Lil ol me got tagged
Question is; are there eight things about me that anyone would care to know – that I am willing to post on a blog that I haven’t already?
1) I know that people are stupid enough to destroy the earth
2)I discovered that I was a liberal while taking business classes.
3) I think I have a pretty good understanding of what my country has become
4) I think people who bring children into this world now are stupid, ignorant, or selfish, because the kids are going to suffer.
5) Greed makes me sick
6) I'm obsessed with the out of control world population.
7) The only fiction series I have enjoyed in the last 5 years is the Plum series.
8) I am proud to say that my family and friends are reproducing at less than replacement level. (My obsession again)
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
My personal 4th
If you're looking for jingoistic, feel-good happy talk, go visit someone else's blog today.
I finished Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen this morning and immediately started reading Sundown Towns by the same author.
Nine freaking pages into Sundown Towns I came across this:
That evening in Decatur revolutionized my thinking. I now perceived that in the normal course of human events, most and perhaps all towns would not be all-white. Racial exclusion was required. "If they did not have such a policy,"observed an African American resident of Du Quoin, Illinois, about the all-white towns around Du Quoin, "surely blacks would be in them."I came to understand that he was right. "If people of color aren't around,"writes commentator Time Wise, "there's a reason, having something to do with history, and exclusion..." (#16 footnote)
Though mind-boggling to me, this insight proved hardly new. As early as 1858, before the dispersal of African Americans throughout the North prompted by the Civl War, the Wyandotte Herald in Wyandotte, in Southeastern Michigan, stated, "Wyandotte is again without a single colored inhabitant, something remarkable for a city of over 6,000 people." Even then, tThe Herald understood that a city of over 6,000 people as "remarkable"for being all-white. We shall see that a series of riots and threats was required to keep Wyandotte white over the years.
Why would these two paragraphs stand out to me?
Because I wondered about the longer history of Wyandotte, in Southeastern Michigan.
You see, I have Wyandotte blood in me.
On the other hand, being a proud, patriotic (mostly white) American, I can't help but wonder how many Iraq war veterans (that we are sending to make some rich white fucks richer) are going to hit the deck once the fireworks start tonight?
Hmmm, maybe I'll skip the fireworks, they kind of make me jumpy. Maybe I'll go see Michael Moore's Sicko, although I don't really need to, my parents are fighting with their insurance companies all the time.
Happy fucking "Independence Day" folks. At least Scooter Libby has something to celebrate
And here's a nice wrap up for today, even though I missed it a couple of days ago:
San Diego Public Schools Grapple with Muslim Prayer by: Lucas O'Connor
Mon Jul 02, 2007 at 08:44:03 AM PD
Uhhh, Lucas, isn't Hirsi Ali from Somalia?
Let me be clear. Fundamentalist Islam is not something I want invited in to my country, my city, my home. Like any form of fundamentalist religion, I flat out hate the motherfuckers.
I finished Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen this morning and immediately started reading Sundown Towns by the same author.
Nine freaking pages into Sundown Towns I came across this:
That evening in Decatur revolutionized my thinking. I now perceived that in the normal course of human events, most and perhaps all towns would not be all-white. Racial exclusion was required. "If they did not have such a policy,"observed an African American resident of Du Quoin, Illinois, about the all-white towns around Du Quoin, "surely blacks would be in them."I came to understand that he was right. "If people of color aren't around,"writes commentator Time Wise, "there's a reason, having something to do with history, and exclusion..." (#16 footnote)
Though mind-boggling to me, this insight proved hardly new. As early as 1858, before the dispersal of African Americans throughout the North prompted by the Civl War, the Wyandotte Herald in Wyandotte, in Southeastern Michigan, stated, "Wyandotte is again without a single colored inhabitant, something remarkable for a city of over 6,000 people." Even then, tThe Herald understood that a city of over 6,000 people as "remarkable"for being all-white. We shall see that a series of riots and threats was required to keep Wyandotte white over the years.
Why would these two paragraphs stand out to me?
Because I wondered about the longer history of Wyandotte, in Southeastern Michigan.
You see, I have Wyandotte blood in me.
On the other hand, being a proud, patriotic (mostly white) American, I can't help but wonder how many Iraq war veterans (that we are sending to make some rich white fucks richer) are going to hit the deck once the fireworks start tonight?
Hmmm, maybe I'll skip the fireworks, they kind of make me jumpy. Maybe I'll go see Michael Moore's Sicko, although I don't really need to, my parents are fighting with their insurance companies all the time.
Happy fucking "Independence Day" folks. At least Scooter Libby has something to celebrate
And here's a nice wrap up for today, even though I missed it a couple of days ago:
San Diego Public Schools Grapple with Muslim Prayer by: Lucas O'Connor
Mon Jul 02, 2007 at 08:44:03 AM PD
Uhhh, Lucas, isn't Hirsi Ali from Somalia?
Let me be clear. Fundamentalist Islam is not something I want invited in to my country, my city, my home. Like any form of fundamentalist religion, I flat out hate the motherfuckers.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Put away the flags
Published on Sunday, July 1, 2007 by The Progressive
by Howard Zinn
On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
Is not nationalism — that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder — one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?
These ways of thinking — cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on — have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.
National spirit can be benign in a country that is small and lacking both in military power and a hunger for expansion (Switzerland, Norway, Costa Rica and many more). But in a nation like ours — huge, possessing thousands of weapons of mass destruction — what might have been harmless pride becomes an arrogant nationalism dangerous to others and to ourselves.
Our citizenry has been brought up to see our nation as different from others, an exception in the world, uniquely moral, expanding into other lands in order to bring civilization, liberty, democracy.
That self-deception started early.
When the first English settlers moved into Indian land in Massachusetts Bay and were resisted, the violence escalated into war with the Pequot Indians. The killing of Indians was seen as approved by God, the taking of land as commanded by the Bible. The Puritans cited one of the Psalms, which says: “Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession.”
When the English set fire to a Pequot village and massacred men, women and children, the Puritan theologian Cotton Mather said: “It was supposed that no less than 600 Pequot souls were brought down to hell that day.”
On the eve of the Mexican War, an American journalist declared it our “Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence.” After the invasion of Mexico began, The New York Herald announced: “We believe it is a part of our destiny to civilize that beautiful country.”
It was always supposedly for benign purposes that our country went towar.
We invaded Cuba in 1898 to liberate the Cubans, and went to war in the Philippines shortly after, as President McKinley put it, “to civilize and Christianize” the Filipino people.
As our armies were committing massacres in the Philippines (at least 600,000 Filipinos died in a few years of conflict), Elihu Root, our secretary of war, was saying: “The American soldier is different from all other soldiers of all other countries since the war began. He is the advance guard of liberty and justice, of law and order, and of peace and happiness.”
We see in Iraq that our soldiers are not different. They have, perhaps against their better nature, killed thousands of Iraq civilians. And some soldiers have shown themselves capable of brutality, of torture.
Yet they are victims, too, of our government’s lies.
How many times have we heard President Bush tell the troops that if they die, if they return without arms or legs, or blinded, it is for “liberty,” for “democracy”?
One of the effects of nationalist thinking is a loss of a sense of proportion. The killing of 2,300 people at Pearl Harbor becomes the justification for killing 240,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 3,000 people on Sept. 11 becomes the justification for killing tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And nationalism is given a special virulence when it is said to be blessed by Providence. Today we have a president, invading two countries in four years, who announced on the campaign trail in 2004 that God speaks through him.
We need to refute the idea that our nation is different from, morally superior to, the other imperial powers of world history.
We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
Howard Zinn, a World War II bombardier, is the author of the best-selling “A People’s History of the United States” (Perennial Classics, 2003, latest edition). This piece was distributed by the Progressive Media Project.
©2007 The Progressive Magazine
by Howard Zinn
On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
Is not nationalism — that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder — one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?
These ways of thinking — cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on — have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.
National spirit can be benign in a country that is small and lacking both in military power and a hunger for expansion (Switzerland, Norway, Costa Rica and many more). But in a nation like ours — huge, possessing thousands of weapons of mass destruction — what might have been harmless pride becomes an arrogant nationalism dangerous to others and to ourselves.
Our citizenry has been brought up to see our nation as different from others, an exception in the world, uniquely moral, expanding into other lands in order to bring civilization, liberty, democracy.
That self-deception started early.
When the first English settlers moved into Indian land in Massachusetts Bay and were resisted, the violence escalated into war with the Pequot Indians. The killing of Indians was seen as approved by God, the taking of land as commanded by the Bible. The Puritans cited one of the Psalms, which says: “Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession.”
When the English set fire to a Pequot village and massacred men, women and children, the Puritan theologian Cotton Mather said: “It was supposed that no less than 600 Pequot souls were brought down to hell that day.”
On the eve of the Mexican War, an American journalist declared it our “Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence.” After the invasion of Mexico began, The New York Herald announced: “We believe it is a part of our destiny to civilize that beautiful country.”
It was always supposedly for benign purposes that our country went towar.
We invaded Cuba in 1898 to liberate the Cubans, and went to war in the Philippines shortly after, as President McKinley put it, “to civilize and Christianize” the Filipino people.
As our armies were committing massacres in the Philippines (at least 600,000 Filipinos died in a few years of conflict), Elihu Root, our secretary of war, was saying: “The American soldier is different from all other soldiers of all other countries since the war began. He is the advance guard of liberty and justice, of law and order, and of peace and happiness.”
We see in Iraq that our soldiers are not different. They have, perhaps against their better nature, killed thousands of Iraq civilians. And some soldiers have shown themselves capable of brutality, of torture.
Yet they are victims, too, of our government’s lies.
How many times have we heard President Bush tell the troops that if they die, if they return without arms or legs, or blinded, it is for “liberty,” for “democracy”?
One of the effects of nationalist thinking is a loss of a sense of proportion. The killing of 2,300 people at Pearl Harbor becomes the justification for killing 240,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 3,000 people on Sept. 11 becomes the justification for killing tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And nationalism is given a special virulence when it is said to be blessed by Providence. Today we have a president, invading two countries in four years, who announced on the campaign trail in 2004 that God speaks through him.
We need to refute the idea that our nation is different from, morally superior to, the other imperial powers of world history.
We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
Howard Zinn, a World War II bombardier, is the author of the best-selling “A People’s History of the United States” (Perennial Classics, 2003, latest edition). This piece was distributed by the Progressive Media Project.
©2007 The Progressive Magazine
Sunday, July 01, 2007
What's that giant sucking sound I hear?
Fluor, Dyncorp, KBR win contract
From Times Wire Services
June 29, 2007
Irvine-based Fluor Corp., Dyncorp International Inc. and KBR Inc., a former unit of Halliburton Co., were awarded parts of a U.S. Army contract with a combined potential value of as much as $150 billion to provide services to the military in the Middle East.
The contract, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) IV, would be worth as much as $5 billion a year in business for each of the companies, with the potential duration of 10 years.
The Army said the contract was parceled out to three companies rather than just one to "more effectively manage the number and scope of LOGCAP actions required to fight the global war on terror."
Fluor Corp.
DynCorp in Colombia: Outsourcing the Drug War
by Jeremy Bigwood, Special to CorpWatch
May 23rd, 2001
Oh, that giant sucking sound.
That's just the sound of military-industrial-congressional-complex bankrupting the next few generations, Yeesh, you'd think that I'd never heard that before.
From Times Wire Services
June 29, 2007
Irvine-based Fluor Corp., Dyncorp International Inc. and KBR Inc., a former unit of Halliburton Co., were awarded parts of a U.S. Army contract with a combined potential value of as much as $150 billion to provide services to the military in the Middle East.
The contract, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) IV, would be worth as much as $5 billion a year in business for each of the companies, with the potential duration of 10 years.
The Army said the contract was parceled out to three companies rather than just one to "more effectively manage the number and scope of LOGCAP actions required to fight the global war on terror."
Fluor Corp.
DynCorp in Colombia: Outsourcing the Drug War
by Jeremy Bigwood, Special to CorpWatch
May 23rd, 2001
Oh, that giant sucking sound.
That's just the sound of military-industrial-congressional-complex bankrupting the next few generations, Yeesh, you'd think that I'd never heard that before.
Friday, June 29, 2007
I told you I wanted books, right?
(click on pics for info)
Umm yeah, moderation has never really been my strong point. Gonna go read now.
Umm yeah, moderation has never really been my strong point. Gonna go read now.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
PADD
Political Attention Deficit Disorder – New Psychiatric Condition
Humor
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
06/27/07 "ICH" -- - -According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). It is recommended that the disorder be included in a widely used mental illness manual created and published by the American Psychiatric Association. The current manual was published in 1994; the next edition is to be completed in 2012. The benefit to people of an official classification is coverage by health insurance.
Mmmm, hmmm, I got another one for the DSM V
L.I.P.
Lobbyist Induced Pshychosis.
Characterized by "glazed donut eyes", while lost in fantasies of slitting the throat thereby cutting off the annoying mosqito buzzing of the corporate lobbyist seated in front of afflicted politician.
Treatment usually involves cash, alcohol, cars, planes, prostitutes and pork barrell projects.
Humor
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
06/27/07 "ICH" -- - -According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). It is recommended that the disorder be included in a widely used mental illness manual created and published by the American Psychiatric Association. The current manual was published in 1994; the next edition is to be completed in 2012. The benefit to people of an official classification is coverage by health insurance.
Mmmm, hmmm, I got another one for the DSM V
L.I.P.
Lobbyist Induced Pshychosis.
Characterized by "glazed donut eyes", while lost in fantasies of slitting the throat thereby cutting off the annoying mosqito buzzing of the corporate lobbyist seated in front of afflicted politician.
Treatment usually involves cash, alcohol, cars, planes, prostitutes and pork barrell projects.
suprise suprise
Senate hands Bush major defeat on immigration
By Donna Smith
Reuters
Thursday, June 28, 2007; 12:52 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate delivered an apparently fatal blow on Thursday to President George W. Bush's planned immigration overhaul and dashed the hopes of millions of immigrants seeking legal status.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
luv it luv it luv it
How do you make a politickybitch happy? BOOKS!
I uh, sorta got a hankering for new books while watching this talk by John Perkins
I bought Confessions of an Economic Hit Man three years ago.
I uh, sorta got a hankering for new books while watching this talk by John Perkins
I bought Confessions of an Economic Hit Man three years ago.
June 26, 2007 at 19:20:53
You will vote the way we tell you to vote! Verstehen!
by Charles Corry Page 1 of 1 page(s)
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Current events being CIA blowback
Tomgram: Roger Morris, The CIA and the Gates Legacy
posted June 25, 2007 3:08 pm
CIA's "family jewels" pdf files (8:34 PM 6/26/2007 after cursory scans, I've decided that these fuckers are definitely going to require copious amounts of tequila to get through)
Senator Mike Gravel says "The Military-Industrial-Complex owns our Congress lock, stock and barrel... We (The American people) want fundamental change!!... TV is the most superficial facet of our media...they've dumbed (it) down..." (from the Randi Rhodes Show today )
Randi Rhodes of Air America, No Holds Barred
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 6:02am. Interviews
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
I was a woman and in the Air Force. ...
posted June 25, 2007 3:08 pm
CIA's "family jewels" pdf files (8:34 PM 6/26/2007 after cursory scans, I've decided that these fuckers are definitely going to require copious amounts of tequila to get through)
Senator Mike Gravel says "The Military-Industrial-Complex owns our Congress lock, stock and barrel... We (The American people) want fundamental change!!... TV is the most superficial facet of our media...they've dumbed (it) down..." (from the Randi Rhodes Show today )
Randi Rhodes of Air America, No Holds Barred
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 6:02am. Interviews
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
I was a woman and in the Air Force. ...
And Justice for All (or the Rich fuck us in the ass)
Court Loosens Limits on Campaign Ads
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
Monday, June 25, 2007
U.S. Supreme Court turns down case on generic pharmaceuticals
Monday, June 25, 2007
AP) - WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit alleging two pharmaceutical companies conspired to monopolize the market for a drug used to treat breast cancer.
Consumers who filed the suit asked the justices to consider when an agreement not to market a generic drug is a violation of federal law.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge, who concluded the agreement between the two companies did not restrain trade in violation of federal law.
Suit Says Mortgage Firm Paid CEO $10M More Than It Disclosed
Monday, Jun. 25, 2007
By JODINE MAYBERRY, Andrews Publications Staff Writer
A shareholder suit filed in a Delaware federal court alleges that the directors of Countrywide Financial Corp. filed false and misleading proxy statements concealing that they had paid the company's CEO $10 million more in stock options than they claimed.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 Pension Fund filed the suit against board of the financial and mortgage services company just one day before Countrywide's annual shareholder meeting in an attempt to enjoin the re-election of three directors...
Justices bar ordinary U.S. taxpayers from suing over White House's religion-based programs
Monday, June 25, 2007
PETE YOST Associated Press Writer
(AP) - WASHINGTON-The Bush administration's religion-based initiatives got a boost from the U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling that says ordinary taxpayers cannot sue to stop White House-sponsored conferences that help religious charities apply for federal grants.
Justices take no action on Enron liability case, for now
(AP) - WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court on Monday put off deciding on the Enron scandal, taking no action in a securities fraud case with billions of dollars at stake for victimized investors.
The case asks whether Enron shareholders can pursue a lawsuit against Wall Street investment banks that did business with the Texas energy company.
The justices have already agreed to consider a similar suit accusing two equipment manufacturers of colluding with a cable TV company to deceive investors.
The administration decided against filing a brief on behalf of the investors in the case, with both President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson weighing on the side of the investment banks.
Three months ago, a federal appeals court blocked the $40 billion (€29.7 billion) Enron investors' suit against Merrill Lynch & Co., Credit Suisse First Boston and Barclays Bank PLC.
The suit alleged that they played roles in the accounting fraud that led to Enron's collapse.
Shareholders and investors in the class-action lawsuit had asked the Supreme Court to review the ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That court reversed a decision by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon in Houston, who had said shareholders could sue as a class.
Attorneys general from 30 states have sided with Enron shareholders in their bid for a class action.
The appeals court decision put the case on hold, which was set to go to trial April 16.
So far Enron plaintiffs have recouped $7.3 billion (€5.4 billion), mostly from such financial institutions as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
Besides Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Barclays, the remaining defendants include several former Enron officers: Jeff Skilling, the chief executive; Richard Causey, chief accounting officer; Richard Buy, chief risk officer; Jeff McMahon, treasurer; and Mark Koenig, executive vice president of investor relations.
Enron Corp., once the seventh-largest U.S. company, crumbled into bankruptcy in December 2001 after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The collapse wiped out thousands of jobs, more than $60 billion (€44.57 billion) in market value and more than $2 billion (€1.5 billion) in pension plans.
2007-06-25T15:23:56Z
But wait!!!!Lookee here, the little guy won!!!!
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
Monday, June 25, 2007
U.S. Supreme Court turns down case on generic pharmaceuticals
Monday, June 25, 2007
AP) - WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit alleging two pharmaceutical companies conspired to monopolize the market for a drug used to treat breast cancer.
Consumers who filed the suit asked the justices to consider when an agreement not to market a generic drug is a violation of federal law.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge, who concluded the agreement between the two companies did not restrain trade in violation of federal law.
Suit Says Mortgage Firm Paid CEO $10M More Than It Disclosed
Monday, Jun. 25, 2007
By JODINE MAYBERRY, Andrews Publications Staff Writer
A shareholder suit filed in a Delaware federal court alleges that the directors of Countrywide Financial Corp. filed false and misleading proxy statements concealing that they had paid the company's CEO $10 million more in stock options than they claimed.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 Pension Fund filed the suit against board of the financial and mortgage services company just one day before Countrywide's annual shareholder meeting in an attempt to enjoin the re-election of three directors...
Justices bar ordinary U.S. taxpayers from suing over White House's religion-based programs
Monday, June 25, 2007
PETE YOST Associated Press Writer
(AP) - WASHINGTON-The Bush administration's religion-based initiatives got a boost from the U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling that says ordinary taxpayers cannot sue to stop White House-sponsored conferences that help religious charities apply for federal grants.
Justices take no action on Enron liability case, for now
(AP) - WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court on Monday put off deciding on the Enron scandal, taking no action in a securities fraud case with billions of dollars at stake for victimized investors.
The case asks whether Enron shareholders can pursue a lawsuit against Wall Street investment banks that did business with the Texas energy company.
The justices have already agreed to consider a similar suit accusing two equipment manufacturers of colluding with a cable TV company to deceive investors.
The administration decided against filing a brief on behalf of the investors in the case, with both President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson weighing on the side of the investment banks.
Three months ago, a federal appeals court blocked the $40 billion (€29.7 billion) Enron investors' suit against Merrill Lynch & Co., Credit Suisse First Boston and Barclays Bank PLC.
The suit alleged that they played roles in the accounting fraud that led to Enron's collapse.
Shareholders and investors in the class-action lawsuit had asked the Supreme Court to review the ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That court reversed a decision by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon in Houston, who had said shareholders could sue as a class.
Attorneys general from 30 states have sided with Enron shareholders in their bid for a class action.
The appeals court decision put the case on hold, which was set to go to trial April 16.
So far Enron plaintiffs have recouped $7.3 billion (€5.4 billion), mostly from such financial institutions as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
Besides Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Barclays, the remaining defendants include several former Enron officers: Jeff Skilling, the chief executive; Richard Causey, chief accounting officer; Richard Buy, chief risk officer; Jeff McMahon, treasurer; and Mark Koenig, executive vice president of investor relations.
Enron Corp., once the seventh-largest U.S. company, crumbled into bankruptcy in December 2001 after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The collapse wiped out thousands of jobs, more than $60 billion (€44.57 billion) in market value and more than $2 billion (€1.5 billion) in pension plans.
2007-06-25T15:23:56Z
But wait!!!!Lookee here, the little guy won!!!!
Monday, June 25, 2007
In Sudan, China focuses on oil wells, not local needs
China has invested billions in oil facilities and pipelines, but not in much else, say Sudanese locals.
By Danna Harman | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Page 1 of 4
Nah, say it ain't so....
Oh, what's this?
Australian killed in terror raids: report
June 25, 2007 03:45am
AN Australian man is believed to be among seven Islamist militants killed in a raid on their hideout in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, and three other Australians have been arrested in Lebanon over suspected links to hardline groups.
I find this amusing:
Major Hollywood movie to be filmed in Dubai
By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter
Published: June 25, 2007, 23:31
...The new Dubai film is said to be about a young economist who gets used by Iranian operatives in a scheme to damage the American economy. He has to go on the run in order to prove himself innocent....
Especially because of this:
Halliburton Moving C.E.O. From Houston to Dubai
By Clifford Krauss
The New York Times
Published: March 12, 2007
Denmark tolerates these Islamofacist fucktards, why?
By Danna Harman | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Page 1 of 4
Nah, say it ain't so....
Oh, what's this?
Australian killed in terror raids: report
June 25, 2007 03:45am
AN Australian man is believed to be among seven Islamist militants killed in a raid on their hideout in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, and three other Australians have been arrested in Lebanon over suspected links to hardline groups.
I find this amusing:
Major Hollywood movie to be filmed in Dubai
By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter
Published: June 25, 2007, 23:31
...The new Dubai film is said to be about a young economist who gets used by Iranian operatives in a scheme to damage the American economy. He has to go on the run in order to prove himself innocent....
Especially because of this:
Halliburton Moving C.E.O. From Houston to Dubai
By Clifford Krauss
The New York Times
Published: March 12, 2007
Denmark tolerates these Islamofacist fucktards, why?
If you're American, these will piss you off
Gov't struggles to care for wounded GI's
How Fake Job Ads Defraud Americans To Secure Green Cards For Immigrants:
Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week
Posted - 06/21/07
New World Bank chief is confirmed
Who?
Larry King bumps Michael Moore to interview Paris Hilton.
at least he was re-scheduled for Friday
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
And if you live in Europe, this should piss you off.
The truth is tough to deal with, no two ways about it.
How Fake Job Ads Defraud Americans To Secure Green Cards For Immigrants:
Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week
Posted - 06/21/07
New World Bank chief is confirmed
Who?
Larry King bumps Michael Moore to interview Paris Hilton.
at least he was re-scheduled for Friday
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
And if you live in Europe, this should piss you off.
The truth is tough to deal with, no two ways about it.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
This made my day
Thursday:
Cheney tells agency that Vice President's office is not part of the executive branch
Michael Roston
Published: Thursday June 21, 2007
Saturday:
Democrats plan to cut Cheney out of executive funding bill
Josh Catone
Published: Saturday June 23, 2007
Man, I love Raw Story. This made my day.
Ummm, Ok, so maybye oilmen aren't much fun, but when the fun is at their expense, (bwaaaaa haaa haa ha ha ha)
Cheney tells agency that Vice President's office is not part of the executive branch
Michael Roston
Published: Thursday June 21, 2007
Saturday:
Democrats plan to cut Cheney out of executive funding bill
Josh Catone
Published: Saturday June 23, 2007
Man, I love Raw Story. This made my day.
Ummm, Ok, so maybye oilmen aren't much fun, but when the fun is at their expense, (bwaaaaa haaa haa ha ha ha)
Friday, June 22, 2007
Dysfunction Junction: How the New Energy Bill Adds Fuel to a Bloomberg Candidacy [Updated]
...Raising CAFE standards should be a no-brainer. It's the fastest and most efficient way to reduce our dependence on oil -- especially foreign oil. An increase of just 3 mpg nationwide would save one million barrels of oil per day. But for close to 25 years, the U.S. auto industry and its allies in Congress have repeatedly fought back any and all efforts to raise mileage standards...
Ummmm, allies?
I have another question:
When was the last time anybody in Congress worote a bill that offered tax incentives to land developers for sustainable housing that incorporated public mass transit?
Fuck Detroit. Goddamned arrogant dinosaurs. Haven't they caused enough damage?
Ummmm, allies?
I have another question:
When was the last time anybody in Congress worote a bill that offered tax incentives to land developers for sustainable housing that incorporated public mass transit?
Fuck Detroit. Goddamned arrogant dinosaurs. Haven't they caused enough damage?
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Very enlightening
GO Watch this
Sicko.
and as if we needed any more proof that George W. Bush is an idiot and a cruel hypocrite:
Bush again vetoes stem cell legislation
What does President SociopathicFucktard say?
and "Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical. And it is not the only option before us,'' the president said.
How does that man justify the Iraq war in that tiny little pea brain of his?
Speaking of pea brains, Oh My God, every time I see a report on Pakistan they are burning a flag, or an effigy, and a bunch of men are raving madly about some slight to Islam. Now they are all bent out of shape about the Salman Rushdie Knighting.
Guess all that money the Saudis send over to rile up the jihadis with hatred in those madrassas is accomplishing something. Congratulations Osama, you fucking dickhead, there's still plenty of pisssed off, ignorant assholes who will blow themseslves up cause they got nothing else to live for. God, what a shithole Pakistan is.
Sicko.
and as if we needed any more proof that George W. Bush is an idiot and a cruel hypocrite:
Bush again vetoes stem cell legislation
What does President SociopathicFucktard say?
and "Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical. And it is not the only option before us,'' the president said.
How does that man justify the Iraq war in that tiny little pea brain of his?
Speaking of pea brains, Oh My God, every time I see a report on Pakistan they are burning a flag, or an effigy, and a bunch of men are raving madly about some slight to Islam. Now they are all bent out of shape about the Salman Rushdie Knighting.Guess all that money the Saudis send over to rile up the jihadis with hatred in those madrassas is accomplishing something. Congratulations Osama, you fucking dickhead, there's still plenty of pisssed off, ignorant assholes who will blow themseslves up cause they got nothing else to live for. God, what a shithole Pakistan is.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Clinging to hope
(click on pics for info that keeps me hoping)
Greg Palast
and John Conyers
and Henry Waxman
As disgusted as I am with the business of politics in my country, I still have hope.
Even though Republicans suck. Really suck.
Fred Thompson seeks Thatcher's blessing
I'll let Marge tell you what I'm thinking about Fred Thompson and Margaret Thatcher's blessing.
Here's one of my favorite lines from Fargo
But this gives me lots and lots of hope: This farm runs on sun power
Greg Palast
and John Conyers
and Henry Waxman
As disgusted as I am with the business of politics in my country, I still have hope.
Even though Republicans suck. Really suck.
Fred Thompson seeks Thatcher's blessing
I'll let Marge tell you what I'm thinking about Fred Thompson and Margaret Thatcher's blessing.
Here's one of my favorite lines from Fargo
But this gives me lots and lots of hope: This farm runs on sun power
Saturday, June 16, 2007
What were they thinking?
The 'Untold Details' of Recent Iranian-U.S. Talks
Baztab News, Islamic Republic of Iran
Thursday May 31,2007
..."The Iranian team made the case that the presence of occupying troops, their disrespect for Iraq's Constitution and religious beliefs, their undermining of the Al-Maliki Government, the slackened trend of infrastructure reconstruction and facilities and the lack of equipment and training - and hence marginalization - of the Iraqi police and army, are the principal causes of insecurity in Iraq. "..
Hmmm, where do I start with this hucky pucky?
CBS: Iraqi PM doesn't trust his military, says coup possible
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Sabotage attacks target Iraq infrastructure
Saturday, May 26, 2007 09:23 GMT
On the other hand, joint forces arrested a suspect thought to have links with an officer of Iran Revolutionary Guards caught during a combat operation in Sadr City where joint forces found a cache of weapons.
Iraqi police selling weapons on black market
05 Feb 2007 10:35:55 GMT
Source: Reuters
The lack of security in Iraq has everything to do with the fact that Iraqis are trying to hold onto their own oil, and we managed to bumble into fight between the Arabs and the Persians that's been going on for centuries, made worse by their own depletion of oil, and the world's consumption of it.
The US being a leader in the consumption of oil.
If there ever was such a thing in the US as a cohesive group of leaders, they never would have arrogantly allowed our "way of life" to become so dependent on oil that they ever thought that this was an option.
Baztab News, Islamic Republic of Iran
Thursday May 31,2007
..."The Iranian team made the case that the presence of occupying troops, their disrespect for Iraq's Constitution and religious beliefs, their undermining of the Al-Maliki Government, the slackened trend of infrastructure reconstruction and facilities and the lack of equipment and training - and hence marginalization - of the Iraqi police and army, are the principal causes of insecurity in Iraq. "..
Hmmm, where do I start with this hucky pucky?
CBS: Iraqi PM doesn't trust his military, says coup possible
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Sabotage attacks target Iraq infrastructure
Saturday, May 26, 2007 09:23 GMT
On the other hand, joint forces arrested a suspect thought to have links with an officer of Iran Revolutionary Guards caught during a combat operation in Sadr City where joint forces found a cache of weapons.
Iraqi police selling weapons on black market
05 Feb 2007 10:35:55 GMT
Source: Reuters
The lack of security in Iraq has everything to do with the fact that Iraqis are trying to hold onto their own oil, and we managed to bumble into fight between the Arabs and the Persians that's been going on for centuries, made worse by their own depletion of oil, and the world's consumption of it.
The US being a leader in the consumption of oil.
If there ever was such a thing in the US as a cohesive group of leaders, they never would have arrogantly allowed our "way of life" to become so dependent on oil that they ever thought that this was an option.
Human tribes
Videos.
UN Webcast
One of Thousands
And three examples of their tribal extremists
And Holy Moly, whaddaya know?
The locals want you to speak the local language.
At least in school, where their taxes are paying to educate your brats.
And Oh Boy, how did I miss this one?
That's Sir Salman Rushdie to you.
A book I attempted to read twice. I've never been a really big fantasy fan, so I couldn't get through more than a few pages of it.
UN Webcast
One of Thousands
And three examples of their tribal extremists
And Holy Moly, whaddaya know?
The locals want you to speak the local language.
At least in school, where their taxes are paying to educate your brats.
And Oh Boy, how did I miss this one?
That's Sir Salman Rushdie to you.
A book I attempted to read twice. I've never been a really big fantasy fan, so I couldn't get through more than a few pages of it.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Reading The Third Chimpanzee
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (Author) "IT'S OBVIOUS THAT humans are unlike all animals..." (more)
Yup. More"successful" than any other species on the planet. And more destructive.
In only 15 years the author's information on DNA is outdated.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Is it Time to Take Saudi King Abdullah At His Word and Exit Iraq?
Yeah, sure, ummmm, why did we go there again?
Oh yeah, to do the Saudis bidding.
We're not exactly slaves to the Saudi's, just the critical middle men.
Power Plays: Iran talks with China on strategic oil reserves
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 9:38am. Gloria R. Lalumia
WORLD ENERGY WATCH
edited by Gloria Lalumia
The World Energy Watch presents recent news and analysis highlighting the activities of the players involved in the power struggle for the world's remaining energy resources
Mexico oil output drop may spark crisis
June 14, 2007 - 8:09AM
The Life and Death of a Border Town
by David Martinez
Special to CorpWatch
June 12th, 2007
Oh yeah, to do the Saudis bidding.
We're not exactly slaves to the Saudi's, just the critical middle men.
Power Plays: Iran talks with China on strategic oil reserves
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 9:38am. Gloria R. Lalumia
WORLD ENERGY WATCH
edited by Gloria Lalumia
The World Energy Watch presents recent news and analysis highlighting the activities of the players involved in the power struggle for the world's remaining energy resources
Mexico oil output drop may spark crisis
June 14, 2007 - 8:09AM
The Life and Death of a Border Town
by David Martinez
Special to CorpWatch
June 12th, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Is this a joke?
Crimes against humanity
Established 1981
London School of Islamics
An Educational Trust
63 Margery Park Road London E7 9LD
Email: info@londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
Tel/Fax: 0208 555 2733 / 07817 112 667
Crime against Humanity
To deprive a Muslim child from his/her culture and language is a crime against Humanity. British education system is guilty of such crime for the last 50 years. The first wave of Muslims arrived with three or four languages including English but the next generation born and educated by native teachers has been subject to learn English in local accents, making them mis-fit not only for the British society at large but also for the whole world. A Muslim is the citizen of this small global village....
and part of a telling response:
Their tactics are designed to alienate and cause racial tension. But having a Jew as its head and owner, that is not a surprise....
Dhimmi
Established 1981
London School of Islamics
An Educational Trust
63 Margery Park Road London E7 9LD
Email: info@londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk
Tel/Fax: 0208 555 2733 / 07817 112 667
Crime against Humanity
To deprive a Muslim child from his/her culture and language is a crime against Humanity. British education system is guilty of such crime for the last 50 years. The first wave of Muslims arrived with three or four languages including English but the next generation born and educated by native teachers has been subject to learn English in local accents, making them mis-fit not only for the British society at large but also for the whole world. A Muslim is the citizen of this small global village....
and part of a telling response:
Their tactics are designed to alienate and cause racial tension. But having a Jew as its head and owner, that is not a surprise....
Dhimmi
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
I don't care anymore
As strongly as I feel about saving the planet, I feel like I just don't care about Africa anymore.
A group of human beings that are stupid enough to breed themselves into starvation becomes tiring.
Just tiring.
Call me cruel.
Call me heartless.
I just don't fucking care anymore.
The same goes for Palestinians.
And Latin America.
I'm tired of dancing around the fact that these people , are not our friends.
They use us.
We use them.
Some of their citizens want to gain religious and economic hegemony all over the planet.
But the fundamentalist religion which drives that ambition is why the Arab world stopped advancing.
It could even be more basic than that. The Middle East just might be as fucked up as it is because of goats.
We both have some of the same problems.
We both create some of the planet's problems.
We both help feed the planet's burgeoning population.
And then there is blowback from shit that our arrogant leaders did and neglected to tell us about.
Fuse on the 'population bomb' has been relit
from the May 21, 2007 edition
Commentary: "Economic Scene: A weekly column"
Sometimes I wonder if Europeans had never come to South America and discovered potatoes , would I be lamenting my country being involved in this mess?
Damn goats.
Damn potatoes.
Damn oil.
Damn rulers and their stupid sheeple and their stupid religions
A group of human beings that are stupid enough to breed themselves into starvation becomes tiring.
Just tiring.
Call me cruel.
Call me heartless.
I just don't fucking care anymore.
The same goes for Palestinians.
And Latin America.
I'm tired of dancing around the fact that these people , are not our friends.
They use us.
We use them.
Some of their citizens want to gain religious and economic hegemony all over the planet.
But the fundamentalist religion which drives that ambition is why the Arab world stopped advancing.
It could even be more basic than that. The Middle East just might be as fucked up as it is because of goats.
We both have some of the same problems.
We both create some of the planet's problems.
We both help feed the planet's burgeoning population.
And then there is blowback from shit that our arrogant leaders did and neglected to tell us about.
Fuse on the 'population bomb' has been relit
from the May 21, 2007 edition
Commentary: "Economic Scene: A weekly column"
Sometimes I wonder if Europeans had never come to South America and discovered potatoes , would I be lamenting my country being involved in this mess?
Damn goats.
Damn potatoes.
Damn oil.
Damn rulers and their stupid sheeple and their stupid religions
Monday, June 11, 2007
Immigration issues
Mexicans make their place in NYC
This story was reported by Rolando Pujol and Marlene Peralta and was written by Pujol
June 12, 2007
...Their numbers soared from around 62,000 in 1990 to more than 400,000 by many estimates, with domestic economic and agricultural crises in Mexico spurring the exodus....
...The breathtaking birth rate among Mexican women could alone ensure the population's continued expansion, even if immigration were to ebb, said Laird Bergad of the CUNY Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies....
No, wait, it gets better:
...Adding to the population growth could be a new wave of immigration prompted by the lifting of protections on Mexico's corn industry set for next year.
"We're going to see a massive influx of cheap U.S. corn into Mexico ... we're going to see a massive exodus of people from the countryside who can no longer grown corn," Galvez said.
12 percent of America's 300 million people are foreign-born
..."Mexicans are far less likely than immigrants from other countries to hold college degrees or to have completed high school," the report said. "More than 60 percent of Mexican immigrants who are eligible for citizenship or soon will be have not completed high school, compared with less than 40 percent of all other legal permanent residents (LPRs)."...
Birth Rates Among Immigrants in America
Comparing Fertility in the U.S. and Home Countries
...As for legal status, we estimate that the birth rate of illegal alien women was 3.1 children on average in 2002, or about 50 percent higher than the two children natives have on average. The birth rate for legal immigrants is 2.6, or about one-third higher than that of natives...
Births to Immigrants in America 1970 to 2002
In 2002, 23 percent of all births in the United States were to immigrant mothers (legal or illegal), compared to 15 percent in 1990, 9 percent in 1980, and 6 percent in 1970.
Hmmmm.
Could be worse. Could be Europe where they invite the hateful muslims in and then give welfare to three generations of people with ridiculously high birthrates and no intention of integrating.
This story was reported by Rolando Pujol and Marlene Peralta and was written by Pujol
June 12, 2007
...Their numbers soared from around 62,000 in 1990 to more than 400,000 by many estimates, with domestic economic and agricultural crises in Mexico spurring the exodus....
...The breathtaking birth rate among Mexican women could alone ensure the population's continued expansion, even if immigration were to ebb, said Laird Bergad of the CUNY Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies....
No, wait, it gets better:
...Adding to the population growth could be a new wave of immigration prompted by the lifting of protections on Mexico's corn industry set for next year.
"We're going to see a massive influx of cheap U.S. corn into Mexico ... we're going to see a massive exodus of people from the countryside who can no longer grown corn," Galvez said.
12 percent of America's 300 million people are foreign-born
..."Mexicans are far less likely than immigrants from other countries to hold college degrees or to have completed high school," the report said. "More than 60 percent of Mexican immigrants who are eligible for citizenship or soon will be have not completed high school, compared with less than 40 percent of all other legal permanent residents (LPRs)."...
Birth Rates Among Immigrants in America
Comparing Fertility in the U.S. and Home Countries
...As for legal status, we estimate that the birth rate of illegal alien women was 3.1 children on average in 2002, or about 50 percent higher than the two children natives have on average. The birth rate for legal immigrants is 2.6, or about one-third higher than that of natives...
Births to Immigrants in America 1970 to 2002
In 2002, 23 percent of all births in the United States were to immigrant mothers (legal or illegal), compared to 15 percent in 1990, 9 percent in 1980, and 6 percent in 1970.
Hmmmm.
Could be worse. Could be Europe where they invite the hateful muslims in and then give welfare to three generations of people with ridiculously high birthrates and no intention of integrating.
still reading
My favorite part of the book so far:
p. 84
(regarding a rabid anti-American document that "detailed" America's contributions to the world that the author was asked to sign while living in Oslo. Rabid anti-Americanism is rampant in Europe)
"What's more, if the document's authors were serious about listing America's contributions to the world, why hadn't they mentioned--- along with Lincoln and Elvis---such inventions and discoveries as airplanes, anesthesia, calculators, computers, DNA, compact discs, elevators, electric light, artificial hearts, helicopters, magnetic resonance imaging, the Internet, microprocessors, microwave ovens, motion pictures, nylon, pacemakers, photography, phonographs, quasars, sound recording, sewing machines, mass spectroscopy, electric stoves, telephones, television, transistors, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and the polio, measles, and meningitis vaccines---just for starters? If they were toting up Norway's special debt to the United States, why not acknowledge the liberation from the Nazis and the half century of protection from Soviet Aggression?"
Europe continues to import and support the most ignorant, backwards, hateful, oppressive elements of the Muslim world, and refuses to integrate these disaffected people.
WHATEVER.
Fucking idiots.
Woman in UK 'groomed' as bomber
France: America’s New Best Friend
...It had become so bad that several elderly Arab immigrants of the 1950's and 1960's told the French press that their grandchildren - the second generation born on French soil - were actually far more radical and anti-Western. It was in fact these very youth who burned hundreds of cars across France from the late days of October, through the end of the year, and even into the New Year of 2006. They threw rocks and bottles at police, set fire to buildings, and created such mayhem that France immediately fought back with strict anti-rioting laws. And while the pro-socialist, left-leaning press whined about the oppression of youths in the ghettos, the French told each other the truth over dinner conversations: the Muslim immigrant problem had become far too big to continue to ignore...
Oslo Peace Process For Europe? Muslim Crime Wars Against Europe
Fjordman - 5/13/2007
...Sweden has a 25% real unemployment rate. What happens if or when the Swedish welfare state collapses? Isn’t it likely that this will trigger a flood of “welfare tourists” to neighboring countries such as Norway? This question hasn’t even been asked, much less debated, by a single political leader in this country. The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in a generation, parallel to Muslim immigration. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists in one court were born on foreign soil or of foreign parents. In a new Sociological survey, the wave of robberies the city of Malmö has witnessed during this past year is part of a “war against Swedes.”...
Crossroads Europe (Al Jazeera)
UPDATED ON:
MONDAY, MAY 14, 2007
16:19 MECCA TIME, 13:19 GMT
...The hostility felt by some can lead to fierce tension with the police. Obaid-Chinoy encounters confrontation between Swedish officers and defiant Palestinian teenagers in Rosengard.
Despite this, and the district's devastating unemployment rate of 90 per cent in some pockets, the city's residents remain hopeful for change...
Umm, yeah, hope in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Let's hope...
...that the male suicide bombers who choose to hide behind the niqab are really lousy at plucking their eyebrows, applying eye make-up and disguising their voice.
Cairo campus veil ban struck down
The court said wearing the niqab was a matter of religious freedom
A court in Egypt has ruled that the American University of Cairo cannot ban women from wearing the niqab - the full Islamic face covering - on campus.
Cairo campus veil ban struck down
The court said wearing the niqab was a matter of religious freedom
A court in Egypt has ruled that the American University of Cairo cannot ban women from wearing the niqab - the full Islamic face covering - on campus.
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