Oh and here's another surprise, go laugh
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
These guys are sooooo funny!
They played Beruit, & they're scheduled to play DC. I'm betting that the Beruit audience had a better sense of humor.
Nothing to do with the comedians, but a great new website called Full Frontal Scrutiny
Git your mind out of the gutter, it's about the propaganda that Americans are bombarded with on a daily basis.
And Chalmers Johnson reviews a book that punctures a hole in the myth of free trade.
Monday, January 28, 2008
I know I am, but what are you?
The title of this article just cracked me up:
Romney, McCain Call Each Other 'Liberal'
By GLEN JOHNSON Associated Press Writer
You think any of the knuckle dragging, voting against their own best interest, fReeptards have any idea what the word liberal means?
Romney, McCain Call Each Other 'Liberal'
By GLEN JOHNSON Associated Press Writer
You think any of the knuckle dragging, voting against their own best interest, fReeptards have any idea what the word liberal means?
Sunday, January 27, 2008
The basics of oil
No, it's not nap time, I just don't want to read any more today, let's watch a documentary, K?
Update, or not, here's the trailer
Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
From The Sunday Times
January 27, 2008
AN investigation into the illicit sale of American nuclear secrets was compromised by a senior official in the State Department, a former FBI employee has claimed.
The official is said to have tipped off a foreign contact about a bogus CIA company used to investigate the sale of nuclear secrets.
The firm, Brewster Jennings & Associates, was a front for Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent. Her public outing two years later in 2003 by White House officials became a cause célèbre.
The claims that a State Department official blew the investigation into a nuclear smuggling ring have been made by Sibel Edmonds, 38, a former Turkish language translator in the FBI’s Washington field office.
Edmonds had been employed to translate hundreds of hours of intercepted recordings made during a six-year FBI inquiry into the nuclear smuggling ring.
Related Links
* FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft January 20, 2008
* For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets January 6, 2008
From
Bradblog
And more fallout from the Bush Administration:
Plan to Allow Logging in Alaskan Forest
Plan would open Tongass forest to logging
3 million acres of the Alaska wilderness would be made available under the new U.S. Forest Service management outline.
By Tami Abdollah,
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 26, 2008
January 27, 2008
AN investigation into the illicit sale of American nuclear secrets was compromised by a senior official in the State Department, a former FBI employee has claimed.
The official is said to have tipped off a foreign contact about a bogus CIA company used to investigate the sale of nuclear secrets.
The firm, Brewster Jennings & Associates, was a front for Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent. Her public outing two years later in 2003 by White House officials became a cause célèbre.
The claims that a State Department official blew the investigation into a nuclear smuggling ring have been made by Sibel Edmonds, 38, a former Turkish language translator in the FBI’s Washington field office.
Edmonds had been employed to translate hundreds of hours of intercepted recordings made during a six-year FBI inquiry into the nuclear smuggling ring.
Related Links
* FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft January 20, 2008
* For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets January 6, 2008
From
Bradblog
And more fallout from the Bush Administration:
Plan to Allow Logging in Alaskan Forest
Plan would open Tongass forest to logging
3 million acres of the Alaska wilderness would be made available under the new U.S. Forest Service management outline.
By Tami Abdollah,
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 26, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Big oil's threat to whales and people
...our thousand spills--over one a day--recorded by the oil industry in its land operations in the last decade, and keeping in mind that offshore hazards are far greater, the inevitable accidents seem certain to accumulate into an ongoing and permanent calamity. A black effluvia of crude petroleum and drilling mud and chemical pollutants would spread inshore, suffocating plankton and invertebrates and bottom-dwelling fish and poisoning great stretches of Arctic coast with a viscous excrescence. The same toxic mixture will blacken the drifting ice, fouling the pristine habitat of Arctic birds, the Pacific walrus, four species of seals, and the beleaguered polar bear, while contaminating the migratory corridors of the white beluga and endangered bowhead whales—all this defilement made much worse by the grim fact that no technology has ever been developed for cleaning up spilled oil in icy waters. Even in spills in temperate waters, such as the Exxon Valdez disaster, only an average of less than 15 percent is ever removed.
An immediate threat to Inupiat culture is the disruption of animal habitats and whale migrations caused by seismic testing, in which arrays of powerful airguns shoot sound waves through the sea floor in search of deep rock formations that might hold gas or oil. "The underwater noise produced by seismic airguns...is among the most intense sounds ever generated by humankind.... The potential harm is enormous," according to Dr. Christopher W. Clark, a marine biologist and undersea acoustics specialist at Cornell.
(click on pic for more information)
Very short bursts of very high energy noise are exploded within the ocean and injected into the earth. Those explosions are repeated over and over again, twenty-four hours a day, for days on end...going off every 9–12 seconds. They represent the most severe acoustic insult to the marine environment I can imagine short of naval warfare.[3]
Seismic testing has been shown to cause significant mortality in fish eggs and larvae, and while permanent harm to adult animals has not been researched , it can scarcely be doubted that physical and neurological damage will result. Yet seismic prospecting (minimally monitored for the bowhead whale, an officially recognized endangered species) is still permitted before leases for ocean drilling are issued, and the leases stipulate no protection of wild creatures against loss of habitat or other harm that might impair their chances of survival.
Even without disruptions such as seismic testing, the rapid withdrawal of the ice is truly ominous for Arctic wildlife, since the melting edges of the ice pack are where life proliferates in the twenty-four-hour light of spring and summer. The profusion of phytoplankton and sea algae attracts fish and birds and also the bowhead, which consumes plankton; the beluga feeds along the ice edge on the small Arctic cod. Of the four seal species, the bearded and ringed seals are entirely ice-dependent, and the preferred habitat of the Pacific walrus, too, is drifting ice, which carries it over the rich mollusk beds from which it feeds. Warming has already set in motion an ecological chain reaction as the ice-edge cod, which feed the ringed seals, which feed the polar bears, follow the retreating sea ice farther and farther from the coast...
An immediate threat to Inupiat culture is the disruption of animal habitats and whale migrations caused by seismic testing, in which arrays of powerful airguns shoot sound waves through the sea floor in search of deep rock formations that might hold gas or oil. "The underwater noise produced by seismic airguns...is among the most intense sounds ever generated by humankind.... The potential harm is enormous," according to Dr. Christopher W. Clark, a marine biologist and undersea acoustics specialist at Cornell.
(click on pic for more information)Very short bursts of very high energy noise are exploded within the ocean and injected into the earth. Those explosions are repeated over and over again, twenty-four hours a day, for days on end...going off every 9–12 seconds. They represent the most severe acoustic insult to the marine environment I can imagine short of naval warfare.[3]
Seismic testing has been shown to cause significant mortality in fish eggs and larvae, and while permanent harm to adult animals has not been researched , it can scarcely be doubted that physical and neurological damage will result. Yet seismic prospecting (minimally monitored for the bowhead whale, an officially recognized endangered species) is still permitted before leases for ocean drilling are issued, and the leases stipulate no protection of wild creatures against loss of habitat or other harm that might impair their chances of survival.
Even without disruptions such as seismic testing, the rapid withdrawal of the ice is truly ominous for Arctic wildlife, since the melting edges of the ice pack are where life proliferates in the twenty-four-hour light of spring and summer. The profusion of phytoplankton and sea algae attracts fish and birds and also the bowhead, which consumes plankton; the beluga feeds along the ice edge on the small Arctic cod. Of the four seal species, the bearded and ringed seals are entirely ice-dependent, and the preferred habitat of the Pacific walrus, too, is drifting ice, which carries it over the rich mollusk beds from which it feeds. Warming has already set in motion an ecological chain reaction as the ice-edge cod, which feed the ringed seals, which feed the polar bears, follow the retreating sea ice farther and farther from the coast...
Friday, January 25, 2008
Finished reading
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein basically documents what I'll call Milton Friedman's Fabulous Feudalism program. Good times for the disgustingly selfish rich, and getting worse for the rest of us.
Frankly, the clarity regarding Israeli economic policy makes the last couple of days on the Gaza/Egypt border much easier to understand.
Here's an article by Barbara Ehrenreich that references Naomi's book.
Gonna make my kid read it when she finishes her econ class, so she gets more than dry, dull, boring theory. She said the college education she's suffering through is sucking all of her creativity out of her ears. I think she's right, just browsing the index in her econ text made me sleepy.
Tonight's NOW show looks pretty darn interesting to me, (hey, I like documentaries, OK?) and Bill Moyers has at least one story that I won't miss called Buying the Bench?
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Bills bills bills, ugh
Remember the kidney stone? You know, the one that he tried to hand the nurses to take to the lab (but they couldn't be bothered with) so we could change his diet according to what type of stone it was?
The bills from the hospital are coming in.
I figure the insurance is scheduled to pay approximately 76 dollars an hour for the time in hospital. The hospital has billed 211 dollars per hour for same said time. That includes the 6 hours he sat in the ER waiting area in excruciating pain (after 36 hours of pain already) next to the 400 lb. man with exuberant flatulence.
The bills from the hospital are coming in.
I figure the insurance is scheduled to pay approximately 76 dollars an hour for the time in hospital. The hospital has billed 211 dollars per hour for same said time. That includes the 6 hours he sat in the ER waiting area in excruciating pain (after 36 hours of pain already) next to the 400 lb. man with exuberant flatulence.
Pity the Man
article | posted January 17, 2008 (February 4, 2008 issue)
Pity the Man
Sarah Blustain
I got a little caught up in how many times "PAS" popped up in the article. PA-whosy whatsy? Huh?
Post-Abortion Syndrome (PAS) (for men, wooo hoo, let the religious nutjobs begin the bibble babble)
Bwaa haa haa haaa haaa haaaa, you've got to be kidding me. Now why would I say that?
...To begin with, if the science on women's PAS is bad, what exists on men is junk. Mainstream researchers, psychologists and professors agree there is no valid research on PAS and men...
...Suddenly, using nothing but anecdote framed in scientific forms, a single abortion has not one victim, or even two, but three or four or five. And beyond that, millions of abortions have millions of victims: one in four women, and by extension one in four men, and one in four parents, and countless children, until society itself is a victim, filled with all sorts of personal and interpersonal tragedies of divorce, drug use and suicide from which we--all Americans--need protection....
Bwaa haa haa haaa haaa haaaa,
Yeah, I got your PAS right here:
Population Analysis Spreadsheets (PAS)
I got no sympathy for Americans who abort an inviable fetus because for many resources, the United States of America is the world's largest consumer in absolute terms.
Life is tough, boys and the world population isn't going to make it any easier.
Shit. Kucinich just quit the presidential race.
Pity the Man
Sarah Blustain
I got a little caught up in how many times "PAS" popped up in the article. PA-whosy whatsy? Huh?
Post-Abortion Syndrome (PAS) (for men, wooo hoo, let the religious nutjobs begin the bibble babble)
Bwaa haa haa haaa haaa haaaa, you've got to be kidding me. Now why would I say that?
...To begin with, if the science on women's PAS is bad, what exists on men is junk. Mainstream researchers, psychologists and professors agree there is no valid research on PAS and men...
...Suddenly, using nothing but anecdote framed in scientific forms, a single abortion has not one victim, or even two, but three or four or five. And beyond that, millions of abortions have millions of victims: one in four women, and by extension one in four men, and one in four parents, and countless children, until society itself is a victim, filled with all sorts of personal and interpersonal tragedies of divorce, drug use and suicide from which we--all Americans--need protection....
Bwaa haa haa haaa haaa haaaa,
Yeah, I got your PAS right here:
Population Analysis Spreadsheets (PAS)
I got no sympathy for Americans who abort an inviable fetus because for many resources, the United States of America is the world's largest consumer in absolute terms.
Life is tough, boys and the world population isn't going to make it any easier.
Shit. Kucinich just quit the presidential race.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Media coverage analyzed -- Islam and the West
From the News Dissector
For something different: Artists Against the War.
...Countries covered
Twelve Muslim majority countries: Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Palestine Territories, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
Twelve non-Muslim majority countries: Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States...
...KEY FINDINGS1. Primacy of international politics: Coverage of Middle East conflicts dominated media coverage of Muslim-West relations.
2. Negative tone towards the “other”: While most coverage of Muslim-West issues contained no positive or negative judgements, media from Muslim majority countries were more likely to provide negative coverage of individuals and groups associated with Christianity and Judaism and with non-Muslim majority countries. Conversely, media from non-Muslim majority countries covered Muslim majority countries and Muslim protagonists more negatively, but to a lesser degree....
...Media from Muslim majority countries presented an especially negative tone in their coverage of non-Muslim actors...
(click on title link for the whole report, yeah I cherry-picked out of Danny's post, for my special Jew-hater Muslim trolls)
For something different: Artists Against the War.
Ok, so I was wrong
About Hillary vs. Fred.
Whew.
Sometimes it's good to be wrong.
Ok, so who's excited about Hillary vs McCain?
Oh.
Just the fReeptards hunh?
Americans want changes.
What type of changes?
Whew.
Sometimes it's good to be wrong.
Ok, so who's excited about Hillary vs McCain?
Oh.
Just the fReeptards hunh?
Americans want changes.
What type of changes?
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, How to Sink America
Posted January 22, 2008 3:27 pm
...The supplementary budget to pay for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not part of the official defense budget, is itself larger than the combined military budgets of Russia and China. Defense-related spending for fiscal 2008 will exceed $1 trillion for the first time in history. The United States has become the largest single salesman of arms and munitions to other nations on Earth...
Oh. My. God.
We are Gunzilla Empire.
See if you can figure out why I think these stories are related?
...The supplementary budget to pay for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not part of the official defense budget, is itself larger than the combined military budgets of Russia and China. Defense-related spending for fiscal 2008 will exceed $1 trillion for the first time in history. The United States has become the largest single salesman of arms and munitions to other nations on Earth...
Oh. My. God.
We are Gunzilla Empire.
See if you can figure out why I think these stories are related?
Monday, January 21, 2008
Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, 'Contagious' Stress in the Works?
By David Hambling January 18, 2008 12:00:00
American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.
I found this interesting:
"For most of the observed compounds, men showed an increase in the compound emission during acute emotional stress, while women showed either no change or a decrease in emission of the compound."
So yeah, you guys want to fuck with each other, go ahead, but you're gonna have to leave us ladies out of this shit.
Ha Ha, fuck the Pentagon.
Badtux the Snarky Penguin has more on their competence:
Terrorists deploy bomb in ocean near San Diego
Whoops!
Eh, it's raining. The joggers find all the fun stuff on the teevee shows, they'll probably find this. Click on the picture for the really scary story.
American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.
I found this interesting:
"For most of the observed compounds, men showed an increase in the compound emission during acute emotional stress, while women showed either no change or a decrease in emission of the compound."
So yeah, you guys want to fuck with each other, go ahead, but you're gonna have to leave us ladies out of this shit.
Ha Ha, fuck the Pentagon.
Badtux the Snarky Penguin has more on their competence:
Terrorists deploy bomb in ocean near San Diego
Whoops!
Eh, it's raining. The joggers find all the fun stuff on the teevee shows, they'll probably find this. Click on the picture for the really scary story.
Wow, after reading Sowing the seeds of a future society, reading that Mexico closes main oil ports due to bad weather
Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:49pm GMT
...Mexico is the world's No. 9 exporter of crude oil, shipping an average of 1.7 million barrels per day in 2007, and a top-three supplier to the United States...
somehow seems uh.....to inspire higher concerns than whether the port being closed temporarily will make the next tank of gas more expensive.
Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:49pm GMT
...Mexico is the world's No. 9 exporter of crude oil, shipping an average of 1.7 million barrels per day in 2007, and a top-three supplier to the United States...
somehow seems uh.....to inspire higher concerns than whether the port being closed temporarily will make the next tank of gas more expensive.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Gaza blackout
Update: Israel to ease blockade of Gaza
Last Updated: Monday, 21 January 2008, 20:20 GMT
Israel Keeps up raids despite blackouts.
We pay for this shit you know. You think this grinning idiot would have a chance in hell entering national politics if he didn't suck up to the Israel lobby?
Last Updated: Monday, 21 January 2008, 20:20 GMT
Israel Keeps up raids despite blackouts.
 |
[Reuters] |
Gaza City has been plunged into darkness after its only power plant was shut down on the third day of a crippling Israeli fuel blockade of the Palestinian territory
We pay for this shit you know. You think this grinning idiot would have a chance in hell entering national politics if he didn't suck up to the Israel lobby?
Dude, where's my voting machine software?
Election Software Lost in Transit
By Kim Zetter
December 20, 2007
...In San Diego County, one of the empty tubes arrived with no lid on the end of it to close the tube; the second tube had a lid, but it was loosely taped shut....
...The chips contained firmware to run the optical-scan equipment that San Diego uses in its central counting office.
The title of this article made me laugh out loud:
Electronic voting will greatly enhance democracy in Kenya
COMMENTARY
Story by ANDREW LIMO Digital World
PubPublication Date: 1/18/2008
(they must be pushing Diebold electronic voting machines in this "commentary")
... Brazil introduced electronic voting in 1996 where about 110 million voters used the computer to elect leaders — from mayors to the president.
Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned
Violence continued in Kenya, where on Sunday the police and residents tried to quell a fire set in the Mathare slum in Nairobi.
by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: January 21, 2008
A Superior Court Judge has issued a tentative ruling against the County of San Diego in its suit, challenging the Secretary of State.
Ummmm, yeah, here's another laughable article title:
New rules will bring security to ballot box
By Tom Elias
Article Launched: 01/20/2008 07:45:59 PM PST
Why is it laughable?
...Sen. Hillary Clinton ran far stronger in counties where votes were counted on Diebold Accuvote optical scan machines than where paper ballots were counted by hand...
By Kim Zetter
December 20, 2007
...In San Diego County, one of the empty tubes arrived with no lid on the end of it to close the tube; the second tube had a lid, but it was loosely taped shut....
...The chips contained firmware to run the optical-scan equipment that San Diego uses in its central counting office.
The title of this article made me laugh out loud:
Electronic voting will greatly enhance democracy in Kenya
COMMENTARY
Story by ANDREW LIMO Digital World
PubPublication Date: 1/18/2008
(they must be pushing Diebold electronic voting machines in this "commentary")
... Brazil introduced electronic voting in 1996 where about 110 million voters used the computer to elect leaders — from mayors to the president.
Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned
Violence continued in Kenya, where on Sunday the police and residents tried to quell a fire set in the Mathare slum in Nairobi.
by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: January 21, 2008
A Superior Court Judge has issued a tentative ruling against the County of San Diego in its suit, challenging the Secretary of State.
Ummmm, yeah, here's another laughable article title:
New rules will bring security to ballot box
By Tom Elias
Article Launched: 01/20/2008 07:45:59 PM PST
Why is it laughable?
...Sen. Hillary Clinton ran far stronger in counties where votes were counted on Diebold Accuvote optical scan machines than where paper ballots were counted by hand...
Do you have any idea who you're watching?
Chrystia Freeland needs her snotty, pompous, elitist ass kicked.
Can you just imagine her creaming her lacy panties over McCain's claiming he is the successor to Maggie Thatcher? Bet those panties looked great under that prep school. cheerleading uniform
What is that, a stage name?
I'm bloody sick of the asspress shoving McCain & Hillary at us.
The financial sector knows damn well that that those ho's is open for bidness and that's why they are pushing that horesrace.
Well, Freeland is the darling of the investor's press.
She's supposed to be some expert on Russia.
She should know better than this, after all she wrote this:
Sale of the Century.
Make sure you look at the reviews, the sources of them, and the lack of substance are revealing.
This mess started with Friedman and his Chicago Boys. Nobody wants Americans to know that the "diplomatic difficulties" that we are experiencing with Russia have anything to do with American based organizations, and multinational corporations based in the US, raping and pillaging Russia. Looks like the bastard lived to see revenge done on the family oppressors.
Maybe.
Hmmmm. According to my textbook the meltdown that resulted in the looting and pillage of Russia can be attributed to the fact that:
"In many cases, workers acquired 49 percent of the stock in their company, while the former government managers received 51 percent and effective control. The vouchers given to the general public could later be traded for company stock. While millions of Russians did trade at least a part of their vouchers for stocks, the majority did not. Having lived their lives under communism, most had no understanding of the potential value of their vouchers and they willingly sold them to speculators for a small reaction of their potential worth. Armed with these vouchers and ties to the Kremlin, and aided by healthy bribes, these budding entrepreneurs were able to purchase state firms at perhaps 10 percent of their real value, thereby emerging as a new class of super tycoons generally known as the oligarchs."
Ummm, yeah, privatization, which generally involves downsizing, shuts down factories and people lose their jobs. These people (who up until this time had no reason to understand the stock market anyway) were hungry.
Wake up, little Chrystia, all will not end well, no matter who's buttering your bread.
Or providing milk for your cereal.
Here's the antidote to corporate media and sister Chrystia's mindlessness
Can you just imagine her creaming her lacy panties over McCain's claiming he is the successor to Maggie Thatcher? Bet those panties looked great under that prep school. cheerleading uniform
What is that, a stage name?
I'm bloody sick of the asspress shoving McCain & Hillary at us.
The financial sector knows damn well that that those ho's is open for bidness and that's why they are pushing that horesrace.
Well, Freeland is the darling of the investor's press.
She's supposed to be some expert on Russia.
She should know better than this, after all she wrote this:
Sale of the Century.
Make sure you look at the reviews, the sources of them, and the lack of substance are revealing.
This mess started with Friedman and his Chicago Boys. Nobody wants Americans to know that the "diplomatic difficulties" that we are experiencing with Russia have anything to do with American based organizations, and multinational corporations based in the US, raping and pillaging Russia. Looks like the bastard lived to see revenge done on the family oppressors.
Maybe.
Hmmmm. According to my textbook the meltdown that resulted in the looting and pillage of Russia can be attributed to the fact that:
"In many cases, workers acquired 49 percent of the stock in their company, while the former government managers received 51 percent and effective control. The vouchers given to the general public could later be traded for company stock. While millions of Russians did trade at least a part of their vouchers for stocks, the majority did not. Having lived their lives under communism, most had no understanding of the potential value of their vouchers and they willingly sold them to speculators for a small reaction of their potential worth. Armed with these vouchers and ties to the Kremlin, and aided by healthy bribes, these budding entrepreneurs were able to purchase state firms at perhaps 10 percent of their real value, thereby emerging as a new class of super tycoons generally known as the oligarchs."
Ummm, yeah, privatization, which generally involves downsizing, shuts down factories and people lose their jobs. These people (who up until this time had no reason to understand the stock market anyway) were hungry.
Wake up, little Chrystia, all will not end well, no matter who's buttering your bread.
Or providing milk for your cereal.
Here's the antidote to corporate media and sister Chrystia's mindlessness
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Pregnant Marine never feared colleague wanted in her dead
Associated Press - January 16, 2008 12:03 AM ET
ehhh whut?
Who checks the web postings at this newz station?
Associated Press - January 16, 2008 12:03 AM ET
ehhh whut?
Who checks the web postings at this newz station?
Bushwhacker blood
Jenna Bush Planning May 10 Wedding
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16, 2008 06:45 PM EST
By David Caplan and Sandra Sobieraj-Westfall
Eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww.
That means it's going to start breeding.
Just what we need, more Bushwhacker blood.
You think the caterers will accept Saudi rials?
Hmmmm, how's daddy's war going?
What's that you say, Iraqi's are growing opium poppies to survive , hhhhm, where have we seen that before?
Mmm, and before that?
Opium has long history of beng used by Empires, actually.
Well, there's a presidential election coming up, howz'bout the American people elect a president who cares more about them than profits, eh?
Study: John Edwards Doesn't Exist
January 16, 2008 -- 5:31 PM EST // //
A new study finds that John Edwards doesn't exist.
Allow me to explain.
After John Edwards placed second in the Iowa caucus on January 3, Elizabeth Edwards took to the airwaves to argue that his finish should occasion the media to stop covering the Dem contest as little more than a showdown between two political superstars, Hillary and Obama. Not surprisingly, nobody listened to her.
Dennis?
McCain?
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
China Tightens Controls on Food Prices
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer
BEIJING (AP) - China took its most drastic step yet on Wednesday to slow a rapid rise in politically sensitive food prices, ordering producers to obtain government approval for any further increases....
Also Wednesday, the government said a crackdown on illegal pricing has cut the cost of liquefied natural gas in China by up to 19 percent. LNG is widely used in China for cooking.Investigators found LNG producers and retailers colluded to raise prices or violated government price controls, the NDRC said.
Gas producers are the second industry hit by price-fixing claims after the NDRC said in August that noodle makers illegally colluded to push up retail prices by up to 40 percent.
2008-01-16 12:17:07 GMT
So China need natural gas for cooking.
Iran has natural gas
China has shitloads of US Treasury bonds .
So China can tell the US to buzz off.
Unless US and Chinese reps want to get together for photo-ops.
Come oooon, anybody believe that Negroponte gives two shits about human rights?
Ok now go laugh, this is funny.
BEIJING (AP) - China took its most drastic step yet on Wednesday to slow a rapid rise in politically sensitive food prices, ordering producers to obtain government approval for any further increases....
Also Wednesday, the government said a crackdown on illegal pricing has cut the cost of liquefied natural gas in China by up to 19 percent. LNG is widely used in China for cooking.Investigators found LNG producers and retailers colluded to raise prices or violated government price controls, the NDRC said.
Gas producers are the second industry hit by price-fixing claims after the NDRC said in August that noodle makers illegally colluded to push up retail prices by up to 40 percent.
2008-01-16 12:17:07 GMT
So China need natural gas for cooking.
Iran has natural gas
China has shitloads of US Treasury bonds .
So China can tell the US to buzz off.
Unless US and Chinese reps want to get together for photo-ops.
Come oooon, anybody believe that Negroponte gives two shits about human rights?
Ok now go laugh, this is funny.
Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law
(click on pic for C&L "Die, Whales Die!!!" post.)
Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law
PAULINE JELINEK | January 16, 2008 01:50 PM EST | AP
WASHINGTON — President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast _ a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.
How many times have I posted on this?
How many more days do we have to deal with this asshole? I knew he would get his way in less than six months, and the spoiled rotten fucktard piece of shit did.
Yes, I did just call the president of the US a FUCKTARD PIECE OF SHIT. We will have to deal with the world-wide devastation of this administration, stemming from the absolute fanatical worship at the altar of the "free market," for the rest of our lives, our kids lives, and if the planet can still sustain lives, our great great grand children's lives.
You don't get the connection between allowing the military to train and the "free market" neocon fucktards?
Cubby Holes.
You think the federal dollars are heading to San Diego study the health of the ocean?
Or to the military-industrial-congressional-complex?
Which WILL protect the profits of the privatization warriors.
Fuckers are making money on both sides of the "war on terra."
Upper management seems to think that they are playing with toy soldiers.
Not human beings.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Disenfranchising Kucinich
NBC Fights to Keep Kucinich Out of Debate
Are you FUCKing kidding me?
( JP isn't happy about this either)
So according to Randi Rhodes (yeah, you know, that liberal woman who tells the truth and does her homework, that I have to stream from other cities because my city is full of greedy RepugnantThuglican chickenshit assholes? ) Kucinich was invited by NBC, then DIS invited, then he sued NBC to be allowed into the debate.
Randi's also talking about how to vote in Michigan today and make sure your vote is counted. If you write anything in, your ballot will be tossed.
Empty Dem primary upsets voters
By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN
The Associated Press
January 13. 2008 12:41AM
For Michigan voters, the state's early primary is either an exciting contest to pick the candidate who may be the eventual Republican nominee or an unsatisfying choice between Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and "Uncommitted."
Republican leaders are ecstatic, while Democratic leaders are trying to put the best spin on a process that has left many Democratic voters disgruntled, since Barack Obama and John Edwards have pulled their names off the ballot.
So how's voting going in Michigan today?
Are you FUCKing kidding me?
( JP isn't happy about this either)
So according to Randi Rhodes (yeah, you know, that liberal woman who tells the truth and does her homework, that I have to stream from other cities because my city is full of greedy RepugnantThuglican chickenshit assholes? ) Kucinich was invited by NBC, then DIS invited, then he sued NBC to be allowed into the debate.
Randi's also talking about how to vote in Michigan today and make sure your vote is counted. If you write anything in, your ballot will be tossed.
Empty Dem primary upsets voters
By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN
The Associated Press
January 13. 2008 12:41AM
For Michigan voters, the state's early primary is either an exciting contest to pick the candidate who may be the eventual Republican nominee or an unsatisfying choice between Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and "Uncommitted."
Republican leaders are ecstatic, while Democratic leaders are trying to put the best spin on a process that has left many Democratic voters disgruntled, since Barack Obama and John Edwards have pulled their names off the ballot.
So how's voting going in Michigan today?
Primaries and Caucuses (link to dates)
Update The Fishwrap pees it's pants in excitement over Kucinich's inability to participate in debate
Monday, January 14, 2008
Horse race
I tried to explain it here , but I didn't use the word horse race.
I'm sick of the media and their sloppy, sensationalist coverage of political campaigns as if they were a horse race. I'm sick of seeing only those candidates who can pay for advertising and take huge amounts of money from corporate America.
Editor and Publisher has a great OpEd on the history of this phenomenon:
When 'Mad Men' In Media Took Control of Political Campaigns
Upton Sinclair is back, thanks to 'There Will Be Blood' movie ties. But in 1934 his race for governor gave birth to the modern media-based political campaign.
By Greg Mitchell
NEW YORK (January 11, 2008) --
I'm sick of the media and their sloppy, sensationalist coverage of political campaigns as if they were a horse race. I'm sick of seeing only those candidates who can pay for advertising and take huge amounts of money from corporate America.
Editor and Publisher has a great OpEd on the history of this phenomenon:
When 'Mad Men' In Media Took Control of Political Campaigns
Upton Sinclair is back, thanks to 'There Will Be Blood' movie ties. But in 1934 his race for governor gave birth to the modern media-based political campaign.
By Greg Mitchell
NEW YORK (January 11, 2008) --
Are we frightened and angry enough to be this ugly again?
Readers Say No to Polls, Illegal Immigrants (WaPo dot.comments, Doug Feaver)
Our Readers Who Comment today make two things very clear:
1) They don't trust polls.
2) They are angry about illegal immigration.
Fed official metes mortgage meltdown blame
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President, William Poole, says housing woes were caused by familiar mistakes.
Oakland City Attorney Announces Predatory Lending Fight
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor (10-19-07)
...foreclosures in Oakland...—a heavily African-American and Latino area represented by Reid—having the highest foreclosure rate in the city, at 14.9 foreclosures per 1,000 homes.
The fact sheet said that citizens of color were most likely to be victims of predatory lending practices, with African-American and Latino homebuyers 3.8 times more likely to have received a high-cost loan than whites, and neighborhoods of color 23.6 times more likely to get higher-cost refinance loans than white neighborhoods....
Some stories hard to get in history books
Updated 4/5/2006 1:36 AM
By Kasie Hunt, USA TODAY
Most high school students in the USA probably don't know that tens of thousands of Mexican-Americans — many of them legal residents or even U.S. citizens — were forcibly sent to Mexico during the depths of the Depression. That's because few history books even mention it.
Related story: U.S. urged to apologize for deportations
Our Readers Who Comment today make two things very clear:
1) They don't trust polls.
2) They are angry about illegal immigration.
Fed official metes mortgage meltdown blame
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President, William Poole, says housing woes were caused by familiar mistakes.
Oakland City Attorney Announces Predatory Lending Fight
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor (10-19-07)
...foreclosures in Oakland...—a heavily African-American and Latino area represented by Reid—having the highest foreclosure rate in the city, at 14.9 foreclosures per 1,000 homes.
The fact sheet said that citizens of color were most likely to be victims of predatory lending practices, with African-American and Latino homebuyers 3.8 times more likely to have received a high-cost loan than whites, and neighborhoods of color 23.6 times more likely to get higher-cost refinance loans than white neighborhoods....
Some stories hard to get in history books
Updated 4/5/2006 1:36 AM
By Kasie Hunt, USA TODAY
Most high school students in the USA probably don't know that tens of thousands of Mexican-Americans — many of them legal residents or even U.S. citizens — were forcibly sent to Mexico during the depths of the Depression. That's because few history books even mention it.
Related story: U.S. urged to apologize for deportations
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
I'm still reading the Shock Doctrine ( here is a somewhat strange review of the book ) and comparing it to the textbook for the Political Science class that I just finished. I am disgusted that the chapters in the textbook that deal with Russia, China, Mexico, Developing Nations, and sections on terrorism are so glaringly incomplete. They automatically steer the reader (generally students in their twenties) towards accepting the political unrest in those places without understanding it. Divorcing the unrest from the forced economic policies that create it does the students a disservice. Something tells me that the schools using these crappy textbooks are not going to have administrators who would enable the professors to encourage their students to ALSO read Klein's Shock Doctrine.
Milton Friedman is referenced in the textbook twice, in a positive way. The IMF and World Bank are referenced in the index twice, once hilariously to the page on International Terrorism, but absent on that page. At least they mentioned that Agusto Pinochet was led by US trained economists, and Friedman hailed the Chilean economic system as "one of the world's purest capitalist systems." No mention of how that fabulously pure system needed the brutality of Pinochet's regime to become so fabulously pure and hailed as such.
Hmmmm.
Why do I have to read a book by a Canadian author to find out just how much power two institutions based in the United States have?
This says something about our education system and the corporations that seem to have an inordinate amount of control over what is taught in it, despite that fact that they pay less and less taxes to fund it.
Milton Friedman is referenced in the textbook twice, in a positive way. The IMF and World Bank are referenced in the index twice, once hilariously to the page on International Terrorism, but absent on that page. At least they mentioned that Agusto Pinochet was led by US trained economists, and Friedman hailed the Chilean economic system as "one of the world's purest capitalist systems." No mention of how that fabulously pure system needed the brutality of Pinochet's regime to become so fabulously pure and hailed as such.
Hmmmm.
Why do I have to read a book by a Canadian author to find out just how much power two institutions based in the United States have?
This says something about our education system and the corporations that seem to have an inordinate amount of control over what is taught in it, despite that fact that they pay less and less taxes to fund it.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Why Obama's message of hope resonates
Dudes.
If Obama wins the primaries and then the Presidency, I got me a few clues as to why.
We, as Americans need some hope and some redemption.
You see, our sane friends have about given up on us.
We got totally loopy friends left.
But are they our friends?
And where does the animosity in the region come from?
We fried the fuck out of our military.
The whole country (Well, a minimum of 70% anyway) is looking at the idiot president and his party of greed, selfishness, homophobia, pedophilia, hypocrisy, and warmongering and they want these liars, cheats, and thieves gone.
Fuck 'em, we've had enough , kick their asses to the curb, please.
I hope my government doesn't get in the way of my voting in a new adminsitration, but I think they will, at least locally.
So does it really matter who Obama is? (Or isn't? )
Yes.
Yes it does.
Damn, just click on the last 2 & find out what you can about the man, I did your freaking homework for you, yeeesh. Gotta admit, though, the guy gives great speech doesn't he?
If Obama wins the primaries and then the Presidency, I got me a few clues as to why.
We, as Americans need some hope and some redemption.
You see, our sane friends have about given up on us.
We got totally loopy friends left.
But are they our friends?
And where does the animosity in the region come from?
We fried the fuck out of our military.
The whole country (Well, a minimum of 70% anyway) is looking at the idiot president and his party of greed, selfishness, homophobia, pedophilia, hypocrisy, and warmongering and they want these liars, cheats, and thieves gone.
Fuck 'em, we've had enough , kick their asses to the curb, please.
I hope my government doesn't get in the way of my voting in a new adminsitration, but I think they will, at least locally.
So does it really matter who Obama is? (Or isn't? )
Yes.
Yes it does.
Damn, just click on the last 2 & find out what you can about the man, I did your freaking homework for you, yeeesh. Gotta admit, though, the guy gives great speech doesn't he?
Friday, January 11, 2008
The teevee shows tonight
The Latino Vote 2008
Week of 1.11.08 (NOW)
(Bill Moyer's Journal)
Margins of Error: Poll Reading Tips
Shelby Steele on Race in America
(I like this lady, she's fair)
Kathleen Hall Jamieson LOOKS BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Week of 1.11.08 (NOW)
(Bill Moyer's Journal)
Margins of Error: Poll Reading Tips
Shelby Steele on Race in America
Kathleen Hall Jamieson LOOKS BEHIND THE HEADLINES
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