I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Morning.
Looking at that picture on HuffPo, it's almost as good as a frogmarch.
I slept fairly well last night.
Morning everyone.
Wanna play Spot the Mehlman?
Probably not, I suppose.
Good threadbot, here's a scratch behind the ears for you.
Damn, Dr. T, that's seriously gross.
Wanna play Spot the Mehlman?
I'll need more coffee, plus a Xanax, to do that.
mornin' batzes!
anybody want fresh lavender???
Corrales/Cuidando Los Ninos Lavender Festival This Weekend
I was weak and bad and I wimped out last year, and I apologize, and promise not to do it again, but FYI: I am again going to mc the annual Lavender Festival this year in Corrales (for the benefit of Cuidando Los Ninos, a local non-profit which provides daycare for homeless kids).
It is TWO days, this year: Sat & Sun, 10-5 at the Corrales Community Center
For my friends in far places, I am prepared to purchase some amount of the stuff.
As yet i don't know the prices, but I'll know Saturday, after the first day
So I will post the prices first thing Sunday AM here, and ship desired quantities to any interested folks for my cost, plus shipping...
Sorry 'bout last year...no excuses...I'm an unreliable slug, it's true...but if you're intersted, lemme know...
Wanna play Spot the Mehlman?
Attaturk
GAAAAAHHHHH!!!!11!!! MY EYES!
90 years on, the Somme remembered
Captain WP Nevill of the 8th East Surreys was a complete ass. In the line in France, he liked to stand on a firestep of an evening, shouting insults at the Germans. Knowing that his men were about to participate in their first battle and keen to inspire, he had a wizard idea.
On leave in England, he bought footballs for each of his four platoons. One was inscribed: "The Great European Cup. The Final. East Surreys v Bavarians. Kick-off at Zero." Nevill offered a prize to whoever first put a ball into a German trench when the "big push" came.
Sure enough, when the whistles blew on July 1 1916, and 150,000 English, Scots, Welsh and Scottish soldiers climbed ladders to offer themselves to the German machine-guns, Nevill's footballers kicked off.
Wanna play Spot the Mehlman?
I'll need more coffee, plus a Xanax, to do that.
I see....what I really needed was some Viagra.
Thanks, threadbot. I've left some strawberry ice cream in your bowl.
Morning,again, rational people. My little dialup just couldn't handle the size of the last thread.
Good threadbot, here's a scratch behind the ears for you.
Ruth
Oh, the things we do for our feline superiors. As I write this my wife and I are sitting on the front porch. I am slunk down in my chair, feet on the coffee table, nearly horizontal - all so little "Threadbot" wanted to lie on my chest.
But she's not spoiled or anything.
England v Portugal
Thousands of England fans have gathered in Gelsenkirchen ahead of the World Cup quarter-final match against Portugal.
It is believed 80,000 are in the city but only 30,000 will get to see the 1600 BST game to be played under a closed roof at the AufShchalke Arena.
Frank Lampard and Gary Neville will both start for England after shaking off injuries.
Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo is facing a race against time to recover from an injured thigh.
Oh, and I see that the editors of the LA and NY Times got together to explain just why they published government "secrets."
Funny how now they see the important role of a free press after years of carrying water for the Emperor and his minions.
I can't see the Eng/Por game. I'm hoping for some time with Brazil.
But Al Gore invented the internet, or something:
Paul Epstein, associate director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment, said the Atlantic is warming faster than scientists projected even a decade ago, and he expects such storms as the one seen this week from Virginia to New York to become common.
"Scientists and climatologists are looking at one another and we're just stunned because no one, even in the 1990s, projected the magnitude of the storms and degree of warming in the Arctic that we are seeing," he said.
I think France will beat Brazil, all they need to do is put Thierry Henry on the left, they need to learn how to utilized his talents like Arsenal has.
Wanna play Spot the Mehlman?
That guy's head is shaped like a peanut.
i think the final 4 will be
Germany
England
France
Italy
ex-imperial powers heh
I think France will beat Brazil, all they need to do is put Thierry Henry on the left, they need to learn how to utilized his talents like Arsenal has.
Moonbootica
That's what I have heard. But I don't think it will happen. Brazil 2:1.
The top guy at Accuweather says don't worry, it's just a natural cycle. Aren't they the ones who falsely said th National Weather Service blew the Katrina predictions?
Saturday, gunmen kidnapped a Sunni female member of parliament in a Shiite area of the capital, officials said.
Lawmaker Tayseer Mashhadani was traveling from nearby Diyala province in a three-car convoy to attend a parliament session Sunday in Baghdad when her party was stopped by gunmen in the east of the city, officials said.
Hamdi Hassoun, an official with the Iraqi Islamic Party branch in Diyala, said Mashhadani was stopped at a checkpoint manned by about 10 armed men in civilian clothes. After checking her identity card, the gunmen asked her and her bodyguards to step out, then forced them into other cars and drove them away.
At current projections, Epstein said, a typical day in Boston could feel like present-day Richmond, Virginia
They'll have to erect a bunch of monuments to confederate generals.
Italia looked great yesterday - if they play like that, they will beat anyone
Good morning all.
Sorry Moon.
I think Brazil wins it again this year.
Re: Tayseer Mashhadani: Aw FUCK!
Lose today and Eriksson's reputation is finished
If Sven-Goran Eriksson's palms are ever to sweat, then this must be the day. He has been as composed as usual before the World Cup quarter-final, shielded by his favourite generalisations, but the game with Portugal will pierce any barrier. Wealthy as the FA has made him, the Swede could be impoverished in one regard, stripped of a rich reputation he began to forge when IFK Gothenburg won the 1982 Uefa Cup.
That, understandably, is not a standpoint he will tolerate, preferring a wide perspective: "I have been in the [profession] for 30 years and I have been winning some things." There were a string of declarations to parry discussion of the reckoning demanded by defeat by Portugal. "It will not be my last game in charge," he asserted. "I have never thought about that. It's not going to go wrong. They will win the match. I told them that we shall stay in Germany until the last day."
At current projections, Epstein said, a typical day in Boston could feel like present-day Richmond, Virginia
And Richmond will feel like....
killer bees!
Vinay Gupta on Limited Liability
'Aren't they the ones who falsely said th National Weather Service blew the Katrina predictions?
Moe Szyslak '
Who could have predicted .....
the Brazillian defence is a bit dodgy.
and Richmond will feel like
Panama City.
Good thing the idjits aren't trying to pretend they spic angleesh;
Grand ol' perverts respond to 'Nancy Pelosi's comment Thursday that the court decision "affirms the American ideal that all are entitled to the basic guarantees of our justice system." That statement, Boehner said, amounted to Pelosi's advocating "special privileges for terrorists."'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6063001737.html
Toll rises in Baghdad car bomb attack
As many as 59 people are said to have died in a car bomb attack on a police patrol in eastern Baghdad, including police and civilians.
The explosion, apparently in a parked car, went off close to a crowded market in the poor Shia district of Sadr City at about 10am and scorched many nearby cars.
Sources at the interior ministry said the number of deaths had risen to 59 during the morning, with 78 people wounded.
Nizar al-Samaraei, an Iraqi journalist, told Aljazeera, the market was busy as it was the first day of the week when citizens usually go shopping.
We're all terrorists.
You know what's better then being sick?
Being sick and coming into your office building when it is being painted.
Paint and thinner fumes, nothings better when you've been fighting the flu.
Thanks Karma.
Thanks for FUCKING MUCH!
"The English media's packed lunch contains passion fruit - presumably to ensure you are fired up for the occasion - and perhaps more ominously a miniature of the hard stuff, in this case vodka.
"Might have come in handy in those vital moments before a penalty shoot-out, but I decided it was best left back at my hotel."
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty in Gelsenkirchen.
Your boss is a terrorist.
Your landlord is a terrorist too.
Off topic: On TBogg's reccomendation I have been listening to Regina Spektor's music. Holy crap! She is an outstanding songwriter. Her voice could be ever so slightly stronger at points, but the songs themselves are total knockouts.
Its the same old Repug game. When you advocate for equal rights for a group they have demonized, you are asking for "special" rights. Even though they are the same rights guaranteed to everyone else under the constitution. It is the same verbage that is used against the GBLT
Paint and thinner fumes, nothings better when you've been fighting the flu
It's a sign, dude.
Go home. Take a freakin' day off and rest!
My response to the shitbag Repugnicans
Anybody see Nancy Pelosi send her my way...
Nice to see everyone again. Afternoon 'Boots! Tired of football talk yet? 
SSquirrel not at the moment, all fired up 
That statement, Boehner said, amounted to Pelosi's advocating "special privileges for terrorists."'
Boner can go fuck Mehlman's gaping maw.
It's a sign, dude.
Go home. Take a freakin' day off and rest!
watertiger
Wish I could. Have a prospective client meeting in 45 minutes. That's what you get for scheduling on the weekends.
"England's Gary Neville is expected to play and Owen Hargreaves will move into the holding position with Wayne Rooney up front on his own in a 4-5-1 system. I think Cristiano Ronaldo will play for Portugal."
Reporter Garth Crooks on BBC's Football Focus.
meddling kids - ditto
Wish I could. Have a prospective client meeting in 45 minutes. That's what you get for scheduling on the weekends.
(slaps forehead)
Party of lincon becomes party of rove
Ruth | Homepage | 07.01.06 - 9:11 am | #
That article is astounding:
Some lawmakers want Congress to endorse a plan to have the commissions operate by the rules of a regular court-martial, which would give the detainees more rights than they would have under the current commission structure. But administration lawyers have been concerned that it would be difficult to win convictions under that scenario, in large measure because the standard of proof would be higher.
Yeah, it would be higher than under the Emperor's plan. The defendants would be allowed to see the evidence and to defend against it. They would be allowed in the courtroom when that evidence was presented.
It's called "due process," you morons!
Computer question: this link is an index of some local band videos, but when you select a video, it opens in a little window without a link. I can find the link if I go through my "history", but is there a way to find the link while the video's playing?
Thanks. And it's a cool link, with great local bands, if you're interested....
Well, morning y'all. Been up, however kinda busy attending to things. Got myself loads of wild black raspberries to deal with - been just a berry picking foole. (yes I use the "E" - see Carlin's Occupation: Foole..)
Beyond that, it's prepare for vacation Wednesday. Yippee!!! Get my wife outta here before she explodes.
Five US soldiers in Iraq rape and murder inquiry
· Pentagon pursues fourth war crime investigation
· Woman's body burnt and family killed in home
The Pentagon said yesterday it was pursuing a new war crimes investigation into five American soldiers, alleged to have raped and murdered a young Iraqi woman and killed three members of her family in their home.
Yesterday's investigation is the fourth alleged war crime in Iraq to come to light in a matter of weeks, putting the Pentagon's legal system to its most stringent test since the Vietnam war.
In the latest suspected war crime, it is believed the woman's body was burnt, and that a child was killed along with two other Iraqi adults in the family's home.
The alleged rape and murders are believed to have taken place in the town of Mahmoudiya, about 18 miles south of Baghdad several months ago. The events were brought to the attention of the authorities on June 23 by two soldiers who saw blood on their comrades' clothing and heard them talking about the incident.
From below - I was here earlier. After waiting nearly 30 minutes for a HI, I went back to bed - ah summer.
Diane,
I am not certain that anything fictional can break through our friend's fettered minds. Honestly, of late, I have been so disgusted with Americans. ANYONE - I mean ANYONE who thinks that these Republicans are correct is either:Incredibly stupid, Incredibly evil, or both. No middle ground here.
The more they say that we have to stay and die for their mistake the further away from reality they find themselves.
I honestly do not want to associate myself with such people.
"Scientists and climatologists are looking at one another and we're just stunned because no one, even in the 1990s, projected the magnitude of the storms and degree of warming in the Arctic that we are seeing," he said.
Moe Szyslak
Some bigshot meteorologist in the '80s, I forget who, predicted global warming would NOT cause more severe weather. OK, I know squat about weather, climate, etc, but it seemd obvious to me at the time that, since everything on this planet that moves is heat-driven, that if you turn up the heat, the pot boils faster. It has no choice. The tighty righties aren't the only ones with a bit of wishful thinking going on here...
Aaaaarhg...
We have no power until July 4.
This bites.
whiskeyina, just right click the link and save as . . . .
The administrations's explanation for why the regular standard of evidence could not be used left me speechless. And I thought I had heard it all after 5 years of hell. They said they could not use the regular standard because they basically did not have the evidence. Yikes!
but when you select a video, it opens in a little window without a link.
Check the properties of the link you clicked to open the window.
but when you select a video, it opens in a little window without a link.
Check the properties of the link you clicked to open the window.
We have no power until July 4.
Oh, sonofabitch!
The 20 key questions for nation on brink of World Cup hysteria
Dan Schnorr is a fucknozzle!
he won his props by finding himself on Nixon's enemies list...
30 fucking years ago...
he hasn't done shit since...and as far as i am concerned, he's a worthless doddering old fool, and can, for all of me, shut the fuck up...
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That blows, Thers. Pack up and come use our trailer..... helluva drive to Michigan, but you're more than welcome. We're leaving the 5th tho....
hi, DWD.
hi, everyone.
Yeh, the concept of justice or 'nation under laws' just doesn't make it with the cabal mentality.
" Aaaaarhg...
We have no power until July 4.
This bites."
--Thers,
We have no power until after the Nov. elections. And then it's iffy.
I gotta say, it's pretty fuckin' scary when you look older than your mom. To wit: Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley.
Poor Priscilla is starting to look like Jocelyn Wildenstein, she's so surgically altered and botoxed.
We have no power until July 4.
This bites.
Thers, Damp
Ouch!
That truly sucks.
We have no power until July 4.
This bites.
Thers, Damp
Harbor Freight has the cheapest generators, if you have one up that way.
Thers,
A couple of years ago we had straightline winds that did in the county. They came in off the lake and hit like an ton of TNT. Trees were down everywhere. (one house about a half a mile away had thirty-six trees down. Honestly looked like George Bush vision of Iraq)
Powerlines were scrambled so badly we had no power for two weeks.
Simply sucks. My sympathies.
Aw, Thers, that's awful!
WGG,
Was just listening to his bit on NPR - I could do that job.
"It is, but it isn't."
"It can, but it can't."
"It does, but it doesn't."
Retire, Dan.
But administration lawyers have been concerned that it would be difficult to win convictions under that scenario, in large measure because the standard of proof would be higher.
Can you say "Kangaroo Court"?
There, I knew you could.
Brown could be forced to reveal cost of keeping troops in Iraq cost
A cross-party alliance of 30 MPs, including former Labour ministers and Liberal Democrat front-benchers is trying to force Gordon Brown to reveal to Parliament the escalating cost of keeping troops in Iraq.
The MPs led by Clare Short, the former cabinet minister and, until recently, a strong supporter of the Chancellor to take over from Tony Blair, have tabled a joint amendment to the Finance Bill requiring Mr Brown to report to Parliament annually on the cost of keeping troops in Iraq with a vote to approve the expenditure.
The move threatens to cause a full-scale Labour rebellion over Iraq. With emotions running high after Labour's defeats in Thursday's by-elections, more Labour MPs are expected to rally behind the amendment next week.
I think every Dem candidate should have ads in the can that catalog GOP lies and wrap with the tag "these proven liars insult you by assuming you're stupid enough to buy their lies again. Don't get punked. Throw them out."
We need to be as nasty as they are, only we have the facts on our side.
Thanks DWD & JR! Now you know I'll be posting all sorts of video links here! Yippee!
Thers: closer than Michigan AND we have a kiddie pool! AND my daycare assistant will be working the 3rd and 4th, so you and Mary could leave the kids with us and have a vacation...
Thanks DWD & JR! Now you know I'll be posting all sorts of video links here! Yippee!
Thers: closer than Michigan AND we have a kiddie pool! AND my daycare assistant will be working the 3rd and 4th, so you and Mary could leave the kids with us and have a vacation...
BDog, how's the job hunt going? your wife and Vicki seem to be stuck for the moment with total ninnies for bosses, a painful experience I have survived but just barely.
WGG, I see in Iowa a movie helicopter filming a HS footbal movie crashed with a fatality. Just so you'll know not to fly in the whirlybird.
Thers, sending you electricity and a windup clock, my latest 'discovery' for saving energy.
More good stuff from George Lakeoff.
Bush is not incompetent: wingnut philosopy is:
http://ent.groundspring.org/Emai...908577&
u=771412
Thers, oy, with 137 kids, living at your in-laws must be rather, uhm, difficult.
Tour de France in chaos after doping claims
· Three top riders excluded from race after inquiry
· Doctors and managers named in investigation
The Tour de France, showpiece sporting event of the Gallic summer and the world's largest cycle race, was thrown into disarray last night when a doping inquiry decapitated the field of riders, removing four top contenders.
The Italian Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich of Germany, and Francesco Mancebo of Spain, who respectively finished second, third and fourth in last year's event, were withdrawn on the eve of the race by their teams after they were implicated in a large-scale inquiry by the Spanish police into an alleged system of blood doping based in Madrid. All were considered contenders after the retirement of Lance Armstrong at the end of last year's Tour.
Poor Priscilla is starting to look like Jocelyn Wildenstein, she's so surgically altered and botoxed.
heh..heh...heh...
I didn't recognize 'Cilla. I thought she was the Japanese PM's wife.
She was one of the better-looking people on the tube back when she was on Knot's Landing.
Thers, are you home or at the parent's house? With small children, living without electricity is too hard.
Daniel Snore, the longer he stays on Air the more tired I get of hearing his drivel punctuated by his reminding everyone that he was on Nixon's Enemies List. We can rest assured that no one at NPR is on the Bush Enemies List.
But I'll give him this, he had to age into the role that Clarence Page was born into.
Somali leader denies terror claim
One of Somalia's new Islamist leaders has denied US claims that he is linked to terrorism.
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, head of the Council of Islamic Courts which has recently taken control of Mogadishu, was speaking during a BBC phone-in.
He has been on the US list of people "linked to terrorism" since shortly after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Sheikh Aweys said the case against him was built on false allegations from enemies in Ethiopia.
"There was a war with Ethiopia. The Ethiopians infiltrated into Somalia and we fought with them. They interpreted this fighting as terrorism.
Thers -- that totally sucks. My condolences.
As for the rest of you, how can you not be talking about the big story of the day??
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6063000735.html
David Hasseloff had surgery, for crying out loud. He severed a tendon in his right arm. While shaving. In a gym bathroom. Because he hit his head on a chandelier.
in large measure because the standard of proof would be higher.
You mean "above zero"?
in large measure because the standard of proof would be higher.
You mean "above zero"?
jezebel,
two words: gym. bathroom.
mmm-hmmm.
If it becomes public knowledge that the White House has spent 100's of millions to lock up 500 numbnuts and morons who can't even write there own names it would make them look bad. Of course they justify it by thinking it would make the US look bad, but if that had ever been their concern they would have resigned on 9-12...
My craving for olives continues unabated this morning. If this keeps up, I'm going to have to make another trip to the grocery store.
India's tigers at risk from tidal power plant
India's tigers, whose numbers have already been hit by poaching, may have a new danger to face - ironically from an environmentally sensitive hydroelectric power plant.
The Indian authorities are planning to build a $9m (£4.9m) tidal power station inside the world's largest tiger sanctuary, the Sundarbans, despite warnings that it could "wipe out" the tigers' habitat.
Even as the federal government has appointed a special task force to save India's remaining tigers, and amid reports the army is to be sent into wildlife reserves to protect the cats from poachers, the government of West Bengal state is pressing ahead with the proposed tidal power plant.
Saw 'An Inconvenient Truth' last night. Powerful flick and very well edited, I thought.
Er, sorry, Thers, NYMary, and at least 132 of the kids.
WGG, I see in Iowa a movie helicopter filming a HS footbal movie crashed with a fatality. Just so you'll know not to fly in the whirlybird.
they pretty much don't put 'background artistes' in helicopters...that was a crew ride: probably 2nd unit camera crew...
there is considerable danger in making films, actually...on the set of westerns, you can never be really sure the horses are used to the drill (noise, guns, confusion)...
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mmm-hmmm.
watertiger, are you implying that he wasn't just shaving? Because I should repeat the waring Liberace sued someone for implying that he was an omosexal and Wm. F. Buckley sued someone for saying he was a fascist.
watertiger --
Plus, if one is inspired to blast one's head into a chandelier, I would think that shaving is not the cause.
Ruth.... plan is wait until her review in August, and make the move then.
Apparently this week, the CEO had lunch at a county meeting with the wife's parents, and brother & sister-in-law. I guess some remarks were made that inferenced how valuable she was, blah blah blah.... and how they were going to keep her, etc yada yada..
Mom casually laughed and said, "oh I guess if you can that is"...
Ouch.
US willing to free more Iraqi prisoners
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nearly 3,000 Iraqi prisoners have been released from U.S.-run prisons in Iraq under a national reconciliation plan and U.S. authorities are willing to free more, the U.S. ambassador said on Saturday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite Muslim, hopes the release of the mostly Sunni Muslim prisoners will weaken support for the insurgency among disaffected minority Sunnis.
"As the reconciliation project proposed by Prime Minister Maliki moves forward, we are prepared in consultation with the Iraqi leaders to make future prisoner releases and to take other concrete steps to facilitate reconciliation," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said in a statement.
The United States is holding 12,000 Iraqi prisoners, most of whom are being held without charge.
wt -
As I didn't know who Jocelyn was, I went and googled her. Man, what a sight. The comment that follows accompanied the pic I found:
Do not stare directly at the image at right; the face of notorious society beast Jocelyn Wildenstein may cause epileptic seizures.
Now that's some world-class insultery, that is.
heh. all's i'm sayin' is that either David Hasselhoff is actually 7' tall or he wasn't shaving his chin.
and a blogwhore: oh, GROW UP!
Thers that's awful.
Having a good sense of humor sure helps.
Oh and watertiger let me be the first to thank you for not posting a pic of Lisa Marie and Priscilla.
Forgetting for a moment that one should probably not shave in a gym bathroom, how, exactly, does one bump one's knoggin into a chandalier while shaving?
' if that had ever been their concern they would have resigned on 9-12...
SSquirrel '
you have given me my dream scenario for the a.m.
Glad to hear it wasn't anyone significant, wgg. Okay, not appropriate subject for joking. Speaking of unruly horses, I keep hoping for the pony herd at the Chincoteague wild pony swim to turn around and swim back, over the once-a-year cowboys.
They have chandeliers in gym bathrooms?
I don't think anyone has ever successfully sued someone for saying that they might be 7' tall. So you're safe.
I'll have to remember that line, just in case.
More pertinent question: what sort of bathroom has a chandilier in it?
how, exactly, does one bump one's knoggin into a chandalier while shaving?
We're not talking bump, Snow. We're talking a whack hard enough to shatter the thing.
So far, watertiger has offered the two most likely explanations.
extremly hot here in Devizes, even the poor birdies are flopping down underneath bushes and shrubs.
my mother is putting some water out for them.
its currently a sunny 27°C (80°F)
so many unanswered questions. i suspect "The Hasselhoff Incident" will soon overtake the Iraqi war as front page news.
Oh and watertiger let me be the first to thank you for not posting a pic of Lisa Marie and Priscilla.
Heh. You're more than welcome, doll.
I'm sure the Germans will be concerned about Hasselhoff's health....
Moon -- you think 80F is extremely hot????
I guess it is in Devizes. Or, at least, it used to be. You'll likely be seeing days like this more and more often. 
Since there have been no recent missing white women, Hasselhoff will have to do.
jezebel well it is for us Brits, we are cold and wet for half the year
plus we don't have any air conditioing, just an electronic fan.
Why is NASA refusing FOIA requests from the AP?
Where do they get off being so secretive? It's not like the space shuttle is a part of National Security or anything.
I mean this absolutely: if the Republicans try to portray the Democrats as soft on terrorism because they support such things as due process and the other fifth amendment rights and the damned news media does not remind the sheeple that this is the way it is SUPPOSED TO be . . . .
Brits go doolally when ever there is a bit of sun.
doolally
My new word for the day.
"The Hasselhoff Incident" won't have to overtake Iraq as front page news, it will have to overtake the Graceland pilgrimage as front page story. Iraq doesn't start till page 3.
I say our whore house of a media is on its own when they start rounding them up for extermination. Saving those quislings is not a vital necessity anymore.
smalfish, not to be an asshole or anything but do you honestly believe that the shuttle is not being use to install and service myriad spy satellites?
doolally (DU-lah-lee) adjective
Irrational, deranged, or insane.
[After Deolali, an Indian town.]
DWD -- thanks!!!
A bunch of doolally elitist liberals sashayed upstairs and didn't tell the rest of us.
Repugs are soft on the Constitution
and soft headed in general.
smalfish, not to be an asshole or anything but do you honestly believe that the shuttle is not being use to install and service myriad spy satellites?
DWD
Not with any regularity.
It could only access the ones that are at the same altitude and orbit as the shuttle.
smalfish, not to be an asshole or anything but do you honestly believe that the shuttle is not being use to install and service myriad spy satellites
I realise that, but what would that have to do with the operation of the shuttle?
"I'm sorry Mr Reporter, but shuttle foam is now considered TOP SECRET, so I'm going to have to refer you to the president on that issue."
I mean this absolutely: if the Republicans try to portray the Democrats as soft on terrorism because they support such things as due process and the other fifth amendment rights and the damned news media does not remind the sheeple that this is the way it is SUPPOSED TO be . . . .
Well said, DWD!!! After the worst week in a long time for Republicans - you wouldn't know it by watching the MCM! Time to aim our arrows at THEM!!
Where do they get off being so secretive? It's not like the space shuttle is a part of National Security or anything.
smalfish, Blaspheming terroris
I dunno what percentage, but some shuttle missions are classified. No info at all on what goes on. They go up, they come down, what's inbetween, hooda fucknose.
they support such things as due process and the other fifth amendment rights and the damned news media does not remind the sheeple that this is the way it is SUPPOSED TO be . . . .
DWD - Blogofascist and proud | Homepage | 07.01.06 - 9:42 am
bopth ted koppel and jim lehrer, two DEANS of the tv news-reader class, have declared recently that is is not the responsibility of TV 'news' people to second-guess the informqation with which they are thoughtfully provided by the propqagandists for the fascist regime, but only to repeat it...
that ain't gonna change...it's the next step in the 'objective' press meme: stenography as news...the 'objective' ress is one which doesn't piss off ANY potential consumers of the products (either consumer or news) the 'press' is paid to promulgate...
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Moonboo, at 80F, how high is your humidity? High enough and 80/27 degrees can be ghastly.
I'm vaguely recalling some aspects of my summer in England--I was there on a scholarship--1972 or 73 (so long ago! so many gray cells gone south!), one of the hottest on record. I sunbathed in Hyde Park and I swear I couldn't get a tan. Angle of the sun making it less strong perhaps?
Is there swimming in Hyde Park? The Serpentine? My memory is of a beach, swimming area, and pregnant women in bikinis, with bare stomachs --something one would not have seen in Wisconsin in the summer back then. Now, of course, Britney Spears is suing because her nude pg photo (with utterly black hair, what's with that?), was scrubbed as a magazine cover (what's with that?)
Anyway, try to stay cool during the match. Gonna be a tough one--England against the Most Beautiful Uniforms!
bopth ted koppel and jim lehrer, two DEANS of the tv news-reader class, have declared recently that is is not the responsibility of TV 'news' people to second-guess the informqation with which they are thoughtfully provided by the propqagandists for the fascist regime, but only to repeat it...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar
Exactly! That's the point I was trying to make on my blog this morning. The two editors freakin' admit that they get the news the regime wants out there and publish it.
I dunno what percentage, but some shuttle missions are classified.
IIRC they haven't flown a DoD mission since 1992 (STS-33, ELINT), and even those the general nature of the mission was not classified/out of the bag.
Dear Karma,
Please let investigators find evidence of corruption against Boehner, as his comments mentioned by Ruth @ 9:11am should be enough to have him removed from the Congress (he did swear to uphold the Constitution, afterall), but may not be, so we could really, really, really use some help. Timing of your choice, of course, but it would be very good if it happened in say, September or very early October at the latest. Good solid irrefutable evidence would also be much appreciated.
Thanking you in advance, Dear Karma,
Jawbone
Ted Koppel is of the "throw it out there and let the public try to suss it out" school, along with Lehrer?
Sheesh.
No wonder the politicos feel absolutely no need to be truthful--they are never called to account. Unless a visiting Irish reporter gets an interview. But, then, it's only that one!
Excuse me while I go scream.
Attention: New Yorkers With TIme On Your Hands, July 10th
There's a FReeper protest you can break up...
Mo Do recounts one of the most bizarre moments of the Bush pResidency: His trip to Graceland with Japan's Prime Minister.
Fareed Zakaria has a program on PBS, right now on Ch.13 in NYC area--called Foreign Exchange.
Franklin Foer is coming on to discuss World Cup and how it explains the world!
Fareed asking if national characteristics show in how national teams play. Foer says that used to be true, but the sport has been globalized. As Brazailian players go overseas to play, for example, they all become more homogenized. Plus, coaches go all global now.
Both were basically "chick lit" (and I don't mean that pejoratively)
Well, you're a faggot (I don't mean that pejoratively either, so please don't get on your high horse and get all offended about it).
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