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Submitted by SEDER on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 12:37am.
Apparently the sitemeter code was messing with things..

I didn't know wtf was going on... I had the same problem at The Young Turks site

-M the a-c

Submitted for your approval ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Q3pWQ3uR4

Brian Eno

Sam, send your solution to C&L please ...

i just went outside and a tiny black kitten was to my left as soon as it saw me it ran back across the lot and through the fence to the other building...i went to my car and got food and put it out for the cat should it ever come back...

yeah....i don't think i really care about any of this who is president, who can be president..and congress etc...

i just don't fucking care right now...those elected officials are not in my sphere of influence (to steal a phrase)...a stray cat is in my sphere...

if you can't tolerate me as a third party person..wait til you see the i'm not in to news or politics at all person...

good.

Over

motorsickles

http://www.eurospares.com/graphics/grasstri.jpg

pickles

http://e-food.jp/roppongi_blog/archives/kasik_pickles.jpg

eat or race

your choice

welcome to the bloggie.

whassup?

"So dragged the old body home last night after a loooonnnnngggg hard day and was just in time to catch the late night news. Well blow me over with a feather!!

The Johannesburg Metro Police decided to block the hiways out of Jo'burg as a protest against low pay. After blocking peak hour hour traffic for 5 hours, the South African Police (SAPS) decided that this had been going on for long enough so they decided to shoot the Metro Police with rubber bullets. Being a tad pissed off at this, the Metro Police opened up on the SA Police with live ammo. A shoot out ensued with both sets of Cops firing at each other.

There was footage of the poor citizens who had been stationery for 5 hours having their cars blasted by all sorts of flying missiles. Mothers couldn't fetch kids from school and people were phoning radio stations complaining. The really scaring scary thing is that with all the shooting, the whole bloody lot of them are such sh** shots that only one cop was killed.

What sort of message is any of this sending out to your average criminal in the street? Gang warfare is taboo but it is fine and dandy if the cops do it!"

As usual our politicians don't say a word - after all this isn't Zimbabwe!

http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?membername=bluerootsradio&site=p...

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Why should we work with The Rethugs ? They Never work with us !

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."

Obama shifts position on offshore oil drilling

Submitted by MMRules on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 4:03am.
Why should we work with The Rethugs ? They Never work with us !

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Good point, MMRules.

Do Americans really believe that offshore oil drilling will lower gas prices in the near future?

It sounds like the Democrats will be "compromising" again in Congress.

p.s. Apparently, the Democrats need to consult the dictionary and learn the definition of compromise.

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Reference:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/compromise

g on your candidate and see it - or search it and read it...

this is like being part of the 'invisible web' this other than d or r world..

Local-State-Then Federal..

Green,purple or Peace & Freedom..

Federally,just too many important issues for me to waste my vote on a Third Party for President..
We can agree to disagree.. :)

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

"Compromiser" Obama And Congress
Submitted by Star Vox on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 5:01am.
p.s. Apparently, the Democrats need to consult the dictionary and learn the definition of compromise.

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Reference:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/compromise

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Email that definition of compromise to Obama and The Democrat Leadership..
They need it ! Thanks.. :)

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

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

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

from street.com:

The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote against the way Comcast (CMCSA - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) has managed bandwidth on its Internet network --- a move that industry observers say will have the unintended consequence of pushing cable operators to usage-based pricing.

With a majority vote spearheaded by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, regulators will rule that Comcast violated federal policy by willfully delaying Internet traffic for users of person-to-person (P2P) applications, including the much-maligned BitTorrent service. BitTorrent is a client used to download and share large files, often illegally pirated movies and music, and one that also eats up an enormous amount of bandwidth.

During an interview with CNBC Friday, Martin said the FCC will order Comcast "to stop that practice where they're blocking consumers' access to certain kinds of content and applications and that they have to disclose that to their customers. One of the most troubling parts of this was not only were they blocking access, but they were hiding it from their own customers."

The last hurrah for the banking system

By Mike Whitney

Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3559.shtml

( I like this guy he writes like KP. )

Exerpt:

On Friday, after the market had closed, the FDIC shut down two more banks, First Heritage Bank and First National Bank. Two weeks earlier, regulators seized IndyMac Bancorp following a run by depositors. The FDIC now operates like a stealth paramilitary unit, deploying its shock troops on the weekends to do their dirty work out of the public eye and at times when it will least effect the stock market. The reasons for this are obvious; there’s only one thing the government hates more than seeing flag-draped coffins on the evening news, and that’s seeing long lines of frantic soccer moms and blue-collar working guys waiting impatiently to get what’s left of their savings out of their now-deceased bank. After all, flag-draped coffins merely indicate that we’re losing a war, but lines at the bank prove that the system is broken. And the system is broken, that’s why people are depressed and confidence is waning.

Banks runs are a shock to the collective psyche; they demonstrate that the stewards of the system are incompetent and have made a mess of things. When depositors see a bank run they realize that their hard-earned money is not safe. That’s why they get edgy and cut back on their spending. When their confidence wanes, it extends to the whole system. Suddenly they start questioning everything they once took for granted. They become skeptical of the institutions which, just days earlier, seemed rock-solid. That’s why bankers surround themselves with marble columns, vaulted ceilings and lofty-sounding titles to maintain the illusion of security while masking the truth that fractional banking is the biggest scam in history. It relies on the “greater fools” theory which assumes that bankers can be trusted to only create credit when it is backed by sufficient capital. But it is not true. The banks have put us all at risk.

Bank runs are a direct hit on the foundation of the free market system. Unchecked, the tremors can ripple through the entire society and trigger violent political upheaval, even revolution. The public may not grasp their significance, but everyone in Washington is paying attention. They take it seriously, very seriously. It is a sign that the system is disintegrating and it may be irreversible."

(bloggers from hell!)

continued from Mike Whitney's article...

"Saber-rattling at the FDIC

An article in the San Francisco Business Times said that the FDIC is worried about the reporting on Internet blogs. They’d rather keep the banking system’s troubles out of the news.

The publicity just further undermines the public’s confidence and spreads fear. Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., summed it up like this after the run on IndyMac, “The blogs were a bit out of control. We’re very mindful of the media coverage and blogs in controlling misinformation. All I can say is we’re going to continue to stay on top of it. The misinformation that came out over the weekend fed a lot of depositors’ fears.”

Is that a threat? The cure for a failed banking system is adequate capital and prudent oversight not threats to critics of the system. That’s balderdash. Commissar Blair apparently believes that bloggers should be treated the same way as journalists in Iraq, who, if they veer ever so slightly from the Pentagon’s “the surge is a great triumph” script, find themselves on the smoking end of an M-16 at some unmarked checkpoint outside Baquba.

If Blair wants people to take her seriously, she should stop the paramilitary-type mothballing operations to shut down banks and tell the American people the truth about what is going on. The banking system is busted; Blair knows that as well as anyone. Now it’s time for someone to accept the mantle of leadership, step up to the microphone and tell the public what they really need to know: “My fellow citizens, we are embroiled in the greatest financial crisis our nation has ever faced and we will have to take emergency action to keep the entire system from melting down.”

How hard is that? But it won’t happen, because everyone in the administration has an aversion to telling the truth; it’s like the Devil and Holy Water. Besides, it’s easier to blame the bloggers, that harmless subspecies that spend long hours pecking away at their keyboards in their windowless five-foot by seven-foot hovels.

Bloggers aren’t the problem; the problem is a system that’s collapsing from decades of abusive credit expansion and creation and insufficient capital. Now everyone is going to pay for the excesses of the few."

continued from Mike Whitney's article...

"As the bank runs increase, the FDIC will be forced to admit the truth, which is they don’t have the resources to deal with a problem this big. Currently, the FDIC has only $53 billion in reserves to guarantee $4 trillion in total bank deposits. The entire system has a mere $267 billion cash in the vaults. What a shabby way to run a banking system. Where’s the money going to come from when depositors start withdrawing their savings? How will the FDIC deal with the ongoing deleveraging in the market which is forcing more and more investors to move into cash?

No one knows. All we get is more prevaricating; more smoke and mirrors, Bush assures us that “Our capital markets are functioning efficiently and effectively.” Nonsense. The markets are cratering and the banks are toast. A blind man can see it. The FDIC is listing and Blair knows it. Bush needs to cut the gibberish and tell the American people the truth so they can prepare for the hard times ahead.

P.T. PAULSON: “The the banking system is sound . . . This is a very manageable situation.”

Last Sunday, sought Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tried to reassure the public that the banking system is sound, while bracing people for more trouble ahead:

“I think it’s going to be months that we’re working our way through this period -- clearly months. But again, it’s a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.”

Paulson is like a broken record. Everything is always hunky-dory. He is the consummate Wall Street investment sharpie; a bright guy who could charm a hungry dog off a meat wagon. But when it comes to telling the truth, forget about it. You’d be better off listening to Bush, which isn’t saying much. The banking system is not sound nor is it well capitalized. It is a corpse that’s been propped up in the office hallway next to the watercooler so that everyone who passes bye gets a stifling whiff of the decaying flesh. Still, the charade goes on. Still the lies persist."

putting food out for a stray cat is politics at its best

"I think it’s going to be months that we’re working our way through this period -- clearly months. But again, it’s a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation."

the great depression lasted seven years or so, was a scam then and so is this one.

you should know by now who's pulling this scam off, we've spent years telling you what's going on.

you should know why they're doing it, same reason, same method.

you should know how to deal with it as well.

good luck gang! invest in a good local bicycle manufacturer, and learn to garden...

take care of the people around you.

a real test of ethical thought.

that's ethical thought at its best :)

perfect staying in bed kind of weather

but i will go to the gym and unplug myself from this computer, will power don't fail me

JP Morgan doing well, building new EMEA HQ in London
Chris in Paris · 8/01/2008 09:59:00 PM ET · Link
8 Comments · reddit · FARK · Digg It!

Obviously they don't need to sponge off of everyone else which is great news. Apparently the countless sob stories of tough times on Wall Street are overrated so fine, let them go back to working for a dollar just like the rest of us. Maybe I have a different understanding of what a troubled market is but since they are building new offices in one of the most expensive cities in the world, they must be doing OK. By extending handouts to Wall Street we are enabling their luxurious lifestyle instead of letting them compete and survive or go bankrupt like other businesses. There's something very disturbing about this flashy venture but I'm sure Paulson and the Fed are happy to help out any way they can.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/jpmorgan-chase-eyes-londons-canary...

McCain Camp Throwing Money At Britney Ad
The McCain campaign is pouring resources -- to the tune of $140,000 a day, or about one third of its overall TV spending -- into just a single ad: the notorious Britney-Paris-Obama spot.

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

Hardly any smoke.

Just listened to the coast to coast July 31 interview with Marrs and Linda Howe...pretty interesting political stuff....

Happe Talk

Happe Talk

looks like a few new generations are going to learn that paper and kilobytes of banking information on some banks database is'nt "money"...

Obama: Would back limited offshore drilling
Democrat shifts position on issue following attacks by rival McCain

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.

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.

"My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.

"If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage — I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done."

Asked about Obama's comment, McCain said, "We need oil drilling and we need it now offshore. He has consistently opposed it. He has opposed nuclear power. He has opposed reprocessing. He has opposed storage." The GOP candidate said Obama doesn't have a plan equal to the nation's energy challenges.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25974097/

The trouble is that the polls show that people are in favor of offshore drilling. I think it's driven by desperation.

I think it's driven by lies and greed.

SOS DD.

we Can kick their ass ya know.

despite my personal flaws i've spent my life empowering others.

not much money in it but lots of rewards.

Does free speech tend to move toward the truth or away from it? When does it evolve into a better collective understanding? When does it collapse into the Babel of trolling, the pointless and eristic game of talking the other guy into crying “uncle”? Is the effort to control what’s said always a form of censorship, or might certain rules be compatible with our notions of free speech?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?pagewanted=al...

After McCain's "The One" Video, Obama Endorsed by Holy Trinity
By Pangaea - August 1, 2008, 6:04PM
Newsflash: Obama Receives Endorsements from New Testament Figures.

In a video erroneously released by the McCain campaign, Moses was shown tacitly endorsing Senator Obama.

This action by the Old Testament Legend triggered endorsements by Giants of the New Testament. In a coordinated announcement, The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit also gave their blessings to Obama, also anointing Him as The One.

The Three glowed, providing a heavenly backdrop as a spokesangel read a prepared statement. "We join Moses in our endorsement of Barack Obama. While He was in the desert during his trip in the Middle East, we put the Senator to the test three times and He passed with flying colors."

The McCain campaign, in an attempt at damage control, questioned the actual number of endorsements received by Obama.

"Obama is claiming three new endorsements, but in acuality, he only received one," said McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis, "Obama is playing the Trinity Card, and sadly, he's dealing from the bottom of the deck."

An unidentified high ranking official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, disclosed that the McCain camp is desperately trying to find Biblical figures to endorse their candidate. "Holding hands with the Dalai Lama [as seen midway through this video] is not enough. McCain suggested Allah, but, as Joe Lieberman reminded him, the God of Islam is not in the Bible. We're trying to land Joseph and Mary, but securing Jesus' parents won't be easy."

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/after-mccains-the-one-...

are a form of professional technique and courtesy.

ocasionally i miss a few.

still a good idea.

If the problem was only experienced by one browser then I contend it's a flaw in the browser. I never had the problem as I use Safari pretty much all the time. I have Opera and Firefox also and both of them worked. That outnumbers Internet Exploder 3 to 1.
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Free yourself from the tyranny of MS! ;-)

The desperation part was meant for the people who are hurt by the price of gas, not the politicians.

Some can't afford to fill their tank to go to work. They don't realize it will take 10 years for that drilling to "maybe" even get oil that will probably be sold to other countries.

I should work on that and move all my bookmarks over. I have AT&T Yahoo as my main page that is all set up but it runs from IE so I get all the IE problems. Too many script error boxes all the time. I hate it.

isn't part of that desparation the constant drum beat that tells us that gas prices are too high, when in reality its a carefully crafted corporate campaign designed to do two things:

- extract more money from our pockets (they really don't care if you are forced to choose between gas and food or gas and medicine or gas and lattes)

- create an environment where we are willing to be exploited and abused so that they can secure more at the source.

i guarrantee that if we said lets go hog wild on offshore oil drilling but do it with a new branch of the government that keeps all the money for the people that the desire to drill offshore would go away in an instant.

in a way, obama's message of a 1000 credit for gas funded by windfall profits is such a thing. i expect it won't be long till cries of communism and socialism are heard from the neocons.

Can I "quote" you on that?

;-)

toniD - I believe Firefox will pull your bookmarks over for you. It's been a while since I last installed it but I believe that was an option, correct me if I'm wrong.

Before I Macitized, I always liked Opera the best because those crazy Scandinavians tried their damnedest to stick with the HTML bible. Problem is the rest of the world won't. ;-( All my friends, however, seem to prefer Firefox over all the rest. The bottomline seems to be there will always be instances when just one browser won't do so ya better have at least two.

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Christ

Happe Talk

..designed to keep us in fear and off balance 24X7X365XForever. I'd be all for more offshore if:

1. They state upfront what it's going to cost
2. What the expected return will be
3. Agree to use 75% of the profit to promote renewable energy
4. Drill a well in front of every billionaire's beach front property and surround the rigs with windfarms.

It's just plain stoopid to go drilling where 1 in 10 wells hit oil. Whereas every windmill and solar produces a profit right out of the bag.

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..but I've never looked back or had one regret. I even bypassed MS Office with open source OpenOffice (it's free) and still don't miss a beat.

I'll stop gloating. I need to go do that other thing I do on the weekends.

Have fun kids!
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Submitted by toniD on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 9:51am.
The trouble is that the polls show that people are in favor of offshore drilling. I think it's driven by desperation.
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The polls showing that American citizens are in favor of opening (more) areas to drilling only serves to lower my opinion of the average American citizen. It hardly seems possible that I could be more cynical toward humanity today than yesterday but the pit of shared American ignorance and stupidity appears to be bottomless.

I have been searching for the best analogy for the leap of logic that results in: "I dislike high fuel prices therefore the U.S. should lease more property to oil companies." I haven't yet found the best analogy but I'm working on it feverishly. Following is a recent reject.

"I dislike high fuel prices therefore the U.S. should force the oil companies to open more gas stations."

For what it's worth, I have an additional reason for not opening ANWR and the far Continental Shelf and sundry other locations to oil exploration: It's money-in-the-bank for future generations.

Here is my logic. Organic chemistry, as we have already learned, is a wondrous thing. Certainly not every application or polymer or whatever-else has been discovered which requires fossil fuel as its base component.

A new electric storage device might be invented that uses and re-uses oil and solves the weak link in the application of solar electricity. A medical cure might be discovered that needs oil to function. Hell, a means of time travel might be invented that requires a buttload of oil.

If we focus on alternative sources of energy now, more oil can remain banked in the ground awaiting the brilliant new applications discovered by future generations.

It would be sad if an oil-based cure for cancer were to be discovered in 2050 but discarded as too costly because we burned most of the oil on trips to the 7-11 for Slurpees before 2020.

Senate bill would restrict Bush from secret executive orders
RAW STORY

The President will no longer be able to change published executive orders in secret if a bill introduced to the Senate Thursday becomes law.

Sen. Russ Feingold, shown above, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse sponsored the bill as a response to an unreleased statement from the Justice Department Office of Legal Council that the President can alter or deviate from a previous executive order without public or Congressional knowledge.

Whitehouse quoted the department's opinion during a speech about the "second-rate piece of legislation" known as the FISA bill, or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

"There is no constitutional requirement for a President to issue a new Executive order whenever he wishes to depart from the terms of a previous Executive order. Rather than violate an Executive order, the President has instead modified or waived it."

This means the President could extend his powers beyond the laws that restrict the executive branch without the public knowing.

In order to disallow the President from doing so, Feingold and Whitehouse created the Executive Order Integrity Act of 2008.

"No one disputes that a President can withdraw or revise an Executive Order at any time," Feingold said as he introduced the bill Thursday. "But abrogating a published Executive order without any public notice works a secret change in the law."

"Because the published Order stays on the books, it actively misleads Congress and the public as to what the law is," he said.

Feingold said the new bill would eliminate that problem by requiring a notice of any change within 30 days, though it "does not require the publication of any classified information."

"On rare occasions, national security can justify elected officials keeping some information secret," he said, "but it can never justify lying to the American people about what the law is. Maintaining two different sets of laws, one public and one secret, is just that -- deceiving the American people about what law applies to the government's conduct."

Feingold spoke out against the FISA bill earlier this month, trying to convince fellow congressmen that it would make it more difficult to hold the President "accountable."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Senate_bill_would_restrict_Bush_from_0801....

Happe Talk

just my luck....see The Cooler for a wonderful movie about "luck"

Happe Talk

i found it mb but the site is down today for maintenance
Submitted by mhappenow on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 10:53am.
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Sheesh. Since I am already in an overt logic mode, let me see if I understand you correctly?

You are seeking a more reliable computer program and, having found it, cannot download it because its website is unreliable.

Uh...hello? Is this thing on?

..in the meantime. You will probably have to install X11 on your Mac to run it. X11 is free and should be on the discs that came with your Mac. There is a version that runs on Mac's without X11 but it's not nearly as well supported.

OK, I'll be in and out..

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The site is down routine maintenace.

http://openoffice.org

This is a world class product supported by, well the world. National and state governments have opted to make it their standard office suite product.

Not hip to always shoot from the lip. (That's a lesson I've taught myself over and over and over.... ;-)

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(provided that)

5. the oil companies use up the existing and unused offshore leases first - apparently there are some - before acquiring new ones

jim sunshine apologies "the cooler"

does it have any violence against women in it, just thought i'd ask before i go out and look for it in the video store, or is it in the theatre (imdb is not my friend)

heh!

it's a beaut of an operating system!

i still run windows just to see how much poop there is out there.

seven years and no lost data. love it.

It is not gratuitous and the magic of the movie and the theme of quirky love is so much stronger than the horror of the violence. I still recommend it and I hate violence of any kind.

we got it from netflix

let me know what you think and you can close your eyes on the violence

Happe Talk

your ie favorites, and it puts them all in a new folder "imported ie favorites" which is good but still has some drawbacks, because if then you continue to use both browsers and add favorites to ie, they will not transfer to firefox automatically the next time you open firefox, in other words that snapshot of your favorites is etched in stone at the time that you install your firefox, which is better than nothing, saves you a lot of time and effort, but after a while if you continue using both browsers it's a little bit of a drag the fact that it doesn't update automatically, you're in mozilla and you look for that recently added site and it's not there then you remember oh yeh it was in that other browser, you know what i mean....minor annoyance.... i am using firefox now exclusively for this blog because it saves you from what bloggers here complain about, bold and italics and such, do not show up, the video clips do not open unless you click on them, saving memory and download time and stuff like that, but i must say i use ie for everything else, don't ask me why, ahh yes, it's because some sites don't open in firefox and don't ask me why :)

long boring post on boring topic

Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 11:07am.
OK, I'll be in and out..
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Your personal life is none of our business.

i'd tell you about a great little CD with great opensource programs that run on windoze,

but i'm sure no one is interested.

yet...

Lonely Crank?

Happe Talk

there are synchronizing proggies out there...

or, if you're feeling a bit ludditetical

just import that newer bookmark list to another folder.

in Internet Exploder open a file "new bookmark 1, 2, 3 etc. and import that.

Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 11:10am.
...Not hip to always shoot from the lip...
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My lip remains unabashed. Irony is irony.

maggiesboy: "My car is broken."
Bait: "I know a terrific mechanic."
maggisboy: "This must be my lucky day! Where is he?"
Bait: "On vacation."

I'm not sure what that means but when I read Crank's post I just have to say it.

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no windoze backdoors other than the huge number of them already in the Windoze OS.

Steve is in love with him...I don't even know who he is. I think it is a dead head thing. off to swim in this beautiful air we have today.

Happe Talk

Submitted by mhappenow on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 11:26am.
Lonely Crank?
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I'm procrastinating because of the heat...which isn't improving while I procrastinate.

Whatever ills have befallen you, this might make them seem less awful: I am disassembling my masonry chimney. From the ground it is (was) over twenty-six feet tall. For those of you who are arithmetically challenged, that is high enough to make you poop your pants before you climb the scaffolding.

It ranks among my dumbest ideas ever.

It's very unstable. I bet IE got hit again with a bug. My blog page is scrolling by itself and I can't move up a little, it scrolls by itself all the way to the top or visa versa. Really wierd!

What does **Apparently the sitemeter code was messing with things..** refer to?

FWIW, I've been unable to post anything on AAR blogs for a coupla days now = (

& as for the Obama backs offshore drilling - the article in my local paper (SPTimes) sez he did not specifically endorse to bipartisan effort - 4 paragraphs in...

**... Obama didn't specifically endorse the bill, but his willingness to consider more oil drilling represents a significant change in position. And it dramatically alters prospects for the bill.

Republicans have been pushing for more drilling, but Democrats who control Congress have resisted. If Obama sees this plan as viable, congressional Democrats are likely to fall into line. ...**
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/article752928.ece

IOW, it's mostly a buncha hype & conjecture = P

DS got into the Town Hall @ local HS & posted about it on his blog = )

http://www.joenomics.blogspot.com

U6

There isn't one "right" measure of unemployment. The one called "U3" is the standard one we hear about, but the BLS also has other measures which are worth looking at. U6, the broadest measure, is at 10.3%, up from 8.3% a year ago.

-Atrios 08:03

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm

to go along with your post above about your loss of faith in the American people...Atrios agrees:

Finally Over

I think this is one of those weeks when the country loses 10 IQ points.

-Atrios 16:59

available HBO on demand.

Thanks for that banking article SJ!

Now how is the Government going to suck that up?

The next President is so fucked.

Heh - Movieplex (basic cable channel) had Moore's 'The Big One' on this a.m. - pretty hilarious & sad.....

Their Own Side

Hotline:

In other news, liberal bloggers are buzzing about ex-McCain strategist John Weaver's criticism of the McCain camp's recent tactics, which they see as evidence that the McCain camp's negativity is causing a backlash. Conservative bloggers, meanwhile, are linking to Dana Milbank's column that mocks Obama for being "presumptuous." The excitement that Weaver's and Milbank's respective words are generating in the blogosphere illustrates how people in politics are never more influential than when they're criticizing their own side.

Yes, because Dana Milbank's a liberal just like John Weaver is a conservative.

Please kill me.

-Atrios 16:03

http://blogometer.nationaljournal.com/

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to ratify a compact to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes.
The Senate approved the Great Lakes agreement Friday. The measure is pending in the House and President Bush has said he will sign it into law.

The agreement was negotiated by eight Great Lakes states. It prevents countries or remote states from tapping into the lakes from their natural drainage basin with rare exceptions.

States are also required to regulate their own large-scale water uses and promote conservation.

State leaders in the region developed the plan because they were concerned that the worldwide freshwater shortage would lead other regions to try to access the lakes.

http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomWashington-TopStories/~3/3528...

if you wanna know what's happening look a few levels up.

everyone is at different levels of awareness politically and economically.

learning to communicate at all levels is the art of it.

The idea that certain aspects of our universe make it uniquely suited to life has never been properly tested, says Fred Adams of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "You hear people say our universe is fine-tuned for life, that stars are rare and couldn't form if certain things were different," he says. "The truth is, no one has done the calculations." Adams has now rectified that situation and found that it is not unusual for stars to form that can support life. - NewScientist

'k

..so I don't know a thing about how much oil we have, don't have, how offshore drilling happens, etc.

BUT, I do know a thing or two about human greed.

BushCo are running around in panic, sensing there are a few bucks left to fleece off of us, and envious of the profits of OPEC.

Luckily for them, Americans are fucking stupid and flocked to the SUV. Even the so-called "environmentalists" find ways to rationalize owning one.

So now, let's drill offshore. BushCo's happy because they will make the profits, not OPEC. American Oil companies are happy and are making Republican politicians wallets fat, Fuckingly Stupid Americans can continue to drive their gas hogs.

And "EINOs" (Environmentalist In Name Only) can continue to justify themselves.

just not feeling ludditetical enough this morning :)
i'll leave it for another day, since it seems to require some "thinking" thanks though your advice will come in handy when i need it (I have saved it in a folder "sederite tips" where i keep all the important knowledge that gets offered here)

I know it's a little early to start the bitchin' before some of us have had our coffee.

"(I have saved it in a folder "sederite tips" where i keep all the important knowledge that gets offered here)"

OMG... better hope Crank isn't here to pick up on that one.

ah!

welcome to the ranks of us archivists!

we're like the NRA of information only nicer.

true. it really does make sense to bank as much oil for the future as we can because we're going to run out of it someday. either that or lets get crash program going to take us to the stars...

"If we focus on alternative sources of energy now, more oil can remain banked in the ground awaiting the brilliant new applications discovered by future generations."

Fat chance.

Short terms goals trump long term needs nine times out of ten. If that weren't true, there would still be palm trees on Easter Island. McCain will win promising Americans what they want to believe, while Obama will look like a fool trying to follow the voice of "experience." There is no chance of positive change here until umemployment reaches 30%. Six percent--16% really-- if you count our incarcerated population obviously isn't. I heard some jackass "former teamster" yesterday tell Mr. Ed, how it was good for Walmart to fight against union "intimidation."

do you need a sous chef, or maybe even a dishwasher?

he's a world class mandolin player. pretty sure he's played with garcia.

live anyway....?

good luck on that chimney work crank...very scary but mucho expensive to hire out i imagine.

Happe Talk

in southwest ohio, the cincinnati area, but thanks for the offer.

McCain's campaign isn't scummy enough. Dems would never follow this advice, and they will always lose. Wanna bet this doesn't happen; and they don't win?--

McCain Should Hit Obama Where It Hurts - on Policy
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

When is the McCain campaign going to get serious? It seems to be marking time with softball ads, more appropriate to the soundbites campaign media spokespeople exchange with one another than to strategic paid media hits. One ad talks about how the media loves Obama. Another mocks him as a celebrity. Each throws pitty-pat punches, far short of the kind of knockout blows one would expect from a presidential campaign. Were I a donor to McCain's campaign, paying for these pathetic spots, I would demand a refund. Or sue for malpractice.
Are the McCain people waiting for September to get serious? If so, they are making a big mistake and missing an important opportunity. History indicates that the best time to beat a new candidate is in the summer. August to be precise.

Dukakis, Mondale, and Kerry all were destroyed in the summer, long before the fall campaign began. In 1984, the offensive against Geraldine Ferraro crippled Mondale well before Labor Day. In 1988, the pledge of allegiance, revolving door, and Willie Horton ads all ran in the summer. Dukakis was dead by September. And the swift boat attack on Kerry defeated him well before the summer was over.

"McCain needs to make voters afraid of Obama." (These guys aren't subtle, and they always say what they are gunno do.)

The national security offensive should have two parts. First, McCain's ads should portray Obama as naive. By taking off on his comment that Iran is a "tiny country" that couldn't hurt the US much, he can show how the Democrat is not prepared to cope with the serious national security problems which will face the next president. The more the crisis with Iran ratchets up, the more dividends this approach will reap for McCain. But, as with the argument of an impending depression if Obama wins, McCain needs to begin the argument now and let it pile up by the fall.

Secondly, McCain should take Obama's proposed changes in the Patriot Act and show how they would weaken us in the face of domestic terror threats. Don't let the liberal media fool you. Bush's domestic security initiatives are very popular. How will Obama explain his legislation to notify suspected terrorist groups seven days after Homeland Security begins an investigation of them? Or how will he explain his opposition to the wiretapping that saved the Brooklyn Bridge from destruction. McCain needs to paint Obama as weak on homeland security.

This race is there for the winning, but McCain is using his paid media ads as mere press releases, touching on the events of the day without really using them as a strategic tool to destroy Obama. He needs to start doing so now
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/august_is_the_time_to_...

Happe Talk

i thought it would be fun for homeland security at the airport if they want to take my laptop, some headscratching on the sederite tip folder

Happe Talk

when I was 17 I hitch hiked from LA to San Franciso with a group of friends, five of us. We were picked up by a guy named Perky Wheeler, who drove us from Santa Maria to Berkeley. He fed us dinner in a nice restaurant and played wilson picket on his 8 track the whole way. That is a fun memory! Got crabs from a sleeping bag though...in a flophouse in the Haight District. Still fun.

the year was 1968

Happe Talk

HOUSTON — Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit for the first time.

While the profits of unparalleled size have brought withering criticism from Washington and disgust from consumers across the country, very few were surprised. Crude prices during the second quarter were nearly double what they were a year ago.

Chevron said Friday its second-quarter profit rose 11 percent to a record $5.98 billion.

Revenue rose significantly to $82.9 billion from $56.1 billion a year ago.

But results for the second-largest U.S. oil company missed Wall Street forecasts and shares fell.

Like its competitors, Chevron made the bulk of its money at its exploration and production arm, also known as the upstream, where income nearly doubled from a year ago to $7.25 billion.

Chevron said the average sales price for crude and natural gas liquids was $109 a barrel in the quarter, up from $57 a barrel in the year-earlier period.

In addition to Chevron, soaring commodity prices led to record quarters for Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips, BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC. Exxon Mobil stood apart even from this crowd, logging the largest ever quarterly operating profit for a U.S. company. Barring companies that made huge profits on one-time gains like bankruptcy settlements and spin-offs, Exxon Mobil holds the top 10 records for biggest U.S. quarterly earnings.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/02/big-oils_n_116520.html

why aren't we all in the streets freaking out?

Happe Talk

Patti,mhappenow..
She ran away to Haight twice with a girl named Jana..
The next time with a girl named Cindy..
My sis was a wild child..... :)

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

but one of the members of my group was named Jana.

Happe Talk

Money Go Round; Style Council

Its no good praying to the powers that be
cause they wont shake the roots of the money tree
No good praying to the pristine alters
Waiting for the blessing with holy water
They like the same old wealth in the same old hands
Means the same old people stay in command
Watch your money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
They got it wrapped up tight, they got it safe and sound
Watch your money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
As you fall from grace and hit the ground

Too much money in too few places
Only puts a smile on particular faces
Said too much power in not enough hands
Makes me think get rich quick; take all I can
They're too busy spending on the means of destruction
To ever spend a penny on some real construction

Watch the money-go-round; watch the money-go-round
They amuse themselves as they fool around
Watch your money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
Do like they say, make them vulnerable

No good looking to the empire corners,
Civilization built on slaughter
Carrying hopes and carrying maps
The spineless ones fall in their laps
The brave and the bold are the ones to be fooled
With a diet of lies by the Kipling school

Watch your money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
But I just cant help being cynical
Watch your money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
Do like I say, make me wonderful

Their morals are clean and their clear
They bend your arm and they bend your ear
Said they bend your mind as you talk in circles
Bend over forwards, this wont hurt you
Till there's blood in your lap; blood on your hands
Watch the money-go-round; watch the money-go-round
Come spend a penny, go out with a pound
Watch the money-go-round; watch the money-go-round
As you fall from grace and hit the ground

(on the money-go-round, you wanna get on but it wont slow down)

The need your votes and you know where to send em
Be we don't get the choice of a public referendum
On all the real issues that affect our lives
Like the USA base to which we play midwife
Take a cruise and forget this scene
Said come back later when the slates wiped clean

Watch your money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
Born of woman, killed by man
Watch the money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
Do like they pray, make it wonderful

The good and righteous sing their hymns
The crinoline dresses who have no sins
Christians by day, killers in war
The hypocrites who know what they're fighting for
Killing for peace, freedom and truth
But they're too old to go so they send the youth

Watch the money-go-round, watch the money-go-round
I don't think he was an astronaut
Watch the money-go-round, watch the money-go-round
I must insist - he was a socialist!

Watch your money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
They got it wrapped up tight, they got it safe and sound
Watch your money-go-round; watch your money-go-round
As you fall from grace and hit the ground
:::

Lawyer: Lott ‘Initiated Contact With People Surrounding’ Insurance Fraud Lawsuit
During a deposition last week, Jim Robie, an attorney for State Farm Insurance, alleged that former Mississippi senator Trent Lott had “urged witnesses to give false information in a Hurricane Katrina lawsuit.” Questioning Lott’s nephew, Zach Scruggs, Robie asked if it had been his “custom” to have Lott “contact and encourage witnesses to give false information.” Scruggs refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment.

In an interview with LegalNewsline, Robie said Lott had “initiated contact with people surrounding” the case involving alleged efforts to “defraud” State Farm:

“Clearly, the record couldn’t be more plain that Sen. Lott and his associates were talking to people that were key advisers to Mr. Scruggs, paid consultants and those who were creating an illusion that simply doesn’t have any basic fact,” Robie told Legal Newsline on Thursday. […]

Robie said Lott, a leading Republican, initiated contact with people surrounding this case, something unprecedented for a U.S. Senator.

“Have you ever had a U.S. Senator call you?” he asked rhetorically.

A spokesman for Lott’s lobbying firm told Legal Newsline that “the former senator had no interest in justifying the implication with a response.”

Lott has previously been reported to have used his position in the Senate to put pressure on State Farm. In May, the New Yorker reported:

Charles Chamness, the C.E.O. of a national insurance trade association, has claimed that Lott had threatened him, in a telephone call, with “bringing down State Farm and the industry.” Lott also co-sponsored a proposal to strip the insurance industry of an antitrust exemption that had been in place since the nineteen-forties.

Robie says “he will continue his efforts to depose both Richard and Zach Scruggs, during which he will probe the influence of Lott.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/02/lott-witness-intimidation/

I can't remember but,Jana's or Cindy's Dad was a ex-FBI agent..
He found my his daughter pretty fast..

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

The Low-Road Warrior
Mudslinging will damage McCain’s brand—but it may be the only way he can win.

By John Heilemann

On the morning in March when Barack Obama was preparing to give his speech on race in Philadelphia to try to contain the fallout from the Jeremiah Wright imbroglio, I was having breakfast in Washington with a member of John McCain’s inner circle. The topic at hand was whether McCain was licking his chops at the prospect of facing Obama in the fall—whether he relished the idea of running negative against the hopemonger on questions of his patriotism and, er, otherness. My McCainiac source noted that his boss had “demonstrated admirable restraint and respect for Obama in the last few weeks,” citing McCain’s rebuke of the Tennessee GOP when it issued a press release that invoked Obama’s middle name and featured that photo of him in Somali tribal clothing, calling it “Musl