tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59228582011-04-21T23:52:14.446-04:00Little fossilized nuggets for your enjoymentSkatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12613928884172961895noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922858.post-1127142768926199942005-09-19T11:12:00.000-04:002005-09-19T11:15:22.046-04:00

My pirate name is: Iron Tom Kidd A pirate's life isn't easy; it takes a tough person. That's okay with you, though, since you a tough person. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr! Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

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So how long do you have to not post before Blogger determines you're dead?Katrina has finally driven away the post election funk. I'll leave you with the lyrics to my favorite Stephanie Miller ditty dedicated to George's speech tonight...You're a lying sack of crapYou're a lying sack of crapYou're a lying scheming nasty sack of liquid crapAhh... that's better

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Which are these flip flops or waffles?

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Can't wait until the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Take that wingnut googlebombers!

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Mark A. R. Kleiman: Chalabi quiz

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Via PlanetSwank and Pandagon comes the best summary of the Bush mal-administration I've ever read. In light of tonight's speech by the pResident, it is a must read.

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I rarely agree with the man, but Pat Buchanan makes a lot of sense in this editorial.With a $500 billion deficit, we do not have the money for new wars. With an Army of 480,000 stretched thin, we do not have the troops. With April-May costing us a battalion of dead and wounded, we are not going to pay the price. With the squalid photos from Abu Ghraib, we no longer have the moral authority to

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Krugman today points out what is becoming increasingly obvious. GWB reminds one of a character in great English literature. He was a stock character in 19th-century fiction: the wastrel son who runs up gambling debts in the belief that his wealthy family, concerned for its prestige, will have no choice but to pay off his creditors.You know the type, Dunstan Cass from Silas Marner or perhaps a

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According to Wired News, it looks like those spiffy new Honda and Toyota hybrids aren't quite as good as you would think when it comes to fuel efficiency. Interestingly, the problem traces back to how the EPA determines fuel efficiency. Maybe I should get a Hummer after all...

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John Dvorak has stripped the rhetoric from the offshoring debate to expose the basic dishonesty of the "free traders" "Here is how the real scam works. You are a programmer at one of the big IT or computer companies. You're 55 and nearing a retirement plateau; in fact, you're a liability. You're making, say, $80,000 as a program designer. You have various responsibilities. The company eliminates

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Democrats make better entrepreneurs, probably because we don't fear and loathe the French.

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Via Respectful of Otters we have the alternative theories on who is to blame for the Abu Ghraib atrocities. You just know Bill Clinton would make this list.

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It looks like Kerry has Bush reacting to his initiatives now. It's never a good thing when your campaign is in react mode, especially when you control the bully pulpit.Coincidence or catch-up? We see news of our fearless leader visiting the swing state West Virginia in an effort to keep his slim lead. Topic: high school education. Funny but Kerry unveiled his education plan this week. Making

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It's time for Senator Palpatine to go.

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Check out Colonel Hackworth's latest column addressing the Abu Ghraib fiasco. As an American citizen, I’m ashamed of the atrocities committed by Americans in Iraq. As a former professional soldier, I’m appalled not only by what has happened in the prisons there, but also by our military leadership. From the very top of the Pentagon down to the 320th Military Police Battalion, the brass have

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Based on this administration's past track record of predicting outcomes, consider this fair warning to stock up on liquor, trading goods, and ammo. Farnham's Freehold, here we come.

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Our nation's blood and treasure is being wasted on a neocon fantasy. Let's bring back blowjobs. That would be much easier to explain to my children than this

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Jesus! These are some sobering pictures.

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Start here and follow the storyline. Rough way to get to your ideal weight.

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Excellent summary of tomorrow's events in DC. I especially enjoyed the bullets showing "Flippity's" history regarding the 911 commission. Go read the original as it's an entertaining blog and well written. You'll probably want to stay a while. If not, here's the bulleted summary. In short, this is what Bush's relationship with the 9/11 Commission boils down to: He tried to block the

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Looks like we're headed back to tough times. On a recent Friday, about two dozen children went to the Noyes Elementary School office in what has become a weekly ritual at a growing number of schools: picking up backpacks of food so they won't go hungry over the weekend.

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Just a note, but I'm now ok with Kerry as the Democratic candidate (big sigh of relief from Kerry camp... NOT!). Anyhow, I just wanted it on record that while he wasn't my first choice, he is my choice now. We need competent, accountable leadership in this country again and Kerry is the best shot at getting there.

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I hope this doesn't indicate AQ can now knock these down.

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Am I the only one noticing an uptick in patriotic movies on TV and at the movies? I watched Band of Brothers on History Channel last night. CBS carried Mel Gibson's The Patriot. ABC has Air Force One on tonight. The Alamo is due to be released soon and is already being heavily hyped. It's probably coincidental, but it reminded me of one of the beginning chapters in Clancy's Red Storm Rising

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COOL!! They all have blogs. Here is The O'Franken Factor.

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It looks like Air America Radio is gradually adjusting to the tidal wave of interest in their new site. The Majority Report has a blog where you can check out their upcoming guest list and comment on the show. Excellent.

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Subject: Fw: The Really Rich Folks John Kerry, man of the common folk.... he understands your pain, really... trust him - yeah - right The many homes of Democrat Presidential candiate, John F. Kerry. Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania (Assessed value: $3.7 million) ... (yadda yadda yadda) Well, I got this today and it got me thinking. John Kerry has been pretty successful in his life. How does he

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In the Washington Monthly, Benjamin Wallace-Wells paints a somewhat disturbing picture of the future of the economy. He observes that The Maestro, Alan Greenspan, is telegraphing the coming collapse of a housing bubble sometime in the next year or so. "One of these spells flared up during the last week in February, when Greenspan recommended that the home-owning public take a good hard look at

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I like Randi at 3:00 and Majority Report at 8:00 is growing on me. Jeaneane Garolfalo has a made for radio voice. Very easy on the ears. Check them out at Air America Radio.

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Shall we build a burger?

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Herseth for Congress She's for renewable energy, more funding for education, and fair trade. Nuff said. Add a penny for Kos if you're so inclined.

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Michael Colby certainly has a strong point of view. I somewhat agree with his assertions. I don't know what to do about it though. It's that old "Think Globally, Act Locally" I guess. Anyhow, go check out his article. It sums up nicely quite a few of the points this Dean supporter is troubled about with John Kerry as the Democratic nominee.

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TAP: Vol 15, Iss. 2. America as a One-Party State. Robert Kuttner.

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I'm just askin', cause Kerry's biggest selling point is his "electability". Please people, if not Howard, then Clark or Edwards. Four more is not an option.CNN.com - Kerry camp: Fund-raising article is 'old news' - Feb. 1, 2004"Kerry's aides then faxed a latter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Liu and Chung had a private briefing with a senior SEC official the next day, the

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Anti-DNC whiners - we may be right

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I guess we'll have to see where Kerry goes from here. I feel like I'm watching a car wreck. Would you like Bonesman number one or Bonesman number two? Yecch!! Sometimes optimism is hard for me, this is one of those times.

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An hour and a half until the NH polls close. Bush vs. Dean

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Via Slashdot, comes word of an innovative use of late nineteenth and early twenty-first century technologies. Broadband Blimps!

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Regardless of the merits of medical marijuana laws, the prosecutor's behavior in this case is disturbing. If only the Department of Justice pursued Enron, Arthur Anderson, Global Crossing, Worldcom, and their ilk with this kinda zeal, this country would be in much better shape financially. Of course that couldn't happen, could it? Who knows where those investigations might lead?"Our attorneys

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Martin Luther King, Jr. - "I Have a Dream". Give it a listen

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Gov. Dean responding to latest job loss numbers on January 09, 2004: "Under Bill Clinton, nearly one thousand jobs were created every three hours for eight straight years. Under George Bush, it took the entire month of December to create 1,000 jobs. What further proof do we need that George Bush's economic policies are a failure for working Americans?"What proof indeed?

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U.S. Helicopter Forced Down in Iraq, Killing 8. Make that "Mission Ongoing" George.

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So says Colonel David Hackworth. More logistical problems for the NeoCons running this show. I doubt saying "BANG BANG" will cut it with the North Koreans if they decide that "evil" should be addressed next. 87+B$ and we don't have enough bullets? Just incredible! This from an Aussie reservist training against an American unit down under:“On several occasions when we opened fire we received

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Whew! The holidays are finally over, but the Bushies just go right on amazing us. Jeffrey Garten, the Dean of the Yale School of Management, has some thoughts on the present situation of the world's currency markets.As we begin 2004, no major country is comfortable with where its currency is vis-a-vis the others, either because it would like it to be lower or because it is under serious

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This is fascinating. R. Robot is Making Sense is a new(?) blog that demonstrates the old adage about cyberspace quite well. Read it for a while and see how well you agree with the opinions expressed. Later on, check this out.

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It's Still The Economy, Stupid has an interesting stat up from Wal-Mart. Check it out, then read this from his comments section.

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Vote count marred by computer woes A lengthy collaboration between the county's information technology director and advisers from the MicroVote software producer fixed the problem. But before that, computer readings of stored voting machine data showed far more votes than registered voters. "It was like 144,000 votes cast," said Garofolo, whose corrected accounting showed just 5,352 ballots from

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An earlier George Bush scandal courtesy of The Mahablog. George is a crook plain and simple. He may have done this "legally" via political influence, but a crook is a crook. More can be found here. Without daddy Bush's influence, George W. Bush would only be a miserable failure, not a miserable failure as President.

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Paul Krugman has an interesting op-ed up this morning. He talks about how the Bush administration's plan to starve the government of tax revenues is causing pain for the military rank and file. So what's going on? One answer is that once you've instilled a Scrooge mentality throughout the government, it's hard to be selective. But I also suspect that a government of, by and for the economic

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The Washington Post is reporting more vote tabulation errors due to electronic voting machines in Fairfax County, Va."In response to Thompson's complaints, county officials tested one of the machines in question yesterday and discovered that it seemed to subtract a vote for Thompson in about 'one out of a hundred tries,' said Margaret K. Luca, secretary of the county Board of Elections. "So if

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Best quote? "Mr Bush, as one Republican analyst puts it, has been spending like “a drunken sailor”." ...But wait! There's more... The combination of a sharp economic slowdown, tax cuts and higher spending has transformed America's budget. When Mr Bush ran for office, the fiscal surplus was 2.4% of GDP, one of the highest among big rich countries. By fiscal 2003, the budget deficit had reached

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Andrew Tobias has a pertinent letter from someone who has firsthand knowledge of a Late Term Abortion. "Ken Ahonen: “As an emergency physician, I once took care of a 20-year-old woman (a girl, really) who was pregnant. Because of her pregnancy, she developed uncontrollable seizures that threatened her life. She, her husband, and her parents were informed that the only way to save her life was to

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Josh Marshall has a new column in The Hill. It shows the dishonesty of the Right Winger's backpedaling now that things aren't going so swimmingly in Iraq.

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Future of Democracy?

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New potential treatment for coronary artery disease is being reported today. My only comment is "mmm doughnuts".

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The incomparable Molly Ivins does it again. Not only does she hit the nail, she drives it through the board.Call Me a Bush-Hater: "By now, quite a few people who aren't even liberal are starting to say, 'Wha the hey?' We got no Osama, we got no Saddam, we got no weapons of mass destruction, the road map to peace in the Middle East is blown to hell, we're stuck in this country for $87 billion

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It was NOT ME!

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Seems like George just cannot tell the truth. The "Mission Accomplished" boast has been mocked many times since Bush's carrier speech as criticism has mounted over the failed search for weapons of mass destruction and the continuing violence in Iraq. When it was brought up again Tuesday at a news conference, Bush said, "The `Mission Accomplished' sign, of course, was put up by the members of

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"This is good. It just goes to show how much of a miserable failure George Bush's presidency has become. DENVER -- Governor Dean issued this statement following President Bush's press conference today: "Yesterday, the President claimed that the wave of attacks that left dozens dead and scores injured proved that the US was winning the peace in Iraq. At this point, nothing he says really

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Miserable Failure. His policies are tailored to rewarding cronies, not problem solving. Bush for Dogcatcher in '04. Go here for original idea.

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Ted Rall says it all "Close the Borders!"

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Scoop: Diebold Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting Fraud: Apparently it wasn't all about chads. At one point on election night, 16,000 votes were taken from Al Gore's tally by a "second" voting machine memory card. No one can now find the "second" card. Conspiracy theory? I don't know, but these emails between election officials and Global Election Systems (now Diebold) officials are pretty

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Har Har! Great punchline.

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I just got an eMachine.

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Are you feeling "sort of stretched like butter scraped over too much bread." You're not alone. Soon we may all feel that way.

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Kos has more on the deficit. Go!

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U.S. posts record $374 billion deficit. Ouch!! That's real money. I can remember when the national debt, that is the TOTAL DEBT first exceeded a Trillion dollars. It was during Reagan's tenure. That debt was a cumulative 30 year debt run up by the Cold War, Johnson's Great Society, the Vietnam War, the Oil Crisis, and Star Wars. It was an incomprehensible number. George has managed to

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slacktivist: "Joan Didion on Left Behind" Didion's frightening question is how much the kind of thinking found in the Left Behind books influences the decisions of President George W. Bush, proud evangelical Christian, doubter of Darwin, and courter of the fundamentalist Christian right. Have you ever read one of these? They read like a 50's pulp sci-fi novel, ok the first two pages of "Left

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I should have linked this earlier. The best radio show going, The Randi Rhodes Show. I understand she's now trying to syndicate her show. Give her a listen.

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Been busy at work. Back soon

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This is so cool! I should have started blogging sooner.

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Here is a good balanced background article on Howard Dean written last year by Charles Pierce for the Boston Globe. It was written before he vaulted to the front of the race for the nomination, in fact before there even was a race. It points out both his assets and faults.

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Shenzhou-5 was launched early Wednesday into orbit. Astronaut/Taikonaut Yang Liwei is reportedly doing well and conversing with doctors on the ground.

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I guess it comes down to "we need to get our fiscal house in order". George has clearly demonstrated a passionate desire to ruin the US balance sheet. It began prior to 9/11 with the taxcuts and has continued non-stop ever since. Howard Dean is the only candidate I see with the experience and disposition to rein in the ruinous policies of GWB. My reasoning regarding the other leading

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It looks like things are about to get REALLY interesting. The Russians are making noises about valuing their oil exports in Euros rather than Dollars. Why is this bad and what could it mean? Well, imagine what would happen if a large percentage of the countries who now regularly purchase US Stocks and Bonds no longer demanded them. There was an interesting website put out by Peter Dale Scott

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Williams-Sonoma, good buy or goodbye? Time will tell. I'm hoping it falls below 31 tomorrow. They have a pretty good SSG, but none of my friends agree it will do well. I still think it will though. Have to put my money...

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Hmmm... Spaghetti and Apple Wine. Not a great combo.

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Oh well, time for a few holes. Hey Pops, read my lips.

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When did we become the villains in a bad WWII movie? I saw this on another blogger's website. This is not good. US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US

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Hello World! I hope you're still here when I'm done.

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