NEWSCOMA is way too nice to say anything like this, so I will.
Joe Francis is a nasty ass pig who needs to grow the fuck up.
'Baby, Give Me a Kiss'
The man behind the 'Girls Gone Wild' soft-porn empire lets Claire Hoffman into his world, for better or worse
By Claire Hoffman, Times Staff Writer
August 6, 2006
Joe needs to take some ritalin, or something, my God, what a spoiled rotten flaming asshole.
Update Friday September 15, 2006 The Verdict: Joe Francis is Still a Sleazehole
Girls Gone Wild' producers fined $2.1 million
'POSTED: 2015 GMT (0415 HKT), September 12, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
Joy
I was listening to the Squirrel Nut Zippers just the other day, so I heard the influence right away. I have been a REALLY BIG fan of Rickie Lee Jones since 1978. I became interested in politics around 6 years ago. This song made me feel joy. I haven't felt that from listening to a song in quite a while. Joy and hope. It's really a fun song.She recorded it especially for the Blue America community
Have you had enough? mp3 file from Crooks and Liars
DownWithTyranny tells us how he got involved with this
RICKIE LEE JONES AND THE GUYS FROM THE SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS TELL WHY THEY RECORDED HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH?
Indigenous Middle Eastern Jews condemn Israeli aggression
Indigenous Middle Eastern Jews condemn Israeli aggression
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:42:46 -0700
Palestininan Jews killed at Sabra and Shatila? Never heard that before.
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:42:46 -0700
Palestininan Jews killed at Sabra and Shatila? Never heard that before.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
What is it with this God thing, anyway?
My friend wrote this this the other day. I liked it. He said it's ok to share it with you.
Some living things having gained some time to devote to pursuits other than plain survival have wondered if there is an overarching reason for existence thus they have created Gods. Of that there can be no reasonable doubt. Cleverly though they also have made their Gods necessary and inevitable. We create our Gods in order to create us. Something in the human psyche needs that, the evidence seems to indicate. But enough of this intellectualizing. One wants an experience of God (by which I mean) the un-nameable mystery behind it all. That does not come by thinking. All the words written, all the sacred inspired texts, beautiful though they may be are mere signposts. They are not the road itself. Those who argue "take this road" or "take that road" are stuck looking at maps. They are eating the menu, but not the meal. They are hearing the notes, but not the music.
Some living things having gained some time to devote to pursuits other than plain survival have wondered if there is an overarching reason for existence thus they have created Gods. Of that there can be no reasonable doubt. Cleverly though they also have made their Gods necessary and inevitable. We create our Gods in order to create us. Something in the human psyche needs that, the evidence seems to indicate. But enough of this intellectualizing. One wants an experience of God (by which I mean) the un-nameable mystery behind it all. That does not come by thinking. All the words written, all the sacred inspired texts, beautiful though they may be are mere signposts. They are not the road itself. Those who argue "take this road" or "take that road" are stuck looking at maps. They are eating the menu, but not the meal. They are hearing the notes, but not the music.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
US Gen. Abizaid says civil war possible in Iraq
US Gen. Abizaid says civil war possible in Iraq
Thu Aug 3, 2006 10:34am ET
Baghdad Burning (today's post)
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 (archive post)
...The latest corpses were those of some Sunni and Shia clerics- several of them well-known. People are being patient and there is a general consensus that these killings are being done to provoke civil war. Also worrisome is the fact that we are hearing of people being rounded up by security forces (Iraqi) and then being found dead days later- apparently when the new Iraqi government recently decided to reinstate the death penalty, they had something else in mind...
General Abizaid obviously doesn't read Riverbend's posts.
Thu Aug 3, 2006 10:34am ET
Baghdad Burning (today's post)
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 (archive post)
...The latest corpses were those of some Sunni and Shia clerics- several of them well-known. People are being patient and there is a general consensus that these killings are being done to provoke civil war. Also worrisome is the fact that we are hearing of people being rounded up by security forces (Iraqi) and then being found dead days later- apparently when the new Iraqi government recently decided to reinstate the death penalty, they had something else in mind...
General Abizaid obviously doesn't read Riverbend's posts.
Hate the news? Here's why.
Bombing is backed by most American voters
From Tom Baldwin in Washington 08/04/06 "The Times"
-- -- ISRAEL’s military campaign in southern Lebanon is still being backed by most American voters, according to a survey published yesterday that shows public opinion in the US once again sharply at odds with views in Europe. The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll found that 59 per cent believed that Israel’s actions were “justified”, although a quarter of this group stated that the military had behaved in an “excessively harsh” fashion.
After watching Orville Shell online last night, I understand, but I'm still saddened. Try to tell people from other countries why Americans are so ignorant of current events in the Middle East and they won't believe you unless they have lived in the US sometime within the last ten years. Try to tell an American nursed on Faux newz, or Entertainment Tonight, or any of the major network newz soundbites that they are ignorant (meaning uninformed) and they will tell you "I don't want to know," "It's too depressing, " or "I don't care, " or most commonly, "I don't have time for that." Ask them why they don't seek out news sources on the internet and they will say "I work on a computer all day, I don't want to touch a computer when I'm not stuck working at one." These are answers I have received when I have asked people why they don't know what I know. These are all understandable reasons to me. If you just don't want to deal with the news, the following interview might help you figure out why it's such a turn off, you're NOT crazy, Ok?
The Brancaccio/Schell interview is worth 24 minutes of your time, come on, it's Saturday, g'head, g'head'----
Orville Schell on a Responsible Press
8.4.06
From Tom Baldwin in Washington 08/04/06 "The Times"
-- -- ISRAEL’s military campaign in southern Lebanon is still being backed by most American voters, according to a survey published yesterday that shows public opinion in the US once again sharply at odds with views in Europe. The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll found that 59 per cent believed that Israel’s actions were “justified”, although a quarter of this group stated that the military had behaved in an “excessively harsh” fashion.
After watching Orville Shell online last night, I understand, but I'm still saddened. Try to tell people from other countries why Americans are so ignorant of current events in the Middle East and they won't believe you unless they have lived in the US sometime within the last ten years. Try to tell an American nursed on Faux newz, or Entertainment Tonight, or any of the major network newz soundbites that they are ignorant (meaning uninformed) and they will tell you "I don't want to know," "It's too depressing, " or "I don't care, " or most commonly, "I don't have time for that." Ask them why they don't seek out news sources on the internet and they will say "I work on a computer all day, I don't want to touch a computer when I'm not stuck working at one." These are answers I have received when I have asked people why they don't know what I know. These are all understandable reasons to me. If you just don't want to deal with the news, the following interview might help you figure out why it's such a turn off, you're NOT crazy, Ok?
The Brancaccio/Schell interview is worth 24 minutes of your time, come on, it's Saturday, g'head, g'head'----
Orville Schell on a Responsible Press
8.4.06
Friday, August 04, 2006
Hiya boeing.com, you looking for a link to this article?
Military Waste In Our Drinking Water
By Sunaura Taylor and Astra Taylor, AlterNet. Posted August 4, 2006.
Happy to oblige.
Military Waste In Our Drinking Water
By Sunaura Taylor and Astra Taylor, AlterNet. Posted August 4, 2006.
Happy to oblige.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
halliburton.com landed here, wtf?
Can anyone tell me why someone from halliburton.com in Houston Texas would perform a search using these words:
australia seismic whale dead interview
and then wade through 15 effing pages of Google results to hit on this particular entry?
On this silly little blog?
hmmmm?
LEAD: More than 140 whales die after beachings in Australia, NZ
Asian Economic News Dec 13, 2004
SYDNEY, Nov. 30 Kyodo
...More than 140 whales have died in three separate mass strandings in Australia and New Zealand since Sunday, according to government officials and media reports Tuesday....Sen. Bob Brown of the Australian Greens party said in a statement released Tuesday that seismic tests carried out in oceans to search for gas and oil should be stopped until the whale migration season ends.
''The whale strandings of recent days come exactly a year after a similar stranding on Tasmania's west coast,'' Brown said. ''In both cases, seismic testing occurred in the preceding days.''
Seismic testing is sound bombing of the ocean bed to search for oil and gas. There is growing evidence that such activities may impact whales and dolphins but research data are inconclusive.
''However, the precautionary principle should apply, and the tests, until shown to be safe, should stop -- at least in whale migration seasons,'' Brown said...
or maybe halliburton was looking for this or this?
Greg has some info on the oil barons..
THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD FOR BIG OIL
Greg Palast Aug 03, 2006
Um, Greg? They hate sunlight.
In PA, Big-Time GOP Donors Show True Colors: Green
By Justin Rood - August 2, 2006, 5:51 PM
A Halliburton lobbyist giving money to the Green Party?
Santorum, the Green Party, and some very strange bedfellows
...James Holman (misidentified in FEC records as "Howmen"); California publisher, $5,000:Holman publishes a string of pro-life, Catholic newspapers across California (and, highly incongruously, an alternative paper, the San Diego Reader. According to this article, he pumped a whopping $1.1 million last year into Proposition 73, a parental notification measure that Holman called in ads "the first 'pro-life measure to be voted on in the state of California.'" ...
Oh yeah, good times here in the 50th. oily congresswhore Bilbray votes
He and other local congresswhores along for the slip n slide ride:
North County Reps vote to lift offshore drilling ban
Anybody who thinks San Diego doesn't have any serious problems is a moron, a tourist, or they've spent way too much time with their heads up their asses.
Mel Gibson
I don't give a shit. Shut the fuck up about something someone said when they were drunk. I'm fucking sick of hearing about it. Besides, Mel's not the only person on the planet who might be pissed off at the Jews who run Israel right now, and are bombing the crap out of Lebanon. My guess is that they're bombing areas of Lebanon that are loaded with Palestinians who fled their own land when the Jews took control of it. Jews were horribly vicitimized during the second world war. The Israeli government has become the victimizer of Palestinians. You want to call me an anti-semite for saying that, FINE. Just use the word with all of it's meanings. I pretty much hate that fact that the Arabs (semites) and the Jews (semites) have been trying to kill each other for thousands of years. Nobody wins a war of ideology with weaponry. And I hate the fact that my country is selling weapons all over the world. So call me unpatriotic while you're at it. I don't give a shit.
Note: This is not an invitation for Christo-fascists to think I'm on your side, fuck you too. Religious texts were written by men, making NONE of them perfect.
By Dahr Jamail
There was Khuder Gazali, an ambulance driver, whose left arm wasblown off by a rocket fired by an American-made Apache war helicopter while he was rescuing civilians whose home had been bombed. The ambulance then sent to rescue the rescuer was bombed, everyone in it killed. Miraculously, the third ambulance was able to retrieve him, only because the Apache had left. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14306.htm
Note: This is not an invitation for Christo-fascists to think I'm on your side, fuck you too. Religious texts were written by men, making NONE of them perfect.
By Dahr Jamail
There was Khuder Gazali, an ambulance driver, whose left arm wasblown off by a rocket fired by an American-made Apache war helicopter while he was rescuing civilians whose home had been bombed. The ambulance then sent to rescue the rescuer was bombed, everyone in it killed. Miraculously, the third ambulance was able to retrieve him, only because the Apache had left. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14306.htm
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
More oil crud
Thanks cookie jill for the jump start on this one
The crude facts about oil
Global market not only cause for rising gas prices
By JEFF DONN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Even the insane bible thumping Pat Robertson couldn't get in on this action
It's just too lucrative.
The crude facts about oil
Global market not only cause for rising gas prices
By JEFF DONN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Even the insane bible thumping Pat Robertson couldn't get in on this action
It's just too lucrative.
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