i heard randi rhodes say recently;
we are getting bombs over to israel wicked quick BUT we couldn't get trailers over to help victims of katrina.
'splain that to ME lucy!
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DEBTOCRACY- A GREEK FILM WITH LESSONS FOR IRELAND
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Friday, August 11, 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
thank you
to the peeps of my state, thank you!!! i have a bat in my house. i think i got her/him out, but i don't know for sure. i've not seen her/him in four days so i'm guessing it's gone. last night i ripped my big toe open (badly). thankfully when i went to the doctor's in early july he decided (out of the blue) to give me a tetanus shot. but of course, i don't care about ANY of this. i only care about ned lamont won!!! my heart is singing (even if my body isn't). thank you to the most wonderful people in the great state of connecticut. Lamont Wins Connecticut Primary, Defeats Lieberman POSTED: 11:02 pm EDT August 8, 2006 UPDATED: 11:21 pm EDT August 8, 2006 HARTFORD, Conn. -- Lamont has defeated incumbent U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman. Lieberman appeared before a crowd of supporters at 11 p.m. and congraduated Lamont on his victory "This was a much closer race that all the pundits predicted," he said to a cheering crowd...............
oh and thanks to my pops too. even though he's a democrat, he's wicked conservative. he voted for ned too. the war MUST stop. the lies MUST stop. the constitution of the united states of america must be mended and adhered to!
oh and thanks to my pops too. even though he's a democrat, he's wicked conservative. he voted for ned too. the war MUST stop. the lies MUST stop. the constitution of the united states of america must be mended and adhered to!
Monday, August 07, 2006
ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN????
haven't we learned our lessons well? is this the 1950s all over again? are we forever doomed? will we continue to make the same mistakes we made in the past?
Told to Snitch or Leave U.S.
A 24-year-old Moroccan says federal agents gave him a choice: Inform on fellow Muslims or be deported. He chose to fight back.
By Lee Romney, Times Staff Writer 10:19 PM PDT, August 6, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO — The document that federal agents handed to Yassine Ouassif to justify his deportation contained startling language: "The United States government has reason to believe that you are likely to engage in terrorist activity."Ouassif was in exclusive company. Since Sept. 11, only five people have faced that ominous charge. Ouassif was about to become the sixth.
The slip of paper offered no details on what was behind the accusation.As federal officials took him into custody in December, they told the 24-year-old Moroccan — a permanent resident who had moved to California nine months before the terrorist attacks — that he would be taken to a detention facility in Arizona. He could fight deportation from there, but it would take at least two years, they said. And they assured him he would fail.Ouassif was scared. He cried. But he was not surprised...........
Told to Snitch or Leave U.S.
A 24-year-old Moroccan says federal agents gave him a choice: Inform on fellow Muslims or be deported. He chose to fight back.
By Lee Romney, Times Staff Writer 10:19 PM PDT, August 6, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO — The document that federal agents handed to Yassine Ouassif to justify his deportation contained startling language: "The United States government has reason to believe that you are likely to engage in terrorist activity."Ouassif was in exclusive company. Since Sept. 11, only five people have faced that ominous charge. Ouassif was about to become the sixth.
The slip of paper offered no details on what was behind the accusation.As federal officials took him into custody in December, they told the 24-year-old Moroccan — a permanent resident who had moved to California nine months before the terrorist attacks — that he would be taken to a detention facility in Arizona. He could fight deportation from there, but it would take at least two years, they said. And they assured him he would fail.Ouassif was scared. He cried. But he was not surprised...........
and when night falls, neighborhoods become open battlegrounds."
chilling words and they come from our service members in iraq. there IS a civil war and it started a while ago. this is NO crisis, or conflict or scrape up. IT'S A WAR and WE stirred it up (granted it MAY have happened any way, with or without us, but we'll never know now).
U.S.Troops in Iraq Tell McClatchy Reporter: Yes, It is a 'Civil War'
By E&P Staff Published: August 04, 2006 9:45 PM ET
NEW YORK U.S. generals have had their say this week. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld has spoken, so has Secretary of State Rice. Pundits, as usual, have weighed in, and weighed in again. Finally a reporter asked the real experts: U.S. troops in Iraq.Tom Lasseter, longtime reporter for the Knight Ridder bureau in Baghad -- now run by McClatchy -- is heading back to the U.S. after many tours in Iraq, but before leaving, he took another embed this past week. His report for McClatchy papers today opened, "While American politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it has already begun. "Army troops in and around the capital interviewed in the last week cite a long list of evidence that the center of the nation is coming undone: Villages have been abandoned by Sunni and Shiite Muslims; Sunni insurgents have killed thousands of Shiites in car bombings and assassinations; Shiite militia death squads have tortured and killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Sunnis; and when night falls, neighborhoods become open battlegrounds."........
U.S.Troops in Iraq Tell McClatchy Reporter: Yes, It is a 'Civil War'
By E&P Staff Published: August 04, 2006 9:45 PM ET
NEW YORK U.S. generals have had their say this week. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld has spoken, so has Secretary of State Rice. Pundits, as usual, have weighed in, and weighed in again. Finally a reporter asked the real experts: U.S. troops in Iraq.Tom Lasseter, longtime reporter for the Knight Ridder bureau in Baghad -- now run by McClatchy -- is heading back to the U.S. after many tours in Iraq, but before leaving, he took another embed this past week. His report for McClatchy papers today opened, "While American politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it has already begun. "Army troops in and around the capital interviewed in the last week cite a long list of evidence that the center of the nation is coming undone: Villages have been abandoned by Sunni and Shiite Muslims; Sunni insurgents have killed thousands of Shiites in car bombings and assassinations; Shiite militia death squads have tortured and killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Sunnis; and when night falls, neighborhoods become open battlegrounds."........
heads stuck in the sand: this is so very hard for me to fathom
in reality is 50% of our population this uninformed, this unaware, THIS STUPID?
i'm embarrassed. (and effing pissed)
AP Explores Media's Role in Popular Belief in Iraq WMD
Published: August 06, 2006 7:55 PM ET
NEW YORK Do you believe in Iraqi "WMD"? Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003?Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull.The reality in this case is that after a 16-month, $900-million-plus investigation, the U.S. weapons hunters known as the Iraq Survey Group declared that Iraq had dismantled its chemical, biological and nuclear arms programs in 1991 under U.N. oversight. That finding in 2004 reaffirmed the work of U.N. inspectors who in 2002-03 found no trace of banned arsenals in Iraq.Despite this, a Harris Poll released July 21 found that a full 50 percent of U.S. respondents — up from 36 percent last year — said they believe Iraq did have the forbidden arms when U.S. troops invaded in March 2003, an attack whose stated purpose was elimination of supposed WMD. Other polls also have found an enduring American faith in the WMD story..........
i'm embarrassed. (and effing pissed)
AP Explores Media's Role in Popular Belief in Iraq WMD
Published: August 06, 2006 7:55 PM ET
NEW YORK Do you believe in Iraqi "WMD"? Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003?Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull.The reality in this case is that after a 16-month, $900-million-plus investigation, the U.S. weapons hunters known as the Iraq Survey Group declared that Iraq had dismantled its chemical, biological and nuclear arms programs in 1991 under U.N. oversight. That finding in 2004 reaffirmed the work of U.N. inspectors who in 2002-03 found no trace of banned arsenals in Iraq.Despite this, a Harris Poll released July 21 found that a full 50 percent of U.S. respondents — up from 36 percent last year — said they believe Iraq did have the forbidden arms when U.S. troops invaded in March 2003, an attack whose stated purpose was elimination of supposed WMD. Other polls also have found an enduring American faith in the WMD story..........
Friday, August 04, 2006
what's the difference between these two 'men'?
they both had 'sex' with minors. they both are not in possession of their right minds. they both are living outside of the law. they both do NOT think they did anything wrong. oh, the difference? one gets 45 days the other gets life (BOTH should get life) first this dude: Polygamist gets 45 days for sex with teen bride
Investigator fears sentence sends wrong message
By Harriet Ryan Court TV
(Court TV) -- An Arizona judge has sentenced a polygamist to 45 days in county jail for having sex with a teenager he took as his third wife.
The sentence disappointed authorities in Kingman, Arizona, who had hoped a harsher punishment for defendant Kelly Fischer would discourage others in the church from taking teenage wives.
Fischer was the first of seven members of the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints (FLDS) to be tried for plural marriages to minors.
"I don't know if we've sent a strong enough message to these people," said Gary Engels, an investigator with the Mohave County Attorney's office.
About 7,000 FLDS members live in the twin border towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah.
Members of the group, which broke with mainstream Mormons in the 1890s over polygamy, believe that only those in plural marriages can reach the highest level of heaven......... and THIS dude Man Says Sex With Kids a Sacred Ritual CLEVELAND (AP) -- A man accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities told a judge that having sex with children is a sacred ritual protected by civil rights laws.
Phillip Distasio, who said he is the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, represented himself at his pretrial hearing Wednesday. He is charged with 74 counts including rape, pandering obscenity to minors and corrupting another with drugs.
"I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years," he said in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday. "The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms."...........
Investigator fears sentence sends wrong message
By Harriet Ryan Court TV
(Court TV) -- An Arizona judge has sentenced a polygamist to 45 days in county jail for having sex with a teenager he took as his third wife.
The sentence disappointed authorities in Kingman, Arizona, who had hoped a harsher punishment for defendant Kelly Fischer would discourage others in the church from taking teenage wives.
Fischer was the first of seven members of the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints (FLDS) to be tried for plural marriages to minors.
"I don't know if we've sent a strong enough message to these people," said Gary Engels, an investigator with the Mohave County Attorney's office.
About 7,000 FLDS members live in the twin border towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah.
Members of the group, which broke with mainstream Mormons in the 1890s over polygamy, believe that only those in plural marriages can reach the highest level of heaven......... and THIS dude Man Says Sex With Kids a Sacred Ritual CLEVELAND (AP) -- A man accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities told a judge that having sex with children is a sacred ritual protected by civil rights laws.
Phillip Distasio, who said he is the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, represented himself at his pretrial hearing Wednesday. He is charged with 74 counts including rape, pandering obscenity to minors and corrupting another with drugs.
"I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years," he said in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday. "The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms."...........
ya gotta love midge
Amy Sancetta / Ap File
and ya gotta give the sheriff props too 6-pound Chihuahua is tiny drug-finding dog
Small K-9s do less damage, may be part of a growing national trend CHARDON, Ohio - Though she’s only a 6-pound Chihuahua-rat terrier mix who looks like she belongs in Paris Hilton’s purse, Midge has the will, skill and nose of a 100-pound German shepherd.
The newest recruit for the Geauga County Sheriff Department’s K-9 unit could very well be the nation’s smallest drug-sniffing pooch.
“Good girl,” Sheriff Dan McClelland says, praising the 7-month-old, tail-wagging puppy, during a recent training exercise. McClelland began training Midge for drug-detecting duties when she was just 3 months old, after reading about departments being sued by suspects whose cars or homes were damaged by larger dogs.
Like many police departments, Geauga County has had German shepherds and Labrador retrievers for years. In fact, visitors often ask, “Is the big dog out?” — referring to 125-pound Brutus, says Lt. Tom McCaffrey, Brutus’ handler............
and ya gotta give the sheriff props too 6-pound Chihuahua is tiny drug-finding dog
Small K-9s do less damage, may be part of a growing national trend CHARDON, Ohio - Though she’s only a 6-pound Chihuahua-rat terrier mix who looks like she belongs in Paris Hilton’s purse, Midge has the will, skill and nose of a 100-pound German shepherd.
The newest recruit for the Geauga County Sheriff Department’s K-9 unit could very well be the nation’s smallest drug-sniffing pooch.
“Good girl,” Sheriff Dan McClelland says, praising the 7-month-old, tail-wagging puppy, during a recent training exercise. McClelland began training Midge for drug-detecting duties when she was just 3 months old, after reading about departments being sued by suspects whose cars or homes were damaged by larger dogs.
Like many police departments, Geauga County has had German shepherds and Labrador retrievers for years. In fact, visitors often ask, “Is the big dog out?” — referring to 125-pound Brutus, says Lt. Tom McCaffrey, Brutus’ handler............
Thursday, August 03, 2006
why would ANYONE (unless your name was saddam or momar or fidel or che OR oh yes, king george)
want a man like this to be a leader in their armed services? one would think the leaders of nations would want men and women with intelligence, strength (of mind and will), bravery, compassion, HONOR............ but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Army Commander Investigated in Iraq Killing Spree
Military Tribunal Begins for Four Soldiers Involved in Incident
By JONATHAN KARL
Aug. 1, 2006 — - Col. Michael Steele, whose heroics were portrayed in the movie "Black Hawk Down," is under investigation for allegedly encouraging his men to go on a killing spree. The investigation begins just as the Army has started to make its case against four soldiers who are charged with murdering three Iraqi civilians while under Steele's command, ABC News has learned.
The soldiers' defense is that they were under orders to kill all military-age males.
ABC News has learned that Steele has already been reprimanded for the incident.......
Military Tribunal Begins for Four Soldiers Involved in Incident
By JONATHAN KARL
Aug. 1, 2006 — - Col. Michael Steele, whose heroics were portrayed in the movie "Black Hawk Down," is under investigation for allegedly encouraging his men to go on a killing spree. The investigation begins just as the Army has started to make its case against four soldiers who are charged with murdering three Iraqi civilians while under Steele's command, ABC News has learned.
The soldiers' defense is that they were under orders to kill all military-age males.
ABC News has learned that Steele has already been reprimanded for the incident.......
this is for you jean and dotttie
even stephen king and john irving are beggin' for harry's life Don't kill Harry Potter, US authors urge Rowling Tue Aug 1, 2006 6:13 PM BST
By Claudia Parsons
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two of America's top authors, John Irving and Stephen King, made a plea to J.K. Rowling on Tuesday not to kill the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter in the final book of the series, but Rowling made no promises.
"My fingers are crossed for Harry," Irving said at a joint news conference before a charity reading by the three writers at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
The author of "The World According to Garp" and a string of other bestsellers said he and King felt like "warm-up bands" for Rowling, who is working on the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series, and who has said two characters will die.
King, who shot to fame in 1974 with "Carrie," said he had confidence that Rowling would be "fair" to her hero.
"I don't want him to go over the Reichenbach Falls," King said in a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's effort to kill off the character of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Pressure from fans eventually led Conan Doyle to resurrect Holmes, who was found in a later story to have survived.
Rowling, a Briton whose books have sold 300 million copies worldwide according to her publishers, said she was well into the process of writing the final book.
"I feel quite liberated," she said..........
By Claudia Parsons
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two of America's top authors, John Irving and Stephen King, made a plea to J.K. Rowling on Tuesday not to kill the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter in the final book of the series, but Rowling made no promises.
"My fingers are crossed for Harry," Irving said at a joint news conference before a charity reading by the three writers at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
The author of "The World According to Garp" and a string of other bestsellers said he and King felt like "warm-up bands" for Rowling, who is working on the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series, and who has said two characters will die.
King, who shot to fame in 1974 with "Carrie," said he had confidence that Rowling would be "fair" to her hero.
"I don't want him to go over the Reichenbach Falls," King said in a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's effort to kill off the character of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Pressure from fans eventually led Conan Doyle to resurrect Holmes, who was found in a later story to have survived.
Rowling, a Briton whose books have sold 300 million copies worldwide according to her publishers, said she was well into the process of writing the final book.
"I feel quite liberated," she said..........
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Monday, July 31, 2006
it could have been any country
it was israel this time, but it could have been the u.s. or korea or india or somalia or northern ireland or the congo or as i said, anywhere. it doesn't have to be with a bomb. it can be with a machete or a single gun. when will this stop? children, children are being killed. innocents. why can't we concentrate on feeding the hungry? on education? on caring for one another? why care more about a border than a human being?
Israel suspends air strikes after 52 killed in Lebanon
by Stephen Collinson Sun Jul 30, 7:18 PM ET
Israel agreed to temporarily halt air strikes in south Lebanon a day after 52 people were killed, many of them sleeping children, when Israeli warplanes bombarded the Lebanese village of Qana, triggering global outrage and warnings of retribution for alleged "war crimes".
The 48-hour halt to aerial activity was announced by an aide to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose latest Middle East mission was thrown into turmoil by the attack.
"Israel has agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity in south Lebanon" pending an investigation into the Qana attack, spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters just after midnight following talks between Rice and top Israeli officials.
The halt is effective immediately, and Israel will also coordinate with the United Nations on a 24-hour period of "safe passage" for civilians who wish to leave the area, Ereli said.
Police said 52 villagers, including 30 children, were killed in the pre-dawn air raid Sunday which left homes in ruins and villagers trapped under the rubble. Bahia Hariri, an MP for southern Lebanon, said 15 of the children were disabled.
It was the bloodiest attack since Israel launched its war on the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah following the capture of two soldiers on July 12.............
Israel suspends air strikes after 52 killed in Lebanon
by Stephen Collinson Sun Jul 30, 7:18 PM ET
Israel agreed to temporarily halt air strikes in south Lebanon a day after 52 people were killed, many of them sleeping children, when Israeli warplanes bombarded the Lebanese village of Qana, triggering global outrage and warnings of retribution for alleged "war crimes".
The 48-hour halt to aerial activity was announced by an aide to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose latest Middle East mission was thrown into turmoil by the attack.
"Israel has agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity in south Lebanon" pending an investigation into the Qana attack, spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters just after midnight following talks between Rice and top Israeli officials.
The halt is effective immediately, and Israel will also coordinate with the United Nations on a 24-hour period of "safe passage" for civilians who wish to leave the area, Ereli said.
Police said 52 villagers, including 30 children, were killed in the pre-dawn air raid Sunday which left homes in ruins and villagers trapped under the rubble. Bahia Hariri, an MP for southern Lebanon, said 15 of the children were disabled.
It was the bloodiest attack since Israel launched its war on the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah following the capture of two soldiers on July 12.............
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