DAILY NEWSLINKS
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4/10/09
Today’s newslinks dedicated to
the memory of the great Steve Plesa,
consummate editor, stellar human being, and good pal.
DAILY CONCERT
ETHEL SMITH: TICO TICO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9qlWyk-7Q
HIDEOUS EVIL PERVERSION OF LENNON SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEo36V2RDPg
LIBERACE: TICO TICO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPAe_uHERy4
ANOTHER HIDEOUS EVIL PERVERSION OF LENNON SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb0nQjRNA1E
NEIL LEVANG: "WHEELS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvh6Qr9NGek
ETHEL SMITH: PARAN PAN PIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0nBgHZiTs
XAVIER CUGAT: TICO TICO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJcLUxKUOiQ
CARMEN MIRANDO: TICO TICO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Mf_AfyEt0
ALYS ROBI: TICO TICO (Francais)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRzus0L8xU8
SKYLINES:
ROBBER ROBS
DUNKIN’ DONUTS---
FEELS BAD, RETURNS THE MONEY
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/teen-robbery-dunkin-doughnut-apology-040909.html
FOR SALE:
‘BLADE RUNNER’ BLASTER
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5391IX20090410
GOING 2 DIVORCE U
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE53858P20090409
DUMBSHIT
COP GETS ONE-DAY SUSPENSION FOR CAUSING WOMAN’S DEATH
This by-the-book authoritarianism is the bane of this whole
society today
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/One_day_suspension_for_Memphis_cop_0409.html
GERMANY TO
STAGE “THE PRODUCERS” FOR FIRST TIME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/5131450/Germany-to-stage-Nazi-themed-musical-for-the-first-time.html
EXTRA PENIS
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/04/06/child-born-penis-middle/
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
OBAMA WANTS TO
USE CHEMTRAILS TO CUT GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1168637/Obama-pollution-particles-stratosphere-deflect-suns-heat-desperate-bid-tackle-global-warming.html
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and
Technology, outlined the idea of shooting either sulphur dioxide
particles, aluminium oxide dust or specially designed aerosols into
the stratosphere - the upper level of the atmosphere between ten and
30 miles above the Earth's surface.
It is hoped that this would cool the planet by artificially
reflecting sunlight back into space before it can be absorbed.
U.S.
MILITARY BLOWS UP PIGS---TO TEST BODY ARMOR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5128412/US-military-blew-up-pigs-to-test-body-armour.html
SO WHEN WE LOCATE REAL
TERRORISTS, WE DO NOTHING
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0410/p99s01-cole.html
Mashed media
MORE CHILDISH
LUNACY FROM AMERICAN MEDIA---
THIS TIME OVER OBAMA’S BOW TO KING ABDULLAH
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/why-cnn-we-wasting-everyones-time-obama
TABIBI:
OBAMA’S TOP ECON ADIVSOR GREEDY AND HIGHLY COMPROMISED
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/136008/obama%27s_top_economic_adviser_is_greedy_and_highly_compromised/
So I guess that $45,000 speaking fee from Merrill Lynch wasn't
technically a bribe because Summers wasn't named to Obama's economic
transition team until Nov. 24 — a full 12 days later. I'm sure Larry
Summers had absolutely no inkling whatsoever that he was going to be
one of the key advisers to the new administration on Nov. 12.
LINDORFF:
AMERICA'S IMPERIAL WARS---THE SICKENING REALITY
http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-s-Imperial-Wars-W-by-Dave-Lindorff-090410-985.html
But another reason is that the media themselves sanitize their pages
and their broadcasts. It isn’t just American dead that we don’t get
to see. It’s the civilian dead—at least if our guys do it. We are
not spared gruesome images following attacks on civilians by Iraqi
insurgent groups, or by Taliban forces in Afghanistan. But we don’t
get the same kind of photos when it’s our forces doing the
slaughtering. Because often the photos and video images do
exist—taken by foreign reporters who take the risk of going where
the US military doesn’t want them.
ENGLEHARDT:
DRONE WARS
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22377.htm
The skies of our world are filling with round-the-clock assassins.
They will only evolve and proliferate. Of course, when we check
ourselves out in the movies, we like to identify with John Connor,
the human resister, the good guy of this planet, against the evil
machines. Elsewhere, however, as we fight our drone wars ever more
openly, as we field mechanical techno-terminators with all-seeing
eyes and loose our missiles from thousands of miles away ("Hasta la
Vista, Baby!"), we undoubtedly look like something other than a
nation of John Connors to those living under the Predators. It may
not matter if the joysticks and consoles on those advanced machines
are somewhat antiquated; to others, we are now the terminators of
the planet, implacable machine assassins.
Iraq and Roll
OBAMA WANTS
ANOTHER $85 BILLION FOR IRAQ
Where are the right-wingers crying “socialism” over the fact that
the U.S. has engaged in one giant giveaway
to this stupid country, bankrupting itself in the process?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_seeks_83.4_billion_for_Iraq_0409.html
ANOTHER BOMB, ANOTHER FIVE
U.S. LIVES WASTED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/10/iraq-mosul-suicide-bombing-kills-seven
Animal regulation
KARL ROVE IS ON
THE LOOSE
Please round this frothing beast up. . .If no one claims him a
few days. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_calls_Biden_liar_says_he_0410.html
MORE MEDIA
BEASTS SNARL AT OBAMA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/09/MN1I16TJEN.DTL
GLENN BECK NEEDS
TO BE CASTRATED, ABANDONED ON DESERT ISLAND
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-beck-im-obama-ok-douses-actor
Jesus H. Christ!
SAME SEX MARRIAGE
LEADS TO MASS MURDER---RELIGIOUS RIGHT
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/135997/religious_right_group_claims_same_sex_marriage_leads_to_mass_murder/
Lost Angeles
ANGELS MOURN
DEATH OF PITCHER KILLED BY DRUNK DRIVER
While nothing is done to contain the insane Wild West driving
that infests Los Angeles
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090410/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bba_angels_pitcher_killed;_ylt=As4i3B1pJODCePaL8Nj6CAV34T0D
People’s Repugnic
TIBET DEATH SENTENCES
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/04/09/tibetan-death-sentences-get-little-attention-in-china/
Enviro Wacko
SOLAR
COOKER WINS $75,000 PRIZE
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L8609281.htm
Animals in the news!
ANIMAL PICS OF
THE WEEK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/10/wildlife-animals?picture=345762598
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/5131856/Animal-pictures-of-the-week-9-April-2009.html
SCORE ONE FOR THE CROCODILES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/10/crocodile-attack-australia
Pies in the news!
PA. INSISTS ON
INSPECTING HOMEMADE PIES
Repug Rep. Jim Marshall of Big Beaver (really) is pursuing new
law
http://timesonline.com/articles/2009/03/21/news/top_stories/doc49c45d028cfe7503848865.txt
MAN DIES IN PIE
FACTORY EXPLOSION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5136712/Man-dies-in-pie-factory-explosion.html
Science
CHARLES
DARWIN’S EGG COLLECTION FOUND AFTER 200 YEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/evolution/5131017/Egg-collected-by-Charles-Darwin-found-at-Cambridge-University-after-200-years.html
Obit
POP WINANS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7991491.stm
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
TALES OF
MANHATTAN, by Woody Allen
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/03/30/090330sh_shouts_allen?currentPage=all
Musique
FRANK ZAPPA’S
LUMPY LEGACY
How his wife’s zealous efforts to guard his legacy have alienated
fans, musicians
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102907874&sc=emaf
DYLAN ON
U.S. GRANT, OBAMA, CIVIL WAR
This is a good read
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6043331.ece
LIES, DAMNED LIES!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article6047121.ece
Film
ISABELLA
ROSSELLINI’S ‘GREEN PORNO’
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1890157,00.html
TOP TEN
JESUS FILMS
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1890518_1890479,00.htm
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Where ya goin’?
CULTURAL CRUISING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/5135511/Cultural-cruises-All-aboard-for-a-new-perspective.html
And in the end. . .
A WOMAN AND HER CHILES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/10/international/i061742D06.DTL
4/8/09
Today’s newslinks dedicated to
the memory of the great Steve Plesa,
consummate editor, stellar human being, and good pal.
DAILY CONCERT
BITCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtnxvpIEg8w
WOMAN IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJC_2Xv2yI
EVIL WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R20f-TPKjzc
DEVIL WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7YaIhzN_dk
DEVIL WITH THE BLUE DRESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tbxgw6OfpA
THE PIANO HAS BEEN DRINKING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwhdmll85v4
TOM TRAUBERT'S BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmqbcBsTAw
AKA TOMBO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKNagdlLbFo
SKYLINES:
OBAMA 1ST PREZ AT WHITE
HOUSE SEDER
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/08/obama-seder/
BIZARRE
CONTESTS, WORLD RECORDS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/weird-competitions-1/index.html
GOOD NEWS:
LINDSAY LOHAN IN “ABSOLUTE HELL”
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Lohan:_Ronson_has_left_me_in_absolute_hell&in_article_id=615121&in_page_id=7
SPOCK GIVES
FANS STAR TREK TREAT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7989146.stm
TENNANT CRIES OVER DR. WHO
DEMISE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7989000/7989827.stm
MORFORD: GIVE UP, SMOKERS!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/08/notes040809.DTL
Yes, it's the gravelly howl of the nation's livid smokers, AKA "the
last persecuted group in America" (well, except for the obese. And
Catholics, Mormons, dwarves, Hummer owners, gun lovers, vegans,
atheists, lawyers, Wall Street execs, lesbians, Mexicans, working
moms, single moms, obese single Mexican lesbian moms and a few dozen
others, but never mind that now) whose God-given civil rights are
now being trampled by our increasingly oppressive, fascist
government.
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
USA IN
GUN-BUYING FRENZY
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889886,00.html
According to the SportsOneSource, a research firm that tracks the
sports goods industry, firearms sales in large retail outlets are up
39% this year. Shops across the country are reporting ammunition
shortages since stores can't meet demand for bullets. Data from the
FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which the
industry uses as a proxy for overall firearms sales, is also
revealing. From November 2008 through March 2009, FBI background
checks, which are required every time a federally licensed gun
dealer makes a sale, rose 29.3% over the same period a year ago.
4 SHOT, ONE DEAD AT KOREAN
CHRISTIAN RETREAT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/07/state/n221128D72.DTL
CHINA, RUSSIA
SPIES HACKED U.S. ELECTRICITY GRID
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/US_electricity_grid_hit_by_cyber_0408.html
Chinese and Russian cyber-spies have hacked into the US electricity
grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system,
a report said Wednesday.
COPS ASSAULTED
MAN BEFORE HIS DEATH AT G20 PROTEST
And the cops tried to pass this off as natural causes
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Video_shows_London_police_assaulting_man_0407.html
The man, 47-year-old Ian Tomlinson, is shown walking with his hands
in his pockets and not resisting or speaking to police before a
baton-wielding officer appears to strike him in the leg from behind,
and then pushes him onto his back and the ground.
FBI SHUTS DOWN ISP SERVER
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa090402_lj_fbi.96b29611.html
AIDS BECOMING MORE
VIRULENT?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407105259.htm
Israelity
OBAMA/ISRAEL---WIDENING
GAP?
http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/04/08/obama-israel-a-widening-gap/
Mashed Media
COP-KILLER WAS
BIG GLENN BECK/FOX NEWS FAN---
Surprise, surprise. . .
http://www.alternet.org/rights/135592/did_paranoid_right-wing_media_fuel_the_pittsburgh_cop_killer%27s_rage/
---AND
RIGHT-WING RHETORIC GETS NUTTIER AND NASTIER STILL
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/their-power-spirals-downward-rights-
CALLER TO
LIMBAUGH: YOU BRAINWASHED NAZI
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Radio_caller_tells_Limbaugh_hes_brainwashed_0408.html
WATCH: WINGNUTS GONE WILD
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/daily-show-wingnuts-gone-wild
WHY ARE ARMY
RECRUITERS KILLING THEMSELVES?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1889152,00.html
LINDORFF: NO END TO THE SCANDALS
http://thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/292
The US budget has long been a work of fiction. Now the books of the
nation’s banks and of many of its public companies will also be pure
works of fiction.
As columnist Jonathan Weil wrote in Bloomberg.com last month as the
FASB was considering making this change in its rules, “The FASB
ought to change its name to the Fraudulent Accounting Standards
Board.” The road to ruin, it turns out, is not paved with good
intentions after all. It is paved by powerful lobbyists buying
short-term benefits at the public’s expense.
BUCHANAN: KILL THE FED?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22365.htm
RAIMUNDO:
LIBERALS RALLY AROUND OBAMA’S WAR
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/
As President Barack Obama launches a military effort that promises
to dwarf the Bush administration’s Iraqi adventure in scope and
intensity, the "progressive" community is rallying around their
commander in chief as obediently and reflexively as the neocon-dominated
GOP did when we invaded Iraq. As John Stauber points out over at the
Center for Media and Democracy Web site, the takeover of the antiwar
movement by the Obamaites is nearly complete. He cites MoveOn.org as
a prime but not sole example
People’s Repugnic
CHINA
CRACKS DOWN ON ‘SENSITIVE ANNIVERSARIES’
Time for somebody to crack down on China
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0408/p06s14-woap.html
An elderly retired professor is beaten black and blue by thugs,
under the noses of the police, for stubbornly honoring the memory of
an officially disgraced former leader. . .
CHINA ART MARKET
BUBBLE BURSTS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0407/p06s01-wosc.html
But few people in the art world here are lamenting the end of an
overheated era. "Chinese artists were seen as ATMs," says Jerome
Sans, director of the nonprofit Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
in Beijing. "Maybe now they'll stop creating for the market and
create for the mind."
PAKISTAN ISLAMIST GROUPS
FORM ALLIANCE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,618170,00.html
Animals in the news!
WILD CHIMPS
EXCHANGE MEAT FOR SEX
Just like Madonna!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407223640.htm
WAVE GOODBYE TO
THE NICE BRITISH BUTTERFLIES!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/08/butterfly-numbers-drop-countryside
Lost Angeles
BANGLADESH/KOREA
NEIGHBORHOOD SMACKDOWN!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/us/07koreatown.html?emc=eta1
The last official count of the Bangladeshi population, in the 2000
census, showed only 1,700 in all of Los Angeles County. But the
Bangladeshi consul general here, Abu Zafar, estimates that there are
now 10,000 to 15,000 in Los Angeles and some 25,000 in Southern
California, making the region the nation’s second-largest home to
Bangladeshis, after New York City. In what the Koreans thought was
Koreatown, a handful of Bangladeshi stores have cropped up, Mr.
Zafar said, and the community is growing as a result of migration
from out of state.
Oh, by the way. . .
TRIPLE GALAXY
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/galaxytriplet.html
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
MARINUCCI ON
BEATLES REMASTERS
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d7-The-Beatles-Ring-out-the-old-and-ring-in-the-new-CDs
Full report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/arts/music/08beat.html
Obit
THE GREAT BUD SHANK
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/music/07shank.html?ref=obituaries
Film
WHY KEATON IS THE KING OF COMEDY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/apr/08/buster-keaton-paul-merton-silent-clowns
BUSTERKEATON.COM
http://www.busterkeaton.com/
The Great Buster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWEo4M8nZQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyRhRR5Iu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kU9BdMRQfA
Books
DAVID DENBY IS
UPSET BY SNARKINESS
http://www.reason.com/news/show/132725.html
Denby wants things as they once were, when American culture was
effectively a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie; when the Ivy League
guardians of “our conversation” ruthlessly protected it from
contamination by the jealous and uncouth. “Whatever its miseries,
the country in the thirties and forties was at peace with itself
spiritually: We were all in the same boat,” he argues. Today we have
“income inequalities and Rovian tactics that exacerbate ethnic and
class differences”; then we merely had Nazism and the Depression.
MORE PINHEAD
WOMEN BUYING MORE AND MORE ROMANCE NOVELS
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum4-2009apr04,0,3428708.column
It's not exactly a surprise that the romance novel business would be
pretty recession-proof; as bad as things get, a lot of people -- OK,
mostly women -- can still afford a $5 paperback. It's also no great
mystery why stories of women being wooed by chiseled, robust
millionaires would be extra appealing in an era when a lot of
millionaires are finding themselves downgraded to (if I may dust off
a favorite word from my childhood) "thousandaires."
For Art’s Sake
OH, THAT
ALL SHOULD COME TO THIS. . .
This kind of neurotic, self-indulgent preening is what passes for
art. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2009/apr/01/mirror-fiona-banner-samantha-morton
And in the end. . .
STEVE PLESA: ADRENALINE RUSH ON
A BORING DAY
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/down-right-left-2353429-street-hard
4/6/09
DAILY CONCERT
FEAR,
HATE, ENVY, JEALOUSY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itBBHYlxHdU
SOLDIER OF LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CoAq4nY7Hs
GIVE ME LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChR5DKgY_Y
WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg
U.S. ARMY AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzdZqSVbJ4
UKRAINIAN ARMY AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_E6YSQqTo
RUSSIAN ARMY AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOaGgY2yUHw
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk
UNKNOWN SOLDIER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdfkYe3c5XI
AN UNTITLED PROTEST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV7mDnI16h8
SKYLINES:
RINGO AND PAUL ON STAGE
TOGETHER
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d5-Lynch-concert-updates--videos-of-Paul-and-Ringo-rockin-the-house-Saturday-part-3
FAWCETT BACK IN
HOSPITAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7985008.stm
MEN ROB POP
STAR DRESSED AS PINEAPPLE
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Men_rob_pop_star_dressed_as_a_pineapple&in_article_id=611355&in_page_id=2
BRISTOL PALIN WILL
ADVOCATE ABSTINENCE
Hahahahahaha
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/05/bristol-advocate-abstinence/
VIAGRA FOR VOTES
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/30/viagra-buys-votes-bangkok/
ROMEO DEV
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5114498/Romeo-Dev-the-worlds-smallest-bodybuilder-in-London.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
GAZA DOCTOR WHO
LOST WIFE, DAUGHTERS
IS NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/a-most-nobel-nominee/
Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Ashi is an uncommon man. A Palestinian who
works for an Israeli hospital, Dr. Ashi has been giving Israelis
daily reports on the military campaign in Gaza. "My God ... My girls
..." he cried. "Shiomi ... Can't anybody help us please?"
INDIA CUTS 30 MILLION CELL
PHONES OVER TERRORIST FEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5113710/India-to-cut-off-30-million-mobile-phones.html
OBAMA TO G-20:
‘I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY’
FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,617639,00.html
OBAMA KEEPS BUSH
WIRETAP POLICY
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_follows_Bush_policy_on_wiretapping_0406.html
RAIMUNDO: THE TWO FACES OF OBAMA
One for the masses, one for the elite
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/04/05/the-two-faces-of-barack-obama/
Like Americans, the Europeans want to believe – but they see the two
faces of Barack Obama too clearly, and the contrast is too apparent
to be denied. The gullible Americans, who take things at face value,
still believe their new president represents a real change, a
challenge to the status quo, while the more sophisticated Europeans
are quick to pick up on Obama’s inconsistencies – made all the more
glaring by his habit of pairing two mutually contradictory stances
on the same issue.
Enviro Wacko
RAINFOREST’S
WORST ENEMY: BIOFUELS
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/03/why-biofuels-are-rainforests-worst-enemy
QUAKE IN ITALY IS MASSIVE---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7984867.stm
---WIPES OUT
HISTORIC TOWN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Italy_quake_kills_92_devastates_historic_0406.html
SCIENTIST WHO
PREDICTED QUAKE WAS REPORTED TO COPS FOR ‘SCAREMONGERING’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5114139/Italian-earthquake-experts-warnings-were-dismissed-as-scaremongering.html
Kim Nook Yoo
BEHIND THE N.
KOREA MISSILE LAUNCH
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1889616,00.html
All-melty dollar
THE HOMELESS
OF. . .MARIN COUNTY?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/06/MNVH16A0PI.DTL&tsp=1
INTERVIEW: BILL BLACK
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html
With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill
Moyers sits down with William K. Black, the former senior regulator
who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the
1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique
of the bailout.
DISNEYLAND, WORLD, LAYOFF
1400
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/disneyland%3A_the_happiest_place_on_earth_fires_1%2C900/#135194
HEY, BLAGO,
YOU’VE JUST BEEN INDICTED---WHERE YA GOIN’?
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/blog-entry/
RIGHT-WING LIE THAT OBAMA
WILL OUTLAW GUNS. . .
FUELS PANIC GUN-BUYING
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/04/right-wing-guns-claim/
MOM KILLS SELF,
SON AT SHOOTING RANGE
Ban all guns
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asecgunrange06040609apr06,0,5962752.story
Animals in the news!
2ND
ENDANGERED CONDOR FOUND SHOT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/05/state/n173824D35.DTL
Ban all hunting, ban all guns.
THE BANANA RATS OF
GUANTANAMO
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090403-guantanamo-bay.html
BUTTERFLY
WINGS, AND HOW THEY WORK!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401134417.htm
DOG LOST AT SEA FOUND ON
AUSSIE ISLAND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/5113781/Pet-dog-survives-four-months-lost-at-sea-off-Australia.html
Mashed Media
BOSTON GLOBE
SHUTTING DOWN?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003958992
REMEMBERING HERB CAEN
"Who knows how the city's changed?" said Barnaby Conrad. "Herb
Caen's not here to tell us."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/05/LV5016MC6J.DTL
Obits
TOM BRADEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/arts/television/06braden.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
EVA EVDOKIMOVA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/arts/dance/06evdokimova.html?ref=obituaries
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
WANT TO WRITE A
BEST SELLER?
If you are female and write puerile crap about sex, you’ve got a
great shot!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,617599,00.html
Asinine Article of the
Week
ARE WOMEN SEXUALLY LIBERATED OR JUST CONFUSED?
Or just nuts?
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article5967816.ece
n China, vibrator manufacturers are one of the few industries
weathering a global recession. Rampant Rabbit enthusiasts rave about
the latest model, the bumper stickers on their cars proclaiming, “My
other ride is a rabbit”. Sex toys are chic lifestyle accessories.
Recently, a PR punting JimmyJane’s Little Something line of
precious-metal vibrators closed her pitch with “Kate Moss bought the
gold one”.
CHEAP
GOSSIP ABOUT UNIMPORTANT ASSHOLES
Amy Winehouse whips it off
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Babbling_Amys_topless_streak&in_article_id=611404&in_page_id=7
Where are they
now?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/05/television-characters
Musique
VENEZUELA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
VISITS U.S.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1889570,00.html
Film
TEN QUESTIONS
FOR JACKIE CHAN
http://www.time.com/time/video/?bcpid=1485842900&bctid=18432481001
For Art’s Sake
JAN TROOP
http://www.jan-toorop.com/home
And in the end. . .
GIANT PENIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/5113928/Pictures-of-the-day-6-April-2009.html
hit 'refresh' for updates
4/3/09
DAILY CONCERT
SAIL AWAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chaP4MCXp4w
PANCHO LOPEZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwiLREY3wM
HE'S SO GAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phYyyYrfaeM
WOMAN IS THE NIGGER OF THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7of6trC-U
JESUS THINKS YOU'RE A JERK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcE2dq3YD0
SUICIDE CHUMP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51IqPg_HScE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC0impmYmGY
EE O ELEVEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPhhXqUy_Bw
KILLER QUEEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ysQxyqK8k
ATOM AND EVIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjlJ2F646bA
SKYLINES:
Mm-mm! Have a
little edible anti-freeze!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0702-edible_antifreeze_saves_ice_cream.htm
NO NEW BLACK
KNICK-KNACK FOR MEDUSA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7980951.stm
QUEEN IS
NOT AMUSED BY BERLUSCONI
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5099649/Queen-is-not-amused-by-Berlusconi-gaffe.html
READ THE LABELS FIRST!
http://digg.com/d1nmwm
WHITE HOUSE
GIVES REPORTERS PHONE SEX NUMBER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_gives_reporters_phone_sex_0402.html
ASTOUNDING
UNDERWATER RESTAURANT
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-offbeattraveler7-pg,0,6549249.photogallery
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
Miss Liberty
SF ‘SANCTUARY’
STATUS
GIVES SHELTER TO 185 IMMIGRANT. . .FELONS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/03/MNHM16RKLG.DTL&tsp=1
AT LEAST 90
IMMIGRANTS DIE IN U.S. ‘DETENTION FACILIITIES’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Revealed_90_immigrants_have_died_in_0403.html
FOR U.S.
IMMIGRATION, LEGAL PARTNERSHIP DOESN’T COUNT
18 years of legal partnership, parenting, and woman still faces
deportation
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/03/MNSF16QV9B.DTL
HEART CELLS
REGENERATE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090402-heart-cells-regrow.html
ANOTHER MONTH, ANOTHER
663,000 JOBS LOST
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/03/march-jobs-report/
ARCTIC WILL BE ALL
SEA IN 30 YEARS
Or sooner
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402143752.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/03/tech/main4915866.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4915866
World Gone Mad
S. KOREAN
ACTRESS COMMITS SUICIDE---WAS USED AS ‘ELITE SEX SLAVE’
http://pseudoccultmedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/south-korean-actress-comitts-suicide.html
GIRL SEEN WITH
MARRIED MAN, WHIPPED BY TALIBAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging
Jesus H. Christ!
MORFORD
ON
THE POPE’S INSANITY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/03/notes040309.DTL
Let me try to be a little more specific: Is it not some form of
strange self-torture, a kind of brutal spiritual immolation, to
believe that God is this gloomy, obsessive micromanager, so petty
and vindictive regarding what you do with your body that you/he will
let people die for the sake of it? Do you have any sort of answer?
Shall we ask the pope?
Israelity
WHY AREN’T MEDIA TALKING
ABOUT CHARLES FREEMAN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM03V-B5KCY
Kim Nook Yoo
NEWT’S KWAZY N.
KOREA TALK
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/02/gingrich-north-korea-lasers/
Mashed Media
GOOGLE TO BUY
TWITTER
Sounds like a Japanese monster movie
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5099047/Google-on-verge-of-buying-Twitter.htm
TWITTER FURTHER
TRIVIALIZES LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/03/26/a-primer-on-twitter/
(Lack of) Health
NEW AIDS THEORY: START
TREATMENT EARLY
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1889251,00.html
GRAPEFRUIT AND
THE PILL DON’T MIX
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5098020/Grapefruit-linked-to-blood-clot-risk.html
POT HELPS BATTLE BRAIN
CANCER
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Marijuana_helps_in_battle_against_c_04022009.html
Oh, by the way. . .
HOT CLIMATE
PRODUCES MORE GIRLS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7972993.stm
HAVING A SISTER
MAKES YOU MORE OPTIMISTIC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/5089197/Having-a-sister-makes-you-happier-and-more-optimistic-say-psychologists.html
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Lost Angeles
MORE INSANITY:
FANCY DOWNTOWN HOTEL
TO BE RAZED FOR GIANT HOTEL/CONDO TOWER
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/breaking_wilshire_grand_to_be_destroyed_hotel_office_project_coming.php
THE OLD AIRFIELDS
OF WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/wilshire_boulevards_old_a.php
FAIRYTALE HOMES OF
L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-fairytale,0,5738616.special
Hey, Be-attle!
WHAT DID JOHN
LENNON WRITE
IN THAT NOTEBOOK IN “A HARD DAY’S NIGHT?”
http://home.att.net/~liveletdie/Movies/hobby.html
Books
A PEOPLE AND THEIR KARMA
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862874506380449.html
Instructively, too -- at a time when the Indian elections are almost
upon us -- Ms. Doniger trains her light on the use and abuse of
Hindu mythology in modern Indian politics, what she calls "the past
in the present." It will come as no surprise that she is as unloving
of the Hindu Right as she is of the Right in America, and with
greater reason. Unlike India's Hindu Right, the American Right does
not seek to disenfranchise citizens on the basis of religion.
AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY: DID
SHE HAVE ALZHEIMER’S?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/03/agatha-christie-alzheimers-research
Light reading
NELSON ALGREN
TURNS 100
http://newcity.com/2009/03/28/the-ninth-man-out-as-baseball-begins-again-nelson-algren-turns-100/
Gallery
THE WEEK IN
WILDLIFE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/02/wildlife-animals?picture=345425786
WEEK IN PHOTOS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/week-in-news-pictures-124/index.html
Musique
ANDRE PREVIN
LOOKS BACK
http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5184&issueID=332
LEAD POISONING
BLAMED FOR HANDEL’S TEMPER
(Also apparently killed Beethoven.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2009/apr/03/classical-music-handel
Where ya goin’?
BEACHFRONT HAWAII
HOTELS UNDER $100
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hawaii/detail?&entry_id=37737
And in the end. . .
A MOVIE BY SCOTT WANNBERG
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=uk&code=c4aa3e3bfef315a2634c15d4027bfea0
4/2/09
DAILY CONCERT
I THINK IT'S GOING TO RAIN TODAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4c54PAzXrM
THE DAY THE WORLD GETS 'ROUND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7shhoE10Bos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9t571klxlg
PIGGIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQeRLT1HNQ
PIGGIES ENCORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6cr7Trhndw
COMMERCIAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXP_TUZqsk
BIG YELLOW TAXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTQubWecuv8
RAINFOREST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAzc1p9Nk08
MR. CREOSOTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk
SKYLINES:
MICHELLE OBAMA
HUGS QUEEN
Well, at least she didn’t try to give her a backrub, like
President Cretin did to Merkel
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/02/michelle-obama-hugs-queen-breaks-royal-protocol/
Michelle the human
catwalk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5094551/Michelle-Obama-in-London.html
BUSH TO GET---GASP, COUGH,
WRETCH---AN ENVIRO AWARD!
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/01/more-environmental-bombshells/
STEWART TO
LIMBAUGH: “GET THE FUCK OUT OF NYC”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Stewart_to_Limbaugh_Get_fk_out_0402.html
"For years, for years, for years, New Yorkers have done everything
in our power to get this guy to leave town," Stewart said. "We
passed laws making it tougher for hot dog vendors to sell along the
streets. We hold gay pride parades and there are barely any gay
people in the city so we shipped them in."
PRINCE PHILIP TO
OBAMA: “THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5090842/G20-summit-Prince-Philips-joke-about-world-leaders-at-Barack-Obama-meeting.html
NEVER PICK
YOUR TEETH WITH SCISSORS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5089941/X-ray-shows-how-man-accidentally-swallowed-scissors.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
CURE FOR DEAFNESS AROUND THE
CORNER?
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Cure_for_deafness_around_the_corner&in_article_id=607158&in_page_id=34
THEY COMPETE TO
EAT AT 100 TOP SF RESTAURANTS. . .
Two of SF's leading gluttons.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/02/DDI616MSBT.DTL&type=food
. . .WHILE THEY
TRY TO SAVE THE STARVING CHILDREN OF HAITI
Americans Sasha Kramer and Sarah Brownell travel Haiti on
motorscooters, bringing fertilizer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29kristof.html
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=6206f2ea34833d5535dba63ca962279a
Auto Motive
MORFORD
ON
THE INSANE NEW CAMARO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/01/notes040109.DTL
What's that you say? You had no idea that Chevy was resurrecting
this rolling mullet from the mausoleum of the '70s because, even
after sucking up billions in bailout money, GM still doesn't really
have a single fresh and forward-thinking idea, and hence the best
they can do is scrape the barrel of macho nostalgia in a desperate
attempt to cater to male Boomers who drink too much light beer and
think Maxim is the height of masculinity and are still debating
which Van Halen vocalist totally ruled?
AUTO EXPERT SHIN
TAKEI ADDS:
The writer fails to mention that the Camaro was conceived and
designed 5 years ago when retro nostalgia design was all the rage
like the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Charger. The Mustang which has
been selling well has been retro upgraded this year and Dodge
released the Challenger. So even if its not a Prius fighter, a
muscle car is American as apple pie and will never go away. We had a
similar period in the mid seventies when the first oil-shock and
emission requirements killed the muscle car and begat the dreadful
Mustang II, the unforgettable Pinto and the Vega and the horrid
Cadillac Cimarron just to name a few embarrasments. The public did
not accept them and the manufacturers eventually dolled up
performance cars that were fuel efficient. Now with electric cars
coming with performance like the Tesla the future is still bright
for muscle car addicts even if it may be powered by alternative
power because we still hunger for horsepower Afterall, pavement
scorching, rubber laying drag racing from signal to signal is part
of American Heritage just like hot dogs, hamburgers, baseball and
titty bars.
NEW 50 MPG
PRIUS DUE IN 60 DAYS
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil27-2009mar27,0,6330355.column
OBAMA SUPPORTS
‘CASH FOR CLUNKERS’ LEGISLATION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/02/BUPI16QS5Q.DTL&type=business&tsp=1
Israelity
PALESTINIAN
ORCHESTRA LEADER DEPORTED FROM WEST BANK---
AFTER CONCERT FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinian-orchestra-leader-deported-after-death-threats-1660016.html
The head of a Palestinian youth orchestra who sparked outrage by
performing a concert for Holocaust survivers in Israel has been
deported from the West Bank because Palestinian security forces felt
"her life to be in danger".
CHICAGO FIRM
GETS MILLIONS FOR ‘SECURITY’ IN ISRAEL AND IRAQ
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/134594/obama%27s_blackwater_chicago_mercenary_firm_gets_millions_for_private_%22security%22_in_israel_and_iraq_/
Federal records obtained by AlterNet reveal a multi-million
dollar contract for a private U.S. paramilitary force operating out
of Jerusalem.
The Other War
MARGOLIS:
BEWARE THOSE AFPAKIS!
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22329.htm
ISI is not playing a double game, as Washington charges, but simply
assuring Pakistan’s strategic and political interests in the region.
The Obama administration is making an historic mistake by treating
Pakistan with imperial arrogance and ignoring the concerns and
desires of its people. We seem to have learned nothing from the
Iranian revolution.
SILENCE ON
AFGHANISTAN: IF ONLY IT WERE A JOKE
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/134718/silence_on_afghanistan%3A_if_only_it_were_a_joke/
All-Melty Dollar
G20 PLEDGES
TRILLION BUCKS FOR THE WORLD
Whatever that means.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7979483.stm
REYNOLDS: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHINA’S
SEATING AT G20
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/
THE G20
PROTESTS IN PICTURES
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=specials/g20-protests/
EX-AIG CHIEF: IT’S
NOT MY FAULT!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ExAIG_chief_says_problems_not_his_0402.html
The Torture Never Stops
COLIN POWELL DODGES TORTURE
ISSUE IN MADDOW INTERVIEW
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/02/powell-maddow-torture/
Kim Nook Yoo
OBAMA WARNS
N. KOREA OVER MISSILE “TEST”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5093585/Barack-Obama-warns-North-Korea-over-rocket-launch-as-Pyongyang-fuels-missile.html
Technically
YOUTH INVENTS
ITUNES FOR YOUTUBE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/02/you-tube-music-player
Mashed Media
EVEN USA TODAY
IN BIG TROUBLE. . .
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123854670808076289.html#mod=rss_media_marketing
ED SCHULTZ JOINS
MSNBC DAILY 6-7 P.M.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ed_Schultz_joins_MSNBC_for_67_0402.html
PAUL MOYER
RETIRES
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/04/paul_moyer_retiring_from.php
Animals in the news!
CAN THE WORLD’S
MOST ENDANGERED CAT BE SAVED?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,617077,00.html
Obit
MONTY HALE, SINGING COWBOY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/movies/02hale.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Lost Angeles
DOWNTOWN’S
‘MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING’ GOES BANKRUPT
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/04/downtowns_most_beautiful_building_files_for_bankruptcy.php
PARDON FOR BOXER
JACK JOHNSON?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5090840/Barack-Obama-is-asked-to-grant-pardon-to-boxer-Jack-Johnson.html
Garden
THE KALE
AND TURNIP GLUT
“The abundance of roughage is overwhelming!”
http://www.slate.com/id/2214524/pagenum/all/
PLASTIC BOTTLE
GREENHOUSE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/apr/02/plastic-bottle-greenhouse
I STINK
“Forensic chemists examined my odor print. Here’s what they
found.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2214525/
TeeVee
ANDY RICHTER: BEST
LATE NIGHT SIDEKICK EVER?
Nah. Arthur Treacher.
http://www.slate.com/id/2214729/
REALLY BAD POEMS
FOR NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
Poems are not merely unpunctuated, uncapitalized, fragmented
prose, folks.
http://littleeva.blogspot.com/
Where ya goin’?
CHEAP TURKEY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/familyholidays/5094049/Turkey-The-Med-at-half-the-price.html
TRAVEL PICS OF
THE WEEK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/thebigpicture/5090163/The-Big-Picture-photography-competition-round-44.html
And in the end. . .
STOOGEUM
http://www.stoogeum.com/
4/1/09
DAILY CONCERT
Shangri-La
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4DJ9YUYshE
Shangri-Las
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FxSM88H-G4
Shangri-La
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxJUTnJoc7o
Shangri-La
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYEIS1s5k0c
Lost Horizon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-kTPSOuZ8
O PARADISO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzEWpvt_m1U
PROMISED LAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aykoGVMdlSA
SKYLINES:
Lost Angeles
ANGELS’ FLIGHT
BEGINS TESTING
http://www.angelenic.com/6656/history-in-motion-angels-flight-takes-off/
FANS TO NATALIE COLE: TAKE
MY KIDNEY, PLEASE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7976123.stm
DEADBEAT
TAXPAYER
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/634604.html
NEW SPOOF FROM
BORAT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5087607/Borat-comedian-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-records-Band-Aid-spoof-single-with-Chris-Martin.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
CHENEY HAS
‘MOLES’ IN OBAMA GOVERNMENT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hersh_Cheney_has_moles_in_Obama_0401.html
MISS UNIVERSE
VISITS GITMO, PRONOUNCES IT A FUN PLACE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/miss-universe-guantanamo-bay
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25274969-663,00.html
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/miss-universe-visits-guantanamo/?hp
"It was a loooot of fun!" Mendoza wrote on the Miss Universe blog.
She also recounted how she and Stewart met US military personnel and
toured the camp, with its barbed wire fences, minefields and
watchtowers. As well as a bar on the base, the pair also discovered
an "unbelievable" beach in the bay.
G20 PROTESTERS
BREAK INTO BANK OF SCOTLAND
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/35000_protest_G20_in_London_0401.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?G20_protesters_break_into_RBS_building&in_article_id=605440&in_page_id=34
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7975597.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/g20-summit-protests
REPUGS LIE:
‘GREEN ECONOMY’ MEANS $3100 TAX ON FAMILIES
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/31/3100-lie/
SCHEER: NO BANKER LEFT BEHIND
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090331_in_for_a_penny_in_for_298_trillion/
The good news on the government’s “No Banker Left Behind” program is
that according to the special inspector general’s report on Tuesday,
the total handout to date is still less than 3 trillion dollars.
It’s only 2.98 trillion.
Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA HAS
NUCLEAR WARHEADS---CLAIM
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200904/200904010001.html
Mashed Media
U.S.
JOURNALISTS FACE ‘TEN YEARS’ HARD LABOR’ UNDER N. KOREAN MANIACS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5087982/North-Korea-US-journalists-face-10-years-hard-labour.html
UK GUARDIAN ABANDONS INK,
GOES ALL-TWITTER
April Fool.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology
INTERVIEW: SEYMOUR HERSH ON U.S.
ASSASSINATIONS
http://www.alternet.org/rights/134347/seymour_hersh%3A_secret_u.s._forces_carried_out_assassinations_in_%27a_lot_of%27_countries%2C_including_in_latin_america/
Under President Bush's authority, they've been going into countries,
not talking to the ambassador or to the CIA station chief, and
finding people on a list and executing them and leaving.
Israelity
NETANYAHU SWORN
IN
Wish this was an April Fools’ joke. . .
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/03/31/netanyahu-takes-reins-as-israels-prime-minister/
MADMAN BIBI: IF
U.S. DOESN’T STOP IRAN, ISRAEL WILL
Can you say. . .blackmail?
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/01/1004167/netanyahu-if-us-doesnt-stop-iran-israel-will
JEWISH THEATER
DIRECTOR DEFENDS GAZA PLAY
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/27/1004049/jewish-theater-director-in-dc-defends-reading-of-anti-israel-play
Ari Roth is not surprised that his decision to stage a reading of
"Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza" has infuriated some in the
Washington Jewish community.
FEDS SEEK TO REVERSE
CONVICTION OF CROOK TED STEVENS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/01/national/w042746D17.DTL
COURT RULES
IN FAVOR OF PETE TAGLIANI---ER, AL FRANKEN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Minnesota_court_ruling_supports_Franken_may_0331.html
People’s Repugnic
CHINA INTRODUCES
FAKE LAMA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7973684.stm
KARZAI LEGALIZES RAPE
But only in marriage, so that makes it okay
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/5080797/Hamid-Karzai-signs-law-legalising-rape-in-marriage.html
Animals in the news!
6,000 RIVER
DOLPHINS FOUND IN BANGLADESH
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090331-dolphins-found.html
SCIENTISTS TRY
TO SAVE SHREW-LIKE MAMMAL WITH VENOMOUS BITE
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133537.htm
(Lack of) Health
JENNY MCCARTHY ON.
. .AUTISM?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1888718,00.html
Oh, by the way. . .
SHOPPING SPREES
LINKED TO MENSTRUAL PERIODS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7971578.stm
And in more
important matters. . .
APRIL FOOL ROUNDUP
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,616756,00.html
Four Historic
Science Hoaxes
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/april-fools-day-hoaxes/index.html
OBAMA’S BRITISH
HERITAGE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5077902/G20-summit-Barack-Obamas-English-heritage.html
For Art’s Sake
CHINA’S STRANGE
SUBVERSIVE MODERN ART
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0327/p13s01-alar.html
Books
HOW LINCOLN
LEARNED TO READ
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/03/26/how-lincoln-learned-to-read/
Musique
THE GREAT BERNARD
PURDIE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/theater/31purd.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Watch:
Teaching the Purdie Shuffle
(This is great, even if you’re not a drummer.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0VlzJeNvA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEVs4g6qyk
And in the end. . .
INDOOR BEACH
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/31/japans-indoor-beach-surf/
3/31/09
DAILY CONCERT
Choo Choo ch'boogie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2pRVyBmOY
Chattanooga Choo Choo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6uK_fpb9Rg
Train Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6uK_fpb9Rg
Downtown Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLA6AiZlVw
Last Train to Clarksville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScXXaBu1Ing
Night Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWx4dx29II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZSKm0o_rMA
One After 909
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxQ33TE3fM
People Get Ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NWqO85P6Y
SKYLINES:
Photos of the day
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0330/
THINK YOU
GOT IT BAD?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5077475/Is-this-the-worst-job-in-the-world.html
15 HOSPITAL
WORKERS CANNED FOR STEALING OCTOPUSSY INFO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7974072.stm
KHMER ROUGE LEADER ASKS
FORGIVENESS!
Off with his head.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7973463.stm
‘EARTH HOUR’ PICS,
BEFORE AND AFTER
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/earth-hour-2009-pictures/index.html
MADONNA TOURS
POOR MALAWI SCHOOL---IN $3000 CHANEL TRACK SUIT
We think she needs a job working with that guy in the Calcutta
sewers. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/madonna/5079942/Madonna-adoption-Stars-Chanel-tracksuit-raises-eyebrows-in-Malawi.html
related:
MADONNA WANTS
ANOTHER LITTLE BLACK ONE---NOW JOLIE WANTS A LITTLE BROWN ONE!
Every megarich princess should have at least one in every color,
don’t you think?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5080062/Angelina-Jolie-wants-to-adopt-Indian-orphan.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
HOORAY! R.
CRUMB SATIRIZES THE BIBLE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/31/robert-crumb-book-genesis
TWO U.S.
JOURNALISTS WILL STAND TRIAL IN NORTH KOREA
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090330/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_journalists_held
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for former Vice President Al
Gore's San Francisco-based Current TV media venture, were detained
by North Korean border guards March 17.
LINDORFF: THE MENDACITY OF HOPE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/290
Anyone who thought, as I once did out of an excess of optimism, that
this president was positioned to act in this economic crisis as did
the once equally reticent Franklin Roosevelt before him, should see
clearly now that this president is not that same kind of bold
risk-taker as FDR. Obama, rather, is following in the well-worn path
of gutless political hacks before him like President Bill Clinton
and Jimmy Carter, kowtowing to the wishes of the corporate elite and
taking the Democratic grassroots for granted.
MCGOVERN: WELCOME TO VIETNAM, MR. OBAMA
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22307.htm
I had been saying that it would be naïve to take too seriously
presidential candidate Barack Obama’s rhetoric regarding the need to
escalate the war in Afghanistan. I kept thinking to myself that when
he got briefed on the history of Afghanistan and the oft proven
ability of Afghan “militants” to drive out foreign invaders—from
Alexander the Great, to the Persians, the Mongolians, Indians,
British, Russians—he would be sure to understand why they call
mountainous Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” And surely he
would be fully briefed on the stupidity and deceit that left 58,000
U.S. troops—not to mention 2 to 3 million Vietnamese—dead in
Vietnam.
SHOPPING MALLS ARE DYING
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/94691/The_vanishing_shopping_mall
UNION
PLUMBERS JEER JOE THE JACKASS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Union_plumbers_heckle_Joe_Plumber_at_0331.html
Dick
CHENEY: BRITAIN
“STABBED US IN THE BACK”
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/03/cheney-used-fascist-mussolini-insult-against-uk/
EX-CHENEY AIDE:
‘ASSASSINATION RING’ IS TRUE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/30/hersh-hannah-assassination-ring/
KIDS SNORT THE DARNEDEST
THINGS
What will Joe “Drug War” Biden do about daughter’s tooting?
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/134146/kids_do_the_darndest_things%3A_joe_biden%27s_cocaine_dilemma/
Jesus H. Christ!
ASININE COMMENTARY
OF THE WEEK: TEN TERMS TO NOT USE WITH MUSLIMS
Uhhhh. . .if they are in this country, shouldn’t they be adapting
to our language etiquette?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0328/p09s01-coop.html
JAPAN JOBLESSNESS
AT THREE-YEAR HIGH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/31/japanese-unemployment-taro-aso
People’s Repugnic
NEED A JOB IN CHINA? GET PLASTIC SURGERY
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chinaplastic30-2009mar30,0,4977370.story
DOES CHINA FAKE
ITS DINOSAUR BONE COLLECTION?
Why not? It fakes athletes’ ages
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888548,00.html
(Lack of) Health
PILL COULD
SLASH HEART ATTACK, STROKE RISK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/31/polypill-heart-attack-stroke
Spaced Out
MISSION TO
MARS---IN MOSCOW
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5082585/Volunteers-simulate-mission-to-Mars-in-Moscow-capsule.html
Animals in the news!
BRIT SOLDIERS
HAVE A LITTLE FUN WITH CHICKENS
Ain’t being in the military funny???
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/133895/HENIMALS-British-Army-officer-BITES-the-head-off-a-live-chicken-in-a-sickening-training-exercise-filmed-by-his-own-men.html?postingId=135435
FROG GETS
NEW LEG
The French will eat it anyway. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5082594/Lame-frog-gets-his-leg-back-in-world-first-operation.html
MORE PET OWNERS SERVING RAW,
UNCOOKED FOOD TO ROVER, KITTY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/31/petscol033109.DTL
Oh, by the way. . .
MAN WILL RIDE
AROUND THE WORLD ON ELECTRIC BIKE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5079164/Man-to-travel-round-world-on-electric-bicycle.html
CHILD BAPTIZED
WITH COLA
Our corporate CEO, which art in heaven. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Church_baptises_baby_with_cola&in_article_id=603702&in_page_id=2
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
PUN FOR THE WHOLE
FAMILY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28Tartakovsky.html?_r=1
P. G. Wodehouse, doesn’t use them. Shakespeare, however, does. Many
are bawdy: puns operate, after all, on double entendre. Yet the poet
is guilty less of punning than wordplay, which Elizabethan taste
considered more a sign of literary refinement than humor; hence
“puns” in seemingly inappropriate places, like a dying Mercutio’s
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
Film
GILLIAM HAVING TROUBLE
DISTRIBUTING LAST HEATH LEDGER FILM?
”The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/mar/31/heath-ledger-terry-gilliam-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus
COUPLE SPENDS 20
YEARS BUILDING MODEL OF TOWN WHERE THEY MET
Well, you’ve got to to do something with your life. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5076742/Couple-recreate-town-where-they-first-met.html
NEFIRTITI’S FACE
FOUND
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090331-nefertiti-bust-picture.html
And in the end. . .
NOW WHO DOES THIS PICTURE OF
SARKOZY REMIND YOU OF?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5079690/Sarkozy-threatens-to-walk-out-of-G20.html
3/30/09
DAILY CONCERT
"Hot 'n' Cold" UKRAINIAN POLKA BAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_TIOfUEudo
LIL WALLY ON LAWRENCE WELK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8FW57u_4A
THE WORLDS: LIL WALLY WALTZ MEDLEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Hz1n5uxEo
IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GadTn38mDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z52WG6siQ8
MY CLAM DIGGER SWEETHEART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEM8gsvVUww
PIZZICATO POLKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5KRqc7Hud4
JOLLY LUMBERJACK POLKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0FqDgjmMo
ANOTHER JOLLY LUMBERJACK SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
STRANGE EXPLOSION
OVER EASTERN STATES
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/BOOM30_20090329-234409/244022/#comments
BIDEN’S DAUGHTER CAUGHT
SNORTING COKE ON FILM
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?VP_Joe_Bidens_daughter_filmed_snorting_cocaine&in_article_id=602008&in_page_id=64
TOPLESS VEGAS
REVUE CLOSES AFTER 49 YEARS
Over 1,000,000 breasts served
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/29/entertainment/e151631D60.DTL
related:
HEF’S HOME FOR
SALE---$27 MILLION
http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/la-hm-hotprop28-2009mar28,0,2915938.story
THE FACEBOOK
AENEID
http://gawker.com/5185909/the-facebook-aeneid
DOWNLOAD A NEW
DYLAN SONG FOR FREE
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_mccormick/blog/2009/03/30/bob_dylan_free_download
AND ON TO NEWS AND
COMMENT. . .
SO WHAT DOES IT
ALL MEAN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
Israelity
HERSH: OBAMA HELPED END ISRAEL’S GAZA
ATTACK
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Seymour_Hersh_Obama_played_role_in_0329.html
When former Vice President Dick Cheney learned that Obama had been
putting pressure on the Israelis, he angrily disparaged him as
"pro-Palestinian" and described him as someone who would "never make
it in the major leagues."
Israel Sudan
attack killed 39
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22299.htm
Lost Angeles
OUROUSSOFF: REINVENTING U.S. CITIES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/design/29ouro.html?_r=1&scp=47&sq=%22los+angeles%22&st=nyt
Without an overhaul of the city’s transportation network it is only
a matter of time before the city breaks down, a victim of pollution
and overcongestion. A citywide plan that anchored Los Angeles along
two major axes — the green river and the asphalt boulevard — could
save it from becoming a third world city.
MAUREEN DOWD
ENGAGES IN FLAGRANT
ANTI-WHITE RACIST PROPAGANDA
Got blue eyes? You're evil.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29dowd.html?em
VENKATESH: POPULIST RAGE? WHERE?
We have been divided and conquered by iPods, Twitter, and the
Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29venkatesh.html?ref=opinion
But these days, technology separates us and makes more of our
communication indirect, impersonal and emotionally flat. With
headsets on and our hands busily texting, we are less aware of one
another’s behavior in public space. Count the number of people with
cellphones and personal entertainment devices when you walk down a
street. Self-involved bloggers, readers of niche news, all of us
listening to our personal playlists: we narrowly miss each other.
Effective rebellions require that we sing in unison.
Auto Motive
WHITE HOUSE TO LET CHRYSLER
FAIL
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_to_let_Chrysler_fail_0330.html
HERE IS OBAMA’S
PLAN FOR DETROIT
http://thepage.time.com/2009/03/30/auto-aid/
Enviro Wacko
REPUG. REP:
LESS CO2 EMISSIONS TAKE ‘PLANT FOOD FROM THE ATMOSPHERE’
We are not making this stuff up
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/28/shimkus-plant-food/
Iraq and Roll
283 Bases, 170,000
Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops,
and an Army of Mercenaries: The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
HERE
U.S. SGT. CONVICTED OF
EXECUTING BOUND IRAQI PRISONERS
Mission accomplished.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_sergeant_convicted_of_executing__03302009.html
PETRAEUS:
CHENEY IS WRONG ABOUT OBAMA
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/29/cheney-petraeus-safe/
Mashed Media
ANOTHER
COLUMNIST SAYS IT: PULL NEWSPAPERS OFF THE WEB
The Rip Post said it first
http://www.businessinsider.com/maybe-newspapers-dont-belong-online-2009-3
HUMAN RIGHTS ATTY.: FEITH
BETTER GET A GOOD LAWYER
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/30/feith-spain-torture/
TEXAS REPUG
THREATENS ‘WWIII’ IF SENATE SEATS AL FRANKEN
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20634.html
People’s Repugnic
CHINA RUNS
(YAWN) GLOBAL COMPUTER SPYING NETWORK (YAWN)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/30/china-dalai-lama-spying-computers
Animals in the news!
SLIDE
SHOW: HELPING ANIMALS
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=specials/aiding_animals/
Cow that escaped
slaughterhouse spent nine months on the run
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5075603/Missing-cow-spent-nine-months-on-the-run.html
WATCH: IN SEARCH OF THE WHITE UAKARI
MONKEY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2009/mar/30/brazilian-amazon-rainforest-wildlife-holiday
Obits
PHOTOG HELEN LEVITT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/arts/design/30levitt.html?ref=obituaries
Oh, by the way. . .
ASLEEP AT THE
WHEEL? TRY CHILI PEPPER
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/27/raw-chili-chinese-drivers-hot-awake/
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
R.I.P. MAURICE
JARRE
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1888336,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Jarre
Sarkozy tribute
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7971223.stm
”Lawrence of Arabia”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irPSvEkQl8Q
“Dr. Zhivago”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-Q4nmYqc4
LA SALLE: PRE-CODE PICTURES---THE WAY
WE REALLY WERE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/29/PK6S16IUA2.DTL&type=movies
I spent many years obsessed with these films. Their appeal is that,
through them, you get to hear a long-ago era speak with its own
voice, unimpeded by censorship. That voice is surprisingly modern.
You come to realize how much of human nature remains consistent from
one era to the next - and also how all that phony virtue stuff, in
the late '30s and '40s films, was nothing but propaganda.
FANS QUESTION ‘DR. WHO’
PRODUCERS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/7964105.stm
Light reading
THE FRENCH, RUDE?
NO---IMPOSSIBLY POLITE
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/parisians-rude-pas-du-tout
(Lack of) Health
AGAVE SYRUP:
JUST ANOTHER SUGAR?
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-nutrition30-2009mar30,0,4068006.story
Books
CHAPLIN: THE
TRAMP’S ODYSSEY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/28/charlie-chaplin
Rummaging around among some rubbish, he fished out a bowler hat, a
cane, some absurdly overlarge boots, a pair of outsize pants and an
undersized jacket. Knowing that Mack Sennett, for whom he was
working, wanted an older type for the scene he was about to shoot,
he stuck a little moustache on his upper lip.
The Gardens of
Beverly Nichols
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0327/p19s03-hfes.html
And in the end. . .
GNOMES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/gallery?plckGalleryID=5decae2e-cf60-4779-a1ca-2ccd6a3149b3&type=travel
3/26/09
DAILY CONCERT
IVES PLAYS IVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHjeSamzno
THE UNANSWERED QUESTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trkFgIMC-Ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cImb1wnhIGI
IVES: SYMPHONY NO. 4 FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjJf45fkTc
IT TAKES TWO TO CONDUCT IVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIm9rCnY3IQ
SEREBRIER DISCUSSES IVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN0YLD29Hw4
PUTNAM'S CAMP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aJtkve8jeE
IVE JUST SEEN A FACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjphAmuAlJs
SEAN PENN, JIM CARREY, BENICIO DEL TORO TO PLAY. . .THE THREE
STOOGES
We are not making this stuff up. . .
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5978824.ece
World gone mad
BRIT ACTOR APOLOGIZES FOR INNOCUOUS JOKE ABOUT PAKISTANIS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7965058.stm
Musical accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz4B1FI2uos
OCTOPUSSY LEAVES KIDS, GOES SHOPPING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/25/state/n134024D50.DTL
Animals in the news!
LEOPARD CUBS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5051624/Two-endangered-leopards-born-at-US-zoo.html
BRITAIN RUNNING OUT OF COCKS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Britain_running_out_of_Cocks&in_article_id=598012&in_page_id=2
FIORE: LEVERAGE ME TENDER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/25/fiorelevarage.DTL
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
shocker: joni
mitchell battling morgellon's syndrome
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/269296?tp=1
WHY AMERICANS MAY NEVER SEE
THE BEST NEW CAR ON THE ROAD
http://www.alternet.org/audits/131747/the_reva%3A_why_americans_may_never_see_the_best_new_car_on_the_road/
The Reva is the world's most successful electric vehicle.
Manufactured on the outskirts of the south Indian city of Bangalore,
it is as popular there as it is on the streets of London.
Cumulatively it has been driven a combined 55 million kilometers in
20 major cities around the world.
HEY, HOMELESS FOLKS! ARNIE INVITES YOU TO THE FAIR!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKqkjyYkFN8w&refer=worldwide
Israelity
ISRAEL ADMITS KILLING 189 CHILDREN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5049501/Israel-admits-killing-189-children-in-Gaza-campaign.html
ISRAELI ARMY RABBIS CRITICIZED FOR GAZA STANCE
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-holywar25-2009mar25,0,4876301.story
OLIPHANT CARTOON CALLED ‘HIDEOUSLY ANTI-SEMITIC’ BY ADL
You can’t knock Israel policy without being called an
anti-Semite. . .sickening. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Oliphant_IsraelGaza_cartoon_called_hideously_antiSemitic_0325.html
ISRAEL’S PRAGMATIC THUG
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,615392,00.html
His words have the force of cluster bombs. He spares no one. He once
proposed executing Arab members of the Knesset with ties to Hamas to
Hezbollah as "Nazi collaborators." Later he suggested that Israel
should proceed in the Gaza Strip the way Russia did in Chechnya --
without consideration for losses or civilians. This remark gained
him a reputation as a virulent racist.
For a few minutes, Arabs and Jews united by music
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0326/p01s01-wome.html
Bordering on madness
HILLARY: U.S. DRUG HABITS FUEL MEXICO BORDER VIOLENCE
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29875572
related:
HEMP TO THE RESCUE
http://www.alternet.org/environment/133055/hemp_is_not_pot%3A_it%27s_the_economic_stimulus_and_green_jobs_solution_we_need/
We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it.
Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it
still illegal?
Kim Nook Yoo
U.S. DEPLOYS WARSHIPS TO N. KOREA
As maniacs ready test-firing of long-range missile
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5053883/US-deploys-warships-as-North-Korea-prepares-to-launch-missile.html
People’s Repugnic
CHINA FURIOUS AT U.S. MILITARY REPORT
Hell, China is furious about everything. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7965084.stm
EX-TAIWAN LEADER ON TRIAL FOR GRAFT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7964846.stm
Iraq and Roll
AUDITOR: $3.8 BILLION IN IRAQ WASTED SINCE ‘03
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_risks_Iraq_reconstruction_mistak_03252009.html
SURVIVING IRAQ: AN ARMY GRUNT’S TALE
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/25/surviving-iraq-a-us-army-grunt%e2%80%99s-tale/
Spc. Brian Hunsuck is the boy next door on the front lines: He lost
a friend, nearly lost a leg, and still acts like Beaver Cleaver.
Enviro Wacko
ARCHBISHOP: GOD WILL NOT SAVE THE PLANET
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Archbishop:_God_will_not_save_planet&in_article_id=596893&in_page_id=34
JAPAN CHERRY BLOSSOMS THREATENED BY GLOBAL WARMING
Not nice to fool with Mother Nature. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/5052867/Global-warming-hits-Japans-cherry-blossom-season.html
Repugnicans
REPUG. REP. SAYS: WARMING IS NATURAL---
JUST FIND SOME SHADE!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/25/barton-climate-shade/
CRAZY STEELE: PREZ RUN IS “UP TO GOD”
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/billo-guide
Mashed Media
ANOTHER FEEBLE MOVE BY ENFEEBLED LAT
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/la_times_goers_for_brand.php
Animals in the news!
MADAGASCAR COUP THREATENS LEMURS WITH EXTINCTION
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0326/p07s01-wogn.html
VETS SHOOT DOOMED BEACHED WHALES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5052405/Vets-shoot-last-three-whales-stranded-in-Western-Australia.html
Oh, by the way. . .
SLAIN OFFICERS’ ORGANS SAVE FOUR LIVES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/25/BASR16N0JT.DTL&tsp=1
Obit
MOTOWN DRUMMER URIEL JONES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/arts/music/26jones.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
And in more important matters. . .
Lost Angeles
MORE INSANE, UGLY L.A. DEVELOPMENT
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_previews_at_hancock_lofts_rowan_auction_update.php
THE AMBASSADOR OF BEVERLY HILLS
By (the great) John Rogers
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-beverly-hills-ambassador,0,4356877.story
Musique
IVES RECONSIDERED
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/schiff
Long before his death in 1954, at 80, Charles Ives seemed less like
the father of American music than an eccentric uncle whose antic
behavior and uncensored opinions at birthdays and funerals conscript
his relatives into manufacturing an endless series of apologies and
disclaimers. In his songs, symphonies and sonatas, Ives furnished
America's musical past with a future. He linked the sounds of the
nineteenth century--marches and hymns and ragtime ditties--to the
complex new harmonies and rhythms of modern music, and he forced
their fusion with visionary zeal. He also referred to musicians he
didn't respect, or who didn't respect him, as "sissies" and bewailed
the feminization of American musical life.
OF MUSIC AND TIME
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/723/full
Time is the stuff of music: music manipulates our experience of
time; it plays with the rhythm of experience; it stretches and
complicates our relationship to the passing of time. If the world of
physics is a space-time continuum, music is a pitch-time continuum.
And in the end. . .
4,800 CALORIE BALLPARK BURGER
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_ballpark_to_sell_4_800_calorie_b_03252009.html
CHEER DOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd4tugPM83c
3/23/09
DAILY CONCERT
SKYLINES:
DWARF SAVED BY
CHIHUAHUA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5037096/Dwarf-saved-by-chihuahua.html
DON’T TASE ME, BRO
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=6722957
ASTRONAUT WON’T
CHANGE UNDERPANTS FOR A WEEK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5016907/Astronaut-tests-space-age-underpants.html
HOLY LEAPING OWLS,
BATMAN!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5036626/Photographer-captures-rare-shot-of-an-owl-leaping-into-the-air.html
UGLY BALD RICH
BUFFOON MARRIES BIMBO
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5034130/Bruce-Willis-marries-underwear-model.html
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0322/
LISA LING’S SISTER AMONG TWO
U.S. JOURNALISTS HELD BY N. KOREA
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/03/21/2009-03-21_lisa_lings_sister_among_two_reporters_ca.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
GORBACHEV: U.S.
HAS IT COMING
And he’s right!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,614877,00.html
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the U.S.
is getting a double dose of comeuppance with the
swirling financial crisis and escalating violence in
Afghanistan. Again, Gorbachev sees the turn of events as
the U.S.'s just deserts. "Who created the Taliban? Saudi
Arabia financed it with the political support of the
United States," he said.
AMAZING! CBS'S KROFT
STICKS IT TO OBAMA: "ARE YOU PUNCH-DRUNK?"
Where were questions like this for dry-drunk,
brain-damaged Bush?
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/03/64500771/1
OBAMA CALLS FOR ‘ERA OF
SERVICE’
Too little, way too late. . .
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1886213,00.html
All-melty
Dollar
BAILED OUT J.P.
MORGAN BUYS $120 MILLION IN PRIVATE JETS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bailed_out_JP_Morgan_moves_foward_0323.html
WAMU SUES FDIC FOR FORCED
SALE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Washington_Mutual_seeks_over_13_billion_0321.html
BAILED OUT
BANKS GIVING MONEY TO CAMPAIGNS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Donating_for_dollars_Bailedout_banks_donate_0322.html
GOODMAN:
NO
BAILOUT FOR THOSE HIT HARDEST
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090317_those_hit_hardest_get_no_bailout/
Obama has surrounded himself with financial advisers who
are too cozy with Wall Street, like Summers and Geithner.
It’s time to direct the stimulus to the people who need
it, to those whose tax dollars are funding it.
LINDORFF:
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CAREENING TOWARDS DISASTER
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/286
What this means is that all the Obama administration,
the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve are doing by
buying the toxic assets off the books of banks like
Citigroup, Bank America or Wells Fargo is giving a
taxpayer handout to those banks' investors and
bondholders--the very people who enabled those companies
to invest in the corrupt credit default swaps and other
shady derivatives in the first place. What should
happen? Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and
the other financial institutions that made bad bets on
these structured financial instruments, should be
allowed to fail, taking with them the investors who
played this dirty game, and the managers who decided to
gamble instead of run conservative banking operations.
RICH:
OBAMA’S ‘KATRINA MOMENT’
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html?_r=1&em
The White House seemed utterly blindsided by the
public’s revulsion at the moneyed insiders’ culture
illuminated by Daschle’s post-Senate career. Yet last
week’s events suggest that the administration learned
nothing from that brush with disaster. Otherwise it
never would have used Lawrence Summers, the chief
economic adviser, as a messenger just as the A.I.G. rage
was reaching a full boil last weekend. Summers is so
tone-deaf that he makes Geithner seem like Bobby
Kennedy.
RAIMUNDO:
AMERICAN EMPIRE, FINALE
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14442
The United States is essentially an empire that has gone
bankrupt. We are like some once very grand family fallen
on hard times, who have had their house foreclosed and
sit quietly waiting in the parlor, pretending that
nothing unusual is happening, while the sheriff is on
the way to throw us out on the street. Human beings are
creatures of habit: they still continue to act in the
old ways long after circumstances have changed. The
other day, President Barack Obama announced the next
major phase in the "war on terrorism" he inherited from
George W. Bush: we're sending 17,000 more troops to
Afghanistan, doubling the number of American troops in
that country, and have begun to launch cross-border
attacks in Pakistani territory. The war on terrorism is
expanding even as the American economy continues to
shrink. How will we pay for it?
Israelity
RELIGIOUS WAR
IN ISRAEL’S ARMY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22BRONNER.html
A soldier, identified by the pseudonym Ram, is quoted as
saying that in Gaza, “the rabbinate brought in a lot of
booklets and articles and their message was very clear:
We are the Jewish people, we came to this land by a
miracle, God brought us back to this land and now we
need to fight to expel the non-Jews who are interfering
with our conquest of this holy land. This was the main
message, and the whole sense many soldiers had in this
operation was of a religious war.”
PERES CONTRADICTS OBAMA
MESSAGE TO IRAN
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/21/peres-contradicts-obama-iran/
THE ‘UNHELPFUL’ EUNUCHS AND ISRAEL
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22270.htm
For years, US administrations called Israeli settlements
"illegal" and an "obstacle to peace," but in recent
years those terms have been replaced by a mere
"unhelpful." On her first official trip to the region
earlier this month, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton
referred to the Israeli demolition of Palestinian Arab
homes in East Jerusalem as "unhelpful." Earlier this
week, the European Union presidency said that Israel's
demolition of homes in the Silwan neighborhood of
Jerusalem "threatens the viability of a comprehensive,
just and lasting settlement, in conformity with
international law."
ISRAEL’S WAR
CRIMES
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22264.htm
For the first time since the establishment of Israel in
1948 the government is facing serious allegations of war
crimes from respected public figures throughout the
world. Even the secretary general of the United Nations,
Ban Ki-moon, normally so cautious about offending
sovereign states – especially those aligned with its
most influential member, the United States – has joined
the call for an investigation and potential
accountability. To grasp the significance of these
developments it is necessary to explain what made the 22
days of attacks in Gaza stand shockingly apart from the
many prior recourses to force by Israel to uphold its
security and strategic interests.
U.S. furious over
Israel's demolition of East Jerusalem homes
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072813.html
OAKLAND
COP-KILLER’S SISTER: HE’S NOT A MONSTER
Like hell!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/22/MNH016L58R.DTL
Country gone
O’ REILLY: IF
CHENEY HAD ASSASSINATION SQUAD---
HE WOULD HAVE KILLED SEYMOUR HERSH
How has such abominable “discourse” come to be
routine?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/22/oreilly-cheney-hersh/
Mashed Media
MORE SLAUGHTER
ON SPRING STREET
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/layoffs_monday.php
WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN A TOWN LOSES ITS NEWSPAPER?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1886826,00.html
GOODY: DEATH AS ENTERTAINMENT
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/03/22/jade_goody_death_as_entertainment
Jade belonged to the first generation of Britons who
have been raised without religion and the meaning it
ascribes to death. A streak of callousness goes with
being young, and always has done; but the peculiar
brutality shown by twentysomethings towards the
cancer-stricken Jade, for no better reason than that
they didn't like her, is a miserable and worrying sign
of the times.
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Lost Angeles
ISN’T IT
WONDERFUL? A NEW HORRID DEVELOPMENT RAPES SAWTELLE IN
‘LITTLE OSAKA’
But this dumbass website touts it---along with all
development---as something grand. . .typical L.A.
obliviousness. . .
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/soho_square_part_of_sawtelles_building_boom.php
OLDEST LIVING PERSON TURNS
118
If you call that living
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/21/arme-tsering-oldest-living-person/
Animals in
the news!
BORDER COLLIES
GRASP SUBTLETIES
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41972/title/Dogs_show_a_fetching_communication_savvy
Light
Reading
HENRY VIII WAS A SERIAL KILLER
http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=33295&amid=30279171
Yet much of what we think we know about Henry VIII is
just that – fable. We think of him in stereotypes. In
2007, in her column in The Observer, Victoria Coren
wrote with heavy sarcasm: ‘If you type “wife-killing”
into Google, the first listing is a reference to Henry
VIII, of wife-killing notoriety. Oh, that Henry VIII.’
Popular perceptions of Henry VIII, according to focus
groups consulted by the market research agency BDRC for
Historic Royal Palaces, are that he was a fat guy who
had six, or maybe eight wives, and that he killed a lot
of them. In April 2007, next to a tomb in Oxford’s
Christ Church cathedral, where the heads of female
figurines had broken off, I heard one man comment to
another, ‘Henry VIII has a lot to answer for, hasn’t
he?’
DRUIDS
COMMITTED HUMAN SACRIFICE, CANNIBALISM
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibalism.html
For Art’s
Sake
STELLA LAI
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/03/art_stella_lai.htm
l
Musique
“THE COMPOSER IS
DEAD”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/20/PKHI16F2M6.DTL&type=music
With a characteristically morbid text by San Francisco
author Lemony Snicket (otherwise known as Daniel
Handler) and a blithe, vivacious orchestral score by
Nathaniel Stookey, this 30-minute entertainment uses a
murder mystery as a pretext for a guided tour through
the sections of the orchestra. Trying to find the
composer's murderer, the unnamed Inspector searches the
ranks of the players for suspects or clues, while
Stookey's score offers characteristic bits from each of
the instruments and sections. (A book version of the
piece, with WPA-tinged illustrations by Carson Ellis and
an indispensable CD of the Symphony performances, has
just been released by HarperCollins.)
WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCrZWE_YAU
CANDID BACKSTAGE FOOTAGE OF
HENDRIX COMING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/23/jimi-hendrix-reality-tv-footage
Spring is
sprung
GNOME SWEET
GNOME
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/21/HO2016ETRU.DTL&type=homeandgarden
And
in the end. . .
PRAYING TO THE TEAPOT
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/19/malaysian-woman-jailed-worshipping-tea-pot/
3/20/09
DAILY CONCERT
ATTACK OF THE
GIANT SHRIMP!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Giant_prawn_was_king_of_crust-ocean&in_article_id=589017&in_page_id=34
ATTACK OF THE
GIANT SEA WORM!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5016366/Giant-sea-worm-that-attacked-coral-reef-caught-by-aquarium-staff.html
COP TOPI
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/19/when-nypd-wears-a-muslim-topi/
Old Monty Python
prop causes bomb scare
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5018294/Pub-evacuated-after-Monty-Python-prop-mistaken-for-grenade.html
FAUX SMOKING
HAS PARENTS FUMING
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123750945477390601-lMyQjAxMDI5MzI3MDUyMDA5Wj.html
FABULOUS NEW
YORKER COVER
Octo-Rush!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/03/23/toc_20090316
‘JOE THE PLUMBER’ IS ‘HORNY’
FOR WASHINGTON D.C.
We are not making this stuff up
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/03/_the_republicans_working_man.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Your
Corporatocracy at work!
AIG SUING
FEDERAL GOV’T.
Corporate princes want $306 million in tax money
back---collected from offshore tax havens
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/AIG_in_lawsuit_with_govt_over_0320.html
13 FIRMS THAT
RECEIVED BAILOUT $$
OWE MILLIONS IN BACK TAXES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/us/politics/20tax.html?ref=us
CONASON:
PUSH BACK AGAINST AIG’S ‘BEST AND BRIGHTEST’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090318_push_back_against_aigs_brightest/
It should be obvious by now that the AIG traders, along
with many others like them, deserved to be fired and
perhaps prosecuted rather than enriched. The “too big to
fail” argument for saving their firm and their sorry
behinds always amounted to a kind of blackmail. The
threat was stated explicitly in the remarkable letter
sent last weekend by AIG chief Edward Liddy to Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner that sought to justify the
latest bonuses.
Lost Angeles
FOSTER KIDS GO
HOMELESS IN L.A.---
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-03-19/news/rooftop-foster-kids/
The corner of Hollywood and Western is the epicenter of
an underground world: a community outside the collective
vision of club-hoppers and restaurant-goers rushing by,
and one forgotten by public policy. Homeless youth, many
cast off at 18 by the foster-care system, root out lives
in a dim, moldy labyrinth of “abandos” — abandoned
buildings hidden behind storefronts and the busy
boulevard.
---WHILE
ANOTHER HIDEOUS LUXURY TOWER GOES UP
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_solair_looking_at_may_moveins_del_rey_traffic_talk.php
Bordering on
madness
CONCENTRATION CAMP, USA: IMMIGRANT ‘DETENTION’ OUT OF
CONTROL
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/real-concentration-camps-usa-our-imm
Obama Nation
OBAMA
APOLOGIZES FOR STOOOPID ‘SPECIAL OLYMPICS’ “JOKE”
What the hell was he doing on the Tonight Show
anyhow?
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/03/64400743/1
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/03/obama_likens_his_bowling_game.html
OBAMA PLANS ‘PLEDGE DRIVE’
FOR HIS POLICY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/20/MNMO16JJDF.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
LINDORFF:
OBAMA’S MOMENT PASSING QUICKLY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/285
He should promptly demand Geithner's and Summers'
resignations, and should also fire the CEO of AIG,
Edward Liddy (as 80% owner of AIG, the US has the power
to do that anytime). It would also be a good idea at the
same time to fire the CEOs of all the leading banks that
are at this point surviving on government bailouts.
Israelity
ISRAEL
SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE
ORDERED TO SHOOT WOMEN AND CHILDREN
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza-probe20-2009mar20,0,1821341.story
FISK:
LIEBERMAN THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO THE
MIDDLE EAST
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22251.htm
The Iraqis produced the hateful Saddam, the Iranians
created the crackpot Ahmadinejad – for reasons of
sanity, I leave out the weird ruler of Libya – and now
the Israelis have exalted a man, Avigdor Lieberman, who
out-Sharons even Ariel Sharon.
All-melty
dollar
ASININE COMMENTARY
OF THE WEEK:
ETIQUETTE OF ‘FAREWELL E-MAIL’
http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/03/16/its-been-such-pleasure-working-you
WILL OUR
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE KILL MILLIONS ABROAD?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/132523/will_our_economic_collapse_cause_the_death_of_millions_abroad/
DESPONDENT JAPANESE HEAD FOR
“SUICIDE FOREST”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/suicide.forrest.japan/index.html
Enviro Wacko
WAVE GOODBYE TO
ALL THE NICE BIRDIES, KIDS!
1/3 OF ALL U.S. SPECIES SET TO DIE
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/03/19/one-third-of-us-bird-species-are-in-peril/
Iraq and
Roll
U.S. BOMBS
BAGHDAD
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Airstrike_kills_11_insurgents_US_military_0320.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
VATICAN INSIDERS: POPE IS A
DISASTER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/5018013/Vatican-insiders-declare-the-Pope-a-disaster.html
Mashed Media
MORFORD
ON
FORECASTS OF DEMISE OF NEWSPAPERS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/20/notes032009.DTL
The grand upshot? They don't really have any idea. But
they have some curious, slippery, hopeful, but
ultimately disappointing theories. Theories that, to my
mind, consistently miss the mark, in at least one or two
vital ways.
TUCKER CARLSON SHOULD GO BACK TO THE BOW TIE
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/tucker-carlson-should-go-back-bow-tie
Animals in
the news!
ANOTHER ONE OF
THOSE SHARK AND SURFER PHOTOS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5017421/Shark-swims-near-surfer-in-Cornwall.html
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
BROADWAY DIMS
LIGHTS FOR RICHARDSON
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7954366.stm
WHAT TO DO TO HERALD SPRING
At least if you live in England
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/20/spring-stephen-moss
Musique
ARCHIVAL
RELEASES FROM MARY HOPKIN
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m3d19-Those-were-the-days--Mary-Hopkin-goes-back-into-her-tape-vaults
Books
OLD
CHILDREN’S CLASSICS, NEW ILLUSTRATIONS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2009/mar/17/classic-childrens-stories-illustrated?picture=344708969
Film
THE GREATEST
MOVIES NEVER MADE
At least a couple that might have been not too bad. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/mar/20/davidlynch
And in the
end. . .
SPRING
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&q=spring
3/19/09
DAILY CONCERT
TELEPROMPTER
FREEZES---IRISH P.M. GIVES OBAMA’S SPEECH
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/18/chaos-in-the-white-house-obamas-teleprompter-blows-up/
Stacy Keach
Recovering From Stroke
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7952177.stm
NUDE HIKING IN THE
ALPS
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/world/europe/17swiss.html?_r=2&ref=travel
BLACK PRINCESS, WHITE
PRINCE, BIG PR FOR DISNEY
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Critics_lash_out_at_Disneys_first_black_princess&in_article_id=586707&in_page_id=27
DOG EATS CASH,
MAKES CHANGE
Money ain’t worth shit? Think again. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/national/a115726D38.DTL
RUSSIA BANS
BABY SEAL HUNTING
Bravo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/19/seals-hunting-russia-ban
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Mashed Media
CRAMER: STEWART
ATTACK ON ME ‘NAÏVE’
Just the kind of “naivete” the media need, Jimbo. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cramer_Stewart_attack_on_me_naive_0319.html
OH, THAT NAUGHTY
JON STEWART IS SOOOO MEAN!!!!
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/2009/03/richard-cohen-fell-for-it-too-therefore.html
See, our favorite punching bag has decided, unlike
everybody else, that Jon Stewart was terribly, terribly
unfair to poor Jim Cramer, and that's because he was so
busy looking in his couch for spare change that he
utterly, completely missed Stewart's point that there
were, like, a zillion signs that companies like Bear
Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Citigroup were trading on
a dangerously warped and distended bubble.
CRAZY N. KOREA HOLDS TWO
U.S. WOMEN JOURNALISTS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7951982.stm
According to the Associated Press news agency, Laura
Ling, a Chinese-American, and Euna Lee, a
Korean-American - both of whom work for the
California-based online media outlet Current TV - were
arrested late on Tuesday.
MOST VIOLENT
VIDEO GAME EVER
Oh, this will do humanity a lot of good. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5015740/MadWorld-most-violent-computer-game-ever-launched-on-Nintendo-Wii.html
Israelity
ROBERTS:
ISRAEL’S AMERICAN CHATTEL
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22241.htm
How is the United States a superpower when it cannot
appoint the official who oversees the National
Intelligence Estimate without the approval of the
Israeli right-wing government and its American agents?
U.S. WON’T PROSECUTE MEDICAL
POT
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-medpot19-2009mar19,0,4987571.story
Bill to end
mandatory minimum drug sentences introduced
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bill_to_end_mandatory_minimums_for_0319.html
FORMER POWELL
CHIEF OF STAFF: CHENEY IS “EVIL”
And water is wet.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/18/wilkerson-cheney-evil/
Jesus H.
Christ!
IMPEACH THE POPE
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/03/impeach_the_pope.html
Country Over
STUDENTS
OUTSOURCING THEIR ESSAYS. . .TO MANILA, KIEV. . .
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i28/28a00102.htm
EXCLUSIVE! ACTUAL FOOTAGE FROM TYPICAL COLLEGE
CLASSROOM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_xIJFZaoY
COMMENT:
IS
U.S. FACING ‘WEIMAR’-LIKE BACKLASH?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/132155/does_america_face_the_risk_of_a_fascist_backlash_/
The U.S. faces a similar "Weimar Moment." The
devastating collapse of the economy after eight years of
Republican rule has left the leadership, policies, and
ideology of the right utterly discredited. But, as was
the case with Germany in 1919, Republicans do not intend
to allow the new government to succeed. They will do
everything they can to undermine it. If they are
successful, the U.S. may yet go the way of Weimar
Germany.
LINDORFF:
OPEN GOVERNMENT IS THE ONLY WAY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/284
For the most part, the American public has adopted an
ovine attitude towards such secrecy, assuming that the
“government knows best.”Now, however, with the economic
crisis, and the collapse of AIG, Citibank, Bank of
America, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers,
General Motors, Chrysler and other leading US firms, and
with bailouts that are putting taxpayers on the hook to
the tune of trillions of dollars, the people are waking
up, or at least are starting to get restless in their
slumber.
Mission
Accomplished
NO DRINKABLE
WATER IN IRAQ
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090318/wl_mcclatchy/3191674
OBAMA WANTS TO DOUBLE U.S.
TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_considers_expanding_Afghan_security_force_0319.html
More Mashed
Media
SAN DIEGO
UNION-TRIBUNE SOLD TO EQUITY FIRM
Now pull it off the web!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/financial/f120336D36.DTL&o=
All-melty
dollar
FED NEVER TOLD
OBAMA OF AIG BONUSES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fed_knew_of_AIG_bonuses_failed_0319.html
WIFE DIVORCES
EX-CEO---$43 MILLION NOT ENOUGH
36-year-old Swedish babe parts 67-year-old fool from
his money
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/financial/f100259D09.DTL
CITIGROUP PIGS
TO SPEND $10 MILLION ON EXECUTIVE OFFICES
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=adLGVE_YzvUU
Enviro Wacko
ROBOT FISH
FIGHT POLLUTION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5012345/Robotic-fish-are-latest-weapon-in-fight-against-water-pollution.html
Freedom of what?
HOW I HAD MY
GENES DELETED
I've had my DNA struck from police records - now it's
over to the rest of you 799,999 innocents
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/19/dna-database-comment
Spaced out
BAT CLINGS TO
SPACE SHUTTLE ROCKET
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Bat-ronaut_clings_on_for_ride_of_his_life&in_article_id=586983&in_page_id=34
COSMIC TAFFY
PULL!
http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/03/17/galaxies-caught-in-cosmic-taffy-pull/
Oh, by the
way. . .
DON’T WORRY---NO MASS GLOBAL
UNREST UNTIL 2030
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Mass_global_unrest_to_explode_in_2030&in_article_id=588445&in_page_id=64
ROWER AIMING AT
OLYMPICS DIES DURING TRAINING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/5013154/Olympic-rowing-hopeful-Scott-Rennie-dies-from-suspected-heart-attack.html
’LOST WORLD’
FOUND IN TEXAS CITY
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090318-texas-dinosaurs.html
BOYFRIEND
CIRCULATES NUDE PIC, TEEN KILLS HERSELF
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1161112/Teenager-commits-suicide-sexting-nude-photo-boyfriend-life-misery.html
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
CORLISS: RICHARDSON ALWAYS
WORTH WATCHING
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1886270,00.html
NATASHA RICHARDSON: AN
APPRECIATION
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-appreciation19-2009mar19,0,5255723.story
OBIT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/theater/19richardson.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2009/mar/19/natasha-richardson-life
For Art’s
Sake
IS IT SHAKESPEARE?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5931174.ece
JAZZY ART
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/mar/19/jazz-age-art?picture=344791015
Light
reading
WHY BRITS
HAVE THE BEST GOSSIP
Or. . .How to hypnotize the public with crap
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4821a5dc-0f5c-11de-ba10-0000779fd2ac.html
We are encouraged to live, in part, in other people’s
private lives and to regard them as models for our own.
Jade Goody, a young woman famous for her flamboyance on
reality TV shows, is dying of cancer in public,
parcelled out in instalments by Max Clifford, her press
agent, for the avid beaks of the news media. Goody’s
story lifts the sales of tabloids and magazines,
fulfilling their need for an emotionally rich, serial
story.
And in the
end. . .
MUTO
http://www.soulpancake.com/view_post/210246/just-remember-this-word-muto.html
hit 'refresh' for updates
3/18/09
DAILY CONCERT
UFO’S OVER
LONDON!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5007735/UFOs-photographed-over-London.html
TEENS
PHOTOGRAPH SPACE WITH A CAMERA AND BALLOON
Take that, NASA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html
PHOTOS: SIGNS OF SPRING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/mar/17/signs-of-spring-competition-shortlist?picture=344705967
If a public toilet is good
enough for Miss Kenya,
it should be good enough for the less glamorous citizens
of her nation
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090317-sexy-sanitation.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
WASHINGTON ON
$53,000 A DAY
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004571
Twenty-eight current members of Congress reported owning
stock in AIG last year, worth between $2.5 million and
$3.3 million. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), one of the
richest members of Congress, was by far the biggest
investor in AIG, with stock valued around $2 million.
Last year AIG and its subsidiaries spent about $9.7
million on federal lobbying, or about $53,000 for every
day Congress was in session in 2008.
SENATE STRIPPED
MEASURE THAT WOULD HAVE CUT BONUSES FROM BAILOUT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Senate_quietly_stripped_measure_restricting_bonuses_0318.html
AIG BOZO CALLS
BONUSES “DISTASTEFUL”
Are you allowed to say "distasteful" in public?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/national/w042523D29.DTL&tsp=1
CARTOON
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/2009/03/16/fearguths-great-snark-hunt-398/
DOWD:
NO
BOILED CARROTS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/opinion/18dowd.html
CHUCK HAGEL:
CHENEY’S CLAIM THAT OBAMA MAKES U.S.
UNSAFE---“RIDICULOUS”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/18/hagel-cheney-rediculous/
MEXICAN DRUGLORDS ARMED WITH
U.S. GUNS
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/132120/mexico%27s_drug_war_bloodbath%3A_guns_from_the_u.s._are_destabilizing_the_country/
OBAMA
WEIGHS TALIBAN STRIKE IN PAKISTAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/asia/18terror.html
Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA REFUSES U.S. FOOD
AID
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/NKorea_refuses_US_food_amid_missile_03172009.html
Mashed Media
MORE FACEBOOK
FACE-OFF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/18/BU2416GB4F.DTL&tsp=1
POST-MORTEM FOR
THE P.I.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1885819,00.html
CHOPRA:
LET
GO OF THE BLUE SWEATER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/16/chopra031609.DTL
While America was sleeping for the past eight years, it
became clear that the future will take one of two paths.
Either the rich countries will find a way to pull the
poor countries up to a decent standard of living, or the
poor countries will pull the rich down. This didn't used
to be such a stark choice. We've lived for centuries in
a world where the rich countries could preserve an
imbalanced way of life. They had the money, the oil, the
bombs, and the political leverage to keep poor countries
at a safe distance.
Enviro Wacko
JAPAN’S NEW
ECO-FRIENDLY FLAT-SCREENS
Well, friendlier
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1885681,00.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
DEAD SEA SCROLL
ALLEGED AUTHORS NEVER EXISTED
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885421,00.html
Animals in
the news!
ENGLAND : NOT
ENOUGH BEAVER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5007048/Beavers-could-improve-countryside-claims-Natural-England.html
TERRORIST
CHIMPS ARMED WITH CLUBS BREAK INTO BEE HIVES
Notify Homeland Security
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7946614.stm
Science
WHY
IS IT HARD TO REMEMBER JOKES?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/science/17angi.html?emc=eta1
MICROBES DISCOVERED IN
STRATOSPHERE
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318094642.htm
BRAIN ABNORMALITY
IN ADD KIDS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317142845.htm
Oh, by the
way. . .
DNA CLEARS
RAPE-MURDER CONVICT—AFTER 27 YEARS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/18/prisoner-hodgson-murder-quashed-miscarriage
OLD SOLDIER
VISITS SUB THAT SAVED HIM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/03/17/BAEV16IBV5.DTL&o=0
WEST’S LARGEST
BUDDHIST STUPA RISES IN SPAIN
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/18/the-west%e2%80%99s-largest-buddhist-stupa-rises-in-spain/
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
ART LINKLETTER
IS 96
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123673035387989403.html?mod=article-outset-box
Mr. Linkletter has been married to his wife, Lois, for
73 years, but he says the one woman he always pined for
was Sophia Loren. Grant did have an affair with the
actress, and Mr. Linkletter says he jealously asked:
"'Cary, was she worth it?' And he said, 'Art, you'd
better believe it!'"
THE PRE-FAB HOMES
OF SEATTLE
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/prefab_from_seattle_meet_place_homes.php
MORFORD
RELEASES WRITING IN SOMETHING CALLED “BOOK”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/18/notes031809.DTL
Film
HERE THEY
ARE: THE MOVIES’ GREATEST COWARDS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/mar/17/clips-on-the-theme-of-cowardice
Eastwood casts son
in next film
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7950488.stm
Books
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S DESK ON
AUCTION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5011113/Agatha-Christie-writing-desk-to-be-sold-at-auction.html
RARE U.S./CUBA
COLLABORATION SAVES HEMINGWAY’S PAPERS
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/03/18/rare-us-cuban-collaboration-saves-hemingways-papers/
LINGERING STENCH:
AIRING THE STALIN ARCHIVES
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-lingering-stench--airing-Stalin-s-archives-4028
TOP TEN NUTTIEST
LAWS
http://www.alternet.org/sex/130073/the_top_10_craziest_sex_laws_in_america/
And in the
end. . .
BIRDIE!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Golfing_parrot_takes_YouTube_by_storm&in_article_id=584920&in_page_id=34
3/17/09
DAILY CONCERT
‘DAS KAPITAL’---THE
MUSICAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/17/china-das-kapital-marx-stage
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0316/
HOW THEY STAIN THE CHICAGO
RIVER GREEN
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/03/16/is-the-dye-in-the-chicago-river-really-green/
Mini-dinosaurs
prowled North America
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316173218.htm
NEW DYLAN ALBUM
NEXT MONTH
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_mccormick/blog/2009/03/16/bob_dylan_new_album_and_auntie_problems
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/music/17arts-NEWBOBDYLANA_BRF.html?ref=arts
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Burt's Bees, Tom's
of Maine, Naked Juice: Your Favorite Brands?
Take Another Look -- They May Not Be What They Seem
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/131910/burt%27s_bees%2C_tom%27s_of_maine%2C_naked_juice%3A_your_favorite_brands_take_another_look_--_they_may_not_be_what_they_seem/
Burt's Bees is now owned by Clorox, a massive corporate
company that has historically cared very little about
the environment, but whose main industry is directly
associated with harmful chemicals, some of which require
warning labels for legal sale. Clorox; yes, that's right
-- the bleach company with an estimated revenue of $ 4.8
billion that employs nearly 7,600 workers (now bees) and
sells products like Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol and Armor
All, a far cry from the origins of Burt.
REMEMBERING
RACHEL CORRIE---
SIX YEARS AFTER HER DEATH
Amy Goodman interviews her parents in Gaza
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/16/on_trip_to_gaza_parents_of
http://www.riprense.com/soldier.htm
DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION WORKS
FINE IN PORTUGAL
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/14/portugal/index.html
Evaluating the policy strictly from an empirical
perspective, decriminalization has been an
unquestionable success, leading to improvements in
virtually every relevant category and enabling Portugal
to manage drug-related problems (and drug usage rates)
far better than most Western nations that continue to
treat adult drug consumption as a criminal offense.
AFGHAN
OCCUPATION A ‘MISTAKE’---42 PERCENT OF AMERICANS
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090317/1apoll17_st.art.htm
OBAMA’S
SERIOUS ABOUT TAKING AN AXE TO CORRUPTION, WASTE IN
PENTAGON
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/131727/obama%27s_serious_about_taking_an_axe_to_corruption_and_waste_at_the_pentagon/
KUCINICH WANTS PROBE OF
“CHENEY ASSASSINATION RING”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_requests_investigation_into_executive_assassination_0316.html
Israelity
'Netanyahu and
Lieberman Are the Gravediggers of the Peace Process'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613791,00.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
CRAZY POPE:
CONDOMS WORSEN AIDS CRISIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/5005357/Pope-Benedict-XVI-condoms-make-Aids-crisis-worse.html
VETERAN ON CROSS-COUNTRY
BIKE TRIP DIES
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/03/ap_vet_bike_031609/
Mashed Media
TEN REASONS
THAT FACEBOOK STINKS
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/131866/10_reasons_why_facebook_now_sucks_/
COMMENT:
THE
COUNTRY NEEDS A CORRECTOR GENERAL
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/13/the-country-needs-a-corrector-general/
(Lack of)
Health
DIABETES CURE
CLOSER---
LIVER USED TO REGULATE SUGAR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5001343/Diabetes-cure-a-step-closer-after-liver-used-to-regulate-blood-sugar.html
CHINESE FOOT
MASSAGE GAINS TOEHOLD IN SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=californianonline&sParam=30359487.story&POE=click-refer
Animals in
the news!
POLAR BEARS
FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL IN MELTING ARCTIC
‘Twas sad as sad could be. . .
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613637,00.html
FREE THE CHIMPS
http://www.alternet.org/story/131900/chimps_r_us%3A_how_much_longer_are_we_going_to_keep_our_cousins_as_pets/
CRAZY AUSSIES
TO SOLVE ‘ROO OVERPOPULATION---BY SHOOTING THEM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/16/international/i233208D65.DTL
Obit
COY WATSON, ELDEST OF FAMED
WATSON BROS. OF L.A. PHOTOJOURNALISM
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-coy-watson17-2009mar17,0,7619604.story
“MR. MAGOO” CREATOR MILLARD
KAUFMAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7947692.stm
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
LINDORFF:
HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE---BRING BACK THE THUMB!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/282
It took us about 10 days to reach Tok Junction in Alaska
at the northern terminus of the Alaskan Highway that
coursed from Whitehorse, Yukon to the Alaskan border. We
then hitched around the state visiting the sights and
the cities of the nation’s last frontier region. It was
the beginning of a decade of hitch-hiking adventures
that took me, and later my wife Joyce and me down the
east coast to Florida, across the country to Washington,
Oregon and California, and to many states and places in
between.
Lost Angeles
MARINA DEL
BOONDOGGLE
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_pier_pointe_goes_to_lee_homes_urban_land_institute_tackles_the_stimulus.php
Film
NEW SACHA BARON
COHEN MOVIE PREVIEWED IN TEXAS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/5004047/Borat-star-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-previews-new-movie-Bruno-in-Texas.html
CATS’ DILEMMA:
DANGER OUTSIDE, BOREDOM INSIDE
What’s a catman to do?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/17/petscol031709.DTL
COMMENT BY INSANE FEMALE NARCISSIST
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1162263/They--hard-women-happy.html
Books
BRITISH LIBRARY MISLAYS
9,000 BOOKS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/17/british-library-books-mein-kampf
FRENCH TEENS GO
MAD FOR “WUTHERING HEIGHTS”
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/03/16/wuthering-heights-hot-book-du-jour-for-french-teens/
And in the
end. . .
“MINI-SUPERSTAR”
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/15/superstar-huge-heart/
hit 'refresh' for updates
3/16/09
DAILY CONCERT
WOULD-BE MODELS RIOT FOR TYRA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7945775.stm
OLSON GETS OUT TOMORROW AFTER 7 YEARS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/15/state/n134954D02.DTL
DUDLEY MOORE AND PETER COOKE ESCAPED PROSECUTION FOR
OBSCENITY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/mar/16/peter-cook-dudley-moore-dpp
In the most memorable of the sketches, the Worst Job I
Ever Had, Clive [Cook] claims he once nursed Jayne
Mansfield through an affliction he referred to as "lobstericimus
bumbequissimus" - removing lobsters from her rectum.
ATTACK OF THE GIANT SAND WORMS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4995386/Giant-sand-worms-lived-in-Torbay-scientists-claim.html
MAN GIVES NOTICE ON CAKE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5000243/Man-resigns-from-job-by-handing-in-notice-on-cake.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
SLIDE SHOW: STORES THAT ARE
NO MORE
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1884100,00.html
Israelity
ISRAELI SOLDIER SHOOTS AMERICAN
IN FACE WITH TEAR GAS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Video_of_American_allegedly_shot_by_0314.html
RAIMUNDO:
CHANGE YOU CAN’T COUNT ON
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14405
As a reward for killing 1,400 Palestinians in the Gaza
blitzkrieg, ignoring U.S. demands to stop the building
of "settlements" on the West Bank, and vigorous efforts
to breach our security and steal highly classified
information via its Washington fifth column, Tel Aviv
has been reassured by President Barack Obama that $30
billion in aid will not be cut.
EHRENREICH:
ZIONISM IS THE PROBLEM
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenreich15-2009mar15,0,6684861.story
For the last several decades, though, it has been all
but impossible to cry out against the Israeli state
without being smeared as an anti-Semite, or worse. To
question not just Israel's actions, but the Zionist
tenets on which the state is founded, has for too long
been regarded an almost unspeakable blasphemy.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!
MAYHEM RETURNS TO N. IRELAND
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/opinion/16park.html
Animals in the news!
WHY IN THE HELL ARE HUMANS
ALLOWED TO HUNT POLAR BEARS???
This is just so incredibly vile. . .
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/hunters-under-fire-in-battle-to-save-polar-bear-from-extinction-1645731.html
ONE WOMAN’S FIGHT AGAINST ANIMAL SUFFERING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/16/moneytales031609.DTL
Accompanying music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHkdpIqIcs
‘GIMME A F----N’ BREAK’---BIDEN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Biden_drops_fbomb_not_realizing_mic_0316.html
All-Melty Dollar
BERNANKE: RECESSION WILL END NEXT YEAR
Eenie meenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to
speak!
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52E22520090316
OBAMA FAILS TO HALT AIG’S BIG BONUSES
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-fails-to-halt-aigs-165m-bonus-payments-1645749.html
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/131721/aig_bonuses_scandal%3A_ceos_take_our_billions_and_are_accountable_to_no_one/
CHENEY: DON’T BLAME US!
(Isn’t it about time for Dick’s big heart attack?)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cheney_Dont_blame_Bush_team_for_0315.html
JOB LOSSES HITTING BLACK MALES WORST
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/03/15/job-losses-hit-black-men-hardest/
IN SF, EVERYBODY’S AN EXECUTIVE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/15/BAFD16F31K.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
Repugnicans
Mashed Media
CHENEY ON LIMBAUGH: “I LOVE HIM”
Maybe they should have intercourse
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/15/limbaugh-gets-big-time-support-from-dick-cheney/
STEELE CALLS HALT TO TV APPEARANCES
Before they call halt to him
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/15/steele-media/
POMPOUS JERK TUCKER CARLSON CALLS JON STEWART ‘POMPOUS
JERK’
At least he’s a funny pompous jerk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
FOX CALLS CNN ‘COMMIE NEWS NETWORK’
Country gone
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fox_host_says_CNN_could_be_0316.html
TUCSON CITIZEN CLOSES AFTER 138 YEARS
Take the papers OFF the web. . .
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003951589
Enviro Wacko
BYE-BYE, BIG APPLE---
NEW YORK SEAS TO RISE TWICE AS MUCH
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090315-new-york-sea-level.html
(Lack of) Health
CYBERCHONDRIA: DIAGNOSING YOURSELF ON-LINE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4986309/Online-self-diagnosis-leads-surfers-to-fear-the-worst.html
OLD AGE BEGINS AT 27
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4995546/Old-age-begins-at-27-as-mental-powers-start-to-decline-scientists-find.html
People’s Repugnic
CHINA ATHLETES ROUTINELY FAKE THEIR AGES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7945832.stm
Oh, by the way. . .
PUSSY CLUB OFFERS FLAT-RATE SERVICE TO STIMULATE LIMP
ECONOMY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,613617,00.html
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Lost Angeles
GETTY TO SLASH BUDGET
President
James Wood said the financial stability of the Getty,
the world's richest arts institution,
could "fall off a huge cliff" if it delayed drastic cuts
and hard times continued.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty16-2009mar16,0,973987.story
DEATH OF NEIGHBORHOOD
BEFORE:
http://www.riprense.com/Houseoflou.htm
AFTER:
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/rent_check_west_las_mississippi_lofts.php
THEY CALL THIS “BOHO LIFE” IN VENICE---FOR $3450 A MONTH
You have to be filthy rich to be “bohemian” nowadays,
it seems
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/rent_check_venice_boardwalk_loft.php
WAVE GOODBYE TO THE NICE DICTIONARIES---
HERE COMES ‘WORDNIK’
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/16/new-online-dictionary-redefines-look-it-up/
Ms. McKean’s brainchild is called Wordnik, and it
combines the best practices of the old-fashioned desk
reference with Internet innovations. Words can be tagged
like a blog entry, their pronunciation recorded and
replayed like streaming radio, their related words
cataloged like a list of books customers also bought at
an online book depot. When the paper page gives way to
the Web page, everything about the way we think of words
will change, McKean says. “This project,” she predicts
in a quiet voice devoid of bravado, “is going to
completely revolutionize all of dictionarymaking
forever.”
AN APPRECIATION OF TERRY SOUTHERN
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/strange-loves-magic-christians-and-so-much-more-an-appreciation-of-terry-southern/
Film
REVIEW: ‘TOKYO SONATA’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0314/p25s02-almo.html
Books
THE LOST CITY OF Z
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/02/25/the-lost-city-of-z/
For Art’s Sake
EUGENE GRASSET
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/03/art_eugene_grasset.htm
And in the end. . .
IN MEMORIAM: ALAN LIVINGSTON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Livingston
BOZO UNDER THE SEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p4TlNbMBXk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIZQujBrw8
3/13/09
DAILY CONCERT
A MAN AND HIS
KITTY-CAT
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Bather_cools_off_with_giant_lioness&in_article_id=580750&in_page_id=34
FRIDAY THE 13TH
AGAIN?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090312-friday-13th.html
PLOP STAR
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Beth_looks_absolutely_flabulous_at_Fendi_party&in_article_id=580734&in_page_id=7
THE JOKER IS SHOT AND KILLED
IN FLORIDA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/police-shoot-man-dressed-as-joker
DON’T BUY LARGE
EGGS
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5884068.ece
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
CHINA HAS U.S.
BY THE ASS
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_us_economy
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/world/asia/14china.html?_r=1&hp
Premier Wen Jiabao's message is unlikely to be
misunderstood at the White House. It is counting on
Beijing to help pay for its stimulus package by buying
U.S. bonds. China already is Washington's biggest
foreign creditor, with an estimated $1 trillion in U.S.
government debt. A weaker dollar would erode the value
of those assets.
Reynolds on
Jiabao’s press conference
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/
Mashed Media
NPR CANCELS ALL NEWSPAPER
SUBSCRIPTIONS
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13855
FACEBOOK
WANTS TO READ YOUR MIND
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1885010,00.html
TONY CASTRO:
JIM
BELLOWS, HOLLYWOOD, THE HER-EX
http://tonycastro.typepad.com/tony_castro/2009/03/jim-bellows-in-excelsis.html
Newspapers were information dinosaurs in their late
Jurassic period, and Jim may have been the only one
among us who knew it. I always sensed his heart wasn’t
in the Herald Examiner. Not really, and some of us
suspected taking the job at a newspaper that was already
near collapse had been his way of getting closer to
Hollywood where he later became managing editor of
television’s “Entertainment Tonight.”
LATEST JAPANESE
FOOD INSANITY:
GIVE DYING TUNA ACUPUNCTURE---THEY TASTE BETTER
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/11/acupuncture-sushi-combination/
Israelity
RAIMUNDO: FREEMAN’S VICTORY
OVER ISRAEL LOBBY
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14394
The nixing of Charles "Chas" Freeman from a post as head
of the National Intelligence Council is not, as is
commonly averred, a victory for the Israel lobby. It is,
instead, a Pyrrhic victory – that is, a victory so
costly that it really amounts to a defeat for them.
Sure, they managed to keep out a trenchant critic of
their Israel-centric and grossly distorted view of a
proper American foreign policy, and, yes, they managed
to smear him and put others on notice that someone with
his views is radioactive, as far as a high-level job in
the foreign policy establishment is concerned. And yet –
and yet ….
WALT ON FREEMAN WITHDRAWAL
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/11/on_chas_freemans_withdrawal
First, for all of you out there who may have questioned
whether there was a powerful "Israel lobby," or who
admitted that it existed but didn't think it had much
influence, or who thought that the real problem was some
supposedly all-powerful "Saudi lobby," think again.
DUMBASS HAMAS KEEPS LOBBING
ROCKETS AT ISRAEL
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0314/p25s07-wome.html
LEVY:
WHY
DO THE SWEDES HATE US?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070657.html
Meanwhile, two pointless wars in two years were not
enough to achieve this. Maybe the time will indeed come
when the world will get fed up with this aggression and
violence of ours, which endanger world peace, and will
say at long last: No more occupation, no more wars
perpetrated by Israel for which the world has to pay.
Perhaps when Israel's dream team of Netanyahu-Lieberman-Ya'alon
faces the American dream team of Obama-Clinton,
conservatives versus liberals, warmongers versus seekers
of negotiation - something will happen then.
War in Error
MADDOW: ARE WE
OVERLOOKING HOME-GROWN TERRORISTS?
Sure. Starting with Rush Limbaugh.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/maddow-wonders-if-we-have-been-overl
OBAMA TO
SEND GITMO PRISONERS TO SAUDIS FOR “REHAB”
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/obama_planning_to_send_gitmo_prisoners_to_saudi_arabia_for_%22rehabilitation%22/#131474
U.S. SECURITY TO COPY “BLADE
RUNNER”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/mar/13/lie-detector-biometrics-eye-bladerunner
All-melty
dollar
STEWART TO JIM
CRAMER: “IT’S NOT A F---ING GAME!”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Stewart_to_Cramer_Its_not_fking_0313.html
WHO WON?
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/03/13/stewartcramer-whos-this-song-about/
Good news
OREGON TO GROW
AND TAX POT?
Fine idea.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/State_of_Oregon_may_grow_tax_0312.html
People’s
Repugnic
‘GRASS-MUD HORSE’
PAWS AT CHINA CENSORSHIP
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/asia/12beast.html?em
Enviro Wacko
AUSSIE BEACHES WIPED OUT BY
SLICK
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Aussie_beaches_disaster_zone_after_toxic_0313.html
Animals in
the news!
4 MILLION-YEAR-OLD
GREAT WHITE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090312-shark-jaw-picture.html
MONKEYS FLOSS WITH HUMAN
HAIR
Well, we're good
for something. .
.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090312-monkeys-floss.html
OLD PARROT
ENTERTAINED CHURCHILL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4985813/Parrot-pictured-with-Winston-Churchill-still-drawing-a-crowd-after-67-years.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
WWII SOLDIERS IN UNMARKED
GRAVES TO BE ID’D
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4985619/WWI-soldiers-buried-in-unmarked-graves-could-be-identified-says-historian.html
‘VAMPIRE’ REMAINS
FOUND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4984727/Vampire-discovered-in-Italy.html
And in
more important matters. . .
REDESIGNING PARIS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/13/architects-reveal-grand-paris-redesign
Today, French president Nicolas Sarkozy will receive the
ten architects selected to create Le Grand Paris.
Richard Rogers is one of them. Earlier this week, they
each gave a 30-minute presentation of their visions (see
it here). The task is herculean, the mission
quasi-impossible, but the challenge absolutely
irresistible for any ambitious architect.
Lost Angeles
ANOTHER BIG BOX
FOR LITTLE TOKYO
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_33.php
Musique
THE
CLARINETTIST AS COMPOSER
And the composer as clarinettist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/13/jorg-widmann-clarinettist-wigmore-hall
For Art’s
Sake
CHAGALL: FROM SHTETL TO CHATEAU
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22471
With the death in 1944 of his remarkable first wife,
Bella, whose loving and stabilizing presence fostered
Chagall's creativity, we can add his name to
twentieth-century art's roll call of egotistical
monsters. Bella's successor, Chagall's British-born
companion Virginia Haggard, would leave him, but not
before he had beaten her to the ground with his fists.
TRASHY ART
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0313/p13s03-alar.html
Film
MARIANNE FAITHFULL’S LIFE TO
BE FILM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7941643.stm
Where ya
goin’?
HAWAII IS CHEAP
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/13/alohafriday031309.DTL&type=travel
WILDFLOWERS IN
NOCAL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/SPLM16CJ0V.DTL&type=living
DENMARK, HOME
OF. . .GANG WARFARE?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/08/TRDH1696P7.DTL
And in the
end. . .
YOKO’S REMARKABLE HOME MOVIES
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=244465582&blogId=476198617
3/12/09
DAILY CONCERT
PHISH
BANKROLLED FEDS WHO BUSTED FANS AT REUNION SHOW
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Phish_paid_for_police_presence_at_0310.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/phish-shows-net-numerous-arrests/
PHELPS WHEATIES
ON EBAY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=55&entry_id=36845
GOD HELP US: HARVEY LEVIN
LECTURES CAL JOURNALISM SCHOOL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/11/MNMJ16DPR8.DTL
OCTOPUSSY BUYS
HOUSE
Being broke, narcissistic, stupid, and insane
apparently pays well
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/09/state/n112950D31.DTL
Photos of the
day:
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0311/
Quotatious:
http://www.time.com/time/quotes
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
THE RIP POST
EMPHATICALLY AGREES:
SOCCER IS RUINING AMERICA
(not that there is much left to ruin)
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1329
Soccer is running America into the ground, and there is
very little anyone can do about it. Social critics have
long observed that we live in a therapeutic society that
treats young people as if they can do no wrong. Every
kid is a winner, and nobody is ever left behind, no
matter how many times they watch the ball going the
other way. Whether the dumbing down of America or soccer
came first is hard to say, but soccer is clearly an
important means by which American energy, drive, and
competitiveness is being undermined to the point of no
return. What other game, to put it bluntly, is so boring
to watch?
HERSH: CHENEY
RAN “ASSASSINATION RING”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hersh_US_has_been_running_executive_0311.html
"It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and
it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh stated. "Under
President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into
countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA
station chief, and finding people on a list and
executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the
name of all of us."
CAFFERTY: GOP
IS A CARTOON
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/cafferty.republicans/index.html?iref=newssearch
FREE THE
SHOE-THROWER!
Brave man's protest gets him three years in jail
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Iraq_court_jails_Bush_shoethrower_for_0312.html
Israelity
DID
ISRAEL LOBBY BLOCK FREEMAN?
Does a home have a TV?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0312/p99s01-duts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/washington/12lobby.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130372
In an angry letter sent to U.S. foreign policy officials
following his announcement, Freeman accused the "Israel
lobby" of deliberately slandering him.
SPIES: ISRAEL
NO FRIEND OF U.S.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_29820.shtml
Scratch a counterintelligence officer in the US
government and they'll tell you that Israel is not a
friend to the United States. This is because Israel runs
one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage
networks targeting the US. The fact of Israeli
penetration into the country is not a subject
oft-discussed in the media or in the circles of
governance, due to the extreme sensitivity of the
US-Israel relationship coupled with the burden of the
Israel lobby, which punishes legislators who dare to
criticize the Jewish state.
Mashed Media
NYT MEDIA
CRITIC CALLS FOR PAPERS TO GET OFF THE WEB!
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/is_collusion_the_answer_f.php
The Rip Post said this first, weeks ago. It’s the only
solution.
http://www.riprense.com/dreamnewspaper.htm
CITIES GO FROM TWO PAPERS TO
ONE. . .TO ZERO?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12papers.html?em
WATCH: MATTHEWS
MAKES FLEISCHER LOOK LIKE THE FOOL THAT HE IS
See Ari try to make Bush look good. See Ari lie. See
Ari distort. See Ari smile smugly.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/matthews-smacks-down-fleischer-over-bush-keeping-us-safe
JON CARROLL ON JIM BELLOWS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/11/DD9M16C309.DTL
Enviro Wacko
WAVE GOODBYE TO
THE CALIFORNIA COASTLINE, KIDS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/MNTK16DEBF.DTL
CHINA AIMS TO REVERSE
DEFORESTATION?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/mar/11/green-wall-forest-logging
Maybe they'd better get rid
of that brown cloud first
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/brown_cloud.html
WAVE GOODBYE TO
THE AMAZON, KIDS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/4976275/Amazon-rainforest-at-risk-of--ecological-catastrophe.html
Animals in
the news!
NEW GPS HELPS
YOU AVOID ANIMALS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090311-roadkill-GPS.html
CROC EATS SHARK
Bon apetit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4976147/Crocodile-devours-shark-in-battle-Down-Under.html
(Lack of)
Health
STATINS STOLE MY
MEMORY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4974840/Wonder-drug-that-stole-my-memory.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
IN FIVE YEARS---SCIENTISTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4974917/Artificial-life-could-be-created-within-five-years.html
Wait---someone
beat them to it!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4976051/Michael-Jackson-mania-returns-as-fans-scramble-for-London-concert-tickets.html
And in
more important matters. . .
FANS REJECT NEW ‘POTTER’
FILM AT SNEAK PREVIEW
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4977774/Harry-Potter-fans-of-JK-Rowling-series-disappointed-at-preview-of-latest-film-Half-Blood-Prince.html
All-melty
dollar
OH, THE TRAGEDY OF
IT!
GIGI CAN’T AFFORD THAT $543 DRESS. . .
CAN’T “INVEST” IN THOSE $200 SHOES! OH, WOE!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101758012
Still, she manages to have a fun, exciting lifestyle on
a budget. She has friends who invite her to the
symphony, or events like a networking luncheon on a
rooftop terrace. (OR: How to be a narcissistic
fad-following airhead for less money.)
DEPRESSION
CHIC: EAT YOUR BEANS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0311/p17s01-lifo.html
Fashionism
THE LATEST MADNESS FROM
PARIS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/mar/12/paris-fashion-week-chloe-kenzo-john-galliano?picture=344498703
Musique
THE RETURN OF THE
MANDOLIN
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/11/a-mandolin-revival-creates-the-montana-sound/
MAN TO GET EYEBALL CAMERA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/4973810/Filmmaker-to-have-Six-Million-Dollar-Man-camera-fitted-in-eye.html
Auto Motive
GENEVA AUTO
SHOW
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2009/03/11/Geneva_Auto_Show_2009.DTL&o=27&type=autos
Books
CONLEY ON THE
‘TWITTERATI’
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=agonies_of_the_twitterati
Conley emphasizes four forces that drive contemporary
social change. New technologies create a 24/7, sped-up
work life that continuously intrudes on family time.
Growing income inequality makes those near the top
envious and insecure, leading them to work ever harder.
Women's participation in paid work erodes community
life, breaks down the boundary between work and leisure,
and strains families. And the networked society permits
an almost infinite number of selves -- virtual and
actual -- as people participate in multiple communities
of varying depth and reality, from the anonymous others
who "recommend" films on Netflix, to friends of friends
on Facebook, to the avatars in virtual social universes.
THE ENDURING
CULT OF THE VAMPIRE
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/03/16/090316crat_atlarge_acocella?currentPage=al
Later, between sobs, Mina relates what happened. She was
in bed with Jonathan when a strange mist crept into the
room. Soon, it congealed into the figure of a man—Count
Dracula. “With a mocking smile, he placed one hand upon
my shoulder and, holding me tight, bared my throat with
the other, saying as he did so: ‘First, a little
refreshment to reward my exertions . . .’ And oh, my
God, my God, pity me! He placed his reeking lips upon my
throat!” The Count took a long drink. Then he drew back,
and spoke sweet words to Mina. “Flesh of my flesh,” he
called her, “my bountiful wine-press.”
Where ya
goin’?
POMPEII AND
PIZZA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/mar/11/naples-italy-city-guide
CASS HOUSE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/11/NSRG164K9U.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
DRACUFISH
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090311-dracula-fish-photo.html
hit 'refresh' for updates
3/06/09
DAILY CONCERT
MANNY RAMIREZ IS HAPPY---ISN’T IT WONDERFUL!
Now we can all sleep.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/manny_im_in_a_happy_place_1.php
AIN’T LOVE GRAND?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Paris_locks_tongues_with_new_man&in_article_id=571333&in_page_id=7
MAN FALLS OFF CLIFF TWICE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Man_falls_down_the_same_cliff_twice&in_article_id=571350&in_page_id=34
GIANT SAUSAGE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/week-in-news-pictures-120/index.html
NAKED MAN FESTIVAL
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/11/23/naked-man-festival/
MORFORD
ON THE WEATHER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/06/notes030609.DTL
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
HUMANS SEARCH FOR NEW EARTH
This one’s pretty well shot. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/4946877/NASA-Kepler-telescope-to-hunt-for-Earth-like-planets.html
ICELANDERS KNITTING THEIR WAY OUT OF BANKRUPTCY
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0306/p01s03-wogn.html
BABY BOOMERS GOING BUST
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/130361/is_the_future_going_down_the_drain_baby_boomers_going_bust/
Repugnicans
STEELE ON WAY OUT AFTER TRASHING LIMBAUGH?
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/05/conservatives-say-limbaugh-steele-feud-could-mean-the-end-for-gop-chair/
ROVE A ‘TWO-HEADED RATTLESNAKE’—FORMER ‘BAMA GOV.
And you thought he was just a pigboy. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Siegelman_Rove_a_twoheaded_rattlesnake_0306.html
Iraq and Roll
U.S. MILITARY OFFICER STEALS $690K IN IRAQ ‘RELIEF
FUNDS’
Hell, it was better spent on him, anyhow. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_officer_charged_with_stealing_Ir_03052009.html
WHY 10,000 UGANDANS ARE SERVING IN IRAQ
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0306/p04s02-woaf.html
Obama Nation
OBAMA’S BUSH LEAGUE DECISION
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/03/06/state_secrets_obama/
The president's lawyers continue to block access to
information that could expose warrantless wiretapping.
Is this change we can believe in?
OBAMA REVERSES BUSH DECISION ON ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/03/obama-bush-endangered-species-act-us
Israelity
CLINTON DRAGS OUT THE “UNHELPFUL” WORD
Oh, such harsh rhetoric! Not since Rumsfeld have we
heard such sharp language!
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/clinton-israels-demolition-plans-unhe
Spaced out
MOONBASE: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/03/05/moon-base-location-location-location/
JAPAN TO PUT ROBOT ON MOON?
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5251rs-us-japan-space/
Mashed Media
SF CHRON TO CUT 225 JOBS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003948862
(Lack of) health
FLASH! POKEMON ‘CAUSES AGGRESSION’
And humans cause Pokemon
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/4946220/Cartoons-like-Pokemon-can-make-children-aggressive.html
Obit
FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMER GEORGE MCAFEE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/sports/football/06mcafee.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
Oh, by the way. . .
A MILLION STARVE IN SUDAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/After_government_retaliation_a_million_face_0305.html
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
SWISS WATCH FOUND IN 400-YEAR-OLD CHINESE TOMB
Proof that watches get lost!
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/03/05/hundredyear-tomb-reveals-swiss-watch/
Books
SHE KNEW THEM ALL
Ben Franklin, Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVI,
Talleyrand, Hamilton, Napoleon, Madame de Staël,
Washington, Mohawk Indians
http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/adamson_03_09.html
Where is the bailout for book critics?
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/where-bailout-book-critics
BLUFFING ABOUT BOOKS IS A CIVILIZED ART
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4944520/Why-bluffing-about-books-is-a-civilised-art.html
Lying and cheating are not normally admirable traits,
but I'd make an exception in the case of literature. A
survey of 1,342 people carried out for World Book Day
yesterday suggested that two thirds of us lie in saying
that we've read books that we haven't. Why ever not?
Fibbing about our reading habits demonstrates a tacit
acknowledgement that there are a number of books we
ought to have read.
MUSICIANS HAVE BIO ADVANTAGE IN ID’ING EMOTIONS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303161427.htm
Thought for food
THREE SF RESTAURANTS MARK 30 YEARS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/05/DD8M1674S2.DTL&type=food
And in the end. . .
HEAD JOBS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Artist_re-creates_woodland_scenes_on_his_own_skull&in_article_id=570112&in_page_id=34
hit 'refresh' for updates
3/05/09
DAILY CONCERT
MAN GETS HUNGRY, KILLS AND EATS CO-RIDER ON GREYHOUND
BUS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/4942591/Greyhound-bus-killer-decapitated-man-then-ate-his-organs.html
HIS HEART’S IN THE RIGHT PLACE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4943410/Baby-boy-recovering-after-operation-to-move-heart-from-wrong-side-of-his-chest.html
18-YEAR-OLD WRITES: “I AM ADDICTED TO MASTURBATION”
(No pun intended.) Read the “expert advice” from the
brilliant therapist! And uh. . .when you’re 18, aren’t
you supposed to be addicted to masturbation?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/05/sexual-healing-masturbation
BARBARA BUSH RECOVERING FROM HEART SURGERY
But. . .but. . .she has no heart!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/04/national/a181852S32.DTL&tsp=1
If the moon was made of dung. . .
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/03/cartoon_man_in_the_moon_of_dung.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Iraq and Roll
REPUG REP. WANTS TO DECLARE “VICTORY” IN IRAQ
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steve-king-declares-victory/
WHAT IRAQ VICTORY LOOKS LIKE:
http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/4941949/Bomb-kills-10-in-Hillah-cattle-market-south-of-Baghdad.html
LINDORFF:
KISS THE BANKS GOODBYE AND REBUILD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/279
When former companies like Citicorp and AIG are history,
and when former Lehman Brothers, Citibank and AIG
managers, as well as most of the Pentagon Brass, are out
working at civilian conservation corps camps helping to
restore watersheds or replant forests, we will know that
the government has finally “gotten” it.
FEINSTEIN TOP CALIF. GOV. CHOICE, BROWN SECOND
---AND VILLARAIGOSA THIRD?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/05/MNSH1698RD.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
47,000 AMERICANS HAVE TAX-FREE SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1883217,00.html
PIGBOY ROVE WILL TESTIFY IN PRIVATE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_agrees_to_testify_under_oath_0304.html
All-melty dollar
COLLECTING FROM DEADBEATS, ALMOST LITERALLY
Good old Uncle Sam. . .no shame. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/business/04dead.html?em
WYNN’S ASTONISHING ENCORE
Massive hotel opens, while Vegas homes are foreclosed
http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,1883151,00.html
Mashed Media
WHY DID FLA. RAMPAGE SHOOTING
OF LATINOS GET SO LITTLE PRESS?
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/what-motivated-florida-gunman-open-f
INTERVIEW: ‘A BANKRUPT
MEDIA COMPANY IS BETTER THAN A GOV’T.-FUNDED ONE’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,611534,00.html
HOW CAN BILL PLASCHKE CELEBRATE DOGTURDS' SINGING OF
RAMIREZ?
By the way, Bill, paragraphs can be more than
one-sentence long
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke-manny-ramirez5-2009mar05,0,5384477.column
Obama Nation
THIS AIN’T NO SECULAR WHITE HOUSE. . .
http://www.alternet.org/rights/129920/is_obama_bringing_too_much_religion_into_the_white_house/
People’s Repugnic
CHINA, TAIWAN TALKS TO END ’60 YEARS OF HOSTILITY’
Fat chance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/taiwan/4943496/China-and-Taiwan-talks-to-end-60-years-of-hostility.html
Animals in the news!
MOST ENDANGERED MAMMAL FILMED
Oh, leave the poor thing alone. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/05/javan-rhino-wwf-footage
Spaced out
SIDE BY SIDE
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5236EO20090304
Obit
HORTON FOOTE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/theater/05foote.html?ref=obituaries
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
REMEMBERING THE SUMMER OF ‘65
http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/issue/28aug65.pdf
SAVANT LEARNS GERMAN IN A WEEK
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611381,00.html
Tammet can speak Romanian, Gaelic, Welsh and seven other
languages. He learned Icelandic in a week for a TV
documentary, at the end of which he gave a live
interview on television. He felt somewhat nervous, but
was able to speak quite fluently with the show's host.
He even dared to make a joke in Icelandic, which is
generally dreaded for its complexity. He still speaks
the language today.
ATTACK OF THE ROBOT TEACHERS!
They take roll, they get angry. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4942136/Robot-teacher-that-can-take-the-register-and-get-angry.html
Thought for food
CHEF RAMSAY IN THE STEW WITH BANKS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4942290/Gordon-Ramsay-in-hot-water-with-his-banks-overdue-accounts-show.html
EAT LOCAL, EVEN IN WINTER
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0304/p17s01-lifo.html
Light Reading
LOST IN THE ARCHIVES
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=d485dj23z8vmzltmlxsrl7npgfyv5wwk
When I tell people that the five years I spent
researching and writing my last book included about a
month and a half of work in the French national
archives, they often look skeptical or even laugh,
saying, "Right, research in France. That sounds really
tough." Sometimes they pantomime the copious drinking of
wine. Or they ask why anyone needs to go to the archives
at all, since everything is now on the Internet.
For Art’s Sake
PATTY MILCH, ART SLEUTH
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123621345176235047.html
Musique
RINGO, PAUL TO PERFORM TOGETHER?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7924392.stm
Watch: Dhani Harrison’s
“newnumbertwo”
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=684653890959
Where ya goin’?
THAILAND TATTOO FESTIVAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/mar/05/thailand-tattoo-festival-cultural-trips?picture=344135657
CORK, MY KIND OF TOWN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/4942543/Cork-Ireland-My-kind-of-town.html
WORLD’S FUNNIEST TRAVEL COMPLAINT LETTER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html
CROWD-FREE SIERRAS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/01/TRPE15VNR6.DTL&type=travel
And in the end. . .
JAPAN CUTS SILVER CUPS FOR 100-YEAR-OLDS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7922761.stm
3/04/09
DAILY CONCERT
L.A. DOGTURDS PAY CREEPO RAMIREZ
$45 MILLION
Guess it’s okay with America to pay massive amounts
of dough to arrogant cretins who swing bats
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/03/yeah_so_manny_is_back.php
ROBIN WILLIAMS
AILING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7923089.stm
PENN WANTS
‘HARVEY MILK DAY’
Better to have a Rip Post Day. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/04/BAAB168L9U.DTL
Lost
Angeles
VILLARAIGOSA “WINS” ON
MINUTE VOTER TURNOUT. . .L.A. LOSES
That’s the whole story. There is no link.
1 IN 6
TENNESSEANS TELL OBAMA RACE JOKES---POLL
When are the dumbshits in this country going to
realize that the guy is as white as he is black?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/15_percent_of_Tennesseans_have_told_0303.html
STING SUPPORTS
PENTAGON HACKER, CONDEMNS U.S.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/pop-superstar-s.html
YES WE
CAN? NO YOU F----ING CAN’T!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/mar/04/clip-in-the-loop-armando-iannucci
AND
ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
ARE YOU A
REPUGNICAN?
NEED TO APOLOGIZE TO FATBOY RUSH?
http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry
STEELE WORMS, WIGGLES,
SLIMES OVER LIMBAUGH DEBACLE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steele-my-personal-opinion-doesnt-matter-in-this-only-limbaughs-does/
HEY, KIDS! IF
YOU WANT TO BE A SHITHEAD,
YOU’VE GOT TO START YOUNG
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/wingnut-wunderkind-jonathan-krohn-se
MEXICO COPS
FLEEING DRUG WAR HIT-MEN FOR. . .EL NORTE
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-asylum4-2009mar04,0,1751265.story
WAR CRIMES WARRANT ISSUED
FOR SUDAN LEADER
Can Bush be far behind?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7923102.stm
All-Melty
Dollar
POOR CHICKENS ARE
THE NEW CHEAP MEAT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aWKabkAcH6M0&refer=exclusive
ANOTHER MONTH,
ANOTHER 697,000 JOBS GONE
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE5232V420090304
SCHEER:
BILLIONS DISHED OUT IN THE SHADOWS
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090303_billions_dished_out_in_the_shadows/
U.S. taxpayers now have ownership of almost 80 percent
of AIG, but with the company’s once solid traditional
insurance business now suffering a steep loss of
consumer confidence, it’s not likely that even the
formerly healthy parts of the company will be worth
much. What we have here is all pain and no gain for the
taxpayers roped into this debacle, which is proving to
be the story of the entire banking bailout.
JIM
CRAMER’S ADVICE SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN COIN TOSS
http://consumerist.com/5116676/jim-cramers-advice-slightly-worse-than-a-coin-toss?skyline=true&s=x
THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THAR.
. .GOLD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/
Obama
Nation
DEMOCRAT REVOLT MAY SLOW OBAMA
http://www.cqpolitics.com/cq-assets/eap/static/dem-revolt1.html
OBAMA CRACKS DOWN ON TAX
HAVENS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/04/obama-tax-haven-crackdown
MORFORD:
DEFENDING OBAMA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/04/notes030409.DTL
How is it that no one but you and a few manic fringe
writers seem to notice that President Obama is either A)
a thinly veiled socialist commie instigator hell-bent on
destroying America from the inside out, or B) nothing
more than a cleverly disguised corporate-loving Bush
clone because, oh my God, haven't you seen his policy on
H1Bs and faith-based initiatives and his nefarious plan
to take over the banks and, um, something else you can't
quite remember right now but you're sure is really,
really damning?
WATCH: FDR WAS
HATED, TOO
http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/welcoming-hatred
PUBLIC DOES NOT
FAULT OBAMA FOR STOCK PLUNGE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/poll-obama-responsible/
Iraq and
Roll
SUICIDE? NO, THIS
SOLDIER WAS RAPED AND MURDERED
http://www.alternet.org/rights/129646/lavena_johnson%3A_raped_and_murdered_on_a_military_base_in_iraq/
LaVena Johnson, a high school honor student, decided to
enlist in the Army to pay for college. On July 19, 2005,
after serving eight weeks in Iraq, she was killed, eight
days short of her 20th birthday.
Israelity
IRAN: WE CAN
HIT ISRAEL NUKE SITES
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBLA45187120090304
GAZA: FAILED
SIEGE
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22141.htm
People’s
Repugnic
NO JOBS IN CHINA EQUALS
POLITICAL TROUBLE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/03/china_all_about_jobs.html
'I am standing in the middle of a jobs market in
Southern China. It's mobbed. There are thousands of
unemployed people milling around.'
(Lack of)
Health
BIONIC EYE
GIVES MAN GLIMPSE OF LIGHT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7919645.stm
Auto Motive
GERMANY CRITICAL
OF GM BAILOUT
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,611271,00.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE
ARCHIVE COLLAPSES
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611311,00.html
The collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne on
Tuesday buried more than a millenium's worth of
documents under tons of rubble. Archivists and
historians hope something can be salvaged, but the
future of the city's past is grim.
AND
IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Animals in
the news!
HELP! FISH WITH
HUMAN FACES!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4929620/Fish-with-human-faces-spotted-in-South-Korea.html
WILDLIFE
CONTEST PHOTOS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/feb/25/sony-photography-natural-history?picture=343786634
MORE PIX: THE
MAGNIFICENT FOX
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/4938542/Urban-fox-count-readers-photos-of-foxes-in-their-gardens.html
REQUIEM FOR A JAGUAR
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090303-jaguar-update.html
MICHAEL
JACKSON TO PLAY JOKER IN NEXT ‘BATMAN’
Well, he should, anyhow. . .look at him
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Jacko_arrives_for_%A3150m_return&in_article_id=566639&in_page_id=7
Lost
Angeles
GOLD LINE TO EAST L.A.
NEARS OPENING
But will do nothing to relieve traffic
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/03/curbedwire_next_american_city_conference.php
DALEK REMAINS FOUND IN
MURKY POND!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Dalek_pulled_from_murky_pond&in_article_id=567147&in_page_id=34
ORCHIDS?
DELICATE? PSHAW!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/04/DD2Q163537.DTL&type=homeandgarden
Hey, Be-attle!
UNIVERSITY OFFERS
FIRST MA IN. . .THE BEATLES
http://www.hope.ac.uk/frontpage-news/
RINGO, PAUL TO
PLAY IN NYC APRIL 4
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m3d3-Beatle-news-briefs-Beatles-curriculum-a-degree-of-excellence-old-rockers-Spinal-tap-into-tour
And in the
end. . .
CAT RANCH
(This is wonderful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwM6f0liHpo
3/03/09
DAILY CONCERT
CHINA BANS
OASIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4928856/China-bans-Oasis.html
L.A. TRIES
‘CUSS-FREE’ WEEK
Lotsa fucking luck
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090301/ap_on_fe_st/odd_no_cussing
Photos of the day
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0302/
JOE THE PLUMBER
TO WED OCTOPUSSY
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/03/cartoon_joe_the_plumber_meets_octomom.html
AND
ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
|
Rush Limbaugh
REPUG CHAIR
STEELE APOLOGIZES TO LIMBAUGH!
Fatboy Rush runs the party
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Limbaugh_lashes_out_at_Steele_over_0302.html
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/129710/steele_loses%2C_bows_down_to_limbaugh/
"My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous
respect for Rush Limbaugh," Steele said. "I was maybe a
little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my
part to diminish his voice or his leadership."
LETTERMAN TELLS
IT RIGHT: LIMBAUGH A 'GANGSTER'
While newswhore Couric frets
it spoils her chances for Rush interview
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Letterman_calls_Limbaugh_bonehead_gangster_0303.html
ASSHOLE
COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK:
THE TIRED WAR ON RUSH LIMBAUGH
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg3-2009mar03,0,1748845.column
Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too.
Of course I want the financial crisis to end -- who
doesn't? But Obama's agenda is much more audacious.
Pretty much every major news outlet in the country has
said as a matter of objective analysis that Obama wants
to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the
country as a European welfare state. And yet people are
shocked that conservatives, Limbaugh included, want
Obama to fail in this effort?
Rush Limbaugh is
the leader of the Republican Party
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/03/01/limbaugh/
MORE
ASTOUNDING REPUG/FOX
TOTAL LIES ABOUT OBAMA
BAILOUT
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/02/franks-lie-red-light-express/
OBAMA OFFERED TO SWAP
‘MISSILE SHIELD’
FOR KREMLIN’S HELP ON IRAN
He should throw in Rush Limbaugh
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Russian_paper_Obama_offers_end_of_0302.html
OBAMA RELEASES
SECRET BUSH ANTI-TERROR MEMOS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_administration_releases_secret_Bush_terror_0302.html
READ MEMOS
HERE
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/129722/secret_bush_memos_released%3A_read_them_here%21/
CRICKET SHOOTERS STILL AT
LARGE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/mar/03/pakistan-sri-lanka-cricket-attack?picture=344050896
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/03/sri-lanka-cricket-shooting
All-melty
dollar
FORMER HP
ROBBERBARON HAS CANCER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/02/BA8D1685C9.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
MADOFF MAKES
OFF WITH NYC PENTHOUSE, $62 MILLION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/02/financial/f145525S81.DTL&type=business
DUBAI’S DRAMATIC
DECLINE
http://www.danielpipes.org/6190/dubais-dramatic-drop
The sharp drop in oil prices exposed the country's
inescapable weakness, while Dubai's literary and tennis
debacles confirmed the point. Instead, an entirely
different model now tempts it – what I call the
separation of civilizations. Unable to impose their way,
Persian Gulf Arabs are retreating into a Muslim ghetto
with its own economics (including Shar'i compliant
tools), consumer goods, media, transportation, fast
foods, sports competitions, search engines, and even
systems of keeping time.
IRELAND’S BOOM
ENDS---WITH A VENGEANCE
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/03/02/irelands-boom-ends-%e2%80%93-with-a-vengeance/
As the economy grew, house construction boomed, bringing
with it an overheated property market. Banks responded
with easy mortgages. Personal debt ballooned. Now that
finance has dried up, the construction sector has
atrophied, and jobs are starting to be lost across the
economy.
WHY U.S. KEEPS
BACKING AIG
http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/03/02/why-us-keeps-backstopping-a-flattened-aig/
A YEAR WHEN
SAVINGS TRUMPS INVESTMENT
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0302/p16s01-wmgn.html
Israelity
ISRAEL LOBBY
PRESSURES OBAMA
TO BOYCOTT RACISM CONFERENCE
http://www.alternet.org/audits/129674/obama_pressured_by_israel_lobby_to_boycott_world_conference_against_racism/
According to this article in the New York Times, the
Administration will boycott the conference to protest
what it deems the unfair equation of Zionism with
racism.
Iraq and
Roll
USA’S GIFT TO IRAQ:
GARISH TATTOOS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0303/p04s01-wome.html
Animals in
the news!
DOG HEALTH-CARE
OVERHAUL
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123600860805510401.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
That commie-pinko Obama, now he wants socialized
veterinary care for pets!
Auto Motive
TOYOTA
WANTS LOAN FROM JAPAN GOV’T.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7920379.stm
Enviro
Wacko
REUSABLE
TOILET WIPES?
This is taking conservation too far. . .
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1882682_1882680,00.html
Obit
CAPTAIN MOLLY KOOL
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/world/americas/03kool.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
AND
IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Fashionism
MORE PROOF
DESIGNERS ARE INSANE
http://www.metro.co.uk/galleryDetailPage.html?Agatha_Ruiz_De_La_Prada&in_gallery_id=2102&in_page_id=3&in_image_id=25714&in_category_id=2087
NEIL:
REDESIGN OF PEPSI LOGO HARD TO SWALLOW
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil3-2009mar03,0,4614913.story
Lost
Angeles
PALMS---THE
OLDEST SUBURB IN L.A.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/01/curbedwire_everything_you_wanted_to_know_about_palms.php
SMALL TALK IN THE
STONE AGE:
THE MOST ANCIENT WORDS IN OUR VOCABULARY
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5805522.ece
THIRTEEN UNSOLVED
SCIENTIFIC MYSTERIES
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5797028.ece?token=null&print=yes&randnum=1235858413093
30 YEARS OF
U-2?
How did music ever get so unlucky?
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1881792,00.html
Where ya
goin’?
NOW IS THE
TIME TO GO TO VEGAS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/27/TRSE15Q9U9.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
CRAIGSLIST
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/
3/02/09
DAILY CONCERT
PINK DOLPHIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html
WEIRD PICS OF
DAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/4927018/Pictures-of-the-day-2-March-2009.html
NAKED MAN
ENTERTAINS L.A.
L.A. Times seems to have missed this story. . .
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_11814920
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/4927018/Pictures-of-the-day-2-March-2009.html?image=1
TINY PLASTIC PEOPLE INVADE
BRITAIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4904472/Flash-mob-of-Plasticine-Morphs-honours-Tony-Hart.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
RAP ACCURATELY
TRANSLATED!
http://www.dailyredundancy.com/video/rap_translated.html
Enviro-wacko
HOW DRY WE ARE
http://www.utne.com/print-article.aspx?id=25495
It turns out that you don't want to be a former city
dweller in rural parts of southernmost Australia, a
stalk of wheat in China or Iraq, a soybean in Argentina,
an almond or grape in northern California, a cow in
Texas, or almost anything in parts of east Africa right
now. Let me explain.
HAARP: WHAT THE
HELL ARE WE DOING TO THE WEATHER?
http://www.haarp.net/
WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRPZOUVhJ4
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6573594099335358512
HAARP---or---heating
up the ionosphere for military use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program
The HAARP project aims to direct a 3.6 MW signal, in the
2.8-10 MHz region of the HF band, into the ionosphere.
The signal may be pulsed or continuous wave. Then
effects of the transmission and any recovery period will
be examined using associated instrumentation, including
VHF and UHF radars, HF receivers, and optical cameras.
According to the HAARP team, this will advance the study
of basic natural processes that occur in the ionosphere
under the natural but much stronger influence of solar
interaction, as well as how the natural ionosphere
affects radio signals. This will enable scientists to
develop techniques to mitigate these effects in order to
improve the reliability and/or performance of
communication and navigation systems, which would have a
wide range of applications in both the civilian and
military sectors.
HAVE YOU NOTICED
THAT THE SKY IS ALWAYS STREAKED?
What’s going on up there? Another failure of
mainstream media---virtually no reporting on
“chemtrails”
http://www.chemtrails911.com/intro_to_chem.htm
http://educate-yourself.org/ct/
http://www.bariumblues.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory
LOCAL TV NEWS CONFIRMS:
BARIUM IN THE SKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okB-489l6MI
INTERVIEW: A MERE 1000
PROTEST COAL USE IN D.C. PLANT
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/2/capitol_climate_action_thousands_converging_on
Obama Nation
PROSECUTE
HANNITY FOR CALLING FOR COUP AGAINST OBAMA
http://www.stinque.com/2009/03/01/how-to-punish-hannity-for-coup-provocation-nail-him-to-a-swastika/
Then fucktard Hannity hosted a poll on his website last
week, asking his readers which revolution they endorsed:
a military coup, armed rebellion, or war for secession.
Every choice in the reader poll is clearly a threat to
the current, duly and legally elected administration.
All-melty
dollar
PORN REVENUE
PLUNGES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/02/DDFB160F55.DTL&tsp=1
THE ‘TIDAL WAVE’
OF HOMELESS STUDENTS
Note: all examples in this article are large latino
families
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29356160/page/2/
Comment
ROBERTS:
A
BANANA REPUBLIC BY 2012
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22128.htm
To whom can the US government turn for $1.75 trillion
for FY 2010, on top of $1.2 trillion for FY 2009? Not to
taxpayers. Obama’s net tax increase comes to $170
billion over 10 years, or $17 billion a year, a drop in
the bucket. A supply-side economist could have told him
that not even these paltry revenues will be realized.
Not to private savers. Americans are over their heads in
debts. Not to foreigners. Thanks to Clinton/Bush
financial deregulation and Wall Street and bankster
greed, the rest of the world is in financial turmoil and
hasn’t $1.75 trillion in savings to lend. Possibly, the
stock market will collapse further, and whatever
remaining wealth Americans have will flow into “safe” US
Treasuries. The only other alternative is the printing
press. Printing press finance would destroy the dollar
as reserve currency and ignite high inflation. The US
would be unable to pay for its imports, and Americans
whose incomes do not rise with the rate of inflation
would be plowed under.
KUNSTLER:
CONSUMERISM IS DEAD---
CAN OBAMA INSPIRE DOWNSIZED LIFESTYLE?
(Not sure about this claim. . .The Rip Post sees
plenty of brand-new SUVs out there)
http://www.alternet.org/story/128920/%22consumerism%22_is_dead_--_can_obama_lead_us_to_a_downscaled_lifestyle/
It's not too late for President Obama to start uttering
these truths so that we can avoid a turn to fascism and
get on with the real business of America's next phase of
history -- living locally, working hard at things that
matter, and preserving civilized culture. What a lot of
us can see now staring out of the abyss is a new dark
age. I don't think it's necessarily our destiny to end
up that way, but these days we're not doing much to
avoid it.
War in error
CIA
DESTROYED 92 INTERROGATION TAPES
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/02/cia-92-tapes/
Repugs
STEELE DENOUNCES
LIMBAUGH
We’ll see how long he keeps his job now. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/02/steele-limbaugh-ugly/
Mashed Media
HEARST DAILIES’
SUICIDE: CHARGE FOR WEB
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003946583
Jesus H.
Christ!
FOR SALE: 15,000 HOURS OF
THE JIM AND TAMMY SHOW
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/28/national/a101840S76.DTL
Israelity
ISRAEL THREATENS ‘PAINFUL’ ATTACK ON GAZA
Guess the last one didn’t hurt too much
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/01/international/i021839S42.DTL
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA RELICS
BUYER REFUSES TO PAY---OUT OF ‘PATRIOTISM’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7918128.stm
(Lack of)
Health
VEGAN?
PREGNANT? BETTER GET B-12
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4902648/Vegan-diet-increases-the-risk-of-birth-defects-scientists-warn.html
Animals in
the news!
RESCUERS FIGHT
TO SAVE 200 WHALES BEACHED OFF TASMANIA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/02/whales-dolphins-tasmania-australia-rescue
PARROT TEACHES MAN TO SPEAK
AGAIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4863000/Parrots-teach-man-to-speak-again.html
Obit
PAUL HARRRRR-VEY. . .GOOD DAY!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/business/media/02harvey.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
Mr. Harvey was unapologetic. “I have never pretended to
objectivity,” he once said. “I have a strong point of
view, and I share it with my listeners. I have no
illusions about changing the world, but to the extent
that I can I’d like to shelter your and my little corner
of it.”
Oh, by the
way. . .
UNSAFE UCLA
LAB COST YOUNG WOMAN HER LIFE
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uclaburn1-2009mar01,0,3624028.story
JAPAN EMPEROR
TO VISIT PEARL HARBOR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/4918516/Japanese-emperor-to-visit-Pearl-Harbor-for-first-time-since-war.html
And in
more important matters. . .
Lost Angeles
GOOD
NEWS---FRANK GEHRY DISAPPOINTED. . .GRAND AVE. PROJECT
IN DANGER!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-frank-gehry1-2009mar01,0,7977186.story
FLOWER---THE
PEACEFUL VIDEO GAME
http://www.slate.com/id/2212231
Light
reading
‘WHEN WOMEN STOP
READING, THE NOVEL WILL BE DEAD’
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/02/23/090223fa_fact_zalewski?currentPage=all
All novelists are scholars of human behavior, but Ian
McEwan pursues the matter with more scientific rigor
than the job strictly requires. On a recent hike through
the woods surrounding his new country house—a renovated
seventeenth-century brick-and-flint cottage, in
Buckinghamshire—he regularly punctuated his observations
about Homo sapiens with the citation of a peer-reviewed
experiment.
WILL NEW DEPRESSION PRODUCE A NEW ‘GATSBY?’
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123517583815437521.html
Our own crises of belief are likely just beginning. If
we are fortunate, however, we will have a generation of
artists and intellectuals like those of the 1930s to
help us imagine our way past confusion.
Musique
THE YOUTUBE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/02/youtube-symphony-orchestra-pilkington
http://www.youtube.com/symphony
LANG LANG A TOTAL
FRAUD
Laughing all the way to the bank as he thrills the
rubes again and again
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/music/27meht.html?ref=music
That was appalling: in the usually restrained E major
section (it’s marked sotto voce), Mr. Lang bounced on
the piano bench as if he were riding a pony. And he
pummeled the work’s louder, more ebullient passages as
if the score had somehow taken human form and kicked his
dog. The standing ovation he received must have been
meant to acknowledge the sheer audacity of the
performance rather than its musicality.
Where ya
goin’?
SNOWTUBING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/27/TRPE15VUA3.DTL&type=travelreno
TRAVEL PHOTO
COMPETITION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/feb/18/photography-travel
And in the
end. . .
BEATLES REUNION IN VENICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bth_8mW7Jp0&feature=related
hit 'refresh' for updates
2/26/09
DAILY CONCERT
HERE IT COMES: LAS VEGAS. .
.SPAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/26/gran-scala-project-spain
OBAMA, SEINFELD
COMPETE FOR FIRST ‘SUPERMAN’ COMIC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4838808/Barack-Obama-and-Jerry-Seinfeld-compete-for-Superman-comic.html
HORROR
STORY: MOTHER KILLS NEWBORN WITH A KISS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4839029/Mother-kills-newborn-baby-with-a-kiss.html
OCTOPUSSY GETS PORN CONTRACT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/25/state/n103410S81.DTL
WATCH: FIORE---ZOMBIE BANK
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
LINDORFF ON OBAMA’S LAME
SPEECH, INADEQUATE PLANS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/275
Barack Obama’s first address to Congress provided
Americans with yet another example of competent
speechmaking, and I suppose, given that we’ve just
endured eight painful years of oratorical farce, being
able to listen to your president without wincing is
something. The problem is that the way forward proposed
by the president as laid out in this address was almost
always half-hearted, wrong-headed or doomed.
BOBBY JINDAL IS
A RELIGIOUS LUNATIC
http://www.alternet.org/story/128913/will_revelations_about_bobby_jindal%27s_weird_secret_past_destroy_his_political_career/
How many Americans know that Jindal boasted of
participating in an exorcism that purged the spirit of
Satan from a college girlfriend?
JINDAL FLEES AFTER
STUPID SPEECH
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Jindal_takes_vacation_day_after_panned_0226.html
SUB COLLISION
SHOWS COLD WAR NEVER ENDED
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,610035,00.html
The world is a good and beautiful place, and on the Mull
of Kintyre, it seems as peaceful as Paul McCartney
described it in his 1970s megahit. Sheep graze on the
hills of this peninsula in southwestern Scotland, and
the valleys are filled with the scents coming from small
distilleries that produce some of Scotland's best
whiskey. But two Saturdays ago, that illusion of peace
was shattered when the HMS Vanguard, a British nuclear
submarine, limped past the Mull of Kintyre enroute to
its home port of Faslane. It quickly became clear that a
nuclear catastrophe had almost occurred out at sea --
and that it could happen at any time, because the world
is, of course, not a peaceful place after all.
HERE COMES THE
$3 TRILLION BUDGET
Wow, did Bush and Cheney do a job on destroying this
country. . .
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29392964/
All-melty
dollar
NEW TOYOTA
DEALER IN OAKLAND CLOSES---
Well, Toyota bet the farm on trucks and SUVs instead
of hybrids. . .
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6677200
---AND MORE
JAPANESE CAR DEALERS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/26/BUL0164VE6.DTL&tsp=1
ASSHOLE
COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK!
May this fellow find himself on the street,
wandering, begging, sleeping in alleys, covered in
festering sores. . .
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/24/colby-cosh-watching-boomers-suffer-is-worth-a-recession.aspx
Mashed Media
BETTER TO KILL THE
SF CHRON THAN LET SINGLETON GET IT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003944841
MORE DERANGED
SHOUTING FROM RIGHT-WING MEDIA GOONS
Country over. . .
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-and-jonah-decry-liberal-fascis
Iraq and
Roll
PELOSI: 50K TROOPS LEFT IN IRAQ IS TOO MANY
(One is too many.)
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/26/pelosi-obama-residual-troops/
Israelity
ARAB ARTISTS PROTEST PAIRING
OF ISRAELI, ARAB SINGERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/26/israel-eurovison-jewish-arab-duet
For Art’s
Sake
CHINA CONDEMNS
CHRISTIE’S AUCTION---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7911691.stm
---AND SO DOES
JACKIE CHAN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4839000/Jackie-Chan-adds-to-Chinese-fury-over-stolen-relic-auction.html
Spaced out
EYE OF GOD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/4805889/Eye-of-God-pictured-in-space.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
PRINCE
CHARLES CALLS FOR ‘BRIDGES’ BETWEEN RELIGIONS
Rotsa. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4837248/Prince-of-Wales-calls-for-bridges-to-be-built-between-faiths.html
(Lack of)
Health
CAFFEINE
SUNSCREEN FIGHTS CANCER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4839625/Caffeine-in-sunscreen-could-reduce-skin-cancer-risk-scientists.html
Animals in
the news!
BAN ON SALMON
FISHING LIKELY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/25/BADJ164VV1.DTL
THAI CHILDREN
GUARD THE FUTURE OF POOR REMAINING ELEPHANTS
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/02/26/in-the-hands-of-babes-thai-elephants%e2%80%99-future/
NEW THEORY ON HOW
ANIMALS SMELL
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090225132247.htm
And in
more important matters. . .
TOP TEN GOOGLE
EARTH FINDS
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1881770_1881787,00.html
Life of the
mind
KEEP DOING THOSE CROSSWORDS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7912379.stm
GAMES MOVE AWAY
FROM VIOLENCE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/26/open-world-games
PHOTOS: INSIDE BREAKING
WAVES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/4838814/Images-that-show-the-inside-of-breaking-waves.html
Film
RAIDERS OF THE LOST TONGUES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0227/p18s01-hfes.html
A documentary film about two scientists who roam the
world to record vanishing languages is a vivid reminder
of just how choosing to speak a mother tongue can be a
political act.
REVIEW: RAINER ON “MOSCOW,
BELGIUM”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0221/p25s01-almo.html
LAST ‘HARRY
POTTER’ DUE IN 2011
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7912088.stm
Auto Motive
WORLD’S FASTEST
STREET-LEGAL CAR UNVEILED
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/4838226/Worlds-fastest-accelerating-road-legal-car.html
Where ya
goin’?
BEST
WHALE-WATCHING SPOTS IN CALIFORNIA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/20/TRFD15T5FV.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
GREAT BIG TITS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Chinese_art_is_simply_the_breast&in_article_id=558930&in_page_id=2
2/25/09
DAILY CONCERT
CUTEST MUTT ALIVE:
VOTE NOW
http://www.peta.org/cutest-mutt-alive-vote.asp
‘SLUMDOG’ STARS GIVEN FREE
HOMES BY GOV’T.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/25/slumdog-millionaire-child-stars-homes
CAN YOU SAY
‘HILLARY’ IN MANDARIN?
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/02/22/can-you-say-%e2%80%98hillary%e2%80%99-in-mandarin/
Winehouse looking
sort of healthy, on horseback
Will wonders never cease?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Amy_goes_to_rehab?_Neigh,_neigh,_neigh&in_article_id=555020&in_page_id=7
PHOTOS OF
THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0224/
PIERCING SAGA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4786930/Worlds-most-pierced-woman-adds-to-her-collection.html
And on
to news and comment. . .
Mashed Media
SF CHRONICLE
SLATED FOR EXECUTION
Hearst wants 'significant' cuts
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/MNO2164F73.DTL&type=business&tsp=1
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51O03Y20090225
Hearst said that if the savings cannot be accomplished
"quickly," the company will seek a buyer, and if none
comes forward, it will close The Chronicle. The
Chronicle lost more than $50 million in 2008 and is on a
pace to lose more than that this year, Hearst said.
Mutter: SF Chron
cost-cut target equals 47% of staff
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/
Doctor: "Could
the Chronicle indeed go away? Well, don't expect anyone
to buy it."
http://www.contentbridges.com/2009/02/chronicle-crackdown-prompts-question-wheres-the-bay-area-online-startup.html
LIZ SMITH AXED AFTER 33
YEARS
http://www.popeater.com/television/article/liz-smith-fired-new-york-post/357582
HOW LAT WILL WORK
WITHOUT LOCAL NEWS SECTION
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/how_the_californialess_la.php
Israelity
HEDGES: PEACE OR PERIL
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090223_a_choice_between_peace_and_peril/
Bibi Netanyahu’s assumption of power in Israel sets the
stage for a huge campaign by the Israeli government, and
its well-oiled lobby groups in Washington, to push us
into a war with Iran.
HILLARY
RAPS ISRAEL FOR DELAYING GAZA AID
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Clinton_raps_Israel_for_delaying_Ga_02252009.html
All-Melty
Dollar
BAILED-OUT BANK
FIRED 450,
SPENT MILLIONS ON LAVISH L.A. PARTIES
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/25/northern-trust-party/
DOWD:
WHY
DID MY TAX DOLLARS GO TO SHERYL CROW?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/opinion/25dowd.html?em
The entertainment Web site TMZ broke the story Tuesday
that Northern Trust of Chicago, which got $1.5 billion
in bailout money and then laid off 450 workers, flew
hundreds of clients and employees to Los Angeles last
week and treated them to four days of posh hotel rooms,
salmon and filet mignon dinners, music concerts, a PGA
golf tournament at the Riviera Country Club with
Mercedes shuttle rides and Tiffany swag bags.
RICH AMERICANS
SUE TO KEEP NAMES SECRET
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/business/worldbusiness/25ubs.html
ARMY CHARITY
HOARDING TENS OF MILLIONS NEEDED BY VETS
http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/ap-army-charity-hoarding-money
LINDORFF:
WALL STREET AND BERNANKE: BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/274
HOPE AND HEALING FOR DOWNSIZED WORKERS
http://hopehealinghelpfordownsizedworkers.blogspot.com/
Obama Nation
YAWN. OBAMA MAKES
CLICHÉ-RIDDEN, UNCONVINCING SPEECH---
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/We_will_rebuild_we_will_recover_0224.html
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/25/citing-crisis-obama-sketches-recovery-plan-lauds-the-american-character/
---BUT IT IS
SHINING ORATORY NEXT TO BOBBY JINDAL’S RESPONSE
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/bobby-jindals-zombie-performance-uses-p
Instead of launching his national political career, he
just about ended it. Some people thought he reminded
them of Kenneth from 30 Rock, but at least Kenneth has
some enthusiasm. Not only was he zombie-like throughout,
but he didn't even have his facts straight. Too much Red
Bull?
Repugnicans
CRAZY REPUGS THINK THEY CAN
TAKE BACK CONGRESS---USING TWITTER
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/25/gingrich-twitter/
WATCH: WHAT CHANCE DOES
OBAMA HAVE AGAINST THIS EVIL INSANITY?
Country broken, country over. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlTgrMCxPg
Lost Angeles
KOTKIN:
THE
DECLINE OF L.A.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/23/villaraigosa-economy-unemployment-jobs-opinions-columnists_los_angeles_print.html
The only immediate chance of relief for us Angelenos is
if Villaraigosa (who will soon face term limits) takes
off to run for governor. As the sole southern
Californian and Latino candidate, he could prevail in a
crowded Democratic primary. But the idea of this empty
suit running the once great state of California--not
exactly a paragon of good governance--may be enough to
push even more people to the exits or, at very least,
think about taking a very strong sedative.
World gone
mad
EUROPE
‘CREATIONISTS’ TAKE ON DARWIN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,609712,00.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA CRACKS DOWN
ON HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS
Maybe John Yoo could get a job over there. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0225/p01s01-woap.html
THREE SET FIRE TO
SELVES IN TIAN AN MEN SQUARE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7909569.stm
Animals in
the news!
ASSHOLE FACES
FINE OR JAIL FOR CLUBBING 21 SEALS TO DEATH
Just club him to death instead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/25/wildlife-scotland
TIGER ATTACKS UP
AS SUMATRA FORESTS DISAPPEAR
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7910722.stm
RARE CHEETAH PHOTOS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/cheetah-pictures/index.html
Technically.
. .
THE KINDLE SWINDLE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/opinion/25blount.html?_r=1
What the guild is asserting is that authors have a right
to a fair share of the value that audio adds to Kindle
2’s version of books. For this, the guild is being
assailed. On the National Federation of the Blind’s Web
site, the guild is accused of arguing that it is illegal
for blind people to use “readers, either human or
machine, to access books that are not available in
alternative formats like Braille or audio.”
Obit
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/books/24nolan.html?ref=obituaries
And in
more important matters. . .
Books
THE BAWDY BARD OF
THE 17TH CENTURY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/feb/25/poetry-wilmot-earl-rochester
THE REED BOATS
OF LAKE TITICACA
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/02/25/last-of-a-breed-who-make-boats-out-of-reeds/
On the shores of famed Lake Titicaca, Demetrio Limachi
and a handful of others toil to preserve the ancient art
of creating crescent-shaped craft out of bundles of
dried reeds.
THE MAN WHO
WARNED BASEBALL ABOUT STEROIDS
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1881350,00.html
For Art’s
Sake
TIMMY MALLETT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/25/timmy-mallett-art
Where ya
goin’?
TAIWAN’S
YANGMINGSHAN FLOWER FESTIVAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/feb/24/cherry-blossom-festival-taiwan
BIG PICTURES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/thebigpicture/4805275/The-Big-Picture-photography-competition-round-39.html
And in the
end. . .
RED MOON RISING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/nightsky/4804257/Red-moon-rising.html
Musical Accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPonxmeIWcI
hit 'refresh' for updates
2/24/09
DAILY CONCERT
LATE BEATLES’
CONFIDANTE MEMOIR DUE
Neil Aspinall’s lifelong notes, chronicling his
seduction of four Beatle wives and girlfriends, will be
published posthumously.
http://www.merseycats.com/Neil-Aspinall.html
COMET LULIN ARRIVES TONIGHT
http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/02/23/comet-lulin-arrives-tonight-break-out-your-telescopes/
Lost Angeles
TREES CUT
DOWN SO YOU CAN SEE BEAUTIFUL BILLBOARDS
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_11770909
MUST WATCH: THE JOB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGJq8wrw5I
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT:
Israelity
WATCH: ISRAELI SOLDIERS
SHOOT UNARMED
PALESTINIAN FARMER WORKING HIS FIELD
Brave human rights activists try to stop the insanity
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22068.htm
FINKELSTEIN: ISRAEL’S PR
COVER-UP OF GAZA SLAUGHTER BEGINS
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22082.htm
Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from
the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has
published a “strategic analysis” of the Gaza
massacre.(1) He reaches the remarkable conclusion that
“Israel did not violate the laws of war.” The report is
based on “briefings in Israeli [sic] during and
immediately after the fighting made possible by a visit
sponsored by Project Interchange, and using day-to-day
reporting issued by the Israeli Defense Spokesman.”
Cordesman omits mention that Project Interchange is
funded by the American Jewish Committee.
RAIMUNDO: THE RISE OF
LIEBERMAN
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14301
The rise of Avigdor Lieberman as the kingmaker of
Israeli politics is a disaster for American supporters
of Israel and for U.S. interests in the region, albeit
not entirely a surprise, at least to regular visitors to
this space.
HOLLAND: GLOBALISM IS DEAD
http://www.alternet.org/story/128412/the_spectacular%2C_sudden_crash_of_the_global_economy/
Worldwide, industrial production has ground to a halt.
Goods are stacking up, but nobody's buying; the
Washington Post reports that "the world is suddenly
awash in almost everything: flat-panel televisions,
bulldozers, Barbie dolls, strip malls, Burberry stores."
A Hong Kong-based shipping broker told The Telegraph
that his firm had "seen trade activity fall off a cliff.
Asia-Europe is an unmitigated disaster." The Economist
noted that one can now ship a container from China to
Europe for free -- you only need to pick up the fuel and
handling costs -- but half-empty freighters are the norm
along the world's busiest shipping routes. Global
airfreight dropped by almost a quarter in December
alone; Giovanni Bisignani, who heads a shipping industry
trade group, called the "free fall" in global cargo
"unprecedented and shocking."
LINDORFF: THE TWO BIG LIES
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/273
The first lie is that the only solution to the nation’s
deepening health care crisis, which now has over 42
million people—roughly one in seven Americans—living
without any health insurance or ready access to medical
care, is a combination of limitations on treatment and
continued reliance on the private health insurance
industry. The second lie is that Social Security, the
single most important economic “safety net” under the
lives of America’s elderly, its disabled, and children
who lose a wage-earning parent, is headed for
“bankruptcy” and needs to have its already skimpy
benefits cut back.
COMMENT: OBAMA IS RIGHT TO
TAKE ON THE RICH
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0224/p09s02-coop.html
Congress is about to begin debating legislation that
would freeze the estate tax at the current
bargain-basement rate set by President Bush. We can't
let that happen. More than ever, America needs its
ultrarich to chip in more.
POLLS:
AMERICANS WANT REPUGS TO GET IN LINE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/24/polls-obama-bipartisan/
KLEIN: THE PUBLIC’S REBUKE
OF THE REPUGS
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/02/24/state-of-the-union/
I wouldn't be surprised if there were Republican votes
to be found in support of universal health insurance,
especially if the final package offers the business
community relief from that burden. There are also
Republican environmentalists--John McCain comes to
mind--who may favor Obama's energy program (especially
if Obama remains persistent in his quest to clean up
military procurement, a McCain obsession).
Iraq and
Roll
IRAQI “POLICE”
KILL FOUR U.S. SOLDIERS, INTEPRETER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Iraqi_police_shoot_dead_four_US_0224.html
Spaced out
NASA GREENHOUSE
GAS LAUNCH GOES WRONG, CRASHES IN ANTARCTIC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/24/oco-satellite-nasa
All-melty
dollar
OBAMA'S AUTO INDUSTRY
TASK FORCE
ALL DRIVE FOREIGN CARS!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022302586.html?hpid=sec-politics
SENIORS ON THE
BRINK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/MNL51635J8.DTL
BERNANKE SAYS RECESSION WILL
END THIS YEAR
Don’t worry, he polished his crystal ball first
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/23/financial/f035944S38.DTL
Enviro Wacko
HEY, MR. GREEN!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/DD4815SL3J.DTL&type=living
In the tradition of Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker,
Berkeley's own Bob Schildgen has an alter ego he
regularly assumes to make the world a safer place.
Animals in
the news!
PROUD IDIOT SLAUGHTERS GIANT
STING RAY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/24/stingray-catch-thailand-fishing
GETTING TO KNOW
INHABITANTS OF EXTINCT VOLCANO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7861563.stm
AMAZING: FISH WITH
TRANSPARENT HEAD---FIRST PHOTOS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html
MAGPIES BUILDING
ON NESTS OF SCRAP METAL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/23/national/a142531S11.DTL
Mashed Media
FACEBOOK
‘INFANTILIZES’ HUMAN MIND
Sign up now!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-changing-childrens-brains
WASHPOST SERIES
HELPED BUST CHANDRA LEVY SUSPECT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003944318
Oh, by the
way. . .
FIVE SHOT IN SF
Guns! Guns! Guns!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/23/BA36163RJ1.DTL&tsp=1
BARKLEY GOES TO
JAIL
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Ex_NBA_star_Barkley_off_to_jail_for_02242009.html
DON’T TASE ME,
BRO
http://www.ohio.com/news/40156667.html
And in
more important matters. . .
Musings
THE NONPOLOGY
http://happyvalleynews.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-nonpology/
Books
DICKENS’ REFUGE
FOR FALLEN WOMEN
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5759585.ece
UNDER THE LITERARY INFLUENCE
http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/under-the-literary-influence/
Soon I found myself devouring every hard-boiled word of
Chandler’s. And then I read them again. I started
talking in similes and metaphors. One day I told a dear
friend that he had a face like a collapsed lung. I
couldn’t help myself. A progression took hold. Chandler
led me to Hammett and from Hammett I staggered to F.
Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald led me to Hemingway.
IS PUBLISHING PERISHING?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/24/moneytales022409.DTL
For Art’s
Sake
EDGAR
MULLER’S AMAZING 3-D TRICKERY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/24/edgar-muller-3d-street-art?picture=343706816
A PAINTING
SPEAKS
Or at least someone speaks about a painting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2009/feb/23/vanessa-bell-courtauld-institute
THEY DIED FOR HIS
ART
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Artist_guilty_over_inflatable_art_deaths&in_article_id=554495&in_page_id=34
Light
Reading
HOW TO
PROCRASTINATE LIKE DA VINCI
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=zs61txc4kwr4kd1q1rjbfxt41952gdmf
And in the
end. . .
NAKED SAMBA
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Rio_dancers_undress_to_impress&in_article_id=552351&in_page_id=64&in_a_source=
hit 'refresh' for updates
2/20/09
DAILY CONCERT
Robert Hunter
FEEDING
TIME FOR BABY MEERKATS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/feb/20/baby-meerkats-australia
PREGNANCY IS
BEAUTIFUL!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7899618.stm
MADOFF IS A SMASH
HIT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7898919.stm
TREE EATS
GOLF BALL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4731843/Golf-ball-lost-years-ago-found-embedded-in-tree-trunk.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Your
Corporatocracy at work!
THE OIL MONEY
BEHIND THE ANTI-STIMULUS FIGHT
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/02/the-oil-money-behind-the-anti-stimulus-fight.html
Who is Americans for Prosperity? According to
SourceWatch.org, the group was founded in 2003 with
money from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation,
which is run by the billionaires behind Kansas-based
Koch Industries -- the national's largest privately held
oil and gas company.
All-Melty
Dollar
MORFORD: TAX BOOZE,
LEGALIZE POT---NO MORE RECESSION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/20/notes022009.DTL
Already local governments are quietly proposing jacking
up the alcohol tax and loosening sales restrictions
because, well, why the hell not? Aren't you, right this
very moment, as you prepare your taxes and weep over
your gutted portfolio and stare down one very bleak
2009, more in need of a drink or three than at any time
in recent history except for the entirety of the last
eight miserable, Bush-stabbed years? Well, there you go.
Tax increases on cocktails, here they come.
GOOD TIMES FOR
TAILORS AND COBBLERS
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1880880,00.html
Israelity
RIGHT-WING
HARDLINER NETANYAHU TO HEAD ISRAEL
That 2012
end-of-the-world date is looking better all the time!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/20/israel-binyamin-netanyahu-head-coalition
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL8592809
The Other
War
60,000 TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
FOR THREE YEARS---U.S. COMMANDER
Here we go again
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803373.html
“I WAS DETAINED BY
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT”
http://www.alternet.org/rights/127847/i_was_illegally_detained_by_the_u.s._government_and_held_in_cia-run_%22black_sites%22/
What I do know is that the Jordanian government -- after
torturing me for several days -- handed me over to a
U.S. "rendition team" in Amman, which then abducted me,
forced me onto a plane, and flew me to Afghanistan.
During this, and several other transfers between CIA
prisons, I was subjected to a brutal and deeply
humiliating "preparation" ritual. I was stripped naked,
dressed in a diaper, shackled, blindfolded and hooded,
and then boarded onto a waiting plane. I was forced into
painful positions, often reeling from the blows and
kicks of the men who had "prepared" me for flight.
ANTI-GAY UTAH SEN. KICKED
OFF JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/buttars-loses-committee/
Obama Nation
FIVE GOOD MOVES
BY OBAMA THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
http://www.alternet.org/story/127848/5_great_progressive_moves_by_obama_that_you_might_have_missed/
Repugnicans
CLINTON CONDEMNS
REPUG “JUST SAY NO” POLITICS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bill_Clinton_gives_Obama_A_grade_0220.html
REPUG PHONE SABOTEUR GETS
OFF SCOT-FREE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Former_RNC_director_convicted_in_phone_0220.html
The Republican National Committee employee convicted of
a plot to jam the phone banks of Democratic
get-out-the-vote efforts in New Hampshire in 2002 has
escaped penalty in his case, after a federal judge ruled
that new charges against him could not be brought.
Globalitis
2500 LANGUAGES
UNDER THREAT
AS MIGRANTS HEAD FOR CITIES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/20/endangered-languages-unesco
THE FRENCH CHEESE
WARS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,609046,00.html
Spaced Out
LOOKING FOR E.T.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/20/MNUP16145U.DTL
Somewhere far out in our Milky Way galaxy, thousands -
perhaps millions - of pale blue dots are orbiting their
suns just as Earth does ours, and in two weeks a new
American spacecraft will fly off to seek them out.
HOLOCAUST-DENYING BISHOP
KICKED OUT OF ARGENTINA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,608941,00.html
Lost Angeles
STUPID
CRIMINAL TRICKS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/stupid_criminal_tricks_co.php
MAIL FRAUD ATTY.
GETS ONLY THREE HOURS TO VISIT DYING WIFE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Justice_Department_keeps_political_prisoner_from_0220.html
(Lack of)
Health
ARE WE ABOUT TO
ELIMINATE AIDS?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126966.100-are-we-about-to-eliminate-aids.html
Astonishingly, we could use existing drugs to wipe out
HIV, just as we did smallpox. So what's holding us back?
Mashed Media
THE GRANDFATHER OF
HATE RADIO
You think Limbaugh is new?
http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/grandfather-hate-radio
Comment
BELLE:
ABOUT THAT CHIMP CARTOON
Rip Post: Hysterical overreaction to the stupid chimp
cartoon, including denunciation of “white men.” With
reasoned thinkers like this woman, who needs acrimony?
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/about-loaded-imagery-racism-post-part
ON LIMBAUGH AND
SO-CALLED FAIRNESS ON RADIO
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/limbaugh-fairness-radio/
When a handful of major media companies control who and
what is allowed to be broadcast on the commercial dial,
how is that not regulation of radio content? When these
same companies then push out one-sided, right-wing
information 90 percent of the time, how does that uphold
freedom of expression?
Enviro Wacko
POWER FROM BUMPS
IN THE ROAD?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090219-shock-absorber-energy-cars.html
HAMSTER POWER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/4731679/Hamsters-in-jackets-harnessed-for-energy.html
Animals in
the news!
GIANT
SNAKE OF BORNEO!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/4701906/Photograph-shows-giant-snake-lurking-in-Borneo-river.html
THE ELEPHANT
WHISPERER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/feb/18/lawrence-anthony-elephant?picture=343421703
Oh, by the way. . .
FRUIT FLIES SICK FROM MATING
We should all have such problems
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219081040.htm
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
‘SLUMDOG’ KIDS HEAD FOR
OSCARS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7899978.stm
TeeVee
HEEEERE’S. .
.CONAN O’ BRIEN?
The guy isn’t funny. But then, neither is Leno.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/DDVQ1604FT.DTL
For Art’s
Sake
ARTISTS’
MANIFESTO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7894877.stm
When it appeared, on 20 February 1909, it was the first
art manifesto of the 20th Century, paving the way for
Vorticists, Surrealists, Dada-ists, and Situationists,
as well as more recent cultural agitators like the
Stuckists.
Obit
ELO BASS PLAYER GROUCUTT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/20/international/i073430S91.DTL&tsp=1
SNOOKS EAGLIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/arts/music/20eaglin.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
WHAT MADE THE GREEKS LAUGH?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5759723.ece
WORLD’S STRANGEST
HANGOVER CURES
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-hangover-cures/
Where ya
goin’?
PHOTO
GALLERY: CARNIVAL AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2009/feb/17/festivals-carnival-mardi-gras?picture=343390769
And in the
end. . .
MATCHSTICK GORILLA!
(Now I suppose the Rip Post will be accused of
racism.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4733859/Gorilla-modelled-out-of-tens-of-thousands-of-matchsticks.html
2/19/09
DAILY CONCERT
ACLU MAKING BIG CUTS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/aclu_making_biggest_cuts.php
WHO ARE
THESE REVOLTING PRECIOUS PEOPLE?
And why do they all come to L.A.?
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/mag_editors_reinvention_i.php
NY POST CARTOON
OF DEAD CHIMP STIRS OUTRAGE FROM REV. AL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2009/02/18/national/a072439S85.DTL&o=0
HERE’S A LITTLE
PICK-ME-UP ITEM!
(WARNING: Strong stomachs
required.)
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/02/he_loved_pigs_too_much.php
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0218/
WATCH: FIORE---WHERE’S
CHANGE?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2009/02/18/fiorechains.DTL
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
LINDORFF: EMPLOYERS USE
RECESSION TO STICK IT TO WORKERS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/272
In Upper Dublin, PA, an upper middle-class suburb north
of Philadelphia, according to its employees, has been
laying off cashiers, and slashing its night work
force—the people who restock the shelves and unload the
delivery trucks when the store is closed. The management
is doing this not because sales have slumped. They
haven’t. People may not be buying new cars, but they are
still buying food, and in fact, if they are cutting back
on eating out, as restaurant chains are reporting, they
are probably actually buying more groceries, not less.
Management is making these cuts simply because they can
get away with it.
AN EXPAT’S VIEW
OF AMERICANS
http://crooksandliars.com/nonny-mouse/what-will-it-take
When I went back to the States to visit my dying father,
I arrived with a snootful of scorn at how ignorant and
dogmatic so many Americans I had talked to as tourists
in Europe seemed to be. It took flicking through his 999
channels of satellite television to make me I realise –
so many Americans are ignorant and dogmatic because they
have no real news. There’s nothing on American channels
worthy of the label, the only real news I could find was
BBC World.
PELOSI FORESEES PROSECUTION
OF BUSH OFFICIALS
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/19/pelosi-prosecution-bush-officials/
MUMBAI
ATTACKERS HAD 320 WORLD TARGETS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/19/mumbai-attacks-list-targets
SMALLEST NUMBER OF SALMON
EVER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/MN9I160HP4.DTL&type=green
GOOGLE EXPOSES
SECRET U.S. BASE TO LAUNCH DRONES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Google_exposes_secret_US_base_in_0219.html
SHOE-THROWING HERO DEFIANT AT TRIAL
Bush’s “icy smile” pissed him off
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iraqi_shoe_thrower_defiant_as_trial_02192009.html
Indonesians throw
shows at Hillary---well, her picture, anyhow
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/02/18/indonesia-welcomes-clinton-with-songs-%e2%80%93-and-a-bit-of-shoe-throwing/
PALIN OWES BACK TAXES ON
NIGHTS SPENT AT HOME
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/18/ST2009021803325.html
DID UCLA PROF
FIND OSAMA?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/UCLA_professor_thinks_hes_found_Osama_0218.html
Obama Nation
ROBERTS:
PRESIDENT
OF SPECIAL INTERESTS
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02182009.html
The Bush/Obama bailout/stimulus plans are not going to
work. Both are schemes hatched by a clique of financial
insiders. The schemes will redistribute income and
wealth from American taxpayers to the shyster banksters,
who have destroyed American jobs, ruined the retirement
plans of tens of millions of Americans, and worsened the
situation of millions of people worldwide who naively
trusted American financial institutions.
OBAMA USES
‘WINNABLE’ IN REFERENCE TO AFGHANISTAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_Afghanistan_still_winnable_0218.html
KLEIN:
HOW THE
WORLD SEES OBAMA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1880379,00.html
ACQUITTAL IN MURDER OF
RUSSIAN JOURNALIST
They should have convicted Putin in absentia. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7899472.stm
CHILDREN
FLOCK TO GERMAN SOUP KITCHENS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,608690,00.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA KIDS FULL
OF KIDNEY STONES IN WAKE OF MELAMINE SCANDAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7899031.stm
Spaced Out
WATER SPLASHED
ON PHOENIX LANDER
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16620-first-liquid-water-may-have-been-spotted-on-mars.html?page=1
(Lack of)
health
WOMAN IMPREGNATED
WITH WRONG EGG
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/19/international/i045434S75.DTL
Obit
NFL GREAT BRAD VAN PELT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/sports/football/19vanpelt.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
ARE HOLLYWOOD AND
THE INTERNET KILLING READING?
No, dunderhead---they’re killing thinking.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/17/the-big-read-literacy-opinions-contributors_0217_diane_ravitch.html
Books
‘CANNERY ROW’
IN A CAN!
http://www2.cruzio.com/~peteranddonna/1-can.htm
Film
Q&A:
SLUMDOG STAR KAPOOR
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/19/anil-kapoor-slumdog-millionaire-interview
Where ya
goin’?
FLYING GUESTHOUSE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4698495/Jumbo-Hostel-Worlds-first-guesthouse-on-a-plane-opens-in-Stockholm.html
CARIBBEAN RESORTS SLASH
PRICES
Attention, Ugly Americans!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/sunandsea/4690158/Caribbean-dreams-at-bargain-prices.html
WATCH:
HOW TO
SHEAR A SHEEP
Hey, why not?
http://www.time.com/time/video/?bcpid=1485842900&bctid=13594811001
And in the
end. . .(so to speak)
SOUNDS FUNNY
http://www.soundsfunny.org/
2/18/09
DAILY CONCERT
PHOTOS OF THE
DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0217/
FAKE U.S. AGENT IN CLOWN
SUIT BUSTED
(Isn't that
redundant?)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/18/BABT1605K3.DTL&type=newsbayarea
TV EXEC WHO
WANTED TO IMPROVE IMAGE OF MUSLIMS IN MEDIA. . .
BEHEADS HIS WIFE
(Hey, it’s just cultural tradition.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/17/national/a090113S37.DTL
14-YEAR-OLD
ARRESTED FOR TEXTING IN CLASS
(Good!)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/14yearold_student_arrested_for_texting_in_0217.html
Lost Angeles
SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL WOUNDED BY
GANGS
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/02/7-year-old-girl.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
LINDORFF: WHATEVER HAPPENED
TO ANTI-TRUST?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/271
Now here’s a word you’re not hearing in America these
days: anti-trust.The country is being dragged down by
monstrous businesses, all of which, we’re told, are just
“too big to fail.” As a consequence of this, the
nation’s taxpayers, and their progeny born and yet
unborn, are having trillions of dollars sucked away to
prop up these giant rotting corporate corpses.Zombie
banks, zombie automakers, zombie insurance companies,
all bigger than nation states, and all on life-support.
There is a simple answer to this problem. Bust them up.
Then sort through the pieces and let the worst parts go
bust.
31-YEAR-OLD WHO
ELECTED OBAMA---
WANTS TO PLY HIS TRADE IN BRITAIN
(Something is very wrong here.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/18/thomas-gensemer-online-election-campaign
Thomas Gensemer, whose company Blue State Digital
managed Obama's slick online campaign, built his website
my.barackobama.com, recruited 13.5 million supporters
and raised $500m for the Obama campaign, is also doing
very nicely out of the victory. As he arrives in London
to open a UK office and try to entice the Labour party
into his electronic embrace for the next election, he
admits it's a handy "calling card" to have.
BRIT BIZ SEC’Y LAUNCHES
TIRADE AT STARBUCKS
(Anybody get the idea that “globalism” was a sort of
bad idea?)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/18/peter-mandelson-starbucks
The business secretary, Peter Mandelson, has launched an
extraordinary tirade against the head of the Starbucks
coffee empire, accusing him of spreading gloom and
overly denigrating the state of the British economy.
All-Melty
Dollar
WATCH: WHO IS THE BURGER
KING? GOLDMAN SACHS
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090302/burgerking_video
What would you do with an extra $18,000 in your pocket?
That's the amount of extra cash each and every Burger
King employee in America would have received last year
if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain's largest
owners) had shared its bailout billions with
rank-and-file workers. Instead, Goldman Sachs squandered
6.5 billion of our taxpayer dollars on bonuses for their
financial staff. These were some of the highest bonuses
on Wall Street! Meanwhile, Burger King workers earn
wages averaging just $14,000 a year -- well below the
federal poverty line for a family of three.
GREENSPAN:
NATIONALIZE THE BANKS
(Hell of a recommendation for not nationalizing the
banks. . .)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Greenspan_says_recession_will_be_longest_0217.html
ANOTHER
DAY, ANOTHER 47,000 GM JOBS---
AS GM, CHRYSLER SEEK $47 BILLION
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123489494750801713.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/17/gm-chrysler-unions-talks
ROOMMATES FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
http://www.alternet.org/story/127403/will_you_have_roommates_for_the_rest_of_your_life/
MICHELLE
BACHMANN’S LATEST RAVINGS
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/michelle-bachmann-were-running-out-rich
Obama Nation
OBAMA’S
ESCALATION OF AFGHAN OCCUPATION BEGINS---
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1880253,00.html
---AND FEINGOLD
DOESN’T LIKE IT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html
ASHCROFT: NO DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN BUSH AND OBAMA
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/18/ashcroft-obama-bush/
WHAT
HAPPENED TO OBAMA’S PLEDGE TO END ‘FAITH-BASED’ FUNDING?
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/2/17/12834/8445
As a candidate, Obama promised to end the noxious Bush
order allowing religious discrimination in tax-funded
programs. The rules that Bush overturned with his
directive, I should note, were put in place by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt; they were one of the nation's
first efforts to get serious about civil rights
protections. Roosevelt was right to put that order in
place, and Bush was wrong to change it. Americans United
intends to keep pushing until Obama understands that.
Mashed Media
RIGHT-WING
SHILL MICHELLE MALKIN POSES WITH GUY HOLDING SWASTIKA
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/you-stay-classy-michelle-malkin-poses
Enviro Wacko
PHOTO
GALLERY: ZERO-CARBON HOMES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/feb/18/grand-designs-crossway-eco-home-kent?picture=343387569
‘MELT POOLS’
SPEEDING ARCTIC ICE DECLINE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/18/arctic-ice-melt
CAN AMERICA’S WEST STAY WILD?
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/17/can-america%E2%80%99s-west-stay-wild/
ICELAND STRIVES FOR HYDROGEN
ECONOMY
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/12/iceland-strides-toward-a-hydrogen-economy/
Marin County
Sewage Flushes into SF Bay
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/17/BADQ1600MK.DTL&tsp=1
Jesus H.
Christ!
TEACHING DARWIN
TO VOODOO EVANGELICALS
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2009/02/teaching-darwin-to-voodoo-evangelicals.html
Oh, does this strike some young-earthlings as infringing
on their freedom of religion? We likewise detest
infringement on freedom of scientific inquiry by
enforcing totally unrelated concepts, sources, and
mythologies on it. If they like their earth young, their
dinosaurs recent, and their biological change
instantaneous, that's fine for them. But if they want to
impose it on the rest of us, we demand the right to
impose scientific facts on them. Otherwise, they can
enjoy living as their ancestors did when the earth was
indeed younger - with stone tools.
Technically.
. .
MORFORD:
I
TWITTER FOR YOU
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/18/notes021809.DTL
The concept is very simple. Who needs Facebook and
MySpace and the like? You do! But who the hell has time
for such pathetic digital hoo-ha nonsense when there's
dishes to be washed and gardening to be done and kids to
be driven around and thorny little roses to be stopped
at and smelled? No one!
(Lack of)
Health
ONE IN FOUR U.K.
LIVER TRANSPLANTS GO TO BOOZERS
Of course, who in the U.K. does not drink?
http://digg.com/health/One_in_four_liver_transplants_in_UK_go_to_heavy_drinkers
Obits
BANDLEADER JOE CUBA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/arts/music/18cuba.html?ref=obituaries
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Film
ANG LEE TO MAKE ‘LIFE OF PI’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/4689442/Oscar-winner-Ang-Lee-to-make-Hollywood-adaptation-of-Life-of-Pi.html
WATCH: THE REAL SLUM OF
“SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE”
Slum faces ‘transformation into mixed-use
neighborhood’
http://www.time.com/time/video/?bcpid=1485842900&bctid=13419832001
SUBSCRIBE:
DAILY RAY OF HOPE
http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=4701.0
Light
Reading
STRESS IS GOOD FOR
YOU
(This article is guaranteed to stress you out.)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/184154/output/print
For Art’s
Sake
CHINA, TAIWAN TALK
ABOUT SHARING ART TREASURES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/arts/design/12pala.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
The National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital,
holds many of the finest pieces in the imperial art
collection of China.
VAN DYCK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/17/van-dyck-britain-tate?picture=343385525
Musical accompaniment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjYQYdjd73M
Where ya
goin’?
DAWN FRENCH IN NEW
ZEALAND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/celebritytravel/4688179/Dawn-Frenchs-heaven-on-earth-New-Zealands-North-Island.html
THE SIERRA CLUB
HAS SOME IDEAS. . .
http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/national/
And in the
end. . .
HAVE A BEER ON BUDDHA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4687433/Buddhist-temple-built-out-of-one-million-beer-bottles.html
2/17/09
DAILY CONCERT
JAPAN FOREIGN
MINISTER HAD A LITTLE TOO MUCH SAKE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/17/japan-foreign-minister/
BRISTOL
PALIN: ABSTINENCE DOESN’T WORK
She speaks
with authority
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/17/bristol-palin-abstinence/
CHINA MISTRESS PAGAENT TAKES
A WRONG TURN
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/17/china.mistress.contest/index.html
FRENCH SPIDERMAN
IN CHINA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/feb/17/skyscraper-climb-hongkong-france?picture=343387476
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
Post-racial
America?
ONCE AGAIN,
LOONIES START COUNTING RACIAL BEANS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021601222.html
Jackass columnist writes: “But a review of the early
demographic data of Obama's first 56 selections for
Senate-confirmed top jobs in the departments and
agencies shows a marked tendency to choose old, white
guys from the East Coast with credentials from elite
universities.”
Rip Post comments: Once again, “old white guys” are vilified
based on their race.
Your
corporatocracy at work!
GOP HOUSE
WHIP’S WIFE ‘DIDN’T KNOW’ HER BANK BENEFITED FROM
BAILOUT
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/gop-house-whips-wife-didnt-know-her-b
MISSION IRAQ
BILLIONS ‘GREATEST FRAUD IN U.S. HISTORY’
That’s all.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Missing_Iraq_billions_could_be_greatest_0216.html
HELLO, THIS IS
YOUR ID THIEF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/17/MNEA15V22I.DTL&tsp=1
Giordano knows who the thief is. Not only that, he's
talked to the guy on the phone. The alleged culprit has
rented an apartment in the Parkmerced complex in
Giordano's name, has signed him up for utilities, and
ordered pizza with his credit card. Even 3,000 miles
away, Giordano can pull up a photo of the apartment on
his computer. But he can't get any action.
War in error
HEDGES:
MOST DANGEROUS TERRORISTS? WALL STREET, NOT JIHADISTS
http://www.alternet.org/rights/127252/u.s._intel_chief%27s_shocking_warning%3A_wall_street%27s_disaster_has_spawned_our_greatest_terrorist_threat/
The corporate thieves, those who insisted they be paid
tens of millions of dollars because they were the best
and the brightest, have been exposed as con artists. Our
elected officials, along with the press, have been
exposed as corrupt and spineless corporate lackeys. Our
business schools and intellectual elite have been
exposed as frauds. The age of the West has ended. Look
to China. Laissez-faire capitalism has destroyed itself.
It is time to dust off your copies of Marx.
‘WAR ON TERROR’
ERODED RIGHTS ACROSS THE WORLD
Of course.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/US_war_on_terror_eroded_rights_0216.html
CHENEY
‘FURIOUS’ THAT BUSH DID NOT PARDON LIBBY
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/02/16/2009-02-16_exvp_dick_cheney_outraged_president_bush.htm
Enviro Wacko
GEORGE
WILL MAKES UP ENVIRO FACTS
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/16/will-global-warming/
George Will chastised Energy Secretary Stephen Chu for
“doomsaying” about global warming, arguing that concerns
about climate change are just “eco-pessimism.”
All-melty
dollar
ANOTHER DAY,
ANOTHER 20,000 JOBS GONE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/17/MNEA15V22I.DTL&tsp=1
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget17-2009feb17,0,1851008.story
KRUGMAN:
DECADE AT BERNIE’S
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/opinion/16krugman.html?em
It has been interesting to watch the idea of temporary
bank nationalization move from the fringe to mainstream
acceptance, with even Republicans like Senator Lindsey
Graham conceding that it may be necessary. But even if
we eventually do what’s needed on the bank front, that
will solve only part of the problem.
WHITNEY:
EASTERN EUROPE IS ABOUT TO BLOW
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22007.htm
Foreign capital is fleeing at an alarming rate; nearly
two-thirds gone in matter of months. Deflation is
pushing down asset prices, increasing unemployment, and
compounding the debt-burden of financial institutions.
It's the same everywhere. The economies are being
hollowed out and stripped of capital. Ukraine is
teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Poland, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary have all slipped into a low-grade
depression. The countries that followed Washington's
economic regimen have suffered the most.
Israelity
ISRAEL LAUNCHES
COVERT WAR AGAINST IRAN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4640052/Israel-launches-covert-war-against-Iran.html
It is using hitmen, sabotage, front companies and double
agents to disrupt the regime's illicit weapons project,
the experts say. The most dramatic element of the
"decapitation" programme is the planned assassination of
top figures involved in Iran's atomic operations.
Mashed Media
HOW 9,000 BUSINESS
REPORTERS BLEW THE MOTHER OF ALL MELTDOWNS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-tucker/how-9000-business-reporte_b_167142.html
How could an army of business reporters blow the biggest
story since The Great Depression?
CHINA CLOSES PROPAGANDA
RAG---ER, NEWSPAPER---IN SF
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/12140/
(Lack of)
Health
THINKING OF A CHIN-TUCK?
SKIP IT
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-badbugs17-2009feb17,0,5079716.story
When Ruth Burns had surgery to relieve a pinched nerve
in her back, the operation was supposed to be an
"in-and-out thing," recalled her daughter, Kacia Warren.
But Burns developed pneumonia and was put on a
ventilator. Five days later, she was discharged -- only
to be rushed by her daughter to the hospital hours
later, disoriented and in alarming pain.
PLASTIC
SURGERY CONFIDENTIAL
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/02/plastic-surgery200902?printable=true¤tPage=all
In a quest for insight into this $13 billion industry,
the author—a five-foot-nine, 120-pound 27-year-old—went
undercover, asking three plastic surgeons what they’d do
to her nose, her breasts, and her, uh, “banana rolls.”
The answers were as different as the doctors themselves.
FACE TRANSPLANT
PATIENT NOW EATING, DRINKING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/4679165/AAAS-Face-transplant-patient-given-new-nose-jaw-and-cheeks-can-eat-and-drink.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
FRANCE’S DEPORTED
JEWS DESERVE JUSTICE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/17/france-holocaust-war-crimes
Yesterday's declaration by France's top judicial
authority that the state bore responsibility for the
deportation of Jews during the second world war should
have been a welcome recognition of what historians have
argued since the 1970s: the Vichy state persecuted Jews
independently of the Nazis.
HITLER’S
“SHOCKING TABLE MANNERS,” FLATULENCE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4678840/Adolf-Hitler-had-poor-table-manners-and-suffered-flatulence.html
DENMARK’S “HIPPIE HAVEN”
FACES SHUTDOWN
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/02/17/denmarks-hippie-haven-faces-shutdown/
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
PHOTOS OF
THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0216/
WATCH: NEW ‘SIMPSONS’
OPENING SEQUENCE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4644250/The-Simpsons-gets-new-opening-sequence.html
Musique
R.I.P. LOUIE BELLSON
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/arts/music/17bellson.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
FROM A
VAULT IN PARIS, SOUNDS OF OPERA---IN 1907!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/arts/music/17vaul.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
JAMES
WHITMORE’S SON REMEMBERS DAD
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/whitmore_post_draws_some.php
Film
PRIDE AND PREDATOR
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/17/pride-and-predator-to-give-jane-austen-extreme-makeover
Elton John's Rocket Pictures is developing a new spin on
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, this time featuring a
nefarious seven-foot extraterrestrial with hideous
mandibles and a penchant for human blood.
INTERVIEW: DEL TORO AS CHE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2009/feb/16/che-benicio-del-toro-steven-soderbergh
Light
reading
HAS
EVOLUTION STOPPED?
Or only with Repugnicans?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123440723977275883.html
And in the
end. . .
NOODLES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPST5s2zOCw
2/13/09
DAILY CONCERT
GABRIEL PULLS OUT OF OSCARS
(Sounds like the plot of a gay porn film. . .)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7888112.stm
U.S. STARTS
‘GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/feb/13/great-backyard-bird-count-us-birdwatch
WAS PHOENIX
LETTERMAN APPEARANCE A PUT-ON?
Is he gathering material for a comedy documentary?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/feb/12/joaquin-phoenix-letterman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/11/joaquin-phoenixs-bizarre_n_166229.html
Top Ten Disastrous
Letterman Interviews
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1879231_1879160,00.html
WHAT? STARBUCKS
INSTANT?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/4610753/Starbucks-to-launch-instant-coffee.html
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
LINDORFF: WHY CAN JUDD
GREGG SEE WHAT OBAMA CAN’T?
(Obama is looking like quite a naïf, fool. . .)
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/270
The fact is, Obama and his supposedly brilliant
political strategists have adopted a bone-headed
approach of trying to seem “post-partisan” which has led
them directly into a Republican trap on many key policy
fronts. The economy is just one such area, where
Republicans let Obama water down his stimulus program in
an effort to woo them, and then simply voted against the
package in the end. The war in Afghanistan is another
example, where Obama has been so busy buying into the
right’s agenda of continued war that he is about to
commit the nation to years more of expanded war in that
war-torn region.
EX-SPEAKER OF
ISRAEL PARLIAMENT:
“THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER”
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/12/former_speaker_of_the_israeli_parliament
I don’t want to argue about the past so much, because I
become hostage of the yesterday’s genies, rather than
becoming a liberated person or liberated nation or
liberated region. And that’s what I’m looking for.
BERNIE GOLDBERG,
MENACE TO SOCIETY
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/we-can-see-why-bernie-goldbergs-book
”This was a symbolic killing. Who I wanted to kill was
every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in
Bernard Goldberg's book. I'd like to kill everyone in
the mainstream media.”---from mass murderer’s note.
RIGHT-WING FIEND NORQUIST’S
FATWA ON STIMULUS PLAN
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/13/norquist-crist-stimulus/
INTEVIEW: BILL
MOYERS TALKS TO NORQUIST
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_norquist.html
IRAN
BUILDING THE BOMB---NEW U.S. CLAIM
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fg-usiran12-2009feb12,0,3478184.story
WOMAN SUICIDE BOMBER IN IRAQ
KILLS 40
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1879352,00.html
PIGBOY ROVE
SUBPOENAED AGAIN---
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Conyers_subpoenas_Rove_third_time_0213.html
---BUT HE’S
BUSY KILLING DEFENSELESS BIRDS FOR FUN
What is it about these fat bastards and hunting?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Karl_Rove_twitters_his_Texas_hunting_0212.html
BRIT GOV’T ADVISOR
WANTS TO DOWNGRADE LSD
Good idea. Rove and
Norquist need it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4581743/Now-Home-Office-drugs-adviser-wants-to-downgrade-LSD-from-A-to-B.html
All-melty
dollar
INSANE,
DECADENT DUBAI’S BUILDING BOOM FIZZLES
Well, there’s one good thing about the economic crash
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/13/dubai-boom-halt
The Torture
Never Stops
FEMALE FBI
SEX-TORTURED MUMBAI TERRORIST---CLAIM
Quit pussyfooting around and just kill the guy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/4587941/Female-FBI-officer-tortured-Mumbai-terror-attacks-suspect-with-sex.html
Enviro Wacko
TROPICAL FISH
SWIM NORTH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/4604439/Tropical-fish-swimming-north-because-of-global-warming.html
‘HOLY
GRAIL’ OF BIOFUELS NOW IN SIGHT
So soon the forests will be wiped out to grow more
corn. . .
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/13/the-%E2%80%98holy-grail%E2%80%99-of-biofuels-now-in-sight/
Mashed Media
DEMOCRATS TO USE
‘FAIRNESS DOCTRINE’ TO ATTACK LIMBAUGH?
It’ll never work. . .just another wimpy Democrat
move. . .
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/13/dems-target-right-wing-talk-radio/
WHY THE WORLD
IS TWITTER CRAZY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/4523494/How-to-Twitter-why-the-world-is-Twitter-crazy.html
MORFORD:
WHERE HAS ALL THE HATE MAIL GONE?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/13/notes021309.DTL
That sacred relationship is no longer the slightest bit
sacred. If you've ever spent much time in the comment
boards of this or any major media site (or, of course,
any popular blog), you already know: Anonymity tends to
bring out the absolute worst in people, the meanest and
nastiest and least considerate. Something about not
having to reveal who you really are caters to the
basest, most unkind instincts of the human animal. Go
figure.
PEOPLE’S REPUGNIC
TO CREATE JOURNALIST BLACKLIST
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gS-3-z6SaOpygRPWKbQKcIAkSE4wD96AMK200
World gone
mad
900 SF STUDENTS
CARRIED GUNS TO SCHOOL LAST YEAR
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/13/MNEL15T31M.DTL&tsp=1
JAPAN SPLITS UP
FAMILY OVER IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7887704.stm
TEEN SUES
DISNEY OVER RIDE HEART ATTACK, BRAIN DAMAGE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4604427/Teenager-sues-Disney-after-suffering-heart-attack-on-rollercoaster.html
DON’T TASE
ME, BRO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/13/BAJ215SS24.DTL
Unreal
Estate
ONE IN NINE
HOMES ARE VACANT, AND---
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2009-02-12-vacancy12_N.htm?csp=34
----CHINA CITIZENS
FLOCK TO U.S. FOR BARGAINS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/12/international/i083518S78.DTL&type=realestate
MORE INSANE DEVELOPMENT IN
L.A. AREA
Massive condo project next to freeway in Monterey
Park
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/02/curbedwire_atlantic_times_square_construction.php
Obit
‘OUR GANG’S’ SHIRLEY JEAN
RICKERT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/arts/television/13rickert.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
KOLF, INVENTOR OF HEART, KIDNEY
MACHINES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/health/13kolff.html?ref=obituaries
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
INTERVIEW: ALICE WATERS
”Most of what we eat is not real food.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,606967,00.html
Film
SAVING THE PLANET A
BITE AT A TIME
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,607060,00.html
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0212/
Where ya
goin’?
VENETIANS TAKE
BACK VENICE CARNIVAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/12/venice-carnival-local-street-party
Hey! Be-attle!
MCCARTNEY ROLE
ANNOUNCED IN LENNON FILM
(Scroll down after clicking)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1144124/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Wouldnt-luvverly-Keira-Knightley-line-play-Eliza-Doolittle-new-film.html?ITO=1490
Musique
POP MUSIC
FESTIVALS UNSWAYED BY ECONOMY
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0213/p13s01-almp.html
And in the
end. . .
BLACK CATS
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=black+cats
2/12/09
DAILY CONCERT
JACKO HAS LETHAL STAPH
INFECTION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4597416/Michael-Jackson-is-suffering-from-acute-MRSA-type-infection.html
MAN LEVITATES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4600225/German-street-performer-defies-gravity-to-astonishment-of-commuters.html
ANNA NICOLE SMITH,
THE OPERA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/12/anna-nicole-smith-the-opera
PHOTOS OF
THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0211/
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
ARMY TO (NOW
DEAD) G.I.:
KILL YOURSELF AND SAVE US THE PAPERWORK
http://www.salon.com/news/special/coming_home/2009/02/10/coming_home_two/index.html
LINDORFF: PUTTING AWAY KIDS
FOR KICKBACKS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/269
Now a particularly ugly scam has just been uncovered
here in Pennsylvania. Up in Wilkes-Barre, the old
coal-mining part of the state up in the northeast, two
state senior judges have been charged with sending
hundreds of kids to two private juvenile detention
centers in return for kickbacks from the two
centers—kickbacks that allegedly ran to over $2.6
million.
HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL
GETS DEAD FISH, WHITE POWDER---
BRINGS THEM TO WORK!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021002503.html?referrer=emailarticle
RUSS, U.S.
SATELLITES COLLIDE IN SPACE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/12/nasa-alert-as-satellites-collide
CHINA FED UP
WITH KFC, PIZZA HUT
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chinafood12-2009feb12,0,6353505.story
ANTI-ISLAM DUTCH
POLITICIAN BARRED FROM BRITAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/12/far-right-dutch-mp-ban-islam
Immigration officials prevent Geert Wilders leaving
Heathrow airport to attend showing of his film about
'fascist' Qur'an at House of Lords.
All-melty
Dollar
A LITTLE BANK
YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021003583.html?referrer=emailarticle
Citizens is among the stronger and more conservative
banks in the Charlotte market. Despite setting aside
$3.2 million last year for expected loan losses, the
bank managed to post a profit of $3.1 million, down from
$5.7 million the year before. Citizens never got into
subprime lending or 100 percent loans, and for its
caution lost a lot of business during the go-go years.
Now, however, its reward is that its nonperforming loans
are less than half of 1 percent of all its loans.
MERRILL
‘BONUSES’ MADE 696 MILLIONAIRES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Merrill_bonuses_made_696_millionaires_probe_0212.html
Merrill Lynch quietly paid out at least one million
dollars bonus each to about 700 top executive even when
the investment house was bleeding with losses last year,
a probe has revealed.
OH, BY THE
WAY, UH. . .
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
The Torture
Never Stops
TORTURED TO DEATH
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004387
Newly declassified Defense Department documents describe
a pattern of “abusive” behavior by U.S. military
interrogators that appears to have caused the deaths of
several suspected terrorists imprisoned at a detention
center in Afghanistan in December 2002.
Comment
KRISTOF:
NATIONALIZE THE BANKS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/opinion/12kristof.html
The neo-Hoovers criticizing today’s stimulus package
make perfectly valid points about this or that flaw in
the stimulus package. But the alternative is perhaps
three million fewer jobs and the national economy
looking like a balloon losing air.
DOWD:
TRILLION-DOLLAR BABY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/opinion/11dowd.html?em
Geithner is wrong. The pay of all the employees in
bailed-out banks, not just top executives, should be
capped. And these impervious, imperial suits who
squander taxpayers’ money after dragging the country
over the cliff should all be fired — preferably when
they come to D.C. on Wednesday in a phony show of
populism on Amtrak and the shuttle to testify before
Barney Frank.
THOMPSON:
WHO
THE HELL PICKED THIS GUY?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/15341
Enviro Wacko
CARBON EMISSIONS TAX?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/US_energy_chief_floats_idea_of_0212.html
LIQUID WOOD---THE NEXT
PLASTIC
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/02/11/could-%e2%80%98liquid-wood%e2%80%99-replace-plastic/#left
SAN
FRANCISCO BAY BLUES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/12/BAKG15SAKG.DTL&type=green
Mashed Media
WHERE ARE ALL THE
ECONOMISTS ON THE TUBE?
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/media-matters-answers-my-question-where
WHAT IN THE
HELL HAS HAPPENED TO TELEVISION?
More stupid, juvenile repugnant crap passes for
comedy
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Colbert_gets_anal_exam_in_honor_0212.html
Spaced Out
DARK COMETS THREATEN THE
EARTH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/4592130/Unseen-dark-comets-could-pose-deadly-threat-to-earth.html
Animals in
the news!
KOREAN
DMZ BECOMES ANIMAL SANCTUARY
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/02/05/korean-demilitarized-zone-animal-sanctuary/
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Science
TWELVE
ELEGANT EXAMPLES OF EVOLUTION, ILLUSTRATED
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/evolutionexampl.html
DID BURST OF
GENE DUPLICATION SPUR HUMAN EVOLUTION?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211161840.htm
GERMANS MAP NEANDERTHAL
GENOME
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gNRhmzaaW3a10ewnBU63clc_Ki7QD96A3OC00
Obit
MOLLY BEE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/arts/music/12bee.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
Light
reading
LINCOLN THE GREAT
Although he didn’t look that way at the time. . .
http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2009-01/Lincoln.html
PORTRAITS OF
HONEST ABE
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1876750,00.html
GORDON RAMSAY VS. THE FRENCH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/4594468/Gordon-Ramsay-criticised-as-he-wins-Michelin-stars-for-restaurant-in-France.html
For Art’s
Sake
LIGHT
SCULPTURE
http://www.metro.co.uk/galleryDetailPage.html?Light_Graffiti&in_gallery_id=2047&in_page_id=3&in_image_id=24963&in_category_id=2087
THE WORLD’S
UGLIEST BUILDING
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/02/09/north-koreas-ryugyong-hotel-ugliest-earth/
And in the
end. . .
HEART ISLAND
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Heart_shaped_island_highlighted_by_Google_Earth_becomes_hit
hit 'refresh' for updates
2/11/09
DAILY CONCERT
FOR SALE: GHANDI’S
GLASSES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4589916/Gandhis-sandals-and-spectacles-to-be-sold-at-auction-in-New-York.html
COW-CA COLA
New soft drink made from cow urine! Mm-mm.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4592608/India-makes-cola-from-cow-urine.html
SALMA HAYEK’S
CHARITY BREAST-FEED
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Salma_Hayek_breastfeeds_a_strangers_baby_in_Africa&in_article_id=531331&in_page_id=7
MAN WITH RIFLE
BUSTED ON HIS WAY TO OBAMA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/11/barack-obama-rifle-delivery
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
HEDGES: OUR GODS ARE IN
HOLLYWOOD MEMORIAL CEMETERY
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090209_what_price_hollywood/
Celebrity worship is dressed up in the language of the
Christian right, the frenzy around political messiahs
like Barack Obama or the devotional following of Oprah
by millions of women. If Jesus and “The Purpose Driven
Life” won’t make us a celebrity, then Tony Robbins or
reality television will. We are waiting for our cue to
walk on stage and be admired and envied. . .This cult of
distraction, as Rojek points out, masks the real
disintegration of culture. It conceals the
meaninglessness and emptiness of our own lives. It
deflects the moral questions arising from mounting
social injustice, growing inequalities, and costly
imperial wars as well as economic and political
corruption. Shamanism is not only the currency of
celebrity culture; it is the currency of totalitarian
culture. And as we sink into an economic and political
morass, we are controlled, manipulated and distracted by
the celluloid shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. The
fantasy of celebrity culture is not designed simply to
entertain. It is designed to keep us from fighting back,
even, apparently, in death.
THE HUMAN
TENDENCY TOWARD RELIGIOUS THINKING
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126941.700-born-believers-how-your-brain-creates-god.html?full=true
The fact that trauma is so often responsible for these
slips gives a clue as to why adults find it so difficult
to jettison their innate belief in gods, Atran says. The
problem is something he calls "the tragedy of
cognition". Humans can anticipate future events,
remember the past and conceive of how things could go
wrong - including their own death, which is hard to deal
with. "You've got to figure out a solution, otherwise
you're overwhelmed," Atran says. When natural brain
processes give us a get-out-of-jail card, we take it.
Your
Corporatocracy at work!
MADOFF TO GET
WRIST-SLAP?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/09/AR2009020903410.html
MADOFF’S WIFE TOOK
$15 MILLION
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/madoffs-wife-pulled-155-million-in-funds/
FBI PROBES 350 CORPORATE
FRAUD CASES
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1878785,00.html
MICHAEL MOORE:
WANTED---WALL STREET WHISTLEBLOWERS
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=245
You have information that the American people need to
hear. I am humbly asking you for a moment of courage, to
be a hero and help me expose the biggest swindle in
American history.
All-melty
dollar
KRUGMAN:
GEITHNER PLAN IS BAFFLING
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/the-rorschach-plan-wonkish-or-at-least-hard-to-read/
Other economists comment. . .
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=02&year=2009&base_name=tarp_2_son_of_tarp
A DISASTER IN THE MAKING
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/126354/geithner%27s_folly%3A_the_bank_rescue_plan_is_a_disaster_in_the_making/
The financial bailout plan unveiled by Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner yesterday reminded me of the
time my cousin Jethro Billy Rex Reed came over to my
house and offered to pay me $50 for the privilege of
scraping roadkill off my street. "Well gee," I said to
Jethro. "What are you going to do with all that roadkill?"
"I'm gonna sell it for eatin'," he said proudly. "The
market for grilled flattened squirrel is booming right
now!"
JEEZO HUCKABEE:
ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN IS ‘ANTI-RELIGIOUS’
I should hope so!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/huckabee-recovery-antireligion/
STIMULUS BILL WILL
STIMULATE NUKES
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/cut-the-nuclear-pork-from_b_165478.html
Some senators have stealthily stuffed $1 billion for
nuclear weapons into the recovery bill.
OBAMA TO SEND MORE TROOPS TO
HELL THIS WEEK
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-10-voa68.cfm
The Torture
Never Stops
EVIL JOHN YOO
TAKES REFUGE IN ORANGE COUNTY
The last refuge of scoundrels
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-yoo11-2009feb11,0,6388835.story
FIREJOHNYOO
http://www.firejohnyoo.org/
Musical Accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oalZi7egDIc
GITMO DETAINEE’S GENITALS
WERE SLICED WITH A SCALPEL
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/09/mohamed-torture-uk-us/
Israelity
DO THE
MATH: LOOKS LIKE NETANYAHU IS BACK IN POWER---
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304750774&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
---BUT EXIT
POLL FAVORS LIVNI
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/02/10/israeli-exit-polls-give-livni-the-edge/
Comment
MORFORD:
EAT
THE RICH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/11/notes021109.DTL
Empathy, however, can be a difficult thing to muster.
How many stories did I read in the NYT over the holidays
about, say, those poor multimillionaire socialites who
think nothing of strolling into the Hermes store and
dropping five grand on a handful of pretty scarves to
hand out as party favors, who then quietly asked the
sales clerk for an unmarked shopping bag so as not to
appear too out of place, too ugly an overspoiled diva
amongst the hoi polloi?
BAGAENT:
THE
COMMODITY OF DEPRESSION
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/126345/only_in_america_could_misery_be_turned_into_a_commodity/
My Garifuna buddy Eljay, was in what we would call a
depressed state a few months ago and went to a local
"spirit doctor." The wizened old spirit mojo man cured
Eljay with a single utterance: "Quit smokin' da ganja
for one month." It worked. Total cost: About $2.50 and a
pound of red beans.
RAIMUNDO:
THE
AUDACITY OF MENDACITY
Obama’s real foreign policy agenda
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14224
Mashed Media
DAILY BREEZE
BUILDING GOES BYE-BYE
http://web.mac.com/varley/5215/
MICHELLE ON
THE COVER OF VOGUE
http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2009_March_Michelle_Obama/
Animals in
the news!
NAVY DIVER FIGHTS OFF SHARK
WITH PUNCH IN THE NOSE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/4587639/Shark-attacks-navy-diver-in-Australia.html
(Lack of)
Health
PROSTATE CANCER
URINE TEST?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7878726.stm
CAN DRUMMING
REALLY IMPROVE HEALTH?
Ex-Clash drummer says yes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7872043.stm
Oh, by the
way. . .
CZECH
PUNISHMENT FOR MALE SEX OFFENDERS: CASTRATION
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1878462,00.html
A doctor makes an incision in a man's scrotal sack and,
deftly wielding his scalpel, quickly removes both
testicles. In the Czech Republic that simple operation
is the punishment for male sex offenders.
BERLUSCONI
CALLS UNPLUGGING OF 17-YEAR COMA VICTIM “KILLING”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/4581738/Silvio-Berlusconi-attacks-Italian-president-over-death-of-coma-woman.html
MAN WHO KILLED
PARENTS AS BOY EXPOSED BY REALITY TV SHOW
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/10/spain-television-parent-killer
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
VANESSA REDGRAVE AND
DAUGHTER REMAKING ‘DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS’
How the mighty have fallen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7883238.stm
Lost Angeles
LOPEZ: SMART-SPENDING SKID
ROW PROGRAM SAVES LIVES
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez11-2009feb11,0,4488515.column?track=rss
For Art’s
Sake
DOG DOO
SCULPTURE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/11/BAL315R806.DTL&tsp=1
SEX EDUCATION
FILMS:
THEY DON’T MAKE ‘EM LIKE THEY USED TO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/feb/11/sex-education-films
And in the
end. . .
NIPPLES
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=nipples&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
hit 'refresh' for updates
2/10/09
GUINEA PIG VS.
THE KREMLIN!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?How_the_Kremlin_caved_in_over_girls_guinea_pig&in_article_id=527551&in_page_id=2&in_a_source=
PHOTOS OF
THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0209/
Fashism
INDIAN MODELS DARE TO BARE!
The right-wing Hindus must be going nuts over this.
http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=97798
GIANT HORSE!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4580486/Giant-horse-as-high-as-Statue-of-Liberty-to-be-souths-answer-to-Angel-of-the-North.html
THE HASIDIC
JEWISH STREET PATROLS OF NYC
We are not making this stuff up
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/02/10/jewish-street-patrols-curb-crime-%e2%80%93-and-generate-controversy/
AND ON
TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
FREEDOM OF
WHAT? ASTOUNDING!
BRIT DIPLOMAT SPOUTS ANTI-ISRAEL RANT,
FACES SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/British_diplomat_arrested_after_fing_Jews_0210.html
Musical Accompaniment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1MHEJT6sjk
POPULAR RAGE
GROWS
AS GLOBAL CRISIS WORSENS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,606721,00.html
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER 10,000
JOBS LOST
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/11auto.html?_r=1&hp
ELDERLY FACE
EVICTION AS NURSING HOMES CLOSE
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/399219_evicted07.html
CITY OF L.A.
FACING ‘LAYOFFS LIKE WE’VE NEVER SEEN’---VILLARAIGOSA
Heckuva job, Tony!
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_11667833
ROBERTS: SHIP OF FOOLS
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21943.htm
The US economy is imploding, and Obama is being led by
his government of neconservatives and Israeli agents
into a quagmire in Afghanistan that will bring the US
into confrontation with Russia, and possibly China,
American’s largest creditor. The January payroll job
figures reveal that last month 20,000 Americans lost
their jobs every day. In addition, December’s job losses
were revised up by 53,000 jobs from 524,000 to 577,000.
The revision brings the two-month job loss to 1,175,000.
If this keeps up, Obama’s promised three million new
jobs will be wiped out by job losses.
Musical accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOhhmqAJwDY
THINK FANNIE AND FREDDIE WERE DISASTERS?
WAIT TILL PENSION FUNDS GO
http://reason.com/news/show/130843
LEAHY SEEKS
‘TRUTH COMMISSION’ ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION
http://uk.reuters.com/article/usPoliticsNews/idUKTRE5186JZ20090210
LINDORFF
ON THE
PROPOSED ‘TRUTH COMMISSION’
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/268
It would be a terrible idea if a Truth and
Reconciliation Commission was just another 9-11-type
body. That commission turned out to be worse than
nothing, given that it was manipulated by the Bush
administration to be toothless and that it ended up
covering up more than it uncovered. Aside from the
behind the scenes manipulation, the biggest problem with
the 9-11 commission, though, was that is was not linked
to any attempt to prosecute official wrong-doing.
Musical accompaniment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBpIfVt46Bk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGmOwAHAIJ0
Obama Nation
OBAMA BACKS
RENDITION CASE
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123422915277565975.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
OBAMA REVIEWS
BUSH BAN ON MILITARY COFFIN PHOTOS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_reviewing_Bush_ban_on_photos_0210.html
Terrorism
MORE
THREATS FROM HICK CRETIN LINDSAY GRAHAM
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/lindsey-graham-threatens-president-obam
IRAN PROPOSES TALKS WITH
U.S.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_ready_for_US_talks_with_mutual_02102009.html
People’s
Repugnic
REYNOLDS
ON
FIREWORKS, AND HOTEL FIRE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/
TAIWAN EX-FIRST LADY PLEADS
GUILTY TO MONEY-LAUNDERING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7880656.stm
COPS CLOSE IN ON AUSSIE
ARSONISTS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/10/australia-fires-arsonists
COHEN DONATES
TO AUSSIE FIRE VICTIMS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7881522.stm
Mashed Media
THE AMAZING RISE
OF RACHEL MADDOW
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/125923/rachel_maddow%27s_amazing_rise_from_geek_to_big-time_cable_news_host/
AXE TO FALL AT
LAT AGAIN---ON MONDAY
http://www.joescott3.com/index.php/js/permalink/times_cuts_increase/
Animals in
the news!
‘TARZAN’ TEACHES CHEETAHS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4576882/Self-styled-Tarzan-teaches-cheetahs-in-Namibia-how-to-hunt.html
FISHERMEN
RESCUE DOLPHINS OFF PHILLIPINES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7880375.stm
POOR ORPHANED SEAL
HAS HERRING PHOBIA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4581037/Seal-with-phobia-of-fish-astonishes-staff-at-sanctuary.html
(Lack of)
Health
A WOMAN AND
HER BUNIONS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/10/bunion-corrective-surgery
DEPRESSION,
STIGMA, AND FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4568941/Florence-Nightingale-might-never-have-succeeded-with-modern-stigma-against-mental-illness.html
Technically.
. .
HOW
GOOGLE MAPS CAN SAVE---AND DISRUPT---LIVES
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,606669,00.html
Obit
R.I.P. RICHARD
ANDERSON, AUTHOR OF ‘TEA AND SYMPATHY’
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/theater/10anderson.html?ref=obituaries
AND IN
MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Hey, Be-attle!
REMEMBERING THAT
NIGHT. . .45 YEARS AGO
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGRiNjQzNzU5M2VlMmRmMTc5NWJmNWQ1NzVmODQ4YWQ=
R
CAVERN CLUB
DOORMAN WHO HASSLED BEATLES DIES
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/the-beatles/the-beatles-news/2009/02/09/city-mourns-a-cavern-king-100252-22886587/
ANCIENT MUMMY WAREHOUSE
FOUND BENEATH EGYPT SANDS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090209-ml-egypt-AP.html
First peek at one of the
mummies!
For Art’s
Sake
BRITAIN
LOSES TURNER MASTERPIECE TO U.S.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/4581136/5.4million--Turner-masterpiece-lost-to-the-British-nation.html
CRITIC GETS
EXERCISED BY ‘STARRY STARRY NIGHT’
(It’s simple, really. It says, “Look at this!”)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/richarddorment/4568827/Van-Gogh-and-the-Colours-of-the-Night-review.html
But, after all that, I still have no idea whether Van
Gogh intended the picture to be read as a pantheistic
celebration of the natural world, an apocalyptic vision
of a universe in chaos, or a bitter reflection on the
indifference of nature to man and all his works. Not
only is there nothing else quite like it within Van
Gogh's own work, there is nothing else like it in art.
Film review
RAINER: PINK PANTHER 2
STINKS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0207/p25s05-almo.html
And in the
end. . .
COOL WHIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA7X_zZAudg
SLIDE SHOW: CHINESE NEW
YEAR IN SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/02/08/BA3V15PN9G.DTL&o=3
RUN, EAT, RUN, THROW UP
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/07/national/a122801S77.DTL
TWINS BEAT HANGING
Court couldn’t decide which to prosecute
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7876221.stm
PICS:
AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/feb/09/24-hours-in-pictures-gallery?picture=342985799
R.I.P. BLOSSOM DEARIE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/arts/music/09dear.html?ref=obituaries
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
ASTOUNDING: HEROIC PROTESTERS RAM JAPAN WHALING SHIP
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Protesters_ram_Japanese_whaling_ship_0206.html
WELLS FARGO BANK PREZ DEFENDS VEGAS PARTY!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/02/a-bank-defends.html
IS ARMY MISSING NERVE GAS?
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705283634,00.html
LINDORFF: THE NATION NEEDS
A FIGHTER, NOT A GLAD-HANDER
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/266
If the disaster of the so-called "stimulus" bill just
passed by the Senate doesn't convince President Obama
and his advisers that the strategy of "bipartisanship"
that he has been espousing is a political suicide,
nothing will. The Republican Party, with the willing
help of conservative Democrats like Sen. Ben Nelson
(D-NE) and Democratic turncoats like Sen. Joe Lieberman
(I-CT), has forced Obama to agree to a joke of a
stimulus package that is nearly half composed of tax
breaks which will do nothing to bolster the economy
(since most of the money will end up either paying down
credit card debt or buying Chinese and Sri Lankan
imports) and that is stripped of $40 billion to help
struggling state and local governments.
OBAMA BENDS OVER BACKWARDS FOR REPIGS---THEY DON’T CARE
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/09/gop-failure-to-compromise/
67 PERCENT BACK OBAMA, 58 PERCENT REJECT REPIGS
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114202/Obama-Upper-Hand-Stimulus-Fight.aspx
BOSTON GETS SANE,
BANS CIGARETTE SALES IN DRUG STORES
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/08/eveningnews/main4784060.shtml
Terrorists
LIMBAUGH LOWER NOW. . .HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020802344.html?hpid=topnews
Backed by Rush, the Repigs “just say no.” (Getting’
enough to eat, there, Rush boy?)
REPUGNICAN CHAIR: STIMULUS WON’T CREATE JOBS
Especially since the Repugs forced it into massive
compromise
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Steele_Government_construction_jobs_dont_count_0208.html
All-melty dollar
20,000 NISSAN JOBS. . .PFFFFFT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Nissan_to_slash_20000_jobs_0209.html
People’s Repugnic
A YANGTZE TOUR OF FAILING CHINA
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/malcolmmoore/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/china-economic-slowdown/
Jesus H. Christ!
ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS---KILL THOSE IRAQIS
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21921.htm
But once the WMDs failed to materialize, American
Christians did not seem to engage in any remorse or
regret over all the Iraqis who had been killed in the
invasion. It was all marked up as simply an honest
mistake. At the same time, hardly anyone called for a
formal investigation into whether the president and the
vice president had intentionally misled Americans into
supporting the war based on bogus exaggerations of the
WMD threat.
INTERVIEW:
HOLOCAUST-DENYING BISHOP
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,606323,00.html
’CHRISTIANS’ VS. ATHEISTS IN
LONDON BUS WARS
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1877658,00.html
Comment
RICH:
THE COMING TORRENT OF POPULIST OUTRAGE
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/125918/daschle%27s_demise_is_just_the_beginning%3A_get_ready_for_a_torrent_of_populist_outrage/
This is why “Slumdog Millionaire,” which pits a
hard-working young man in Mumbai against a corrupt nexus
of money and privilege, has become America’s movie of
the year. As Robert Reich, the former Clinton labor
secretary, wrote after Daschle’s fall, Americans “resent
people who appear to be living high off a system
dominated by insiders with the right connections.”
Enviro Wacko
BOYARSKY: YES ON L.A. SOLAR BALLOT MEASURE
http://www.laobserved.com/boyarsky/2009/02/post_10.ph
Goobernatorial
NEWSOM, BROWN---THE GENERATION GAP CANDIDATES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/09/MNCB15N9TO.DTL
In 1974, Jerry Brown was a 36-year-old governor-elect
and Gavin Newsom was a 6-year-old S.F. lad who once sat
on Brown's lap. As they run for governor in 2010, many
wonder how this huge age gap will play out.
Unprofessional sports
OSTLER ON A-ROID
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/09/SP8Q15PS9B.DTL
Because A-Rod is so big, his steroid apology will have
to be an apology on steroids. It will have to move
people. Rodriguez will have to deliver the Gettysburg
Address of steroid mea-culpa speeches.
Unreal Estate
DOWNTOWN L.A. CONDOS AUCTIONED OFF
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/02/weekend_curbedwire_unofficial_results_for_rowan_auction.php
Animals in the news!
DUBAI URGED TO RELEASE RARE WHALE SHARK FROM HOTEL TANK
Damn humans. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/09/shark-dubai
IDIOTS ARRESTED FOR BARBECUING IGUANA
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Pair_arrested_for_eating_Iguana_on_Facebook&in_article_id=526701&in_page_id=2
50 NEW SPECIES OF DINOSAUR DISCOVERED IN BRITAIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4570361/Dinosaur-hunter-unearths-nearly-50-new-species-in-Britains-own-Jurassic-Park.html
DOG GENE MAY HELP WOLF SURVIVAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7872826.stm
Science
A KISS IS JUST A HORMONE SURGE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/4558541/Kissing-feels-so-pleasurable-due-to-hormone-surge-find-scientists.html
Oh, by the way. . .
WATCH: NOCAL GRANDMA SPENDS
20 YEARS
HELPING CHILDREN OF NEPAL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/02/07/MN7P15HD60.DTL&o=1
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
NEANDERTHAL MUSIC
No, no, not rap
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7874415.stm
Obit
SOUND SCULPTOR MAX NEUHAUS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/arts/music/09neuhaus.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
THE LOST ARK OF CHOCOLATE. . .
It’s the rare criollo bean
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877398,00.html
S. AFRICA’S TOP SHARK-SPOTTER
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0209/p07s04-woaf.html
Patrick Davids left behind a life plagued by alcoholism
and drug addiction to keep swimmers and surfers safe
along one of the world's most perilous coastlines.
Books
NEW W.R. HEARST BIO
Correctly touts his populist newspaper concept
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090206/REVIEW/509314316/1093/ART
Whyte also takes Hearst’s populism seriously: “Hearst
hammered away frenetically, day after day, week after
week, at privately held trusts in ice, water, gas,
sugar, rubber, coal and railways. As an activist and
community servant, Hearst was operating with a vigour,
scope and conviction unprecedented in American
newspapers.” Whyte disputes the notion that Hearst was a
careless businessman – he used family money to finance
his purchase of the Journal, but he eventually made
money. Even so, Hearst was “far more interested in
making a great paper than in turning a profit.”
Musique
ORFF DESPISED NAZI AESTHETICS, DID WELL IN THE THIRD
REICH
http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/carl-orff-beyond-nazi-musi
Orff may have despised the Nazis for their lack of
aesthetic sensibility (!), as his biographer puts it,
but he kept his opinions to himself and prospered under
the Third Reich. He was no ideologue, merely an
opportunist, biding his time until the death of Hans
Pfitzner and Richard Strauss would make him the first
composer of the Third Reich. Orff hoped, in vain as it
turned out, that the Hitler Youth movement would adopt
his Schulwerk and he accepted a commission to write
music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream to replace that of
the banned Mendelssohn--a compromised political record,
in short.
GREAT COMPOSERS, LOUSY REVIEWS
http://www.slate.com/id/2210339/pagenum/all
Those mal mots were gathered by conductor, theorist, and
scholar Nicholas Slonimsky in his classic Lexicon of
Musical Invective. First published in 1953, the book is
still in print. The author himself had caught his share
of slings and arrows as a young conductor who was
determined to promote what the time called
"ultra-modern" music. Now Slonimsky is remembered for
premiering important pieces by Edgard Varese and Charles
Ives, among others.
For Art’s Sake
SLIDE SHOW: VAN GOGH AND
THE COLORS OF THE NIGHT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/4569249/Van-Gogh-and-the-Colours-of-the-Night.html
BREASTS IN ART
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/02/art_female_breasts_in_art.html
And in the end. . .
CHINESE MOUNTAIN CAT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Mountain_Cat
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/photogalleries/cat-pictures/
WAVE GOODBYE TO THE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/feb/06/1?picture=342872114
LOONEY, PROMISCUOUS GAY TEACHER ALLOWED TO KEEP JOB
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4537228/Gay-teacher-who-boasted-of-promiscuous-lifestyle-told-Keep-teaching.html
LAST KNOWN SURVIVOR OF SF ’06 QUAKE DIES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/05/BAFC15OG9R.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
CRAZY “LONELY” OCTUPLET MOM HAD SIX EMBRYOS IMPLANTED
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1877434,00.html
WORLD’S SMALLEST CAR
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?World%92s_smallest_car_unveiled&in_article_id=522125&in_page_id=34
R.I.P. JAMES WHITMORE
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-james-whitmore7-2009feb07,0,1015401.story
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT:
INTERVIEW:
AMERICAN HERO
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/5/utah_student_who_thwarted_auction_of
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has canceled a
controversial last-minute Bush administration attempt to
auction off nearly 150,000 acres of wilderness in
southern Utah.Amy Goodman speaks to university student
Tim DeChristopher, who was able to delay the sale by
posing as a bidder and buying up thousands of acres.
DEAL REACHED ON STIMULUS BILL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/congress_stimulus
Israelity
ISRAEL TO OBAMA: DO OUR BIDDING, OR ELSE
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-BarackObama/idUSTRE51538A20090206
LIKUD STRONGMAN ‘BIBI’ NETANYAHU
POISED TO RETURN TO POWER
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,605985,00.html
KRUGMAN: HOW CAN THERE BE BIPARTISANSHIP---
WHEN REPUGS TAKE ORDERS STRAIGHT FROM LIMBAUGH?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/06/krugman-gop-senators-limbaugh/
WALL STREET CEOs CHARGED HOOKERS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Wall_Street_CEOs_investment_bankers_charged_0206.html
BOXER STICKS IT TO ASSHOLE LINDSAY GRAHAM
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/boxer-graham-theres-no-business-show-
OBAMA ON THE ATTACK
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/obama-if-youre-driving-toward-cliff-
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/05/obama-takes-aim-at-his-stimulus-opponents-youre-headed-for-a-cliff/
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_delivers_fiery_speech_to_Democrats_0205.html
Names economic panel
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/07web-econ.html
Mashed Media
GREAT NEWS: MURDOCH LOSES $6 BILLION---
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/News_Corp_cuts_jobs_after_huge_quar_02052009.html
---AND SUPPOSEDLY BACKS OFF EFFORT TO BUY NYT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003939158
Terrorism
600,000 JOBS GONE IN ONE MONTH---
REPUGS ASK, WHAT’S THE HURRY TO FIX THINGS?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/06/gop-senators-no-recovery-rush/
BECK SAYS AL GORE IS CREATING ‘HITLER YOUTH’
Put this stupid bastard in Gitmo
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/al-gore-creating-another-hitler-yout
OLBERMANN TO CHENEY: LEAVE THE COUNTRY
He could go work for Israel---wait a second, he
already does. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Olbermann_Its_time_for_Cheney_to_0205.html
Auto Motive
ONCE-MIGHTY TOYOTA’S LOSSES MOUNT
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSSP15334720090206
TOYOTA LOSSES TRIPLING!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/worldbusiness/07toyota.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Comment
CHOPRA:
MILITARY RESPONSES TO TERROR ATTACKS WILL ALWAYS FAIL
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/125563/why_military_responses_to_terror_attacks_are_always_doomed_to_fail/
No matter how just our cause, we are seen as aggressors,
and may just as likely suffer the death of a thousand
cuts, just like Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, the
British Empire and the Soviet Union. Without
establishing a foundation of legitimacy, and hope, or
any semblance of the rule of law, a purely military
strategy will likely be defeated in the end.
RAIMUNDO:
ENDGAME? AFGHANISTAN IS WAR WITHOUT END
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14201
It's the same old game, only with different players.
Instead of Iraq, it's going to be Afghanistan and
Pakistan. But, one has to ask – why? What's the
rationale, this time? The liberation of Afghan women?
That'll get the feminists. The myth of bin Laden's
presence? That'll convince the more credulous. Good old
fashioned do-gooder-ism will get the Hollywood liberals,
who will jump at the chance to get all patriotic. The
Republicans will support it, while urging a more
aggressive war policy – and the Keynesians will love it,
because, after all, any kind of government spending is
good, it doesn't matter if you build roads, pyramids, or
empires. It's all good.
LINDORFF:
GLOOMY OUTLOOK FROM BUSINESS EXPERTS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/265
What the country really needs at this point is straight
talk and creative new ideas—not returns to policies of
the ‘90s, ‘80s, ‘70s or perhaps even the ‘30s.Obama
needs to hear from experts who know that the economy of
the United States is not going to rebound to anything
like where it was in the last few years, and that
drastic new programs and approaches are needed if the US
is not to continue a slow slide into third world status.
And the American public needs to hear the same honest
news.
People’s Repugnic
LAST HOUSE STANDING
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?One_homeowner_defies_%A3300m_development&in_article_id=524173&in_page_id=64
CHINA’S INSANE ETIQUETTE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/
Spaced Out
40,000 OTHER PLANETS HOST LIFE---SCIENTISTS
(Try 400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
. .for starters.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/4521885/40000-planets-could-be-home-to-aliens.html
ARE WE BRINGING OUR GERMS TO MARS?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1877434,00.html
Technically. . .
MORFORD ON TECHNOLOGY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/06/notes020609.DTL
It is reported that the Buddha once delivered a sermon
to his devoted monks that consisted entirely of the Holy
One sitting in complete silence, holding up a flower. It
is said that only one monk in the crowd got the message,
and smiled. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Obit
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD DRUMMER DEWEY MARTIN
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dewey-martin6-2009feb06,0,7781666.story
Lost Angeles
THE MURDER MYSTERY MANSION OF LOS ANGELES
House has sat untouched, unchanged since murders too
place there in 1959
by Bob Pool
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mansion6-2009feb06,0,5292279.story
Where ya goin’?
A FAMILY VACATION IN. . .VIETNAM?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0205/p18s01-litr.html
SCIENTISTS RESEARCH THE REAL ROBINSON CRUSOE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,605963,00.html
Hey, Be-attle!
MCCARTNEY/COLBERT OUTTAKE
Pretty funny. . .
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/128maccacolbert.html
Film
WHAT WAS TARKOVSKY’S “STALKER” ABOUT?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/06/andrei-tarkovsky-stalker-russia-gulags-chernobyl
And in the end. . .
OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES
http://www.oldjewstellingjokes.com/
MAN KILLS 40,000 RATS, WINS TV
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4523074/Bangladesh-man-kills-40000-rats-in-one-year.html
VALIANT EFFORT TO SAVE POSSUM SHOT IN HEAD
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/takes_a_village_to_save_a.php
‘OSAMA BIN LADEN’ BIDS FOR AUSSIE ISLAND
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/feb/05/osama-bin-laden-australia-tropical-island-job
SLIDE SHOW: ZOO ANIMALS STRUGGLE IN UK SNOWSTORMS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/feb/05/zoology-conservation?picture=342816562
HUDSON RIVER PLANE CRASH AUDIO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7872621.stm
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT. . .
MUST WATCH: LEWIS BLACK ON CONGRESS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lewis_Black_GOP_Rep._could_own_0205.html
TRANSPORT SHIPS TURNED
INTO FLOATING PARKING GARAGES
Full of cars that no one is buying
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/transport-ships-as-parking-lots.php
TOYOTA IDLES ALL ASSEMBLY LINES
BUT ONE
http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/05/news/international/toyota_assembly/
LINDORFF: OBAMA’S BETRAYAL
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/264
Just two weeks after his historic inauguration ceremony,
Obama’s presidency is lurching towards failure, and not
because three of his administration picks have been
found to be tax cheats, but because nearly all of his
administration picks are corporate whores and shills.
EVIL CRETIN BECK PLAYS THE ‘OBAMA IS A COMMIE’ CARD
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-obama-has-us-road-not-just-soci
OBAMA CANCELS BUSH’S ENERGY RAPE OF UTAH
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-oil-leases5-2009feb05,0,2746939.story
OBAMA KEEPS RELIGION IN GOV’T
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_to_create_faithbased_office_0205.html
The new Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood
Partnerships is expected to advise the new president on
domestic and foreign policy issues and to forge links
with faith-based organizations overseas.
ROVE AGAIN SAYS HE WON’T COMPLY WITH WHITE HOUSE
SUBPOENAS
Put him in Gitmo
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_says_he_wont_comply_with_0205.html
All-melty dollar
NAMES ON THE MADOFF LIST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/05/madoff-client-list
BANK OF ENGLAND INTEREST RATES LOWEST IN 300 YEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/interestrates/4523940/Bank-of-England-cuts-interest-rates-by-0.5-per-cent.html
Comment
ROBERTS:
THE WAR ON TERROR IS A HOAX
It always has been. . .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21906.htm
If America were infected with terrorists, we would not
need the government to tell us. We would know it from
events. As there are no events, the US government
substitutes warnings in order to keep alive the fear
that causes the public to accept pointless wars, the
infringement of civil liberty, national ID cards, and
inconveniences and harassments when they fly. . . The US
and Israel have set a very bad example for al Qaeda to
follow. The US deals with al Qaeda and Taliban by
assassinating their leaders, and Israel deals with Hamas
by assassinating its leaders. It is reasonable to assume
that al Qaeda would deal with the instigators and
leaders of America’s wars in the Middle East in the same
way.
HIGHTOWER:
WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT HELL-BENT ON
REWARDING GREED, NARCISSISM, INCOMPETENCE?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/125203/why_is_the_government_hell-bent_on_rewarding_greed%2C_incompetence_and_narcissism/
Rescue the system, yes. But not those who wrecked it.
Wall Street's culture of excess should not be rewarded,
and any bailout should begin by insisting that all of
those who did this to America be fired.
THE CO-PRESIDENT AT WORK
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22060
But for much of the second term of the Bush-Cheney
administration, we have been pretending. The man who
held decisive authority in the White House during the
Bush years has so far remained unaccountable for the
aggrandizement and abuse of executive power; for the
imposition of repressive laws whose contents were barely
known by the legislature that passed them; for the
instigation of domestic spying without disclosure or
oversight; for the dissemination of false evidence to
take the country into war; for the design and conduct of
what the constitutional framers would have called an
imperium in imperio, a government within the government.
PALIN BLASTS WILDLIFE DEFENDERS
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/04/sarah-palin-blasts-defenders-of-wildlife-for-new-anti-palin-campaign/
Enviro Wacko
NO STORMS, NO BIG WAVES IN CALIF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/04/MNA9150K66.DTL
Mashed Media
HOW TO SAVE YOUR NEWSPAPER
This guy thinks that charging to read newspapers
on-line will solve the problem. . .More stupid
crackpot-ism.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html
DUMBASS LAT REDESIGNS WEBSITE AGAIN
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/02/whats_coming_to_the_times.php
(Lack of) Health
ONE WOMAN’S BREAST HORROR TALE
http://www.alternet.org/sex/125164/women_have_boobs_--_get_over_it/
It wasn’t just the boys. A campaign of complete lechery
from one of my teachers distressed me sufficiently for
me to bunk off lessons. He stared at my tits in class,
made lewd comments about me in front of everybody and,
when I lost weight as a result of being so anxious and
upset, chided me because he "liked his women with
curves." When I finally plucked up the courage to
complain to my (female) head of year I was simply told:
"Don’t worry dear, I’m sure he didn’t mean it."
Related:
Woman speaks out against implants
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Stevies_WAG_Alex_warns_against_boob_jobs&in_article_id=521529&in_page_id=7
Obit
WARREN KIMBRO
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/nyregion/05kimbro.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
Musique
INTERVIEW: THE BULLSHIT
ARTIST WHO WILL RUIN L.A.’S ‘RING CYCLE’
http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5121&issueID=330
Freyer interprets the characters in the Ring as "quasi"
persons, or split personalities. They do not exist in a
single way. Some of the costumes, therefore, are mere
façades, and the singers can come out from behind them.
"Wotan can come out, and I can show, ‘I play this
person, Wotan, and I am a singer.’ The singer can come
out from the costume, the illusion is broken, and a new
idea is coming: ‘Ah, that’s the sense of Wotan that
comes out and tells us this.’ Or Wotan has a shadow, and
the shadow does a different thing than Wotan tells. Or
he has a double, a mirror of Wotan, and the mirror
remembers the past and goes back."
Lost Angeles
THIS IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO NICE, UNPRETENTIOUS WEST
L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS
Where working class families once raised kids in
two-bedroom, one-bath houses. . .
http://listings.listhub.net/pages/SOCALMLS/F1786805/?channel=zillow
SEX, DRUGS, AND CHOCOLATE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4371594/Sex-Drugs-and-Chocolate-the-Science-of-Pleasure-by-Paul-Martin---review.html
TeeVee
MATT SMITH CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT DR. WHO
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Matt_Smith:_I_cant_stop_thinking_about_The_Doctor&in_article_id=521514&in_page_id=7
And in the end. . .
GIANT SNAKE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2009/feb/05/colombia-snake-fossils
2/4/09
DAILY CONCERT
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyaTIXdN5fI
STREETS OF LONDON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA3alipmyH4
KEW GARDENS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkQvGKuKlM
FIELDS OF ST. ETIENNE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2UX7_kpNHg
Y DERYN PUR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIVEIP6I8PY
EARTH SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOf8T5PDOhM
THE SPARROW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNEHb6_sdG4
ONE FINE DAY (MADAME BUTTERFLY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7kNFmlxfqM
GOODBYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhEtYdZ3Wo
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VrrDfQ_nAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maOtX4tXyb4
LAID OFF? GO WORK IN INDIA
Offshore yourself!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/IBM_invites_laidoff_U.S._employees_to_0203.html
THIS IS YOUR PILOT SLURRING
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/this-is-your-pilot-slurring-garbled-message-from-cockpit-sparks-passenger-rebellion-1544993.html
GERMANY’S ELEPHANTS ENJOY CHRISTMAS TREE DINNERS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,605502,00.html
WORLD’S YOUNGEST TRANSSEXUAL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/4511986/Worlds-youngest-sex-change-operation.html
WORLD'S SMALLEST GIANT
http://www.houseofdeception.com/pages/Midget%20Wrestler%20Fuzzy%20Cupid.html
MAN KILLED BY MOBILE PHONE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4452360/Exploding-mobile-phone-kills-man-in-China.html
AND ON TO NEWS AND COMMENT:
THE TEN-YEAR-OLD DIVORCEE OF PARIS
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1876652,00.html
Lost Angeles
SILVERLAKE IN GRIPS OF GANG CRIME
Single males targeted by punks
http://la.curbed.com/
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/02/silver_lake_isnt_alone.php
GOOGLE SOFTWARE: TRACK YOUR FRIENDS!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Google_offers_software_to_track_people_0204.html
CALIF. SCHOOLS ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/03/BACC15MHFJ.DTL&tsp=1
All-melty dollar
‘STIMULUS’ NEARS A TRILLION BUCKS
Uhh. . .where is this money coming from?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/politics/04stimulus.html?_r=1&ref=politics
The Senate pushed the cost of the economic recovery
package above $900 billion yesterday with amendments
that added “billions for medical research and tax breaks
for car buyers.” At the same time, the Senate rejected
an amendment “that would have added $25 billion in
public works projects to to the recovery bill, including
highway construction, public transportation and water
and sewer projects.”
JEWISH GROUPS MOBILIZE FOR STIMULUS PACKAGE
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/03/1002720/jewish-groups-mobilize-for-stimulus-package
“Jewish values and Jewish interests are deeply bound up
with the policy selections of what will be funded,” said
Rabbi David Saperstein, the Religious Action Center's
director and counsel. “These are issues of core
concern.”
$500,000 CAP ON EXEC PAY IN BAILOUTS?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/business/04pay.html?_r=1&hp
PANASONIC CUTS 15,000 JOBS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/technology/companies/05panasonic.html?hp
JEWISH FOUNDATIONS LOST AT LEAST $2.3 BILLION IN MADOFF
SCANDAL
http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2009/01/29/1002636/jewish-foundations-lost-at-least-23-billion-with-madoff
Shapiro Foundation will make no new grants this year
http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2009/02/02/1002696/shapiro-foundation-hit-hard-by-madoff-will-make-no-new-grants-in-2009
Bush Leagues
BUSH LOYALISTS OUT TO SABOTAGE OBAMA
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Maddow_Obama_being_undermined_by_Bush_0203.html
related:
CHENEY WARNS OF NEW TERROR ATTACKS
Well, he should know, seeing as he deliberately
allowed the last one
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/04/cheney-high-probability-attack/
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18390.html
MAN CALLS ROVE ‘TRAITOR’ AT COLLEGE SPEECH
That's a start
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_11622992?source=rss
U.S. THREATENS BRITS OVER ‘TORTURE EVIDENCE’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majornews/4513620/US-accused-of-threatening-Britain-over-terrorism-torture-evidence.html
The US Government has threatened to halt intelligence
co-operation with Britain in a row over the alleged
torture of a 'terrorism' detainee at Guantanamo Bay
being made public.
Iraq and Roll
IRAQI SUICIDE BOMBER RECRUITMENT TOOL: RAPE
What a fine country we are spending $3.5 trillion on!
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25006615-663,00.html
Obama Nation
LET’S TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS. . .OBAMA ‘SCREWED UP’---
BECAUSE DASCHLE DIDN’T PAY HIS TAXES
http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/president-obama-i-screwed
THE MEA CULPA MARATHON
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/02/04/obamas-mea-culpa-marathon/
Jesus H. Christ!
’HOLOCAUST BISHOP’ TOLD TO RECANT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7869995.stm
Comment
HEDGES: IT’S NOT GOING TO
BE OKAY
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/125192/it%27s_not_going_to_be_ok/
The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn
our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street
protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France,
Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a
matter of time.
REYNOLDS:
THE SEMI-ATTACKED POLITICANS’ CLUB
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/2009/02/the_semiattacked_politicians_c.html
PARRY:
FIRST, JAIL ALL OF BUSH’S LAWYERS
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2009/020409Parry.shtml
The logic of targeting former Justice Department lawyers
– the likes of John Yoo and Jay Bybee – is that they
were the linchpin for justifying acts that were clearly
illegal; they provided the paper cover for both the
interrogators in the field and the senior officials back
in Washington.
Animals in the news!
ASHLEY JUDD SLAMS PALIN FOR WOLF SLAUGHTER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Judd_goes_after_Palin_over_aerial_0203.html
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BE LIKE WITHOUT VULTURES?
http://www.slate.com/id/2209166/pagenum/all
A mysterious die-off of Asian white-backed vultures has
led to a pileup of domestic animal carcasses and an
increase in the population of rodents and feral dogs. It
turned out that an anti-inflammatory drug—diclofenac—used
on sick livestock kills vultures even in low doses.
Though the Indian government is phasing out the
veterinary use of the drug, the vulture population
hasn't rebounded.
(Lack of) Health
LEPROSY DRUG HOLDS PROMISE FOR MS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130182928.htm
Technically. . .
COMPUTER HAS POWER OF TWO MILLION LAPTOPS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/technology/4451095/US-supercomputer-will-have-power-of-two-million-laptops.html
Obit
MILLARD FULLER
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/04fuller.html?ref=obituaries
Oh, by the way. . .
MANY GERMAN SCHOOLS STILL NAMED AFTER NAZIS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,605223,00.html
AND IN MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
MAD MATHEMATICIAN ANALYZES THE BEATLES
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123325321424929493-lMyQjAxMDI5MzAzNDIwNTQzWj.html
Mr. Brown's latest project is figuring out which Beatle
wrote "In My Life." Both Messrs. Lennon and McCartney
claim to have written the majority of the tune.
To settle the dispute, Mr. Brown is feeding hundreds of
Beatles songs with known authorship into a computer
program. In academia, his specialty is graph theory,
which examines networks of points--called "nodes"--and
arrows connecting them--known as "edges." In this
problem, each chord in the Beatles canon is a node, and
edges connect chords played in succession. With a few
dozen songs entered, the graphs are taking shape: Mr.
Lennon's looks like a demented flower, with loops
everywhere, representing his trademark repeated chords,
while Mr. McCartney's is more freeform. When Mr. Brown
is finished, he'll plug "In My Life" into his program
and see which graph fits it better.
Musique
(RARE)
INTERVIEW: MARY
HOPKIN
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m2d3-EXCLUSIVE-A-few-very-precious-memories-with-singer-Mary-Hopkin-Those-Were-the-Days
J.K. ROWLING APOLOGIZES TO FRANCE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Rowling_sorry_for_Voldemorts_name&in_article_id=519409&in_page_id=34
GEORGE CARLIN’S LONG GOODBYE
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1876907,00.html
Lost Angeles
CLIFTON’S: WHERE L.A. FINDS ITSELF
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-cliftons4-2009feb04,0,6044348.story
Auto-Motive
CITROEN RELAUNCHES CLASSIC DESIGN
Car that looked like a ladybug returns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/4448440/Citroen-to-relaunch-iconic-DS.html
Books
EDWARD CARPENTER, 18TH CENTURY FATHER OF THE 21ST
CENTURY
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5604123.ece
For Art’s Sake
HASIGUCHI
http://www.internetweekly.org/2009/02/art_hashiguchi_goyo.html
Where ya goin’?
GREAT TRAVEL PICS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/thebigpicture/4512919/The-Big-Picture-photography-competition-round-36.html
REALLY STUPID ON-LINE GAME
http://howoldareyou.net/
And in the end. . .
ALL THUMBS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4448874/Boy-born-with-24-fingers-and-toes.html
MILLIONS GET CHANCE TO LICK
CATE BLANCHETT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7867661.stm
‘RED BULL’ KILLS COLLEGE KID
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4437065/Red-Bull-may-have-triggered-heart-condition-that-killed-student.html
LISTEN: CHRISTIAN BALE HAS A GOOD TIME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4446413/Christian-Bale-goes-ballistic-on-set-of-Terminator-Salvation-movie.html
SPRINGSTEEN PLAGIARIZED KISS?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4445791/Bruce-Springsteen-in-plagiarism-row.html
ASTOUNDING: HUMAN FLYING SQUIRRELS
http://vimeo.com/1778399
AND ON TO NEWS
AND COMMENT. . .
MILITARY TURNS AGAINST OBAMA
Doesn’t want him to spoil its fun in Iraq
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/02/generals-seek-to-reverse_n_163070.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21884.htm
Petraeus, Gates and Odierno had hoped to sell Obama on a
plan that they formulated in the final months of the
Bush administration that aimed at getting around a key
provision of the U.S.-Iraqi withdrawal agreement signed
envisioned re-categorising large numbers of combat
troops as support troops. That subterfuge was by the
United States last November while ostensibly allowing
Obama to deliver on his campaign promise.
LINDORFF:
GENERALS' REVOLT THREATENS OBAMA PRESIDENCY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/263
If Commander in Chief Obama allows this insubordination
and political opposition to exist among his senior
generals, his presidency is toast. He will be a prisoner
to a militarist policy in Iraq and Afghanistan that will
drag down his presidency in the same way that Lyndon
Johnson’s presidency was destroyed by the generals
running the Vietnam War. Furthermore, just as
Republicans in Congress saw Clinton’s weakness in his
dealings with the Joint Chiefs and began dogging his
every more, they, and Obama’s opponents among the Blue
Dog Democrats in Congress, will see weakness and move
against him.
U.S. GIFT TO IRAQ: 1 MILLION
KILLED, 4.5 MILLION DISPLACED,
2 MILLION WIDOWS, 5 MILLION ORPHANS
Mission accomplished, Mr. Bush!
http://uruknet.info/?p=m51459&hd=&size=1&l=e
Iraq arrests recruiter of female
suicide bombers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/03/iraq-suicide-bomb-recruiter-suspect
CHALMERS JOHNSON:
USA IS COMPLETELY
BROKE,
YET CONTINUES TO FUND FANTASY WARS
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/124881/america_is_completely_broke%2C_and_here_we_are_funding_fantasy_wars_at_the_pentagon/
Given our economic crisis, the estimated trillion
dollars we spend each year on the military and its
weaponry is simply unsustainable. Even if present fiscal
constraints no longer existed, we would still have
misspent too much of our tax revenues on too few, overly
expensive, overly complex weapons systems that leave us
ill-prepared to defend the country in a real military
emergency. We face a double crisis at the Pentagon: we
can no longer afford the pretense of being the Earth's
sole superpower, and we cannot afford to perpetuate a
system in which the military-industrial complex makes
its fortune off inferior, poorly designed weapons.
DASCHLE WITHDRAWS, TAKES PINK TIE WITH HIM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_go_pr_wh/daschle_taxes
OBAMA NOMINATES GREGG FOR COMMERCE
Despite the fact that he once supported abolishing
the department
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/03/judd-gregg-commerce/
OBAMA TAPS GREAT TAMMY
DUCKWORTH FOR V.A. JOB
http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-03-2009/0004965387&EDATE=
HILLARY CALLS FOR
(YAWN) PALESTINIAN STATE
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Clinton_calls_for_independent_Pales_02032009.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA THUGS SNARL, RAGE OVER
SHOE-THROWING
Too bad it didn’t break Wen Jiabao’s nose
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7866636.stm
CALIFORNIA IS BROKE
Start planting veggies by the curb, folks. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html
Post-shrub
DOZENS OF SECRET BUSH MEMOS REVEALED
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Dozens_of_secret_Bush_terror_memos_0203.html
Among the memos' titles: "Criminal Charges against U.S.
terrorists"; "Options for Interpreting the Geneva
Convention" and "Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to
military operations abroad or in U.S."
ROVE WILL COOPERATE WITH DOJ
PROBES---ATTY.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/attorney-rove-will-cooperate-doj-prob
All-melty
dollar
MACY’S CUTS 1400 JOBS IN SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/03/MNCS15LO1E.DTL&type=business&tsp=1
The Torture
Never Stops
HOLLYWOOD CASH COW: TORTURE
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/124739/torture_chic%3A_why_is_the_media_glorifying_inhumane%2C_sadistic_behavior/
Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA PREPARING
LONG-RANGE MISSILE TEST?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7866705.stm
SUU KYI TELLS U.N.: STAY AWAY UNTIL
PRISONERS ARE RELEASED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7864250.stm
Enviro Wacko
ANOTHER TEN INCHES OF SNOW FOR
BRITAIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/4448275/Snow-Britain-Another-10-inches-of-snow-to-hit-by-Thursday.html
SNOW ON ABBEY ROAD!
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/203abbeyroadsnow.html
IS PUNXUTAWNEY PHIL RESPONDING TO GLOBAL
WARMING?
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/02/is-punxsutawney-phil-responding-to-global-warming/
Animals in
the news
BRIT SNOW THREATENS
GARDEN BIRDS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/feb/03/birdwatching-snow-weather
SICKEST IN SHOW: WORST GENETIC
FLAWS IN PUREBRED DOGS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/03/petscol020309.DTL&type=pets
(Lack of)
Health
HYBRID EMBRYOS ARE ‘NO USE TO SCIENCE’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4446595/Controversial-hybrid-embryos-are-no-use-to-science-new-research-suggests.html
OSTEOPOROSIS HORROR STORY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/03/osteoporosis-health-back-pain
World gone
mad
HINDU EXTREMISTS VS.
VALENTINE’S DAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/4447238/Hindu-extremists-will-attack-Valentines-Day-couples.html
Obit
SAXOPHONIST HANK CRAWFORD
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/arts/music/03crawford.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
CATS AMONG THE RUINS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0203/p17s01-hfes.html
INTERVIEW: TREASURE HUNTER WHO FOUND BRIT WARSHIP
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,605306,00.html
Musique
MENDELSSOHN:
GREAT, OR MERELY ‘GIFTED?’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4437553/Was-Mendelssohn-great-or-merely-gifted.html
Hey, Be-attle!
INTERVIEW:
HENRY GROSSMAN ON RARE BEATLES PHOTOS
Closest you’ll get to watching “Pepper” in the making
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m1d23-Unseen-Beatles-photos-have-a-melody-of-their-own
REMEMBERING BUDDY HOLLY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2009/feb/02/buddy-holly-50?picture=342675472
Where
ya goin’?
TOP TEN UK HOSTELS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/03/best-hostels-uk-budget-accomodation
And in the
end. . .
BISCUITS
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=BISCUITS&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/02/punxsutawney-phil-winter-pennsylvania-snow
SUPER PORN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Super_Bowl_interrupted_by_porn_in_0202.html
PALIN LIES TO REPUGS TO GET
OUT OF WEEKEND RETREAT
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/02/palin-lied-house-gop/
JOIN NOW! THE BUSH-CHENEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
We are not making this stuff up
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/02/bush-alumni-website/
WOMAN LEAVES HER MARK
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Tattoos_%91carved_on_lover_while_asleep%92&in_article_id=513759&in_page_id=34
NO CELEB MIXING FOR OBAMA
DAUGHTERS
Mom gets something right. . .letting them watch “High
School Musical 3” was pretty awful. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/michelle-obama/4412686/Michelle-Obama-bans-daughters-Malia-and-Sasha-from-mixing-with-celebrities.html
GRANDPARENTS’ AGONY AT LOSING CHILDREN TO A
GAY COUPLE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4427191/Grandparents-anguish-at-losing-gay-couple-adoption-children.html
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0201/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/4436244/Pictures-of-the-day-2-February-2009.html
AND ON TO NEWS
AND COMMENT. . .
BRAVO! PROTESTER THROWS SHOE
AT CHINA PREMIER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Protestor_throws_shoe_at_Wen_in_0202.html
OBAMA PRESERVES KIDNAPPING---
ER, ‘EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_preserves_rendition_in__0201.html
MASSIVE CHINA QUAKE WAS
MANMADE---SCIENTISTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4434400/Chinese-earthquake-may-have-been-man-made-say-scientists.html
All-melty
dollar
400 RICHEST ASSHOLES’ INCOME
DOUBLED UNDER BUSH
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ar5uxG_wV87A&refer=us
$4.9 TRILLION FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ
Economic meltdown is hardly all Wall Street’s doing.
. .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rep._Frank_Iraq_will_be_largest_0201.html
"And I don't understand why, from some of my
conservative friends, building a road, building a
school, helping somebody get health care, that's
wasteful spending, but that war in Iraq, which is going
to cost us over $1 trillion before we're through--yes, I
wish we hadn't have done that. We'd have been in a lot
better shape fiscally."
$50 BILLION FOR NUKE REACTORS SLIPPED INTO
‘STIMULUS’ BILL
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/t/4100/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=993
LINDORFF:
FOLLOW THE
MONEY---WAS THE CREDIT CRISIS OVERBLOWN?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/262
Meanwhile, the financial system did not collapse and
while a few banks were failing, there were no runs on
them, and martial law wasn’t invoked. One reason things
didn’t fall apart when Congress didn’t immediately act
as Paulson and Bernanke demanded, may be that there
wasn’t any danger of a meltdown in the first place.
OBAMA STANDS BY TOM "PINK TIE"
DASCHLE
And now he has cute little red glasses, too!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_absolutely_standing_by_Daschle_0202.html
DASCHLE’S DOPEY LETTER OF
APOLOGY OVER TAX ‘MISTAKES’
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/former-senator.html
Little Joe
gotta go
LITTLE JOEY LIEBERMAN
JOKES ABOUT WATERBOARDING
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/01/lieberman-alfalfa-dinner/
Comment
BRONNER:
THE BULLETS IN MY
IN-BOX
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/weekinreview/25bronner.html?scp=1&sq=THE%20BULLETS%20IN%20MY%20IN-BOX&st=cse
Those for whom Israel is the victim and never the
aggressor likewise saw in this war a reaffirmation of
their beliefs — that Hamas, an Islamist terror group,
hides its fighters behind women and children; that
Israel’s army was an exemplar of restraint and respect,
holding its fire when civilians were in sight, allowing
tons of humanitarian aid in even while at war (what
other army would be so decent?).
KRUGMAN:
BAILOUTS FOR BUNGLERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/opinion/02krugman.html
Question: what happens if you lose vast amounts of other
people’s money? Answer: you get a big gift from the
federal government — but the president says some very
harsh things about you before forking over the cash.
RICH:
HERBERT HOOVER
LIVES
Repugs are terrified of fiendish Limbaugh
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01rich.html?scp=2&sq=FRANK%20RICH&st=cse
Most pathetic of all was Phil Gingrey, a right-wing
Republican congressman from Georgia, who mildly
criticized both Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Politico
because they “stand back and throw bricks” while
lawmakers labor in the trenches. So many called
Gingrey’s office to complain that the poor congressman
begged Limbaugh to bring him on air to publicly recant
on Wednesday. As Gingrey abjectly apologized to talk
radio’s commandant for his “stupid comments” and
“foot-in-mouth disease,” he sounded like the inmate in a
B-prison-movie cowering before the warden after a failed
jailbreak.
Enviro Wacko
BIGGEST SNOW IN BRITAIN IN 20
YEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/4433925/Snow-Britain-Heavy-snow-forecast-for-rest-of-week.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Anger_as_snow_catches_UK_unprepared&in_article_id=515379&in_page_id=34
HERE COMES. . .GOOGLE OCEAN!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/01/google-earth-oceans-project
Iraq and
Roll
TWO WOMEN RUN FOR OFFICE IN IRAQ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/31/iraq-women-election
JAPAN TESTS POND SCUM FOR JET
BIOFUEL
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/02/01/greener-travel-japan-tests-pond-scum-as-jet-biofuel/
People’s
Repugnic
26 MILLION JOBLESS DESERT CHINA
CITIES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/02/china-unemployment-unrest
Animals in
the news!
JAPANESE WHALERS WAR WITH
ACTIVISTS IN ARCTIC
Why don’t they just stop eating the goddamn whales?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/01/international/i224441S04.DTL&tsp=1
WHALERS USING MILITARY GRADE
CONCUSSION GRENADES---ACTIVISTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/4431565/Japanese-whalers-accused-of-military-grade-weapons-againt-protesters.html
POOR ‘DANCING BEARS’
RESCUED
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Dancing_bears_are_rescued&in_article_id=513755&in_page_id=34
TIGERS ‘TOOK THE SILK ROAD’ TO RUSSIA
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126163011.htm
Spaced Out
METHANE RAIN FORMS LAKE ON
SATURN MOON
Now there's a headline you thought you'd never see. .
.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090130-titan-methane-rain.html
Mashed Media
THE STUPOR BOWL ADS, REVIEWED
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/02/MN0T15LDLS.DTL
AND IN MORE
IMPORTANT MATTERS. . .
BEATLES’ FORMER APPLE HQ IS UP FOR SALE
Buy it, Paul
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4427191/Grandparents-anguish-at-losing-gay-couple-adoption-children.html
LLight
Reading
HERE IT IS, FOLKS---THE KEY TO
HAPPINESS
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/124193/the_key_to_happiness_that_no_one_--_not_even_the_happiness_gurus_--_are_discussing/
THE CANNIBALISTIC MEDICINE OF
EUROPE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,604548,00.html
ost Angeles
ANGELS’ FLIGHT HAS BEEN
CLOSED FOR EIGHT YEARS NOW
http://ladowntownnews.com/articles/2009/02/02/news/02-02-09-news01.txt
DOWNTOWN ‘BOOM’ (FOR THE RICH,
ANYHOW) IS STALLED
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/01/la_mag_on_downtown_lower_your_expectations.php?
PRE-FAB VENICE HOME LISTED FOR $2.7 MILLION
The Rip Post remembers when Venice was full of heroin
addicts. . .it was nicer then.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/01/marmol_radziner_prefab_venice_home_can_be_yours.php
Obits
COMPOSER LUKAS FOSS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/arts/music/02foss.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
“I would agree that my curiosity has led me absolutely
everywhere,” he told The New York Times in 1979. “But I
make one qualification: I’ve never done anything at the
O.K. time. In other words, I’ve never been a bandwagon
jumper. I’ve never belonged to any school. I’ve never
written a 12-tone piece when it was fashionable to do
so.”
BOXER INGEMAR JOHANSSON
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/sports/othersports/01johansson.html?ref=obituaries
Books
‘THE LITTLE BIT SCARY PEOPLE’
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/01/28/the-little-bit-scary-people/
And in the
end. . .
JAPAN SEWERS ARE PAVED WITH GOLD
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/4429197/Japans-sewers-paved-with-gold.html
GIANT SHOE SCULPTURE UNVEILED
IN IRAQ
Wonderful tribute to the former presiturd
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/29/iraq.shoe.monument/index.html
JAPAN MEN SHOUT: “I LOVE YOU!”
Sounds like a big Yoko Ono stunt
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4395748/Japanese-men-find-new-ways-to-say-I-love-you.html
PHOTO GALLERY: WILDLIFE OF
THE WEEK
tremendous photos. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/jan/30/week-in-wildlife?picture=342567500
And on to news
and comment. . .
OBAMA SECURITY IS ‘POROUS,’
‘ABSURD’
He’d better do something about this, but quick. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012903894_pf.html
LOW-COST LEDs MAY SLASH ELECTRIC BILLS
WITHIN FIVE YEARS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129090218.htm
OBAMA BLASTS ‘SHAMEFUL’ WALL
STREET BONUSES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_blasts_big_Wall_Street_bonuses_0129.html
Meanwhile, Rudy The Creep Defends Wall
Street Bonuses, Denounces Tax Cuts for Poor
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/30/giuliani-wall-street-welfare/
BUSH LAWYER TOLD ROVE TO IGNORE SUBPOENA,
KEEP DOCUMENTS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Days_before_leaving_office_Bush_lawyer_0130.html
BUSH AIDES OKAYED TORTURE OF
U.S. CITIZENS---PADILLA LAWYER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_officials_authorized_torture_of_US_0130.html
RAIMUNDO:
WANT ‘STIMULUS?’
CUT AMERICAN EMPIRE
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14163
You want a "stimulus"? Forget all those condoms and
start cutting back the Pentagon. We could cut our
military budget by 30 percent without even feeling it,
although I would suggest a 50 percent reduction – to
start.
Israelity
HAMAS MURDERS ISRAEL COLLABORATORS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/hamas-reprisal-attacks
ISRAEL EMBARGO MEANS GAZA
UNABLE TO REBUILD
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0130/1232923375577.html
FOR FIRST TIME, US PROFS CALL FOR BOYCOTT OF
ISRAEL
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059775.html
All-melty
dollar
THE TEN MOST EVIL CORPORATIONS OF
2008
http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-5322-the-10-worst-corporations-of-2008.html
Mashed Media
INCREDIBLE: LAT KILLS
‘CALIFORNIA’ (LOCAL) SECTION
The plus side: paper will reportedly play up local
news in section one for the first time in 60 or 70
years.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003936526
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/01/los_angeles_times_kills.php
(Lack of)
Health
STEM CELL TRANSPLANTS HELP MS SUFFERERS
http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKTRE50S7KZ20090130
STEM CELLS POISED FOR
BREAKTHROUGH
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1874717,00.html
Enviro Wacko
THE SECONDARY
RAINFORESTS OF LATIN AMERICA
Abandoned farmlands reverting to jungle
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/30/america/forest.1-419181.php
Here, and in other tropical countries around the world,
small holdings like Ortega de Wing's - and much larger
swaths of farmland - are reverting back to nature, as
people abandon their land and move to the cities in
search of better livings.
MASSIVE HEAT WAVE CRIPPLES SOUTH AUSTRALIA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7860776.stm
People’s
Repugnic
WATCH: JUNG CHANG
ON WHY CHINA BANS HER BOOKS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2009/jan/30/liberty-central-jung-chang-freedom-of-expression
LIMPING ICELAND TO BE FAST-TRACKED
INTO THE EU
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/iceland-join-eu
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST
FRANCE ECONOMIC POLICY
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/29/europe/france.4-418938.php
Insane
Commentary of the Week
WHAT EXACTLY IS WRONG
WITH FEMINISM?
HERE’S A FINE EXAMPLE
”Political lesbianism”. . .Geeez
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/30/women-gayrights
Women are told we must love our oppressors, while, as
feminists, we fight to end the power afforded them as a
birthright. Come on sisters, you know it makes sense.
Stop pretending you think lesbianism is an exclusive
members' club, and join the ranks. I promise that you
will not regret it.
And in more
important matters. . .
OBAMA WHITE HOUSE: SUBSTANCE OVER
SARTORIAL STYLE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
“I’ll never forget going to work on a Saturday morning,
getting called down to the Oval Office because there was
something he was mad about,” said Dan Bartlett, who was
counselor to Mr. Bush. “I had on khakis and a
buttoned-down shirt, and I had to stand by the door and
get chewed out for about 15 minutes. He wouldn’t even
let me cross the threshold.”
Auto-Motive
FASTEST ELECTRIC CAR IN THE
WORLD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/4396891/Fastest-electric-car-in-the-world-unveiled.html
Rip Post note: A car expert friend advises, “Everyone is
very skeptical of the 10 minute battery charge claim and
the Shelby folks have since admitted a few day ago they
may have overstated the estimate. The revised charge
rate is now 30 minutes. This is still a spectacular time
that no one in the battery world have been able to
claim. Therefore, we can't take it seriously that Shelby
suddenly came up with new batteries we never heard of
before. We'll get the truth when the real car is
tested.”
Animals in
the news!
MEET THE BENJAMIN BUTTON OF THE DEEP
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090130-immortal-jellyfish-swarm.html
DOLPHINS ARE THE CHEFS OF
THE SEA!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4395454/Dolphins-prepare-food-like-chefs-before-eating.html
REMEMBERING THE
GREAT BILL HICKS
The Rip Post interviewed this guy once. . .He was the
genuine article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jan/30/sachsgate-standup-bill-hicks
For Art’s
Sake
VIGOROUS BIDDING ON OLD MASTERS
SHOWS HUGE CHANGE IN ART MARKET
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/30/arts/melik31.1-418622.php
Light
Reading
NEWSPAPERS HAVE BEEN DYING
FOR A LONG TIME
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/01/26/090126crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all
Hey, Be-attle!
40 GODDAMN YEARS AGO! THE BEATLES’
FINAL PERFORMANCE
Photo gallery
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1874628_1836662,00.html
MCCARTNEY TO PLAY COACHELLA VALLEY FEST
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/01/paul-mccartney.html
WATCH: MCCARTNEY’S FUNNY TURN
ON ‘COLBERT REPORT’
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m1d29-See-Paul-McCartney-on-The-Colbert-Report-video
NO, JULIAN AND SEAN LENNON ARE NOT
PERFORMING TOGETHER
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/130juliansean.html
And in the
end. . .
THE HUMAN ELECTRIC GUITAR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4387410/Man-imitates-guitar-sound-using-just-voice.html
GIMME BACK THOSE IMPLANTS!
http://www.sfchron.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/29/state/n061650S89.DTL&tsp=1
CONDI TO TWIST MINDS AT
STANFORD
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11576089?source=most_emailed
ROVER CLONED IN S. KOREA
Probably for dinner. . .
http://www.sfchron.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/29/international/i082221S70.DTL&tsp=1
UK IS FINGERPRINTING
SIX-YEAR-OLDS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/29/eu-idcards
BART SIMPSON FOR
SCIENTOLOGY?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4382672/Bart-Simpson-voice-used-to-promote-Scientology.html
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2009/0128/
And on to news
and comment:
The Torture
Never Stops
CREEP JOHN YOO BLASTS OBAMA FOR
BANNING TORTURE
Throw this jackass in Gitmo and electro-shock his
gonads---no, he might like that
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/yoo-obama-torture/
CIA ALGERIA CHIEF INVESTIGATED FOR
RAPE OF MUSLIM WOMEN
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/cia-station-chief-algeria-investigate
THE ELEVEN DEMOCRATS WHO
VOTED AGAINST OBAMA
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/11-dems-voted-no/
OBAMA’S FIRST LEGISLATION:
FAIR PAY RESTORATION ACT
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/
Israelity
THE WRECKAGE OF ISRAEL’S
OBSCENE GAZA ATTACK
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1874539,00.html?iid=tsmodule
Alwadeya's ice cream plant, which had been owned by his
family for 55 years, was far from the only factory
destroyed in Israel's 22-day assault on the Palestinian
enclave. All along Gaza's factory row — which produced
everything from biscuits to cement to wooden furniture —
hardly a single building remains standing.
ROVE WILL IGNORE ANOTHER SUBPOENA
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/rove-announces-he-has-no-intention-o
REPUG LA. MAYOR INDICTED
FOR KATRINA FRAUD
http://www.sunherald.com/pageone/story/1101092.html
The Other
War
NATO ON AFGHAN OPIUM DEALERS:
JUST SHOOT ‘EM
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,604183,00.html
All-melty
dollar
4.8 MILLION OUT OF WORK
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Jobless_numbers_reach_record_high_4.8_0129.html
STARBUCKS CLOSING 300
OUTLETS, LAYING OFF 7,000
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2009/01/starbucks_closing_hundreds_of.html?hpid=topnews
FORD REPORTS RECORD LOSS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7858289.stm
BOEING CUTS 10,000 JOBS
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jan2009/db20090128_740915.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_top+story
KODAK CUTS 4,500 JOBS
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874761,00.html
Comment
HOSKINS:
THE JON STEWART
DEPRESSION SOLUTION
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/14429
Jon Stewart’s Daily Show on Comedy Central may not be
the first place to look for economic wisdom but last
night he laid out a plan to rescue the economy that
makes as much sense as any I have heard yet. The plan is
genius in its simplicity.
LINDORFF:
THE ECONOMY ISN’T
COMING BACK, FOLKS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/261
With honesty, we could also confront the other big
obstacle to national recovery—the nation’s obsession
with militarism and foreign wars. The honest truth is
that the US is technically bankrupt and in a state of
chronic decline, and yet the nation persists in spending
a trillion dollars a year on war and preparations for
war, as though America were in mortal danger from
foreign enemies.
ROBERTS:
SPEAKING THE TRUTH
IN AMERICA IS A CAREER-ENDING EVENT
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2009/012909Roberts.shtml
When US military officers saw that torture was a policy
coming down from the top, they knew that doing the right
thing would cost them their careers.
SHOULD OBAMA
HAVE MENTIONED LIMBAUGH?
http://www.sfchron.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/28/MNEU15IVR0.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
KLEIN:
OBAMA’S
START---SUBSTANCE OVER SHOWBIZ
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1874632,00.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
THE VIRTUE OF GODLESSNESS
The least religious nations are the most healthy,
successful
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=gqchf08syrq7qfcxqfzjh9d949ndm2k2
GERMAN JEWS CUT CONTACT WITH CATHOLIC CHURCH
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,604360,00.html
Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Central Council of Jews
in Germany, said on Thursday that she was severing
contact with the Catholic Church. Her move stems from
the pope's decision to void the excommunication of
Holocaust denier Bishop Richard Williamson.
Mashed Media
WASHPOST KILLS STAND-ALONE BOOK
SECTION
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/washington-post-to-end-book-world-as-stand-alone-section/?scp=1&sq=Washington%20Post%20Book%%2020Section&st=cse
SINGLETON TO STAFFERS: TAKE SOME TIME OFF
WITHOUT PAY
http://www.sfchron.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/29/BAPC15JEIE.DTL&tsp=1
World gone
mad
INDONESIA’S WAR ON YOGA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1874651,00.html
Good news
JAPAN EXECUTES FOUR CONVICTED KILLERS
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/japan.executions.killers/
Animals in
the news!
THE EIGHT BEST ANIMAL TOOL USERS
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/animaltools.html
Spaced out
MARS METHANE---FLATULENT
MICROBES OR DECAYING MINERALS?
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/01/28/vote-for-the-hubble-space-telescopes-next-target-no-write-ins-please/
And in more
important matters. . .
VOTE FOR THE HUBBLE’S NEXT
TARGET
Yes, you can point the big telescope yourself,
America. . .
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/01/28/vote-for-the-hubble-space-telescopes-next-target-no-write-ins-please/
Musique
R.I.P. JOHN MARTYN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/29/john-martyn-dies
REMEMBERING JOHN MARTYN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jan/29/john-martyn-remembered
R.I.P. L.A. PHIL TRUMPETER IRVING BUSH
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-irving-bush29-2009jan29,0,4392137.story
Film
THE STRANGE CASE OF GRAN TORINO
This is easily best picture of the year, folks. . .
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1874052,00.html
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH TAKES OVER
ALISTAIR COOKE’S SLOT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4381871/David-Attenborough-takes-up-Alistair-Cookes-radio-slot.html
Hey, Be-attle!
SONGS THE
BEATLES SANG---THAT YOU’LL NEVER HEAR
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m1d28-Those-lost-Beatles-songs-well-probably-never-hear
And in the
end. . .
DRUMMER IN TROUBLE OVER OBAMA WINK
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Drummer_in_trouble_over_Obama_wink&in_article_id=508641&in_page_id=34
SLIDE SHOW: THE NORSE
FIRE
FESTIVAL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2009/jan/28/festivals-scotland?picture=342434630
BEST FUNERAL SONG!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4352276/Monty-Python-classic-tops-list-of-best-funeral-songs.html
BLIND MAN FINDS NORTH POLE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/south-pole-race/4365730/Blind-explorer-reaches-South-Pole.html
LOONEYS TURN HOME INTO A ZOO
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4372132/Couple-create-zoo-in-their-home.html
"We are both bitten on a regular basis and are both
covered in scars.”
IDIOT DRIVES WRONG-WAY ON SANTA MONICA FREEWAY, KILLS
TWO
http://www.ktla.com/landing_topstories/?Wrong-Way-Driver-Triggers-Deadly-Freeway=1&blockID=197702&feedID=1198
MORFORD MISSED
INAUGURATION: “I WAS IN INDIA”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/01/28/notes012809.DTL
And on to news and comment:
BOMBSHELL: NSA TRACKED 9/11 HIJACKERS
Kept up with their communications with bin-Laden. .
.did nothing to stop them
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/PBS_NSA_tracked_911_hijackers_but_0127.html
Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer told PBS, "None of
this information that we're speaking about this
evening's in the 9/11 Commission report. They simply
ignored all of it."
Israelity
THE MOURNING AFTER
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,604065,00.html
With the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza
Strip, the scope of the destruction and human tragedy
has become clear.
WATCH: GAZA---A FAMILY’S
DEVASTATION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/28/gaza-al-athanma-israel
Eye for an Eye? It’s an eye for a family or two, as far
as Israel is concerned.
DID ISRAEL KILL CHILDREN CARRYING WHITE FLAGS?
http://www.miamiherald.com/578/story/875504.html
‘YOU CAN’T TALK ABOUT THE REALITY OF ISRAEL’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21856.htm
CONTROVERSIAL BEST-SELLER SHAKES FOUNDATION OF ISRAELI
STATE
http://www.alternet.org/audits/122810/controversial_bestseller_shakes_the_foundation_of_the_israeli_state/
What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades
under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact
descended from the very same "children of Israel"
described in the Old Testament?
HERE THEY ARE, FOLKS:
THE MEN WHO MADE MILLIONS OFF THE BANK BAILOUT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/gallery/2009/jan/28/recession-executivesalaries?picture=342424897
Hangin’s too good fer ‘em!
DOWD:
OBAMA SHOULD CAN WALL-STREET JET-SETTERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/opinion/28dowd.html?em
Now that we’re nationalizing, couldn’t we fire any
obtuse bankers and auto executives who cling to perks
and bonuses even as the economy is following John Thain
down his antique commode?
CORPORATIONS USE BAILOUT MONEY TO ORGANIZE AGAINST
EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/bail-out-money-being-used-corporations-
OBAMA CUTS BIRTH CONTROL
FUNDING FROM ‘STIMULUS’ PACKAGE
Under pressure from Repignicans
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Birth_control_funding_stripped_from_stimulus_0128.html
“How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on
contraceptives?” House Minority Leader John A. Boehner
(R-OH) remarked last week. “How does that stimulate the
economy?” (I’ll tell you how, anus-head---fewer unwanted
babies from single teen mothers.)
Comment
LINDORFF:
AFGHANISTAN IS NO THREAT TO THE U.S.
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/260
The Vietnam War destroyed the presidencies of Richard
Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. The Iraq War destroyed the
presidency of George Bush. Obama, if he orders an
expansion of the war in Afghanistan, and thus takes
ownership of that conflict, will be well on the way to
destroying his own presidency.
GOODMAN:
TOO BIG TO FAIL, TOO BIG TO JAIL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/28/EDI215I99P.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
Millions have served time in federal prisons for crimes
that fall far short of those attributed to the Bush
administration. Some criminals, it seems, are like banks
judged too big to fail: too big to jail, too powerful to
prosecute. What if we apply Obama's legal theory to the
small guys? Why look back? Crimes, large or small, can
be forgiven, in the spirit of unity.
ECONOMIC CRISIS ISN’T ALL BAD. . .
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/123157/the_economic_crisis_isn%27t_all_bad%3B_it%27s_a_chance_for_us_and_obama_to_reimagine_how_we_live_our_lives/
The issue is not the death of capitalism but what kind
of capitalism -- standing in which relationship to
culture, to democracy and to life? President Obama's
Rubinite economic team seems designed to reassure rather
than innovate, its members set to fix what they broke.
But even if they succeed, will they do more than merely
restore capitalism to the status quo ante, resurrecting
all the defects that led to the current debacle?
GLOBAL JOB LOSS COULD HIT 51 MILLION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7855661.stm
BRITAIN HEADED FOR BIGGER ECONOMIC FALL THAN U.S.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4373134/Britains-recession-will-be-deepest-IMF-warns.html
Mashed Media
SMILEY VS. BRIAN WILSON
The problem isn't Wilson---Smiley talks too much
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/01/brian_wilson_v_tavis_smil.php
HUH? A NEWSPAPER WAR?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003935121
(Lack of) Health
WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH WORSENING
Too much Oprah
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/28/women-mental-health-deteriorating
Animals in the news!
GOT MILK? CALL COWS BY NAME
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/28/animalwelfare-newcastleuniversity
Obit
UPDIKE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28updike.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
Oh, by the way. . .
WILL GERMANY FINALLY REHABILITATE NAZI-ERA ‘TRAITORS?’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,604076,00.html
Soldiers found guilty of treason by Nazi Germany's
military courts have not yet been rehabilitated, even
though their "crimes" were often defending Jews or
criticizing Hitler.
And in more important matters. . .
THE VARYING NIPPLES OF PLAYBOY CENTERFOLDS
http://www.nplusonemag.com/playboy-hugh-hefner-story
Pubic hair diminishes as the nineties draw to a close.
Neat triangles turn to Band Aid-sized strips, which
become little Hitler mustaches or nothing at all. The
modern crotch is a bit prim, a bit less forthright.
JEWISH COMICS MAKING IT BIG. . .IN FRANCE?
http://www.forward.com/articles/14942/
For Art’s Sake
BBC TO PUT NATION’S OIL PAINTINGS ON-LINE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/28/bbc-digitalmedia
Books
SELF-PUBLICATION IS KILLING. . .PUBLICATION
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28selfpub.html?emc=eta1
The point may soon come when there are more people who
want to write books than there are people who want to
read them.
Musique
SIR PAUL ON COLBERT REPORT TONIGHT
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/128maccacolbert.html
MCCARTNEY’S “ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS” ZIPS UP THE CHARTS
Imagine what he could do with a whole good album,
instead of about one-third, as this thing is
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m1d27-Beatle-news-briefs
L.A. OPERA CUTS BACK
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/01/la-opera-announ.html
REMEMBERING OPERA’S PATRICIA BROOKS
http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5086&issueID=329
Until illness brought a premature end to her career,
Patricia Brooks was one of the wonders of the New York
City Opera roster.
Ligh rrreadin’
ROBERT BURNS: STILL THE VOICE OF SCOTLAND
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/hardeep-singh-kohli-burns-speaks-for-a-scotland-that-forges-its-own-future-1515173.html
And in the end. . .
PHEW! THANK GOD! MADONNA HAS LOTS OF BOYFRIENDS
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Mr_Ritchie_glad_Madonna_has_lots_of_boyfriends&in_article_id=508210&in_page_id=7
Obama inauguration: Words of history ... crafted by
27-year-old in Starbucks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/barack-obama-inauguration-us-speech
1/15/2009
Daily Concert
DANGER MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2iZB1NyR0
SECRET AGENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXGAif4dKhs
THE PRISONER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om8Xwa3MhaU
THE PRISONER---REJECTED FIRST THEME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7pNArQBN_c
THE PRISONER---REJECTED SECOND THEME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EFugZqvhMU
MCGOOHAN AT THE DRUMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNYHulJfUr0
RECESSIONAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZXM2eq46_s
Be Seeing You:
I WILL NOT BE PUSHED. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29JewlGsYxs
“Controversy, arguments, fights,
discussions, anger---
That was the intention of the exercise.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ4psHOzo-0
FOREVER MORE THAN NUMBER SIX
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/death-of-star-who-will-forever-be-more-than-number-six-1366704.html
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2009/01/patrick-mcgoohan-19282009.html
MCGOOHAN BROUGHT COMPLEX TV TO THE
U.S.
(But where did it go?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/14/AR2009011403535.html?hpid=entnews
LLOYD: MCGOOHAN WAS NUMBER ONE
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-mcgoohan15-2009jan15,0,1156759.story
VIDEO ESSAY
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2009/01/patrick_mcgoohan_escapes_19282.html
‘THE PRISONER’ AND THE
QUESTION OF IDENTITY
http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/cultn/cultn013.pdf
McGoohan
Speaks
RARE MCGOOHAN INTERVIEW
http://www.cultv.co.uk/mcgoohan.htm
WATCH:
MCGOOHAN SPEAKS ABOUT ‘THE PRISONER’
In his back yard in Pacific Palisades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_DRXAf0iGI
and on Brit TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8-cp2yb43c&feature=related
WATCH:
THE PRISONER PUZZLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gPztzkNMQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ4psHOzo-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp4A4Q_4bUo
‘PRIVATE UNIVERSE WHERE EVERYTHING WAS AT
FULL BOIL’
http://stevenhartsite.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/patrick-mcgoohan/
INTERVIEW: WHEN MCGOOHAN FOUGHT,
HE REALLY FOUGHT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5w4so8IPBY
HERE COMES ‘THE PRISONER’
AMC REMAKE
http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2009/01/jim_caviezel_and_ian_mckellen.html
http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/943/943196p1.html
Timing didn’t work out for
McGoohan to make cameo in new series
http://www.ifmagazine.com/new.asp?article=7388
“We asked McGoohan to play a cameo,” says Hopkins. “He loved it and
loved the casting, but he wasn’t able to travel and take part of it.”
RIP RENSE’S MCGOOHAN TRIBUTE
Chapter 69 from his novel, “The Oaks,” entitled “Be Seeing You.”
http://riprense.com/beseeingyou.htm
GOODBYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TfdA9fWb_g
And in far less important matters. . .
newslinks from The
Barney Bugle:
1/8/2009
newslinks from The Barney Bugle:
12-23 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
XMAS GREETINGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20RqQ_KQ9o
BEATLES 4TH XMAS MESSAGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CAggVKOW4
DING DONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r61noMrx3qw
WONDERFUL XMASTIME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWuKimtUEas
XMASTIME IS HERE AGAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrKzK5mfH0
(deep breath)
HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jw-ifqwkM
skylines:
‘BUSH SHOE’ CREATES 100 NEW JOBS IN TURKEY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/22/turkey-george-bush-shoe
Christmas
joy!
WORLD’S LARGEST CHRISTMAS GOAT!
http://www.merjuligavle.se/Bocken/Bockenkamera1/
http://www.merjuligavle.se/English/VISIT-GAVLE/THE-CHRISTMAS-GOAT/
BRITS’ XMAS FAVE: UKELELES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/23/iraq-world-news
XMAS GREETINGS FROM DICK
CHENEY
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/12/cartoon_dick_cheneys_official_christmas_card.html
BEST XMAS IS A
SIMPLE ONE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1223/p17s01-lign.html
CHINA ‘UNITY’ PANDAS ARRIVE AT TAPEI ZOO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/dec/23/china?picture=341044618
DUBAI SEX-ON-BEACH ‘SUSPECT’
REARRESTED
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3904004/Dubai-sex-on-beach-man-re-arrested.html
DOES JACKO NEED A LUNG
TRANSPLANT?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7796855.stm
NUT HOUSE CLOSES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/23/BAQN14SVRT.DTL
And on to news
and comment. . .
ROVE’S I.T. GURU WARNED OF
SABOTAGE
BEFORE FATAL PLANE CRASH
Interview: Mark Crispin Miller
http://www.alternet.org/election08/114674/rove%27s_it_guru_warned_of_sabotage_before_fatal_plane_crash%3B_was_set_to_testify/
Velvet Revolution, a non-profit investigating Connell's activities,
revealed this weekend that Connell had recently said he was afraid
George Bush and Dick Cheney would "throw [him] under the bus." Cliff
Arnebeck had also previously alerted Attorney General Michael Mukasey to
alleged threats from Karl Rove to Connell if he refused to "take the
fall."
WHAT OBAMA DOESN’T KNOW
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-12-17/columns/what-obama-doesn-t-know/
No presidential transition team in recent history has ranged as widely
as Barack Obama's in its attempt to find out what minefields he may be
walking into. For example, The Washington Post notes, 10 teams of 135
explorers, wearing yellow badges, have descended on dozens of Bush
administration offices and agencies to look into their programs,
policies, and records.
Obama will be sworn in on
Lincoln Bible
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16813.html
Arrest in beating of Obama
supporter
http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=9479629&nav=menu50_1_12_15
All-melty
Dollar
WHERE’D THE BAILOUT MONEY GO?
SHHHH! WE CAN’T TELL YOU!
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/13656
BANK OF SPAIN CHIEF:
WORLD FACES TOTAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21518.htm
meanwhile:
QUEEN CONDI ‘SHOWERED IN JEWELS’ BY ARABS---
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rice_showered_in_jewelery_by_Arab_1222.html
---AND CONGRESS GETS A RAISE!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21508.htm
Your
Corporatocracy at work!
IRS AUDITS OF BIG CORPORATIONS
FALL FOR 3RD STRAIGHT YEAR
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122998243309727745.html
Sex crazy
POPE URGES DEFENSE OF
HETEROSEXUALITY
Says humanity needs saving from
homosexuals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/23/pope-gender-sexuality
LESBIAN GANG-RAPED IN SF
http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/sf1223-8.html
CARROLL:
YES WE CAN---OBJECT
TO RICK WARREN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/23/DDHR14RE7L.DTL
If Rick Warren had been a preacher who suggested that blacks not be
allowed to intermarry with whites, or not allowed to vote, or not
allowed to own property, he would not even be in the running for
invocation giver. But somehow discrimination against gays is different.
All the
shoes that’s fit to print
JUDGE: NO PROBE OF TORTURE OF
SHOE-THROWER
”This is what happens in a democratic society.”---G.W. Bush.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Judge_No_probe_into_torture_of_1222.html
Iraq and
Roll
IRAQ HAS $22 BILLION SURPLUS
Mission accomplished, Mr. Prez!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/23/iraq-world-news
Enviro Wacko
CLEAN COAL IN YOUR
STOCKING? NO CHANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnXsJAsCpkg
(Lack of)
Health
OBAMA: WORLD’S FITTEST LEADER
Maybe he and Putin should arm-wrestle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3917954/Barack-Obama-shirtless-Best-of-the-world-leaders.html
LONELY? YOU’RE GETTING OLD
FASTER
http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/12/22/loneliness/index.html
New science says being lonely speeds aging. Old philosophy says the
holiday blues are a signal to examine and change your life.
Animals in
the news!
MALAYSIA WANTS TO DOUBLE ITS TIGER
POPULATION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7795944.stm
HOWLS OF PROTEST GREET WOLF
RE-INTRODUCTION IN MEXICO
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/22/howls-of-protest-greet-mexican-wolf-reintroduction/
THE DISTURBING SEX LIFE OF THE
DEEP-SEA SQUID
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,598222,00.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
MAN SEES WITHOUT SEEING
“Blindsight” guides him around obstacles
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3902864/Blind-man-navigates-obstacle-course-using-blindsight.html
WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER GO ON A
FERRIS WHEEL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7797715.stm
And in more
important matters. . .
THE MAN WHO
INVENTED CHRISTMAS
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/12/23/the-man-who-invented-christmas/
Christmas was “a relatively minor affair that ranked far below Easter,
causing little more stir than Memorial Day or St. George’s Day does
today.” For many Christians of the period, Christmas had uncomfortably
pagan associations and they preferred to keep it low-key. Certainly,
Standiford points out, “There were no Christmas cards in 1843 England,
no Christmas trees … no Christmas turkeys … no weeklong cessation of
business affairs, no orgy of gift-giving … no plethora of midnight
services celebrating the birth of a savior.”
Musique
THE GREATEST
CONCERT EVER
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003924267
MAHLER 2ND SPECIALIST IS A FRAUD---N.Y. PHIL
PLAYERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/arts/music/18kapl.html?_r=1
“My colleagues and I gave what we could to this rudderless performance
but the evening proved to be nothing more than a simplistic reading of a
very wonderful piece of music,” he wrote. Mr. Kaplan acknowledged in
rehearsal that he was incapable of keeping a steady beat, Mr. Finlayson
added. Despite being a self-professed expert on the piece, Mr. Kaplan
ignored Mahler’s “blizzard” of directions, Mr. Finlayson wrote. He
called Mr. Kaplan’s music career a “woefully sad farce” built on the
complicity of orchestra managements and a willingness to donate money.
“We can rely only on ourselves to stand firm against any attempts to
promote this imposter,” Mr. Finlayson added.
QUEEN MUM SANG ‘60’S POP HIT AFTER
DINNER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/3917530/Queen-Mother-sang-Scaffold-hit-to-Queen-after-dinner.html
And here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjnkmNyArNg
Books
PATTON WAS
ASSASSINATED---NEW BOOK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3869117/General-George-S.-Patton-was-assassinated-to-silence-his-criticism-of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book.html
Hey, Be-attle
EXAMINER ADDS BEATLES COLUMNIST?
Steve Marinucci’s regular---that’s regular---Beatles column in
LAExaminer.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2008m12d23-Beatle-News-Briefs-122308
INTERVIEW:
THE FOOL
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/simonposthuma.html
Film
TOP TEN WORST XMAS MOVIES!
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1868368_1868214,00.html
And in the
end. . .
MR. BEAN WAKES UP XMAS MORNING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnXsJAsCpkg
12-19 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
FRIEDA, MY CLAM-DIGGER SWEETHEART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEM8gsvVUww
SEA CRUISE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtzVrVGNLyM
FISH HEADS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No
THE OCEAN IS THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD1RSRxfgIU
BEYOND THE SEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEIDep_UMmk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v7kN9UXzlE
FISHY FISHY FISH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK0cUv3ba-o
LA MER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYj1-3QrrY
WHO HID THE HALIBUT ON THE POOP DECK?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRV03zQkBas
SAVE THE WHALES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndaXQeRPO0g
WHALE SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo2bVbDtiX8
THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvOThKOJdas
THE FISH SLAPPING DANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s
skylines:
Christmas
Joy!
MOUNTAIN DEW CHRISTMAS TREE
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-52
GERMANY’S XMAS MARKETS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/12/TRQU14K5Q6.DTL&type=travel
TALIBAN BLOW UP XMAS TURKEYS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/19/taliban-christmas-turkeys-british-soldiers
Lost Angeles
MAN TRIES TO STOP
TAGGERS, IS SHOT TO DEATH
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/12/los-angeles-pol.html
ARKANSAS WOMAN GIVES BIRTH
TO 18TH CHILD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3836530/American-woman-gives-birth-to-18th-child.html
FIRST ‘CANCER-PROOF’ BABY BORN IN BRITAIN
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Woman_to_have_first_cancer-free_baby_in_UK&in_article_id=453113&in_page_id=34
HEY, KIDS! LEARN TO KILL AT
ARMY THEME PARK!
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/113079/kids_learn_that_killing_is_fun_at_the_army%27s_lethal_new_theme_park_/
WORDS YOU CAN’T SAY WHILE DRUNK
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Revealed:_Phrases_impossible_to_say_when_youre_drunk&in_article_id=453090&in_page_id=34
And on to news
and comment. . .
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA TELLS THE USA
WHAT TO DO
In his first interview since the world financial crisis, Gao Xiqing,
the man who oversees $200 billion of China’s $2 trillion in dollar
holdings, explains why he’s betting against the dollar, praises American
pragmatism, and wonders about enormous Wall Street paychecks.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200812/fallows-chinese-banker
“The simple truth today is that your economy is built on the global
economy. And it’s built on the support, the gratuitous support, of a lot
of countries. So why don’t you come over and … I won’t say kowtow [with
a laugh], but at least, be nice to the countries that lend you money.
Talk to the Chinese! Talk to the Middle Easterners! And pull your troops
back! Take the troops back, demobilize many of the troops, so that you
can save some money rather than spending $2 billion every day on them.
And then tell your people that you need to save, and come out with a
long-term, sustainable financial policy.”
QUEEN CONDI TAKES
RESPONSIBILITY
FOR 9/11 INTELL FAILURES
Good. Throw her in jail, too.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rice_takes_responsibility_for_911_failures_1218.html
REPORT: RICE, GONZALEZ LIED
TO CONGRESS ABOUT PRE-WAR INTELL
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/18/waxman-gonzales-lie/
LINDORFF:
WHITE HOUSE LIED
ABOUT YELLOWCAKE---
BUT THAT'S NOT THE BIGGEST SCANDAL
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/247
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzalez, Rumsfeld and others in the outgoing
administration should all be impeached, tried and jailed for their lying
and treason in embroiling the US in the pointless and criminal Iraq War,
with the yellowcake story a key element in any indictments.
MPLS STAR-TRIB PREDICTS FRANKEN VICTORY
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Paper_projects_Franken_victory_over_Coleman_1218.html
Serrah
PALIN STAFFERS POST RACIST
E-MAIL ABOUT OBAMA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3833904/Sarah-Palin-urged-to-speak-on-racist-Barack-Obama-state-government-circulated-emails.html
PALIN’S WOULD-BE
SON-IN-LAW’S MOM NAILED ON DRUG CHARGES
By the way, when’s that wedding?
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/628010.html
GET YOUR 2009 PALIN CALENDARS!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palins_former_deputy_mayor_creates_calendar_1218.html
All the
shoes that’s fit to print
SHOE-THROWER WAS BEATEN---JUDGE
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1867813,00.html
“This is what happens in a free society.”---George W. Bush
RAIMUNDO:
HERO, MARTYR,
SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13915
All-melty
dollar
WALL STREET ASSHOLES GOT RICH ON
BONUSES, NOT PROFITS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/business/18pay.html?em
$17 BILLION BAND-AID FOR
DETROIT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7791999.stm
Obama Nation
OBAMA DEFENDS CHOICE OF
CREEP EVANGELICAL FOR INVOCATION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/18/national/w064252S75.DTL
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/12/18/rick-warren-to-deliver-obama-invocation-gay-community-furious/
BEHIND OBAMA’S
RIGHTWARD OUTREACH
Conversations with George Schultz (!), others. . .
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1867771,00.html
Pretty much everyone he speaks with, however briefly, comes away with
the impression of a thoughtful and serious person who is more pragmatic
than ideological, and whom they are willing to support in principle.
MEET OBAMA’S 27-YEAR-OLD
SPEECHWRITER
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/17/AR2008121703903.html
When Obama moves to the White House next month, Favreau will join his
staff as the youngest person ever to be selected as chief speechwriter.
He helps shape almost every word Obama says, yet the two men have formed
a concert so harmonized that Favreau's own voice disappears.
Comment
BUCHANAN: OBAMA’S WAR
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21496.htm
Yet, last month, the war against the Taliban entered its eighth year,
the second longest war in our history, and America and NATO have never
been nearer to strategic defeat. So critical is the situation that
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in Kandahar last week, promised rapid
deployment, before any Taliban spring offensive, of two and perhaps
three combat brigades of the 20,000 troops requested by Gen. David
McKiernan. The first 4,000, from the 10th Mountain, are expected in
January. With 34,000 U.S. soldiers already in country, half under NATO
command, the 20,000 will increase U.S. forces there to 54,000, a 60
percent ratcheting up. Shades of LBJ, 1964-65. Afghanistan is going to
be Obama's War. And upon its outcome will hang the fate of his
presidency. Has he thought this through?
RAIMUNDO: THE BUBBLE OF EMPIRE. . .BREAKS
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13924
The idea that the United States is the global hegemon, that we have
first dibs on the title of world policemen – indeed, our entire
post-WWII foreign policy – is nothing but a delusion. That is one of the
chief lessons of the recent economic downturn, one that, unfortunately,
the incoming administration has yet to face up to – and the pundits
(ensconced as they are in the culture of hubris) have yet to realize.
Mashed Media
NYT LAUNCHES ‘INSTANT OP-ED’
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003923777
The New York Times is planning to launch a new "Instant Op-Ed" next
month that will allow the paper's Web site to post immediate expert
viewpoints on breaking news, according to Editorial Page Editor Andrew
Rosenthal.
Enviro Wacko
OCEANS TURNING ACIDIC FASTER
THAN EXPECTED
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/18/world%e2%80%99s-oceans-turning-acidic-faster-than-expected/
Jesus H.
Christ!
UNDERSTANDING GOD THROUGH ATHEISM
http://www.alternet.org/story/113063/why_atheism_may_be_the_best_way_to_understand_god/
As a writer, I worship clarity. If I need someone else to explain what
I've written, I consider that a failure of the first order. God should
surely do better. So why do the sacred texts of all religions always
require someone to explain what they mean?
Spaced Out
MINERALS SUGGEST LIFE WAS
POSSIBLE ON MARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3836365/Minerals-suggest-life-could-have-survived-on-Mars.html
Obits
‘DEEP THROAT’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/18/state/n220712S66.DTL
RODDENBERRY’S WIDOW, MAJEL---VOICE OF COMPUTER
ON ‘STAR TREK’
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBIT_MAJEL_RODDENBERRY?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
SLINGIN’ SAMMY BAUGH
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1219/p25s09-ussc.html
SAM BOTTOMS
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bottoms18-2008dec18,0,6453698.story
And in more
important matters. . .
More
Christmas Joy!
WONDERFUL LIFE? SORRY GEORGE,
IT’S PITIFUL, DREADFUL
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/movies/19wond.html?_r=1&8dpc
“It’s a Wonderful Life” is a terrifying, asphyxiating story about
growing up and relinquishing your dreams, of seeing your father driven
to the grave before his time, of living among bitter, small-minded
people. It is a story of being trapped, of compromising, of watching
others move ahead and away, of becoming so filled with rage that you
verbally abuse your children, their teacher and your oppressively
perfect wife. It is also a nightmare account of an endless home
renovation.
Hey, Be-attle!
'MAGIC ALEX' SUES NYT FOR CALLING
HIM ‘CHARLATAN’
http://www.out-law.com/page-9673
GEOGRAPHY QUIZ
Hey, why not?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/18/TR041480K3.DTL
Musique
BRENDEL BOWS OUT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/19/alfred-brendel-vienna
WHY MUSIC?
Viaduct?
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=12795510
Today, people are so surrounded by other people’s music that they take
it for granted, but as little as 100 years ago singsongs at home, the
choir in the church and fiddlers in the pub were all that most people
heard. . . The truth, of course, is that nobody yet knows why people
respond to music. But, when the carol singers come calling, whether the
emotion they induce is joy or pain, you may rest assured that science is
trying to work out why.
For Art’s
Sake
UNKNOWN DA VINCI DRAWINGS FOUND
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7791595.stm
Animals in
the news!
KAUAI’S FINE FEATHERED BIRDS OF
PARADISE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/12/19/alohafriday121908.DTL
Where ya
goin’?
TIDE POOLS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/18/SP6T14OE2L.DTL&type=living
And in the
end. . .
WOLF POSTER
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Dogless_shepherd_uses_wolf_poster_to_control_his_flock_of_sheep&in_article_id=453067&in_page_id=2
12-17 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
WHITE CHRISTMAS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k54RMk6yU0w
WINTER WONDERLAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HPMJshE-0M
FROSTY THE SNOWMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPwHdpepuI
LET IT SNOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJp8UvNGxI0
CHRISTMAS ISLAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_yANyiPUT8
MELE KALIKIMAKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV_BGqgbxdc
CHRISTMAS POLKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmA152x4XvY
PAT-A-PAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEEm2VW0F8
| On with the shoe: Can't Afford No Shoes http://www.fusion45.com/wp-content/uploads/audio/2008/Library%2010.29.08/Can%27t%20Afford%20No%20Shoes.mp3 Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmuse.com/tracks/754275-Can_t_Afford_No_Shoes Send an old shoe to Bush for Christmas. Or an old sock. Or a picture of an old shoe or old sock to this horrible man who has done such harm to the country and world. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/opinion/14rich.html?_r=1 Mailing Address: The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 OR TO THE BUSH LIBRARY George W. Bush Presidential Library c/o SMU 6425 Boaz Lane Dallas TX 75205 |
skylines:
THIS BUD’S NOT FOR THE EU
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7786522.stm
NO BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR ADOLF
HITLER CAMPBELL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/16/national/a162200S22.DTL
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/how-twisted-naming-your-child-after-
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/12/happy-birthday-from-most-horrible.html
13 NEW HILTONS TO OPEN IN SAUDI
ARABIA
http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4039090.html
DEATH BY WEATHER ROCKET
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3793982/Weather-rocket-kills-man-and-blows-up-his-body-at-cremation.html
BURGER COLOGNE!
Smell like fried meat! What’s that? Most Americans already do?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3797892/Burger-King-releases-meat-scented-cologne.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
All the
shoes that’s fit to print
CODE PINK TO STAGE WHITE HOUSE
SHOE PROTEST
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Code_Pink_to_protest_for_shoethrowers_1217.html
The theatrical anti-war group Code Pink plans to gather outside the
White House today to protest for the release of the Iraqi journalist who
hurled his shoes at President Bush over the weekend.
SHOE-THROWER A HERO TO HIS
PEERS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003923325
SCHEER:
THEY HATE US FOR
OUR SHOES
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081216_a_farewell_and_an_epitaph_for_bush/
This invasion, according to then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul
Wolfowitz, was supposed to be financed by Iraqi oil money, but instead
has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion.
MORFORD:
TWELVE THINGS TO
THROW AT BUSH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/12/17/notes121708.DTL
But this is Dubya we're talking about. Worst. President. Ever. Surely he
deserves better. Surely he deserves something a bit more ... thoughtful?
Profound? Ironic? After all, while a shoe is nice, it's also terribly
cliched. Boring, even.
SOCK AND AWE
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Taking_a_swipe_at_Bush_Zaidi_inspir_12162008.html
Kim Nook Yoo
LATEST PHOTOS OF N.KOREA’S KIM
JONG IL
Don’t he look goooood?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/3812475/North-Korea-releases-more-Kim-Jong-il-photos-to-dispel-health-rumours.html
Dickhead
DID CHENEY CONFESS TO A FELONY?
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/12/hbc-90004029
TURLEY:
CHENEY ACTIONS UNAMBIGUOUSLY WAR CRIMES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_Cheney_actions_unambiguously_war_crime_1217.html
CHENEY: 'I THINK WE DID PRETTY WELL'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/17/dick-cheney-interview-guantanamo-waterboarding
All-melty
dollar
WHEEEEE! FREE MONEY!
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/wheeee-free-money
BUSH: “I ABANDONED FREE-MARKET
PRINCIPLES”
What principles?
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bush_says_sacrificed_free_market_pr_12162008.html
Sen. Kennedy
THOMPSON:
MEMO TO
CLINTONITES--- LEAVE CAROLINE ALONE
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/13400
In a political culture where experience and qualifications take back
seats to charisma and "star power," her right to assume the Senate post
once held by her iconic uncle is as great as anyone who has held that
position.
IS CAROLINE
QUALIFIED? YOU BET
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/113478/is_caroline_kennedy_qualified_/
Enviro Wacko
NINE XMAS GIFTS FOR YOUR
MOTHER. . .EARTH
http://www.alternet.org/environment/113131/9_christmas_gifts_you_can_give_to_your_mother_..._earth/
PLANET COOLED LAST YEAR---HUH?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1866862,00.html
Mashed Media
DETROIT FREE PRESS CUTS
HOME DELIVERY TO THREE DAYS A WEEK
http://news.cnet.com/8300-1023_3-93.html?keyword=The+Detroit+Free+Press
BOYARSKY:
WHAT FUTURE FOR THE
INK-STAINED WRETCH?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081216_boyarsky_dec_17_column/
The average entry-level reporter’s wages are $25,167 a year, according
to Payscale.com. And today’s beginning reporters are asked to do more
than those starting just a few years before. “In some cases it means
being able to go out and report the story, write for online, shoot
video, edit from the field, and update for the print edition. And in
some cases it means shooting the pictures, creating a slideshow, putting
it in Flash, and doing all that in addition to reporting,” Ernest
Sotomayor, assistant dean of career services at Columbia’s Graduate
School of Journalism, told Poynter Online.
RUDY THE CREEP TO REPLACE O’REILLY
ON RADIO?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/17/rudy-oreilly-radio/
Comment
HELEN THOMAS:
IT’S A DEPRESSION
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/389882_helenonline29.html
ROBERTS:
USA---COUNTRY
WITHOUT MERCY
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21482.htm
HEDGES:
ISRAEL’S CRIMES
AGAINST HUMANITY
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081215_israels_crime_against_humanity/
People’s
Repugnic
14-YEAR-OLD GIRL BEATEN BY COPS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/police-beat-girl-3868.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
KIDNAPPED DR. FORCED TO WED IN
BANGLADESH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/17/law-bangladesh
SONS OF NAZI CAMP SURVIVOR
MEET FOR FIRST TIME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3812623/Sons-of-Nazi-concentration-camp-survivor-meet-for-first-time.html
And in more
important matters. . .
KIRK DOUGLAS: MYSPACE’S OLDEST
BLOGGER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3797825/Kirk-Douglas-becomes-MySpaces-oldest-celebrity-blogger.html
Christmas
joy!
VIDEO GUIDE TO A NICE VEGGIE
XMAS DINNER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2008/dec/17/vegetarian-christmas-dinner-video-recipe
FLYING SANTAS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/3812054/Pictures-of-the-day-17-December-2008.html?image=5
Film
BOUCHER:
HOW TO TURN ‘BEEDLE
AND THE BARD’ INTO A MOVIE
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/12/jk-rowlings-the.html#more
REVIEW:
EASTWOOD IN ‘GRAN TORINO’
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-torino12-2008dec12,0,5039535.story
Musique
TELEGRAPH’S TOP PICKS OF
THE YEAR
http://www.emusic.com/telegraphdownload
Animals in
the news!
WATCH:
DOLPHIN STAMPEDE
http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2008/12/dolphin-stamped.html
And in the
end. . .
LONG CAB RIDE
http://www.fakeangeleno.com/2008/12/nyc-taxi-seen-in-culver-city.html
12-16 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
HAPY BEETHOVEN'S BIRTHDAY
Pathetique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2EeWH79zs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nG1bt7IBM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkr7WgQ_Y4
9TH finale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNH10n6mB2E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abSaCSHRHHo
6th 2nd movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMITF0DWJyE
Piano/violin sonata # 8, first movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNDkT4M8GAs
| On with the shoe: Can't Afford No Shoes http://www.fusion45.com/wp-content/uploads/audio/2008/Library%2010.29.08/Can%27t%20Afford%20No%20Shoes.mp3 Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmuse.com/tracks/754275-Can_t_Afford_No_Shoes Send an old shoe to Bush for Christmas. Or an old sock. Or a picture of an old shoe or old sock to this horrible man who has done such harm to the country and world. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/opinion/14rich.html?_r=1 Mailing Address: The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 OR TO THE BUSH LIBRARY George W. Bush Presidential Library c/o SMU 6425 Boaz Lane Dallas TX 75205 |
skylines:
’WONDERFUL LIFE’ STAR: LIFE HASN’T BEEN
WONDERFUL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3793553/Its-A-Wonderful-Life-Not-for-me-says-films-child-star.html
2000-YEAR-OLD COMPUTER IS
WORKING AGAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2008/dec/11/antikythera-first-computer
MADONNA FALLS ON HER BONY ASS
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Madonna_falls_into_the_groove_after_embarrassing_stage_tumble_in_Rio&in_article_id=447397&in_page_id=7
And on to news
and comment. . .
WATCH:
VARIOUS LOOKS AT THE SHOE-THROWING INCIDENT
http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2008/12/a-repository-of.html
All the
shoes that’s fit to print
FOR ONE BRIEF MOMENT, THE WORLD
IS UNITED IN JOY, LAUGHTER!
http://ristocrats.blogspot.com/2008/12/ultimate-zappadan-miracle.html
SHOE-THROWING HERO HAS BUSTED
RIBS, ARM
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bush_s_shoe_attacker_has_broken_arm_12162008.html
’BEATEN IN U.S. CUSTODY’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7785338.stm
”That’s what happens in a free society.”---George W. Bush.
SHOE THROWER BEING TORTURED?
http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/15/shoe-thrower-being-tortured/
‘HE WANTED TO HUMILIATE
TYRANT’
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/15/shoe.reporter.profile/index.html
MORE SHOES FLYING IN IRAQ
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/shoe-thrower-causes-angst-for-us-security-forces/2008/12/16/1229189623235.html
SHOE-THROWER HATES U.S., IRAN ROLE
IN IRAQ
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jNRHUv3d5re4SrbIqzQ6xGu5aDmgD953L5I00
COMMENT:
WAITING FOR THE
OTHER SHOE TO DROP
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop/?ref=opinion
LISTEN:
NEWSWEEK’S HIRSH SUPPORTS THE SHOE-THROWER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xw1p6bkM6A
The Torture
Never Stops
SENATE REPORT LINKS BUSH TO DETAINEE
HOMICIDES, AND MEDIA YAWN
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21478.htm
CHENEY ADMITS HE AUTHORIZED
TORTURE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cheney_admits_authorizing_detainees_torture_1215.html
SENATOR KENNEDY?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/us/politics/16caroline.html?_r=1&hp
IS CAROLINE READY?
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1866621,00.html
All-melty
dollar
THE NEW, CLEAN-SHAVEN WORKING
CLASS HOMELESS OF SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/16/BA5N14OGCD.DTL
PRIMARY CARE DOCTORS GOING BROKE
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-doctors15-2008dec15,0,4293105.story
Mashed Media
FOX’S TOKEN LIBERAL TO
COULTER: YOU ARE A HATE CRIME
Somebody needs to throw a shoe at her, too, preferably full of dog
crap
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Colmes_to_Coulter_You_are_hate_1216.html
SF CHRON SENDS CUSTOMER SERVICE
CALLS OVERSEAS
http://www.mediaworkers.org/index.php?ID=5795
Enviro Wacko
OBAMA’S GREEN
TEAM
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/15/obamas-green-team/
JAPAN: GROUND ZERO FOR
RECYCLING, NO-WASTE LIFESTYLE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1216/p01s04-woap.html
Three environmental models: Toyota's Prius factory, an electronics
recycler, and a village that recycles 80 percent of its trash.
Jesus H.
Christ!
STUDENTS TO BE TAUGHT: NO
EVIDENCE OF GOD
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24797483-421,00.htm
THE CONFLUENCE
OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND BUDDHISM
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/12/14/when_jesus_met_buddha/?page=full
When Nestorian Christians were pressing across Central Asia during the
sixth and seventh centuries, they met the missionaries and saints of an
equally confident and expansionist religion: Mahayana Buddhism.
Buddhists too wanted to take their saving message to the world, and
launched great missions from India's monasteries and temples. In this
diverse world, Buddhist and Christian monasteries were likely to stand
side by side, as neighbors and even, sometimes, as collaborators. Some
historians believe that Nestorian missionaries influenced the religious
practices of the Buddhist religion then developing in Tibet. Monks spoke
to monks.
Animals in
the news!
HUMBOLDT SQUID THREATENED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/16/wildlife-climatechange
HORSES RECOGNIZE ONE ANOTHER’S
NEIGHS
(Duhh. . .)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3779102/Horses-can-recognise-individual-neighs-and-match-them-to-faces.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
DAILY TAIWAN/CHINA FLIGHTS BEGIN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7782946.stm
Obit
PAINTER, CALLIGRAPHER, TEACHER CHARLES CHU
http://www.conncoll.edu/news/chu/
http://www.littlefrog.com/info?page=obituary
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x635421718/Conn-College-scholar-master-painter-dies
And in more
important matters. . .
Happy Beethoven’s Birthday
RICH:
DUDAMEL, BEETHOVEN, AND SOUTH L.A.’S KIDS
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a7_dWjq1uz.E&refer=muse
REVIEW:
THE LATE SONATAS
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/12/16/a_perfect_balance_of_beethovens_late_sonatas/
BEETHOVEN’S BIRTH LEADS TO LONGER CDS
hhttp://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1216
CHUCK BERRY’S HOUSE ON NATIONAL
REGISTER
(Figure it out.)
http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1441215§ionID=1
Christmas
Joy!
CHILDREN’S BOOK LISTS
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/12/15/gift-ideas-childrens-book-recommendations/
SLEEP
ADVENTURES!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2008/dec/16/sexsomnia-sleep-secrets
Peeing in wardrobes, jumping through windows, eating beans on toast
and singing wildly, very loudly.
Hey, Be-attle!
HEY, PAUL---FIRST ‘POLITICAL’
STATEMENT
BY A BEATLE CAME FROM GEORGE
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/12/15/welshman-changed-the-beatles-says-mccartney-91466-22476615/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OgkjcW0g4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct8HYm10tlI
REVIEW: NEW ‘STAR TREK’: ALL 12-YEAR-OLDS AND WHIZZ-BANG
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/dec/16/star-trek-trailer-review
WHAT DID CLEOPATRA LOOK LIKE?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3792872/Elizabeth-Taylors-Cleopatra-nowhere-near-reality.html
Books
THIRD BOOK OF THE BIBLE DUE. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/16/james-frey-bible
Light
reading
DARWIN’S
ASTOUNDING ACHIEVEMENT
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=darwins-living-legacy
DON’T GET DRUNK IN NEW YORK
Oh! It’s sooo passé, darlings!
http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/drunkenfreude/
And in the
end. . .
OUR TRIBUTE TO BETTIE PAGE AND TEMPEST STORM
Such poetry! Such innocence! Such pastoral romping!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVoPji_aOro&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6YOuDIo0y4&feature=related
12-15 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
JINGLE BELLS (HIBARI MISORA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbzkC0wq7p4
KORN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dYlNpSBZc
CRAZY FROGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Hy97GNQxI
DIANA KRALL, CLAYTON-HAMILTON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFHE0NxBJu4
PUPPINI SISTERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTpqcDCaIws
COCKATIEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeDWEaZWiQE
COMPUTER GEEK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fNI6KbbQI8
AGNETHA FALKSKOG AND LINDA ULVAEUS BJALLERKLANG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9MBGwe9D9I
KARAOKE FISH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VThuiGr6ud8
KITTIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4wIPmZSwg
“TURKISH”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzKvUyZu9LY
SKYLINES:
Quotatious: "This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell
kiss, you dog...This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were
killed in Iraq."
NAKED VETERINARIANS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3775748/Naked-students-pose-for-charity.html
GIANT SPIDER FOUND IN VIETNAM!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/3761269/Spider-as-big-as-a-plate-among-scores-of-new-species-found-in-Greater-Mekong.html
Exclusive footage of the spider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNrc3ZAINuI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8
LAID OFF EMPLOYEE SHOOTS BOSS
AT XMAS PARTY!
Have a holly jolly Christmas!
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081213/christmasparty_shooting_081213/20081213?hub=TopStories
Wonderful old couple die in
boating accident
Though in 90’s, they were headed to camp out at the South Pole
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/15/BASA14O18E.DTL&tsp=1
ACTOR NECK-CUTTING WAS ACCIDENT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/15/austria-theatre
A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
FROM THE QUEEN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2008/dec/15/pg-tips-monkey
And on to news
and size 10 comment. . .
All the
shoes that's fit to print!
LINDORFF:
SHOE-THROWER DID WHAT JOURNALISTS
SHOULD HAVE DONE LONG AGO
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/243
Meanwhile, I’m suggesting that my alma mater, the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism, hire al=Zaidi to teach a class in press
conference journalism techniques. They should make it a multi-year
appointment, because if he left after just one year, his would be
difficult shoes to fill.
ANWAR:
IN PRAISE OF THE SHOE-THROWER!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21464.htm
Let me tell you more about Muntather Al-Zaidi. Muntather was kidnapped,
tortured and humiliated and when released he resumed his work as a
journalist at the Baghdadia TV. He graduated from Baghdad University in
Journalism.
FREE THE SHOE THROWER!
Thousands of Iraqis take to streets
demanding release of heroic reporter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/3776098/Thousands-demand-release-of-shoe-throwing-journalist.html
SHOE-THROWER ‘ARRESTED AND
INTERROGATED’
Probably naked at the bottom of a dogpile in Abu Ghraib, by now. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/3774306/Iraqi-journalist-who-threw-shoes-at-Bush-arrested-and-interrogated.html
SOME GOOD NEWS: PERINO HIT IN
FACE WITH MICROPHONE
http://www.mlive.com/us-politics/index.ssf/2008/12/perino_bruised_in_shoehurling.html
ARAB WORLD RAVES FOR SHOE-THROWER
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQ_qepPMldIrmehDuPIy1-Zlwi5w
"Throwing the shoes at Bush was the best goodbye kiss ever... it
expresses how Iraqis and other Arabs hate Bush," wrote Musa Barhoumeh,
editor of Jordan's independent Al-Gahd Arabic newspaper.
WATCH:
SLO-MO, AND IRAQI PEOPLE SPEAK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5U3Yp4tKI
WATCH:
WITH CELEBRATORY MUSIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHEQei0uOqo
George W.
Asshole
BUSH DISMISSES SHOE-THROWING
INCIDENT
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/15/bush-dismiss-shoe
I don’t think you can take one guy throwing shoes and say this
represents a broad movement in Iraq.
BUSH ON NO AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ
BEFORE U.S. INVASION: “SO WHAT”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/15/bush-so-what/
DEADLY VIRUS TO SWEEP BRITAIN
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Deadly_winter_vomiting_bug_to_sweep_Britain&in_article_id=445626&in_page_id=34
America, my
casino
MADOFF SCANDAL HITS $50
BILLION---$50 BILLION
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122933474726606471.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Alleged Ponzi Scheme's Victims Include Lautenberg, Zuckerman,
Spielberg's Charity
BANKS HIT WORLDWIDE BY U.S. FRAUD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7783236.stm
Comment
SEN. OBAMA,
YOU’RE NO HONEST ABE
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/13278
President-elect Barack Obama is many things, including a groundbreaker
in the world of Presidential politics but his obsession with comparing
himself to Abraham Lincoln is starting to rub some Presidential
historians the wrong way.
Israelity
GAZA FAMILIES EATING GRASS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21455.htm
The Torture
Never Stops
25-YEAR-OLD ‘DETAINEE’ DIES IN
U.S. CUSTODY---OF ‘HEART ATTACK’
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081215/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_detainee_death
Mashed Media
OH NO! EVIL RACIST AMERICA STILL
PUTS
WHITE MEN IN CHARGE OF SUNDAY TV NEWS! OH NO!
All white males must be eradicated from positions of authority in all
fields! Now! They are all evil! This is payback!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/14/MN2014MH0T.DTL
RUTTEN:
MURDOCH AN
IDIOT-SAVANT WHO EXPLOITS WEAKNESS
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-rutten3-2008dec03,0,7497625.story
Jesus H.
Christ!
PALIN’S CHURCH BURNS
Yeah, what’s the bad news?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palins_home_church_damaged_by_arson_1213.htm
Enviro Wacko
OAK TREES LOSING THEIR ACORNS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/acorn-shortage-east-coast-8544.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
MEET THE ONLY MAN EVER TO ESCAPE
FROM A N. KOREA PRISON CAMP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121003855_pf.html
And in more
important matters. . .
JAPAN CRACKS U.S. POP CULTURE
HEGEMONY
We’re not even the leaders in
cultural crapola anymore
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1215/p01s04-woap.html
Hey! Be-attle!
YESTERDAY STILL POISONS MCCARTNEY
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/george_pitcher/blog/2008/12/14/yesterday_still_poisons_paul_mccartney
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3743977/Sir-Paul-McCartney-I-politicised-the-Beatles.html
related:
WILD BOARS WREAK HAVOC ON
MCCARTNEY’S LAND!
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/12/10/Neighbors_upset_about_McCartney_boars/UPI-21261228946851/
Christmas
Joy!
DOES FATHER XMAS LIVE IN
FINNISH LAPLAND?
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article12210701.aspx
I recently took my oldest son, 5-year-old Sander, along with me on a
business trip to Finnish Lapland so he could meet the “real” Santa
Claus. So many acquaintances have asked me what on Earth possessed me to
take a 5-year-old to the Arctic Circle in the middle of December — I’m
still not exactly sure myself, but I’m guessing parental guilt played as
big a role as any. Even the elves at Santa’s Office, in Santa Claus’
Village, in Rovaniemi, Finland seemed incredulous that we should come
from so far away to stand in line for something we could have
experienced at the local mall.
TREE THREATENS TO EAT LIVING
ROOM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/3775615/Family-buys-giant-Christmas-tree-that-is-taller-than-their-house.html
14,000 SANTAS MARCH IN SPAIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3760576/14000-Santa-Clauses-break-world-record.html
Obit
GEORGE BRECHT, FLUXUS FOUNDER
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/arts/music/15brecht.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
For Art’s
Sake
PAINTING OF ‘BLACK
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE’ BOUGHT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/3775848/Painting-of-black-Florence-Nightingale-Mary-Seacole-bought-for-130000.html
MAN IN MAO
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,596191,00.html
Books
ANOTHER LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMAN BECOMES A HIT NOVELIST
Women just love to read naval-gazing crap about themselves, don’t
they?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1215/p13s05-woap.html
WHY PUBLISHERS FAIL
They dumb everything down
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/12/12/book-publishing-authors-oped-cx_lo_1212osborne.html
And in the
end. . .
S&M BARBIE
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1428128.ece
12-12 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
OLD BLACK JOE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2AwYKUxAA
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ56WP4Hz9w
I DREAM OF JEANNIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYaRmIdBYHE
BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T932B2P3spM
CAMPTOWN RACES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noYptXPHiAE
OH SUSANNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2UJp3vN-y0
OLD FOLKS AT HOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOObPhTYi9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTxaVfhAnTc
HARD TIMES COME AGAIN NO MORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZxMFzigUQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIalvXTPyA0
HAPPY XMAS
YO YO MA, JAKE SHIMABUKURO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T932B2P3spM
SKYLINES:
TAJ MAHAL WARS!
India pissed over Bangladesh copy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/3711608/Taj-Mahal-replica-sparks-row.html
MAN SPRAYS TP’ING TEENS WITH FOX
URINE, IS CHARGED
Where the hell did he get fox urine?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/11/national/a175814S60.DTL
WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE SPRAY TOM
CRUISE WITH FOX URINE?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Cruise_turns_into_Elvis_on_US_TV&in_article_id=443839&in_page_id=7
And on to news
and comment. . .
EMANUEL DUCKS BLAGOJEVICH
QUESTIONS
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ConductUnbecoming/story?id=6449745&page=1
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/obama_chief_of_staff_emanuel_p.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081212/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_illinois_governor
The complaint states Blagojevich wanted a promise of a high-level
appointment or some other reward for Blagojevich in exchange for
Blagojevich naming Obama's friend Valerie Jarrett to replace him in the
U.S. Senate. (Rip Post comment: although this is apparently ordinary political dealmaking and cronyism, it badly taints Emanuel, who should resign
immediately, and the fledgling Obama administration. It also appears to
contradict Obama’s statements about no one on his staff discussing the
senate seat with Blagojevich.)
REZKO SENTENCING DELAYED---
HE IS FEEDING FEDS INFO ON BLAGOJEVICH
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/12/obama-blago-rah.html
JACKSON JR.: THE TROUBLE WITH
BEING CANDIDATE 5
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1866058,00.html
Auto Motive
WHITE HOUSE TO GIVE HANDOUT TO DETROIT?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/business/13auto.html?_r=1&hp
GM CONSIDERS BANKRUPTCY AS
BAILOUT FAILS
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081211.wautowrap1211/BNStory/Business/home
GM COULD LOSE 40 PERCENT OF ITS
DEALERS
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aFOJZrQ21D.U&refer=us
FEDS HIDE BAILOUT RECIPIENT
NAMES
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=apx7XNLnZZlc&refer=home
Spaced out
DOES OBAMA WANT TO GROUND NASA’S
NEXT MOON PROJECT?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1866045,00.html
Getting into a shouting match with the HR rep is not exactly the best
way to land a job. But according to the Orlando Sentinel, that's just
what happened last week between NASA administrator Mike Griffin and Lori
Garver, a member of Barack Obama's transition team who will help decide
if Griffin keeps his post once the President-elect takes office. If the
contretemps did occur, it could help doom not only the NASA chief's
chances, but the space agency's ambitious plans to get Americans back to
the moon.
Comment
REVOKING
ISRAEL’S UN MEMBERSHIP
(Revoke the Saudis' instead. . .)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21440.htm
The Gaza Strip is now the largest concentration camp in the world. The
situation grows steadily more insufferable for the 1.5 million
Palestinians who live there. Deliveries of food, medicine and fuel are
made difficult or stopped altogether. Child malnutrition is increasing.
Water supplies and drainage have ceased to function. Children die for
lack of healthcare. Tunnels to Egypt, dug by hand, are the only
breathing space. Journalists and diplomats are denied entry. Israel is
planning more military efforts. The Palestinians in Gaza are now to be
starved into surrender and become an Egyptian problem.
KLEIN: THE AIMLESS WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1865730,00.html?iid=tsmodule
We know what the mission used to be — to kill or capture Osama bin Laden
and destroy his al-Qaeda command. But once bin Laden slipped away, the
mission morphed into a vast, messy nation — building effort to support
the allegedly democratic Karzai government. There was a certain logic to
that. The Taliban and al-Qaeda can't base themselves in Afghanistan if
something resembling a stable, secure nation-state exists there. But the
mission was also historically implausible: Afghanistan has never had a
strong central government. It has been governed for thousands of years
by local and regional tribal coalitions.
The Torture
Never Stops
SENATE REPORT: RUMSFELD TO BLAME FOR TORTURE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Senate_report_Rumsfeld_to_blame_for_1211.html
ASHCROFT: GITMO IS
‘HUMANITARIAN’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/ashcroft-detainees-humanitarian/
Enviro Wacko
WHAT THE HELL IS AN ENERGY
CZAR, ANYWAY?
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/11/whats-an-energy-czar-anyway/
Mashed Media
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER MUSIC
WRITER SUES OVER DEMOTION
Says orchestra lobbied for his removal, and paper caved
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003922286
MOST OUTRAGEOUS MEDIA COMMENTS
OF 2008
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/111857/the_most_outrageous_media_comments_of_2008/
Animals in
the news!
ELEPHANTS LIVE HALF AS LONG IN
CAPTIVITY
Unless they’re poached
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3709284/Elephants-in-zoos-live-less-than-half-as-long-as-wild-ones-shows-study.html
LA CANADA/FLINTRIDGE UPSET OVER
PEACOCKS!
Life is tough!
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6551472&rss=rss-kabc-article-6551472
"They are loud. They disrupt our sleep. They leave their fecal matter
all over our yard," said Phelan, 42.
More spaced
out
WITH BLACK HOLES, ASTRONOMERS GO
WITH THE FLOW
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/12/11/with-black-holes-astronomers-learn-to-go-with-the-flow
Oh, by the
way. . .
ASHCROFT: MAYBE I MAKE BETTER
DECISIONS ON MORPHINE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/I_make_right_call_when_I_1211.html
BELAFONTE’S MLK PAPERS
WITHDRAWN FROM SOTHEBY’S
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3722350/Martin-Luther-King-papers-auction-halted-over-row-with-singer.html
Obit
BETTIE PAGE
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/arts/12page.html?ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
Christmas
joy!
WATCH OUT, LITTLE (ITALIAN)
KIDS---
LA BEFANA’S GONNA GET YOU
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,596060,00.html
ATWATER VILLAGE CHRISTMAS
ACRIMONY!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-outthere12-2008dec12,0,6749046.story
There was no sign of the bickering that has consumed civic leaders --
over whether they should buy environmentally friendly Christmas lights,
or which group of city boosters should have the honor of supplying those
candy canes to the pigtailed girls.
JAPAN STORES FOOT ENERGY
Really. . .foot energy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/3721841/Japan-harnesses-energy-from-footsteps.html
Musique
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELLIOT CARTER
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/arts/music/12carter.html?hp
Books
ARROGANT, DESPICABLE
“AGENT” ON HER REJECTION LETTERS
Who are these jackasses?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/dec/03/publishers-rejection-letters
But the danger in being too nice is that the jilted writer will come
back to you, much like the rejected boyfriend so unbruised by your kid
gloves that he feels you haven't quite split up.
Light
reading
MODERN SLANG
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081229/crain/single
There's more slang in the world than dictionaries can capture, and
there's no reason for them to repeat one another's labor. Absent from
both the Oxford and the Routledge, for example, are "lede," "hook" in
its journalistic sense (unless you count the seventeenth meaning given
by Routledge: "in a confidence swindle, the stage in the swindle when
the victim is fully committed to the scheme"), "nut graf," "disco rice,"
"cougar" and "kittenhead."
Film
REVIEW:
‘DAY EARTH STOOD STILL’ STINKS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/11/DDOF14LKG7.DTL
WATCH:
MAKING HUNTER S. THOMPSON, THE MOVIE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2008/dec/10/alex-gibney-video-interview
And in the
end. . .
RAISIN BRAHMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKgBdrsqvjs
12-11 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
MELE KALIKIMAKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhiB5Y-iEW4
I YUST GO NUTS AT CHRISTMAS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8SqY9crHA8
I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFj4D11Wmn4
YINGLE BELLS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSF8vGO2Dvs
RUDOLPH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFtOQfuNZLA
I WAS SANTA AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fLodvl1Z0
THE BEATLES' FOURTH XMAS MESSAGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CAggVKOW4
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, BY JOHN CLEESE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-uNQ2oQACk
AND OF COURSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Sv0DniGmI
SKYLINES:
KNIVES SWITCHED, ACTOR SLASHES THROAT ON
STAGE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7777086.stm
Gloria Steinem’s Worst Nightmare
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2023392.ece
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/1210/
BOBBIES TO GET TASERS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1211/p01s01-wogn.htm
BOY SURVIVES ARROW THROUGH
SKULL
You may not want to look at this one
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Miracle_as_boy_survives_after_arrow_shot_through_his_skull&in_article_id=441885&in_page_id=34
CREEPO ANISTON GOES NAKED IN GQ
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Jennifer_Aniston_naked_in_GQ_magazine&in_article_id=441895&in_page_id=7
CARTOON:
BLAGOJAGOVELICHAVICH’S ‘GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE’
Or whatever the asshole’s name is
http://www.drawger.com/zinasaunders/images/Blagojevich.jpg
And on to news
and comment. . .
OBAMA TO OFFER ISRAEL ‘NUCLEAR
UMBRELLA’
Er, um. . .doesn’t Israel have its own nuclear arsenal?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21431.htm
AN ENLIGHTENED CHOICE FOR
ENERGY CHIEF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/10/MNGT14LPGS.DTL
"After the anti-science Bush administration, this is like going to a
Mensa meeting after eight years of being trapped in the Flat Earth
Society."
Lost Angeles
SAVING HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES---THE GOOD NEWS
AND BAD
http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/saving-homeboy-industries-the-good-the-bad-news/
Iraq and
Roll
YAWN: 55 WIPED OUT IN RESTAURANT
BOMBING
Mission accomplished, Mr. Prez!
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1865827,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7777342.stm
Obama nation
OBAMA AIMS TO
‘REBOOT IMAGE’ IN MUSLIM WORLD
Will travel to a Muslim capital to make speech soon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/11/obama-white-house-barackobama/print
WILL JACKSON JR. LINK UNDO
OBAMA?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3704284/Jesse-Jackson-Jr-named-as-man-who-tried-to-buy-Obamas-seat.html
KRISTOF: OBAMA’S ‘SECRETARY OF FOOD?’
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/opinion/11kristof.html?em
An online petition that can be found at www.fooddemocracynow.org calls
for a reformist pick for agriculture secretary — and names six terrific
candidates, such as Chuck Hassebrook, a reformer in Nebraska. On several
occasions in the campaign, Mr. Obama made comments showing a deep
understanding of food issues, but the names that people in the food
industry say are under consideration for agriculture secretary represent
the problem more than the solution. Change we can believe in?
Related:
OBAMA APPOINTS ‘HEALTH REFORM’
DEPUTY
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/11/jeanne-lambrew-announcement/
OBAMA APPROVAL UP AMONG MCCAIN
SUPPORTERS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Poll_Obama_gains_among_McCain_supporters_1211.html
INSANE, OBSESSED, WEIRD
OBAMA RANT OF THE WEEK!
These people walk among us
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin186.htm
LINDORFF: WORKERS OF AMERICA, WAKE UP!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/242
Americans across the nation need to contact their congressional
representatives and senators, and President-Elect Barack Obama (who
backed the workers at Republic), and demand that as one of the first
acts of the new Congress, they pass into law the Employee Free Choice
Act—a labor law reform that would end the ability of employers to stall
off union elections for years, and to refuse to bargain a first contract
with a new union.
The Torture
Never Stops
WATCH: INSIDE GITMO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/12/kinks-popandrock
Enviro Wacko
PLANS FOR ALL-GREEN
‘ECO CITY’ IN S. KOREA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3701921/Nazis-drew-up-secret-plans-for-Kamikaze-bomb-plane-to-attack-Britain.html
TOP FIVE ECO-FRIENDLY WATER
BOTTLES
http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,1865754,00.html
Eats
WHAT’S WITH THE BIG LOBSTER
GLUT?
You’re even finding it in cat food now
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/dining/10appe.html?em
MED JOURNALS TO START PUSHING RED
MEAT?
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/111000/health_experts_make_a_perverse_push_for_fat-rich%2C_red_meat_diets/
“I LIVE NEXT TO A WENDY’S”
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article12100801.aspx
Wendy's does leave the sidewalk greasy, but other people have neighbors
that they can only speak to through Dr. Phil. At the Border's around the
corner from me, employees wake you if they find you asleep in one of
those oversized chairs tucked into bends in bookshelves (I know this
first-hand), but nobody will wake you up at Wendy's.
Auto Motive
VW ROLLS THE DICE ON TENNESSEE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,595770,00.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
SECRET NAZI ‘KAMIKAZE’ PLANE PLANS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3701921/Nazis-drew-up-secret-plans-for-Kamikaze-bomb-plane-to-attack-Britain.html
GALLERY:
WHY GREENLAND IS CUTTING TIES TO DENMARK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/11/climatechange-greenland?picture=340586373
Obit
ACTOR ROBERT PROSKY
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/theater/11prosky.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
JUDGE JUDY: RAKING IN THE DOUGH
BY TURNING JUSTICE INTO A BITCH-FEST
Why does no one point out that this nasty woman cuts people off and
refuses to hear evidence---just for entertainment?
http://www.reason.com/news/show/130327.html
To reinforce this notion, Judge Judy is forever yipping at litigants for
wasting her time, as if there is something she'd rather be doing than
getting paid $38 million a year just to insult losers arguing over
unpaid telephone bills.
REVIEWS OF (NICE) NEW FILM BY 110-YEAR-OLD PETER O’ TOOLE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/entertainment/dean_spanley/3544522/Dean-Spanley---review-of-the-new-film-starring-Peter-OToole.html
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/film-23342506-details/Dean+Spanley/filmReview.do?reviewId=23600086
Christmas
Joy!
VICAR BANS ‘O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3707556/Vicar-bans-Christmas-carol-O-Little-Town-of-Bethlehem.html
FIVE XMAS ALBUM RECOMMENDATIONS
I’d skip all except for Yo Yo Ma. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1210/p25s09-almp.html
THE SEARCH FOR A GOOD OBAMA MIMIC
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1865369,00.html
THE NIGHT JOHN
LENNON CAME TO MY APARTMENT
http://mrbellersneighborhood.com/story.php?storyid=2237
REVIEW: KINKS BOXED SET
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/12/kinks-popandrock
Where ya
goin’?
KAILUA: THE NEW WESTERN WHITE
HOUSE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hawaii/detail?&entry_id=32016&type=travel
LET’S GO SURFIN’. . .IN ENGLAND?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,595642,00.html
With a planned artificial reef, a British seaside resort hopes to cash
in on European surfing tourism. When completed, the underwater ramp is
expected to create waves as high as 13 feet.
And in the
end. . .
OKAY, YOUSE GUYS, GIMME THE DOUGH OR YA SLEEPS
WITH THE FISHES
http://blog.alfiegoodrich.com/index.php?showimage=371
12-09 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
BONGWATER, SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS, THE FABULOUS PUSSYWILLOWS, BOB WEIR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbw7NJLWPw4
THE FABULOUS. . .ARTIS THE SPOONMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnFToFMFBYs
BONGWATER: THE DRUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5asohoiR6E
THE BONG SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wTBTLLsTYI
BONGWATER: PSYCHEDELIC SEWING ROOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkClQXMwVg0
ARTIS ROCKS ROSSINI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s0D4k3ie64
BONGO FURY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bmevEDn2tA
ARTIS ENCORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3s8NUN9AI
http://www.artisthespoonman.net/
SKYLINES:
TURKEY SLAUGHTERED BEHIND PALIN
GOES FOR $225
Too bad nobody saw the face of Jesus in its ass---could have gotten
tens of thousands. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turkey_slaughtered_in_Palins_presence_fetches_1209.html
CHARRED MONKEY MEAT!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Charred_monkey_meat_found_in_mans_luggage&in_article_id=437857&in_page_id=2
OPRAH GAINING ON KIRSTIE ALLEY!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/09/entertainment/e020007S07.DTL&tsp=1
BRITS SAVING MONEY BY EATING
TONGUES, BRAINS, KIDNEYS. . .
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1864670,00.html
AUSSIES EATING CAMELS, KANGAROOS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3688740/Save-the-outback-eat-a-camel.html
70-YEAR-OLD WOMAN GIVES BIRTH
Wonder what she ate. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3683289/Indian-woman-gives-birth-at-age-of-70.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
CITY OF L.A. SUES. . .GANG?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gang-sued9-2008dec09,0,5929260.story
The lawsuit targets nine imprisoned leaders of the 18th Street gang,
including two leaders of the Mexican Mafia, and demands civil damages on
behalf of residents of two city neighborhoods. If successful, the suit
would distribute proceeds from seized homes, businesses and other assets
to neighborhood residents who cannot file suit themselves because they
fear retaliation, prosecutors say.
NEXT: BAILOUT FOR LAS VEGAS?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/09/ensign-casino-bailout/
OBAMA SENDS AMERRYGUNS INTO A
GUN-BUYING FRENZY
http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=1209
In one of the most stunning(ly retarded) examples of hysteria since the
days of stocking up on duct tape and plastic bags to fortify one’s home
against dirty nuclear bombs, Barack Obama’s victory has triggered a
buying frenzy at America’s gun retailers.
ILLINOIS GOV ARRESTED---
TRIED TO SELL OBAMA’S VACANT SENATE SEAT
He should also be busted for hair abuse. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/09/blagojevich-arrested/
Before the arrest, the Chicago Tribune had reported that a “three-year
federal corruption investigation of pay-to-play politics in Gov. Rod
Blagojevich’s administration has expanded to include his impending
selection of a new U.S. senator to succeed President-elect Barack Obama.”
TOMMY CHONG’S PROSECUTOR DARES
OBAMA TO FIRE HER
Fine public servant spent $12 million of taxpayer money to prosecute
Chong for selling bongs
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/GOP_prosecutor_who_targeted_Chong_daring_1208.html
Accompanying music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q559R0DFXz4
MEXICO BRACES FOR DETROIT FALLOUT
Auto woes of the Big Three could hurt plants south of the border –
and spur migration north.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1209/p01s02-woam.html
AUTO BAILOUT PLAN CALLS FOR
‘CAR CZAR’
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/12941
STORE REVERSES ITSELF, WILL PAY
COMPENSATION
TO SON OF MURDERED EMPLOYEE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/09/MNTP14KFTT.DTL
Obama Nation
HOW RAHM EMANUEL MADE
MEGA-MILLIONS, BOUGHT HIS WAY TO POWER
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/110396/how_rahm_emanuel_made_mega-millions_and_bought_his_way_to_power/
Tearism
INDIA RELEASES PHOTOS OF MUMBAI
FIENDS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/09/india-mumbai
RAIMUNDO: CASE OF THE TELLTALE HOAX
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13873
What this underscores – apart from the tenuous character of human
existence and the utter absurdity of life – is how delicate the balance
of terror is these days. One false move and – ka-boom! – the world (or a
good chunk of it) goes up in a puff of smoke. If you like your humor
dark and unsweetened, then this is mordantly funny. What's not so funny,
however, is the probable answer to the obvious question: who made the
call?
Comment
THOMPSON: OBAMBA---TOO MANY BROKEN
PROMISES?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/12923
Obama said lobbyists - the real power brokers in Washington - would have
no role in his government yet his transition team is packed with
lobbyists and they're the ones making recommendations on who should get
top jobs and setting the legislative agenda of the new administration.
SHINKSEKI---RESTORING
A GOOD MAN’S HONOR
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/12967
One of the enduring blemishes on the Bush administration's record is its
shabby treatment of then-Army chief of staff Eric Shinseki. Shinseki's
sin was twofold: In the run-up to the Iraq war, he contradicted the
received wisdom of President Bush's top civilians at the Pentagon and he
was proved right.
Mashed Media
LAT KILLS FREELANCE PAYMENTS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/12/payments_to_lat_freelance.php
MORE TROUBLE COMING FOR
BANKRUPT TRIBUNE, LAT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003920487
THE AUDACITY OF ZELL
http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2008/12/post_198.php
MYSPACE JOINS GOOGLE
What is this, a Japanese monster movie?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/08/financial/f200219S65.DTL&tsp=1
Look at this LAT “news story” about San
Diego plane crash. . .Deaths aren’t mentioned till the 5th paragraph. .
.
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-jetcrash9-2008dec09,0,1422044.story
Religion
BUSH GRUNTS ABOUT GOD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/dec/09/george-bush-religion
”I just, I can't go there. I'm not that confident in knowing, you know,
the Almighty, to be able to say, 'Yeah, God wanted me of all the other
people.”
LAST OF THE ZOROASTRIANS
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1864931,00.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
PILOTS CRASH, SURVIVE NIGHT ON ICE
FLOE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7773046.stm
And in more
important matters. . .
Lost Angeles
EAST L.A. PURSUES CITYHOOD
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1210/p01s01-usgn.html
As the rumble of lowriders echoes down narrow streets lined with taco
trucks and mural-covered walls, Oscar Gonzales walks from yard to yard.
"We're gathering signatures to make East L.A. into a city of its own,"
he tells one woman at a small house just off Cesar Chavez Blvd., named
for the leader of the Chicano rights movement of the early 1960s. "We
don't have a mayor or city council, so when the community goes to the
state capital or Washington to bring back money, nobody is out there
fighting for us."
RESTORED COLE’S CHALLENGES PHILIPPE’S
(AGAIN)
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-earlybird8-2008dec08,0,4012793.story
THIS IS WHAT A MILLION BUCKS WILL
GET YOU IN L.A., HOME-WISE
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/12/hello_old_friend_venice_million_dollar_home_returns.php
Christmas
joy!
BAD SANTAS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2008/dec/09/bad-santas-work-and-careers
For Art’s
Sake
FREE ART!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2008/dec/09/art
Fashism
JAPANESE NOW CRAZY FOR EYELASHES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3689055/Eyelash-extension-craze-sweeps-Japan.html
Where ya
goin’?
SURINAME
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/07/TRCR13EL21.DTL
BEWARE THE ‘COURTESY GAP’ IN
BEIJING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/07/TR0414D367.DTL
And in the
end. . .
WOMAN KISSES TO DEAF
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7772902.stm
12-08 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
All these years later, his murder just feels more tragic, outrageous.
EMPTY GARDEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZzXEFDznoA
HERE TODAY
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/rememberinglennon08.html
ALL THOSE YEARS AGO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9IemLC4Onw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XznLPbt_MI
I CALL YOUR NAME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDmSADebifo
ISOLATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCXkqDGEoU
AKA TOMBO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKNagdlLbFo
SKYLINES:
TAIWAN BABY’S FIRST VISION: HELLO
KITTY!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3680683/Hello-Kitty-themed-maternity-hospital-opens-in-Taiwan.html
WOMAN FLIES WITH HER FEET
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3681441/Woman-born-with-no-arms-becomes-first-pilot-to-fly-plane-using-only-feet.html
PALIN FINDS BLAME FOR RECESSION
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/12/cartoon_palin_blames_recession_on_marx_brothers.html
‘POTTER’ STAR EMMA WATSON ‘READY
TO STRIP NAKED’
”It’s part of my job,” she says. (We are not making this stuff up.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3661349/Emma-Watson-would-go-naked-on-screen.html
GOLD-DIGGING WIVES NEED
BAILOUT!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/3527803/Recession-When-the-money-goes-so-does-the-toxic-wife.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
'HOAX' PHONE CALL ALMOST
CAUSED INDIA/PAKI NUKE WAR
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hoax_call_almost_took_nuclear_powers_1207.html
COKE, PEPSI USED AS PESTICIDES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpEgurO-ec
KRUGMAN: U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY TO
DISAPPEAR
And none too soon. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Krugman_US_auto_industry_will_probably_1208.html
NYT TO BORROW AGAINST BUILDING
Murdoch is salivating in the wings. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/business/media/08times.html
All-Melty
dollar
CASH-RICH CHINESE GO
HOUSE-HUNTING IN THE U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/asia/la-fi-chinahomes7-2008dec07,0,3055086.story
|
LINDORFF:
CAR DEALER EXPLAINS
WHY THE ‘BAILOUT’ IS A RAW DEAL
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/241
What’s needed, clearly, is not money for the big commercial banks that
got greedy and ran into a ditch. It’s support for the American people,
so that they don’t have to hunker down into a crouch and not continue to
participate in the economy.
GOOGLE GETS FROOGLE
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1864136,00.html
Israelity
NO MORE BLANK CHECKS FOR ISRAEL
UNDER OBAMA?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_spells_end_of_blank_cheques_1207.html
GITMO DETAINEES WANT TO ‘CONFESS’ TO 9/11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/08/september-11-confessions
Come, Mr.
Taliban. . .
TALIBAN IN 72 PERCENT OF
AFGHANISTAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Thinktank_West_in_danger_of_losing_1208.html
ANAND GOPAL: WHO ARE THE TALIBAN?
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175010
Al-Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged
highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the
major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local:
personal safety.
QUEEN CONDI: ‘THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE ARE WISE IN WANTING CHANGE’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/08/rice-americans-wise/
Obama Nation
OBAMA SUPPORTS STRIKING WORKERS
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/12/change_i_can_believe_in_3.php
CHARLOTTE HIGGINS: OBAMA---THE NEW CICERO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/26/barack-obama-usa1
Here's the thing: to understand the next four years of American
politics, you are going to need to understand something of the politics
of ancient Greece and Rome.
SHINSEKI WILL HEAD V.A.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/07/shinseki-veterans/
Shinseki is most famous for publicly contradicting Bush administration
officials’ overly optimistic predictions about the war in Iraq.
BUSH ‘BURROWS’ 18 MORE---LAST TUESDAY ALONE
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/07/bush-burrowing/
American
Reem
FAT COLLEGES STICK IT TO PARENTS
Prez-es getting raises as tuition leaps
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122844276224181879.html
Let's start with presidential salaries. In its latest survey, published
last month, the Chronicle reports that compensation for private
university presidents rose on average 6% in the past year, a figure that
represents 50% more than the standard annual merit increase for
private-sector employees. The total compensation (salary plus benefits)
of three private university presidents for 2007, the most recent year
for which data are available, was in the stratosphere: Columbia
University's Lee C. Bollinger earned $1,411,894 and Northwestern
University's Henry S. Bienen, $1,742,560; Suffolk University in
Massachusetts paid David J. Sargent $2,800,461.
Enviro Wacko
GREEN BANKS: PAYING COUNTRIES
TO KEEP THEIR TREES
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1864302,00.html
BACK AT JUNK VALUE, RECYCLABLES
PILE UP
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/08/business/08recycle.php
Trash has crashed. The economic downturn has decimated the U.S. market
for recycled materials like cardboard, plastic, newspaper and metals.
Across the country, this junk is accumulating by the ton in the yards
and warehouses of recycling contractors, which are unable to find buyers
or are unwilling to sell at rock-bottom prices.
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES TO TEST BIOFUEL PLANE
Powered by French fries. . .
http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/12/continental_airlines_to_fly_te.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
DOCTOR HELD CAPTIVE BY BANGLADESH
FAMILY FORCED MARRIAGE SCHEME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3659356/NHS-doctor-held-captive-by-family-in-Bangladesh-facing-forced-marriage.html
AFRICAN ALBINOS HUNTED FOR BODY
PARTS
We are not making this stuff up.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tanzania/3661836/Albinos-hunted-for-body-parts-in-Africa.html
Obits
NINA FOCH
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/movies/08foch.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
BEVERLY GARLAND
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/movies/08garland.html?ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
Christmas
joy!
EUROPE’S CHRISTMAS MARKETS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1208/p17s01-lign.html
My first Christmas abroad caught me by surprise. The heart and soul of
my new home – Prague's highly esteemed Old Town Square – had been
transformed, seemingly overnight, into a scene from a Charles Dickens
novel.
LAPLAND XMAS PARK CLOSES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/08/lapland-new-forest-christmas
50 BEST VIDEO GAMES OF 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologyreviews/videogamereviewsandpreviews/3550904/The-50-best-games-of-2008.html
Musique
PIAF’S GREEK
LOVER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/08/edith-piaf-letters-dimitris-horn
For Art’s
Sake
GAUDI BETRAYED?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/dec/08/gaudi-sagrada-familia
YUMEJI
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/12/art_takehisa_yumeji.html
And in the
end. . .
HAVE A POTATO
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3683126/Worlds-heaviest-potato-grown-by-farmer-in-Lebanon.html
12-05 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
FZ:
TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF WHEN YOU DANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpwMyTOleEc
IGOR'S BOOGIE, PHASE TWO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLGkSnktew
HOLIDAY IN BERLIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cCQJE81EiE
PORN WARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB76RphKmdM
YELLOW SHARK OVERTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C2ZsuUqiHY
LET ME TAKE YOU TO THE BEACH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVjFFqertvY
OUTRAGE AT VALDEZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjEXjiWonN4
GREGGERY PECCARY (PART ONE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqMflEYv_7U
GREGGERY PECCARY (PART TWO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBgboOfhRM
FRANK, JOHN, YOKO (GASP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3G0ct-480g
LITTLE HOUSE I USED TO LIVE IN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrDL6rqhMM
SLEEP DIRT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbUi0izSWVU
SKYLINES:
Man killed for “hogging
karaoke”
Good reason!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7766666.stm
Related:
Man picks nose to death
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Nose_picking_habit_kills_man&in_article_id=434191&in_page_id=34
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/1204/
Proof: Madonna is a vampire
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Madonnas_new_%A36m_Louis_Vuitton_pictures_revealed&in_article_id=434050&in_page_id=7
And so is. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3565708/Boy-George-found-guilty-of-handcuffing-escort-after-photo-shoot.html
And in Frank
Zappa matters. . .
December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa
WHOM TO FOLLOW: ZAPPA OR GOD?
(Think we’ll stick with Zappa.)
http://www.thevalleychronicle.com/articles/2008/11/28/opinion/letters%20to%20editor/06letter.txt
ZAPPA RETURNS!
http://www.stereophile.com/musicrecordings/1108zap/
Zappa's real legacy is as a composer. He is one of those historic
figures who takes on a new life after death, when the details of his
personality are sublimated by the resonating impact of what he has left
behind.
ZAPPA’S GHOST VISITS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS!
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/11/21/frank-zappas-ghost-visits-the-library-of-congress/
ZAPPA VISITS MUSICIAN’S DREAMS,
MAKES HIM DO WEIRD THINGS!
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/nov/12/blurt3/
MAN HAS STRANGE ZAPPA
MEMORY!
http://orato.com/podium/2008/11/26/meeting-frank-zappa
FESTIVAL OF
ZAPPADAN
http://ristocrats.blogspot.com/2008/11/its-that-most-wonderful-time-of-year.html
TWO NEW FZ ALBUMS AT ZAPPA.COM
http://www.zappa.com
ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA---WEST COAST
TOUR
http://www.zappa.com/zpz/tourdates.html
http://www.livedaily.com/news/15326.html
DWEEZIL NOMINATED FOR GRAMMY
http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/news/grammy-nominations-predictable/
STILL TIME TO SEE THE EXCELLENT
“JOE’S GARAGE”
http://www.openfist.org/
WORD TO THE WISE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_klzJI5htE
And on to news
and comment. . .
BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL TO CHARGE
JOHN YOO WITH WAR CRIMES?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/05/BAVM14H16D.DTL&tsp=1
BASEBALL BAILOUT!
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081204_bailout_ballpark/
The U.S. taxpayer is on the hook for more than $300 billion of
Citigroup’s junk investments, so where did the ailing bank find $400
million to put its name on the New York Mets’ new stadium?
BUSH-APPOINTED U.S. ATTORNEY REFUSES TO
LEAVE UNDER OBAMA
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/05/mary-beth-buchanan-job/
Israelity
ISRAEL PLANS FOR IRAN ATTACK
WITHOUT U.S. INVOLVEMENT
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1227702421218&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
JEWISH SETTLERS IN HEBRON
SHOOT PALESTINIAN MEN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/05/hebron-settlers-shooting-israel-palestinians
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has released graphic video
footage showing settlers fighting with Palestinians in Hebron and
shooting two men at close range in the hours after a settler house was
evacuated by police yesterday.
American
reem
LISTEN:
THE HOMELESS OF LAS VEGAS
Some live right under the casinos
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97800190&ft=1&f=17
Sarah
Payless
SERRAH’S MAKE-UP AND HAIR? A
MERE $110, 000!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palins_traveling_makeup_artist_paid_32000_1205.html
SERRAH: KILL MORE WILD ANIMALS! IT’S GOOD FOR ALASKA!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/05/palin-health/
Enviro Wacko
PIG POWER: IT’S THE SHIT!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/science/earth/04meat.html?em
They cook manure from their 3,000 pigs to capture the methane trapped
within it, and then use the gas to make electricity for the local power
grid.
Iraq and
Roll
WHITE HOUSE ALTERED IRAQ DOCUMENTS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_altered_documents_on_coalition_1205.html
Mashed Media
WATCH: MSNBC---THE NEW FOX?
(Sorry, but MSNBC doesn’t pretend to be “fair and balanced,” and
fully acknowledges its left slant. Plus the IQ’s are about 60 points
higher.)
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20081202_daily_show_is_msnbc_the_new_fox_news/?ln
Comment
RAIMUNDO: OBAMA IS NOT ENDING THE IRAQ WAR
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13857
Tens of thousands – a prime target for terrorists, a "residual force"
that, in any other context, would be seen as an army of occupation, and
a reminder to the Iraqis that they still aren't free of us, nor we of
them. That "residual" force, we are told, could number as high as 70,000
troops "for a substantial time even beyond 2011." At a cost of billions,
to be sure.
BUCHANAN: WHAT IS THE RATIONALE FOR THE
MUMBAI ATTACK?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21371.htm
India and Pakistan both have a vital interest in no new war. But a new
war is exactly what the terrorists killed for and died for. Should it
come, they win - and enter history as revolutionary terrorists alongside
Princip and the perpetrators of 9/11.
Words, words
MAN GETS SIX MONTHS IN PRISON
FOR SAYING ‘FUCK’ IN COURT
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081205/NEWS01/812050363
RANT ON CRAIGSLIST, GO TO JAIL
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,462446,00.html
(Lack of)
Health
BALLS AND BRAINS
The quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and
vice versa.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12719355
Spaced Out
TWEETS FROM MARS
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/NASA_lands_a_cosmic_first_with_twee_12052008.html
MARS SCIENCE LAB LAUNCH DELAYED TWO YEARS
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/12/04/nasa-delays-mars-science-laboratory-launch-to-2011/
ANCIENT CLIMATE CYCLES RECORDED IN MARS
ROCKS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081204141801.htm
ZAPPAFRANK!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3834_Zappafrank
3834 Zappafrank is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered by
Ladislav Brožek in 1980 at Kleť Observatory. Zappafrank is entirely
undistinguished, aside from the fact that it has been named after Frank
Zappa, the eclectic rock musician, on July 22, 1994.
Animals in
the news
EXTINCT MONKEY FOUND IN VIETNAM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/dec/05/tonkin-monkey
SLIDE SHOW:
ANIMALS AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/dec/04/1?picture=340379045
Obits
WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS AMNESIAC IS
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html?ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
Christmas
Joy!
BLACK PETER
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,594709,00.html
Few European Christmas traditions elicit as many diverse and divergent
opinions as Black Pete of the Netherlands. Santa's former slave may have
been whitewashed in recent years, but many still view him as a racist
caricature from the country's colonial past.
SF TOASTS THE REPEAL OF PROHIBITION AGAIN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/05/MNMO14IBLS.DTL
Accompanying music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jQZVqN9pnk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOp-QMYrkck
lyrics:
http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/introjs.htm?/~acsa/songfile/BROWNEYD.HTM
CHEAP GOSSIP ABOUT UNIMPORTANT
ASSHOLES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/06/arts/peepsat.php
Musique
STRANGE NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAY
REMAKE COMPUTERS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,594709,00.html
PAUL, RINGO NOMINATED FOR GRAMMIES
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1204grammyawards08.html
Books
OFFBEAT ATLASES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1202/p25s13-algn.html
‘ATLAS OF TRUE NAMES’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/3547816/The-Atlas-of-True-Names.html
"You Must Remember This"
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/07/arts/idbriefs6A.php
REVIEW: BEEDLE THE BARD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/12/04/bobeedle104.xml
WHITE RUSSIANS ARE BACK,
COURTESY OF “BIG LEBOWSKI”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/dining/03lebo.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Where ya
goin’?
UNTRAMMELED OAHU
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/03/DDDE14FUEQ.DTL&type=travel
RICH TOWN OF BLACK GOLD
http://www.metro.co.uk/travel/article.html?Digging_for_buried_treasures_in_Brazil&in_article_id=432247&in_page_id=5&in_a_source=
And in the
end. . .
ZAPPA
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=frank+zappa
12-04 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
WOODY GUTHRIE AND LEADBELLY, WNYC 1940
(Thanks to Jack Oakes)
http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2007/01/leadbelly-woody-guthrie-live-on-wnyc-1940/
SKYLINES:
ZAPPA BLOGSWARM TOMORROW
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-40
Here you are, kiddies---Jennifer
Aniston topless, more or less
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Jennifer_Aniston_shows_her_wet_T-shirt_boobs_in_new_2009_calender&in_article_id=432174&in_page_id=7
Related:
130,000 inflatable breasts lost at
sea
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?130,000_inflatable_breasts_lost_at_sea&in_article_id=432203&in_page_id=2
TEDDY BEARS IN SPACE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/dec/04/teddy-bears-space
WORLD’S OLDEST POT STASH FOUND
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=28034925
Lost Angeles
FAMED HOLLYWOOD STRIP CLUB BURNS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/04/state/n071514S75.DTL&tsp=1
KILLER ARMCHAIRS FROM CHINA
Really. . .the world should just cease all trade with China
immediately. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/3547273/Toxic-leather-armchair-kills-father-son-and-cat-family-claims.html
SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE NEW ROWLING BOOK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/dec/04/harry-potter-beedle-bard
And on to news
and comment. . .
BRITAIN TORTURED OBAMA’S
GRANDFATHER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/dec/03/obama-grandfather-maumau-torture
Your
Corporatocracy at work!
INDIANA GUARDSMEN SUE KBR OVER
CHEM EXPOSURE
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/4/indiana_guardsmen_sue_kbr_over_chemical
KBR GAVE SOLDIERS ICE
TAINTED WITH ‘BODY FLUIDS’ AND ROTTING HUMAN REMAINS
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/04/kbr-lawsuit-human-remains/
Gulf War Syndrome affects
700,000---gov’t. study
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/4/govt_study_concludes_gulf_war_syndrome
MSNBC’S CHRIS MATTHEWS TO RUN FOR SENATE
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16190.html
Mashed Media
MEDIA MAKES KIDS SICK
Turns them into fat, smoking, sex addicts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102920.html
CABLE COMPANIES TRYING TO KILL
PUBLIC ACCESS
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-access4-2008dec04,0,6187876.story
ONLINE JOURNALISTS JAILED MORE THAN ANY
OTHER MEDIUM
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003919510
All-melty
dollar
GOOD NEWS: GM, CHRYSLER
CONSIDERING BANKRUPTCY
That’ll teach you to make SUVs, greedbarons
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/GM_Chrysler_considering_bankruptcy_report_1204.html
Yo-ho, yo-ho
HERE COMES THE BLACKWATER. . .NAVY
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122826117332273945.html
Enviro Wacko
PIECE OF CALIF. PARADISE
ABOUT TO TRAMPLED BY PUBLIC
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/04/MNBI14F7QG.DTL
By early spring, about 5,630 acres near the mouth of the Russian River
could be open to the public, revealing redwood forests, wildflower
meadows and flowing streams, home to rare birds and frogs.
THERE IS NO ‘CLEAN COAL’---AND
GORE WILL PROVE IT
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/04/reality-coalition-launch/
MONBIOT: WE’RE THE POLAR BEARS
http://www.alternet.org/environment/109546/forget_the_polar_bears_--_the_climate_crisis_is_about_all_of_us_/
George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to
be repossessed. Smashing the porcelain, ripping the doors off their
hinges, he is determined that there will be nothing worth owning by the
time the bastards kick him out. His midnight regulations, opening
America's wilderness to logging and mining, trashing pollution controls,
tearing up conservation laws, will do almost as much damage in the last
60 days of his presidency as he achieved in the foregoing 3,000.
Sarah
payless
RNC TO REPORT ANOTHER $30K
PALIN SPENT ON CLOTHES
What did she buy, gold-plated panties?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/RNC_to_report_another_30000_spent_1204.html
WITCH DOCTOR KILLED ‘POSSESSED’
CHILDREN
Wonder if he worked with the guy who prayed with Palin?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/3545998/Lost-city-of-cloud-people-found-in-Peru.html
Tearism
MUMBAI TERRORISTS ON ACID,
COKE?
(Rip Post: Very unlikely that they were on acid.)
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1864049,00.html?xid=rss-world
JIHADISTS CALL FOR ‘YOUTUBE
INVASION’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3547072/Jihadist-forum-calls-for-YouTube-Invasion.html
Comment
"I’M GONNA REALLY MISS
DESTROYING THIS PLACE’---BUSH
(Okay, it’s The Onion---but the most realistic news around is to be
found here.)
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/im_really_gonna_miss
Israelity
ISRAEL DRAGS JEWISH SETTLERS
FROM HEBRON
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/04/israel-hebron-eviction
Japonica
JAPAN’S OBSESSION WITH BLOOD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/04/japan-world-news
TOKYO TUNA AUCTION BANS
TOURISTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3547775/Tourists-banned-from-famous-Tokyo-tuna-auctions-at-worlds-biggest-fish-market.htm
Spaced out
SPACE PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/space-photos-week22/index.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
DUBAI TRILLION-DOLLAR BUILDING
BOOM FALTERS
Maybe you can pick up a skyscraper. . .cheap
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1204/p06s01-wome.html
And in more
important matters. . .
Xmas Joy
SLIDE SHOW: LIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD
Certainly the nicest part of the holiday
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/3548203/Christmas-lights-from-around-the-world.html
WHAT KIND OF
TREE IS JUSTIFIABLE?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2008/dec/04/christmas
TIPPING IS NOT A CITY IN
CHINA---BUT IT’S DOWN
Take it from the waiters
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/52599/
Musique
ANOTHER ‘BRILLIANT COMEBACK’ FOR
LIZA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/04/liza-minnelli-broadway-palace
ELLIOT CARTER,
COMPOSING LEGEND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/12/04/bmcarter104.xml
But the Living Legend, when it opens the door of the brownstone
apartment in New York, turns out to be a diminutive, white-haired,
wholly unscary man in shorts and braces. He has surprisingly sturdy legs
for someone just a few months short of his 100th birthday and, as he
ushers me in, he waves his walking stick ostentatiously to show he
doesn't really need it.
REMEMBERING 1951
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/dec/04/1951-interestrates-culture?picture=340362501
‘LOST CITY OF CLOUD PEOPLE’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/3545998/Lost-city-of-cloud-people-found-in-Peru.html
Beat poets: 40 years of letters
http://blog.oregonlive.com/books/2008/11/beat_poets_40_years_of_letters.html
Gary Snyder's first letter to Allen Ginsberg, dated Feb. 24, 1956,
starts with some poetry and ends with a request for money. Ginsberg
responds with $10 and a promise to send more.
Where ya
goin’?
TREE HOUSE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/03/NSF913S7NI.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
BLOG STUFF WE’RE SICK OF
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/12/blog_stuff_were_sick_of.html?f=most-commented-24h-10
MARTINA HAS GUTS
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Martina_shows_lots_of_guts_in_foul_trial&in_article_id=430706&in_page_id=7
12-03 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT:
ODETTA
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=odetta&search_type=&aq=-1&oq=
SKYLINES:
R.I.P. ODETTA
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03odetta.html?ref=obituaries
RAILROAD TIE FOUND ON MARS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/3544076/Picture-sparks-claims-of-wood-on-Mars.html
FUNNY HEADLINE OF THE WEEK
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20081202_nixon_tapes_confirm_sour_personality/?ln
Related:
MY FAVORITE RADIO SHOW EVER!
http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2008/12/never-new-nixon.html
POLANSKI SEEKS DISMISSAL OF L.A. SEX CASE
The Rip Post covered this story, read the original police report.
Roman was obviously sandbagged by a mom and her rather precocious
13-year-old daughter, but gee Roman---she was 13. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/dec/03/roman-polanski
TEXT-MESSAGE SURGEON SAVES
BOY’S LIFE
Performed amputation by text-message instruction
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/3543479/British-surgeon-in-DR-Congo-amputates-boys-arm-using-text-message-instructions.html
MAN JAILED FOR SEXUAL INTER-HORSE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3543414/Man-jailed-for-having-sex-with-a-horse.html
MAN CAN KEEP CUT-UP MONEY---NOW HE
HAS TO PUT IT ALL BACK TOGETHER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3545342/Cleaner-told-he-can-keep-10000-in-cut-up-banknotes-if-he-can-piece-it-together.html
HELP, I’M A DUCK!
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/12/cartoon_help_im_a_duck.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
U.S. REFUSES TO SIGN
ANTI-CLUSTER BOMB TREATY
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Some_100_countries_ban_cluster_bomb_12032008.html
INSURANCE CO. DENIES
BENEFITS TO SON OF MURDER VICTIM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/02/MN1514DSB4.DTL&tsp=1
Woman was killed at work, but insurance rules that it was not
“work-related” (hahahahaha)
BRAIN SCAN AIRPORT ID
Soon "they" will check your brain profile instead of your
fingerprints
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/02/airport.security/index.html
Obama Nation
Big Dope Richardson: tainted obama appointment
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/12508
Electile
Dysfunction
FRANKEN CLAIMS TO BE DOWN BY 50
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Franken_campaign_says_recount_margin_down_1202.html
JEBBIE TO RUN FOR SENATE (be
very afraid)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Jeb_Bush_considers_Senate_run_1202.html
Plame-out
CRAZY NOVAK: I DIDN’T HURT VALERIE
PLAME
Says he would “out” her again
because “The left was trying to ruin me.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/03/novak-plame-2/
Raimundo: The Meaning of Mumbai
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13848
Forget the differences between Sunnis and Shi'ites. That's so yesterday.
What we're dealing with now, in the Pakistani-Indian rivalry, is a true
war of civilizations, pitting Muslims against Hindus. India's 9/11:
that's what they're calling it, and the pattern fits in certain ways,
particularly when it comes to forewarnings.
Christmas
Joy!
CELEBRATE XMAS IN
BARCELONA---WITH A LITTLE DEFECATION!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/3545223/Caganers-figurines-of-defecating-world-leaders-in-Catalan-nativity-scenes.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,592677,00.html
ROASTING RUDOLPH: HAVE A NICE
REINDEER STEAK, KIDDIES!
Boycott Ikea! They sell reindeer salami!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2008/dec/03/reindeer-meat-christmas
COCCO:
IT’S BEGINNING TO
LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS!
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081201_merry_wal_mart_america_part_ii/
The victim was, in fact, a seasonal worker not hired by Wal-Mart but by
an employment agency. The crowd had been building overnight at the
entrance of the sprawling store in Valley Stream—by 3:30 a.m., Nassau
County police already had been called to calm the throng. They were
among an estimated 73.6 million shoppers around the country who turned
out for day-after-Thanksgiving sales, lured in part by pre-dawn
“doorbuster” specials, a term that turns out to have been tragically
literal.
WHITE HOUSE PULLS IMPEACHMENT
ORNAMENT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_xmas_tree_to_feature_1202.html
MILLION-DOLLAR XMAS TREE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/3541432/Worlds-most-expensive-Christmas-tree-on-display.html
ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY CHRISTMAS TREE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/02/national/a133605S88.DTL
SLIDE SHOW:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ROCKEFELLER
CENTER CHRISTMAS TREE
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1863633,00.html
America the
beautiful
COLLEGE MAY SOON BE
UNAFFORDABLE TO MOST IN U.S.
Isn’t it already?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/education/03college.html?em
U.S. PUSHES TO INCREASE NUMBER OF COLLEGE
GRADS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1204/p02s01-ussc.html
Despite improvements since the early 1990s, the US ranks 15th of 29
developed nations in terms of degrees granted: For every 100 students
enrolled, countries such as Switzerland, Japan, and Australia award 26
degrees, compared with the 18 in the US. In fact, nearly half of
American students at four-year colleges don't finish within six years,
according to a report card released Wednesday by a higher-education
policy group.
Auto-Motive
BIG THREE PROMISE ELECTRIC
CARS---TO GET $34 BILLION TAXPAYER BAILOUT
Screw the Big Three. Let them go belly-up.
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/03/seeking-34-billion-from-congress-automakers-promise-electric-cars/
By 2012, GM promises to offer 15 hybrid models. It currently offers six,
more than any manufacturer.The company is also expected to sell its Saab
brand, as well as Hummer, a brand loathed by environmentalists
worldwide.
HAWAII IS FIRST STATE WITH
ELECTRIC CAR STATIONS
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Electric-Car-Stations.html
FLYING CAR FOR SALE ON EBAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/3544161/Flying-car-up-for-sale-on-eBay.html
Animals in
the news!
WAVE GOODBYE TO THE NICE PENGUINS,
KIDS!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081201-penguins-warming.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
‘SUPER ANTS’ INVADING EUROPE,
BRITAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/03/super-ants-invade-uk-wildlife-gardens
Exclusive footage of the ants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2PLls02gOU
And in more
important matters. . .
WORLD’S OLDEST KITTY CELEBRATES
BIRTHDAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3545370/Worlds-oldest-cat-celebrates-100th-birthday.html
Accompanying music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZfSBKgp6WQ
MAVERICK SURFERS
OF HALF-MOON BAY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/03/MNP314G2JU.DTL
THE SEARCH FOR SAFFRON
On the trail of the worlds’s most expensive spice
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1203/p18s01-lifo.html
Books
REMEMBERING CONDUCTOR SARAH
CALDWELL
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=bcDXbKzCnPzBWMX8rVTjhd2t9fxxHmPJ
It wasn't easy to take a good photograph of Caldwell, who neglected her
appearance and often weighed 300 pounds. But as these two volumes
demonstrate, it's even harder to get a clear image of Caldwell's
personality, her legacy, and whatever it was that drove her to become
one of the most respected, and frustrating, opera leaders in America.
Grand Theft Auto, Twitter and
Beowulf---
all demonstrate that stories will never die
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/25/bostory125.xml&page=1
Where ya
goin’?
26-MILE BIKERIDE THROUGH
SILVERLAKE AND ECHO PARK
http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2008/12/riding-away-those-thanksgiving-calories.html
And in the
end
IVANA TRUMP’S 22-YEAR-OLD BOY TOY
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Ivana_trumps_hubby_No.4...&in_article_id=428398&in_page_id=7
KEIRA KNIGHTLY’S TERRIFYING CHOPPERS
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Keira_finally_smiles._Quick_stop_her!&in_article_id=426180&in_page_id=7
12-02 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIcRN7oyRB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmkE5Yza054
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND BROKE DOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33snxM-RmL8
. . .WITH LYRICS, SUNG BY DAFFY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q526mSA3TRs&feature=related
. . .PERFORMED BY MERRY-GO-ROUND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOyl5f8NWwA
. . .AND, OF COURSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMJ_2vDZKnY
ENTRANCE OF THE GLADIATORS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtQZD1zbTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAcaukw_26o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
SKYLINES:
HONEY, LET’S GO ON A CRUISE!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081202/ap_on_re_af/piracy
WATCH:
BUSH GETS PEACE MEDAL
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_awarded_International_Medal_of_PEACE_1202.html
Exclusive: Here is the music that was
played during the ceremony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN06x9FJzLA
QUEEN CONDI PLAYS FOR QUEEN LIZ
She should have stuck with the piano
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/dec/02/condoleezza-rice-piano-queen
Lost Angeles
PUPPETS HIT BY RECESSION
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/theater/02pupp.html?_r=2&hp
UGANDAN MEN SUCKERS FOR CHLORFORMED BREASTS
Now there’s a headline. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/3541361/Ugandan-men-warned-of-booby-trap-after-chloroform-attacks.html
SHOT TWICE, BUCK NEARLY TAKES
OUT HUNTER
Too bad the bastard wasn’t gored to death
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Undead_deer_gains_revenge_on_hunter&in_article_id=428205&in_page_id=2
And on to news
and comment. . .
LINDORFF:
A TALE OF TWO TERROR ATTACKS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/239
Before the odor of burned gunpowder has left the air of the Taj Mahal
Hotel in Mumbai, the US is lecturing India not to go off half-cocked and
attack Pakistan, simply because all of the attackers in the terrorist
assaults in that city arrived by boat, apparently from neighboring
Pakistan. US officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
are calling on India to engage in a “transparent” and “thorough”
investigation into the attacks to establish who was responsible. How
different this is from the American government’s response to the 9-11
attacks in the US!
Impeachy
Keen
WHITE HOUSE
‘IMPEACH BUSH’ CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/02/ornament/
JEB BUSH: REPUGS SHOULD FORM ‘SHADOW
GOVERNMENT’
We are not making this stuff up!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Jeb_Bush_GOP_should_create_a_1201.html
CHENEY INDICTMENT DROPPED
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cheney_Gonzales_indictments_dropped_1201.html
ONE IN FIVE AMERICANS HAS A
PERSONALITY DISORDER!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28002991/
BUSH FCC CHAIR MULLS PORN-FREE INTERNET
That would be a like a greed-free Wall Street
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_FCC_chairman_considering_pornfree_Internet_1201.html
People’s
Repugnic/mashed media
BELGIAN TV CREW ATTACKED BY
CHINA GOV’T. THUGS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/belgian-reporting-team-robbed-beaten-chinese-aids-orphans-aids-blood-tranfusion-victims-7963.html
The news team planned to visit a local NGO, which cares for local
orphans and provides medical care to AIDS patients. However, the local
authorities and police had received a written notice to prohibit NGO
staff from contacting the news team before they arrived. A president of
one orphanage was under house arrest. But some NGO staff agreed to
cooperate with the team.
Comment
Paul Craig Roberts:
The Cost of Hegemony Is Beyond Reach
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=13841
Undeterred by massive budget deficits from wars, a falling economy, and
financial bailouts, the U.S. government has managed to start a new cold
war with Russia.
Obama's Economic Team: Records of Failure
http://www.counterpunch.org/millet12012008.html
Claiming that you intend to regulate the global economy while giving
decisional power to people who are responsible for its deregulation, is
like giving the job of fireman to arsonists.
Animals in
the news
CAN THE BLUEFIN TUNA BE SAVED?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1862255,00.html
Good old
humans
WOMAN BILKED WHILE BATTLING CANCER
”Friend” set up credit cards, etc.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/02/BUB414BF0O.DTL
Obit
UTZON, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ARCHITECT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7757042.stml
And in more
important matters. . .
RUN, SANTA! HERE COMES THE
KRAMPUS!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,594050,00.html
Santa's all well and good, but darker things have always lurked in
Austria's woods. Take the Krampus, a towering, hairy creature with a
long, long tongue, goat's head and horns and cloven feet. Krampus is no
dancing Greek satyr. Instead, he roams rural Austria clad in chains and
carrying a stick, terrifying misbehaving children on Dec. 5, the night
before St. Nicholas' Day.
SHATNER TALK SHOW DEBUTS TODAY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7760470.stm
Musique
MARION COOK: FORGOTTEN
VIOLINIST
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_4_urb-will_marion_cook.html
Will Marion Cook is a name to reckon with in the history of black
American music. “His great genius will always be a guiding star to those
of us who remain,” black violinist Clarence Cameron White wrote on
hearing of Cook’s death. Trumpeter Arthur Briggs called Cook “the
greatest real musician ever.” Duke Ellington and Eubie Blake praised him
as a mentor.
OPERA BEING USED TO SELL CONDOMS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2008/dec/02/durex-mozart-ad
THOMAS SIGNS UP FOR ‘YOUTUBE
SYMPHONY’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/02/DDSP14F5N7.DTL&type=music
One is the creation of a four-minute collaborative piece written by Tan,
the Grammy-winning Chinese-born composer of such works as the opera "The
Last Emperor." Music for individual parts will be posted online, and
musicians worldwide can upload their performances - played on any
instrument - to be combined into a video mashup of the entire work.
Africa
SENEGALESE FIND OASIS IN A
LIBRARY
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/12/02/senegalese-thirsty-to-learn-find-an-oasis-in-a-simple-library/
SLIDE
SHOW: VANISHING AFRICA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2008/nov/25/tribal-portraits-african-photography?picture=339823976
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE
PYGMIES?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/34347839.html
Some 50 Pygmies of the Baka clan lead me single file through a steaming
rain forest in Cameroon. Scrambling across tree trunks over streams, we
hack through heavy undergrowth with machetes and cut away vinelike
lianas hanging like curtains in our path. After two hours, we reach a
small clearing beneath a hardwood tree canopy that almost blots out the
sky.
For Art’s
Sake
AWFUL KINKADE ALSO PAINTS. .
.NAKED LADIES
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/26/AR2008112604021.html
And in the end.
. .
BACKHOE BUCKET BRIDE
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/12/02/chinese-tractor-bucket-wedding-plunge-mid-air/
12-01 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
GEORGE
MY SWEET LORD 2000
better than the original!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXOWH85QPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcAeuRvmzrI
THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EToo66wwwt4
BE HERE NOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUGa0v0bz1w
STUCK INSIDE A CLOUD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-pfOKPX4Cs
MARWA BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4I4KvFu9_I
THE LIGHT THAT HAS LIGHTED THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qgf8fYGcmk
THE DAY THE WORLD GETS ROUND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9t571klxlg
DEEP BLUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999uKLFmt5w
NEVER GET OVER YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wx0KRyFBqU
JUST FOR TODAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qe2ZjD7v6Y
SKYLINES:
HAPPY FACE IN THE SKY
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/11/30/venus-and-jupiter-and-the-moon-oh-my/
L.A. FILM FESTIVAL HEAD QUITS OVER PROP. 8
Mormon gave money to
support the measure
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/28/DD3O14DIN1.DTL
Watch:
‘Four-Wheel Bob’ trains for Kilamanjaro
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?&o=12&f=/c/a/2008/11/29/MNGG142CIB.DTL
LOT OF BULL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3539091/Britains-biggest-bullock-weighs-in-at-more-than-3500lbs.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
Enviro Wacko
VENICE HAS WORST FLOODS IN 40 YEARS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/01/italy-venice-flooding
BUSH: ‘I WAS UNPREPARED FOR
WAR’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_I_was_unprepared_for_war_1201.html
---AND HE WAS ALSO UNPREPARED
FOR ECONOMICS
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/01/news/ignored_warnings.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008120106
The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down,
interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to
pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored
remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown,
according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents
BUSH TO RECEIVE ‘MEDAL OF
PEACE’. . . HUH?
We are not making this stuff up!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/01/bush-peace/
Bush comments
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/headzup-bushs-view-success
Impeachy
Keen
IMPEACHMENT ADS TO AIR IN
CALIFORNIA
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Impeachment_spot_to_run_in_California_1201.htm
Obama Nation
HILLARY: CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE
IN?
http://www.alternet.org/audits/109264/hillary_clinton%27s_disdain_for_international_law_--_change_we_can_believe_in_/
For those hoping for a dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy under an
Obama administration -- particularly regarding human rights,
international law, and respect for international institutions -- the
appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is a bitter
disappointment. Indeed, Senator Clinton has more often than not sided
with the Bush administration against fellow Democrats on key issues
regarding America’s international legal obligations, particularly
international humanitarian law.
OBAMA ADVISORS DISLIKED HILLARY
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16065.html
OBAMA AVOIDING INTEL PICKS
CONNECTED TO BUSH POLICY
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/01/obama-intel-picks/
RAIMUNDO: END OF THE AFFAIR
Obama and the anti-war movement
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13838
The War Party's decisive influence in the Obama administration is going
to be rolled out on Monday, so that even the most craven Obama-bots on
the Left will be left wondering who and what they voted for. Hillary the
hawk at State, Bush's warlord Robert Gates at Defense, and Gen. Jim
Jones – who wants to station U.S. troops in the occupied territories
under the rubric of NATO! – as national security adviser to the
president. Yes, antiwar voters took a chance on Obama, reasoning that
anything would be better than four more years of Bushian belligerence,
yet now they discover to their chagrin that the dice are loaded.
OBAMA IS NOT THE
COUNTRY’S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802219_pf.html
Mashed Media
HUFFINGTON POST RAISES $25
MILLION
(Rip Post raised fifty bucks last week.)
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/136382/Huffington-Post-Nabs-25-Million-in-Funding?tickers=^ixic
FOX NEWS SHUT OUT AGAIN AT
OBAMA PRESS CONFERENCE
Wonderful!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/01/fox-news-shut-out-again-at-obama-press-conference/
Tearism
BRIT ‘CURRY KING’ CALLS FOR
TEN-YEAR BAN ON IMMIGRANTS
Good idea!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3536972/Britains-curry-king-calls-for-10-year-block-on-new-immigrants.html
WHAT THEY HATE
ABOUT MUMBAI
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/opinion/29mehta.html?_r=1
INDIA AND PAKISTAN ON BRINK OF WAR?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,593770,00.html
Chris Hedges: Confronting
the Terrorist Within
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081201_confronting_the_terrorist_within/
"The world is far more complex than our childish vision of good and
evil. We as a nation and a culture have no monopoly on virtue. The wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan, when viewed from the receiving end, are
state-sponsored acts of terrorism."
Jesus H.
Christ!
CATHOLIC CLERIC ASSAILS THE
EVIL DISNEY
For once, a church takes a sensible stand
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3534960/Disney-accused-by-Catholic-cleric-of-corrupting-childrens-minds.html
Animals in
the news!
A MILLION STARLINGS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3539075/One-million-starlings-caught-on-camera-over-Somerset.html
150 WHALES DIE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/3536838/150-whales-die-off-Tasmanian-coast.html
PREHISTORIC SHELL-LESS TURTLES!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081126-oldest-turtle.html
Oh, by the
way
JAPAN ‘JOB FOR LIFE’
DISAPPEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3537895/Japanese-job-for-life-disappears.html
And in more
important matters. . .
Musique
EMMANUEL AX: THE MODEST VIRTUOSO
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2008/feature2.html
When the final chords of the Emperor were struck, the audience, having
been ushered through the flames of a great masterpiece, was now free to
express itself. A standing ovation, long and forceful, leading to
multiple curtain calls. Ax, smiling bashfully, drenched in perspiration,
luxuriated for a moment in the lights. Then, to everyone’s surprise, he
headed back to the piano. The evening was not over yet.
OPERA, WITH
RAISINETS
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/12/01/i-decide-to-attend-the-opera-with-raisinets-and-bonbons/
Live performances of the New York Metropolitan Opera are beamed into
movie theaters across the country, offering audiences ways to experience
high culture at low prices. But is it the same as live or is it just
Memorex?
BRITS ARE THE FRISKIEST FROLICKERS
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article5257166.ece
Lost Angeles
STARBUCKS HOLDS
L.A. TOGETHER? STARBUCKS?? IS THIS GUY KIDDING?
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rodriguez1-2008dec01,0,2169803.column
Light
reading
THE DAY I GOT STUCK IN THE CONGO
AND CALLED ‘CAR TALK’
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/11/28/the-day-i-got-stuck-in-the-congo-and-called-car-talk/
Film
REVIEW:
RAINER ON ‘AUSTRALIA’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1128/p25s01-almo.html
Michael Caine reveals ‘Italian
Job’ ending
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7756288.stm
Where ya
goin’?
BEST PLACE TO SEE NORTHERN LIGHTS
http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/articles/your-questions.jsp
And in the
end. . .
ASTOUNDING: SUNRISE OVER GREENLAND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3538613/Arctic-photographers-capture-stunning-Greenland-sunrise.html
11-27 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
Today’s links dedicated to all those dining alone, or in circumstances
they would prefer to avoid, or who are working.
DAILY CONCERT
SING THE CHANGES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcfiViHa1F4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvB96UoZuOc
ONE OF THESE DAYS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STAnruigcG8
WARM AND BEAUTIFUL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C2z1PaF8Cs
YOU TELL ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-2DDPn9G4
SOMEBODY WHO CARES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv0xPwzKzFM
LITTLE WILLOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrAW0lrSqs
JENNY WREN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36dtjxUMWdM
BIP BOP LINK (McCartney)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbtTdAsMKMU
SKYLINES:
PIANIST’S SKULL STARS IN
‘HAMLET’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7749962.stm
SANTA SACKED AFTER INVITING WOMAN TO SIT ON
HIS LAP
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/27/christmas-santa-claus-selfridges
GAY PENGUINS STEAL EGGS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3530723/Gay-penguins-steal-eggs-from-straight-couples.html
POLAR BEAR TWINS BORN IN GERMAN
ZOO
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,593112,00.html
CONGESTION TOLLS PROPOSED FOR SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/MNS614C8S1.DTL
BUSH PLANS FOR NEW JOB
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/11/cartoon_white_house_pin_boy.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
Terror in
India
LATEST ON MUMBAI
http://news.sky.com/skynews/
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE MUMBAI
ATTACKS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,593158,00.html
OBAMA’S FIRST
‘TEST’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,593055,00.html
BRIT COUPLE WERE SHOT WHILE HAVING A DRINK
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?British_couple_shot_in_Mumbai_massacre&in_article_id=421920&in_page_id=34
‘WE WANT AMERICANS, BRITISH’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/WWe_want_US_and_British_say_1127.html
LINDORFF:
DEPT. OF HOMELAND LUNACY
How Dave’s driver’s license was denied by federal law
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/238
I, like uncounted tens of thousands of innocent Americans, ran afoul of
this latest catch-a-terrorist system as my Pennsylvania drivers license,
which I first obtained in 1997 when I moved from New York to
Pennsylvania, came up for a third renewal. Several months ahead of my
renewal date, I got a coldly worded and ominous letter from the
Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles saying my license could not be
renewed because the new federal data base was reporting that my New York
license had been “withdrawn” by the NY DMV.
Wing or a
drumstick?
OBAMA’S THANKSGIVING ADDRESS
http://thepage.time.com/2008/11/27/obama-give-thanks-that-a-new-and-brighter-day-is-yet-to-come/
HOW SARAH PALIN CREATED A
WHOLE NEW GENERATION OF VEGETARIANS
http://www.alternet.org/story/108906/how_sarah_palin_created_a_whole_new_generation_of_vegetarians/
"A worker tried to throw a turkey up to the double-sided dock from its
rail side. The bird was about to hit the rail when another worker kneed
the bird and then kicked it, knocking it back down to the floor. The
worker threw the turkey a second time, but it hit the underside of the
dock and dropped straight down to the cement floor for its third time
that day. The bird lay in watery feces for about two hours before being
picked up and hung on the line -- the turkey could keep its head up and
blink; it was otherwise motionless."
TURKEY ABU GHRAIB
http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/0811/081119_5b16af7f.shtml
http://www.iar.org.uk/globalnews/articles/2008/11/workers_stamped_on_turkeys_heads_500.html
KRISTOF: THANKS FOR THE READERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/opinion/27kristof.html?hp
This is a column to give thanks to you, the reader. You don’t know it,
but some of you are keeping women like Sajida Bibi alive here in this
remote Pakistani village. And that is a far grander reason to celebrate
Thanksgiving than even the plumpest turkey.
THANKSGIVING PRAYERS ON ALCATRAZ
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/BAM814CTMB.DTL
Morning Star Gali, a member of the Pit River Indian Tribe and a student
at Mills College, celebrates Thanksgiving by starting her morning on
Alcatraz Island, offering a prayer as dawn breaks.
RETRACING THE TRAVELS AND TRAVAILS
OF THE PILGRIMS
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/pilgrimsprogress.html
On an autumn night in 1607, a furtive group of men, women and children
set off in a relay of small boats from the English village of Scrooby,
in pursuit of the immigrant's oldest dream, a fresh start in another
country. These refugees, who would number no more than 50 or 60, we know
today as Pilgrims. In their day, they were called Separatists. Whatever
the label, they must have felt a mixture of fear and hope as they
approached the dimly lit creek, near the Lincolnshire port of Boston,
where they would steal aboard a ship, turn their backs on a tumultuous
period of the Reformation in England and head across the North Sea to
the Netherlands.
LOBSTER THE NEW TURKEY?
Tofurkey, Cornish hens catching on in popularity
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1126/p01s04-usgn.html
HUNTING THE WILD TOFURKEY
http://dangblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/hunting-tofurkey-in-the-wild/
DRAW THE TOFURKEY CONTEST
http://www.tofurky.com/funstuff/drawtofurky.htm
COOKING THE WILD TOFURKEY
http://easilypleased.blogspot.com/2005/11/in-jungle-tofurky-sleeps-tonight.html
http://www.healthy-eating.com/turtle.html
10 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT
KNOW ABOUT THANKSGIVING
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1862503_1862505,00.html
17 REASONS TO GIVE THANKS
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/27/thanksgiving-2008/
We’re thankful John McCain has more time to spend in the houses he
owns…even if he can’t remember them all.
INFANTILE PARENTS ARGUE OVER KIDS’
THANKSGIVING COSTUMES
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-thanksgiving25-2008nov25,0,1458033.story
Change you
can’t count on
OBAMA’S
GRAYBEARDS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/12357
Obama has assembled a national security brain trust populated by
graybeard establishment figures with decades of combined experience and
even a few medals. He is entrusting critical wartime management to
people with unassailable credentials and low buzz factor.
SCHECHTER:
DEPRESSION TALK IS
DEPRESSING
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/opinion/depression-obama-stimulus-jobs-recession-7742.html
As, the new Administration translates its campaign’s lofty vision of
change into a new team and concrete plans, we find that the new
change-makers are largely a throw back to the old centrist Clinton
Administration that took its marching orders from the corporate
interests funding the Democratic Leadership Conference.
CLINTON PICK AS SEC’Y OF STATE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
Silly technicality talk. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Some_legal_scholars_believe_appointing_Clinton_1126.html
Iraq and
Roll
GALBRAITH:
U.S.-IRAQ AGREEMENT
IS HUMILIATING FOR BUSH
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/audience/media/112608_galbraith_us-iraq_agreement_humiliating_bush/
TURLEY, MADDOW ON BUSH’S WAR
CRIMES
http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/jonathan-turley-rachel-maddow-show-w
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA’S GRUESOME ORGAN HARVEST
Chinese Christians targeted. . .giblets, anyone?
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/chinas-gruesome-organ-harvest-gutmann-weekly-standard-7530.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
GERMAN CHURCHES PISSED OVER
CHOCOLATE JESUS CANDY
”Sweet Lord” confections are mighty popular
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Churches_cross_over_chocolate_Jesus&in_article_id=421732&in_page_id=2
Accompanying music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qKlfWjXCWI
Oh, by the
way. . .
MUMBAI: GATEWAY TO INDIA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3530552/Mumbai-attacks-Profile-of-one-of-Asias-most-prosperous-cities-Bombay-India.html
Mumbai, the location of coordinated terror attacks that have killed more
than 100 people, is one of the most prosperous cities in Asia and is
seen as a gateway to India.
THOSE FUN-LOVING,
LAUGH-A-MINUTE NAZIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/3530511/Nazi-humour-revealed-in-Second-World-War-postcards.html
THE WORLD’S FIRST TEMPLE
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/30706129.html
And in more
important matters. . .
IS SUFISM THE ANSWER TO ISLAMIC
EXTREMISM?
OR EVEN WORLD PEACE?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Faith-and-Ecstasy.html
In the desert swelter of southern Pakistan, the scent of rosewater
mixed with a waft of hashish smoke. Drummers pounded away as celebrants
swathed in red pushed a camel bedecked with garlands, tinsel and
multihued scarfs through the heaving crowd. A man skirted past, grinning
and dancing, his face glistening like the golden dome of a shrine
nearby. "Mast Qalandar!" he cried. "The ecstasy of Qalandar!"
CHINA’S VILLAGE VILLAGE OF
TWINS TWINS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/china-village-of-twins-7118.html
Books
WOMAN AUTHOR WINS 2008 ‘BAD SEX IN
LITERATURE’ AWARD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/25/bad-sex-johnson-updike-fiction
Johnson was singled out for her novel's slew of animal metaphors,
including comparing her male protagonist's "light fingers" to "a moth
caught inside a lampshade", and his tongue to "a cat lapping up a dish
of cream so as not to miss a single drop".
100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/100Notable-t.html?em
THREE BIOS FOR KIDS
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/11/26/reviews-of-three-biographies-for-children/
Animals in
the news!
BAGGAGE-SNIFFING BEAGLE RETIRES
IN STYLE
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-airdog26-2008nov26,0,6045344.story
ANIMALS SPEAK
COLOR
http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/11/animals-speak-color.html
Auto-Motive
HIGH CONCEPT JAPANESE CARS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/27/design-japancars
TeeVee
FREEMAN AGYEMAN: SURVIVING ‘DR.
WHO’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/22/nosplit/bvtvsatfeat22.xml
And in the
end. . .
EASILY AMUSED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ-jv8g1YVI
11-26 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
GRATITUDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LkjLjQzsZU
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiNMz_745vQ
THANK U VERY MUCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjnkmNyArNg
THANK YOU FALLETIN ME BE MICE ELF AGAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfzK1ck7xf0
THANK YOU GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn11hia_dz0
THANKS FOR THE MEMORY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoIvqoL0s4I
THAT'S HEAVEN TO ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9qCTR6hxM
DANKE SCHOEN (sorry, I had to do it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCQ6vKqgnU
GRACIAS A LA VIDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOJ-A5iv5I
DOMO ARIGATO MR. ROBOTO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe7ZA0MMrvU
MERCI BEAUCOUPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qWBFH74K50
THANK YOU JESUS FOR MY PENIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqqXUw2L8ig
SKYLINES:
SARAH PALIN’S TOP TEN EXCUSES FOR
NOT KNOWING
THE TURKEYS WERE BEING SLAUGHTERED BEHND HER
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/late-show-top-ten-sarah-palin-excuses
Lost
Angeles
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ‘RUNNING ON
FUMES’
Father Greg Boyle’s marvelous gang-alternative is in trouble
http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/moca-and-homeboy-la-treasures-at-risk/
Send ‘em a buck or two
http://www.homeboy-industries.org/index.php
L.A. BILLBOARDS ‘PERHAPS
WORST IN NATION’
Perhaps?
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/11/la_billboards_perhaps_wor.php
Today’s links dedicated to all those dining alone, or in circumstances
they would prefer to avoid, or who are working.
For Art’s
Sake
ASTOUNDING: FOODSCAPES!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/3519419/Foodscapes-amazing-food-art-by-Carl-Warner.html
Nooooo. Cruise and bride to remake
“Last Tango?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/nov/26/tom-cruise-katie-holmes
TEN TIPS FOR A SUSTAINABLE
THANKSGIVING
http://www.alternet.org/environment/108637/10_tips_for_a_sustainable_thanksgiving/
MORFORD:
CHANGE AND THANKS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/11/26/notes112608.DTL
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27338321#27808062
And on to news
and comment. . .
Impeachy
Keen
RILEY:
THROW BUSH OUT BEFORE HE LEAVES OFFICE
http://www.freep.com/article/20081125/COL10/81125018
If Congress isn’t careful, the president who already has issued 171
pardons could also pardon every appointee and employee he has ever had –
and their dogs. And then Americans will never find out what happened to
our country over the past eight years.
KLEIN:
THE LAMEST DUCK
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1862307,00.html
That we have slightly more than one President for the moment is mostly a
consequence of the extraordinary economic times. Even if George
Washington were the incumbent, the markets would want to know what John
Adams was planning to do after his Inauguration. And yet this final
humiliation seems particularly appropriate for George W. Bush. At the
end of a presidency of stupefying ineptitude, he has become the lamest
of all possible ducks.
Change you
can’t believe in
OBAMA TO LEAVE BUSH TAX CUT
FOR RICH IN PLACE
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/24transition.html?bl&ex=1227762000&en=ab700f6adb9c70e5&ei=5087%0A
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11242008/news/politics/thats_rich__top_earners_could_keep_bush__140527.htm
SCHEER:
OBAMA CHOOSES WALL
STREET OVER MAIN STREET
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081125_obama_chooses_wall_street_over_main_street/
But how else is one to respond to Barack Obama’s picking the very folks
who helped get us into this financial mess to now lead us out of it?
Watching the president-elect’s Monday introduction of his economic team,
my brother-in-law Pete said, “You can see the feathers coming out of
their mouths” as the foxes were once again put in charge of the
henhouse.
NADER:
OBAMA OWES JIMMY
CARTER AN APOLOGY
http://www.counterpunch.org/nader11252008.html
According to The Jewish Daily Forward, “Carter's controversial views on
Israel cost him a place on the podium at the Democratic Party convention
in late August, senior Democratic operatives acknowledged to the
Forward.”
Your
corporatocracy at work!
WALL STREET ‘PARTIED WHILE “HOUSE
BURNED DOWN”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_Bankers_partied_as_economic_crisis_1125.html
RAIMUNDO:
THE BAILOUT, THE MEDIA, THE WAR PARTY---YES, THEY’RE CONNECTED
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13812
I never fail to smile when I read contemptuous references in American
news outlets to the "state-controlled media" of, say, Russia or China.
This from the same crowd whose news "reporting" in the run-up to the
invasion of Iraq might have been written by someone in the Pentagon
press office – and probably was!
MUKASEY COLLAPSED AFTER JUDGE CALLED HIM A
“TYRANT”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/26/mukasey-tyrant/
Enviro
Wacko
KERRY: BAILOUT CANCELS FIGHT
ON GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/26/climatechange-poznan
Bailouts Dwarf Spending on
Climate and Poverty Crises
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5694
Monbiot:
The planet is so
wrecked that only total energy renewal can save us
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/25/climate-change-carbon-emissions
It may be too late. But without radical action, we will be the
generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse
HUMANS WIPING OUT FLORIDA CORAL REEFS
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1862297,00.html?iid=tsmodule
Good news!
COULTER BREAKS JAW---IT’S WIRED SHUT
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/11/oh-dear-page-si.html
BARBARA BUSH HOSPITALIZED
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112502824.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Electile
Dysfunction
FRANKEN FINDS 6400 UNCOUNTED
BALLOTS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Franken_camp_finds_6400_uncounted_absentee_1125.html
NOW MELAMINE FOUND IN U.S.
BABY FORMULA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/26/AR2008112600386_pf.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
CHRISTIANS AGAINST CARTOONS
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.christiansagainstcartoons.com/
Israelity
Israel bans press in the Gaza
Strip
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1126/p06s01-wogn.html
Animals in
the news!
POOR KITTY WAITS FOR EYELIDS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3526030/Cat-born-without-eyelids.html
MONKEY GIVES ITSELF DAILY INSULIN
INJECTIONS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3525760/Diabetic-monkey-trained-for-daily-insulin-injections.html
Auto-Motive
HONDA CLARITY
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=atizckxemqGw&refer=home
Oh, by the
way. . .
GREENLAND VOTES FOR SELF-RULE
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1862343,00.html
With no major road system and over 80% of the island covered in the
famously melting Greenland ice cap, building up the island to a state of
self-sufficiency will not be not easy. Unemployment hovers at 9%;
alcoholism and suicide haunt Nuuk and the hundreds of villages that
fringe the coast.
MONUMENTS TO WORLD WAR’S FALLEN
NOW INCLUDE DISSENTERS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/25/europe/belgium.php
WEIRD: MORE JAPANESE WOMEN ARE
ATTACKING THEIR CHILDREN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3526202/Rise-in-Japanese-women-attacking-children-due-to-low-self-esteem.html
And in more
important matters. . .
MANHATTAN: THE CAPITAL OF PEOPLE
WHO LIVE ALONE
http://nymag.com/news/features/52450/
Batman in
the news!
Batman to be killed off after 70
years?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news//newstopics/celebritynews/3517456/Batman-to-be-killed-off-after-70-years.html
Fans don’t believe it will happen
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3525303/Batman-fans-doubt-the-super-hero-will-be-killed-off.html
Batman vs. Batman
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1125/p04s01-woeu.html
The small-town mayor of Batman, Turkey, is threatening to sue filmmaker
Warner Bros. for using his locale's name without permission.
Hey, Be-attle!
QUARRYMEN INVITE MCCARTNEY,
SEAN AND JULIAN LENNON TO JOIN IN
http://beatlebash.blogspot.com/2008/11/rod-davis-invites-paul-mccartney-julian.html
Where ya
goin'?
ASTONISHING: HEALTH FOOD RESTAURANT IN CHINA
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_dunlop?currentPage=all
Dai is the owner of the Dragon Well Manor, a restaurant in Hangzhou, the
provincial capital. In an age of industrialization, dire pollution, and
frequent food scares, the Dragon Well Manor is committed to offering its
guests a kind of prelapsarian Chinese cuisine. Dai assures them that
everything he serves will be made from natural ingredients, untainted by
pesticides or melamine, and with no added MSG.
THE BIG
BUSINESS OF GERMAN CHRISTMAS MARKETS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,592835,00.html
Obit
BRITISH CONDUCTOR RICHARD HICKOX
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/arts/music/25hickox.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
Books
KINGSLEY AMIS ON BOOZE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/23/kingsleyamis-alcohol
SEX ADDICTION: NOBODY TAKES IT
SERIOUSLY, BUT IT SELLS BOOKS
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i14/14b00501.htm
What's really needed in this latest publishing explosion is a helpful
tome on "safe sex addiction," to bring the various causal chains of the
phenomenon to an appropriate climax. Meanwhile, remember — reading these
books eats up time you could profitably spend otherwise engaged.
And in the
end. . .
WHEELCHAIR BACKFLIP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3517368/Wheelchair-bound-teenager-does-back-flip-on-skate-ramp.html
11-25 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
YOKO ONO
SILVER HORSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBvLCbWQ5nY
TOMORROW MAY NEVER COME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PREB3PDzjzg
LONELINESS (Nilsson covers Yoko)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HcB8mbzi7g
NOBODY SEES ME LIKE YOU DO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JGE0ZLtOyE
HELL IN PARADISE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0EjS7tLmkg
SPEC OF DUST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8kJbzXFWkk
GOODBYE SADNESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DwRoRwPiL0
DREAM LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5baMd5lk_EY
WALKING ON THIN ICE (JL, guitar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T97NQfvxPj0
SKYLINES:
MEET THE ICICLE ORCHESTRA
Very cool
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2008/nov/25/norway-ice-music-terje-isungset
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA IS MAD AT
AXL ROSE
New album takes swipe at persecution of Falun Gong
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7747815.stm
Wife of murdered Falun Gong
member jailed again
Award-winning artist gets three years in prison
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/falun-gong-china-xu-na-torture-7670.html
Facebook, Google, MTV tapped by
gov’t to “fight terrorism”
QVC, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central expected to join soon
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/U.S._govt._recruits_Facebook_Google_MTV_1124.html
HIP-HOP STAR PARDONED BY BUSH
Guy was carrying a suitcase full of coke
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/25/george-bush-pardons-john-forte
Other pardons include more
cokeheads, enviro law violators---they must be close to Bush’s heart
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/25/MNG714BFQC.DTL&tsp=1
QUEEN’S TEAPOT BUGGED?
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Queens_teapot_removed_over_bug_fears&in_article_id=417655&in_page_id=34
PAUL KRUGMAN SHAKES HANDS WITH
GEORGE W. BUSH
Hell freezes over
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_congratulates_critic_on_nobel_prize_1125.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
American
Reem
MORFORD: WHY BUY A HOUSE?
Behold, one of the biggest myths of the “American Dream”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/11/21/notes112108.DTL&hw=mORFORD&sn=001&sc=1000
Actually, as a lifetime city dweller/renter myself, I've heard it for
years; renting is often better than buying. That when you sit down and
crunch the numbers and factor in all the taxes and dues and interest
rates, maintenance fees and termites and cracked foundations and busted
appliances and the cost of that new sewage line, well, owning is far
more of a hassle and a burden and a lifetime o' stress than most people
ever imagine.
LINDORFF:
DOES ANYBODY ELSE
THINK THAT
GETTING AMERICA SHOPPING AGAIN IS CRAZY TALK?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/237
Is my life any better if I live with my wife and my teenage son in a
4000-square-foot house than if I live in a 1800-square-foot or a
1200-square-foot house? The answer is no. The benefits, if there are any
at all, are minuscule, and usually short-lived.
AMERICA’S HIDDEN WAR IN
SOMALIA
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21310.htm
It is a standoff war in which the Pentagon lobs million-dollar cruise
missiles into a famine-haunted African wasteland the size of Texas,
hoping to kill lone terror suspects who might be dozing in candlelit
huts. (The raids' success or failure is almost impossible to verify.)
Israelity
PALESTINIAN WOMAN HEADBUTTED
BY ISRAEL COP
Well, it beats mace. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/25/israelandthepalestinians
THE SLOW DEATH OF GAZA
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21309.htm
In practice, Israel's blockade means the denial of a broad range of
items - food, industrial, educational, medical - deemed "non-essential"
for a population largely unable to be self-sufficient at the end of
decades of occupation. It means that industrial, cooking and diesel
fuel, normally scarce, are virtually absent now. There are no queues at
petrol stations; they are simply shut. The lack of fuel in turn means
that sewage and treatment stations cannot function properly, resulting
in decreased potable water and tens of millions of litres of untreated
or partly treated sewage being dumped into the sea every day.
Electricity cuts - previously around eight hours a day, now up to 16
hours a day in many areas - affect all homes and hospitals. Those lucky
enough to have generators struggle to find the fuel to make them work,
or spare parts to repair them when they break from overuse. Even candles
are running out.
Police
blotter
MAN RAPES, MURDERS, GETS WRIST-SLAP OF 24
YEARS
Victim secretly called 999 but ended up getting disconnected when she
couldn't talk directly to the operator.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3519643/Hannah-Foster-Parents-anger-over-how-she-died-terrified-and-alone-with-evil-stranger.html
BASTARDS ARRESTED FOR
THROWING ACID ON SCHOOLGIRLS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7747621.stm
FOUR GUILTY IN ATTEMPTED
‘CITIZENS’ ARREST’ OF PIGBOY ROVE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Four_found_guilty_in_citizens_arrest_1124.html
Obama
Nation
BUCKLEY:
OBAMA STAFF IN
FULL GENITAL PROTECTION MODE
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-17/obamas-awkward-group-photo
But what was most apparent to your Beast correspondent was the body
language. All the men, save for the one at the podium (P-E Obama) and
the man to his left, stood with appropriate rigidity. One must hold
oneself erect in the presence of the President-elect. All of them stand
with their hands folded—over their groins. What’s going on here? Hear no
evil, speak no evil, pee no evil?
OBAMA---DON’T NAME TORTURE
APOLOGIST BRENNER TO HEAD CIA
http://www.alternet.org/rights/108504/psychologists_to_obama%3A_don%27t_name_torture_apologist_john_brenner_cia_director/
OBAMA TREASURY PICK: ALL THE
WRONG IDEAS
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/108539/obama%27s_treasury_pick_has_all_the_wrong_ideas/
On Wall Street, Geithner is known as a highly competent technocrat, well
versed in the financial complexities. But he has also been seen as a
weak and compliant regulator of Wall Street firms, someone who did not
see the storm coming. Occasionally, Geithner would anguish publicly
about the accumulating time bombs like credit derivatives and urge
bankers to do something, but he did not use his supervisory powers to
compel action.
OLD HOMETOWN MENTOR STILL AT
OBAMA’S SIDE
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/24jarrett.html?em
If someone were to rank the long list of people who helped Barack and
Michelle Obama get where they are today, Ms. Jarrett would be close to
the top. Nearly two decades ago, Ms. Jarrett swept the young lawyers
under her wing, introduced them to a wealthier and better-connected
Chicago than their own, and eventually secured contacts and money
essential to Mr. Obama’s long-shot Senate victory.
Mohammered
UH-OH---SAUDI ALL-GIRL BAND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/3518077/Saudi-girl-band-challenges-the-rules-limiting-women.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
NUTBALL EVANGELICAL LEADER
CALLS
FOR “CONGREGATIONAL COPULATION!”
Say (uh! uh!) hallelujah!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/24sex.html?em
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: CHRISTMAS IS ALL
SCREWED UP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3513010/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-Christmas-comes-too-soon-nowadays.html
Animals in
the news
COPS CONVICTED FOR TORTURING THEIR OWN DOGS
Throw away the key, and feed them dog food
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3519391/Police-officers-convicted-for-torturing-their-pet-dogs.html
ANNUAL TUNA CATCH IS CUT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3516948/Fears-of-sushi-shortage-as-annual-tuna-catch-is-cut.html
NIGER GIRAFFES MAKING A COMEBACK
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/giraffe.html
Auto-Motive
MCFEATTERS: THE THREE BIG AUTO STOOGES
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/12272
While nobody wants Detroit to fail, the Big Three do not have their act
together. They went in one week from talking merger to seeking a
bailout. Congress will revisit the issue after Thanksgiving. What
happens is up to Detroit.
$80,000 TURBOCHARGED. .
.HYBRID?
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/11/fiskers-plug-in.html
(Lack of)
Health
THE SECRET JEWS OF SAN LUIS
VALLEY
In Colorado, the gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer
found mainly in Jewish women is discovered in Hispanic Catholics
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/28393589.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
SF FIRST GRADE TEACHER
WINS NATIONAL MILKEN AWARD
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/25/BARC14B4TP.DTL
MORE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN E.T. THAN
GAWD
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081124/sc_livescience/peoplesaidtobelieveinaliensandghostsmorethangod
WATCH: JETPACK
MAN FLIES OVER COLORADO GORGE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2008/nov/25/jetpack-flight-colorado
HOT DOG SURFER!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3509112/Surfing-Labrador-gains-cult-status.html
And in more
important matters. . .
Beisbol
PITCHING TALENT CONTEST LANDS
INDIA CITIZENS IN MLB
Maybe they’ll pitch in Cleveland. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7747553.stm
THE KNUCKLEBALLER IS A GIRL
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1861468,00.html
Hey, Be-attle!
PAULIE: WHY I EXPERIMENT
He’s still competing with Lennon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/nov/25/paul-mccartney-carnival-light
”And John ended up with Revolution No 9 so, perception wise, he was the
most experimental Beatle. But that was something I'd been doing
off-piste, as we say in the skiing business. I'd been doing it for a
hobby and he was smart enough to bring it into the main event. That was
John's courage. But I think we were both equally experimental.”
NYT RAVES ABOUT NEW MCCARTNEY
ALBUM---
He wrote and recorded a song a day for 13 days, using verses from
favorite poetry
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/arts/music/24choi.html?_r=3&ref=artsCritics%E2%80%99%20Choice&oref=slogin
---AND SO DOES THE LAT
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/11/album-review-th.html
BEATLES NOT COMING TO ITUNES YET
Good. Keep them special.
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/308itunesdivorce.html
YET ANOTHER CLAIM OF THE ‘REAL
ELEANOR RIGBY’
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1125rigbybook.html
Light
Reading
‘GRANDMA’---A
GRANDSON’S TOUCHING EULOGY
http://billking.livejournal.com/
WHY THE FRENCH MAID IS ABOUT TO
CLEAN UP---AND SAVE HER NATION
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5218844.ece
Cheap
gossip about unimportant assholes
JAGGER’S SON ACTS IN VIVALDI BIOPIC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3517593/James-Jagger-has-landed-his-first-film-role-in-the-biopic-of-the-composer-Vivaldi.html
ACKROYD IS A WILD AND CRAZY WINEMAKER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/20/WISB1441SR.DTL
Film review
PENN BRILLIANT AS HARVEY MILK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/24/DDJ91489PF.DTL&type=movies
For Art’s
Sake
EDMOND AMAN-JEAN
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Edmond_Aman-Jean
And in the
end. . .
NAKED LADIES!
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Cattrall_shows_off_her_Titians&in_article_id=417666&in_page_id=7
11-20 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
HARRISON AND DYLAN:
I DON'T WANT TO DO IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghdC3TQB00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTAhvfXI8g
IF NOT FOR YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdvjoIfGViU
REHEARSAL: MY BACK PAGES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd1BkRsX86k
JUST LIKE A WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU2V629SHvc
ABSOLUTELY SWEET MARIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X74eeTDYq5s
SOMETHING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQUaEs3z2J8
ABANDONED LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7hzqdT4vk
CONGRATULATIONS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EkyQYEKDGc
INSIDE OUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKu31q9SBbA
DHANI AND JACKOB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbzRyd3Q3o
SKYLINES:
COPERNICUS FOUND---BUT HE’S STILL
DEAD
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/20/international/i062948S04.DTL
Lost
Angeles
MAD PLAN TO COVER THE
HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY
Why not spend this goddamn money on. . .light. . .rail. . .lines. .
.light. . .rail. . .lines. . .
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fwypark20-2008nov20,0,1732666.story
JOE THE GREEDY DICKHEAD MAKES BOOK DEAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7739373.stm
BOY DEODORIZES TO DEATH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3489465/Boy-12-dies-from-heart-failure-after-using-too-much-deodorant.html
LOST COCKATIEL PHONES HOME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3486945/Lost-Cockatiel-reunited-with-owners-after-speaking-to-them-on-phone.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
ASTOUNDING FOOTAGE:
WORLD LEADERS REFUSE TO SHAKE BUSH’S HAND
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/20/bush-snubbed-g20/
Enviro
Wacko
AMAZING: ECUADOR’S CREATIVE FIGHT
TO SAVE ITS RAINFORESTS FROM OIL VAMPIRES
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,591638,00.html
Ecuador is the first country in the world to announce plans to leave the
oil reserves beneath its rainforests in the ground. The country wants
foreign businesses, including German companies, to compensate it for
making this sacrifice.. .Industrial companies and power plant operators
in the European Union are now required to present such certificates in
return for emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Supply and
demand determine the price per ton. The Ecuadorians are proposing that
the crude oil in the Yasuni region be incorporated into the CO2 trading
system. The Yasuni reserves would be converted into equivalent tons of
CO2 not emitted into the atmosphere as a result of Ecuador preventing
production from moving forward.
Obama
Nation
THE TROUBLE
WITH ERIC HOLDER
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/384564/the_trouble_with_eric_holder?rel=sidebox
Quick! Name the veteran Department of Justice insider who, shortly after
the USA Patriot Act was signed into law and at a point when the Bush
administration was proposing to further erode barriers to governmental
abuses, argued that dissenters should not be tolerated? Who invoked
September 11, explicitly referencing "the World Trade Center aflame," in
calling for the firing of any "petty bureaucrat" who might suggest that
proper procedures be followed and that the separation of powers be
respected? John Ashcroft? No. Alberto Gonzales? No. It was Eric Holder,
the man who has reportedly been selected by President-elect Barack Obama
to serve as the next Attorney General of the United States.
ARRAIGNMENT SET FOR CHENEY, GONZALEZ
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Arraignment_set_for_Cheney_Gonzales_in_1120.html
JANE NAPOLITANO IS NEW
HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Napolitano_picked_to_head_Homeland_Security_1119.html
Enviro
Wacko
WAXMAN WILL CHAIR
ENERGY/COMMERCE COMMITTEE
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/20/waxman-energy-commerce/
OBAMA PROMISES ‘NEW
CHAPTER’ IN CLIMATE LEADERSHIP
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/11/19/obama-promises-new-chapter-in-climate-leadership/
SENATE THROWS TED STEVENS A
GOING AWAY PARTY!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/20/stevens-ovation/
Your
Corporatocracy at Work!
AUTO EXECS MUM ABOUT GIVING UP
PRIVATE JETS
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/auto-ceos-private-jets-union-busting-go
Sherman asked the CEOs, "I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you
are planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial."
"Let the record show, no hands went up," noted Sherman.
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA MISSILE DEPLOYMENT
TARGETS
U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OFF TAIWAN
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/china-missiles-target-us-carriers-7447.html
CHINA HACKERS STILL BUSY STEALING U.S.
DEFENSE SECRETS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/america-china-hacking-security-obama
Comment
OBAMA’S USE OF
COMPLETE SENTENCES STIRS CONTROVERSY
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/obamas-use-of-complete-se_b_144642.html
OBAMA’S FALSE
PROMISE OF CHANGE
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11930
RAIMUNDO:
WHAT THE CLINTON
APPOINTMENT MEANS
And why we won’t see any change in U.S. foreign policy
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13785
A DREAM TEAM
AFTER ALL?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,591658,00.html
(Lack of)
Health
PLASTIC SURGERY BELOW THE BELT
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1859937,00.html
On the youth sex-education website Scarleteen.com, dozens of teenage
girls can be found commiserating about their labia. "i REALLY h8 mine!
They hang really REALLY low and r SO long!" reads one comment.
POT IMPROVES MEMORY
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/marijuana-could.html
Animals in
the news!
Dolphin protest mars Dubai hotel
opening
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3485159/Dubais-Atlantis-hotel-opening-marred-by-dolphin-row.html
Rare albino hedgehog rescued
by couple
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/3459736/Rare-albino-hedgehog-rescued-by-couple.html
Nick and Julie Packham made a 250-mile round trip through the night, to
take the hedgehog to Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital, in Haddenham as
they feared predators might pick him up.
Welcome to Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital
http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/
Obits
CLIVE BARNES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/dance/20barnes.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
MOLLIE KING
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/obits/stories/2008/11/20/mollie_king_obit.html
And in more
important matters. . .
Auto-Motive
THE
GREENEST CAMPER IN THE WORLD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/20/network-travelandtransport
JAPAN’S LATEST NUTBALL
FASHION: PRINCESS FOR A DAY
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122713804938242481-lMyQjAxMDI4MjI3MDEyMzA4Wj.html
Ms. Yamamoto is a hime gyaru, or princess girl, a growing new tribe of
Japanese women who aim to look like sugarcoated, 21st-century versions
of old-style European royalty. They idolize Marie Antoinette and Paris
Hilton, for her baby-doll looks and princess lifestyle.
Light
Reading
LULLED BY THE
CELEBRITARIAT
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10473
Exactly 50 years ago Michael Young published his famous dystopia “The
Rise of the Meritocracy.” His son Toby argues that we never got the
meritocratic educational elite predicted by his father, instead we got
the celebrity class.
WHY IS GREAT PERFUME NOT TAKEN
SERIOUSLY?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5186909.ece
Given the amount of time and effort that curators, collectors, dealers,
scholars and critics spend on formulating acute judgements of taste in
relation to oil paintings, it seems odd that so few are prepared to
apply some of the same skills in exploring works of art (some of them
distinguished) which stimulate another sense altogether: that of smell.
PICS OF YOUNG QUEEN TO BE
AUCTIONED
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/royalty/3489124/Pictures-of-a-young-Queen-to-go-under-the-hammer.html
TOM JONES BUSKS FOR CANCER RESEARCH
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Tom_Jones_busks_for_charity&in_article_id=409766&in_page_id=7
‘WHITE ALBUM’ BID AT
$13,000-PLUS
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1115rarewhitemono.html
MONTY PYTHON YOUTUBE CHANNEL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3486642/Monty-Python-launches-its-own-YouTube-channel.html
Where ya
goin’?
RUSSIAN RIVER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/19/NSCR13TROH.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
LIPS
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=lips
11-19 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
TRACY NELSON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vYPZjRGts
GATEMOUTH BROWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT42VwUTsRw
CANNED HEAT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZaC8XAUFmc
TOMMY JOHNSON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GPlEiCAwpA
BB KING/GARY MOORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAuuIDU2sw
LED ZEPPELIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r03uGkfxLDo
BB KING/CLAPTON/BUDDY GUY/JIM VAUGHN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OXrmxDp44
SKYLINES:
Quotatious:
“My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to
me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries
there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the
corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance
was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund
dollars.”---Sarah Palin.
GOOGLE IPHONE BAFFLED BY
BRITISH ACCENTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/apple/3479305/Google-iPhone-voice-recognition-tool-baffled-by-British-accents.html
WANTED: PIPER FOR SMALL GERMAN
TOWN. MUST HAVE WAY WITH RATS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3482522/Pied-Piper-needed-to-lure-rats-from-Hamelin.html
FOUND: PENGUIN THOUGHT EXTINCT FOR 500 YEARS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/19/international/i002536S06.DTL&tsp=1
FREE HOOKERS FOR LIFE IF
YOU GET THEIR BROTHEL’S TATTOO
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3477293/Brothel-offers-free-entry-to-men-who-have-its-name-tattooed-on-their-arm.html
TITILLATION
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Kidman_is_a_bit_nippy_at_premiere&in_article_id=407735&in_page_id=7
E-HARMONY GOES GAY
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/eharmony-same-sex/
Morford: Misery Loves TV
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/11/19/notes111908.DTL
Let me put it another way: Could the headline to this study also read,
with equal revelatory power and forehead-slapping obviousness, "Unhappy
people don't drink enough fresh water?" "Unhappy people twitch a great
deal and wear itchy sweaters and vote Republican, often simultaneously?"
"Unhappy people drive very large vehicles that smell like stale beer and
which they can't parallel park worth a damn?" You're damn right it
could.
And on to noose
and comment. . .
SWANSON:
SOVIET-STYLE PURGE IN LAST DAYS OF BUSH
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/stopthepurge
Half the story has been told. On Tuesday the Washington Post reported
that Bush is creating civil service positions for loyal appointees, in
order to make it hard for Obama to get rid of them. Bush has also, for
some time now, been terminating large numbers of employees in the
federal government, people known as whistleblowers, people suspected of
disloyalty. Some of the higher profile cases are well known.
CHENEY, GONZALEZ INDICTED FOR
ORGANIZED CRIME IN TEXAS
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/dick-cheney-indicted-organized-crime-te
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/34722294.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h9PvQtj8plxTnRZS7hHmJap_Rt2AD94HNPAG0
Related:
TAXPAYERS TO PAY FOR GONZALEZ’S ATTORNEY
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/gonzales-private-attorney/
Plame-out
PLAME, WILSON TO TAKE LAWSUIT TO SUPREME
COURT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Plame_Wilson_to_take_CIA_leak_1118.html
Serrah
NEW ETHICS COMPLAINTS AGAINST
PALIN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/palin-ethics-complaint/
Cavett: The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?ei=5070&emc=eta1
It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps
of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if
any. (A cynic might wonder if Wasilla High School’s English and
geography departments are draped in black.)
TEDDY K ASKS HILLARY TO HEAD
HEALTH-CARE TEAM
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-hillary19-2008nov19,0,4156588.story
Comment
Have Yourselves
A Wal-Mart Litle Christmas
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/107659/it_is_going_to_be_a_wal-mart_christmas/
The giant discounter is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can
afford to buy anything, and so it has kept posting sales gains amid the
retail bloodbath. "This is the kind of environment that Sam Walton built
this company for," Wal-Mart chief executive H. Lee Scott Jr. told
analysts recently. He should know. Because Wal-Mart has done so much to
create this environment.
Brown: Little Joey Lieberman Had a
Man-crush on McCain
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11910
Joe Lieberman, who used his student and marriage deferments to avoid the
draft during the Vietnam War, had a serious case of hero worship with
his friend, the macho, crude, blustering former POW John McCain. I think
Barack Obama, who came out of the womb self-confident and ready to
conquer the world, understands human nature very well. That's one of the
reasons he's willing to forgive him. He knows that a man married to an
orthodox Jew named Hadassah (the name of the Women's Zionist
Organization of America) has to have something wrong with him to pal
around with a man who jokes about having his own wife show her tits at a
biker rally.
Iraq and
Roll
NATIONAL REVIEW:
IRAQIS ARE INGRATES
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/
(AND THEY HAVE SO MUCH TO BE
GRATEFUL FOR!)
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
‘AL-QAEDA’ NO. 2: OBAMA IS
‘HOUSE NEGRO’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7737710.stm
RUSSIA TO BUILD REACTOR FOR CHAVEZ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/18/medvedev-chavez-nuclear-russia-venezuela
Mashed Media
RISE OF THE JOURNO-GURU
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/the-rise-of-the-journo-gurus
These superstar hacks have inevitably provoked criticism, not least from
the people stuck in cattle class. Some of it is sour grapes--Friedman,
jealous hacks whisper, lives in a palatial mansion in Bethesda; Gladwell
collected a $1m advance for his first book. But some of it has merit.
There are legitimate worries that the journo-gurus see too little of the
downside of a system that is treating them so conspicuously well. There
are also concerns about substance. All these writers follow the old
axiom about simplifying and exaggerating: they take one idea and
illustrate it with endless examples rather than address complications.
Repugnicans
CRAZY MICHELLE:
I NEVER SAID TO INVESTIGATE ANTI-AMERICANS IN CONGRESS!
Um. . .it’s on tape, Missy.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/michelle-bachmann-denies-saying-she-wan
Enviro Wacko
COCAINE USERS ARE DESTROYING
THE RAINFOREST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/19/cocaine-rainforests-columbia-santos-calderon
People’s
Repugnic
THOUSANDS RIOT, ATTACK COPS
OVER POST-QUAKE CORRUPTION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3482934/Thousands-of-rioters-attack-police-in-China.html
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/thousands-riot-protests-longnan-gansu-china-7364.html
(Lack of)
Health
WINDPIPE WOMAN: 1ST TRANSPLANT OF LAB-GROWN
ORGAN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3479613/British-doctors-help-perform-worlds-first-transplant-of-a-whole-organ-grown-in-lab.html
’WEREWOLF BOY’ CURE?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3482271/Scientists-find-cure-for-werewolf-boy.html
Spaced out
WOMAN LOSES HANDBAG IN ORBIT
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Female_astronaut_loses_handbag_in_space&in_article_id=409149&in_page_id=64
Oh, by the
way. . .
HITLER REALLY DID HAVE ONLY ONE
TESTICLE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3481932/Nazi-leader-Hitler-really-did-have-only-one-ball.html
And in more
important matters. . .
NEW STAR TREK: SEX ME UP, SCOTTY
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Raunchy_new_Star_Trek_trailer_online&in_article_id=407347&in_page_id=27
16-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO PITCH IN JAPAN
MEN’S BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/19/japan-baseball
ORIGINS OF
DOCTOR WHO REVEALED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7736130.stm
”CHRISTMAS ON MARS” FROM FLAMING
LIP FRONTMAN
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Flaming_Lips_frontman_debuts_Christmas_On_Mars&in_article_id=405313&in_page_id=27
Light
reading
FROZEN SCANDAL
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22117
Scandal is our growth industry. Revelation of wrongdoing leads not to
definitive investigation, punishment, and expiation but to more scandal.
Permanent scandal. Frozen scandal. The weapons of mass destruction that
turned out not to exist. The torture of detainees who remain forever
detained. The firing of prosecutors which is forever investigated. These
and other frozen scandals metastasize, ramify, self-replicate, clogging
the cable news shows and the blogosphere and the bookstores. The
titillating story that never ends, the pundit gabfest that never ceases,
the gift that never stops giving: what is indestructible, irresolvable,
unexpiatable is too valuable not to be made into a source of profit.
Scandal, unpurged and unresolved, transcends political reality to become
commercial fact.
Gardening
From tiny acorns. . .
http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/blog-entry/
Eats
HEALTHY THANKSGIVING
COOKING CLASS FOR HARLEM KIDS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/healthy-thanksgiving-cooking-class-for-harlem-kids-7366.html
MOM’S THICK PUMPKIN PIE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1119/p18s01-lifo.html
And in the
end. . .
TINY MONKEYS
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=TINY+MONKEYS
11-18 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
LES MCCANN AND EDDIE HARRIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRONbnyNpu8
GROVER WASHINGTON JR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OwPvN2aVds
HANK JONES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUWZzj0TU1s
SONNY ROLLINS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUTd61alPC4
TOM SCOTT/GEORGE HARRISON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkTaO2PIZoM
CHICK COREA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8IzfNkWbdQ
SKYLINES:
BEATLES ‘WHITE ALBUM’ #
000005 BIDS AT NEARLY $10,000
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1115rarewhitemono.html
WALLACE AND GROMIT COMING BACK FOR
CHRISTMAS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2008/nov/18/wallace-and-gromit?picture=339788615
ARRR. . .PIRATES DOCK SAUDI OIL
TANKER
And they’re welcome to it. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7735507.stm
BAGHDAD GETS A SUBWAY
While L.A. chokes to death on terrorist traffic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/18/iraq-baghdad-underground-train-network
And on to news
and comment. . .
HITCHENS: CLINTON APPOINTMENT
IS
‘LUDICROUS EMBARRASSMENT’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hitchens_calls_Clinton_appointment_ludicrous_embarrassment_1118.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/17/hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state
RAIMUNDO: HILLARY AT FOGGY BOTTOM
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13774
One hardly knows what to say to such a proposal, except to wonder how
President Obama intends to implement his own foreign policy platform
over the Iron Lady's determined opposition. For Hillary opposed every
significant peace initiative he put forward during the campaign,
including a timetable to get us out of Iraq and direct negotiations with
our adversaries. She derided this last – and very encouraging – stance
as "naïve" and "dangerous." Is this the person who will now be expected
to take the lead in facilitating those talks? Somehow, I don't think so.
Animals in
the news!
VETS TRY TO SAVE BABY TIGER---
AFTER IT WAS ATTACKED BY VILLAGERS IN INDIA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/3477057/Tiger-receives-blood-transfusion.html
---BUT THE EFFORT FAILS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7735631.stm
Tigers, si! Humans, no! Why the hell doesn't India stop reproducing
so damn much?
JAPANESE EATING TUNA RIGHT OUT
OF EXISTENCE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/18/fishing-japan-conservation-tuna
JAPANESE, NORWAY, ICELAND WHALE
MURDER CONTINUES
Japan approves whale meat export, despite U.N. ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7735355.stm
JAPANESE WHALER HEADS OUT
FOR SLAUGHTER
Maybe it will hit an ice berg and sink. . .oh, wait, there aren’t
many ice bergs left. . .maybe pirates will grab it. . .Arrr!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7733266.stm
HORSE OF A DIFFERENT SIZE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3477084/Britains-smallest-horse.html
All-melty
dollar
REQUEST YOUR OWN PERSONAL
BAILOUT HERE
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1772126-request-your-own-personal-bailout-template-makes-it-easy
INTERVIEW: NAOMI KLEIN ON BORDERLINE ILLEGAL DEALS OF THE BAILOUT
Borderline? Borderline?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/107458/naomi_klein%3A_the_borderline_illegal_deals_behind_the_%24700_billion_bailout/
MARK CUBAN CHARGED WITH INSIDER TRADING
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/mark-cuban-charged-insider-trading-7325.html
CSU MAY CUT ENROLLMENT
They could just drop ethnic
studies majors instead. . .
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-csu18-2008nov18,0,855248.story
HUGO CHAVEZ CHALLENGED---BY
EX-WIFE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/3473422/Hugo-Chavez-faces-challenge-from-ex-wife.html
Mrs Rodriguez played a key role in opposing her former husband's
proposed president-for-life constitutional reforms last December,
contributing to his embarrassing and unexpected defeat in the referendum
he called to rubber stamp the changes.
Obama-nation
POLAND GOV’T OFFICIAL:
OBAMA’S GRANDPARENTS WERE CANNIBALS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3473953/Poland-denies-Barack-Obama-cannibal-joke.html
CHURCH: PREZ OBAMA IS ‘SIN
AGAINST THE LORD’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Church_sign_Obama_election_is_sin_1117.html
People’s
Repugnic
BEIJING AUTHOR TREADS FINE LINE
AS SHE BRAVELY TELLS TIBET’S STORY
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1118/p01s03-woap.html
HU WILL VISIT CUBA
Why, the president of China, that’s Hu.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Church_sign_Obama_election_is_sin_1117.html
Auto Motive
MEET SENATORS BMW, TOYOTA
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Yahoo_News_creates_two_new_United_1117.html
Comment
Chris Hedges: America’s Wars of
Self-Destruction
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081117_americas_wars_of_self_destruction/
The American empire, along with our wanton self-indulgence and
gluttonous consumption, has come to an end.
Enviro Wacko
After two centuries of shrinking,
Alaska glaciers grew this year
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008360728_webglaciers.html
Arctic Ice Melt Sparks Plankton
Blooms
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/12/arctic-ocean-plankton.html
Earth would be heading to a freeze without CO2
emissions
http://www.physorg.com/news145725882.html
(Lack
of)Health
KNEE INJURIES HEALED BY ‘STEM CELL
BANDAGE’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3468572/Knee-injuries-could-be-healed-by-living-bandage-made-from-stem-cells.html
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE SNEAKS
UP ON MANY
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18kidneydisease.html?_r=1&8dpc
Science
HOW MAGICIANS TRICK THE
MIND
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=magic-and-the-brain&print=true
And in more
important matters. . .
MEET 115-YEAR-OLD ESTHER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/2008/nov/18/villagevoices-esther-apudo
WATCH:
AURORA BOREALIS, FROM SPACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeAmKKrIVlc
For Art’s
Sake
HER NOB HILL APT. IS HER ART
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/18/DDAO1440HQ.DTL
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SGT. PEPPER
http://www.govindagallery.com/
Film
GOD SAVE US! A THOMAS KINKADE
MOVIE!
Get the bucket! Get two buckets!
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/11/14/thomas-kincades-16-guidelines-for-making-stuff-suck.html
DUDES GATHER FOR ‘BIG LEBOWSKI’ FEST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/18/the-big-lebowski-festival-new-york
UNFUNNY STEVE MARTIN PLAYS
CLOUSEAU AGAIN
Self-serious, pretentious actor hasn’t been funny since the ‘70s. .
.it’s an affront to Sellers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/18/pink-panther-2-trailer-review
Musique
ALL THE DOPE BEHIND THE
BEATLES’ ‘CARNIVAL OF LIGHT’ TRACK
If this thing is released, it needs animation
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1116carnivaloflight.html
SPRINGSTEEN, E-STREET BAND
ALBUM DUE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7735135.stm
HEAR MCCARTNEY’S ENTIRE ‘FIREMAN’
ALBUM HERE
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96952621
Books
A WORLD OF WASTE
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1859878,00.html
‘ON THE ROAD’ TURNS 50
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5139562.ece
Where ya
goin’?
DUBLIN’S FAVORITE GARDEN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/15/HOKRV789J.DTL
FRANCE, VIA NEWFOUNDLAND
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/16/TRET13RUU2.DTL&type=travel
PRAGUE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1115/p25s04-algn.html
And in the
end. . .
YOUR CAT IS PLOTTING TO KILL YOU!
http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php
11-13 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
Greggary Peccary, part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqMflEYv_7U
Greggery Peccary, part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBgboOfhRM
Mitch Mitchell tribute:
Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQRUcybOjOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_hwjgB6XgU
Drum solos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbiN3XCXUaQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYgvK9u7-N8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRTnMiGJZaM
Killing Floor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79PVlXAyCac
Rock Me Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZbQug5FGtk
SKYLINES:
10,000 GAYS MARCH ON MORMON TEMPLE
http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/10000_gays_march_on_NYC_Mormon__1113.html
AFGHAN ACID ATTACK VICTIM IS BLIND
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081113.wafghan13/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
But friends of 16-year-old Shamsia say she suffered the worst because
she wasn't protected by the enveloping burka. She was wearing only a
head scarf that exposed her face, a bold choice for a teenage girl in
Kandahar.
46-YEAR-OLD HOLYFIELD RETURNS TO BOXING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/13/evander-holyfield-fights-nikolai-valuev
TEQUILA DIAMONDS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/13/agriculture-mexico-tequila-diamonds
Balls!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?New_testicle_eating_champion_crowned&in_article_id=401075&in_page_id=2
WOMAN KILLED BY HUSBAND’S COFFIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3446524/Woman-killed-by-husbands-coffin.html
AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/nov/13/1?picture=339637865
(Lack of) health
MARROW TRANSPLANT APPARENTLY CURES AIDS
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1858802,00.html
CARTOON: FIORE ON HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/
And on to news and comment. . .
WARM-UP FOR MARTIAL LAW
http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx111208.html
This week and into next, NorthCom and NORAD are conducting a joint
exercise called “Vigilant Shield ’09.”The focus will be on “homeland
defense and civil support,” a NorthCom press release states.From
November 12-18, it will be testing a “synchronized response of federal,
state, local and international partners in preparation for homeland
defense, homeland security, and civil support missions in the United
States and abroad.”
POULSON---MOST POWERFUL PERSON ON EARTH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/13/BUUK1439IF.DTL
"He is absolutely the most powerful person in the country. Maybe the
world," says Wall Street accounting expert Robert Willens.The most
telling line in his speech came when Paulson was explaining why he did a
180-degree turn with money approved by Congress under the $700 billion
bailout bill. Instead of using it to buy troubled mortgage assets from
banks, as clearly envisioned, he scrapped that idea and used it to make
equity investments in banks.
CHINA IS DESTROYING THE ATMOSPHERE
Massive “Asian brown cloud” shows up on satellite photo
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/world/14cloud.html?hp
Enviro Wacko
CALIFORNIA HAS WORST AIR IN THE COUNTRY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/13/MNQP143CPV.DTL
How Climate Change Is Killing Our Oceans
http://www.alternet.org/water/106762/how_climate_change_is_killing_our_oceans/
Our CO2 habit has caused the oceans to acidify and entire ecosystems are
threatening to literally crumble away.
Tiny island nation seeks dry land
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081113.wisland13/BNStory/International/home
Newly elected President of Maldives plans to set aside funds for new
homeland in case rising sea levels submerge low-lying islands
Quarter of northeast Atlantic sharks and rays threatened with extinction
http://www.iucn.org/index.cfm?uNewsID=2213
Nobel winner urges protection for key forests in UN talks
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8ij6spEo1L6sx9idJ1BIWu8XSHA
Act Now to Save America's Public Forests
http://www.counterpunch.org/wuerthner11122008.html
Gore not interested in “Climate Czar” position
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/13/gore-climate-czar/
Hybrid tug boats
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tugboat13-2008nov13,0,2191379.story
People's Repugnic
CHINA CYBER-ATTACKS ON U.S. ARE ROUTINE
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/cyber-war-attacks-china-7049.html
Beyond the Palin
HYPOCRITE PALIN WAS PREGNANT BEFORE MARRIAGE
http://palinshealthmystery.blogspot.com/2008/10/palins-health-mystery.html
NOW SARAH LOVES PREZBOY BUSH---AFTER BLAMING HIM FOR THE ELECTION LOSS
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/13/palin-bless-bush/
INSUFFERABLE BITCH STILL TALKING ABOUT BILL AYERS
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/palin-bringing-associations-extremis
Dishonest John
SOCIOPATHIC MCCAIN TO CAMPAIGN FOR ‘REPREHENSIBLE’ CHAMBLISS
Dishonest John had condemned this jerk for smearing Max Cleland
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_heads_to_Georgia_to_stump_1112.html
Israelity
ARABS FEAR OBAMA’S APPOINTMENT OF EMANUEL
How is it that persons with dual citizenships are allowed such
influence in the federal government?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3452616/Muslim-world-nervous-about-Barack-Obamas-pro-Israeli-chief-of-staff.html
ISRAEL BLOCKS HUMANITARIAN GAZA AID
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7726943.stm
America the Beautiful
WOMAN TRIES TO LEAVE KKK INITIATION, IS SHOT IN THE HEAD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/13/usa
THE GREAT TAMMY DUCKWORTH TO REPLACE SEN. OBAMA?
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/gns_duckworth_111208/
BUSH WILL CLAIM EXEC PRIVILEGE TO BLOCK SUBPOENAS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_may_be_able_to_block_1113.html
BAYH: LIEBERMAN WILL APOLOGIZE TO KEEP POST
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/13/bayh-lieberman-apologize/
Mashed Media
MSNBC PRANKED BY FALSE PALIN STORY
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_en_tv/palin_hoax;_ylt=AlIpXtfDFbLjYna0Xh9kAAKs0NUE
AN EDITOR’S CLASSY FAREWELL (har)
Who are these idiots, and how do they get into positions of power?
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/11/schoenkopf_out_as_citybea.php
Comment
DEAR MR. PREZ-ELECT, PLEASE TAKE ME OFF THE SPAM LIST
http://www.slate.com/id/2204422/
Animals in the news!
POOR PANDA RIPS OFF JERK’S JACKET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tofIAnExhQ4&feature=channel
SCORE ONE FOR THE TIGERS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/singapore/3451604/White-tigers-maul-cleaner-to-death-at-zoo.html
Oh, by the way. . .
IN CAMEROON, POLYGAMY DOESN’T PAY
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/11/13/in-modern-cameroon-polygamy-doesn%e2%80%99t-pay/
PHOTO GALLERY: PRINCE CHARLES AT 60
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/royalty/3452697/Prince-Charles-at-60.html
QUEEN’S TRIBUTE TO SON
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/3447877/Queens-tribute-to-the-Prince-of-Wales.html
And in more important matters. . .
Obit
DRUM ROLL FOR MITCH MITCHELL
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/music/13mitch.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
He was 62 and had recently finished a national tribute tour,
Experience Hendrix.
WHERE YOU GOING WITH THAT DRUM IN YOUR HAND?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_mccormick/blog/2008/11/13/mitch_mitchell_where_you_going_with_that_drum_in_your_hand
WATCH: MITCHELL INTERVIEW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqMdlvhk7hA
NEW ‘PRISONER’ COMING---DOESN’T LOOK GOOD
Lead actor is an American, for starters. . .
http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner/
Light reading
LEONARD BERNSTEIN ON TERRORISM
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au08/terror-bernstein.html
Musique
FACES TO REUNITE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/13/the-faces-reunite
And in the end. . .
PARKING METER FAIRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKTFCdpBsAA
11-12 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
SEX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glZJUcBno34
SEXUAL HEALING
(Could be the funniest song ever written)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-bvgv3g__Y
STICK IT OUT
(Well, maybe this)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubBw3dE8Wc
I WANNA HOT DOG FOR MY ROLL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwZqf8Ud95U
SUGAR IN MY BOWL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZm0jYXZ_2I
HERE PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZfSBKgp6WQ
DAVY'S DINGHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Oxwru7oes
BOOBS A LOT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsOIrD36mF0
MY BIG TEN-INCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kySh2zsdvg
WHAT KIND OF GIRL/BWANA DIK/LATEX SOLAR BEEF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHHMuuluxA
skylines:
MISSING CAT COMES HOME 13
YEARS LATER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/12/BABC142V0J.DTL&tsp=1
Musical accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY7uSo9g-Cs
We shall
overcome
CHIMP RAISES TIGERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2008/nov/12/chimp-tiger-cubs
GORE VIDAL BLASTS RACISM
ACCUSATION
Calling Vidal a racist is like calling the KKK tolerant
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_gore_vidal_blasts_racism_claim/
DUMBASS TEACHER’S AIDE TELLS KIDS: OBAMA
WILL BE SHOT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pennsylvania_teachers_aide_said_Obama_would_1111.html
SCHOOLKIDS CHANT: 'ASSASSINATE
OBAMA!'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Idaho_students_chant_assassinate_Obama_on_1112.html
NAVY CONDEMNS WHALES TO DEATH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/12/national/w070745S97.DTL
PLASTIC SURGERY ADDICT
Warning: you might not want to see this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3439638/Cosmetic-surgery-addict-injected-cooking-oil-into-her-own-face.html
SICKENING BRASSIERES!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3444912/Victorias-Secret-sued-after-bra-made-women-ill.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
HEDGES:
AMERICA THE ILLITERATE
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_america_the_illiterate/?ln
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a
print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the
intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America,
which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief
system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for
information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture.
It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by
simplistic, childish narratives and clichés. It is thrown into confusion
by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race,
class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red
state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct,
unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.
Related:
PALIN’S VOTES CAME FROM ‘RURAL’
AREAS
Suburban and urban voters had little interest in her
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/11/brownstein_on_t.html
IRAQI SOLDIER KILLS TWO U.S. TROOPS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7724974.stm
ACID ATTACK ON AFGHAN
SCHOOLGIRLS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7724505.stm
Obama Nation
A LOOK AT OBAMA’S ENERGY PLAN
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/11/12/a-closer-look-at-obama%E2%80%99s-energy-plan/
OBAMA FEARS MAKING LITTLE JOEY
LIEBERMAN A GOP HERO
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_to_Reid_Dont_make_Lieberman_1111.html
OBAMA TO RESTRICT LOBBYIST ROLES IN
TRANSITION
How about restricting them out of existence?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/us/politics/12obama.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
ANTI-OBAMA VANDALISM
BREAKING OUT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/29/anti-obama-vandalism-city_n_109834.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10910002
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs12-2008nov12,0,6700699.story
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattle911/archives/153884.asp
Comment
FREEDLAND: OBAMA
NOT A DOVE---A SMARTER HAWK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/12/comment-obama-white-house-peace
In every sphere, Obama marks a break from the recent past. He will not
be perfect; the disappointments will be real and may come soon. But for
now, at least, we are entitled to that sigh of relief - and even the odd
yelp of joy.
LINDORFF: OBAMA’S
FIRST BIG MISTAKE---RESCUING JOE LIEBERMAN
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/233
This is a terrible mistake. Joe Lieberman is a wretched example of a man
without principle—a back-stabbing slimeball of a politician whose only
allegience, apparently, besides to himself, is to Israel. Now I don’t
want anyone to think I’m some rabid anti-semite. My wife and kids are
Jewish, we have good friends who are Israeli, and no, I don’t think the
Jews run the media or the country. I do, however, think that Joe
Lieberman thinks more about what, in his warped and shriveled worldview,
is good for Israel, than about what is good for America.
SCHEER:
COLD WAR HAWKS
NESTING WITH OBAMA
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081111_cold_war_hawks_nesting_with_obama/?ln
So, Vladimir Putin was right: It was Georgia that started the war with
Russia, and once again it was President Bush who got caught in a lie. As
The New York Times reported last week, “Newly available accounts by
independent military observers of the beginning of the war between
Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the long-standing
Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and
Russian aggression.”
MORFORD: STILL
OBAMAFIED
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/11/12/notes111208.DTL
The best part: Each and every time, it's been almost wholly spontaneous,
an outbreak, a burst, the unexpected thing that you haven't felt in
years and which, in many ways, can't really believe you're experiencing
at all. It's smiling, laughing, actual cheering among the normally jaded
and the wary whenever Obama's voice is heard, or when his name comes up
on the radio, in print, in a song, on the sidewalk -- anywhere at all.
Electile
Dysfunction
WHY AL FRANKEN WILL BE NEXT MINN.
SENATOR
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/106625/why_al_franken_will_be_minnesota%27s_next_senator/
Mashed Media
FAKE NYT PROCLAIMS END TO WARS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fake_New_York_Times_proclaims_end_1112.html
All-Melty
dollar
CLARKE: BRITAIN ON THE BRINK OF
MELTDOWN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/3446686/Ken-Clarke-warns-Britain-is-on-the-brink-of-meltdown.html
HOW I BOUGHT A FORECLOSED
HOUSE
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover9-2008nov09,0,2623620.story
20 PERCENT OF BAY AREA
MORTGAGES ARE MORE THAN HOME’S WORTH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/11/MNN0142MCG.DTL&type=business&tsp=1
All-Melty
Greenland
GREENLAND BRACES FOR. .
.INDEPENDENCE, WEALTH
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1858177,00.html
(Lack of)
Health
TOMATOES MAY HELP WOMEN WITH
ENDOMETRIOSIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/3443462/Tomatoes-could-hold-key-to-treat-painful-condition-suffered-by-women.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
PEPSI, NO COKE
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1858177,00.html
CIRCUMCISION BY THE DOZEN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,584788,00.html
THE OBAMA OF BRAZIL
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1112/p08s01-comv.html
NORWAY TOPS GENDER EQUALITY LIST
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7722389.stm
BEING BORN IN GREECE MAY NOT MAKE
YOU GREEK
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/11/12/being-born-in-greece-may-not-make-you-greek/
And in more
important matters. . .
JOB OPENING:
GARDENER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3446610/Queen-looks-for-gardener-for-Balmoral-gardens.html
AUTHORS AND THEIR CATS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/nov/12/writers-and-cats
BEST BAGELS IN L.A.?
Dunno. They all seem too soft these days. . .
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/valley/la-fo-bagelculture12-2008nov12,0,1738592.story
Light
reading
WAS
THE GREAT WAR NECESSARY?
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99may/9905greatwar.htm
Film
WHAT IS THE MOST BORING
FILM TITLE?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/nov/12/most-boring-film-titles
MORE ‘OUR GANG’ COMING TO DVD
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/movies/homevideo/11dvds.html?_r=2&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
ALFALFA BIO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Switzer
Once, during a break in filming, Switzer urinated on the set's lights.
When filming resumed, the lights heated up and filled the set with such
a stench that filming had to be halted for the rest of the day.
Cheap gossip
about unimportant assholes
UNRECOGNIZED PITT TOSSED BY
BOUNCER
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Brad_Pitt_grapples_with_bouncer&in_article_id=398411&in_page_id=7
BRANGELINA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7724123.stm
’NEVERLAND’ IS SOLD
http://www.tmz.com/2008/11/12/neverland-may-be-jackos-ticket-to-vegas/
LATEST FASHION INSANITY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2008/nov/11/catwalk-fashion?picture=339569940
For Art’s
Sake
IMPRESSIONISM AND WALES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/12/alfred-sisley-impressionism
CHAGALL AND WOMEN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/09/st_marcchagall.xml
CAR AND ROCK
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Three-tonne_boulder_crushes_car_-_but_why?&in_article_id=397484&in_page_id=64
Where ya
goin’?
ANCIENT ROME IN 3-D
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/3445421/Google-Earth-brings-ancient-Rome-to-life.html
And in the
end. . .
CASTLES
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=CASTLES
11-11 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
SOLDIER OF LOVE---Arthur Alexander
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tff9a8pUvc4
SOLDIER OF LOVE---Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CoAq4nY7Hs
WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg
WHO AM I?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg6KLK07Tlk
SUPPORT THE TROOPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cAAVuboEXA
AN UNTITLED PROTEST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWLW47Auuc
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7VLTqGCOC8
skylines:
OKLAHOMA NEWSPAPER REFUSED TO
REPORT OBAMA VICTORY
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Newspaper_protested_for_not_reporting_Obama_1110.html
Welcome to Sapulpa, Oklahoma’s “Most
Connected City”
http://www.cityofsapulpa.net/
Happy Veterans’ Day: 87-year-old
WWII vet badly beaten by burglars
(Warning: very unpleasant photo)
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?As_Britain_remembers,_war_hero_is_battered_in_obscene_attack&in_article_id=396603&in_page_id=34
MARS LANDER DIES IN DUST STORM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/3435547/Mars-Lander-dies-in-arctic-dust-storm.html
FLASH! AMY DITCHES BEEHIVE!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3439695/Amy-Winehouse-pictured-without-her-beehive.html
CLIPS FROM NEW ‘STAR TREK’ FILM
RELEASED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7721468.stm
BLOGGER DOES 20 YEARS FOR POEM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5129509.ece
50 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
OBAMA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html
CARTOON: OBAMA REJECTS THE BUSH DOCTRINE
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/11/cartoon_obama_rejects_the_bush_doctrine.html
NEW PHOTOS PROVE: KIM JONG IL
IS ALIVE AND WELL
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/kim-jong-il.php
And on to news
and comment. . .
FORMER TAIWAN PREZ CHEN IN
HANDCUFFS
Bad move by ruling Kuomintang will make martyr out of widely
discredited leader
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7721468.stm
Serrah
PALIN: GOD WILL SHOW ME
THE DOOR TO THE WHITE HOUSE
If he does, he needs to quit his job. He should just show her the
door, period.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_God_will_show_me_way_1110.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/nov/11/sarah-palin
Palin insists she knows Africa is
a continent
Well, she does now. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_insists_she_knows_Africa_continent_1111.html
Palin decried bloggers "sitting
in their parents' basement, wearing their pajamas"
(Hey, how did she know I work in pajamas!)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-bergthold/palin-calls-bloggers-kids_b_142872.html
Palin returns to changed Alaska
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/11/09/palin-returns-to-a-changed-alaska/
Upon her return to Alaska Nov. 5, Palin’s nonpartisan reputation is in
shreds, a side effect of her role as chief attacker of Democratic rival
Barack Obama. Damaged, too, is her image as ethics reformer, with
questions lingering over an abuse-of-power scandal involving a feud
against her sister’s ex-husband, alleged circumvention of public-records
laws, concerns about state payments for her children’s travel and nights
spent in her own home, and even how she acquired the haute-couture
wardrobe she sported on the campaign trail.
Your
corporatocracy at work!
BUSH SECRETLY GAVE BANKS $140 BILLION TAX WINDFALL
http://outtheotherear.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/honest-hank-paulson/
Outside of a loan, or a buy-out, this $140 billion in never-to-be-paid
taxes is not recoopable to the American taxpayer.
RAPED IN THE MILITARY? YOU
HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR OWN ‘RAPE KIT’
Sarah would approve!
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/106307/raped_in_the_military_you%27ll_have_to_pay_for_your_own_forensic_exam_kit/
Obama Nation
OBAMA TO BUSH: HELP U.S.
CARMAKERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/11/motor-industry-barack-obama-george-bush
OBAMA WHITE HOUSE WILL HAVE
‘OFFICE OF URBAN POLICY’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/10/obama-white-house-will-have-an-office-of-urban-policy/
OBAMA TO PURSUE BIN-LADEN
But. . .but. . .we’ll lose Bush’s favorite boogieman!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/10/AR2008111002897_pf.html
RIGHT WING SOUNDS ALARM:
OBAMA REINSTATING DRAFT?
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200811092533/editorial/obama-to-re-instate-the-draft.html
Bush Leagues
BUSH LEAVES OFFICE MORE
UNPOPULAR THAN TRICKY DICK
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/10/bush.transition.poll/index.html
BUSH WIRETAP ABUSES TO BE REVEALED
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/11/obama_wiretap?currentPage=all
All-melty
dollar
SANTA GETS SACKED
AS CITIES, COMPANIES LOOK TO SAVE
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122625267618311639-lMyQjAxMDI4MjE2MTIxNTEyWj.html
A CALIFORNIA TOWN
DROWNS AS HOME VALUES SINK
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/11/business/11home.php
BYE-BYE, CIRCUIT CITY
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/business/circuit-city-chapter-11-bankruptcy-6943.html
LINDORFF:
Too Big to Fail' Has an Easy Answer:
Anti-Trust or Public Control
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/232
Don’t expect much in the way of
scrutiny of this bailout process from the corporate media, by the way,
which has been engaged in the same process of national consolidation for
the past few decades. But clearly, the public needs to wake up and start
demanding that if our money is going to be used to bail out these
corrupt and horrifically managed enterprises, we the people need to have
a controlling interest in running them, so that they are run in our
interest. Better yet, we should be demanding that these bumbling
colossuses be broken up into little pieces, and then left to sink or
swim on their own like the rest of us.
Jesus H.
Christ!
JEWS TELL CRAZY MORMONS:
STOP BAPTIZING HOLOCAUST DEAD
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/11/baptizing.dead.jews.ap/
CHURCH BANS GARDEN GNOMES FROM
CEMETERIES!
”Unnatural little creatures”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3439588/Garden-gnomes-banned-from-church-cemetery-because-they-are-unnatural-creatures.html
Mashed Media
ZELL’S TRIBUNE CO. AD PROFITS DOWN $111
MILLION
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003889103
NEW CONTRACT FOR THE GREAT
KEITH OLBERMANN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/10/olbermann-contract/
L.A. TIMES CLOCK HANDS BACK
Just in time to count down its last days
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/11/curbedwire_la_times_clock_back_sciarceconomy_talk_1801_avenue_of_the_stars.php
Oh, by the
way. . .
UC ENROLLMENT JUST GOT A LOT
TOUGHER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/11/MNHU141ME9.DTL&tsp=1
‘ODORPRINTS’ COULD BE USED TO I.D.
PEOPLE
Some more than others
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3414573/Odourprinting-could-be-used-to-identify-people.html
Obits
L.A.’S ‘CHEZ JAY’ FOUNDER
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/11/jay_fiondella_chez_jay_fo.php
BROOKLYN DODGER LEGEND PREACHER ROE
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-roe11-2008nov11,0,7826389.story
WORLD’S UGLIEST DOG
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Worlds_ugliest_dog_dies,_will_be_beautiful_in_heaven&in_article_id=396546&in_page_id=2
And in more
important matters. . .
BYE-BYE, OPERA PACIFIC
http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifeandculture/ci_10936959
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/opera-company-pacific-2220564-county-demain
Veterans Day
A COLLECTION OF SKETCHES,
PHOTOGRAPHS, POEMS FROM WWI
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/nov/10/poetry-first-world-war?picture=339508537
THE POEMS OF ROBERT W. SERVICE
http://www.robertwservice.com/
COUNTRY JOE SINGS SERVICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMzOxIiSkgA
‘ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN
FRONT’ EXCERPT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4-96gWQMpU
'GRAVES OF THE FIREFLIES'
EXCERPT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_KCRIDbEXM
TOP TEN ANTI-WAR FILMS
These are good choices, and their number-one is right on the money
http://worldfilm.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/antiwar.htm
PYTHON’S PALIN WILL GO AROUND THE WORLD
AGAIN
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/pythons-palin-g.html
SMOKIN’ JOE FRAZIER TALKS ABOUT
HIS LIFE, OBAMA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/11/sportinterviews-boxing
A LOOK BACK AT JOANNA LUMLEY’S
CAREER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2008/nov/11/joy-of-six-joanna-lumley
Hey, Be-attle!
DID MCCARTNEY REVEAL I.D. OF
“ELEANOR RIGBY?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/11/proof-eleanor-rigby-existed
And in the
end. . .
JACK RABBITS
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=JACK+RABBITS
11-10 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
BROTHER JOHN/IKO IKO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYXR7UD0UrM
MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmVBDaxTimE
SISTER ROSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6hUbjFdubw
SISTER SLEDGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw6F3Sf-PGw
POINTER SISTERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHAZ25HYqU
CHAMBERS BROTHERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDGV9rEOnaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpQra4LVgQQ
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4pWbwWOhGg
ADDAMS FAMILY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL_9zdu4iVw
skylines:
MIRIAM MAKEBA SINGS, DIES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/africa/11makeba.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Mandela mourns ‘first lady of song’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7719927.stm
BRITS OUT $135K FOR PRINCE WILLIAM’S HELO RIDE TO STAG PARTY
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_expose_Prince_William_RAF_training_1109.html
NOT A SAUSAGE!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/3414672/Strike-threatens-to-take-beef-and-sausages-off-Christmas-menus.html
WILD BOARS INTERRUPT FOOTBALL GAME
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hooligan_hogs_trash_football_pitch&in_article_id=394632&in_page_id=2
BRUNI: HAPPY TO NO LONGER BE ITALIAN CITIZEN
Objects to Berlusconi’s idiotic “suntanned” remark about Obama
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,589416,00.html
MYSTERIOUS GOINGS-ON AT BEATLES FORMER APPLE
HQ
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1110savillerow.html
And on to news and comment. . .
THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE WOLF
(Read this, Palin, if you can read.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/08/sm_philosopherwolf.xml&page=1
A spur-of-the-moment decision to buy a wolf cub changed Mark Rowlands’s
life. From that moment on he found human company never quite matched up
NEW YORK GETS POTTED
Bloomberg orders Broadway to bloom
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/11/10/new-york-tries-to-create-gardens-of-eden-on-city-streets/
BILL AYERS: LOOKING BACK ON THE CAMPAIGN
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21175.htm
The police lieutenant who came to copy down those threats deadpanned
that he hoped the guy who was going to shoot me got there before the guy
who was going to water-board me, since it would be most foul to be
tortured and then shot. (We have been pals ever since he was first
assigned to investigate threats made against me in 1987, after I was
hired as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at
Chicago.)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! PNAC RETURNS
Grinning ghoul Bill Kristol's neocon group back from the dead. . .As
you’ll recall, these are the treacherous liars who got us into the whole
Iraq mess, and alienated the world. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/10/pnac-20/
Iraq and Roll
BAGHDAD BOMBS KILL 28
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/bombbaghdad-suicide-bomber-iraq-6936.html
Sarah Smile
PALIN BLAMES BUSH FOR LOSS!
This shameless monster will be back. . .
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/584193.html
Moose chili cooked in the crock pot and moose hot dogs lay on the table.
Palin insisted they weren't a prop for the national media but just how
the family likes to dine.
THE PERILS OF
POPULISM
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122610558004810243-lMyQjAxMDI4MjE2MDExMDA1Wj.html
The Palin farce is already the stuff of legend. For a generation at
least it is sure to keep presidential historians and late-night
comedians in gainful employment, which is no small thing. But it would
be a pity if laughter drowned out serious reflection about this bizarre
episode. As Jane Mayer reported recently in the New Yorker ("The
Insiders," Oct. 27, 2008), John McCain's choice was not a fluke, or a
senior moment, or an act of desperation. It was the result of a long
campaign by influential conservative intellectuals to find a young,
populist leader to whom they might hitch their wagons in the future.
WILL PALIN RUN IN 2012?
Are moose digesting in her rumbling guts?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/10/sarah-palin-republican
"We feel about Sarah Palin the same way you guys feel about the Queen,"
said Mike Spalding, chewing tobacco. He quit shaving in 1992, and has a
grey beard down to his navel.
BUSH SECRET ORDER ALLOWED AL-QAEDA RAIDS IN MANY COUNTRIES
Nice to know what the president is doing behind the country’s back. .
.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/washington/10military.html?hp
In 2006, for example, a Navy Seal team raided a suspected militants’
compound in the Bajaur region of Pakistan, according to a former top
official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Officials watched the
entire mission — captured by the video camera of a remotely piloted
Predator aircraft — in real time in the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorist Center
at the agency’s headquarters in Virginia 7,000 miles away.
OBAMA PLANS TRIALS FOR GITMO PRISONERS,
OTHERS HELD AROUND THE WORLD
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_GUANTANAMO?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
OBAMA WILL KEEP BERNANKE, JOINT CHIEFS
CHAIR MULLEN, SEC’Y DEFENSE GATES
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902555.html
OBAMA TO OVERTURN BUSH ‘SIGNING ORDERS’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/09/politics/p063456S86.DTL&tsp=1
REID STILL DEFENDING LITTLE JOEY LIEBERMAN
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/harry-reid-still-defending-joe-lieberman-o
PROP. 8 BACKLASH GROWING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/10/MN4E141B3P.DTL&type=politics
Mashed Media
JOURNALIST KEPT IN CAVE BLINDFOLDED, CHAINED BY TALIBAN
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081110.wafghanfung10/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
Kim Nook Yoo
RECENT PHOTO OF KIM WAS FAKED
And not very well, at that
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7715458.stm
People’s Repugnic
CHINA FASCISTS WILL NOT COMPROMISE ON TIBET
Don’t they have enough territory and people?
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/chinese-regime-no-compromising-tibet-dalai-6927.html
Comment
HORTON:
SOMETHING AIN’T RIGHT ABOUT ALASKA---BESIDES PALIN
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/11/hbc-90003821
The more likely answer is that someone has lost track of a very
substantial part of the Alaska vote. Moreover, the disappeared votes
appear to be disproportionately drawn from the Democratic column.
RAIMUNDO:
WHAT’S OBAMA’S ANSWER TO RUSSIA?
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13720
KATHA POLLITT:
SAYONARA, SARAH
http://www.alternet.org/election08/106303/sayonara%2C_sarah_palin/
Jesus H. Christ!
TOP TEN ‘CHRISTIAN’ FASCISTS
Jesus wouldn’t like these angry little boys. . .
http://www.alternet.org/election08/103359/the_top_ten_power_brokers_of_the_religious_right/
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: GOD WAS ‘USELESS’ ON 9/11
Maybe he was away on business
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3416267/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-admitted-God-was-pretty-useless-on-911.html
Musical accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExyRMqX8eOA
Animals in the news
WAR OVER MONKEY LAB TESTING
Hey, here’s an idea---use “Christian” fascists instead!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/02/primate-monkey-animal-testing-drugs
SHARKS HANG OUT IN CAFES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3399680/Great-white-sharks-hang-out-at-cafes-to-find-a-mate.html
And in more important matters. . .
Lost Angeles
MEET THE L.A. WALKER
(Next to The Rip Post, that is.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110602564.html
Accompanying music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW4Bym0kfPs
Venice Pier gets new railing
(But what about the earthquake-damaged pilings underneath. . .After
all, the bathrooms fell into the ocean a couple years back.)
http://www.yovenice.com/2008/11/07/venice-pier-gets-new-railing/
Musique
LANG LANG: THE PIANIST THE CRITICS LOVE TO HATE
And justifiably. . .the guy is a mercenary wind-up monkey with no
intellect
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/10/bmlanglang110.xml
SCOT PIPERS RECORD NEW ALBUM IN IRAQ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/3402102/Scottish-pipers-record-album-while-serving-in-Iraq.html
WATCH IF YOU MUST: “DALLAS” REUNION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7719288.stm
Film
MISTAKES IN THE NEW BOND FILM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/10/james-bond-quantum-solace-mistakes
KATE BECKINSALE AS JUDITH MILLER
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003888807
NEW ENDING FOR KIDMAN FILM
The ending to Nicole Kidman's latest film Australia has proved too sad
for test audiences in America, forcing acclaimed director Baz Luhrman to
replace it with a more optimistic alternative.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3415122/Nicole-Kidman-gets-a-happy-ending-in-Australia.html
KIDMAN TO PLAY TRANSSEXUAL ARTIST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/10/nicole-kidman
And in the end. . .
KITEBOARDER SAILS OVER WHALE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3416624/Kiteboarder-sails-over-whale.html
11-7 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
SAD SONGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVcb1Hl46Ds
SO SAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrmIPKkQQYw
GLOOMY SUNDAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48cTUnUtzx4
BLUE MONDAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3041kBbxGM
VALSE TRISTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Blm2qWduY
SAD MOVIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZfQUXnxwJw
TEAR-STAINED LETTER---RICHARD THOMPSON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEWFsXrXv4
A SCOTTISH SOLDIER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sAitY3y9mY
STELLA BLUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuS6eev7tOg
NUN WILL DIE SONN SO HELL AUFGEH'N
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZhkvu1ojk
IDEALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-fYyVOp7Xo
skylines:
70 PERCENT OF BLACKS VOTED YES ON BANNING
GAY MARRIAGE
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/70-of-african-a.html
Gay protest targets L.A.’s Mormon temple
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest7-2008nov07,0,3827549.story
PILOT GOES BLIND AT 15,000
FEET, STILL LANDS PLANE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7715345.stm
BERLUSCONI: OBAMA IS “TANNED”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7715016.stm
ARTIST TURNS KIDS INTO
BUTTERFLY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/07/BA6P13VLKG.DTL
HIPPO IS THE SIZE OF A PUPPY
Maybe the Obama kids can adopt it instead of that goldendoodle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3398765/Zoo-celebrates-birth-of-rare-pygmy-hippo.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
RAHM-BO: TOP HOUSE RECIPIENT OF
DIRTY MONEY
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/11/obamas-pick-for-chief-of-staff.html
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman who was an aide in the
Clinton White House, was the top House recipient in the 2008 election
cycle of contributions from hedge funds, private equity firms and the
larger securities/investment industry--not the most popular of
industries in the current economy. Since being elected to Congress in
2002, after working as an investment banker, Emanuel has received more
money from individuals and PACs in the securities and investment
business than any other industry
LINDORFF:
OBAMA'S FIRST STEPS
ARE NOT PROMISING
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/231
Yet Obama’s first steps as president-to-be are not promising. His first
official appointment, naming Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff,
was probably the worst possible sign of “No Change.” Emanuel, a fellow
member of the Chicago political gang, far from being something new, is a
relic of the Clinton administration, where he served as a political
strategist, pushing the disastrous “triangulation” strategy that gave us
the end of welfare benefits for poor women, the gutting of habeas
corpus, deregulation of the banking system, and an economic program that
favored bond traders over working people. Worse yet, the naming to such
a key post of Emanuel, a rabid Zionist who actually holds dual US and
Israeli citizenship and was a member of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF),
will poison Obama’s chances to broker a real, lasting peace deal between
Israel and Palestine by aligning him clearly with the Israeli side in
every Palestinian’s eyes..
RAHM EMANUEL BIO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
Emanuel, whose father was in Irgun, is a strong supporter of AIPAC, and
personally introduced fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama to the
organization's directors during the 2008 presidential campaign.[24] A
November 2008 article claimed that while expressing empathy for
Palestinians, Emanuel has explicitly condemned their leaders.[25] In
June 2007, Emanuel condemned an outbreak of Palestinian violence in the
Gaza Strip and criticized Arab countries for not applying the same kind
of pressure on the Palestinians as they have on Israel. "Fatah and Hamas
are tearing the Palestinian area of the Gaza strip apart in what they
call a political rivalry, and the Palestinian people are paying a price
for Palestinian violence," he said at the time. "Governments from around
the world and the Arab world have said nothing. ... I just want you to
think for a second, if this were the result of Israeli-Palestinian
hostilities, would the international silence and the silence of the Arab
world be this deafening?"
‘FOREIGN ENTITY’ HACKED OBAMA,
MCCAIN CAMPAIGNS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Foreign_entity_staged_cyber_attack_on_1106.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2008/nov/07/obama-white-house-usa
But the FBI and Secret Service warned them the system had been
compromised and a "serious amount of files" had been stolen. They said
the McCain campaign's computer system had been similarly compromised.
ISRAEL BLASTS OBAMA FOR PROPOSING IRAN
NEGOTIATION
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=060dd72c-c876-4e0d-b39f-c835c26b256c
Israel was also buzzing on Thursday over the appointment of Rahm Emanuel
as Obama's chief of staff. Emanuel's father is an Israeli-born doctor.
The younger Emanuel, who is a congressman from Chicago and a longtime
friend of Obama's, received what Israeli media described Thursday as a
conservative Jewish education. He is said to speak some Hebrew, was a
volunteer working with the Israel Defense Forces during the first Gulf
War in 1991 and has been a frequent visitor to the country.
BIG BELTWAY TOPIC: WAR ON IRAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03mon4.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
RAIMUNDO: IRAN---AND THE BEAT GOES ON
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13507
One has only to insert "Israel" where Iran sits in those sentences, and
the pot-kettle-black aspect of this whole issue is underscored, as is
the ridiculous double standard. After all, Israel has surely been
emboldened by its possession of nukes, lo these many years, and acted in
a manner that could reasonably called irresponsible – and even deadly,
now that you mention it. Yet Israel is not only given a pass, but the
defining factor of the Middle Eastern strategic environment – Israel's
nuclear arsenal – goes unmentioned by these worthies.
OBAMA VICTORY PROMPTS IRAQIS TO SUPPORT
SECURITY AGREEMENT
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/world/middleeast/07iraq.html?hp
He's a loose cannon. Summers has a long history of saying what's on his
mind, regardless of whether others might find it offensive. The thing
about women and science was only the most infamous. There was also that
memo he signed about exporting toxic waste to the developing world.
All-melty
dollar
WALL STREET LEARNED ITS LESSON?
LOOK AGAIN
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/106195/wall_street_fat_cats_are_trying_to_pocket_billions_in_bailout_cash/
President-elect Barack Obama told supporters, and the rest of the world,
"If this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a
thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers." But, it seems that Wall
Street didn't get that memo. It turns out that the nine banks about to
be getting a total equity capital injection of $125 billion, courtesy of
Phase I of The Bailout Plan, had reserved $108 billion during the first
nine months of 2008 in order to pay for compensation and bonuses
SUMMERS: WRONG GUY FOR TREASURY?
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/larry-summers-treasury-secretary
LISTEN:
SUMMERS A TERRIBLE
CHOICE FOR TREASURY SEC’Y
http://www.truthdig.com/podcast/item/20081106_obamas_treasury_secreatary_lets_hope_not/
A LOOK AT OBAMA’S POTENTIAL
CHOICES
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21162.htm
Without Emanuel, Bill Clinton would not have been able to thrust NAFTA
down the throats of environmentalists and labor in the mid-1990s. Over
the course of his career, Emanuel’s made it a point to cozy up to big
business, making him one of the most effective corporate fundraisers in
the Democratic Party. He’s also a staunch advocate of Israel’s
occupation of Palestinian territories.
Serrah
SARAH, COME BACK!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/07/MN8L13VKU9.DTL
http://www.alternet.org/story/106197/frightening_new_information_about_sarah_palin_emerges/
Mashed Media
FOX SNEERS AT BLACK REPORTER’S
TEARS OVER OBAMA ELECTION
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fox_contributor_mocks_reporters_tears_during_1106.html
OLBERMANN: RIGHT-WING ‘PUNDITS’
DON’T MATTER ANYMORE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Olbermann_to_rightwing_pundits_You_dont_1106.html
SCRIPPS CUTS 400 JOBS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003888112
Comment
LISTEN:
LINDORFF ON OBAMA
VICTORY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/230
GAIL COLLINS:
THINKING OF GOOD
VIBRATIONS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/opinion/06collins.html?em
O.K., there is nothing positive to say about Sarah Palin. And Alaska,
are you re-electing Ted Stevens? What’s going on there? Did you actually
believe him when he said that the court verdict was still up in the air?
On the day after he was found guilty? By the way, if Stevens does win,
it will be with about 106,000 votes. In total. There are more people
than that in my immediate neighborhood! What kind of state is this,
anyway?
Obama Nation
OBAMA’S MORNING WORKOUT HAS
PREDECESSORS GASPING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/07/us-elections-2008-barack-obama
OBAMA---SAVIOR OF U.S.. .
.SPORTS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/nov/07/ussport
Obama also spent many years as community organiser, working with
unemployed people in Chicago, and will have seen first-hand the positive
effect something as simple as a local game of basketball can have on the
lives of people who feel they have nothing to offer.
(Lack of)
Health
OPTIC NERVE REGROWTH RAISES HOPE FOR THE
BLIND
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/07/optical-nerves-medicine-science
ECSTASY WRECKS YOUR MEMORY
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Ecstasy_causes_memory_problems_-_study&in_article_id=392523&in_page_id=34
MAN GIVES UP COCA-COLA, LOSES HUGE
AMOUNT OF WEIGHT
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?I_lost_8st_simply_by_giving_up_Coke&in_article_id=390447&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
And in more
important matters. . .
GERMAN LAB DREAMS UP ‘HOTEL OF
THE FUTURE’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,589127,00.html
Cocktails delivered by robot, panorama windows-cum-television-screens,
beds which rock you to sleep: Welcome to the hotel room of the 21st
century, the brainchild of a German team of researchers.
BANANAGRAM: SCRABBLE WITHOUT THE
BOARD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/3397394/Scrabble-style-game-without-board-Bananagrams-to-be-Christmas-hit.html
Film
CROWE GAINS 50 LBS. FOR RIDLEY
SCOTT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/07/bfcrowe107.xml
ASTAIRE’S MOVIES
STILL SHIMMER WITH GLAMOUR
http://www.americanheritage.com/people/articles/web/20081028-Fred-Astaire-Adele-Astaire.shtml
Of what did Astaire’s magic consist? Why even now, more than twenty
years after his death, more than fifty years since the days of his prime
as a dancer-singer-actor, why do his old movies still shimmer with
glamour, why do so many people still find the sight and sound of him
enchanting, why does the very idea of Fred Astaire continue to cast its
own lovely lilting glow? We are, my dear Watson, obviously in the
presence of a mystery.
TOP TEN POSTHUMOUS FILM
ROLES
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1857192_1857227,00.html
REVIEW: “SOUL
MEN”
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/movies/07soul.html
Musique
WATCH:
MOTOWN’S 50TH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2008/nov/07/omm-motown-records-50-years
THE CHANGING FACE OF CHICAGO BLUES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1107/p13s01-almp.html
Foreign-born players and whites pick up the slack creating a global
appeal and expanded songbook.
JIMMY CARL BLACK’S NYT OBIT
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/music/07black.html?ref=obituaries
Where ya
goin’?
SMUGGLER’S COVE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/NSM513N89F.DTL&type=travel
And in the
end. . .
WAVES
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=ocean+waves&btnG=Search+Images
11-6 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
HAPPINESS RUNS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGWTAe3M6U
LAUGH AND BE HAPPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9nogArdnw
LAUGH AND BE HAPPY 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIoV16LHGrw
RED RED ROBIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8b_Uus3A7g
RED RED ROBIN 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFjlkceefk
BLOW AWAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddnRtFd7Hps
SAILING ON SUNBEAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zca2XiRAtU
I LOVE TO LAUGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx7lz5X2vKk
SKYLINES:
GINGER BAKER OFFERS TO
STRIP NAKED IN COURT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3389563/Cream-drummer-Ginger-Baker-vows-to-strip-off-in-court.html
WINEHOUSE TAKES A SWING AT PAPARAZZI
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3388316/Amy-Winehouse-lashes-out-at-photographers.html
CRESTFALLEN GAYS GATHER OUTSIDE
SF CITY HALL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/06/BAT413VCFF.DTL
And on to news
and comment. . .
SO LITTLE TIME, SO MUCH DAMAGE
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/opinion/04tue1.html?em
Here is a look — by no means comprehensive — at some of Mr. Bush’s
recent parting gifts and those we fear are yet to come.
BUSH’S FINAL ENVIRO RAPE
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/11/05/bush%E2%80%99s-parting-moves-on-the-environment/
EMANUEL TAKES THE JOB
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_el_pr/obama
Sarah Smile
PALIN DID NOT KNOW THAT AFRICA
IS A CONTINENT
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5095495.ece
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/palin-did-not-know-africa-continent
PALIN RESPONDS: AFRICA ACCUSATION
MADE BY ‘SMALL, BITTER TYPE OF PERSON’
Like you, Sarah?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/06/palin-bitter-africa/
MCCAIN: PALIN WAS MORE TROUBLE
THAN A PIT BULL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/nov/05/john-mccain-sarah-palin
OBAMA A SOCIALIST? HERE'S WHAT THE SOCIALISTS SAY
Class divisions begin to emerge in Obama coalition
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/pers-n06.shtml
Despite Obama's rhetoric about uniting "Main Street and Wall Street" and
"the rich and the poor," he is committed to defending the interests of
the most powerful sections of the American corporate elite.
Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/iran-n06.shtml
ROBERT GIBBS WILL BE OBAMA’S PRESS SEC’Y
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/06/gibbs-press-secretary/
POWELL WILL NOT SERVE IN OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Powell_says_he_wont_serve_in_1105.html
OBAMA POISED TO RESHAPE
JUDICIARY
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=afhumyaVjr1M&refer=us
Ugly
Americans
‘IMPEACH OBAMA’ WEBSITES SPRINGING
UP
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Impeach_Obama_groups_hit_Facebook_1105.html
LIMBAUGH SET TO SINK FANGS INTO OBAMA
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1182490/rush_limbaugh_set_to_go_after_president.html
RUSH LIMBAUGH: THE HAPPIEST MAN
IN THE WORLD
http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2712
PALAST:
GOP SWIPES THE PEACH STATE
http://www.gregpalast.com/the-steal-you-wont-see/
I've been studying the purge of voters and the blockade of new
registrants all year with my co-investigator, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Here's what we know is happening: While Obama is brushing his tux for
his Inaugural, several million votes are getting disappeared. We're
awaiting the count on provisional ballots, those bouncing baloney
ballots they give to the purge, The raw data is ill-making. We predicted
a six-million vote heist and we're looking grimly accurate.
Obama Nation
THE WHOLE WORLD IS ELATED
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/11/05/what-obama%e2%80%99s-election-means-abroad/
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-worldreax6-2008nov06,0,6037603.story
WATCH:
106-YEAR-OLD ANN NIXON SPEAKS ABOUT OBAMA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3386437/Barack-Obama-Key-dates-in-the-civil-rights-campaign.html
114-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OF
SLAVES VOTES FOR OBAMA
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baines5-2008nov05,0,1853339.story
MUST WATCH:
GORE VIDAL GOES ON THE BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2L8iUHZ2sY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3388149/Gore-Vidals-withering-election-night-attack-on-David-Dimbleby-becomes-YouTube-hit.html
HOPING OBAMA LIVES UP TO HIS NAME
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1857036,00.html?iid=tsmodule
Hussein is the name of the most beloved Imam, the ultimate symbol of an
underdog fighting against injustice. The other elements of the
President-elect's name are no less enchanting in these parts. Barack is
a word of Semitic origin meaning "blessing," and Obama, when written in
Persian, transliterates into "He is with us."
THE OBAMA
STORY---PART ONE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/president-obama-story-kenya-to-white-house-part-one
PUTIN MAY ‘REAR HIS HEAD’ AGAIN
IN ‘09
Good thing Sarah is back in Alaska to keep her eyes on him!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081106/wl_nm/us_russia_medvedev_putin
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA BRUTES APPEAL TO OBAMA ON
TAIWAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7712294.stm
CHINA WARY OF OBAMA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,588858,00.html
Comment
NADER:
AN OPEN LETTER TO
OBAMA
http://www.votenader.org/media/2008/11/03/lettertoobama/
Take, for example, your transformation from an articulate defender of
Palestinian rights in Chicago before your run for the U.S. Senate to an
acolyte, a dittoman for the hard-line AIPAC lobby, which bolsters the
militaristic oppression, occupation, blockage, colonization and
land-water seizures over the years of the Palestinian peoples and their
shrunken territories in the West Bank and Gaza. Eric Alterman summarized
numerous polls in a December 2007 issue of The Nation magazine showing
that AIPAC policies are opposed by a majority of Jewish-Americans.
DOWD:
BRING ON THE PUPPY
AND THE ROOKIE
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/opinion/06dowd.html?em
But I had been astonished by the overt willingness of some people who
didn’t mind being quoted by name in The New York Times saying vile
stuff, that a President Obama would turn the Rose Garden into a
watermelon patch, that he’d have barbeques on the front lawn, that he’d
make the White House the Black House. Actually, the elegant and
disciplined Obama, who is not descended from the central
African-American experience but who has nonetheless embraced it and been
embraced by it, has the chance to make the White House pristine again.
STEELE:
HE MUST DECLARE THE
WAR ON TERROR OVER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/06/barack-obama-war-on-terror
NAOMI KLEIN:
CAN OBAMA STOP
BUSH’S ECONOMIC HEIST?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/106157/can_obama_stop_the_bush_administration%27s_final_economic_heist_/
CROSSETTE:
HOPE THAT AMERICA
REJOINS THE WORLD
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/crossette3
KRUGMAN:
THE MONSTER YEARS
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/the-monster-years/
Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a mandate
for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the end of the monster
years.
Mashed Media
GUESS PRINT ISN’T DEAD YET
Obama extras sell out
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003887863
HOW TO LOSE YOUR JOB AS A
REPORTER!
Get drunk and go on Youtube
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2008/nov/06/pressandpublishing-digitalmedia
Animals in
the news!
EUROPE PROPOSES BAN ON GREAT
APE EXPERIMENTATION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/05/animal-primate-research-experiments-vivisection
SURGERY SAVES GORILLA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3390288/NHS-surgeon-operates-on-gorilla.html
HENS’ EGGS EXPLODING BECAUSE OF HOT-AIR
BALLOONS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3385150/Hens-eggs-exploding-because-of-hot-air-balloons.html
SCORE ONE FOR THE MINKS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3389437/Mink-chews-holes-in-speedboats-at-marina.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
BIN-LADEN’S SON ASYLUM REQUEST DENIED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7712224.stm
HUMANS ‘TASTED LIKE BEEF’
Not chicken?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/dominicanrepublic/3388611/Refugees-lost-at-sea-Eating-friends-tasted-like-beef.html
And in more
important matters. . .
MICHAEL CRICHTON, R.I.P.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/books/06crichton.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-crichton6-2008nov06,0,1192481.story
‘MICHAEL CRICHTON GOT MY SON TO
READ’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/nov/06/michael-crichton-boys-reading
FASHION NUTS ANGRY OVER MICHELLE
OBAMA’S MAGNIFICENT DRESS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3388432/Michelle-Obamas-election-night-dress-upsets-Americas-fashion-crowd.html
Architecture
VEILED BY BAMBOO
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/11/05/magic-bus-dormitory/
Musique
THE DUCK-KILLING CONDUCTOR OF THE
CHINA PHILHARMONIC
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1855684,00.html
MARY HOPKIN TO RELEASE SECOND
ARCHIVAL ALBUM
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1106maryhopkinnew.html
Books
GEORGE
HAMILTON’S IMPROBABLE LIFE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/06/DD3G13TTBC.DTL
And in the
end. . .
EXTREME SCRABBLE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3391350/Extreme-Scrabble-fans-photographed-playing-in-amazing-locations.html
11-5 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
BEEF JERKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJnndkAh1FQ
DRINK PAINT RUN RUN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cpQwGDpu7o
GREEN ONIONS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-Z_l907DY
NIGHT TRAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i6uhqmOT6E
HOT AS SUN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX6AQeXUdOU
GREECE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JubwWxLtLDo
FLYING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ49yEYiTV0
CRY FOR A SHADOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibRtJCXeOIw
G-SPOT TORNADO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDI5Ci_7YL4
SKYLINES:
MICHAEL CRICHTON DIES
http://wcco.com/national/Michael.Crichton.dead.2.857059.html
ROBBINS PURGED FROM VOTER ROLLS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tim_Robbins_purged_from_voter_rolls_1104.html
GAY MARRIAGE BAN LIKELY TO PASS
http://cbs2.com/local/gay.marriage.prop.2.856345.html
Comments from SF’s Castro District
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/BA3B13UM7K.DTL
HEY, BUSH, HERE ARE SOME
JOB SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU
Will he be the new Dr. Who?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/george-bush-usa
JOE THE JACKASS COMPLAINS
ABOUT MCCAIN FOCUSING ON HIM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/uselections2008-johnmccain
POT LEGAL IN MICHIGAN, DECRIMINALIZED IN
MASS.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Massachusetts_voters_decriminalize_marijuana_1104.html
FRANKEN IN RECOUNT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003887075
GOOD RIDDANCE, LIDDY
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5086313.ece
Lost Angeles
SUDDENLY. . .MONEY FOR TRAINS
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/11/come_on_ride_the_trains.php
And on to news
and comment. . .
PALIN SPEECHES INCREASED OBAMA
DEATH THREATS
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/report_threats_to_obama_ruse_a.php
http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/output/print
SECRET SERVICE DETAINED
CHICAGO MOTORIST CARRYING ASSAULT RIFLE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Police_probe_Election_Night_threat_to_1105.html
U.S. BOMBS, KILLS 23 CHILDREN
IN AFGHANISTAN---CLAIM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/3386273/US-warplanes-bomb-wedding-party-Afghans-claim.html
Karzai to Obama: End Civilian
Casualties
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-05-afghanistan-violence_N.htm?csp=netvibes
OBAMA OFFERS CHIEF OF STAFF TO
EX-CLINTON AIDE
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/11/obama-offers-ra.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/11/emanuel_named_white_house_chie.html?nav=rss_blog
RAHM EMANUEL
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400120
http://www.house.gov/emanuel/
http://www.house.gov/emanuel/aboutrahm.shtml
'RAHM-BO'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scarborough_Rahm_Emanuel_like_choosing_Tom_1105.html
"Emanuel built a reputation as one of the savviest political minds in
the party and also one of the most confrontational and sharp elbowed.
His tactics and approach earned him the name 'Rahmbo.'
Dishonest John
PALIN 'SORRY' FOR COSTING
MCCAIN VOTES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_sorry_if_she_cost_McCain_1105.html
PALIN SPENT FAR MORE THAN $150K
ON CLOTHES
Including up to $40k in suits for Todd-boy.
. .McCain and Palin rarely spoke. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/05/palin-clothes/
http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581
McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept
him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because
they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with
McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign
strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.
MCCAIN MAKES FUN OF PALIN IN
PRIVATE---REPORT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Paper_claims_McCain_has_been_making_1105.html
PALIN ‘MORE IMPULSIVE’
CHOICE THAN FIRST THOUGHT---MCCAIN AIDE
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/05/schmidt-palin/
MCCAIN GRACIOUS IN DEFEAT
Sure wasn’t gracious during the campaign
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/john-mccain-concedes-barack-obama
Obama Nation
PAR-TAY IN CENTURY CITY
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/11/morning_buzz_the_day_afte.php
HUNDREDS PARTY OUTSIDE WHITE
HOUSE, CHANTING “YES, I CAN”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/05/us.reaction/
DANCING IN THE STREETS---IN
KENYA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3386229/Barack-Obamas-Kenyan-relatives-dance-in-the-streets.html
OBAMA CELEBRATES---OBAMA, JAPAN,
THAT IS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3383667/Barack-Obama-victory-Namesake-Japanese-fishing-village-celebrates-US-election-result.html
WATCH:
THE ELECTION IN THREE MINUTES
http://www.time.com/time/video/?bcpid=1485842900&bctid=1900392588
PHOTOS: THE WORLD REACTS
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1856660,00.html
EDITORIAL PAGES REACT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003887013
“We'll now find out if the Democratic Party has learned anything since
the last two times it held all the levers of power in
Washington.”---Wall Street Journal.
DEMS FALL SHORT OF FILIBUSTER-PROOF MAJORITY
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20081105/D948Q0RG0.html
LITTLE JOEY LIEBERMAN:
AMERICA ‘WON’T SURVIVE’ DEMOCRATS
”Filibuster is key,” says little skunk
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lieberman_fears_America_wont_survive_Democratic_1104.html
VOTER BREAKDOWN:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3385426/Barack-Obama-benefits-from-changing-make-up-of-American-voters.html
Mr Obama was also the clear victor among younger voters, beating Mr
McCain by 34 percentage points among them. However, a much-vaunted tidal
wave of new young voters appears not to have materialised: polls
suggested the total number of under-30 voters only increased by one per
cent compared with 2004.
OBAMA’S BULLET-PROOF SPEECH
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2008/11/04/barack_obama_election_night_speech_to_be_behind_bullet_proof_glass
THE MAKING OF
PREZ OBAMA
Reporter visits childhood home, old friends, ex-teammates. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3383399/Barack-Obama-The-making-of-Americas-first-black-president.html
Meanwhile. .
.
"JUDICIAL CONFIRMATION NETWORK"
WARNS OF ANTI-GOD, ANTI-FAMILY OBAMA
Sure, and I’ll bet he uses naughty words, too!
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=305706
BILL “MILK MONEY” BENNETT:
MINORITIES HAVE NO MORE EXCUSES NOW
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/bill-bennett-obama-wins-means-no-mor
Comment
HEDGES: I VOTED FOR THE RIGHT MAN
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081103_only_nader_is_right_on_the_issues/
If we demolish the fragile and delicate international order, if we do
not restore a world where diplomacy, broad cooperation and the law are
respected, we will see our moral and political authority disintegrate.
We will erode the possibility of cooperation between nation-states,
including our closest allies, and see visited upon us the evils we visit
on others. Obama, like McCain, may tinker with this new world, but
neither says they will dismantle it. Nader
would.
KLEIN: A NEW AMERICA
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856649,00.html
Obama's victory creates the prospect of a new "real" America. We can't
possibly know its contours yet, although I suspect the headline is that
it is no longer homogeneous. It is no longer a "white" country, even
though whites remain the majority. It is a place where the primacy of
racial identity — and this includes the old, Jesse Jackson version of
black racial identity — has been replaced by the celebration of
pluralism, of cross-racial synergy.
RAIMUNDO: A MANDATE---TO END THE WAR
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13720
Let's be clear about the nature and meaning of the mandate we're going
to be hearing so much about: President-elect Barack Obama has a clear
mandate to end the Iraq war as expeditiously as possible. His campaign
was energized by and differentiated from Hillary Clinton's by his
emphasis on correcting that horrific mistake.
JESSE JACKSON: BUSH’S LAST 100 DAYS THE
ONES TO WATCH
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21151.htm
About 90 new rules are in the works, and at least nine are considered
"economically significant" because they would impose costs or promote
societal benefits that exceed $100 million annually. Many will make
changes that the new administration will find it hard to reverse for
years to come. More emissions from power plants; more exemptions from
environmental-impact statements; permission to operate natural gas lines
at higher levels of pressure -- the changes could be the last calamities
visited upon us by the Bush administration.
Mashed Media
CNN DEBUTS HOLOGRAM REPORTERS
There’s a joke here somewhere. . .
http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/cnn-debuts-hologram-reporters/2008/11/05/1225560913200.html
LA TIMES DOPES DITCH ‘DOONESBURY’
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/11/times_flinches_on_doonesb.php
Spaced Out
HONEYMOONS IN SPACE COMING
SOON
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3384326/Honeymoons-in-space-by-end-of-century.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
BRIT COUNCIL BANS SMOKERS FROM BECOMING
FOSTER PARENTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3384745/First-blanket-ban-on-smokers-becoming-foster-parents.html
VITAMIN B-3 FIGHTS ALZHEIMER’S
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7710365.stm
And in more
important matters. . .
JANE AUSTEN’S. . .BASEBALL?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/05/boausten105.xml
Cheap gossip
KINKS START WORK ON COMEBACK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7710458.stm
CRAZY AMY’S CREEP IS OUT OF
JAIL
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Winehouse_husband_walks_free&in_article_id=388388&in_page_id=7
JANE FONDA HEADED FOR BROADWAY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/nov/05/jane-fonda-broadway
Books
THE LAST
SURVIVOR OF WWI
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/05/poetry-andrewmotion
DIAHANN CARROLL: THE LEGS ARE THE
LAST TO GO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/05/women-television-film-oscar
Film
THE FILMS OBAMA SHOULD
WATCH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/nov/05/barack-obama-films
Where ya
goin’?
NORWAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/travel/innovationnorwayalesund/
And in the
end. . .
WANT TO GET PREGNANT? HIRE A CLOWN
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Send_in_the_clowns_to_boost_pregnancy_rates&in_article_id=388379&in_page_id=34
11-4 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
CHANGES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8
CHANGE IS GONNA COME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUT1WgHat6I
STEP RIGHT UP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDwIvSVJwfw
PEACHES EN REGALIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZrbFL9ImM
TOY TRUMPET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOm-h0qa8iA
AIN'T WE CRAZY?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDcBR3ztF8
SKYLINES:
COUNTRY JOE’S OBAMA RAG
http://www.countryjoe.com/obama.htm
TEEN CHANGES NAME TO, WELL, YOU HAVE TO READ
IT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3369609/Teenager-changes-name-to-Captain-Fantastic.html
FREE ELECTION DAY FOOD ALL
OVER TOWN!
http://la.eater.com/archives/2008/11/03/election_insanity_eat_drink_snack_all_day_for_free.php#more
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-votefreebies4-2008nov04,0,3205642.story
And on to
election day horror and comment. . .
Fix is in?
E-VOTE PROBLEMS IN BATTLEGROUND
STATES
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9118983&intsrc=hm_ts_head
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/11/voting_problems_reports_coming.html
VOTING PROBLEMS ACROSS NEVADA
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616
COMPUTER PROBS IN PALM BEACH
COUNTY---
http://www.wptv.com/content/breakingnews/story.aspx?content_id=5c4e1a9b-9d62-4c05-abd1-513e90b1b3ef
---AND 'MASSIVE MACHINE
FAILURES' IN VIRGINIA
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Election_monitors_call_for_extension_of_1104.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2008/11/virginia_reports_some_early_vo.html
VOTING MACHINE PROBLEMS ON EAST
COAST, MIDWEST
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-votingproblems5-2008nov05,0,730388.story
MACHINE PROBLEMS IN PHILLY
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/voting-problems-reported-in-philly/
OHIO POLICE IN RIOT GEAR FOR
ELECTION
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ohio_police_in_riot_gear_on_1104.html
THOUSANDS OF LAWYERS MONITORING VOTING
PROBLEMS
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1104/breaking33.htm
PALAST: HOW MCCAIN COULD WIN
http://www.truthout.org/110308A
In this year's primary, ten nuns were turned away from the polls because
of the state's new voter ID law. They had drivers' licenses, but being
in their 80s and 90s, they'd let their licenses expire. Cute. But what
isn't cute is this: 566,000 registered voters in that state don't have
the ID required to vote. Most are racial minorities, the very elderly
and first-time voters; that is, Obama voters. Twenty-three other states
have new, vote-snatching ID requirements.
MADDOW:
ELECTION DAY CHAOS
WILL AID GOP
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Maddow_Election_system_weak_link_in_1104.html
FEAR AND LOATHING GRIP THE TWO
AMERICAS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/04/us-elections-brooklyn-texas-voters
PALIN RELEASES HEALTH RECORDS
AS PROMISED---NOT!
Two-page letter from doctor covers (or covers up) circumstances of
Trig’s birth
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palins_doctor_issues_twopage_letter_applauding_1104.html
Conservative pundit and blogger Andrew Sullivan continues to question
the official story regarding Trig's birth, and has previously pegged it
as a strong contending reason as to why the campaign put off releasing
information for so long -- and didn't release details of her actual
medical records, as the campaign promised. "We have been given no actual
records of the last pregnancy, or any records at all, although we are
told by the elusive Dr. Catherine Baldwin-Johnson that labor was at 35
weeks - not as premature as previously believed (if you research the
average weight of full term DS babies, you find, by the way, that Trig
was not underweight)," Sullivan wrote Tuesday.
ALASKA PERSONNEL BOARD CLEARS
PALIN IN ‘TROOPERGATE’
Ruling is just a wee bit suspicious
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/03/politics/p151233S41.DTL
"It conflicts with the first investigation and then casts doubts on both
of them. So, it doesn't really resolve anything," Monegan said. "If it
did, then I could walk away. It does seem to fly in the face of
circumstantial evidence."
SF CHRON DEFENDS ITSELF AGAINST
PALIN LIE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/03/EDOO13SU3L.DTL
The Sarah Palin Voting Guide
http://thinkprogress.org/palin-digest/
REPUGS CHARGE: OBAMA GRANDMA VISIT ILLEGAL
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_GOP_file_FEC_complaint_over_1103.html
Limbaugh: Visit was to fix his
birth certificate!
Get back on the hillbilly heroin, Rush. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Limbaugh_slurred_Obamas_last_visit_with_1103.html
BROWN:
MCCAIN WINS
COURTESY OF PALIN’S DEAL WITH DEVIL
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11782
MAYBE MCCAIN SHOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF
INDIA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,588299,00.html
RAIMUNDO:
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13709
The most troubling possibility here is Dennis Ross, a career foreign
policy bureaucrat who was instrumental in shaping America's
Israel-centric policy in the Middle East under George H.W. Bush and Bill
Clinton. He is a longtime associate of the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy (WINEP), the scholarly adjunct of AIPAC, Israel's powerful
lobbying organization in the U.S., which he co-founded.
Goodbye, you
f---ing idiot
GALLOWAY:
THEY’VE SQUANDERED LIVES, FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/03-1
Oh, there will be more outrages as they leave. Bush and his gang are
busy drafting and issuing Executive Orders and new regulations gutting
the last surviving federal rules that bedevil their rich, polluting
friends, and no doubt they're just as busy drawing up presidential
pardons by the bucketful for themselves and their partners in crime.
SCHAMA:
FAREWELL TO THE
ALL-TIME LOSER
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21141.htm
Whatever else his legacy, the man who called himself "the decider" has
left some gripping history. The last eight years have been so rich in
epic imperial hubris that it would take a reborn Gibbon to do justice to
the fall. It should be said right away that amid the landscape of
smoking craters there are one or two sprigs of decency that have been
planted: record amounts of financial help given to Aids-blighted
countries of Africa; immigration reform that would have offered an
amnesty to illegals and given them a secure path to citizenship, had not
those efforts hit the reef of intransigence in Bush's own party. And no
one can argue with the fact that since 9/11 the United States has not
been attacked on its home territory by jihadi terrorists; though whether
or not that security is more illusory than real is, to put it mildly,
open to debate.
Remembering the f---ing idiot in
pics
http://www.metro.co.uk/galleryDetailPage.html?in_gallery_id=1867&in_page_id=3&in_image_id=22188&in_category_id=1679
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-36649.html
THE GAY MAFIA
THAT’S REDEFINING LIBERALISM
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1854884,00.html
A few weeks before Virginia's legislative elections in 2005, a
researcher working on behalf of a clandestine group of wealthy, gay
political donors telephoned a Virginia legislator named Adam Ebbin.
Then, as now, Ebbin was the only openly gay member of the state's
general assembly. The researcher wanted Ebbin's advice on how the men he
represented could spend their considerable funds to help defeat anti-gay
Virginia politicians.
America the
beautiful
‘CONSTITUTION-FREE ZONES?’
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/areyoulivinginaconstitutionfreezone.html
Animals in
the news/Enviro Wacko
GREENPEACE SCRAPS ANTI-WHALING
MISSION
Will focus on defending heroic members accused to stealing whale meat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/04/whaling-japan
RECORD HAUL OF ENDANGERED
TURTLE EGGS
Headed for Malaysian stomachs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/3378665/Record-haul-of-10000-endangered-turtle-eggs-seized-in-Malaysia.html
DIESEL GROWS ON TREES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/04/biofuels-energy
People’s
Repugnic
MASSIVE CHINA FACTORY CLOSURES
---OWNERS JUST WALK AWAY
As U.S. economy plummets
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-taiwanchina5-2008nov05,0,1293709.story
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2008/gb2008113_275559.htm?chan=rss_topEmailedStories_ssi_5
CHINA, TAIWAN IN BIG TRADE DEAL
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-taiwanchina5-2008nov05,0,1293709.story
FLESH’ SEARCH ENGINE CATCHES CHINA
OFFICIAL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3377338/Chinese-official-shamed-by-human-flesh-search-engine.html
"Yes I did it, so what? How much do you want, just tell me. I'll give
you the money," he said. "Do you know who I am? I am from the Ministry
of Transport. I rank with the mayor of your city. So what if I grabbed
the neck of a small child? You people count for fart!"
All-melty
Dollar
WHAT WOULD GEORGE BAILEY DO?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/arts/television/04conn.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
It would be nice to think that if George Bailey had been around in
September, the United States government could have saved itself $700
billion, Iceland could have averted near bankruptcy, and the rest of the
world could have avoided another trillion dollars in bailouts and the
prospect of a deep and long recession.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COUNTRIES GO
BANKRUPT?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,588419,00.html
First it was mortgage lenders. Then large banks began to wobble. Now,
entire countries, including Ukraine and Pakistan, are facing financial
ruin. The International Monetary Fund is there to help, but its pockets
are only so deep.
FIFTY MOST EXPENSIVE U.S.
COLLEGES
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/10/1029_college_costs/index.htm?chan=rss_topSlideShows_ssi_5
College costs are again on the rise. According to a College Board report
released on Oct. 29, the average published cost of annual tuition and
fees at private four-year colleges is $25,143, up 5.9% from last year.
Room and board drives that figure up to $33,143.
Oh, by the
way. . .
BIN-LADEN SON IN SPAIN ASYLUM
BID
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7708029.stm
GITMO JURY CONVICTS BIN-LADEN’S MEDIA MAN
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/guantanamo-convicts-bin-laden-media-man-6604.html
IMMIGRANTS LOST AT SEA ATE THE
DEAD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/dominicanrepublic/3375966/Migrants-lost-at-sea-ate-bodies-of-dead-to-survive.html
And in more
important matters. . .
OPERA HISTORY AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5037&issueID=327
It's tempting to dismiss YouTube as a platform for sophomoric
exhibitionism. A quick glance at a given day's most popular videos
(teenagers daring one another to French-kiss a dog; a guy in Minnesota
electrocuting his nipples with a bug zapper) provides little evidence
that technology is ennobling the human endeavor. But there is a
significant contingent of opera-lovers lurking in YouTube's more
sophisticated corners, many of them uploading their collections of rare
recordings and videos to share with fellow cognoscenti. These selections
are complemented by the website's "Related Videos" feature, which
recommends clips in the same vein as ones you've already viewed.
EVERYTHING’S BIGFOOT IN TEXAS
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/10/30/everythings-bigfoot-in-texas.html
FEEL LIKE MATING? CLICK YOUR
KNEES, LIKE THE ANTELOPES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7707141.stm
For Art’s
Sake
MALEVICH PAINTING GOES FOR $60 MILLION
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/06/arts/melik5.php
BEST BOND BUILDINGS, JAMES BOND
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/nov/04/architecture-jamesbond?picture=339279279
RAPHAEL RESTORED
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/30/bamadonna130.xml
VINTAGE GEISHA POSTCARDS
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/11/art_geisha_postcards.html
And in the
end. . .
COUNTRY JOE’S CAFÉ
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6452123
11-3 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
JIMMY CARL
BLACK
The late great "human metronome" of Zappa's Mothers
LONESOME COWBOY BURT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eN-ScHMdC0
TROUBLE EVERY DAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdjqkitMvNE
REMEMBERING JIMMY AND FZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aDI2x7o1B0
HARDER THAN YOUR HUSBAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWpfk27uLM
WITH MOTHERS, LIVE'68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EZtCADtJ54
KING KONG (Jimmy is drummer on right)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVQvuIOoG1k
YMA SUMAC
PACHAMAMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-6eKroZeIg
LA PAMPA Y LA PUNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8clnnqSs84
CALLS OF THE ANDES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQM7Cd6pABg
BO MAMBO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUBJZdL8BY
GOPHER MAMBO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbuqH_Gkgq0
JUNGLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTzVpOCBgxA
BRIGITTE BARDOT VS. YMA SUMAC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGVZXs58Ddg
SKYLINES:
PALIN PRANKED!---THE COMPLETE
ASTONISHING PHONE CALL
Idiot thought she was talking to prez of France. . .thinks Johnny
Halliday is government advisor. . .a HOWL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMV0LKlVj8I
Full transcript of call!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3369196/Trascript-of-Sarah-Palins-prank-call-from-Nicolas-Sarkozy.html
A: You know I see you as a president one day, too.
P: Maybe in eight years.
PRANKSTERS: PALIN AS
‘GULLIBLE AS BRITNEY SPEARS’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Canadian_DJs_Palin_more_gullible_than_1103.html
Audette finally resorted to stating, "I loved the documentary they made
on your life. You know, Hustler's Nailin Palin." But even then, Palin's
only response was a cheery, "Oh, good, thank you, yes." At that point,
Audette gave up and told her she'd been pranked.
GREAT MOTHERS OF INVENTION
DRUMMER JIMMY CARL BLACK DIES
Zappa’s human metronome of the
‘60’s
http://www.jimmycarlblack.com/
Jimmy Carl Black (real name James Inkanish), former drummer and vocalist
for Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, passed away on october 31st.
Black recently worked as a guest vocalist with The Muffin Men, a Frank
Zappa tribute band based in Liverpool, England, and with Jon Larsen, on
the surrealistic Strange News From Mars project, featuring several other
Zappa alumni, such as Tommy Mars, Bruce Fowler and Arthur Barrow. He was
also a member of The Grandmothers and he formed a duo with Eugene
Chadbourne. Black was diagnosed with lung cancer in August, 2008. A
benefit will be held on 9 November 2008 at the Bridgehouse II in London.
Jimmy Carl Black was 70 years old.
R.I.P. LEGENDARY VOCALIST YMA
SUMAC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/02/AR2008110202252.html
“At night in my bedroom I hear the whoo-whoo of the little birds and I
hear the dogs barking very sad," she told People magazine. "That's what
I put in my records. I don't bark bow-wow, but I bark whoo, and I sing
like the birdies."
OBAMA IS
IRISH (No kidding)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EADUQWKoVek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCkF0hziZXo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMlVn1ZwDg
OBAMA’S ANCESTRAL IRISH TOWN
PREPARES TO CELEBRATE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1103/1225523317197.html
Lost Angeles
FIVE HOMELESS PEOPLE SHOT TO DEATH
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless3-2008nov03,0,4799101.story
MORE FAMILIES WITH KIDS ON
L.A.'S SKID ROW
http://downtownnews.com/articles/2008/11/03/news/11-03-08-news02.txt
POOR ANGELS’ FLIGHT CARS
COME HOME AGAIN
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/11/weekend_curbedwire_olivet_and_sinai_come_home.php
The Onion’s marvelous election
coverage
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/funnyvideosfromtheonion/
TRUDEAU CONFOUNDS EDITORS AGAIN---
WITH OBAMA VICTORY DOONESBURY STRIPS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003886356
how to protect your vote and spot
dirty tricks
http://crooksandliars.com/cernig/making-it-count-how-protect-your-vote-spot-
And on to the
day’s horror and comment. . .
MCCAIN-PALIN, FOX CROW:
OBAMA WANTS TO BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38638
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/11/03/sarah-palin-in-coal-country.aspx
All he said was fines for greenhouse gas emission would put them out
of business---good idea!
PALIN CLAIMS SF CHRON WITHHELD
OBAMA QUOTE
---WHEN IT HAS BEEN POSTED SINCE JANUARY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/03/MNTL13SU6S.DTL
"You gotta listen to the tape," she continued. "Why is this audio tape
just now surfacing?" Voices in the crowd could be heard shouting,
"Liberal media!"
MORE EVIDENCE THAT ‘REAL
AMERICANS’ DON’T UNDERSTAND JOURNALISM
A) Obama’s coal remarks ARE old news, as CNN said, and B) It is not
sinister. biased reporting to say so, as this idiot thinks.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/11/02/cnn-spins-obama-wanting-bankrupt-coal-industry-old-news
BY THE WAY, MCCAIN WOULD PUT COAL OUT OF
BUSINESS
(Good idea!)
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/03/mccain-coal-booster/
MCCAIN SLIPS, CREDITS ‘JOE THE
BOMBER!’
My fellow prisoners. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/03/mccain-joe-bomber/
Joe the Skinhead
http://theheretik.us/?p=693
REPUGS TRY TO PAY OXFORD PROF
TO SMEAR OBAMA
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5063279.ece
FEDS PROBE LEAK ABOUT OBAMA’S AUNT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/31/national/w203225D04.DTL
POLLTRACKER
If you pay attention to them, here they are. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7360265.stm
REID: CONVICTED FELON
STEVENS WILL NOT STAY IN THE SENATE
. . .with all the unconvicted felons
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Reid_Stevens_as_felon_will_not_1102.html
Serrah
SARAH SMILE: TINA FEY SHOULD KEEP HER OUTFIT
This vicious cretin is here to stay
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trailfey3-2008nov03,0,3652901.story
PALIN BURNS FOX NEWS
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/03/palin-ditches-megyn-kelly/
Mashed Media
THE SECRET OF
RACHEL MADDOW’S SUCCESS
http://nymag.com/news/media/51822/
TRIBUNE CO. SHUTS DOWN
LAT’S WASHINGTON BUREAU!
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003886372
Comment
JOHN DEAN:
REPUBLICAN RULE IS
DANGEROUS, AUTHORITARIAN
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20081031.html/
REVENGE OF THE
LEFT AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3366575/Revenge-of-the-Left-across-the-world.html
LINDORFF: STUDS AND
ME
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/229
And that, I believe, not just his incalculable contribution to the
understanding of America, is what was Studs Terkel’s greatness as a
journalist. He was not interviewing a subject. He was conversing with a
friend.
BEINHART: NOW THE
BEAST IS LOOSE
http://www.alternet.org/election08/105807/thanks_to_sarah_palin%2C_we_get_to_see_the_cruelness_of_the_gop_as_it_really_is/
George Bush kept those folks in their kennels, ran as a "compassionate
conservative," and always masked his most heinous plans in double speak.
Bush the Elder, Ronald Reagan, and even Richard Nixon never explicitly
ran on hate and fear of "the other." They used words that were coded
enough that it was possible to pretend that they were true.But now the
beast is loose.
In Case You
Missed it
MCCAIN ON SNL
How is it that he could appear with Tina Fey’s rather unforgiving
parody of Palin? This is too Through-the-Looking-Glass for us. . .
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/mccain-qvc-open/805381/
Israelity
RABBIS DEFEND PALESTINIAN FARMERS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3369505/Rabbis-face-down-settlers-in-Palestinian-olive-harvest-clashes.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA MUCKETY-MUCK IN TAIWAN
Most senior China gov’t. jackass to visit in modern history
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7705468.stm
NOW CHINA’S ANIMAL FEED IS FULL
OF MELAMINE
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/china-melamine-animal-feed-6583.html
Stranger
than truth
DRUM-MAKER INHALES ANTHRAX FROM
ANIMAL SKIN, DIES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3368306/Bongo-drummer-dies-of-anthrax.html
FACE TRANSPLANT WOMAN’S
IDENTITY CRISIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3367041/Face-transplant-woman-struggles-with-identity.html
And in more
important matters. . .
WILL BILLIE PIPER BE THE NEW DR.
WHO?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3371126/Billie-Piper-could-be-next-Dr-Who-says-David-Tennant.html
Hey! Be-attle!
BEATLES ‘MYSTERY
CHORD’ REVEALED!
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable
twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string
Rickenbacker. It evokes a Pavlovian response from music fans as they
sing along to the refrain that follows: "It’s been a hard day’s night/
And I’ve been working like a dog."
LENNON & JAGGER JAM ON STONES,
BUDDY HOLLY
---NEW TAPE DISCOVERY
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1103terrysouthern.html
LATEST DHANI HARRISON
DEVELOPMENTS. . .
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/410thenewno2.html
DHANI’S ALBUM REVIEWED
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/23506878/review/23589191/you_are_here
Auto Motive
NEIL YOUNG’S ’59 LINCOLN
RUNS ON ELECTRICITY, NATURAL GAS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/03/MNLC13S45F.DTL
FERRARIS WILL FLY WITHIN TWO YEARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3366415/Flying-car-based-on-Ferrari-could-be-reality-within-two-years.html
Musique
L.A. 'RING'
CYCLE 10-WEEK ARTS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-et-artsfestival3-2008nov03,0,6651499.story
WHY DON’T DOGS LIKE MUSIC?
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-dogs-dont-enjoy-music
THE VIOLA IS NO JOKE
by Germaine Greer?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/03/viola-orchestra-classical-instrument-music
For Art’s
Sake
THEY SUFFERED
FOR THEIR HUSBANDS’ ART
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=481395
Where ya
goin’?
BRISBANE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/02/RE3O13QO44.DTL&type=realestate
And in the
end. . .
HONEST BUT UNHELPFUL
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=787
10-31 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
THE PERSUASIONS
With Joni Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO-aSVFCDxw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwLHoEkyidY
Old KPPC theme song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dti3RBISNZI
Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamL-QU8fZI
Gypsy Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYDdsADoNao
Looking for an Echo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZmXnJbMivc
Man Oh Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hus4UUhvfZQ
O Heavenly Salvation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51yhnmB27c
Brokedown Palace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrKD078kM3I
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifbgd3tkZ2M
SKYLINES:
Quotatious: "McCain has a strong, solid
track record of his -- I think the manifestations of the opportunities
that he's had to prove that patriotism."---Sarah Palin (huh?)
happy halloween!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9niMoOZnI
WATCH: WASSUP BOYS FOR OBAMA
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k25YAj11zJYqrGOAj9
This just in! Vicar Hospitalized
With Potato Up His Ass!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Vicar_hospitalised_with_potato_up_his_bum&in_article_id=382493&in_page_id=2
NOW THE BEATLES ARE A VIDEO
GAME
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7700457.stm
FULL DETAILS:
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1030beatlesrockband.html
MEMORY TROUBLES? MAYBE THE
MILITARY IS TESTING YOUR HEAD
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/air-forces-amne.html
A team of scientists from the United States and China announced last
week that, for the first time, they had found a means of selectively and
safely erasing memories in mice, using the signaling molecule αCaMKII.
Great Pumpkin Rises in Germany
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2008/oct/31/germany-theme-park-halloween?picture=339150933
POSTHUMOUS PLEA TO PARDON BRIT WITCHES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3328622/Halloween-plea-to-pardon-British-witches-presented-to-Jack-Straw.html
Trick or
Treat
PELICAN TRIES TO EAT DOG
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3285146/Its-a-pelican-eat-dog-world.html
VULTURES TRY TO EAT HUMAN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/3327604/Holidaymaker-feared-she-would-be-eaten-alive-in-vulture-attack.html
Glendale Home is Haunted House
http://tropicostation.blogspot.com/2008/10/glendales-halloween-scene.html
THREE-CENT STAMP GOES FOR A MILLION BUCKS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/31/national/a015426D33.DTL
BOWLER DIES AFTER ‘GAME OF
HIS LIFE’
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Veteran_bowler_dies_straight_after_first_perfect_game&in_article_id=382554&in_page_id=2
MORFORD ON ELECTION PARANOIA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/31/notes103108.DTL
So then, here is what we'll do. In the large block of text below, I'll
attempt to squeeze in all those nasty scenarios, all the worst-case
jinxes and tricks and circumstances I've heard to date which have even
the slightest chance in remote burning hell of coming to pass -- and
maybe a few that don't, just in case.
And on to the
news ghouls and goblins of the day. . .
BUSH, CHENEY MAKE LAST PUSH
TO SCREW ENVIRONMENT, CONSUMERS
The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal
regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at
protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves
office in January.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004749.html?hpid=topnews
WATCH:
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TZcgsy0ws
GUN CO. CEO SACKED FOR OBAMA
SUPPORT
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=2315
Sarah Smile
TOP MCCAIN ADVISOR: ‘PALIN NOT
READY’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/31/eagleburger-blisters-pali_n_139524.html
PALIN: MY ATTACKS ON OBAMA ARE NOT
MEAN-SPIRITED
(That’s correct---inciting hatred with lies is way beyond
“mean-spirited”)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_Obama_cares_for_America_as_1030.html
TOMASKY
TALKS ABOUT PALIN’S FUTURE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/oct/30/sarah-palin-2012-election
PALIN: ALL MY APPOINTEES
DESERVED THE JOB
(Especially all her little pals from. . .high school!)
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/30/palin-hirees/
PALIN STRIKES OUT IN ERIE, PA.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trailpalin31-2008oct31,0,2805553.story
CARTOON: MCHALLOWEEN
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/10/cartoon_mchalloween.html
Palin p.s.
SARAH PALIN SCARES DANNY ELFMAN
INTO POLITICS
http://www.ourgreatestfear.org/about.html
Watch:
Elfman’s campaign commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMgqCSgNlA4
A PALIN PRIMER
http://www.ourgreatestfear.org/facts.html
N.H. REPUG QUITS MCCAIN
CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT OBAMA
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/america/Obama-GOP.php
TWO CHARGED WITH HANGING OBAMA IN EFFIGY
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Two_charged_in_latest_Obama_effigy__10302008.html
WATCH:
MADDOW INTERVIEWS OBAMA
”I do not think Barack Obama has this thing in the bag.”
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/barack-obama-speaks-rachel-maddow
WILL LEFTIST REP. BE OBAMA CHIEF OF STAFF?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7701387.stm
RON PAUL: OBAMA WILL NOT BRING
TROOPS HOME
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ron_Paul_Obama_wont_pull_troops_1030.html
Mashed Media
TWO RIGHT-WING PAPERS
BOOTED FROM OBAMA'S PLANE
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Off_the_plane.html?showall
Electile
Dysfunction
ONE IN SEVEN VOTERS HAS NOT
DECIDED
http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-changeable-voters;_ylt=Au540qgato_o4BqwyXPECIW2GL8C
33 MILLION WATCHED OBAMA
INFOMERCIAL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_en_tv/obama_ad_ratings
War in error
STEVENS: IRAQ INVOLVED IN 9/11
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/31/stevens-911-iraq/
HOMELAND SECURITY PAYS DIVIDENDS
FOR ALASKA
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081031_homeland_security_pays_dividends_for_alaska/
Comment
LINDORFF:
THE END IS AT
HAND---FOR LEFTIST CONSPIRACY THEORIES
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/228
Once largely emblematic of the far Right, which saw black helicopters of
the dreaded United Nations behind every mountain, Jews running
everything, Communists working nefariously under every bed, fluoridation
plots, an immigrant assault on the Anglo-Saxon gene pool, and a liberal
cabal out to steal their assault hunting rifles, now the Left is awash
in the same kind of fevered thinking.
KLEIN:
BUSH’S FINAL
PILLAGE
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/klein
Brace yourself for a final, frantic stripping of public wealth as the
Bush regime goes out the door.
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA COVERED UP MAGGOT OUTBREAK
IN ORANGES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3329432/China-accused-of-covering-up-outbreak-of-maggots-in-oranges.html
Enviro Wacko
AMAZING! THE WALKING HOUSE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/31/architecture-housing
Spaced Out
NEW NASA MOON ROCKET ‘COULD
KILL ASTRONAUTS’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/3288987/Nasa-moon-rocket-Ares-could-kill-astronauts.html
Animals in
the news!
PISSED-OFF OCTOPUS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3328480/Otto-the-octopus-wrecks-havoc.html
Lost Angeles
POOR PERSHING SQUARE TO GET
ANOTHER MAKEOVER
Now they’re putting the grass and trees back. . .
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pershing31-2008oct31,0,2100603.story
Oh, by the
way. . .
EVEN TEXAS ABANDONS BUSH
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/31/bush-texas-disapprove/
THE 50 BEST
INVENTIONS OF THE YEAR
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1852747_1854493,00.html
Obit
AUTHOR WILLIAM WHARTON
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/books/31wharton.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
And in more
important matters. . .
GALLERY: WORLD’S MOST AMAZING FACE PAINTING
http://www.metro.co.uk/galleryDetailPage.html?in_gallery_id=1863&in_page_id=3&in_image_id=22110&in_category_id=1726
MORE ON TENNANT LEAVING “DR.
WHO”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm
Musique
ORGAN LENNON PLAYED AT SHEA UP FOR
AUCTION
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1031organshea.html
JACKSON WON’T JOIN BROS’ REUNION, AFTER ALL
You don’t need any details
THE REAL GHOSTS
OF ESTONIA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1855112,00.html
Estonians do not celebrate Halloween. The holiday that most kids in
North America and many in other parts of the English-speaking world look
forward to for months has not caught on across much of continental
Europe. But why care about costumes and plastic pumpkins when you've got
the real thing? That's what most Estonians think.
PICS:
90 YEARS OF VAMPIRES ON SCREEN
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1855035,00.html
CLEESE AT 69: MARRIAGES SHOULD BE RENEWED
LIKE DOG LICENSES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3289060/John-Cleese-Marriage-should-be-renewed-like-dog-licence.html
FRANCE. SEX. PROBLEM?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/fashion/30cliente.html?em
Books
BEST GHOST STORIES TO READ ALOUD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/31/best-ghost-stories
WHO WROTE THE ORIGINAL ‘FRANKENSTEIN?’
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5035717.ece
Who cares?
THE CASE AGAINST LONG-DISTANCE
RELATIONSHIPS
http://www.slate.com/id/2202431/pagenum/all/
For Art’s
Sake
VAN DYCK
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/01/arts/melik1.php
Where ya
goin’?
XMAS MARKETS IN BRUGES
http://www.guardianholidayoffers.co.uk/details.aspx?DAT=&RET=&COU=&SUP=&PRI=0&FLX=0&DUR=0&PAX=0&SEA=bruges&ORD=VIEDES&CAT=&TID=B7F474F4-CDF9-4DE0-B829-D1301E5C48D4
And in the
end. . .
OBAMA MAY CEASE TO EXIST IF AMERICA DOES NOT
BELIEVE IN HIM
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/obama_warns_he_may_cease_to?utm_source=slate_rss_1
10-30 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
FRANKENSTEIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo
CHEEPNIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehDUE3OfVl0
KING KONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6yUvQBXSY
TITTIES AND BEER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS6RSctbgdA
CLAP FOR THE WOLFMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QSA_ofvAnw
DEVIL WITH THE BLUE DRESS ON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Iyn5JAKZQ
DEAD MAN'S PARTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnjDuqOYPlw
SKYLINES:
FRANKENSTEIN NEWSLINKS SPECIAL!
YGOR!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7doVE2_THWQ
Today’s newslinks brought to you
by this fine film
http://hustler.com/Hustler_Warning_Parody/parody.php?s=9&p=1&w=311938&t=31&c=0&cs=1
FRANKENSTEIN
CLOWNS AROUND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9niMoOZnI
Don’t tase
me, bro
‘SHOOT HIM THE LEG OR
SOMETHING---IT WON’T KILL HIM”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081030.wtasersb30/BNStory/National/home
ROCKETMAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/30/aeronautics-gadgets-rocketman
MAN WANTS TO MARRY CARTOON
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Man_wants_to_marry_cartoon_character&in_article_id=380269&in_page_id=2
HALLOWEEN PET PICS!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/gallery?plckGalleryID=3617e45c-3958-4102-b83d-f7b1495fd285
CARTOON:
9 OUT OF 10 WHACK JOBS
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/10/cartoon_9_out_of_10_whack_jobs.html
speaking of whack-jobs:
Jackson Five to Reunite
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7699779.stm
IN-A-GADDA-DA-FRANKENSTEIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404V1KtKhQA
CARTOON:
FIORE
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/
And on to the
daily trick-or-treat. . .
LYNCHED OBAMA HANGS IN REDONDO
BEACH
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_10851853
In case you
missed it. . .
THE OBAMA INFOMERCIAL
http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/obama-primetime-american-stories-ame
Related:
New Campaign
Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9irG_uXsII
OBAMA’S DAILY SHOW APPEARANCE
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_My_white_half_doesnt_know_1030.html
EVANGELICALS, SMALL TOWNS GOING FOR OBAMA?
http://www.alternet.org/election08/105261/evangelicals_and_rural_americans_are_breaking_big_for_obama/
All-melty
dollar
AMERICAN EXPRESS CUTS 7,000
JOBS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27455315/
NOW COMES THE CREDIT CARD
CRISIS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/29credit.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
SON OF
FRANKENSTEIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzM5jocUFnU
Dishonest
John
MCCAIN FUNDED RASHID KHALIDI---LONG
BEFORE OBAMA MET HIM
http://www.opednews.com/articles/McCain-funded-Rashid-Khali-by-Steven-Leser-081030-318.html
Rove: Wish McCain had started
Khalidi propaganda last spring
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/30/rove-khalidi/
MCCAIN FORGETS THAT ‘JOE THE PLUMBER’ IS NOT
AT RALLY---
REPEATEDLY CALLS FOR HIM
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/30/mccain-forgets-that-joe-the-plumber-isnt-at-his-rally-where-is-joe/
WHACK JOB PALIN’S 2012 TALK
LEAVES MCCAIN AIDE SPEECHLESS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palins_2012_talk_leaves_McCain_aide_1029.html
PUTTIN’ ON THE
RITZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH2nQHPs4aA
ONE-FOURTH OF ALL TEXANS THINK OBAMA IS A
MUSLIM
Everything grows big in Texas, especially ignorance
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/30/taxans-obama-muslim/
Electile
Dysfunction
BIG MAIL BALLOT DELAY IN L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-vote30-2008oct30,0,3989629.story
DIRTY TRICKS ESCALATE
Hell, American politics is one big dirty trick
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Dirty_tricks_escalate_as_US_electi_10302008.html
FRANKENSTEIN
MEETS THE BLIND HERMIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK-XJoQUuHo
Iraq and
Roll
BUSH FAVE CHALABI NOW DOING
IRAN’S BIDDING—
HELPING DERAIL U.S./IRAQ TALKS
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/30/chalabi-iran-sofa/
A BAGHDAD FAMILY’S HOPES
STILL ARRESTED BY WAR
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1030/p01s01-wome.html
Mashed Media
FOX’S CAVUTO LAMBASTS MCCAIN
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/neil-cavuto-john-mccain-economic-matter
REGISTER LAYING OFF 110
Wave goodbye to newspapers, kids!
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003882124
YOUNG
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE BLIND HERMIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvQJz3TtVVg
Comment
THOMPSON:
WHACK JOB? YOU
BETCHA
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11725
Muhammered
GERMANY’S BIGGEST MOSQUE OPENS
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-36529.html
People’s
Repugnic
HOW ABOUT SOME
SCRAMBLED MELAMINE EGGS?
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/hong-kong--melamine-china-eggs-6439.html
BRIDE OF
FRANKENSTEIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9t6NHlPJHA
(Lack of)
Health
BREAST CANCER DRUG
BREAKTHROUGH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3278898/Breast-cancer-drug-breakthrough-could-lead-to-new-treatments.html
Spaced Out
NEW NASA ORION CAPSULE
RESEMBLES APOLLO
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-capsule30-2008oct30,0,2454898.story
KARLOFF SINGS
‘MONSTER MASH’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXLQAGJoz3k
And in more
important matters. . .
TENNANT QUITS DR. WHO!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/oct/30/david-tennant-doctor-who
IS THIS THE NEW DOKE-TAH?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3282197/Favourites-for-next-Doctor-Who-emerge.html
OR THIS?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2008/oct/30/doctorwho-bbc
DRACULA VS.
FRANKENSTEIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381fM2Z4NJQ
WILDLIFE PHOTOS OF THE YEAR
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/30/eaphoto130.xml
CLIMBERS EXPLORE ONE OF WORLD’S DEEPEST
CAVES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3284948/Climbers-explore-one-of-worlds-deepest-underground-shafts.html
Books
QUIZ: KNOW YOUR LITERARY
WITCHES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2008/oct/30/witches-literature-childrens-books
SEPARATED AT FRANKENSTEIN BIRTH?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwjl1sqdes8
Film
GOOD RIDDANCE, COCKTAIL BOND
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/oct/30/james-bond-quantum-of-solace
MEMORIES OF
LIVERPOOL IN THE ‘40’S
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/09/DG_terence_davies.xml
COENS’ RECIPE: MAKE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE UGLY
AND DUMB
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/oct/29/comedy-coenbrothers
BLOOPER DE
FRANKENSTEIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHkh8afgqPk
For Art’s
Sake
STILL DRAWN TO
COMICS
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20081026_Still_drawn_to_comics.html
Back in the 1970s, when Art Spiegelman was a "self-important squirt" and
before he would go on to spend 13 years creating Maus, his two-volume
Holocaust masterpiece, he was intent on breaking what he saw as the last
comic taboo standing.
And in the
end. . .
GIANT LEGGO MAN WASHES UP ON BEACH
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Lego_man_washed_up_on_the_beach&in_article_id=380388&in_page_id=2
IT’S ALIVE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H3dFh6GA-A
10-29 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
BARACK THE MAGNIFICENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnjKmpIlFn8
CRIPPLED INSIDE (w/George on dobro)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHPHxMB9LSk
I DON'T WANNA GROW UP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqOm78Vvg3w
HELTER SKELTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnDaBe7rzc
DEATH OF YGOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXd5XRRwQL8
GOBLIN GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bD8UJRmtro
SKYLINES:
Quotatious: "I don’t want to sound racist
here, but I do not want a black man running my country."
---Democratic McCain supporter in PA.
MA. SEN. STUFFS BRIBES INTO BRA!
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/FedCrimes/story?id=6132629&page=1
IDIOT L.A. DRESS SHOP PUTS
TATE MURDER TABLEAU IN WINDOW
Says it’s all in spirit of Halloween. . .
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/which_halloween_tableau_i.php
NOW YOU CAN DRESS LIKE SARAH!
Yes, you too can be a Neiman Marxist!
http://www.dresslikepalin.com
Related:
SF WILL BE OVERRUN WITH PALINS ON
HALLOWEEN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/28/DD1813MHG2.DTL
Pimping your Palin!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/28/DD9S13NO0U.DTL&type=entertainment
Campaign Pumpkins
http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_lifestyles/political_pumpkins/
TOP TEN PALINS
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1854557_1854530,00.html
CARTOON: BAD REPORTER
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/asmussen/
Obama on tube tonight---
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/28/MNV313OUNQ.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1
---except ABC!
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-abc29-2008oct29,0,518291.story
And on to the
hobgoblins and other denizens of hell. . .
PALIN CHARGED ALASKA FOR KIDS’
TRAVEL
---NEW ETHICS COMPLAINT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_subject_of_new_ethics_complaint_1029.html
FINALLY. . .OBAMA AD QUESTIONS
PALIN’S QUALIFICATIONS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/New_Obama_ad_questions_choice_of_1029.html
Rense 9/10:
Obama Must Call For Palin’s Removal From the Ticket
http://riprense.com/obamamust.htm
ROMNEY: “REAL POSSIBILITY OF
OBAMA PRESIDENCY”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/GOP_doubts_grow_over_McCains_campaign_1029.html
REGGIE LOVE: THE
MAN BEHIND OBAMA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/29/reggie-love-barack-obama
Reggie, as everyone on the campaign calls him, is more than a body man,
whose official duties are to look after the candidate's personal needs.
He carries the candidate's pens, his favourite snacks and drinks, an
endless supply of chewing gum (Dentyne and Nicorette), as well as
numerous bottles of water.
Dishonest
John
MCCAIN IS STRANGELY COCKY
Says pundits (or “pundints,” as he pronounces it) are being fooled by
polls
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/28/politics/p003335D55.DTL
DISHONEST JOHN: SOCIAL
SECURITY IS A ‘DISGRACE’---NO, IT’S A ‘SAFETY NET!’
Will the real John McCain please. . .just go away
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/29/mccain-social-security-hannity/
MCCAIN ADVISOR ON PALIN & RUSSIA:
“THEY HAVE, LIKE, FISHING DISPUTES”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/28/palin-russia-salter/
LATEST MCCAIN CROWD CRY: “BOMB
OBAMA!”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Supporter_outside_McCain_rally_chants_bomb_1028.html
Mashed Media
MCCAIN ACCUSES L.A. TIMES OF ‘SUPPRESSING’
OBAMA VIDEO
Video shows Obama speaking of
friendship with Palestinian scholar
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-video29-2008oct29,0,7568849.story
OBAMA NEWSPAPER ENDORSEMENTS:
222 TO 93
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003875230
46 papers that endorsed Bush in 2004 have
endorsed Obama
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003880410
Israelity
JOE THE PHONEY: OBAMA
MEANS ‘DEATH TO ISRAEL’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Joe_The_Plumber_attacks_Obama_would_1028.html
PALESTINIANS SEE FRIEND IN OBAMA
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-obamamideast10apr10,0,3627849.story
THE TUNNEL KINGS
OF GAZA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,587114,00.html
Comment
OLBERMANN: PALIN’S
‘SOCIALIST’ CHARGE FRAUD
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27424491/
Governor doesn’t have a problem with Alaska’s socialistic collectivism
TUMULTY:
HIDIN’ BIDEN---KEEPING
JOE’S GUMS FROM FLAPPING
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1854640,00.html
RAIMUNDO:
IS WAR GOOD FOR THE
ECONOMY?
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13689
Today's aristocracy of pull is the militarized sector of the economy,
which is completely dependent on government contracts. Their political
Praetorian Guard is represented in Washington by both parties, and,
what's more, their partisans dominate think-tanks of the ostensible Left
as well as the Right.
Enviro Wacko
WORLD USES 30 PERCENT MORE
RESOURCES THAN AVAILABLE
Use condoms!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/29/climatechange-endangeredhabitats
Musical accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
Jesus H.
Christ!
JESUS, WITCHES, AND PALIN
http://www.newsweek.com/id/166215?GT1=43002
OSAMA WRITING A BOOK?
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/10/28/bin-laden-rumored-to-be-working-on-a-book/
DOES QUEEN CONDI HAVE A FUTURE
WITH OBAMA?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,587237,00.html
Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA THREATENS TO TURN S. KOREA TO
‘DEBRIS’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/3272816/North-Korea-threatens-to-turn-the-South-into-debris.html
More Mashed
Media
WANT TO READ THE CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR? YOU NEED A COMPUTER
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1029/p25s01-usgn.html
Animals in
the news!
SALMON: DAMMED OR NOT
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38128/title/No_dam,_no_difference_for_young_salmon
There could be little difference in how young salmon survive their
journey down a free-flowing river versus the heavily dammed Columbia
River system, says a controversial new study. (Somehow, The Rip Post
doubts this.)
GIANT SPIDER EATS BIRD (gad)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml
FISH GETS SURGERY TO SAVE LIFE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Stitched_up_like_a_kipper_-_fish_gets_life-saving_surgery&in_article_id=376853&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
Obit
GREAT NEWS PHOTOG/CHILD ACTOR DELMAR WATSON
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003880186
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-watson28-2008oct28,0,599144.story
And in more
important matters. . .
SEASONAL RECIPES FROM ALICE
WATERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/29/foodanddrink-recipe
U.S. PILOT WAS ORDERED TO SHOOT
DOWN UFO
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/us-pilot-ordered-to-down-ufo-5918.html
Auto Motive/Musique/For
Art’s Sake
”THE STEINWAY OF CONCERT CARS’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,587228,00.html
INTERVIEW: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/27/baleibovitz127.xml
(Lack of)
Health
TAI-CHI WILL
HELP YOUR ASTHMA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3279137/Tai-Chi-helps-asthma-symptoms.html
Where ya
goin’?
NIGHTMARE HONEYMOON FLIGHT TO
TAHITI
(Life is tough in the 21st century!)
http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,1852836,00.html
HOLIDAY ‘PODS’ IN THE YORKSHIRE
DALES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/29/greenbuilding-energyefficiency
NIGHTLIFE OF. . .HIROSHIMA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/29/hiroshima-club-scene-japan
And in the
end. . .
PEASANT OLYMPICS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?On_your_marks,_get_set_-_sow!&in_article_id=376916&in_page_id=64&in_a_source=
10-28 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itfms556DgE
REVOLUTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts
SON OF ORANGE COUNTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAf71o8f27Es
VOTE FOR ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7RqLD7Nv0k
POLITICIAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8vS5mauFCo
BUNGALOW BILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az42McP4__k
COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqF3J8DpEb4
HE'S SO GAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpfX_2G9i6w
SKYLINES:
CONGRESSMAN’S AIDE BEATS OFF QUESTIONIER
WITH CANE
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/gop-anger-builds-thuggery-comes-bubb
LED ZEPPELIN TO TOUR WITH
NEW SINGER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7694327.stm
Related:
ZEP TOURS SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/28/MN8K13P1J4.DTL
‘LEOPARD MAN’ TAKES AN APARTMENT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/28/scotland
GAY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
Isn’t that discrimination?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/3272514/Housing-development-for-homosexuals-built-in-Germany.html
MAN TURNS ORANGE FROM CIDER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3273777/Mans-skin-turns-orange-from-drinking-too-much-cider.html
BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS
SELF WITH UZI AT GUN SHOW
His father was proudly filming. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/27/national/a024106D37.DTL
GOING ON A ROLLER COASTER? HANG
ON TO YOUR PROSTHETICS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Prosthetic_ear_found_under_rollercoaster&in_article_id=376471&in_page_id=2
And on to the
day’s atrocities and comment. . .
Country gone
mad
WATCH: NEO-NAZI “LEADER” ON
“REVOLUTION,” OBAMA ASSASSINATION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/uselectionroadtrip/2008/oct/28/uselections-obama-racism
OBAMA IS A MUSLIM---NO,
WAIT---HE’S A COMMIE!
Flaming anti-Semite Andy Martin is working overtime
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Author_of_Obama_Muslim_rumor_changes_1027.html
CRAZED GOP REP.:
OBAMA WILL MAKE USA ‘TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP!’
And he's going to appoint tabby cats as federal judges!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/28/king-obama-dictator/
Dishonest
John
DAMAGE CONTROL: MCCAIN CALLS
FOR STEVENS TO QUIT.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/28/mccain-stevens/
THE MAN WHO
SAVED MCCAIN’S LIFE
http://www.alternet.org/election08/104860/how_mccain_turned_his_back_on_the_vietnamese_man_who_saved_his_life/
I am not a
crook
PALIN SPENT $51K OF TAXPAYER $
TO ‘SPRUCE UP’ OFFICE
Guess this is how a maverick reforms her interior design. . .
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/2008/view/2008_10_26_Sarah_Palin_spends__50G_on_remodel_jobs/srvc=home&position=also
Palin spent most of the funds, $45,137, in April to build and furnish
three offices inside her suite at the Robert B. Atwood Building in
Anchorage, records show.
MCCAIN ADVISOR: “PALIN IS A
WHACK JOB”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/28/palin-whack-job/
PALIN TRIES TO DISTANCE
HERSELF FROM CRONY STEVENS
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/palin-stevens-verdict-%e2%80%98shines-a-light-on-the-corrupting-influence-of-the-big-oil-service-company%e2%80%99/
Watch: 2006
Palin ad featuring Stevens
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Campaign_ad_features_Sen._Stevens_endorsing_1027.html
PALIN RIGGED GAS BIDDING TO REWARD CRONIES
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/25/palins-pipeline-deal-flaw_n_137825.html
Her signature achievement---that McCain constantly touts---was
crooked
PALIN: THE COMMIES IS COMIN’!
Some yells out “He’s a nigger” at Des Moines rally. . .
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/sarah-palin-des-moines-ia-whipping-fear-co
Electile
Dysfunction
PHONEY FLYER TELLS VA. DEMS TO
VOTE NOV. 5
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/phony-va-election-flier/
MAN SHOOTS BOY FOR STEALING MCCAIN SIGN
Thank God he had a gun to protect himself from this vicious crime!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAMPAIGN_SIGN_SHOOTING?SITE=AZTUS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
WATCH: ‘VOTE-FLIPPING’ ON W. VA.
TOUCH-SCREENS
Democrat votes “flipped” to Repugnican
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6576
October
Surprise
U.S. CALLS SYRIA RAID A WARNING
Three children among dead in helicopter attack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102700511.html?hpid=topnews
SYRIA WARNS U.S. IN RETURN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/3272514/Housing-development-for-homosexuals-built-in-Germany.html
Iraq and
Roll
IRAQ’S STATE OF COMPLETE
DISREPAIR
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174993/michael_schwartz_iraq_in_hell
KURDS VS. BAGHDAD
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/world/middleeast/28mosul.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
A new Iraqi military offensive is under way in this still violent
northern city, but the worry is not only the insurgents who remain
strong here. American commanders are increasingly concerned that Mosul
could degenerate into a larger battleground over the fragile Iraqi state
itself.
Mashed Media
OBAMA LEADS IN NEWSPAPER ENDORSEMENTS,
194-82
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003875230
RIGHT-WING FLA. ‘REPORTER’ TO
APPEAR ON O’REILLY (OF COURSE)
Asked Biden if Obama is a “socialist”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/barbara-west-oreilly/
Comment
GREENSPAN SHOULD
HAVE STUCK WITH THE CLARINET
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_froma_harrop/greenspan_should_have_stuck_with_the_clarinet
RECREATE
’68---THE RIGHT-WING VERSION
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2008/10/re-create-68-right-wing-version.html
Apart from Palin (who, I think, really doesn't have a clue whether what
she's reading off the prompter is true), I think these people can't bear
the thought that they missed the chance to confront dirty hippie
commies.
KLEIN:
WHY OBAMA IS
WINNING
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1853025,00.html?imw=Y
VIDAL:
MCCAIN IN THE ECHO
CHAMBER
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081027_mccain_in_the_echo_chamber/
So what little fame he has rests on the fact that he was taken a
prisoner of war by the Vietnamese—hardly a recommendation for the
leadership of the “free world”—and thus aware of the meagerness of his
own curriculum vitae, for his vice presidential choice he then turned
radically, in the age of the awakening to power of women, to an Alaskan
politician; a giggly Piltdown princess out of pre-history.
KRISTOF:
MCCAIN’S
ENDORSEMENT FROM HELL
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion/26kristof.html?em
Yet the endorsement of Mr. McCain by a Qaeda-affiliated Web site isn’t a
surprise to security specialists. Richard Clarke, the former White House
counterterrorism director, and Joseph Nye, the former chairman of the
National Intelligence Council, have both suggested that Al Qaeda prefers
Mr. McCain and might even try to use terror attacks in the coming days
to tip the election to him.
MONBIOT:
HOW GIBBERING
NUMBSKULLS CAME TO DOMINATE WASHINGTON
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/28/us-education-election-obama-bush-mccain
Like most people on my side of the Atlantic, I have for many years been
mystified by American politics. The US has the world's best universities
and attracts the world's finest minds. It dominates discoveries in
science and medicine. Its wealth and power depend on the application of
knowledge. Yet, uniquely among the developed nations (with the possible
exception of Australia), learning is a grave political disadvantage.
All-melty Dollar
BRIT HOME FORECLOSURES UP 71 PERCENT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/houseprices/3273416/House-repossessions-increase-by-71-per-cent-compared-to-last-year.html
Enviro Wacko
MCCAIN AIDE ARGUES: CARBON
DIOXIDE IS NOT A POLLUTANT
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/dhe-co2-pollutant/
BRIT SCIENTISTS: NEW ZEALAND
SHOULD BE “LIFEBOAT”
FOR GLOBAL WARMING SURVIVORS
http://www.rushprnews.com/2008/10/25/top-british-scientist-says-new-zealand-should-become-lifeboat-for-global-warming-survivors/
CLIMATE STUDY: “POLAR CITIES”
FOR REFUGEES IN ANTARCTICA
http://www.rushprnews.com/2008/10/13/climate-study-forecasts-polar-cities-for-refugees-in-antarctica/
Animals in
the news!
CHINA’S THREATENED ELEPHANTS
TURN INTO KILLERS
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinas-threatened-elephants-turn-into-killers-973833.html
Local people believe the animals are getting angry as the country's
runaway development destroys ever more of their habitat
CAN YOU TRUST LABELS LIKE
‘CAGE-FREE?’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1028/p25s01-wmgn.html
Taiwan
MASS ANTI-CHINA PROTESTS IN TAIWAN
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/taiwan-protest-mainland-china-6205.html
DPP RISING UP AGAINST NEW TAIWAN
PREZ
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854376,00.html
Obits
‘DEEP THROAT’ DIRECTOR DAMIANO
Kind of chokes you up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7694924.stm
And in more
important matters. . .
POEM BY GARRISON KEILLOR
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/poem-keillor
CLONING DOGS FOR
LOVE AND PROFIT
http://www.reason.com/news/show/128654.html
BRIT WWII VETERAN REMEMBERS
WHEN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/rafbombercommand/3254769/The-men-of-bomber-command-The-pilot-Sir-Michael-Beetham.html
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham GCB, CBE, DFC, AFC,
FRAeS, joined the Royal Air Force as an 18-year-old volunteer in 1941,
and flew Lancasters with 50 Squadron, completing a tour of 30 operations
over enemy territory.
Hey, Be-attle!
WHO WAS THE ‘PRETTY NURSE SELLING
POPPIES FROM A TRAY?’
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1862631.ece
John’s 1980 home video of then-new
song
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/article1733281.ece
FILM OF BEATLES IN KANSAS FOUND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3273941/Beatles-video-unearthed-after-44-years.html
Books
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE BIO
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455108803552611.html
Now, many years and 500 pages later, Mr. Bostridge has produced
"Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon," a dense and compelling
biography of a woman who is rightly venerated but often too
simplistically understood.
FROM REBELS TO LOVEABLE CHAPS
http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Five+Lives&expire=&urlID=31978229&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Freviews%2F51540%2F&partnerID=73272
And in the
end. . .
INVASION OF THE BODY SCANNERS
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-36485.html
10-27 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
MERL SAUNDERS:
SUNRISE OVER HALEAKALA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EZWJBRQZ3M
JERRY AND MERL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVHXUzbMJw
FRANKLIN'S TOWER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPqjuXVPFb8
MY TRAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gPSmii0J4Q
DANCE OF THE FIREFLIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvofShwWMjQ
MERLE LIVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slBSSOBJmbQ
SRI LANKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHCgOjFEE_Q
SKYLINES:
PALIN HANGS OUT IN WEST
HOLLYWOOD
http://cbs2.com/local/Sarah.Palin.mannequin.2.849299.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10827154
AMAZON LISTS OBAMA MASK AS
‘TERRORIST COSTUME’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/amazon-lists-obama-halloween-mask-as-a-terrorist-costume/
DOG SAVES KITTENS FROM FIRE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/oct/27/australia-dog-fire-rescue
CHEF IS ALLERGIC TO WATER
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?The_chef_who_is_allergic__to_..._water&in_article_id=373084&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
GOOD OLD JERRY LEWIS: CRICKET
IS A “FAG GAME”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/3267756/Comedian-Jerry-Lewis-says-cricket-is-a-fag-game.html
STAPH INFECTIONS HIT NFL
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1853828,00.html
THE GREAT MERL SAUNDERS DIES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/BAGK13NQGB.DTL
And on to the
daily horror. . .
America the
beautiful
PLANT MANAGER EXPLAINS WHY
OBAMA IS. . .THE DEVIL!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/uselectionroadtrip/2008/oct/27/barack-obama-muslim-antichrist
RAIMUNDO:
OCTOBER SURPRISE? DON’T BE SURPRISED
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13678
The desperate McCainiacs will do anything, at this point, to stop the
Obama juggernaut – and I do mean anything. Which brings us to the last
weapon remaining in the smear merchants' arsenal, the one accusation
that no American politician can stand up to, especially if it's true –
and, yes, I do mean the exposure of an affair. Rumors that Obama isn't
as saintly as he appears, at least when it comes to his personal life,
have been circulating over the Internet for weeks.
STEVENS GUILTY
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/stevens_trial
REPUGS EXPLOIT 2001 OBAMA ‘SOCIALIST”
INTERVIEW
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/3268201/Barack-Obama-reignites-fears-of-socialism.html
NOW MCCAIN CALLS OBAMA
“SOCIALIST”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_woos_middle_class_McCain_tars_1026.html
FINANCIAL TIMES ENDORSES OBAMA
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Financial_Times_endorses_Obama_10262008.html
ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
ENDORSES OBAMA
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/26/anchorage-daily-news-supports-obama/
Serrah
WATCH: RUSSIANS SING NICE LITTLE SONG FOR
SARAH
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/23/17319/662/589/640139
SERRAH CAMPAIGNING IN JEANS
(Is this the figure of a woman who gave birth a few months ago?)
http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/minor/2008/10/27/palin-in-jeans-defends-clothing-costs/
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/10/sarah_palin_dons_old_clothes_a.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_defends_150000_wardrobe_in_her_1026.html
MCCAIN AIDE COMPLAINS OF
‘DIVA’ PALIN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_camp_faces_infighting_over_diva_1025.html
The Alaska Governor's supporters accused McCain campaign strategist
Steve Schmidt and senior aide Nicole Wallace of already attempting to
blame Palin for the failure of the campaign.
MORE
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14929.html
TOMASKY: PALIN GOING ‘ROGUE’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/oct/25/uselections2008-sarahpalin
PALIN MAKES REPORTER SUBMIT ?’S BEFORE
INTERVIEW
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/palin-topics-interview/
REPUGS FEAR OBAMA LANDSLIDE
WILL TRIGGER ‘CIVIL WAR’ IN PARTY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3260074/Republican-fears-of-historic-Obama-landslide-unleash-civil-war-for-the-future-of-the-party.html
Iraq and
Roll
U.S. TO IRAQ: DO WHAT WE WANT, OR
WE TURN OFF THE WATER
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/54795.html
Mashed
Media
TV REPORTER ASKS BIDEN IF
OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST
We are not making this stuff up
http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/joe-biden-smacks-down-gop-talking-po
LAT CIRCULATION DROPS AGAIN
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003878037
All-melty
dollar
INTERVIEW: NAOMI KLEIN
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Naomi-Klein-Interivew-with-by-Rob-Kall-081026-271.html
Well, the spin is that Paulson was really tough with the banks and
forced them to sign against their will; I mean the terms of the deal are
incredibly favorable to the banks; they didn't have to negotiate,
because they couldn't have negotiated a better deal for themselves. They
get the money but the government is taking no power, there's no voting
right, so they've just been handed free money in the midst of an
economic crisis; a lot of these banks, if they are not bailed out,
they're going down. So this spin that Henry Paulson is so tough with the
banks is absurd; he's the best thing that's ever happened to them, and
he's one of them.
Comment
MOORE:
NO MORE SOCIALISM
FOR THE RICH
http://www.alternet.org/story/104721/michael_moore%3A_no_more_socialism_for_the_rich%21/
I mean the complete irony of this, that they have spread the wealth
around to more wealthy people. They have bailed out wealthy people who
were playing a high stakes game of risk and failed. They were using
money that didn't exist, that wasn't theirs, to try to make more money.
Actually, when these guys behind me here if they were to ever write a
check for money that they didn't have in the bank and actually use that
check to buy something with it, they'd be arrested. It's called check
kiting.
LINDORFF:
I’M CALLING THE
ELECTION FOR OBAMA
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/226
SHAW:
PALIN---THE NEW
BUSH
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-Palin-the-New-Bush-by-Mary-Shaw-081026-854.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
SCHULLER OUSTS SON
Hour of powerless
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-schuller27-2008oct27,0,6032775.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-schuller26-2008oct26,0,5246341.story
Oh, by the
way. . .
GERMAN LIBRARIES HOLD HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF LOOTED BOOKS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,586379,00.html
QUOTES OF THE DAY
http://www.time.com/time/quotes
And in more
important matters. . .
MUSICIAN DREW HIS WAY BACK FROM
STROKE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/27/art-illustration-edwyn-collins
Auto Motive
1963 FERRARI, RUNS GOOD
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Full_throttle?_Not_in_this_%A33.5m_car&in_article_id=373515&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
CARPLANE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/3268111/James-Bond-style-car-transforms-into-a-plane.html
Film
ZETA-JONES WILL PLAY CLEOPATRA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7690607.stm
UH-0H. . .MUHAMMAD BIOPIC ON THE
WAY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/oct/27/1
Obits
TONY HILLERMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/books/28hillerman.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Books
SCHULZ BIO
He regretted never letting Charlie Brown kick the football before
Lucy yanked it away
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article4954796.ece
PHOTOS OF THE DAY: CRANES
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-36381.html
Where ya
goin’?
KAYAKING WITH KILLER WHALES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/TRED112JKU.DTL
NORWAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/travel/innovationnorwayalesund/
And in the
end. . .
ANYONE CAN PLAY BEETHOVEN’S 5TH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apptd0vjl4g
ON HIATUS. . .back for the last
days before election. . .
10/18-19 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
WATCH:
YO CATS! IT'S PALIN JAZZ!
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/open-thread-4
GRANNY SUES MCCAIN/PALIN FOR
'HATE SPEECH'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Grandmother_sues_McCain_for_hate_speech_1017.html
POWELL ENDORSES OBAMA
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/powell-endorses-obama/?hp
Electile
Dysfunction
ACORN FRAUD? MORE LIKE FRAUD
AGAINST ACORN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN: 'REAL
VIRGINIA' IS WHERE MCCAIN IS AHEAD
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/
BLOCK THE VOTE
Fix might already be in
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23638322/block_the_vote
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast: Will the GOP's campaign to deter
new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?
OBAMA WANTS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
FOR VOTE SUPPRESSION PROBE
Wants to know if Bush and McCain are colluding
http://www.freep.com/article/20081017/NEWS15/81017065
SURGE IN REGISTRATION, SURGE IN
SUPPRESSION
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/103558/after_a_surge_in_registration,_a_surge_in_suppression/
The GOP-led campaign to cast doubt on the integrity of the 2008 vote
comes as states are breaking records for new voters.
TURLEY: VOTER FRAUD CLAIMS LOOKS LIKE “SUPPRESSION”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_GOP_challenges_look_like_suppression_1018.html
Comment
Naomi Wolf:
Dear Conservatives, Will You Help Save the Republic from Military
Takeover?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/103554/dear_conservatives%2C_will_you_help_save_the_republic_from_military_takeover/
The Army Times declared that "beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the (1st
Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division) will be under the
day-to-day control of U.S. Army North" ... "the first time an active
unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command
established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland
defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities."
TOO EARLY TO
WRITE OFF MCCAIN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,584853,00.html
100,000 TURN OUT FOR OBAMA IN MISSOURI
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/100_000_turn_out_for_Obama_in_Misso_10182008.html
MASSIVE ANTI-U.S. PROTEST IN
BAGHDAD
The surge is working!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Sadr_urges_Iraqi_MPs_to_reject_1018.html
10/17 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
CATFISH JOHN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n81doCdMzwE
NASHVILLE CATS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8nwZ44XV0
GON' FISHIN'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH9UX2-zXcc
CATS UNDER THE STARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaNemNUA514
STRAY CAT BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v132Jq6nbww
STRAY C AT STRUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb9mKHaUZmw
FISHBONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrONIb9gQ-k
WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdSqk78nHw
R.I.P. LEVI STUBBS
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003875218
REACH OUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJ5e6cAEzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_1QwoFZWpc
SAME OLD SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x55tMpAHuI8
BABY I NEED YOUR LOVIN'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQEhuylZmg
WALK AWAY RENEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ2c-h2rOS4
SUGARPIE HONEYBUNCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlkMZhO_dDg
SURF RATS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3215660/Surfing-rat-rides-wave-in-Hawaii.html
MEDIA IGNORE RINGO’S AUTOGRAPH
EXPLANATION
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1011noautographs.html
MAN STALKS WOMAN, SHE BEHEADS
HIM
That’ll learn ‘im
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/17/international/i015608D59.DTL
HUGE PIG SENT TO STUD AFTER HOLDING WOMAN
HOSTAGE
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/life/pig-hostage-4960.html
Related:
MADONNA BEING “BEASTLY”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3216881/Madonna-is-being-beastly-says-Guy-Ritchies-father.html
MORFORD: 9 WAYS TO CELEBRATE BUSH’S EXIT
The Rip Post endorses all but No. 4.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/17/notes101708.DTL
OBAMA/MCCAIN ROAST EACH OTHER,
THEMSELVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ql1RLDVWzY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk5YJkhizRs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SkFjTCscM4
“You are getting sleeeeepy, sleeeeepy. . .”
And on to news
and comment. . .
REPUGS DEPICT OBAMA WITH
WATERMELON, RIBS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/16/state/n105749D06.DTL
LETTERMAN TO MCCAIN: YOU KNOW
GORDON LIDDY, DON’T YOU?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Letterman_nails_McCain_over_Gordon_Liddy_1017.html
L.A. TIMES ENDORSES OBAMA
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-endorse19-2008oct19,0,5198206.story
WASHINGTON POST ENDORSES OBAMA
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hr5hmYnjJMz50Swp8ech-tpt4zoAD93S0NH00
MURDOCH-OWNED LONDON TIMES
ENDORSES OBAMA
http://blogs.dw-world.de/acrossthepond/michael/1.7240.html
CHICAGO TRIBUNE ENDORSES OBAMA
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/chicago_tribune_endorses_obama.html
SF CHRONICLE ENDORSES OBAMA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/17/EDLP13H6V9.DTL
POWELL TO ENDORSE OBAMA?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081017/pl_politico/14665
Joe the
doofus
JOE THE PLUMBER: YES, I WOULD
GET OBAMA’S TAX CUTS
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/17/joe-the-plumber-obama-cut/
JOE THE PLUMBER NOT WORRIED ABOUT
TAXES---HE DOESN’T PAY THEM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081017/ap_on_re_us/joe_the_plumber_27
AND HE ISN’T JOE---HE’S SAM THE
PLUMBER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/16/MNQ013J6JV.DTL&tsp=1
Serrah
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN TRIES TO
CHERRY PICK REPORTER FOR SARAH
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/17/palin-decider-reporter/
THREATENING LETTERS SENT TO OBAMA FLA
OFFICES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Letters_threatening_Obama_sent_to_Florida_1017.html
CHICAGO SAYS: TOO MUCH ADO ABOUT
AYERS
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1851103,00.html
Mashed Media
LIMBAUGH RAKES FOX---CALLS
“ALL-STARS” “ELITES”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/16/limbaugh-fox-elites/
YES, 100 PERCENT OF MCCAIN ADS ARE
NEGATIVE
http://mediamatters.org/altercation/200810160009#2
Comment
NADER: TAX WALL STREET TO PAY FOR BAILOUT
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Tax_Wall_Street_to_pay_for_bailout__10162008.html
TEN BIGGEST
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OBAMA AND MCCAIN
http://www.alternet.org/election08/103387/the_10_biggest_differences_between_obama_and_mccain_that_will_affect_your_daily_life/
DIONNE:
STUCK IN THE
PRIMARY
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081017_stuck_in_the_primary/
What’s your
Russia?
PUTIN MAY USE CREDIT SQUEEZE TO
DESTROY OLIGARCHS
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aaorNZeDn54A&refer=news
MOSCOW MARKET SHELVES EMPTY LIKE THE OLD
SOVIET DAYS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3211594/Financial-crisis-Moscow-supermarket-shelves-increasingly-empty-in-Soviet-era-reminder.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA OLYMPIC PRESS FREEDOM
GOES BYE-BYE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7675306.stm
JAPAN FINDS POISON IN CHINA
STRING BEANS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/japan-chinese-contaminated-food-5779.html
Spaced Out
INTERNET MILLIONAIRE TAKES
AIM AT MARS
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/10/15/internet-millionaire-takes-aim-at-mars/
SpaceX is on a trajectory to revolutionize space transportation. Musk
wants to make it more affordable through much cheaper launches. His
larger ambition is to transport astronauts in Space X’s rocket capsule,
effectively providing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
with an alternative to the space shuttle, due to be mothballed in 2010.
Animals in
the news!
HORSE RACING FACES MANY SKEPTICS IN MOVES TO
REFORM
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1017/p02s02-usgn.html
SAVE THE TASMANIAN DEVIL!
http://www.lemondrop.com/2008/10/16/tasmanian-devils-could-be-extinct-in-25-years/?icid=200100397x1211130429x1200721277
(Lack of)
Health
VIRULENT STRAIN OF STREP ELUDES
VACCINE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/16/healthscience/snstrep.php
Obits
JACK NARZ
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/arts/television/17narz.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Y.C. WANG
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/business/17wang.html?ref=obituaries
TOM TRESH
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/sports/baseball/17tresh.html?ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
BEEGEES’ “STAYIN’ ALIVE” IS
USED TO RESTART HEARTS
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3214030/Bee-Gees-song-Stayin-Alive-helps-doctors-perform-CPR.html
Q&A: TONY CURTIS
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1851153,00.html
Lew Wasserman, who was my agent then, told me, "Tony, you're going to
have to work three pictures a year for ten years. At the end of ten
years, you should be a star all around the world." He was absolutely
right. I just worked, worked, worked. Today, there are no such animals.
I don't know anybody who's putting together a career like that. I made
150 movies of every conceivable kind.
INTERVIEW: RICKY GERVAIS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/oct/17/ricky-gervais
Musique
THE KINGSTON
TRIO AND THE RED SCARE
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081027/dreier_vrabel
And the little tune, itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMSGrY-IlU
DINOSAURS MADE MUSIC
You know, like the Rolling Stones
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3214802/Dinosaurs-made-musical-sounds-with-bony-crests.html
Fashism
TARTAN IS BACK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2008/oct/17/tartan-trend-fashion?picture=338702893
Lost Angeles
LOST MAPS OF L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-maps16-2008oct16,0,4448254.story
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/1016/
For Art’s
Sake
ASTOUNDING BALLOON
SCULPTURE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/3204414/Balloon-twisting-sculptures-by-Jason-Hackenwerth.html
WARHOL SKULLS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3212838/Andy-Warhols-Skulls-up-for-auction.html
Where ya
goin’?
CANOPY TOURS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/17/travel/17leaves.php
Film review
"W."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/18/arts/stone.php
And in the
end. . .
BIRDCRAP FACIAL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2008/10/16/efgeisha116.xml
10/16 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
RUEDI RYMANN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/music/07rymann.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
SCHACHER SEPPLI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsy6wA-T0o
The world is a turbulent place.
I’ve observed it many times:
People hurt each other just because of that damned money.
How beautiful it could be down here.
The bird on the tree sings,
“Look at your land, isn’t Switzerland a dream?”
MORE RUEDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Ry_DQmt4s
UNVERGESSEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKricfxA2xs
ALPERLABE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAqvxS8cNF4
FOCUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U
Quotatious: “When you got a negro running for president, you got a
second-stringer.”---McCain/Palin supporter.
skylines:
RINGO STOPPED AUTOGRAPHS BECAUSE
OF EBAY SCAMMERS
Non-fans were getting his sig on merchandise, selling it
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1011noautographs.html
LA TIMES STOPS TIME
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/10/curbedwire_la_times_down_a_clock.php
DRUNK PONY RESCUED FROM SWIMMING POOL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/15/animalwelfare
MUST
WATCH: THE SOURCE OF MCCAIN’S DEBATE STRATEGY
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20081015_debate_preview_batman_vs_the_penguin/
PREVIEW:
NEW BOND PICTURE
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=8b37aa58-4d9d-4ec1-a32d-3377954dc5f5
TOP TEN MUSICAL POLITICIANS
(This is pretty hard to stomach)
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1850902_1850905,00.html
FIORE
CARTOON: PALIN ON AFGHANISTAN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/15/fiorepalin.DTL
And on to news
and comment. . .
PALIN AS PRESIDENT
Click around the picture and things happen. . .
http://palinaspresident.com/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3209842/Sarah-Palin-presidency-previewed-on-satirical-website.html
PALIN: ‘GRANTED, WE’RE COMING
FROM BEHIND’
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/10/16/as_mccain_flags_in_nh_palin_calls_for_a_comeback/
MUST
WATCH: AMERRYGUN ELECTION WISDOM
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20081015_al_jazeera_profiles_fanatics_in_small_town_ohio/
Joe the GOP
plumber
Obama Reveals Socialist Plan for
America:
Interview with Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher
http://familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1465/pub_detail.asp
Joe the Plumber tells his fears that Obama for taking America down
the road to socialism, denounces welfare recipients and Obama's health
care plan.
"So yeah, it goes down the socialist – His healthcare plan scares
me. You know, I don’t like people going without healthcare, but it’s not
my job to pay for everyone else’s healthcare." (But he doesn't mind
paying a trillion bucks to occupy Iraq.)
Say It Ain't So, Joe! Wurzelbacher
Not A Real $250K Plumber?
http://steveyoungonpolitics.com/say-it-isnt-so-joe-wurzelbacher-not-a-real-plumber/
'Joe the Plumber' has
no plumbing license
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7883801
JOE RELATED TO CHARLES KEATING?
http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/10/15/joe-the-plumber-wurzelbacher-related-to-charles-keating-oops/
They thought they had a real live Joe Six-Pack who’s spurned Barack
Obama’s tax plan. But what they forgot to do was check on Joe
Wurzelbacher’s background.
JOE ACTUALLY
ELIGIBLE FOR OBAMA TAX CUT?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/joe-the-plumber.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/16/joe-the-plumber/
WATCH: OBAMA
GRACIOUSLY EXPLAINS THINGS TO JOE THE PLUMBER
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6031110
JOE: DEBATE “FLOORED ME”
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?id=6047360&page=1
Debate
IF ONLY MCCAIN HADN’T
LOOKED SO OLD AND ANGRY, HE MIGHT HAVE WON. . .
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4953334.ece
Even if John McCain had stripped down to his underpants, spat out his
dentures, and challenged Barack Obama to a mano-a-boyo in the car park
outside, he couldn’t have fought much harder than he did last night.
POLLS, PUNDITS GIVE IT TO OBAMA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/16/uselections2008-barackobama2
THREE SHORT TAKES ON DEBATE
3
http://www.alternet.org/election08/103231/obama_three_for_three%3A_short_takes_on_the_final_presidential_debate/
A LITTLE DEBATE, A LITTLE SEX
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Naked_politics_gets_US_debate_watch_10162008.html
Dishonest
John
MCCAIN’S DAUGHTER CAN’T FORGIVE
BUSH FOR 2000 ELECTION
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/15/meghan-mccain-smears/
Serrah
MCCAIN: PALIN’S AIP CONNECTION
IS OFF-LIMITS---
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Reporter_Palin_tied_to_ideology_that_1015.html
---SO HERE’S A DETAILED PIECE
ABOUT IT
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/10/palin_chryson/
BON JOVI SLAMS PALIN FOR USING HIS
SONG
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/16/jon-bon-jovi-slams-republicans
Comment
LINDORFF: WHY I'M VOTING FOR OBAMA NOV. 4
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/224
I was going to vote for Nader because I find Obama to be a seriously
flawed candidate. He ran early on an anti-Iraq War platform, saying not
that invading Iraq was wrong legally and morally, but that it was “the
wrong war.” Since then, he has backed away even from saying he wanted
the war ended, opting for a 16-month withdrawal timetable that would
have the killing and dying in that sad land going on longer than most
wars this nation has fought. He has also called for an escalation of the
war in Afghanistan, despite clear evidence that more troops just will
make the situation there worse, and has called for an expansion of the
US military budget, to increase the size of the Army and Marines, which
will only encourage more warmongering, more killing and more waste of
precious resources.
RAIMUNDO: GOODBYE, GOP
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13592
What killed the GOP was the war and its inevitable aftermath – the
economic blowback that is even now whipping across the landscape and
downing Wall Street's mightiest edifices. Not only that, but the general
air of uncertainty and fear generated by the war and its economic and
psychological ripple effects have created a crisis of confidence, one
that threatens our well-being in an immediate way.
All-melty
dollar
THE WORLD SHUDDERS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/13/financial/f171625D83.DTL&tsp=1
A crucial barometer of inflation came in flat last month, temporarily
halting Wall Street's slide. But stocks dropped again in morning trading
Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling more than 300
points. Stock prices fell globally, too. Credit markets remained tight
and oil prices declined to a nearly 14-month low.
People’s
Repugnic
ITALY SEIZES SHIPMENT OF CONTAMINATED MILK
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/italy-melamine-chinese-milk-5741.html
FDA GAPS LEAVE U.S.
VULNERABLE TO POISON MILK
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/fda-gaps-leave-us-vulnerable-5674.html
KILLER HOSPITAL I.V.’S
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/china-contaminated-medicine-5682.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
PRIEST STABBED POPE JOHN PAUL IN
‘82
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7673443.stm
(Lack of)
Health
CELL PHONES DO INCREASE RISK OF
BRAIN TUMORS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?New_warning_over_mobiles_and_cancer&in_article_id=359909&in_page_id=34
CELL PHONES CAUSING DERMITITIS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3209395/Mobile-phone-use-causes-rise-in-skin-problem.html
Spaced Out
SPACE SMELLS LIKE ‘STEAK AND
METAL’
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Space_smells_like_fried_steak_and_hot_metal&in_article_id=359918&in_page_id=34
Oh, by the
way. . .
LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS
MEMENTOS TO PAY FOR NURSING HOME
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/16/international/i075646D71.DTL&tsp=1
BEAUTIFUL
PICS: CHINESE JUNK SAILS INTO SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/10/15/BAL213HM1B.DTL&o=0
And in more
important matters. . .
Obit
EDIE ADAMS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/movies/16adams.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Ernie and Edie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vEiWKK3pOE
Greater smoking pleasure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVYySKyBbUs
DODGER FANS TURN BEASTLY
(The Rip Post stopped attending games years ago due to ugly crowd
behavior.)
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-fans15-2008oct15,0,5825637.story
FIRST PICS OF NEW ‘STAR TREK’
FILM
Kirk, Spock, et. al played by unknowns
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Star_Trek_is_boldly_back_on_screen&in_article_id=359929&in_page_id=27
PRISON WINE IS A BIG HIT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/3208642/Serving-time-Prisoners-who-make-wine.html
SF TEA GARDEN TO BECOME MORE JAPANESE, LESS
KITSCHY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/15/MNMD13HJIS.DTL&tsp=1
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/1015/
Musique
SIR PAUL COPPED LINES FROM
POEMS FOR LATEST LYRICS
http://www.kbsradio.ca/news/music/87/808476
Yet another Beatle bio due. . .this one on
Paul
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1016mccartneybio.html
THE BAND THE BEATLES COULD
HAVE BEEN?
(Nonsense: this was a very good Beatles-esque band, but The Beatles
would have knocked them off the map.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/oct/16/elo-better-than-beatles
TCHAIKOVSKY’S
HIDDEN DEPTHS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2008/10/15/bmtchai115.xml
THE MANY MOODS OF JOHN ADAMS
http://www.slate.com/id/2202219/
CHEAP
GOSSIP: DUCHOVNY’S WIFE JOINS EX-FILES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7673204.stm
WINEHOUSE BLAMES “THE DEVIL” FOR
HER DRUG ADDICTION
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3208331/Amy-Winehouse-blames-the-devil-for-her-drug-addiction.html
Cheap
literary gossip!
EMILY DICKINSON’S
SECRET LOVER
http://www.slate.com/id/2201944/pagenum/all
And in the
end. . .
COME PICK ME UP
(Warning: X-rated lingo.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQ7BwA5EKc
10/15 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
ROGER MILLER
DANG ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5qcDOAwgtQ
ENGINE, ENGINE NO. 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7il45V0HYKE
KANSAS CITY STAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaAyPFhvoY
CHUG-A-LUG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJdLzcnM6WQ
YOU CAN'T ROLLER-SKATE IN A BUFFALO HERD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI-8hst0bho
OLD FRIENDS (WITH WILLIE NELSON)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rogo-EsYezY
KING OF THE ROAD (WITH JOHNNY CASH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZFDDUiM36c
skylines:
JAPAN SHOUTING FESTIVAL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3200085/Stressed-Japanese-let-off-steam-at-shouting-festival.html
MEDUSA DUMPS GUY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3200954/Madonna-and-Guy-Ritchie-to-divorce.html
COLIN POWELL SHOWS OFF HIP-HOP
MOVES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3198991/Colin-Powell-shows-off-his-hip-hop-dance-moves.html
XMAS LITES UP IN BRIT TOWN
Happy Hallowe'en!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3200619/Christmas-lights-already-shining-as-temperatures-hit-21C.html
NATCH: BE SARAH PALIN FOR
HALLOWE’EN
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/10/sarahpalinhallo.html
IDIOT NAMES POOR CHILD “SARAH
MCCAIN PALIN”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Man_names_baby_Sarah_McCain_Palin_1014.html
CHENEY’S HEART STILL BEATING
Technically
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cheney16-2008oct16,0,3879417.story
BUCKLEY’S SON QUITS NATIONAL
REVIEW
After endorsing Obama, said there was a “fatwah” declared on him
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/buckleys-son-leaves-national-review/?ei=5070&emc=eta1
JOHN
CLEESE ON PALIN: ‘LIKE A NICE-LOOKING PARROT’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/oliverburkemanblog/2008/oct/14/uselections2008-sarahpalin
PALIN KILLS OSAMA
From low-flying plane piloted
by McCain
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11569
And on to news
and comment. . .
SACTO GOP REMOVES “WATERBOARD
OBAMA” FROM WEBSITE
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/15/sacramento-obama-gop/
First Doofus
BOYARSKY:
KEEP THE ‘FIRST DUDE’ OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081013_keep_this_first_dude_out_of_the_white_house/
Todd Palin seated behind a White House desk and shaping national policy
could be one of the most dangerous aspects of a potential Sarah Palin
presidency.
THE SHADOW GOVERNOR
http://www.smh.com.au/news/us-election/todd-palin-the-shadow-governor/2008/10/12/1223749846315.html
The Palins, Mr Palin made clear, wanted Mike Wooten fired for a long
record of behaviour they saw as inappropriate for a police officer."He
kept using the term, 'we'. We went to, go talk to, we, we. And so I
assumed it was he and Sarah, of course," Mr Monegan told the hearing.
THE SCOPE OF TODD’S POWER
http://www.macon.com/203/story/492230.html
TODD PALIN: TOO CLOSE FOR
COMFORT
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/palin_too_close_for_comfort.html
Where does Todd Palin stand on America anyway? Neither he nor Sarah
Palin ever explained his seven-year membership in the Alaska
Independence Party, a group that seeks a vote on secession from America.
TODD A “FIXTURE” IN SARAH’S
OFFICE
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-todd12-2008oct12,0,6624850.story
"Here he is involved in a lot of high-level meetings, and he's really
involved in a lot of policy. He's involved with mining interests; he's
involved with Native corporations," McLeod said. "I'm very curious as to
who he's representing."
Serrah
PALIN ADVISOR QUITS OVER HER NATIVE ALASKA
POLICIES
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/oct/13/palins-rural-adviser-quits/?print
TINA FEY RUINING PALIN’S POLL
RATINGS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3197805/Sarah-Palin-dives-in-poll-ratings-as-Tina-Fey-impersonates-her-on-Saturday-Night-Live.html
WHY DOES SERRAH WEAR A CUTESY
POLAR BEAR PIN?
When she is furthering their extinction. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/15/sacramento-obama-gop/
Dishonest
John
MCCAIN TRANSITION CHIEF IS
EX-AIDE TO SADDAM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html
MCCAIN GAMBLING COULD BECOME
IRS ISSUE
http://www.casinogamblingweb.com/gambling-news/casino-gambling/mccain_s_gambling_habits_could_become_irs_issue_after_crew_complaint_49329.html
OLBERMANN TO MCCAIN: SUSPEND YOUR CAMPAIGN, SIR
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20081015_olbermann_to_mccain_suspend_your_campaign/?ln
DIONNE:
MCCAIN’S MOB
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081013_mccains_mob/
Electile
Dysfunction
ACORN: BOGUS APPLICATIONS GET
THROUGH
And fake voters. . .can’t vote!
http://www.freep.com/article/20081015/NEWS06/810150422
"It's our policy to hand in every single card," he said. "Sometimes we
do get the occasional application with names like Mickey Mouse or some
silly thing like that. However, we don't want to be the arbiter. Our job
is to hand in the applications."
BOGUS REGS ARE “TINY FRACTION”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/15/1545794.aspx
‘Out of 13,000 workers there were inevitably a few who decided they’d
pad their hours by duplicating a card and filling out another one or
making up a name,’ said Kevin Whalen, an Acorn spokesman.”
UNLESS BUGS AND MARY POPPINS
CAN VOTE,
REG FRAUD DOES NO HARM
http://crooksandliars.com/cernig/little-acorns
OBAMA SIGNS IN GLENDALE CHANGED
TO “OSAMA”
http://www.glendalenewspress.com/articles/2008/10/14/publicsafety/gnp-obama14.txt
Bush Leagues
BUSH STILL OVERRULING CONGRESS
WITH “SIGNING STATEMENTS”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/15/bush-issues-two-more-presidential-signing-statements/
BUSH SECRET MEMO ENDORSED
‘WATERBOARDING’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403331.html?hpid=topnews
All-melty
dollar
WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN BURNING
FORECLOSED HOUSE
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-deadwoman15-2008oct15,0,7392943.story
War in error
COPS HUNT TERRORISTS ON FACEBOOK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/15/terrorism-security
Comment
CHOMSKY:
ECON CRISIS WILL
NOT STOP U.S. WAR-MAKING
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21011.htm
MORFORD:
AND NOW THE GOOD
NEWS ABOUT THE RECESSION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/15/notes101508.DTL
THE DEMOCRAT’S
DILEMMA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,584381,00.html
Part of my fear is rational. Al Gore was highly favored at the outset of
the 2000 election campaign, but he managed to blow it in ways that went
beyond the Florida recount debacle. In 2004 we seemed to have a Dream
Team in the Massachusetts patrician (John Kerry) and the folksy
glad-hander from North Carolina (John Edwards). But they blew it too,
with their own mistakes (remember Kerry’s windsurfing photos?) and a lot
of help from the egregious Swift Boat attack ads.
Israelity
LIVNI STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING
ISRAEL PM
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/israels-livni--closer-pm-job-5629.html
People’s
Repugnic
BEIJING REALTY SLUMPS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3202712/Beijings-property-boom-turns-to-dust-as-global-slowdown-hits-China.html
Enviro Wacko
BOTTLED WATER FULL OF
CARCINOGENS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/15/MNGV13H0L4.DTL&tsp=1
Spaced Out
ENGINEERS TRY TO REBOOT THE
HUBBLE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/15/spacetechnology-nasa
THE SOMBRERO GALAXY!
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2008/arch08/080512sombrero.htm
Obits
‘HEAL THE BAY’ FOUNDER DOROTHY GREEN
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-green14-2008oct14,0,4864671.story
NEAL HEFTI
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/14/entertainment/e204936D54.DTL&tsp=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXvXz7OqgbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7lr7spK1hI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qToCjGfua5g
And in more
important matters. . .
CHEAP GOSSIP ABOUT
UNIMPORTANT ASSHOLES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/14/arts/peepwed.php
COMMENT:
YOUR STARR WON’T SIGN AGAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/15/thebeatles-celebrity
Musique
POLAND PREPARES FOR CHOPIN
BICENTENNIAL
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/14/arts/gruber.php
WORLD’S LARGEST PIPE ORGAN IS IN.
. .MACY’S?
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/10/15/world%e2%80%99s-largest-working-pipe-organ-is-in-macy%e2%80%99s/
WALLACE AND GROMIT GET YOUTUBE CHANNEL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/15/television-youtube
Where ya
goin’?
GLASGOW ONE OF WORLD’S TOP TEN
CITIES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3200695/Lonely-Planet-guide-rates-Glasgow-as-one-of-the-worlds-top-10-cities.html
And in the
end. . .
SPANISH FOR YOUR NANNY
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5f5_1223968632
10/14 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
SAND AND FOAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrjLkVaHK8
HURDY GURDY MAN
(with proto-Led Zeppelin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmuLX2Lvknk
WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-FyHKHbm8Y
JENNIFER JUNIPER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyvJdlwlqRY
LALENA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PviCi8QYqM8
GUINEVERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj9zbFmcFdQ
ATLANTIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_JTV9E3J48
BREEZES OF PATCHOULI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndzuSCw4Smw
EVERNOW 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRERx6Qxgbs
HURDY GURDY MAN 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZhaspAWEgE
Our guarantee: absolutely no
L.A. fire news!
Quotatious: “I was like, whatever.”---Levi Johnston, high school
dropout hubby-to-be (maybe) of Bristol Palin.
Bristol’s dolt didn’t register
to vote
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/10/bristol-palins.html
World gone
mad
CYRUS WRITES MEMOIR AT 15
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7668140.stm
EYEBROW IMPLANTS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3194101/Eyebrow-transplants-for-the-overplucked.html
FALLEN ANGEL ISLAND
More than half of the bucolic landscape is charred
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/13/BASR13G48J.DTL&tsp=1
GORDON GEKKO TO THE RESCUE?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3195456/Michael-Douglass-Gordon-Gekko-to-return-to-Wall-Street-and-confront-credit-crisis.html
MADONNA’S PISTOL-PACKIN’ PUMPS
What is this lunatic doing now?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Madonnas_uncaring_gun_shoe_stunt&in_article_id=355872&in_page_id=7
PALIN---NUDE! (Ewwwwww.)
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/13/chicago-dive-bar-scores-hit-with-nude-sarah-palin-portrait/?icid=200100397x1211323617x1200705945
LARRY FLYNT PRESENTS: WHO’S
NAILIN’ PALIN?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1107321/who_is_serra_paylin_thats_definitely.html?cat=2
And on to news
and comment. . .
WEBSITE POSTS OBAMA’S FACE NEXT
TO A NOOSE
Mission accomplished, McCain/Palin!
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7532
SARAH: MCCAIN WILL “TURN THAT
ANGER INTO ACTION”
Just like Hitler did!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_McCain_will_turn_that_anger_1013.html
After whipping up murderous hatred, this monster has the gall to pass it
off as “a lot of anger in America.”
VA. GOP CHAIR LINKS OBAMA,
BIN-LADEN!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Biden_on_GOP_rallies_Dont_encourage_1014.html
"My god, did he really say that?" Biden replied, fumbling for words. "I
can't believe ... I'm surprised John McCain hadn't gone down and whacked
the guy with his fist.
MCCAIN UNLEASHING THE ‘MONSTER OF AMERICAN
PREJUDICE’
---FORMER MCCAIN SUPPORTER
http://www.alternet.org/rights/102837/former_mccain_supporter%3A_mccain_is_%22unleashing_the_monster_of_american_prejudice%22/
Lifelong Republican Frank Schaeffer says McCain is "deliberately feeding
the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate."
HEDGES:
AMERICA’S POLITICAL CANNIBALISM
Pure fascism is just an election away
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081013_americas_political_cannibalism/
It is no longer our economy but our democracy that is in peril. It was
the economic meltdown of Yugoslavia that gave us Slobodan Milosevic. It
was the collapse of the Weimar Republic that vomited up Adolf Hitler.
And it was the breakdown in czarist Russia that opened the door for
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Financial collapses lead to political
extremism. The rage bubbling up from our impoverished and
disenfranchised working class, glimpsed at John McCain rallies, presages
a looming and dangerous right-wing backlash.
MCCAIN’S PATHETIC RESPONSE:
OBAMA SUPPORTERS CALL ME A TERRORIST, TOO
Sorry, John-boy, but we don’t see Obama or Biden suggesting that you
have plotted to overthrow the country. . .And we don't see any pictures
of your face next to nooses. . .
http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/mccain-people-call-me-terrorist-obam
JUDGE STOPS GOP VOTE PURGING
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/GOP_voter_purge_declared_illegal_in_1013.html
‘PALIN THREW ME UNDER A BUS’
---FIRED PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSIONER
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6029101
MCCAIN WAS NEVER
TORTURED---FORMER PRISON GUARD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/14/uselections2008-johnmccain
Mashed Media
OBAMA UP 28-11 IN NEWSPAPER
ENDORSEMENTS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873426
L.A. TIMES NEARLY ENDORSES
OBAMA
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873710
ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS: PALIN
IS AN EMBARRASSMENT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873687
DAVID ‘AXIS OF EVIL’ FRUM
ACCUSES CHIPPER RACHEL MADDOW OF---
Well, you just have to read this to believe it
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/14/frum-attacks-maddow/
All-melty
dollar
MCCAIN UNVEILS NEW
‘ECONOMIC STIMULUS’
---TAX CUT FOR MILLIONAIRES
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/14/mccain-cap-gains/
YAWN. ANOTHER $250 BILLION TO BAIL
OUT BANKS
Where is this money coming from?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7668704.stm
LINDORFF:
GOV’T GOING
SOCIALIST? NO, IT ONLY LOOKS THAT WAY
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/223
Nationalism lite isn’t going to accomplish anything except to waste more
of our money while enriching the same people who got us into this mess
in the first place. If we’re going to have social ownership of the
banks, then let’s demand social control of them too!
Comment. . .
ZINN: SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/browse_thread/thread/24d89961fa226c40?hl=en
"We have seen movements of rebellion in the past: The labour movement,
the civil rights movement, the movement against the war in Vietnam. I
think we may well see, if the United States keeps heading in the same
direction, a new popular movement. That is the only hope for the United
States."
A CONSERVATIVE
RAKES PALIN
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/sarah-palins-ra.html
MACELVEEN:
WHAT OF THE
CANDIDATES’ CHILDREN?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-are-the-McCain-and-Pal-by-Mary-MacElveen-081014-403.html
Do those lunatics at these rallies even realize that Senator McCain has
a dark-skinned child as one soundman from the media was told by an
attendee to “Sit down boy”? What would their reaction be if she walked
onto the stage in front of them? This is for them to confront, but one
hopes that she does not. Bridgette does not need to hear such racial
epithets.
ASSHOLE
COMMENTATOR OF THE WEEK: JONAH GOLDBERG
And here’s his award-winning piece of claptrap
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg14-2008oct14,0,5730438.column
Lost Angeles
12-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED BY GANGS NEAR
CONVENTION CENTER
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-twodead14-2008oct14,0,828930.story
Enviro Wacko
BLACK WIDOW SPIDERS
MIGRATE TO WARMING BRITAIN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3194195/Black-widows-set-to-establish-colonies-in-Britain-as-climate-changes-experts-warn.html
HOW CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT
ANIMALS
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1849698,00.html
While the impact of climate change on human populations is likely to be
dire, we're pretty good at adapting to change overall. Animals, however,
are not. When their habitats change irrevocably — when the rain forest
dries up or cool mountains in tropical zones heat up — animals may
simply go extinct.
Oh, by the
way. . .
SUICIDE BARRIERS GOING UP ON
GOLDEN GATE
Just in time for the Depression!
http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2008/10/13/golden_gate_bridge_suicide_proofed_sorta.ph
THE LETHAL LEGACY OF WWII
Germany rife with unexploded bombs
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,584091,00.html
And in more
important matters. . .
IRAQ SOLDIER TRIES TO BRING DOG
BACK TO USA
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Soldier_bids_to_bring_puppy_home&in_article_id=355857&in_page_id=64
PHOTOS OF THE DAY:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-pod-pix,0,723918.photogallery
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/3195299/Pictures-of-the-day-14-October-2008.html
Musique
DONOVAN STILL A SUNSHINE SUPERMAN
AT 62
Sixty two! Gasp.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_en_mu/music_donovan
QUARRYMEN RELEASE SECOND SINGLE---AFTER 50
YEARS
The band that became The Beatles records again
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/1014quarrymen.html
Light
reading
LATE BLOOMERS
Why do we equate genius with precocity?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=a
HAPPINESS IS. . .
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-happinessoct05,0,4911857.story
For Art’s
Sake
RENAISSANCE FACES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2008/jun/04/renaissance.faces?picture=334578774
Where ya
goin’?
TOP TEN HAUNTED HOUSES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/oct/14/haunted-hotels-uk
And in the
end. . .
PICK OF THE DAY
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Shes_one_picky_model&in_article_id=355061&in_page_id=7
10/13 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
SCHLUMMERT EIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-6BI2p7UW4
AGITATA DA DUE VENTI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPNKytO9_6s
AUF FLUGELN DES GESANGES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhYs8LeupfU
LE TIC-TAC-CHOC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR6kpZzOGdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lVhCggrSt8
LES BARICADES MISERIEUSES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8DVSkY0UA
TAMINO'S ARIA (WUNDERLICH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TnruLf_haY
Quotatious: “Television is the first truly democratic culture - the
first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the
people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.”---Clive
Barnes
THE GREAT KRUGMAN WINS NOBEL PRIZE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081013/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_sweden_nobel_economics
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/paul-krugman-wins-economics-nobel/?em
AND HE DESERVES IT. . .
http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/2008/10/krugman_gets_the_nobel.html
CARTOON: WHEN GREENSPAN BLAMED
KRUGMAN FOR SLUGGISH ECONOMY
http://www.internetweekly.org/photo_cartoons/cartoon_greenspan_krugman.html
SF BAY’S ANGEL ISLAND ABLAZE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/12/BAVT13G0AJ.DTL
L.A.: 210 SHUTDOWN, 1200 EVACUATED
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wildfire14-2008oct14,0,860012.story
TRUMP BUYS ICELAND!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/688ynkab.asp
PIZZA HUT NOW ‘PASTA HUT’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3145545/Pizza-Hut-to-become-Pasta-Hut.html
BRIT GOV’T. LOSES 20,000 COWS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3182720/Defra-admits-losing-20000-cows-in-Britain.html
TENNANT TO STAY ON AS ‘DR.
WHO’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3188684/Doctor-Who-David-Tennant-to-stay-till-2011.html
PRINCE SNUBBED 'DR. WHO' CAMEO!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7666660.stm
War in error
WATCH:
NEW U.K. AD---DON'T SLEEPWALK AWAY YOUR RIGHTS
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/852929/Amnesty-launches-sleepwalking-ad-back-petition-against-terror-legislation/
RINGO: NO MORE AUTOGRAPHS
Guess 50 years is enough
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/13/ringo-too-busy-autographs
And on to news
and comment. . .
THE PALIN FILE: SHE HAS AN I.Q.
OF A WHOPPING. . .83!
http://clapboard.org/temp/SarahPalinReport.pdf
(We cannot vouch for the veracity of this file, but it has enough of
an appearance of authenticity to pass along for consideration.)
“Having devoted over 30 years of my life to the practice of psychology,
I was shocked to discover the actual extent of Sarah Palin's diminished
intellect, although hardly surprised she is developmentally challenged.
Her 83 full scale Wechsler I.Q. reported when she was 18-years-old
places her in a range described at that time as Dull Normal and ,in
fact, 83 was just slightly above the range labeled Borderline Retarded (
70-80 I.Q. ). Her SAT scores were also in the expected range,thus
serving to confirm her I.Q: Mid-30s Percentiles with 50 per centile
being average. Careful analysis of her resume cited above reveals
similar deficiencies in most every area of her life; 2.2 high school
grade average, dropping out of college 5 times before finally receiving
a degree after six years from the fifth college she attended,sleeping
with a secessionist, supporting Kenyan witch doctors, failed mayorality
of Wasilla, erratic beliefs regarding the earth being but 6000 years old
and Jesus co-existing with dinosaurs,etc.etc,etc. The fact John McCain
was so instantly captivated by her undoubtedly speaks to his having
graduated 894th of 899 in his class and later having " lost " 5 aircraft
he was piloting during his naval aviation career. " Birds of a feather
flock together ", " it takes one to know one ", etc, etc, etc.”---Roy Murtishaw
PALIN CLASHES WITH MCCAIN OVER
CAMPAIGN
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4926283.ece
REPUG LEADERS BREAK WITH MCCAIN
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/republican-leaders-break-ranks--with-mccain-959301.html
ANTI-SEMITE MARTIN: OBAMA TRAINED TO
OVERTHROW U.S. GOV’T.
And Fox puts this total idiot on the tube as a credible source
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/13/america/13martin.php
All-melty
dollar
LEHMAN BROS. CASH TRANSFER
PROBE?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aceTkcBe0ogk
LEHMAN SUDDENLY SHRANK BY $400
BILLION
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a6eigPY5XGJ8
Iraq and
Roll
MOSUL CHRISTIAN MASS-MURDER
The surge is working!
http://www.counterpunch.com/patrick10132008.html
Thousands of Christians are fleeing the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to
escape a murder campaign by Islamic extremists intent on wiping out one
of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
OBAMA ON TRACK TO A LANDSLIDE?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/53771.html
Most of voter reg surge goes to
Obama
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/3184498/Democrats-out-register-Republicans-in-swing-states.html
SIXTEEN PAPERS ENDORSE OBAMA (TWO FOR
MCCAIN)
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873282
Serrah
PALIN SUPPORTER TAUNTS
PROTESTORS WITH “OBAMA MONKEY”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_supporter_brings_Obama_monkey_to_1012.html
The man held a stuffed monkey he named "Little Hussein." The toy was a
Curious George doll and wore an Obama "Change" sign like a turban.
PALIN FLAGRANTLY LIES ABOUT
TROOPERGATE PROBE
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/palin-makes-tro.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/12/mccain-troopergate-response/
PALIN BOOED AT HOCKEY GAME, MET
WITH PROTESTORS IN PA
Still, overwhelming response was cheering. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_fields_Pennsylvania_protests_1012.html
Electile
Dysfunction
N.Y. BALLOT LISTS “BARACK OSAMA”
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081011/D93NV52O0.htm
CANDIDATES NEVER DISCUSS
IMMIGRATION
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/12/MN2D12UGI6.DTL&tsp=1
Dishonest
John
‘WE’RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
OCCASIONAL NUT’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/12/salter-nuts/
OBAMA MUST APOLOGIZE FOR
CAMPAIGN---MCCAIN SPOKESMAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rick_Davis_plays_POW_card_to_1012.ht
EVEN CREEP KRISTOL CALLS
MCCAIN’S CAMPAIGN ‘STUPID’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bill_Kristol_McCain_running_stupid_campaign_1012.html
ROLLING STONE MCCAIN EXPOSE GATHERS. .
.MOMENTUM
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parmA1=5&docID=hsnews-000002974001
NOW MCCAIN GOES ON LETTERMAN
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849437,00.html
Comment
RICH:
THE TERRORIST
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
All’s fair in politics. John McCain and Sarah Palin have every right to
bring up William Ayers, even if his connection to Obama is minor, even
if Ayers’s Weather Underground history dates back to Obama’s childhood,
even if establishment Republicans and Democrats alike have collaborated
with the present-day Ayers in educational reform.
BRUCE:
SAVE US, LORD, FROM
A PALIN WHITE HOUSE
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/1084209.html
CALL:
THE MAILER THAT
WILL KEEP MCCAIN OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Mailer-That-Put-the-Fi-by-Rob-Kall-081012-483.html
BELLE:
MCCAIN’S PANDORA’S
BOX
http://www.crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/mccains-pandoras-box
STOP BEING A
NARCISSIST---I QUIT FACEBOOK!
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/102684/stop_being_a_narcissist_--_it%27s_time_to_quit_facebook/
Enviro Wacko
DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE CONLEY
DENIES HUMAN-CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/13/bob-conley-gw/
Look at this guy. . .
http://aimhighwithbob.com/
200 MILES OF BRITISH COAST THREATENED BY
RISING TIDES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/13/conservation
Mashed Media
HOWARD STERN LOSES
LISTENERS,
INFLUENCE, ON SATELLITE RADIO
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-stern13-2008oct13,0,7473563.story
LA NEWSRADIO TAKES A HIT
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/big_layoffs_at_knxkfwb_1.php
IS THE POPE'S NEWSPAPER
CATHOLIC?
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122384809131226907-lMyQjAxMDI4MjEzMzgxNDM4Wj.html
Now, the Vatican mouthpiece has orders to carry hard-hitting news,
international stories and more articles by women.
Obits
SO LONG, GIL STRATTON
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-stratton13-2008oct13,0,7894390.story
PHOTOG WILLIAM CLAXTON
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-claxton13-2008oct13,0,166844.story
Oh, by the
way. . .
STOCK SLUMP SPOILS PUTIN’S
PARTY
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/world/europe/13russia.html
BAZAAR TURNS AGAINST IRAN PREZ
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/13/mideast/tehran.php
A strike in Iran's traditional bazaars has expanded despite an order by
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to suspend a new sales tax that ignited
the protest more than a week ago.
And in more
important matters. . .
GREAT CARICATURIST LEVINE IS GOING
BLIND
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/11/levine200811?printable=true¤tPage=all
For four decades, David Levine’s acid-tipped portraits of everyone from
Castro to Cheney gave The New York Review of Books its visual punch. Now
that the greatest caricaturist of the late 20th century is going blind,
is he owed more than a fond farewell?
BLUEGRASS PLAYER PLUCKS THROUGH BRAIN
SURGERY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7665747.stm
Musique
LED ZEPPELIN REGROUPING WITH
NEW SINGER?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/13/led-zeppelin-new-singer
MICK FLEETWOOD PICKS HIS BLUES
FAVES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/13/mick-fleetwood-playlist
CHEAP
GOSSIP: ROGER MOORE PREFERRED PLAYING HEAVIES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3188680/Sir-Roger-Moore-wanted-to-play-villain-not-James-Bond.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/11/travel/peepsat.php
GEORGE CLOONEY’S NEW ‘DO
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?George_Clooney_terrible_new_wig&in_article_id=353884&in_page_id=7
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT'S NEW ASS
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20232626,00.html
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20170939,00.html
‘I SEE NAKED PEOPLE!’
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/fashion/09naked.html?ref=style
Film
GREATEST TEARJERKER OF ALL TIME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3186460/Walt-Disneys-Bambi-voted-best-tear-jerker-of-all-time.html
FILM BEING SHOT ABOUT MIKE
ROYKO
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873383
Lost Angeles
CS MONITOR GA-GA PUFF PIECE
ON DOWNTOWN L.A.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1010/p13s01-algn.html
Books
EINSTEIN WAS LOUSY
AT MATH
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-hans-ohanian12-2008oct12,0,2289223.story
DEALING WITH A FULL DECK
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081012/D93P0RU80.html
Where ya
goin’?
LINZ
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/linz-2009-cultural-mecca-diversity-5297.html
BARCELONA ON A BUDGET
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/3171789/Barcelona-for-under-200-Travel.html
And in the
end. . .
NAKED MODELS!
http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/article.html?Designers_peace_plea_with_naked_models&in_article_id=353978&in_page_id=194
10/11 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
TOSSIN' AND TURNIN'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghFBvBmXv4E
I'M ONLY SLEEPING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et-MgYYPtxc
I'M SO TIRED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaeopola8eA
TIRED OF WAITING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz64hWng2vM
WAIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW89iGaZlUY
WAITING FOR THE SUN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj5WvpkYHz0
LUCKY OLD SUN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUb2yfoVbUw
SF MAKES BIG STINK ABOUT LASORDA
IN PARADE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/11/BA7L13F82H.DTL
PUTIN HAS A PET TIGER
Now there’s a statement for animal degradation. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3173547/Vladimir-Putin-gets-tiger-cub-for-birthday.html
THE $5000 TOILET
That’s expensive shit.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1849241,00.html
LISTEN: JERRY
LAWSON SINGS FOR OBAMA
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8399590769025894702&hl=en
HERE’S YOUR FUTURE, AMERICA!
Depression era “California bungalow” to make comeback!
And on to news
and comment. . .
WHITE POWDER, ‘DEATH TO OBAMA’
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/obama_threat_white_powder.php
WATCH:
OBAMA KNEW IT WAS COMING ALL ALONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2iufUU1f4
NOW MCCAIN TIES MICHELLE OBAMA
WITH AYERS
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_campaign_goes_after_mic.php
PALIN BROKE LAW, ABUSED POWER
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24479770-661,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11trooper.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Sarah Palin used her job as Alaska Governor to get a state trooper
sacked, an Alaska government report said today.In a 263-page report
released by Alaska's Legislative Council following a six-hour closed
doors hearing, investigator Steve Branchflower said Governor Palin was
guilty of violating state ethics rules for public officials. "I find
that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute
39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act," Branchflower
wrote in the report.
PALIN’S DIABOLICAL GOVERNING
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/10/palin-earmarks-governor/
Funded pet projects including anti-polar bear propaganda, Todd’s
snowmobile race, her “church,” and a kitchen in a hockey arena.
MCCAIN/PALIN SUPPORTERS GONE
WILD
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/10/10gigaom-mccain-palin-supporters-gone-wild-9806.html
WATCH:
THE HYSTERICAL ANTI-OBAMA CRETINS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
All-melty
dollar
THE WOMAN WHO COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE ECONOMIC CRASH
---WAS SILENCED BY GREENSPAN
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/102559/the_woman_who_could_have_prevented_this_financial_mess_was_silenced_by_greenspan%2C_rubin_and_summers/
MACKEREL: IT’S WHAT’S FER
DINNER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3173488/Financial-crisis-sales-of-mackerel-boom-as-shoppers-tighten-their-belts.ht
Electile
Dysfunction
NEWSWEEK POLL: OBAMA UP BY ELEVEN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_leads_McCain_by_11_points_1010.html
WHITE WORKING CLASS MIDWEST
WOMEN TURN TO OBAMA
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122370058766625819-lMyQjAxMDI4MjEzMTcxMDEwWj.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a9nZNSuQ00rI&refer=home
JACKASS MCCAIN ASKS FOR
RESPECT FOR OBAMA---IS BOOED
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/10/mccain-booed-respect/
WOMAN TELLS MCCAIN SHE HATES OBAMA---“BECAUSE
HE’S AN ARAB”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/11/MN3A13EVIL.DTL&type=politics
Serrah
PALIN’S CLOSE TIES TO
RIGHT-WING,
ANTI-AMERICAN EXTREMISTS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Blumenthal_breaks_Palinsecessionist_connection_wide_open_1010.html
HOSSEINI: MCCAIN & PALIN ARE PLAYING WITH
FIRE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002456.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
What I find most unconscionable is the refusal of the McCain-Palin
tandem to publicly condemn the cries of "traitor," "liar," "terrorist"
and (worst of all) "kill him!" that could be heard at recent rallies.
McCain is perfectly capable of telling hecklers off. But not once did he
or his running mate bother to admonish the people yelling these obscene
-- and potentially dangerous -- words.
More Electile
Dysfunctiion
WHAT’S UP WITH ACORN?
http://www.slate.com/id/2201958/
With voter registration coming to a close, the community-organizing
group ACORN has become a major target of criticism by Republicans in
recent weeks. On Thursday, Slate's John Dickerson reported that members
of the crowd at a McCain rally in Wisconsin started shouting the
organization's name as a rallying cry. When did a group more typically
known for its minimum-wage and housing campaigns become such a
controversial organization in national politics?
Mashed Media
STEWART TAKES GREAT
SWIPE AT FOX “NEWS”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Stewart_Fox_unfair_and_mentally_unbalanced_1010.html
R.I.P. HAIG KEROPIAN
http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_10693625?IADID=Search-www.dailynews.com-www.dailynews.com
Comment
PITTS: SARAH PALIN AND THE MEAN WINK
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008253075_opin12pitts.html
There is an ugliness here. It is disguised as decency, disguised as
politics, but it is only ugliness, mean and raw and given license by the
desperation of a man who used to be honorable and a woman who said she
was just like us.
RAIMUNDO: AMERICAN EMPIRE, R.I.P.
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13573
Musical accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OldToIF5ZGs
INTERVIEW: CHOMSKY---THE USA’S ONE-PARTY
SYSTEM
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,583454,00.html
People’s
Repugnic
WAS CHINA SPACE WALK FAKED?
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/chinese-space-spacewallk-china-bloggers-5326.htm
CHINA TORTURES HUMAN RIGHTS
LAWYER
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/china-tortures-gao-zhisheng-imprison-5367.html
Enviro Wacko
MONEY GROWS ON TREES
Deforestation costs more than the world financial crisis
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,583463,00.html
Our shrinking forests cost us up to $5 trillion a year -- far more than
the current banking crisis. Environmentalists hope the sobering
calculation, made by a European Union commissioned team, will focus
political will on funding conservation.
Auto Motive
TOP TEN BEST
ENVIRO CARS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/3165537/Eco-cars-the-ten-best.html
Lost Angeles
HOMELESS MAN SET ON FIRE, DIES
http://cbs2.com/local/Homeless.Man.Set.2.837870.html
Lost
California
POOR CANNERY ROW ASSAULTED BY
YET ANOTHER LUXURY HOTEL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/NSCV12T2UU.DTL&type=travel
Obit
BALLERINA NADIA NERINA
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/arts/dance/11nerina.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Oh, by the
way. . .
AN ALPINE POMPEII FROM THE STONE
AGE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,583452,00.html
And in more
important matters. . .
YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY
PIANO?
HERE’S YOUR FIRST LESSON!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/piano-keyboard-guide
Hey, Be-attle!
BEATLES REMASTERS FINALLY ON
THE WAY
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/reissuerumors08.html
PREVIEW 3 NEW SIR PAUL TRACKS
(Remember, this stuff was written and recorded in one day)
http://www.maccaspan.com/thefireman/thefireman.html
LENNON’S SISTER REFUTES NORMAN
BIO
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/10/10/john-lennon-s-sister-rages-over-claims-beatles-star-wasn-t-loved-64375-22005118/
Light reading
DOES RELIGION MAKE PEOPLE NICER?
(Evidently not.)
http://www.reason.com/news/show/129304.html
For Art’s
Sake
SUBJECT OF FLEMISH MASTERPIECE HAD
BONE DISEASE
Poor “Ugly Duchess”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/11/baugly.xml
GROENING, FRANZEN PEN TRIBUTES
TO ‘PEANUTS’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/11/peanuts-matt-groening-jonathan-franzen
Film
THE BIG LEBOWSKI LIVES!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7662943.stm
Where ya
goin’?
FALLING IN LOVE WITH MONGOLIA
http://www.slate.com/id/2200544/
And in the
end. . .
ON A PERSONAL NOTE
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/10/03/womans-paper-skin-walking-notepad/
10/10 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
MAN OH MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI07kPtiz40
MAN SMART, WOMAN SMARTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTDvCLAT8hg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsjR4FSgSQ
MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JWCjvyW6dg
WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7QDfL9wZ0
WOMAN IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJC_2Xv2yI
WATERMELON MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjJaH40rArU
JOHNNY COOL MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrntbL2Q41I
SEASIDE WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYdEZuCgvw
PITT SELLS PHOTOS OF WIFE
BREASTFEEDING
Aren’t celebs modest?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3168503/Angelina-Jolie-breastfeeding-photographs-taken-by-Brad-Pitt.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/oct/10/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-breastfeeding-photo
AIG CANCELS POST-BAILOUT PARTY!
Wow, what a moral thing to do!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/09/aig-executives-party/
DOLL SUPPOSEDLY SAYS “SATAN IS
KING”
(Well, judging by world events, it looks pretty accurate. . .)
http://www.kjrh.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=5c383aca-c3d2-4b3d-b4a5-5a8108ba4971
BLACK MAN TO MCAIN:
’I’M TAKING AN ASS-WHOOPING FOR SUPPORTING YOU’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Black_man_to_McCain_Ive_taken_1009.html
(And you deserve one!)
MORFORD: OBAMAFIED!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/10/notes101008.DTL
Because the truth is, the notion of an Obama presidency yields many
gifts. Foremost: a refreshed intellectual climate, a far higher quality
of basic discourse. Squinting and bumbling and "is our children
learning" are out, articulation and oratory nuance are in. Out:
aw-shucks "go with my gut" Joe Six-pack pseudo-cowboy Jesus-says. In:
thoughtfulness, polysyllabic words, sentences with complicated
construction and meaning. The bar has been raised. Or rather, the bar
has been lifted out of the cave where it was dumped eight years ago;
it's been polished up, reinstalled.
And on to news
and comment. . .
PALIN BROKE LAW, ABUSED POWER
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24479770-661,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11trooper.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Sarah Palin used her job as Alaska Governor to get a state trooper
sacked, an Alaska government report said today.In a 263-page report
released by Alaska's Legislative Council following a six-hour closed
doors hearing, investigator Steve Branchflower said Governor Palin was
guilty of violating state ethics rules for public officials. "I find
that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute
39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act," Branchflower
wrote in the report.
PITTS: SARAH PALIN AND THE MEAN WINK
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008253075_opin12pitts.html
There is an ugliness here. It is disguised as decency, disguised as
politics, but it is only ugliness, mean and raw and given license by the
desperation of a man who used to be honorable and a woman who said she
was just like us.
MCCAIN/PALIN SUPPORTERS GONE
WILD
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/10/10gigaom-mccain-palin-supporters-gone-wild-9806.html
WATCH:
THE HYSTERICAL ANTI-OBAMA CRETINS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
HOSSEINI: MCCAIN & PALIN ARE PLAYING WITH
FIRE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002456.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
What I find most unconscionable is the refusal of the McCain-Palin
tandem to publicly condemn the cries of "traitor," "liar," "terrorist"
and (worst of all) "kill him!" that could be heard at recent rallies.
McCain is perfectly capable of telling hecklers off. But not once did he
or his running mate bother to admonish the people yelling these obscene
-- and potentially dangerous -- words.
NOW MCCAIN TIES MICHELLE OBAMA
WITH AYERS
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_campaign_goes_after_mic.php
NUNS BRANDED AS ‘TERRORISTS’ BY
THE GOOD OL’ USofA!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/10/anti-war-nuns-branded-as-%e2%80%98terrorists%e2%80%99/
U.S. MISSILE ATTACK IN PAKISTAN
KILLS AT LEAST SIX
Little October surprise action here?
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/us-missile-pakistan-al-qaeda-taliban-5421.html
Electile
Dysfunction
TENS OF THOUSANDS BLOCKED FROM
VOTING
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tens_of_thousands_illegally_blocked_from_1009.html
LEFTY ACTIVIST GROUP ACORN
FAKES 2000 VOTER REGS
(And Obama used to work for this group. . .just great.)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/acorn.fraud.claims/index.html
VEILED RACISM IN ANTI-OBAMA ADS?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/MNB313DUTE.DTL
"I think it's too early to declare victory, because Barack Obama is
black," Gergen said Tuesday night. "And until we play out the issue of
race in this country, I don't think we'll know and maybe (not until)
late in the campaign."
LATINOS TURN AGAINST MCCAIN
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14444.html
REDNECKS FOR
OBAMA
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Rednecks_for_Obama_want_to_bridge__10092008.html
Serrah
TWELVE NEW SICKENING
REVELATIONS ABOUT PALIN
The hits just keep on comin’
http://www.alternet.org/election08/102345/12_new_stomach-turning_revelations_about_sarah_palin/
BIO:
WILL THE REAL SARAH PALIN PLEASE STAND UP?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/10/uselections2008-sarahpalin1
Persily believes Palin is "immature, inexperienced, and has poor
judgment", but acknowledges that she could still become president. "And
that," he says, "should scare the hell out of everybody."
WATCH:
A DRAMATIC READING OF WASILLA CITY COUNCIL MINUTES!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/open-thread-0
WATCH:
PALIN’S DALLIANCES WITH WASILLA’S WACKIEST
http://www.crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/sarah-palins-dalliances-wasillas-wac
Dishonest
John
MCCAIN ‘TOO RISKY’ FOR WHITE
HOUSE---OBAMA
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_camp_McCain_desperate_and_dishonest_1009.html
MCCAIN’S MORTGAGE PLAN ILLEGAL?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/john-mccains-new-mortgage-plan-illeg
MCCAIN: MAKE BUSH’S TAX CUTS PERMANENT
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/10/second-stimulus-bush-tax-cuts/
Mashed Media
NEW LOW FOR FOX: ‘DOCUMENTARY’
ON OBAMA ‘RADICALISM’
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia10-2008oct10,0,783115.story
PAPER TRIES REVAMPING
CLASSIFIEDS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873056
All-melty
dollar
‘CAPITALISM HAS BECOME A
CASINO’---NOBEL LAUREATE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,583366,00.html
”Capitalism, with all its market mechanisms, has to survive -- there is
no question. What I excoriate is that today there is only one incentive
for doing business, and that is the maximization of profits. But the
incentive of doing social good must be included.”---Muhammad Yunus.
AIRLINES CANCEL 1000’S OF FLIGHTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/3171606/Financial-crisis-Thousands-of-flights-scrapped-by-airlines.html
THE GREENSPAN
LEGACY (WORLDWIDE DEPRESSION)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09greenspan.html?em=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1223650969-4HLx7a8ai9Yh/AOtsAH8ew
Iraq and
Roll
SOME WALLS START TO COME DOWN
IN BAGHDAD
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/middleeast/10walls.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
The Other
War
OBAMA TALKS TOUGH ABOUT
AFGHANISTAN---
HERE’S WHAT HE’S REALLY IN FOR
http://www.alternet.org/audits/102340/obama_talks_tough_about_afghanistan%3B_here%27s_what_he%27s_really_in_for/
Comment
KLEIN:
STOP THE REPUBLICAN
CRAZINESS
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/10/better_to_be.html
Watch the tape of the guy screaming, "He's a terrorist!" McCain seems to
shudder at that, he rolls his eyes... and I thought for a moment he'd
admonish the man. But he didn't. And now he's selling the Ayres
non-story full-time. Yes, yes, it's all he has.
KRISTOF:
THIS IS PRO-LIFE?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/opinion/09kristof.html?em
The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control
supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa. Thus the
paradox of a “pro-life” administration adopting a policy whose result
will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year — along with
more women dying in childbirth.
THE MOST
IMPORTANT ELECTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY?
Can any election pass without this expression cropping up?
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au08/election-clausen.html
Probably the most candid and sensible comment on the whole subject was
delivered by the notoriously inarticulate President Bush when Larry King
asked him in 2004 whether that year’s election was the most important
ever. “For me it is,” he answered.
Enviro Wacko
HYDROGEN-POWERED HOUSE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/10/greenbuilding-greentech
Co2 WORSENS WHALES’ SONAR PROBLEMS
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/blog-entry/
GREENPEACE FUMES AT GERMAN
CARMAKERS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,583405,00.html
Animals in
the news!
HUMANS PROUDLY MURDER GIANT
CATFISH
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Is_this_Europes_biggest_catfish?&in_article_id=349205&in_page_id=34
Lost Angeles
WHY ARE THE BIRDS DYING AT ECHO
PARK LAKE?
http://www.laobserved.com/echopark/2008/10/the_birds.php
Oh, by the
way. . .
CHILDREN OF VIETNAM G.I.’S SEEK
CITIZENSHIP
And it should be granted without hesitation
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-amerasians10-2008oct10,0,3478058.story
And in more
important matters. . .
OH NO---ANOTHER INDIANA JONES
FILM?
Indiana Jones and the Bedpan of Doom!
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Indiana_Jones_5_rumoured&in_article_id=351245&in_page_id=27
PICS OF THE WEEK
http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1848841,00.html
Musique
SIR PAUL’S NEW ALBUM: MAKING IT
UP AS HE GOES ALONG
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/10/bmpaul110.xml
Paul McCartney unveiled his new album, Electric Arguments, at Abbey Road
studios yesterday. And it's a corker - albeit a fruity and bizarre one.
Unusually for the legendary songwriter, he went into the studio with
nothing prepared, and improvised it all on the spot.
Obit
ACTOR KIM CHAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/television/10chan.html?ref=obituaries
Where ya
goin’?
YUVA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/interactive/2008/oct/10/turkey-green
And in the
end. . .
TANK FULL O’ CROCS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/10/eacrcodile110.xml
10/9 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
LENNON, 1958
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMEAxyNXGRg
SOLDIER OF LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8iLwwac4i4
A SHOT OF RHYTHM AND BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lW8GCU0UuA
YES IT IS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnnqLmSzTNE
I'M ONLY SLEEPING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bTlZDZOj-8
REVOLUTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J0X__Z81EA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYxfL1LfnY
MEAT CITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_tvtVPoeAQ
HELP ME TO HELP MYSELF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZfNsOn7b94
LONG LOST JOHN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-QmRmv7Efc
WISH WE COULD WISH YOU A HAPPY
BIRTHDAY TODAY
http://johnlennon.com/html/news.aspx
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2008/10/08/yoko-ono-to-iceland/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1072271/Lennons-downfall-Had-touching-act-love-alive-today.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/09/youngpeople.history
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/art/2008/10/08/2008-10-08_imagine_john_lennons_art_on_display_at_m.html
SO LONG, CHUCKO!
Thanks for the after-school fun
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-runyon9-2008oct09,0,4088677.story
‘THAT ONE’ JOKES ABOUND ON LATE NIGHT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/07/entertainment/e055633D86.DTL&tsp=1
HUMANS WRECKING THE GALAPAGOS
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-galapagos8-2008oct08,0,363527.story
The rising tide of tourists, residents and suppliers has introduced
alien species, including rats, goats, cats and, more recently,
mosquitoes and fire ants, UNESCO's Marc Petry said by telephone from
Paris. Such intrusions, as well as sewage and oil discharged from boats,
threaten the islands' plant and animal life, he said.
HEF JILTED!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3166116/Playboy-Hugh-Hefner-back-on-the-market-after-splitting-from-No-1-girlfriend.html
COUPLE SPLITS, SAWS HOME IN HALF
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3159189/Married-Cambodian-couple-saw-home-in-half-after-separation.html
PRIMITIVE ASSHOLES IN PERU
HOST CAT-EATING FESTIVAL
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1782932.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/09/animalwelfare.food
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24469741-663,00.html
And on to the
usual batch of horrors. . .
PALIN PUSHED FOR TROOPER'S
FIRING
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/10trooper.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Mr. Wooten
three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven
administration officials, interviews and documents show. “To all of us,
it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least,
to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere,” said Kim Peterson,
Mr. Monegan’s special assistant, who like several other aides spoke
publicly about the matter for the first time.
OLBERMANN: MCCAIN, PALIN TIED
TO NEFARIOUS GROUPS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Olbermann_McCain_Palin_have_questionable_ties_1008.html
If Iran ties and secession do not qualify as terrorist associations,"
Olbermann said, the WACL also armed and sent supplies, including boots,
to rebels in Afghanistan who would become the Mujahadeen, later the
Taliban, and Osama bin Laden, "whom McCain once promised to chase to the
gates of Hell."
MCCAIN’S TACIT SUPPORT FOR
ABORTION CLINIC BOMBERS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Womans_rights_advocate_McCain_sides_with_1008.html
People For the American Way encouraged McCain to "look in the mirror"
after a RAW STORY report revealed McCain's connection with Marylin
Shannon, a Republican official in Oregon who was a McCain delegate at
this year's GOP convention. The two appeared together at a 1993
fundraiser for an ultra-conservative organization where Shannon praised
a woman who was later convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of
an abortion clinic doctor.
CBS’S DEAN REYNOLDS: OBAMA’S
PLANE SMELLS
We are not making this stuff up. . .
http://www.opednews.com/articles/CBS-s-Dean-Reynolds-Report-by-Rob-Kall-081009-941.html
MCCAIN POW FLASHBACK: CALLS
AMERICANS “MY FELLOW PRISONERS!”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Womans_rights_advocate_McCain_sides_with_1008.html
McCain and Palin were introduced at the Bethlehem, Pa., stop by a local
official who invoked Obama's middle name, Hussein. It's the second time
in three days that's happened at an official McCain event, despite the
campaign's insistence it doesn't condone such behavior.
BIDEN INTRODUCED AS MCCAIN
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/10/8/390051.html
McNasty
(his high school nickname, folks)
MCCAIN TO HANNITY: OBAMA
MUST EXPLAIN AYERS
http://www.crooksandliars.com/john-amato/john-mccain-lowers-himself-ayers-bathwa
FOO-FIGHTERS DEMAND MCCAIN STOP
USING THEIR MUSIC
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/09/mccain-foo-fighters/
WHAT A MCCAIN FAN IS WRITING ABOUT
OBAMA
http://townhall.com/blog/page1
WATCH:
THE MCCAIN AYERS AD
http://townhall.com/blog/g/e9ed0e94-38ea-49a5-8a4d-4809190677bb
GUN-TOTING VOTER: “KEEP THE
NIGGER OUT OF OFFICE”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Angry_voter_threatens_Registrar_says_he_1008.html
Serrah
BIDEN: PALIN’S FEAR-MONGERING
IS ‘DANGEROUS’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/08/politics/p043926D96.DTL
PALIN’S MASSIVE PENTACOSTAL
PROBLEM
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1848420,00.html
First came reports that her pastor at the nondenominational Wasilla
Bible Church was connected to Jews for Jesus, an organization that seeks
to convert Jews to Christianity. Prominent Jewish leaders, including the
co-chair of McCain's Jewish outreach effort, have since demanded to know
whether Palin also believes that Jews must be converted.
Homeland
Insecurity
BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1
All-melty
dollar
AIG GETS $37 MORE BILLION
Execs who took $400k junket are still in charge. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09insure.html?em
FED MAY PARTLY OWN U.S. BANKS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09econ.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
LET’S SAY YOU
HAD $700 BILLION TO SPEND
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/102190/let%27s_just_say_you_had_%24700_billion_to_spend/
TOP TEN ALL-TIME BIGGEST
GOLDEN PARACHUTES
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1848501_1848500,00.html
Comment
COLLINS: CLEARING THE AYERS AIR
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/opinion/09collins.html?em
When I was a college student, I believe I attended a party with
Bernardine Dohrn. This was pre-Weather, when Dohrn was a leader of the
Students for a Democratic Society, better known as S.D.S. Some of my
friends wanted to meet her because they were interested in establishing
an S.D.S. chapter at our campus. I was opposed, under the presumption
that S.D.S. meant Students for Decent Styles, a group that had been
active in fighting spaghetti-strap dresses at my high school. Still,
under the new rules, I believe I may now be held partly responsible for
all of Dohrn’s misdeeds, including aggravated battery, bail jumping, the
Days of Rage and unreadable political tracts.
KLEIN: WILL OBAMA SURGE LAST?
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1848518,00.html
The other
war
SO WE’RE NOT BOMBING
INNOCENTS, EH, SARAH?
U.S. WIPES OUT 33 AFGHAN CIVILIANS
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/10/ap_afghanistan_airstrike_100808/
Mashed Media
EDITOR AT LA DAILY NEWS HIRES
“DIVERSE” JOURNALISTS
Translation: Latina hires based on ethnicity. . .didn't this used to
be called "racism?"
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/diversity_hires_at_daily.php
LATIMES REDESIGN CRACKPOTISM---AGAIN
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/la_times_focusgroups_more.php
FOX ASSHOLE JOKES ABOUT SIZE OF
HILLARY’S LEGS
Real classy stuff, folks
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/09/palin-pic-hillary/
OBAMA CAMP: FOX A MIX OF
MCCAIN INFOMERCIAL, X-FILES
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_camp_Fox_cross_between_infomercial_1009.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA CALLS NOBEL PRIZE
CONTENDER A ‘CRIMINAL’
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/china-nobel-contender-criminal-5403.html
Animals in
the news!
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE PET
POPULATIONS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/pets/detail?&entry_id=30679&type=pets
The hard truth is, while Americans spend a staggering $40 billion on
their pets and millions more in donations to animal welfare charities
every year, a heartbreaking 70 percent of cats and up to 50 percent of
dogs nationwide end up in landfills.
SCORE ONE FOR THE COYOTES
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-coyote9-2008oct09,0,3997651.story
(Lack of)
Health
YOGA, ONE GOOD LEGACY OF
GLOBALIZATION
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000074
YOGA FOR DUMMIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQI5NbAmHjI
Oh, by the
way. . .
WORLD ECONOMIES CRUMBLE---DUBAI
BOOMS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/09/middleeast.construction
DEBATE OVER GRANDDAD DINOSAUR
FOSSIL
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,583116,00.html
Diedrich believes he's found the world's oldest dinosaur, the ancestor
of T. rex, Brontosaurus, Triceratops and all the others. The German
weekly newsmagazine Stern obligingly reported the paleontological
discovery was a "sensation," but a number of experts in the field
believe Diedrich's theory is fundamentally wrong and an all-out
scientific brawl is brewing within the profession.
And in more
important matters. . .
A WOMAN AND HER ASS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?A_donkey_that%92s_got_the_run_of_its_owners%92_home&in_article_id=346669&in_page_id=34
CHEAP GOSSIP: BACALL CALLS CRUISE
A “MANIAC”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3165181/Tom-Cruise-is-a-maniac-says-Lauren-Bacall.html
JACKSON GOES HALLOWEEN SHOPPING
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Freaky_Jackos_early_Halloween_show&in_article_id=348608&in_page_id=7
Hey, look!
AUTUMN FOLIAGE
http://features.csmonitor.com/fallfoliage/
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/1008/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/3164812/Pictures-of-the-day-9-October-2008.html
Where ya
goin’?
DEAD MAN’S PARTY
IN MICHOACAN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/05/CMUM12JE18.DTL&type=travel
For Art’s
Sake
ART WARS! PARIS CULTURAL
ELITE AT ODDS OVER PICASSO
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3163628/Picasso-exhibition-creates-a-cancer-in-the-Louvre-claim-Paris-elite.html
THE BRITS AND THEIR INDISPENSIBLE
PINTS
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article4880902.ece
And in the
end. . .
MADONNA'S WORST NIGHTMARE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3165565/105-year-old-virgin-says-no-sex-the-key-to-long-life.html
10/8 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
TWEETER AND THE MONKEY MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ik45Ncvv1c
APE CALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV94Wc0hink
TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuPXXO3CEtI
MONKEY AROUND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYitEZaLgsU
THEY ALL ASKED FOR YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nCJIlOOg9Y
SKY PILOT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n99C2OZn0Wg
YELLOW BIRD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBbgZauYL1Q
SKYLINES:
WORLD’S FIRST DOUBLE-ARM
TRANSPLANT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/3158287/Worlds-first-double-arm-transplant-patient-delighted.html
CASH-STRAPPED PLAYBOY MANSION
SELLING TIX TO PARTIES
http://www.labusinessjournal.com/article.asp?aID=26211054.8073191.1690182.7586268.5623575.615&aID2=130005
FOREST WHITAKER TO PLAY
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/oct/08/forestwhitakerlouisarmstrong
MCCARTNEY: BOYCOTT MCDONALD’S
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3157502/Sir-Paul-McCartney-calls-for-McDonalds-boycott.html
NEW BIBLE FEATURES PICS OF
ANGELINA JOLIE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100701407_pf.html
WALTERS: WHAT WAS PALIN BABY DOING
UP AT 11 P.M.?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/View_hosts_critical_of_Palin_bringing_1006.html
Lost Angeles
THOUSANDS CELEBRATE PHILLIPPE’S
100TH BIRTHDAY
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-philippes7-2008oct07,0,2138601.story
JUDGE ORDERS 17 CHINESE MUSLIMS RELEASED
FROM GITMO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/07/national/w151253D73.DTL
MORFORD:
AND IF THE ENTIRE
WORLD COULD VOTE IN THE U.S. ELECTION. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/08/notes100808.DTL
What would happen if the nations of the world were divvied up in a way
similar to our electoral college, with each nation getting a certain
number of votes based on population? How might the world choose? Whom
would they pick?
WATCH:
THE HORROR, THE HORROR
http://www.crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/open-thread
And on to news
and comment. . .
This just
in:
PALIN NEWSWEEK COVER BROUHAHA
Repugs call mag "liberal elitist" for not
retouching photo!
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=2180
http://gaysocialites.com/2008/10/should_newsweek_have_retouched.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/eye-of-the-barracuda-emne_n_132048.html
Fascism on
the march
MARYLAND COPS
CLASSIFY 53 NON-VIOLENT
PROTESTORS AS 'TERRORISTS'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703245_pf.html
VOTER REG GROUP TARGETED BY U.S.
ATTY
Same group targeted in 2004 by Bush, FBI
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/acorn-office-raid-linked-_b_132705.html
The Nevada raid comes the day after the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now ("ACORN") and another voter-registration
group, Project Vote, announced a new initiative to identify and resolve
problematic voter registrations to ensure maximum voter participation on
Election Day. ACORN has been targeted repeatedly in recent weeks by
Republican Party spokesmen and surrogates, who contend that the group
either intentionally or negligently allows its workers to turn in
fraudulent registrations and "dumps" applications on elections officials
at the last minute to overwhelm processes that screen out fraudulent
registrations.
SECRET SERVICE PROBES OBAMA
THREAT---AT PALIN RALLY
The shout of "kill him" followed a Sarah Palin rant on Obama's
relationship with radical Chicagoan Bill Ayers.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/10/secret-service-looking-into-potential-threat-on-obama.php
Rip Post comment: if anything happens to Obama, the blood will be on
Sarah Palin’s hands.
PALIN’S OBAMA ATTACKS MAKE PIT
BULL LOOK TAME
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602935_pf.html
Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness.
In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by
the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's
questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream
media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area,
waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a
camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African
American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy." The
reception had been better in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea
of "Palin Power" and "Sarahcuda" T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the
1960s Weather Underground. "One of his earliest supporters is a man
named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according
to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group
that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the
Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd
repeated.) "Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
NYT EDITORIAL
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08wed1.html?em
In a way, we should not be surprised that Mr. McCain has stooped so low,
since the debate showed once again that he has little else to talk
about. He long ago abandoned his signature issues of immigration reform
and global warming; his talk of “victory” in Iraq has little to offer a
war-weary nation; and his Reagan-inspired ideology of starving
government and shredding regulation lies in tatters on Wall Street. But
surely, Mr. McCain and his team can come up with a better answer to that
problem than inciting more division, anger and hatred.
Man O-man
OBAMA WIDENS LEAD
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/06/poll.of.polls/index.html
ISRAELIS SEND WORD TO U.S.
JEWS: VOTE OBAMA
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jan-mcgirk/israelis-sending-word-to_b_132721.html
OBAMA SPOKESMAN SLAMS
PIGBOY HANNITY---
FOR PUTTING ANTI-SEMITE OBAMA-HATER ON HIS SHOW
We are not making this stuff up. . .
http://www.crooksandliars.com/john-amato/obama-spokesman-gibbs-smokes-sean-hanni
Electile
Dysfunction
ROMNEY ADVISOR: MCCAIN IS GOING DOWN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/uselections2008.johnmccain
Dishonest
John
MCCAIN SAID TROOPS KILL CIVILIANS
As if acknowledging this is wrong or unpatriotic. . .
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/trail-times/2008/Oct/07/mccain-also-said-us-troops-killed-civilians-1/
MCCAIN LINKED TO IRAN-CONTRA GROUP
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/06/politics/p212035D66.DTL
MCCAIN'S BAILOUT FOR THE
BAILOUT
Quick, get some more buckets. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_proposes_new_bailout_for_bad_1007.html
Serrah
PALIN PROPOSES ENTITLEMENT
CUTS---
THEN SAYS MCCAIN WILL ‘PROTECT ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/07/palin-protect-entitlements/
Debate
IF YOU MISSED THE DEBATE. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/07/presidential-debate-live-blogging-2/
AND THE WINNER WAS. . .
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/10/7/23617/1027
AND THE WINNER WAS 2. . .
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=11929
AND THE WINNER WAS 3
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11505
REPUGS WHINE: DEBATE FORMAT WAS UNFAIR!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/gop-whine-about-town-hall-debate-form
All-melty
dollar
BY THE WAY, THERE’S A BRIT
BAILOUT, TOO
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/08/business/09britain-new.php
WHAT THE HELL IS COMMERCIAL
PAPER, AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/07/america/Meltdown-Commercial-Paper-Q-A.php
Iraq and
Roll
SO THE SURGE IS WORKING, EH?
WATCH THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMp-YNaDdg
U.S. WIPES OUT FAMILY OF 11
The surge is working!
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/235436%2Celeven-members-of-same-family-killed-by-us-fire-in-iraq.html
Mashed Media
NEW LAT PUBLISHER THREATENS
STAFFERS
WHO TALK TO LAOBSERVED.COM
The Times takes yet another huge step downward. . .
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/note_to_sources_at_the_lo_1.php
LAT STAFFERS LOOKING TO
BAIL IN FACE OF MORE CUTBACKS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/panic_mode_again_at_la_ti.php
TINA BROWN ENTERS ON-LINE FRAY WITH ‘DAILY
BEAST’
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/09/arts/beast.php
NYT SHUTS DOWN HERALD-TRIBUNE
WEBSITE
http://www.forbes.com/media/2008/10/07/nyt-iht-news-biz-media-cx_jea_1007iht.html
(Lack of)
Health
THE HEARTBREAK---ER, BURN---OF
ACID REFLUX
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-acid6-2008oct06,0,3191723.story
Animals in
the news!
SCORE ONE FOR THE CROCODILES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3158393/Human-remains-found-inside-crocodile.html
And in more
important matters. . .
Lost Angeles
LOPEZ ON
BILLBOARD-UGLY L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez8-2008oct08,0,86145.column
Obit
R.I.P. THE GREAT LLOYD THAXTON
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/lloyd_thaxton_los_angeles.php
Auto Motive
PEOPLE LIKE CARS WITH ‘ANGRY
FACES’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/3158161/Cars-with-angry-faces-are-more-appealing.html
CHEAP
GOSSIP ABOUT UNIMPORTANT ASSHOLES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/09/arts/peepthu.php
Halle Berry could use a good dose of tragedy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3158502/Halle-Berry-is-Sexiest-Woman-Alive.html
CONNERY BY LEIBOWITZ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3153682/Sean-Connery-returns-to-modelling-with-Annie-Leibowitz-photo-shoot.html
PUTIN VS. WORLD LEADERS---IN
SPORTS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/oct/08/uselections2008.russia
Light
reading
FALSE APOLOGY
SYNDROME
http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=119
Books
A WWI SOLDIER’S SKETCH BOOK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/oct/07/firstworldwar?picture=338366191
For Art’s
Sake
INDONESIAN ARTIST TRIES TO UNITE A
NATION
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/10/06/an-indonesian-artist-uses-her-canvas-to-unite-a-nation/
PORTUGESE ARCHITECT WINS BRIT AWARD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/08/architecture.portugal
KAWASE HASUI
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=link;dtype=i;key=119929;page=801900101
Where ya
goin’?
TOURISM SWAMPS ASIA’S UNIQUE,
REMOTE PLACES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/05/TRJTVPK82.DTL
And in the
end. . .
ROBOGIRL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3157003/Robot-that-looks-like-young-girl-unveiled.html
10/7 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
I THINK I'M TURNING JAPANESE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktds5k4j1Y
UE WO MUITE ARUKOU
("I Look Up When I Walk")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k
THE HEART SUTRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccy708RQ1DA
RAINBOW OF SADNESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq-wJSHVFcs
BIG IN JAPAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SUDZ30_PXg
TOKYO DRIFT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI2TzTV4TOo
BE MY YOKO ONO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRRtLdXkVZU
YOKO: HELL IN PARADISE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0EjS7tLmkg
Lyrics:
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/yoko-ono-hell-in-paradise-lyrics.html
Quotatious: “Some of his comments that he has made about the war that
I think may — in my world– disqualifies someone from consideration as
the next commander in chief.” – Sarah Palin.
”Not being able to speak proper English should disqualify one from being
commander-in-chief.”---Charles Bogle.
SKYLINES:
THE JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE ON
THE PALIN/BIDEN DEBATE
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe1_1223203765
TINA AGAIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/oct/07/saturday.night.live.palin.fey
MCCAIN JOKES ABOUND ON LATE-NIGHT TUBE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/07/entertainment/e055633D86.DTL&tsp=1
SCORE ONE FOR THE BULLS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Runner_left_unconscious_after_bull_attack&in_article_id=342067&in_page_id=34
ICE CLIMBERS CHEAT DEATH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3152371/Ice-climbers-cheat-death-as-waterfall-collapses-around-them.html
WATCH:
NAKED TOURIST IN JAPAN IMPERIAL MOAT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7656537.stm
JAPANESE RESTAURANT HIRES
MONKEYS
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Japanese_restaurant_gets_monkey_butlers&in_article_id=342697&in_page_id=2
And on to news
and comment. . .
Serrah
POSTCARD FROM WASILLA
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008104004/postcard-wasilla
Wasilla is what inevitably happens when there are no codes, no civic
oversight, no planning, when the only governing principle in a community
is a naive and superstitious trust in the benevolent authority of the
free market.
ALBRIGHT SLAMS PALIN FOR
(DELIBERATELY) MISQUOTING HER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_misquotes_Albright_Albright_speaks_out_1005.html
INTERVIEW:
ANTHONY KENNEDY SHRIVER
Who?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,582615,00.html
In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, John F. Kennedy's nephew discusses
Barack Obama's leadership potential, why it's difficult to compare the
candidate with the former president and his gripe with Republican vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Enviro Wacko
NEWMAN’S NUCLEAR SECRET
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/07/eanewman107.xml
KENYA DEPORTS ‘OBAMA NATION’ AUTHOR
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/07/usa.barackobama
THE STORY BEHIND THE INSANE
‘TERRORIST’ OBAMA SMEAR
If you happened to serve on a charity board with an ex-Weather
Underground guy-turned college prof, then you’d be smeared, too.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/101900/obama%27s_flimsy_ties_to_bill_ayers/
The Woods Fund, in many ways, is responsible for helping start Obama as
an organizer and shaping his political identity. In 1985 the foundation
gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project, which hired
Obama, at 24, as an organizer on Chicago's economically depressed South
Side. Obama became friendly with Woods director Jean Rudd, and after he
graduated from Harvard Law School and moved back to Chicago, Rudd asked
him to join the board, which met four times a year to review grant
proposals.
PIG DICKIE MORRIS: OBAMA
WEATHER TIE
IS ‘LIKE HAVING CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH BIN-LADEN’
Who are these vile people, and why does the media give them air time?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/07/morris-ayers-bin-laden/
HANNITY GIVES AIR-TIME TO
ANTI-SEMITE---
BECAUSE HE SMEARS OBAMA
http://www.crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/sean-hannity-gives-platform-gop-smear
OLBERMANN:
PALIN IS PALLIN’ AROUND
WITH TERRORISTS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27054958/
And of course, Governor, those same dopes, and we media morons, we are
not smart enough to ask about that pesky Alaskan Independence Party, and
why you recorded a speech for its convention last March, and why your
husband remained a registered member of it until 2002, even though it
was founded by a man named Joe Vogler who wanted Alaska to secede from
the United States. The way the South seceded, precipitating the Civil
War. The same Joe Vogler who once said: "The fires of hell are frozen
glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won't
be buried under their damn flag.”
STOP REPUGNICAN JEWISH SMEARS OF
OBAMA
Sign the petition
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/2747/t/3584/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=484
All-melty
dollar
IT ALL STARTED. . .
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9c0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
LINDORFF:
MARKETS GIVE THE RASPBERRY
TO PAULSON,
BERNANKE, BUSH, CONGRESS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/221
As for all those Americans who, pensions having become a thing of the
past, have been counting on their hard-earned 401(k) savings to get them
through old age, they can kiss those babies good-bye. They've just lost
close to 20 percent of their value, courtesy of Hank and Ben's wonderful
adventure, and it's not over yet.
GLOBAL FEAR OF RECESSION GROWS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/worldbusiness/07global.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
U.S. BANK LOSSES AT $1.4 TRILLION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/07/imf.creditcrunch
BLUE
CHRISTMAS AHEAD
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1847812,00.html
Dishonest
John
DOCTORS TO MCCAIN: RELEASE YOUR DAMN MEDICAL
RECORDS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/18/uselections2008.johnmccain
"The worst case scenario is on January 21 2009, he has a seizure at his
inauguration and is found to have multiple brain metastases. There is no
way to navigate that risk assessment without those records."
Comment
GREENWALD:
THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY’S DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.alternet.org/election08/101872/a_country_in_shambles%2C_under_gop_rule/
What's happening in this country, and in this election, is rather simple
and easy to see: (1) the country is in total shambles -- possibly far
worse than what people even realize; (2) we have lived for the last
eight years under virtually absolute GOP rule; (3) the public knows
this; (4) the Republican President and his party are therefore intensely
-- historically -- unpopular; and (5) the voting public doesn't want to
continue living under the rule of the same faction and same political
party that has driven the country into the ground. Having Sarah Palin
drop her gerund endings and desperately trotting out the standard, tired
GOP attack ads to depict Obama as a radical, fist-pumping,
America-hating, unhinged socialist -- when everyone can see with their
own eyes that he isn't -- won't change any of that.
SHILLER:
PLUGGING HOLES IN A
SINKING SHIP
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,582621,00.html
We have a substantial risk of a recession going forward. Seven hundred
billion dollars is a good idea, to free banks of their bad mortage
securities and to bring more liquidity to the financial markets. But
there is no $700 billion package to provide a stimulus for consumption
and the economy. I think we are going to have a serious crisis going
forward.
War in Error
HOW WE BOTCHED PLAN
TO CATCH BIN-LADEN
In case you missed this on ’60 Minutes’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/US_officials_stopped_plans_to_kill_1006.html
People’s
Repugnic
‘MADE IN USA’
FOOD MAY BE CONTAMINATED WITH POISON CHINA MILK
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/us-food-may-contain-tainted-chinese-ingredients-5286.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
HEY, GAYS! CURE YOURSELVES WITH
‘JESUS BOOT CAMP!’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4893735.ece
Mashed Media
NEW L.A. TIMES CUTBACKS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/incredibly_deep_new_cutba.php
Auto Motive
PARIS ELECTRIC CAR
SHOW
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1847544,00.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
THAI INTERNET WUNDERKIND
CAPTURES AUDIENCES FROM BEHIND BARS
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/10/07/thai-internet-wunderkind-captivates-audiences-from-behind-bars/
And in more
important matters. . .
Animals in
the news!
MUST LISTEN:
TROY CHAPMAN AND THE ORANGE CAT
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/440.html
A murderer’s story of what a cat taught prisoners.
REQUIEM FOR A HEROIC DOG
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/07/BAQT13CQTD.DTL&tsp=1
ONE IN FOUR MAMMALS FACE EXTINCTION
(Not including humans)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/06/europe/environ.php
THE AMAZING
SURFING PRIESTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
by John Rogers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081005/ap_on_re/surfing_priests
Well, it’s close to walking on water. . .
CHEAP
GOSSIP: CATHERINE ZITTY-JONES, NO MORE
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Catherine_Zitty_Jones_turns_into_posh&in_article_id=342468&in_page_id=7
NOW WOMEN ARE WEARING APRONS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/06/style/rmiu.php
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/1006/
Musique
CLASSICAL MUSIC
AUDIENCES DYING OFF---NOT
How many times have you heard this bogus claim?
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-newgray5-2008oct05,0,4427896.story
Film
THE FANTASTIC WORLD OF HARRYHAUSEN
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1847738,00.html
TOP TEN DOG MOVIES
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1847625_1847727,00.html
Light
reading
WAS IT A BIG BANG OR A BIG BOUNCE?
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=859062
THE MYSTERY OF THE DEAD SEA
SCROLLS---ER, SCRAPS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07scrol.html?ref=design&pagewanted=all
WATCH:
PROF TEACHES LANGUAGE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN WRITTEN DOWN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/10/06/BA7I133KE1.DTL&o=0
Where ya
goin’?
A HIGHLAND CHIEF’S TOP TEN
SCOTLAND WALKS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/oct/06/walkingholidays.scotland
For Art’s
Sake
ZIGGURAT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/07/triangle.herzog.demeuron.paris
Books
HELEN MIRREN ON HER
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/interactive/2008/oct/06/mirren
SOROS FORESAW THE END OF AN ERA
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21934?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Campaign+Monitor&utm_content=113096447&utm_campaign=October+23+issue&utm_term=He+Foresaw+the+End+of+an+Era
And in the
end. . .
POLYGAMIST ‘RABBI’ HAS TWO BABIES IN THREE
MONTHS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3150939/Man-with-seven-wives-is-to-become-a-father-twice-in-three-months.html
back soon. . .a bit
under the weather
10/2 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
MR. CLEAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbiofcuTZBo
GOOD 'N' PLENTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I
TEABERRY SHUFFLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk11Acjofu8
PEPSI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4vUwl7YGes
DR. PEPPER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpByXzdMQfk
SCHLITZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4V6jHn0i0
HAMM'S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7HoWEk6y8
COLGATE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-NN42mBFt8
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE POST THIS
SONG ON YOUTUBE?
It's from James Taylor's "Walking Man" album
http://www.lyricstime.com/james-taylor-let-it-all-fall-down-lyrics.html
skylines:
SOLID GOLD KATE MOSS SPREADS
HER LEGS
Wish we were making this stuff up. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7647947.stm
GERMAN ARTIST WILL SMOKE KURT
COBAIN’S REMAINS
Hey, if Keith Richard can snort his old man. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/02/kurt.cobain.ashes.smoked
WORLD’S FATTEST MAN TO MARRY
Well, he has dropped about 600 pounds
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/3120774/Worlds-fattest-man-to-get-married-after-losing-weight.html
MODEL GUILTY OF BRA-BERY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/01/national/a150314D06.DTL
FOSSETT CRASHED HEAD-ON
INTO A MOUNTAIN
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/02/steve.fossett.search/index.html
COP WHO ORDERED TASER FIRING
COMMITS SUICIDE
Tasered man fell to his death
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/police-lt-in-deadly-taser-case-commits-suicide/index.html?hp
PAKISTANI PREZ FLIRTS WITH
PALIN, EARNS FATWAH
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1002/p04s01-wosc.html
A radical Muslim prayer leader said the president shamed the nation for
"indecent gestures, filthy remarks, and repeated praise of a non-Muslim
lady wearing a short skirt."
MCCAIN: ‘I’M NOT A RICH MAN’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/mccain-rich/
MCCAIN’S 13-BEDROOM AZ COTTAGE: A
VIDEO TOUR
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Arizona_TV_station_gets_tour_of_1001.html
FIORE
CARTOON:
A FIRESIDE CHAT
WITH SARAH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/01/fiorefireside.DTL
And on to the
day’s major horrors. . .
OH, THAT EVIL, FIENDISH
“GOTCHA” JOURNALISM!
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/hey_gotcha_caughtcha.php
Question: “What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before
you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?”
Gotcha Quotient: 98
Reason: Trying to trap “Ms. Joe Sixpack” into admitting that she reads
publications sponsored by the Elite Liberal Media? Trying to force a
politician to admit that she reads at all? Slick, Ms. Couric, slick.
BLACKWATER MACHINE GUN FOUND IN RAID ON
IRAQI ‘INSURGENTS’
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1846471,00.html
U.S., RUSSIA CORNER PIRATES
OFF SOMALIA
Weapons cargo includes 33 Russian tanks
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1002/p99s01-duts.html
Mashed Media
MCCAIN KNOCKS IFILL
She really should have withdrawn from the so-called debate tonight
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/02/politics/fromtheroad/entry4494130.shtml
BREAK A LEG, GWEN IFILL---OOPS,
NEVER MIND
http://blogs.courant.com/stan_simpson/2008/10/gwen-i.html
Dishonest
John
HUH? MCCAIN VOTES FOR
EARMARK-LADEN ‘BAILOUT’---
THEN CALLS FOR BUSH TO VETO IT?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/mccain-veto-bailout/
MCCAIN TIED TO RUSSIAN
OLIGARCHS
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081020/ames_berman
Yet despite McCain's tough talk, behind the scenes his top advisers have
cultivated deep ties with Russia's oligarchy--indeed, they have promoted
the Kremlin's geopolitical and economic interests, as well as some of
its most unsavory business figures, through greedy cynicism and
geopolitical stupor. The most notable example is the tale of how McCain
and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, advanced what became a key victory
for the Kremlin: gaining control over the small but strategically
important country of Montenegro.
MCCAIN GETS TESTY WITH DES MOINES REGISTER
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003856827
Watch John spew a spectacular string of lies in box 1, then click
boxes 3 and 7
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/NEWS09/810010377&theme=CAMPAIGN_2008
MCCAIN: I’VE TAKEN SARAH’S
FOREIGN POLICY ADVICE ‘MANY TIMES!’
It shows, it shows! . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_took_Palin_foreign_policy_advice_1001.html
Comment
LINDORFF: NO SURPRISE IN SENATE ‘BAILOUT’
VOTE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/217
The US Senate did what the Founding Fathers expected it to do when they
devised the idea of an upper house of Congress. Playing the role of
Britain’s House of Lords to the House’s House of Commons, it ignored the
rabble (that’s us, the voters) and voted the opposite way of the House
of Representatives, which on Monday had voted down the Bush
Administration’s proposed $700-billion to $1-trillion give-away to Wall
Street financial companies.
RON PAUL: LIPSTICK ON A BAILOUT
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20912.htm
WHITNEY: NOT ONE DIME!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20915.htm
This is a terrible bill, and it confers absolute authority on one of the
central players in the scandal, Henry Paulson, who was the Chairman of
Goldman Sachs at the time this MBS garbage was being peddled around the
planet to credulous investors. Now Paulson will be in a position to buy
up any "troubled asset" he that he believes could pose a threat to
"financial market stability". That's just great! It is clear that
Paulson will use his unchecked powers to wipe the slate clean and remove
any possibility that foreign investors will take legal action against
the real perpetrators; the giant Wall Street investment banks.
‘BAILOUT’ PASSES
SENATE---WHY THAT’S BAD FOR YOU
by Sen. Bernie Sanders
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/101224/bailout_passes_senate%3B_9_reasons_that%27s_bad_news_for_you/
This bill does not deal with the absurdity of having the fox guarding
the hen house. Maybe I'm the only person in America who thinks so, but I
have a hard time understanding why we are giving $700 billion to the
Secretary of the Treasury, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, who along
with other financial institutions, actually got us into this problem.
Now, maybe I'm the only person in America who thinks that's a little bit
weird, but that is what I think.
Serrah
NO, SERRAH, THEM RUSKIES HAVE NOT
‘REARED THEIR HEADS’ OVER ALASKY---MILITARY
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/01/airforce-russia-palin/
THE PALIN PAYOFF: HOW SHE RAKES IN
THE ‘CHRISTIAN’ BUCKS
http://www.alternet.org/story/101175/the_palin_payoff%3A_how_sarah_brings_in_the_christian_cash/
Joe Bageant: Sarah
Palin,Gidget, dominatrix of the North
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2008/09/sarah-palin-thr.html
Like I said though, all this edginess and sour attitude could simply be
last night's cheap bourbon. But I don't think so. Because amid the not
so surprising news that America has gone bust on the front page of this
morning's paper, Palin's Gidget-like cuteness was downright refreshing,
even peering out through the toast crumbs and butter stains. And in
America these days, that's enough to get elected. Which is exactly my
point.
People’s
Repugnic
NOW POISONED MILK SHOWS UP IN
TAIWAN
Nestle’s makes the very best poiiiiii-sonnnnn
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1846471,00.html
Auto Motive
D.C. PROPS UP DETROIT WITH $25
BILLION
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/business/us-gives-25-billion-to-auto-industry-5043.html
Obits
MR. CLEAN, R.I.P.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/02/obit.petersjr.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
WWII P.O.W. TUNNEL DIGGER, “THE MOLE”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/3123001/The-Mole-Second-World-War-POW-tunnel-digger-dies-aged-95.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
GOOD NEWS: ‘PORN MURDER BLOGGER’
PROSECUTED
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Girls_Aloud_in_porn_murder_blog&in_article_id=336612&in_page_id=34
And in more
important matters. . .
WHO WILL PLAY THE MONKEY MAN OF
INDIA?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/oct/02/castingthenews.blogpost
WHO'S
YOUR FAVORITE DR. WHO?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2008/oct/02/television.doctorwho
Light
reading
REMEMBERING THE FIRST GREAT DEPRESSION---IN 1873
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=477k3d8mh2wmtpc4b6h07p4hy9z83x18
DOWD REMEMBERS PAUL NEWMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/opinion/01dowd.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
“You think, how would Hombre handle this? And when this woman came up to
me — the guy who played Hud — what comes through? Laurel and Hardy. Both
of them.”
Animals in
the news!
THE BIRD WOMAN OF PLAYA DEL REY
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lorikeet2-2008oct02,0,3422829.story
ROWLING EARNS 3 MILLION (POUNDS) A
WEEK---WRITING OR NOT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3121761/Harry-Potter-author-JK-Rowling-earns-3m-a-week.html
Film
REVIEW:
‘RELIGULOUS’
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/01/arts/01reli.php
And in the
end. . .
COOKING WITH BALLS
http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2008/10/finally-the-mul.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2008/oct/02/foodanddrink.testicles
10/1 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
DAILY CONCERT
BASTARD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vm8RqT_Mqo
BASTARD FAIRIES: WE'RE GOING TO HELL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQu1TBIMSSk
AMERICAN IDIOT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5xQpTd_p6s
AMERICAN JERKS ARE GOING HOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnp_KpxaFoI
UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg
WHATEVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edloQNR6-TQ
BEST AND BRIGHTEST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
A FEW WORDS IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OldToIF5ZGs
U.S. BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umj6nUyfZAg
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE POST THIS
SONG ON YOUTUBE?
It's from James Taylor's "Walking Man" album
http://www.lyricstime.com/james-taylor-let-it-all-fall-down-lyrics.html
skylines:
METROLINK ENGINEER TEXT-MESSAGED
SECONDS BEFORE CRASH
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crash2-2008oct02,0,4888640.story
PALIN SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN, CANCELS
DEBATE!
Okay, not really, but. . .
http://www.pugbus.net/artman/publish/20081001_11_whitetrash.shtml
CHINA BANS HANDEL’S “MESSIAH”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3108810/China-bans-Western-religious-music.html
ANOTHER BRO TASERED---THIS TIME, TO DEATH
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080930.wbctasered01/BNStory/National/home
FALSE TEETH CATCH BULLET
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3114792/Mans-false-teeth-catch-murder-bullet.html
DUMB MOM DOESN’T WANT NATIONAL
HEALTH CARE
Despite daughter’s $100k-a-year bill for cystic fibrosis
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/01/MN90135K88.DTL
PALIN’S LIPLINER IS TATTOOED
Warning: these photos are disturbing!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/30/is-sarah-palins-lipliner_n_130352.html
WHY THE HELL DID CONGRESS TAKE
ROSH HASHANAH OFF?
http://www.slate.com/id/2201250/
How many members of Congress are Jewish? Twenty-nine in the House and 13
in the Senate.
MORFORD:
NEW GAME---PICK THE
MOST TOXIC NEWS STORY!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/01/notes100108.DTL
And on to news
and comment. . .
BASTARD AMERICANS RUIN YOUR
LIFE
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/bastard-americans-ruin-your-life-200809301290/
best bailout plan. . .
LINDORFF:
DEMAND HEARINGS!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/216
So the public demand should not be for passage of a "good" bailout bill.
It should be for a halt to this rush to passage of any bill. The demand
should be for "No Bill Without Hearings!" So call Congress
(202-225-3121, 202-224-3121 or 800-828-0498) and tell your
representative and your two senators that you don't want them
railroaded. Tell them you demand hearings before legislation. And tell
them, again, that you will vote against anyone who votes for the current
bailout for Wall Street. (Hint: If you can't get through, then call one
of their local offices, which are listed in the blue pages of your
phonebook, or go visit a local office.)
Mashed Media
LIBERAL PRESS, YOU SAY? NOT
QUITE---
LAT REPORTERS CALL PALIN "REAGANESQUE" IN A NEWS STORY
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palindebate1-2008oct01,0,113995.story
Bastard
American Serrah
PALIN: “I’M A FEMINIST”
Interesting kind of feminism where you want an impregnated rape
victim to be forced to have the child. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_My_gay_friend_made_choice_0930.html
INCREDIBLE: PALIN CAN’T NAME A
SINGLE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER!
Or magazine!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/palins-news/
PALIN ON WHETHER GLOBAL WARMING
IS MAN-MADE:
”IT KINDA DOESN’T MATTER!”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/01/palin-global-warming/
NEW ‘TROOPERGATE’ WITNESS IMPLICATES PALIN
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/093008b.html
PALIN DODGES ACCUSATION OF
MAKING RAPE VICTIMS PAY FOR EXAMS
This is a preview of what she will do in the so-called debate, folks
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/palin-rape/
Charging sexual assault victims for their rape kits (which cost $300 to
$1,200 at the time) is exactly what happened while she was mayor of
Wasilla. In a budget-cutting move, Palin’s administration began charging
rape victims for exams and the kits containing the medical supplies.
(Her signature is on the budget.)
PALIN’S PAST
DEBATE PERFORMANCES
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/01/america/palin.php
But just as she does now, Palin often spoke in generalities and showed
scant aptitude for developing arguments beyond a talking point or two.
Her sentences were distinguished by their repetition of words, by the
use of the phrase "here in Alaska" and for gaps. On paper, her sentences
would have been difficult to diagram
’I’VE DEBATED PALIN 20 TIMES’ (AND LIVED TO
TELL)
”She’s a master of the non-answer.”
http://www.alternet.org/election08/101011/i%27ve_debated_sarah_palin_more_than_20_times_--_here%27s_what_it%27s_like/
REPIGNICANS BLAME POOR,
BLACKS FOR FISCAL MELTDOWN!
What sorry, sorry bastard Americans
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/conservative-poor-blame/
MCCAIN, THE
MAKE-BELIEVE MAVERICK
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing
record of recklessness and dishonesty. This is the story of the real
John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story
of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a
man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to
become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would
finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.
VON HOFFMAN:
HANG ON TO YOUR
HATS
With coming deflation, that might be all you have left
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/howl2
In one day pension funds, 401(k)s, college savings accounts, charitable
foundations, college and university endowments collectively lost $1.3
trillion. That's deflation of the brutal kind.
MONBIOT:
THE FREE MARKET HAS
LONG PRACTICED WELFARE FOR THE RICH
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20908.htm
European governments are no better. The free market economics they
proclaim are a con: they intervene repeatedly on behalf of the rich,
while leaving everyone else to fend for themselves. Just as in the US,
the bosses of farm companies, oil drillers, supermarkets and banks
capture the funds extracted by government from the pockets of people
much poorer than themselves. Taxpayers everywhere should be asking the
same question: why the hell should we be supporting them?
SCHEER:
AGREEING WITH
DOBBS, GINGRICH
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080930_boston_tea_party_2008/
It was a time for some of the best commentators to fail and, as much as
I hate to admit it, for Lou Dobbs, and even Newt Gingrich, to shine.
Dobbs called it correctly: The sky is not falling, there is time for
reasoned debate, and why isn’t the public being listened to? Gingrich
put it best when he said short-circuiting serious congressional
oversight over an enormous transfer of taxpayer dollars to an industry
is “un-American.” Others, with whom I typically am in far greater
agreement, just rolled over to give the bankers what they demanded.
POLLITT:
SARAH PALIN,
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABE
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/pollitt
The stress on high-end conservative pundits is beginning to show. These
are people, after all, who belong to the Ivy-educated, latte-drinking,
Tuscan-vacationing urban elite they love to ridicule and who see
themselves, however deludedly, as policy intellectuals and grown-ups.
They've written endlessly about "excellence" and "standards." McCain's
erratic flounderings, and Palin's patent absurdity, have driven David
Brooks and George Will to write columns so anguished I'd feel sorry for
them had they not made their bed by spending the past eight years
rationalizing the obvious inadequacies of George W. Bush.
THE FRENCH VIEW
OF BASTARD AMERICANS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/01/europe/01france.php
Palin may be an American dream but she is a French nightmare, said
Rouvillois, a lawyer and social historian who has just written a book
titled "The History of Snobbery." "She's a caricature of a certain
America that hasn't parted with its boorish 'Wild West' side," said the
impish Rouvillois, who has also written a history of good manners. "For
the French snob, the only admissible American is from the East Coast,
knows Henry James, is comfortable in French, a sort of European on the
other side of the Atlantic."
(Lack of)
Bastard Health
NURSE BUYS DISABLED 15-YEAR-OLD
AN ARTIFICIAL VAGINA
Now that’s a nice nurse
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Nurse_bought_artificial_vagina_for_disabled_teen&in_article_id=334586&in_page_id=34
SELF-DIAGNOSIS BY INTERNET IS
TRICKY BUSINESS
(But often preferable to
bastard American doctors!)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/02/arts/snsecond.php
AFFAIRS CAUSE FATAL MIGRAINES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3115470/Extra-marital-affairs-can-cause-fatal-migraines.html
Animals in
the news!
A SAD AND
BEAUTIFUL PHOTO
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?A_fawn_which_is_quite_a_handful&in_article_id=332967&in_page_id=34
BASTARD AUSTRALIANS URGE
EATING KANGAROOS---“TO SAVE THE PLANET”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7645969.stm
SCORE ONE FOR THE CROCS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7645538.stm
Jesus H.
Christ!
BASTARD AMERICAN HEADACHE? TRY A
LITTLE JESUS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/oct/01/medicalresearch.humanbehaviour
And in more
important matters. . .
VIETNAM LIVES ON MOTORBIKES
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/10/01/vietnam-eats-sleeps-and-dreams-on-motorbikes/
HAWKING: THE FINAL FRONTIER
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/2209/full
The human race has existed as a separate species for about two million
years. Civilisation began about 10,000 years ago, and the rate of
development has been steadily increasing. But, if the human race is to
continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no
one has gone before.
SLIDE SHOW: BIG PICS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/thebigpicture/3115291/The-Big-Picture-photography-competition-round-22.html
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/0930/
Film
WHAT? CROWE IS PLAYING BOTH ROBIN
AND THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/oct/01/russell.crowe.robin.hood
Lost Angeles
AND IN FRENCH DIP SANDWICH NEWS. .
.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/and_in_french_dip_news.php
Musique
INTERVIEW: ANDRE PREVIN AT 80
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/01/classicalmusicandopera.usa
Like a reluctant witness after a shoot-out, André Previn peers around
the door of his flat, gripping the door frame and watching me approach
down the dim corridor. We're high in a portered block on Manhattan's
Upper East Side where Previn - tiny, beaky, full of amused dismay at the
world and the generally unsatisfactory nature of the people in it -
lives when he isn't touring. Inside, a grand piano takes up most of the
living room. How ever did they get it up here? Previn blinks, as if he
had never considered it. "I have no idea."
NEW RIDERS OF PURPLE SAGE ROLL ALONG
Robert Hunter, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, is writing songs for
the venerable group
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/venues/2008/09/04/new_riders_of_the_purple_sage.aspx
ANOTHER NEW SIR PAUL (FIREMAN) CUT
Which sounds perfectly awful
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=vepDWDUbRrA
Books
ANCIENT GREECE IS AU COURANT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/01/philosophy.history
So, it is worth thinking about ancient Greece because it brings us a
perspective on the way we live now, from our politics to our sense of
history. And reading the Greeks is also a source of unbounded enrichment
and pleasure. But even more important than all this, perhaps, is the
idea of "ancient Greece" not simply as a specific place or a time, but a
realm where the imagination, the emotions and the intellect can roam
free.
TEA, EN TOTO
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/chinese-tea-4909.html
And, in the
end. . .
COW WOMAN
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Mad_Cow_woman_arrested_for_chasing_kids&in_article_id=334543&in_page_id=2
9/30 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
skylines:
DAILY CONCERT
LISTEN TO THE
MOCKINGBIRD:
ALMA GLUCK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvowyvPJaI
ON STRANGE HARP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQOHHE8wYE
BLUEGRASS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWXRxZluTxU
PIANO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkSMHto6a3U
SQUEEZEBOX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYAd7nV247w
BRASS BAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_cm66QC58
AND, OF COURSE. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2EBWEyLfI
HAPPY BANNED BOOKS WEEK, SARAH!
http://ala8.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/29/viva-banned-book-week/
PEE C. POLICE: NO MORE “MEN’S” AND “LADIES’”
ROOMS
Transgender people force rewrite
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3108573/Transgender-students-force-lavatory-change.html
CHEF EATS SPICY CHILI, DIES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3099484/Chef-dies-after-eating-superhot-chilli-for-bet.html
I’VE FALLEN AND I CAN’T GET
UP---BUT I’M FINE, I’M FINE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7633989.stm
SLIDE SHOW:
BIZARRE SIGNS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3103124/Sign-language-week-18.html
NOT TINA FEY, BUT. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEW12XLUM7A
PALIN’S FLING WITH TODD’S EX-BIZ PARTNER
Yessir, good Christian family values on display here.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/national_enquirer_world_exclusive_sarah_palins_secret_lover_revealed/celebrity/65481
CARTOON:
ALL IN THE GOP FAMILY
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/09/cartoon_all_in_the_gop_family.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
ROVE CAMP’S PLAN TO STEAL THE
ELECTION
http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/09/spoonamore-reveals-plan-to-steal-next.html
PIGBOY SUBPOENAED IN 2004 ELECTION
TAMPERING CASE
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/100881/rove_aide_subpoenaed_in_case_alleging_tampering_with_2004_election/
‘I GHOST-WROTE LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
FOR THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN’
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/24/mccain_letters/
I start practicing attractive sentences about Sarah Palin: "Her biggest
plus to me is that, besides being amazingly smart and qualified, she
managed to remain a woman like us. She is the PTA hockey moms. She is
the working mothers of special needs children. She is every caring
mother of a challenging teenager."
PALIN CANNOT NAME A SINGLE
SUPREME COURT DECISION---OTHER THAN ROE V. WADE!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/palin-scotus-silence/
All-melty
dollar
PANIC GRIPS WORLD MARKETS---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/30/wallstreet.marketturmoil
---AND CONGRESS TAKES DAY OFF
FOR ROSH HOSHANA!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,581444,00.html
After the US Representatives drop-kicked the bailout bill, triggering
another Black Monday -- and leading to a 777.68 point drop in the Dow
Jones industrial average -- Congressmen and women headed home to their
constituencies. The occasion is Rosh Hashana, a congressional holiday.
OBAMA: RAISE FDIC LIMIT TO $250K
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/30/obama-proposes-raising-fdic-limit-to-250000/
NOW HERE’S A TOUGH MCCAIN
STATEMENT:
‘INACTION IS NOT AN OPTION’
Hahahahahahahahaha
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/30/mccain-puts-focus-on-iowa/
BUSH: ‘PICTURE OF A BEATEN DOG’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/bush-beaten-dog/
THOMPSON:
ANOTHER MONUMENTAL BUSH
FAILURE
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11387
It will be the final nail into the coffin that will serve forever as the
symbol of the Presidency of George W. Bush. Sadly, that coffin will not
be used to bury Bush. It will be needed to bury the remains of the
nation he destroyed.
LINDORFF:
SURPRISE---CONGRESS
LISTENED TO VOTERS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/215
Serrah
WATCH: PALIN AND SIMMERING MCCAIN SIT DOWN
WITH COURIC
http://www.time-blog.com/tuned_in/2008/09/mccain_and_palin_tagteam_couri.html
Let's be fair: John McCain and Sarah Palin weren't claiming that a
question from a voter was "gotcha journalism." They were claiming that
for Katie Couric to have the temerity to take Palin's answer to a voter
seriously was "gotcha journalism." That, of course, makes all the
difference.
PALIN SUPPORTER: “IF YOU CAN
RUN THE PTA,
YOU CAN RUN THE COUNTRY”
http://www.alternet.org/election08/100871/%27if_you_can_run_the_pta%2C_you_can_run_the_country%27_--_republicans_explain_their_support_for_palin/
CHORUS IS GROWING: PALIN NOT QUALIFIED
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/zakaria.sarah.palin/index.html
PALIN: VOTER QUESTION---VOTER---IS
“GOTCHA JOURNALISM”
Uh, Serrah, you’ve got to be a journalist to engage in “gotcha
journalism”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_says_voter_question_gotcha_journalism_0929.html
PALIN ‘CRAMMING’ FOR DEBATE
Sure, she’s really still in high school, anyhow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/us/politics/30palin.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
WATCH FOR PALIN TO “TELL HER
STORY” (OVER AND OVER)
It's all "selling the narrative"
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/In_reintroduction_Palin_to_do_more_interviews_and_tell_her_story.html
Dishonest
John
WHAT WILL MCCAIN TRY NEXT?
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/blog-entry/
You could argue that McCain pulled a Leon Lett yesterday. Lett was the
Dallas Cowboys defender who infamously threw a touchdown celebration on
the ten yard line only to have the ball stripped away.
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN:
FESTOONED WITH LIES
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11408
Lost Angeles
L.A.'S HIDEOUS, CORRUPT SCHOOL
DISTRICT EXPOSED
http://witnessla.com/education/2008/admin/lausds-bloated-bureaucracy/
DAILY NEWS PUBLISHES TEACHER SALARIES
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_10579910
Mohammered
WATCH:
WAFA SULTAN ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ciOGS6r97oE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM4ODjVMc2s
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/11/international/middleeast/11sultan.html
GLANVILLE:
RESPECT FOR RELIGION MAKES CENSORSHIP THE NORM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/30/pressandpublishing.religion
The firebomb attack this weekend on the publishing house Gibson Square
in London was an assault on one of the bravest publishers in the
business. Three men were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 on
Saturday morning, suspected of attempting to set fire to the premises.
Martin Rynja, who runs Gibson Square, is due to publish Sherry Jones's
novel about Mohammed's wife Aisha, The Jewel of Medina, next month.
Enviro Wacko
CUT DOWN ON MEAT, MILK---SAVE ENVIRO AND
YOUR ARTERIES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3107696/Consumers-should-cut-meat-and-milk-intake-to-combat-climate-change.html
IS USING YOUR GARBAGE DISPOSAL
BAD FOR THE PLANET?
http://www.slate.com/id/2201176/
People’s
Repugnic
LIPTON TEA MILK
POWDER RECALLED
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/30/asia/AS-Asia-Tainted-Milk.php?pass=true
TWO-THIRDS OF CHINA DRUGSTORES
SELL COUNTERFEIT DRUGS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/china-counterfeit-medicine-4973.html
Mashed Media
MASS ‘MYSPACE’ DESERTION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7643827.stm
Obit
MARGOT GAYLE, NYC PRESERVATIONIST
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/nyregion/30gayle.html?ref=obituaries
Oh, by the
way. . .
THINK YOU HAVE TROUBLES?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3107900/Girl-who-bleeds-without-being-cut-baffles-doctors.html
BELGIUM COMING APART?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7640176.stm
UNICYCLING ROBOT!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3108800/Robot-that-can-ride-a-unicycle-unveiled-in-Japan.html
And in more
important matters. . .
A BASEBALL TEAM BRIDGES ETHNIC
ANIMOSITIES IN RURAL CHINA
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/09/30/a-baseball-team-bridges-ethnic-animosities-in-rural-china/
SUMO WRESTLING IS RIGGED, DRUGS
ABOUND
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4853100.ece
Sumo wrestlers in weird herpes epidemic
http://www.healthjockey.com/2008/09/30/deadly-herpes-virus-fast-hitting-sumo-wrestlers/
Cheap Gossip
RUSSELL CROWE HAS ‘DEAD KOALA’ ON
HIS BACK
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Russell:_My_mullets_like_a_dead_Koala&in_article_id=332560&in_page_id=7
BATTLE OF THE TITANS! BOY GEORGE
VS. GEORGE MICHAEL!
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/interviews/article.html?Boy_George:_George_Michael_is_a_mess&in_article_id=332472&in_page_id=11
MORE
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/01/arts/peepwed.php
Books
TAKE THE QUIZ: WHAT ARE THE MOST
BANNED OF BOOKS?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/30/wallstreet.marketturmoil
OH, GOD---NOW YOU HAVE TO SWITCH
TO BLU-RAY
http://www.slate.com/id/2201240/
REMEMBERING
PHILANTHROPIST NEWMAN
http://www.slate.com/id/2201116/
And in the
end. . .
AMAZING JAPANESE BAR CODES
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/09/29/creative-barcodes-japan-unique-awesome/
9/29 "You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
skylines:
DAILY CONCERT
SAVOY TRUFFLE (MONO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9eEx-M8R8
APPLES, PEACHES, BANANAS AND PEARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QffUFW0ltM
APPLES PEACHES PUMPKIN PIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07oQVsFVDs
VEGETABLES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noy1WTESmgY
COCOANUT WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7LUHHLIRQI
APPLES PEACHES PUMPKIN PIE POLKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww4GiJLzarQ
CANDYMAN (SAMMY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecJaqMqQLc
CANDYMAN (GRATEFUL DEAD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avQeuBPjOVs |
SCARLETT JOHANSSON IN FIRST HOLLYWOOD
MARRIAGE!
Many more to come!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7641267.stm
Lost Angeles
GUNMAN OPENS FIRE ON BEATIFIC
VENICE FESTIVAL
This town is cooked
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-venice30-2008sep30,0,404630.story
COMING OCT. 3: RELIGULOUS
http://www.lionsgate.com/religulous/
WATCH:
THE OBAMA GIRL/RALPH NADER SHOW
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/odd-couple-obama-girl-and_n_129487.html
If there is anyone left in the
world who has not seen Tina Fey’s latest fantastic Palin impersonation.
. .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-k_n_129956.html
ANGRY JOHN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzvgmRXx5VM
SIGN IT: “STOP PAULSON’S
PLUNDER”
http://www.democrats.com/stop-paulsons-plunder?source=dlindorff%40mindspring.com
CARTOON: BAILOUT BANDITS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2008/sep/29/george.bush.gordon.brown
And on to news
and comment. . .
HERE SHE IS, KIDDIES---YOUR
NEXT PRESIDENT
She’ll be up there on Rushmore one day. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnT9W0ONycc
SLIGHT SANITY PREVAILS AS HOUSE REJECTS
'BAILOUT'
Your fine, principled representatives were afraid of being voted out.
. .
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/financial_meltdown
"We're all worried about losing our jobs," Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.,
declared in an impassioned speech in support of the bill before the
vote. "Most of us say, 'I want this thing to pass, but I want you to
vote for it — not me.' "
LINDORFF:
THE POWER OF 'NO'
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/214
Incredible! This time, when the People spoke, Congress listened. At
least 228 members of the House listened. They voted early this afternoon
to reject the Bush Administration's scaremongering, and the cowardly
Democratic Congressional leadership's attempt at ducking and covering by
attaching some meaningless verbiage to what remains a case of legalized
highway robbery. At least for the moment, the bailout scam is killed.
HEIL, PAULSON!
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-assess29-2008sep29,0,7459524.story
OBAMA: ‘BAILOUT’ IS NOT A ‘BLANK CHECK’
Nah, it’s not blank---it’s just $700 Billion. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_claims_stake_in_new_Wall_0928.html
UH. . .BIPARTISAN MCCAIN
DIDN’T SPEAK TO ANY DEMOCRATS ABOUT ‘BAILOUT’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/28/mccain-talks-bailout/
NO GRAND JURY FOR SLIMY FORMER A.G. GONZALEZ
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092801057.html?hpid=topnews
WATCH:
THESE DOPES COULD DECIDE YOUR FUTURE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/29/uselections2008.sarahpalin
Serrah
ALMOST $1
MILLION DONATED
TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN PALIN'S NAME!
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/?last_story=/mwt/broadsheet/2008/09/27/palin_competition/
PALIN ‘COULD RISE TO MEDIOCRITY’
IN DEBATE---BROOKS
There is a sympathy factor now. . .If the idiot speaks in complete
sentences, media will say she “held her own”. . .
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/09/26/2008-09-26_using_sarah_palin_for_fund_raising_plann.html
WILL FEY’S PARODY HELP PALIN?
http://www.time-blog.com/tuned_in/2008/09/tina_fey_palins_worst_enemy_or.html
JOURNALISTS CUTTING PALIN SLACK?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/29/media-censor-palin/
PALIN---THE
ULTIMATE CHRISTIAN FASCIST WET DREAM
http://www.alternet.org/election08/100707/sarah_palin%2C_21st_century_theocrat/
With her vice presidential nomination, Sarah Palin has become the
ultimate religious-right success story. Ever since the Christian
Coalition was formed using the infrastructure of Pat Robertson's 1988
presidential run, the movement has focused on building power from the
ground up, turning conservative churches into little political machines.
"I would rather have a thousand school board members than one president
and no school board members," Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed said
in 1996. Palin, who got her start in a local church-backed political
struggle, is very much the product of Reed's strategy.
Jesus H.
Christ!
MAYOR ‘JUST WONDERING’ IF
OBAMA IS THE ANTICHRIST. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/28/obama-antichrist-nc/
OBAMA IS UP BY EIGHT POINTS IN
THE POLLS
Rope-a-dope seems to be working
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/29/obama-surges-to-8-pt-lead-in-gallup-tracking/
People's
Repugnic
CADBURY RECALLS CHINA CANDY BARS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/29/cadburyschweppes.china
Iraq and
Roll
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER 27 DEAD
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
Comment
BROWN:
OBAMA BEATS MCCAIN
WITH ‘ROPE-A-DOPE?’
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11412
PUT $700 BILLION
IN THE BAG AND NO ONE GETS HURT
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20884.htm
WHITNEY: TROUBLE IN BANKTOPIA
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20883.htm
Mashed Media
BROKAW’S ‘FAIRNESS’ FACTS PULLED
OUT OF
THIN AIR TO MAKE MCCAIN LOOK BETTER
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/28/meet-the-press-brokaws-fairness-facts-pulled-out-of-thin-air-to-make-mccain-look-better/
“In fairness to everybody here, I’m just going to end on one note and
that is that we continue to poll on who is best equipped to be Commander
in Chief, John McCain continues to lead in that category, despite the
criticism from Barack Obama by a factor of 53 to 42 percent in our
latest NBC/WSJ poll.”
KURZ:
‘SUBSTANTIVE’ PRESS
IS TAKEN FOR A SPIN
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802587_pf.html
Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody asked Axelrod about the
"body language," saying: "John McCain didn't make eye contact at all."
Another reporter wondered whether McCain had been "patronizing" in
dismissing Obama's lack of foreign-policy experience. A third asked
whether McCain had hurled "insults" at his opponent.
Freedom of
what?
DENVER COPS LAUGH ABOUT BEATING
PROTESTERS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Denver_cops_get_Tshirts_that_mock_0928.html
"We get up early, to beat the crowds," the shirt reads, followed by
"2008 DNC." The words flank a grinning police officer holding a baton.
COPS TASER 16-YEAR-OLD MOM HOLDING BABY
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=3363cc2a-e922-4d0f-8444-d72e485dcba6
A little
good news!
FATHER OF INTENDED SEX CRIME
VICTIM KILLS ATTACKER
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/17576601/detail.html
Animals in
the news!
LEATHERBACK TURTLES RETURN
TO FEAST ON JELLYFISH
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/28/BAI31353SK.DTL
Oh, by the
way. . .
‘TYPHOON DAY’ IN TAIWAN
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/taiwan-typhoon-jangmi-4908.html
MAOISTS POSTPONE ‘MISS NEPAL’
PAGAENT AGAIN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7641680.stm
WHERE TO OLD CLOTHES END UP?
TRY HAITI
http://www.reason.com/news/show/127435.html
GERMANS SAY ‘NEIN’ TO ‘STREET GOOGLE’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,581177,00.html
And in more
important matters. . .
P.J. O’ ROURKE ON HIS CANCER
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-orourke28-2008sep28,0,3317114.story
Where ya
goin’?
SLIDESHOW: WEEKEND IN WONDERFUL
TAIPEI
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/02/travel/0302-36HOURS_index.html
http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/travel/12going.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE3DF1F39F932A15757C0A960958260
http://www.taiwandc.org/
FEASTING AT THE TABLE OF TAIPEI
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/travel/21Taipei.html?8dpc
Film
MAHER TAKES
TALENT FOR “HERESY” TO SCREEN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/29/DD7D13549F.DTL
Whenever the topic of religion was broached on HBO's "Real Time With
Bill Maher," the host had to cut himself off before he'd had his
complete say. It's the subject Maher says he feels the most passionate
about. But there wasn't time even on his own talk show to express the
ardent feelings of someone raised as a churchgoing Roman Catholic who
now hovers between being an agnostic and an atheist.
SEQUEL TO “BELLE DE JOUR”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/29/belle.dejour
MITCHELL: YOUNG REPORTER’S MEMORY OF NEWMAN
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003855861
A 1981 INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT
MR. NEWMAN
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0929/p25s01-almo.html
Musique
SIR PAUL RELEASES NEW ‘FIREMAN’
ALBUM
http://www.paulmccartney.com/news.php#1453/2008-09
Preview a cut: “Lifelong Passion”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWm9xWmDSY
New “Mystery Tour Memories” DVD released
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BWYTAS?ie=UTF8&tag=abbeyrdsbeatlesp&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001BWYTAS
PLANT: NO LED
ZEPPELIN TOUR OR ALBUM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7637372.stm
DAVID CROSBY’S FAVORITE
TUNES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/29/david.crosby.playlist
AMID SHOES AND JEWELS, A MIGHTY,
MIGHTY SOUND
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/music/29wana.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
The more than 10,000 pipes it had originally were deemed insufficient
for the atrium, so thousands were added over the years. (There are now
28,482.) But as the store changed hands over the last century, the organ
fell into disrepair. In the mid-1990s only about 20 percent of the pipes
and two of the six keyboards were usable. It is now fully functioning.
WORLD’S LARGEST JIGSAW
PUZZLE!
Aside from the U.S. economy. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/29/international/i070856D34.DTL
For Art’s
Sake
AL FRESCO GALLERY IN ICELAND
Yoko’s “Peace Tower” is just the tip of the iceberg. . .
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/09/29/an-alfresco-arctic-art-gallery-warms-the-soul-in-iceland/
And in the
end. . .
SALVIA VIDEOS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Warning_over_YouTube_LSD_Lite_craze&in_article_id=330369&in_page_id=34
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=SALVIA+&search_type=&aq=-1&oq=
9/26"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
skylines:
DAILY CONCERT
HAYWIRE MAC: AIN'T WE CRAZY?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDcBR3ztF8
GNARLS BARKLEY: CRAZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w
19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U_N0h_KyOc
KILLING FLOOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOtOsFTFeE
YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyMsoAIIByM
MONEY IS KING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW93c_7O6Ak
MONEY BECOMES KING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8iu31eVoA
THE END
GONDOLIERS FOR OBAMA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jhBVaiQw0
JET-MAN CROSSES ENGLISH CHANNEL!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/26/aeronautics
LATEST SHOTS OF GORGEOUS AMY
WINEHOUSE!
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Shoeless_Winehouse_balls_it_up_again&in_article_id=328324&in_page_id=7
SIR PAUL PLAYS FOR ISRAEL
Sing’s Sir John’s “Give Peace a Chance”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7636360.stm
HELLO GOODBYE ISRAEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFonR7TLioA
Quotatious: "We, we do, it's very important
when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin
rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of
America, where, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the
border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an
eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are
right there. They are right next to, to our state."---our next next
president, Sarah Palin.
YER PREZ-DENT:
“IF MONEY ISN’T LOOSENED UP, THIS SUCKER COULD GO DOWN.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26bailout.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Bell cartoon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/cartoon/2008/sep/26/bush.panic
LINDORFF:
STOP THE BAILOUT---THROW THEM ALL OUT
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/213
You wanna throw them all out? Start here:
http://throwthemallout.synthasite.com/
PHONE/E-MAIL CONGRESS TO STOP THE BAILOUT
http://www.votesmart.org/
BAILOUT OUTRAGE RACES ACROSS
WEB
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2008/db20080924_430418.htm
CRAZY JOHN:
NOW EARMARKS CAUSED THE MELTDOWN!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/25/mccain-crisis-earmarks/
UMM. . .MCCAIN SUSPENDED
WHICH CAMPAIGN?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/26/jeffrey-toobin-ummm-can-we-please-stop-saying-mccain-suspended-his-campaign-already/
LETTERMAN STILL PISSED AT MCCAIN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/25/politics/p063309D05.DTL
And on to
Serrah news and comment. . .
PALIN SPEAKS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzDYF7KGdag
ANTI-GIFT PALIN. . .TOOK
$25,000 IN GIFTS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503988.html?nav=rss_politics/elections
THIS VIDEO SAYS IT ALL, PALIN-WISE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGd96dWnD-E
And if you don’t remember the original
source. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
WOW WOW WOW. . .EVEN IF YOU
SAW THIS, WATCH AGAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6CRObROV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDGEaQty_s
AND THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrwhJ37fJ4
SERRAH DECLARES VICTORY IN
IRAQ!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/26/palin-victory-iraq/
SERRAH LINKS 9/11, IRAQ (AGAIN)
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1946
RAINEY: IF PALIN
WAS LUCKY,
NO ONE LISTENED TO HER COURIC INTERVIEW
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia26-2008sep26,0,7467803.story
And on to
comment. . .
KALL:
RACHEL CARSON ROLLS
IN HER GRAVE,
AS COWBOY MCCAIN MAKES BUSH LOOK LIKE A GENIUS
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rachel-Carson-Rolls-In-Her-by-Rob-Kall-080926-174.html
MORFORD:
700 BILLION FLUFFY
NOTHINGS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/24/notes092408.DTL&hw=MORFORD&sn=002&sc=365
And on to the
general vale of tears. . .
RUSSIA GIVES CHAVEZ A BILLION FOR ARMS
Thanks for encouraging him, Serrah!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/26/america/27chavez-fw.php
NOW CHINESE CANDY IS POISONED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7637001.stm
Jesus H.
Christ!
EVANGELIST TONY
ALAMO---ER, BERNIE HOFFMAN---
BUSTED IN CHILD SEX CASE
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/25/childporn.alamo/index.html
Alamo Ministries
http://www.alamoministries.com/
Remember the Alamo: The Second
Coming of Tony
http://www.pfo.org/rememberalamo.htm
Short memories are not necessarily the product of dementia. Many
Christians have short memories when it comes to old cult leaders. These
aberrant teachers reinvent themselves even after major failures,
prophetic misses, glaring exposés, and even jail time. One such leader
is Tony Alamo, (it is correctly pronounced A-lam'-o). Alamo was highly
influential from the 1960s into the 1980s, in spite of his checkered
past, weird propensities, and documented abuse. In his early beginnings,
Alamo formed the Music Square Church, also known as the Holy Alamo
Christian Church Consecrated (nowadays they have dropped the word
"Consecrated"). Alamo gained even more attention from the national media
when he kept the embalmed body of his wife Susan on display for a number
of months. She died April 8, 1982, of cancer, despite the claim that she
would be healed through prayer. Alamo had his followers kneeling by her
coffin in shifts around the clock praying and expecting her to rise from
the dead.
Mashed Media
SIX YEARS IN GITMO: A JOURNALIST’S TALE
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844512,00.html
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S.
military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men
remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither
presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One
man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is
Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing
charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo. "It's worse than the
fire of Hell," he wrote two years ago from his cell to his British
attorney, Clive Stafford Smith. "It makes people lose their senses.
Death may come at any time."
Enviro Wacko
L.A.’S HYDROGEN STATION
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/business/businessspecial2/24hydro.html?scp=3&sq=los%20angeles&st=cse
HEROES OF THE ENVIRONMENT, 2008
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841816,00.html
Animals in
the news. . .
NEW SHOES FOR BEAR WITH BURNED
PAWS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Boots_for_a_paw-ly_bear&in_article_id=327307&in_page_id=64
Oh, by the
way. . .
MMM-MM! HUMAN ICE CREAM!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/25/national/a121422D82.DTL
INDEPENDENCE FOR CORFU?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/26/greece
And in more
important matters. . .
ASTOUNDING PHOTO OF THE WEEK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/26/eawhale126.xml
BE CAREFUL WHAT
YOU SAY IN NEW YORK. . .
It might wind up on a hit website
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/09/25/new-yorkers-say-the-darndest-things-%e2%80%93-and-%e2%80%9cspies%e2%80%9d-await-them/
Bands, artists performing full
albums more
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0926/p25s07-almp.html
Twiggy at 59: I hated how I looked
in the ‘60’s
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/26/botwiggy126.xml
For Art’s
Sake
INVEST IN ASIAN ART
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/27/arts/melik27.php?pass=true
Film
REVIEW: ‘THE CLASS’
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/26/arts/26clas.php
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/0925/
Where ya
goin’?
PARIS IN PETALUMA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/24/NSUM12JE35.DTL&type=travel
VENICE IN VENICE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/3078385/Venice-for-less-than-200-Introduction.html
Books
THE BEST BARS
ARE IN NOVELS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/26/pub.crawl.books.orwell
And in the
end. . .
BUSHPORN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3084468/British-artist-makes-portrait-of-George-W-Bush-and-Paris-Hilton-from-porn.html
And. . .
HERE, KITTY!
http://www.metro.co.uk/media/viral.html?in_page_id=55&in_mediaext_item_id=181460
9/25"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
skylines:
DAILY CONCERT
beatles instrumentals by others:
MICHAEL CHAPDELAINE: COME TOGETHER
http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/10226/1/
OSAMU KITAJIMA: I FEEL FINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqyonlhGyGw
JAKE SHIMABUKURO: WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo
KOTARO OHSIO AND JAKE SHIMABURKURO: IN MY LIFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo
beatles instrumentals by themselves:
HELLO GOODBYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUxlN7sEfg4
CRY FOR A SHADOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibRtJCXeOIw
HELP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffdsgbWqKQ8
76-YEAR-OLD CHEETA THE CHIMP RELEASES
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
We are not making this stuff up
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/24/bocheetah124.xml
Related:
POOR NUTBALL AMERICANS
BELIEVE IN GUARDIAN ANGELS
Yeah, they’ll get us out of Iraq, Depression. . .
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1842179,00.html
MAN SLICES CHEDDAR, CHARGED
WITH BATTERY
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26877682/
WATCH:
MCCAIN CANCELS LETTERMAN OVER ECONOMIC CRISIS---
THEN DOES COURIC’S SHOW
Dave has a few things to say
about it
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/24/john-mccain-cancels-lette_n_128998.html
McCAIN’S CAMPAIGN
MANAGER ‘QUIT’ LOBBYING FIRM HE FOUNDED---
SO WHY DOES MCCAIN CAMPAIGN SEND CHECKS TO THE FIRM?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_campaign_paid_Davis_firm_months_0925.html
And on to
Serrah News and Comment:
Serrah
WOLF: PALIN AND THE
COMING POLICE STATE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/the-battle-plan-ii-sarah_b_128393.html
Almost everyone I work with on
projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing
computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That's not
all: people's bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to
banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are
quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to
keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most
disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of
and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All
my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When
I show the postman, he says "That's impossible." Horrifyingly to me is
the impact on my family. My childrens' report cards are returned again
and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back;
and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one
arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try
explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.
WATCH: PALIN PRAYS WITH THE
“CHRISTIAN” WITCH HUNTER
Listen to those around her “speaking in tongues”. . .This is like a
really bad Stephen King novel. . .
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/100149/shocking_footage_of_palin_praying_with_%27witch_hunter%27/
PALIN: “I’LL. . .TRY AND FIND
SOME AND BRING ‘EM TO YA!”
Incredible: She can’t give Couric examples of McCain being reformer
HERE’S THE
EXCHANGE:
Couric: But he's been in
Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce
Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not
more.
Palin: He's also known as the maverick though, taking shots from his own
party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get
people to understand what he's been talking about - the need to reform
government.
Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know
you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me
any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand
on this?
Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that
has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities.
And that is what America needs today.
Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the
point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.
Palin: I'll. . .try to find you some and I'll bring ‘em to ya.
HERE’S THE CLIP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpb7z_PjbAs
FULL INTERVIEW:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml?source=mostpop_story
MCCAIN STOPS PALIN FROM
ANSWERING QUESTION
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/24/ill-get-back-to-you-when-pressed-palin-cant-give-specifics-on-mccains-pro-regulation-record/
McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome
questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin (”Governor,
what have you learned from your meetings?”) but McCain aide Brooke
Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room. Palin
looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to
which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say “No.”
SO WHO’S RUNNING ALASKA?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11371
PALIN SCHMOOZES WITH MURDOCH
Not since Frankenstein met the Wolf Man. . .
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0908/Palin_schmoozes_with_Murdoch.html?showall
SERRAH’S EARRINGS!
Warning: these close-ups are terrifying
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2008/sep/25/fashion.sarahpalin?picture=337968486
And on to news
and comment. . .
WHY $700 BILLION? “WE JUST
WANTED A REALLY LARGE NUMBER!”
We are not making this stuff up!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/24/treasury-large-number/
LINDORFF: ‘BAILOUT’ IS IRAQ ALL OVER AGAIN
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/212
Talk about déjà vu. Remember when Bush and his cabinet officers were
running all over in late 2002 crying wolf about Iraq’s supposed nukes,
and threatening that inaction on a war resolution by the Congress would
leave them to blame when the “mushroom cloud” appeared over some
American city?
Well, now they’re doing it again, this time claiming that economic
Armageddon faces the US and even the global economy if Congress doesn’t
hand over all power over the economy to the Secretary of the Treasury in
absolute contravention of the most fundamental principle of the
Constitution, which establishes that the budget be in the control of
Congress.
JUST LIKE IRAQ: BUSH CLAIMS
‘BAILOUT’ WILL PAY FOR ITSELF!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/25/bailout-payback/
TEN WAYS TO BAIL OUT WALL
STREET---
WITHOUT SOAKING TAXPAYERS
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/100223/10_ways_to_bail_out_wall_street_%28and_main_street%29_without_soaking_taxpayers_in_debt/
Wall Street and speculators should pay now for the mess they created.
Instead of borrowing from the super-wealthy beneficiaries of the casino
economy, we should tax them.
Any bailout should stimulate the real economy with investments in Main
Street, not just Wall Street.
A LITTLE GOOD
$CRISIS$ NEWS:
MALL DEVELOPERS HURTING!
http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=171FCB804DFECBA8BE9EC38F43138545&ref=1&src=rss
Fear Factor
MORE IRAQ RERUN: HOW BUSH IS
PLAYING TO FEAR
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/25/bush-amps-up-the-fear-factor-in-economic-speech/
A FRIGHTENED PRESIDENT TRIES TO
SCARE THE PUBLIC INTO SUPPORTING ‘BAILOUT’
http://www.alternet.org/story/100235/a_frightened_president_tries_to_scare_american_public_on_bailout/
CLEMONS: IT’S A 9/11 REPLAY---ASKING FOR SWEEPING POWERS, SCARING
THE PUBLIC
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/bush_does_a_911/
Dishonest
John
BROWN:
EXCUSE ME WHILE I CANCEL THE CAMPAIGN. . .TO CAMPAIGN
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11374
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN MANAGER TOOK MONEY FROM
FREDDIE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/24/uselections2008.johnmccain1
Comment
KLEIN:
RETURN TO AGE OF
ACTIVISM
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1844157,00.html
Obama's Infrastructure Bank illustrates two other principles that could
work to the next President's advantage. First, at a cost of $6 billion
per year, it is less than 1/100th the size of the proposed financial
bailout — a lot of programs that used to sound big seem like peanuts
now. Second, it is a program that would create jobs and strengthen the
economy.
RAIMUNDO:
DECLINE AND FALL OF
THE OLD REPUBLIC
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11371
I'll be watching it all from a respectful distance, far from the center
of the corruption, consoling myself with the thought that at least it
won't be boring.
Enviro Wacko
GORE URGES ‘CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE’
TO STOP COAL PLANTS
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/bush_does_a_911/
Mass Murdoch
PROFILE: RUPERT---A MAN UTTERLY WITHOUT CHARM
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/10/wolff200810?printable=true¤tPage=all
He’s without introspection and self-analysis and doesn’t like to talk
about the past. What’s more, he mumbles terribly (and with a heavy
Aussie accent) and seldom finishes a sentence.
Oh, by the
way. . .
PILOTS WHO SLEPT AT CONTROLS. .
.ALLOWED BACK TO WORK!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7635169.stm
MOST AMERICANS OPPOSE
MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0925/p02s01-usju.html
SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD IS BIG
BUSINESS IN INDIA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,580209,00.html
POISONED CHINESE MILK MAY REACH
MILLIONS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/tainted-milk-victims-millions-4634.html
QUEEN’S REQUEST FOR FUNDS TURNED DOWN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/3077512/Queen-asks-Parliament-for-millions-of-extra-funding.html
CHINESE ASTRONAUTS ALOFT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7634404.stm
Obit
SINGER CONNIE HAINES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/music/25haines.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
And in more
important matters. . .
Musique
SIR PAUL HIRES 5,000 GUARDS FOR
BIG $$ FOR ISRAEL CONCERT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3078864/Sir-Paul-McCartney-spends-1.5-million-on-security-for-Israel-concert.html
WATCH:
SIR PAUL GOES TO BETHLEHEM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7635169.stm
BEATLEMANIA, 40 YEARS LATE
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843945,00.html
KINKS REUNION HINGES ON
DAVE DAVIES
Ray’s brother is recovering from stroke, health problems
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/25/kinks.raydavies
WATCH:
REMEMBERING THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS DRUMMER, EARL PALMER
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/24/cls-late-nite-music-club-remembers-earl-palmer/
PICS OF THE DAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/3079316/Pictures-of-the-day-25-September-2008.html
RUSSIA BANS ‘SIMPSONS,’ ‘SOUTH PARK’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3074454/Russia-to-ban-Simpsons-and-South-Park.html
SPAGHETTI KING IS TUNISIAN!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,580450,00.html
Film
PLOT OF NEW ‘BOND’ REVEALED
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3078643/Quantum-of-Solace-Details-of-new-James-Bond-film-emerge.html
Books
THE MOST DARING STUNTS OF THE PAST
30 YEARS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/sep/24/photography?picture=337945156
HISTORICAL MORMON LIES, FIASCOS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091802463.html
Throughout Devil's Gate, Roberts shows great sympathy for the travelers
but none for those who set them in motion. He demonstrates that Young's
handcart scheme was based on a gross underestimate of the labor involved
in pushing carts 1,300 miles across plains and over mountains. The plan
was also poorly executed, with most of the carts hastily constructed of
green wood that warped and shattered on the road. Young's hurry to
populate Utah with Mormons prevented the laggards from stopping for the
winter and thereby condemned some 220 persons to death, mainly by
exposure.
And in the
end. . .
WATERFALLS
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=WATERFALLS&btnG=Search+Images
9/24
P.J. CORKERY, R.I.P.
P.J. Corkery, Rense at Washington Square Bar and Grill, 2006.
http://www.riprense.com/corkery.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/24/BA82133MP3.DTL&hw=obituaries&sn=002&sc=967
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Former_columnist_Corkery_dies_at_61.html
Interview
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5039509655991114701
And
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQCPifM-p8
9/23
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
Lesser
known Beatles
SOMETHING (demo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID-1IoLMoeM
BAD TO ME (demo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIzOjtET1f8
ONE AND ONE IS TWO (demo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFK-1E5-Esg
I'M IN LOVE (demo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6dIDNGuZaQ
THAT MEANS A LOT (outtake)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYlR2PpsjNo
I'LL BE ON MY WAY (BBC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwTZRe11svE
THE HONEYMOON SONG (BBC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnalvXhTHw8
THAT'LL BE THE DAY (1958!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMEAxyNXGRg
FIRST BBC RADIO APPEARANCE:
DREAM BABY/MEMPHIS/WONDERFUL PICTURE OF YOU (PETE BEST ON DRUMS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6fczKw0txg
MAN SLICED IN HALF, SURVIVES
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Miraculous_survival_of_man_sliced_in_half_by_train&in_article_id=321788&in_page_id=64
NEW HARRY POTTER FILM WILL
GET IMAX/3-D TREATMENT
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/09/22/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-gets-the-3d-imax-treatm/
DESIGNER VAGINA TREND “WORRYING”
The Rip Post staff has been up all night. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7629897.stm
LOOK VERY CAREFULLY AT THESE
BREASTS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Look_very_carefully_at_these_breasts...&in_article_id=321530&in_page_id=34
CARTOON: MCCAIN DIAGNOSIS
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/09/cartoon_dr_phils_diagnosis_of_mccains_health.html
And on to jolly
news and comment. . .
LINDORFF: JUST THINKING ALOUD
HERE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/210
Bush's Treasury Secretary,
former Goldman Sachs investment banker Hank Paulson, and Federal Reserve
Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke, are calling for a no-strings-attached
handout to rescue these screw-ups and con men which is in the range of
$700 billion to $1 trillion.Now I'm thinking about what that same
indescribably vast amount of federal money could do if it were applied
to more important things than rescuing a bunch of crooked banks.
CEO MURDERED BY MOB OF SACKED
WORKERS!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece
Golden
Fleece
THE GREATEST THEFT IN
HISTORY
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/99895/let%27s_stop_the_greatest_theft_in_the_history_of_humankind/
America will give between US$700-$800 billion to the Treasury to buy any
bank assets it wants, on any terms, with no possible legal recourse. It
is an invitation to abuse of power unparalleled in American history, in
which ill-paid civil servants will set prices on the portfolios of the
banking system with no oversight and no threat of legal penalty.
TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT THE ‘BAILOUT’
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/99876/10_things_you_should_know_about_bush%27s_trillion_dollar_fleecing_plan/
The bailout will happen simply to avoid that depression. But depressions
have some salutary effects - the scoundrels go belly up, the weakest get
purged, and in the wake of the disaster, people demand strict regulation
of the money lenders to keep their greed and predatory behavior in
check, and government spends money on the real economy to put people
back to work.
WHITNEY:
HAIL CAESAR! (Paulson) THE DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC ARE OVER
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20839.htm
LOBBYISTS RALLY TO STOP DODD’S
ALTERNATIVE BAILOUT PROPOSAL
http://thehill.com/business--lobby/lobbyists-seek-change-to-language-2008-09-22.html
The Proposal
http://banking.senate.gov/public/_files/SummaryDoddproposal92208.pdf
EVEN NUTTY NEWT IS
AGAINST THIS THING
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/14552
MCCAIN: I’M GLAD I DEREGULATED WALL STREET
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/21/mccain-deregulation/
MCCAIN HAS STRONG TIES TO
LOBBYISTS AT CENTER OF BAILOUT
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/mccain-campaign-lobbies-bailout/
EUROPE TO PAULSON: YOU’RE ON
YOUR OWN!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/23/europe-to-paulson-youre-on-your-own/
GERMANS REFUSE TO HELP
“The world shouldn’t have to bear the burden for America’s lapses.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,579880,00.html
GEORGE WILL REJECTS MCCAIN
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html
MALIKI: BUSH EXTENDED TROOP STAY TO HELP
MCCAIN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/23/maliki-bush-mccain-iraq/
Serrah
CRAZY BILL CLINTON PRAISES THE
PALINS!
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/the_palin_effect_bill_clinton.html
PALIN WILL COOPERATE WITH
‘TROOPERGATE’ INVESTIGATION---
PROVIDED IT IS RUN BY PEOPLE SHE CAN FIRE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/22/politics/p174621D92.DTL
PALIN HAS EXPERIENCE, ALL RIGHT---85 DAYS IN
HER STATE CAPITAL
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/23/palin-attendance/
TAKE A LOOK AT PALIN’S INSANE
‘CHURCH’
These “Christian” cretins are the USA’s Taliban
http://www.alternet.org/election08/98703/very_bizarre_%27holy_laughter_annointing%27_theology_at_sarah_palin%27s_juneau_church/
Mashed Media
LUDICROUS MCCAIN PUFF PIECE OF THE
WEEK
Yeah, the media are really out to get him. . .
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/23/america/mccain.php?pass=true
SEX AND PUSSY IN THE L.A. TIMES
The word “sex” appears almost daily on page one. . .See today’s pussy
picture
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/tale_of_two_news_websites.php
Electile
Dysfunction
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN WHINING ABOUT MEAN OL’ MEDIA
AGAIN
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/23/europe-to-paulson-youre-on-your-own/
BUSH INSIDER CALLS OBAMA
“UPPITY”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/21/mccain-deregulation/
BIDEN ON MCCAIN COMPUTER
ILLITERACY AD
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Biden_Ad_mocking_McCain_computer_illiteracy_0923.html
VOTERS (BARELY) BLAMING
REPUGNICANS FOR FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Meltdown_Voters_blaming_GOP_for_financial_0922.html
Lost Angeles
L.A. CITY COUNCIL CLOSES
STREETS OUTSIDE SCIENTOLOGY HQ---EVERY WEEKEND
http://laist.com/2008/09/22/nonscientologists_live_on_l_ron_hub.php
Oh, by the
way. . .
THE HEDONIST MUSLIMS OF DUBAI
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/22/mideast/dubai.php
NEANDERTHALS ENJOYED SEAFOOD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/22/neanderthals.diet
And in more
important matters. . .
Animals in
the news!
HOW ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM
SAVED GORGEOUS CHINA MONKEY
Baby white-headed langur
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/23/healthscience/23monk.php
CHEAP GOSSIP: CLOONEY
RETURNING TO ER?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7630881.stm
Musique
HOW THE
CLASSICAL CONCERT TOOK SHAPE
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/09/08/080908crmu_music_ross?currentPage=all
Public concerts didn’t become widespread until after 1800, and well into
the nineteenth century they took the form of “miscellanies”—eclectic
affairs at which all kinds of music were played before audiences that
seldom sat still or quieted down.
Health
DON’T LAUGH AT THESE OLD WIVES
TALES
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/health/old-wives-tales-4581.html
Light
Reading
HE HATES PERFUME
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/he-hates-perfume
Where ya
goin’?
POST HASTE TO CAPE WRATH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/sep/23/scotland.green
Books
REVIEW OF NEW PHILIP ROTH NOVEL
---DONE AS SATIRE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/23/fiction
And in the
end. . .
AUTUMN
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=AUTUMN
9/22
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
Lesser
known Beatles
BECAUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9W-yAorrps
STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5me-9eZxDQ
AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4opGA4o8ag
12-BAR ORIGINAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKw8RpvxmVA
DREAM BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6fczKw0txg
I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND CRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBwkYlcT6eQ
SO HOW COME NO ONE WANTS ME?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8dXJREM450
LET IT BE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQtr4E5DwE
YESTERDAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdCjaiXmUb0
ZAPPA’S “JOE’S GARAGE” TO GET PREMIERE---29
YEARS LATE
http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-18/stage/racy-against-time/
DOWNLOAD MOORE’S “SLACKER” FEATURE
FILM---FREE
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=234
RUBBER DUCKS FIGHT GLOBAL
WARMING!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3044739/Rubber-ducks-help-scientists-understand-global-warming.html
HALLUCINOGENIC CHOCOLATES DOOM
BERLIN SWEET SHOP
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/life/chocolates-drugs-berlin-4224.html
LEDERHOSEN SCANDAL!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,579729,00.html
GATEMOUTH BROWN’S GRAVE WASHED
AWAY BY IKE
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/09/even_dead_seemed_to_try_to_fle.php
PROSECUTE BUSH FOR MURDER
http://www.prosecutegeorgebush.com/
And on to jolly
news and comment. . .
LINDORFF: THE BAILOUT WILL KILL THE DOLLAR
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/209
But besides the direct bill handed to taxpayers for this gigantic con,
there is the fact that adding that much to the national debt is also
going to drive the dollar down precipitously against foreign currencies.
We’re already seeing that happen, even while they’re just talking about
the bailout. The dollar is falling against all major currencies—the
Euro, the Yen, the Renminbi and the British pound. And it will continue
to fall as the details of the bailout come out.
THIS YEAR’S WALL STREET
BONUSES: $39 BILLION!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/39-billion-the-wall-street-bonuses-for-the-big-five-investment-banks-last-year/
Those 2007 bonuses were paid even though the shareholders in those firms
last year collectively lost about $74 billion in stock declines — their
worst year since 2002.
FLASH! JOHN MCCAIN SAYS ECONOMY
IN CRISIS!
Tomorrow he will reveal that we are now in the 21st century
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/22/politics/p044157D35.DTL&tsp=1
MCCAIN: DEREGULATION WAS GOOD
FOR THE ECONOMY!
Ridin’ the trail to who-knows-where. . .
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/22/john-mccain-has-no-regrets-being-mr-deregulator-on-wall-street-no-i-think-the-deregulation-was-probably-helpful-to-the-growth-of-our-economy/
MCAIN FAMILY’S THIRTEEN CARS
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/McCain_ridiculed_over_13_car_fleet_09212008.html
Who are the
brain police?
ARMY MIND CONTROL PROJECT
FUNDED
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1841108,00.html
The U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing
"thought helmets" that would harness silent brain waves for secure
communication among troops. Ultimately, the Army hopes the project will
"lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone."
SENATE CANDIDATE FRANKEN WORKED ON SNL
MCCAIN SPOOF
http://www.time-blog.com/tuned_in/2008/09/lets_be_franken_did_snl_cross.html
CNN FINALLY PICKS UP STORY---
PALIN MADE RAPE VICTIMS PAY FOR THEIR EXAMS
This was all over the web at least a week ago. . .
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/21/palin.rape.exams/index.html
ENGLAND FEARS COMING DEPRESSION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/22/bankofenglandgovernor.economics
Comment
THE UNITED
STATES OF FRANCE
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1843168,00.html
This is the state of our great republic: We've nationalized the
financial system, taking control from Wall Street bankers we no longer
trust. We're about to quasi-nationalize the Detroit auto companies via
massive loans because they're a source of American pride, and too many
jobs — and votes — are at stake. Our Social Security system is going
broke as we head for a future where too many retirees will be supported
by too few workers. How long before we have national healthcare? Put it
all together, and the America that emerges is a cartoonish version of
the country most despised by red-meat red-state patriots: France. Only
with worse food.
WALL STREET IS
COLLAPSING BECAUSE IT DESERVES TO!
http://www.counterpunch.org/martens09202008.html
A Wall Street broker receives remuneration that rises from approximately
30 to 50 per cent of the gross commission based on their cumulative
trading commissions with zero regard to how well the clients’ accounts
have done. There is no acknowledged internal mechanism in any of the
major Wall Street firms to gauge the overall success of the accounts the
broker is managing.
Electile
Dysfunction
WATCH: MCCAIN LEAVES GM PLANT TO CHANTS OF “OBAMA 08!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_WqNmD8TE0
OBAMA: MCCAIN TURNED ‘BLIND EYE’ TO WALL
STREET
This guy couldn’t make a hard-hitting statement to save his life. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_McCain_wants_to_deregulate_healthcare_0921.html
McPalin
SARAH PALIN,
TOKEN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/21/INAI130HCV.DTL
One of the reasons why "Troopergate" is so compelling to the public is
because the details - Palin dismissing the state public safety
commissioner because he would not fire a man she believed had wronged
her sister - paint that stereotypical portrait of a woman so in thrall
to her emotions that she cannot govern effectively. If one of the ideas
behind feminism is that women should be able to compete based on their
abilities, then Palin's record here is not convincing.
SERRAH SEZ: BAD BARACK IS A
NAUGHTY ECONOMICS BOY
Palin criticizing Obama is like Madonna reviewing a symphony
orchestra concert
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/palin-says-obam.html
SICKENING MCCAIN PUFF PIECE
OF THE WEEK
Yessir, vote for this unscrupulous nut simply because he was a POW
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/21/MNOT12K0TR.DTL
Jesus H.
Christ!
HOW JESUS NUTCASE PALIN WILL RAPE
THE ENVIRONMENT
http://www.alternet.org/election08/99714/sara_palin%27s_creationism_will_rape_the_environment/
A pro-Creationist stand is no sideline issue, but the litmus test that
reveals whether a politician shares the religious right's ideology -- a
literal interpretation of the Bible, a disparaging attitude towards
science, belief in mankind's unfettered dominion over the natural world,
and a willingness to impose its religious doctrines on others.
Unreal
Estate
FORECLOSURE CROOKS
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/09/post.html
There’s a simple fee-based racket, in which the criminal offers to help
the homeowner stave off foreclosure, collects an up-front fee and then
disappears. But the more lucrative scheme involves seducing homeowners
into complicated transactions that allow the middlemen to steal equity
in the house or walk away from the closing table after netting thousands
in phony payouts.
Enviro Wacko
VALIANT TREE-SITTERS NOW FACING
HUGE FINES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/22/BAUB131HLG.DTL&tsp=1
People’s
Repugnic
MILK DOES 53,000 CHINESE BODIES
NO GOOD
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/China_toxic_milk_sickens_53000_as_0922.html
CHINA PRODUCT QUALITY CHIEF RESIGNS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7629130.stm
Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA WANTS TO
REACTIVATE NUKE PROGRAM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7628955.stm
ASO IS NEW PM OF JAPAN
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/taro-aso-pm-4553.html
And in more
important matters. . .
Animals in
the news!
PETERSEN’S FIELD GUIDE
TO BIRDS---A GUIDING LIGHT
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article08210801.aspx
If, for example, one tried to identify a fall warbler, he would have to
distinguish between Pine, Blackpoll, Magnolia, Yellow, Blackburnian,
Palm, Hooded, Protonotary, Mourning, Black-Throated Green,
Black-Throated Blue, Chestnut-Sided, Bay-Breasted, Orange-Crowned,
Yellow-Rumped, Prairie, Northern Parula, Canada, Tennessee, Connecticut,
Nashville, and Cape May warblers, not to mention the Ruby-Crowned
Kinglet (which isn’t actually a warbler but looks exactly like one), all
presented on just two pages of Peterson.
CHEAP GOSSIP: CREEP SHARON
STONE REDUCES PRICE OF HOUSE---TO $10 MILLION
But she’s such a talent, she must deserve all that money!
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/05/celebrity_real_22.php
Light
Reading
IS STUPID MAKING US GOOGLE?
By James Bowman
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/is-stupid-making-us-google
Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind
would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and
I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely
the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two
or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for
something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain
back to the text.
WAS STONEHENGE AN ANCIENT HEALING CENTER?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3050855/Stonehenge-may-have-been-an-ancient-Lourdes-where-the-sick-went-to-be-healed.html
For Art’s
Sake
CARTOONIST FORCED OUT OF CHINA
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/award-winning-cartoon-artist-forced-out-of-china-4467.html
“We base our cartoons on traditional Chinese culture, including
Confucianism and the five Chinese virtues of kindness, loyalty,
etiquette, wisdom and trust.” said Wang.
AN INKY,
WELL-PANELED PLACE
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/guttenplan/single
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Unbidden by my parents I'd
hurry up the stairs to my room, turn out the light, burrow beneath the
covers, reach under the bed for the flashlight and then, safe where I'd
left it the night before, the latest issue of Superman or Batman. Proust
can keep his madeleines. For me, nothing brings back that childhood
sensation of safety, or the inky smell of clandestine pleasure, quite
like Batman No. 166, "Two-Way Deathtrap!" in which the caped crime
fighter, confiding the details of a nightmare to Robin, is overheard by
a villain who proceeds to turn Batman's fevered dream into deadly
reality.
Musique
LINDA RONSTADT AT 62
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/arts/music/21brow.html
DOWNLOAD NEW DYLAN TUNE---FREE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/competition/2008/sep/22/bob.dylan.download.mississippi
Obits
EARL PALMER, DRUMMER
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/music/22palmer.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
JOHN PERGALLO, ORGAN TUNER
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/music/22peragallo.html?ref=obituaries
And in the
end. . .
BIG ROCK
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Diamond_this_big_could_be_mans_best_friend_too&in_article_id=318455&in_page_id=34
9/19
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
Lesser
known Beatles
IN SPITE OF ALL THE DANGER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekMndfy5L4A
LONG AND WINDING ROAD
The way it should have been originally released
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O725bNgOfWo
OCTOPUS'S GARDEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1t8MjjO0cE
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok4qFt7Ndps
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS (with George Martin orchestration.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm24oXp_L_g
GROW OLD WITH ME (with George Martin orchestration.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1NZg2GJI5Y
YOU'LL KNOW WHAT TO DO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmJq9wFeRBU
PARIS HILTON’S DOGS EATEN
BY COYOTES
Close, but no cigar. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Paris_distraught_as_dogs_eaten&in_article_id=317320&in_page_id=7
BLIND MASSEURS JUMP OFF BRIDGE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Blind_masseurs_hurl_themselves_off_bridge&in_article_id=317319&in_page_id=64
ATLANTA PROTEST FOR DEATH ROW
INMATE TROY DAVIS
Seven witnesses have recanted, no fingerprints, no weapon. . .
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/09/19/davis_execution_protest.html
STOP THE EXECUTION
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&template=x.ascx&action=11223
WATCH OUT, DEFENSELESS
DEER---HUMAN MONSTERS ARE GUNNING FOR YOU
Check out this horrid, vile “Outdoors” column---by a reeeeel maaaan
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/18/SPNQ12UHM6.DTL
NOW IT’S POISONED CHINESE YOGURT, ICE CREAM.
. .
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/china-health-scandal-spreads-ice-cream-yoghurt-4394.html
MORFORD:
ONCE PRO-OBAMA, NOW SWOON FOR MCPALIN? WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/19/notes091908.DTL
And on to
horrifying news and comment. . .
TENT CITIES SPRING UP ACROSS
AMERICA
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5htD-5rvP6yK7RZ008IAiqfAI5ZGgD9398LEG0
GOV’T. BAILOUT COULD COST A
$TRILLION---
UM, AREN’T WE ALREADY IN DEBT A $TRILLION OVER THE ‘WAR ON TERROR?’
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Vote2008/story?id=5839134&page=1
WHY CHINA WON’T COME TO THE
RESCUE
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1842754,00.html
LINDORFF: HANG ON TO YOUR WALLET
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/208
The real answer to this crisis is, firstly, a massive dose of
trust-busting, so that no bank or investment bank or insurance company
is so big that its failure becomes a threat to the financial system, and
thus the government has to rescue it with taxpayer money, and secondly,
a return to the era of Glass-Steagall, when it was illegal for banks to
also be in the investment banking busiiness.
SCHANBERG: MCCAIN AND THE POW COVER-UP
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg
Smearing Sarah!
TODD PALIN’S BRO IN DRUNKEN
HIT-AND-RUN
Fine family
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sarah_palin_scandals_call_of_the_wild_/celebrity/65443
MUST
WATCH: MCCAIN TRIES TO COVER PALIN’S FOREIGN POLICY ASS
This is pathetic
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Nu7Kjk_0Q
WATCH:
OLBERMANN ON
PALIN’S FOX INTERVIEW (A HOWL)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#26782223
SORRY, SARAH---RUSSIA: NO WAR
WITH U.S.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Russian_minister_says_war_with_the__09192008.html
 A couple of signs from the largest protest in Alaska history---all for Sarah! |
 Ewwwww. |
 In Alaska, a couple thousand people at a protest is huge. |
McPalin
HUH? PALIN WATCHED TINA FEY---WITH
SOUND OFF?
And Clinton didn’t inhale. . .proof that Palin is a humorless bitch
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/sarah-palin-lau.html
PALIN SAYS ‘PALIN-MCCAIN
ADMINISTRATION’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_promotes_Palin_and_McCain_administration_0918.html
MCCAIN RIDES ON PALIN’S COATTAILS
She's the draw. . .
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008189721_appalinscoattails.html
PALIN DODGES ‘BRIDGE’
QUESTION
blabber blabber blabber blabber
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/18/palin-misrepresents/
PALIN’S ASSHOLE HUSBAND REFUSES TO
TESTIFY IN ‘TROOPERGATE’ (NATURALLY)
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11309
PALIN REFUSES TO SAY SHE WOULD BE
PART OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/19/palin-executive-branch/
MICHELLE OBAMA: ‘DON’T’ VOTE BECAUSE SHE’S
CUTE’
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/09/19/michell_obama_palin.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab&imw=Y
McFuzzy
NOW MCCAIN CALLS
FOR “FEC” CHAIRMAN TO RESIGN
That’s “SEC,” McFuzzy. . .time for you to resign
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/19/mccain-sec-fec/
LISTEN:
THE MCFUZZY/SPAIN INTERVIEW
This guy is exhausted, spaced-out, confused---at best.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080918_mccain_spain_explain/
MCCAIN DIDN’T MEAN TO
REJECT ZAPATERO---
JUST GOT CONFUSED IN THE INTERVIEW
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9787_mccain_spain_continued.html
MEMO TO MCCAIN: SPAIN IS STILL
AN ALLY
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/18/sheldon-alberts-there-ll-be-no-welcome-mat-at-mccain-white-house-for-spanish-leader.aspx
MCCAIN PLAYS THE RACE CARD
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/mccain_plays_the_race_card.html
2200 DOCTORS: MCCAIN MUST RELEASE MEDICAL
RECORDS
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/99336/over_2%2C200_doctors_agree%3A_john_mccain_should_release_his_medical_records/
THOMPSON:
HOW TO BUY A
SENATOR OR A PRESIDENT
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11290
I could, and did, spend millions on "independent expenditure" campaigns
to help put friends of the industry into office. My five years with the
Realtors taught me a lot about the relationship between money and power.
I could pick up the phone and be put through to any member of Congress.
I was invited to private political briefings at the campaign committees
of both parties and to private receptions at the White House. For a
while, I reveled in the power and loved the attention. The New York
Times ran a front page feature about the Realtors' clout along with a
photo of me with a $50 haircut, $300 shirt, $200 suspenders and sitting
in my office surrounded by television monitors that kept track of both
C-Span channels and the news.
Jesus H.
Christ!
CHRISTIAN TALIBAN:
MAG WITH WOMEN PASTORS PULLED FROM ‘CHRISTIAN’ BOOKSTORES
http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/stories/2008/09/18/gospel_magazine_pulled.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab&imw=Y
Mashed Media
MUST
WATCH: RFK JR. ON “NEGLIGENT, INDOLENT” PRESS
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/326.html
AP REPORTER BEATEN BY COPS IN VIETNAM
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003852545
(Lack of)
Health
PINE BARK EXTRACT---FOR YOUR KNEES
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/china-health-scandal-spreads-ice-cream-yoghurt-4394.html
Obit
PIANO MAKER HENRY Z. STEINWAY
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/music/19steinway.html?ref=obituaries
CHOCOLATE MAKER ROBERT STEINBERG
(Thank you.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/business/19steinberg.html?ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
Musique
BRIAN WILSON SINGS FOR YOU---IN
A TAXI
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/19/popandrock
HIS MUSIC IS
RUBBISH
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Artist_whose_music_is_a_load_of_scrap&in_article_id=314996&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
Lost Angeles
CRAZY SF MAN LIKES L.A.
http://thaumaturgicramblings.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-love-la.html
KEN BURNS
TURNS HIS LENS ON NATIONAL PARKS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/14/TROO12QPP6.DTL
Film
BEN STILLER: I’M NOT FUNNY
Got that right, Ben! And you’re not a male dramatic lead, either!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/19/benstiller.comedy
REVIEW:
THE DUCHESS
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1842597,00.html
And in the
end. . .
BRIT PM’S WIFE GETS AN EYEFUL
Tch tch, Mrs. Brown
http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/article.html?Mrs_Brown_gets_an_eyful&in_article_id=315517&in_page_id=194
9/18
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
NORMAN WHITFIELD
TRIBUTE
WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg
BALL OF CONFUSION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZWYmxr8XE
AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qUZHIpJAw
AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG (STONES, WINEHOUSE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zPJVj-0lnQ
PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwUS9yjFYy8
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (GAYE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (CREEDENCE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZe9OtFNt_8
PSYCHEDELIC SHACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AojAB8Sl10
CAR WASH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvAhDDqqHls
Flying pig edition!
GREAT SONGWRITER NORMAN
WHITFIELD DIES
Wrote, produced all the great stuff by the Temps, Pips, Marvin
Gaye---also Edwin Starr’s “War”
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-whitfield18-2008sep18,0,7855302.story
SACCHARINE, SICKENING OBAMA
VIDEO: “AN AMERICAN PRAYER”
As if Obama is some kind of magic savior. . .Enough with the precious
Hollywood crap. . .
http://www.myamericanprayer.com/
INSANE, HATE-FUELED ANTI-OBAMA
SCREED OF THE DAY
http://www.scoopthis.org/2008/09/obama-stop-listening-to-conservative-talk-radio/
MICROSOFT DUMPS SEINFELD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/18/microsoft.advertising
WATCH:
NEW JAMES BOND TRAILER
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4723466.ece
REQUIEM FOR A BELOVED KITTY
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Shrine_for_a_cat_that_sat_on_every_mat&in_article_id=313234&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
And on to news
and comment. . .
THE MCCAIN IN SPAIN STAYS
MAINLY IN THE BLAME
Old Fuzzy apparently confuses Spain and Venezuela. . .
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1842156,00.html?imw=Y
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/18/mccain_slights_spanish_prime_m.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/18/mccain-spain/
PALIN DODGES SOFTBALL QUESTION
ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/18/epic-fail-palin-cant-answer-softball-question-about-national-security-experience-at-first-town-hall-meeting/
HAGEL REJECTS PALIN OUT-OF-HAND
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/18/hagel-on-palin/
“I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense
about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know
something about Russia,’” he said. “That kind of thing is insulting to
the American people.”
ALASKA RADIO HOST SUSPENDED FOR GIVING
PHONE NUMBERS OF ANTI-PALIN PROTESTERS
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/527013.html
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003850157
Anchorage AM radio host Eddie Burke was suspended after broadcasting the
names and phone numbers of organizers for “the Alaska Women Reject Palin,”
rally, which drew 1500 people on Saturday. Burke called the
organizers of the rally “socialist, baby-killing maggots” reported
Julia O’Malley of the Alaska Politics blog of the Anchorage Daily News.
WHY WAS HUGE ANTI-PALIN ALASKA
PROTEST
LARGELY OVERLOOKED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/13/in_anrchorage_an_anti-palin_pr.html
PROTEST A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME?
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9342
Organized by a local group known as "Alaska Women Reject Palin," the
demonstration drew a crowd of around 1,500 - quite large for the
sparsely-populated state, and in spite of attempts by local
right-wingers to intimidate the organizers and preempt the event.
LIMBAUGH CALLS MEXICANS
“STUPID,”
THEN SAYS OBAMA IS RACE-BAITING
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Limbaugh_hitting_back_over_usage_in_ad_says_Obama_stoking_racism.html
All-Melty
Dollar
PALIN BLAMES FANNIE/FREDDIE
LOBBYISTS FOR BAILOUT---
WHAT, LIKE HER CAMPAIGN MANAGER?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/palin-blames-davis/
While Palin blames the need for the Fannie-Freddie bailout on the two
firms’ lobbyists, she seems more than willing to take those same
lobbyists’ money. In fact, at least 20 McCain-Palin fundraisers “have
lobbied on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac” in recent years.
MCCAIN BACKED BY 83 WALL STREET CROOKS---ER,
LOBBYISTS
Attacks Wall Street “greed,” while hordes of lobbyists fill his
campaign
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_team_includes_83_Wall_Street_0917.html
The List:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9753_mccain_campaign_lobbyists_wall_street_aig.html
GOLD SKYROCKETS
http://www.minyanville.com/articles/gold-ABX-NEM-treasury-GG-repos/index/a/19023
McPalin
MORE ON PALIN E-MAIL HACKING
(Scroll down to 9/17 newslinks for earlier
coverage and nifty photo.)
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842097,00.html
NOW NBC FACT-CHECKS LYING SARAH
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/NBC_factchecks_Sarah_Palin_0917.html
SECRET SERVICE BARS PROTESTERS
FROM MCCAIN RALLY
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Secret_Service_orders_police_to_block_0917.html
Comment
WHY OBAMA ACTS
LIKE HE’S TEN POINTS UP IN THE POLLS
http://www.slate.com/id/2200301/
When this election is over, the Obama campaign's cool demeanor will
either be seen as its signature genius ("They kept their heads about
them") or its signature flaw ("They failed to respond to their
opponent's strategy"). We'll know in 48 days.
KLEIN:
MCCAIN AND THE LYING GAME
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842030,00.html
McCain's lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the
problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless
assault on his opponent's character and policies, featuring a
consistent—and witting—disdain for the truth. Even after 38 million
Americans heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National
Convention that he was open to offshore oil-drilling and building new
nuclear-power plants, McCain flatly said in his acceptance speech that
Obama opposed both. Normal political practice would be for McCain to
say, "Obama says he's 'open to' offshore drilling, but he's always
opposed it. How can we believe him?" This persistence in repeating
demonstrably false charges is something new in presidential politics.
ONLY A
ROOSEVELT-SCALE REACTION CAN PREVENT DEPRESSION II
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/99241/only_a_roosevelt-scale_counterrevolution_can_prevent_great_depression_ii/
The current carnage on Wall Street, with dire spillover effects on Main
Street, is the result of a failed ideology -- the idea that financial
markets could regulate themselves. Serial deregulation fed on itself.
Deliberate repeal of regulations became entangled with failure to carry
out laws still on the books. Corruption mingled with simple
incompetence. And though the ideology was largely Republican, it was
abetted by Wall Street Democrats.
JUST LIKE MCCAIN
SAYS---THE SYSTEM IS WORKING
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/091708Floyd.shtml
Despite all the disasters raging around us -- the wars, the atrocities,
the tyranny, the economic collapse -- the system is working. It's doing
exactly what it's supposed to do: serve the rich and powerful, and
entrench them in their rule. Just like John McCain says, the[ir] system
is fundamentally sound.
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA QUAKE DONATIONS LEFT
SITTING IN BANK
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/chinese-quake-donations-earthquake-nccc-china-4392.html
HUGO CHAVEZ’S RUSSIAN DALLIANCE
Those Russian bombers were escorted to Venezuela by U.S. jets
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122143547989234217.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
MONKS WITH GUNS IN BURMA
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0919/p01s01-wosc.html
Enviro Wacko
ARE WELL-INTENTIONED ‘GREEN’ HELPERS KEEPING
AFRICA POOR?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4699096.ece
(Lack of)
Health
PSD IN ICU SURVIVORS
http://www.slate.com/id/2200288/
And in more
important matters. . .
Lost Angeles
DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL:
TALENTED YOUNG PEOPLE CAN’T AFFORD TO LIVE IN L.A.
(Neither can untalented young people, or talented or untalented old
people, or. . .)
http://www.dailynews.com/editorial/ci_10481332
NEW CHINATOWN PARK CONSTRUCTION
UNEARTHS RAILROAD HISTORY
http://www.downtownnews.com/articles/2008/09/15/news/09-15-08-news04.txt
WHY VEGANS CAN’T DECIDE IF THEY SHOULD EAT
HONEY
http://www.slate.com/id/2196205/
MEET THE TOY MINI-SUB
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Mini-sub_to_make_waves_in_tourism&in_article_id=312970&in_page_id=2&in_a_source=
Musique
NEW MOZART PIECE FOUND
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_en_mu/eu_mozart_discovery
YOKO ONO COMMENTS ON THE
WHITE ALBUM
She was there, after all, and sang on the thing. . .
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=244465582&blogID=433726243
For Art’s
Sake
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY’S STARTLING
NEW CLOCK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/18/corpus.clock
And in the
end. . .
HAPPY 113TH, TOMOJI TANABE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Worlds_oldest_man_turns_113&in_article_id=314879&in_page_id=64
9/17
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
The great, great Tom Waits
NEVER LET GO (INSTRUMENTAL, GUITARIST UNKNOWN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfK0QirYx3Y
FISH AND BIRD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAmUpKzRrg
KENTUCKY AVENUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvZK8Wl7RQ8
KENTUCKY AVENUE (LIVE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOYcRXzs1Y
RUBY'S ARMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNzIWsSCuVI
TAKE IT WITH ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oGVDLcpXQ8
THE HOUSE WHERE NOBODY LIVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXTbCYVIl-0
GEORGIA LEE (No Waits video here, but this guy does a sincere job)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_eNCg4sio
A LITTLE RAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5QoMw9EGD4
SOLDIER'S THINGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwg3y_FnLmg
WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XewO1DB96To
NEVER LET GO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea8qsGDNZ6Q
Going around the Internet:
Make a donation to Planned Parenthood. In Sarah Palin’s name. And here’s
the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her name, they’ll send
her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor.
Here’s the link to the Planned Parenthood website: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
. You’ll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send the
“in Sarah Palin’s honor” card. I suggest you use the address for the
McCain campaign headquarters, which is: McCain for President 1235 S.
Clark Street 1st Floor Arlington , VA 22202"
QUOTATIOUS: "A radical Muslim cleric has threatened Paul McCartney
with death if he goes through with his scheduled performance at Israel's
60th birthday celebration on September 25. But McCartney is not backing
down. 'Hey, I was married to Heather Mills. You can't scare me.' "---Jay
Leno.
HILLARY ESCAPES JOINT-APPEARANCE WITH PALIN
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/16/clinton-blindsided-by-scheduled-event-with-palin/
LION FOUND IN IKE-RAVAGED TEXAS
CHURCH
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Lion_hides_from_Ike_but_tiger_runs_wild&in_article_id=312655&in_page_id=64
FIRST PHOTO OF A PLANET
FAR, FAR AWAY
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?First_picture_of_a_planet_far,_far_away&in_article_id=310699&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
SWISS RESTAURANT TO COOK WITH HUMAN MILK
Fresh-squeezed, right at your table?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2976181/Swiss-restaurant-to-serve-meals-cooked-with-human-breast-milk.html
ITALIAN MODEL TO SELL VIRGINITY
FOR A MILLION EUROS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2971511/Italian-model-plans-to-sell-virginity-for-1m-euros.html
CARTOONS:
WATCH: SEE JOHN AND SARAH RUN
http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1784553610
MCCAIN INVENTED THE WHAT?
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/09/cartoon_mccain_says_he_invented_the_telegraph.html
And on to
horrifying news and comment. . .
PALIN E-MAIL HACKED, LEAKED
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yahoo_inbox_2008
'OBAMA WAFFLES' DEPICT O-MAN AS
MUSLIM
"Gag" items sold at conservative political
forum
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/view.bg?articleid=1119011&srvc=home&position=rated
SARAH'S SECRET STYLE TEAM!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172008/gossip/pagesix/sarah_has_secret_style_team_129403.htm
For her big speech in St. Paul, where she accepted the GOP's
vice-presidential nod, this fashion-conscious team encouraged the Alaska
governor to splurge on a $2,500 jacket from Saks Fifth Avenue designed
by Valentino Garavani.
World gone
mad
UM. . .HOW DID 6,000 TONS OF
RADIOACTIVE KUWAIT SAND---
END UP IN IDAHO?
http://www.alternet.org/environment/98950/how_6%2C000_tons_of_radioactive_sand_from_kuwait_ended_up_in_idaho/
EH? ISLAMIC LAW IN BRITISH
COURTS?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4749183.ece
METROLINK ENGINEER WAS A MESS
Diabetic, depressed over suicide of HIV-positive partner, was busted
for shoplifting. . .Good that Metrolink hires only the best!
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/metrolink_engineer_never.php
U.S EMBASSY YEMEN DEATH TOLL:
16
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/world/middleeast/18yemen.html?ref=middleeast
MCCAIN HAS TWICE AS MUCH $$ AS
OBAMA
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080916/pl_bloomberg/aew0njobn54e
McPalin
HAPPY HALLOWEEN:
PALIN CREDITS WITCH-HUNTING PASTOR WITH HER SUCCESS
Oh yeah---let’s put this nut in the White House
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_credits_electoral_success_to_witchhunter_0917.html
MCCAIN: FROM “ECONOMY IS STRONG”
TO “TOTAL CRISIS” IN 36 HOURS
This guy is meowing without the cat
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/17/america/mccain.php
HAHAHA: JUST WHAT DID MCCAIN
MEAN BY “SPIC?”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/maddow-mccain%e2%80%99s-economic-gaffe-capped-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-on-the-campaign-trail/
MCCAIN’S BIG ENERGY PLAN:
TAXPAYERS COUGH UP $315 BILLION FOR 45 NUKE REACTORS
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aRkagygu04Ks&refer=us
AP COMMENTARY: MCCAIN IS “TWO-FACED”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Associated_Press_calls_McCain_twofaced_0917.html
REPUGS STILL FALSELY CLAIM
THAT ALASKA PRODUCES 20 PERCENT OF U.S. OIL
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/blunt-oil-palin/
MCCAIN ‘FURIOUS’ WITH EX-HP CREEP
FIORINA
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/blunt-oil-palin/
ALASKA PROF: PALIN COVERED UP
POLAR BEAR FINDINGS
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/17/sarah_palin_and_global_warming_alaska
All melty
dollar
FED BAILS OUT AIG
It won’t last
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/17/business/17insure.php
FOX: THE COLLAPSE OF CASINO CAPITALISM
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Broke-by-Michael-Fox-080917-937.html
Comment
ANOTHER
RIGHT-WING COLUMNIST TURNS AGAINST PALIN
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/16/opinion/edbrooks.php
David Brooks: “She has not been engaged in national issues, does not
have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she
seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and
excessive decisiveness.”
FOR PALIN, THIS
IS A (“CHRISTIAN”) MAN’S WORLD
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080915_for_palin_its_a_christian_mans_world/
The cult of masculinity is used to banish ambiguity, especially sexual
ambiguity. It fosters a world of binary opposites: God and man, the
saved and the unsaved, the church and the world, Christianity and
secular humanism, and male and female. All in life is rigidly defined.
Disorder and chaos are banished. Reality, when it is defined in these
absolutes, is predictable and understandable, something deeply
comforting to believers who have often had trouble coping with the
messiness of human existence.
JOHN DEAN
ANALYZES PALIN’S “QUALIFICATIONS”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080912_palin_falls_short_of_vp_standards/
WATCH: FRANK RICH---MCCAIN ‘TOO WEAK’ TO BE
PREZ
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Frank_Rich_McCain_too_weak_to_0916.html
Man O-Man
BOYARSKY: OBAMA’S SECRET WEAPON
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080916_boyarsky_obama_secret_weapon/?ln
While it’s fashionable for the media and some of his own supporters to
be mourning the demise of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, they may
well be overlooking an important point—that the vaunted McCain-Palin
ticket has peaked.
NEW OBAMA AD
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/16/new-powerful-obama-ad-on-mccain-fundamentally-strong/
People’s
Repugnic
HAHAHA: CHINA GOV’T. SAYS “MOST” POWDERED
MILK IS OKAY!
http://time-blog.com/china_blog/2008/09/tainted_milk_powder_scandal_sp.html
LINDORFF:
AMERICA AND CHINA
JOINED AT THE HIP
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/207
Fascism has perhaps been best defined as a system in which the
government and corporations merge, and in which militarism becomes a
dominant value. I have long argued that this is an apt description of
modern China. It is increasingly also an apt description of modern
America.
Mashed Media
LAT REPORTERS SUE EVIL OWNER
SAM ZELL
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/extimes_reporters_sue_zel.php
TOP 30 NEWS SITES FOR AUGUST
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003850210
Animals in
the news!
BONFIRE OF THE CROCODILES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/2975162/Crocodile-bonfire-in-South-Africa.html
CROWS SMARTER THAN APES?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/17/scicrows117.xml
THE CAT CAME BACK
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/life/lost-pet-4054.html
(Theme music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY7uSo9g-Cs )
Obit
R.I.P. LAPD OFFICER SPREE DESHA
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/officer_desha_funeral_wil.php
And in more
important matters. . .
MORFORD:
IN MEMORIAM---DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/17/notes091708.DTL
THE MOST ECO-FRIENDLY CUP OF COFFEE OUT
THERE
http://www.slate.com/id/2200158/
CHEAP
GOSSIP: STREISAND, POST-COLONOSCOPY
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172008/gossip/pagesix/barbra_at_her_woozy_best_129396.htm
Books
THE END OF BOOK
PUBLISHING
http://nymag.com/news/media/50279/
The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after.
With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors playing
musical chairs, and Amazon looming as the new boogeyman, publishing
might have to look for its future outside the corporate world.
NEW ‘HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE’ ON THE
WAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2971637/Sixth-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-be-published.html
For Art's
Sake
FORGET THE GUERILLA ART---
THE NEWS IS THAT THERE IS AN EMPTY LOT IN L.A.!
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/09/art_show_on_empty_lot_in_silver_lake_quickly_dismantled.php
Um. . .
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF WRINKLES
http://www.slate.com/id/2199856/
Related:
NEW TOM JONES ALBUM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7620450.stm
What Mom Taught Me About Pie Crust
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0917/p18s01-hfes.html
And in the
end. . .
SMILING RAINBOW
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?A_smile_in_the_sky_from_inverted_rainbow&in_article_id=311310&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
9/16
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
IT'S MONEY THAT I LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6KbRJoqrbo
MONEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOdtG0L9Alk
YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyMsoAIIByM
HALLELUJAH I'M A BUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDpsW1yL6kA
WE'RE IN THE MONEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xTTWHMCXdg
BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QACDHNb5iWs
DOWN AND OUT (Ringo and George)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n-kQQl8zEo
IS THIS THE NEW DR. WHO?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/sep/16/television1
OH, GOD---STREISAND SINGS FOR OBAMA
With friends like these. . .Bad move, Barry. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Streisand_sings_for_Obama_supper_09162008.html
PHOTO OF THE DAY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2969038/Worlds-smallest-man-meets-woman-with-worlds-longest-legs.html
HOW TO UPSTAGE CNN
(Anchor tries to brush this off as guys “consoling” one another over
financial loss!)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=adb_1221494431
R.I.P. ELMER DILLS
Restaurant critic was CIA man?
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=6393546
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE, WITH. . .
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/09/cartoon_the_sound_of_mooseshit.html
And on to
horrifying news and comment. . .
MCCAIN WILL USE FORECLOSURE
LISTS TO BLOCK VOTERS
http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4414/former-gop-operative-explains-why-republicans-will-use-foreclosure-lists-to-block-voters
GET A MATTRESS AND START
STUFFING IT WITH MONEY---
ENTIRE U.S. ECONOMY AT RISK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/16/MNPP12UENC.DTL&tsp=1
NOT TO MENTION THE REST OF THE
WORLD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/16/lehmanbrothers.marketturmoil3
‘WHO WOULD LEND AN AMERICAN BANK MONEY THESE
DAYS’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,578447,00.html
KRUGMAN: PHILL GRAMM ‘JUST
THE GUY’ TO LEAD COUNTRY INTO NEW DEPRESSION
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/krugman-on-gramm/
MCCAIN BLASTS WALL STREET
COLLAPSE---
DOESN'T SAY THAT HIS ADVISOR HELPED CAUSE IT
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9718_mccain_lehman_crisis_gramm.html
As Mother Jones reported in June, eight years ago, Gramm, then a
Republican senator chairing the Senate banking committee, slipped a
262-page bill into a gargantuan, must-pass spending measure. Gramm's
legislation, written with the help of financial industry lobbyists,
essentially removed newfangled financial products called swaps from any
regulation. Credit default swaps are basically insurance policies that
cover the losses on investments, and they have been at the heart of the
subprime meltdown because they have enabled large financial institutions
to turn risky loans into risky securities that could be packaged and
sold to other institutions.
MCCAIN, OBAMA LAMELY SAY SAME THING ABOUT $$
COLLAPSE
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11281
‘DILBERT’ SURVEY: PUBLIC
CHOOSES OBAMA ON ECONOMIC MATTERS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003850214
LINDORFF: BLUE CHIP
BLUES
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/206
The good news is that, if the US economy collapses, the Pashtun farmer
in northeastern Pakistan, the Iraqi shopkeeper in Fallujah, the Iranian
worker in Tehran, and the peasant in Venezuela, will no longer have to
worry about being bombed or having their children mowed down by a US
helicopter gunship. The US would no longer have the funds to pay for
such foreign wars.
GORE INVENTED INTERNET---
NOW MCCAIN INVENTED BLACKBERRY
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/16/the-inventor-of-the-blackberry/
Many choose Blackberries over
their spouses
http://wcbstv.com/technology/blackberry.pda.sheraton.2.818223.html
RIGHT-WING COLUMNIST CHANGES TUNE.
. .
“THE UGLY NEW MCCAIN”
(He’s just as ugly as he ever
was, you dope.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502406.html
The Straight Talk Express is now just a brand, an ad slogan like "Home
Cooking" or "We Will Not Be Undersold." Until then, it was possible for
McCain to say that he had not really known about the ads, that the
formulation "I approve this message" was just boilerplate. But he
didn't. "Actually, they are not lies," he said. Actually, they are.
MCCAIN STILL REPEATING THAT ‘BRIDGE TO
NOWHERE’ CRAP
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/mccain-bridge-lie-cnn/
PREZ PALIN?
ANIMALS BETTER RUN FOR THEIR LIVES
http://www.alternet.org/story/98918/sara_palin%27s_shocking_animal_cruelty/
Her record is so extreme that she has perhaps done more harm to animals
than any other current governor in the United States -- and that's a
difficult distinction to achieve among our 22 Republican and 28
Democratic chief executives. Voters of both political parties who care
about the humane treatment of animals must unite to make sure that the
nation's worst governor doesn't end up just a heartbeat away from the
nation's most important job.
SARAH STIFF-ARMS “TROOPERGATE” INVESTIGATORS
Decision was apparently McCain’s
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_wont_meet_with_Troopergate_investigator_0915.html
DAILY SHOW:
PALIN IS THE BUSH DOCTRINE
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/16/daily-show-sarah-palin-is-the-bush-doctrine/
Israelity
U.S. TO SELL 1000 NEW
“BUNKER-BUSTERS” TO ISRAEL
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020702.html
AUNG SOO KYI ACCEPTS FOOD RATIONS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/16/burma
People’s
Repugnic
POISONED MILK
COULD REACH OVER 30,000
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/sanlu-milk-victims-4294.html
(Lack of)
Health
EAT OUT OF CANS AND DOUBLE THE RISK OF HEART
DISEASE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/2969039/Chemical-in-food-tins-doubles-the-risk-of-heart-disease-and-diabetes.html
WORMS FIGHT ARTHRITIS!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/2968815/Scientists-use-worms-to-treat-arthritis.html
Jesus H.
Christ!
MAD SCIENTIST:
TEACH CREATIONISM
Hey, why not teach the theory that the universe is actually a large
rabbit, too?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4734767.ece?print=yes&randnum=1221539677440
Obits
PINK FLOYD KEYBOARDIST RICHARD WRIGHT
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/arts/music/16wright.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Lost Angeles
EARLIER METROLINK CRASH
SURVIVORS
WERE ON ILL-FATED TRAIN LAST WEEK
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/wow_3_earlier_metrolink_s.php
Enviro Wacko
WATCH: MASSIVE FLOODS, MUDSLIDES
IN TAIWAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7618946.stm
And in more
important matters. . .
CHEAP GOSSIP
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/17/arts/peepwed.php
Books
AGATHA CHRISTIE DICTATED HER
LIFE STORY
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/17/arts/christie.php
Musique
ALL THE HAPPY LITTLE
WAGNERS!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302310.html
A WRITER JOURNEYS INTO NORTH KOREA
WITH CHINESE TOURISTS
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/09/16/a-writer-journeys-into-north-korea-with-chinese-tourists/
Where ya
goin’?
VERMONT INN-TO-INN HIKING
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/12/TRSU124J5R.DTL
And in the
end. . .
NEITHER SNOW NOR SLEET NOR KITTY. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Introducing_Postman_Cat&in_article_id=308943&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
9/15
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Nga-tMVXk
BRANDED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV-7D4io1Rs
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQ_fa_yNh4
IT'S ABOUT TIME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G-TsdNWGg
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3w7w58CREY
QUICK DRAW MCGRAW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ6MzdEMIAc
TOP CAT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDLHWxc_Cjk
DOBIE GILLIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsfFf8KFELo
HAPPY 65TH, MICKEY HART
http://www.mickeyhart.net/home/
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEA BAGS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2008/sep/15/teabag
CHEF GORDON RAMSAY IS A
BRUTE BASTARD
Kills and eats a magnificent puffin for his TV show. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/15/channel4.television
WAX HITLER RETURNS TO
BERLIN---LOOKING MORE DISSHEVELED
Perhaps had a hard night with
wax Eva Braun
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,578241,00.html
IKE DESTROYS OIL PLATFORMS IN
GULF
Why, it must be God objecting to U.S. energy policy!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/14/hurricane-ike-destroys-oil-platforms-in-gulf-of-mexico/
METROLINK COVERS ITS ASS AFTER
CRASH
---SPOKESWOMAN RESIGNS
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/tyrrell_resigns_metrolink.php
WAS ENGINEER TEXT-MESSAGING
BEFORE CRASH?
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/engineer_texted_with_teen.php
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/12/national/a201133D68.DTL&tsp=1
THEROUX: ABOUT KILLING MOOSE. . .
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-theroux14-2008sep14,0,4501486.story
I have no strong views on hunting, only the usual disgust when I see a
creature senselessly slaughtered at no risk to the hunter. Thoreau
called the moose "a fabulous animal," and in a book Palin probably has
not read, he remarked on how moose sometimes weigh 1,000 pounds and how
they "can step over a five-foot gate in their ordinary walk."
And on to
horrifying news and comment. . .
BANKS COLLAPSE---
MCCAIN DECLARES ECONOMY ‘STRONG’
Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/15/as-wall-street-collapses-mccain-declares-that-the-funamentals-of-our-economy-are-strong/
All-Melty
Dollar
WATCH: ‘A VIRUS THROUGH THE U.S.
BANKING SYSTEM’
AID, WaMu next. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/video/2008/sep/15/lehman.brothers.larry.elliott
”People took the most amazingly stupid and greedy risks with other
people’s money.”
AND THE WALL STREET CAME A-TUMBLIN’
DOWN. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Lehman_bankruptcy_shakes_world_fina_09152008.html
COPS CORDON OFF BANK’S HQ
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7615931.stm
MELTDOWN MONDAY
”There has never been a weekend like it in my 25 years as a financial
journalist.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2008/09/meltdown_monday.html
GREENSPAN GLOOMY, HATES MCCAIN
‘TAX CUT’ PLAN
http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2008/09/indigenous-view-on-palins-alaska.html
Mashed Media
HOW PHOTOG DELIBERATELY SHOT
MCCAIN TO LOOK ‘EERIE’
Hell, that’s gilding the lily. . .
http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2008/09/indigenous-view-on-palins-alaska.html
PALIN: THE NEOCONS’ ‘BLANK
PAGE’
She’s the perfect new puppet---even better than Bush!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/15/the-palin-project/
A former Republican White House official, who now works at the American
Enterprise Institute, proudly declared Palin to be “a blank page. She’s
going places and it’s worth going there with her.” Asked if he sees her
as a “project”, the former official said: “Your word, not mine, but I
wouldn’t disagree with the sentiment.”
PALIN HIRED ALL HER LITTLE HIGH
SCHOOL FRIENDS
Lined Alaska government with unqualified idiots getting huge
salaries, harassed and fired people she didn’t like, threatened blogger,
etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=Palin&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of
Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister,
to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms.
Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for
running the roughly $2 million agency.
PALIN: THE EARMARK QUEEN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/14/mccaskill-palin-earmark-queen/
RAIMUNDO ON PALIN
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13457
From the neocons' perspective, she is indeed ready to become president,
should the need should arise, her very inexperience being her chief
qualification for the job. Here again, individual experience limns the
larger picture: just as her neocon handlers delight in writing on such a
blank slate as Sarah appears to be, so they imprinted their ideological
prescriptions on an intellectually bankrupt conservative movement, which
had long since lost touch with its traditional moorings.
A NATIVE ALASKAN’S VIEW OF PALIN
http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2008/09/indigenous-view-on-palins-alaska.html
WILLIE:
HOW DOES PRESIDENT PALIN
SOUND?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/14/BAU112SFSU.DTL
PALIN DID NOT VISIT IRAQ AS CLAIMED
(Maybe she saw it from Alaska)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/13/report_palin_did_not_visit_ira.html
ABC: PALIN LIED TO GIBSON
ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING POSITION
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ABC_Palin_lied_about_global_warming_0912.html
MCCAIN: I’VE NEVER
FLIP-FLOPPED
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/mccain-issues-a-challenge/
Man O-man
OBAMA ADS: MCCAIN “DISHONEST,
DISGRACEFUL, DISHONORABLE”
Rip Post Comment: This won’t cut it. Got to attack the Palin issue.
It’s the central issue in the campaign---choosing corrupt, ignorant,
unqualified, authoritarian extremist. Won’t get anywhere by slamming a
“war hero.” Time for speeches, not ads.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/In_harsh_new_ads_Obama_calls_0915.html
WITH INSANE CRAP LIKE THIS ON THE ‘NET,
WHAT CHANCE DOES OBAMA STAND?
http://www.rense.com/general83/bamm.htm
TEN CONSERVATIVE
(NEOCON) MYTHS ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY
http://www.alternet.org/audits/98766/debunked%3A_ten_conservative_myths_about_national_security/
2. We're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here.False.
The image here is that Iraq is some kind of roach hotel for global
terrorism. The truth is, it's become the international finishing school
where a new generation of terrorists is getting a front-line, real-time
education against the American war machine -- and perfecting low-tech
ways to close the gap against a high-tech army.
People’s
Repugnic
MILK---IT DOES A BODY DEAD, IN
CHINA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7616346.stm
GLOBAL SLAVERY AT ALL-TIME HIGH
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0916/p01s01-usgn.html
Some 27 million people labor as slaves – more than ever before – but
those on the front lines of the antislavery movement see signs that
human bondage is becoming increasingly unacceptable to the public and to
a growing number of governments and businesses.
PEACE CORPS CUTTING BACK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/15/MNE412TUQ7.DTL
Obit
GREEN PARTY LEADER PETER CAMEJO
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/us/15camejo.html?ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
Film
IN LIVING BLACK-AND-WHITE
Old classics retain a vitality and beauty that color can’t provide
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_urb-black_and_white_movies.html
TRIBUTES FOR ‘INFINITE
JEST’ AUTHOR WHO HANGED HIMSELF
Now there’s an ‘infinite jest’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7616405.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?ref=obituaries
JUDGE STOPS UNOFFICIAL POTTER BOOK
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/arts-entertainment/harry-potter-jkrowling-4204.html
A BIG HAND FOR THE SOUND OF
SILENCE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/14/do1409.xml
Applauding after each aria may not be the done thing, but it is not as
great a crime against music as applauding between the movements of a
symphony, as happened last year at a Proms performance of Mahler's
Ninth, a meditation on life and death which can only be appreciated
fully as a whole, as opposed to four parts broken up by applause.
Hey, Be-attle
CREEPO PHILIP NORMAN’S LENNON BIO
REPEATS SAME OLD SLEAZY CHARGES
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/912normanlennon.html
MCCARTNEY TO FOOLISHLY PLAY
ISRAEL, DESPITE TERROR THREATS
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/915mccartneythreat.html
THE WORLD’S MOST CREATIVE RESTAURANT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/15/foodanddrink.restaurants
Where ya
goin’?
WATCH:
IN SEARCH OF THE ANDEAN CONDOR
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2008/sep/11/condor.moment
And in the
end. . .
WITHOUT YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNQLmHKlmiE
9/12
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
WHAT ELSE? POLITICAL
SCIENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl5zf8_VmAo
SAVE THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9TLm9198E
lyrics:
http://www.lyricsdomain.com/7/george_harrison/save_the_world.html
MORNING DEW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9OYDSUTlsw
MORNING DEW PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlmuJAWVP0
PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbcc62ntXEg
lyrics:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/grateful+dead/morning+dew_20062480.html
A FEW WORDS FROM RANDY NEWMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OldToIF5ZGs
WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1HOBiMZ5LU
COUNTRY JOE CONCERT, INTERVIEW
At least scroll to the end to hear his WWIII comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE4zNcgSYw0
A LITTLE INSPIRATION TO VOTE FOR OBAMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li7vmcCzWks
AND FINALLY. . .
ASATO MAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih17Yb_9gmk
Om, Asato Ma Sad Gamaya
Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya
Mrityor Maamritam Gamaya
Lead us from unreal to real,
Lead us from darkness to light,
Lead us from the fear of death
To knowledge of immortality.
L.A. NEWS GIANT GEORGE PUTNAM
DIES AT 94
Say what you will about his politics, he was a hell of a nice guy,
and a gentleman. . .
The Rip Post spent a day with him long ago, for an article, an indelible
memory.
http://www.twincities.com/minnesota/ci_10451289?source=email
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-putnam13-2008sep13,0,6104237.story
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/george_putnam_tv_news_fig.php
PALIN TO STAR IN REMAKE OF THIS FILM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CdKuLRmg8k
PREVIEW OF NEW RIP POST MOVIE
ABOUT PALIN
We are working closely with Bollywood
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=uk&code=a27390c40ef68bd6c67143dcd9304cdd
WATCH:
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY---YOUR ANTIDEPRESSANT
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ea0b05d406
QUEEN RECEIVES 2000 PINTS OF LAGER
Who could blame her?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2801123/The-Queen-receives-2000-pints-of-lager-in-Windsor-Castle-mix-up.html
WATCH:
IS MCCAIN PALIN'S BITCH?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
MORFORD: HOW TO TELL IF YOU ARE AN ELITIST
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/12/notes091208.DTL
PALIN CAUGHT LYING TO ABC NEWS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ABC_Palin_lied_about_global_warming_0912.html
HERE IT IS, FOLKS---WASILLA
CITY HALL!
PALIN ILLEGALLY CAMPAIGNED FOR LT. GOV.
FROM HER WASILLA MAYOR'S E-MAIL
Just part of a pattern of abuse of power
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Did_Palin_illegally_campaign_from_Wasilla_0912.html
MCCAIN PARTIED WITH ITALIAN CON
MAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Photo_catches_McCain_meeting_with_indicted_0911.html
Follieri, who was arrested in April for allegedly passing a bad check,
has just pleaded guilty to eight counts of wire fraud and five counts of
money-laundering resulting from a scheme in which he obtained millions
of dollars in investments by claiming to have connections in the
Vatican.
And on to
terrifying news and comment. . .
IDIOT PALIN THREATENS WAR WITH
RUSSIA!
Can you imagine how this utterly
terrifies the world? How can Americans be this f----g stupid as to
support this pinhead? How?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/12/MNSA12SBUQ.DTL
HERE IS A PHOTO OF WHAT WAR WITH
RUSSIA WOULD LOOK LIKE
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d71/Preachhellsfire/Fiery.jpg
LOOK AT THIS SITE
Tries to persuade that nuclear war is inevitable---then tries to
persuade you to accept Jesus!
Palin is one of these goddamn assholes. . .get out and work for Obama
http://www.freewebs.com/jesusdisciple/totalannihilation.htm
HEY, SARAH! CHECK OUT THIS COOL WIKIPEDIA
ENTRY!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction
HAVE YOU NOTICED, SARAH?
THE CURRENT TIT-FOR-TAT THREAT EXCHANGE WITH RUSSIA?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/12/tit-for-tat-provocation-between-us-russia/
IDIOT PALIN DOESN’T KNOW WHAT
‘BUSH DOCTRINE’ IS
Yet mainstream media “analyzes”
her “performance” with Gibson---as if this is American Idol
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_tells_ABC_War_with_Russia_0911.html
NEWSPAPERS REACT TO PALIN
APPEARANCE
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/12/1382162.aspx
LINDORFF MUST-READ: EXPERIENCE IS OVERRATED
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/201
I, for instance, live very close to the garage where my mechanic works
(I mean, I drive past the place every day and even buy my gas there), so
I’m ready to be a car mechanic (I can’t tell you how many cars I’ve seen
being gone over there, and have even sometimes watched a bit as my own
vehicles were up on the lift). I also live literally across the street
from a large forest, which qualifies me to be a number of things—forest
ranger, lumberjack, and perhaps naturalist.
EBERT: AMERICAN IDOL CANDIDATE
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/1156080,091008ebertpalin.article
IDIOT PALIN LINKS IRAQ, 9/11!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_links_Iraq_911_0912.html
IDIOT PALIN CAUGHT IN FLAGRANT
LIE ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/gma-palin-climate/
EX-REPUG SENATOR: PALIN IS A
“COCKY WACKO”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Former_GOP_senator_calls_Palin_cocky_0911.html
Man O-man
WHAT THE HELL IS OBAMA DOING?
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/09/here-are-a-few.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_to_Letterman_Its_silly_season_0911.html
Dishonest
John
MCCAIN PICKS LOBBYIST, NIXON
VETERAN TO HEAD ‘TRANSITION TEAM’
Yeah, he’s a real maverick.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1840722,00.html
Mashed Media
PINHEAD COMMENTARY OF THE DAY: THE
OBAMA-PALIN DREAM TICKET
This mainstream doofus---on the editorial board of the San Diego
Union-Tribune---takes Palin seriously. Just like almost all the
mainstream media. The crazy woman has threatened Russia with war, doofus!
You’re another fine argument for Affirmative Action!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/11/navarrette.obamapalin/
MORE MAINSTREAM MEDIA CRAP
COVERAGE OF PALIN
This is unbelievable. . .all unbelievable. . .
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/12/sarah.palin.campaign/
UNBELIEVABLE IGNORAMUS CRUD THAT
PASSES FOR INTERNET COMMENTARY
No wonder this country is sooooooooo insane
http://www.rense.com/general83/palin.htm
MCCAIN AND
PALIN’S TOP 20 LIES, MYTHS, AND FLIP-FLOPS
Send to all Republican idiots you know---nah, never mind, they won’t
read it. . .
http://www.alternet.org/story/98502/mccain_and_palin's_top_20_lies,_myths_and_flip-flops_/
KRUGMAN: BLIZZARD OF LIES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a
campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics
class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?
What it says, I’d argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest
that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of
Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is
any indication, it would be much, much worse.
THOMPSON: PALIN---MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11250
Palin represents everything Republicans love: Creationism,
right-to-life, the charade of family values and repression of the
highest order. She's a woman who hunts, rides a Harley and takes no
prisoners. As my granddaddy used to say, she's "the kind of person who
will drink gasoline and piss on your campfire just to scare the hell out
of you."
Animals in
the news!
IN INSANE TEXAS, YOU CAN OWN A
PET TIGER
May they all rise up and eat their owners
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2835
The tiger smugglers hadn’t committed a state crime. You might think it’s
illegal to buy or sell an endangered tiger cub in Texas, but it isn’t.
For $500, you can buy an orange Bengal tiger and tie it up in your yard,
no questions asked (a white tiger will cost you $5,000). It’s all
perfectly legal in Texas. The exotic animal trade is a billion-dollar
industry. Texas—which has almost no regulation of exotic animals—has
always been a hotbed.
Oh, by the
way. . .
CRAZY ITALIANS THREATEN TO
JAIL COMEDIAN FOR SATIRIZING POPE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/12/italy.catholicism
And in more
important matters. . .
THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER---THE
PAPER OF RECORD?
http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3dd2eae0-d280-4993-abd4-d61795adf50f
Books
PHILIP NORMAN AUTHORS LENNON BIO
Bound to have a point of view. . .Norman took the ridiculous position
in his Beatles bio that Harrison was “the ultimate passenger”
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/912normanlennon.html
EBOOKS DON’T
FURNISH A ROOM
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/ebooks-dont-furnish-a-room-919089.html
The arguments for and against electronic books are perverse ones. Some
authors say they are in love with the gadget that freed them from
landslides of tattered review copies. Others miss that smell of
Cotswolds second-hand bookshops in the rain. Fans love that they can
carry dozens of books on holiday on one. Phobics are afraid of dropping
them in the sea. For critics, it's all about smell and touch and reading
in bed; the way we read books is an intimate part of our personalities,
it turns out. Nobody seems to feel neutrally about the e-book.
MCCARTNEY REFUSES TO CANCEL ISRAEL GIG
Could be big trouble, Paul
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2823405/Paul-McCartney-told-to-cancel-Israel-concert.html
Your
Corporatocracy at Work!
HEY, FORGET ABOUT PALIN’S THREAT
OF WAR WITH RUSSIA. . .HAVE A COKE. . .ENJOY THE HORRID NEW JAMES BOND
MUSIC. . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/11/advertising.thewhitestripes
TOP 20 MOVIE “TURN-ONS”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/poll/2008/sep/12/davidthomson.turnon
Unreal
Estate
JAMES MADISON’S HOME AT
MONTPELIER IS RESTORED
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/05/TRDM12MMIS.DTL
FOR SALE: SCOTTISH CASTLE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/2824804/For-sale-Most-northerly-castle-hotel-in-the-world-2.7m.html
Where ya
goin’?
SLIDE SHOW: BRITAIN’S NATIONAL
PARKS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/2777237/Scenes-from-Britains-National-Parks.html
And in the
end. . .
FLYING POSSUMS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Lame_pet?_Try_a_fling_with_this...&in_article_id=305839&in_page_id=34
9/11
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
THE BALLAD OF PANCHO LOPEZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwiLREY3wM
THE BALLAD OF DAVEY CROCKETT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mhWbU_6kFo
THE BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwRnOHsRS48
ANOTHER BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Qj24GdH44
YET ANOTHER BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4dVYk_MtDY
BALLAD OF A THIN MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYlhw3g4P8
THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4dVYk_MtDY
CHOPIN BALLADE # 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSROQ6FaDmE
Ballada o Łukaszu Podolskim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv-3UdG-Z4I
MCCAIN SPEECHWRITER TRIES TO
AVOID PROVOKING CREEPY SMILE
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/mccain_speechwriter_trying
WRONG WALL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/11/BAOD12S9S2.DTL&tsp=1
MM-MM! OFFAL!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2796484/Offal-makes-a-comeback-in-British-dining.html
CARTOONS:
PIGGIE PALIN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2008/sep/11/sara.palin.us.elections
DE-ELITIFICATION
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/
THE SEVEN PERCENT CANDIDATE
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/09/cartoon_seven_per_cent_candidate.html
TYPE IN ‘MCCAINFORPRESIDENT.COM’
AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS
http://mccainforpresident.com
And on to news
and comment. . .
America’s
Favorite Family!
PALIN’S SON A “HUGE STONER”
---COKE, OXYCONTIN, BOOZE, POT---
Snorted and injected oxycontin! Perfect
eye-RACK soldier material!
---AND BRISTOL WAS NO BETTER
She “messed around” with other guys. . .so who knows who the father
of her kid is. . .
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/_palin_family_shockers_what_sarahs_really_hiding/celebrity/65407
HUH? WHITE HOUSE SAYS OSAMA
DIDN’T DO IT!
http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/09/white-house-cla.html
BUSH: IRANIANS ARE ‘ASSHOLES’
Does his country proud, doesn’t he?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/11/bush-iran-assholes/
MCCAIN LIES ABOUT OBAMA AGAIN
http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/newsweek-mccain-lied-about-factcheckorg.html
McCain just put out an ad claiming that FactCheck.org called Obama's
attacks on Palin "completely false"..."misleading." Only problem?
FactCheck.org said that quote about someone else, not Obama.
MATT DAMON ON ‘PRESIDENT
PALIN’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Matt_Damon_terrified_by_possibility_of_0910.html
"The fact that we've gotten this far, and we're that close to this being
a reality, is crazy...I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were
here 4,000 years ago. That's an important--I want to to know that, I
really do, because she's going to have the nuclear codes."
PALIN SEES DUMB SON OFF TO DUMB WAR
Truck or Tram or Trip heads to eye-RACK
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gXry9qXnmIF4uACxB-MBEGqkbf3w
"I can't wait for you to meet John McCain. He's awesome!"
PALIN WAS URGED TO APOLOGIZE
OVER ‘TROOPERGATE’
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/11/1377812.aspx
WATCH:
WILL THE TRUTH CATCH UP WITH MCCAIN AND HIS BITCH?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/sep/10/johnmccain.sarahpalin2
BIDEN FLAPS HIS GUMS: HILLARY IS MORE
QUALIFIED THAN I AM
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Biden_Senator_Clinton_might_have_made_0910.html
Your
Corporatocracy at work!
SEX FOR OIL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001829_pf.html
Government officials in charge of collecting billions of dollars worth
of royalties from oil and gas companies accepted gifts, steered
contracts to favored clients and engaged in drug use and illicit sex
with employees of the energy firms, federal investigators reported
yesterday.
MORFORD: EVIL---IT’S THE NEW GOOD!
(Perfectly sums up the Republican/right-wing mentality)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/10/notes091008.DTL
There is, of course, no such thing as "clean coal." It's as impossible
as a humanitarian Republican, as insulting as Homeland Security. Even
Obama gets it wrong in his support of this lethal oxymoron. There are
only two options: Brutally pollutive coal extraction and burning
techniques, rapacious strip mining and millions of acres of destroyed
forest and contaminated water tables and toxified air and one of the
most environmentally destructive energy sources on the planet; or new
and slightly less horribly pollutive coal extraction/burn techniques
that attempt to rein in a few of the more toxic pollutants, but not
including carbon dioxide or, you know, cancer and death. That's about
it.
HIGHTOWER: PALIN’S FAKE POPULISM
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/98380/sarah_palin%27s_faux_populism/
Living in a small town and being able to field dress a moose does not
make Palin a populist, no matter how much pundits want to pretend it
does.
OLBERMANN: 9/11 IS A GOP BRAND-NAME NOW
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/10/special-comment-on-the-gops-trademarking-of-september-11/
All-Melty
Dollar
WHAT HAPPENS IF A MAJOR BANK
FAILS?
WaMu is in deep trouble
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/11/BU3E12RM49.DTL&tsp=1
Kim Nook Yoo
KIM HAD BRAIN SURGERY----
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1840419,00.html
---S. KOREA ON FULL ALERT
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/north-korea-kim-4068.html
RUSSIAN BOMBERS TO VENEZUELA
Heh heh
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/10/america/LA-Russia-Venezuela-Bombers.php
(Lack of)
Health
DUMBSHITS ALL OVER THE
WORLD TAKE ANTIBIOTICS FOR COLDS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/2777054/Using-antibiotics-for-colds-increases-superbug-resistance-says-HPA.html
Oh, by the
way. . .
LITTLE GIRL TO GET NEW HANDS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2779967/Two-year-old-girl-prepares-for-her-new-prosthetic-hands.html
WHOREHOUSES POPPING UP IN QUIET
SF NEIGHBORHOODS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/11/BAT212RL1S.DTL
And in more
important matters. . .
Books
THE NAZI NOVELIST YOU SHOULD
READ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/10/knut.hamsun.nazi
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE: LITERATURE’S
MADDEST SCIENTISTS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2008/sep/10/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.cern
Musique
BRYN TERFEL: NERVES,
CANCELLATIONS, RETIREMENT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/11/bmbryn111.xm
SAYING GOODBYE TO VERNON
HADLEY, BAX CHAMPION
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2008/sep/11/classicalmusicandopera
HAMBURG DEDICATES CITY SQUARE TO
THE BEATLES
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/11/news/Germany-Beatles.php
For Art’s
Sake
SLIDE
SHOW: SF WARFIELD THEATER REOPENS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=0&f=/c/a/2008/09/10/DDUN12Q9BQ.DTL
SLIDE SHOW:
AROUND THE WORLD PHOTO CONTEST
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hubs/thebigpicture/2776509/The-Big-Picture-competition-round-20.html
JAPAN CARTOON CHARACTER DRIVES UP
WINE SALES
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/2796701/Cartoon-character-from-Kami-no-Shizuku-drives-up-wine-sales-in-Japan.html
And in the
end. . .
JOHN MCCAIN'S PENIS!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Giant_ice_penis_-_is_climate_change_to_blame?&in_article_id=304450&in_page_id=2
9/10
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
DAILY CONCERT:
JOE AND EDDIE: MEETING
HERE TONIGHT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znj2aWAKLvw
WALKIN' DOWN THE LINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bIh6iWg59g
THAT'S THE WAY IT'S GONNA BE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Q2mv-A2ecz
FLO AND EDDIE: THE PENISMOBILE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd1FN_pbDsA
PENIS DIMENSION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaLgh7AwzZ
MYSTERY ROACH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TQeiJu4oa0
AND BEFORE THEY WERE FLO AND EDDIE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPGyzmgvk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY0weHalB7Y
FLO AND EDDIE EXPLAIN THE MUSIC BUSINESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBGV86Vz6E
WATCH: PALIN PREPS FOR CHARLIE GIBSON
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/sarah-palins-fi.html
HEATHER MILLS TO WRITE “NOVEL” ABOUT
MARRYING A ROCK STAR
Can you say, “transparent?”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1053593/Now-Heather-Mills-writes-novel-Surprise-surprise--model-weds-rock-star.html
Israelity
ISRAEL AIRPORT GUARDS MAKE
(BLACK) PERFORMER DANCE---
TO PROVE HIS IDENTITY
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/israel_airport_dance
ZETA-JONES TO STAR IN ‘DR. WHO’
MOVIE?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Doctor_Who_to_hit_the_big_screen&in_article_id=302413&in_page_id=7
OH, GOD---VENAL JACKASSES CASH IN
ON PALIN WITH ‘ACTION FIGURE’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/sep/10/sarahpalin.doll
And in more
important matters. . .
OBAMA STEPS IN IT---WITH DUMB
LIPSTICK COMMENT
REPUGNICANS CROWING
Sure looks like he was trying to play smartass on the video---even if
the remark was intended for McCain
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5769091&page=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utHZ7zYytLk
MCCAIN USED SAME EXPRESSION
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5p9M0NF_IHRYCt-emD7WWII2iOQ
ALASKA GUARD GENERAL
REVERSES CRITICISM OF PALIN---
GETS PROMOTED!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_promotes_general_after_he_changes_0909.html
EIGHT MORE PALIN DEBACLES!
http://www.alternet.org/election08/98228/8_more_stories_about_palin_the_public_needs_to_know/
MCCAIN CAMP: PALIN DID NOT TRY TO BAN BOOKS
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-09-Palin-book-ban_N.htm
BULLSHIT SHE DIDN'T!
Mary Ellen Emmons was Wasilla's librarian at the time. She told a local
newspaper, the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, in December 1996 that Palin
repeatedly had asked her about removing books from the library, but said
Palin never mentioned specific titles, according to the Anchorage Daily
News.Palin has cast her questions about the library's policy, including
at a 1996 City Council meeting, as theoretical. Her critics, including a
city resident who attended the meeting, say the questioning was more
direct. "There was no way that I thought it was rhetorical," said Anne
Kilkenny, who said she attended the meeting where Palin raised the issue
but says she did not remember Palin's exact words.
(DUMB) WHITE WOMEN DESERTING OBAMA---POLL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/10/women.uselections2008
GENTEEL OBAMA IS DRIVEN
“OFF-MESSAGE”
Does this guy know how to get tough in a campaign?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11222
On the other hand. . .
OBAMA IS SMEARED OVER “LIPSTICK ON
A PIG”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/10/drudge-smears-obama-and-misquotes-him-over-lipstick-and-pigs/
PALIN STILL SQUAWKING ABOUT “BRIDGE TO
NOWHERE”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/palin-bridge-27/
HINT FROM BIDEN: HE WILL NOT
“GET PERSONAL” WITH PALIN
No need to get personal---just call for her removal from the ticket.
. .
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/10/biden-semi-unplugged/
LINDORFF:
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN RELIES ON
LAZY THINKING, PREJUDICE
Fake Maureen Dowd column alleges Obama is funded by overseas Arabs
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/200
IF YOU SEE THIS COLUMN, IT’S A
FAKE
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/558/
CHOPRA:
OBAMA AND THE PALIN EFFECT
http://www.chopra.com/wordsfromdeepak
She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his
idealism and turning negativity into a cause for pride. In psychological
terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight,
countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are
ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and
suspicion of “the other.”
SCHEER:
HE’S CLUELESS, SHE’S WORSE
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080909_shes_clueless_hes_worse/
Ignorance is bliss, which perhaps explains Gov. Sarah Palin being so
confidently wrong about the root cause of the federalization of most of
the nation’s mortgage market. But what is Sen. John McCain’s excuse?
Both act as if the financial meltdown of the U.S. economy has nothing to
do with the policies of the political party they represent—but she at
least may not know any better.
MCCAIN’S DAUGHTER IS AS
CRAZY AS HER OLD MAN:
”NO ONE KNOWS WHAT WAR IS LIKE OTHER THAN MY FAMILY”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_daughter_No_one_knows_what_0909.html
NEW INTELL REPORT CONFIRMS:
U.S. HEADED FOR DECLINE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903302_pf.html
YES, KIM JONG ILL
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/north-korea-kim-jong-stroke-ill-4029.html
Little Joe
gotta go
LIEBERMAN MIGHT HAVE
SCREWED HIMSELF OUT OF SENATE CHAIR
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lieberman_increasingly_expecting_to_lose_Senate_0909.html
Mashed Media
O.C. REGISTER TO GO TABLOID?
Why not? It stinks, as it is. .
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003847825
LAT EDITOR SHOWS HE IS MAJOR LIGHTWEIGHT
He’s looking for “some really cool new ways of telling the stories” (Gawd.)
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/channel_5_moving_to_times.php
Enviro Wacko
GOOD NEWS---GREENPEACE
ACTIVISTS CLEARED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/10/activists.carbonemissions
Science
ABOUT THAT GIANT PARTICLE ACCELERATOR. . .
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,577219,00.html
(Lack of)
Health
ANY OLD TIT WILL DO---OR WILL IT?
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/when-i-minded-my-sisters-baby-and-my-n.htmls-baby-i-would-breastfeed-them-too-it-was-an-instinctive-thing-1472075.html
And in more
important matters. . .
INTERVIEW: THE GREAT ALBERT
MAYSLES
'The eye of a cameraman should be the eye of a poet'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/09/albert.maysles
HOLLYWOOD TAKING OVER BOLLYWOOD?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/10/bollywood.newscorporation
INTERVIEW: COUNTRY JOE
Haha---Joe is booked at an actual country music festival!
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1155864
Without prompting, McDonald revealed he was surprised he was first on
the bill of artists who are almost entirely country performers.
McD: I didn't know it was a country-western music festival here until I
got here. I think it's a mistake, maybe because my name's Country Joe.
But This is pure Glen Campbell, Travis Tritt, Clint Black ... I'm sure
I'm here by mistake.
SURVIVAL OF THE
WITTIEST
Self-deprecating humor is quickest way to a girl’s heart (except in
the USA)
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/relationships/survival-of-the-wittiest-1469753.html
R.I.P. CONDUCTOR VERNON HADLEY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7608956.stm
Where ya
goin’?
THE TORTOISE WATERS OF PARADISE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/sep/10/brazil.wildlifeholidays
And in the
end. . .
HUMMINGBIRDS
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=HUMMINGBIRDS&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.hummingbirds.net/
9/09
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
MORNING CONCERT:
HARDY SINGS:
THE IDEAL OF MY DREAMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMF7ZYyMH_Q
LAZY MOON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLMoGxLMolg
GO TO SLEEP MY BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HvqXICzEjY
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySumB_GjSUs
SONS OF THE DESERT/HONOLULU BABY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8O6TKMkMz
THE OLD SPINNING WHEEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Q1gxb-AjE
STAN AND OLLIE DANCE: AT THE BALL, THAT'S ALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iYk_KW4rUg
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ikiny_d5FY
STAN SINGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEXUhK6Gglo
BIRD SINGS LAUREL AND HARDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVFFl1U_WM
MAN GETS NUT STUCK AROUND
PENIS
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/09/01/man-gets-nut-stuck-around-penis/
WATCH:
MAVERICK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzkAZC40a_U
Quotatious: “A pit bull with lipstick? I'd describe Palin as a hog
who recommends diet books while feeding at the trough.”---Timothy Noah,
Slate.
EVOLUTIONISTS FLOCK TO DARWIN-SHAPED WALL
STAIN!
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin
MOOSE-KILLER PALIN'S SPEECH
WRITTEN BY VEGETARIAN
(Not to mention unprincipled hypocrite whore)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/blog-entry/
According to Time magazine, former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully, the
man behind Palin’s speech, is a vegetarian “known for his vigorous
defense of animal rights.” He is often at odds with the NRA and opposes
“more brutal versions” of hunting, such as gunning down wolves from
airplanes, a practice Palin supports.
YOUNG REPUGNICAN QUITS AFTER REMARK
ABOUT OBAMA'S LIPS
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_el_pr/college_republicans_obama
Adam LaDuca, 21, the former executive director of the Pennsylvania
Federation of College Republicans, wrote on his Facebook page in late
July that Obama has "a pair of lips so large he could float half of Cuba
to the shores of Miami (and probably would.)"
DUMBASS HILLARY SUPPORTERS:
BACK OFF PALIN CRITICISM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080909/pl_politico/20934
STREISAND TO SING AT OBAMA FUNDRAISER
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/streisand_to_play_for_oba.php#more
LINDORFF:
THIS COUNTRY IS NUTS!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/199 So this is what it
has come to in America. We're ready to put an refugee from the "Jerry
Springer" show a missed heartbeat away from the White House, and we keep
our mail and our aircraft industry safe from terrorists by returning
(through the mail, mind you!!) packages that are left in a mailbox if
they have postage stamps on them.
And on to news
and comment. . .
$50 GRAND TO POSE WITH SARAH
And she's not even naked!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-ap-palin-fundraiser,0,4237294.story
PALIN BILLED ALASKA FOR FAMILY
FUN
Why did state pay for her to spend the night in her own home?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_billed_state_for_Thanksgiving_day_0909.html
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her
own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem"
allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while
traveling on state business. Among these events included a college
basketball game -- and a sled race in which her husband competed. The
governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her
children on official out-of-town missions.And her husband, Todd, has
billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes
on official business for his wife."
FULL STORY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088_pf.html
PALIN
HIDING ‘FIRST DUDE’S’ CORRESPONDENCE
Todd Palin heavily involved in state trooper union feud
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Gov._Palin_hiding_husbands_correspondence_related_0908.html
FULL STORY---1100
MISSING E-MAILS
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9620_sarah_palin_secret_email.html
3 OF 4 PALIN FRIENDS WON'T
COMMIT TO VOTING FOR HER
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ABC_Three_of_four_Palin_friends_0909.html
EVEN THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL CALLS PALIN A LIAR
“Reformer” Palin has sought $750 million in earmarks in last two
years
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122090791901411709.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
CHOPRA:
OBAMA AND THE PALIN EFFECT
http://www.chopra.com/wordsfromdeepak
She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his
idealism and turning negativity into a cause for pride. In psychological
terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight,
countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are
ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and
suspicion of “the other.”
SARAH PALIN,
HYPOCRITE
http://www.slate.com/id/2199357/
When Palin was mayor of Wasilla, she hired the former chief of staff to
Sen. Ted Stevens, the recently indicted dean of the Alaska congressional
delegation, to lobby for the town (pop. 6,700)—which, as a result, wound
up receiving nearly $27 million in federal earmarks over four years. As
governor, Palin just this past February sent Stevens a memo outlining
$200 million in new funding requests. Granted, Palin enjoys inexplicably
warm relations with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, whose
founder's anti-Americanism, Rosa Brooks points out in the Los Angeles
Times, puts Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the shade.
PALIN'S 'ALASKANOMICS'---
SHE LEADS THE NATION IN LEECHING OFF OF WASHINGTON
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1839724,00.html
PALIN REFERRED TO OBAMA AS "SAMBO,"
CALLS ESKIMOS "ARCTIC ARABS"---CLAIMS
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-%20frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-%20mean%E2%80%9D/
WATCH
AND BE AMAZED: PALIN’S FRIGHTENING CHURCH
”It was so cool growin’ up in this church! Gettin’ saved here. .
.”---Sarah Palin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K_1Eit0pxM
LISTEN:
PALIN AND HER
CHURCH
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/9/sarah_palin_and_the_wasila_church
Palin’s comments have raised concerns she could see some government
actions as inevitable or pre-ordained as part of a theocratic belief in
“end times.”
ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS WANTS TO TALK TO PALIN
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003847225
THE EDITORIAL
http://www.adn.com/opinion/v-printer/story/520272.html
You present yourself as a Republican maverick who took on your own
party's corrupt political establishment. In November's election, your
party is running an indicted U.S. Senator, Ted Stevens, who is awaiting
trial on charges he accepted more than $250,000 of unreported gifts from
the state's most powerful lobbyist. Will you vote for his opponent? Will
you urge Alaskans to help you change Washington and vote him out of
office? If not, why not?
Man O-Man
OBAMA COMES OUT SWINGING
(He needs to declare that Palin is
unfit for office, call for her to quit the ticket)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_accuses_Republican_rivals_of_dishonesty_0908.html
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11212
OBAMA AD: "POLITICIANS LYING ABOUT
THEIR RECORDS? YOU DON'T CALL THAT 'MAVERICK''
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/8/181212/7790/461/591451
OH, FER CRISSAKES---BARACK SAYS "MY MUSLIM
FAITH"
And the paranoid reactionary cretins go berserk
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1150540,CST-NWS-faith08.article
HERE'S ONE OF THE CRETINS NOW!
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4899
For the record: Biden stood up to
Bush
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/09/but-what-about-joe-biden/
Dishonest
John
GUARANTEED MEDICAL CARE FOR
VETS IS A "BURDEN"---MCCAIN
"American hero" wants to privatize---read: destroy---Veterans'
benefits
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7351/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94407481&sc=emaf
CONFIRMED: ROVE WORKS FOR MCCAIN
As if there was any doubt. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/rove-consistent-mccain/
All-Melty
Dollar
BUSH GIVES FANNIE MAE TO MCCAIN
AIDE
That would make him McCain's pimp, wouldn't it?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/mccain-herbert-allison/
CHINA FRETS OVER FREDDIE, FANNIE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7781955
The other
war
WATCH:
U.S. KILLED 92 IN AFGHANISTAN, INCLUDING 60 CHILDREN---NOT “SEVEN
CIVILIANS”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20705.htm
Iraq and
Roll
18 U.S. TROOPS HAVE BEEN ELECTROCUTED IN
IRAQ
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/ap_iraq_electrocutions_090808/
Israelity
SURE, IT’S OKAY TO
KIDNAP IRAN PREZ
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5758376
Rootin'
Tootin' Putin
RUSSIA WILL KEEP TROOPS IN GEORGIA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7606072.stm
Kim Nook Yoo
DEAR LEADER IS
MISSING, POSSIBLY ILL
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/ap_iraq_electrocutions_090808/
THAILAND PREZ MAY HAVE TO RESIGN OVER
SAUSAGES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/world/asia/10thai.html?hp
THAT LIBERAL CONDI: NOT ENOUGH
BLACKS IN STATE DEPARTMENT
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/08/rice.blacks.state/index.html
(Lack of)
Health
VITAMIN B-12 MAY PREVENT MEMORY
LOSS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7595423.stm
SALVIA---‘STUPID IS AS
STUPID DOES’
Drug’s popularity thwarts legit medical research
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/us/09salvia.html?em
Lost Angeles
GREEN STREETS? WHAT GREEN STREETS?
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/09/nifty_street_projects_that_also_stop_pollution.php
Enviro Wacko
IS ORGANIC FARMING POLLUTING FOOD WITH HEAVY
METALS?
http://www.slate.com/id/2198756/
Oh, by the
way. . .
WHY IS MY SISTER DEAD?
Once again, a restraining order is
worth nothing
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/09/MN7R12Q82H.DTL
DALAI LAMA’S ‘SAINT’ BROTHER DIES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/world/asia/09norbu.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
NEANDERTHALS HAD A HARD TIME
GIVING BIRTH
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908203013.htm
And in more
important matters. . .
SPIELBERG STOLE ‘REAR WINDOW’ PLOT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7605672.stm
Deals on meals at do-it-yourself
grocery
Members of Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop slash their bills for
locally grown and organic foods – in exchange for labor.
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/09/09/deals-on-meals-at-do-it-yourself-grocery/
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA---HOME OF
RUSSIAN PIANO VIRTUOSOS
http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2008-09/South_Bend_Artists.html
Books
THE EXILES WHO
WOWED AMERICA
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article4618457.ece
Light
reading
STOPPARD’S ‘ROCK ‘N’ ROLL’
AND THE END OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15504&R=13C06CFF2
Havel and 10 other banner Chartists were imprisoned for their troubles
two years later, and although the Husak regime inaugurated another
period of reaction following this cause célèbre, the warp and woof of
Czech dissidence was forever changed. It became more unified. Indeed,
the "pop" qualities of revolt would later be glimpsed in some of the
sillier accoutrements of the post-Communist era, such as the neon heart
that adorned Prague Castle under Havel's presidency, and the naming of
Frank Zappa as the Czech representative of trade and culture.
For Art's
Sake
WONDERFUL SHEET MUSIC COVERS
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/09/art_sheet_music_covers.html
And in the end. . .
HUMAN TAILS
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=HUMAN+TAILS
9/08
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
MORNING CONCERT:
I'M A LOSER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KynpC1e9I9E
IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06SoECIp1U
WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slvPMU-7OyI
IT'S FINALLY OVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_K3xrckE8
IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0znJq442ANQ
THE END OF THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-GpISGBFY
END OF ZE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMwKPmsbWE
LE TEMPS DES FLEURS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRU59nv1yzM
WATCH:
SHOCKING PALIN VIDEO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59mXowK2t8
THE AMAZING DISAPPEARING
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Duchess_Keira_skinnier_than_ever&in_article_id=298506&in_page_id=7
GRATEFUL DEAD TO REUNITE FOR OBAMA, TOUR IN
THE SPRING
Will Garcia show up?
http://www.nme.com/news/the-grateful-dead/39390
Little joke: What else do Bush and McCain have in common? A hidden
vice. (Thanks crooksandliars.com )
Meet Michelle Obama’s cousin,
the rabbi
http://www.forward.com/articles/14121/
GIBSON WILL INTERVIEW PALIN
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_offers_first_TV_interview_to_0907.html
MCCAIN LEADS OBAMA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/oliverburkemanblog/2008/sep/08/uselections2008.barackobama
And on to news
and comment. . .
Beyond the
Palin
HAHAHA---YOUTUBE GUY CLAIMS
TO
BE FATHER OF BRISTOL’S BABY
Young African-American gentleman speaks!
http://papastraighttalk.blogspot.com/
CAROL MCCAIN: THE WIFE JOHN
MCCAIN LEFT BEHIND
She waited for him, but after she was badly injured in a car wreck,
he was "appalled" by her physical appearance, and dumped her
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html
IDIOTIC, PATHETIC JOURNALISM OF
THE WEEK:
SARAH PALIN’S FASHION STYLE: THE ISSUE AT HAND
(And it’s the most e-mailed article in today’s L.A. Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-ig-notebook7-2008sep07,0,7585060.story
AND SPEAKING OF CIVIC-MINDED,
SAVVY VOTERS. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090502666_pf.html
And some other statistics are even more alarming. How many young people
read newspapers? Just 20 percent. (Worse, studies consistently show that
people who do not pick up the newspaper-reading habit in their 20s
rarely do so later.) But surely today's youth are getting their news
from the Internet? Sorry. Only 11 percent of the young report that they
regularly surf the Internet for news. Maybe Obama shouldn't be relying
on savvy young voters after all.
PALIN’S 9 MOST DISTURBING
BELIEFS
(Number ten: that she will be president.)
http://www.alternet.org/story/97907/sarah_palin%27s_9_most_disturbing_beliefs/
CONDI WON’T SAY PALIN HAS ENOUGH EXPERIENCE
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/rice-palin-experience/
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN OPENLY LIES
ABOUT PALIN’S RECORD
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/bridge-ad-lie/
PALIN: THE
REINCARNATION OF BUSH, CHANNELED BY ROVE
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/05/palin_bush/
PALIN’S THIN
SKIN, IRON HAND
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4692408.ece
WILLIE BROWN:
DEMOCRATS IN TROUBLE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/BALU12OCMV.DTLZ
LINDORFF:
PALIN---THE REAL
AMERICAN TALIBAN
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/198
Why should we care about this domestic melodrama? Because, besides
revealing the casualness with which the 72-year-old, health-impaired
McCain is willing to treat the job of picking his alternate, it reveals
the deceptiveness and the inhumane, ruthless fanaticism of Palin, a
candidate who is trying to market herself to voters as “Everymom.”
MCKAY:
WE'RE GONNA LOSE
THIS THING
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-mckay/were-gonna-frickin-lose-t_b_124772.html
RICH:
PALIN/MCCAIN’S
SHOTGUN MARRIAGE
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07rich.html?em
Jesus H.
Christ!
A LOOK INSIDE PALIN’S LOONEY
“CHURCH”
http://www.alternet.org/election08/97939/weird_theology_in_wasilla%3A_a_look_inside_sarah_palin%27s_pentecostal_church/
PALIN’S CHURCH PROMOTES CONVERTING GAYS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/05/politics/p171257D37.DTL
OBAMA RESPONDS TO “COMMUNITY
ORGANIZER’ CRITICISM
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/07/this-week-obama-responds-to-gop-community-organizer-insults/
Mashed Media
VAN SUSTERN PLAYS PR AGENT
FOR PALIN
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/09/07/greta_van_susteren_plays_pr_agent_for_sarah_palin.php
THE MEDIA’S OTHER NEW CRUSH:
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN CHIEF STEVE SCHMIDT
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2008/09/medias-other-new-crush-steve-schmidt.html
SALLY QUINN: “THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR
WHORES”
http://mediamatters.org/items/200809040008
CHICKENSHIT NBC REPLACES OLBERMANN,
MATTHEWS
Tries to appear “fair and balanced” with boring David Gregory---while
Fox gets away with murder
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_offers_first_TV_interview_to_0907.html
U! S! A!
WHITE HOUSE HAS ITS OWN
‘INTERROGATION ROOM’
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/07/bush-white-house-has-its-own-interrogation-room/
THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE
U.S. EMPIRE---761 MILITARY BASES AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.alternet.org/audits/97913/the_us_has_761_military_bases_across_the_planet%2C_and_we_simply_never_talk_about_it/
U.S. BORN TERRORIST IS LIKELY DEAD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/2695294/Al-Qaedas-American-born-propaganda-chief-may-have-died-in-predator-attack.html
Iraq and
Roll
WOODWARD SAYS BUSH DOESN’T
UNDERSTAND
WHY IRAQIS ARE NOT APPRECIATIVE
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/bush-iraqis-appreciative/
THE 2.7 MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES
THAT THE MEDIA IGNORE
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/iraq-refugees-displaced-3934.html
Enviro Wacko
LAST FOUR BERKELEY TREE SITTERS HOLDING OUT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/08/BA4A12PS83.DTL
Oh, by the
way. . .
CHERNOBYL EXCHANGE STUDENT DOESN’T
WANT TO LEAVE
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chernobyl8-2008sep08,0,7849431.story
ASTOUNDING RESCUE OF LITTLE
GIRL SUCKED DOWN A DRAIN
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?'Drain_suck'_toddler's_parents_recall_panic&in_article_id=298467&in_page_id=34
And in more
important matters. . .
MEET MR. JALOPY AND THE MAKER
MOVEMENT
by John Rogers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_us/maker_movement
THE LONELINESS
OF THE SELF EMPLOYED
No wonder Starbucks flourished. . .
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-coworkingsep08,0,585598.story
REMEMBERING THE GREAT JIMMY SLYDE
http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/seibert_f08.html
Watch: Jimmy in action
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=JIMMY+SLYDE&search_type=&aq=-1&oq=
Lingo
INTERFACE ME, BABY!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503728.html?hpid=topnews
Books
PREVARICATION NATION
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_03/2755
And in the
end. . .
LITTLE WINGNUT ANNIE
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/09/cartoon_sarah_palin_in_little_wingnut_annie.html
9/05
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
MORNING CONCERT:
VAUGHN-WILLIAMS: THE LARK ASCENDING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbcuteYm-EA
HOLST: ST. PAUL SUITE (part one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ugABEXzbc
HOLST: ST. PAUL SUITE (part two)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkNkJDDCEwo
DELIUS: FLORIDA SUITE: SUNSET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3zahvTPpU8
DELIUS: VIOLIN SONATA IN B (1st movement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3SMIQR0rD8
BRIDGE: SUMMER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keoxcl-Kx_Q
BAX: WINTER LEGENDS (3rd movement, part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eLJoGtsHqs
BAX: WINTER LEGENDS (3rd movement, part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAiwmXeZ8EA
ARTIST PAINTS TO MUSIC OF BAX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVmLxOypgfE
HOLST: NEPTUNE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i7advgnUk
DAILY SHOW ON PIGBOY ROVE
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card
DAILY SHOW ON DELEGATE GAY SEX
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184084&title=the-best-fking-news-team-ever
LARRY DAVID ON CANCER BALDNESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZft1YTcA0
AMY WINO ORDERS 48 BOTTLES OF WHISKEY
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Wino_demands_48_bottles_of_whiskey&in_article_id=296339&in_page_id=7
13 GOLF BALLS REMOVED FROM
DOG
And you thought I was going to say “McCain’s head.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7599899.stm
BLOGGER DOES L.A. TIMES’ JOB
Can you say, “police reporter?”
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/laists_editor_makes_the_c.php
MICHAEL MOORE OFFERS FREE ELECTION
FILM ON-LINE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/05/usa
The Oscar-winning film-maker is releasing Slacker Uprising as a free
internet download to mobilise voters ahead of November's presidential
election. It is a first for a major Hollywood release. "This is being
done entirely as a gift to my fans," Moore said in a statement. "The
only return any of us are hoping for is the largest turnout of young
voters at the polls in November."
WATCH:
‘BIG DOG’---MILITARY’S MOST ADVANCED ROBOT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2687038/Robotic-BigDog-is-US-armys-best-friend.html
AUNG SAN SUU KYI ON HUNGER STRIKE
Guess Laura Bush’s little pet “human rights” cause didn’t do the
trick. . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/2687694/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-on-hunger-strike.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
WATCH:
PALIN'S HIDDEN BASE
Listen to the cretins, if you can stand it
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1463341016/bctid1774353180
PALIN TRIED TO HUSH UP
BRISTOL'S PREGNANCY,
GET HER MARRIED BEFORE CONVENTION
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sarah_palin_at_war_with_her_daughter_over_pregnancy_wedding/celebrity/65370
REPUGNICAN REP.: OBAMA IS
“UPPITY”
Well, at least she was polite enough to leave out “nigger”
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/westmoreland-calls-obama-uppity-2008-09-04.html
MCCAIN CRITICIZED PALIN
EARMARKS
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,2482434.story
RIDGE: “JOHN BUSH IS HIS
OWN MAN”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/05/tom-ridge-john-bush-err-john-mccain-is-his-own-man/
MORFORD: GREETINGS FROM THE ANGRY LEFT
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/05/notes090508.DTL
The GOP is laughing at your expense. Don't you see how they're tossing
about "the angry left" catchphrase as though progressives are the only
ones who've been molested by Bush's horrible policies and McCain's lust
for more war, by illegal wiretapping, torture, environmental ignorance,
the raping of the Treasury?
FORMER BUSH SPEECHWRITER PUT
THE WORDS IN SARAH’S MOUTH
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838808,00.html
PALIN UNDER WRAPS
Can’t do press interviews because she does not know enough about
foreign policy, etc.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/05/clock-is-ticking-as-mccain-campaign-hides-palin-from-the-press/
PALIN BANKROLLED MAYOR CAMPAIGN
WITH CITY EQUIPMENT, TAXPAYER DOLLARS
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/090408Leopold.shtml
The documents show that Palin used city computers to manage her campaign
and billed taxpayers for mailings, phone calls and literature. Palin
also had her city secretary, Mary Bixby, print 75 thank-you notes to
campaign donors and book a campaign related trip Ketchikan in May 2002
while on city time.
PALIN ALSO BACKED “ROAD TO
NOWHERE”
Where it is hoped she is headed
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/04/palin-nowhere-road/
FIRST DUDE WAS MEMBER OF ALASKA
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
Party called for secession, refused to recognize U.S. flag
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/politics/04party.html?ref=politics
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpC0ED5JB9qx1iUsd9xz-dBbwWBwD92UTA501
BE VERY AFRAID:
THE SARAH PALIN SISTERHOOD
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/america/05women.php
PROFILE: WASILLA
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/09/04/palin%e2%80%99s-wasilla-a-small-town-with-attitude/
WATCH:
LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE OVER PALIN’S TROOPER SCANDAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UojMnCgqVA
‘ALASKA IS ONE OF THE REFUGE
STATES
IN THE LAST DAYS’---PALIN’S CRAZY PASTOR
See Nutball Jeezo Boy Pray with Gov. Sarah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k84m2orSOaM
RAIMUNDO: PALIN---XENA OF THE WAR PARTY
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13412
According to news reports, Palin was diverted away from a fundraiser for
a pro-life group headed up by Phyllis Schlafly so she could attend a
grilling session conducted jointly by AIPAC and Lieberman, but this
hardly seemed necessary. After all, the woman has a little Israeli flag
in her office. . . The McCainiacs chose Palin out of jealousy: they
wanted an Obama of their own, and since they couldn't have one, they
settled on Palin – the Bizarro Obama. . . Sarah, who looks – and acts –
an awful lot like Xena, the Warrior Princess, is the perfect messenger
for the GOP's credo of unmitigated militarism. Her speech to the
Republican convention was, in large part, a continuation of the theme of
the previous night: aggressive nationalism rationalized by religious
fervor.
RNC BREAKDOWN: WHICH WORDS WERE
SAID MOST OFTEN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/05/republican-priorities/
ThinkProgress has put together an analysis based on the prepared remarks
(a total of 38,055 words) of the convention speakers, looking at how
many times Republicans said various words. A glimpse at conservatives’
priorities.
And, by our count, the word, “fight”
appeared 21 times in Big Bad John’s speech
http://onmilwaukee.com/politics/articles/mccainspeechtranscript.html
KLEIN: MCCAIN’S MUTED SPEECH
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838965,00.html
TEXT:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/america/05mccainspeech.php
Freedom of
what?
‘ANARCHIST” WAS BEATEN, HOODED,
GAGGED IN JAIL---ABU GHRAIB STYLE
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/27891909.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7EaDiaMDCiUZ
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/03/18532728.php
"They put a bag on my head with a gag in my mouth and used pain
compliance on me for an hour and a half," said a bruised Elliot Hughes
of his days in the Ramsey County jail. "I was screaming for God, for
mercy, crying, asking why they were doing this."
EIGHT PROTESTERS CHARGED WITH “TERRORISM”
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/4/eight_members_of_rnc_activist_group
GESTAPO-LIKE COPS HARASS VIDEOTAPERS
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/4/i_witness_video_collective_forced_out
AMY GOODMAN:
WHY WE WERE FALSELY
ARRESTED
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080903_why_we_were_falsely_arrested/
FLOYD:
THE MINNESOTA
MONSTER MASH
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/090108Floyd.shtml
Glenn Greenwald tells a harrowing tale of police-state tactics in
Minneapolis, with armed security forces conducting Baghdad-like raids on
the houses of activists, terrorizing many and arresting some for thought
crimes -- such as "planning to cause a riot" -- and other bogus charges.
The sweeps -- guided and aided by the federal government -- are designed
to "ensure domestic tranquility" during the imminent Republican
convention in the city. As Greenwald points out, not one of those who
were shackled, arrested and hauled out at gunpoint had committed any
crime whatsoever.
LINDORFF:
THE THINGS THEY
LEFT BEHIND
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/197
There was the long list of speakers touting America’s “freedoms” as,
outside the convention hall, police thugs dressed in military gear, and
armed with huge batons and assault weaponry were bashing in doors and
terrorizing journalists, arresting others and dragging them face down
along the street, using teargas against peaceful demonstrators and
arresting them by the hundreds.
DIONNE:
MCCAIN THE DIVIDER
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080904_mccain_the_divider/
The Republican crowd here gleefully played into the very worst
stereotypes of their party as a privileged class resistant to social
change. When Rudy Giuliani referred to Barack Obama’s past as a
“community organizer,” the crowd broke into ugly, patronizing laughter.
These, presumably, are people who never needed a neighborhood advocate.
Imagine if Democrats ever reacted to someone who worked as, say, an
entrepreneur or a church leader as these Republicans did to Obama’s old
line of work.
PARRY:
THE ANTI-OBAMA HATE
FEST
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/090408Parry.shtml
The Republican Party, which has defined modern-day negative politics,
was back at it again, bashing Barack Obama and the news media in an ugly
display that rivaled the old days of Nixon-Agnew – or George W. Bush’s
last convention where GOP operatives passed out “Purple Heart Band-Aids”
to mock John Kerry’s war wounds.
In case you
missed it. . .
OBAMA MEETS O’REILLY, NO ONE DIES
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838954,00.html
Iraq and
Roll
WHITE HOUSE BUGGED
IRAQ LEADERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/05/usforeignpolicy.usa
Rootin’
Tootin’ Putin
CHENEY: GEORGIA WILL JOIN NATO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/05/georgia.nato
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=4hdWbs8VystvgH2ztrmysPtmspqBPcfJ
But today's Russia, with a gross domestic product of more than
$1.3-trillion in 2008 (compared with a low of $200-billion under Boris
N. Yeltsin) has barged back into the ranks of the world's 10 largest
economies; in purchasing power, it is closing in on Britain, at No. 6.
Most analysts dismissively attribute the rise to high oil prices, but
Russia started its ascent years before they began to spike, in 2004. And
few other petrostates can match the consumer demand of Russia's new
35-million-strong middle class.
And in more
important matters. . .
CHEAP GOSSIP
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/06/arts/peepsat.php
Musique
THE DEPTH OF ENGLISH MUSIC
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk./node/416/full
A lifetime ago Vaughan Williams wrote an essay called “Who wants the
English composer?” Then, when such an idea was little more unusual than
a woman preaching or a dog standing on its hind legs, there was no very
clear answer. Now, though, works by English composers from the musical
renaissance that began in about 1880 and is still continuing are perhaps
more popular than ever.
ORIGINAL BEATLES CONTRACT GOES FOR
HALF-MILLION
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggpCJQXhTli0-rKMOp2XzJZ120fAD93054OG1
VIDEO TOUR: THE BEATLES’
CASBAH CLUB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBlWzCe5DA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tPZmu5Ho3s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?=EBmp3nnBXwE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP4JApDMtfE&feature=related
THE SAKE
SAMURAI!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/04/WIJT12K58R.DTL
Science
SCIENTISTS CATCH CELLS IN THE ACT OF
REMEMBERING
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/healthscience/04brain.php
Obit
R.I.P. BILL MELENDEZ
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/television/05melendez.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Film
‘GHOSTBUSTERS’ RETURNING?
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Ghostbusters_to_return_to_the_big_screen&in_article_id=296340&in_page_id=27
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2688271/New-Ghostbusters-film-to-reunite-Bill-Murray-and-Dan-Aykroyd.html
Books
THE STRANGEST BOOK TITLE OF ALL
TIME
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7598000/7598964.stm
And in the
end. . .
MAN SPOTS DEAD DAD ON TV---ALIVE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2681921/Dead-mans-son-spots-him-on-television-after-eight-years.html
9/04
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
MORNING CONCERT:
BITCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtnxvpIEg8w
YOU TALK TOO MUCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvMi42iig08
SON OF ORANGE COUNTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAf71o8f27E
MY HUMAN GETS ME BLUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFAOA0up_yk
DIGNITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY7tErBvxS0
THE LIGHT THAT HAS LIGHTED THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qgf8fYGcmk
WATCH:
FUN WITH JOHN AND SARAH!
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/
WATCH:
IS MCCAIN PALIN'S BITCH?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
Asinine Palin Commentary of the
Day!
Are Americans really this infantile? Yes.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1116858&srvc=2008campaign&position=8
Jesus H.
Christ!
DOES HAGEE THINK TODD PALIN IS
AN INFIDEL?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/04/todd-palin-hagee/
WHO'S THE ELITIST?
CINDY MCCAIN'S OUTFIT COST $300,000!
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/cindy-mccains-300000-outfit.html
Musical accompaniment for this article
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQeRLT1HNQ
watch:
dope cindy mccain on abortion
(she should have aborted this interview)
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/04/cindy-roe-wade-overturned/
POLAR BEAR BEATEN WITH SACK OF MONEY AT RNC
PROTEST
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Polar_bear_beaten_with_sack_of_0903.html
And on to news
and comment. . .
IRAQ
WAR “TASK FROM GOD,”
AND ALASKA PIPELINE “GOD’S WILL”---PALIN
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515511.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2www008/Palin_Iraq_war_a_task_that_0904.html
HERE SHE IS, REV. SARAH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_VduCWhzM&feature=related
PALIN E-MAILS CRITICIZED
TROOPERS
FOR NOT FIRING EX-BRO-IN-LAW
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008157625_trooper04.html
FACT-CHECKING PALIN’S “SPEECH”
She told lie after exaggeration after distortion. . .Promised to be a
friend of “special needs kids”
---while she cut funding for special needs students in her state by 62
percent!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/politics/animal/main4414049.shtml
Palin: "I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to
Nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves."
Just to reiterate what others have said: Congress' requirement that
funds be spent on that bridge (aka the 'earmark') were removed before
Sarah Palin became governor. She was therefore in no position to tell
Congress anything about the bridge, one way or the other. During her
campaign, she said she supported funding for the bridge.
MORE DETAIL: ALL THE
GOVERNESS’S LIES
(How is it that Obama confined his criticisms to facts, and the
Repugnicans freely indulged in lies?)
http://www.samefacts.com/archives/campaign_2008_/2008/09/palin_v_reality.php
LINDORFF:
MEET THE
TRUTH-CHALLENGED GOP VEEP CANDIDATE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/196
Palin went on to lie about her opponent, Barack Obama’s, tax plan,
saying it would raise taxes on businesses and on all Americans. In fact,
Obama’s plan calls for lowering the corporate profits tax, while
increasing the tax on dividends and capital gains, both of which fall
not on businesses but on investors, and for lowering taxes on most
Americans, while raising them for people earning over $250,000.
SARAH PALIN, ENEMY OF EARTH
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h3EH5jd_uyWAFtvLAUaky_bDGBhgD92VOL900
"Her philosophy from our perspective is cut, kill, dig and drill," said
John Toppenberg, director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, maintaining
she is "in the Stone Age of wildlife management and is very opposed to
utilizing accepted science."
SHE IS TO THE RIGHT OF BUSH ON
ENVIRONMENT ISSUES
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837868,00.html
PALIN NEVER ASKED ALASKA GUARD
TO DO ANYTHING---NOT ONCE
http://www.kansascity.com/445/story/780734.html
PALIN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH
NATURAL GAS PIPELINE
Came about because of high energy prices, timing---she just signed the
deal
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/09/03/a-look-at-palins-role-in-alaskas-big-natural-gas-pipeline-project.html
But with support for the proposed pipeline cutting across party lines,
she was in part the beneficiary of lucky timing, with high energy prices
driving demand for some kind of a deal. Indeed, the pipeline's promise
has even been trumpeted by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama,
who, in a speech this summer (given well in advance of Palin's
selection), praised the project's potential for "delivering clean
natural gas and creating good jobs in the process."
PALIN’S BIG OIL RECORD
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/200893225527640103.html
ROSENBERG:
GOP EFFORT TO GET JEWISH VOTE COLLAPSES WITH PALIN
http://www.israelenews.com/view.asp?ID=2987
And then the icing on the cake. McCain picked Palin who has no foreign
policy experience and was a strong Pat Buchanan supporter. Right or
wrong, Jews consider Buchanan both an isolationist and an anti-Semite.
BUCHANAN SUDDENLY LOVES PALIN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/03/scarborough-buchanan-completely-reverse-positions-on-palin-in-just-four-days/
PALIN AND JEWISH VOTERS
http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/analysis_sarah_palin_and_the_jews_20080829/
MCCAIN’S NASTY INTERVIEW WITH TIME MAG
McNasty rides again!
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1836909,00.html
MCCAIN ACTUALLY SAYS IT:
PALIN HAS FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE BECAUSE ALASKA IS NEXT TO RUSSIA!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/03/mccain-russia-alaska/
Mashed Media
ASSOCIATED PRESS SHILLS FOR
PALIN
Did hit-job on Obama speech, calls Sarah a “star”
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003845788
MEDIA SWOON OVER HER UGLY
LITTLE SPEECH
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080904/pl_politico/13148
NOONAN TRIES TO COVER HER ASS
Repugnican columnist caught off mike denigrating Sarah Palin---tries
to explain it away
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/palin_means_its_over_peggy_noo.html
OLBERMANN CORRECTS IDIOT HUCKABEE
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/03/olbermann-fact-checks-huckabee/
WAS DAILY KOS RIGHT TO PRINT PALIN
RUMOR?
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/09/sarah_palins_ba.html
STEINEM: WRONG WOMAN, WRONG MESSAGE
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,2288253.story
I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle
Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she
does it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of
fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town.
She doesn't just echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by
overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were
impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child.
HIGHTOWER: A SWARM OF LOBBYISTS
WOULD RUN “MAVERICK” MCCAIN’S WHITE HOUSE
Meet Big Bad John’s current team of crooks
http://www.alternet.org/election08/96395/a_swarm_of_lobbyists_would_run_mccain%27s_white_house/
Many a president has had certain supporters behind him whom he should
have moved out in front in order to keep an eye on them. McCain,
however, isn't even bothering to keep his self-interested backers in the
shadows--he has literally put them in charge of his campaign. "Tell me
with whom you walk," goes the old adage, "and I'll tell you who you
are." Candidate McCain is walking cozily with a coterie of corporate
lobbyists, executives, and fund-raisers who are shaping his policies...
and expecting to walk right into the White House with him.
PALIN’S
ANTI-AMERICAN PAST
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11159
Here are a couple of questions for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin: What do you
think of the following statement: "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've
got no use for America and her dammed institutions." Or how about this
one: "The problem with you John Birchers is that you're too dammed
liberal!"
The quotes about American institutions and the John Birch society are by
the former head of the Alaska Independence Party, of which Palin was
allegedly a member.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE:
WHAT EXACTLY DO MCCAIN/PALIN
INTEND TO “REFORM?”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5982225.html
PALIN CHOICE
RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT MCCAIN’S JUDGEMENT
What judgement?
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=09b15ac9-2e50-49b6-86b3-d0a9731fbf91
HERBERT: THE LATEST GOP DISTRACTION
http://www.alternet.org/election08/97493/palin%3A_the_latest_gop_distraction_the_dems_shouldn%27t_buy/
But the Democrats should not push this stuff too far. Ms. Palin is a lot
more appealing personally than the often testy guy at the top of her
ticket. And the inescapable reality is that there are millions of voters
who identify with her, and may be quick to resent attacks that they
perceive as bullying or overkill.
GIULIANI LAMBASTS DEMS FOR
NOT WALLOWING IN 9/11, LIKE HIM
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/03/giuliani-islamic/
And in other
horrors:
U.S. TROOPS KILL 20---INCLUDING WOMEN AND
CHILDREN---IN PAKISTAN ATTACK
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20679.htm
WATCH:
U.S. IN DECLINE AS RUSSIA ASSERTS POWER
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20682.htm
GASP: CHINA ADMITS SHODDY
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION CAUSED QUAKE DEATHS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/asia/china.php
Mashed Media
LATEST LAT ABSURDITY: CAN'T USE
"PISSED OFF"
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/times_new_language_rules.php
And in more
important matters. . .
CHEAP GOSSIP ROUNDUP
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/arts/peepfri.php
SLIDE SHOW: TARZAN THROUGH
THE AGES!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2008/sep/03/2?picture=337261966
LIEBOVITZ: THE QUEEN WAS CRANKY
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2683201/Annie-Leibovitz-describes-Queen-as-cranky-after-BBC-photoshoot.html
THE WRESTLING CAMELS OF TURKEY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,576264,00.html
Light
reading
DAYDREAMING IS HARD WORK
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/31/daydream_achiever/?page=full
Musique
THE TCHEREPNIN SOCIETY
http://www.tcherepnin.com/
For Art's
Sake
NEW INK ART
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/arts/newink.php?pass=true
And in the
end. . .
SWIMMER OFF MARINA DEL REY SURROUNDED BY SHARKS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2681689/Swimmer-surrounded-by-leopard-sharks-spotted-by-news-helicopter.html
9/03
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
MORNING CONCERT:
LIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n03a7cLf0M
JAKOB DYLAN AND DHANI HARRISON: GIMME SOME TRUTH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbzRyd3Q3o
CRIPPLED INSIDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxi-3Hi_T2A
DUMB ALL OVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vMPEaO8TPs
I'M THE SLIME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPJHRwyZ9y4
PAINT IT BLACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_zp4fsDrNA
FRANK AND RON WARNED YOU, FOLKS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLDzDklTRU
GIANT SPIDER ATTACKS LIVERPOOL
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Giant_mechanical_spider_attacks_Liverpool&in_article_id=292313&in_page_id=2
UNIDENTIFIED PARROT
CAUGHT SMOKING
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Parrot_snapped_smoking_a_fag&in_article_id=290721&in_page_id=34
O’REILLY TO INTERVIEW OBAMA TODAY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/uselections2008.barackobama1
NY PHOTOG DETAINED, INTERROGATED
FOR SIX DAYS IN BEIJING
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/photographer-detained-beijing-3742.html
MORFORD: THIS JUST IN---GOD ABANDONS
REPUBLICANS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/03/notes090308.DTL
And on to news
and comment. . .
watch:
former POW/friend of McCain:
"HE IS NOT CUT OUT TO BE PRESIDENT."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KjsEs46C70
MCCAIN OPPOSED PALIN ON
EARMARKS
http://thinkprogress.org/
Sen. John McCain has long campaigned against Congress earmarking federal
money for pet projects back home, having gone so far as publishing “pork
lists” detailing these financial favors. However, “three times in recent
years, McCain’s catalogs of ‘objectionable’ spending have included
earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time
— Sarah Palin.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,284198.story
EIGHT MORE PALIN SHOCKS:
SHE TRIED TO BAN LIBRARY BOOKS. . .
LIED ABOUT TRAVEL. . .HAS LOONEY-TUNE PASTOR---
http://www.alternet.org/election08/97350/8_more_shocking_revelations_about_sarah_palin/
---AND CUT FUNDS FOR TEEN MOMS
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20080902_palin_cut_funds_for_teen_moms/?ln
---AND SHE DIDN’T WIN ‘MISS
CONGENIALITY, EITHER’---SAYS FORMER CONTESTANT
http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2008/09/shes-no-sandra-bullock.html
PALIN, BANNER OF BOOKS
http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2245
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs
into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about
banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had
inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman,
Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from
the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving
"full support" to the mayor.
"I MAY BE BROKE BUT I'M NOT FLAT
BUSTED"
HIGH SCHOOL ERA PARTY GIRL PALIN WEARS "I MAY BE BROKE BUT I'M NOT
FLAT BUSTED" T-SHIRT
Unwed pregnant teens, redneck baby
daddys, shot gun weddings -- are these the corner stones of GOP family
values?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reny-monk/baby-mama-drama-gop-shot_b_123103.html
The baby daddy, Levi, is 17 and entering his senior year at Wassila High
School. More on his My Space page: He boasts, "Ya fuck with me I'll kick
ya ass." As an insight to how he will support his young family he
shares, "I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with
the boys, do some fishing, shoot some shit and just fuckin' chillin' I
guess."
WHITE HOUSE: DON’T EXPLOIT
BRISTOL’S PREGNANCY
(Rip Post: Exploit Bristol’s Pregnancy.)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_warns_Dont_exploit_Palin_0902.html
THOMPSON: PREGNANT PAUSE---LIKE MOTHER,
LIKE DAUGHTER
Sarah was a good-time girl, too. . .Used to wear shirt reading “FCK:
THE ONLY THING MISSING IS ‘U.’”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11136
As a young woman, Sarah Palin screwed around. The last thing we need is
her screwing about with the government of the United States.
COFFEY:
SOMETHING STILL DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
ABOUT SARAH PALIN PREGNANCY
http://www.coffeytalk.com/blog/index.php
But something still doesn’t make sense… those photos were from March,
and she looked pregnant then. The baby was born in April, supposedly 1
month premature, yet he was still 6 pounds 2 ounces. So it could be
possible that Bristol gave birth full term in April, and then got
pregnant again.
MEET LARRY KROON, PALIN’S
NUTBALL PASTOR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kroon
Kroon drew national attention when he invited Jews for Jesus head David
Brickner to speak at the Wasilla Bible Church. [3] In his talk at
Wasilla, Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's
"judgment of unbelief" of Jews who have not converted to Christianity.
"Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the
newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When [Brickner's son]
was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of
that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer
and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people.
Judgment — you can't miss it." Palin was in the congregation
listening.[4]
EXCERPTS FROM REV. KROON’S
SERMONS
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/2/16520/14830/104/583664
“God will deal—whether it’s a huge nation like Assyria, a corrupt
African nation, or a slipping-sliding country like the US of A—the Lord
will leave no one unpunished.”
LISTEN TO REV. LARRY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PizrJLV30yI
VETTING? WHAT VETTING?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/03/bombshell-serious-palin-vetting-took-place-one-day-before-official-selection/
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person
background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain’s vice
presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day
before McCain asked her to be his running mate, and she did not disclose
the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant until that meeting,
two knowledgeable McCain officials acknowledged Tuesday.
LINDORFF: PALIN AND ME---TWO KIDS WITH GUNS
http://thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/195
Sarah Palin and I parted ways after our first few kills. Mine converted
me from a pre-teen gun nut into an anti-war activist. Hers seems to have
simply left her thirsting for more.
DOWD: LIFE OF HER PARTY
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Even as they push Sarah Barracuda as the glamorous but tough hunting and
fishing mom who can juggle it all — she’s the only nominee, as Fred
Thompson bragged in his convention speech, “who knows how to properly
field dress a moose” — they rant at reporters who wonder how she will
juggle it all and question some of her judgments.
SCHEER: PALIN AND EARMARKS
Sarah Barracuda a reformer? Hahahahahahahahah. . .
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080902_palins_alaska_reaps_the_windfall_profits_mccain_decries/
Just witness the success of Palin, who, as mayor of the hamlet of
Wasilla, hired a big-time lobbying firm intimately connected with the
state’s now-indicted Republican Sen. Ted Stevens and thus obtained $27
million in federal earmarks during her tenure. As The Washington Post
calculated in a devastating report on Mayor Palin’s assault on the
federal treasury, her home town of Wasilla (with about 6,000 inhabitants
in 2002 when she was mayor) received $6.1 million, or $1,000 per
resident in earmarks, almost as much as Boise, Idaho, got this year with
a population that is 30 times larger.
PALIN: AVERAGE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH
(Well, it was good enough for W.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-harris3-2008sep03,0,3801278.story
MICHAEL MOORE ANSWERS LITTLE JOEY
LIEBERMAN
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=231
Two-thirds of the country agree with my position on the war, two-thirds
of the country agree with my position on a single-payer universal health
care system, two-thirds believe in some form of gun control -- name the
documentary, pick the issue, and the American public agrees with Michael
Moore. So get over me, will ya?
Freedom of
what?
FOX NEWS: LEAVE PROTESTERS IN
JAIL
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fox_host_RNC_protesters_should_be_0902.html
TWO JOURNALISM STUDENTS AND ADVISOR STILL IN
JAIL OVER RNC PROTEST
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003845147
PREZBOY EQUATES ‘ANGRY
LEFT’ WITH NORTH VIETNAMESE TORTURERS
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/02/bush-angry-left/
COPS USE TEAR GAS, FLASH
GRENADES ON “ANARCHISTS”
Those kids have a lot of guts and principle
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Riot_cops_use_gas_on_RNC_0903.html
ACLU CONDEMNS MASS ARRESTS
OF PROTESTORS
As should every American citizen
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ACLU_condemns_mass_arrests_of_RNC_0902.html
Repugnicans
CINDY MCCAIN:
FROM RODEO QUEEN TO WHITE HOUSE?
Or. . .From bullriding to riding a
bullshitter
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/09/02/cindy-mccain-rodeo-queen-to-first-lady/
MCCAIN’S MOTHER: “THEY WON’T
LET ME TALK”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCains_mother_laments_They_wont_let_0903.html
WHERE’S DICK CHENEY?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/03/what-does-cheney-think-of-palin/
OBAMA UP BY EIGHT POINTS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/uselections2008.barackobama2
Rootin’
Tootin’ Putin
UKRAINE COUP LOOMING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/ukraine
LIFE IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA
Shoot first, ask no questions later. . .it’s one big crime syndicate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002596.html?referrer=emailarticle
PUTIN THE
CHESSMASTER
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20673.htm
To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary to
view the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significant
geopolitical struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energy
riches of the Caspian Sea basin -- with former Russian President (now
Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin emerging as the reigning Grand Master of
geostrategic chess and the Bush team turning out to be middling
amateurs, at best.
Israelity
MASSIVE ISRAEL CRIME SYNDICATE
BUSTED
Bosses use latino gangs in U.S. to distribute drugs, carry out
killings
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_on_re_us/israelis_indicted_1
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-me-drugs26-2008aug26,0,1937517.story
ISRAEL WILL CEDE ARAB AREAS OF
JERUSALEM---BARAK
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/israel-palestinian-jerusalem-arab-3767.html
People’s
Repugnic
HOUSE ARREST FOR LIFE FOR
CHINESE DISSIDENT
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,576063,00.html
CONFUCIUS MAKES COMEBACK IN CHINA
http://www.feer.com/politics/2008/august/Confucius-Chinas-Comeback-Kid
Curiously, the fact that Confucius was quoted at the start of the
Opening Ceremony and that this extravaganza featured 3,000 men dressed
up as his disciples was portrayed as an unremarkable, indeed natural
thing, even though the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was once a
virulently anti-Confucian organization.
And in more
important matters. . .
MEET THE TEA
MASTER OF DOWNTOWN L.A.
by John Rogers
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2008/09/02/entertainment/e153031D85.DTL
ARE MUSIC CRITICS LOSING THEIR CLOUT?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0830/p25s03-algn.html
ONE MAN'S FIGHT TO SAVE HONG KONG HARBOR
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/09/03/can-he-stop-the-sprawl-thats-eating-hong-kong%e2%80%99s-harbor/
DOES MEMORY
EXIST OUTSIDE THE BRAIN?
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/sheldrake-morphogenic-field-memory-lashley-collective-unconscious-3486.html
Obits
SORRY, BUT THE RIP POST
WILL NOT MISS THAT “IN A WORLD” GUY WHO NARRATED PREVIEWS
Maybe he petted his dog, but good riddance
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991448.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
And in the
end. . .
JERRY REED
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/arts/music/03reed.html?scp=1&sq=JERRY%20REED&st=cse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCE48O6U4Yw
9/02
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
Morning Concert (For
Sarah Palin)
MOVE BITCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRpgB5-ZId4
WOMEN IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJC_2Xv2yI
TROUBLE EVERY DAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QEz6OGm6_E
AMERICAN WOMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1x6NNNfVJc
FUCK THAT BITCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePrGJvYXARA
BEWARE OF DARKNESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh5QT7RHTr8
SALTWATER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWKl1QJed0
KILLER PALIN AND INNOCENT
VICTIM
More on Palin's support of animal murder below
MCCAIN EYES PALIN’S ASS, FIDDLES WITH WEDDING RING
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/22302/0236/926/580816
WATCH: PROTESTER OFFERS FLOWER
TO COP---IS PEPPER-SPRAYED
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20669.htm
COPS VS. DANCING PROTESTERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgtkOJXva4
CINDY McCAIN ON PALIN’S
“FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zP8uFPWxaA
CARTOON: THE DEADLY PICK-UP
http://www.internetweekly.org/2008/09/cartoon_sarah_palin_the_deadly_pickup.html
HERE IT IS: THE RNC/MCCAIN/PALIN
ANTHEM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivNJS24UA2M
And on to news
and comment. . .
Freedom of
what?
USA TAKES “PRE-EMPTIVE
STRIKES”---
ST. PAUL POLICE MAKE “PRE-EMPTIVE ARRESTS”
http://www.gnn.tv/articles/3819/St_Paul_Police_Conduct_Mass_Preemptive_Raids_Ahead_of_Republican_Convention
Armed groups of police in the Twin Cities have raided more than
half-a-dozen locations since Friday night in a series of “preemptive
raids” before the Republican National Convention. The raids and
detentions have targeted activists planning to protest the convention,
as well as journalists and videographers documenting police actions at
protests.
AMY GOODMAN CHARGED WITH
“OBSTRUCTION”
For simply trying to ask cops why two “Democracy Now” producers had
been arrested
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Amy_Goodman_and_producers_arrested_at_0901.html
http://www.democracynow.org/
ARREST COMES AMID ACCUSTATIONS
OF BRUTALITY
Cops are acting like Gestapo in Twin Cities---what, exactly, is a
“pre-emptive arrest?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/amy-goodman-arrested-at-r_b_123051.html
Her arrest comes amid accusations of police brutality in St. Paul.
I-Witness founder Eileen Clancy was arrested and detained last Saturday
by the police in an apparent preemptive arrest. Clancy states she and
her team were surrounded in the house they were staying at in St. Paul
before they had the chance to video tape any protests.
THUGS AT WORK
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/09/thugs_at_work.php
PEPPER SPRAY, TEAR-GAS,
ROBOCOPS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20668.htm
EXTENSIVE PROTEST COVERAGE HERE
http://www.minnesotaindependent.com/
Beyond the
Palin
THE PROUD PAPA!
His web page was sure yanked in a hurry. . .even the browser cache
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/02/palin.uselections2008
The father has been revealed as her boyfriend, 18-year-old Levi
Johnston, who dubs himself a "fuckin' redneck" on his MySpace page -
which is no longer publicly available - and lists that he is in a
relationship and "doesn't want kids".
Here’s a pic of the dumbshit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/levi-johnston-bristol-pal_n_123089.html
MCCAIN FOUGHT AGAINST
ANTI-TEEN PREGNANCY PROGRAMS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/mccain-fought-teen-pregna_n_123132.html
PALIN LAUNDRY:
PREGNANCY, HUBBY’S DUI, ETHICS INVESTIGATION, LOBBYING D.C. FOR
$27 MILLION FOR HER SMALL TOWN, MEMBER OF ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY,
SELF-AVOWED "REDNECK" WHO WILL MARRY DAUGHTER. . .
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/stephanopoulos.html
And then there are her horrifically backward positions: teaching
creationism, opposing abortion, pushing “abstinence education” instead
of sex education, shooting bears and wolves from planes, preserving
nature for skimobiles, destroying the Alaska Nature Wildlife Reserve for
oil, no endangered species protection for polar bears, humans did not
contribute to global warming. . .
PALIN SURE KNOWS HER HISTORY!
In 2006, the Eagle Forum Alaska sent a questionnaire to all the state’s
gubernatorial candidates, including Sarah Palin (R). From Palin’s
response about the Pledge of Allegiance:
11. Are you offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of
Allegiance? Why or why not?
SP: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers,
its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of
Allegiance.
However, as Hunter points out, the words “Under God” didn’t appear in
the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954; the founding fathers had nothing to
do with them. The Pledge itself, in fact, wasn’t even written until
1892.
http://thinkprogress.org/
PALIN WAS MEMBER OF ALASKA
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/02/uselections2008.republicans20085
WATCH:
PALIN ADDRESSES AIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI
SHE WAS VETTED, ALL RIGHT---
NOT BY MCCAIN, BUT BY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/yes-sarah-palin-was-vetted-by-dday-it.html
But she most certainly was vetted, only not by the McCain campaign. She
was vetted by the only group that matters - the super-secretive Council
for National Policy. The members of the Council for National Policy are
the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick. With her selection, the
Republican nominee is suddenly -- and unexpectedly -- assured of the
support of a movement that once opposed his candidacy with all its
might. Case in point: while Dobson once said he could "never" vote for
McCain, he issued a statement last week hailing Palin as an
"outstanding" choice. If Dobson's enthusiasm for Palin is any
indication, he may soon emerge from his bunker in Colorado Springs to
endorse McCain, providing the Republican nominee with the grassroots
support of the Christian right's single most influential figure.
MCCAIN VETTER DEFENDS PROCESS
(OF COURSE)
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_vetter_defends_Palin_review_0902.html
PALIN: WHAT DOES A VP DO?
Also: Being governor of Alaska is "pretty cool."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oro2Yh9HoEM
SOMEONE SPRUCED UP PALIN'S
WIKIPEDIA ENTRY BEFORE SHE WAS PICKED
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/technology/01link.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
COHEN: REPUBLICANS RUSH IN
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090101715.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Still, you have to admit that in all that time, especially since Palin
became governor about two years ago, no Russian invasion force has come
across the strait, maybe because she was in charge of the Guard, maybe
because she herself is a hunter and an athlete. The record is unclear
because no high-ranking Russian appeared on any of the weekend talk
shows to say how they had considered an invasion of Alaska and then
backed off when Sarah Palin became commander in chief of the Alaska
National Guard. Who could blame them?
PALIN’S BIG SLEAZY SAFARI
http://www.alternet.org/election08/97207/sarah_palin%E2%80%99s_big%2C_sleazy_safari/
Palin did her part by playing the tired old Alaskan pioneer card, saying
that lower-48 naysayers who dared to object to the idea of dive-bombing
wildlife didn't "understand rural Alaska." Alaska isn't really very hard
to understand. It consists of a minority that loves the wilderness and
an overwhelmingly Republican majority that wants to squeeze all the cash
it can get out of the state before the oil dries up, the fish die out
and the wildlife disappears.
MUST SEE:
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL
Hunter group is part of Palin core constituency. . .Yes, you too can get
your rocks off by buying high-tech killing machines and mowing down dumb
animals!
http://www.scifirstforhunters.org/
EVEN
DAVID BROOKS DISAPPROVES OF PALIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/opinion/02brooks.html?em
NO, PALIN IS NOT IN
CHARGE OF THE ALASKA NATIONAL GUARD
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/02/rightwing-disses-general-to-boost-palin/
TOP TEN MOST DISTURBING FACTS
ABOUT PALIN
Recommended reading
http://www.alternet.org/election08/97198/top_ten_most_disturbing_facts_and_impressions_of_sarah_palin/
THE BIG UNANSWERED PALIN
QUESTIONS
http://thepage.time.com/halperins-take-the-unanswered-questions-about-sarah-palin/
WIKI ANSWERS: PALIN
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/4640
SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT GUNS
FOR SARAH
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/questions-sarah-palin/story.aspx?guid=%7BFB32E159-6EBC-43C8-8A26-BE1AA4F7D00A%7D&dist=hppr
MAYOR PALIN’S ROUGH RECORD
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html
SHE RULED WITH IRON FIST
http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3767/palin-involved-in-ousting-scandals-from-the-start
HERBERT: DEMS SHOULD WATCH CRITICISM OF
PALIN
Sorry, Bob. Too Late.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/opinion/02herbert.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
MCCAIN ATTACKS PRESS
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080902/pl_bloomberg/as77ueg2jfbq
RECKLESS MCCAIN SHOULD RELEASE RECORDS OF 3
PLANE CRASHES
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844601
And in more important matters. . .
UH-OH: PALESTINIANS TELL MCCARTNEY
TO STAY AWAY FROM ISRAEL
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186501693&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
THE CLBUTTIC MISTAKE!
When Obscenity filters do obscenely stupid things to the printed word
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2667634/%20The-Clbuttic-Mistake-When-obscenity-filters-go-wrong.html
8/29
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
hit 'refresh' for updates
SKYLINES:
Morning Concert
BRUCKNER, SYMPHONY NO. 8, FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-stHwuY2MQ
WAGNER, "ENTRANCE OF THE GODS INTO VALHALLA"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3wrJmY4EI
MAHLER, SYMPHONY NO. 1, FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXZ0a9W4d8
BEETHOVEN, SYMPHONY NO. 5, FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuRbWosqt-4
SIBELIUS, SYMPHONY NO. 2, FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYnebDaqxk
TCHAIKOVKSY, SYMPHONY NO. 5, FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pypUXtDgX0
SHOSTAKOVICH, SYMPHONY NO. 5, FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogJFXqYEYd8
BRAHMS, SYMPHONY NO. 3, FINALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvE2Qg3ofw
OBAMA CAMPAIGNER KNIFED IN SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/BAJO12KNGU.DTL&tsp=1
SIR PAUL: CHEF GORDON RAMSAY IS
“STUPID”
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24260569-5012974,00.html
PITT RESCUES FAN FROM VENICE
WATERS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/aug/29/venicefilmfestival.bradpitt
BABY-JUMPING FESTIVAL!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,575011,00.html
NATURE PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/aug/28/1?picture=337043795
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=2008/0828/
HAHAHA: DUCHOVNY IN REHAB---FOR
SEX ADDICTION!
Must have more, more, more, MORRRRRRRRE!
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?David_Duchovny_in_rehab_for_sex_addiction&in_article_id=286193&in_page_id=7
MORFORD:
OMG! LOL! SOFTWARE
THAT ZAPS INSIPID WEB BLABBER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/08/29/notes082908.DTL
And on to news
and comment. . .
A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM THE
PRESIDENCY. . .
MEET SARAH PALIN!
LINDORFF:
Of All the
Reasons McCain’s Palin Pick is Awful,
Evidence of Her Abuse of Power is the Worst
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/194
PALIN UNDER ETHICS
INVESTIGATION!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/08/mccains_vp_pick_palin_facing_e.html
10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
SARAH PALIN
http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm
McCAIN PICKS ALASKA
GOV---“SARAH BARRACUDA”---AS VEEP
Palin’s an interesting character: a former beauty queen, she was a
star high school basketball player (she was known as “Sarah Barracuda”
for her intense play). Gov. Palin is married with five children, a
staunch opponent of abortion rights, and a lifetime member of the
National Rifle Association.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/palin-picked/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5684098&page=1
CNN: SHE’S TOO YOUNG,
INEXPERIENCED
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lyndsi-thomas/2008/08/29/cnns-roberts-palin-too-young-inexperienced
WATCH:
PALIN MONSTER PUTS OIL OVER POLAR BEARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwZNwdowa4&feature=related
LINDORFF:
GREAT SPEECH, BIG QUESTIONS, AND A CURVE BALL FROM MCCAIN
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/193
But now McCain has tossed a monkey wrench into the Obama campaign
strategy, with his selection of Sarah Palin, the new governor of Alaska,
as his running mate. Palin, unlike McCain, is a genuine maverick—a woman
who defied her party, running in the Republican primary against a seated
Republican governor, Frank Murkowski, and defeating him, and then going
on to win the governorship handily, a woman who personally turned in her
own party chairman and her own party’s attorney general on ethics
violations, forcing both to resign, and who has gone on to make a
reputation as a corruption fighter, mostly against members of her own
party’s entrenched political establishment. Palin will be appealing to
many women and men who backed Hillary Clinton and who remain bitter
about her defeat. Married to a native Eskimo, and with four mixed-race
children, she can expect to appeal to many non-white American voters, on
whose support the Obama campaign is counting.
The Other
War
DEMOCRATS: DON’T
MAKE AFGHANISTAN YOUR WAR
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/96740/democrats%3A_don%27t_make_afghanistan_your_war/
Barack Obama not only had the good judgment to oppose the war in Iraq,
he argued for the need "to end the mindset that took us into" that war.
So it is troubling that a man of such good judgment is now ramping up
his rhetoric about how we need to end the war in Iraq to focus on what
he calls the "central front in the war on terror" -- Afghanistan.
MORE TROOPS TO AGHANISTAN?
YEAH, THEN WHAT?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0829/p01s01-usfp.html
RAIMUNDO: OBAMA’S DICK CHENEY
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13378
Joe Biden on the ticket with Obama, as we said on Monday, is a big
victory for the War Party, which will not, as a result, be shut out of
power if the Democrats take the White House. Today Biden denounces the
Iraq war in passionate language, and yet it seems like only yesterday
that he bloviated on the need to invade with equal if not more passion.
Indeed, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden
prevented any and all antiwar voices from being given a podium at the
Senate hearings.
KRISTOL: BUSH MAY BOMB IRAN TO STOP OBAMA
WIN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/22/kristol-bush-iran/
PAUL:
MCCAIN, OBAMA FOREIGN POLICIES “IDENTICAL”
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=67850§ionid=3510203
The Speech
OBAMA SPEECH: FULL TEXT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_Eight_enough_0828.html
AP DOES OBVIOUS HIT-JOB ON
OBAMA---
OLBERMANN TELLS REPORTER TO QUIT
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Olbermann_rips_AP_analysis_of_Obama_0829.html
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844063
WATCH:
BUCHANAN---A “MAGNIFICENT” SPEECH
“This is the greatest convention speech”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Fru4dZLGA
KLEIN:
A “VERY TOUGH” SPEECH
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837433,00.html
JONATHAN
SOLOMON:
OBAMA MADE “HUGE MISTAKE” IN LIFTING FROM SORKIN’S “WEST WING”
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Huge-Huge-Mistake-Obama-by-Jonathan-Leigh-Sol-080829-400.html
Barack Obama brought us a wonderful speech. But, I am mystified why
Obama would use in his speech two lines reminiscent of Aaron Sorkin's
dialogue in "The American President," which as of this moment, MSNBC,
the most supportive network for Obama, has already pointed out. If the
Republicans aren't completely asleep at the wheel, Obama has given them
a huge opening. They will explain the "lift" and then their line will
be, "we were wrong. Barack Obama is not a celebrity, he's an actor -
pretending to be a leader."
ANALYSIS:
BRINGING LOFTY
WORDS DOWN TO EARTH
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/us/politics/29assess.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
THOMPSON:
OBAMA DEFINES
HIMSELF AND THE ELECTION
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/11100
In a speech that is, without a doubt, one of the best that I have
witnessed in 40 plus years of covering politics as a journalist or
working within the system as an operative, Obama issued both a challenge
to Republicans to bring it on and sounded a clarion call for real change
in America.
CORN:
SPEECH COULD WIN
THE ELECTION
http://www.alternet.org/election08/96887/obama%27s_grand_speech%3A_reason_for_hope/
KRUGMAN ON CLINTON’S SPEECH
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/opinion/29krugman.html?em
CLINTON SPEECH: TEXT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/27/bill-clinton-democratic-c_n_121941.html
GORE SPEECH: TEXT
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/28/gore.transcript/
THE STORY OF
OBAMA'S REMARKABLE MOTHER
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524,00.html
MARINE ACQUITTED OF QUADRUPLE IRAQ MURDER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/26/state/n145904D03.DTL
Israelity
55 PERCENT OF AMERRYGUNS
SUPPORT ISRAEL STRIKE ON IRAN
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/poll-55-percent-of-americans-support-israeli-strike-on-iran/
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA BACKS RUSSIA OVER GEORGIA
http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C23599%2C24256861-401%2C00.html
FAMED TIBET AUTHOR DETAINED BY
CHINA GOONS
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/woeser-tibet-3487.html
Obit
RACING LEGEND PHIL HILL
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/sports/othersports/29hill.html?ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
THE EXPATRIATE
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080814/REVIEW/559194546/1008
Around the time of the Chinese Revolution in 1949, a small crowd of
foreign sympathisers came to help build the Maoist dream. Sixty years
later, one of them is still there.
Books
EMILY DICKINSON AND
HER. . .PENPAL
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121883343091845417.html
If it seems a tad precious to peg 300-plus pages to an almost
exclusively epistolary friendship -- Higginson and Dickinson met only
twice, when he came to visit her at her home in Amherst, Mass., and his
letters to her do not survive -- not to worry. Ms. Wineapple specializes
in imparting flesh-and-blood substance and narrative thrust to literary
biographies.
WHAT’S LIFE LIKE AFTER 80?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/29/britishidentity.longtermcare
Musique
GASP---THE RETURN OF FOLK
MUSIC?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0829/p13s02-almp.html
WOLFGANG WAGNER LEAVES BAYREUTH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7587633.stm
STRANGE WOMAN ARTIST TO DIRECT
LENNON FILM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7587671.stm
BIO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Taylor-Wood
And in the
end. . .
VOTING WITH HER FEET
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,575046,00.html
8/28
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
SKYLINES:
Morning Concert
CHIPMUNKS: CRIME MOB FUCK NIGGAZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2B9MIQlugE
PUT IT IN MY MOUTH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mAJU_ZKhEM
DIS SHIT IZ REAL 4 U FUCK NIGGAZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_nTC5gFP6w
THE WRONG NIGGA TO FUCK WIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScLW8RiFLE
FUCK THEM NIGGAZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U7o0LbodBA
PUSSY NIGGA ANTHUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwazEAtQaA
HOOD NIGGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5F618EPXc0
REAL NIGGA SHIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE8xZHqwhoc
NIGGA SHIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj9P6Pnkp6U
CHRIST, GEORGE BUSH TASERED
http://origin.denverpost.com/watercooler/ci_9504260
CHINA’S TALLEST BUILDING
OPENS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7585913.stm
BIG F---ING SPIDER FORCES
FAMILY FROM HOME
And who can blame them!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/7585391.stm
DALAI LAMA HOSPITALIZED
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-india-dalai.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
SOLID GOLD KATE MOSS SCULPTURE
Why?
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=282577&in_page_id=7
MICHAEL “SKELETON” JACKSON
TURNS 50
Could remake “Thriller” with no make-up
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Frail_Jacko_celebrates_50th_in_PJs&in_article_id=284157&in_page_id=7
And on to news
and comment. . .
Freedom of
what?
ABC REPORTER ARRESTED IN DENVER
Was photographing senators, DNC donors for story on lobbyists, DNC
money
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5668622
PROTESTERS SHACKLED IN LEG
IRONS, DENIED LAWYERS
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Protesters_denied_access_to_attorneys_forced_0828.html
WANT TO BE A PEACEFUL PROTESTER?
GET READY TO BE FRAMED, BEATEN BY COPS
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10308661
PROTESTERS SKIP THE DESIGNATED ‘PROTEST
CAGE’
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/08/27/protesters-at-democratic-convention-fly-the-cage/
They’re outside city offices, in parks, on the capitol steps and near
the US Mint. But the one place most protesters here are avoiding is the
official demonstration zone, a fenced-in parking lot near the Democratic
National Convention that activists here mockingly call “the freedom
cage.”
WHAT ARE 15,000 REPORTERS
DOING AT THE DNC?
”14,000 are wearing bad suits”
http://www.alternet.org/election08/96677/what_15%2C000_reporters_are_doing_at_the_dnc/
REDUCED SENTENCE FOR JACKOFF?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Prosecutors_seek_to_slash_Abramoff_prison_0827.html
Enviro Wacko
YES, THERE IS A NORTHWEST
PASSAGE---NOW THERE IS
And a northeast passage, too! No ice.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,574815,00.html
REID: OFFSHORE DRILLING “PURE
BALONEY”
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Harry_Reid_Offshore_drilling_pure_baloney_0827.html
JUST HIDE THE EXCESS CARBON
DIOXIDE---IN CEMENT!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,575023,00.html
ALASKA IN THE
FOREFRONT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/08/28/alaska-climate-change-frontier/Status
Democraps
CARTOON:
ON FOX NEWS OBAMA COVERAGE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2008/aug/27/barack.obama.us.elections
HIGHTOWER:
WHO SHOULD BE IN
OBAMA’S CABINET?
http://www.alternet.org/election08/96142/if_obama_wins%2C_who_will_be_in_his_cabinet_--_and_who_should_be/
LINDORFF:
FOREIGN POLICY AND
NATIONAL SECURITY ARE NOT THE SAME THING
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/192
For Republicans, there is no difference between national security, which
is defined as a powerful and assertive military, and foreign policy. But
Democrats, who at times have had a more nuanced view, have more recently
bought into this too. At the current Democratic Convention, anxious to
look as tough as Republicans, Democratic speakers have used the terms
national security and foreign policy interchangeably.
Repugnicans
WATCH:
LOBBYISTS IN MCCAIN’S CAMPAIGN
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/27/open-thread-910/
GOP PLATFORM CALLS FOR BAN ON
STEM CELL RESEARCH!
Delegates are getting hooves polished, trimmed for the big
convention. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/28/2008-gop-platform-calls-for-total-ban-on-stem-cell-research/
Iraq and
Roll
U.S. UPS SPENDING ON
CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ
Reduce the troops, increase the mercenaries!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-08-27-contractors_N.htm
Olympic
non-events
PARTY CADRES NOT GETTING OLYMPIC
BOOST
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/opinion/olympic-communist-failure-3388.html
WHY LONDON MAYOR REFUSED TO BUTTON
UP
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/aug/28/boris.olympics2008
Israelity
ISRAELI SETTLERS WOULD LEAVE WEST BANK---FOR
A FEE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,574995,00.html
Kim Nook Yoo
DEAR LEADER
RATTLING NUKE SABER AGAIN
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0827/p99s01-duts.html
People’s
Repugnic
CHINA TAKING ORGANS FROM
IMPRISONED FALUN GONG---DOCTOR
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/admission-organ-harvesting-undeniable-says-lawyer-3249.html
Mashed Media
KRISTOF APOLOGIZES TO ANTHRAX
NON-SUSPECT
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003843802
Religion
BUTT’S SISTER HARRASSED FOR VEIL
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/27/religion.islam
Animals in
the news!
CHICO THE MEERKAT IS ALL ALONE IN
ZOO
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-meerkat28-2008aug28,0,149657.story
POOR ELEPHANT RESCUED FROM WELL
Mother rampages at humans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/aug/28/baby.elephant.sri.lanka.well
GORILLAS GET HEART CHECKS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/28/BA4I12JGDE.DTL
(Lack of)
Health
PANCREAS CELLS CONVERTED TO PRODUCE INSULIN
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-diabetes28-2008aug28,0,6116765.story
HOSPITAL SUPERBUG DEATHS DOUBLE IN
ENGLAND
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2638146/Deaths-linked-to-Clostridium-difficile-infection-double-in-two-years.html
Lost Angeles
TACO TRUCKS CAN NOW PARK LIKE
COPS, FIRE TRUCKS
Well, they're just as important en nuestra ciudad, aren't they?
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/08/taco_trucks_win_a_round.php
And in more
important matters. . .
Film
REVIEW:
NEW COEN BROTHERS FLICK
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/arts/fmreview29.php
Musique
BRIAN WILSON: EATING RIGHT AND ON
ANTIDEPRESSANTS
Recipe for success!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/26/music.brian.wilson.ap/index.html
Lingo
IF IT LOOKS LIKE A WORD, HEY, JUST
USE IT!
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/03/chillax/
TOP TEN MOST ENDANGERED
LANGUAGES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/27/endangered.languages
THE BACKYARD
BOUQUET LADY OF SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/27/HOJ71235M4.DTL
THE EIGHT THOUSAND MILE
COMMUTER MARRIAGE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/2638585/The-8000-mile-long-distance-marriage.html
Books
BIO OF NAT’L ENQUIRER FOUNDER
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121850446228131941.html?mod=opinion_journal_books
LATE PRINCESS MARGARET LINKED TO
GANGSTER LOVER
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/2638324/Princess-Margaret-linked-to-gangster-lover-in-Channel-4-documentary.html
And in the
end. . .
UGLIEST CARS OF ALL TIME?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/08/28/mfcars4.xml
8/27
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
SKYLINES:
Morning Concert
CHEER DOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6fJfXLjwxQ
STELLA BLUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuS6eev7tOg
I’M DOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEaCwUnJSZA
LUCKY OLD SUN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLjJqWfTs4
YOU TELL ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9_56HrzeUQ
SHIP OF FOOLS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9JV0E-Y5KQ
TEARS OF THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj80iPqME_U
MISSION IN THE RAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZY1XisITmw
THE END OF THE END
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNM-z6w9Ksk
TREE MAN OF INDIA DOING
BETTER AND BETTER
Poor devil gets his “warts”
treated at last
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=282147&in_page_id=2
Baseball starts using instant
replay tomorrow
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/sports/basereplay27.php
FOOTBALLER DRINKS 40 PINTS
OF LAGER, AND NOT SURPRISINGLY. . .
Dies.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=282202&in_page_id=34
And on to news
and comment. . .
HERE IT IS FOLKS---
A LEGACY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND ETHNIC STUDIES
Highly paid Brandeis prof is specialist in racial hatred and egomania
http://www.penielejoseph.com/
And here is a little accompanying video,
courtesy of political correctness, savagery, greed. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUuH57uj1NI (“get your hate up/
and your .38 up. . .”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_nTC5gFP6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tvT1IaDCdc
Change you
can’t believe in
OBAMA IS A NEOCON
McCain stands for war and death. . .Obama stands for less war and
death
http://www.nowpublic.com/barack_obama_neocon_disguise_0
BIDEN: “I AM A ZIONIST”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3586542%2C00.html
WAS CARTER BOUNCED FROM DNC
SPEAKERS’ LIST BECAUSE OF ISRAEL CRITICISM?
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/27/fmr_president_jimmy_carter_sidelined_at
MCCAIN’S CLOSE TIES TO NEOCON
HARDLINERS
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/082108Leopold.shtml
THIS CANDIDATE---WHO HAS NO
CHANCE---
TAKES THE RIGHT POSITION ON EVERY ISSUE
Check this chart out. . .What does it say about the USA? About
democracy?
CLICK HERE
Democraps
WATCH:
THE GREAT CINDY SHEEHAN SPEAKS AT PROTEST
http://politicsanew.com/2008/08/25/recreate-68-protest-in-denver-cindy-sheehan/
SHEEHAN BUGGED IN DENVER
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cindy-Sheehan-Bugged-in-De-by-Rob-Kall-080825-412.html
PROTESTERS IRRELEVANT IN DENVER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/26/EDCG12IMCJ.DTL
CLINTON’S SPEECH GETS RAVES
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/the-early-word-hed/?hp
POISONOUS TOAD GIULIANI CREEPS OUT
FROM UNDER ROCK. . .
And says Hillary’s speech helps Repugnicans
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iUbBH46rEh1ebFi3XuqQ0ogk27hA
DAILY
SHOW: HAS MICHELLE OBAMA PROVEN HER PATRIOTISM?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/27/daily-show-has-michelle-obama-sufficiently-proven-her-patriotism/
Israelity
RAIMUNDO: FOREIGN LOBBYISTS AND THE MAKING
OF U.S. POLICY
Georgia, Israel, and the Democratic
National Convention
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13365
The Georgia lobby and the Israel lobby have much in common, including
key supporters and personnel, as well as geopolitical and economic
links. Israeli defense companies, which are virtually part of the
Israeli state, armed the Georgians, and the IDF trained Georgian troops
in preparation for the day they would – as the mainstream media puts it
–"retake" (i.e., invade and crush) the breakaway republics of South
Ossetia and Abkhazia. Aside from the close relationship between these
two U.S. puppets, both Georgia and Israel have an interest in stoking
the fires of militant interventionism in American politics, as the
crusading impulse helps their respective causes. Once the Americans
begin to wonder where all this military and diplomatic support to
troublesome and quarrelsome allies is getting them, the jig is up –
which is why, for example, the Georgians are hard at work in Denver, as
the New York Times reports, meeting with Democratic Party honchos and
making their case with a fair amount of success.
LITTLE JOEY LIEBERMAN SHAKES HIS LITTLE FIST
AT RUSSIA
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20623.htm
John McCain's two most loyal supporters and most influential foreign
policy advisers, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, have an Op-Ed in The
Wall St. Journal today proclaiming that "Russia's invasion of Georgia
represents the most serious challenge to this political order since
Slobodan Milosevic unleashed the demons of ethnic nationalism in the
Balkans." Just as their neoconservative comrade, Fred Hiatt, does in
today's Washington Post, Lieberman and Graham demand that the U.S.
expend vast resources and assert itself both militarily and politically
in order to thwart the New Russian Menace ("This means reinvigorating
NATO as a military alliance, not just a political one . . . The
credibility of Article Five of the NATO Charter -- that an attack
against one really can and will be treated as an attack against all --
needs to be bolstered. . . .The Georgian military should be given the
antiaircraft and antiarmor systems necessary to deter any renewed
Russian aggression"). The painful absurdity of hard-core warmongers who
supported the invasion of Iraq (and, in Lieberman's case, advocating we
do the same to Iran and Syria) parading around as defenders of the
"political order" is too self-evident, and by now too common, to merit
much comment. But this warning from the neoconservative duo about the
folly of imperialistic Russian policies is really a sight to behold.
RUSSIA UPS MILITARY TIES WITH
SYRIA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836613,00.html
Enviro Wacko
EXXON WILL PAY 75 PERCENT OF
VALDEZ DAMAGES
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN2641081120080827
‘THE COW IS A CLIMATE BOMB’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,574754,00.html
The results are enough to send diehard fans of steaks and burgers into a
panic. Even if all farms and methods, organic or otherwise, were
optimized to reduce their effects on the climate, Foodwatch concludes
that the principal approach to making agriculture more climate-friendly
would require a drastic reduction in beef production. This would mean a
radical increase in the price of steaks and the like. "It's time we went
back to the days of the Sunday roast," says Bode.
“Eating cows with such persistence/ doesn’t offer much resistance/ to
this cockamamie business.”---George Harrison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIjAra7Xvko
STRANGER THAN TRUTH: BUSH
PROPOSES MARINE RESERVE
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080826-marine-monument.html
JERRY BROWN CRACKS DOWN ON BIG BIZ POT CLUBS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/26/BA4212IJ74.DTL&tsp=1
"The voters wanted medical marijuana dispensaries to be used for
seriously ill patients and their caregivers - not as million-dollar
businesses," Brown said.
Mashed Media
ANOTHER BIG PAPER DROPS AP
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003843111
IS ON-LINE READING REALLY
READING?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=books&pagewanted=all
Animals in
the news!
CROWS REMEMBER INDIVIDUAL FACES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
HORSE SANCTUARY IN
TROUBLE---BECAUSE OF ITS NAME
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-equus27-2008aug27,0,5200247.story
And in more
important matters. . .
WAGNER WARS!
Saner Wagners take on nuttier Wagners for control of Bayreuth
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/arts/bayreuth.php
Stranger
than truth!
MICHAEL JACKSON SINGS
ROBERT BURNS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/27/michael.jackson.david.gest.robertburns
THREE-QUARTERS OF LED ZEPPELIN WORKING ON
NEW MATERIAL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7582917.stm
COMING SOON TO THE WEB: DEAD SEA
SCROLLS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/mideast/scrolls.php
RECIPE OF THE DAY: ZUCCHINI
PASTA!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/health/22recipehealth.html?em
And in the
end. . .
CHINESE WATER GRAFFITI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_VTOAf7ZZM
8/26
"You'll be surprised
how often you read it here first."
SKYLINES:
HIT 'REFRESH' FOR UPDATES
Morning Concert
40 YEARS AGO TODAY---THIS SONG WAS RELEASED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZMEcAdOI-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXG83p2nkHw
(AND THIS ONE, TOO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-3sU0RC77E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGnKJyw5mwk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ylX3pbXVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggfFeaccEX0
THE REHEARSAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BagUvGGO0DM
RELEASED (MONO) VERSION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWDcvxRWjA
THE ‘LOVE’ VERSION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3vWGIiftwE
FANS REMEMBER
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/825heyjude.html
WILSON PICKETT SINGS IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-dwSt2p0Gg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQ2RglvBl4
A JAPANESE FELLOW SINGS IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIAKGJZzM1w
OLD PAUL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5hVA16uLvw
A DUET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApBfsUoFpBU
WOMAN DELAYED FROM FLIGHT
BY HER BRA
Homeland Security is on the job!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/26/BA2812HVK3.DTL
SWIMMER CHECKS OUT DURING
TRIATHALON
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/26/BAMS12I9ED.DTL&tsp=1
‘100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE’ AUTHOR. .
.DIES
Did about half the things on his list
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/26/entertainment/e040436D94.DTL&type=newsbayarea
‘WHITE SUPREMACISTS’ HELD IN
OBAMA PLOT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2624438/Police-stop-white-supremacist-plot-to-kill-Barack-Obama.html
Plot “not credible”---cops
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_plot_wasnt_credible_threat_police_0826.html
SOLDIERS WHO GUARD QUEEN FIRED
FOR SNORTING COKE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/2624999/Soldiers-who-guard-Queen-fired-for-drug-use.htm
DAY IN PICS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7582458.stm
And on to news
and comment. . .
STEVE BELL’S CONVENTION
SKETCHBOOK
”Marvelous view of Michelle’s behind.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/aug/26/steve.bell.democratic.convention?picture=336958768
INTERVIEW:
RICK MACARTHUR---
THE LOWDOWN ON THE DEMOCRAPS
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/25/rick_macarthur_you_cant_be_president
It’s not an ideological fight, it’s a fight over power. There is very
little difference between Obama and Clinton on the big issues of the
day. And the Clintons are still running. Hillary Clinton is hoping very
much that Obama will lose and that she can present herself in 2012 on
the “I told you so” ticket. . . Another thing that astonishes me is that
no one seems to have read his book, The Audacity of Hope. It’s all over
his book that he favors free trade, he favors—he’s very friendly with
the investment bank community, with the hedge funds, with the corporate
lawyers and so on and so forth.
Warm in here
WHALES ARE LOSING BLUBBER
(MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY FOR THE DEMOCRAPS)
Global warming trims ‘em up---now maybe the
Japanese will stop killing them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/26/whaling.conservation
60 PERCENT MORE ARCTIC CARBON
THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/blog-entry/
Olympic
non-events
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GYMNAST AGE
SCANDAL?
“Independent” investigation panel is under
China control
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/opinion/ioc-gymnast-probe-communist-party-bases-covered-3228.html
HE KEXIN IS UNDERAGE---PROOF
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/sports/the-case-against-he-kexin-3212.html
PHOTO
ESSAY: THE PARENTS WHO LOST THEIR CHILDREN IN FLIMSY CHINA
SCHOOLS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/aug/26/china.earthquake?picture=336961973
LEWIS:
LET’S HAVE THE NEXT
OLYMPICS IN N. KOREA!
Hu Jintao and Dear Leader could chat about the finer points of how an
authoritarian dictatorship can pull the wool over the West's eyes and
hold the biggest fake “coming out party” in history.
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/opinion/hold-next-olympics--north-korea-3276.html
Sure, why not? The IOC seems intent to “do their bit” for the betterment
of humanity by holding the Olympics in countries with oppressive regimes
such as China's. Why not go the whole hog and do them all—North Korea
next, maybe Zimbabwe could host the 2016 Games and perhaps hand it on to
Cuba for a great show in 2020.
OLYMPICS:
POLITICS, MONEY, FRAUD
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,574504,00.html
Bach is the sort of person who, when asked difficult questions, begins
by saying: Let's not kid ourselves. When asked about the IOC's
prediction that China would change for the better after the games, and
that it would "open up" politically, he said: "Let's not kid ourselves.
We, as the IOC, cannot change an entire society."
ABOUT THOSE HYPER-FRIENDLY
OLYMPICS ‘VOLUNTEERS'. . .
http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/08/25/a-reporter%e2%80%99s-journey-through-the-olympics/
Volunteers at every Olympics are a unique breed of human, infused with
the angelic temperament needed to deal with journalists 24 hours a day.
But here in China, I have sometimes felt as though they stopped short
only of fanning us with palm fronds and offering grapes as we write our
stories.
Democraps
OH, SPARE US---JUAN
WILLIAMS TEARS UP AFTER MICHELLE OBAMA SPEECH!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/26/juan-williams-tears-up-after-michelle-obama-speech-its-unbelievable/
PIGBOY ROVE ATTACKS MICHELLE
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/26/rove-michelle-patriotism/
OBAMA HIT-JOB BOOK IS FULL OF
ERRORS, DUBIOUS SOURCES
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1835629,00.html
But misstatements and inaccuracies — including at least eight major
errors in the first 50 pages — have thrown considerable doubt on the
book's credibility. So has his dependence on less than authoritative
sources, among them Martin's blog.
RAIMUNDO: BIDEN MEANS BUSINESS---AS USUAL
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13354
To anyone who really believed Barack Obama's candidacy represented
"hope" and "change," the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate
should put that illusion to rest. Antiwar activists point to Biden's
vote in favor of authorizing Bush to go to war with Iraq, but even worse
was his behavior in the run-up to the invasion.
THOMPSON: THE DAY THE OBAMA DREAM DIED
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/10784
So much for the dream, so much for the promises of change, so much for
casting aside the old way of doing things. If you want to deliver on
those promises, you don't pick a two-time loser as a Presidential
candidate, a long-winded speakers who puts people to sleep or a known
plagiarist who also lied outright when he said he would never accept an
offer of the vice presidency.
LINDORFF:
REMEMBERING WHEN
GOV’T. WAS AT LEAST APPROACHABLE
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/190
And from the looks of things, it may not be much better even if Obama
takes over the White House. The first day of the Democratic Convention
in Denver saw anti-war protesters penned into the same kinds of
“free-speech zones” that the Bush/Cheney administration has made into
standard features of any “public” appearance they put in, while AT&T,
the company that brought us the convention, kept even credentialed
reporters away from a private party the company threw for those
Democrats in Congress who obligingly passed immunity legislation to
protect the company from lawsuits by those whose communications were
spied on by Bush’s National Security Agency. (Obama supported the
immunity legislation.)
PROTESTERS HIT WITH ‘PEPPER-SPRAY CANNONS’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/100_protesters_arrested_in_Denver_hit_0826.html
Dishonest
John
CREEP MCCAIN
AGAIN CITES POW EXPERIENCE---WHEN LENO ASKS ABOUT HIS MANSIONS
”What a maroon.”---Bugs Bunny
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/26/wallace-mccain-leno/
LENO: For $1 million, how many houses do you own?
MCCAIN: You know, could I just mention to you Jay, in a moment of
seriousness, I spent five and a half years in a prison cell. I didn’t
have house.
Iraq and
Roll
CHALMERS JOHNSON:
FIVE YEARS OF
U.S.-WROUGHT WRECKAGE IN IRAQ
Bush's supporters see the global
war on terrorism as a "clash of civilizations" -- yet the civilization
we are destroying in Iraq is part of our own.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/96372/looking_back_at_five_years_of_bush%27s_wreckage_in_iraq/
Mashed Media
NYT CLASSIFIED REVENUE PLUNGES
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003842728
World gone
mad
BLACK HISTORY
WILL BE COMPULSORY IN BRIT SCHOOLS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2625616/Black-history-to-be-compulsory-in-schools-for-first-time.html
HUMANS TURN TO ‘MINI-COWS’ FOR FOOD, MILK
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4547604.ece
Animals in
the news!
ALBINO WHALE SHARK PHOTOGRAPHED
Nowhere left to hide from humans
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/26/eaalbino126.xml
WIND TURBINES KILL BATS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080825132107.htm
(Lack of)
Health
INCENSE INCREASES CANCER RISK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/26/incense.cancer
Unreal
Estate
L.A. HOME PRICES FALL 25
PERCENT
Har. Now they’re $750k instead of a million
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/08/case-shiller-la.html
Obit
R.I.P. LANGUAGE EXPERT URDANG
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/books/26urdang.html?ref=obituaries
And in more
important matters. . .
Books
HOW FEMINISM HAS DESTROYED MEN
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article4448371.ece
I know. Saving the males is an unlikely vocation for a 21st-century
woman. Most men don’t know they need saving; most women consider the
idea absurd. When I tell my women friends that I want to save the males,
they look at me as if noticing for the first time that I am insane. Then
they say something like: “Are you out of your mind? This is still a
male-dominated world. It’s women who need saving. Screw the men!”
Actually, that’s a direct quote. The reality is that men already have
been screwed – and not in the way they prefer. For the past 30 years or
so, males have been under siege by a culture that too often embraces the
notion that men are to blame for all of life’s ills. Males as a group –
not random men – are bad by virtue of their DNA.
Related:
KATE MOSS: 'ALL MEN ARE BITCHES
AND C---TS'
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=280305&in_page_id=7
Related:
CONNERY ‘ON BEING A SCOT’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/26/DDDN12I0QE.DTL
MASSIVE STATUE OF MARCUS AURELIUS FOUND IN
TURKEY
How the turkey ate it, no one knows
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7580745.stm
Film
COMING SOON FROM BOLLYWOOD: ‘HARI
PUTTAR’
Lawsuits loom
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/2623362/Harry-Potter-studio-sues-over-Bollywood-film-Hari-Puttar.html
DR. WHO---THE MOVIE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2624566/Doctor-Who-could-be-made-into-movie.html
SCARLETT’S SUITOR, FRED CRANE, DIES AT 90
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/movies/26crane.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
SHACKLETON DESCENDANTS OFFER ANTARCTIC TREK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/aug/26/adventure
To mark the centenary of the explorer's unsuccessful Nimrod expedition
to the south pole, six descendants of Shackleton and his crew are
offering a member of the public a place on their polar jaunt. This time
round, the specification is a little less bleak.
NEANDERTHALS WERE NOT STUPID
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/26/evolution
And in the
end. . .
STONES WOKE HIM FROM COMA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2517346/Rolling-Stones-classic-wakes-grandfather-from-coma.html
