Anthrax, Iraq and Suicide

Do the Right Thing!

DF

I guess I'm # 3 - alrighty then...

Was anthrax deployment one shot in the cannonade of "Be afraid" shock techniques for solidifying shaky authoritarian power?

You think?

had little if anything to do with this man that took his life?

Was he deemed the fall guy and hounded to death?

First thing I thought of last night when I read this is how could just one man do this? He had to get instructions or help.

And in other news....

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. This makes Titan the only body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface. - NASA

the case is now closed. I don't buy any of it. We know the kind of threats that these wingers can dish out.

Happe Talk

Who goes like that? WTH!

Nobody dies of massive doses of pot. Ban Tylenol!!!!!

what i don't understand is how jobs lost can be 51K but a few weeks ago the number of first time unemployment claims was 300K+. shouldn't they be close?

is usually how women commit suicide. Men usually choose less peaceful methods.

Happe Talk

for christ sake
and they are therapists..HA!

what the fuck does this mean? what is the wright thing? and who decides?

no gypsy cab today..pakistani terrorist driving couldnt understand a word he said..but he kept on talking

what a pleasure talking to someone that doesnt posses drugs...

in hospital with aunty aida....(sad), i love him so much

that this person could have acted on his own, covered up his involvement for all these years, even cooperated by doing some of the investigative work.

why would they inform him that he was about to be prosecuted? sounds like something out of the nazi playbook where hitler would give people a choice of killing themselves honorably or being murdered.

i love that song

that the trail was snuffed out rather than this being the end?

What if he committed suicide to complete the cover up?
What if he was killed in a suicide fashion to complete the cover up?

and happy...great thing to be...happy!!

So the scientist killed himself. And I'm Fee-fee a fire eating trapeze artist.

pictures in my mind ..... johnny nash

heheheeheheheheeeheeee!

Happe Talk

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 11:09am.
...What if he committed suicide to complete the cover up?
What if he was killed in a suicide fashion to complete the cover up?
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What if he had a really, really bad headache and got carried away with the analgesics?

that would be consistent with a certain crime family tieing up loose ends before they catch de plane to argentina or paraguay or whatever country they've chosen for exile.

remind me? reading all these drugs is messing my brain up

yup wannabee's

Happe Talk

blee blee blee...
seltzer water time...maybe i can find free food there too

WalMart Warns Obama Presidency Could Lead To China Job Loss

Regarded as a skilled microbiologist, Ivins also helped the FBI analyze the powdery material recovered from one of the anthrax-tainted envelopes sent to a U.S. senator's office in Washington.

"And it's in no way dormant." - LA Times

i was using the google to try and find some overdose information on tylenol #3 and what jumped out at me was that its difficult to commit suicide this way unless there are other drugs in your body, say like those that treat depression...

can you hear me calling calling

she dies and i am born...the queen bee baby

>>>>>

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is leary of this whole Anthrax suicide thing.

I think little things will come forward about this man from friends and family that may give us more insight about him.

This just doesn't sit right with me.

maybe you should try standing toniD...and i understand the knee is not healed altogether...but you gotta work it the best way you know how

bette midler in the "rose" how about those drugs huh? huh?

Mars Water Discovered, "Tasted" by Lander -- A First
National Geographic - 1 hour ago
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Salmonella Cripples Phoenix -- Mexican Irrigation Suspected
Bait News Service - 2 seconds ago

so let it rip--fuck what you heard about the whip

thats how long you fuck for? i heard of one minute men..butt 2 seconds? HA!

silence is golden...kers

This is a right wing comedy channel. Is it funny? You be the judge.

http://www.youtube.com/newsbusted

smooches*******

One muggy evening this summer, Qubad Talabani, the 31-year-old son of the president of Iraq, was chatting over drinks at a Dupont Circle bar when his BlackBerry rang. "It's Ray Hunt," Talabani said, looking at the caller ID on his phone. The Washington representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government apologized for the interruption, and turned away to take the call.

His caller is a man who has no trouble getting his phone calls answered at any hour, anywhere in the world. A Bush/Cheney fundraising Pioneer, a member of Bush's President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and the president of the Dallas-based Hunt Oil company, Ray Hunt is the kind of Texas oilman with easy insider access to the Bush White House. Perhaps not coincidentally, he also heads the first American oil firm to have received an oil exploration contract with the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, announced last September. As such, he has come to epitomize one of the more glaring contradictions about the Bush administration's policy toward Iraq and its oil wealth. Namely: If the Bush administration, as it proclaims, supports passage of an Iraqi oil law that would share the country's wealth across ethnic and regional divides, why do Bush-linked companies keep getting Kurdish-area oil concessions that bypass the Iraqi national government?

Hunt Oil isn't the only one. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that another Bush administration insider, Richard Perle, had approached Talabani seeking an Iraqi Kurdish oil concession on behalf of a consortium involving Turkish oil companies and the Kazakh government. "The K18 concession, which is estimated to hold 150 million or more barrels of oil, would potentially be operated by Houston-based Endeavour International," reported the Journal. The Hunt Oil and Perle-Turkish-Kazakh ventures are among more than twenty oil contracts signed (with dozens more under consideration) by the Kurdish Regional Government, in a process conducted largely in the dark. As troubling, several of the proposed Kurdish oil deals would financially benefit key Washington figures with close ties to the Bush administration.

http://motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/07/kurdish-oil-hunt.html

and if the cia did it they could have just injected or anally introduced after the fact after having killed the guy by some other mysterious untraceable mean, kinda like what they did to marilyn monroe, to make it look like suicide, i think it's an old trick in the book, but yes you can die of tylenol and codein (vicodin?) in high doses - i don't have the source to link nor the time to google or research right now but i have certainly heard it or rather read it before

others smarter and more informed have already responded to fernando's doubts, didn't read all the posts yet....still slow on the reading (sometimes too quick on the draw, where did i hear that expression recently entered in my vocabulary oh yes obama!!!! :))

Joe Klein: I Was "Wrong" To Call McCain An Honorable Man
By Greg Sargent - August 1, 2008, 9:37AM
Joe Klein, who early on maintained that McCain was an honorable fellow who could be counted on to run an upstanding campaign, recently wrote that he was beginning to harbor doubts about his assessment of McCain's character.

Now, however, he's made up his mind: He was wrong about McCain:

A few months ago, I wrote that John McCain was an honorable man and he would run an honorable campaign. I was wrong. I used to think, as David Ignatius does, that McCain's true voice was humble and moderate...
Courage is grace under pressure. McCain showed it when he was a prisoner of war, and on many issues--yes, even on his stubborn insistence that the surge would work--but he is not showing it now. He is showing flop sweat. It is not a quality usually associated with successful leadership.

Is it too much to suggest that this might be something of a seminal moment, a key signal that McCain is losing the respect and benefit of the doubt of establishment opinion?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/joe_klein_i_was_...

This looks like a motivation drove his actions. What was it?

move away from the center and come back to the left...

By REUTERS
Published: August 2, 2008
IndyMac Bancorp, the third-largest banking failure in United States history, said Friday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, less than three weeks after being seized by federal regulators following a bank run by depositors.

Skip to next paragraph The company, based in Pasadena, Calif., filed for Chapter 7 protection on Thursday with the federal bankruptcy court in Los Angeles, indicating it plans to liquidate. IndyMac said it expected the court will appoint a bankruptcy trustee promptly.

The filing was widely expected. It does not include IndyMac Federal Bank, which is now run by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and is the successor to IndyMac’s former banking unit. Most deposits in IndyMac Federal are insured up to $100,000.

IndyMac Bancorp, the holding company, has $50 million to $100 million of assets, $100 million to $500 million of liabilities, and fewer than 50 creditors, according to the bankruptcy filing.

The collapse of IndyMac was the largest U.S. banking failure in two decades. Regulators at the time said IndyMac ended March with about $32 billion of assets, and about $19 billion of deposits, most of which were insured.

IndyMac was the fifth of seven bank failures this year, the F.D.I.C. said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/business/02lender.html?_r=1&ref=busine...

you wanna some of this suckers? stick it up ma arse who gives a shit?

McCain Alienates Celebrity Friends
John McCain used to be one of Hollywood's favorite Republicans, but the Los Angeles Times reports that many people who used to donate to him now deeply resent his "Celeb" ad: "But the truth is most of Hollywood won't return McCain's calls nowadays because many of the stars and executives he initially impressed now believe the maverick stance they found so attractive was just a pose."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-cause1-2008aug01,0,4172463.st...

footsteps on the dance floor remind me baby of you

right right?

see how the moving part goes.

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Clear weather for sun eclipse observation in west China

Photo taken at 7:15 pm (1115 GMT) on Aug. 1, 2008 shows the total solar eclipse at an observation station in Jinta County of Jiuquan City, northwest China's Gansu Province. The total solar eclipse, the first that can be viewed in China in the new century, occured on Friday. (Xinhua/Han Chuanhao)
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Jamesbennett

TLC

toniD,
I am glad that you are feeling better. It's great that you are walking now.

catch me if you can
>>>>>

Powerwashing the deck is a blast! I wish I could play with water at work too....

And to think I was worried about working that thing. It ain't hard.

Men, schmen. Girlpower!!!!

Now, to figure out how to sand/paint...

Well,it's nice to know that that Anthrax thang is all cleared up ! ;)

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

oh yeah. of course being a guy i had to get the higher pressure one. i etched the concrete with trails before i learned how to use it correctly. finesse is a wonderful thing.

: )
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Job application:

Wanted, anthrax spoors.
Don't do it we will kill you.
Do this, we will kill you

win win.

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

Submitted by Annette on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 12:29pm.
...Now, to figure out how to sand/paint...
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This is the stage of the project when you discover how much damage can be done inadvertently with a power washer.

Very Cool picture.. :)

I don't how great my McAfee site adviser is
but,it really doesn't like that China news site..
Just be careful.. :)

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

Mercedes-Benz reports 11.6% increase for July sales

(now you know why they need a tax cut, they gotta make those bigger car payments)

I never left the left.

of course, i was hinting about the centered anthax letters which left the blog centered. someone corrected it downstream so its no big deal.

well, I did an update just to be extra safe. I don't want the wheels coming off.

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 12:42pm.
I never left the left.
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When you're right, you're right.

bloggerati

Does anyone have an archive that has the '05 Majority Report files? That's most of what is missing from my collection of AAR files.

Here is a link to Clint Zweifel's website. It has a short video of the political advertisement he is airing in my region.

http://www.clintfortreasurer.com/multimedia/dontagree.asp

Zweifel is a Democrat running for Missouri State Treasurer. His advertisement is mildly amusing, which is why I am mentioning it. He takes a shot squarely at the Missouri Governor, Matt Blunt.

It is also a reasonably straightforward political advertisement, which is refreshing.

About Majority Report Archives.. :)

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

The Visiting Nurse just left.

Urging drilling, House GOP members refuse to leave floor for recess

In a dramatic protest aimed at urging Congress to vote to drill for more oil within the US, House Republicans are refusing to leave the House floor despite a vote to adjourn the chamber early Friday afternoon.

Politico reports:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the light and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi's refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m. and are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.

At one point, the lights went off in the House and the microphones were turned off in the chamber, meaning Republicans were talking in the dark. But as Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz..) was speaking, the lights went back on, and the microphones have been turned on as well.
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) is providing updates on the protest via Twitter. Liberal activists are responding to the GOP protest with implications that Republican members are simply shilling for contributors in the oil companies.

"Good to see you're putting in overtime for the $300,000 you received from the oil & gas industry," said one response to Culberson.

Earlier this year, House Republicans dramatically walked off the floor in protest of a vote to hold two Bush administration figures in contempt for flouting Congressional subpoenas.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Urging_drilling_House_GOP_members_refuse_0...

on Hartman just now. It is definite. The Anthrax Attacks were an inside job.

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political theatre at its best. who knew fellini was a republican.

That is a good Ad. Right to the point and a put down to Blunt as well.

re-fueled
had a great gossip conversation with daughter about my south african family....i feel sane again...i know i belong once more i was in stitches with the stories that she told me about my wonderful brethren...
hey, guess what...no drugs along the road though...oops forgot to check the mail

toniD,

These are the final two sentences on Clint Zweifel's bio:
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Clint’s wife Janice works with children with special needs in the public schools. They are foster parents to two wonderful girls.
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They seem to be tree-hugging, do-gooding, liberal Commie bastards who represent everything that is wrong with this country.

(Sorry. My post got poltergeisted there for a second.)

Stewart awards McCain 'Dick Move of the Week' for Hilton ad
David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Senator John McCain's latest campaign ad equating Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton as an empty celebrity who is famous only for being famous has already drawn reactions from a variety of quarters, including internet parodies and rumors that Spears is considering legal action.

Jon Stewart on Thursday's Daily Show also piled on by proclaiming the ad to be the "Dick Move of the Week" -- but not because of anything it implies about Obama. "It's a dick move by McCain because it turns out one of the fine young ladies featured in this ad ... her parents, the Hiltons, contributed $4600, the maximum you can contribute, to the campaign of none other than John McCain. John McCain's saying to the Hiltons, 'I think you kindly for your support, now if you'll excuse me I've got to go take a nationally televised dump on your daughter.'"

"The ad's part of a new line of attack from McCain," continued Stewart, "that Obama's got thousands of fans and everyone loves him -- wait, no, that's not right."

Stewart then played a clip of ABC's Jake Tapper explaining that the McCain team is trying to paint Obama as "an arrogant, arugula-eating, fancy berry tea-drinking celebrity."

"Well, nice try, guys, but reducing candidates to two-dimensional stereotypes is kind of my gig," Stewart said, adding, "The media is not going to be buying it."

He immediately disproved this with a series of clips of media figures calling Obama arrogant, presumptuous, pompous, over-confident, 'too cool for school,' and arrogant.

"What's McCain's humble strategy?" retorted Stewart. "'Vote McCain. I am nothing special and would probably make a terrible president.'? Are you insane?"

Stewart turned next to media accusations that Obama is promising more than he can deliver. "Why can't he be more grounded, like his opponent?" Stewart agreed, turning to a clip of McCain describing "what I would hope to have achieved at the end of my first term as president of the United States."

Stewart suggested that McCain had probably laid out a set of modest, unpresumptuous objectives. But what McCain actually said was that by 2013, "The Iraq War has been won. There is no longer any place in the world al Qaeda can consider a safe haven. The United States has experienced several years of robust economic growth. The world food crisis has ended. Our southern border is now secure."

"Let's just start with the first one," proposed Stewart. "'The Iraq War has been won.' President McCain, looking back, how did you propose that we had done it?"

"I've been there," stated McCain in an April interview. "I know wars. I know how to win wars."

"Point taken," Stewart agreed. "What about the economy? Obama's all 'let's sit down with a bipartisan panel of economic experts.' ... Come on Johnnie Mac."

"We'll balance the budget," McCain has promised flatly. He later insisted to George Stephanopoulos that he could cut taxes $300 billion in his first term and still balance the budget, saying cheerfully, "I'll find you a hundred billion tomorrow."

In response, Stewart strained and groaned and pulled a gold egg out of his ass.

Stewart then proceeded to a clip of McCain saying of Osama bin Laden, "We'll bring him to justice and I'll follow him to the gates of hell."

"I guess we're going to Pakistan," surmised Stewart.

However, McCain recently stated, "I'm not going to go there, and here's why. Because Pakistan is a sovereign nation."

"So you'll go to hell but not Pakistan?" Stewart asked in bemusement.

"So," concluded Stewart, "Senator John McCain will end the war, solve the fiscal crisis, and get our number one enemy in four years through a mysterious process to be divulged only in 2013. It leads us to only one possible conclusion."

He then showed Larry King asking Barack Obama, "All your speeches promise the impossible. Are you in fantasy land?"

This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast July 31, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Stewart_McCain_wins_Dick_Move_of_0801.html

Dear Sederites!
Submitted by Thespian Lipsti... on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 1:55pm.
I need your help:

My strong and vocal stands in favor of impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney have made me a target. I am now under siege by the right wing, who are working hard to defeat me and silence the causes that we believe in.

In the eyes of the right wing, I am seen, along with Rep. Kucinich, as one of the symbols of the impeachment fight. They believe that if they defeat me – they defeat our cause.

For the last week, I’ve been relentlessly targeted by ultra-conservative radio and television hosts, as well as my local media. It has taken a toll. Now more than ever, I need your support to help me stay in Congress to represent your voice in Washington.

Please click here to donate to my re-election campaign.
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

dido

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1CjbcqhGyU

Palestinians Face Home Demolitions Spree by Israel

By JONATHAN COOK

In the first hours of dawn, Nader Elayan was woken by a call from a neighbor warning him to hurry to the house he had almost finished building. By the time he arrived, it was too late: a bulldozer was tearing down the walls. More than 100 Israeli security guards held back local residents.

The demolition, carried out four years ago, has left Mr Elayan, his wife, Fidaa, who is now pregnant, and their two young children with nowhere to live but a single room in his brother’s cramped home. It is the only land he owns and he had invested all his savings in building the now destroyed house.

Over the past few years, the Elayans’ fate has been shared by two dozen other families in the Palestinian village of Anata, on the outskirts of East Jerusalem. Hundreds more families have demolition orders hanging over their homes. “Not one person in my neighbourhood has a [building] permit,” Mr Elayan, 37, said.

The problem of house demolitions affects Palestinians throughout the occupied territories. But according to Hatem Abdelkader, an adviser to Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, the situation is particularly acute in the East Jerusalem area.

He noted that Israel’s policy of refusing building permits to many of the 250,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem has resulted in the classification of 20,000 city homes as illegal since the occupation began in 1967. Last year alone, the Jerusalem municipality issued more than 1,000 demolition orders for “illegal dwellings”. It is believed that three out of every four Palestinian homes in the city are now built without a permit.

“Illegal building is simply a pretext for destroying Palestinian families’ homes and lives,” says Jeff Halper, head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD).

“The demolitions are part of a policy to stop the natural expansion of Palestinian communities in and around Jerusalem, freeing up the maximum amount of land for use by Israeli settlers,” Halper continues. “The demolitions increase the pressure on Palestinians to move into the West Bank, so that they will lose their residency rights in the city.”

In an act of defiance, Halper’s organization and 40 international volunteers helped the Elayans to rebuild their home this week in an attempt to highlight what the committee calls the “quiet ethnic cleansing” of East Jerusalem. The work was carried out during a two-week summer camp funded by the Spanish government. Madrid also paid for 18 Spanish volunteers to participate.

“This is the first time a government has supported the rebuilding of an ‘illegal’ Palestinian home demolished by the Israeli authorities,” Halper says...
www.counterpunch.org

Farmer has double arm transplant
BBC News - 57 minutes ago
The patient was a 54-year-old farmer who lost his limbs in an accident six years ago. The donor is believed to be a teenager who had died shortly before the surgery.
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The side effects, but for compulsive masturbation, are expected to be minimal.

The Republicans supported labor in the 1880s? That's what Hartmann said just now.
(The "Wobblies did not come into existence until 1905.)

laugh!

to masturbate at my expense
***kissy kissy***

The strike

Maryland National Guard Sixth Regiment fighting its way through Baltimore, Maryland, 20 July, 1877
The great railroad strike of 1877 started on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the second time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O). Striking workers would not allow any of the stock to roll until this second wage cut was revoked. The governor sent in state militia units to restore train service, but the soldiers refused to use force against the strikers and the governor called for federal troops. Meanwhile, the strike spread to Cumberland, Maryland, stopping freight and passenger traffic. When Governor Carroll of Maryland directed the 5th and 6th Regiments of the National Guard to put down the strike, citizens from Baltimore attacked the troops as they marched from their armories towards B&O's Camden Station for the train to Cumberland, causing violent street battles between the striking workers and the Maryland militia. When the outnumbered troops of the 6th Regiment fired on an attacking crowd, they killed 10 and wounded 25. The rioters injured several members of the militia, damaged engines and train cars, and burned portions of the train station. On July 21-22, the President sent federal troops and marines to Baltimore to restore order.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania became the site of the worst violence. Thomas Alexander Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad, often considered one of the first robber barons, suggested that the strikers should be given "a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread." However, local law enforcement officers refused to fire on the strikers. Nonetheless, his request came to pass on July 21, when militiamen bayoneted and fired on rock-throwing strikers, killing twenty people and wounding twenty-nine others. Rather than quell the uprising however, this action merely infuriated the strikers who then forced the militiamen to take refuge in a railroad roundhouse, and then set fires that razed 39 buildings and destroyed 104 locomotives and 1,245 freight and passenger cars. On July 22, the militiamen mounted an assault on the strikers, shooting their way out of the roundhouse and killing 20 more people on their way out of the city. After over a month of constant rioting and bloodshed, President Rutherford B. Hayes sent in federal troops to end the strikes.
Three-hundred miles to the east, Philadelphia strikers battled local militia and set fire to much of Center City before federal troops intervened and put down the uprising.
The strike then spread to the American Midwest and Western, increasing in brutality and intensity. On July 21, disgruntled workers in East St. Louis, Illinois, halted all freight traffic, with the city remaining in the control of the strikers for almost a week. The strike was finally halted by a combination of military force, and an injunction that ordered workers not to interfere with railroad operations.

Burning of Pennsylvania Railroad and Union Depot, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 21-22 July 1877
On July 24, rail traffic in Chicago was paralyzed when angry mobs of groups of unemployed citizens wreaked havoc in the rail yards, shutting down both the Baltimore and Ohio and the Illinois Central Railroads. Soon, other railroads were brought to a standstill, with demonstrators shutting down railroad traffic in Bloomington, Aurora, Peoria, Decatur, Urbana and other rail centers throughout Illinois. In sympathy, coal miners in the pits at Braidwood, LaSalle, Springfield, and Carbondale went on strike as well...

was on vacation starting today? aint that super cool....please say it is jeez!!!

the anthrax posts like i said messed with my memory a little...well scared me really as you can see...i'm shaking in my boots

Suicide Solution

July, 31 2008

By Barbara Ehrenreich

A few days before Congress passed its Housing Bill, Carlene Balderrama of Taunton, MA found her own solution to the housing crisis. Just a little over two hours in advance of the time her mortgage company, PHH Mortgage Corporation -- may its name live in infamy -- was to auction off her home, Balderrama killed herself with her husband's rifle.

This is not the kind of response to hard times that James Grant had in mind when he wrote his July 19 Wall Street Journal essay entitled "Why No Outrage?" "One might infer from the lack of popular anger," the famed Wall Street contrarian wrote, "that the credit crisis was God's fault rather than the doing of the bankers and the rating agencies and the government's snoozing watchdogs." For contrast, he cites the spirited response to the depression of the 1890s, when lawyer/agitator Mary Lease stirred crowds with the message that "We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out .... We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary."

Grant could have found even more bracing examples of resistance in the 1930s, when farmers and tenants used mob power -- and sometimes firearms -- to fight foreclosures and evictions. For more on that, I consulted Frances Fox Piven, co-author of the classic text Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, who told me that in the early 30s, a number of cities were so shaken by the resistance that they declared moratoriums on further evictions. A 1931 riot by Chicago tenants who had fallen behind on their rent, for example, had left three dead and three police officers injured.

According to Piven, these actions were often spontaneous. A group of unemployed men would get word of a scheduled eviction and march through the streets, gathering crowds as they went. Arriving at the site of the eviction, they would move the furniture back into the apartment and stay around to protect the threatened tenants. In one instance in Detroit, it took 100 cops to evict a single family. Also in Detroit, Piven said, "two families protected their apartments by shooting their landlord and were acquitted by a sympathetic jury."

What a difference 80 years makes. When the police and the auctioneers arrived at Balderrama's house, the family gun had already been used -- on the victim of foreclosure herself. I don't know how "worthy" a debtor she was -- the family had been through bankruptcies before, though probably not as a result of Caribbean vacations and closets full of designer clothes. It was an Adjustable Rate Mortgage that did them in, and Balderrama, who managed the family's finances, had apparently been unwilling to tell her husband that their ever-rising monthly mortgage payments were eating up his earnings as a plumber.

Suicide is becoming an increasingly popular response to debt. James Scurlock's brilliant documentary, Maxed Out, features the families of two college students who killed themselves after being overwhelmed by credit card debt. "All the people we talked to had considered suicide at least once," Scurlock told a gathering of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys in 2007. According to the Los Angeles Times, lawyers in the audience backed him up, "describing clients who showed up at their offices with cyanide, or threatened, 'If you don't help me, I've got a gun in my car.'"

India may be the trend-setter here, with an estimated 150,000 debt-ridden farmers succumbing to suicide since 1997. With guns in short supply in rural India, the desperate farmers have taken to drinking the pesticides meant for their crops.

Dry your eyes, already: Death is an effective remedy for debt, along with anything else that may be bothering you too. And try to think of it too from a lofty, corner-office, perspective: If you can't pay your debts or afford to play your role as a consumer, and if, in addition -- like an ever-rising number of Americans -- you're no longer needed at the workplace, then there's no further point to your existence. I'm not saying that the creditors, the bankers and the mortgage companies actually want you dead, but in a culture where one's credit rating is routinely held up as a three-digit measure of personal self-worth, the correct response to insoluble debt is in fact, "Just shoot me!"

The alternative is to value yourself more than any amount of money and turn the guns, metaphorically speaking, in the other direction. It wasn't God, or some abstract economic climate change, that caused the credit crisis. Actual humans -- often masked as financial institutions -- did that, (and you can find a convenient list of names in Nomi Prins's article in the current issue of Mother Jones.*)Most of them, except for a tiny few facing trials, are still high rollers, fattening themselves on the blood and tears of ordinary debtors. I know it's so 1930s, but may I suggest a march on Wall Street?

all say DEATH TO ISREAL & ALLA IS GREAT.

This now sounds identical to Cheney's plan to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians and shoot at them to start a war with Iran.

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

Who first wrongly linked anthrax to Iraq -- and why?
Muriel Kane

Who first wrongly linked anthrax to Iraq -- and why?Muriel Kane
Published: Friday August 1, 2008

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In the wake of the apparent suicide of an alleged suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, fresh questions are being raised about the extent to which those attacks were used by the Bush administration as part of the push for both draconian anti-terror legislation and eventual war with Iraq.

Blogger Glenn Greenwald has suggested, "By design, those attacks put the American population into a state of intense fear of Islamic terrorism, far more than the 9/11 attacks alone could have accomplished."

Greenwald has also raised questions about the source of claims being pushed by ABC News in late October 2001 that government tests had shown the anthrax contained bentonite, an additive used only by Iraq. These claims, which were later found to be completely false, played an important role in spreading the idea of an Iraq-anthrax link.

However, the idea of such a link was already in circulation a week earlier when, according to Think Progress, John McCain was using the anthrax attacks to argue for war with Iraq. McCain told David Letterman on October 18, "The second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I don’t have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may — and I emphasize may — have come from Iraq."

RAW STORY has found that, although there had been active online speculation about an Iraqi source for the anthrax by the first week of October, the first suggestion that official investigations were focusing on that nation appears to have come in an article published in the Guardian on October 14.

Under the headline, "Iraq 'behind US anthrax outbreaks' - Pentagon hardliners press for strikes on Saddam," David Rose and Ed Vulliamy wrote, "American investigators probing anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New York believe they have all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack - and have named Iraq as prime suspect as the source of the deadly spores. Their inquiries are adding to what US hawks say is a growing mass of evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved, possibly indirectly, with the 11 September hijackers."

Rose and Vullaimy noted a (since-debunked) report that Mohamed Atta had met with an Iraqi agent in Prague, writing, "According to sources in the Bush administration, investigators are talking to Egyptian authorities who say members of the al-Qaida network, detained and interrogated in Cairo, had obtained phials of anthrax in the Czech Republic. Last autumn Mohamed Atta is said by US intelligence officials to have met in Prague an agent from Iraqi intelligence called Ahmed Samir al-Ahani, a former consul later expelled by the Czechs for activities not compatible with his diplomatic mission."

They added that, "It was confirmed yesterday that Jim Woolsey, CIA director from 1993 to 1996, recently visited London on behalf of the hawkish Defence Department to 'firm up' other evidence of Iraqi involvement in 11 September. Some observers fear linking Saddam to the terrorist attacks is part of an agenda being driven by US hawks eager to broaden the war to include Iraq, a move being resisted by the British government."

More here:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suicide_raises_questions_about_attempts_to...

CONTRIBUTE

Congressman Wexler is facing two self-funded challengers who are working hard to defeat him for reelection. His opponents are using his strong opposition to the Iraq war and his support for impeachment hearings to criticize his record in Congress.

https://www.wexlerforcongress.com/contribute.asp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuTi9UZtPbw

to whoever sent the mirror to me:

Thanks. It's the most beautiful picture I've ever seen.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

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hey wha happ????

Ok..Star Vox didn't give me any ideas...
Submitted by Alice on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 7:39pm.

1) do I listen carefully and then transcribe a paraphrased answer?
2) What should I ask them?
3) HELP! :)

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...yet. Hopefully, I met the blog deadline.

1) It sounds good. Is someone else recording the session officially?

2) Questions!

3) I will throw you a line. ____________________________

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Ideas:

Americans are concerned with the cost and availability of health care. What policies would you propose to improve health care in the United States?

How do you see science and technology contributing to improved health and quality of life?

What is the biggest threat and challenge facing the United States now? How would you deal with this challenge in your administration?

What is your position on the following measures that have been proposed to address global climate change: a cap-and-trade system, a carbon tax, increased fuel-economy standards, and scientific research? What other policies would you support?

How will your administration work with other nations to address global climate change?

What policies would you support to meet our demands for energy while ensuring an economically and environmentally sustainable future?

How will you balance scientific information with politics and personal beliefs in your decisions and within your administration?

Is it acceptable for elected officials to hold back or alter reports if they conflict with their own personal views?

What would be the foreign policy priorities in your administration?

What strategies and mechanisms would you use to improve our security and promote our national interests?

Recent reports indicate that inequality is increasing in the United States. What specific plans do you propose to reverse the growing inequality in America?

p.s. Alice, I hope you enjoy the convention. Carpe Diem!

Republican congressmen refuse to go on vacation

Republicans launched their raucous protest, which one congressman likened to "question hour in the British parliament" on the social networking site Twitter, over offshore oil drilling.

Beleaguered by the indictment of their senior senator, Ted Stevens, and the uneven campaign of their presidential nominee, Republicans have turned to offshore drilling as their singular political bright spot this summer.

So when House Democratic leaders adjourned today without voting on whether to end the 26-year ban on drilling along the US coastline, Republicans pounced. In a legislature where business is conducted according to strict rules, they simply refused to accept the result.

"Although this Democrat majority just adjourned for the Democrat 5-week vacation, House Republicans are continuing to fight on the house floor," the office of Roy Blunt, No 2 Republican in the House, said in a statement to Politico.com.

Republicans were reported to be inviting unaffiliated visitors onto the House floor to sit in congressmen's chairs, which is strictly prohibited during normal business. The group of lucky guests included "several dozen Cub Scouts", according to Politico.com.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/01/usa3

Which is why, they will be voted out by 2010.

Submitted by Star Vox on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 3:49pm.
Ideas:
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Here is my contribution to the question collection.

Excepting space travel and race car driving, is there any other good reason to pee in your pants?

Washington, DC) – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) wrote to White House counsel Fred Fielding and counsel for Harriet Miers and Karl Rove calling for quick compliance with yesterday’s ruling in Committee on the Judiciary v. Miers et al. Chairman Conyers also stated to Fielding his willingness to resume discussions towards cooperatively resolving the entire matter, as Judge Bates has urged the parties to do, and proposed that he and Fielding meet in person to discuss the matter. Copies of the letters are linked. - Judiciary

adjusting well worn and tattered foil hat.....

http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKN0133872120080801

Man charged in coach beheading stays silent

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A 40-year-old man was charged on Friday with second degree murder after a fellow passenger was stabbed to death aboard a Greyhound coach on the Canadian Prairies and then beheaded...
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Calls made by Reuters to Osama bin Laden were not returned.

Read this and consider signing the letter. See link at the bottom.

Kucinich seeks to bar US oil firms from Iraq
Nick Juliano

Rep. Dennis Kucinich has introduced a measure that would bar US oil companies from receiving contracts in Iraq.

The Ohio Democrat, who believes exploiting Iraq's massive oil reserves was the primary reason we invaded, introduced a measure he says aims to keep Iraq's oil wealth within the country.

“Iraq needs oil revenue now more than ever as they try to rebuild their country,” Kucinich said Thursday, unveiling the Oil for Iraq Liberation Act.

Kucinich noted Congress recently required Iraq to match US investments in the country's reconstruction, and he implied that Iraq's ability to contribute to its reconstruction was damaged because of its reliance on oil revenues.

"The invasion of Iraq was about oil, but it didn’t result in more oil or cheaper gas," Kucinich said on the House Floor. "It resulted in war profiteering by oil companies who benefited by keeping Iraqi oil off the market."

Recent reports have indicated that big oil companies like Exxon, Chevron, BP, Total and Shell are set to receive lucrative no-bid contracts to explore in Iraq.

It's unclear what effect, if any, Kucinich's proposal would have on companies like the former British Petroleum, which is headquartered in London; Total, based in Paris; or Royal Dutch Shell, headquartered in The Hague. Of the companies reportedly in line to receive contracts, only ExxonMobil and Chevron are based in the US, but both operate around the globe.

The State Department last week said its Inspector General would investigate the Iraqi contracts after four Democratic senators said government officials may have intervened to secure the contracts.

The full text of Kucinich's OIL Act had not been posted to the Library of Congress's legislative tracking Web site as of early Friday afternoon.

In his floor speech, he said the bill would "discourage US oil companies from profiting from the war and will stop the further theft of Iraq’s oil resources by the very interests who have profited from the war for oil: the US oil companies."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_seeks_to_bar_US_oil_0801.html

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good article on Impeachment by the man who wrote the book
Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 7:43am.

Impeachment Hearings Are the Appropriate and Necessary Next Step
Friday 25 July 2008
by: John Nichols, The Nation

US Representatives Maurice Hinchey (left) and Dennis Kucinich (right) came to Capitol Hill Friday to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the George W. Bush presidency. The hearing was on "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitation."
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It was that sense of urgency that motivated committee member Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, to say explain that, "What this Congress does, or chooses not to do in furthering the investigation of the serious allegations against this administration - and if just cause is found, to hold them accountable - will impact the conduct of future presidents, perhaps for generations."

"Mr. Chairman," Baldwin continued, "there are those who would say that holding this hearing - examining whether or not the president and vice president broke the law - is frivolous. I not only reject this, I believe there is no task more important for this Congress than to seriously consider whether our nation's leaders have violated their oath of office. The American public expects no less. It is, after all, their Constitution. No president or congress has the authority to override that document, whereby ëWe the People' conferred upon the branches of government limited and defined power, and provided for meaningful checks and balances."

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Now THAT'S quotable. I hope Congresswoman Baldwin got a soundbite on the news shows. NO?

Well then, shout it from the rooftops:

"[of the]Constitution. No president or congress has the authority to override that document...."

When Nancy Pelosi says she sees no evidence of lawbreaking(so that means also she will approve no process whereby that evidence can come forward, be put to the test, and be verified?!). like Bush/Cheney, she TOO is is PRETENDING she "has the authority to override" the Constitution!!!

Pelosi has NO Authority to do what she is doing; she has no authority (I don't care if she is third in line for succession) to be UNITARY THIRD IN-LINE!!!!

Is Wal-Mart crossing the legal line with anti-Democratic campaign?

Executives at the nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, are all-but urging their employees to vote Republican this November, fearing that a Barack Obama presidency combined with Democratic gains in the Senate could spell doom for their anti-union business model.

The Wall Street Journal reports Friday that company executives are forcing store managers and department heads into mandatory meetings where they are warned that Democratic victories would make it easier for unions to organize in their stores. The retail giant has responded to previous attempts to unionize by eliminating departments or shutting down stores.

Wal-Mart opposes proposed legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for workers to unionize by signing a card rather than holding a vote.

The Journal spoke to a dozen employees in seven states who attended meetings with Wal-Mart human resources managers who delivered the company's anti-union line, warning that "unionized stores would have to pay hefty union dues while getting nothing in return, and may have to go on strike without compensation."

While the company insists it is not telling employees how to vote, some who attended scoff at the notion.

"The meeting leader said, 'I am not telling you how to vote, but if the Democrats win, this bill will pass and you won't have a vote on whether you want a union,'" a Wal-Mart customer-service supervisor from Missouri told the paper. "I am not a stupid person. They were telling me how to vote," she said.

Such actions put the company on a "fine legal line," according to the report.

Wal-Mart may be walking a fine legal line by holding meetings with its store department heads that link politics with a strong antiunion message. Federal election rules permit companies to advocate for specific political candidates to its executives, stockholders and salaried managers, but not to hourly employees. While store managers are on salary, department supervisors are hourly workers. However, employers have fairly broad leeway to disseminate information about candidates' voting records and positions on issues, according to Jan Baran, a Washington attorney and expert on election law.
The Journal report said Wal-Mart human-resources managers who run the meetings do not specifically tell attendees how to vote in November's presidential election, but they make it clear that voting for Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama would be tantamount to inviting unions in.

"If anyone representing Wal-Mart gave the impression we were telling associates how to vote, they were wrong and acting without approval," Tovar said.

Wal-Mart, which does not have a unionized U.S. workforce, has been the target of union-backed groups that criticize the retailer for everything from its pay practices to its health care benefits.

The company is a key player in the so-called "Coalition for a Democratic Workplace," a pro-industry group mounting an agressive advertising campaign and lobbying effort against the Employee Free Choice Act.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_WalMart_toes_legal_line_in_0801.htm...

Urging drilling, House GOP members refuse to leave floor for recess
Nick Juliano

Update: Members says Capitol cops gathering near House floor
In a dramatic protest aimed at urging Congress to vote to drill for more oil within the US, House Republicans are refusing to leave the House floor despite a vote to adjourn the chamber early Friday afternoon.

The GOP lawmakers are furious at Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi's refusal to allow a vote on legislation aimed at lifting a Congressional moratorium on offshore drilling. Republicans had delivered a letter (.pdf) to Pelosi earlier in the day outlining their request for an "all of the above" energy plan that would open more areas to drilling, encourage conservation and invest in alternative energy sources.

They accused Democrats of caring more about leaving Washington for a recess that will last the entire month of August than enacting new energy legislation. Democrats and environmentalists argue that opening US coasts to oil exploration will not reduce gas prices.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) said Capitol Hill police officers were gathering outside the House chamber about three hours into Friday's demonstration.

"A lot of policeman assembling off of floor. What does that mean? House is full," the Republican congressman wrote on his Twitter feed.

Politico reports:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the light and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi's refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m. and are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.

At one point, the lights went off in the House and the microphones were turned off in the chamber, meaning Republicans were talking in the dark. But as Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz..) was speaking, the lights went back on, and the microphones have been turned on as well.
“Madame Speaker, Where art thou?’’ Rep. Ted Poe , R-Texas, shouted from the well of the House, according to CQ. “This room is vacant of most members of Congress. Where, oh where, has Congress gone?” he yelled to about a dozen other Republicans, the tourists in the gallery, some House pages, and Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio, the lone Democrat who witnessed the unusual proceeding.

Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) is providing updates on the protest via Twitter and video-streaming service QIK.

More here

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Urging_drilling_House_GOP_members_refuse_0...

I think over my lifespan I have heard or read many times of people being told they are going to be prosecuted, yes. After all, how else do you get someone to turn themselves in? You have to request that they do so, no? People have a right to bail, anyway, so it's not such a big deal; it's not as if Ivins would have been sitting in jail for as long as it took to try him.

no, not the Cheetos.

And NO! I don't know these people!

Judge on Rove’s citizen arrest: ‘It’s about time.’
Last Friday, police in Des Moines, Iowa arrested four people who attempted to make a citizens’ arrest of former top White House aide Karl Rove, who was in town to speak at a GOP fundraiser. A retired minister and three members of the Des Moines Catholic Workers community were cited for trespassing. However, according to a press release, the judge presiding over the case praised their efforts:

[Mona] Shaw was the first called before Polk County Fifth Judicial District Associate Judge William Price.

After entering her plea, the judge asked Shaw, “Mamn, what were you doing at the Wakonda Country Club?”

“I was attempting to make a citizen’s arrest of Karl Rove, your honor,” Shaw answered.

“Well,” the judge looked up and said, “it’s about time.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/judge-on-roves-arrest-its-about-time...

One Month After 9/11, McCain Said Anthrax ‘May Have Come From Iraq,’ Warned Iraq Is ‘The Second Phase’
Today, the LA Times reports that the individual who may have been responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and sickened 17 others apparently committed suicide. As Atrios recalls, shortly after 9/11, conservatives were pinning the blame for the anthrax attacks on Iraq, laying the groundwork for a subsequent invasion. John McCain was part of this fearmongering effort.

On October 18, 2001, McCain appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. When asked how the war in Afghanistan was progressing, McCain volunteered that the invasion of Iraq would be the “second phase” of the War on Terror. He preyed on the public’s fear at the time by claiming that the anthrax “may have come from Iraq”:

LETTERMAN: How are things going in Afghanistan now?

MCCAIN: I think we’re doing fine …. I think we’ll do fine. The second phase — if I could just make one, very quickly — the second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I don’t have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may — and I emphasize may — have come from Iraq.

LETTERMAN: Oh is that right?

MCCAIN: If that should be the case, that’s when some tough decisions are gonna have to be made.

Watch it:

In the interview McCain tastelessly joked, in reference to the House adjourning until the Capitol could be cleared of the anthrax threat, that Congress members should “bring out their dead!” Less than a week later, two US Postal Service employees working in a facility that sorted mail destined for the Capitol would be dead.

McCain opened the interview by asking Letterman, “What is Osama bin Laden going to be for Halloween?” “Dead!” McCain said, delivering the punchline to his joke. Nearly seven Halloweens later, Osama bin Laden remains alive and free.

Later in the interview, McCain explained his counterterrorism approach: “The more serious these people [terrorists] think we are and believe we are – and we are serious – then I think they might, you know, go back to selling camels or whatever enterprise that they might want to engage in.”

Concluding the interview, McCain warned once again that Iraq was next. “The crunch time will be if – and emphasize if – we have to go after Iraq, and then that coalition could be strained,” he said. “But nothing succeeds like success. … World power politics is very interesting. People are very friendly when they know you’re the most powerful kid on the block.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-anthrax-iraq/

wow...you fuckers exhaust me for real...

..was found in my mailbox today?
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..only if your shorts are on fire.

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if the Paris/Britney bullshit it the best they've got, we'll let's give 'em a "we're all winners" hi-5.

where's that war dog, anyway?

like doing a good job, it gives u a nice, warm feeling, but only u notice it.

Wal-Mart Employees Speak Out About Mandatory Anti-Union Meetings, Political Intimidation
Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart has been warning its managers that a Democratic victory in the fall would lead to unionization at Wal-Mart stores. “In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart store managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings” discussing the downsides of unionization and not-so-subtly telling employees not to vote for a Democrat.

Wal-Mart Watch notes that the article “would not have been possible without the several brave Wal-Mart employees” who spoke out against the company’s policies, including the employee below who e-mailed Wal-Mart Watch:

In a statement, Wal-Mart Watch Executive Director David Nassar said the Journal report confirmed stories they have collected from workers:

We have been receiving the reports described in the Journal for the past week. Some of the reports we received were even more egregious than what was described in today’s story. In one case, a worker said they were shown a slide that said ‘Obama = union’ and then were told why unions were bad.

Wal-Mart employees who wish to speak out should contact Wal-Mart Watch to share their stories. Sign a petition to tell Wal-Mart to stop the political intimidation of its employees.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/wal-mart-intimidation/

Update: Change to Win executive director Chris Chafe: "It should be no surprise that Wal-Mart would stretch the limits of the law in an attempt to deny their workers' rights and kill the Employee Free Choice Act. The company knows what all union workers know: workers in unions earn 29 percent higher wages on average, are 62 percent more likely to have employer health coverage, and four times more likely to have a pension."

What an exhausting day for me. People in and out all day. I am finally alone. And that's not including the phone calls!

Watching Race to the White House.

I'm soooo tired of McCain. The man has definately got a problem and I shutter to think he could be president!

Economic models predict clear Obama win in November
Reuters

By Alister Bull

WASHINGTON - It really is the economy, stupid! Economic models that have correctly predicted the winner of almost all post-war U.S. presidential elections say recession fears will secure a victory for Barack Obama in November.

Three separate studies showed the Democratic presidential hopeful winning between 52 and 55 percent of the popular vote on November 4, based on current gloomy economic estimates.

Any further darkening in the economic outlook -- many analysts think things will get worse between now and November -- would reinforce that election outcome.

"The economy is certainly not going to be a positive for the Republicans," said Ray Fair, an economics professor at Yale university who built the earliest of the models in 1978.

His model, which assumed tepid U.S. economic growth of 1.5 percent and a 3 percent rate of inflation, predicted the Republican candidate John McCain's share of the vote would be 47.8 percent, handing Obama 52.2 percent.

"It is a decent margin but it is not a landslide," said Fair, who ran the numbers in April. "It would have been much larger if there had been a recession in 2008."

U.S. economic activity doubled in the second quarter to a 1.9 percent annualized pace. But previous data was revised lower to show output contracted 0.2 percent in the final three months of last year, the weakest performance since 2001, and expanded only slightly at the start of 2008.

"It's the economy, stupid!" was a phrase extensively used during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H.W. Bush to remind voters that a recession occurred during Bush's administration.

Fair's model, and a version built by St. Louis-based forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, blend political factors with economics to scientifically nail down the view that voters care first and foremost about their own wallets.

Indeed, opinion polls consistently find that the economy is the most important issue for U.S. voters.

HEADWINDS

Macroeconomic Advisers' model incorporates whether the candidate is from the incumbent party, approval ratings and the length of time the incumbent party has held the White House to capture the extent voters may have tired of them.

Adding in its own estimates for U.S. economic growth, the unemployment rate and the change in energy prices, it finds that McCain will get just 45 percent of the vote.

"This model has correctly predicted the winning party 12 out of 14 times," Macroeconomic Advisers said.

"The weak current state of the economy, and the sharp rise in energy prices pose a significant headwind to the McCain campaign, if voters weigh these factors similarly to how they have in the past," they said in a note to clients.

The third work is a "Bread and Peace" model devised by Douglas Hibbs, a retired economics professor from the University of Goteborg in Sweden, who remains a senior fellow at the Center for Public Sector Research there.

He finds that U.S. presidential elections are well-predicted by just two fundamental forces: the weighted average per capita growth of real disposable income and the number of U.S. military deaths in foreign combat.

"Average per capita real income growth probably will be only around 0.75 percent at Election Day. Moreover, cumulative U.S. military fatalities in Iraq will reach 4,300 or more," he said in a June update of his model.

"Given those fundamental conditions, the Bread and Peace model predicts a Republican two-party vote share centered on 48.2 percent."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Economic_models_predict_clear_Obama_win_08...

Power Relationships
Submitted by Thespian Lipsti... on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 9:31pm.
Maybe they aren't as powerful as we are complacent
Submitted by Alice on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 9:19pm.
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The government is powerful in certain realms. The president can decide to go to war, and all we can do is protest. They will go to war if we don't protest. Sometimes, protest can force them to make modified decisions. Since Viet Nam, the US has fought lightning fast wars, because they fear the country will fall apart if we are in a long war. Some say that Nixon backed off of Cambodia because he feared 30 or 40 million people in the streets. Hey! If we can get that many people out in the streets, maybe we can bring the government down. Make us ungovernable.

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Lots of great conversations and news on the Seder Threads.

The one above got me thinking.

The BushCo doesn't care about government, so they do not care about governing us or whether we are governable. They care only about money, holding power (in the open or covertly) and the dictatorial power that comes with it.

About our getting it together and going to the streets: The Power Elite doesn't care about us; we are the endless line of marching ants pestering their picnic; in their view (which they've held for a very long time), there are just too many of us lately.

A few years back I would've said the only way to hurt them is in the pocketbook (boycotts, slowdowns, living on as little as possible) and cutting into their profits. But that was before they stole the Treasury. Now,
they don't even want the wealth of our labor. They have stolen the entire U.S. Treasury and don't even need the additional money our work could create. And they have been developing crowd control weaponry, systems, and scenarios since the 1960s, so they don't even want to govern us; they Do want to CONTROL us. It even looks like they WANT us to go to the streets so they can get out their control toys and stuff and test it on real crowds and, simultaneously, get rid of the vanguard via tasers/lasers/microwavers and the New World Order Gulag.

Going to the streets is not going to work with these Thugs who have absolutely NO COMPUNCTION about what they reap from sowing THEIR LACK OF IMPULSE CONTROL!

WE MUST COME UP WITH A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR CONFRONTING THE USURPERS of POWER. Our biggest problem is that so many people are ignorant to what is going on. So I suggest we go the Thomas Paine route and start getting the awareness quotient up. Not until folks get informed and awakened from their consumer/propaganda/I'm-Number-One Dream will the sheer force of The People be felt.

This past July 4th, all the informed should've been on street corners reading the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights to the uninformed.

It's not too late. Pass out copies of the Bill of Rights with hatch marks where Bush et al have cancelled those rights (like the Bill of Rights Bob Barr gave the House Judiciary Committee), and on another page list what happened to each of our rights and a reference for each listing. Make no calls to action that can be deemed rabble-rousing. Instead, make this a call for JUST Laws and a RESTORATION of our rights and Constitution. This is the way an informed Populist Response can be born and nurtured.

Does anyone here see people out there doing this Guerilla Marketing sort of stuff on behalf of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution?

Hard to believe it's already been nine months since KLSD (1360AM) in San Diego ditched its successful liberal talk format to jump into the overcrowded sports radio shark tank. So far, the new format is a flop.

The San Diego Union-Tribune is the latest to take note of the woes of the new "XTRA Sports 1360." At least somebody is, since the station, since its format flip in November, has virtually dropped off the ratings map. They are almost a non-entity in the San Diego radio market.

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2008/07/station-vanishes.html

'Get Your War On' gets its cartoon on
Stephen C. Webster

The darkly political comic strip 'Get Your War On,' penned by comedian David Rees and made popular in the pages of Rolling Stone, is breaching a new medium: the cartoon.

"Ever since Thomas Friedman rejected my application to be his moustache groomer, I’ve searched for a way to serve my country — and now I’ve found it!" said 'Get Your War On' creator David Rees in a media advisory.

"When 23/6 approached me about animating Get Your War On, I was skeptical they could do justice to my brilliance. However, they assured me I wasn’t actually that brilliant.

"Ever since that revelation, I’ve enjoyed breathing life into my beloved clip-art characters. These animations will be like Hobbes’ conception of life in the state of nature: 'nasty, brutish and short.' Anyone who enjoys Jib-Jab animations will have a nervous breakdown watching these things."

Watch the first episode: At Link (worth a look)

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Get_Your_War_On_gets_its_0801.html

BREAKING: Pres/CEO and Chairman Resign From Failing Bank Where McCain's Son Suddenly Left Last Week
Added by Mark Nickolas

Big developments this afternoon concerning Silver State Bancorp -- the bank from which Andrew McCain (son of John McCain) suddenly resigned from its board of directors a week ago for "personal reasons." Last night, I updated this story as neither McCain nor the bank have been willing to publicly discuss the reasons for his departure.

Well, today there's been additional high-ranking resignations:

Silver State Bancorp today announced the resignation of Corey L. Johnson as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and as Chief Executive Officer of Silver State Bank, the Company's wholly-owned bank subsidiary. The Company also announced the resignation of Silver State Bancorp's and Silver State Bank's Chairman of the Board, Bryan S. Norby.

The bank also reported devastating second quarter losses, significantly steeper than were anticipated:

Silver State Bancorp today reported a net loss for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 of $62.7 million, or ($4.15) per diluted share, compared with net income of $6.2 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, reported for the second quarter of 2007.

The loss for the quarter is the direct result of a $58.6 million provision to the Company's loan loss reserve, an impairment charge of $18.8 million representing a full write-down of the Company's goodwill asset, and the establishment of a valuation allowance of $7.1 million to the Company's net deferred tax assets.

Analysts were expecting only a $0.54 per share loss, not the $4.15 per share loss that it reported.

As a result, the stock -- which had already lost 85 percent of its value since McCain joined the board on April 1st -- has lost more than one-third of its remaining value so far today (see chart below) and trades at the time of this post at just 81 cents per share (down 96 percent from its 52-week high of $19.49):

http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/Mark%20Nickolas/blog/&blogId=2967

The local police and feds surprise the dangerous ones.

If they really considered him The One, why didn't they consider he might still have a bio-weapon somewhere? I think Sam is on target.

Sounds like a set-up, a script, part of psy-ops.

(Here's another take on it: My friend says this sounds similar to a Stalinist scenario where the Soviet Police come and tell you that you've been implicated in a plot to assassinate Stalin and tomorrow you'll be arrested and put on trial and you will not be allowed to present evidence of your innocence; so here is some poison; it is quick. You can say good-bye to your family and take it, or tomorrow you'll be 'tried' and shot.)

i have yet to get mines

gave the work address and left work early today so who knows, it might be waiting for me in the campus post office right nowt; i'll check on monday and it'd better be there or i'll be mad at maggiesboy, i was the first one (or no.2) to order i am sure because i was the first or second poster on the thread when it first showed up offering it for sale.....no fair

fellinian republicans tantrum'in in the dark,what a laugh, i have one word to describe it perfectly: Kabuki theatre! will the two smarmy dumbasses on tv who mocked the impeachcment hearings last week bother to mention this and characterize it correctly this time? Campbell Brown and the other twit Hill or Hell or something

California judge forbids cell phone "early termination fees"
Chris in Paris · 8/01/2008 06:02:00 PM ET · Link
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What? A judge wants to give consumers a break and limit the excessive powers of the telecom industry? Watch out now, this may lead to the type of consumer-oriented business that made America, America. Consumers are only responsible for 70% of the US economy so it's not like they deserve special treatment.
In a preliminary ruling Monday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw said Sprint Nextel must pay California mobile-phone consumers $18.2 million as part of a class-action lawsuit challenging early termination fees.

Though the decision could be appealed, it's the first in the country to declare the fees illegal in a state and could affect other similar lawsuits, with broad implications for the nation's fast-growing legions of cell phone users.

The judge - who is overseeing several other suits against telecommunications companies that involve similar fees - also told the company to stop trying to collect $54.7 million from other customers who haven't yet paid the charges they were assessed. The suit said about 2 million Californians were assessed the fee.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_10039461?nclick_check=1

Chicago Sun-Times: McCain's negative ads could make him look "angry" and "petulant"
John Aravosis (DC) · 8/01/2008 04:08:00 PM ET · Link
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You think? The thing is, McCain's negative ads have and haven't been successful. Typically, you want to make a small ad buy and then get the media and your opponent to talk about your ads, showing them endlessly for free on TV, etc. I.e., earned media, as we call it - or free publicity. The problem is when the free publicity is all negative. In this case, all the chatter is about how McCain has gotten angry, petulant, off-message, confused, tabloid. It's about how McCain has abandoned his "straight talk" image. How McCain has gone back on his promise to run a clean campaign. During the Swift Boating of John Kerry, the media didn't do their job. They rebroadcast the Swift Boat commercials, and surrogates, and let them spew, without calling them on their bs. This time, the media is running with McCain's story, but they're running it as an example of how bad McCain has gotten. That is not the goal of free media.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/mccain/1085650,CST-NWS-mccainside0...

i agree 100%, need to come up with new ways and ideas, we are more of them and smarter, there must be a way and we must find it, i still believe in people power, just a little lost at the moment, these are difficult (interesting?)times

now i've gotta run, will check back later

What's the best way to respond to sleazy attacks like McCain is now launching?
John Aravosis (DC) · 8/01/2008 01:12:00 PM ET · Link
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As you know, McCain has pulled out the old kitchen sink the past week, accusing Obama of hating the troops, wanting to lose the war, and being a vacuous busty blond chick. The question is, what's the best way to respond?

One argument is that you don't respond at all. You don't do anything that gives the other guy's attacks oxygen. If you respond at all, the argument goes, you give the media something to report. It's better to just let the charge die.

A second argument is to respond, hard. This is the "don't let them do to you what they did to John Kerry" argument. And in fact, sometimes it's better to let charges go unanswered, and other times it's best to respond. If you do respond, the question is, how strongly? Is it better for Obama to brush the McCain attacks off, talk about how they're beneath the dignity of this race, or should Obama go for the jugular? (Though I'm not sure what the jugular would be - question McCain's state of mind, perhaps?) The thing with going nuclear in response is that, again, you help make the attack a story (but if the story is how unfair and untrue and sleazy the attack is, then it's a good story for the guy on the receiving end). Also, if your counterattack isn't done just right, the media and the public can turn on you, and suddenly you're the one who's sleazy and negative.

Another benefit from going nuclear is "looking like a man." Seriously. We're still a somewhat sexist, and certainly macho, culture. We like our presidents to be "real men," even if they're women. To wit: Hillary's surrogates constantly saying that she had balls. There was a reason they were saying that. It wasn't just that Hillary is a woman and society is sexist. It's because even if you're a man running for president, the American people want to know that you're willing to defend their homes and their families - their children - to the death. Nice, clean-cut, intelligent men (or women) don't cut it, at least not 100%. Voters want to know that you can be an asshole too. I'd argue that neither John Kerry nor Al Gore ever demonstrated an inner asshole. Has Obama? Does he need to?

So what do you think? How has Obama responded to McCain's attacks? And how should he?

http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/whats-best-way-to-respond-to-sleazy.h...

negative attack style of campaigning finally fails, we hope, HOPE, that this is the case, we and the blogs and the liberals have been working at it for years maybe this time it will work, we are sick of this debased political style, to defeat it we need to demonstrate that it doesn't work any more, with obama it appears there might be a chance of this happening finally

It's making me sick to my stomach, what is happening. Again!

Well, now it looks like one of our residents may have died of Crypto. It's been on the news at least and all of the large water parks have been "hyper-chlorinating" their pools. None of it sounds good.

Today on the news I'm left wondering if the water is safe to drink.

Thank goodness for beer.

I bet those 6 police men who got taken away by ambulances after the foot chase for heat exhaustion could use one about now. I bet they'd like NBC to quit airing the video of them on a gurney. Heat advisories until Monday here. :0

Personally, I'm a fan of 100+ weather as long as the water supply is stable.

http://virtualreview.org/tech/zoom/670901/travelers-laptops-may-be-detai...

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post)
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border — No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies — Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location... ...full story at techmeme

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2008/08/01/laptops....

[excerpt]

Also, officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"The policies . . . are truly alarming," said Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), who is probing the government's border search practices. He said he intends to introduce legislation soon that would require reasonable suspicion for border searches, as well as prohibit profiling on race, religion or national origin.

[end excerpt]

Giving into the right-wing, alienating your base and gaining no new support for it. Dems are losers. Chomskey's right the senile McShame will win-- just like Reagan.

Obama shifts, says he may back offshore drilling

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources.

Shifting from his previous opposition to expanded offshore drilling, the Illinois senator told a Florida newspaper he could get behind a compromise with Republicans and oil companies to prevent gridlock over energy.

Republican rival John McCain, who earlier dropped his opposition to offshore drilling, has been criticizing Obama on the stump and in broadcast ads for clinging to his opposition as gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon. Polls indicate these attacks have helped McCain gain ground on Obama.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7695702

Whatever, advantage Obama had over McLiar by getting Maliki's endorsement- demonstrating he is leading the agenda- he will lose by now following McDick on offshore drilling. Eight years of John and Cindy. Unbelievable.

I've been looking for you all day!

I'm looking for some files and want to know if you have them.

I'm looking for Majority Report and Sam Seder Show files from Jan '05 to Oct 16 '06.

Do you have any of that?

just put the John Edwards love child story up. At the end they say its all rumor and someone else from the Edwards campaign has come forward saying he is the father.

We may learn the truth of 9/11 before we know the father of that kid.

yup i do!

all of them.

I've got everything else from Sam. Nancy from DallasAirAmerica is holding a raffle and wants to make that archive of Sam the prize. It would be a great prize.

My daughter is now pulling me out of the house so I'll get your reply on returning. Or you can email me at fernando37v at gmail.com

First Priority Bank becomes year’s 8th bank failure
Posted: 07:24 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Federal regulators in Florida closed First Priority Bank Friday, marking the eighth bank failure of the year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was named the receiver of the failed bank, entered into an agreement with Atlanta-based SunTrust Bank to assume the insured deposits of First Priority.

All six branches of the Bradenton, Fla.-based bank are to reopen Monday as branches of SunTrust. First Priority depositors will automatically become depositors of SunTrust, the FDIC said.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/01/first-priority-bank-becomes-year...

Judge removed from Jena 6 case
Posted: 01:23 PM ET
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — A Louisiana appeals court has removed a Lasalle Parish judge from the remaining “Jena Six” cases, court officials told CNN Friday.

Attorneys for four of the defendants had asked 9th Judicial District Judge Thomas Yeager to recuse Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr., claiming that Mauffrey “had made numerous statements on numerous occasions” indicating he had already decided on a defendant’s guilt and punishment.

“Indeed, Judge Mauffrey has expressed his belief generally that Jesse Ray (Beard) and his African-American friends are guilty, not only of the misconduct alleged in this matter, but of several other acts of misconduct as well,” according to court documents filed in the case.

A court official said Friday Yeager had found that the appearance of impropriety existed and recused Mauffrey.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/01/judge-removed-from-jena-6-case/

i think it would be great to have a 30 second spot featuring an angry old man yelling at people to get off his lawn. its time to paint mccain as too old and too feeble to run the country.

- maybe it could be several. in one of them you could have him complaining about having to pay school taxes...

Isn't this comparable to the judge saying the murder weapon/cause of death can't be mentioned, like: can't mention guns, axes, the hit-and-run vehicle, knives if those items killed a person. How is a taser any different???

http://www.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=826236&r=1

Judge orders stun gun references removed from autopsies
May 3rd, 2008 @ 9:04am
by Associated Press

AKRON, Ohio - A medical examiner must change her autopsy findings to delete any reference that stun guns contributed to the deaths of three people involved in confrontations with law enforcement officers, a judge ruled.

Friday's decision was a victory for Taser International Inc., which had challenged rulings by Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler, including a case in which five sheriff's deputies are charged in the death a jail inmate who was restrained by the wrists and ankles and hit with pepper spray and a stun gun.

Kohler ruled that the 2006 death of Mark McCullaugh Jr., 28, was a homicide and that he died from asphyxiation due to the ``combined effects of chemical, mechanical and electrical restraint.''

Visiting Judge Ted Schneiderman said in his ruling that there was no expert evidence to indicate that Taser devices impaired McCullaugh's respiration. ``More likely, the death was due to a fatal cardiac arrhythmia brought on by severe heart disease,'' the judge wrote.

Schneiderman ordered Kohler to rule McCullaugh's death undetermined and to delete any references to homicide.

The judge also said references to stun guns contributing to the deaths of two other men must be deleted from autopsy findings. Dennis Hyde, 30, died in 2005 after a confrontation with Akron police, and Richard Holcomb, 18, died the same year after being hit with a stun by a police officer in suburban Springfield Township.

It was unclear what affect Schneiderman's ruling may have on the upcoming criminal trial of the five sheriff's deputies. One of them, Deputy Stephen Krendick, is charged with murder. Other deputies face charges of reckless homicide or felonious assault. All have pleaded not guilty.

Krendick's trial is scheduled to begin June 16. A spokesman for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office, which is handling the case, said its lawyers are prepared to go forward.

Steve Tuttle, vice president of communications for Taser International, said the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company is pleased with Schneiderman's ruling.

``Taser International believed from the beginning that these determinations of cause of death must be supported by facts, medical research and scientific evidence,'' Tuttle said.

John Manley, a Summit County prosecutor who represented Kohler, said the judge's order went too far. The county is considering an appeal, he said.

``Taser is quite a force to be reckoned with and does everything to protect their golden egg, which is the Model X26,'' Manley said.

GM reports huge net loss
Posted: 07:16 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNN) — General Motors reported a huge second-quarter net loss on Friday of $15.5 billion after restructuring and other charges.

The automaker lost $27.33 per share in the quarter, compared to a profit of $784 million, or $1.37 per share, a year ago.

On an adjusted basis, GM posted a net loss of $6.3 billion, or $11.21 per share, compared with net income from continuing operations of $1.3 billion, or $2.29 per share, in the same period last year. GM stock fell 4 percent in pre-market trading.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/01/gm-reports-huge-net-loss/

Ford’s sales plunge
Posted: 12:31 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Ford Motor reported a sharp drop in July sales as high gas prices and a weak economy continued to bite the already battered auto industry.

U.S. sales for Ford tumbled 14.9 percent in July. Sales tracker Edmunds.com was forecasting just a 7.4 percent drop.

Sales of pickups and SUVs at its Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands fell 26 percent in the month while sales of “crossovers,” utility vehicles with a more car-like ride, fell 8 percent. Car sales were up 8 percent.

Reports from General Motors, Toyota Motor and Chrysler LLC, Nissan and Honda are to come out later Friday.
–From CNNMoney.com’s Chris Isidore

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/01/fords-sales-plunge/

U.S. gas prices hurting 3 in 4
Posted: 12:23 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Filling up the gas tank is taking an economic toll on three-quarters of American households, the highest level in more than two years, according to a poll released Friday.

In telephone interviews conducted July 27-29, 75 percent of 527 respondents told CNN/Opinion Research that high gas prices are causing financial hardship for them or their households.

That was up from 60 percent saying gas prices were causing hardship in late April and 69 percent in April 2006.

The poll had a sampling error of 4.5 percent.
–From CNNMoney.com’s Andrew Tangel

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/01/us-gas-prices-hurting-3-in-4/

McCain suggests military-style invasion modeled on the surge to control inner city crime.
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to the National Urban League, a group “devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.” When an audience member asked him how he planned to reduce urban crime, McCain praised Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s efforts in New York Cirty before invoking the military’s tactics in Iraq as the model for crime-fighting:

MCCAIN: And some of those tactics — you mention the war in Iraq — are like that we use in the military. You go into neighborhoods, you clamp down, you provide a secure environment for the people that live there, and you make sure that the known criminals are kept under control. And you provide them with a stable environment and then they cooperate with law enforcement, etc, etc.

Listen here:
At Link

Now that our military experts advocate approaching the “war on terror” with more policing and intelligence gathering, McCain wants to approach urban policing with more military power. (HT: Political Radar)

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-suggests-military-style-invas...

Limbaugh marks 20 years on the air with call from the Bush family.
Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh marks twenty years on the air today. During his show this afternoon, Limbaugh received a call from the President George W. Bush, former President George H. W. Bush, and former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush. The Bush family congratulated their “pal” Limbaugh on his “twenty years of important and excellent broadcasting.” Later in their conversation, former President Bush — apparently not realizing he was on the air — asked about “our man [Roger] Ailes,” the president of Fox News:

H. W. BUSH: Do you see our man Ailes at all?

LIMBAUGH: Oh, yeah. I saw Roger at Tony Snow’s funeral…And a couple of times earlier this summer.

H. W. BUSH: Are we on the radio, are we? […] I didn’t know that. I’ll clean up my act here. I’m glad they told me.

Listen here:
At Link

Yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney sent Limbaugh a recorded message calling him a “one of the great names in broadcasting history.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/limbaugh-marks-20-years-on-the-air-w...

The fact that I work for the Postal Service in no way implies USPS employees have their own dedicated mailstream that takes precedence over all other mail, nor does it imply we are able to pick specific packages from the "regular peoples" mailstream and divert them to Kangerlussuaq Greenland. Your package passed through my post office the other day and I took the liberty of redirecting it so it might get to see the Greenlandic ice-cap before it's gone. Hope that was OK. ;-)

Now that I've watched a Bad Situationist I won't ruin the ending by telling you whether or not Sam spends the baby's trust fund, whether or not the meatball survives or if the rumor that Joe LIEberman makes a cameo appearance is true or false. You'll just have to wait until your copy arrives.....someday.

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Actually we have perfected teleportation and we get our mail at nearly the speed of light and everything me mail only costs a nickel.

...Homer Simpson's dad?

Seriously, I'm asking for help here.

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Why does he drink the bottled water?!

McCain ad did make fun of Obama’s appearance.
By: John Amato @ 10:42 AM - PDT

Check out this ad on McCain’s website and tell me if Obama was justified in saying that they are going after the way he looks. Of course he was. The ad even puts his face on our currency. Obama was just stating the obvious. Not that any of this matters to Rick Davis.

Remember when I caught Republican operative Ed Rogers back in ‘06 begin the assault on Obama’s name.

Ed Rogers: Barack “Hussein” Obama

Ed Rogers: Count me down as somebody who underestimates Barack “Hussein” Obama. Please

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/01/mccain-ad-did-make-fun-of-obama...

McCain tries to scrub his website: They called him A Political Celebrity
By: John Amato @ 9:00 AM - PDT

Screen capture at link

Well, as Digby says—look what’s been scrubbed from McCain’s campaign website:

There had been no doubt that McCain would eventually become a full-fledged White House candidate, and he had been expected to make his candidacy official in the spring.

The 2006 midterm campaign had just ended when McCain took the first formal step toward a presidential run in November. He formed an exploratory committee and gave a speech casting himself as a “common-sense conservative” in the vein of Ronald Reagan who could lead the party back to dominance after a dreadful election season by returning to the GOP’s core principles.

A political celebrity, McCain is considered a top contender for the nomination.

Hey, Rick Davis, I guess Obama isn’t the only celebrity running for president.

R.Payne says:

That’s from the google cache. The original article has been scrubbed.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/01/mccain-tries-to-scrub-his-websi...

Rise of Fourth Reich in America?

What Did Bush Administration Want
from Iraq National Museum in Baghdad?

Modern Al Qaeda Terrorist Link
to Nazis and Muslim Brotherhood

Interview with Marrs by Linda Moulton Howe:
“Without habeas corpus in the United States today,
what we now have is a Fourth Reich, somebody in a position of power -
the President, the Attorney General, the head of Homeland Security – can simply
point a figure at you and designate you as an undesirable and hence,
an enemy combatant, and they can grab you and imprison you
and you don’t even get a day in court, much less a lawyer.”
- Jim Marrs, Author, The Rise of the Fourth Reich
Now in his newest book, The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Jim Marrs lays out in great detail with names, places and dates his assertion that Hitler’s National Socialism (NAZI) did not die at the end of World War II because protégés of Hitler had spread corporate front companies around the world. Further, the United States imported Hitler’s best rocket scientists in Project Paperclip to test V-2 rockets at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.

Even current President George W. Bush’s grandfather - Prescott Bush – was intimately connected in the 1930s to 1940s with the powers that represented the Rockefellers and Rothschild banking and business interests that were also involved in the creation and growth of Hitler and his Nazi Party. In late 1942, the U. S. government actually prosecuted Prescott Bush under the Trading With The Enemy Act because he was handling money for German steel magnate, Fritz Thyssen, who was helping to finance the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Third Reich.

“Without habeas corpus in the United States today,
what we now have is a Fourth Reich, somebody in a position of power -
the President, the Attorney General, the head of Homeland Security – can simply
point a figure at you and designate you as an undesirable and hence,
an enemy combatant, and they can grab you and imprison you
and you don’t even get a day in court, much less a lawyer.”

Now in his newest book, The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Jim Marrs lays out in great detail with names, places and dates his assertion that Hitler’s National Socialism (NAZI) did not die at the end of World War II because protégés of Hitler had spread corporate front companies around the world. Further, the United States imported Hitler’s best rocket scientists in Project Paperclip to test V-2 rockets at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.

Creating wars for profit and stripping civilian liberties are Nazi goals. Osama Bin Laden was recruited into the Muslim Brotherhood back in the 1970s. The Muslim Brotherhood was created in Egypt back in the 1930s, but by the late 1930s had been pretty well taken over by a Nazi organization. A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was a great admirer of Hitler.
ISN’T IT TRUE THAT ALLEN DULLES, THEN DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY IN THE 1950S, ARRANGED TO HAVE THE NAZIS OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TRANSFERRED TO SAUDI ARABIA?
That’s correct. During the war, any serviceman who served in North Africa would probably believe that we had as much problems with the Arabs there as we had with the Nazis because the Arabs, through the Muslim Brotherhood, had aligned themselves with the Nazis.

What Did Bush Administration Want
from Iraq National Museum in Baghdad?
Why would they have such an interest in ancient artifacts? Because this was all coming from the cradle of human civilization, the Sumerian civilization. On the Sumerian cuneiform tablets, we find not only accounts of extraterrestrial visitation on this planet, but we also find perhaps the secrets of energy manipulation at the atomic and subatomic levels. That’s the very thing that the Nazis were working on in their infamous ‘Bell Project,’ which was a device that created counter-rotating energy and magnetic fields to create another field, which could then theoretically lead to antigravity, flying saucers, star portals, time and inter-dimensional gateways, time travel, a lot of real science fiction sounding things.”

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1450&category=Environment

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own": H.G. Wells

Abraham Simpson Quote:
"Attention American workers: your plant has been taken over by an all-star team of freelance terrorists"
I think Grandpa Simpson might have some level of Alzheimer's

McCain's Quote:
"The Anthrax most likely came from Iraq"

There are behaviors associated with the candidate that would be consistent with a diagnosis of PTSD. Author Robert Timberg mentions McCain's intense explosions of anger --- a hallmark sign of lingering mental trauma from war -- in his book "John McCain: An American Odyssey." Timberg describes the episodes as "an eruption of temper out of all proportion to the provocation." Timberg, who McCain has said "knows more about me than I do," wrote that McCain's sudden fury is a result of Vietnam coming "back to haunt him." McCain has himself described having an adverse reaction to the sound of jangling keys, which reminds him of his Vietnam jailers. McCain also told doctors that during solitary confinement he had strayed pretty "far out" and had referred to himself as "mentally deteriorating."

http://www.majorityreportradio.com/archives/2005/
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/archives/2006/

Action lags 1 year after Minneapolis bridge tragedy
By Jon Hilkevitch | Chicago Tribune reporter
4:03 PM CDT, August 1, 2008
1 2 next One year after the Minneapolis bridge collapse sent a jarring wake-up call about the nation's crumbling infrastructure, little work is being done to repair bridges and roads amid a funding crisis that threatens more delays and risks to the public, federal and local authorities acknowledge.

The problem deepens each month because of shrinking gas tax revenues that are needed to shore up ailing bridges. People are driving less and many have shifted to more fuel-efficient vehicles to cope with record prices at the pump, another factor contributing to the free fall in gas-tax collections.

In Illinois, thousands of bridges are deficient and urgently need overhauls to guard against accidents like the Minneapolis disaster on the Interstate Highway 35W bridge a year ago Friday, according to a new report.

While Illinois ranked 10th best in the nation in upkeep, more than 4,300 of the almost 26,000 bridges in the state are considered structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, said the study, released Thursday and conducted for the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank based in California.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-bridge-safetyaug01,0,4355344.stor...

My hair is soaked. But, my deck is powerwashed and sanded.

Good evening political bloggerites!!!

Whazz shakin'?

My internet explorer would not let me onto this site. It acted like you were a disease or something. A separate warning window kept popping up that said "Internet Explorer cannot open www.samsedershow.com. Operation aborted."

Weird, huh?

Thank God I have Firefox!

....very quirky browser with all the built in b.s. memory leaking bloated code.

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Those damn workers are trying to divert profits for their own use in an effort to keep the Walton kids from becoming trillionaires. Someone should organize and keep those uppity whiny workers from spoiling the Walton's pursuit of the American Dream.

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Instead, use toothpaste (not the gel kind) or Brasso!

It works!! I tried it!

Read more here.

http://lifehackery.com/2008/07/14/gadgetry/

Anette- that's very wierd.. I have the same problem, but i first noticed it with Atrios' site... try it in ie    http://www.eschatonblog.com/

I dont seem to have that problem with any other sites 

Yep, same window "operation aborted" for eschaton...

Freaky. And I've been surfing (in IE) via stumbleupon's search engine. You're right, no trouble with any other sites.

Glad there's firefox!

I went to Atrios Site and then Sam's site gave me the IE message.

http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/

had to restart my computer but it seemed to have no trouble ridding itself of it.

I wonder if that has anything to do with this?

That's really wierd!

Wanna read the book?

http://www.hedweb.com/huxley/bnw/

I just checked and my Norton anti-virus was off. I had to verify that I have Norton. Now I'm doing a full scan just to be safe.

http://www.toad.com/gnu/

yeah you should really blog on your own blog...

putz...

shame...

Good lord, talk about a pessimist.

http://www.thinkingpeace.com/

I heard that, now if you'll excuse me I'm battling folks at free republic...

oops..hi sam..that was a reflex..

I have mine ! :)

mailed with a 1c, an 80c, and a 5cent stamp.

Subject: FW: VIRUS COMING !!! PLEASE READ & FORWARD !!! > HYPERLINK

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verified on snopes.com

>
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> HYPERLINK
> 'http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp'
> \nhttp://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
>
> Hi All, I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are
> gearing up for this
> virus!
> I checked Snopes (URL above:), and it is for real!!
> Get this E-mail message sent around to your contacts ASAP.
> PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND
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> from someone who
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> the reason why you
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> to receive this
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> If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even
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> This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It has been
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Creepy! http://www.thelotuseater.com/ Interesting drawings...some of them move - and the background music! *shudder*

http://www.struggle.ws/

More of an archive...but interesting photos!

lawnmowing, and sanding my deck - and tomorrow I get to primer. I was hoping to paint, but the guy at the Home Depot said I have to primer.

Lovely...

night all

I am also having problems:

Error message:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://samsedershow.com/

Operation aborted

Had the same problem last nite and this morning.

I am using Mozilla 1.76 to post this.
however this version goes all blue screen when
more than 200 comments are posted, therefore to
view long pages like this one I am using an old
unregistered version of Opera 3.62.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Amy Weiss

Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ) are both campaigning in Florida on Friday, trying to appeal to voters in the swing state. Democrats are highlighting McCain's position reversal on a proposed National Catastrophic Insurance Fund, a fund that would help victims of hurricanes and other natural disasters. McCain now opposes the measure, despite its strong support from important McCain backer, Florida Governor Charlie Crist.

The fund would provide national disaster relief insurance, rather than placing the burden on individual states. According to the Boston Globe:

The proposed fund -- sought by Florida officials and others, but stuck in Congress -- is designed to help more property owners get insurance at lower premiums. It would be funded by the federal government and by states who choose to participate, and would spread the risk across the country and limit insurers' liability so they can offer affordable rates.

The DNC provided a timeline of McCain's position in a press release. In March 2007, the Palm Beach Post said, "Crist praised McCain for his support of Florida issues such as a national catastrophic fund for disasters and a continued oil drilling ban off of Florida's coasts."

In April 2007, the Bush Administration said it opposed creation of such a fund.

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/446

Look again.

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Parcels start at 1.34, then it's .17 for each add'l oz.

It would be on the news and all the reputable websites doncha think? That and you toniD would have found it and posted it here by now! ;-)

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Actually, if you go to snopes you'll discover there is a real virus, but the message you got is a hoax about it.

Wanting the White House in the worst way
The pundits who adore John McCain wonder why he has adopted campaign tactics he once despised, but his compromise with the smear merchants began a long time ago.

By Joe Conason

Aug. 1, 2008 | For many of the journalists who regard John McCain as an unusually honorable politician, listening to his increasingly dishonorable campaign rhetoric is a painful and puzzling experience. They are openly wondering what has driven him to denigrate and even smear Barack Obama in a style more reminiscent of McCain's old enemies in his own party than the straight-talking maverick. They want to believe that he has not really changed, and that somehow these lapses can be blamed on someone else. Like a spouse in a bad marriage, they have yet to face up to the fact that he actually changed years ago -- or to ask if he was ever the man they once thought he was.

Although several prominent pundits have denounced McCain for questioning Obama's patriotism, a lingering reluctance to confront reality still colors much commentary on the campaign. Writing gingerly in the Washington Post of the Arizona senator's "fuzzy" campaign persona, David Ignatius pleaded with McCain to return to the noble, tolerant and healing ways that no longer seem to govern his character.

Without saying exactly what troubles the senator's Beltway fan club about his current behavior, the Post columnist offered an exculpatory theory: "What's damaging the McCain campaign now, I suspect, is that this fiercely independent man is trying to please other people -- especially a Republican leadership that doesn't really trust him."

But the Republican leadership, whomever that might include, did not dictate the smears against Obama now emanating almost daily from the McCain camp. When McCain accused Obama of seeking to win the presidency by losing the Iraq war, tantamount to calling the Democrat a traitor, he uttered those words himself. When his campaign aired a commercial claiming that Obama had refused to visit wounded U.S. troops without TV cameras, he personally endorsed that lie. When his campaign then aired a vapid ad depicting Obama as a celebrity comparable to Britney Spears, McCain claimed to be "proud" of that attack on a Senate colleague.

It is sad to watch McCain so casually abandon the civility that he pledged to maintain. But the descent from decency didn't begin yesterday.

As many observers have noted by now, the negative strategy adopted by the McCain campaign under the leadership of new manager Steve Schmidt follows a template created by Schmidt's old boss, Karl Rove. It is all very familiar stuff, from the direct assault on Obama's power as a media star to the insinuations that he is weak, elitist and not truly patriotic. All these themes can and will be amplified by "independent" advertising that raises doubts about Obama's religious and racial attitudes (or those of his wife). More:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/08/01/rove_mccain/

maggiesboy.
I can't wait to watch this dvd.
I'm dead tired tho
I may watch is tommorow.
I had to disassemble a 20' tall
scaffolding set today by myself.
I've been working on replacing some bad
roofing on an almost flat part of my roof.
I was covered in black tar yesterday,
and the weather is unbearably humid here.

I haven't watched all the bonus disc and out-takes yet, but it's all good. Roof work in the heat and humidity, my definition of hell on earth! ;-)

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just watched a great movie...'The Cooler" William H. Macy....We really liked it!
Happe Talk

at Netroots. And when I asked Sam to sign it he ripped the cover to shreds.

I don't care... It made it unique!

Alice, Do you have the '05 to oct '06 Majority Report mp3's?

An Anonymous posted links up blog to those years. Did you see it?

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Annette:
I reconfigured my IE Browser to Prompt
rather than allow scripts to run.
When the page is reloaded is prompts you,
Yes or No.. Click on No.

Also did anyone notice a week ago or so
Sams Site, this one
Began setting Cookies from sitemeter.com

Hi bibi girl, maggiesboy!!
Submitted by toniD on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 6:11pm.

A very belatedly HI back at ya!

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it wouldn't make me mad if you gave the impression of at least having an open ear to this third party weekend...

i was too scared to ask ralph to sign my book let alone your question.. :)

Can not keep my eyes open.

Later

..that you'd be that shy around Ralph. I went to see RFK Jr. back in '04 when he was pushing his Crimes Against Nature and got him to sign two copies. Authors are never shy about signing. Will he be there tomorrow?

p.s. Bib was here about 5 hours ago. ;-)

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I'm checking out too.

Nite all!

i didn't work outside home then..i sold costume jewelery on ebay and had no high speed...i only have things i liked clipped and cut to save...text...and pics...

my experience with michael stipe at buzz coffee and dada's brother's experience with lou reed that spook me....even at clinton's second inaugural i made my boyfriend get all my autographs... :) it was neat though that gloria and stewart 'knew me' from Alice and the internettig i do.. :)

but that's what she was sitting there to do..sign books..

hope your healing is on schedule.. xoxo sleep well.. :)

hope your healing is on schedule.. xoxo sleep well.. :)

r

just had one of the most intensely erotic experiences of my life, and I was fully dressed and didn't even kiss the person.

my friend came around, we watched a couple of films and decided to catch some sleep before she had to leave at about 4.30 to catch the plane.

obviously, we didn't. sat up catching up with each other, wisecracking and giggling hysterically like idiots. haven't had this much fun with another person for a long, long time... total release. we were kind of prostrate on the double mattress I keep on my floor, lying about chatting, then gradually, step by step, we ended up closer and closer, lying next to each other, spooning, then facing each other, then legs tangled, holding hands, semi-asleep, and I gradually became aware of her hot breath against my neck, and that we had started pressing up against each other, and that my hand was cupping her breast. I had the most intense and almost painful erection, and we were both aware of it, and she was breathing fast in my ear and against my neck... and somehow, things stayed more or less like that for about two hours, waves of mute passion rising and sinking... hot breath, occasionally tracing fingers, breasts pressing against my chest... sometimes I'd almost doze off, but most of the time I was *quite* awake, though we were both pretending to sleep...

Then I got up, made coffee and had a cigarette. It was about 4am. And we had a chat about it.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at September 21, 2006 11:24 PM

It is 2:00 a.m. sharp: the busy city is still not in a mood to sleep; hungry dogs howl in the night. I toss here and there but sleep never cohabits my bed. What else can I do? It has now become my nocturnal routine for a number of months.

I put on the night light and move my hand towards the table where I recall the glass of water I placed there that morning. After a gulp, I get repose and return to my worrisome recollections. In my uneasy sleep, they are sudden to strike and yet take an aged lingering approach.

A lass with crimson stroked lips, the tresses of a blissful cherub and a babyish smile. She never told me of her feelings until that fateful day.

My phone had rung. It was Tshering. She was a bit het up and cried out, “Tashi! Are you so stupid as to forget my birthday?”

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at September 22, 2006 2:00 AM

and blog

these people who spoke sound more like you than obama....

what's the matter with that picture?

Add me to the list of idiots who cannot navigate to this site via Internet Explorer. I am using Firefox at this moment.

I get the same error message mentioned previously: "Internet Explorer cannot open the site http://www.samsedershow.com/. Operation aborted."

I screwed around with AVG, to no avail, on the off-chance that a weird security issue had cropped up. For several weeks AVG 8.0 has been constantly directing me to reboot to make the updates active. Others on the innernets seem to be having the same problem. So far, none of the "fixes" have been successful unto the next day.

If I wanted to spend hours doing computer maintenance, I'd have a protector in my pocket and tape on my glasses.

ive been spyrus free for almost 24 hours without spybot and avg....

see ya...now i'm really going out...

JOHN BARLEYCORN

There were three men come out of the west
Their fortunes for to try
And they have made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn must die (2x)

Fa la la la, it's a lovely day
Fa la la la lay o
Fa la la la, it's a lovely day
Sing fa la la la lay

They plowed him in three furrows deep
Laid clods all on his head
And they have made a solemn oath
John Barleycorn was dead

Well then there came a shower of rain
Which from the clouds did fall
John Barleycorn sprang up again
And so amazed them all

Well then came men with great sharp scythes
To cut him off at the knee
They bashed his head against a stone
And they used him barbarously

Well then came men with great long flails
To cut him skin from bone
The miller has used him worse than that
He ground him between two stones

They wheeled him here, they wheeled him there
Wheeled him into the barn
And they have used him worse than that
They bunged him in a vat

They worked their will upon John Barleycorn
But he lives to tell the tale
We pour him into an old brown jug
And we call him home-brewed ale

There were three men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn must die
They've plowed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in
Threw clods upon his head
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn was dead
They've let him lie for a very long time, 'til the rains from heaven did fall
And little Sir John sprung up his head and so amazed them all
They've let him stand 'til Midsummer's Day 'til he looked both pale and wan
And little Sir John's grown a long long beard and so become a man
They've hired men with their scythes so sharp to cut him off at the knee
They've rolled him and tied him by the waist serving him most barbarously
They've hired men with their sharp pitchforks who've pricked him to the heart
And the loader he has served him worse than that
For he's bound him to the cart
They've wheeled him around and around a field 'til they came unto a barn

And there they made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn
They've hired men with their crabtree sticks to cut him skin from bone
And the miller he has served him worse than that
For he's ground him between two stones

And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl and his brandy in the glass
And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl proved the strongest man at last
The huntsman he can't hunt the fox nor so loudly to blow his horn
And the tinker he can't mend kettle or pots without a little barleycorn

===========

John Barleycorn must die!

Happy Lughnasadh, if you prefer...

(I do)

here can fit in a few hotel rooms...i dont mind...so don't feel sorry.. :)...they say what i think in more cases than obama and (der) mccain...

i don't feel alone in this third party world...even still...i feel like i'm voting for who will most represent my views..win or lose...

hi miss cathy..loved your post last night...hope all's well with you and email me about infopeople someday...

Sorry, only glimpsed at what you'd written that night (re infopeople) so I'm wondering - at our campus these are info pages created by faculty and staff. Is this what you're talking about?

Just checked out our pages and I was WAAAAY off. Sorry Missy Alice, I got what we use and infopeople totally mixed up. What's infopeople?

Can't Get Here From There
new
Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 11:45pm.

Add me to the list of idiots who cannot navigate to this site via Internet Explorer. I am using Firefox at this moment.

***************

Wonder if one of the Anon's put some virus post in a thread around here?

Attention SEDER
new
Submitted by Annette on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 9:38pm.

My internet explorer would not let me onto this site. It acted like you were a disease or something. A separate warning window kept popping up that said "Internet Explorer cannot open www.samsedershow.com. Operation aborted."

...used Netscape. No problems with other sites using IE

looks like the classes the librarians teach at our campus. Also looks like the kinds of workshops we hold for staff and faculty on our campus in the learning center. One of my jobs is to assist in the training.

found this on the rightard site Little Green Footballs

I’ve confirmed that there’s some kind of problem on the Internet, that only seems to affect users of the Internet Explorer 7 web browser. Attempting to browse to many sites results in an ‘Operation Aborted’ error. No information about the problem elsewhere yet ... stay tuned.

UPDATE at 8/1/08 7:20:27 pm:

It appears to be related to Sitemeter.com — browsing to their web site with Internet Explorer 7 produces the error too.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30818_A_Big_IE7_Problem_on_the_W...

I'll remove sitemeter in the morning if it's still a problem.. this is not a local problem.

nite! 

1. Open menu item: Tools...Options
2. Click "Security" tab
3. Select "Restricted Sites"
4. Click "Sites" button
5. Under "Add this website to this zone", enter "*.sitemeter.com" without the quotes
6. Click "Add" button
7. Close windows using "Close" or "OK", not "Cancel".

I don't use IE .... soooooo ..... that's all I know about it.

who's this "SEDER" guy?

I guess they let ANYONE in here...

sitemeter code was screwy.. G'nite (im not allowed to be here!)

...stranger...

Wow, like what's up with him not being able to just fix the blog cuz we want him to? I definitely felt that if I'd said I wanted him to change the banner to Pink Pretty Ponies, he'd like, ignore me or something. Who does this Seder guy think he is?

one of Janeane Gorofalo's friends on Facebook? I am the only one to call her Janey-Ann and tell her "Peaches!". Gawd, I felt like a dork out there on my own.

Seder fixed this blog so now it's mine mine mine!!

Take THAT Chubby Bubba!

ok, you guys can have the damn blogback - but watch out, there's something wrong with the sitemeter or something. I think Seder said it could blow at any time.

irresponsible

Is that on account of those herds of cats you maintain?

Cats are cute and fuzzy and full of personality. But I'd really like to know what is there purpose? Rat chasers? What are they good for?

Zoe barks and has big teeth and she has a great personality too. I just don't get the cat thing. My mom had one who was aloof back when I was a kid. And I had an ex that made me take home a huge cat that was about "bob cat" sized and he was cool. I miss that cat but he wasn't a "normal" cat. His name was Bob, well, Robert to be precise..

By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 6 minutes ago

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources.

Shifting from his previous opposition to expanded offshore drilling, the Illinois senator told a Florida newspaper he could get behind a compromise with Republicans and oil companies to prevent gridlock over energy.

Con't-YahooNews

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

Liberty Valance ? Sorry,Bad guess probably..

If you want to be incognito,I'm sure we would all be cool
and Not say anything..I know I would..

Or,you have my email..I won't tell a soul..No Really !

It would just be fun to read you and learn something.. Thanks.. :)

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

at least the supreme court will be like you want it...
*BARF*

As Ralph stated...it's socialism that comes along to keep capitalism propped up...airlines, mortgage companies, telecoms...

Fuck it...

Change U.S. priorities from war/destruction to collaboration and focus on renewable energy technology. From an economic standpoint, green jobs can't be outsourced by their very nature. Focus on quality education that includes environmental education starting in preschool (hopefully, it will begin in the home); the economically poor (mostly women and children) suffer the most from climate
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