"You are in effect saying the U.S. rules the world," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (news - web sites) said. Goldstein said he disagreed with that characterization.
THE "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" BLOGGER QUIZ
1. Who the hell do you think you are?
I am sorry that information is Classifed
2. So, other than blogging, what's your job? Do you work at some fast food joint, dumbass?
Part time student, full time file clerk
3. Do you have like any experience in journalism, idiot?
I worked on a high school paper one year
4. Do you even read newspapers?
every day
5. Do you watch any other news than FOX News propaganda, you ignorant fool?
I channel flip between news stations
6. I bet you're some moron talk radio listener too, huh?
*GASP* who told you
7. So, do you get a fax from the GOP each day for what to say, you @#$% Republican parrot?
yeah just like i get a dnc email every day to... and a libertarian party one every few months
8. Why do you and your blogger friends want to silence and fire everyone who disagrees with you, fascist?
I just want incompetent people to be fired
9. Are you completely ignorant of other countries, or do you actually own a passport?
I'd get a passport if i had the cash to see another country
10. Have you even been to another country, you dumb hick?
see above
11. If you're so keen on the war, why haven't you signed up, chickenhawk?
Military wouldn't take me.. bumb teeth, bumb knee, bad eyesight
12. Do you have any idea of the horrors of war? Have you ever reached into a pile of goo that was your best friend's face?
Yes drill instructor sir
13. Have you ever reached into any pile of goo?
yes
14. Once again, who the hell do you think you are?!
classifed
Geffen, who was a generous supporter and pal of Bill Clinton when he was president, trashed Hillary's prospects last night during a Q&A at the 92nd St. Y in New York City.
"She can't win, and she's an incredibly polarizing figure," the billionaire Democrat told his audience. "And ambition is just not a good enough reason."
"Part of the cost involved in the repercussions of recent events is that it has weakened, if not destroyed, the sense that we are actually talking the same language within the Anglican Communion," Williams told the Church of England synod, which was considering an official report on the issue.
"Not having a common language, a common frame of reference, has been one of the casualties of recent events, and there is every indication that that is not going to get better in a hurry," he said
Williams endorsed the Eames report, but told the synod: "There will be no cost-free outcome from this ... to put it as bluntly as I can, there are no clean breaks in the Body of Christ."
Ok.... George Bush appointed his "National Director of Intelligence" the
"Intelligence Czar"
Ok, An ambassador to baby-sit a bunch of intelligence agency heads... I can
sorta see how that makes sense but here is my real problem about this whole
thing
What is the Job of the NID?
What is the Job of the DCI?
What is the job of the NSA?
What is the job of the N.S.A?
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If you come up with the same answer for all 4 you are not alone.
We made a reform for the sake of making a reform.... Just like the ton of
Gun control laws that are never enforced. More bureaucracy and laws don't
make us safe stopping bad guys makes us safe.
More thoughts, on entertainment
The other flick I was interested in seeing was Constantine
Vertigo, I am a huge fan of the line. I liked the Constantine stories.
Now I had concerns that Metrosexual-pretty boy Keaunu Reeves being cast in
the title role.
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Major Story arch: John Constantine tricks the demons in hell to into curing
his lung cancer. In the comic book, John lights up his cigarette and goes
on. Unrepentant, degenerate, and the anti-hero he is
In the movie.... he chews gum
A single scene that clearly destroys the entire premise of the charecter
"I think the things that anyone has to ask. What do I bring to it? Do I bring ideas? Do I bring a world view, or something that maybe would be useful to the country? Is there some perspective that is, that's helpful? I think if it's just this, 'Gee, I'd like to do that,' that's not an adequate beginning for me. There has to be something. Maybe it's a focus on domestic policy, a focus on how we can improve our nation, but there's got to be something deep inside."
We need a serious President capable of handling foreign policy and national security, not some "values" charlatan.
THE NEW YORK OBSERVER will report tomorrow: 'Former 60 Minutes Wednesday executive editor Josh Howard has told colleagues that before he resigns, the 23-year CBS News veteran will demand that the network retract remarks by CBS president Leslie Moonves, correct its official story line and ultimately clear his name'...
In the event of a lawsuit, Mr. Howard has told associates that he would like to see Moonves put under oath to talk about his own roles in the network's stubborn, hapless defense of the flawed segment on President Bush's National Guard service.
Howard has also indicated to colleagues that he would subpoena specific CBS documents, including the e-mails of top executives.
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San Francisco would become the first city in the nation to charge drivers just for driving in its chronically congested downtown under a sure-to-be controversial proposal being aired today.
Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, chair of the San Francisco Transportation Authority, will ask the agency to study a downtown toll zone -- whereby drivers would need to purchase a daily pass to drive in The City's most congested streets -- as a potential solution to the Municipal Transportation Agency's woeful budget problems.
"The key issue here is if we can kill three birds with one stone -- relieve congestion, clean up the air, and give money to Muni -- we would have hit a home run," McGoldrick said.
Officials in car-clogged California are so worried they may be considering a replacement for the gas tax altogether, replacing it with something called "tax by the mile."
Seeing tax dollars dwindling, neighboring Oregon has already started road testing the idea.
"Drivers will get charged for how many miles they use the roads, and it's as simple as that," says engineer David Kim.
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The new tax would be charged each time you fill up. A computer inside the gas pump would communicate with your car's odometer to calculate how much you owe.
The system could also track how often you drive during rush hour and charge higher fees to discourage peak use. That's an idea that could break the bottleneck on California's freeways.
Lebanon - A massive bomb tore through the motorcade of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who resigned last fall following a sharp dispute with Syria, killing him and at least nine other people Monday.
Hariri, 60, left office in October but had the wealth and the prominence to maintain some independence without defying Lebanon's main power broker, Syria, which keeps about 15,000 troops in the country and influences virtually all key political decisions.
Syria dominates Lebanon politically and militarily, and Hariri was careful to avoid openly defying Damascus, although his stature could have been a formidable opponent. New elections are expected in April and May, but no date has been set.
In Paris, Lebanon's most prominent exile, former army commander Gen. Michel Aoun, blamed Syria for the bombing and what he called the "feeble regime imposed by Syria" for the assassination.
You scored as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Congratulations! You are obsessive-compulsive! You know nothing curbs images of mutilating your mother like a good counting/checking/washing ritual... wait, DID you forget to turn off the stove???
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Could marriage, qua legal status, accommodate polygamous relationships? No! How would divorce be handled in polygamy? Could two "spouses" oust a third? What about property ownership -- could three out of seven spouses own property jointly apart from the others? Can a spouse in one polygamous marriage enter into another polygamous marriage without the consent of all the spouses of the original and the new marriages? What about inheritance? Tax returns? Child support? Powers of attorney? Right-to-die decisions?
The legal implications of the status of marriage require, metaphysically, that it be between two and only two people. But those same legal implications do not require, metaphysically, that it be between a man and a woman.
there is a fundamental right to marry under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the state would have to show a "compelling interest" in restricting a particular form of marriage. Clearly the sheer impossibility (not difficulty, but impossibility) of implementing legal polygamy qualifies.
2 --In the 2003 New York Times op-ed piece written by Jordan in 2003, he did not " admit that CNN had decided not to broadcast stories unflattering to the Iraqi government during the time Iraq was ruled by Saddam Hussein."
He did admit that he had withheld individual stories on specific atrocities precisely for fear that airing them would be the equivalent of a death sentence for his people in Saddam's Iraq. And he expressed relief that finally these stories could and would come out.
I’m From the UN and I’m here to Help
(Note my use of a Star Wars fan film in the link is not an endorsement whatsoever)
“The UN: We also Rape Children.” That’s the reality and it is getting more and more obvious every day. The UN aides and abets in the theft of money meant to feed starving Iraqi’s. Sexual Harassment of employees and the list goes on and on.
I’ve heard from former UN employees tales of the peacekeepers selling themselves to rival factions as mercenaries... this issues of corruption are nothing new, what is new is the United States and many other nations are tiring of it.
We’ve heard tales of piecemeal reforms coming from the desk of Kofi Annan, but I think piecemeal isn’t going to cut it. It’s not going to make these wounds heal.
I think we need a New UN. We need a UN with some degree of balance. We need to have both equal representation for Nations, but some thing to weigh the realities to the power bases of the Nations in the world. We need to see to it that Nations who commit on a regular basis crimes against humanity are not put in charge of setting the standards.
We need to put in rules and safeguards which prevent Nations like
Last year, Democrats spent $61 million on TV ads in Ohio.Yeah man.... And John Kerry won by 36% of the vote right? Oh.. Oh He didn't
Republicans, on the other hand, spent $39 million, on such ads, or 36 percent less than their Democratic opposition.
"I tried to explain that Iran was not like the Soviet Union, that the mullahs were deeply unpopular but unlike their predecessors over the last 150 years they were not in the hands of the British or the Russians or the Americans," said François Heisbourg, director of the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "She gave no proof that Iran was totalitarian, because she didn't have any. It was scary. Unless there is some give on the American side we are heading for a real crisis."
Sad conclusion in the Eason Jordan affair (see below the New
York Times article), sad day for the freedom of expression in
America and sad day again for the future of blogging
he defense
of the US army honor seemed more important to some bloggers
than the defense of reporters' work (and sometimes life)!
Nevertheless, there is one advantage in this story: masks are
fallen! Within the honest community of bloggers, some of them
claimed to be the "sons of the First Amendment", they just were
the sons of Senator McCarthy. And this is very worrying to see
this new wedding between self-proclaimed citizen's media and
mainstream journalists scalps' hunters.
Fifty years ago, it was
enough to be communist to be fired, today, it is enough to raise
questions about the Bush administration policy in Iraq to be
denounced as "anti-American".
Maybe the only difference is that
you are not fired, but that you must dismiss! What's my
conclusion? Real promoters of citizen media would have to take
some distance with those who have fueled and organised the
Eason Jordan hatred. If not, the "new era of journalism" opened
by the blogosphere will appear as the old clothes of American
populism.
According to the New York Times, "Eason Jordan, a senior
executive at CNN who was responsible for coordinating the cable
network's Iraq coverage, resigned abruptly Friday 11 February,
citing a journalistic tempest he touched off during a panel
discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
late last month in which he appeared to suggest that United States
troops had deliberately aimed at journalists, killing some.
Though no transcript of Mr. Jordan's remarks at Davos on Jan. 27
has been released, the panel's moderator, David Gergen, editor at
large of U.S. News & World Report, said in an interview last
night that Mr. Jordan had initially spoken of soldiers, "on both
sides," who he believed had been "targeting" some of the more
than four dozen journalists killed in Iraq. Almost immediately
after making that assertion, Mr. Jordan, whose title at CNN had
been executive vice president and chief news executive, "quickly
walked that back to make it clear that there was no policy on the
part of the U.S. government to target or injure journalists," Mr.
Gergen said."
In a memorandum released to his colleagues last night, Mr.
Jordan, 44, who had worked at the network for more than two
decades, said he had "decided to resign in an effort to prevent
CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over
conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming
number of journalists killed in Iraq."
Bret Stephens, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial
board who attended the session in Davos, wrote in Thursday's
Journal that Mr. Jordan had "made a defamatory innuendo" but
added: "Mr. Jordan deserves some credit for retracting the
substance of his remark, and some forgiveness for trying to weasel
his way out of a bad situation of his own making."
Source: New York Times. See also the first posting on 28 January
2005 about the Eason Jordan affair: it was posted by Rony
Abrovitz on forumblog.org, the official weblog of the World
Economic Forum.
Charles' younger brother, Prince Edward, announced in 2003 that his newborn daughter would not receive the HRH, nor would any more children he and his wife, Sophie, might have.
To determine if the Earth is warming or cooling, scientists look at average temperatures. To get an "average" temperature, scientists take the warmest and the coolest temperatures in a day, and calculate the temperature that is exactly in the middle of those high and low values. This provides an average temperature for a day. These average temperatures are then calculated for spots all over the Earth, over an entire year.
But, when he spoke... so much fallacious logic, so much circular theology... my worry of any bias was burned away in a almost primal invocation of the animal trapped in a box pondering if i should gnaw away my own limb.... if only i didn't pay attention to the teachings of Dune i'd have done so.
I can't right now blog about the errors he made, but i have a real problem with just how unkind i will have to be to him
Without going that far, Richard Sambrook, a BBC star raised the stakes. Another journalist in the room also recalled the Palestine hotel incident which supported the statements made in Davos, and recognizes the scale of the phenomenon, well-known within the journalistic community, but not beyond.
would ask such activists, while they go after the journalists, why they fail to call upon our government to be accountable for the many known lies that they have told us. Freedom to do so is a traditional and important American value. Read a bit of Thomas Jefferson’s writings and you will not be able to disagree.
When I compare:
1. Eason Jordan’s comments that journalists have been targeted by military
2. Myriad public comments by the Bush administration which caused the military to go to war on the wings of lies in the first place..
I’ll bet the egotistical media will spend more time navel-gazing than reporting the truth about matters material to the most meaningful national interests. When you hear people say that the mainstream media seems as if they are in league with the American right-wing on the issues they choose to report, this is how it happens.
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat Joseph C. Wilson IV, Ambassador
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7/6/2003
WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday urged President Bush (news - web sites) to stop the Republican National Committee (news - web sites) from calling him an obstructionist and criticizing his Senate record, a tactic the GOP used to help defeat Reid's predecessor.
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Bush repeatedly has said he wants work with Democrats, most recently during his State of the Union speech last week, Reid noted in a speech on the Senate floor.
"Why didn't he stand and tell the American people last Wednesday that one of the first items of business we were going to do in Washington is send out a hit piece on the Democratic leader?" Reid said.
Update III: More from panelist and BBC director Richard Sambrook. I asked him via e-mail if he had any response to this comment from Jim Geraghty:
[BBC director Richard] Sambrook states, "[Jordan] clarified his comment a number of times to ensure people did not misunderstand him."
But then why would Arab members of the audience come up and congratulate him for having the courage to speak the truth? Why were, according to these accounts, Franks, Dodd and Gergen so disturbed? Or are these details from other accounts inaccurate? Are Abovitz, MacKinnon, and Frank remembering things that didn't happen? How about the secondhand sources of Jay Nordlinger?
Sambrook responded:
I can't answer for how other people took his comments. His initial comment may have been ambiguous (although even then I didn't think he meant that US troops had intended to kill journalists) but his clarifications as the session progressed should have left no-one in doubt about his meaning. Could it be that some people would prefer to think ill of him?
There are people in the media community who would criticise the US military on this issue. I'm not one of them and to my knowledge Eason has in the past dismissed suggestions of ill-intent on the part of the US military.
But the blockbuster news from David Gergen isn't so much the corroboration he gave Michelle about Jordan's remarks. He told Michelle that he had been interviewed by the Washington Post about Jordan's comments last week, who then apparently spiked the story.
Conservative thought has long rated the notion of "root causes" — explaining antisocial behavior as a consequence of social conditions — as a major heresy. Neoconservatives have especially enjoyed burning witches over this doctrinal deviation. This makes it especially remarkable that a president thought to be in the thrall of neocons should sink so eloquently into doctrinal error.
Annan vows action
By Betsy Pisik
NEW YORK -- In a bid to regain public confidence, officials of
the United Nations promised swift action after the release
Thursday of a highly critical evaluation of the U.N. oil-for-food
program.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday pledged to take
unspecified disciplinary action against two senior U.N. officials,
with his aides adding that he would strip away diplomatic
immunity of the pair, if necessary.
People my age are as likely to believe in Social Security as they are in Santa Claus. And, if you ask me, it would be equally naive for a twenty-something to believe in either one.
Her views are consistent with comments that I hear from my own students, most of whom are in their mid-twenties, and none of whom are counting on a dime from Social Security when they retire.
WHY NOT AN ANTI-ABORTION AMENDMENT? Here's an interesting question, posed by my friend Jon Rauch. The Senate Republicans have vowed to push their anti-gay marriage amendment, even though it won't stand a chance of getting the necessary 67 votes. The point is political and rhetorical. They are trying to build momentum, raise money, and keep the cause of banning same-sex unions alive. So why not push an anti-abortion amendment instead? They have one such amendment on hand. Both proposed amendments are allegedly against judicial meddling. Both will fail. But one deals with a much graver issue, by the religious right's reckoning - an immense loss of human life, rather than the grave evil of two human beings committing to one another for life. So why this priority? Surely, abortion is a more important matter than same-sex marriage - even for the religious right. Or is it?
It is moments like this that remind me there is a god, and he has a really twisted sense of humor.
I am due to my math class going to miss out on the president's state of the union speech ( i'll actually do better decoding the transcript myself afterwards anyway) and the ludicrous democratic rebutal
as it says on my G-mail signature "Truth is stranger then fiction, because fiction has to make sense"
