I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
woo.
thanks, avedon
Much Better.
Play Scrabulous messes with my eyes!
George Soros is not sending me money. I confess.
Je voudrai = ?
NTodd's day isn't starting off well at all.
Wha' hoppen?
I would like
trifecta, are you wearing oatmeals yet?
not yet. He is asleep on the shoulder
Missed out on French, probably because the sister took it.
ah ha we're up here now!!!!
Did you vote?
Missed out on French, probably because the sister took it.
plantsman | Homepage | 01.26.08 - 7:32 am | #
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what, did she take all of it? wasn't there any left?
Hey, those French are quick studies. They just elected a Bushite rat-winger, and they are already dismantling a successful healthcare system, and their market manipulators have already stolen enough to sink their national economy.
For all their disdain of Americans, they are outspeeding us in using the Bushco model.
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sacre bleu
No, had an aversion to direct competition with her, seeing as she was so bright and all.
nope. waiting on the Mr. to get his shower. He wasn't quites as bright and early as I was. When he's done, then we will go vote and get some breakfast.
nothing better than coals left over from last night's burn, no fire lighting protocol to interfere with coffee.
and no cheating with space heaters
My Scrabulous games tend to stall out, alas.
Edwards moving up according to zogby, on cspan
Edwards moving up according to zogby, on cspan
Ruth
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I know!!! Isn't it marvelous!!!! SSSSUUUUURRRRRGGGGGEEEE!!!!
I'm so hoping anyway.
you play tightly with the tiles ror. It just makes it difficult all crammed up. It's still interesting to play that way though.
i think i will have to try this scrabulous. it seems to be very popular here.
Edwards moving up according to zogby, on cspan
To a dee-lux apartment in the sky?
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el, no space heaters is good, have a fireplace then? nice.
Scrabulous takes getting the hang of. That practice game "robot" will sharpen you right up. You'll be using "Qi" every chance you get!
Edwards promised to stay in until the convention. I hope he does. As things crumble more and more, I think he is going to attract more and more voters.
Edwards moving up according to zogby, on cspan
Well, since the goal is to get people as disgusted with Obama and HRC as possible,that's not surprising.
and wasn't she having an argument with michael medved..kind of like talking to yourself
But Geo Soros would have no $$ left if he were funding everyone he's been rumored to support.
Remember how Edwards little ones were played as darling poppets in '04?
Scrabulous takes getting the hang of. That practice game "robot" will sharpen you right up. You'll be using "Qi" every chance you get!
plantsman
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qaid is another good one for q without a u.
To a dee-lux apartment in the sky?
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McCain was commenting on his rise - difference is having his own bus, not Greyhound, and the Hilton rather than roadside dive.
Murkin standards
You'll be using "Qi" every chance you get!
According to my neighborhood Shao-Lin priest, you use Qi thus anyway. Energy of life and all, doncha know.
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molly is about to kill me.
But Geo Soros would have no $$ left if he were funding everyone he's been rumored to support.
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you don't know anything about business. soros is a big jewy jew so he can't possibly ever run out of money.
I'm not clear about the dictionary. I've tried some foreign words common in English and it takes some and rejects others. I try and study the weird words the robot gets away with.
well of course Edwards children were brought out in the last campaign. I think they wait until the big show, to bring out the whole fam thing though. But they were and probably are still cute kids. Heck, Edward is a cute kid. So's Elizabeth.
have a fireplace then? nice.
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The inevitable woodstove, as heating ducts only appear in 2 rooms of the house. And we're heating with our own trees.
is the word "sailer" allowed in scrabulous?
Well, I think I'll have some oatmeal with dried apricots and then go back to bed for a few.
One last blogwhore: the Education Department is in the news again, and not in a good way. It seems those folks don't need no steenkin' inspector general.
Later, folks.
jewy jew????? Oh my.
Haven't tried it. I'll try and retain it and see.
Well kids, I'm off to vote.
See y'all later.
If the rich have one Law in their hearts, it is this:
Thou shalt NEVER spend thy own money.
that's why they are rich.
If Soros were actually supporting someone financially, he'd do so by spending a small amount to buy some Congresscritters to write some earmarks - and WE would be spending ourselves broke supporting them.
Being a Joo has less than nothing to do with it. Being of the Tribe of Mammon is everything.
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molly is about to kill me.
Yes, yes I am.
soros is a big jewy jew so he can't possibly ever run out of money.
Don Coyote, aka Olaf
got it. Does this have something to do with the Protocol of the elders of Zion?
molly is about to kill me.
trifecta
Good after the lickin you just gave me.
"You DO know at Jewy Juice we're 100% kosher, don't you?"
Bet Wolcott would *smoke* at Scrabulous!
Molly, the Extras with Daniel Radcliffe is on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q...h?
v=Qtef8rOWj04
Judging from the story, i would venture the obvious: the Education Dept's Inspector General is one of the last non-Bush appointees.
expect a Bush appointee any minute now.
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got it. Does this have something to do with the Protocol of the elders of Zion?
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but of course.
jewy jew????? Oh my.
I believe he was joking.
Good morning.
After not saying anything about relocation for weeks now the borg says I have to tell them I'm considering it by the end of the week.
oy.
Relocation out of NYC?
HBK, does this mean you get to go South? or what.
Olaf, how's albekwirky? sorry 'bout Woody's Mischief.
Good after the lickin you just gave me.
We have a mutual punishment society.
Jobs these days. You think you're fine, and then it's all, "Dance!, Faster!!!"
sorry woot, boobies revert to my provider's keeper, who says sorry, no cigar.
After not saying anything about relocation for weeks now the borg says I have to tell them I'm considering it by the end of the week.
At work, several times a day, every single blessed day, i find myself chanting under my breath "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an automatic emergency on my part".
then i have to drop what i'm doing to fix their 'emergency'.
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Jobs these days.
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I just got 4 new students. Parents still paying for education.
Molly, the Extras with Daniel Radcliffe is on YouTube.
Damn, I love Diana Rigg.
Whadaya'all think of this?
City council has fully embraced internet voting, awarding a $487,151 contract to Intelivote, a Dartmouth firm, to oversee an internet component for early voting in the October council and mayoral elections (traditional voting remains an option for early voters, and the only choice on election day).
I worked as a reporter in the US when many states and localities adopted electronic voting, and was assured by a parade of voting experts, auditors and engineers the system was fail-proof. Only a "lunatic fringe" called it into question.
A decade later, however, the lunatic fringe has been proved right. "Warning: can you count on these machines?" blared the cover of last week's New York Times Magazine, introducing a devastating investigation of electronic voting. Many states are now spending hundreds of millions of dollars to move back to paper, and verifiable, ballots.
But Tuesday I watched again, as here in Halifax a parade of voting experts, auditors and engineers assured council that the new internet voting system is fail-proof, and council obliged.
It's true, as staff told me, that there's a difference between electronic voting machines and internet voting, but the difference is this: instead of a programming error---or a conscious attempt to steal an election---affecting just one machine of many in an overall election, with internet voting such errors or malfeasance affect the entire election. Moreover, Halifax's internet system uses Intelivote's proprietary software, meaning it can not be subjected to independent analysis, and, just as with the States' electronic voting systems, there will be no auditable paper trail---if an election is stolen, there'll be no way to prove it.
Lastly, consider that the founder and president of Intelivote is Dean Smith, a member of Halifax's Ambassador Club, where he rubs elbows with fellow members Don Mills and Fred MacGillivray. The latter two were not only leaders of the Commonwealth Games fiasco---the aborted attempt to enrich themselves with $2 billion of taxpayers' money---but are also the force behind Citizens for Halifax, a big business-friendly enterprise devoted to throwing out council and installing their candidate as mayor.
Sure, Halifax is a small town; movers-and-shakers run in the same circles. That's my point.
Due to Dad's career path, I attended a ridiculous number of elementary schools.
HBK - Think long and hard.
Mr. ql was once offered a really good job in tampa. He spoke with someone who relocated there the year before. Was told that after six months the borg lowered his friend's salary and cut back on some perks. When he complained they just smiled and said, well there's nowhere else down here for you to go to, so unless you move your family back North on your own dime, you're shit out of luck boy.
Good after the lickin you just gave me.
We have a mutual punishment society.
Molly Ivors, Edwardian | Homepage | 01.26.08 - 7:50 am | #
FLIRTING!
Moe, the delivery service that bro't in voting machines turned out to belong to the GoPervs in TX - 'nuff said.
Damn, I love Diana Rigg.
Bestest Christmas ever - my wife gave me a boxed set of The Avengers DVDs - the Diana Rigg years.
Sure, Halifax is a small town; movers-and-shakers run in the same circles. That's my point.
there is the Tribe of Mammon, and the rest of us.
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FLIRTING!
Not after you see what I just did.
Since her Avenger's days. She has always epitomized 'cool'.
I'd never seen Daniel Radcliffe act although I have been intrigued by his choices for establishing himself as an adult (the nude scene he did in a play).
'bout time for the fanger poke and blood test, here.
Bestest Christmas ever - my wife gave me a boxed set of The Avengers DVDs - the Diana Rigg years.
Later in the episode Margaret posted the clip from, Radcliffe turns to her and says "Do you still have that catsuit?"
afternoon fablous moonbats 
Olaf, how's albekwirky? sorry 'bout Woody's Mischief.
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albequirky is cold. i should call woody and give him my condolensces. and i was kidding of course.
Not after you see what I just did.
Molly Ivors, Edwardian | Homepage | 01.26.08 - 7:56 am | #
Yeah, that made me rather cranky.
Oh, hello! Here you all are!
Make breakfast, play scrabble, upload photos, next thing you know you're all alone.
Almost forgot: I couldn't help wondering why the local elementary school had commemorated Moe's birthplace on their parade float.
V for Virginia
I'd never seen Daniel Radcliffe act although I have been intrigued by his choices for establishing himself as an adult (the nude scene he did in a play).
And that episode, which completely skewers his Harry Potter personae.
I'm sure he's just anxious for the series to end so he can get on with his career.
How's the XBox?
Benazir Bhutto, the Fairytale Princess.
What happened to Woody?
The move is to Pittsburgh.
I know they don't have anybody like me and I can hold them over a barrel but if I push my luck they'll just break my job among several fresh faced recent business school grads and consider themselves ahead of the game.
Not only do they want to know my thinking before next Friday they want a definite answer by the end of the month.
At least they're offering a few days there so that I can see what it's like.
Who will hate enough for wingnuttia???
Olaf, everyone here is kidding, of course, too.
How's the XBox?
plantsman | Homepage | 01.26.08 - 7:59 am | #
its really cool, i have to now buy a wireless adapter, so I can play online and download stuff like old style Arcade games and so forth heh
luckily i get paid on Monday plus I got given some birthday money from both sets of grandparents.
Pittsburgh! Rivers, Heinz, birthplace of Howard Feinman.
wonderfully sunny day here in Devizes, happy weather
Gomez!
Woody's dog Mischief died, V4VA.
Pittsburgh doesn't strike me as a great place, but then I live in N.TX, which is likely worse.
whtf? - The number of schools introducing rifle ranges for pupils has surged since ministers backed shooting sports last year, say gun groups.
One local authority is reportedly seeking to introduce shooting at 16 of its schools, and an academy due to open in September in a deprived area of south Bristol is believed to be the first of the government's flagship schools to have an on-site shooting range.
The National Small-bore Rifle Association (NSRA) told the Guardian there had been a 6% rise in membership from schools since Richard Caborn, then sports minister, backed the sport last May.
Sponsors of the Merchants' Academy, in Bristol, said the sport "encourages discipline", but campaigners and teachers condemned the move, saying it sent the wrong message to children in inner-city areas affected by violent crime.
With official figures this week revealing a 4% year on year increase in gun crime, campaigners have called for a moratorium on gun sports in schools.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/
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Pittsburgh - not flat. (Only thing I remember from a visit my senior year in high school.)
Oh, and home of the NTodd-hated Steelers.
Good morning Moon!
Light snowflurries in the Kentucky hills. Enjoy the 'warming' part of Big Al's nefarious climate plot.
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So, we're supposed to nuke The Shire and John McCain should become Sauron so Michelle will think he's conservative enough?
Tiger has eagerly resumed the game of fetch which was going on late last night.
The move is to Pittsburgh.
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waterfront renovation is nice, and beautiful country just out of town. Shakers nearby moving about in their horsedrawns.
Egyptian soldiers in riot gear deployed water cannon and rolls of barbed wire yesterday as they started to close the Gaza/Egypt border, turning back the thousands of Palestinians who have flooded across.
But even as some gaps in the wall were being closed, Palestinians used a bulldozer to puncture another section of the seven-mile border. Several thousand people still crossed in both directions. One crane was set up by the border at Rafah to bring over goods more quickly - particularly cement and fuel, which are scarce in Gaza.
There were some tense moments as crowds pushed up against the soldiers and occasionally threw stones. The Egyptians used a water cannon briefly and shots were fired into the air. But for every gap that was closed, many more remained open. Much of the steel and concrete wall on the Palestinian side remains demolished.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
israel...2247277,00.html
my mum was talking to another Palestinian friend of hers and apparently several of the Egyptian Italian trained police dogs have been shot by the Gazeans, because they associate it with the IDF and Border Guards, its become so ingrained
Mr. ql is from Pittsburgh. He left on his 17th birfday. Over the years we made 16 trips there to visit the folks. Not a bad place at all. But I don't know if I would want to live there.
Pittsburgh doesn't strike me as a great place, but then I live in N.TX, which is likely worse.
American Civil War Union general Phil Sheridan was sent to a post in Texas after the Unpleasantness, and was there a couple of years. His verdict?
"If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell."
Just saying.
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Serious failings in army leadership, planning and training - particularly about treating civilians in an occupied country - led to the abuse of Iraqis by British soldiers, a Ministry of Defence investigation has found.
Soldiers were not told about their obligations under international law or about a specific ban on hooding imposed by the government 36 years ago, said the report by Brigadier Robert Aitken, the army's director of army personnel strategy. Troops were given "scant" information on how to treat civilian detainees and needed "a better understanding between right and wrong".
His report, released yesterday, is a severe indictment of the overall failure to plan for the invasion and its aftermath. It was ordered after a string of cases alleging ill-treatment by British troops, notably the death of Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel receptionist, in September 2003.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
milita...2247325,00.html
you mean Mennonites or Amish?
Mennonites drive the Amish to market.
cynicus, that assumes some one would pay the rent, I fear.
There are no Shakers left. Movers, maybe.
also the Gazeans spent two hundred and fifty million dollars in three days
also the Gazeans spent two hundred and fifty million dollars in three days
Moonbootica, Employed
State of the Union /Address; "shop like a Gazean!"
Moonboot, our role in supporting Israel's desire to keep Gazans penned up is shameful.
Israel said last week they don't intend to punish Gazan civilians, but if militants don't behave, well, they'll just HAVE to punish them.
And we are only to willing to back this decision, require Egypt to fix that fence, and no more goods for Gaza.
Mennonites drive the Amish to market.
Thou shallst not flirt!
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Thou shallst not flirt!
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Cynicus
flirt thee if thou willst.
There are no Shakers left.
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Thanks for correction. It is another movement which embraces the old ways and I'm having a senior moment remembering.
Gah
Smicksburg one of their towns
Moonboot, our role in supporting Israel's desire to keep Gazans penned up is shameful.
Israel said last week they don't intend to punish Gazan civilians, but if militants don't behave, well, they'll just HAVE to punish them.
And we are only to willing to back this decision, require Egypt to fix that fence, and no more goods for Gaza.
i bet for many of these Gazeans they have stocked up on cigarettes and will sell them back in Gaza, same with fuel
el | 01.26.08 - 8:11 am | #
aye thats the main issue
though perhaps Egypt ought to negioate with Hamas to allow some sort of movement between the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian border towns, like let a certain number of people every day go buy stuff like fuel and so forth
bt
So, there's no doubt who "wins" (horrible word in this situation, but still) from Israel's decision to close off Gaza.
i bet a few of the Gazeans have brought in bulk and will resell stuff like cigarettes back in the Gaza Strip
i bet for many of these Gazeans they have stocked up on cigarettes and will sell them back in Gaza, same with fuel
but I didn't say that, although my nym follows
el | 01.26.08 - 8:11 am | #
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scratches head
since the gas has run out, many Palestinians are cooking on open fires
Moon did I miss your birthday?
Feliz cumpleaños anyway.
scratches head
el | 01.26.08 - 8:15 am | #
i suspect its Haloscan mucking up
There's the Quakers, the Shakers, the Candlestick Makers. The Free Presbyterians. The Locked-Up Presbyterians...
Verily, Ruth, i say unto you: The Bride of Cynicus hath passed throught the Place of Computing and saidst, Flirt if thou willst; yet, even so, for thy flirting a lake of fire is prepared and thy punishment assured.
Lo, therefore, Cyncius doth live by the Rule: Thou shallst not flirt.
Here endeth the lesson.
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Germany's 'last' WWI
veteran dies
The man believed to have been Germany's last World War I veteran has died peacefully at the age of 107.
Erich Kaestner, who at 18 was sent to the Western Front but served only four months in the army, died in a Cologne nursing home, his son said.
The death on Sunday of Louis de Cazenave, France's second-last World War I veteran, made global headlines.
But in a country that keeps no record of its veterans, Kaestner's death on 1 January went largely unnoticed.
"That is the way history has developed," said Peter Kaestner, the soldier's son. "In Germany, in this respect, things are kept quiet - they're not a big deal."
"The German public was within a hair's breadth of never learning of the end of an era," wrote Der Spiegel, until someone updated his death notice on the internet encyclopaedia site, Wikipedia.
In its obituary for Kaestner, Die Welt noted: "The losers hide themselves in a state of self-pity and self denial that they happily try to mitigate by forgetting."
He rejoined the military as a Luftwaffe first lieutenant in 1939, where he served mainly as a ground support officer in France.
His 75-year marriage was recognised by Germany's president in 2003 shortly before his wife, Maria, died aged 102.
whtf? - The number of schools introducing rifle ranges for pupils has surged since ministers backed shooting sports last year, say gun groups.
oh yeah, even my catholic school had a marksman club up here in DFH new england...if anything, those guys are hardcore about using guns correctly, etc....future army officers.
the Wee Frees
The South African government is to introduce electricity rationing, as the country's deepening power crisis forced the world's largest gold and platinum mining companies to shut down operations yesterday.
The move to drastically cut power consumption came as the cabinet described a fortnight of rolling blackouts to millions of homes and businesses as a "national emergency" amid warnings that the electricity shortage will go on for years.
In an unprecedented move, the state power utility, Eskom, told the mines to evacuate all underground staff and cease mining to cut electricity consumption to "minimal levels".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
southa...2247284,00.html
Oh, right, I missed your b'day, too, Moon!
Happy belated, young 'un!
The Free Presbyterians. The Locked-Up Presbyterians...
rorschach
Free them all! even Methodists.
South Africa has Enron?
Plymouth Brethren
the shakers, the quakers, the candlestick makers
i bet for many of these Gazeans they have stocked up on cigarettes and will sell them back in Gaza, same with fuel
Many a Republican would praise this as the All-Powerful Hand of the Freee Market at work, if it just weren't those pesky enemies of our good Israeli buddies being all criminal and such.
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Hutterites, Church of the Brethren, and Brethren in Christ
The Schwarzenau Brethren
cynicus; "yet, even so, for thy flirting a lake of fire is prepared and thy punishment assured."
and thy losing at Scrabulous shall be forever and ever and ever.
rush is really bonkers with his hate for mccain. he does one of his imitations which are kinda like your drunk uncle doing donald duck and seems to despise mccain on global warming and immigration and mccain-feingold or whatever...
Who could have predicted that the people of Gaza would resist being in a prison?
The Moravian Brethren (also known as United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum and Bohemian Brethren) descend from the followers of Jan Hus, a Czech reformer burned at the stake in 1415 and mainly Bohemian 15th century nobleman and theologian Peter Chelcicky. Important leaders were also Jan Blahoslav and Jan Amos Comenius.
In an unprecedented move, the state power utility, Eskom,
i'm sure i was beaten to it, but is this the Afrikaans spelling of "Enron"?
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Eskom is a South African electricity public utility, established in 1923 as the Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) by the government of South Africa in terms of the Electricity Act (1922). It was also known by its Afrikaans name Elektrisiteitsvoorsieningskommissie (EVKOM). The two acronyms were combined in 1986 and the company is now known as Eskom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskom
Pennsylvania = home of Wm Penn, eminent Quaker. Good stuff.
The Iraqi prime minister has announced that his government is preparing to strike back against al-Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul after two explosion killed almost 40 people.
"Today, our troops started moving toward Mosul … and the fight there will be decisive," Nuri al-Maliki said in Karbala on Friday.
The US military says that Mosul is the last major city where al-Qaeda maintains a strong presence after largely being driven out of Baghdad and western Anbar province.
"We have set up an operations room in Nineveh to complete the final battle with al-Qaeda along with guerrillas and members of the previous regime," al-Maliki said, referring to other armed groups that the government says remain loyal to Saddam Hussein, the former president.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...CC0ADBF28DD.htm
She can already bet me at Scrabble. But when she prepares fire for a consequence of me doing something stoopit, i have learned to not do that stoopit thing.
i have not lived since 357 BC (current calendar) by being entirely unable to learn.
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rush is really bonkers with his hate for mccain.
with only his hate for mccain? the guy thinks mccain ain't asshole-conservstard enough...what else need be said? and for that fascism, the fucker gets MILLIONS of american-fascist assholes to listen to him
CWN.com - An Englishman who pastors a church in Baghdad says the city is the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian.
Canon Andrew White, known as the "Vicar of Baghdad," recently sat down with CBN News and talked about the plight of Christians in Iraq.
White pastors St. George's Anglican Church in the heart of Baghdad. He says while conditions in Iraq's capital may be better, overall, he says they're still terrible.
He claims Baghdad remains the most dangerous place in the world. He told CBN News what life has been like for Baghdad Christians in the past year.
"The two largest Christian neighborhoods of Dora and Karada are now void of all Christians," White said. "They had bullets put through their doors, they had letters warning them to leave, and they were given a choice - either you pay the Jizya tax or you convert to Islam, or we kill you. Of my church in Iraq, I have 1300 members in my church in Baghdad and we have six men left. All the rest have been kidnapped or killed."
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4050...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
clips from a letter to our P&J group re life in Gaza:
Daily electricity cuts is 12 hours.
Shifa hospital has three generators. One generator will stop functioning within hours. This generator feeds the laundry room, oxygen extractor, pharmacy and the oncology department.
The Israeli has informed the Palestinian liaison officer that urgent patient should be allowed to get out of Gaza
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Palestinian Ministry of Detainees in Ramallah reported that a detainee from Gaza who delivered her baby in Kfar Saba Israeli hospital was subjected to harsh treatment while being transferred to the hospital and was cuffed.
She was barred from her visitation rights and did not see any of her children since she was kidnapped by the army last year.
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the entry of water filters - vital for purifying the water drawn from Gazan wells, which are heavily polluted by brine, oil and sewage - has already been prevented for over half a year.
Serious question: If Limbaugh and Malkin hate McCain, won't that make him seem more "reasonable"?
But, Dumbya's on the Case in the Holy Land, so Gaza is saved!
mennonite! Not Shaker or candlestick maker.
An Englishman who pastors a church in Baghdad says the city is the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian.
religion is the difference in ideas powerfully inscribed enough to kill in the name of.
Far-right political leaders from four EU nations have unveiled plans to form a pan-European "patriotic" party.
The heads of far-right parties from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria and France said their aim was to defend Europe against "Islamisation" and immigrants.
At a news conference in Vienna, they said they expected to launch the party by 15 November.
The move comes several months after the collapse of a far-right bloc in the European Parliament.
The Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty (ITS) bloc disbanded itself in November after a row between its Italian and Romanian members over race.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ...ope/
7210036.stm
As soon as the General Election campaign is joined, the logic of all GOP candidates can be squashed in short order.
*yawn*HICA!
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JP! D'ya git yer email?
gee, I signed up for facebook to check out Scrabulous, but it doesn't support verizon.
sigh
yes molly right up until you listen to what he says....
Thousands of Gazans are pouring into Egypt for a fourth day, despite Egyptian attempts to reseal the border.
For the first time many Palestinians were using cars to cross, rather than going on foot.
Hamas, which rules Gaza, reacted to Israeli attempts to isolate the hostile territory with a blockade by blowing open Gaza's border with Egypt.
Hopes for talks between Hamas and its rival Fatah to tackle the crisis have been dealt a blow.
In a speech, President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated he would only talk to Hamas if it retreated from its June takeover of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas, which had indicated it would accept an invitation to talks, says this insistence effectively sabotages any prospect of negotiations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middl...ast/
7210311.stm
that is, it doesn't support earthlink.
el -- I don't get it. What's the issue with verizon and facebook?
plantsman: JP! D'ya git yer email?
Yep -- FSM bless the USPS!
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If Limbaugh and Malkin hate McCain, won't that make him seem more "reasonable"?
he is, but his age is a real detriment, and it's not even physical years, chris dodd is another silverback, but he talks tough as shit and seems like his facilities are all there, mcstain, one cannot be too sure with those sweaters he wears, i mean he must be colorblind, at least 
Indeed! Now, if I can sweet talk the Costco Pharmacy into hanging on to my scrips til' next Friday.....the emergency should be quelled!
I'm so smart I can lose 5 games of Scrabulous simultaneously!
Rolled over the 100K/hits mark, overnight on the bloggie... fittingly...
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Amman, Jan 25, (VOI) – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) urged the international community to provide $261 million, part of which should go for treatment of Iraqis from psychological diseases in countries hosting millions of Iraqi refugees.
"There are about 2.2 million Iraqis rendered homeless inside their own countries while two millions others are residing in neighboring countries," the UNHCR said in a report received by Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
"The UNHCR, in association with its partners, is furnishing socio-psychological support for the refugees, including the referral of patients to psychological clinics and mental hospitals," read the report.
Conducting a survey on refugees registered in Syria during the period between October 31 and November 25, 2007, the UNHCR affirmed that they had been subjected to several forms of physical assault and torture like beating, electric shocks, burning and rape, adding most of these assaults were perpetrated by armed militias and groups.
The report called for enhancing protection among all communities in Iraq to end torture and draw up programs for improving the mental health of homeless Iraqi refugees.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4049...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
CBC says Egyptians are going to Gaza, too. One guy they interviewed in Gaza City said he'd never seen the place, wanted to check it out. The Palestinians, he concluded, are being screwed over big time.
I'm so smart I can lose 5 games of Scrabulous simultaneously!
rorschach
Maybe, but you're kicking my ass. (I am the low-hanging fruit of scrabulous victories.)
gotta get some breakfast now,
do you think maybe asking nicely to pay them back is our WH's new way of collecting from We the People? see http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
The Palestinians, he concluded, are being screwed over big time.
Yeh? Well, some guy here the other day said they deserve it -- so there!
/snark
I wonder if the UN could help the US out with some of that mental health care. We could sure use some.
"There are about 2.2 million Iraqis rendered homeless inside their own countries while two millions others are residing in neighboring countries,
pfft. if you listen to mcstain, the hanging gardens of baghdad will be opening in a few years! things are going soo well in iraq that democrats will lose support
Now it can be told... the terrible secret of LarryElvis.
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San Francisco Pro-Intifada Rally
Photos by Hossam el-Hamalawy
Poor Israel. They keep trying solutions to the Palestinian crisis, but none works. They need something that will last, some sort of final solution..........
(YHVH is a just God, says so in the Books. If so, there must be at least a few Israelis who shudder with fear for their country.)
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Nearly five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, there is no end in sight to the difficulties facing Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Facing government harassment, unemployment and a lack of basic essentials where they are, or the prospect of returning to sectarian violence, looting and economic hardship in Iraq, these refugees are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Since March 2003, at least 4.2 million Iraqis have been displaced—2.2 million fled their homes but remained in Iraq and 2 million left the country altogether. Between 1.4 and 1.7 million are in neighbouring Syria, while Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon and Turkey all have a significant number of Iraqi refugees.
The precarious situation confronting Iraqi refugees is conveyed by an Ipsos survey published in November and entitled "Iraqi Refugees in Syria". According to the survey, 37 percent of the 754 individuals interviewed listed savings as their primary source of income, while 24 percent relied on remittances, 12 percent on pensions and only 24 percent on a salary. Some 33 percent expected their money to run out in less than three months and another 53 percent did not know how long their money would last.
Financial insecurity has forced many refugees to take desperate measures to survive, including prolonged professional fasting or turning to prostitution. Children are also affected, with an estimated 10 percent of Iraqi children in Syria forced to work for an average daily income of $1 or less.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4048...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
An empire from a tub of goo
How did the quest to retrieve the treasure hidden beneath huge swaths of northern Alberta go from fool's errand to monumentous payoff? Erin Anderssen, Shawn McCarthy and Eric Reguly explain.
[...]
Now, oil production in northern Alberta is expected to quadruple to more than four million barrels a day by about 2020, if all the projects proposed go ahead. Virtually every major oil company in the Western world has picked up a piece of the action, investing nearly $90-billion to create what promises to be the biggest industrial project on Earth and sparking predictions that Canada will become what Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls an “energy superpower.”
The oil sands are seen as a crucial source in a world of increasingly tight supply, where many reserves are in politically volatile regions controlled by undemocratic states. Put another way: Should they disappear tomorrow, one industry expert estimates, the price of oil could jump a third to $130 a barrel.
The value and importance of the oil sands will make that much harder the choices that Albertans and all Canadians suddenly face. Canada has now become a major-league merchant of one of the most desirable – and dirtiest – sources of energy. The money is flowing in, and the profits are rolling out – good news for stockholders, the Canadian dollar and government coffers.
But there are environmental and social costs to stuffing our pockets while the oil speeds south. And Canadians will have to answer a question already being asked by many Albertans: When does a boom become a burden?
[...]
sadly while the militants in the Gaza Strip contiue to fire rockets into Israel, the blockade will remain
and since both sides are incredibly stubborn nothing will improve
meanwhile the residents of Gaza get screwed from all sides
prolonged professional fasting
Huh? You mean, starvation?
el - keep trying. It let me make a friend with rorsch this a.m. but five minutes later wouldn't let me cozy up someone else.
I think at times when Facebook members can crush up, it gets dicey.
The big local story is the gal who got cited by the city for her backyard chickens. This is one of those teaching moments, and it's going well.
my Grandpa and Gran both served in the ME during the war and he was commenting on the recent crisis in Gaza and she says its ridiculous the way Palestine is split in two, he asks how can a country ever work?
that and how there had always been trouble, I didn't mention British contribution to it though
my Gran actually trained up the local Israeli girls to work in the munitions factory and apparently they used to pinch stuff from the factory and hand over to the Jewish insurgent groups
also the Palestian insurgency groups used to roll boulders down the main road to Jerusalem onto the buses which traveled the route
ql, I'm in, but I don't know anyones nyms, assume they're different than here?
"South Carolina is important for Democrats for the same reason it's important for Republicans: It's the state where the base speaks," said CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider. "In the Republican case, that means conservatives. For the Democrats, that means African-Americans."
fuck you bill schneider...that is retarded talk. it's irrelevant that most blacks vote dem: their entire population is around 20% of america
i read that paragraph and see subtle racism: dems=blacks, repubs=whites
ql, I'm in, but I don't know anyones nyms, assume they're different than here?
el
el quilt c'est moi
Subtle? Not so much.
I didn't do the crush thing--they wanted my cell phone number.
Uh, sorry. No.
the British promised one thing to the Palestinians and another thing to the Israelis
and they have never forgotten the betrayal
another lesson which those who planned the Iraq attack from was the British occupation of Egypt and the insurgency we had there
Ohholynight, do NOT miss whiskeyfire.
racism
Republicans = ideas
Dems = skin color
Schneider = asshole
Why Can't Liberals Do This? The Attack On Fox News
People in the ME have memories that are too long.
Imagine making an entire country refugees, from the perspective of one ofthe mutlinat corporations/super-rich.
You render the best and brightest - engineers, doctors, scientists, etc - available and grateful for any work at any (low) price. You render the most beautiful desperate enough to give you sexual favors (no matter how antic) for another low price. You get the most obedient as inexpensive servants and/or worker bees, ready to undercut market rates of pay.
the only drawback is the existance of some millions of refugees that don't fall into one of these useful categories, but what of it? They weren't doing anything for you anyway. Worrying about them is like worrying about all the limestone you quarried away to get at the good coal.
what was that book - disaster capitalism? We are sure seeing it.
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Bill Schneider is a right wing asshole. And the racism is, as plantsman said, not subtle.
- Eye witness from Mosul told Iraqirabita what exactly happened in the city, totally different story from what reported by western media "Iraq explosion leaves at least 15 dead":
Kurdish Peshmerga militia found barrels filled with ammo, weapons and TNT explosives in building, they detonated the findings as they always do if they find abandoned arms.
They didn’t expect that the explosion will be so huge that it destroyed the houses near the building cause injuries and deaths among the civilians.
The residents in the neighborhood started to throw stones on the army after the prevented the people from rescuing the injured.
According Haq Agency, quoting Al Mustafa Army resistance faction, Kurdish militia put the barrels in the building at the same day in the morning.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4048...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
ql, I put in those 5 letters but got no results.
FYI
I'm getting ready to leave for the POLLS. The power is blinking. No bad weather, just blinks.
We have no paper trail Diebold machines here and now Power BLINKS!!@
Somebody is screwing with upstate SC polling. Can't help but be suspicious.
fuck you bill schneider...that is retarded talk. it's irrelevant that most blacks vote dem: their entire population is around 20% of america
i read that paragraph and see subtle racism: dems=blacks, repubs=whites
mogwai, 5th-tier
Ummm, used to be 16%, I think it might be as low as 12% now. . . He is a stupid asshole.
- In an interview with Radio Sawa Al Jaafari admits that he met faction from Iraqi resistance in Cairo, although he didn’t agree with their views.
- Anbar Awakening Council say they do not recognize the new flag and they will continue erecting the "old flag" saying:
The new flag was made to satisfy Kurdish leaders.
Also three big Iraqi tribes rejected the new flag.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4048...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
This story was confirmed by AMSI but the accused the Americans detonated the building:
The American forces committed a crime against our people in the Zndjeli district in Mosul, when these forces, assisted by government forces blew up a building in the district, after they warned the civilians to evacuate their houses but many elderly, women and children couldn’t leave their residents, an hour later a big explosion was heard echoed all around the city destroyed 100 houses completely affected a distance about 2km diameter.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4048...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
Ask.com could settle the percentage -- as if it mattered.
Re: electronic elections, why wouldn't it be secure to vote right from our computers?
If verisign and others can keep our information safe, why can't the gov't?
heh heh
PeasantParty: Somebody is screwing with upstate SC polling. Can't help but be suspicious.
Call the local Dem HQ -- suggest that generators might be needed.
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el
that's it El Quilt
my email is quiltsquito@operamail.com
I guess our game is over. Great playing again, ql, and thanks and congrats, rors.
*sigh*
I might get better . . .
I'm getting ready to leave for the POLLS. The power is blinking. No bad weather, just blinks.
We have no paper trail Diebold machines here and now Power BLINKS!!@
Somebody is screwing with upstate SC polling. Can't help but be suspicious.
all complaints to be sent to the GOP's law firm: Chuckle, Chortle, and Smirk.
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We have no paper trail Diebold machines here and now Power BLINKS!!@
gaza?
seriously is SC a 3rd world state or what? i remember down there the elevator commissioner written on the elevator slip said he was also in charge of amusements and carnivals...fucking howdy-doody land down there
Cynicus the book you're thinking of it The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
I started reading it but got so mad I had to put it down.
We use optically-scanned paper mail-in ballots. So far it seems to work well and be secure.
thanks, I'll try that.
There is an Ellie Quilt though
I started reading it but got so mad I had to put it down.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
Me, too. I tried and failed -- it was just too fucking much.
What are you thinking about your possible move?
Ah. thank you HBK.
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I guess our game is over. Great playing again, ql, and thanks and congrats, rors.
*sigh*
Thanks. That was a fun game.
Support for Britain's EU membership is rising, not falling, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. Carried out ahead of parliamentary debate on the new European treaty, the poll also finds that voters back Gordon Brown's European strategy, with fewer than one in three agreeing with Conservative claims that the treaty will leave Britain worse off.
The poll paints a picture of a country offering clear if unenthusiastic support for continued EU membership, but with no appetite for deeper engagement.
Asked to pick Britain's best friend in the world, voters remain strongly pro-American, despite the impact of the Bush presidency. Only 29% of people think that Britain's warmest relations are with the European Union, against 64% who think they are with America.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/
p...2247320,00.html
I will alert the Commission, also Bradblog. I'm mad as hell at the moment. MSM keeps on talking like there are only two candidates and a race war.
:-(
Some days, it just doesn't pay to chew through the leather restraints.
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V I just don't know.
I can't stand that they're rushing me.
Also the e-mail they sent me outlining what's going on is secured so that I can't even print it.
I hate that.
My co-worker had never heard "As nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs," and he's older than me, and a quasi-hillbilly.
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MSM keeps on talking like there are only two candidates and a race war.
Fuck the stupid voters and screw the result, it's a great story!
reporting on "hybrid" embryos: the daily mail, the catholic chuch and other liars
the e-mail they sent me outlining what's going on is secured so that I can't even print it.
Screen capture, paste image into Word. Then print.
Meanwhile, I cannot catch a break, and Molly be kickin my butt.
Some days, it just doesn't pay to chew through the leather restraints.
some days the padded room is the only safe place
HoneyBearKelly: Also the e-mail they sent me outlining what's going on is secured so that I can't even print it.
I missed the backstory, but... can you copy/paste it into anothr application, like a text editor or word processor?
Or, screen-capture it, and paste that into an app that will print?
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Some days, it just doesn't pay to chew through the leather restraints
CHEW THROUGH THEM!?!?!?! i paid extra for genuine leather, thank ya much!
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Also the e-mail they sent me outlining what's going on is secured so that I can't even print it.
Wow, I didn't realize you worked for the CIA.
Can you c&p it to a document so you at least have something?
"Also the e-mail they sent me outlining what's going on is secured so that I can't even print it.
I hate that."
--HoneyBearKelly
Why wouldn't they want you to print it? Sounds weird to me.
dave™© I'll try that.
I did try copying the text and pasting it on a word doc and it didn't work.
The movie takes place during four life-altering days of Michael Clayton (Clooney), a legal "fixer" for a high-profile Manhattan law firm. His mentor, the brilliant litigator Arthur Edens (Wilkinson), has a nervous breakdown while settling a $3 billion class-action suit for his client, a mega agro-chemical company accused of marketing a carcinogenic weed killer. Swinton is the company's fragile chief counsel, keen on self-preservation at all costs, a performance she has said was inspired by Condoleezza Rice.
Tilda Swinton as Condiliar. That would be reason enough to see it.
"seriously is SC a 3rd world state or what? i remember down there the elevator commissioner written on the elevator slip said he was also in charge of amusements and carnivals...fucking howdy-doody land down there
mogwai, 5th-tier "
I sometimes think so. It has been run by the Good Ol Boys club for far too long. The current leader is a Graham Cracker with shit for brains.
ql I sent message on fb
Screen capture, paste image into Word. Then print.
dave™©
My nephew is visiting with (supposedly) sick computer. I hooked it up and everything appeared fine. I removed a bunch of shit they did not need. I was just cleaning the dust out of the thing with a vacuum when I happened to open the drive door on the CDR. He had put a CD for a palm pilot containing a dictionary program in it. It had crashed the machine and he had panicked because it asked him to restart from a starting point so he just assumed it was broken.
(I asked him to bring whatever disks that the manufacturer had given them with the computer - he could not find them. Why can't people EVER find the damned disks?)
I took the dictionary disk out, it works fine.
I started reading it but got so mad I had to put it down.
HoneyBearKelly?GoGiants
I had that exact reaction. I can only read a few pages at a time.
a $3 billion class-action suit for his client, a mega agro-chemical company accused of marketing a carcinogenic weed killer.
that's a movie?
LOL, i love the smell of the chemical isle of the garden center, smells like napalm in the morning!
elevator commissioner written on the elevator slip said he was also in charge of amusements and carnivals...
Elevators and carnival rides have this in common: large complex electro-mechanical devices that move people about, and are potentially lethal if they fuck up.
If you have an engineering service to vet one, it makes some sense to have the same engineers vetting the others.
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I saw Michael Clayton.
Tom Wilkerson is just amazing in it.
If he doesn't win best supporting actor it's a crime.
I did try copying the text and pasting it on a word doc and it didn't work.
You might also try copying the text and pasting it into Notepad (a plain text editor that's under "Accessories" in your start up menu). Also, when you paste, choose "Paste Special" and pick "Plain Text".
I'm baaaacccckkkk.
Reporting from my tiny little corner of heaven. My polling place was very uncrowded, but John Edwards has two votes. The polling place down the road at the high school had a line and more people coming. Very encouraging.
Breakfast was good too.
it's irrelevant that most blacks vote dem: their entire population is around 20% of america
That's just about the percentage that still support Dubya.
The conclusion must be...
YAY global warming! less atlantic hurricanes, bring on the GHG's!!!
I took the dictionary disk out, it works fine.
I hope you charged him whatever the hell the Geek Squad charges...
Well, it's my least favorite time of a Saturday.
"Pull up a chair..."
Good day lovely people!
teh NYT, irrelevant and useless...nothing like a hedge fund nominating bored of directors - it's the american way!
An investment group is seeking to name board members at The New York Times Co. and another newspaper publisher, Richmond, Va.-based Media General Inc., the companies disclosed Friday.
The Times said in a statement late Friday that it had received a notice from Harbinger Capital Partners saying the firm intended to nominate candidates for the four directors that are elected by the Times' public shareholders.
The Times' controlling shareholders, the Ochs-Sulzberger family, own a separate class of supervoting shares that allows them to elect the other nine directors. The Times' next annual shareholder meeting is scheduled for April 22.
I hope you charged him whatever the hell the Geek Squad charges...
dave™©
He said he was buying lunch. I wonder how many of the Geek Squads' calls are like that?
I did explain that when the machine fails to function after you change something, even if you don't think it is important, remove whatever it was that you changed. I even demonstrated because the machine rejected two mice and two keyboards before it found two that it liked. (I told him to bring just the box as I have way the hell too many accessories laying around)
You might also try copying the text and pasting it into Notepad (a plain text editor that's under "Accessories" in your start up menu
Probably not.
good morning Marcelina
I iz watching the Ladies Figure Skating
watched the skiing earlier, Men's combined (Downhill today and Salom tomorrow) from Chamonix
Marcellina - your turn in the Game That Will Not End.
He said he was buying lunch.
Woo hoo!!!
I wonder how many of the Geek Squads' calls are like that?
Probably most of them.
anyone else having primaries today
Probably not.
Hey, it's worth a shot... make sure to use that "Paste Special" thing, though...
The stimulus package pushed by our demorepub "leaders" is yet another case of redistributing the national wealth ... up, up, and away to those who already have seized more than enough in the last twenty-five years. See Krugman's analysis this morning at:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Stimulate this, Pelosi!
Thanks. That was a fun game.
rorschach
Bet I scared you with my next to last move.
Good game. Thanks.
I played it right before I came on here, V. We must be close to the end, though. I have one tile left. Who's next? Plantsman?
Hey, it's worth a shot... make sure to use that "Paste Special" thing, though...
dave™©
It was a Mac vs. PC dig, missing a
The annual salary is relatively modest - but it's the hourly rate offered to Martin Amis by Manchester University to be a visiting professor of creative writing which puts the novelist into the Premiership footballer league.
His salary has now been disclosed under Freedom of Information legislation, at £80,000 a year - or £3,000 an hour, according to disgruntled union representatives who have seen the shedding of hundreds of posts, from technicians to lecturers, as the university tries to balance its books.
They claim that although he may put in longer hours, the contract obliges Amis to work only 28 hours of the year: 12 90-minute postgraduate seminars, four public appearances and one session at the summer writing school.
Most other visiting academics are paid between £20 and £50 an hour, but the university has made other celebrity signings, including a brace of Nobel prize winners, the economist Joseph Stiglitz and the scientist John Sulston.
Dave Jones, senior Unite union organiser, said: "We understand why people like Martin Amis are being sought by the university and recruitment is a competitive business.
"But I think those staff who are left after the various redundancies and early retirements need to know that there will also be investment into their careers as well."
http://education.guardian.co.uk/
...2247232,00.html
helllloooooo?
It was a Mac vs. PC dig...
Is there some sort of bad feelings between the two?
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them on Monday.
Is there some sort of bad feelings between the two?
dave™©
Some say there is animosity, but I've never seen any evidence of it.
foolme -- our official primary is Tuesday, but we are invited to play slots with our vote in advance, if we wish. I'm waiting to make a mark on a piece of paper Tuesday.
That should read "ARE there some sort of..."
Steve Simels regrets the etc...
Matt Stoller:
Hillary on FISA
I have one other observation from the rally, which I wanted to put in a separate thread. I spoke with Hillary and Bill, both for oddly long amounts of time considering the crowd, and they are obviously well-aware of the FISA fight. I talked to Bill first, and asked him for help on the FISA fight. He very lawyerly asked me if they need 60 votes for cloture, and I said 'yes'. He knows that this means Clinton's vote isn't necessary, since it doesn't matter if the vote total is 59-41 or 59-0.
Then I spoke with Hillary, and she said she has assured her colleagues she will go back to the Senate if they need her vote. She though that we have already lost, alluding to the Judiciary version of the bill which was voted down on Friday. I urged her to speak out publicly and she said she intends to say something on Sunday.
Not sure what the implications are of this since I haven't been following the FISA fight as closely as some others, but I figured it's worth passing along.
I am participating in the first ever Global Primary, sponsored by Democrats Abroad, who will send 22 Delegates to the convention.
plantsman -- your turn in the ancient game.
Hey, Marcellina! Yea, I'm doing the Dems abroad thing, too. I'm convinced it was dreamed up the Clintonistas, tho.
I'm baaaacccckkkk.
Reporting from my tiny little corner of heaven. My polling place was very uncrowded, but John Edwards has two votes. The polling place down the road at the high school had a line and more people coming. Very encouraging.
Breakfast was good too.
foolme1ns
Ah! Election Day!
My BIL lives in SC (He's not a D, though)
SC is a beautiful state!
Meanwhile, I cannot catch a break, and Molly be kickin my butt.
Luck, dood.
bye for now
Hi V4V
I was feeling very unloved there for a moment.
The elementary school I vote at was not very crowded at all, but the high school had a pretty long line and more people coming. It was very encouraging.
The Mr. said he thinks we will have a record turnout today. I hope so. We're trying to pick the best of the best, the republicans are trying to pick the least worst. Ah well.
Edwards got at least 2 votes and my sons all say they are planning to vote for him. Feel the surge
Yea, I'm doing the Dems abroad thing, too. I'm convinced it was dreamed up the Clintonistas, tho.
Maybe. I'm just happy to have a vote. Ballot has to be in by Feb 12th.
"But I think those staff who are left after the various redundancies and early retirements need to know that there will also be investment into their careers as well."
Moon, in the US this would mean "We're exporting the factory to Mexico, but you former $25/hr union factory workers can get benefit-free $5 jobs at the new Wal-Mart."
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Luck, dood.
Molly Ivors, Edwardian | Homepage | 01.26.08 - 9:30 am | #
Modesty, dood.
Portia,
I have lived here all my life and I enjoy it.
I am the black sheep in my family. All republicans, bless they hearts.
Anybody here feeding Hills Science to their doggies - Petco has it on sale at about half price for the moment. Up until 2 February.
I was feeling very unloved there for a moment.
Don't ever take it personally. People are in three other conversations, doing seven other things online, still drinking coffee, etc.
I'm still learning this
George Soros is the equivalent of Emmanuel Goldstein from "1984". He is responsible, according to the Wingnutsphere, for financing everything that is evil. He is the Chtulu of financing.
No Science for dogs! Faith-based Creationism food only!
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He is the Chtulu of financing.
avital | 01.26.08 - 9:37 am | #
It is most unwise to misspell the names of the Elder Ones.
George Soros is the equivalent of Emmanuel Goldstein from "1984". He is responsible, according to the Wingnutsphere, for financing everything that is evil. He is the Chtulu of financing.
i might postulate "Snowball", from Animal Farm.
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Thanks V
I know not to take it personally. you just have to keep jumping in
WOOF
Hi Arthur.
You'd think that as a fellow member of the tribe Soros would send some money my way.
Arthur J. GWPDA is a dog, and everyone on the internets knows it.
And loves him.
Hell - Dogz are all about science, dood. Pavlov, remember? We -trained- that puppy.
Well, I have doubts about internet voting. How did an internet vote get approved for a primary? I don't trust it.
But even without that, I bet that Democrats abroad tend heavily to be Clinton supporters, if only because they're not as really familiar with the others.
V
I myself am multi tasking. I've decided to go greener. (not turning off my heat for nobody) I'm looking for crochet patterns for grocery bags.
Who needs another notch? I'm still more or less awake.
Speeder! Have you seen the weather report this morning? Big storm coming thru tonight and tomorrow.
George Soros' money is yet another thing I'm not getting any of.
It is most unwise to misspell the names of the Elder Ones.
rorschach | Homepage | 01.26.08 - 9:38 am | #
Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young.
Had to Google that...
Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter
http://techdirt.com/articles/200.../
18070575.shtml
and here
http://www.prweb.com/releases/
Do...prweb650951.htm
Arthur J. GWPDA is a dog, and everyone on the internets knows it.
And loves him.
Lenore
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As a lady in the cafeteria at work always tells my BIL, "all mens is dogs"
Hell - Dogz are all about science, dood. Pavlov, remember? We -trained- that puppy.
Huh. Next you'll be teiing me there was a time where the wild, free packs of Chihuahuas didn't roam the plains, hunting the buffalo, their high-pitched yaps striking fear in the night. Just as they were created in Eden.
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This is Saturday, right?
I can bash Hillary?
TKK
Soros is a notorious antisemite, everyone knows that
Storms? I hope it doesn't thunder.
I hate lightening storms.
Grocery bags:
http://www.nancyscrochet.com/
Gro...ceryToteBag.pdf
String bag:
http://frayedattheedges.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-
crochet-grocery-bag-pattern_03.html
I can bash Hillary?
Have at it, effendi!
I can bash Hillary?
steve simels
You can even go into Super over-gloat mode if she comes in third in South Carolina.
Dogz are all about science, dood. Pavlov, remember? We -trained- that puppy.
Arthur J. GWPDA | Homepage | 01.26.08 - 9:40 am | #
In a most brutal and sadistic fashion, in Pavlov's case.
Dear Mr. Soros,
where's my check, msn?
I dunno, Moe. In 2004 I was stunned to learn that most of my American colleagues over here didn't even vote.
There is a persistent rumor that if you are an expat and have not been filing with the IRS every year, they will find you via your voter registration.
The Old Ones... the ones who built us... yes, it is still in my memory banks...
hey thanks Arthur!!!!
Soros is a notorious antisemite, everyone knows that
I guess I missed Malkin's latest..
el
your turn
Don't forget Laika, the doggie the Ruskkies sent into orbit. That was a one way trip.
I had to make a blanket-cave for one of my managers, so I think it's probably Caturday.
(She tells me when, and she's got some ideas about how deep it has to be and whether it's in the ideal napping location. Fucking cats.)
Arthur's staff apparently has the day off.
Can I argue with Simels, even if I agree with him?
I guess I missed Malkin's latest..
The Kenosha Kid
Of all the lies they've told over the years, calling Soros an anti-semite is one of the most egregious.
Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young.
Had to Google that...
steve simels | Homepage | 01.26.08 - 9:41 am | #
And then, of course, there is H****r the Unnameable.
But my sentimental fave is Nyarlathotep.
It's time for my usual one-day-off-in-ten activity.....catching up on lost sleep. the sofa beckons.
Good day and good luck!
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You know what pisses me off about the "buy this canvas bag so you're not using plastic bags" thing? Every fucking thing for sale in the store came into the store in a cardboard box, and everyone of those cardboard boxes is broken down, thrown into the cardboard recycling thing out back. If they just put the cardboard boxes at the front of the store, people could use them to carry their shit out in, thereby not using plastic bags or having to buy a fucking canvas bag.
The Old Ones... the ones who built us... yes, it is still in my memory banks...
dave™©
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you cannot be programmed. you are inferior. Survival overrides programming. That was the equation!!!
Soros is a notorious antisemite, everyone knows that
Culture of TrÜth
After all, he survived . . . somehow . . .
How many years did it take for the expression "Your turn" to appear here? 
And then, of course, there is H****r the Unnameable.
I love that comic strip!
H****r always chomping on a drumstick...
If they just put the cardboard boxes at the front of the store, people could use them to carry their shit out in, thereby not using plastic bags or having to buy a fucking canvas bag.
Moe Szyslak
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good point. but crocheting my own gives me something to do in the evenings
you cannot be programmed. you are inferior. Survival overrides programming. That was the equation!!!
Ted Cassidy's greatest role!
Well, next to Frankenstein Jr...
I have y'all some cloudy morning Curly.
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Matt Stoller spoke to Bill and Hillary about FISA and she's going to say something about it tomorrow.
sigh.
f they just put the cardboard boxes at the front of the store, people could use them to carry their shit out in, thereby not using plastic bags or having to buy a fucking canvas bag.
Moe Szyslak
They'd take the boxes home and stuff them in the trash, you know.
If they just put the cardboard boxes at the front of the store, people could use them to carry their shit out in, thereby not using plastic bags or having to buy a fucking canvas bag.
That's what they do at CostCo. They don't even have bags - plastic or otherwise.
Moe,
There's a store near me that does that.
They toss the boxes up front.
so chipmunk cheeks johnny has gone from the keating V to the soros V?
Ted Cassidy's greatest role!
Well, next to Frankenstein Jr...
dave™©
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yep
Santorum Sheets (if you dare).
I use the grocery bags for garbage bags and thus don't have to buy plastic garbage bags. I thought everyone did that.
Moe Szyslak: If they just put the cardboard boxes at the front of the store, people could use them to carry their shit out in, thereby not using plastic bags or having to buy a fucking canvas bag.
Sounds like my local Aldi!
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If they just put the cardboard boxes at the front of the store, people could use them to carry their shit out in, thereby not using plastic bags or having to buy a fucking canvas bag.
That's what they do at CostCo. They don't even have bags - plastic or otherwise
Aldi does that here. I don't know about the ones in the US, do they do that? Mostly produce cartons.
I was a kid when "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" first aired, and I immediately recognized Cassidy as the guy who played Lurch.
And even then, I was confused as to why his otherwise-great makeup job ended at the neck...
is it just an optical delusion or won't hell-o-scum let me click here to refresh?
A coke to Jeffra for answering my question even as I posted it!
you cannot be programmed. you are inferior. Survival overrides programming. That was the equation!!!
I love how Ted Cassidy enunciated the word inferior when giving that speech.
Malkin quite clearly wants McCain dead, his family dead, his house burned to the ground, etc.
Boy, she sure didn't get the memo, did she?
Pittsburgh is a great place to live.
We don't have earthquakes, hurricanes or tornados.
And then, of course, there is H****r the Unnameable.
Not at all there is a street with the name of Hastur, in Anaheim Cal. just around the block from the 'crystal cathedral'.
Maybe the "buy this canvas bag" thing hasn't come to the states? All the major grocery store chains here are promoting it big time.
SORRY ABOUT YOUR PENIS, SLY
Sylvester Stallone says he used human growth hormone to get buff for the new "Rambo" movie, and defends its use. ''HGH (human growth hormone) is nothing,'' the 61-year-old actor tells Time magazine in its Feb. 4 issue. ''Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed.''
Because it is nearly undetectable, HGH has become a substance of great concern in major league baseball and other sports battling allegations of rampant doping.
''Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older,'' he says. ''Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years it will be over the counter.''
you cannot be programmed. you are inferior. Survival overrides programming. That was the equation!!!
I love how Ted Cassidy enunciated the word inferior when giving that speech.
Richard
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I loved his deep voice too
Dave I guess it was the low budget. they could only afford to go to his neck
I love how Ted Cassidy enunciated the word inferior when giving that speech.
Him and Shatner are really good together in that.
There's a great moment when Kirk reaches out to grab Ruk's shoulder and the sound effects people add in the sound of a hand slapping concrete. Just perfect...
A&P does it sort of.
I bought my bag at IKEA though.
I guess it was the low budget. they could only afford to go to his neck
Yeah, but they should have covered up the un-treated part!
Maybe the "buy this canvas bag" thing hasn't come to the states? All the major grocery store chains here are promoting it big time.
Moe Szyslak
That's been happening for well over a decade around here. Androgynous Park n' Rob sells logo bags. I think the Bowl's are blank. I buy one of them and fill it with folded-up double paper bags,which I use like a dozen times before sending out the paper recycling in them.
Maybe the "buy this canvas bag" thing hasn't come to the states?
Nah, they've got it here... some places, longer than others...
Okay, here goes.
This pains me to say, but frankly with the exception of the obviously asinine stuff -- you know, that they're Communists, that Hillary murdered her lesbian lover Vince Foster, or the Whitewater bullshit -- I have come to the conclusion that most of the crap the wingnuts say about the Clintons is actually true. I think they're totally unprincipled and ruthless and I don't trust either of them as far as I could throw them. Plus it's becoming increasingly impossible to ignore the fact that Bill is running for a third term. This is fucking unprecedented and I'm amazed that nobody here seems to view this with alarm....
Trader Joe's sells these phenomenal re-inforced canvas bags which I use constantly - one of the last perks from working at Amex, on signing TJ's as a customer, the staff all got a couple of the TJ bags and a gift card. Yesterday I saw that TJ's had a new bag - a six bottle wine carrier! I bought it immediately - talk about knowing your market. Haven't used a paper bag or a plastic one for at least two years now.
This is fucking unprecedented and I'm amazed that nobody here seems to view this with alarm....
steve simels
Sleazy and ruthless presidents are unprecedented? I'd say that it's the squeaky clean ones that would be without precedent.
Cat finds child porn
A cat helped find a stash of child porn and now Austin police
say they've found the owner.
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Arthur J. GWPDA
thanks again for the pattern. I had seen that one before and lost it. So I just printed it out
US network faces $1m nudity fine
NYPD Blue ran on ABC until 2005
US television network ABC may have to pay a fine of $1.4m (£707,000) for airing an episode of NYPD Blue which depicted female nudity.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said the 2003 show had "multiple, close-up views" of a woman's buttocks before the US watershed.
The FCC deems "sexual or excretory activities" shown in an "offensive" way before 2200 as indecent.
ABC has rejected the claims, saying the buttocks are not a sexual organ.
The proposed penalty has been imposed on all 52 of ABC's stations who broadcast the episode.
The scene in the police drama, which ran from 1993-2005, shows a boy surprising a naked woman as she prepared to take a shower.
The FCC said it received several complaints about the sequence, which also showed one of the woman's breasts.
"The FCC said it received several complaints about the sequence,..."
Several complaints?!?!?
This is what makes wingnuts like Martin an abomination, a walking obscenity in and of himself, a dickhead.
Close to 70 percent of U.S. citizens are for ending U.S. involvement in Bush's Iraq War, a war that began based on obscene lies by the Bush administration, and continues today with lie after lie after lie.
The Iraq War is obscene and 70 percent of U.S. citizens have been complaining, complaining, complaining...much more than "several complaints" being received over something that 99.9999 percent of U.S. citizens have completely forgotten about.
Talk about obscene, perverted WingNut priorities.
The flash of a butt on television (or a tit at the Superbowl) hardly runs the risk of destroying our democracy, while wasting trillions of dollars on an ill-conceived, ill-executed war in Iraq does represent a threat to our way of life in our liberal democracy.
I am no longer amused by the obscene (and destructive) antics of any crazed, neo-con Republicans.
Is Martin (and the two other WingNuts on the FCC) this crazy????
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