Conservative Activism Grips Our Supreme Court

I agree we have to do something but it is up to our Senators and Congress people and I have yet to see them grow a spine!

What can we do to lite a fire under their butts and the butts of the collective citizens of this country to finally stand up to this admin?

I am trying in my own little way but we need numbers and we need a strong movement to stand firm on what we want.

I think we are all frustrated by what is happening and what isn't happening!

The Supremes need to be removed for unconstitutional decisions. The idea that we cannot have redress in the court for the money going to relgious organizations is just unbelievable as are all that you mentioned above.

Without a questioning media that will push these issues, we are at a loss.

Keep posting these great posts and I am sure we will try our best to further the cause and demand from the media what they should be reporting.

Your little way goes a long way with me toniD.

Thanks Bill thanks toniD.

*cough*

Because the battle for the Supreme Court is not over. As Justice Anthony Kennedy remains a swing vote, conservative activists do not have complete control. Yet.

Could have fooled me.

Pray for a Cheney hunting trip.

There. Are you happy?

He never loses does he. Jason and Freddie in one.

MEMRI As Mossad Op

MEMRI Is A 'Propaganda Machine,' Expert Says And
Why You Need To Know About Them
By Lawrence Swaim
Infocus Staff Writer
6-23-7

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) provides daily English translations of film and print media stories originating in Arabic, Iranian and Turkish media.

It also furnishes original analysis of cultural, political and religious trends in the Middle East.

It sends its daily postings to every news outlet in the United States and Europe, in addition to politicians and cultural leaders.

And it's free, which makes it a Godsend for journalists, editors and policy analysts.

But according to its critics, it is also a dangerous, highly sophisticated propaganda operation, disseminating hate and disinformation on an unprecedented worldwide basis.

"They use the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis," Professor Norman G. Finkelstein, a well-known scholar on Israel/Palestine, told InFocus. "They take things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don't like."
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I'm sure I'll be able to have sex again someday after that Dicksgusting image.

to Scare Burro on MSNBC an interview about Paris was just interrupted by a female. She said "My pardon to that dog (referring to ugliest dog contest winner) I thought that was Coulter".

"The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks
the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a
standstill."

The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter.

And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

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"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumed by it." —Diane Di Prima, "Rant," from Pieces of a Song

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Astrologer Caroline Casey offers an apt metaphor to illustrate how crucial it is for us to hear and read good stories. She notes that if we don't have enough of the normal, healthy kind of iodine in our bodies, we absorb radioactive iodine, which has entered the food chain through nuclear test explosions conducted in the atmosphere. Similarly, unless we fill ourselves up with stories that invigorate us, we're more susceptible to sopping up
the poisonous, degenerative narratives.

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Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin decries the linear perspective that dominates modern storytelling. She says it's "like an arrow, starting here and going straight there and THOK! hitting its mark." Furthermore, she complains, plots are usually advanced through conflict, as if interesting action can't possibly arise from any other catalyst.

I invite you to rebel against these oppressive conventions. Wean yourself from tales that have reductive plot lines fueled primarily by painful events. Celebrate the luminous mysteries that have shaped your own life story: the meandering fascinations that didn't lead to tidy conclusions, the wobbly joys that fed your soul but didn't serve your ego's ambitions, the adventures whose success revolved around brain-teasing breakthroughs instead of exhausting triumphs over suffering.

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How did it come to be that what we call the news is reported solely by journalists? There are so many other kinds of events besides the narrow band favored by that highly specialized brand of storytellers. Indeed, there are many phenomena that can literally not even be perceived by journalists. Their training, their temperament, and their ambitions make vast areas of human experience invisible to them.

"Ninety-six percent of the cosmos puzzles astronomers." I loved reading that headline on the CNN website. It showed that at least some of our culture's equivalents of high priests, the scientists, are humble enough to acknowledge that the universe is made mostly of stuff they can't even detect, let alone study.

If only the journalists were equally modest. Since they're not, we'll say it: The majority of everything that happens on this planet is invisible to them.

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In the early years of Christianity, there were hundreds of books interpreting the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. But by 325 A.D., a group backed by the political and military might of the Roman Empire had determined which few of the stories about Christ would thereafter be considered the canonical New Testament, and which would be regarded as
heretical bilge. No better evidence exists for the saying, "History is a tale told by the victors."

Keep this in mind as you strategize your way through your personal War of the Stories. Your account of events may have more truth in it than everyone else's conflicting tales, but that won't carry much weight unless you obtain the power to enforce your version.

. . . To read the rest of
"THE UNIVERSE IS MADE OF STORIES," go here: http://tinyurl.com/2vx6wb

disabled by author. Here is a link. 9 min video.

Mexican Drug Policy: Internal Corruption in an Externalized War

Below you will find another in an ongoing series of articles on Latin American Drug Trafficking. In the next several weeks COHA also will issue in-depth reports on drug trafficking in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Previous articles in this series include Martha Lauer’s “Mexican Drug Policy: Internal Corruption in an Externalized War” (see below), Alex Sanchez’s “Mexico’s Drug War: A Society at Risk - Soldiers versus Narco-Soldiers,” and Larry Birns’ and Alex Sanchez’s “The Government and the Drug lords: Who Rules Mexico?” Please refer to our website for further installments in this series
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Blog by Gary van Warmerdam
http://tinyurl.com/26k38r

"Here is the critical point to understand when it comes to controlling your
happiness. You can control your happiness to the degree that you can
control your attention in your mind.

"By controlling your attention you are able to determine the perspective
you choose. With choice over your perspective you can decide what
interpretations to make and which one you will believe. Choosing the
interpretation you make will determine your emotional outcome.

"It's popular today for people to try changing their thinking or beliefs in
order to create happiness in their life. However a prerequisite to changing
your thinking is that you first have to get control over your attention. If
you don't do this, your thinking will attempt to control your thinking. This
can become a circular loop in the mind.

"If you gain control over your attention, then happiness is easy. What
people may find challenging is that they were given no training in
controlling their attention or even what it is.

"A second critical element needed to control happiness is that you
expand your awareness. It is not enough to control your attention. You
must also be able to shift your perspective to points of view of
acceptance, love, compassion and respect. If you can control your
attention, but can't extend it into this range of love and laughter your
emotional experience of happiness will be limited. When you have a limited
number of ways of interpreting events your possibility for happiness is
limited as well . . . . "

To read the rest of Gary van Warmerdam's piece, go here: http://tinyurl.com/26k38r

Choose The Party Closest To You On The Issues, And Stick With It

There are about 300 million people in this country. If every one of them belonged to a party that supported them on every single issue there would be about 300 million parties in this country. None of us agree with any other person 100% of the time. And the same is true for parties.

There are people like Ralph Nader who say there is no difference between the major parties. Well, he lives in an alternate universe from the one I inhabit. I know many people think party platforms are quaint and meaningless and to a certain extent they are. But when you read them you get a real sense of how different each party views the state of the country and the role of government in improving the lives of its citizens. Here is the Democratic Party Platform and here is the Republican Party Platform In both cases I linked to summaries of the platform because they cut through the hyperbole and focus on the issues. If you have not read these I encourage you to do so and then see if Nader is right.

Link to the rest of the story

NarcoTrafficer is the same thing as Terrorist. It's a fear tactic all over the media.

Anyone passing a dimebag is a NarcoTrafficer. 10% of our teenagers fit that description.

Anonymous!

How can I ever thank you?!

the Terrorists & the NarcoTrafficers...

there should be two instead....

makes perfect sense....

Shamans fighting each other? Over what?? Good grief, that just totally blows my ideas about what Shamans are all about.

And Fernando, I second Blog Slut's feelings about sex now. I'm also reconsidering men in general.

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: June 26, 2007

Senate Republicans today blocked the labor movement’s top legislative priority, a bill that would have made it easier for unions to organize workers.

In a largely party line vote, supporters of the bill, the Employee Free Choice Act, failed to get the 60 votes needed to cut off debate and allow a vote on the bill. The vote was 51 for cutting off debate and 48 against.

Link

I don't write em..I just vibe em & post em...I don't know what the hell Shaman's are all about...but...I'll bet dada or muck4doo would...

What've you been up to lately?

I think I kinda know what Shaman's are all about...just from reading & listening though...I've never met a Shaman...

The problem is, if god is dead, then you lose the most important word in your language and you will need a substitute. God was one end, one extreme, and when one extreme disappears from your mental vision the necessary and inevitable is that you will fall to the other extreme, and that is what has happened... Instead of god, fuck has become the most important word in our language.

—Osho, Strange Consequences

Hiya Shell..
Been working and exercising. Lost weight, trying to lose a bit more, which actually takes time! My job is going full time, I have to apply for it, had to write a resume, etc.

I'm interested in the shaman stuff. I have a friend who is a trained psychologists, although what he does for a living is teach psychology. "Bill" refers to himself as a "Shaman."

Today he told me he'd once seen a man levitate. Personally, knowing how much drugs and alcohol this guy has ingested in his life (he's also a blues guitarist with regular gigs) I have to wonder... but we got into a great discussion about matter/tantrics/the Universe/Big Bang, etc.

Why can't we walk through walls if we are mostly nothing? He claims we CAN walk through walls - we just don't know how. I would agree with him on this point - it's a possibility.

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

she's l'élite

(so petite)

she turned me into a frog, a dog, and a hog

Why did Sam disable the italics html?

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

I think of you, Ono. I recall once you narrowly defied death when one tried to run you down, doing all of 5 mph.

Here's one for the books... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yO2VDyvua8

Mike Leigh's "Naked"

//This is a fan based trailer//

(and it's shite; telling you nothing much about the film - however, the dialogue at the end gives you the gist of the anti-hero)

Louise: So what happened,... were you bored in Manchester?

Johnny: Was I bored?.... No, I wasn't fuckin' bored - I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody - you're all so bored. You've had nature explained to you... and you're bored with it, you've had the living body explained to you... and you're bored with it, you've had the universe explained to you and you're bored with it,... so now you just want cheap thrills and, like, plenty of them,... and it doesn't matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it's new - as long as it's new - as long as it flashes & bleeps in forty different colors... So whatever else you can say about me, I'm not bored.

: )

I've wondered that sometimes...

Have you heard of the book called Lily Dale? It was written by a woman who was a religion columnist for some Dallas paper....While I was reading it... I thought of you...so I'm just saying you might like the writers "way..."..

Normally I might write off that chemically induced "thing"..but after Terrence McKenna & others I have to give merit to how ever somone "gets there"..but I see what you're saying too b/c I tend to give "more" merit to sober decisions no matter how I feel about altering consciousness...which I suppose one could do with breathing too..so I'm not sure when it comes to this subject..

But anyway..does this guy give off any Shaman like ways in your opinion?

FULL TIME...?...that was the kiss of death for me...I want to quit everyday now....Godspeed to you...I fucking hate it...Did you know that 100 years can it itself into 5pm - 6pm? ;)

is more than 40 too..cuz no one pays for lunch time now..so that's 45..then there's commuting...so that's 50...

or i'll bite you

How can you be bored when there's a whole fracking world out there? I don't know who Johnny is, but I have to agree with him. Almost sounds like something John Lennon would say. Crap, think about the fact that we're mostly space, and yet we can't walk through walls. If anyone is bored, come up with a way to walk through freakin' walls. Or shut up about yer being bored.

(harumph!)

I actually needed italics twice tonight & they didn't show...

it's as (toni would say) slow as molasses

i'm ringing the bastards up

(woof)
(woof)
(woof)
(woof)... and!
double woof-woof

You say you want italics ... use the cite tag.

Was this video filmed in the Vice pResident's office?

The thought of working full time at any of the other jobs I've done makes me want to puke... but I like this job. I need it anyway. It's just time. I have to do this.

My friend who's the Shaman... he can talk it, but I have a hard time not discounting what he says. I agree in principle that psychologists are the new Shamans. I agree if and only if they are the kind that draw from you your own cure.

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T2dow7ZBlY

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

hmmm, like this?

REALLY? Can you do a table?

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

My prayers been answered and italicised!

really? Refresh.

very much.

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

Don't you guys go getting into trouble while I'm gone.

with tables. :(

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

Padded cell award then.

NO TROUBLE WITHOUT CATHY

//FULL TIME...?...that was the kiss of death for me...I want to quit everyday now....Godspeed to you...I fucking hate it...Did you know that 100 years can it itself into 5pm - 6pm? ;)

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Submitted by Alice on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 10:54pm.
is more than 40 too..cuz no one pays for lunch time now..so that's 45..then there's commuting...so that's 50...//

Alice,...

Wifeybot works 20 hours a week and gets full benefits from the library system here in Tucson,...

Is there any way to double-check to see if there's some kind of angle to do that in your neck of the woods?

Your workplace/schedule should merely be a step in your evolution. Have faith and positive expectation that better things are en route your way. I know your path does not include a job and a work routine you hate.

;) I know things will get better.

The worst work days in my life that I can remember, were my last. That was in June '04, when my supervisors at the sheriff's department frogmarched me out of the building (past a framed picture of Oliver North in the hallway, labeled "American Hero")... I wasn't intentionally trying to get canned either. I truly believe the universe intervened on my behalf.

(I think things like that happen for everybody, at times. And, I sense something's about to give regarding your workplace, work schedule, etc...)

Look for signs. :)

can be found at ...

http://www.majorityreportradio.blogspot.com/

Are we permanently italicised, or am I drinking again?

Evening everyone. :)

If we listen to the land, we will know what to do. - Terry Tempest Williams

(fuckhead)

you italicised everything @ 11:11pm

I've heard of people working 20 with full & some with partial benefits..The day of my "accident" I told my boss I needed at least to have more varied hours...She told the boss who schedules & my July schedule is the same as always...I think it was Workers Comp retribution... Be that as it may...I've decided I cannot tolerate this...So I thought my accident would break the spell..but no...so..I figure at worst at my one year review 11/27 I'm going to let them know how I feel again..& I'll either be let go cuz they want me F/T only..or not..& I'll be cool with it either way...

Besides..my mother called it a "respectable" job...so I need to hang in for some time...

p.s. -(past a framed picture of Oliver North in the hallway, labeled "American Hero").-

You're competing with Ferni for the grossest visual on this thread.. ;)

http://www.samsedershow.com/filter/tips

get it right...

it was a fork-lift

(not a dozer)

--If we listen to the land, we will know what to do. - Terry Tempest Williams--

tankies, nando
: )

I left out a backslash. My bad.

But they'll vote left. Nagourney?

June 26, 2007
Poll Shows Liberal Ideas Gaining With Young People
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN C. THEE

Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll. The poll also found that they are more likely to say the war in Iraq is heading to a successful conclusion.

In a snapshot of a group whose energy and idealism have always been as alluring to politicians as its scattered focus and shifting interests have been frustrating, the poll found that substantially more Americans between the ages of 17 and 29 than four years ago are paying attention to the presidential race. But they appeared to be really familiar with only two of the candidates, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both Democrats.

They have continued a long-term drift away from the Republican Party, and although they are just as worried as the general population about the outlook for the country and think their generation is likely to be worse off than that of their parents, they retain a belief that their votes can make a difference, the poll found.

More than half of Americans between 17 and 29 years old — 54 percent — say they intend to vote for a Democrat for president in 2008. They share with the public at large a negative view of President Bush, who has a 28 percent approval rating with this group, and of the Republican Party. They hold a markedly more positive view of Democrats than they do of Republicans.

Among this age group, Mr. Bush’s job approval rating after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was more than 8 in 10. Over the course of the next three years, it drifted downward leading into the presidential election of 2004, when 4 out of 10 members of young Americans said they approved how Mr. Bush was handling his job.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/washington/27cnd-poll.html?ei=5065&en=...

has caused my page to be infested with a [shudder] Mz. Thing ad. What the hell. I'll sign up for the newsletter, then identify it as spam to the email service.

Remember when Rudolf was the rage. Embarrassing.

I bet if we used his real name instead of tweety we might see MSNBC ads.

censorship of the most intimidating kind.

Report: U.S. lags behind other nations in broadband speeds
U.S. ranks 16th in deployment, availability of high-speed networks, CWA says
link

Nice one, GBC

It was the quote used at the end of a movie presentation about Denali National Park. Saw it at the visitor center there. Just stuck with me afterwards, ya know?

Okay, Alice.

Just remember you just wrote this (above).

If you can wait 'til the end of November, then "fine."
But, I'm a firm believer in accidents happening for a reason. I believe it is the universe trying to get your attention. And, I know you kinda believe something like this, too.

Something's in the air. Just stick to your guns.

And regarding what your mother said,...it doesn't matter. Everything you do and will do in this life will be respectable.

Abraham says something about toleration.
I'll try to find the exact quote in the near future.

But, basically "toleration" is still resisting the Stream of Well-being.

Everything is in the process of getting better.
The universe knows the bigger picture, even if you or I, or anybody else, ... doesn't.

This may sound hokey to some people reading this, but...

Sometimes it's all about the hokey. :)

Anon, but the broadband market is in demand here and it is growing.

Sam needs to do a podcast. The total available market on that is huge.

--Just stuck with me afterwards, ya know?--

kind of like when I say, "That'll do pig." to husbot just to watch him weep.. 8-)

-"toleration" is still resisting the Stream of Well-being.-

you're a sight for sore eyes

//I must go water a friends garden//

thanks for peeing on the blog

: )

who forgot to close the 'cite'?

I know

no biggie,

we've had whole threads like that. )

*Speed and Universality Matter for Internet Access
*The U.S. “High Speed” Definition is Too Slow
*A National High Speed Internet for All Policy is Critical
*The U.S. Must Preserve an Open Internet
*Consumer and Worker Protections Must Be Safeguarded

http://www.speedmatters.org/

don't walk through walls because of the strong interaction.

Here's 3 Key Principles that work for me...

(1) Lubrication

(2) Insertion

(3) Thrust

Free Democracy

What would Coulter douche?

Her toothbrush should get special compensation.

Hey Alice,...

I am not an expert on shit.
I'm not even functional regarding most things.
But, just as Don Juan liked to bump Carlos Castaneda's "assemblage point" ...
I just wanted to say that just as progressives are being pro-active and not passively tolerating being fed shit anymore,...

It seems that life should be approached that way, too.
I don't have answers.
But, I have emotions.
And, I'm sick of the shit.
And, everything I do is geared towards finding a way that is acceptable to me. I don't take orders.
I don't put up with b.s. and/or stupid people anymore.
I don't even bother working for a paycheck in public anymore.
(Sure, I wipe a grown man's ass every now and then, as I do foster care for the developmentally disabled, but...I can be high and drunk for that. And, the symbology of wiping a grown man's ass reminds me that it's a real life metaphor, and that I have a ways to go in my evolution, in my pay scale, and in my job description.)

I just want us to ascend to higher levels in this life. And, I hope when I tell you in cyberspace that something I'm going through is "bullshit," that you'll tell me, "You're right, it's bullshit. Don't put up with it. Plot your escape. Ask the universe for clues on how to do it. Fuck anyone who says you can't..." Etc...

I'm done with tolerating crap. I'm too old.

I really hope you get fed up quickly.
And that a resolution happens even sooner than that.
And that the ascension begins...

Good night, Blog... xox

goodnight.. :)

(1) Lubrication

I did not know you could grease your intertubes!

Suddenly I'm remembering the movie, "Office Space," ...where as soon as the employee no longer gives a shit about his job, work performance, etc...

... the company promotes him.

Good Night ..... incase you come back later to read this thread ..

Reporters Without Integrity in Venezuela

Reporters Without Borders (RWB). The name, modelled on that of humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), conjures the idea of an organisation that monitors global standards of press freedom, offers insightful and hard-hitting investigative reports on world conflict and defends the safety of courageous journalists in war-torn countries. One would imagine that such an organisation would lend its support to one of the few countries in the world that is taking major leaps in democratising the media by breaking the existing monopoly of corporate domination....

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=2079

I used to work at place kinda like that ..... they promoted the dumbass's ..... keep them away from the dangerous stuff so nobody would get hurt.

Ok I am going to finish watching the Baseball game .....

see ya blog 8-)

It's because he's a pompous jackass.

*smiles*

delivery for mr. k-man

Which sheriff's department did you work at?

And Fernando, I clearly said (note the italics) that no one was to get into any trouble while I was off watering (not peeing on - this time) a friends garden. And there you were, italicizing everything that doesn't move.

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk?
By Garrison Keillor
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/979/

I was searching for some things and got stuck in this computer loop ::eye-roll:: all this afternoon and evening.
Yet, I am FREE now. Good Evening All! Tea Cheers;-)

...is where I worked, Cathy in Seattle.

You know that national security database they refer to on those Law and Order/CSI shows...

Well, I'd worked at the department for 4 months, but I had only been given official top security clearance for less than 48 hours before I was fired from the job abruptly for vague reasons.

I assumed it was related to a more thorough criminal background check on me, or that they had eavesdropped on my conversations with co-workers when we walked around the premises, or that things like a peace sign and "No more Bushit" bumper stickers pissed them off.
(I parked my car backwards against a wall so the bumper stickers were hard to read.)
At times, I would see cops circling around my parked car looking in. And, I had left a nasty note about Reagan that one could read if they looked in the windows. (this was right after Ronnie died)
It's possible it got out that I had admitted I passed my lie detector test by lying on every question, which resulted in it seeming like I told the truth. (that, and if you squeeze your butt cheeks together like you're clenching a marble right before you answer every question,...it supposedly throws off the test; and it worked for me.)

Since I never knew what happened, I concluded that it was divine intervention. Because, I was miserable.
And thought I was stuck at the world's shittiest job forever.
But, I didn't dare quit because of health insurance; which was why I took the job in the first place.

I don't know. It's all a learning process, I guess.

I'm just sick of the system underpaying people, treating them like shit, and forcing loyalty by instilling fear.

(dada: what was the name of the Lou Reed supergroup that you spoke of,...and who were the members? Yoko Ono? I forget the name and the members. It was funny, though. I believed you at first.)

I sure do like Lou Reed's album, "New York."
Songs like "busload of faith", "sick of you", "dirty boulevard", etc...

And, who in the Warhol crowd wasn't a pompous jackass?
Bianca Jagger? Maybe?

how has the blog survived without me?

i thought I made this blog go!!!!!

guess what? i'm part of the machine again!!!!!

:)

hee hee

hee hee

hee hee

don't mind me

i find the weirdest things funny

I said:

"Thumb-you are the most valuable part of my extremities. You get the Nobel Peace Prize. From me."

hee hee

o/course i'm not male, so I had to make do.

hee hee

you get the Nobel Peace Prize

From me to me

'Cause you been through so much

Not really.

But the important thing is:

Im part of the machine again!

Im an employee for the US of America, for freedom!!!

yay

i knew i was born for something important

and TJ Maxx seems to be it

for now

yay

yes

im an associate....

stupid crap

associate

what the hell does that mean?

do I get stalk shares?

hahahahahaha

no. i get to say im associated with TJ MAXX

oh woopie doo

this is the best part

im already breaking the rules

i can't go online and complaine about the company

not that i am complaining

its a wonderful place to work...if you don't like the finer things in life. like oh um ELECTRICITY

electricity is just out

so is Santa Clause

... is on the Late Late Show (CBS) with Craig Ferguson.
(AZ time) So for anyone in AZ or west of here reading this . ... She's on.

(conbo: i like your passion. all will be well.)

g'nite.

Okla. Executes Inmate Dying of Cancer
By Jeralyn, Section Death Penalty
Posted on Tue Jun 26, 2007 at 06:27:00 PM EST

Bump and Update: The Supreme Court has denied the request for a stay. The execution has taken place. Bland was declared dead at 6:19 pm. I hope for his sake they started late -- 19 minutes is a long time.

**********

I can only imagine how the civilized world will view this story. Jimmy Dale Bland is set to be executed at 6pm tonight in Oklahoma.

Bland has advanced lung cancer which has spread to his hip and brain. He's terminally ill and will die soon on his own.

The Oklahoma state and federal courts have denied a stay, insisting the state has the right to kill him before he expires on his own.

In a dissenting opinion, Judge Charles Chapel of Tulsa said a stay should be granted to protect "the dignity of society itself from the barbarity of exacting mindless vengeance."

A last-minute decision from the Supreme Court is expected any time now.

More...

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/6/26/16027/8985

i missed cathy & connie

(lost in youtube)

1. where ya from partner
2. dallas
1. dallas, texas
2. nope... dallas, washington state
1. doesn't quite have the same ring
2. no it doesn't

[the 2 men go their seperate ways, having nothing more to say]

big deal...
they snuffed someone who was dead anyway

it was a mercy killing

now...
(give your bleeding heart a rest)

Story link
Skidoo (in ten parts) on YouTube
h/t to Beware of the Blog feature on Arnold Stang

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These most recent rulings are chilling in their implications.Bastards!

I feel like their starting to spread their (evil)wings now - haven't even hit their stride yet......

by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 6/27/2007 07:17:00 AM ET

Chris Matthews just did an interview on the Today Show about Elizabeth Edwards taking on hatemonger Ann Coulter. Matthews kept saying how Coulter sells books, like that's an excuse for all her venom. He did say, "My hunch that in human terms, Elizabeth Edwards has won this round." Um, that's because in human terms, Ann Coulter isn't human. Ann Coulter is the face of the Republican party. She is their voice.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/06/wednesday-morning-open-thread_27.html

I just watched this. Mathews did say she sells books but also brought Coulter down for her hateful spewinging saying she does it to sell books. This time, after Elizabeth made her point there was applause from the audience. Made Coultur look like the bitch she is.

A decision that only Bush could think makes sense
by Chris in Paris · 6/27/2007 05:17:00 AM ET

Tony Blair as special Middle East peace envoy. The strongest international friend that Bush has, who pro actively joined the invasion of Iraq, where his troops are being charged with torture and murder yet he has made every effort possible to safeguard the alleged criminals against EU laws, he's Bush's man for the job. If the world needed yappy little pup to roll over and speak for a dog biscuit and accept a condescending little pat on the head, of course he's the guy, but the problems the world faces in the region are serious.

The reality of the Middle East today is that Blair has been an active participant of so many problems and is not viewed as a neutral player. Besides being heavily tainted by the war in Iraq, Blair has shown no results in ten years as PM that give us any indication that he will be able to bring people together now that he is outside of real political power. Do we really need Bush's poodle tripping over every other team in the region who is trying to negotiate the peace process?

Blair has no more credibility than Karen Hughes had when she was supposed to be America's great answer to problems in the Middle East. Confirming Blair for this position only shows again the lack of seriousness on the part of the Bush administration who believes the answer to every problem is another crony who everyone else outside of the White House views as just another prop with zero legitimacy who is promoting the Bush agenda.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/06/decision-that-only-bush-could-think.h...

Kucinich for President 2008, Inc.
Attn: Fundraising
P.O. Box 110180
Cleveland, OH 44111

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up early to greet the dawn.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0722-02.htm

Single-payer or an Insurance Industry dominated System?
http://www.counterpunch.org/ccr06262007.html

rained all night here.

Off to work : )

Try this combination:
"john roberts" eichmann

"And the problem is that SEIU is giving cover to these Senators -- it makes them look like they are accomplishing something when in fact they are accomplishing nothing. These legislators are gutless, and the SEIU is giving them cover."

we have to keep saying those words over and over so people know where it's at...

SEIU is in the pocket of the Democrats. And they have been burned many times by that party.

Well, of course. Good Nazis always follow orders

Revoke their charters. Destroy Moloch!

May God smite the evil bastards! (Go hunt with Cheney.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF-uLrBwvjg

i'm pretty sure the "change" people want has to start with themselves.

west coast show I never saw, apparently. Bozo (boring) and Pennywise (scary) the main clowns on my TV ....

http://kptv.home.comcast.net/Shows/rustyshour.htm

we had a shoestore mom would take me to that had clown mannequins in it.

she was suprised that i hated going in there. it was max creepy.

Wavy Gravy is my favorite clown.

maybe because I was never exposed to a decent one

(Hi, SJ...I wonder if Wavy Gravy, the Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor, was named after your clown...)

http://kptv.home.comcast.net/Shows/wrestling.htm

Jim,

Did you see Wavy in the Country Joe Berkeley protest video yesterday?

yup, sure was.

Hugh Romney is his name.

useta show up at a lot of 'do's'.

read up on him sometime if yer into clown philosophers.

Elizabeth Edwards: Why I called Ann Coulter David Edwards and Adam Doster
Published: Tuesday June 26, 2007

On Wednesday, the Edwards campaign sent out a letter to supporters written by Elizabeth which explained "why I called Ann Coulter."

"Last night I had an important talk with Ann Coulter and I want to tell you what happened," Elizabeth Edwards wrote. "On Monday, Ann announced that instead of using more homophobic slurs to attack John, she will just wish that John had been "killed in a terrorist assassination plot."

The letter continues, "Where I am from, when someone does something that displeases you, you politely ask them to stop. So when I heard Ann was going to be on 'Hardball' last night, I decided to call in and ask her to engage on the issues and stop the personal attacks. I told her these kinds of personal attacks lower our political dialogue at precisely the time when we need to raise it, and set a bad example for our children."

"How did she respond?" Edwards writes. "Sadly, perhaps predictably, with more personal attacks. John's campaign is about the issues—but pundits like Ann Coulter are trying to shout him down. If they will not stop, it is up to us cut through the noise."

The following video is from MSNBC's Hardball, broadcast on June 26.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Elizabeth_Edwards_confronts_Anne_Coulter_o...

http://www.wavygravy.net/

praising Ann Coulter! Makes me sick!

I'm sending an email to MSNBC that they should stop relying only on Buchanan!

If you have a chance, send an email to msnbc!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10285339/

no! could'nt get the video to run yesterday!

enjoyed the text story though.

was fun remembering those days, years of amazing people to meet. same here in the similiar way.

Aug.10-12 - Catch Wavy at one his favorite festivals Gathering of the Vibes - new
venue: Bridgeport CT.

http://www.gatheringofthevibes.com/

stupid beyotch is a distraction...every minute of time she's on the air is one minute of time less they talk about serious issues :( grrr she aggravates me, though

and Bridgeport is a couple of hours down the road from me

if you go to the site click on the 'gallery' section.

pix of the old meets slideshows with good tunes from the grateful dead et al.

you can think about anything you want to.

Dems force Cheney flip-flop on secret docs

By: Mike Allen
Jun 27, 2007 08:47 AM EST

Dick Cheney's office is abandoning a justification for keeping the Vice-President's secret papers out of the hands of the National Archives.

Officials working for Cheney had tried to claim he is separate from the executive branch, but they will no longer pursue that defense, senior administration officials tell The Politico.

The decision follows a threat by Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), the No. 3 House Democrat, to try to cut off the office’s $4.8 million in executive-branch funding.

The dispute arose after House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) posted an eight-page letter he had written to Cheney taking issue with what he said was an assertion by the vice president’s office last year that he is “not an ‘entity within the executive branch’ and hence is not subject to presidential executive orders.”

At issue was an executive order giving the National Archives oversight over the government’s handling of classified information. The vice president is also president of the Senate, but Cheney has asserted executive privilege in the past.

David S. Addington, Cheney’s chief of staff and counsel, wrote in a three-paragraph letter to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Tuesday that the executive order on classified national security information does not give the archivists authority over the president or vice president.

Addington said that therefore it “is not necessary in these circumstances to address the subject of any alternative reasoning.”

That amounted to throwing in the towel, according to administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity. The White House has no plans to reassert the argument there is any vice presidential distinction from the executive branch, the officials said.

Two senior Republican officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the rationale had been the view of the vice president’s lawyers, not Cheney himself.

White House spokespeople have been struggling to answer questions about the argument without repeating, amplifying or embracing it.

Blogs, comics and pundits feasted on the neither-fish-nor-fowl argument, with Jon Stewart joking on “The Daily Show” Tuesday night that the vice president may be “half she-wolf.”

Now, a senior administration official tells The Politico:

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.co...

It was a weird YouTube that was restricted from embedding. I don't know why it might not have played. I could have screwed up the link. The first thing you hear is Wavy yelling "Lollygaggers".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI97m7pKZIo

A new poll finds that “liberal ideas” are gaining with young Americans, who are “more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/washington/27cnd-poll.html