Show Post #2

now that IS a first!

this time

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"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

about Africom...just what we need...

And thanks for the new thread.

Hope your Christmas is great!

Lauren

and a merry boxing day to you as well!

Bgurl loves christmas and the break from work.

i love the cookies!

:)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Can you backup the show and start over? I've been wrapping packages and yakking on the phone.

;-)

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"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

good interviews all!

you're a terrific interviewer

these books shows are very very good

When The Moors Ruled in Europe

Running time 1 hr 40 minutes

Need to get Chalmers Johnson book !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Sam is a good interviewer because he lets the guest talk.

He needs a TV show on PBS or MSNBC!!

that right,Toni ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

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"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

on a delay so I can listen again.

I missed parts of it because I was cooking.

are better than the ones on CSpan and he doesn't have the advantage of video.

Moyers gives the guest time to speak also.

...like a dope I forgot to turn off my timer. I have to cut out the breaks and stuff, but I bet Brett's already on it.

beauty!

backatcha!

has a discussion going on email about Obama moving to the right. They are all upset about this and are discussing how they can let Obama know that many are displeased with his move right.

important of course - his questions are just so well fitted to the subject matter, so sharp in their hitting the points of the main arguments - leaves the impression that he must indeed have read the book, taken notes, thought long and hard about it and come out with intelligent questions that lead to the complete understanding of the main thesis in a matter of minutes - sam must have been a smashing straight A's student in college I bet

good job sam

and the choice of books is also excellent, yeah a little depressing but eh

I am making focaccia bread tonight.

One Tomato/Basil

One onion with herbs and Romano Cheese.

Cookies are done.

Starting the pastitso tonight too so all I have to do tomorrow the last minute stuff.

BBL

is now on KPTK-Seattle ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

It's not the information that concerns me...I am grateful for it, but it's what we do with the information and how we act upon it and is there enough us to enact a change of course.

One of my favorite Christmas songs is:

Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be.
With *God as our *father
*Brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my *brother
In perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now.
With every step I take
Let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment
And live each moment
With peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth,
And let it begin with me.

*insert what works for you or is more inclusive.

As Sam is so good at, and why he is my favorite talk show host, he recognized where we, his audience, would be at end of the show and knew what we would need--asking for and seeking the nugget of hope. Sometimes intelligence is defined not by the answers you have but the questions you ask and when and who to ask them of. Sam's insightfulness never fails.

Thanks to Lauren for her skillful editing too.

Dibs!

(mmmmmmmmm!)

on AM 620 KPOJ Portland..

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took 6 hours to blow insulation in my Attic.

You'd totally die if you heard how bad my 'lectric bill is.

I wasn't mad. I was just grumpy so I got offa here and took a nap.

So, lil Annette has had her nap and feels less like sticking objects in your mouth! LOL :-)

I've been making Christmas goodies.

Here's one:

Peanut Brittle

2 c. raw, shelled peanuts
1 c. sugar
1 c. white corn syrup
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt

Mix peanuts, sugar and syrup in iron skillet and cook until light brown in color. Peanuts will begin to pop. Remove from fire and add 1 teaspoon soda and 1 teaspoon salt. Stir quickly and pour onto buttered 9 x 13 inch pan. Break into small pieces when cool.

Note: Brittle can be poured out onto a buttered brown paper bag. When cool, just drop bag on couner to break apart. Be sure bag is buttered real good...

Merry Christmas you guys!

reading your posts this week!

Please desist!

right now.

I just browned the onions in olive oil with the herbs and diced the tomeatoes and cooked those with the fresh basil.

Smells like an Italian Restaurant!

Oooops, Sorry Peter!

The smell in my kitchen is unbelievable
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 8:10pm.
right now...
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When I write those words, they take on an entirely different meaning.

there's not a lot of fun being a spoiler when you suck.

My post wishing you guys a happy holidays got lost in the server crash.

Been busy & I'm glad it'll wind down now.

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Toni D[arlin]: Your culinary descriptions are making my mouth water. We should all be so lucky to one day sit at your table...

...and stuff ourselves! : )

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crankie: "Ticks" ---> ub1fmf!

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Peace be with you all!

YB suggests for your viewing pleasure
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 7:01pm.

When The Moors Ruled in Europe
Running time 1 hr 40 minutes
Thanks,

C9

In response to the announcement from Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) that she is pregnant ~

http://www.thealbanyproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1691

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Read this published letter to the editor!

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2007/12/20/opinion/letters/13187860.txt

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(Will male politicians reimburse their daily salaries when they have to go to get prostate exams or prescriptions for their Viagra?)

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"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

The Agriculture Department said fresh ground beef products contaminated with multi-drug resistant Salmonella may have been ground and later sold at Safeway Inc stores in five states.

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said the products were sold at supermarket chain Safeway Inc in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico between September 19 and November 5, 2007.

"This alert is being issued after an exhaustive and continuing investigation whereby FSIS could not identify specific establishments, lots and products that would be subject to a recall," the agency said.

"FSIS has no reason to believe that these products are still available for sale in commerce," it said.

FSIS said the alert was issued after epidemiological investigations and a study conducted by the California Department of Public Health, Arizona Department of Health Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

These health agencies determined there was a connection between the ground beef products and 38 illnesses reported in the five states.

Salmonella infection typically causes diarrhea, accompanied by abdominal cramps and fever. It can be life-threatening in infants, people with poor underlying health and those with weakened immune systems.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2129170720071221

A New York City man has once again shocked his neighbors by putting up a gory display of Santa Claus crawling out of a chimney.

The New York Post said Sunday Joel Krupnik, who has gained neighborhood notoriety for his outrageous Christmas displays, recently added a bloody Santa to his expanding holiday resume.

"I'm terrified to bring my granddaughter by here," Rhoda Schatz, one of Krupnik's neighbors, said of the newest display. "It's horrific."

Krupnik's neighbors previously forced him to remove a Christmas display with a bloody Santa holding a severed doll head.

Then last year, Krupnik pleaded guilty to smearing a 13-year-old girl with dog feces after the teenager's dog relieved itself outside his home.

"I did it!" Krupnik was quoted by the Post as saying at the time. "I'm tired of these people not picking up after their dogs. I took the mess and I rubbed it in her back."

I like this jest. As if, how absurd.

How many Santa's have to die?

Posted: December 21, 2007
by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today

RAPID CITY, S.D. - The Democratic Brown and Black Forum with the presidential candidates held on Dec. 1 in Des Moines, Iowa, fulfilled its purpose, but American Indians did not have a voice and were mentioned only briefly by one candidate.

Ten people from South Dakota attended the forum and were among a large number of people who were non-white. The crowd consisted mainly of Muslims, Hispanics and blacks, and the general climate of the meeting was said to be positive.

The American Indian delegation from South Dakota comprised the only group of indigenous attendees. None of them was selected to ask questions of the candidates. The only candidate who acknowledged Indians at all was Rep. Dennis Kucinich, according to Mary Ann Bear Heels McCowan, a Lakota political activist.

While American Indians make up only 1 percent of the population, because of their unique involvement with the federal government and its fiduciary responsibility, the expectation is that most candidates should develop an American Indian policy.

www.indiancountry.com

and Vote.

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"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)
PEACHES (aka "Soft and Fuzzy Anonymous")

I have lost my faith in Santa--to say nothing about the Christmas Spirit.

Nice Peaches ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

It is beginning to look like there is a split in the ideology of a portion of the Republican base.

Many of the Social Conservatives (read Religious Right) are on the side of more regulation by government and less pandering to corporations and a renewed focus on the plights of the middle and lower middle classes.

The old Reaganesque mantra against big government and for trickling down the bounties of the financial elite to the unwashed anti-abortion and anti-gay masses is losing its lustre.

In my opinion, this is the predictable result of years of the Social Conservative push for the Holy Grail of abortion and homosexuality, neither of which has a damn thing to do with administrating a nation. While the Social Conservatives poured their political resources into their pet issues, they elected Republicans who have been busily robbing St. Peter and St. Paul to pay their fat cat friends in corner offices.

Many of us have tried for years to tell the Social Conservative movement that it had its eye on the wrong ball. They are slow learners. They needed Enron and Katrina and Iraq and soaring oil prices and pollution and scores of other travesties wrought by grinning anti-abortion and anti-gay Republican politicians to bring the point home.

The religious nutjobs targeted two "sins" with all of their political might in a nation having more sins that you can wag a self-righteous finger at. Now that some of those many sins are blatantly hitting The Faithful in their pocketbooks, they are beginning to pay attention. Fetuses and fags ain't bringin' home the bacon anymore.

This places the Republican Party in a quandary. Whereas in recent years it has been able to attract Social Conservative votes with rhetoric against women's rights and homosexuality (and then go about its first order of business---supporting Big Business), it must now find a way to attract many of the same votes by adding rhetoric against Big Business.

The Creationists and their pulpit-driven brethren seem to be (horrors) evolving toward a Populist ideology which the Republican Party hasn't offered in more than a century. It will be interesting to see how the residual radioactivity of Huckabee's candidacy (which has thrown the Populist notion into the Republican voter's mix) will adjust Republican Party rhetoric in the coming years.

Fuck off you piece of human waste.

I want nothing to do with you. THAT's why I post anon.

I've read enough of you to know how fucking needy you are.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

What a Psychotic Loser..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I learned of the Cadbury chocolate advertisement video via NPR. It was over-hyped and not as funny as I expected it to be, but it is still worth viewing if you haven't seen it. (The drummer's stereotypical mannerisms should be added to bibimimi's "Rock Guitarist's Lip Biting" collection of overt conceits.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdQC-hbY7k

This video also came to my attention via NPR. Probably Alice is already aware of it. If not, the pun at its conclusion is right up Alice's alley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koRlFnBlDH0

The ritzy London department store Harrods is offering a reportedly healthy type of honey for $83 a jar, possibly the highest cost for honey in the world.

While the price for little more than four ounces of Life Mel honey may seem excessive, Harrods said it has already been endorsed by pop singer Kylie Minogue and film actress Sienna Miller, Sky News reported Sunday.

Harrods press and product manager Andre Dang said the honey has been used as both a sweet spread and as a health product.

"This is the newest product that has just launched," Dang said.

"People are tending to use it more as an alternative therapy rather than spreading it on toast."

The honey's reported health benefits may be due to the fact it is made without artificial ingredients and was produced by bees fed herbs such as Siberian ginseng and echinacea.

Sky News said because of the honey's reported health benefits, jars of the costly product will not simply adorn Harrods' shelves, but will be sold in the store's pharmacy.

A home owner in Bremerton, Wash., adorned his lawn with a crucified Santa Claus doll to send a public message about the commercialization of Christmas.

While Art Conrad said he intended to use the bizarre image to draw attention to the holiday's growing emphasis on consumerism, several Bremerton residents didn't pick up on the message, the Kitsap (Wash.) Sun reported Friday.

"I don't really know what to think. I know it's about God but Santa has nothing to do with it," Jake Tally said.

Conrad said he got the idea from a story he read about Japanese merchants who placed Santa on a cross as part of a mix-up regarding Christmas symbols. Conrad, who even featured the crucified Santa on his Christmas cards, told the Sun that led him to make his political statement.

"Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be," he said. "Now he's the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff."

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Stanford University Prof. William Mahrt in California has spent the last 44 years trying to preserve the 1,500-year-old tradition of Gregorian chant.

The haunting a capella melodies, which are actually recitations of Latin liturgical texts, probably originated in Jerusalem around the 4th century and had their heyday in the 6th century under Pope Gregory I, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday.

But after the 1960s, when the Catholic church began allowing priests to face their congregations and conduct services in languages other than Latin, the chants fell out of favor, the newspaper said. Many churches simply felt they were not suitable for modern churchgoing audiences.

Mahrt, 68, rejects that idea and has devoted his life to preserving the art form.

For more than four decades, he has directed the St. Ann choir, an ensemble of 20 men and women devoted to Gregorian chant, at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Palo Alto, Calif. When he is not directing the unique choir, he spends his time traveling the world to promote chant or adding to his priceless collection of books on the subject.

Gregorian chant "adds something beautiful," Mahrt told the Chronicle. "A religious service ... Should be beautiful because beauty is an attribute of God."

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Republican former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee Sunday touted their candidacies for U.S. president as opportunities for change.

Obama, speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," said his idea of change is not only in governmental policies but in leadership.

"And what right now the American people are desperate for is a president that they can trust, who's going to promote accountability and transparency in our government, who is going to take a new approach on things like foreign policy, talking not just to our friends but also to our enemies," Obama said. "And that's the kind of leadership I'm providing, and that's why we are doing so well in Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina and, I think, ultimately across the country."

Also on the program, Huckabee said he is "out to change the Republican Party."

"It needs changing," he said. "It needs to be inclusive of all those people across America for whom this party should stand, and it's not just the people in Wall Street, it's the people on Main Street."

Take your own advice.

he British government will soon release previously classified details regarding hundreds of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects.

The Sunday Telegraph said Sunday that this coming spring, the Defense Ministry will release to the general public 160 files about alleged UFO sightings.

Since the British government department began keeping records about the unusual reports in 1950, more than 10,000 sightings have been recorded.

With officials failing to explain 5 percent of those sightings, a growing number of Freedom of Information requests prompted the release of the classified information.

A former head of the Defense Ministry UFO project told the newspaper that no matter what an individual believes regarding UFOs, the released files should prove to be interesting reading.

"Whatever people think about UFOs, these documents are fascinating and show how the MoD has researched and investigated this mystery for nearly 60 years, without an answer," former department official Nick Pope said.

The Republicans chasing the presidential nomination are indicative of a growing divide in the U.S. political party, it was reported Sunday.

The Washington Post reported the different focuses of candidates such as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney show the Republican Party is vastly divided.

New Hampshire Rep. Fran Wendelboe is one of numerous Republicans who told the newspaper they remain unconvinced which candidate is right for the party's future.

"Republicans," Wendelboe said, "are all over the place. They are looking for the perfect candidate but just don't have it."

Republican lawmakers have blamed that lack of one solid candidate on the glaring flaws in the front-runners' campaigns.

An unidentified chairman of one of those campaigns told the Post the Republican Party itself is simply ceasing to be.

"There is no party here anymore," the veteran party activist said. "It's just a shell."

Experts are trying to determine what killed a flock of purple martins that fell from the sky in New York City.

The birds scared residents of a Staten Island neighborhood as they dropped, The New York Daily News reported.

"It was like Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds,'" said Donna Toti. "Birds were just falling out of the sky. They would land, lie on the ground, flap and die."

Marc Zurlo, another resident, said he saw birds flying erratically, "as if they were drunk," before they fell.

Officials said that some of the birds appeared to have died in mid-air.

The Health Department collected the carcasses to be tested. The birds appeared to be all the same species and members of a single flock, suggesting that they may have eaten something lethal.

Zurlo said that another theory in the neighborhood was that the birds had come into contact with ammonia.

Remember when I wrote long ago that, per my observation, Huckabee could become more than an also-ran because of his speaking style and his appeal to the religious conservatives? And that it wasn't a prediction, but a "heads-up" based on my observation? Probably not. The only reason I remember it is because I wrote it.

And remember (more recently) when I wrote that I had written the heads-up a long time ago, and that it wasn't a prediction but a heads-up, and an Anonymous poster then responded to me with vitriol? Probably not. The only reason that I remember it is because I wrote it and the Anonymous poster responded with pointless accusations dripping with hatred.

So here we are several weeks later and Huckabee is in the lead in some polls. He is a good speaker (that's an observation). He has attracted a base (that's another observation). Will he implode now that he is in the spotlight? I don't know (clearly, this is, again, not a prediction).

Unlike War Dog, I ain't predictin' nuthin' 'bout nuthin'. I am merely sitting in the cheap seats watching the show as closely as I am able.

Will McCain come to the fore? Who the fuck knows? The Republican fiasco is up for grabs. My guess at this point (not a prediction!!) is that Giuliani will fade. Romney will fade...maybe. He has the Empty Reagan Suit appeal that could go the distance. I hope that all of the Republican candidates fade to black, or grey, and leave the least of the worst standing, but that's a hope, not a prediction.

On the Democratic side, it's difficult to imagine (at this point) that Hillary will ever fade beyond grey. Obama is already grey, so it's difficult to imagine that he will glow (at this point). Edwards has the same Pretty Boy appeal to Democrats that Romney has to Republicans, plus he has a populist rhetoric which might cross party lines. Or he might fade to black.

Waiting in the wings are Gore and Bloomberg, neither of whom might announce a candidacy. If they do, no one knows if Bloomberg would go Independent or not. But if they do announce their candidacies, all bets are off. Not that I have a bet.

(Note to my Anonymous detractor: If you can find a prediction in any of the above, you are an idiot.)

It is nice, in an observational sense, to have a presidential race rife with uncertainty. I feel slightly less scammed by the process when there are several possibilities instead of only two.

Personally, I hope that Gore announces. And I hope that he announces by citing a huge electorate that has petitioned for his candidacy after Hillary has faded in the polls and after there is no clear front runner representing either political party.

But that's a long-shot hope and not a prediction.

Please post, at your convenience, your comment regarding my post noted below. I await your unrestrained wit with bated Bait breath.

Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 10:32pm.

Yes, even the Anons.

But before I lie down and enter my coma, I thought I'd share a gif someone gave me the other day that I thought oh-so-cute!

http://wiesnfreunde.de/chicken.gif

Happy Holidays Everyone!
Submitted by Harold on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 11:55pm.
Yes, even the Anons.
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Hark! The Harold angel pings!

I interviewed Khalaf on Nov. 30, in a small conference room inside a hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. In one of the most in-depth collection of testimonials to date regarding Blackwater, Khalaf was among five witnesses and victims flown from Baghdad to meet with Susan Burke, William O'Neil and their team of lawyers and investigators. The team is suing Blackwater on behalf of the victims of the Sept. 16 shooting.

That lethal incident was a watershed moment that brought intense scrutiny to the problems caused by private contractors, which have effectively operated with impunity as they've brought violence and widespread ill will to U.S. operations in Iraq.

With experience learned from a similar lawsuit filed two years ago against U.S. contractors implicated in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Burke O'Neil is perhaps the only law firm in the nation that could so quickly gather eyewitness and victim accounts, make the right legal arguments and begin the process of holding Blackwater to account.

Sadly, this lawsuit may be the only way that the victims and their families receive remotely adequate compensation for their losses.

Khalaf recounted the events of that day to a hushed room of lawyers with laptops. He watched, he said, as the Blackwater convoy made the U-turn toward the street where he stood directing traffic. As the convoy stopped, Khalaf watched as a large man with a mustache standing atop the third car fired several shots in the air. Khalaf turned back toward the Yarmouk road to see what might have spurred the shooting and heard a woman yell, "My son! My son!" He ran three cars back to a white sedan to find a woman holding a young man slumped over and covered with blood.

The man was Ahmed, a 20-year-old medical student at the top of his class, and the woman his mother, Mohasin, a successful dermatologist and mother of three.

"I tried to help the young man, but his mother was holding him so tight," said Khalaf. "I raised my left arm high in the air to try to signal to the convoy to stop the shooting," he said, thinking that it would respond to such a gesture by a police officer. He described how he crouched by the car, his right arm reaching inside, his head out and left arm up in the air, signaling to the convoy, his gun secure in its holster. Then the mother was shot dead before his eyes.

The shooting then turned heavier, Khalaf said, his eyes red-brimmed and serious. He hid behind the police traffic booth, but shots came directly at him, hitting the adjacent traffic light and booth's door, and he fled back across Yarmouk road to safety behind a hill. Along with a few hundred others, he stayed there as the chaos unfolded, watching as the helicopters circling above the street started shooting at those below.

Fifteen minutes later, the four-car convoy continued around the square and drove away. Amid the wreckage, colorful clouds billowed into the air from the convoy's parting gift -- multicolored smoke bombs.

In remarks prepared for delivery before a congressional hearing in October, Blackwater chairman Erik Prince claimed company guards "returned fire at threatening targets," including "men with AK-47s firing on the convoy" and "approaching vehicles that appeared to be suicide car bombers." Prince's prepared testimony also asserted that one of the vehicles had been disabled by the "enemy fire" and had to be towed. And he contended that the helicopters never fired on those below. (These remarks were never actually delivered; the Department of Justice launched an investigation the day before the hearing and asked the committee not to discuss the details of the Sept. 16 incident. Prince's remarks were subsequently reported in the Washington Post.)

But the accounts of Khalaf and others contradict each of Prince's assertions. Khalaf, who was there before the shooting began, said he never saw anyone fire on or approach the convoy. He watched as all four cars drove away as the 15-minute shooting spree ended, and huddled in fear as the helicopters began firing. He thought the helicopters would start spraying those who were hiding behind the hill for safety from the street-level threat.

Khalaf's observations are backed up by official accounts, including leaked FBI findings, which concluded that at least 14 of the 17 shooting deaths were unjustified, and statements by military officials disputing Blackwater's claim that its guards had been fired upon or under any sort of attack. The Iraq government's own investigation found no evidence that the guards had been provoked or attacked, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's spokesperson called the shootings "deliberate murder."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7668

These are not isolated events. In October, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released its analysis of Blackwater's own internal reporting since 2005, which found 195 shooting incidents in the last two years, including 160 in which Blackwater employees fired the first shot. And Blackwater is not the only problem. An estimated 20,000 to 35,000 private security contractors operate in Iraq, without adequate oversight, without adequate training and without adequate legal sanctions to hold abusers accountable.

Merry Christmas

what is it good for?

The Fetal Position Unwinds Itself
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 10:15pm.

It is beginning to look like there is a split in the ideology of a portion of the Republican base.

It will be interesting to see how the residual radioactivity of Huckabee's candidacy (which has thrown the Populist notion into the Republican voter's mix) will adjust Republican Party rhetoric in the coming years.

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Predicting That I Don't Know Squat

Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 11:35pm.
Remember when I wrote long ago that, per my observation, Huckabee could become more than an also-ran because of his speaking style and his appeal to the religious conservatives? And that it wasn't a prediction, but a "heads-up" based on my observation?

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Yes, I do remember your observations about Huckabee on the old blog and more recently.

Based on Gore's recent announcements and speeches, it does sound like he has ruled out running for office again.

It does make one wonder what America and the world would be like now if we had President Gore in the White House.

Which Republican will win in the primaries?

How about comparing Clinton and Huckabee?

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"Romney: Huckabee Another Bill Clinton?"

Excerpt:

So, you have a Southern Baptist minister who opposes abortion, stem cell research, same-sex marriage and civil unions, and Mitt Romney is comparing him to Bill Clinton?

You have to wonder how this will go over with the Evangelical voters, particularly coming from Romney, who has flip-flopped on all of those very issues: abortion, stem cell research. and gay rights.

It seems that Romney is so afraid of Huckabee that he is willing to alienate the dedicated social conservatives in his quest for the presidency.

Those "value voters" might want to ask if that's Romney's plan in the general election too.

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Link:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/23/52439/171/396/425745

Merry Christmas to you and Catharine!!

Tell her I said hello!

WAR - ugh
Submitted by Fernando on Mon, 12/24/2007 - 12:06am.
what is it good for?
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I was barely six years old and in First Grade when Eisenhower explained it as clearly as it can be explained.

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

Submitted by Star Vox on Mon, 12/24/2007 - 12:18am.
...It does make one wonder what America and the world would be like now if we had President Gore in the White House...
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Without attempting to detail the specifics, I can say with uncharacteristic confidence that the world would have been better than it is.

by Stewart A. Alexander

The Democrats and Republicans have made it clear that they are the corporate parties and they only represent the interests of the capitalists and the billionaires. The new energy bill is another long term payment plan that will be required of working class people while the billionaires continue to collect.

...except that awareness of global climate shift would be behind the curve. A guy can't lead the Free World and free the Ignorant World all at the same time.

Buy low, sell high.

Mitt Romney: "I'll have a Manhattan."
Rudolph Giuliani: "I'll have a Bloody Mary."
Mike Huckabee: "I'll have a Shirley Temple."

The Secret Library of Hope

Excerpt:

Hope is an orientation, a way of scanning the wall for cracks -- or building ladders -- rather than staring at its obdurate expanse.

It's a worldview, but one informed by experience and the knowledge that people have power; that the power people possess matters; that change has been made by populist movements and dedicated individuals in the past; and that it will be again.

Dissent in this country has become largely a culture of diagnosis rather than prescription, of describing what is wrong with them, rather than what is possible for us.

But even in English, a robust minority tradition can be found. There are a handful of books that I think of as "the secret library of hope." None of them deny the awful things going on, but they approach them as if the future is still open to intervention rather than an inevitability.

In describing how the world actually gets changed, they give us the tools to change it again.

Here, then, are some of the regulars in my secret political library of hope, along with some new candidates.

Check out the recommended reading:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174875/rebecca_solnit_on_hope_in_print

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p.s. Lauren, thanks for linking the books from today's show to an independent bookstore.

I have hope. I have already read some of the books in the secret library. I hope others check out the list.

Wishing everyone hope and joyful holidays!

I will! Thank you, Star Vox!

At the moment, I can only fit like five more books on my shelves, but... :)

Predicting That I Don't Know Squat
new
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 11:35pm.

Remember when I wrote long ago that, per my obser
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You didn't mention "Just ask me" Newt, also waiting in the wings.

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Jamesbennett

He's another Evil Little Spazz !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Harrods offering $83 a jar honey
Submitted by Unknown on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 10:41pm.
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I like honey and have had this notion that honey from marijuana flowers would be good. In Tucson AZ at certain times of the year marijuana pollen was the top count (when I lived there circa 1980. As I understand 'they' do not report it anymore. Drug war and all.

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Jamesbennett

how are you?

Made it through the show I was working on without telling "Dave" what I thought of him and his obvious bought(sp.) of misrepresentation that got him hired in his present job.
: )
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Jamesbennett

: ) to you.
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Jamesbennett

can't find his email or phone or i'd ring em up!

evening gang! having a great equinox!

excellent food and medicinals!

http://www.zazzle.com/mbenet
the past few days.
based on this design

from a sketch I did at the LACMA circa 1970.
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Jamesbennett

more patience than i!

congrats on making it thru the show sucessfully!

Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday's !

Do you have a jerk co-worker ? That sucks..
He'll sooner or later show his worthlessness..
Hang in there ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

just a little beer here.
2 days off then another show.
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Jamesbennett

"Daves not here!"

-Check out the recommended reading:-

Submitted by Alice on Mon, 12/24/2007 - 1:15am.
I will! Thank you, Star Vox!

At the moment, I can only fit like five more books on my shelves, but... :)

__________________

Ah, Alice! It sounds like you need more shelves.

I think you will like some of the books on the list.

I like the idea of a secret library of hope.

More books to read!

Enjoy your reading, Alice.

what's next?

This time off rules...

Here's a little fireplace action to warm the Blog...

(gets big if you click it....)

I'm reading Possibilites by David Graeber now....(I was hoping Crank would want to read it with me...like a two-person book club...)

He's gone now.
Loaded out the opera La Boheme.
New opera company. Excellent singing. but lacking in the stage manager and Technical director. We, the local crew, know what we are doing. What is that saying... don't con a con?
I was thinking of applying for his job. The Co.'s next production is in October.
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Jamesbennett

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!

When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!
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Jamesbennett

the fire feels nice.
Always like them. touches something primal in me.
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Jamesbennett

cheers my friend

I toast you all here right now!
Cheers

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Jamesbennett

I just cleaned out my wood stove of ashes and have been enjoying the fires nowadays with the cold...I heard somewhere about there being in tribes a person responsible for 'keeping the coal'...carrying the burning to a new site I guess...starting the new fire from it somewhere else...would be a hard job I think....

Do you have fire in your house? It's hard to find anyplace that's not those turn on a switch fireplaces...

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Jamesbennett

have a fire place on wheels in the backyard.
Nowdays I think about the carbon I'm releasing though.
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

SKH

updated location

Who Farted ? Titulaur ? Rapture Hoodies ! ! What a Breathy Gal ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

thanks fernando
ate something
almost fell asleep by the tv.
night all
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The economy's in for some more gloomy news in the coming week, analysts predict, which will offset recent positive numbers on retail sales, consumer spending and jobs.

*"The economy, stupid," was a phrase in American politics widely used during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H.W. Bush. For a time, Bush was considered unbeatable because of foreign policy developments such as the end of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf War. The phrase, coined by Clinton campaign strategist James Carville, refers to the notion that Clinton was a better choice because Bush had not adequately addressed the economy, which was undergoing a recession at the time.

In order to keep the campaign on message, Carville hung a sign in Bill Clinton's Little Rock campaign headquarters with the following three points:

Change vs. more of the same
The economy, stupid
Don't forget health care.

Although the sign was intended for an internal audience of campaign workers, the phrase became something of a slogan for the Clinton election campaign. Clinton's campaign used the recession to successfully unseat George H.W. Bush, whose approval ratings had been in the 80% range one year prior.

PARIS (AP) — President Nicolas Sarkozy has sprinkled the parched French economy with dozens of little enticements since his election in May, all paving the way for an assault on the crux of France's woes: the labor laws.

France is in the "stone age of labor relations," says his budget minister, Eric Woerth. At negotiations with unions and employers last week, Sarkozy pledged to drag the country into the globalized age in the coming weeks and months.

Credit card payments falling behind
by Chris in Paris · 12/24/2007 03:31:00 AM ET · Link
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More fallout from the subprime implosion.
An Associated Press analysis of financial data from the country's largest card issuers also found that the greatest rise was among accounts more than 90 days in arrears.

Experts say these signs of the deterioration of finances of many households are partly a byproduct of the subprime mortgage crisis and could spell more trouble ahead for an already sputtering economy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071224/ap_on_bi_ge/credit_card_crunch;_ylt=...

A little down time for me b4 I start cooking again. A month and a half to prepare for one day! Bah! Humbug!

Hope your holidays are full of fun. Enjoy now because this coming year will be a monster!

Conservatives turn on Rudy for being too neo-conservative

Now there's a twist. The conservatives are concerned that Rudy is too much a neo-con, too much a conservative. The writer is from the George Bush School of Government, literally, and is writing in the American Conservative magazine:
Giuliani’s tendency to conflate all terrorist groups—whether Islamist or not and whether they attack the United States or just allies like Israel—led Fred Kaplan of Slate to dub him the “anti-statesman.” Sending him and his team to the White House might actually ignite World War IV.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/12/conservatives-turn-on-rudy-for-being....

Holiday Internet Sales in U.S. Trail Forecasts as Shoppers Curb Spending U.S. Internet sales rose at the slowest pace on record as discounts cut revenue in the final days of the holiday shopping season.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=anGRF3QIR7fc&refer=n...

The most stupid, hurtful myth I read again and again is the one about some people being leeches, welfare queens, essentially useless human beings. It's idiocy. Anyone who values a Dick Cheney or George W. Bush (suck all the money and air out of the room person without contributing a damn thing) over a befuddled family member who can't make a living in the current economic environment needs to spend a bit more time thinking things through. You may well be just as useless as them tomorrow. Right wingers, stop patting yourself on the back for getting along by virtue of your efforts. You may not be as useful to the truly useless, greedy fucks in the very near future.

Happy holidays, y'all!

End rant.

Hiya, toniD!

lots of good reading on this blog today if only quick enough on the scroll of the obnoxious anonimic, crank, great (non)predictions - enjoyed all the utubes and pictures, and smells in the kitchen (no wait that was on a previous thread!)

have a good day ya'll and a holy night - best wishes from mire

Long time no see !

Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday's ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

well its december 24th and as is tradition, its time for me to start shopping. this is what happens to people who hate to shop.

my wife has laid in a supply of cookies that should last a millineum. we always start out with lets just make a few and end up with a lot more.

christmas eve is traditionally a fish meal. there was a time when we would have what was called the meal of seven fishes, it was an italian tradtion to celebrate the seven sacraments. but people have passed on or moved away. this year i'm making bouillibase. i got my stock made last night and got my scallops, shrimp, cod, and mussels. christmas day we'll be doing lasagna rollups, where you take a short lasagna noodle, layer with filling, and then roll it up and put it in a pan. we're going to do spinach and vegetables for my vegetarian son and sausage and ground veal for me and let the others pick what they like. all in all a lot simpler then what we used to do.

i wonder if the banks thought that by ramrodding that evil bankruptcy law thru it would somehow save them. the way i look at it, is that at some point, when the well is dry, the well is dry, and no law is going to change that.

Hope your all doing good today.. :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

ditto

Can I get a doggie bag,Please ? ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Dan, that was well put, when the well is dry, it's dry. Or you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip!

Mire, took a short break and back to work cooking. Have a great holiday!

Cat, thanks for the tunes. I am playing them every break.

MMR, morning my friend.

Back to work!!!

Hope things are fine with you, dollcakes!
Merry, merry, and happy, happy to you!
Good to see the poop-for-brains anonymouses aren't dampening your spirits.
Be well, have fun and treat yourself to something yummy.
Later!

Nothing to say but it's ok....

good morning, good morning....

:)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

CB
Submitted by jbenet on Mon, 12/24/2007 - 1:24am.
...You didn't mention "Just ask me" Newt, also waiting in the wings.
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Good point. It might have been unconsciously intentional. However, Newt would have the same family spousal values problem as Giuliani.

The American Politics room on Starchat doesn't seem to be as hostile and far-right leaning as it used to be. If anyone wants to chat in real time - in addition to chatting here on the blog - i'm heading in there for a while.

www.Starchat.net

Look for the American Politics room. It's one of their most popular rooms.

If you're on Mac like I am, I'd suggest downloading Colloqy and using that for IRC. It's the easiest chat platform I've found for Mac.

Cadbury’s unleashes masochistic Creme Egg
‘Here Today, Goo Tomorrow’
The ads have been created by Publicis and show the ‘eggs’ diving and splatting their way to gooey happiness. Media planning and buying is being handled by Publicis’ sister agency Starcom.

In one TV execution, an egg unwraps himself, positions himself for impact and delights in the subsequent splat.
[...]
The new national campaign completes a successful year of marketing for the chocolate giant in the UK. Reeling from the salmonella contamination scare in 2006, the company has since relaunched Wispa citing popular demand and was behind one of the year’s most iconic TV ads with the drumming Gorilla for Dairy Milk.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b300b326-b02f-11dc-b874-0000779fd2ac.html

Mr Peltz, who runs the hedge fund Trian Fund Management and who has a 4.5 per cent stake in Cadbury, sent a letter to the company on Tuesday, demanding that it improve its financial performance significantly next year.

Mr Peltz threatened to consider "alternatives" if profit margins did not improve quickly. Analysts say this could include either a proxy battle for board seats or a takeover bid.

Leading Cadbury investors yesterday said they supported Mr Peltz.

Rodriguez may seek immunity in torture tapes probe. Jose Rodriguez, the CIA official who reportedly ordered the destruction of the torture tapes, “has indicated he may seek immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying before the House intelligence committee.” Rodriguez is “determined not to become the fall guy” for the White House, according to intelligence sources.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article30872...

UPDATE: TalkLeft has more.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/12/23/23921/560

Petraeus Dashes Right-Wing Dreams Of His Presidential Run

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/23/petraeus-no-president/

Will Bush go to Iraq on Xmas day to begin the troop withdrawal?

its only because he's got an urge to surge.

Inside a GOP effort to rig the 2002 New Hampshire elections

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A former GOP political operative who ran an illegal election-day scheme to jam the phone lines of New Hampshire Democrats during the state's tight 2002 U.S. Senate election said in a new book and an interview that he believes the scandal reaches higher into the Republican Party.

Allen Raymond of Bethesda, Md., whose book Simon & Schuster will publish next month, also accused the Republican Party of trying to hang all the blame for a scandal on him as part of an "old-school cover-up."

(Ah,Poor baby ! He ought to be in Jail !)

Con't

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

For A Photo Op ! What's New ?

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Thanks for this blog! I've enjoyed it immensely...

As for the show, the few shows I've caught, I've enjoyed them too.

You should seriously do a CD or something so those of us who can't sit still unless we're in our cars can catch up! :-)

Glad tidings,

Annette

That means you too,cutie ! Annette :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_ar...

Check it out! The brownshirt as youth Pope! What's he doing with his hand?

I meant dubai

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