I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
aha
Is that the correct link?
mall aha
Hunh.
Bah humbug!
:hum:------->mer
Correct link is:
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB...2593693967.html
I have only recently heard of that store, via a profile on Nightline.
Obviously, they were reluctant to talk about how they made money from selling Allen Iverson shoes for ten bucks...
What kind of store is a Steve & Barry's? I've never heard of it before
The link leads to the MBIA story. I think you didn't hit cntrl-C hard enough when cutting and pasting the mall payments url.
What kind of store is a Steve & Barry's? I've never heard of it before
I'd never heard of them either. Googling tells me they're discount clothing
mer,
They sell clothes...nothing's more than ten bucks, IIRC.
Thanks MikeJ.
Simels and who?
In 5 years, every store will be a dollar store.
but...
but...
cheap shoes 
how could we know
during the dot-com boom
that every silly scam we saw
was a blueprint for the new economy?
No one could have foreseen...
S & B took over an abandoned CompUSA site in Burbank Ca. I bought some stuff there. The romance of a great bargain secured by the exploited masses in some far off foreign land. I thought we could count on them as we make it through the economic downturn. You can't count on anything anymore. Even your fingers.
I see MikeJ is on the case, but is there a link to a non pay site ?
Off topic but possibly synechdotal (sp?)
Sharper Image is in Chapter 11
http://tinyurl.com/66yroc
A Mall with a Steve and Barry's is bankrupt (fits the story)
http://tinyurl.com/657gy9
This morning's threads remind me of this from Dickens:
The spirit also reveals to Scrooge two emaciated children, clinging to his robes, and names the boy as Ignorance and the girl as Want. The spirit warns Scrooge, "Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
No pay link to explanation of the underperfoming mall gnomes business plan
http://tinyurl.com/58qs8y
the video on cr is goofy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z...h?
v=ZimMoZVcgOY
Nice model there. If only there was a way to get paid upfront for burning hours online, commenting on teh blogs.
More bubble economy. Compare what American Invsco was doing to sell condo units in Chicago:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/
c...rticle_id=30117
This was the featured story in last week's Crain's Chicago Business.
As an old retiree, I no longer participate in the economy in any fashion - other than to purchase caulk to repair my crumbling house.
I like caulk.
This was the featured story in last week's Crain's Chicago Business.
Bill Brock - Chicago | 06.21.08 - 9:19 am | #
Nice business. A cascade of balloon payments.
afternoon moonbats 
This incident yesterday with the newly found rubber legs of our candidate has really taken whatever vestige of hope I had left for this society.
We are well and truly fucked by the rich and powerful and those who crawl on their bellies to serve them.
(Sorry)
Maybe I can find optimism again but I am not sure where. Who knows?
Hello, Moonbootica!
What's shaking over there?
Zapette had tea with the Bishop of Argyle.
Oooooh - summer solstice at the Central Library. Very kuhl.
Hello, Moonbootica!
What's shaking over there?
KidRanger | 06.21.08 - 9:24 am | #
not a lot lol
i've been watching the cricket and Royal Ascot and of course Euro 2008
pretty quiet
Is anyone else listening to Scott Simon campaigning for McCain this morning on NPR? I had to turn it off.
Maybe I can find optimism again but I am not sure where. Who knows?
DWD - S☮S | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 9:24 am | #
dude, someday you'll be as old and cynical as me, and understand that injustice, evil, corruption, and sheer stupidity are not optional features of human life.
i've been watching the cricket and Royal Ascot and of course Euro 2008
pretty quiet
It definitely was not quiet here last night.
my dad is really enjoying Guitar Hero III on the Wii (and me too)
i've been watching the cricket and Royal Ascot and of course Euro 2008
Any strange hats of note at Royal Ascot?
It definitely was not quiet here last night.
Marcellina | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 9:27 am | #
I can imagine, Turkey managed to score in extra time and win on penalty yet were only in the lead for just 4 mins in the game
we turned over after Croatia has scored and like 20 second afterwards Turkey get a goal in
Morning, all.
I woke up this morning with a backache and in 3 hours I have to show up for make-up before doing my DVD commentary on a show I worked on 20 years ago.
It sucks getting old.
Moon, click on the video at my Homepage for 1 minute of what went on down on the street for hours.
my dad is really enjoying Guitar Hero III on the Wii (and me too)
Moonbootica
My kids fell in love with "Barracuda" - now they play it all the time.
But I need to get them back on the Wii Fit - it's fun, but they forget about it.
Anyone know their birds?
Just saw one in my yard that was bright yellow and had black wings.
In 5 years, every store will be a dollar store.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ | 06.21.08 - 9:06 am |
But I won't have any money.
There's a class I really want to take down at the Central Library, but I'm too old. I don't like that.
this is better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I...h?
v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
goldfinch?
doing my DVD commentary on a show I worked on 20 years ago.
Are you allowed to tell us which one??
Any strange hats of note at Royal Ascot?
KidRanger | 06.21.08 - 9:28 am | #
a few lol
the Guardian has photos of the various hats from Ladies Day
I agree, that sounds like a goldfinch. How big?
It sucks getting old.
Toonscribe
Try to work in a subliminal "Hi Iris" & "Hey Stella," and I'll buy 20 copies!!
Sorry about the getting old part. For me, it's the slow, painful morning steps before my knees and feet agree to carry my full weight...
more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e...h?
v=ewiXA_he6VQ
however check out this Ascot fashion from 1986
How big?
Not very big at all. Smaller than a sparrow. Quite purdy.
Are you allowed to tell us which one??
Unfortunately not. I had to sign a confidentiality agreement to not disclose the name of the show until the release. They're putting together a huge package of extras to go with it and don't want to let anything out before the big release. I think they're being silly, but that's the way it is. As soon as I can tell you all, I will.
Not very big at all. Smaller than a sparrow. Quite purdy.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story!
American Goldfinch
http://identify.whatbird.com/img.../371/
image.aspx
goldfinch, Zap
And they are quite pretty!
Yep...Goldfinch.
Damn...you kids are good!
On NPR, Obama is said to be "only" five points ahead, which is, you guessed it, "good news for McCain" because, given all the bad stuff for the GOP, means Obama's support isn't all that solid.
Wonder why this bobblehead doesn't talk about Newsweek's poll showing Obama ahead by 15. Perhaps because it would blow his horsefeathers argument sky high.
The bobblehead was Mark Blumenthal, incidentally.
well! I kinda owe DWD for the link, but I called it first, so how about I make you some jasmine tea & you warm up a bowl of that soup you've been raving about for me??
Digby on the FISA capitulation.
Jesus, we're fucked.
Try to work in a subliminal "Hi Iris" & "Hey Stella," and I'll buy 20 copies!!
From what they've told me they want to charge, 20 copies would run about $4000.
The bobblehead was Mark Blumenthal, incidentally.
I just heard that, and the fact that Obama isn't doing "as well" with suburban women as HRC would've.
At least he called that one out.
He relied on a brutal, early version of the secret police. He murdered some of his opponents with his own hands. Yet Tsar Ivan the Terrible also united Russia, opened diplomatic relations with England and wrote music. Now the complex royal character is to come to TV screens in a 16-part series, and its director believes Russian audiences are ready for some serious historical drama.
Violent thrillers and reality shows have replaced Communist propaganda on Russian television and, like western viewers, Russians complain that there is little worth watching on television.
"Unfortunately, Russians don't know their history very well, especially before 1917," said director Andrei Eshpai, who is making Ivan Grozny (Ivan the Terrible) for release in 2009. "History in our cinema was often tendentious and there were few possibilities for doing good historical drama on TV ... Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it."
If the contradictions of the Putin era are still far too fresh to absorb, and even Stalin's times too close and painful to examine, then the period of Ivan IV (1530-1584) is distant enough to allow Russians to ponder on their penchant for leaders who crack them into shape.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...8/jun/21/
russia
I am off in a moment: Here is my list of personal "Hates" in our society. See what they have in common.
1. Large insurance companies - ALL OF THEM
2. Multinational corporations
3. Telecommunications Corporations
4. Republicans.
(Have you guessed it yet?)
And why does Obama want to please all four of these constituencies with his bullshit support of the FISA sellout?
Oh yeah, he is their lackey.
But, I actually have no idea what his motivation is any more than the rest of the Democrats, who seem stuck in some 2004 time warp, fighting the battle of Fallujah with Don Rumsfeld. He may genuinely think the legislation is good or just be afraid that the Republicans will use it against him. (I don't think that's going to help frankly --- he voted against it last time and that's all they need for the scare ads.) He does say that if he wins, he promises not to abuse the power it gives him, so I guess we should feel good about that.
Gawd, Digby's good.
On NPR, Obama is said to be "only" five points ahead, which is, you guessed it, "good news for McCain" because, given all the bad stuff for the GOP, means Obama's support isn't all that solid.
Scott Simon said Obama's reversal of his pledge to accept public financing (that he never made) raises doubts about the validity of his campaign promises, and that Obama's suggestion that Republicans would use race in this campaign is an unconscionable slur against John McCain, who has in fact been a victim of race-baiting campaigning, at the hands of a president he declared his love for and a strategist who is now advising his campaign.
So now I'm listening to birds singing and it's a marked improvement.
If the contradictions of the Putin era are still far too fresh to absorb, and even Stalin's times too close and painful to examine, then the period of Ivan IV (1530-1584) is distant enough to allow Russians to ponder on their penchant for leaders who crack them into shape.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...ld/...8/jun/21/
russia
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008
Same thing happened during Stalin's rule. Eisenstein did "Ivan" during WWII. Stalin liked "Part I", but "Part II" nearly got Eisenstein executed, IIRC.
Nice Polite Republicans. What a hit job on BHO, nicely balanced by mention of McCain's "interracial" family. Scott Simon is a tool.
From what they've told me they want to charge, 20 copies would run about $4000.
Toonscribe
Whoa!
I've been hatching a nefarious alternative plan as I sit here--perhaps the girls could meet you when we visit cali this summer and you could talk about what you do (not on the double secret DVD, just in general for work)!
Queen Liz is very happy at the moment, her horse just won the race
my dad put a £1 bet on Free Agent (the Queen's Horse)
so now everyone has to tip their hats as its a royal winner apparently
well! I kinda owe DWD for the link, but I called it first, so how about I make you some jasmine tea & you warm up a bowl of that soup you've been raving about for me??
Ina, works for me.
(I am not in a bad mood. I just get so sad when these people cannot do even the simplest things to help this country. They sell out our jobs, they sell out our privacy, they sell out our rights and what for? It just hurts)
Morning all.
Nice to see that even the current US economic 'success stories' are based on unsustainable money-grabs and trick bookkeeping.
Why is there worship of the Freee Market again?
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Really, NPR has become a tool of the GOP.
Here in Chicago it's the annual begathon.
Sorry, gang; my dough is going to Darcy Burner, Donna Edwards, and folks like that.
Jesus, we're fucked.
qlª | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 9:37 am | #
What difference does it make what the law says, since Congress is too chickenshit to impeach or even cut off funding anyways?
There is no longer any hope for a unified Anglican communion because of divisions over homosexual clergy and civil partnerships, according to conservative bishops gathering in Jerusalem for a breakaway summit.
Clergy attending the Global Anglican Futures Conference (Gafcon), which starts tomorrow, have issued a manifesto declaring there is no possibility of reconciliation with the Episcopal church in the US and the Anglican church of Canada, because both ordain gay bishops and accept same-sex unions. The summit comes in the wake of controversy around the "wedding" of two gay priests at St Bartholomew the Great church in the City of London.
About 200 of the 280 bishops in Jerusalem will boycott this summer's Lambeth conference, an event symbolising one of the four instruments that binds the church. Although the Archbishop of Canterbury invited more than 800 bishops, those from Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda are shunning his conference in favour of one reflecting their views.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
...canism.religion
perhaps the girls could meet you when we visit cali this summer and you could talk about what you do (not on the double secret DVD, just in general for work)!
Sounds like fun. When are you planning to be in CA? And where?
fuck you haloscan
someone should ask these politicians who vote for increasing spying powers whether they would be ok with it being used on them
same with 42 days detention or any form of authortarian legislation
What difference does it make what the law says, since Congress is too chickenshit to impeach or even cut off funding anyways?
We are returning to the Strict Construction of the Founders, in which the function of the Senate and the People is to applaud wildly when the Emperor marries his sister and appoints his horse proconsul.
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Incitatus for Senate!
Obama expresses he'll catch Bin Laden
Obama became FISA wanker at ATRIOS
Nunn, Edwards on VP list
Oh, fer crap's sake...
Sounds like fun. When are you planning to be in CA? And where?
Toonscribe
Looks like August this year. I grew up in Orange County & my folks still live there.
from the Digby link
I do know this: they would not have made this "compromise" and then brought this to the floor without his ok, and probably without his direction. He is the leader of the Democratic Party now, in the middle of a hotly contested presidential campaign. If he didn't come to them and say to get this thing done before the fall, then they came to him and asked his permission. That's just a fact. They aren't going to do anything he doesn't want them to d
I do kind of think giving it a veneer of legality is important.
Some oil-producing countries may defy the west by cutting production, Libya warned today, ahead of an emergency meeting of oil producers and consumers in Saudi Arabia.
Shorki Ghanem, the chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation, told Reuters in advance of the meeting in Jeddah: "Some countries may think of increasing production, but some countries may even think of cutting production."
A move to cut production would fly in the face of appeals by Gordon Brown, George Bush and other western leaders. They have been pressing Opec, the oil cartel, to raise production in an effort to bring down record oil prices.
No Opec members have publicly mooted a cartel-wide production cut, with oil passing through the $135 a barrel mark, although some countries trimmed output during this year's second quarter, when demand from refineries is at its lowest.
Brown, who was flying out to Jeddah today, will press Saudi Arabia and other oil producers to use some of their huge oil profits from the worst "oil shock" in history to invest in renewable energy and nuclear power in the west.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
...ibya.middleeast
DWD--I hear you. It does hurt that things are so stacked against us. But we're fighting the good fight, so we've got to keep on.
If he didn't come to them and say to get this thing done before the fall, then they came to him and asked his permission.
I hate to disagree with the great Digby, but we just don't know that's the fact.
Plus, they've been "negotiating" this "compromise" for a long time...well before Obama got the nod. This is all on the House leadership.
I posted this earlier, (much earlier this morning) but I thought it was a clear headed enough view to post again.
"This is worth taking a look at if you are interested and have the time.
Sustainable Energy– without the hot air --David J.C. MacKay Draft 2.1.2 – March 25, 2008 Department of Physics University of Cambridge
We’re often told that ‘huge amounts of renewable power are available’ – wind, wave, tide, and so forth. But our current power consumption is also huge! To understand our sustainable energy crisis, we need to know how the one ‘huge’ compares with the other. We need numbers, not adjectives. In this book, David MacKay, Professor in Physics at Cambridge University, shows how to estimate the numbers, and what those numbers depend on. As a case study, the presentation focuses on the United Kingdom, asking first “could Britain live on sustainable energy resources alone?” and second “how can Britain make a realistic post-carbon energy plan that adds up?” These numbers bring home the size of the changes that society must undergo if sustainable living is to be achieved.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac....ps/
Welcome.html
http://www.withouthotair.com/
Doug | 06.21.08 - 5:55 am | #"
Although the Archbishop of Canterbury invited more than 800 bishops, those from Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda are shunning his conference in favour of one reflecting their views.
Admitting/accepting Teh Gaii exists is very un-Jesus.
Murdering people accused of witchcraft in interfamily or intertribal feuds makes Baby Jesus smile.
Dark Ages II, Electricity Turned Off Boogaloo, coming now to a planet near you.
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I do know this: they would not have made this "compromise" and then brought this to the floor without his ok, and probably without his direction.
I don't know about that. Democrats only show that kind of deference to Republicans and to the Beltway Media. Not to their own. There are plenty of Dems who were going to support this no matter what Obama said or did. Doesn't excuse him, I just don't see it going down the way Digby says.
Looks like August this year. I grew up in Orange County & my folks still live there.
Keep me posted, and we'll see if we can work something out.
The team that couldn’t shoot straight
Broder:
We are barely at the beginning of the long period in which most Americans will give their first serious scrutiny to the presidential candidates and decide whether Barack Obama or John McCain will get their vote.
It's fucking over, Broder. McStain don't stand a chance.
None of your goddamn stab-in-the-back tricks will work this time.
i wonder how Digby "knows" what seems to me to be totally improbable. Obama is not the establishment candidate. He has not even been nominated yet. His hold on the Democratic party is tenuous and weak and he must be very aware of what the party leadership did to McGovern - as well as how strong they are now.
To say this "business model" is "fucking insane!" is to understate.
This is what happens when you let MBAs loose in the marketplace. EVERYTHING is short term, next quarter. EVERYTHING.
Keep me posted, and we'll see if we can work something out.
Toonscribe
Cool, thanks.
BAGHDAD — Women and children have been hit especially hard in Iraq's refugee crisis, often forced to beg and in some cases turn to prostitution to provide for their families because so many men have been killed, a report said Friday.
A biannual regional survey by the International Organization for Migration paints a bleak picture of Iraq's estimated 2.8 million internally displaced people, or IDPs. They often face eviction threats and insufficient access to food, clean water and health care despite recent security gains, the report said.
But women and children who have been forced to flee their homes are particularly vulnerable because the men in the family have often been killed or abandoned them in a conservative Islamic society that generally doesn't value women in the workplace.
Women make up about half of the displaced population, surpassing the number of men in some provinces, including Baghdad. But they face difficulties finding employment and often are isolated because of their gender, it said.
Displaced children, meanwhile, have suffered from malnutrition and skin diseases due to a lack of clean water and sanitation, the report said. They also frequently lack access to education because they must work or beg on the streets instead of going to school.
"Many families have female heads of household, bringing a unique set of challenges," the IOM said in the report.
Monitors in the provinces of Baghdad and Diyala "have observed large numbers of families with both widows and orphans, both of whom have many difficulties finding jobs, obtaining food, or receiving aid from local authorities and humanitarian organizations," according to the Geneva-based organization.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4504...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
Meanwhile, Big Time sweeps through town, raises hundreds of thousands for the GOP, and leaves a suburb hanging.
Later, 'bats
I am doing something important like going to the farmers' market and getting the last of the asparagus and fresh tomatoes and MICHIGAN strawberries (small and so sweet you do not need sugar)
Peace.
I do know this: they would not have made this "compromise" and then brought this to the floor without his ok, and probably without his direction.
I have my doubts about that, frankly, considering how long this has been going on.
OTOH, Obama could have certainly scuttled it if he wanted to, but that would require he, you know, actually take a stand.
I am getting grim enjoyment from both the wounded cries of shocked betrayal coupled with the feverish rationalizations of why he "had" to do this from his more fervent supporters, though, but that's just me...
There are about four mines for each of Basra’s 2.5 million people, said Brigadier Faisal Kazzar, a senior civil defense official in the city.
These mines have turned this southern province into "the world’s most densely mine-populated province on earth," he added.
The Province of Basra, of which the southern city of Basra is the capital, was the major scene for all the wars waged by former leader Saddam Hussein and those mounted against him by the United States and its allies.
Kazzar said there were still 25 million unexploded mines in Iraq and more than one third of them were in Basra.
The mines spread over huge areas and have turned nearly half of the province’s 2000 villages into "zones of real danger," added Kazzar.
"We are dealing with an area which has more mines per kilometer than any other place in the whole world," Raad al-Shaikhli, another senior civil defense official said.
Shaikhli said only in two areas the mines have killed and maimed 450 people in the past few years.
"This is the city of mines and not the city of Sinbad the Sailor," he said, alluding to Basra’s ancient mythical figure reputed for his maritime adventures and voyages.
Shaikhli said that in the area west of Basra the mines have killed more than 600 people and devastated herds of cattle and sheep.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4504...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
I am getting grim enjoyment from both the wounded cries of shocked
betrayal coupled with the feverish rationalizations of why he "had" to
do this from his more fervent supporters, though, but that's just me...
Naah.....
Meanwhile, while my lovely wife and I were at work yesterday, it seems the house next door to us caught on fire.
Apparently, it started in the wiring of the refrigerator, which is really scary to me, since it's not like you can make sure it's turned off if you're not at home. Apparently, the actual fire was contained to the kitchen, but the damage is all through the house. The local fishwrap estimated the damage at $150,000.
I am NOT looking forward to telling my lovely wife about this!
I am getting grim enjoyment from both the wounded cries of shocked betrayal coupled with the feverish rationalizations of why he "had" to do this from his more fervent supporters, though, but that's just me...
Fucking awesome, huh?
Jeez.
Naah.....
Fucking awesome, huh?
Not really. Just totally expected.
I had the unique pleasure of having a conversation with a Dem... who is voting for McCain. He stated his main reason for crossing party lines is the fact that the choice the delegates made was and is unacceptable and not because of race, it has more to do with the world situation and Obama's Alfalfa approach. He is not the man for the hour. The Dem party has never been more at odds and he emphasized that voters who have fallen for Obama's line exploits how gullible the Dem base is. He couldn't allow himself to be caught up in the hysterics of a party gone mad.
It's good to see that some Dems see what conservatives see.
Democrats only show that kind of deference to Republicans and to the Beltway Media. Not to their own. There are plenty of Dems who were going to support this no matter what Obama said or did.
Have to agree on this one. The GOP has been practicing Party discipline, "he ain't heavy, he's REpublican" ways since Reagan. They think in a block, while Democrats still think as one of 435 representatives.
Not to mention the number of DLC type Democrats who want to be Republicans, but due to the composition of their district or their 'brand-name affiliation' are 'stuck' being Democrats.
Did they run it by Obama? Possibly, maybe probably. It's hard to be sure, but plausible.
If Obama said "Hell no!" would that stop it? Certainly not. Too many wanting telcom dollars. Knowing that, Obama may have swapped a 'yes' vote for some other favor.
It still sucks. But putting the 100+ Democrt votes solely on Barack is Gooper campaigning.
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Just totally expected.
I suspect that HRC would've done different, no?
Of course, I never would've sold out the way Obama did, had it happened in 2004.
I suspect that HRC would've done different, no?
Absolutely, I'm practically perfect in every way because I'm a Clinton.
OTOH, Obama could have certainly scuttled it if he wanted to
I doubt it. Feinstein, Bayh, Landrieu, Lieberman, Salazar, Carper, Lincoln, Nelson, Nelson, Pryor. Kennedy still in the hospital? There goes your filibuster, and there'd probably be more Dems voting with Bush and Hoyer.
But he should have tried. Digby is right about the 2004 mentality.
Morning, all.
Sorry for the blogwhores, but over at the homepage, this weekend's Listomania includes a tribute to Brian "Lubyanka" Hardig, aka The Ohio Douche, including a link to the Greatest Letter to the Editor Ever Written!!
And at Box Office, I prove conclusively that there once really was a 60s starlet named Poupeé Gamin.
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...ania-spec-
7.php
As always, if you leave a comment I promise to buy you an adult beverage if we ever meet...
Fucking awesome, huh?
Not really. Just totally expected.
dave™© | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 9:59 am | #
Dave, I'm glad your hobby of sneering at the naivete of imaginary Obama supporters is still bringing you joy.
I suspect that HRC would've done different, no?
Sarcasm meter pegs.
Of course, now that she is not running for president, she could show some newfound freedom.
Some 30,000 people celebrated the summer solstice as dawn broke at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.
Druids, hippies and sun-worshippers were among those who gathered to watch the sun rise at the ancient stone circle at 0458 BST on the longest day.
Rainy conditions obscured the sunrise but the turnout was still the highest in five years.
Police said the event was peaceful, with 17 arrests overnight for public order offences.
As the dawn broke a cheer went up from revellers who gathered at the Heel stone - a pillar at the edge of the prehistoric monument.
Unemployed John Tarbuck, 33, from Bude, Cornwall, set up a small tent party next to his car.
"The best thing about Summer Solstice at the 'henge is you get to meet loads of new people," he said.
"All the people here at my tent party, I've never met before."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla...ire/
7465235.stm
I suspect that HRC would've done different, no?
Ha! So you're reduced to sputtering "Clinton would have done the same!"?
Like I said, totally - TOTALLY - expected.
Wow. A quick text search of the MSNBC home page turns up zero instances of "Russert."
Don't tell me our heartbroken nation is finished mourning already.
Dave, I'm glad your hobby of sneering at the naivete of imaginary Obama supporters is still bringing you joy.
He's my biggest fan, after all.
I'm glad your hobby of sneering at the naivete of imaginary Obama supporters is still bringing you joy.
There were several of us talking about it last night. "Imaginary"? Oh, I don't think so.
Any "real" Obama fanatics are certainly welcome to justify his actions. I'll wait at the bar...
People across the UK are being warned to brace themselves for unusually stormy weather as high winds and heavy rain are forecast for Sunday.
The storms - with winds which could reach 65mph across northern Britain - are expected to peak around midday.
The worst affected areas are expected to be north Wales and northern England, but Northern Ireland and southern Scotland may also be affected.
BBC forecaster Tomasz Schafernaker said the weather was abnormal for June.
"Although it's not unusual to have this kind of weather during the winter it's rare to see this kind of gale this time of year," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/74.../uk/
7467236.stm
Ha! So you're reduced to sputtering "Clinton would have done the same!"?
Yeah...that's it.
But this is your M.O., so I thought I'd ask anyway.
See, now I'm getting edgy. Howcome you can't be more than 18 to take this class?
The South Phoenix Youth Center (SPYC) cooking class
is one with lots of flavor. This class is designed for both male and
female youth ages 14 - 18. Participants learn practical kitchen
techniques used in everyday cooking. All participants cook full course
meals covering favorite recipes from breakfast, lunch, dinner, and
snacks. Foods from around the world and foods that are specific to
cultures and geographic regions are included. You won't find a more
delicious class around.
Or the silkscreen class either? No fair!
May I simply say that the Dems are dead to me now?
I'm serious -- this FISA thing is the ultimate sell-out. And frankly it scuttles the only reason to have voted for the in November, i.e. the Supreme Court.
Does anybody seriously still believe that Obama will nominate and actually fight for left-leaning justices anymore? I'm sorry, after yesterday, I can only think that he and the rest of the Dems will cave to the Republicans on the SCOTUS just like they've caved on everything else in the last eight years.
I'm beside myself over this. There is no way to spin it as anything but proof that the party as a whole is useless and hopeless...
And don't even get me started on Obama coming out for nuke plants.
And here I thought the stupid Obama - Clinton fighting was over.
It's good to see that some Dems see what conservatives see.
Texaschilibean | 06.21.08 - 10:00 am | #
it's good to see that you are desperate enough to make up such a bullshit story. it means that the election is ours, easily. any Dem that sees what conservatives see isn't a Dem, but a mental case.
But he should have tried. Digby is right about the 2004 mentality.
Compromise is not a virtue in itself. Compromise is what you do with an opponent that is too strong to overcome. You compromise to avoid (pointless) war.
The Republicans have learned a habit of just holding the line and demanding what they want how they want it, like so many tantruming 3 year olds. The Democats have learned a complementing attitude that 'compromise' (aka surrender) and 'bipartisanship' (as above) are virtuous and good in and of themselves.
this has continued even when the Democrats have gained the numbers and support that is SHOULD reverse. Once the mind is conditioned, mere alteration of circumstances fails to change it.
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Fuck this...I've gotta paint.
Later.
But this is your M.O., so --
Whatever.
My "M.O." is to vote for the Dem in the general, and always has been.
The "fans" are the ones that have to figure out how to square this latest capitulation with their stirring story of "hope" and "change". Like I said, I'll wait at the bar...
BBC forecaster Tomasz Schafernaker said the weather was abnormal for June.
"Although it's not unusual to have this kind of weather during the winter it's rare to see this kind of gale this time of year," he said.
Why don't you admit it's caused by global-fucking-warming? Afraid you'll lose your cushy "weather forecaster" spot?
Like I said, totally - TOTALLY - expected.
dave™© | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 10:03 am | #
That she would have done the same? yes, totally expected. It must be sad to have to take such slim comfort in a lie.
Kidranger - Check out the Guardian for some great slide shows of hats past and present.
My "M.O." is to vote for the Dem in the general, and always has been.
Bull, you'll be dancing in the street if I beat Obama, anything to hold on to your precious spite.
Time to hit the showers and get "ready for my close-up, Mr DeMille." See you all this afternoon.
And don't even get me started on Obama coming out for nuke plants.
steve hüssein™ simels | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 10:06 am | #
Does staying that naive require a lot of effort or is it just a natural talent?
G'day to ye, Zap and Toon.
The "fans" are the ones that have to figure out how to square this latest capitulation with their stirring story of "hope" and "change". Like I said, I'll wait at the bar...
i hope for the change of getting US soldiers, including some i know, out of Iraq. Anything past that is gravy.
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One way to encourage personal transportation fuel conservation, would be to do something like this.
Give free parking (or low cost) priority in cities to those who drive certain types of vehicles.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/Sgu0fCX5.jpg
Off topic but possibly synechdotal (sp?)
synechdochal
I think it's sort of like poetic license. For instance, I can use the word 'eaves' in place of roof or house as it allows me the latitude for a double or triple entendre. Eaves suggests Eves, as in helpmeets for Adams, or perhaps eves as in after dark. If I say the eaves are shivering it still refers to the house and the roof, but it also suggests cold nights and suggestible women.
the storm is soon to break the bubble is about to pop
how many licks does it take to get to the center of the prop
happy hookers on tv interview with glee
experts who all agree everything is loverly
i have no trust in the masses there are too many fox news voters
dipwads dunces dumbasses a gene pool full of sinkers and floaters
target market campaigns for bumper sticker brains
elect the criminally insane with fists that feel your pain
so touching is your faith in democracy
what's your take on unicorns angels and fairies?
go ahead and march and blog and boost
but chicken little has come home to roost
more than the sky is falling now
and we are doomed
Labour are just as worthless, as are the Tories and actually most if not all politicians
take this as an example, Mandleson is our Trade Commissioner for the EU but Gordon Brown dislikes him a lot yet all of a sudden our PM is singing his praises to the high heavens
bunch of venal liars, get rid of all of them!
If I say the eaves are shivering it still refers to the house and the roof, but it also suggests cold nights and suggestible women.
simels is shivering.
Damn it's cold outside 7:14AM and 74F.
Off topic but possibly synechdotal (sp?)
synechdochal
Synecdoche + anecdote? If it's not word, it should be.
i have no trust in the masses there are too many fox news voters
"The trouble with the common man is that he's so darned common." / Mark Twain
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Most interesting. An analyst on NPR's Smart City program today noted that the rising price of gas might have been the tipping point for the housing crisis and added that the business model for big box retailers, which forces people to drive long distances for their discounts, is in big danger.
You can listen at the link. It's the first 20 minutes or so of the show.
http://www.smartcityradio.com/sm...smartcityradio/
the icon of the progressive democratic president is FDR. The same FDR who illegally and unconstitutionally setup a national concentration camp system for Japanese-Americans. The same FDR who built a farm support program that created agri-business. The same FDR who participated in murdering some of my relatives when his state department, run by anti-semites, sent Jewish refugees back to the nazis.
Everyone who holds power is a scumball and does evil things. If you can't get over a childish hope for some champion, you will be continually disappointed and easily manipulated.
Go to Phoenix, it's warm there I hear.
I have been sick of "he's as bad as she is" for months now. Sorry Obama haters, your candidate LOST. She lost because even if he is as bad as she is that's a shitty slogan to run under.
Give it a fuckin rest.
Crude prices rose sharply on the world's commodity markets last night after the head of Opec dismissed as "irrational and illogical" a call by Gordon Brown for the producers' cartel to pump more oil.
Chakib Khelil said the near-doubling of prices over the past year was due to geopolitical tension, speculation and a shortage of refining capacity rather than failure by producers to supply enough crude.
His comments came as the prime minister flew to Saudi Arabia for a summit meeting tomorrow of oil producers and consumers in Jeddah at which he will press for Opec to help contain rising inflation in the west by pumping more oil.
Rising petrol and domestic energy costs are blamed by the government for pushing the cost of living in Britain to a 16-year high of 3.3%.
Khelil told Algeria's official news agency APS: "Asking Opec member countries to increase their offer is illogical and irrational." Also the energy and mining minister for Algeria, he ruled out a quota increase by Opec and said Saudi's unilateral decision to raise production would have no impact on world crude prices.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
busine...il.saudiarabia1
Go to Phoenix, it's warm there I hear.
Naw, I've got to put a bottle brush plant in the ground.
Does staying that naive require a lot of effort or is it just a natural talent?
rootless-e, ohmic | 06.21.08 - 10:11 am | #
Who peed on your Fruit Loops this morning?
Seriously -- do me a favor and go condescend to somebody who cares, okay?
A red Bottlebrush? Never figured out a good way to trim those puppies.
TWO POUNDS of Key limes for .88! Red bell peppers, 3/.99, and 4 cukes for $1. Time to put up.
Guess who....
The staff of The New York Times has been buzzing with speculation that she's about to get a column there.
Weighing in at over a tonne and comprising 1,500 valves and miles of wiring, it is not what most people would recognise as a computer.
Despite its antiquated appearance, however, this enormous machine - once nicknamed "The Baby" - was once the cutting edge of technology. Some of the pioneering engineers behind it gathered in Manchester yesterday to celebrate the birthday of what was the world's first digital computer.
Sixty years ago today The Baby completed its first calculation, giving birth to technologies which we are still using.
The anniversary drew some of the pioneering engineers involved in its development to the city's Museum of Science and Industry to see a replica of the machine in action. "The birth of The Baby changed the world forever," said John Perkins, a professor at the university's faculty of engineering. "We hope the celebrations will raise the profile of computer science and encourage the brightest and best of the next generation." Formally called the Small Scale Experimental Machine, The Baby filled a laboratory at the university but had less processing power than a 21st century calculator. In early trials the machine failed to produce a result. But on the morning of June 21 1948 Baby finally delivered: offering the answer to a maths problem that it had been posed a mere 52 minutes earlier.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
techno...ng.digitalmedia
Oy, there is no reason to re-fight the primary wars. Clinton, being a good little Democrat, will go along with what the head of the party asks. If Obama thinks he needed to get this out of the way before November then so be it. I personally thought he was getting ratfucked by the old power elite since this vote seemed to come up out of the blue just one week after he announced he was moving the DNC to Chicago. probably a little bit of both. This is politics.
But on the morning of June 21 1948 Baby finally delivered: offering the answer to a maths problem that it had been posed a mere 52 minutes earlier.
Must have been running Microsoft.
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Peggy Noo......
This should have been a joyful time for Anglican priests David Lord and Peter Cowell, the gay clerics whose civil partnership was blessed in one of London's oldest churches. The celebrations, however, have been overshadowed by recriminations about the wedding-style ceremony, which is against church guidelines.
Both clerics have gone to ground since then with Lord, a hospital doctor, returning home to New Zealand and surrendering his licence to officiate as a priest. This week the curtains were drawn at his bungalow in Hamilton, on the North Island, and no one was answering the door.
At Waikato hospital, where he works in the emergency department, a staff member said he was not taking calls.
At the Cathedral Church of St Peter, where he was ordained, parishioners and clergy have also closed ranks. "We saw David at church last Sunday," said parishioner and lay canon Jocelyn Marshall. "He was very upset, people were comforting him. He's been demolished by this."
New Zealand prides itself on its broad-minded attitudes - civil partnership legislation was introduced in 2004 - and its half-million strong Anglican congregation leans towards the liberal side of the argument.
Many of the faithful believe the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lambeth bishops, due to meet next month, should welcome gay people into the life of the church. Anglican minister and veteran Maori activist Dr Hone Kaa said: "Why should heterosexuals determine how everybody else should live?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
...anism.religion1
I personally thought he was getting ratfucked by the old power elite since this vote seemed to come up out of the blue just one week after he announced he was moving the DNC to Chicago. probably a little bit of both. This is politics.
qlª | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 10:24 am | #
I think that they have a good number of future moments of explaining to him that they have their own agenda. This is traditional for the democrats: Clinton and Carter faced it too.
A red Bottlebrush? Never figured out a good way to trim those puppies.
Supposedly this is a dwarf version, that only grows a few feet high.
We'll see. This is in a problematical part of my front garden, right by the side of the house where the prevailing winds howl around the corner right at the plant in that spot. This is just my latest try at finding anything as tough as a greasewood bush that will grow there.
The staff of The New York Times has been buzzing with speculation that she's about to get a column there.
BlueinColorado
Malkin?
Coulter?
Noonan?
It won't be Katha Pollitt or Katrina van den Heuvel, now will it?
McCain is committed to building 100 more nuclear fission generating plants -- and the half-life of Uranium-238 is still 4.5 billion years.
Everyone who holds power is a scumball and does evil things. If you can't get over a childish hope for some champion, you will be continually disappointed and easily manipulated.
rootless-e, ohmic
However, one should allow for some period of angry mourning at the death of hope, however misplaced or childish. After all, who shows up at a funeral saying, "Look, everyone dies, okay?"
A pragamtic truth, certainly, but somewhat inhuman.
UK No1 - A controversial deal with Saudi Arabia catapulted Britain to the top of the world arms export league last year, as UK firms won a record £10bn in orders from overseas, official figures show.
The figure amounts to a third of all worldwide export orders for military equipment, ministers and arms companies reported. An essentially political, government-to-government contract - the sale of 72 Eurofighter/Typhoon aircraft, for £4.4bn, to the Saudis - accounted for Britain's number one position, the figures make clear.
The Ministry of Defence says the terms of the contract - called Salam, Arabic for peace - and the total expenditure involved are confidential. But officials make it clear that when upkeep, spares and training were included, the deal could amount to £20bn spread over many years. The figures last year were also boosted by orders placed by Oman and Trinidad and Tobago for patrol boats.
The companies involved - chiefly BAE Systems and the VT Group - were praised by the trade minister, Digby Jones.
"As demonstrated by this outstanding export performance, the UK has a first-class defence industry, with some of the world's most technologically sophisticated companies," he said.
Traditionally, American arms companies have occupied the top spot in the global arms market, with Britain, Russia and France vying to be the runners-up. Over the past five years the top arms exporters have been the US, with $63bn worth of sales, UK ($53bn), Russia ($33bn), France ($17bn) and Germany and Israel ($9bn each), according to government figures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
...ade.saudiarabia
isn't it funny that a lot of conservatives turn int Kenyesians when it comes to arms industry
If I say the eaves are shivering it still refers to the house and the roof, but it also suggests cold nights and suggestible women.
Miss H., Great Expectorator
No dirty pomes, please. Some kiddies might stumble on this site by mistake.
Peggy Noo......
plantsman,
How Peggy Noonan Won the Democratic Primary
I only made it through the first page, but it's a very weird article. Consider the subject, I guess.
I am curious about how Georgie S. came to this conclusion about Our Lady of the Magic Dolphins,
"This moment was made for her. "
— George Stephanopoulos
but not enough to slog through seven internet pages of quotes from that syrupy, saccacharine crackpot.
http://wwd.com/issue/article/125874
TWO POUNDS of Key limes for .88! Red bell peppers, 3/.99, and 4 cukes for $1. Time to put up.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
No fair!
(See, you may not be able to take a cooking class offered to teens, but you CAN make me jealous with your lime consumption!!)
not because of race, it has more to do with the world situation and Obama's Alfalfa approach.
Texaschilibean
Nossir, no racism there.
Good grief...
Sorry Obama haters, your candidate LOST.
Oh, dear. I am put in my place!
I think that they have a good number of future moments of explaining to him that they have their own agenda. This is traditional for the democrats: Clinton and Carter faced it too.
rootless-e, ohmic | 06.21.08 - 10:26 am | #
The Democrats can not be counted on to do the right thing ever.
It's as simple as that. Anybody who gives them a dime until they start actually doing stuff in our interest is nuts.
(See, you may not be able to take a cooking class offered to teens, but you CAN make me jealous with your lime consumption!!)
Ya know, I happen to have a receipt for preserving Meyer lemons that just might work well for little old Key limes too. And another one for whole fruit marmalade that I've been keeping til all the Meyers come ripe.
But I wish I could take that class.
The Republicans can be counted upon to do the wrong thing, always. And therein lies the difference.
The number of girls born and surviving in India has hit an all time low compared to boys, ActionAid says.
A report by the UK charity says increasing numbers of female foetuses were being aborted and baby girls deliberately neglected and left to die.
In one site in the Punjab state, there are just 300 girls to every 1,000 boys among higher caste families, it says.
ActionAid says India faces a "bleak" future if it does not end its practice of cultural preference for boys.
ActionAid teamed up with Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to produce the Disappearing Daughters report.
More than 6,000 households in sites across five states in north-western India were interviewed and statistical comparisons were made with national census date.
Under "normal" circumstances, there should be about 950 girls for every 1,000 boys, the charity said. But it said that in three of the five sites, that number was below 800.
In four of the five sites surveyed, the proportion of girls to boys had declined since a 2001 census, the report said.
The research also found that ratios of girls to boys were declining fastest in comparatively prosperous urban areas. ActionAid suggested the increasing use of ultrasound technology may be a factor in the trend.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
7466916.stm
Sorry Obama haters, your candidate LOST
Sorry, not a hater. Next.
The Republicans can be counted upon to do the wrong thing, always. And therein lies the difference.
plantsman, | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 10:34 am | #
After the FISA sellout yesterday, I'm convinced that's a distinction without a difference.
I shudder at the idea of homemade lime marmalade...
...shudder with utter delight imagining it with some buttered toast and nice cup of coffee.
Mmmmmm, nummers!
The document says that Indian woman are put under intense pressure to produce sons, in a culture that predominantly views girls as a burden rather than an asset.
It says many families now use ultrasound scans and abort female foetuses, despite the existence of the 1994 law banning gender selection and selective abortion.
The charity also blames other illegal practices - such as allowing the umbilical cord to become infected - for the growing gender imbalance.
"The real horror of the situation is that, for women, avoiding having daughters is a rational choice. But for wider society it's creating an appalling and desperate state of affairs," Laura Turquet, women's rights policy official at ActionAid said.
"In the long term, cultural attitudes need to change. India must address economic and social barriers including property rights, marriage dowries and gender roles that condemn girls before they are even born.
"If we don't act now the future looks bleak," Ms Turquet said.
Some 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India in the past 20 years, the British medical journal the Lancet has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
7466916.stm
However, one should allow for some period of angry mourning at the death of hope, however misplaced or childish. After all, who shows up at a funeral saying, "Look, everyone dies, okay?"
A pragamtic truth, certainly, but somewhat inhuman.
Uncle Smokes
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I too am disappointed in Obama's decision to back the FISA bill. I find it amusing that all the blue dogs who voted for it are now hand wringing over how "imperfect" it is, but they just had to do it.
We just have to face it, the CRIMES of the Bush administration are too large, too much, and too many for anyone to ever be punished for them, because they got congress and the senate to go along with them, so asses must be covered, and we will be told by everyone that "for the good of the country" we must just forget all of the crimes, all of the injustices, all of the deaths, all of the devestation, and all of the ruination of our government. We have to just move along as if nothing ever happened.
This is now Amerika.
Nixon got away with his crimes and because of that we have had to suffer through the Bush administration. Just imagine what the next republican regime will be capable of. They know they will never be punished for anything that they do.
Ya know, I happen to have a receipt for preserving Meyer lemons that just might work well for little old Key limes too. And another one for whole fruit marmalade that I've been keeping til all the Meyers come ripe.
But I wish I could take that class.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
Yum. How about a lime/habanero preserve?
And I bet they'd let you take that class if you really wanted and you said please
HICA!
Is "shudder" the word of the day?
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Yes, but you went to a Mike Myers movie on purpose.
isn't it funny that a lot of conservatives turn int Kenyesians when it comes to arms industry
In G.O.D. We Trust : Guns, Oil, Drugs.
Funny how those three things need, want, and deserve gubmint intervantion and help, lest the Freee Market be uncivil to them.
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But seriously, kids, since "my" candidate has been "the Democratic nominee" since well before the primaries started, I guess I'm unsure how that candidate has "lost". I do enjoy how anyone who dares question Hopey McChange is a "hater" though.
Maybe some of you "true believers" - the "winners" who are unsullied by hateful, non-hopeful hate - could possibly, just this once, maybe, pretty please, put a word in the ear of "your" candidate that joining in on shredding the consitution isn't exactly keeping in line with the whole "change" thing? Maybe you could drop him a line and point it out, ever so politely of course.
(Let's also keep in mind I'm not the one that named Obama Wanker of the Day.)
Did I mention that French guy named Yves? Wouldn't want to leave him out in the cold.
But seriously, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
...to quote you.
As the man says, eyes on the prize.
Here - try this. And, if you threw in a couple or four jalapenos while it was cooking it'd be just fine.
Whole-Fruit Meyer Lemon Marmalade
Makes about 9 cups
For those who like a tad more bitterness in their
marmalade, this recipe can also be made without pre-boiling or blanching the fruit. In that case, add 5 cups water and 5 cups sugar to the sliced peel and cook until peel is very tender, 1 1/2-2 hours.
5 pounds Meyer lemons, scrubbed clean: 3 1/2 to 5 cups sugar; 1/2 cup fresh Meyer lemon juice (reserved from juicing lemons); 9 half-pint jars and sealing lids
Instructions: Cut lemons in half, juice (reserve juice), and slice crosswise as thinly as possible.
Put sliced lemons in a large pot and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring occasionally, until peel is tender to the bite, about 10 minutes. Drain and rinse. Rinse pot as well. Return lemons to pot with 1 1/2 cups water (this will not be enough to cover lemons, but lemons will continue to release their own liquid
as mixture cooks) and bring to a boil. Stir in 3 1/2 cups sugar. Adjust heat to maintain a slow simmer. Cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture is thick and creamy and lemon is extremely tender to the bite, about 1 hour.
Taste and add up to 1 1/2 cups additional sugar to taste (amount of sugar needed depends on personal taste and sweetness of original lemons, which varies). Stir to dissolve any additional sugar. Stir in reserved lemon juice. Put clean jars and lids on a large baking sheet or pan and heat in a 225° oven for 15 minutes. Transfer mixture to jars, leaving about 1/2 inch of headspace between top of mixture and lid. Put on lids and twist on rings. Process in a large pot of boiling water for 10 minutes or run through the "rinse and hold" or similar cycle on a dishwasher. Marmalade keeps, unopened, up to six months. Once opened, keep
refrigerated.
Per tablespoon: 20 calories, 0 protein, 6 g carbohydrate
Just imagine what the next republican regime will be capable of. They know they will never be punished for anything that they do.
If that is so, then the next REpublican regime would be the thousad-year one.
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If Al Gore had not been cheated out of the Oval Office, 9/11 wouldn't have happened, we would not be in Iraq, war spending and the Bush tax cuts would not have weakened the dollar and driven oil to 130/barrel, New Orleans may or may not have been evacuated more efficiently.
But we wouldn't know about those things that didn't happen, and President Gore would have done a whole lot of things that pissed off Progressives. President Kerry, Dean, Clark or Edwards or Hillary Clinton would have done the same. As ql wisely points out from time to time: We are the fringe. We are not even a majority of the 40-odd percent that self-identify as Democrats.
Everybody knows that Obama still has a chance to redeem himself on the FISA bill, right? Calling him a sellout because he didn't bust into the House and personally wrestle Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi to the ground before they could have their vote is silly. He's a senator, FFS. Condemn him nbext week when he does the wrong thing. This week, email him.
GWPDA, I'd never heard of a technique involving a dishwasher. That's brilliant.
Nixon got away with his crimes and because of that we have had to suffer through the Bush administration. Just imagine what the next republican regime will be capable of. They know they will never be punished for anything that they do.
foolme1ns | 06.21.08 - 10:36 am |
Sadly true.
Is "shudder" the word of the day?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
I like 'stuccoing,' though when Zap introduced it into the eschalexicon it was not quite midnight, so it might be yesterday's word...
Headscarves at the Rally [Lisa Schiffren]
That incident earlier this week in which campaign aides didn't allow two Muslim women wearing the full, official headscarf to sit behind Barack Obama at a rally, allegedly for fear that they might show up in photos and video and solidify any Muslim associations which voters may harbor about the candidate, was a one day flap for the most teflon candidate in history. But it is grows more interesting as the facts emerge. According to this piece, one of the ejected women, Hebba Aref, was an official of the Muslim Students Association at U-Mich Dearborn, in charge of proselytizing.
Why should Obama allow whoremongering at one of his rallies?
Hey, Steverino - did you know there's a new biography of Steve Ditko coming out?
Though I have to cast a jaundiced eye towards a review (or any article) that opens with the sentence, "Two weeks ago, at a cafe in San Francisco, I found myself across a table from Frank Miller, the most important comic book artist of the last 25 years."
The idea that Nancy Pelosi must be taking orders from BHO now since he's the de-facto leader of the party is bizarre to me. To Nancy and Steny, BHO is just a very junior senator who doesn't "know how the game is played" yet. They would never just yield up their power to him.
Sometime in the immediate future, I must sand down and TSP these wonderful old shutters I found, and then paint them. The guy'll be coming over to put them up pretty quick.
ina: I like 'stuccoing,' though when Zap introduced it into the eschalexicon it was not quite midnight, so it might be yesterday's word...
Dang. I had "spackle" in the office pool!
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Oil prices have risen by nearly $3 after an attack on an offshore facility in Nigeria and reports of Israeli military exercises simulating an air raid on Iran.
Friday's gains were a reversal of a heavy fall in prices following China's unexpected decision to raise the retail price of petrol and diesel by up to 18 per cent.
US July crude rose $2.69 to settle at $134.62 a barrel, off highs of $136.80. London Brent was up $2.86 at $134.86.
The rebound left oil prices largely unchanged from the beginning of the week.
"The petroleum markets rebounded ... on worries that Israeli military exercises held in the first week of June might have been preparation for a strike against Iranian nuclear facilities," Tim Evans, an energy analyst for Citi Futures Perspective in New York, said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
bus...2448753677.html
.They know they will never be punished for anything that they do.
FWIW, there are still plenty of things left they can be punished for. It would take a month of days like yesterday for congress to officially let them off the hook for all their crimes.
I had "spackle" in the office pool!
Yeah, some of my coworkers are spackle in the gene pool too.
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This week, email him.
I sent a comment through the "MyBarackObama" site.
I got a reply back referencing how the campaign couldn't reply individually because "The volume of messages we’re receiving has gone up since Barack’s victory in Iowa."
Come on guys - it doesn't take that long to update the script...
June 20, 2008
US asks to rewrite detainee evidence
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:43 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, allowing it to shore up its cases before they come under scrutiny by civilian judges for the first time.
The government has stood behind the evidence for years. Military review boards relied on it to justify holding hundreds of prisoners indefinitely without charge. Justice Department attorneys said it was thoroughly and fairly reviewed.
Now that federal judges are about to review the evidence, however, the government says it needs to make changes.
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''They're not just talking about making a little supplement where they've learned something new,'' said attorney Charles H. Carpenter, who was in the meeting. ''They're talking about possibly amending every single one.''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/
...agewanted=print
Innocent of what? /F. Kafka
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Okay then - everybody agree, I'm sposed to make Whole-Fruit Key Lime Marmalade this weekend? Cause summertime is just the right time to have a couple of open pots of boiling sugar and fruit going in the open kitchen?
I got a reply back referencing how the campaign couldn't reply individually because "The volume of messages we’re receiving has gone up since Barack’s victory in Iowa."
If there's an outcry, they'll notice, especially if it's combined with a temporary reduction in cash flow.
Nixon got away with his crimes and because of that we have had to suffer through the Bush administration. Just imagine what the next republican regime will be capable of. They know they will never be punished for anything that they do.
foolme1ns
For me, one of the worst wrong turns was Iran/Contra, a clear case of treason, and the players were ultimately free to haunt us again.
My representative is Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, a Blue Dog Democrat who voted for the FISA-immunity-for-hire scam. However, there's the rub--to see her defeated at the polls and let some loathsome Republican bastard in (we've got those out the wazoo here in SD)?
However, in my darkest moments, I sometimes contemplate having nothing but Republicans in every position of power in this country. They would surely bring this whole corrupt system crashing down.
Well, then I ponder what would take its place, and I come to my senses.
The idea that Nancy Pelosi must be taking orders from BHO now since he's the de-facto leader of the party is bizarre to me. To Nancy and Steny, BHO is just a very junior senator who doesn't "know how the game is played" yet.
Well, Pelosi and Hoyer hate each other, don't they? I suspect she's trying to keep her job (as are they all). I think Hoyer's the head villain here (again, this doesn't excuse Pelosi, Obama or anyone else)
I hope Obama and Dodd are planning a Mr. Smithian moment, but I'm not betting on it.
Now that federal judges are about to review the evidence, however, the government says it needs to make changes.
They didn't know the teacher had access to the website where they bought their term paper, eh?
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Obama is the new Joe Lieberman. Get used to it.
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Are you actually getting Key limes now?
Dang. I had "spackle" in the office pool!
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I think "Spackle" is a good name for the presumptive republican candidate (and his wife)!
Smokers in the poorest areas of Dundee are being offered £150 worth of groceries by the health service if they are able to give up cigarettes.
Participants in a 12-week scheme will be given £12.50 a week by NHS Tayside if a carbon monoxide breath test proves they have not been smoking.
The money will be credited onto an electronic card which cannot be used for cigarettes or alcohol.
There are 36,000 smokers in Dundee, about half of whom live in poverty.
The scheme is similar to a project used by the trust to encourage pregnant women to give up smoking.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotl...ral/
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Are you actually getting Key limes now?
2/lbs for .88, according to the Food City ad.
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They would never just yield up their power to him.
blerb | 06.21.08 - 10:44 am | #
When I hear that this is now Obamas party, I have to laugh. No one should underestimate just how unwieldy the Democratic Party actually is.
You've got the people like me who would like all of the war criminals tried and hung for their crimes and then you've got the war criminal wannabees.
I over simplify but......
However, in my darkest moments, I sometimes contemplate having nothing but Republicans in every position of power in this country. They would surely bring this whole corrupt system crashing down.
They were, and they have. It's just not falling fast enough to catch the bastards with the falling rubble. Just us.
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Field trip for thers!
Making Bacon a Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/2...&hp&
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Obama is the new Joe Lieberman. Get used to it.
Uh, I don't think Obama has the jowls thing going yet.
I am among the uneducated masses, which tends to find me making a tinfoil hat or two. This morning's aha! conspiracy theory was that *they* knocked off Russert to send a message to testifying McClellan.
P.S. Auntie: some day I'll make my own preserves, but for now, can I just get on your list??
FWIW, there are still plenty of things left they can be punished for. It would take a month of days like yesterday for congress to officially let them off the hook for all their crimes.
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You think so? Why aren't the power holders of the house putting more pressure on Bush to get people to comply with subpoena's that have been issued. Why aren't they making that an issue and crying out for the President to respect the rule of law?
Why have they buried repeated impeachment efforts in committee?
No, the blue dog democrats that have control right now are not going to do anything to the Bush administration for their crimes, because they are as responsible for those crimes as Bush and Cheney are. Look at their voting records. They are republicans in democratic clothing. They will NEVER serve justice on this administration, because they would be cutting their own throats. They laid down with these dogs, and are now infested with their fleas. They will do nothing. Just hope everyone forgets. Just pretend that the election will make everything alright.
The CRIMES will go unanswered for.
Dame Helen Mirren sports a wide-brimmed hat and black and white outfit for her first ever visit to Royal Ascot
A model arrives at Ascot wearing a bespoke hat by designer Louis Mariette with Ladies Day attracting a wide range of outfits
"Two weeks ago, at a cafe in San Francisco, I found myself across a table from Frank Miller, the most SELF important comic book artist of the last 25 years."
dave™© | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 10:43 am | #
Fellated your tarantula...
Obama is the new Joe Lieberman. Get used to it.
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QuentinCompson, Negatory | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 10:49 am | #
Laughable in its inaccuracy. McCain is the new Joe Lieberman and I've got the solicitous email (from Joe) to prove it.
When I hear that this is now Obamas party, I have to laugh. No one should underestimate just how unwieldy the Democratic Party actually is.
You've got the people like me who would like all of the war criminals tried and hung for their crimes and then you've got the war criminal wannabees.
I over simplify but......
Gooper P.J. O'Roarke once opined that the Democratic Party had members to the left of Che Guavara and to the right of Albert Speer.
i'm not so sure he was wrong, or even exaggerating.....
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OT, but an interesting story for you sports fans on the ongoing battle between the blogosphere and the Old White Male Sportswriting establishment. Remember when Friday Night Lights' Buzz Bissinger went off on the Deadspin blogger? We continue:
He adds, “You have blogs that proudly parade around saying, ‘We don’t need no stinking credibility or stinking information — it doesn’t matter what you say or do if you know how to write.’ They cover themselves under the mantle of the First Amendment. But if John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had any idea what the First Amendment would have wrought, they would have canceled it.”
I wonder what the Federalist Papers would've had to say about the BCS.
P.S. Auntie: some day I'll make my own preserves, but for now, can I just get on your list??
Ur on.
Making Bacon a Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury
NO FLIRTING!
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The ban on poppy farming in Afghanistan may hamper the heroin trade but it also leaves farmers in poverty.
Kate Clark meets one who has had to negotiate the betrothal of his six-year-old daughter to pay a debt.
Jalalabad, near the junction of the Kabul and Kunar rivers, is a green city, shaded by citrus and pine trees.
In spring, the air is sweet with the fragrance of orange blossom.
Farmers who live nearby on the well-watered land are weathering the government ban on opium poppy.
Further away in the mountainous, outlying districts, the ban is hitting home hard.
The ban has made the province restive, too dangerous for me to travel through.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/progr...ent/
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No, the blue dog democrats that have control right now are not going to do anything to the Bush administration for their crimes, because they are as responsible for those crimes as Bush and Cheney are. Look at their voting records.
You got one fly in that ointment though. Last I checked, the Justice Department was part of the Executive branch. Imagine having a President who actually subscribes to the rule of law.....say a constitutional law professor from the UofC.
I wonder what the Federalist Papers would've had to say about the BCS.
Jay C., byobb
Who cares, the Federalist Papers were so pre-9/11.
Ur on.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
Whoohoo!
And I'm still toying with the crazy idea of driving across this summer, so perhaps I could bring the girlies by to help with the lawn & shutters??
Making Bacon a Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury
No part of a pig is wasted -- or so they say.
No daughters in India, no poppies in Afghanistan...what the hell is this world coming to?
question is would a new President be prepared to give up the powers so recently acquired by the office under the Bush Junta?
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.You think so? Why aren't the power holders of the house putting more pressure on Bush to get people to comply with subpoena's that have been issued. Why aren't they making that an issue and crying out for the President to respect the rule of law?
What they might do and what they are actually doing are two things that do not follow from one another. I'm not making excuses for their lack of prosecutory zeal, I'm merely pointing out that last Friday's FISA bill hardly foreclosed all the options for bringing Bushco to justice. It only really let the telcoms off the hook.
Train sheets
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hah as i understand here in the UK, Politicians are just above estate agents for being loathed lol
can't say i'm surprised
question is would a new President be prepared to give up the powers so recently acquired by the office under the Bush Junta?
Moonbootica
The answer is that will Congress assert its authority to take these powers away?
Oh wait, that's another question.
Cause summertime is just the right time to have a couple of open pots of boiling sugar and fruit going in the open kitchen?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
You need a 'canning kitchen' frequently in a basement or cellar, where canning and jelly making, pie baking, etc happens during summer. These kitchens are then close to the fruit/root cellar. Sometimes stoves are placed on screened porches under shade trees where a breeze blows through.
Laughable in its inaccuracy. McCain is the new Joe Lieberman
For accuracy you will need to posit your scenario in a world where John McCain is a weak, solicitous Democratic Senator. Good luck.
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You got one fly in that ointment though. Last I checked, the Justice Department was part of the Executive branch. Imagine having a President who actually subscribes to the rule of law.....say a constitutional law professor from the UofC.
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they still could have done something, but they continue to do nothing. I don't buy the idea that congress is an impotent body in our government, that's just what they've allowed themselves to become. They have power, they just refuse to use it.
Hey handy hammerers: I would like to remove a built-in shelf unit from my music room. I'd like to move it elsewhere. How do I do this without splitting wood?
Circa 2002...............
A mother calls an overseas relative and remarks that her son pitched a little league baseball game but got "bombed out" of the game.NSA wiretapping picks up the words and she gets a visit from the Feds who suspect her of terrorism.
The above is a true story,you may remember it and thats why I dont want anyone fucking around with the Fourth Amendment-not even my pick for president.Its not theirs to give away,It belongs to you and me,not the politicians.
so perhaps I could bring the girlies by to help with the lawn & shutters??
U can always bring teh littles here - we'll go swimming and they can play with Arthur and then we'll borrow some horsies and take a walk up Murphy's Bridle Path.
Okay then - everybody agree, I'm sposed to make Whole-Fruit Key Lime Marmalade this weekend? Cause summertime is just the right time to have a couple of open pots of boiling sugar and fruit going in the open kitchen?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
Oh, heck yeah. Just like growing up in the San Fernando Valley, my mom running a pressure cooker all day to can tomatoes.
Not that it matters, but I think the majority of this country is moving left a lot faster than the politicians are.
My guess (and my hope) is that quite a few of the gang in Washington are gonna get hit by an express train they don't even see low on the horizon.
OK, we may have to wait till 2010 for the full impact, but 2008 is gonna shake up a few things, I do believe.
Yeah, I'm as pissed off as you are about the FISA collapse, but if (IF) we get the balance to shift in the Supreme Court, that little ex post facto exercise of yesterday will be overturned. You cannot retroactively legalize unconstitutional behavior.
The business yesterday was to protect the Dems against all too predictable right wing swiftboating ("The Democrat Party is more interested in Osama's rights than your safety!") The sad thing is that the Dems are more afraid of the Right than they are of their own constituents.
Maybe they should be more afraid of us. Maybe we should listen to Spocko and some other guerrilla political activists...
Nobody do that ju-jitsu like he do.
"Stephon Marbury gear will turn this biz around"-Steve & Barry
My God, I'm shocked.
I just finished watching the ending of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," and right at the last, while standing on the dock, after saying farewell to the two, ahem, ladies, who slap him, there's Captain Jack Sparrow giving his first a mate a "terrorist fist jab."
I couldn't believe it. Captain Jack Sparrow bumping fists with his first mate.
Oh right, "terrorist fist jabs" are just as fictional as Captain Jack Sparrow, with only those people at Fox News being delusional enough to turn something like that into an attack on Barack Obama and his wife.
Where's Captain Jack when you need him? Maybe there's something in the Pirate Code that might take care of those scalawags at Fox News?
Arggggh.
Mostly I can't stand South Park's heavy handed moralisms, but one big acception is the underpants gnomes. 3) profit still cracks me up. I'm not sure why but for once it seemed like Trey and not Trey went after someone who deserved it.
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