What? David is a chimp-human hybrid! Well, at least he is a good speciman!

"...It turns out that not only did humans descend from monkeys; they also screwed them. Now how are you going to explain that to the kids?..."

She should say, "Jenna, Barbara, He may be a Chimp, but he's STILL your FATHER..."

Monkeys are people too, just not as capable people?

To quote Bill Maher in reference to president chimp, "It's hard to be a chimp".

I'm off to western Utah this weekend. So until next week,
Later,
th

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." ~ Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Der Spiegel, 1989

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there." ~ Henry James (1843 - 1916)

"Man is more ape than many of the apes." ~
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man." ~ H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Aaahhhh nature. It doesn't listen to George W. Neither do the geneticist or the anthropologists thank goodness.

sock monkeys

Damn,

I was hoping David would address his Karl Rove is going to be indicted post. I guess if you're so wrong then it's best not to remind everyone how desperate you are for such a claim.

It turns out that David's inside info was way off:

The Case Against Libby Weakens
May 19th, 2006

The Libby case has always tantalized the left with its imagined scent of corruption in the White House. Libby himself was a highly-placed target, but the blood lust raged for a bigger name. The left was gnawing their paws at the growing realization that Karl Rove probably won’¥ be indicted, despite the Jason Leopold-sponsored rumor that swept the left blogosphere.

Now the Washington Note reports that Bobby Ray Inman, former head of the NSA, said that it was really Richard Armitage, Colin Powell’≥, Deputy who was in Fitzgerald’≥ cross hairs.

Just One Minute has had a lively discussion on the matter all yesterday following poster Windansea’≥ spotting the article. There is some reason to think there is merit to the claim. Among the reasons are these:

Armitage is widely believed to have been the source on Plame to both Novak and Woodward. Woodward has indicated he twice asked his source to relieve him of his pledge of confidentiality.

Armitage is also believed to be Novak’≥ source. And Novak just appeared again before the grand jury.

Libby has asserted in his pleadings that there was in internecine battle going on between the CIA and Department of State on one hand and the Office of the Vice President on the other, and that warfare was hardly secret.

Armitage seems to have been the source of leaks about the White House response to the Wilson charges.

If the rumor is true, what does this do to the Libby case? Briefly, I think it weakens an already weak case.

In his press conference, Fitzgerald said Libby was the first to disclose Plame’≥ identity. Shortly after that Woodward came forward with news that an unidentified official (probably Armitage) in fact was the first. Moreover Woodward who had no reason to believe the information was classified said he told others, including Walter Pincus, a fellow Washington Post reporter and Libby himself. In fact, he wasn’¥ sure how many others he told, though in a Vanity Fair article a former Post editor Ben Bradley indicated he was one of those told.

prominent Boston Jesuit school to award U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice an honorary degree

#9
Why?

Jeanne,

She's to be the speaker at Graduation this year... Common practice to bestow honorarium (there's money involved, too, of course) upon high-profile folks...you can add 'em to the names on the plaques on the walls.

Why is Conned Ya Lies'tYa giving the address? Probably just to piss off those libruls down at B.U., the 'Gggrls at Wellesley, the leftist pinkos at Tufts...But who cares?

"Boston's not really a big college town, anyway!"

-T

I posted about a prof that quit over NeoCondi speaking.

There is at least one principled soul!

capt

Good posting David Corn! Vintage stuff for the radical right to chew on!

Human-animal hybrids? What a tantalizing distraction! Is there a vaccination for that?

Hayden's 'Tap Phones To Catch Terrorists' Lie Doesn't Wash
Massive Echelon snoop program did exist before 9/11, US government knew location of hijackers

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | May 19 2006

General Hayden's justification that the NSA surveillance program would have prevented 9/11 by uncovering two of the alleged hijackers is a complete fallacy for two reasons. One - a global spying network to dwarf the domestic eavesdropping controversy that tracks all communications, Echelon, was in existence. Two - the alleged 9/11 hijackers were tracked and catalogued by the US government.

During his confirmation hearing Hayden said that if the warrantless domestic surveillance program had been in place before 9/11, two of the alleged 9/11 hijackers (or US government agents), Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, would have been caught.

"The NSA would have raised its hand and said, 'Hey, these guys are in San Diego,' " he said.

Firstly, the Echelon program has collected information in violation of the 4th Amendment from American citizen's phone calls since the early 90's at least. In addition, a 2001 European Parliament report stated that "within Europe all e-mail, telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted" by the NSA.

The fact that Echelon barely even merited a mention during the recent furore created by the USA Today piece goes to show how utterly useless our media are in recalling what has already been admitted and proven.

Hayden's assertion that a pre-9/11 domestic NSA eavesdropping program would have led to the capture of Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi is completely misleading.

Two days after 9/11 Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the Echelon spy network had provided warnings of the attack 6 months in advance, dispelling Hayden's claim that no such surveillance network was active before 9/11.

The CIA knew exactly where Almihdhar and Alhazmi were two months before 9/11 because they were living an FBI informant in San Diego. Newsweek reported this in their story, The Informant Who Lived With the Hijackers, and it was also picked up by Reuters who ran it under the headline, CIA Knew Two Sept. 11 Hijackers Were in U.S.

The CIA had also tracked the individuals to a supposed Al-Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January 2000 and then let them back into the US. The US government was fully aware of their movements without the need for a phone tap and allowed them safe passage around the globe.

Hayden's claim that an NSA phone tap would have uncovered Almihdhar and Alhazmi's San Diego base is totally at odds with the fact that the CIA knew their location anyway and they were also living with an FBI informant.

This is a cynical and deceptive move on the part of Hayden to try and sell the illegal wiretapping of American citizens on the fraudulent basis that it could have stopped 9/11. A cursory examination of the facts exposes Hayden's mendacity and his temerity in fooling the American people into supporting the wholesale subjugation of the Constitution.
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More proof of more lies from the liars, as if we needed more proof. Is there any difference at all whether bushco knew all about the hijackers and allowed them to go forward so they could have the New Pearl Harbor or whether they orchestrated it themselves? It is all the same thing as far as I am concerned.

in fact it was I who posted about a prof that quit over NeoCondi speaking. you just forgot to say jinx! - ha

I'm a fleabit peanut monkey
All my friends are junkies
That's not really true
I'm a cold Italian pizza
I could use a lemon squeezer
Would you do?
But I've been bit and I've been tossed around
By every she-rat in this town
Have you, babe?
Well, I am just a monkey man
I'm glad you are a monkey woman too
I was bitten by a boar
I was gouged and I was gored
But I pulled it on through
Yes, I'm a sack of broken eggs
I always have an unmade bed
Don't you?
Well, I hope we're not too messianic
Or a trifle too satanic
We love to play the blues
Well I am just a monkey man
I'm glad you are a monkey, monkey woman too, babe
I'm a monkey
I'm a monkey
I'm a monkey man
I'm a monkey man
I'm a monkey...

"Monkey Man" - Rolling Stones

Whoops!!!

Pat "Leaky" Leahy Aided NSA Phone Taps
In 1994 Sen. Pat "Leaky" Leahy co-wrote a law that forced telecommunications carriers to build convenient wiretap features into their networks enabling the kind of telephone records collection now at the heart of the controversy over the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance operation.

In recent days Leahy has called the NSA's actions troubling and potentially illegal - saying they show that the Bush administration is treating Americans like terrorists.
"'The secret collection of phone call records of tens of millions of Americans?" he exclaimed after USA Today blew the lid off the program last week. "Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al-Qaeda?"

But according to the Rutland Herald, Leahy was singing a different tune 12 years ago, when he was pushing the Senate to pass his bill, the Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [CALEA].

"I suggest to senators if anybody does want to hold [CALEA] up, I hope that at this time next year, neither they nor their constituents, nor anybody they know, is a kidnap victim or victim of a terrorist, and have somebody ask why nothing can be done, and be told because a law that had probably 99 percent support in the House and the Senate did not pass."

Contacted by the Herald earlier this week, Leahy said there was an important difference between what his law authorized and the actions taken by the Bush administration.

"That law talks of the technology of the interception and what technology can be used to intercept and it assumes very clearly that it can only be done with a warrant," the Vermont Democrat insisted.

Some legal experts say, however, said that assumption is not as clear as Leahy claims. Analyzing CALEA in 2003, the Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal explained:
"CALEA requires a telecommunications provider to make 'its equipment, facilities, or services ... capable of ... enabling the government ... [without a warrant] to intercept ... all wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier.'"

Civil libertarians are also troubled by Leahy's law.

"The secret search and wiretap provisions could lead to an age of Big Brother-like surveillance," the American Civil Liberties Union complained in the same Law Journal report. "Americans who oppose U.S. policies and who are believed to have ties to foreign powers could find their homes broken into and their telephones tapped."

Why are progressives so damn stupid?

The missing facts in 'United 93'

I believe that Bush's neo-cons ALLOWED 9-11 to occur (at least allowed, perhaps helped or even designed), in order to justify wars aimed at dominating the Middle East and to squelch domestic dissent here at home. The global capital that these power-players stood to acquire must have FAR outweighed the American lives they were willing to sacrifice. The neo-cons' "Project for a New American Century" basically comes out and admits these things.

They probably allowed jets to hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon for the PR spectacle it would create (also suspicious is the fact that the Pentagon was hit on the one side that had received extra structural reinformcement, a 1 out of 5 chance, and the fact that most of the Pentagon workers in that section didn't have to report to work there on that day). But they didn't want the White House to be hit since it would make the U.S. government appear too vulnerable -- a jet hitting the Pentagon didn't do much damage, but a jet hitting the White House would have demolished it. So they probably allowed some military pilot to go ahead and shoot down Flight 93 before it could get to the White House. They gave us hyped up, "heroic" stories about Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch, and BOTH turned out to be false, blatant PR stunts designed to rally positive war sentiment at home. I see the "let's roll" aspect of Flight 93 to be a similar ploy.

I think a film like "United 93" is intended to keep the wool firmly pulled down over our eyes, to make us feel like we KNOW what happened on 9-11, so that we won't bother to look into other accounts. It might be a good film, but it is most likely FICTION, not fact. I pray that intelligent, influential men like yourself will look into these strange facts before America is lost down the road of lies forever.

More HERE

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The fact that several eyewitnesses say they saw a second plane is odd but I get stuck on how fast the plane would have to be going when it hit the earth to make stuff bounce 8 miles (an engine if I am not mistaken).

I wonder if that has happened before, or at another crash site.

capt

and speaking of ha's, we all know that the pentagon was attacked on 911 right? the terrorists flew a 757 into the first floor of the building, but for some reason the face of the building where the plane hit remained standing for almost an hour after the plane hit it! (heckuva job rummy!) so if you go here and look at the 2 photos #7, you can see the tremendous hole where the plane went before the wall fell down! see it? it's the one where the flame is. (heckuva job rummy!)

"Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al-Qaeda?"

What's your answer, LBH?

Humans and chimpanzees were interbreeding for all this time before finally separating no more than 6.3 million years ago and probably less than 5.4 million years ago.

The researchers are now working to sequence the complete genome of other close relatives of humans, including gorillas and orangutans.
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When they get to Jackasses they'll finally discover the progressive family tree. The only difference is that they are still interbreeding!!
Ha Ha!

Human-animal hybrids are the lizard people mentioned by David Icke as being able to shape shift between lizard and human forms. They are well documented on the internet. They are said to be an alien species. Read all about em!

"Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al-Qaeda?"

What's your answer, LBH?

Posted by Don

No Don, Leaky Leahy is telling you that they were involved just before telling you that they weren't. Sound familiar? Besides, the phone companies are saying that the USA Today story is as honest as Leaky Leahy.

What's your answer?

Chimps are not cute or nice critters. In the wild they roam in packs. When they encounter a chimp from another location they will dismember and rip the stray chimp to pieces. Not a sight for the squeamish.

We may be of less hair but just as deadly as they are.

Besides, the phone companies are saying that the USA Today story is as honest as Leaky Leahy.

And an executive order signed on May 5 allows the phone companies to lie about their shameful betrayal of the privacy of their customers. So we should just trust anything they say, right?

I guess we've got to destroy our freedom in order to save it.

Frolic and dance in the Kool-Aid fountain, you fucking idiot. I'm not interested.

Smirking Chimp today:

I get more than a little pissed off when some yahoo Bush worshipper calls me un-American because I don't support the Bush administration or the one-party Republican government now in power. I find it bitterly ironic that such folks hear the march of freedom where I hear the strident goose-stepping of a fascism that has already caused untold destruction and threatens to be a great deal more destructive than Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. Who in hell do these numbskulls think they're kidding?

Charles Ashley tells it like it is.

when i think of the utter savagery those towel monkeys exhibited on 911 it just makes me want to
destroy all monkeys!

but before i do can anyone tell me how they were able to pilot a 757 when they accidentally left their copy of "How To Fly A 757" in a suitcase that didn't make the flight?
a suitcase! hmmm, let's see...."things i will need to pack in my suitcase for my glorious suicide hijacking.....1) clean socks....2) my new red tie....oh, i almost forgot! 3) my copy of "How To Fly A 757"!

And an executive order signed on May 5 allows the phone companies to lie about their shameful betrayal of the privacy of their customers. So we should just trust anything they say, right?

By Don

Who said you had to have a phone?

Den this is a much better story from your post:

Jan Frel: 'Why are Gore and Kerry polling worse than Bush?'

That's funny!!!

Frolic and dance in the Kool-Aid fountain, you fucking idiot. I'm not interested.

By Don

Really Don, does using big words like fucking idiot make you feel like a tough guy? I'm not interested.

Frolic and dance in the Kool-Aid fountain.
By Don

Better to be frolicing and dancing than sulking and cursing. Be Happy Don!!

oh horrors! i accidentally left the copy of "How To Fly A 757" in the suitcase! oh whatever shall we do now?

never fear my friend, we will simply fly around for an hour while you acquaint yourself with the controls of this simple flying machine! after all, how difficult can it be?

oh why me? i am not mentally equipped to handle this!

my friend, you are the only one of us who can reach the pedals.....hostage! more coffee!

Space Aliens From Luxembourg: A Horror Story

Re #19: Not so, capt. The object from Flight 93 that was found 8 miles away was a bank cheque. Popular Mechanics states that an engine 'bounced' several hundred meters. Strictly speaking, the engine was ejected from the impact crater. This is sort of like the splash back you get if you pour too fast or at the wrong angle.

Find the Flight 93 section

has visuals of the impact crater, clearly many meters across, not james' 10'x10' hole.

find the flight93 section

i still say that i've dug bigger holes than that using just a shovel.

Who runs that site? Casper? Many Govt links, me thinks it be bogus.

dr. benson, did you not say something the other day about credentials or the lack thereof? it's odd that the site that you are so fond of siting: 911myths.com, seems to be lacking any credentials entirely whatsoever! i don't even see a contact section. - and i still claim to have dug bigger holes than that with a mere shovel.

James, Govt shill@ work!

Re #36: Maybe so, but it is big. It is also about 32 meters to the bottom. Natrually, lots of the dirt stayed in the hole. The site I linked above has a visual of digging it out.

Re #37: As he clearly states, if you had bothered to check for yourself, he is an Englishman. And what is wrong with a gvnmt link? That is all anybody posts when those are the only visuals available...

James, Who they think we are? bunch of lockstep lemmings? Hell even Rense has contact info. I really hate bullshitters

32 meters to the bottom? how many feet is that exactly? so how tall would that man standing it the hole be? wait, you mean that flight93 plunged 32 meters into the ground like a lawn dart and then shoveled dirt in behind itself? that must be what happened. flight93hoax.blogspot.com

Another repug cheating the system. None other than Rick Sanitarium who keeps an empty house in his district for residency requirements but lives in Virginia. Read the cheaters story here

James, 105 feet deep, almost as deep as the BS being played here.

DEN and james --- Mike Williams used to have an e-mail address posted. I guess he got tired of spew... He is completely open about his lack of authority or credentials. He is quite sensible. In particular, he has chosen a slightly different collection of the visuals from those linked in #36. However, it is clear to me that it was the same photographer in both cases. It is just that the selection used in the site linked in #36 are designed to mislead you. It is a myth-information site. Mike Williams' site clearly states you need to make up your own mind.

james, I really doubt your claim to have dug a hole with a shovel which is many tnes of meters wide and over 32 meters deep in the center. ;-)

Another amateur site

offers a somewhat different perspective on 2001 Sep 11. The webmaster for this site does not claim any expertise. He does, however, seriously research both useful visuals and seems to have read and organized all the Firhouse.com interviews. Have you?

James, those hijacking Muslamiacs knew they could fly around all day and learn how to fly a 757, and not be noticed, because of the drills simulating multiple hijackings of jet liners going on at the very same time. Just another one of those lucky coinkydinks!

DB declares a person having wits or lacking wits, and that makes it so, AMEN. (The person with the wits is the one who agrees with his theory of freedom hating, suicide Muslims smart enough to outwit the entire US military and intelligence apparatus, but so stupid they thought their checked luggage containing their last wills and testaments would find it's way to their loved ones!) LOL!

Fitting that a condescending know-it-all's link doesn't work, eh? heh heh

oh no - i've dug several holes in my medium length life-span that are bigger than the hole that is purported to be the crater where flight93 crashed. none came anywhere near 32 meters in depth OR scope though.

Human-animal hybrids are the lizard people...

Shiiiiiittt dude, how much water did you drink?!!! haha (from the lizard/alligator joke on the other thread).

i think this is the site that DB linked?: debunking911

pretty much ALL 911 sites are amateur sites with the exception of NIST, Prof. Jones, and Sami Yli-Karjanmaa's debunk of the ASCE's Pentagon Building Performance Report.

coolness! Leslie Robertson relied to my email asking about the towers, in particular the mass tuned damper (counterweight at top of some buildings). Still can't remember where I seen or heard about it, but apparently they were wrong. I'd believe Mr. Robertson first.
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There was no counterweight. We invented and then used visco-elastic dampers.

Les

LESLIE E. ROBERTSON
P.E., C.E., S.E., D.Sc., D.Eng., NAE, F.ASCE, AIJ, JSCA, AGIR

his Wiki entry

and i would believe Frank A. De Martini: Manager, WTC Construction & Project Management, first. except he's been missing since 911 -

Frank A. De Martini: Manager, WTC Construction & Project Management. Missing since 9/11/01 - Recorded 01/25/01
"The building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it, that was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building could probably sustain multiple impacts of jet liners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door, this intense grid, and the jetplane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting. It really does nothing to the screen netting."

Who said you had to have a phone?

Look, LBH, call the NSA and tell them you don't care if they tap into your phone calls, e-mails, etc. Hell, let them set up a video camera in your bedroom to watch you frolic (there's that word again...gotta love it!) with your inflatable Tom Cruise love-doll (not that there's anything WRONG with that).

But DON'T ask me to give up my freedom because you're scared of the boxcutter-wielding Muslims in your closet, OK?

James, ya know we could pound the keyboard till our fingers bleed and someone would claim we were wrong about 9/11. Truth is immaterial any more, lies, lies, lies is the way of the New Bizzaro World Order. Why? there is no money to be made with truth, but lies make the rich even richer.

Re #51: Thanks, james. I forgot the correct url and forgot to check it on the preview. Jus' an amateur.

debunking911

However, neither the above site nor 911myths have the visuals I was thinking of. Maybe I'll find the correct site again sometime. In the meantime, try

Errors

remember Planet of the Apes?

The film uses the depiction of ape society to attack notions of human superiority. In particular, the apes' prejudice against humans, based on religion, can be seen as an attack both on creationism (Taylor's trial bearing some resemblance to the real-life Scopes Monkey Trial, and the apes' religious texts to the King James Version of the Bible) and on the idea of an "evolutionary ladder" with humans at the top.

The story of the Tower of Babel is reflected in the nuclear war that, the movie implies, abases the human population and elevates the apes —†human arrogance and self-assurance cause the humans' downfall.

The famous last shot of the film.The contrast between the mute and primitive humans and the cultured apes echoes the relationship between the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels. Both the apes and Swift's Houyhnhnms possess reason and speech, and use those capabilities to oppress a more primitive humanoid population; both works satirize human-centric biases by having the speaking creatures commit "reasonable" acts which the audience can perceive as blatantly immoral (the apes' lobotomizing of Landon, the Houyhnhnms' hunting of Yahoos).

Taylor the "why" on how apes became intelligent, talking creatures and humans the slaves (a question we eventually would find the answer to throughout the film series). Soon after his escape, however, Taylor discovers the Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand of a beach. He realizes that he's really back on Earth (albeit in the future) and that mankind has finally decimated civilization by a nuclear war.

Charlton Hestons line when he recovers his voice "Get your hands off me you damned, dirty apes!" This was a sort a human Declaration of Independence in Apeland, not to mess with humans, at least not Heston.

Can you imagine how Karl Rove feels (well feeling is a stretch for Karl.) No word on whether he will be indicted or not.

I am anxious for some justice.

Holy shit, Kathleen, did you write a thesis on Planet of the Apes when you were in school? That sounds awful scholarly!

Ape must not kill Ape!

Just this week I remember reading that scientists now believe a certain species of monkey can speak in full sentences (in monkey language.) The example used was something like "ack-ack-ack pow-pow" means "let's get out of here."

Of course their sentences are very simple as these are simple-mnded creatures. Some of these utterances have been translated as:

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

"I'm the decider."

"You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish to have."

(Apologies to the monkeys--they're just dumb, not evil and dumb)

Let me start by saying that as I listened to the Diane Rehn show, Diane says we have a call from Athens, Ohio. Kathleen, what is your question? On the radio you hear Kathleen's voice. Now I can place a printed word with a voice. Kathleen spoke concisely and that is good. There are speakers who come on the air and when they say they have a comment and a question, the comment can be endless.

With regard to monkeys I recall that my mother would say to me, "You little monkey!" Whenever she made that comment, it came after I did something clever. It was meant as a positive comment.

Monkeys are clever and entertaining but there is one chimp who is cruel and deadly. We know him by the name of Bushitler.

Remember that scene in Battle for the Conquest of the Underneath the Planet of the Apes where Clint Eastwood says "ack-ack-ack pow-pow" and everyone runs like a motherfucker?

No?

Probably 'cause I just made it up!

David the fundamentalist will not have any problem ripping this up. Harvard, MIT, 99% of scientist agree on evolution....who cares that it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.

They have the Bible. God's WORD. A historical perspective written by a bunch of Jewish guys.
God's WORD. Oh yeah the Bible tells us that God was a real estate broker too.

and i would believe Frank A. De Martini: Manager, WTC Construction & Project Management

That would be the builder. I'd trust the disigner and lead structural engineer before him. Hell, I was a builder. It's easy to take the prints and build something to specs. It's the people that design the specs that know more.

The US is poking the Venezuelan beehive by conducting "Exercises" in the Carribean off the coast, Hugo is not impressed.

Bushitler readies to attack Venezuela, a military power, in Latin America.

One of my favorite scumbag and slimeball characters on the Washington scene is Rick Santorum. It has been said that Slick Rick has an empty house in Pennsylvania so he can run for senator and he resides in Virginia, his real home.

We all remember Slick Rick endorsing Arlen Specter for senator. Slick Rick is supposedly pro-life and Arlen Specter is pro-choice. So much for moral values on the part of Slick Rick!!!

Its tough being a bushbot troll.

Monkeys Use 'Code Words' to Warn of Predators

If you're a putty-nosed monkey and you hear a friend whoop out a loud "pyow" call, you know there's a leopard sneaking around and it's time to boogie.

Similarly, if you hear a "hack," it means you should watch out for a hungry eagle.

A new study reveals that these monkeys can mix the two calls into a "pyow-hack" sequence to broadcast other types of information.

The findings, reported in the May 18 issue of the journal Nature, indicate that non-human primates can combine calls into higher-order sequences that have a particular meaning.

More HERE

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That and dolphins call each other by name.

capt

Snuggly the Security Bear

Dolphins Name Themselves

A high-pitched "wee-o-wee-o-wee-o-wee" whistle might not sound like much to you, but it's exactly how a dolphin might introduce itself.

Because sight is limited in the ocean, dolphins create individual "name" calls to communicate their whereabouts to friends and families.

But it's not as simple as just recognizing a voice, as with most animals. A new study reveals that the calls contain frequency changes that dolphins recognize.

More HERE

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They say scientists have known this for some time. I find it very cool!

capt

A musical tribute to Ronnie Raygun, Zap, Zap!

The Corn blog/-Nuts often pop up in my mind with `stuff' like below:

Growing concern over Internet addiction

Friday, May 19, 2006; Posted: 12:10 p.m. EDT (16:10 GMT)

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- For some, the Internet has become an addiction, adversely affecting their lives and their family's lives.

While not yet defined as a true addiction, many people are suffering the consequences of obsession with the online world, warns Dr. Diane M. Wieland, who treats patients with computer addiction.....

....the Internet may promote addictive behaviors and pseudo-intimate interpersonal relationships...."Such cyberspace contacts may result in cyber disorders such as virtual relationships that evolve into online marital infidelity (cybersex) or online sexually compulsive behaviors," she writes.

....The prevalence of Internet addiction is hard to gauge at the moment, Wieland notes...she thinks that 5 percent to 10 percent of Internet users will most likely experience addiction.

Signs and symptoms of Internet addiction include a general disregard for health and appearance; sleep deprivation due to spending so much time online; and decreased physical activity and social interaction with others. Dry eyes, carpal tunnel syndrome, and repetitive motion injuries of the hands and fingers are common.

Internet addicts may also get the "cyber shakes" when off line, exhibiting agitation and typing motions of the fingers when not at the computer.

Many Internet addicts have a history of depression, alcohol or drug abuse, and anxiety disorder, according to Wieland, who is an associate professor at the La Salle University School of Nursing.

"Denial is strong in Internet addicts who claim they cannot be addicted to a machine," Wieland notes....

People who....might be an Internet addict...can find out by taking a screening test...

Copyright 2006 Reuters.
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Some members of the hardcore Regulars definitely fall into the `addicted' catagory....David is to be commended for running this NON-PROFIT Half-Way Blog for his collection of `addicts'!

Very Funny!

Who said you had to have a phone?

Look, LBH, call the NSA and tell them you don't care if they tap into your phone calls, e-mails, etc. Hell, let them set up a video camera in your bedroom to watch you frolic (there's that word again...gotta love it!) with your inflatable Tom Cruise love-doll (not that there's anything WRONG with that).

But DON'T ask me to give up my freedom because you're scared of the boxcutter-wielding Muslims in your closet, OK?

Posted bt Don

Don, I hate fucking phones,who cares. Let the NSA listen in to telemarketers trying to convince me to refinance. Maybe they could put a stop to the bastards. Ha Ha.

Inflatable Tom Cruise doll? I thought you progressives were beyond gay bashing?

I'm not asking you to give up your freedoms. That would be your buddy Leaky Leahy, didn't you read my post? Get a clue and quit sniffing glue!!

If you really cared about freedom then you should be more concerned about the progressive bastards that want to take away our guns not our emails.

Well, no Rove indictment this week. :-(

i just ate a dolphin sandwich....

oh my mistake - it was a 100% dolphin safe sandwich

bushorchimp.com

What? David is a chimp-human hybrid! Well, at least he is a good speciman!
Posted by: Happy-Happiest hybrid at May 19, 2006

So are YOU monkey boy. Want a banana?

sigh. jinx.

spy monkeys

David,

If humans evolved from chimps, why are there still chimps? And I don't mean GWB.

LOS ANGELES - Eight workers at the city's Department of Water and Power have been arrested because they were unauthorized to work in the United States, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

The agency arrested five people Tuesday and had previously arrested three others as part of a yearlong review of the utility's employment records by the agency and the utility itself.

The workers held both blue collar and management jobs, according to an ICE statement. All had been with the company for at least three years and one made more than $100,000 a year.

So much for the Mexicans taking those low paying jobs Americans don't want.

Gerald the only problem I had with my statement and question on the Rehm show today, is that I wish I had said more about what Phase II of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is. How the Office of Special Plans and all of the false and cherry picked intelligence that was created and dessiminated out of this office and Douglas Feith have been "off limits" to the Silberman/Robb report and Phase I of the SSCI. How this investigation has been roadblocked and stalled by Senator Pat Roberts. How (R) Senator Pat Roberts shifted the responsibility of investigating the Office of Special Plans to the Inspector General of the Pentagon basically allowing the Pentagon to investigate themselves (what kind of legitimate investigation is this?).

I wish I would have said that the Senate should be simultaneously conducting their own thorough investigation of Feith and the OSP, that this is their job.

I wish I had said that the Republican controlled congress required a President to testify under oath about a blowjob and held that President accountable for lying under oath.

I wish I had said that because I live in Ohio I expect (R) Ohio Senator Dewine (who is on the SSCI) to take his responsibility for holding those responsible for creating and dessiminating this false intelligence accountable far more seriously. That Senator Dewine voted to force Clinton to testify under oath about his extra marital affair. That many of us have noticed and are talking about how Senator Dewine voted to impeach Clinton for lying under oath. That we have noticed that Senator Dewine's priorities are highly suspicious and that they lack integrity. That we expect Dewine to find using false intelligence to support the Bush administrations claims about WMD's (which have resulted in tens of thousands of dead) more or at the very least equally as important as holding a President accountable for lying under oath about a blowjob. Call me irrational!

I wish I had said that whether people are Republicans, Democrats or Independents that we should all expect this Republican controlled congress to thoroughly investigate, and hold those responsible for this false and cherry picked pre-war intelligence accountable. That this is the very least that our Representatives can do for those tens of thousands of people who have needlessly lost their lives.

I wish I had said that the reason for holding those responsible ACCOUNTABLE is so that they are less likely to try it again. OOps it is a little late! These right wing radicals have been able to use the last three years to build up steam for completing their regime change agenda in Iran.

But I did not say any of these things on the Diane Rehm show today. I kept it simple. But guess what? I have brought up Phase II of the SSCI in the past and I will continue to do so. GUARANTEED.

The reason for my commitment to this are the tens of thousands of Iraqi lives that have been lost due to what my country has done to theirs. I have also looked into the eyes of many, many soldiers returning from Iraq, and the eyes of Vets eyes who served in WWII, the Korean, and Vietnam war. I have asked them respectful and careful questions. I have heard their horrifying stories and been deeply moved and affected as I watched them have a hard time swallowing, as tears run down their faces as they willingly share their memories that they try hard to forget but will live with them the rest of their lives. Their honesty, bravery and willingness to be human, move them to speak the truth. I am fully aware that I do not know what it is like to serve in a war or suffer those horrors. But what I do know is that I have heard hundreds of Vets say over and over again how wrong it is to send people to war based on lies to kill people who have done absolutely nothing to us. That this war ( and many others) are terribly immoral and that our nation is spiritually bankrupt. I am not sure if there is really anything we can do about this. But I do know that David Corn and some others in the media, those who marched against this illegal war, these Vets, and many of the people who post (is that the right term?) here at Corn world are trying hard to make our country more moral and just.

Call, write, lobby. Ask your Representatives why we have yet to witness anyone held accountable for these lies. Ask about the status of Phase II of the SSCI.

Call or write the Rehm show ask her to do a show on the status of PHASE II OF THE SSCI. ( I have been asking the producers for two and a half years). Diane and her producers are responsive to reasonable pressure.

Sock monkeys like sock puppets are spoof posters who have self-awareness of their own diverse cross-species dna. Mick Jagger was the first contemporary artist to sing about it, I'm a Monkey Man and all my friends are monkeys too. . .

Like the fiction of the Da Vinci Code, the newly revealed mystery of man's genetic history as non-fiction challenges religious dogma throughout the christian world.

The Corn blog/-Nuts often pop up in my mind with `stuff' like. . . .
Posted by: Happy cybersex among CornNuts at May 19, 2006

Mental master debater.

well that's just the way the Feith Based Initiative works; make sure that it's off limits to any meaningful investigation!

corn monkey

hmmm, the corn monkey can be viewed at this url:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photochiel/66800265/in/set-1440628/

Re #89: james, your corn monkey comes up 404.

Have folks looked at all of the Contagious Fest winners at Huffington Post? What a hoot? Several about Colbert's amazing truth telling. These are guaranteed to make your cheeks hurt.

Hey Alan, DB says he knows where you can buy a copy of the REAL WTC blueprints. Someone should get on that, I've been trying but can't find them anywhere!

Civil War
Guns N Roses
Lyrics Sent by a reader to WRH

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

Did you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fighting
For their promised land

And I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry selling soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

Re #93: saladin, I didn't say that. Nor write that. What I wrote was to the effect that if you ask on the PhysOrgForum thread devoted to Basic Physics, someone there can probably tell you where to order a copy of the WTC towers plans. But I doubt you want to afford to buy a full set. Further, I doubt you want to buy/rent the two to four house trailers it will take to store the set. Alan can explain it to you.

On the other hand, NIST has a free site which probably has everything you would actually want. Access via

debunking911

90 james, david used a different head shot for the photo on the jacket cover of his last book.

did anybody catch where david has done publicity for the new book? I've been curious about the new book for months all the while david has been witholding the goods. i thought maybe if I knew where he's doing publicity I could watch the clip or read the coverage.

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting." ~ Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"

97 True Capt. . . nonetheless I didn't feel very patient waiting in line for service at Fedex Kinko's today.

We arrived on, uh, late Monday night [September 10th] and went into action on Tuesday morning [September 11th]; and not until today did we get a full opportunity to work, uh, the entire site. — Tom Kenny (FEMA), speaking to CBS anchor Dan Rather on September 12th.

The opinion piece seems to have disappeared from BuzzFlash, but here is the Alternet story on which it wa based:

Another early warning of 9/11?

james will just eat up the comments at the end...

TRH,

The study mentioned states a bifurcation of the genetic lines of Chimpanze and Man. The proper question would be..."If man and chimp evolved from the same species, isn't there still a, uhm, whatever it was that they evolved from?"

And the answer is...there isn't.

-T

Believe what you want to believe.

"When they get to Jackasses they'll finally discover the progressive family tree. The only difference is that they are still interbreeding!
Ha Ha!"
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LBH, Good stuff, Ha, Ha, Ha,....

Mike R. Derrick:

Hey Dude, you are drooling over me, right? You are not also Panty, are you? But, really, you will have better luck looking for cybersex elsewhere....Besides, I'm straight.

This story is proof-positive that (some) humans, when drunk, are Man-Monkey hybrids:

Make Like a Tree and Stay There

LONDON (AP) - He was, quite literally, out on a limb. And so on Tuesday, a drunken student who spent the night in a tree had to be rescued by British firefighters.

"Alcohol and climbing trees don't really mix," said Nigel Limbrick, of the Gloucestershire fire department. "In all seriousness, he could've killed himself if he had fallen.

"He had had a skinful and in his inebriated state he climbed 100 feet up a pine tree, without his shoes on. He then fell asleep," Limbrick said. "I'm not quite sure how he managed it, but he woke up wrapped around a branch."

The man, whose name has not been released, is a student at the Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology in Cheltenham, about 100 miles west of London. He used his cell phone to call firefighters after waking up around dawn, chilly and confused, in the tree.

Eight firefighters needed 90 minutes and ropes and pulleys to get him down from his precarious perch. Paramedics at the scene treated him for some scratches, but he was otherwise uninjured.

"He was a bit quiet when he came down and a bit embarrassed," Limbrick said. "I think he got a bit cold up there. He only had his jeans and T-shirt on and he must have had quite a hangover."

"I'll continue to offer "sarcastic remarks" when you attempt to step into areas which I know a little about, and you clearly know nothing, nor care to learn. Come over to PhysOrgForum and ask questions. You'll obtain authoritative answers from serval people, from around the world, all of whom know more than I. For example, they'll probably be able to tell you how to buy a copy of the WTC Towers plans..."

Posted by: David B. Benson at May 18, 2006 07:37 PM
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By golly, I guess I misunderstood your comment, I thought you knew of someone who could get me those blueprints, my willingness to spring for the cost, which you seem to have prejudged, notwithstanding, because there are sure a lot of people looking for them.
As for the NIST version, I showed those to my husband who is an engineering geologist, I know, that doesn't matter to you, but part of his job is to engineer houses and buildings to withstand 8.0 earthquakes and landslides. He said the plans presented by the NIST were a joke, that those trusses would never pass code for a single family dwelling here in Cali much less a high rise building in NY. You can't span a 60 foot space with toothpicks, which is what those trusses amount to in a 110 story building. There would be zero shear strength, and they wouldn't even be able to support the concrete floor pans for very long. BTW, are YOU a building engineer? If not, your theories are no better than anyone elses. It is ALL theory as far as I have seen, all except for the FACT that bushco has lied about virtually everything under the sun, and will continue to do so. In a court of law, if a defendent has been caught numerous times lying and concealing evidence, the jury will no longer trust that person's word, and you can count on a conviction. If the 9/11 case were to be brought before a jury and all the evidence presented, I assure you, bushco and all their cronies would go down.

I like to think I take after bonobos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobos#Social_behavior

And if you're worried about diseases, remember, it was humans fucking animals that gave us syphillis. Bonobos have plenty to go around, no need to practice on other species.

goob...

uhm, thanx... Now I just gotta ask how one gets a bonobo to wear a condom?

What? Oh...Jill sez I'm barking up the wrong tree!

What...they do WHAT?

OMG! I gotta get some mental floss!

-T

David, Reopen 9-11.org has lots of information and pictures. The evidence is overwhelming that the official story about 911 just isn't true. The day of 911 I was wondering where the jet was that crashed into the pentagon and when the buildings came down, I thought immediately it looked like implosions, but then I let myself get caught up in the storyline and put those thoughts away. A couple years later I was at a democratic convention and someone handed me a video from Reopen 911 and it made all those questions come back. I don't know what happened, but I know what didn't happen because there is no evidence and the Bush administration did it's best to stop an investigation. The official investigation is full of holes and unanswered questions. It's a farce.

Hajji 101,

If we humans evolved from chimps, would we not give birth to a chimp that eventually becomes human? Chimps give birth to chimps who remain chimps. Humans give birth to humans who remain human, most of the time. Just my opinion. Now scuse me while I go pick some things out of my sons hair.

don't distract us with trivia, mr. corn. what the hell is going on with rove? and if you don't have anything on that yet, what about hayden and the nsa scandal? are dems really going to allow the confirmation of a lawbreaker without even hearing testimony from russel tice?

People had trouble believing the earth revolved around the sun. And that it was spherical. One day people will laugh at some of us for being stubbornly ignorant.

TRH,

Ah, yes but what will Chimps become in a few million years after Humans are extinct?

"Let My People Go!"
"Get your Hands OFF me, you DAMN, Dirty Apes!"
"You can have my BANANA when you pry my cold, dead hands from around it!"

-Moses or uhm "Ben Hur" or "Astronaut Taylor"!

Successful genetic mutations survive, defective genetic mutations die out.

A Hodges once fathered a conservative Republican... Successful or Unsuccessful...remains to be seen.

Enjoy the pics!

-T

One day people will laugh at some of us for being stubbornly ignorant.

one day? the whole world is laughing at our stupidity now.

now I'm off to start a new book... Has Colon POW!, Dumby and Cheney laughing under a Mushroom cloud on the cover. Should be great, light reading!

Ta!

-T

Oh,

One other thing about evolutionary theory that bugs me...

Things seem to get more and more complex as they evolve. Shouldn't SOME things evolve to be simpler and less complex as a survival mechanism?

There is theory that Seals, Sealions and Walruses are living examples of land mamals evolving into sea creatures! How cool is that?

-T

when last we saw our intrepid bad guys they were
far above the clouds. we rejoin them there for
part 2 of "Aluminum Planes & Steel Hearts"
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cont. from #33 -

stewardess! i mean, hostage! more coffee! so my friend, have you familiarized yourself with this infernal machine yet? it is time to turn off the transponder now.

uh, which one is the transponder again?

this one is the transponder. no wait! THIS one is....i think. blast it! just flip some switches at random! it won't matter.
look down my friend, do you see those alternating triangles of light and dark green?

oh i see them! what do they mean?

my friend, those are the boundaries of neighboring air force space - if we follow along the edges between them they will never know we are there!

oh just like the 4 foot stone wall between my hovel and my cousin's hovel back home?

exactly my long-legged friend! rejoice for we are almost there!