Nathan

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "On Wednesday morning, soldiers blew up the first floor of a two-storey home where one of the bombers lived in the West Bank city of Hebron, witnesses said."

Yes, just the first floor.

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

So, let's see here, destroy a suicide bombers house and family because (s)he decided to suicide bomb. I am not sure if this is what you could call justice or perhaps, the beginning of the end.

Can You Forgive Them? - Ostracizing the people who were right on Iraq. By Timothy�Noah: "It began with Ritter saying, 'Iraq today represents a threat to no one,' which, Hayes opined, was an argument only Tariq Aziz would make. Three years later, of course, Ritter's assessment seems sound (assuming it did not include people then living inside Iraq), and Hayes' characterization seems idiotic."

MSNBC - U.S. climate report heats up policy issue

We�re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore: How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich�s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body par

DimeMag.com: "You had to be quick yesterday to catch one of our favorite moments of the Olympics. Right after the game, Craig Sager pulled aside Allen Iverson for a post game interview. Not realizing he was on camera, Sager gave pounds to A.I. Iverson was either caught by surprise or likes Sager because he started laughing and gave him pounds right back �"

It was funny. Hope you saw it. But for my money the absolute funniest moment of the Olympics was either the speed walkers or the 100M Qualifier that involved an Afghanistan lady competing and, I think, a Somalia lady competing. If you saw the Somalia lady 'running' the 100 you know what I am talking about.

Response when asked, 'like what? his experience? John Edwards experience? his senate record? whatis it? I dont get it.I understand the 'do not like Bush' issue but I dont see what he brings tothe table'

these things:stance on abortion/rights of women (group this in the larger context,civil rights for Americans), healthcare issue (I find Bush in thisarea a failure and Kerry an unknown, vote goes to kerry), personally(because this issue is so out there and has been for so long I can'thelp but acknowledge it: Kerry went to Vietnam and Bush didn't. Thereis a lot of underlying context there, but shortly, actions speaklouder than words. Also, the religious subtext to Bush's presidencyis extremely eery. I do not personally like a man when asked, 'didyou talk for your father about this war?' He replies, 'I talk to ahigher father'. Creepy.), Iraq war absolute mess (we are nowintimately involved in a 3000 year old struggle with more soldiersdead this year than last), poor 'terror war' tactics (have noconfidence in Kerry in this area though, so this one's a wash),judicial nominations (know that I would like Kerry's nominations morethan Bush's as he seems to go for radical right judges), economy andfinally, environment (the area, at the end of the day, that I think wewill find as humans and a world community was the true 'war' tofight).essentially, and it is sad to say this, there are things above that Icould not imagine anyone else doing worse than Bush and areas where Ifind the two neutral as of right now. I would give Kerry a D+ as acandidate for my money and George W. a failing grade. how pitiful eh?but true.

Yahoo! News - THE REAL ISSUE: BUSH IS INCOMPETENT: "The list is longer, miscalculation after miscalculation. President Bush has not been able to function effectively at this pay grade. He may mean well, but this has been a difficult time, and he is in over his head. We and our kids will pay the price for his blundering, blunderbuss adventure in Washington. He has been tested in a difficult time -- and, unhappily for all of us and the world, he has not been up to the job. "

The New York Times > Week in Review > The War Within: What They're Really Fighting About: "But Mr. Kerry and his adversaries were not just arguing over the old wounds, old medals and old words of an old war. They were squaring off in the ideological, cultural and class divide that began with Vietnam, found its name with Richard M. Nixon's appeal to the 'silent majority,' and remains as current as George W. Bush's election-year appeal to the 'heart and soul of America' in the theater of a new war."

ESPN.com - OLY/SUMMER04/BASKETBALL - Brown considering playing ... the wrong way?!?

'The refereeing has often been poor throughout the tournament...' Understatement of the year.

Talking Points Memo%3A by Joshua Micah Marshall%3A August 22%2C 2004 - August 28%2C 2004 Archives

Anti-Bush Banner Launched in Grand Central

American Prospect Online - ViewWeb

Can we focus on a more dead, arcane issue while our climate, environment, economy and world standing continue to sink? Let us debate the Dead Sea Scrolls in Latin shall we?

MSNBC - Nation%27s voting machines tested in secret

MSNBC - Freedom%3F Iraqi coach disputes Bush%27s claims: "%93To be honest with you%2C even our happiness at winning is not happiness because we are worried about the problems in Iraq%2C all the daily problems that our people face back home%2C so to tell you the truth%2C we are not really happy%2C%94 he said."

get away

Woody H.

'Tortured by the fame just like Curt Kobain.'

Great line Talib, can't wait for the cd.

MSNBC - Fighting a Phony War

MSNBC - Can Kerry makea case that Bushbroke the law%3F: "To most voters%2C the distinctions disappear%2C they%27re not much aware of who%27s paying for the ads.%22"

good point here.

MSNBC - Can Kerry makea case that Bushbroke the law%3F

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Low level soldiers decided to torture prisinors in Iraq. No Army officers?

Of course I ask in mocking sarcasm. How fucking pitiful, though. I think that is why sarcasm is some of the most popular humor these days (JS? DC?) because reality is so fucked up right now it is its own joke.

Oh No
[Mos Def]
Yo, one for the treble
Two for the bass
Welcome to the great incredible paper chase
Keep your boots laced if you want to keep pace
[Nate Dogg]
Oh no,
Niggas ain't scared to hustle
It's been seven days, the same clothes
Ask them originals cause they know
Mos Def, Nate Dogg, and Pharoahe
Step away from the mic they too cold (oh no)
The funk might fracture your nose
[Mos Def]
Say my name, say my name
Observe how I stake my claim
I independantly layed down and played my game
My own two raise my flame
Cause dick ridin ain't my thing
I earned what they said I wouldn't
I got it the way they said I couldn't
But now I'm gettin it and thier whole grill is cookin
Mad cause I'm getting caked out from my bookings
When ya'll was askin permission I just stepped up and took it
What!? The kid's better buy my rookie card now
Cause after this year the price ain't comin down
And if you got a joint bubbling then get money now
Cause in a minute there's gonna be some real trouble coming out
Just a warning, as usual some cats wont heed it
The hard headed always gotta feel it to beleive it
It's a shame that jealous gays is too short to see it
But when thier face hit the cement, they nod in agreement
We could play nice and decent
Or dirty like the 7-1 precinct
Call it a day or make it a long evening
You keep on scheming, making me some more reasons
To have the women in your mama's church screamin "Lord Jesus!"
Harder than ya'll cause I'm smarter than ya'll
I know that deep down it's got to be bothering ya'll
Pay attention, watch fly gon' get larger than ya'll
Put your pride on the rocks, make you swallow it all
[Nate Dogg]
Oh No
Look at who they let in the back door
From Long Beach to Brooklyn they know
We rock from the east to west coast
From Queens to ---? (they know)
Step away from the mic they too cold
The funk might fracture your nose

Close Edge
[Mos Def]
Pull up to ya spot on low
Shine brighter than all o' them cats they got on glow
Layin the cut like they not gon' know
Cuz if I gotta make a move dawg they not gonna know
This door marked private this is not fo' sho'
It's Mos Def what you call real fo' sho'
Is they what you call gangsta, hell no
They get a lil' pitch and go snitch to the po'
They all talk fast and they all think slow
I'm Mos Definite, not think so
Flood ya city with the black ink flow
And my crew ain't scared to let them things go
So, stop with the nonsense, like he conscious
I'm just alright dawg, I'm doin' great dawg
I don't play games so I don't playa hate y'all
Get it straight or get the fuck up out my face dawg
I'm like the second plane that made the tower's face off
That shit that let you know it's really not a game dawg
Your grind and my grindin is same dawg
I'm the catalogue, you the same song
So cool and ol' school like A4?
The one ya lil mami windin' up on ways for
The name that real niggaz got they hands raised for
Me and Mini got ya block yellow taped off
Don't push me (get off)
'Cuz I'm close - To the streets,
to the beach, the bitches, the niggaz,
the women, the children, the workers,
the killers, the addicts, the dealers
the quiet, the livest, the realest
- And that's close
Don't push me, cuz I'm close
To the edge, back, middle, and front
Strong back shit liftin' it up
From the big and the small
I'm like J. Brown +Gettin' Involved+
But when I'm lettin' off around don't get in the cross
Have ya preacher man speakin' low gettin' his cross
Tell 'em wild cowboy not to get off they horse
Before they find out the tailon is strictly enforced
It's a real bad way to get ya name in the Source
Testin' the limits of a dangerous force
Ya ended up dumb famous and gone
Your people shoutin' out ya name in they song
Pourin' liquor on the day you was born
Find paint to put ya face on the wall
C'mon fall back, there's no need for all that
It's all good, we all here, goin' all out (all out)
All day, listen when this song say
Don't push me 'cuz I'm close - To the streets,
to the beach, the bitches, the niggaz,
the women, the children, the workers,
the killers, the addicts, the dealers
the quiet, the livest, the realest
- And that's close
Don't push me, cuz I'm close
To the edge, back, middle, and front
Strong back shit liftin' it up
From the big and the small
I'm like J. Brown +Gettin' Involved+
Now get yours
[Hook]
Boom diggy bang-di-bang-di, boom bang diggy (repeated 24x)
(talking behind Hook)
author: junooni_@hotmail.com

http://www.ighetto.com/~daveslyrics/MosDef/Others/CloseEdge.html

So yesterday at Big Sur we go down to Surfer's Point (North of Julia Pfieffer Burns State Park by about 10-15 minutes) and the waves are pitching! HUGE south swell. Some triple overhead shit. There was about 20-30 guys out there MAX at any time. You had to be good to be out there, and had to have some balls.

One guy had the last, but not the first. He got absolutely pounded into the rocks as best I could tell. He walked by us after, bloody and dejected. These fucking waves were shooting people a good 30-40 feet past the waves such that people had to hang out and wait for the waves. It was an incredible sight, I wish we coulda all been there and laughed at Gary as we pushed him out into the water.

seacrest out.

Reason: John Perry Barlow 2.0: The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body -- and his politics.: "Trying to own intellectual products and creating an economy of scarcity around them as we do with physical objects is very harmful to the development of culture and the ability to speak freely, and a very important principle not talked about much, which is the right to know. I think we have a right to know. It shouldn�t be something we have to purchase."

Politics News Article | Reuters.com

Ironic. funny.

MSNBC - Elusive dead zone tracked in the Pacific: "�What I think we are seeing is a tipping of the balance of the ecosystem,� said Jack Barth, a professor of oceanography at Oregon State. �We don�t fully understand what the cause of that is. We have some good ideas that it is related to some fundamental changes in circulation and the source of water for the Oregon Continental Shelf.�"

The Atlantic Online | September 2004 | Inside Al-Qaeda�s Hard Drive | Alan Cullison

MSNBC - Pentagon probes Halliburton's Iraq work: "Halliburton Co. did not adequately account for more than $1.8 billion it billed the government for work in Iraq and Kuwait, a published report on the findings of Pentagon auditors said Wednesday."

Yahoo! News - Pollutants From Asia Appear on East Coast: "'I think the most profound thing that you draw from this is that the globe is one air shed,' said Armond Cohen, director of the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston-based nonprofit. "

The New Yorker: "Kravinsky, whose unrestrained disbursement of his assets-first financial, then corporeal-has sometimes been unsettling for the people close to him, grew up in a row house in the working-class Philadelphia neighborhood of Oxford Circle, amid revolutionary rhetoric. 'My father would say how great things were in the Soviet Union, and how shabby they were here,' Kravinsky recalled recently. 'He would rail against rich people and the ruling class.'"

CNN.com - Judge: Warrants issued for Chalabi and nephew - Aug 8, 2004

Talk about weird times. From possible premier of Messopotamia to spy to indicted.

csmonitor.com: "'I myself welcomed the Americans when they threw out Saddam,' says Mr. Kamal, an auto mechanic who is now unemployed. 'I took pictures of myself with US soldiers and brought my own horse to them if it could be of service. But now I realize what is happening here in Iraq is because of the Americans.' "

Bin Ladin's Former 'Bodyguard' Interviewed on Al-Qa'ida Strategies: "Most of my answers were on Al-Qa'ida ideology and structure and why it deals in this way. The answers were to the point. They used to put forth rather strange questions. One question said: As far as we are concerned, 80 percent of what you said is true, but does Al-Qa'ida have chemical plants and nuclear weapons? I recall that my answer to them was that Usama Bin Ladin has a weapon that is far superior to all the US weapons. What is this weapon, the asked? I told them: 'Among the believers are men, who have been true to their covenant to God: of them some have completed their vow (to the extreme), and some (still) wait: But they have never changed (their determination) in the least.' (Koranic verse) The US arsenal is full of weapons, but it does not have the men. "

I will be interested to see where this leads. I hope some progress is made. I have wondered to this day why people talk of the 911 attacks as domestic terror and not this anthrax case. I understand the scale is much different, but the message is just as deadly it seems.

Hope August is going well for you. I love this time of year. I am working hard ;) to appreciate this year in particular.

It seems that climate change has made it to the cover of Business Week. I think that might be the best sign yet that we are all ready too late. But actually I don't believe that and I will tell you why. If we were to decide today to stop all non-natural processes going on that produced carbon I think our world would heal rather quickly. As you have seen the snow lasting less and less each year during your short life, so too would you see positive change in our delicate atmosphere.

Its just that we aren't like that are we? Able to change on a dime like that as far as society goes? Too much invested, too much riding on it. I will never forget what Bryce's x-girlfriend said to me one day on 280 when we were talking about this subject years ago: I hope it doesn't make things too tough on us. Good goddamn point and well put for why society is scared to honestly look at this problem. Might have to deal with no air conditioning or biking more.

I feel this too though, who am I kidding. I love the things that we have been afforded by cheap power and technology. I think we all do. It's about taking hard looks at this though and figuring out what is sustainable and what ain't. Seems so easy to say.

As we drift off tonight, together as a world community, I want to wish you all the best however I shine my light tonight for one in particular. Much love to you Angel, may I be in your heart.

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Failure of Leadership: "The United States is the greatest military and economic power in the history of the planet. But it lacks a unifying sense of national purpose at the moment, and seems uncertain, even timid, as the national security challenges continue to mount. That is what a failure of leadership can do to a great power. "

Gulf Daily News

The New York Times > Business > The Overview: In Blow to Bush, Only 32,000 Jobs Created in July: "ob growth ground nearly to a halt last month, the Labor Department reported yesterday, raising new concerns about the economy's strength and reshaping the political debate over its performance less than three months before election day. "

Technology News: News: Experts Warn of Wider vCJD Threat

scary

MSNBC - Cleric's militia declares 'revolution' in Iraq: "BAGHDAD, Iraq - Declaring an end to a fragile cease-fire, insurgents loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr battled fiercely with U.S., British and Iraqi forces in four cities on Thursday in fighting that killed one U.S. soldier, seven Iraqi civilians and seven militants. A U.S. helicopter was also shot down. "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Chords for Change