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That's when he has to make noise of real desperation. He will go negative as ugly as he can.

for the BlueRoots Radio!

I'm thinking about doing a live show some Saturday night here on the blog. I'll call peeps on my iPhone and speaker them into the mic ala Sam style. They can repond to posts on the blog.

Might be a fun thing to do.

Would it be Blogio or Radiog ?!?!?!

Could be the next big media wave to sweep the globe! ;-)

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Crank Bait's Mythbuster #42

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..and good bloggin'.

Pulling the plug on the far-east-midwest-sedershow-substation-auxiliary-backup-unit.
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Good Job maggiesboy!

Thanks for the redux, maggiesboy. It's nice to know that the intended inflection finds its way through the text once in a while.

And on the same subject of the regulation pendulum swinging back the other way: I heard yet another "expert" (whose name I don't remember) state that the Norquist and Reagan "less government regulation" meme is dead in the water.

Ordinary citizens recognize that examples such as the mortgage crisis meltdown can do far-reaching harm much more damaging than squelching a bit of capitalist enterprise through overzealous regulation.

No one has ever lost half of their retirement money because of regulation.

Isn't it ironic that the only test of the Crank Bait theory would be to elect Obama for eight years and see how the defense and economy responded. I guess we will never know. Such is life in America.

electing McCain would prove his theory also. More of the same! Such is and has been life in America!

Cable Dominates News by Blowing Up Stories

Newser) – Twenty-four hour cable networks set the news agenda by turning stories "from brushfire to raging conflagration," Paul Farhi writes in the American Journalism Review. Particularly during presidential campaigns, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC pull stories from newspapers and make them hot by running them day and night. But telling this to print reporters sets off instant debate.

Newspapers control the cycle by digging up fresh news, they say, but Farhi counters that print newsrooms usually run cable in the background—while newspapers don't clutter desks at CNN. One Washington Post editor even told Farhi that papers should pay more attention to cable: “The people we're trying to sell the paper to," he said, "are more likely to be watching some portion of cable news than reading the New York Times.”

http://www.newser.com/story/33973/cable-dominates-news-by-blowing-up-sto...

If you read 1. and then read 2., you have to wonder.
In 1. the government says they have a new tool. In 2. is described how they purposely destroyed a good tool immediately after the anthrax poisonings/scare!

1.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7697263

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The Justice Department attributed the break in the case to ``new and sophisticated scientific tools'' that cost the FBI about $10 million. Investigators said the science focused, in part, on how the anthrax strains were handled and who had access to it at the time of the mailings.

FBI scientists were able to isolate strains used in the attacks, and determined they were not as common as previously thought. And that led investigators to Ivins.

Had the same process been available years ago, it would have cleared Hatfill much earlier, according to two people familiar with the FBI investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is not officially closed.

The Army refused Saturday to say whether it had been reviewing the security clearance of the chief suspect in the anthrax attacks who had mental problems and killed himself as federal prosecutors were planning to indict him.

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[end excerpt]

2.

Nearly seven years since the Anthrax Scare and murders, and the Bush Administration has yet to do anything but implicate an innocent man and settle with that man out of court, thereby freezing all the depositions and information about the apparently botched -- on purpose? -- anthrax investigation.

Why did I write 'on purpose?'? Check out this from Webster Griffin Tarpley's book "9/11 Synthetic Terror":

[excerpt]

"Between October 10 and 11, just one week after the first case of anthrax had been reported, the FBI contacted the University in Ames, Iowa. For seventy years this university had maintained a comprehensive repository of samples of every known strain of anthrax pathogen. This university was furthermore the source which provided samples of anthrax pathogen researchers seeking cures, and also to labs seeking to weaponize the pathogen. Immediately after this phone call by the FBI, the University of Iowa destroyed the Ames anthrax repository. While it is not difficult to imagine the cover stories the FBI might have used to obtain this result, it is also clear that the Ames repository could have been the key to definitively solving the anthrax letters case. Analysis of the anthrax spores in the letters by chemical and DNA techniques identified these spores as belonging to the Ames strain. With the help of the samples collected in the repository, it would have been possible to identify with great precision the specific batch from which the anthrax letters had been filled, along with a paper trail leading to the agency to which the sample had been transferred. As the New York Times reported: "Shortly after the first case of anthrax arose, the FBI said it had no objection to the destruction of a collection of anthrax samples at Iowa State University, but some scientists involved in the investigation now say that collection may have contained genetic clues valuable to the inquiry. Criminal investigators have not visited many of the companies, laboratories, and scientific institutions with the equipment or capability to make the kind of highly potent anthrax sent in a letter to Senator Tom Daschle, the [Democratic] majority leader. Where investigators have conducted interviews, they often seemed to ask general questions unlikely to elicit new evidence, several laboratory directors said." ...

Dr. Martin Jones, an anthrax expert at Louisiana State University commented: "If those cultures were still alive they could have helped in clearing up the muddled history" of the spores found in the letters. Ronald M. Atlas, the president-elect of the American Society of Microbiology, the world's largest group of "germ professionals," saw large legal implications in the destruction of evidence. "Potentially," he said, "it loses evidence that would have been useful" in the investigation. (New York Times, "Experts See FBI Missteps Hampering Anthrax Inquiry," November 11, 2002) The FBI was obviously out to sabotage its own investigation. Here is yet another case of manifest obstruction of justice by the FBI molehill. The 9/11 commission ignores both the anthrax affair overall and the obstruction of justice by the FBI.

[from Webster Griffin Tarpley's "9/11 Synthetic Terror", Chapter X, pp. 312-313]
[end excerpt]

In another portion of this same section, Tarpley reminds us "We cannot exclude the hypothesis that the anthrax cases were intended to become a much larger epidemic, one that might have claimed thousands of lives rather than just a few. Finally, in the anthrax cases, we have a prima facie case for political targeting...." He mentions that Senators Daschle and Leahy were opposed to passage of the Patriot Act.

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 11:02pm.
Isn't it ironic that the only test of the Crank Bait theory would be to elect Obama for eight years and see how the defense and economy responded...
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First: It requires a lot more than a president to alter the flawed perception that unfettered capitalism is benevolent.

Second: Funny you should mention defense in the same breath with regulation. Ike tried to warn his country that capitalism and the Pentagon were becoming a harmful coalition. Ike even coined the term "military-industrial complex" to describe the enemy.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iHiWJHQBUqwHy8JSotwB-QUyz6VwD9290VDG0

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House Republicans on the intelligence committee walked out of a Thursday morning briefing by the national intelligence director, Mike McConnell, on the order to protest what they consider the White House's pattern of disrespect for congressional oversight.

The committee believes it has not been consulted or informed about critical intelligence matters. These include the executive order; Israel's bombing of an alleged Syrian nuclear facility last summer; changes in U.S. intelligence on Iran; the administration's warrantless wiretapping program; and the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes.

"This president is making it impossible for Congress to do oversight of the intelligence community," the committee's top Republican, Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, told The Associated Press. "The only effective oversight that can be done is out of the executive branch. And this is the fox guarding the chicken coop."

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from a night out was cathy in seattle asking me about new orleans

of course she's long gone by now, but i'll answer anyway

"white linen night" tonight something of a big event here in new orleans, downtown lit up art galleries opening, food and music and people watching and everyone supposedly wearing their fanciest white linen, in the past before katrina was more of a small town thing, hard to describe, you were supposed to wear white but not many people did, typical new orleans disrespect of rules and impositions if you know what i mean, people came as they were in their black t shirts, yellow or beige, the occasional stick-to- the- rules white wearers but tonight my o my, it was the biggest crowd i ever seen for this particular event, a sea of white as far as the eye could see, is this hollywood i thought? gorgeous good looking people, young and glamourous model types, movie star beauties and such, went crazy with the camera but it wasn't easy balancing the glass of wine, the art galleries' and event program, my purse and assorted paraphernalia, to take serious photography.....

anyway what was the question? ah about new orleans, i met some strangers in the crowd and got into this conversation exactly, what happened to New Orleans? It never used to be like this,in august? forget it, sluggish, slow, deserted, smelly and a little decayed, what i liked about it exactly, and now, it's going through some sort of a boom i guess is what i am trying to say and for us locals is kind of strange to see and experience - a good thing i guess, just hard to reconcile with everything else we know has been going on....

black faces? let's say in a crowd of visible 200, maybe 5 or 6 gorgeous well dressed and very very sleek black people? Is this the new orleans i used to know? no

cathy in seattle does this answer your question? probably not since you were asking about new orleans before katrina, well it was very different that's all i can say and don't know what the hell it's happening now other than maybe a whole lot of money republican money (from texas bush cronies) being poured into the city that changed it from the grounds up... real estate gone through the roof that much i can see....some good things still here, more human touch than other US cities i have seen, but i am still trying to figure it out myself

that's the best i can do right now, it's gettin real late for me

revenge killer!"
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/02/1243368.aspx

That's when he'll use it, October. Especially close to Halloween.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/02/anthrax.suspect/?iref=mpstoryview

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Ivins worked for decades in the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases' biodefense lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland. He was trying to develop a stronger vaccine against the deadly anthrax toxin.

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[end excerpt]
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I read a great book on germ warfare years ago called "GENE WARS: Military Control over the New Genetic Technologies" by Charles Piller and Dr. Keith R. Yamamoto. It was an eye-opener.

It clarified for me that the reason Nixon came out against germ warfare proliferation. It couldn't be controlled if used because making adequate vaccines had not caught up with the making of germ weaponry.

So why did Ivins have a job at Ft. Detrick if germ weaponry is illegal? Was it really for defensive purposes? Because there are two parts to a germ weapon. Part one is the infectious agent; part two of a germ war weapon is the vaccine. They have part one, the germ weaponry knowledge. They've just lacked part two: The ability to keep their own personnel alive while using part one.

It keeps one guessing.

http://www.pathlights.com/nr_encyclopedia/onlinebooks/Vaccine/Pt-1-Gloss...

(LOS ANGELES) - Are members of a disputed mercenary killer group now working with the DEA? A photo from the LA Times shows proof of one of two things; either Blackwater members are now working for the Bush White House's Drug Enforcement Agency, or this semi-illegitimate band of rogue federal cops have worse discipline than any of us ever imagined.

In her article, the LA Times' Sandy Banks states that the flak-jacketed federal agents executing their commando-style raid at the Organica Collective, overtook a pot dispensary with such a mellow vibe that its business card features a dove and a cross.

During their "raid" DEA agents cut open a safe and confiscated boxes of records, a pair of flat screen monitors listing available varieties of weed, and the contents of an ATM. In true form, the federal cops left the place in a total mess.

A customer named Clyde Carey told Times reporter Tami Abdollah that they frightened the customers and employees by storming in "in full combat gear." He said it was "like literally an episode of '24' when they bust in on a terrorist cell."

Free Democracy

Amanda Ripley in TIME

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1828960,00.html?xid=feed-...

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Yesterday, a spokesperson for Ivins' lab, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick said the agency "mourns the loss of Dr. Bruce Ivins, who served the institute for more than 35 years as a civilian microbiologist." That seems like an unusual thing to say if you believe one of your employees had something to do with an anthrax attack.

It now remains incumbent on the FBI to reveal what information it had linking Ivins to the attacks. Given the federal government's record on the anthrax investigation, and the national security interests involved, Ivins' death should not be used as an excuse for the case to be closed without a full, public airing.

Ivins a "psychotic
Submitted by Thespian Lipsti... on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 12:03am.

revenge killer!"

http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/02/1243368.aspx

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From above link:
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The judge quickly agreed to Duley's request, and ordered Ivins to stay away from his former therapist. Ivins was later released from the mental hospital, and killed himself days later.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/anthrax_scientist

Maryland's chief medical examiner, Dr. David Fowler, confirmed Saturday that Ivins died Tuesday morning at Frederick, Md., Memorial Hospital; that the cause of death was found to be an overdose of acetaminophen, the active drug in Tylenol; and that it was ruled a suicide based on information from police and doctors.

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AP says he "killed himself in" the hospital. NYT says he "died in the hospital", the above MSNBC story says he was released from the hospital (despite therapist Duley's claim he was dangerous) and killed himself "later". And then the medical examiner says the suicide ruling is "based on information from police and doctors." Does that mean the medical examiner didn't do an independent examination?

So confusing.

There were just four skunks outside my hotel room. They were digging for the cat food I put out last night for the black kitten..Some p.eople apparently from Italy were taking photos too... and some kids came by ..And the maintenance men came by and asked if they should chase them away for the safety of the hotel patrons...I said no...

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AIPAC’s House Resolution, H. Con. Res. 362 - by Ira Glunts / August 2nd, 2008

Rising

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http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=279142

Army mum on employment status of anthrax researcher, how he maintained his security clearance

You're at a hotel?

That's a way to liven things up -- skunk feeding time!

I've worn myself out trying to sort out the scant info on this Ivins trial in ultimate absentia (similar to Oswald's), I guess it should be called. Too too weird.

It is so amazing seeing the script of The Lone Gunman Theory being forced onto the public in absence of clear facts or witnesses. That's what has kept me reading this stuff today.

The Guardian story quoted Ivins' own brother who didn't seem to be in mourning. I can't imagine I could ever feel that someone working on germ warfare components was a normal (kindly, compassionate, caring) kind of person I'd want to be around for any reason. That said, I don't care how sociopathic he may have been, I don't think this was done by a loner. This, like all the Bush Crimes, seeems likely to be another result of conspiring minds and multiple sources of ideas, decision-making, and cover-up.

To see yet another "lone gunman" whitewash UNFOLD is a stunning thing to watch.

But I think I'll take a break now and go see some videos at youtube for a while!

Here come the conspiracy nut theories.

Did you guys know that Ivins wasn't really Roman Catholic? It's a lie. He was a secret Zionist. THE Zionist.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Seymour Hersh: Cheney considered killing Americans in pretext to attack Iran

THINK PROGRESS

Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.

In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources.

During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected.

Video Link

Well, the Carlyle Group is clinking champagne glasses about this one...

http://current.com/items/89163142_pentagon_oks_over_10_billion_in_arms_s...

Sources: Ivins died same day as plea-deal meeting
Posted: 07:50 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Bruce Ivins, the former Army scientist investigated in the 2001 anthrax mailings, died from a suicide attempt on the same day a plea deal was to be discussed, according to details from two sources familiar with the investigation.

The meeting took place between prosecutors and a defense attorney, even after authorities learned of Ivins’ death, one of the sources told CNN Saturday. One of the sources said a plea deal was going to be discussed at the meeting. There was no immediate information on what may have been talked about and whether the topic changed in the wake of Ivins’ death.
Both sources said they understood that some of the government’s key scientific evidence was going to be shown to Ivins’ attorney Paul Kemp, and that the meeting had been scheduled for some time.

Neither the Justice Department nor Kemp, who issued a statement Friday maintaining his client’s innocence, would comment. Kemp said the pressure of the investigation had led to Ivins’ death.

The sources could not confirm a report Saturday in The Washington Post that part of the proposed deal would take the death penalty off the table.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/02/sources-ivins-died-same-day-as-p...

http://current.com/items/89162445_olympic_reporters_guide_to_labor_camps...

The guide, entitled "Torture Outside the Olympic Village: A Guide to China's Labor Camps," is available online here or PDF here.

http://www.humanrightstorch.org/news/guide-to-olympic-v...

http://xiuxian.no-ip.info/rescue/upload_images/CIPFG_La...

"Many of us have heard stories about China's gulags, but when you discover how close some of these hellholes are to Olympic venues, it's sickening," says Clive Ansley, China Monitor for Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada and North American President of CIPFG. The guide details seven detention facilities, in or near Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, and Shenyang....

murdered and missing microbiologists, but I've never heard a follow-up. And only thing I got from googling was a "From the Wilderness" (can't be posted) article that looks old anyway....

had a diconnect on the phone and the net today.

got tired of waiting for telus repair,

traced it AND found it! ha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otrdl-mPXB8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhTDXL9TtbA&feature=related

David Bromberg is a sweet man with the exact same political views as Steve and I. We had rousing conversation..especially with his base player. .but the real treat for me was the Angel Band....his wife and two other gorgeous songbirds who sang harmonies from heaven.

Happe Talk

nice harmonies!

give em a round of applause for me!

they got it right.

Cya in the AM!

love y'all!

Dozing off at the keyboard here...

Sweet dreams...

www.fredericknewspost.com

Dr. Bruce Ivins wrote several letters to the editors in recent years. Below is a list of letters he wrote dating back to March 5, 1998.

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End of 'dialogue'
Originally published August 24, 2006 Rabbi Morris Kosman is entirely correct in summarily rejecting the demands of the Frederick Imam for a "dialogue."

By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for "dialogue" with any gentile. End of "dialogue."

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Study suggests genetic component for homosexuality
Originally published December 29, 2004

Readers of The Frederick News-Post were recently informed via letter to the editor ("Gay marriage not supportable," Dec. 26), that "the newest studies indicate that you are not born gay."

I'm a scientist, as well as a married heterosexual, and I'd be very interested in learning what those "newest studies" are. Hopefully they are based upon scientific study, rather than political, social, cultural or religious ideology. I wonder if the letter writer is familiar with an article in the December 2004, issue of the Journal of Genetics, entitled, "Excess of Counterclockwise Scalp Hair-Whorl Rotation in Homosexual Men." The article (in pdf format) can be found at http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/Vol83No3/jgdec2004-jg639.pdf.

The author, Amar Klar, (a geneticist who works in Frederick) states in the final sentence of the study summary, "These results suggest that sexual preference may be influenced in a significant proportion of homosexual men by a biological/genetic factor that also controls direction of hair-whorl rotation."

It's a very interesting paper, regardless what side you take on the debate of how individuals gain their sexual preference.

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Conservative Christians now feeling their oats
Originally published November 21, 2004

I would like to comment on the letter to the editor, "Wants off Christian Nation Express," of Nov. 12.

I am certainly pleased that the writer is dedicated to service in the love of God, even though I find her theological focus on agony and suffering rather than the hope, joy and salvation of the resurrection to be puzzling.

Whether Americans like it or not, the results of the presidential election have propelled charismatic and evangelical Christians into new heights of political power. Many of those individuals would agree that the laws of this nation should be compatible with the Gospel, if not actually based upon it.

Whether we're on the "Christian Nation Express" or not, we all need to be ready for a wild political ride these next four years through a landscape of issues deemed important by conservative Christians.

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All aboard!
Originally published November 09, 2004

I read Deborah Carter's column of Nov. 7, "Election blues," and I have three comments for the good woman, and for everybody else, as well.

First, it's clear that views like hers would put Jesus on that cross again. Second, thy loom and churn best be still, come the Sabbath. Third, you can get on board or get left behind, because that Christian Nation Express is pulling out of the station!

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Meachum right, well almost right
Originally published March 18, 2002

I don't usually agree with Roy Meachum's opinions, but his "Catholic tragedy" (March 13) was quite on the money — almost.

The Roman Catholic Church should learn from other equally worthy Christian denominations and eagerly welcome female clergy as well as married clergy.

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Argumentum ad hominem
Originally published March 27, 2001

At a recent meeting reported on in The News-Post ("Mayor's unity meeting ends in insults," March 21), Tim Schramm was reported to have faulted certain public forums as "... unproductive, because people use them to promote private agendas." Noted local lawyer and activist, Daniel Mahone, responded by loudly and repeatedly calling Mr. Schramm a "jerk." It is unfortunate that Mr. Mahone had to resort to an argumentum ad hominem, rather than present his opposing views in a reasoned and cogent manner. Mr. Schramm must feel pleased that his argument was of sufficient merit to compel Mr. Mahone to attack him rather than what he said.

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Switched
Originally published February 05, 1999

Well, I've switched from WFMD to WTOP (1500 AM), thank you very much. Capstar booted Mike Gibbons off the "Morning News Express" and disposed of the "Mitchell and Miller" program. The company dealt with other persons and programs at the station in a similar manner..

In their place they have given us profanity, racial insults and listener abuse. I tuned into WFMD's "John and Ken" program a few weeks ago. One of the hosts unashamedly used "G--d---" on the air, then a few moments later told a caller, "You talk like a black person!".

Click..

A few days later I tried WFMD's "Mike Gallagher" program. He referred to some of his listeners as "pinheads."

Click. Again..

Capstar owes a special apology to African-American residents of the area, and local businesses should seriously rethink their commitment to sponsoring racial insensitivity, profanity and abuse on WFMD..

As for me, I find the news, weather and sports format of WTOP to be quite acceptable -- and far more civil.

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Moral views not a new trend
Originally published March 05, 1998

Among the front-page articles in The News-Post of Feb. 27 was a rather ominous one entitled "Panel OKs funding for assisted suicide."

The news report dealt with a decision by the Oregon Health Services Commission that assisted suicide should be funded by state taxpayers. Commission chairman Alan Bates excoriated those whose beliefs led them to oppose the commission's decision, and asserted that "religious opponents have no right to impose their moral views on others."

From that statement it is clear that Dr. Bates' knowledge of medicine is substantially greater than his familiarity with American history.

Even before America was a nation, there was strong opposition to slavery from the religious group known as the Quakers, or the "Society of Friends." They were steadfast in their belief that slavery was a sin, and this belief led them to be actively involved in the Abolitionist Movement and the "Underground Railroad" in this country.

We should all be thankful that these religious opponents were quite willing to "impose their moral views on others."

In more recent times we need look no further than those ministers, rabbis and priests whose beliefs brought them to the forefront in the battle against forced, racial segregation in America. Despite real threats to life and limb, they persisted in their efforts to "impose their moral views on others."

Today we frequently admonish people who oppose abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide or capital punishment to keep their religious, moral, and philosophical beliefs to themselves.

Before dispensing such admonishments in the future, perhaps we should gratefully consider some of our country's most courageous, historical figures who refused to do so.

Ivins seems like a weird dude.
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76% of Americans think country on wrong track
Chris in Paris · 8/02/2008 10:22:00 PM ET · Link
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I didn't realize that Big Oil and Wall Street freeloaders could make up 24%, but I guess you learn something new every day..
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. Poll showed that 24 percent have a positive outlook for the country, while 76 percent say things are on the wrong track.

It is the lowest number on record since 1980 and the third time in four decades that the number has dropped so low.

Recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. polling has shown a steady drop in the country's mood. In April 2007, 51 percent said things in the country were going badly. A year later, 70 percent reiterated that position.

The poll questioned 1,041 adult Americans by telephone July 27-29, 2008. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

"Only three events -- Watergate, the Iran hostage crisis, and the economic downturn of 1992 -- have driven below 30 percent the number who think things are going well," CNN's polling director Keating Holland said. The mood of the country has been assessed since 1974.

Only four presidents -- Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and the elder George Bush -- have seen that number drop below 30 percent during their time in office; their parties all lost the White House in the next presidential election.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/31/poll.approval/index.html

Only black reporter kicked out of McCain event for no reason
John Aravosis (DC) · 8/02/2008 08:38:00 PM ET · Link
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But race had nothing to do with it, McCain's staff assures us. Really. Some of McCain's best reporters are black. Well, no they're not. The only black one just got asked to leave. And lots of other white reporters were in the same "restricted" zone but they weren't asked to leave. Only the black one. Well that's not really true. When a white reporter asked why the black reporter was being asked to leave, they kicked her out too. Nice.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/2/141655/8118/37/561349

http://www.defenddemocracy.org

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did you know live365 had a mobile player for windows mobile phones?

Let me know if you re-up the show and I will VIP join to sponsor you.

Yes, I've seen that but haven't heard any comments on how well mobile works.

As for going VIP, don't do that unless you plan on using the service a lot. From what I can tell from the VIP listeners who have tuned in, I've earned less than $1.00 in rewards in the whole time I've been broadcasting!

While I greatly appreciate the offer, I would direct any extra resources at other viable progressive alternative media concerns like GRITtv , DN! and of course whatever Sam and Marc come up with.

Between you and me and the blog, I'm finding it very easy to support these folks in whatever way I can because I rely on them to give me the skinny, much like I used to support NPR for the same reason, but no longer do because they don't give me what I want.
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You can always get what you want,
you just have to dig for it.

I was just checking my knee and the scar and I found the X still on the side of my knee.

We were teasing about it here but the hospital and doctor took it very seriously!

I got up at 7am Sat to get ready for our ONE DAY YARD SALE and I'm exhausted! I fell asleep at 10 pm and just got up! Didn't have time to make a Brick TeeVee Open Mic, so here's the Quick Brick!

Sunday Bobblehead Show lineup:

Meet the Press Obama supporter Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.); McCain supporter Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Panel: Judy Woodruff, PBS; Andrea Mitchell; Mike Murphy; Chuck Todd. 8 a.m. KNBC 28661

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco); former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-Pa.). Panel: David Gergen; Donna Brazile; Jake Tapper; George Will. 8 a.m. KABC 93999

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.); Obama supporter former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.). Ashley Judd, YouthAIDS. Panel: Fred Barnes; Mara Liasson; William Kristol; Juan Williams. 8 a.m. KTTV 35999

Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer Politics; the economy: Obama supporter Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.); McCain supporter former Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Race and politics: McCain supporter Kenneth Blackwell, Obama supporter former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk. Iraq: Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, U.S. Army. Israeli/Palestinian peace talks: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Iraq: Undersecretary of State Jim Glassman. Politics and the economy: Obama economic advisor Laura Tyson; McCain economic advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer. Panel: Bill Schneider; Joe Johns; Gloria Borger. 8 a.m. CNN 558357

Face the Nation The economy; politics: Former Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin; McCain advisor Carly Fiorina; David Brooks, the New York Times. 8:30 a.m. KCBS 71932

First brick is on us!

Sunday Talking Heads: August 3, 2008
By: Elliott Sunday August 3, 2008 4:30 am

7:30-8:15 am - STEPHANIE JONES National Urban League Policy Institute Executive Director. Topics: Campaign 2008 and what the National Urban League thinks the issues should be. The NUL heard from Senator McCain Friday and from Senator Obama Saturday at its annual convention in Orlando. 8:15-8:45 am - DAVID POLLOCK Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Visiting Fellow. Topics: With the resignation announcement of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, guest will look at who might replace him and what new leadership brings for the future of Israeli/Palestinian peace. 8:45-9:00 am - Newspaper Articles/Phones. 9:00-9:30 am - HARRY WU Laogai Research Foundation Executive Director. Topics: Beijing Olympics & Human Rights Issues. Discuss Mr. Wu's meeting (along with other advocates) with President Bush this week concerning China's record on human rights. Mr. Wu was a former labor camp prisoner in China ("Laogai" in Chinese means "Bamboo Gulag" hence the name of the organization). The Chinese government condemned the meeting between President Bush and the advocates. email questions for guests to journal@c-span.org

ABC's This Week: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) discusses the economy, the election, and her new book. Former Governor Tom Ridge (R-PA) on the veepstakes. Roundtable: David Gergen of Harvard University, and ABC News' Jake Tapper, Donna Brazile, George Will. contact George

CBS' Face The Nation: "Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin (Obama supporter), former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina (McCain supporter) and David Brooks of the New York Times." information from LA Times - contact Bob Schieffer if you can

Chris Matthews: Eugene Robinson Washington Post Columnist; Elisabeth Bumiller The New York Times Correspondent; Gloria Borger U.S. News & World Report; Joe Klein Time Magazine Columnist. Topics: What could Obama get done if he's elected president? Would Congressional Democrats work with a President McCain? [sigh] contact Chris

CNN's Late Edition: McCain supporter Rob Portman and Obama supporter Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO). ThenIsrael's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Iran. Also, Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling: Commander, Multi-National Division-North. McCain Economic Adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer and Obama Economic Adviser Laura Tyson. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Jim Glassman. Former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk (D). contact Wolf

Fareed Zakaria - GPS: He'll talk about something interesting with somebody interesting. contact Fareed

Fox News Sunday: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and former Sen. Tom Daschle (D). And the Fox News AllStars! contact fns@foxnews.com

NBC's Meet The Press: Obama supporter Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and McCain supporter Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT).[not very original gets, imo] Roundtable: NBC's Andrea Mitchell, Republican strategist Mike Murphy, NBC's Political Director Chuck Todd & PBS's Judy Woodruff. Topics: Has the tone of the campaign taken a turn for the worse? And are the campaigns any closer to selecting their vice presidents? contact Meet The Press

Newsmakers: Minority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) 7th District: Springfield, Joplin. Reporters: Mary Ann Akers, Washington Post, Correspondent & Sean Lengell, Washington Times, Congressional Correspondent. Newmakers airs on CSPAN 1, Sundays at 10am and 6pm et.

Q & A: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Speaker of the House of Representatives. Her new book is called Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters. 'In this book, Speaker Pelosi encourages women to openly talk about their opinions and beliefs.. She tells the story of her rise to power as the first woman Speaker of the House and the importance of her Catholic faith in her life. The interview was conducted in the Speaker's Ceremonial Office in the U.S. Capitol." airs on on CSPAN at 8pm and 11pm et, Monday 6am et.

Religion & Ethics: Cover: Lambeth Report - Wither the Anglican Communion in the 21st century? Belief &Practice: Save A Torah - A Maryland rabbi rescues and restores a Torah scroll from Auschwitz. Feature: Christian Science Healing - Mary Baker Eddy established the Christian Science Church and its system of spiritual healing. for broadcast times in your area click here

60 Minutes: Dubai, Inc. - Oil-rich, a magnet for business and tourism and a stable island in the turbulent Middle East, the Kingdom of Dubai is the success story of the region. Steve Kroft reports. (This is a double-length segment.) Stat Man - Bill James doesn't run, hit or catch a baseball but his intense statistical analysis of the game and its players have made him an essential asset to the world champion Boston Red Sox. Morley Safer reports.

To The Contrary: Topics: 1- The Obama campaign tries to woo white working-class women; 2- Rate of AIDS among African American women higher than in some African nations; 3- Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA) on the military's controversial "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy. Panelists: Former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan; Global Summit of Women President Irene Natividad; The Washington Times' Tara Wall; and the National Council of Negro Women's Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever. On the website is this To The Contrary Extra: Assault in the Military A new report finds sexual assault and harassment are underreported in the military.. for broadcast times in your area click here

Book TV schedule. This week is also the monthly three hour live call-in discussion from noon to 3 pm et, In Depth: Author and columnist Ralph Peters "Mr. Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, writes a regular opinion column for the New York Post. He is the author of 23 books, including 16 works of fiction (eight of which were written under the pen name Owen Parry). His non-fiction books include "Fighting for the Future," "Beyond Terror," "Beyond Baghdad," "Never Quit the Fight," "New Glory," and "Wars of Blood and Faith." Mr. Peters' latest is "Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World." You can join the discussion by calling in during the program or by e-mailing your questions to booktv@c-span.org." And, as always, After Words: Mahvish Rukhsana Khan author of "My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me" interviewed by Nancy Snow, senior research fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. broadcast times

http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/sunday-talking-heads-august-3-2008/#mo...

Is running a story about Mao and China. Quite interesting.

He is still a hero in China. The myth of Mao.

Actress Applegate
fighting cancer

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Actress Christina Applegate, famed for playing ditzy daughter Kelly Bundy on TV comedy "Married ... With Children," is fighting breast cancer, but expected to make a full recovery, her spokeswoman said on Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080803/ts_nm/applegate_dc;_ylt=AjUaSzCJq0zH...

http://www.cityarts.net/radio.html

8/3/08 Ani Difranco with Michael Azerrad

Ani is the guest this week on City Arts and Lectures. You can check the above link for affiliates and times. It airs on KQED this afternoon and Tuesday.

http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=RD13

(Newser) – A new Obama campaign memo obtained by Time documents Republican disapproval of the McCain camp’s recent tactics. Some highlights:

Pat Buchanan on the commercial juxtaposing Obama, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton: "Look, this is not an effective ad.”
Ed Rollins: “John needs to be the deliberate, experienced veteran and not the grumpy old man.”

David Gergen: "This is not the John McCain who Americans have come to love and to respect."
McCain 2000 media consultant Mike Murphy: “A pure attack tone could be perilous.”

Chuck Hagel on ad criticizing Obama for not visiting Landstuhl: "I think John is treading on some very thin ground."

http://www.newser.com/story/33957/republicans-scold-mccain-obama-camp-po...

It's 73 degrees!

The sun is shinning!

And!

The Republicans are plotting to steal another election!

denigrating a good name

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=molly+ivins&search_type=

Molly's 64th b'day was Wednesday. Check out a 'Tube or two. It will make you feel better.

well... I have to say "BlackWater" is really in the thick
of things. What a bunch of assholes. Raiding a Marijuana
Medical Clinic in Calif. Wow watch out everyone.
What the hell is our country coming to?????

Hope ya all are having a good weekend. I did yard work
all day yesterday. So I'm kinda tired today.

You got that right edna ellen poe. That is one of my fears
about this election. A HUGE fear actually. Another is Bush
enacting Martial Law & attacking Iran. Oh & having another
Sept.11th day in this country (of course with the administrations
help)

A: There's never any dental records and all the DNA matches.

The Waffen-SS (German for "Armed SS", literally "Weapons SS") was the combat arm of the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Squadron") or SS. In contrast to the Heer, Germany's regular army, the Waffen-SS was a group of combat units composed of volunteer troops with particularly strong personal commitments to Nazi ideology and selected on a racial basis, so that people such as Jews or Poles were not allowed within the organisation.

Active 1940–1945
Country Third Reich
Allegiance Axis
Branch Independent military formation
Size over 1. million
Garrison/HQ Third Reich
Nickname "Skull and Bones"
Patron Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
Motto "Meine Ehre heißt Treue" ("My Honor is called Loyalty")
Colors black, grey/green
March Goose-Step
Anniversaries 2 March
Engagements World War II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS

NEWSWEEK

In the middle of John McCain's dopey Britney & Paris attack ad, the announcer gravely asks of Barack Obama: "Is He Ready to Lead?" An equally good question is whether McCain is ready to lead. For a man who will turn 72 this month, he's a surprisingly immature politician—erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure from the last knucklehead who offers him advice. The youthful insouciance that for many years has helped McCain charm reporters like me is now channeled into an ad that one GOP strategist labeled "juvenile," another termed "childish" and McCain's own mother called "stupid." The Obama campaign's new mantra is that McCain is "an honorable man running a dishonorable campaign." Lame is more like it.........

Ivins's death is being investigated as an apparent suicide from a drug overdose, said Lieutenant Shawn Martyak of the Frederick Police Department's criminal investigation division. Based on laboratory test results of blood taken from the body, the state medical examiner ``determined that an autopsy wouldn't be necessary'' to determine the cause of death, Martyak said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aGwtzOlYDSok&refer=h...

Submitted by gbasin on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 11:08am.
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Perhaps we the public should create our own private security. After all, we need protection against Blackwater. Obviously, the law no longer protects us.

Can't stand that man!

i don't think mccain is desparate as much as he is cynically calculating how and when to play the race card. right now we are getting the heating up the water treatment and like the spineless dems we so loath, obama is backing down and saying the speers hilton ad is not racist, just cyncial.

one can only hope that shrum has been fed to the sharks as chum and that he's not the one giving obama the advice that if you accuse them of being racist that it will bring out the closet racist in a lot of moderates.

i think the individuals doing the political calculus flunked math.

that sounds not only pompous, but effeminate too...icky poo.

Happe Talk

but did anyone notice another bank failed (had to wait till friday after close of business for the fdic storm troopers to swoop in and take what was left of peoples money). i believe this one was down in florida.

what's ironic, is that the people that get hurt the most by this are the small businesses which use one bank for their payroll, accounts payable and receivable. they quickly lose everything over 100K. another case of supporting the party that doesn't have your best interests at heart.

A Suggestion to FBI Investigators, RE: Anthrax...
I had trouble sleeping last night because one question (among many) that had long bothered me for years began to resurface regarding the 2001 Anthrax attacks on this nation. I don't know (actually I doubt) if the FBI has considered something interesting about the location of the mail box used to send the letters, post-dated September 18, 2001, specifically its location. Let's examine a few facts about the letters and their envelopes before I make my suggestion, as it will make more sense once we review the data:

1. The first set of letters were sent from Trenton, New Jersey
2. At least 1 letter was dated 9/11/2001
3. The envelopes, the first batch, were post-marked 9/18/2001

#2 and #3 would suggest that the letters were both written and stuffed with Anthrax spores sometime between 9/11/2001 and the early morning of 9/18/2001.

Now let's consider that anyone having had the ability to use (and somehow obtain) powered Anthrax, would also not want to be traveling long distances with the substance. So what kept nagging me all this time is why New Jersey? Of all the places to be right after 9/11, the last place for a bio-terrorist to be would be anywhere near the tri-state area, which was by then crawling with military, FBI, police, etc. I could not get near my apartment for 3 weeks, which was on Broad St. When I finally got to my neighborhood, I was stopped several times by military officers asking to see my ID, what my purpose was, and insisting on examining my packages (food I had to go above 14th to get). And I am a blond, downtown-type, that is to say, not someone who would fit the profile of a Muslim extremist. In other words, they were stopping everyone, elderly, male, female, black, white, brown, green or otherwise. The entire tri-state area was crawling with every government agency one can thing of. So I always found the Trenton location an odd choice for a bio-terrorist, who would have to risk being stopped or risk traveling with such a lethal set of packages.

What this also had always suggested to me is that the terrorist traveled by car, because one would have to carry on board a plane a lethal weapon that a). might be discovered, b). might leak, c). might get confiscated without anyone knowing what it was. There are far too many "ifs" and especially after 9/11, when airports looked like military outposts. Someone smart enough not to leave fingerprints would also be smart enough to use a car, not fly in/out with the substances.

So if the suspect was traveling by car, and likely not going a long distance with such a stash, then that could place the suspects whereabouts within the tri-state area itself between 9/11-9/18. This had always bugged me because how would one even start looking for someone with this type of expertise (50-100 people in the US, maybe) be located? Were there bio-weapons conferences going on in New York, New Jersey, or CT? Was there a a guest lecturer at any of the Universities during that time or scheduled around that time?

More here:

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/08/a-suggestion-to.html

The Florida Bank I posted and the 2 top Execs at the Bank in Arizona that McCain's son left, also resigned.

Things are looking pretty fishy

From the beginning of his life, he has been told he was perfect. He has never worked hard for a goddamn thing. He has been protected all of his life. That includes his stay in th P.O.W. Camp. He was a bully before Vietnam and he remains one. He is everything that is wrong with American politics and business. He is a member of that incestuous good old boys club. Just a bunch old privileged white guys feeding off each other egos and our pocketbooks. They never had to grow up. There are no penalties for their crimes and incompetence. No indeed. They usually profit from it all. I'm reminded of Frank Wills? Who? Well he was the security guard that discovered the break in at the Watergate Hotel. For his good deed, he was blackballed. He died young and poor. But Nixon, Liddy, Buchanan, Colson, and yes Dean, profited from their crimes. And we are still living with the ramifications.

Make sure your passport is ready, Blogafellows!

EXCLUSIVE: 'Not One' Reporter Bothered to Ask Brother About Political Leanings of 'Anthrax Killer'
Corporate Media Coverage of Now-Deceased U.S. Army Bio-Researcher/Suspect Fails to Note Obvious 'Liberal' Targets of Deadly Post-9/11, Pre-War Letter Campaign
ALSO: ABC News Continues to Protect 'Sources' Who Lied About Iraq Connection to Anthrax...

With the mainstream corporate media reports today on the apparent suicide of Bruce E. Ivins of the U.S. Government's bio weapons lab at Ft. Detrick, MD, who was reportedly about to be charged with the Anthrax murders of late 2001, it's curious --- if hardly surprising --- that none of the major outlets reporting the news bothered to note that the attacks were all made on perceived "liberals."

Letters, seeming to appear as if they were from Muslim extremists, declaring "Death to America...Death to Israel...Allah is Great," were sent to then-Democratic Majority Leader Sen. Tom Daschle, powerful Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and then NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.

Given the recent coverage (or extraordinary lack thereof) of the church shootings earlier this week in Knoxville, TN, carried out by a gunman who was said to have blamed "liberal Democrats" for all of this country's woes... and the coinciding news that the Bush Administration's DoJ illegally screened out applicants for career posts based on perceived beliefs that they might support "liberal Democratic" causes (a convergance that we noted, if few others did)... it's all the more curious --- if still not surprising in the least --- that the supposed "Liberal Media" haven't bothered to highlight who the actual targets of the anthrax attacks were, or the reasons why they appear to have been targeted.

Even the parade of reporters contacting the Ivins family today failed to bring up the topic.

More here:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6237

Chris Hedges wrote a great article in the NYT's last year, pointing how Blackwater's ideology is based on corporate fascism.
Erik Prince, who founded and runs Blackwater, is a man who appears to have little time for the niceties of democracy. He has close ties with the radical Christian Right and the Bush White House. He champions his company as a patriotic extension of the U.S. military. His employees, in an act as cynical as it is dishonest, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution. But what he and his allies have built is a mercenary army, paid for with government money, which operates outside the law and without constitutional constraint.

Mercenary units are a vital instrument in the hands of despotic movements. Communist and fascist movements during the last century each built rogue paramilitary forces. And the appearance of Blackwater fighters, heavily armed and wearing their trademark black uniforms, patrolling the streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, may be a grim taste of the future. In New Orleans Blackwater charged the government $240,000 a day.

" 'It cannot happen here' is always wrong," the philosopher Karl Popper wrote. "A dictatorship can happen anywhere."

The word contractor helps launder the fear and threat out of a more accurate term: "paramilitary force." We're not supposed to have such forces in the United States, but we now do. And if we have them, we have a potential threat to democracy. On U.S. soil, Blackwater so far has shown few signs of being an out-and-out rogue retainer army, though they looked the part in New Orleans. But were this country to become even a little less stable, outfits like Blackwater might see a heyday. If the United States falls into a period of instability caused by another catastrophic terrorist attack, an economic meltdown that triggers social unrest, or a series of environmental disasters, such paramilitary forces, protected and assisted by fellow ideologues in the police and military, could ruthlessly abolish what is left of our eroding democracy. War, with the huge profits it hands to corporations, and to right-wing interests such as the Christian Right, could become a permanent condition. And the thugs with automatic weapons, black uniforms and wraparound sunglasses who appeared on the streets in New Orleans could appear on our streets.

Here's what McCain plans...

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:

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...

BANK'S PRES/CEO & CHAIRMAN RESIGN FOLLOWING MCCAIN'S SON'S ABRUPT DEPARTURE

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

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.

How's that knee?

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

My knee is doing okay. Getting better every day.

What's making me sick are the politics!!

How can sooo many people be so in the dark about what is happening in ths country? Makes me sick that they don't see what is happening.

Gbasin,

Blackwater violates the Anti-Pinkerton but the Repuglikkkans got around that.

On August 18, 2006, the U.S. Comptroller General rejected bid protest arguments that U.S. Army contracts violated the Anti-Pinkerton Act by calling for the contractor to provide armed convoy escort vehicles and labor, weapons, and equipment for internal security operations at Victory Base Complex, Iraq. The Comptroller General reasoned that the act was not violated because the contracts did not require the contractor to provide "quasi-military forces as strikebreakers.

(insane mccains policy on urban stability)

you provide a secure environment for the people that live there.

From: winknews.com
Nader gets third party nomination in California; Makes November ballot

From: newsblaze.com
Nader Nabs Peace and Freedom Party Nomination

From: sacbee.com
Ralph Nader wins spot on California's presidential ballot

From: mercurynews.com
Nader wins Peace and Freedom's presidential nod

From: independentpoliticalreport.com
Nader wins Peace and Freedom nomination

From: thirdpartywatch.com
Nader Gets California Peace and Freedom Party Nomination

And finally from little ol' me
Peace, Freedom and How I Know I Found It...

Ahmadinejad says Iran `serious' in nuclear talks
Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's president says diplomacy is the only way out of his country's nuclear standoff with the West.

State TV aired footage Sunday of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying "there is no way except talks and obedience to the law."

He says Iran is "serious in nuclear talks" and hopes "the other side" will do the same.

A deadline expired this weekend for Tehran to respond to a package of incentives offered by six world powers, in exchange for Iran's promise to curb uranium enrichment.

That's a process that can generate electricity, or the material for a nuclear bomb.

Ahmadinejad said Saturday his country would not give up its "nuclear rights," and that any participation in international talks would "be aimed at reinforcing" those rights.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ahmadinejad_says_Iran_serious_in_nuclear_0...

last night about how we are all so fucking complacent with all the crap that is going on. He was noting how serious all the attacks on our constitution have been but we still just like little robots pay our 60 bucks to fill up our tank. After hearing about the profits for the oil companies people should be in the streets but instead we go to church or watch meet the press, feeling that it does not matter what we think.

I talked to a woman checker at walmart yesterday and asked her if she was in any meetings about who she should vote for. She said, "there is nobody to vote for". When I talked about Walmarts anti union position. She said that she liked the idea of a union. I said Obama is pro union...wonder if she will vote? What idiot working for a few bucks above minimum wage would swallow that bilge from the walmart exec's. This is very disheartening.

Happe Talk

Karadzic protected by US until he broke 'deal': Belgrade report
Agence France-Presse

BELGRADE, Aug 2, 2008 (AFP) - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his 'deal', Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.

Partly echoing what Karadzic himself told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in his opening written submission, the paper claims Karadzic was secretly granted immunity in return for keeping a low profile.

"Karadzic, indicted for genocide and war crimes, was under the US protection until 2000, when the CIA intercepted his telephone conversation that clearly proved he personally chaired a meeting of his old political party," the daily quoted a "well-informed US intelligence source" as saying.

In a submission to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Karadzic said the US peace negotiator in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, had promised he would avoid trial if he withdrew from public life.

Holbrooke has insisted that no such deal existed.

The Blic source said: "I'm not sure there was a written document confirming so, but I do have Holbrooke's admission of verbal guarantees given to Karadzic from the highest level of the US."

"During the year 2000, at the time of the (November general) elections in Bosnia, the CIA learned that Karadzic was still leading the SDS (the Serbian Democratic Party, founded by Karadzic), despite their deal that he was not to interfere in political life," the source added, cited by the newspaper.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Karadzic_protected_by_US_until_he_0802.htm...

Graham and Daschle in heated debate over 'the race card'
David Edwards and Andrew McLemore

After race issues dominated the campaign trail last week, Senator Lindsey Graham and former Senator Tom Daschle debated whether Barack Obama had "played the race card," as the McCain campaign claimed Friday.

In a Wednesday speech, Obama told the audience that Senator John McCain would attempt "to make you scared of me" by telling them that Obama didn't "look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills," referring to a McCain attack ad shown below which transplants Obama's face with those of famous presidents on Mount Rushmore and Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill.

Graham said Obama's comments had unjustly accused John McCain of mounting attacks based on race.

"John McCain doesn't have a racist bone in his body," Graham said. "And there's no doubt in my mind that what Senator Obama is trying to suggest that he's a victim of something."

Graham continued by claiming that Obama's popularity stems from an undeserved celebrity, effectively reinforcing another recent McCain ad that coupled images of Obama with images of Britney Spears.

"He is living off celebrity, not ideas, and one of the campaign issues is credibility," Graham said. "To say that Barack Obama did not intentionally inject the idea that he was going to be a victim of his name and his race is a lie."

Daschle said that Obama publicly stated he didn't believe McCain was a racist and that it was McCain, and not Obama, who had launched a smear campaign.

"First of all, again, I say John McCain is not a racist. Nobody's ever accused him of being that," Daschle said. "But you've just seen the evidence here. You're seeing exactly what Barack is talking about. If you're going to say that Barack Obama is no better, no different than Britney Spears or Paris Hilton, what is that? That's exactly what Barack is talking about, Chris. That's exactly what Lindsey seems to overlook here. We've talked about changing the tone. I can't think of a worse tone than simply going negative and using these kinds of accusations and allegations over and over again."

This video is from Fox's Fox News Sunday, broadcast August 3, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Graham_and_Daschle_in_heated_debate_0803.h...

They are afraid Ceiling Cat is still watching over them.
Lights out!

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Ceiling_cat
http://tubbypaws.blogspot.com/2008/03/meow-you-can-has-lolcats.html
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Proof_of_Ceiling_Cat
Too many more
http://icanhascheezburger.com/?s=ceiling+cat

Hiya, toniD!
I still have all the answers.
...of course, most of them are still ridiculous and wrong ;)
Later.

Glenn Greenwald
Sunday Aug. 3, 2008 07:26 EDT
Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation
The death of government scientist Bruce Ivins has generated far more questions about the anthrax attacks than it has answered. I want to return to the role the establishment media played in obfuscating the anthrax investigation for so long and, at times, aiding in what was clearly the deliberate deceit on the part of Government sources. This is yet another case where the establishment media possesses -- yet steadfastly conceals -- some of the most critical facts about what the Government has done, and insists on protecting the wrongdoers. Obtaining these answers from these media outlets is as important as obtaining them from the Government. Writing about ABC's dissemination of the false Iraq/anthrax story, The New Republic's Dayo Olopade wrote yesterday: "Pressure on ABC to out their sources should be swift and sustained."

The Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum argued yesterday that despite the need for journalists to use confidential sources, "the profession -- and the rest of us -- [are] better off if sources know that they run the risk of being unmasked if their mendacity is egregious enough to become newsworthy in its own right." Drum added: "I'd say that part of [Ross'] re-reporting ought to include a full explanation of exactly who was peddling the bentonite lie in the first place, and why they were doing it." Nonetheless, Drum said: "In practice, most journalists refuse to identify their sources under any circumstances at all, even when it's clear that those sources deliberately lied to them."

Drum is right that it is unusual for journalists to out their "sources" even when they are exploiting the confidentiality pledge to disseminate lies to the public, but such outing is by no means unprecedented. Last year, when I first wrote about ABC's broadcasting of this false Saddam/anthrax story, I spoke with numerous experts in "journalistic ethics," such as they are, and all of them -- journalists, Journalism Professors, and media critics alike -- agreed that while the obligation of source confidentiality is close to absolute, it does not extend to a source who deliberately exploits confidentiality to disseminate lies to the public. Under those circumstances, it's axiomatic in journalistic ethics that a reporter is not only permitted, but required, to disclose the identity of the source who purposely used the reporter to spread lies.

More here

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

Nader, a vegetarian for decade's, (as well as Dennis) ate at my old restaurant, Blue Heron Natural Foods, twice. 1996 & 2000 the U.N.R. campus GREENS brought him and I had several chances to talk to him. I was fucking impressed! SO i Voted for him twice, he's politics has always been right on. The reason that i was so supportive of him was because he was the only candidate who was pointing out the dangers of large multinational corporations. However I can't vote for him again, you know he was called a spoiler, I don't that's the case. The FUCKING media didn't give him an creditability as an authentic candidate.
He's done more good for this country and it's citizens then anybody running in this election cycle or in decades.
Nader has gone on to start any help start this non-profits:
* Capitol Hill News Service
* Citizen Advocacy Center
* Citizens Utility Boards
* Congress Accountability Project
* Consumer Task Force For Automotive Issues
* Corporate Accountability Research Project
* Disability Rights Center
* Equal Justice Foundation
* Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights
* Georgia Legal Watch
* National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
* National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest
* Pension Rights Center
* PROD (truck safety)
* Retired Professionals Action Group
* The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest
* 1969: Center for the Study of Responsive Law
* 1970s: Public Interest Research Groups
* 1970: Center for Auto Safety
* 1970: Connecticut Citizen Action Group
* 1971: Aviation Consumer Action Project

* 1972: Clean Water Action Project
* 1972: Center for Women's Policy Studies
* 1980: Multinational Monitor (magazine covering multinational corporations)
* 1982: Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
* 1982: Essential Information (encourage citizen activism and do investigative journalism)
* 1983: Telecommunications Research and Action Center
* 1983: National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest
* 1989: Princeton Project 55 (alumni public service)
* 1993: Appleseed Foundation (local change)
* 1994: Resource Consumption Alliance (conserve trees)
* 1995: Center for Insurance Research
* 1995: Consumer Project on Technology
* 1997?: Government Purchasing Project (encourage purchase of safe products)
* 1998: Center for Justice and Democracy
* 1998: Organization for Competitive Markets
* 1998: American Antitrust Institute (ensure fair competition)
* 1999?: Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest
* 1999?: Commercial Alert (protect family, community, and democracy from corporations)
* 2000: Congressional Accountability Project (fight corruption in Congress)
* 2001: Citizen Works (promote NGO cooperation, build grassroots support, and start new groups)
* 2001: Democracy Rising (hold rallies to educate and empower citizens)

S&P emails slammed mortgage debt products: report
Reuters

CHICAGO - Analysts at Standard & Poor's Rating Services warned against mortgage-related debt products in internal e-mails that, in one case, called the complex financial deals "ridiculous," the Wall Street Journal reported in its weekend edition.

The Journal cited a draft revision of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission report on bond-rating firms that was first released on July 8.

In one email message, an S&P analyst called a mortgage or structured finance deal "ridiculous" and wrote "we should not be rating it."

In another email, an S&P manager said ratings agencies were helping to create an "even bigger monster -- the CDO (collateralized debt obligation) market. Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of card falters."

Rating agencies struggled with the growth of asset-backed securities and saw breaches in their conflict-of-interest policies, according to the report released early last month on an industry blamed for helping contribute to the subprime mortgage crisis.

An SEC examination "uncovered serious shortcomings," SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said when the report was released, adding that the problems are being fixed.

The SEC spent 10 months looking at the biggest ratings firms: Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fimalac SA's Fitch Ratings.

A spokesman for Standard & Poor's, a unit of McGraw-Hill Companies Inc, was not immediately available to comment on the Journal report.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/SP_emails_slammed_mortgage_debt_products_0...

http://images.salon.com/comics/opus/2008/08/03/opus/story.jpg

Lieberman On Attending RNC Convention: ‘I Will Do It’ And Speak Against ‘Partisan Mud-Slinging’
On Meet the Press, host Tom Brokaw informed guest Joe Lieberman (I-CT) that nearly 50,000 activists have signed onto the “Lieberman Must Go” petition being circulated by Brave New Films. “Do you think you’re going to be comfortable next year in the Democratic caucus?” Brokaw asked. Lieberman said he’s crossed party lines to support John McCain because “this is no ordinary time.”

Brokaw followed-up by asking if that means he will speak at the Republican convention. Lieberman practically confirmed that he would indeed speak. After stating that no decision has been made, Lieberman went on to say:

If Sen. McCain feels that I can help his candidacy…I will do it. But I assure you this Tom, I’m not going to go to that convention — the Republican convention — and spend my time attacking Barack Obama. I’m going to go there really talking about why I support John McCain and why I hope a lot of other independents and Democrats will do that.

And frankly, I’m going to go to a partisan convention and tell them — if I go — why it’s so important that we start to act like Americans and not as partisan mud-slingers.

Brokaw said “it sounds like you’re going to go.” Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) added, “It looks like that to me too.” Watch it:

Later in the roundtable segment, Andrea Mitchell said the “good money” is that Lieberman would deliver the keynote address at the RNC Convention.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/03/lieberman-must-go-convention/

Graham: McCain would consider a tax increase on Social Security as ‘part of a comprehensive approach.’Filed Under: Social Security
By Matt at 11:00 am Graham: McCain would consider a tax increase on Social Security as ‘part of a comprehensive approach.’
On Fox News Sunday today, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a top McCain surrogate, about Sen. John McCain’s “doozy” of a flip-flop this past week on whether he would consider raising taxes as part of a Social Security fix. Despite the McCain campaign’s backtracking assertion this week that raising taxes is “absolutely out of the question,” Graham said McCain could support it “if it’s part of a comprehensive approach.” Watch it:

Following Graham’s comments, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle remarked that, “we don’t know what we’re going to get with John McCain. The more he talks, the less certain we are about any of the positions he’s taken.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/03/lindsey-graham-ss-flip/

Latest
Latest (angry) McCain ad: (Black guy) Obama doesn't care about hispanics.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/Read.aspx?guid=98...

Happe Talk

Favor
For any reporters interested in digging. Remember that Times story back in February about whether Sen. McCain did special favors for Lowell Paxson and his lobbyist Vicki Iseman? Someone needs to ask some questions about whether McCain threatened to block the reappointment of one of the then-commissioners if Paxson didn't get his way.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?_r=1&hp=&ore...

yes things should be much more interesting after the Olympics - but it seems McCain sigetting away with it

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0dNn3ermE
[sing along]

Clouds so swift
The rains fallin' in
Gonna see a movie
Called 'Gunga Din'
Pick up your money
Pull up your tent McGuinn.
You ain't a-goin'nowhere.

Whoo-ee, ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's a-gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down into the easy chair!

Ghengis Khan
And his brother Don
Could not keep on keepin' on
Who'll climb that bridge
After it's gone
After we're way past it.

Whoo-ee, ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's a-gonna come
Oh, Lord, are we gonna fly
Down into the easy chair! Yeah.

Gonna buy me some rings
And a gun that sings
A flute that toots
And a bee that stings
A sky that cries
And a bird that flies
A fish that walks
And a dog that talks!

Whoo-ee, ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's a-gonna come
Oh, Lord, are we gonna fly
Down into the easy chair!

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

really like the disclaimer on the "Quad" mic
nice touch
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Hi sam do I sense a new thread comming?

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Jamesbennett

now if I can just get realplayer to work with it.

later....
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cool got it blue roots radio playing.
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Jamesbennett

I think your new buddy might have a future in the music biz. Have his people call my people. You can do the lunch! ;-)
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nice to have you aboard!
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Happe Talk

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

hey mmr
Submitted by jbenet on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 3:09pm.
really like the disclaimer on the "Quad" mic
nice touch
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Figured I better cover mine & everybody's arse.. :)

So,get them while they are hot..

I probably won't be updating them..
Unless it's a really awesome tune,I guess.. :)

Otherwise,I'll probably just replace them with something else..

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

3 different camera angles.

He forgot, and or didn't know how to answer! Uh, Ummm!

Can I make promo's now that say:

"BlueRootsRadio, where David Bromberg's buddies hang out and unwind...."

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Mama don't allow no housecleaning to blueroots..

Someone should play this when McCain wants the Obama, Brittany video ad played.

well th ey covered for Ray-gun's Alzheimer's too

Obama to urge Fla., Mich. delegates be allowed full votes at convention

Source: Palm Beach Post

By MICHAEL C. BENDER

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Presumed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is expected to release a letter as soon as today calling for Florida and Michigan delegates to receive full votes at the national convention, sources told the Palm Beach Post.

Such a letter would bring closure to a normally technical issue for party insiders that this year exploded into a months-long embarrassment for Democrats.

The question over Florida's delegation, which arose because the state legislature approved a primary that violated Democratic National Committee rules, forced state party leaders to consider a "do-over" primary to be conducted through the mail. It also forced a contentious meeting of top Democrats across the country to determine how — and if — Florida and Michigan should be allowed to participate at the presidential nominating convention.

The letter from Obama would be sent to party leaders in each state as well as to Democratic officials in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada — the four states that urged presidential candidates to avoid the early Florida and Michigan primaries, sources said . . .

Read more: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epa...

Pole Axed
TPM Reader RY keeps us posted ...

Disquieting Rasmussen numbers this morning--McCain's crying racism worked. 53% of Americans, including the same % of whites and half of all Democrats, thing that Obama's "dollar bill" remark was "racist." Only 22% think the Paris Hilton ad was racist--most of those being black people, of course (only 18% of white people took this view).
The good news this morning? God Bless David Gergen! Really--he was on This Week and said (check the video or transcript for exact wording), "When McCain's camp calls Obama "The Messiah" and "The One", he's really calling him "upitty." I'm from the South, and we understand what that means. That's code." Jake Tapper looked like he had been pole axed. Donna Brazille knew what he was talking about, of course. But GS, George Will, and Tapper had to be bluntly told the the way the world works by Mr. Blandly Bi-partisan....

Here's the video: At link

Late Update: A reader writes in to dispute that Tapper looks "pole axed" in response to Gergen's comment. And looking again he may be right, though it's possible he was poll axed on the inside.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/206827.php

Favor For any reporters
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 1:30pm.
Favor
For any reporters interested in digging. Remember that Times story back in February about whether Sen. McCain did special favors for Lowell Paxson and his lobbyist Vicki Iseman? Someone needs to ask some questions about whether McCain threatened to block the reappointment of one of the then-commissioners if Paxson didn't get his way.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?_r=1&hp=&ore...

*******

news-tips@nytimes.com

metro@washpost.com

countdown@msnbc.com

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

Do either one of you guys have the Link of the Text
for Crank's post that MB read on Blueroots Radio ?

I want to send it to my crazy libertarian Brother in Law..

Plus,it's a very good post to save..

Thanks.. :)

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

I shudder from reading poleaxe. It's the connotative images that flood my mind upon reading the term.

To strike or fell with or as if with a poleax: "When a gang of doves circled above the flowing water and swooped in to feed, he poleaxed the leader with a clean head shot" William Hoffman.
*TLL*

I'm thinking about getting in my Jeep and cranking the AC then driving around the park to see the idiots that are running around for their "health".

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=75016&...

With Moses? Bender just said on the radio that people are translating it mean that Obama is the anti-christ.

Meanwhile,Bender, after having talked with someone from Chicago, said that the Cubs are going to win and the Sox are going to win and Obama is going to win. Crosstown series!! By the way, the Cubs won today!!!

:)

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

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I watched a couple of people do this yesterday in the intense heat of Reno...I think it is some weird addiction Nando. I love that site for weather. I bookmarked it for my area. Lots of great detailed info. Sweet!

Happe Talk

mc cain is getting a free pass, still.

the antichrist accuses others of being the antichrist to escape notice...

My house smells like somebody scrubbed the place down with oranges. I'm mopping with that orange oil next!

Mire was saying there were storms in N.O. Hope she's okay and hpe the storm doesn't get stronger. Landfall on Tuesday.

Going out for awhile. Shopping! First time since the operation. Won't be long.

Later

BEWARE WORLD!!!!!

i heard that sunnyj

One of the comments from post by TONID@11:33 -- WOW...
Did you go there yet, Fernando?
WOW...
I don't have my crosses in order. Would that be similar to a double or triple cross?

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/08/a-suggestion-to.html?cid=125114246#comm...

DEFuning, I too find the story about Ivins' "long history" of homicidal urges a little too neat.

Ivins' suicide spurred me to look up some more background on this case. According to the wiki entry (and I've seen it other places) a previous suspect at Fort Detrick, Hatfill, put on his resume that he'd attended the U.S. Army's Institute of Military Assistance, which taught "Psychological Operations, Counter Insurgency, and Unconventional Warfare." Then he went to Rhodesia and fought with the white supremacists in the Selous Scouts, an irregular unit which ran terror operations in the Zimbabwean countryside against the black populace, to include the use of ANTHRAX against people and their cattle. He also was interviewed by the Washington Times on bioterror a few years before 9/11. The article had a photo of him wearing rubber gloves, a gas mask and plastic bags with him demonstrating how to whip up bubonic plague at home. Also, before 9/11 Hatfill wrote a novel about a bioterror attack on the U.S. by Iraq.

So, if we are to believe the covery story, Fort Detrick had one homicidal maniac (Ivins), another guy who claims to have worked with white racists who killed blacks with anthrax, and four people who lied to ABC News about the source of the anthrax.

Why am I having trouble buying this story?

Posted by:Bob In Pacifica | August 03, 2008 at 02:34 PM

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im-peaches!!

right now looks like the Edouard storm is heading south and west, avoiding New Orleans, only the southern LA costal areas might be affected and then tomorrow Texas, Fernando will be ok too

said yesterday it's awsome to watch the lone gunman legend being born again under our eyes. what's depressing is how gullible the journalists and reporters are whose job should require absolute scepticism of such stuff. and even if the majority of the people will not believe the official story when it will be fed to us, will it matter? just another mystery to add to the long history of government crimes' cover ups. yesterday i pledged to stop worrying about this stuff, i am just sick of being constantly worried, am trying to limit my news intake, but regardless, there's a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach whether or not i read and get information or instead shut myself off, decide to go take a walk by the lake, read mystery novels only (my vow for the month of august) watch old cary grant movies, go out on a saturday night ..... the sick feeling always with me weighing on my chest in the morning when i wake up till i go to bed

and no, it's not phisiological, i am very healthy otherwise, i know where it's coming from

just returned from the Manny Ramirez tidal wave

translation: great Dodgers game w/ new enthusiasm injected by one dude's addition

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Solzhenistyn.html

Just went to Walgreens for a few things but it did tire me out. Have to rest before making dinner.

mire, glad that storm isn't headed right at you and Fernando also.

Nora, Larisa always seems to be on top of things. Now a co-worker is saying that Ivins could not have managed that Anthrax scare. CNN seems to be following this better than the other networks.

this is sounding way too much like the confessions that would come out of the TV's in the movie 1984. I'm not buying any of that hype. Lets wait and then look deeper.

my mom will get it but this looks so weak that she asked me not to worry about pulling her off the coast. I'm watching it only because I stayed for Celia in Corpus Christi and that bitch blew up at the last minute. They can go from tropical storm to 120 mph winds in no time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/us/03anthrax.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=anthra...

...
Has the unprecedented boom in biodefense research made the country less secure by multiplying the places and people with access to dangerous germs?

“We are putting America at more risk, not less risk,” said Representative Bart Stupak, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of a House panel that has investigated recent safety lapses at biolabs...

I am re-living the scene in 28 days later when the dude walks across London after waking up from his coma in the hospital and the streets are empty of cars, traffic, and people. Only instead of the people missing. It's the ants. It was an instant cure. The rage is gone and my pad smell like I'm organic and such. It even makes my teeth feel clean. I mopped with it and it made me happy. Orange oil rocks!

THANK YOU!

Defense contractor orders Iraq employees to surrender cell phones
Raw Story

KBR, Inc., formerly a division of Halliburton as Kellogg, Brown & Root, has ordered employees in the Middle East to turn in their personal cell phones, citing "a safety and security concern."

As CNN reported, an e-mail sent to KBR employees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait ordered employees to stop using their phones and turn them in, warning of disciplinary action, including termination, for noncompliance. One employee, refusing to surrender his phone, said that no reason was given for the demand, and that he was "not aware of any security breaches involving the use of cell phones."

"KBR has a communication system, but as with any system it does fail and we can only communicate with another installation by use of the cell phones," the employee added. "We pay for this use with our own funds."

"The matter giving rise to this message is stil being reviewed by KBR management, so the company will not provide further comment at this time," KBR spokesperson Heather L. Browne said in a statement.

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

You made it to Walgreens and back..

Baby steps.. :)

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First Wal-Mart union begins in China thanks to gov't
Andrew McLemore

The first Wal-Mart trade union in China was formed after the company bowed to government demands for organized labor in its stores, The New York Times reported Friday.

Wal-Mart's reluctance to allow unions, particularly in the United States where they remain banned from stores, has been a point of controversy for many years. But the government-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions fought for the right to create branches in the company's 60 outlets.

Beth Keck, director of international corporate affairs for Wal-Mart, said she was aware of the reports of Chinese unions forming and said the company hopes to have a "cordial and productive relationship" with the federation.

"We know they have been interested in having a relationship with our company for some time," Keck said. "We will, of course, be looking forward to how this will evolve."

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has operations in 15 countries, many of which have at least some employees that are union members.

The United States, Keck said, is the "clear exception."

The change comes at a time when Wal-Mart is already battling the proposed Employee Free Choice Act -- which might allow unionization of Wal-Marts on this side of the ocean -- by attempting to sway its employees from voting Democratic.

While the company insists it is not telling employees how to vote, some who attended meetings with Wal-Mart human resources managers that delivered the company's anti-union line 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.

Wal-Mart has fought against unions for years and has many systems in place to prevent them from forming.

As soon as Wal-Mart managers see a potential union, they are supposed to call a hotline, prompting a visit from a special team from Wal-Mart headquarters, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Former Wal-Mart manager Jon Lehman told Frontline what he would tell employees regarding unions.

"I used to stand up in front of my workers and lie to them," he said. "I used to say the talking points, that the union's a cult: 'You don't want to join a union. It's a cult. Why pay someone to speak for you? You can speak for yourself.'"

In a segment below from the documentary "Wal-Mart :The High Cost of Low Prices," former employees talk about the company's policies to prevent unionization.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/First_WalMart_union_begins_in_China_0803.h...

from a Bad Situationist. They almost comprise a whole 'nuther feature. I may have to splce them together and market separately. ;-)

Money well spent imho.

We should have a salon and discuss.

I'll bring the frozen processed meat based snacks wrapped in something akin to dough. You bring the crackers 'n cheese.

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Unions in name only. There is no collective bargaining there and certainly no laws on the books to back up the workers. They'd be better off with the Little Red Book.

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I caught the end of that clip once. Good to hear the whole piece again.

This article is the one with statements from Ivins' co-workers, who deny he had access to what was required for the Anthrax Scare/Poisonings--

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121757737139604131.html?mod=todays_us_no...

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Friends and ex-colleagues at Fort Detrick expressed skepticism that Dr. Ivins was responsible for the attacks. They described an eccentric and gregarious workaholic who, through diligent and careful work, became one of the country's premier anthrax experts.

"He was probably one of the few people in the country that was really conversant about anthrax," said Jeff Adamovicz, his former supervisor in the bacteriology division. His research proved critical to the development of a second-generation anthrax vaccine, former colleagues said.

Dr. Ivins was an important contributor to the anthrax investigation, helping test specimens as thousands of samples poured in. His knowledge of the bacteria was so deep that he could by sight rule on whether cultured specimens were relevant to the investigation. He also worked all hours during that intense period, said Dr. Adamovicz, who hastened to add that his work ethic had been just as intense before 9/11.

Dr. Adamovicz challenged the authorities to provide evidence of Dr. Ivins's culpability, noting that the FBI is under great pressure to close the case.

As the probe turned toward the laboratory itself, Dr. Ivins, like his colleagues, tried to focus on the lab's work, often defusing tension with humor, said Gerard Andrews, who was his supervisor from 2000 to 2002. "He maintained a good sense of humor in light of what was going on around us," Dr. Andrews recalled. "Maybe it was more of a defense mechanism over all the nonsense that was happening."

Dr. Ivins was not a colleague of Dr. Hatfill. The two worked on opposite sides of the building.

Dr. Ivins's possible motive remains unclear. The Associated Press reported Friday that it might have been a misguided effort to test vaccine work that was under way at the lab. Separately, the Los Angeles Times, which reported the break in the case in Friday's editions, cited unnamed investigators who suspected that Dr. Ivins didn't report the 2002 lab contamination because he didn't want to draw attention to himself.

Dr. Ivins also was viewed by investigators as emotionally unstable. But ex-colleagues said that might have been a reaction to intensifying scrutiny. "I worry about his being pushed over the edge by the FBI," said David Franz, a former commander at Fort Detrick.

Richard Spertzel, who was deputy commander of the Army's biodefense lab for several years in the 1980s and knew Dr. Ivins, was skeptical that anyone working at the lab or Fort Detrick could have made the form of anthrax used in the mailings. The spores were pure and very small, Dr. Spertzel said, and their processing would have required techniques and specialized equipment that a person couldn't have kept secret at those facilities. "I don't know what evidence the FBI has, but I wouldn't rely on it," he said.

"I know where he worked, and that tells me he didn't have the opportunity or the capability to make it," Dr. Spertzel said. "Nor does he have the motive. What motive would he have?"

Dr. Spertzel was the senior biologist on the United Nations team that assessed Iraq's weapons capabilities in the late 1990s. He also was part of the Iraq Survey Group that traveled to the country after the U.S. invasion. He has long thought the anthrax mailings were the work of a foreign government.

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..he wanted to tease his Libertarian brother with it.

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my copy came yesterday. I haven't opened it yet. Its just good the audio is in sync...

MMRules, ....
new
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 9:16pm.
Crank Bait's
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The Text..You know written words,Brother.. :)

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House conservatives plan another political stunt tomorrow.
Just as they did last Friday, a group of House Republicans will engage in political theater on the floor tomorrow, staging a fake session on gas prices. Congress adjourned last week, but some conservatives remained behind to clamor in the dark chamber for a vote on oil drilling. Politico reports that “Republicans felt they got a lot of good press out of Friday’s ‘revolt,’ so they will be back at it again.”

UPDATE: Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said last Friday: “In a week where Exxon Mobil made the largest quarterly profits by a U.S. corporation, Republicans are staying in Washington to argue that Big Oil deserves more taxpayer lands. Republicans must think Big Oil is paying them by the hour.”

UPDATE II: On Fox News’ Beltway Boys, Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes admitted the move by the House conservatives was a “stunt.” “It’s a stunt, but sometimes stunts work,” he said. Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/03/house-conservatives-plan-another-pol...

Graham: McCain would consider a tax increase on Social Security as ‘part of a comprehensive approach.’
On Fox News Sunday today, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a top McCain surrogate, about Sen. John McCain’s “doozy” of a flip-flop this past week on whether he would consider raising taxes as part of a Social Security fix. Despite the McCain campaign’s backtracking assertion this week that raising taxes is “absolutely out of the question,” Graham said McCain could support it “if it’s part of a comprehensive approach.” Watch it:

Following Graham’s comments, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle remarked that, “we don’t know what we’re going to get with John McCain. The more he talks, the less certain we are about any of the positions he’s taken.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/03/lindsey-graham-ss-flip/

UpdateHuffington Post's Sam Stein points out that despite Graham's claim today that raising taxes to save Social Security is "a dumb idea," he advocated a tax increase as a solution in 2005.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/03/as-mccain-surrogate-graha_n_116...

...that they did this all in the span of one month and came out with a quality product. I've yet to see the deleted scenes.

I think Jon Benjamin surprised me the most. That boy can act. Don't take me wrong, they were all great. Brockley was exactly as I expected. Oh, Maron's role was notable too. Why is it comics always seem to make good actors but not the other way around?

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Submitted by Crank Bait on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 11:14pm.

It is long past time to bust the myth. Surely (don't call me Shirley) the executives and Wall Street movers-and-shakers know better by now?

The myths:

Republicans = Pro-business, free market, no regulation. It's fat city for everyone!

Democrats = Anti-business, bureaucratic regulation, tax-sapping social programs. How's a company supposed to get ahead in this environment?

The truth:

Recent Democratic history had almost everyone doing okay. Was it perfect? No way. But the economic indicators were headed in the right direction.

Recent Republican history has screwed the economic pooch. When the economy sucks, so does business. When business sucks, so does the economy. Who cares if the oil industry has been kicking ass if your corporation makes widgets?

So the "Republicans are good for business" bromide is wrong. Dead wrong. Ask Bear Stearns. (Oh, I forgot. Bear Stearns doesn't exist.) When did the biggest bank failure in U.S. history occur? Hint: If you guessed a date prior to a week ago, you would be wrong.

Corporate America needs government oversight and regulation to keep it from cannibalizing itself. I am seeing more and more Conservative economy "experts" admit to this truth every day. (What's out? Reaganomics and Grover Norquist. What's in? Watchdogs. Big ones.)

The only remaining claim for the Republican party is "a strong defense" and "security for all Americans."

Whoops! 9/11 happened on their watch! Even after the experts warned them. And then the Republicans fucked up the war. No, wait. TWO wars.

Republicans are good for business and good for protecting American citizens from harm?

Horse-fucking-shit. Check the stats.

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

YES! Thanks for telling me the good news!!!

I see the orange oil as a means of COMMUNICATION with this other species -- across a language barrier: "NO you don't. Not here, please. Move on."

I've got this notion: If we just poison stuff as our first choice, it means we're never trying to peacefully communicate!

When I'm in the garden working I notice the bees start buzzing more and louder as I enter the area they are working. I think they are communicating, "Hey, look out, I'm here too, mind your step." With this in mind, the last couple of years -- about this time of year, August through October -- the yellow jacket population starts being noticeable -- and arrogant! -- I always got a bite or two every year (which was scary since they are such icky carrion-feeders, yuck) and you can't get them angry or they excrete a pheromone of some kind that attracts additional yellow jackets. So two years ago, I started buzzing at the yellow jackets. A big LOUD buzz to let them know I'm bigger and I am busy and they shouldn't mess with me. Well, I haven't gotten stung in two years now, so I'm pleased with my buzzing experiment so far.

Score one more for Communication! Hurray!

Nora Buzz's to the Animals.. :)

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

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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