I don't have diabetes today, but I might tomorrow.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Happy Mother’s Day for Moms with teenagers
You’ll get through this, hang in there
They aim their hate at you, but it’s really everywhere
At their age they don’t know who they are
And it’s all your fault, they think
You’ll get through this, hang in there
Even when they push you to the brink
When you want to run and hide from these evil rotten brats
Because you’re so exhausted from the never ending spats
Remember they’re testing their bully skills
Just smile and say I love you ‘cause
They’ll win a test of wills
They’ll break you if they can
Let them test their wings
Let them take control of their responsibilities
And let them skin their knees
They’ll pop back up if you let them
Just tell them that they can
They’ll remember that you let them win
And they’ll want to be with you later
You’ll get through this, hang in there
And so will they
Your heart really will mend
Even if they break it every day
Saturday, May 10, 2008
FBI, ATF Battle for Control Of Cases
Cooperation Lags Despite Merger
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 10, 2008; A01
Oh fer Gawd's sake, I swear some shit just never changes. Anybody who's read Joseph Wambaugh knows this stuff. Yes, this woman is disgusted that guys compete more than they cooperate. Don't think think that because I'm a woman that I don't understand competition either boys, hell I used to work out a full 20 hours a week, 11 months a year for 6 years as a competitive athlete. Get it together guys!
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 10, 2008; A01
Oh fer Gawd's sake, I swear some shit just never changes. Anybody who's read Joseph Wambaugh knows this stuff. Yes, this woman is disgusted that guys compete more than they cooperate. Don't think think that because I'm a woman that I don't understand competition either boys, hell I used to work out a full 20 hours a week, 11 months a year for 6 years as a competitive athlete. Get it together guys!
Friday, May 09, 2008
Books on how crappy the US media is
Our Media Have Been So Wrong for So Long
By Jayne Lyn Stahl, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2008.
In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.
May 09, 2008
Huffington Author, Blogger
Arianna Huffington on How John McCain Has Changed Since Telling Her He Didn’t Vote for Bush in 2000
When I started figuring out the business end of the media is when I figured out how full of shit a lot of it was. Hey, didn't they used to call the ass end of a horse the business end?
Update 1:47 PM 5/9/2008 Looks like the German press is full of shit too. Jeez, where do they get this oversimplified anti-American drivel?
Die Zeit,Germany
The Handgun Lies Next to the Bible
By Martin Klingst May 1, 2008
He’s the biggest loser in American society – but he will decide who becomes president: the white male
Translated By Ron Argentati
By Jayne Lyn Stahl, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2008.
In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.
May 09, 2008
Huffington Author, Blogger
Arianna Huffington on How John McCain Has Changed Since Telling Her He Didn’t Vote for Bush in 2000
When I started figuring out the business end of the media is when I figured out how full of shit a lot of it was. Hey, didn't they used to call the ass end of a horse the business end?
Update 1:47 PM 5/9/2008 Looks like the German press is full of shit too. Jeez, where do they get this oversimplified anti-American drivel?
Die Zeit,Germany
The Handgun Lies Next to the Bible
By Martin Klingst May 1, 2008
He’s the biggest loser in American society – but he will decide who becomes president: the white male
Translated By Ron Argentati
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Did Rush Limbaugh Tilt Result In Indiana?
Conservative Host Urged 'Chaos' Votes
By Alec MacGillis and Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 8, 2008; Page A01
Democrats Split Indiana and North Carolina
Sen. Barack Obama won North Carolina's presidential primary by a wide margin Tuesday, while Sen. Hillary Clinton narrowly won in Indiana.
Why does the media give that bag of butt pus so much credit? Why do they pay so much? Do people really listen to him?
Here is a link to the original Indiana document containing voter registration information:
http://www.in.gov/sos/elections/pdfs/Statewide_Voter_Count_by_County5.1.08.pdf
According to this document, here is a map with the percentage of voter registrations cancelled or changed, along with the quantities. (click on pic for map source info)
By Alec MacGillis and Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 8, 2008; Page A01
Democrats Split Indiana and North Carolina
Sen. Barack Obama won North Carolina's presidential primary by a wide margin Tuesday, while Sen. Hillary Clinton narrowly won in Indiana.
Why does the media give that bag of butt pus so much credit? Why do they pay so much? Do people really listen to him?
Here is a link to the original Indiana document containing voter registration information:
http://www.in.gov/sos/elections/pdfs/Statewide_Voter_Count_by_County5.1.08.pdf
According to this document, here is a map with the percentage of voter registrations cancelled or changed, along with the quantities. (click on pic for map source info)
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Dozens of college students busted in drug sting
Duuuuuuuuude.
So a bunch of frat boys out at San Diego State got busted for selling coke, pot, ecstasy to DEA .
This cracked me up:
"Those arrested included a student who was about to receive a criminal justice degree and another who was to receive a master’s degree in homeland security."
So a bunch of frat boys out at San Diego State got busted for selling coke, pot, ecstasy to DEA .
This cracked me up:
"Those arrested included a student who was about to receive a criminal justice degree and another who was to receive a master’s degree in homeland security."
Fight the War on Greed (explains tax loopholes)
"Monsanto investigators" hound farmers regarding alleged sale or use of genetically modified seeds? How creepy is that? Not what they wanted you to remember when you rode the Monsanto ride at Disneyland.
Don't tell me corporate hegemony and in fact corporate criminality isn't about PR, because it is.
I remember her and this info from the Corporation. The estimates on the cyclone death toll in Myanmar are going up as high as the size of a small city in the US, and they're already mentioning the rice crop destruction. Color me cynical. I thought at first that the food riots we were seeing could be blamed on overpopulation alone. Not so:
Goldman Sees `Explosive' Commodity Rallies, $175 Oil (Update1)
By Claudia Carpenter and Alexander Kwiatkowski
March 14 (Bloomberg) -
Well well well, I just keep getting entertainment sent to me via e-mail today "Goodbye Bush" (song by my friend, who like me, can't wait for Jan '09) I need it today.
Monday, May 05, 2008
Return of the population timebomb
May 5, 2008 11:00 AM | Printable version
It has become taboo over recent years, but population, not consumption, really is the key to managing our use of the world's resources
It has become taboo over recent years, but population, not consumption, really is the key to managing our use of the world's resources
Truthout chats with Donna Frye
My Chat With Donna Frye
By Marc Ash
t r u t h o u t | Interview
Thursday 01 May 2008
Donna Frye is a name not well known outside of San Diego, but her story speaks to the heart of American politics today. What's wrong with American politics today? What ordinary people doing extraordinary things can do to change American politics for the better.
Have a look.
Donna talks about political realities in the County of San Diego.
By Marc Ash
t r u t h o u t | Interview
Thursday 01 May 2008
Donna Frye is a name not well known outside of San Diego, but her story speaks to the heart of American politics today. What's wrong with American politics today? What ordinary people doing extraordinary things can do to change American politics for the better.
Have a look.
Donna talks about political realities in the County of San Diego.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
My PBS shows were different last night
Here's what was on last night.
Friday, May 2 KPBS
KPBS Channel 15
KPBSHD Channel 15.1
Evening
5:00 pm Washington Week
5:30 pm Mclaughlin Group
6:00 pm Bill Moyers Journal : Healthcare
7:00 pm The Newshour with Jim Lehrer
8:00 pm Fiesta Mexicana
10:00 pm Supernatural Science : Open to Suggestion
11:00 pm Road Trip : Central Coast
What's up with the Mclaughlin Group? A bunch of ancient Republicans screaming the same fucking message at each other. Damn, they need to get some hearing aids or something. Ugh. I don't have cable and I don't want to watch it.
Ummm, this is what was NOT on my teevee last night:
Week of 5.2.08
Election 2008: What to Expect (click video link to watch online)
It usually is.
Bill Moyers wasn't on when it usually is & he opened the show with one hell of an essay on Rev. Wright.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that GOP operatives and crackers are getting their noses out of joint at some of the "liberal" programming on the local PBS station. Yes, to a lot of local fu%*tar#s, "Liberal" is a still a bad word. They can't help it. They're easily frightened.
Friday, May 2 KPBS
KPBS Channel 15
KPBSHD Channel 15.1
Evening
5:00 pm Washington Week
5:30 pm Mclaughlin Group
6:00 pm Bill Moyers Journal : Healthcare
7:00 pm The Newshour with Jim Lehrer
8:00 pm Fiesta Mexicana
10:00 pm Supernatural Science : Open to Suggestion
11:00 pm Road Trip : Central Coast
What's up with the Mclaughlin Group? A bunch of ancient Republicans screaming the same fucking message at each other. Damn, they need to get some hearing aids or something. Ugh. I don't have cable and I don't want to watch it.
Ummm, this is what was NOT on my teevee last night:
Week of 5.2.08
Election 2008: What to Expect (click video link to watch online)
It usually is.
Bill Moyers wasn't on when it usually is & he opened the show with one hell of an essay on Rev. Wright.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that GOP operatives and crackers are getting their noses out of joint at some of the "liberal" programming on the local PBS station. Yes, to a lot of local fu%*tar#s, "Liberal" is a still a bad word. They can't help it. They're easily frightened.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Southern California Residents Gear Up for New Fight to Stop Secretive Expansion by Military Firm Blackwater (Democracy Now)
Blackwater Still Courting Investors
By Noah Shachtman
May 02, 2008 | 3:01:55 PM Categories: Mercs
Looks like Wired Magazine is doing a fine job of following all things Blackwater
San Diego GOP has a cracker?
Heh.
By Noah Shachtman
May 02, 2008 | 3:01:55 PM Categories: Mercs
Looks like Wired Magazine is doing a fine job of following all things Blackwater
San Diego GOP has a cracker?
Heh.
The FCC is as full of crap as a Christmas Goose
Adopted: May 1, 2008 Released: May 1, 2008
By the Assistant Chief, Policy Division, Media Bureau:
1. In this Order, we grant in part a petition for declaratory ruling filed by the Christian Broadcast Network, Inc. (“CBN”), producer of a 60-minute television program entitled “The 700 Club.”
This program airs weekdays on 100 television stations in the United States, as well as on the ABC Family cable network, FamilyNet, and Trinity Broadcasting Network.
1. In its petition, CBN asks the Commission to declare that the subject program qualifies in its entirety as a bona fide newscast within the meaning of Section 315(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), 47 U.S.C. § 315(a), or, in the alternative, that the news segments aired on “The 700 Club” qualify as bona fide newscasts and the news interview segments qualify as bona fide news interviews pursuant to Section 315(a).
2 . For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that the newscast and news interview segments of “The 700 Club” qualify for the bona fide newscast and news interview exemptions under Section 315(a), respectively, and that these segments conducted on the program are exempt from equal opportunities.... (click here, to read the document)
So you kin click raht ther on the pitchur to find out a lil bit more about yer bona fide newzcaster/interviewer, thet the FCC sez is a bona fide news program exempt from the equal opportunities rule.
( Exempt from the equal opportunities clause????? )
"The FCC also ruled Friday that the news segments and interviews on Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club -- which airs on TV stations as well as ABC Family -- are also a bona fide news program exempt from the equal opportunities rule.
That show is hosted by Pat Robertson, himself once a presidential candidate.
But the commission stopped short of declaring the entire program exempt. CBN had asked that the whole show be exempt, but absent that, it wanted the interviews and news segments to get the exemption. The FCC chose the latter."
I know I've seen the Pentagon pundits on those gasbag Christofascist interviews. I need to go throw up.
Also
The Federal Communications Commission is requiring Sprint, the nation's third-largest wireless carrier, to clear certain channels by June 26, a move designed to eliminate radio interference with thousands of public safety agencies across the country. The company would essentially swap spectrum with the public safety agencies...
...The deadline was set three years ago in an initial order....
...Sprint, which said the FCC's new position was unreasonable, claimed if regulators enforce the deadline it would cripple the network....
...The court said if Sprint vacates those channels then it's likely it will immediately reduce radio interference that public safety agencies have experienced....
...expects the FCC will extend the deadline by at least another six months.
By the Assistant Chief, Policy Division, Media Bureau:
1. In this Order, we grant in part a petition for declaratory ruling filed by the Christian Broadcast Network, Inc. (“CBN”), producer of a 60-minute television program entitled “The 700 Club.”
This program airs weekdays on 100 television stations in the United States, as well as on the ABC Family cable network, FamilyNet, and Trinity Broadcasting Network.
1. In its petition, CBN asks the Commission to declare that the subject program qualifies in its entirety as a bona fide newscast within the meaning of Section 315(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), 47 U.S.C. § 315(a), or, in the alternative, that the news segments aired on “The 700 Club” qualify as bona fide newscasts and the news interview segments qualify as bona fide news interviews pursuant to Section 315(a).
2 . For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that the newscast and news interview segments of “The 700 Club” qualify for the bona fide newscast and news interview exemptions under Section 315(a), respectively, and that these segments conducted on the program are exempt from equal opportunities.... (click here, to read the document)
So you kin click raht ther on the pitchur to find out a lil bit more about yer bona fide newzcaster/interviewer, thet the FCC sez is a bona fide news program exempt from the equal opportunities rule.
( Exempt from the equal opportunities clause????? )
"The FCC also ruled Friday that the news segments and interviews on Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club -- which airs on TV stations as well as ABC Family -- are also a bona fide news program exempt from the equal opportunities rule.
That show is hosted by Pat Robertson, himself once a presidential candidate.
But the commission stopped short of declaring the entire program exempt. CBN had asked that the whole show be exempt, but absent that, it wanted the interviews and news segments to get the exemption. The FCC chose the latter."
I know I've seen the Pentagon pundits on those gasbag Christofascist interviews. I need to go throw up.
Also
The Federal Communications Commission is requiring Sprint, the nation's third-largest wireless carrier, to clear certain channels by June 26, a move designed to eliminate radio interference with thousands of public safety agencies across the country. The company would essentially swap spectrum with the public safety agencies...
...The deadline was set three years ago in an initial order....
...Sprint, which said the FCC's new position was unreasonable, claimed if regulators enforce the deadline it would cripple the network....
...The court said if Sprint vacates those channels then it's likely it will immediately reduce radio interference that public safety agencies have experienced....
...expects the FCC will extend the deadline by at least another six months.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Read yesterday's post and then this one.
Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized
Economists Share Obama's View
By Alec MacGillis and Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 1, 2008; Page A01
...Backing up Obama's position against Clinton's proposal to suspend the 18.4-cent-per-gallon tax for the summer is a slew of economists who argue that the proposal, first offered by Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, would be counterproductive...
The car took $50.00 in gas yesterday and it didn't fill up the tank. It ain't an SUV or truck.
Now the campaign geniuses think that allowing further disintegration of the infrastructure that the fucking 18 cents per gallon can't keep up with anyway, AND was stupid to continue building upon, (but that's another story altogether) is a good idea? (note how much higher CA gas taxes are)
Meanwhile people are going unfed, while the fat cats' profits on grain are up.
Before the bell: MRK, BP, ADM, MA, CFC, AAPL ...
Posted Apr 29th 2008 8:25AM by Melly Alazraki
Filed under: ...Archer Daniels-Midland (ADM)....... MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), ....Countrywide Financial (CFC), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Merck and Co (MRK), U.S. Steel (X), Valero Energy (VLO)
Before the bell: Street awaits Fed (V, DB, GM)...
....Archer Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM), the world's largest grain processor, said third-quarter profit rose 42% to $517 million or 80 cents per share, topping analyst estimates of 69 cents per share, as it traded more grains and crushed more soybeans. Sales climbed 64% to $18.7 billion. Seems that being in agriculture lately is a positive and ADM shares are rising 3.75% in premarket trading....
I'm fed up with this pattern.
Economists Share Obama's View
By Alec MacGillis and Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 1, 2008; Page A01
...Backing up Obama's position against Clinton's proposal to suspend the 18.4-cent-per-gallon tax for the summer is a slew of economists who argue that the proposal, first offered by Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, would be counterproductive...
The car took $50.00 in gas yesterday and it didn't fill up the tank. It ain't an SUV or truck.
Now the campaign geniuses think that allowing further disintegration of the infrastructure that the fucking 18 cents per gallon can't keep up with anyway, AND was stupid to continue building upon, (but that's another story altogether) is a good idea? (note how much higher CA gas taxes are)
Meanwhile people are going unfed, while the fat cats' profits on grain are up.
Before the bell: MRK, BP, ADM, MA, CFC, AAPL ...
Posted Apr 29th 2008 8:25AM by Melly Alazraki
Filed under: ...Archer Daniels-Midland (ADM)....... MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), ....Countrywide Financial (CFC), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Merck and Co (MRK), U.S. Steel (X), Valero Energy (VLO)
Before the bell: Street awaits Fed (V, DB, GM)...
....Archer Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM), the world's largest grain processor, said third-quarter profit rose 42% to $517 million or 80 cents per share, topping analyst estimates of 69 cents per share, as it traded more grains and crushed more soybeans. Sales climbed 64% to $18.7 billion. Seems that being in agriculture lately is a positive and ADM shares are rising 3.75% in premarket trading....
I'm fed up with this pattern.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Teaching Imperialism 101
The RAND Corporation was the ur-think tank, the Cold War granddaddy of them all, and it's still with us.
By Chalmers Johnson
A Litany of Horrors
America's University of ImperialismBy Chalmers Johnson
This essay is a review of Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire by Alex Abella (Harcourt, 400 pp., $27)
...Without RAND, our military-industrial complex, as well as our democracy, would look quite different...
...The RAND Corporation is surely one of the world's most unusual, Cold War-bred private organizations in the field of international relations. While it has attracted and supported some of the most distinguished analysts of war and weaponry, it has not stood for the highest standards of intellectual inquiry and debate. While RAND has an unparalleled record of providing unbiased, unblinking analyses of technical and carefully limited problems involved in waging contemporary war, its record of advice on cardinal policies involving war and peace, the protection of civilians in wartime, arms races, and decisions to resort to armed force has been abysmal...Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Watching this now
CARRIER
I tell you whut. I wouldn't last ten minutes on that ship. One of those pilots embodies everything that I hate. Cubby holes and needing everything to be seen black and white, right and wrong. Fuck that. Salute that jerk? Nope. I am not military material.
Rigid, inflexible, arrogant, pack like, and not nearly as fucking smart as they think they are. No, wait, that would be the Republicans. Uh, yeah, like I said, I've never been military material.
I tell you whut. I wouldn't last ten minutes on that ship. One of those pilots embodies everything that I hate. Cubby holes and needing everything to be seen black and white, right and wrong. Fuck that. Salute that jerk? Nope. I am not military material.
Rigid, inflexible, arrogant, pack like, and not nearly as fucking smart as they think they are. No, wait, that would be the Republicans. Uh, yeah, like I said, I've never been military material.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Kids from Polygamous Sect Remain in State Custody
Talk of the Nation
April 28, 2008 · More than 400 children remain in the care of the state after reports of child sexual abuse prompted a raid on a Texas polygamist compound. Authorities maintain that they are protecting the kids, but families argue there was no evidence of abuse. Guests and callers weigh in on what's best for the children.
Guests:
Howard Berkes, NPR rural affairs correspondent
Rodney Parker, attorney based in Salt Lake City, Utah; spokesman for the families whose children are in state custody
John Sampson, professor of law at the University of Texas; teaches the Children's Rights Clinic, which provides legal representation for abused and neglected children in Travis County
Jack Downey, president and CEO of The Children's Shelter in San Antonio, Texas; caring for 22 children from the Eldorado compound
Related NPR Stories
April 25, 2008Officials Using DNA to Sort Polygamy Sect Kids
Gene Disorder Complicates Sect Custody Fight
31 of 53 teen girls at FLDS ranch are pregnant or had baby
By MICHELLE ROBERTS – 1 hour ago 3:59 PM 4/28/2008
Tracing the Polygamists' Family Tree
Sunday, Apr. 20, 2008 By HILARY HYLTON
...Four surnames dominate the list: Jeffs (relatives of Warren Jeffs, the sect's imprisoned leader and "prophet"), Jessop, Barlow and Steed.
In the 1930s, two families, the Jessops and the Barlows, settled the area around Hildale, Utah, along the border with Arizona, where they founded the FDLS — and began handing down to their descendants a recessive gene for a severe form of mental retardation called Fumarase Deficiency...
...Families whose children are affected often avail themselves of state-funded medical care, consistent with the FLDS philosophy of seeking government aid — despite their suspicion of government — which they call "bleeding the Beast."
...The FLDS community, by and large, rejects the idea that Fumarase Deficiency is caused by genes, according to Tarby...
Birth defect is plaguing children in FLDS towns
Fumarase Deficiency afflicts 20, is linked to marriages of close kin
By John Hollenhorst
Published: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006 11:36 p.m. MST
Bust up in Bountiful (update)
CBC
More Clarity About Abuse, Intermarriage, Child Breeders, and the Fundamentalist Church of Later Day Saints
Posted by Sara Robinson, Orcinus at 2:51 PM on April 25, 2008.
Polygamy in Canada: Legal and Social Implications for Women and Children – A Collection of Policy Research Reports
Barf.
Update 12:07 PM 4/30/2008
Official: History of injuries found in polygamist sect kids
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Investigators have discovered a history of physical injuries, including broken bones, in children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch compound, the chief of state protective services told legislators Wednesday...
..."When asked, women and children would change their names and ages," he said...
...Church officials have denied that any children were abused at the ranch and say the state's actions are a form of religious persecution.
They also dispute the count of teen mothers, saying at least some are likely adults.
April 28, 2008 · More than 400 children remain in the care of the state after reports of child sexual abuse prompted a raid on a Texas polygamist compound. Authorities maintain that they are protecting the kids, but families argue there was no evidence of abuse. Guests and callers weigh in on what's best for the children.
Guests:
Howard Berkes, NPR rural affairs correspondent
Rodney Parker, attorney based in Salt Lake City, Utah; spokesman for the families whose children are in state custody
John Sampson, professor of law at the University of Texas; teaches the Children's Rights Clinic, which provides legal representation for abused and neglected children in Travis County
Jack Downey, president and CEO of The Children's Shelter in San Antonio, Texas; caring for 22 children from the Eldorado compound
Related NPR Stories
April 25, 2008Officials Using DNA to Sort Polygamy Sect Kids
April 23, 2008
Courts Pitting Child Welfare Against Religious FreedomApril 17, 2008
After Texas Raid, Officials Work to Help New OrphansApril 16, 2008
Children from Polygamist Compound in Legal LimboApril 9, 2008
Texas Raid Leaves 400 Children in CustodyGene Disorder Complicates Sect Custody Fight
31 of 53 teen girls at FLDS ranch are pregnant or had baby
By MICHELLE ROBERTS – 1 hour ago 3:59 PM 4/28/2008
Tracing the Polygamists' Family Tree
Sunday, Apr. 20, 2008 By HILARY HYLTON
...Four surnames dominate the list: Jeffs (relatives of Warren Jeffs, the sect's imprisoned leader and "prophet"), Jessop, Barlow and Steed.
In the 1930s, two families, the Jessops and the Barlows, settled the area around Hildale, Utah, along the border with Arizona, where they founded the FDLS — and began handing down to their descendants a recessive gene for a severe form of mental retardation called Fumarase Deficiency...
...Families whose children are affected often avail themselves of state-funded medical care, consistent with the FLDS philosophy of seeking government aid — despite their suspicion of government — which they call "bleeding the Beast."
...The FLDS community, by and large, rejects the idea that Fumarase Deficiency is caused by genes, according to Tarby...
Birth defect is plaguing children in FLDS towns
Fumarase Deficiency afflicts 20, is linked to marriages of close kin
By John Hollenhorst
Published: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006 11:36 p.m. MST
Bust up in Bountiful (update)
CBC
More Clarity About Abuse, Intermarriage, Child Breeders, and the Fundamentalist Church of Later Day Saints
Posted by Sara Robinson, Orcinus at 2:51 PM on April 25, 2008.
Polygamy in Canada: Legal and Social Implications for Women and Children – A Collection of Policy Research Reports
Barf.
Update 12:07 PM 4/30/2008
Official: History of injuries found in polygamist sect kids
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Investigators have discovered a history of physical injuries, including broken bones, in children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch compound, the chief of state protective services told legislators Wednesday...
..."When asked, women and children would change their names and ages," he said...
...Church officials have denied that any children were abused at the ranch and say the state's actions are a form of religious persecution.
They also dispute the count of teen mothers, saying at least some are likely adults.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Local Mayor stuff
This reminded me of an old post of mine:
McCain visits, gets Sanders' endorsement
(it's a really short post)
Mayor Sanders (used to be Chief of Police, so not surprised) but I'm not sure if him refusing to shake the other mayoral candidates hand and telling him "Fuck you Francis" was very endearing.
So, who is this guy Francis who pissed off a pretty affable Sanders?
The two faces of Steve
Will voters who remember Steve Francis from 2005 recognize the new model?
By David Rolland
The new Steve Francis
Who are you, and what have you done with that conservative rich guy?
By CityBeat Staff
Steve Francis meets with medical cannabis group
Posted on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 by Marc @ 11:30 am
Francis has promised to take the city out of the developers pockets.(Not)
I don't think it can be done, it's how this city works, the M-I-C and the real estate developers. The Francis ads, the push polls, and blaming Sanders for the budget and pension crisis are annoying to me.
Let's go back in time please, before there was a "strong Mayor" .
And let's have look at how the city started going broke. Oh look, it was those "fiscal conservative" Republicans.
Still there are so many people in this county who just mark the candidate with the R by the name. No matter what. It's what they do.
Stupid? Intellectually lazy? Loyal to the point of self-destructiveness? Need daddy to tell them what to do? It's what their parents did?
I don't get it. I just know that you'd have to be crazy to want the job, and I'm not thrilled with either of the candidates, basically I see two Rs.
McCain visits, gets Sanders' endorsement
(it's a really short post)
Mayor Sanders (used to be Chief of Police, so not surprised) but I'm not sure if him refusing to shake the other mayoral candidates hand and telling him "Fuck you Francis" was very endearing.
So, who is this guy Francis who pissed off a pretty affable Sanders?
The two faces of Steve
Will voters who remember Steve Francis from 2005 recognize the new model?
By David Rolland
The new Steve Francis
Who are you, and what have you done with that conservative rich guy?
By CityBeat Staff
Steve Francis meets with medical cannabis group
Posted on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 by Marc @ 11:30 am
Francis has promised to take the city out of the developers pockets.(Not)
I don't think it can be done, it's how this city works, the M-I-C and the real estate developers. The Francis ads, the push polls, and blaming Sanders for the budget and pension crisis are annoying to me.
Let's go back in time please, before there was a "strong Mayor" .
And let's have look at how the city started going broke. Oh look, it was those "fiscal conservative" Republicans.
Still there are so many people in this county who just mark the candidate with the R by the name. No matter what. It's what they do.
Stupid? Intellectually lazy? Loyal to the point of self-destructiveness? Need daddy to tell them what to do? It's what their parents did?
I don't get it. I just know that you'd have to be crazy to want the job, and I'm not thrilled with either of the candidates, basically I see two Rs.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Chalmers Johnson writes, I read
The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke
By Chalmers Johnson, Le Monde diplomatique. Posted April 26, 2008.
World Total military expenditures --(2004 est) --- 1,100 bn
World Total minus the US ------------------------------500 bn
...Our excessive military expenditures did not occur over just a few short years or simply because of the Bush administration's policies....
...In its conclusions, NSC-68 asserted: "One of the most significant lessons of our World War II experience was that the American economy, when it operates at a level approaching full efficiency, can provide enormous resources for purposes other than civilian consumption while simultaneously providing a high standard of living."...
...Dated 14 April 1950 and signed by President Harry S. Truman on 30 September 1950, it laid out the basic public economic policies that the U.S. pursues to the present day...
...By 1990 the value of the weapons, equipment and factories devoted to the Department of Defense was 83% of the value of all plants and equipment in U.S. manufacturing
...Military industries crowd out the civilian economy and lead to severe economic weaknesses....
...Devotion to military Keynesianism is a form of slow economic suicide...
...Some of the damage can never be rectified. There are, however, some steps that the U.S. urgently needs to take...
...If we do these things we have a chance of squeaking by. If we don't, we face probable national insolvency and a long depression....
Yeah, the guy who wrote the Blowback Trilogy.
By Chalmers Johnson, Le Monde diplomatique. Posted April 26, 2008.
World Total military expenditures --(2004 est) --- 1,100 bn
World Total minus the US ------------------------------500 bn
...Our excessive military expenditures did not occur over just a few short years or simply because of the Bush administration's policies....
...In its conclusions, NSC-68 asserted: "One of the most significant lessons of our World War II experience was that the American economy, when it operates at a level approaching full efficiency, can provide enormous resources for purposes other than civilian consumption while simultaneously providing a high standard of living."...
...Dated 14 April 1950 and signed by President Harry S. Truman on 30 September 1950, it laid out the basic public economic policies that the U.S. pursues to the present day...
...By 1990 the value of the weapons, equipment and factories devoted to the Department of Defense was 83% of the value of all plants and equipment in U.S. manufacturing
...Military industries crowd out the civilian economy and lead to severe economic weaknesses....
...Devotion to military Keynesianism is a form of slow economic suicide...
...Some of the damage can never be rectified. There are, however, some steps that the U.S. urgently needs to take...
...If we do these things we have a chance of squeaking by. If we don't, we face probable national insolvency and a long depression....
Yeah, the guy who wrote the Blowback Trilogy.
Bill Moyers interviewed Jeremiah Wright (Part I)
Part II
It was worth watching last night. The links lead to the page with video stream links.
Frankly, I got the impression from this piece that Reverend Wright takes the saying "faith without works is dead" as a direct challenge...
I tried Googling that saying and got horribly confused by all the semantics squabbles on the internet tubey thingies. I dusted off my Bible and started reading at James 2:26. That's where the quote "faith without works is dead" comes from, but that's where the important information ends, back your way up through James to get it.
Bet you didn't think I owned a Bible, didja?
Well I do, and occasionally I consult it. There's some good stuff in it, and some really outdated CRAP in it also. Like all religious texts written a few thousand years ago, there is some silly, superstitious, arrogant, patriarchal, misogynous, homophobic, outdated bullshit in them.
Update 8:42 AM 4/28/2008 -- AND as y'all reminded me, (thank you for that) there is violence, mayhem, murder, all that happy horseshit in thet there Bible too.
It was worth watching last night. The links lead to the page with video stream links.
Frankly, I got the impression from this piece that Reverend Wright takes the saying "faith without works is dead" as a direct challenge...
I tried Googling that saying and got horribly confused by all the semantics squabbles on the internet tubey thingies. I dusted off my Bible and started reading at James 2:26. That's where the quote "faith without works is dead" comes from, but that's where the important information ends, back your way up through James to get it.
Bet you didn't think I owned a Bible, didja?
Well I do, and occasionally I consult it. There's some good stuff in it, and some really outdated CRAP in it also. Like all religious texts written a few thousand years ago, there is some silly, superstitious, arrogant, patriarchal, misogynous, homophobic, outdated bullshit in them.
Update 8:42 AM 4/28/2008 -- AND as y'all reminded me, (thank you for that) there is violence, mayhem, murder, all that happy horseshit in thet there Bible too.
Friday, April 25, 2008
First fatal shark attack since 1959 in San Diego
And according to this video interview with Prof Rosenblatt they never found the body then, the guy disappeared.
The attack took place about 150 yards offshore. Several swimmers wearing wetsuitswere in a group when the shark attacked, said Solana Beach lifeguard Craig Miller. Two swimmers were about 20 yards ahead of the man when they heard him scream for help. They turned around and dragged him back to shore....
...club members had been meeting at the beach for at least six years and never had seen a shark...
Oh great. Way to freak out the tourists right before tourist season. The sixty year old man looked like breakfast wearing a wetsuit. Shark took a taste and spit him out, they eat seals, not skinny old men. The shark is probably half-way to Monterey Bay by now. The water here is usually too warm for Great Whites during tourist season, which is not April or May which are actually nice here, but gloomy June, OK July and miserably hot August. It's going to be hot this weekend, but the water temp still ranges cooler. With a shark scare it just might be nice and empty at the beach. Hmmmmmmm.
Update 2:04 PM 4/25/2008 with idiots running businesses like this one which are said to alter sharks' natural behaviour I may just cool off in the surf & I'll be taking short dips. Even then it might not be too frightening because most of the "dangerous" sharks off the coast of San Diego are 4-5 foot blues.
Speaking of sharks: Countrywide CEO earns $132 million in 2007 pay, stock sales
The attack took place about 150 yards offshore. Several swimmers wearing wetsuitswere in a group when the shark attacked, said Solana Beach lifeguard Craig Miller. Two swimmers were about 20 yards ahead of the man when they heard him scream for help. They turned around and dragged him back to shore....
...club members had been meeting at the beach for at least six years and never had seen a shark...
Oh great. Way to freak out the tourists right before tourist season. The sixty year old man looked like breakfast wearing a wetsuit. Shark took a taste and spit him out, they eat seals, not skinny old men. The shark is probably half-way to Monterey Bay by now. The water here is usually too warm for Great Whites during tourist season, which is not April or May which are actually nice here, but gloomy June, OK July and miserably hot August. It's going to be hot this weekend, but the water temp still ranges cooler. With a shark scare it just might be nice and empty at the beach. Hmmmmmmm.
Update 2:04 PM 4/25/2008 with idiots running businesses like this one which are said to alter sharks' natural behaviour I may just cool off in the surf & I'll be taking short dips. Even then it might not be too frightening because most of the "dangerous" sharks off the coast of San Diego are 4-5 foot blues.
Speaking of sharks: Countrywide CEO earns $132 million in 2007 pay, stock sales
Bill Moyers interviews Jeremiah Wright tonight (click here)
Excerpts from Rev. Jeremiah Wright Interview with Bill Moyers
Greg Mitchell
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Interview with Bill Moyers
Posted April 24, 2008 | 12:24 PM (EST)
I'll be watching PBS' NOW also tonight.
Greg Mitchell
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Interview with Bill Moyers
Posted April 24, 2008 | 12:24 PM (EST)
I'll be watching PBS' NOW also tonight.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Oil, specifically running out of the shit
Seems to be
what everybody's
talking about it lately.
I covered this my first month blogging.
This study hadn't been written yet.
well wouldja lookit that--
...Cost information available from projects and design studies performed in the 1980s can be escalated to give a very rough estimate of the anticipated capital costs
for mining and surface retorting plants. Using this approach, a first-of-a-kind commercial surface retorting complex (mine, retorting plant, upgrading plant, supporting utilities, and spent shale reclamation) is unlikely to be profitable unless real crude oil prices are at least $70 to $95 per barrel (2005 dollars)...
For three million barrels a day that require 2 barrels of water for every barrel of oil. We use 20 million barrels of oil a day now and water wastage in the west is just stupid. You can't reuse the water after you process out shale oil, it's toxic.
Jeez, You won't die if you don't get your McFatass into your SUV and over to Burger Boob's for Cheezwhiz covered fries for three days. You WILL die if you don't get water after three days.
what everybody's
talking about it lately.
I covered this my first month blogging.
This study hadn't been written yet.
well wouldja lookit that--
...Cost information available from projects and design studies performed in the 1980s can be escalated to give a very rough estimate of the anticipated capital costs
for mining and surface retorting plants. Using this approach, a first-of-a-kind commercial surface retorting complex (mine, retorting plant, upgrading plant, supporting utilities, and spent shale reclamation) is unlikely to be profitable unless real crude oil prices are at least $70 to $95 per barrel (2005 dollars)...
For three million barrels a day that require 2 barrels of water for every barrel of oil. We use 20 million barrels of oil a day now and water wastage in the west is just stupid. You can't reuse the water after you process out shale oil, it's toxic.
Jeez, You won't die if you don't get your McFatass into your SUV and over to Burger Boob's for Cheezwhiz covered fries for three days. You WILL die if you don't get water after three days.
Zogby: End it Now
Ok then. Makes sense to me.
Primary results
Anything you want to know about the 2008 elections?
Just in case you're not overwhelmed by that last ton of links in the last link, here's more .
General Election polls, who does better to beat McCain state by state?
Primary results
Anything you want to know about the 2008 elections?
Just in case you're not overwhelmed by that last ton of links in the last link, here's more .
General Election polls, who does better to beat McCain state by state?
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
5:27 PM 4/23/2008 - 7 myths of energy independence
The Seven Myths of Energy Independence
NEWS: Why forging a sustainable energy future is dependent on foreign oil
By Paul Roberts
May/June 2008 Issue
Hmmmm. I used to think that Mother Jones was kind of a hippy dippy publication. I don't think that way any more.
Made me think about the Independent Lens show that we watched late last Sunday. It was called King Corn It was one of the most entertaining informational films I've ever watched.
...The doe found that replacing three-quarters of the U.S. fleet with plug-in hybrids would cut vehicle CO2 emissions by 27 percent nationwide—40 percent or more if the country's power system were upgraded to match California's low-carbon grid...
Trains are more efficient. WaPo just used a really nifty graphic two days ago, helllloooooooo?
No presidential candidate has indicated he or she will raise energy taxes or sit down in oil talks with Tehran. All have ties to a self-interested energy sector, be it coal, ethanol, or nukes....
NEWS: Why forging a sustainable energy future is dependent on foreign oil
By Paul Roberts
May/June 2008 Issue
Hmmmm. I used to think that Mother Jones was kind of a hippy dippy publication. I don't think that way any more.
Myth #2
Ethanol Will Set Us Free
Made me think about the Independent Lens show that we watched late last Sunday. It was called King Corn It was one of the most entertaining informational films I've ever watched.
Myth #3
...The doe found that replacing three-quarters of the U.S. fleet with plug-in hybrids would cut vehicle CO2 emissions by 27 percent nationwide—40 percent or more if the country's power system were upgraded to match California's low-carbon grid...
Trains are more efficient. WaPo just used a really nifty graphic two days ago, helllloooooooo?
Myth #7
Once Bush Is Gone, Change Will Come
Blackwater on the border
Virtual fence on Mexican border deemed insufficient
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
So?
Blackwater still needs to feed from the government trough, and what better place than San Diego? Just what we need patrolling the border here, Blackwater.
There's just something about right-wing Christofacist zombies. Relentless fuckers, aren't they?
Duncky will come to their rescue. Lemon Chicken man does his best to secure bucks for all the boondoggles that defense contractors can dream up.
Rep Bob Filner, to his credit, has this to say
I have a question though. Why is Blackwater training sailors here? San Diego is one big huge Navy base.
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
So?
Blackwater still needs to feed from the government trough, and what better place than San Diego? Just what we need patrolling the border here, Blackwater.
There's just something about right-wing Christofacist zombies. Relentless fuckers, aren't they?
Duncky will come to their rescue. Lemon Chicken man does his best to secure bucks for all the boondoggles that defense contractors can dream up.
Rep Bob Filner, to his credit, has this to say
I have a question though. Why is Blackwater training sailors here? San Diego is one big huge Navy base.
THE DEMOCRATIC END GAME: Who has the right credentials?
By Rhodes Cook April 03, 2008
I might be wrong, I haven't been graded on this assignment yet, sorry, ungraded homework is the best I can do for the moment.
This is me condensing the title linked article.
The last time the Democratic Party had a fight involving the credentials committee was during the election cycle of 1972 over the nomination of what turned out to be George McGovern. At that time the party had a new ban on the previously used "winner-take all" system that a lot of Republican primaries & caucuses still use today. The party had recently switched to proportional allocation of delegates, and the anti-McGovern forces used this to strip McGovern of his California delegates. The legal challenge over S. Carolina and California delegates turned the convention chaotic. This situation doesn't look like the same fight, but basically it is. I'm not really sure how Florida and Michigan will seat their delegates at the convention, but I think the credentials committee may be more involved with the choosing of the Democratic Party candidate for President than they have since 1972.
The Clinton-Obama battle could be decided by Michigan and Florida or by the credentials committee. I didn't know what the credentials committee was so I used Google and found this:
What Is This Thing Called the Credentials Committee?
By Greg Sargent - March 31, 2008, 4:23PM (TPM Election Central)
(update: Ok, I'm still learning here, this says "Democratic Party may not seat delegation to violation of primary scheduling rules" )
I might be wrong, I haven't been graded on this assignment yet, sorry, ungraded homework is the best I can do for the moment.
This is me condensing the title linked article.
The last time the Democratic Party had a fight involving the credentials committee was during the election cycle of 1972 over the nomination of what turned out to be George McGovern. At that time the party had a new ban on the previously used "winner-take all" system that a lot of Republican primaries & caucuses still use today. The party had recently switched to proportional allocation of delegates, and the anti-McGovern forces used this to strip McGovern of his California delegates. The legal challenge over S. Carolina and California delegates turned the convention chaotic. This situation doesn't look like the same fight, but basically it is. I'm not really sure how Florida and Michigan will seat their delegates at the convention, but I think the credentials committee may be more involved with the choosing of the Democratic Party candidate for President than they have since 1972.
The Clinton-Obama battle could be decided by Michigan and Florida or by the credentials committee. I didn't know what the credentials committee was so I used Google and found this:
What Is This Thing Called the Credentials Committee?
By Greg Sargent - March 31, 2008, 4:23PM (TPM Election Central)
(update: Ok, I'm still learning here, this says "Democratic Party may not seat delegation to violation of primary scheduling rules" )
Pushing Back Against the Pentagon's Pundits
I don't think the old men that run things in this country really understand just how fed up the American people are.
Tell Congress: Investigate the Propaganda Pundits
Tell Congress: Investigate the Propaganda Pundits
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