Weekend Watchdog

Ambassador Hotel footage -- 40th anniversary

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdj/collections/

Your weekend show is awesome; but it needs to be longer!

Robert F. Kennedy
April 5, 1968
City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio

I didn't mean to stir up that hornet's nest known as alternitive ennergy and duck out...but, the landloard showed up and wanted to work on the electric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3i1GMuyeU

Huh?!

Lieberman wants non-Republicans to back McCain

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is expanding his role as a key supporter of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), launching a group that seeks to get non-Republicans to campaign for the presumptive GOP nominee.

Lieberman, a former Democrat, this week launched Citizens for McCain, a grassroots group that he says is “for people who put country before political party and support the candidate for president who has a proven record of bipartisanship.”

is exactly what we need.

The US automakers are already shutting down Truck and SUV plants and best of all, they are finally going ahead and investing in hybrid and electric technology.

About time.

This extreme volatility in the other markets has a lot of traders totally afraid and sitting out altogether. And maybe just maybe people who lost a few bucks will take a look around and notice that they still have it better than the people who literally are starving.

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June 5, 2008 -- Former NSA director and anti-war voice dead of sudden heart attack

Retired Army General William Odom, who served as National Security Agency (NSA) director under President Ronald Reagan and National Security Adviser under President Jimmy Carter, died suddenly last Friday, May 30, at his Vermont home from an apparent heart attack. The Yale Daily News reported on June 4 that Odom's official cause of death would be determined by an autopsy.

Odom's death was overshadowed by election news and WMR is also belatedly reporting the general's passing.

Odom, a relative hawk under Carter and Reagan, became an early leading retired military anti-Iraq war voice. More surprisingly, Odom's condemnation of the neo-con's invasion and occupation of Iraq came while he served as a senior fellow of the neo-con Hudson Institute in Washington. More recently, Odom taught at Yale University.

On April 2, 2008, Odom reiterated his belief that the United States should rapidly withdraw its military forces from Iraq in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. General Odom reflected a "back to basics" approach to military strategy and intelligence collection that will be sorely missed.

This editor served under General Odom at NSA in 1985.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080605_1

Peggy Noonan?

Wall Street Journal?

You don't see the ruse you're falling for?

Peggy is trying to kill both Barack and Hillary in one fell swoop.

It's the ol'..."Barack is lame and so if he could beat Hillary then she's really lame"

C'mon.

when?

That's when.

Opening paragraph:

"It is the most amazing thing that a young black man who was just a few short years ago unknown to most of his countrymen—really, unknown—could, this week, win the presidential nomination of one of our two great political parties. It is even more amazing that this historic news could be overshadowed by the personal drama and spite of the woman who lost to him."

Peggy Noonan is a "Reagan Girl". She's pretty bad. Clever and dangerous.

and says nothing about his merits or policies or intelligence.

She just throws up the decoy that isn't it special that one 'negro' finally got in. Isn't that sweet. She's diminishing him and then using that to stick to beat Hillary with.

I have long disliked Peggy Noonan. She's anti-feminist, and pro-Reagan. Unfortunately, she's a skilled writer as well.

I certainly believe that it is "a most amazing thing".

Let's refuse to pull punches. They don't. Tom Delay called Obama a Marxist today. Fight back at these fascist pigs.
Don't be afraid.

To approach talks with Iran from the usual US angle, no positive changes can occur. You and I and Obama all know this. It's like saying, "I want a 2 state solution for Palestine, but Jerusalem must solely be the capital of Israel." It's starting the dialogue with a deal breaking demand, effectively rendering negotiations pointless. An excercise in futility, as it were.

And yet Lieberman and McCain think even pointless, doomed from the start negotiations are too much.

A sad state of affairs, I'd say.

Peggy is no worse than anyone else. Until I see something boneheaded, I am not taking another opinion of it because anyone says so. I have no problem being wrong and it's not pride. I'm simply saying I haven't seen it. I've never seen her promote capitalism over human rights. Ever. Does anyone have an example of that?

I was wrong.

Peggy Noonan was Reagan's speech writer and has written several books and many columns over the years.

She hasn't really wavered from the Reaganomics view of the world.

But for others out there, I would like to point out that she is a trustee of the Manhattan Institute and she campaigned for GW in 2004.

'nough said.

are you getting her mixed up with Catherine Crier? I always do...older blond talking head>

I am always thinking wow she has had a ton of face work! then I realize it is the other one...

That Peggy.

What a sweet girl.

Nazi Henry Ford gets her all misty-eyed.

Peggy's the one who also coined the terms for G H W Bush: "kinder gentler nation", "a thousand points of light" [not one of her better ones], and "read my lips, no new taxes".

Yuck.

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June 6-8, 2008 -- Unraveling the nuclear smuggling racket - signs point to CIA involvement

Two recent events are pointing to the distinct possibility that the CIA's nuclear counter-proliferation efforts were an attempt at putting back into the bottle the nuclear genie it helped to unleash.

Swiss President Pascal Couchepin's recent admission that Switzerland destroyed some 30,000 documents dealing with the involvement of Swiss engineer Friedrich Tinner and his sons Urs and Marco on charges that they helped provide nuclear technology to Pakistan's nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer (AQ) Khan and Khan's recent recanting of his previous admission that he helped smuggle nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya, and Iran all point to an effort to sweep under the carpet the CIA's tacit involvement with providing Pakistan, and by default, Libya, Iran, and North Korea, with nuclear technology. WMR previously reported that Urs Tinner is a suspected CIA agent who likely worked with Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover firm.

Khan now claims he was coerced by the Pervez Musharraf government, acting under pressure from the Bush administration, to make his confession. On May 31, 2006, WMR reported: "the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office has complained to the United States that the Bush administration has failed to cooperate with Switzerland's efforts to track the A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network. The Bush administration's multiple refusals to assist Switzerland in probing the Khan network, which was a major target of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division, Brewster Jennings Associates, and Valerie Plame Wilson, was revealed by former UN weapons inspector David Albright. Switzerland arrested three members of the Tinner family -- Friedrich, Urs, and Marco -- for illegally supplying centrifuges from a Malaysian company to Libya. Urs Tinner has been rumored to have been a U.S. intelligence asset. Switzerland has received cooperation in its probe from Southeast Asian nations, including Malaysia and Thailand, and South Africa. All three are key transit points for nuclear materials involving Russian-Israeli Mafia assets who, in turn, are linked to top members of the Bush administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney."

...and potholes.

" In Washington county Maryland deputy public works director Robert slocum has the money and materials to fill potholes. But the high price of oil based asphalt has him rethinking major re paving work the prices go up -- correct fit. Is it or unable to do his department's paying 60% more than a year ago same story around the country in Larrimore county Colorado where they normally resurfaced twenty miles of road every summer this year. They can only afford to do seven Steve case and CBS news."

http://multimedia.wbz.com/m/20098752/my_wbz_afternoon_headlines_06_06.ht...

Should make a great ride to get to work. If you can park your car and use public transportation, if accessible, you spend more time getting to and from. Further, eroding personal down time.

On February 19, 2008, WMR reported: "it was discovered from the revelations by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds that Turkish, Israeli, and Pakistani agents were key members of the nuclear smuggling ring. WMR has now learned from Swiss sources that last November, the Swiss Federal Council, the Bundesrat, passed a secret resolution to destroy critical evidence in the Tinner case. Among the documents ordered destroyed were plans and drawings involving nuclear weapons. The documents had been seized by Swiss prosecutors in their case against the Tinners. WMR has further learned that the Bush administration put pressure on the Swiss to cease their prosecution of the Tinners and destroy all the evidence seized."

The Swiss carried out one part of the Bush administration request, the destruction of the documents. However, the three Tinners remain in prison in Switzerland.

The global nuclear smuggling racket reached a peak in 1990 and 1991 and at the same time Dick Cheney served as President George H. W. Bush's Defense Secretary. WMR previously reported that this smuggling also involved the disposition of apartheid South Africa's nuclear arsenal. On February 28, 2008, WMR reported:

"[Dr. David Kelly, the British Defense Ministry scientist] knew of nuclear weapons proliferation involving three South African nuclear bombs assembled with the help of Israeli nuclear scientists at the covert South African nuclear weapons facility at Pelindaba nuclear research facility, near Pretoria. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors who visited Pelindaba and the state-owned Armaments Corporation of South Africa (ARMSCOR) Advena nuclear facility near Pretoria in 1990 and 1991 were tricked into believing that South Africa's nuclear weapons had all been dismantled by the outgoing apartheid regime. However, three South African nuclear weapons were reportedly sold to 'private investors' with the up-front money coming from British government coffers.

Reimbursement for the ARMSCOR nuclear weapons was made to Britain only after the three weapons, spirited out of South Africa in three 20' ISO standard containers, arrived at a private storage facility in Oman for safekeeping. The containers had a special seal on the lock of the rear door of each container along with a temperature gauge in the front of the containers that was connected to the core of the bombs to indicate that the bomb was not overheating inside the containers.

There are indications that one of the bombs was eventually sold to North Korea.

WMR has also learned that the nuclear smuggling operations involved top members of the British Conservative Party, including individuals close to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Tory party soon received a mystery donation of £17.8 million. The donation was filed with the Tory party's Fiscal Year 1992 Annual Accounts filed with Companies House. An insider at the Tory party's Central Office tipped off a Labor Party Member of Parliament, Doug Hoyle, about the mystery donation. It turned out that the Tory MP in question was Tim Smith. Smith had been an MP for Beaconsfield since 1982 when he defeated a little-known Labor candidate named Tony Blair."

In A Q Khan's refutation of his previous confession, he states that it was European nations and South Africa, not him, that arranged for the smuggling of nuclear technology to Libya and Iran. He told McClatchy in an interview from house arrest in Islamabad: "The Germans, the South Africans and the French all have those drawings. They were the suppliers. You can’t blame me for it. They were selling and making money. Why put the blame on me?"

Khan did have a well-established relationship with Swiss companies. From 1977 to 1981, Cora Engineering of Switzerland reportedly provided materials on three occasions for Khan. After a bomb exploded in front of the Swiss home of a Cora employee and a phone call from an English-speaking person was placed to Cora's offices that demanded the firm stop supplying nuclear technology to Pakistan or the next time a bomb would explode inside the employee's living room, Cora stopped its relationship with Khan.

Similar threatening calls were placed to Switzerland's Vakuum-Apparate-Technik (VAT), a manufacturer of centrifuges located in the small town of Haag on the Swiss border with Liechtenstein, and the German firm Leybold AG. After the phone threat and Cora's cessation of business with Pakistan, the firm received another call to ensure the company had actually stopped business with Pakistan. Officials of the firm believed the calls were placed by Mossad.

After Cora and VAT stopped dealing with Pakistan, Friedrich Tinner, an ex-VAT engineer, created CETEC in 1981, and the company subsequently became Phitec AG. Tinner picked up the contracts with Pakistan.

know who the fascists are. Tsk tsk! By the way, Catherine Crier is a liberal. Not a far lefty, but a liberal.

First up, as Ron Kuby prepares to begin his career as Air America Radio's new afternoon host, it appears he'll have one less station carrying him. WXXM (92.1FM) in Madison has opted to pick up a delay of Thom Hartmann's show to fill the 2-5P CT slot. - LTR

We weren't the only one thinking AAR's management has pudding in their heads.

Any political writer or TV/Radio bobblehead who has risen to "celebrity" status is no longer a jouralist and worthy of consideration. By reading, and subsequently supporting, them you are only adding to their ratings and filling your "beautiful mind" with garbage.

These celebrity political media types are not trying to educate and illuminate, they are writing soap operas to keep them in front of the camera so they can keep making their millions. It's so evident when all they talk about are personalities and hardly ever about policies and processes.

Go watch some GRITtv and see real people talking about real problems. I learned more about women issues (foreign and domestic) this week watching that show than a year of MSNBC and I only watch KO regularly.

Take the media into your own hands...

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Some of you worked tirelessly for Senator Clinton while others poured hours into Senator Obama's campaign. You did this because you were willing to sacrifice your time and energy to bring the change we so desperately need. I can't thank you enough for all you have done.

Now I am asking you to come together and make sure Barack Obama is our next president. This is a critical mission.

Hillary Clinton ran an amazing race. She inspired millions. Our party is a better party because of her campaign, and our nation is a better nation because of her service. She is and will always be a friend whom I admire.

I congratulate Senator Barack Obama on securing the nomination. His historic campaign has touched lives and his message has moved people in every corner of America. I believe he is not only ready for the challenge but will be a great President.

It's time our party comes together to stand behind Senator Obama as we move forward in this election season. I look forward to doing everything I can to help Senator Obama's campaign. While I respect John McCain's service, I know exactly what he stands for -- Bush's third term. America is a great nation, and our people deserve more. We need Barack Obama to be our next president.

Sincerely,

Wes Clark

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 6:59pm.

I'll read her carefully but I do not agree Peggy is no worse than anyone else. Until I see something boneheaded, I am not taking another opinion of it because anyone says so. I have no problem being wrong and it's not pride. I'm simply saying I haven't seen it. I've never seen her promote capitalism over human rights. Ever. Does anyone have an example of that?

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Fernando:

Can't speak to the capitalism vs. human rights issue directly, tho' I have little doubt where WSJ Peggy would come down on that issue.

But w/all due respect:

Have to agree, on balance, w/Catharine's estimation that Peggy "Nooners" Noonan, imo, is a cloying, unctuous sophist. A classic party-over-country GOP operative who embodies the quote:

"It is difficult to get a man [or woman! even Nooners!] to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

-- Upton Sinclair

RE: Nooners

When deliberating the age-old question -- liar or fool? -- I mos. def. come down on "liar" in Nooner's case. She ain't no dummy and she knows how to artfully massage language to impart a false impression w/o leaving her fingerprints behind. She is deliberately misleading. Often. imo.

(Dubya's a dummy but he had plenty o' Nooner-like life-forms making the same sorts a arguments pre-Iraq-war, a-course. Same sorta approach, imo. "SADDAM HAS SCARY SCARY LINKS TO ALQAEDA! SADDAM IS THIS CLOSE TO NUKES!" etc.)

That said, having read the column in question, on balance I think what we are witnessing is the cognitive confusion that inevitably occurs when a body considers a well-known (dishonest) source (i.e. Nooners) and realizes that even a stopped clock can chime fortuitously twice a day.

fwiw, here's Glenn Greenwald's dissection of one of Nooner's subtleties with the after-the-fact denials of the GOP Godhead.

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/peggy-noonan-and-rotting-pund...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCzgG_jTo4

to the bone about old Peggy. I just cut right to the chase and called her a fascist. I love different styles.

Havin fun in the old town tonite!

dr, (nice to see you here again)

Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 8:20pm.
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Tx. If you is a full-blown known known, let yer reknown be known, on account of I don't known yer nick.

(Could be my early Alzheimers, too, so pls. forgive if that's to blame.)

WOW!

Here's what I finds inneresting about Hillary's campaign vis a vis her potentialities for doin' good (or ill) in/w/for Iraq.

Hillary started her campaign w/a piece-a-cake, walk-in-the-park kinda air-a-inevitability non-chalance, vastly (mis)understimating her opponent(s).

Hillary (repeatedly) showed a tin ear re: the outrage over the Iraq war (the actual reason she eventually lost, imo), having to be forced to amend/change her position mid-campaign by them troublesome voters.

Once it was clear to all save her (and her self-serving inner circle) that she had lost the campaign -- i.e. once Obama won 11 straight contests -- Hillary clung to the non-race like the nomination was owed to her, like she was being cheated, and she ran a very, let's face it, shabby Republican-style rear-guard me-over-party-over-country divisive embarrassment of a campaign.

("To my knowledge he's not a Muslim." -- paraphrase, but a rhetorical construction worthy of Nooners, among many.)

So. Let's review.

Hillary jumps in thinking it's gonna be a cakewalk.

Hillary changes tactics, not strategy, on the war issue, but only by compulsion.

Hillary selfishly wallows in a lost-cause rather than admit reality.

Considering her campaign, take it all around, prolly not the person a body wants inheriting the reins in Iraq.

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Wow.

I still got it!

nice reading you again, i know you always have had it in for me from day one...say what you need to say i am listening

i have become very numb right about now, if that is what you think of me that i what you think i cannot change your mind, but i am going to me regardless...nothing that i have posted ever here is a lie...but, if that is how you read me than hey!! what can i tell you i really am a genius

dr do you wanna say something to me?

Submitted by Lucille on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 8:52pm.

nice reading you again, i know you always have had it in for me from day one...say what you need to say i am listening

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That were a short-hop welcome, Lucille, and I'm like to bobble it, but here goes:

Tain't zackly sure why you feels I is "had it in for" you "from day one". Evidently it's a long-held conviction.

Can only sez:

I ain't got it "in for" nobody "from day one".

It's sorta like the difference betwixt somes conception of "evil".

Somes thinks "evil" exists in the world. I don't.

I thinks peoples commits what might be considered "evil" acts. Peoples also acts like asses. Peoples acts ungenerous 'n unkind 'n unconsiderate to their fellow mens 'n womens. But not always. Them acts don't necessarily define them.

I knows on account of I is been alla them bad things my own self at one time or another. Tain't proud to sez, but it's true.

So if my objection to whatever you mighta said in the past is the crux of the biscuit here, I can assure you for all me it ain't no impediment save present 'n future considerations.

good than i am glad for your clean mind...walk in my shoes and talk to me again about good and evil--i read what i read so do you i guess...

i wish i could be you but cannot and for that i apologize

Yes. I agree. I am very forgettable and try to stay that way. You don't know my nick because it is a kcin. Simple as that. I have always remained behind the mirror.

their reasons...yes! i am one stubbon mutha fucka and maybe that is a good thing coz it brought me a long long way, love me or hate me i cannot be you---aint no two people alike

he's a decent sort and usually spits you back out to reform. Don't be sad.

please

on account of I don't known yer nick.

Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:13pm.

Yes. I agree. I am very forgettable and try to stay that way. You don't know my nick because it is a kcin. Simple as that. I have always remained behind the mirror.

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Not that you are very forgettable t'all 'n no offense intended.

(Sheesh, I'm off to my usual rotten start.)

What I was axin' was had you had a differnt nick once't b/c I don't 'member seein' Nick Danger (back'ards) afore.

If you was here in Feb. and before as Nick Danger (back'ards), I apologize for missin' your nick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihT_Lor12oI&feature=related

"Somes thinks "evil" exists in the world. I don't."

Submitted by Lucille on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:10pm.

good than i am glad for your clean mind...walk in my shoes and talk to me again about good and evil--i read what i read so do you i guess...

i wish i could be you but cannot and for that i apologize

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Your response, to me, is inscrutable.

Perhaps we can cut to the chase.

I'll boil mine down to its essence:

If we is disagreed in the past, it ain't no impediments to the present nor the future.

That were my point.

What were yours?

I feel like I am in outer limits...wtf...

at least now I get the nick danger thing...

Giants...

wtf does that mean

just figured out you are a man

Hey - whoa - and - wowie...!

How are you? Where ya been? Missed ya round here... What's new?

That were my point.

Submitted by Lucille on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:36pm.

just figured out you are a man

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Sounds eerily like the lyrics to "Lola".

Peace and Freedom Party Members Get Non Partisan Ballots

A number of Peace and Freedom Party members were given “non partisan” rather than Peace and Freedom Party ballots on Tuesday in Alameda County, registrar Dave Macdonald acknowledged Thursday in an interview with the Daily Planet.

He explained that there are two lists that poll workers use, a “roster index”—a master list—and a street-level list. Peace and Freedom Party members were identified on the street-level list as “non partisan,” which means they would be given general ballots, allowing them to vote only on state-wide propositions.

Macdonald said the problem was due to “our printer that made a mistake.”

Similar problems were noted in San Francisco and Los Angeles counties.
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Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 7:15pm.
are you getting her mixed up with Catherine Crier?
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Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 7:31pm.
...By the way, Catherine Crier is a liberal. Not a far lefty, but a liberal.
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After hearing her interviewed during the book tour, I bought and read The Case Against Lawyers by Catherine Crier. I recommend it.

Crier falls into that group of people I like to call "A fuck of a lot smarter than I am." Following is a link to a synopsis of the book.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hzcIAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Catherine+inau...

Love that/this song... :)

dr! :)

Submitted by Alice on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:40pm.

Hey - whoa - and - wowie...!

How are you? Where ya been? Missed ya round here... What's new?

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We don't allus agrees 'n sez what a body will about dear sweet Alice, but that were a proper welcome from a kind lady.

Wowie right back atcha!

I is been otherwise engaged in one a my periodic epic debaucheries.

Met a young lady in Chicago, went Floridy, went to Spain, now gotta leave here in a coupla weeks for AK to try 'n pay for it all.

How'z you?

mmpphh!

I wonder...

Welcome back David

*high five!*

Spain musta been cool...what's it like there..?...I'll narrow that down...favorite meal from the trip?

Well..lemme see...I moved into a new office today...right in the middle of the Circulation area where I work...I feel like Lou Grant now...sitting at my desk with Mary, Murray & Ted in front of me working... :) Prolly nabbed a few cats since I saw you last too...Daisy, Boy Bobbi, Snowwflake and Purdy Girl....Yup...a few

I'm not sure I have your correct address...

Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:31pm.
...at least now I get the nick danger thing...
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[Note to self: Never jump to the conclusion that a joke was wasted.]

"A fuck of a lot smarter than I am."

Yeah Crank, agreed. She's better looking too.

Crier is one of the few "tv journalists" who I still respect.

Very sharp and clear headed. Not as far left as I would like (what judges are?), but a straight shooter.

"The Case Against Lawyers" sounds a little like "A Gathering of Crows". I'll put it on my endless list....

Sort of...I got the alert that an email was received from someone on my list at msn but its obnoxious to d/l those emails from my phone so I haven't read it yet...

However my phone email is identical except after the @ its tmo.blackberry.net if you'd like to resend it to here.

Did you get my number from Sunshine?

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3234#comment-215888
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 7:15pm.
but I dug a bit deeper today

later

Submitted by Alice on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:51pm.

*high five!*

Spain musta been cool...what's it like there..?...I'll narrow that down...favorite meal from the trip?

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Spain were cool. Were all new on me. Far's Europe goes, been mostly in Deutschland 'n Italia in pastimes.

Lotta mountains in the north coast where we was. Walked the Camino del Santiago del Norte, a religious pilgrimmage route (created in classic religious boosterism form sometime in the early medieval ages -- on the flimsy story of Christian apostle St. James's bones bein' -- it's a miracle! -- discovered! in Spain and for St. James's Joshua-like deliverance in slaughtering the infidel enemy -- in this case, the Moors). The justification for the camino is absolutely absurd, a-course, but that just made it even more choice, far's me 'n my companion was concerned.

(The words "snarky apostate" come to mind.)

Most walks the Camino Francais, goin' from east in the Pyrennees Mts. to the west and the catedral in Santiago de Compostela, but the terrain from Burgos to Leon on the Camino Francais ain't nothing but arid treeless plains hotter'n-hell-cow-pissin'-onna-flat-rock uninnerestin', so the mountain route we took, tho' much harder, was much more enjoyable. We started hikin' the mountains in the Basque country, goin' backwards on the trail (that backwards trek stopped more'n a few pilgrims hearts, thinkin' they wuz the ones that were trekkin' backwards) from Pamplona (runnin' a the bulls town) to St. Jean Pied-de-Port in France, then goin' westward along the mountainous coast to Santiago de Compostela.

Fave meal: in Madrid there were a restaurant I forgets the name of where Cervantes is sposed (yeah, right) to a stayed 'n we had us some oxtail soup 'n lubina (sea bass) 'n a pricy bottle a wine 'n a buncha other bread/cheese/mushroom delicacies that were muchly good, but (phillistine that I is) it were my opinion that the pricey wine warn't no better'n the 3-euro bottles we usual got.

Not that anyone cares, but also caught a buncha lubinas, trout in the mountains round Cornellana (the salmons was gone already) and a buncha shad-like fishes 'bout 24-inches long that a buncha locals kept clapping me on the shoulder for congratulating me on my marvelous catch of salmon.

Don't know what they wuz, but they warn't salmons.

In the very earliest days of the AARgh blogs, I was corresponding with a blogger who claimed to have been a 'fishing buddy' of Cheeney, when the Dick was a congressman from Wyoming...does anyone else remember who that might have been?

As my email explains, P will NEVER understand why I would like to speak with you on the phone..so I have to wait for a good moment to call over this weekend..and so I asked you what is the latest time I can call you...

That's a good point..jokes could be like advice, or inspiration later realized or something...they might take time to have their full impact... :)

Reminds me that I realize Lou Grant, in fact, had a separate office from Mary et. al. ...so basically I told the same joke all day and it wasn't even accurate.. :)

Traders also zeroed in on remarks by an Israeli Cabinet minister, who was quoted as saying his country will attack Iran if it doesn't abandon its nuclear program. Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz added that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "will disappear before Israel does," the Yediot Ahronot daily reported.

Who believes Israel did this without US backing?*

Our Middle east attack dog.

.TLL*

no impediment...

Submitted by Nobody on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:50pm.

I wonder...

Welcome back David

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More a "hey,-I-gots-me-some-consistent-'puter-access finally!" (get yer dirty cyber hands offa that one, Crank!) blog-by, but tx. nonetheless.

You just keep furrowing yer lion's mane.

Wonder makes the world go round.

the King was in exile, the Guardia ran the day-to-day lives of the folks. I hung out with brit, french, german, dutch, scandanavian ex-pats (I was one of exactly two Americans). I supported myself by free-diving and spearfishing for pulpo (octopus) which i'd trade for meals at the local restaurants.
it was the summer of 'Sgt.Peppers'.

It was a pretty terrific 'coming of age' experience.

desk today to find Palestine..and thar she was...I am a map idiot..but I didn't even see the word Israel on that map...and I think Persia is a pretty word...

Israel was created only to be 'in there' for the oil around it from the git..? Ima history idiot too..so..take that under advisement... :)

3 pesetas/liter - but one needed to line one's stomach with a condensed milk product (like 'yoo-hoo') before a night of drinking.

Old news...yes. Enough bribery and you could get a plane in the air at DefCon one.

I don't get the tie in with the ponies though... I'm admittedly a little sun stroked today...tough week.

Moyers...another of "The Few"....his corporate stock portfolio not withstanding...yet.

Fish lives in WY...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnwbTq2tMCc&feature=related

Diddley's raw confidence put a frown on more than a few faces. Several radio personalities referred to his songs as "jungle music." Others recognized the significance, such as Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who pegged Diddley as "a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat." This was one of the first recorded instances of the term "rock 'n' roll."

The short-changing of Diddley's influence would continue for decades. In spite of the very prominent role that blacks played in influencing rock 'n' roll, until recently most histories tended to focus more heavily on white performers such as Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley. "Elvis was not first," Diddley angrily told Rolling Stone in 2005, "I was the first son of a gun out here: me and Chuck Berry. And I'm very sick of the lie. You know, we are over that black-and-white crap, and that was all the reason Elvis got the appreciation that he did. I'm the dude that he copied, and I'm not even mentioned."

The inspiration Diddley provided is absolutely undeniable, though. The Harlem-based Amsterdam News, reviewing one of Presley's first performances in 1956, stated that he had "copied Bo Diddley's style to the letter." He was obviously not alone. According to George R. White, author of Bo Diddley -- Living Legend, "The powerful amplification and driving rhythms he pioneered evolved into hard rock during the Sixties and continue to influence the heavy-metal bands of today. His clipped, string-scratching technique laid the foundations for funk. Jimi Hendrix picked up on his ideas." Joe Strummer would invite Diddley to open for the Clash on their first tour of America, and later recorded Diddley's "Mona" during their rehearsal sessions. His later experiments with funk would be sampled by De La Soul in the 90s.
Alexander Billet
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Just curious...

Like Squidley Didley?

;)

I spent a few months on the Costa Del Sol in 1967 -

Submitted by rctowns on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 10:31pm.

the King was in exile, the Guardia ran the day-to-day lives of the folks. I hung out with brit, french, german, dutch, scandanavian ex-pats (I was one of exactly two Americans). I supported myself by free-diving and spearfishing for pulpo (octopus) which i'd trade for meals at the local restaurants.
it was the summer of 'Sgt.Peppers'.

It was a pretty terrific 'coming of age' experience.

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Ah, a fellow ink-stained wretch.

(Sounds like a swell place to spend the summer of love; me, I warn't borned yet, tho' apparently the idea of me were already conceived, so to speak.)

We both said didley/diddley...

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Something about lots of classic acts on tour? Was REM on the cover?
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Especially after 9 pm (grin)

where it begins to get colder..is where the line of propane is, if you don't have a gauge to tell you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3i1GMuyeU

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youtube videos slow down the blog for dialups?
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Hey dr!! Been traveling I see.

Good to see you on the blog.

I've been to Spain several times. I must have missed what part you were staying. I've been mostly to the Costa Del Sol once setting up a golf trip. Several good golf courses there. And a few good Casinos as well. Did you get to a Flamenco show?

apparently there are more...Takes too long for the site to load..but there are more..but the inside cartoon of Eddie Van Halen is so bad..doesn't look anything like him...

Remembering Bo Diddley

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For Lucille...

(I didn't read it, but it does say Lucille.... and I thought that might make you happy...)

B.B. KING: THE ESSENTIAL ALBUM GUIDE The Blues Icon's Greatest Licks; Plus Why He Sometimes Swears at Lucille

you got it..

Also passing in recent days

Alton Kelley, psychedelic poster creator, dies

http://www.rockument.com/kelley.html

Gus

Odin

Newer bloggers might not be aware that Odin had his leg removed in surgery a while back...cool bengal cat...

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Hi Toni :)

of Hope

I knew that wasn't Michael Stipe....Hey, it was late. 4AM at a 7/11. Bad coffee and donuts.
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The Machinery
Submitted by Alice on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:17pm.
of Hope

"The Machinery of a Con" is more like it.
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-"We were just having fun making posters," said Mouse. "There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment."-

cool...

how ya doin ol snort!

loved the cannonball into the pool!

(heh!)

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My cephalopod hunting career was cut short when I concluded that there was more going on inside their heads than I had wanted to admit. I quit taking octopi first. They were too easy but the squid were really difficult to shoot. Taking a squid required a long, motionless, patient wait as the circle closed in on me, and a precise shot.

But I quit taking squid too...probably as much because my skills improved and the challenge diminished as because of my growing sense of guilt.

Since those days I have done some reading about cephalopods. Studies have revealed some pretty sophisticated problem solving skills and memories. I don't think that I was as crazy as the Puerto Rican and West Indian fisherman thought I was.

Or maybe I'm just a bleeding heart Liberal with a debilitating case of empathy.

Submitted by toniD on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:04pm.

Hey dr!! Been traveling I see.

Good to see you on the blog.

I've been to Spain several times. I must have missed what part you were staying. I've been mostly to the Costa Del Sol once setting up a golf trip. Several good golf courses there. And a few good Casinos as well. Did you get to a Flamenco show?

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Hi, Toni!

Was in Madrid for about a week (saw a Goya exhibition I very much enjoyed; Picasso, too, but not so much), hadda rental car and toured northern Spain 'n dipped into Portugal for a spell, then went backpackin'/hikin' in the mountains in the Basque country 'n along the northern coast on the way to the northwestern city of Santiago.

No flamenco shows. (Public ones, anyways.) Hadda funny incident happent w/a sheet swallowin' up a pair a panties 'n a upright Basque woman's earthy reaction to same, but it's a little blue for sharin'.

Ain't read but a few back threads recent, but I thought I read where you ain't feelin' well. Maybe havin' surgery?

If so, hope you rebound soon. Missed yer scrappy fire, Miss Toni.

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Hope all are well. Gonna pack 'er in.

Night, owls.

That flowers evolved and that they developed different colors to attract insects? Like, they were wooing them. Plants as wooers. I find the whole line of thought fascinating.

Speaking of florals.. http://storage.canalblog.com/60/37/27891/7775274.jpg

Top ten signs that your neighbor is a space alien.

1.) He's bald, grey and creepy but he's not Dick Cheney.

[Edited because I blew the joke by including "not" between "is" and "a."]

splendid...) :)

Speaking of florals.. http://storage.canalblog.com/60/37/27891/7775274.jpg

Tell more about teaching Sunday School, if you wanna...I am interested...

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Obama/Maps/Jun03.html

Goya exhibit. Would have liked to see that myself. Picasso also, but Goya! Come back soon dr. Thanks for the well wishes.

Evening Alice. What happening at the library? You have a new office?

I was suppose to work 2 hour and ended up working 4. Our Water Park opens tomorrow so we were busy selling pool passes.

http://www.wstaylor.net/wallpapers/vista/Vista%205342%20-%20Oryx%20Antel...