I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
You're easily surprised.
i was just having similar thoughts reading the latest hersh piece on iran.
They seem to admire the worst.
But the idea of a Dubai debate is appealing
...because I've got a new Callaway driver I'd like to try out.
and skimming the link, well, at least the villagers are finally coming clean about who our masters really are.
Unwashed rabble! Upstart!
Interloper!
top of the morning peeps
Brokaw: gimme your Russert love
Schwarzenegger: Russert promised to make President
Brokaw: well you are a Republican
Schwarzenegger: its not a humor!!
Brokaw: you have presided over a depression in callyfornia
Schwarzenegger: doan be a girly-man!
Brokaw: the economy sucks
Schwarzenegger: what goes up must come down
NY Times with a piece on the adoption of Hussein as a middle name. And, glaringly, no linky to the Great Orange Satan.
We could hold some of the debates in Iraq, after all it's no more dangerous than Philly. McCain could buy more rugs while he's there.
Money makes people funny? A chinese hedger just paid 2.5 million to eat a meal with Buffett.
G'morning folks. i don't see why it is a surprise that wanna-be aristocrats like aristocracies, but then i don't get a lot of things.
What's new?
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Brokaw: you spend like crazy
Schwarzenegger: we're building levees and schools and stealing water for the next generation of desert dwellers
Brokaw: people hate you
Schwarzenegger: hey i had a great body building career
What. The. Fuck. would the point be of debating in a foreign country? This is a US political election, not a world government election.
The "attractiveness" can only come from the furthering of the transglobal corporate agenda. Government agents showing their fealty to companies, having nothing to do with governments being accountable to the people.
They can have debates once they have election.
Gotta admit, it would be damn good political theater.
I like Thumper's comment.
A debate in Dubai? The villagers really do live in a different reality.
Brokaw: will the GOP lose all their congressional seats?
Schwarzenegger: who cares i hate them all
What's likable about Dubai is that, as a boomtown, it's a city that's "too busy to hate," as was said a generation ago of Atlanta.
atlanta is not too busy to hate. it's just too polite.
bless its heart.
Brokaw: so you hate the GOP
Schwarzenegger: no dems have Congress they suck
Brokaw: you endorsed pander bear
Schwarzenegger: i love him but i disagree with him on everything it's like with my wife
Brokaw: how so?
Schwarzenegger: i'm with them both out of political expediency
NY Times with a piece on the adoption of Hussein as a middle name. And, glaringly, no linky to the Great Orange Satan.
$ℵØ®κ | 06.29.08 - 11:03 am | #
That WAS weird. After reading that story last night, I went over and created the email account
"callmehussein@rockhetmail.com"
Any Obamaniacs want it?
And both campaigns aren't summarily rejecting the idea.
rocketmail no longer exists.
Brokaw: let me quote the Mustache of Pandering - Freidmann says Bush is evil
Schwarzenegger: look i'm just a bad actor with a lot of muscles - get of my back!!
Brokaw: you're a politician
Schwarzenegger: stop picking on Bush it's easy to pick on a guy with mental problems
Halliburton, in defiance of laws that say that US military contractors have to be US companies, moved their corporate headquarters to Dubai a year or two ago.
Coinkidince.
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a debate in dubai would make a statement. and that statement would be, "we can afford BOTH american presidential candidates."
I thought we lived in an ever increasing place just like that.
John McCain, the torture victim who demands that we stop torture, also wants to make a new start.
Say what?
Brokaw: housing crisis??
Schwarzenegger: dis ess vewy sad -- we must pump.... the economy up!!!
Brokaw: answer the question
Schwarzenegger: the economists lied to me!!
Brokaw: you should read more Eschaton
Schwarzenegger: is that a bodybuilding magazine?
rocketmail no longer exists.
dirk gently, sociopathetic | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:09 am | #
Nope. It's been taken over by Yahoo, which has been offering Rocketmail and "Ymail" addresses for about two weeks.
From Yahoo:
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@ymail.com or @rocketmail.com.
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a debate in dubai would make a statement. and that statement would be, "we can afford BOTH american presidential candidates."
dirk gently
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Brokaw: explain housing to me
Schwarzenegger: eet vas a bubble
Brokaw: gays!
Schwarzenegger: no i had a lot of gay friends in bodybuilding and it's wrong to ban gay marriage - although i don't like gay marriage
Brokaw: abortion?
Schwarzenegger: waiting period and notification of parents 100%
Debating in Dubai is the equivalent of saying "I think the president should have power equal to that of Dubai's emir."
Schwarzenegger: i'm with them both out of political expediency
Culture of TrÜth
boom
Dubai could hold one of their Presidential debates in the states next time around.
Oh wait, nevermind.
OT, and not that this is news, but I'm really not keen on Maureen Dowd.
Brokaw: Maria endorsed Obama you guys are trying to have it both ways
Schwarzenegger: see we're not so dumb
Brokaw: I get that sense
Schwarzenegger: would like to see my pecs?
Brokaw: No thanks
from the article:
" John McCain, the torture victim who demands that we stop torture, also wants to make a new start. The message of Campaign 2008 is that America is turning a page."
really? mcsame wants to end torture? then why did he vote for it?
wtf is wrong with these people?
Schwarzenegger: McCain is THE MAN!!
Brokaw: do you ever talk to Caroline Kennedy
Schwarzenegger: can you believe i managed to marry into the Kennedy family it's what i dreamed of as a sexually conflicted young boy in Austria
Brokaw: McCain's Veep?
Schwarzenegger: he should find someone with many muscles
Schwarzenegger: would like to see my pecs?
Ick.
Molly: well done; a particularly despicable column, I thought.
wtf is wrong with these people?
They're just doing their job.
The message of Campaign 2008 is that America is turning a page.
A continuation of the Bush message that we're turning the corner.
Mc = W³
Debating in Dubai is the equivalent of saying "I think the president should have power equal to that of Dubai's emir."
Again, the corporate headquarters of Halliburton is in Dubai.
Debating in Dubai is the equivalent of saying "It doesn't matter who holds the office, the military-industrial-profiteering complex will still rule. We need to move on."
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steve: I can come up with the same reasons you can for nuclear power being wrong, and will come to the conclusion that it's not my first choice. But it needs to be considered.
Its economic failure alone dooms it, I think, from a practical point of view.
Schwarzenegger: McCain can bring the parties together after all he has taken every position on everything
Brokaw: like you did in california
Schwarzenegger: yes exactly we should have no partisanship and work together just as soon as we recall all dems with lies and install Republican b-movie action stars in power
Wasn't the village in a tizzy about the French, Germans, English, etc hoping for Kerry in 2004?
But it needs to be considered.
What happens to the waste?
Nope. It's been taken over by Yahoo, which has been offering Rocketmail and "Ymail" addresses for about two weeks.
interesting - yahoo bought rocketmail ten years ago - i remember cause mrs g had a rocketmail address and had to drop it. i guess they used up all the @yahoo addresses, huh?
Federal Contracts for Paper Shredding Services
FY 2000-2008
Yr. Total $
2000 $452,807
2001 $456,235
2002 $752,799
2003 $1,018,191
2004 $2,329,466
2005 $2,980,375
2006 $3,068,877
2007 $3,463,610
2008 2Q * $1,148,718
*Note: FY 2008 only includes data up to first and part of second quarter
So - no one taught you about co-optation in granulate school?
~~~sigh~~~
Solar Thermal energy, quicker, cheaper, cleaner than nukes.
http://polizeros.com/2008/06/27/.../solar-thermal/
The message of Campaign 2008 is that America is turning a page.
i thought that was mark foly's campaign slogan?
billy b: agreed entirely, then, on 'Star Wars', which was always more political than actually viable as a defensive option.
I remain of the opinion that nuclear power can be done more safely than, say, coal, when all is considered. I am less sure that it should be pursued in lieu of solar, wind, geothermal and other renewables. But if you add up all the costs of coal--environmental, climatic, health, the process of mining and transport, all of it--which isn't done nearly as often as it should be, nuclear power with modern equipment is probably safer. Again, doesn't mean it's my first choice. But the horrors of coal are underrated, and that's the principal alternative in what passes in all too many minds for the real world.
Brokaw: tell me about the West
Todd: the West is turning Blue!
Brokaw: but they are can-do guys
Todd: yeah right the GOP went whacko and the allowed the latte drinking america haters to take the West
Brokaw: McCain is a war hero and a maverick!
Todd: yeah but there are lot of young people out here oh and hispanics
Brokaw: so what?
Todd: the name Tom Tancredo mean anything to you?
Bush is spray painting all government windows with an impenetrable paint and calling it a "new form of transparency."
You know, i never really thought about it, but you have to really trust your shredder service - that they're going to destroy everything without looking.
Seems to me the clever boy would start a shredder service and spend years building up his files on you.
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Fabulous energy saving symbolism as well. They could hold the debates on the ski slope.
Recently met an old friend at a wedding. She had just gotten got back from visiting her 28 year old daughter who lives in Dubai.
"Lots of money, everything is modern, beautiful weather, loads of fun. What's not to like?"
I said, "I dunno. Taking part in a kleptocratic autocracy that tacitly endorses and gives financial support to a violent woman-hating movement and supporting transnational imperialism?"
She said,
"Oh come on, she' young. She wants to have fun."
In other news, Culture of Truth, vill you marry me?
WaPo 1939:
Why not have McCain and Obama debate in Nazi Germany? It's a successful nation that has done well with both industry und various "problems"
Brokaw: the Dems are cheating by holding their convention in Denver
Todd: sadly they are having trouble selling out to corporate america
Brokaw: Veeps?
Todd: McCain needs to choose someone from the West
Brokaw: he's from Arizona!
Todd: yeah but Mitt Romney could help with Mormons in Utah and robots in sillicon valley
28 isn't as young as it sounds
Solar Thermal energy, quicker, cheaper, cleaner than nukes
"The Bush administration has put a two-year stop to solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona and other Western states while it studies their environmental impact".
Brokaw: Obama is running on the money from crazies on the interent
Todd: no traction yet but someday maybe in the future John McCain won't be fucked
Brokaw: thank you Todd here's your check from GE
Todd: merci
a pumpkin would honor little Russ.
Just saying.
"The Bush administration has put a two-year stop to solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona and other Western states while it studies their environmental impact".
"Dis is a nice solar energy research project you have here. I'd for something to....happen....to it. We'd better do an environmental impact study." / The Oil Administration
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Brokaw: how many clintons will speak at Denver
Todd: two - Hillary and Chelsea
Brokaw: no bill?
Todd: no there will a MST3K tribute video
Brokaw: orsome
"The Bush administration has put a two-year stop to solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona and other Western states while it studies their environmental impact".
cahuenga | 06.29.08 - 11:26 am | #
*sigh*
hugh hewitt was on cspan the other day, claiming (among other things) that the ONLY way to reduce gas prices is to drill now, and drill deep. i suppose that if one believes that supply and demand are the only things driving prices, one might think that increasing supply is the ONLY way to fight the rise. especially when our gov't keeps blocking any attempt to reduce demand.
I've shilled before here for a Scientific American article outlining a solar-photovoltaic and solar-thermal scheme, using off the shelf technology, which would make America energy independent over three decades at the cost of $420 billion over 2011 to 2050. There are doubtless other such ideas.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm...olar-grand-
plan
It can be done. If it isn't, that's a decision made out of choice rather than necessity.
I remain of the opinion that nuclear power can be done more safely than, say, coal, when all is considered.
Nuclear waste remains hazardous for tens of thousands of years. Tens of thousands. Good plan going with that. And ask yourself this—why can no nuclear power plant get insurance? Every single nuclear plant in this country is free from liability, the government foots the bill if there's a disaster.
Coal has its drawbacks, but it's a technology we currently use widely. Why would you jump to another crap technology instead of finding a better solution? The sooner we're off coal the better, but switching to a new poison is not a solution.
Finally, no new nuclear power plant could come online for a decade, unless you're willing to forgo all environmental regulations, which is a hell of a great idea. I'm guessing we could, if we wanted to, switch most things to wind/solar/hydro within that time frame.
Brokaw: thank you Todd here's your check from GE
"Lots of money, everything is modern, beautiful weather, loads of fun. What's not to like?"
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Brings to mind that our local MTV star, Bam Margera, took his young bride to Dubai for a honeymoon.
/guts wrenching
i suppose that if one believes that supply and demand are the only things driving prices, one might think that increasing supply is the ONLY way to fight the rise.
Oil prices can only be high if evil altruists are blocking the efforts of the unappreciated geniuses of industry. Ayn Rand said it, I believe it, and that's the end of it!
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Brokaw: thank you to the jackson hold golf and tennis and blue collar guy club and culture of truth is a big wimbledon fan so we will not be on the air next week
I remain of the opinion that nuclear power can be done more safely than, say, coal, when all is considered
"more" safely is insufficient when a single mishap has the potential to wipe out several states.
risk assessment must always include potential consequences, not just likelyhood of an event.
hugh hewitt was on cspan the other day, claiming (among other things) that the ONLY way to reduce gas prices is to drill now, and drill deep.
The House passed a bill that would strip drilling leases on 68 million sq acres of public lands from oil companies that are not being used. Republicans in the Senate managed to kill it with a filibuster.
sq acres may have been redundant.
I'm just not knowledgeable about the science to make a judgment - what do the French do about the waste and insurance?? They have less open land than we do.
sq acres may have been redundant.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:33 am | #
some acres are rectangular.
I remain of the opinion that nuclear power can be done more safely than, say, coal, when all is considered
I don't disagree. I just want to know where the waste will be deposited.
Republicans in the Senate managed to kill it with a filibuster.
Goddammed amazing how much power they manage to have while a 'minority' party. And as a 'majority' party.
Do the Democrats meet in the wrong building or something?
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read somewhere that there is only one forge in the world capable of building the reaction chamber for a nuke plant. IIRC there was a 15 yr. backlog on orders.
Oh, so I'm downstairs ranting against nukes because nobody yelled "sheets"?
You people are dead to me.
So I'll blogwhore again.
Go over to Box Office and you'll find Barbara Stanwyck throwing a pair of scissors into Dame Judith Anderson's eyeball. Seriously. Really sick shit.
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...ania-spec-
8.php
Like it would hurt you to leave a comment already?
puppethead: I think the waste can indeed be stored safely until we can figure out what to do with it. I'm well aware of the role of the govenment as insurer of first resort for the industry. Again, I wouldn't choose it first. That I think nuclear power is safer than coal, and more desirable for many reasons, doesn't mean that'd be what I'd choose. I frame the question less to exalt nuclear power as the best option than to remind everybody just how bad coal--the current and future mainstay of electrical generation both here and abroad--is.
I'm just not knowledgeable about the science to make a judgment - what do the French do about the waste
They have one reprocessing plant in Le Havre where they store the waste and it leaks into the groundwater.
Greenwald -
...Bush's ability to project "Strength" came not from advocacy of specific policies, but from his claim to stand by his beliefs even when they were politically unpopular.
For that reason, isn't the perception that Obama is abandoning his own core beliefs -- or, worse, that he has none -- a much greater political
danger than a failure to move to the so-called "Center" by suddenly adopting Bush/Cheney Terrorism policies? As a result of Obama's
reversal on FISA, his very noticeable change in approach regarding Israel, his conspicuous embrace of the Scalia/Thomas view in recent Supreme Court cases, and a general shift in tone, a very strong media narrative is arising that Obama is abandoning his core beliefs for political gain.
That narrative -- that he's afraid to stand by his own beliefs -- appears far more likely to result in a perception that Obama is "Weak" than a refusal to embrace Bush/Cheney national security positions.
What's most amazing about the unexamined premise that Democrats must "move to the Center" (i.e., adopt GOP views) is that this is the same advice Democrats have been following over and over and which keeps leading to their abject failure. It's the advice Kerry followed in
2004. It's why Democrats rejected Howard Dean and chose John Kerry instead.....
Simels, do you find yourself yelling at the clouds too?
David Ignatius asks Why Not A Debate In Dubai?
Why not bury Ignatius up to his neck, cover his head with honey, and dump a couple of thousand fire ants on it?
The House passed a bill that would strip drilling leases on 68 million sq acres of public lands from oil companies that are not being used. Republicans in the Senate managed to kill it with a filibuster.
Snow (D-SC)
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my local paper reported the bill's passing the House but not the Senate filibuster.
I've met simels.
He yells at empty bottles of chadonnay.
To be fair, they are all 8 oz.
nuclear waste in france
sounds nice. but of course, that's the official line - there are also claims that france stores some waste right here in the good ol' u.s. of a. and of course they don't talk about the cost of all the transport, intermediate storage, etc.
the big difference, of course, is that france PAYS for all of this. damn commies.
That I think nuclear power is safer than coal,
ProfWombat | 06.29.08 - 11:35 am | #
Really? Here's a thought -- suicide bomber terrorists get a single engine plane and fill it with explosives. What are they going to crash it into -- a coal plant or a nuke?
remind everybody just how bad coal--the current and future mainstay of electrical generation both here and abroad--is.
this is Kentucky. You can tell us very little.
We have coal companies with several THOUSAND violations of safety, fatalities involved, that simply ignore the mining regulations and ignore orders to stop. and just don't pay fines levied. Miners continue to die for lack of other jobs. And the mining regulators are drawn exclusively from the ranks of coal-company executives.
This is mature capitalism. It looks remarkably like the Third World.
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GWPDA: mirroring a rant I made earlier. Seeing a Democrat running for president exhibiting courage, rather than opting for an 'error-free' safe campaign--arguably, the greatest error of all--would be welcome.
what do the French do about the waste and insurance??
France sits on it like we do, illustrating the problem.
I think the waste can indeed be stored safely until we can figure out what to do with it.
If you were counting on South Carolina for temporary storage, you can't have her.
Why do Do-Buy ?
Why in the world does Ignatius describe John McCain as "the torture victim who demands that we stop torture"? You can best tell what a man believes by how he acts. John McCain is pro-torture; he voted to support the Bush administration's veto of a bill prohibiting torture.
28 isn't as young as it sounds
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
My sister was 28 when she got married (and not much older when she got divorced).
I just realized that my mother was just a little bit older then than I am now...
Did I mention my girls ar 5 & 7?
Did you know Dubai is hot Hot HOT in the theme park world?
If you were counting on South Carolina for temporary storage, you can't have her.
Snow (D-SC)
too late.
my local paper reported the bill's passing the House but not the Senate filibuster.
My fishwrap reports how our delegation voted in a tiny little box deep in the paper. That's how I saw it.
Solar Thermal energy, quicker, cheaper, cleaner than nukes.
http://polizeros.com/2008/06/27/.../solar-thermal/
1Watt, Hermit | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:23 am | #
Solar and wind farms will have an environtmental impact, it certainly won't be as bad as coal or nuke energy, but there is one.
What's most amazing about the unexamined premise that Democrats must "move to the Center" (i.e., adopt GOP views) is that this is the same advice Democrats have been following over and over and which keeps leading to their abject failure. It's the advice Kerry followed in
2004. It's why Democrats rejected Howard Dean and chose John Kerry instead.....
Teh James Carville political playbook. Remarkably unsuccessful, yet he soldiers on, always employed......
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I think the waste can indeed be stored safely until we can figure out what to do with it.
I don't wanna disagree with the Prof here, but, um...
Did I mention my girls ar 5 & 7?
ina, hiding upstairs, shh!
heh - i was 19 when i got married. did i mention that my grandson will be 5 in august?
excellent article from the Beeb on Pakistan - The story of Pakistan is one of remorseless tug and pull between the civilian and military rulers on the one hand, and the liberal and religious forces on the other.
In the process, the country has failed to become either a democracy, a theocracy or a permanent military dictatorship
well worth a read
dave™©:
Guess what caricature from the 70s is being scanned into my computer today?
Hint: it's really embarassing, and it's me.
And now brunch beckons. Feel free to make fun of my nuke position in my absence...
Home and badly sleep-deprived.
Thought Stephanopoulos much much better than usual. Thought Rahm mopped the floor with the GOP guy, and the tag team of Katherine van den Heuvel and Arianna H. destroyed Hewlitt and B. Yorke.
Verry interestink.
Greenpeace says there is a lot of European nuclear waste being illegally shipped and buried in Russia.
They have one reprocessing plant in Le Havre where they store the waste and it leaks into the groundwater.
A french version of Hanford then, huh? Just wait til the underground plume of radioactivity hits the Columbia.
28 isn't as young as it sounds
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
Good afternoon, everyone.
I got married at 22, didn't have my first kid till I was almost 29, the second when I was almost 32.
It's hard to resist the lure of Pfloston Paradise.
What's the average amount of time it takes a top tier operator to effectively turn a corruptible journalist or politician from idealist to courtesan?
I remain of the opinion that nuclear power can be done more safely than, say, coal, when all is considered
"more" safely is insufficient when a single mishap has the potential to wipe out several states.
risk assessment must always include potential consequences, not just likelyhood of an event.
dirk gently, sociopathetic | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:32 am |
Don't think a nuke power plant meltdown is going to take out several states. It's a power plant, not a bomb.
OTOH, just to be safe, all new nuke power plants will be located in contigious red states.
I think the waste can indeed be stored safely until we can figure out what to do with it.
Wrong.
heh - i was 19 when i got married. did i mention that my grandson will be 5 in august?
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
And what a cutie he is! How's the newest grandbaby doing today?
I got married at 30. First kid at 35, second at 38.
I am doomed.
Good afternoon, everyone.
not yet 
Lots of ecologically dangerous waste going to the developing world.
Yet again, I'm not in favor of nuclear power as the first option. But if you compare nuclear power honestly to fossil fuel, especially coal, or, say, oil derived from tar sands, it isn't as bad.
I don't think either Obama or McStain speaks Dubaian, so who understand them?
the government has says it plans to put up lots and lots of wind farms but the very same environmentalists who are so enthusiastic about turn into NIMBYs as soon as it is being built in their own backyards
They have one reprocessing plant in Le Havre where they store the waste and it leaks into the groundwater.
A french version of Hanford then, huh? Just wait til the underground plume of radioactivity hits the Columbia.
A buddy of mine was involved in the cleanup of the old Dupont Savannah River site after Dupont abandoned it. He said the place was in such bad shape it made the hair stand up on his neck.
I got married at 30. First kid at 35, second at 38.
I am doomed.
trifecta
I've never been married. First kid at 38, second at 41.
So I'll hold the doom door for you!
What's most amazing about the unexamined premise that Democrats must "move to the Center" (i.e., adopt GOP views)
Ain't nothing center about the Repugs.
They are far, far right.
Which is beginning to hurt them.
a corruptible journalist or politician from idealist to courtesan?
Teh question would be more meaningful if you asked if a journalist or pol could be made idealistic. Any 'corruptible' journo or pol seems to come from the factory pre-whorish.
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How's the newest grandbaby doing today?
ina, hiding upstairs, shh! | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:44 am | #
he went to a mary kay party last night. he was a huge hit.
in fact, he is just huge. i'm told he does nothing but smile all day and sleep all night. apparently, my daughter had a robotic baby made in japan.
Last, but not least, the Americans have tended to use their crucial financial and military support selectively against democratic governments.
The pattern is unmistakably clear.
The first large-scale American food and military aid started to pour into Pakistan in late 1953, months after the dismissal of its first civilian government.
It continued for a decade as Pakistan under a military regime joined various US-sponsored defence pacts against the Soviet Union.
The US started having problems with Pakistan when an elected government came to power in 1972, but poured billions of dollars into the country when another military regime took over in 1977 and agreed to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Similarly, while the elected governments that followed during 1988-99 had to live with a decade of US sanctions, the military regime of Gen Musharraf, that ousted the last civilian government in 1999, remains a 'well supplied' ally in the US' 'war on terror'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
6940148.stm
I don't think either Obama or McStain speaks Dubaian, so who understand them?
Lime Rickey
I can't listen to McCain long enough to tell.
He bores the fuck out of me.
OT, and not that this is news, but I'm really not keen on Maureen Dowd.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:14 am | #
Richard "Therapeutic Violence" Cohen is a worse person.
Ack! My bad. The Senate filibuster was on a House bill to kill Bush's plan to cut Medicare payments to doctors. Not the drilling legislation. I regret my error.
turn into NIMBYs as soon as it is being built in their own backyards
I don't understand that. I think wind generators are majestic looking, certainly less of an eye sore than billboards or most buildings.
What's most amazing about the unexamined premise that Democrats must "move to the Center"
<---- center is that-a-way.
puppethead: a poor example for a real problem, having nothing to do with nuclear power generation. The Hanford installation, the Yucca Flats plans and the French problems at Le Havre are more on point.
Thus, the story of Pakistan continues to be one of despotic regimes using religious extremists and external support to keep the secular democratic forces at bay; and when these forces do assert themselves, to tie them down in legal constraints that are designed to ensure their failure.
It is the story of a society that has been going round in circles for the last 60 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
6940148.stm
Hey, kids - if you want to watch the SF Pride Parade...
Best part of all: it's a Clear Channel production!
Guess what caricature from the 70s is being scanned into my computer today?
Can't wait!!!
"John McCain, the torture victim who demands that we stop torture, also wants to make a new start."
They don't even pretend to care about accuracy anymore, do they?
I've never been married. First kid at 38, second at 41.
so that makes you ... let's see, carry the one ...
29?
the very same environmentalist moan about the view being spoiled and the countryside ruined
i have a lot of sympathy for environmentalists and its various groups but quite a few turn me right off
The Center of course is Bankruptcy Act, Tax breaks for large corporations, and War.
That is what all the people in the center are clammoring for these days.
Don't think a nuke power plant meltdown is going to take out several states. It's a power plant, not a bomb.
The problem is not with a nuclear blast, it's the radioactive fallout.
Chernobyl contaminated 5000 square kilometers.
Thus, the story of the U.S. continues to be one of despotic regimes using religious extremists and external 'threat' to keep the secular democratic forces at bay; and when these forces do assert themselves, to tie them down in legal constraints that are designed to ensure their failure.
It is the story of a society that has been going round in circles for the last 60 years.
Gotcha, etc.
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apparently, my daughter had a robotic baby made in japan.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Lucky her! I think that will really help when the kid hits puberty!
My state just opted for an off-shore wind farm. We let our energy company divest it's producing plants Enron-like and deregulated them while allowing them to merge with the multi-state PEPCO Holding.
It took all the local bloggers and a few decent legis to force the deal through.
Yet again, I'm not in favor of nuclear power as the first option. But if you compare nuclear power honestly to fossil fuel, especially coal, or, say, oil derived from tar sands, it isn't as bad.
ProfWombat | 06.29.08 - 11:45 am | #
That's the wrong comparison. Compare it to similar investements in efficiency and solar/wind. Nuclear sucks in vast amounts of capital and necessitates another increment in police statism. No thanks.
John McCain, the torture victim who demands that we torture...
FYT...
puppethead: a poor example for a real problem, having nothing to do with nuclear power generation.
I disagree.
Humans operate the plants. Humans make mistakes.
ProfWombat,
I am sympathetic your view, fwiw, but I don't feel I know enough.
so that makes you ... let's see, carry the one ...
29?
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
Did I mention I love you?
I think the waste can indeed be stored safely until we can figure out what to do with it.
Wrong.
puppethead | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:44 am | #
'can' and 'is' aren't the same thing.
I think the waste can indeed be stored safely until we can figure out what to do with it.
I've got a basement.
Humans operate the plants. Humans make mistakes.
billy b
If you can call major donors to the Bush campaign "humans."
Time to makee lunch. Be back later.
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The chief casualties have been the rule of law, the state institutions and the process of national integration, with grave consequences for the civil society.
The "Talebanisation" of the north-western region is one manifestation of the prevalent disorder; an unending separatist campaign by nationalists in the south-western Balochistan province is another.
Meanwhile, sectarian and ethnic tensions have kept the two largest provinces - namely Punjab, which is the bread-basket of the country, and Sindh, which is its trading and industrial mainstay - perennially instable.
How and why did all this come about?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
6940148.stm
rootless: we probably agree, mostly, for the reasons you state, that nuclear power shouldn't be the first choice. Yet again, I bring up the comparison not to praise nuclear power so much as to remind everybody just how awful coal is.
One could probably use arguments such as those of our old buddy Prof. Melman's to demonstrate, in addition to environmental and political benefits, far greater economic activity arising out of small-scale distributed renewable sources rather than nuclear plants, even if the latter are far safer and even less expensive than Chernobyl or TIM.
I think the waste can indeed be stored safely until we can figure out what to do with it.
Send it to Yucky Mountain. Nobody goes there anymore.
the very same environmentalist moan about the view being spoiled and the countryside ruined
i have a lot of sympathy for environmentalists and its various groups but quite a few turn me right off
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:49 am
Have you read James Lovelock's books on Gaia? He's a british scientist/environmentalist, but he hates the new wind farm that went up near his house.
Have you read James Lovelock's books on Gaia? He's a british scientist/environmentalist, but he hates the new wind farm that went up near his house.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins | 06.29.08 - 11:53 am | #
I have not, but thats so NIMBY
Ack! My bad. The Senate filibuster was on a House bill to kill Bush's plan to cut Medicare payments to doctors. Not the drilling legislation. I regret my error.
Snow (D-SC)
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good to know! I thought it was a good bill for the DEMs, finally.
Why not bury Ignatius up to his neck, cover his head with honey, and dump a couple of thousand fire ants on it?
billy b
I can think of quite a few of that crew on whom I would like to inflict that fate.
a poor example for a real problem, having nothing to do with nuclear power generation
I figured you'd pull that angle, but I chose it because it was recent and in the US. The point is to illustrate how easy it is for radoactive material to contaminate ground water.
Is this leak in the UK a better example? Or this leak in Japan?
ProfWombat,
I am sympathetic your view, fwiw, but I don't feel I know enough.
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:50 am | #
In reading the books on alternative energy/climate change and the like I am more sympathetic toward looking into nuke power, but I can't even begin to understand all the science/design issues that accompany it.
The problem is not with a nuclear blast, it's the radioactive fallout.
what he said.
so when i lived a few miles from the ginna nuke plant, we had an evacuation plan that involved driving over a four lane bridge which regularly iced over during the winter. we also had regularly scheduled tests of the alert system.
one day, at about 3am, the sirens went off without warning. well, the sirens except for the one on the utility pole a block from my house, which was broken. imagine the panic - hundreds of thousands of residents uf western ny jamming phone lines, or just jumping in their cars and trying to funnel themselves over the bridge to safety.
you have to imagine it, because it never happened. no one paid any attention whatsoever. there was a small artical in the local paper the next day about the mistaken alert. no one called. no one fled. no one paid any attention whatsoever. my take is that no one paid any attention to the alert because no one had any misconception of a "safe" evacuation.
The country was born in 1947 with a clean slate and a potential to follow in one of two directions.
It could opt for democracy. It had inherited democratic institutions and experience from the colonial rule, and was itself the creation of a democratic process involving national elections, parliamentary resolutions and a referendum.
Or it could become an Islamic emirate. The Pakistan movement was based on the theory that the Muslims of India were a nation and had a right to separate statehood.
They were granted separate electorate by the British rulers, and used Islamic identity as their main election slogan in 1937 and 1946.
But instead of making a clear choice, the early leaders tried to mix the two, and inadvertently sparked a series of political, legal and religious debacles that define today's Pakistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
6940148.stm
If you can call major donors to the Bush campaign "humans."
Dr. Wu
OR the knuckleheads who still think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I've been reading The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith In The Free Market Has Cost Us Our Future by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson
Amy Winehouse's first full UK show in seven months has been overshadowed by an incident in which she appeared to throw a punch at a fan in the front row.
Schwarzenegger: hey i had a great body building career
Culture of TrÜth
FWIW, didn't he need heart surgery from all those years of steroid use?
HICA!
Curly's keeping the balcony safe from two madly-chattering mockingbirds.
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I've been reading The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith In The Free Market Has Cost Us Our Future by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:56 am | #
not only is there no free lunch, there is no free market either.
it's an illusion.
my take is that no one paid any attention to the alert because no one had any misconception of a "safe" evacuation.
Exactly.
an incident in which she appeared to throw a punch at a fan in the front row.
trifecta | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:57 am | #
that wasn't a punch - it was half a terrorist fist bump.
South Carolina fought a long battle to stop being a nuclear waste dump for the nation. I am not going to allow it to happen again. Until we have breeder reactors, nuclear power is not a viable option.
If only we had spent the three trillion on R&D of nuke waste instead of chasing the Big Oil Iraq Oil Field Recovery War.
Many of the problems with nuclear power are due to very poor design. Improved designs are possible. Oil interests do not favor nuclear technology.
erm, anyone have any ideas where to go for an out of print book? amazon, abe, and b&n (us and uk sites) have all struck out.
Amy Winehouse's first full UK show in seven months has been overshadowed by an incident in which she appeared to throw a punch at a fan in the front row.
trifecta | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:57 am | #
I caught a bit of her set last night on the Beeb (who are filming Glastonbury), she looked very frail and like a deer trapped in headlights
The Guardian gave it a 4/10, very hit and miss performance
I think there might be a solution to nuke waste with enough research thrown at it. Not only storage, but reusing it until it gives up even more energy and becomes safer to store.
dirk: if you haven't seen Mike Davis' 'Late Victorian Holocausts', you should check it out--a devastating critique of 'free market' 'liberal' economic thinking in the service of colonialism, which is directly and horrifyingly on point.
The Guardian gave it a 4/10, very hit and miss performance
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008
She's not going to see 2009 if she keeps going the way she is.
trifecta
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We have a lot of English around here to exercise race horses. Many were young when the Sex Pistols were just kicking off. Winehouse is following a great tradition.
FWIW, didn't he need heart surgery from all those years of steroid use?
Terry C,
for the rest of my life, i'll always associate him with "eating's not cheating!" i bet he can't get it up anymore either, how fun for maria that must be.
South Carolina fought a long battle to stop being a nuclear waste dump for the nation. I am not going to allow it to happen again. Until we have breeder reactors, nuclear power is not a viable option.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:59 am | #
mrs g and i (and the kids, too) were part of the groups that stopped it in allegheny county in ny. it's been years and i don't recall all the details of the storage problems now, but i do know that the more we researched it the scarier it got. and not much has changed.
currently i have on order from Amazon - The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith and Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds
my take is that no one paid any attention to the alert because no one had any misconception of a "safe" evacuation.
Exactly.
billy b | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:58 am |
Growing up in the Chicago, IIRC there were 4 or more nuke plants 'nearby'. Dad figured if something happened, the traffic would be so bad we'd never be able to evacuate.
puppethead: yup. Yet again, you look at the lives lost and ecological costs of coal, and nuclear power wins. And, yet again, not my first choice, for a raft of reasons.
for the rest of my life, i'll always associate him with "eating's not cheating!" i bet he can't get it up anymore either, how fun for maria that must be.
chicago dyke, not cleaning
I can't get the memory of her at the GOP hatefest in 2004 sitting in the audience out of my head.
The sound I heard was her two uncles spinning in their graves.
NBC story on skyscraper being built in Dubai which moves. Apparently uses wind power.
erm, anyone have any ideas where to go for an out of print book? amazon, abe, and b&n (us and uk sites) have all struck out.
chicago dyke, not cleaning | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 11:59 am |
What's the book?
The Indian Point nuclear plant upstream from NY City produces sick giggles when the thought of evacuation in the event of a catastrophe occurs to people...
The Obama Leadership Cult [Jonah Goldberg]
I'll have more thoughts over at the LFB later today, but this is just amazing (Nod to Instapundtit). From the NYT:
Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.
“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.
With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.
The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago.
Jeff Strabone of Brooklyn now signs credit card receipts with his newly assumed middle name, while Dan O’Maley of Washington, D.C., jiggered his e-mail account so his name would appear as “D. Hussein O’Maley.” Alex Enderle made the switch online along with several other Obama volunteers from Columbus, Ohio, and now friends greet him that way in person, too.
You should adopt McStain's middle name, Pantload: Jonah Sidney McWhale.
moon, we need to exchange music files. i can tell you've got good stuff. sigh, i guess enough time really has passed that a 'history of the rave' is appropriate. never stop dancing, grrl. so long as you do you won't get 'old.'
Alienation
The first action created a precedent for Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad, a former bureaucrat, to dismiss the country's first civilian government in 1953.
Since then, the governor-generals, presidents and army chiefs have dismissed as many as ten civilian governments that together ruled the country for 27 years. The remaining 33 years have seen direct military rule.
Mr Jinnah's second action alienated the Bengali population of the eastern wing, and set a precedent for the West Pakistani rulers to neutralise the numerical superiority of East Pakistan through legal entrapments and outright disenfranchisement.
After the secession of East Pakistan in 1971, the military rulers have repeatedly vitiated the federal and parliamentary character of the 1973 Constitution, thereby alienating the three smaller provinces of the remaining country.
Legal safeguards against tyranny fell by the wayside in 1954 when the Supreme Court justified the governor-general's dismissal of the government and the parliament by invoking the controversial 'theory of necessity'.
The theory has endured, and nearly every dismissal of a civilian government and every military takeover have been upheld by the higher judiciary, undermining democratic traditions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
6940148.stm
The Obama Leadership Cult [Jonah Goldberg]
Doughy Pantload can go get fucked.
With Cindy McCain's dildo.
(Nod to Instapundtit).
Heh. Indeed.
OK. Forget everything else folks,
A SUPERMODEL HAS JUMPED OUT OF A BUILfDING IN NEW YORK AND KILLED HERSELF.
With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.
Drives the rightards up the wall.
GOOD!
A SUPERMODEL HAS JUMPED OUT OF A BUILfDING IN NEW YORK AND KILLED HERSELF.
Gomez
Eating one meal every other week finally got to her, eh?
It's worth pointing out that there was a classic book called 'The God That Failed', in which former communists, in the wake of Stalin, renounced former positions. Naming a book denouncing 'free markets' similarly is a nice turn about, and, I think, entirely fair as well as a well played irony.
NBC story on skyscraper being built in Dubai which moves. Apparently uses wind power.
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 12:03 pm |
This one:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...r_n_109274.html
moon, we need to exchange music files. i can tell you've got good stuff. sigh, i guess enough time really has passed that a 'history of the rave' is appropriate. never stop dancing, grrl. so long as you do you won't get 'old.'
chicago dyke, not cleaning | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 12:04 pm | #
yeah, for future reference i am on the small file sharing programme soulseek, I go under the alias moonbootica_stars
buckeye, i'm all shy about revealing my fiction reading habits but i'll tell you anyway. "colurastes" by s. constantine. if i understand the title correctly, it's about a clan of hermaphroditic mystic dreamers and magicians who kill with their hair, among other things.
Mentioned this yesterday, but Michelle Obama is the first potential First Lady who I've ever had impure thoughts about.
Ohmigod -- she's a FLILF!!!!!!!
Candy, ask Jindal if he can spot any demons wriggling in your carcass.
No one could have anticipated that the terrorists would attack the streets of New York with Suicide Supermodels.
Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson also penned Fantasy Island: Waking Up To The Incredible Economic, Political and Social Illusions of the Blair Legacy
chidy - what book are you looking for?
anyone have any ideas where to go for an out of print book?
A used book store?
Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge
Obama isn't a Muslim, Pantload, you fucking idiot!
And, hey, while she has nevet met a Muslim, it sounds to me as though she doesn't hate Muslims.
Which is more than can be said for people on YOUR side of the fence!
I think there might be a solution to nuke waste with enough research thrown at it.
Great. Once that problem is solved, then we can talk about nuclear power. Until then let's spend the money on cleaning up coal plants and deploying solar and wind.
As for "lives lost", that's a red herring. All industry has a cost. Coal is little different from asbestos. It's a poor reason for choosing another bad idea. I don't understand why people are okay with willfully risking creating essentially permanent uninhabitable areas on Earth.
flilf?
Michelle Obama is the first potential First Lady who I've ever had impure thoughts about.
What was Jackie O, chopped liver?
steve: yup. Never happened before. And they look good together, Barack and Michelle...
heh Neil Diamond is up soon at Glastonbury on the Pyramid Stage
GravatarI got married at 30. First kid at 35, second at 38.
Waiting for the trifecta?
Obama isn't a Muslim, Pantload, you fucking idiot!
If he understood that, he might understand how Emily is making fun of his partisan ass.
Police think the supermodel suicide was a big misunderstanding.
Her agent told her to "hit the pavement" and she took him literally.
A driveby on my way to the garden. The candidates propose ways to meet the various crises, "Crazy Talk" at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
I think there's something called bookfind.com that will conduct a worldwide search.
On their part, the military rulers have co-opted both surrogate politicians and religious extremists as instruments of political strategy and national security policy.
The political recruits have provided a civilian façade to military governments, while religious - and sometimes ethnic - extremists have tended to distract and destabilise governments run by secular political forces.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
6940148.stm
flilf?
chicago dyke, not cleaning | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 12:10 pm | #
First lady I'd like to fuck.
A la MILF, mother I'd like to fuck.
It's a very popular phrase with the kids today. Very hep.
flilf?
First Lady I'd Like to Fuck.
Jackie O wasn't First Lady; Jackie Kennedy was. And she was, while gorgeous, an aristocratic, removed presence to me, rather than a plausible object of lust.
that's filthly thoughts
Mentioned this yesterday, but Michelle Obama is the first potential First Lady who I've ever had impure thoughts about.
Ohmigod -- she's a FLILF!!!!!!! steve hüssein® simels
If one stretches the definition of potential First lady a little, there's Elizabeth Kucinich.
Obama isn't a Muslim, Pantload, you fucking idiot!
If he understood that, he might understand how Emily is making fun of his partisan ass.
Snow (D-SC) |
Pantload's kind never gets it.
The Professor is a pedant!
Four More Months of This Crap? Noooo...
A used book store?
dave™© |
ha ha, you funny. no, those don't really exist here. that is, there are some places one can buy used books, but they do not have the selection required to meet this particular need. now if i wanted comix or gaming stuff, sure. but not books for non-14 year old boys. i'm sorry for that, when i was younger used book stall hunting was a fav pastime. amazon seems to have killed most of them off, at least in areas like this.
What was Jackie O, chopped liver?
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 12:10 pm | #
I met her once at a small diner outside Denver. While we were having breakfast, she took her eggs over easy and smeared them all over her blouse.
What a pig.
hmm - no "colurastes" but i did find "hermetch" by s. constantine.
http://www.abebooks.com
(my uncle is a used bookseller, he lists with them, so does everyone else i gather)
I met her once at a small diner outside Denver. While we were having breakfast, she took her eggs over easy and smeared them all over her blouse.
*SPROING*
buckeye, i'm all shy about revealing my fiction reading habits but i'll tell you anyway. "colurastes" by s. constantine. if i understand the title correctly, it's about a clan of hermaphroditic mystic dreamers and magicians who kill with their hair, among other things.
chicago dyke, not cleaning | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 12:08 pm
Can't even find a ISBN for it, and it was published in 1995. Hmm.
Well I'm off to go grocery shopping, but I'll keep looking after I get back.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.u.../
colurastes.htm
Wow, this Jindl character they're talking up as McCain's veep is laying a major egg with Candy Crowley right now.
What a sad, pathetic little reactionary.
A day without pedantry is a day without sunshine.
Raising the comparison of coal to asbestos does nothing to vitiate the case that coal is a human catastrophe, but, rather, enhances it. Asbestos has killed and sickened more people than nuclear power has. I'll say it one more time, and then quit, since I seem to be repeating myself: nuclear power is probably safer than coal, but, for a raft of reasons, should not be the first choice in moving beond fossil fuels.
What a pig.
steve hüssein® simels
What kinda tip did she leave?
guess who's winning:
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiar...B3?
diaryId=1505
chicago dyke, not cleaning
Try Powells Books in Portand.
http://www.powells.com/
. no, those don't really exist here.
Chicago doesn't have a decent used book store?
You could always try Powell's, I guess... or search Alibris...
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 12:16 pm | #
It's an old Steve Martin routine.
What kinda tip did she leave?
Lime Rickey
"Marry well."
Joan Armatrading was very good yesterday, helped by a great backing band, my dad of course remembered her from the 60s, said she could be quite moody anyways he really enjoyed it, said everything else that came after it just didn't sound as good lol
Tribute to Carlin on Larry King tonight.
What kinda tip did she leave? Lime Rickey
Avoid Texas.
I don't understand why people are okay with willfully risking creating essentially permanent uninhabitable areas on Earth.
heh.
In the three decades I've been in the chemical industry, any hazard assessment begins with Murphy's Law - what can go wrong will.
One can't make things idiot-proof.
Period.
Taken directly from the link:
John McCain, the torture victim who demands that we stop torture
What shit has Ignatius been smoking, because it's really a sad breach of etiquette not to share.
It's an old Steve Martin routine.
Speaking of which, my lovely wife and I were watching the Season 2 box set of "The Muppet Show" recently... Martin does a great guest shot that consists basically of him doing his stand-up act "live" in front of the Muppet performers. A great bit of history, to say the least.
On the other end of the spectrum, we also saw an SNL collection of "The Best of Steve Martin" that just proves how unfuckingwatchable that show has become since the Ackroyd-Belushi days...
i'm assuming it's the same s. constantine - "The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Second Book of Wraeththu"
but no luck on your title.
steve: Jindal gives the impression of a young feller who's taking a few glowing media notices and his early success too seriously...
One can't make things idiot-proof.
Period.
billy b
Ain't that the troof?
erm, anyone have any ideas where to go for an out of print book? amazon, abe, and b&n (us and uk sites) have all struck out.
chicago dyke, not cleaning
I was going to suggest alibris. I've also had some luck on Ebay with kids books. You might just check for fun.
I don't understand why people are okay with willfully risking creating essentially permanent uninhabitable areas on Earth.
Because at a maximum of 6ft above sea level, my coastal town is already risking becoming a permanently uninhabitable area.
dave™©:
When you have a minute tomorrow, check out the homepage. I'm putting up an absolutely mindboggling Muppet clip from 1959. Deeply subversive, and a technical marvel, a la some of the Ernie Kovacs stuff....
Hey, Steverino, forgot to mention - that Season 2 Muppet Show set also includes an appearance from an incredibly young and beautiful Madeline Kahn, as well as Bernadette Peters. And a great turn from, of all people, Milton Berle.
Worth checking out!
1959?
Cool.
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...og-
post_29.html
Celebrate Youth.
Heya CD, long time no type at. For your OOP book, have you tried library search? Last time I checked they were still organized by state, but MI ought to be big enough to have what you're looking for somewhere. If the muni system doesn't have it the college library system may or may not be a separate operation.
Get it interlibrary exchanged to your local shop and there ya go.
thanks everyone! i'm on the phone with librarian-sister, and she's helping too.
Chicago doesn't have a decent used book store?
i'm in MI now, bro.
Oh, and CoT, thank you for a truly remarkable bobblehead translation today. Best ever.
And Molly, bless you for reading MoDoDo so I don't have to.
Small wonder that I've come to love you all so in such a short time. All you lovely people are a joy and an inspiration.
I'm putting up an absolutely mindboggling Muppet clip from 1959. Deeply subversive, and a technical marvel, a la some of the Ernie Kovacs stuff....
Can't wait!
My parents used to watch them when they were living in Washington DC and the show was called "Sam and Co." When I was very very young, they would wake me up so I could see them on the Tonight Show (I was also allowed to stay up late to see Rowlf on "The Jimmy Dean Show")...
The country was born in 1947 with a clean slate and a potential to follow in one of two directions.
That's impressively ignorant.
Oh, and CoT, thank you for a truly remarkable bobblehead translation today. Best ever.
Gee thanks. South african Chardonnay.
Too oaky, really, but hey.
I, Steve Simels, was born in 1947 with a clean slate and a potential to follow in one of two directions.
Filleted your tooth decay.
Unfortunately, I chose the direction of making absolutely no money but getting all the free CDs and DVDs I could want.
Thanks to simels I'm watching candy crowley and McAuliffe.
Argh.
The country was born in 1947 with a clean slate and a potential to follow in one of two directions.
That's impressively ignorant.
rootless-e, reweird | 06.29.08 - 12:26 pm | #
in what way?
i thought it was a fair statement, as a country Pakistan didn't exist before 1947 and so was entirely new.
You know what's really unfair? That the more weight you lose, the longer it takes to expend calories. That just isn't right. If I wanted to tread twice as long for the same expenditure I'd have... well, I'd have done something. Anyway. Not fair.
You know, say what you will about the Hillary primary campaign, and about the future role of Hill and Bill in the Democratic party and the general election , but --
I never want to see Terry McAulliffe, Lanny Davis or reptilian sleazeball Harold Ickes every again.
Seriously -- that whole wing of the party needs to get thee to a nunnery.
The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch, has ordained his wife at Manchester Cathedral.
Celia McCulloch, is to serve as a full-time stipendiary curate in the parish of Cheetham, north Manchester.
She was one of 44 people who were ordained this weekend in three services held in the Diocese of Manchester.
"The day of ordination represents the end of one part of a journey and the start of another," Bishop McCulloch said.
"It is an honour for a bishop, and in my case a special honour for a husband, to be part of that journey.
"I hope the many communities across Greater Manchester, that will welcome these new clergy, will pray for them as they begin their work."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla...ter/
7480172.stm
interesting stuff on colurastes and constantine - chidy, are you sure you have the title right? wiki doesn't list it among constantine's published works, but it would be part of Wraeththu world - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wraeththu
colurastes is not listed on constanine's official site either - http://stormconstantine.com/blog...log/?
page_id=74
You do realize there are newly moved sheets?
in what way?
i thought it was a fair statement, as a country Pakistan didn't exist before 1947 and so was entirely new.
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 12:29 pm | #
Well, slicing off one part of one of the oldest and most complex nations in the world after 300 years of looting and "divide and rule", in a process that involves a massive religious/communal war is not really "clean start". Especially since partition itself was a British idea to try to break Congress party and the basis of the power of the Pakistani state was the British trained and equipped army created to serve colonial purposes. Can't think of a messier start.
You know what's really unfair? That the more weight you lose, the longer it takes to expend calories. That just isn't right.
The best luck I had when I was trying to lose weight was with a combo of a half hour of Denise Austin exercises and power walking. For some reason it really worked to ramp up the metabolism. Of course that may only work if you're old and your metabolism stopped resetting itself automatically. When I was younger I could just stop drinking beer for a couple of weeks and get the same effect.
Because at a maximum of 6ft above sea level, my coastal town is already risking becoming a permanently uninhabitable area.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 06.29.08 - 12:22 pm | #
I'm thinking of investing in sandbag futures.
Of course that may only work if you're old and your metabolism stopped resetting itself automatically.
Um - I have the metabolism of a Gila Monster.
rootless-e, reweird | 06.29.08 - 12:34 pm | #
fair point
I still think the rest of the article was very good
Um - I have the metabolism of a Gila Monster.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 06.29.08 - 12:36 pm | #
I have the disposition of a Gila monster.
i always find it interesting the way both Pakistan and India have developed since their independence
India has had lots of problems but not to the extent Pakistan has
Time to go Drink and Watch Movies. L8r.
Moon:
There is a tendency of Euro and US authors to write about the fuckedupness of especially the middle east as if problems stemmed from the cultural and moral failings of the "benighted natives". That's like running over a pedestrian and complaining about stupid people bleeding in the middle of the street.
"do you take disability checks?"-McCombover in Dubai
What kind of impression will it make on the bulk of the Muslim world if the next American President takes part in Mr. Ignatius' little pageant in an oil-rich oligarchy where the elites practically enslave the foreign workers from other Muslim countries? This would be a recruiting bonanza for Bin Laden.
Why doesn't Ignatius have a comments section?
Coward.
I don't get the reference. "Why not a pumpkin?"
Can anyone explain it to little old me?
Of course, it is just possible that Ignatius works for a marketing firm that has Dubai as one of it's customers, and that he's throwing in the McCain talking points gratis.
Pfui.
John McCain, the torture victim who demands that we stop torture
Sorry, Ignatius, that was McCainBot 2000. This is not a feature on the 2008 model.
Pretending that 'demanding we stop torture' is an act of notable political virtue indicates how low the corporate media has set the bar after eight years of Chimp/Cheney kakistocracy.
I am not enthused about the venue, but it might be nice to have a debate "moderated" by Al Jezeera, who might be able to give us something other than lapel pins, "optics", and the rest of the trivial shit that so enthuses our beltway elite. Hell, they might even have a real reporter in place of a hairdo. If A-J is smart, they would syndicate the feed ONLY on the condition that the entire, uncut, program was delivered to the bleating sheep in the U.S. It would change little, as few would watch a real debate, but the precedent and example would be worth a lot.
PS. All the silly snark about the "undemocratic regimes" seems a bit of a stretch as we, and our wonderful democratic (and Democratic) congress works to gut the Bill of Rights. Save it for the next time someone in the Democratic leadership actually acts like they have a remote familiarity with separation of powers and something on their mind besides kissing dubya's and their corporate patron's ass.
That's an intriguing idea, Central Texan. But I think your second paragraph provides the reason why it will likely not happen.
As a former regular here used to say about the U.S. and our media (paraphrasing), 'In a corporate State, the Corporate Media IS the State Media.'
Your very good debate idea is contrary to too many powerful vested interests. Damn shame...
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