Murmur, Instigate, CLAMOR!!
Maybe we didn't pay them enough.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.c...how/
3087326.cms
OT: Gosh I'm so confused!!!
Army scientist: The sun is responsible for global warming.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06...global-warming/
but, but, but, the Bishop says if you don't believe in global warming, you're like a pedophile!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...ews/
7430684.stm
Then again.... Who would know better about pedophilia?
Sorry SA, just couldn't pass that one up.
The coalition of the bullshit artists.
So does this mean they can now free David Hicks, who was coerced into a guilty plea while at Gitmo?
SBT?
Coerced? or TORTURED?
Clinton: Open to being Obama's vice president
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24953561/
"I am willing to accept the Vice Presidency because, well, hey, look what happened to Lyndon Johnson!" -- Hitlery
Just a quick "hello" from wet, cold, rainy Seattle. Coldest spring EVER.
I do so hope when the dogs of war get hung that Nancy Pelosi, the most cherished asset of the Bush Administration, gets hers. She is SO DESERVING!
Fire at will, Gulag.
Never happen, Gregory. If the criminals get off, the enablers will too.
I'd be willing to send the entire senior administration Hague.
"Back in the day" people got hung for this.
sigh/ oh for the good ole days.
senior administration 'to the' Hague.
I get so pissed, that what command of the language I have gets lost.
President Carter To Endorse Obama Tonight...
It's a wrap, boys and girls.
It's a wrap, boys and girls.
Dave of the Jungle | Homepage | 06.03.08 - 8:24 pm | #
Saw that Dave. It's a given. Now the spotlight's on him. He wanted it, he's got it.....what's Obama gonna do?
Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan?
Cut aid to Israel?
Nationalize oil?
Impose a price freeze?
even a windfall profits tax maybe?
I wanna know what he's going to do to restore this nation. Root out corruption? Prosecute war criminals? Close Guantanimo? Close secret prisons abroad and on ships? Make the US accountable? Ban Torture?
Restore Habeas Corpus???? Patriot Acts? Military Commissions Act??
What I DON'T want to hear about is immigration, healthcare and gay marriage. They're non-issues.
We've got e shopping list of things that NEED to be addressed starting with illegal wars of aggression and war profiteering. And it's just the tip of the iceberg.
I'll wait for his answers on the real issues before celebrating his candidacy or anyone's for that matter.
Just me.
President Carter To Endorse Obama Tonight...
It's a wrap, boys and girls.
Dave of the Jungle | Homepage | 06.03.08 - 8:24 pm | #
Well that's it then, I can't vote for an n-word and misogynist muslim Obama.
McCain gets my vote, unless Ralph Nadir (deliberate spelling) fronts me some walking around money he gets from the Repukes...
Anybody need a Prom date? She's available.... comes with a spare President.
Congrats Obama! Can't wait for the debates. Can't WAIT!
Yeah, how dare that misogynous freak spoil Hillary's big win.
Yeah, it's just like us critics of Pelosi, it's not her hubby's war profiteering, and her usual catering to Likud, no no no, it's because we hate women. Obviously.
Thanks, Australia, and good-bye. We'd love to come along but you know how easily those Republicans get frightened.
Guess I popped the cork a little early.
"This has been a LONG campaign, and I am going to make no decisions tonight."
"Over, did you say OVER? NOTHING is over until WE decide it is. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
"Germans?"
(Forget it, she's rolling)
And it ain't over now.
'Cause when the going get's tough...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6...h?
v=68D54Xl0HZ4
Never underestimate the power of whipping up the favorable crowd into adulation.
Barack is giving his speech, the Mike Malloy show is covering it. Streaming on Nova M, I'm listening to KPHX (listed under talk in I-tunes)
lucky australians.
No smiling allowed in Canada as per passport photo regulations: "Applicant must show a neutral facial expression (no smiling, mouth closed) and look straight at the camera."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W...h?v=W8PBF5h-
9Qg
oh gary, congrats on the rent control stuff
i wonder if son was smiling on his first passport photo - he was about 3.5 months old.
Voice of the White House.
Washington , D.C. , June 1, 2008 : “My colleague here showed me an overview, official study concerning U.S. detainees. It is not generally knows to the public but the U.S government now has over 30,000 (31,082 as of May 19, 200
people in secret custody, all over the world.
An official U.S. program of torture and ‘rendition’ has been going on since before 9/11 and has never stopped. A number, estimated to be approximately 3,500, have been killed during these interrogations or have died as the result of them.
At the present time, the government, acting under specific Presidential orders, has a virtual fleet of prison ships scattered all across the globe and masked by a curtain of strict secrecy.
The U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency are all heavily involved in this program.
A total of 22 U.S. Navy ships ( including ten ships leased by the U.S. Navy) house prisoners who are kept chained up in the vessels very much like the conditions of the black slavers in the days when slavery was legal in the United States ........
read more.....
http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a2846.htm
Good morning!
FL gsm iso same or similar. Can relocate.
What? 2 obvious?
Good morning 
Hi Indigo
Good morning unrulies.
Recommended listening. KPFA's "Guns & Butter" from May 28th. 3 from Project Censored including Mike Whitney about Operation Falcon.
He mentioned right off that 70% of our entire intelligence budget is now in the hands of private companies - and so not subject to any oversight.
[and so not subject to any oversight.]
Which enables them to obtain "intelligence" any way they see fit; and they can probably use it anyway they see fit as well-- does anyone else see a blackmail / hostage situation coming down the pike eventually? And of course, without oversight, they can also just make shit up-- who's going to check their work?
For the morning commute in DC: Gas hit $4.00 per gallon yesterday. This morning the subway and buses were PACKED. (gas actually leaped up to $4.10 in some parts of town).
Ellie, you're gonna make me stay in Florida. 
Not that gas prices are so great here, but I have no commute.
Good Morning!
I am soo kicking myself in the backside for not going to Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival to see Bo Diddly.
Kids (older, not yet wise) at home, no rellies to keep an eye, etc.
Saw Bette, Dylan, KD Lang...
Utah Phillips, I never got to see.
GooOOh
Obama!
Thank you America Gulag,
I have fuel for my son, to dissuade him from joining the ADF for flight training. Hell, all he has to do is become a terrorist and go to Florida for that!
Good Morning!
I am soo kicking myself in the backside for not going to Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival to see Bo Diddly.
Kids (older, not yet wise) at home, no rellies to keep an eye, etc.
Saw Bette, Dylan, KD Lang...
Utah Phillips, I never got to see.
GooOOh
Obama!
Thank you America Gulag,
I have fuel for my son, to dissuade him from joining the ADF for flight training. He wants to be a pilot. Hell, all he has to do is become a terrorist and go to Florida for that!
Oahhh, let's see, petrol is about $1.40/L here, Aussie dollars about $.95 USD, not too bad...
Burning oil and other carbon products is stinky and it makes us sick.
Let us all turn it into diamonds...
I commute less than 5 Km to work.
I walk on nice days.
I recently took on a few big bites, two new jobs. Nearby.
nice...
Well,
Iam just checking in...
I love the Enrages folks...
I don't have much time to share thoughts and encouragement with you all these days.
However, since I have turned 50, I am dame formidable and loving it.
Never mess with a dame wearing Red Lipstick!
Hauge'em High!
Good Morning Auntie. I think your a favorite dame around here.
Station Agent-- you have mail!
Aunty Ism--- apply that red lipstick liberally, Aunty-- we 50-ish red-lipped dames gotta a whole world to save! Gawd help them.
Wow, lots of news! Auto makers packing it in. Airlines packing it in.
I think the US is collapsing. No industry, no manufacturing, no auto, a little airline (for those who can afford it). What's left?
No one wants anything to do with us any more. Oh well, it'll make a great prison.
A'Gulag, I was reading through that tbr link about the Crowley thing. It mentions a "fix lawyer". What is a fix lawyer?
Fliers in for pain as airlines pack it in
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/f...es_N.htm?
csp=34
"The good times are about to end for consumers," says airline consultant Mo Garfinkle of GCW Consulting. "They've had it too good, with low fares, for too long. These cuts are just the first step; we will see more this fall."
Yeah, that's it.
It's OUR fault.
Maybe we can bring back horses.
[I think the US is collapsing.]
Right on the neocon schedule. Disaster Capitalism unfolding right before our very eyes. If they are really lucky, there will be a major natural disaster to help speed things along. Or maybe they could "create" a devastating disaster.
(it's not like they haven't before).
Of course it's our fault. You don't expect the fat cats sitting in the leather CEO chairs are going to pony up any responsibility for their failures, do you? We're living in a george w. bush MBA world now, sweetheart.
Red Lips Smackin'
The collapse of some things will bring new opportunities. I have rellies in the states who are J..u..s..t... N..o..w.. beginning to understand that it will not be feasible or even right to drive the hummer for 1.5hours each day to/from work.
Hubbie just came back from visit to USA. Even he, a well fed, middle class boy of relative comfort was amazed at the waste. Friends in LA with whom he visited have no idea why not have sprinklers on sidewalks, golf is good, runn that water down, boy, run that water down...fistfull dollars Momma, run that water down... sigh
Yes, I think the society of self-over-indulgence is fast coming to an end.....Well maybe not yet:
Too Much Stuff! America's New Love Affair With Self-Storage.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/86998/
Hey pretty soon people will have to "live" in their storage units.
Going to the mailbox now Ellie .
We are living on the circumference of a new edge of the spiral
a continuum...
I am excited about it. We are going to go through change.
When I was a nurse at UCLA, my first job, I heard the nightmares of the tatooed holocaust survivours. I heard the jokes and tales of the tatooed holocaust survivours.
The ones who survived, well, well enough to survive enough to laugh, did well.
Cheers...
Aunty, I've said for a number of years now, my future is abject poverty and sustainence farming.
But, if Monsanto has its way, there'll be no farming without their permission.
Amerika,
Too much stuff...
reminds me of a George Carlin skit...
brb
Monsanto is evil.
There, i said it...
I cannot afford a lawyer to defend me.
to Monsanto:
TTTTHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
ww
Ppppppppppppppppppssssssssshhhhhpppttttttttttttwww
wwwwwww
ppppppppptttttttshpppppppppp!
Just tryin that with a mouth full of immoral patents!
Hey pretty soon people will have to "live" in their storage units.
Amerikagulag | 06.04.08 - 10:05 am | #
When those storage units first began being built in so cal, some 30 years ago, I referred to them as "Apartments of the Future".
As I have been saying over and over, globalism is NOT sustainable. Only local and regional communities, with minimum trade for goods that are located more than say, 500 miles away, will be sustainable. Lifestyles will be much different.
As to the waste that Aunty mentioned in the US, yes, it's endemic and epidemic, however, eliminating that waste thru efficiency is far easier to do than developing alternative sources of energy, which also must be done, but for example, you don't put up 20 solar panels in order to provide electricity to power your inefficient electric space heating and a dwelling which is not sufficiently insulated such that, that heat energy literally goes right out the window.
http://video.google.com.au/video...ff&
sitesearch=#
The meaning of life is trying to find a place for your stuffff .
Keep yer eyes open:
Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/0...olution.html?
hp
Instead of pushing for “intelligent design” curriculum, they are seeking to require that the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution be taught in public schools. While the phrase sounds benign, critics say it is an effort to “undermine the teaching of evolution” and to push “religious objections under the heading of scientific discourse.”
These people have too much time on their hands.
Oh yeah Aunty, Love it! I'm downsizing. I'm sick of stuff. I just don't want to part with my books :-(
Mee, too
that is my Stuff problem...
books
I think about what I would take with me on a forced migration.
The books I would have to leave behind, the thoughts We can carry.
The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say.
http://internationalnews.over-bl...e-
20116728.html
Oh, those Iraqi's.... always making up stories! tsk, tsk,
They just don't UNDERSTAND! We're LIBERATORS!
Aunty Ism
Forced migration? Only books on natural medicine and herbalism. Survival info.
Amerikagulag,
OH! Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster!
This is why I am an anti-ismist...
It is getting late here in the land of happy postal workers...
I may lurk a bit, but I must get some sleep...
hugs and torches alight!
Yes, Amerika,
the essentials
our essence
Abstinence pants for girls.
OMG, so unfair! K-mart is selling some fabulous pants for girls with totally effective abstinence messages on the butt. Well, to say I got super-excited by this innovative sartorial development is an understatement. I really wanted some of those abstinence pants! But then I looked and looked, and there are no abstinence pants for boys! Boo! Now how am I supposed to make my ass look more thoughtful, more spiritually pure?
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/...n-
fabulous.html
All the best Aunty. Good to see you. Always a pleasure. Rest well.
Scary Laura Bush.
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/...tle-
teapot.html
Gulag, not much different than their earlier BS strategy, "Teach the Controversy".
WHAT controversy?
Dumb fucking fundies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tea...the_Controversy
Just make your own TC.
How about "do not enter" on the back of your underwear? Or "wrong way"? Or "Please use other door"?
"Teach the Controversy".
green libertarian | Homepage | 06.04.08 - 10:42 am | #
One of the reasons I don't like WIKI is because it's editable and therefor manipulable. If I could, I'd edit that heading to "CREATE the Controversy". It's what they do.
Here's something we'll never see.
'They Can go 40 miles for a Dollar,' if Cars Get Made
AFS Trinity's prototype sport utility vehicles can go 40 miles on a single charge from a standard electric outlet, at which point a gas-powered engine takes over. The SUVs reach top speeds of 90 mph on the highway -- and accelerate without a hitch, as Furia demonstrated while speeding Monday on Westlake Avenue North.
One problem, though: No automaker has agreed yet to license AFS Trinity's technology, so it isn't commercially available.
Solution - SCREW the automakers!
Hitlery may drop the bomb on Obama with a video. (if it exists)
http://propagandamatrix.com/
arti...ama_scandal.htm
Interesting.....Oh well, never a dull moment.
Maybe boys' pants could say "for urine drainage only" on the crotch.
War criminals must fear punishment. That's why I went for John Bolton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commen...reignpolicy.usa
Bolton himself maintains that my attempt to bring him to justice reflects a "move towards lawlessness and fascism". This is an interesting commentary on an attempt to uphold a law which arose from the prosecution of fascists.
tireiron chef | Homepage | 06.04.08 - 11:00 am | #
And a rubber band sewn into the fly for those 'tempting' moments. Of course, they could always try the old chastity belts. Trends come back!
dear unrulies:
two things:
1. georgia is going to execute a guy named osborne at suppertime. the guv is allegedly done thinking. i spoke to someone and there was a diary at the gos in the politial rush last night. i am so disgusted. Governor Sonny Perdue
Phone: (404) 656-1776
Fax: (404) 657-7332
Washington Office:
Phone: (202) 624-3681
2. i am leading a project to write letters to soldiers. for details please see my latest diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonl...681/1015/
527827
the chastity belts should be re=designed for guys.
No, no redesigning, just use as they are.
Reid/Pelosi/Dean To Send Stern Letter
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...u_n_105052.html
Hilarious!
Don't knock it. Stern letters are usually backed up by some real serious finger-wagging, not to mention a final warning, if that doesn't work.
"....can stand united and begin our march toward reversing the eight years of failed Bush/McCain policies that have weakened our country...."
Oh yeah, the Patriot Acts, The Military Commissions Act, the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Guantanimo, Iraq, Afghanistan, infrastructure, homelessness, poverty, employment.....did I miss any?
We can count on all those being rapidly and completely reversed.
Thank you Mme Speaker, and your minions.
and if that doesn't work.....
tireiron chef | Homepage | 06.04.08 - 11:32 am | #
....we move on to something else.
Bush has plans to turn Iraq over to the corporations and their mercenary armies
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4458...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
One contract could essentially begin to privatize the process of training the Iraqi security forces by hiring "mentors" to do what the U.S. military has struggled unsuccessfully to do for the past five years.
On the civilian side, the Bush administration is looking for a team of contractors to establish a system of security and protection for the Iraq judicial system:
With a circular logic, the contractors for the court police will be primarily charged with setting up a system that can be run by contractors for the long term:
In short, State wants a contractor to put together all the elements so the department can contract the project to another contractor.
Finally, the U.S. is seeking to privatize its own Iraqi prisons.
----------------
Well, off to enjoy this beautiful day.
Peace, if there can be such a thing.
[I just don't want to part with my books :-(}
Me too. I just can't bring myself to give them away. I'm a very generous (sometimes overly-generous), but I will not even loan out any of my books It's my one obsession, and I know it's over the top.
Still raining here. 
I think I'll just wear jeans to work today.
In The Guardian
The Brits are going to investihgate whether the CIA has held 'Al Qaida terrorism suspects' (I put that in quotes because the usually turn out to be innocent brown-skinned people turned in for a bounty) in a jail on Diego Garcia, a British territorial possession in the Indian Ocean.
" The all-party foreign affairs committee is to examine long-standing suspicions that the agency has operated one of its so-called "black site" prisons on Diego Garcia, the British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean that is home to a large US military base.
Lawyers from Reprieve, a legal charity that represents a number of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, including several former British residents, are calling on the committee to question US and British officials about the allegations. According to the organisation's submission to the committee, the UK government is "potentially systematically complicit in the most serious crimes against humanity of disappearance, torture and prolonged incommunicado detention".
Clive Stafford Smith, the charity's legal director, said he was "absolutely and categorically certain" that prisoners have been held on the island. "
There is another possibility- that the prisoners are being held on ships off the coast of Diego Garcia. This would remove responsibility from the UK, but not the US.
" Bush has plans to turn Iraq over to the corporations and their mercenary armies "
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4458...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
[-Amerikagulag | 06.04.08 - 11:48 am-]
That story was also in TPMMuckraker yesterday. The whole point of the effort seems to be to get fascism completely out of the control of government. Considering that the Military Industrial Complex seems to have done a better job of equipping and training Blackwater thugs than they have the actual military, this is pretty worrisome.
CBC says HAARP is weather control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Q...feature=related
One problem, though: No automaker has agreed yet to license AFS Trinity's technology, so it isn't commercially available.
Solution - SCREW the automakers!
Amerikagulag - 10:50 am
if we can have food coops, bakery coops, bank coops [i.e. credit unions], why not cooperative car factories? Get someone who can pull in some bucks.... say.... MoveOn.org? Wouldn't that be WAY cool to have a leftist consumer run car company? Cars... MoveOn.... what a good fit. Bet they could raise the money to take over one of these closing plants in no time. Hire back the laid off workers and figure out how to make some solar electric cars at a reasonable price, profit sharing with their employees.
And vice versa.
" Bush has plans to turn Iraq over to the corporations and their mercenary armies "
Corporations plan to turn over the White House to them and their mercenary armies.
Mission Accomplished.
Over 40% of our "defense" spending goes to contractors. Over 70% of our "intelligence" spending goes to contractors. Neither is under control of Congress. They hold the purse strings over ??? .... not much of anything anymore. And WE THE PEOPLE keep filling the purse. Taxation without representation.
Amerikagulag - I love your new crop circle.
Y'all heard about David Sirota's new book?
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