Comments on: If You Want It…

By: jihaddit uptahear

jihaddit uptahear — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:02:43 +0000

Too true, all a’ you…
Perhaps the most lammentable issue is that the “elected” officials in ever-increasing question are not only neofacists, but are alienated from the people they swore to represent to a far lesser degree than they are from their own selves (F.Pappeheim ‘59). In such a mentally detached condition, the corruptive effects of power are sublimated via God’s own carte-blanche which all religious fundamentalists issue themselves. They know that any “eternal damnation” issues some pesky epiphanies might burden them to confess in the future have already been borne freely from their souls by this irony; 2000 years ago a homeless enemy-of-the-state agitator who walked the same lands where hell on earth is now open for business in “God’s” name, but for Moloch’s profit is none other than Jesus Christ, their Lord and Saviour. Right…
Wanna hear a funny story from the other big story of G.W.’s reign of error? A god-like pscha-blues-smut lead guitarist I revere, borne and raised in the French Quarter, was living in the 9th Ward when Katrina came and swept it all away. He “stood” however, and while his home was a total loss, he and a friend of his spent the next four unspeakably sad days piloting his 11 foot “jawn boat” from one housetop to the next, pounding on roofs for any signs of life in the attics within, rescuing trapped and dying neighbors, freediving into local grocery stores to access vital supplies sitting on submerged shelves in order to sustain those he’d helped to save, etc. After four days had gone by with no sign of help, much less communication, from the outside world, the first official governmental personnel who came to their aid was a detachment of Canadian Mounted Patrolmen.
Meanwhile our country’s Nero was on holiday, squandering countless Louisiana National Guardsmen and Army Reservists to serve and die as his his private gladiators, using what could have been relief money at home as tinder to torch anything he and his Republican Brutes couldn’t loot.
The moral of this tragic tale? In the fullness of time, many of the people displaced from the 9th Ward whose houses and property had been in their families for generations, will likely never receive proper compensation, much less be provided proper notification as the plots of land which once supported their homes lapse into emminent domain, and thence to the auction block.
Yeah it’s baaaaad, and those responsible for said badness will be long gone, leaving all of us to deal with the karmic “3000-year oil change”. If we don’t install our own “New-Age World In Order”, embrace sustainable practices across the entire spectrum of society’s activities, dismiss the “growth-based” model of business (greed), and excersize patience, understanding and compassion at every turn, it will get alot worse. The U.S.’s rating in the civil war category is still the world standard.

By: Adie

Adie — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:43:10 +0000

no time to read any comments even.

so, sorry if OT, but HOW could it possibly be OT to say:

Thanks Christy for your work and dedication, and your incredible talent for making your efforts worthwhile for the future of our world.

Merry Christmas to Mr. & Mrs. Redd and Peanut.

By: rumi

rumi — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:30:43 +0000

Eureka Springs, AR @ 35

Good morning pups.

Rumi posted this link at the end of the late nite thread. I thought it was worth moving upstairs.
looks like the press is once again selling the war/surge lock stock and barrel, no questions asked.
The very generals (troops on the ground) who are suddenly supporting the additional troops idea are the same who failed so miserably the first few years. Odierno, who is mentioned in the article is the torture general! No mention of this at all in the article. Gaaah!

New general takes the reins as No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq

heya ES…thanks for dragging me up the stairs. I’m in and out of here today with some work and I figured it’s time to start the holiday shopping. I usually wait till the last minute but this year I thought I’d get an early jump on it.

By: Mommybrain

Mommybrain — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:13:01 +0000

“I can corroborate that. Ray Suarez was awesome as the moderator of Talk of the Nation years ago. He set a standard that has never been met since in that post.”

Did you hear his last TOTN show? He took a sabatical, they tried out several new hosts, none of whom were smashing. He came back and said his reason for the move to TV was the amount of time it took him to do the most rudimentary excellent job on his shows every day. He couldn’t keep up the pace.

I thought that was interesting. Here’s a guy who has staff, access to information the common citizen does not, a great curiosity and desire to get it right and it was too much for him. The information age seems like it might swallow us whole. It’s a puzzle and like everything else, a quandry.

Who gets to decide what information is readily available? Who gets to control access to the rest? Who informs us and what’s their angle? How much information is enough to make informed decisions? How to connect all the random facts and factoids into a reasonable thesis?

And how do you know you have truth and not opinion when there is so much out there? I mean, look at what the right does with their share of the information. Incomplete pictures, on both sides, are inevitable.

I wish he’d come back. Wonder if his departure coincided with the politicization of CPB?

By: lovedog

lovedog — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:56:25 +0000

check out:
LAW & ORDER: CHRISTMAS INTENT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQPPyVx21Bc

By: Margot

Margot — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:22:38 +0000

jayt @
34

Siun @
26

OK Kiddo … UN Sanctions against Iran just passed … not good news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6205295.stm

“The resolution, which demands that Tehran end all uranium enrichment work,…”

Well, it’s been almost an hour - has Bush declared Iran to be in violation of the U.N. demands yet?

911? Oh thank God! I think my country’s been taken over by crazy people! HELP!
911: Your location?
Me: The USA. Hurry!
911: Any injuries?
Me: Injuries! Yes, injuries. Deaths. People losing arms and legs, brain injuries, PTSD, 20,000 of our troops injured, and children losing parents, 600,000 Iraqis dead, nearly 3000 of our troops dead, and they are sending more. And they want to attack anther country. HELP!
911: Have you tried calling your congressman?
Me: yes…it didn’t help. He’s in rehab and is going to jail. Senators didn’t care either.
911: Looks like we have an out-of-control president…If you’ll just leave your name and number we’ll get back to you.

By: twolf1

twolf1 — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:05:00 +0000

new thread

By: Bil

Bil — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:04:52 +0000

darkblack @
33

spurious @
5

And please tell me we aren’t the only two? three? people who don’t have anything better to do this morning than read screens!

Well, in all honesty…But such productive urges will surely pass.

;>)

You are not alone.

darkblack. EXCELLENT Bush cartoons! Thanks.

By: Eureka Springs, AR

Eureka Springs, AR — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:02:08 +0000

With the early warnings on Iran by Seymour Hersch. One thing I have learned from all Bush presidents is that late january is prime attack season, they will do it no matter what public opinion is and we leftys (not all of us) have failed everytime to take heed and launch a successful preemptive protest.

I thought the article this week on student protests in Iran was interesting.
Sure wish our students would stand up this time around.

By: egregious

egregious — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:51:53 +0000

Brain Restoration Project: today while looking at both the puzzle and the answer page, I WAS able to complete the puzzle, unlike a couple days ago. Small steps…