Thursday, March 31, 2005 

-THE CUNNING REALIST-: "A few days after that presentation, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer that he would not approve of any more plans to unseat Castro by force. Kennedy was assassinated later that year. An ABC News report on Operation Northwoods is here."

3/31/2005 05:31:00 PM | |

 

American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Letter to Attorney General Gozales Requesting Investigation of Possible Perjury by General Ricardo A. Sanchez: "The September 14, 2003 memorandum signed by General Sanchez does not square with his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The need for General Sanchez and all high-level government officials to tell the truth could not be more important. The nation cannot afford to have anyone covering up their wrongdoing when such horrific abuse was the result. And the nation needs a clear accounting of the extent to which the United States government tortured and abused persons under its custody and control. For these reasons, we urge you to order an investigation, and if appropriate, prosecution for any criminal acts arising from General Sanchez's testimony, as well as for any illegal actions taken pursuant to the September 14, 2003 memorandum."

3/31/2005 05:18:00 PM | |

 

Buffett letter released - Mar. 8, 2004: "On the political-economic front, he attacked Bush administration policies on taxes and the dollar, and complained again about wayward CEOs and board members (adding mutual fund companies to his list of offenders). "

3/31/2005 04:49:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - It's no joke: Even animals laugh: "Studies by various groups suggest monkeys, dogs and even rats love a good laugh. People, meanwhile, have been laughing since before they could talk."

Lets all do it.

3/31/2005 04:36:00 PM | |

 

Hahahaah, uh, this was a fucking blank email you retard.

On another note, is Larry Brown going to be called to testify about Steroids? Cause dude is acting like a little bitch, jeezuz Christ. Check him for pussy and tits. One day he is retiring, next day he is back with the pistons. One day he is coach of 76ers, next Pistons, then he sinks our international team in the Olympics and almost singlehandedly ruined Carmello's career. He sounds like a fucking Suckyoubuss. I think I used to respect this guy cause he reminded me of michael Douglas in falling down, now I wonder when one of his players is gonna pull a PJ carlisamo on the dude and end his bitch like career for good. I have found a new team to actively root against. Though I will always root for Big Ben's hair.

3/31/2005 03:28:00 PM | |

 

CNN.com - Bush:Millions saddened by Schiavo's death - Mar 31, 2005: "Speaking with reporters later in Houston, DeLay said lawmakers 'will look at an arrogant and out of control judiciary that thumbs its nose at Congress and the President.'
Asked if that included the possibility of the House bringing impeachment charges against judges involved in the Schiavo case, DeLay said, 'There's plenty of time to look into that.'"

Jeezuz, this guy is fucking nuts. What has happened to America?

3/31/2005 02:08:00 PM | |

 

DMX - Dogs For Life Lyrics: "Keep your head from the start, don't fuck it up now,
later on they be hit like, fuck it how??
You my dog and I die for you, keep it like that,
give me unconditional love, and I give it right back."

3/31/2005 11:17:00 AM | |

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 

RollingStone.com: The Long Emergency : Politics: "Carl Jung, one of the fathers of psychology, famously remarked that 'people cannot stand too much reality.' What you're about to read may challenge your assumptions about the kind of world we live in, and especially the kind of world into which events are propelling us. We are in for a rough ride through uncharted territory."

3/30/2005 04:34:00 PM | |

 

Where have you gone George Washington?

He wasn’t the greatest guy though right? We all know that now- I think they even knew it then. Since his time though we have piled layer upon layer of complexity and money and difficulty upon ourselves and our views of the world. I wonder where it will stop. I hope it doesn’t stop in a bad way.

These days we even use idiot sons of assholes, to paraphrase NOFX, and Terminators to cover up what is really going down don’t we? We all got covers and can’t be honest with each other, let alone ourselves. We use covers of ‘against abortion’ or ‘no blood for oil’ to make us feel more moral and more right, but as Americans, where have we gone? We like to separate ourselves out these days and think we are distinct from this guy or that guy, but as a collective and as God sees us I am sure- what are we? There are no covers for His eyes eh?

George Washington, you most imperfect perfect of souls, where have you gone?

3/30/2005 03:55:00 PM | |

 

In response to this random blog I found (did you know about that 'Next Blog' button??):

'God values life more than anything else He created.'

Tough to know God's mind, but I will grant you this point. Personally I feel like God values the universe, the energy sources (stars) and many other things perhaps unknowable to our limited senses, but that is a simple difference of opinion.

What I will offer you though is that in this election, if you were using your vote to support life, that one could open their eyes to many other issues that also involve life. Our world and the species surrounding us are suffocating and dying at record levels due to human mismanagement of the planet. Mr. Bush is doing nothing to address this and I am not sure Mr. Kerry would have done much himself.

Use your support and your goodwill and noble aims for something greater than supporting an empty suit puppet like Bush or Kerry and work to truly support life and the good living creatures around you. Our corporate politicians, while they hide behind smokescreens like abortion and other culture war issues, are truly doing the opposite of what I see you writing.

There are greater causes. There are great people to support. Open your heart and mind to the whole and you will find a great direction and a great place to put your emotion and support.

3/30/2005 02:13:00 PM | |

 

HBO Online: HBO Special Events: Chris Rock: Never Scared

'Be a person. Listen.'

3/30/2005 12:59:00 PM | |

 

Lyrics - Soldiers of Jah Army Conscious Words and Poetic Lyrics Uplifting Vibes Revealing Revelations Political Awareness: "They say that Bush could be my president,
but really I don't care.
They say Cheney makes my decisions,
but he don't, so I'm just not there.
and I'm gonna see the same lies
coming in the next 4 years,
so pardon me if I don't cry when
your election goes the way it did. "

3/30/2005 12:31:00 PM | |

 

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up': "The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360 scientists from 95 countries - some of them world leaders in their fields - today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure."

Via Mefi.

3/30/2005 10:07:00 AM | |

 

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: March 27, 2005 - April 02, 2005 Archives: "Needless to say, the defining motif of all conservative politics is victimization."

3/30/2005 09:33:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - If your car is gone and you wanna ride on ...: "A reliable family car suddenly developed a tendency to decelerate, leading to the discovery that it had been driven for years with $40,000 worth of cocaine stashed in the gas tank."

3/30/2005 09:32:00 AM | |

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 

MSNBC - The Culture of Each Life: "Arguments about Terri's case centered on something described as a 'culture of life.' It is an empty suit of a phrase, absent an individual to give it shape. There is no culture of life. There is the culture of your life, and the culture of mine. There is what each of us considers bearable, and what we will not bear. There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays."

3/29/2005 08:23:00 AM | |

Monday, March 28, 2005 

MSNBC - 'Wrong man' for the job: "'We urge you to reject that nomination,' the former diplomats said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press and dated Tuesday.
The ex-diplomats have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, some for long terms and others briefly. They include Arthur A. Hartman, ambassador to France and the Soviet Union under Presidents Carter and Reagan and assistant secretary of state for European affairs under President Nixon."

3/28/2005 05:16:00 PM | |

 

Jeremy Scahill: Sgrena Sets the Record Straight: "That could explain why the US military in Iraq has blocked the Italian government from inspecting the Italians' vehicle, even though the car is the property of the Italian government which bought it from the rental agency after this incident. 'I think they have something to hide if they won't give the car over for inspection,' Sgrena told Klein. 'It's very strange. If there is nothing to hide, why not let Italian justice officials see the car?'"

3/28/2005 04:44:00 PM | |

 

New Revolution: "57 percent of Australians rated U.S. policy as a threat equal to Islamic fundamentalism."

3/28/2005 02:54:00 PM | |

 

Are you feeling down Charlie Brown?

Is the grass greener today? Or are you happy with your yard? Sometimes it gets me down how we sometimes can’t get past this huh? The Jones’ always have something nicer, a whiter picket fence or a shinier BMW. Fuck em though eh? Seriously, fuck the Jones’.

We got all we need right here. There is so much to be thankful for. We are so blessed, with so many great things afforded us. I know that the clouds sometimes roll in and it isn’t easy to remember what the sun feels like. I know. Hopefully though I can come back to what is important and what truly matters- that I am healthy and my family is doing well and another day has been granted to me. So little else matters.

3/28/2005 02:40:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Oil town residents sue over leaky pipeline: "'I wondered why everybody we grew up with had a parent with cancer,' said Holly Perkins-Meyers, a former county court-at-law judge who joined the lawsuit after both her parents developed cancer. Her father has leukemia and her mother died in August of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
'It's scary. I think if you look, everyone who grew up on my street, I can go to almost every house and there's someone in their family that's had it. This is not just a coincidence,' she said."

3/28/2005 02:32:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : A Pittsnoglian weekend!: "If there is any doubt that global warming is playing the role of the 460cc driver head to Mother Nature's ProV1, shelve those doubts, now. L.A. just elected Noah as its new mayor; I saw a CNN report on an Arctic village melting away; and now the flippin' Players Championship might not finish until the Fourth of July."

3/28/2005 12:07:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Follow the Money: "More than U.S. money is at stake. The administration has harshly criticized the United Nations over hundreds of millions stolen from the Oil-for-Food Program under Saddam. But the successor to Oil-for-Food created under the occupation, called the Development Fund for Iraq, could involve billions of potentially misused dollars. "

3/28/2005 11:46:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Follow the Money: "Lawyers for the whistle-blowers point out, however, that President George W. Bush signed a 2003 law authorizing $18.7 billion to go to U.S. authorities in Iraq, including the CPA, 'as an entity of the United States government.' And several contracts with Custer Battles refer to the other party as 'the United States of America.' Pressure has been building on the administration to join the case-or at least to file a brief saying publicly if it believes defrauding the CPA is the same as defrauding the United States."

3/28/2005 11:44:00 AM | |

 

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: March 27, 2005 - April 02, 2005 Archives: "I really am glad to see you put this on your blog for the rest of the country to see. And if Arnold wins in California, no state will be safe from the Republican plan to repeal the 20th century and promises made to employees."

3/28/2005 10:12:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Lakers' Atkins rips Kobe, calls him 'GM': "'I ain't the GM of this team,' Atkins told the Los Angeles Times. 'Kobe's the GM of this team. Ask Kobe. You've been watching this [stuff] all year. You've been watching it and I've been playing in it.'"

3/28/2005 09:32:00 AM | |

Sunday, March 27, 2005 

MSNBC - Business sees gain in GOP takeover: "Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century. "

3/27/2005 11:03:00 AM | |

Friday, March 25, 2005 

MSNBC - Native Americans criticize Bush's silence: "MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Native Americans across the country -- including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file tribe members -- voiced anger and frustration Thursday that President Bush has responded to the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history with silence."

3/25/2005 11:59:00 AM | |

Thursday, March 24, 2005 

CJR March/April 2005: Voices: "The study, though scientifically robust, had several elements working against it. One was its subject matter: Researchers had done a door-to-door survey of nearly 8,000 people in thirty-three locations in Iraq to estimate how many people had died as a consequence of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation. Americans, and their media, were reluctant to accept the study's conclusions - that the number was likely around 100,000; that violence had become the primary cause of death since the invasion; that more than half of those killed were women and children. "

3/24/2005 04:30:00 PM | |

 

New revelations on Iraq war put Blair in a spot - The Economic Times: "British government is under renewed pressure following reports that a foreign office lawyer had resigned on the eve of the Iraq invasion questioning the legality of the war and citing the Attorney General's wavering stand on the need for a UN resolution. "

3/24/2005 02:09:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC -: "These are fine, decent people. But I cannot imagine one of my sons or anybody's son in a position where they're no longer capable of interacting and the idea of them dying by pulling a tube. It's extraordinary.
But the evidence that was submitted and the process that was used throughout the Florida judicial system and the federal judicial system substantiated that information about her state and about the evidence that was used to establish her intentions. "

3/24/2005 10:40:00 AM | |

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 

Round One... Fight! | MetaFilter: "I don't know, man. Five-year olds are wily.

If you could manage to break off some Whirlybird action with the first kid, you'd likely clear out a circular area roughly ten feet in diameter. Assuming that the kids weren't coming in successive waves, you could then throw your child-club at the strongest kid (i.e. the one who gets up the quickest) and proceed to stompin' on the ones that remain on the ground.

Still, pulling off that first move is crucial. You fuck that up, kiss your ass goodbye. And then you're that guy who tried to beat up a bunch of five-year-olds and got owned."

3/23/2005 05:25:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Americans clueless about gene-altered foods: "according to a survey, most Americans couldn't answer correctly even though they've been eating genetically modified foods - unlabeled - for nearly a decade."

Don't you love how big business works so hard to keep you ignorant? From the media to food to what is happening in our environment- WAIT! LOOK, there's Michael Jackson! What was I saying?

3/23/2005 03:30:00 PM | |

 

PENINSULA / Some train riders troubled over possible cutback / Plan to trim costs may end service to 4 Caltrain stops: "Caltrain may stop serving Atherton and three other stations -- Paul Avenue in San Francisco, Broadway in Burlingame and College Park in San Jose - - as officials try to at least halve a projected $13.6 million budget deficit. "

Just what we all need, less mass transit. Unreal.

3/23/2005 03:08:00 PM | |

 

SI.com - 2005 NCAA Basketball Tournament - Lawrence: Unforgettable title-clinching shot only the beginning for Jordan - Wednesday March 23, 2005 12:16PM: "Why penalize a great player for evolving into the greatest of all time, realizing that every time he took off from the free-throw line, uncorked another bottle of champagne or hit a buzzer-beater, Jordan became a victim of his own success? Because he not only optimized greatness, he wrote the book. The legacy he left behind at UNC, when measured against his larger body of work (however expansive), is no less significant."

3/23/2005 03:04:00 PM | |

 

USATODAY.com - Scientists determine that tornado hit San Francisco: "SAN FRANCISCO"

3/23/2005 01:52:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The NBA's pieces of flair: "That's what I love about basketball. I love the collaboration, grounded in the fundamentals. But even more, I love the spectacular achievement of the player, the artist, grounded in some inherent will to create and some crazy courage to do it right out there in front of God and everybody. "

3/23/2005 01:38:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Consumer prices rise, stoking inflation fears: "The report came just a day after the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates and issued a fresh warning about inflation, roiling stock and bond markets and raising the prospect of a longer and steeper series of future rate hikes."

3/23/2005 12:57:00 PM | |

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 

MSNBC -: "SECAUCUS - The man who is just twelve home runs away from being able to say 'I hit more home runs than Babe Ruth did,' and just 53 away from being able to say 'I hit more home runs than anybody else did,' is now threatening to never hit another one."

3/22/2005 03:43:00 PM | |

Monday, March 21, 2005 

CEO Blogs: New Executive Tool: "These are CEOs of companies that have a fundamental effect on lives and economies everywhere. They are CEOs who, IMHO, need this no-cost, readily accessible and universal means of communicating directly, heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind, with customers and other constituencies they must convince of the rightness of what they are doing."

3/21/2005 12:39:00 PM | |

 

Know Thyself

3/21/2005 10:59:00 AM | |

 

know thyself

3/21/2005 10:57:00 AM | |

 

CNN.com - Federal court set to hear Schiavo's case - Mar 21, 2005: "'I think that every American in this country should also be outraged that this government is trampling all over a personal family matter that has been adjudicated in the courts for seven years,' he said."

3/21/2005 10:56:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Funnel Cloud Passes Through SF: "A funnel cloud damaged between 55 and 60 buildings, caused a power outage and rattled residents in South San Francisco, but has not caused any injuries, according to fire officials. The funnel cloud, which has also been described as a tornado, passed through the city at about 3:40 p.m. Sunday."

3/21/2005 10:13:00 AM | |

Friday, March 18, 2005 

-THE CUNNING REALIST-: "As we face sensitive issues like a huge current account deficit, rising tensions between China and Taiwan, and fierce global competition for limited natural resources such as oil, it's probably worth being aware of what your generous neighbor sees when he looks out his window at you. "

3/18/2005 04:12:00 PM | |

 

Gay Marriage Saves California / Could a landmark decision re-empower the state to strike at the heart of BushCo? Let us hope: "Can it really be true, you mutter in astonishment as you sip, working, as always, always, to take the edge off this bleak and BushCo'd world, that a respected right wing judge named Richard Kramer from San Francisco Superior Court just declared California's ban on gay marriage to be unconstitutional on the grounds that it's, well, just plain silly, and wrong headed, and at odds with what love and desire and human connection are truly all about? "

3/18/2005 03:17:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The NCAA real-time running diary: "2:08 - NC State jumps up by 7, two minutes to go. Charlotte's collapse in this game (12 turnovers in the second half so far) ranks right up there with the last 35 minutes of 'Million Dollar Baby.' On the bright side, there's a midget co-hosting a balloon-themed edition of 'Naughty Amateur Home Videos' on Playboy right now. "

That one hurt the pool, ladies and gents.

3/18/2005 01:37:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Shaq feeling sweet as Heat sweeps Kobe, Lakers: "I dont want to say what I said, Wade said. I told him that I wasnt talking to him, for one. And for two, I pretty much told him a lot of stuff. I dont want to get into it."

3/18/2005 11:14:00 AM | |

 

Study: Global Warming Inevitable For Next 100 Years - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source: "The study was published in the journal 'Science.' It was conducted by a team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research based in Boulder, Colorado. They ran extensive computer models to determine the future effect of global warming even if greenhouse gas emissions held steady or even decreased. Their findings: North American could face excessive heat waves and a possible swarm of crop-eating insects. "

3/18/2005 10:10:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Dead squid wash up in California again: "Dead jumbo squid are again mysteriously washing up along the Southern California coastline, baffling scientists who are trying to find out why."

3/18/2005 09:23:00 AM | |

Thursday, March 17, 2005 

MoveOn PAC: "There must be no gag rule for the United States Senate. We must preserve free speech and the rights of the minority. Spread the word high and low. Court packing no - - free speech yes. Nuke the nuclear option. No gag rule in the U.S. Senate. "

3/17/2005 04:34:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Dirty Footprints: "'It will never get through the Senate,' he said to me. 'It won't happen.'
I've held onto his words since then. I believed him - mostly because I so desperately wanted to. When I saw the news today, I sat down and wept."

3/17/2005 04:14:00 PM | |

 


Failure of humans that we could not even save this comparibly pristine environment for something other than ourselves. Simple failure.

3/17/2005 04:11:00 PM | |

 

Could the Anthrax Mailings Be Military-Industrial Espionage?: "What many may wish to believe is an appropriate National Security response to threatened bioterrorist attacks, is best explained by the words on the back of every dollar bill-'Novo Ordo Seclorum.' Without entertaining broad conspiracy theories, current events demonstrate a 'New World Order' is certainly evolving from militarily managed chaos."

3/17/2005 01:24:00 PM | |

 

Could the Anthrax Mailings Be Military-Industrial Espionage?

3/17/2005 01:06:00 PM | |

 

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Lab fireball 'may be black hole': "The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as 'Hawking' radiation. "

3/17/2005 12:57:00 PM | |

 

RollingStone.com: A Pair of Deviant Bookends : News: "He was/is a brother, a friend, a hero, a father, a son, a teacher, a partner in crime. Our crime: fun. Always, fun. "

3/17/2005 11:38:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Senate votes against proposed Medicaid cuts: "The Senate voted Thursday to strip all proposed Medicaid cuts from the $2.6 trillion budget for next year, killing the heart of the plan's deficit reduction and dealing an embarrassing setback to President Bush and Republican leaders."

3/17/2005 11:31:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Cell phone radiation lawsuits revived: "RICHMOND, Va. - A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated five lawsuits claiming that the cell phone industry has failed to protect consumers from unsafe levels of radiation."

3/17/2005 09:46:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - CIA challenged on suspects torture overseas: "The system the CIA relies on to ensure that the suspected terrorists it transfers to other countries will not be tortured has been ineffective and virtually impossible to monitor, according to current and former intelligence officers and lawyers, as well as counterterrorism officials who have participated in or reviewed the practice."

3/17/2005 08:38:00 AM | |

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 

MSNBC - Pancakes With Real Butter: "This is not a critique of religion. It is a critique of all the broken people who use the power of religion to convince themselves that they were not put here to serve God but to play God. Perverted religion can convince even the reticent that they are not killing human beings made in the image of God, but infidels or heretics who lost their right to live when they decided to believe something different and sinful and despicable."

3/16/2005 03:05:00 PM | |

 

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The peak of Mt Kilimanjaro as it has not been seen for 11,000 years: "Africa's tallest mountain, with its white peak, is one of the most instantly recognisable sights in the world. But as this aerial photograph shows, Kilimanjaro's trademark snowy cap, at 5,895 metres (19,340ft), is now all but gone - 15 years beforescientists predicted it would melt through global warming, writes Paul Brown."

3/16/2005 02:44:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Senate votes to open arctic refuge to oil drilling: "WASHINGTON - Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President Bush. "

3/16/2005 12:49:00 PM | |

 

TPM - bankruptcy: "An analysis of the contributions shows that senators who voted to pass the bill raised an average of nearly twice as much between 1999 and 2004 from the finance and credit industry as those who voted against the bill.
Money talks. Loudly."

3/16/2005 11:33:00 AM | |

 

WorldCom verdict shows ignorance is no defense: "A federal jury didn't buy it. After a week of deliberations, Ebbers was found guilty Tuesday of masterminding a fraud so vast that it triggered the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. He faces up to 85 years behind bars. "

3/16/2005 10:58:00 AM | |

 

SI.com - Writers - The 10 Spot: March 16, 2005 - Wednesday March 16, 2005 10:23AM: "Fans of a South African rugby team called the Sharks had a rough night on Friday. First the Sharks lost to the Hurricanes. Then 16 fans were arrested for drunken driving. More than 40 were assessed for speeding, while four more were charged with drug possession. One fan had it even worse, as police say he drew a gun on an officer. The policeman returned fire, with a bullet going through the man's penis and coming out his buttocks."

3/16/2005 09:25:00 AM | |

 

CRM News: Commentary: Making Blogs Pay: "Blogging is quickly becoming part of the online lexicon of marketing, sales and support organizations as companies look for better ways to connect with customers."

3/16/2005 08:36:00 AM | |

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 

MSNBC - Reid threatens partial Senate shutdown: "He charged Bush and Frist with harboring a 'desire for absolute power.' "

3/15/2005 04:59:00 PM | |

 

The letter writer strikes again:

Hello,
I want to write in about President Bush’s budget. I am not happy with the priorities and morals that it represents. My girlfriend is a teacher and I write to tell you, they could use more money. Our schools and children could use more money. Firefighters, policemen and other first line responders could use more money. The Pentagon and our war machine, in my opinion, do not need more money.

I might also hope that more money and effort was put towards our once beautiful environment. This investment could come in many forms, I do not especially prefer one over another in this area- I just wish it was done in some way.

I truly love our soldiers – they are some of our best, most courageous fellow human beings – and I wish not that they lack a thing. I would prefer instead that they have all they need, our environment is near the front of our priorities along with our schools and first line responders and some multi-national corporations and other rich entities that benefit from a large Pentagon budget or lax tax policies feel a year-long or decade-long pinch.

President Bush’s budget does not reflect my values.

3/15/2005 04:16:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Tight vote on arctic refuge oil drilling expected: "Seeking to sidestep a Democratic filibuster that would require 60 votes to overcome, Republican leaders have put the Alaska refuge provision into a budget document that is immune to a filibuster under Senate rules."

Fucking bullshit. Fucking little sorry ass panty waists are so sure of their plan and how good it is that they have to sneak it in a back door, under cover. Fucking little sorry ass wimps.

Makes me fucking sick. Why no debate GOP? Why no public consideration? Plan is that good?

3/15/2005 03:20:00 PM | |

 

MercuryNews.com | 03/05/2005 | In the wake of the week: "Former Chicago Bulls G.M. Jerry Krause has been hired as a scout for the New York Mets, where there's no danger of him breaking up a good thing."

3/15/2005 01:21:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Snow blasts New Mexico, heads to panhandle: "�I�ve lived here for all my life, and this is one of the worst as far as how quick it (snow) accumulates,� said Steve Lucero, owner of a tow truck service at Las Vegas, where 2 feet of snow had fallen since the storm developed Monday."

3/15/2005 12:07:00 PM | |

Monday, March 14, 2005 

Taipei Times - archives

McCain demands accountability for torture

3/14/2005 02:58:00 PM | |

 

Toothpaste | MetaFilter: "Whatever else Chomsky is, he is also a scientist. Scientists make models and then test them. In this case, Chomsky's model is that politics in America is run by people who put image above substance for people who have been taught to respond to image before substance. If a few more people became aware of that fact, which I believe is the case, then perhaps some of them could begin to address it."

3/14/2005 02:38:00 PM | |

Sunday, March 13, 2005 

MSNBC - Bottom Dollar: "But beyond all the upbeat indicators lurks a potentially frightening problem that unsettles even the wisest and most seasoned economic observers. It's not government budget deficits, a possible housing bubble or even $2-a-gallon gasoline. It's the dollar."

3/13/2005 10:28:00 AM | |

Thursday, March 10, 2005 

Hello Mr. Scarborough,
Part of me says to stop reading you and especially don't put in anytime to try and change such a partisan mind, and the other part of me is writing this to you now.

It seems you are very caught up in liberal versus conservative, black versus white and you display it to me each time I read your material. In many ways sir, I feel very sorry for you that you cannot fully appreciate all your human brothers as equals and have to beat down on some like strawmen.

Everyone is worth while in their own right, is what I might say to you given the chance. I would remind you that this world that we float along on isn't ours. We are having a good run of it right now, but the winds feel like they are shifting a bit don't they? What with AIDS and some of our over-consumption, environmentally destructive ways catching up with us?

I would encourage you to use your public voice for a message of unity and finding the commonness between us. We share 99+% of our DNA afterall, we are all so similar. We truly have some impending, scary common problems that we could all focus on and direct our energy and words towards. It must get boring fighting strawmen and umongst ourselves, doesn't it?

Help us all move on.

3/10/2005 05:29:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Abu Ghraib's ex-chief: Kids held at prison: "WASHINGTON - Children held by the U.S. Army at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison included one boy who appeared to be only about 8 years old, the former commander of the prison told investigators, according to a transcript."

3/10/2005 05:05:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Congressional steroid hearings are a farce: "
But now, I look around and I notice that there are one or two trifling issues that I - ignorant as I am about the business of government - would think might be even more important than asking Jason Giambi how many times he and Jose jabbed each other in the butt and seeing how many times I can make him invoke the Fifth Amendment."

3/10/2005 09:22:00 AM | |

Wednesday, March 09, 2005 

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction | MetaFilter: "Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction "

3/09/2005 05:07:00 PM | |

 

THE NUMBING: "Under that agreement, stress is how reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don't just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing con�nectedness to Something Important - these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For them, the feeling of being busy is the feeling of being alive."

3/09/2005 04:55:00 PM | |

 

Salon.com Books | "Me" culture: "It would be very interesting to find out what would happen to what remains of the left if their attacks on global corporate culture and Disneyfication could be separated from their concern for the misery of the millions of people who are exploited by or left out of globalization. What if you said: 'OK, suppose you could ameliorate the living conditions of those people who are starving, dying, horribly, by the millions, and the price of that would be a global mall. Everyone would become mediated. Everyone would be politically correct. There'd be foolish tourists everywhere. There'd be no nature left. Everything would be an attraction site. The whole world would be Disneyfied. But there'd be no starvation.' What would you choose?"

3/09/2005 04:17:00 PM | |

 

Hello Mr. Scarborough,

Part of me says to stop reading you and especially don't put in any time to try and change such a partisan mind, and the other part of me is writing this to you now.

It seems you are very caught up in liberal versus conservative, black versus white and you display it to me each time I read your material. In many ways sir, I feel very sorry for you that you cannot fully appreciate all your human brothers as equals and have to beat down on some like strawmen.

Everyone is worthwhile in their own right, is what I might say to you given the chance. I would remind you that this world that we float along on isn't ours. We are having a good run of it right now, but the winds feel like they are shifting a bit don't they? What with AIDS and some of our over-consumption, environmentally destructive ways catching up with us?

I would encourage you to use your public voice for a message of unity and finding the commonness between us. We share 99+% of our DNA afterall, we are all so similar. We truly have some impending, scary common problems that we could all focus on and direct our energy and words towards. It must get boring fighting strawmen and umongst ourselves, doesn't it? Help us all move on.

3/09/2005 02:52:00 PM | |

 

Hello Mr. Scarborough,
Part of me says to stop reading you and especially don't put in any time to try and change such a partisan mind, and the other part of me is writing this to you now.

It seems you are very caught up in liberal versus conservative, black versus white and you display it to me each time I read your material. In many ways sir, I feel very sorry for you that you cannot fully appreciate all your human brothers as equals and have to beat down on some like strawmen.

Everyone is worthwhile in their own right, is what I might say to you given the chance. I would remind you that this world that we float along on isn't ours. We are having a good run of it right now, but the winds feel like they are shifting a bit don't they? What with AIDS and some of our over-consumption, environmentally destructive ways catching up with us?

I would encourage you to use your public voice for a message of unity and finding the commonness between us. We share 99+% of our DNA afterall, we are all so similar. We truly have some impending, scary common problems that we could all focus on and direct our energy and words towards. It must get boring fighting strawmen and umongst ourselves, doesn't it? Help us all move on.

3/09/2005 02:52:00 PM | |

 

Hello Mr. Scarborough,
Part of me says to stop reading you and especially don't put in any time to try and change such a partisan mind, and the other part of me is writing this to you now.

It seems you are very caught up in liberal versus conservative, black versus white and you display it to me each time I read your material. In many ways sir, I feel very sorry for you that you cannot fully appreciate all your human brothers as equals and have to beat down on some like strawmen.

Everyone is worthwhile in their own right, is what I might say to you given the chance. I would remind you that this world that we float along on isn't ours. We are having a good run of it right now, but the winds feel like they are shifting a bit don't they? What with AIDS and some of our over-consumption, environmentally destructive ways catching up with us?

I would encourage you to use your public voice for a message of unity and finding the commonness between us. We share 99+% of our DNA afterall, we are all so similar. We truly have some impending, scary common problems that we could all focus on and direct our energy and words towards. It must get boring fighting strawmen and umongst ourselves, doesn't it? Help us all move on.

3/09/2005 02:49:00 PM | |

 

Los Angeles Times: Sex, Lies and Spies: This Isn't News?: "In truth, they are failing to speak truth to power. "

3/09/2005 10:27:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Icy blast interrupts Northeast's spring fling: "The storm had largely blown out of New England by Wednesday, with snow lingering only in northern Maine, but temperatures were as low as 2 above zero at Pittsfield, Mass., with wind chills well below zero. Just two days earlier, temperatures in parts of the Northeast had hit the 60s."

3/09/2005 10:03:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Crumbling nation? U.S. infrastructure gets a 'D': "'Americans are spending more time stuck in traffic and less time at home with their families,' William Henry, the group's president, said in a statement. 'We need to establish a comprehensive, long-term infrastructure plan as opposed to our current 'patch and pray' method to ensure a better quality of life for everyone.'"

3/09/2005 09:53:00 AM | |

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 

As I finished the show (‘The Soldiers Heart’) last night I thought about a lot of things, but none more than why does one mentally and spiritually go a different way than the larger unit like some of those profiled on Frontline.

A recent study that was done showed that monkeys and us and probably many other species have these ‘mirror neurons’ in their brain that makes seeing or doing an action very similar as far as experience goes (e.g. why do I like porn?) For instance, a monkey in this study would eat a peanut and his brain would react a certain way. He then might see the scientist eat a peanut and his brain would react in exactly the same way. This was discovered quite by accident.

I write about this because I thought back to it while watching the show last night. You have this somewhat monolithic train going in a certain direction and explicitly and implicitly telling people what to think (you are a ‘fucking pussy’ if you need to talk to a therapist, you are loser if you can’t handle war, you would ‘be shot 50 years ago’ for being a coward like this) and certain people who say, ‘hey- this is not working for me. I am breaking down. I am cracking up.’ In the case of the profiled Jeff it is probably most difficult when these soldiers can’t come to grips with these feelings.

But who are the hero’s here? Well, I think they should all be proud of themselves- those who stay on the front line and never have a problem and those who need to rest and rethink things. I hope the military moves towards this direction and recognizes all.

It is hard to do though eh? Because on the one hand you want this brutal killing force who does as it is told every time and wins every time, but you also want to respect the individual and help your society and your citizens move in a healthy, peaceful direction.

The blade of war cuts in so many ways and it rests so deep inside. The reality is that our mirror neurons and probably other dark places in the grey matter in our head won’t ever let us truly get past these horrors. Even one who did his job heroically and comes home without a scratch harbors some very deep injuries- possibly even more destructive and deadly than some of the more outward injuries. Like as the case with Jeff, some come home ‘healthy’ seeing death as their only true way to peace.

3/08/2005 11:01:00 AM | |

 


It is a powerful show my good friends. It leaves one with so many things to think about.

3/08/2005 11:00:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - To the Front: "'I'm still an asset,' Metzdorf says. 'I just want to give back as much as I got.'"

How great are these guys? Amazing people. Another more indepth post to follow.

3/08/2005 10:55:00 AM | |

 

DimeMag.com: "Every time Ben Gordon touches the ball, the home Chicago crowd goes nuts. Make or miss. "

3/08/2005 09:14:00 AM | |

 

101 Zen Stories | MetaFilter: "One day Chuang-tzu and a friend were walking along a riverbank. 'How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water!' Chuang-tzu exclaimed.
'You are not a fish,' his friend said. 'How do you know whether or not the fishes are enjoying themselves?'
'You are not me,' Chuang-tzu said. 'How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?'"

3/08/2005 08:55:00 AM | |

Monday, March 07, 2005 


Beautiful New Zealand. Wheres Frodo?

3/07/2005 04:18:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - The CIA Chief Steps Into It ... Yet Again: "'The jobs that I'm being asked to do, the five hats that I wear, are too much for this mortal... I'm a little amazed at the workload.' Goss also reportedly said there was such 'ambiguity' in the intel-reform bill that he didn't know what his official relationship was supposed to be with John Negroponte, the newly named director of National Intelligence."

3/07/2005 03:38:00 PM | |

 

Boston.com / News / Nation / Bush backs policy on terror suspects

3/07/2005 01:38:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Buffett whiffs on mergers, prepares for succession: "'What Charlie and I would like is a little action now,' Buffett said. 'We don't enjoy sitting on $43 billion of cash equivalents that are earning paltry returns. Instead, we yearn to buy more fractional interests similar to those we now own or, better still, more large businesses outright.' "

Me too!

3/07/2005 12:55:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The Tiger awakened: "On the par-five 8th, Woods hit the longest drive of the tournament -- 363 yards. And on the par-five 12th, he carried a 3-wood 278 yards over the greenside bunker to within 18 feet of the flag. He made the eagle putt for a two-shot lead."

Holy @#$%

3/07/2005 10:43:00 AM | |

 

Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle Lyrics: "And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then "

3/07/2005 09:41:00 AM | |

 

CNN.com - Clinton sleeps on floor so elder Bush can have bed - Mar 6, 2005: "'We could have switched places, each getting half a night on the bed, but he deferred to me. That was a very courteous thing, very thoughtful, and that meant a great deal to me,' Bush said.
Bush said he and Clinton are not close, but have been compatible on the tour, partly because Clinton respects his age."

3/07/2005 09:21:00 AM | |

 

CNN.com - Top Democrat on budget panel slams Bush budget - Mar 5, 2005: "'It leaves out the full cost of his tax cuts. And remarkably, his budget contains not one dime to fund his Social Security privatization plan.
'These growing deficits and debt threaten our nation's long-term economic security. As deficits climb, we are borrowing more and more money from Japan, China, and even South Korea. That makes us weaker,' Conrad said, 'not stronger."

3/07/2005 09:00:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - U.S.: 'Absurd' to think troops targeted Italian: "In an article Sunday, Sgrena said her captors warned her shortly before her release to beware of the Americans. She later told Italian state TV RAI that 'when they let me go, it was a difficult moment for me because they told me, 'The Americans don't want you to return alive to Italy.' She didn't elaborate."

3/07/2005 08:52:00 AM | |

Friday, March 04, 2005 

The New York Times > Washington > Army Officials Voice Concern Over Shortfall in Recruitment: "The Army is so short of new recruits that for first time in nearly five years it failed in February to fill its monthly quota of volunteers sent to boot camp. Army officials called it the latest ominous sign of the Iraq war's impact on the military's ability to enlist fresh troops. "

3/04/2005 05:05:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Afghanistan now nearly 'a narcotics state': "WASHINGTON - More than three years after a pro-U.S. government was installed, Afghanistan has been unable to contain opium poppy production and is 'on the verge of becoming a narcotics state,' a presidential report said Friday."

3/04/2005 04:52:00 PM | |

 

The Curious Blogger: Remembering Hunter S. Thompson: "So an era has passed. A great American is gone. A warrior has fallen.

Which one of you will pick up his sword?"

3/04/2005 01:37:00 PM | |

 

Break out your tinfoil hats | MetaFilter: "It said the opposite: look, it said,
I am important enough to destroy.'

His body was breaking down. Immobility beckoned. And Hunter took
out his gun, and he shot it in the face. He that lives by the
Self shall die by the Self.

He took no shit, and he didn't give a fuck.

What a guy."

3/04/2005 01:26:00 PM | |

 

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Deficits and Deceit: "And the consequence of the failure of the starve-the-beast theory is a looming fiscal crisis - Mr. Greenspan isn't wrong about that. The middle class won't give up programs that are essential to its financial security; the right won't give up tax cuts that it sold on false pretenses. The only question now is when foreign investors, who have financed our deficits so far, will decide to pull the plug. "

3/04/2005 10:20:00 AM | |

 

Report says 25-cent a gallon gas price spike could be near. - Mar. 4, 2005: "Gasoline prices could rise by about quarter a gallon in the coming days to new record levels, according to a published report Friday.
USA Today, quoting energy experts and analysts, reported that a gain of 24 to 28 cents a gallon is possible as stations scramble to keep up with recent increases in oil and wholesale gasoline prices. "

3/04/2005 09:14:00 AM | |

 

MSNBC - Bush ally breaks ranks on global warming: "HOUSTON - Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, a close ally of the Bush family, broke ranks with the Bush administration on Thursday and called for the United States to get serious about global warming."

3/04/2005 08:12:00 AM | |

Thursday, March 03, 2005 

New York Daily News - Home - Daily News Exclusive: 'Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib'

3/03/2005 05:33:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Torture is Us: "He is on no one's registry of captives, not even as a 'ghost detainee,' the term for CIA captives held in military prisons but not registered on the books, they said.
'He just disappeared from the face of the earth,' said one U.S. government official with knowledge of the case.
The CIA case officer, meanwhile, has been promoted.' What's more, Senate Republicans are determined to insure that no honest investigation of US torture practices ever takes place, here."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/politics/02intel.html

3/03/2005 05:30:00 PM | |

 

The Winnipeg Free Press - View from the West: "Such control-freak antics may work in the virtual one-party state that now prevails in Washington. But in Canada we have a residual belief that politicians should be subject to a few checks and balances, an idea that your country once espoused before the days of empire. "

3/03/2005 05:17:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : We missed the real Chris Webber: "We all know people just like Chris Webber -- people uncomfortable with who they are, people who follow rather than lead, people who look for material things to define them, people who find momentary confidence in their association with others.
We're just shocked when we find those insecurities in people we view as possessing every gift that God has to offer."

3/03/2005 12:17:00 PM | |

 

TIME.com: Nursing a Grudge -- Mar. 07, 2005: "Perhaps someone should have warned Arnold Schwarzenegger that nurses are no pushovers. "

3/03/2005 09:45:00 AM | |

 

Greenspan: tax revamp should broaden base, cut rates - Mar. 3, 2005: "Greenspan said a move away from the current income tax to a tax on consumption could be the best way to promote economic growth. He said, however, a wholesale shift would raise 'a challenging set of transition issues' and noted such a move was considered, and discarded, in 1986.
The White House Council of Economic Advisers said last month incremental changes to the current system would be a better approach than more drastic changes, such as switching to a national sales tax or 'flat' income tax rate.
Many analysts say the Bush administration has effectively moved to a more consumption-based system over recent years by lowering marginal tax rates, cutting taxes on capital gains and dividends, and pushing for greater saving incentives. "

Gosh, one gets all excited about hearing 'consumption tax' thinking that maybe it was something to decrease America's hefty burden on our world and its resources, but alas, it is just another give away to the rich. Ugh.

3/03/2005 09:42:00 AM | |

Wednesday, March 02, 2005 

MSNBC - Ten ways to live longer: "'Those low on adult conscientiousness died sooner,' Friedman concluded. Conscientiousness does not mean looking both ways before crossing the street; it means looking both ways when the light turns green so you don't accidentally run down some slow-moving pedestrian. Beyond that, a conscientious person's long-living qualities probably have to do with the fact that they are predisposed to constructively reacting to emotional and social situations, and are more likely to create work and living environments that promote good health. "

3/02/2005 11:27:00 AM | |

Tuesday, March 01, 2005 

MSNBC - Sportsmanship is DOA in the USA: "I'm an optimist. I like to think that things can and will get better. In this country, we abolished slavery and child labor and we don't think it's acceptable for men to beat their wives. A recent poll said that a majority of the nation would accept a woman president. Some day, we'll break our dependence on oil, if only because we won't have a choice.


But on the issue of sportsmanship, I find it impossible to find any indication of improvement."

Agree with most of this, besides the last part. Come out to the street basketball game where money is not involved. It is a different experience and people are sportsmanlike, generally.

3/01/2005 05:17:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Imagine: 500 Miles Per Gallon: "We are actually very close to a solution to the petroleum problem. Tomorrow, President Bush could make the following speech: 'We are all concerned that the industrialized world, and increasingly the developing world, draw too much of their energy from one product, petroleum, which comes disproportionately from one volatile region, the Middle East. This dependence has significant political and environmental dangers for all of us. But there is now a solution, one that the United States will pursue actively."

3/01/2005 05:01:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Fat City in Poker Nation: "You go completely off the track and, before you know it, you've gained back all the weight you lost, and then some, and your motivation is long gone, too.
The problem is that you have begun to look at life as a series of isolated attempts to get healthy, so that the failure of one attempt justifies a long string of failures. "

3/01/2005 04:53:00 PM | |

 

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Barack Obama's Remarks to the Democratic National Convention: "And fellow Americans, Democrats, Republicans, Independents - I say to you tonight: we have more work to do. More work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Ill., who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour. More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. More to do for the young woman in East St. Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn't have the money to go to college. "

3/01/2005 04:09:00 PM | |

 

TomPaine.com - Climate Change And War: "Visiting Africa's Sahel region, Jeffrey Sachs says it's clear that climate change is already driving warfare in Ethiopia and Sudan. This time, peacekeepers, sanctions and humanitarian aid are not going to cut it. Instead, the developed world needs to cut its emissions drastically while helping developing countries adapt-and fast."

3/01/2005 03:43:00 PM | |

 

MSNBC - Soft Power, Hard Choices

3/01/2005 09:43:00 AM | |

 

CNN.com - Bush tapes handed over to White House - Mar 1, 2005: "He says he would refuse to answer questions about using LSD, cocaine and marijuana because 'I don't want any kid doing what I tried to do 30 years ago.'"

3/01/2005 09:33:00 AM | |

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