HULK SMASHED
Math is hard.
Presidentin' is even harder.
Give me a lever, and I can move the world.
Archimedes (or Kos)
OT: The Iraqi president has condemned Syria's support for a possible Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq to attack Kurdish based fighters.
Jalal Talabani told the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that recent remarks by Bashad al-Assad, the Syrian president, backing military action were "dangerous".
On Saturday, the Iraqi parliament debated a motion condemning Turkey for threatening the cross-border raid.
The MPs met after Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, said Nuri al-Maliki, his Iraqi counterpart, had proposed joint action against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...875071EA891.htm
Give me a lever, and I can move the world.
Give me a lover and I can make the earth move.
A rational approach to Political Islam.
im n ur marketz
callin ur marjinz
Wasn't there once a law against borrowing money in order to invest in the stock market?
Does anyone desire tea? Here 'tis.
And in more pressing news, Rowling says Dumbledore is gay.
http://www.time.com/time/magazin...65876-
4,00.html
One New Yorker came up with another kind of answer, or perhaps just an epitaph. It was a bedraggled parrot that a policeman found in Manhattan in November of 1929. "More margin!" the bird squawked, in echo of some desperate stockbroker's greedy injunction to the bird's vanished master in that already vanished era. "More margin!"
DAMASCUS, Syria: Their money gone, Iman Faleh and her family packed their belongings for Baghdad — a journey they said was like a trip to "death row."
The religiously mixed family — Iman is a Sunni but the others are Shiites — fled their home in a mostly Shiite part of east Baghdad in July and took refuge in Syria, joining an estimated 1.5 million other Iraqis here.
But in early fall, they became part of a growing wave of Iraqis leaving Syria for home — not because they are confident of Iraq's future, but because they ran out of money.
Others are returning because Syria has made it more difficult to stay — most Iraqis cannot work legally in Syria and survive on savings or handouts from relatives.
"Going back to Baghdad means going to 'death row,'" said Iman's 27-year-old son Zaid as he hauled luggage from the family's $1,200-a-month apartment in Damascus. "But we have no money left that could allow us to go on living here."
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m3737...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
Congress will move heaven and earth to protect the extra special tax breaks for hedge fund managers, margin traders, and other people who earn a blue collar living gambling with other people's money.
And in more depressing news, Jennifer Granholm endorses Hillary Clinton.
Wasn't there once a law against borrowing money in order to invest in the stock market?
Moe Szyslak, all wet
Yes, I think they made it after that little unpleasantness back in 1929.....
AIIGHT. Time to brave the wind and rain. bbl.
(MENAFN - Arab News) HELSINKI, 17 October 2007 - The United States is planning to stay in Iraq by building as many as 14 "permanent" bases, regardless of whether orders come from current or future US administrations to bring US troops back home. "As far I am informed, they are planning to set up permanent bases. Not only one, two, three, four, but maybe 14," Finnish MP Jaakko Laakso told a group of Saudi journalists, which included Arab News, who visited the Finnish Parliament recently in Helsinki. "It means there will be no withdrawal on a permanent basis."
The MP, who is a member of the Left Alliance, pointed out that the bases were not the bases the US government plans to build between the Iraq and Syria borders, but were permanent bases located in the heartland of the country. "There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats regarding these permanent bases," Laakso added.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m3736...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
Yea! Our Saturday econ lesson!
Give me a lever, and I can move the world.
Give me a lover and I can make the earth move.
spinoza Neque lugare, neque in | 10.20.07 - 11:30 am | #
Nice.
From downstairs:
I've wondered for years why they called it "immaculate conception" and the only thing I was ever able to come up with was:
no peter tracks on the sheets.
Jennifer
Maybe, but what are those stains on the Shroud of Turin, anyway?
Yahoo, Albus is gay and Aberforth's a goat fucker, what's next?
Archimedes documented cool geographic shapes when he wasn't displacing water in bathtubs, ya know!
Maybe, but what are those stains on the Shroud of Turin, anyway?
Jesus juice.
Much more background on this
http://www.wsws.org/articles/200.../bank-
o18.shtml
Since they are not subject to the same regulations that apply to their parent banks, the SIVs (Structured Investment Vehicles) are not required to maintain the same level of capital reserves. They often issue commercial paper for 90 percent or more of the value of their assets. Their profits depend on their ability to continually issue new commercial paper to mutual fund money markets and other big investors to cover their past debts, while they benefit from entirely speculative financial manipulations.
The parent banks of SIVs generate huge profits by charging fees to their “independent” offspring,
The collapse of the housing and mortgage markets, and resulting contraction in credit markets, has made it impossible for the SIVs to sell their commercial paper to increasingly skeptical investors, while the underlying value of their assets has been thrown into question.
Large sums of SIV debt come due in November, and Wall Street has grown increasingly fearful that the SIVs will be forced to sell off their assets at vastly reduced prices, driving down the value of securities held by the banks and major financial institutions in the US and around the world. This is a scenario for a potential panic that could disable credit markets, precipitate a massive sell-off on global stock markets and result in huge losses for major banks.
And in more depressing news, Jennifer Granholm endorses Hillary Clinton.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Well, damn.
I ♥ Jennifer Granholm, but this is just too bad. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, though.
Cécilia Sarkozy yesterday blamed her divorce from the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, on her hatred of the public spotlight and the "inexplicable" collapse of her love for her husband.
"What happened to me has happened to millions of people," she said. "Your relationship with your partner is no longer the essential thing in your life. It no longer works. The reasons are inexplicable, it happens to lots of people. It just happens."
Mme Sarkozy, 49, was talking in an interview with the regional newspaper L'Est Republicain on the day after the Elysée Palace announced that the President and his wife had divorced.
In an emotional and wide-ranging interview, Mme Sarkozy said that she and her husband had tried "everything possible" to avoid the split but she had been unable to tolerate life in the public eye since his election five months ago.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
eu...icle3078914.ece
Hermione is a man!
I ♥ Jennifer Granholm, but this is just too bad. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, though
It was inevitable.
I've come to detest politics.
I think a lot of people are buying Hillary on margin, so to speak.
Hermione is a man!
NTodd will be disappointed.
(CNN) May 2008: Alan Greenspan jumped out his office window when he found his stocks were worthless. In line with the wisdom and well-thought out reasoning of his previous decisions, he failed to die. His office was in the basement.
"we are experts"-Arthur Laffer and Larry Kudlow
Tony Blair has emerged as a possible candidate for "President of Europe", a new post created by the treaty approved by EU leaders at their Lisbon summit.
The former prime minister's name was put in the frame yesterday by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, who described Mr Blair as "a very remarkable man – the most European of all Britons." He added: "To think of him would be a good idea."
The treaty scraps the current system under which one country holds the EU's rotating presidency for six months. It will be replaced by the appointment of a President, who will chair EU meetings, drive through its agenda and serve for two-and-a-half years.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
eu...icle3078889.ece
Ok, Net Neutrality experts--how bad is this stuff that Comcast has been pulling on customers?
Comcast decided that network traffic generated by peer-to-peer networks was taking up too much capacity. Peer-to-peer (p2p) services are unique because they engage individual computers not only in downloading material, but also uploading. SMIP
Comcast decided that in the interest of keeping its network flowing to the most people, it would crack down on these p2p users by blocking their uploaded transmissions. It didn’t block any other uploads, or any other big downloads. It only targeted p2p uploads, and it did it in a particularly sneaky way. Comcast configured the network so that the site to which users were connected thought it was getting an instruction from the uploading user to break the connection. Except that the users never sent that instruction. Comcast spoofed their identity. There are lots of ways to manage a network. Discriminating against one particular type of traffic, in disguise no less, is not a good one.
Then again, that’s what Comcast does. The Washington Post reported a few weeks ago that Comcast has cut off customers for using too much bandwidth. It’s not that the customers knew they were doing anything wrong. No one told them. Comcast simply decided it was in the best interest of the network to do so.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/
coff...eutrality_cause
Link to Josh's initial article on this in at top of the post.
Give me a lover and I can make the earth move.
It's the weekend, everybody dance!
(Kula Shaker - Dictator of the Free World)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R...h?
v=RpsAZYIHs7Q
I ? Jennifer Granholm, but this is just too bad. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, though
Follow the money.
I have no issue with this, except to remark that I actually was all set to buy Google at the first go - secret password code and everything - when for reasons that now escape me, I did not. This means that I no longer participate actively in the market, but only thru my proxy, Money Lady.
Does anyone have Cécilia Sarkozy's phone number, by the way?
'Cause she's out there now, y'know!
Emma Watson is completely unsexy to me, even if imagine her at a decent age. Bad acting is a real turnoff for me.
A rant against the continuing incursion of religion in schools
Excerpt:
I saw the following sticker this morning on I-95 in Palm Beach County:
Bring Prayer Back to School
Oh, Jesus H. Christ with salisbury steak and chocolate milk. Do the wingnut fundies fail to see the obvious: prayer has never been out of school!! No authority has ever advocated, to my knowledge, that one can't pray in school. Hell, even I was known to utter a prayer now and then: "Please, God, let me pass this exam" or, more likely, "Please, God, let [fill in girl's name] notice me -- and in a good way this time."
When Youssef Toma and his family fled their home in Baghdad's perilous Dora neighbourhood and found refuge in the peaks and valleys of Kurdistan, they assumed their fear had been left behind with their furniture.
With the help of local authorities, Mr Toma, a former manager of an insurance company, had spent the last year building a new house, and life, in Anishky, a village nestling at the foot of the Matin mountains in the bucolic Sabna valley, 13 miles from the Turkish border.
Mr Toma, a deacon in the Assyrian church, and his family soon became active members of the neighbourhood congregation. He took special pride in developing his garden. Standing by a healthy crop of tomatoes this week, he gestured with his trowel at the perimeter walls of a palace Saddam Hussein built for his wife Sajida in the late 70s - a reminder, he said, that the beauty of the region was not just prized by locals.
Last weekend, however, Mr Toma's rural idyll was brutally disrupted. The dread he felt in Baghdad returned. For about 45 terrifying minutes, a barrage of Turkish artillery shells rained down from the clear night sky upon Anishky.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The_Ku...2195574,00.html
Hermione is a man!
NTodd will be disappointed.
The Tick
No way! Emma has grown up rather nicely, if I do say so myself.
Hints that Fed not happy with Hammerin' Hank Paulson's quasi-bailout of Citigroup
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f79b2...?
nclick_check=1
Does anyone have Cécilia Sarkozy's phone number, by the way?
'Cause she's out there now, y'know!
I hear she could have Simels...
Hermione is a man!
NTodd will be disappointed.
The Tick | 10.20.07 - 11:37 am
He'll adjust.
And in more pressing news, Rowling says Dumbledore is gay.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
The dood was always setting off my gaydar.
Compulsive gambling doesn't seem to have any real upside, does it.
Amid reports of mounting Shi'a infighting there, officials in the Southern city of Diwaniyah, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, say that not only Iran but other neighboring countries in the Gulf may be involved in stoking the violence. Two incidents this week have ratcheted up their concern. On Wednesday, seven Iraqi police officers were killed by a bomb in the nearby village of Afak. That followed bloodshed on Monday, when at least six civilians were killed and dozens wounded in a mortar barrage on the Polish-run Coalition base in town.
Such spectacular incidents overshadow the almost daily clashes between the rival Shi'ite militias that inevitably kill and maim civilians. Diwaniyah now nearly rivals Basra as a vicious free-for-all in the growing civil war among the Shi'a. While none of the recent fighting can be directly linked to any outside group, local security officials say that they can now add to the list of troublemakers elements of al-Qaeda and other Sunni Arab fighters, who appear to be taking advantage of the chaos to regain a toehold in the region and accelerate the flow of Shi'a blood.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m3736...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
I still don't understand margin calls
The dood was always setting off my gaydar.
Gomez
Ummm, I've seen your penis, and I was unaware of any gay detector in there, dood.
Dumbledore gay
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071...nm/
rowling_dc_1
Oh yeah, BREAKING NEWS:
GOMEZ HAS A PENIS.
Ummm, I've seen your penis, and I was unaware of any gay detector in there, dood.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
TMI!
Ummm, I've seen your penis, and I was unaware of any gay detector in there, dood.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
The beard was a dead giveaway.
Gay people always have beards.
TMI!
I was going to say "stroked," but...
Albus Dumbledore
Call me!!
.Dumbledore gay
Meh.
Ummm, I've seen your penis,
HELLo
Ah, the cats have finally stopped using the bed as a spring board in their Cat Olympics training, so I think I'll try for a nap once again.
I can rest easy now that Ruth has assured me that we needn't worry about Mr. Prince's company. There are some new contracts for the blackguards to bid on.
I ♥ pregnant pauses.
That was thread stopper, fer sure.
Compulsive gambling doesn't seem to have any real upside, does it.
Hey! I wrote my book of virtues while playing blackjack and getting free blow jobs!
-Bill Bennett
I ♥ pregnant pauses.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
speaking of which,
i'm going to be a grandpa!
again
again
Well, no Atriot has seen my penis.
Yet.
congrats dirk!!!
And on the Surge Front--
A principal architect of Iraq’s interim constitution, who resigned in August as one of the country’s top diplomats, has laid out a devastating critique of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the U.S. occupation, telling NBC News that, functionally, “there is no Iraqi government.”
The diplomat, Feisal Amin Istrabadi, said in his first interview since stepping down as Iraq’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations that “this government has got to go.”
Heckuva job, Bushies!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21364048
Bring Prayer Back to School
Some code words dare not speak their name In this case the missing word is "mandatory". To these fools, who have wet dreams about making everybody else's trains run on time (to THEIR station) anything not mandatory really should be forbidden, and they project that onto us...
Well, no Atriot has seen my penis.
Mine, neither.
Well, no Atriot has seen my penis.
Yet.
Sinfonian, with new job
quick, look down!
J.K. Rowling Outs Hogwarts Character
In unrelated news, Liberty University officials are investigating the formation of a sulphurous cloud that has formed over the campus. The unusual formation, described by an observer as "a miasma of brimstone", appears to be originating from, or near, Reverend Jerry Falwell's grave.
Dirk,
Although you are too young and handsome to be a grandpappy, CONGRATULATIONS!
Compulsive gambling doesn't seem to have any real upside, does it.
Free drinks.
Mine, neither.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
but you just said you have ?
quick, look down!
Your grandchildren are very lucky to have you.
Hermione is a man!
NTodd will be disappointed.
The Tick
No way! Emma has grown up rather nicely, if I do say so myself.
Sinfonian, with new job | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 11:40 am |
Don't forget to get your Hermione Granger action figure and your life size Aragog plushy.
http://www.statuetoys.com/harry-...with-
sound.html
http://www.fao.com/catalog/ensem...p?
ensembleId=85
I really wouldn't worry too much about this. After all, Wal-Mart is going to cut prices on 1,600 different items in time for Christmas!
but you just said you have ?
Heretofore, I haven't revealed the true nature of myself.
I am a Shemale.
Hey, dirk:
Mazel tov!
Uh oh!
U.S. military forces are capable of conducting operations against Iran if called on to bomb nuclear facilities or other targets, the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday.
"From a military standpoint, there is more than enough reserve to respond if that, in fact, is what the national leadership wanted to do, and so I don't think we're too stretched in that regard," Adm. Michael Mullen told reporters when asked if current operations had worn out U.S. forces.
Adm. Mullen said he has been concerned over the past year and a half with Iranian leaders' statements of intentions, Tehran's support for bombers in Iraq and Iran's covert drive for nuclear weapons.
Uh oh. Uh oh.
Looks like Mullen has been whipped into line.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/a.../110190089/
1002
I am a Shemale.
Paging Andrew Stein! Mr. Stein to the white courtesy phone!
What do you call a dinner of penises?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/
f5/Matsutake.jpg
Wal-Mart is going to cut prices on 1,600 different items in time for Christmas!
Copies of Talladega Nights in every stocking!
Paging Andrew Stein
If the name fits...
The diplomat, Feisal Amin Istrabadi, said in his first interview since stepping down as Iraq’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations that “this government has got to go.”
Heckuva job, Bushies!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21364048
jawbone | 10.20.07 - 11:48 am
So is he taking money from the lobbying firm behind the Kurds and Allawi?
Now off to check the PR Watch Spin of the Day.
I am a Shemale.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
ah.
i thought that you and gomez shared one.
Dumbledore gay
If Phelps & his Whelps haven;t yet joined the Potter Jihad, they will now...
Is The kenosha Kid still here?
Hmm, let's try that again
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki...5/
Matsutake.jpg
Spinoza:
What do you call a dinner of penises?
404 error: File not found
Vicki-
Found poetry
If Phelps & his Whelps haven;t yet joined the Potter Jihad, they will now...
Elmer, PHD
To be joined by their pal Fred Thompson.
thanks for the good wishes all.
can't stay today - 2 shows, a 2pm matinee and then closing show at 8.
see ya!
Spinoza~
Looks, uh, appetizing, if you want to take a hallucinogenic trip!
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has criticised Syria for its support for a possible Turkish intervention against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
Mr Talabani, himself a Kurd, said comments by his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, represented "a dangerous crossing of red lines".
The Turkish parliament has authorised cross-border raids, but the government says action is not imminent.
Ankara blames the rebels for attacks on soldiers and civilians inside Turkey.
Both the US and Iraq have urged Ankara to avoid military action which they fear could destabilise the entire region.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ast/
7054181.stm
can't stay today - 2 shows, a 2pm matinee and then closing show at 8.
Is dirk an actor?
Is dirk an actor?
res ipsa loquitur
community theater, at least until i am discovered. which, if any agents come see this show, i may be.
Is dirk an actor?
yeah, he acts in community theatre.
today's matinee will be interpreted for the hearing impaired. which, since it a pun-filled british farce, should be very interesting.
And just last night ABC News was giving out WH propaganda that the US had been given photos which showed clearly that the Syrians were building a nuke facility!
And earlier that same day:
U.N. experts have received satellite imagery of the site struck last month by Israeli warplanes and are analyzing it for signs that it might have been a secret nuclear facility, diplomats said Friday.
One of the diplomats indicated that the photos came from U.S intelligence. Two others said the images, which have been studied by experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency since being received on Thursday, do not at first examination appear to substantiate reports that the target was a nuclear installation, but emphasized that the images were still under examination.
Jeez, ABC is such a tool for BushCo.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12784361/
BREAK A LEG, DIRK!
Toi-Toi-Toi!
Is The kenosha Kid still here?
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 11:53 am | #
I hope not --he'll call me a wanker again because I hate David Bowie.
Poor guy -- he really takes it personally. I have no idea why...
Wanker.
What's this about Dumbledore's wand?
/Larry!
What do you call a dinner of penises?
A stopover at Minneapolis-St. Paul???
Music is personal, Steve.
Do you know how many people think I'm lococuckoo for my obsession with the Indigo Girls?
My initial reaction was just that it was gratuitous grandstanding on JKR's part, but I suppose there is a certain narrative symmetry in having Dumbledore be gay. His love obsession lead him into darkeness while Snape's led him to redemption.
What do you call a dinner of penises?
What do you call a penis full of dinners?
Do you know how many people think I'm lococuckoo for my obsession with the Indigo Girls?
We like you just fine.
Do you know how many people think I'm lococuckoo for my obsession with the Indigo Girls?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Probably about the same number who deride me for liking Nickelback and Evanescence.
. my obsession with the Indigo Girls?
(...steely gaze with Clint Eastwood upper lip twitch.....)
We like you just fine.
Amy -n- Emily
Awwwhhh. That was sweet, whoever did that.
Forget Harry Potter. In another month, McCainintheass and Mutt will be nuking the Golden Compass.
http://www.ajc.com/hotjobs/
conte...stagehands.html
"stage hands" interpreters for the hearing impaired
perhaps simels would enjoy bowie more if he were interpreted
Jeez, ABC is such a tool for BushCo.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12784361/
jawbone | 10.20.07 - 11:58 am
Didja think they'd learn after the incredibly successful debacle of Colon Powell before the UN Security Council?
. my obsession with the Indigo Girls?
You're crazed on two levels: first, you like that hippie Lilith Faire shite and second, you like to fuck to that hipplie Lilith Faire shite.
(I realize that this comment is going to get me all types of shite, but there it is.)
Probably about the same number who deride me for liking Nickelback and Evanescence.
Sinfonian, with new job |
ok, now that's just wrong.
Forget Harry Potter. In another month, McCainintheass and Mutt will be nuking the Golden Compass.
I am so looking forward to that film!
You're crazed on two levels: first, you like that hippie Lilith Faire shite and second, you like to fuck to that hipplie Lilith Faire shite.
Well, at least you nailed it!
Best sex of my life has been fucking to that hippie Lilith Fiare shite.
you like to fuck to that hipplie Lilith Faire shite.
it helps pass the time.
I was out and about this AM and heard Charles Osgood on the radio lying his ass off again. THIS is the problem. This is a snippet. See if you see the problem, "There are only 10 Republican members of Congress standing in our way now of 10 million children getting health care in America." said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
President Bush had said all along that he would be willing to work out a compromise on the children's health insurance program. And now that the veto override has failed says white House Press Secretary Dana Perino.
"Now we can have a conversation about getting to common ground that fits with the President has said he wants to do which is to take care of poor children first." said White House Press Secretary Dana Perino.
But the Democrats aren't talking about ANY conversations with the President. Nancy Pelosi.
"In the next two weeks we intend to send the President another bill that insures, that provides health care for 10 million children." said Pelosi.
House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer.
"We will not rest. We will not stop our efforts until such time as we add 10 million children to the health insurance program in existence today in America." said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-MD, House Majority leader.
Nancy Pelosi says there's nothing to discuss. "This isn't even an issue anymore. It's a value. It's an ethic. It's a consensus in our country." said Pelosi.
There they go again says the White House. "We would hope that they would like to have discussions with us soon. Obviously when we were going through the SCHIP debate originally, Republicans were cut off from the debate." said Perino.
http://www.westwoodone.com/pg/js...t.jsp?
pid=18810
My initial reaction was just that it was gratuitous grandstanding on JKR's part, but I suppose there is a certain narrative symmetry in having Dumbledore be gay. His love obsession lead him into darkeness while Snape's led him to redemption.
blerb
I think it neatly explains the plot point of why Dumbledore was taken with the schemes of Grundewald (a bit of a sticky point in the novel). But I'm glad she didn't include the information in the novel, on the other hand; everyone would have ignored the book (which is amazing in its own right) and trumpeted: "Hey! Dumbledore is teh gai!"
This place is weird, thanks to me.
If anyone sees TKK will you please ask him to report to me via telephone?
I swear to Christ, TKK is more elusive than bin Laden.
Later, pommes.
So sad--and this will be a growing problem--
The number of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder from the Department of Veterans Affairs jumped by nearly 20,000 — almost 70 percent — in the 12 months ending June 30, records show.
More than 100,000 veterans — about one out of seven of those who have served and left active duty — have sought help for mental illness since late 2001, the start of the war in Afghanistan, according to VA records collected through the end of June. Almost half of those cases were for PTSD.
The numbers do not include thousands treated at storefront Vet Centers operated by the department across the country. Nor does it include active-duty personnel diagnosed with PTSD or former service members who have not sought treatment from the VA for their mental problems.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/...ns_ptsd_071019/
my excellent british accent will be wasted on most of this afternoon's audience.
maybe i'll do french just for a change.
"Lilith Faire shite"
I loved that scene in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" where they play at "Menses Faire", on a lot back by all the (women's) porta-potties.
yeah, he acts in community theatre.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 11:57 am | #
I am so looking forward to that film!
Marcellina | 10.20.07 - 12:03 pm | #
I read they took out a whole bunch of religious references. Like that will call off the religio-fascists.
The number of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder from the Department of Veterans Affairs jumped by nearly 20,000 — almost 70 percent — in the 12 months ending June 30, records show.
Congress shows its support for our troops by ignoring these statistics.
yipes - noon.
i've really got to go.
try not to miss me too much while i'm gone.
Break a leg, dirksie!
I must say that the only way I would consent to have sex with anyone while listenig to the Indigo Girls would be if there were restraints, hot wax, and very large dildos and/or fists involved.
This place is weird, thanks to me.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 12:05 pm | #
Well, nobody's buying that Shemale stuff, toots.
yeah, he acts in community theatre.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 11:57 am | #
don't we all?
ps. haloscan fucking sucks.
Forget Harry Potter. In another month, McCainintheass and Mutt will be nuking the Golden Compass.
I am so looking forward to that film!
I hope it doesn't suck.
Have fun, dirk!
Meanwhile, Retrokittypics!
Featuring deranged Gramsci!
restraints, hot wax, and very large dildos and/or fists
blerb | 10.20.07 - 12:10 pm | #
Isn't that the name of their latest cd?
Memo to Nancy Pelosi,
You may think that you have had some success in passing legislation but I would not trade all of the legislation you passed for the life of one of the fine young Americans killed in this ridiculously illegal war that you keep allowing to happen on your watch.
Respectfully,
DWD
ESPN has some of the worst sports announcers I've seen.
Corso and Herbstreet are close to the top of the list.
Idiots' idiots.
i'm looking forward to seeing Elizabeth: The Golden Age and American Gangster