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"The government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission."
any thoughts on billmon going commentless?
i dont spend that much time in comment threads but i still find them useful. wasnt one of the innovation of blogging the possibility for an open forum? i understand they can be unruly but should that be the determining factor?
im grateful for billmons prodigious output but he sure can be thinskinnned at times.
x1B (ESC)
Incredibly Advanced Video Compression
medicinal leeches
Oh yeah, it’s Election Day in Canada. How’d that slip my mind? Haven’t seen it on the TV news yet...
Hey Bill, Selma or anyone, I'm working on a storyboard and looking for loads of interior (esp. interior) and exterior shots of a house, a sort of vertual tour. The house I'm after is a big family home, Modern design but not a masterpiece. Ideally but not necessarily the pics would capture the personality of the residents- their furniture, possessions, dishes cluttering the kitchen counter etc.
So far I'm having trouble finding what I'm looking for (kind of a tall order I guess) Seen anything like this? Any ideas?
TIA
tonights king of the hill and the simpsons both had olive garden restaurant jokes. product placement or joke meme?
Classic Cheney takedown from Billmon:
There's been speculation that the Veep's surliness, like his current neoconservative extremism, is a byproduct of his bypass surgery, which has been known to induce dramatic personality changes in the patient (turning him or her into a "pump head," to use the vernacular.)
Personally, I doubt it - the heart doesn't seem to have ever been a particularly important organ in Cheney's psychology. (A man who produces an offspring nine months and one day after learning that only fathers will qualify for a student draft deferment can't exactly be called someone who is ruled by his emotions.)
I'm trying to be good, I really am. I installed the Mozilla Firefox browser today because I keep reading that using IE is going to destroy my computer. Two problems right out of the gate:
My Norton Internet Security prompts me that "firefox.exe is attempting to access the internet" every new page I go to. I have to write a rule allowing that for each page. Some pages cause 6-7 prompts, so forget that. If I turn off the firewall, I'm vulnerable to outsiders trying to access the computer even if firefox is blocking malicious pop-ups. So I'm back to IE.
Another thing I noticed is Firefox reads Tree pages in the "one column" format inconstistently. E.G., when I first go to Jim's page it fills the entire screen left to right, but if I hit "older posts," it returns to the correct width (the width of the clouds picture). As I page back through my and Sally's pages, the width changes from correct to screen-filling to correct, almost at random. I can't figure out anything from my own html that would make one /pageback page different from another. The same thing happens when I view groups of posts by date from the archive--there, almost all the pages are screen-filling; in Sally's archive it's a mix. Again, back to IE.
Also, now I have this "Java Console" thingy on my status bar that wasn't there before. What the hell is that? (Oh, it goes off when you turn off Firefox. Never mind.)
its not easy being green
White House Says Turkey Blasts Won't Derail Bush Travel Plans--what, they're putting bombs in turkeys now? and putting them on train tracks?
radio, the VCR and Webcasting — offer important clues for music executives today.
quack quack
seuss ads
Draft Bruce. I'm not really a Springsteen fan myself, but this sounds like a good idea:
Dear Bruce:
We the undersigned need you.
Our country's leadership is in desperate need of change.
On September 1, the Republicans will hold their convention in New York City and will nominate George Bush for President. Many people will see this event as it will be broadcast on all the major television networks. However, an opportunity exists at that time to make it clear to Americans that they can choose an alternative to George Bush.
I have put Giants Stadium on hold on September 1 in the hope that you will lead the music industry in coming together and perform in a concert for change. Once it is known that you are involved, many other artists will want to perform with you. Together your collective voices and music will send a clear message to all Americans that our country needs their vote to create change. The event is called VoteAid: "Concert for Change" and we think that it has the potential to become the largest concert in history. We would like the money that this concert generates to go to support voter registration and participation throughout the country, but more importantly your decision to play at exactly the same time George Bush is being nominated will focus all Americans on the importance in this election for their future as well as the future of the world.
I have asked the undersigned to join me in signing this letter.
We need you.
Andrew Rasiej
Contact: andrew@draftbruce.com
Andrew Rasiej bio.
Baba Booey to Y'all
OJ "Mother of All Manhunts" 10th Anniversary Post
Transcript of Stern fan faking out "wooden Indian" Peter Jennings
Link to Real audio of call.
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
this is from March
'Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind.'
Almost every panel shows oddball-shaped galaxies engaged in boxing matches with galactic neighbors.
Jonathan Lethem reviews some Oxford dude's review of Bob Dylan's lyrics as poetry.
Genesis P. Orridge and Miss Jackie come down to the WFMU studios for a visit and chat with Fabio, this Thursday, June 17th from Noon to 3 PM EDT. They will be discussing their Breyer P-Orridge project, the recent Throbbing Gristle reunion show in London, Upcoming Psychic TV shows, Thee Majesty, new CD releases, book releases, and other current projects.
i heard somthing about a double gender swap op. (?!?)
general janice karpinski says she's being made a scapegoat
"...during a visit to Iraq in September, Miller - still the commander at the Guantanamo Bay prison - spoke of wanting to ``Gitmoize'' Abu Ghraib by applying the Cuban facility's regimented detention and interrogation techniques."
gettleman on last nights news hour described a "growing tolerance for chaos" with neither us troops or iraq police intervening in the post bombing riot.
pornado report
+soundfile warning+ +juvenile-offcolor warning+ +stupidfunny warning+
1ndina J0nes remix
I'm excerpting this from a Counterpunch article about Bush's responses to questions about torture after the G-8. It's great reporters (Europeans at least) are hammering the little man:
It was European reporters who seemed most interested in pressing Bush on the torture issue, and who were not at all impressed with his continuing assertions that he was telling people to act in terms of the law. Bush has no knowledge of history, but European reporters do, and all of them at the G-8 press conference were no doubt aware how assiduously Hitler got laws passed to authorize everything he did. Hitler's government and its actions were all legal; it was a defect in moral vision that undergirded their atrocities.
Nothing about the torture questions appeared in the New York Times or any of the other major US newspapers, but European papers were full of it. Neither did the US press report that after Bush spoke, Jacques Chirac said that in the war on terrorism we should not "forget the principles on which our civilization rests, such as human rights."
Here are the torture parts of Bush's G-8 press conference:
First time Bush was asked about legalizing torture:
Q Mr. President, the Justice Department issued an advisory opinion last year declaring that as Commander-in-Chief you have the authority to order any kind of interrogation techniques that are necessary to pursue the war on terror. Were you aware of this advisory opinion? Do you agree with it? And did you issue any such authorization at any time?
THE PRESIDENT: No, the authorization I issued, David, was that anything we did would conform to U.S. law and would be consistent with international treaty obligations. That's the message I gave our people.
Q Have you seen the memos?
THE PRESIDENT: I can't remember if I've seen the memo or not, but I gave those instructions.
Second time Bush was asked about legalizing torture:
Q Returning to the question of torture, if you knew a person was in U.S. custody and had specific information about an imminent terrorist attack that could kill hundreds or even thousands of Americans, would you authorize the use of any means necessary to get that information and to save those lives?
THE PRESIDENT: Jonathan, what I've authorized is that we stay within U.S. law.
Third time Bush was asked about legalizing torture:
Q Mr. President, I wanted to return to the question of torture. What we've learned from these memos this week is that the Department of Justice lawyers and the Pentagon lawyers have essentially worked out a way that U.S. officials can torture detainees without running afoul of the law. So when you say that you want the U.S. to adhere to international and U.S. laws, that's not very comforting. This is a moral question: Is torture ever justified?
THE PRESIDENT: Look, I'm going to say it one more time. If I -- maybe -- maybe I can be more clear. The instructions went out to our people to adhere to law. That ought to comfort you. We're a nation of law. We adhere to laws. We have laws on the books. You might look at those laws, and that might provide comfort for you. And those were the instructions out of -- from me to the government.
licensed car services by zipcode
Fafblog. Hilarious.
Yeah, I saw a red headed pheasant rooster in my front yard today, so what of it.?
nike + gawker = art of speed
david berkowitz has a website.
a real american hero dies.
Dubya: I think that shiznit's fair be like that, yo' ass know, that da enemy didn't lay down its arms like we had hoped."
Tom Brokaw: And yo' ass wuz not greeted as liberators like Vice President Cheney be like that yo' ass would be."
Dubya: Well, I think we've been -- let me just -- I think we've been thanked by da muthas of Iraq n' shit.
And I think yo' ass'll hear mo' of that from muthas like (my puppet) Prime Minister Alawi 'n da
foreign minister, who both has repeatedly, ‘Thank yo' ass fo' what yo' ass've done, 'n by da way, help us, know what I'm sayin'? ’
shizzolated bartcop
Venus begins its transit across the sun in 16 minutes, hold onto your hats.
willie, dylan, kid rock, keith, etc.
reagan is dead.
Tom Clancy on Deborah Norville Tonight:
NORVILLE: And Paul Wolfowitz.
CLANCY: Is he really on our side?
NORVILLE: You genuinely ask that question? Is he on our side?
CLANCY: I sat in on—I was in the Pentagon in ‘01 for a red team operation and he came in and briefed us. And after the brief, I just thought, is he really on our side? Sorry.
"Bushido--The Way of the Armchair Warrior":
http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040607sh_shouts
(mea culpa--I don't know why the font turned large all of a sudden--Could it be the heroic scale of the Bushido art?)
seattle sonics
scapegoat. spelled : T, e, n, e, t.
You are Brody Dalle.You are a hot punk rock chick.
Tough as nails,Intelligent and fun. You've had
some hard times are empathetic yet. You can be
loud and attention getting but also aloof. You
make commitments but surprise everyone with
snap decisions that drastically change your
life.
Which punk rock goddess are you?
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get your spell on
My name is Shake-Zula, the mic rulah, the old schoolah, you wanna trip, I'll break it to ya. Frylock and I'm on top rock you like a cop, Meatwad you're up next with your knock-knock. Meatwad make the money see, Meatwad get the honeys G. Drivin in my car, livin like a star, ice on my fingers and my toes and I'm a Taurus. Cause we are the Aqua Teens, make the homeys say ho and the girlies wanna scream.
Anyone else as hooked on this show as me?
interesting animation