I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Oy! First!?
segundo?
Radhi is a liar, as demonstrated by his own governments rejection of his "findings".
Really off thread, but may be pertinent given the cholera outbreak spreading in Iraq--and about to get worse with cooler weather more conducive to its spread.
The appendix does appear to have a use afterall!
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/
app...S00010000000001
six or eight or something.
From below, because I'm so damn proud of it:
Does anything even run a 5 1/4" floppy anymore?
geor3ge
Pickles & Condi from what I hear.
The Stasi (State Security Police) left a mark that has lasted a very long time.
It is very Shrubian
fling as much poo as possible
decredit every institution
Pickles & Condi from what I hear.
attaturk
Great. I was gonna clean the house. Now I have to stick around and feed straight lines to fucking attaturk.
John Fowles on Martin Amis and others
The appendix does appear to have a use afterall!
Er, I am so fucked in a cholera epidemic.
It's 1976 on 10@10!
Why did Linda Ronstadt leave this verse out of her cover of "Poor Poor Pitiful Me"?:
I met a girl at the Rainbow Bar
She asked me if I'd beat her
I took her back to the Hyatt House -
I don't wanna talk about it...
Mmmmm . . . smell the Freedumb™!
Put on that dust mask, Keith!
Great. I was gonna clean the house. Now I have to stick around and feed straight lines to fucking attaturk.
geor3ge
Well, enjoy it. We'll probably never hear from him again after he fucks up his computer.
The Iraqi "government": Corrupt, incompetent and destroying their own country.
The Bushboy regime: same as the above.
The appendix does appear to have a use afterall!
Fuck, I was a fucking genius 10-year-old when I had mine taken out.
Now I'm installing Windows Vista.
Pickles & Condi from what I hear.
attaturk
Great. I was gonna clean the house. Now I have to stick around and feed straight lines to fucking attaturk.
geor3ge
It's a very valuable public service.
Cholera surge - TEHRAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it had 43 cholera cases, four times more than previously announced, and added they were mostly near Iraq where there has been an outbreak of the disease, an Iranian news agency reported.
A World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Thursday 10 cases had been confirmed in Iran. WHO has urged neighbours of Iraq, where cholera has struck more than 3,300 people since mid-August, to strengthen their defences against the disease.
http://www.reuters.com/article/m...s/
idUSBLA649266
If anyone wanted to know about Port o' Halifax silliness, they could do worst then going here.
Moon: that was snark-ariffic!
Fucking attaturk? I'll have you know he and his blog got a mention in Wolcott's blog!
Now I'm installing Windows Vista.
attaturk
RMJ is right - You just can't fix stupid.
More beef patties recalled...
Fucking attaturk? I'll have you know he and his blog got a mention in Wolcott's blog!
plantsman, areligious
He has a blog?
Condi says there's going to be new rules for Blackwater.
Now when they shoot to kill, if they murder innocent people, they're going to have to say, "I'm sorry."
Fucking attaturk? I'll have you know he and his blog got a mention in Wolcott's blog!
plantsman
Yeah, take that Bill from Maine!
attaWho?
from below:
harrison ford conversation with a director before his career took off:
director: you'll never be a movie star. tony curtis - now there's a star. he could be playing a grocery delivery boy, and when he walked onscreen people would think "there's a movie star!"
ford: shouldn't they think, "there's a grocery boy?"
My guess for why Lynne Cheney is apearing on TDS? She is going to prepare for Dick Cheney running for president in 2008.
Dead-threaded, but for all your Blade Runner needs, go here.
My company came and went last weekend, and my house is still so clean it scares me. Which just begs the question of how clean it could be all the time if even put in minimal effort.
Ew. Preformed beef patties. prions. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I met a girl at the Rainbow Bar
She asked me if I'd beat her
I took her back to the Hyatt House -
I don't wanna talk about it...
dave™© | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 1:00 pm | #
...and Jackson Browne left it out of his cover, too.
(Reuters) - A top Iraqi Sunni cleric urged Iraqis on Friday not to join U.S.-led forces in fighting al Qaeda, saying they would be helping occupiers against compatriots.
"We reject the actions of al Qaeda but they are still part of us ... Ninety percent of al Qaeda are Iraqis," Sheikh Harith al-Dari told Al Jazeera television. "It may be possible to hold a dialogue with them ... and God may help them return to reason."
"From a national, Islamic and rational point of view, it is not allowed to fight alongside occupation forces," said Dari, who heads Iraq's Muslim Clerics Association.
But Dari, whose association groups Iraq's Sunni religious leaders, said self-defence against any al Qaeda attacks was justified.
Jordan-based Dari has praised Sunni Muslim insurgent groups but denied direct links with them.
Some tribal and Sunni insurgent groups have joined the fight against al Qaeda, angered by its indiscriminate killings of civilians and harsh interpretation of Islam.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m3696...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
attaWho?
Moe Szyslak
Someone who used to hang out here.
Then he loaded Vista onto his computer, and we never heard from him again.
I only use Word for address labels, anymore.
More pushback from the legal types at Guantanomo against the seemingly politicized upper levels at DOD: War-Crimes Prosecutor Quits in Pentagon Clash
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/0...serland&
emc=rss
Colonel Davis, a career military lawyer, had been in a bitter dispute with Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, who was appointed this summer to a top post in the Pentagon Office of Military Commissions, which supervises the war crimes trial system.
General Hartmann, an Air Force reserve officer who worked as a corporate lawyer until recently, was appointed this summer as the legal adviser to Susan J. Crawford, a former military appeals judge who is the convening authority, a military official who has extensive powers under the military commission law passed by Congress in 2006.
Among other powers, under the law, the convening authority can approve or reject war-crimes charges, make plea deals with detainees and reduce sentences.
People involved in the prosecutions, who spoke on condition of anonymity, have said that General Hartmann challenged Colonel Davis’s authority in August and pressed the prosecutors who worked for Colonel Davis to produce new charges against detainees quickly.
They said he also pushed the prosecutors to frame cases with bold terrorism accusations that would draw public attention to the military commission process, which has been one of the central legal strategies of the Bush administration. In some cases the prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty.
SNIP
Colonel Davis filed a complaint against General Hartmann with Pentagon officials this fall saying that the general had exceeded his authority and created a conflict of interest by asserting control over the prosecutor’s office. Colonel Davis said it would be improper for General Hartmann to assess the adequacy of cases filed by prosecutors if the general had been involved in the decision to file those cases.
In a statement last week, Colonel Davis said the issue posed a threat to the integrity of the war-crimes process. “For the greater good, Brigadier General Hartmann and I should both resign and walk away or higher authority should relieve us of our duties,” the statement said.
ford: shouldn't they think, "there's a grocery boy?"
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
Heh. I was listening to Michael Palin's diaries (1969-79) on CD, and he mentions going to a party Eric Idle threw for Carrie Fisher during the filming of Empire Strikes Back
"Mark Hamill looks like a delivery boy. Harrison Ford like a very famous man who doesn't like being famous"
Then he loaded Vista onto his computer, and we never heard from him again.
jac
Was he ever there at all? . . . .
[cue theremin music]
Vista comes with free backups to a secure location in DC.
Moe!
Great, great work on the Commonwealth Games mess.
I hope your peers recognize what outstanding work you've been doing, both on this story and of course on environmental issues.
You're putting the big papers to shame.
A very plain, easy to scan font like Verdana makes mail in the US move faster.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has launched a renewed attack on the war in Iraq and called for "urgent attention" to stabilise the country.
Dr Williams, speaking after a visit to Syria last week, said the "terrible damage" wreaked on the region by the war in Iraq was far worse than had so far been acknowledged.
Dr Williams' comments, in an interview with the BBC, came after he met Iraqi refugees in Syria, many of them still in fear for their lives. Only last month, a new survey claimed that up to 1.2m people might have died because of the conflict.
Dr Williams said any military action against Syria or Iran that would further destabilise the region would be "criminal, ignorant... and potentially murderous folly."
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m3695...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
Wow. Tom Glavine turns down a $13 million option in favor of a $3 million buyout. Either he's an idiot or a fine man of principle. No way he's getting a $10 million offer next year.
More beef patties recalled...
Halfdan
I urge all of you to read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. While I've always shied away from meat packed at remote plants and shipped, pre-packaged, over long distances, after reading this book I've decided from here on out the only meat (or poultry) I'll be eating will be locally pasture-raised.
Our food is shit. I went to the grocery store yesterday evening, as I was nearing the end of the book, and it felt like I was stranded on a small boat with no freshwater in the middle of the ocean - food, food everywhere, and none of it fit to eat.
Culture of Truth,
If you are out there -- 4 PM today if you want to meet me.
The Iraq war is a triumph! It couldn't have gone better!
Radhi, who left Iraq in August after threats against him, told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that 31 employees at the Iraqi Independent Integrity Commission were killed because of their jobs and that the government lost $18 billion through corruption.
I think Mica compared this to stuffing documents in your socks.
Iraq rejected on Saturday testimony
Iraq = whoever out latest puppet is
The Iraq war is a triumph! It couldn't have gone better!
norman podhoretz
One of these statements is true.
Here's some director's cut footage with the Vangelis end titles theme.
Thanks, SteveNS. I'm pretty happy with it, my editor is happy with it, and people are talking about it, so, yippy. Gotta love that photo, huh?
Here's what we're talking about:
Game over
An air of secrecy surrounded Halifax's bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games, even after the bid's very public collapse in March. For the first time, we reveal a complete picture of what was happening behind the scenes.
"We" being, ahem, me.
dave™©
"We're in the same city now. I've indicated I'm receptive to an offer. I've cleared the month of June. And I am, after all, me."
Sigourney was great in that movie, too.
Let's see...
31 Iraqis investigating corruption get offed.
So why isn't it plausible that the same fate was meted upon US troops in the same position?
We can't let them get away with it.
I urge all of you to read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
My wife just finished reading it. She enjoyed it as well.
From Gulf News…
A week-long strike at Egypt’s biggest textile company may be over, but it is likely that similar events will unfold elsewhere, experts warn.
“These strikes will happen again unless workers’ conditions are drastically improved,” says Fouad Hashem, an economics professor.
“A comprehensive reform programme should be worked out to ensure that workers receive reasonable wages to cope with high inflation rates,” he told Gulf News.
Annual inflation rates in Egypt reached 8.5 per cent last August compared with 8.9 per cent in August 2006, according to a recent cabinet report.
An estimated 27,000 workers at the Misr Textile Company in Al Mahalla Al Kubra, some 130km north of Cairo, went back to work on Monday after going on strike for a week in protest of the low wages and increments.
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/...s-labor-wounds/
Sigourney made women in men's A-shirts a hot property!
Amazing, actually--the appendix as a little reboot system for the beneficial bacteria in the human gut....
A very plain, easy to scan font like Verdana makes mail in the US move faster. plantsman, areligious
You seem to have a case of the jacks.
Er, rather, appreciated the book's insights. She is very careful about what she buys.
You seem to have a case of the jacks.
My blood sugar's low, I should eat.
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Reading it right now. The stuff on fertilizer is very, very good. A simple yet detailed explanation, it was very needed.
Speaking of fertilizer, I've discovered some nefarious fertilizer industry goings on up here in Canadaland. More later this week.
Did y'all catch this from the FDL link re Tweety:
On a side note: Matthews was overheard discussing his Tuesday appearance on "The Daily Show," which featured a heated exchange with host Jon Stewart. According to one source, Matthews was steadfast in his belief that the debate left Stewart crestfallen, and Matthews victorious.
/falls off chair laughing
OK, going to go finish reading a book and then off to buy some groceries.
Ciao.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown set out his reasons for not calling an autumn election tonight - saying he wanted to be judged on "vision" not "competence" at dealing with crises.
The Prime Minister told the BBC: "I will not be calling an election, and let me say why.
"Over the summer months we have had to deal with crises - we have had to deal with foot and mouth, terrorism, floods, financial crises.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
uk_new...2185312,00.html
so we went to see merry wives of windsor last night. i enjoyed it, the writing was excellent and i knew about half the cast from previous shows.
mrs g commented "i think he stole the plot from i love lucy"
the exciting bit is that they are planning to do the scottish play next year, for which i will definitely be auditioning.
It's thanksgiving weekend here. We're having the first of what will be an annual harvest party tomorrow-- everything served comes either straight from the garden, or from the farmers market, or from the local brewery.
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has criticised the neoconservatives of the Bush administration and accused them of "potentially murderous folly" for suggesting military action against Syria and Iran.
Dr Williams has just returned from Syria where he met Iraqi Christian refugees,. He warned of a problem of almost unprecedented scale as up to 1.5 million Iraqis have fled to neighbouring countries.
Speaking to the BBC, the archbishop, who opposed the invasion of Iraq from the outset, said: "When people talk about further destabilisation of the region - and you read some American political advisers speaking of action against Syria and Iran - I can only say that I regard that as criminal, ignorant and potentially murderous folly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/
st...2185102,00.html
Matthews was steadfast in his belief that the debate left Stewart crestfallen, and Matthews victorious.
Steadfast but alone in that belief.
they are planning to do the scottish play next year
You mean Macbeth?
[runs away]
It's thanksgiving weekend here.
heretic!
[it's just the glenn beck post again]
You mean Macbeth?
fuck - my ceiling fan just fell and broke my leg.
Halfdan - well, me too. I mean, I've never been one to buy much heavily processed "food", typically I shop the outer perimeter of the store except when I need tea, canned goods, flour, etc. And since organic stuff has become easier to find I've been steadily buying more of it. But I've been grossed out by meat and poultry for a long time - the shit they inject into the chickens (they call it "broth"; I call it saltwater at $2 a pound), e coli and mad cow, plus the fact that I discovered you can't pan fry the chicken breasts you find at the store - they're too big to properly pan-fry. It's like frankenchicken or something. After reading the book, I've decided it would be worth my while to make a meat run out to a local farm every so often, for any number of reasons.
fuck - my ceiling fan just fell and broke my leg.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Is that going to happen every time I say Macbeth?
Matthews was steadfast in his belief that the debate left Stewart crestfallen, and Matthews victorious.
I think Tweety is the best possible example of how the media in this country reflects the national political mood. He cam to prominence (if you can call it that) during a period of absolute lunacy and reflected it perfectly. It's easy to forget that he was probably the ONLY cable news talking head who actually opposed the invasion of Iraq. But that didn't work, so he just weathervaned for the next four years.
The country is now getting its head straight, so Tweety looks progressively more insane by the moment.
His greatest legacy will be having made Keith Olbermann look even better than he actually is. And for that, a grateful nation gives thanks.
Is that going to happen every time I say Macbeth?
geor3ge | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 1:17 pm | #
goddamn dishwasher hose just burst. water everywhere.
I've decided it would be worth my while to make a meat run out to a local farm every so often, for any number of reasons.
Jennifer | 10.06.07 - 1:16 pm | #
thats what my father has been doing for the past four years, he is good friends with a farmer and he gives my dad either pork, beef or lamb
in various cuts and mince and so forth
all kept in the freezer
That's it - I'm getting off my macduff and getting out of here.
That's it - I'm getting off my macduff and getting out of here.
Bravo!
Okay, I'm limiting myself to two Blackadder references.
we stopped having Turkey for Christmas dinner ages ago, we prefer roast Beef 
(provided for by my dad's farmer friend)
I'm quite seriously considering getting a couple of hens.
thats what my father has been doing for the past four years, he is good friends with a farmer and he gives my dad either pork, beef or lamb
in various cuts and mince and so forth
all kept in the freezer
Moonbootica, Tea Drinker | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 1:18 pm | #
Withnail and I ?
A £50m action plan to boost community cohesion and civic pride has been announced by the government.
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears says the cash will help councils across England promote integration and prevent local tensions.
It follows a Commission on Integration and Cohesion report which urged councils to identify areas where mass immigration may unsettle residents.
Key proposals include cultural briefing packs for newly-arrived migrants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/70.../uk/
7031398.stm
t's easy to forget that he was probably the ONLY cable news talking head who actually opposed the invasion of Iraq.
Well, the only one who kept his job....
That's it - I'm getting off my macduff and getting out of here.
Out Out damned JeffCo!
Tweety suffers from Britney Spear syndrome --no one around him will tell him the truth.
That's it - I'm getting off my macduff and getting out of here.
Out Out damned JeffCo!
spinoza
He'll be back tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
Well, the only one who kept his job....
True. Watching him now it's easy to see why.
Yea, Jennifer, I get my meat from a guy at the farmers market. He's got a farm outside of town, we stop by a couple of times a year just to see what's up. He's raising a pig for us right now. He'll smoke it, and we'll have it in the freezer. It's not difficult to do these things, in fact, it's even easier than buying meat each week at the grocery store.
I'm quite seriously considering getting a couple of hens.
When I retire I'd like to keep bees and have a few chickens roaming the grounds.
Tweety suffers from Britney Spear syndrome --no one around him will tell him the truth.
Liars for Bush
That was mah sin-drome before it was Britney's!!
/Dumbya
t's easy to forget that he was probably the ONLY cable news talking head who actually opposed the invasion of Iraq.
I don't think he opposed the war. He was pretty mealy-mouthed, saying things like "Maybe this is not a good idea", "who knows what will happen?" and "Why are we doing this?"
Dr Williams said any military action against Syria or Iran that would further destabilise the region would be "criminal, ignorant... and potentially murderous folly."
Oh yeah! Well, so what of it.
it's a tough play to rehearse.
First Witch
All hail, the Scottish Play! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
Second Witch
All hail, the Scottish Play, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
Third Witch
All hail, the Scottish Play, thou shalt be king hereafter!
Out Out damned JeffCo!
spinoza | 10.06.07 - 1:21 pm | #
little known fact: lady the scottish play was yelling at her dog.
It's easy to forget that he was probably the ONLY cable news talking head who actually opposed the invasion of Iraq.
And then he was for it....and then he was against it....and then he was for it....and then.........
I don't think he opposed the war. He was pretty mealy-mouthed, saying things like "Maybe this is not a good idea", "who knows what will happen?" and "Why are we doing this?"
spinoza |
I think he was actually pretty strongly against it, I remember him predicting Sunni/Shi'ite violence and a huge Iraqi resistence, but he couldn't or wouldn't make the connection between opposing the war and supporting Bush.
ciao moonbats
going to go watch Strictly Come Dancing
I'm quite seriously considering getting a couple of hens.
Moe Szyslak
I get six at a time.
The Old Speckled type.
After reading the book, I've decided it would be worth my while to make a meat run out to a local farm every so often, for any number of reasons.
It's really amazing how much local, organic meat, dairy and poultry products are available, to the extent that we could easily do a "100 mile diet" for all of our fresh food. That's a real big change in a short period of time.
I don't think he opposed the war. He was pretty mealy-mouthed, saying things like "Maybe this is not a good idea", "who knows what will happen?" and "Why are we doing this?"
Well, he called the Senate vote worse the Gulf of Tonkin resolution here:
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/...hews/
index.html
Otherwise I don't know; perhaps he was less declarative on air.
little known fact: lady the scottish play was yelling at her dog.
dirk gently
Her name's "Macbeth."
Okay, maybe 150 miles.
Boycott warner bros!
This mentality decides the kind of entertainment we get to see as a culture.
http://www.deadlinehollywooddail...ght-with-girls/
lapel owls!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our farmer's markets will only allow foods and flowers from fifty miles, or closer, outside the Twin Cities.
Now, to install an outdoor light. Later!
Her name's "Macbeth."
jac | 10.06.07 - 1:27 pm | #
OW! son of a BITCH.
It's really amazing how much local, organic meat, dairy and poultry products are available, to the extent that we could easily do a "100 mile diet" for all of our fresh food. That's a real big change in a short period of time.
Halfdan
I've pointed out before:
...A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that preventing just one truck trip a year from California to Nova Scotia saves more in fuel than does shortening the daily one-way commute by 20 miles: one 3,600-mile truck trip at six miles per gallon uses 600 gallons of diesel, while 500 car trips (two a day, five days a week, 50 weeks a year) of 20 miles each at 25 mpg uses 400 gallons of gasoline.
When burned, each litre of diesel fuel produces 2,730 grams of CO2, compared to 2,360 grams for each litre of gasoline, so the GHG costs of truck travel as compared to car travel are even worse than the fuel costs. In the above example, the one cross-continental truck journey produces about 6.2 tonnes of CO2, 70 percent more than the 3.6 tonnes of CO2 produced by an entire year's worth of daily 20-mile car commutes.
Many truck trips could, and should, be replaced by train trips, but by far a better strategy would be to eliminate as much long-distance shipping as possible, by buying locally produced goods. The City of Toronto proposes that grocery stores in the city be required to label the distance their food travels, to encourage shoppers to buy locally, but no similar legislation has been proposed in Nova Scotia.
Obviously, buying food at farmers' markets leads to very large reductions in GHG emissions. But we'll need to make similar shifts in our buying decisions for everything else we use as well: construction materials, business supplies, consumer goods, etc.
...
I'm quite seriously considering getting a couple of hens.
a friend of mine, who lives on a not large plot in NJ, has five hens. they make more eggs than she and her housemates can eat. however, she tells me that the cost of feed is roughly what the cost of buying that many eggs would be, so it depends on the price of feed in your area, if economics are your concern. there are additional benes to keeping hens (fertilizer) and i find them adorable. they run around and play with her dog, and are quiet.
"somebody's putting in a window!"-Glenn Reynolds
NYT reports
“I have put this program in place for a reason, and that is to better protect the American people,” the president said, without mentioning the C.I.A. by name. “And when we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential attack on America, you bet we’re going to detain them, and you bet we’re going to question them, because the American people expect us to find out information — actionable intelligence so we can help protect them. That’s our job.”
First Bush denies it, then he says he did it for terrorism, than he gets Dems to pass it in new terrorism bill.
Anyway NYT sez...a once-secret Central Intelligence Agency program to detain and interrogate high-profile terror suspects.
And want to make a bet that Bushie is really only interest in torturing Mideast citizens who would blow up Western Oil contractors pipelines. Bushies only concerned with those "terrorist" Mideasterns who don't like the Bushies stealing Iraqi oil.
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