George Bush singing "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

via Google video

Thanks to http://onegoodmove.org and Rx @ http://thepartyparty.com/ Greets to arstechnica!

Man in Coma for 19 Years Asks to Go Back to Sleep

Sat Jul 15, 6:50 AM ET

In what members of the medical community are calling an unprecedented development, a man who recently awoke from a 19-year coma has asked doctors to put him back to sleep.


At a press conference in Jacksonville, Fla., today, the man, Jason Deloit, 43, told reporters that at first he was excited to be conscious again, "But then I turned on the TV."

Mr. Deloit said that the first images he saw on television were those of
President George W. Bush giving a press conference.

"I was happy at first, because I thought, well, good, 'Saturday Night Live' is still on, and that's my favorite show," he said. "Then I realized that it was actually the real president at the White House, and I became very depressed."

After hearing the president field questions about
Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo, Mr. Deloit "couldn't take it anymore."

Seeking escapism, Mr. Deloit changed the channel and saw hotel heiress
Paris Hilton starring in the latest installment of her hit television show "The Simple Life."

"That was really the straw that broke the camel's back," he said. "I don't want to live in a country that exploits a mentally impaired person like that."

Mr. Deloit's doctor said that putting his patient back into a coma state would create an ethical quandary for the medical community: "Millions of other people would want the same thing."

Elsewhere, a spokesman for the U.S. government said that it would soon issue terror alerts on Americans' wireless phones, explaining, "It'll be easy, since we're already on the line listening in.

inbox word of the day(R), to share

"apologia \ap-uh-LOH-jee-uh; -juh\, noun:
A formal defense or justification, especially of one's opinions, position, or actions."

hey, jc's in the apologian mountains...

Every teen should watch

there must be 800+ ways to step in cowshit...

"ABA Faults Bush for Ignoring Parts of Bills"
"The American Bar Association said Sunday that President Bush was flouting the Constitution and undermining the rule of law by claiming the power to disregard selected provisions of bills that he signed. In a comprehensive report, a bipartisan 11-member panel of the bar association said Mr. Bush had used such “signing statements” far more than his predecessors, raising constitutional objections to more than 800 provisions in more than 100 laws on the ground that they infringed on his prerogatives [Apparently, this is a higher tally than all previous presidents combined.]. These broad assertions of presidential power amount to a “line-item veto” and improperly deprive Congress of the opportunity to override the veto, the panel said."

"The President's constitutional duty is to enforce laws he has signed into being unless and until they are held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court or a subordinate tribunal," panel members wrote. "The Constitution is not what the President says it is."
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"The administration plans to cut the jobs of 157 of the [Internal Revenue Service's] 345 estate tax lawyers, plus 17 support personnel, in less than 70 days. Kevin Brown, an I.R.S. deputy commissioner, confirmed the cuts after The New York Times was given internal documents by people inside the I.R.S. who oppose them."

"....Sharyn Phillips, a veteran I.R.S. estate tax lawyer in Manhattan, called the cuts a “back-door way for the Bush administration to achieve what it cannot get from Congress, which is repeal of the estate tax.”

do we still have a congress? go to congress.gov and ask your congressional rep.

Blatently stolen from a link on boingboing,com

LINK!!!!

In case y'all wants a Nightmares cd (or two.)

http://batnparttwo.blogspot.com/

for all you highspeed multimedia types

Olson’s Law of the Universe: The farther away we are from the source of our food, the less control we have over what is in that food!

everybody eats...

"A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM METROFARM.COM

In 1930, the United States had 6.3 million farms; in 2000, it had only 2.1 million. Some say the 27 million people who lived on those farms were deliberately forced off in a Stalin-like purge. This leads one to ask, “What did happen to all the farmers?”

This Saturday at 9AM Pacific, the Food Chain with Michael Olson hosts Thomas Pawlick, author of The End of Food, and Cyrill Vatomsky, host of the Embassy of the New World Order radio program, for a comparison of Soviet collectivization and American consolidation.

Log on to listen live or delayed, on your radio, computer or IPOD
Topics include why Stalin purged the family-scaled farmers of the Soviet Union; why they were also forced off the land throughout the Americas; and what impact their loss might have on the security of the food chain.

Listeners are invited to call the program on their local station or log them to the Forum page at www.metrofarm.com."

more tactics to be exposed from the camp stalinbush regime later...

everybody poops...sometime

limbo time... how low can you go? 3 months left to find out

"...Earlier this week, Sen. Mike Dewine (R-OH) drew controversy for using images of 9/11 in an attack ad, which assails Dem candidate Sherrod Brown's commitment to national security. The ad came shortly after Republicans attacked Democrats for running an ad with (real) images of flag-draped coffins on the internet.

"But that wasn't the end of it. The image of the burning twin towers in the ad was doctored. As Dewine's spokesman admitted to U.S. News and World Report, "the image of the burning towers in the ad is a still photo with computer-generated smoke added." "This particular image is impossible," says W. Gene Corley, a stuctural engineer who led FEMA's building performance study on the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. Corley reviewed the ad at www.brownvotes.com for U.S. News. "The north tower was hit first [so] the south tower could not be burning without the North Tower burning." Corley also says, "the smoke is all wrong." The day of the attacks, the plumes of ash were drifting to the southeast. "The smoke on 9/11 was never in a halo like that," Corley says.

"Dewine's campaign says that they'll be replacing the doctored image with a still of the towers before the attacks.

"The AP reports that the ad was created by Stevens Reed Curcio & Potholm, the same shop that produced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads in 2004."

as long as we're appropriating jokes...sheik po mo...

...a while back, i got elected to the board of our local arts council(wait, that part's not the joke i mean to discuss here...) , they mostly wanted me to help promote their concert series. Last summer one of the acts they had book, said stuff like this about himself:
"Live, the performance is “MUCH more than music”. A gifted storyteller, writer, composer and musician, an audience is able to briefly embrace what most have only imagined, as their hearts are taken captive, and drawn into his family’s world. "

when he showed up to perform, and I un-shit you just this one time, between two really bad songs(all his songs sounded like "knocking on heavens door" played at various tempos, with bad lyrics)- bad songs about why living without electricity makes jesus like you better, (he claimed to not even have a computer on his property)
he told the following joke:

"One night after supper I got the kids around the lamp and put four worms into four separate jars.

The first worm was put into a jar of alcohol.
The second worm was put into a jar of cigarette smoke.
The third worm was put into a jar of sperm.
The fourth worm was put into a jar of soil.

After one day, these were the results:
The first worm in alcohol --- dead.
The second worm in cigarette smoke --- dead.
The third worm in sperm --- dead.
The fourth worm in soil --- alive.

So I ask my younguns --- "What can you learn from this experiment."

Little Donniemarie Atelidae(minor childs name altered to protect privacy) quickly raises a paw and says. "As long as you drink, smoke and have sex, you won't have worms." "

I know this a few days past due...

...But even dial up is scarce in this part of East Texas. (Excuse the sentence fragments, I just hammered this out while waiting for the power to be restored.)

A Tale of Utter Bullshit

Once upon a time Bill and Shameless Dave were walking along a winding, Tennessee back road on their way to the farmers market, when they happened along a fresh pile of manure. It was still steaming in the morning sun and had barely begun to attract flies. “Fjord!, What is that?!” shrieked Bill, “Let us investigate this curiosity Billiam.” replied Shameless Dave.

They got as close as they dared without touching it. They stared and stroked their chins to look educated and walked in circles around the flop. Finally Bill stops pacing “Let’s go find the wise one.” he said, “Who would that be?” said Shameless Dave, “The one named Tony not Tony.” Said Bill, “Tony… not… Tony? I don’t get it?” Dave finally responded. “Doesn’t matter!” said Bill. “Off we go!” And they dashed back to the village to find the wise one.

Upon arriving at the house of Tony not Tony, Shameless Dave was the first to raise his hand and beat on the door wildly. “Let us in Tony not Tony. It’s me Dave.” “Who?” Tony not Tony replied from the other side of the door. “Dave!” he repeated, “Dave’s not here.” Said Tony not Tony. “Aw for Chrissakes.” Bill muttered and threw his hand to the door. “Wise one, we have found something.” He continued, “Can you help us determine what it is?” “Alright, but you gotta buy the beer.” Said Tony not Tony, as he stepped out of his house and into the daylight. Then the three of them marched back into the woods to see the great curiosity.

Tony not Tony was the fist to set upon the heap. “Now, in order to unravel this mystery, we must employ the ‘scientific method’.” Tony not Tony said. “You have to take it apart, look inside of it.” That said, all three plunged their hands into the poo. They felt it with their fingers and held them up for examination. They rubbed it on their faces and wiped it on their clothes. Shameless Dave said, “It’s pudding!” and popped a lump into his mouth. Tony not Tony said. “it’s a hair product.” and slicked his hair back with it. Bill sat in horror as cold reality bitch-slapped him. “It’s bullshit.” He said.

Several moments went by as the 3 of them sat quietly. Bullshit on their hands, bullshit on their clothes and bullshit on their faces. “Well Billiam,” spoke Shameless Dave, “at least no one stepped in it.”

UFO over New York

And UFO in Singapore

not like anybody would care or anything...

...but over on the Nightmares blog there is a shameless plug for the cds I did for them for the shows...still a few left if anyone is interested in obtaining...

Pro-lifer signals end-times for irony.

(did you hear the one about the pro-life conservative who stumbled upon The Onion and thought it was real?? click the link above for the priceless deleted comments section. -- b)

Thursday, July 06, 2006
Murder without conscience


Can you face the truth? This is what you all are laughing at. This is what you are responsible for. Go ahead, laugh at abortion if you can. The abortion "choice" means, death to a human being at a rate of over 3,000 every single day. That's like having a 9/11 attack every day. 50 million human beings have been killed by a woman's right to choose.

Here are some quotes from a pro-abortion person,


Miss Caroline Weber, who wrote an article at The Onion online magazine.

When referring to the killing of her child she said:

"I am totally psyched for this abortion!"

"Those pro-life activists made
it pretty clear that, unlike me, they actually think abortion is bad and to be
avoided. Are they nuts? Abortion is the best!"

"It wasn't until now that
I was lucky enough to be pregnant with a child I had no means to support."

"I just know it's going to be the best non-anesthetized invasive uterine
surgery ever!"

Who does Miss Weber blame her abortion on? The pro-life movement.

"The funny thing is, I actually have the pro-life movement to thank for this opportunity."

It's our fault? She says:

"If my HMO wouldn't have bowed to their pressure not to cover oral
contraceptives, I never would've gotten pregnant in the first place."

Sorry ma'am, if you hadn't had sex you wouldn't have gotten pregnant, it's not the HMO's fault for not supporting your promiscuity while not married.

To sum it up, Miss Weber said:

"I realize there are people who will criticize me, calling me selfish and
immature because I took "the easy way out." I realize there are those who will
condemn me to hell for what I'm about to do. Well, I don't care what they say:
It's worth it for all the fun and laughs I'm going to have at the clinic. So
listen up, world: I'm pro-abortion... and I love it! See you at my post-abortion
party, everybody!"

Miss Weber, you have killed your child, which you admit is a baby/human being, intentionally. That does make you an admitted murderer. I'm not going to "condemn you to hell", I'm going to pray for your forgiveness and for the suffering which you will endure when you realize what you have done. Every baby you see from that moment on is going to wake you up to the realization that you killed your child.

______________________________________________

don't forget to click link for the comments section!

No Bullshit...

...I was completely obsessed with Spock. I made my mother cut my hair like this. I also thought he was the same "Dr. Spock" that wrote the famous baby book (although what a Vulcan would know about raising American babies, or why the subject would be of interest was just not troubling enough to my brain to work it out at that time.) Although that didn't last long. I was happy to take his advice until I spied the picture on the book. Then I caused my mother no end of embarrasment in the doctor's office by loudly denouncing the real Dr. Benjamin as "an imposter and a fake." I love childhood; it's children I can't stand...

Kirk/Spock slash video

to boldly go where, ahem...

Coors arrested for DUI

JEFFERSON COUNTY - Beer mogul and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Pete Coors was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, 9NEWS' partners at The Denver Post have learned.

Coors was driving a 2004 green Jaguar and was stopped in the driveway to his home.

"Utter Bullshit???"

Monkeyboy my friend, I fear you cannot identify "utter bullshit." Perhaps an example would help.




And just for Bruce:



Now this, I have no explaination, or excuse, for:

Syd Barrett dead at 60

Syd Barrett, one of the original members of legendary rock group Pink Floyd, has died at the age of 60, the band's spokeswoman has confirmed.
He was born Roger Barrett in Cambridge and met future bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour at school there.

The guitarist was invited to join Pink Floyd by Waters in 1965 but left three years later after only one album with his mental state affected by drugs.

"He died very peacefully a couple of days ago," said the spokeswoman.

"There will be a private family funeral."

He had suffered from diabetes in recent years and had not been recording music.

local color

"To the Messenger:

Let me start off by saying that we have lived here since 1993. As of 2006 we have ran into a major problem with our so called neighbors. They (1 man and 2 women) have decided to lay out naked in the front yard, run around outside naked, and have sex on the front porch in the view of my young son and nephew who are both two years old. I asked them as nicely as I could if they were going to continue to lay out nude to go around to the back of the trailer so the children would not see. One of the females informed me that it was private property on a private road and she could do as she pleased and that she couldn’t lie out back because the grass wasn’t cut. Sometimes it was just topless but with underwear that didn’t fit and was pulled way up in the butt crack. Sorry but I think that is imposing on a minor, me, and my visitors. We do not want see that! So I called the county police and they made me feel like I was being laughed at. It was not a laughing matter to me. They proceeded to tell me that it was not illegal to run around topless the law states that it’s illegal for genitalia to show and female breast where not considered genitalia! So then I called the state police. They were on their way when the county police called and said that they were out here so the state police canceled their run. When the county police arrived they told them that it wasn’t illegal to run around topless. But, asked them to take it around back or try to shield themself. Then the day after the police came they was out there again so I video taped them so I could show the cops. They started cussing me and my sister and told us that it wasn’t illegal to be topless but it was to video tape them. So, I have my video tape and I call the state police again. I explained to them how we have to keep the children in when they are out there nude or topless. So when I called state police again the police officer was very upset about the situation. He came out here and as soon as he turned on the road they got up and got dressed before he could see them. They knew the police was coming because they called them on me when I was video taping them. The police officer told them that if he had to come out here again because of this that someone was going to jail! He was upset, I showed him the tape but it wasn’t that good of a view to where he could see what he needed to see because they wouldn’t move while I had the camera on them. They haven’t been nude for the past couple of days (so far). They are causing other problems. Playing their music loud, calling the dog warden, speeding up and down the road, and peeling out gravel; when they take off while the children are playing in the yard. This is a jealous act being taken out on everyone; children, family, friends, and so on. It is crazy that people have too much time on their hands that all they want to do is cause problems. My household works we are gone a lot of the time 10-12 hours a day working (a word that some people need to learn). Why couldn’t they lay out nude while we was at work and wasn’t any children home? Why can’t people be respectful and leave other peoples family and lives alone. We don’t talk to anyone on the road cause we want to be left alone. I see how good that works. I have called and talked to the county attorney, county police, state police, and a local church. No one wants to touch this issue but it needs to be addressed! There are children involved here and this is why my mom moved us down here to the country so we wouldn’t have to worry about this crap!

Desperate Neighbors"

I wish I was this cool

free poems

due to the zealosity of my junkmail detector, I often check the folder to make sure I haven't accidentally purged anything important. I have noticed some mighty fine beat poetry at the bottom of some:


southernrockbikefest

artiste highway tax
ceylonese effectuate grease-monkey
irresistible commerce cog
sandwich adjuster
woody varian
denaturalize banditti
high-blown
denmark
-Elisa Crockett

TALKING TREASON -- a great DU post

An Army of Children
Posted by Pamela Troy in General Discussion

To those of us who aren’t fast writers, it’s been a tough couple of weeks. First there was the whole issue with the calls from various prominent pundits for the arrest, and in at least one case, the execution of those journalists at the NYT who published details about an anti-terrorist program that was already quite well known. Then the right-wing blogosphere followed suit by declaring war on the NY Times travel section, publishing the addresses of a publisher and a photographer and inviting readers to… well, do something with the information. It wasn’t clear what but no doubt there were plenty of godfearin’ patriots who had some pretty interesting ideas on that score once they’d heard about what terrorist loving traitors these people were. Then there was the case of Nedd Kareiva’s Anti ACLU website posting the address and phone number of a Jewish family who had already been bullied ut of Indian River Delaware for daring to complain about Christian harassment of nonChristian students at a local school. (And boy did the good citizens of Indian River prove those carping heathens wrong!) And while that sordid matter was unfolding, someone pointed out Michelle Malkin’s post-mortem smearing of Denice Denton, the UC Santa Cruz Chancellor who’d recently committed suicide.

In short, there has been what can only be described as a sort of glorious blossoming of jaw-dropping right-wing venom. It’s kind of like watching one of those acts in a circus where a little bitty car drives into view and suddenly ejects an endless procession of clowns who cavort about the ring competing for the audience’s attention, turning cartwheels and somersaults, blowing raspberries at the onlookers and waving plastic hammers. You just don’t know where to look.

I’m glad to report that in at a couple of cases at least, partial sanity prevailed. One blog that had offered the happy suggestion that its readers “hunt down” not only the reporters involved in the NYT travel story, but the reporter’s children, vanished completely in the face of widespread revulsion. Nedd Kareiva’s project of posting the addresses and phone numbers of anyone even suspected of being an ACLU plaintiff collapsed in a flurry of impotent threats and, for the moment at least, has disappeared into a single unseemly whine about the very good advice Nedd’s lawyer gave him about it.

Other, better writers have already done a good job of characterizing these nasties for what they are. Both David Neiwert and Glenn Greenwald have pointed out the profoundly serious underpinnings of these incidents, the manner in which they reflect, not just the rants of a fringe element, but what Neiwert calls an “eliminationist” mindset that has been increasingly mainstreamed and poses a genuine threat to political freedom in this country. I’m not going to rehash those arguments here, though I would like to point out to those inevitable hopefuls who talk about the far right “panicking” and “imploding” and at last going “too far” that these acts have been part of an escalating trend over the past two decades and therefore likely indicate not “panic and desperation” but a sense of impunity.

All these things popping up so close together have highlighted a certain characteristic shared by the likes of Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and various less famous right-wing bloggers. The word that comes to mind is “callow.” I’m reminded of children, and not the beauty, hopefulness and openness of children. Rather, these cases bring to mind the callousness of extreme youth, the eagerness of kids to attack as a group, and their inability to grasp context, assess consequences, or take responsibility for those consequences.

When we speak of the “innocence” of a child, it often refers to the slack we’re willing to cut the very young because they have not yet had the chance to learn lessons most of us have grasped by the time we hit our thirties. A group of fourteen-year-olds who think it’s clever to write threatening and abusive letters, mock another person’s appearance or disabilities, and sneer at that individual’s personal tragedies might inspire disgust among the older and wiser, but there’s also the knowledge that, ten, twenty years down the road, most of them are going to be adults who remember those acts with shame. A group of middle-aged people who think it’s clever to write threatening and abusive letters, mock another person’s appearance and disabilities, and sneer at that individual’s personal tragedies, is another matter entirely.

That’s what makes the 40-something Ann Coulter so creepy, and why my own reaction to some of the faceless bloggers who’ve been posting names has come dangerously close to the empathy of a big sister who sees a sibling burst into wails after the cat he’s been torturing leaves a red line of scratches on his chubby little cheek. As an incurable bleeding heart, I’m afraid that while my first response to the collapse of Nedd Kareiva’s “Get-the-ACLU-plaintiff” was relief, my second was the urge to pat him on the arm and murmur “There, there. We’ve just learned an important lesson now, haven’t we?” After all, when someone posts a message online that refers to “all the Looney Left Liberals from the likes of The Daily Kookoos (KOS with 3 extra O's), Jesus (Armchair) General, (Hair) Salon and others” the image of the writer that’s conjured up is that of a downy adolescent, still awash in puppy fat, sipping a Red Bull in between sobs and pounding out his rage and frustration late at night from his Dad’s old computer down in the basement.

I know, I know. Many of the people I’m dismissing as teenagers are probably well past the age when they deserve that level of forbearance. It’s gut reaction I’m describing here. In the long run, I think what we’re seeing is cause for more serious action than wiping away the tears of a brat. For far too long, these incidents have been shrugged off with the comments, “They’re crazy,” or “They’re kids.”

Even if the overwhelming majority of the online right wingers engaging in this kind of garbage range in age from thirteen to their early twenties, the danger they pose should not be underestimated. Proddy kids may be endemic on the internet and may cut across ideological lines – I’ve read some pretty callow and stupid postings on Democratic Underground too – but when there are no adults willing to restrain them or worse, when unprincipled and influential adults are willing to use them as a means to an end, they can do genuine damage. Whether an address or phone number was posted online with invitations to pile on by a normal fifteen-year-old or a 50-something case of arrested development does not make much difference to the private citizen now fielding death threats and worrying about whether his or her kids can walk to school safely.

And the fact that Michelle Malkin is an over-indulged cutie whose youthful good looks have insulated her from the hard knocks her venom would inspire if her waist were fatter and her nose bigger, does not make the popularity of her bloody-mindedness any less worrisome. One very cherished American myth is that average, God-fearing Americans who engage in violent rhetoric will, as a group, draw back in horror if the rhetoric is acted upon. As I’ve observed elsewhere, both American history (Kent State, the Black Civil Rights movement, the Red Scare) and the willingness of many of these people to dismiss and even celebrate actual tragedies that befall liberals strongly indicates otherwise. We’ve reached the point where equating disagreement with treason is part of mainstream political rhetoric. It’s no great step to move from that to treating political opponents as literal traitors.

The worst possible reaction, and one that worries me more than any other, would be for the left to respond in kind. It’s not as endemic as it is on the right, but the ugly fact is that are young and/or callow liberals who are positively chomping at the bit, eager to leap into the fray and post the addresses and phone numbers of people they dislike. I’m not going to pad my assessment of liberals who do this with phrases like “well meaning” or “understandable” because I don’t use those terms to describe Freeping or other examples of online thuggery. It’s stupid. It’s irresponsible. It’s contemptible. And any liberal or leftist who advocates it is no friend to the cause.

Nor will it do any good to ignore it, as if Malkin, Coulter, etc were primarily about annoying us liberals. Don’t flatter yourself, guys. They aren’t. They are about firing up a grassroots base of people who can be counted on to respond with Pavlovian fervor to the singling out of anyone deemed an “enemy.” We can deal with them now, or we can deal with them later -- after they’ve gained even more influence and respectability.

The way to deal with them is to expose them. Don’t politely ignore their more outrageous comments. Bring them up. Force their apologists to defend them. Demand that the implications of their statements be examined in the cold light of day. Make it an issue, because it is an issue, and a damned important one. Be angry and be assertive, but don’t resort to insult or name-calling. A slanging match is the only fight they can really hope to win, and they’ll do everything they can to entice you into one.

Remember, these people don’t avoid reason because reason is an inferior weapon. They avoid it because reason is their enemy.

another silly open thread on music

When was the last time a song on the radio put you in a stupidly good mood?

My new public radio station (WFIT) is a tropical version of the Spindale station (WNCW). Less alt.country, more alt.whitey rhythm-n-blooz on the local playlist between Democracy Now and World Cafe.

So, I'm making lunch and the Squeeze hit, "Black Coffee In Bed" comes on the radio, which instantly improves my mood by about 100 percent. Not that I was in a bad mood. Now, I'm in a stupidly good mood.

So, open music thread -- what stupid song on the radio has done this for you guys recently....

treason's just another word for nothin' left to steal

"Light and liberty go together."

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government;... "


"Laws will be wisely formed and honestly administered in proportion as those who form and administer them are wise and honest;"

TJ

I think the real traitors are the 535? representative lap dogs found here:

www.house.gov

ww.senate.gov