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So they showed up in 'The Ouique', but you see, I know that most of the people I correspond with are IE users and that browser isn't even 'IE compliant' most days, let alone being capable of meeting an RFC standard on the internet.
But I should still post this link for those of you who have browsers that meet the W3C standards.
http://html5demos.com/
Jobs is right, Flash is pointless.
Guest Blog: "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" - Tim Wise
Let's play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called "Imagine." The way it's played is simple: we'll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we'll conjure - the ones who are driving the action - we'll envision black folks or other people of color instead. The object of the game is to imagine the public reaction to the events or incidents, if the main actors were of color, rather than white. Whoever gains the most insight into the workings of race in America, at the end of the game, wins.
So let's begin.
Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters --the black protesters -- spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn't like were enforced by the government? Would these protester -- these black protesters with guns -- be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that's what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation's capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country's political leaders if the need arose.
Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired. Would the protesters be seen as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or as an angry, potentially violent, and even insurrectionary mob? After all, this is what white Tea Party protesters did recently in Washington.
Imagine that a rap artist were to say, in reference to a white president: "He's a piece of shit and I told him to suck on my machine gun." Because that's what rocker Ted Nugent said recently about President Obama.
Imagine that a prominent mainstream black political commentator had long employed an overt bigot as Executive Director of his organization, and that this bigot regularly participated in black separatist conferences, and once assaulted a white person while calling them by a racial slur. When that prominent black commentator and his sister -- who also works for the organization -- defended the bigot as a good guy who was misunderstood and "going through a tough time in his life" would anyone accept their excuse-making? Would that commentator still have a place on a mainstream network? Because that's what happened in the real world, when Pat Buchanan employed as Executive Director of his group, America's Cause, a blatant racist who did all these things, or at least their white equivalents: attending white separatist conferences and attacking a black woman while calling her the n-word.
Imagine that a black radio host were to suggest that the only way to get promoted in the administration of a white president is by "hating black people," or that a prominent white person had only endorsed a white presidential candidate as an act of racial bonding, or blamed a white president for a fight on a school bus in which a black kid was jumped by two white kids, or said that he wouldn't want to kill all conservatives, but rather, would like to leave just enough--"living fossils" as he called them--"so we will never forget what these people stood for." After all, these are things that Rush Limbaugh has said, about Barack Obama's administration, Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama, a fight on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois in which two black kids beat up a white kid, and about liberals, generally.
Imagine that a black pastor, formerly a member of the U.S. military, were to declare, as part of his opposition to a white president's policies, that he was ready to "suit up, get my gun, go to Washington, and do what they trained me to do." This is, 
after all, what Pastor Stan Craig said recently at a Tea Party rally in Greenville, South Carolina.
Imagine a black radio talk show host gleefully predicting a revolution by people of color if the government continues to be dominated by the rich white men who have been "destroying" the country, or if said radio personality were to call Christians or Jews non-humans, or say that when it came to conservatives, the best solution would be to "hang 'em high." And what would happen to any congressional representative who praised that commentator for "speaking common sense" and likened his hate talk to "American values?" After all, those are among the things said by radio host and best-selling author Michael Savage, predicting white revolution in the face of multiculturalism, or said by Savage about Muslims and liberals, respectively. And it was Congressman Culbertson, from Texas, who praised Savage in that way, despite his hateful rhetoric.
Imagine a black political commentator suggesting that the only thing the guy who flew his plane into the Austin, Texas IRS building did wrong was not blowing up Fox News instead. This is, after all, what Anne Coulter said about Tim McVeigh, when she noted that his only mistake was not blowing up the New York Times.
Imagine that a popular black liberal website posted comments about the daughter of a white president, calling her "typical redneck trash," or a "whore" whose mother entertains her by "making monkey sounds." After all that's comparable to what conservatives posted about Malia Obama on freerepublic.com last year, when they referred to her as "ghetto trash."
Imagine that black protesters at a large political rally were walking around with signs calling for the lynching of their congressional enemies. Because that's what white conservatives did last year, in reference to Democratic party leaders in Congress.
In other words, imagine that even one-third of the anger and vitriol currently being hurled at President Obama, by folks who are almost exclusively white, were being aimed, instead, at a white president, by people of color. How many whites viewing the anger, the hatred, the contempt for that white president would then wax eloquent about free speech, and the glories of democracy? And how many would be calling for further crackdowns on thuggish behavior, and investigations into the radical agendas of those same people of color?
To ask any of these questions is to answer them. Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark "other" does so, however, it isn't viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic. Which is why Rush Limbaugh could say, this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary, common Americans stood up for their rights: a statement that erases the normalcy and "American-ness" of blacks in the civil rights struggle, not to mention women in the fight for suffrage and equality, working people in the fight for better working conditions, and LGBT folks as they struggle to be treated as full and equal human beings.
And this, my friends, is what white privilege is all about. The ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, to be viewed as patriotic and normal no matter what you do, and never to be feared and despised as people of color would be, if they tried to get away with half the shit we do, on a daily basis.
Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S. Wise has spoken in 48 states, on over 400 college campuses, and to community groups around the nation. Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers nationwide, and has trained physicians and medical industry professionals on how to combat racial inequities in health care. His latest book is called Between Barack and a Hard Place.
| Were you or was someone you know arrested on April 15, 2000 in Washington D.C.? You may be entitled to $18,000 - but time is running out! Claims must be filed by May 17, 2010 |
Ten years ago this month (April 15, 2000) nearly 700 people were illegally arrested in Washington D.C., while protesting against the brutality, racism and exploitation that are institutionalized in the vast Prison-Industrial Complex in the United States.
While we were trapped and detained on 20th St., we announced over a bullhorn that the police action was illegal and that we would seek to file a class-action lawsuit against the D.C. police and government.
After 10 long years of litigation filed by the attorneys from the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund on behalf of those of us who were arrested, a huge civil liberties victory has been achieved, resulting in the largest protest arrest settlement in U.S. history.
This victory was due to the amazing diligence and expertise of the Partnership for Civil Justice, who worked pro bono for a decade, and the steadfastness of those who had been arrested.
Everyone who was arrested at 20th St., NW between I and K st, on April 15, 2000, is now eligible to collect $18,000, but they must file their claim by May 17, 2010.
Below is the urgent email from the Partnership for Civil Justice on how people who were illegally arrested on April 15, 2000, can collect their $18,000. If people do not file the claim by May 17, 2010, that money will revert back to the government.
We need your help to circulate this email to as many friends, progressive lists serves and social networking sites so those who are entitled to collect $18,000 can do so.
For my part, I am donating the settlement money to the ANSWER Coalition so that the movement against war and for social justice can continue to organize. We hope others will consider doing the same, or donating a part of their settlement money. The ANSWER Coalition has a fiscal sponsor, the Progress Unity Fund, that allows for tax-deductible contributions. Checks may be sent to 167 Anderson St, San Francisco, CA 94110 and made out to Progress Unity Fund.
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the book for which you search,
you obviously are in the.....
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the book for which you search,
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Teabaggers sent me this 'awful' video of how the protesters on the topic of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" weren't allowed to have an unpermitted display in front of the White House. The 'media' was 'pushed back':
On the other hand, here's some real video of real cops breaking and stealing a journalist's camera:
He just can't get the question out...
While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the man.
"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."
"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in n heaven," says the senator.
"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress.. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises....
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him.
"Now it's time to visit heaven."
So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
"Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity."
The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell."
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning.. .
Today you voted
Yeah, there's more, too:
Gee, my folks sent this one, and it's pretty amazing. One can only wonder what sort of movie would be made with these three girls today.
I found a copy of Spivak's article about the redacted testimony of Smedley Butler.
It details just exactly who was in bed with who when they tried to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Whatever it is that I'm expelling from my body is down to the last, it seems.
I'm exuding little white bumps from the palms of my hands, and fingertips, and giant callouses have formed and are falling off.
It's weird.
Here, I can actually post the video where there I can only link.
And that is the suppression of the stories. This came to light this week in the call for April being recognized as 'Confederate History Month' in many states in the South.
Given that the med-mar issue (and hopefully, the future legal status of cannabis in California) is a states-rights issue, I find this very inspiring.
So, that said, it's important, after one has won the military battle, to win the 'Hearts & Minds' of all the conquered.
If one wants to keep the battle mounted, and one has lost the military aspect, one also needs to attend to this same thing.
So, in the aftermath of the War of the Southern Secession, it is important for the Federal government to re-cast this event for PR purposes.
Thus, it became the 'War to Free the Slaves', when it's obvious from a reading of the history (at the time) that it's sheer poppycock.
You see, had it been a 'War to Free the Slaves', one would have some great trouble explaining how (before any shots were fired) nine of the Federal states were slave-holding states (five of which seceded in a second wave, in response to shots being fired).
Yes, the four slave states that supplied troops to the Federal government surely weren't being recruited to 'free the slaves', right?
Yano, a while back I mused on having met the 'girl of my dreams' (or at least, from the photomontage site).
In that, I listed her as my perfect girl.
She was a friend of my neighbors'. She came over pretty often on Tuesday afternoons.
She's dead now.
Ukiah woman, 30, killed in Hwy. 128 crash
Posted: 04/08/2010 12:00:33 AM PDT
The Daily Journal
The Mendocino County Coroner's Office has released the name of a 30-year-old Ukiah woman who died in a Highway 128 collision Tuesday.
Valeri Hammang-Campbell died from injuries she sustained in the crash, which occurred about 11:25 a.m. Tuesday, the California Highway Patrol stated.
At the time of the collision, Hammang-Campbell was driving a 1989 Honda Civic westbound on Highway 128 at an unknown speed. A 1998 Mercedes was eastbound near mile marker 6.08 at about 45 miles per hour when the Honda swerved, the CHP stated.
Hammang-Campbell's vehicle crossed into the eastbound lane. The driver of the Mercedes applied the brakes but was unable to avoid the Honda, the CHP stated.
Emergency crews arrived at the scene to find the driver of the Honda had major injuries; she was flown by Cal-Star helicopter to Ukiah Valley Medical Center, but died from her injuries upon arrival, the CHP stated.
The driver of the Mercedes, Kathleen Wishner, and passenger William Wishner, of Pasadena, sustained minor injuries, the CHP stated.
All three people were wearing seat belts at the time of the collision, the CHP stated. The Anderson Valley Fire Department, the Albion Little River Fire Department, Fort Bragg Ambulance and the Anderson Valley Fire Department responded to the scene, the CHP stated.
Women march topless in Portland without incident
The marchers want to call attention to the double standard in society's attitudes toward male and female nudity.
By Edward D. Murphy emurphy@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer
PORTLAND - About two dozen women marched topless from Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park this afternoon in an effort to erase what they see as a double standard on male and female nudity.
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A group of women and men who had shed their tops march down a Congress Street sidewalk from Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park. They were promoting the freedom of women to be topless in public. The group attracted many amateur and professional photographers.
Gordon Chibroski/Staff Photographer
The women, preceded and followed by several hundred boisterous and mostly male onlookers, many of them carrying cameras, stayed on the sidewalk because they hadn't obtained a demonstration permit to walk in the street. About a thousand people gathered as the march passed through Monument Square, a mix of demonstrators, supporters, onlookers and those just out enjoying a warm and sunny early-spring day.
After the marchers reached Tommy's Park in the Old Port, some turned around and walked back to Longfellow Square, but most stayed and mingled in the park. Some happily posed for pictures.
Police said there were no incidents and no arrests - nudity is illegal in Maine only if genitals are displayed.
Ty McDowell, who organized the march, said she was "enraged" by the turnout of men attracted to the demonstration. The purpose, she said, was for society to have the same reaction to a woman walking around topless as it does to men without shirts on.
However, McDowell said she plans to organize similar demonstrations in the future and said she would be more "aggressive" in discouraging oglers.
Topless Parade in Portland Maine from Jared Anderson on Vimeo.
Yeah, go to the link, and swap back and forth between 'map view' (old size) and 'satellite view'.
Tea-tard.
'Nuff said?
One of the new hosts on our local progressive radio (after Air America bit the dust we got some new folks) is a *FLAMING* faggot comic who is just hysterical (most days). His personality is a bit abrasive, but he's just funny.
For example, one of the promos they are running for him has him commenting on the recent Michigan militia arrests. He points out that these folks (the ones who were planning on killing cops), were stockpiling weapons in preparation for the 'end times' where the final battle with the Antichrist plays out.
So he sets it up. They are there in the bunker, and the captain (Sarah Palin) comes in to tell the troops that the final battle is upon them, and they need to get ready (lock and load).
Then, he points out the obvious: "This is a supernatural being drawn up from the depths of Hell to take possession of the Earth for his father, Satan."
"Do you *REALLY* think a 9mm is going to stop him?"
REALLY?
The US Army courageously murdering two Reuters cameramen ("RPG's") and numerous innocent civilians, one of whom mistakenly carried a rifle for 'protection' (yeah, like an Apache helicopter is going to care you are shooting a rifle at them).
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The ramifications are huge. The Wave Structure of Matter provides a quantitative origin of the fundamental Natural laws, the basis of everything in science. And yet, the entire premise is elegantly simple: just two properties of the quantum space around us, pure energy of waves in space, provide us with knowledge of the Universe. Wolff explains; the electron is comprised of a pair of spherical outward and inward quantum waves, convergent to a center, and existing in quantum space. This is termed a space resonance. This space resonance is the physical origin of the previously unknown electron quantum spin, Wolff shows how spin occurs when the inward quantum wave undergoes spherical rotation to become the outward wave. The origins of the Natural Laws are found in such wave pairs.
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Duh, I've been reading this prophecy as if I was waiting for a star to supernova.
We are already here. I've been considering it, and I might be one of the oldest of us.
The indigos.
It's time. Let's shake those pro-growth green folks out of the tree for now, eh?
You see, I've had to suffer you quantum egotists my entire life, and listen to you try to place your uncertainty where you were more comfortable with it (out there).
True - very important!
You know every detail. You have become the professor.
Dear Richard,
All along, I've understood you to be wrong, but incapable of seeing your error, since the same failure of concept that kept you from seeing it, keeps you from seeing it.
It just happens that a former NASA scientist has written a book on precisely the topic I've been blathering about from a mytho-poetic point of view for some time.
I figured, if my vision is right, it will match his. He's a numbers guy, but I'm just doing concepts. Let's compare notes. So, I write him. He's at quantummatter.com
I was unprepared for the level of acceptance:
On Apr 4, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Richard Haley wrote:
I'm reading your overview of 'quantum matter' and it sure looks right from my (non-physical, spiritual) understanding.
I've been seeing visions of how space 'worked' since I was seventeen. I'm fifty-one now.
My non-mathematical understanding goes as such:
We live inside a fluid which has higher tensile strength than steel, which is essentially as invisible to us as water to a fish, and from which all 'matter' is created.
'Matter' is the phenomenon created by gravity within this space-time fluid. Gravity is the force that bends space-time past our experience. Each 'particle' of matter is a point of gravity sucking this fluid out of existence.
As the fluid funnels out, it creates a main, spherical, standing wave surrounding the singularity (every point of matter is a singularity where space time bends past existence--it's just that the black holes, being agglomerations of bunches of individual singularities, stand out even in our universe).
That inner sphere (a proton) has another standing wave (in most configurations) which is in 'orbit' (a bigger sphere) above the smaller sphere.
Globbing the big spheres together makes the standing waves orbiting have to find more space in which to be a proper vortex (electron shells).
In some instances the standing wave may actually be able to be re-packed back onto the inner sphere, making it a neutron.
If you get enough of the spheres together, they tend to aggregate (sucking up the space between them), and if there's enough of them aggregated, they suck enough space in per unit time that you can actually walk on them w/o falling off.
You have grasped the WSM beautifully!
Men strike back!
How many men does it take to open a beer?
None. It should be opened when she brings it.
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Why is a Laundromat a really bad place to pick up a woman?
Because a woman who can't even afford a washing machine will probably never be able to support you.
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Why do women have smaller feet than men?
It's one of those 'evolutionary things' that allows them to stand closer to the kitchen sink.
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How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart?
When she starts a sentence with 'A man once told me.....'
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How do you fix a woman's watch?
You don't. There is a clock on the oven.
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If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first?
The dog, of course. He'll shut up once you let him in.
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Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes a woman's sex drive by 90%.
It's called a Wedding Cake.
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Why do men die before their wives?
They want to.
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Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
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Send this to a few good men who need a laugh and to the select few women who can handle it!
And I'm rearranging the bits, so as to make a more effective psychological demonstration. For instance, this was the *bang* ending. I think it makes a much more effective 'stance' statement to start with, so I will start with it instead:
Now, they are real big on the 'secret message' (Faux News) thing. Everything else is *sham* news (since it doesn't fit their preconceived notions--i.e., it contains facts). It's all part of the 'liberal media' scam to rule our minds, yano.
Pity they don't bother to double-check the American media against the world media like I do. It would be pretty clear that there's only two major information sources here, corporate news, and sheer disinformation. The few 'left' sources available are almost entirely internet based.
Yeah, most of these crackers are factory workers, construction workers, service industry types. They sure are poor now. I remember when those were all mostly union jobs and the rate of pay was much higher overall (even for us non-union folks in Texas--rising tides float all the boats, yano?).
For instance, when I was in my early twenties, and I was a moving van driver/packer (crew chief), I pulled in $12.50 an hour. My friend Michelle, who was a trainee checkout girl at the supermarket got $13.50, and would be getting the standard $25/hr. at the end of her first year.
This is when a comic book was a quarter, tickets to the Rolling Stones were on the order of $17, a two bedroom apartment, bills paid (electric, gas, water) was $330/mo.
But Ronald Reagan 'saved' us from those nasty unions, and pay's dropped since (yet all the prices went up--how funny).
The crew chief who moved me into my apartment here in California in 2006 got $8.50 an hour, and the loaders got minimum wage.
If paying attention were your forte, you'd note that the ignorance is on the other side of these issues. Really, read the 'Times of India', or maybe the Canadian press. They cover our government a lot better than the American media (well, they don't get into the 'Dancing with the Stars' aspect as deeply, but then, we've got that covered.
Yes, it was surely the fact that we *have* muslim employees that was the issue, and not the concept that subjecting an individual to a task in which his persona is being defined as 'evil' by his superiors to the troops he is assigned to 'support' might have some peculiar psychological side effects.
Right?
You can't both respect a peoples, and train your soldiers to disrespect them.
However, in order to effectively fight a war, you have to dehumanize the enemy.
Gee, did we build a conundrum?
The stupidity, obviously. It's all over here, and there's not a smack of liberalism to be seen in it, I think (other than my rantings).
This should be reworded as "Angry member of the Proud Mob"
Sure, just try taking over one more country and it will fall like a house of cards.
Now, *this* is where it starts getting funny. Impeachment? Normally, there's 'grounds' for impeachment (high crimes, misdemeanors, semen stains, something).
WTF do you think you are going to use as those 'grounds'? That he signed a bill sent to him from the Hill?
;)
Freakin' morons. And morons with money! It's amazing what the rich will pump up to get some relief from supporting the wars we prosecute on their behalf (not like *I'M* going to get rich off the oil in Iraq whether it's owned by the international corporations, or as it was previously, the property of the people of Iraq).
And this, this is the funniest of all. You see, half the people *ARE* disgruntled with the politics of the country, but these teabaggers don't actually look deep enough to see what the underlying numbers really are.
Half of the disenchanted are, in fact, teabaggers, and they are really angry and all, but they represent such a small minority of the citizenry (noisy, annoying, but still, small, er, for those who have math problems, you are only 25% of the population, not even enough to stop a Constitutional Amendment).
The other half (such as myself--part of that 75% liberal majority) are disenchanted because we're tired of fascism, and corp-people coming out of the closet, and we want social services, and bridges that don't fall down, and enough money to staff the food-checkers so we don't all get poisoned (again) to start with, and enhanced laws permitting collective bargaining formation, election reform including Instant Run-Off and Proportional Representation methods, Open Source electronic voting machines with voter-verifiable paper ballots, and tax reform (starting with removal of the FICA cap), too. Perhaps withdrawing from our attempt to take over the world, and putting a tax on falsehoods to cover the withdrawal might be a fun thing to do, too.
;)
There's no freakin' way that they will 'overthrow' the Dems.
The question is whether the conserva-dems will get primaried.
I didn't include the full set of vitriol, but you are free to peruse them here.
whose e-newsletter I subscribe to in order to keep tabs on them, send me *scads* of advertising all day long. Occasionally, they send something that's unintentionally funny.
Today, they sent "I lost 18 Lbs. of Fat!" and the first thing that came to mind was, "decapitation?"
Can you IMAGINE a week-long cross-examination on non-issues? This is from Fred Phelps' wiki page:
Disbarment
A formal complaint was filed against Phelps on November 8, 1977, by the Kansas State Board of Law Examiners for his conduct during a lawsuit against a court reporter named Carolene Brady. Brady had failed to have a court transcript ready for Phelps on the day he asked for it; though it did not affect the outcome of the case for which Phelps had requested the transcript, Phelps still requested $22,000 in damages from her. In the ensuing trial, Phelps called Brady to the stand, declared her a hostile witness, and then cross-examined her for nearly a week, during which he accused her of being a "slut," tried to introduce testimony from former boyfriends whom Phelps wanted to subpoena, and accused her of a variety of perverse sexual acts, ultimately reducing her to tears on the stand.[23] Phelps lost the case; according to the Kansas Supreme Court:
| " | The trial became an exhibition of a personal vendetta by Phelps against Carolene Brady. His examination was replete with repetition, badgering, innuendo, belligerence, irrelevant and immaterial matter, evidencing only a desire to hurt and destroy the defendant. The jury verdict didn't stop the onslaught of Phelps. He was not satisfied with the hurt, pain, and damage he had visited on Carolene Brady.[23] | " |
In an appeal, Phelps prepared affidavits swearing to the court that he had eight witnesses whose testimony would convince the court to rule in his favor. Brady, in turn, obtained sworn, signed affidavits from the eight people in question, all of whom said that Phelps had never contacted them and that they had no reason to testify against Brady. Phelps had committedperjury.[23]
On July 20, 1979, Phelps was permanently disbarred from practicing law in the state of Kansas,[23] though he continued to practice in the Federal courts.
In 1985, nine Federal judges filed a disciplinary complaint against Phelps and five of his children, alleging false accusations against the judges. In 1989, the complaint was settled; Phelps agreed to stop practicing law in Federal court permanently, and two of his children were suspended for periods of six months and one year.[24]
Ok, I think I might have found the twist in the sheets that makes this just *fun* to work with with those Red State morons.
You see, they were the ones who packed the court with these religious nut-job right-wing types.
And now, they have the most curious problem. You see: even if they could convert *EVERY LAST ONE OF US*, now, with the decision by the Supes that corporations are people, how do you deal with the statement:
"One nation, under God"
???
If we are really one nation (the corpeople included), then we *can't* be 'under God' because the corpeople have no souls. They can *NEVER* be 'saved'.
And if only the humans are 'under God' what does that say for the 'nation'?
Let's Freakin' Secede. I've got enough issues with the moron Californians, I don't need to deal with the Texans.
"CASCADIA FOREVER"
An Anthem For a New Nation
"Kwanesum Chinook Illahee" is Chinook for "Forever Cascadia".
Underneath the skies of Cascadia
Where the mountain woodlands meet the sea
E'vry living thing in Cascadia
United in diversity
From the Rocky Mountain highlands
To the wide Pacific shore
We will take our stand to preserve the land
And its biome evermore
Voices rise in song for Cascadia
A light for all the world to see
As we lift a pray'r for Cascadia
"Kwanesum Chinook Illahee"
Let's just wait for the earthquake, and get our FEMA aid loans, and *then* screw them in the ass.
An Anthem For a New Nation
"Kwanesum Chinook Illahee" is Chinook for "Forever Cascadia".
Underneath the skies of Cascadia
Where the mountain woodlands meet the sea
E'vry living thing in Cascadia
United in diversity
From the Rocky Mountain highlands
To the wide Pacific shore
We will take our stand to preserve the land
And its biome evermore
Voices rise in song for Cascadia
A light for all the world to see
As we lift a pray'r for Cascadia
"Kwanesum Chinook Illahee"
Cascadia, Cascadia, of ever-present rain
Cascadia, Cascadia, the drugs help ease the pain.
Cascadia, Cascadia, the drugs help ease the pain.
We come here from Newfoundland, Quebec and Ontario
And call our folks in winter-time, to laugh cuz they've got snow.
Sang de revolte je prends partant mon grandpapa et pere
(Blood of rebellion I'm leaving my father and Grandpa)
On viens ici pour faire squeegee et prendre le welfare
(We come here to take the squeegee and welfare)
Cascadia, Cascadia, Oh faultline under me
You wouldn't want to be here when we fall into the sea.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - With wobbly legs but no red nose, the first of 19 expected reindeer calves has been born at an Alaska farm that's the only reindeer research facility in North America.
The newcomers don't have names yet, but that'll soon change. The research program hosts an annual contest to name its new calves, with the winners receiving birth certificates for the reindeer they've named.
The facility experiments with feeding techniques to aid reindeer ranchers.
On the Net:
To submit a reindeer name: http://reindeer.salrm.uaf.edu/sidebar/calfwatch.php
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The newcomers don't have names yet, but that'll soon change. The research program hosts an annual contest to name its new calves, with the winners receiving birth certificates for the reindeer they've named.
The facility experiments with feeding techniques to aid reindeer ranchers.
On the Net:
To submit a reindeer name: http://reindeer.salrm.uaf.edu/sidebar/calfwatch.php
Yano, I tend to notice people who notice things. Zennie62 noticed a pattern of earthquakes.
I'm noticing the *absence* of a part of that pattern, and I might point out that it doesn't bode well for Micro$oft, or (unfortunately) Thom Hartmann.
If you look at the USGS pix of recent earthquakes. You'll see what Zennie62 saw, but if you note, there's an odd dispersal of the quakes. To wit:
From Mexico up to nearly Oregon, the quakes follow the fault line.
From Oregon to nearly Alaska, the quakes are all inland.
In Alaska, there are inland quakes as well as quakes on the fault line.
Now, the 'fault line' could be considered as 'fault lines', because of the presence of the 'Juan de Fuca' plate. Our side of the boundary is ALL North American plate, but the stuff on the other side is: Pacific plate from Alaska to just north of Vancouver, Juan de Fuca plate from there to just past Oregon, and then Pacific plate again the rest of the way.
The dispersal of the quakes is along the border of the NA/PP, and underneath NA where it's near Juan de Fuca.
Now, that might just seem curious if there weren't another 500 lb. gorilla in the room.
You see, there's a 'great' earthquake that happens in the Cascadian system, that really messes things up there from time to time. The Native American tradition of the 'Thunderbird' may well be due to this recurrent event.
It's when the stagnant Juan de Fuca plate gets enough lubrication built up to slip yet again. The event is similar to the quake that occurred in Indonesia a few Xmases back. Lubrication, in the case of a tectonic plate, is of course, lava.
The natives also have another story:
A volcano that will devastate the Seattle area is foretold is an ancient prophecy from Washington State's Puyallup tribe, which says, "The time will come when Little Sister will speak, and Grandfather will answer, and the land will be swept clean to the ocean." Sun Bear explained that Donald Matheson, a leader of the Puyallup tribe, moved his people to Idaho in 1979 because he believed it was time for this prophecy to be fulfilled. In March 1980, the mountain that we call little sister began to whisper. May 18th of 1980, the Little Sister spoke with a cubic mile of mountain that was spread over the northwest area, and many other parts of the world... "The Little Sister is called Mount St. Helens. Soon, the Grandfather is going to answer so much bigger. That one is called Mt. Rainier."
It starts just south of the Oregon border and the rock just kind of 'unzips' all the way to Canada. It's generally considered to be a magnitude 9+ earthquake that goes on for a thousand miles, and at five hundred miles an hour, takes two hours to complete. The tsunami produced could reach 100 ft. high.
Earthquakes in Los Angeles, Oregon, and Alaska all 4 on Richter
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Media attention has been on the Tuesday Los Angeles Earthquake that was 4.4 on the Richter scale, but there were earthquakes in Los Angeles and in Oregon and Alaska and all at or over 4 on the Richter Scale over the last two days.
According to the USGS, the Los Angeles Earthquake was located 18.9 miles below Pico Rivera, CA. But it wasn't the only quake over 4 to hit the West Coast over the past two days.
A larger earthquake, at 4.6, was located at Bandon, Oregon, a town of just over 2,800 people. While that quake hit on March 15th, it went largely unreported.
And Alaska has been the epicenter of eight earthquakes in the past two days and all over 3 on the Richter Scale - this too was largely unreported. The largest quake was today, Tuesday, and just after the LA quake. It was located in Rampart, AK and was 4 on the Richter Scale.
If your curious, check the information yourself here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_big.php. It's rather alarming.
The Alaska region has faced 245 earthquakes, most under 3, over the last week alone; see: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/Alaska.php. If I'm reading the data correctly, Alaska's the most active area in the World over the last week, as of this writing.
Stay tuned.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=59247#ixzz0kAz0j99H
It was unearthed just recently. Supposedly, the illustrations are by Da Vinci:
DE LUDO SCACHORUM by Luca Pacioli
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FACSIMILE
Dimensions cm 11,5 x 16
The facsimile is presented in a special box made from a single block of mature oak. The box has been made by hand and each is immersed in a mixture of incense, myrrh, mastic, and biological alcohol in order to preserve it and ensure it does not alter with time.
The spine of the box is printed with fifteenth-century characters.
The pages of the facsimile have been folded and cut by hand.
The edges of the pages have been treated with coloured methylcellulose.
The pages are hand-sewn using a full stitch on two cords using hemp with cotton thread.
The cover is made from hand-coloured goatskin and the friezes are blind-stamped with a magnesium plate.
Language: vernacular.
THE CASE
Price: available on request
Facsimile of the original manuscript about chess by Luca Pacioli who wrote this treatise in the vernacular in XVI century. (Archivio Coronini Cronberg. Biblioteca "il gioco degli scacchi", ms. mm. 160x115, cc. 48,XV sec., collocation n. 7955). It contains "decisions" made in the medieval manner and others in accordance with the new " a la rabiosa" technique introduced at the end of the XV century. The case contains the facsimile and the critical essay: Luca Pacioli's chess. Renaissance evolution of a mathematical game.
Dimensions cm 11,5 x 16
The facsimile is presented in a special box made from a single block of mature oak. The box has been made by hand and each is immersed in a mixture of incense, myrrh, mastic, and biological alcohol in order to preserve it and ensure it does not alter with time.
The spine of the box is printed with fifteenth-century characters.
The pages of the facsimile have been folded and cut by hand.
The edges of the pages have been treated with coloured methylcellulose.
The pages are hand-sewn using a full stitch on two cords using hemp with cotton thread.
The cover is made from hand-coloured goatskin and the friezes are blind-stamped with a magnesium plate.
Language: vernacular.
THE CASE
The slipcase contains the facsimile and a critical essay that explains the work itself.
The slipcase is embellished with gold tooling and a window in the front board that offers an immediate view of the beauty of the facsimile.
Each copy is numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
The edition is restricted to 999 numbered and certified copies.
Price: available on request
If you read Italian, you might like the Flash video that goes with (pix are cool, anyway, but it would be better to be able to read it):
Yes, we think that terrorists should be waterboarded in Cuba, unless, of course, they are, in fact, Cuban (or fighting for the ongoing covert war against that country).
His support of the "ladies" ought not to surprise us. There is an important link between Posada and these "ladies." The link is called Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña. It's a well established fact, admitted even by the "ladies" themselves that their organization receives $1,500 a month from Rescate Jurídico [Legal Rescue] in Miami. Posada and the "ladies" share the same godfather.
The president of Rescate Jurídico is no more and no less than Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña. An extremely close friend and Luis Posada Carriles' financial sponsor, Alvarez was the person who brought Posada to the United States on his boat, the Santrina, according to documents from the U.S. District Attorney's office. A few weeks later, he organized the famous and shameful press conference for Posada Carriles who had up until that point been "hidden" in Miami. Alvarez is also the same person who got one of his people to place two bombs in the lobby bar of the Copacabana Hotel in 1997 in Havana. This conversation was recorded and exposed on Cuban television.
It's evident that the terrorist history of this sinister person did not stop the "ladies" from involving themselves in this game and receiving money salted with Cuban blood. In the United States, receiving money from a terrorist organization is a felony that carries a harsh punishment. I suppose the same is true in Cuba. Nevertheless, until now, the only sanction that these "ladies" have received is repudiation from Cubans in the street. The Cuban government has shown itself to be extremely tolerant, even providing police protection.
Here's a suggestion for Posada Carriles. If he really wants to march in support of Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña's "ladies," he ought to go to Havana to do it. As Calle 13 would say, "I dare you!"
Machetera is a member of Tlaxcala, the international network of translators for linguistic diversity. This translation may be reprinted as long as the content remains unaltered, and the author and translator are cited.
If you'd like to 'compare and contrast' the Department of State's position on 'terrorists', take a look at the 'Cuban Five' who have been imprisoned since 1998. Their 'crime' was that they spied on non-military Cuban-American terrorists who were making military incursions in light aircraft into Cuba. Through the information gathered, the Cuban Air Force was able to down two out of three of the planes as they were leaving the island nation.
This points out as well yet another reason why Hugo Chavez is disparaged in the media (Venezuela's had an ongoing claim for extradition for murder which is still being denied).
You see, if they are *OUR* terrorists, they not only get our protection, they get to be in PARADES with GLORIA ESTAFAN! Yes, terrorist Luis Posada Carriles (wanted for blowing up an airliner w/73 people onboard) got to!
Dunno if the rhythm got him. I wish the Justice Department would, but then, that's not their job to pick up friendly terrorists.
From Boletin Latino:
Only in Miami. Despite the seventy-three outstanding first-degree murder charges against him related to the mid-air explosion of a Cubana Airlines passenger jet, Luis Posada Carriles has not been extradited to Venezuela nor has he been indicted in the United States for these crimes. He wanders unleashed and un-vaccinated along Calle Ocho in Miami, marching alongside Gloria Estefan in support of the so-called Ladies in White.
His support of the "ladies" ought not to surprise us. There is an important link between Posada and these "ladies." The link is called Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña. It's a well established fact, admitted even by the "ladies" themselves that their organization receives $1,500 a month from Rescate Jurídico [Legal Rescue] in Miami. Posada and the "ladies" share the same godfather.
The president of Rescate Jurídico is no more and no less than Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña. An extremely close friend and Luis Posada Carriles' financial sponsor, Alvarez was the person who brought Posada to the United States on his boat, the Santrina, according to documents from the U.S. District Attorney's office. A few weeks later, he organized the famous and shameful press conference for Posada Carriles who had up until that point been "hidden" in Miami. Alvarez is also the same person who got one of his people to place two bombs in the lobby bar of the Copacabana Hotel in 1997 in Havana. This conversation was recorded and exposed on Cuban television.
It's evident that the terrorist history of this sinister person did not stop the "ladies" from involving themselves in this game and receiving money salted with Cuban blood. In the United States, receiving money from a terrorist organization is a felony that carries a harsh punishment. I suppose the same is true in Cuba. Nevertheless, until now, the only sanction that these "ladies" have received is repudiation from Cubans in the street. The Cuban government has shown itself to be extremely tolerant, even providing police protection.
Here's a suggestion for Posada Carriles. If he really wants to march in support of Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña's "ladies," he ought to go to Havana to do it. As Calle 13 would say, "I dare you!"
Machetera is a member of Tlaxcala, the international network of translators for linguistic diversity. This translation may be reprinted as long as the content remains unaltered, and the author and translator are cited.
from greanvillepost.com:
Pop singer Gloria Estefan, a prominent Florida Republican involved in a variety of businesses, helped to organize the Miami March for "human Rights" in support of the Ladies in White, a group of Cuban dissidents supported and abetted by the State Department. The Miami rally was echoed in New York, Los Angeles, and Madrid. In L.A., Andy Garcia, George Lopez and others spoke at a rally denouncing Cuba. It's easy for the winners in the American sweepstakes, these pampered celebrities, a chosen few, to trumpet their faith in the American dream.
The State Department echoed by the EU has once again raised the human rights issue to beat up Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro declared his independence from the United States - possibly without realizing that punishment could last 51+ years. Even when US national interests are involved, Washington acts petulantly if not downright childishly.
Following last month's session with Cuba's diplomats re Cuban immigration quotas, narco-trafficking and other mutual interests -- Bush canceled all talks in 2002 - the US Interest Section sent its vehicles to fetch "dissidents" to a party. The Cuban government responded with barely concealed anger. US diplomats behaved as progress toward dealing with joint concerns merits a US poke in Cuba's eye: celebrating with people who announced unending opposition to Cuba's government and received US perks and privileges as a result.
For example, the Interest Section supplies dissidents with a variety of "needs," such as cell phones and lap tops which, "dissidents" claim, get confiscated by Cuban State Security. "We have photographs of them selling these items," a Cuban official told me. "When the "dissident" reports the loss, the Interest Section, meaning US taxpayers - although few know it - supply them with new ones."
Did the State Department think of possible consequences of the Interest Section's little joke? Suppose Raul Castro acted in as mean-spirited a way as State's tough-guy image of him. He would announce to Cuba's considerable unemployed population that those who wanted to seek work elsewhere could do so without repercussion. Now, imagine waves of rafters landing in south Florida with its high unemployment rate!
Cuban security agents could arrest and try a group of the Interest Section's favorite "dissidents" In the ensuing trial, witnesses against them would come from State Security. The Interest Section had known them as other favored "dissidents." ("They're giving our taxpayers' money to Cuban State Security Agents? An angry Senator might ask.) In 2003, Cuba arrested 75 "dissidents," twelve witnesses testified the accused took money, goods and services from US diplomats all undercover moles disguised as "dissidents.
Memory seems absent when the issue is punishing Cuba. In 2006, a former Interest Section official waxed eloquent about Cuba's human rights violations, as if the US record was immaculate. Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, when Washington first bellowed its "democratic" principles, millions of black Americans could not vote, chain gangs flourished at state prisons, and lynchings periodically took place.
Fidel Castro, the Kennedy crowd righteously sneered, refused to hold elections. Some cynics thought Kennedy and his bootlegger father had padded Illinois' ballot boxes where JFK narrowly defeated Nixon. Cuba's electoral system may have flaws, but its Supreme Court didn't declare counting votes unessential to democracy. (See Gore v. Bush.)
As Washington hurled its "principled" criticisms at Havana consistently over decades, it simultaneously financed thousands of terrorist attacks and assassinations against Cuba and its leaders. Killing people did not violate human rights?
In 2010, Washington continues to taunt Havana - currently for failing to rescue a "political prisoner," Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died during a hunger strike. Zapata, arrested on assault charges, decided in prison to convert to dissidence. Videos show Cuban authorities hospitalized. No one asked for his insurance policy. The video shows him receiving top-level medical attention. A current "dissident" Guillermo Farinas then launched his hunger strike at his home until Cuba released all its political prisoners. When he fainted, Cuban authorities rushed him to the hospital.
Prisoner abuse should become a US human rights scandal. A Chinese account on US Human Rights cites "a report presented to the 10th meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in 2009 by its Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering Terrorism." The report showed "the United States has pursued a comprehensive set of practices including special deportation, long-term and secret detentions and acts violating the United Nations Convention against Torture. (China Daily, Marc 17, 2010)
The Chinese report, using a Department of Agriculture study, states that currently 16.7 million US "children, or one fourth of the U.S. total, had not enough food in 2008." (USA Today, November 17, 2009). A Feeding America report added that "more than 3.5 million children under the age of five face hunger or malnutrition." (www.feedingamerica.org, May 7, 2009).
Washington's real issue relates to Cuban disobedience of its policies; not human rights. In fact, Cubans enjoy substantive rights American citizens don't: food, housing, medical care, and education. Cuba falls short on procedural rights regarding press and political parties.
But when the religious police in Saudi Arabia our oily partner cane women who show skin, the State Department says "Ho Hum." Nor does Cuba's Communist rule matter - witness Vietnam and China, major commercial partners of the US.
Ronald Reagan privatized Cuba policy, leaving it with a right wing minority sector in Miami that doesn't want improvement. Each step forward such as immigration talks in February begets a step backwards, thanks to the anti-Cuba lobby's power: one hunger striker dies; another emerges to steal headlines.
Maybe things will change when Cuba's off shore oil starts spouting!
Saul Landau is an Institute for Policy Studies fellow who received Chile's Bernardo O'Higgins award for human rights. CounterPunch published his A BUSH AND BOTOX WORLD
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Luis Posada Carriles and Ladies in White go out on a limb in Miami
Posada Carriles at yesterday's march in Miami (March 25, 2010).
Posada Carriles and the Ladies in White, "Friends Forever" -español
By José Pertierra
Translation: Machetera
Only in Miami. Despite the seventy-three outstanding first-degree murder charges against him related to the mid-air explosion of a Cubana Airlines passenger jet, Luis Posada Carriles has not been extradited to Venezuela nor has he been indicted in the United States for these crimes. He wanders unleashed and un-vaccinated along Calle Ocho in Miami, marching alongside Gloria Estefanin support of the so-called Ladies in White.
His support of the "ladies" ought not to surprise us. There is an important link between Posada and these "ladies." The link is called Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña. It's a well established fact, admitted even by the "ladies" themselves that their organization receives $1,500 a month from Rescate Jurídico[Legal Rescue] in Miami. Posada and the "ladies" share the same godfather.
The president of Rescate Jurídico is no more and no less than Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña. An extremely close friend and Luis Posada Carriles' financial sponsor, Alvarez was the person who brought Posada to the United States on his boat, the Santrina, according to documents from the U.S. District Attorney's office. A few weeks later, he organized the famous and shameful press conference for Posada Carriles who had up until that point been "hidden" in Miami. Alvarez is also the same person who got one of his people to place two bombs in the Tropicana nightclub in Havana. This conversation was recorded and exposed on Cuban television.
It's evident that the terrorist history of this sinister person did not stop the "ladies" from involving themselves in this game and receiving money salted with Cuban blood. In the United States, receiving money from a terrorist organization is a felony that carries a harsh punishment. I suppose the same is true in Cuba. Nevertheless, until now, the only sanction that these "ladies" have received is repudiation from Cubans in the street. The Cuban government has shown itself to be extremely tolerant, even providing police protection.
Here's a suggestion for Posada Carriles. If he really wants to march in support of Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña's "ladies," he ought to go to Havana to do it. As Calle 13 would say, "I dare you!"
Machetera is a member of Tlaxcala, the international network of translators for linguistic diversity. This translation may be reprinted as long as the content remains unaltered, and the author and translator are cited.
Categories: Cuba · Cuban Five · Terrorism · propaganda
The American trial qualified this behavior as conspiracy to commit murder.
The Cuban government considers them all heroes.
Now, I don't know how much of this you will read between the lines, but here's what I read:
There were three planes leaving Cuba, and two people died in each of the two planes that went down. Cuba doesn't have any exports worth smuggling out by air. There were no Cubans being 'freed'. Ergo, they were smuggling something in (some kind of agitation device--money, guns, spies, whatever).
You can tell this woman is *WAY* over-theatrical (and a sovereign-righstist, as well), but it does bring up an interesting point. These cops just wandered up to her door looking for someone else, and used the warrant for the guy to search her house. If it was a warrant for *her*, I could understand it, but this is a third-party.
You'd think there'd have to be a separate warrant for her house based on some sworn testimony that someone saw the guy there, right?
No, it's the 'New Federal Laws' (as interpreted by these obvious 'legal scholars').
from OpEdNews.com:
All across America, law officers are grabbing powers they never had before, that are not theirs to grab-- bullying, arresting, abusing citizens. At least this woman video taped the perpetrators. If she finds a good lawyer, she should be able to sue.
Thick As A Brick
Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper -- your deafness a SHOUT. I may make you feel but I can't make you think. Your sperm's in the gutter -- your love's in the sink. So you ride yourselves over the fields and you make all your animal deals and your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction the moral melee. The elastic retreat rings the close of play as the last wave uncovers the newfangled way. But your new shoes are worn at the heels and your suntan does rapidly peel and your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick. And the love that I feel is so far away: I'm a bad dream that I just had today -- and you shake your head and say it's a shame. Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth. Draw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truth. Spin me down the long ages: let them sing the song. See there! A son is born -- and we pronounce him fit to fight. There are black-heads on his shoulders, and he pees himself in the night. We'll make a man of him put him to trade teach him to play Monopoly and to sing in the rain. The Poet and the painter casting shadows on the water -- as the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea. The do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other -- as the failing light illuminates the mercenary's creed. The home fire burning: the kettle almost boiling -- but the master of the house is far away. The horses stamping -- their warm breath clouding in the sharp and frosty morning of the day. And the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his sword. And the youngest of the family is moving with authority. Building castles by the sea, he dares the tardy tide to wash them all aside. The cattle quietly grazing at the grass down by the river where the swelling mountain water moves onward to the sea: the builder of the castles renews the age-old purpose and contemplates the milking girl whose offer is his need. The young men of the household have all gone into service and are not to be expected for a year. The innocent young master -- thoughts moving ever faster -- has formed the plan to change the man he seems. And the poet sheaths his pen while the soldier lifts his sword. And the oldest of the family is moving with authority. Coming from across the sea, he challenges the son who puts him to the run. What do you do when the old man's gone -- do you want to be him? And your real self sings the song. Do you want to free him? No one to help you get up steam -- and the whirlpool turns you `way off-beam. LATER. I've come down from the upper class to mend your rotten ways. My father was a man-of-power whom everyone obeyed. So come on all you criminals! I've got to put you straight just like I did with my old man -- twenty years too late. Your bread and water's going cold. Your hair is too short and neat. I'll judge you all and make damn sure that no-one judges me. You curl your toes in fun as you smile at everyone -- you meet the stares. You're unaware that your doings aren't done. And you laugh most ruthlessly as you tell us what not to be. But how are we supposed to see where we should run? I see you shuffle in the courtroom with your rings upon your fingers and your downy little sidies and your silver-buckle shoes. Playing at the hard case, you follow the example of the comic-paper idol who lets you bend the rules. So! Come on ye childhood heroes! Won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-books your super crooks and show us all the way. Well! Make your will and testament. Won't you? Join your local government. We'll have Superman for president let Robin save the day. You put your bet on number one and it comes up every time. The other kids have all backed down and they put you first in line. And so you finally ask yourself just how big you are -- and take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars. And you wonder who to call on. So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday? And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though? They're all resting down in Cornwall -- writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual. LATER. See there! A man born -- and we pronounce him fit for peace. There's a load lifted from his shoulders with the discovery of his disease. We'll take the child from him put it to the test teach it to be a wise man how to fool the rest. QUOTE We will be geared to the average rather than the exceptional God is an overwhelming responsibility we walked through the maternity ward and saw 218 babies wearing nylons cats are on the upgrade upgrade? Hipgrave. Oh, Mac. LATER In the clear white circles of morning wonder, I take my place with the lord of the hills. And the blue-eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured (in neat little rows) sporting canvas frills. With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention, while queueing for sarnies at the office canteen. Saying -- how's your granny and good old Ernie: he coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win. The legends (worded in the ancient tribal hymn) lie cradled in the seagull's call. And all the promises they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall. The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun, and signal for the crack of dawn. Light the sun. Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day! The Dawn Creation of the Kings has begun. Soft Venus (lonely maiden) brings the ageless one. Do you believe in the day? The fading hero has returned to the night -- and fully pregnant with the day, wise men endorse the poet's sight. Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day! Let me tell you the tales of your life of your love and the cut of the knife the tireless oppression the wisdom instilled the desire to kill or be killed. Let me sing of the losers who lie in the street as the last bus goes by. The pavements ar empty: the gutters run red -- while the fool toasts his god in the sky. So come all ye young men who are building castles! Kindly state the time of the year and join your voices in a hellish chorus. Mark the precise nature of your fear. Let me help you pick up your dead as the sins of the father are fed with the blood of the fools and the thoughts of the wise and from the pan under your bed. Let me make you a present of song as the wise man breaks wind and is gone while the fool with the hour-glass is cooking his goose and the nursery rhyme winds along. So! Come all ye young men who are building castles! Kindly state the time of the year and join your voices in a hellish chorus. Mark the precise nature of your fear. See! The summer lightning casts its bolts upon you and the hour of judgement draweth near. Would you be the fool stood in his suit of armour or the wiser man who rushes clear. So! Come on ye childhood heroes! Won't your rise up from the pages of your comic-books your super-crooks and show us all the way. Well! Make your will and testament. Won't you? Join your local government. We'll have Superman for president let Robin save the day. So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday? And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through? They're all resting down in Cornwall -- writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual. OF COURSE So you ride yourselves over the fields and you make all your animal deals and your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
Happy Easter, writch
Fuck You! I'm From Texas! (yeah, I've heard that before). This one's from Bethlehem (Israel).
Click the pic to see the rest (25 total).
Dunno if the Texans ever considered this, but if there was cause to attack the USA and 'take us out', I'm *sure* no international agent would consider anything other than obliterating Texas.
Yes, it's true. There's a conspiracy on the part of the decent people on earth to put the kid-fuckers in jail.
Victims of sexual abuse by priests demonstrated at the Vatican on Thursday demanding that Pope Benedict open up files on pedophile Catholic clerics.
If the Pope refuses to testify on the grounds that he's a 'Head of State', I personally, suggest that the 'war' is directed against the wrong religion.
;)
Abuse victims demand pope open files on pedophiles
Victims of sexual abuse by priests demonstrated at the Vatican on Thursday demanding that Pope Benedict open up files on pedophile Catholic clerics.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
(Reuters) - Victims of sexual abuse by priests demonstrated at the Vatican on Thursday demanding that Pope Benedict open up files on pedophile Catholic clerics worldwide and immediately defrock all "predator priests."
The demonstration came as a leading cardinal denounced what he called a "conspiracy" to discredit the Catholic Church and said he could understand why some bishops hushed up cases of pedophilia so as not to harm the Church's good name.
Four leaders of the U.S.-based Survivor Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), all of whom were sexually abused by priests, including being raped and sodomized, held up photos of themselves as children and signs reading "Stop the Secrecy Now."
"I would ask the pope if he would please open up the files from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and turn over all the information to the police," said Barbara Blaine, the president of SNAP.
She was referring to the Department once headed by the pope when he was a cardinal, which judges cases of sexual abuse.
"I would also ask him to make a public order to all bishops across the globe that all predator priests must be removed from ministry immediately," she said minutes before police took away the SNAP leaders' passports and led them away for questioning.
A scandal of alleged cover-ups of sexual abuse of children by priests has been convulsing the Roman Catholic Church in Europe with even more intensity than a similar one that hit the United States eight years ago.
But this time it has come perilously close to the pope himself as victims groups have said they want to know how he handled cases before his election in 2005.
There have been allegations of a cover-up of sexual abuse in Munich when he was the city's archbishop from 1977 to 1981. Victims groups have called for information on his decisions when he headed the Vatican doctrinal department from 1981 to 2005.
SORRY NOT ENOUGH
"The pope has said he is sorry," said John Pilmaier, who was abused when he was in second grade more than 30 years ago.
"But what the pope will not admit is what he knew and what the people inside the Vatican knew. He owes it to every survivor and their families to be honest with us and explain what happened behind those walls, what was covered up, and to finally tell us the truth," he said.
At a breakfast meeting with reporters, one of the pope's top aides, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, denounced what he called "a conspiracy" against the Church.
"This is a pretext for attacking the Church," he said. "There is a well-organized plan with a very clear aim," he said, without spelling out who was behind it.
Saraiva Martins said that while he was in favor of zero tolerance now, he could understand why some bishops covered up cases of child abuse in the past.
"We should not be too scandalized if some bishops knew about it but kept it secret. This is what happens in every family, you don't wash your dirty laundry in public," he said.
He also accused lawyers of "wanting to make a lot of money" by digging up decades-old cases and filing law suits.
Holding up pictures of American children who were abused by priests, the SNAP leaders spoke of the case of Rev. Lawrence Murphy of Milwaukee, who was accused of sexually abusing as many as 200 deaf boys.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that the Vatican did not defrock him in the late 1990s -- when the current pope was head of the office dealing with abuse -- despite receiving clear warnings from bishops that his case was serious and could embarrass the Church.
Among 25 internal Church documents the Times posted on its website was a 1996 letter about Murphy to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then the Vatican's top doctrinal official and now Pope Benedict, showing he was informed of his case.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said he was not disciplined because Church laws do not require automatic punishment.
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Yeah, there's a really obvious other discrepancy with the 'Passover Meal' version of the Mass.
You see, Jesus is taken after dinner. Now, for you non-Jews, you probably don't realize what this means (after Seder). This is a HOLY day. NO WORK.
So the idea that a detachment from the 'Chief Priest' might have shown up after Seder (while everyone is watching the door for Elijah, and hunting the afikomen) is simply ludicrous. If the 'High Priest' were to work on Passover, he'd be fired, fersure.
So, as John said, Jesus dies on 'Good Thursday' (when all the other lambs are being slaughtered for Passover).
So the whole ritual cannibalism/vampirism thing is based on three texts which we now know can't be trusted to even read a calendar. And the ritual that went on was like some kind of overdressed Passover (every week).
I tend to think that the 'master as servant' model is more on point.
John 18 (New International Version)
John 18
Jesus Arrested
1When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was an olive grove, and he and his disciples went into it.2Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.3So Judas came to the grove, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons.
4Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, "Who is it you want?"
5"Jesus of Nazareth," they replied.
"I am he," Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) 6When Jesus said, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground.
7Again he asked them, "Who is it you want?"
And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth."
8"I told you that I am he," Jesus answered. "If you are looking for me, then let these men go." 9This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: "I have not lost one of those you gave me."[a]
10Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)
11Jesus commanded Peter, "Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?"
Jesus Taken to Annas
12Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him 13and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. 14Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be good if one man died for the people.
I had basically every sinus cavity in my head (one by one, it seemed) go through a massive exuding of fluids. This was in addition to both ears doing the same thing. It was kind of like being a 'Mint Julep' dispenser.
I'm still pretty sick (got a fever still), but it's seeming like this bout of 'allergies' is a bit different than the previous ones. Everything feels 'cleaner' somehow.
And you've no *IDEA* the difference a working rib cage makes with getting that 'productive cough' (I had no idea till I started being able to cough out a quarter cup of phlegm at a time).
During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:
"MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento"
When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.
Given that Israel is like the #4 army on the planet, what if their plan is to get the US all tangled up there, and then offer to take us out, in return for Jerusalem?
That I managed to miss, though I'd always heard it referred to. It was in the $3.99 bin, so I picked it up.
Now, you don't have to buy it, but you should rent it.
"Bob Roberts" is Tim Robbins' prescient 'documentary' about the kind of shit-sucking assholes we have as our representation (in a large proportion).
Off to the side, Direct Transferrable Representation is possible now (the kind where you can vote on bills directly yourself, or assign your vote to a proxy who sends you reports).
We *could* completely replace the House.
