Thanks and audio

Frist?

Thank You Sammy.

May good fortune lead you into your future.

painfully slow. Slower than any page I visit each day.

Thanks for your kinds words - we truly feel like you are our friend. Keep in touch and best of luck to you.

oh man, do not want to have air america depression again. Will keep writing to AAR about Sam.

Is he still living? Did he retire from show business? He was a nasty SOB. Also wasn't funny.

anyone know why the SammyCam VOD
new
Submitted by rctowns on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 7:36pm.
isn't being updated?
*******
I IM'd Sam during the show about The VOD..

He said he would look into it..

Hopefully,he will remember to..
But,I bet he has alot on his mind so we'll
just have to see....... :)

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

.

...guess his folks knew he'd grow up to be an ass. ;-)

___
bluerootsradio

:)

Oh..Just remembered I have Incubuses email..

I'll ask him if he's on vacation again..HeeHee !
See what happens..Can't hurt..

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

BLOW IT UP!!!

Dear MoveOn member,

CNN is now reporting that up to 100,000 people have died from the cyclone that hit Burma. The scale of this disaster is hard to even imagine, and relief is urgently needed. So we wanted to pass along this email from our friends at Avaaz.org (the global online progressive group) letting you know how you can help.

-Eli

Burma has been devastated by a cyclone—and by the military junta's failure to help its people cope. Help raise relief funds for distribution by Burma's monks:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/

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

Hang in there, Sammy!

This is my first post, but I've been listening since the first day of the Majority Report. You and Mike Malloy are the only reasons that I've kept my sanity in the last four years. I have to believe that when push comes to shove, AAR will do the only right thing and give you the 3-6 slot. Thanks for hours and hours of smart, funny, progressive listening, Sammy!!

will prosecute!

'If the United States does not address it [the Bush Torture machine], other countries will.'

Viva Sands!

Are you sure you kept your sanity? That ain't happening. AAR is in the tank.

I can dream, can't I?

Faster on a new thread but still
Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 7:41pm.
painfully slow. Slower than any page I visit each day.
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It's the nanodrones dusting the Sam Seder Blog server with chem-trails. They look like mosquitoes...but they ain't foolin' Incubus with that ruse.

Positive ideation is important at every level -- from getting to work on time to conscious evolution!

I, too, EXPECT a most superior solution to this situation.

Indonesia considers Opec pullout
Indonesia has said it is considering quitting its membership of Opec, the group of major oil producers, because it is no longer a net exporter.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E48AC320-198B-4566-AC2B-F4779FFA0...

I'll be VERY dissatisfied if there is not a string of additional hearings on the Bush Torture Machine.

Thanks, again, for the audio of the hearing.

The torture hearings are scheduled to re-play on C-Span2 at 4:51am tomorrow morning.

I sent the link to my mom to listen to that hearing and now I'm in the dog house with her. She was so angry and didn't know anything about what was going on and blamed me for informing her.....

I should have known better. Be careful who you give that too. The too naive get shaken pretty bad when they figure it out.

listen to it, record it, take it to your local school and play it for the students and conduct discussions of it.

Great interview on Monsanto GMO seeds and the challenge the industry makes to real farmers. Schmeiser is a real hero.

She'll come around (I hope!).

Good luck.

Or is she just that way? I mean, does she ever like anything you give her? My sister never liked anything I gave her (part of her sourpuss persona), so I just thought I'd share that peculiarity I saw in my sister.

After last night Obama needs only 173 more delegates to cinch the democratic nomination for president. Hillary probably will be mostly given a pass to continue until after the next big primaries later this month. Even with her winning West Virginia, Obama is still going to pickup more delegates making it only a matter of time until her team decides how she is going to bow out and comes to some type of deal with the Obama team.

_________________________________
Obama Shifts His Focus To McCain

By Patrick Healy and Jeff Zeleny, Published: May 7, 2008

"After a commanding victory in North Carolina and a strong showing in Indiana that left Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton with diminishing options, Senator Barack Obama has declared himself on "a clear path to victory" in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and warned supporters that Democrats would face a bruising campaign against Senator John McCain.

But as Obama turned his sights on the presumptive Republican nominee, Clinton vowed to fight on and seemed surprisingly energetic as she added a campaign stop in West Virginia for that state's primary Tuesday. But her advisers also acknowledged that with too little money flowing in, Clinton had loaned her campaign $6.4 million in the past month and faced serious financial challenges."

"The results from the two primaries - Obama won by a decisive 14-point margin in North Carolina and lost by just 2 points in Indiana - widened the Illinois senator's lead in pledged delegates and should help him persuade Democratic leaders to coalesce around his campaign.

The results demonstrated his ability to weather the storm over his former pastor's incendiary remarks and they increased his lead in the popular vote, undercutting a key Clinton argument about his electability."

Story On Almost Democratic Nominee Obama Here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/07/america/campaign.php

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Glad you posted..

See that wasn't so hard.. :)

It took me along time too..

But,that was awhile back..

Just go with the flow..
This 2 year(seems like it)primary season has to be over one day..
It's wearing on everybody..

Once it's Over there will be nothing but Happy,Happy,Joy,Joy again !

Or,not. :)

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

Fernando -- which recording? The torture one?
Submitted by nora on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 8:34pm.
She'll come around (I hope!).
---------
Waterboard her. I have it on high authority that it works like a charm.

(Well...not so much like a charm...)

See ya manyana...

"oh man, do not want to have air america depression again."

Me either!

I'm going to create my own reality which pretty much looks like AAR in late 2004, 'cept Sam is working the day shift so he can be home with the family in the evening. Malloy is on before I go to bed and you never hear the PSA with "Lisa's Dad" or have to suffer through really crappy bumper music when you stream. Everyone has their own "MeCam", AAR is back on XM and Sirius on dedicated channels, and Lauren is in charge of all programming.

Oh it's a beautiful world I live in.

Tra-la-la....

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bluerootsradio

writing...and Exclusive (twice) ...and Governor...and assault... :-)

And grammar - administration's and candidate's need apostrophes, while knows does not.

After gas tax goes a colon:

And Listen is spelled, well, Listen.

THis should be This.

Now if he answers the call is another matter..

Incubus - Megalomaniac

Sorry Inc..This is the only
Incubus song I have..
Cool tune though..

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

Don't leave home without it ~ ;)

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

You be slow. ;)

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD6S6OCEMhk&feature=related

..a window pops up that says "Come back in an hour..."

bt stil u cn rd ths msg tht i msspld evry wrd n.

go fgr!

gd nte &
gd blgn

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bluerootsradio

I've been in a funk for about a month..

Because,unfortunately with AAR's managements track record
boys & girls..It doesn't look good..

I sure hope I'm wrong !

Oh wait..No worries..
I forgot I have Chronic depression..

Nevermind !
Move on..Nothing to see here.. ;)

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

Louis XIV - Love Is Blind

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

we all live, but "McCain in the membrane" is on John Stewart tonight. Probably a disappointment, but you never know with Stewart.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/05/2235464.htm?section=justin

Posted Mon May 5, 2008 12:00pm AEST
Updated Mon May 5, 2008 12:36pm AEST

A mysterious fungal disease is infecting growing numbers of Tasmanian platypuses. (University of Tasmania: Dr Niall Stewart)
Map: Campbell Town 7210

New research into a fungus killing Tasmanian platypuses suggests the disease could be spread by soil on car wheels or bushwalkers shoes.

Research fellow at the University of Tasmania, Niall Stewart says the disease is rapidly spreading throughout the state but exactly how it's being transmitted is still a mystery.

Dr Stewart says it is likely the disease is being spread from animal to animal, although they're investigating other possibilities.

"We're wondering whether four wheel drives can carry it in, mud on the four wheel drive vehicle or it could be walked into an area on bushwalkers feet - it's one of those areas of the disease that we know nothing about," he said.

"We know that the disease occurs but we don't know how the fungus that causes it, moves about the place."

"It looks more like it's spreading from animal to animal, it was in a small area around Campbell Town and it seems to be spreading out from that area as the years go by," said Dr Stewart.

"Being a fungal pathogen, I mean it could even be carried possibly by birds and animals as well, it's just one of the many things we don't know about it yet."

Dr Stewart says people can help with the research by reporting diseased animals.

"If people do see them, that's what we're interested in finding out, as I said we've only got about two people on the field work at the moment so it's sort of hard for them," he said.

"I mean they're going flat chat all around the state trapping, but if we get a few people who are out fishing, bushwalking or something who spot them if they could give us a tingle, that would be great."

That trumps O'Reilly's imaginary Peabodies!

By the way, has anyone ever put together a playlist of Seder/Majority Report music? I'm in a mood to compile a Seder Soundtrack.

*sigh*

Almost time to mosey on, slow blog tonight...........

The Clash-Preasure Drop

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

why do I keep thinking about platypuses?

Into Brainstorming Creative Solutions for Change

Every senator and congressman who votes to fund an illegal war of aggression is complicit in that war and is hence a criminal.

Curious to discover whether this month’s Virginia event would be merely yet one more lame “progressive” conference… or, one that could actually initiate real change, I contacted Garda Ghista, the president of theconference sponsoring organization, World Prout Assembly...

...

"More astute citizens, however, are finally waking up to the true Mayday nightmare scenario in which we are now living. And those who actually know what is going on fully realize that, regardless of which of the current, Rove-approved, Three Muskateer political candidates - who spar for the camera, sprouting claws on cue - wins the election? The genocidal slaughter taking place both inside the US and across the sea – will continue, unabated. Meanwhile, phone calls and letters to Congress fall upon the deaf ears of federal sociopaths who apparently have decided some time ago they no longer even need to pretend like they care. Both political parties are good-to-go with waging the current radioactive wars - using Depleted and non-Depleted Uranium both - upon dying nations while outraged Americans in an ever-sinking economy devoted to wars everlasting lose, first, their vacations, then eventually their jobs, their homes, their medical coverage, and their ability to put wholesome, non-genetically modified, non-irradiated food on their dinner tables."

“Building A New World” Conference
May 22 in Virginia

...not merely to share more information on radical topics than the controlled “left” events would ever allow. Instead, according to the stated goals for the “Building A New World” Conference by lead organizer, Garda Ghista, this is a different type of conference - one that promises to deliver room and space for bright minds and accomplished activists to “think outside the box” and brainstorm solutions for desperately needed political, social, humanitarian, and economic change.

pull a Lieberman?
Is it even possible? I'm just picturing a possessed desperate woman who was all but assured the nomination
then to learn she's out..I don't know if she could or would ever concede quietly or graciously.

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 10:05pm.
why do I keep thinking a bout platypuses?

*******
Or,you got your Purple Meds mixed up with
your Green Meds ?
;)

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

You know Chubby, people are wondering if there is a sexy or horny platypus link like hornymanatee.com has?

I figured you would know.

;)

Another nobel-worthy idea

if you do would you be kind enough
to make us a copy?

Billy Bragg - Fascists

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

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - The morning after: Let the beginning begin

...
Unlike many Obama supporters, I have never seen this particular man from Illinois as a savior, even if there is some irony in the possibility that the first Black president would hail from the same state as Abraham Lincoln. As a life-long leftwinger (well, at least during my adult life, as I was for Barry Goldwater as a naive high school junior obsessed with the Communist menace), I don't have any illusions that Obama is anything more than a good liberal from the more leftish wing of the Democratic Party. And as many of my friends know, I strongly believe that the failure of the Democratic Party to deliver on its promises over the past decades is the main reason that Americans have moved politically to the right, supporting candidates like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush--very much against their own best interests, as they seem to be figuring out at long last.

The Clintons, despite Bill's personal charm and charisma, were emblematic of this failure. I am thrilled to see the relegation of Clintonian politics to the dustbin of history, and when I drank those cognacs that was in large part what I was celebrating.

This is also why I have refused to vote for Democratic candidates most of the past 40 years since I became eligible to vote. In 1968, as a first time voter, I cast my ballot for Eldridge Cleaver of the Peace and Freedom Party; I did not vote for president again until 2004, when, partly out of solidarity with my desperate liberal friends--but mostly because I felt that the politics of George Bush had to be seen to be repudiated before we could make any progress in this country--I voted for John Kerry. But the lackluster, hesitant, cowardly Kerry, with everything he had going for him including an already very unpopular war in Iraq, proved incapable of inspiring Americans to vote for him out of anything other than desperation to get rid of Bush--and desperation does not seem to be enough to win elections these days. Inspiration seems to work much better.

That is why Barack Obama is likely to beat McCain when the two finally get to fight mano-a-mano, because he is an inspiring and charismatic candidate who will be going up against an opponent who insists on running on George W. Bush's record--and I say, let him. But to me, this is not really about Obama.
...

upheld a ban on the sale of vibrators, ruling that there's no constitutional right to an orgasm.

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There once was a platypus, duck-billed.
My mind, of which, is perplexing filled.
some suggest it'd be a gimm-er-ic
should I write a limerick
alas, with words I'm not so deft-fully skilled...

"I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen."

Last week Giant Squid..

This week The Platypus..

Do you think maybe in a past life you were a
oceanographer..

Or,someone with a unhealthy fetish for sea creatures ? ;)

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

yes the torture one. She wasn't so mad at me as bothered by what it said and to the point that she didn't want to learn anymore about it and I was blamed for informing her. Sorry this took so long.

Neither fish nor fowl: Platypus genome decoded

Published: Wednesday May 7, 2008

Arguably the oddest beast in Nature's menagerie, the platypus looks as if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete.

Now scientists know why. According to a study released Wednesday, the egg-laying critter is a genetic potpourri -- part bird, part reptile and part lactating mammal.

The task of laying bare the platypus genome of 2.2 billion base pairs spread across 18,500 genes has taken several years, but will do far more than satisfy the curiosity of just biologists, say the researchers.

"The platypus genome is extremely important, because it is the missing link in our understanding of how we and other mammals first evolved," explained Oxford University's Chris Ponting, one of the study's architects.

"This is our ticket back in time to when all mammals laid eggs while suckling their young on milk."

Native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, the semi-aquatic platypus is thought to have split off from a common ancestor shared with humans approximately 170 million years ago.

The creature is so strange that when the first stuffed specimens arrived in Europe at the end of the 18th century, biologists believed they were looking at a taxidermist's hoax, a composite stitched together from the body of a beaver and the snout of a giant duck.

But the peculiar mix of body features are clearly reflected in the animal's DNA, the study found...

Platypus Story Continues:

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Neither_fish_nor_fowl_Platypus_geno_0507200...

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already? Chomsky, that guy, and I think Catharine's Wayne Madsen said so as well...(or maybe it was Catharine?)...anyway..that is odd...and so if creating your own reality - or the attraction thing is for real then all this believing he will be the president could make him be the president...IMHO...

South-South Cooperation to Fight Child Malnutrition

Cooperation between Latin American countries, which is cheap, efficient and horizontal, could fast-track the fight against child malnutrition, Nils Kastberg, the regional director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said at a conference held in the Chilean capital.

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I was thinking about something and then Crank posted the article about the platypus genome...

and that's where it gets foggy...

Ok Who remembers the platypus family who moved into Mr. Rogers neighborhood, and became pregnant the same time the King and Queen did...but had their baby way before the King and Queen which created quite a rukus in the kingdom...? If I remember correctly, I think the King either wanted to ban the platypus family until their prince was born, or the platypus family did go live somewhere else until the prince was born because the royal family was so upset....
Rogers way of teaching the difference between humans and animal reproduction cycles....I remember NOT liking the banning or whatever it was that was discussed about the platypus family having their baby first causing a problem...but I was a very sensitive child.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

As long as you and the
Platypus aren't moist,
I think your alright.. ;)

Roxy Music - Avalon

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

"When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in." This period of robotization is called the Kali Yuga, the Age of Strife and Empire..."

Actually Crank posted on Platypus disease, I posted the Platypus Genome Story

Keep your platypus stories straight!

;)

it got foggy.. :)

Brb

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

Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering - by Stephen Lendman

...
-- the process began in December 1947, five months before the British Mandate ended; Britain did nothing to deter it; David Ben-Gurion led it from the 1920s to the 1960s; after ethnically cleansing Palestine he said: "We have come and we have stolen their country....We must do everything to insure they never do return." Ten years earlier he wrote to his son: "We will expel the Arabs and take their places....with the force at our disposal;"
...

Here it is.....

Slippy, mp3

Underworld vs. Peaches

___________

I like #16 personally...

Pemex Oozes Corruption

Funds belonging to the Mexican state oil monopoly, Pemex, have paid in recent years for liposuction treatment for the wife of the company’s chief executive, a presidential candidate’s campaign, contracts with firms facing legal action, and the whims of trade union leaders who are not required to account for their expenses.

"Pemex is a can of worms. If you do something right, they come after you; if you shut up about some irregularity, they reward you; and if you take part in the corruption, you profit," a Pemex worker told IPS.
...

Oooooooh
Platypus oh Platypus, say have you met Platypus,
Platypus, the duck-billed Lady.
She has eyes like a catty-pus,
And feet that aren't Flat-ipus..

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la

(but..truth be told...Crank posted the genome story on the last thread, you reposted it, unknowingly.

I posted the disease one.)

Shhhh..that's a Blog secret..it's not in good taste to point it out when that happens.. :)

i need to establish just how long I've been platyp-ized

how about

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

and leave the stones in place?

Is that what you're trying to say?

are two piles of voters

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

Voters you say...I'll have to ponder...

got 3 mama ducks and 5 or 6 ducklings in the drainage ditch in front of the shop.

they kept an eye on jax and ruzz and herded the ducklings to safety our first time thru,

then let me get close without the dogs.

Amy Goodman Interview with The Progressive -

Excerpt:

Q: You and David have a new book coming out in April, Standing Up to the Madness. What’s it about?

Goodman:

The idea of how people make a difference. People make up movements in every continent.

Every action we engage in really does matter, whether it's kids trying to put on a school play and being told they can’t talk about war. It’s about dissident soldiers and officers who say no.

Even when the trend is going the other way, what it means to find that strength inside and say, "I cannot live with this." This determines what direction we go in and defines history.

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Link:

http://www.progressive.org/mag_intv0208

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Excerpt of interview with Amy Goodman:

Tavis:

I've only got about 30 seconds here, right quick. Let me ask how it is that you remain hopeful, given that what you do is really cutting against the grain every day.

Goodman:

Because I see so many people in every walk of life who are standing up, who are being so brave. I see so many movements, people in this country and around the world. This year is a turning point itself.

I mean, it is so critical that people act - it's not so much who someone votes for, it's that they're involved.

And it's not just standing up for themselves or their community, but what people do next November and how people organize now will affect people all over the world, because we are in the most powerful country on Earth.

What we do matters.

Tavis:

Amy Goodman has a new book out, co-written with her brother, David Goodman. It's called Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times.

There are few people who I admire and respect more than I respect and admire Amy Goodman for what she does every day.

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Interview With Amy Goodman:

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200805/20080501.html

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p.s. Catharine -
Delighted to read your posts on the blog. Hope you are doing well!

I think I understand why other animals aren't thrilled by being chased by dogs... :) Some stray dogs (different ones) run through my property a lot in the early morning..I guess there maybe are stray dog packs in the mountains..not sure...

How are you feeling lately? Good and dandy I hope...

• The birth of the first platypun captivity in 1944 at Healesville Sanctuary (outside Melbourne, Australia) was such big news it made headlines around the world, despite the fact World War II was still raging. She was named Corrie and was born under the care of zoologist David Fleay.1
• It took 47 years for another birth in captivity—in 1991 at Warrawong Sanctuary in South Australia.2 Then in 1999, Healesville again made headlines with the rare birth of twins in captivity.3
• The platypus is extremely difficult to breed in captivity. Experts say this is because it is so secretive and shy in nature. It also likes routine and order in its life. Creating a habitat in which it feels perfectly at home is considered the greatest secret in successful breeding.4
• In 1943, Winston Churchill requested David Fleay send him six live platypuses from Australia. Fleay, knowing how difficult it was for his animals to travel, settled on sending just one. Named ‘Winston’, he was placed in a platypusary specially designed to handle the long sea voyage on the MV Port Phillip, along with a huge supply of his favourite food. Remarkably, Winston was thriving on the ship until it was forced to launch a depth charge against a submarine. The nerve receptors in his highly sensitive bill could not cope with the violent explosion, and he died. Winston did make it to England, but the British Prime Minister had to settle for his new pet being mounted on his desk.5
• Thousands of platypuses were killed by zoologists in the 19th century in the race to uncover the ‘mystery’ surrounding the fascinating creature.6

References

1. Moyal, A., Platypus, Allen and Unwin, New South Wales, Australia, p. 184, 2001. Return to text.

2. Warrawong Sanctuary, , 15 November 2001. Return to text.
3. Sanctuaries: A haven for Australia’s forgotten species, , 15 November 2001. Return to text.
4. Healesville Sanctuary’s platypus baby—a history making success 2, , 15 November 2001. Return to text.
5. Ref. 1, p. 180–185. Return to text.
6. Ref. 1, p. 157.

I can't help but wonder if you think I am of the opinion that "what we do doesn't matter"....To me what is futile, and "doesn't matter" is the Democratic Party....and Obama...Sorry that's how I feel...I completely understand people who think "more and better dems" is the way to go...I just disagree...A lot...So I hope you and I don't have 'hard feelings' for thinking differently...

Fuck man...maybe I really do I have to find another place to hang out..Because we seem very different from each other (mostly) at this stage of this election...and I feel weird and alone..

online...

*sniff*

no biggie.

theres probably more people in the USA

that are feeling that way

than ever before.

tired and sore.

made good progress though.

You do a lot of labor intensive work...you maybe need to ensconce yourself in velvet... :) (I know you don't watch tv...so...)

If you're right
then I can't go wrong registering http://weirdandalone.org

what sj said.

this is a nice place to come to though. mostly

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

tanks shell!

http://weirdandalone.org

! ;)))

buy ya a guiness?

not a fun time...

Burma Cyclone -- Stand With The People
Submitted by MMRules on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 8:13pm.

______________________

Thanks for your post, MMRules.

Hopefully, more help will be allowed into the country.

The World Food Programme has begun to distribute food in and around Burma's main city, Rangoon.

Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed, and about a million left homeless by last week's storm.

Survivors face poor sanitation and a lack of access to clean water.

The aid to the populations hit by the Cyclone Nargis represents a major logistical challenge for the UN agency specialised in food assistance.

Reports from the devastated town of Labutta speak of many hungry refugees gathering there (amid the dead bodies).

Many of their boats were destroyed during the cyclone. There are few homes that survived.

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From the World Food Program (one of the few organizations allowed into the country) -

The need for food – especially products like HEBs which can be easily delivered and consumed – is growing, as are water, sanitation, and medical needs.

The death toll and number of homeless are rising each day.

In other developments, the reluctance of the Government of Myanmar to lift the restriction on the movement of commodities and international staff has not changed significantly.

For more information:

http://www.wfp.org/english/?ModuleID=137&Key=2831

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Relief for Myanmar Cyclone Victims

WFP must meet the enormous logitistics challenge of bringing in disaster relief supplies, equipment and prepared foods urgently needed by people hardest-hit by Cyclone Nargis.

The global hunger crisis continues worldwide, but your support of WFP helps us provide relief to victims of emergencies like this Cyclone and continue our programs.

Make your contribution today to support WFP's relief efforts for Myanmar.

https://secure.my-websites.org/supporter/donatenow.do?n=gbss&dfdbid=1060...

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(Photos above from the BBC) -

Fears Burma Storm Toll Could Soar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7389083.stm

It would be a pleasure.

[hang in there chubs, you can do it}

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

It's the least I could do,Star Vox..

So sad.. :(

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

//You folks truly are... quality bloggers//

and that my friends is truly orwellian

as orwellian as the clean skies initative

you laud us with hollow words, seder

and neglect us in deeds

fuck you...

for page 2 hell

for not tweaking the computer program to automatically close unclosed tags

for not having the courtesy of posting "new thread"

(etc)

sammy you're the best... honest

you're performing an invaluable function

(and under some duress from your dickhead employers)

but you're not above criticism

your shoddy management of this blog parallels the bush administration's incompetance

of course, the latter is by design

their misdeeds being ably covered up by the cronified 4th estate...

so for the pittance of a fistful of care

you leave me no option but to spit my vitriol!

yours truly madly deeply

ono

: )

In this corner of the universe, a prizefighter named Bolie Jackson, one hundred eighty-three pounds and an hour and a half away from a comeback at St. Nick's Arena. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who by the standards of his profession is an aging, over-the-hill relic of what was, and who now sees a reflection of a man who has left too many pieces of his youth in too many stadiums for too many years before too many screaming people. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who might do well to look for some gentle magic in the hard-surfaced glass that stares back at him.

Alice...The Big Tall Wish

A boxer breaks his hand before a fight. He is then, of course, he is beaten up so badly in the fight, that he is easily knocked down. But suddenly time freezes, and he switches places with the other boxer. He thinks it is a miracle, but his neighbor, a boy named Henry, says it is because he made a "big, tall wish".

Watchdogs prompt FBI to withdraw 'unconstitutional' National Security Letter.

Nick Juliano
Published: Wednesday May 7, 2008

The FBI has withdrawn an illegal National Security Letter seeking information from an online library and has lifted a gag order that until Wednesday prevented any discussion of the information request.

Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation helped the Internet Archive push back against what they say was an overly broad and unlawful request for information on one of its users. The FBI issued its National Security Letter in November, but ACLU, EFF and Archive officials were precluded from discussing it with anyone because of a gag order they say was unconstitutional.

After nearly five months of haggling, the FBI eventually withdrew its NSL, which requested personal information about at least one user of the Internet Archive. Founded in 1996, the archive is recognized as a library by the state of California, and its collections include billions of Web records, documents, music and movies.

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Mr. Bolie Jackson, a hundred and eighty-three pounds, who left a second chance lying in a heap on a rosin-splattered canvas at St. Nick's Arena. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who shares the most common ailment of all men, the strange and perverse disinclination to believe in a miracle, the kind of miracle to come from the mind of a little boy, perhaps only to be found in the Twilight Zone.

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Even though Jackson breaks his hand prior to the fight, he wins because Henry - a boy who adores the fighter and believes in magic - made the "big, tall wish." After the fight the boxer refuses to believe in magic. Henry tells him if he doesn't believe, it won't be true. Jackson just can't believe. Suddenly, Jackson is back in the ring, and counted out.

Pigboy now Joe Bendover..If a Democrat ever said this Crap,it
would be news 24/7 !

It makes me sick !

By David Edwards CNBC business analyst Mark Hanes delivered the economic news on MSNBC, then asked host Joe Scarborough to explain why Hillary Clinton isn’t being given more credit for narrowly winning the primary in Indiana, where some early polls had showed Obama leading.

Scarborough explained that Clinton failed to meet recent expectations and that, just as with corporate earning statements, that’s what counts.

“You don’t want this to end, do you?” Hanes asked in conclusion.

“Of course not,” Scarborough replied. “I want the Stones’ Street Fighting Man played in the background while I monitor the streets of Denver with tear gas, the ghost of Abbie Hoffman rising up over the auditorium. Yeah, baby, I want a fight — on both sides”

This video is from MSNBC’s Primary Coverage, broadcast May 6, 2008.

Link To Video

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i am now a domestic hero.

you are Jim, yes you are.

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Bolie Jackson is a washed-up boxer who accidentally breaks the knuckles of his hand right before his big comeback fight. He is knocked down and just about to be counted out when he suddenly, magically switches places with the other boxer. Bolie is now standing over his vanquished opponent who is now the one lying on the canvas being counted out.

Bolie celebrates his victory without even a trace of his broken hand. He doesn't understand what happened. He remembers being knocked down, being unable to get up, knowing he was about to be counted out. He has no memory of getting back up to win the fight, nor can he figure out why his previously broken knuckles feel fine. However when he mentions being knocked down to his manager, his manager tells Bolie that he must be crazy, that he was never knocked down at all. Bolie can think of no explanation so he attributes his memories to being some sort of strange dream. He doesn't remember how he achieved his great victory, but he is all too happy to believe in it when he is told how brilliantly he fought. He figures his knuckles must have only been bruised, not broken, after all.

However, there is one other person besides Bolie who does remember Bolie being knocked down and about to be counted out. That person is young Henry, the son of Bolie's neighbor. And he has an explanation for what happened that reversed that fate. Specifically, Henry tells Bolie that he, Henry, has the power to make a wish and have it come true. And that he had used the biggest, tallest wish he could come up with for Bolie. Henry says that as Bolie lay there on the canvas, about to be counted out, Henry wished that it was the other fighter who had been beaten and that Bolie were the victor. He wished as hard as he possibly could and thus the wish came true.

Bolie can't accept this. He says he doesn't believe in the power of a wish. That belief is for children, not adults. He insists that whether he remembers it or not, he must have simply fought a great fight and that?s all there is to it. Henry warns Bolie that the only way the wish can have its power is if you believe in it. If Bolie doesn't believe, the wish will not be true.

But ultimately Bolie is unswayed. He cannot summon enough childhood spirit within himself to believe in wishes. He finally and fully rejects that a wish could have had anything to do with what happened. And as soon as he does so, time is reversed. We are back to where we started, with Bolie lying on the canvas, and the other fighter standing over him. This time the referee finishes counting Bolie out. He has lost the fight. His broken knuckles are very much and very painfully present and accounted for.

No one has any memory of the alternate history in which Bolie was the victor. Henry remembers making the biggest wish he possibly could for Bolie as Bolie was lying there on the canvas, but obviously the wish didn?t work. So he declares with resignation that he won?t be making any more wishes. He no longer believes in their power. And so Henry has lost this magic of his youth, and has become just like all the rest of us.

best thing about it

is i had an old salvaged

hose clamp from Bgurls toyota

of many years ago that fit perfectly.

>>hose clamp from Bgurls toyota

>>of many years ago that fit perfectly.

Jim, You've justified everyman who has a junk drawer, let a lone a basement and/or garage full of junk! ;)

good for you!

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer

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great stuff, thanks...