O'Reilly, do you live in Boston? If so, hop up to the Cape and give us a review!

capt, from the previous thread -- good work! That was a stroke of genius to ask President Carter's archivist! Of course!

Have fun David. Sounds like a welcome break from the grind of writing a book.

Duuuuudddeee,

Truro Beach, at the base of the dunes...MAN,oh Manashevitz! Hot, sugar sand, cold Atlantic currents, Scantily-Clad nubile girls from Southie and Eastie and Duxbury!!!

What I wouldn't give for a couple daze at Bob's pig roast, again! Say hello to a couple dozen Wellfleets and Littlenecks for me!

Wash 'em down with several ice-cold Tremont IPA's!

Yummm Yummm!

-t

I'm sure you'll have, as they say in Revere...a WICKED PISSAH time!

-T

Mr. David Corn,

I wish I was near enough to attend.

Hope you have a good time and enjoy a break from the daily grind.

Thanks for all of your work.

Kirk

Saladin, you say on the previous thread: @58
micki, still, not one comment on the issue at hand. Of all the quotes posted you can only find one to pick at? What about the rest?

Actually, I did find repudiation of many of the quotes you posted, but I decided it was a waste of time to "discuss" this further with you.

Did you see that capt wrote to Jimmy Carter's archivist and got quite a nice reply?

Okay I have been away for some time. I regularly read David's articles but many times do not bother with the comments. I do find him one of the few writers around worthy of reading. But something puzzles me. Micki, you keep referring to Saladin yet I have not seen her post here for some time. Am I missing something?

I do!!! A day at the beach and an evening with Mr. Corn at Summerstock sounds like a great way to spend the hottest day of the year.

Israeli warplanes strike targets deep in Lebanon
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Cabinet OKs wider ground combat; Syria’s Assad tells army to lift readiness.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli warplanes struck deep inside Lebanon early Tuesday, witnesses reported, hitting an area that is a stronghold of Hezbollah guerrillas. The strikes came hours after Israel’s Security Cabinet approved widening the ground offensive in Lebanon.

The jet fighters struck Hermel, 73 miles north of the Israeli border in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.

Warplanes fired at least five air-to-surface missiles on the edge of the town, targeting a road linking eastern Lebanon to western regions and the coastline.

Assad ratchets up Syrian army
On Monday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the Syrian military to raise its readiness, pledging not to abandon support for Lebanese resistance against Israel.

"We are facing international circumstances and regional challenges that require caution, alert, readiness and preparedness," Assad said. Travelers from Syria have reported that some reservists have been called up for military duty — a sign that Syria is concerned the fighting in Lebanon could spill over.

"The barbaric war of annihilation the Israeli aggression is waging on our people in Lebanon and Palestine is increasing in ferocity," Assad said in a written address on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the foundation of the Syria Arab Army.
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I spent an interesting overnight shift with Damascus native, Dr.TJ, the other night. His father was a commander of the Syrian 3rd army, on the Golan Heights in the Late 60's/early 70's.

He spoke extensively about how the Lebanese people always seemed, to him, to desire a more European or American culture than an Arab one.

His history lessons on the Ba'ath party's rise in Syria and the influence of Soviet-Style socialism, on the region as a whole, were priceless background, considering the turmoil that still exists, today.

His father, he believes, died from a stroke due to hypertension, exacerbated by his staunch political activities. He resigned his commission after Syria abandoned his reserves defending the heights, "renting them to Israel for 30 years", he says.

The convolutions one sees from outside are nothing compared to what one sees through the eyes of someone "inside".

-T

I like the beach at Lacoute's Hollow (sp?) in Wellfleet. It is at the bottom of a great sand dune 50-70 feet tall, the beach stretches for miles and the surf roars.

At the top is The Beechcomber with an oyster bar, bar food, umbrella drinks and beer. It's great to spend the day on the beach and hike up the dune for a snack or a drink. Oh yeah!

Hajji, sounds to me like the people yearn for freedom and choice but all it takes is some elements of totalitarianism to ruin peoples lives forcing them to either capitulate or flee. That is sad. I do not believe that all countries of the world want to be like "Murka" but I believe most citizens want their choice of freedom. THe next time you have an opportunity to speak with Dr. T.J. ask him why he chose to practice medicine in the United States. He clearly could be practicing elsewhere, I would be interested to know why he chose the U.S.

Castro undergoes surgery, relinquishes power

Government: Cuban leader delegates powers provisionally to brother Raul

HAVANA - Cuban President Fidel Castro underwent intestinal surgery Monday and delegated government functions provisionally to his younger brother Raul Castro, the government said in a televised statement signed by the Cuban leader.

In the letter read by his secretary Carlos Valenciaga, Castro said he had suffered gastrointestinal bleeding, apparently due to stress from recent public appearances in Argentina and Cuba, and had to undergo an operation.

Castro, who turns 80 on Aug. 13 and has led Cuba since a 1959 revolution, delegated his posts as first secretary of the ruling Communist Party, commander in chief of the armed forces and president of the executive council of state to his brother, the defense minister.

More HERE

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Maybe we will see a change of Cuban leadership? I do not mean to wish Fidel ill-will but time takes it toll on everybody.

capt

I do not wish ill-will on anybody but Castro has been nothing but bad for the Cuban people.

I do not wish ill-will on anybody but Castro has been nothing but bad for the Cuban people.

I got an idea, let's fund a cuban nationalist insurgency from the bay of pigs or invade, disband the army and give the cuban people freedom and democracy.

TRH, saladin is the name of micki's invisible friend. just kidding mic!

Two very important questions that everyone should ask themselves.
1) Why do I have the beliefs that I do have?
2) Who benefits from me having these beliefs?

I'm willing to bet that in less than 20 years, Havana will be just another "Carribean Getaway". I'm not sure if the old "Copa Cabana" Cuban culture will be able to shine through the "Club Med" scene, though.

I'd like a chance to see all those 40's and 50's cars still runing, before they're all junked!

-T

3) where did i leave my keys

HA!

TRH,

TJ's father's political "infractions" on top of his Christian faith did not bode so well for his family.

His first US practice was in Pikeville, KY, of all places.

-T

4) what was I thinking, was it important, will it effect others and should I care?

#15
Yeah, lets see if we can royally screw another country. Maybe we can demolish the pottery barn yet.

Jeanne. I KNEW you'd like that idea. Havanna or Bust!

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again." ~ Og Mandino (1923 - 1996), The Greatest Miracle in the World

David,
Have fun fun fun....

22 Capt. I'm digging your rap. . . all day.

Frist failed to follow disclosure rules
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Majority Leader Bill Frist hasn't been following all the Senate's rules when it comes to disclosing details about his finances.

Frist and his wife are the sole trustees in charge of a family foundation bearing the senator's name, according to Internal Revenue Service forms. However, he has not been listing that position on his Senate disclosure forms, which are made public every year.

Annual forms detailing lawmakers' personal finances are supposed to list all positions members of Congress hold outside government. Those include unpaid posts such as serving as a director or trustee of a nonprofit.
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First Mel Gibson, now THIS! It's a WITCHHUNT out there, I'm tellin' y'all!

-t

Great quote - mind-set.

I have found it to be true. The only really hard part is after midnight, killing all those people you have been nice to all day. (HA!)

capt

Capt,
I love the story you posted...I think it was you, about the Native American grandfather telling his grandson about the two wolves in his heart. One was vicious the other kind and compassionate. The child asks which one will survive. The one I feed.

Hajji,

Now that is unique. "Go figgur" that you of all people would know where Pikeville, Ky is, or even had been there, when you first met the good doctor. It's funny how U.S. 23 has evolved. It used to be hell to get to Lynch via 23 now the worst stretch of 23 is between Ashland and Russell. Another "go figgur!"

"The only really hard part is after midnight, killing all those people you have been nice to all day. (HA!)"

Only the ones you started to like. HA!

#28
Frist is a weasel. He's at least as dirty as the 'hammer'. He has made far more money with his medical business. I think his family owns a hospital or something. There was a report on him on Democaracy Now. Insider trading I guess.

SEC Opens Formal Investigation of Senate Majority Leader Frist into Allegations of Insider Trading

AMY GOODMAN: Doug Ireland, you are writing about -- well, your headline in your blog, Direland, says "The bad doctor." Talk about Frist. You have been following him for years.

DOUG IRELAND: Well, the interesting thing that we're not reading in the mainstream corporate media is just what the Frist family company, H.C.A., Hospital Corporation of America, was all about. When the Bush administration came into office, H.C.A. was, had been for nearly a decade, the target of one of the most extensive federal investigations of any corporation in the history of the United States. And H.C.A. was, in fact, one of the largest corporate swindles in American history.

The company that provided the family money that Bill Frist used to buy himself a Senate seat from the State of Tennessee was obtained by fraud, and fraud on the government. H.C.A. defrauded for years and years the programs designed to help poor Americans get healthcare. H.C.A. defrauded Medicaid. It defrauded Medicare. And it defrauded Tricare, which is of course, the federal program that covers the military and their families. The government case against H.C.A. was basically that the Frist family company kept two sets of books and fraudulently overbilled the government. It inflated its expenses. It billed the government for inflated overrun.

It violated both law and medical ethics when the company increased its Medicare billings by exaggerating the seriousness of illnesses they were treating. It bribed doctors in a whole scale bribery operation. It gives them partnerships in H.C.A. hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to H.C.A. It gave them free gifts, loans that were never expected to be paid back, gave them free rent, free office furniture, free drugs from hospital pharmacies. All of this to bribe the doctors into referring patients to H.C.A. companies.

When the Bushies came in at a time when this investigation, which the deputy F.B.I. director said was one of the most important the F.B.I. had ever conducted into corporate America, it was expected that Bill Frist's brother, Thomas, who was one of the richest men in America -- Fortune estimated he had over $2 billion -- was going to be indicted, along with a raft of H.C.A. executives.

But the Bushies and John Ashcroft decided otherwise. And they arranged a little sweetheart deal with the Frist family, with Bill Frist's brother, Tom, and the executives of the Frist family business, H.C.A., that let them get off the hook without any jail time. They did have to pay a fine, and the size of the fine tells you just how massive the fraud was, because the fine was for $1.7 billion, with a "b" $1.7 billion that H.C.A. had to pay the government for the fraud that it had committed.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Now, Doug, that was one of the largest fines in U.S. history, wasn't it?

DOUG IRELAND: It was the largest. It broke the record. The previous old record had been set by

here is the magic passport that was found and considered to be evidence enough to begin the moron terror a block away from one of the wtc's after it exploded on 9/11.
exhibit A

Carey at 37 from the last thread. That particular 60 mins segment was originally aired some months ago. I saw the show then and wondered if there would be any msm follow-up. Wasn't any then and don't expect any now. It's a shame that a truly newsworthy story like that will get no coverage.

Political Blackmail

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According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the estate tax cut would benefit 8,200 estates with an average tax cut of $1.4 million. For the 6.6 million Americans who would directly benefit from the minimum wage hike, the increase in annual earnings would average $1,200. Of course, even many of the workers' modest gains would be off-set if Republicans pay for their Paris Hilton tax cut -- which will cost $268 billion in lost revenues over the next decade -- by slashing programs like Medicare and Medicaid, food stamps and veterans programs. (Not to mention their complete lack of attention to the rising costs of energy, education, housing, healthcare, childcare and more.)

So, according to the GOP, in order for those Americans who have been doing an honest day's work for $10,700 a year for 9 years - to get a raise, the richest 8,200 families must receive yet another irresponsible, unjust cut that the country cannot afford. Can the Republicans openly reveal their contempt for working people any more clearly? The just response: Vote them out of office this November.

More HERE

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Watch how this plays in the MSM. The joke will be on us!

capt

hmmm. the magic passport that was found a block away from one of the wtc's after it exploded on 9/11, and considered to be evidence enough to begin the moron terror.
that's what i meant to say.

Anybody know the details about Frist doing surgical research on cats from area shelters when he was at Harvard Medical School?

By the way, I talked to somebody involved with the election races tonight. The woman is from Ohio. She was a student last year.
We got on the subject because she is committed to getting the Republicans out. I reminded her that we have to be vigilant about voter fraud. She told me that she called her parents sobbing election night 2004 because of what she witnessed in Ohio. She said in her family alone only 2 of the five votes cast counted. She told me she is absolutely convinced that Bush did not win the election. She said there were absentee ballots sent out after it was permissible. She said she was bringing people to the polls only to find out that they couldn't vote because they were assigned in two areas. She said you wouldn't believe how many students didn't get the chance to vote. She said it was a crime. It was criminal. She said it really changed her. She thought she could make a difference. After that she didn't feel the same. That's what the republican party has done for the youth of this country.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Boy, have things changed.

Jeanne,

Thanks, I forget how I stumbled on that quote but it was found on:

http://www.quotationspage.com/

Seems odd they credit/source it as "Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes"

Quotations page is where I get most all quotes I post. Just more cut and paste but some quotes are gems.

capt

Well...lookie here.

Group identifies new flaws in Diebold evoting machines

GROUP: 'Vote counts can be changed with the flip of a a switch'
The Open Voting Foundation, a California-based nonprofit organization that works to promote the adoption of "open source" technology to the nation's voting machines, has announced it has found what it calls the "worst ever security flow found in Diebold RS voting machines."

The Foundation claims to have discovered a switch inside of the machine which, when flipped, can have the machine operate in "a completely different manner compared to the tested and certified version."

"Diebold has made the testing and certification
process practically irrelevant," said the Foundation's President Alan Descert, in a statement obtained by RAW STORY. "If you have access to these machines and you want to rig an election, anything is possible with the Diebold TS -- and it could be done without leaving a trace. All you need is a screwdriver," he continued.
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What was used in the Mexican election?

The worst terrorist attack in history came nearly five years ago on September 11, 2001 and it traumatized America. Most people were caught off-guard, including the defense establishment (apparently), but counterterrorism experts and government officials quickly appeared on TV to finger the perpetrators. A Fox anchorman even solved it within a minute of the second hit: “We just saw on live television as the second plane flew into the second tower of the World Trade Center. Now given what has been going on around the world, some of the key suspects come to mind: Osama bin Laden.”

Osama bin Laden and his Arab hijackers! Yeah, that’s the ticket. Case closed. Mighty fine work. No one asked embarrassing questions like, how could all the talking heads reach the same conclusion in minutes? They seemed to know so much after the attacks, nothing before. Why were “independent experts” and government officials so uniform in identifying the same guy? Where was their proof, except of course, al-Sugami’s paper passport planted, er, found on the sidewalk a few blocks away before a tower fell. It must have jumped out of his pocket, maneuvered through the crashing Boeing, survived the fireball and floated down to the sidewalk unmarred. (see @34)

The crimes were barely over and everyone knew it was OBL. It was a breathtaking display of media power. The tale sold like free watermelon in August: a couple of guys in caves pulled off a sophisticated attack halfway around the world using not-very-clever Islamic extremists who encountered little or no resistance along the way. The ease in solving the crime of the 21st century made TV programs like CSI and Law and Order look slow in taking 45 minutes to solve crimes.
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Yet public challenge to the instant conspiracy theory remains heretical. Powerful people like Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA chief and current Texas A&M University President Robert M. Gates, for example, denounce any suggestion of government complicity in the events of 9/11 as “beyond the pale.” Evidence like the 6.6-second demolition of WTC building 7 and an 18-foot hole in the Pentagon that supposedly swallowed a Boeing 757 is dismissed as “nutball” stuff.

Why would anyone believe the government’s self-serving tale of 9/11? Without evidence? Beats me. It says something about our collective gullibility, stupidity and fear, doesn’t it? The government is a proven liar on controversial issues, especially war and pretexts for war. Let’s hope that reason and facts triumph over the prevailing (i.e., the government's) nutball conspiracy theory

Frist LIED to the shelter and said the cats were going to good homes. He has admitted it. He killed them to use them for some very questionable research.

These are some very sick people.

capt

So...what state wants to used those voting machines? Which state wants to have illegal elections? You use those machines you are telling the world you run fixed elections in your state. Your state is not capable of having honest elections.

#43
Frist lied. And he killed animals. And now he's a senator.

US stance delights neo-cons, dismays moderates

A growing number of moderate Republicans and former Bush administration officials are alarmed by what they call Condoleezza Rice's "uneven-handed diplomacy" in the Middle East. Critics include Richard Haass, head of policy and planning at the State Department during the first Bush term and Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state.

However, after months of disillusionment, America's neo-conservatives have fallen in love again with the Bush administration because of its support for Israel's bombardment of Lebanon.

Neo-conservative criticism reached a peak after Ms Rice, secretary of state, offered conditional talks to Iran in late May on its nuclear programme. But their attacks on Mr Bush ceased after 12 July, when Israel launched its military campaign against Hizbollah.

"This is exactly the right strategy, which you could call 'Don't just do something, stand there [while Israel continues its military campaign]'," said David Frum, a former speechwriter to George W. Bush, who helped draft the president's 2002 'Axis of Evil' address.

"What we are seeing are precisely the same divisions as we saw over Iraq with the neo-conservatives rallying behind Mr Bush and almost everyone else feeling rising panic at the direction of American diplomacy," said Francis Fukuyama, a former neo-conservative.
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Good article.

Controversy over Bill Frist's medical school experiments

Main article: Bill Frist medical school experiments controversy

While in medical school, Frist obtained cats from animal shelters, under pretense of adoption as pets, for school research experiments in which he killed the animals. In a 1989 autobiography, Frist described how he "spent days and nights on end in the lab, taking the hearts out of cats, dissecting each heart." After some time, Frist said "[I] lost my supply of cats," so he chose to deceive animal shelters, an act which he described as "heinous and dishonest." He attributed his behavior to the pressures of school. The incident sparked controversy after a 2002 Boston Globe story repeated the account.[1]

More HERE

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Lie cheat or steal, it does not matter one lick to these slugs. Lost his "supply" (no more strays?) so lie about what you are going to do to the animals and promise them a home. Why should that matter?

The "neo" in neocon values - when the "ends justify the means" anything goes. Children learn more from example than anything else. Not a stellar example of honesty or compassion.

capt

TRH, get real. I know you're not stupid. RedAlert is Saladin. Duh.

39 Jeanne

She said there were absentee ballots sent out after it was permissible,

and that they refused to take votes from the list of names she brought in from the prison and graveyard.

It was very up setting for her that they wouldn't let her absentee vote for her dead Grand Pa and Dead Grand Ma like she did earlier in the day at a different booth run by Democrats.

She was crying because they wouldn't let her
brother in prison vote twice. It was horrible.

Damn Repugs, won't even let us stuff boxes anymore.

How are we Democrats going to win if all we can do is lie, and not cheat, like we have done in all other elections?

#45 bush blew up frogs. bush lied. bush became governor of Texas. bush lied some more. bush became president. bush continued to lie.

What's gnu?

Hey everybody, hope your retirement funds are being added to despite the gas prices and the health insurance cost and inflations and taxes that you have to pay so the rich won't have to. You know why????

Boehner Pledges To Privatize Social Security: "We're Going to Get Serious About This"

In an interview with the Washington Times published yesterday, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) promised to privatize Social Security:

Q: Where does Social Security reform stand?

A: I just met with Congressman [Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican], a few minutes ago with his SAFE Commission [formed to fix the entitlement programs]. In 1990 when I first ran for Congress, I talked about the need to reform these big entitlement programs because the sooner we began the process, the easier it would be to make the necessary changes so that these programs were sustainable for the long term. "If I'm around in a leadership role come January, we’≤e going to get serious about this.

Privitization plans championed by Boehner and others would sharply cut guaranteed benefits and are opposed by the overwhelming majority of Americans. Nevertheless, Boehner is just the latest prominent conservative to reaffirm his commitment to privatize Social Security in the months and years to come.

President Bush, 6/27/06:

Now is the time for the Congress and the President to work together to reform Medicare and reform Social Security so we can leave behind a solvent balance sheet for our next generation of Americans. … If we can’t get it done this year, I’m going to try next year. And if we can’t get it done next year, I’m going to try the year after that, because it is the right thing to do.
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Haven't the American people made it clear where they stand on this? The Democarats need to take these quotes to the American people. Their voice and their needs are not being met by Republicans. Not only that but the Republicans are trying desperately trying to take more and more away on a daily basis.

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. "
Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877

"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel."
Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons

"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. "
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948),

#43 Oh, but capt, Frist confessed he deceived the shelters due to "the pressures of school."

TRH 7

Red Alert is Saladin, the Jew Hater.

The name Saladin, I'm sure taken from the man know as "Saladin the Butcher of Children" who died in the late 1100's, 1193 or 97, shortly after taking Jerusalem. After killing all the men, he let the women and children walk out of Jerusalem, only to butcher many of them months later at considerable distance from Jerusalem so no one would see his evil deed.

Statewide poll: Without key exceptions, more South Dakotans oppose abortion ban

Amid the often hostile rhetoric that pierces South Dakota’≥ closely watched abortion debate, a new survey shows that more residents of the largely conservative state oppose a ban on the pregnancy-ending procedure than support it, though that would change if exceptions for cases involving rape and incest were allowed.

According to the statewide poll, conducted for the Argus Leader and KELO-TV in Sioux Falls, 47 percent of voters polled would vote to reject the ban, compared with 39 percent who would vote to keep it. Another 14 percent were undecided.

heinous

adj : enormously and shockingly evil

adj : shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous]

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Frist described his own actions as ENORMOUSLY AND SHOCKINGLY EVIL.

Why would anyone want Frist making policy decisions about medical research or anything really. Hasn't he demonstrated his character sufficiently already?

And if I'm not mistake, didn't Frist diagnose a woman who was in a permanent vegatative state for over a decade, using a videotape and no actual contact, while in office, as not being in a permanent vegatative state? I think he's demonstrated his true character once again. Would he characterize this behavior, once again, as heinous and attribute it the pressure of office? scumbag. really.

Speaking of "smarts" and animals and keys...one day our daughter and her very smart dog, Jake, were over for dinner. Our daughter is forever misplacing her keys. It was time for her departure. No keys. I said, "Perhaps, Jake could get your keys." He immediately started his search. Presto. Fetched the keys and they were on their way.

From that day forward, we could say, "Jake, get the keys" and he delivered.

He was not trained for this. He was just listening. Give this dog a job!

Monsters or Victims?

Statistically, the average serial killer is a white male from a lower to middle class background, usually in his twenties or thirties. Many were physically or emotionally abused by parents. Some were adopted. As children, fledgling serial killers often set fires, torture animals, and wet their beds (these red-flag behaviors are known as the "triad" of symptoms.) Brain injuries are common. Some are very intelligent and have shown great promise as successful professionals. They are also fascinated with the police and authority in general. They will either have attempted to become police themselves but were rejected, or worked as security guards, or had served in the military. Many, including John Gacy, the Hillside Stranglers, and Ted Bundy, will disguise themselves as law enforcement officials to gain access to their victims.

More HERE

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Abusing or killing small animals desensitizes some people and can contribute to serial behavior as adults.

Lucky for us we weed those people out and put them in prisons. Just think what kind of horrors could be brought on all of us if someone desensitized managed to occupy a high office of great power? . . . Oh, nevermind.

capt

Here's some more goooood news.

GOP Says OK To Minimum Wage Increase BUT

In many quarters they're going to say "Hooray! The GOP has agreed to allow an increase in the minimum wage." But wait - as the infomercials like to say - "there's more!"
Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it's coupled with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday.
No one can accuse the GOP of not staying "on message." And the message they are sending to many Americans - including those who are NOT Democrats - is that they won't do something for working Americans unless they can hold a gun to legislators' heads making them pass something that will give a tax break to wealthy supporters and/or contribtors. Will this be a "poison pill" that dooms the measure (so GOPers can then try to blame the defeat on Democrats.

....Democrats expressed outrage at the plan, saying low-income workers deserved a straight vote on increasing the minimum wage uncoupled to other measures.

"It's political blackmail to say the only way that minimum wage workers can get a raise is to give a tax giveaway to the wealthiest Americans," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. "Members of Congress raised their own pay no strings attached. Surely, common decency suggests that minimum wage workers deserve the same respect."

The No. 2 Democrat in the House, Steny Hoyer of Maryland, said the move by GOP leaders who actually oppose the minimum wage hike was a cynical exercise to give political cover to GOP moderates while ensuring the wage hike does not become law.
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come this election these are the stories that should be pasted on the literature.

"(bullshit)"
Posted by: kitty (bullshit) at July 31, 2006

IRAQ: Child prisoners left without support

He isn't a criminal, but just the sight of a police officer terrifies 14-year-old Omar.

The boy was released last month from an Iraqi prison, after being detained there for more than seven months. "They arrested me because they said I was a suspect after a car bomb exploded in a road near my home and resulted in the killing of an American," Omar explains. He happened to be near the explosion and was arrested along with adult Iraqis suspected of the attack.

Omar was one of 450 detainees who were let out of the two Iraqi and US-run prisons on 27 June, under a national reconciliation plan aimed at bringing insurgents into the political process and ending the bloodshed in Iraq.

Although Omar was falsely arrested, dozens of other children have been imprisoned for their roles in attacks, or because poverty turned them to crime, according to reports from local and international groups and the news media in the past three years.

Omar said the experience of being in prison was terrifying, "and I was crying day and night for my family." The trauma of the experience remains with him: "I would rather die than go there again."

Whatever the reason for arrest, Iraqi children are sometimes kept in the same place as adults, human rights groups say. When they leave prison, there is no psychological or other support for them to help prevent their returning to the streets and crime.
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I wonder if Omar likes the liberty he's been given.

From Riverbend - Baghdad Burning

Qana Massacre...

....Where is the Security Council??? Why haven't they stopped Israel? Ehud Olmert recently told Condi that he needs 10 to 14 more days of bloodshed- and nothing is being done about it! Where are the useless Arab leaders? Can't the pro-American, spineless emirs crawl out of their gold palaces long enough to condemn this taking of lives? Our presidents/leaders are only as influential as their oil barrels are deep.

And the world wonders how "terrorists" are created! A 15-year-old Lebanese girl lost five of her siblings and her parents and home in the Qana bombing - Ehud Olmert might as well kill her now because if he thinks she's going to grow up with anything but hate in her heart towards him and everything he represents, then he's delusional.

Jeanne,

For each person butchered in the name of "freedom", "democracy" or "elbow room for the Chosen", the number of future fighters with "vengeance" in their hearts.

How many will rise to revenge the dead of Cana where the water turned to wine and then the wine turned to the blood of children? How many millions will rise to revenge the hundreds of thousands dead in the killing streets of Iraq?

Someone said, "An eye for an eye makes a blind world."

Who'll be the one-eyed man to lead this bloodied and blind world out of the darkness?

-T

G'nite.

"...the number of future fighters with "vengeance" in their hearts MULTIPLIES."

Too much waxing off, poetically, speaking of being blinded!

Really,
G'nite!

-T

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." ~ Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)

"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind." ~ Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - )

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]

~ Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536), Adagia (III, IV, 96)

The anti-gay hysteria that?s leading to an epidemic of hate crimes against the LGBT community is constantly being inflamed by the GOP?s use of gay rights as a wedge issue, their use of anti-gay rhetoric, their exploitation of anti-gay sentiment. And even with people being attacked and their homes being burned, the Dems can?t be arsed to take a bloody principled stand. And the media doesn?t care. They?ve finally got a real epidemic on their hands and it?s utter silence.

There have been two episodes of gay-bashing in California in the last week. In the first, three men stood outside a gay club yelling epithets at entering patrons, then smashed a window, then got into a physical fight with patrons who confronted them. Then yesterday, a graver attack was mounted on three gay men leaving San Diego Pride festivities. They were taunted, struck with a baseball bat, and one may have been stabbed. (All three received serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.)

Recently, a lesbian couple in Maine had their home left in ruins after an attack which included anti-gay messages scrawled on the walls, smashed and stolen property, and urination and defecation throughout.

These closely follow a similar pattern seen around the country last summer, during which in July alone, a gay club in Brownsville, Texas was torched, and the week before that, the only gay club in Fayetteville, Arkansas was torched, and earlier in July, a gay-friendly UCC church was tagged with anti-gay graffiti and then torched.

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rate Rice
How's she doing?

How would you rate Rice's handling of the Middle East crisis?
Poor 44%
Excellent 25%
Good 17%
Fair 14%
Total Votes: 185,422

How would you rate her overall job performance?
Poor 39%
Excellent 29%
Fair 17%
Good 15%
Total Votes: 185,917

bonus question...
Is the U.S. better or worse off since Bush took office?
Worse off 69%
Better off 24%
About the same 6%
Total Votes: 109,276

Conyers Report Available

What's the charge, officer?

Earlier, I reported findings from an unreleased draft of a document written by Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) of the House Judiciary Committee. The document summarized a much lengthier report, also under wraps, detailing Bush administration transgressions.

We've posted the draft copy we obtained in the TPM Document Collection; you can read it for yourself by clicking here.

More HERE

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The opposition party of one? Why is Conyers the only guy making noise? So many other Democrats seem to miss the boat over and over again (wetting their finger and lifting it into the air)

capt

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Thesaurus Rex | Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Q. How can you tell when a Republican is lying?

A. Their lips are moving.

It's been an spectacular couple weeks in terms of Republican mendacity. Let's do a quick recap, shall we?

Ben Domenech: "I wrote this."

Howard Kaloogian: "I took this picture in Badhdad."

And our newest addition to the Liars' Pantheon?

Mean Jean Schmidt: "I am a college graduate."

I have heard tell that political conservatism is a diagnosable mental disorder. Is compulsive lying a symptom?

I would like to put forth a motion that we change the name of Pajamas Media to Pants on Fire Media and make this their new logo:

Who's with me?

(link)

Is the U.S. better or worse off since Bush took office?

Worse off 69%
Better off 24%
About the same 6%

Lets see how the base of 25% elects a repub majority in yhe house and senate

Creation Museum: Adam and Eve Run with Dinosaurs

PETERSBURG, Kentucky (AP) Like most natural history museums, this one has exhibits showing dinosaurs roaming the Earth. Except here, the giant beasts share the forest with Adam and Eve.

That, of course, is contradicted by science, but that is the point of the $25 million (euro19.6 million) Creation Museum rising fast in rural Kentucky.

Its inspiration is the Bible the literal interpretation that contends God created the heavens and the Earth and everything in them just a few thousand years ago.

"If the Bible is the word of God, and its history really is true, that's our presupposition or axiom, and we are starting there,'' museum founder Ken Ham said during recent tour of the sleek and modern facility, which is due to open next year.

More HERE

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The only way to reconcile science and religion is to create something which isn't science or something which isn't religion.

Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking.

The only really respectable Protestants are the Fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

All ~ Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

capt

sugar tits
60
"(bullshit)"

You saying red alert isn't Saladin? I thought it was too.

I think Saladin is a gal who uses many names.

Oh God NOOoooooooo.
Saladin has turned into a Troll.

The Moral Culpability for Qana

[..]

Gillerman, at a pro-Israel rally in New York, thundered, "[T]o those countries who claim that we are using disproportionate force, I have only this to say: You're damn right we are."

"His comments drew wild applause," said the Jerusalem Post.

Though Israel is dissembling now, Gillerman spoke the truth then. No sooner had Hezbollah taken the two Israeli soldiers hostage than Israel unleashed an air war –†on Lebanon. The Beirut airport was bombed, its fuel storage tanks set ablaze. The coast was blockaded. Power plants, gas stations, lighthouses, bridges, roads, trucks, and buses were all hit with air strikes.

Within 48 hours, it was apparent Israel was exploiting Hezbollah's attack to execute a preconceived military plan to destroy Lebanon –†i.e., the collective punishment of a people and nation for the crimes of a renegade militia they could not control. It was the moral equivalent of a municipal police going berserk, shooting, killing, and ravaging an African-American community, because Black Panthers had ambushed and killed cops.

If Israel is not in violation of the principle of proportionality, by which Christians are to judge the conduct of a just war, what can that term mean? There are 600 civilian dead in Lebanon, 19 in Israel, a ratio of 30-1, though Hezbollah is firing unguided rockets, while Israel is using precision-guided munitions.

More HERE

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It makes me conflicted to read what Pat says and agree with most of it. He is not reasonable all the time but once in a while . . .

capt

Y'all need to see this 2-minute clip.

Minimum wage increase with a republican twist

And while your there at Crooks, watch Ned Lamont on the Colbert Report.

The Qana Massacre

Another ADE video. Please note: the video contains disturbing images of dead children.

Here are the victims of a war we are told was started by Hezbollah, despite the fact that it was Israeli soldiers who entered Lebanon illegally before they were captured. Israel's policy of deliberately targeting the weakest and most innocent members of humanity proves that they are desperately trying to provoke a major terrorist attack within Israel to justify their agenda to completely subjugate the middle east.

Video HERE

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War is always made up of some victories and some defeats. When the only thing that will stop aggression is complete victory no partial victory will suffice so the aggression will continue.

That is not a plan for peace. When is the last time any politician talked about peace? If peace is not the ultimate goal of aggression, violence or war - what is the ultimate goal?

We Americans have a trillion dollar military never intended to be used as the aggressor. Our military costs were suppose to be spent on a peace dividend and we only defended against aggression because we supported the idea of self-governed peaceful people.

If a trillion dollar military does not keep the PEACE using its power against countries that never threatened the peace is an obscene gesture of arrogance with little risk of complete failure and zero risk of complete victory. So the "thing" war is self-perpetuating (and very profitable).

It a trillion dollar military cannot keep the peace I say it is time to address the massive load we citizens are carrying by almost half of our taxes.

capt

"If they are Jews, kill them."
~ Saladin the butcher of children (1137- 1193)

capt 73

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

All ~ Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

That is excellent.
You must have been looking in a mirror, because you nailed yourself perfect.

Perfect, I say. That is you. You always reject truth, and live in complete land of delusion.

Bravo onto you capt. There may be hope for you yet. At least now you see your major fault.

Sri Lanka vows to capture water supply

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Tamil Tigers fired mortar bombs at Sri Lankan troops trying to gain control of a rebel-held waterway on Tuesday, hours after one of the deadliest ambushes since a 2002 truce killed 16 people.

Military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said troops, locked in a battle with the Tigers on Monday that killed 12 soldiers and at least three guerrillas in the east, would seek to consolidate the area, despite rebel warnings of retaliation.

He said 15 soldiers and a civilian were killed when a suspected rebel fragmentation mine blew up an army bus in the restive eastern district of Trincomalee. But he said there had been less fighting on Tuesday.

"The operation is continuing. Troops will try and consolidate the area in and around the sluice gate," Samarasinghe told Reuters.

More HERE

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Again with the water issue.

capt

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
One gives nothing so freely as advice.
One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

La Rochefaucauld

78 Absolutely iron clad reasoning Capt. Again, you've done it again. Why aren't you a congressional staffer or think tank dude?

Shine that argument up a little bit and send it to every anti-war politican in Washington, all three of them.

Thanks, kind words are always uplifting.

capt

Administration appeals spy suit ruling

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration appealed a court decision Monday that allowed a lawsuit to go forward challenging the president's warrantless domestic spying program.

In rejecting government claims that the suit could expose state secrets and jeopardize the war on terror, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled July 20 that the eavesdropping was so widely reported there appears to be no danger of spilling secrets. Walker also said he did not see how allowing the lawsuit to continue could threaten national security.

The case, which names AT&T Inc. as a defendant, is among three dozen lawsuits alleging telecommunications companies and the government are illegally intercepting communications without warrants. Walker is the only judge to rule against the government's claim of a "state secrets privilege."

More HERE

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The only judge to rule against the government? How crazy is that?

capt

David Corn: A Guide to the Political Left

Judge Vaughn Walker. Hoo-rah! Present the evidence. Make a decision. Take government out of the shadows.

They're so secretive. It makes you wonder what they've got to hide.

A DAY OF CONFUSION
Midnight (Israeli time) State Department spokesman announces 48-hour suspension of Israeli airstrikes

08.15 Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, gives an optimistic briefing at Jerusalem hotel

10.30 Condoleezza Rice flies out of Tel Aviv

11.15 Amir Peretz, the Israeli Defence Minister, tells parliament that Israel will expand and deepen its actions, claiming: If an immediate ceasefire is declared, these extremists will raise their heads anew.

15.15 UN meeting to plan a new peace-keeping force for Lebanon postponed indefinitely until there is more political clarity on how to end hostilities.

19:30 Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, says that there will be no ceasefire within the next few days, Mr Olmert tells a meeting in Tel Aviv: The fighting is continuing. There is no ceasefire and there will be no ceasefire in the coming days.

The Times, London, July 31.

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Prior to graduating from Brown University in 1982, Corn had already begun working for radical activist Ralph Nader "as a writer for various publications and books produced by Ralph and his public interest groups," Corn wrote in an October 2004 article at TomPaine.com
= = = =

Corn graduated from Brown the same year Patrick Fitzgerald graduated from Amherst. Both are from New York City. Both graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

The Times July 29, 2006

Get real. This was never going to be Love Actually II
By Roland Watson

IF ONLY life were more like the movies, Tony Blair could have gone to the White House and given us a monumental feel-good moment.
A couple of verbal slaps around President Bushs chops, a finger wagged in his hosts face, the unzipping of the poodle costume, and with one bound he would be free.

Mr Blair would return a hero. His name would ring out from the thronged streets of foreign capitals. Labour Party members would stop throwing darts at his picture, for a few minutes. He might not stop the war. But at least he would make us feel much better.

Such a scenario downtrodden Prime Minister finally sticks it to arrogant and overbearing President formed the climax to the film Love Actually. Hugh Grant, the Prime Minister, even got his girl.

So alluring is the Love Actually scenario that the Tories are beginning to lecture the White House. But this is real life and this is Tony Blair.

Mr Blair visits to the White House tend to be portrayed as his biggest political test since the last time he broke bread with Mr Bush. There is little evidence he regards them as such. Where the test in standing next to someone whose world view you share and are able to articulate slightly better? That said, both men conceded the gravity of the situation. Nodding to the domestic criticism of Mr Blairs relationship with him, Mr Bush said in his introduction: You tell me what you think.

Apart from a joke about rogue microphones, this was a formal occasion. There was no yo, Blair! and little of the customary Tony. Mr Blair, deliberately, tried to avoid any mentions of George.

Mr Blair was able to put some rhetorical distance between himself and Mr Bush.He made a better fist of expressing himself about the loss of life in Lebanon and Israel. What was happening was a “£omplete tragedy, a catastrophe. He was at pains to insist that his caution about a hasty ceasefire did not mean he had shed all human feelings. Of course, he was appalled by the loss of innocent life. We want it to stop and we want it to stop now.

Mr Bush said that the suffering was terrible, but terrorists and terrorist-supporting states were to blame.

As so often when these two meet, the political and presentational skills may be different, but the message was united, and film-fans will have to wait for Love Actually II.

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In 1987 he was hired as, and remains, Washington Editor at The Nation.

Corn has a twenty year anniversary coming up next year. Let's celebrate! We could make him a cake. Does anyone know what kind of cake David likes?

90 allies carry each other's water.

Technically - I think Lebanon was our ally.

I wish someone would write the inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the Iraq War. With good sources (and there don?t seem to be a shortage of disenfranchised insiders willing to talk) you could write the book everyone wants to read.

Blair is carrying our water to his own detriment but Lebanon is carrying it to its governments own death knell. Did the USAA promise funds to rebuild? $6 Billion US taxpayer dollars? Iran and Hezbollah, the party not the militia, will have something to say about that. What does Blair and Lebanon get out of carrying our water?

Our former PM, Mr. Bondevik, a conservative "christian democrat", opposed the war on Iraq. He has also now critizised Israel for being to excessive in conducting the war on Lebanon. As soon as he did the latter, conservative christian fundamentalists from his own political party said that he was supporting Hezbollah, since he dared critizise their beloved Israel!
Yes, we do have Trolls here in Norway as well! As a matter of fact, the Trolls originated from Norway in the first place. They are big, ugly looking creatures hiding in the forests. Yes, hiding, just like all other Trolls.

Erling

Speaking of Jimmy Carter

(only a few graphs of a brillian letter)
READ THE WHOLE THING
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The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key U.N. resolutions, official American policy and the international "road map" for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians. Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israel's official pre-1967 borders must be honored. As were all previous administrations since the founding of Israel, U.S. government leaders must be in the forefront of achieving this long-delayed goal.

A major impediment to progress is Washington's strange policy that dialogue on controversial issues will be extended only as a reward for subservient behavior and will be withheld from those who reject U.S. assertions. Direct engagement with the Palestine Liberation Organization or the Palestinian Authority and the government in Damascus will be necessary if secure negotiated settlements are to be achieved. Failure to address the issues and leaders involved risks the creation of an arc of even greater instability running from Jerusalem through Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Tehran.

The people of the Middle East deserve peace and justice, and we in the international community owe them our strong leadership and support.
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-T

Jeanne at #62

The Major Arab nations DID speak out against the violence. They condemned the actions taken by HEZBOLLAH!

Where were you?

I'll agree President Carter is brilliant all right. He's brilliant at being one of the worst ex-presidents we ever had. He wasn't so hot as president either.

His reprehensible words and deeds, especially in the last 5 years or so have done great harm to our nation.

He is one of the most mis-guided politicians I've ever seen. I for one wish he would simply move to his Havana estate and live out his days reminiscing with his old pal Fidel.

Bush's 'Regular Guy' Mode Can Backfire

Amid tensions in Iraq and the Middle East, President Bush meets Friday with a special delegation: Taylor Hicks and the American Idol finalists.

Visiting with the most recent stars of the Fox TV show is the latest example of Bush being a regular guy, exuding a down-home style that has been both a blessing and curse to the president.

His aides say Bush likes to show a lighter side, taking the edge off weighty matters that come with his job. Some critics, though, say some of these moments demonstrate a lack of seriousness.

For example: Bush's recent trip to Europe to visit German Chancellor Angela Merkel and meet with world leaders in Russia at the annual Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations caused a stir.

He could be heard cursing over a live microphone, talked longingly about "slicing the pig" at a barbecue in his honor, and gave an impromptu neck massage to a startled Merkel that was seen around the world via the Internet.

More HERE

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Some of us never fell for the BS "good old boy" routine. Andover cheerleaders are not cowboys, they are coy-boys or cow-bois but never a real cowboy. (rah rah rah)

capt

#97 Hajji -- thanks for posting that link to Jimmy Carter's op/ed piece "Stop the Band-Aid Treatment."

Carter succinctly summed up a HUGE part of the problem with these words: A major impediment to progress is Washington's strange policy that dialogue on controversial issues will be extended only as a reward for subservient behavior and will be withheld from those who reject U.S. assertions..... The people of the Middle East deserve peace and justice, and we in the international community owe them our strong leadership and support.

Hope David's vacation is as good as mine....

Nothing beats spending $$ while portfolio value is rebounding upward! Thanks to Apache, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobile, Shell,....All my favorite companies!

Looking forward to the `Connecticut Show' over the course of the next week! Gotta run, still in catch-up mode!

O'Reilly, if you want to know what the current Zionist agenda is, just watch them in action in Lebanon and Gaza. They can reveal it better then I can. Butchering children? Yep, they're good at that. Must of learned it from Saladin.

Hajji and Micki,

Anyone can SAY whatever they want concerning what our role should be in leading a "peace process" for the middle east, but there is one significant impediment which always gets ignored: the stated purpose, backed up by acts of war on the part of more than one nation and/or terrorist organization to destroy the nation of Israel!

You simply can't get around this fact. Look at the history of Yasser Arafat's PLO. They walked away from one peace accord after another in favor or war. Look at the history of Hezbollah, one of the most murderous terrorist organizations the world has ever seen.

Do your homework folks.

Talk like a big-business tycoon
You're just a hot-air balloon
So no-one gives you a damn
You're just an overgrown schoolboy -
-Let me tan your hide

Speaking of Mel Gibson...

His (current) story is not your typical Hollywood distraction. If you have a chance read Neal Gabler's piece in today's salon.com -- "Mel on the Cross" -- the final paragraph:

"...But as he yells he is unlikely to be marginalized as a bigot, despite the charge by one Hollywood publicist that Gibson had committed a "nuclear disaster," because bigotry in Bush America is just another salient in the battle against the left wing. In the end, Mel Gibson, who avoided the code words and spoke more plainly than his supporters, may not have died for our sins, but he did get drunk for them. For that he is likely to receive a measure of sainthood among some acolytes in a country where hate doesn't carry the stigma it once did."

O'Reilly, here is what the Palestinian people believe the agenda to be.

Gaza: "Israel wants to drive us out of our lands"
A Palestinian reports from Gaza.
Silvia Cattori, 27 July 2006
Our friend and Swiss independent journalist Silvia Cattori sends us this dispatch from her location in the occupied West Bank:

A Palestinian reports from Gaza:

Khaled lives precariously in a refugee camp in Gaza. His poignant reports have been translated into many languages. Today, his voice, usually cheerful, was filled with revolt and a great lassitude.

Sivlia Cattori: The Israeli bombings have already killed over 500 people and have wounded thousands in a few weeks in Gaza and Lebanon. Don't the Israeli authorities have any human consideration?

Khaled: Now the soldiers are in the process of bombing us from all sides, from the sky, from their tanks posted on the frontier north of Gaza. It is very worrisome. Every day we are plunged in an boundless pain because of our dead and wounded. Yesterday, Israeli shooting claimed 25 new victims and more than 75 wounded among the inhabitants of Al Shijaeeya in Al Sha'af, east of the city of Gaza, and in the neighbourhood of Jabalyia, they bombed a house only 100 metres from my own.

S.C.: Will you have to leave?

Khaled: The Israeli army advised one of our neighbours that he should leave. Between his house and mine there is only one house.

S.C.: But what is Israel trying to achieve with this repeated carnage and destruction? What is their final goal? Terrorize you until you leave for good, as they have already done at Rafah?

Khaled: It didn't start yesterday. Since 1948 the Israelis are following the same plan to get rid of us: they call this plan "transfer". At one moment, it is at a certain place that they terrorize and massacre us, at another moment, it is somewhere else. The crime is called "ethnic cleansing". Their goal: to make us leave so they can take our land under the pretext of creating "security zones". As there are no protests worthy of this name, the Israeli soldiers are free to continue this indefinitely.

S.C.: Is the goal, then, to terrorize you by ever more horrifying massacres, and once panic has entered your hearts, to see you flee en mass as in 1948? But where can you go this time? To Egypt?

Khaled: The important thing for them is to completely clean us out of Gaza. It doesn't matter if they have to drive us into the sea. It is their plan. That's how they got ¾'s of the Palestinians to flee in 1948. But I think the Israelis will never again manage to get us to leave this refuge.
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They are probably just making this up. You know how those Arab's are, always overreacting.

"There once was a young man from Lyme
Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme
When asked "Why not?"
It was said that he thought
They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny." ~ Anonymous

(not a comment on others limericks just saw this and thought it was funny)

capt

#108 Good chuckle! Thanks, capt!

"There was a young woman named Jenny,
Whose limericks weren't worth a penny.
Her rhythm and rhyme
Were perfectly fine
But whenever she tried to write any,
She always had one line too many."

"There was a young man of Dundoo,
Whose limericks stopped at line 2."

~ Anonymous

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All three are from quotationspage.com

capt

How Google Earth Is Changing Science

Biologists, epidemiologists and disaster control experts are discovering Google Earth as a powerful tool in their work. The success of the digital globe has reawakened interest in computer mapping models.

Erik Born constantly keeps tabs on the whereabouts of his walruses no matter what part of the Arctic Sea they might decide to visit on a given day. Just off Greenland's ice-bound coast last spring, the Danish biologists managed to embed tiny tracking sensors in the animals' blubber. Now, he can follow his subjects through the four seasons, wherever they might migrate.

Born doesn't even have to leave his own office. Instead, Google Earth's digital globe rotates on his computer monitor. A position marker on the screen identifies the position of each walrus.

More HERE

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There is a new beta version 4 (June 12):

http://earth.google.com/earth4.html

capt

American Soldiers

2,901 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his lies.

18,500+ American soldiers have been maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his evil lies.

55,000+ of the 140,000 American soldiers are suffering from PTSD. Stress disorder has increased and the percentage is now around 40%.

Over 350,000+ Iraqis have been killed in Iraq since Bush declared shock and awe bombings on March 19, 2003.

Contamination from depleted uranium may have affected 125,000+ American soldiers and several million Iraqis.

Are you feeling more safe and secure with Bush in the WH and Cheney as his chief hatchet man overseeing Nazi America and her citizens?

Our military men and women are used as cannon fodder for a terrorist Nazi American government.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, AND NEITHER DO WE. George W. Bush, August 5, 2005

Rigged elections doom American democracy. American soldiers are being killed and maimed TO PROMOTE A NAZI AMERICAN STATE.

Henry Kissinger says that military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. Does this mean our American soldiers are only cannon fodder to be murdered and maimed through our evil foreign policies and practices?

Nazi America is a mirror image of Hitler Bush.

Nazi Americans continually justify sin.

Nazi Americans are accomplices with Bush for his murders and war crimes.

The Bush Regime's war on terror has defeated truth and the constitutional protections of liberty in the United States. No conceivable number of Muslim terrorists could inflict comparable damage on America.

#77
Alan,
That was beautiful. And another bumper sticker slogan to boot. 'Hypocrisy? I've now seen it all.'

Here on the corn blog, we love Mel Gibson, because he hates Jews too. Right Saladin the butcher of children?

The limericks are great.
How about something romantic.

Roses are red
violets are blue
I like spaghetti
Let's F**K

#94
O'Reilly,
I once posted an article from the American Conservative Mag. I think it was called 'Something for Nothing'. It was about the money being stolen during the Iraq war and all the manuverings that went with it. I can't find it now. Maybe Capt can. It was a very good article.

Capt, can you find the article I'm writing about?

Here on the corn blog, we love Mel Gibson, because he hates Jews too. Right Saladin the butcher of children?

Posted by: ashley at August 1, 2006 11:33 AM 115

The limericks are great. How about something romantic.

Roses are red violets are blue I like spaghetti Let's F**K

Posted by: dawson at August 1, 2006 11:40 AM

Alright, who left the door to the looney bin open?

#91
I usually like to celebrate with something stronger than cake.

"according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy....
....The Yesha Rabbinical Council

....excepting of course israeli innocents killed by the lebanese"

Everyone in southern Lebanon is a terrorist and is connected to Hizbollah.
....Haim Ramon of the Israeli government

attention southern lebanon! we will continue to bomb the holy fuck out of you and all of you that don't manage to flee for your lives when our ground force invades will be considered to be terrorists and killed. we will then set up new borders and it's merely a coincidence that these new borders will include the only source of fresh water for the entire region. we are doing this because YOU are the terrorists and for no other reason. our criminal peers in the american govt/mcmedia will dissemble and stall while we accomplish this and they will even provide us with WMD on the sly which we have already used on you repeatedly. any pathetic outrage that might be shown by any concerned outsiders who manage to even notice what is happening will be dealt with simply by calling them jew-haters.

Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self

WASHINGTON, DC In a decisive 1 - 0 decision Monday, President Bush voted to grant the president the constitutional power to grant himself additional powers.

"As president, I strongly believe that my first duty as president is to support and serve the president," Bush said during a televised address from the East Room of the White House shortly after signing his executive order. "I promise the American people that I will not abuse this new power, unless it becomes necessary to grant myself the power to do so at a later time."

The Presidential Empowerment Act, which the president hand-drafted on his own Oval Office stationery and promptly signed into law, provides Bush with full authority to permit himself to authorize increased jurisdiction over the three branches of the federal government, provided that the president considers it in his best interest to do so.

"In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power," Bush said. "To do otherwise would be playing into the hands of our enemies."

Added Bush: "And it's all under due process of the law as I see it."

More HERE

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This is what happens when we let politicians empower themselves, they do.

capt

#120
He's going to grant himself right out of a job. There will come a moment....mark my words.

BTW,
MY SON GOT A JOB!!!!!!!

Den 117
Alright, who left the door to the looney bin open?

The door to the looney bin is open, it's marked, marked davidcorn.com. Come on in to the loony corn bin

Linda printed for you my thoughts

To these self-righteous ideologues I say: MAY YOU ENVISION FOR YOUR LIFETIMES THE FACES OF EVERY INFANT AND CHILD YOU HAVE SLAIN FOR YOUR CAUSE! What a pernicious badge of inhumanity.

124 Gerald
MAY YOU ENVISION FOR YOUR LIFETIMES THE FACES OF EVERY INFANT AND CHILD YOU HAVE SLAIN

When you tell that to Hezbollah, Hamas and the Lebanese people helping them, the way you are telling that to them, it does no good.

Jeanne,

WOO HOO!

Congratulations!

capt

I have NO GOVERNMENT. I'm a disenfranchised American. George Bush doesn't know my heart. He's never looked in my eyes and seen my "soul." If he did look in my eyes, he'd see a disenfranchised American looking back. Not with warmth or admiration. Not as a member of his electorate. But as an ex-patriot of his government who resides within the nation. A disenfranchised American.

America, leave it or SEIZE IT. Humanity, know it and show it. Save the children!! Save the children!! Save the children!!

In Lebanon. In Israel. In Iraq. In sub-Saharan Africa. In Aceh, Indonesia. In Haiti. In the Dominican Republic. In South and Central America. In North America.

Save the children... the way adults are supposed to do.

I have no government. I am a disenfranchised American.

Lots more magic passports magically recovered from 9/11 (they should have built the blackbox/flightrecorders out of passport material) and used as evidence in the mooseowie (20th highjacker) trial.

*PA00101 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ID card recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PA00102 Saudi Arabian Youth Hostel Association ID for Ahmed A. A. Al-Nami recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PA00103.2 Passport sized photo recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PA00103.3 Passport sized photo recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PA00105.08 Page 37 and part of U.S. Visa page from Ziad Jarrah's Passport recovered at the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PA00108 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia passport for Saeed A A A Al Ghamdi recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PA00109 Business card of Assem Jarrah recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PA00110 Part of Ahmed A A Al Nami's Florida Driver's License recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PA00111 Red bandana recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
*PE00102 Partial ID card reading ALHAZMI from the Pentagon crash site

David good luck with the stand up!

I hope your stand up is better than your political commentary or you could be in for a long night.

Here a few jokes to help:

Q: How many Floridian Liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Don't know for sure, they're still counting.

If guns are outlawed, what will we shoot liberals with?

Q: What's the difference between a Democrat on a Harley and a vacuum cleaner?
A: The vacuum has the dirt bag on the inside.

Q: What's the difference between a Democrat politician and a leech?
A: A leech quits sucking your blood after you die.

Q: What's the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a dead Democrat in the road?
A: Vultures will eat the skunk.

Q: What's the difference between a Democrat and a prostitute?
A: The prostitute gives value for the money she takes.

Q: What's the difference between a Democrat and a bucket of cow manure?
A: The bucket.

Q: What's the difference between a Democrat and a catfish?
A: One is an ugly, scum sucking bottom-feeder and the other is a fish.

Q: What happens when you cross a pig with a Democrat?
A: Nothing. There are some things a pig won't do.

John Kerry was jogging down the street and sees these kittens in a pet store window. He asks the owner, "What kind of kittens are these?"

The owner replied "They're democrats."

The next week Kerry is jogging down the street with Joe Liberman and Kerry sees the kittens and tells Joe, "You gotta' see this!"

Kerry walks up to the store owner and asks, "What kind of kittens are these?"

"Republicans" the store owner replies.

"But last week you said they were democrats! Whats the difference between them then and now?" Kerry proclaims.

"They opened their eyes." The store owner responds.

#122 Jeanne, there are jobs and there are jobs. Please share with us the job!

BTW,
MY SON GOT A JOB!!!!!!!

Jeanne

What, he didn't