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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
More fun with quiz time
I'm going to heaven......
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Thanks for the Quiz Rene
Thanks Cindy for Senate Blog
I first of all thank you for the fine fine company you put me in
but let me go to your bogus point.
I do not agree with Cindy Sheehan or anything she believes in at all. I think the woman is a nut and a crank. I support her running for the Senate in California or New York for the following reasons
*) I like watching famous people go nuts and melt down on live tv....what can i say ;-) I just do.
*)I support diversity on the ballot. I believe access to the ballot should be as open as is economically feasible. I think if you can pay to print your name on every ballot in your race then that should be the benchmark. In this regard I think Cindy should run because it would encourage people to run for office
*) and finally i support diversity of ideas on the ballot. I may not support what Cindy has to say, I may think she is an utter nut.... but I think we as a country are better off if some one like cindy runs.
so I hope you read this post and correct your statement about me....
Right-wing Ridicule A couple of rightwing blogs have shown nothing but contempt and ridicule for our efforts here. Especially, Gatewaypundit and The Junkyard Blog, Michelle Malkin, The Rubber Stamp, Cam Edwards, Satellite Heart, Queer Conservative , The Annoyed Army, Laughing at Lefty, BLUE GOLDFISH, Psycmeistr's Ice Palace, Inside Larry's Head, Environmental Republican, In America, Ernie, Leather Penguin, Elephants in Academia, Sweetness and Light and a rather unenthusiastic endorsement from the Instapundit. We must be doing something right!.
but let me go to your bogus point.
I do not agree with Cindy Sheehan or anything she believes in at all. I think the woman is a nut and a crank. I support her running for the Senate in California or New York for the following reasons
*) I like watching famous people go nuts and melt down on live tv....what can i say ;-) I just do.
*)I support diversity on the ballot. I believe access to the ballot should be as open as is economically feasible. I think if you can pay to print your name on every ballot in your race then that should be the benchmark. In this regard I think Cindy should run because it would encourage people to run for office
*) and finally i support diversity of ideas on the ballot. I may not support what Cindy has to say, I may think she is an utter nut.... but I think we as a country are better off if some one like cindy runs.
so I hope you read this post and correct your statement about me....
George Bush doesn't care about Black people
What's that Kayne?
HUH... I thought it was all that evil George Bush's fault and that he didn't do anything to help the folks in the chocolate city?
BDS in all its glory
Two days before the Aug. 29 storm, HHS was told by the state's health emergency preparedness director that the help was not needed, according to an e-mail released Monday by a Senate panel investigating the government's response to Katrina.
The state official, identified in the Aug. 27 e-mail as Dr. Roseanne Pratts, "responded no, that they do not require anything at this time and they would be in touch if and when they needed assistance," wrote HHS senior policy analyst Erin Fowler.
HUH... I thought it was all that evil George Bush's fault and that he didn't do anything to help the folks in the chocolate city?
The committee also released a Senate interview of Louisiana Transportation Secretary Johnny Bradberry, during which he told investigators "we have done nothing to fulfill this responsibility" of ensuring evacuation plans are in place for at-risk populations.
"We put no plans in place to do any of this," Bradberry said in the Dec. 21 interview, 12 pages of which were released by the Senate committee.
BDS in all its glory
my attempt at a mock SOTU addy
I didn’t plan to listen to the SOTU speech but on my way in however the opposite happened but let me get inside George W. Bush’s head and start off with my mock state of the Union address.
And as I heard the address my ability to produce anything more then a new Middle East foreign policy address and opening was sapped from my head.
President Bush your speech writers make baby jesus cry……..
On with the show…..
“Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, to our service men and women across the world, and my fellow Americans. The State of our Union is strong as we stand today at the cross roads of American History. At this fork in the road we must choose to continue what has been the sense of duty and destiny which has guided our country for almost 100 years, or do we reject what we must do to keep that greatness. Do we reject the greatness of this nation, or do we embrace it and grow stronger into this greatness.”
“Our parent’s generation stood at a similar crossroads, when they slew the evils of Fascism they had to choose to either fight the evils of communism, or allow it to grow. They had to choose investing in the nations of the world and expanding hope, freedom, and democracy or withdrawing within as we had done for many years.”
“They made the hard choices and transformed this nation and the world. As this administration is declining and entering its sunset I like others before me stand to lead the way to transform this nation and the world with this our generational conflict. As the generation of our parents often stumbled in fighting the great evil of their day, I to expect we may stumble, and falter, but we will not fail to make this nation and world a better place.”
“While we will make these changes in obvious ways through our defense and foreign policies abroad, we must transform this nation at home to give it the strength, agility, and flexibility to take the manifest greatness of our nation, and its strong destiny into a new decade, century, and beyond.”
“Our national defense both at home and abroad is the foundation of this change. As threats become more nebulous, and borders become more porous as they concern threats to this nation no transformation, indeed no national destiny could possibly occur. I hope and pray that the day will come that our swords can be bent into plowshares but this is not that day.”
“As threats from Non-State actors grow and dominate the fears of the American people we must strike at them. We must strike them in their home countries, in those nations that harbor them, or if those two efforts fail we must strike at them here in this country before their murderous designs take shape.”
“We must work to attack both overt and covert finances of these evil and rapacious men. We must do this with nations who like us see their evil and desire to stamp it out. We must hunt down shell corporations and foundations which hide the fuel of death which has created an ideology that dominates and destroys much of the world.”
“We must fight their dark ideology both at home and abroad. We must reach out to those mosques where hateful ideology is preached be they in Maryland, France, or Iran and challenge them. Challenge them on the validity of that hate from within the Muslim faith, and challenge them on the validity of that hate from our shared humanity.”
“We must present to them the case for freedom, not only the freedom to do things permitted by their faith but the freedom to do things forbidden by their faith. We must show why these things, even those things they and I may agree are perverse are the strengths which make this nation great.”
“We must encourage, cajole, and nourish the growth of the infrastructure and institutions of democracy and freedom in the Middle East. While this democracy must be peculiar to our sensibilities but it must be a democratic and free system build from within their culture and values.”
“But the threats in the Middle East do not just come from Non-State actors. And they may require greater sacrifice and struggle from this nation and the world. We wish to lead the nations of this world to do what must be done to give birth to freedom, liberty, and peace in the Middle East. But if forced we will act alone.”
“The government of Syria has many serious questions to answer about the events in Lebanon. While I am President of the United States they will be held accountable if they do not answer these vital questions. If they resist the legitimate inquiry into their destabilization of Lebanon the international community must be willing to do whatever it takes to bring this inquiry to a final resolution.”
“Real and serious questions have been raised by former officials of the Hussein regime in Iraq about the disposition of the Iraqi regime’s wealth and weapons into Syria. The Syrian government has worked with us to some degree but more can and should be done.”
“Syria has acted as an assistant and a proxy for the Iranian regime in supporting the culture of death and terror in Israel. For this they must be held accountable for by the community of nations.”
“The government of Iran with an ancient culture of tolerance, and great wealth has become enslaved by people who challenge the ancient and proud values and mores of the Iranian people. People who seek to use the strength of their nation to perpetuate violence and death on the region. This evil regimes actions alone should disgust all the free and decent people of the world, but they seek to go even further and gain the deterrent of atomic weapons.”
“We will not allow Iran to gain nuclear weapons. And we will take every reasonable action to stop it. We will work for peace, but prepare to strike if left with no other option.”
“The Iranian people deserve better. They deserve to stand tall with the very values they birthed into this world which we in this country take for granted every day. And they will some day soon.”
And as I heard the address my ability to produce anything more then a new Middle East foreign policy address and opening was sapped from my head.
President Bush your speech writers make baby jesus cry……..
On with the show…..
“Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, to our service men and women across the world, and my fellow Americans. The State of our Union is strong as we stand today at the cross roads of American History. At this fork in the road we must choose to continue what has been the sense of duty and destiny which has guided our country for almost 100 years, or do we reject what we must do to keep that greatness. Do we reject the greatness of this nation, or do we embrace it and grow stronger into this greatness.”
“Our parent’s generation stood at a similar crossroads, when they slew the evils of Fascism they had to choose to either fight the evils of communism, or allow it to grow. They had to choose investing in the nations of the world and expanding hope, freedom, and democracy or withdrawing within as we had done for many years.”
“They made the hard choices and transformed this nation and the world. As this administration is declining and entering its sunset I like others before me stand to lead the way to transform this nation and the world with this our generational conflict. As the generation of our parents often stumbled in fighting the great evil of their day, I to expect we may stumble, and falter, but we will not fail to make this nation and world a better place.”
“While we will make these changes in obvious ways through our defense and foreign policies abroad, we must transform this nation at home to give it the strength, agility, and flexibility to take the manifest greatness of our nation, and its strong destiny into a new decade, century, and beyond.”
“Our national defense both at home and abroad is the foundation of this change. As threats become more nebulous, and borders become more porous as they concern threats to this nation no transformation, indeed no national destiny could possibly occur. I hope and pray that the day will come that our swords can be bent into plowshares but this is not that day.”
“As threats from Non-State actors grow and dominate the fears of the American people we must strike at them. We must strike them in their home countries, in those nations that harbor them, or if those two efforts fail we must strike at them here in this country before their murderous designs take shape.”
“We must work to attack both overt and covert finances of these evil and rapacious men. We must do this with nations who like us see their evil and desire to stamp it out. We must hunt down shell corporations and foundations which hide the fuel of death which has created an ideology that dominates and destroys much of the world.”
“We must fight their dark ideology both at home and abroad. We must reach out to those mosques where hateful ideology is preached be they in Maryland, France, or Iran and challenge them. Challenge them on the validity of that hate from within the Muslim faith, and challenge them on the validity of that hate from our shared humanity.”
“We must present to them the case for freedom, not only the freedom to do things permitted by their faith but the freedom to do things forbidden by their faith. We must show why these things, even those things they and I may agree are perverse are the strengths which make this nation great.”
“We must encourage, cajole, and nourish the growth of the infrastructure and institutions of democracy and freedom in the Middle East. While this democracy must be peculiar to our sensibilities but it must be a democratic and free system build from within their culture and values.”
“But the threats in the Middle East do not just come from Non-State actors. And they may require greater sacrifice and struggle from this nation and the world. We wish to lead the nations of this world to do what must be done to give birth to freedom, liberty, and peace in the Middle East. But if forced we will act alone.”
“The government of Syria has many serious questions to answer about the events in Lebanon. While I am President of the United States they will be held accountable if they do not answer these vital questions. If they resist the legitimate inquiry into their destabilization of Lebanon the international community must be willing to do whatever it takes to bring this inquiry to a final resolution.”
“Real and serious questions have been raised by former officials of the Hussein regime in Iraq about the disposition of the Iraqi regime’s wealth and weapons into Syria. The Syrian government has worked with us to some degree but more can and should be done.”
“Syria has acted as an assistant and a proxy for the Iranian regime in supporting the culture of death and terror in Israel. For this they must be held accountable for by the community of nations.”
“The government of Iran with an ancient culture of tolerance, and great wealth has become enslaved by people who challenge the ancient and proud values and mores of the Iranian people. People who seek to use the strength of their nation to perpetuate violence and death on the region. This evil regimes actions alone should disgust all the free and decent people of the world, but they seek to go even further and gain the deterrent of atomic weapons.”
“We will not allow Iran to gain nuclear weapons. And we will take every reasonable action to stop it. We will work for peace, but prepare to strike if left with no other option.”
“The Iranian people deserve better. They deserve to stand tall with the very values they birthed into this world which we in this country take for granted every day. And they will some day soon.”
After class tonight
I plan to post the Larry State of the Union Address
you can decide if i do a better job then the President
you can decide if i do a better job then the President
Screw Europe and the foriegners to
Thanks to Dean for Giving me This beautiful window to Rant in.
My Major is International Studies, and in addition to dealing with –some- people who are UBERSNOBS about Europe and how ignorant the US is (I feel what Emily has to say) I also have to deal with ignorant foreign farkers in my classes some times to. (And some times ones be they teachers or students who find some oppressed usually East Asian foreigner spiritually superior)
The worst one I encountered was a Canadian. I was speaking about how Iran was claiming Canada was the world’s worst human rights abuser as part of their dispute over the disappearance and (I believe) death of a Iranian-Canadian journalist. I stated that in how I brought forward this slice of “current events” to the class and he had to go out and tell me how that wasn’t true.
I was in a good mood and decided not to tell him how much of a retard he was.
When you look at US cultural imports they consume it tends to be rather shallow (which is why Sheila got this started with such Google search terms as; Golden Globes Drew Barrymore's boobs, Drew Barrymore Boobs Golden Globes, Drew Barrymore's tits)
((Yes I had to Google whore….))
But I am going to leave It with Emily’s wonderful final dose of STFU for our euro-friends
Finally, here in Los Angeles - and I'm sure this is the same in other metropolitan areas - there are a number of ethnic enclaves where people that immigrate to the United States retreat immediately and spend the rest of their lives there. Many of them move to the United States with the intention of staying permanently and don't even bother to learn how to speak English. The lack of interest in travel and foreign culture is fucking universal and hardly unique to Americans. If you are unaware of this, YOU are the ignorant shitball, not US.
Everyone is an ignorant lout sometimes…. But to blame the other for being the Ignorant lout
That’s hardly multi-cultural now is it?
My Major is International Studies, and in addition to dealing with –some- people who are UBERSNOBS about Europe and how ignorant the US is (I feel what Emily has to say) I also have to deal with ignorant foreign farkers in my classes some times to. (And some times ones be they teachers or students who find some oppressed usually East Asian foreigner spiritually superior)
The worst one I encountered was a Canadian. I was speaking about how Iran was claiming Canada was the world’s worst human rights abuser as part of their dispute over the disappearance and (I believe) death of a Iranian-Canadian journalist. I stated that in how I brought forward this slice of “current events” to the class and he had to go out and tell me how that wasn’t true.
I was in a good mood and decided not to tell him how much of a retard he was.
When you look at US cultural imports they consume it tends to be rather shallow (which is why Sheila got this started with such Google search terms as; Golden Globes Drew Barrymore's boobs, Drew Barrymore Boobs Golden Globes, Drew Barrymore's tits)
((Yes I had to Google whore….))
But I am going to leave It with Emily’s wonderful final dose of STFU for our euro-friends
Finally, here in Los Angeles - and I'm sure this is the same in other metropolitan areas - there are a number of ethnic enclaves where people that immigrate to the United States retreat immediately and spend the rest of their lives there. Many of them move to the United States with the intention of staying permanently and don't even bother to learn how to speak English. The lack of interest in travel and foreign culture is fucking universal and hardly unique to Americans. If you are unaware of this, YOU are the ignorant shitball, not US.
Everyone is an ignorant lout sometimes…. But to blame the other for being the Ignorant lout
That’s hardly multi-cultural now is it?
Vampire Canidate For Governor arrested
hehehe
I rrrrrrrrrrrrrreally want to see what the cases are about
(AP) Mora, Minn. A fringe candidate for governor who played up his satanic side -- and pledged public impalement for terrorists -- wound up behind bars Tuesday thanks to a sharp-eyed sheriff's dispatcher.
I rrrrrrrrrrrrrreally want to see what the cases are about
The Oscars aren't political....
Here is the list
Gay Cowboys(with pudding), Gay author,everyone is rascist, inaccurate historical movie, and inaccurate pro-palestinian historical movie
it does in some areas get a little better but whom they put up for best picture is pretty telling
1. Best Picture: "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote," "Crash," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Munich."
Gay Cowboys(with pudding), Gay author,everyone is rascist, inaccurate historical movie, and inaccurate pro-palestinian historical movie
it does in some areas get a little better but whom they put up for best picture is pretty telling
Monday, January 30, 2006
PLEASE VOTE
Add my name to the right-wing horde who wants Mama Cindy to run....
not because I agree with her, nor because i want the republicans to win....
No I want her to run because it would be magnificent tv
go vote now
not because I agree with her, nor because i want the republicans to win....
No I want her to run because it would be magnificent tv
go vote now
BWAHAHA
over at DUh a source of unhinged leftist they are having some technical difficulties
huh is it that or is it they are tired of being exposed as unhinged kooks?
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huh is it that or is it they are tired of being exposed as unhinged kooks?
Fun things you find
When you google yourself
wow
LARRY BERNARD PLEADS GUILTY IN U.S. FEDERAL COURT
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Great Falls on July 7, 2005, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, LARRY BERNARD, a 21-year-old resident of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, pled guilty to possession of marijuana. Sentencing is set for September 14, 2005, at 9:00 a.m.
In an Offer of Proof filed by the United States, the government stated it would prove at trial that on August 6, 2004, a cooperating witness informed law enforcement that there was a large amount of marijuana at the residence of a person on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. A Rocky Boy's tribal search warrant was obtained and executed at the person's residence.
The owner's juvenile son and BERNARD and a female were inside the residence. A short time later, the owner and another person returned to the residence and were given a copy of the search warrant.
wow
Cry Havok
Over on Justice For All he pulls up some McCain-Lieberman hawk-fu
But two of our more principled senators, Republican John McCain and Democrat Joe Lieberman, have this month faced the Iranian Choice -- and both endorsed military action. McCain was most direct: "There is only one thing worse than the United States exercising a military option," he said on "Face the Nation." "That is a nuclear-armed Iran."
Iran has the bomb all manner of things can change. For starters Iran has missiles that could strike targets in Russia and Iran could extend a nuclear umbrella to the Chechens. Is it any wonder the Russians are being Iran’s “Moderator”. Of course the Nuclear Umbrella could protect Hamas or Hezbollah from the consequences of their crimes. Not to mention protection to rouge states in the region like Syria.
Radical Islamic movement takes over Iraq after the US leaves if Iran has a nuclear umbrella…the world can’t intervene without risk of a missile strike. This was like the period in the 70s and 80s when the western powers decided to use nukes to supplement weaknesses in their conventional forces. This created a pause that allowed them to gain the strategic advantage and force the soviet’s finger on the nuclear toggle.
Dropping a bomb on Tel Aviv is far less potent then preventing the US or EU from stopping a Hamas led Palestinian Authority having an open hot war with Israel.
Iran with nukes has the potential of negating US hegemony in the region on things the US isn’t willing to go to the wall over.
Bush is playing nancy boy diplomatic games that aren’t working here because he knows ( and has since before the Iraq invasion) he doesn’t have the political cover to just go in there and blow stuff up like he has to.
I pray some one calls for the war with Iran that has been long in the making
But two of our more principled senators, Republican John McCain and Democrat Joe Lieberman, have this month faced the Iranian Choice -- and both endorsed military action. McCain was most direct: "There is only one thing worse than the United States exercising a military option," he said on "Face the Nation." "That is a nuclear-armed Iran."
Iran has the bomb all manner of things can change. For starters Iran has missiles that could strike targets in Russia and Iran could extend a nuclear umbrella to the Chechens. Is it any wonder the Russians are being Iran’s “Moderator”. Of course the Nuclear Umbrella could protect Hamas or Hezbollah from the consequences of their crimes. Not to mention protection to rouge states in the region like Syria.
Radical Islamic movement takes over Iraq after the US leaves if Iran has a nuclear umbrella…the world can’t intervene without risk of a missile strike. This was like the period in the 70s and 80s when the western powers decided to use nukes to supplement weaknesses in their conventional forces. This created a pause that allowed them to gain the strategic advantage and force the soviet’s finger on the nuclear toggle.
Dropping a bomb on Tel Aviv is far less potent then preventing the US or EU from stopping a Hamas led Palestinian Authority having an open hot war with Israel.
Iran with nukes has the potential of negating US hegemony in the region on things the US isn’t willing to go to the wall over.
Bush is playing nancy boy diplomatic games that aren’t working here because he knows ( and has since before the Iraq invasion) he doesn’t have the political cover to just go in there and blow stuff up like he has to.
I pray some one calls for the war with Iran that has been long in the making
a little health fisky
So I saw in my G-mail news filter this little Chestnut from Newsweek and I had to go roll it out.
Here's the paradox: A health care system that satisfies most of us as individuals may hurt us as a society. Let me offer myself as an example. All my doctors are in small practices. I like it that way. It seems to make for closer personal connections. But I'm always stunned by how many people they employ for nonmedical chores—appointments, recordkeeping, insurance collections. A bigger practice, though more impersonal, might be more efficient. Because insurance covers most of my medical bills, though, I don't have any stake in switching.
Here is the wonderful thing about this chestnut. He assumes these jobs are required by business need. Indeed nothing is often further from the truth. Medical records and Collections are dictated by policies set out by Medicare and Medicaid which were later adapted by insurance companies as a way to keep paying money. Yes Virginia many insurance companies wait years before they pay the money that is properly billed.
This here is really the heart of this article poor assumptions to meet a predictable( this is Newsweek) “solution”
The people who proclaim it rarely tell you the discomforting choices it might involve. Instead, they focus on a few specific shortcomings of our $1.9 trillion health-industrial complex and imply that, if we correct these often serious flaws, we'll have "fixed" the system or at least made a good start.
This gem is a wonderful start. It is so wonderful because it sets up what he wants you to believe already in advance.
You have unrealistic consumption, and thus are wrong.
Americans generally want their health care system to do three things: (1) provide needed care to all people, regardless of income; (2) maintain our freedom to pick doctors and their freedom to recommend the best care for us; and (3) control costs. The trouble is that these laudable goals aren't compatible.
SAYS WHO?
If we work with the current health care business model I fully agree that is correct. But if we are willing to be truly radical we can do all three. But there is too much at stake for that radical a change to the system to work. But his assumption is best by blaming the patient all the smarmy leftist ways to approach things.
Americans want more health care for less money, and when they don't get it, they indict drug companies, insurers, trial lawyers and bureaucrats. Although these familiar scapegoats may not be blameless, the real problem is us. We demand the impossible. The changes we truly need are political. We need to reconnect people with the public consequences of their private acts. We should curb the subsidization of private insurance. Medicare recipients, especially wealthier ones, should pay more of their bills.
Subsidization of private insurance is infinitely cheaper then a public funded mandate. I do agree with his second point there and that we blame others for the problems in the system rather then accepting we aren’t realistic about the system
But the fault isn’t us. The fault is we’ve build a shiaty system. And we need to correct that.
But let me go back to that first quote I used for the first sentence
Here's the paradox: A health care system that satisfies most of us as individuals may hurt us as a society.
This is a true statement, but it is not true that all systems which satisfy most individuals hurt a society
But this is Newsweek so of course they are going to take the cardigan sweater approach to things
Here's the paradox: A health care system that satisfies most of us as individuals may hurt us as a society. Let me offer myself as an example. All my doctors are in small practices. I like it that way. It seems to make for closer personal connections. But I'm always stunned by how many people they employ for nonmedical chores—appointments, recordkeeping, insurance collections. A bigger practice, though more impersonal, might be more efficient. Because insurance covers most of my medical bills, though, I don't have any stake in switching.
Here is the wonderful thing about this chestnut. He assumes these jobs are required by business need. Indeed nothing is often further from the truth. Medical records and Collections are dictated by policies set out by Medicare and Medicaid which were later adapted by insurance companies as a way to keep paying money. Yes Virginia many insurance companies wait years before they pay the money that is properly billed.
This here is really the heart of this article poor assumptions to meet a predictable( this is Newsweek) “solution”
The people who proclaim it rarely tell you the discomforting choices it might involve. Instead, they focus on a few specific shortcomings of our $1.9 trillion health-industrial complex and imply that, if we correct these often serious flaws, we'll have "fixed" the system or at least made a good start.
This gem is a wonderful start. It is so wonderful because it sets up what he wants you to believe already in advance.
You have unrealistic consumption, and thus are wrong.
Americans generally want their health care system to do three things: (1) provide needed care to all people, regardless of income; (2) maintain our freedom to pick doctors and their freedom to recommend the best care for us; and (3) control costs. The trouble is that these laudable goals aren't compatible.
SAYS WHO?
If we work with the current health care business model I fully agree that is correct. But if we are willing to be truly radical we can do all three. But there is too much at stake for that radical a change to the system to work. But his assumption is best by blaming the patient all the smarmy leftist ways to approach things.
Americans want more health care for less money, and when they don't get it, they indict drug companies, insurers, trial lawyers and bureaucrats. Although these familiar scapegoats may not be blameless, the real problem is us. We demand the impossible. The changes we truly need are political. We need to reconnect people with the public consequences of their private acts. We should curb the subsidization of private insurance. Medicare recipients, especially wealthier ones, should pay more of their bills.
Subsidization of private insurance is infinitely cheaper then a public funded mandate. I do agree with his second point there and that we blame others for the problems in the system rather then accepting we aren’t realistic about the system
But the fault isn’t us. The fault is we’ve build a shiaty system. And we need to correct that.
But let me go back to that first quote I used for the first sentence
Here's the paradox: A health care system that satisfies most of us as individuals may hurt us as a society.
This is a true statement, but it is not true that all systems which satisfy most individuals hurt a society
But this is Newsweek so of course they are going to take the cardigan sweater approach to things
Sweet Bippity
I am not a raging pro-fetus guy and I've always raised issues about the mental health concerns
but this is ludicrous.
The Human Events article this came from went even deeper still
based on the review of journal articles and the New Zeeland study some one needs to get a comprehensive study done here
but this is ludicrous.
In this study, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Fergusson and his two collaborators found that girls 15 to 18 who had not gotten pregnant had a 31.2% chance of experiencing major depression. Those who became pregnant but did not have an abortion had a 35.7% chance. But those who had an abortion had an astonishing 78.6% chance.
For anxiety, the statistics were similar. No pregnancy: 37.9%; pregnancy, no abortion: 35.7%; abortion: 64.3%.
And for ideas of suicide, a horrific mark of mental illness, the figures should be enough to convince anyone who cares about young women to desire a ban on abortion for minors. No pregnancy: 23%; pregnancy, no abortion: 25%; abortion: 50%.
The Human Events article this came from went even deeper still
In its December 2005 report, the South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion, appointed by Gov. Mike Rounds (R.), cited an expert as saying that “the literature on the psychological effects of abortion conducted over the last several decades indicates that a minimum of 10-20% of women experience adverse, prolonged, post-abortion reactions. This translates into at least 130,000 to 260,000 new cases of serious mental health problems each year in the U.S.”
based on the review of journal articles and the New Zeeland study some one needs to get a comprehensive study done here
It came from the Email box (communist front group edition)
Protesters Plan to 'Drown Out' Bush's Speech
(CNSNews.Com) - Anti-Bush protesters plan to hold a noisy demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol Tuesday night, when President Bush delivers his State of the Union speech to Congress. During a protest demanding that "Bush step down," liberal activists, headlined by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, will try to drown out Bush's address with drums, violins, pot-and-pan banging, car horns, church bells, and raised voices, according to a press release. "People will use flashlights to shine the light on Bush's lies," protest organizers said. The demonstration, which supposedly will attract thousands of people, is being organized by The World Can't Wait, a national organization launched in November to spread the word that "Bush lied, Bush spied, Bush must step down." Representatives from Veterans for Peace, the Hip-Hop Caucus, Interfaith Alliance, Progressive Democrats of America also will take part. Protesters who gather near the Capitol on Tuesday night say that, "after years of an unjust war raging in Iraq, widespread use of torture, massive spying and total neglect of the people of New Orleans, it is time to force President Bush to step down.""
"The World Can't Wait" is a front for the Revolutionary Communist Party of America.
We should know people by who they associate with and Progressive Democrats and Veterans for Peace -try- to be more main stream there.... but well they come out with a communist (supporters of North Korea and Slobo last time i checked) party and a protest lead by a woman who makes virulent anti-jewish sentiment and gets snuggly with evil leaders around the world that hate America
Enviromentalism is just for dirty hippies
I jaunted over to Dean’s world this on my sick day and saw a cross over to “The Radical Centrist” and saw two people missing the point entirely.
The assumption is Conservation and Environmentalism are entirely the same thing. And well they simply aren’t. Some times the philosophies of environmentalism and conservation are opposed to each other entirely.
From what the Radical Centrist quoted
For another, it's about creating a good business climate--companies don't want to move to a region that's got bad air and the health problems that go with it
This is entirely different then the philosophy of environmentalism –today- which isn’t people centered but is instead environment centered. This is why clean air and clean water laws have such wide spread support today. This is entirely different then the Kyoto protocol to limit carbon because of the impact it has (say the environmentalists) to global warming. One thing is questionable, the other thing is quantifiable. I can come up with clear scientific results to show that the dirty air and dirty water in a given area is a health risk. Not only can’t I show you that the Kyoto protocols will reduce global warming, even its supporters say it won’t. These two things may seem to be the same, but are not.
Hunting groups in this country work harder at establishing nature preserves and funding private clean ups then –most- environmental groups…why, because without those preserves and clean areas the value of hunting is gone (on a level of a person) but environmentalism doesn’t embrace hunters because they view killing an animal as wrong (non-human centered)
Dean focuses more on the politics so I am going to focus on one of these things is not like the other
The assumption is Conservation and Environmentalism are entirely the same thing. And well they simply aren’t. Some times the philosophies of environmentalism and conservation are opposed to each other entirely.
From what the Radical Centrist quoted
For another, it's about creating a good business climate--companies don't want to move to a region that's got bad air and the health problems that go with it
This is entirely different then the philosophy of environmentalism –today- which isn’t people centered but is instead environment centered. This is why clean air and clean water laws have such wide spread support today. This is entirely different then the Kyoto protocol to limit carbon because of the impact it has (say the environmentalists) to global warming. One thing is questionable, the other thing is quantifiable. I can come up with clear scientific results to show that the dirty air and dirty water in a given area is a health risk. Not only can’t I show you that the Kyoto protocols will reduce global warming, even its supporters say it won’t. These two things may seem to be the same, but are not.
Hunting groups in this country work harder at establishing nature preserves and funding private clean ups then –most- environmental groups…why, because without those preserves and clean areas the value of hunting is gone (on a level of a person) but environmentalism doesn’t embrace hunters because they view killing an animal as wrong (non-human centered)
Dean focuses more on the politics so I am going to focus on one of these things is not like the other
Drudge with the flashy flashy
Matt Drudge with what should be the Captain Obvious moment of the day
Little money coming in + large scale spending to grow "the base" = HEY WHERE'S THE MONEY
shocking notion. also more shocking is the fac t traditionally the DNC has run deficits and paid the loans off with fundraiser money....
republicans have well banked money and used it for operations
guess which one is winning more elections.
hmmmm HELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO
Constantly getting but kicked in fundraising McFly...hello
as have we in the right-o-center blog world as to why you guys haven't fired him
after a underwhelming showing in the 06 elections i predict a firing of howard dean and...Howard Dean 2008
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeaaaaarh
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are privately bristling over Howard Dean’s management of the Democratic National Committee and have made those sentiments clear after new fundraising numbers showed he has spent nearly all the committee’s cash and has little left to support their efforts to gain seats this cycle, ROLL CALL reports.
Little money coming in + large scale spending to grow "the base" = HEY WHERE'S THE MONEY
shocking notion. also more shocking is the fac t traditionally the DNC has run deficits and paid the loans off with fundraiser money....
republicans have well banked money and used it for operations
guess which one is winning more elections.
Congressional leaders were furious last week when they learned the DNC has just $5.5 million in the bank, compared to the Republican National Committee’s $34 million.
hmmmm HELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO
Constantly getting but kicked in fundraising McFly...hello
“A lot of people are scratching their heads as to what’s going on,” said one senior Democratic aide.
as have we in the right-o-center blog world as to why you guys haven't fired him
after a underwhelming showing in the 06 elections i predict a firing of howard dean and...Howard Dean 2008
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeaaaaarh
I saw this on Polipundit
This is frankly exceptionally choice.
Remember this will all comes from a DNC press release....
So the new Ideas....?
this is it.... but whats in the rest of the PR?
Why what do you think....BASH BUSH FEST
Oh and when he wasn't bashing the President he was bashing the Republicans in general
so when a PR claims he is out selling new ideas how many do they focus on
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Welcome to the Perpetual Minority project of Howard Dean
Remember this will all comes from a DNC press release....
Democratic National Committee Chairman
Howard Dean today outlined the Democratic Party's strong, positive agenda of reform on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. The following are excerpts of Dean's interview with Wallace:
So the new Ideas....?
On the State of the Union:
I think most Americans think the state of the Union is in pretty difficult shape right now. We do need some new ideas on the economy. The Democrats have put forward a jobs plan that has to do with energy independence. We do need a healthcare system that works for everybody. And, frankly, I think we need a little better work on defense. We're worried about the troops not being taken care of properly in
Iraq.
this is it.... but whats in the rest of the PR?
Why what do you think....BASH BUSH FEST
think the President is going to have a lot of explaining to do....
So, you know, we all want the President to succeed, but the President hasn't succeeded. I think that's because he has a lack of vision and, frankly, he hasn't been truthful to the American people and people, frankly, just don't believe him anymore, and that's a real problem for him.(on the President's lack of Credibility).....
We need a President that will lead the nation but a President that will follow the law. The law says that if the President thinks Al Qaeda is an imminent threat and he wants to spy on them, he can do that immediately, but he's got to get a warrant after the fact......
We are asking the President to follow the law when he does so. No one should be above the law. Not even the President of the United States......
Look, I think the President should release the information about when Jack Abramoff was at the White House.....
We need to know who Jack Abramoff met with in the White House and did he meet with the President in the White House? .....
Oh and when he wasn't bashing the President he was bashing the Republicans in general
so when a PR claims he is out selling new ideas how many do they focus on
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Welcome to the Perpetual Minority project of Howard Dean
Sunday, January 29, 2006
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People who deserve to be beaten
Some times when you read the internet some good old fashion rage boils up and leads to an old school kind of internet rant. Today's ball of Rage comes to us thanks to Dr. Helen.
Take a good long look at this bit of vanity *IF* a unfettered "Gray Bomb" scenario happens this flavor is going to become very old hat. Thanks to our technology no one will want to fill a nice societal role because it takes away from their vibrant identity.
let me set up the one-two punch of shallowness to come. Because i think it shows an utter contempt for others that needs to be appreciated
So a Saturday, not even an entire Saturday she would just go three blocks and pick up the Grand Kids....seems simple enough right? Seems like a very basic human thing to do right? but the response is telling and well frankly a little bit shocking.
You see her way to assert she is a good Grandmother is "I'd love to help and....hey look at all these things i bought to show how good a grand mother i am." worse she doesn't even present a reason why she couldn't take maybe as little as 2 hours out of her day to help. I imagine she probably cared this little for her own children, and was so thing centered with them. So she must have truely been desperate to try and call granny shopping bags for help.
Was anyone asking you to? no...no one was. While a little self sacrifice was asked for you weren't even willing to do that.
you should feel guilty you took a situation that would be only a minor inconvience and couldn't be bothered?
But another friend of hers is even worse
How shallow and pathetic is this woman?
Dr. Helen sums up why this is horriffic here.......
yep going from a generation raised by women to a generation born with no family and people who show family just isn't important.
I'll just let Dr. Helen close this one out with this blurb.
I'm just saying the old Grandma image is no longer applicable. "Grandma" is my mother's mother, with her white braid wrapped around her head, smelling of Black Jack gum as she knitted our Christmas sweaters, one blue arm growing out of her purse as if she had somebody in there.
Take a good long look at this bit of vanity *IF* a unfettered "Gray Bomb" scenario happens this flavor is going to become very old hat. Thanks to our technology no one will want to fill a nice societal role because it takes away from their vibrant identity.
let me set up the one-two punch of shallowness to come. Because i think it shows an utter contempt for others that needs to be appreciated
One recent Saturday morning my daughter, Morgan, and her husband, Trevor, were feverishly trying to pull their new apartment together with Ryan underfoot and the baby wailing. "Can you watch the babies while we work?" Morgan called to ask, as Trevor hammered in the background. She lives three blocks away from me in San Francisco.
So a Saturday, not even an entire Saturday she would just go three blocks and pick up the Grand Kids....seems simple enough right? Seems like a very basic human thing to do right? but the response is telling and well frankly a little bit shocking.
Look, I'd love to nip over and whisper secrets into 1-month-old Maggie's ears, or to dress 2-year-old Ryan in the black leather jacket I bought her recently and take her to look for late blackberries in Golden Gate Park on my bike (with its deluxe new kid seat). But I have a job. I'm a reporter, I have two books to write, a husband who wants to go to France, and I just bought an investment property in Portland, Oregon. I love my grandchildren, but being a grandmother got added to my to-do list.
You see her way to assert she is a good Grandmother is "I'd love to help and....hey look at all these things i bought to show how good a grand mother i am." worse she doesn't even present a reason why she couldn't take maybe as little as 2 hours out of her day to help. I imagine she probably cared this little for her own children, and was so thing centered with them. So she must have truely been desperate to try and call granny shopping bags for help.
The truth is, I can't be the kind of grandmother my own grandmother was -- available and self-sacrificing, always arriving in her red VW with her overnight bag to help Mom. I wasn't a stay-at-home mom, and I can't be a stay-at-home-grandma either.
Was anyone asking you to? no...no one was. While a little self sacrifice was asked for you weren't even willing to do that.
As I pondered this, Morgan was waiting for my answer. "I can't, sweetie. I'm working," I told her. "Okay, Mom, we'll manage," she said, with that briskness she uses to cover up disappointment. I put the phone down, realizing I'm going to have to live with that guilty feeling. You may think I'm being churlish, but at least I'm not alone.
you should feel guilty you took a situation that would be only a minor inconvience and couldn't be bothered?
But another friend of hers is even worse
Having just quit after 12 years as a family court judge, my friend Susan Baker is now trying to set the limits for her own grandmothering. But the end of her legal career merely signals the beginning of another, as an author. She feels bad that, because of a long-planned book signing and a scheduled day on the bench, she couldn't drop everything for a week when her oldest daughter, Susan, had another baby last November. "I felt really guilty about that," Baker told me. But her new career is important to her. "I love those little kids and I do want to have a relationship with them," she said. "But I'm not willing to give up my writing or my traveling. I'll be the best grandmother I can from a distance."
How shallow and pathetic is this woman?
Dr. Helen sums up why this is horriffic here.......
As extended families become less influential in children's lives, I can't help but think this must affect their ability to learn about the closeness of human interactions.
yep going from a generation raised by women to a generation born with no family and people who show family just isn't important.
I'll just let Dr. Helen close this one out with this blurb.
this the guilt parents feel about not spending enough time with kids themselves and the never ending material goods being lavished on the little darlings and it's no wonder kids can be confused and unclear about the importance of human interactions. Extended family also gives kids examples of how other people behave outside of the daycare, school or their immediate family. Grandparents don't have to go overboard but perhaps not adding the grandkids to the to-do list but rather to the I-would-love-to see-them list would be a start
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Saturday, January 28, 2006
Momma Sheehan Speaks
And a US Senator acts....
This is just frightening
Momma Sheehan threatened to to run against Senator Feinstein and the certainty of the cloture motion is growing less certain......This means the Senate is getting closer to a Nuclear option.
If the Democrats think they can win on that they are simply crazy.
also shocking all the major politics of this filibuster is happening outside the countries borders....
(h/t Sweetness & light)
This is just frightening
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced that she will vote no on cloture regarding the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
“Based on a very long and thoughtful analysis of the record and transcript, which I tried to indicate in my floor statement yesterday, I’ve decided that I will vote no on cloture.”
Momma Sheehan threatened to to run against Senator Feinstein and the certainty of the cloture motion is growing less certain......This means the Senate is getting closer to a Nuclear option.
If the Democrats think they can win on that they are simply crazy.
also shocking all the major politics of this filibuster is happening outside the countries borders....
(h/t Sweetness & light)
Friday, January 27, 2006
Another 101 moment of Zen
A Parable
Buddha told a parable in a sutra:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted
Buddha told a parable in a sutra:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted
Another Reason not to put money in China.
I always say to folks that big companies putting monney down in China are making a rather poor choice. Now here is yet another reason why (which impacts the new Google.Cn)
A lot of folks on the net have made a a big deal about Lycos/Microsoft/Et. al selling out to the big red dragon for a Profit margin. But now we see they didn't sell out but rather they sold the right to use their name to the folks in China running the internet. For Google to beat the odds they have to Out-Chinese legitimate Chinese companies.
But here comes the horns of the dilema for google. Their are instances of Big Red Yuan's corperations using intellectual property illicitly. So can google sell the right to their shingle the way these other corperations have? I don't see how Google can do that without creating their own nemisis down the road.
In short Google is going to try to bring their old wheel into a market where people more or less implimented their own wheel along the same model.
And everyone else that has tried to bust in has gotten shut down. So just how much is Google willing to risk for very little gain?
Google's inability to succeed in China instead resides in it not being a Chinese company.
Even with the hype surrounding Google's hire of the former Microsoft (MSFT) executive, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, and other top grabs from Chinese companies like 1pai, Google's fundamental stumbling block in China comes from its failure to adapt to being a true Chinese Internet company.
Yahoo (YHOO) tried many times to adapt. As far back as 1998 (or Web 0.98 Beta) when its then-VP, Heather Killen, made high-profile visits to China, the Western Internet company tried to sit at the Chinese banquet table. But Yahoo finally gave up last year when it bought a billion dollar stake in China's Alibaba.com and then gave Alibaba the rights to run Yahoo! China. There was not even a whimper from the company as its Chinese portal was torn down and replaced with a simple search engine. Sohu (SOHU), Sina (SINA), and Netease (NTES) had finally beaten the foreign interloper.
Lycos tried too. It bought firms like Myrice.com. Netscape tried, via AOL. MSN has also been bobbling along with a few victories here and a few setbacks there--nothing much to be proud of.
All of these companies have one thing in common: they entered China to win, but left only remnants of their power after a few years' struggle. Chinese history is filled with tales of foreigners coming to the Middle Kingdom with money, but leaving the country poor, confused and embarrassed. Ask Chris Patten.
A lot of folks on the net have made a a big deal about Lycos/Microsoft/Et. al selling out to the big red dragon for a Profit margin. But now we see they didn't sell out but rather they sold the right to use their name to the folks in China running the internet. For Google to beat the odds they have to Out-Chinese legitimate Chinese companies.
But here comes the horns of the dilema for google. Their are instances of Big Red Yuan's corperations using intellectual property illicitly. So can google sell the right to their shingle the way these other corperations have? I don't see how Google can do that without creating their own nemisis down the road.
But in China, rival Internet companies have developed a symbiotic relationship. Sohu, Sina, and Netease all provide pretty much the same services and they all developed along the same faddish tracks: first, a portal with free email; second, news and community; third, wireless/SMS/MMS content; and now, online gaming. There is always talk of one of these three buying the other, but not much happens. Late arrivals like the carpetbagging Tom.com can even get a slice of the Internet pie.
In short Google is going to try to bring their old wheel into a market where people more or less implimented their own wheel along the same model.
And everyone else that has tried to bust in has gotten shut down. So just how much is Google willing to risk for very little gain?
Be wary of that Red Dragon
They are so so Kapitalist (thanks to Mickey Kaus for the hook up)
You know what wild and crazy capitalists might do. they might take the excess units of production and sell them. But I mean folks keep telling me China is such a booming economic capitalist power.
maybe because the cars are garbage and full of stolen stuff?
But why let a little thing like that ruin your "capitalism"
China's National Development and Reform Committee has just ordered 144 domestic automakers to cease production-- part of an effort by the state to bridle excess capacity (said to be some two million units/year).....Of those companies affected, 124 will be prohibited from manufacturing any automobile-related output whatsoever.
You know what wild and crazy capitalists might do. they might take the excess units of production and sell them. But I mean folks keep telling me China is such a booming economic capitalist power.
maybe because the cars are garbage and full of stolen stuff?
The glove box wouldn’t close. Corroding engine. Need to pass standard safety and emissions tests. Then there's all those patent infringements that Chinese businesses committed on foreign companies (seemingly ignored by their government.) One reaction? "Business has to be interpreted in terms of laws around the world,” stated Kevin Wale, Australian president of the GM China Group.
But why let a little thing like that ruin your "capitalism"
Disney is SATAN
If you lived in Central Florida you would know this already. But they are making a sequal to BAMBI. One of the classics of American cinema that really had no need for a sequal.....disney is doing it anyway.
words from the Disney site whick make my eyes bleed
Bambi is apperently Deer Royalty.....and being raised by a single father (awww)
also wasn't Bambi a girl?
Thumper has annoying little siblings
It is only avalible for 70 days of stink
words from the Disney site whick make my eyes bleed
The eagerly awaited next chapter of Bambi's unforgetable story continues for a whole new generation in a film that is sure to delight your entire family
Bambi is apperently Deer Royalty.....and being raised by a single father (awww)
also wasn't Bambi a girl?
Thumper has annoying little siblings
It is only avalible for 70 days of stink
"That's cute but retarded"
(Headline title from a situation with my roommate and not meant as an insult to anyone except John Kerry)
((Correction made. Al Gore was stupid at sundance. Claim he was stupid at Davos Stricken))
In the world of politics their are stupid ideas. Such as hiring the Buffalo Bills of Presidential campaign managers. If you are a Democrat canidate for president shutting minorities out of high positions in your campaign till the national convention. Reminding people over and over again that you served in Vietnam. Filibustering of the Alito Nomination falls into that category. Wait all those mistakes were done by John Kerry. So yes Virginia some times their are no stupid ideas just stupid people.
Yes faster then you can say "Christmas in Cambodia" John Kerry in an almost Zen like fashion makes a political move that tells you everthing you need to know about John Kerry. the same Davos where Eason Jordan basically put the final nail in his career a few years ago John Kerry announces his move to filibuster Sam Alito.
Worse it is a world economic forum. So not only does John Kerry associate himself with some real lunacy, he also runs counter to the very PRINCIPLE of the meeting.
metaphysically that move is almost a metaphor for his entire campaign.
It also shows that, much like his 2004 campaign JOHN KERRY is not a team player.
While I don't think those issues are as hot as Harry Reid does he is dead on right. IF this is filibustered and IF cloture isn't possible then it is Nuclear option time. And everything the democrats have been building up to becomes "last weeks" news this week.
Democrats: I am offically putting John Kerry as the "second best" outcome for us in your nominating process. Hillary is first. Either of those two canidates will give us another 4 years with very little work
John Kerry: You need a nanny. You need some one to slap your hand and say "NO!" when you are about to do something really stupid.I am sure from the swelling you are about to get a ginormous mickey mouse hand but it is a small price to pay
((Correction made. Al Gore was stupid at sundance. Claim he was stupid at Davos Stricken))
In the world of politics their are stupid ideas. Such as hiring the Buffalo Bills of Presidential campaign managers. If you are a Democrat canidate for president shutting minorities out of high positions in your campaign till the national convention. Reminding people over and over again that you served in Vietnam. Filibustering of the Alito Nomination falls into that category. Wait all those mistakes were done by John Kerry. So yes Virginia some times their are no stupid ideas just stupid people.
Some Republicans poked fun at Kerry; the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee who may make another White House bid; for allowing others to announce the filibuster plan earlier in the day while he was attending an economic conference in Davos, Switzerland.
Yes faster then you can say "Christmas in Cambodia" John Kerry in an almost Zen like fashion makes a political move that tells you everthing you need to know about John Kerry. the same Davos where Eason Jordan basically put the final nail in his career a few years ago John Kerry announces his move to filibuster Sam Alito.
Worse it is a world economic forum. So not only does John Kerry associate himself with some real lunacy, he also runs counter to the very PRINCIPLE of the meeting.
metaphysically that move is almost a metaphor for his entire campaign.
It also shows that, much like his 2004 campaign JOHN KERRY is not a team player.
Party sources said Reid and others worry a filibuster will distract voters from issues that Democratic leaders think are more promising. They include President Bush's controversial domestic-surveillance program and the indictments of a top White House official and congressional leader.
While I don't think those issues are as hot as Harry Reid does he is dead on right. IF this is filibustered and IF cloture isn't possible then it is Nuclear option time. And everything the democrats have been building up to becomes "last weeks" news this week.
Democrats: I am offically putting John Kerry as the "second best" outcome for us in your nominating process. Hillary is first. Either of those two canidates will give us another 4 years with very little work
John Kerry: You need a nanny. You need some one to slap your hand and say "NO!" when you are about to do something really stupid.I am sure from the swelling you are about to get a ginormous mickey mouse hand but it is a small price to pay
Media figures say the darndest things
Aaron Brown rolled out some lovely little blurbs here
Aaron i liked your show but DUDE get off your high horse. We have back to the days of the dominance of broadcast news Stories broadcast by the likes of Dan Rather that were ridiculously untrue but because he controled the gates of media in his day no one looked into it. The media has never EVER been intrested in truth, they've been intrested in what sells their product.
You say this while you worked for a network which hid brutal attorcities to get the right to broadcast from a repressive dictatorship.
Physician heal thyself.
"Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news,"....
"Cable didn't search for the truth, but engaged in mock debates pitting those making the charges against Murtha's defenders," .....
"You'd think that it's no more complex than good vs. evil," .....
"It's not enough to say you want serious news. You have to watch it. It isn't enough to say you want serious debate. You have to engage in it."....
Aaron i liked your show but DUDE get off your high horse. We have back to the days of the dominance of broadcast news Stories broadcast by the likes of Dan Rather that were ridiculously untrue but because he controled the gates of media in his day no one looked into it. The media has never EVER been intrested in truth, they've been intrested in what sells their product.
You say this while you worked for a network which hid brutal attorcities to get the right to broadcast from a repressive dictatorship.
Physician heal thyself.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
For those people who ask where are the WMD's in Iraq
Here is an object lesson from WWII
yes a Nazi Bunker missing for 60 years...and not a small bunker
so things get lost in time of war people
Nazis' secret base found
Revealed ... the Nazis’ untouched secret bunker
By TOM NEWTON DUNN
Defence Editor
A WARTIME bunker used by Nazis to bombard Allied troops during the D-Day landings has been unearthed untouched — after 60 years.
yes a Nazi Bunker missing for 60 years...and not a small bunker
The bunker sprawls over 20 acres and is thought to be the hidden German battery that decimated US soldiers at Omaha Beach, seven miles away.
The encampment contains 40 buildings — including a field hospital.
Some of the offices contain army papers — as well as radio equipment.
so things get lost in time of war people
Let me tell you a story boys and girls......
During the nineteen hundred and nineties uncle Larry was a "Militia Sympathizer". Not so much in the dressing up in fatigues/hating minorities and conspiracies of jew bankers sense... but in some of their more mainstream issues of American politics. Back in those times their was a quote I and many other folk of that libertarian stripe used to remember well.
"Those who would give up Liberty, to purchase a little Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Turns out now that quote was actually wrong. And that sage wisdom from Brother Franklin was far less sage then I thought.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Here is the problem. The political culture is begining to say all manner of things are not "essential" liberty. Owning guns to some is not an essential liberty. Controling your property and not having governments seize it is being treated like it is not an essential liberty. If you try to qualify the liberty then your never going to get it right.
And the only lasting safety is the safety we generate ourselves
but thanks sphere of blog for showing me I was misquoting one of my favorite historical personages
"Those who would give up Liberty, to purchase a little Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Turns out now that quote was actually wrong. And that sage wisdom from Brother Franklin was far less sage then I thought.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Here is the problem. The political culture is begining to say all manner of things are not "essential" liberty. Owning guns to some is not an essential liberty. Controling your property and not having governments seize it is being treated like it is not an essential liberty. If you try to qualify the liberty then your never going to get it right.
And the only lasting safety is the safety we generate ourselves
but thanks sphere of blog for showing me I was misquoting one of my favorite historical personages
Marvel Comics #@)*#&*@&#*@&#@*&#
Why do you keep trying to ruin Spider Man.....WHY~! I think the worst part are the freako arms you've given him. I can forgive the red and gold colors but those arms are so so so so SOOOOO stupid. But then again the entire new Spider-Man storyline visavis his being in the new avengers suxxors anyway.
Thanks to Fark for this one.
Firefly Season II eeeeerrrr wait a minute
Decided to go plug over to Whedonesque a Josh Whedon fan site and found some important info.
and some one on the site lays out the skinny of his inquiry with the person behind the Firefly season II site.
and here is a blurb about it from Slashdot
Probably should have looked at the details a bit more before I posted....My bad. What this is then from what i've looked at is a Fan trying to liberate the rights fox is sitting on for more "Firefly" TV content. Some of the folks don't trust the guy because of his previous buisness ventures...i don't see that as inordienently relevant.
Not sure if he can pull this off but I still support it.... until I find out he is less legit
Firefly Season 2???? I have received an e-mail via my own website from a Mr. Ace Underhill of Cine Support Intl (http://www.cine-support.com/index.html) directing me to the linked site. (NOTE: Please treat claims made by the people behind the linked url with a great deal of caution. Nothing is official, by any means, and there is much of this that doesn't add up.)
[ edited by herb on 2006-01-23 18:24 ]
He claims that his production company are going through 'official channels' to obtain licencing from Fox to produce and sell a second series of Firefly to cable channels. He wants as many people as possible to register so they can take figures to advertising and cable companies. Thought I'd see what y'all thought about this.
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and some one on the site lays out the skinny of his inquiry with the person behind the Firefly season II site.
Yes, I have contacted Joss' management. I have not received a reply from Joss personally yet, but now is not the time for him to be bothered with this. The obstacle lies with Fox, not with Joss. Once the rights are cleared, everything will fall into place. If Joss declines to be involved once the rights are secured, I will abandon the project.
I remain unconvinced that without even a nod or wink from Joss that this could go ahead.
Fox exec: So you want the rights to Firefly then, what does Joss Whedon think of this?
Seeker of Firefly rights: Now is not the time for him to be bothered with this.
Fox exec: Uhuh.
Note that that was my attempt at satire.
And for all I know, this could be the umpteenth production company that has tried to get the property rights for Firefly. I really can not see this happening in any shape or fashion.
Simon | January 23, 19:09 CET
and here is a blurb about it from Slashdot
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 25, @05:47PM
from the anything-to-bring-it-back dept.
Sci-Fi Television
ovanklot writes "It seems that Brilliant Screen Entertainment is looking to see if there is an audience for a second season of the science fiction show FireFly. From the article: 'It's possible that subscribers may choose one of three playback options; monthly DVD deliveries, TV On-Demand using your cable or satellite provider, or computer viewing via Streaming Download.'" They are asking folks to fill out a short survey to gather demographics for support in their efforts to get Fox to release the show to them. The site also stresses that they want neither money nor confidential personal information.
Probably should have looked at the details a bit more before I posted....My bad. What this is then from what i've looked at is a Fan trying to liberate the rights fox is sitting on for more "Firefly" TV content. Some of the folks don't trust the guy because of his previous buisness ventures...i don't see that as inordienently relevant.
Not sure if he can pull this off but I still support it.... until I find out he is less legit
This is intresting....
A new study from the folks at RAND
and lets show off some of the nuts and bolts of this study (based largely off of social security data)
This is one of those cases which proves antecdote and less effective studies aren't always reliable.
The study, by RAND's National Defense Research Institute, found that 72 percent of the troops surveyed made more while on war duty in 2002 or 2003 than they did in their civilian jobs in 2001. More than half made at least $10,000 more.
On average, the reservists made $850 more per month while on duty than in their civilian jobs, the report found.
It went on to say, however, that there is still a sizable number - 28 percent - of the reservists who lost money, including some who saw their earnings drop by more than 10 percent.
and lets show off some of the nuts and bolts of this study (based largely off of social security data)
-The average civilian pay was $39,300, compared with $56,400 while on combat duty.
-83 percent made more on duty than at their civilian jobs.
-66 percent saw their pay increase more than $10,000 while on duty.
-7 percent lost more than $10,000 while on duty.
This is one of those cases which proves antecdote and less effective studies aren't always reliable.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Attn: Browncoats
Season II is On like DOnkey Kong.
Booya~!
The Firefly Season 2 Project:
Captain Mal and the crew of Serenity need your help to stay flying.
We are looking to push the envelope of episodic television by offering Season Two of Firefly in a groundbreaking new format. Each episode (or the entire season) would be made available for purchase in Standard or Hi-Definition.
It's possible that subscribers may choose one of three playback options; monthly DVD deliveries, TV On-Demand using your cable or satellite provider, or computer viewing via Streaming Download.
It's also possible that a box set of DVD's would be available at the end of the season.
In order for our plan to be successful, we need to take stock of the browncoat recruits that support our cause. It will only take a minute, is strictly confidential, and each profile will take us one step closer to victory!
Booya~!
Book of Daniel
I thought the controversy would keep it alive...ruining television.
Thank GOD I was wrong.
and sadly here is the biggest warm squishy feel from it
They did intend to mock religous people. and you could see that from the show.
but it got canceled and the friends reunion talk was a horrible rumor.
So I won't be getting my death ray out of mothballs.
Thank GOD I was wrong.
"The Book of Daniel" drew an audience of 6.9 million on its first night. By its fourth airing, the number had dipped to 5.8 million viewers.
and sadly here is the biggest warm squishy feel from it
The show's creator and executive producer, Jack Kenny, has said his goal was to depict how "humor and grace" help a flawed man struggle with his faith and family. He said the writers never meant to mock religion or Jesus.
They did intend to mock religous people. and you could see that from the show.
but it got canceled and the friends reunion talk was a horrible rumor.
So I won't be getting my death ray out of mothballs.
Some adult thoughts on Google......
Lots of folks in the world of the online are all hot to trot about google and their capitulation ( the latest company to do so) to the PRC. Some folks put a value judgement on their fighting the US government here, and kissing up to the PRC goons there.
Let me first lay out my opinions. I think Google like a whole lot of the US companies are making a huge mistake in the way they expand into china. And I think aiding repressive governments in the way they do would if a more purely marxist revolt ever happens leads to much more serious long term problems. (Dean over on Dean's world outlines some of why i think people are being foolish for investing in china.)
I am also against the Federal government taking the info from google. Not so much for issues of privacy (which I'll be getting into in a moment) but because I think they way the federal government did it was utterly retarded. I think they should have pulled something like Clinton did when he pushed the TV industry into the television raitings system. But i increasingly do-not- believe the Bush administration wants to be successful but that they want to look like they are fighting to "protect our children" from "Immoral content."
Oh yes... and Gmail is my primary email service, google my default search engine, and google owns blogger.
But if you care about privacy google should scare the pants off you. Your home, your searches (especially if you have an ident with google)...basically any data about you on the internet is avalible with a little work for the finding. Google is the death of your privacy, which is why they have to -act- like they care about your privacy rights against the government. Their buisness model is to take any flowing electronic data relating to you and putting it at the fingertips of anyone with an internet connection.
And rapidly I am begining to think that simply put nothing is going to put a stop to that. So what is important in a world where our modern (or pre-modern... because I refuse to say we are living in the post modern world because that doesn't make sense *#)&(# ) Concept of privacy is essentially no more?.... And I think some issues like financial data and health care data will be much more restricted but will still be out there....
Transperency. And by that I mean people will soon have a right to know who is looking at their information. ( something i'd say akin to the once a year free credit check service) and who has paid for their information. The right to protest untrue information and have it flagged accordingly (thank you wikipedia). It is this sense o f transperency which people are sensing they have a right to in a world of much greater informational access (Look at hipaa and the new rules to protect financial data). This is why Google's support of the government of China is so offensive to our sensibilities even if we have not the capacity to frame it as such yet.
Google is the major gatemaster of information. and if Google-Tv (or Google-Vision) comes to fruition this will become an even greater problem.
Do no evil matters more then just a way to mock google for their hypocricy and false airs of moral superiority. If they don't see the evil their actions are creating to the world not yet born ( that they are largely responsible for giving birth to) then that means they will likely not understand it when the evil fruit becomes manifest.
However on Fark.com some one did put a logical spin on what google did. So I can still be irritated but see something important in their choices.
I don't know how accurate it is...but it does point to the chess like nature of what google is doing....
If this is true its a really complex world google is in. So we have to be adult and pragmatic about it. We need to hold google accountable and show we aren't happy. But we need to keep it reasonable and respectable at this point in time.
I'm all about saying bring down the walls...but here the complexities don't seem to lend themselves to it.
Let me first lay out my opinions. I think Google like a whole lot of the US companies are making a huge mistake in the way they expand into china. And I think aiding repressive governments in the way they do would if a more purely marxist revolt ever happens leads to much more serious long term problems. (Dean over on Dean's world outlines some of why i think people are being foolish for investing in china.)
I am also against the Federal government taking the info from google. Not so much for issues of privacy (which I'll be getting into in a moment) but because I think they way the federal government did it was utterly retarded. I think they should have pulled something like Clinton did when he pushed the TV industry into the television raitings system. But i increasingly do-not- believe the Bush administration wants to be successful but that they want to look like they are fighting to "protect our children" from "Immoral content."
Oh yes... and Gmail is my primary email service, google my default search engine, and google owns blogger.
But if you care about privacy google should scare the pants off you. Your home, your searches (especially if you have an ident with google)...basically any data about you on the internet is avalible with a little work for the finding. Google is the death of your privacy, which is why they have to -act- like they care about your privacy rights against the government. Their buisness model is to take any flowing electronic data relating to you and putting it at the fingertips of anyone with an internet connection.
And rapidly I am begining to think that simply put nothing is going to put a stop to that. So what is important in a world where our modern (or pre-modern... because I refuse to say we are living in the post modern world because that doesn't make sense *#)&(# ) Concept of privacy is essentially no more?.... And I think some issues like financial data and health care data will be much more restricted but will still be out there....
Transperency. And by that I mean people will soon have a right to know who is looking at their information. ( something i'd say akin to the once a year free credit check service) and who has paid for their information. The right to protest untrue information and have it flagged accordingly (thank you wikipedia). It is this sense o f transperency which people are sensing they have a right to in a world of much greater informational access (Look at hipaa and the new rules to protect financial data). This is why Google's support of the government of China is so offensive to our sensibilities even if we have not the capacity to frame it as such yet.
Google is the major gatemaster of information. and if Google-Tv (or Google-Vision) comes to fruition this will become an even greater problem.
Do no evil matters more then just a way to mock google for their hypocricy and false airs of moral superiority. If they don't see the evil their actions are creating to the world not yet born ( that they are largely responsible for giving birth to) then that means they will likely not understand it when the evil fruit becomes manifest.
However on Fark.com some one did put a logical spin on what google did. So I can still be irritated but see something important in their choices.
I don't know how accurate it is...but it does point to the chess like nature of what google is doing....
2006-01-25 02:29:38 AM Donald Hogan Mark II
this is all about data gathering from google's standpoint. google was ready to stand firm and do no evil and not comply with china and be the hero of the internet, freedom and the american way. then the chinese goverment showed google that their hackers can utterly block google's crawlers. it would be one thing for there to be no google in china, another thing for no one in the world to be able to search chinese pages with google. also, since statistical techniques are proving to be the best way to do translation with computers, google needs the chinese web data for development of translation programs. in the not too distant future we will be able to view pages from all over the world and have them automatically translated into our native language. (and translated well, not that babelfish crap, which is not statistical translation btw) having access to massive amounts of chinese language data will be very important between now and then. that's why google made this deal, not because they need chinese ad money.
If this is true its a really complex world google is in. So we have to be adult and pragmatic about it. We need to hold google accountable and show we aren't happy. But we need to keep it reasonable and respectable at this point in time.
I'm all about saying bring down the walls...but here the complexities don't seem to lend themselves to it.
WoooHooo
I'm a Lamborghini Murcielago!
You're not subtle, but you don't want to be. Fast, loud, and dramatic, you want people to notice you, and then get out of the way. In a world full of sheep, you're a raging bull.
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
More Bad news for the Hildabeast
Matt Drudge is on the case
both the first and last half are telling
Republican registrations have been rasing while the potential electorate seems to shift her way.I don't see 2008 as feasible for her and while she might shift the 51% "no way" down to a 45% that still means that anyone running against her has a 45%-51% cushion built in.
Thats going to make it impossible for the Democrats to win, or to even reach out because anything which alienates a decent sized sector of their base will lead to a huge loss.
while the republicans if she is the nominee will have a much easier time reaching out because of her very strong and very hard negatives
CNNGALLUP found that 51 percent say they definitely won't vote for Clinton (D-N.Y.) in 2008, another 32 percent might consider it, and only 16 percent vow to back her. That means committed anti-Hillary voters outnumber pro-Hillary voters by 3-1. The poll suggests she can forget about crossover votes - 90 percent of Republicans and 75 percent of conservatives say there's no way they'd back her.
both the first and last half are telling
Republican registrations have been rasing while the potential electorate seems to shift her way.I don't see 2008 as feasible for her and while she might shift the 51% "no way" down to a 45% that still means that anyone running against her has a 45%-51% cushion built in.
Thats going to make it impossible for the Democrats to win, or to even reach out because anything which alienates a decent sized sector of their base will lead to a huge loss.
while the republicans if she is the nominee will have a much easier time reaching out because of her very strong and very hard negatives
Well now this isn't strange at all
Michael Jackson is a strange man. First Michael's use of crossdressing as a way to hide his identity in Bahrain is pretty weird....even for him. He however is also getting close now the longer his kids live in Bahrain to making -them- really screwed up in how they view their gender roles.
He was wearing an abaya, a robe with long sleeves, under which his pants, white shirt and men's shoes could be seen, and his head and face were wrapped in a black veil. He had black gloves on his hands.
The veil, abaya and gloves were of a style typically worn by conservative Bahraini women, though Jackson appeared to be wearing them to hide his identity.
Can he GET weirder?
L.A.Slimes on supporting the troops
I think its time for an olde school blog snarky response.
L.A Times and Joel Stein kick this off.
Right here is great. He starts right off with the offensive statement. And then implies the people who have the "I support our troops" bumper stickers on are shallow. I mean this is so professional journalism.
again what is great is the fact most recruits don't go onto the combat line. but lets not stop there.
Whats great about this again people who buy those things are shallow. And of course doesn't focus on the fact most of those items give out money to CHARITIES which support the troops and their families.
Again what a wonderful way to position yourself there Joel.
again here its great implying people who don't support the war but are shallow and say "I support the troops" are even more shallow.
we have the 50.7% isn't a mandate, but a lower percentage and less overall votes for Bill Clinton was
good times there. We also have another insult of people who support the troops. And oh yeah Bush is stupid. Here we have all the anti Bush derangment sentiments you can one here in a single package.
again "people who buy ribbons are shallow" and of course the body armor canard which gets chucked out with the More Body Armor=more likely to be dead
good good times there.
HOW DARE YOU. I have enough friends I can count on both hands, good friends who I have no desire to see put in the ground. I have a couple of friends I might have to carry into the cold cold ground if they die over there and you say thats not a sacrifice? how dare you. What about the women who send off their husbands and sons.
this shallow and sorry statement is the only thing in here i find really offensive, much of the rest I just find sad.
"You are stupid if you supported the war so it isn't your fault."
He would however have had a perfect ten if he worked into this paragraph "BushitlerMchimpyburton lied because he WANTED your sons to die."
Soldiers: Since you don't mutiny it's your fault.
also he didn't get the Memo Jack Abramoff is not relevant to anyone
I am sure I sent it with a TPS cover sheet.
You are fighting in Iraq well your stupid and got tricked.
you aren't sacrificing enough for our moral system ergo your war values are wrong
such smarminess
Again: Its your fault if your in the military
I am with ya there though.
"Only stupid non rich people go into the military...but they could beat me up."
a tad bit of self depricating humor to deflect the hatred of troops in this bit.
You are evil for fighting in CHimpy Mchitlerburton's war. But you'll be crazy for doing it so we'll pay for it
so smarmy
Much like reading your article
Love;
Obnoxious guy blogging
L.A Times and Joel Stein kick this off.
Joel Stein:
Warriors and wusses
I DON'T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.
Right here is great. He starts right off with the offensive statement. And then implies the people who have the "I support our troops" bumper stickers on are shallow. I mean this is so professional journalism.
I'm sure I'd like the troops. They seem gutsy, young and up for anything. If you're wandering into a recruiter's office and signing up for eight years of unknown danger, I want to hang with you in Vegas.
again what is great is the fact most recruits don't go onto the combat line. but lets not stop there.
And I've got no problem with other people — the ones who were for the Iraq war — supporting the troops. If you think invading Iraq was a good idea, then by all means, support away. Load up on those patriotic magnets and bracelets and other trinkets the Chinese are making money off of.
Whats great about this again people who buy those things are shallow. And of course doesn't focus on the fact most of those items give out money to CHARITIES which support the troops and their families.
Again what a wonderful way to position yourself there Joel.
But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they're wussy by definition. It's as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn't to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.
again here its great implying people who don't support the war but are shallow and say "I support the troops" are even more shallow.
Blindly lending support to our soldiers, I fear, will keep them overseas longer by giving soft acquiescence to the hawks who sent them there — and who might one day want to send them somewhere else. Trust me, a guy who thought 50.7% was a mandate isn't going to pick up on the subtleties of a parade for just service in an unjust war. He's going to be looking for funnel cake.
we have the 50.7% isn't a mandate, but a lower percentage and less overall votes for Bill Clinton was
good times there. We also have another insult of people who support the troops. And oh yeah Bush is stupid. Here we have all the anti Bush derangment sentiments you can one here in a single package.
Besides, those little yellow ribbons aren't really for the troops. They need body armor, shorter stays and a USO show by the cast of "Laguna Beach."
again "people who buy ribbons are shallow" and of course the body armor canard which gets chucked out with the More Body Armor=more likely to be dead
good good times there.
The real purpose of those ribbons is to ease some of the guilt we feel for voting to send them to war and then making absolutely no sacrifices other than enduring two Wolf Blitzer shows a day. Though there should be a ribbon for that.
HOW DARE YOU. I have enough friends I can count on both hands, good friends who I have no desire to see put in the ground. I have a couple of friends I might have to carry into the cold cold ground if they die over there and you say thats not a sacrifice? how dare you. What about the women who send off their husbands and sons.
this shallow and sorry statement is the only thing in here i find really offensive, much of the rest I just find sad.
I understand the guilt. We know we're sending recruits to do our dirty work, and we want to seem grateful.
After we've decided that we made a mistake, we don't want to blame the soldiers who were ordered to fight. Or even our representatives, who were deceived by false intelligence. And certainly not ourselves, who failed to object to a war we barely understood.
"You are stupid if you supported the war so it isn't your fault."
He would however have had a perfect ten if he worked into this paragraph "BushitlerMchimpyburton lied because he WANTED your sons to die."
But blaming the president is a little too easy. The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying. An army of people ignoring their morality, by the way, is also Jack Abramoff's pet name for the House of Representatives.
Soldiers: Since you don't mutiny it's your fault.
also he didn't get the Memo Jack Abramoff is not relevant to anyone
I am sure I sent it with a TPS cover sheet.
I do sympathize with people who joined up to protect our country, especially after 9/11, and were tricked into fighting in Iraq. I get mad when I'm tricked into clicking on a pop-up ad, so I can only imagine how they feel.
You are fighting in Iraq well your stupid and got tricked.
you aren't sacrificing enough for our moral system ergo your war values are wrong
such smarminess
But when you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know you're not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and Canada. So you're willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism, for better or worse. Sometimes you get lucky and get to fight ethnic genocide in Kosovo, but other times it's Vietnam.
Again: Its your fault if your in the military
And sometimes, for reasons I don't understand, you get to just hang out in Germany.
I am with ya there though.
I know this is all easy to say for a guy who grew up with money, did well in school and hasn't so much as served on jury duty for his country. But it's really not that easy to say because anyone remotely affiliated with the military could easily beat me up, and I'm listed in the phone book.
"Only stupid non rich people go into the military...but they could beat me up."
a tad bit of self depricating humor to deflect the hatred of troops in this bit.
I'm not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War, but we shouldn't be celebrating people for doing something we don't think was a good idea. All I'm asking is that we give our returning soldiers what they need: hospitals, pensions, mental health and a safe, immediate return. But, please, no parades.
You are evil for fighting in CHimpy Mchitlerburton's war. But you'll be crazy for doing it so we'll pay for it
so smarmy
Seriously, the traffic is insufferable.
Much like reading your article
Love;
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
We reckon it was pirates
hmmmmm No CSI: Paris in out future
Hey maybe some one might have asked a forensic anthropologist there
the title is a quote from the French police officer which sounds incredibly funny to me
The skeleton of a woman in her 30s was found during an exceptionally low tide in December 2003 near the seaside Brittany town of Plouezoc'h. A long gash in the skull convinced investigators she was killed with a hatchet or other sharp implement.
Police ploughed through missing persons' files to no avail. A theory that the woman was the wife of a Normandy doctor who disappeared with his family in a famous 1999 case was dismissed after DNA tests.
Hey maybe some one might have asked a forensic anthropologist there
the title is a quote from the French police officer which sounds incredibly funny to me
Hmmm whats this now?
Democrats and Andrew Sullivan seem to say the US is torturing people.... Well turns out Not so much. Now the Us is giving them over to countries who do torture (something we've been doing since the 20th century i might add)
So the big "scandal du jour" was a farce
wonder if anyone is going to dial that back?
But Swiss senator Dick Marty said there was no formal evidence so far of the existence of clandestine detention centers in Romania or Poland as alleged by the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
"There is a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the existence of a system of 'relocation' or 'outsourcing' of torture," Marty said in a report presented to the Council of Europe, the human rights watchdog investigating the alleged secret prisons.
The report said more than 100 terror suspects may have been transferred to countries where they faced torture or ill treatment in recent years.
So the big "scandal du jour" was a farce
wonder if anyone is going to dial that back?
CBS news surprises me
They sum up the Democrats problem in 2006 pretty clearly here
That is some good insight right there
The Republican soundbite hasn't changed since September, 2001; the Democrats have a new mantra with every news cycle. The Republicans have more dollars than the Democrats. Those are facts. My advice to Democrats is simple: face the facts.
That is some good insight right there
Monday, January 23, 2006
More amusing moments of Irony
Newsmax is there
gee Howard... ya didn't think they'd come after you on Satelite huh
Xm+Sirus is a waste of money and soon will no longer be the land of "free" Radio because people like stern made that their Raison D'etre
good job their
Now, in what must be a painful irony for Stern, Sirius executives are developing an internal document that will set boundaries for his show.
Stern’s new show is also being broadcast with a time-delay that facilitates censoring, the New York Post reports.
It’s not clear if Stern knew he would be subject to guidelines regarding indecency when he signed on with Sirius, according to the Post.
gee Howard... ya didn't think they'd come after you on Satelite huh
Xm+Sirus is a waste of money and soon will no longer be the land of "free" Radio because people like stern made that their Raison D'etre
good job their
Dear Ford Motor Company
I see here you guys are going to cut some more jobs.
If cutting Job's was the key to getting the American auto industry humming then the Big Three would be unstoppable juggernauts.
The Problem is you haven't for a while made cars people want to buy.
Maybe you should spend more time fixing -that- problem
If cutting Job's was the key to getting the American auto industry humming then the Big Three would be unstoppable juggernauts.
The Problem is you haven't for a while made cars people want to buy.
Maybe you should spend more time fixing -that- problem
A good point on Palestinian Terror
Out of Canada? First Harper becoming a new PM, now this.... the mind boggles.
Is Canada becoming cool?
Yet in this ritualized reporting, journalists once again missed the real story, which is much messier, confusing, harder to photograph and difficult to report. The real headlines should inform readers that the Palestinian Authority is disintegrating, Palestinian political culture is imploding, Palestinians are turning on one another. While the struggle among suicide bombers, Israeli soldiers, and the civilians caught in the crossfire has a clear script, the multi-dimensional civil war among rival Palestinian factions has no clear story line.
Imagine the reaction had Israeli mobs murdered two Egyptian soldiers on the Gaza border, murdered Yasser Arafat's cousin in his own home, or trashed the house of the Palestinian interior minister. Try to envision what would happen if there existed a group of Israeli terrorists with a long track record of bloody attacks, ideologically committed to negating Palestinian rights and addicted to anti-Islamic rhetoric, running for the Israeli parliament, let alone poised to win a serious share of the vote.
Headlines would blare. CNN, BBC, and CBC would file special reports with fancy graphics. The United Nations, the European Union, and most of the nations around the world would condemn Israel for its anti-Palestinian brutality. Jews themselves would wring their hands, pound their hearts, and slap their foreheads worrying about what their people had wrought.
Instead, the power of Hamas, despite its lethal ideology, is growing in the Palestinian territories. People barely remember that Palestinian gunmen in Gaza shot and killed 65-year-old Moussa Arafat after storming his home in September, and a sustained internet search did not uncover the names of the two Egyptian soldiers killed and the 30 others wounded when hundreds of Palestinians mobbed the Rafah crossing, egged on by about 30 armed men from the supposedly mainstream al-Aksa Brigade.
According to Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly On Line, some Egyptians did mutter about the double standard. Abbas El-Tarabily, editor-in-chief of the opposition daily Al-Wafd wrote that, "if the two Egyptian victims had been killed by the Israelis, strikes would have taken place across Egypt and the whole issue might have been taken up with the UN Security Council."
Is Canada becoming cool?
T.V Networks are evil
I hated friends.... i HATED friends. I never watched it in originals but the reruns of friends on Channel 44 down here have made tv just before the "prime time" almost unwatchable.....
but they were over or so I thought
But who is to blame? Jennifer Aniston. She was the loan hold out which makes me wonder after losing Brad if this isn't some attempt at self destruction
......sigh......
but they were over or so I thought
In a secret meeting before Christmas, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry reportedly agreed a $5 million apiece deal with NBC bosses in Los Angeles.
Scriptwriters have already started penning lines for the four double episodes, which are due to air next year.
But who is to blame? Jennifer Aniston. She was the loan hold out which makes me wonder after losing Brad if this isn't some attempt at self destruction
......sigh......
stuff from 101 zen stories yet again
If You Love, Love Openly
Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master.
Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her. One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.
Eshun did not reply. The following day the master gave a lecture to the group, and when it was over, Eshun arose. Addressing the one who had written her, she said: "If you really love me so much, come and embrace me now."
Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master.
Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her. One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.
Eshun did not reply. The following day the master gave a lecture to the group, and when it was over, Eshun arose. Addressing the one who had written her, she said: "If you really love me so much, come and embrace me now."
Michael Moore with the unintentional Irony Moment
In the end of the Canadian election cycle Michael Moore jumps in. First of all Michael with your run-in during the 2004 and 2000 elections as past history MAYBE this isn't a good thing for you to do. But here is where it get un-intentionally Ironic.
Ok the Liberal Party has been running adds saying that Stephen Harper is to much like.....AMERICANS...... and its not been working. In fact its been utterly well failing.
so you a foriegner come in and make this comments after Canadian politicians have done so... doesn't that seem like something and Ignorant American will do?
You are now unintentionally a punchline in one of your own jokes
"A man running the nation to the south of you is hoping you can lend him a hand by picking Stephen Harper, because he's a man who shares his world view. Do you want to help George Bush by turning Canada into his latest conquest?" Moore asked.
"Far be it from me, as an American, to suggest what you should do," he added. "I hope you don't feel this appeal of mine is too intrusive, but I just couldn't sit by, as your friend, and say nothing."
Ok the Liberal Party has been running adds saying that Stephen Harper is to much like.....AMERICANS...... and its not been working. In fact its been utterly well failing.
so you a foriegner come in and make this comments after Canadian politicians have done so... doesn't that seem like something and Ignorant American will do?
You are now unintentionally a punchline in one of your own jokes
Sunday, January 22, 2006
My Buddy Ken Kerns is predicting the Canuk Election
Over here on his blog. I pretty much agree with him 100% here. Where i disagree..
I think this election is about how awful-incompetent the Liberal party Is and... I'd be surprised if Harper pulls off a majority government.
3) The majority/minority status of a Harper government will hinge on the scale of the Conservative breakthrough in rural Quebec and Toronto.
I think this election is about how awful-incompetent the Liberal party Is and... I'd be surprised if Harper pulls off a majority government.
Weird things that happened when I was driving to Sarasota
On my way down I-75 a car was passing me. And in the words of Jerry Seinfeld they were driving "Low and Slow". Guy got just far enough for me to be in his blind spot and started to merge. I then applied my hand judicously to Mr. Horn. Some F-Bombs and possibly some C-S words may have been dropped. I was hazy as I thought some old timer was going to knock me dead into a ditch on the side of the road.
Who watched this whole scene? a Florida Highway Patrol Officer...Isn't improper passing like that a ticketable offense?
Who watched this whole scene? a Florida Highway Patrol Officer...Isn't improper passing like that a ticketable offense?
I like Barry over at enrevanche
Though we disagree on outsourcing some one ( I think Barry's perspective is skewed a bit due to his job and all that... but heck I could be wrong.) However I really like it when his knowledge on an issue and what I always suspected but could never sink my teeth into come to a crossroads. Here he shows a selection from a buisness week article. Seems Outsources are now taking the Scrouge McDuck principle "Work Smarter, not Harder."
The labor savings are peanuts in the big picture and always have been. But making companies do buisness -better- thats the key.
Many executives are discovering offshoring is really about corporate growth, making better use of skilled U.S. staff, and even job creation in the U.S., not just cheap wages abroad. True, the labor savings from global sourcing can still be substantial. But it's peanuts compared to the enormous gains in efficiency, productivity, quality, and revenues that can be achieved by fully leveraging offshore talent.
The labor savings are peanuts in the big picture and always have been. But making companies do buisness -better- thats the key.
What the Deuce?
Ummmm...What?
So people who go to trendy restaurants are now...Going to underground restaurants ran by many of the same people....
can some one explain this to me?
What this unlicensed, underground restaurant does have is a pit bull named Shinobi, a cramped kitchen with appliances in various states of disrepair and a gregarious host named Jeremy Townsend who, in his untucked shirt and jeans, will dance with his guests, jam on his harmonica and invite patrons for a post-dessert nightcap at a nearby bar.
Townsend is not alone in looking for new ways to captivate a public who, having made Zagat a household name, are finding its food savvy turn into ennui.
Culinary speakeasies like Ghetto Gourmet are popping up in cities in the Bay Area and beyond, across the country and around the world.
So people who go to trendy restaurants are now...Going to underground restaurants ran by many of the same people....
can some one explain this to me?
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Heading back to the realm of Tampa
Got some stuff to blog about when I hit my homestead north of here.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Watching 20/20 on Self Made man
Watching her talking about Male and Female sexuality. Its very intresting having her talk about datying women. They show this woman in a pick up situation with the very clear "god get this loser away from me" face on. and how the woman does a complete 180 when she gets let in on the secret and apologises for the Brush off and trying to trick him out of hitting on her.
Its intresting that she would respect Nora and not Ned.
Her talk about how the dates were rarely fun as she had to spend so much time proving herself for women.
I do think she is off base with strip clubs but this wasn't an uber focused study and didn't talk about how a lot of men don't like strippers.
Also intrestingly her saying women really didn't want a "Woman in a man's body".
definately would like to get my paws on this book.
Its intresting that she would respect Nora and not Ned.
Her talk about how the dates were rarely fun as she had to spend so much time proving herself for women.
I do think she is off base with strip clubs but this wasn't an uber focused study and didn't talk about how a lot of men don't like strippers.
Also intrestingly her saying women really didn't want a "Woman in a man's body".
definately would like to get my paws on this book.
When federal studies go wrong
Prison Rape a myth? Some one got the federal government to run a study which makes that claim.
He said women who cry rape are usually lying and looking for a transfer, money or publicity.
Yeah that claim would be pretty bogus... but when homosexuality comes into play for some reason not only does the ludicrousness of that staement not come into play nor does some of the following basic questions:
Are they lying? Which is better to know you got some prison man-lovin willingly or you got some prison man-loving cause it was forced on you. Because in prison when matters are set up around dominance and respect Rape would be a death sentance in prison. Also is it better to be a willing partner or an unwilling one?
Not in scientific form, not reviewed, and didn't meet with anyone who claimed to be victimized. and it cost the Federal government nearly a million dollars.
But here folks comes the money shot....
I am hoping he gets strung up for federal fraud charges.
He said inmates who cry rape are usually lying and looking for a transfer, money or publicity.
``Inmates say it may happen, but the conditions under which it happens are rare,'' Fleisher said. ``It is unlikely all the stars are going to align properly for this to happen, particularly in prisons today. You're going to get caught.''
The two-year study, commissioned by the U.S. Justice Department for $939,233, has come under withering attack from other experts. The department has not endorsed the study, saying Fleisher has yet to turn over his data for closer examination.
He said women who cry rape are usually lying and looking for a transfer, money or publicity.
Yeah that claim would be pretty bogus... but when homosexuality comes into play for some reason not only does the ludicrousness of that staement not come into play nor does some of the following basic questions:
Are they lying? Which is better to know you got some prison man-lovin willingly or you got some prison man-loving cause it was forced on you. Because in prison when matters are set up around dominance and respect Rape would be a death sentance in prison. Also is it better to be a willing partner or an unwilling one?
Cindy Struckman-Johnson, professor of psychology at the University of South Dakota and one of nine commission members, said Fleisher's 155-page study is not in scientific form. She said there is no literature review, no raw data, and no in-depth explanation of his subjects or research methods.
Fleisher said he spent more than 700 hours interviewing 564 randomly chosen inmates at dozens of institutions across the country. He said he never met anyone who claimed to be a victim of sexual violence.
He said his findings were no surprise to him, though he admitted his conclusion ``flies in the face of what everyone believes.''
Not in scientific form, not reviewed, and didn't meet with anyone who claimed to be victimized. and it cost the Federal government nearly a million dollars.
But here folks comes the money shot....
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Justice Department official familiar with the findings said that the department is trying to determine whether the conclusions are supported by the data, but that Fleisher has not shown his evidence to anyone.
I am hoping he gets strung up for federal fraud charges.
Dear Hildabeast;
Dear Mdme. Clinton;
Some of us might have noticed you were making some rather disparaging comments about the President's policies towards the nation of Iran. When you do that you want to make sure little embarassing things like this aren't in your campaign finance file. This is especially more embarassing as the gov'ment thanks to the pressure of folks like yourself cares again about who sends money and where it goes.
But a Republican challenger is indeed using this for the political hay its worth.
More reasons why the woman won't be running for President
Some of us might have noticed you were making some rather disparaging comments about the President's policies towards the nation of Iran. When you do that you want to make sure little embarassing things like this aren't in your campaign finance file. This is especially more embarassing as the gov'ment thanks to the pressure of folks like yourself cares again about who sends money and where it goes.
Wealthy businessmen Hassan Nemazee and Faraj Aalaei are associated with the American Iranian Council, a pro-regime anti-sanctions group. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Namazee has contributed $4,000 to Clinton's reelection while Aalaei has given $1,000.
The press describes their lobby this way "the American-Iranian Council [AIC], a pro-regime lobbying group trying to get Congress and the Bush administration to lift the trade embargo on Iran." (Insight, 3/25/04)
Hillary Clinton is also raising money from Gati Kashani, another figure linked with the Mullahs.
But a Republican challenger is indeed using this for the political hay its worth.
John Spencer, the former Yonkers Mayor and Vietnam combat veteran who will challenge Senator Clinton in November, made the following statement. "Senator Clinton voted against the very munitions necessary to avoid a nuclear confrontation with Iran while at the same time accepting money from supporters of the Iranian Mullahs. Senator Clinton lacks the credibility to keep New York safe and she should return this tainted money."
More reasons why the woman won't be running for President
For those folks who fear the Red Dragon
You should look at this. Much like Japan having the prime minister declaring Americans "Fat and Lazy" while their labor ministry spoke of the American worker as handily more efficent then the Japanese workers their is an issue on "face" in oriental culture.
So 2/3rds of the Chinese people are having their land seized and an inability to get any basic goods and services.....
This wouldn'tbe anything like oooooh the revolution Mao started to overthrow the government in China.
But the most serious aspect of this is it may impact China's ability to feed its people.
A Nation that loses its ability to feed its people reasonably is a nation one should worry about. When it consumes resources rapidly beyond their ability to control it... this is problematic.
China has a potential time bomb of their own in the near future.
Wen's warning underscored rising concerns over lagging economic growth in rural China, home to at least two of every three Chinese. Stagnating rural incomes have created an underclass of impoverished farmers lacking affordable access to basic public services such as health care and education.
One of the greatest threats to stability stems from seizures of farmland for property development and other construction projects, Wen said the text of a speech carried in major state-run newspapers.
Disputes over compensation for land seizures have provoked thousands of protests among farmers outraged over the loss of what they view as their most fundamental asset. Incomes in rural areas average about $300 a year, compared with urban incomes of $1,000.
So 2/3rds of the Chinese people are having their land seized and an inability to get any basic goods and services.....
This wouldn'tbe anything like oooooh the revolution Mao started to overthrow the government in China.
But the most serious aspect of this is it may impact China's ability to feed its people.
Wen warned that such problems threaten China's ability to feed its 1.3 billion people, despite bumper harvests that raised grain production to an estimated record 484 million tons last year.
Production this year could suffer from unstable grain prices, unpredictable climate and shrinking arable land, Wen warned. He called for keeping grain prices steady, while curbing "excessive" increases in the prices of farming materials, such as fuel, fertilizer and seeds.
A Nation that loses its ability to feed its people reasonably is a nation one should worry about. When it consumes resources rapidly beyond their ability to control it... this is problematic.
China has a potential time bomb of their own in the near future.
Why Larry isn't Liberal
(Hat tip to California Conservative)
Here it is. I am a republican with strong libertarian leanings. I will even dare to speak that in my formative political years Ayn Rand and Rush Limbaugh were influences on me. ( though I also went for now nationally syndicated “The Lionel Show” with a more middle to lefter democrat). But I changed from more or less vaguely groping at my mother and grandfathers more standard union democrat thoughts because I wasn’t politically formed earlier. As a freshman in High School I was even in YD. But here is a real example of why I can’t be part of the Democratic Party as it is today.
And I know some of you are going to say “Code Pink isn’t the Democratic party”. I am going into the two very important reasons you are wrong. FDR transformed the Democratic Party into an alliance of groups, and this was redone in 72 by George McGovern. This is a partnership for them, and they expect something to come along. While a contrived relationship happens with the religious right groups they don’t own the Republican Party. Which is why when their issues come up the party more often then not pats them on the head “Sorry old bean” they say “better luck next time”. The religious right would be more effective if they followed the Ralph Reed Model vs. the Gary Bauer model.
The next reason is look at the laws that come out in San FranFreako. Code pink is entirely likely to be the voice of the bay state democrats. Shared ideology/values and all that…. In a shared mother tongue by both of them in what passes for a political debate these days.
I can often agree with some of the views of social ills in this country and in the world with these folks, but I fundamentally disagree with their way to address the social ills they see. And that’s what strikes me; this is why you are much more likely as a matter of default to see me voting for a republican, a libertarian, or Mickey Mouse then a Democrat. Stuff like this happens, and the folks in power don’t reign it in. they aren’t adult or fully formed in the political debate so they really and truly aren’t meant for adult thought.
"I think every woman has noticed them,'' said Suzanne "Sam" Joi, a member of Code Pink, a social justice and anti-war group. "I couldn't believe BART would allow something like this. Why are they doing this?''
And yes, I will be getting into what our new overlords want us to allow in a moment but just let that sit with you.
"They're calling for the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, which will lead to the slaughter of women,'' said Elizabeth Creely of the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, referring to fears of unsafe, back-alley abortions if the procedure were illegal. "The Catholic Church is very strong here and is working hard to erode reproductive rights.''
Yes we can all see how their policies on homosexuality has influenced San Francisco….. But again, the first one was shocked that this would be allowed. The second voice speaks of promoting fear.
And how have the good folks of the Bay area reacted?
"The defacement has taken to religious epithets, profanity, everything you can think of,'' she said. A billboard at the MacArthur station in Oakland was torn to shreds, she said, and mini essays were written on others.
So folks are your palates wetted for what the ads say?
The campaign features two ads, each slickly produced and featuring a blurry photograph of a woman against a turquoise background. One ad, headlined "9 months" in large letters, features nine months of a calendar and reads: "Because of Roe vs. Wade, this is the amount of time the Supreme Court says it's legal to have an abortion."
The other contains the message: "The Supreme Court says you can choose: after the heart starts beating, after its arms and legs appear, after all organs are present, after the sex is apparent, after it sucks its thumb, after it responds to sounds, after it could survive outside the womb.''
Both ads conclude with the tagline "Abortion: Have we gone too far?''
Are these ads fully honest… no they are ads. Do these ads have a good point: Certainly they do. Yet the discourse is such that one class of people wants to deny these words speech in the public fora. It’s not a hate speech. It’s not N-Word this, or some other epitaph. This speaks volumes to the beliefs of these people. They say they want to ban hate speech because its harmful, but by their actions we see they want to ban hate speech because –they- find it disagreeable and hateful. They want a European sensibility where the state can restrain the wild and wooly free speech rights of the plebs. Because they don’t agree with this speech, because they feel it is wrong they feel; entitled to deface the property of others, to destroy government property, and to come to the cusp of violence.
Time and time again I see these ideas expressed in such a way that while the idea is wrong, those who believe it show there is a real different reasoning behind WHY they believe it.
This is why I find myself on the “right” end of the poorly thought out American political spectrum. Because the political forces that agree with this foolishness by and large don’t exist there. And those that do are marginal figures, at best.
Whereas in the heart of the mainstream political “left” the scions and lions of the party warmly embraces these folks. And that’s what makes them such a scary thing to me.
Here it is. I am a republican with strong libertarian leanings. I will even dare to speak that in my formative political years Ayn Rand and Rush Limbaugh were influences on me. ( though I also went for now nationally syndicated “The Lionel Show” with a more middle to lefter democrat). But I changed from more or less vaguely groping at my mother and grandfathers more standard union democrat thoughts because I wasn’t politically formed earlier. As a freshman in High School I was even in YD. But here is a real example of why I can’t be part of the Democratic Party as it is today.
And I know some of you are going to say “Code Pink isn’t the Democratic party”. I am going into the two very important reasons you are wrong. FDR transformed the Democratic Party into an alliance of groups, and this was redone in 72 by George McGovern. This is a partnership for them, and they expect something to come along. While a contrived relationship happens with the religious right groups they don’t own the Republican Party. Which is why when their issues come up the party more often then not pats them on the head “Sorry old bean” they say “better luck next time”. The religious right would be more effective if they followed the Ralph Reed Model vs. the Gary Bauer model.
The next reason is look at the laws that come out in San FranFreako. Code pink is entirely likely to be the voice of the bay state democrats. Shared ideology/values and all that…. In a shared mother tongue by both of them in what passes for a political debate these days.
I can often agree with some of the views of social ills in this country and in the world with these folks, but I fundamentally disagree with their way to address the social ills they see. And that’s what strikes me; this is why you are much more likely as a matter of default to see me voting for a republican, a libertarian, or Mickey Mouse then a Democrat. Stuff like this happens, and the folks in power don’t reign it in. they aren’t adult or fully formed in the political debate so they really and truly aren’t meant for adult thought.
"I think every woman has noticed them,'' said Suzanne "Sam" Joi, a member of Code Pink, a social justice and anti-war group. "I couldn't believe BART would allow something like this. Why are they doing this?''
And yes, I will be getting into what our new overlords want us to allow in a moment but just let that sit with you.
"They're calling for the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, which will lead to the slaughter of women,'' said Elizabeth Creely of the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, referring to fears of unsafe, back-alley abortions if the procedure were illegal. "The Catholic Church is very strong here and is working hard to erode reproductive rights.''
Yes we can all see how their policies on homosexuality has influenced San Francisco….. But again, the first one was shocked that this would be allowed. The second voice speaks of promoting fear.
And how have the good folks of the Bay area reacted?
"The defacement has taken to religious epithets, profanity, everything you can think of,'' she said. A billboard at the MacArthur station in Oakland was torn to shreds, she said, and mini essays were written on others.
So folks are your palates wetted for what the ads say?
The campaign features two ads, each slickly produced and featuring a blurry photograph of a woman against a turquoise background. One ad, headlined "9 months" in large letters, features nine months of a calendar and reads: "Because of Roe vs. Wade, this is the amount of time the Supreme Court says it's legal to have an abortion."
The other contains the message: "The Supreme Court says you can choose: after the heart starts beating, after its arms and legs appear, after all organs are present, after the sex is apparent, after it sucks its thumb, after it responds to sounds, after it could survive outside the womb.''
Both ads conclude with the tagline "Abortion: Have we gone too far?''
Are these ads fully honest… no they are ads. Do these ads have a good point: Certainly they do. Yet the discourse is such that one class of people wants to deny these words speech in the public fora. It’s not a hate speech. It’s not N-Word this, or some other epitaph. This speaks volumes to the beliefs of these people. They say they want to ban hate speech because its harmful, but by their actions we see they want to ban hate speech because –they- find it disagreeable and hateful. They want a European sensibility where the state can restrain the wild and wooly free speech rights of the plebs. Because they don’t agree with this speech, because they feel it is wrong they feel; entitled to deface the property of others, to destroy government property, and to come to the cusp of violence.
Time and time again I see these ideas expressed in such a way that while the idea is wrong, those who believe it show there is a real different reasoning behind WHY they believe it.
This is why I find myself on the “right” end of the poorly thought out American political spectrum. Because the political forces that agree with this foolishness by and large don’t exist there. And those that do are marginal figures, at best.
Whereas in the heart of the mainstream political “left” the scions and lions of the party warmly embraces these folks. And that’s what makes them such a scary thing to me.
Thanks to Barry over at Enrevanche
For his post hear showed me two things about one of my favorite bits of the great right way
"The Internet is for porn" as performed by charecters in World of Warcraft
and here is the original cast with a slice of "The Internet is for Porn"
and now.... you can find "Larry Bernard Porn" as a google search term
I'm not just typing Porn or Pornography to up my google search.... stop looking at that ;-)
"The Internet is for porn" as performed by charecters in World of Warcraft
and here is the original cast with a slice of "The Internet is for Porn"
and now.... you can find "Larry Bernard Porn" as a google search term
I'm not just typing Porn or Pornography to up my google search.... stop looking at that ;-)
Another 101 Zen Story
Kasan Sweat
Kasan was asked to officiate at the funeral of a provincial lord.
He had never met lords and nobles before so he was nervous. When the ceremony started, Kasan sweat.
Afterwards, when he had returned, he gathered his pupils together. Kasan confessed that he was not yet qualified to be a teacher for he lacked the sameness of bearing in the world of fame that he possessed in the secluded temple. Then Kasan resigned and became a pupil of another master. Eight years later he returned to his former pupils, enlightened.
Kasan was asked to officiate at the funeral of a provincial lord.
He had never met lords and nobles before so he was nervous. When the ceremony started, Kasan sweat.
Afterwards, when he had returned, he gathered his pupils together. Kasan confessed that he was not yet qualified to be a teacher for he lacked the sameness of bearing in the world of fame that he possessed in the secluded temple. Then Kasan resigned and became a pupil of another master. Eight years later he returned to his former pupils, enlightened.
Ed Koch: Giving me respect again for professional politicos
A lot of folks who are much more active into the howtos and whyfors of American political process tell me the Democrats have a shot at taking majority in congress. I tell them that they don't. And while he may not agree with me entirely Ed Koch see's much of what I see.
If you won't play to win, if you play to make the other guy lose and be fearful of losing yourself... you aren't going to get the voters behind you. It just doesn't get clearer then that.
The expectation that Democrats would take back the House, Senate or both in this year's general election diminishes with each passing day, and it is not difficult to understand why. The American public does not want to see the president demeaned or humbled before the world. They expect and demand that simple courtesy be afforded that office. In philosophy, the country is much closer to George W. Bush than it is to Ted Kennedy. A sane and wise voice is that of liberal Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)who in response to the recent Alito confirmation hearings said, "George Bush won the election. If you don't like it, you better win elections." In his simple and direct statement, he is absolutely right. In a commercial for brokerage firm Smith Barney, John Houseman once said, "They make money the old fashioned way…they earn it." George W. Bush was reelected the old fashioned way…he earned it through hard work and on the merits.
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The failure of John Kerry early on in his presidential campaign to denounce Whoopi Goldberg for her use of vile and obscene attacks on President Bush at Kerry's Radio City Music Hall fundraiser presaged his ultimate defeat. Why? Because it showed he was unable to stand up and denounce those who engage in conduct unacceptable to the American public, for fear of losing a single vote.
In the words of Pete Seeger, "Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?"
If you won't play to win, if you play to make the other guy lose and be fearful of losing yourself... you aren't going to get the voters behind you. It just doesn't get clearer then that.
Google takes round I
In Google V Government.
For those of you who don't know here is the gist. The government put up some laws to try to fight pornographic access by kids. the enforcement got tossed out but the law itself wasn't ruled unconstitutional...just how it was being put into force.
So the guvment needed data about online porn and how it was being used. So the guvment asked google for it....unfortunately they asked by saying "or else"
now instead of the government going to the search engine industry and trying to reach consensus on the issue (even under threat of possible action such as this) the Bush administration decided to go in lawyers blazing.
That was UTTERLY idiotic. Google is a buisness as is Yahoo, MSN, and the like. By sitting down with those buisness and talking about this as a way they can help not only their customers, but to keep uncle regulation out of the internet the federal government probably could have gotten more relevant information.
guess no one told Alberto Gonzales you can get more flies with honey then a kick in the crotch.
For those of you who don't know here is the gist. The government put up some laws to try to fight pornographic access by kids. the enforcement got tossed out but the law itself wasn't ruled unconstitutional...just how it was being put into force.
So the guvment needed data about online porn and how it was being used. So the guvment asked google for it....unfortunately they asked by saying "or else"
The government wants a list of all requests entered into Google's search engine during a single week - a breakdown that could span tens of millions of queries. In addition, it seeks one million randomly selected Web addresses from various Google databases.
The government says the information is vital to restore online child protection laws that have been struck down by the Supreme Court.
now instead of the government going to the search engine industry and trying to reach consensus on the issue (even under threat of possible action such as this) the Bush administration decided to go in lawyers blazing.
That was UTTERLY idiotic. Google is a buisness as is Yahoo, MSN, and the like. By sitting down with those buisness and talking about this as a way they can help not only their customers, but to keep uncle regulation out of the internet the federal government probably could have gotten more relevant information.
guess no one told Alberto Gonzales you can get more flies with honey then a kick in the crotch.
Ya know what I find funny
I find the Situation with John Walker Lindh very funny. He becomes part of a religious group, and fights for a religous regime which executes homosexuals as a matter of policy. Yet his father, a homosexual, continues to treat this like his joining some weird flakey religous group.
he went to fight for a religous regime that oppressed people in ways that are extremely brutal, yet whose leaders would often do things (drink, smoke, womanize) that they would have lesser folk stoned for.
I fail to see any of that which shows a decent or honorable charecter.
you see some times I think Michael Savage is to extreme when he says liberalism is a mental disorder.
In the case of Frank Lindh.... I'd say it is spot on
"In simple terms, this is the story of a decent and honorable young man embarked on a spiritual quest," said Frank Lindh, swallowing back tears at times during a speech at the Commonwealth Club, a nonprofit organization.
he went to fight for a religous regime that oppressed people in ways that are extremely brutal, yet whose leaders would often do things (drink, smoke, womanize) that they would have lesser folk stoned for.
I fail to see any of that which shows a decent or honorable charecter.
Until now, his parents have mostly maintained a public silence about the case, hoping to avoid a media barrage that could be detrimental to their son. But on Thursday Frank Lindh shared baby pictures and other photos of his son during the presentation and said he is proud of his child.
you see some times I think Michael Savage is to extreme when he says liberalism is a mental disorder.
In the case of Frank Lindh.... I'd say it is spot on
Thursday, January 19, 2006
This is good....sort of?
She's fought Gays in the library. wanted to turn the county dry. Made a special law to try to do what the city of tampa got beat at in court again and again when it came down to shutting Redner down.
Ronda Storms Embarassment to Southern Baptists and Republicans is running for the State Senate.
IF I could vote in her district not even god all mighty could convince me to vote for her.
Ronda Storms Embarassment to Southern Baptists and Republicans is running for the State Senate.
IF I could vote in her district not even god all mighty could convince me to vote for her.
another 101 zen stories moment
Killing
Gasan instructed his adherents one day: "Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right. It is good to protect even animals and insects. But what about those persons who kill time, what about those who are destroying wealth, and those who destroy political economy? We should not overlook them. Furthermore, what of the one who preaches without enlightenment? He is killing Buddhism."
Gasan instructed his adherents one day: "Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right. It is good to protect even animals and insects. But what about those persons who kill time, what about those who are destroying wealth, and those who destroy political economy? We should not overlook them. Furthermore, what of the one who preaches without enlightenment? He is killing Buddhism."
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Outsourcing going down with good computer networking
good old 1-800-FLOWERS has proven that American genius in buisness trumps stupid regulations in making "homesourcing" profitable.
I've said for years with the computer technology we have now...why do we need modern office buildings?
well seems I'm not the only one to think that. and with "Homesourcing" we now have a real oppertunity to help homeschooling and the rebirth of the American community
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"Homeshoring" takes off as moms and others provide an alternative to offshoring
Three years ago, when the offshoring debate was in full fury, the director of vendor relations at 1-800-FLOWERS.com ran a pilot project to see if the company should be taking advantage of the new labor arbitrage. Within weeks, the trial in India bombed. For the executive in charge, Lou Orsi, it was a reminder that customer service is as much about psychology as technology. Florists often double as condolence therapists, interior design coaches, and relationship strategists. "The folks were difficult to understand," says Orsi. "We were afraid that we would lose sales, and we couldn't risk that." The company also needed to pour on the labor during spikes like Valentine's Day. (When it came to answering customers' e-mails, though, the dazzling prose of the Indians -- many of them PhDs -- outshone that of the Americans, most of whom had gone only to high school. So Orsi left some of the e-mail jobs overseas).
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The phone work stayed in the U.S. But not just in brick-and-mortar call centers. Instead, Orsi looked for another way to cut costs. He soon realized he could capitalize on a different and far less controversial option: sending the jobs to a U.S. outfit that specializes in a new trend called homeshoring.
More and more, companies are moving customer service jobs out of high-overhead call centers and into what is possibly the lowest-overhead place in the U.S.: workers' homes. The savings are about more than just real estate, toilet paper, and coffee supplies. JetBlue Airways (JBLU ) is perhaps the most famous practitioner; all of its 1,400 reservation agents work from home. But they are employees. Most of the new homeshoring jobs are independent contractor positions offered by outsourcing companies. The agents are on the hook for their own health care, computer equipment, training -- even background checks.
Outsourced homeshoring jobs grew 20% last year, to 112,000 jobs, estimates tech-market researcher IDC, and will hit 330,000 by 2010. "Offshoring's underestimated sibling, homeshoring, is about to hit a growth spurt," says IDC analyst Stephen Loynd. Office Depot (ODP ), McKesson (MCK ), and J. Crew all use home agents. Homeshoring is less likely to risk the accent fatigue, cultural disconnection, and customer rage that offshoring can inspire. That's not to mention the mounting security fears (once your private data -- credit-card and Social Security numbers, medical and brokerage records -- go overseas, they're beyond the reach of U.S. law).
I've said for years with the computer technology we have now...why do we need modern office buildings?
well seems I'm not the only one to think that. and with "Homesourcing" we now have a real oppertunity to help homeschooling and the rebirth of the American community
Aussie News site explain something to me
Ok Paris Hilton babels on here.
Now then this is a great article but...would calling playboy to verify have killed you?
I mean I think seeing Paris Hilton Naked A'l'a playboy would make me blow chunks because the woman is fugly as heck. But some people are -crazy- that way....but wouldn't ya know...asking playboy have been good "Journalism"?
and HEY here is a thought..... maybe do some research to find out if she DID give her money to charity
but now... I know what your thinking...why am I such a doubting thomas well Paris has the answer for me as to why I don't believe her when she is talking
Thanks folks from Superficial.com
"They've asked me a million times," Hilton said.
"Hef has been after me since I was 17, and I got offered a lot of money.
"But I'll never do it."
Now then this is a great article but...would calling playboy to verify have killed you?
I mean I think seeing Paris Hilton Naked A'l'a playboy would make me blow chunks because the woman is fugly as heck. But some people are -crazy- that way....but wouldn't ya know...asking playboy have been good "Journalism"?
The 38-minute romp allegedly netted Solomon at least $8.7 million. Hilton also made a massive profit from the video and reportedly donated her share to charity.
and HEY here is a thought..... maybe do some research to find out if she DID give her money to charity
but now... I know what your thinking...why am I such a doubting thomas well Paris has the answer for me as to why I don't believe her when she is talking
the star replied: "Because I'm Paris Hilton."
Thanks folks from Superficial.com
I just went and took a look at the new Andrew Sullivan site
Here it is..... just so much better. It is hard to put into words just how hard the old site was on the eyes.
content is still Sully but at least it isn't painful on the eyes
content is still Sully but at least it isn't painful on the eyes
Europe is juuuuuuuuuust fine
Pay no attention to the Eurabia in the mirror.
Now why are our good friends the Dutch making a segregated school system? well... it shows that Dutch Society is not dealing well with the coming of Eurabia.
First association of the dutch school marm? they are bigoted. Now then as we've seen in previous stuff on the interweb some of this immigrant children have been disruptive and down right violent in class..... so making two seperate campuses... that is CLEARLY the way to solve this problem.
now what does the Pro-Immigrant side toss out? something really better.....well Not really.
So..... Lets force people into a situation where you can only get your kid into school by bringing your token muslim-immigrant friend with you.
Yes clearly THAT is an intelligent idea.
what is more intresting in this analysis from The Brussels Journal is just how serious a major anti-immigrant backlash could be and just how close it may be.
A school in Amsterdam has introduced separate entrances for white and coloured pupils. At the Rietlanden/8th Montessori school in the east end of Amsterdam there are two separate entrances 30 metres apart, one for native Dutch children and one for immigrants. The school authorities claim that this situation has nothing to do with racism because the school welcomes children from all ethnic groups. All it wants is for them to enter through different doors. The school constitutes a complex with two sections. One, the coloured section, is called “Rietlanden,” the other, the white section, “8th Montessori.”
Now why are our good friends the Dutch making a segregated school system? well... it shows that Dutch Society is not dealing well with the coming of Eurabia.
“For one reason or another our school had acquired a bad reputation,” headmistress Annemieke van der Groen says. “In such a case you can invest in quality as much as you like, but it is difficult to convince white parents to enroll their children here. If they come to have a look, they say ‘You know, with all these black children’ and enroll their children elsewhere.” Hence, the two entrances and different names for the same school.
First association of the dutch school marm? they are bigoted. Now then as we've seen in previous stuff on the interweb some of this immigrant children have been disruptive and down right violent in class..... so making two seperate campuses... that is CLEARLY the way to solve this problem.
now what does the Pro-Immigrant side toss out? something really better.....well Not really.
Local councillors Fatima Elatik and Ahmed Aboutaleb are not happy with the situation. They are in favour of mixed schools and suggest enforcing this by forbidding white parents from enrolling their child in a school unless they bring along a non-white couple with a child to enroll as well. Deputy headmistress Nelly Bruin of the Rietlanden school opposes such a measure: “What you will see then is that highly educated parents will bring along educated immigrants. You will end up with schools for uneducated immigrants and white trash. That is not what you would want either.”
So..... Lets force people into a situation where you can only get your kid into school by bringing your token muslim-immigrant friend with you.
Yes clearly THAT is an intelligent idea.
what is more intresting in this analysis from The Brussels Journal is just how serious a major anti-immigrant backlash could be and just how close it may be.
Update on the Vampire Governor
Seems that being oooooh an openly satanic vampire who advocates a strict pro-staking policy for various crimes may have some impact on your family life.
Now could it be because your husband is crazy people are coming after you?
which is also wrong -don't get me wrong- but I think crazy husband may be the more likely form of discrimination going on here.
However this statement is frighteningly vauge. First of all so long as you aren't a violent criminal, drug addict, or child molestor what DO you want some one to be with children in regards to being a Bus Driver....
Civil rights attorney Larry Leventhal says that if the district has “a good faith belief that being a Muslim involves a complex of actions that puts the children in jeopardy, perhaps they can” dismiss Carpenter.
Civil rights attorney Larry Leventhal says that if the district has “a good faith belief that being a Jew involves a complex of actions that puts the children in jeopardy, perhaps they can” dismiss Carpenter.
No no Mr. Civil rights attorney none of those three statements work
do the words "protected class" mean anything to you.
I think until we know more the #1 lesson is kids... please don't run for public office if you are a Satanic vampire who likes to impale people
Julie Carpenter says she was fired from her job as a school bus driver and her neighbors are requesting her eviction because of her religious beliefs as a self-proclaimed ‘witch’. Carpenter is the wife of Jonathon Sharkey, a ‘vampire’ who is campaigning for governor.
Now could it be because your husband is crazy people are coming after you?
which is also wrong -don't get me wrong- but I think crazy husband may be the more likely form of discrimination going on here.
The district says it can legally request her removal. “We have the right, that if we feel if somebody is not what we want them to be with children, or any other reason, all we have to do is let them know.”
However this statement is frighteningly vauge. First of all so long as you aren't a violent criminal, drug addict, or child molestor what DO you want some one to be with children in regards to being a Bus Driver....
Civil rights attorney Larry Leventhal says that if the district has “a good faith belief that being a witch involves a complex of actions that puts the children in jeopardy, perhaps they can” dismiss Carpenter.
Civil rights attorney Larry Leventhal says that if the district has “a good faith belief that being a Muslim involves a complex of actions that puts the children in jeopardy, perhaps they can” dismiss Carpenter.
Civil rights attorney Larry Leventhal says that if the district has “a good faith belief that being a Jew involves a complex of actions that puts the children in jeopardy, perhaps they can” dismiss Carpenter.
No no Mr. Civil rights attorney none of those three statements work
do the words "protected class" mean anything to you.
I think until we know more the #1 lesson is kids... please don't run for public office if you are a Satanic vampire who likes to impale people
Right Wing News has a poll
coming up on your top and bottom five choices for the GOP canidate for president.
Here is what I picked.
Most Desired
#1:Condoleeza Rice
#2:Tim Pawlenty
#3:Rudy Giuliani
#4:Tom Tancredo
#5:Newt Gingrich
Least desired
#1: John McCain
#2:Chuck Hagel
#3: Mitt Romney
#4:Bill Frist
#5:George Pataki
Here is what I picked.
Most Desired
#1:Condoleeza Rice
#2:Tim Pawlenty
#3:Rudy Giuliani
#4:Tom Tancredo
#5:Newt Gingrich
Least desired
#1: John McCain
#2:Chuck Hagel
#3: Mitt Romney
#4:Bill Frist
#5:George Pataki
THOU ART LIGHT, AHURA MAZDA
THOU ART LIGHT, AHURA MAZDA
Thou art light, Ahura Mazda. Where thou art, there is light. Void of thee all is darkness.
Thou didst create light and bathe the heavens in the light of the sun. Thou didst fill the earth with light, thou didst cover the sky with thy light and thou didst illumine the world with a numberless silvern lamps at night.
Physical as is thy light, mental and moral and spiritual light is also thine, Ahura Mazda. Knowledge is the light of the mind, as truth is thy moral light and righteousness the light of the spirit. Light is life, when darkness is death and life is heaven, as darkness is hell. Everything good is light. I pray for light and more light and light again for my whole being from thee, 0 thou Fountain of light divine.
(Homage Unto Ahura Mazda, Dastur Dr. M.N. Dhalla, New York, 1941)
Thou art light, Ahura Mazda. Where thou art, there is light. Void of thee all is darkness.
Thou didst create light and bathe the heavens in the light of the sun. Thou didst fill the earth with light, thou didst cover the sky with thy light and thou didst illumine the world with a numberless silvern lamps at night.
Physical as is thy light, mental and moral and spiritual light is also thine, Ahura Mazda. Knowledge is the light of the mind, as truth is thy moral light and righteousness the light of the spirit. Light is life, when darkness is death and life is heaven, as darkness is hell. Everything good is light. I pray for light and more light and light again for my whole being from thee, 0 thou Fountain of light divine.
(Homage Unto Ahura Mazda, Dastur Dr. M.N. Dhalla, New York, 1941)
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A question if Gerald Ford Dies
I have to wonder if the Ford family would give him a broadcasted masonic funeral like Harry Truman had.
any Mason or non Mason out there which do you think his family should do?
any Mason or non Mason out there which do you think his family should do?
still another moment of zen from 101 Zen Stories
Buddha's Zen
Buddha said: "I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot. I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians. I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one's eyes. I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime. I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons."
Buddha said: "I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot. I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians. I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one's eyes. I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime. I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons."
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
DEVO has Just sold out
Every band sells out but sadly this shows just the depths of the selloutitude
DEVO was once a band that rebeled against the established order... guess it was only a matter of time.
For the project, all five members of Devo regrouped to re-record some of its best known songs, including the 1980 hit "Whip It!" with vocals provided by a quintet of kids. Also included will be "Cyclops" and "The Winner," the first new studio tracks from Devo in nearly two decades.
The "Devo 2.0" CD is due March 17 via Disney Sound. A companion DVD will feature animated and live action videos for each of the tracks directed by Devo bassist and co-founder Gerry Casale.
DEVO was once a band that rebeled against the established order... guess it was only a matter of time.
First big ruling of the Roberts Court.....
State's Rights I-Federal Power O
the Oregon Assisted Suicide law is constitutional as the state law trumped the federal law in this regard.
this surprises me as they ruled that Medical Marijuana grown in california and given to folks in California is some how "Interstate commerce."
and even if "Scalito" was on the court it still would have won. I definately see the next seat on the court -if- it comes up under a republican as the fight of the century from the political left.
I am happy with this ruling, just not happy with the law.
the Oregon Assisted Suicide law is constitutional as the state law trumped the federal law in this regard.
this surprises me as they ruled that Medical Marijuana grown in california and given to folks in California is some how "Interstate commerce."
and even if "Scalito" was on the court it still would have won. I definately see the next seat on the court -if- it comes up under a republican as the fight of the century from the political left.
I am happy with this ruling, just not happy with the law.
Curiouser and Curiouser
Anti American/Anti-Bush politicians in Australia-Failed.
Anti American/Anti-Bush Politicians in U.K-Failed.
Anti American/Anti-Bush Politicians in Germany-Failed
Anti American/Anti-Bush Politicians in Spain-Won
Anti-American/Anti-Bush Politicians in Canada.... Looks like they are going to lose
Anti American/Anti-Bush Politicians in France- Not looking so hot right now.
Pro-American politicians in Poland-Won
Seems domestically at home the forces of Anti-Bushism think being more like europe would have given them electoral success... but it sure as heck doesn't seem to be working to well for the Euro's now does it. Nor is it working in OZ......
Seems voters are more willing to vote for some one who stands for something then some one who stands against something.....
Anti American/Anti-Bush Politicians in U.K-Failed.
Anti American/Anti-Bush Politicians in Germany-Failed
Anti American/Anti-Bush Politicians in Spain-Won
Anti-American/Anti-Bush Politicians in Canada.... Looks like they are going to lose
Anti American/Anti-Bush Politicians in France- Not looking so hot right now.
Pro-American politicians in Poland-Won
Seems domestically at home the forces of Anti-Bushism think being more like europe would have given them electoral success... but it sure as heck doesn't seem to be working to well for the Euro's now does it. Nor is it working in OZ......
Seems voters are more willing to vote for some one who stands for something then some one who stands against something.....
Dear folks in the community of blog
The Major media is a type of organization that often attacks one person for being a particular type of tool (Pat Robertson anyone....) while ignoring it from others. I think we should avoid that sin by looking at these words from Ray Nagin and treat him as if he were Pat Robertson or others in the religous-right.
But first I am going to take a quote from the head of the Southern Baptist Convention here to showcase the foolishness of Ray Nagin.
But let us start with the tool of the hour.....
So on the subject of not taking care of yourselves... is it god who is mad at the fact you and your buddy Blanco didn't help the feds -send- you help? or that you didn't eminent domain the buses and the trains in the city to ship people out? Is that what you mean by taking care of ourselves, because most certainly I think that is something you have to get right with god yourself there ray.
So since god destroyed the city, and since god wants it to be black oh Prophet Ray Nagin maybe God sent the Hurricanes to kill whitey as we know more WHITE PEOPLE in New Orleans died then black people (relative to their percentage of the population) and less then half the victims were black.
So are you saying god is a bigot Ray? or maybe just you are a bigot?
I hope other people will follow my example and treat the words of Ray Nagin just like similar idiocy from Pat Robertson
But first I am going to take a quote from the head of the Southern Baptist Convention here to showcase the foolishness of Ray Nagin.
the Apostle Paul, declared, ‘O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?’ (Romans 11:33-34 KJV)
The Bible clearly reveals God to be a God of justice and righteousness as well as a God of forgiveness and mercy. Does God judge? Yes. However, whether or not a particular event is God’s judgment is something that the Apostle Paul has told us is ‘past finding out.’ No one ‘hath known the mind of the Lord.’
But let us start with the tool of the hour.....
Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.
"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.
"Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."
So on the subject of not taking care of yourselves... is it god who is mad at the fact you and your buddy Blanco didn't help the feds -send- you help? or that you didn't eminent domain the buses and the trains in the city to ship people out? Is that what you mean by taking care of ourselves, because most certainly I think that is something you have to get right with god yourself there ray.
"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans _ the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," the mayor said. "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."
So since god destroyed the city, and since god wants it to be black oh Prophet Ray Nagin maybe God sent the Hurricanes to kill whitey as we know more WHITE PEOPLE in New Orleans died then black people (relative to their percentage of the population) and less then half the victims were black.
So are you saying god is a bigot Ray? or maybe just you are a bigot?
I hope other people will follow my example and treat the words of Ray Nagin just like similar idiocy from Pat Robertson
Another Zen moment from 101 Zen Stories
Ten Successors
Zen pupils take a vow that even if they are killed by their teacher, they intend to learn Zen. Usually they cut a finger and seal their resolution with blood. In time the vow has become a mere formality, and for this reason the pupil who died by the hand of Ekido was made to appear a martyr.
Ekido had become a severe teacher. His pupils feared him. One of them on duty, striking the gong to tell the time of day, missed his beats when his eye was attracted by a beautiful girl passing the temple gate.
At that moment Ekido, who was directly behind him, hit him with a stick and the shock happened to kill him.
The pupil's guardian, hearing of the accident, went directly to Ekido. Knowing that he was not to blame he praised the master for his severe teaching. Ekido's attitude was just the same as if the pupil were still alive.
After this took place, he was able to produce under his guidance more than ten enlightened successors, a very unusual number.
Zen pupils take a vow that even if they are killed by their teacher, they intend to learn Zen. Usually they cut a finger and seal their resolution with blood. In time the vow has become a mere formality, and for this reason the pupil who died by the hand of Ekido was made to appear a martyr.
Ekido had become a severe teacher. His pupils feared him. One of them on duty, striking the gong to tell the time of day, missed his beats when his eye was attracted by a beautiful girl passing the temple gate.
At that moment Ekido, who was directly behind him, hit him with a stick and the shock happened to kill him.
The pupil's guardian, hearing of the accident, went directly to Ekido. Knowing that he was not to blame he praised the master for his severe teaching. Ekido's attitude was just the same as if the pupil were still alive.
After this took place, he was able to produce under his guidance more than ten enlightened successors, a very unusual number.
Who is being Presidential on MLK day
Is it this person?
Or is it this person
or how about this person
wait wait those last two are the same person
The First one is President GW Bush.
The second one is Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Which person do you think Martin Luther King would want representing his views?
"At the dawn of this new century, America can be proud of the progress we have made toward equality, but we all must recognize we have more to do," Bush said during a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "The reason to honor Martin Luther King is to remember his strength of character and his leadership, but also to remember the remaining work."
Or is it this person
“When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about..."
or how about this person
We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism we have incompetence I predict to you that this administration will go down on history as one of the worst that has ever governed out country
wait wait those last two are the same person
The First one is President GW Bush.
The second one is Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Which person do you think Martin Luther King would want representing his views?
Monday, January 16, 2006
Silly in scotland
In Scotland we have what may be one of the biggest sets of c-jones ever. Catholic schools have for some time in the “modern” period had tons and tons of non-catholic students. Why? Because those Catholics run a pretty good private school, while teaching their moral values. What have those people who normally denounced the Papists done with a generation of Catholic children from their loins? Well that kind of hasn’t happened….like EVER. So unlike Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Protestant, ETC. parents have and just had their children tolerate the catholic propaganda…. Muslims want to be treated different.
AN ISLAMIC campaign group has called for a Catholic primary school to be based on the Muslim faith.
The Campaign for Muslim Schools said 90 per cent of pupils at St Albert's Primary, in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, are Muslim, yet children are having to take part in Catholic rituals like saying the Lord's Prayer and attending mass.
And what of the kids of numerous other faiths who just well…. Ignored it? Well you see folks there are two other sides to this story.
Here is side #1
He said: "Clearly the parents of that area find a faith school, even if it is of another denomination, preferable to a secular one. But surely it should be possible for them to have one that is relevant to their own faith.
"To move towards this would be a fantastic example of good faith - in more ways than one - on the part of the Church."
They want the Catholic Church to pay for…and RUN an Islamic Religious School? Well now that doesn’t make much sense now does it? Well the Beeb of all things has the answer.
Muslim school campaign planned
Campaigners are set to launch a drive to establish state-funded Muslim schools in Scotland.
Huh… they want the state to fund one… again that’s odd but as we go further into the realm of the beeb we see the end reason why.
A private Islamic school in the city closed its doors earlier this year after a critical report by inspectors.
Learning and teaching at Iqra Academy, on the south side of Glasgow, was said to be of poor quality.
Yes seems they want others to run and fund their system because….(wait for it) they can’t do it themselves.
Truly shocking news here folks… Thanks to the mutants over at LGF for the hook up.
AN ISLAMIC campaign group has called for a Catholic primary school to be based on the Muslim faith.
The Campaign for Muslim Schools said 90 per cent of pupils at St Albert's Primary, in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, are Muslim, yet children are having to take part in Catholic rituals like saying the Lord's Prayer and attending mass.
And what of the kids of numerous other faiths who just well…. Ignored it? Well you see folks there are two other sides to this story.
Here is side #1
He said: "Clearly the parents of that area find a faith school, even if it is of another denomination, preferable to a secular one. But surely it should be possible for them to have one that is relevant to their own faith.
"To move towards this would be a fantastic example of good faith - in more ways than one - on the part of the Church."
They want the Catholic Church to pay for…and RUN an Islamic Religious School? Well now that doesn’t make much sense now does it? Well the Beeb of all things has the answer.
Muslim school campaign planned
Campaigners are set to launch a drive to establish state-funded Muslim schools in Scotland.
Huh… they want the state to fund one… again that’s odd but as we go further into the realm of the beeb we see the end reason why.
A private Islamic school in the city closed its doors earlier this year after a critical report by inspectors.
Learning and teaching at Iqra Academy, on the south side of Glasgow, was said to be of poor quality.
Yes seems they want others to run and fund their system because….(wait for it) they can’t do it themselves.
Truly shocking news here folks… Thanks to the mutants over at LGF for the hook up.
Outlaw the butter knives......
Yes folks when not ignoring the immigrant riots or Islamic radicalism in their country the media in the UK has found it shocking that you can buy a Samurai sword without strict government regulation....
Strangely though I didn't know they could legally sell them sharpened over in the UK like that.
a sharpened blade is a bit rarer to find stateside... but much like in Australia a criminal not willing to smuggle in a fire arm will use whats avalible so with that in mind
I propose a criminal ban. which as we all know from gun control bans will stop crimes immediately
And a day after Sidmouth man Bradley Moran admitted killing 33-year-old Matthew Stiling by stabbing him through the heart with the 18-inch blade of a samurai sword, an Echo reporter discovered how easy it is to buy one unchecked from an Exeter shop.
Strangely though I didn't know they could legally sell them sharpened over in the UK like that.
a sharpened blade is a bit rarer to find stateside... but much like in Australia a criminal not willing to smuggle in a fire arm will use whats avalible so with that in mind
I propose a criminal ban. which as we all know from gun control bans will stop crimes immediately
AFC/NFC Championship Picks
I pick the Steelers by 10 or more
and I pick the Seahawks by at least 14
But I am happy with either NFC team winning at this point
go NFC
and I pick the Seahawks by at least 14
But I am happy with either NFC team winning at this point
go NFC
From I Watch Stuff
More evidence Hollywood not only doesn't know what they are doing but really hates their audience.
Garfield II
Yes Garfield II
Garfield II
Yes Garfield II
Devil Rays to change their name
Well thank god for that.
Everyone down here said it was a very stupid sports name. thank god it is going away
At the least, it seems likely the word "Devil" will be dropped, as it already is in some official team references. Then a decision has to be made whether to continue associating Rays with the sea creatures or to connect with the sun. Or there could be a new name, such as the Tampa Bay Tarpons.
The name issue likely will drive the others, and it reasons that if one is changed they all will be, and done neatly to commemorate what will be marketed as the 10th anniversary season.
Everyone down here said it was a very stupid sports name. thank god it is going away
RINO SIGHTINGS: Three Day Weekend edition
RINO SIGHTINGS: Three Day Weekend Edition
In R.I.N.O Land we have a tradition of tossing out some of the best of our best for a little viewership pleasure every week. And Since Indy was beaten in the playoffs (Curse you god) and New England lost (thank you god) so its time to take a dive into the posts.
First we have a class of posts by bloggers who always have top notch posts and this is no exception. First Decision 08 goes into detail on the NSA leak and how it has harmed National Security. He has a scoop with his posts here.
AJ over on the STRATA-SPHERE is also on the NSA case examining the angle involving the FISA court and Judge James Robertson here.
Armies of Liberation is taking about foreign policy from Canada and how it Impacts YEMEN.
Reports are also in on Nicolas Sarkozy, the man I think may be the salvation of France and how he is triangulating the immigration issue over on Pigilito Says.
Over on Evolution they are looking at the Kansas Legislature and how a audit of the books brings a good amount of money to the state school system.
Say Uncle has done some follow up on MTV and their anti-gun bias.
And now we have the posts that are still top notch, but hit more here where we live on the net.
The Commisar, the Frank Sinatra of team Raging R.I.N.Os takes the multicultural left and puts them up to ridicule using some multi-cultural comparison.
Don Surber, the Dean Martin of team Raging R.I.N.Os takes the political right media complex to task for not following a paper trail. We don’t want to be “Fake…but accurate”
Orac has decided to kick Pat Robertson while he’s down and who doesn’t like to do that?
Barry Campbell has added some Pro-Liberty resources to his site. You should look at them and maybe add them to yours, because this is some good stuff here.
Professor Bainbridge is out defending conservatism, and does a pretty good job.
Legal Redux shows that Judge Alito has played a little politics with his answers.
And last –heck, cause I’m hosting it… I get to go in last-
I talk about the book from L. Paul Bremmer and what the Media isn’t saying about it. How we’ve been fighting a war against Iran on the fields of Iraq. And while fighting the proxies of Iran, we asked Iran to make them peaceable.
That’s RINO sightings folks. IF you submitted a post and DID NOT see it here, please drop me a line over at karasoth-(at)-gmail-(dot)-com. And I will amend the list accordingly.
Ex-Donkey covers more moonbattery. (in a link i missed)
Searchlight crusade proves once again a great financial planning resource with this post (second one I missed)
Mamacatia brings some Humor to the Alito hearings.
Over on the Liberal wrong wing a bit of Judicial Philosophy gets presented.
Bellow the Beltway, the Joey Bishop of the R.I.N.O crew further hammers the issue of congressional accountability
The Young Conservative hammers the issue of Crazy mullah's with nuclear weapons
Fearless Philosophy for Free Minds joins the Blogger Army to try and influence a Majority Leader pick.
In R.I.N.O Land we have a tradition of tossing out some of the best of our best for a little viewership pleasure every week. And Since Indy was beaten in the playoffs (Curse you god) and New England lost (thank you god) so its time to take a dive into the posts.
First we have a class of posts by bloggers who always have top notch posts and this is no exception. First Decision 08 goes into detail on the NSA leak and how it has harmed National Security. He has a scoop with his posts here.
AJ over on the STRATA-SPHERE is also on the NSA case examining the angle involving the FISA court and Judge James Robertson here.
Armies of Liberation is taking about foreign policy from Canada and how it Impacts YEMEN.
Reports are also in on Nicolas Sarkozy, the man I think may be the salvation of France and how he is triangulating the immigration issue over on Pigilito Says.
Over on Evolution they are looking at the Kansas Legislature and how a audit of the books brings a good amount of money to the state school system.
Say Uncle has done some follow up on MTV and their anti-gun bias.
And now we have the posts that are still top notch, but hit more here where we live on the net.
The Commisar, the Frank Sinatra of team Raging R.I.N.Os takes the multicultural left and puts them up to ridicule using some multi-cultural comparison.
Don Surber, the Dean Martin of team Raging R.I.N.Os takes the political right media complex to task for not following a paper trail. We don’t want to be “Fake…but accurate”
Orac has decided to kick Pat Robertson while he’s down and who doesn’t like to do that?
Barry Campbell has added some Pro-Liberty resources to his site. You should look at them and maybe add them to yours, because this is some good stuff here.
Professor Bainbridge is out defending conservatism, and does a pretty good job.
Legal Redux shows that Judge Alito has played a little politics with his answers.
And last –heck, cause I’m hosting it… I get to go in last-
I talk about the book from L. Paul Bremmer and what the Media isn’t saying about it. How we’ve been fighting a war against Iran on the fields of Iraq. And while fighting the proxies of Iran, we asked Iran to make them peaceable.
That’s RINO sightings folks. IF you submitted a post and DID NOT see it here, please drop me a line over at karasoth-(at)-gmail-(dot)-com. And I will amend the list accordingly.
Ex-Donkey covers more moonbattery. (in a link i missed)
Searchlight crusade proves once again a great financial planning resource with this post (second one I missed)
Mamacatia brings some Humor to the Alito hearings.
Over on the Liberal wrong wing a bit of Judicial Philosophy gets presented.
Bellow the Beltway, the Joey Bishop of the R.I.N.O crew further hammers the issue of congressional accountability
The Young Conservative hammers the issue of Crazy mullah's with nuclear weapons
Fearless Philosophy for Free Minds joins the Blogger Army to try and influence a Majority Leader pick.
Another story from 101 Zen Stories
Right and Wrong
When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case.
Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body.
When Bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. "You are wise brothers," he told them. "You know what is right and what is not right. You may go somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave."
A torrent of tears cleansed the face of the brother who had stolen. All desire to steal had vanished.
When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case.
Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body.
When Bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. "You are wise brothers," he told them. "You know what is right and what is not right. You may go somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave."
A torrent of tears cleansed the face of the brother who had stolen. All desire to steal had vanished.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
RINO sightings-UPDATE_
Yer Host is a bit under the weather today so It'll be more along the line of tommorrow after noon when the sightings get posted
Another Moment of Zen from 101 Zen stories
Is That So?
The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents very angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parents went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else the little one needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - that the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask his forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back again.
Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"
The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents very angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parents went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else the little one needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - that the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask his forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back again.
Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
Because who -DOESN'T- like to bandwagon
The NZ Bear Center-Right blogger decleration
Larry Austin Bernard;
Inside Larry's Head
An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers
We are bloggers with boatloads of opinions, and none of us come close to agreeing with any other one of us all of the time. But we do agree on this: The new leadership in the House of Representatives needs to be thoroughly and transparently free of the taint of the Jack Abramoff scandals, and beyond that, of undue influence of K Street.
We are not naive about lobbying, and we know it can and has in fact advanced crucial issues and has often served to inform rather than simply influence Members.
But we are certain that the public is disgusted with excess and with privilege. We hope the Hastert-Dreier effort leads to sweeping reforms including the end of subsidized travel and other obvious influence operations. Just as importantly, we call for major changes to increase openness, transparency and accountability in Congressional operations and in the appropriations process.
As for the Republican leadership elections, we hope to see more candidates who will support these goals, and we therefore welcome the entry of Congressman John Shadegg to the race for Majority Leader. We hope every Congressman who is committed to ethical and transparent conduct supports a reform agenda and a reform candidate. And we hope all would-be members of the leadership make themselves available to new media to answer questions now and on a regular basis in the future.
Signed,
Larry Austin Bernard;
Inside Larry's Head
And now a moment of Zen
from 101 Zen Stories
No Loving - Kindness
There was an old woman in China who had supported a monk for over twenty years. She had built a little hut for him and fed him while he was meditating. Finally she wondered just what progress he had made in all this time.
To find out, she obtained the help of a girl rich in desire. "Go and embrace him," she told her, "and then ask him suddenly: 'What now?'"
The girl called upon the monk and without much ado caressed him, asking him what he was going to do about it.
"An old tree grows on a cold rock in winter," replied the monk somewhat poetically. "Nowhere is there any warmth."
The girl returned and related what he had said.
"To think I fed that fellow for twenty years!" exclaimed the old woman in anger. "He showed no consideration for your need, no disposition to explain your condition. He need not have responded to passion, but at least he could have evidenced some compassion;"
She at once went to the hut of the monk and burned it down.
Start off saturday with some quizzy
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Friday, January 13, 2006
Happy Trogdor Day Troggie
Anyone who knows me knows I am a huge fan of HOMESTARUNNER.COM and especially StrongBad emails.
I am also a fan of Dragons because lets face it they are pretty cool.
So here is a shout out to the three year anniversary of the roll out of TROGDOR~!
I am also a fan of Dragons because lets face it they are pretty cool.
So here is a shout out to the three year anniversary of the roll out of TROGDOR~!
That is one angry dutch elm....
Al Gore in the heights of Hypocracy will be making a challenge to rendition which pur terrorists in countries that would torture them (something the clinton administration started as a process) and domestic eavesdropping ( something bill clinton did on political and economic targets but not on terrorist targets) and reprise his angry man speech face.
Human Events online has the scoop.
You see I had some respect for Bob Barr speaking out as a civil libertarian. But I am pretty sure Bob would have remembered back in congress when the Clinton administration was doing the same thing.
But this proves that in the case of Barr it is more about getting the Win at any cost. and that is dispicable.
for ALGORE... I am surprised a man who plans to run for President in 08 is willing to take this gamble.
Human Events online has the scoop.
“The speech will specifically point to domestic wiretapping and torture as examples of the administration's efforts to extend executive power beyond Congressional direction and judicial review,” according to a MoveOn.org press release. “The extent of bipartisan concern over these issues is highlighted by former Republican Rep. Bob Barr's introduction of the Vice President and by the organizations cosponsoring the speech.”
You see I had some respect for Bob Barr speaking out as a civil libertarian. But I am pretty sure Bob would have remembered back in congress when the Clinton administration was doing the same thing.
But this proves that in the case of Barr it is more about getting the Win at any cost. and that is dispicable.
for ALGORE... I am surprised a man who plans to run for President in 08 is willing to take this gamble.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
I know mappy
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Globalize this
I hate globalism. I hate globalization.. Not the concept of global integration of business/social networks… no no I hate the WORD globalism. Every class mutters globalism in such a way I think of my professors as if they had big pointy spikes of hair on their head and asked me to reoptimize my core priorities while working out an org chart.
I’m what is identified as a “Globalism Skeptic” ‘ccording to my globalism prof. Not so much that I don’t believe in globalism or globalization, but rather that I don’t believe it is anything new or all together special. As technologies have allowed for disparate peoples to become closer in our past peoples who once viewed themselves as alien to one another became united. As communications technologies have done so this also occurred. What we are experiencing today is merely a manifestation of a phenomenon that always occurs when such technology is placed into the right climate.
Taking a class on the plight of the African-American people in Florida during the reconstruction...why you take it with a new “globalization perspective” added to it. So you can understand how it is relevant to our new “global” perspective. Globalization has become this trendy buzzword every professor tries to jam into their classes even if it has nothing to do with globalization. They can find a way.
Is it any wonder kids these days are on an anti-globalization kick? It’s because they keep having it fed to them by professors with hard to understand Marxist perspectives and barely coherent political calculus.
Lets teach kids something useful, and not political.
I’m what is identified as a “Globalism Skeptic” ‘ccording to my globalism prof. Not so much that I don’t believe in globalism or globalization, but rather that I don’t believe it is anything new or all together special. As technologies have allowed for disparate peoples to become closer in our past peoples who once viewed themselves as alien to one another became united. As communications technologies have done so this also occurred. What we are experiencing today is merely a manifestation of a phenomenon that always occurs when such technology is placed into the right climate.
Taking a class on the plight of the African-American people in Florida during the reconstruction...why you take it with a new “globalization perspective” added to it. So you can understand how it is relevant to our new “global” perspective. Globalization has become this trendy buzzword every professor tries to jam into their classes even if it has nothing to do with globalization. They can find a way.
Is it any wonder kids these days are on an anti-globalization kick? It’s because they keep having it fed to them by professors with hard to understand Marxist perspectives and barely coherent political calculus.
Lets teach kids something useful, and not political.
"I was only following poorly thought out orders."
Or thats what a Danish Court says about allegations of torture.
However an intresting nugget is in this article from the BEEB (which surprises me)
I really wish this B.B.C article had more details to it because this last bit seems suggestive of something else.
A Danish army captain and four military police sergeants have been found guilty of abusing prisoners while they were based in southern Iraq.
But the judge ruled that because of "extenuating circumstances", the five would not be punished.
He said they had not received clear guidelines from the Danish military.
However an intresting nugget is in this article from the BEEB (which surprises me)
Last year, she said the allegations stemmed from a misunderstanding with the Palestinian translators working at the camp, who had objected to her interrogation techniques.
I really wish this B.B.C article had more details to it because this last bit seems suggestive of something else.
God Bless the Internet.....
Cause without the Internet I wouldn't know a Vampyre (Sanguinary) is running for Governor of Minnesota. Or that this Vampyre ran for President in 2004, and plans to do so again in 2008
please read both of those link's so you can be amused as I am.
here is a good teaser quote
Folks it gets more entertaining then this
please read both of those link's so you can be amused as I am.
here is a good teaser quote
My name is Jonathon “The
Impaler” Sharkey, Ph.D., L.D.D.D. I am a Satanic Dark
Priest, Sanguinarian Vampyre and a Hecate Witch.
My Magikal Path name is: Lord Ares.
I despise and hate the Christian God the Father. He
is my mortal enemy.
Folks it gets more entertaining then this
When talk radio inspires deep thoughts...
I often say to folks that “Sex-Ed” is to late. If you wait till then you miss out on the important life lessons and values you need to teach your kids about important things of that sort.
Well a funny thing happened to Larry on his way to school yesterday. I was listening to Bill Bennett’s radio show and a man came on to talk about the site he dedicated to his daughter due to the depression and eventual suicide she felt because of her abortion. An abortion she had without talking to her folks (and she didn’t have to by any way shape or form as she was 20)
So now Larry is going to muddle in to the weird mushiness that is my stance on abortion.
Just as Sex education should start first with teaching your child how to evaluate good and bad life choices, and teaching them the skills. When communicating values on this subject you have to teach your child something else which is pretty tricky for parents to do on a good day. “If you have a big problem come to your parents for advice at least, and help if necessary.” Frequently though kids have big problems that are usually things you have to punish them for so this isn’t easy.
Getting teen pregnant, or getting pregnant in the whole “young college age” period is most certainly a big problem. And god having gotten out of that age not to long ago (and really it feels some days like I am still in it) I realize you aren’t able to make the best/most rational/most emotionally grounded of choices very well. And even if nothing else being able to listen to advice from your parents in a mostly non-judgmental way to either help you do the right thing, or at least point you in the right direction.
The future offspring I have will have to make their own choices some day, but I know to many people who after having abortions and suffering any form of complication when they go to choose to have a pregnancy feel the two things are linked and become deeply depressed, even if the events happen years apart. I know also many women who still weep years afterwards about the loss of the unborn child whenever their thoughts drift to those children. We live in a society that tries to break abortion down to a simple “procedure” and I want to try to make sure any child of mine understands before she should have to make that choice, indeed before she even gets pregnant, it is so much more.
To any future daughter I am going to want her also to be able to rationally consider the medical risks (such as they may be) in such an action.
But to do both of those things she is going to need a comfortable and stable place to make her choices and to take all this in and think. That’s what I am going to want as a parent, and that’s why you need to fight the good fight much earlier. It is why you fight that fight much earlier.
As for what she chooses well…If the child is not even above the age of 18 then my role as a parent will be slightly more then establishing the important social stability factor. But in the end whats most important is having a child who will talk to me…and accept the fact I may not agree with her choice but I am there to help her make the best choice.
Well a funny thing happened to Larry on his way to school yesterday. I was listening to Bill Bennett’s radio show and a man came on to talk about the site he dedicated to his daughter due to the depression and eventual suicide she felt because of her abortion. An abortion she had without talking to her folks (and she didn’t have to by any way shape or form as she was 20)
So now Larry is going to muddle in to the weird mushiness that is my stance on abortion.
Just as Sex education should start first with teaching your child how to evaluate good and bad life choices, and teaching them the skills. When communicating values on this subject you have to teach your child something else which is pretty tricky for parents to do on a good day. “If you have a big problem come to your parents for advice at least, and help if necessary.” Frequently though kids have big problems that are usually things you have to punish them for so this isn’t easy.
Getting teen pregnant, or getting pregnant in the whole “young college age” period is most certainly a big problem. And god having gotten out of that age not to long ago (and really it feels some days like I am still in it) I realize you aren’t able to make the best/most rational/most emotionally grounded of choices very well. And even if nothing else being able to listen to advice from your parents in a mostly non-judgmental way to either help you do the right thing, or at least point you in the right direction.
The future offspring I have will have to make their own choices some day, but I know to many people who after having abortions and suffering any form of complication when they go to choose to have a pregnancy feel the two things are linked and become deeply depressed, even if the events happen years apart. I know also many women who still weep years afterwards about the loss of the unborn child whenever their thoughts drift to those children. We live in a society that tries to break abortion down to a simple “procedure” and I want to try to make sure any child of mine understands before she should have to make that choice, indeed before she even gets pregnant, it is so much more.
To any future daughter I am going to want her also to be able to rationally consider the medical risks (such as they may be) in such an action.
But to do both of those things she is going to need a comfortable and stable place to make her choices and to take all this in and think. That’s what I am going to want as a parent, and that’s why you need to fight the good fight much earlier. It is why you fight that fight much earlier.
As for what she chooses well…If the child is not even above the age of 18 then my role as a parent will be slightly more then establishing the important social stability factor. But in the end whats most important is having a child who will talk to me…and accept the fact I may not agree with her choice but I am there to help her make the best choice.
SCORE~!
I was able to order my books ONLINE and get out from under them for less then 300 dollars.
Now I hope I crunched the numbers right and end up with that 300 and some change extra from my student loans for this dispersment because that will go a long way towards things like..being able to afford food and shelter
Now I hope I crunched the numbers right and end up with that 300 and some change extra from my student loans for this dispersment because that will go a long way towards things like..being able to afford food and shelter
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Sadly More tales from Pudding Mountain
But don't worry folks... yet another unexplored angle (thanks to The Superficial)
pMSnbc has the details
#1) Am I a bad person for Imagining "Hilarious" like its being said by one of the Queer Eye guys? or "overly streotypical gaymanvoice"?
and
#2) Mr. Hollywood Pretty Boy... Is calling something Immature and Hilarious a sign of mature behavior... just asking, maybe you should think about it.....
This is Great because it lets me segway an intresting post a Buddy of mine has along similar lines.
Replace Jews with New York or Muslims with Detroit... and He would be getting lambasted from coast to coast. But its ok to kick the mormons for this in the popular view (and I have no problem kicking religions when they deserve it... but thats because I am not advocating a PC-Sacredness p.o.v)
But Back to vapid Hollywood man-beef. EVEN pMSNBC can't let his stupidity go snark free. And thats sating something.
Ok... Lynchings full fledged lynchings happening 25 years ago... I am reasonably sure they didn't. I am pretty sure if they did during that media culture it'd be major news ( and All Ronald Reagan's fault)
Also in both of these cases he cannot make the positive case to challenge these people. He has to -insult-,-demean-, and ,-belittle- these people. That speaks something to his credibility.
This is the creative climate which birthed the film which again speaks to why often enough when films have massive hype the BOOK is indeed the same as the cover
pMSnbc has the details
Heath Ledger has lashed out at the U.S. theaters that banned “Brokeback Mountain” as “immature” and “hilarious.”
#1) Am I a bad person for Imagining "Hilarious" like its being said by one of the Queer Eye guys? or "overly streotypical gaymanvoice"?
and
#2) Mr. Hollywood Pretty Boy... Is calling something Immature and Hilarious a sign of mature behavior... just asking, maybe you should think about it.....
“Personally, I don’t think the movie is [controversial] but I think maybe the Mormons in Utah do. I think it’s hilarious and very immature of a society,” Ledger said, reports the Australian paper The Herald Sun.
This is Great because it lets me segway an intresting post a Buddy of mine has along similar lines.
I feel this show has every right to be on the air, that's not my point. What my point is, is imagine if this were about another religion besides Christianity, or about a social group such as gays? It would never make it to air; because it's now acceptable to make fun of some groups ad nauseum while others get to remain under protection; with critics getting burned who even come close to them.
Replace Jews with New York or Muslims with Detroit... and He would be getting lambasted from coast to coast. But its ok to kick the mormons for this in the popular view (and I have no problem kicking religions when they deserve it... but thats because I am not advocating a PC-Sacredness p.o.v)
But Back to vapid Hollywood man-beef. EVEN pMSNBC can't let his stupidity go snark free. And thats sating something.
Ledger also took a swipe at West Virginia, and displayed a dubious grasp of American history. “I heard a while ago that West Virginia was going to ban it but that’s a state that was lynching people only 25 years ago so that’s to be expected,” he was quoted as saying.
Ok... Lynchings full fledged lynchings happening 25 years ago... I am reasonably sure they didn't. I am pretty sure if they did during that media culture it'd be major news ( and All Ronald Reagan's fault)
Also in both of these cases he cannot make the positive case to challenge these people. He has to -insult-,-demean-, and ,-belittle- these people. That speaks something to his credibility.
This is the creative climate which birthed the film which again speaks to why often enough when films have massive hype the BOOK is indeed the same as the cover
SHOCKING NEWS
This is Shocking news... especially anyone who has ever lived in D.C
Marrion Barry tested positive for Cocaine use.
But don't worry folks Hizhonor will be back in the city council in D.C soon enough
Marrion Barry tested positive for Cocaine use.
On Oct. 28, Barry pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges for failing to file tax returns for six years. He was released on his own recognizance pending sentencing on Feb. 8. However, a federal judge could now jail him or sanction him at any time because the positive test violates the terms of his release, the Post said.
Barry was jailed for six months in 1991 after being videotaped in a hotel room smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting during his third term as mayor in 1990.
But don't worry folks Hizhonor will be back in the city council in D.C soon enough
I'd like to say congratulations.......
Though I want to know why I didn't get an Invite to the wedding of my dear Friend Ralph Dietzman and his fiancee Danielle R. Brady
man the last of my single friends are falling by the wayside
man the last of my single friends are falling by the wayside
I feel half like death
But I am going to try to finish out Week I today. How I feel will determine how much of it I pull through.
Strangely eating corn beef and eggs felt good.... yes when i feel sick I ate corned beef and eggs. I needed something hot and the idea of eating oatmeal right now makes me ill.
Strangely eating corn beef and eggs felt good.... yes when i feel sick I ate corned beef and eggs. I needed something hot and the idea of eating oatmeal right now makes me ill.
Does this mean I can go live at fosters?
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This news is not what it looks like....
I am going to throw out the bone from this News Telegraph article and then tell you why it is signifigant.
Who is L. Paul bremmer? he was the guy who ran the US Operations in Iraq before we got those nice folks a semblance of a government which lead to a semi-functional government they got going on there right now.
so here is the blurb.
Now I cut this out along with a little bit about good ole Moqtada al-Sadr because he will be coming up a little later here in my talk.
Syria isn't known for doing much in the Middle East on its own. While Syria does do a bunch of stuff influence wise over other countries and movements Syria largely does it as the willing (or unwilling) proxy agent of another larger power.
Hezbollah is a super example. The Syrians have stoked and supported Hezbollah in large part as a proxy for the Iranians.
I told people during the whole period when al-Sadr was uprising he was doing so on the order of the Iranian government. I said this for a very specific reason. Grand Ayatollah Sistani was doing some pretty wild things. He was advocating democracy and being supportive of the US efforts to enforce the Powell-Pottery Barn doctrine in Iraq.
Very early and shortly after the US occupation started but before much in the way of a provisional authority came to happen Syria was trying to stimulate a revolt. You factor this with the later al-Sadr brotherhood with hezbollah and I see the Iranians acting indirectly through the Syrians working to get Sistani on board with a Shia islamic revolt and he said no.
so much as I was telling people... al-Sadr was the plan b. This revelation seems to confirm that now more and more.
Sistani has seen the failure of the Iranian model first hand, and Sadr mearly wanted to regain his fathers position as a leading voice of Iraqi shia.
the story seems to work and the actors seem to work. Only time will tell if I am right and this is indeed the play I was watching.
Who is L. Paul bremmer? he was the guy who ran the US Operations in Iraq before we got those nice folks a semblance of a government which lead to a semi-functional government they got going on there right now.
so here is the blurb.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria secretly incited Iraq's top Shia leader to declare holy war against US and British forces, according to Washington's former administrator in the country....
The report came from an extremely senior source, the supreme leader of Iraq's majority Shia community, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
According to Mr Bremer, the news was passed to him by Mowaffak al-Rubaie, a senior Shia politician involved in negotiations with the ayatollah. The Syrian leader had apparently recalled the Shia-led uprising against the British in 1920 and urged the Shia to repeat history....
In particular, he claims to have stressed to Washington the need to confront the firebrand Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Some British officials voiced their doubts over the policy, fearing it would spark a wider Shia revolt and some expressed irritation over Mr Bremer's account, suggesting it offered a partial view.
That crisis erupted in April 2004 when Sadr's militiamen rose up as the US attempted to take the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Now I cut this out along with a little bit about good ole Moqtada al-Sadr because he will be coming up a little later here in my talk.
Syria isn't known for doing much in the Middle East on its own. While Syria does do a bunch of stuff influence wise over other countries and movements Syria largely does it as the willing (or unwilling) proxy agent of another larger power.
Hezbollah is a super example. The Syrians have stoked and supported Hezbollah in large part as a proxy for the Iranians.
I told people during the whole period when al-Sadr was uprising he was doing so on the order of the Iranian government. I said this for a very specific reason. Grand Ayatollah Sistani was doing some pretty wild things. He was advocating democracy and being supportive of the US efforts to enforce the Powell-Pottery Barn doctrine in Iraq.
Very early and shortly after the US occupation started but before much in the way of a provisional authority came to happen Syria was trying to stimulate a revolt. You factor this with the later al-Sadr brotherhood with hezbollah and I see the Iranians acting indirectly through the Syrians working to get Sistani on board with a Shia islamic revolt and he said no.
so much as I was telling people... al-Sadr was the plan b. This revelation seems to confirm that now more and more.
Sistani has seen the failure of the Iranian model first hand, and Sadr mearly wanted to regain his fathers position as a leading voice of Iraqi shia.
the story seems to work and the actors seem to work. Only time will tell if I am right and this is indeed the play I was watching.
Ran into a Live Journal Meme
I was feeling sick. So sick in fact when I tried to take me some chinnese herbal tablets I coughed them back up... so I did a little online action till i felt remotely human. While I was doing that I drifted over to my buddy Rene Sanchez's Live Journal and found a Meme.... so I am sharing the Meme with you while my body sorts itself out.
"She was dabbin at her eyes with a wad of tissue"
The book is "God's other son" by Don Imus
who will catch the meme fever from me...who I say
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
"She was dabbin at her eyes with a wad of tissue"
The book is "God's other son" by Don Imus
who will catch the meme fever from me...who I say
NSA Whistle-blower provides something rather intresting...
Well ABC news got the Whistle Blower who is a main source of the New York Times Allegations....
though I have to wonder if on the broadcast it provided something of substance because on the online version something else came out....
This is not secret information, but not well known. The key to this technology is it doesn't "tap" in the traditional sense nor surveil in the traditional sense. It takes any phone call that may say Jihad. though I'd imagine they'd probably want a few more flags on a call before it sorts itself out.
again not common knowledge but if you know the NSA well you know about this.
however what is said next is particularly telling.
What he seems to be saying here isn't so much that he knows of specific illegalities, but he knows that a POTENTIAL for specific illegalities exists.
If this is all he has to blow the olde whistle with he is very much lacking.
and now of course for what was said at the end of the article....
Now their are one of two ways to look at this.
#1) He is a legitimate Whistle blower
or
#2) He is someone with an Axe to grind.
It is pretty clear he got dismissed around the time the New York Times first broke the story to the White house. A story they waited a year to publish. Around this time we have what many believe was a case of open warfare against the president by folks in the CIA. So is this another kind of Plame faux-story?
only time will tell.
though I have to wonder if on the broadcast it provided something of substance because on the online version something else came out....
Tice says the technology exists to track and sort through every domestic and international phone call as they are switched through centers, such as one in New York, and to search for key words or phrases that a terrorist might use.
"If you picked the word 'jihad' out of a conversation," Tice said, "the technology exists that you focus in on that conversation, and you pull it out of the system for processing."
According to Tice, intelligence analysts use the information to develop graphs that resemble spiderwebs linking one suspect's phone number to hundreds or even thousands more.
This is not secret information, but not well known. The key to this technology is it doesn't "tap" in the traditional sense nor surveil in the traditional sense. It takes any phone call that may say Jihad. though I'd imagine they'd probably want a few more flags on a call before it sorts itself out.
again not common knowledge but if you know the NSA well you know about this.
however what is said next is particularly telling.
But Tice disagrees. He says the number of Americans subject to eavesdropping by the NSA could be in the millions if the full range of secret NSA programs is used.
"That would mean for most Americans that if they conducted, or you know, placed an overseas communication, more than likely they were sucked into that vacuum," Tice said.
What he seems to be saying here isn't so much that he knows of specific illegalities, but he knows that a POTENTIAL for specific illegalities exists.
If this is all he has to blow the olde whistle with he is very much lacking.
and now of course for what was said at the end of the article....
The NSA revoked Tice's security clearance in May of last year based on what it called psychological concerns and later dismissed him. Tice calls that bunk and says that's the way the NSA deals with troublemakers and whistleblowers. Today the NSA said it had "no information to provide."
Now their are one of two ways to look at this.
#1) He is a legitimate Whistle blower
or
#2) He is someone with an Axe to grind.
It is pretty clear he got dismissed around the time the New York Times first broke the story to the White house. A story they waited a year to publish. Around this time we have what many believe was a case of open warfare against the president by folks in the CIA. So is this another kind of Plame faux-story?
only time will tell.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Semester II Round II
Well had my second round of classes and tonight the Watch word came down from onh igh to me. The two classes today (one rightly, and one wrongly) gave me the impression of the sense of what "college" is in our modern culture.
The Middle East... the first college class i've had in a very long time that has given me homework over. Spending time with the book going through in detail (well general issues detailed by country) about the middle east with some one who works as an "editor" I believe she said at Centcom.
So I have to see if I am as smart as I think I am then huh....
She repeated the story about genetic links to africa... but other then that she didn't ruin her claim to present facts not opinions in her class.
The second class today has one paper ( but it seemed much more threatening the way he presented it). Leaving the class today I was of the mind I was going to cut that class along with Law and Politics. But i've decided against that at this point.
though a 6pm class with an elderly nigerian man... does not inspire one...especially when one lacks some caffine.
I am looking at my master calander with all my projects on it. While in theory the law in politics class wouldn't tax it. I am very clearly going to need the time i think in the library doing the research on my middle eastern country (turkey) very religously. And I am going to also have to invest me in a loaf of bread to enable me to have lots of peanut butter and honey sandwiches.
cause I have to produce a 3-5 page paper per week with a minimum of three sources on turkey.
Welcome to college Mr. Larry....
the Week of 2-13 is going to suck a whole lot.4 tests + a 3-5 page paper means Larry's brain is going to be hurting a whole lot......
maybe my not having work isn't that bad after all....
So in review Wealth and Power and The Middle East are definate book buys.
Globalization... well that depends on how lecture day #1 goes tommorrow
The Middle East... the first college class i've had in a very long time that has given me homework over. Spending time with the book going through in detail (well general issues detailed by country) about the middle east with some one who works as an "editor" I believe she said at Centcom.
So I have to see if I am as smart as I think I am then huh....
She repeated the story about genetic links to africa... but other then that she didn't ruin her claim to present facts not opinions in her class.
The second class today has one paper ( but it seemed much more threatening the way he presented it). Leaving the class today I was of the mind I was going to cut that class along with Law and Politics. But i've decided against that at this point.
though a 6pm class with an elderly nigerian man... does not inspire one...especially when one lacks some caffine.
I am looking at my master calander with all my projects on it. While in theory the law in politics class wouldn't tax it. I am very clearly going to need the time i think in the library doing the research on my middle eastern country (turkey) very religously. And I am going to also have to invest me in a loaf of bread to enable me to have lots of peanut butter and honey sandwiches.
cause I have to produce a 3-5 page paper per week with a minimum of three sources on turkey.
Welcome to college Mr. Larry....
the Week of 2-13 is going to suck a whole lot.4 tests + a 3-5 page paper means Larry's brain is going to be hurting a whole lot......
maybe my not having work isn't that bad after all....
So in review Wealth and Power and The Middle East are definate book buys.
Globalization... well that depends on how lecture day #1 goes tommorrow
Could it be because they Suck…. I have to wonder.
Do wonders never cease in the U.K they have Music Psychologists “Hello Mr. Concerto…how do you feel today.” And they seem to think Downloading music makes you apathetic. As some one who is in a social science discipline and the word science –loosely- applies to mine. I look at this study by people who purport to be the hardest of the social sciences and say “wha?”
"The accessibility of music has meant that it is taken for granted and does not require a deep emotional commitment once associated with music appreciation," said music psychologist Adrian North on Tuesday.
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They concluded that because of greater accessibility through mass media, music was nowadays seen more as a commodity that is produced, distributed and consumed like any other.
Here is a thought could the fact music has less of an emotional content be because the industry views the music as a commodity. Could it be that music is so processed down to a science… could that create a product that has less emotion and less metaphysical connection?
"Because so much music of different styles and genres is now so widely available via portable MP3 players and the internet, it is arguable that people now actively use music in everyday listening contexts to a much greater extent than ever before.
"The degree of accessibility and choice has arguably led to a rather passive attitude towards music heard in everyday life.
"In short, our relationship to music in everyday life may well be complex and sophisticated, but it is not necessarily characterised by deep emotional investment."
Again it could be this… or it could be music is so throw away now, and old music is so easy to access people can now be surrounded by the metaphysic that they were once connected to.
Again… just maybe.
North Korea's #1 Elvis impersonator is on the move
Where is everyone’s favorite pint Size Dictator? Is he in China….well he was now he is on his way to Russia. A rumor came out a while ago about Mr. Kim having an assassination attempt made on his person during the big train explosion they had in North Korea a while ago. But Al-Reuters is on the case.
"He passed through China. He left today for Russia," the source, who requested anonymity, told Reuters.
"He did not meet any (Chinese) leaders," the source said, adding that Kim may stop over in China on his way home.
The source declined to provide further details.
There was unusually heavy security near the train station in the Chinese border city of Dandong and talk of a special train from North Korea passing through before dawn on Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, quoting a source in the city.
Well is it Mr. Kim? Or is it a high security train? In the world of the pint sized dictator who kidnaps movie stars to service his whims… who really knows?
"The North's negotiating position has turned for the worse recently," said Kim Sung-han, a South Korean expert, noting that the reports of Kim's visit remained speculative.
"And this may be an attempt to seek China's help in turning things around on issues, including financial sanctions."
I have to go with the experts here. And If Mr. Kim is a desperate man he may feel that a direct play to Vlad “The Nationalizer” Putin might be able to help him out.
Who knows… lets stay tuned.
"He passed through China. He left today for Russia," the source, who requested anonymity, told Reuters.
"He did not meet any (Chinese) leaders," the source said, adding that Kim may stop over in China on his way home.
The source declined to provide further details.
There was unusually heavy security near the train station in the Chinese border city of Dandong and talk of a special train from North Korea passing through before dawn on Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, quoting a source in the city.
Well is it Mr. Kim? Or is it a high security train? In the world of the pint sized dictator who kidnaps movie stars to service his whims… who really knows?
"The North's negotiating position has turned for the worse recently," said Kim Sung-han, a South Korean expert, noting that the reports of Kim's visit remained speculative.
"And this may be an attempt to seek China's help in turning things around on issues, including financial sanctions."
I have to go with the experts here. And If Mr. Kim is a desperate man he may feel that a direct play to Vlad “The Nationalizer” Putin might be able to help him out.
Who knows… lets stay tuned.
random PC blogging
looked for a random classroom PC logged in so i have a brief window to post in here.
my class on "The Middle East" is intresting and I'll go into more detail when i get home. I will leave a teaser this class will test if i am really as smart as I think I am and if I am willing to work for my degree....
also it signals the death of my "law and politics" class... a 2-3 page researched paper every week...eeesh good night nurse.
my class on "The Middle East" is intresting and I'll go into more detail when i get home. I will leave a teaser this class will test if i am really as smart as I think I am and if I am willing to work for my degree....
also it signals the death of my "law and politics" class... a 2-3 page researched paper every week...eeesh good night nurse.
Semester II Day II Start Mode now.....
Ok space monkey's and space monkettes I am off for my second day of field operations in the world of the public university. I will come back with a full and detailed field report about my current venture
Hizhona the Mayor speaks again
Hmmmmmm Marion wants the young men who robbed him to turn themselves in. and he promises them he'll make sure no charges get filed.
I'd have to say "What is he smoking to make him think any street thug would do that"
Then I remembered I wanted to try and not go for the cheap and obvious jokes on my blog anymore
I'd have to say "What is he smoking to make him think any street thug would do that"
Then I remembered I wanted to try and not go for the cheap and obvious jokes on my blog anymore
Hmmm... weirdness from OK cupid
My Best friend ( who scores in the low 70s on a friend percentage basis) also scores a 37% on the new "Enemy" axis they have on OK Cupid.
Weird
Weird
I am all for new online forms of ego flattery
And let me tell you who isn't? Over at enrevanche Barry introduces us to a wonderful new tool known as EGOSURF
my result....sadly
*sniff sniff*
anyway hopefully it works better for you then it does for me.
my result....sadly
WTF? I got 0 ego points?
Are you a big time zero ? A loser of the highest order ? We wouldn't pass judgement, but there could be a number of reasons whilst your egometer is on empty.
The first culprits are often the domain names or web sites you've provided. Check they are valid. Then check your default search options to make sure you've selected the search engine you're intersted in. If these all look ok, you could try entering your search term in quotes (i.e. "search term"). Try a deep search, as this looks considerably deeper into the web for matches.
If all else fails, well maybe you are a big fat zero after all ?
*sniff sniff*
anyway hopefully it works better for you then it does for me.
I tried to watch me some of the ALITO hearings
In a word: HORRIBLE
In another Word: Television
put it togther....HORRIBLE Television.
The John Roberts hearings were much better. Though the questions Judge Roberts got were far less confrontational
In another Word: Television
put it togther....HORRIBLE Television.
The John Roberts hearings were much better. Though the questions Judge Roberts got were far less confrontational
Monday, January 09, 2006
Marcus "Donnie New Mexico" Vick Does it again
You become a National Embarssment, which exposes some of your less then sterling charecter attributes to the National media. What do you do before the NFL Draft...Do you:
A) Sit some where and not do anything stupd
or
B) Brandish a Firearm on a Minor.
If you selected A not only are you smart, you clearly are not Marcus Vick
but lets look at some of Donnie's other intelligent choices in life
Marcus Vick: Say hello to NFL Europe
If you are lucky
maybe the Arena leauge
A) Sit some where and not do anything stupd
or
B) Brandish a Firearm on a Minor.
If you selected A not only are you smart, you clearly are not Marcus Vick
but lets look at some of Donnie's other intelligent choices in life
On May 14, 2004, Vick was charged with three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sentenced to 30 days in jail, which he later avoided with an appeal. That charge was the result of a party with three teenage girls, in which Vick provided alcohol and was accused of, but never charged with, having sex with one of them -– a 15-year-old.
Then, on July 3, 2004, after Vick was pulled over on Interstate 64 in New Kent County for driving 88 in a 65-mph zone, he was found in possession of marijuana. One month later, he pleaded no contest to the drug charge, received probation, a suspended license and was booted out of school and off the football team for the season.
Marcus Vick: Say hello to NFL Europe
If you are lucky
maybe the Arena leauge
From the Ministry of Silly Walks
Government’s the world over often do absurd things. It’s something government is especially good at. But this case of it in the UK really takes the cake. To every sleezy sue happy lawyer out there take note of this. I think this case could win here in the States to.
A BLACK police bodyguard who protected the Duchess of Cornwall has won $70,000 compensation after suing Scotland Yard for "over-promoting" him because of political correctness.Sgt Leslie Turner -- the first black personal protection officer to guard the royal family -- will receive the "racial discrimination" payout after reaching an out-of-court settlement with London's Metropolitan Police.
His representatives argued he landed the prestigious job as Camilla's bodyguard only because he was black.
It was claimed that as a result of being over-promoted and not receiving proper training and support, Sgt Turner made mistakes which led to him being re-assigned.
He launched legal proceedings against the force in October and Scotland Yard chiefs have agreed to pay "substantial" compensation -- understood to be about $70,000 -- to the married father of two.
We will be seeing a case or this Kind in the US someday. And I hope it is some day very very soon. But it gets even better.
Royal insiders stress that the decision to move him was not taken directly by Clarence House. But they concede that the race row is extremely embarrassing for Charles and Camilla.
Had Sgt Turner's case reached a tribunal, potentially embarrassing secrets about Charles and Camilla's lives may have been aired.
A Met spokesman refused to confirm the compensation deal.
So Chuckie here, a man known for trying to promote racial tolerance and understanding Happy talk on his mom’s Island ends up being caught in the kind of political snare he endorses as a matter of policy
Good…great…wonderful
A BLACK police bodyguard who protected the Duchess of Cornwall has won $70,000 compensation after suing Scotland Yard for "over-promoting" him because of political correctness.Sgt Leslie Turner -- the first black personal protection officer to guard the royal family -- will receive the "racial discrimination" payout after reaching an out-of-court settlement with London's Metropolitan Police.
His representatives argued he landed the prestigious job as Camilla's bodyguard only because he was black.
It was claimed that as a result of being over-promoted and not receiving proper training and support, Sgt Turner made mistakes which led to him being re-assigned.
He launched legal proceedings against the force in October and Scotland Yard chiefs have agreed to pay "substantial" compensation -- understood to be about $70,000 -- to the married father of two.
We will be seeing a case or this Kind in the US someday. And I hope it is some day very very soon. But it gets even better.
Royal insiders stress that the decision to move him was not taken directly by Clarence House. But they concede that the race row is extremely embarrassing for Charles and Camilla.
Had Sgt Turner's case reached a tribunal, potentially embarrassing secrets about Charles and Camilla's lives may have been aired.
A Met spokesman refused to confirm the compensation deal.
So Chuckie here, a man known for trying to promote racial tolerance and understanding Happy talk on his mom’s Island ends up being caught in the kind of political snare he endorses as a matter of policy
Good…great…wonderful
Oh also a New Policy (as I now have reason for the Policy)
Unlike Hate comments which I will only delete if they are incoherent.....
Hate Emails I recieve (as defined by ME) will be posted along with my response to the Hate Email.
In the event I should ever get many hate emails... I will post only the best hate emails and my response
that is all.
Hate Emails I recieve (as defined by ME) will be posted along with my response to the Hate Email.
In the event I should ever get many hate emails... I will post only the best hate emails and my response
that is all.
I didn't think I'd post about Pudding Mountain Again
But in an IM with GayPatriotWest he brought something up I want to blog about that involves Bareback Pudding. But only in the loose end of things. Because gene Shalit called one of the charecters a Predator because of the way he stalked down the other part of the pairing...
well it would take Gay Rights group to not think "Well gee if a Man chased a woman down like that it -could be- considered stalking and predatory" I mean why do that when they can do what they've proven so adept at of late. Smearing people, attacking the charecter of people who disagree with them, and using that to raise lots of money.
Gene However has a Gay Son and he had some things to say about it.
I am circulating this out here (and encourage you to read the rest of what Peter Shalit has to say) because some times with the way our pop-culture and politics fuse togther it becomes very hard to see that sometimes things aren't as simple as loud mouth idiots make them out to be. That some times people are to caught up in their own importance. Gene Shalit didn't like a movie. And the only difference between him and me is he saw the movie and I won't (However if some one pays my expenses and a small stipened I'd gladly amend that policy... I'll see a movie I hate if some one pays me to write about it). But Gene has the right to -not- like the way a charecter is represented.
The gay community groups will mature when they can accept a gay person can be awful and bad, without being a vile and reprehensible stereotype. And you can speak out about some one doing a bad thing without engaging in group think
cause group think is bad children
well it would take Gay Rights group to not think "Well gee if a Man chased a woman down like that it -could be- considered stalking and predatory" I mean why do that when they can do what they've proven so adept at of late. Smearing people, attacking the charecter of people who disagree with them, and using that to raise lots of money.
Gene However has a Gay Son and he had some things to say about it.
When I first saw your press release a few days ago my reaction was "goodness, this is silly" and I decided to sit tight and hope it would blow over. But it hasn't, judging by the e-mails I have received from friends, and the buzz I have seen online. People are concerned about these accusations about my dad, and some bloggers are talking about him as if he is an enemy of gay people. I decided to contact you because there could have been better ways to handle this situation, and I am hurt by your mischaracterization of my father, a man who does not have a molecule of hate in his being. It does not speak well for GLAAD, and it is not helping our community.
I am circulating this out here (and encourage you to read the rest of what Peter Shalit has to say) because some times with the way our pop-culture and politics fuse togther it becomes very hard to see that sometimes things aren't as simple as loud mouth idiots make them out to be. That some times people are to caught up in their own importance. Gene Shalit didn't like a movie. And the only difference between him and me is he saw the movie and I won't (However if some one pays my expenses and a small stipened I'd gladly amend that policy... I'll see a movie I hate if some one pays me to write about it). But Gene has the right to -not- like the way a charecter is represented.
The gay community groups will mature when they can accept a gay person can be awful and bad, without being a vile and reprehensible stereotype. And you can speak out about some one doing a bad thing without engaging in group think
cause group think is bad children
Semester II Day 1 Continued
Ok so lets begin.
First I want to say amusing story in blogging. Last semester in my World Perspective's class the PC would be on and a few times I went and posted to my little slice of the internet here and browsed about the world of blog a bit. Well seems one of those times my professor noticed my blog in the history section on the browser. He saw the words "Larry Bernard" and "blog" put togther and realized "Hey, I have a Larry Bernard in my class." so he in turn looked in on it and has read it a few times. This is kind of cool.
Classes today and the book buying situation first because that I think will make the rest of the picture more clear. And it makes a super cool way to organize my thoughts about my classes today. Yes the University tells me I need to read books to get A's and that didn't stop me last semester very much in my A getting.
"The New Europe": I am going to say not, pending how the first lecture goes.
"Globalization": Ok a funny thing in the globalization class... one book is 5 buck's and i'll probably snag that. I likewise will probably snag the book the prof is a co-author on (but I'll wait and see first how much money i'll get from my loan dispersment and go online maybe to get it.)..though pending the first class class i might change my mind and buy none.
The Globalization class was very intresting. His politics are somewhat clear, or at least the political issues that jump to his mind when he has to think of conservative issues and thinkers puts his politics out there. But he is also trying his darndest to teach that globalization isn't a political issue like normal political issues.
Also I feel like every time I hear the word "globalization" or "Manichean" In a class I should be taking a shot. Also hearing (as all usf students hear) that we are a level 1 research institution (which in the USF drinking game should be worthy of a chug) I think he clearly is going to be fair and unbiased.
Introduction to Law and Politics: Buy if I keep going to the class.
Funny story about that. The prof here seems nice and reachable....so long as you follow his rules. And he has a lot of them. If his rule-ness were just in a 50 slot class ( which was what it was supposed to be) I could tolerate it. In a 75 cap class ( which happened for reasons the University has yet to figure out) Not so much. While the class is about law, it is about law in a more poli-sci/Sociology sense. So the jury is still out on if i'll be in that class past wensday. If I do stay however... yeah I'm getting the books.
Also as I went to my adviser to talk about seeing what i could take other then that class.... the strict prof kinda overheard me talking about his rules.
bad times there.
Wealth and Power: Since the text is more buisness oriented yeah i have to.
The Prof there kicks arse. Very funny man from China. And he says the more buisness oriented direction of this course ( a core requirement for international studies majors) is to give them the buisness background for when they try to enter the job market
definately gave me more grist to the mill about lawyering about.
On the way out of class i met a girl who originally went to School in New College in Sarasota. I impressed her with my knowledge of obscure places in Sarasota home to weird intellectuals and ubernerds ( also lots of angry lesbians, as the Lesbian Avengers was last time I checked the largest student organization there)
So thats the tall and short of Day 1 and my quest to not keep more books then I need in my room of limited bookspace
First I want to say amusing story in blogging. Last semester in my World Perspective's class the PC would be on and a few times I went and posted to my little slice of the internet here and browsed about the world of blog a bit. Well seems one of those times my professor noticed my blog in the history section on the browser. He saw the words "Larry Bernard" and "blog" put togther and realized "Hey, I have a Larry Bernard in my class." so he in turn looked in on it and has read it a few times. This is kind of cool.
Classes today and the book buying situation first because that I think will make the rest of the picture more clear. And it makes a super cool way to organize my thoughts about my classes today. Yes the University tells me I need to read books to get A's and that didn't stop me last semester very much in my A getting.
"The New Europe": I am going to say not, pending how the first lecture goes.
"Globalization": Ok a funny thing in the globalization class... one book is 5 buck's and i'll probably snag that. I likewise will probably snag the book the prof is a co-author on (but I'll wait and see first how much money i'll get from my loan dispersment and go online maybe to get it.)..though pending the first class class i might change my mind and buy none.
The Globalization class was very intresting. His politics are somewhat clear, or at least the political issues that jump to his mind when he has to think of conservative issues and thinkers puts his politics out there. But he is also trying his darndest to teach that globalization isn't a political issue like normal political issues.
Also I feel like every time I hear the word "globalization" or "Manichean" In a class I should be taking a shot. Also hearing (as all usf students hear) that we are a level 1 research institution (which in the USF drinking game should be worthy of a chug) I think he clearly is going to be fair and unbiased.
Introduction to Law and Politics: Buy if I keep going to the class.
Funny story about that. The prof here seems nice and reachable....so long as you follow his rules. And he has a lot of them. If his rule-ness were just in a 50 slot class ( which was what it was supposed to be) I could tolerate it. In a 75 cap class ( which happened for reasons the University has yet to figure out) Not so much. While the class is about law, it is about law in a more poli-sci/Sociology sense. So the jury is still out on if i'll be in that class past wensday. If I do stay however... yeah I'm getting the books.
Also as I went to my adviser to talk about seeing what i could take other then that class.... the strict prof kinda overheard me talking about his rules.
bad times there.
Wealth and Power: Since the text is more buisness oriented yeah i have to.
The Prof there kicks arse. Very funny man from China. And he says the more buisness oriented direction of this course ( a core requirement for international studies majors) is to give them the buisness background for when they try to enter the job market
definately gave me more grist to the mill about lawyering about.
On the way out of class i met a girl who originally went to School in New College in Sarasota. I impressed her with my knowledge of obscure places in Sarasota home to weird intellectuals and ubernerds ( also lots of angry lesbians, as the Lesbian Avengers was last time I checked the largest student organization there)
So thats the tall and short of Day 1 and my quest to not keep more books then I need in my room of limited bookspace
I have now become a true blogger
Their are just some times when you blog that mark that you have truely joined the ranks of blogging's finest.
I'm not sure if this is one of those times but I have recieved my first blog hate e-mail. And I decided to share both the hate on and my response
I decided to cut out his email addy and cut out his blog addy.
I can now say "Yes I have recieved hate email"
I'm not sure if this is one of those times but I have recieved my first blog hate e-mail. And I decided to share both the hate on and my response
On 1/9/06, Ridor <*******@*******> wrote:
u must be an idiot. the book of daniel is GREAT!
go f#### jesus.
r-
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The One and Only Ridor
Check ******* -- be very afraid.
Wow.... well to do that I'd Have to believe Jesus exists/Ever exists.
Not a Christian and if you read my blog post you'd see I didn't have any problem with Jesus in the show.
But thanks for being my first bit -o- hatemail.
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Samuel Clemens
I decided to cut out his email addy and cut out his blog addy.
I can now say "Yes I have recieved hate email"
Shocking news in the World of English Prisons
This all just shocks me
hmmm wonder if that means......
read more of this story. FOr experiments in Jailarity
CASTLE Huntly's security would be laughable - if it wasn't so worrying.
A Daily Record reporter wanders in, has his lunch, and walks back out again without being challenged.
hmmm wonder if that means......
Castle Huntly was also slaughtered in a recent prison report for having "unnacceptably high levels of drugs".
One prisoner with a heroin problem even escaped, claiming he couldn't kick his habit because there were so many drugs inside the jail.
read more of this story. FOr experiments in Jailarity
The Howard Dean perpetual minority project continues
Good old Loud Howard. He truely is a blogger's best friend. Sunday I really didn't feel up to swinging on this but now that it's digested and I've heard the replay I want to put this winner and by winner i mean winner for *ME* from Loud Howard Dean
truely this is such quality Orwellian double speak. It is really of the highest caliber.
two things: Who cares who Jack Abramhoff gives money to out of his own bank account. Jack is a lobbyist
other thing... the money from the tribes that Jack greased the money on... he gave that money to DEMOCRATS
This ranks up there with Howard Dean saying we don't need to make a plan in the irresponsiblity zone
Howard Dean in his dodge shows everything that is the worst right wing stereotype of a "liberal" and shows the same sliminess he points to in republicans.
But this is more of the reasons why Howard Dean is going to be a loser at the end of that monday night in November
"This is a Republican finance scandal. There is no evidence that Jack Abramoff ever gave any Democrat any money and we've looked through all of the F.E.C. reports to make sure that's true," Dean said.
He said Republicans are scared - and should be: "They haven't told the truth. They have misled the American people, and now it appears they're stealing from Indian tribes. The Democrats are not involved in this," Dean insisted.
truely this is such quality Orwellian double speak. It is really of the highest caliber.
two things: Who cares who Jack Abramhoff gives money to out of his own bank account. Jack is a lobbyist
other thing... the money from the tribes that Jack greased the money on... he gave that money to DEMOCRATS
This ranks up there with Howard Dean saying we don't need to make a plan in the irresponsiblity zone
According to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, "Forty of 45 members of the Democrat Senate Caucus took money from Jack Abramoff, his associates, and Indian tribe clients."
Howard Dean in his dodge shows everything that is the worst right wing stereotype of a "liberal" and shows the same sliminess he points to in republicans.
But this is more of the reasons why Howard Dean is going to be a loser at the end of that monday night in November
Not normally news but......
I really really really wanted to avoid taking a blogger version of a cheap shot.... But sadly my desire not to go there was defeated.
Teddy Kennedy Jokes really just write themselves don't they
Meet the latest children's author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C."
Teddy Kennedy Jokes really just write themselves don't they
Semester 2 is on like Donkey Kong
I know this is going to be a dull bit of school blogging because the bulk of my M-W classes are ahead of me and I've had class before with Dr. Williams (an awesome prof) but hey got to start the school blogging off some how now don't I.
I now that I am in a course where its pretty much Junior level and higher see this derth of men stuff that I've been hearing and reading about in the world of blog. Though I am in social science courses I thought maybe more and more of this were more on the poli-sci end of the equation
boy was *I* wrong.
Looks like I won't need the text book for this class till the last third of the year, if then. So I hold off on buying this one till at least first test time.
More school blogging news after I get home and get some food in my gullet
I now that I am in a course where its pretty much Junior level and higher see this derth of men stuff that I've been hearing and reading about in the world of blog. Though I am in social science courses I thought maybe more and more of this were more on the poli-sci end of the equation
boy was *I* wrong.
Looks like I won't need the text book for this class till the last third of the year, if then. So I hold off on buying this one till at least first test time.
More school blogging news after I get home and get some food in my gullet
Sunday, January 08, 2006
The Anti(gay)Pope
So I plugged along on The Malcontent (haven’t visited in a bit) and had The Washington Blade brought to my attention again.
The reality is The Malconent and the gay Conservative and centrist bloggers ( and the few lefty gay bloggers who are in the right place on this issue) don’t seem to get that “The Washington Blade” and other areas of the gay group identity politics in this country don’t want to focus on issues that matter. They don’t want to focus on issues that impact people who are homosexual they want to focus instead on how the world of homosexuals is horrible and who to blame.
They don’t write for the gay people in the Middle East they write for Gay people in the U.S and Europe and they need to teach them who to hate. Who is responsible for making the world so bad for them even if it just isn’t so.
“His rhetoric is obscene. He wants gays clearly taken care of — it’s almost like the Final Solution,” said Kara Speltz, a Catholic lesbian activist for Soulforce, an organization dedicated to ending anti-gay discrimination within all religions.
Again… look at that Language. They don’t want to say “The Catholic Church agenda isn’t supportive of gay inclusion.” It’s almost like the Final Solution. Pretty clear language and utterly irresponsible for anyone to say it, but acceptable in the world of the Washington Blade because they need to make homosexuals feel a culture of fear is all around them. Because when you feel the evil hetro-spiracy is all around you…. Why you SEE it all around you.
The official “Instruction,” from the Congregation for Catholic Education, stated, “One cannot ignore the negative consequences that can stem from the ordination of people with deeply-rooted homosexual tendencies.”
The "Instruction" also said men "who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture' cannot be admitted to seminaries.” The only exception would be for those with a "transitory problem" that had been overcome for at least three years.”
In the United States, gay rights groups including the Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force publicly challenged the ban and urged gay Catholics and their allies to speak out against it to local priests and bishops.
The reality is the bulk of the priest sex abuse in the U.S Isn’t Hetrosexual and it isn’t pedophilia. The sex abuse is –homosexual-. Not homosexual in a healthy way but Homosexual. The Lavander Mafia is the term the priest’s use to refer to it internally in the church. When the Gay Culture is seen permissively in seminaries but sexuality is strongly repressed in some people this can lead to an increase of compulsive and predatory sexual behavior.
So why didn’t the church go crack down on that? Why didn’t the church go out and give psych evals of every incoming priest. They can’t do that because not enough people are joining the Priesthood. So they are left with the choice of doing nothing, forcing many people out of the priesthood, or trying to target those whose problems are hardest to defend in court (heterosexual man/woman incidents have a much better track record of defense then those with a child) and are perceived as morally abhorant to the most people.
Why they did it is very easy to understand, but to folks like The Washington Blade and the gay intelligentsia the issue isn’t understanding The issue is promoting fear. The issue isn’t finding a way to make the Catholic community better, the issue is trying to distance people from reality so the policy seems to make no sense to them.
It’s about control of reality
Sam Sinnett, president of the gay Catholic organization Dignity USA, said it was not the people supporting Spain’s public policy who had it wrong when the measure was approved, but rather the church’s hierarchy, which is out of step with the times.
“Their consciences are misinformed,” Sinnett said in May. “They need to learn about social and medical sciences [about homosexuality] and incorporate them into theology.”
The Church is Ignorant from theology because of white Medical and Social Sciences say about Homosexuality. Well Social science is influenced by politics so we toss that out. But the BEST medical Science can say is homosexuals are different in their brains.. but behavior some times makes your brains different.
Instead of speaking from Church doctrine or biblical doctrine to challenge the church’s position though, which would show a sense that they want to be part of a larger catholic community the approach is insult and attack.
Fear and Division.
“That means it has greater influence on all countries,” Sinnett said. “When they use that power to interfere in the politics of another sovereign country, that is incredible.”
I’m not arguing on their ignoring the fact the Vatican is its own sovereign nation ( and thus why it has a UN seat) but the Church isn’t going about interfering in the politics of another sovereign country. It is challenging politics in two countries where the people are mostly Catholic. It is going out and saying “This policy of your leaders goes against the moral sense we have about society.” These people have with their feet (as do those who are making these fallacious and ludicrous assaults) have voted with their favor... he has every right to say it, and people have every right to ignore it. But again a group that claims to be about homosexual Catholics doesn’t try to bring the community together but to show Homosexuals “you aren’t part of the community.” It plays on the fears… it plays on familial memories… it plays on many of the weaknesses of the soul that come as you struggle in a life that challenges the tradition of your family.
It is manipulative, abusive, and just out right evil the way these groups prey on these emotions. You can challenge church policy without promoting fear and division but that is their –power- and they will continue to keep their power.
However in the Malcontent’s comment section we see his entire point illustrated by a comment that is ignorant and foolish and of the same mentality of the Blade article
Robbie, wake up. Who has had more of an impact on gay rights in this country? The Washington Blade is not the NYTimes or the IHT, it doesn't have an international audience (it barely has an audience here in DC). While I think the whole award is stupid to begin with, I think it has way more relevance to Blade readers than Sharia Law.
And nice job with the religion baiting. I'm sure it'll do a good job of cranking up your page views, but it's putting you in the same credibility league as Pat Buchanan and Jean Marie Le Pen.
Posted by: Dan |
Well Dan let me ask you this. When Left-Wing gay rights activists march with people who celebrate Hamas who believes homosexuals should be executed which has a bigger impact on Gay Americans? When Gay Americans support politics that embrace from the communist states to Islamo-Fascist states that murder their fellow homosexuals in their nations what has a bigger impact on the lives of homosexuals
Is it A) THE POPE who will be ignored by the civil society they live in, and even by most Catholics
Or is it B) I endorse and help support states and groups which murder homosexuals all around the globe.
One choice promotes making homosexuals feel like fearful second class citizens in their own land, and One choice makes homosexuals feel like they have a chance to bring to light a great crime in the world and bring the moral voice of the United States and the World to bare on that important issue.
It’s about Fear and Power. I love you guys on Gaypatriot, Gay Orbit, The Malcontent and the other gay blog’s I’m known to read but you guys need to accept that the “gay rights movement” is about exhorting power from you, and giving you nothing.
If the Gay Rights movements went to the largest employers in the United States and Said “If we work together on pushing for gay marriage or civil unions nationally here is the impact you could see on your company.” Instead of taking responsibility and taking power those groups promote fear, they promote division and they do so because that gives them power.
Do you trust these people with that kind of power? If you keep doing that stuff like this will continue
The reality is The Malconent and the gay Conservative and centrist bloggers ( and the few lefty gay bloggers who are in the right place on this issue) don’t seem to get that “The Washington Blade” and other areas of the gay group identity politics in this country don’t want to focus on issues that matter. They don’t want to focus on issues that impact people who are homosexual they want to focus instead on how the world of homosexuals is horrible and who to blame.
They don’t write for the gay people in the Middle East they write for Gay people in the U.S and Europe and they need to teach them who to hate. Who is responsible for making the world so bad for them even if it just isn’t so.
“His rhetoric is obscene. He wants gays clearly taken care of — it’s almost like the Final Solution,” said Kara Speltz, a Catholic lesbian activist for Soulforce, an organization dedicated to ending anti-gay discrimination within all religions.
Again… look at that Language. They don’t want to say “The Catholic Church agenda isn’t supportive of gay inclusion.” It’s almost like the Final Solution. Pretty clear language and utterly irresponsible for anyone to say it, but acceptable in the world of the Washington Blade because they need to make homosexuals feel a culture of fear is all around them. Because when you feel the evil hetro-spiracy is all around you…. Why you SEE it all around you.
The official “Instruction,” from the Congregation for Catholic Education, stated, “One cannot ignore the negative consequences that can stem from the ordination of people with deeply-rooted homosexual tendencies.”
The "Instruction" also said men "who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture' cannot be admitted to seminaries.” The only exception would be for those with a "transitory problem" that had been overcome for at least three years.”
In the United States, gay rights groups including the Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force publicly challenged the ban and urged gay Catholics and their allies to speak out against it to local priests and bishops.
The reality is the bulk of the priest sex abuse in the U.S Isn’t Hetrosexual and it isn’t pedophilia. The sex abuse is –homosexual-. Not homosexual in a healthy way but Homosexual. The Lavander Mafia is the term the priest’s use to refer to it internally in the church. When the Gay Culture is seen permissively in seminaries but sexuality is strongly repressed in some people this can lead to an increase of compulsive and predatory sexual behavior.
So why didn’t the church go crack down on that? Why didn’t the church go out and give psych evals of every incoming priest. They can’t do that because not enough people are joining the Priesthood. So they are left with the choice of doing nothing, forcing many people out of the priesthood, or trying to target those whose problems are hardest to defend in court (heterosexual man/woman incidents have a much better track record of defense then those with a child) and are perceived as morally abhorant to the most people.
Why they did it is very easy to understand, but to folks like The Washington Blade and the gay intelligentsia the issue isn’t understanding The issue is promoting fear. The issue isn’t finding a way to make the Catholic community better, the issue is trying to distance people from reality so the policy seems to make no sense to them.
It’s about control of reality
Sam Sinnett, president of the gay Catholic organization Dignity USA, said it was not the people supporting Spain’s public policy who had it wrong when the measure was approved, but rather the church’s hierarchy, which is out of step with the times.
“Their consciences are misinformed,” Sinnett said in May. “They need to learn about social and medical sciences [about homosexuality] and incorporate them into theology.”
The Church is Ignorant from theology because of white Medical and Social Sciences say about Homosexuality. Well Social science is influenced by politics so we toss that out. But the BEST medical Science can say is homosexuals are different in their brains.. but behavior some times makes your brains different.
Instead of speaking from Church doctrine or biblical doctrine to challenge the church’s position though, which would show a sense that they want to be part of a larger catholic community the approach is insult and attack.
Fear and Division.
“That means it has greater influence on all countries,” Sinnett said. “When they use that power to interfere in the politics of another sovereign country, that is incredible.”
I’m not arguing on their ignoring the fact the Vatican is its own sovereign nation ( and thus why it has a UN seat) but the Church isn’t going about interfering in the politics of another sovereign country. It is challenging politics in two countries where the people are mostly Catholic. It is going out and saying “This policy of your leaders goes against the moral sense we have about society.” These people have with their feet (as do those who are making these fallacious and ludicrous assaults) have voted with their favor... he has every right to say it, and people have every right to ignore it. But again a group that claims to be about homosexual Catholics doesn’t try to bring the community together but to show Homosexuals “you aren’t part of the community.” It plays on the fears… it plays on familial memories… it plays on many of the weaknesses of the soul that come as you struggle in a life that challenges the tradition of your family.
It is manipulative, abusive, and just out right evil the way these groups prey on these emotions. You can challenge church policy without promoting fear and division but that is their –power- and they will continue to keep their power.
However in the Malcontent’s comment section we see his entire point illustrated by a comment that is ignorant and foolish and of the same mentality of the Blade article
Robbie, wake up. Who has had more of an impact on gay rights in this country? The Washington Blade is not the NYTimes or the IHT, it doesn't have an international audience (it barely has an audience here in DC). While I think the whole award is stupid to begin with, I think it has way more relevance to Blade readers than Sharia Law.
And nice job with the religion baiting. I'm sure it'll do a good job of cranking up your page views, but it's putting you in the same credibility league as Pat Buchanan and Jean Marie Le Pen.
Posted by: Dan |
Well Dan let me ask you this. When Left-Wing gay rights activists march with people who celebrate Hamas who believes homosexuals should be executed which has a bigger impact on Gay Americans? When Gay Americans support politics that embrace from the communist states to Islamo-Fascist states that murder their fellow homosexuals in their nations what has a bigger impact on the lives of homosexuals
Is it A) THE POPE who will be ignored by the civil society they live in, and even by most Catholics
Or is it B) I endorse and help support states and groups which murder homosexuals all around the globe.
One choice promotes making homosexuals feel like fearful second class citizens in their own land, and One choice makes homosexuals feel like they have a chance to bring to light a great crime in the world and bring the moral voice of the United States and the World to bare on that important issue.
It’s about Fear and Power. I love you guys on Gaypatriot, Gay Orbit, The Malcontent and the other gay blog’s I’m known to read but you guys need to accept that the “gay rights movement” is about exhorting power from you, and giving you nothing.
If the Gay Rights movements went to the largest employers in the United States and Said “If we work together on pushing for gay marriage or civil unions nationally here is the impact you could see on your company.” Instead of taking responsibility and taking power those groups promote fear, they promote division and they do so because that gives them power.
Do you trust these people with that kind of power? If you keep doing that stuff like this will continue
MS-13 is "Dangerous" says the FBI
A gang that traces its roots back to a Central American Death Squad. Now to some one like me, that pretty much establishes them as Very Dangerous (just a notch down from the Islamic Terrorist types) and it seems that the Federal Government thinks so to now. Well good for them….
But what happened in Houston on Nov. 2, FBI and Houston police officials say, has heightened concerns that MS-13 could be far more dangerous than thought.
The MS-13 suspects swept through the house like a well-trained assault team, using paramilitary tactics including perimeter lookouts, high-powered weaponry (an AK-47 rifle was among the weapons recovered later), and a quick, room-by-room sweep of the house that was notable for its precision and sophistication, Houston police spokesman Alvin Wright says.
When the MS-13 suspects were challenged by authorities, the result was an intense shootout that killed two suspects, identified as Juan Antonio Bautista, 29, and Jose Antonio Pino, 33. The four others were arrested and face an array of state charges, including robbery and assault.
Bob Clifford, who directs the FBI unit created last year to combat MS-13, says the battle symbolized MS-13's development from a smattering of loosely organized cells across the nation to an increasingly efficient and dangerous organization that has become a significant threat to public safety.
Hmmmm Maybe when you know that the Gang was formed from the tattered remains of a Central American Para-Military Group you might have seen this coming? Or a group that has offered to help Al-Qaeda out?
And we of course also see that when the State tries to outlaw our cold drugs, only the outlaws will have them… largely by stealing them.
In several cases, Hanson says, the suspects used a special bag that blocked the drugstores' electronic sensors from detecting items that were being stolen from the stores.
"The suspects researched Walgreens throughout the Midwest and on a routine basis averaged $45,000 to $55,000 worth of stolen merchandise per day," Hanson says.
Clifford says "it would be dangerous to look at MS-13 as just another street gang."
Yes yes but…a Gang Descended from Paramilitaries which is allying with Al FREAKING Qaeda getting access to some key components for making Meth (which means they can make lots of quick and cheap meth) is a problem isn’t it. And when they are showing more refined and more paramilitary tactics this is a very big problem now isn’t it.
So lets review… because we as a society have not put pressure on people to learn English we have Spanish Speaking Ghettos (original European meaning of ghetto) where these people can live without having to speak a lick of English. Allow these people to smuggle in illegal immigrants… and heck looks like they are smuggling SKS’s to.
You see this was a problem that could have been avoided yet some folks in this country have become so addicted to illegal aliens we now are brewing a future terrorist front in this country ourselves if we don’t shut these guys down now.
Good job their folks.
But what happened in Houston on Nov. 2, FBI and Houston police officials say, has heightened concerns that MS-13 could be far more dangerous than thought.
The MS-13 suspects swept through the house like a well-trained assault team, using paramilitary tactics including perimeter lookouts, high-powered weaponry (an AK-47 rifle was among the weapons recovered later), and a quick, room-by-room sweep of the house that was notable for its precision and sophistication, Houston police spokesman Alvin Wright says.
When the MS-13 suspects were challenged by authorities, the result was an intense shootout that killed two suspects, identified as Juan Antonio Bautista, 29, and Jose Antonio Pino, 33. The four others were arrested and face an array of state charges, including robbery and assault.
Bob Clifford, who directs the FBI unit created last year to combat MS-13, says the battle symbolized MS-13's development from a smattering of loosely organized cells across the nation to an increasingly efficient and dangerous organization that has become a significant threat to public safety.
Hmmmm Maybe when you know that the Gang was formed from the tattered remains of a Central American Para-Military Group you might have seen this coming? Or a group that has offered to help Al-Qaeda out?
And we of course also see that when the State tries to outlaw our cold drugs, only the outlaws will have them… largely by stealing them.
In several cases, Hanson says, the suspects used a special bag that blocked the drugstores' electronic sensors from detecting items that were being stolen from the stores.
"The suspects researched Walgreens throughout the Midwest and on a routine basis averaged $45,000 to $55,000 worth of stolen merchandise per day," Hanson says.
Clifford says "it would be dangerous to look at MS-13 as just another street gang."
Yes yes but…a Gang Descended from Paramilitaries which is allying with Al FREAKING Qaeda getting access to some key components for making Meth (which means they can make lots of quick and cheap meth) is a problem isn’t it. And when they are showing more refined and more paramilitary tactics this is a very big problem now isn’t it.
So lets review… because we as a society have not put pressure on people to learn English we have Spanish Speaking Ghettos (original European meaning of ghetto) where these people can live without having to speak a lick of English. Allow these people to smuggle in illegal immigrants… and heck looks like they are smuggling SKS’s to.
You see this was a problem that could have been avoided yet some folks in this country have become so addicted to illegal aliens we now are brewing a future terrorist front in this country ourselves if we don’t shut these guys down now.
Good job their folks.
analysts are morons (a it game from the email box special)
I got an email from the mooninite times....so lets roll that been footage
Or Mr. Un-named Analyst are these the same folks In GAZA who cheer'd the september 11th Attacks? and the same ones who marched in solidarity with Saddam Hussein and the Taliban....
Stupid stupid analysists
By Joshua Mitnick
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
January 8, 2006
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Video of Gazans passing out candy in response to the news of Mr. Sharon's stroke reflected widely shared sentiment that considers the Israeli prime minister to be a war criminal, analysts said.
Or Mr. Un-named Analyst are these the same folks In GAZA who cheer'd the september 11th Attacks? and the same ones who marched in solidarity with Saddam Hussein and the Taliban....
Stupid stupid analysists
Hmmm Intresting
Man who crashes Currencies around the world... Uber-Marxist Billionare George Soros may get the Dreamworks SKG Library from Paramount as part of their deal to buy the studio. This is a tad outside of what I've always read was Soros's normal style of investments ( some one correct me If I misheard). and other then Gladiator I'm not sure off the top of my head what they have which is of big ticket value.
Instapundit hates Married people (not really)
The man, the myth, the legend “Instapundit” (whose wife has been very very nice and linked to me on a number of occasions by the way) has laid out one of the many libertarian arguments that makes me just smack my head and shake my head and say “I used to be that person.” So on to what’s causing my head to have a big red spot today.
The solution to all of this, of course, is to separate marriage and state. There's no reason why the government should be involved in this sort of thing (the origin of Tennessee's statute requiring marriage licenses, it turns out, was a desire to ensure that county clerks got fees, not exactly an overwhelming justification) and there's no reason why people's private living arrangements should be part of public debate. That's my take, anyway.
Here is the problem with this line of thinking. In yee old times before the “modern” Era we had much more flexible standards on what is and is not marriage. If you co-habitated with a woman long enough BAM you get married. But a funny thing happened on the way to Libertopia Multiple wives showed up at the door asking for benefits. While not germane to his initial comments on polygamy, what is germane is that this was a problem to the state. They had no way to be sure who was and wasn’t married.
Don’t think that’s a problem? Look at Social Security. Look at the Federal Pension System. Look at the military retirement system. To save the government from losing money to any Susie sob story who claimed so and so was really her husband, the government began to demand standards. They demanded that the process get smoothed over and made clearer and more transparent.
Look now at your many many large companies (which incidentally if your gay rights groups really cared about gay’s civil rights to marry they would have worked with on the issue there…but they don’t care about that) that have pension and benefit plans that are tied to spouses. You end up with a serious economic problem.
Businesses and employers need a guarantee, and the government is the best party to provide that role. Now there are other alternatives like say a marriage corp. which sets standards that everyone knows are “respectable” enough to justify saying “this counts as marriage to us” but then we come back to the same road
The solution to all of this, of course, is to separate marriage and state. There's no reason why the government should be involved in this sort of thing (the origin of Tennessee's statute requiring marriage licenses, it turns out, was a desire to ensure that county clerks got fees, not exactly an overwhelming justification) and there's no reason why people's private living arrangements should be part of public debate. That's my take, anyway.
Here is the problem with this line of thinking. In yee old times before the “modern” Era we had much more flexible standards on what is and is not marriage. If you co-habitated with a woman long enough BAM you get married. But a funny thing happened on the way to Libertopia Multiple wives showed up at the door asking for benefits. While not germane to his initial comments on polygamy, what is germane is that this was a problem to the state. They had no way to be sure who was and wasn’t married.
Don’t think that’s a problem? Look at Social Security. Look at the Federal Pension System. Look at the military retirement system. To save the government from losing money to any Susie sob story who claimed so and so was really her husband, the government began to demand standards. They demanded that the process get smoothed over and made clearer and more transparent.
Look now at your many many large companies (which incidentally if your gay rights groups really cared about gay’s civil rights to marry they would have worked with on the issue there…but they don’t care about that) that have pension and benefit plans that are tied to spouses. You end up with a serious economic problem.
Businesses and employers need a guarantee, and the government is the best party to provide that role. Now there are other alternatives like say a marriage corp. which sets standards that everyone knows are “respectable” enough to justify saying “this counts as marriage to us” but then we come back to the same road
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Saturday, January 07, 2006
End of the game
Well I guessed the score difference right at least.
This game was all about Good Coaching and Good Defense. Chris Simms and the Buc's offense made few mistakes which was good.....
Unforntu
This game was all about Good Coaching and Good Defense. Chris Simms and the Buc's offense made few mistakes which was good.....
Unforntu