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:01 PM
omb.gov
congress.gov
whitehouse.gov
Do you need it spelled out for you?
You can read actual copies of the budget.
You calling me out again War Dog?
cuz if'n ya are I'm not gonna take too kindly to it...matter of fact it might be just enough to end whatever gracious feelings I have towards ya.
Do you own leg work I'm busy you lazy assed SOB
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:02 PM
many veterans organizations have info on how they have been screwed over by bush.
Nobody has links of soldiers, guard & vets being screwed over by bush
there is tons of info for those that chose to open their minds even just a little
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 02:03 PM
i ain't worried dogger
for some reason u can't leave.
do yer own digging lazybutt.
eya N i see youre diggin
into the israelis
version of the
neocons?
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:04 PM
I got a nick?
You think I can't produce?
Do ya War Bitch?
You done pissed me off...I've posted and reposted and linked and relinked all the crap you're calling for now while you sat on this blog...
You ignored them that is obvious now...You have no respect for me and no appreciation for my efforts...
Enjoy the ride to hell you've got a full tank of gas.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:04 PM
I read you links yesterday..
Nothing there..
Just ONE..
Not two..
Just one..
Link to a real news story..
What did Bush cut?
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:04 PM
war dog, you are a very lazy person. I gave you some pointers and all you can do is whine like a spoiled little boy.
I doubt now that you ever were in the military because no one could be that unaware of the facts.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 02:06 PM
Ok War Dog...this is the last time...I'll do another write up like when you said there was no child torture in Iraq...
you're interrupting my news reading with your petulant childish behavior.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:06 PM
All I ask for is one link..
To a real story..
What was cut..
And when..
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:07 PM
Sorry the last bit of news for a while so that i can go find War Dogs links for him...lazy wingnut fuck.
"Harkin wants Bush to end 'backdoor draft' of troops"
"The senator, opposing the military's 'stop loss' policy, also calls Vice President Dick Cheney a 'coward"
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040814/NEWS09/408140335/1001/NEWS
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:08 PM
God Almighty war dog, WAKE UP!
Bush cut a number of veterans benefits.He also cut soldiers combat pay and extended their tours of combate duty multiple times even after they were promised a firm date for going home. He is the #1 violator of veterans and soldiers there is. Why do you think at least half the soldiers and vets are pissed at him?
Why do you absolutely insist on being stubbornly ignorant?
You sir are no veteran, you have been disowned by those that are.
Posted by: James Burkes at August 15, 2004 02:10 PM
Office and management and budget...
omb.gov
I'm sick of your lazy shit...
Be back in an hour or so...and if you say one more word on this after I provide the links I swear I will find you and shave your balls then dip you in salt
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:10 PM
Jim..
I did not make the claim..
Then ask someone to provide the link..
Or litte shy girl made the claim!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:11 PM
heres an interesting riff
from way back on mossad etc.
""Ben-Menashe also claimed knowledge of Israeli intelligence penetration of the U.S. government at top levels, Israel's use of press magnate Robert Maxwell as a spy, and the distribution of rigged computer software to extract secrets from other governments.
All told, Ben-Menashe's accounts represented what could have been a major intelligence breach for both the Israeli and U.S. governments. If true, his information would literally rewrite the history of the Reagan-Bush era and expose President Bush, in particular, to charges of collaborating with Iranian terrorists to fix the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in 1980.""
"Faced with those documents, the Israeli government retreated, admitting that the documents were real and that Ben-Menashe indeed had worked for Israeli intelligence. But authorities in Tel Aviv still tried to minimize Ben-Menashe's importance."
"Eitan also disclosed that he and Ben-Menashe collaborated on a project using so-called PROMIS software to collect sensitive intelligence about Israel's enemies in the Middle East."
Continued
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:15 PM
I dont understand someone like you war dog that refuses to see the facts right in front of them.
In addition to the vets, guard and soldiers that bush could care less about. He also screwed over the police, firefighters and first responders in the US. by the way bush also did not supply enough armor & lots of other equipment for the troops. As commander in chief he is Responsible & Accountable for that. The buck stops on his Incompendent desk.
Oh yeah. He isn't at work half the time the lazy ass bush bum. Is that the part of bush you are trying to emulate war dog?
Posted by: emilio at August 15, 2004 02:17 PM
continued:
"In the 1980s, some of Eitan's most controversial work was as head of LAKAM, a military intelligence unit created to collect scientific and technological intelligence.
In one of Eitan's daring operations, the spymaster authorized recruitment of Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who was a civilian intelligence analyst at the U.S. Navy's Anti-Terrorism Alert Center. Pollard was assigned to spy within the U.S. Defense Department and to steal sensitive U.S. documents.
"Over 1,000 highly classified documents, 360 cubic feet of paper, were transmitted to Israel," Thomas wrote. "There Rafi Eitan devoured them before passing over the material to the Mossad. The data enabled [its director general] Nahum Admoni to brief [Prime Minister] Shimon Peres ? on how to respond to Washington's Middle East policies in a manner previously impossible."
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:18 PM
war dog you are the laziest person there is here by far. what the hell is wrong with you
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 02:18 PM
why do I have the feeling that war dog never reads any links here at all and only reads the funnies & part of the sports section like bush does.
With a extremely busy schedule John Kerry reads a half dozen publications a day in addition to reading senate and campaign volumes. On top of that he reads books too!
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 02:23 PM
Goober Pyle has a heavier reading volume than bush
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 02:25 PM
"I asked Thomas why he thought Eitan was going public now with these disclosures. Thomas replied that Eitan simply considered his intelligence coups of the 1980s among his greatest professional triumphs and wanted credit.
"Rafi Eitan wants to leave a legacy that he was Israel's greatest spymaster since Gideon," said Thomas, referring to the Old Testament hero whose spying saved the Israelites from destruction. "He [Eitan] thinks what he created with PROMIS was the perfect climax to his career."
In asserting his claim to Gideon-like status, Eitan also burnished the reputation of his understudy, Ari Ben-Menashe. It now appears that Ben-Menashe, who lives in Canada, did possess real information despite the negative judgments by Congress and much of the Washington press corps."
Jack Colhoun, Ph.D., is an investigative reporter and a Cold War historian.
Above Exerpts from this article:
sraeli Spy Cover-up Crumbles
By Jack Colhoun
http://www.consortiumnews.com/1999/101499a.html
worth reading
to understand how many
levels were going in the 80's
with mossad and the middle east.
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:25 PM
This is sourced but of course I have to go out and find the raw data and perhaps file in triplicate even though I read and passed this studd up a year ago....GRRRRR
http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/veterans/families.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:27 PM
See where it cites it sources like so..."Knight-Ridder, 4/5/03"
That the paper it was published in...the date..."but I dunno how to figure that our MR.Nobody...do it for me"
Lousy POS War Dog
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:29 PM
Iraq's Arafat
What is a country to do when it has tried to finesse its way out of a military conflict, only to be faced with a stronger, more-entrenched enemy? Let us just say that we have sympathy with the US-Iraqi dilemma over terrorist-cum-cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
The Iraqi government, led by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, has been turning up the heat on Sadr's stronghold in Najaf. Following American bombings from the air and some fighting on the ground, Allawi called off a major American ground offensive to "clear" Sadr's militia, preferring to have Iraqi troops lead the fight.
Aside from the fighting peppered with cease-fires and terrorists hiding behind civilians and in mosques, what made all this look especially familiar to Israeli eyes was the bombing of Sadr's house. This reminds us of the ever-tightening circles drawn around Yasser Arafat's Mukata headquarters, leading to the Palestinian leader's essential imprisonment.
The analogy between Arafat and Sadr is obviously an imperfect one. Though Arafat has embraced the path of terror that he claimed to have forsworn, he did so not as a renegade but as a leader anointed, however undemocratically, by his own people and the international community. Sadr is an offshoot who is tactically and strategically at odds with the recognized leader of Iraqi Shi'ites, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, not to mention the interim Iraqi government.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:31 PM
*
a look under the coverup rug
*
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo10112003.html
Secret biological warfare programmes
"Back in 1961 and 1962, the CIA used biological weapons on Cuba's agricultural workers. A decade later, the CIA introduced swine fever into the island, precipitating an epidemic which culminated in the death of 500,000 pigs.
The Washington Post further detailed the US covert war against Cuba in 1979 when it published an article claiming the Pentagon had produced biological agents to use against Cuba's sugar cane and tobacco production. Other suspicious disease outbreaks include haemorraghic conjunctivitis, dengue fever, dysentery, ulcerative mammillitis, black sigatoka, and citric sapper blight, to name but a few. In 1977, CIA documents disclosed that the Agency "maintained a clandestine anti-crop warfare research program targeted during the 1960s at a number of countries throughout the world," according to the Washington Post.
"In 1984, Eduardo Arocena, leader of the terrorist group OMEGA-7, admitted to an American jury that he had taken part in operations to introduce deadly viruses into Cuba as part of a secret biological warfare programme against Havana," writes Marcia Miranda. Arocena was trained in the use of explosives by Cuban exiles who were trained by the CIA.
And then there was Operation Northwoods.
As James Bamford writes in his book, Body of Secrets, "Operation Northwoods called for a war in which many patriotic Americans and innocent Cubans would die senseless deaths -- all to satisfy the egos of twisted generals back in Washington, safe in their taxpayer-financed homes and limousines."
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo10112003.html
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:32 PM
the jerusalem post?...I wonder if they have a bias?
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:33 PM
From your post..
After criticism from Democrats, the Pentagon announced that current salaries for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan would not be cut, but such efforts may come at the expense of troops serving elsewhere. [Knight-Ridder, 4/5/03; Los Angeles Times, 4/3/03; CQ, 4/16/03; San Francisco Chronicle, 8/14/03; Army Times, 8/13/03; 8/20/03]
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:35 PM
I always post links to Op Ed stories..
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:36 PM
*
"Civil rights?
I ain't gotta show you
no stinking civil rights!"
Welcome to the American Gestapo
by Doug Thompson
Exerpt:
Wonder if any of the vast sums of money approved Tuesday for the new Department of Homeland Security are set aside for black uniforms with knee-length boots and black leather trench coats?
Should be. Since we?ve gone to all this trouble to create the new American Gestapo we might as well let them look the part.
Excuse me if I don?t join in all the senseless celebration over creation of yet another mammoth bureaucracy of the federal government. Pardon me if I don?t go ga-ga over a federal agency that has been given unlimited powers to spy on Americans, trample all over the First and Fourth Amendments, ignore the privacy of anyone it chooses and violate the rights of every man, woman and child who used to live in the Land of the Free.
Our own paranoia has accomplished what Osama bin Laden and his minions could not with hijacked airplanes and vague threats about future attacks - these fears have forced America to abandon its principles and create a police state.
This new Department of Homeland Security has the power to wiretap any American it wants, without a court order, without cause and without justification to any higher authority. Homeland Security goon squads will have the power to enter any American home, without a search warrant, without probable cause, simply because someone somewhere says ?hey, this guy might be a threat.? No checks and balances, no due process. Nothing."
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1121-03.htm
Published on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 by Capitol Hill Blue
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:40 PM
like that makes a difference?
You're just covering you ass now bullshitter
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:40 PM
"After criticism from Democrats"
From my post
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:43 PM
Your post says that there were no cuts.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:47 PM
and here's what came after that War Dog...for fiscal year 2004
http://www.house.gov/budget_democrats/congressional_budgets/fy2004/vetscuts_may2103.pdf
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:47 PM
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo01032004.html
Weekend Edition
January 3 / 4, 2004
Watch Out for Organic Farmers!
Ashcroft Goes After the Left(COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS)
By KURT NIMMO
In an apparently ludicrous turn of events, the FBI warned local law enforcement across the country to be on the lookout for the latest al- Qaeda manual -- the Farmer's Almanac.
"The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning," reports the Bush Ministry of Disinformation, Fox News Division. "It urged officers to watch during searches, traffic stops and other investigations for anyone carrying almanacs, especially if the books are annotated in suspicious ways."
"The practice of researching potential targets is consistent with known methods of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations that seek to maximize the likelihood of operational success through careful planning," added the FBI.
If the police discover anything "suspicious," they are to report it immediately to their local Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), according to the FBI bulletin released on Christmas Eve.
JTTFs are new and relatively unknown. They are essentially the FBI's vanguard -- a crucial and emerging link between the FBI, various federal agencies, state law enforcement, and local police departments.
The JTTF concept originally "began with 11 members from the NYPD and 11 FBI investigators," explains the Law Enforcement Agency Resource Network. "Today's task force, 1 of 16 nationwide, includes more than 140 members representing numerous federal and local agencies, such as the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the New York State Police, the NewYork/New Jersey Port Authority Police Department, and the U.S. Secret Service."
In other words, the connecting tissue of the evolving surveillance state.<
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:49 PM
Your pfd says the house voted to stop the cuts.
Again no cuts..
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 02:53 PM
Dec. 15, 2002. 03:21 PM
BUSH TURNS CIA INTO TERRORIST ORGINIZATION
Bush widens CIA terror role
Agency given expanded authority to hunt, kill terrorists Al Qaeda leaders put at top of new `worst of the worst' list
JAMES RISEN AND DAVID JOHNSTON
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON?The Bush administration has prepared a list of about two dozen terrorist leaders that the CIA is authorized to kill if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials said. The previously undisclosed Central Intelligence Agency list of targets includes top leaders of Al Qaeda, like Osama bin Laden and his chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, and other key figures from Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups, the officials said. "It's the worst of the worst," one official said. U.S. President George W. Bush has provided written legal authority to the CIA to hunt down and kill the terrorists without seeking further approval each time the agency is about to launch an operation. Some officials said the terrorist list was known as the "high-value target list." Despite the authority given to the CIA, Bush has not waived the executive order banning assassinations, officials said. The presidential authority to kill terrorists defines operatives of Al Qaeda as enemy combatants and thus legitimate targets for lethal force. Bush issued a presidential finding last year, after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people, providing the basic executive and legal authority for the CIA to either kill or capture terrorist leaders. Initially, the CIA used that authority to search for Al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan. That authority was the basis for the CIA and military effort to kill bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders and several Taliban leaders. The newer list represents an expanded CIA e
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:53 PM
just read this about a democrat trying to visit a Bush rally with an officially issued ticket:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4925396.html
Posted by: quantumspin at August 15, 2004 02:54 PM
*
US CITIZENS MAY BE LEGALLY KILLED BY CIA
U.S. al-Qaeda operatives can be killed, officials say
Wednesday, December 4, 2002 - Page A18
WASHINGTON -- U.S. citizens working for al-Qaeda abroad can legally be targeted and killed by the Central Intelligence Agency under President George W. Bush's rules for the war on terrorism, American officials say.
The authority is granted under a confidential document signed by the President after Sept. 11, directing the CIA to covertly attack al-Qaeda anywhere in the world. The authority makes no exception for U.S. citizens, so permission to target them is understood although not specifically described, officials said, speaking on the condition they not be named.
The officials said it is preferable to capture and question al-Qaeda operatives, especially if they are U.S. citizens, and any decision to kill an American would have to be made at the highest levels, perhaps by Mr. Bush. Military-style strikes would take place only when law-enforcement and internal-security efforts by foreign countries fail, the officials said.
Officials have no specific estimates on the number of Americans working with al- Qaeda.
On previous occasions when U.S. presidents authorized lethal covert action -- in Latin America and elsewhere -- they have also tacitly allowed their operatives to kill Americans who fought with the other side, former senior intelligence officials said.
But officials knew of no instances where U.S. citizens were targeted. AP
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 02:57 PM
You sure you're reading the same thing I am?
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:58 PM
Take 2 again,war dog but you have to want the information to understand it. You won't find it on your propaganda sites because they don't want u to know the truth.
It is what is it is, and not what you want it to be. bUSh is not for you if you don't make over 200,000 a year.
and even they do earn 200,000 yr, as many people agree, must have a kool-aid attraction to support such a shell of a man.
If you're so easily bequiled then don't ask us to leave, just do us the favor and get the hell out of the way because it's not goin down like that and bUSh & dickhead cheney must be held accountable.
These are the boys/girls 5,000+ who bUSh / dickhead (AWOL, draft dodger) under fund care for...
I do believe 7 to 10 VA centers were projected for closure too.
More war, less care! It's gettin' thick-up-in-here.
"Help is On The Way"
"Help is On The Way"
"Help Is On The Way"
http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/dpc-doc.cfm?doc_name=fs-108-2-64
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2003/tst111003.htm
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 02:58 PM
Lets look at you logic for a moment...
Bush tried to cut veterans benefits but the democrats stopped him so Bush is good for veterans?
Uhhh WTf?
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 02:58 PM
Even Though they bent to democrat pressure on veterans benefits enough to say that they were going to put 1.8 billion into the budget to cover higher healthcare, housing costs...and the increase in disabled veterans coming back from Iraq and afghanstan...in the final budget the republicans reneged on the deal
http://democrats.house.gov/issues/veterans/side_by_side.cfm
More links coming
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:02 PM
I have noticed a ramping up of the republican presence on the web, specifically a misinformation campaign, spamming of search engines and the burying of the governmental numbers that might malign them and their policies.
The information is still there for now; you just have to dig like crazy to find it.
Here is the history of federal deficit and surplus, (note the deficit/surplus in view of which party is in control) this nicely debunks the “republicans are conservative” myth: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/pdf/hist.pdf
Here is a link showing unemployment rates as they correspond to deficits and the party in control:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2004/06/art2full.pdf
Posted by: terry wilke at August 15, 2004 03:04 PM
*
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4925396.html
Hearing Bush took some doing
Nick Coleman:
Walz is a first sergeant in the 125th Field Artillery Battalion in New Ulm. He returned in April from duty providing security at a U.S. base in Italy. He has too much respect for the office of president to heckle one. But he almost got busted for escorting those baby Democrats.
After riding a Bush bus to the quarry, Walz and the kids got off to go through the metal detectors and have their IDs checked. Bush officials took the kids aside and thoroughly inspected them. When one was discovered to have a Kerry sticker on his wallet, they were ordered back onto the bus.
Walz objected, and he was asked to leave, too. "You're not welcome," a Bush guy said. "Get back on the bus."
Walz said he had a right to see the president.
So you support the president? a Bush guy asked. I didn't say that, said Walz. Then you're an opponent? I didn't say that, either, said Walz, thinking it was nobody's business.
"If you don't get on that bus," the guy said, "you'll be detained by the Secret Service for interfering with a presidential event."
"I don't want to get arrested," Walz said. "My wife will get mad because I'm supposed to pick up our daughter [Hope, 3] and make dinner. Do you really want to arrest someone who just got back from overseas, because he wants to see the president?"
The Bush guys backed down. They said they'd do him a favor if he behaved himself. He ignored the insult. They said the Secret Service was watching him. They let him in.
A week later, Walz is appalled by the freedom-loving citizens who say he shouldn't have gone to see the president.
"The attitude is that if you're not a supporter, why would you go? It's really disappointing. What happened to being able to listen to the other side?"
Walz listened. And made up his mind. On Wednesday, he was named Blue Earth County manager of the Kerry campaign. In case you have forgotten how America works, that does not make him disloyal. And no one can say he is not informed.
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:07 PM
And before you start splitting hairs again...Bush cut all of those programs in his proposed budget...Then it went to the house and even the house republicans said it was too far and the house democrats busted their nuts on it...
Then it goes to the senate where finally the last bit of it is hammered into place by democrat senators....
Oh Gee War Dog I don't see how your logic is winning you any freaknig arguments today.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:08 PM
*
Unlike many people, Tim Walz has gotten to see the president.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4925396.html
was a great article, thanks fer de link!
Also repubs messin with
Democrat Voter Registration,
changing addresses, other black hat shi*!
*
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:09 PM
I would have to think that if Bush cut military pay..
The news would be full of stories..
But if Bush cut benefits it would be in the AP record.
And maybe Kerry would bring it up.
Did Kerry miss this????
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:09 PM
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=//Politics//archive//200302//POL20030211a.html
Articles of Impeachment
By Ramsey Clark
CNSNews.com Information Services
February 11, 2003
(Editor's Note: The following is a list of the articles of impeachment, proposed by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, targeting President George W. Bush as well as top officials of his administration.)
Articles of Impeachment
of
President George W. Bush
Vice President Richard B. Cheney
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
and
Attorney General John David Ashcroft
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors. -- Article II, Section 4 of The Constitution of the United States of America.
Acts which require the impeachment of President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld; and Attorney General John David Ashcroft include:
1) Ordering and directing a proclaimed "pre-emptive", or "first strike" war of aggression against Afghanistan causing thousands of deaths indiscriminately, a major proportion non combatants, leaving millions homeless and hungry and installing a government of their choice in Kabul.
2) Authorizing daily intrusions into the airspace of Iraq by U.S. military aircraft in violation of the sovereignty of Iraq and aerial attacks on facilities and persons, on the soil of Iraq, killing hundreds of people indiscriminately, initially falsely claiming self defense though over a period of eleven years not a single U.S. aircraft has been struck or damaged by gunfire from Iraq, but later admitting the targeting of defense installations in Iraq, as war preparations they ordered progressed.
3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilians facilities and locations where civilian casualties are unavoidable.
4) Threatening Iraq with proclaimed "pre-emptive", or "fir
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:12 PM
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4925396.html
Hearing Bush took some doing
Nick Coleman:
Walz is a first sergeant in the 125th Field Artillery Battalion in New Ulm. He returned in April from duty providing security at a U.S. base in Italy. He has too much respect for the office of president to heckle one. But he almost got busted for escorting those baby Democrats.
After riding a Bush bus to the quarry, Walz and the kids got off to go through the metal detectors and have their IDs checked. Bush officials took the kids aside and thoroughly inspected them. When one was discovered to have a Kerry sticker on his wallet, they were ordered back onto the bus.
Walz objected, and he was asked to leave, too. "You're not welcome," a Bush guy said. "Get back on the bus."
Walz said he had a right to see the president.
So you support the president? a Bush guy asked. I didn't say that, said Walz. Then you're an opponent? I didn't say that, either, said Walz, thinking it was nobody's business.
"If you don't get on that bus," the guy said, "you'll be detained by the Secret Service for interfering with a presidential event."
"I don't want to get arrested," Walz said. "My wife will get mad because I'm supposed to pick up our daughter [Hope, 3] and make dinner. Do you really want to arrest someone who just got back from overseas, because he wants to see the president?"
The Bush guys backed down. They said they'd do him a favor if he behaved himself. He ignored the insult. They said the Secret Service was watching him. They let him in.
A week later, Walz is appalled by the freedom-loving citizens who say he shouldn't have gone to see the president.
"The attitude is that if you're not a supporter, why would you go? It's really disappointing. What happened to being able to listen to the other side?"
Walz listened. And made up his mind. On Wednesday, he was named Blue Earth County manager of the Kerry campaign. In case you have forgotten how America works, that does not make him disloyal. And no one can say he is not informed.
Posted by: Sunshine Ji
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 03:13 PM
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=//Politics//archive//200302//POL20030211a.html
Articles of Impeachment
By Ramsey Clark
CNSNews.com Information Services
February 11, 2003
(Editor's Note: The following is a list of the articles of impeachment, proposed by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, targeting President George W. Bush as well as top officials of his administration.)
"4) Threatening Iraq with proclaimed "pre-emptive", or "first strike" attack and a war of aggression by overwhelming force and military superiority including specific threats to use nuclear weapons while engaged in a massive military build-up in nations and waters surrounding Iraq.
5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently proclaiming an intention to change its government by force while preparing to assault Iraq in a war of aggression.
6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
7) Authorizing, directing and condoning bribery and coercion of governments and individuals to cause them to act in violation of their duty and the law, including to maintain and tighten enforcement of economic sanctions against Iraq which continue to increase the death rate of infants, children and elderly persons; to attack and kill designated groups, or persons; to permit use of land, facilities, territorial waters, or air space for U.S. attacks on Iraq; to vote, abstain in a vote, or publicly proclaim support for a U.S. or U.N. attack on Iraq; to defect from Iraq, or t
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:15 PM
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=//Politics//archive//200302//POL20030211a.html
Articles of Impeachment
By Ramsey Clark
CNSNews.com Information Services
February 11, 2003
9) Violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in "pre emptive" wars, first strike attacks and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and other nations by assuming powers of an imperial executive who is not accountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and the people of the United States to prevent interferences with the unlawful executive exercise of military power and economic coercion against the international community.
10) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting, violations and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.
Ramsey Clark
Former Attorney General of the United States of America
January 15, 2003
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=//Politics//archive//200302//POL20030211a.html
Articles of Impeachment
By Ramsey Clark
CNSNews.com Information Services
February 11, 2003
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:16 PM
No War Dog it was in the news...The republicans backed off...
Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:16 PM
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4925396.html
Hearing Bush took some doing
Nick Coleman:
Walz is a first sergeant in the 125th Field Artillery Battalion in New Ulm. He returned in April from duty providing security at a U.S. base in Italy. He has too much respect for the office of president to heckle one. But he almost got busted for escorting those baby Democrats.
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:07 PM
WOW FG,
I'll bet Michael Moore is seeing $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
This would make another fine documentary on the bUSh interpretation of American democracy.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 03:17 PM
Articles of Impeachment
By Ramsey Clark
CNSNews.com Information Services
February 11, 2003
Kinda old..
Wonder how that is moving along???
I'm thinkin it is ready to pop..
BUSH IMPEACHED..
President Cheney invades Iran!!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:18 PM
*
love u all
standing by....
(to nice a day to not do something else!)
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:21 PM
Remember back in june 30 when the budget went into a stand still? I'ts stil there.
The President's budget:
* Does not provide adequate funding for our current veterans, or the veterans who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
* Threatens to drive hundreds of thousands of veterans away from the VA health care system by imposing new copayment increases and new fees, including a $250 "user fee" for VA health services.
* Cuts $21 million from the VA medicare and prosthetic research program, at a time when thousands of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering severe injuries.
* Shortchanges disabled veterans by continuing the Disabled Veterans Tax, which causes a one dollar reduction in a veteran's pension for every one dollar of disability compensation earned.
* Fails to address the long backlogs of veterans waiting months for health care.
http://democrats.senate.gov/demsengov-doc.cfm?a=108&b=1&c=84
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:21 PM
No War Dog it was in the news...The republicans backed off...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well that is good news..
So I guess there were no military cuts?
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:22 PM
Sorry Sunshine! ----- Terrible Post ------
Desperate times.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4925396.html
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 03:24 PM
This is what Bush wanted to do...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2153-2003Jun16?language=printer
What he was able to do is another question...however you will note that the 2005 budget is effecrively frozen right now and that the rest of the funding for the Iraq war isn't set to be appropriated until AFTER the election....convenient huh?
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:25 PM
GO senator TIM HARKIN.....
tell it like it is...................
"When I hear this coming from Dick Cheney, who
was a coward, who would not serve during the
Vietnam War, it makes my blood boil," Harkin
said. "Those of us who served and those of us who
went in the military don't like it when someone
like a Dick Cheney comes out and he wants to be
tough. Yeah, he'll be tough. He'll be tough with
somebody else's blood, somebody else's kids. But
not when it was his turn to go."
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 03:25 PM
*
umm one last thing,
"IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST!!!"
umm thanks for your attention!
control of your destiny is back in your hands,
take er slow at first and watch out for the curves!
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:27 PM
"So I guess there were no military cuts?"
No The budget is frozen until after the election because they still want to make the cuts and Dems been filibustering em in the senate.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:27 PM
Well that is good news..
So I guess there were no military cuts?
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:22 PM
Thanks to the Democrats!
Posted by: terry wilke at August 15, 2004 03:28 PM
From your post..
The White House parries the charge by pointing to pay raises for the troops of more than 15 percent under Bush, privatizing of troops' housing, and large increases in defense spending -- all resulting in record retention rates in the military. Bush aides also counter that the president proposed the largest-ever increase in discretionary spending for the Veterans Administration in his 2004 budget.
"The commander in chief has restored respect, pride, pay, training and the quality of life for our active-duty military and veterans," said Trent Duffy, spokesman for Bush's Office of Management and Budget. "His special bond with our troops only grows stronger by shallow attempts to weaken it."
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:30 PM
presently the dems fillibustered the judicial nominees...
oye I need a word and I can't think of it right at the moment...wheres my coffee!?
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:31 PM
Sorry Sunshine! ----- Terrible Post ------
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 03:24 PM
eya Pablo!
how ya b homie?
no pologeeez required here
all posts welcome, specially yourz bud!
(see ya, me takin doggerz hunting for a coupla hourz! ; )))
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 03:31 PM
oh yes war dog...creative cut and paste...take it out of context...
you realize how deceptive that is right?
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:32 PM
Explosions, Gunfire Jolt Iraqi Holy City After Talks Collapse
VOA News
15 Aug 2004, 11:37 UTC
AP
Explosions and tank fire boomed across the largely deserted Iraqi holy city of Najaf Sunday , as U.S. troops and armor resumed fighting Shi'ite insurgents following the collapse of truce talks.
Witnesses say the fighting near the ancient cemetery in central Najaf resumed shortly after police ordered all journalists to leave the city. There were no confirmed casualty reports.
A ceasefire Friday halted more than a week of fierce fighting between fighters loyal to firebrand Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and U.S. and Iraqi government forces.
Iraq's national security adviser says the government made every effort to negotiate an end to the standoff in Najaf. However, insurgents claim the Baghdad government ordered officials to scuttle the talks even though the two sides were making progress
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:33 PM
A new report by the Democratic staff on the House Appropriations Committee this week asserts that Bush, by cutting about $200 million in the program that provides assistance to public schools serving military bases, would pare education funding disproportionately for children of soldiers who fought in Iraq. That adds to several complaints the staff has assembled: Bush's signature on the latest tax cut, which failed to extend a child tax credit to nearly 200,000 low-income military personnel; a $1.5 billion reduction in his 2004 budget, to $9.2 billion from $10.7 billion, for military housing and the like; and a cut of $14.6 billion over 10 years in benefits paid through the Veterans Administration.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:34 PM
It was YOUR post..
The response..
The Bush vet cut is thin as water..
It is not even an issue.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:35 PM
The maneuvering has already begun. Last week, Democrats tried to add $947 million for military housing to a 2004 spending bill, losing on a party-line vote in a subcommittee. They also charge that Bush would cut off about 173,000 veterans from health care under his 2004 budget request to "refocus the VA health care system" while requiring enrollment fees and higher out-of-pocket costs.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:35 PM
War Dog wants to keep the pretty words but he doesn't like the numbers...why is that War Dog?
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:36 PM
This time around, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), a presidential candidate and Vietnam veteran, said he feels "very strongly" that the issue, particularly veterans' benefits, is a vulnerability for Bush. "The real test of patriotism is how you treat veterans and keep promises to people who wore the uniform," he said.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:36 PM
No because it's been blockaded until after the election...that's why you maundering jack ass
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:38 PM
In the words of George Costanza, "I'm back, baby."
If Bush attempted to mug an old lady, but was stopped by a good samaritan, Wardog would claim that Bush doesn't mug old ladies.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 03:40 PM
It's an issue because that's what he wants to do but not what he says he'll do...
Like I said "Bush wants to cut veterans benefits, but he has to wait until after the election because democrats have blocked him every step of the way from doing so and he doesn't want to lose any more support....sooooooo vote bush?
That makes no sense what so ever battle poodle
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:41 PM
Well good luck to Kerry..
If that is what he picks as an issue..
With his record on defense spending..
Kerry should focus on just about anything else.
This military thing is not working out for Kerry.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:41 PM
"Those of us who served and those of us who
went in the military don't like it when someone
like a Dick Cheney comes out and he wants to be
tough. Yeah, he'll be tough. He'll be tough with
somebody else's blood, somebody else's kids. But
not when it was his turn to go."
With the attacks against Kerry's service, and by highlighting their own cowardice, the republicans have alienated one of their largest voting blocks, the military families!
Posted by: terry wilke at August 15, 2004 03:41 PM
Got an email back from Juan Cole this morning. He'll be on MRR with Sam and Janeane tomorrow (Monday) night.
That's something Doggy hasn't understood all along.
I gots me pocket aces.
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 03:42 PM
Hi Will..
Saw your photo's
Looked good.
That was at a comedy club??
You are turning into quite a stalker!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:44 PM
War Dog your opinion is worthless because your logic is worthless...
Go away now...go on a bike ride or something you're not wanted any more
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:44 PM
Unfiltered repeat on AAR is hilarious!
http://play.rbn.com/?url=airam/airam/live/live.rm&proto=rtsp
Posted by: Skeezix at August 15, 2004 03:45 PM
Well if you do find a link to an actual cut..
Bookmark it..
Got a feeling NO nic will be back..
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:46 PM
Here Battle Poodle...try this.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2095705/
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 03:47 PM
How am I lookin Fish??
They ain't got him yet..
But I don't think it will be long..
Did I say by Monday???
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 03:47 PM
You're just jealous because the only smile you put on a woman's face these days is when you tell your wife that you're stepping out for awhile.
In fact, you should consider getting out of the house more often. Your arguments are getting more and more pathetic.
The pic was taken at Rocky Sullivan's, a bar where they have a political comedy show on Tuesday's called Satire for Sanity.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 03:51 PM
In light bUSh pulling the carpet out from under the soldiers and veterans the leadership in the military still kisses his ass.
I don't get it.
Gen Meyers with Rumsfeld,
Gen Page with Wolfowitz,
in front of Congress lying to the American people who's protection they've sworn to protect...
What a shame, it makes me sick because the Generals are generally believed to be better people, but like good soldiers they are also human beings and have flaws. Afterall, the can always defer and say we were following orders of maniacs.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 03:55 PM
Heading out in just a few ...
Rode the bike Sat..
Going to run today..
A slow weekend..
So was she any good???
The show I mean...
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 04:00 PM
Dog,
~~~ Did I say by Monday??? ~~~
You're doing fine, not that anything but Al Sadr as a name means anything. Monday's fine. Monday USA time... that even gives you an extra 12 hours. You should understand by now that I WANT you to be right about this one.
The killing or capture of Al Sadr would end the present violence and nearly completely unmonitored killing of civilians all over Iraq. It would be the start of the revolution. How's that National Conference going? Any walkouts yet? They might be saving that until the last day.
In my head, I keep replaying the scene near the end of Lawrence of Arabia where Lawrence and all the Arabs are trying to come to agreements in Damascus... where they were hopping up on tables and pointing knives at each other and Anthony Quin says... "He insulted me!"
People have their own ways. Lawrence found that out. Bush will too.
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 04:01 PM
"Cannabis may block growth of brain cancer"
"Scientists have shown that cannabinoids the chemicals responsible for the drug’s high deter the growth of blood vessels which feed the tumour"
http://www.sundayherald.com/44079
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:01 PM
Yes there was a walkout..
About 5%...
Think they came back..
Promises of "We will look into it"
Revolution or elections..
Why die if you are in the majority and can vote?
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 04:05 PM
The place was packed. There was a line outside the door. They need a bigger venue, at least when Janeane was there. Janeane was as funny and cool as ever.
Don't know if you read my post from a couple days ago, but I actually cornered Janeane for a few minutes and asked her about the blog. Except for the time during the show, she doesn't read it.
It's too bad. I think she'd get into blogging if she gave it shot. Sam certainly loves it.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 04:07 PM
Finally something meaty for the hackers to play with....
"Federal Reserve will begin transferring the nation's money supply over an Internet-based system"
"The Fed moves about $1.8 trillion a day on a closed, stand-alone computer network. But soon it will switch to a system called FedLine Advantage, a Web-based technology."
http://www.nypost.com/business/18671.htm
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:08 PM
~~~ Why die if you are in the majority and can vote? ~~~
Why put up with an occupying army and a puppet leader when you can be rid of them with a little solidarity?
Allawi goes early and its tough to see how our troops stay in Iraq. Allawi is hanging by a thread.
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 04:10 PM
FOR BART
Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours
New Scientist - 16 hours ago
Cannabis extracts may shrink brain tumours and other cancers by blocking the growth of the blood vessels which feed them, suggests a new study.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13192385,00.html
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 04:11 PM
"‘Iraqi exiles see this as another occupation’"
"Somewhere in the smoke around the Imam Ali mosque in the holy city of Najaf, two young British men will this morning be kneeling in prayer, eating a sandwich or counting their bullets."
http://www.sundayherald.com/44142
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:12 PM
I think Janeane avoids things that piss her off.
Not a bad plan for most.
But a tough spot if involved in politics.
I did not think she read much of it.
Although there was one post I thought might have been hers.
But it would be nice if she showed now and again.
Sam is good about that.
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 04:12 PM
"Thoughts on Najaf"
"How Could the US Ever Be Considered a "Terrorist" State?"
http://www.counterpunch.org/madarasz08132004.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:15 PM
War Dog...go ride your god damned bike...I swear I will shave your balls and sit you in salt...no joke...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:17 PM
War Dog...go ride your god damned bike...I swear I will shave your balls and sit you in salt...no joke...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:17 PM
Hi Everyone! Hope your day has been great.
For Wardog
Even though he is too lazy to find things for himself:
http://www.housedemocrats.gov/issues/veterans/hot_topic.cfm?topic_id=62
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 04:17 PM
All they have to do is wait 6 months..
Vote for anyone they want..
We have to go anyway..
Hard to get rid of Allawi..
Only thing I could see that would change that..
Is Sistani..
But he wants the vote..
Why would he change his mind..
To let Sadr rule Iraq??
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 04:17 PM
Wardog,
One question before you go running.
Why is it that you trumpet free speech when there is talk on the blog about banning trolls, but have no problem with Bush and Chaney screening out those with alternative points of view. Seems hypocritical.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 04:18 PM
@#$^@$%&@ mouse...fighting with it all day...bad mouse...bout to send it for a bike ride too
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:18 PM
Hi Again...That was my no nic post fopr wardog.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:18 PM
Sam not only shows up here and says Hi. Sam USES the blog. Sam sees us as a major resource. We are. A couple of dozen dedicated information gatherers? What's not to like about that?
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 04:21 PM
Janeane couldn't admit to ever blogging if she did any way ;)
She is a bit of a neoluddite after all and probably can't type very well...
So if she did say something it would be rare...
And she has read it...damn well know that Sam shows her the interesting bits if nothing else.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:23 PM
Mat, Fishgreas, Nobody, Jim, no more time wasting on people that don't read.
Wardog, there are days I don't like you much, and today is one of them. Today you sound like a true Kool Aid drinker and I thought you got past that.
Disappointed in you.:(
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:24 PM
Fish,
I don't think Janeane realizes how informative this blog can be. I was trying to explain to her that I get more info, directly and indirectly(links), from this blog then from anywhere else.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 04:26 PM
Toni...you lure him into the alley and I'll shave his nuts...it'll change his attitude...I swear it will
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:26 PM
Our mission in life right now....to get Wardog to read our posts and think about them....cause I know he does. I think he just likes to stir up controversy here.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:28 PM
My hands are very sore today...my head hurts..i'm pretty sure my feet stink but I ain't checking and they left me alone in the house to make my own coffee...traitorous family...as if I can work a coffee pot in time to stem the incessant drub drub drub of caffiene deficiency...argh...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:29 PM
Hey W@W sorry didn't see you here. Didn't mean to slight you!!!
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:29 PM
~~~ Hard to get rid of Allawi.. Only thing I could see that would change that.. Is Sistani.. But he wants the vote.. Why would he change his mind.. To let Sadr rule Iraq?? ~~~
You've actually touched upon something real. Sistani is having to balance a possible loss of some of those who follow him (the majority of Shiites) against putting Al Sadr into a greater position of power.
I doubt Al Sadr could ever be much of a threat to Sistani's authority and for all we know, all of this might have been an agreed upon plan between the two of them.
I'm expecting something from Sistani firmly against Allawi fairly soon. And that... will just about do it... eh?
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 04:30 PM
he especially likes to piss me off...which of course he does...problem is I like being pissed off ;)
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:30 PM
The drudgery of life Nobody!!!
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:31 PM
Hard to get rid of Alawi if only his name shows up on the ballot...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:31 PM
That's OK, Tonid. I needed a good cry.
BTW
You left Rupert Murdoch off your list of media whores. Then again, he's more of a pimp.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 04:32 PM
Disabled Veterans Tax
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'
So how long has this been around???
______________________________________
I guess a there are 2 parts will..
1. Security
2. It is a private event??
I have never been..
Saw Bush Sr. when he was VP.
Came to this guys house in the neighborhood.
To raise money ..
I was going to see Kerry when he came on the train last week..
But I forgot..
Then he screwed Lawrence Ks..
Kids stayed up all night to see him..
Train did not stop..
Stuck his arm out the window..
Too dark to see if he gave them the finger!
But he might have!!!!
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 04:32 PM
only semi serious Toni...they'll look all mock abashed when I rant at them later....then walk off laughing...all of em are as rotten as their father...worse even...the mother encourages it...god I hate that milk man.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:33 PM
There were many left off that Media Whore list on their web site. I could add a few more myself.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:33 PM
and then Edwards went back to kansas and talked to them...the train operator screwed up not Kerry...
Now go ride your bike numbnuts.
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:34 PM
W@W,
~~~ I don't think Janeane realizes how informative this blog can be. I was trying to explain to her that I get more info, directly and indirectly(links), from this blog then from anywhere else. ~~~
We discussed it here a day or so ago. I'm thinking Sam and Janeane are trying to maintain at least a vague separation of tasks... Janeane's being political and Sam's being technical and informative. But maybe she just don't like us... too. Sometimes I don't like us very much.
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 04:36 PM
Wardog, that bill prob. languishing in Congress for awhile because it is a Democratic change and the repugs won't go for it.
There-in lies the problem bud. I want the real republicans back. At least they could negotiate a decent bill.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:36 PM
I feel bad that Will from Chicago got upset. I Liked his insight and he was a good addition to this blog.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:38 PM
You could agree with the old republicans on occasion...sometimes they even made sense...neocons...neolibs...neo anything blows goats...excuse the vernacular but I am running low on caffiene
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:39 PM
Don't tell him but I even like Wardog. Can't take phungus, celticman and frank though.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:40 PM
It is time to go run..
Watch for Sistani to speak..
Will he support Allawi/Bush/Elections..
I hope so..
Have you sent any money To Ralph Yet?????
Wado..
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 04:42 PM
Toni,
Agree w/ you about Will in Chi, but I've found that blog is hard on hypersensitive types. Sooner or later someone is going to piss you off. I find the best thing to do in such a situation is simply take a break.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 04:43 PM
Ya...the israel stuff gets a lot of people...talk about likkud and to them you're talknig about all of israel and then all the jews...as if they were the same thing.
It's too bad for will really...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:44 PM
Why Kerry Is Right on Iraq
Perhaps Iraq would have been a disaster no matter what. But there's a thinly veiled racism behind such views, implying Iraqis are savages.By Fareed Zakaria
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5709288/site/newsweek/
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:45 PM
war dog bothers me because I know he's old enoguh to know better and he still parrots the crap...
That means he's being an ass on purpose...
I can take accidental stupidity but deliberate...gah
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:46 PM
He causes controversy here but I wonder what he really thinks. Seems to me he is the type of person who does weigh things. Have to wait and see. Interesting though.
Nobody, he loves to pull your chain.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 04:48 PM
He pulls my chain cuz he's a thousand miles away ;)
I really don't mind all that much because on boring damn days like this with nothing to do and a veritable news blackout I've little to do...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:51 PM
Has anyone else noticed that this Najaf thing was timed to go along with the opening of the olympic games?
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 04:53 PM
so after I say I'm about bored witless everyone decides.."hey what a perfect time to clam up and watch the bastard squirm" Well see how you people are...
And here I thought we were veritable acquaintances....sigh...ouch my hands suck...I need to go get my head set or something...
Shall I continue to ramble on for your amusement?
Hell at least gimme an issue that hasn't been played out today and i'll rant all day if you'd like...after I get my headset that is. ;)
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 05:00 PM
Now that you mention it!!! Doesn't surpeise me though. Nothing this Admin does surprises me any more. Expect the worst and that is what happens.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:00 PM
Gotta say I'm disapointed in todays poll. I don't think you should report from inside the RNC or in AAR studios. You should be in the street covering the protests. With enough media coverage we may be able to keep the police from abusing people to severely.
Posted by: shnu at August 15, 2004 05:02 PM
Awww Toni my Heroine...
You can also bet that they're gleeful as hell about the hurricane and florida...
I think that that one is gonig to back fire on them though...same problem as with the fires out west...
The guard usually helps with that stuff and they're undermanned...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 05:03 PM
Hah I found a story...
"Russia and US neither adversaries nor allies: Russian defence minister"
"Russia and the United States are "certainly not adversaries but neither are they allies," Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday after talks with his US counterpart Donald Rumsfeld."
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040815184815.abkinlvj.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 05:05 PM
Did anybody watch The bushes on Larry King the other night?
I didn't cause I can't stand to even watch the little putz. My Yahoo group is writting about the interview now but I didn't see it. It may be repeated tonight. Maybe I should watch the chimp to see what he is saying now and what Laura says.
She's a viper and noone knows it.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:05 PM
Too bad wardog left. Here's an article he was asking for!!!!
Article published Aug 14, 2004
U.S. shamefully delayed request to ship vests to Iraq
As a veteran who has seen combat, I'm disgusted that any military vehicles in Iraq are not “up-armored,” meaning they can't stop bullets, let alone roadside bombs.
Marion County Sheriff Ed Dean got a request for bulletproof vests to line the Humvees' sides and floor panels from deputy Fred Chisholm, a reservist in Iraq serving in the 351st Military Police Company. By May 2004, Dean collected more than 850 vests and asked the military to ship them to Iraq.
It should have been easy, as in New Jersey, where a group collected and sent bulletproof vests to Iraq with hardly any delay.
Instead, more than 800 vests sat for months (and might still be sitting) in Marion County, because U.S. officials seemed more interested in downplaying the problem than solving it.
It's shameful that Washington officials failed to include armored Humvees in their $87 billion war-spending request. It's downright immoral that officials threw political resistance at helpful civilians in Florida.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040814/EDITORIALS02/40813030/-1/editorials
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:09 PM
Ya know I tink it's pretty damned funny that they're trotting Laura out on stem cell research...WTH does a backwoods librarian know about cutting edge science?
And why would you stop research on something because it MIGHT not turn out?
I don't like her much at all...I understand that George was drunk and all and probably tired of hookers and sheep but lordy...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 05:10 PM
"Mideast peace promoters sharply criticise Bush administration"
"The authors of the unofficial Geneva Initiative for peace between Israel and the Palestinians criticised the United States on Sunday, with one of the top Israeli initiators admitting he wanted the Democrats to win November's US presidential race."
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040815162021.164wrq0u.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 05:12 PM
Younger Voters Rapidly Deserting Bush
By Richard Morin and Christopher Muste
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 15, 2004; Page A05
Mounting concerns over the war and the sluggish economy have sent President Bush's popularity plummeting among young adults in the past four months, complicating his bid for reelection and challenging Republicans to increase their efforts to win over new or lightly committed young voters.
Four years ago, network exit polls found that Bush and Democrat Al Gore split the vote of 18-to-29-year-olds, with Gore claiming 48 percent and Bush getting 46 percent -- the best showing by a Republican presidential candidate in more than a decade.
But that was then. In the latest Post-ABC News poll, taken immediately after the Democratic National Convention, Kerry led Bush 2 to 1 among registered voters younger than 30. Among older voters, the race was virtually tied. About 1 in 6 voters in 2000 was between 18 and 29 years old.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1509-2004Aug14.html
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:13 PM
My head isn't stopping...I'll catch up later...my apologies and regrest for having to miss your company Toni ;/
couple hours or so...
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 05:15 PM
Go get rest, no problem
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:16 PM
“Nothing is more American than false hope
Keep false hope alive!
Keep false hope alive!”
Lewis Black
Back In Black
August 12, 2004
Daily Show
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:23 PM
Water…
The Earth is largely made up of it.
As are we…
And yet about it we know significantly little.
Until the groundbreaking work of a pioneer Japanese researcher whose astonishing discovery about water, documented photographically, changed most of what we didn't know…and led to a new consciousness of Earth's most precious resource.
Dr. Masaru Emoto was born in Japan and is a graduate of the Yokohama Municipal University and the Open International University as a Doctor of Alternative Medicine.
His photographs were first featured in his self-published books Messages from Water 1 and 2. The Hidden Messages in Water was first published in Japan, with over 400,000 copies sold internationally.
http://www.whatthebleep.com/crystals/
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:24 PM
http://www.indiadairy.com/tech_companies_collaborations.html
Foreign Collaborations in India
The liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991 has attracted multinational dairy enterprises in hundreds. Specialty dairy products like cheese, casein, lactose and whey proteins are now being manufactured in India by multinational corporations.
The advent of foreign brands produced in India is changing the profile of the national dairy industry. Already, multinationals like .......................
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:26 PM
http://www.oilempire.us/kerry.html
John Forbes Kerry:
blood brother of George W. Bush in the occult Skull and Bones secret society
pro-war, pro-nuclear, pro-police state
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States [Bush] the authority to use force -if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry, Oct. 9, 2002
"The President laid out a strong, comprehensive, and compelling argument why Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs are a threat to the United States and the international community.”
- John Forbes Kerry, liberal wing of Skull and Bones annointed for the 2004 Presidential Election.
(John Forbes Kerry, 1966 / George Walker Bush,
1968)
YELLOW Alert: Risk of Fascism is ELEVATED
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:27 PM
George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House
America Is No Longer a Democratic Nation:
Zionists Have Seized Control During The 2000 ELECTION COUP D' ETAT, Installed Puppet Regime
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:29 PM
Pope struggles during mass
From correspondents in Lourdes
August 15, 2004
A FRAIL Pope John Paul II, breathing heavily and gasping at times, celebrated an open-air mass today for several hundred thousand pilgrims, many in wheelchairs, at a shrine to the Virgin Mary that is associated with miraculous cures.
At one point he said "help me" in Polish while struggling through his homily in French. Aides brought him a glass of water, and he said he wanted to complete his remarks.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10454121%255E1702,00.html
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:34 PM
Last Update: 14/08/2004 17:08
U.S. forces kill scores in Iraq; Najaf truce collapses
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/464543.html
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:35 PM
Progressive Audio Blog
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:38 PM
http://www.informationwar.org/
MISS ANN THROPIC
kick ASS link!!!
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:40 PM
Citizens for Honest Fighter Pilots Ask Bush To Get Honest
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Evelyn Pringle
Citizens for Honest Fighter Pilots call on Bush to explain how he could fail to show up for his annual physical, get suspended as a fighter pilot, and escape any discipline whatsoever.
First of all, let's put one theory to rest, any suggestion that he could simply decide to quit flying, with two years left on his commitment, after a quarter of a million dollars was invested in his training, is absurd. He needs to clear up this issue once and for all.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/08/con04334.html
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 05:41 PM
"Grand strategy for the Middle East," abandons the outrageous for the incomprehensible. It reads:
• Iraq is the tactical pivot
• Saudi Arabia the strategic pivot
• Egypt the prize
http://nogw.com/news_me.html#afghanistan
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:42 PM
hi 13ben...shhhhh...i'm being overtly sneaky.....
how are you today?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:44 PM
he's a rapturist, not a zionist
if you don't say the right word,
god told me to tickle you with a feather!
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 05:45 PM
Iraq
Iraq is estimated to hold 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, and possibly much more undiscovered oil in unexplored areas of the country.
Iraq also is estimated to contain at least 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The country is a focal point for regional and international security issues.
Note: The information contained in this report is the best available as of March 2004 and can change. Also, please click here for a complete chronology of events pertaining to Iraq from 1980 through February 2004.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/iraq.html
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:47 PM
still troddin on thru................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 05:49 PM
http://www.suntimes.com/output/mitchell/cst-nws-mitch15.html
Keyes tries shortcut to grueling campaign work
August 15, 2004
BY MARY MITCHELL SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
I just got back from taking my mother on her birthday trip, so I missed the opening shot in the great race. My mother, bless her heart, is pretty funny.
The first time I took her to Vegas, I had to practically kidnap her. In her typical humble fashion, she kept insisting that she didn't want to be a bother. But I packed her bags and dragged her to the airport anyway. Now she looks forward to her birthday trip, and I can't dare let her down, even when a getaway seems impossible.
We left on such short notice this year, it made me think of Alan Keyes and the Republican Party.
Although she was excited about her flight from reality, I kept thinking about the real world of work and responsibilities I had abruptly left behind.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:51 PM
hey cosmicben
thanks for the birthday wishes
hope you had a good one too
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 05:51 PM
groove out 13 ben..
i put tdc on my website
who else is similar to him that i could
look up? any ideas?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:53 PM
http://blogs4god.com/linker/index.php
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:55 PM
The Vision Thing
Reviewed by Stanley I. Kutler
Sunday, August 15, 2004; Page BW05
AMERICA ALONE
The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order
By Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke
The authors understand the two-centuries-long history of American foreign policy. Detente, bipartisanship and respect for the views of allies are at the center of that history; they are not, as the neocons would have it, notions of weakness best replaced by a militant American world view and unilateralism. Halper and Clarke blend realism and idealism. For them, victory in the Cold War resulted from a firm U.S. adherence to the doctrine of containment and a moral authority rooted in fostering the idea of a free, open society. Now, the authors contend, President George W. Bush and a band of ideological zealots have put that moral authority at risk.
America Alone levels a broad indictment against the Bush administration, which in the name of the war on terror has launched the Iraq war, mounted an assault on personal liberties at home, engaged in a purposeful deceit of the media and the public (both of which suspended any critical judgment) and, above all, has inflicted terrible damage on U.S. moral authority and international legitimacy. The chief culprits for the authors are the neocons, who are depicted as conspirators who hijacked American foreign policy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60170-2004Aug12?language=printer
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:56 PM
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
(Matt. 5:5-9)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:58 PM
Dada,
Look at this!!!
New York ready to unleash fury on Republicans
Sit-down protests and traditional dances as Democrats use every weapon to beat Bush
Paul Harris in New York
Sunday August 15, 2004
The Observer
The smiling face of former New York mayor Ed Koch beams down from posters all over the city. 'The Republicans are coming,' it says underneath. 'Make nice.'
Fat chance. New York is bracing for one of the biggest showdowns in its political history as the Republican national convention comes to town at the end of the month. Meeting the army of delegates, politicians and lobbyists will be a vast array of protest groups that intend to make the Republicans' Big Apple stay as unpleasant as possible. Trying to keep order on the streets will be 20,000 police, secret servicemen and National Guard units. A quiet week seems out of the question.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1283422,00.html
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:58 PM
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:59 PM
Blessed are they who lack self-confidence, for they shall be superstitious.
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 06:01 PM
Crank!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wus Up?
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 06:03 PM
hey i don't make monkeys,
i just train em.....
{pee wee herman)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:04 PM
Has anyone else noticed that this Najaf thing was timed to go along with the opening of the olympic games?
Posted by Nobody
I actually think it has more to do with the convening of the "governing council"
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:05 PM
VI.Vernadsky is a good compliment to tdc.....
ever check out dan winter???...
haven't checked out what he's done in the last
few years......... studied his stuff a handful of
years ago............
most of his best work is not published on the
web... but j. arguelles' Earth Ascending book has
alot of its info based on tdc's concept of the
advent of the noosphere and laws governing whole
systems... the book consist of 50 maps expaining
his (JA's) 5 point holonomic equation:
1)nature presents itself
2)man learns from nature
3)man transforms nature
4)nature evaluates man's transformation
5)man and nature synthesized
.................................................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:05 PM
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
(Matt. 5:5-9)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 05:58 PM
This leaves all the neocons out now doesn't it?
Pure of heart......right, peacemakers....right
Merciful......right
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 06:06 PM
cool! thanks 13 ben
and hi dada if that is you
and hi tonid and hi crank bait
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:06 PM
Some names are strong, and should be discounted only at one's peril.
Other names belong to people who install aluminum siding.
Hurrican Earl? Does it have a bald spot?
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 06:06 PM
hey i can't stay
see everyone tomorrow morning
this blog has all the greatest links
...isn't that a golfing term..."links?"
thanks for a pleasant blogging experience one and all
since everyone was talking about recipies...and i'm not implying anything with these two links now...i don't even know if julia even new biker billy....
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http://www.bikerbilly.com/home.tpl
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The girl was more of a hero than most know...
"Julia Child's letter to Smith College"
"When Julia Child heard that her alma mater, Smith College, was cooperating with Sen. McCarthy and "naming names" of suspected communists, she wrote this letter to the school's "Committee for Discrimination in Giving."
http://www.unknownnews.net/040202child.html
Posted by: Nobody at August 15, 2004 09:35 AM
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 06:07 PM
Muzzling begins in Iraq
ANTONIA ZERBISIAS
London's Financial Times, that bastion of left-wing rhetoric, reported 10 days ago that Iyad Allawi, the "prime minister" appointed and approved by Iraq's American management, didn't wait even a month after the "handover" to establish a "Higher Media Commission" to red line the press.
Among the restrictions? Any "unwarranted criticism'' of the aforementioned "prime minister."
"It's for national security," said newly-appointed Higher Media Commission chief Ibrahim Janabi, whom the Times described as "a former Iraqi intelligence officer who for a decade served as Mr. Allawi's eyes and ears while he was (in exile) in neighbouring Jordan, but has never worked as a journalist."
And to think that one of the much-ballyhooed acts by U.S. proconsul L. Paul Bremer III, the guy who handed over Iraq's "sovereignty" to the prime minister June 28 before sneaking out of Baghdad, was to shut down Saddam Hussein's dreaded information ministry.
Now the Higher Media Commission is moving into the information ministry's old digs where it's expected to retain many of its 5,000 former state censors. The muzzling has begun.
Last Saturday, the Baghdad office of Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language news service
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 06:08 PM
JA's
13ben - is this what you meant by this or no?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:10 PM
the much-ballyhooed acts..........
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:10 PM
"Hurrican Earl"
So scribed by the Society To Conserve The Superfluous Imprint Of The Vowel "E".
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 06:11 PM
hi alice
----
Some names are strong, and should be discounted only at one's peril.
Other names belong to people who install aluminum siding.
Hurrican Earl? Does it have a bald spot?
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 06:06 PM
--
crank even your prose is becoming very fluid, rhythmic...'shakespearean' i would go so far as saying...
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 06:11 PM
not really but nice site.............
j.arguelles.....
but again... i stress, due to the nature of this being.... his most enlightened works are NOT published on the web........
i say this due to the lack of info i've received from him via the web.... versus.... the treasure trove i received from him in person.........
books......... among others..... Transformtive Vision (around '78 or '73) and Earth Ascending ('86)
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:14 PM
su·per·sti·tion
n.
An irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome.
A belief, practice, or rite irrationally maintained by ignorance of the laws of nature or by faith in magic or chance.
A fearful or abject state of mind resulting from such ignorance or irrationality.
Idolatry.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:15 PM
The uneasy Republicans
By Hugh Sykes
BBC, United States
The US presidential candidates have been arguing about it. The American media talk constantly about it. And the opinion polls have been asking voters about it.
But just how much will the war in Iraq affect the November elections? Hugh Sykes found evidence that, with mounting US casualties, the answer could be "quite a lot".
Bill Clinton reputedly had a note by his desk during his first presidential election campaign that simply said: "It's the economy, stupid!"
President Bush should have one that reads: "It's Iraq, stupid!"
Almost everyone I've spoken to here in over two weeks mentions Iraq as the number one election issue, and the most frequent question I've heard is: What has Iraq to do with the 11 September 2001 attacks?
There is widespread - and, I sense, slowly growing - mystification about the Iraq war of George Bush and Tony Blair
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3562470.stm
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 06:17 PM
crank even your prose is becoming very fluid, rhythmic...'shakespearean' i would go so far as saying...
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 06:11 PM
------------------------
Aww, garsh. Ya think?
Been lurking for some time whilst attending to less pertinent matters; but gotta go. Be back in time to collect some abuse.
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 06:17 PM
j.arguelles
funny i was just talking about this guy with someone yesterday or the other day...
glad you told me that the best isn't on the web...i think i'll buy one of his books for my library...
which one? the earth ascending one do you think? or which one do you think is the best of his?
how'd you get to meet him?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:17 PM
definition blog anyone............
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:18 PM
how'd you get to meet him?
...........................................
very long story...............................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:19 PM
Main Entry: weblog
Function: noun
Definition: a personal Web site that provides updated headlines and news articles of other sites that are of interest to the user, also may include journal entries, commentaries and recommendations compiled by the user; also written web log, Weblog; also called blog
Usage: computing
Source: Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, © 2003 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
blog
n : a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies [syn: web log]
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:19 PM
spent time with him on and off during his 13 week sojourn in olinda, maui during fall '95.............
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:19 PM
how old is he?
and now ill look up dan winter too..
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:20 PM
definition blog...........
define this: RANG (radio-amplified neuro-gammatron)
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:21 PM
he's probably in his 70's now................
but then again he is a timeless child of life...........
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:22 PM
my guess is a hamm radio term...but i'll check
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:22 PM
a little more cosmically oriented than HAMM radio....
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:23 PM
13ben, i was wondering if you have any thoughts about the 2012 mayan "stuff"....
opinion or no opinion?
i can't find any thing on that term...the one site is a pdf and too slow for my pc...i'll let you know when i find out..i love games thanks
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:26 PM
So scribed by the Society To Conserve The Superfluous Imprint Of The Vowel "E".
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 06:11 PM
there's this....
but this is the important one...group of artists that set strange parameters and then build works of art around them...the book with no 'e' in it for example...
http://www.grapefruit-web.co.uk/clients/perec/avoid.htm
French novelist, poet, essayist, dramatist, and literary innovator, who gained fame with his formally complex and puzzling works after the nouveau roman had lost its experimentalist freshness. Perec's most famous books include La Disparation (1969, A Void), a 300-page novel written without the letter e, and La Vie mode d'emploi (1978, Life: A User's Manual).
"It was in the final months of his life that the artist Serge Valene conceived the idea of a painting that would reassemble his entire existence: everything his memory had recorded, all the sensations that had swept over him, all his fantasies, his passions, his hates would be recorded on canvas, a compendium of minute parts of which the sum would be his life." (from Life: A User's Manual)
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 06:27 PM
hey that guy is on my hit list now too dada cool...
is this shit that i was supposed to learn had i gone to college? if so i missed out.
:)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:31 PM
2012???
guess we'll all have to wait and see.........
............lots of speculation... and my personal is that this transformation the planet and its biosphere is going thru... will appear different to different eyes and based on specific locality on the globe........
best advice............ learn to understand harmonics and resonance.... because our existance is primarily energetic and not conceptual...
the resonance of heart-love (binding love based in appreciation without motive) can allow the human to remember who we are and where we are going.......
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:31 PM
i agree with all you said there 13ben...
i think you're very wise.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:33 PM
definition blog...
define this: bisexual pentacled radiozoa
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Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:34 PM
i think you're very wise.................
not i... but the all this is us.........
i am another yourself...... we all have access to the same memory codes stored in our cells....
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:35 PM
its nice to see a term that gives no results when googled...............
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:36 PM
gammatron:
a slave to good-looking legs.
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 06:40 PM
A quiet week seems out of the question.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1283422,00.html
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 05:58 PM
---
ya t, i believe there should be much dancing
thats one of the best ways to protest in my opinion
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you'll have to tell me more about meeting Dr. Arguelles sometime soon cosmicben
he's been a real big influence on me
---
but i gotta run now
i'm late! i'm late!
(silly rabbit...)
hee hee
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 06:40 PM
Bush-talk on Iraq is tricky walk
By Tom Raum
By criticising Kerry’s talk of reducing troop levels in Iraq, Bush risked drawing even more attention to the bloodshed
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_15-8-2004_pg4_11
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:40 PM
hey fellow bloggers, quick question that hopefully someone can help me with, i am trying to put together a mix CD and want to includ the theme song for the majority report and was hoping someone knew the name of the song or the artist. the morning sedition web site posts all the songs the use as bumpers and stuff, the majority report should do the same, they play some good stuff. so anyway, if anyone could help me out that would be great. (BTW i am talking about the first song when they come on the air, the one about facism, that song gets my foot pumping)
Posted by: Brian at August 15, 2004 06:40 PM
...... we all have access to the same memory codes stored in our cells....
Posted by 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:35 PM
comprende dude...but you are still individual as well no?
anyhoo...i've had a ton of fun today here...
gotsta go do some things now...
bye
:)
hope i see you next time...thank you.
i'll be the dickless nickless no nic
l8r
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:40 PM
good-looking legs.
............................
getting warm................................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:41 PM
what makes our apparent individuality is the sequencing of the same codes...................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:42 PM
see ya dlnl noname lovely...................
here ya go....
RANG
primal disharmonic pulsation generating harmonic feedback. interdimensional background noise or "sound", source of all phenomenal reality. generative basis of universal life, perceiveable only through pure application of mind.....
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:45 PM
definition blog...
August 15, 2004 06:34 PM
answer.............
human................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:46 PM
hey fellow bloggers, quick question that hopefully someone can help me with, i am trying to put together a mix CD and want to includ the theme song for the majority report and was hoping someone knew the name of the song or the artist. the morning sedition web site posts all the songs the use as bumpers and stuff, the majority report should do the same, they play some good stuff. so anyway, if anyone could help me out that would be great. (BTW i am talking about the first song when they come on the air, the one about facism, that song gets my foot pumping)
Posted by: Brian at August 15, 2004 06:47 PM
no idea brian.................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:48 PM
bisexual pentacled radiozoa
.........................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:34 PM
----
bisexual pentacled radiozoa is an old god
he likes to tickle everybody
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 06:49 PM
definition blog...
define: four postulates of stalking
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:52 PM
now there's a god i can believe in...
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 06:53 PM
then you believe in the human being..........
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:55 PM
mmmmmmmm............
high pleasure physical states.................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 06:57 PM
~~~ i am trying to put together a mix CD and want to includ the theme song for the majority report and was hoping someone knew the name of the song or the artist ~~~
I forgot who it is but I've got it. I can send it to you. Drop me an email and I'll send it tomorrow.
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 07:00 PM
Iraq Evicts Reporters from Najaf
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi police ordered all journalists to leave the holy city of Najaf on Sunday, just as a new U.S. offensive against militants hiding out in a revered shrine there began.
Four police cars surrounded a hotel in the city where journalists were staying and presented the order signed by Najaf's police chief, Brig. Ghalib al-Jazaari.
Though the order did not spell out a punishment for those who did not comply, the police who delivered it said any reporters remaining would be arrested, according to journalists at the hotel. The police said any cameras and cellular phones they saw would be confiscated. In response to the threat, many journalists left the city.
The order would mean that the only news coverage of the ongoing violence in Najaf, one of the most revered cities to Shiite Muslims, would be provided by reporters embedded with the U.S. military.
The U.S. military had no immediate comment.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081604W.shtml
Can you say "facism"?
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 07:07 PM
dada................
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 07:08 PM
WARPIGGIE aka WarDog
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 07:12 PM
Iraq: Foreigners threatening mosque
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Twenty-five heavily armed foreigners holed up inside the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf have rigged it with explosives and are threatening to blow up the building if attacked, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday in a written statement.
...
The statement said the interim Iraqi government has ordered national guard forces not to target the mosque, and not to approach it.
...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/15/iraq.main/index.html
...
Fishgrease comment: Again CNN is the loud mouthpiece for the Allawi regime. Allawi knows he's trumped here by Al Sadr and that attacking the mosque, even with only and specifically Iraqi troops could bring his National Conference to a very dirty end. So, he makes this shit up about foreign fighters in the mosque having rigged it with explosives as an excuse for delaying his attack. Either that or he plans on blowing the hell out of the mosque himself and will say that the foreign fighters did it. Either way... either tactic has much chance of working. Iraq is onto Allawi.
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 07:23 PM
Meant "NEITHER tactic has much chance of working".
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 07:25 PM
what a beauty day!
hot one though,
doggers pantin still.
lotta neat vintage airplane
fly overs (east side of approach)
bloggie a treat as always, good links all!
back inna while, doin honey doo's!
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at August 15, 2004 07:36 PM
THE TREES LYRICS
Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson
There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunligh
And the oaks ignore their pleas
The trouble with the maples
(and they’re quite convinced they’re right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can’t help their feelings
If they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the maples
Can’t be happy in their shade?
There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream `oppression!`
And the oaks, just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
’the oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light’
Now there’s no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw ...
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 07:41 PM
From Russia With Love?
August 15, 2004
Will Russia, the Oil Superpower, Flex Its Muscles?
By ERIN E. ARVEDLUND
OSCOW
RUSSIA is again emerging as a superpower - but the reason has less to do with nuclear weapons than with oil.
The country has its swagger back, as its economy expands for the fourth consecutive year and the world price of oil hovering at just over $45 a barrel. Now the second-largest oil producer behind Saudi Arabia, Russia has positioned itself as an important alternative supplier to the increasingly unstable Middle East.
But Russia's oil supply is looking none too stable these days. The Kremlin's protracted battle with its largest producer and exporter of crude oil, Yukos, has raised doubts among some skittish traders about the reliability of Russian supplies and helped drive up prices in unusually tight global oil markets.
The Yukos affair began last October, when the government arrested Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the company's founder. Officially, he was detained on tax and fraud charges, though there has been speculation that the arrest may have been retribution for his support of political parties opposed to President Vladimir V. Putin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/business/yourmoney/15russia.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 07:47 PM
DaDA....did you see this article?
Sharon's Wars
By JAMES BENNET
Published: August 15, 2004
t the point where the twisting road from Jerusalem leaves the hills and straightens out on Israel's coastal plain, you turn south at Latrun junction for the drive to Ariel Sharon's ranch. On a rise to your left, set in olive groves, is the red-roofed Trappist monastery of Latrun. It has always been something of a surprise to me how lightly Israel's landscape, if not its people, wears its heavy past. From a car rushing along this modern highway, the only clue to the centuries of violence that envelop the Latrun hill is a limestone ruin on the crest, above the monastery. It is the remnant of a 12th-century Crusader fort. From that height, Christian soldiers, like the Romans long before them and the Arab Legion long after, controlled the routes from the Mediterranean coast and from Egypt to Jerusalem.
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Sharon nearly died here. As a 20-year-old platoon leader, he joined in an ill-planned assault to take the hill and open the road to Jerusalem during the Arab-Israel war of 1948, the Israeli War of Independence. In a wadi barely visible from the road, where rushes now separate bright green vineyards from golden-brown fields of grain, he was pinned down for hours with his men. He was shot in the stomach and thigh. His radio was destroyed, and he did not hear the order to withdraw. It was only when he saw Arab soldiers on the hills behind him that he realized he and his remaining men had been left behind, alone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/magazine/15SHARON.html?th
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 07:51 PM
The US is over in Iraq as a humanitarian mission yeah yeah that's the ticket.
Y'all believe that right??
Right?!? Right?
Posted by: war dogs at August 15, 2004 07:54 PM
From my email Group. They had a HONK FOR PEACE DAY
today. Looks like every time they have one it gets better. I live in the middle of a County that has been mostly republican. Not any more!!!
Thanks to Bob Wagner and the other Kerry supporters who came out to join the DuPage peace activists in the monthly Honk for Peace. There were between 25 and 30 of us there today, and we had a great response. The "honking" is getting more vociferous all the time! There is a growing anti-war sentiment, without doubt. For the first time, I noticed a lot of younger males giving us the thumbs up, peace sign, etc. This is tradionally the most hostile group.
There were many Kucinich supporters who, I know, feel they are in an 'arranged marriage" with John Kerry, but a vote is a vote, and I think they will vote for other local Dems.
A very encouraging day!
Lori
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Posted by: at August 15, 2004 08:03 PM
LETTERS FROM PRISON
http://www.jonahhouse.org/prisonltrs.htm
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 08:03 PM
------------ Elections Schnanigans in Venezuela --------------
Those Boss Hogs just don't give up easily...
Venezuelans Vote in Recall Referendum
Greg Flakus
Caracas
15 Aug 2004, 17:22 UTC
Delays at polling stations have been caused by a lengthy process of identification for each voter that includes a fingerprint scanner. In many places, voters say they have been standing in line for hours, with little movement in the line.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 08:13 PM
This Admin. are sneaky bastards!!!!!!
Bush Forces a Shift In Regulatory Thrust
OSHA Made More Business-Friendly
By Amy Goldstein and Sarah Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 15, 2004; Page A01
First of three articles
Tuberculosis had sneaked up again, reappearing with alarming frequency across the United States. The government began writing rules to protect 5 million people whose jobs put them in special danger. Hospitals and homeless shelters, prisons and drug treatment centers -- all would be required to test their employees for TB, hand out breathing masks and quarantine those with the disease. These steps, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration predicted, could prevent 25,000 infections a year and 135 deaths.
By the time President Bush moved into the White House, the tuberculosis rules, first envisioned in 1993, were nearly complete. But the new administration did nothing on the issue for the next three years.
Then, on the last day of 2003, in an action so obscure it was not mentioned in any major newspaper in the country, the administration canceled the rules. Voluntary measures, federal officials said, were effective enough to make regulation unnecessary.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1315-2004Aug14.html?referrer=email
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 08:22 PM
O na humorous note Puerto Rico kicked Americas ass in basketball big time today.
This never happened under Clinton's watch..
More reason why Bush is bad, bad luck to the world and America.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 08:25 PM
More reason why Bush is bad, bad luck to the world and America.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 08:25 PM
-------------------------------
Hey. Dey does be Americans, too.
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 08:34 PM
Fishgrease, are you still here? Did you see this?
This 62 year old dude spent 5 mil for sex!!!!
Sex Scandal Rocks Montana Town
Businessman Alleged To Have Paid Women More Than $1 Million
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 15, 2004; Page A03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1426-2004Aug14.html?referrer=email
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 08:35 PM
This 62 year old dude spent 5 mil for sex!!!!
----------------------------
I must be getting a discount...
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 08:38 PM
Crank...you're probably not 62!!!
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 08:43 PM
Interesting article. Another idiotic thing Bush did. I'm telling you...we need a score board!!!
The Tax Cuts Re-Examined
Sunday, August 15, 2004; Page B06
THE DEBATE OVER the Bush administration's fiscal policy has been grinding on for three years, producing few concessions or apologies. Critics, including this page, say the tax cuts are not affordable; defenders retort that the president has a five-year plan to halve the deficit and that a combination of economic growth and entitlement reform can shore up the government's finances in the longer term.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1415-2004Aug14.html?referrer=email
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 08:45 PM
O na humorous note Puerto Rico kicked Americas ass in basketball big time today.
This never happened under Clinton's watch..
More reason why Bush is bad, bad luck to the world and America.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 08:25 PM
Amen,
W Gives ass kickin' a bad name. Bringem ON!!!
---Let's just get the fuck outta here an check-out some these dark skin lovely leadin lady lookin' mutherfucin' Greek honnies...----
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 08:45 PM
GO PABLO!!
:)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 08:47 PM
It's your birthday no nic...:)
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 08:54 PM
Joel Mowbray!
Anyone ever hear of him?
here is one web site I found his article on it is on many others also.
I think we need to watch this ASSHOLE!
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20040716.shtml
Just his smug little picture made me not be able to get past the first paragraph. YUCK!
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 08:59 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^OH MY FREAKIN GOD!!!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
we have truely entered another diminsion.
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:02 PM
Conference Gives Iraq Democracy First Test
"This conference is not the end of the road for us, it is the first step ... to open up horizons of dialogue," Allawi said in his opening speech. "Your blessed gathering here is a challenge to the forces of evil and tyranny that want to destroy this country."
One major conflict that threatened to overshadow the conference was the resurgence of violence Sunday in the holy city of Najaf, where dissident Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his followers have battled U.S. and Iraqi troops since Aug. 5.
Nadim al-Jadari, of the Shiite Political Council, sprang onto the stage after the opening speeches and threatened to withdraw unless negotiations to end the Najaf fighting resumed.
"The Iraqi government bears the responsibility for what is going on in Najaf. It has brought U.S. forces to hit our people in Najaf," said Falah Hassan, another group official. "Our demand is to halt the military operations in Najaf and other parts of Iraq. We will withdraw from the conference within 24 hours if our demands are not met."
But other delegates dismissed the notion of abandoning the conference.
"I think it's irresponsible to boycott." Qindeel said. "If we disagree about something, the right thing to do is to work on it, not walk out."
Posted by: War Dog at August 15, 2004 09:07 PM
"Let us praise God together for experiences, both harsh and joyful, for the grace to rise above the fray, for the mystical moments in the listening, weeping and praying moments.
God fill the vacuum and longing I have to return to my communities as a more giving and loving person."
With gratitude overflowing,
Ardeth Platte, OP # 10857-039
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
LETTERS FROM PRISON
http://www.jonahhouse.org/prisonltrs.htm
Posted by at August 15, 2004 08:03 PM
thanks for that link earlier
i would imagine that being in a prison or a prison like situation would cause a person to 're-evaluate' - the letters have a very interesting insight and perspective imo...
(sorry, i'm thinking and typing OUTLOUD again...heehee....where's mel been?)
**************************************
uh oh...i'm gonna go psycho!!!!
MISS ANNE is that really you?
:)
W Ketchup™ is made in America, from ingredients grown in the USA.
A portion of every sale is donated to the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships for the children of active duty service members killed in the line of duty.
MAT....THAT IS WHOA!!! wow....i think i'm speechless...WHOA!!
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:07 PM
Your right MAT. This guy criticizes the state dept. and blames them for failures in Iraq instead calling it like it is...
Neo-nazicon's in Dept o Defense got their noises in Dept o State business and won't let State take over in Iraq. They are treacherous sob's.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 09:08 PM
I think we need to watch this ASSHOLE!
mat
ROTFL
MFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
miss anne you make me laugh!!!!
:)
ssshhhhh...it's me a.l.i.c.e. (i don't want to freak you out again...lmao!)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:10 PM
W Ketchup is not sanctioned by the Ketchup Advisory Board.
Not enough natural mellowing agents...
(apologies to Garrison Keillor)
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 09:12 PM
This 62 year old dude spent 5 mil for sex!!!!
----------------------------
I must be getting a discount...
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 08:38 PM
Crank...you're probably not 62!!!
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 08:43 PM
funny crank!
:)
...is tonid correct about that? gonna cough up your age to the blog or never?
:)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:13 PM
(apologies to Garrison Keillor)
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 09:12 PM
garrison is way cool...
(did that site ACTUALLY say
W Ketchup is America’s Ketchup™
?)
i'm...i'm...i swear that is so something, i just don't know the exact word i'm lookin for right now....
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:17 PM
That is about as dumb as this one someone mentioned on yesterdays blog.
http://www.conservativebookstore.com/books/liberals-under-bed.shtml
The Ann Coulterization of brain dead americans.
Help, Mom, There Are Liberals Under My Bed, by Katharine DeBrecht
Help, Mom, There Are Liberals Under My Bed!: A Small Lesson in Conservatism, by Katharine DeBrecht. Educating our children as to what is fundamentally wrong with liberalism is a prime concern for many parents. This crisp and clear story written for children will help you to explain it to them. Using the metaphor of the lemon-ade stand, Katharine DeBrecht treats us to a story that is at once funny and frightening. We see how two boys, making an entrepreneurial effort are held back by the well-meaning and the demagogic leftists. This fun work should be on the shelf of anyone teaching his or her children the ways of the political world.
Read Our In-Depth Review in the Conservative Monitor!
Posted by: theresa at August 15, 2004 09:17 PM
it's fucking TRADE MARKED man!!
NOW THAT is American imo
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:18 PM
"Educating our children as to what is fundamentally wrong with liberalism is a prime concern for many parents."
hi theresa...i think i'm going to hurl...
:)
how's it going other than that?
hee hee
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:20 PM
I'm also going to write a children's book called
"Mom why did Dick Cheney steal millions of my tax money for Halliburton? And who's that creepy chimp sitting next to him?"
Posted by: theresa at August 15, 2004 09:20 PM
looks like i'll be back later tonite instead of tomorrow
here
what i'm listening to right now
be back in a bit
Posted by: dadalux at August 15, 2004 09:21 PM
gonna cough up your age to the blog or never?
------------------------------
Screamin' up on my semicentennial.
Time to start stockin' up on sex before the prices get out of hand, forcing me to...oh, never mind.
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 09:22 PM
It is sooo base...
Like Freedom Fries etc...
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 09:23 PM
I'm good. How is everybody on this fine blog tonite?
Waiting for the Venezuelan election results.
Posted by: theresa at August 15, 2004 09:24 PM
Is terry Wilke around?
Posted by: wanda at August 15, 2004 09:25 PM
True battlegrounds may be across the sea
8/15/2004, 5:01 p.m. ET
By RANDALL RICHARD
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — When decision time comes this fall, the real swing votes in the 2004 presidential election may not come from Pennsylvania, Ohio or even the notorious Florida. The ultimate Bush-Kerry battleground may turn out to be somewhere more far-flung and unexpected — Israel, Britain, even Indonesia.
And both political camps say they are getting ready for the fight, courting American voters who are living overseas and taking no chances that the expatriate vote will undermine them at the finish line.
Although an official census has never been taken, between 4 million and 10 million American citizens are believed to be living abroad. Those over 18 are entitled to have their absentee votes counted in the state where they last lived — no matter how long ago that was. And many are planning to do just that.
"There's enormous interest abroad, because the whole of the world depends on the result," said Phyllis Earl, 72, who lives in Britain and has not voted in a U.S. election since 1956, two years after she moved overseas
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:26 PM
Waiting for the Venezuelan election results.
Posted by: theresa at August 15, 2004 09:24 PM
The Independent says Chavez is behind in exit poll by wide margin.
Posted by: wanda at August 15, 2004 09:27 PM
HI ALICE had to run for few but I'm BACK!
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:29 PM
Bad news for oil prices if Chavez loses.
The prospect of a supply disruption in Venezuela if President Hugo Chavez loses a referendum on his leadership on Sunday sent the price of oil above $43 in London yesterday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/08/14/cnoil14.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/14/ixportal.html
Posted by: theresa at August 15, 2004 09:30 PM
The problem of police misconduct is an issue that America refuses to address. I spent 11 years as a professional witness for a financial institution. I was in court everyday. It was not just limited to criminal court, but civil and domestic as well.
I can tell you that on most days, no matter how well I was dressed, the prosecutor assumed that I was a defendant. It was also an assumption that I knew the defendant. I think my minority status had something to do with it. On a least five occasions, I was stopped by police officers and quizzed about my business with the court.
The power of the police in a court of law is a lesson that I will never forget. Regardless of the evidence, most judges will side with the police. I have seen cases where there was blantant misconduct by police officers. But the judge will certainly find the defendant at fault.
I saw people degraded and treated in the most inhumane way. One of the most brutal judges was a Clarence Thomas type of a judge. These types of judges are usually recruited by the Republican Party. They are usually present in every court. They are merciless towards African Americans. But they are loved by the police. Bruce Wright talks about this in his book, Black Robes and White Justice. It is a form of internalized racism.
To this day, I am haunted by the injustices that I saw. Frankly, it wasn't that much difference between the officers of the court and the criminals they prosecuted.
By the way that mean old Uncle Tom Judge died about 5 years ago. His son committed suicide about two years before. There was another Republican Judge. He was a little more benevolent. He did not receive an FOP endorsement of course. However, his son committed suicide too.
The judges need the FOP endorsements in order to get re-elected. They certainly don't want to appear weak on crime.
To this day I am still haunted by what I experienced.
Posted by: Lucy Furr at August 15, 2004 09:32 PM
Good Evening Ladies. How was your day?
And Pablo, I am one of those Greek Babes!!!
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:33 PM
~~~ Sex Scandal Rocks Montana Town
Businessman Alleged To Have Paid Women More Than $1 Million ~~~
Depends on the women... I guess?
Posted by: Fishgrease at August 15, 2004 09:33 PM
Reno, Klein pitch Kerry to retirees
By Jennifer Sorentrue
Thursday, August 12, 2004
PALM BEACH GARDENS — Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and Florida Senate Democratic Leader Ron Klein wooed a room full of seniors Wednesday, vowing Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry will provide them with affordable health care and prescriptions.
"We are going to make sure that every senior knows that it doesn't have to be so hard to make ends meet when it comes to prescription drugs," Reno told a crowd at the North County Senior Center on Northlake Boulevard. "Too many senior citizens are having to choose between paying the rent and getting their prescription drugs."
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/08/12/a6a_drugs_0812.html
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:34 PM
HOLY CRAP!
I did not know that Vicente Fox president of Mexico was a coke exec!
With former Coke exec Vicente Fox now employed as president of Mexico, Coca-Cola is winning its battle for the mouths and hearts of Latin America.
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:35 PM
WoW what u say! I'm Honor'd my dear. Happy bloggin.
http://www.bushcountryketchup.com/
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 09:37 PM
Don't know if this is true, but rumour has it that Vincente Fox is trying to have the ingredients of a Margarita changed to include Coke.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 09:38 PM
COMPLAINTS AGAINST U.S. TROOPS
Iraqis say soldiers rob them
Civilians allege that forces seeking rebels raid homes and take money, other property; U.S. authorities say such incidents are rare
BY RAY SÁNCHEZ
STAFF CORRESPONDENT; Staff writer Craig Gordon in the Washington bureau contributed to this story.
August 15, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - On a scorching July night last year, the Abdullatif family was sleeping on the flat roof of their modest house to escape the heat. An explosion jolted them awake. U.S. troops on a counterinsurgency raid had blown open the front door. Military helicopters swooped down, so close they seemed almost to land on the roof.
U.S. troops armed with M-16s arrested Omar Abdullatif, then 17, his two brothers and their 63-year-old father, who suffers from dementia, as suspected terrorists.
As the troops searched the house, in Baghdad's al-Alam neighborhood, they broke open the locked, wooden chest in the parents' bedroom that held the family's savings, the Abdullatifs said.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:39 PM
What the Hell! What is with ketchup and Politicians? HAha!
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:39 PM
changed to include Coke.
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 09:38 PM
what is scary is that coke cola has been having people killed in south America.
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:40 PM
Gracias Pablito!!!
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:41 PM
by the way
Hi W@W how you be?
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:42 PM
Repubies idea of a bad joke gone really bad. U're killin' me mat...
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 09:42 PM
Hey Pablo, Check this web site out!!!
Pablo on Politics.
http://www.pablosnet.com/politics/slime_machine.htm
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:44 PM
In the words of Joe Walsh
"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do"
Posted by: W@W at August 15, 2004 09:46 PM
tonid lovely name??? does suit the lady me thinks or Apolonia or Ophelia is more convincing to the line.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 09:46 PM
Check it out Guys this site lists AL Frankens radio AAR (as they put it) First on their list of radio stations.
Kool!
http://radiofreeusa.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1157
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:48 PM
"FOP endorsement "
hi lucy furr...first, what is FOP? second...i hear ya lucy, and i again am not surprised by what you wrote there.
my mother works at a police department in california...she's "too priss" to ever make a negative comment about her employer, but i see how she is even treated inside the dept...she pretty much admits though that when you works for the cops, you keep your mouth shut, discontinue thinking for your self on the job, and do what you are told...
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:48 PM
exit polls are illegal in venezuela.
The UK's independant should be kicked in the butt for reporting falsehoods on the elections results.
from al giordano's narco news in venezuela
More shenanigans:
UK's Independent Newspaper Falsifies Venezuela Election Results!
By Ron Smith,
Posted on Sun Aug 15th, 2004 at 08:52:59 PM EST
In a big way. For shame, Hannah Baldock. How did you violate the rules? Let us count the ways.
"The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, looked to be losing his grip on power last night as exit polls showed him to be trailing the opposition by almost a million votes."
"The figures were early indications that, for the first time in the country's history, the President may have his term in office cut short by a referendum."
"The mid-morning results showed that the opposition, already boasting an enormous 1,758,000 votes to Chavez's 798,000, is well on its way to reaching the target of 3.76 million votes it needs to oust the authoritarian, left-wing President. Turn-out for the referendum was high, with millions of Venezuelans queuing from the early hours at polling stations all over the oil-rich country to decide the political fate of the firebrand Mr Chavez."
Let's talk about lousy, lazy, yellow journalism, and in a left-leaning paper, too. First, it's a bit early for such predictions, no? Second, it's still 8:15PM on the 15th here in Caracas, too early to legally release results, hell, the polls are still open for four more hours! Third, let's have a source for these numbers, Hannah. There are no "mid-morning results"! The only source, and I use the term loosely, to claim to release early results was Enrique Mendoza, a premiere member of the opposition group Coordinadora Democratica [sic], hardly an unbiased source, and he was shot down when the government banned early results.
Perhaps you refuse to provide a source because none exists, or perhaps you're using the usual "reliable" source of the escualido opposition. Either way, you're blemishing the record of the Independent by presenting a prediction as a truism. The government has strictly and explicitly forbidden any early release of po
Posted by: theresa at August 15, 2004 09:49 PM
What is this "clearly articulated grand strategy" supposed to be? Drezner approves of an attempt to analyze Bush's "grand strategy" by John Lewis Gaddis. According to Gaddis, the Bush "grand strategy" has five components:
* Preemption: the U.S. must take action to preempt and destroy asymmetric threats to its citizens.
* Unilateralism: the U.S.'s actions must not be constrained by the requirement of seeking the consent or agreement of allies.
* Hegemony: the U.S. must have and keep enough military power to decisively defeat any other combination of powers anywhere on the globe.
* Democratization: The three components above will be used to democratize the world: the U.S. will use its military hegemony to undertake unilateral, preemptive actions to destroy threats and establish democracies--for "poverty wasn't what caused a group of middle-class and reasonably well-educated Middle Easterners to fly three airplanes into buildings and another into the ground. It was, rather, resentments growing out of the absence of representative institutions in their own societies, so that the only outlet for political dissidence was religious fanaticism."
* Demonstration: Swift victories over the Taliban in Afghanistan and over Saddam Hussein in Iraq using only a fraction of America's strength (and followup attacks on other challengers... Syria? Iran? North Korea?) will demonstrate America's power and resolve, and convince other countries that they need to cooperate with and submit to American hegemony.
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/001348.html
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:49 PM
Those are good words Will!
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:50 PM
CAMPAIGN 2004
Billiken crowd jeers Keyes, cheers Obama
Dissent heats up when GOP Senate hopeful makes appearance at South Side parade
By David Mendell
Tribune staff reporter
Published August 15, 2004
If U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes had any notions of capturing the hearts and minds of Chicago's black electorate, the annual Bud Billiken Day Parade on Saturday proved that this task will be nothing short of daunting for the Republican
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:50 PM
tonid, i think My Fat Greek Wedding could be my all time favorite comedy...
whattya think?
i think that movie was so relatable to familes it was the best!
:)
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:50 PM
HI MAT!!
glad you didn't ditch
:)
i emailed you again today...
anyone know where darlene has been?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:51 PM
Perhaps you refuse to provide a source because none exists, or perhaps you're using the usual "reliable" source of the escualido opposition. Either way, you're blemishing the record of the Independent by presenting a prediction as a truism. The government has strictly and explicitly forbidden any early release of polling numbers. When the figures are released, they will be in the form of percentages, not hard numbers.
Fourth, "Left wing authoritarian president?" What the hell is that? Is it because you're still working under a racist premise about Latin America that you can disparage a democratically elected leader? I'd humbly suggest that after tonight, we'd find that Chavez has more popular support than Tony Blair. I'd like to see you describe him in such a way!
Independent, you need to be more careful in your reporters' screening process. And enough with the "firebrand" bullshit already! I've come to expect more, much more, from the Independent and the Observer. Get your facts straight before you lose your credibility.
Read her "report" herehttp://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/8/15/205259/595
Posted by: theresa at August 15, 2004 09:51 PM
That's a keeper. I've got boozo bush is a corporate clown suit as my background pic now.
I just saved the slime machine. Maybe I'll start a slide show screen saver.
Many Thanks
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 09:52 PM
Sure came close to mine. I think everyone has realtives like that.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:53 PM
Your welcome pablo. Kind of neat that I found it while you were on the blog.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:54 PM
All Ketchup is not created equal
W Ketchup would like to thank President Reagan for his selfless service to this nation.
Reagan won the Cold War, let private enterprise flourish, and most of all made Americans proud to be Americans again.
“We look for that fine day when we will see him again, all weariness gone, clear of mind, strong and sure and smiling again, and the sorrow of this parting gone forever. May God bless Ronald Reagan and the country he loved.” W Ketchup™ is made in America, from ingredients grown in the USA.
The leading competitor not only has 57 varieties, but has 57 foreign factories as well. W Ketchup comes in one flavor: American.
In side-by-side taste tests of five leading brands, we found that W Ketchup is second to none. You'll never go back to Heinz again!
A Tough Choice
Choose Heinz and you're supporting Teresa Heinz and her liberal causes, such as Kerry for President.
Choose W Ketchup and you support the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships to the children of our brave heroes who have fallen in battle
OH MY GOD MAT!!!??? kooky talk
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:55 PM
DEFEND THE MENDOCINO VICTORY &
SPREAD GE-FREE ZONES EVERYWHERE
People across the U.S. and the world have been inspired by the historic David versus Goliath victory in Mendocino County, California on March 2, 2004 where voters banned the production of genetically engineered crops and animals. Mendocino is the first county in the U.S to implement such a ban. The Mendocino GE ban has rattled Monsanto and the Gene Giants, who fear that global civil society will now follow Mendocino's example. Of course this is exactly what is happening. Recently, halfway across the world, a number of major agricultural states in Australia, including Western Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, have already passed, or will soon pass, GE crop bans. (Learn more)
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge-free.htm
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 09:55 PM
Shia backlash wrecks US strategy
TIM RIPLEY
WHEN troopers of the US 101st Airborne Division first entered the Iraqi city of Najaf 17 months ago, they were greeted by huge and welcoming crowds chanting "Die Saddam, die".
This weekend, the same streets are littered with the debris from over a week’s sustained and bloody combat. Empty shell cases and burnt-out vehicles have replaced the flowers and flags of welcome.
A one-day truce to allow peace negotiations ended yesterday with hostilities expected to resume at any moment. Few expect a lasting calm in Iraq’s Shia regions any time soon.
All over southern Iraq, Shia fighters have traded fire with US, British and Italian troops for more than 10 days in the second major uprising in six months by supporters of the firebrand cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr.
Iraq’s Shia population appears to be becoming increasingly radicalised by the current rebellion, making it very difficult for the US and its allies to portray it as the actions of a small, embittered minority.
Every time US marines and Iraqi troops loyal to the Baghdad regime inch forward into the heart of Najaf, it seems to boost attendance at demonstrations in the capital in support of Sadr.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=941632004
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:57 PM
OH MY GOD MAT!!!??? kooky talk
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:55 PM
I told you another dimension! Brb
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:57 PM
Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours
New Scientist - 16 hours ago
Cannabis extracts may shrink brain tumours and other cancers by blocking the growth of the blood vessels which feed them, suggests a new study.
ok this news might help me recover from w ketchup
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Sure came close to mine. I think everyone has realtives like that...
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 09:53 PM
my nona (great grandmother) couldn't even pronounce my name all my life...
she called me someting like
CHALLY
and called my little brother "the baby"... i can't recall hearing her ever even try to say his name....
:)
hahaha!!
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:59 PM
Speeches and mortar blasts set the tone for delegates
MARGARET NEIGHBOUR
TO THE sound of mortars exploding nearby, Iraq’s leaders met in a Baghdad conference centre yesterday to pick an interim national assembly and discuss the country’s worsening security situation.
Iraq’s interior ministry said three mortar bombs hit a taxi and bus station on the edge of the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, a few hundred yards away from the conference, killing two people and wounding 17.
The three-day meeting of 1,300 delegates was not affected, though some participants were startled as the explosions rattled windows.
Speaking at the conference in Baghdad, the prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said Iraq needed to press on with trying to create democracy after decades of brutal rule under Saddam Hussein.
"Your presence here today is the biggest challenge to the forces of darkness that want to tear this country apart. This is not the end of the road, it is the first step on the way to democracy," Mr Allawi said.
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=404&id=944602004
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:00 PM
me too mat, the blue eyed cat with the four inch tail and the too tight collar is here...brb
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 10:00 PM
hahaha!!
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 09:59 PM
No Nic...If you called your Grandmother NoNa then you are either Italian or from the west coast of Greece.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:02 PM
Hey No nic nicki your so fine! Your so fine you blow my mind! hehe!
Look where we might be going!
http://www.earthship.org/staticpages/index.php?page=rent&osCsid=30b751ecf0a25f6d010b33dac370e73e
Posted by: aka MAT at August 15, 2004 10:03 PM
Why is Will in Chicago leaving the Blog? Did it have something to do with comments about Israel. Crank Bait, what happened?
Posted by: Lucy Furr at August 15, 2004 10:03 PM
2:47am (UK)
Fuels for the Future
By Vik Iyer, PA News
A car powered by hydrogen which emits only water was hailed today as the planet’s most efficient vehicle on wheels.
The car is expected to need the equivalent of just two gallons of petrol to navigate the globe using 25 watts of power.
Known as the BOC Gh2ost, the car is being tested and built on the Shetland Islands in Scotland.
The first hydrogen-powered black cab took to the streets of London in 1998 but a lack of suitable filling stations has prevented the fuel from taking off.
Hydrogen is thought to be the most environmentally friendly of a number of greener fuels being tested by car giants.
Among other fuels is liquid petroleum gas (LPG), which is less than half the price of petrol and is completely renewable.
A Vauxhall Vectra family car using LPG emits 75% less carbon monoxide, 40% less nitrogen oxide and 85% fewer hydrocarbons than its petrol equivalent.
BG Group was previously involved in plans to allow motorists to fill up LPG tanks from their domestic gas supplies.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3350714
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:05 PM
it's me alice tonid..
i'm adopted, my adoptive family is scandinavian and mexican and italian on the other....
by birth, my dad is german and my birth mother is mostly italian, with some other stuff in the mix as well from her....
she told me that when my relatives i don't know came to america from italy, they dropped the O from their last name to fit in better, i guess.
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 10:07 PM
oh but yeah, i meant to say that yes my (adoptive) nona was actually from durango mexico, and her husband was from lucca italy...
so she spoke a mix of both languages...
:)
do you speak greek?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 10:09 PM
Crank Bait, what happened?
Posted by: Lucy Furr at August 15, 2004 10:03 PM
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Difficult to say, without my putting words into someone else's mouth.
It appeared that Will took offense toward a series of postings from dadalux.
Will claimed that he was too angered to continue.
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 10:09 PM
Al and company are their shots at the lie factory now.
You know the truth cuts them like kryptonite weakens superman.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 10:10 PM
Kerry hits home over Bush record
ALEX MASSIE IN WASHINGTON
THE battlefield is shifting closer to home. Presidential candidate John Kerry will this week try to put the war on Iraq behind him with a concentrated blitz to promote his economic and tax plans.
The switch began last Thursday as Kerry toured the key south-western states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada that could prove decisive come November’s election.
Stubbornly, however, Iraq kept getting in the way of his message as Kerry was forced on to the back foot to defend his vote for the conflict and his comment that the US needed to be more "sensitive" in the war on terror. His own Vietnam record as a decorated riverboat skipper also came under renewed scrutiny.
But his clear new tack towards domestic issues came for very good reasons. First was a leaked memo from two of the Democratic party’s most influential strategists which suggested that the party made a tactical error by concentrating almost exclusively on national security issues at last month’s convention in Boston.
Second was a new poll from a respected research institute that found that while Bush was still beating his challenger hands-down on security issues, Kerry had a clear lead on the economy, health and education. In the absence of any Bush initiatives for a second term, Kerry seems to have the ear of Middle America.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=941972004
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:10 PM
(the cat ran away when my husband said, "oh my god look how big his balls are?)
LMAO!!
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 10:11 PM
Al and company are [taking] their shots at the lie factory now.
You know the truth cuts them like kryptonite weakens superman.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 10:10 PM
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 10:11 PM
Immigrants to Israel hit new low
ANNETTE YOUNG IN JERUSALEM
THE flood is drying to a trickle. Israel is facing a population crisis with the number of Jewish immigrants moving to the strife-torn country falling to a 20-year low.
The four-year Palestinian intifada and a crippling economic recession, which has cut benefits for new settlers, are believed to be behind the steep decline.
Demographic experts are now predicting that the number of Palestinians living west of the Jordan River - in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza - will outnumber Israelis within the next 15 years.
The new immigration figures have been released by the Central Bureau of Statistics, which says that for the first half of 2004 only 8,550 immigrants had moved to Israeli, the lowest number in 20 years.
The figure is 7% lower than the first half of 2003 and 43% lower than for the same period in 2002. Some 9,200 immigrants arrived in the first half of 2003, compared with 14,900 in the first half of 2002, a contrast to the heady days of the 1990s when some one million immigrants arrived on Israel’s doorstep after the former communist bloc collapsed
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=941662004
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:15 PM
do you speak greek?
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 10:09 PM
I do. Seven years of Greek school. Just Like My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Had to go.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:17 PM
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New Thread
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Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:19 PM
In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images of beauty.
The tall, nearly emaciated mannequins that push the latest miracle cosmetic make even the most confident woman question her appearance.
Feminist Naomi Wolf argues that women's insecurities are heightened by these images, then exploited by the diet, cosmetic, and plastic surgery industries. Every day new products are introduced to "correct" inherently female "flaws," drawing women into an obsessive and hopeless cycle built around the attempt to reach an impossible standard of beauty.
Wolf rejects the standard and embraces the naturally distinct beauty of all women.
Product Description:
The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity.
In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before.
Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife.
It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
by Naomi Wolf
repost for old timey sake
Posted by: at August 15, 2004 10:20 PM
Hoe doet iedereen?
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 10:21 PM
Hoe doet iedereen?
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 10:21 PM
Say What?
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:23 PM
Who you callin' hoe?
Posted by: Crank Bait at August 15, 2004 10:24 PM
Ik denk het het dieet, zuigen cosmetisch en plasticce chirurgie industrieën ezel!!!!
Posted by: 13ben at August 15, 2004 10:25 PM
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New Thread
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Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 10:25 PM
Watchin Rich Lowry on CSPAN.
Is this the same punk that adds biblical lines to bushes speeches. He's in the CSPAN video archieves, "National Review Editor Rick Lowry Address to Young America's Foundation.
This punk is a total idiot! I'm great because Bill & Hill, and John & Teresa are bad.
O' really Richie.
Posted by: pablo at August 15, 2004 10:35 PM
Greetings Tonid,
Hope you are still on the blog. As usual your post are great.
I read your post earlier about Russia. Yes, Russia has big plans. They smell American blood. You better believe they are laughing themselves silly over the Bush Presidency. They know we have made a serious blunder with Iraq. They know the world is against us. They know that we have been getting away with large trade deficits. But not anymore. Now there is the Euro competing against the dollar. Our old borrowing ways are over. If our creditors, you know old Europe and the Far-East should decide we are no longer a good risk, well the same thing that happened to Argentina can happen to us. If you recall,Argentina was the richest country in South America.
I think the Russians are waiting, salivating like hungry wolves in anticipation our demise. I think China is also.
Perhaps I'm pessimistic. But it's better than being too naive.
Posted by: Lucy Furr at August 15, 2004 10:58 PM
Hi Lucy,
Sorry, got two phone calls in a row.
I am really afraid of China. Russia threatens but China is growing fast and will be a super power very soon.
Posted by: tonid at August 15, 2004 11:17 PM
Harkin: Cheney's comments 'cowardly'
Monday, August 16, 2004 Posted: 10:18 PM EDT (0218 GMT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney's questioning of John Kerry's war record and his ability to protect America is "cowardly," Sen. Tom Harkin said Monday.
"It just outrages me that someone who got five deferments during Vietnam and said he had 'other priorities' at that time would say that," said the Iowa Democrat, a former Navy fighter pilot.
Harkin said he had seen clips of the vice president saying in Iowa last week that Kerry lacks a basic understanding of the war on terrorism.
He accused President Bush and his vice president of "resorting to dirty attacks on John Kerry's war record."
"They're running scared because John Kerry has a war record and they don't," said Harkin. "What he (Cheney) is doing and what he is saying is cowardly. The actions are cowardly."
Harkin, a 20-year veteran of the Senate, was a Navy flier from 1962-67, including stints at Atsugi Naval Air Station in Japan and Guantanamo Bay. He served 1968-74 in the Reserves.
He said Cheney has little standing to question the war record of Kerry, who was repeatedly wounded and decorated while serving as a swift boat commander in Vietnam.
The issue first arose when Harkin joined with Des Moines police officials protesting the call-up of a police officer who already had completed his eight year military commitment.
Harkin said that it angered him to hear tough talk from Cheney.
"When I hear this coming from Dick Cheney, who was a coward, who would not serve during the Vietnam War, it makes my blood boil," said Harkin.
"He'll be tough, but he'll be tough with someone else's kid's blood," said Harkin.
Harkin said he decided to speak out because Republicans have a history of attacking on the issue of patriotism, including questioning the patriotism of former Sen. Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm to a grenade in Vietnam.
Too often, those who are targeted simply ignore the charges, Harkin said.
"You can't let them do that again," said Harkin. "If you let these crazy attacks go unanswered, they take on a life of their own."
Republican Na
Posted by: at August 17, 2004 12:31 AM