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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
i'm again disagreeing with barack obama
he's NOT going to charge king george and his court for their crimes against humanity, their crimes against the citizens of the united states of america, their crimes of sedition. the victims of hurricane katrina are STILL suffering. our kids are not getting the education they MUST have in order to be a upstanding citizen of the world. our citizens are NOT getting health coverage and medical care. our citizens are NOT eating properly. our citizens are having their homes torn away from them. our citizens are being spied upon WITHOUT proper warrents. oh come on now on and on and on. it's ONLY the tip of the iceburg here.
and yet when we have PROOF BILLIONS of dollars (how many united states familes would those billions help??????) are being stolen in iraq (not even going to touch on pakistan here OR afghanistan) at the direct control of our fearless (because he's brainless) leader, king george - not only will NOTHING be done, but some peeps actually STILL THINK HE'S COOL
what the fuck
Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors
By JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED
BAGHDAD — The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the notoriously opaque and graft-ridden bureaucracy here.The dismissals, which were confirmed by senior Iraqi and American government officials on Sunday and Monday, have come as estimates of official Iraqi corruption have soared. One Iraqi former chief investigator recently testified before Congress that $13 billion in reconstruction funds from the United States had been lost to fraud, embezzlement, theft and waste by Iraqi government officials.
The moves have not been publicly announced by Mr. Maliki’s government, but word of them has begun to circulate through the layers of Iraqi bureaucracy as Parliament prepares to vote on a long-awaited security agreement. .......
and yet when we have PROOF BILLIONS of dollars (how many united states familes would those billions help??????) are being stolen in iraq (not even going to touch on pakistan here OR afghanistan) at the direct control of our fearless (because he's brainless) leader, king george - not only will NOTHING be done, but some peeps actually STILL THINK HE'S COOL
what the fuck
Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors
By JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED
BAGHDAD — The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the notoriously opaque and graft-ridden bureaucracy here.The dismissals, which were confirmed by senior Iraqi and American government officials on Sunday and Monday, have come as estimates of official Iraqi corruption have soared. One Iraqi former chief investigator recently testified before Congress that $13 billion in reconstruction funds from the United States had been lost to fraud, embezzlement, theft and waste by Iraqi government officials.
The moves have not been publicly announced by Mr. Maliki’s government, but word of them has begun to circulate through the layers of Iraqi bureaucracy as Parliament prepares to vote on a long-awaited security agreement. .......
i'll NEVER be able to look at another
piece of work helen mirren does now. no more re-watching or watching anew her (quite impressive) body of work. can't do it
i'm shocked, stunned and appalled
Helen Mirren: Please stop talking about rape
'm going to echo Kate's sentiments and ask Helen Mirren - for the love of all things good - to stop talking about rape.
i'm shocked, stunned and appalled
Helen Mirren: Please stop talking about rape
'm going to echo Kate's sentiments and ask Helen Mirren - for the love of all things good - to stop talking about rape.
Back in September the actress said in an interview that she didn't think that women should bring date rape cases to court and now she's said that female jurors on rape cases are "sexually jealous" of the victims. Seriously.
"Whether in a deep-seated animalistic way, going back billions of years, or from a sense of tribal jealousy or just antagonism, I don't know....But other women on a rape case would say she was asking for it. The only reason I can think of is that they're sexually jealous."...........
here's another giant asswipe
well john at americablog says it all in a few words:
Catholic cardinal of Baltimore calls Obama "aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic"
John Aravosis (DC) ·
Clearly, Obama doesn't know his place.
You have to listen to this, especially when he talks about Obama's "clenched jaw" like it's the mark of the anti-Christ. Why do so many religions have to be run by such angry people..........
now here are MY words. let me get this straight, it's OK to kill tens of thousands of people in foreign lands. it's ok to allow 4,200 (plus) of OUR men and women by sending them into unjustifiable combat? it's ok to think it's a sin teaching contraception to people in overcrowded places like india or to people in countries with high instances of hiv? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, but it's NOT ok to think it's ok for a woman to decide if she wants to bear a child or not? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm again
this my dears is a VERY telling story
let's say we BELIEVED them at the time. we (some of us that is) believed king george and his court that iraq had wmd didn't we? and then some of us (some NEVER learn their lessons do they?) believed king george when he said iran was making zillions of weapons and just TOSSIN' 'EM across to the iraqis like beads from a balcony at mardi gras.
i must sit here and wonder though, we sort of know how many actual weapons of iran the iraqis have. i wonder how many of the weapons of let's say BLACKWATER they have? think on that why don't cha
(note: i do NOT like iran. well the powers that be of iran. don't get me wrong. i'm NOT sticking up for them.. i'm pointing out the lies of our OWN king and his court. lies people continue to support and believe. WAKE UP MY PEEPS)
POLITICS: U.S. Task Force Found Few Iranian Arms in Iraq
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (IPS) - Last April, top George W. Bush administration officials, desperate to exploit any possible crack in the close relationship between the Nouri al-Maliki government and Iran, launched a new round of charges that Iran had stepped up covert arms assistance to Shi'a militias.
Secretary of Defence Robert M. Gates suggested that there was "some sense of an increased level of [Iranian] supply of weapons and support to these groups." And Washington Post reporter Karen DeYoung was told by military officials that the "plentiful, high quality weaponry" the militia was then using in Basra was "recently manufactured in Iran".
But a U.S. military task force had been passing on data to the Multi-National Force Iraq (MNFI) command that told a very different story. The data collected by the task force in the previous six weeks showed that relatively few of the weapons found in Shi'a militia caches were manufactured in Iran.
According to the data compiled by the task force, and made available to an academic research project last July, only 70 weapons believed to have been manufactured in Iran had been found in post-invasion weapons caches between mid-February and the second week in April. And those weapons represented only 17 percent of the weapons found in caches that had any Iranian weapons in them during that period.
The actual proportion of Iranian-made weapons to total weapons found, however, was significantly lower than that, because the task force was finding many more weapons caches in Shi'a areas that did not have any Iranian weapons in them.
The task force database identified 98 caches over the five-month period with at least one Iranian weapon, excluding caches believed to have been hidden prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion. ...........
i must sit here and wonder though, we sort of know how many actual weapons of iran the iraqis have. i wonder how many of the weapons of let's say BLACKWATER they have? think on that why don't cha
(note: i do NOT like iran. well the powers that be of iran. don't get me wrong. i'm NOT sticking up for them.. i'm pointing out the lies of our OWN king and his court. lies people continue to support and believe. WAKE UP MY PEEPS)
POLITICS: U.S. Task Force Found Few Iranian Arms in Iraq
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (IPS) - Last April, top George W. Bush administration officials, desperate to exploit any possible crack in the close relationship between the Nouri al-Maliki government and Iran, launched a new round of charges that Iran had stepped up covert arms assistance to Shi'a militias.
Secretary of Defence Robert M. Gates suggested that there was "some sense of an increased level of [Iranian] supply of weapons and support to these groups." And Washington Post reporter Karen DeYoung was told by military officials that the "plentiful, high quality weaponry" the militia was then using in Basra was "recently manufactured in Iran".
But a U.S. military task force had been passing on data to the Multi-National Force Iraq (MNFI) command that told a very different story. The data collected by the task force in the previous six weeks showed that relatively few of the weapons found in Shi'a militia caches were manufactured in Iran.
According to the data compiled by the task force, and made available to an academic research project last July, only 70 weapons believed to have been manufactured in Iran had been found in post-invasion weapons caches between mid-February and the second week in April. And those weapons represented only 17 percent of the weapons found in caches that had any Iranian weapons in them during that period.
The actual proportion of Iranian-made weapons to total weapons found, however, was significantly lower than that, because the task force was finding many more weapons caches in Shi'a areas that did not have any Iranian weapons in them.
The task force database identified 98 caches over the five-month period with at least one Iranian weapon, excluding caches believed to have been hidden prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion. ...........
i guess they're NOT
focusing on their OWN families ARE THEY? (pieces of steamin' shite). because it's MORE important to intrude into everyone else's lives before taking care of their own. it's more important to instill hate and fear and misinformation to the public than act like the 'christians' (their word not mine) they claim to be (wwjd?)
while i don't wish ill on anyone (even that pile, dobson) the slow dissolution of this hate filled organization gives me great pleasure indeed
UPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — an estimated 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950.
while i don't wish ill on anyone (even that pile, dobson) the slow dissolution of this hate filled organization gives me great pleasure indeed
More layoffs at Focus on the Family
Ministry spent more than $500,000 to pass California's Prop. 8 gay marriage ban
By Cara DegetteUPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — an estimated 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950.
Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.
Critics are holding up the layoffs, which come just two months after the organization’s last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of the ministry.
“If I were their membership I would be appalled,” said Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs activist who helped organize a Proposition 8 protest in Colorado Springs on Saturday. “That [Focus on the Family] would spend any money on anything that’s obviously going to get blocked in the courts is just sad. [Prop. 8] is guaranteed to lose, in the long run it doesn’t have a chance — it’s just a waste of money.”
In all, Focus pumped $539,000 in cash and another $83,000 worth of non-monetary support into the measure to overturn a California Supreme Court ruling that allowed gays and lesbians to marry in that state. The group was the seventh-largest donor to the effort in the country. The cash contributions are equal to the salaries of 19 Coloradans earning the 2008 per capita income of $29,133.
In addition Elsa Prince, the auto parts heiress and longtime funder of conservative social causes who sits on the Focus on the Family board, contributed another $450,000 to Prop. 8....
4,171*
that's the price of gas
iraq veterans against the war thinks it is. oh, i do too.
how ANYONE can still attempt to justify our invasion of that country is unfathomable. it was a crime, it was unjust, immoral and illegal. we've not only killed thousands or been responsible for them being killed but we've displaced many more. we've destroyed an entire country. WE that's right WE are responsible for al-qaeda being in iraq. THEY WERE NOT THERE BEFORE WE DECIDED TO 'LIBERATE' the country.
Anti-war veterans deploy 4,171 toy soldiers at gas station
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
In a daring guerrilla raid earlier this fall, members of the Los Angeles chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) infiltrated a local gas station to deploy a battalion of 4171 toy soldiers, together with a sign reading, "Price of Gas: 4171 U.S. Soldiers."
The project was initiated by designer Andrew Wilcox, who served as art director, and photographer and former marine Jonas Lara. According to Wilcox, it also involved "6 Iraq War Veterans who wish to remain anonymous."
A video of the action, carried out in the early morning hours of October 11, has now been posted on YouTube and Digg and featured at the IVAW website and on several blogs............
*of course the number NOW is 4,201
iraq veterans against the war thinks it is. oh, i do too.
how ANYONE can still attempt to justify our invasion of that country is unfathomable. it was a crime, it was unjust, immoral and illegal. we've not only killed thousands or been responsible for them being killed but we've displaced many more. we've destroyed an entire country. WE that's right WE are responsible for al-qaeda being in iraq. THEY WERE NOT THERE BEFORE WE DECIDED TO 'LIBERATE' the country.
Anti-war veterans deploy 4,171 toy soldiers at gas station
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
In a daring guerrilla raid earlier this fall, members of the Los Angeles chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) infiltrated a local gas station to deploy a battalion of 4171 toy soldiers, together with a sign reading, "Price of Gas: 4171 U.S. Soldiers."
The project was initiated by designer Andrew Wilcox, who served as art director, and photographer and former marine Jonas Lara. According to Wilcox, it also involved "6 Iraq War Veterans who wish to remain anonymous."
A video of the action, carried out in the early morning hours of October 11, has now been posted on YouTube and Digg and featured at the IVAW website and on several blogs............
*of course the number NOW is 4,201
Monday, November 17, 2008
i have NO idea what the heck i was looking for
when i came across THIS from darryl at your new reality
wow............you MUST read his entire post cause you're not going to believe who he compares barack obama to (in a GOOD way. and it's someone who's work i admire but i must admit i know very little of his personal life or beliefs)
wow again
Obama's Advice To Eight Year Old Girl : Look Up "Empathy" In The Dictionary, Learn It, Love It, Live It
Barack Obama gets a letter from a girl in Missouri, offering advice on what dog he should get for his daughters, and he replies with a cascade of advice "to make your life better."
Some excerpts of the letter the now President Obama (the January innauguration is the celebration, Obama is already be in power) put his name to only days before he won the
election :
"I am impressed with your interest in politics, especially at your young age. I appreciate your idea to make a law requiring people to recycle and to ban unnecessary wars.”
“Look out for other people, even when it does not directly benefit you; strive to make a difference everywhere you go; and get back up every time you are knocked down.”
“Creating change and making the world better is not always easy, and you will probably find in your life that it is more comfortable to ignore injustices that don’t affect you directly. Don’t take that comfortable road. Challenge yourself to make a difference.”.........
i'm NOT kidding, please click the link. you MUST READ the rest of his posting
wow............you MUST read his entire post cause you're not going to believe who he compares barack obama to (in a GOOD way. and it's someone who's work i admire but i must admit i know very little of his personal life or beliefs)
wow again
Obama's Advice To Eight Year Old Girl : Look Up "Empathy" In The Dictionary, Learn It, Love It, Live It
Barack Obama gets a letter from a girl in Missouri, offering advice on what dog he should get for his daughters, and he replies with a cascade of advice "to make your life better."
Some excerpts of the letter the now President Obama (the January innauguration is the celebration, Obama is already be in power) put his name to only days before he won the
election :
"I am impressed with your interest in politics, especially at your young age. I appreciate your idea to make a law requiring people to recycle and to ban unnecessary wars.”
“Look out for other people, even when it does not directly benefit you; strive to make a difference everywhere you go; and get back up every time you are knocked down.”
“Creating change and making the world better is not always easy, and you will probably find in your life that it is more comfortable to ignore injustices that don’t affect you directly. Don’t take that comfortable road. Challenge yourself to make a difference.”.........
i'm NOT kidding, please click the link. you MUST READ the rest of his posting
this is fascinating
i like a good mystery too. of course this is one i'll never solve.
it seems to me, i met a mapmaker once in my travels. i seem to recall the mapmaker was a she as well. other than that, i don't recall much about the meeting except she was interesting
16th-Century Mapmaker's Intriguing Knowledge
By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
How was it that a German priest writing in Latin and living in a French city far from the coast became the first person to tell the world that a vast ocean lay to the west of the American continents?
That is one of the bigger mysteries in the history of the Renaissance.
But it is not the only one involving Martin Waldseemueller, a map-making cleric whose own story is sufficiently obscure that his birth and death dates aren't known for certain.
Waldseemueller appears to have also known something about the contours of South America's west coast years before Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and Ferdinand Magellan sailed around the bottom of the continent. History books record them as the first Europeans to bring back knowledge of the Pacific Ocean. ........
it seems to me, i met a mapmaker once in my travels. i seem to recall the mapmaker was a she as well. other than that, i don't recall much about the meeting except she was interesting
16th-Century Mapmaker's Intriguing Knowledge
By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
How was it that a German priest writing in Latin and living in a French city far from the coast became the first person to tell the world that a vast ocean lay to the west of the American continents?
That is one of the bigger mysteries in the history of the Renaissance.
But it is not the only one involving Martin Waldseemueller, a map-making cleric whose own story is sufficiently obscure that his birth and death dates aren't known for certain.
Waldseemueller appears to have also known something about the contours of South America's west coast years before Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and Ferdinand Magellan sailed around the bottom of the continent. History books record them as the first Europeans to bring back knowledge of the Pacific Ocean. ........
because i really DO
like dick cavett i HAD to post this
The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla
Dick Cavett
The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla
Dick Cavett
............................What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”
My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.
And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”
It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any....................it's NOT surprising to me
how little blame (from the msm) is being placed at the feet of king george and his court on the us economy. OR for that matter, ANY DAMN THING ELSE. the man has ripped up, stomped on and spit on OUR constitution and many many many don't seem to care. if republicans believe in LESS government, how could they let this happen? a dictatorship i mean. 'splain it to me lucy
Predictable Disaster of George W. Bush
By Robert Parry
In his trademark goofy way, George W. Bush explained why he supported a bailout of the U.S. financial markets, saying he was “a free-market person, until you're told that if you don't take decisive measures then it's conceivable that our country could go into a depression greater than the Great Depression.”
Predictable Disaster of George W. Bush
By Robert Parry
In his trademark goofy way, George W. Bush explained why he supported a bailout of the U.S. financial markets, saying he was “a free-market person, until you're told that if you don't take decisive measures then it's conceivable that our country could go into a depression greater than the Great Depression.”
So, with a smirk on his face, President Bush explained the predicament that the United States and the world face after eight years of his incompetence and mismanagement – teetering on the edge of a catastrophe “greater than the Great Depression.”
Yet what is remarkable about American news coverage of this extraordinary moment – and Bush’s strangely light-hearted comment at the end of the Nov. 15 global economic summit – is how little blame is being laid specifically at Bush’s door.
In a pattern typical of the preceding eight years, major U.S. journalists are focusing on almost everything else – from Sarah Palin’s political future to what President-elect Barack Obama should do after he’s inaugurated in two months – not the lessons that should be learned from Bush’s disastrous presidency.
An example was Tom Brokaw’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, which addressed the financial and energy crises with nary a negative word spoken about Bush.
It was as if everyone else was responsible for the nation’s troubles, from unions and auto executives to Congress and Obama (for not providing immediate answers). Just not the person who is still in charge and who was chiefly responsible for taking the United States from an era of peace, prosperity and budget surpluses to the precipice of endless war, economic devastation and national bankruptcy..........
Sunday, November 16, 2008
john at americablog
points us to this kick-ass BURNING CROSS you can put on your lawn or porch or roof or wherever. PERFECT for the holiday season from, you guessed it, OUR GOOD BUDS AT the american 'family' association (which i simply cannot and will not link to but john does. he tells us to check out the copy on the ad for this cross. he's right you DO have to check it out!)
stunned, shocked, sickened
un effing believable
from what this sounds like, he didn't have to submit too much (if ANY) proof of his 'history of sleepwalking'. seems like a DAMN GOOD DEFENSE TO ME. i raped her BECAUSE I WAS SLEEPWALKING. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME EVER, BUT STILL, I WAS SLEEPWALKING
How could the man who 'raped' me be cleared because he was sleepwalking?
By Olinka Koster
from what this sounds like, he didn't have to submit too much (if ANY) proof of his 'history of sleepwalking'. seems like a DAMN GOOD DEFENSE TO ME. i raped her BECAUSE I WAS SLEEPWALKING. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME EVER, BUT STILL, I WAS SLEEPWALKING
How could the man who 'raped' me be cleared because he was sleepwalking?
By Olinka Koster
A rape victim has hit out at the law after the man accused of attacking her was cleared because he was sleepwalking.
Jane McKenna, 33, was asleep at home when a friend's husband, who had been a guest at a barbecue, walked into the bedroom and started having sex with her.
Mrs McKenna, a middle-class mother of one whose husband holds a respectable full-time position, said the acquittal in June had left her feeling 'shocked and degraded'.
Last night, she waived her right to anonymity to highlight her concern that attackers will increasingly use the defence that they were asleep. She has already gained the support of MPs and campaigners who argue the sleepwalking defence 'defies common sense'.
why is it i feel i have to jump into
the shower? i feel dirty and sick and cold
why is caring about OUR earth not a 'republican principle'? holy shite i really DO feel sick inside. i'm not even kidding. putting caring about everything ELSE aside (just for the hell of it). why NOT believe in taking care of OUR earth? why ignore all the warning signs of global warming? why pretend THEY DON'T EXIST? i'm at a loss here. i'm in the state of shock and disbelief - there are people running around who are allegedly 'intelligent' AND 'human beings' who say shite like this
GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles
From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
oh and here's the steamin' pile's voting record. don't look at it on an empty OR full stomach
why is caring about OUR earth not a 'republican principle'? holy shite i really DO feel sick inside. i'm not even kidding. putting caring about everything ELSE aside (just for the hell of it). why NOT believe in taking care of OUR earth? why ignore all the warning signs of global warming? why pretend THEY DON'T EXIST? i'm at a loss here. i'm in the state of shock and disbelief - there are people running around who are allegedly 'intelligent' AND 'human beings' who say shite like this
GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles
From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) – South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.
The conservative senator, speaking to a group of GOP officials gathered in Myrtle Beach at a conference on the future of the Republican Party, described how the party had strayed from its own "brand," which, according to DeMint, should represent freedom, religious-based values and limited government............
.................."McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver's seat," DeMint said. "His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn't fit the label, but he was our package."................
oh and here's the steamin' pile's voting record. don't look at it on an empty OR full stomach
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