I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
FUCK BUSH
22,981!
A triple?
Nun freed from jail after defacing missile silo
Woman imprisoned for 2 years for smearing blood during antiwar protest
The Associated Press
Updated: 2:19 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2005
DANBURY, Conn. - A nun convicted of smearing her blood on a Colorado missile silo in an antiwar protest was released from federal prison Thursday after spending more than two years behind bars.
Ardeth Platte, 69, and two other Dominican sisters were arrested in 2002 after they cut a chain-link fence surrounding a Minuteman III silo and used baby bottles to dispense their own blood in the shape of a cross.
The nuns were convicted of obstructing national defense and damaging government property and received prison sentences ranging from 2˝ years to about 3˝. Platte’s co-defendants were released earlier.
They said their protest was prompted by an imminent war with Iraq.
“The charges remain bogus,” Platte said after her release. “It was, ‘If you’re not with us, you’re against us.’ And be assured, I would never stand with this government in any kind of killing.”
© 2005 The Associated Press.
Buenas Dias, Atriotes!
Does the Chimp yet live?
If so, why do you rest?
just askin?
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Much Happier New Year, Happy Hanukkah (or variant spelling), Happy Kwanza, and a belated wonderful Solstice Celebration.
Festivus (trip) begins in 30 minutes, but now shutting down the computer.
May BushCo enact no nefarious programs over the holidays. May BushCo be bushwhacked.
DWD, could be worse, no pain, just awkwardness.
aw crap, just posted this below as new sheets arrived.
"I think the news story yesterday was that through Eschelon or Raptor or whatever, we're ALL BEING SURVEILED"
I'm just curious, but how many here are like me and just *assumed* we were being surveiled since 9/11?
I'm far from a tin hat person, but I figured this has been going on all along.
I am off to the chiro's in mere moments now. Good thing too as the pain is returning with a vengence.
WGG, I never sleep. (Without medication, I guess)
Oh, and Cool Yule and fantastic Saturnalia. Any celebrations for end/turn of year are purely due to forgetfulness and/or ignorance.
JDW, count me among those who believed the government was watching me. Sort of a malignant Santa Claus.
Bush was born on third base but thinks he hit a triple.
I pretend to be pro democracy but the truth is most people are too stupid to be allowed to make decisions, coastal elites should run the government.
I pretend to be pro democracy but the truth is most people are too stupid to be allowed to make decisions, coastal elites should run the government.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Now back to the sugar caves, slave.
I answered you down there, jdw. I think so too.
how many here are like me and just *assumed* we were being surveiled since 9/11?
I certainly assumed it. And yet I still say FUCK BUSH on the phone.
You mean; Bi-coastal elites.
Hey, Moonbats! I hope today is fun and hassle-free for all of you.
I can't say I didn't expect this: "Federal District Judge James Robertson, who resigned from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court in protest over secret wiretaps ordered by President Bush, is regarded in Washington legal circles as one of President Bill Clinton's most liberal and partisan judicial appointments. Robertson, 67, has ruled consistently against the Bush administration's handling of enemy combatants..." Just goes to show why Democrats should never be allowed to be involved with national security or military issues. They're just too wimpy. Merry Christmas everyone.
hello moonbats 
Well, the holidays have gone well so far. My bosses gave each of us blackberries (I love new gadgets), I have been laden with chocolate in all its many manifestations, Karl Rove has to be spending Christmas wondering when the indicatment will issue, and the Republican Party is beginning to implode
I predict the New Year will be a good one.
I certainly assumed it. And yet I still say FUCK BUSH on the phone.
I also assumed.
Once I called my son to tell him about something I'd done and I jokingly said, "I rock!" He responded, "Great Mom. Iraq is a trigger word. Now they're paying attention to this conversation."
Well I, for one, heartily welcome our new bi-coastal overlords.
I'm far from a tin hat person, but I figured this has been going on all along.
jdw | Email | 12.24.05 - 8:48 am | #
yes. i've had hotmail go missing for weeks. then it all showed up one day. hope they enjoyed all the chit chat about the kitties and how much work sucks. then there was the weird clicking on the telephone.
The wire tapping incident will finish bush off and cripple the Republican Party. A lot of people don't care if their phones were tapped because "they have nothing to hide." Fools. We all have something to hide. And the thirty-percenters would be honored to think that the president himself was listening to them through some kind of hi-tech spy earphones.
The oppo research will energize the Democrats in congress.
The law-breaking will energize the judiciary.
But the fatak blow for Bush will be the spying on friends. When you have this kind of power to gather information, as illegal as that power may be, you use it. You use it even on your political allies.
Let's say you're Karl Rove and you're sweating bullets about the Plame investigation. You listen in on Fitz, sure, but that's not the end. Rove will do anything to save himself. I bet he'd be snooping on his so-called allies, like Libby to see how he could find out who knows whats.
King Rat time.
Bush: Done, ruined, and fucked.
I've assumed surveillance all along ...
DWD -- I'm wishing for your rapid pain relief. Lake Michigan has alwys held healing properties for me, hope it's the same for you.
Fuck you, Armando.
I pretend to be pro democracy but the truth is most people are too stupid to be
allowed to make decisions, coastal elites should run the government.
True Voice of Eschaton | 12.24.05 - 8:49 am | #
The proper response to asshole
trolls like this yutz is to
make fat, retard, anti-gay,
anti-asian jokes.
Allow me.
Hey True Voice of Eschaton:
Get your obese, Jerry's kids, homo,
slant ass out of here.
Thank you for your cooperation.
"I certainly assumed it. And yet I still say FUCK BUSH on the phone.
NTodd"
me too. i figured that people that own liberal blogs, as well their commentators, were being watched...with the owners probably having huge fbi files by now. but to what end?
when i saw that thing about the military spying on the quakers, i thought of this place...basically a bunch of very mellow people sitting around, some people knitting or quilting, and talking about stuff..
the paranoia and lunacy of monitoring people like that was as much sad as laughable as disgusting.
at times i'd think i knew for sure that everyone was being watched, but then i thought, nah...i'm just being paranoid, and nothing i write is of importance anyway...and so i'd vacillate back and forth.
Armando - Happy New Year to you. In jail.
Mr. Potter
Bedford Falls, NY
Bush Grants 11 Pardons
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 24, 2005
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (AP) - President Bush has granted 11 pardons, bringing to 69 the number of clemency orders he has issued since taking office five years ago, the Justice Department said Friday.
Three moonshiners and a bank robber were among those pardoned, as was a Denver lawyer whose employer has Republican political ties. The pardons were issued Tuesday, in keeping with a tradition of granting clemency during the holiday season.
Stars turn backs on America's troops in Iraq
· Danger and anti-war stance keep celebrities away
· Shows now depend on Christian hip-hop groups
During world war two American troops away from home for Christmas were entertained by Marlene Dietrich, Bing Crosby and the Marx Brothers. Even in Vietnam Bob Hope was guaranteed to put in an appearance. But soldiers in Iraq are more likely to get a show from a Christian hip-hop group, a country singer you have probably never heard of and two cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys.
Just as the seemingly intractable nature of the war has led to a growing recruitment crisis, so the United Services Organisation, which has been putting on shows for the troops since the second world war, is struggling to get celebrities to sign up for even a short tour of duty.
Arabella:
I completely agree.
When it comes out, as it
inevitably will (and soon, I
suspect) that the Bushies
were spying on political opponents
as opposed to terrorists, the
whole mis-administration will come
crashing down.
Nixon and company redux.
Perhaps we should all move in with you. Mr. ql, the prince and I.
QL, there's enough room in the back that you guys could build another little house, kind of like TE Lawrence's Clouds Hill. Two stories, two rooms, bookshelves.
Why don't the trolls volunteer for the USO? Who's going to entertain the troops, if not Toby reading poetry.
gwb:drf
" Just goes to show why Democrats should never be allowed to be involved with national security or military issues. They're just too wimpy. Merry Christmas everyone.
Armando"
well, you can almost assume this is gonna occur whether the person is a dem or repub..characted assasination has been one of their tools..
last night i printed off the judge's decision in the dover case and got about 1/2 way thru...fascinating reading...and i'm wondering now how the wingnuts are gonna attack the judge.
And on that note, I think I'll
take a morning nap.
See you guys later.
the whole mis-administration will come crashing down.
Steve, hermano, i wish i had a oz of the chronic for every time i have heard some of our number proclaim that such and such a problem/scandal/outrage would finalkly bring the Bushevik Regime crashing down...never hafta work again...
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Kind of a problem with a frontless war. At this point who are the repukes going to blame? Hollywood liberals? (And they cannot even assure anyone that they will not be blown up between the so called green zone and the airport.
And if all of those who called for this war - Dennis Leary, Ron Silverman, Brittney Spears, and the rest - cannot get the stones to do it; why blame someone else?
These are hard times for us, first we have to "care" for "our" baby killing fascist troops and also some bitch in the murderous CIA to get back at Chimpy.
They're just too wimpy ... I see this as exactly opposite, that radical republicans are the wimpy, defeatist ones. They don't have enough faith in their own courage and intelligence to use the tools of constitutional democracy effectively. Instead they bully and flail. So said to watch them expose their cowardly ineptness this way.
Stars turn backs on America's troops in Iraq
· Danger and anti-war stance keep celebrities away
· Shows now depend on Christian hip-hop groups
am i the only one who find utterly anomalous the whole notion of 'xian' hip-hop groups?
?
GWPDA - Well, I we must think a bit more about this. While the apartment is cramped, we do have more than two rooms.
Iirc, Al Francken spent last week doing a USO Tour. I guess liberals aren't too afraid to work the USO, eh?
GWPDA,
I have been bugging Mrs. DWD for the last couple of years to, when the boys move out and on, to build a small house. Three or four rooms with lots of books and music.
I meant "so sad" to watch them . . . it really is embarrassing.
adical republicans are the wimpy, defeatist ones. They don't have enough faith in their own courage and intelligence to use the tools of constitutional democracy effectively. Instead they bully and flail.
WORD.
DWD -- Lately I've been watching a program called something like "Small Spaces, Big Ideas" when over at my mom's house. My fantasy would be to live in a small, well-designed functional space somewhere near the lake.
USer troops commit daily acts of senseless terrorism in Iraq
how may one support such troops and distinguish betwenn them and the acts for which they are responsible?
after i got outta the war in '68, i had a lotof sympathy for the draftees who were went to Nam, and forced to fight for their lives.
volunteers? annnh, not so much...
every person who served in Iraq needs to be confined to a mental institution upon returning stateside until they have dealt with their demons...
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Triumphant Iraq Shi'ites dismiss vote fraud claims
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The coalition bloc that triumphed in last week's Iraqi election dismissed allegations of fraud on Saturday and insisted the country's next prime minister should come from within its Shi'ite Islamist ranks.
Responding to claims by Sunni Arabs and some secular parties of widespread vote-rigging during the December 15 election, the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) said its opponents were bad losers.
It said the most serious fraud allegations came from Sunni areas of the country and that there could be no rerun of the election, as a battery of Sunni and secular parties have urged.
cs, not a ridiculously small space, just a great room, a studio (for my writing and all) and a couple of bedrooms. I think the current house is about 2300 sq ft: I would be happy with about 1200 I think.
we do have more than two rooms.
We only have four, ourselves. That's what happens when you take away nearly all the walls inside!
. . . every person who served in Iraq needs to be confined to a mental institution upon returning stateside until they have dealt with their demons...
Having lived through Vietnam, thoughts about all those who've had their souls stolen by war keep me awake at night. A true community would commit to helping give them back to themselves.
The "You're an Army of One" is fast approaching fruition. I wonder who it'l be?
DWD -- That sounds lovely. If your wife is hesitant, you might try watching the show. Some spaces are about the size you're thinking of . . . It's very stimulating to see how creatively and comfortably we can live within limited space.
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DWD -- Two years ago, at the end of a tough year, my sister took me to Saugatuck after Christmas. We stayed in a b&b on the river with a wonderful Italian-American aesthetic. Holiday lights reflected in the water up and down the river. The house opposite our balcony was festooned with lights spelling out "Peace on Earth" and the inn played Italian music through speakers on the deck below. It was heavenly . . .
Hey, where'd everyone go?
CS, sounds lovely. I like Saugatuck - I went to school in Holland. We used to ride our bikes there. At that time they had a bookstore called, "Call me Ishamael." Wonder if it is still there? (Haven't been there for a while - life)
DWD -- Did you go to Hope? One of my favorite history profs graduated from there.
Hey, where'd everyone go?
I was blogging. Now I'm gonna go make coffee.
DWD - Small houses are chic.
Owls in the hizzy, BTW.
cs...it's been pretty slow with the holidays...off to shower, then to toledo for the day to see the inlaws...ugh.
jdw -- I have a soft spot for Toledo. I'm here in Ohio, too. Where are you traveling from?
"But retiring at age 55, with 25 years on the job, at half salary? I support unions and I support the notion that Americans work too much, but even so that strikes me as indefensible. After all, most people have working lives of 40-50 years, and it's hard to imagine that they have a lot of sympathy for a deal like that. I have to confess that I don't."
If i read this right, after 25 years someone can retire and pull in a whopping $27,500 before taxes.
At time I admit i can be sort of jealous at the type of money my typical customers make...there is a guy that works at chrysler that makes 60k a year, and gets 90% of that even when he's laid off. And then there's the surgeon that just charged my mom 18,000 for a 3 hour surgery. But then i remember that earning this type of $ allows these folks to buy the stuff i make, and in the end if i choose to make a career move where money and security are more important, it's mine to make.
am i the only one who find utterly anomalous the whole notion of 'xian' hip-hop groups?
?
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka | Email |
As a Village Voice reader, I followed hip-hop from the Kurtis Blow era. Churches in The Bronx, Harlem and Newark were onto rap and hip-hop almost immediately, and the whole improvised rhyme tradition of rap has firm roots in the preacher tradition (cf Jesse Jackson, who'd have made a good rapper).
My daughter took fencing in college. Because she's small, she was at considerable disadvantage but made up for it by being aggressive. I visited class one day, it was fun to watch.
Oops. Posted above to wrong thread. So sorry . . .
Good news of the week:
Politics:
IMF Writes Off $82M in Debt for Cambodia.
Democrats strike back.
US, Britain to reduce troop levels. This is a cheap political ploy to create the illusion of progress. Regardless, fewer troops over there is a good thing.
Diebold news round-up.
New Yorkers Support the Transit Strike.
Senate rejects drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge.
Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’.
House GOP Drops Campaign Finance Measure.
Lawmakers of both parties want probe into spying.
Health and Environment:
Think Away the Pain.
Senate rejects drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge.
Meth Use Down.
Europeans opt for sustainable seafood.
Other:
UN Launches $500 Million Emergency Relief Fund.
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